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November,  1917  to  August,  1918 


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AMHERST 

GRADUATES'    QUARTERLY 

VOL.  VII.— NOVEMBER,  1917.— NO.  1 


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ON  a  recent  blue  Monday — my  clerical  readers  need  not  be 
reminded  what  a  blue  Monday  is — a  group  of  ministers 
were  waiting  for  a  train  on  their  way  to  a  conference  in  a 
neighboring  city.  One  of  them,  whose  Monday,  in  consequence 
of  his  previous  day's  inspiration,  was  evi- 
Ideals  Overhead  dently  more  red  than  blue,  and  whose 
and  Underground  fondness  for  the  first  personal  pronoun  col- 
ored his  whole  vocabulary,  accosting  an- 
other— incidently  butting  into  a  heart-talk — said,  "/  preached  a 
war  sermon  yesterday,  and  do  you  know  what  I  took  for  my  text?" 
The  other  intimated  that  owing  to  a  sad  lack  of  ubiquity  he  was 
not  in  position  to  say.  "Well  sir,"  he  went  on,  "/  took  that  text 
where  Samuel  hewed  Agag  in  pieces  before  the  Lord."  The  truc- 
ulent gusto  with  which  he  recounted  that  gruesome  operation 
struck  the  other's  funny  vein,  prompting  him  to  intercalate, 
"What  did  he  do  with  the  pieces?"  That,  however,  was  a  phase 
of  the  subject  which  the  bellicose  speaker  had  not  considered. 
Whether  the  old-time  prophet  had  determined  what  to  do  with 
the  fragments  of  Agag  or  not,  this  man  had  not  got  so  far.  His 
fierce  indignation,  justifiable  as  it  was,  had  only  obeyed  the  im- 
mediate impulse  to  crush  and  destroy  the  monster  evil  that  assails 
the  world.  We  cannot  single  him  out  for  blame.  There  are 
others  just  like  him.  The  perfidies  and  atrocities  of  the  war  have 
goaded  many  to  this  furious  reaction, — and  left  them  there. 

But,  you  see,  whoever  stays  there  is  doomed  to  be  left  behind. 
The  world  has  moved  fast  through  these  three  nightmare  years 


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of  war, — fast,  though  in  a  horrible  cloud  and  uproar.  The  first 
keen  sting  of  indignant  impulse,  a  sound  and  healthy  reaction  as 
far  as  it  went,  has  passed  on  to  the  stolid  pressure  of  grim  resolve. 
It  had  to  be.  The  German  Agag  has  required  a  deal  of  hewing, 
and  the  cleaver  must  have  stout  arms,  many  and  persistent,  to 
wield  it.  More  than  that,  the  German  Agag  himself,  with  a  long 
prepared  purpose  to  hack  his  way  through,  got  into  the  butchery 
first,  and  has  kept  it  up  ruthlessly  and  indiscriminately  until  he 
has  made  well-nigh  the  whole  world  his  Agag.  Such  a  universal 
turmoil  of  hewing  has  never  hitherto  entered  the  heart  of  man. 
Deeper  and  deeper  the  nations  have  got  into  it,  until  the  prophecies 
that  were  so  rife  at  the  beginning  have  died  down  to  dismayed 
and  doubtful  inquiry.  But  one  thing  is  looming  up,  imperious 
and  insistent.  We  must  begin  to  reckon  no  longer  with  the  butch- 
ery but  with  the  pieces.  Our  emulators  of  Samuel,  if  they  would 
aid  their  worthy  cause,  must  become  constructive. 

And  we  are  advancing  that  way.  We  cannot  call  a  truce  to  the 
hewing  yet,  but  we  can  project  will  and  motive  toward  the  hori- 
zon that  is  already  opening  out  beyond  the  murk  and  confusion. 
And  that  is  what  our  America  is  doing,  what  our  old  men  who 
dream  dreams  and  our  young  men  who  see  visions  are  moved  to 
do.  The  sense  of  this  came  to  Amherst  in  a  wonderful  way  only 
this  last  Commencement;  when  the  older  alumni  came  and  told 
their  dream,  and  the  young  men,  alumni  and  undergraduates, 
many  of  them  in  khaki  and  navy-blue,  showed  in  serious  yet  shin- 
ing faces  the  reflection  of  the  vision.  What  a  contrast  to  certain 
years  before,  when  the  joy  of  reunion  lay  so  near  to  vacuous  fri- 
volity! Small  blame  to  them,  then;  it  was  their  day  of  care-free 
frolic;  but  now?  A  great  Ideal  had  risen,  had  gradually,  as  great 
things  do,  rounded  from  nebula  to  orbic  form,  had  shaped  itself 
from  dream  to  concrete  vision,  lacking  not  eyes  to  see.  College 
is  the  true  seed-plot  of  such  ideals,  liberal  learning  their  nurture 
and  husbandry;  and  when  President  Wilson,  a  college  man,  gave 
this  ideal  the  commission  to  "make  the  world  safe  for  democracy," 
echoing  thereby  those  deathless  words  of  Lincoln  "that  govern- 
ment of  the  people,  by  the  people,  and  for  the  people  should  not 
perish  from  the  earth,"  it  found  them  "highly  resolved"  and 
ready.    That  revealed  fact  made  the  recent  commencement  season 


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one  of  the  most  memorable  in  the  history  of  Amherst,  and  the 
history  of  many  another  college  came  to  the  same  noble  table-land 
of  response  and  resolve.  It  was  an  ideal  with  nothing  to  hide, 
nothing  to  trim  and  narrow;  the  purest  spirit  of  manhood  pro- 
claimed itself  in  it.  It  was  an  ideal  that  sought  the  light  and  rev- 
erenced the  truth. 

Our  generation  has  been  too  reluctant  to  identify  its  ideals  with 
religion,  and  that  negative  sentiment,  owing  partly  to  agnostic  big- 
head  and  partly  to  the  trail  of  the  German  serpent,  has  come  per- 
ilously near  quenching  all  ideals  of  life  that  looked  higher  than 
our  myopic  eyes.  What  were  we  living  for,  after  all?  We  were 
falling  a  heedless  prey  to  what  has  been  called  "the  foolish  dislike 
to  things  religious  as  such,  which  has  been  the  bigotry  of  the  last 
generation  or  two."  But  the  shock  of  war,  soul-trying  as  it  is,  has 
come  to  change  all  this.  It  has  stirred  the  better  self  of  men  to 
higher  things,  it  is  an  ideal  that  expands  measurelessly  upward 
and  outward,  an  ideal  overhead.  It  no  longer  confines  itself  to 
the  Agag-hewing  business,  compulsory  though  that  at  present  is. 
And  so  of  foolish  boys  it  has  made  men.  "This  is  a  serious  busi- 
ness," said  one  of  our  newly  enlisted  seniors,  hitherto  a  light- 
weight, to  me;  and  he  was  merely  enunciating  a  common  feeling 
among  us.  One  is  reminded  of  Browning's  Duke,  whom  a  moment 
of  purer  vision  and  aspiration  transformed  to  honor  and  worth : 

"Tliat  self-same  instant,  underneath, 
The  Duke  rode  past  in  his  idle  way. 
Empty  and  fine  like  a  swordless  sheath. 
Gay  he  rode,  with  a  friend  as  gay," — 

but  a  sudden  light  and  power  had  pierced  his  idle  nature, 

"  And  lo,  a  blade  for  a  knight's  emprise 

Filled  the  fine  empty  sheath  of  a  man, — 
The  Duke  grew  straightway  brave  and  wise." 

So  with  many  a  genuine-hearted  youth  all  through  our  land.  It 
did  not  all  come  at  once;  it  germinated  and  grew,  like  a  seed  re- 
sponding to  the  free  light  and  air.    And  the  irreligious  bigotry  has 


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gone.  The  response  in  many  a  soul  is  essentially  a  religion,  the 
religion  of  the  only  possible  "peace  on  earth,  goodwill  to  men," 
which  came  to  shepherds  long  ago.  Their  true  leader,  whether 
they  sense  it  or  not,  is  the  Prince  of  peace.  So  their  Agag-hewing 
is  "not  against  flesh  and  blood,  but  against  principalities,  against 
powers,  against  the  rulers  of  the  darkness  of  this  world,  against 
spiritual  wickedness  in  high  places."  This  consciousness  is  des- 
tined to  become  clearer  and  deeper,  to  face  with  strength  and  joy 
the  abysms  of  loyalty  and  sacrifice.  If  they  have  dallied  too  non- 
chalently  with  Nietzsche's  assertion  that  "God  is  dead"  they  will 
be  resolved  rather  to  die  with  God  than  to  live  with  Odin. 

This  truly  Christian  ideal  needs  to  be  brought  out  into  the  open 
and  kept  there,  because  the  world  is  confronting  another  ideal; 
the  whole  war,  in  fact,  has  become,  ever  more  clearly  and  sternly, 
a  war  of  ideals.  Do  not  think  that  Prussia  is  without  her  ideal, 
fully  defined  and  articulated,  an  ideal  the  diametric  opposite  of 
ours.  That  ideal,  to  which  a  whole  German  generation  had  been 
educated,  plunged  into  the  fight  with  all  the  zest  of  romance,  with 
all  the  aplomb  and  arrogance  of  a  manufactured  kultur,  calling 
for  the  applause  of  the  world.  Germany  has  long  been  recog- 
nized, with  praise  and  ridicule,  as  the  land  of  cloudy  idealisms, 
which  halted  not  at  the  bizarre  and  the  grotesque,  which  stayed 
not  for  morals  or  compunctions;  as  a  people  who,  whatever  the 
cloudy  image  before  them,  "embraced  the  cloud"  and  wove  its 
vapors  into  ponderous  philosophies.  How  the  rest  of  the  world 
tried  long  to  accept  and  assimilate  those  philosophies, — until  it 
transpired  that  the  systems  one  and  all  were  the  submissive  slaves 
of  a  huge  Juggernaut  idol  which  they  named  the  State!  That, 
with  its  mechanical  instrument  of  militarism,  had  concentrated 
all  ideals,  romantic  and  philosophical,  to  the  sharp  issue  of  world 
dominion.  It  did  not  look  above  the  eyes;  it  had  ceased  to  be  an 
imaginative  vision;  it  had  become  a  grim  and  inveterate  business, 
the  business  of  Germanizing  the  world.  That  is  the  ideal  that 
confronts  us.  We  were  slow  to  realize  it.  We  see  it  now;  by  its 
fruits,  already  ripening  in  treachery  and  world-lust  and  secret 
machinations  everywhere,  we  know  it.  It  is  not  in  the  open.  None 
of  its  work  is  above  board  and  trustworthy.  It  is  an  ideal  bur- 
rowing underground.     And  so,  as  we  are  coming  increasingly  to 


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see,  it  meditates  not  only  its  own  eventual  sway  but  the  wreck 
of  every  other. 

One  cannot  see,  judging  from  the  attitude  of  the  Germans  who 
have  been  taken  prisoners,  or  from  papers  found  on  the  dead,  that 
this  Prussian  ideal,  entered  upon  with  such  eager  alacrity,  did  much 
to  fill  "the  fine  empty  sheath  of  a  man"  from  across  the  Rhine 
with  anything  but  blind  hate  and  the  stolid  sense  of  obligation 
to  hack  his  way  through.  They  were  doing  what  their  god  the 
state,  through  its  soulless  machine  the  army,  had  made  them  au- 
tomatic tools  to  do.  There  was  no  ideal  in  that — for  them;  that 
is  why  the  world  is  so  sorry  for  them,  and  so  indignant  with  their 
superincumbent  array  of  slave-drivers.  For  the  maintenance  of 
the  ideal  we  must  look  to  these  latter,  in  an  ascending  scale,  or 
rather  descending  path  of  cumulative  plot,  from  petty  officer  to 
Kaiser.  And  there  we  find  that  the  "blade  for  a  knight's  em- 
prise" has  been  forged  and  sharpened  through  gloating  years  in 
cruel  cold  blood.  It  has  been  made  terribly  efiicient  for  hewing 
and  destroying;  has  built  up  the  giant's  brutal  strength,  which 
it  is  minded  to  use  purely  and  solely  like  a  giant.  One  sees  in  it 
nothing  overhead,  nothing  that  uplifts  the  heart  or  lights  the  face. 
And  its  highest  slogan,  the  proclaimed  ideal  into  which  it  has  lied 
and  hounded  a  hapless  people  is  "Deutschland  uber  i\.lles", — 
Germany  on  top  of  everything.  No  conscience,  no  tenderness, 
no  justice,  no  sense  of  right  beyond  might, — only  the  ruthlessly 
developed  rage  of  the  jungle,  out  of  which  the  hordes  of  Odin 
swarmed  centuries  ago.  It  is  idealism  working  in  inverse  order, 
working  downwards  to  the  tyrannous  underworld. 

All  the  rest  corresponds, — exactly,  minutely,  inescapably. 
There  is  no  lack  of  labored  stimulation,  extolling  the  wonderful 
kultur  ideal  that  is  going  to  regenerate  the  world — more  specifically 
the  German  domination  of  the  world — when  the  U-boats  have  got 
in  their  work,  and  the  seas  are  free  for  unlimited  German  piracy, 
and  England  is  on  her  knees,  and  America  is  bled  of  her  money, — 
what  an  inducement  for  the  starving,  sacrificed  Fatherland  to 
hold  out  a  little  longer!  Meanwhile  everything  that  is  underhand, 
and  undercutting,  and  underground,  is  inextricably  woven  with 


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the  ideal,  betraying  it  at  every  step  like  the  cloven  hoof,  yet  lauded 
as  means  to  a  high  end, — as  if  means  themselves  were  not  ends,  as 
if  grapes  could  some  time  be  gathered  from  thorns.  These  tactics 
of  treachery  tell  a  story  which  words  cannot  gloze  over,  which 
diplomacy  cannot  disguise.  And  they  are  not  the  language  of 
real  bravery  and  courage.  They  are  the  clumsy  tactics  of  fear 
and  shame  and  cowardice.  With  all  their  bluster  they  blench  and 
crawl  before  one  thing:  the  straight  truth.  Hence  Germany's 
reluctance  to  come  out  into  the  open  and  avow  her  aims  and  her 
terms.  Her  persistent  refusal  to  declare  herself  has  long  been  the 
deadlock  in  the  world's  efforts  to  arrive  at  peace  proposals.  She 
has  arrived  at  the  point  where  her  Deutschland  uber  Alles  is  prov- 
ing her  nemesis;  and  while  she  has  made  herself  unable  to  give 
it  up,  she  is  really  ashamed  to  own  that  she  ever  cherished  it. 
Before  everything  moral  and  truthful,  everything  that  insures  the 
free  play  of  humanity,  she  is  taking  the  way  of  arrant  cowardice. 
So  by  her  evasive  diplomacy  she  is,  in  spite  of  herself,  creating 
just  the  situation  portrayed  in  plain  and  forthright  terms  in  a 
certain  old  Book  that  we  wot  of:  "For  every  one  that  doeth  evil 
hateth  the  light,  neither  cometh  to  the  light,  lest  his  deeds  should 
be  reproved."  One  need  not  add  to  this  verdict.  The  moral  denial 
and  shame,  the  undergroundness,  the  blustering  attempt  to  make 
idealized  ends  justify  perfidious  means,  condemn  themselves. 

To  a  hasty  impulse  it  looks  as  if  there  were  nothing  for  it  but 
our  doughty  parson's  way,  to  hew  Agag  in  pieces  before  the  Lord. 
And  indeed,  beyond  this  immediate  reaction  of  indignation  a  whole 
world,  our  reluctant  selves  included,  is  for  one  of  God's  brief  mo- 
ments drawn  into  this  amazing  orgy  of  hacking  and  hewing.  But 
just  as  Samuel's  act  was  prophetic,  so  let  us  see  to  it  that  so  far 
as  lies  in  us  ours  shall  be.  Already  we  are  taking  courage  and 
strength  from  the  contrasted  ideal  that  is  rising  clarified  and  ma- 
jestic before  us.  The  same  old  Book  defines  it:  "He  that  doeth 
truth  cometh  to  the  light,  that  his  deeds  may  be  made  manifest, 
that  they  are  wrought  in  God."  And  as  for  the  other  ideal,  with 
its  tell-tale  deeds  of  darkness  and  cowardice,  it  has  wrought  its 
own  nemesis.  Its  fate  does  not  depend  on  our  hewing.  It  is 
suicidal.  Whatever  the  immediate  outcome  of  the  strife,  sooner 
or  later,  that  monster  state  Idol  of  Hohenzollerism,  usurping  the 


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sanctuary  of  light  and  right,  is  doomed  to  be  crushed  by  its  own 
weight. 

The  war  of  ideals  cannot  long  be  forced  underground,  where 
are  the  works  of  darkness;  its  guaranty  of  permanent  victory  is 
where  the  light  is,  above  the  seeing  of  the  eyes,  above  the  madness 
of  the  brain.  Is  the  promise  of  a  new  manhood  there  too — a  new 
religion.?    Well,  be  it  so. 


THE  POET  TO  THE  READER 

Stephen  Marsh 

IT  seemed  a  swift  ethereal  wing 
Did  fan  the  space  about 
My  brooding  mind;    a  simple  thing 
Was  writ  in  fine — and  doubt. 

The  momentary  flames  shot  bright 

And  hot  beyond  my  soul — 
Surpassed  the  compass  of  my  sight. 

Part  lost — yet  not  the  whole! 

A  fragment  caught  of  something  new, 
From  heavenly  hands  let  fall — 

But  blinding  bright.    Perhaps  the  blue 
Of  ethershine  was  all. 

In  dreams  I  see — the  full  light  screened 

By  golden  mists  that  shine 
Upon  the  face  of  heaven.    What's  gleaned 

And  bound  in  words  is  mine! 

Such  godlike  thought  I  bring  to  you, 
Much  wrapped  in  word  and  dream. 

In  faith,  and  after  pain,  shalt  view 
And  .sear  and  pierce  the  gleam ! 


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CHAPEL  ADDRESS 

ALEXANDER   MEIKLEJOHN 

[In  all  our  colleges  the  opening  of  the  new  academic  year  has  been  awaited  with 
hope  not  unmingled  with  apprehension;  and  the  actual  entrance  upon  the  year 
has  been  signalized  by  suitable  addresses  on  the  situation,  the  prospect,  the  duty 
before  those  who  remain  in  academic  work.  This  article  is  the  President's  address 
at  the  first  chapel  service  of  the  year,  September  20,  1917.    Ed.] 

"Waiting  to  strive  a  happy  strife, 
To  war  with  falsehood  to  the  knife. 
And  not  to  lose  the  good  of  life." 

IF  this  speech  were  a  sermon,  it  would  have  three  texts.  In 
the  words  of  the  layman,  it  has  three  starting  points.  It 
springs  from  an  observation,  a  principle,  and  a  sentiment. 
The  observation  was  given  me  by  a  Dartmouth  man.  The  prin- 
ciple is  a  commonplace  of  logic.  The  sentiment  is  surging  through 
every  heart  within  this  room  this  morning.  I  will  state  them 
briefly. 

The  Dartmouth  man,  who  was  in  his  sixties,  said  to  me,  "The 
war  seems  to  me  to  have  taken  boys  who  before  it  came  were  idle 
and  worthless  and  to  have  made  them  men.  I  know  a  young 
fellow,"  he  said,  "who  used  to  hang  around  the  club,  just  a  good 
fellow,  good  for  nothing.  But  to-day  he  is  in  uniform,  preparing 
for  aviation;  he  is  ready  for  service,  straight,  eager,  manly,  good 
for  anything  he  may  be  given  to  do.  When  I  heard  he  was  ar- 
ranging his  affairs  in  case  he  should  never  come  back,  I  asked  him 
in  what  spirit  he  was  going,  whether  he  was  merely  willing  or 
really  eager?  And  he  answered,  looking  me  straight  in  the  eye, 
'I  think  I  want  to  go.'  "  There  you  see  is  an  observation  which 
some  men  are  making,  that  boys  who  were  slackers  in  the  conflict 
of  life  are  becoming  men  in  these  days  of  strife.  So  far  as  it  goes, 
I  think  the  observation  is  true. 

The  principle  is  a  very  simple  one.  It  says,  "Whenever  you 
deny  anything  you  assert  something  else."  You  never  merely 
say  that  something  isn't  so;    whenever  you  do  that  you  imply 


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that  something  else  is  so.  If  I  say  a  man  is  not  in  WilUams,  that 
means  that  he  is  somewhere  else;  if  I  should  add,  what  might 
perhaps  seem  unnecessary,  that  he  is  a  man  of  good  sense,  it  might 
follow  that  he  is  in  Amherst.  But  good  sense  or  not,  if  there  be 
such  a  man,  he  is  somewhere,  somewhere  outside  of  Williamstown, 
and  I  who  have  excluded  him  from  one  place  must  assert  that 
there  is  some  other  place,  known  or  unknown,  in  which  he  may 
be  found.  I  cannot  make  my  denial  without  making  the  asser- 
tion too. 

The  sentiment  of  which  I  have  spoken  is  one  of  doubt  and  deso- 
lation. We  had  high  hopes  of  our  college  work  this  year.  But 
now  our  boys  are  gone,  many  of  them;  young  fellows  who  sat 
here  last  year  are  in  the  schools  and  camps  or  already  in  the  ranks. 
And  we  are  left  behind.     The  college  is  divided  as  we  have  not 

known  it  divided  before.     The  fighters  and  the  .     Are  we 

slackers,  we  who  remain  here?  Have  we  quailed  before  the  task 
which  other  men  have  faced?  You  remember  the  question  that 
stung  men  into  action  years  ago.  "Our  brethren  are  already  in 
the  field;  why  stand  we  here  idle?"  Is  the  college  divided,  has 
it  split  in  two? 

Well  now  we  have  our  observation,  our  principle,  our  sentiment 
before  our  eyes.  Let  us  put  them  together  and  make  them  into 
one — the  attitude  in  which  the  year  shall  be  begun. 

Our  people  have  gone  to  war.  Why?  Is  it  because  they  hate 
another  people  or  would  destroy  them?  It  is  not.  Is  it  because 
of  a  desire  to  take  something  that  other  people  have  and  keep  it 
for  their  own?  It  is  not.  The  reason  for  our  fighting  is  a  sense 
of  danger;  it  is  a  threat  against  the  kind  of  living  which  we  think 
worth  while.  We  fear  a  certain  way  of  handling  human  affairs, 
of  dealing  with  men.  Our  time  for  war  came  when  that  way  of 
doing  things  came  close  to  us,  so  close  that  we  could  feel  the  chill 
and  dread  of  it.  And  we  resolved  to  do  our  part  in  thwarting  it, 
in  thrusting  it  back.  And  so  like  other  men  across  the  sea,  we 
made  our  vow,  "They  shall  not  pass." 

What  is  this  way  of  handling  human  life  which  we  resent  and 
will  not  have?  As  I  have  read  the  words  of  those  who  lead  and 
guide  us  and  have  talked  with  other  men  who  follow  them,  the 
issues  have  become  quite  clear,  perhaps  too  clear.  Three  things 
we  hate.     First,  we  hate  the  creed  that  might  makes  right,  that 


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he  who  has  the  strength  may  take  from  him  who  has  it  not.  Sec- 
ond, we  hate  the  code  which  gives  an  interested  few  the  right  to 
use  their  many  fellows  for  their  selfish  ends,  to  make  them  tools 
and  instruments  for  selfish  glory  or  for  gain.  And  third,  we  hate 
the  doctrine  that  a  man  may  lie,  may  break  his  word,  forfeit  his 
obligations  if  only  breaking  faith  will  serve  his  purpose.  These 
things,  this  creed,  this  code,  this  doctrine,  we  will  not  have.  Up 
to  this  time,  we  have  not  wished  to  say  what  other  people  should 
do  nor  what  their  creeds  or  codes  should  be.  But  suddenly  we 
seem  to  have  found,  confronting  us,  a  way  of  handling  human  life 
that  simply  must  not  be,  and  so  we  fight  to  thrust  it  back  and 
put  another  in  its  place. 

May  I  repeat  the  words  I  have  just  said,  "And  put  another  in 
its  place. "  There  seems  to  me  the  answer  to  our  riddle.  By  them 
a  man  may  judge  whether  or  not  he  is  a  slacker  in  the  fight.  By 
them  we  see  whether  the  college  is  two  or  one,  whether  for  those 
who  go  and  those  who  stay  there  is  a  common  fight,  a  common 
loyalty. 

Our  brothers  are  already  in  the  field;  they  have  gone  out  to 
fight.  And  why?  Because  they  hate  the  way  of  life  which 
threatens  us.  And  so  they  fight,  destroy,  declare  "this  shall  not 
be. "  Fighting,  you  see,  is  negative.  It  will  not  have  the  hateful 
creed,  the  hateful  code,  the  hateful  doctrine.  Whatever  the  cost, 
they  must  give  way.  Give  way  for  what?  To  put  another  in  the 
place.  There  is  the  affirmation — that  other  way  of  life,  that  way 
in  which  men  should  live  and  act,  that  is  the  thing  for  which  men 
really  fight. 

Fighting,  (I  say),  is  negative;  its  meaning  lies  not  in  itself,  nor 
even  in  the  thing  it  would  destroy,  but  rather  in  the  thing  to  make 
a  place  for  which  the  evil  thing  must  be  destroyed.  Have  we  then 
kinship  with  our  soldiers?  Are  we  their  comrades  in  a  common 
cause?  Yes,  if  we  love  the  things  in  .behalf  of  which  they  fight. 
They  would  destroy  the  creed  that  Might  makes  Right;  do  we 
believe  that  Right  is  Right,  no  matter  who  may  have  the  power 
to  force  his  will  upon  his  fellows?  They  would  tear  down  a  code 
by  which  a  few,  by  cruel  and  mean  deceit,  can  use  their  fellows  for 
selfish  ends.  Are  we  their  comrades?  Yes,  if  with  all  our  strength 
we  try  to  see  that  justice  is  done  and  men  are  given  fair  play  in 
human  living.    Our  soldiers  hate  a  man  who  lies  and  breaks  his 


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oath  and  they  would  thrust  the  He  back  in  his  teeth  and  choke 
him  with  it.  Are  we  their  comrades?  Yes,  if  we  love  the  Truth, 
just  as  they  hate  the  lie;  yes,  if  we  face  the  facts  and  do  not  try 
to  twist  them;  yes,  if  we  think  the  truth  is  strong  enough  to  stand 
the  test  of  being  told. 

If  you  should  ask  me  what  we  must  do  to  keep  our  kinship  with 
the  Amherst  men  who  have  gone  out  to  fight,  there  are  two  an- 
swers I  would  give  you.  First,  we  must  stand  ready  to  go  when 
we  are  called  to  join  them  in  fighting,  to  take  our^^sii^ces  in  the 
ranks.  But  if  we  are  not  called  a  second  task  awaits  us.  We  must 
build  up  the  way  of  life  in  behalf  of  which  they  fight.  Would  it 
not  be  a  sorry  thing  if  they  should  win  their  conflict  only  to  find 
we  had  no  better  way  of  living  to  put  in  place  of  that  they  had 
destroyed;  only  to  find  some  meaner  code  sneaking  its  way  to 
take  the  place  they  had  left  for  us  to  fill.'' 

Are  we  then  slackers,  we  who  linger  here.''  Not  if  we  do  the 
task  that  lies  before  us.  I  can  tell  you  who  is  the  slacker  in  these 
days  of  strife.  He  is  the  man  who  does  not  care  for  Right  and  has 
no  wish  to  know  what  it  may  be;  he  is  the  man  who  has  no  choice 
how  men  may  act  or  deal  with  one  another  if  only  he  should  get 
the  thing  he  wants;  he  is  the  man  who  tells  the  truth  for  safety's 
sake  but  tells  the  lie  as  gladly  as  the  truth  if  it  will  serve  his  end. 

I  wonder  if  men  think  that  proper  human  living  simply  grows, 
simply  comes  to  be  without  our  effort  or  attention.  Is  it  not  rather 
true  that  living  must  be  made  by  slow  and  patient  toil,  does  it 
not  ever  tend  to  turn  and  twist  out  of  its  proper  shape;  are  we  not 
cursed  by  blindness  and  stupidity  that  make  us  choose  the  thing 
we  would  not  have  and  do  the  thing  we  would  not  do?  Let  no 
man  think  that  right  and  wholesome  and  beautiful  living  lies 
ready  at  his  hand.  Life  must  be  made;  it  must  be  wrought  by 
labor  of  our  hands  and  spirits.  And  we  who  would  destroy  the 
mode  of  life  that  other  men  have  made,  we  must  be  ready  to  make 
a  better  life  for  men  to  live.  And  we  who  criticise  the  work  that 
other  men  have  done,  are  we  so  satisfied  with  things  that  we  have 
done?  Are  there  no  men  within  our  ranks  who  think  that  Might 
makes  Right,  are  there  no  men  who  use  their  fellows  for  their 
selfish  ends,  are  there  no  men  who  twist  the  fact  and  tell  the  lie 
that  brings  success?    I  think  we  have  some  work  to  do  at  home. 

In  presence  of  the  tasks  that  face  us,  I  ask  you,  men  of  Amherst, 


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to  put  aside  your  doubt  and  desolation.  The  college  is  one,  not 
two.  Some  of  our  men  have  gone  to  fight  and  some  remain  to 
study  here.  But  they  are  one  in  purpose.  Men  come  to  college 
to  study  human  life  because  they  know  that  by  the  studying  they 
can  make  life  more  nearly  what  it  ought  to  be.  They  see  how 
crude  and  stupid  much  of  living  is,  how  starved  and  poor,  how 
lacking  in  taste;  and  on  the  other  hand,  they  catch  the  vision  of 
what  it  sometimes  is  and  what  it  may  become.  And  so  they  set 
themselves  the  task  of  understanding  it  to  make  it  better.  And 
if  that  work  be  interrupted  by  the  need  of  fighting  hostile  foes, 
the  purpose  has  not  changed,  the  spirit  is  the  same. 

Are  we  then  slackers?  Is  the  college  cut  in  two.f*  My  Dart- 
mouth friend  observed  that  in  the  fiery  trial  of  this  fight  young 
men  who  had  been  slack  are  strong  and  keen,  playing  their  parts 
like  men  in  fighting  for  the  common  cause.  And  we  who  stay 
behind,  what  shall  it  mean  to  us?  Have  we  been  slack?  Has  col- 
lege study  been  the  thing  it  ought  to  be?  Have  we  not  dawdled 
and  fiddled,  waiting  for  teachers  to  give  us  silly  little  tasks  to  do? 
Have  we  not  shirked  even  our  tasks?  But  now  the  time  has  come 
and  we  must  be  at  work.  Men  come  to  college  to  try  to  under- 
stand. Come  on,  you  men  of  Amherst,  and  meet  the  world  that 
awaits  you.  Never  had  young  men  entering  life  the  chance  that 
waits  on  you.  The  world  of  men  is  molten,  waiting  the  form  that 
you  shall  give  it.  And  will  you  fail  to  do  your  part?  While  others 
fight,  will  you  forbear  to  build?  Will  you  allow  the  college  to 
break  in  two?  I  do  not  think  you  will.  There  are  not  many 
slackers  here  to-day.  I  think  that  in  the  spirit  of  the  time,  though 
ranks  are  thin,  we  shall  not  lose  our  kinship  with  our  brethren  in 
the  field  but  we  will  fight  and  think  to  better  human  life.  We 
will  be  Amherst  men,  as  Amherst  men  have  been  before,  as  Am- 
herst men  shall  never  cease  to  be. 


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THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  YEAR 

TO  realize  what  the  opening  of  college  has  meant,  it  is 
well  to  recall  the  circumstances  that  led  the  Trustees,  at 
their  June  meeting,  to  pass  a  special  resolution  declaring 
that  Amherst  would  open  its  doors  this  fall  as  usual.  Last  year 
began  late  and  darkly  under  the  menace  of  the  paralysis  epidemic. 
More  and  more  as  the  weeks  went  on  the  international  crisis 
numbed  all  minds  to  other  interests.  The  war-cloud  burst  and 
laid  a  weight  of  uncertain  responsibility  upon  the  men  in  college. 
There  were  rumors  that  college  would  not  reopen  after  the  spring 
vacation,  that  it  would  give  place  to  the  training  camps  early  in 
May.  Practically  the  entire  undergraduate  body  at  once  diverted 
a  fifth  of  their  energy  from  education  to  military  drill,  but  that 
was  not  enough.  Man  after  man  left  to  find  immediate  oppor- 
tunities to  enter  government  service.  Others,  awaiting  from  day 
to  day  the  call  to  go,  lost  interest  in  their  college  work.  The 
jangle  of  rag-time  rose  insistently  from  the  fraternity  houses,  and 
teachers  faced  the  discouragement  of  dwindling  and  indifferent 
classes.  For  a  time  the  convictions  of  the  college  seemed  to  falter. 
Many  of  the  faculty  asked  themselves  bitterly  whether  education 
could  amount  to  more  than  a  farce  while  the  war  lasted. 

Now  we  know  the  answer.  We  know  that  the  college  has  been 
tested  by  the  crisis,  and  is  emerging  justified  and  strengthened. 
We  do  not  need  to  have  President  Wilson  and  Secretary  of  War 
Baker  assure  us  that  the  work  of  educating  its  young  men  is  the 
country's  most  essential  industry  and  must  be  carried  on.  We 
know  that  it  will  go  on  and  that  Amherst  is  able  to  take  a  strong 
share  in  the  work.  One  significant  reason  for  our  faith  is  furnished 
by  the  registration  statistics. 

In  June  perhaps  250  men  were  still  attending  classes.  Only  40 
Seniors  crossed  the  Commencement  stage.  During  the  summer  the 
size  of  the  entering  class  remained  uncertain.  But  in  September  col- 
lege opened  with  351  men,  to  all  intents  a  gain  of  100.  The  Fresh- 
man class  is  larger  than  the  classes  of  1918  or  1919  were  upon 
entering.  The  present  Sophomore  class  is  eight  men  stronger 
than  last  year's.    The  Junior  and  Senior  classes,  as  expected,  have 


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been  practically  cut  in  half.  The  reduction  in  numbers  is  ex- 
plained by  the  fact  that  97  undergraduates  who  would  normally 
be  in  college  now  have  enlisted  in  war  service;  many  are  already 
in  France,  and  of  the  whole  number,  as  far  as  the  records  show, 
two  were  drafted.  These  men  are  our  finest,  and  wherever  they 
may  be  are  still  to  be  counted  a  part  of  Amherst.  The  war,  then, 
has  reduced  our  true  numbers  by  about  fifty  men. 

Physically  the  college  is  holding  its  own;  morally  it  is  gaining 
ground.  From  the  first  day  of  rushing  a  new  spirit  has  gone  abroad. 
IndifiFerence  and  uncertainty  are  waning.  The  college  rejoices 
in  sincerity  and  strength.  Every  man  who  has  come  back  to  us 
this  fall  has  made  a  choice  and  is  fulfilling  a  determination.  He 
has  faced  and  is  constantly  facing  the  challenge  vigorously  enun- 
ciated in  President  Meiklejohn's  speech  at  the  first  Chapel  exer- 
cise: 

"Are  we  slackers,  we  who  remain  here?  Have  we  quailed  before 
the  task  which  other  men  have  faced?  You  remember  the  ques- 
tion which  stung  men  into  action  some  years  ago:  'Our  brothers 
are  already  in  the  field;    why  stand  we  idle?'  .  .  . 

"If  you  should  ask  me  what  we  must  do  to  keep  our  kinship 
with  the  Amherst  men  who  have  gone  out  to  fight,  there  are  two 
answers  I  would  give  you.  First,  we  must  stand  ready  to  go  when 
we  are  called  to  join  them  in  the  fighting,  to  take  our  places  in  the 
ranks.  But  if  we  are  not  called  a  second  task  awaits  us.  We  must 
build  up  the  way  of  life  in  behalf  of  which  they  fight.  Would  it 
not  be  a  sorry  thing  if  they  should  win  their  conflict  only  to  find 
we  had  no  better  way  of  living  to  put  in  place  of  that  they  had 
destroyed;  only  to  find  some  meaner  code  sneaking  its  way  to 
take  the  place  they  had  left  for  us  to  fill?  Are  we  then  slackers, 
we  who  linger  here?    Not  if  we  do  the  task  that  lies  before  us." 

To  help  Amherst  men  meet  the  first  of  these  duties  Lieutenant 
George  William  Balfour  Kinnear,  an  officer — until  disabled  by 
accident — of  the  Canadian  Overseas  Forces,  has  joined  the  faculty 
as  instructor  in  Tactics  and  Military  Science.  An  elementary 
course  open  to  all  undergraduates  and  an  advanced  course  in- 
tended for  those  who  expect  to  enlist  within  the  year  will  be  given 
under  Lieutenant  Kinnear's  expert  direction.  In  view  of  the  in- 
terest taken  in  the  Battalion  last  spring,  there  can  be  no  doubt 
that  the  courses  in  Military  Training  will  be  loyally  supported. 


The    Spirit    of    the    Year  15 

Only  time  can  show  how  fully  Amherst  can  contribute  to  the 
second  and  immensely  more  difficult  portion  of  our  task.  The 
task  is  there,  and  there  are  abundant  indications  that  the  students 
in  college  feel  the  need  of  justifying  their  course.  The  tone  of 
undergraduate  life  has  risen  to  an  unexampled  pitch  of  high  seri- 
ousness. One  evidence  of  this  may  be  seen  in  the  businesslike 
way  in  which  the  larger  student  activities  are  being  administered. 
If  space  permitted,  we  might  illustrate  by  describing  the  splendid 
organization  of  the  various  important  services  rendered  the  college 
and  the  community  by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  But  an  even  more  striking 
example  lies  in  the  response  of  the  college  to  the  Student  Associa- 
tion tax.  In  previous  years  the  collection  of  a  smaller  tax  has  been 
a  matter  of  months  of  agony  and  exhortation,  and  a  number  of 
students  have  always  succeeded  in  evading  payment.  This  year 
the  Student  Association  voted  unanimously  to  collect  a  tax  of 
twelve  dollars  per  man,  provision  being  made  for  allowing  reduc- 
tions in  the  tax  to  needy  students.  On  the  day  appointed  for 
collection  346  out  of  351  men  in  college  appeared  at  the  Association 
rooms  and  settled  their  obligations,  about  one  man  in  seven  paying 
by  promissory  note.  Some  seventy  men  applied  for  reductions. 
Their  cases  were  heard  individually  by  a  committee  and  each 
decided  on  its  merits.  Twenty-nine  hundred  dollars  in  cash  was 
paid  in,  and  the  support  of  athletics  and  other  activities  for  the 
year  assured.  Former  managers  of  undergraduate  finances  will 
agree  that  this  is  an  unprecedented  record;  it  was  due  partly,  no 
doubt,  to  the  machinery  skilfully  set  in  motion  by  the  officers 
of  the  Student  Association,  but  in  large  part  also  to  the  new  loyalty 
and  responsibility  felt  by  each  individual  student  in  this  time 
of  trial. 

In  the  same  fine  spirit  Amherst  men  have  taken  up  the  work 
of  tlie  class-room.  For  years  perfunctory  exhortations  to  study 
have  been  chronic  a  few  weeks  before  the  examinations.  This 
fall  the  new  attitude  toward  college  work  is  accurately  reflected 
in  an  editorial  from  the  first  number  of  the  Student: 

"We  have  all  heard  that  'a  college  student  can  get  a  degree 
for  work  that  would  lose  a  business  man  his  desk  in  the  office.'  If 
that  is  to  be  our  attitude  toward  our  work  this  year,  then  we  are 
indeed  shirking  our  duty  toward  the  nation  and  toward  ourselves. 
Every  year  we  have  it  pointed  out  to  us  that  if  we  loaf  in  college 


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we  store  up  trouble  for  our  later  life  by  forming  habits  of  sloth 
and  idleness  which  are  well  nigh  impossible  to  break  afterward. 
Just  now,  however,  the  danger  of  such  a  course  is  even  greater, 
for  in  addition  we  lay  ourselves  open  to  the  charge  both  from  others 
and  from  our  own  consciences  that  while  our  fellows  give  their 
best  efforts  to  the  nation,  we  contribute  not  a  thing.  .  .  .  Now 
that  the  first  excitement  produced  by  the  declaration  of  war  has 
had  time  to  die  down  somewhat,  there  is  no  excuse  for  spending 
all  our  time  discussing  the  situation  of  the  armies,  the  prospects 
of  peace,  and  so  on.  We  have  come  to  college  to  get  an  education 
which  will  fit  us  to  be  of  greater  service  when  we  are  needed." 

Members  of  the  faculty  have  already  commented  on  signs  of 
(juickened  responsiveness  in  the  class-room.  Where  they  once 
spoke  to  nice  boys,  courteous  and  more  or  less  attentive,  they  now 
speak  to  young  men  touched  with  a  deepening  sense  of  purpose. 
The  change  is  impressive. 

It  has  not  been  accompanied,  however,  with  any  reduction  of 
interest  in  healthy  recreations.  Rather  there  has  been  evident  a 
gallant  determination  to  keep  up  the  normal  and  valuable  under- 
graduate activities  at  any  cost  of  effort.  The  soaring  price  of 
news-print  has  forced  the  cutting  down  of  the  Student  to  four 
pages,  but  the  printed  matter  is  better  than  ever.  The  Monthly 
is  uncertain  of  its  subscription  list,  but  confident  of  its  value  in 
the  training  of  undergraduate  writers,  it  will  continue  publication 
till  the  last  gasp.  The  Glee  Club  and  the  Masquers  are  getting 
into  shape.  And  though  only  one  veteran  of  last  year's  team  is 
now  in  college,  forty  men  reported  to  Coach  Gettell  for  preliminary 
football  practice.  If  Amherst's  light  and  inexperienced  team  does 
not  meet  with  a  successful  season,  it  will  not  be  for  want  of  en- 
thusiastic devotion  on  the  part  of  the  student  body. 

With  a  keener  interest  in  vital  work  and  play  spreading  through 
the  college,  some  unnecessary  and  perhaps  childish  traditions  of 
the  past  find  it  hard  to  survive.  The  flag  rush,  through  a  time- 
keeper's error,  resulted  in  a  draw,  and  neither  class  voted  to  repeat 
the  contest.  Further  illuminating  hints  of  a  changed  attitude 
toward  horseplay  may  be  quoted  from  another  Student  editorial: 

"The  Sophomores  have  declared  themselves  against  disturbing 
the  rooms  of  the  lower  i  classmen,  despite  the  experiences  they 
suffered  last  year.    They  see  the  futility  of  it.    The  Seniors  startled 


The    Spirit    of    the    Year  17 

some  by  their  indifiference  to  the  performance  of  Freshmen  at 
their  election — they  have  grown  tired  of  it  all.  Several  fraternities 
have  made  changes  in  their  hazing  rules,  doing  away  with  much 
of  the  objectionable  part  of  them.  Amherst  is  changing,  and,  we 
think,  for  the  better.  The  old  loyalty  and  spirit  is  still  there,  but 
it  is  expressed  in  a  better,  more  practical  way." 

Nonsense,  in  fact,  is  being  weeded  out  of  student  life  by  the 
discipline  of  the  national  emergency.  One  fraternity,  at  least,  is 
reported  to  have  voted  to  give  up  its  initiation  banquet  and  dance, 
thereby  crushing  at  one  move  an  extravagance  and  a  distraction. 
The  collective  and  individual  expenditure  of  money  has  become  as 
never  before  an  object  of  concern  to  every  man  in  college.  On 
the  subject  of  undergraduate  spending  we  may  again  allow  the 
Student  to  represent  college  sentiment: 

"By  being  more  economical  the  student  may  be  able  to  save 
money  for  those  who  are  sending  him  to  college.  Just  now  this 
saving  is  desirable,  and  though  it  does  not  assure  a  larger  contri- 
bution on  the  part  of  parents  to  war  charities,  it  makes  a  larger 
contribution  possible.  It  is,  then,  the  duty  of  every  student  who 
can  not  conscientiously  subscribe  to  any  war  appeal  himself,  to 
be  the  means  whereby  he  may  save  money  for  others  whose  priv- 
ilege and  duty  it  is  to  give  as  much  as  they  can." 

While  the  undergraduates  at  home  are  ready  to  do  their  part 
in  this  temper,  Amherst  will  not  be  divided.  The  determination 
of  the  college  this  year  is  quite  simply  to  prove  the  truth  of  Presi- 
dent Meiklejohn's  words: 

"I  think  that  in  the  spirit  of  the  time,  though  the  ranks  are 
thin,  we  shall  not  lose  our  kinship  with  our  brothers  in  the  field." 


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COLLEGE  CONCEIT  AND  COLLEGE  SPIRIT 

KARL   O.    THOMPSON 

THERE  is  a  brand  of  conceit  peculiar  to  the  college.  This 
is  not  surprising,  for  the  college  is  in  many  ways  a  peculiar 
institution.  Although  it  possesses  the  characteristics  of 
the  general  community  in  some  of  its  important  features,  it  differs 
from  them  in  other  points,  particularly  in  the  incentives  of  the 
common  life.  Human  nature  shows  itself  in  more  or  less  persistent 
ways,  and  certainly  the  college  affords  abundant  expression  of  the 
essential  qualities  of  human  nature;  in  fact  right  here  is  the  basis 
for  some  of  the  uniqueness  of  the  college,  and  for  its  peculiar  form 
of  conceit.  Human  nature  is  taken  at  a  period  when  its  expression 
is  seeking  its  normal  individual  manner,  when  freed  from  some  of 
its  earlier  constrained  manifestations,  it  is  making  some  new 
channels  for  itself. 


The  quality  of  conceit  is  an  interesting  one.  It  is  closely  asso- 
ciated with  pride,  vanity,  egotism,  and  self-esteem.  Some  of 
these  are  good  and  some  are  not.  By  etymology  and  by  general 
approval,  conceit  is  one  of  the  undesirable  qualities,  along  with 
vanity.  There  is  an  instinct  of  self-assertion  that  is  one  of  the 
original  tendencies  of  animal  and  of  human  kind.  That  does  not 
necessarily  make  it  good  in  a  moral  sense,  but  it  does  mean  that  it 
may  be  an  excellent  foundation  upon  which  to  build  desirable 
characteristics  of  a  more  complex  sort.  Conceit  is  traceable  to 
this  inherent  tendency,  but  is  complex  in  that  it  involves  ideas, 
and  is  a  perversion  in  that  it  is  an  excessive  assumption  of  ideas. 
Like  pride  it  is  a  boasting  in  one's  own  accomplishments,  pride 
being  a  justifiable,  and  conceit  an  unjustifiable  boasting.  Conceit 
carries  the  expression  of  opinions  concerning  one's  self  to  an  un- 
pleasant extreme. 

The  period  of  college  life  is  one  of  growing  self-assertion,  when 
boys  "find  themselves,"  when  the  change  from  boyhood  to  man- 


College  Conceit  and  College  Spirit     19 

hood  is  at  least  started,  and  in  many  cases  carried  all  the  way 
through.  Moreover  it  is  an  experience  that  induces  thinking  about 
one's  self.  More  than  in  any  other  sphere,  in  college  life  there  is 
criticism.  Some  is  the  result  of  introspection,  though  probably 
not  so  much  as  in  the  days  when  the  religious  atmosphere  was  not 
only  more  marked,  but  also  more  doctrinal  than  it  is  at  present. 
Most  of  the  criticism,  however,  is  due  to  the  necessary  methods 
and  purposes  of  instruction.  A  teacher,  like  a  dentist,  must  very 
often  clear  away  unfavorable  conditions  before  the  surer  basis  is 
possible.  Criticism  is  both  easier  than  constructive  suggestion, 
and  naturally  earlier  in  any  process  of  development.  At  the 
beginning  of  his  career  a  teacher  is  likely  to  be  prevailingly  critical. 
A  student  then,  must  accustom  himself  to  criticism,  and  happy  is 
that  student  who  accepts  it  gracefully,  imputing  a  worthy  motive 
back  of  it,  even  when  there  is  little  evidence  of  such.  Much 
self-examination,  especially  under  stress  of  religious  emotion,  is 
not  wholesome,  but  much  application  of  careful  criticism  given  by 
trained  teachers  is  one  of  the  best  methods  for  securing  substantial 
improvement.  In  the  multitude  of  themes,  reports,  essays,  and 
discussions  that  are  asked  for  in  the  modern  curriculum,  there 
are  two  sources  of  great  benefit  to  the  student, — the  one  the  con- 
structive putting  together  of  ideas  in  concise  English,  and  the  other 
a  careful  revision  or  rewriting  on  the  basis  of  the  criticisms  of  the 
professor.  We  learn  by  doing,  but  also  by  doing  over,  when  im- 
provements can  be  secured.  A  possible  illustration  is  spelling; 
may  be  one  reason  why  the  average  high  school  graduate  is  not  a 
better  speller  is  found  in  the  loose  practice  of  the  high  school 
teacher  of  merely  announcing  that  there  are  some  mispelled  words 
in  written  work  which  the  pupils  are  to  find  and  correct.  There 
is  no  follow-up  system,  such  as  the  old-fashioned  drill  provided. 
Spelling  is  but  an  illustration;  other  courses  might  have  served 
as  well.  Corrections  should  be  required, — correct  corrections 
that  are  the  basis  of  future  progress. 

Now  conceit  is  very  largely  the  persistence  of  uncorrected 
notions  of  things.  Sometimes  opinions  are  impervious,  and  we 
call  a  person  holding  them  opinionated.  But  generally  speaking 
the  college  has  its  machinery  for  securing  the  revision  of  opinions, 
that  is,  of  reducing  conceit  in  the  students.  The  faculty  institute 
some   means,   the   students   themselves   some   other   means,   not 


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impossibly  actually  mean,  but  usually  effective  nevertheless.  The 
sophomores  are  a  divinely  created  agency  for  eliminating  conceit 
in  the  freshmen.  Examinations  at  frequent  intervals,- — and  to 
be  really  efficient  they  should  be  frequent — are  an  almost  equally 
divine  institution  for  reducing  the  conceit  of  the  upperclassmen, 
sophomores  included.  Both  methods,  however,  should  be  fol- 
lowed up  more  than  they  are,  for  conceit  has  a  power  of  recurrence 
that  is  surprising.  The  two  remedies  reach  different  types  of 
students.  There  is  the  smart  student  who  is  conceited  intellectu- 
ally, who  is  often  untouched  by  student  pressure,  except  maybe 
the  rivalry  of  another  bright  man;  but  the  classroom  work  of  the 
college  may  reach  him,  especially  if  tactfully  administered  by  a 
member  of  the  faculty.  Then  there  is  the  socially  conceited  stu- 
dent, the  one  that  swells  visibly  at  the  thought  of  being  a  college 
man,  particularly  if  he  is  able  to  contribute  to  the  social  or  athletic 
life  of  the  college.  His  tendency  is  to  become  snobbish  and  self- 
important.  The  very  association  with  college  men,  college  teams, 
or  college  organizations  brings  a  feeling  of  self-exaltation  that 
shows  itself  on  the  least  provocation,  and  is  extremely  boresome 
to  others,  especially  to  non-college  people.  There  is  also  the  man, 
— though  not  numerous  enough  to  be  a  class  by  himself, — that 
has  lived  alone  during  his  college  career,  or  has  worked  over-much 
to  earn  his  way,  or  either  by  preference  or  by  inability  has  refrained 
from  student  activities.  His  conceit  is  of  a  quieter  kind,  but  just 
as  real  as  that  of  the  other  groups.  These  two  types  are  reached 
by  the  standards  of  the  school  if  they  are  enforced,  but  need  the 
toning  influence  of  sophomoric  interest. 

This  phase  of  the  remedy  for  conceit  is  through  pressure,  varied 
according  to  the  type  of  student.  There  is  no  question  that  hazing 
should  be  restricted  to  reasonable  limits,  but  a  little  of  it  does  seem 
to  instill  a  due  sense  of  the  fitness  of  things  in  college  life.  There  is 
no  question  either,  that  the  college  should  be  absolutely  firm  and 
impartial  in  its  intellectual  standards,  at  the  same  time  making  a 
distinct  appeal  to  the  students.  This  leads  to  the  place  of  college 
spirit. 

II 

College  spirit  is  the  exaltation  of  the  college  in  its  particular 
function.     It  is  not  a  vague  "Hurrah  for  the  college,"  or  a  noisy 


College  Conceit  and  College  Spirit     21 

demonstration  on  the  part  of  any  of  the  constituent  factors  of  the 
institution, — advertising,  booming  the  size,  sensationalism  in 
instruction,  or  in  discipUne,  or  athletic  achievement.  It  is  a 
serious  cooperation  to  give  the  college  a  place  to  fill,  and  the 
assurance  of  its  filling  that  place.  It  is  a  matter  of  educational 
ideals  as  they  affect  the  students.  A  real  college  spirit  will  kill 
college  conceit,  just  because  a  bigger  purpose  will  displace  a  smaller. 
Student  conceit  sees  the  amount  of  the  personal  contribution,  to 
the  exclusion  of  the  object  contributed  to.  The  relative  importance 
of  the  two  is  quite  reversed.  One's  college  made  to  appeal  in  terms 
of  a  clear-cut  ideal,  that  in  time  will  give  away  to  another  ideal, — 
and  such  is  the  course  of  experience, — should  establish  the  true 
relative  values.  The  sentimental  prominence  needs  to  be  grounded 
in  a  more  compelling  and  a  more  definite  ideal.  Like  individuals 
in  the  frequently  heard  advice,  colleges  should  be  "good,  but  even 
more,  good  for  something."  If  the  college  can  appeal  to  every 
student  at  the  outset  of  his  college  career,  by  its  decisive  educa- 
tional ideals,  the  energies  of  the  student  will  be  called  out,  and 
this  will  counteract  the  tendencies  to  self-absorption  and  personal 
gain,  which  are  the  food  for  conceit. 

Professional  schools  that  parallel  colleges,  that  is,  that  accept 
high  school  graduates,  succeed  in  making  such  an  appeal  through 
the  vocational  interests  of  the  students.  A  boy  chooses  a  pro- 
fessional school  because  he  has  already  made  up  his  mind  what  he 
wants  from  further  study.  Unfortunately  this  appeal  is  too  often 
entirely  material,  and  includes  nothing  to  call  out  a  warm,  generous 
college  spirit.  Students  are  there  for  what  they  hope  to  get  for 
their  own  worldly  advantage,  and  judge  the  institution  very 
largely  on  the  basis  of  its  efficiency  in  producing  these  results. 
Such  judgments  are  of  course,  immature,  but — and  this  is  my 
particular  application — the  school  does  not  build  up  college  spirit 
among  its  students  in  that  way.  Very  often  there  is  little  in  the 
course  of  instruction  that  broadens  the  interests  of  the  student 
beyond  his  own  professional  work.  It  does  not  follow  that  there 
is  more  of  intellectual  conceit  in  such  schools,  for  the  necessarily 
high  standards  of  work  lessen  that.  But  it  does  follow  that  college 
spirit  is  swallowed  up  in  ambition  for  self. 

To  go  to  the  other  extreme  and  take  the  so-called  classical  col- 
lege that  leads  to  no  or  to  any  graduate  school,  or  to  business,  we 


22    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

have  an  institution  that  produces  no  more  favorable  results. 
Students  that  attend  have  vague  benefits  in  mind,  except  as  they 
consider  the  college  a  necessary  or  at  least  a  desirable  preliminary 
to  more  exact  professional  studies.  The  ideal  of  the  college  life  is 
too  thin,  even  though  it  be  expressed  in  such  words  as  "service," 
"citizenship,"  or  "preparedness  for  life."  And  so  conceit  is 
fostered  in  that  a  premium  is  placed  upon  the  personal  element, 
and  is  not  checked  by  any  larger,  more  compelling  requirement. 
And  college  spirit,  at  least  of  a  sane,  working  sort,  is  not  developed, 
large  gifts  from  the  alumni  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

Ill 

Is  there  not  a  better  way  in  between  these  two  extremes,  or  more 
accurately  by  a  combination  of  them?  We  cannot  do  away  if  we 
would  with  the  professional  school  paralleling  the  college.  We 
cannot,  and  surely  do  not  wish  to  do  away  with  the  small  college 
with  its  non-professional  bias;  nor  do  we  desire  to  use  the  words 
vocational  or  professional  in  any  narrow  or  false  way  as  applied 
to  the  college  to  attempt  to  smooth  over  the  discrepancy.  But 
we  do  wish  to  make  the  educational  motif  of  the  college  definite 
and  effective,  and  the  acceptance  of  such  purpose  on  the  part  of 
the  student  willing  and  hearty.  This  probably  means  a  subdivid- 
ing of  the  "humanities"  into  groups,  with  a  fore-sighted  choice 
of  some  major  group  by  each  student  at  or  near  the  beginning  of 
his  college  course,  and  a  clear  announcement  by  the  college  of 
the  selective  features  offered.  Such  a  partial  specialization  will 
serve  to  develop  within  the  student  the  desirable  qualities,  with  a 
minimum  of  conceit  and  a  maximum  of  loyalty. 

There  is  an  atmosphere  about  college  life  that  is  broadening 
apart  from  particular  studies.  A  boy  going  away  from  home  to 
college,  and  to  a  slightly  less  degree  a  boy  attending  college  in  his 
home  city,  feels  that  a  turning  point  has  been  reached.  He  is 
susceptible  to  new  influences.  It  should  be  the  care  of  the  college 
that  these  inevitable  influences  be  not  too  materialistic;  it  should 
be  the  care  of  the  boy,  now  a  young  man,  that  these  new  influences 
be  analyzed,  and  carefully  adapted.  School  life  beyond  the  high 
school,  whether  in  the  professional  school  or  in  the  college,  should 
be  on  a  distinctly  broader  plane  than  the  average  high  school  can 


College  Conceit  and  College  Spirit     23 

possibly  reach.     The  many  phases  of  life  must  be  related,  and 
this  is  no  easy  task,  but  is  a  rewarding  one  when  well  done. 

The  task  is  a  double  one;  it  requires  a  clarification  of  the  pur- 
pose of  the  college  by  its  administrative  forces,  and  it  means  a 
hearty  acceptance  of  that  purpose  by  the  students  who  come  to 
prepare  themselves  by  means  of  its  educational  ideals  and  equip- 
ment. Different  colleges  thus  have  their  marked  differences,  and 
the  choices  between  colleges  is  therefore  to  be  emphasized  to 
prospective  college  men.  The  history  of  the  institutions  have 
shaped  their  ideals  to  no  small  extent,  even  though  the  modern 
conditions  are  very  different  from  those  of  the  periods  of  organiza- 
tion. College  spirit  is  encouraged  by  permanent  idealism,  main- 
tained at  great  cost.  But  more  and  more  it  will  be  true  that  boys 
will  not  go  to  a  college  because  their  fathers  did  before  them; 
they  will  choose  because  of  the  embodiment  of  their  own  growing, 
conscious  life  purpose.  Thus  the  best  college  life  will  be  preserved, 
and  the  best  men  prepared  for  the  realization  of  their  life's  goals. 


PRAYER  OF  A  VIOLIN 

Harry  Greenwood  Grover 

WHEN  I  am  gone,  my  last  string  snapped,  burn  up, 
I  pray,  the  trembling  wood  through  which  I  sang, 
The  broken  bridge,  the  keys  that  tuned  my  strings 
To  seraph  strains — this  Thing  through  which  I  breathed: 
Burn  it  and  blow  its  ashes  to  the  winds 
Lest  Pity's  eye  should  find  me  out  and  say, 
"This  was  the  one  the  Master  used  on  such 
A  day.    The  worms  and  dust  of  time  have  done 
For  it.    He  found  a  better  one!"    Ah,  Friend, 
Give  not  an  endless  death  like  this  to  me, 
But  burn  this  shell  whence  I  have  fled,  and  grant 
Eternal  life  through  haunting  melodies 
The  Master  drew  from  me,  his  violin. 


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Cl^e  ^ml^em  3illu)Strioui8 

WILLIAM  ISAAC  FLETCHER,  M.  A. 

TO  the  multitude  of  librarians  the  country  over,  whose 
endeavor  is  to  keep  track  of  what  is  doing  in  current  litera- 
ture, especially  in  the  numerous  reviews  and  periodicals 
of  the  higher  class,  the  name  of  William  I.  Fletcher  was  familiar 
as  that  of  the  efficient  continuator  (with  constant  enlargements 
and  improvements)  of  the  indispensable  Poole's  Index.  To  the 
smaller  number  of  librarians  who  met  him  at  conventions  and  in 
library  classes  he  was  regarded  with  admiration  as  the  embodiment 
of  what  a  librarian  should  be,  accomplished  and  always  ready  to 
impart  of  his  knowledge  and  methods.  He  did  not  miss  the  honor 
due  a  prophet  in  his  own  country;  yet  one  fancies  that  most  of 
the  students  little  realized,  when  he  died,  how  much  was  taken 
out  of  our  college  life.  He  was  not  an  habitue  of  the  class-room 
and  the  chapel  service,  not  the  person  one  first  met  in  the  delivery 
room;  he  was  among  the  catalogues  and  editings  that  were  mak- 
ing all  their  work  easier.  And  when  he  left  us,  the  work  went  on, 
from  father  to  son,  from  older  to  younger,  the  college  little 
conscious  of  interruption.  The  books  and  catalogues  remain, 
impassive  as  ever.  And  the  difference  to  us?  Ah,  that  is  what 
counts, — to  us  who  worked  and  companied  with  him  for  more 
than  thirty  years,  who,  outside  his  library  as  well  as  in,  felt  his 
gentle,  kindly,  hospitable  fellowship,  a  character  without  fault 
or  guile;  and  to  this  nvunerous  company,  colleagues,  friends, 
neighbors,  the  difference  is  great. 

Of  his  professional  career  we  will  let  the  Library  Journal  speak, 
as  it  does  in  the  August,  1917  number,  page  623:— 

William  I.  Fletcher,  one  of  the  outstanding  figures  in  the 
American  library  world  for  many  years,  died  in  a  sanitarium  at 
South  Amherst,  Mass.,  on  June  15.  A  member  of  the  American 
Library  Association  since  1878,  and  its  president  in  1891-92,  his 
influence  was  steady  and  true  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  the  or- 
ganization and  in  forwarding  the  service  which  it  desired  to  render 
to  libraries  and  librarians  everywhere.  By  his  own  devotion  to 


William  Isaac  Fletcher 
Librarian  of  Amherst  College,  1883-1911 


The    Amherst    Illustrious  25 


the  bibliographical  work  with  which  he  early  became  associated, 
and  by  the  high  standard  of  excellence  which  he  maintained  in 
every  piece  of  work  he  undertook,  he  did  much  to  lift  librarianship 
to  the  ranks  of  the  professions.  His  genius  for  detail  is  shown  by 
the  long  list  of  indexes  with  which  his  name  has  been  associated; 
while  a  grasp  of  keenly  felt  needs  is  indicated  by  his  pioneer  work 
with  the  summer  school  at  Amherst  College,  which  many  librarians 
will  remember  with  gratitude. 

Mr.  Fletcher  was  born  in  Burlington,  Vt.,  April  23,  1844,  the 
son  of  Stillman  and  Elizabeth  Severance  Fletcher,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Winchester.  He  was  for  five  years 
associated  with  Dr.  W.  F.  Poole  in  charge  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum 
and  was  librarian  in  Lawrence,  Waterbury,  and  the  Watkinson 
Library  in  Hartford,  Ct.,  until  in  1883  he  was  appointed  librarian 
of  Amherst  College,  succeeding  Walter  S.  Biscoe,  who  went  to 
assist  Mr.  Dewey  at  Columbia  College.  The  following  year  he 
received  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  the  college. 
His  summer  course  in  library  methods  was  started  in  1891,  to 
meet  a  definite  need,  and  was  continued  until  1905.  In  1911  Mr. 
Fletcher  turned  over  active  charge  of  the  Amherst  Library  to  his 
son  Robert  S.  Fletcher,  though  retaining  connection  with  it  as 
librarian  emeritus. 

Mr.  Fletcher  was  the  author  of  "Public  Libraries  in  America," 
published  in  1895;  joint  editor  with  Dr.  W.  F.  Poole  of  "Poole's 
index  to  Periodical  Literature"  and  editor  from  1882  to  1907  of 
its  continuations;  editor  of  the  "A.  L.  A.  Index  to  General  Litera- 
ture," 1893  to  1901;  and  editor  of  the  "Co-operative  Index  to 
Periodicals"  with  its  successor  the  "Annual  Literary  Index" 
later  known  as  the  "Annual  Library  Index,"  from  1883  until 
1910. 

From  an  earlier  page  (586)  we  quote  the  following: — 

His  mastery  of  details  and  his  persistent  industry  were  little 
short  of  marvelous,  and  to  him  the  late  Dr.  Poole  owes  in  large 
measure  the  actual  execution  of  the  work  associated  with  the  elder 
name.  The  men  and  women  of  to-day  who  can  succeed  within 
their  lifetime  in  doing  half  what  Mr.  Fletcher  accomplished  within 
the  compass  of  his  life,  will  have  thoroughly  earned,  when  their 
time  comes,  the  appreciation  of  the  profession  and  the  gratitude 
of  the  community. 


26         Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 
WILLIAM  BULLOCK  CLARK 

[From  The  Scientific  Monthly  August,  1917.] 

MR.  WILLIAM  BULLOCK  CLARK,  professor  of  geology 
in  the  Johns  Hopkins  University,  eminent  for  his  contri- 
butions to  geology,  died  suddenly  from  apoplexy  on  July 
27,  at  his  summer  home  at  North  Haven,  Maine. 

Wm.  Bullock  Clark  was  born  at  Brattleboro,  Vermont,  De- 
cember 15,  1860.  His  parents  were  Barna  A.  and  Helen  (Bullock) 
Clark.  Among  his  early  ancestors  were  Thomas  Clark,  who  came 
to  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  the  ship  Ann  in  1623  and  who  was  several 
times  elected  deputy  to  the  general  court  of  Plymouth  Colony; 
Richard  Bullock  who  came  to  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1643;  John  How- 
land,  a  member  of  council,  assistant  to  the  governor,  and  several 
times  deputy  to  the  general  court  of  Plymouth  Colony,  who  came 
to  Plymouth  in  the  Mayflower  in  1620;  John  Tilly  who  likewise 
came  in  the  Mayflower;  and  John  Gorham,  captain  of  Massa- 
chusetts troops  in  King  Philip's  War.  Among  later  ancestors 
were  William  Bullock,  colonel  of  Massachusetts  troops  in  the 
French  and  Indian  War,  and  Daniel  Stewart,  a  minuteman  at  the 
battle  of  Lexington  in  1775. 

Clark  studied  under  private  tutors  and  at  the  Brattleboro  high 
school,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1879.  He  entered  Amherst 
college  in  the  autumn  of  1880  and  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
A.B.  in  1884.  He  immediately  went  to  Germany  and  from  1884 
to  1887  pursued  geological  studies  at  the  University  of  Munich 
from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  in 
1887.  Subsequently  he  studied  at  Berlin  and  London,  spending 
much  time  in  the  field  with  members  of  the  geological  surveys  of 
Prussia  and  Great  Britain. 

Before  leaving  Munich  Dr.  Clark  was  offered  and  accepted  the 
position  of  instructor  in  the  Johns  Hopkins  University.  He  was 
instructor  from  1887  to  1889,  associate  from  1889  to  1892,  asso- 
ciate professor  from  1892  to  1894,  and  professor  of  geology  and 
head  of  the  department  since  1894.  He  has  been  for  a  long  time 
a  member  of  the  academic  council — the  governing  body  of  the 
university — and  always  took  a  very  active  interest  in  its  affairs. 


William  Bullock  Clark 

From  1894  to  1917  Professor  of  Geology,  Johns  Hopkins  University 


The    Amherst    Illustrious  27 

acting  as  one  of  the  committee  of  administration  while  the  uni- 
versity was  without  a  president. 

In  1888  he  was  also  appointed  an  assistant  geologist  on  the  U.  S. 
Geological  Survey  and  detailed  for  work  on  the  Cretaceous  and 
Tertiary  formations  of  the  Atlantic  Coastal  Plain.  At  the  same 
time  he  was  requested  to  prepare  the  correlation  bulletin  on  the 
Eocene,  one  of  a  series  of  reports  which  represented  to  the 
International  Geological  Congress  in  Washington  in  1891.  Pro- 
fessor Clark  spent  the  summer  of  1889  in  a  study  of  the  Eocene 
deposits  of  the  far  west  while  the  remaining  period  was  occupied 
in  the  investigation  of  the  Eocene  formations  of  the  Atlantic  border. 
He  was  advanced  to  geologist  on  the  staff  of  the  U.  S.  Geologi- 
cal Survey  in  1894  and  held  this  position  until  1907,  since  which 
time  he  has  acted  as  cooperating  geologist.   .  .  . 

Under  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  passed  in  1900  Professor  Clark 
was  appointed  commissioner  for  Maryland  by  the  governor  to 
represent  the  state  in  the  resurvey  of  the  Maryland-Pennsylvania 
boundary,  commonly  known  as  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line.  This 
survey  was  completed  four  years  later  and  an  elaborate  report 
prepared.  In  1906  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  Maryland  State 
Board  of  Forestry  and  elected  as  its  executive  officer,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  The  governor  appointed 
him  in  1908  a  member  of  the  State  Conservation  Commission. 

Professor  Clark  organized  and  directed  the  preparation  of  the 
official  state  exhibits  of  Maryland  mineral  resources  at  the  Buffalo, 
Charleston,  St.  Louis,  Jamestown,  and  San  Francisco  expositions 
in  1901,  1902,  1904,  1907,  and  1915.  These  exhibits  attracted 
much  attention  at  the  time  and  received  a  large  number  of  con- 
spicuous awards.  These  exhibits  have  been  permanently  installed 
as  a  state  mineral  exhibit  at  the  state  house  in  Annapolis. 

When  President  Roosevelt  invited  the  governors  of  the  states 
to  a  conference  on  conservation  at  the  White  House  in  May,  1908, 
it  was  arranged  that  each  governor  should  appoint  three  advisers 
to  accompany  him.  Professor  Clark  was  one  of  the  Maryland 
advisers  and  took  part  in  the  conference. 

After  the  great  Baltimore  fire  in  1904  the  mayor  of  the  city 
appointed  Professor  Clark  a  member  of  an  emergency  committee 
to  prepare  plans  for  the  rehabilitation  of  the  burnt  district  and 
for  several  months  he  served  as  vice-chairman  of  the  important 


28    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

subcommittee  on  streets,  parks,  and  docks  whose  plans  resulted 
in  the  great  changes  subsequently  carried  out. 

With  the  outbreak  of  the  war  Professor  Clark  became  actively 
interested  in  problems  of  defense  and  economic  preparedness.  He 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  National  Research  Council  and 
was  chairman  of  the  subcommittee  on  road  materials  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  on  camp  sites  and  water  supplies.  He  was 
also  chairman  of  the  committee  on  highways  and  natural  resources 
of;  the  Maryland  Council  of  Defense. 

Numerous  scientific  societies  have  elected  him  to  membership, 
among  them  the  National  Academy  of  Science,  of  which  he  was 
chairman  of  the  Geological  Section,  the  American  Philosophical 
Society,  the  Philadelphia  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences,  the  Amer- 
ican Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  the  Deutsche  Geologische 
Gesellschaft,  the  Washington  Academy  of  Science,  Paleontolo- 
gische  Gesellschaft,  and  the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science.  He  was  councillor  and  treasurer  of  the 
Geological  Society  of  America  at  the  time  of  his  death.  In  1904 
he  was  elected  a  foreign  correspondent  of  the  Geological  Society 
of  London.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Association  of  State 
Geologists.  Amherst  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  LL.D.  in 
1908.  He  had  numerous  offers  from  other  institutions,  perhaps  the 
most  important  being  the  professorship  and  head  of  the  depart- 
ment of  geology  at  Harvard  University,  but  all  of  these  were  re- 
fused, and  his  devotion  to  Hopkins  and  the  ideals  for  which  it 
stood  was  unswerving. 

He  was  married  October  12,  1892,  to  Ellen  Clarke  Strong, 
daughter  of  the  late  Edward  A.  Strong  (Amherst,  '55),  of  Boston, 
and  had  four  children,  Edward  Strong,  Helen,  who  was  recently 
married  to  Captain  H.  Findlay  French,  Atherton,  and  Marion, 
all  of  whom  survive  him. 

He  was  always  keenly  interested  in  the  educational  value  of 
the  work  of  the  various  state  bureaus  which  he  directed  and  had 
just  finished  writing  a  geography  of  Maryland  for  school  teachers. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  engaged  in  writing  a  report  on 
the  underground  waters  of  the  state  and  another  on  the  coals. 


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EDITORIAL  NOTES 

WHAT  about  the  new  library?" — is,  we  imagine,  one  of 
the  first  questions  that  will  be  asked  by  some  of  our 
readers.  Well,  it  is  virtually  finished;  only  some  fur- 
nishing and  decorating  inside  and  some  little  grading  and  seeding 
outside  remaining  yet  to  be  done.  It  is  not  quite  ripe  enough  to 
pick, — that  is,  to  be  presented  as  it  ought  to  be  in  picture  and 
description;  and  this  we  regret,  for  we  had  counted  on  devoting 
sonie  of  this  number  to  that  agreeable  work.  It  is  to  be  dedicated, 
however,  as  we  understand,  some  time  in  November,  and  then 
doubtless  we  shall  have  pictorial  and  literary  material  interesting 
enough  to  pay  well  for  the  waiting.  We  can  certainly  say  that 
the  new  building,  with  its  accommodations  and  appointments, 
puts  Amherst  in  the  very  front  rank  for  colleges  of  its  size  and 
type.  But  we  find  that  a  similar  thing  was  said,  when  it  was  fin- 
ished in  1853,  of  the  edifice  we  have  just  left, — that  familiar  stone 
structure  which  remains  to  be  turned  to  other  purposes.  It  may 
be  of  interest  therefore  to  show,  as  we  do  in  our  frontispiece,  how 
the  old  library  looked  inside,  when  the  late  reading-room  was  its 
only  book  stack.  The  picture  was  taken  in  1880,  three  years  before 
Mr,  W.  I.  Fletcher  was  appointed  librarian.  The  difference  is 
impressive. 


30    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

THE  picture  on  our  cover  may  be  taken  as  a  symbol.  After 
a  moment's  inquiry  you  will  recognize  it  as  not  somewhere 
in  France  but  right  here  in  Amherst,  right  where  for  forty- 
seven  years  classes  galore  have  passed  in  and  out.  Let  it  stand 
therefore,  with  its  granite  steps  and  arches,  as  the  silent  speaking 
symbol  that  Amherst  is  still,  as  ever,  doing  business  at  the  old 
stand,— with  numbers  diminished  by  these  troublous  times,  but 
with  undiminished  resolve. 

IN  glancing  through  the  many  college  alumni  magazines  which 
exchange  with  the  Quarterly,  one  is  impressed  with  the 
extent  to  which  the  war  and  personal  participation  in  it  have 
overshadowed  everything  else  in  American  collegiate  and  uni- 
versity life.    It  is  natural.    Since  the  nation  is  at  war,  it  is  right. 

It  is  refreshing,  nevertheless,  to  find  another  note  occasionally 
struck.  For,  after  all,  our  American  colleges  are  not  merely  mili- 
tary training  schools,  even  in  war  time.  There  is  something  to 
be  said  in  favor  of  conserving  college  traditions  in  the  midst  of  a 
world  upheaval,  not  losing  sight  of  the  fundamental  function  of 
the  college — the  propagation  of  learning. 

The  following,  taken  from  an  editorial  in  the  Johns  Hopkins 
Alumni  Magazine,  is  apropos: 

"We  are  soon  to  learn  that  it  is  difficult  to  continue  at  one's 
accustomed  task  when  other  men  are  shedding  their  blood  for  a 
common  ideal,  but  teachers,  of  all  men,  have  the  consolation  of 
knowing  that  in  the  present  crisis  they  are  not  merely  marking 
time  by  carrying  on  their  routine.  After  this  tyranny  is  overpast, 
there  will  remain  a  civilization  wounded  in  its  vitals,  a  world  so 
overburdened  with  debt  as  to  present  a  series  of  new  and  different 
problems  of  politics  and  economics,  and  a  human  spirit  so  be- 
wildered, so  rebellious,  and  so  insecure  in  its  faith  as  to  require 
for  its  comforting  a  restatement,  or  rather  a  new  assertion,  of  the 
truths  of  philosophy,  ethics  and  religion.  It  is  to  rebuild  this 
wearied  and  disillusioned  world  that  the  college  men  of  the  next 
few  years  must  be  trained,  and  in  order  that  this  training  may  be 
done  effectively  the  great  universities  must  realize  that  the  con- 
ditions demand  not  a  cessation  of  effort,  but  an  increase  of  effort 
and  an  increase  of  consecration  on  the  part  of  the  individual 
teacher." 


EditorialNotes  31 

Professor  Greenlaw  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  in  the 
latest  volume  of  "Studies  in  Philology,"  puts  it  in  another  form: 

"That  radical  changes  in  American  education  are  at  hand  is 
beyond  question.  To  think  that  the  issue  lies  between  liberal  cul- 
ture and  compulsory  vocational  training  is  to  start  another  profitless 
controversy  between  the  Ancients  and  the  Moderns  and  to  fall  into 
the  blindest  of  errors.  But  that  advanced  scholarship,  in  whatever 
field,  must  emerge  from  its  isolation  and  through  both  individual 
and  cooperative  effort  contribute  not  alone  to  learned  journals 
for  initiates  in  the  mystery  but  also  to  the  life  of  our  common 
humanity  is  as  certain  as  that  America  must  prepare  to  take  her 
part  in  world  affairs.  In  the  new  age  now  dawning  in  America, 
impulses  that  enriched  the  renaissance  may  once  more  become 
active.  To  foster  such  impulses  is  a  duty  of  scholarship  now  as  it 
was  in  the  humanistic  revival  of  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth 
centuries." 

ONE  of  the  three  here  mentioned,  in  behalf  of  the  two  others, 
ventures  to  print  with  thanks  the  following  communica- 
tion, received  as  a  private  letter  from  Edmund  M.Blake '97, 
too  late  for  insertion  in  our  last  number. 

The  Class  of  1897,  at  its  Twentieth  Reunion  at  Amherst  in  June, 
1917,  learned  with  profound  regret  that  three  well-loved  members 
of  the  faculty — John  F.  Genung,  Benjamin  K.  Emerson,  and  John 
M.  Tyler,  had  completed  their  active  connection  with  the  College. 
It  desires  to  express  in  no  measured  terms  its  sense  of  the  high 
value  of  the  service  which  these  three  men  have  rendered  to  Am- 
herst College  through  so  many  years.  Their  devotion  to  the  ideals 
of  the  broadest  scholarship  and  the  most  genuine  culture  has  been 
an  inspiration  to  all  of  their  students,  while  their  love  of  truth, 
their  rare  sympathy  and  their  genius  for  friendship  have  endeared 
them  to  generations  of  Amherst  men.  Many  have  labored  to 
make  the  college  which  we  love:  none  have  wrought  more  finely 
or  in  more  enduring  form. 

The  Class  of  1897  wishes  for  these  three  men  during  the  suc- 
ceeding years  the  satisfaction  and  happiness  of  work  well  done 
and  hopes  most  sincerely  that  an  opportunity  may  be  given  them 
to  go  on  contributing  to  the  College  out  of  the  fulness  of  their 
knowledge  and  the  richness  of  their  experience. 


32    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


Ci^e  1300ft  Cable 


1889 

Shakespeare's  Macbeth;  edited  by  Daniel  V.  Thompson,  A.  M.,  Head  of  the 
Department  of  English  in  the  Lawrenceville  School;  New  York,  Henry  Holt  and 
Company,  1917. 

This  book  is  unobtrusively  different  from  any  other  school  text  of  a  Shakespeare 
play  that  this  reviewer  has  ever  seen.  One  who  has  ever  "taught  Shakespeare" 
to  boys  who  prefer  George  Barr  McCutcheon  will  go  through  Mr.  Thompson's  intro- 
duction and  notes  with  unflagging  interest,  and  lay  them  down  with  the  prayerful 
wish  that  he  himself  might  be  the  kind  of  teacher  who  could  make  them.  For  one  fact 
glows  in  every  line  of  them;  namely,  that  none  but  the  best  sort  of  teacher  could 
have  made  them.  Fault  could  be  found  with  the  book,  but  it  would  be  fault-finding, 
not  criticism, — as  who  should  say,  "I  could  have  put  a  different  sort  of  weathercock 
on  that  tower,"  knowing  very  well  he  never  could  have  built  the  tower. 

The  remarkable  thing  about  the  book  is  the  fact  that  Mr.  Thompson  has  so 
unfailingly  kept  the  big  essential  things  before  him  as  a  guide  through  all  the  mass 
of  detail  with  which  he  has  worked.  The  very  best  of  criticism  and  scholarship 
have  gone  to  the  making  of  his  introduction  and  notes,  and  the  best  of  it  is  that  no 
schoolboy  would  ever  guess  it.  Nor  would  any  save  one  who  has  worked  out  a 
theory  or  problem  in  Shakespeare,  and  who  knows  the  amount  of  restraint  it  requires 
to  set  forth  in  a  simple  sentence  the  result  of  laborious  days  as  casually  as  it  if  were 
the  merest  commonplace  of  Shakespearean  criticism.  The  effect  is  like  that  of 
"indirect  lighting;"  light  shines  into  every  corner,  but  never  in  your  eyes.  This  ia 
especially  evident  in  the  introduction.  Most  introductions  demand  that  before 
reading  the  play  the  pupil  wade  through  forbidding  discussions  of  the  evidence  by 
which  the  play  is  dated,  and  the  "sources  of  the  plot."  They  are  like  dyspepsia 
cures  taken  before  dinner,  they  would  aid  digestion  if  they  left  the  sufferer  any  wish 
to  take  anything  into  his  stomach.  Mr.  Thompson's  introduction  is  just  the  op- 
posite; first,  in  that  it  is  intended  to  be  read  after  the  play;  second,  in  all  other 
respects.  Here,  even  more  clearly  than  in  the  notes  we  have  all  worthy  industry  of 
scholarship  serving,  and  kept  subordinate  to,  the  broad  imagination  of  the  true 
critic.  It  is  not  often  that  such  scholarship  and  such  imagination  are  placed  at  the 
service  of  schoolboys;  it  brings  home  to  us  anew  the  fact  that  nowhere  in  all  our 
educational  field  is  it  more  necessary  and  more  welcome.  Most  of  all  is  it  welcome 
as  bringing  new  and  powerful  aid  to  the  plaintiff  in  the  great  modern  case  of  Shake- 
speare versus  Robert  W.  Chambers,  et  al. 

Robert  P.  Utter. 

1903 

How  To  Get  Ahead.    Saving  money  and  making  it  work.    By  Albert  W.  Atwood. 
Indianapolis,  The  Bobbs-Merrill  Company  [1917]. 


The    Book    Table 33 

This  is  not  an  economic  treatise  on  Money,  on  the  one  hand,  nor  a  mere  "preach- 
ment" on  the  virtue  of  thrift,  on  the  other.  Its  author  has  had  long  experience  in 
the  pages  of  various  magazines,  the  problems  of  would-be  investors  who  feel  that 
they  are  ignorant  of  "finance,"  and  yet  realize  dimly  that  their  little  savings  can 
be  made  to  work  for  them;  and  this  experience  has  given  him  a  knowledge  of  their 
point  of  view  and  of  the  help  they  most  need,  which  has  well  fitted  him  for  the  task 
he  has  here  undertaken. 

In  the  first  chapters  he  treats  of  the  value  of  thrift,  and  emphasizes  the  possibility 
of  saving  even  on  a  small  income,  going  into  some  discussion  of  ways  and  means  to 
prove  his  point.  This  is  the  weakest  part  of  the  book.  It  is  not  wholly  free  from 
the  "preaching"  abjured  in  the  introduction,  and  its  discussion  of  family-budgets 
is  too  superficial  to  be  of  great  value.  Others  have  studied  this  question  more  care- 
fully than  he;  and  he  might  well  have  contented  himself  with  a  single  chapter,  and  a 
reference  to  one  or  two  good  treatises  on  the  theme.  This  would  have  left  him 
more  room  for  the  portion  of  the  field  that  is  more  particularly  his  own. 

In  the  second  and  larger  part  of  the  book  we  have  well-balanced,  judicious  dis- 
cussions of  bank-accounts,  insurance  policies,  home-purchase,  and  investments, 
which  reflect  the  experience  gained  in  the  practical  work  of  answering  specific 
questions  on  these  subjects,  and  should  be  of  very  real  value  to  the  young  men  and 
women  for  whom  the  book  is  primarily  intended.  The  advantage  in  the  long  run 
of  safety  over  quick  returns,  the  merits  of  the  various  types  of  insurance  policy,  the 
possibility  and  the  wisdom  of  consulting  one's  local  banker  freely  on  one's  financial 
affairs — it  is  in  the  discussion  of  such  topics  that  the  author  shows  his  trustworthi- 
ness as  a  guide  to  a  beginner  in  the  world  of  finance. 

Perhaps  there  is  no  lesson  that  the  American  people  needs  today  more  than  the 
lesson  of  thrift.  We  are  spoken  of  scoflSngly  as  dollar-worshippers,  but  as  a 
matter  of  fact  our  knowledge  of  our  supposed  idol  and  its  potentialities  is  far  behind 
that  of  the  European  peoples.  It  is  due  to  the  marvelous  thrift  of  the  French 
peasants  that  France  is  again  a  power  in  the  world  today,  after  the  supposedly 
crushing  exactions  of  the  Prussian  indemnity  in  1871;  the  glories  of  Verdun  are 
based  on  the  hoards  of  the  toilers  of  France.  If  the  stringencies  of  war  will  recall 
our  people  from  the  extravagance  of  recent  years  to  the  fine  old  New  England  virtue 
of  thrift,  it  may  save  us  from  disintegration  and  decay,  and  prove  the  surgeon's 
knife  that  brings  restored  health  to  the  body  politic.  A  superficial  observer  might 
think  the  message  of  this  little  book  one  of  self-interest  merely;  but  in  view  of 
present  conditions  such  work  as  the  author  is  doing,  so  far  from  appealing  to  selfish 
motives,  is  a  patriotic  work  of  national  importance.  We  must  have  a  campaign 
of  thrift;  and  "How  to  get  ahead"  should  prove  a  useful  campaign  document. 

Foster  Stearns. 

1900 

The  Five  Babbitts  at  Bonntacres:  A  Story  of  Back-to-the-Landers.  By  Walter 
A.  Dyer.    Illustrated  by  J.  O.  C.    New  York:   Henry  Holt  and  Company,  1917. 

How  many  of  our  graduates,  I  wonder, — not  the  young  but  the  older  ones, — 
remember  "The  Swiss  Family  Robinson " — that  slow,  schoolmasterly  young  folks' 


34    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

story,  or  rather  thinly  disguised  treatise  which,  cribbing  its  basic  idea  from  the 
perennially  fascinating  Robinson  Crusoe,  shipwrecked  a  whole  unbroken  family 
on  a  desert  island,  and  proceeded  to  educate  them  there  in  domestic  duties  and 
natural  history?  It  was  a  quasi-classic  of  the  days  when  young  folks'  literature 
was  scant  and  didactic,  not  to  say  pedantic.  Well,  this  book  of  Mr.  Dyer's  reminds 
one  of  the  Swiss  Family  Robinson.  I  hasten  to  say,  however,  that  it  is  both  by 
analogy  and  contrast  that  it  does  so.  Instead  of  a  desert  island  on  which  a  family 
is  cast,  we  have  a  small  New  England  farm,  a  little-heeded  inheritance,  to  which 
a  city  business  man  is  doomed  by  physician's  orders  to  retire.  Life  there  is  to  him 
like  some  long  disused  thing  rescued  from  the  past;  to  his  family  it  is  utterly  strange. 
The  company  consists  of  the  father,  who  is  slowly  recovering  strength  from  in- 
validism, the  wife,  a  daughter,  and  a  son.  This  makes  four  Babbitts,  whose  adven- 
tures are  the  various  experiences,  prosperous  and  otherwise,  of  making  farm  life 
yield  and  pay.  How  the  fifth  Babbitt  came  to  be  added  is  to  an  extent  the  sus- 
pensive element,  the  plotted  thread  of  the  story.  For  the  assumed  town-bred 
reader  Mr.  Dyer  manages  to  give  almost  as  much  zest  and  novelty  to  the  routines 
of  farming  as  if  the  family  were  veritable  Robinson  Crusoes  exploring,  exploiting, 
subduing,  adapting  in  an  entirely  new  field.  But  for  the  born  farmer  too  the  book 
is  not  without  its  hints  of  the  more  scientific  modern  means  and  methods.  The 
story  flows  along  through  one  farmer's  year  and  well  into  the  second,  told  in  Mr. 
Dyer's  easy  and  charming  style,  and  with  good  variety  of  character  and  incident. 
It  is  not  didactic;  herein  it  is  contrasted  to  rather  than  analogous  with  its 
prototype;  and  yet  you  are  aware  all  the  while  as  you  read  the  Babbitts'  experience 
that  what  they  did  with  their  farm  is  what  ought  to  be  done  with  one.  The  book 
just  misses  being  a  chatty  treatise;  the  author  has  once  to  remind  us — and  per- 
haps himself — that  "after  all,  this  is  the  story  of  the  Babbitts,  not  a  treatise  on 
agriculture."  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  add  here  that  we  in  Amherst  know  exactly 
where  Bonnyacres  is,  and  whose  experience  and  problems  are  to  a  large  extent 
reflected  in  it.  J.  F.  G. 

1865-1905 

TWO   NOTABLE   SCHOOL   HISTORIES 

A  History  of  Williston  Seminart,  by  Joseph  H.  Sawyer,  with  an  Introduction 
by  Henry  M.  Tyler.    Published  by  the  Trustees. 

An  Old  New  England  School,  A  History  of  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  by 
Claude  M.  Fuess.    Houghton,  Miflain  Company. 

A  FEW  months  ago  there  appeared  almost  simultaneously  histories  of  two 
of  our  most  distinguished  academies,  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  Wil- 
liston Seminary,  Easthampton.  The  principals  of  both  these  schools 
are  Amherst  graduates.  Both  histories  are  written  by  Amherst  men;  that  of 
Williston  by  Principal  J.  H.  Sawyer,  '65,  and  that  of  Andover  by  Professor  C.  M. 
Fuess,  '05.  The  record  of  progress  of  both  schools  is  well  traced  and  exceedingly 
interesting.  Both  books  are  also  histories  of  education.  Best  of  all,  they  throw  a 
clear  light  on  the  aims  and  purposes  of  the  founders  of  the  schools,  and  on  the 


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dreams,  hopes,  and  ideals  of  past  generations,  showing  what  the  leading  spirits  of 
those  early  times  wished  as  the  best  training  for  their  children.  For,  as  Mr.  Fuess 
approvingly  quotes  from  Professor  Channing:  "Seventeenth-century  Puritanism 
was  an  attitude  of  mind  rather  than  a  system  of  theology, — it  was  idealism  applied 
to  the  solution  of  contemporary  problems."  The  history  of  a  school  or  college  is 
a  history  of  the  life  of  souls. 

Williston  Seminary  was  born  in  Hampshire  County  in  1840.  For  over  one  hun- 
dred years  the  county  had  been  harried  by  Indian  raids  and  the  settlers  had  never 
known  peace  or  safety.  The  Revolution  had  left  them  a  poor  agricultural  commu- 
nity burdened  with  debt  and  taxation.  But  as  early  as  1790  academies  began  to 
spring  up.  During  the  next  fifty  years  fifteen  or  twenty  schools  enumerated  by 
Dr.  Sawyer,  were  founded  in  this  county,  and  then  or  later,  four  colleges  were 
grown  up  in  a  little  portion  of  it  "less  than  seven  miles  square."  The  people  who 
gave  out  of  their  poverty  to  found  these  schools  and  colleges  were  evidently  hungry 
for  education  and  willing  to  pay  the  cost. 

Samuel  Williston,  founder  of  Williston  Seminary,  was  the  son  of  a  minister.  The 
minister's  son  married  a  deacon's  daughter,  and  the  two  started  in  business.  They 
"began  very  poor,  gained  very  slowly,  and  accumulated  by  hard  work,  patient 
continuance,  cheerful  hope  and  courage,  and  constant  economy.  They  purposed 
to  be  producers  of  values,  and  invested  their  earnings  in  institutions  which  would 
multiply  the  number  of  those  who  should  themselves  create  new  values."  They 
wished  to  invest  all,  and  more  than  all,  that  they  could  spare  to  establish  an  "Eng- 
lish College"  in  Easthampton  for  the  people  of  Hampshire  County  whom  they 
knew  and  loved,  and  for  the  world.  They  were  persuaded  by  friends  at  Amherst 
College  to  found  a  high  grade  preparatory  school  of  which  the  scientific  department 
always  remained  the  object  of  their  deepest  interest. 

But  their  gifts  were  by  no  means  limited  to  the  school  which  was  their  child  and 
heir.  They  saved  Amherst  College  during  the  years  of  its  poverty,  friendlessness, 
neglect,  and  starvation.  They  gave  liberally  to  Mount  Holyoke.  They  aided  in 
building  Methodist  and  Catholic  churches  in  Easthampton.  In  these  and  many 
similar  benefactions  they  often  pledged  more  than  they  had.  The  working  capital 
of  the  business  was  often  sadly  reduced,  and  of  reserve  there  was  none.  They  were 
eager  to  produce  real  values,  making  the  world  richer;   and  they  were  well  content. 

Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  was  opened  in  1778  with  thirteen  pupils.  Its  founder 
was  Judge  Samuel  Phillips.  His  grandfather  had  been  a  minister  ruling  his  parish 
in  Andover  with  diligence  and  efficiency.  His  father  had  engaged  in  business  in 
Andover.  Samuel  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard,  as  his  father  had  been  before  him. 
His  uncle.  Dr.  John  Phillips  settled  in  Exeter,  N.  H.;  and  after  contributing  gen- 
erously to  founding  Phillips  Andover  left  a  large  part  of  his  estate  to  establish  a 
similar  academy  in  his  own  town.  The  family  so  important  in  the  history  of  edu- 
cation had  sprung  from  the  aristocracy  of  the  Boston  theocracy,  and  they  carried 
its  stamp  all  their  days.  During  the  Revolution  Judge  Phillips  manufactured  gun- 
powder for  the  Continental  army.  In  him  the  stiff,  unyielding  characteristics  were 
considerably  ameliorated.  He  was  human  and  humane.  He  built  the  fine  Phillips 
Mansion  with  its  more  than  sixty  windows  and  fine  panellings.  Here  he  dispensed 
a  generous  and  elegant  but  simple  hospitality.    His  wife  and  son  almost  reduced 


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themselves  to  poverty  to  found  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  He  was  a  wise 
and  farsighted  deviser  of  liberal  things.  He  directed  in  the  constitution  of  the 
school  that  a  majority  of  the  trustees  should  always  be  laymen.  He  left  them  large 
liberty  as  to  courses  of  study.  He  provided  the  institution  with  a  campus  of  nearly 
150  acres.  He  greatly  doubted  the  educational  value  of  Latin  and  accidence  for 
young  boys,  and  probably  knew  less  Greek.  Yet  he  allowed  his  first  principal,  the 
great  Eliphalet  Pearson,  to  make  the  course  of  study  "overwhelmingly  classical." 
He  would  have  preferred  that  agriculture  and  similar  training  should  form  a  part 
of  the  boys'  education.  This  also  was  denied  him.  Firm  as  a  rock  in  the  essen- 
tials, he  could  yield  in  details  as  his  grandfather  could  never  have  done.  Never 
robust  in  health,  he  did  a  century's  work  and  died  when  only  fifty  years  old.  When 
we  remember  that  Judge  Phillips  had  no  school  after  which  he  could  pattern  his 
new  academy  and  that  he  was  entirely  a  pioneer  in  this  kind  of  education,  we  are 
amazed  at  his  shrewd  idealism  and  wisdom. 

The  resemblances  and  differences  between  the  Boston  and  Andover  aristocrat 
and  the  democratic  Easthampton  manufacturer  form  a  fascinating  theme  for  com- 
parison. They  were  both  ardent  apostles  of  education  for  character  and  life.  It 
seems  as  if  the  writer  of  the  constitution  of  Williston,  also  a  rugged  Puritan,  must 
have  studied  carefully  that  of  Phillips  Academy.  He  sounds  the  keynote  of  them 
both  in  the  words:  "Goodness  without  knowledge  is  powerless  to  do  good,  and 
knowledge  without  goodness  is  power  only  to  do  evil;  while  both  combined  form 
the  character  that  most  resembles  God,  and  is  best  fitted  to  bless  mankind."  It 
would  have  been  a  most  Interesting  experiment  if  each  had  been  free  to  carry  out 
his  own  plan  and  devices  in  all  its  details.  Perhaps  it  was  better  as  it  was.  We 
do  not  know. 

We  have  glanced  at  the  founding  of  these  two  great  schools,  producers  of  the  high- 
est values.  The  record  of  their  progress  must  be  read  in  the  two  volumes.  There 
is  not  a  dull  page  in  either  one.  We  are  glad  that  they  were  written  by  Amherst 
graduates.  One  feature  of  the  history  of  both  schools  cannot  with  justice  be  over- 
looked. At  Phillips  Academy  the  great  rugged,  often  overbearing  Pearson  was 
followed  by  "Pemberton,  the  Polite."  Similarly  almost  a  century  later  the  mighty 
"Uncle  Sam  Taylor"  a  profound  scholar  and  marvelous  drill-master  was  succeeded 
by  the  gentle,  kindly,  firm,  humorous,  shrewd,  patient,  unobtrusive  and  self-uncon- 
scious, lovable  and  beloved  Dr.  Bancroft,  worthy  of  an  even  higher  place  in  the 
hierarchy  of  academy  principals  than  Professor  Fuess  dares  to  assign  to  him. 
Similarly  at  Williston  the  work  of  Dr.  Henshaw  had  to  be  followed  by  the  quiet, 
steady,  wise  and  farsighted,  constructive  work  of  Principal  Sawyer.  The  mantle 
of  the  fiery  Ellijah  must  fall  on  the  less  conspicuous,  but  even  more  useful,  Elisha. 
The  Kingdom  of  Education,  like  the  Kingdom  of  God,  cometh  not  with  observa- 
tion. John  M    Tyler. 

1905 

Across  the  Years:  Translations  from  the  Latin  Poets.  By  Charles  Ernest  Ben- 
net.    Boston:    The  Stratford  Company.     1917. 

The  publishers  of  this  neatly  printed  little  volume  announce  Professor  Bennett 
as  "an  iconoclast."    They  go  on  to  explain,  and  their  explanation  goes — as  far  as 


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it  goes, — but  their  word  is  too  one-sided;  it  expresses  only  a  half-truth,  and  that 
the  poorer  half.  He  may  better  be  called  just  the  opposite;  for  his  versions  are 
made  in  the  interest  of  that  more  inner  and  kindly  spirit  of  poetry  which  is  so  hard, 
almost  impossible,  to  get  from  one  language  to  another.  Since  Fitzgerald  made 
such  a  magical  success  with  Omar  Khayyam,  such  has  been  the  endeavor  of  trans- 
lators— not  strictly  translation  but  transfusion  of  the  feeling  and  spirit.  Professor 
Bennett  owns  to  the  same  ideal  in  his  Foreword.  "It  will  be  obvious  to  the  most 
casual  reader,"  he  says,  "that  many  of  these  renderings  are  not  'translations'  at 
all;  nor  do  they  claim  so  to  be.  The  author  (I  cannot  now  consistently  say  'trans- 
lator') is  fully  aware  that  he  has  generously  favored  the  spirit  rather  than  the 
letter." 

Accordingly  when  the  spirit  of  the  piece  seems  meant  for  it  he  is  free  to  assume 
what  some  one  has  called  the  "unbuttoned  mood."  Not  that  he  seeks  just  this 
occasion.  When  the  spirit  is  serious  he  does  not  transgress  it;  when  delicately 
graceful,  there  is  sweetness  and  grace  to  correspond.  But  also  he  can  on  occasion 
drop  into  coon  dialect  or  Italian  waiter  English;  and  once  he  frankly  owns  to  "a 
wilful  perversion  of  Horace,  Odes,  II.  20."  One  of  the  poems  (from  Horace,  Odes, 
I.  8)  has  been  engrossed  and  posted  in  the  Gymnasium,  for  thereby  hangs  an  Am- 
herst tale.    We  venture  to  quote  it: — 

Come,  Liddy,  I've  a  bone  to  pick; 

'Fess  up,  you  minx,  and  tell  me  truly 
Why  Sybaris  is  pale  and  sick. 
Who  once  was  plump  and  trim  and  slick — 
How  did  you  come  to  turn  the  trick 

That  alters  him  so  cruelly.'' 

Why  now  no  more  on  sunny  Pratt 

Does  he  delight  to  show  his  paces. 
Who  thought  it  play  to  doff  his  hat 
And  do  the  hundred  in  ten  flat. 
Or  line  one  out  from  off  his  bat 

That  emptied  all  the  bases? 

Why,  shucks!    That  boy  could  put  the  shot 

Clean  o'er  the  westernmost  horizon. 
And  boot  the  pigskin  'cross  the  lot; 
But  now  he  mopes  upon  his  cot. 
And  shuns  Doc  Newport's  water  pot 

As  though  'twere  deadly  pizen. 

No  more  the  springboard  in  the  tank 

Is  bent  beneath  his  manly  figger. 
I'd  really  hate  to  draw  a  blank 
In  guessing  why,  but  to  be  frank, 
I  have  a  hunch  we've  you  to  thank 

For  Sybie's  lack  of  vigor. 


38    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Then  cease  to  give  him  such  a  dance, 

Where'er  your  idle  fancy  leads  him; 
He  needs  athletics,  not  romance. 
Not  evening  clothes,  but  running  pants. 
Leave  him  alone — give  him  a  chance; 

The  Amherst  track  team  needs  him! 

1907 

More  Power  to  You:  Fifty  Editorials  from  Every  Week.  By  Bruce  Barton. 
New  York:   The  Century  Co.,  1917. 

An  eminent  American  author  once  confessed  to  me  in  a  half  furtive  way  the  ideal 
that  he  had  deeply  at  heart.  It  was,  "to  make  men  religious  without  their  knowing 
it."  That  contains  the  implication — a  very  true  one — that  if  the  religious  intent 
were  made  too  overt  men  would  be  apt  to  shy  at  it  for  fear  acceptance  of  it  would 
get  them  in  too  deep;  but  also  the  connotation  that  religious  truth  and  emotion  is  a 
thing  so  thoroughly  normal  and  healthy  that,  as  fairly  presented,  men  would  rather 
have  it  than  not.  The  author  in  question  is  representative  of  a  very  noble  class  of 
writers,  of  whom  our  young  graduate  Bruce  Barton  is  a  worthy,  one  may  already  say, 
an  eminent  example.  In  these  fifty  editorials,  any  one  of  which  can  be  read  in  two 
minutes,  he  touches  the  common  conditions  of  life,  and  the  thoughts  that  are  so 
obvious  that  we  do  not  bother  to  think  them,  with  delicate  turns  of  grace,  novelty, 
pointedness,  above  all  a  clean,  manly,  spiritual  uplift,  which  make  them  spicy  yet 
truly  religious  without  in  any  formal  sense  seeming  so.  He  has  a  special  gift  for 
this  kind  of  writing.  The  subjects  are  as  common  as  they  can  be, — subjects  about 
making  money,  about  not  worrying,  about  contentment,  about  .study,  about  suc- 
cessful men  and  the  whole  commonplace  like;  yet  they  do  not  often  appear  in  this 
truistic  guise.  He  embroiders  them  with  instances  and  illustrations  drawn  from 
literature  and  common  observation,  and  quite  generally  he  works  them  out  into 
an  epigrammatic  form,  like  a  homely  proverb.  Take  two  or  three  examples :  "  Your 
body  may  live  in  a  cellar;  but  it's  your  own  fault  if  your  mind  lives  there."  "If 
you  want  to  know  whether  your  brain  is  flabby,  feel  of  your  legs."  "It's  a  good 
old  world  if  you  know  how  to  breathe."  "If  you  can  give  your  son  only  one  gift, 
let  it  be  enthusiasm."  All  this  is  everyday  stuff ;  but  so  is  life,  for  that  matter;  and 
there  is  that  in  Mr.  Barton's  style  and  spirit  which  lifts  it  out  of  everydayness  into 
memorableness  and  zest.  J.  F.  G. 


Amherst    Men    in   the   National   Service    39 


AMHERST  MEN  IN  THE  NATIONAL  SERVICE 


Note. — The  following  names  of  Amherst  men  in  the  National  Service  have 
been  received  since  the  August  issue  went  to  press.  The  Committee  on  War 
Records  of  the  Alumni  Council  realizes  that  there  are  errors  and  omissions  in 
this  list,  and  it  bespeaks  the  cooperation  of  alumni  in  correcting  them,  and  in  send- 
ing news  items  of  Amherst  men  in  the  Army  and  Navy  and  in  all  forms  of  war 
work  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Alumni  Council,  Amherst,  Mass. 

ABBREVIATIONS  USED— M.  O.  R.  C.  Medical  Officers  Reserve  Corps;  O.  R.  C 
Officers  Reserve  Corps;  N.  A.  National  Army;  C.  A.  C.  Coast  Artillery  Corps;  U.  S.  R. 
United  States  Reserve;  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  United  States  Naval  Reserve  Force;  N.  G.  National 
Guard;  F.  A.  Field  Artillerj-;  A.  A.  F.  S.  American  Arnbuiance  Field  Service;  R.  D.  N.  R. 
Radio  Division  Naval  Reserve;  M.  E.  R.  Medical  Enlisted  Reserve;  O.  T.  C.  Officers  Train- 
ing Camp. 


'65. — B.  K.  Emerson,  Research  Work. 
'73.— Talcott     Williams,     "Loyalty 
Week"  speaker  in  New  York  State. 

'74. — George  W.  Atwell,  Member, 
N.  Y.  State  Board  of  Appeals. 

William  F.  Slocum,  "Loyalty  Week" 
speaker  in  N.  Y.  State. 

'76. — George  A.  Plimpton,  Treasurer 
Poets'  Committee  for  the  American  Am- 
bulance in  Italy.  William  Ives  Wash- 
burn, Member,  N.  Y.  State  Board  of 
Appeals. 

'78. — W.  W^.  Sleeper,  Member,  Welles- 
ley  Public  Safety  Committee. 

'79. — Nehemiah  Boynton,  Chaplain, 
Thirteenth  Regiment,  N.  Y.  N.  G. 
Frank  J.  Goodnow,  Trustee,  American 
University  Union,  Paris. 

'80.— Henry  P.  Field,  Gov't  Attor- 
ney in  appeals  from  Northampton  Ex- 
emption Board.  George  Lawrence, 
Chairman  of  Exemption  Board,  No. 
Adams,  Mass.  G.  G.  S.  Perkins,  1st 
sergeant  First  Co.,  Wellesley  Battalion, 
Mass.  Home  Guard;  member  Executive 
Board  Public  Safety  Committee. 


'83.— E.  E.  Bancroft,  Member, 
Wellesley  Public  Safety  Committee.  Wil- 
liam Orr,  Chairman  of  Committee  on 
Education,  of  the  Commission  on  Train- 
ing Camp  Activities  of  War  Dept.  E.  S. 
Parsons,  Educational  Sec'y,  Camp 
Meade.  Rush  Rhees,  "Loyalty  Week" 
speaker  in  N.  Y.  State.  John  B. 
Walker,  Captain,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

'87. — Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Member, 
N.  Y.  City  Library  War  Council.  C.  A. 
Sibley,  Member  Wellesley  Hills  Public 
Safety  Committee.  Howard  O.  Wood, 
Member,  N.  Y.  State  Board  of  Appeals. 

'88.— John  E.  Oldham,  Member  Pub- 
lic Safety  Committee,  Boston;  Chair- 
man sub-committee  on  Finance. 

'91. — N.  P.  Avery,  Chairman  of  Ex- 
emption Board  for  Div.  No.  2  of  Hol- 
yoke,  Mass.  George  A.  Morse,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.  R.  S.  Woodworth,  Research 
work. 

'94. — Benjamin  D.  Hyde,  Captain, 
Quartermasters'  Dept.,  Mass.  State 
Guards.  Luther  Ely  Smith,  Second 
Training  Camp,  Ft.  Sheridan,  111. 


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'95. — Emmons  Bryant,  Captain  O.  R. 
C.  Robert  B.  Osgood,  Major  in  U.  S.  A. 
Base  Hospital,  No.  5,  in  France.  W.  B. 
Pratt,  Member,  Wellesley  Hills  Public 
Safety  Committee.  A.  E.  Roelker,  Jr., 
Captain  Cav.  N.  A.  Jay  T.  Stocking, 
Religious  work  director,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Ft. 
Myer,  Va. 

'96. — J.  B.  Cauthers,  Gov't  Attorney 
in  appeals  from  local  Board  No.  6,  New- 
York  City.  Merrill  E.  Gates,  Jr.,  2nd 
Lieut.,  Quartermasters'  Corps,  N.  A. 
E.  S.  Olmsted,  Captain,  O.  R.  C. 

'97. — C.  M.  Gates,  Member,  Welles- 
ley  Hills  Public  Safety  Committee. 
Harry  N.  Polk,  Major,  Cav.,  O.  R.  C. 

'98. — Charles  K.  Arter,  special  legal 
work  for  Dept.  of  Justice.  Fred  W. 
Goddard,  aide  de  camp  to  Brig.  Gen'l 
Rafferty,  54th  Brigade  N.  A.  Albert 
Mossman,  Captain,  Conn.  C.  A.  C. 

'99.— E.  M.  Brooks,  Private,  2nd  Co. 
Wellesley  Battalion,  Mass.  Home  Guard. 
Harry  A.  Bullock,  Captain,  Quarter- 
masters' Dept,  U.  S.  R.  W.  H.  Griffin, 
Capt.,  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  Charles  E.  Mitch- 
ell, Liberty  Loan  Committee,  N.  Y. 

'00. — James  F.  Connor,  P.  A.  Pay- 
master, U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Thomas  J.  Ham- 
mond, Captain  of  Company  I,  2nd 
Reg't,  M.  V.  M.  David  Whitcomb, 
Federal  Fuel  Administrator  for  Wash- 
ington. 

'02.— W.  A.  Anderson,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
prov.  pay  clerk.  John  Eastman,  Mem- 
ber, Public  Safety  Committee,  Boston. 
L.  R.  Herrick,  College  Adj.  at  Univer- 
sity of  Hamlin,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Chair- 
man Public  Safety  Committee.  Samuel 
McCluney,  Red  Cross  team  in  St.  Louis. 
Eugene  S.  Wilson,  Second  O.  T.  C.  Ft. 
Sheridan,  111. 

'03. — Foster  W.  Stearns,  Second 
Plattsburg  Camp. 


'04.— Charles  T.  Fitts,  N.  G.;  T.  H. 
J.  Frank  Kane,  Lieut,  in  Montclair, 
Battalion,  Ambulance  Committee  Work. 
H.  G.  Lund,  2nd  Lieut.,  Co.  K,  8th 
Inf.,  Mass.  N.  G.  Paul  A.  Turner,  1st 
Lieut.,  M.  O.  R.  C.  Wash.  N,  G. 

'05. — R.  Freeman,  Member  South 
Orange,  N.  J.  Home  Defense  League. 
Ward  F.  Moon,  Member,  South  Orange, 
N.  J.  Home  Defense  League. 

'06. — William  Hale,  Jr.,  Captain  in 
Canadian  Army  Med.  Corps.  In 
France,  now  wearing  military  cross. 
Robert  C.  Powell,  Captain,  Co.  I,  3rd 
Battalion,  318th  Inf.  N.  A.  H.  Reming- 
ton, Captain  F.  A.,  U.  S.  R.  (309th  F. 
A.). 

'07. — R.  Jewett  Jones,  1st  Lieut.  Inf. 
O.  R.  C.  John  J.  Morton,  1st  Lieut,  in 
U.  S.  A.  Base  Hospital  No.  5,  in  France. 

'08. — Holbrook  Bonney,  Captain, 
347th  F.  A.,  O.  R.  C.  George  C.  Elsey, 
1st  Lieut.,  Quartermasters'  Corps,  N.  A. 
1st  Lieut.  10th  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  James  P. 
Fleming,  2nd  Lieut.,  Quartermasters' 
Corps,  N.  A.  R.  H.  Kennedy,  Lieut. 
M.  O.  R.  C,  now  in  France  with  Gen'l 
Hospital,  No.  1.  Chapin  Marcus,  Cap- 
tain F.  A.,  O.  R.  C.  John  E.  Marshall. 
Sec,  Nat'l  Security  League  R.  I.  branch. 
Charles  E.  Merrill,  O.  T.  C.  Ft.  Myer, 
Va.  Kenneth  B.  Shute,  2nd  Lieut. 
F.  A.,  O.  R.  C.  James  T.  Sleeper, 
Lieut.,  Quartermasters'  Corps,  N.  A. 
James  E.  Smith,  Jr.,  2nd  O.  T.  C.  Ft. 
Sheridan,  111.  James  A.  Sprenger,  Sec- 
retary in  French  Army,  serving  in  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  War  Work  (France).  Paul 
Welles,  1st  Lieut.,  Signal  O.  R.  C.  Now 
in  France.  Robert  B.  Woodbury,  1st 
Lieut,  in  Co.  C,  1st  Penn.  Engineers. 

'09. — F.  Marsena  Butts,  1st  Lieut., 
Ordnance — Equipment  Div.,  O.  R.  C. 
E.  L.  Dyer,  Captain,  C.  A.  C.  Edward 
H.    Sudbury,    American    Esquadrille, 


Amherst   Men   in   the   National  Service    41 


France.    W.  A.  VoUmer,  2nd  Lieut.  F. 
A.,  O.  R.  C. 

'10. — Donald  M.  Gildersleeve,  1st 
Lieut.,  M.  O.  R.  C.  William  R.  Marsh, 
3rd  Training  Co.,  C.  A.  C.  B.  C.  Schel- 
lenberg,  transferred  from  N.  R.  to  Avia- 
tion Section.  Eustace  G.  Seligman, 
Nat'l  Army.  Wm.  H.  Wright,  2nd 
Lieut.,  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  Bartow  H.  Hall, 
1st  Lieut.  F.  A.,  O.  R.  C.  Sterling  W. 
Pratt,  2nd  Lieut.,  Quartermasters' 
Corps,  N.  A. 

'11.— Clifford  B.  Ballard,  Lieut.,  O. 
R.  C.  Horace  R.  Denton,  Captain,  Ad- 
jutant of  2nd  Battalion,  First  111.,  F.  A. 
Frank  R.  Elder,  Signal  Corps,  O.  R.  C. 
Gordon  T.  Fish,  2nd  Lieut.,  Inf.  O.  R. 
C.  Robert  H.  George,  Captain,  Inf. 
O.  R.  C.  Clifford  Nichols,  Ft.  Sheridan, 
111.  Arthur  D.  Patterson,  Major,  Inf. 
O.  R.  C.  Eugene  R.  Pennock,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.  Waldo  Shumway,  1st  Lieut.,  Inf. 
O.  R.  C. 

'12. — Howard  R.  Bacon,  2nd  Lieut., 
Cav.  O.  R.  C.  R.  H.  Brock,  2nd  Lieut., 
Quartermasters'  Corps,  O.  R.  C.  W.  F. 
Burt,  1st  Reserve  Engineers,  now  in 
France.  H.  Gordon  de  Chasseau,  2nd 
Plattsburgh  Camp.  Allen  W.  Cook, 
Prov.  2nd  Lieut.,  U.  S.  A.  Walter 
McGay,  Ft.  Sheridan,  111.  John 
Madden,  1st  Lieut.,  O.  R.  C.  William 
Siegrist,  Jr.,  N.  A. 

'13. — Geoffrey  Atkinson,  sergeant  at 
U.  S.  Base  Hospital  No.  2  now  in 
France.  C.  C.  Benedict,  1st  Reserve 
Engineers,  now  in  France.  Louis  Cald- 
well, A.  A.  F.  S.  in  France,  (awarded 
croix  de  guerre).  Ralph  N.  Dawes, 
104th  Inf.,  O.  R.  C.  Herschel  S. 
Konold,  Captain,  Inf.,  U.  S.  R.  Robert 
S.  Miller,  Presidio,  San  Francisco.  H. 
H.  Pride,  2nd  Lieut.,  Inf.,  U.  S.  R.  H. 
A.  Proctor,  Troop  H,  1st  N.  Y.,  Cavalry. 
Gain  Robinson,  2nd  O.  T.  C.  Ft.  Sheri- 
dan, 111.    R.  I.  Stout,  Second  Plattsburg 


Camp.  Douglas  Urquhart,  Corporal  in 
D  Co.,  104th,  Inf.  H.  Warner,  2nd 
Lieut.,  Inf.,  O.  R.  C.  Wm.  H.  Whitney, 
Quartermasters'  Dept.,  O.  R.  C.  Wil- 
liam J.  Wilcox,  3rd  Co.,  2nd  Brigade, 
Camp  Devens.  H.  C.  Wilder,  Captain, 
309th  F.  A.,  N.  A. 

'14. — Donald  H.  Brown,  2nd  Lieut., 
N.  A.,  7th  Replacement  Battalion.  E. 
D.  Butler,  Private  Dr.  Wiedman's  Field 
Hospital,  Ft.  Ethan  Allen.  D.  N.  Clark. 
2nd  Lieut.,  Quartermasters'  Dept.,  O.  R. 

C.  Maynard  H.  Hall,  Member,  Battery 

D,  16th  F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  Stanley  Heald,  2nd 
Lieut.,  O.  R.  C.  Louis  Huthsteiner, 
2nd  Lieut.,  Inf.,  O.  R.  C.  C.  Living- 
stone, 348th  F.  A.,  N.  A.  T.  W.  Miller, 
Private,  Dr.  Wiedman's  Field  Hospi- 
tal, Ft.  Ethan  Allen.  M.  B.  Seymour, 
2nd  Lieut.,  Quartermasters'  Dept.,  O. 
R.  C.  George  E.  Washburn,  Second 
O.  T.  C.  Plattsburg.  Charles  W.  Wil- 
liams, U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

'15. — R.  Bancroft,  Asst.  Adj.,  Base 
Hospital,  No.  7.  Richard  Banfield,  2nd 
Lieut.,  O.  R.  C.  K.  W.  Banta,  2nd 
Lieut.,  F.  A.  U.  S.  R.  Warren  Brecken- 
ridge.  Ft.  Snelling,  Minn.  J.  G.  Cole, 
7th  Training  Co.,  C.  A.  C.  J.  Theodore 
Cross,  2nd  Lieut.,  F.  A.  U.  S.  R.  G.  H. 
Hubner,  Second,  O.  T.  C.  Plattsburg. 
Gerald  Keith,  Naval  Cadet  School  at 
M.  I.  T.  Newton  M.  Kimball,  2nd 
Lieut.,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  Robert  R. 
McGowan,  2nd  Lieut.,  332nd  Inf.,  O. 
R.  C.  R.  A.  McCague,  2nd  Lieut.,  Inf., 
O.  R.  C.  Clarence  Parks,  2nd  Lieut., 
Quartermasters'  Corps,  N.  A.  A.  E. 
Ralston,  Transport  Section  of  A.  A.  F. 
S.  Kenneth  S.  Reed,  Presidio,  San 
Francisco.  Edward  W.  Robinson,  Ft. 
Benjamin  Harrison,  O.  R.  C.  R.  A. 
Robinson,  1st  Lieut.,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C. 
Webster  W.  Warren,  7th  Training  Co., 
C.  A.  C. 


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'16. — Charles  B.  Ames,  U.  S.  Aero 
Corps  Training  Squad.  Franklin  Clark, 
U.  S.  A.  H.  N.  Conant,  Private  in  169th 
Reg't,  Camp  Mills.  A.  G.  Dugan,  Cor- 
poral, Troop  F  of  111.,  Second  F.  A. 
William  B.  Gates,  Jr.,  2nd  Lieut.,  169th 
F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  P.  S.  Greene,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
(France).  Donald  E.  Hardy,  2nd 
Lieut.,  F.  A.,  O.  R.  C.  John  M.  Jenkins, 
1st  Lieut.,  F.  A.,  O.  R.  C.  J.  S.  McCloy, 
Prov.,  2nd  Lieut.,  O.  R.  C.  Douglas 
Milne,  2nd  Lieut..  Inf.,  O.  R.  C.  Ed- 
win H.  Lutkins — in  France.  Francis 
R.  Otte,  2nd  Lieut.,  Inf.  Headquarters 
Co..  167th  Reg't,  O.  R.  C.  C.  Baldwin 
Peck.  Jr..  Second  R.  O.  T.  C,  Platts- 
burg.  Stuart  Rider,  1st  Lieut.,  O.  R.  C. 
H.  Robinson,  2nd  Lieut.,  O.  R.  C.  W. 
B.  Smith,  Prov.,  2nd  Lieut.,  Inf.,  U.  S. 

A.  G.  W.  Washburn,  2nd  Lieut.,  F.  A., 

0.  R.  C.  C.  F.  Weeden,  Jr.,  Second  O. 
T.  C,  Plattsburg.  Laurence  Young, 
2nd  Lieut.,  Quartermasters'  Co.,  N.  A. 

'17.— Geo.  I.  Baily,  Second  O.  T.  C, 
Plattsburg.  Myers  E.  Baker,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.  Henry  H.  Banta,  Aeroplane 
Works,  Buffalo.  Frederick  D.  Bell, 
Aviation.  Earle  F.  Blair,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Kenneth  DeF.  Carpenter,  Ensign,  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.  John  D.  Clark,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
L.  M.  Clark,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Craig  P. 
Cochrane,  Prov..  2nd  Lieut..  O.  R.  C. 
David  Craig  served  as  sec'y  to  Prof.  A. 
P.  Fitch  on  mission  to  France  to  inspect 
hospitals.  C.  R.  De  Bcvoise.  2nd  Lieut, 
in  Quartermasters'  Corps,  O.  R.  C. 
Francis  M.  Dent,  Ft.  Myer,  Va.    Henry 

1.  Fillman,  A.  A.  F.  S.  in  France.  James 
E.  Glann,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France).    Sheldon 

B.  Goodrich.  Plattsburg.  David  C. 
Hale.  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (Radio).  James 
A.  Hawkins,  M.  O.  R.  C.  Theodore 
Ivimey,  Prov.,  2nd  Lieut.,  F.  A.,  R.  A. 
Norman  R.  Lemcke,  U.  S.  Navy.  Paul 
Lestrade,  Battery  A,  R.  I.,  Field  Artil- 
lery. William  F.  Loomis.  Aviation. 
Carroll  B.  Low,  2nd  Lieut.,  F.  A.,  O.  R. 


C.  Lawrence  M.  McCague,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
in  France.  Charles  B.  McGowan,  U. 
S.  N.  R.  F.  Edward  J.  Maloney,  2nd 
Lieut.,  Inf.,  O.  R.  C.  Edward  S.  Mar- 
pies,  2nd  Lieut.,  O.  R.  C.  Alfred  DeW. 
Mason,  Jr.,  2nd  Lieut.,  Virginia  Mil. 
Police,  Camp  Mills.  W.  M.  Miller, 
Madison  Barracks.  D.  W.  Morrow,  2nd 
Lieut.,  R.  A.  R.  Munroe,  U.  S.  N.  R. 
F.  Roger  C.  Perkins,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
H.  M.  Pettee,  Rhode  Island  Militia. 
Paul  Plough,  Prov.,  2nd  Lieut.,  Inf., 
U.  S.  A.  G.  H.  Rome,  N.  Y.  Hospital 
Corps.  Alfred  S.  Romer,  M.  E.  R.  No. 
39.  Raymond  T.  Ross,  American  Red 
Cross  in  France  (Aviation,  France,  Pi- 
lot). Frank  K.  Sanders,  Jr.,  2nd  Lieut., 
Inf.,  O.  R.  C.  Jay  J.  M.  Scandrett, 
Prov.,  2nd  Lieut.,  U.  S.  A.  Herbert  W. 
Schmid,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Walcott  E. 
Sibley,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (Radio  Div). 
Luke  Daniel  Stapleton,  2nd  Lieut.,  Art. 
Sec.  France.  H.  A.  Smith,  Research 
work,  Butterworth-Judson  Co.  Jesse 
Freeman  Swett,  A.  A.  F.  S.  Donald  E. 
Temple.  2nd  Lieut..  F.  A..  O.  R.  C.  Jo- 
seph F.  Vielbig,  M.  E.  R.  Section  39. 
John  L.  Whitcomb,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France). 
Theodore  L.  Widmayer,  Jr.,  M.  E.  R., 
Section  39.  Palmer  C.  Williams,  302nd 
Inf.,  Camp  Devens,  Mass. 

'18. — G.  R.  Aiello,  Lieut.,  Special 
Italian  Aviation  Comm.,  N.  Y.  C.  Ar- 
thur Thomas  Atkinson,  Battery  D,  F. 
A.,  N.  G.,  N.  J.  Albert  W.  Bailey,  M. 
O.  R.  C.  R.  P.  Bentley,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Dwight  B.  Billings,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France). 
David  D.  Bixler,  Clerical  Dept.,  Avia- 
tion Corps.  Roger  A.  Brackett,  Amos 
Tuck  School  of  Finance.  J.  B.  Brainerd, 
2nd  Lieut.,  9th  U.  S.  Inf.  (France). 
Philip  M.  Breed,  R.  D.  N.  R.  Charles 
W.  Chapman,  Jr.,  French  Esquadrille, 
Aviation  Corps.  G.  L.  Cross,  U.  S.  N.  R. 
F.  (in  college  on  leave).  Ralph  E.  EI- 
linwood,  A.  A.  F.  S.,  Transport  Sect. 
(France).    James  B.  Evans,  M.  O.  R.  C. 


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(France).  John  S.  Gillies,  M.  E.  R. 
Section  39.  H.  K.  Grainger,  2nd  Lieut., 
R.  A.  (France).  Edward  B.  Greene, 
Second  O.  T.  C.  Ft.  Myer,  Va.  A.  C. 
Haven,  Jr.,  Naval  Radio  Training  Sch., 
Great  Lakes,  111.  Dexter  Keezer,  2nd 
Lieut.,  Inf.,  O.  R.  C.  Owen  H.  Kenyon, 
R.  D.  N.  R.  H.  Knauth,  U.  S.  A.  Camp 
Quartermaster.  W.  D.  Macfarlane,  U. 
S.  N.  R.  Radio  School.  Murray  S. 
Moore,  M.  E.  R.,  Section  39.  Andrew 
R.  Morehouse,  U.  S.  Army  Base  Hos- 
pital, No.  15.  Curtis  L.  Norton,  Army 
Transport  Service,  France.  L.  T.  Or- 
lady,  1st  Lieut.,  O.  R.  C.  J.  E.  Parten- 
heimer,  Research  work  in  Butterworth- 
Judson  Co.  Robert  F.  Patton,  R.  D.  N. 
R.  W.  E.  Pratt,  Jr.,  Red  Cross  Ambu- 
lance Corps  (France).  Leonard  M. 
Prince,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France),  (driver 
of  Munition  transport  at  the  front).  J. 
H.  Quill,  U.  S.  N.  R.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  W. 
G.  Rogers,  M.  E.  R.,  Section  39.  C.  G. 
Seamans,  M.  E.  R.,  Section  39.  Philip 
Hudson  See,  R.  D.  N.  R.  William 
Taber,  Base  Hospital,  No.  159,  France. 
Lucius  E.  Thayer,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France). 
Sigourney  Thayer,  U.  S.  Aviation.  By- 
ron E.  Thomas,  M.  E.  R.,  Section  39. 
William  C.  Washburn,  U.  S.  R.  Aviation 
Section  (Ground  School  of  Aviation,  M. 
I.  T.).  Morris  H.  Williams,  2nd  Ambu- 
lance Corps,  Ohio,  N.  G.  C.  J.  Young, 
M.  O.  R.  C,  Base  Hospital,  No.  13, 
France. 

'19. — Lawrence  Ames,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
(France).  Ingham  C.  Baker,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
John  B.  Bell,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  G.  T. 
Boone,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Nehemiah  Boyn- 
ton,  Jr.,  Eastern  Radio  School.  J.  W. 
Bracken,  2nd  Lieut.,  Quartermasters' 
Corps,  U.  S.  A.  Herman  D.  Brown, 
Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (in  college  on  leave). 
Wm.  A.  Burnett,  Jr.,  M.  E.  R.,  Sec- 
tion 39.  Charles  R.  Chase,  A.  A.  F. 
S.  John   R.  Cotton,  Lafayette  Esqua- 


drille  Corps,  Aviation,  France.  J.  F. 
Donahue,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (in  college 
on  leave).  Lawrence  L.  Donahue,  M. 
E.  R.  (France).  Philip  Y.  Eastman, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  James  H.  Elwell.  Con- 
centration Camp,  Ayer,  Mass.  W.  H. 
Emery,  LT.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (in  college  on 
leave).  Rowland  C.  Evans,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.  W.  E.  Forbes,  U.  S.  N.  R.  C. 
C.  M.  Gardiner,  Mine  sweeping  Div. 
Naval  Coast  Defense  Reserve.  A. 
Hand,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Arthur  E.  Hazel- 
dine,  M.  E.  R.,  Section  39.  R.  C.  Hol- 
den,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Ralph  W.  Hooper, 
U.  S.  Armory,  Springfield,  Mass.  Bun- 
Howe,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France).  Harold 
Morrill  Lay,  M.  E.  R.,  Section  39. 
Pierre  N.  LeBrun,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (in 
college  on  leave).  Joseph  M.  Lyman, 
M.  E.  R.,  Section  39.  Warren  Thomp- 
son Mayers,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Lloyd  W.  Miller,  M.  E.  R.,  Section  39. 
Donald  G.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  M.  E.  R.,  Sec- 
tion 39.  Richard  B.  Neiley,  Ensign,  U. 
S.  N.  R.  F.  P.  E.  Reed,  Springfield 
Arsenal.  Winfield  W.  Riefler,  M.  E.  R., 
Section  39.  John  A.  G.  Savoy,  A.  A.  F. 
S.  (France).  Oliver  H.  Schaaf.  A.  A.  F. 
S.  (France).  A.  L.  Scott,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
(Transportation  service).  M.  W.  Shel- 
don, with  Washburn  Ambulance,  in 
service  of  the  Red  Cross.  S.  P.  Snelling, 
N.  A.,  Camp  Upton,  N.  Y.  T.  South- 
worth,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (in  college  on 
leave).  Harold  B.  Spencer,  Medical 
Dept.,  R.  A.  Post  Hospital,  Ft.  Ethan 
Allen.  Robert  W.  Story,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Benjamin  Taber,  1st  Field  Hospital. 
Henry  D.  Whitcomb,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Robert  R.  White,  1st  N.  Y.,  Field  Hos- 
pital.   F.  L.  Yarrington,  A.  A.  F.  S. 

'20.— Paul  Apraham,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Cyril  D.  Arnold,  Sergeant,  Quartermas- 
ters' R.  C,  U.  S.  A.  Clarence  E.  Avery, 
U.  S.  Medical  Corps.  Stanley  W.  Ayres, 
U.  S.  A.,  29th  Div.,  N.  J.,  Cav.  John 
Logan  Briggs,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France).    M. 


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Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


R.  Burr,  U.  S.  A.,  Cav.  Glenn  F.  Card, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Laurence  E.  Crooks, 
Co.  E,  6th  U.  S.  Engineers.  A.  L.  Dade, 
2nd  Lieut.,  U.  S.  A.  Joseph  G.  Estey, 
A.  A.  F.  S.  (France).  Grant  A.  Goebel. 
M.  E.  R.,  Section  39.  F.  E.  Hadley,  Jr., 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Hugh  L.  Hamilton,  M. 
E.  R..  Section  39.     Merrill  C.  Haskell, 

A.  A.  F.  S.  (France).  J.  H.  Hinch,  M. 
E.  R.,  Section  39  (France).     Leonard 

B.  Hough,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (Convois  Auto) 
France.  Burton  E.  Hildebrandt,  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.    T.  H.   McCandless,  U.   S. 


N.  R.  F.  (in  college  on  leave).  Wm. 
Clarence  McFeely,  M.  E.  R.,  Section 
39.  H.  W.  Newell,  M.  E.  R.,  Section 
39.  Chas.  E.  Putnam,  M.  E.  R.,  Sec- 
tion 39.  Sherman  D.  Shipman,  M.  E. 
R.,  Section  39.  Rufus  L.  Stevens,  M. 
E.  R.,  Section  39.  Robert  G.  Stewart 
M.  E.  R.,  Section  39  (France).  Alex- 
ander G.  Thompson,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  (in 
college  on  leave).  Albert  B.  Weaver, 
Jr.,  Ambulance  Corps.  Henry  M. 
Young,  Aviation  Corps. 


The    Alumni    Council 


45 


€)0ictal  and  ^aerjsonal 


THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 


During  the  past  three  months  the 
activities  of  the  Alumni  Council  have 
centered  in  the  war  and  the  needs  to 
which  it  has  given  rise. 

Amherst  has  become  a  member  of 
the  recently  organized  American  Uni- 
versity Union,  and  has  joined  with  Har- 
vard, Bowdoin,  Dartmouth  and  Williams 
to  maintain  a  Bureau  with  Staff  at  the 
Paris  headquarters  of  the  Union,  the 
Royal  Palace  Hotel,  on  the  corner  of  the 
Pldce  du  Theatre  Frangais,  and  the 
Rue  de  Richelieu.  The  general  object 
of  the  Union  is  to  meet  the  needs  of 
American  college  men  who  are  in  Eu- 
rope for  military  or  other  service  in  the 
cause  of  the  Allies.  It  will  provide  at 
moderate  cost  the  privileges  of  a  simple 
club  with  restaurant,  bedrooms,  baths, 
medical  advice,  etc.,  etc.  The  Bureau 
will  aim  to  render  a  more  personal  serv- 
ice in  case  of  need  to  the  men  of  the 
Colleges  maintaining  it.  Two  Amherst 
men  are  members  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  Union,  President  Frank 
J.  Goodnow,  '79,  and  Dwight  W.  Mor- 
row, '95,  and  Mr.  Chalmers  Clifton, 
Harvard,  1911,  sailed  October  20  to 
become  Resident  Secretary  of  the  joint 
Bureau.  The  Alumni  Council,  through 
a  special  committee,  will  provide  Am- 
herst's share  of  the  expenses  of  the 
Union  and  the  Bureau. 

The  Committee  on  War  Records  asks 
that  information  of  any  kind  regarding 
Amherst  men  in  the  army  and  navy,  and 


in  general  war  work,  be  sent  to  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  Alumni  Council  at 
Amherst.  In  addition  to  the  names  and 
present  duty  of  Amherst  men,  the  Com- 
mittee will  appreciate  newspaper  clip- 
pings, photographs  and  all  material 
which  pertains  to  the  part  Amherst  men 
are  playing  in  the  war. 

John  B.  O'Brien  has  been  appointed 
Associate  Editor  of  the  Graduate 
Quarterly  in  charge  of  alumni  and 
association  notes.  Mr.  O'Brien  has  had 
newspaper  experience  and  is  widely 
informed  about  Amherst  men.  The 
Publication  Committee  bespeaks  the 
cooperation  of  alumni  in  making  this 
department  of  increasing  interest.  Mr. 
O'Brien  will  be  glad  to  receive  news- 
paper clippings  and  notes  of  alumni 
activities  and  especially  of  alumni  in 
government  service  and  all  forms  of  war 
work.  Address  John  B.  O'Brien,  309 
Washington  Avenue,  Brooklyn. 

Progress  has  been  made  in  the  organi- 
zation of  an  Appointment  Bureau,  and 
plans  are  under  way  to  increase  its 
efficiency  during  the  coming  year. 

This  year  college  enrollment  com- 
pares with  last  year's  as  follows: 

1916 — Freshmen,  167;  Sophomores, 
111;  Juniors,  103;  Seniors,  99,  Misc.,  25; 
Total,  505. 

1917  (approx.)  Freshmen,  124;  Soph- 
omores, 122;  Juniors,  71;  Seniors,  47: 
Misc.  6;  Total,  370. 


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THE   ASSOCIATIONS 


New  York.  —  The  New  York  Alumni 
Association  has  received  the  following 
letter  from  Lucius  £.  Thayer,  '18,  of 
the  Ambulance  Unit  which  sailed  for 
France  in  June.  The  letter  is  wTitten 
under  date  of  June  17th:- 

"In  behalf  of  the  Amherst  Unit, 
singly  and  collectively,  I  want  to  thank 
you  representing  the  New  York  Alumni 
Association,  for  the  knives  which  have 
been  distributed  to  each  member  of  the 
Unit,  and  for  the  aid  which  was  given. 
.  .  .  We  have  had  a  rather  rough 
passage  thus  far,  but  all  have  weathered 
the  'roll'.  Yesterday  was  a  thrilling 
and  terrible  day  for  all  of  us.  About 
four  o'clock  we  were  suddenly  attacked 
by  a  submarine  which  seemed  to  rise 
from  nowhere.  The  torpedo  missed  our 
stern  about  thirty  feet,  and  the  fifth 
shot  from  our  75  M.  M.  Stern  Gun  hit 
the  periscope  at  a  half-mile  range,  so 
we  were  saved.  There  were  some  excit- 
ing scenes  enacted  on  board.  Every- 
body was  rushing  for  life  belts  and  boats, 
women  were  sobbing  and  men  were 
shouting.  On  the  whole,  every  American 
was  a  credit  to  his  country,  exhibiting 
remarkable  cool-headedness  and  unself- 
ishness. Last  night  we  all  slept  out  on 
the  deck  with  our  life  boats  near  at 
hand  and  a  life  belt  for  a  pillow.  To- 
morrow if  all  goes  well,  we  reach  Bor- 
deaux; and  from  there  take  the  night 
train  to  Paris.  We  hope  to  write  you 
soon,  '  with  the  French  Army  nach  Ber- 
lin'." 

"Lucius  E.Thayer,  '18, 
for  the  Unit." 

The  letter  was  addressed  to  Stuart 
Johnston. 

Mr.  Johnston,  in  behalf  of  the  New 
York  Association,  has  also  received  a 
letter  from  James  Everett  Glann,  '17, 
who  writes  under  date  of  September 
6th:- 


"We  have  now  been  at  the  front  for 
nearly  two  months  and  during  that  time 
have  been  very  busy.  And  the  chances 
of  our  being  busier  are  very  good.  I  am 
sorry  I  cannot  tell  you  definitely  where 
I  am.  I'll  say  this,  however,  that  the 
Aisne  flows  past  our  camp.  We  have 
heard  that  the  U.  S.  Government  has 
taken  over  the  American  Field  Service 
in  its  entirety.  I,  for  one  hope  so,  for  it 
means,  in  case  we  are  able  to  pass  the 
physical  examination,  that  we  will  re- 
ceive fifty-two  dollars  ($52.00)  per 
month  and  rank  of  sergeant.  During 
our  two  months  of  service,  we  have  been 
accustomed  to  aeroplane  raids,  to  the 
sound  of  bombs,  shells  and  shrapnel. 
And  yet  I  confess  that  every  time  I  hear 
a  gun  go  off  or  a  shell  sailing  over  my 
head,  I  'duck'  my  head  a  bit.  And 
after  it  is  over,  I  laugh  at  myself.  A 
point  in  psychology  there,  I  suppose." 
"James  Everett  Glann,  '17." 

Chicago.  —  The  Amherst  Club  of 
Chicago  is  holding  weekly  luncheons 
at  Marshall  Field  &  Co.'s  Men's  Grill 
on  the  6th  floor  of  Field's  Store  for  Men, 
on  Monday  of  each  week.  The  four 
they  have  had  this  fall  have  been  a  con- 
tinuation of  those  of  last  year  which 
proved  so  successful.  They  have  been 
held  this  year  since  early  in  September 
and  a  good  number  of  live  alumni  of 
Chicago  have  been  present  on  each 
occasion.  Amherst  men  visiting  at 
Chicago  are  very  welcome  at  these 
luncheons,  and  are  urged  to  attend. 
Dunbar  W.  Lewis  '09  has  succeeded 
Louis  G.  Caldwell  '13  as  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  club. 

Rocky  Mountain.  —  Fifteen  members 
of  the  Rocky  Mountain  Association  at- 
tended a  luncheon  of  the  Association 
at  Daniels  and  Fishers  Tea  Room  in 
Denver  on  July  15,  1917.  A  large  num- 
ber of  the  younger  members  have 
already  won  commissions  in  the  army. 


Roll    of    Honor 


47 


ROLL  OF  HONOR 


The  following  Amherst  men  have  sons 
in  the  class  of  1921  at  Amherst  Col- 
lege:— 

1876 — George  A.  Plimpton  of  New  York 
City. 

1877 — Edmund  Beardslee  of  New  York 
City. 

1878— Dr.  Herbert  S.  Johnson  of  Mai- 
den, Mass. 

1879— Dr.  Charles  S.  Merrick  of  Wil- 
braham,  Mass. 

1879 — La  Fayette  E.  Pruyne  of  Adams, 
N.  Y. 

1882— Rev.  George  A.  Hall  of  Brook- 
line,  Mass. 

1882— Rev.  Charles  W.  Loomis  of  North 
Leominster,  Mass. 

1883— Rev.  David  P.  Hatch  of  Lancas- 
ter, Mass. 

1883 — Professor  Edward  S.  Parsons  of 
Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

1884— Curtis  R.  Hatheway  of  Litch- 
field, Conn. 


1885 — Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones  of  Ha- 
worth,  N.  J. 

1885— Rev.  Dr.  William  G.  Thayer  of 
Southboro,  Mass. 

1886— Charles  B.  French  of  Chicago,  111. 

1886— Charles  M.  Starkweather  of 
Hartford,  Conn. 

1888— Rev.  Elbridge  C.  Whiting  of 
South  Sudbury,  Mass. 

1889 — Sherwin  Cody  of  Chicago,  111. 

1889 — Dr.  Henry  A.  Cooke  of  Provi- 
dence, R.  I. 

1889 — Professor  William  Esty  of  South 
Bethlehem,  Pa. 

1889— Professor  F.  J.  E.  Woodbridge 
of  New  York  City. 

1892— Dr.  Hubert  L.  Clark  of  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

1893— Dr.  Frank  H.  Smith  of  Hadley, 
Mass. 

1894 — Henry  E.  Whitcomb  of  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

1896— Robert  B.  Metcalf  of  Boston, 
Mass. 


SINCE  THE  LAST  ISSUE 


1856 — Hon.  George  Wakeman  Wheeler, 
on  Sept.  20,  1917,  at  Hacken- 
sack.  New  Jersey,  aged  86 
years. 

1861 — Rev.  Nathan  Thompson,  on  July 
2,  1917,  at  Laurel,  Maryland, 
in  his  80th  year. 

1884— Dr.  William  Bullock  Clark,  on 
July  27,  1917,  at  North  Haven, 
Maine,  aged  57  years. 

1897 — Charles  F.  Richmond,  on  July 
25,  1917,  at  Bretton  Woods, 
New  Hampshire,  aged  44 
years. 


1898 — Ralph  Bemis  Gibbs,  on  August 
20,  1917,  at  Croton,  New 
York,  aged  43  years. 

1905— John  S.  Hilliard,  on  July  11, 
1917,  at  Dunkirk,  New  York, 
aged  34  years. 

1913— Otis  Averill,  Jr.,  on  June  28, 
1917,  at  Greenwich,  Connect- 
icut, in  his  27th  year. 


1898— Edward  Hart  Tobey  on  August 
4,  1917,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
sou  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  E. 
Tobey. 


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1900 — Dorothy  Ross  Grant  on  July 
12,  1917,  at  Montclair,  N.  J., 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rob- 
ert L.  Grant. 

1907 — Dorothy  Andrews  on  October  23, 
1917,  at  Springfield,  Mass., 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Chester  H.  Andrews. 

1909 — Margaret  Blackmer  on  Septem- 
ber 23,  1917,  at  Worcester, 
Mass.,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Albert  W.  Blackmer. 


1894 — At  Ocean  Point,  Maine,  on  Sep- 
tember 6,  1917,  Warren  T. 
Bartlett  and  Miss  Elida  R. 
Thompson. 

1897 — At  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  in  June, 
Rev.  William  Bishop  Gates 
and  Miss  Mary  E.  Leverett. 

1903— At  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  on  August 
7,  1917,  John  P.  Maloney  and 
Miss  Edna  Marie  Goll. 

1903 — At  Brookline,  Mass.,  on  June  21, 
1917,  Louis  E.  Cadieux  and 
Miss  Ruth  Helen  Wentworth. 

1907 — At  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  on  Septem- 
ber 5,  1917,  Roy  W.  Bell  and 
Margery  Huntington  Chase. 

1908 — In  Elgin,  Nebraska,  in  June, 
1917,  R.  C.  Hoffman  and  Miss 
Genevieve  Brooks. 

1909— In  New  York  City,  in  September, 
Lieutenant  William  H.  Wright 
and  Miss  Madeleine  Hods- 
kins. 

1910 — In  New  York  City  on  August  16, 
1917,  Eustace  Seligman  and 
Miss  Maude  Jaretski. 


1910 — At  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  on  September 
9,  1917,  Lieutenant  Donald  M. 
Gildersleeve  and  Miss  Sanch 
Kehr. 

1912— In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  on  June  19, 
1917,  William  C.  Atwater,  Jr., 
and  Miss  Marion  Reed. 

1914 — At  Newark,  N.  J.  on  August  16, 
1917,  Lieutenant  C.  Richmond 
De  Bevoise  and  Miss  Mary 
Ganson  Crosby. 

1914— In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  July  7, 
1917,  John  Tilney  Carpenter 
and  Miss  Ruth  Gardiner. 

1914 — At  Bolton  Landing,  Lake  George, 
N.  Y.,  on  August  20,  1917, 
Lieutenant  Louis  Huthsteiner 
and  Miss  Ursula  Knauth. 

1914 — At  Ridgefield,  New  Jersey,  on 
May  15,  1917,  Rev.  Frank  H, 
Ferris  and  Miss  Minna  Proc- 
tor. 

1914 — At  Lake  Placid,  New  York,  on 
July  30,  1917,  Ed  Cohn  and 
Miss  Mariana  Brettaner. 

1914 — At  Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  on 
August  16,  1917,  Lieutenant 
Richard  Montague  Kimball 
and  Miss  Mabel  Estelle 
Stroker. 

1914 — At  Orange,  Massachusetts,  on 
August  25,  1917,  James  R. 
Kimball  and  Miss  Ethel  May 
Cooke. 

1914 — At  Santa  Monica,  California,  on 
August  23,  1917,  Lieutenant 
Donald  H.  Brown  and  Miss 
Alison  McCall. 

1916— In  New  York  City  on  October  3, 
1917,  Douglas  Clark  Stearns 
and  Miss  Frances  Emerson 
Coleman. 


The    Classes 


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THE  CLASSES 


1856 

Former  Judge  George  Wakeman 
Wheeler  died  on  September  20th  at  his 
home  in  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  after  a  long 
illness.  He  was  born  in  Easton,  Conn., 
on  October  13,  1831.  After  graduating 
from  Amherst  he  taught  school  for  a 
short  time  and  then  went  to  Hacken- 
sack and  conducted  classes  in  Greek  and 
Latin.  In  1869  he  became  Principal  of 
McGee's  Institute  at  Woodville,  Mass., 
remaining  there  for  ten  years. 

For  thirty  years  Judge  Wheeler 
served  as  Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas 
Court.  He  was  a  Mason,  Director  of 
the  Bank  of  Bergen  County  and  of  the 
Hackensack  Savings  Bank.  He  was  a 
widower  and  is  survived  by  two  sons. 
Judge  George  Wheeler,  Jr.,  of  Connect- 
icut, and  Harry  D.,  commission  mer- 
chant in  New  York. 

1861 

Rev.  Edwin  A.  Adams,  Secretary, 
854  Lakeside  Place,  Chicago,  111. 

After  an  illness  of  only  five  days,  Rev. 
Nathan  Thompson  of  Laurel,  Md.,  died 
on  July  2, 1917,  of  cerebral  Hemorrhage. 
He  was  nearly  80  years  old,  having  been 
born  on  August  26,  1837,  at  New  Brain- 
tree,  Mass.,  of  which  place  his  great- 
grandfather was  one  of  the  founders. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  Williston 
Seminary,  graduated  from  Amherst  in 
1861,  and  from  Andover  Theological 
Seminary  in  1865.  His  ministerial  work 
began  in  Boulder,  Colo.,  where  he  was 
for  ten  years  pastor  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church.     He  then  became 


pastor  for  five  years  of  the  church  in 
Foxboro,  Mass. 

He  was  all  his  life  ardent  in  the  work 
of  education.  During  his  residence  in 
Boulder  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Colorado,  and  was  the  last  presi- 
dent of  the  board  under  the  territorial 
government.  From  1881  to  1886  he  was 
Principal  of  Lawrence  Academy  at 
Groton,  Mass.,  and  from  that  date  to 
1890  Principal  of  Elgin  Academy  at  El- 
gin, 111.  He  then  became  Professor  of 
Latin  and  Greek  at  Morgan  College, 
Baltimore,  and  in  1897  was  appointed 
Superintendent  of  the  House  of  Refor- 
mation for  colored  boys  at  Cheltenham, 
Md.  For  the  last  fifteen  years  he  has 
resided  in  Laurel  where  he  took  a  deep 
interest  in  the  schools  and  co-operated 
actively  with  the  religious  forces  of  the 
community.  He  maintained  his  inter- 
est in  the  classics  to  the  last,  being  a 
member  of  the  Classical  Club  of  Balti- 
more, and  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  asso- 
ciation of  the  District  of  Columbia. 

Mr.  Thompson  was  buried  at  New 
Braintree,  Mass.  He  is  survived  by  a 
widow  and  two  daughters,  who  reside 
in  Laurel.  The  Presbyterian  church  of 
Laurel  adopted  the  following  resolu- 
tion :- 

"  Mr.  Thompson  lives  in  our  memory 
as  a  pleasant  spirit,  a  cordial  friend,  and 
a  helpful  associate  in  the  life  of  the 
church.  Although  a  member  of  another 
denomination  he  gave  to  our  church  as 
generous  and  active  support  as  if  he  had 
been  one  with  us  in  name.  ...  In  him 
survived  the  spirit  and  conscience  of  the 
past  generation  of  New  England.  He 
was  a  knight  of  the  public  welfare,  wear- 
ing  not  only   'the   white   flower   of   a 


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blameless  life',  but  also  'the  whole  ar- 
mor of  God'." 

1865 

Prof.  B.  K.  Emerson,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

At  the  request  of  the  Committee  of 
National  Defense,  Professor  B.  K. 
Emerson  has  prepared  a  detailed  report 
on  the  quarry  and  gravel  beds  in  the 
state  of  Massachusetts  which  are  suit- 
able for  use  in  making  or  repairing  roads 
for  war  purposes.  Included  in  the  re- 
port was  the  new  geological  map  of 
Massachusetts,  prepared  by  Professor 
Emerson,  which  has  been  printed  by 
the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey,  but  is  not 
yet  published;  a  volume  of  detailed 
topographic  maps  of  the  state  with  all 
available  quarries  and  gravel  pits  in- 
dicated and  a  voluminous  report. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carlton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Royal  M.  Cole  of  Forest  Grove, 
Ore.,  recently  suffered  a  very  painful 
injury.    Mrs.  Cole  writes  as  follows  :- 

"On  Sept.  2  he  slipped  on  the  pave- 
ment in  front  of  our  house  after  post- 
ing some  letters  on  the  electric.  He  has 
often  dropped  his  letters  in  the  post- 
box  when  the  electric  stops  at  our  cor- 
ner. In  turning  to  come  up  the  walk  he 
stumbled,  and  fell  in  a  faint.  We  se- 
cured help  instantly  to  help  us  get  him 
into  the  house,  and  a  surgeon,  who  lives 
on  this  street,  was  here  directly. 

"He  has  suffered  greatly,  but  now 
the  pain  is  mostly  from  weariness,  from 
having  to  lie  all  day  on  his  weak  back, 
and  especially  the  nights  are  long  to  the 
dear  sufferer.  X-ray  showed  a  fracture 
in  the  right  hip.  He  is  'sandbagged,' 
'weighted  down,'  with  eight  pounds  of 
bricks,  to  keep  his  foot  in  the  right  posi- 
tion. 

"We  have  strong  hopes  of  his  recov- 
ery, but  the  weeks  in  bed  will  be  hard 
for  him." 


Herbert  L.  Bridgman  has  been  elected 
a  director  of  the  Edison  Electric  Illu- 
minating Company  of  Brooklyn. 

The  estate  of  the  late  Samuel  H. 
Valentine,  lawyer  and  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Aero  Club  of  America 
and  the  Automobile  Club  of  America, 
was  recently  appraised  at  $2,154,525, 
of  which  $1,641,508  was  in  securities, 
$391,650  in  real  estate,  and  $117,951  in 
cash. 

1871 

Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary, 
623  West  113th  Street,  New  York  City 

Rev.  C.  L.  Tomblen,  formerly  of 
Montague,  Mass.,  has  accepted  a  call 
to  South  Britain,  Conn.,  and  began  his 
new  duties  on  Oct.  1. 

1872 

Rev.  George  L.  Clark,  Secretary, 
Wethersfield,  Conn. 

The  leading  article  in  the  Biblical 
World  for  July  is  unusual  in  that  it  is 
written  by  father  and  son.  Both  are 
Amherst  men.  The  father  is  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Otis  Cary  of  the  class  of  1872  and 
the  son  is  the  Rev.  Frank  Cary  of  the 
class  of  1911.  The  subject  of  the  article 
was,  "How  Old  Were  Christ's  Disci- 
ples.*" 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Dr.  Talcott  Williams,  head  of  the 
Columbia  School  of  Journalism,  was  one 
of  the  "  Loyalty  Week"  speakers  in  New 
York  State.  Thirty-six  speakers  of  na- 
tional prominence  made,  during  the  last 
week  in  September,  a  tour  of  all  the 
important  cities  and  towns  in  the  state, 
making  addresses  to  spread  patriotism 
through  education.     Dr.  Williams  has 


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written  several  valuable  articles  dealing 
with  war  topics. 

These  include  an  article  in  the  Re- 
view of  Reviews  for  August  entitled 
"  How  the  German  Empire  has  Menaced 
Democracy,"  and  "The  Disposition  of 
Constantinople"  in  the  Annals  of  the 
American  Academy  for  July,  are  the 
Problems  of  a  Durable  Peace.  Dr.  Wil- 
liams has  also  written  an  introduction 
of  25  pages  to  the  book  recently  pub- 
lished by  Clarence  W.  Barron,  "The 
Mexican  Problem". 

Dr.  Williams  was  interested  in  the 
Women's  Suffrage  Campaign  in  New 
York  State,  being  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  Man  Suffrage 
Association  Opposed  to  Political  Suf- 
frage to  Women,  to  direct  the  campaign 
against  passage  of  the  Woman  Suffrage 
Amendment. 

Rev.  Granville  W.  Nims  has  accepted 
a  call  to  West  Glover,  Vermont. 

1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

George  W.  Atwell  of  '74  was,  on  the 
3rd  of  August,  1917,  appointed  by  Pres- 
ident Wilson  a  member  of  the  District 
Board  for  Division  No.  2,  Western  Ju- 
dicial District  of  New  York,  and  is  serv- 
ing as  Secretary  thereof;  this  board 
passes  on  the  exemption  and  discharge 
of  persons  called  for  military  service  in 
the  Counties  of  Livingston,  Monroe 
(City  of  Rochester),  Ontario,  Seneca  and 
Wayne. 

Dr.  William  F.  Slocum,  who  retired 
last  June  from  the  presidency  of 
Colorado  College  and  upon  whom  Col- 
orado conferred  the  degree  of  L.L.D. 
at  the  last  commencement,  has  accepted 
an   appointment   in   the   office   of   the 


League  to  Enforce  Peace,  and  will  make 
his  headquarters  in  New  York  City. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  "  Loyalty  Week" 
speakers  in  New  York  State  in  Septem- 
ber. 

Prof.  Munroe  Smith  of  Columbia  LTni- 
versity  had  an  article  in  the  September 
issue  of  the  Political  Science  Quarterly 
on  "Germany's  Land  Hunger". 

1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 
277  Broadway,  New  York  City 

William  Ives  Washburn  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Wilson  a  member 
of  the  New  Y^ork  State  Board  of  Ap- 
peals for  the  Draft.  He  is  serving  on 
the  New  York  City  board,  being  its 
secretary.  Charles  Evans  Hughes  is  the 
chairman. 

John  B.  Stanchfield  was  a  member  of 
the  New  York  City  executive  committee 
which  welcomed  the  Belgian  War  Com- 
mission during  the  summer.  He  was 
also  appointed  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee to  welcome  Abram  I.  Elkus,  the 
American  ambassador  to  Turkey. 

George  A.  Plimpton  is  treasurer  of 
the  Poets'  Committee  for  the  American 
Ambulance  in  Italy,  which  has  made  a 
nation  wide  appeal  for  one  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  to  equip  and  send  fifty  am- 
bulances to  General  Cardona's  line.  Mr. 
Plimpton  was  also  appointed  by  Mayor 
Mitchel  of  New  York  a  member  of  the 
committee  which  welcomed  home  in 
July,  Abram  I.  Elkus,  the  American 
ambassador  to  Turkey. 

1877 

Rev.  Alfred  D.  Mason,  Secretary, 
103  Montague  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Collin  Armstrong  was  a  member  of 
the  delegation  from  the  National  Ad- 


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vertising  Advisory  Board  which  went 
to  Washington  on  August  16th,  to  urge 
Secretary  McAdoo  to  use  paid  advertis- 
ing in  floating  the  Second  Liberty  Bond 
issue. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 

1140  Woodward  Bldg.,  Washington, 

D.  C. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton, 
chaplain  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment, 
New  York  National  Guard,  now  has  a 
church  on  wheels.  The  state  of  New 
York  has  presented  him  with  an  auto 
truck,  equipped  with  a  victrola,  a  small 
organ,  a  speaking  desk,  Bible,  hymn 
books  and  chairs  for  speakers  and 
singers.  Chaplain  Boynton  declares 
that  he  has  been  pronounced  physically 
fit  and  that  he  is  "going  to  stay  with 
the  boys  to  the  end  and  is  out  for  promo- 
tion too."  On  August  28th  he  attended 
the  conference  of  Congregational  minis- 
ters and  laymen  at  Washington,  con- 
vened by  request  of  Food  Administrator 
Herbert  Hoover,  and  was  chosen  chair- 
man. The  convention  was  called  to 
discuss  the  problem  of  bringing  the  mat- 
ter of  food  conservation  before  the 
churches. 

President  Frank  J.  Goodnow  of  Johns 
Hopkins  University  is  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  recently  formed 
American  University  Union  of  Europe 
in  Paris.  The  committee  explains  the 
union  as  "a  home  with  the  privileges 
of  a  club  for  American  college  men  and 
their  friends  passing  through  Paris  or 
on  furlough." 

1883 

Dr.  John  B.  Walker,  Secretary, 
51  East  50th  Street,  New  York  City 

William  Orr  is  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Education  of  the  Commis- 


sion on  Training  Camp  activities  of  the 
War  Department.  Other  members  of 
the  committee  are: — Dr.  John  H.  Fin- 
ley,  Commissioner  of  Education  for  the 
State  of  New  York;  Dr.  P.  P.  Claxton, 
head  of  the  Bureau  of  Education  of  the 
Department  of  the  interior;  President 
Harry  Pratt  Judson  of  the  University 
of  Chicago,  and  Colonel  D.  J.  Callahan 
of  Louisville.  It  is  the  intention  of  the 
commission  to  provide  means  for  giving 
adequate  courses  in  French  and  in 
French  geography  in  all  the  canton- 
ments and  National  Guard  training 
camps. 

Rev.  Howard  A.  Bridgman  had  an 
interesting  article  in  the  Congregation- 
list  for  August  30th  on  "Morals  and 
Religion  at  the  Ayer  Cantonment, 
Forces  at  Work  for  the  Higher  Life  of 
the    Soldier". 

President  Rush  Rhees  of  Rochester 
University  was  one  of  the  "Loyalty 
Week"  speakers  in  New  York  State  in 
September,  being  chairman  of  Team  No. 
7  which  also  included  Prof.  James  H. 
Moore  of  Colgate  University,  ex-Sena- 
tor Burton  of  Ohio  and  State  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  John  H.  Finley. 

1884 

WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City 

Rev.  H.  M.  Herrick  of  Rockford,  111., 
has  been  called  to  be  associate  professor 
of  Modern  Languages  at  Rockford  Col- 
lege. 

Edward  M.  Bassett  was  chairman  of 
the  Platform  committee  of  the  Fusion 
Committee  in  New  York  City,  and  was 
also  a  member  of  the  committee  ap- 
pointed to  consider  candidates  for  a 
nonpartisan  judicial  ticket. 


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1885 

Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
411  West  114th  Street,  New  York  City 

In  our  roll  of  Amherst  Alumni  in  the 
National  Service,  published  in  the  last 
number  of  The  Quarterly,  there  was 
inadvertently  omitted — perhaps  be- 
cause he  is  in  the  service  of  another  na- 
tion— one  of  our  most  distinguished 
graduates,  Sir  Herbert  B.  Ames,  of 
Montreal,  Canada,  whose  patriotic  ser- 
vices in  the  relief  of  soldiers'  families  re- 
ceived the  award  of  knighthood  from 
King  George  V.  He  is  the  author  of  a 
vigorous  article  in  the  June  number  of 
the  North  American  Review,  entitled 
"'Fight  or  Pay' — Canada's  Solution." 
As  a  writer  and  speaker  he  has  been  of 
great  service  both  to  Canada,  his  native 
country,  and  to  his  country's  allies,  the 
United  States. 

Somewhere   on   Active   Service,    U.    S. 
Navy,  Sept.  14,  1917. 

" My  dear  Frank:  By  way  of  keeping 
the  class  history  up-to-date,  and  in  order 
to  explain  my  failure  to  get  you  for  that 
lunch  in  N.  Y.,  1  merely  inform  you 
that,  as  an  ofBcer  in  the  Reserve,  I  have 
been  in  active  service  since  before  the 
war  began,  having  volunteered,  there- 
for, I  cannot  tell  you  where  I  am  or 
what  I  am  doing,  that  being  against  the 
regulations.  Suffice  it  that  1  am  doing 
all  I  can  to  be  worthy  of  my  fighting 
ancestors,  and  the  honor  of  '85! 

"I  hope  Amherst  and  especially  '85, 
will  do  their  duty  in  this  greatest  of  all 
crises.  Age  is  no  detriment.  There  is 
always  something  to  do,  though  few 
may  have  the  luck  to  get  out  into  it  as  I 
have. — Edward  Breck,  Lieut.  Com- 
mander, II.  S.  N.  R.  F." 

1886 

Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Osgood  T.  Eastman  has  been  ap- 
pointed managing  director  of  the  Omaha 


(Nebr.)  branch  of  the  Federal  Reserve 
Bank  at  Omaha.  Mr.  Eastman  has 
been  with  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Omaha  for  nine  years,  the  past  seven 
as  assistant  cashier.  He,  as  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  American  Bankers'  Associa- 
tion for  Nebraska,  had  seventy-two 
members,  a  record  to  his  credit,  in  one 
year.  He  has  been  president  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Omaha,  treasurer  of  the 
Liberty  bond  committee,  prominent  in 
the  Red  Cross  work,  chairman  of  the 
entertainment  committee  and  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Com- 
mercial Club,  chairman  of  entertain- 
ment of  the  Nebraska  Bankers'  associa- 
tion and  is  on  the  governing  board  of 
the  publicity  bureau. 

A  poem,  "American  Army  Hymn", 
beginning  "America,  America",  to  be 
sung  to  the  tune  of  "Materna",  was 
published  in  the  Congregationalist  for 
August  9th,  written  by  Rev.  Allen  East- 
man Cross,  D.D.,  of  Milford,  Mass. 

Henry  Suydam,  the  war  correspond- 
ent, whose  articles  in  the  Brooklyn  Daily 
Eagle,  the  Boston  Transcript  and  the 
Review  of  Reviews  have  attracted  wide 
attention,  compares  under  date  of  Sept. 
16th  Secretary  of  State  Robert  Lansing 
with  the  British  Secretary  and  after  re- 
ferring to  Secretary  Lansing's  disarm- 
ing smile,  says: 

Mr.  Lansing  usually  waits  for  the 
newspaper  men  to  open  the  conversa- 
tion, especially  if  he  has  nothing  of 
importance  to  announce.  He  has  a 
very  engaging  personality,  and  he 
uses  this  as  a  buffer  between  ques- 
tions and  answers.  He  is  frank,  when 
possible,  but  he  does  not  produce  the 
impression  of  one  who  is  eager  to 
talk,  with  any  degree  of  confidence  in 
his  hearers,  on  State  Department 
matters.  He  has  a  tendency  to  an- 
swer in  monosyllables,  and  he  never 
loses  his  temper.  In  appearance  the 
Secretary  of  State  is  more  distinguished, 


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more  expansive  in  manner,  than  most 
English  statesmen,  and  certainly  more 
so  than  Lord  Robert  Cecil.  Mr.  Lansing 
would  never  be  mistaken  for  a  routine- 
grinding  clerk,  as  Lord  Robert  might, 
but  he  carries  with  him  the  air  of  one 
who  is  dealing,  somewhat  fearfully,  per- 
haps, in  dynasties. 

There  is  one  advantage  enjoyed  by 
Lord  Robert  Cecil  that  Mr.  Lansing 
lacks:  Lord  Robert  had  no  predeces- 
sors who  held  conferences  with  news- 
paper men.  Mr.  Lansing,  on  the  other 
hand,  found  the  office  of  Secretary  of 
State  stripped  of  dignity  in  the  eyes  of 
the  correspondents.  The  attitude  and 
poses  of  Mr.  Bryan  were  so  entertain- 
ing, when  they  were  not  maddening,  that 
even  the  newspaper  men  were  amused. 
They  grew,  gradually,  to  asking  annoy- 
ing questions.  Mr.  Bryan  would  burst 
into  a  rage  and  shout:  "That  sir,  is  an 
improper  question!"  The  newspaper 
men  thus  naturally  lost  respect  for  the 
office,  which,  under  Mr.  Root  and  Mr. 
Knox,  who  were  skilled  in  sarcasm,  was 
regarded  with  awe.  Mr.  Lansing  has 
had  to  work  to  overcome  Mr.  Bryan's 
mistakes.  He  has  a  sort  of  quiet  force 
and  a  sense  of  reserve  that  compen- 
sates for  his  lack  of  facility  in  stinging 
verbal  duels  with  men  who  ask  out- 
rageous questions. 

After  having  seen  both  Ministers  in 
action,  so  to  speak,  at  close  quarters, 
my  impression  is  that  Lord  Robert  Cecil 
is  probably  the  more  wily,  but  that 
Mr.  Lansing  has  greater  breadth  and 
depth  of  viewpoint.  Neither  makes  the 
slightest  pretensions,  personally,  and 
both  are  quiet  and  undemonstrative  in 
manner.  Neither  speaks  in  the  sort  of 
complete  epigrams  that  some  Foreign 
Ministers  use,  to  their  own  disadvan- 
tage. They  never  make  "scrap  of 
paper"  speeches,  or  write  "spurlos 
versenkt"  sentences.  They  state  their 
case  concisely  in  a  few  words,  and  those 
are  not  flashy  or  spectacular.  That, 
after  all,  is  a  pretty  safe  kind  of  a  For- 
eign Minister  to  have  in  office,  at  a 
time  when  an  unprecedented  alliance 
is  Bghting  a  common  war. 

1887 

Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


Alvin  F.  Sanborn,  who  was  appointed 
during  the  summer  as  chief  interpreter 
for  General  Pershing  in  France,  had  a 
very  interesting  article  in  the  Boston 
Evening  Transcript  for  September  3rd, 
under  the  title  of  "As  it  looks  to  a 
Home-Comer — an  Impassioned  Indict- 
ment of  American  Apathy  by  an  Amer- 
ican Writer  and  Fighter,  lately  home 
for  a  college  reunion, "  in  which  he  says:- 

"Send  on  men,  hosts  of  men,  at  least 
five  hundred  thousand,  before  snow  flies. 
Equip  them  as  well  as  you  can,  but  don't 
bother  your  brains  about  their  training. 
They  will  learn  more  about  real  fight- 
ing in  three  months  within  the  French 
army  zone,  where  methods  change  so 
rapidly  as  to  defy  exportation,  than  they 
would  learn  by  drilling  in  America, 
(three  thousand  miles  from  the  scene 
of  conflict),  in  three  years.  Within 
sound  and  even  danger  of  the  cannonad- 
ings  and  within  sight  of  mud-besmeared 
'poilus',  fresh  from  the  firing  line,  they 
will  feel  themselves,  from  the  outset,  a 
part  of  the  war;  and  this  consciousness 
of  being  'in  it'  will  do  wonders  for  the 
mental  hardening  which  is  no  less  im- 
portant than  the  physical  hardening." 

Frederic  B.  Pratt  is  a  member  of  the 
New  York  City  Library  War  Council. 
He  was  also  appointed  by  Mayor  Mit- 
chel  of  New  York  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee for  the  Catskill  Aqueduct  cele- 
bration in  October. 

Howard  O.  Wood  was  appointed  by 
President  Wilson  a  member  of  the  New 
York  State  Board  of  Appeals  for  the 
draft.    He  represents  Brooklyn. 

1889 

Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

15  Elm  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Doane  College  conferred  last  June 
the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  upon  Rev. 
Edwin  B.  Dean  of  Northfield,   Minn. 

Arthur  Curtiss  James  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Whitman  of  New 


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York  and  Governor  Edge  of  New  Jer- 
sey as  a  member  of  the  newly-formed 
New  York-New  Jersey  Port  and  Har- 
bor Development  Commission.  This 
commission  is  the  first  step  taken  in  the 
plan  to  co-ordinate  the  facilities  of  the 
port  of  New  York  in  order  to  develop 
it  into  one  of  the  greatest  shipping  cen- 
ters in  the  world.  The  commission  is 
now  studying  the  problem  of  relief  from 
freight  congestion.  Mr.  James  has  also 
contributed  an  ambulance  and  its  up- 
keep for  one  year  to  the  Poet's  Commit- 
tee for  the  American  Ambulance  in 
Italy.  The  ambulance  is  to  bear  the 
name  of  a  famous  American  poet. 

The  Journal  of  Philosophy,  Psychol- 
ogy and  Scientific  Methods  for  July  5th 
contained  an  article  by  Professor  F.  J. 
E.  Woodbridge  of  Columbia  University 
entitled  "  Comment  on  Professor  H.  C. 
Brown's  'Matter  and  Energy,'"  an  ar- 
ticle in  a  former  issue. 

Professor  George  B.  Churchill  of  Am- 
herst College  has  been  renominated  by 
the  Republicans  of  the  Franklin-Hamp- 
shire district  for  the  Massachusetts 
State  Senate. 

1891 

Nath.\n  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Professor  Robert  S.  Woodworth  of 
Columbia  University  is  standardizing 
tests  for  determining  the  fitness  of  sol- 
diers for  the  more  special  and  exacting 
branches  of  service. 

The  home  address  of  George  A.  Morse, 
who  is  in  the  Naval  Reserves  in  com- 
mand of  a  submarine  chaser,  is  40  Clin- 
ton Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary 
Amherst,  Mass. 


Silas  D.  Reed  of  Taunton  was  nomi- 
nated at  the  recent  Massachusetts  pri- 
maries for  State  Senator  by  the  Repub- 
licans of  the  First  District  in  Bristol 
County.  As  there  is  no  Democratic 
nomination,  his  election  is  assured. 

The  Rev.  Frederick  Beekman,  dean 
of  the  Pro-Cathedral  Episcopal  Church 
of  the  Nativity,  at  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  has 
gone  to  France  with  his  wife,  where  he 
will  be  at  the  head  of  the  "American 
Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Club",  recently 
established  there  by  the  Emergency  Aid 
Society  of  this  country,  of  which  Rod- 
man Wanamaker  of  Philadelphia  is  the 
founder.  Dean  Beekman  was  formerly 
an  officer  in  the  United  States  Army. 
When  he  presented  his  resignation,  the 
officers  of  the  church  granted  him  an 
extended  leave  of  absence  instead. 

George  W.  Ellis  is  President  of  the 
Lawson  Aircraft  Company  of  Green  Bay, 
Wisconsin.  This  company  was  recently 
formed  and  already  is  building  three 
different  types  of  military  machines  for 
the  United  States  Government  and  is 
also  turning  out  a  flying  boat  for  sport- 
ing purposes. 

William  C.  Breed  was  one  of  the  ten 
delegates  to  represent  the  Merchants' 
Association  of  New  York  at  the  War 
Convention  of  American  business  men, 
held  in  Atlantic  City  in  September.  He 
also  was  a  member  of  the  committee 
appointed  by  the  Mayor  of  the  city  of 
New  York  to  welcome  the  Japanese 
Mission. 

George  B.  Zug  joined  the  ranks  of  the 
wartime  agriculturists  and  spent  the 
summer  hoeing  corn  and  cultivating  a 
large  garden  on  his  place  at  Hanover, 
N.  H. 

'93  is  represented  in  the  Freshman 
Class  this  fall  by  Myron  Howe  Smith, 


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son  of  Dr.  Frank  H.  Smith  of  Hadley, 
Mass.  Myron  led  his  class  at  Hopkins 
Academy  and  was  awarded  a  twenty- 
five  dollar  prize  for  general  excellence 
during  his  four  year  course. 

On  July  25,  1917,  the  only  daughter 
of  J.  Wesley  Ladd  was  married  to  Mr. 
Alan  Green  of  Saginaw,  Michigan.  Mr. 
Green  is  a  graduate  of  the  University 
of  Michigan.  He  sailed  for  France  in 
September  to  enter  the  Ambulance 
Corps. 

1894 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Hermon  S.  Cheney  of  Southbridge, 
Mass.,  was  nominated  at  the  State  Pri- 
maries on  September  25th  for  Republi- 
can Representative  to  the  State  Legis- 
lature. As  the  district  is  Republican 
he  doubtless  will  be  elected.  The  Sec- 
retary was  elected  Delegate  to  the  Re- 
publican State  Convention  at  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  October  6th. 

Edward  H.  Eldridge,  Director,  School 
of  Secretarial  Studies,  Simmons  College, 
Boston,  Mass.,  writes  that  he  has  con- 
ducted a  summer  school  for  commercial 
teachers  this  year  with  about  170  in 
attendance.  They  also  offered  an  emer- 
gency course  in  elementary  business 
work  for  women,  with  a  good  enroll- 
ment. They  have  just  begun  another 
college  year,  and  unlike  the  men's  col- 
leges, where  the  enrollment  generally  is 
small,  they  are  swamped.  Many  of 
their  graduates  are  filling  Government 
positions;  one  of  them  is  with  Mr. 
Hoover,  taking  general  charge  of  the 
filing;  two  are  in  France;  several  in 
Washington,  and  several  in  the  navy 
yards. 

Eugene  W.  Lyman,  Graduate  School 
of   Theology,    Oberlin,    Ohio,    Depart- 


ment of  Philosophy  of  Religion  and 
Christian  Ethics,  was  Lecturer  at  the 
Students'  Conference  at  Lake  Geneva, 
WMs.,  and  the  Convocation  of  Congre- 
gational Ministers  at  Middlebury  Col- 
lege. In  October  he  delivered  three 
lectures  at  the  Union  Theological  Sem- 
inary. 

Mark  D.  Mitchell  is  busier  than  ever 
drilling  oil  wells  for  the  Amherst  Oil 
Company.  He  hopes  the  price  of  gaso- 
line will  continue  to  rise  and  we  poor 
chaps  who  have  automobiles  will  pay 
the  freight. 

Pancoast  Kidder  is  Captain  of  Com- 
pany M,  Camp  Meade,  Md. 

Benjamin  D.  Hyde  is  Captain  of 
Quartermasters'  Department,  Massa- 
chusetts State  Guards. 

Elmer  W^.  Bender  has  changed  his 
address  to  605  North  L  Street,  Tacoma, 
Wash.  His  elder  son,  Nathaniel,  grad- 
uated from  the  Staduim  High  School 
last  June.  He  was  headed  for  Amherst 
but  is  now  enlisted  in  Co.  8,  Coast  Ar- 
tillery, Fort  Flager,  W'ash.,  and  expects 
shortly  to  be  transferred  to  North  Caro- 
lina, Field  Artillery  Division,  and  thence 
to  France. 

Grosvenor  H.  Backus  is  spending 
several  months  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
He  was  recently  staying  in  Santa  Bar- 
bara, Cal. 

Carlton  E.  Clutia,  Assistant  Manager, 
Western  Department  of  the  Providence- 
Washington  Insurance  Company  of 
Providence,  R.  I.,  on  whom  the  College 
conferred  the  degree  of  M.  A.  in  1916, 
is  making  his  plans  to  be  on  hand  at  the 
25th  reunion.  He  has  just  returned 
from  a  vacation  fishing  trip  in  the  wilds 
of  northern  Wisconsin.  He  had  his  son 
with  him. 


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Alfred  E.  Stearns,  Principal  of  Phil- 
lips Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  writes 
under  date  of  Sept.  26th  as  follows  :- 

"War  conditions  are  not  hurting  us 
this  year  so  far  as  the  student  body  is 
concerned;  for  we  are  full  to  the  limit 
and  began  turning  away  applicants  ear- 
lier than  ever  before.  Some  eight  men 
on  the  faculty  have  entered  service  in 
one  way  or  another;  and  my  chief  prob- 
lem has  been  to  find  satisfactory  men  to 
fill  the  gaps.  On  the  whole  it  looks  as 
though  we  had  come  out  fairly  well;  and 
we  are  hoping  for  a  good  year." 

Charles  W.  Disbrow  organized  a  boys' 
agricultural  camp  this  summer  in  Perry, 
Ohio.  The  boys  all  came  from  Cleve- 
land and  the  plan  worked  out  so  success- 
fully that  the  demand  at  once  arose  all 
over  the  state  for  more  camps,  "under 
the  Disbrow  plan". 

The  leading  article  in  the  June  issue 
of  the  Columbia  Law  Revietv  was  written 
by  Harlan  F.  Stone.  Its  title  was  "The 
Nature  of  the  Rights  of  the  Cestui  Que 
Trust". 

Warren  T.  Bartlett,  North  Brookfield, 
was  married  to  Elida  R.  Thompson,  at 
Ocean  Point,  Me.,  September  6th,  1917. 

1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
30  Church  Street,  New  York  City 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor  of  New  Jersey 
as  chairman  of  the  State  Prison  Inquiry 
Commission.  The  commission  is  pre- 
paring a  report  for  the  next  legislature, 
suggesting  legislation  which  ought  to 
bring  about  practical  reform.  One  plan 
is  "for  the  psychopathic  examination  of 
prisoners,  and  when  this  is  put  into  oper- 
ation it  ought  to  insure  proper  discrim- 
ination in  the  treatment  of  criminals 
and  those  who  are  merely  defective  men- 
tally," says  Governor  Edge. 


Mr.  Morrow  was  also  appointed  by 
Mayor  Mitchel  of  New  York  City  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  to 
welcome  the  Belgian  War  Commission  in 
August.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Bond  Club  of  New  York,  an  organization 
of  bankers  and  bond  men,  formed  after 
the  recent  Liberty  Loan  Campaign  for 
perpetuating  the  associations  and  rela- 
tions which  sprung  up  during  that  Cam- 
paign. Luncheons  are  held  monthly  and 
addressed  by  prominent  financiers. 

Captain  Emmons  Bryant  is  at  the 
time  of  writing  stationed  at  Camp  Up- 
ton on  Long  Island,  having  been  trans- 
ferred there  at  the  end  of  the  First 
Plattsburg  Camp.  At  Plattsburg  he 
was  Captain  Quartermaster  Assistant 
to  the  Quartermaster  of  the  entire  en- 
campment and  had  charge  of  uniforms 
and  clothing  as  his  special  branch  of  the 
work. 

Harry  S.  Williston  has  made  North- 
ampton his  permanent  home,  beginning 
October  1,  occupying  the  Round  Hill 
mansion  of  the  late  A.  Lyman  Willis- 
ton.  He  will,  however,  still  continue 
his  business  in  Lynn. 

Lieutenant  Governor  Calvin  Coolidge 
of  Massachusetts  received  a  renomina- 
tion  at  the  Republican  state  primaries 
in  September.  Some  of  his  friends  had 
urged  him  to  allow  his  name  to  go  be- 
fore the  voters  for  Governor,  but  he 
declined.  It  is  widely  believed,  how- 
ever, that  Coolidge  will  be  the  guber- 
natorial candidate  a  year  hence. 

Rev.  Jay  T.  Stocking  is  Religious 
Work  Director  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at 
Fort  Myer,  Va.  He  directs  the  reli- 
gious work  at  the  camp  and  among  the 
enlisted  men  at  the  Fort.  In  addition 
to  that  work  he  has  spoken  on  Sundays 
at  various  surrounding  camps  and  is 
serving  on  the  committee  in  the  Dis- 


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trict  of  Columbia  for  the  welfare  of  the 
men  around  the  city.  In  the  Congrega- 
tionalist  for  July  5th  he  had  an  interest- 
ing article,  entitled  "An  Army  Camp 
from  the  Inside,  the  Thoughts  and  the 
Ideals  of  the  Men  Getting  Ready." 

L.  R.  Eastman,  Jr.,  was  one  of  the 
delegates  of  the  Merchants'  Association 
of  New  York  to  the  War  Convention 
of  American  business  men,  held  in  At- 
lantic City  in  September.  In  a  letter 
written  from  Fort  Myer,  Rev.  Jay  T. 
Stocking  says: — "Lucius  R.  Eastman, 
1895,  has  been  doing  some  very  good 
and  interesting  work  in  advising  the 
Government  in  the  matter  of  food  pur- 
chases— a  big  work." 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  recently  organized  American 
University  Union,  the  object  of  which 
is  to  meet  the  needs  of  American  Uni- 
versity and  College  men  who  are  in  Eu- 
rope for  military  or  other  service  in  the 
cause  of  the  Allies.  Amherst  College 
is  a  member  of  the  Union. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
200  Devonshire  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mortimer  L.  Schiff  was  a  member  of 
the  executive  committee,  appointed  by 
Mayor  Mitchel  of  New  York,  to  wel- 
come the  Belgian  War  Commission. 

Rev.  Herbert  A.  Jump  had  an  article 
in  the  Congregutwnalist  for  July  19th 
entitled  "William  DeWitt  Hyde,  Phil- 
osopher of  Optimism."  Dr.  Hyde  was 
the  late  president  of  Bowdoin  College 
and  a  noted  educator. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


Charles  F.  Richmond,  vice-president 
of  the  W.  L.  Douglass  Shoe  Company 
and  son-in-law  of  former  Governor  W. 
L.  Douglass  of  Massachusetts,  dropped 
dead  at  Bretton  Woods,  N.  H.,  on  the 
morning  of  July  25th.  His  death  came 
as  a  great  shock  to  the  summer  colony. 
He  had  spent  the  day  golfing  and  had 
attended  a  party  in  the  evening.  On  his 
return  to  his  apartments  he  dropped  dead. 

Mr.  Richmond  was  44  years  old  and 
was  a  resident  of  Brookline,  Mass.  He 
was  born  in  Brockton  in  August,  1873, 
the  son  of  Captain  and  Mrs.  Lucius 
Richmond  and  prepared  for  Amherst 
at  the  Brockton  High  School.  He  be- 
gan his  business  career  with  L.  Rich- 
mond and  Co.,  but  a  few  years  later 
went  to  work  in  the  office  of  the  Doug- 
lass Company,  where  he  had  remained, 
rising  rapidly  to  be  vice-president. 

On  May  28,  1901,  he  married  Miss 
Amy  Reynolds  Douglass.  He  belonged 
to  the  Brockton  Golf  Club  and  the 
Thorny  Lea  Golf  Club,  also  of  that  city, 
as  well  as  the  Brockton  Commercial 
Club,  the  Algonquin  Club,  the  B.  A.  A. 
and  the  Massachusetts  Automobile  As- 
sociation. He  was  a  33d  degree  Mason 
and  had  summer  homes  at  Buzzards 
Bay  and  South  Orleans. 

His  mother,  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Agnes 
Gould  and  Miss  Jennie  Richmond;  two 
brothers,  Frederick  P.  and  Horace  Rich- 
mond; and  his  widow  and  four  children, 
W'illiam  Douglass,  Lucia,  Alice  and  Vir- 
ginia, survive  him. 

A  cablegram  containing  only  the 
words,  "All  Well",  was  received  at 
Cambridge  on  Sept.  8th  from  Dr.  B.  K. 
Emerson,  temporarily  in  charge  of  the 
Harvard  Hospital  Unit  in  France  which 
received  a  German  aerial  bomb  attack 
on  Sept.  6th.  This  was  the  attack  on 
American  hospitals  which  caused  so 
much  resentment  at  the  time. 


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Miss  Mary  E.  Leverett  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  and  the  Rev.  William  Bishop 
Gates,  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  were 
married  in  June.  Her  grandfather.  Dr. 
Lockwood,  was  formerly  pastor  of  the 
same  Church.  Mr.  Gates  is  the  son  of 
Dr.  Merrill  E.  Gates,  former  President 
of  Amherst. 

Raymond  V.  Ingersoll  was  a  member 
of  the  committee  appointed  for  the 
Catskill  Aqueduct  Celebration  in  Oc- 
tober in  New  York  City.  Herbert  L. 
Pratt,  '95,  was  also  a  member  of  that 
committee. 

Since  the  opening  of  Camp  Devens, 
at  Ayer,  Mass.,  William  A.  Morse,  of 
Holyoke,  Mass.,  has  been  with  the 
Army  Y.  M.  C.  A.  there. 

Dr.  Henry  M.  Moses  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  is  not  only  a  busy  practising 
physician  but  a  wide-awake  contributor 
to  the  advancement  of  medical  science, 
as  shown  by  his  papers  published  in  the 
Medical  Record.  Two  reprinted  articles 
received  from  him  bear  the  title:  "A 
Mixed  Type  of  Nephritis:  Report  of  a 
case  with  Autopsy  Findings,"  and 
"vSplenic  Anemia,  with  Cirrhosis  of  the 
Liver  and  Ascites." 

The  following  letter  from  E.  M.  Blake 
has  been  received  by  the  publishers  of 
the  Quarterlt:- 

"In  the  Amherst  Quarterly,  Au- 
gust, 1917,  in  which  an  account  of  our 
'97  Reunion  appeared,  I  was  very  much 
pleased  to  see  the  reproduction,  in  the 
frontispiece,  of  my  grandfather's  draw- 
ing of  Amherst  College  in  1834.  The 
original  belonged  to  my  father  and  I 
was  partly  instrumental  in  his  present- 
ing it  to  the  College  a  few  years  since. 
In  the  editorial  mention  of  it  Mortimer 
Blake,  1835,  was  placed  as  the  father  of 
Prof.  Lucian  I.  Blake,  1877,  deceased, 
my  uncle.  I  was  very  sorry  not  to  be 
mentioned  as  his  grandson,  1897, — to 
show  the  three  generations — my  father 


not  being  a  college  man,  tho  he  is  an 
honorary  member  of  1897.  My  son. 
Robert  Sheffield  Blake,  may  be  in  Am- 
herst, 1935,  just  100  years  after  his 
great  grandfather." 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 

201  College  Avenue,  N.  E.,  Grand 

Rapids,  Mich. 

A  son,  Edward  Hart,  was  born  on 
Saturday,  August  4th,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  E.  Tobey  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Tobey  is  a  member  of  Company  A,  First 
New  York  Guards,  Veteran  Corps  of 
Artillery,  and  spent  part  of  the  summer 
guarding  the  Catskill  Aqueduct. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Harrison  F.  Lyman,  Esq.,  of  Boston, 
Mass.,  to  Miss  Alice  Wellington,  Smith, 
'05,  executive  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Smith  Unit  for  relief  work  in 
France. 

H.  G.  D wight  is  the  author  of  a  book 
of  short  sketches  entitled  "  Persian  Min- 
iatures," published  in  October  by 
Doubleday,  Page  &  Co. 

Rev.  Charles  W.  Merriam  of  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.,  has  recently  returned 
from  Waco,  Texas,  where  for  seven 
weeks  he  was  Religious  Work  Secretary 
in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Army  Work,  at  Camp 
Mac  Arthur,  where  the  National  Guards 
of  Michigan  and  Wisconsin  are  being 
trained,  preparatory  to  being  sent  to 
the  front.  Describing  his  work  in  the 
Congregationalist  for  Sept.  20th,  he  says: 

"  As  a  minister  I  am  proud  to  wear  the 
insignia  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  this  emer- 
gency, as  it  represents  the  united  Prot- 
estant Church  doing  what  it  can  in  the 
name  of  religion  and  good  fellowship 
for  our  soldiers  under  conditions  of  mo- 
notonous routine,  irksome  discipline,  un- 
usual temptations,  and  coming  sacrifice 
and  danger." 


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Ralph  Bemis  Gibbs  died  suddenly  on 
August  20th  on  a  train  near  Croton,  N. 
Y.  Apparently  he  was  perfectly  well 
and  strong,  but  he  had  had  a  hard  run 
to  catch  his  train  at  the  New  York 
Central  station  and  from  the  strain  col- 
lapsed immediately  after  boarding  the 
car  and  died  almost  instantly.  Mr. 
Gibbs  was  43  years  old  and  was  travel- 
ling representative  of  the  New  York 
Public  Library  Bureau.  He  made  his 
home  at  East  Montclair,  N.  J.  He  was 
married  to  Miss  Harriett  G.  Lane  of 
Springfield,  Mass.,  who  with  one  daugh- 
ter survives  him.  While  in  college  Mr. 
Gibbs  was  a  member  of  the  Chi  Phi 
fraternity  and  played  on  the  football 
team  his  Senior  year.  His  boyhood 
home  was  in  Springfield,  and  he  entered 
Amherst  from  the  Springfield  High 
School,  class  of  1894.  He  came  from 
one  of  the  older  Springfield  families  and 
his  grandfather,  Stephen  G.  Bemis,  was 
mayor  of  Springfield  during  the  Civil 
War  and  a  successful  business  man.  His 
father,  Howard  G.  Gibbs,  was  a  manu- 
facturer in  Holyoke.  Aside  from  his 
wife  and  daughter,  the  nearest  surviving 
relative  is  a  sister,  Mrs.  Walter  Carrol 
of  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

1899 

Edward  W.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 

Woodbury   Forest   School,    Woodbury, 

Va. 

Charles  E.  Mitchell,  President  of  the 
National  City  Company  of  New  York, 
has  been  chosen  a  member  of  the  Dis- 
tribution Committee  and  also  a  member 
of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Dis- 
tribution Committee  of  the  new  Liberty 
Loan  Board. 

Rev.  Rodney  W.  Roundy  had  a  short 
article  entitled  "Negro  Loyalty  in  the 
South"  in  the  Congregationalist  for  July 
5th. 


Emery  Pottle  had  a  story  in  the  Sep- 
tember number  of  McClure's  entitled 
"Sophie's  Great  Moment." 

The  Pictorial  Review  for  September 
contained  a  story  by  Burges  Johnson 
entitled  "An  Unmelancholy  Dane." 

1900 

Arthur  V.  Ltall,  Secretary, 
225  West  27th  Street,  New  York  City 

Thomas  J.  Hammond,  Captain  of  Co. 
I,  2nd  Mass.  Inf.,  writes: 

"My  Company  can  lay  claim  to  one 
proud  distinction  and  this  is  that  we 
were  the  first  company  in  the  State 
to  be  recruited  to  full  war  strength  of 
150  men.  The  work  has  always  been 
interesting  to  me  and  the  life  in  the 
open  has  always  agreed  with  me." 

A  daughter,  Dorothy  Ross  Grant,  was 
born  on  July  12th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robert  Lyman  Grant  at  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Two  books  by  Walter  A.  Dyer  ap- 
peared in  October — "Creators  of  Dec- 
orative Styles,"  published  by  Double- 
day,  Page  &  Co.,  and  "The  Five  Bab- 
bitts of  Bonnyacres,"  a  story  for  boys 
and  girls,  published  by  Henry  Holt  & 
Co.  Mr.  Dyer's  story,  "Pierrot,  Dog 
of  Belgium,"  which  has  already  ap- 
peared in  American,  English,  and 
French  editions,  and  which  has  been 
translated  into  Dutch,  is  now  being 
translated  into  Italian  by  a  Roman  firm 
that  expects  to  publish  an  Italian  edition 
this  winter.  A  short  story  by  him,  "The 
Robber's  Den,"  appeared  in  the  Wo- 
man's  Home   Companion   for   October. 

Another  letter  has  been  received  from 
the  Paymaster  General  of  the  Navy, 
Samuel  McGowan,  in  which  he  pays 
high  tribute  to  the  work  of  P.  A.  Pay- 
master James  F.  Connor,  Naval  Reserve 
Force.     He  says  in  part: — 


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"  For  some  weeks  past  Mr.  Connor  has 
been  on  a  special  Examining  Board  de- 
tailed at  the  Washington  Navy  Yard. 
Before  that,  he  was  here  at  headquarters 
doing  miscellaneous  work  of  a  profes- 
sional nature  and  always  in  a  way  that 
ought  to  make  Old  Amherst  proud.  The 
only  regret  I  have  is  that  Mr.  Connor  is 
not  in  the  regular  service;  but  I  assure 
you  that,  if  it  can  be  brought  about,  I 
shall  do  my  utmost  at  the  end  of  his 
temporary  service,  first,  to  persuade  him 
to  become  a  regular  and,  second,  to 
secure  the  necessary  legislation  to  en- 
able us  to  give  the  Navy  the  benefit 
of  his  valuable  assistance  for  the  rest  of 
his  natural  life." 

David  Whitcomb  has  been  appointed 
Federal  Fuel  Administrator  for  the  state 
of  Washington. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  Street,  New  York  City 

Washburn  College  conferred  at  its 
Commencement  last  June  the  degree  of 
D.  D.  upon  the  Rev.  Noble  S.  Elderkin 
of  Oak  Park,  111. 

The  Pittsburgh  Dispatch  for  Sunday, 
September  30th,  contained  a  striking 
article  by  Pres.  Herbert  P.  Houghton 
of  Waynesbury  College  on  the  relation 
of  the  college  student  to  the  war.  An 
editorial  note  calls  it  "one  of  the  most 
forcible  arraignments  of  Prussianism." 

1902 

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

Marton  R.  Sedgvvick  has  been  elected 
treasurer  of  the  Lenox  (Mass.)  Library 
Association. 


1903 

Clifford  P.  Warren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Prof.  James  W.  Park  of  Adelphi  Col- 
lege will  also  conduct  this  year  some 
courses  in  the  Brooklyn  Branch  of  the 
College  of  the  City  of  New  York.  He 
offers  a  course  in  the  History  of  Culture 
and  Education,  and  one  on  the  Philoso- 
phy and  Principles  of  Education. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  E.  Cadieux  are 
living  at  16  Warwick  Road,  Belmont, 
Mass.  Louis  was  married  at  Brookline, 
June  21,  1917,  to  Ruth  Helen  Went- 
worth. 

It  is  rumored,  also,  that  James  S. 
Robson  has  recently  married,  and  we 
are  looking  for  the  details. 

"  Gov."  Boyer  has  been  called  to  serve 
in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  of  the 
United  States  Army. 

Ernest  M.  Whitcomb  acted  as  chair- 
man of  the  Second  Liberty  Loan  Com- 
mittee of  Amherst  and  vicinity. 

John  P.  Maloney  and  Miss  Edna 
Marie  GoU  of  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  were 
married  on  August  7th.  They  are  mak- 
ing their  home  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  following  item  appeared  in  the 
Boston  Transcript,  October  5:- 

Washington,  Oct.  4 — Stanley  King  of 
Boston,  secretary  of  the  W.  H.  McEl- 
wain  Shoe  Company  and  a  director  of 
the  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce,  will 
be  appointed  to-morrow  as  special  as- 
sistant to  Secretary  of  War  Baker.  He 
will  handle  all  matters  relating  to  busi- 
ness coming  before  the  War  Depart- 
ment. He  has  done  similar  work  for 
the  Council  of  National  Defense  since 
last  April. 

Mr.  King  was  born  in  Troy,  N.  Y., 
May  11,  1883,  the  son  of  Henry  Amasa 


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King  and  Maria  Lyon  King.  He  grad- 
uated at  the  Springfield  (Mass.)  High 
School  in  1900,  at  Amherst,  1903,  and 
Harvard  in  1906.  The  same  year  he 
was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  bar 
and  has  since  practised  in  Boston.  He 
was  married  to  Miss  Besse  of  Springfield 
in  December,  1906,  and  has  one  son.  He 
is  a  member  of  many  clubs,  including 
the  Harvard,  the  Brae-Burn  Country, 
the  Boston  City  and  the  Boston  Athletic 
Club.  His  country  home  is  at  Sharon, 
Mass.,  and  his  city  residence  in  Bos- 
ton. 

Mr.  King  has  been  in  Washington  for 
several  months,  having  practically  dis- 
associated himself  from  the  McElwain 
Company,  of  which  he  is  secretary  and 
a  director,  for  the  purpose  of  doing  war 
work.  He  has  been  working  whole- 
heartedly with  the  Committee  on  Sup- 
plies of  the  Council  of  National  Defence. 
In  May  Mr.  King  was  elected  a  director 
of  the  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Previously  he  served  on  the  chamber's 
committees  on  industrial  development, 
relief  of  freight  congestion  and  preven- 
tion of  disease.  In  addition  to  his  con- 
nection with  the  McElwain  Company, 
he  is  president  and  a  director  of  the 
Sable  Lumber  Company. 

1904 

Rev.   Karl  O.   Thompson,   Secretary, 
11213  Itaska  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Dr.  Heman  B.  Chase  of  Hyannis, 
Mass.,  now  serving  with  the  U.  S.  Med- 
ical Corps,  wrote  recently  from  London 
to  the  effect  that  he  had  enlisted  for  the 
duration  of  the  war  and  was  expecting 
to  be  sent  at  once  to  the  French  or  Bel- 
gian front.  He  has  the  rank  of  lieuten- 
ant and  his  address  is  Hospital  No.  20, 
British  Expeditionary  Force  in  France, 
care  of  the  War  OflSce,  London. 

Ely  O.  Merchant,  of  the  Federal 
Trade  Commission,  has  been  placed  in 
charge  of  the  investigation  of  the  cost 
of  flour  milling  and  has  established 
headquarters  in  Minneapolis  with  a 
corps  of  accountants. 


H.  Gardner  Lund  who  is  Second  Lieu- 
tenant in  K  Co.,  8th  Inf.,  Mass.  N.  G., 
says  that  his  army  experience  has  thor- 
oughly convinced  him  of  the  desirability 
of  universal  military  training.  Of  his 
own  experience  he  writes  .- 

"With  some  over  a  year  for  a  first 
enlistment  and  nearly  three  years  be- 
hind me  on  the  second  term,  including 
the  four  months  in  Mexican  Border  ser- 
vice last  summer,  I  certainly  feel  as 
though  I  belonged  to  the  National 
Guard.  It  is  the  National  Guard  of 
Massachusetts  which  has  a  high  rank 
among  like  organizations  in  other  states. 
I  have  been  private,  corporal,  sergeant, 
mess  sergeant,  and  acting  first  sergeant 
in  charge  of  the  company,  and  would 
have  graduated  this  June  from  the 
Training  School,  N.  G.  M.,  following 
the  completion  of  a  two  years'  course 
of  instruction,  had  the  war  not  inter- 
vened." 

T.  C.  Brown  has  resigned  his  profes- 
sorship at  Bryn  Mawr  College  in  order 
to  carry  on  the  farm  at  his  old  home  near 
Fitchburg,  Mass.,  following  the  death 
of  his  father  a  year  ago.  Laurel  Bank 
Farm  makes  a  specialty  of  "prime  poul- 
try products",  according  to  the  sta- 
tionery.   The  mail  address  is  Fitchburg. 

E.  J.  Eaton,  principal  of  North  High 
School,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  has  changed 
his  residence  address  to  1814  Oakland 
Ave.  During  the  summer  session  of 
Drake  University,  Des  Moines,  he 
taught  classes  in  School  Administra- 
tion. 

W.  Irving  Hamilton  is  with  the  Root 
Newspaper  Association  now,  office  at 
231  W.  39th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Harry  E.  Taylor  has  changed  his  resi- 
dence address  to  25  Parkway,  Mont- 
clair,  N.  J.  He  is  now  advertising  man- 
ager of  the  Dry  Goods  Economist. 

Karl  O.  Thompson  has  been  ap- 
pointed acting  head  of  the  Department 


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of  English  at  Case  School  of  Applied 
Science,  with  rank  as  Assistant  Profes- 
sor, during  the  absence  on  Red  Cross 
work  of  the  professor  of  English. 

John  G.  Dobbins  is  now  living  on 
North  Mountain  Ave.,  Montclair,  N.  J. 
Dobbins  is  with  the  Hudson,  Manhat- 
tan R.  R.  Co. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Edwin  Hill  van  Etten,  who  has 
made  a  notable  record  as  rector  of  Christ 
Church  in  New  York  City,  has  been 
chosen  as  rector  of  Calvary  Church  in 
Pittsburgh.  This  is  not  only  the  largest 
Episcopal  church  in  Pittsburgh,  but  is 
one  of  the  most  important  Episcopalian 
churches  in  the  country  and  is  the 
church  of  which  Dean  Hodges  was  rector 
before  he  became  dean.  Mr.  van  Etten 
entered  upon  his  new  duties  on  No- 
vember 1st. 

Leslie  R.  Fort  is  now  with  Ivy  L.  Lee 
who  handles  the  publicity  for  a  number 
of  big  corporations.  His  business  ad- 
dress is  61  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
He  has  been  nominated  by  petition  by 
both  Republicans  and  Democrats  for 
councilman  at  large  in  Plainfield,  N.  J., 
the  first  time  that  an  action  of  the  kind 
has  occurred  in  the  history  of  the  city. 

Ralph  Freeman  of  Maplewood,  N.  J., 
is  a  member  of  the  Township  Com- 
mittee, which  is  the  governing  body  of 
the  municipality,  and  by  that  commit- 
tee was  elected  chairman  of  its  Police 
Committee,  having  general  administra- 
tive charge  of  the  Police  Department. 

John  G.  Anderson  won  his  first 
Greater  New  York  golf  championship 
this  past  summer  when  he  annexed  the 
Westchester  amateur  title.    A  few  weeks 


later  he  also  won  the  Press  champion- 
ship at  the  Dunwoodie  Country  Club. 
Anderson's  total  score  was  twelve 
strokes  better  than  that  of  his  nearest 
competitor. 

John  S.  Hilliard  died  on  Wednesday, 
July  11th,  at  the  home  of  his  mother 
in  Dunkirk,  New  York,  after  a  com- 
paratively brief  illness.  He  had  broken 
down  from  overwork  a  few  months  be- 
fore, and  the  New  York  and  New  Jersey 
Telephone  Company  in  whose  New 
York  office  he  had  been  employed  for 
twelve  years,  had  given  him  a  leave  of 
absence  to  recuperate.  He  was  looking 
forward  to  going  back  to  his  work  when 
a  change  for  the  worse  came  and  death 
quickly  ensued.  He  was  born  in  Dun- 
kirk on  July  21st,  1882,  and  entered 
Amherst  from  Williams  College  his 
sophomore  year  but  was  compelled,  be- 
cause of  illness,  to  withdraw  from  col- 
lege at  the  beginning  of  senior  year.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Phi  Gamma  Delta 
Fraternity  and  is  survived  by  his  par- 
ents and  two  sisters. 

Writing  of  the  work  of  the  Rhode 
Island  Council  of  Defense,  John  E.  Mar- 
shall, '08,  its  executive  secretary,  says: 

"Every  Amherst  man  in  the  State  that 
was  called  upon  for  any  kind  of  service 
did  it  gladly.  Ben  Utter  in  Westerly 
is  a  trump.  We  were  having  a  hard 
time  getting  that  town  started.  We 
wanted  them  to  organize  their  constab- 
ulary and  to  appoint  their  town  com- 
mittee. I  called  up  Ben  and  he  put 
things  through  with  a  rush." 

George  W.  Ellis  was  chosen  at  the 
recent  primaries  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican Town  Committee  of  Moneon, 

Mass. 

Nineteen-Five  has  decided  to  hold  its 
next  reunion  in  1920.  At  first  there  was 
talk  of  waiting  till  1921,  because  of  the 
one-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  found- 


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ing  of  the  college,  but  the  possibility,  if 
not  probability  that  such  exercises 
would  be  held  in  the  fall  of  the  year  in- 
stead of  at  Commencement  caused  the 
class  to  change  its  plans  and  hold  the 
reunion  at  the  regular  time. 

1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 

311  West  Monument  Street,  Baltimore, 

Md. 

Dr.  William  Hale,  Jr.,  writes: — "I  am 
serving  in  the  Canadian  Army  Medical 
Corps  with  the  rank  of  Captain  and 
have  been  attached  to  an  Infantry  Di- 
vision in  France  since  July,  1916.  Be- 
fore doing  front  line  work  I  served  a 
few  months  in  one  of  the  Canadian  Base 
Hospitals.  During  the  Canadian  ad- 
vance at  Easter  I  was  able  to  establish 
a  forward  dressing  station  early  in  the 
attack  and  was  able  to  render  almost 
immediate  attention.  As  a  result  I  am 
one  of  the  few  Medical  Officers  wearing 
the  Military  Cross,  but  I  assure  you 
they  all  deserve  it  who  do  field,  ambu- 
lance or  battalion  work."  Hale's  ad- 
dress is  42nd  Canadians,  B.  E.  F., 
France. 

Ernest  H.  Gaunt  has  published  a 
pamphlet  of  34  pages  on  "Co-operative 
Competition."  Along  with  it  he  sends 
us  a  shorter  article  on  "The  Law  of 
Sovereignty,"  which  he  calls  (in  a  manu- 
script note)  "an  application  of  Pro- 
fessor Carman's  teaching."  Thus  Pro- 
fessor Carman's  mighty  influence  lives. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 

202  Lake  Ave.,  Newton  Highlands, 

Mass. 

Bruce  Barton  is  the  author  of  a  new 
book  entitled  "More  Power  to  You," 
published  in  September  by  the  Century 


Company.  There  are  fifty  short  essays 
in  the  volume,  made  up  from  editorials 
that  have  appeared  in  Every  Week,  of 
which  Mr.  Barton  is  the  editor.  The 
New  York  Times  says,  "They  are  short, 
terse,  readable  bits  of  common  sense." 

A  daughter,  Dorothy,  was  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chester  M.  Andrews,  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  on  October  23rd. 

1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 

Ralph  L.  Loomis  has  joined  the  avia- 
tion service  in  France.     He  writes: — 

"My  brother,  Will  Loomis,  '17,  has 
changed  over  to  aviation  work  and  is 
now  at  Avord,  training.  As  for  myself, 
I  too  have  taken  up  that  work,  as  the 
most  needed  if  I  can  fit  myself  for  it 
which  remains  to  be  seen  as  I  am  older 
than  most  and  it  is  not  so  easy  to  pick 
up.  But  they  have  accepted  me  as  a 
student  and  I  leave  for  Avord  on  the 
27th."  (July  27). 

Frederick  P.  Smith,  is  now  living  in 
Helena,  Montana,  where  he  has  recently 
been  appointed  general  counsel  for  The 
Montana  Rancher's  Association. 

Shortly  before  he  won  his  commission 
as  first  lieutenant,  the  following  letter 
was  received  from  Charles  E.Merrill: — 

"Of  the  Amherst  men  at  this  camp, 
(Fort  Myer),  I  know  of  Robert  Powell, 
1906;  Chapin  Marcus,  1908;  and  Rich- 
mond De  Bevoise,  1914.  Of  this  group, 
Powell  already  has  a  commission  as 
captain  and  will  very  likely  be  advanced 
to  the  greater  Major.  Marcus  is  in  the 
Artillery  and,  in  all  probability,  will 
be  commissioned  as  captain  and  may 
possibly  be  commissioned  as  major.  De 
Bevoise  has  been  commissioned  as  sec- 
ond lieutenant  in  the  Quartermasters' 
corps,  and  after  the  close  of  this  camp 
will  be  sent  to  the  Special  Training 
School,  and  may  very  likely  be  commis- 
sioned at  the  close  of  this  second  school 
as  a  first  lieutenant.     The  work  here 


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has  proved  very  interesting  and  quite 
difficult  to  one  like  myself,  with  no 
previous  military  training. 

"Upon  the  declaration  of  war,  my 
firm,  Merrill,  Lynch  and  Co.,  began  a 
campaign  of  advertising  and  circulariz- 
ing with  reference  to  the  Liberty  Bond 
issue,  and  I  am  very  proud  to  report  that 
our  firm  secured  orders,  filed  through 
us  or  through  banks  of  our  customers, 
for  about  five  million  dollars  of  these 
bonds.  We  have  offices  in  several  of 
the  largest  cities,  and,  for  a  period  of 
six  weeks,  devoted  the  services  of  our 
entire  organization  to  the  sale  of  the 
bonds." 

Capt.  Holbrook  Bonney  has  been  act- 
ing as  an  assistant  instructor  at  the  Pre- 
sidio R.  O.  T.  Camp  in  San  Francisco. 

Deputy  Attorney-General  Roscoe 
Conkling  of  New  York  State  was  sent 
to  New  York  City  in  July,  representing 
the  Adjutant-General  to  speed  up  the 
work  in  directing  the  preparation  for 
the  selective  draft.  How  well  he  suc- 
ceeded with  his  task  is  a  story  well- 
known  to  the  readers  of  all  New  York 
papers.  The  New  York  Sun  for  Sunday, 
September  16th,  contained  a  half-page 
article,  eidogizing  Conkling's  work.  The 
following  are  a  few  extracts  from  the 
article  in  question,  which  is  signed  by 
Fraser  Hunt: — 

"  When  New  York  took  off  its  hat  in 
formal  tribute  to  the  thousands  who 
make  up  its  first  quota  in  the  great 
National  Army,  one  of  the  score  or 
more  who  stood  in  the  reviewing  stand 
at  Forty-second  Street  was  a  certain 
young  man  named  Conkling.  Not  many 
people  saw  him  and  fewer  yet  recognized 
him,  for  he  wasn't  even  standing  in  the 
front  row  alongside  of  Col.  Roosevelt, 
Mayor  Mitchel,  Judge  Hughes,  Major- 
Gen.  Bell  and  the  others  of  New  York's 
official  reviewing  set.  But  nevertheless 
this  same  yoimg  man  named  Conkling 
had  more  to  do  than  any  of  these  in 
making  possible  this  strange,  wonder- 
ful parade. 

"Who  is  this  young  man  named  Conk- 
ling, anyway?    To  find  out  go  up  to  the 


old  red  brick  State  Arsenal  at  Thirty- 
seventh  Street  and  Seventh  Avenue.  If 
you  get  by  the  guard  at  the  entrance 
and  climb  the  winding  stairs  to  the 
second  floor  and  cross  to  the  north  end 
you'll  run  bang  into  a  flock  of  desks 
fenced  off  by  an  unpainted  2x4  railing. 
Inside  you  will  see  ten  or  a  dozen  shirt 
sleeved  young  men  working  like  mad. 
At  a  big  flat  top  desk  near  the  open 
entrance  you'll  find  standing — not 
seated^a  tall,  busy  looking  individual 
who  seems  to  be  in  charge  of  the  crew. 
He's  Hunter,  and  probably  the  most 
energetic  assistant  that  any  Deputy 
Adjutant-General  or  anybody  else  ever 
had.  You  can  almost  always  find  Conk- 
ling on  his  job,  but  if  by  some  chance 
he  is  wasting  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes 
at  some  restaurant  getting  a  bite  to  eat 
or  is  taking  a  half  hour  nap  after  mid- 
night you'll  find  Hunter  there.  .  .  . 

'The  big  thing  is  that  when  Mr.  Conk- 
ling was  33  years,  4  months,  and  28 
days  old  he  was  suddenly  ordered  to 
go  down  to  New  York  from  Albany  and 
perform  a  task  that  would  have  made 
Hercules  in  his  palmiest  days  throw  up 
his  hands. 

"Assigned  from  the  Attorney-Gen- 
eral's office  to  the  overworked  Adjutant- 
General's  department  Mr.  Conkling  had 
no  more  than  got  comfortably  seated 
in  a  fine  large  soft  seated  swivel  chair 
than  the  order  came  to  slip  down  to 
New  York  and  do  the  impossible. 

"Everything  was  wrong  with  the 
fkaft  in  this  city.  There  was  no  esprit 
de  corps.  Scores  of  board  members  had 
resigned,  hundreds  of  others  knew  noth- 
ing about  their  duties  and  practically 
everyone  of  the  189  local  boards  was  at 
a  standstill.  Lists  had  not  been  made 
out  nor  had  registration  cards  been 
copied  in  duplicate.  Practically  nothing 
had  been  done  since  the  registration  of 
June  5th." 

The  article  goes  on  to  explain  just 
what  was  done  and  with  what  great 
success  it  was  accomplished. 


1909 

Edward  H.  Sudbury,  Secretary, 

154  Prospect  Avenue,  Mt.  Vernon, 

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Lieutenant  Edward  L.  Dyer  is  now- 
stationed  at  the  School  of  Fire  at  Fort 
Sill,  Okla.  He  sends  the  following  syn- 
opsis of  his  service  in  the  Army: — 

"Took  civilian  examination  for  com- 
mission, Dec,  1909;  2nd  lieutenant, 
June  16,  1910,  Coast  Artillery  Corps; 
promoted  1st  lieutenant,  1914;  served 
in  Philippines,  1913-1915  with  colonial 
army,  also  Justice  of  Peace  under  Insu- 
lar Government;  travelled  in  India, 
Indo-China,  China,  Manchuria  and 
Japan,  1915;  hunted  big  game  in  Cam- 
bodia, and  visited  battlefields  of  Japa- 
nese-Russian War;  returned  to  U.  S., 
1916;  served  with  machine  guns  on 
Mexican  border  during  summer  of  same 
year  when  war  threatened;  entered 
Coast  Artillery  School,  Jan.,  1917,  com- 
pleted course  in  Electrical  and  Mechan- 
ical Engineering  when  School  Mas  closed 
on  account  of  war  with  Germany;  Or- 
dered to  Coast  Defenses  of  Sandy  Hook, 
N.  Y.  Harbor,  June,  1917;  Ordered 
to  School  of  Fire,  Fort  Sill,  Oklahoma, 
July,  1917,  present  address,  where  I 
am  now  taking  a  course  in  the  latest 
methods  of  artillery  work,  preparatory 
to  service  in  France  or  as  instructor  of 
the  National  Army;  passed  examina- 
tion for  Captain,  Coast  Artillery,  April, 
1917;  Offered  services  to  Governor  of 
Mass.,  and  to  Amherst  College  for  war 
duty  (subject  to  approval  of  War  De- 
partment). 

"During  visit  to  Singapore,  1915,  I 
was  reported  arrested  as  a  German  Spy; 
my  visit  being  shortly  after  mutiny; 
visited  Tsingtao  shortly  after  its  cap- 
ture by  the  Japs  from  the  Germans; 
commended  by  Sec.  War  for  report  of 
observations  in  Orient.  Besides  service 
in  the  P.  I.,  I  have  been  stationed  at 
the  Coast  Defenses  of  Boston,  Portland, 
New  York  Harbor,  Chesapeake  Bay, 
and  Puget  Sound. 

"Confidentially  I  want  very  much 
to  go  abroad  in  command  of  a  battalion 
or  larger  unit." 

Miss  Madeleine  Hodskins  of  New 
York  City  and  Lieutenant  William  H. 
Wright,  U.  S.  R.,  were  married  in  Sep- 
tember at  the  Church  of  St.  Mary 
the  Virgin.  The  bride's  sister,  Mrs. 
Daniel   Emrie,   was   matron  of  honor. 


and  the  best  man,  Daniel  Emrie,  Am- 
herst, 1910.  Lieutenant  Wright  was 
among  those  at  Plattsburg  assigned  to 
join  the  American  Expeditionary  forces 
immediately. 

A  daughter,  Margaret,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 23,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  W. 
Blackmer,  of  W'orcester,  Mass. 

Captain  Richmond  Mayo-Smith  of 
the  Sanitary  Corps  has  been  transferred 
to  New  York  and  ordered  to  accompany 
Major  Dewey  to  a  number  of  important 
cities  in  the  East  on  business  pertaining 
to  the  purchase,  manufacture  and  in- 
spection of  gas  masks. 

I.  H.  Agard,  Principal  of  the  High 
School  at  Spencer,  has  resigned,  to  go  to 
Walpole. 

1910 

George  B.  Barnett,  Jr.,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Vol.  II,  No.  1  of  the  1910  class  paper, 
The  Buccaneer,  appeared  on  September 
1st. 

William  R.  Marsh  moved  his  family 
headquarters  to  3925  Pleasant  Ave., 
South,  Flat  No.  2,  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
on  August  27th  and  reported  at  Fort 
Snelling,  Minn.,  for  the  Second  Officers' 
Training  Camp.  He  has  been  assigned 
to  the  Coast  Artillery  Training  Co.,  and 
is  now  at  the  3rd  Training  Co.,  C.  A.  C, 
Fortress  Monroe,  Virginia. 

Rockwood  Ballard  has  accepted  a 
position  with  the  Ford  Motor  Company 
in  Minneapolis. 

J.  D.  Cornell  is  married  and  living 
at  64  West  107th  Street,  New  York 
City.  He  is  connected  with  Sargent 
and  Co.,  investment  securities. 

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August  16th  to  Miss  Maude  Jaretski, 
a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred 
Jaretski  of  New  York  City.  He  has 
been  called  into  the  army  under  the 
draft  and  expected  to  go  to  camp  in 
October. 

Bartow  H.  Hall,  First  Lieutenant 
Field  Artillery,  O.  R.  C,  was  assigned 
to  join  the  American  Expeditionary 
forces  to  France  in  early  September. 

Sterling  W.  Pratt  was  transferred 
from  Artillery  work  and  given  a  Second 
Lieutenancy  in  the  Quartermaster's 
Corps  of  the  National  Army  at  the  close 
of  the  camp  at  Fort  Sheridan  on  Aug. 
16th.  He  says  he  hopes  "to  be  sent  across 
'the  big  drink'  with  the  first  500,000  of 
the  National  Army.  The  spirit  of  Am- 
herst men  I  meet  is  the  same  every- 
where, only  a  little  stronger  where  there 
are  fewer  of  us.  I  think  it  is  largely 
due  to  the  system  of  not  eating  in  the 
fraternity  houses.  Of  course  that's  no 
new  theory  and  beyond  argument,  I 
guess." 

Another  military  wedding  was  that 
oa  Sept.  9th  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  of  Miss 
Sanch  Kehr,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Gustav  Kehr  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
First  Lieutenant  Donald  M.  Gilder- 
sleeve,  Medical  Reserve  Corps. 

1911 

Dexter  Wiieelock,  Secretary, 
170  North  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Eugene  R.  Pennock,  prior  to  his  en- 
trance in  naval  service,  about  August 
1st.,  played  a  brilliant  game  at  second 
base  for  the  Crescent  Athletic  Club  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Howard  R.  Haviland  is  making  a 
concert  tour  of  all  the  war  camps  in  the 
United  States,  giving  piano  solos,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  National  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


War  Work  Council.  His  tour  started 
on  September  3rd,  when  he  played  be- 
fore 1,000  sailors  and  marines  at  the 
Brooklyn  Navy  Yard.  He  has  given 
three  concerts  at  Camp  Mills— one  for 
the  Alabama  and  Georgia  troops;  an- 
other for  the  165th  Regiment  and  the 
third  for  the  lowans.  On  September 
17th,  he  played  before  200  college  men, 
at  the  training  station  on  Bedloe's 
Island,  and  later  in  the  week  at  the  en- 
campment at  Gettysburg. 

Robert  H.  George,  who  was  commis- 
sioned a  Captain  of  Infantry  at  the 
First  Plattsburg  Camp,  was  one  of  the 
captains  designated  as  instructor  at  the 
second  Plattsburg  camp,  now  in  session. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B.  McMillen,  of 
Albuquerque,  N.  M.,  have  announced 
the  engagement  of  their  daughter,  Kath- 
erine,  to  Richard  B.  Scandrett,  Jr.  He 
has  been  appointed  lecturer  in  the  Law 
School  of  the  University  of  Colorado. 

1912 

Alfred  B.  Peacock,  Secretary, 
384  Madison  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

James  J.  Quinn,  Jr.,  has  been  elected 
Superintendent  of  Schools  for  the  towns 
of  Avon,  Holbrook  and  Randolph,  Mass. 

Fred  B.  Barton  of  the  First  New  York 
Cavalry  has  prepared  and  published  a 
small  booklet  descriptive  of  the  work  of 
the  troop,  bow  it  is  organized,  its 
history,  etc.  The  booklet  has  been  used 
with  great  success  in  enrolling  recruits, 
writes  H.  A.  Proctor,  '13. 

Rev.  R.  G.  Armstrong  had  an  article 
in  the  Congregationalist  for  Sept.  6th 
entitled  "Social  Service  in  a  Village 
Church." 

Miss  Marion  Reed,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.   William  Reed  of  Brooklyn 


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N.  Y.,  and  William  C.  Atwater,  Jr., 
were  married  on  Tuesday,  June  19th, 
at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents. 

1913 

Lewis  G.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

William  G.  Hamilton  is  now  living 
at  Eureka,  Cal. 

Harold  P.  Partheimer  recently 
moved  from  New  York  City  to  take  a 
position  with  the  Fisk  Rubber  Company 
in  Chicopee,  Mass. 

Geoffrey  Atkinson  has  been  over  half- 
way around  the  world  and  three  times 
across  the  Atlantic,  from  January  9th 
to  June  1st  of  this  year.  He  writes  as 
follows  from  France,  where  he  is  now  a 
sergeant  in  the  hospital  corps: — 

"I  was  over  here  on  Tuberculosis 
work  for  the  Rockefeller  Foundation  in 
January  and  February  this  year  in  the 
capacity  of  interpreter.  I  left  Paris 
late  in  February  and  returned  to  New 
York  via  Madrid,  Havana  and  Key 
West.  I  arrived  home  in  New  York  on 
March  8th  and  started  on  Active  Serv- 
ice as  a  private  in  the  Army  (U.  S.  Base 
Hospital  No.  i)  on  May  10th,  coming 
over  here  very  shortly  afterwards.  Have 
been  in  France  this  time  almost  two 
months  already. 

"There  are  three  other  Amherst  men 
at  this  Base  Hospital,  Lieut.  R.  H. 
Kennedy,  M.  O.  R.  C,  U.  S.  A.,^  '08, 
Sergt.  James  Shellev  Hamilton,  E.  R. 
C,  U.  S.  A.,  '06,  Pvt.  E.  R.  Procter, 
E.  R.  C.  U.  S.  A.,  '16.  There  have 
been  several  newspaper  articles  on  the 
Rockefeller  Tuberculosis  work  in 
France, — in  whose  first  party  over  here 
I  acted  as  interpreter.  I  may  possibly 
go  into  this  work  again  after  the  war, 
although  I  have  a  chance  to  earn  a  liv- 
ing at  the  University  at  Paris  and  should 
prefer  that.  I  am  sorry  to  be  too  busy 
and  tired  to  write  you  anything  like  a 
decent  account  of  the  work  I  was  in 
over  here  in  the  winter,  and  the  work 
I  am  in  now  is  taboo  by  the  censor  as 
far  as  describing  it  goes.     Both  J.  S. 


Hamilton  and  I  have  been^'promoted 
from  private  to  Lance  Corporal  and 
then  to  Sergeant  since  arriving  in 
France." 

F.  Carl  Keller  has  moved  from  San 
Francisco  to  926  South  Ave.,  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  E.  Johnson  of  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  have  announced  the  en- 
gagement of  their  daughter,  Mary,  to 
Wallace  Coxhead. 

Otis  Averill,  Jr.,  died  on  June  28th 
at  Wyley's  sanitarium  at  Greenwich, 
Conn.  Funeral  services  were  held  on 
June  30th  at  the  Church  of  the  Ascen- 
sion, Fifth  Avenue  and  Tenth  Street, 
New  York  City.  Mr.  Averill  was  born 
in  Japan  when  his  parents  were  touring 
in  that  country  and  was  in  his  27th 
year. 

According  to  word  received  late  this 
summer  from  H.  I.  Fillman,  '17,  Louis 
G.  Caldwell  has  been  awarded  the  Croix 
de  Guerre  and  "his  entire  section  has 
received  the  award  for  conspicuous 
bravery  in  evacuating  wounded  four 
days  in  the  face  of  a  heavy  curtain  fire. 
He  was  sons-chief  of  his  section. "  Cald- 
well himself  wrote  in  July: — 

"With  big  sausage  balloons  hanging 
only  a  couple  of  hundred  yards  to  the 
north,  at  regular  intervals  in  an  east 
and  west  line,  with  aeroplanes  over  the 
front  in  plain  sight,  and  with  the  French 
batteries  just  over  the  hill,  we  can  say 
at  last  that  we  are  in  the  war  zone.  W'e 
can  see  the  German  observation  balloons 
in  the  distance.  At  this  moment,  about 
eight  o'clock  in  the  evening,  the  nightly 
artillery  battle  is  just  starting.  It  is 
still  very  light,  the  sun  not  yet  having 
set  (the  French  have  set  the  clock  an 
hour  ahead),  every  few  minutes  we  .see. 
a  group  of  balls  of  smoke  around  a 
French  aeroplane,  signs  of  German 
attempts  to  bring  it  down. 

"Last  night  we  walked  over  to  the 
other  side  of  the  hill  out  on  a  long  prom- 
ontory projecting  into  the  valley  beyond 


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and  watched  one  side  of  an  unusually 
heavy  artillery  duel.  Every  time  a 
French  gun  went  off,  we  saw  a  bright 
flash  of  light  down  among  the  trees  in 
the  valley  or  on  the  opposite  slope  about 
a  mile  away,  and  a  few  seconds  later 
heard  a  big  boom.  At  times  the  valley 
seemed  alive  with  giant  fireflies.  On  a 
neighboring  promontory  German  shrap- 
nel was  exploding  with  great  regularity 
less  than  a  mile  to  the  west,  in  search  of 
a  supply  centre  and  motor  truck  depot. 
Luckily  they  did  not  direct  their  fire  a 
little  to  the  east. 

"We  are  encamped  in  very  comfort- 
able quarters  in  a  little  town  not  far 
from  the  line.  It  has  not  been  shelled 
for  four  days.  On  dark  nights,  visits 
from  bomb-dropping  German  planes  are 
to  be  expected,  they  tell  me.  We  are 
not  yet  on  regular  duty,  but  are  waiting 
for  the  call  at  any  moment.  Our  section 
of  twenty  Berliet  ambulances  is  divided 
up  into  two  squads  of  ten  machines 
each,  to  go  on  duty  in  turn.  I  had  the 
good  fortune  to  be  chosen  head  of  one 
squad.  The  section  is  composed  of 
about  eighteen  University  of  Illinois 
boys,  four  or  five  from  U.  of  C,  five 
from  Harvard  and  a  miscellaneous 
crowd,  largely  from  around  Chicago. 
It  seems  a  very  congenial  crowd. 
Though  I  am  the  only  Amherst  repre- 
sentative in  the  crowd,  Lord  Jeffrey  is 
already  the  favorite  song  of  the  section, 
the  Harvard  crowd  having  known  it 
already. 

"  In  our  course  so  far  we  have  been  at 
several  very  interesting  places,  having 
been  for  a  week  in  and  near  the  scene 
of  the  Battle  of  the  Marne,  a  week  at 
Beauvais,  two  days  at  Passil,  near  No- 
yon,  three  days  at  le  Mesnil  and  have 
passed  through  such  towns  as  Lassigny, 
Noyon,  Bleraucourt,  Loissons  and 
Brames,  all  destined  to  be  spots  of  great 
historical  interest  because  of  their  im- 
portance in  this  war.  On  our  trip  from 
Beauvais  to  Passil,  we  passed  through 
the  lines  which  until  last  March  17th 
had  been  held  continuously  by  the  Ger- 
mans ever  since  September,  1914.  Miles 
of  trenches,  barb-wire  entanglements, 
shell  holes,  dug-outs,  gun-mounts,  and 
million  of  red  poppies  growing  around 
and  over  everything. 

"The  once  beautiful  town  of  Lassigny 
is  now  only  a  magnificent  ruin,  the  re- 


sult of  the  French  artillery  in  recaptur- 
ing it.  Noyon  and  Passil  did  not  suffer 
so  much  from  shells,  as  from  German 
outrages.  Everywhere  are  relics  of  the 
Germans,  the  most  interesting  being 
their  elaborate  officers'  quarters,  built  in 
the  sheltered  sides  of  hills  out  of  stucco, 
stones  and  logs;  the  caves  dug  in  the 
soft  stone  of  the  hills  by  the  Germans 
and  capable  of  harboring  thousands  of 
men  each,  and  German  cemeteries,  with 
handsome  granite  and  sandstone  monu- 
ments raised  by  the  Germans  to  French 
soldiers  they  had  buried  there,  and  one 
to  a  Russian." 

1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Miss  Ruth  Dwight  Fuller  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  and  Lieut.  Lowell  Shumway. 
This  engagement  is  of  especial  Amherst 
interest,  because  Miss  Fuller  is  a 
daughter  of  ex-Senator  Chas.  H.  Fuller 
of  the  class  of  1878,  and  a  niece  of  Sec- 
retary of  Commerce  William  C.  Red- 
field.  Her  brothers  are  E.  W.  Fuller 
and  R.  M.  Fuller,  both  Amherst  men 
of  the  class  of  1915.  Lieut.  Shumway 
received  his  commission  as  second 
lieutenant  at  Plattsburg  this  summer 
and  has  since  been  assigned  to  duty  at 
Camp  Upton,  Yaphank,  Long  Island. 
His  father.  Prof.  Edgar  S.  Shumway,  is 
likewise  an  Amherst  man  of  the  class  of 
1879. 

Harold  E.  Shaw  recently  undenvent 
an  operation  in  New  York  in  order  to 
be  rendered  fit  for  the  aviation  service. 
At  last  reports  he  was  recuperating  at 
his  home  in  Monson,  Mass.,  waiting 
for  his  call. 

C.  B.  Quaintance  is  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Quaintance,  King  &  Quain- 
tance with  offices  in  the  Ernest  &  Cram- 
ner  Bldg.  in  Denver. 


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Miss  Ursula  Knauth,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Antonio  Knauth  of  New  York  City, 
and  Louis  Huthsteiner  were  married  on 
August  20th  at  Bolton  Landing,  Lake 
George,  N.  Y.,  in  the  Church  of  St. 
Sacrament.  Only  a  few  days  previous 
Huthsteiner  had  received  his  commis- 
sion as  Second  Lieutenant,  Infantry,  at 
Plattsburg,  and  as  his  best  man,  Victor 
Knauth,  is  Sergeant  of  Battery  A,  First 
Massachusetts  Field  Artillery,  this  was 
very  much  a  military  wedding. 

On  July  7th,  at  the  Church  of  Holy 
Trinity,  Brooklyn,  Miss  Ruth  Gardiner 
and  John  Tilney  Carpenter  were  mar- 
ried. Mrs.  Carpenter  is  a  graduate  of 
Smith  College. 

The  Rev.  Frank  H.  Ferris  was  mar- 
ried on  May  15  to  Miss  Minna  Proctor, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Proctor 
of  Ridgefield,  New  Jersey. 

Ed  Cohn  was  married  on  July  30 
to  Miss  Marianne  Brettaner,  daughter 
of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Brettaner  of 
Lake  Placid,  N.  Y. 

Lieutenant  Richard  Montague  Kim- 
ball was  married  on  August  16  to  Miss 
Mabel  Estelle  Straker,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Joseph  E.  Straker  of  Attle- 
boro,  Mass. 

Miss  Mary  Ganson  Crosby,  daughter 
of  former  Assemblyman  and  Mrs.  W. 
Clive  Crosby  of  East  Orange,  N.  J., 
and  Second  Lieutenant  C.  Richmond 
DeBevoise,  O.  R.  C,  were  married  on 
August  16th  at  St.  Thomas's  Church, 
Newark.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  C.  Swentzel  of 
Brooklyn.  A  reception  followed  at  the 
Robert  Treat  Hotel. 

"Little  Dick"  Kimball  was  married 
to  Miss  Ethel  May  Cooke,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  H.  Cooke  of 
Orange,  Mass.,  on  August  25. 


Lieut.  Donald  H.  Brown  was  married 
on  August  23  to  Miss  Alison  McCall, 
daughter  of  Mr.  Thomas  McCall,  at 
Santa  Monica,  Cal. 

Lieut.  M.  B.  Seymour  and  Lieut. 
Dwight  Clark  are  at  present  stationed 
at  Camp  Devens  in  the  Q.  M.  C.  N.  A. 

Lieut.  "Pinlt"  Kimball  is  stationed 
at  a  fort  in  Boston  Harbor,  in  the  coast 
artillery. 

"Qud"  Butler  and  "Tick"  Miller  are 
members  of  a  Hospital  Corps  at  Fort 
Ethan  Allen,  Vt. 

Chas.  Mills  is  at  the  second  OflScers 
Camp  at  Fort  Myer,  Va. 

The  treasurer  has  invested  the  money 
that  was  raised  for  our  triennial  in  Lib- 
erty Bonds  of  the  second  issue.  $200 
is  the  amount  placed.  This  step  was 
decided  upon  at  a  meeting  held  in  Am- 
herst at  Commencement  time  at  which 
Chamberlain  presided  and  the  following 
were  present:  Moulton,  Renfrew,  Mor- 
row, Cobb,  W.  K.  Smith,  T.  W.  Glass, 
Miller,  J.  R.  Kimball  and  Young. 

The  secretary  wants  every  man  in  the 
class  to  keep  him  posted  about  his  mil- 
itary assignments — particularly  change 
of  address.  Anything  pertaining  to  a 
man  in  the  service  will  be  recorded  and 
filed  by  the  secretary  upon  receipt  at 
address  above. 

1915 

Joseph  L.  Snyder,  Secretary, 
1727  Cambridge  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Gerald  Keith  was  one  of  the  52  men 
chosen  from  the  Naval  Reserves  to 
enter  the  Naval  Cadet  School  at  M.  I.  T. 
He  spent  the  summer  studying  naviga- 
tion, seamanship  ordinance  and  naval 
regulation  for  ten  hours  a  day.  The 
intent  of  the  course  is  to  produce  officers 


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for  use  either  in  the  Merchant  Marine 
or  on  submarine  chasers. 

Arthur  E.  Ralston  is  now  in  the 
Transport  Section  of  the  American  Am- 
bulance Field  Service.  He  writes  that 
J.  W.  Craig,  '15,  is  associated  with  him 
and  that  they  are  now  driving  on  the 
same  truck.  Other  men  in  the  service 
include  John  J.  Atwater,  '15,  Ralph 
Ellenwood,  '18,  Everett  Glann,  '17,  and 
Lee  Wood,  '16.  He  says  that  H.  King- 
man, '15,  is  in  the  Ambulance  Section 
of  Morgan-Harjes,  and  adds, 

"The  work  in  the  Transport  Section 
consists  in  driving  five  ton  Pierce  Arrow 
trucks,  loaded  with  munitions,  from  the 
R.  R.  depots  to  the  various  ammunition 
parks  at  the  front.  It  often  carries  one 
into  exciting  parts  of  the  front.  I  have 
had  several  rides  that  were  highly  excit- 
ing, but  written  up  would  be  the  same 
old  story  of  bursting  shells,  of  which 
the  States  have  had  an  overdose." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilbur  Sargent  Locke 
of  W^inchester,  Mass.,  announce  the  en- 
gagement of  their  daughter,  Hannah, 
to  Lowell  R.  Smith,  also  of  Winchester. 
Miss  Locke  is  a  graduate  of  Vassar, 
class  of  1915. 

The  engagement  of  Miss  Jessie  Mar- 
garet Catlin  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
Randolph  Mercein  Fuller  was  an- 
nounced during  the  summer.  Fuller  is 
Sergeant  in  the  First  New  York  cavalry. 

John  J.  Atwater  and  his  brother, 
David,  who  was  to  have  entered  Am- 
herst this  fall,  are  in  the  "  Camion  Serv- 
ice" of  the  American  Ambulance  corps 
in  France.    The  former  writes : — 

"  I  am  here  at  .  .  .  going  to  Officers 
school.  When  the  course  is  over  in 
August,  I  will  be  sent  out  with  a  T.  M, 
section  of  20  five  ton  Pierce  Arrow 
trucks,  45  men  and  the  necessary  extras. 
At  present  there  are  about  14  of  these 
T.  M.  (Transport  Munition)  sections 
out  at  the  front,  entirely  made  up  of 


American  Volunteers.  I  went  out  as 
top  sergeant  of  the  second  section  and 
was  with  them  six  weeks.  Our  work 
consisted  of  loading  up  with  "75"  am- 
munition or  engineers  supplies  and  de- 
livering them  to  parks  1  to  3  kilometers 
from  the  front.  Most  of  the  work  was 
night  work.  For  instance,  we  would 
leave  camp  on  our  usual  run  about  two 
P.  M.,  load  up  and  go  to  ...  to  wait 
for  dark.  Here  we  would  eat  supper 
and  from  the  graveyard,  where  we  used 
a  flat  tombstone  for  a  table,  we  could 
see  the  shells  bursting  on  the  front  lines 
from  the  heavy  French  guns  only  half 
a  kilometer  away.  Also,  from  5  to  9 
P.  M.  the  air  always  was  full  of  planes, 
French  and  Bosche. 

"Almost  every  night  there  would  be 
a  fight  of  some  sort  and  you  could  see 
shells  burst  in  groups  whenever  a  plane 
went  too  far  over  the  opposing  lines. 
Then  back  of  us  were  the  "sausage" 
balloons.  We've  often  counted  over 
20  in  the  air  from  one  point.  As  soon 
as  it  was  dark  we  would  proceed  slowly 
to  our  destinations.  Of  course  no  lights 
are  allowed.  Smoking  also  is  forbidden. 
Usually  these  parks  are  very  hard  to 
get  in  and  out  of  and  unload  very  slowly. 
As  a  usual  thing  we  would  not  return 
to  camp  till  2  or  3  in  the  morning.  Then 
the  next  morning  would  be  spent  in 
going  over  the  cars  and  getting  ready 
for  the  next  run. 

"On  three  occasions  we  were  shelled 
and  one  car  had  its  radiator  damaged. 
Also  once  we  had  a  touch  of  gas.  Then 
one  night  one  of  our  men  who  happens 
to  be  a  Williams  man  fell  asleep  at  the 
wheel  and  when  he  stopped  the  car  was 
half  way  into  a  German  dugout.  The 
French  inhabitants  thought  the  whole 
German  army  had  dropped  in  on  them, 
so  they  surrendered,  but  when  they  saw 
it  was  only  the  American  section  come 
to  call,  they  had  a  lot  to  say  in  very  im- 
polite French.  I  know  it  was  impolite 
as  Professor  Lancaster  or  Stowell  never 
taught  anything  like  it.  We  just 
laughed  at  them  and  sent  back  a  big 
wrecking  car  the  next  day  and  brought 
the  car  and  driver  home.  Besides  the 
Amlierst  section  over  here  I  have  seen 
Sid.  Bixby,  '05,  and  Freeman  Swett,  '17. 
Whitcomb,  '19,  also  came  to  my  old 
section  as  extra  man,  after  we  sent  one 
home  sick. 


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"It's  bully  work  and  hard  work  too. 
12  hours  on  a  five  ton  truck  is  no  joy 
ride  and  it  takes  a  good  deal  of  strength 
to  crank  or  steer  one,  besides  standing 
the  everlasting  jolting.  There  are  two 
men  on  each  truck  and  that  lightens 
the  work,  but  at  best  it  is  a  man's  job. 
When  we  run,  it  is  usually  10  to  15  cars 
in  a  convoi  and  it's  some  job  to  keep 
track  of  them  all,  find  the  road  and  not 
lose  any  cars.  Our  greatest  danger  is 
in  rumiing  down  a  house  or  a  railroad 
train  after  dark." 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Writing  from  the  U.  S.  Aeronautical 
station  at  Pensacola,  Florida,  in  July, 
Charles  Burton  Ames  says: — 

"The  Naval  Aeronautical  Station  in 
which  we  are  located  is  beautifully  and 
ideally  placed  for  the  work  and  although 
the  shores  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  are  not 
the  coolest  place  in  summer,  there  is 
usually  a  breeze  which  makes  life 
bearable.  There  are  only  thirty  men 
in  our  reserve  squad,  taken  from  all 
over  the  country,  but  about  300  regu- 
lars are  taking  the  coiu-se,  so  we  are 
by  no  means  alone.  We  have  to  learn 
all  about  the  construction  of  engines 
and  planes  before  we  are  permitted  to 
enter  a  machine.  We  are  just  starting 
to  delve  into  the  intricacies  of  the  motor. 
We  are  studying  navigation  and  its 
branches,  signalling  and  military  drill. 
One  can  learn  to  fly  in  a  couple  of  weeks, 
but  if  one  wants  to  become  a  military 
aviator  it  is  necessary  to  master  a  great 
many  things  which  to  the  layman  seem 
unessential.  I  have  no  idea  what  is  to 
become  of  us,  but  the  rumor  is  that  we 
shall  undoubtedly  get  most  of  our  flying 
instruction  in  France." 

A  later  letter  from  Ames,  written  in 
early  October  says: — 

"Flying  goes  well  and  I  am  very 
enthusiastic  about  it.  I  spent  about 
ten  hours  under  instruction  and  then 
commenced  to  fly  alone.  I  have  now 
over  ten  hours  to  my  credit  in  'solo 
flying,'  but  have  to  finish  forty  before 


being  able  to  qualify  as  'Naval  Avia- 
tor.' " 

Miss  Frances  Emerson  Coleman  of 
New  York  City  and  Douglas  Clark 
Stearns  were  married  on  Wednesday, 
October  3,  in  the  Madison  Square  Pres- 
byterian Church,  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Charles  H.  Parkhurst,  '66,  assisted  by 
the  bridegroom's  father,  the  Rev.  Wil- 
liam Foster  Stearns.  Mr.  Stearns  has 
volunteered  for  ambulance  service 
abroad. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Amy 
Louise  Cowing,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  R.  A.  Cowing  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
and  Humphrey  Fuller  Redfield,  son  of 
the  Secretary  of  Commerce.  Redfield 
is  now  an  ensign  in  the  Naval  Reserves. 

Douglas  D.  Milne  announces  that 
the  class  of  1916  will  hold  a  reunion  in 
Berlin  about  the  third  week  of  February, 
1918,  and  that  sufficient  members  of 
the  class  have  already  signified  their 
intention  of  being  present  to  win  the 
Allies  Trophy  Cup.  Milne  will  be  on 
hand,  and  writing  from  Fort  Funston, 
Kans.,  20th  Company,  164th  Depot 
Brigade,  says : — 

"Shortly  before  the  end  of  the  train- 
ing camp  I  was  taken  sick  with  pneu- 
monia and  confined  to  the  hospital  for 
three  weeks.  After  being  relieved  from 
the  hospital  I  returned  to  camp  and 
much  to  my  surprise  was  given  a  com- 
mission as  2nd  Lieut,  of  Infantry.  I 
had  given  up  all  hope  of  ever  getting 
a  commission  after  being  sick  and  ab- 
sent from  work  so  long. 

"I  am  now  located  here  at  Funston, 
trying  to  whip  some  of  the  new  draft 
army  into  shape  for  service  abroad.  The 
undertaking  of  building  up  a  new  army 
out  of  men  who  have  done  nothing  but 
farm,  mine,  and  follow  a  thousand  and 
one  different  trades  is  a  very  big  one, 
but  at  the  same  time  most  interesting. 
It  is  a  great  thing  to  see  the  interest  and 
enthusiasm  with  which  the  men  go  at 
what  they  have  to  do.     They  seem  to 


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realize  that  they  have  now  got  an  op-  The  engagement  has  been  announced 

portunity    to    do    something    for    their  of  Miss  Dorothea  Gray  of  Brookline, 

country  in  the  time  of  its  greatest  need  ^.^  i.     /^     t     •        u  -i         tt     •     • 

and  they  do  not  entertain  the  belief  that  ^^''■'  ^^  ^-  ^^^^"g  ^^^l^"     ^e  is  in 

they  have  been   made  "goats"  in  the  Company    13,    P.    T.    R.,    at    Platts- 

draft  proposition  as  one  might  suppose  burg, 
they  would.     The   Esprit  de  Corps  is 

rapidly    growing    and    within    a    few  Arthur  M.  Clarke  is  assistant  in  phys- 

months  1  believe  that  we  will  have  the  .        .  n,  ■,■      r^  »       i  t^ 

finest  army  in  the  world  considering  the  ^"^  ^^  ^^''^P^  E'^^^^er  Academy.  Exeter, 

short  time  that  it  has  been  organized."  N.  H. 

l"!'  Brooks  Johnson  is  working  for  the 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary,  Chalmers    Automobile    Co.    at     1650 

Amherst,  Mass.  Broadway,  Denver.  Colo. 


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GRADUATES'    QUARTERLY 

VOL.  VII.— FEBRUARY,  1918.— NO.  2 


THE  CONVERSE  MEMORIAL  LIBRARY 

THE   EDITOR 

IN  the  upper  corridor  of  the  new  library  building  there  was 
placed,  as  the  date  set  for  dedication  drew  near,  a  row  of 
portraits;  hung  there  with  a  very  commonplace  object, 
partly  to  see  what  would  be  their  decorative  effect  in  that 
place,  partly  to  associate  the  bare  blank  walls  that  surrounded 
the  delivery  room  with  something  living  and  thought  awaking. 
For  of  a  new  building,  no  matter  how  rampant  its  material  or 
architecture,  must  necessarily  be  predicated  a  plight  similar  to 
that  of  a  new  human  being, — as  the  Cobbler  of  Hagenau  phrases  it: 
"  Our  ingress  into  this  world 
Was  naked  and  bare." 
Its  softening  and  humanizing  apparel  of  affections,  associations, 
memories  cannot  be  provided  for  in  the  builder's  specifications. 
Whether  and  why  these  portraits  really  belonged  there  did  not 
occur,  I  presume,  to  the  persons  who  had  hastily  transferred 
them  from  the  old  building.  It  turned  out,  however,  that  this  was 
precisely  their  appropriate  place  in  a  line  of  memories  that  was 
not  now  to  begin  but  just  to  go  on  to  a  new  and  freshly  memorable 
stage.  They  were  portraits  of  men  who  in  the  older  days,  as 
friends,  trustees,  benefactors,  have  wrought  to  give  the  Amherst 
College  Library  the  growth  and  distinction  so  worthy  of  its  new 
housing;  and  here  they  were,  assembled  as  if  to  look  upon  the 
ripened  fruit  of  their  labors.  Such  was  in  part  the  "company 
dress"  in  which  we  were  to  meet  our  guests;  and  then,  a  few 
days  after,  in  our  simple  dedicatory  exercises,  we  sat  face  to  face 
with  our  latest  benefactor,  Mr.  Edmund  Cogswell  Converse,  and 
heard  his  words.  An  eminent  capitalist  of  New  York,  he  had 
not  been  known  to  our  academic  circle,  but  the  name  was  not  new. 
Since  1867,  when  he  was  graduated  here,  the  name  of  his  elder 


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brother,  James  Blanchard  Converse,  who  died  untimely  in  his 
thirty-eighth  year,  had  been  on  the  roll  of  our  Alumni,  and  he  it 
is  who  is  memorialzied  in  the  new  building.  In  the  audience  at 
the  dedication  sat  classmates  of  his;  one  of  these  must  not  go 
unmentioned,  Mr.  William  R.  Mead,  of  the  well-known  architec- 
tural firm  of  McKim,  Mead  and  White,  from  whose  personal 
interest  and  genius  the  building  derives  much  of  its  beauty  and 
fitness.     We  must  accord  him  a  worthy  share  in  the  memorial. 

The  history  of  a  fact  accomplished,  a  hope  realized,  a  dream 
happily  fulfilled,  contains  more  elements  than  can  be  put  in  an- 
nalistic  words, — elements  unheeded  by  those  who  see  only  the 
outside  of  things.  There  was  first  the  felt  need,  such  as  besets 
all  growth  and  improvement,  of  new  quarters,  both  for  stowing 
and  study  of  the  books;  a  need  which  the  over-crowded  condition 
of  the  old  building  and  its  lack  of  protection  from  fire  and  accident 
was  rendering  yearly  more  acute.  Inquiries  were  made  concern- 
ing the  possibility  of  enlarging  the  old  stacks;  and  a  competent 
architect  who  was  consulted  on  the  question  said  after  thorough 
examination,  "  I  can  take  a  piece  of  paper  and  figure  out  to  you  a 
proof  beyond  all  doubt  that  that  building /e/^  twenty  years  ago." 
Then  ensued,  as  in  all  such  cases,  the  period  of  wishing  and 
waiting,  with  the  growing  inconveniences  and  makeshifts  accom- 
panying, a  period  unexpectedly  ended  by  the  report  from  our 
watchful  friends  that  money  for  an  adequate,  even  sumptuous 
new  building  was  definitely  promised.  A  thing  to  note  here  with 
gratulation  is  the  timeliness  of  this  generous  oflFer;  there  were 
more  or  less  vexatious  delays  and  mishaps  in  getting  work  and 
materials  here  as  it  was;  one  shrinks  from  conjecturing  what 
would  have  happened  if  we  had  waited  until  this  stage  of  the 
war.  No  need  to  chronicle  in  detail  here,  though  one  should  not 
omit  to  mention,  the  loyal  and  generous  aid  so  often  forthcoming 
just  in  time  to  help  transportation  and  construction  over  the 
hard  places;  this  too  has  its  honorable  share  in  the  memorial. 
So  too  have  the  friendly  and  helpful  relations  that  have  existed 
throughout  between  donors,  designers,  committees,  builders,  con- 
tractors; each  class  contributing  freely  of  its  specialized  skill  and 
knowledge,  each  mindful  of  the  others'  desires  and  requirements. 
In  the  prevalence  of  this  mutual  interest  and  respect  the  little 
transient  vexations  disappear;  and  the  building  stands  a  memorial 


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not  only  of  noble  beneficence  but  of  noble  fellowship  in  plan  and 
work. 

When  the  representatives  of  the  architectural  firm  met  the 
committee  representative  of  the  college  and  faculty  to  determine 
site  and  talk  over  the  general  situation,  one  of  the  first  remarks 
we  heard  was,  "The  style  must  be  monumental," — a  recognition 
of  the  chosen  location  and  of  its  relation  to  other  college  struc- 
tures, especially  to  the  Pratt  Dormitory.  On  the  same  axis,  and 
covering  almost  identical  floor  space  and  shape,  the  two  buildings 
must  needs  be  planned  with  friendly  reference  to  each  other, 
neither  overbearing  nor  self-effacing.  Hence  the  style  adopted, 
unusually  imposing  and  dignified  for  our  country  town,  yet  quite 
in  keeping  with  its  colonial  as  well  as  academic  traditions.  In 
the  matter  of  site,  they  took  up  again,  quite  unwittingly,  the  line 
of  appropriate  memorial;  for  where  the  building  stands  was  the 
residence  of  Hon.  Lucius  Boltwood,  the  first  librarian  who  had 
the  care  of  the  library  in  a  building  of  its  own,  and  the  first  who 
did  not  combine  that  occupation  with  the  duties  of  teaching.  It 
is  worth  while  to  remember  this,  not  forgetting  or  despising  the 
years  of  pioneer  effort. 

So  here  the  new  library  stands,  a  satisfaction  to  the  esthetic 
eye  and  taste;  but  far  more  significantly  than  that,  a  notable 
landmark  of  improvement  and  progress  in  library  service  and 
ideal.  A  newspaper  article,  written  last  June  and  widely  copied, 
remarks  that  the  library  "is  expected,  when  completed,  to  be  one 
of  the  finest  college  libraries  in  the  United  States."  Well,  per- 
haps it  has  turned  out  so;  we  have  not  compared  it  with  others. 
The  article  was  written  before  the  name  of  the  donor  was  known, 
and  about  three-quarters  of  it  is  taken  up  with  an  account  of 
Clyde  Fitch,  of  whom  the  building  is  assumed,  to  be  mainly  a 
memorial.  There  is  indeed  a  Clyde  Fitch  room,  containing  the 
books  and  furnishings  of  his  study;  of  that  more  anon.  The  real 
distinction  of  the  library,  however,  is  quite  other.  It  is  rather  in 
the  practical  facilities  planned  for  and  provided  for  the  best  and 
most  modern  uses  of  a  library.  The  idea  of  what  these  are  has 
long  been  shaping  itself,  and  has  been  progressively  acted  upon 
here  in  Amherst  College;  its  development,  in  fact,  is  one  of  the 
main  factors  which  have  made  the  new  edifice  necessary.  The 
library  has  long  since  outgrown  its  primitive  function  of  stowage 


78    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

and  distribution;  it  has  become  the  intellectual  center,  the  cul- 
tural clearing-house  of  the  college.  Other  agencies  of  instruction 
and  training  lead  up  to  that.  Laboratories,  lectures,  collections, 
recitations,  excursions,  are  indispensable  in  their  way;  but  books, 
after  all,  with  their  carefully  ordered  and  concentrated  thought, 
are  the  student's  working-tools  and  court  of  appeal.  The  gradu- 
ate misses  much  if  in  addition  to  his  cum  laude  diploma  he  fails  to 
leave  college  a  self-determined  and  disciplined  bookman.  To  be 
in  some  degree  at  home  with  books,  even  the  backs  of  books  and 
their  repute  in  the  world,  is  a  great  asset  of  the  graduate's  life  of 
culture.  It  is  this  that  the  planners  of  the  new  library  have 
aimed  in  every  available  way  to  promote.  The  casual  visitor 
enters,  is  somewhat  solenmized  by  the  stately  delivery  room  with 
its  columned  corridors,  admires  the  large  and  sumptuous  reading 
room,  glances  at  the  periodical  room  where  reviews,  magazines, 
and  newspapers  are  at  the  reader's  hand,  is  attracted  by  the 
Converse  room  where  the  quiet  browsing  among  standard  authors 
is  a  luxury,  gets  a  glimpse  of  the  stacks  with  their  interminable 
steel  book-cases  all  heavily  laden, — and  thinks  he  has  seen  the 
library.  Yes,  he  has;  but  only  to  small  extent  what  was  meant 
to  be  the  living  library.  Even  his  curious  visit  to  the  Clyde 
Fitch  room  upstairs  only  reveals  to  him  a  fond  memory  and  senti- 
ment, not  the  heart  of  the  matter.  To  appreciate  this  latter  he 
must  be  more  than  a  casual  visitor.  He  must  have  learned  to 
ascend  the  stairway, — which  is  not  at  all  conspicuous,  almost 
hidden  indeed  in  the  plan, — as  if  he  were  at  home  there,  and 
enter  some  of  the  department  rooms  sacred  to  his  interests  in 
special  research,  where  at  length  he  can  really  feel  at  home  in 
his  congenial  atmosphere.  In  other  words,  he  must  seek  the  real 
heart  of  the  living  library  in  those  numerous  rooms  of  the  second 
and  third  stories  where  the  various  departments  of  the  college 
cultural  life — history,  philosophy,  economics,  literatures  home  and 
foreign,  languages — have  each  its  specialized  library  and  appli- 
ances, with  furnishings  adapted  to  make  these  usable  and  efficient. 
These  rooms  are  not  recitation  or  lecture  rooms;  were  not  planned 
for  clattering  crowds  up  and  down  the  stairways;  they  are  rooms 
where  little  groups  of  like-minded  students  with  their  professors 
can  meet  for  discussion  and  mutual  study,  in  the  capacity  of  the 
private  seminar.     A  comparatively  recent  development  this  in 


The    Converse    Memorial    Library       79 

college  life,  wisely  adapted  from  the  customs  of  the  larger  uni- 
versities, and  tending  to  give  greater  concentration  and  definite- 
ness  to  the  liberal  aims  of  college  life.  As  such  their  dominance 
in  the  uses  of  the  library  are  justly  regarded  as  a  sign  of  educa- 
tional progress,  their  success  of  course  depending  on  the  ingrained 
and  vital  part  they  are  to  play  in  the  wise  and  sincere  use  made 
of  them  by  the  cooperative  work  of  teachers  and  taught.  At 
present  writing  these  seminar  rooms  do  not  show  for  what  they 
will  be;  the  more  intimate  furnishing  and  decoration — the  domes- 
tication of  them,  so  to  speak — is  waited  for,  as  these  trying  times 
permit,  and  as  well-wishing  alumni  and  friends,  who  indeed  have 
already  signified  their  readiness,  are  in  position  to  complete  the 
contemplated  work. 

In  the  present  sketch  it  has  not  been  deemed  necessary  to  in- 
dulge in  description  of  materials,  architectural  features,  decora- 
tions, and  the  like.  The  pictures  we  have  appended,  taken,  it 
will  be  noted,  while  the  new  structure,  just  from  the  hands  of  the 
builders,  was  still  "naked  and  bare",  will  give  some  idea  of  these 
things.  Better  than  this,  the  building  is  here  to  speak  for  itself 
as  the  alumni  come  back  to  delight  themselves  in  its  beauty  and 
dignity;  is  here  not  only  as  a  memorial  but  as  a  promise  of  what 
the  new  Amherst  of  a  coining  new  century  may  advance  into,  as 
new  plans  and  ideals  and  activities  shape  themselves  for  the  larger 
times  to  come. 


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WHAT  WE  MEMORIALIZE  IN  THE  CLYDE  FITCH  ROOM 

[From  Miss  Virginia  Gerson,  of  New  York,  a  long-time  friend  and  neighbor  of 
the  Fitch  family,  who  kindly  came  to  arrange  the  furnishings  of  the  Amherst 
room  in  the  order  of  his  New  York  study,  we  have  sought  and  obtained  the  follow- 
ing notes  of  reminiscence,  written  as  we  desired  in  the  form  of  a  letter;  which  we 
here  reproduce,  assured  that  our  readers  would  not  wish  its  charming  style 
changed  to  be  something  supposedly  more  stiff  and  academic. — Ed.] 

THE  best  part  of  Clyde  Fitch's  "Study"— he  never  called 
it  his  library — was  that  it  was  such  a  constant  work  room, 
so  I'll  begin  with  the  desk;  although  the  thing  that 
played  the  most  important  part  on  it,  or  in  the  room,  isn't  there! 
The  telephone.  Really,  there  ought  almost  to  be  a  fake  telephone 
there  to  make  it  truly  his  study ! 

No  time  was  too  important  to  be  interrupted  by  it;  in  fact  he 
liked  to  be  interrupted.  Often  when  we  were  up  in  the  study 
after  a  dinner  (of  interesting  people  and  such  good  talk)  in  the 
middle  of  a  general  discussion  of  any  sort  of  current  topic — for 
everything  of  interest  was  always  being  thrashed  out  open- 
mindedly,  on  all  sides,  in  that  room — some  one's  name  would  be 
mentioned,  he  would  say  "excuse  me  a  minute,"  call  them  up 
and  settle  a  piece  of  business  there  and  then,  come  back  and  go 
on  where  he'd  left  of! — or  suddenly  in  a  pause,  call  up  the  box 
office  of  a  theatre  when  a  play  of  his  was  running  and  ask  what 
kind  of  a  "house"  it  was? 

The  telephone's  rival  was  his  inkstand — I'm  glad  that  is  there! 
Clara  Bloodgood  gave  it  to  him  just  before  the  opening  of  "The 
Truth:' 

Oh,  that  day  that  Clyde  read  her  the  play!  We  were  staying 
with  him,  at  Quiet  Corner  (his  Greenwich,  Conn.,  place)  over 
Sunday.  And  that  hot  Sunday  morning  in  August  was  one  of 
those  days  of  heat  when  everything  is  dried  up  and  no  relief, 
and  poor  Clara  Bloodgood  had  come  all  the  way  from  Seabright, 
N.  J.,  with  J.  E.  Dodson,  who  was  to  play  "Roland;"  and  two 
hotter,  more  wilted  looking  people  you  never  saw,  as  they  got 
out  of  the  automobile  at  the  door.  We  had  luncheon  in  the 
beautiful  dining  room  of  Quiet  Corner  and  then  Clyde  took  them 
out  on  the  terrace  under  the  awning  and  read  the  play. 


Memorialize  —  Clyde  Fitch's  Room     81 

I  shall  never  forget  the  difference  in  the  way  she  came  and  the 
way  she  went  away! — heat  was  forgotten,  she  was  crazy  about 
the  play,  her  part  and  what  she  was  going  to  do  with  it.  As  they 
left  for  the  station,  she  was  so  excited  she  stood  up  in  the  automo- 
bile and  waved  and  waved  until  they  were  out  of  sight!  The 
next  week  she  sailed  for  London  and  it  was  when  she  returned 
from  there  that  she  brought  Clyde  the  inkstand.  So  if  that  ink- 
stand was  not  responsible  for  the  play — the  play  produced  the 
inkstand ! 

His  address  book  was  another  possession  that  might  have 
"struck"  for  being  overworked!  It  wasn't  an  "antique."  The 
cover  was  made  for  him  by  a  friend;  it  was  only  two  years  old  but 
it  was  completely  worn  out  from  constant  use.  Still  the  inside  is 
much  more  eloquent  of  him  even  than  the  outside  for  everyone 
is  in  it,  everyone  from  everywhere  all  over  the  Globe!  Not  only 
every  well-known  person  of  the  theatre,  but  in  books — music — 
art  and  of  the  world.  He  had  no  time  for  the  mediocre,  but  as 
an  example  of  what  an  old-world  respect  he  had  for  geniuses — 
is  a  sheet  of  Player's  Club  paper — found  among  his  things — with 
Edwin  Booth's  signature  on  it,  and  under  it  in  Clyde's  hand- 
writing, was  written  "I  sat  next  to  him  when  he  wrote  this." 

The  study  is  really  a  portrait  of  himself — the  books  for  instance 
— the  variety  of  their  subjects  (so  like  his  interest  in  every  side  of 
everything  which  gave  him  the  ability  to  suggest  to  his  actors 
such  eloquent  little  bits  of  stage  "business"  that  explained  his 
plots  as  much  as  his  words  did).  His  books  weren't  just  more 
books,  every  one  was  gotten  for  some  reason  and  the  covers  show 
they  were  well  used,  they  weren't  "library  books"  they  were 
work  books.  His  books  about  Andre  and  Nathan  Hale  were  not 
only  for  the  history  itself,  they  were  for  "atmosphere,"  his  many 
books  of  "Memoirs"  gave  him  active  "periods."  The  set  of 
red-covered  photographs  of  his  plays  are  a  history  of  his  love  of 
the  right  background  for  his  story — the  costumes,  furniture  and 
every  little  thing  belonging  to  the  period  were  so  carefully  thought 
out,  that  those  pictures  almost  tell  the  whole  story — only  we  should 
miss  his  written  witty  dialogue.  They  are  a  very  interesting  record 
of  his  work. 

To  go  back  to  the  desk,  there  was  always  a  red  and  blue  pencil 
on  it,  to  cut  out  or  accentuate  speeches  in  a  play. 


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The  Dresden  China  box  was  another  thing  he  constantly  used, 
it  was  his  match-box,  and  that  went  from  city  desk  to  country 
desk. 

In  the  big  Itahan  box  with  a  picture  under  glass  in  the  cover, 
he  kept  the  best  of  his  collections  of  old  snuff  boxes — it  always 
stood  where  it  is  now,  on  the  big  table  opposite  the  fireplace. 

That  the  room  up  here  at  Amherst  has  the  same  Southern  ex- 
posure as  the  room  in  New  York  did  is  another  thing  that  is  fortu- 
nate, for  the  sun  streaming  in  and  bringing  out  so  brightly  all 
the  warm  color  of  the  books,  the  hangings,  pictures,  etc.,  makes 
it  almost  seem  as  if  Clyde  Fitch  was  in  it  himself! 

His  welcome  as  he  came  to  meet  you  seemed  just  like  that — to 
light  up  the  whole  room.  His  magnetism  was  like  the  measles — 
you  caught  it  right  away,  only  it  was  different  in  this — ^you  were 
never  immune,  whenever  you  met  him  you  never  failed  to  catch 
it  again ! 

Another  trait  of  his,  which  the  study  expresses,  is  his  love  of  com- 
fort— the  lamps  just  where  the  light  would  fall  on  your  book — the 
chairs  and  couch  around  the  open  fire,  and  little  tables  near  with 
smoking  things  on  them  and  always  a  paper  cutter! 

He  loved  his  things — they  rested  him  by  entertaining  him. 

The  only  drawback  to  the  room  was,  it  was  so  hard  to  get  out  of ! 

But  that  he  fixed,  too ! — There  was  always  some  one  announced 
at  3  or  6  or  9  or  whenever  your  time  was  up!  and  you  passed 
them  on  the  stairs!  For  it  was  a  busy  work  room  in  spite  of  its 
restfulness  and  beauty  and  interesting  luxury. 


The  Ccjxverse  Room 
For  Standard  Works  in  Literature,  Biograpliy  and  History 


The  Delivery  Room 


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James  Hlanchahi)  Convekse 
From  portniil  In   W.  T.  Suu-dley,  now  in  the  Converse  Room 


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MilitaryHonors  83 


MILITARY  HONORS 

1906 

Capt.  William  Hale,  Jr.,  C.  A.  M.  C,  has  been  awarded  the 
British  Military  Cross  for  distinguished  service  at  Vimy  Ridge. 
The  citation  reads  "For  conspicuous  gallantry  and  devotion  to 
duty.  He  established  a  dressing  station  in  a  forward  area  and 
worked  untiringly  for  sixty  hours  under  fire,  dressing  the  wounded. 
He  set  a  fine  example  of  courage  and  determination."  (See  "An 
Honor  Heroically  Won"  in  this  issue  of  the  Quarterly.) 

1913 

Louis  G.  Caldwell  was  Subchief  of  Sanitary  Auto  Section  65 
which  was  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre,  August  8,  1917,  by 
General  Monvul.  The  citation  reads  "General  Order  No.  176, 
respecting  sanitary  auto  section  65:  During  the  period  from 
July  10th  to  August  1st,  and  in  particular  during  the  period 
between  July  14th  to  July  23rd,  and  between  July  31st  and  August 
1st,  the  ambulance  drivers,  who  were  under  fire  for  the  first  time, 
have  acted  with  perfect  self-control  and  with  a  courage  which  has 
drawn  the  admiration  of  everyone.  They  have  carried  the  wounded 
upon  occasions  when  they  were  being  continually  bombarded  by 
curtain  fire  that  was  extremely  violent.  They  have  honored  their 
country  and  merit  the  recognition  of  their  French  comrades." 

The  citation  was  earned  by  strenuous  work  at  two  posts  on  the 
Chemin  des  Dames,  both  posts  being  in  full  view  of  the  Germans 
for  about  half  a  mile  and  always  under  heavy  shell  fire.  On  the 
night  of  August  31st  twenty-six  of  these  boys  spent  the  night  in 
a  mushroom  cellar  on  the  side  of  a  hill  half  a  kilometer  from  the 
fierce  German  attack,  carrying  the  wounded  under  the  direction 
of  Chief  Thompson  and  Subchief  Caldwell. 


84    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


AMHERST  AND  THE  WAR 

COMPILED   BY   GEORGE   F.    WHICHER 

THE  material  secured  up  to  January  1st  by  the  Committee 
on  War  Records  of  the  Alumni  Council,  and  summarized 
elsewhere  in  this  issue,  shows  that  688  Amherst  men  are 
with  the  Colors,  either  enlisted  in  the  Army  or  Navy  or  perform- 
ing other  war  service  in  Europe  as  ambulance  drivers,  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  volunteers,  or  Red  Cross  workers.  This  article  will  supple- 
ment the  records  by  a  brief  account  of  the  indirect  ways  in  which 
Amherst  is  contributing  its  strength  to  the  conduct  of  the  Great 
War. 

In  the  college  itself  the  largest  demand  of  the  war  has  been 
met  by  the  establishment  of  the  department  of  Military  Science 
and  Tactics,  now  officially  recognized  as  an  Infantry  unit  of  the 
Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps.  Colonel  Richard  H.  Wilson, 
U.  S.  A.,  assisted  by  Major  Frank  C.  Damon,  M.  V.  M.,  is  di- 
recting the  training  of  the  Amherst  battalion.  Two  hundred  and 
sixty-three  undergraduates  are  enrolled  in  the  four  companies 
under  student  officers. 

The  faculty  have  organized  several  courses  for  the  training  of 
men  in  special  branches  of  the  service.  Professor  Kimball  is  in 
charge  of  a  volunteer  class  in  Wireless  Telegraphy.  During  the 
second  semester  Dean  Olds  will  conduct  a  course  in  navigation. 
The  Romance  department  offers  an  emergency  course  in  spoken 
French.  Other  members  of  the  faculty  have  given  liberally  of 
their  time  and  energy  to  Red  Cross  rallies,  Liberty  Loan  cam- 
paigns, and  to  other  indirect  services  whenever  an  occasion  has 
arisen. 

During  December  Amherst,  in  common  with  all  New  England 
towns,  felt  acutely  the  scarcity  of  coal.  A  member  of  the  faculty 
met  with  the  local  Coal  Administration  Board  and  as  a  result 
five  college  buildings,  Williston  Hall,  Barrett  Hall,  Appleton 
Cabinet,  the  old  Library  and  the  College  Church  were  closed,  and 
afternoon  recitations  were  moved  forward  in  order  to  close  the 
other  buildings  as  early  in  the  day  as  possible.    While  the  College 


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AmherstandtheWar  85 

had  a  substantial  supply  of  coal  on  hand  it  was  felt  that  in  view 
of  the  need  of  coal  locally  and  throughout  New  England  it  should 
be  saved  wherever  possible.  With  this  object,  several  of  the 
churches  of  the  town  have  combined  with  the  college,  at  the 
suggestion  of  Professor  Fitch,  in  holding  union  services  in  College 
Hall. 

While  alumni  and  undergraduates  are  in  training  in  every 
branch  of  the  national  service  throughout  the  country,  six  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty  have  left  college  to  engage  in  war  work.  Since 
the  beginning  of  the  year  Professor  Richard  F.  Nelligan  has  been 
at  Camp  Devens  as  director  of  athletics,  holding  a  staff  commis- 
sion under  the  committee  on  camp  activities  of  the  War  Depart- 
ment. At  the  same  camp  Professor  Charles  H.  Toll  is  a  member 
of  the  corps  of  psychological  examiners,  having  left  Plattsburg  in 
response  to  a  repeated  call  for  his  services  as  a  psychologist. 
Professor  (now  Captain)  Charles  W.  Cobb  is  in  the  office  of  the  Chief 
Signal  Officer  at  Washington  in  the  School  Section  of  the  Air 
Division  of  the  Signal  Corps.  Professor  Henry  Carrington  Lan- 
caster has  gone  to  France  as  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  volunteer  in  the  French 
Army.  Both  Professor  Walter  W.  Stewart  of  the  department  of 
Economics  and  Mr.  Leland  Olds  of  the  department  of  History  are  in 
Washington,  the  former  making  a  special  study  of  taxation  for  the 
Federal  Reserve  Board,  the  latter  assisting  William  Jett  Lauck 
of  the  Shipping  Board  in  an  investigation  of  wage  conditions. 
Professors  Doughty  and  Zinn  of  the  department  of  Chemistry  are 
able  to  do  research  work  for  the  government  fortunately  without 
leaving  Amherst. 

Last  July  Professor  Albert  Parker  Fitch  was  commissioned  a 
Field  Inspector  by  the  War  Council  of  the  American  Red  Cross 
and  sent  to  Europe  to  visit  the  French  Front,  examine  the  work  of 
the  Red  Cross  in  Europe  and  return  to  report  to  the  American 
people.  Professor  Fitch  was  in  France  about  two  months.  He 
visited  the  devastated  areas,  saw  the  return  of  the  repatriates  at 
at  Evian-les  Bains,  inspected  orphanages  and  asylums  for 
children  and  civilian  refugees,  went  into  the  clinics  and  hospitals 
in  and  about  Paris,  and  also  into  several  of  the  Base  hospitals 
the  Field  or  Evacuation  hospitals  and  the  First-aid  stations.  On 
his  return  to  America  Professor  Fitch  was  given  a  leave  of  absence 
until  November  1st  and  spoke  for  the  Red  Cross  in  Washington, 


86    Amhbbst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

New  York,  Brooklyn,  Boston,  Providence,  Worcester,  and  about 
twenty  of  the  larger  cities  of  the  Middle  West,  going  as  far  north 
as  Duluth,  as  far  West  as  Kansas  City,  and  as  far  South  as  St. 
Louis. 

To  provide  a  headquarters  for  Amherst  men  abroad — the  "Am- 
herst unit"  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  (Ambulance  Unit  39)  was 
the  first  to  sail — the  college  has  become  a  member  of  the  American 
University  Union,  and  has  joined  with  Harvard,  Bowdoin,  Dart- 
mouth and  Williams  in  maintaining  a  Bureau  with  Staff  at  the 
Paris  Headquarters  of  the  Union,  the  Royal  Palace  Hotel  (corner 
Rue  de  Richelieu  and  the  Place  du  Theatre  Frangais).  The  gen- 
eral object  of  the  Union  is  to  furnish  the  privileges  of  a  simple 
club  with  restaurant,  bedrooms,  baths,  medical  advice,  etc.,  to 
the  men  of  the  colleges  maintaining  it.  Two  Amherst  men  are 
members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Union,  President  Frank 
J.  Goodnow,  '79,  and  Dwight  W.  Morrow,  '95,  and  Chalmers 
Clifton,  Harvard,  1912,  sailed  October  27th  to  become  resident 
Secretary  of  the  Joint  Bureau.  A  list  of  Amherst  men  who  have 
registered  at  the  Union  and  a  letter  from  the  resident  secretary 
may  be  found  under  the  Alumni  Council  notes  in  this  issue  of  the 
Quarterly. 

In  these  ways,  without  haste,  noise,  or  glamour,  Amherst  is 
lending  its  brains  and  its  material  resources  to  the  nation,  pre- 
paring its  men  for  military  service,  and  providing  for  the  comfort 
of  those  who  have  volunteered.  The  renunciations  already  made 
are  but  an  earnest  that  the  college  is  ready  to  give  unstinted 
support  to  the  Greatest  Cause. 


Captain  William  Hale,  Jr. 


An    Honor    Heroically    Won  87 


AN  HONOR  HEROICALLY  WON 

Captain  William  Hale,  Jr.,  C.  A.  M.  C,  has  been  awarded 
the  British  Military  Cross  for  distinguished  service  at  Vimy 
Ridge.  The  citation  reads  "For  conspicuous  gallantry  and  devo- 
tion to  duty.  He  established  a  dressing  station  in  a  forward  area 
and  worked  untiringly  for  sixty  hours  under  fire,  dressing  the 
wounded.     He  set  a  fine  example  of  courage  and  determination." 

Captain  Hale  joined  the  Queen's  Military  Hospital  re-enforce- 
ments at  Kingston,  Ontario,  in  December,  1915,  and  went  overseas 
in  February,  1916.  In  August,  1916,  he  saw  service  in  France  and 
was  transferred  to  the  42nd  Battalion,  Canadian  Highlanders,  as 
Medical  Military  Officer  of  that  unit.  The  Utica  Daily  Press 
under  date  of  November  21,  1917,  gives  some  of  the  details  of  the 
action  at  which  Captain  Hale  distinguished  himself. 

"The  decoration  awarded  Captain  Hale  is  the  Military  Cross 
established  by  the  British  government  during  the  present  war, 
and  given  to  officers  below  the  rank  of  colonel.  It  is  a  decoration 
rarely  awarded  to  or  won  by  a  medical  officer  and  the  possession 
of  it,  therefore,  by  one  is  evidence  of  conspicuous  valor  and  serv- 
ice under  trying  and  perilous  circumstances.  It  was  bestowed 
upon  Captain  Hale  in  recognition  of  his  courage  and  devotion  in 
following  on  the  heels  of  the  storming  Canadians  in  order  to  succor 
the  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Vimy  Ridge.  The  Canadians  bore 
the  brunt  of  the  attack  in  that  famous  action  and  won  a  decisive 
victory  over  the  Germans  in  capturing  those  vital  heights.  Some 
of  the  interesting  details  of  the  engagement  have  been  obtained 
from  the  Chaplain  of  Captain  Hale's  Battalion,  Rev.  George  G. 
Bjlpatrick. 

"  Chaplain  Kilpatrick,  in  his  account  of  Captain  Hale's  services 
in  relieving  the  wounded  on  the  very  field  of  battle  at  Vimy  Ridge, 
records  some  of  the  actual  preparations  for  this  work  in  the  several 
days  Dr.  Hale  has  been  in  the  line  before  the  Canadian  troops' 
attack.  The  captain  sought  to  find  a  place  for  an  aid  post  as  ad- 
vanced as  possible.  Rev.  Mr.  Kilpatrick's  interesting  narrative 
then  continues: 


88    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

"  'In  this  he  had  failed  and  at  the  last  he  was  forced  to  fall 
back  on  the  original  plan  of  occupying  a  deep  dugout  some  six 
hundred  yards  back  of  the  'jumping  off'  trench.  Privately, 
however,  he  confided  to  me  his  purpose  of  going  forward 
immediately  after  the  action  opened  to  render  first  aid  to  the  men 
at  the  earliest  opportunity.  I  knew  perfectly  well  that  this 
meant  he  would  be  hard  on  the  heels  of  the  attacking  waves. 

"  'The  night  before  the  action  we  spent  in  the  dugout,  speaking 
little  of  the  morrow,  but  all  of  us  harboring  the  unspoken  question 
of  what  it  would  hold  for  us.  I  can  vouch  for  the  fact  that  Captain 
Hale  slept  like  a  log  from  midnight  till  4  a.  m.,  for  I  was  in  the 
same  bunk,  and  he  had  all  the  blankets.  At  four  we  rose  and  had 
a  cup  of  tea.  Then,  laden  with  first  aid  bags,  water  bottles  and  all 
kinds  of  medical  paraphernalia,  Captain  Hale  and  his  little  staff 
set  off  to  gain  the  farthest  end  of  the  tunnel  before  it  became  con- 
gested with  trafiic.  Punctually  to  the  moment  at  5.30  a.  m.  on 
Easter  Monday  the  concentrated  bombardment  opened  and  the 
earth  rocked  with  its  concussion. 

"  'According  to  his  prearranged  plan  the  doctor,  accompanied 
by  his  lance  corporal,  a  dauntless  boy  of  twenty,  was  to  take  the 
right  half  of  our  battle  area  and  the  medical  sergeant — a  man  of 
proved  courage — was  to  take  the  left.  (What  the  Chaplain  fails 
to  mention,  it  is  only  just  to  a  brave  man  to  say  here,  he  was 
with  the  sergeant  on  the  left. — Ed.)  The  bombardment  was 
hardly  begun  when  I  heard  Captain  Hale  call  and  the  last  I  saw 
of  him  he  was  scaling  the  crater  line  close  in  the  wake  of  the  at- 
tacking wave.  Subsequently  I  learned  from  him  that  he  had  lost 
his  direction  and  gone  too  far  to  the  right,  but,  correcting  this, 
he  swung  back  to  our  own  front  and  with  his  lance  corporal  made 
his  way  through  that  quagmire  of  mud  and  water,  across  ground 
unbelievably  torn  into  yawning  crevasses  and  ridges  of  earth, 
dressing  such  cases  as  he  could  find  and  marking  where  they  lay, 
that  the  stretcher  bearers  might  the  more  readily  locate  them. 

"  'Inside  of  an  hour  he  had  made, his  way  to  a  few  hundred 
yards  behind  the  final  objective,  where  he  was  determined  to 
locate  a  temporary  dressing  station.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  there 
was  not  a  German  dugout  in  the  vicinity  which  Captain  Hale 
did  not  visit  in  his  effort  to  secure  the  best  quarters.  This  in  itself 
was  a  dangerous  business,  as  there  was  no  saying  when  he  might 


An    Honor    Heroically    Won  89 

run  across  a  lurking  and  stubborn  Hun.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  this 
actually  occurred  for,  descending  into  the  darkness  of  an  appar- 
ently abandoned  dugout.  Captain  Hale  was  accosted  by  the  now 
familiar  appeal,  'Mercy' — 'Kamerad.'  Turning  his  ridiculously 
small  flashlight  in  the  direction  of  the  voices,  he  saw  five  unin- 
jured and  able-bodied  Germans.  The  situation  required  tact. 
There  was  no  time  to  parley.  It  was  one  M.  O.  armed  with  a 
flashlight  and  a  pair  of  scissors,  versus  five  truculent  Huns.  Cap- 
tain Hale's  knowledge  of  the  German  tongue  is  limited,  but  prac- 
tical. 'Heraus  mit  you,'  he  shouted  and  the  five,  seeing  the 
ferocity  of  his  glare,  obediently  filed  up  the  stairs. 

"  'In  this  captured  citadel  Captain  Hale  established  himself 
and  labeled  the  entrance  'Aid  Post,'  though,  truth  to  tell,  the 
equipment  was  anything  but  adequate,  being  confined  to  scissors, 
field  dressings,  iodine  and  morphine. 

"  'After  this  came  the  real  test  of  endurance.  The  excitement 
of  attack  wore  off  and  in  its  place  came  the  inevitable  reaction. 
Food  was  scarce  enough.  Happily,  however,  the  original  pos- 
sessors had  left  their  rations  and  the  coffee  for  breakfast,  still 
warm  in  the  pot.  The  menu  for  the  day  consisted  of  German 
bully  beef,  a  suspicious  looking  mess  labelled  artificial  honey,  red 
and  white  wine,  biscuits,  a  sausage  (quite  aged)  and  tinned  vege- 
tables which  were  advertised  as  'goulash.'  During  the  day  the 
medical  supplies  and  rations  were  augmented  by  carrying  parties. 

"  'In  this  filthy  and  damp  station  Captain  Hale  remained  on 
duty  for  some  sixty  hours.  It  was  bitterly  cold,  sleep  was  next 
to  impossible  and  there  were  many  cases  to  be  dressed.  In  addi- 
tion to  this  work.  Captain  Hale  went  on  more  than  one  occasion 
into  the  open  to  help  cases  lying  in  shell  holes  and  trenches. 

"  'Throughout  the  whole  period.  Captain  Hale's  presence  among 
the  men,  and  the  knowledge  that  he  had  followed  to  serve  them, 
were  a  source  of  strength  and  encouragement  to  all.  Haggard 
with  fatigue,  unshaven  and  unwashed  he  went  out  when  the 
brigade  was  relieved  with  a  great  duty  nobly  done. 

"  'And  so  the  Military  Cross  was  awarded  to  our  'Doc'  It  was 
splendidly  won,  and  it  is  to-day  worthily  worn  by  a  man  who  is 
always  where  he  is  needed — always  ready  to  meet  and  conquer 
emergencies.'  " 


THE 

Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Published  by  THE  ALUMNI   COUNCIL  OF  AMHERST  COLLEGE 

John  Franklin  Gentjng,  Editor 

Associate  Editors,  Walter  A.  Dyer  '00,  John  B.  O'Bbien  '05 

Publication  Committee 

Robert  W.  Maynard  '02,  Chairman       Gilbert  H.  Grosvenor  '97 

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under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 


EDITORIAL  NOTES 

BY  way  of  chronicle,  for  future  remembrance  and  reference, 
we  give  here  as  copied  from  The  Library  Journal  for 
December,  1917,  an  account  of  the  dedication  services 
of  the  new  Hbrary : 

The  Converse  Memorial  Library  at  Amherst  College  was  dedi- 
cated on  November  8th,  with  simple  but  impressive  exercises. 
An  academic  procession  of  the  trustees,  faculty  and  invited  guests 
marched  from  the  Pratt  Memorial  Dormitory  to  the  new  building, 
where  the  following  program  was  observed,  George  Arthur 
Plimpton,  president  of  the  board  of  trustees,  presiding: 

Music,  Glee  Club. 

Presentation  of  key,  Edmund  Cogswell  Converse. 

Address,  William  Rutherford  Mead. 

Address,  President  Alexander  Meiklejohn. 

Address,  Herbert  Putnam,  Librarian  of  Congress. 

Music,  Glee  Club. 

Benediction,  Prof.  John  Franklin  Genung. 

The  institutions  represented  by  their  librarians  were  Brown 
University,  Case  Theological  Seminary,  Dartmouth  College,  Mas- 
sachusetts Agricultural  College,  Mount  Holyoke  College,  Prince- 
ton University,  Smith  College,  Trinity  College,  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, Williams  College,  and  Yale  University;   the  public  libra- 


Editorial   Notes  91 

ries  of  Holyoke,  Lynn,  Northampton,  and  Westfield;  and  the 
State  Library  of  Connecticut.  The  Public  Library  Commission 
of  Massachusetts  was  represented  by  its  general  secretary. 

WE  have  an  idea  that  our  graduates,  especially  those  living 
at  a  distance  and  not  able  to  get  back  often,  may  like 
to  realize  not  only  how  new  buildings  look  but  how  they 
are  situated  with  reference  to  other  buildings  or  the  grounds  of 
the  college.  Hence  our  picture  on  the  cover  and  the  last  picture 
in  the  grouped  series,  which  we  have  had  taken  to  show  how  the 
new  library  is  related  to  Pratt  Dormitory,  to  the  old  library  and 
to  the  Common,  and  what  terracing  arrangement  had  accom- 
modated it  to  its  site  on  the  slope  of  the  hill. 

We  are  sorry  not  to  give  a  view  of  the  Clyde  Fitch  room  in  this 
number;  but  a  necessity  that  arose  of  removing  a  large  painting 
that  hung  over  the  mantel,  thus  leaving  a  rough  blank  space,  puts 
the  room  at  present  in  not  the  best  shape  for  photographing. 
The  room,  with  its  Italian  ceiling  and  its  fine  old  marble  mantel, 
not  to  speak  of  its  other  furnishings  so  eloquent  of  Clyde  Fitch's 
exquisite  taste,  will  be  shown  in  some  future  number. 

AS  a  result  of  a  readjustment  of  editorial  duties  and  the 
addition  of  Mr.  O'Brien  to  our  staflf,  a  larger  number  of 
notes  appear  under  the  head  of  "The  Classes"  in  this 
issue  than  ever  before.  This  is  in  response  to  repeated  suggestions 
on  the  part  of  alumni  critics,  and  it  is  generally  agreed  that,  with 
most  of  our  readers,  this  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  and  useful 
departments  of  the  Quarterly. 

We  take  this  occasion  to  recommend  a  more  general  perusal  of 
these  notes — not  merely  a  glance  at  those  classes  where  news  of 
personal  friends  is  most  likely  to  be  found.  Therein  will  often 
appear  important  and  interesting  biographical  data  for  which 
there  is  not  sufficient  space  in  "The  Amherst  Illustrious."  Fur- 
thermore, letters  are  coming  home  from  Amherst  men  at  the  front 
— things  that  would  be  well  worth  printing  in  the  body  of  the 
magazine,  but  which,  because  of  space  limitations,  are  of  necessity 
crowded  into  the  smaller  type  of  the  news  department. 

In  this  connection  the  editors  desire  it  to  be  generally  known 
that  they  are  particularly  anxious  to  receive  copies  of  letters  or 


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extracts  therefrom,  written  to  friends  by  Amherst  men  in  service. 
Amherst  is  doing  her  bit  on  the  battle  line  and  we  at  home  are 
vitally  interested  in  the  boys  "Over  There." 

THE  study  of  German  in  our  public  and  secondary  schools 
is  being  made  the  subject  of  attack,  and  in  some  instances 
is  being  abolished,  on  the  ground  that  this  study,  and  the 
textbooks  used  therewith,  have  been  made  the  vehicle  for  pro- 
German  propaganda.  Whatever  may  be  the  wisdom  of  such  ac- 
tion in  respect  to  the  lower  schools,  it  is  a  question  whether  the 
study  of  the  German  language  and  literature  should  not  be  en- 
couraged in  our  colleges  rather  than  otherwise.  It  may  be  as- 
sumed that  the  American  college  student  is  mature  enough  and 
stanch  enough  to  be  proof  against  such  infection  as  may  be 
inherent  in  the  German  tongue. 

If  we  Americans  had  been  more  familiar  with  German  thought 
as  expressed  in  the  German  writings  of  the  past  thirty  years,  we 
would  have  comprehended  more  fully  that  colossal  ambition  and 
egotism  that  have  plunged  the  world  into  war  and  would  more 
readily  have  grasped  the  significance  of  those  events  which  pre- 
ceded it.  We  might  have  been  better  prepared,  in  short,  to  meet 
the  self-acknowledged  bully  of  mankind. 

And  for  the  future,  when  the  day  of  reconstruction  and  read- 
justment comes  at  last,  there  will  be  need  for  all  the  knowledge 
we  can  meanwhile  acquire  of  the  German  mind.  For  whatever 
may  happen  to  Kaiserdom,  that  mind  will  not  be  destroyed, 
though  it  will  need  a  physician.  It  must  be  cured  of  its  madness 
if  civilization  is  to  be  preserved.  The  task  will  rest  upon  the 
educated  men  of  the  coming  generation,  and  the  more  fully  they 
comprehend  the  nature  of  the  disease,  the  better  will  they  be  able 
to  apply  the  cure. 


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AMHERST  MEN  IN  THE  NATIONAL  SERVICE 
THIRD  INSTALMENT 

Note. — Unless  otherwise  stated  the  date  of  the  following  notes  is  December,  1917. 

ABBREVIATIONS  USED— M.  O.  R.  C.  Medical  Officers  Reserve  Corps;  O.  R.  C. 
Officers  Reserve  Corps;  N.  A.  National  Army;  C.  A.  C.  Coast  Artillery  Corps;  U.  S.  R. 
United  States  Reserve;  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  United  States  Naval  Reserve  Force;  N.  G.  National 
Guard;  F.  A.  Field  Artillery;  A.  A.  F.  S.  American  Ambulance  Field  Service;  R.  D.  N.  R. 
Radio  Division  Naval  Reserve;  M.  E.  R.  Medical  Enlisted  Reserve;  O.  T.  C.  Officers  Train- 
ing Camp. 


'83. — Last  November,  John  B. 
Walker,  Captain,  M.  O.  R.  C,  was  com- 
missioned to  equip  and  direct  a  thous- 
and bed  hospital  for  France. 

'85. — Edward  Breck  is  a  Lieutenant 
Commander  in  the  Navy. 

'86. — Last  August  William  G.  Schauf- 
fler  was  commissioned  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  Medical  Corps,  N.  G.  A.,  and 
assigned  to  the  39th  Division  Infantry, 
Camp  Beauregard  as  Division  Sanitary 
Inspector,  where  he  is  now  stationed. 

'88. — William  B.  Noyes  is  a  contract 
surgeon  with  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. 
Last  fall  he  was  stationed  in  New  York 
City  examining  the  personnel  of  the 
New  York  National  Guard.  He  is  now 
at  the  Base  Hospital,  Camp  Dix. 

'90. — WiUiam  O.  Gilbert  was  com- 
missioned a  Major  last  July  and  is  now 
in  the  Judge  Advocate  General's  De- 
partment, Washington. 

'91. — Thomas  W.  Jackson  is  a  Major 
in  the  M.  R.  C.  At  present  he  is  acting 
as  an  assistant  to  a  Division  Surgeon  at 
Camp  Meade,  Md.  George  A.  Morse 
is  in  command  of  the  U.  S.  S.  Babette, 
Fifth  Naval  District,  Norfolk,  Va.  He 
writes  under  date  of  November  14th: — 


"Never  having  missed  a  vote,  I  secured 
a  war  ballot  from  the  New  York  Secre- 
tary of  State  and  pursuant  to  his  direc- 
tions, on  Election  Day  repaired  on 
board  U.  S.  S.  Nevada,  where  I  was 
welcomed  by  the  Captain  and  asked  to 
take  charge  of  the  New  York  Election 
as  he  had  no  one  to  take  care  of  the 
work.  Having  lots  of  fim,  training  green 
men,  and  preparing  myself  to  go  into 
foreign  service  in  the  Spring." 

Jesse  S.  Reeves  is  a  Captain  in  the 
Aviation  Section.  Rev.  Dr.  John  Tim- 
othy Stone  is  Chaplain  with  rank  of 
Captain  in  charge  of  Camp  Grant  at 
Rockford,  III.  He  spends  five  days  a 
week  on  duty  there. 

'92. — Earl  Comstock  has  a  commis- 
sion as  Captain  in  the  Q.  M.  R.  C, 
U.  S.  A.  At  present  he  is  commanding 
officer  of  Wagon  Co.  No.  327  and  Pack 
Train  No.  327,  a  total  of  112  men. 
George  B.  Shattuck  attended  the  2nd 
R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Plattsburg.  Harry  B. 
Williams  was  commissioned  a  Captain 
in  the  Quartermasters'  Corps,  O,  R.  C. 
in  January,  1917,  and  called  into  active 
service  last  May.  At  present  he  is 
Assistant  to  the  Depot  Quartermaster 
in  Boston. 

'93. — George  L.  Hamilton  was  com- 
missioned a  Major  in  the  Q.  M.  De- 
partment of  the  U.  S.  R.  in  the  fall  of 


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1916.  He  was  on  duty  at  Governors 
Island  from  April  to  August  and  then 
ordered  to  France.  He  is  now  serving 
at  the  headquarters  of  the  General 
Staff  of  the  American  Expeditionary 
Forces. 

'94. — Warren  D.  Brown  is  Captain  in 
the  Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Corps, 
U.  S.  R.  Last  August  Pancoast  Kidder 
was  called  into  service  as  Captain  and 
Adjutant  of  Co.  M,  10th  New  York 
Infantry.  In  December  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Division  Headquarters  and 
assigned  as  Chief  Billeting  Officer.  He 
is  now  acting  assistant  Adjutant  of  the 
27th  Division  at  Camp  Wadsworth. 
Luther  E.  Smith  was  on  November  27th 
made  Captain  of  Artillery  at  the 
R.  O.  T.  C.  Ft.  Sheridan.  Seven  hun- 
dred commissions  were  issued  to  the 
Artillery.  There  were  two  Majors  and 
twenty-two  Captains,  so  this  means 
that  Captain  Smith  was  among  the 
6rst  twenty-four  out  of  seven  hundred. 

'95. — Emmons  Bryant  was  Assistant 
Quartermaster  at  Plattsburg  with  the 
rank  of  Captain  from  April  to  Septem- 
ber, 1917.  Since  September  1st  he  has 
been  Assistant  Camp  Quartermaster  at 
Camp  Upton.  He  is  supply  officer  for 
the  camp.  Robert  B.  Osgood  served 
during  March,  April,  May,  1915,  with 
the  1st  Harvard  Unit,  of  the  American 
Ambulance  in  Paris.  In  May,  1917,  he 
was  commissioned  a  Major  and  went 
to  France  as  the  orthopedic  surgeon  for 
Base  Hospital  No.  5.  Early  this  fall  he 
was  appointed  by  our  Government 
Assistant  Director  of  Military  Ortho- 
pedics for  the  Expeditionary  Forces. 
He  is  a  Major  in  the  M.  R.  C.  and  is  in 
service  in  Europe.  Augustus  Post  has 
recently  returned  from  France  and 
England  where  he  went  on  a  special 
mission  for  the  Aero  Club  of  America. 
Alfred  Roelker  is  Captain  of  the  305th 


Machine  Gim  Battalion,  and  in  October 
was  at  Camp  Upton.  » 

'96.— Merrill  E.  Gates,  Jr.,  is  at  Camp 
Upton,  Yaphank,  where  he  is  2nd 
Lieutenant  in  the  Quartermasters' 
Corps,  receiving  his  commission  last 
August  after  three  months  at  Platts- 
burg. Previous  to  enrolling  at  Platts- 
burg he  was  active  in  the  educational 
campaign  conducted  by  the  Military 
Training  Camps  Association,  speaking 
in  various  eastern  cities  to  explain  and 
arouse  interest  in  the  movement.  Ernest 
S.  Olmsted  is  a  Captain  in  command  of 
Truck  Co.  3,  313th  Ammunition  Train, 
Camp  Dodge,  la.  Edward  F.  Perry 
was  commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant 
M.  R.  C.  in  August  but  has  not  yet  been 
called  into  active  service.  He  is  serving 
as  Examiner  for  a  Connecticut  Exemp- 
tion Board. 

'97. — George  G.  Bradley  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  Ordnance  Reserve 
Corps,  attached  to  a  Division  of  the 
American  Ordnance  Base  Depot  in 
France.  His  address  is  613  G.  Street, 
N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C.  Major 
Kendall  Emerson,  R.  O.  M.  C,  who  has 
been  at  General  Hospital  No.  22  in 
France  with  the  Harvard  Unit  for  the 
past  year,  has  returned  home  for  a  two 
months'  leave.  Since  September,  he 
had  been  at  Casualty  Clearing  Station 
No.  10  near  Peperinghe  in  Belgium  in 
the  region  where  very  heavy  fighting 
has  been  taking  place  through  the  fall. 
Captain  Jerome  P.  Jackson,  Engineers, 
U.  S.  A.,  is  in  France. 

'98.— Walter  H.  Eddy  is  a  Captain  in 
the  Food  Division,  Sanitary  Corps, 
National  Army.  He  was  commissioned 
September  21,  1917,  and  is  permanently 
stationed  in  the  Surgeon  General's 
Office,  Washington.  The  work  con- 
sists of  special  details  which  includes 
food  surveys  of  national  army  and  na- 


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tional  guard  camps.  Up  to  the  present 
time  work  has  been  confined  to  camps 
in  this  country  but  is  soon  to  be  ex- 
tended to  camps  abroad.  He  has  had 
personal  charge  of  a  detail  consisting  of 
three  first  Lieutenants  and  four  enlisted 
men  and  with  this  detail  has  been  con- 
tinuously in  the  field  and  has  made  a 
study  of  food  conditions  in  six  of  the 
southern  camps.  Dr.  Nellis  B.  Foster 
is  a  major  in  charge  of  the  Medical  De- 
partment at  Ft.  Meade,  Md.  Frederick 
W.  Goddard  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  and 
Aide  de  Camp  to  Brigadier-General 
W.  C.  Rafferty  who  is  in  command  of 
the  54th  Brigade  of  F.  A.  in  the  29th 
Division  (Blue  &  Gray  Division). 
Albert  Mossman  enlisted  in  Co.  D., 
104th  Infantry,  Conn.  N.  G.  in  January, 
1901.  He  was  made  a  Lieutenant  in 
February,  1908,  and  a  Captain  in  May, 
1909.  Last  July  he  was  called  into  the 
Federal  Service.  He  was  Captain  of 
the  6th  Co.  Conn.  C.  A.  N.  G.  and  later 
changed  to  the  35th  Co.,  Long  Island 
Sound,  Ft.  Terry.  Henry  E.  Tobey  is  a 
member  of  the  5th  Battery,  Veteran 
Corps  of  Artillery,  which  has  recently 
been  made  a  part  of  the  23rd  Regiment, 
New  York  Guard. 

'99. — Harry  A.  Bullock  is  a  Captain, 
Q.  M.  U.  S.  R.  now  at  Base  Hospital 
No.  5,  France.  Charles  I.  De  Witt  is  in 
charge  of  the  Supply  Division  of  the 
Ordnance  Department.  Harrison  T. 
Swain,  Captain  U.  S.  Marine  Corps,  Re- 
tired, is  now  on  active  duty  recruiting  in 
Los  Angeles.  He  is  in  charge  of  the  re- 
cruiting district  of  Southern  California, 
Arizona,  and  New  Mexico. 

'00. — James  F.  Connor  is  a  Lieuten- 
ant, Senior  Grade  in  the  Naval  Pay 
Corps  in  the  Bureau  of  Supplies  and 
Accounts  of  the  Navy  Department. 
Thomas  J.  Hammond  has  been  in  the 
Massachusetts    National    Guard   since 


1902.  He  was  called  out  in  February, 
1917,  and  guarded  bridges  in  Williman- 
sett  and  on  the  Vermont  line  until  called 
to  the  Greenfield  encampment.  From 
there  he  was  ordered  to  Camp  Bartlett, 
Westfield.  On  September  25,  1917,  he 
was  entrained  with  troops  for  Canada 
to  embark  for  France.  He  is  now  in 
France.  E.  St.  John  Ward,  M.D.,  has 
been  Assistant  to  Major  Alexander 
Lambert,  Director  of  the  Military, 
Medical  and  Surgical  Division  of  the 
Department  of  Military  AfiFairs  of  the 
Red  Cross  Commission  for  France.  He 
returned  to  this  country  just  before 
Christmas  on  a  brief  furlough. 

'01. — William  S.  Hatch  is  a  Captain, 
and  in  November  was  stationed  at 
Camp  Gordon.  Major  Harry  V.  D. 
Moore  is  adjutant  of  the  57th  Infantry 
Brigade,  29th  Division  N.  G.  and  sta- 
tioned at  Camp  McCIellan. 

'02. — Charles  W.  Anderson,  Jr.,  sailed 
for  France  last  May.  He  served  for  six 
months  with  the  French  Army  as  an 
Ambulance  driver  in  the  A.  A.  F.  S., 
attached  to  Section  28,  returning  to  this 
country  in  November. 

'03. — Gouvernour  H.  Boyer  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  M.  O.  R.  C.  He  was  as- 
signed by  the  Federal  Government  to 
the  British  Service,  and  after  a  month 
in  Eastbourne,  England,  was  assigned 
to  duty  in  France  in  the  field  with  the 
British  Expeditionary  Force.  He  is  now 
in  charge  of  a  Receiving  Hospital. 
Chester  E.  Burg  was  appointed  2nd 
Lieutenant  Q.  M.  C.  at  the  1st  R.  O. 
T.  C.  Ft.  Riley.  Stanley  King  has  been 
chairman  of  the  Saddlery  Adjustment 
Commission  at  Washington,  which  has 
to  do  with  the  ordering  and  allotting  of 
harnesses,  etc.  He  is  now  Assistant  to 
the  Secretary  of  War.  Paul  S.  Phalen 
is  a  2nd  Lieutenant,  F.  A.  U.  S.  N.  A, 


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Foster  W.  Stearns  received  his  commis- 
sion as  1st  Lieutenant  at  the  2nd  Platts- 
burg  Camp. 

'04. — The  following  are  extracts  from 
a  letter  from  Dr.  Heman  B.  Chase, 
written  in  London  on  December  6th: 
"After  nearly  four  months  in  France  I 
am  now  here  in  London  having  an 
American  uniform  made,  as  I  have  been 
made  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Medical 
Ofiicers  Reserve  Corps,  U.  S.  A.  As 
soon  as  I  get  my  outfit  I  expect  to  be 
sent  for  a  time  to  Southampton.  About 
4.30  this  morning  Boche  planes  came 
over.  The  anti-air-gun  barrage  awoke 
me  and  continued  for  quite  a  period. 
As  far  as  I  can  learn  only  incendiary 
bombs  were  dropped.  They  say  the 
planes  were  near  here.  .  .  .  On 
August  5th  I  landed  in  France  and  on 
the  6th  arrived  at  our  camp  at  the 
center  of  several  hospitals  and  a 
machine-gun  encampment.  Our  mess 
was  composed  of  Americans.  When  I 
arrived  Kendall  Emerson  '97  was  in 
charge  of  the  surgical  service.  Next 
door  to  us  was  the  Boston  LTnit,  of 
which  Bullock  '99  was  quartermaster 
and  Morton  '07  a  member.  Later 
Jimmie  Worcester  '06  joined  them.  So 
I  got  into  some  Amherst  atmosphere. 
Two  numbers  of  the  Graduates' 
Quarterly  reached  us,  one  with  the 
picture  of  Emmie,  Nungie,  and  Tip. 
There  was  other  than  an  Amherst  at- 
mosphere, however.  A  Boche  came 
over  one  morning  to  take  photos, 
returning  that  night  to  drop  bombs 
with  deadly  effect  on  the  Boston  Unit. 
My  tent  was  about  fifty  yards  from 
that  of  Fitzsimmons,  who  was  blown  to 
bits.  While  standing  out  in  front,  try- 
ing to  see  the  Boche,  I  missed  a  piece 
of  shrapnel  which  passed  through  the 
center  of  my  tent.  Not  one  of  our  own 
men  was  injured,  however.  Fritz  came 
over  several  other  days  but  never 
bombed  us  again,  though  we  had 
numerous  nightly  warnings.  Our  hospi- 
tal was  a  big  one  and  we  received  many 
wounded,  anywhere  from  thirty-six 
hours  on  after  their  wounds  were  re- 
ceived. The  Tommies  and  the  Terri- 
torials are  a  fine  lot;  they  will  never 
give  in  to  Fritz." 

'05. — Dr.  Ralph  H.  Hewitt  is  now  in 


France  as  Captain  in  the  M.  R.  C. 
Captain  Vancleve  Holmes  is  at  Camp 
Sherman,  in  the  7th  Training  Battalion. 

'OG. — Robert  C.  Powell  applied  for  a 
commission  in  the  Infantry  O.  R.  C. 
the  latter  part  of  November,  1916.  He 
was  examined  at  Governor's  Island  in 
December  and  in  April  he  was  commis- 
sioned a  Captain  U.  S.  R.  (Infantry) 
and  ordered  to  active  duty  at  Ft.  Myer. 
He  took  a  course  at  the  O.  T.  C.  Ft. 
Myer,  and  in  August  was  ordered  to 
Camp  Lee,  Va.,  and  assigned  to  the 
318th  Inf.  N.  A.  He  was  subsequently 
assigned  to  command  Co.  "I,"  3rd 
Battalion,  318th  Infantry.  Vernon 
Priddy  received  a  commission  as  1st 
Lieutenant  Inf.  U.  S.  R.  at  the  2nd 
R.  O.  T.  C.  Plattsburg.  James  N. 
Worcester  was  commissioned  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  M.  O.  R.  C.  in  the 
spring  of  1917  and  since  last  summer  has 
been  assigned  to  the  Royal  British 
Medical  Corps  in  France. 

"07. — Frank  A.  Deroin  attended  the 
2nd  R.  O.  T.  C.  Plattsburg.  R.  Jewett 
Jones  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  Co.  3,  110th 
Ammunition  Train  stationed  at  Camp 
Doniphan,  Ft.  Sill,  Okla.  Wilkins  Jones 
is  a  Captain  of  Inf.  at  Camp  Fimston. 
Walter  F.  Pond  attended  the  2nd 
R.  O.  T.  C.  Plattsburg  and  was  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  En- 
gineering Corps.  Just  before  he  sailed 
for  France  last  December  he  was  com- 
missioned Captain  of  Co.  B,  30th  En- 
gineers which  is  better  known  as  the 
"Gas  and  Flame  Battalion."  Robert 
H.  Scott  is  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

'08. — Philip  H.  Burt  is  a  Sergeant  in 
the  Quartermasters  Corps.  Daniel  B. 
Jones  attended  the  2nd  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Plattsburg.  Hildeburn  Jones  attended 
the  2nd  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft.  Benjamin 


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Harrison  and  was  commissioned  a  1st 
Lieutenant  O.  R.  C.  He  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  Camp  Sherman.  Robert  H 
Kennedy  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  M.  O.  R.  C. 
and  in  December  was  in  General  Hospi- 
tal No.  2,  France.  He  sailed  for  France 
May  15th,  and  since  then  has  been  in 
active  service,  part  of  the  time  at  the 
front  and  part  at  the  Base  Hospital. 
Ralph  L.  Loomis  is  completing  his  train- 
ing in  Aviation  in  France.  Arthur  P. 
Paine  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Ord- 
nance Department  and  is  at  the  Sandy 
Hook  Proving  Ground  doing  experi- 
mental work,  testing  devices  submitted 
to  the  government  for  army  use.  M. 
Hayward  Post,  Jr.,  is  stationed  at 
Macon,  Ga.,  with  the  Regular  Army. 
Kenneth  B.  Shute  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant, 
Battery  E.,  303rd  F.  A.,  Camp  Devens. 
James  T.  Sleeper  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in 
the  Quartermasters  Department  and  is 
stationed  at  Camp  Johnston,  Jackson- 
ville, Fla. 

'09. — Edward  L.  Chapin  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  Signal  R.  C.  and  is  in 
Co.  C,  302nd  Field  Signal  Battalion, 
Camp  f  pton,  N.  Y.  Robert  C.  Chapin 
enlisted  in  March  in  the  Naval  Militia 
and  since  June  has  been  on  the  U.  S.  S. 
Payither  in  foreign  waters.  This  is  the 
mother  ship  for  the  destroyer  fleet. 
George  Dowd  was  at  Plattsburg  and 
received  a  commission  as  2nd  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Field  Artillery.  He  is  now 
stationed  at  Camp  Devens,  in  the 
301st  F.  A.  Last  November  Elliott  O. 
Foster  received  a  commission  as  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  Sanitary  Corps  and 
was  ordered  to  report  to  the  Medical 
Supply  Depot,  New  York  City.  He  is 
now  stationed  at  the  Overseas  Casual 
Camp,  Ft.  Jay,  Governors  Island.  He 
is  in  a  Financial  and  Accounting  Unit 
designed  to  handle  business  in  France 
for  the  Medical  Department.     Gordon 


R.  Hall  is  at  Ft.  Sheridan.  William  E. 
Hill  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  Inf.  N.  A.  C. 
Clothier  Jones  is  president  of  the  Avia- 
tion Examining  Board  and  Accountable 
Officer  in  charge  of  the  Signal  Corps, 
Aviation  School,  Essington.  Albert  F. 
Pierce,  Jr.,  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
New  York  Hospital  Unit  in  August, 
1917.  He  was  promoted  to  a  sergeant 
in  September,  while  en  route  to  France. 
He  was  again  promoted  in  November 
and  is  in  charge  of  the  Surgical  Depart- 
ment of  Base  Hospital  No.  9,  American 
Expeditionary  Forces,  France.    William 

A.  Vollmer  joined  the  2nd  Provisional 
Training  Regiment,  Plattsburg  and  in 
August  was  commissioned  a  2nd  Lieu- 
tenant, F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  He  reported  at 
Camp  Upton  and  was  assigned  to  the 
306th  F.  A.,  Battery  A.  where  he  is  now 
stationed.  William  H.  Wright  is  a  2nd 
Lieutenant,  Inf.  in  France. 

'10. — Lindsay  C.  Amos  was  commis- 
sioned a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  Field 
Artillery  at  the  2nd  Plattsburg  Camp 
and  in  December  reported  at  Camp  Dix. 
Joseph  B.  Bisbee,  Jr.,  was  commissioned 
a  Captain  at  the  2nd  Plattsburg  Camp 
and  is  stationed  in  the  316th  Infantry, 
at  Camp  Meade.  Pierre  Drewsen  won 
his  commission  as  Captain  of  Infantry 
at  the  2nd  Ft.  Myer  Training  Camp. 
He  served  with  the  7th  Regiment  as  a 
Corporal  on  the  Mexican  border  and  has 
won  several  silver  cups  and  medals  as 
an  expert  rifle  shot.  Captain  Drewsen's 
grandfather  fought  against  Germany 
with  the  Swedish  Army  in  1846.  Graham 

B.  Jacobus  has  been  made  a  Lieutenant 
and  is  attached  to  the  341st  Inf.  Camp 
Grant.  Sterling  W.  Pratt  is  a  2nd 
Lieutenant  in  the  Quartermaster's  De- 
partment and  is  now  stationed  at  Camp 
Johnston.  Bertram  C.  Schellenberg  is 
in  the  Flying  Cadet  Aviation  Corps. 
Eustace  Seligman  is  a  private  in  the 


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1st  Co.,  152nd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp 
Upton.  Charles  W.  Turner,  Jr.,  is  a 
2nd  Lieutenant,  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  John  B. 
Warner,  who  has  been  in  active  service 
in  the  United  States  Army  for  the  past 
18  months,  5  months  of  which  period 
was  spent  on  the  Texas  border,  is  now 
1st  Lieutenant  of  Inf.  in  France.  Harold 
E.  Woodward  is  a  Major  Inf.  O.  R.  C. 

'11. — Richard  P.  Abele  is  a  Captain, 
Q.  M.  O.  R.  C.  stationed  at  Camp 
Sherman.  William  Bailey  attended  the 
2nd  Plattsburg  Camp.  George  Win- 
throp  Brainerd  is  a  private  in  U.  S.  A. 
Base  Hospital  No.  9.  This  unit  was 
organized  by  the  New  York  Hospital 
and  sailed  for  France  August  7,  1917. 
William  F.  Corry  sailed  for  France  in 
June,  1917,  as  a  member  of  the  A.A.F.S. 
He  has  signed  for  the  duration  of  the 
War.  Gordon  T.  Fish  received  a  com- 
mission as  2nd  Lieutenant  at  the  1st 
Plattsburg  Camp.  From  August  to 
December  he  was  in  the  301st  Inf.  Camp 
Devens.  At  present  he  is  serving  in  the 
1st  N.  H.  Inf.,  Camp  Greene.  Paul  C. 
Jacobs  is  in  training  as  a  Radio  Operator 
in  the  1st  Regiment,  Co.  H,  Barracks 
27,  South,  Camp  Dewey.  Thomas  Leo 
Kane  passed  his  examinations  in  June 
for  Assistant  Paymaster  in  the  Navy. 
He  enrolled  August  2nd  with  the  rank 
of  Ensign.  He  is  stationed  in  the 
Bureau  of  Supplies  and  Accounts  in 
Washington.  John  H.  Keyes  is  with  the 
20th  Regiment  Engineers  (Forest)  N.  A.; 
and  is  probably  in  France.  Hubert  H. 
Loomis  is  serving  as  a  private  in  Battery 
A.  U.  S.  A.,  and  is  now  in  France. 
Arthur  D.  Patterson  was  commissioned 
a  1st  Lieutenant  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  in  Janu- 
ary, 1917,  and  was  on  active  duty  from 
May  to  August  at  Ft.  Benjamin  Harri- 
son at  the  1st  Training  Camp.  Last 
August  he  was  commissioned  a  Major 
of  Infantry,  O.  R.  C,  and  assigned  to 


the  330th  Infantry,  93rd  Division, 
N.  A.,  Camp  Sherman,  where  he  is  now 
stationed.  Eugene  R.  Pennock  is  in 
the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  Aviation  Section. 
At  present  he  is  on  inactive  duty  await- 
ing orders  to  report  to  the  Ground 
School  for  Flying  at  M.  I.  T.  Charles 
B.  Rugg  is  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  School  for 
Ensigns  at  Harvard.  Richard  B.  Scand- 
rett  was  accepted  in  the  Aviation  Sec- 
tion of  the  Signal  Corps  and  is  now 
awaiting  orders  at  the  Aviation  Camp 
for  officers.  Ft.  Omaha.  Waldo  Shum- 
way  is  1st  Lieutenant  Co.  M,  103rd  In- 
fantry and  is  now  in  France.  Donald 
P.  Smith  was  from  March  to  December, 
1917,  Assistant  Paymaster,  U.S.N.R.F. 
on  duty  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Station  Key 
West,  Fla.  He  is  now  stationed  on  the 
U.  S.  S.  Martha  Washington,  as  Assistant 
Paymaster. 

'12. — William  C.  Atwater,  Jr.,  is 
Chief  Yoeman  of  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and 
is  stationed  at  the  N.  Y.  Navy  Yard. 
Wilbur  F.  Burt  is  in  Co.  B,  11th  En- 
gineers in  France,  and  has  been  in  an 
advanced  Sector  during  the  recent 
engagements  in  which  the  Engineers 
participated.  With  him  is  C.  C.  Bene- 
dict, 1913.  Harold  W.  Crandall  is  a 
1st  Lieutenant  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  H.  Gordon 
de  Chasseaud  joined  the  2nd  Plattsburg 
Camp  August,  1917,  received  a  commis- 
sion as  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation  Sec- 
tion, S.  C.  R.  and  reported  to  Camp 
Kelly,  San  Antonio,  for  duty  in  Decem- 
ber. He  was  in  charge  of  the  Belgian 
Relief  in  Belgium  for  over  a  year.  Allan 
W.  Cook,  after  training  at  Ft.  Sheridan, 
received  a  commission  as  2nd  Lieuten- 
ant. In  September  he  was  sent  to  Ft. 
Sam  Houston  with  the  19th  U.  S.  Inf. 
At  present  he  is  guarding  oil  wells  at 
Goose  Creek.  Harry  F.  Dann,  in  No- 
vember, was  Sergeant  in  the  Head- 
quarter's   Company  of  the   119th  In- 


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fantry  at  Greenville,  S.  C,  Camp  Sevier. 
Claude  Hubbard  is  in  the  14th  Co. 
4th  Battalion,  Depot  Brigade,  Camp 
Devens.  Lloyd  Jones  joined  the  1st 
Hospital  Corps  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in 
October,  1916.  He  was  at  Camp  Willis 
as  Hospital  interne  and  detailed  to 
Camp  Perry  with  the  sick  when  the 
command  went  to  Mexico.  In  1917  he 
was  at  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison  and  from 
there  went  to  Camp  Sheridan  as  1st 
Sergeant  of  the  3rd  Field  Ambulance 
Co.  of  Cincinnati.  In  November  he 
was  furloughed  to  complete  his  medical 
course  at  the  University  of  Cincinnati, 
and  when  he  obtains  his  degree  in  June, 
1918,  will  be  in  the  M.  R.  C.  William 
S.  Lahey  received  a  commission  as 
Lieutenant  after  training  at  Madison 
Barracks.  He  was  assigned  to  the  311th 
Infantry,  Camp  Dix,  where  he  is  now 
stationed.  1st  Lieutenant  John  H. 
Madden  has  been  appointed  Judge 
Advocate  of  the  302nd  Massachusetts 
Infantry  and  at  present  is  located  at 
Camp  Devens.  L.  J.  Moller  is  in  the 
Naval  Reserve  on  Coast  Patrol  Duty. 
George  H.  Nichols  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
Inf.  O.  R.  C.  DeWitt  H.  Parsons  en- 
listed September  12,  1914,  in  the  Head- 
quarter's  Company,  1st  Regiment, 
N.  Y.  Infantry.  He  was  Battalion 
Sergeant  Major  June  18,  1916,  and 
honorably  discharged  May  20,  1917. 
He  then  enlisted  in  the  O.  T.  C.  Madi- 
son Barracks,  N.  Y.,  and  was  assigned 
to  Co.  1.  He  was  discharged  August 
15,  1917,  and  commissioned  a  Captain, 
O.  R.  C.  He  reported  for  duty  at  Camp 
Dix,  N.  J.,  August  29,  1917,  was  as- 
signed to  Co.  "  C,"  309th  Infantry  and 
is  in  command  of  that  company  at  pres- 
ent. Alfred  B.  Peacock  is  an  Assistant 
Paymaster,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  with  the 
rank  of  Ensign.  Charles  Kingman 
Perkins  is  in  France  training  in  Military 
Aviation.     William  Siegrist,  Jr.,  went 


to  Camp  Upton  in  September,  1917. 
In  November  he  was  made  a  Sergeant 
of  Co.  B,  305th  Infantry.  Edward  B. 
Vollmer  is  in  the  Navy  Unit  Base  Hospi- 
tal No.  1  in  France.  Sargent  Wellman 
was  at  the  second  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Platts- 
burg,  and  received  a  commission  as  1st 
Lieutenant. 

'13. — Geoffrey  Atkinson  left  New 
York  in  May,  1917,  with  the  Columbia 
Presbyterian  Hospital  Unit.  He  served 
in  France  as  Corporal  and  Sergeant  until 
October  when  he  was  sent  to  England 
to  serve  in  the  American  Red  Cross 
Military  Hospital  No.  4  at  Liverpool. 
Harold  M.  Bixby  has  joined  the  Balloon 
Corps  but  has  not  yet  been  called  into 
active  service.  According  to  last  reports 
received  from  Louis  G.  Caldwell,  he 
may  take  out  an  ambulance  section  in 
the  Alps  this  winter.  Letters  for  him 
should  be  addressed  care  of  Morgan, 
Harjes  &  Co.,  31  Boulevard  Haussman, 
Paris.  Walter  W.  Coyle  is  a  lieutenant 
in  the  Cadet  Flying  Corps.  Benjamin 
W.  Estabrook  attended  the  1st  Platts- 
burg  Camp  and  in  August  was  commis- 
sioned a  2d  Lieutenant  and  ordered  to 
Camp  Devens.  Later  he  was  sent  to 
Camp  Bordon  near  Toronto  for  instruc- 
tion in  Atrial  Machine  Gun  Work,  and 
then  to  Ft.  Sill,  Okla.  He  is  now  chief 
instructor  at  the  Wilbur  Wright  Field, 
Fairfield,  Ohio.  In  May,  1917,  Henry 
S.  Loomis  entered  the  O.  T.  C.  at  Madi- 
son Barracks.  He  was  selected  for 
service  in  Aviation  and  sent  to  the 
Training  School  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  for 
ground  work  in  Aviation.  In  September 
he  was  ordered  to  France  to  complete 
his  training  there.  Second  Lieutenant 
Arthur  J.  Mealand,  Jr.,  is  with  the  322d 
F.  A.  at  Camp  Sherman.  Edward  S. 
Morse  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  in 
April,  1917,  and  was  appointed  Cox- 
swain on  the  U.  S.  S.  Vedette,  a  subma- 


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rine  patrol.  He  is  now  in  active  service. 
Last  August  Hammond  Pride  was  com- 
missioned a  2d  Lieutenant  Inf.  He  was 
assigned  to  the  111th  Inf.  and  is  now 
stationed  at  Camp  Hancock.  George 
Scatchard  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
Sanitary  Corps,  V.  S.  N.  A.  Last  De- 
cember Nelson  Stone  was  commissioned 
a  2d  Lieutenant  after  finishing  his 
course  at  the  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Niagara. 
He  is  now  stationed  at  Camp  Merritt. 
James  A.  Tilden,  Jr.,  has  enlisted  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  is  at  Newport. 
Douglas  Urquhart  is  a  Corporal  in  Co. 
D,  104th  Inf.  and  is  now  in  France. 
Wallace  Leonard  was  at  the  2d  R.  O.  T. 
C,  Plattsburg.  Charles  H.  Wadhams 
joined  Troop  H,  1st  New  York  Cavalry 
in  December,  1915.  He  was  ordered  to 
Texas  in  June,  1916,  and  mustered  out 
in  March,  1917.  He  was  called  out 
again  in  July,  1917,  and  transferred  to 
Co.  A,  106th  Machine  Gun  Battalion, 
Camp  Wadsworth.  Hunt  Warner  was 
at  Plattsburg  and  received  a  commission 
as  2d  Lieutenant  O.  R.  C.  He  was  or- 
dered to  Camp  Mills  and  assigned  to 
Co.  M,  165th  Infantry  42d  Division. 
He  sailed  for  France  in  October.  Since 
the  latter  part  of  November  he  nas  been 
attending  a  British  school  for  officers 
and  non-coms. 

'14. — Frank  A.  Bernero  received  a 
commission  as  1st  Lieutenant  Inf.  U.  S. 
R.  and  reported  for  duty  at  Camp  Dix. 
Frank  C.  Brough  was  accepted  in  De- 
cember, 1917,  for  the  Marine  Corps. 
He  was  placed  in  charge  of  a  company 
of  rookies  and  reached  Paris  Island, 
S.  C,  December  14th.  After  passing 
the  final  examination  there,  he  is  now 
a  Private  in  Co.  67,  Marine  Barracks, 
Paris  Island,  S.  C.  Donald  H.  Brown 
joined  Battery  B  of  the  1st  Minnesota 
Field  Artillery  in  January,  1916.  When 
the  orders  came  for  mobilizing  in  June, 


1916,  he  was  quartered  at  Ft.  Snelling 
where  he  remained  drilling  and  training 
until  September  when  he  was  sent  with 
his  regiment  to  Llano  Grande,  Texas. 
He  was  promoted  to  Corporal  and  then 
discharged  on  his  return  in  March.  He 
again  enlisted  and  was  a  member  of  the 
1st  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft.  Snelling,  where 
he  received  a  commission  as  2d  Lieu- 
tenant. He  reported  to  the  17th  Field 
Artillery,  U.  S.  A.  at  Camp  Robinson 
in  August  and  was  there  until  he  sailed 
for  France  some  time  in  December. 
Dwight  N.  Clark  is  an  officer  of  trans- 
portation and  is  at  Camp  Devens. 
Robert  N.  Cowham  is  in  the  Aviation 
Corps.  Ralph  M.  Darrin  entered  the 
2d  Plattsburg  R.  O.  T.  C.  last  August 
and  was  commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant 
in  November.  He  is  now  specializing 
at  the  Springfield  Armory  in  the  opera- 
tion of  all  kinds  of  Machine  Guns. 
Frank  C.  Finch  is  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
U.  S.  Infantry.  Cecil  J.  Hall  was  at  the 
2d  Plattsburg  Camp.  Maynard  H. 
Hall  enlisted  last  June  and  was  ordered 
to  Ft.  Slocum.  He  has  since  been  at 
Camp  Robinson,  Ft.  Benjamin  Harri- 
son, and  at  Camp  Greene  where  he  is 
now  stationed.  He  is  a  Private  in  Bat- 
tery D,  16th  F.  A.  He  has  made  appli- 
cation for  the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C.  Paul  W. 
Hardy  is  a  Cadet  at  Love  Flying  Field, 
Dallas,  Texas.  Austin  H.  Hersh  is  di- 
recting the  2d  New  Jersey  Band  at 
Camp  McClellan,  Anniston,  Ala.  Louis 
Huthsteiner  is  Lieutenant  in  the  307th 
Infantry  and  is  stationed  at  Camp  L^p- 
ton.  Harold  E.  Jewett  is  a  Lieutenant 
F.  A.,  48th  Co.  12th  Brigade,  Camp  Lee. 
Herbert  B.  Johnson  is  Corporal  in  the  U. 
S.  A.  Signal  Corps  Reserves  (radio),  308th 
Field  Battery,  Camp  Sherman.  Rich- 
ard M.  Kimball  was  at  Plattsburg  in 
May  and  at  Fortress  Munroe  during 
June,  July  and  August.  He  was  made 
a  Provisional  2nd  Lieutenant  and  sta- 


Amherst   Men  in  the  National  Service   101 


tioned  at  Ft.  Warren,  31st  Co.  Boston, 
C.  A.  C.  He  is  now  a  regular  2nd  Lieu- 
tenant and  is  stationed  at  Ft.  Andrew. 
Lieutenant  Colin  Livingstone's  address 
is  348th  F.  A.,  Camp  Lewis,  American 
Lake,  Wash.  Walter  H.  McGay  gradu- 
ated from  the  2nd  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft. 
Sheridan  with  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant 
F.  A.  and  was  ordered  to  report  for 
service  abroad.  He  is  now  in  France. 
Charles  Mills  was  at  the  2nd  R.  O.  T.  C. 
at  Ft.  Myer.  Charles  P.  Rugg  received 
a  commission  as  1st  Lieutenant  Inf., 
U.  S.  R.  at  the  2nd  Plattsbiu-g  Camp. 
He  is  now  awaiting  his  assignment. 
Marlor  B.  Seymour  received  a  commis- 
sion as  2nd  Lieutenant  Quartermasters' 
Corps  at  Plattsburg  in  August,  1917. 
He  was  stationed  at  Camp  Devens  from 
September  to  December  and  then  trans- 
ferred to  Camp  Johnston,  Fla.  Lowell 
Shumway  is  2nd  Lieutenant  308th  Inf., 
stationed  at  Camp  LTpton.  Walton  K. 
Smith  was  in  the  A.  A.  F.  S.  in  France. 
Fred  W.  Stafford  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in 
the  Infantry  and  is  stationed  at  Camp 
Dix.  John  J.  Tierney  is  a  Corporal  in 
the  Ordnance  Department  and  is  now 
in  France.  R.  S.  Van  Ingen  is  a  Sergeant 
in  the  Quartermaster's  Corps  stationed 
at  Camp  Meade.  George  E.  Washburn 
was  at  two- thirds  of  the  1st  Plattsburg 
Training  Camp  until  dismissed  owing 
to  supposed  physical  disability.  He 
received  a  1st  Lieutenancy  in  the  F.  A. 
at  the  2nd  Plattsburg  Camp  and  is  now 
in  the  301st  F.  A.  Camp  Devens.  George 
H.  Wiltsie  Jr.  has  enlisted  in  the 
Quartermaster's  Department.  He  was 
assigned  temporarily  to  Ft.  Slocum, 
N.  Y. 

'15. — Walter  R.  Agard  enlisted  Sep- 
tember 18th  as  a  member  of  the  18th 
Co.  5th  Battalion  Depot  Brigade,  76th 
Division  N.  A.  On  October  1st  he  was 
attached  to  Headquarter's  Troop,  7Glh 


Division,  Camp  Devens.  John  J.  At- 
water  enlisted  in  the  A.  A.  F.  S.  and 
sailed  for  France,  April  28,  1917.  He 
was  made  a  1st  Sergeant  in  June  and 
a  1st  Lieutenant  in  August.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  hundred  men  in  an 
American  fighting  force  in  France  and 
was  Sergeant  of  the  company  that  raised 
the  first  American  flag  not  connected 
with  the  flags  of  other  countries.  He 
returned  to  America  last  November, 
enlisted  in  the  LT.  S.  Navy,  and  is  now 
stationed  at  Newport,  R.  I.  In  1916 
Ralph  B.  Babcock  was  with  Troop  H, 
1st  N.  Y.  Cavalry.  He  attended  the 
U.  S.  Ground  Aviation  School  in  Ithaca 
and  sailed  for  France  in  October,  1917, 
to  attend  the  Flying  School.  He  is  at 
present  in  France  in  the  Aviation  Sec- 
tion, S.  E.  R.  C.  Richard  Bacon  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  Prov.  2nd  Lieu- 
tenant F.  A.  and  has  been  ordered  to 
France.  Richard  S.  Banfield  is  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  Co.  F,  351st  Inf.,  Camp 
Dodge.  Max  A.  Bengs  was  at  the  2nd 
R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Plattsbiu-g.  Hampton 
Bonner  is  in  the  46th  Co.  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps  at  Portsmouth,  Va.  Francis  J, 
Burke  enlisted  last  June  in  the  U.  S. 
A.  A.  S.,  Section  12,  Battalion  24. 
Since  October  he  has  been  attached  to 
a  division  of  the  French  Army  in  service 
on  the  Aisne  front.  Warren  A.  Breck- 
enridge  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  F.  A. 
at  Camp  Logan.  J.  Gerald  Cole  was  at 
Ft.  Wright,  Fishers  Island  in  October 
working  with  a  company  of  regulars  on 
a  twelve-inch  mortar  battery.  He  has 
acted  as  major  in  the  drilling  of  a  bat- 
talion of  the  regular  army.  James  W. 
Craig  served  at  the  front  in  the  A.  A.  F. 
S.  from  July  to  September,  1917.  From 
September  to  October  he  was  at  the 
Officer's  School  (Automobile  Service)  at 
Meaux,  and  is  now  awaiting  a  U.  S. 
Commission  as  Lieutenant  Q.  M.  C, 
Motor  Supply  Division  attached  to  the 


102       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 


French  Army.  Chester  S.  Day  joined 
the  third  Canadian  General  Hospital 
C.  A.  M.  C.  in  April,  1915.  He  served 
in  this  Corps  in  France  from  November, 
1915,  to  August,  1916.  He  was  with  the 
Canadian  Reserve  Artillery,  Shorncliffe, 
England,  as  Lieutenant  up  to  July,  1917, 
and  then  with  the  Royal  Naval  Air 
Service  as  Probationary  Flight  Officer 
up  to  October,  1917,  when  he  was  hon- 
orably discharged  from  that  branch  of 
the  service.  Everett  W.  Fuller  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  Sanitary  Corps,  National 
Army,  assigned  to  the  Gas  Defense 
Service.  Arthur  P.  Goodwin  enlisted 
in  August,  1917,  and  is  now  a  Sergeant 
in  the  117th  A6ro  Squadron,  Aviation 
Section,  Signal  Corps.  Gordon  R.  Hall 
is  in  France  in  the  Overseas  Section  No. 
1  of  the  Gas  Defense  Service.  George 
C.  Harding  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  Inf., 
O.  R.  C.  George  H.  Hubner  received 
a  commission  as  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
Infantry  at  the  2nd  Plattsbiu-g  Camp 
and  is  now  stationed  at  Camp  Dix. 
Henry  M.  Kimball  is  a  Government 
inspector  in  the  Navy  Department  and 
is  located  at  The  Morse  Dry  Dock  & 
Repair  Co.  Newton  M.  Kimball  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  2nd  Lieutenant 
F.  A.  at  the  1st  Plattsburg  Camp  and 
was  at  once  sent  to  France  for  further 
training.  Henry  S.  Kingman,  who  has 
been  driving  an  ambulance  on  the 
French  front  since  May,  in  November 
volunteered  for  the  Emergency  Section, 
Italian  Ambulance,  and  is  on  the  Italian 
front.  Joseph  N.  Lincoln  is  a  Corporal 
in  the  317th  Field  Signal  Battalion,  Co. 
B,  Camp  Devens.  Samuel  Loomis  is  an 
assistant  Electrical  Engineer  with  the 
rank  of  Sergeant.  He  is  stationed  at 
Nahant.  Robert  R.  McGowan  was 
commissioned  a  2nd  Lieutenant  at  the 
1st  Training  Camp,  Ft.  Benjamin  Har- 
rison last  August  and  was  assigned  to 
the   332nd   Infantry,    Camp   Sherman 


where  he  is  now  stationed.  Maurice  L. 
McNair  is  a  Lieutenant  in  Supply  Co. 
104,  U.  S.  Inf.,  26th  Division,  52nd  Bri- 
gade, American  Expeditionary  Forces. 
Conrad  Shumway  is  Sergeant,  Machine 
Gun  Co.,  306th  Infantry,  stationed  at 
Camp  Upton.  He  has  been  chosen  for 
the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Yaphank.  James  N. 
Smith  joined  the  Navy  at  the  outbreak 
of  the  war  and  is  now  a  Chief  Petty 
Officer  and  Chief  of  the  Executive  Staff 
in  a  patrol  division  of  nine  or  ten  boats 
based  somewhere  on  the  New  England 
coast.  William  G.  Thayer,  Jr.,  is  a  2nd 
Lieutenant  Infantry,  10th  Co.,  3rd  Bat- 
talion, Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens. 
George  D.  Whitmore,  M.  O.  T.  C,  is  at 
Camp  Greenleaf,  Ft.  Oglethorpe. 

'16. — Charles  B.  Ames  is  an  Ensign 
in  the  Naval  Reserve  Flying  Corps  and 
has  been  transferred  from  Pensacola, 
Fla.,  to  San  Diego,  Cal.,  as  an  instructor 
in  flying.  William  G.  Avirett  enlisted 
last  May  as  Quartermaster,  U.  S.  N.  R. 
F.  He  was  assigned  to  active  duty  on 
the  U.  S.  S.  Halcyon  in  attendance  on 
the  U.  S.  S.  L-8  reporting  at  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.  In  September,  after  a 
competitive  examination,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  Assistant  Paymaster  with 
rank  of  Ensign.  He  reported  for  in- 
struction at  the  United  States  Pay 
Officers  School,  Brookland,  D.  C,  and 
in  November  was  detached  and  ordered 
to  report  for  duty  in  Priorities  Section, 
Purchase  Division,  Bureau  of  Supplies 
&  Accounts,  Washington,  where  he  is 
now  stationed.  William  A.  Bowers  is 
in  the  Ordnance  Corps  at  the  Arsenal, 
Augusta,  Ga.  Writing  from  Camp 
Lewis,  American  Lake,  Wash., where  he  is 
attached  to  Battery  B,  347th  Field  Artil- 
lery, Lieutenant  Lewis  W.  Douglas  says : 

"I  spent  three  months  at  the 
training  camp  at  the  Presidio  and  was 
fortunate  enough  to  receive  a  commis- 
sion as  Lieutenant  in  the  Field  Artillery. 


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There  were  a  number  of  Amherst  men 
at  the  same  camp  with  me  and  most  of 
them  were  also  successful.  Holbrook 
Bonney,  Class  of  1908,  and  Kenneth 
Reed,  1915,  both  received  commissions; 
the  former,  who  had  served  as  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Royal  Artillery  and  who,  for 
two  years,  had  seen  active  service  on  the 
French  front,  served  in  the  same  train- 
ing battery  with  me  and  is  now  a  Bat- 
tery Commander  in  the  regiment  to 
which  I  have  been  assigned;  the  latter 
received  a  commission  in  the  Cavalry, 
but  as  the  Cavalry  is  an  obsolete  arm 
in  the  present  war,  he  has  been  as- 
signed to  a  Machine  Gun  Battalion, 
We,  Bonney,  Reed  and  myself,  have 
been  here  at  American  Lake  since  the 
29th  of  August.  I  don't  know  how 
much  longer  we  will  remain  here.  The 
draft  army  began  to  report  about  the 
6th  of  September  and  are  still  reporting. 
It  is  most  remarkable  to  see  the  way  in 
which  they  have  taken  hold." 

William  Gates,  Jr.'s  address  is  Battery 
E,  151st  F.  A.,  American  Expeditionary 
Force,  via  New  York.  Herbert  C.  John- 
son is  in  the  U.  S.  R.  M.  C,  stationed  at 
Ft.  Slocum.  Edwin  H.  Lutkins  is  at  Base 
Hospital  No.  15,  France.  Alan  D. 
Marks  has  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Sec- 
tion, U.  S.  A.,  S.  R.  C.  and  is  training 
for  a  commission  as  a  flyer.  Douglas 
D.  Milne  entered  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft. 
Riley  in  May,  1917,  and  was  commis- 
sioned a  2nd  Lieutenant  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  in 
August.  He  was  assigned  to  the  20th 
Co.,  164th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Fun- 
ston,  and  in  November  transferred  to 
the  355th  Infantry  Co.  K  Camp  Fun- 
ston,  where  he  is  now  stationed.  Francis 
R.  Otte  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  167th 
Infantry,  Headquarters  Co.,  now  in 
France.  C.  Baldwin  Peck  received  a 
commission  as  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
Infantry  at  the  2nd  Plattsburg  Camp 
and  is  now  stationed  at  Camp  Dix. 
Humphrey  F.  Redfield  is  an  Assistant 
Paymaster,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  with  the 
rank  of  Ensign.  Homans  Robinson  is 
a  2nd  Lieutenant,  303rd  Infantry  and 


is  stationed  at  Camp  Devens.  Edmund 
Sawyer  is  a  Private  in  the  14th  Co.,  4th 
Brigade,  Camp  Devens.  Winthrop  H. 
Smith's  address  is  Headquarters  Co., 
4th  U.  S.  F.  A.,  Camp  Shelby.  Charles 
F.  Weedon  received  a  commission  as 
2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  Artillery  at  the 
2nd  Plattsburg  Camp  and  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  Camp  Dix.  Arthur  B.  White 
is  a  Private  in  Battery  F,  307th  F.  A., 
stationed  at  Camp  Dix.  Lawrence  H. 
Young  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant 
Q.  M.  C.  at  the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C.  Ft. 
Sheridan  last  August,  and  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  Camp  Johnston. 

'17. — T.  F.  Appleby  has  joined  the 
Marine  Corps.  Bernard  L.  Baer  is  a 
2nd  Class  seaman  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
and  is  now  at  New  London.  Myers  E. 
Baker  has  been  transferred  from  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  to  the  Aviation  Corps, 
and  is  now  training  at  the  M.  I.  T. 
Earle  F.  Blair  is  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  the  U.  S.  A.  and  is  stationed  at 
Camp  Upton.  Ralph  B.  Bristol  is  an 
Assistant  Paymaster  with  the  rank  of 
Ensign,  stationed  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Orleans. 
Kenneth  deForest  Carpenter  enlisted 
June  5,  1917,  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  as 
1st  class  seaman.  He  was  detailed  at 
the  recruiting  oflBce  for  three  months. 
In  October  he  took  a  competitive  ex- 
amination and  was  one  of  seventy-five 
out  of  three  hundred  who  were  ap- 
pointed ensigns.  He  was  Recruiting 
Officer  at  Newport,  2nd  District  and 
was  transferred  to  the  Battleship  Mass- 
achusetts and  later  to  the  U.  S.  S. 
Aloha,  Rear  Admiral  Winslow,  com- 
manding. John  D.  Clark,  formerly  of 
U.  S.  A.  Hospital  No.  15,  took  the  ex- 
aminations for  Artillery  O.  R.  C.  in 
Paris  and  received  a  commission  as  2nd 
Lieutenant.  He  is  now  at  the  Artillery 
Training  Camp.  Craig  P.  Cochrane 
was  commissioned  a  2nd  Lieutenant  In- 


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Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


fantry  Section,  O.  R.  C,  Plattsburg 
Camp,  May  16,  1917.  On  October  25th 
he  was  commissioned  2nd  Lieutenant  of 
Inf.,  U.  S.  A.,  and  assigned  to  the  30th 
Regiment  and  ordered  to  Camp  Greene. 
In  November  he  was  honored  by  being 
the  ofBcer  of  his  company  detailed  to 
receive  instruction  in  the  use  of  the 
French  Automatic  Rifle  from  an  officer 
of  the  French  Army.  R.  E.  DeCastro 
is  at  the  Aviation  Ground  School  at 
Ithaca,  N.  Y.  Francis  M.  Dent  en- 
tered the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft.  Myer  last 
May  and  was  transferred  to  the  R.  O. 
T.  C.  at  Ft.  Des  Moines  in  June.  In 
October  he  received  his  commission  as 
1st  Lieutenant  and  was  assigned  to  the 
368th  Infantry,  Camp  Meade,  where  he 
is  now  stationed.  Benjamin  S.  D'Ooge 
is  in  the  Quartermaster's  Department 
and  is  at  Camp  Dodge  in  the  313th 
Supply  Train.  E.  Page  Downer  is  in 
the  A.  A.  F.  S.  in  France.  Mortimer 
Eisner  is  a  Chief  Petty  Officer  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Karl  M.  Elish  was  com- 
missioned a  2nd  Lieutenant  at  Platts- 
burg and  assigned  to  the  76th  Division 
at  Camp  Devens.  Two  days  after  re- 
porting at  Ayer  he  was  ordered  to  the 
103rd  Infantry,  Camp  Bartlett.  In 
September  he  sailed  for  France.  Walter 
P.  Fraker  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
in  June,  1917.  He  went  to  the  Great 
Lakes  Training  Station  and  is  now  a 
Petty  Officer  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Gopher. 
Charles  C.  Gard  has  been  commissioned 
as  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  Field  Artil- 
lery at  the  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Benjamin 
Harrison.  Sheldon  B.  Goodrich  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  1st  Lieutenant 
at  the  2nd  Plattsburg  Camp  and  was 
ordered  to  report  at  Cshnp  Dix.  He  was 
assigned  to  the  153rd  Depot  Brigade. 
James  A.  Hawkins  reported  for  duty 
June  1st  at  Boston  and  was  stationed 
at  Ft.  Strong.  He  volunteered  and  was 
accepted   as    Chemist   and    sailed    for 


France  in  July  with  the  Massachusetts 
General  Hospital  L'nit.  He  is  now 
Sergeant  of  the  Guard  and  expects  later 
to  be  in  the  research  laboratory.  He  is 
studying  under  Major  Cabot  of  Boston. 
J.  W.  Heaslip  is  orderly  to  General  Phil- 
lips and  is  stationed  at  Camp  Wads- 
worth.  Samuel  A.  Howard,  Jr.,  is  in 
the  Vermont  Division  of  the  Quarter- 
masters' Corps.  Walter  Hendricks  en- 
rolled as  a  Flying  Cadet  in  the  School 
of  Military  Aeronautics,  Champaign, 
111.  Theodore  Ivimey  attended  the  1st 
Plattsburg  Camp  and  was  commissioned 
a  2nd  Lieutenant  F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  in 
August,  1917.  In  September  he  re- 
ported to  Camp  LTpton  and  was  assigned 
to  the  306th  F.  A.,  Battery  F.  where 
he  is  now  stationed.  Paul  A.  Jenkins 
is  a  Sergeant-Major  in  the  108th  En- 
gineers, Camp  Logan.  Bradford  Kim- 
ball is  a  Radio-Electrician,  3rd  Class. 
Norman  Lemcke  enlisted,  last  spring 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Wasp  as  a  2nd  class  sea- 
man. On  the  first  of  August  he  was 
rated  a  1st  class  seaman  and  was  placed 
on  the  bridge  as  an  acting  quartermas- 
ter. During  November  he  took  his 
examinations  for  Ensign  and  was  com- 
missioned in  December.  At  present  he 
is  stationed  at  the  Pelham  Bay  Training 
Station,  where  he  is  awaiting  orders. 
C.  B.  Lewis  has  enlisted  in  the  Ordnance 
Department.  William  F.  Loomis  has 
completed  his  training  in  Aviation  and 
is  now  at  the  front  in  service  as  an 
aviator.  Carroll  B.  Low  received  his 
commission  as  a  2nd  Lieutenant  at 
Plattsburg  in  August,  1917.  He  was 
sent  to  the  French  Field  Artillery 
School  at  Fontainebleau,  France,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  November.  He 
is  now  at  the  French  Field  Artillery 
Headquarters.  Charles  B.  McGowan 
enlisted  in  the  Naval  Reserves,  Coast " 
Patrol  in  New  York  last  April.  He 
trained  at  the  Brooklyn  Navy  Yard, 


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Amherst   Men   in  the   National   Service    105 


Bensonhurst,  L.  I.,  and  in  September 
received  a  commission  as  Ensign.  He 
is  now  stationed  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Skubrick 
in  American  waters.  Edward  J.  Ma- 
loney,  after  training  at  Madison  Bar- 
racks, received  a  commission  as  2nd 
Lieutenant,  IT.  S.  A.  He  was  assigned 
to  the  50th  Infantry.  Eric  H.  Marks 
is  a  Yeoman,  3rd  Class  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
on  the  patrol  boat  Columet.  Edward  S. 
Marples  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  341st 
Infantry  at  Camp  Grant.  Donald  E. 
Marshall  is  in  the  Military  Police,  Co. 
No.  1,  Camp  Devens.  Alfred  DeW. 
Mason,  Jr.,  was  attached  to  the  308th 
Infantry  and  afterward  transferred  to 
the  117th  Train  Headquarters  and  Mili- 
tary Police,  42nd  Division.  He  was  on 
sick  leave  until  December  22nd  when 
he  was  again  transferred  to  the  302nd 
Train  Headquarters  &  Military  Police, 
77th  Division  at  Camp  Upton  with  the 
rank  of  2nd  Lieutenant.  Keith  L. 
Maurer  is  a  2nd  Class  mechanics'  mate 
in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Herbert  H. 
Melcher  is  taking  a  six  weeks'  course  at 
the  Quartermaster's  School  at  Columbia. 
Francis  L.  Moginot  enlisted  November 
30th  in  the  13th  Co.,  C.  A.  C,  Ft. 
Andrews.  Robert  F.  Moore  has  joined 
the  Bellevue  Hospital  Unit  in  New  York, 
David  W.  Morrow  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
in  Co.  "D,"  311th  Inf.,  stationed  at 
Camp  Dix  on  special  duty  v.ith  the 
R.  O.  T.  C.  Thomas  H.  Nelligan  has 
been  studying  at  the  Harvard  Medical 
School  since  September.  December 
11th  he  enlisted  in  the  hospital  branch 
of  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  has  been 
furloughed  for  the  time  being  to  con- 
tinue his  studies.  Roger  C.  Perkins  was 
in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  for  six  months 
and  is  now  in  the  Naval  Air  Service. 
Herbert  B.  Pettee's  address  is  Division 
26,  Regiment  103,  Battalion  A,  Rhode 
Island  F.  A.,  American  Expeditionary 
Forces.      Paul   H.   Plough   received   a 


commission  as  2nd  Lieutenant  at 
Plattsburg  and  in  September  was  ap- 
pointed a  2nd  Lieutenant  38th  Inf.,  Co. 
H.  U.  S.  A.,  and  is  now  stationed  at 
Camp  Greene.  Edward  R.  Proctor  is 
a  Private,  E.  R.  C,  U.  S.  A.,  U.  S.  Base 
Hospital  Unit  No.  2,  France.  Hilmar 
Rauschenbusch  volunteered  for  ambu- 
lance service  in  July  and  joined  the  Am- 
herst Unit  of  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  He  is 
now  in  France.  Gardiner  H.  Rome  has 
enlisted  in  the  Base  Hospital  Unit  No. 
37.  He  has  not  yet  been  called  into 
service.  Lieutenant  Raymond  T.  Ross 
of  the  French  Aviation  Corps  returned 
to  his  home  in  October  on  a  leave  of 
absence  of  three  months.  He  left  college 
in  the  middle  of  last  winter  and  went 
immediately  to  France,  where  he  trained 
six  weeks  in  the  Aviation  School  at 
Avord,  France.  He  qualified  for  active 
service  and  engaged  in  11  aerial  fights 
before  he  was  wounded  in  the  leg  by 
flying  shrapnel,  while  flying  over  Gorges, 
Germany.  The  French  Government 
then  gave  him  a  furlough  to  fully  recover 
from  the  effects  of  his  wound.  He  was 
to  report  again  to  the  Flying  Corps  in 
France  on  January  15th.  Frank  K. 
Sanders,  Jr.,  was  appointed  a  2nd  Lieu- 
tenant in  August  after  training  at  Madi- 
son Barracks.  He  is  now  stationed  at 
Camp  Dix  assisting  in  the  training  of 
the  new  recruits.  Irving  L.  Spear  is  in 
the  Medical  Supply  Department,  sta- 
tioned at  the  U.  S.  A.  Medical  Supply 
Depot,  New  York  City.  Luke  D.  Sta- 
pleton  is  in  France  as  a  2nd  Lieutenant 
in  the  Field  Artillery.  Whitney  Stark 
was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant  at  the 
2nd  R.  O.  T.  C,  Plattsburg.  Jesse  F. 
Swett  is  in  the  301st  F.  A.,  Camp 
Devens.  He  drove  an  ambulance  in 
France  until  the  recent  disbanding  of 
the  A.  A.  F.  S.  Donald  E.  Temple  is  a 
2nd  Lieutenant,  301st  F.  A.,  and  is  sta- 
tioned  at   Camp   Devens.     Joseph   F. 


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Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


Vielbig  is  a  member  of  the  Amherst 
Unit,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  and  is  now  in 
France.  Robert  W.  Wadhams  enlisted 
in  Troop  H,  1st  New  York  Cavalry 
last  May.  He  is  now  in  Co.  A,  106th 
Machine  Gun  Battalion,  Camp  Wads- 
worth.  John  L.  WTiitcomb  sailed  last 
May  with  the  A.  A.  F.  S.  Upon  arriving 
in  France  he  was  transferred  to  the 
Transport  Service  and  was  actively  en- 
gaged near  the  front.  At  the  close  of 
his  enlistment  he  tried  to  enter  the 
American  Aviation  Corps,  but  failed  to 
pass  the  eye  examination.  He  then 
went  to  England,  was  accepted  as  a 
Cadet  in  the  Royal  Flying  Corps,  and 
is  now  stationed  at  Frith  Hill  Barracks, 
Blackdown,  Hants,  England.  Theodore 
L.  Widmayer's  address  is  S.  S.  U.  57-59 
U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  A.  E.  F.,  France,  via 
New  York.  Wadsworth  Wilbar  has 
been  appointed  to  the  Aviation  Corps. 
After  two  months'  training  at  the  Naval 
Aviation  Ground  School  at  M.  I.  T.,  he 
will  go  to  Pensacola,  Fla.  Palmer  C. 
Williams  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the 
302nd  Infantry  at  Ayer.  R.  E.  S.  Wil- 
liamson received  a  commission  as  2nd 
Lieutenant  at  the  time  of  his  graduation 
from  West  Point  and  is  now  stationed 
in  the  21st  Cavah-y,  Ft.  Riley. 

'18. — A.  Emerson  Babcock,  Jr., 
graduated  from  the  U.  S.  Ground 
School  in  Ithaca  last  December  and 
was  ordered  to  a  Flying  School  in 
Louisiana.  Albert  W.  Bailey's  address 
is  S.  S.  U.  57-539  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  A.  E.  F., 
France.  John  B.  Brainerd,  Jr.,  was  at 
the  R.  O.  T.  C,  Plattsburg  in  1916. 
During  1916-17  he  was  Captain  in  the 
Amherst  College  Battalion  and  in  April 
was  commissioned  a  2nd  Lieutenant 
R.  O.  C.  He  again  attended  the  Platts- 
burg Camp  from  May  to  August,  1917, 
and  was  appointed  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in 
the  U.  S.  Infantry.    He  was  assigned  to 


the  9th  Regiment,  and  joined  it  at 
Syracuse  last  September.  He  is  now  in 
France.  Philip  M.  Breed  graduated 
from  the  Harvard  Radio  School  and  is 
now  a  3rd  class  electrician.  His  address 
is  U.  S.  S.  Kansas,  c/o  Postmaster, 
New  York.  Charles  W.  Chapman,  Jr., 
has  been  in  training  in  the  Lafayette 
Squadron  in  Avord,  France,  since  June, 
1917.  He  completed  his  training  in 
November,  took  the  examinations  for 
the  American  Army,  and  was  recom- 
mended for  a  commission  as  2nd  Lieu- 
tenant. He  is  now  a  Pilot  and  Corporal 
in  the  French  Army  where  he  will  stay 
until  the  American  Army  calls  for  a 
Pilot.  James  Baxter  Evans  is  with  the 
U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  in  France.  John  S.  Gillies 
is  in  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  Section  57-59 
and  has  been  in  France  since  August, 
1917.  Widmayer,  '17,  Lyman,  '19,  and 
Gillies  are  members  of  a  quartette  in 
this  section.  Harry  K.  Grainger  is  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  103rd  Inf.,  26th  Di- 
vision and  is  now  in  France.  Edward 
B.  Greene  was  a  member  of  the  U.  S.  A. 
A.  C.  Section  39  at  Allentown,  Pa., 
from  June  to  August,  1917.  He  then 
attended  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft.  Meyer 
and  since  November  has  been  an  In- 
fantry Officer  in  the  Depot  Brigade, 
Camp  Lee.  Alfred  C.  Haven,  Jr.,  is  at 
the  Naval  Radio  School  at  Cambridge. 
Owen  H.  Kenyon  is  a  wireless  operator 
in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Charles  S.  Mat- 
thews is  in  France  training  to  become 
an  aviator.  Murray  S.  Moore  enlisted 
in  the  Amherst  Unit  in  May,  1917,  and 
was  mustered  into  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
in  June,  1917,  at  Allentown,  Pa.  He  is 
now  a  Sergeant  in  Section  539,  U.  S.  A. 
A.  S.,  serving  with  the  French  Army 
in  France.  Andrew  R.  Morehouse  en- 
listed in  May,  1917,  with  the  Mackay 
Unit  of  the  Red  Cross  Service  at  the 
Roosevelt  Hospital,  New  York.  He 
sailed  for  France  in  July  and  is  now  per- 


Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service   107 


manently  located  at  Base  Hospital  No. 
15  behind  the  American  lines  at  a  town 
about  thirty  miles  due  south  of  Verdun. 
In  October  he  was  sent  with  five  others 
to  get  and  bring  to  the  hospital  three 
Ford  Ambulances  from  the  American 
port  in  France.  They  drove  them  about 
five  hundred  miles  across  France, 
through  Tours,  Orleans,  and  Paris. 
Truxton  H.  Parsons  is  in  the  Naval 
Auxiliary.  He  is  taking  a  six  months' 
course  in  preparation  for  a  commission. 
Leonard  M.  Prince  is  a  1st  Sergeant  in 
the  American  Mission  Motor  Transport, 
A.  E.  F.  He  has  been  in  service  since 
June,  1917.  WiUiam  C.  Robinson,  Jr., 
is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  Infantry  and  is  now 
in  France.  Philip  H.  See  enlisted  in  the 
U.  S.  Navy  Radio  School  in  June,  1917. 
He  was  graduated  in  October  and  was 
then  ordered  to  M.  I.  T.  for  special 
training  as  "Radio  Expert"  in  Naval 
Aviation  with  the  rank  of  Ensign. 
Donald  B.  Simmons  is  a  2nd  Lieutenant 
of  the  7th  Co.,  338th  Machine  Gun 
Battalion  at  Camp  Dodge.  Robert  W. 
Story  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  in 
May,  and  in  August  was  called  into  ac- 
tive service.  He  trained  at  the  Yale 
Boat  House,  New  Haven,  and  at  the 
Black  Rock  Yacht  Club  at  Bridgeport, 
and  spent  six  weeks  on  the  transport 
Madawaska.  Since  then  he  has  been 
studying  Radio  at  Columbia  and  Har- 
vard universities.  William  R.  Taber, 
Jr.,  enlisted  in  June,  1917,  and  is  now  in 
Base  Hospital  No.  15,  in  France.  Win- 
fred  C.  Tooker  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  A. 
A.  C,  and  has  been  at  AUentown  since 
December,  1917.  William  C.  Washbiu-n 
attended  the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C,  Plattsburg. 
In  August,  1917,  he  enlisted  in  the  Sig- 
nal Enlisted  Reserve  Corps,  Aviation 
Section  as  Flying  Cadet  (candidate  for 
commissioned  Aviator),  and  is  now  at 
Park  Field,  Memphis,  Tenn. 


'19. — William  A.  Burnett,  Jr.,  is  in 
active  service  with  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S., 
Western  front,  France.  He  has  been  in 
full  view  of  the  German  trenches  with 
shells  bursting  so  near  that  he  was 
obliged  at  times  to  duck  them.  Marcus 
R.  Burr  is  in  the  Cavalry.  Charles  R. 
Chase  sailed  for  France,  in  June,  1917, 
and  is  in  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  with  the 
French  Army.  Lawrence  L.  Donahue 
is  in  Section  64,  Unit  4  of  the  U.  S.  A. 
A.  S.  in  France.  Rowland  C.  Evans, 
Jr.,  is  in  active  service  in  foreign  waters 
as  seaman  on  board  the  U.  S.  S.  Emeline, 
which  is  engaged  in  chasing  submarines. 
The  fleet  consists  of  eight  converted 
yachts  which  coal  and  provision  at 
Brest,  France,  and  then  cruise  for  eight 
days  looking  for  submarines.  They 
have  sunk  a  number  of  submarines  but 
the  flagship  was  recently  sunk  in  an 
engagement  with  a  submarine.  David 
H.  Gale  graduated  from  the  Harvard 
Radio  School  and  is  now  a  3rd  class 
Electrician.  Charles  M.  Gardiner  en- 
listed in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  Class  4,  in 
March,  1917,  and  reported  at  Marble- 
head  Training  Camp.  He  was  in  the 
1st  detachment  at  Bumpkin  Island 
Training  Camp  and  in  July  reported 
on  board  the  U.  S.  S.  Whitecap,  a  mine- 
sweeper. In  August  he  was  made  acting 
Quartermaster  and  in  October  trans- 
ferred to  Naval  Aviation.  He  is  now 
awaiting  orders  to  report  for  training. 
In  June,  1917,  Arthur  E.  Hazeldine 
joined  the  Amherst  Unit  as  an  Ambu- 
lance Driver.  In  September  he  enlisted 
in  the  American  Army  and  is  now  at- 
tached to  a  French  division.  Harold 
M.  Lay  enlisted  June  6,  1917,  in  the 
U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  Section  539  and  is  now  in 
France.  Lloyd  W.  Miller  is  with  the 
Amherst  Unit  of  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  in 
France.  Joseph  M.  Lyman  is  a  member 
of  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  Section  539  in 
France.     When  last  heard  from  he  was 


108       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 


in  the  hospital  at  Chalons  S.  M.  with 
congestion  of  the  lungs.  Hugh  Mulhol- 
land  is  in  the  16th  Co.  Depot  Brigade, 
Camp  Devens.  Horatio  W.  Newell's 
address  is  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  539,  S.  S.  U.  57, 
A.  E.  F.,  France.  Winfield  W.  Riefler's 
address  is  S.  S.  U.  57-539  U.  S.  A.  A.  S., 

A.  E.  F.,  France,  via  New  York.  Mer- 
riam  W.  Sheldon  is  in  the  312th  Sanitary 
Train,  87th  Division,  National  Army, 
and  is  stationed  at  Camp  Pike.    Lincoln 

B.  Smith's  address  is  Battery  B,  103rd 
F.  A.,  A.  E.  F.,  France.  John  B.  Stan- 
ton is  a  Field  Clerk  in  France.  Benja- 
min F.  Taber  enlisted  in  June,  1917,  and 
is  now  stationed  in  the  1st  Field  Hospi- 
tal Co.,  Camp  Wadsworth.  Frederic 
L.  Yarrington  sailed  in  June  to  join  the 
A.  A.  F.  S.  He  is  now  serving  with  a 
French  Unit. 

'20. — Stanley  W.  Ayers  enlisted  in 
the  Essex  Troop  of  New  Jersey  Cavalry. 
This  organization  was  taken  over  into 
the    National    Military    Service    and 


quartered  at  Sea  Girt.  In  August  the 
company  was  transferred  to  Camp 
McClellan  and  became,  and  now  is,  the 
Military  Police.  He  has  just  passed  his 
physical  and  mental  examination  for  the 
Aviation  Corps,  Signal  Service  and  has 
been  sent  to  Camp  Kelly,  San  Antonio, 
for  a  course  in  the  Ground  School  there. 
Laurence  E.  Crooks  was  recently  trans- 
ferred from  the  303rd  Engineers  to 
Motor  Truck  Co.  327,  stationed  at 
Camp  Dix,  N.  J.  He  originally  be- 
longed to  the  6th  Engineers,  Washing- 
ton Barracks.  Harry  R.  Horgan  has 
joined  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  William  C. 
McFeely  is  in  Section  57-539  U.  S.  A. 
A.  S.  now  in  France.  Sherman  D.  Ship- 
man  is  with  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  in  France. 
Robert  G.  Stewart  is  driving  an  ambu- 
lance in  France.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Amherst  Unit.  Albert  B.  W^eaver,  Jr., 
is  training  for  overseas  duty  at  Army 
General  Hospital  No.  6,  Unit  D,  at 
Ft.  McPherson,  Ga. 


HOW  THE  CLASSES  ARE  REPRESENTED 


According  to  advices  received  up  to  January  1,  1918,  there  were  688  Amherst 
men  in  the  Army  and  Navy  and  in  Foreign  Service  (Ambulance  drivers,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  Red  Cross  workers,  et  al.).  These  are  distributed  among  the  different  classes 
as  follows: 


Class  of  1879 

u 

u 

1882 

a 

u 

1883 

« 

u 

1885 

u 

ti 

1886 

" 

u 

1887 

H 

li 

1888 

U 

u 

1890 

" 

" 

1891 

<( 

" 

1892, 

(1 

u 

1893. 

u 

It 

1894. 

u 

u 

1895. 

1 

Class  of  1896, 

1 

u 

u 

1897. 

1 

" 

" 

1898 

3 

(( 

a 

1899 

3 

« 

« 

1900 

2 

a 

u 

1901 

2 

u 

" 

1902 

2 

" 

" 

1903 

5 

" 

(1 

1904 

6 

(( 

" 

1905 

6 

u 

« 

1906 

5 

u 

« 

1907 

5 

u 

" 

1908. 

7 
10 


21 


Amherst 

M 

EN 

IN 

THE 

N 

ATioNAL  Service   109 

Class  of  1909 

26 

22 

Clas 
(1 

3  of  1916 54 

"      "  1910 

"   1917 80 

"      "  1911 

35 

K 

"  1918 50 

"      "  1912 

30 

K 

"  1919 51 

«      "  1913 

47 

« 

"  1920 28 

"      "  1914 

56 

«      "   1915 

62 

Total 688 

COMMISSIONED  MEN 

A  partial  list  of  Amherst  men  who  have  received  commissions  is  as  follows: 

ARMY 

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL 

1886— William  G.  Schauffler.  M.  R.  C. 

1893 — Frank  B.  Cummings,  103d  Infantry,  France. 


1887— Daniel  W.  Rogers,  M.  O.  R.  C,  Camp  Logan. 

1890 — William  O.  Gilbert,  Judge  Advocate  General's  Office,  Washington. 

1891 — Thomas  W.  Jackson,  M.  R.  C.  Assistant  to  a  Division  Surgeon  at  Camp 
Meade. 

1893 — Edwin  L.  Beebe,  M.  R.  C;  George  L.  Hamilton,  on  general  staff  at 
headquarters  of  A.  E.  F.  in  France. 

1895 — Robert  B.  Osgood,  Base  Hospital  No.  5. 

1897 — Benjamin  K.  Emerson,  British  Military  Hospital  No.  22;  Harry  N. 
Polk,  Cavalry  O.  R.  C.    Henry  M.  Moses,  Base  Hospital  Unit,  No.  37. 

1898— Nellis  B.  Foster,  Medical  Department,  Ft.  Meade. 

1899— Robert  T.  Miller,  M.  O.  R.  C.  Base  Hospital,  No.  27. 

1901— Harry  V.  D.  Moore,  57th  Inf.  Brigade,  29th  Division. 

1902— Isaac  H.  Jones,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

1910— Harold  E.  Woodward,  Infantry  O.  R.  C.  Co.  2. 

1911— Arthur  D.  Patterson,  330th  Inf.  83rd  Division  N.  A.,  Camp  Sherman. 

CAPTAIN 

1883— John  B.  Walker,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

1891 — Jesse  S.  Reeves,  Aviation  Section;  John  T.  Stone,  Chaplain,  Camp  Grant. 
1892— Earl  Comstock,  Q.  M.  R.  C;    Harry  B.  Williams,  Assistant  to  Depot 
Quartermaster,  Boston. 


110       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 

1894 — Warren  D.  Brown,  Aviation  Section,  Signal  Corps,  U.  S.  R.;  Pancoast 
Kidder,  Div.  Headquarters,  27th  Div.,  Camp  Wadsworth;  Frederick  C.  Herrick, 
M.  O.  R.  C;   Luther  E.  Smith,  F.  A. 

1895— Emmons  Bryant,  Q.  M.  R.  C.  Camp  Upton;  Alfred  E.  Roelker,  Jr., 
305th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  Camp  Upton. 

1896— Ernest  S.  Olmsted,  Co.  3,  313th  Ammunition  Train,  Camp  Dodge. 

1897 — Jerome  P.  Jackson,  Engineers  Corps,  France;  Charles  W.  Cobb,  A.  S.  S. 
O.  R.  C. 

1898— Walter  H.  Eddy,  Food  Div.,  Sanitary  Corps,  N.  A.,  Washington;  Albert 
Mossman,  Co.  35,  Ft.  Terry;   Earl  H.  Lyall,  Eng.  U.  S.  R.,  France. 

1899 — Harry  A.  Bullock,  Base  Hospital  No.  5,  France;  W^alter  H.  Griffin,  Inf. 
152nd  Depot  Brigade. 

1900— Thomas  J.  Hammond,  Co.  I,  104th  Inf. 

1901— William  S.  Hatch,  Co.  E,  307th  Ammunition  Train,  82nd  Div.,  Camp 
Gordon;   Gilbert  J.  Hurty,  Sanitary  Corps,  Medical  Supply  Depot. 

1902— Frederick  W.  Baeslack,  M.  O.  R.  C,  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison;  William  D. 
Clarke,  Eng.  U.  S.  R..  23d  Regiment. 

1903 — Joseph  W.  Hayes,  Psychological  tests  of  men  in  service. 

1904 — Albert  O.  Baumann,  Co.  K,  147th  Inf.,  Camp  Sheridan;  Donald  Syming- 
ton. Ord.  O.  R.  C. 

1905— Ralph  H.  Hewitt,  M.  R.  C,  France;  Vancleve  Holmes,  7th  Training 
Battalion,  Camp  Sherman. 

1906— Norman  P.  Foster,  Q.  M.  C.  U.  S.  R.;  William  Hale,  Jr.,  Canadian  A.  M.C. 
Robert  C.  Powell,  Co.  I,  3rd  Batt.,  318th  Inf.  N.  A.  Camp  Lee;  Harold  Remington, 
309th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix;   Vern  Priddy,  Ord.  Department. 

1907— Wilkins  Jones,  Infantry,  Camp  Funston;  Walter  F.  Pond,  Co.  B,  30th 
Eng.,  France. 

1908 — Holbrook  Bonney,  347th  F.  A.,  Camp  Lewis;  Chapin  Marcus,  F.  A.  O. 
R.  C. 

1909 — Edward  L.  Dyer,  C.  A.  C;  Richmond  Mayo-Smith,  Overseas  Div.  Gas 
Masks  Repair  Work;  F.  Marsena  Butts,  Ordnance  Equipment  Division,  Wash- 
ington;  C.  Clothier  Jones,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 

1910 — Joseph  B.  Bisbee,  Jr.,  16th  Inf.,  Camp  Meade;  Pierre  Drewson,  Infantry, 
O.  R.  C. 

1911— Richard  Abele,  Q.  N.  O.  R.  C,  Camp  Sherman;  Horace  R.  Denton,  2nd 
Battalion,  1st  111.  F.  A.;  Robert  H.  George,  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Devens;  Brantley 
A.  Weathers,  Jr.,  Q.  M.  O.  R.  C,  Atlanta. 

1912— DeWitt  H.  Parsons,  309th  Inf.,  Co.  C,  Camp  Dix. 

1913 — Louis  Caldwell,  Sect.  20  Burliet  Ambulances;  Herschel  S.  Konold,  In- 
fantry U.  S.  R.,  Camp  Grant;   Harry  C.  Wilder,':309th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix. 

1915— Paul  D.  Weathers,  Q.  M.  C. 

FIRST   LIEUTENANT 

188a— George  E.  Bellows,  M.  O.  R.  C. 


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1888— William  B.  Noyes,  M.  R.  C.  Base  Hospital,  Camp  Dix. 

1896— Edward  F.  Perry,  M.  R.  C;   Frank  E.  Harkness,  R.  O.  T.  C. 

1897 — George  G.  Bradley,  Ordnance  Sec.  U.  S.  R. 

1900 — James  F.  Connor,  Bureau  Supplies  and  Accounts,  Navy  Dept. 

1901 — Charles  E.  Mathews,  Interpreters'  Corps  Division  4,  Camp  Greene. 

1903— Gouvemeur  H.  Boyer,  M.  O.  R.  C;  Foster  W.  Stearns,  Inf.  U.  S.  R. 

1904— Heman  B.  Chase,  U.  S.  M.  C.  Hospital  No.  20;  Paul  A.  Turner,  M.  O. 
R.  C,  Washington  N.  G. 

1905— W.  Walter  Palmer,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

1906 — Vernon  Priddy,  Inf.  U.  S.  R.;  James  N.  Worcester,  Royal  British  Medical 
Corps,  France. 

1907 — R.  Jewett  Jones,  Co.  3,  110th  Ammunition  Train,  Camp  Doniphan; 
John  J.  Morton,  Base  Hospital  No.  5,  France;   Frank  E.  Lewis,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

1908— George  C.  Elsey,  10th  Inf.;  Hildeburn  Jones,  Machine  Gun  Co.,  330th 
Inf.,  Camp  Sherman;  Arthur  P.  Paine,  at  Sandy  Hook,  testing  devices  submitted 
to  Government  for  army  use;  Paul  Welles,  Signal  Corps,  U.  S.  R.,  France;  Robert 
B.  Woodbury,  Co.  C,  1st  Penn.  Engineers,  Camp  Jackson;  Daniel  B.  Jones,  Train- 
ing at  M.  I.  T.;   Robert  H.  Kennedy,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

1909 — F.  Marsena  Butts,  Ordnance  Equipment  Div.,  Washington;  Edward  L. 
Chapin,  Co.  C,  302nd  F.  Signal  Batt.,  Camp  Upton;  Elliot  O.  Foster,  Sanitary 
Corps,  Ft.  Jay;  William  E.  Hill,  Infantry  N.  A.;  Joseph  B.  Jamieson,  Ordnance 
Dept.,  Washington;  Henry  B.  Allen,  Ordnance  Department,  France;  E.  Pope 
Dickinson,  Ft.  Oglethorpe;  J.  Marshall  MacCammon,  Construction  Division 
S.  O.  R.  C,  Washington;  Keith  McVaugh,  304th  F.  A.,  Camp  Upton;  Theodore 
Pratt,  Ordnance  O.  R.  C,  Washington. 

1910 — Horace  S.  Cragin,  M.  O.  R.  C,  Eastern  Department;  Donald  M.  Gilder- 
sleeve,  M.  O.  R.  C;  Bartow  H.  Hall,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  Graham  B.  Jacobus,  341st 
Inf.,  Camp  Grant;  Birdseye  B.  Lewis,  Signal  Corps  Eastern  Department;  John 
B.  Warner,  Inf.,  France;  Harold  E.  Bardwell,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C;  William  S.  Ladd, 
M.  O.  R.  C;   William  R.  Marsh,  3d  Co.  C.  A.  C,  New  Orleans. 

1911— Waldo  Shumway,  Co.  M,  103d  Inf.,  France;  C.  Colfax  Campbell,  309th 
Infantry,  Camp  Dix;  Beeckman  J.  Delatour,  M.  O.  R.  C,  Kelly  Field;  William 
P.  S.  Doolittle,  307th  Infantry,  Camp  Upton;  Arthur  S.  Gormley,  Ordnance  O. 
R.  C;  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Jr.,  Ordnance  O.  R.  C,  Governor's  Island;  George  H. 
McBride,  Ordnance  O.  R.  C. 

1912 — Roger  W.  Birdseye,  Canadian  Contingent;  H.  Gordon  de  Chasseaud, 
S.  R.  C;  Harold  W.  Crandall,  Infantry  O.  R.  C;  John  H.  Madden,  302nd  Inf., 
Camp  Devens;  George  H.  Nichols,  Infantry  O.  R.  C,  Ft.  Sheridan;  Levi  R.  Jones, 
26th  Co.,  7th  Batt.  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens;  James  J.  Quinn,  Camp  Stanley; 
Sargeant  Wellman,  Casual  Department,  Camp  Merritt. 

1913— Walter  W.  Coyle,  Cadet  Flying  Corps;  Robert  S.  Miller,  Regular  Inf.; 
George  Scatchard,  Sanitation  Corps,  France;  Nelson  Stone,  Engineer  Corps;  Rich- 
ard B.  Hager,  115th  F.  A.,  Greenville;  Walter  W.  Moore,  51st  Infantry,  Chicka- 
mauga  Park;   James  E.  Willetts,  117th  Ammunition  Train,  France. 


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1914 — Frank  A.  Bernero,  Infantry  U.  S.  R.;  Ralph  M.  Darrin,  specializing  in 
operation  of  Machine  Guns  at  Springfield  Armory;  Frank  C.  Finch,  Infantry; 
Walter  H.  McGay,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  John  O.  Cutwater,  15th  N.  Y.  Colored  Inf., 
France;  Charles  P.  Rugg,  Inf.  U.  S.  R.;  Kenneth  O.  Shrewsbury,  Aviation  Div. 
U.  S.  Signal  Corps,  France;  George  E.  Washburn,  301st  F.  A.,  Camp  Devens;  John 
D.  Dickson,  11th  Infantry,  Camp  Hancock;  Charles  B.  Glann,  302d  Field  Signal 
Battalion;    Charles  M.  Mills,  313th  Infantry,  Camp  Meade. 

1915 — John  J.  Atwater,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Warren  Breckenridge,  F.  A.,  Camp  Logan; 
George  H.  Hubner,  153rd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix;  R.  Alexander  Robinson, 
Artillery,  Louisville,  Ky.;  Everett  W.  Fuller,  Sanitary  Corps,  Gas  Defense  Ser- 
vice; Charles  H.  Houston,  368th  Infantry,  Camp  Meade;  Charles  W.  Seelye,  Ord- 
nance O.  R.  C,  Washington. 

1916— Thomas  W.  Ashley,  Marine  Corps;  David  S.  Cutler,  103rd  Inf.  A.  E.  F., 
France;  John  M.  Jenkins,  Artillery,  Camp  Sherman;  C.  Baldwin  Peck,  Jr.,  153d 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix;  Stuart  Rider,  Des  Moines;  W^ilfred  S.  Bastine,  Q.  M. 
C;    Percy  Hughes,  155th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Lee. 

1917 — George  I.  Bailey,  153rd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix;  Francis  M.  Dent, 
368th  Inf.,  Camp  Meade;  Sheldon  B.  Goodrich,  153rd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix; 
David  W.  Morrow,  Inf.,  Camp  Dix;  Raymond  T.  Ross,  French  Aviation  Service; 
Jay  J.  M.  Scandrett,  Inf.  O.  R.  C,  Camp  Greene;  Edward  S.  Marples,  341st  In- 
fantry, Camp  Grant;   Frank  K.  Sanders,  Jr.,  309th  Infantry,  Camp  Dix. 

1918 — Gaetano  R.  Aiello,  Special  Italian  Aviation  Coram.,  N.  Y.  C;  Lewis  T. 
Orlady,  O.  R.  C;  Sigourney  Thayer,  Aviation,  Mineola;  Edward  B.  Greene, 
155th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Lee. 

SECOND    LIEUTENANT 

1896— Merrill  E.  Gates,  Jr.,  Q.  M.  C,  Camp  Upton. 

1903— Chester  Burg,  Q.  M.  R.  C;  Paul  S.  Phalen,  F.  A.,  U.  S.  N.  A. 

1904— H.  Gardner  Lund,  Co.  K,  8th  Inf..  Mass.  N.  G. 

1908— James  P.  Fleming,  Q.  M.  C.  N.  A.,  Camp  Grant;  Kenneth  B.  Shute, 
F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  James  T.  Sleeper,  Quartermaster  Dept.,  Camp  Johnston. 

1909— George  Dowd,  301st  F.  A.,  Camp  Devens;  William  A.  Vollmer,  Battery 
A,  306th  F.  A.,  Camp  Upton;  William  H.  Wright,  Inf.,  U.  S.  R.;  Gordon  R.  Hall, 
F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  France. 

1910— Lindsay  Amos,  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix;  Sterling  W.  Pratt,  Q.  M.  C.  N.  A., 
Camp  Custer;  Kenneth  T.  Tucker,  Inf.  O.  R.  C,  5th  Co.;  Charles  W.  Turner, 
Jr.,  Inf.  O.  R.  C,  5th  Co. 

1911— Clififord  B.  Ballard,  Co.  B,  338th  Inf.,  Camp  Custer;  Gordon  T.  Fish. 
1st  N.  H.  Inf.,  Camp  Greene;  Robert  E.  Hine,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 

1912— Howard  R.  Bacon,  Cav.  U.  S.  R.,  Camp  Dix;  Roland  H.  Brock,  Q.  M.  C. 
N.  A.;  Allen  W.  Cook,  19th  Inf.,  Camp  Sam  Houston;  William  S.  Lahey,  311th 
Inf.,  Camp  Dix. 

1913 — Thomas  R.  Creede,  Jr.,  Engineers.  N.  J.  N.  G.;  Benjamin  W.  Estabrook, 
Chief  Instructor  at  Wilbur  Wright  Field;  Arthur  J.  Mealand,  322nd  F.  A.,  Camp 


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Sherman;  Hammond  Pride,  Co.  G.,  111th  Inf.,  Camp  Hancock;  Hunt  Warner, 
British  School  for  Officers  and  non-commissioned;  Horace  P.  Belden,  163d  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Dodge;  Gain  Robinson,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  Albert  L.  Stirn,  Ordnance 
O.  R.  C;   Robert  I.  Stout,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C,  Camp  Stanley. 

1914— Donald  H.  Brown,  Battery  F.  17th  F.  A.,  France;  Dwight  N.  Clark, 
Officer  of  transportation,  Camp  Devens;  Charles  R.  DeBevoise,  Q.  M.  C.  N.  A.; 
Stanley  Heald,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  Louis  Huthsteiner,  307th  Inf.,  Camp  Upton; 
Harold  E.  Jewett,  48th  Co.  12th  Brigade,  Camp  Lee;  Richard  M.  Kimball,  55th 
Reg.,  Ft.  Andrew;  Colin  Livingstone,  348th  F.  A.,  Camp  Lewis;  Marlor  B.  Sey- 
mour, Q.  M.  C,  Camp  Johnston;  Lowell  Shumway,  308th  Inf.,  Camp  Upton; 
Fred  W.  Stafford,  153d  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix;  George  R.  Foddy,  A.  S.  S.  E. 
R.  C;    Cecil  J.  Hall,  3£lst  Field  Signal  Battalion. 

1915— Richard  H.  Bacon,  F.  A.;  Richard  Banfield,  Co.  F,  351st  Inf.,  Camp 
Dodge;  Kenneth  W.  Banta,  307th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix;  Arnold  Cady,  F.  A.  O. 
R.  C;  J  Theodore  Cross,  307th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix;  David  S.  Cutler,  Inf.  O.  R.  C; 
George  C.  Harding,  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  Co.  7,  Madison  Barracks;  Newton  M.  Kimball, 
F.  A.  School  of  Instruction,  France;  Robert  A.  McCague,  350th  Inf.,  Camp 
Dodge;  Robert  R.  McGowan,  302nd  Inf.,  Camp. Sherman;  Maurice  L.  McNair, 
104th  Inf.  26th  Div,  52nd  Brig.,  A.  E.  F.;  Clarence  Parks,  Q.  M.  C.  N.  A.;  Rich- 
ardson Pratt,  N.  Y.  Colored  Inf.,  N.  G.;  William  G.  Thayer,  Jr.,  Inf.  10th  Co., 
3d  Bat.,  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens;  Warren  Breckenridge,  F.  A.,  Camp  Travis; 
James  W.  Craig,  Motor  Transport  Service. 

1916— William  Gates,  Jr.,  169th  F.  A.,  42nd  Div.,  Camp  Mills;  Robert  S.  Gil- 
lett,  302nd  F.  A.,  Camp  Devens;  Donald  E.  Hardy,  Battery  D,  301st  F.  A.,  Camp 
Devens;  John  S.  McCIoy,  (detail  unknown);  Douglas  Milne,  Inf.  20th  Co.  164th 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Funston;  Francis  R.  Otte,  167th  Inf.  A.  E.  F.,  France; 
Homans  Robinson,  303rd  Inf.,  Camp  Devens;  Winthrop  Smith,  Inf.,  Camp 
Shelby;  George  W.  Washburn,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  Charles  F.  Weedon,  F.  A.,  153rd 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix;  Lawrence  Young,  Q.  M.  C.  N.  A.,  Camp  Grant. 

1917 — John  D.  Clark,  Artillery  Training  Camp,  France;  Craig  P.  Cochrane, 
30th  U.  S.  Infantry,  Camp  Greene;  Karl  M.  Elish,  103rd  Inf.,  France;  Theodore 
Ivimey,  Battery  F,  306th  F.  A.,  Camp  Upton;  Dexter  M.  Keezer,  340th  Machine 
Gun  Battalion,  Camp  Funston;  Carroll  B.  Low,  U.  S.  R.  F.  A.;  Edward  J.  Ma- 
loney,  50th  U.  S.  Inf.,  Camp  Greene;  Edv/ard  S.  Marples,  341st  Inf.,  Camp  Grant; 
Alfred  DeW.  Mason,  Jr.,  302nd  Train  Headquarters  and  Military  Police  77th 
Division,  Camp  Upton;  Paul  Plough,  38th  Inf.,  Camp  Greene;  Hay  den  Robinson, 
Charles  C.  Gard,  342d  Regiment  F.  A.,  Camp  Funston;  Frank  K.  Sanders,  Jr., 
309th  Inf.,  Camp  Dix;  Luke  D.  Stapleton,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C,  France;  Donald  E. 
Temple,  301st  F.  A.,  Camp  Devens;  Palmer  C.  Williams,  302d  Inf.,  Camp  Devens; 
R.  E.  S.  Williamson,  21st  Cavalry,  Ft.  Riley. 

1918 — John  B.  Brainerd,  Jr.,  9th  Inf.,  France;  Harry  K.  Grainger,  Co.  L,  103rd 
Inf.  26th  Div.,  A.  E.  F.,  France;  William  C.  Robinson,  Jr.,  Inf.  U.  S.  R.,  France; 
Donald  B.  Simmons,  7th  Co.,  338th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  Camp  Dodge;  Waldo 
E.  Pratt,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C. 

1919— James  W.  Bracken,  Q.  M.  C.  U.  S.  A.,  Camp  Dix. 
1920— Alexander  L.  Dade,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A. 


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QUARTERMASTER 

1913— William  H.  WTiitney, 

CORPORAL 

1909 — Edward  J.  Bolt,  Marine  Corps,  France;  Stoddard  Lane,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S., 
Section  539;   Harrison  W.  Mellen,  Headquarters  Troop,  26tli  Division,  France. 

1910— Weston  W.  Goodnow,  Troop  B,  1st  N.  Y.  Cavalry. 

1911— Ralph  S.  Wyckoff,  303d  Infantry,  Camp  Devens. 

1913— Douglas  Urquhart,  Co.  D,  104th  Inf.,  France. 

1914 — Herbert  B.  Johnson,  Signal  Corps  Reserve,  308th  Field  Battery,  Camp 
Sherman. 

1916— Edward  D.  Andrews,  Q.  M.  C,  Camp  Devens;  John  F.  Creamer,  301st 
F.  A.,  France;   Alfonse  G.  Dugan,  6th  Battalion  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Stanley. 

1918— Franklin  C.  Butler,  103d  F.  A. 

SERGEANT-MAJOR 

1913 — Charles  F.  Sheridan,  War  Risk  Insurance  Detachment,  France. 
1917 — Paul  A.  Jenkins,  108th  Engineers,  Camp  Logan. 

1918 — Arthur  F.  Tylee,  Headquarters  Detachment,  301st  Ammunition  Train, 
Camp  Devens. 

SERGEANT 

1899— Edward  W.  Hitchcock,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  Section  588.  France. 

1906 — James  S.  Hamilton,  Base  Hospital,  No.  2. 

1907 — Lewis  W.  Everett,  Interpreter  in  French,  France. 

1908— Philip  H.  Burt,  Q.  M.  C. 

1912 — Harry  F.  Dann,  Headquarters  Co.  119th  Inf.,  Camp  Sevier;  Lloyd 
Jones,  M.  R.  C;   William  Siegrist,  Jr.,  305th  Infantry,  Camp  Upton. 

1913 — Geoffrey  Atkinson,  U.  S.  Base  Hospital  No.  1;  Charles  H.  Wadhams, 
106th  Machine  Gun  Batt.,  Camp  Wadsworth;  William  J.  Wilcox,  327th  Infantry, 
Camp  Gordon. 

1914— Richard  S.  Van  Ingen,  Q.  M.  C,  Camp  Meade. 

1915 — Arthur  P.  Goodwin,  117th  Aero  Squadron,  Aviation  Section,  France; 
Gordon  R.  Hall,  Overseas  Section  No.  1,  Gas  Defense  Service,  A.  E.  F.;  Samuel 
Loomis,  Assistant  Electrical  Engineer  at  Nahant;  Conrad  Shumway,  Machine 
Gun  Co.,  306th  Inf.,  Camp  Upton. 

1917 — James  A.  Hawkins,  Base  Hospital  Unit  6,  France;  Earle  F.  Blair,  Base 
Hospital,  Camp  Upton;  E.  Page  Downer,  A.  A.  F.  S.,  France;  Paid  Lestrade, 
103d  Regiment  F.  A.,  France. 

1919 — John  Chester,  Headquarters  Troop,  37th  Division,  Camp  Sheridan. 

1920— Cyril  D.  Arnold,  Q.  M.  R.  C. 


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NAVY 

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER 

188^— Edward  Breck,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

1900— Cleveland  C.  Kimball,  M.  R.  C,  U.  S.  S.  Minneapolis. 


1911 — Leo  Kane,  Bureau  Supplies  and  Accounts,  Washington;  Charles  B.  Rugg, 
Bureau  of  Ordnance,  Washington. 

1912— Alfred  B.  Peacock,  Washington. 

1915— Kingsley  B.  Colton,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;   James  N.  Smith,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

1916 — Charles  B.  Ames,  Naval  Reserve  Flying  Corps;  Franklin  Clark,  Naval 
Flying  Corps;   George  H.  Lane,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Mine  Sweeping  Division. 

1917— Ralph  B.  Bristol,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Kenneth  DeF.  Carpenter,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.; 
Lloyd  M.  Clark,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Norman  R.  Lemcke,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Charles  B. 
McGowan,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

1918— Phillip  H.  See,  Special  training  as  Radio  Expert,  M.  I.  T.;  Raymond  P. 
Bentley,  Naval  Auxiliary;   Alfred  C.  Haven,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

1919— Warren  T.  Mayers,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Richard  B.  Neiley,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
General  and  Foreign  Service. 

PAYMASTER 

1905— Kenneth  C.  Mcintosh,  U.  S.  S.  Kansas. 

ASSISTANT   PAYM,\STER 

1911— Donald  P.  Smith,  U.  S.  S.  Martha  Washington. 

1916 — William  G.  Avirett,  Washington;  Humphrey  F.  Redfield,  Washington. 


AMHERST  MEN  IN  EUROPE 

The  following  AmherSt  men  in  Government  Service  are  in  Europe,  according  to 
advices  received  by  the  War  Records  Committee  up  to  January  1,  1918: 

1886 — Hallam  F.  Coates,  Red  Cross  work. 

1887 — Alvan  F.  Sanborn,  Interpreter  to  General  Pershing  and  Staff. 

1890— Allen  B.  MacNeill,  Army  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

1892 — R.  Stuart  Smith,  Red  Cross;  Frederick  A.  Washburn,  Commander  Base 
Hospital  No.  6. 

1893 — Frederick  W.  Beekman,  Director  of  "The  American  Soldiers'  and  Sailors' 
Club;"  George  L.  Hamilton,  on  general  staff  at  headquarters  A.  E.  F.;  Frank 
B.  Cummings,  103d  Infantry. 


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1895 — Robert  B.  Osgood,  Assist.  Director  of  Military  Orthopedics  for  A.  E.  F. 

1897 — Alexander  H.  Backus,  War  Relief  Work;  George  G.  Bradley,  Ordnance 
Section,  U.  S.  R.;  Benjamin  K.  Emerson,  British  Military  Hospital  No.  22  (in 
America  on  furlough) ;  Jerome  P.  Jackson,  Engineers'  Corps. 

1899 — Harry  A.  Bullock,  Base  Hospital  No.  5. 

1900— Thomas  J.  Hammond,  Co.  I,  104th  Inf. 

1902— Charles  W.  Anderson,  Jr.,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Rev.  WiUiam  Reid,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Field  Secretary;   Isaac  H.  Jones,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

1903— Gouverneur  H.  Boyer,  M.  R.  C;  Foster  W.  Stearns,  Inf.  U.  S.  R. 

1901r— Heman  B.  Chase,  American  Hospital  Unit  in  England. 

190&— Sidney  Bixby,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Arthur  J.  Derbyshire,  Y.  M.  C.  A.;  Ralph  H. 
Hewott,  M.  R.  C. 

1906— William  Hale,  Jr.,  Canadian  A.  M.  C;  James  S.  Hamilton,  F.  R.  C, 
U.  S.  A.,  Base  Hospital  No.  2;  James  N.  Worcester,  Royal  British  Medical  Corps. 
John  J.  Curran,  Sec'y  to  Paymaster  of  6th  Regiment  U.  S.  M.  C. 

1907 — ^John  J.  Morton,  Base  Hospital  No.  5;  Lewis  W.  Everett,  Interpreter  in 
French;   Frank  E.  Lewis,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

1908 — Robert  H.  Kennedy,  General  Hospital  No.  2,  B.  E.  F.;  Ralph  L.  Loomis, 
Aviation  Student  at  Avord;  Maxwell  Shattuck,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  James  A.  Sprenger, 
Secretary  Y.  M.  C.  A.;  Paul  Welles,  Signal  Corps,  U.  S.  R. 

1909 — Elliot  O.  Foster,  Medical  Dept.,  Financial  and  Accounting  Unit,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
Stoddard  Lane,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Richmond  Mayo-Smith,  charge  of  Overseas  Div.,  Gas 
Masks  Repair  Work;  Albert  F.  Pierce,  Jr.,  charge  of  Sugrical  Dept.  Base  Hospital 
No.  9;  Edward  H.  Sudbury,  American  Escadrille;  William  H.  Wright,  Infantry, 
U.  S.  R.;  Henry  B.  Allen,  Ordnance  Department;  Merrill  F.  Clarke,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S., 
Section  539;   Harrison  W.  Mellen,  Headquarters  Troop,  26th  Division. 

1910 — John  B.  Warner,  Infantry;  Harold  E.  Bardwell,  3d  Aviation  Instruction 
Detachment. 

1911 — G.  Winthrop  Brainerd,  Base  Hospital  No.  9;  William  F.  Corry,  Section 
13,  29th  Battalion,  A.  E.  F.;  Hubert  H.  Loomis,  Battery  A,  101st  Regiment  F.  A., 
A.  E.  F.;  Waldo  Shumway,  Co.  M,  103rd  Inf.,  France. 

1912 — Roger  W.  Birdseye,  in  Canadian  Contingent;  Wilbur  F.  Burt,  British 
Expeditionary  Force;  C.  Kingman  Perkins,  Aviation  Corps;  Edward  B.  VoUmer, 
Naval  Unit  Base  Hospital  No.  1;   Clifford  H.  Vroom,  Field  Hospital,  No.  104. 

1913— Harold  G.  Allen,  Section  39,  29th  Battalion,  A.  E.  F.;  Geoffrey  Atkinson, 
Base  Hospital  No.  1;  Chauncey  C.  Benedict,  1st  Reserve  Engineers;  Louis  Cald- 
well, A.  A.  F.  S.;  Henry  S.  Loomis,  Training  for  Aviation;  George  Scatchard, 
Sanitation  Corps;  Douglas  Urquhart,  Co.  D,  104th  Infantry;  Hunt  Warner, 
attending  British  School  for  Officers;  Charles  F.  Sheridan,  War  Risk  Insurance 
Detachment;   James  E.  Willets,  117th  Ammunition  Train. 

1914 — Donald  H.  Brown,  Battery  F,  17th  Field  Artillery,  France;  Leslie  M. 
Hickson,  Ecole  d' Aviation,  Tours;  Walter  H.  McGay,  F.  O.  R.  C;  John  O.  Out- 
water,   15th  N.   Y.   Colored  Inf.;  John  J.  Tierney,   Corporal  Ordnance  Dept.; 


Amherst   Men  in  the  National  Service   117 

Ralph  W.  Whipple,  M.  R.  C;  Walton  K.  Smith,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Kenneth  O.  Shrews- 
bury, Aviation  Division,  U.  S.  Signal  Corps;   Mervin  W.  Bliss,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 

1915 — Ralph  B.  Babcock,  Aviation  Section,  S.  E.  R.  C;  Richard  H.  Bacon, 
Field  Artillery;  Richard  Bancroft,  Base  Hospital  No.  7;  Francis  J.  Burke,  U.  S. 
A.  A.  S.,  Section  12;  James  W.  Craig,  Motor  Supply  Division  attached  to  French 
Army;  Arthur  P.  Goodwin,  117th  Aero  Squadron,  Aviation  Section,  Signal  C; 
Gordon  R.  Hall,  Sanitary  Branch  of  Medical  Unit;  Newton  M.  Kimball,  Further 
Training  in  F.  A.;  Henry  Kingman,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Arthur  E.  Ralston,  A.  A.  F.  S.; 
Paul  D.  Weathers,  Q.  M.  C;   W.  Gerald  Barnes,  Flying  Corps. 

1916— David  S.  Cutler,  103rd  Infantry,  A.  E.  F.;  William  Gates,  Battery  E. 
151st  F.  A.;  Edwin  H.  Lutkins,  Base  Hospital  No.  15;  Francis  R.  Otte,  167th  In- 
fantry; Elton  H.  Seamans,  M.  R.  C;  Robert  W.  Smith,  M.  R.  C;  Henry  W. 
Barnes,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  Section  539;  Merrill  M.  Boynton,  11th  Engineers;  John 
F.  Creamer,  Jr.,  301st  F.  A.;  Paul  S.  Greene,  A.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C;  George  N.  Keeney, 
Base  Hospital  No.  9. 

1917— John  D.  Clark,  Artillery  Training  Camp;  Karl  M.  Elish,  103rd  Infantry; 
Henry  I.  Fillman,  Base  Hospital  No.  15;  James  E.  Glann,  A.  A.  F.  S.  James  A. 
Hawkins,  Base  Hospital  No.  6;  Paul  Lestrade,  Battery  A,  F.  A.;  William  F. 
Loomis,  Aviator;  Carroll  B.  Low,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  Lawrence  M.  McCague,  A.  A. 

F.  S.;  Herbert  B.  Pettee,  Div.  26,  Reg.  103,  Batt.  A,  F.  A.,  A.  E.  F.;  Edward  R. 
Proctor,  E.  R.  C.  U.  S.  A.,  Base  Hospital  No.  2;  Hilmer  Rauschenbusch,  A.  A.  F.  S., 
Sec.  539;  Alfred  S.  Romer,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Raymond  T.  Ross,  Aviation;  Luke  D. 
Stapleton,  training  in  Artillery  Section;  Joseph  F.  Vielbig,  V.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539; 
John  F.  Whitcomb,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Theodore  L.  Widmayer,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C,  Sec. 
539. 

1918— A.  Emerson  Babcock,  Jr.,  Aviation;  Albert  W.  Bailey,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec. 
539;  John  B.  Brainerd,  Jr.,  9th  U.  S.  Infantry;  Charles  W.  Chapman,  Jr.,  French 
Army  Pilot  and  Corporal  in  Aviation  Corps;  Ralph  E.  Ellinwood,  A.  A.  F.  S.; 
James  B.  Evans,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  John  S.  Gillies,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539; 
Harry  K.  Grainger,  Co.  L,  103rd  Inf.  26th  Div.,  A.  E.  F.;  Murray  S.  Moore,  U.  S. 
A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Andrew  R.  Morehouse,  Base  Hospital  No.  15;  Curtis  L.  Norton, 
A.  A.  F.  S.;  Waldo  E.  Pratt,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Leonard  M.  Prince, 
American  Mission  Motor  Transport;  William  C.  Robinson,  Jr.,  Infantry;  William 

G.  Rogers,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C;  Chester  G.  Seamans,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C;  William  Taber, 
Base  Hospital  No.  15;  Byron  E.  Thomas,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  John  L.  WTiit- 
comb,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Clifford  J.  Young,  Base  Hospital  No.  13;  Franklin  C.  Butler 
103d  F.  A. 

1919— Ingham  C.  Baker,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  William  A.  Burnett,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C. 
Sec.  539;  Charles  R.  Chase,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  with  French  Army;  John  R.  Cotton, 
Aviation;  Lawrence  L.  Donahue,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Arthur  E.  Hazeldine, 
attached  to  French  division  of  U.  S.  A.;  Burr  Howe,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Harold  M.  Lay, 
U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Joseph  M.  Lyman,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Lloyd  W.  MUler, 
U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Donald  G.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Winfield 
W.  Riefler,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  John  A.  G.  Savoy,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Oliver  Schaaf 
U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Arthur  L.  Scott,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Lincoln  B.  Smith,  Battery 


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B,  103rd  F.  A.,  A.  E.  F.;  John  B.  Stanton,  Field  Clerk;  Frederick  L.  Yarrington, 
A.  A.  F.  S.;  Paul  H.  Ballon,  A.  A.  F.  S. 

1920— Ralph  E.  Bailey,  Red  Cross;  John  L.  Briggs,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Grant  A. 
Goebel,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Hugh  L.  Hamilton,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Mer- 
ril  C.  Haskell,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  James  H.  Hinch,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Leonard  B.  Hough,  A.  A. 
F.  S.;  William  C.  McFeely,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Horatio  W.  Newell,  A.  A.  F.  S.; 
Charles  E.  Putnam,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Sherman  D.  Shipman,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C. 
Sec.  539;  Rufus  L.  Stevens,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Robert  G.  Stewart,  U.  S.  A. 
A.  C.  Sec.  539;  Albert  B.  Weaver,  Aviation. 


VARSITY  MEN  IN  COLLEGE  APRIL,  1917,  WHO  HAVE  SINCE  ENTERED 
GOVERNMENT  SERVICE 


FOOTBALL 

Sheldon  B.  Goodrich,  Captain  1916,  Plattsburg;  Roger  C.  Perkins,  Center  1916, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Paul  Plough,  End,  1916,  2nd  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  A.  Inf.;  Herbert  W. 
Schmidt,  Halfback  1916,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Theodore  L.  Widmayer,  Center  1916, 
M.  R.  C;  H.  Knauth,  Guard  1916,  U.  S.  A.  Quartermaster;  Wm.  C.  Washburn, 
End  1916,  Captain  1917,  U.  S.  R.  Aviation;  H.  M.  Lay,  End  1916,  M.  R.  C.&  R. 
S.  White,  Manager  Elect  1918,  1st  N.  Y.  Field  Hospital;  W.  E.  Forbes,  End  1916, 
N.  R.  C.       . 


Thomas  H.  Nelligan,  Captain  1916-17,  U.  S.  N.  A.;  Frederick  D.  Bell,  Varsity 
Relay  1916,  Aviation;  James  E.  Glann,  Miler,  1915-16  A.  A.  F.  S.;  Sheldon  B. 
Goodrich,  Varsity  Relay  1916,  Plattsburg;  Edw.  S.  Marples,  Broad  Jumper  1916, 
2nd  Lieut.  O.  R.  C;  J.  F.  Swett,  Manager  1916,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  John  S.  Gillies,  High 
and  Broad  Jumper  Hurdler  1916,  M.  R.  C;  Sigourney  Thayer,  100  and  220  man 
Relay,  Captain  Elect  1917,  1st  Lieutenant,  Aviation;  P.  Y.  Eastman,  220-Man 
Relay  1916,  N.  R.  F.;  F.  L.  Yarrington,  High  Jumper,  1916  A.  A.  F.  S. 


BASEBALL 

R.  Munroe,  2nd  Base  Captain  1917,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  K.  DeF.  Carpenter,  Pitcher 

1916,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Sheldon  B.  Goodrich,  3rd  Base  1916,  Plattsburg; 
C.  B.  McGowan,  Pitcher  1916,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  R.  C.  Perkins,  Manager  1916, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  G.  H.  Rome,  Fielder  1916,  N.  Y.  Hospital  Corps;  Theodore  L. 
Widmayer,  Shortstop  1916,  M.  R.  C;  H.  Knauth,  1st  Base  1916,  U.  S.  A.  Camp 
Quartermaster;  C.  G.  Seamans,  Fielder,1916  M.  R.  C;  Phillip  H.  See,  Catcher 

1917,  Captain  Elect  1918,  Radio  Division  N.  R. 


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BASKETBALL 

Theodore  Widmayer,  Forward  Captain  1916-17,  M.  R.  C;  Theodore  Ivimey, 
Forward  1916-17,  2nd  Lieutenant  N.  A.;  J.  E.  Partenhiemer,  Center  1916-17, 
Captain  Elect,  1917-18  Chemistry  Research  Work;  Glenn  F.  Card,  Guard  1916- 
17,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  H.  Knauth,  Guard  1916-17,  U.  S.  A.  Camp  Quartermaster. 


SWIMMING 

T.  H.  Nelligan,  Capt.  1915-16;  1916-17,  U.  S.  N.  A.;  N.  R.  Lemcke,  Capt. 
1916-17,  U.  S.  N.;  P.  H.  See,  1916-17,  U.  S.  N.  R.,  Radio  Div.;  Wm.  F.  Loomis 
1916-17,  Aviation;  H.  H.  Banta,  1916-17,  Aviation  Factory,  Buffalo;  Myers  E. 
Baker,  Manager  1916-17,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;   C.  J.  Young,  1916-17,  N.  O.  R.  C. 


TENNIS 

E.  F.  Blair,  Capt.  1917,  N.  O.  R.  C. 

GOLF 

W.  E.  Sibley,  Capt.  1917,  Radio  Div.,  N.  R.;  J.  B.  Evans,  1917,  N.  O.  R.  C. 


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€)0ictal  auD  i^erisonal 


THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 


The  war  and  the  problems  arising  out 
of  it  as  they  affect  Amherst,  have  been 
the  Council's  chief  concern  during  the 
past  three  months.  The  war  notes  in 
this  issue  of  the  Quarterly  are  the 
direct  result  of  the  work  of  the  Council's 
War  Records  Committee.  It  will  be 
the  aim  of  this  Committee  to  continue 
to  keep  in  touch  with  Amherst  men  in 
the  Government  Service  and  to  record 
news  about  them  in  each  issue  of  the 
Quarterly. 

The  fifth  annual  meeting  of  the 
Alumni  Council  will  be  held  in  Spring- 
field Friday  and  Saturday,  March  15  and 
16,  in  conjunction  with  the  Annual 
Dinner  of  the  Connecticut  Valley 
Alumni  Association.  A  year  ago  it  was 
expected  that  this  meeting  would  be 
held  in  the  West  and  would  be  the 
means  of  bringing  together  a  notable 
gathering  of  Western  Amherst  men.  It 
has  become  clear,  however,  that  the  war 
would  prevent  such  an  attendance  as 
is  desired  and  that  it  would  be  wiser  to 
postpone  the  Western  meeting  and  this 
year  gather  at  as  central  a  point  as  possi- 
ble. Amherst  and  the  War  will  be  the 
principal  theme  of  the  meeting,  Amherst 
men  who  have  been  playing  a  distin- 
guished part  in  it  will  be  present,  and 
every  effort  will  be  made  to  make  this 
meeting  as  unusual  a  one  as  any  which 
have  preceded  it. 

As  was  announced  in  the  November 
Quarterly,    Amherst   has   become   a 


member  of  the  American  University 
Union  in  Paris  and  has  joined  with 
Harvard,  Bowdoin,  Brown,  Dartmouth 
and  Williams  in  maintaining  a  Bureau 
with  Staff  at  the  Paris  Headquarters  of 
the  Union,  the  Royal  Palace  Hotel 
(corner  Rue  de  Richelieu  and  the  Place 
du  TheS.tre  Frangais).  The  Alumni 
Council  has  assumed  the  financial 
obligation  which  has  been  incurred. 

Chalmers  Clifton  who  sailed  last 
October  to  become  the  resident  secre- 
tary of  the  joint  Bureau  writes: 

"  The  American  University  Union  is  an 
unqualified  success.  All  of  the  rooms  are 
taken,  and  the  resources  of  the  restau- 
rant are  taxed  to  the  utmost,  many  men 
registering  at  the  Union  and  visiting 
their  various  Bureaus  who  do  not  live 
in  the  house.  It  fills  a  great  need  for 
college  men  in  Paris  whether  or  no  they 
are  in  war  service. 

"Its  location  is  peculiarly  favorable 
in  these  days  of  limited  transportation 
facilities.  At  the  head  of  the  Avenue 
de  L'Opera,  it  is  in  the  very  heart  of 
Paris,  and  can  be  reached  by  two  lines 
of  the  Metropolitan  subway,  which 
meet  at  the  station  Palais  Royal.  You 
can  imagine  the  relief  of  the  man  un- 
familiar with  Paris  and  continental 
customs  at  finding  himself  in  a  hotel 
where  he  will  no  doubt  meet  friends  and 
where  he  will  be  served  by  English- 
speaking  employes  who  understand  his 
wants  and  his  manner  of  expressing 
them.  The  Union  has  the  comfortable 
atmosphere  of  a  club  house  and  the 
friendly  relations  among  the  people  par- 
taking of  its  hospitality  are  becoming 
closer  and  more  apparent  from  day  to 
day. 


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"  The  hotel  is  thoroughly  modern,  the 
rooms  comfortable,  the  food  excellent, 
and  for  prices,  amazingly  reasonable. 
A  great  luxury  for  the  men  returning 
from  months  of  weary  service  at  the 
front  is  a  constant  supply  of  hot  and 
cold  water  and  a  large  number  of  bath 
rooms. 

"The  special  college  bureaus,  housed 
in  a  series  of  identical  suites  on  the  five 
upper  floors,  are  coordinating  their 
work  with  that  of  the  Union,  avoiding 
thereby  duplication  and  waste.  Their 
activities  will  naturally  vary  considera- 
bly according  to  the  number  of  men 
they  are  caring  for,  and  the  size  of  the 
office  force  at  their  disposal.  The  men 
who  have  come  to  the  Bureau  have 
wanted  cables  sent,  have  wished  to 
have  the  addresses  of  good  pensions, 
and  to  be  recommended  to  French 
teachers  who  could  give  them  intensive 
instruction  for  their  short  stay  in  Paris. 
In  addition  to  this,  the  number  of  small 
services  for  men  who  have  little  or  no 
knowledge  of  French  is  very  great,  and 
is  increasing  every  day." 

A  small  pamphlet  showing  the  loca- 
tion of  the  Union  has  been  sent  by  the 
Alumni  Council  to  every  Amherst  man 
in  the  Government  Service.  Over 
150  of  these  men  are  now  in  Europe 
and  will  sooner  or  later  be  in  Paris  and 
enjoy  the  privileges  of  the  Union.  The 
Union  was  formerly  opened  on  Satur- 
day,   October   20,    and    the   following 


Amherst  men  in  Europe  had  registered 
up  to  December  20,  1917:  Augustus 
Post,  '95,  Foreign  Service  Commission; 
Paul  Welles,  '08,  Signal  Corps,  U.  S  .R.; 
Alvan  Sanborn,  '87,  Dravail,  D-et-0.; 
Charles  W.  Anderson,  '02,  A.  A.  F.  S.; 
Charles  R.  Chase,  '19,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  John 
D.  Clark,  '17,  R.  O.  T.  C.  U.  S.  M.  R.  C; 
George  Scatchard,  '13,  Sanitary  Corps, 
U.  S.  N.  A.;  Carroll  B.  Low,  '17,  2nd 
Lieut.,  F.  A.  O.  S.  R.;  Henry  S.  King 
man,  '15,  A.  R.  C;  Alfred  S.  Romer, 
'17,  A.  A.  F.  S.;  John  J.  Tierney,  '14, 
Ordnance  Department;  Edward  B. 
VoUmer,  '12,  U.  S.  Navy  Hospital  No.  1; 
Richmond  Mayo-Smith,  '09,  Sanitary 
Corps;  Charles  H.  Wright,  '18,  Base 
Hospital  No.  8;  James  A.  Sprenger, 
'08,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Work;  Edward  H. 
Sudbury,  '09,  E.  R.  A.  F.;  Robert  C. 
Chapin,  '09,  U.  S.  Navy;  Wilbur  C. 
Burt,  '12,  Engineer  Corps;  William  F, 
Loomis,  '17,  Lafayette  Flying  Corps. 
James  E.  Willets,  '13,  F.  A.;  William 
T.  Corry,  '11,  U.  S.  A.;  George  W. 
Brainerd,  Base  Hospital  No.  9;  Mervin 
W.  Bliss,  '14,  A.  S.  S.  C;  E.  A.  Van 
Valkenburgh,  Gas  Defense  Service; 
James  S.  Hamilton,  '06,  U.  S.  Base 
Hospital  No.  9;  James  N.  Worcester, 
'06,  M.  R.  C. 


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THE   ASSOCIATIONS 


Brooklyn.  —  The  Amherst  Associa- 
tion of  Brooklyn  held  an  informal 
smoker  on  November  23rd  at  the  Brook- 
lyn University  Club.  Prof.  Frank.  D. 
Blodgett,  '93,  president  of  the  Associa- 
tion, presided  and,  in  introducing  the 
speakers,  stated  that  he  had  heard  that 
mankind  was  divided  into  three  groups; 
—  mentals,  ornamentals,  and  detrimen- 
tals. He  added  that  at  an  Amherst 
gathering  there  could  be  no  detrimen- 
tals, but  that  there  were  several  mentals 
on  hand  who  would  perform,  while  the 
ornamentals  looked  on. 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  '66,  gave  a 
very  interesting  illustrated  talk  on  Bul- 
garia, showing  a  number  of  war  pictures 
taken  at  the  time  of  the  Balkan  wars. 
Samuel  G.  Fairley,  '92,  spoke  on  the 
subject  of  football. 

The  guests  of  the  evening  were  Prof. 
Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  '67,  who  gave  a 
war  talk  on  "Facts  that  Encourage," 
and  Prof.  Donald  B.  MacMillan,  Arctic 
explorer,  who  was  present  through  the 
courtesy  of  Mr.  Bridgman,  and  who 
showed  his  wonderful  colored  photo- 
graphs of  the  ice  regions  and  recounted 
his  experiences  in  his  attempts  to  explore 
Crocker  Land,  which  he  proved  to  be 
a  mirage. 

About  fifty  members  were  present, 
including  several  of  the  younger  men 
in  khaki. 

Cle\t:land.  —  The  account  in  the 
Quarterly  of  the  Amherst  Debating 
Trophy  and  the  formation  of  leagues  in 
other  cities  attracted  the  attention  of 


some  of  the  alumni  in  Cleveland.  In 
each  of  the  past  three  years,  several 
boys  have  gone  to  Amherst  and  it 
seemed  well  to  give  impetus  to  the  in- 
terest already  aroused.  Contributions 
were  easily  secured  to  purchase  a  cast 
of  the  statuette.  The  Cleveland  High 
Schools  have  already  a  somewhat  elab- 
orate scheme  of  debates  and  there  was 
a  very  natural  hesitance  in  certain  of 
the  schools  approached  about  assuming 
new  obligations.  It  seemed  best,  more- 
over, to  include  only  natural  rivals  and 
schools  where  Amherst  prospects  might 
be  expected. 

Eventually  a  league  of  two  schools 
seemed  to  be  the  most  feasible.  These 
are  Glenville  High  and  Shaw  High  of 
East  Cleveland,  two  schools  in  subur- 
ban districts  whose  participation  in  the 
Amherst  League  assures  it  publicity  and 
interest.  A  debate  will  be  held  in 
March,  the  winner  to  have  the  trophy 
for  one  year.  Next  fall  one  and  possibly 
two  other  schools  hope  to  be  in  a  posi- 
tion to  enter  the  league. 

Rev.  Ferdinand  Q.  Blanchard,  '98, 
was  instrumental  in  organizing  the 
league. 

Chicago.  —  Amherst  men  visiting 
Chicago  are  again  reminded  of  the 
weekly  luncheons  of  the  Chicago  Club, 
which  are  held  at  Marshall  Field  & 
Co.'s  Men's  Grill  on  the  6th  floor  of 
Field's  Store  for  Men,  on  Monday  of 
each  week.  New  faces,  especially  from 
other  parts  of  the  country,  are  always 
welcome. 


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DIED 

1854.  —  Charles  Hallock,  on  Decem- 
ber 2,  1917,  at  Washington,  D.  C,  aged 
84  years. 

1856.  —  Levi  Clark  Littell,  on  Octo- 
ber 28,  1917,  at  Rushville,  111.,  in  his 
87th  year. 

1857.  —  Matthew  Walker,  on  Sep- 
tember 23,  1917,  at  Barre,  Mass.,  aged 
82  years. 

1857.  —  Rev.  Alvah  L.  Frisbie,  D.D., 
in  week  of  Christmas,  1917,  at  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  aged  87  years. 

1867.  —  Samuel  .Ward,  on  November 
22,  1917,  at  Newton  Centre,  Mass.,  in 
his  72d  year. 

1869.  —  Rev.  John  Huse  Eastman, 
D.D.,  on  November  9, 1917,  at  W' inches- 
ter,  Mass.,  aged  69  years. 

1874.  —  Rev.  Foster  Russell  Waite, 
on  November  23,  1917,  at  Hartford, 
Conn.,  aged  67  years. 

1876.  —  Dr.  William  Cadwell  Stevens 
on  October  17,  1917,  at  Worcester, 
Mass.,  in  his  63rd  year. 

1880.  —  Hon.  George  Patten  Law- 
rence, on  November  21,  1917,  in  New 
York  City,  aged  58  years.  : 

1881.  —  Edwin  Perry  Wells,  on  De- 
cember 13,  1917,  at  Newton  Highlands, 
Mass.,  aged  58  years. 

1898.  —  Dr.  Arthur  M.  Clapp,  on 
October  31,  1917,  at  Springfield,  Mass., 
aged  41  years. 

1899.  —  Edward  Bartlett  Mitchie,  on 
October  4,  1917,  in  New  York  City, 
aged  40  years. 

1905.  —  William  Thomas  Hutchings 
on  September  20,  1917,  at  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  aged  40  years. 

1910.  —  Major  Birdseye  Blakeman 
Lewis,  on  November  3,  1917,  "some- 
where in  France,"  aged  29  years. 

1912.  —  Sergeant  Frank  J.  McFar- 
land,  on  October  29,  1917,  at  Camp 
Upton,  N.  Y,  aged  24  years. 


1915.  —  J.  Warnock  Campbell,  on 
August  16,  1917,  at  Reynoldsville,  Fla., 
aged  24  years. 


1897.  —  Twins,  a  son  and  a  daughter, 
on  December  20,  1917,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
H.  M.  Moses,  of  BrookljTi,  N.  Y. 

1905.  —  Barbara  Wing,  on  Novem- 
ber 6,  1917.  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  Deland  Wing. 

1905.  —  George  H.  B.  Green,  3rd,  on 
September  29,  1917,  at  Watertown, 
Mass.,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  H.  B. 
Green,  Jr. 

1910.  —  Ernest  J.  Lawton,  Jr.,  on 
October  14,  1917,  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ernest  J.  Lawton. 

1911.  —  Vida  Eleanore  Babcock,  on 
October  8,  1917,  at  Pittsford,  N.  Y., 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  J. 
Babcock. 

1911.  —  Mary  Lee  Abbot,  on  Decem- 
ber 17,  1917,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Prentice  Abbot. 

1912.  —  Helen  Beatty,  on  November 
28,  1917,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Francis  Beatty. 

1915.  —  John  Gilbert  Cutton,  on  Oc- 
tober 9,  1917,  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  L.  Cutton. 


1876.  —  In  New  York  City  on  No- 
vember 10,  1917,  George  A.  Plimpton 
and  Miss  Fanny  Hastings. 

1885.  —  In  New  York  City  on  De- 
cember 1,  1917,  Frank  E,  Whitman  and 
Miss  Ethel  M.  Griffen. 

1887.  —  In  New  York  City  on  No- 
vember 17,  1917,  Magistrate  Alexander 
Brough  and  Mrs.  Alice  Southard 
Macomber. 

1892.  —  In  New  York  City  on  No- 
vember 21,  1917,  Cornelius  J.  Sullivan 
and  Miss  Mary  J.  Quiun. 


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1896.  —  At  Shaowi,  Foochow,  China, 
on  April  9,  1917  (not  previously  re- 
corded), Rev.  Charles  L.  Storrs  and 
Miss  Mary  Merrick  Goodwin. 

1908.  —  At  Suffield,  Conn.,  on  Octo- 
ber 13,  1917,  George  Edward  Rawson 
and  Miss  Florence  Alice  Perkins. 

1909.  —  In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  Octo- 
ber 29,  1917,  Cuthbert  Hague  and  Miss 
Madalyn  Black  Bickford. 

1909.  —  At  Worcester,  Mass.,  on  No- 
vember 17,  1917,  Lieutenant  F.  Mar- 
sens  Butts  and  Miss  Louise  Mirick. 

1910.  —  At  Bellow  Falls,  Vt.,  on  No- 
vember 29,  1917,  Captain  Joseph  Bart- 
lett  Bisbee,  Jr.,  and  Miss  Catherine 
Flint. 

1911.  —  At  Somers,  Conn.,  on  Octo- 
ber 11,  1917,  Raymond  M.  Bristol  and 
Miss  Dorothy  Fletcher. 

1912.  —  In  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  on  No- 
vember 24,  1917,  Captain  DeWitt  H. 
Parsons  and  Miss  Jane  Lockwood. 

1912.  —  At  Southbridge,  Mass.,  on 
November  8,  1917,  J.  Henry  Vernon 
and  Miss  Ruth  L.  Hill. 

1912.  —  At  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  on 
December  6,  1917,  Lieutenant  John 
Harrison  Madden  and  Miss  Margaret 
Ford  McCarthy. 

1913.  —  In  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  on  October 
27,  1917,  J.  Wallace  Coxhead  and  Miss 
Mary  Johnson. 

1913.  —  At  Ottawa,  111.,  on  Novem- 
ber 3,  1917,  Samuel  H.  Cobb  and  Miss 
Charlotte  Hull. 


1913.  —  In  New  York  City,  on  Au- 
gust 13,  1917  (not  previously  recorded), 
George  Stone  and  Miss  Emma  Kren- 
nick. 

1914.  —  At  Oak  Park,  111.,  on  Sep- 
tember 15,  1917,  Guy  H.  Gundaker  and 
Miss  Vendeta  G.  Cudmore. 

1914.  —  At  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  on  Octo- 
ber 1,  1917,  S.  F.  Cushman,  Jr.,  and 
Miss  Rebecca  Kennedy. 

1915.  —  In  New  York  City,  on  No- 
vember 9,  1917,  Lieutenant  Richardson 
Pratt  and  Miss  Mary  Cecilia  Parsons. 

1915.  —  In  Poland  Springs,  Me.,  on 
December  15,  1917,  John  M.  Gans  and 
Miss  Janette  Ricker. 

1915.  —  In  Jacksonville,  111.,  on  July 
16,  1917  (not  previously  recorded), 
Louis  T.  Eaton  and  Miss  Margaret 
Ayers. 

1915.  —  In  Glenfield,  N.  Y.,  on  De- 
cember 22, 1917,  Sergeant  Conrad  Shum- 
way  and  Miss  Ettah  H.  Cobb. 

1917.  —  In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  No- 
vember 30,  1917,  Lieutenant  G.  Irving 
Baily  and  Miss  Dorothea  Gray. 

1917.  —  At  South  Easton,  Mass.,  on 
November  27,  1917,  Lieutenant  Sheldon 
B.  Goodrich  and  Miss  Nellie  D.  Ken- 
nedy. 

1918.  —  In  Boston,  Mass.,  on  No- 
vember 15,  1917,  Robert  Ferry  Patton 
and  Miss  Mildred  Simonds. 

1918.  —  At  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  on 
August  25,  1917  (not  previously  re- 
corded), Donald  B.  Simmons  and  Miss 
Katharyn  Urquhart. 


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1854 

Charles  Hallock,  journalist,  author 
and  scientist,  died  on  December  2,  1917, 
at  the  John  Dickson  Home,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  He  was  one  of  Amherst's 
most  distinguished  sons  and  was  widely 
known  because  of  his  writings.  He  was 
a  great  believer  in  and  lover  of  the  out- 
door life  and  many  of  his  books  are  on 
such  topics. 

Mr.  Hallock  was  in  his  84th  year, 
having  been  born  in  New  York  City, 
on  March  13,  1831,  the  son  of  Gerald 
J.  and  Eliza  (Allen)  Hallock.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  A.  B.  from  Amherst 
in  1854,  and  A.  M.  in  1871.  He  was 
married  on  September  10,  1855,  to 
Amelia  J.  Wardwell  of  New  York. 

After  leaving  college,  Mr.  Hallock 
took  up  journalism  as  his  career  and  in 
1855  became  editor  of  the  New  Haven 
Register.  In  1856-1861,  he  was  editor 
of  the  St.  John  (N.  B.)  Telegraph  and 
Courier.  In  1865  he  became  a  broker 
at  St.  John  and  later  at  Halifax,  N.  S. 

In  1868  he  became  financial  editor  of 
Harper  s  Weekly,  and  in  1873  founded 
the  magazine,  Forest  and  Stream.  In 
1890  he  became  editor  of  Nature's 
Realm,  and  in  1896-1897  was  editor  of 
the  Northwestern  Field  and  Stream.  He 
was  the  first  secretary  of  the  Blooming 
Grove  Park  Association  in  New  York 
(1870-1872)  and  also  served  in  the  '70's 
as  director  of  the  Flushing  and  Queen's 
County  Bank.  He  founded  the  Inter- 
national Association  for  Protection  of 
Game  in  1874,  formulating  uniform 
game  laws  in  1875,  and  was  the  founder 
of  the  town  of  Hallock,  Minn.,  in  1880. 


This  town  is  now  the  county  seat  of 
Kittson  County. 

Since  1860  Mr.  Hallock  had  done 
collecting  and  field  work  for  the  Smith- 
sonian Institution.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society, 
the  Washington  Association  of  Sciences, 
Minnesota  and  Alaska  Historical  Soci- 
ety, American  Social  Science  Associa- 
tion, American  Ornithologists'  Union. 

His  first  book  was  published  in  1854, 
under  the  title  of  "The  Recluse  of 
the  Oconee."  In  1863  he  published 
"Sketches  of  Stonewall  Jackson."  His 
books  on  the  outdoor  life  include:  "The 
Fishing  Tourist"  (1873),  "Camp  Life 
in  Florida"  (1876),  "Sportsman's  Gaz- 
etteer" (1877),  "Vacation  Rambles  in 
Michigan"  (1877),  "Dog  Fanciers'  Di- 
rectory and  Medical  Guide"  (1886), 
"The  Salmon  Fisher"  (1890).  Other 
books  by  him  include  the  "American 
Club  List  and  Glossary"  (1878),  "Our 
New  Alaska"  (1886),  "Rub  It  Out" 
(Medical),  (1886),  "The  Luminous 
Bodies  Here  and  Hereafter"  (1906), 
"Hallock  Ancestry"  (1906),  and  "Peer- 
less Alaska"  (1908).  He  also  published 
articles  regularly  from  1902-1913  in  the 
Antiqiiarian  and  Metaphysical  Maga- 
zines as  well  as  pamphlets,  monographs 
and  articles  on  national,  historical, 
sport  and  other  subjects. 

Interment  was  at  Cypress  Hill  Ceme- 
tery, Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1856 

Levi  Clark  Littell  died  at  his  home  in 
Rushville,  111.,  of  lung  fever  on  October 
28th,  in  his  87th  year.    He  was  the  son 


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of  David  and  Mary  A.  (McDonald) 
Littell  and  was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J., 
on  February  1,  1831,  and  prepared  for 
college  at  Flushing  (L.  I.)  Institute. 
After  one  year  at  Amherst,  he  left  be- 
cause of  ill  health  and  after  a  period  of 
rest  engaged  in  business,  and  later 
taught  school. 

When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  he 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Second 
Regiment,  District  of  Columbia,  and 
was  assigned  to  guard  duty  in  Wash- 
ington, where  he  was  stationed  during 
the  greater  part  of  his  military  career 
In  the  spring  of  1864,  he  left  the  army 
and  studied  theology  at  Western  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Allegheny,  Penn., 
graduating  in  1867.  In  the  fall  of  the 
same  year,  he  was  ordained  to  the  Pres- 
byterian Ministry  at  Fort  W'ayne,  Ind. 

His  first  pastorate  was  at  W^aterloo, 
Ind.,  where  he  remained  for  sixteen 
years.  In  1883  he  retired  from  the  min- 
istry on  account  of  ill  health,  and  re- 
moved to  Rushville,  111.,  in  which  place 
he  lived  for  the  rest  of  his  life,  engaging 
in  the  real  estate  business.  For  over 
thirty  j'cars  he  was  connected  with  the 
Loan  and  Homestead  Association  in  an 
official  capacity. 

Mr.  Littell  was  married  on  June  18, 
1873,  to  Annetta,  daughter  of  Samuel 
McCrear  of  Rushville,  111.  He  pub- 
lished many  sermons  and  also  "Qualifi- 
cations for  a  Successful  Teacher."  In- 
terment was  at  Rushville. 

1857 
Rev.  Denis  Wortman,  Secretary, 
40  W^atson  Ave.,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Matthew  Walker  died  at  Barre,  Mass. 
on  September  23,  1917.  He  was  an 
accountant  and  was  82  years  old.  He 
was  born  in  Stow,  Mass.,  on  August  2-1, 
1835,  the  son  of  Matthew  and  Mary 
(Wrigley)  Walker,  and  prepared  for  col- 


lege at  Williston  Seminary.  Mr. 
W'alker  was  married  on  December  21, 
1871,  to  Elizabeth  L.,  daughter  of 
Stephen  Heald  of  Barre. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Denis  W^ortman  writes: 

"I  spent  four  years  at  delightful  Am- 
herst, graduating  in  1857.  Out  of  46 
members,  only  7  now  survive:  G.  Beck- 
with,  William  Crawford,  D.  D.,  S.  W. 
Hatheway,  Jos.  Kimball,  Biscoe,  and 
Wortman.  I  think  two  are  younger 
than  I.  I  am  still  Sec.  Ministerial  Relief 
of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America. 
Am  in  very  fair  repair  at  823^.  I  am 
not  now  preaching." 

Just  as  the  Quarterly  went  to  press, 
news  was  received  of  the  death  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  of  the  Rev.  Alvah  L. 
Frisbie,  D.  D.,  one  of  the  leading  cler- 
gjTnen  in  the  Congregational  Church. 
He  died  Christmas  week  at  his  home  in 
Des  Moines  where  he  had  been  in  con- 
tinuous pastoral  service  for  47  years, 
the  last  seven  as  pastor  emeritus. 

Dr.  Frisbie  was  born  in  Delaware 
County,  New  York,  on  October  22, 
1830,  and  was,  therefore,  87  j-ears  old 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  the 
son  of  Daniel  G.  and  Bernice  (Lowery) 
Frisbie.  He  studied  at  Oberlin  for  one 
year  and  then  entered  Amhepst,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1857.  His 
theological  studies  were  pursued  at  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  and  Andover  The- 
ological Seminary.  Amherst  conferred 
the  degree  of  D.  D.  upon  him  in  1882. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  Congrega- 
tional ministry  in  1860  and  was  pastor 
at  Ansonia,  Conn.,  during  the  Civil 
War.  He  was  also  chaplain  for  part  of 
the  time  of  the  20th  Connecticut  In- 
fantry. From  1865-1871  he  was  pastor 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  at 
Danbury,  Conn.,  and  since  then  has 
been  at  Plymouth  Church,  Des  Moines. 

Dr.  Frisbie  was  a  member  of  Loyal 
Legion,  G.  A.  R.,  was  an  independent 
Republican,  a  trustee  of  Iowa  College 


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since  1889,  and  for  twenty  years  Chair- 
man of  the  State  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions for  Iowa.  He  was  a  great  lover  of 
poetry  and  in  1880  published  "The 
Siege  of  Calais  and  other  poems,"  and 
fifteen  years  later  "Plymouth  Vespers, 
Sermons  in  Verse." 

He  was  married  on  July  22,  1859,  to 
Jerusha  R.  Slocomb,  of  Sutton,  Mass. 
and  on  July  29,  1873,  to  Martha  J. 
Crosby.  His  home  in  Des  Moines  was 
at  1111  Seventh  Street. 

1858 
Rev.  Samuel  B.  Sherrill,  Secretary 
415  Humphrey  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Rev.  J.  F.  Gleason  of  South  Amherst 
has  resigned  his  pastorate,  at  the  age  of 
82,  and  will  make  his  home  with  his 
son.  Dr.  Edward  Gleason,  '88,  of  Onset. 
He  has  been  in  South  Amherst  since 
1895.  Mr.  Gleason  served  in  the  Civil 
War  and  took  part  in  the  battles  of 
Wilderness  and  Gettysburg.  It  is  told 
of  him  that  he  enlisted  while  visiting  a 
village  as  a  member  of  a  glee  club. 
After  two  years  of  active  service,  he 
was  called  to  Washington  for  clerical 
duty  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  accepted 
a  position  in  the  treasury  department. 

1860 

At  St.  Martin's  Church,  Providence, 
R.  I.,  on  December  16,  1917,  a  memorial 
tablet  was  dedicated  to  the  late  Rev. 
Lorenzo  Sears,  L.  H.  D.,  who  died  on 
February  29,  1916.  The  dedication  oc- 
curred during  the  morning  services. 
Prayers  were  offered  by  the  rector.  Rev. 
Arthur  L.  Washburn,  and  a  brief  ad- 
dress was  given  by  Prof.  Wilfred  H. 
Munro,  of  Brown  University,  an  asso- 
ciate and  friend  of  Professor  Sears. 

The  following  inscription  is  engraved 
on  the  tablet:  "In  memoriam,  Lorenzo 
Sears,  L.  H.  D.,  1838-1916:  Priest, 
educator,  author,  gentleman  of  the  old 
school;     interpreting  the  lives  of  the 


great  with  rare  insight  and  masterly 
skill;  endearing  himself  to  all  who 
knew  him  by  his  courtly  grace  and 
thoughtful  kindness." 

1863 

Hon.  Edward  W.  Chapin,  Secretary, 
181  Elm  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Rev.  Leavitt  H.  Hallock,  D.  D.,  of 
Portland,  Me.,  has  accepted  a  call  to  be 
ad  interim  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Bradentown,  Fla. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 

604  Carlton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman  was  a  member 

of  the  Brooklyn  Advisory  Committee, 

which  had  charge  of  the  raising  of  the 

War  Camp  Community  Fund. 

1867 

Prof.  EowaN  A.  Grosvenor,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
The  Converse  Memorial  Library  at 
Amherst,  made  possible  by  the  gift  of 
$250,000  from  Edmund  Cogswell  Con- 
verse in  memory  of  his  brother,  James 
B.  Converse,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1867,  was  dedicated  with  im- 
pressive ceremonies  on  November  8th. 
William  Rutherford  Mead,  also  of  '67, 
was  the  architect  of  the  new  library, 
and,  besides,  figures  as  the  first  donor 
to  it.  Mr.  Mead,  who  is  president  of 
the  American  Academy  in  Rome,  has 
presented  the  library  with  a  volume  of 
the  Memoirs  of  the  Academy. 

Samuel  Ward,  President  of  the  Sam- 
uel Ward  Company,  Franklin  Street, 
Boston,  who  has  been  engaged  in  the 
stationery  business  in  Boston  since  1868, 
died  at  his  home  in  Newton  Centre  on 
Thursday,  November  22d,  in  his  sev- 
enty-second year.  He  had  been  ill  for 
the  past  nine  months.  He  was  the  last 
of  eight  generations  of  Wards  who  had 
lived  in  or  near  Boston  since  1646. 


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Mr.  Ward  was  born  in  Newton  on 
December  31,  1845,  the  son  of  John  and 
Mary  Kingsbury  Ward.  One  of  his  an- 
cestors. Deacon  Ward,  was  the  first  set- 
tler of  Newton.  Samuel  Ward  received 
his  early  education  at  the  Newton 
schools,  and  graduated  from  Amherst 
with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  He  then  went 
into  the  stationery  business  at  74  State 
Street,  Boston,  and  on  February  1, 1868, 
established  the  firm  of  Ward  and  Com- 
pany, from  which  modest  beginning  the 
large  firm  of  to-day  has  grown. 

Always  prominent  in  religious  activi- 
ties both  in  Boston  and  Newton,  Mr. 
Ward  had  served  for  years  as  deacon  of 
the  First  Church  (Congregational)  of 
Newton  Centre,  and  was  also  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Sunday-school.  He  like- 
wise had  served  as  President  of  the 
National  Stationers'  Association  and 
was  a  trustee  of  Euphrates  College  in 
Harpoot,  Turkey.  For  many  years  he 
had  been  a  leading  figure  in  philan- 
thi'opy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Bos- 
ton City  Club,  the  Boston  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  the  Boston  Congregational 
Club  and  the  Neighborhood  Club. 

Mr.  Ward  was  twice  married,  first  in 
1872  to  Sarah  G.  Woodworth  at  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  and  then  in  1901  to  Mary 
C.  Barstow  at  Yarmouth,  Me.,  who  sur- 
vives him  with  three  daughters  and  nine 
grandchildren. 

Three  of  Mr.  Ward's  daughters  mar- 
ried Amherst  men.  His  daughters  are 
Mrs.  Paul  Ward  of  Medford,  Mass. 
(Helen  A.),  wife  of  the  late  P.  T.  B. 
Ward,  '99;  Mrs.  M.  B.  Dunning,  of 
Kyoto,  Japan  (Margaret),  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Morton  D.  Dunning,  '96;  and 
Mrs.  F.  A.  Lombard,  also  of  Kyoto, 
Japan  (Alice),  the  wife  of  the  Rev. 
Frank  A.  Lombard,  '96. 

At  the  funeral  services  on  Sunday, 
November  25th,  the  universal  respect 
and  esteem  for  Mr.  Ward  were  shown 


by  the  great  assembly  from  all  the 
churches  and  all  ranks  of  life.  George 
E.  Smith,  President  of  the  Boston  City 
Club,  spoke  in  behalf  of  the  business 
men;  C.  E.  Kelsey,  '84,  spoke  of  Mr. 
Ward's  church  activities;  and  Rev. 
Wm.  E.  Huntington  of  his  services  as 
a  public  citizen,  on  the  school  commit- 
tee and  in  other  civic  capacities.  The 
pall  bearers  included  two  classmates. 
Rev.  Wm.  H.  Cobb  and  Dr.  Ezra  S. 
Taft. 

Professor  N.  M.  Terry,  U.  S.  N.,  after 
forty-five  years  of  service  as  Professor 
of  Physics  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Academy 
and  twenty-six  of  these  years  as  head 
of  the  Department  of  Physics  and 
Chemistry,  was  transferred  last  Sep- 
tember to  the  retired  list  of  Officers  of 
the  Navy,  and  will  reside  on  his  old 
homestead  in  Lyme,  Coim.  Although 
seventy-three  years  of  age,  he  is  in  good 
health  and  spirits,  largely  due  he  says 
to  his  interest  in  outdoor  sports,  par- 
ticularly horseback  riding,  hunting  and 
boat  sailing,  all  of  which  saved  time 
for  his  professional  work,  as  he  has 
never  lost  a  week  from  sickness  since 
he  graduated  from  Amherst. 

He  is  now  restoring  to  its  former 
production  his  grandfathers'  farm. 

Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  President 
of  the  national  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society, 
spoke  recently  at  the  annual  dinner  of 
the  Harvard  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society 
at  Cambridge,  and  again  at  a  meeting 
of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  of  Boston 
University. 

1868 
William  A.  Bhown,  Secretary, 
17  State  Street,  New  York  City 

Arthur  Sherburne  Hardy  has  written 
a  new  novel  entitled  "No.  13  Rue  Du 
Bon  Diable,"  which  has  been  published 


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by  Houghton  Mifflin  Company.  It 
differs  from  the  general  run  of  detective 
stories  in  that  the  author  makes  no 
attempt  to  mystify  or  to  mislead  the 
reader,  but  takes  him  into  his  confidence 
at  once.  The  New  York  Times  says: 
"The  idea  is  a  good  one,  it  is  a  fairly 
entertaining  tale,  is  written  in  a  better 
style,  and  its  characters  are  less  wooden, 
than  is  usually  the  case  in  stories  of  this 
type." 

1869 

William  R.  Brown,  Secretary, 
18  East  41st  Street,  New  York  City 

The  Rev.  John  Huse  Eastman,  D.  D., 
a  very  prominent  clergyman  in  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  died  on  Friday, 
November  9th,  at  his  home,  134  Mt. 
Vernon  Street,  Winchester,  Mass.  He 
was  69  years  old  and  leaves  an  unusually 
wide  circle  of  friends.  In  fact  Dr.  East- 
man had  a  genius  for  friendship,  and 
neither  the  lapse  of  years  or  long  ab- 
sence ever  weakened  the  ties  which 
bound  him  so  strongly  to  his  friends. 
The  schoolmates  of  his  boyhood,  his 
college  friends,  his  pupils,  and  the  many 
to  whom  he  ministered  —  none  were 
ever  forgotten,  but  all  were  dearer  to 
him  as  the  years  went  on,  and  his  whole 
life  was  enriched  by  friendships  that 
were  well-nigh  ideal. 

He  was  born  in  Sandy  Hill  (now  Hud- 
son Falls),  N.  Y.,  on  July  22,  1849,  his 
father  being  the  Presbyterian  minister 
at  that  place.  For  two  years  after 
graduating  from  Amherst  he  taught 
Latin  and  Greek  at  Knox  College  in 
Illinois,  being  Acting  Professor  of  Latin 
one  year.  He  graduated  from  Union 
Theological  Seminary  in  1875  and  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Amherst 
in  1899. 

His  first  pastorate  was  at  Katonah, 
Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
stayed  for  twenty  years.    His  only  other 


pastorate  was  at  Potts ville.  Pa.,  also  for 
twenty  years.  In  1915  he  retired  be- 
cause of  ill  health  and  went  to  Win- 
chester to  live  with  his  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  and  his  son,  Joseph  B.  East- 
man, '04,  of  the  Massachusetts  Public 
Service  Commission. 

In  his  two  long  pastorates  of  twenty 
years  each,  he  had  the  opportunity  to 
become  thoroughly  identified  with  the 
life  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived, 
and  he  had  the  highest  conception  of 
the  duties  and  responsibilities  of  a  citi- 
zen. The  village  of  Katonah,  N.  Y.,  is 
noted  for  its  unusual  civic  spirit  and 
community  loyalty,  and  here  he  did 
pioneer  work  with  the  far-seeing  men 
who  organized  a  village  improvement 
society  in  the  days  when  such  organiza- 
tions were  rare.  He  preached  and  prac- 
ticed good  citizenship,  and  the  genera- 
tion of  young  people  who  came  under 
his  influence  feel  that  they  owe  to  him 
in  large  degree  the  high  ideals  that  have 
shaped  their  lives. 

In  Pottsville,  Pa.,  where  he  lived  for 
another  twenty  years,  he  served  as 
member  of  the  city  council  for  six  years, 
and  was  untiring  in  his  labor  for  the 
welfare  of  the  community. 

It  was  as  a  letter-writer  that  he  did 
perhaps  his  most  effective  work.  Fif- 
teen years  ago  he  became  convinced 
that  his  work  as  a  pastor  could  be 
greatly  strengthened  by  writing  birth- 
day letters  to  his  parishioners.  So  he 
began  to  write  to  the  members  of  his 
congregation  from  the  babies  up,  and 
wrote  six  or  seven  hundred  birthday 
letters  a  year.  Those  to  children  were 
printed  with  painstaking  care  and  were 
full  of  the  tender  grace  and  humor  that 
characterized  his  understanding  of  the 
children  who  loved  him  as  their  devoted 
friend.  Letters  on  anniversaries  and 
letters  to  those  in  sorrow  were  written 
with  such  depth  of  sincerity,  such  keen 


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sympathy  and  such  spiritual  insight 
that  no  other  phase  of  his  ministry  is 
remembered  with  so  much  love  and 
gratitude. 

The  Rev.  R.  C.  Walker,  of  Pottsville, 
gave  the  following  tribute  to  Dr.  East- 
man: "He  was  a  man  of  deep  sympa- 
thies!— And  they  were  not  only  deep 
but  broad.  He  entered  into  the  very 
souls  of  men  and  helped  them  on  their 
way  to  God;  with  trained  hand  and 
mind,  as  of  a  skilled  physician  of  souls, 
he  steadied,  corrected  and  healed  the 
hurts  of  men.  No  distress  was  too  in- 
significant to  elicit  his  interest  and  no 
joy  so  trivial  but  that  he  could  rejoice 
with  the  one  rejoicing.  Broad  too  were 
his  sympathies.  No  good  cause  in  our 
City  ever  needed  to  beg  for  his  support 
—the  Churches,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  the 
Hospital,  the  Children's  Home,  the 
Anti-Tuberculosis  Society,  the  Bible 
Society — all  had  his  cordial  and  practi- 
cal support." 

1870 

Dr.  John  G.  Stanton,  Secretary, 
99  Huntington  St.,  New  London,  Conn. 

The  Congregationalist  for  December 
13th  contained  a  group  picture  of  five 
clergymen,  entitled  "  Wisconsin's  Twen- 
ty-five Year  Pastors."  One  of  the  five 
is  the  Rev.  Judson  Titsworth.  Of  him 
The  Congregationalist  says: — 

"The  Rev.  Judson  Titsworth  was  for 
25  years  pastor  of  Plymouth  Church, 
Milwaukee,  a  thinker  of  the  advanced 
type,  who  in  city  and  state  largely  in- 
fluenced the  religious  development  in 
his  own  and  other  denominations.  He 
lives  in  Milwaukee  and  answers  calls 
for  sermons  and  addresses  in  different 
parts  of  the  state.  At  present  he  is 
interim  pastor  of  First  Church,  Eau 
Claire." 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Dr.  Talcott  Williams,  Dean  of  the 
School  of  Journalism  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, was  one  of  the  Loyalty  Week 


speakers  in  New  Jersey.  He  has  been 
making  a  number  of  other  patriotic 
addresses.  On  November  11th  he  spoke 
on  "Why  We  are  at  War  with  the  Im- 
perial German  Government"  at  the  first 
meeting  of  the  Brookline  (Mass.)  Civic 
Forum.  On  December  30th  in  Brook- 
lyn at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Central  Branch 
he  discussed  "The  New  Era  in  the  Near 
East."  Dr.  Williams  was  in  Amherst 
on  Sunday,  October  14th,  spoke  at  the 
College  Church  in  the  morning  and  at 
the  Christian  Association  meeting  in  the 
evening. 

1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  J.  W.  Ballantyne,  of  Stafford 
Springs,  Conn.,  who  recently  resigned 
his  pastorate,  has  reconsidered  at  the 
request  of  his  congregation  and  has 
decided  to  remain. 

Prof.  William  F.  Slocum,  President 
Emeritus  of  Colorado  College,  lectured 
in  November  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Brooklyn  Civic  Forum  on  "The  His- 
torical Causes  of  the  War." 

Rev.  John  P.  Trowbridge,  of  Groton, 
was  recently  tendered  a  call  to  Plain- 
field,  Mass.,  but  declined. 

The  estate  of  the  late  Frederick  W. 
Whitridge,  lawyer  and  president  of  the 
Third  Avenue  Railroad  Company  of 
New  York  City,  has  been  appraised  at 
$1,583,876  gross  and  $1,100,310  net,  all 
of  which  went  to  his  wife. 

Rev.  Foster  Russell  Waite  died  at  his 
home,  171  Putnam  Avenue,  Hartford, 
Conn.,  on  Friday,  November  23rd,  at 
the  age  of  67.  He  was  born  in  Chicopee, 
Mass.,  and  received  his  theological  train- 
ing at  Yale  Divinity  School,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1877.    He  was  ordained 


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to  the  ministry  at  Granby,  Mass.,  in 
1879. 

Mr.  Waite  became  pastor  of  the  South 
Congregational  Church  of  East  Hart- 
ford, where  he  remained  for  six  years. 
In  1890  he  went  to  Talcottville,  where 
he  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  there.  He  gave  up  pastoral 
work  in  1903,  however,  in  order  to  go  to 
Hartford  to  become  superintendent  of 
the  Hartford  Orphan  Asylum,  which 
position  he  had  held  for  fourteen  years, 
where  he  had  done  splendid  work. 

His  administration  has  been  most 
efficient.  Never  in  the  history  of  this 
orphans'  home  have  so  many  boys  been 
sent  on  their  way  to  useful  lives.  Mr. 
Waite  has  been  a  constant  inspiration 
for  the  boys  in  his  charge.  Already 
several  of  them  are  doing  service  in 
France,  and  others  are  at  Camp  Devens. 

Frederick  H.  Gillett  was  a  member  of 
a  small  sub-committee  in  Congress 
which  became  practically  the  committee 
of  Congress  on  war  expenditures  and 
was  given  jurisdiction  over  nearly  all 
the  war  appropriations,  and  its  recom- 
mendations were  substantially  all  rati- 
fied and  approved  by  Congress.  In 
addition  to  his  work  on  this  committee. 
Congressman  Gillett  acted  through  the 
latter  part  of  the  session  as  floor  leader 
of  the  Republicans  in  the  House  of 
Representatives  on  account  of  the  ill- 
ness of  Mr.  Mann,  and  at  this  session 
he  has  been  continued  in  that  position 
by  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  Repub- 
licans. 

Congressman  Frederick  H.  Gillett  has 
been  made  acting  minority  leader  of  the 
House  of  Representatives,  succeeding 
James  R.  Mann,  who  was  forced  to  re- 
linquish the  leadership  because  of  ill 
health.  It  is  regarded  as  likely  that  he 
will  hold  the  post  permanently  and  as 
the    Springfield    Republican    says,    "in 


reality  he  may  be  on  the  way  to  the 
Speakership  if  the  House  becomes  Re- 
publican within  a  few  years." 

The  Brooklyn  Eagle  s  Washington 
correspondent,  an  unusually  astute  ob- 
server, writes: — 

"Mr.  Gillett  is  a  partisan,  but  not 
nearly  so  much  of  one  as  Mr.  Mann. 
He  cannot  be  recalled  as  the  hero  of 
any  bitter  parliamentary  joust,  while 
Mr.  Mann  is  identified  with  scores  of 
them.  Nobody  can  remember  that  Mr. 
Gillett  ever  employed  invective  or  bit- 
terness in  a  speech,  while  Mr.  Mann 
has  flayed  many  a  parliamentary  oppo- 
nent, even  though  he  has  usually  shaken 
hands  with  him  afterward.  Mr.  Gillett 
would  cause  consternation  in  the  House 
if  he  ever  failed  to  be  courteous,  either 
to  political  friend  or  foe.  They  would 
think  that  his  whole  nature  had  under- 
gone a  startling  change.  The  only  point 
of  resemblance  between  Mr.  Mann  and 
Mr.  Gillett  is  that  each  wears  a  beard. 
But  even  the  beards  are  not  alike  in 
shape  or  color. 

"  But  if  Mr.  Gillett  cannot  tie  an  op- 
ponent into  so  many  parliamentary 
knots  as  Mr.  Mann,  there  is  one  point 
at  which  he  excels  the  Republican 
leader.  He  has  a  more  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  how  the  Government  money  is 
appropriated  and  how  it  is  spent.  He 
has  specialized  in  appropriations,  hav- 
ing for  sixteen  years  been  a  member  of 
the  committee  from  which  Mr.  Fitz- 
gerald is  so  soon  to  retire.  His  long 
service  in  the  Appropriations  Commit- 
tee has  made  Mr.  Gillett  the  ranking 
Republican  member  thereof,  so  that  if 
the  political  color  of  the  House  should 
be  changed  he  would  automatically  step 
into  the  chairmanship  and  thereby  be- 
come one  of  the  powers  that  be. 

"There  are  few  more  industrious 
members  of  Congress  than  Mr.  Gillett. 
He  is  not  in  the  habit  of  running  back 
home  for  a  few  days  now  and  then,  but 
sticks  to  his  legislative  task  with  a  fi- 
delity that  puts  to  shame  some  of  the 
in  and  outers.  He  is  usually  in  his  seat 
on  the  floor  during  sessions,  except  when 
the  Appropriations  Committee  happens 
to  be  sitting  simultaneously.  He  follows 
the  course  of  legislation  carefully,  but 
not  with  that  extraordinary  attention 
to  detail  that  is  characteristic  of  Mr. 


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Mann.  Nobody  will  ever  know  the  ins 
and  outs  of  every  obscure  little  bill  as 
Mr.  Mann  does,  for  the  latter  is  a  detail 
man  extraordinary;  so  much  of  one  that 
it  often  interferes  with  what  are  con- 
sidered to  be  some  of  the  most  important 
duties  of  leadership.  Mr.  Gillett  is  a 
detail  man  only  as  to  appropriations, 
which  he  makes  it  his  business  to  study 
with  care. 

"Being  a  modest  man  and  never 
spectacular  or  clamorous,  it  is  hard  to 
realize  that  Mr.  Gillett  has  been  occu- 
pying a  seat  in  the  House  for  twenty- 
five  consecutive  years.  He  is  66  years 
old  and  does  not  look  it.  He  began  his 
Washington  career  in  the  Fifty-third 
Congress,  having  been  elected  a  member 
of  that  body  in  1892  from  the  Second 
District  of  Massachusertts,  which  he  still 
represents.  This  was  just  at  the  time 
that  Henry  Cabot  Lodge  was  leaving 
the  House  for  the  Senate  and  that  Gov- 
ernor McCall  of  Massachusetts  was  en- 
tering it.  Naturally,  as  a  result  of  such 
long  service  and  because  he  possesses 
admirable  personal  qualities,  Mr.  Gillett 
has  the  entire  membership  of  the  House 
for  a  friend.  When  the  Speaker  recog- 
nizes 'the  gentleman  from  Massachu- 
setts,' even  the  stranger  in  the  gallery 
knows  instinctively  that  the  term 
'gentleman'  is  not  misapplied. 

"Mr.  Gillett  is  a  partisan,  but  a  first- 
class  American.  At  the  end  of  each 
session  of  Congress,  when  Mr.  Fitz- 
gerald makes  his  little  speech  praising 
the  record  of  the  Democrats  in  making 
appropriations,  Mr.  Gillett  will  reply 
in  his  own  little  speech,  showing  how 
the  Republicans  would  have  done  it 
much  better  had  they  been  bossing  the 
job.  That  represents  about  the  most 
virulent  exliibition  of  partisanship  of 
which  he  is  ever  guilty.  But  with  the 
war  on  hand  he  is  a  loyal  American  first 
of  all,  and  somewhere  down  the  line  of 
statesmanlike  qualities  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican." 

1876 

William  M.  Decker,  Secretary, 
Til  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

George  A.  Plimpton,  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  Amherst  College, 
was  married  on  Saturday,  November 


10th,  to  Miss  Fanny  Hastings,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  General  Russell  Hastings 
of  Civil  War  fame.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  in  New  York  at  the  Cathe- 
dral of  St.  John  the  Divine  by  the 
Right  Rev.  David  H.  Greer. 

Rev.  Charles  S.  Ricketts,  of  Norwich, 
Conn.,  has  given  his  four  sons  to  the 
service.  His  eldest  son,  Paul,  is  supply 
sergeant  at  Fort  Lee,  Petersburg,  Va.; 
Dr.  Jay  is  in  naval  service  at  Gibraltar; 
while  Kirk,  and  his  younger  brother, 
J.  Bradford,  are  both  corporals  at  Fort 
Terry,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Frank  Sargent  Hoffman,  for  30 
years  a  professor  at  Union  College,  has 
been  honored  by  the  Junior  Class  in 
having  their  class  book.  The  Garnet, 
dedicated  to  him. 

Dr.  William  Cad  well  Stevens  died  at 
his  home  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  on 
Wednesday,  October  17th.  He  was 
born  in  Barre,  Mass.,  on  December  16, 
1854,  and  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Worcester  high  school.  After  gradua- 
tion he  studied  at  the  Boston  Normal 
Art  School  and  then  taught  for  a  year 
at  Nichols  Academy,  Dudley,  Mass. 
Afterwards  he  taught  at  Gushing  Acad- 
emy, Ashburnham.  From  1879  to  1882 
he  studied  medicine  and  became  resi- 
dent physician  at  the  Rhode  Island 
Hospital,  Providence.  He  received  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Harvard  Med- 
ical School  in  1883.  He  practiced  med- 
icine in  Worcester  since  then  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society.  Dr.  Stevens  was  always  greatly 
interested  in  art  and  he  spent  the  last 
few  years  of  his  life  in  landscape  paint- 
ing, in  which  he  obtained  a  high  rep- 
utation. His  works  received  high  recom- 
mendation at  the  Art  Museum,  where 
they  were  recently  exhibited. 


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Gilbert  Ray  Hawes,  the  Torrens  ad- 
vocate and  attorney,  drafted  the  two 
bills  which  the  New  York  Legislature 
passed  in  1917  and  Governor  Whitman 
signed,  whereby  Savings  Banks  and 
Trust  Companies  and  other  financial 
institutions  are  now  permitted  to  make 
mortgage  loans  on  Torrens  certificates, 
the  same  as  formerly  on  policies  of  title 
insurance.  Mr.  Hawes  in  an  expert  of 
the  Torrens  Law  and  a  recent  issue  of 
the  "North  Side  News,"  a  newspaper 
published  in  the  Bronx,  in  New  York 
City,  contained  a  picture  of  him,  term- 
ing him,  "The  Man  who  Put  the  'N' 
in  Torrens,  By  Raising  It  to  the  Nth 
Power  of  Efficiency." 

1877 
Rev.  a.  De  W.  Mason,  Secretary, 
222  Garfield  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Through  some  inexplicable,  but  it  is 
to  be  hoped  not  unpardonable  error,  C. 
S.  Ryder  was  not  reported  as  being 
present  at  the  '77  reunion  last  June. 
He  certainly  was  there  and  his  class- 
mates, who  had  for  some  years  missed 
him  at  their  reunions,  were  rejoiced  to 
see  him  again.  He  lives  on  Staten 
Island  and  his  business  address  is  with 
the  National  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  Montpelier,  Vt.,  with  oflSces  at  149 
Broadway,  New  York. 

Collin  Armstrong,  as  Chairman  of 
the  National  Advertising  Advisory 
Board,  was  most  active  in  arranging 
the  advertising  campaign  in  behalf  of 
the  Liberty  Loan,  the  greatest  feat  of 
its  kind  on  record.  His  face  looks  out 
from  the  pages  of  Leslie's  Weekly  for 
November  24th,  1917,  as  one  of  the 
three  leaders,  the  others  being  James  T. 
Clarke  and  William  T.  Mullally,  who 
made  this  great  national  financial  move- 
ment such  a  triumphant  success. 


recently  better  known  as  the  Pacific 
Theological  Seminary  at  Berkeley,  Cali- 
fornia, Charles  S.  Nash  has  built  up  an 
institution  of  great  prominence  and 
value.  It  soon  expects  to  occupy  a  new 
group  of  buildings  in  close  proximity  to 
the  University  of  California  at  Berkeley, 
with  which  institution  it  has  long  heart- 
ily cooperated.  It  recently  celebrated 
its  fiftieth  anniversary  with  much  en- 
thusiasm. It  is  a  non-sectarian  or  inter- 
denominational institution  and  has 
about  sixty  students,  including  those 
taking  special  courses.  Its  faculty  num- 
bers eleven  teachers.  It  has  a  present 
endowment  of  $800,000,  but  seeks  an- 
other million  to  perform  its  duties  to  the 
best  advantage.  And  under  the  leader- 
ship of  President  Nash  we  are  sure  it 
will  get  what  it  needs  and  deserves. 

Charles  S.  Hartwell  recently  wrote 
the  following  patriotic  words  in  the 
Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle  apropos  of  the 
matter  of  non-loyalty  among  public 
school-teachers : 

"The  situation  appears  to  be  illus- 
trated by  three  concentric  circles.  The 
inmost  circle  represents  autocracy,  the 
intermediate  represents  democracy,  and 
the  third  or  outer  circle  indicates  anar- 
chy. Democracy  is  between  two  fires, 
those  of  autocracy  and  anarchy.  It  is 
the  duty  and  the  privilege  of  young 
men  to  go  to  France  to  fight  autocracy; 
it  is  the  duty  and  the  privilege  of  us 
older  men  and  teachers  to  struggle  with 
anarchy  at  home.  If,  when  we  attack 
the  spirit  of  anarchy  and  syndicalism  at 
home,  socialism  and  pacifism  skulk  in 
the  way,  they  are  likely  to  get  hit! 
Some  of  us  believe  that  Russian  and 
American  majority  socialism  leads 
straight  to  anarchy  and  must  be  op- 
posed. 

"The  times  demand  an  active,  per- 
sistent loyalty  on  the  part  of  all  teach- 
ers. Neutrality  is  now  inadmissible. 
Our  nation  is  at  war,  and  every  man, 
woman  and  child  must  help  the  Presi- 
dent." 


As  President  of  the  School  of  Religion  The  class  secretary  has  recently  sent 


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to  each  member  of  the  class  a  copy  of 
the  August  issue  of  the  Amherst  Grad- 
uates' Quarterly,  containing  a  report 
of  the  Fortieth  Anniversary  and  also  a 
copy  of  the  class  group  picture  taken 
during  the  reunion,  together  with  a 
short  class  letter.  He  would  be  glad  to 
know  if  any  classmate  fails  to  receive 
this  communication.  He  wishes  also  to 
call  the  attention  to  the  following  notice 
contained  in  the  circular  referred  to: 

"Hereafter  all  news  relative  to  the 
class  will  be  circulated  exclusively 
through  the  medium  of  the  Amherst 
Graduates'  Quarterly,  and  no  direct 
communications,  except  perhaps  an  oc- 
casional postal  card  or  other  brief  notice, 
will  be  sent  directly  to  the  members  of 
the  class.  This  has  been  necessitated 
because  of  the  increasing  expense  and 
labor  incident  to  frequent  circulariza- 
tion  of  the  class,  and  the  officers  of  the 
class  are  sure  that  all  our  members  will 
concur  with  the  decision  of  the  class  at 
our  reunion  meeting  which  directed  that 
this  method  of  transmitting  class  news 
be  hereafter  emploj^ed.  Those  class- 
mates wishing  to  subscribe  will  kindly 
do  so  direct  to  Mr.  F.  S.  AUis  at  Am- 
herst. The  price  is  $1.00  a  year.  Mean- 
while, may  the  secretary  remind  you 
that  the  interest  and  value  of  the  '77 
column  in  the  Quarterly  will  depend 
upon  the  frequency  and  fullness  with 
which  you  send  news  of  yourself  or  of 
our  classmates  to  me  for  publication." 

Rev.  William  W.  Leete,  D.  D.,  New 
England  Field  Secretary  Congregational 
Church  Building  Society,  had  an  inter- 
esting article  in  The  Congregationalist 
for  December  6th,  entitled  "Our  Part 
Before  They  Go,  Brightening  Their 
Days  Before  They  Leave  for  'Some- 
where;' "  and  in  The  Congregationalist 
for  December  20th  on,  "Saving  the 
Remnant." 

1878 
Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner,  Secretary, 
187  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Alden  P.  White,  of  Salem,  has  been 
named  by  Governor  McCall  of  Massa- 


chusetts to  be  Judge  of  Probate  and  In- 
solvency for  Essex  County.  Judge 
White  is  a  native  of  Danvers  and  has 
been  an  associate  justice  of  the  First 
Judicial  Court  of  Essex  County,  and 
later  served  as  District  Attorney  of 
Essex. 

A.  O.  Tower  has  been  appointed 
chairman  of  the  Sheffield  Fuel  Board 
by  the  Fuel  Administrator  for  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Charles  H.  Moore  has  been  engaged 
for  eight  or  nine  months  as  agent  of  the 
State  Teachers'  Association  of  North 
Carolina  in  promoting  the  interests  of 
education  in  the  rural  schools  for  negroes 
in  that  state.  The  newspapers  report 
his  work  as  very  successful. 

Ex-Senator  Charles  H.  Fuller  was  the 
Democratic  nominee  at  the  recent  elec- 
tion for  Municipal  Court  Judge  in  the 
Sixth  District  of  Brooklyn.  Although 
the  district  is  normally  heavily  Repub- 
lican, he  was  beaten  by  only  1198,  car- 
rying seven  out  of  the  ten  assembly 
districts. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 
1140  Woodward  Bldg.,Washington,D.C. 

Governor  Whitman  of  New  York  has 
appointed  Walter  H.  Knapp  of  Canan- 
daigua  as  President  of  the  New  York 
State  Tax  Commission.  When  Judge 
Knapp  was  first  appointed  to  the  tax 
board  the  Governor  did  not  know  he  was 
an  Amherst  man  until  after  the  ap- 
pointment had  been  confirmed. 

President  Frank  J.  Goodnow,  of 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  has  been  de- 
livering a  course  of  lectures  before  the 
Lowell  Institute  of  Boston  on  "China 
in  the  Twentieth  Century."  The  lec- 
tures comprised:  November  8th,  Phj'si- 


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cal  Conditions;  November  10th,  Econ- 
omic China;  November  15th  and  17th, 
Intellectual,  Philosophical,  Social,  and 
Political  China;  November  30th,  Mod- 
ern China;  December  1st,  The  Future. 

A  very  high  honor  has  been  bestowed 
upon  Mrs.  Sumner  H.  Whitten,  wife  of 
Sumner  H.  WTiitten,  of  Holyoke,  Mass. 
She  has  been  appointed  National  Chair- 
man of  Child  Welfare  Work  for  the 
National  Congress  of  Mothers  and 
Parent-Teacher  Associations,  succeed- 
ing Anna  Steese  Richardson,  the  au- 
thoress and  lecturer. 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Historical 
Research  Director  for  the  Carnegie  In- 
stitution, has  been  chosen  as  one  of  the 
nineteen  members  of  the  recently  or- 
ganized National  Board  for  Historic 
Service.  The  board  is  entirely  unofBcial 
but  is  apt  to  be  of  great  service,  com- 
prised as  it  is  of  the  leading  contem- 
porary American  historians  who  have 
placed  their  special  training  at  the  war 
service  of  the  government. 

Edgar  S.  Shumway  is  a  member  of 
the  New  York  State  Guard,  Uth  In- 
fantry, Co.  D. 

1880 

Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  Secretary, 
86  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Arthur  N.  Milliken  has  provided  the 
funds  to  equip  the  Chemistry  Room  in 
the  new  Converse  Memorial  Library  at 
Amlierst.  James  Turner  has  done  a 
similar  service  for  the  Biblical  History 
Room. 

Mrs.  Emma  Hodgkins  McGregory, 
wife  of  Prof.  Joseph  F.  McGregory  of 
Colgate  University,  died  at  Hamilton, 
N.  Y.,  on  November  20th.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Gregory had  been  an  invalid  for  many 
years. 


Dr.  Wallace  C.  Keith  of  Brockton  was 
elected  and  installed  as  grand  master  of 
the  Grand  Council  of  Masons  at  its 
annual  assembly  in  Masonic  Temple, 
Boston,  on  December  10th.  The  new 
head  of  the  Cryptic  rite  in  Massachu- 
setts has  been  deputy  grand  master  the 
past  year.  He  became  a  Mason  in  1904 
in  Paul  Revere  Lodge  of  Brockton. 

Frank  W.  Blair  had  an  interesting 
article  in  the  Williston  Seminary  Bulle- 
tin for  October  on  "The  Early  Days  of 
Ciu-ve  Pitching." 

Hon.  George  Patten  Lawrence,  of 
North  Adams,  Mass.,  for  fourteen  years 
Congressman  from  the  First  Massachu- 
setts district,  died  at  the  Hotel  Belmont 
in  New  York  City  on  November,  21 
1917.  He  retired  from  Congress  in  1913, 
having  made  an  enviable  record.  For 
the  last  few  months  he  had  not  been  in 
the  best  of  health,  his  duties  as  chairman 
of  a  local  exemption  board  having  been 
especially  exacting  because  of  his  deter- 
mination to  be  entirely  fair  and  im- 
partial. 

Mr.  Lawrence  was  born  at  Adams, 
Mass.,  on  May  19,  1859,  his  father 
being  the  late  Dr.  George  C.  Lawrence. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
North  Adams  schools  and  entered  Wil- 
liams College  in  the  fall  of  1876.  After 
one  year  at  Williams  he  entered  Amherst 
and  was  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1880,  receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
Subsequently  Williams  gave  him  the 
degree  of  A.  M.,  and  Amherst,   LL.   D. 

He  studied  at  Columbia  Law  School 
and  in  the  oflSce  of  Pingree  and  Barker, 
of  Pittsfield,  being  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1883.  He  soon  built  up  a  successful 
practice.  In  1885  he  was  appointed 
Judge  of  the  Northern  Berkshire  Dis- 
trict Court,  and  was  at  the  time  the 
youngest  judge  in  Massachusetts. 

He  held  this  post  for  nine  years,  re- 


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signing  upon  his  election  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts Senate  where  he  served  three 
years,  being  President  of  the  Senate  the 
last  two.  He  was  then  elected  to  Con- 
gress on  the  Republican  ticket,  serving 
continuously  for  more  than  fifteen  years. 
In  1914  he  declined  a  renomination,  al- 
though the  nomination  was  equivalent 
to  an  election. 

Congressman  Lawrence  was  so  well 
liked  that  he  was  often  referred  to  in 
the  newspapers  as  George  "Popular" 
Lawrence.  His  circle  of  friends  ex- 
tended among  all  classes.  His  position 
of  leadership  was  unique  in  that  the 
people  of  his  home  city  turned  instinc- 
tively towards  him  in  every  kind  of 
public  extremity  or  demonstration.  His 
funeral  was  attended  by  a  great  many 
public  officials,  including  the  Governor 
of  the  state. 

His  wife,  who  was  Miss  Susannah 
Bracewell  of  North  Adams,  died  on 
December  19,  1914.  They  had  no 
children. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  an 
editorial  in  The  Springfield  Republican 
of  November  22d: 

"George  Lawrence  was  an  excep- 
tional man.  He  had  a  warm  heart,  a 
kindly  look  upon  life,  a  big  and  cheery 
laugh,  and  back  of  that  a  strong  and 
upright  manhood.  Men  liked  him  and 
trusted  him,  and  his  rise  in  political 
life  was  steady  and  only  ceased  when 
he  willed  it.  He  had  substantial  abil- 
ity, which  responded  to  every  call  that 
was  made  upon  it.  He  came  to  be  one 
of  the  leaders  of  his  section,  and  was 
not  only  trusted  but  loved. 

"  Upon  his  retirement  from  Congress, 
four  years  ago,  Mr.  Lawrence  looked 
forward  to  taking  up  work  apart  from 
politics.  Governor  Poss  placed  him  on 
the  public  service  commission,  but  he 
soon  resigned  in  order  to  give  his  full 
attention  to  his  invalid  wife.  Her  death 
served  to  remove  what  had  come  to  be 
the  absorbing  matter  of  his  life.  There- 
after he  lived  much  to  himself,  though 
he  was  responsive  to  all  the  public  in- 


terests as  occasion  called  him  to  the 
front.  He  gladly  gave  his  time  to  the 
work  of  the  draft  exemption  board,  and 
his  friends  noticed  how  deeply  he  was 
moved  by  the  national  crisis.  This 
added  to  the  drain  upon  his  nervous 
power.  Those  who  cherished  his  friend- 
ship were  unwilling  to  admit  that  his 
strength  was  being  slowly  undermined, 
and  that  his  outlook  upon  life  was  less 
cheerful  than  of  old,  though  the  fact 
was  apparent.  This  period  of  decline 
deepened  the  affection  of  those  who 
knew  him  best,  though  no  one  of  them 
foresaw  the  possibility  of  the  tragedy 
which  has  come. 

"The  going  of  this  able  and  kindly 
gentleman  and  devoted  public  servant 
will  carry  a  very  real  sense  of  loss  to  all 
who  knew  Mr.  Lawrence.  At  the  time 
of  his  nomination  to  Congress  in  the 
fall  of  1897  Judge  Lawrence  wrote  to  a 
friend:  'The  fact  that  you  have  given 
me  much  strong  support  is  an  inspira- 
tion, and  I  promise  that  at  least  my 
official  life  will  be  clean,  and  that  I  will 
try  to  live  up  to  the  ideals  you  would 
have  me.'  How  abundantly  that  pledge 
was  redeemed,  those  who  followed  Mr. 
Lawrence's  career  will  understand.  The 
habitual  consideration  for  others  that 
marked  his  life  appeared  in  that  pathetic 
last  note  which  he  wrote." 

1881 

Frank  H.   Parsons,   Esq.,   Secretary, 
60  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

Henry  C.  Hall  has  been  appointed 
chairman  of  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission. 

Mvnsey's  Magazine  for  December 
contains  an  article  by  Lawrence  Abbott 
on  "Theodore  Roosevelt  and  His  Four 
Sons." 

Edwin  Perry  Wells,  of  120  Institution 
Avenue,  Newton  Centre,  Mass.,  died 
very  suddenly  early  on  Thursday  night, 
December  13th,  at  Newton  Highlands, 
after  arriving  from  Needham.  He 
started  to  run  for  a  street  car  to  take 
him  to  his  home  and  had  gone  but  a  few 
steps  when  he  dropped  dead. 


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Mr.  Wells  was  the  son  of  Hiram  C. 
and  Ellen  M.  (Perry)  Wells,  and  was 
born  in  Southbridge,  Mass.,  on  June  2, 
1859.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Hitch- 
cock Free  High  School,  Brimfield.  After 
graduation  he  was  associated  for  one 
year  with  Professor  Emerson  as  assist- 
ant in  geology  at  Amherst.  He  was  in 
business  in  Boston  from  1882-1887  with 
the  American  Optical  Company,  and 
was  an  oflBcer  of  the  Gas  and  Electric 
Company  and  Water  Supply  Company 
of  Southbridge  from  1887-1895.  In 
1895  he  became  president  of  the  Globe 
Optical  Company  at  Boston,  retiring 
from  business  a  few  years  ago. 

He  had  lived  in  Newton  for  the  last 
twelve  years.  Mr.  Wells  was  also  an 
instructor  in  the  Klein  Optical  School, 
and  treasurer  of  the  New  England  As- 
sociation of  Opticians.  In  1882  Amherst 
conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  B.  S. 
He  was  married  October  25,  1882,  to 
Addie,  daughter  of  Henry  Greene  of 
W'arren,  Mass.,  who  survives  him. 

1882 

John  P.  Gushing,  Secretary, 

Whitney ville.  Conn. 

Rev.  Dr.  Charles  S.  MiUs,  of  Mont- 
clair,  N.  J.,  is  chairman  of  the  commis- 
sion named  by  the  Congregationalists 
to  raise  the  Pilgrim  Tercentenary  fund 
of  $5,000,000.  The  fund  is  to  be  raised 
by  December  20,  1920,  and  is  for  pen- 
sions for  Congregational  ministers.  The 
plan  closely  follows  the  Carnegie  fund 
plan  in  that  ministers  and  churches 
contribute  aimually.  In  brief  the  aim 
is  to  provide  all  ministers  retiring  at  the 
age  of  65  with  a  pension  of  $500  a  j' ear, 
or  the  receipt  of  that  sum  at  death,  if 
it  occur  earlier. 

1883 

Dr.  John  B.  Walker,  Secretary, 
51  East  50th  Street,  New  York  City 


Osgood  Smith  had  charge  of  the  work 
of  securing  in  Cuba  subscription  to  the 
Second  Liberty  Loan. 

Calvin  H.  Morse  of  Denver,  Colo.,  has 
been  serving  on  the  criminal  grand  jury. 

Prof.  Edward  S.  Parsons  has  accepted 
the  educational  secretaryship  of  Camp 
Meade  at  Baltimore,  Md.  This  is  one 
of  the  national  army  cantonments  and 
accommodates  about  40,000  men. 

Justice  Arthur  Prentice  Rugg  was 
elected  one  of  the  councillors  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society  at  its 
105th  annual  meeting  held  in  October 
last. 

"Noontime  Messages  in  a  College 
Chapel,"  which  was  recently  published 
by  the  Pilgrim  Press,  contains  sLsty- 
nine  brief  addresses  to  young  people  by 
twenty-five  well-known  preachers  of 
different  denominations.  Among  the 
contributors  is  the  Rev.  Howard  A. 
Bridgman. 

1884 
WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Samuel  H.  Kinsley  of  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo.,  has  been  elected  vice 
president  of  the  Colorado  Bar  Associa- 
tion. He  has  also  been  appointed  by 
Governor  Gimter  of  Colorado  a  mem- 
ber of  the  legal  advisory  board  for  the 
draft. 

Edward  M.  Bassett  has  been  elected 
a  vice  president  of  the  Brooldyn  Demo- 
cratic Club.  He  also  was  a  member  of 
the  general  committee  which  had  charge 
in  Brooklyn  of  the  house  canvass  for  the 
United  States  Food  Administration. 

Henry  Holt  and  Co.  have  recently 
published  "Our  Democracy;  Its  Ori- 
gins and  Its  Tasks,"  by  Prof.  James  H. 
Tufts  of  Chicago  University. 


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Charles  E.  Kelsey  is  chairman  of  the 
Newton  branch  of  the  American  Red 
Cross. 

1885 

Fkank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 

411  West  114th  Street,  New  York  City 

George  M.  Turner,  for  several  years 
Head  of  the  Science  Department  of 
Masten  Park  High  School,  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  removed  to  Riverside,  Cal., 
about  a  year  ago,  where  he  is  now  con- 
nected with  the  Science  Department  of 
the  Polytechnic  High  School.  Address, 
228  Linwood  Place,  Riverside,  Cal. 

Sir  Herbert  B.  Ames  was  one  of  the 
three  "Government"  Members  of  Par- 
liament elected  in  the  Province  of  Que- 
bec, December  17,  1917,  in  a  total  dele- 
gation of  sixty-five  members. 

Frank  E.  Whitman  and  Miss  Ethel 
M.  Griff  en  were  married  on  December 
1,  1917,  in  the  St.  Ambrose  Chapel, 
Cathedral  of  St.  John  the  Divine,  New 
York. 

Mrs.  O.  D.  Hunt,  mother  of  the  late 
W.  A.  Hunt,  and  well  known  to  all 
members  of  '85,  died  suddenly  at  her 
home  in  Amherst,  early  in  September, 
1917. 

Sir  Chentung  Liang  Cheng,  honorary 
'85,  died  last  February  as  he  was  about 
to  start  on  a  visit  to  this  country. 

Carlos  P.  Sawyer  has  for  many  years 
been  Honorary  Librarian  of  the  Chicago 
Bar  Association  Library  and  one  of  the 
Association's  Board  of  Managers. 

1886 
Charles  F.  Marblk,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Prof.  Edmund  B.  Delabarre  is  the 
author  of  a  pamphlet  just  issued,  enti- 
tled, "The  Middle  Period  of  Dighton 


Rock  History."  This  was  reprinted 
from  the  publications  of  the  Colonial 
Society  of  Massachusetts,  Vol.  XIX. 

Prof.  Clarence  H.  White,  Professor  of 
Greek  at  Colby  College,  Waterville, 
Me.,  has  changed  his  address  to  58 
Pleasant  Street,  Waterville.  For  sev- 
eral years  Mrs.  White  has  been  at  the 
head  of  the  musical  department  of 
Colby. 

Samuel  S.  Parks  is  a  member  of  one 
of  the  local  exemption  boards  in  Chicago, 

The  sermon  preached  Thanksgiving 
morning  at  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  Washington,  D.  C,  by  the 
Rev.  John  Brittan  Clark,  D.  D.,  its 
pastor,  has  been  printed  in  pamphlet 
form.  The  subject  is  "The  Harvest,  a 
Prophecy  of  the  Results  of  the  War." 
This  is  a  most  interesting  presentation 
of  some  of  the  results  which  are  likely 
to  follow  the  close  of  hostilities.  Dr. 
Clark  was  also  the  orator  at  the  banquet 
of  the  94th  annual  congress  of  Chi  Phi, 
in  Philadelphia  in  December.    . 

Congressman  Allen  T.  Treadway  was 
a  member  of  the  Congressional  delega- 
tion which  visited  Hawaii  in  November 
to  study  general  conditions  there  and 
gain  knowledge  of  its  legislative  needs. 
Before  sailing  a  series  of  patriotic  meet- 
ings were  held  in  the  West,  urging  sub- 
scriptions to  the  Liberty  Loan  and  ex- 
plaining America's  war  purposes. 

Rev.  Milo  H.  Gates,  vicar  of  the 
Church  of  the  Intercession,  New  Y'^ork 
City,  went  to  Camp  Upton  in  Decem- 
ber, where  he  will  remain  for  three 
months  preaching  and  doing  religious 
work. 

Hallam  F.  Coates  is  in  the  Red  Cross 
Ambulance  Service  in  France. 


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1887 
Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Ralph  S.  Rounds,  Esq.,  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Whitman  of  New 
York  as  a  member  of  the  commission  to 
make  an  investigation  into  the  west  side 
improvement  situation  in   New   York 
City  and  report  to  the  next  legislature. 
This  is  a  matter  in  which  the  New  York 
Central  Railroad  is  vitally  interested. 

Magistrate  Alexander  Brough  of  New 
York  and  Mrs.  Alice  Southard  Macom- 
ber  were  married  on  Satiu-day  after- 
noon, November  17th,  in  the  Church  of 
the  Transfiguration,  New  York,  by 
Rev.  Luke  M.  White  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 
His  son,  John  Brough,  who  is  now  in  the 
Navy,  acted  as  best  man. 

Frederic  B.  Pratt,  together  with  Al- 
fred T.  White,  another  public-spirited 
citizen  of  Brooklyn,  have  presented  the 
City  of  New  York  with  a  gift  of  123 
acres  of  land  fronting  on  Jamaica  Bay, 
to  be  used  as  a  public  park.  This  splen- 
did gift  comprises  property  valued  at 
$280,755.48.  Mr.  Pratt  has  also  been 
appointed  a  member  of  the  committee 
in  New  York  to  assist  in  the  war  savings 
campaign. 

Arthur  B.  Call  is  engaged  in  research 
work,  making  special  investigations  for 
the  Government. 

1888 

Asa  G.  Baker,  Secretary, 

6  Cornell  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

John  E.  Oldham  was  recently  elected 

a    vice    president    of    the    Investment 

Bankers'  Association  of  America. 

Samuel  D.  Warriner  has  resigned  as 
Piesident  of  the  Lehigh  Navigation 
Electric  Company  and  the  Harwood 
Electric  Company.  He  remains  a  di- 
rector of  both  companies. 


The  Amherst  Student  announces  that 
Asa  G.  Baker,  long  associated  with  the 
production  of  Webster's  Dictionary,  has 
very  generously  offered  to  supply  extra 
copies  of  the  Dictionary  where  needed 
in  the  new  Converse  Memorial  Library 
at  Amherst. 

At  the  last  commencement  of  Bates 
College,  Rev.  Herbert  P.  Woodin  was 
given  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  D.;  and 
also  preached  the  Baccalaureate  sermon 
to  the  Senior  Class,  when  sickness  pre- 
vented President  Chase  from  so  doing. 

David  L.  Kebbe  is  a  member  of  the 
Town  Committee  for  the  Connecticut 
State  Council  of  Defense. 

1889 

Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  Elm  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Rev.  William  Horace  Day,  D.  D., 
was  chosen  as  moderator  of  the  National 
Council  of  Congregational  churches  at 
the  recent  convention  held  in  Columbus, 
Ohio.  The  term  is  for  two  years  and 
the  honor  is  one  of  the  highest  in  the 
Congregational  church.  The  Congrega- 
tionalist  for  October  18th  contained  a 
full-page  picture  of  Dr.  Day  on  the 
front  cover  page.  In  the  same  issue  ap- 
peared an  eulogistic  article  in  regard  to 
Dr.  Day,  reading  in  part  as  follows: 

"Dr.  W.  H.  Day  is  first  and  last  a 
man  of  the  pastor's  instinct  and  enthu- 
siasm. While  he  is  an  excellent  preacher 
clear  and  direct,  broad  and  sensible, 
winsome  and  convincing.  Dr.  Day  has 
never  chosen  to  spend  time  in  his  study 
to  write  books  or  polish  courses  of  lec- 
tures, but  only  as  much  as  thorough  and 
conscientious  preparation  for  his  pulpit 
work  required.  He  has  been  a  man 
whose  first  interest  was  in  getting  things 
done  in  the  parish,  in  the  city  and  in 
the  state.  He  has  always  been  a,  man 
of  the  quickest  sympathy  with  individu- 
als who  needed  him  or  who  thought 
they  needed  him.  Few  men  have  so 
consistently  made  it  a  life  habit  to  say 


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the  right  thing  and  do  the  right  thing 
at  just  the  right  time." 

Prof.  George  B.  Churchill  was  re- 
elected to  the  Massachusetts  State  Sen- 
ate from  the  Franklin-Hampshire  dis- 
trict at  the  recent  election.  He  also  has 
been  chosen  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Republican  Club  of 
Massachusetts  and  was  a  delegate  to 
the  Republican  State  Convention  in 
SpringBeld. 

Rev.  Arthur  F.  Newell,  pastor  of 
Waveland  Park  Congregational  Church 
in  Des  Moines,  has  accepted  a  call  to 
Sloan,  Iowa. 

Philip  M.  Reynolds  of  Boston  has 
been  chosen  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee  for  Massachusetts  in  charge 
of  the  sale  of  the  United  States  War 
Saving  Certificates  and  Thrift  Stamps. 

Prof.  William  E.  Chancellor  is  chair- 
man of  the  Wayne  County  (Ohio)  Four 
Minute  Men,  and  also  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  County  Liberty  Bond  Com- 
mittee. 

Dr.  Herbert  C.  Emerson  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Springfield 
(Mass.)  Fuel  Commission. 

The  Journal  of  Philosophy,  Psychology 
and  Scientific  Methods  for  December  6th 
contained  an  article  entitled  "Struc- 
ture," by  Prof.  Frederick  J.  E.  Wood- 
bridge  of  Columbia.  He  also  had  an 
article  in  the  September  issue  of  the 
Columbia  University  Quarterly  on  "The 
Importance  of  Philosophy." 

Stuart  W.  French  has  resigned  his 
position  as  General  Manager  of  the 
Phelps-Dodge  Corporation,  after  eight- 
een years  of  life  on  the  desert  frontier, 
and  is  at  present  living  in  Pasadena, 
Calif.  His  address  is  556  Prospect 
Boulevard,  Pasadena. 


1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Frank  E.  Dunbar,  Esq.,  of  Lowell, 
has  been  elected  Vice  president  for  the 
5th  district  of  the  Republican  Club  of 
Massachusetts. 

Trumbull  White  is  president  of  the 
Investors  Public  Service  with  offices  in 
the  Singer  Tower,  149  Broadway,  New 
York. 

Governor  Charles  S.  Whitman  of  New 
York  has  been  delivering  a  number  of 
stirring,  patriotic  addresses.  He  spoke 
at  Miami,  Fla.,  on  November  29th,  be- 
fore the  Atlantic  Deeper  Waterways 
Association  Convention  on  the  impor- 
tance and  desirability  of  deepening  the 
Hudson  River  to  permit  deep-sea  craft 
to  ply  between  New  York  and  Albany. 

Allan  B.  MacNeill  is  in  Army  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work  in  France. 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

The  British  Government  has  asked 
President  Wilson  to  send  six  men  to 
England  to  lecture  in  England  and  Ire- 
land on  the  reason  why  America  is  in 
the  war.  Among  the  six  chosen  by  the 
President  is  the  Rev.  Sartell  Prentice. 

Governor  Whitman  has  designated 
Harry  A.  Cushing  as  the  Government 
Appeal  Agent  for  Draft  Board  No.  156 
of  New  York  City. 

H.  Nelson  Gay  of  Rome,  Italy,  is 
chairman  of  the  committee  in  Italy  to 
see  that  the  purchase,  preparation,  and 
delivery  of  the  ambulances  obtained 
through  the  American  Poet's  Commit- 
tee, are  expeditiously  accomplished. 


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The  Liberty  Loan  Committee  of  New 
York  published  two  pamphlets  by  Albert 
H.  Walker,  which  were  widely  dis- 
tributed. 

Professor  J.  S.  Reeves  of  the  Univers- 
ity of  Michigan  published  an  essay  in  a 
recent  issue  of  the  National  Law  Review 
on  the  interpretation  of  present  treaties  j 
as  to  whether  or  not  the  old  Prussian 
treaties  are  still  in  existence. 

H.  Miles  Nims  writes  that  his  only 
boy,  Henry  S.  Nims,  19  years  old,  volun- 
teered last  April  in  his  old  company  and 
is  now  in  Spartanburg,  S.  C,  with  Co. 
A,  105th  U.  S.  Infantry,  formerly  the 
2d  N.  Y.  Infantry. 

The  Class  of  1891  holds  four  dinners 
each  year  in  New  York.  The  first  one 
of  the  present  season  was  at  the  Hamil- 
ton Club  in  Brooklyn  on  November  9th 
and  was  especially  noteworthy  because 
George  A.  Morse  came  all  the  way  from 
Norfolk,  Va.,  to  be  on  hand.  He  told 
of  his  experiences  in  command  of  the 
U.  S.  S.  Bahette,  of  how  the  new  men  are 
broken  in,  of  Election  Day  at  sea,  and 
of  his  hopes  to  get  to  the  other  side  by 
spring.  Those  present  were  W.  F. 
Brainerd,  F.  H.  Hitchcock,  Dr.  C.  R. 
Hyde,  H.  J.  Lyall,  O.  B.  Merrill,  G.  A. 
Morse,  Rev.  S.  Prentice,  Dr.  R.  B. 
Ludington,  F.  Ryckman,  A.  H.  Walker, 
and  J.  P.  Woodruff. 

The  Christmas  dinner  of  the  Class 
was  held  on  Friday,  December  21st,  at 
the  New  York  Athletic  Club.  Those 
present  included  Hitchcock,  Hyde, 
Ludington,  Lyall,  Merrill,  Prentice, 
Ryckman,  and  Woodruff. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  South  Summit  St.,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 


Cornelius  J.  Sullivan  and  Miss  Mary 
J.  Quinn,  supervisor  of  design  in  the 
School  of  Household  Science  and  Arts 
of  Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
were  married  on  November  21st,  in  the 
Church  of  the  Paulist  Fathers,  New 
York  City.  Mr.  Sullivan  has  been  re- 
elected vice  president  of  the  National 
Exhibition  Company  which  operates  the 
New  York  National  League  Baseball 
Club. 

The  Yale  University  Press  have  in 
preparation  "The  Chronicles  of  Amer- 
ica," a  series  of  fifty  narratives,  edited 
by  Allen  Johnson,  Professor  of  American 
History  in  Yale  University. 

Charles  E.  Burbank  is  Captain  of  Co. 
E,  19th  Infantry,  Massachusetts  State 
Guard,  and  also  Chairman  of  the  Public 
Safety     Committee,     West     Boylston, 

Mass. 

John  H.  Grant,  pastor  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church,  Elyria,  Ohio, 
has  been  released  for  three  months' 
service  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  is  at 
Camp  Sheridan. 

R.  Stuart  Smith  is  in  France  on  a  spe- 
cial mission  for  the  American  Red  Cross. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Charles  D.  Norton  who,  by  appoint- 
ment of  President  Wilson,  is  a  member 
of  the  Executive  Council  of  the  Amer- 
ican Red  Cross,  has  returned  from  a 
tour  of  inspection  of  the  British,  French, 
and  Italian  fronts.  Relating  his  experi- 
ences at  a  meeting  of  Red  Cross  workers 
at  headquarters  in  Washington,  he  de- 
clared that  our  troops  in  France  are  in 
high  spirits  and  keen  to  fight,  so  keen 
in  fact,  that  they  sometimes  battle 
among  themselves.     Mr.   Norton  was 


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highly  pleased  with  the  work  of  the 
Red  Cross  and  also  mentioned  the 
splendid  work  being  done  by  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  and  the  Knights  of  Columbus, 
who  are  everywhere  working  hand-in- 
glove  with  the  Red  Cross. 

Prof.  Herbert  P.  Gallinger  of  Amherst 
is  spending  his  Sabbatical  year  in  re- 
search work  in  Modern  European  his- 
tory at  Columbia  University.  His  ad- 
dress is  520  West  122d  Street,  New 
York  City. 

State  Conservation  Commissioner 
George  D.  Pratt  of  New  York  State 
has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the 
Fuel  Conservation  Committee  of  New 
York.  In  an  illustrated  lecture  before 
the  Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sci- 
ences on  December  1st,  Commissioner 
Pratt  explained  that  parts  of  the  old 
Erie  Canal  would  this  year  be  used  as 
hatcheries  for  fish. 

Silas  D.  Reed  of  Taunton  was  elected 
to  the  Massachusetts  State  Senate  on 
the  Republican  ticket  from  the  First 
District  of  Bristol  County  at  the  last 
election. 

William  C.  Breed  has  been  appointed 
Chairman  of  the  Red  Cross  War  Fund 
Committee  of  New  York  City  and  is  to 
direct  the  New  York  Red  Cross  cam- 
paign for  the  second  hundred  million 
dollars.  New  York's  allotment  is 
twenty-four  million.  Breed  has  also 
been  appointed  a  member  of  the  Na- 
tional Red  Cross  War  Fund  Committee. 
He  will  retire  from  active  practice  for 
two  or  three  months  and  devote  his  en- 
tire time  to  the  Red  Cross  campaign. 
Breed  has  been  elected  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Union 
League  Club  of  New  York. 

Eugene  W.  Leake  has  become  a 
member  of  the  law  firm,  Breed,  Abbott 
&  Morgan. 


Charles  D.  Norton  has  resigned  as 
vice  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  New  York  City  and  been 
elected  president  of  the  First  Security 
Company,  succeeding  George  F.  Baker. 
This  company  is  controlled  by  First  Na- 
tional Bank  interests. 

Paul  Abbott,  son  of  Henry  H.  Abbott, 
went  to  France  last  May  when  he  was 
eighteen  years  old  and  drove  a  muni- 
tions truck  for  six  months  under  the 
A.  A.  F.  S.  At  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  enrollment  last  November  he 
enlisted  with  the  American  Red  Cross 
and  is  now  driving  an  ambulance  on  the 
Italian  front. 

George  D.  Pratt,  Jr.,  has  also  been 
driving  a  munitions  truck  in  France 
under  the  A.  A.  F.  S. 

George  F.  Wales  is  Sergeant,  A.  Co., 
M.  S.  G.  11th  Regiment. 

"When  God  Was  Near,"  by  the  Rev. 
Lewis  Thurston  Reed  (Fleming  H.  Re- 
vell  Company)  has  recently  been  pub- 
lished. It  is  a  series  of  sermons  preached 
in  the  Flatbush  Congregational  Church 
by  Mr.  Reed. 

William  C.  Breed  was  a  member  of 
the  New  York  Committee  in  charge  of 
raising  Greater  New  York's  quota  of 
500,000  members  for  the  American  Red 
Cross.  Mortimer  L.  SchifF,  '96,  was  a 
member  of  the  same  committee. 

The  American  Soldiers  and  Sailors 
Club,  with  the  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Frederick 
W.  Beekman  as  directors,  was  formally 
opened  in  Paris  on  October  20th  by 
American  Ambassador  Sharp.  As  stated 
in  the  last  issue  of  the  Quarterly,  Dean 
Beekman  has  been  given  leave  of  ab- 
sence by  his  Bishop  to  carry  out  this 
work.  He  was  selected  not  only  be- 
cause of  the  work  he  has  done  in  Penn- 


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sylvania,  but  also  because  for  many 
years  he  was  a  soldier  and  as  a  captain 
commanded  a  group  of  cavalry  through- 
out the  Spanish  American  War.  Con- 
cerning his  work,  he  writes  as  follows: 

"On  August  12th  we  sailed  from  New 
York  on  the  Espagne  and  arrived  in 
Bordeaux  on  the  21st.  Since  then  we 
have  been  in  Paris.  At  first  we  deter- 
mined the  question  as  to  whether  or  not 
there  was  a  place  for  our  Club,  as  we 
were  somewhat  doubtful  as  to  just  how 
the  ground  might  be  covered  by  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  other  organizations, 
but  after  conferences  with  General 
Pershing  and  others  we  advised  our 
friends  at  home  that  there  was  a  decided 
place  for  it,  and  we  then  went  to  work 
to  find  quarters  and  establish  ourselves 
as  soon  as  possible.  On  October  19th, 
after  delays  which  to  an  American  would 
seem  impossible,  and  yet  which  one 
must  realize  as  regards  these  war  days 
in  particular, — although  the  French  at 
any  time  are  not  particularly  rapid  in 
business — we  had  our  formal  opening. 

"We  are  just  three  weeks  old  to-day 
and  attendance  has  grown  until  on 
Wednesday  night  of  this  week  over  175 
men  crowded  our  rooms  when  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Francis  Rogers  of  New  York  en- 
tertained with  songs  and  recitations, 
and  Dr.  Knox  of  Johns  Hopkins  gave 
the  men  a  straight  talk  on  the  'Battle 
of  Paris.'  Of  course,  it  is  this  battle 
that  brings  us  here,  because  it  is  quite 
as  serious  as  the  actual  conflict,  if  not 
more  so.  Thousands  of  brave  able  men 
are  very  likely  to  seriously  impair  their 
efficiency  in  the  centres,  when  on  leave 
or  on  duty.  The  department  of  work 
and  healthful  recreation  with  the  influ- 
ence of  fine  American  women  and  men 
is  quite  as  important  in  the  long  run  as 
any  other.  In  fact,  in  the  last  analysis 
it  will  win  or  lose  the  war. 

"We  have  the  usual  billiard  room, 
reading  and  writing  rooms,  movie  ma- 
chine, long  table  filled  with  magazines, 
bookshelves  filled  with  books,  music 
room  with  pianos,  victrola,  games,  etc., 
lounging  seats,  and  tea  room — most  at- 
tractive— at  which  forty-eight  men  took 
tea  and  sandwiches  and  jam  on  Sunday, 
with  an  average  of  twenty-five  every 
afternoon. 

"  My  wife  has  organized  the  American 


women,  so  that  four  or  five  are  always 
on  duty.  We  have  a  staff  of  eight  now 
who  give  their  time  regularly  to  the 
Club.  My  first  assistant  is  the  Rev. 
Norman  Kimball,  curate  of  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Milwaukee,  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  and  Oxford. 
Our  relations  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  are 
most  cordial  and  in  fact  I  have,  on  their 
invitation,  addressed  their  men  at  their 
Paris  headquarters  and  have  accepted 
an  invitation  to  speak  in  their  huts  in 
different  sections  of  France. 

"I  have  been  made  a  Chaplain,  as- 
signed to  special  duty  here  and  am  busy 
getting  my  uniform  with  the  silver  cross 
on  my  collar  and  the  Captain's  bars  on 
my  shoulder.  I  presume  that  I  will  be 
known  as  the  Chaplain  of  Paris  if  I  stay 
here  long  enough,  which  is  altogether 
probable. 

"Within  a  very  short  time  we  will 
run  an  American  restaurant,  where  200 
men  can  get  an  American  meal  at  cost. 

"Two  or  three  weeks  ago,  Charlie 
Norton  came  in  on  an  investigating  tour 
of  the  Red  Cross,  and  I  also  ran  into 
Hamilton,  who  is  a  major  in  the  Quarter- 
master Department,  but  now  assigned 
to  some  point  out  of  Paris. 

"You  may  be  interested  to  know 
that  I  preached  the  annual  sermon  in 
memory  of  the  fallen  Allies  in  the  Brit- 
ish Embassy  Church  last  Sunday  morn- 
ing. It  was  a  difficult  thing  for  an 
American  to  do,  but  a  great  privilege 
to  be  asked  to  share  with  them  in  that 
sacred  hour." 

1894 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Superintendent  Frank  E.  Spaulding 
of  the  Cleveland  (Ohio)  schools,  who  is 
an  Amherst  man  in  the  Class  of  1889, 
has  taken  steps  towards  putting  into 
operation  a  program  to  make  the 
schools'  educational  advantages  avail- 
able to  persons  who  can  not  profit  by 
them  because  of  the  necessity  of  earning 
a  livelihood.  In  this  connection  Charles 
W.  Disbrow  has  been  appointed  in 
charge  of  the  free  employment  bureau 
which  has  been  established  as  a  clearing 


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house  for  the  business  men  of  the  city 
desiring  part-time  help  and  young  per- 
sons who  wish  to  work  part  time  and 
attend  school. 

Milo  C.  Burt  is  now  located  at  Tama- 
qua.  Pa.  He  is  Director  of  the  Chemical 
and  Physical  Research  Plant  at  the 
Atlas  Powder  Company. 

Congressman  Bertrand  H.  Snell  has 
moved  his  family  to  2400  16th  Street, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Rev.  Gilbert  H.  Bachelor  of  Lake 
City,  Mich.,  has  been  making  speeches 
for  the  Red  Cross. 

T.  Wheelock  Craig  of  Falmouth, 
Mass.,  is  now  connected  with  the  Fal- 
mouth Free  Public  Library. 

Willis  D.  Wood  of  New  York  has 
been  interested  in  Red  Cross,  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  and  Liberty  Loan  Committees. 

Wallace  H.  Keep,  Box  20,  Traverse 
City,  Mich.,  on  account  of  his  health, 
resigned  from  the  Pullman  Company 
a  year  ago  and  is  now  enjoying  outdoor 
life  among  the  pines  and  birches  and 
oaks  about  three  miles  from  Traverse 
City.  He  reports  sleighing  before  No- 
vember, also  that  his  health  is  much 
improved. 

Dr.  Frederick  C.  Herrick  is  Visiting 
Surgeon  to  two  hospitals  in  Cleveland, 
and  Captain  in  the  Medical  Reserve 
Corps. 

Charles  O.  Seymour  is  now  located 
at  Steeplerock,  N.  Mex.,  with  the  Car- 
lisle Mining  Company. 

Harold  F.  Hayes'  new  address  is  204 
Central  Building,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Francis  C.  Pitman  is  organist  of  Lin- 
coln Park  Baptist  Church,  West  New- 
ton, Mass.  — 


Captain  Benjamin  D.  Hyde  of  the 
Medical  Unit,  Quartermaster's  Depart- 
ment, Mass.  State  Guard,  went  with 
his  full  equipment  on  the  first  relief 
train  to  Halifax,  December  6th.  The 
services  of  this  unit  were  especially  ap- 
preciated and  much  suffering  was  re- 
lieved by  their  promptness  in  answering 
the  call  for  relief. 

Harlan  F.  Stone,  Dean  of  the  School 
of  Law  at  Columbia,  has  published  a 
book,  "Law  and  Its  Administration," 
which  has  received  much  favorable 
comment.  He  has  also  written  an  in- 
troduction to  one  of  Herbert  Spencer's 
essays,  "The  Sins  of  Legislators,"  pub- 
lished in  "  Man  vs.  The  State."  Among 
Dean  Stone's  other  recently  published 
articles  is  one  on  "The  Mutuality  Rule 
in  New  York."  In  1916  he  was  elected 
President  of  the  Association  of  American 
Law  Schools  and  not  long  ago  was  ap- 
pointed member  of  the  Council  on  Legal 
Education  of  the  American  Bar  Associa- 
tion. 

Francis  R.  Fletcher  is  now  with 
Scovell,  Wellington  &  Co.,  110  State 
Street,  Boston. 

Dr.  Albert  S.  Baker  of  Kealakekna, 
Hawaii,  was  a  delegate  to  the  Civic 
Convention  at  Honolulu.  At  the  ban- 
quet the  plate  was  passed  and  $1090 
raised  for  the  Red  Cross. 

Herman  S.  Cheney  of  Southbridge, 
Mass.,  was  elected  in  November,  on 
the  Republican  ticket,  Representative 
in  the  State  Legislature  from  the  Fifth 
district  of  Worcester  County. 

Rev.  Frederick  D.  Hayward  is  now 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Ticonderoga,  N.  Y. 

Warren  W.  Tucker  is  now  located  at 
201  Devonshire  Street,  Boston. 


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Rev.  E.  A.  Burnham  of  Syracuse, 
N.  Y.,  is  moderator  of  the  New  York 
Congregational  Conference.  He  has 
been  re-elected  for  three  years  to  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  New  York 
Home  Missionary  Society  and  they 
have  continued  him  as  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Bureau  of  Pastoral  Sup- 
ply for  Vacant  Churches  in  the  State  of 
New  York.  His  son,  Randolph,  has 
entered  the  medical  course  in  Syracuse 
University. 

Frank  L.  Clark's  son,  Ransom  Butler 
Clark,  age  19,  has  enlisted  in  the  U.  S. 
Naval  Reserve  Flying  Corps,  Hydro- 
plane service.  He  recently  completed 
an  eight  weeks'  course  in  ground  work 
at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  Bay  Shore,  L.  I.  Professor 
Clark  reports  that  Miami  University 
has  about  200  men  in  service.  His  son 
was  in  his  Sophomore  year  at  the  Uni- 
versity. Professor  Clark  and  wife  made 
a  short  visit  to  Cambridge  this  summer. 
He  has  done  some  Red  Cross  work  and 
reports  a  year  of  unusual  prosperity  in 
the  Department  of  Greek.  He  has  a 
half  year's  leave  of  absence  in  1918, 
which  he  intends  spending  in  the  East. 

1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
30  Church  Street,  New  York  City 

Calvin  Coolidge  was  re-elected  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of  Massachusetts  on 
the  Republican  ticket  at  the  recent 
election  by  a  plurality  of  over  one  hun- 
dred thousand.  He  ran  ten  thousand 
votes  ahead  of  Governor  McCall. 

Augustus  Post,  executive  secretary  of 
the  Aerial  League  of  America,  has  gone 
to  France  as  a  member  of  a  commission 
which  will  establish  a  foreign  service 
bureau  to  assist  our  aviators  and  other 
members  of  the  air  service  in  everv  wav 


possible.  The  Aero  Club  of  America 
very  patriotically  arranged  for  this 
committee  and  has  extended  to  the 
Aerial  League  the  privilege  of  partici- 
pating in  this  work. 

Herbert  L.  Pratt  has  temporarily  re- 
tired from  active  service  in  the  Stand- 
ard Oil  Company  of  New  York,  where 
he  has  been  first  vice  president  for  the 
past  six  years,  in  order  to  devote  all  of 
his  time  to  the  work  of  the  New  York 
State  Food  Commission.  By  appoint- 
ment of  Governor  Whitman  he  has  been 
made  a  member  of  the  State  Council  of 
Farms  and  Markets. 

Rev.  Ransom  P.  Nichols  has  been 
elected  to  the  board  of  trustees  of  the 
Wesley  Collegiate  Institute,  a  school  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  lo- 
cated at  Dover,  Del.  Doris  Adelaide 
Nichols  is  a  member  of  the  junior  class 
of  the  school,  and  headed  toward  Mount 
Holyoke. 

Walter  R.  Stone  has  been  re-elected 
Mayor  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket. 

The  Congregationalist  for  November 
29th  contained  an  interesting  article  by 
the  Rev.  Jay  T.  Stocking,  D.  D.,  writ- 
ten from  Camp  Lee,  Petersburg,  Va.,  on 
"Moral  Ideals  of  the  Administration," 
as  seen  and  tested  at  close  range. 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  is  director  for 
the  State  of  New  Jersey  of  the  War 
Savings  Committee.  He  presided  at 
the  annual  meeting  on  December  l-tth 
and  15th  of  the  Academy  of  Political 
Science  at  which  war  problems,  includ- 
ing the  relation  of  capital  and  labor 
during  the  war,  were  discussed.  Mr. 
Morrow  has  been  elected  a  member  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  Group  8, 
New  York  Bankers'  Association. 


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On  November  28th  Mr.  Morrow  ad- 
dressed several  hundred  members  of  the 
New  York  Bond  Men's  Club  and  urged 
them  to  take  an  active  part  in  war 
economy.  A  portion  of  his  address 
which  aroused  the  greatest  enthusiasm 
was  as  follows: 

"The  nation  that  can  do  without  the 
most  for  the  longest  period,"  said  Mr. 
Morrow,  "that  will  be  the  nation  with 
the  stoutest  heart.  War  means  discour- 
agement; war  means  disappointment. 
War  means  the  making  of  plans  over 
and  over  and  over  again,  and  watching 
the  frustration  of  those  plans  over  and 
over  again.  War  means  a  Gallipoli,  and 
perhaps  another  Gallipoli;  another  Ru- 
manian and  another  Italian  disaster. 
War  means  discouragement  until  all 
but  the  stoutest  hearts  are  sick.  This 
war  will  be  won  by  the  nation  that  can 
best  stand  disappointment,  by  the  na- 
tion that  has  the  stoutest  heart.  It  is 
going  to  depend  upon  men  like  you  all 
over  the  United  States  whether  or  no 
America  shall  be  the  nation  with  the 
stoutest  heart." 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Raymond  J.  Gregory  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  Fuel  Administrator  for 
Massachusetts  as  chairman  of  the 
Princeton  (Mass.)  Fuel  Board. 

Rev.  Edwin  P.  Robinson  has  been 
elected  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Charities  of  Holyoke,  Mass.  He 
has  also  had  charge  of  the  erection  and 
direction  of  the  Hospitality  Tent  at 
Camp  Bartlett.  At  one  time  over 
20,000  troops  were  quartered  at  the 
camp.  The  Hospitality  Unit  has  min- 
istered to  the  relatives  and  friends  of 
the  soldiers,  and  there  has  been  no 
other  place  of  shelter  for  them. 

Robert  B.  Metcalf  is  chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Selectmen  of  Winchester, 
Mass. 

Because  of  ill  health  the  Rev.  Robert 


H.  Cochrane  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church,  Marion,  Mass.,  has  resigned  his 
pastorate.  He  has  gone  to  Denver, 
Colo.,  where  he  will  remain  for  some 
months. 

Roberts  Walker,  Esq.,  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Whitman  as  the 
Government  Appeal  Agent  for  Draft 
Board  No.  181,  Borough  of  Queens, 
New  York  City. 

In  the  fire  which  destroyed  Lyman 
Williston  Hall  at  Mt.  Holyoke  College, 
the  oldest  building  on  the  campus,  on 
Saturday,  December  22d,  Prof.  Samuel 
P.  Hayes,  head  of  the  Psychology  De- 
partment, sustained  a  heavy  personal 
loss.  This  included  all  his  manuscript 
of  lectures,  and  records  of  his  research 
work,  the  accumulation  of  the  past  ten 
years.  It  will  take  years  of  work  to 
replace  the  documents. 

W.  Eugene  Kimball  is  Treasurer  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Camp  Upton, 
Yaphank,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Herbert  A.  Jump  of  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  was  the  college  preacher  at  Mt. 
Holyoke  on  November  18th. 

Edwin  T.  Robbins  is  undergoing 
surgical  treatment  in  Boston  as  a  result 
of  being  seriously  burned  in  an  accident 
that  occurred  on  his  Washington  ranch 
in  February,  1916.  With  his  wife  and 
their  children  he  is  living  at  31  Gardner 
Street,  Allston. 

Mortimer  L.  Schiff  has  been  very 
active  in  war  activities.  He  is  by  ap- 
pointment of  National  Food  Adminis- 
trator Herbert  C.  Hoover  a  member  of 
the  Federal  Milk  Commission,  organ- 
ized to  investigate  the  milk  situation. 
He  also  was  a  member  of  the  Campaign 
Committee  which  raised  five  million 
dollars  in  December  for  the  Jewish  War 


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Sufferers'  Fund  and  the  Jewish  Board 
for  Welfare  Work  in  the  United  States 
Army  and  Navy.  Mr.  Schiff  headed  a 
sub-committee  which  raised  over 
$300,000. 

The  Commercial  and  Financial  Chroni- 
cle of  November  3rd  reprinted  an  ad- 
dress by  Mr.  Schiff  on  "War  Time  Bor- 
rowing by  the  Government." 

He  was  also  appointed  a  member  of 
the  committee  in  New  York  to  assist  in 
the  war  savings  campaign.  At  the  war 
finance  meeting  of  the  American  Acad- 
emy of  Political  and  Social  Science, 
held  in  Philadelphia  in  November,  Mr. 
Schiff  made  one  of  the  principal  ad- 
dresses. Speaking  on  the  subject  of 
war  taxes,  he  declared  that  there  must 
be  no  hampering  of  enterprise  by  un- 
wise or  unjust  taxation,  that  the  public 
must  not  be  discouraged  and  values 
jeopardized  by  an  unfriendly  govern- 
mental attitude  towards  business,  that 
capital  as  well  as  labor  must  be  per- 
mitted to  earn  a  fair  return,  that  issues 
of  Government  bonds  must  not  be  too 
frequent,  that  a  fair  rate  of  interest 
must  be  paid,  that  there  should  be  no 
discrimination  between  large  and  small 
investors,  that  the  Government  if  nec- 
essary must  monopolize  the  investment 
market  and  that  thrift  and  economy 
must  be  the  rule. 

Rev.  Charles  L.  Storrs  was  married 
on  April  9,  1917,  to  Miss  Mary  Merrick 
Goodwin  at  Shaowu,  Foochow,  China. 

In  an  endeavor  to  complete  the  files 
of  class  and  college  teams  for  the 
Trophy  Room  in  Pratt  Gymnasium, 
copies  are  wanted  of  pictures  of  the 
'96  football,  baseball,  and  track  teams. 
Any  member  of  the  Class  who  is  willing 
to  donate  any  such  pictures  to  the  col- 
lege will  confer  a  favor  by  advising  the 
secretary,  whose  new  address  is  to  be 
noted  above. 


1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Prof.  Charles  W.  Cobb  of  Amherst 
has  been  granted  a  year's  leave  of  ab- 
sence, so  that  he  could  enter  govern- 
ment service.  He  has  chosen  the  avia- 
tion branch  and  is  connected  with  the 
Bureau  of  Instruction,  in  charge  of 
teaching  in  the  eight  ground  schools  for 
aviators.  The  Amherst  Student  for  Oc- 
tober 22d  had  the  following  editorial  in 
regard  to  him: 

"When  Professor  Charles  Cobb  left 
yesterday  afternoon  to  take  up  govern- 
ment work  for  the  remainder  of  the  war, 
Amherst  temporarily  lost  one  of  its  big- 
gest men.  In  college  as  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1897  and  as  one  of  the  Faculty 
since  1908,  he  has  always  been  active  in 
Amherst  affairs. 

"One  field  alone  does  not  mark  Pro- 
fessor Cobb's  capabilities.  He  is  an  au- 
thority in  mathematics,  music  and 
philosophy.  The  Glee  Club  has  always 
been  one  of  his  chief  interests.  He  was 
a  member  of  it  while  he  was  in  college 
and  since  1909  been  director  of  it.  The 
heights  which  the  Amherst  Glee  Clubs 
have  reached  have  been  largely  due  to 
him.  He  has  also  been  leader  of  the 
College  Choir  for  the  past  three  years. 
His  book  on  rhythm  shows  his  under- 
standing of  that  subject.  He  is  one  of 
the  leading  mathematicians  of  New 
England,  having  also  ^vTitten  several 
textbooks  in  this  field. 

"Professor  Cobb  goes  from  us  now 
because  he  has  heard  the  call  of  our 
country.  Just  as  he  has  been  of  so 
much  service  to  Amherst  so  will  he  be 
to  the  nation.    But  we  shall  miss  him." 

The  Journal  of  Philosophy,  Psychol- 
ogy and  Scientific  Methods  for  December 
6th  contained  an  article  by  Professor 
Cobb,  entitled,  "The  First  Antinomy 
of  Kant." 

Twins,  a  son  and  a  daughter,  were 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  Moses  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  December  20th. 


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Prof.  Percy  H.  Boynton  was  one  of 
the  speakers  at  the  seventh  annual 
meeting  of  the  National  Council  of 
Teachers  of  English,  held  in  Chicago 
in  early  December. 

Alexander  Hamilton  Backus  is  cler- 
gyman of  the  American  Church  in  Paris 
and  is  also  serving  in  one  of  the  Canteens 
of  the  English  Army. 

William  A.  Morse  is  in  Army  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work.  He  has  been  at  Framing- 
ham  and  at  Carap  Devens  and  expects 
to  go  to  France  this  spring. 

Raymond  V.  Ingersoll  is  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Brook- 
lyn Zoological  Association. 

Prof.  Marshall  H.  Tyler  is  now  con- 
nected with  Rhode  Island  College  at 
Kingston,  R.  I. 

E.  M.  Blake  is  with  the  Aberthaw 
Construction  Company,  contracting  en- 
gineers, 27  School  Street,  Boston.  Plans 
are  progressing  to  lay  keels  for  three 
destroyers  early  in  February. 

The  annual  Class  dinner  will  be  held 
in  New  York  this  year  during  the  month 
of  February. 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 

201  College  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Grand  Rapids, 

Mich. 

Dr.  Arthur  M.  Clapp,  one  of  the  fore- 
most specialists  on  electrical  therapeu- 
tics in  the  City  of  Springfield,  Mass., 
was  electrocuted  accidently  by  a  high 
frequency  coil  in  his  office,  at  6  Chestnut 
Street,  on  the  evening  of  Wednesday, 
October  31st.  Approximately  fifty 
thousand  volts,  the  full  load  of  the 
street  line  connection,  passed  through 
his  body,  causing  almost  instant  death. 
His  body  was  found  Ij'ing  in  the  door- 


way leading  from  his  waiting  room  to 
his  inner  office.  Both  his  hands  were 
clasped  around  the  vibrating  machine, 
which  was  running  at  full  power.  Just 
how  the  accident  occurred  is  not  known, 
but  it  is  believed  to  have  been  due  to 
unfamiliarity  with  the  machine,  result- 
ing in  a  sudden  release  of  greater  volt- 
age than  could  be  withstood.  He  was 
testing  out  a  Morgan  high  frequency 
coil  used  for  X-ray  and  electrical  pur- 
poses. The  ordinary  load  of  the  elec- 
trical wire  in  his  office  was  one  hundred 
and  ten  volts,  but  recently  he  had  con- 
nection made  with  the  main  electrical 
wire  on  State  Street.  Dr.  Clapp  was 
widely  known  in  Springfield  and  locality. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the 
Springfield  Hospital  and  enjoyed  a  wide 
practice.  For  the  past  two  years  he 
was  physician  at  the  Hampden  County 
Jail. 

He  was  a  native  of  Northampton  and 
was  forty-one  years  old.  He  was  born 
March  1,  1876,  and  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Northampton  schools.  Dr.  Clapp 
received  his  medical  training  at  the 
Albany  Medical  School  and  at  the  Har- 
vard Medical  School,  graduating  from 
the  latter  school  in  1902.  After  gradu- 
ation, he  served  as  an  interne  at  Spring- 
field Hospital  and  began  active  practice 
at  Ware.  He  remained  there  for  six 
months  and  then  located  in  Springfield 
in  1904.  Last  August,  he  underwent  an 
operation  for  gallstones  in  one  of  the 
Boston  hospitals,  returning  only  about 
four  weeks  to  his  practice  before  his 
death. 

Dr.  Clapp  was  married  in  1905  to 
Miss  Edith  W.  Bates,  of  Northampton, 
who  survives  him  with  a  son,  Harrison, 
five  years  old.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Springfield  Clinical  Club;  the  Spring- 
field Academy  of  Medicine;  the  Mass. 
Medical  Society;  and  the  Phi  Kappa 
Psi  fraternitv. 


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An  article  on  "Diplomatic  Days  in 
Mexico"  by  Edith  O'Shaughnessy,  in 
the  November  Harper  s,  contains  an 
interesting  mention  of  a  dinner  at 
Harold  Walker's  residence,  which  ad- 
joined the  British  Legation. 

Rev.  Burton  E.  Marsh  of  New  Hamp- 
ton, Iowa,  has  declined  a  call  recently 
extended  to  him  from  Milford  of  that 
state. 

On  January  1st,  Charles  K.  Arter, 
Esq.,  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Hoyt,  Dustin,  Kelley,  McKeehan  & 
Andrews,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Daniel  B.  Trefethen  is  chairman  of 
Exemption  Board  No.  4,  Seattle,  Wash. 

1899 

Edward  W.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
Woodbury  Forest  School,Woodbury,Va. 

Edward  Bartlett  Nitchie,  founder  and 
president  of  the  New  York  School  for 
the  Hard  of  Hearing,  died  on  Thursday, 
October  4th,  at  the  Post  Graduate 
Hospital  in  New  York,  after  two  months 
illness.  Mr.  Nitchie  was  40  years  old 
and  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  the  son  of 
Henry  E.  Nitchie  and  the  late  Elizabeth 
Dunklee.  At  Amherst  he  was  a  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  man  and  a  member  of  the 
Beta  Theta  Pi  fraternity.  He  was  very 
deaf  at  the  time  of  his  graduation  and 
took  up  the  study  of  lip-reading  for 
himself. 

In  1903,  as  a  result  of  his  studies, 
Mr.  Nitchie  founded  the  New  York 
School  for  the  Heard  of  Hearing,  at 
156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  now  the 
largest  school  of  its  kind  in  the  country. 
He  also  founded  the  New  York  League 
for  the  Hard  of  Hearing  in  1911,  to  aid 
the  deaf  in  various  ways. 

On  June  18,  1908,  Mr.  Nitchie  mar- 
ried Miss  Elizabeth  Logan  Helm  of 
New  York,  and  she  survives  him,  with 


a  little  son,  Edward,  Jr.;  his  father, 
who  lives  in  Westfield,  New  Jersey;  a 
brother,  John  E.,  and  two  sisters, 
Elizabeth  and  Clara. 

Mr.  Nitchie  had  made  the  aiding  of 
the  deaf  his  life  work,  and  wrote  ex- 
tensively on  the  subject.  He  was  the 
author  of  several  books  on  training  for 
the  deaf,  the  last  of  which  "  Lip  Reading 
Principles  and  Practice,"  is  in  use  in 
schools  for  the  deaf  throughout  the 
world. 

Prof.  Raymond  S.  Dugan  of  Prince- 
ton LTniversity,  in  conjunction  with  Dr. 
Alfred  G.  Mayer,  Director  of  the  De- 
partment of  Marine  Biology  of  the  Car- 
negie Institution,  is  giving  a  popular 
and  largely  attended  course  in  naviga- 
tion at  Princeton  to  students  who  expect 
to  enter  various  departments  of  the 
service. 

The  December  issue  of  the  Century 
contains  an  article  by  Emery  Pottle, 
entitled  "Christmas  at  Pont-a-Mous- 
son."  He  also  had  a  story  in  the  No- 
vember Harpers,  entitled  "A  Mistake 
in  the  Horoscope,"  and  a  story  in  the 
December  Touchstone. 

Burges  Johnson  has  recently  pub- 
lished through  Little,  Brown  and  Co., 
a  new  book  for  teachers  of  English,  en- 
titled "The  Well  of  English  and  the 
Bucket."  It  is  "an  interesting  and 
helpful  analysis  of  the  art  of  writing 
better,"  says  the  Brooklyn  Eagle.  He 
also  had  an  article  on  the  art  of  writing 
in  The  Independent  for  October  6th, 
"Making  My  Pen  Behave." 

Harry  B.  Marsh  of  Springfield,  Mass., 
was  chosen  President  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Mathematics'  Teachers  Associa- 
tion at  a  meeting  held  in  Boston  on 
December  8th. 

Rev.     Wellington    H.    Tinker    had 


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charge  of  the  campaign  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural  College  to  raise 
funds  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Work. 
He  has  been  engaged  in  this  sort  of 
work  for  several  months,  and  has  vis- 
ited colleges  and  universities  all  over 
the  country. 

A  number  of  interesting  articles  by 
the  Rev.  Rodney  W.  Roundy  have  re- 
cently appeared  in  The  Congrcgation- 
alist.  These  include  "Tackling  the 
Great  Job  for  the  Pilgrim  Fund"  (De- 
cember 27th) ;  "  Talladega  College  after 
Fifty  Years,"  its  recent  anniversary 
celebration  (December  13th);  and 
"Colored  Congregational  Chiu*ches" 
(October  25  th). 

1900 

Arthtjb  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  Street,  New  York  City 

Dr.  Edwin  St.  John  Ward  is  now  lo- 
cated in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  the 
interest  of  the  Red  Cross.  At  the  time 
the  war  broke  out,  he  held  the  chair  of 
surgery  in  the  Beirut  College  in  Syria. 
He  returned  to  the  United  States  and 
in  January,  1916,  with  a  stafiF  of  workers 
and  medical  supplies,  went  to  Turkey 
to  fight  the  scourge  of  typhus  then  rag- 
ing in  that  country.  He  left  Turkey 
some  months  ago  and  since  than  has 
been  actively  engaged  in  Red  Cross 
work  in  Paris.  Dr.  Ward  returned  to 
this  country  in  December  and  reached 
Longmeadow,  Mass.,  just  in  time  to 
spend  Christmas  with  his  family. 

Lawrence  F.  Ladd  has  moved  from 
Pleasantville,  N.  Y.,  to  22  Chamberlain 
Parkway,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Walter  A.  Dyer  of  Amherst  is  spend- 
ing the  winter  at  91  Franklin  Street, 
Hempstead,  N.  Y.  Recent  magazine 
contributions  by  him  include  "The 
Thing  that  Peter  Wrought,"  a  story  in 


The  Designer  for  December;  "The 
Doggies,"  a  poem  in  The  Pictorial  Re- 
view for  December;  "Annabel's  Goose," 
a  story  in  Collier's  for  December  15th; 
besides  articles  in  Country  Life,  The 
Art  World,  The  International  Studio, 
etc.  On  December  23rd  Mr.  Dyer  lec- 
tured at  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of 
Art,  New  York,  on  "American  Furni- 
ture." 

Prof.  Harold  C.  Goddard  of  Swarth- 
more  College  contributes  an  article  on 
"Transcendentalism"  to  Volume  I  of 
the  Cambridge  History  of  American 
Literature,  recently  issued  by  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.  He  also  published  an 
article  on  "Sugar"  in  the  New  Republic 
for  November  17th. 

Ray  S.  Hubbard  is  representing  the 
War  Department  Commission  on  Train- 
ing Camp  Activities  in  Community 
Organization. 

1901 

Harrt  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  Street,  New  York  City 

The  coveted  award  of  the  thirty-third 
degree,  honorary,  of  the  Scottish  Rite, 
with  one  exception  the  highest  honor  in 
the  power  of  Masonry  to  bestow,  was 
conferred  in  October  upon  Charles  E. 
Robertson  of  Atlanta,  Ga.  This  is  an 
honor  only  awarded  to  those  Masons 
who  have  distinguished  themselves 
through  special  attention  and  service 
to  the  order.  Mr.  Robertson,  who  is  a 
well-known  attorney  in  Atlanta,  has 
been  prominent  in  Masonic  circles  for 
many  years,  is  Past  Master  of  Palestine 
Lodge,  No.  486,  and  Past  Venerable 
Master  of  Hermes  Lodge  of  Perfection; 
also  director  of  the  work  in  the  Scottish 
Rite. 

The  Outlook  for  October  31st  con- 
tained an  article  by  Preserved  Smith, 


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entitled  "Luther,  1517-1917,"  the  occa- 
sion being  the  four  hundredth  anniver- 
sary of  the  posting  of  Luther's  famous 
thesis  on  the  church  door  at  Wittenberg. 

Prof.  Frederick  F.  Moon  is  the  author 
of  an  article  on  "Food  Producing 
Possibilities"  in  New  York  Forestry  for 
October. 

A.  F.  Hamilton,  Esq.,  of  Athol,  has 
been  appointed  an  assistant  to  the  Legal 
Advisory  Board  for  the  12th  district  of 
Worcester  County,  Mass. 

Elmer  W.  Wiggins  who  has  for  several 
years  been  in  the  employ  of  E.  I.  Du 
Pont  de  Nemours  &  Co.  recently  at 
their  Hopewell  (Va.)  plant  has  been 
made  Superintendent  of  their  Arlington 
Works  at  Arlington,  N.  J. 

1902 

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

Anson  E.  Morse  is  serving  as  a  special 
research  librarian  at  Princeton  Univer- 
sity, acting  in  an  advisory  capacity  to 
students  who  are  taking  courses  in  his- 
tory and  political  science. 

Rev.  Jason  Noble  Pierce  was  commis- 
sioned Captain  and  Chaplain  of  the 
14th  Infantry  Mass.  State  Guard  in 
August,  1917. 

Rev.  William  Reid,  pastor  of  the 
Baptist  Church  at  Hyde  Park,  Mass., 
has  joined  the  army  of  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
workers  for  the  American  forces.  He 
has  been  commissioned  by  the  War 
Work  Council  as  Field  Secretary  and 
has  been  given  an  eight  months  leave  of 
absence  by  his  church.  He  left  for 
France  on  December  28th  to  take  up 
his  new  duties. 

Eldon  B.  Keith  has  been  appointed 
chairman  for  Plymouth  County,  Mass., 
of  the  War  Savings  Campaign. 


1903 

Clifford  P.  Warren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Harold  F.  Greene  was  appointed 
General  Sales  Manager  of  the  Bond  de- 
partment of  the  Guaranty  Trust  Com- 
pany of  New  York  City  on  November 
21st.  He  was  formerly  Sales  Manager 
for  E.  H.  Rollins  &  Sons  of  Boston.  His 
district  included  New  York  State,  with 
headquarters  at  Albany.  His  first  con- 
nection with  the  investment  security 
business  was  with  Isidore  Newman  & 
Son  of  New-  York.  During  the  Liberty 
Loan  campaigns  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Eastern  New  York  Committee  for 
the  distribution  of  the  Liberty  Loan, 
and  had  charge  of  fourteen  counties  in 
the  eastern  New  York  district. 

Foster  W.  Stearns  has  resigned  as 
State  Librarian  of  Massachusetts  be- 
cause of  having  received  a  commission 
in  the  National  Army. 

Joseph  W.  Hayes  is  Chief  Psychologi- 
cal Examiner  at  Camp  Dix,  Wrights- 
town,  N.  J. 

Albert  W.  Atwood  was  one  of  the 
speakers  at  the  fall  meeting  of  the 
American  Academy  of  Political  and  So- 
cial Science  of  Philadelphia,  at  which 
the  subject  under  discussion  was  war 
finance.  He  spoke  on  the  same  subject 
to  the  Present  Day  Club  of  Princeton, 
N.  J.,  in  October,  and  to  the  Wednesday 
Luncheon  Club  of  the  same  place  in 
November. 

His  articles  in  the  Saturday  Evening 
Post  continue  to  attract  wide  attention 
and  are  frequently  quoted.  A  few  of 
those  that  have  recently  appeared  are: 
"How  Rich  Men  Invest"  (December 
15th),  "Bolstering  Up  the  Money  Mar- 
ket" (December  8th),  "Cutting  Up  the 
Melons"  (November  24th),  "The  Price 
of   Liberty   Bonds"    (November   3rd), 


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"Are  Bonds  on  the  Bargain  Counter?" 
(October  20th),  and  "Roll  Call  of  the 
Millionaires"  (October  13th). 

1904 

Karl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
11306  Knowlton  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Fayette  B.  Dow,  one  of  the  lawyer- 
examiners  of  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission,  was  closely  associated  on 
behalf  of  the  Commission  with  the  re- 
cent famous  15  per  cent,  rate  case. 

Ernest  M.  Whitcomb  served  as  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Republican  State  Conven- 
tion in  Massachusetts  last  fall. 

Merrill  Bishop  has  been  appointed 
Government  Appeal  Agent  for  Draft 
Board  No.  37  of  Brooklyn. 

E.  O.  Merchant,  specialist  in  econom- 
ics for  the  Federal  Trade  Commission, 
at  Washington,  has  charge  of  the  read- 
justment of  print  paper  prices  between 
the  Government  and  the  news  print 
manufacturers.  Public  hearings  were 
conducted  at  New  York  in  January, 
and  conferences  have  been  held  with 
Canadian  commissioners. 

The  Secretary  calls  attention  to  his 
new  street  address  in  Cleveland. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Edward  C.  Crossett  has  moved  to 
Washington,  D.  C,  with  his  family  for 
the  duration  of  the  war.  He  is  the  head 
of  the  Bureau  of  Chapter  Production 
of  the  Red  Cross  and  directs  the  output 
of  all  knit  goods,  hospital  garments  and 
all  dressings  that  are  made  by  all  the 
Red  Cross  Chapters  throughout  the 
country. 

Maurice  A.  Lynch  was  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate  at  the  November  elec- 


tion for  Municipal  Court  Justice  in  the 
Fifth  District,  New  York  City.  Al- 
though the  district  is  normally  Repub- 
lican by  several  thousand,  Lynch  made 
so  excellent  a  run  that  it  was  not  until 
two  days  after  election  that  it  was  defi- 
nitely determined  that  the  Republican 
candidate  had  won.  Lynch's  election 
was  at  first  announced. 

Edward  A.  Baily  is  doing  war  work 
in  Washington  for  the  Treasury  De- 
partment in  connection  with  the  sale  of 
war  saving  and  thrift  stamps.  He  has 
charge  of  enlisting  the  cooperation  of 
the  water,  gas,  electric  light,  heat  and 
power,  and  street  railway  corporations 
throughout  the  United  States,  in  intro- 
ducing and  pushing  the  sales  of  the 
stamps  and  was  chosen  for  this  task 
because  of  his  experience  with  the  Na- 
tional Association  of  Edison  Illuminat- 
ing Companies,  of  which  he  has  been  an 
officer  for  a  number  of  years. 

Jeremiah  H.  Kelliher  is  a  member  of 
the  Park  Commission  of  the  City  of 
Fitchburg,  Mass. 

George  B.  Utter  is  what  is  termed  in 
Rhode  Island  as  a  Scrutineer  in  the 
draft.  He  is  given  the  names  of  the 
drafted  men  who  ask  for  exemption  and 
is  expected  to  look  them  up;  go  into 
their  homes,  investigate  their  stories, 
and  then  decide  whether  or  not  the 
man  should  be  exempted.  He  also  re- 
cently received  another  appointment  in 
connection  with  the  food  administra- 
tion. He  has  one-half  the  county  to 
look  out  for  and  if  it  ever  comes  to  the 
bread  tickets,  it  will  be  his  job  with  six 
deputies  to  hand  them  out.  At  present, 
the  main  task  is  the  checking  up  of  the 
state  inventory  of  food. 

As  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Rhode  Island  Republican 
Central  Committee,  Utter  had  a  hand 


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in  securing  the  right  for  women  to  vote 
for  President  of  the  United  States, 
Rhode  Island  being  the  first  eastern 
state  to  give  this  right. 

Rev.  A.  J.  Derbyshire  is  now  in 
France  where  he  is  doing  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
war  relief  work. 

As  a  result  of  the  last  election,  Leslie 
R.  Fort  is  now  a  member  of  the  City 
Council  of  Plainfield,  N.  J.  He  is  also 
a  corporal  in  the  New  Jersey  Home 
Defense  League. 

A  daughter  Barbara,  was  bom  on 
Election  Day,  November  6th,  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  R.  D.  Wing  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  Rev.  Edwin  Hill  von  Etten  of 
Pittsburgh  was  the  college  preacher  at 
Amherst  on  Sunday,  October  21st. 

Volume  V,  No.  1,  of  the  1905  Mephifif 
made  its  appearance  on  December  18, 
1917. 

George  H.  B.  Green  has  been  ap- 
pointed Deputy  Income  Tax  Assessor, 
with  an  office  in  Cambridge.  His  home 
address  is  30 .  Clyde  Road,  Watertown, 
Mass.  A  son,  George  H.  B.  Green,  3rd, 
was  born  on  September  29th  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Green. 

Dr.  Walter  W.  Palmer  is  now  con- 
nected with  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
New  York  City.  He  is  an  officer  in  the 
Medical  Reserve  Corps,  but  has  not 
yet  been  called. 

Francis  H.  Judge  is  now  with  the 
Lamson  Company,  100  Boylston  Street, 
Boston,  of  which  W.  F.  Merrill,  '99,  is 
President  and  General  Manager. 

Herbert  S.  Beers  has  recently  become 
Sales  Manager  of  the  Business  Bourse, 
341-347  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

Ralph  S.  Patch  is  a  corporal  in  the 
Home  Defense  League  at  Plainfield, 
N.J. 


William  T.  Rathbun  has  changed  his 
address  to  15  Beech  Street,  East  Orange, 
N.J. 

Emerson  G.  Gay  lord  was  Chairman 
of  the  General  Committee  in  Chicopee, 
Mass.,  in  charge  of  raising  funds  for  the 
Red  Triangle  War  Work  campaign.  He 
has  been  elected  a  member  of  the  cor- 
poration of  the  Springfield  Hospital,  and 
has  also  been  made  President  of  the 
recently  organized  Cabot  Trust  Com- 
pany at  Chicopee. 

Henry  E.  Warren  has  moved  to  920 
Centre  Street,  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

Under  the  leadership  of  the  Rev. 
Fritz  W.  Baldwin  of  Harvard  Congre- 
gational Church,  over  300  boys  of 
Brookline  have  signed  pledge  cards 
that  they  will  earn  and  give  $10  apiece 
to  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Work  Council 
before  April  1st. 

William  Thomas  Hutchings  was  acci- 
dentally killed  at  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
on  September  20,  1917.  Death  was  the 
result  of  an  automobile  accident  to 
which  there  appears  to  have  been  no 
direct  witnesses.  Hutchings  was  driv- 
ing with  his  two  boys  on  the  way  to 
his  office,  using  the  automobile  belong- 
ing to  his  company.  His  wife  had  gone 
ahead  with  his  own  car,  intending  to 
meet  him  at  the  office  and  bring  home 
the  boys.  He  apparently  was  proceed- 
ing with  a  clear  course  on  his  side  of 
the  street,  when  a  trolley  car  approached 
from  the  opposite  direction.  Suddenly 
the  automobile  swerved  sharply  to  the 
left  and  ran  directly  in  front  of  the 
trolley,  too  late  for  the  collision  to  be 
avoided.  What  caused  the  sudden 
swerve  is  unknown,  but  apparently  Mr. 
Hutchings  applied  the  brakes  40  feet 
from  where  he  struck  and  it  is  believed 
the  steering  gear  broke.  The  automo- 
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death  occurred  within  a  very  few  hours. 
Both  the  boys  were  badly  shaken  up 
and  it  was  feared  that  one  of  them  was 
hurt.     They  both  recovered,  however. 

Rlr.  Hutchings  was  born  in  West 
Danby,  N.  Y.,  April  2,  1877,  the  son 
of  Henry  Fisher  and  Velma  Weed 
Hutchings.  He  attended  a  preparatory 
school  in  Ithaca  and  later  graduated 
from  the  Cortland  Normal  School.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Phi  Kappa 
Psi  and  was  secretary  of  his  Class  the 
entire  fom*  years. 

After  leaving  college,  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  Graton  &  Knight  Man- 
ufacturing Company,  of  Worcester, 
Mass.,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
manager  of  the  Minneapolis  branch, 
which  he  himself  established,  and  where 
he  was  doing  excellent  work.  For  years 
he  had  been  a  member  of  the  Apollo 
Club  of  Minneapolis,  a  musical  organiza- 
tion of  80  or  90  men,  and  at  the  funeral 
services  the  members  of  the  club  sang 
"Crossing  the  Bar"  and  "Friendship." 
He  also  belonged  to  the  Civic  and  Com- 
merce Association  and  sang  in  the  Glee 
Club  of  that  organization.  He  was  also 
a  Mason. 

Mr.  Hutchings  was  married  at 
Adrian,  Mich,,  on  July  3,  1909,  to 
Miss  Genevieve  L.  Lintner.  She  sur- 
vives him  with  two  sons,  William,  aged 
6,  and  Robert,  aged  3.  Burial  was  at 
his  old  home.  West  Danby,  N.  Y. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 
202  Lake  Ave.,  Newton  Hlds.,  Mass. 

A  new  novel  by  Bruce  Barton,  enti- 
tled "The  Making  of  George  Groton," 
began  in  the  November  issue  of  The 
American  Magazine. 

Rev.  George  E.  Cary  of  Holden, 
Mass.,  was  granted  a  three  months' 
leave  of  absence  in  November  to  take 


up   Y.   M.   C.   A.   work  in  the  army 
camps. 

Rev.  George  C.  Hood  of  Nanhsuchou 
Auhuri,  China,  is  in  America  on  fur- 
lough. His  home  address  is  94  East 
3rd  Street,  Corning,  N.  Y.  Shortly  be- 
fore he  reached  this  country  a  very  in- 
teresting letter  was  received  from  him 
in  regard  to  his  work  in  China.  He 
says: 

"Our  work  is  in  a  small  city  of  about 
30,000  inhabitants,  but  it  is  the  political 
and  commercial  center  for  a  region  100 
miles  from  east  to  west  and  about  50 
miles  from  north  to  south.  The  work  is 
new  and  was  opened  about  five  years 
ago  when  the  railroad  first  came  through 
so  we  are  growing  up  with  the  region  and 
with  about  the  same  rapidity  that  the 
new  (the  railroad,  etc.)  affects  this  old 
civilization.  We  are  a  little  less  than 
400  miles  from  Shanghai.  We  get  the 
China  Press,  an  American  newspaper, 
published  in  Shanghai,  the  day  after  it 
is  off  the  press.  Our  railroad  has 
through  connection  to  Peking  on  the 
north  and  we  get  the  Peking  Gazette,  the 
oldest  newspaper  in  the  world,  the  day 
after  it  is  printed. 

"Our  staff  consists  of  ten  foreigners 
(we  are  foreigners  out  here)  and  twenty 
odd  Chinese  workers.  There  are  twelve 
teachers,  eight  evangelists  and  one  busi- 
ness agent.  More  than  half  of  our  for- 
eign staff  are  new  and  so  still  at  work 
on  the  language.  With  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Carter  in  America,  the  direction  of 
most  of  the  work  falls  to  me  this  year. 
In  our  schools  are  some  two  hundred 
boys  and  fifty  odd  girls.  One  hundred 
and  thirty  of  these  are  in  this  city. 
Sixty-five  are  in  a  city  sixty  miles  east 
of  here  and  the  rest  are  in  five  country 
schools.  So  you  see  the  work  is  scat- 
tered. Besides  these  places  with  schools 
evangelists  are  working  half  a  dozen 
other  centers." 

Daniel  Beecher  is  speaking  in  Los 
Angeles  in  the  interest  of  the  Red  Cross, 
Liberty  Loans,  and  the  like. 

1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 


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Arthur  L.  Kimball,  Jr.,  is  a  member 
of  the  Amherst  Faculty  this  year,  taking 
the  place  of  Prof.  Charles  W.  Cobb  in 
mathematics,  while  the  latter  is  in 
Government  service. 

George  Edward  Rawson  and  Miss 
Florence  Alice  Perkins  were  married  on 
Saturday,  October  13th,  at  the  home  of 
the  bride  in  SuflBeld,  Conn.  The  cere- 
mony was  performed  by  Prof.  G.  Walter 
Fiske,  '95,  Dean  of  Oberlin  College, 
and  the  Rev.  K.  C.  MacArthur  of  Suf- 
field.  F.  Allen  Biu-t,  '08,  was  one  of 
the  ushers.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rawson  are 
now  at  home  at  57  Warner  Street,  West 
Somerville,  Mass. 

H.  C.  Keith  has  recovered  from  a 
three  months'  illness.  His  Company 
just  now  is  very  busy  turning  out  army 
shoes. 

W'illiam  Sturgis,  recently  married,  is 
western  manager  for  To-day's  House- 
wife, with  headquarters  in  Chicago. 

Lon  G.  Feagans  has  been  active  in 
the  Los  Angeles  Red  Cross  and  Liberty 
Bond  campaigns. 

Horatio  E.  Smith  is  in  Y.  M.  C,  A. 
War  Work. 

James  A.  Sprenger  is  a  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Secretary  in  camp  in  France.  He  has 
been  giving  lessons  in  French  to  the 
Americans  and  lessons  in  English  to  the 
French,  has  been  made  a  co-director  of 
the  Foyer  du  Soldat  with  a  Frenchman 
in  charge,  and  has  been  a  regular 
member  of  the  staff  of  the  Heavy  Artil- 
lery School  (American),  as  instructor 
in  French  to  the  officers. 

1909 

Edward  H.  Sudbury,  Secretary, 
154  Prospect  Ave.,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Madalyn  Black  Bickford,  daugh- 


ter of  Mrs.  Samuel  R.  Bickford  of  New 
York  City,  and  Cuthbert  Hague  were 
married  on  Saturday,  October  29,  1917, 
in  Brooklyn.  Ralph  A.  Kennedy,  '0-1, 
acted  as  best  man.  Mr.  Hague  is  the 
son  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  Hague 
(Archdeacon  Hague)  of  St.  Mathews, 
Worcester. 

On  November  17th,  F.  Marsena  Butts 
was  married  to  Miss  Louise  Mirick, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Henry 
Mirick  of  Worcester.  Butts  is  a  lieu- 
tenant in  the  Ordnance  Department  of 
the  United  States  Reserve,  and  for  the 
past  year  Miss  Mirick  has  been  secre- 
tary to  Frederick  S.  AUis  of  the  Alumni 
Council.  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Butts 
will  be  at  home  after  February  1st  at 
Northbrook  Courts,  16th  and  Newton 
streets,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

1910 

George  B.  Burnett,  Jr.,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Word  has  been  received  from  General 
Pershing  of  the  death  in  France  on  No- 
vember 3rd  of  Major  Birdseye  Blake- 
man  Lewis.  Major  Lewis  was  a  mem- 
ber of  General  Pershing's  staff  and  was 
in  the  aviation  section.  Signal  Corps  of 
the  army. 

The  cablegram  announcing  his  death 
gave  no  details  and  it  is  not  known 
whether  he  died  from  wounds  received 
in  action  or  through  an  accident. 

Major  Lewis  was  29  years  old,  a  resi- 
dent of  Millbrook,  N.  Y.,  a  member  of 
the  Millbrook  Hunt  Club  and  an  expert 
huntsman.  He  was  a  grandson  of  the 
late  Blakeman  Lewis,  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Iverson  Book  Company, 
now  the  American  Book  Company. 
Three  years  ago  he  married  the  daugh- 
ter of  Oakleigh  Thorne,  the  New  York 
capitalist.  He  was  born  on  February 
23,  1888.     Burial  was  at  the  front. 


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The  fielding  averages  of  the  American 
League,  just  announced,  show  that  John 
Henry  of  the  Washington  Baseball  Club 
was  the  best  catcher  in  the  entire  league. 
He  leads  all  the  catchers.  Playing  in 
59  games,  he  made  274  put-outs,  54 
assists  and  only  4  errors,  for  a  grand 
average  of  .988.  Baseball  fans  realize 
this  is  a  remarkable  record. 

Roger  A.  Johnson  has  been  appointed 
professor  and  head  of  the  Department 
of  Mathematics  at  Hamline  University, 
St.  Paul,  Minn.  He  has  been  an  in- 
structor in  Mathematics  in  Western 
Reserve  University  at  Cleveland  for 
the  past  few  years. 

Captain  Joseph  Bartlett  Bisbee,  Jr., 
who  won  his  commission  as  Captain  in 
Infantry  at  Plattsburg  on  November 
24th,  was  married  on  November  29th 
to  Miss  Catharine  Flint,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Wyman  Flint.  The 
wedding  was  at  Wood  Brae,  the  home 
of  the  bride's  parents.'at  Bellows  Falls,  Vt. 

J.  D.  Brownell,  President  of  North- 
land College,  Ashland,  Wis.,  is  in  the 
East  doing  missionary  work  for  his  col- 
lege and  meeting  with  great  success. 

Paul  A.  Fancher  is  teaching  English 
at  Hamilton  College.  He  has  recently 
edited  "A  Book  of  Hamilton  Verse." 

A.  D.  Keator,  Associate  Librarian  of 
Carleton  College,  Northfield,  Minn., 
presided  over  the  25th  annual  meeting 
of  the  Minnesota  Library  Association 
at  its  session  October  8-10,  1917. 

W.  Evans  Clark  has  left  Princeton 
and  is  now  located  at  39j^  Washington 
Square,  New  York  City,  where  he  is 
doing  writing  and  research  work  for  the 
Utilities  Magazine. 

H.  L.  Corey  represented  the  Cham- 
pion Spark  Plug  Co.,  during  the  Auto- 
mobile Show,  in  New  York. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J.  Lawton  of  Lynn 
announce  the  arrival  on  October  14th 
of  Ernest  J.  Lawton,  Jr. 

Rev.  Arthur  B.  Boynton,  for  the  last 
four  years  pastor  of  the  West  End  Re- 
formed Church  of  Port  Jervis,  N.  Y., 
has  resigned  his  pastorate  to  take  up 
Y.  M.  C.  A.   War  Work. 

Prof.  George  F.  Whicher  is  the  author 
of  the  chapter  on  "Early  Essayists" 
which  appears  in  Volume  I  of  the  Cam- 
bridge History  of  American  Literature, 
recently  issued  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

1911 

Dexteh  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  North  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Raymond  M.  Bristol  and  Miss  Doro- 
thy Fletcher  of  Northampton,  Mass., 
were  married  on  Thursday,  October 
11th,  at  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B. 
Root,  in  Somers,  Conn. 

A  daughter,  Vida  Eleanore,  was  born 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  J.  Babcock  on 
October  8th. 

Rev.  William  W.  Patton  was  installed 
as  pastor  of  the  North  Congregational 
Church  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  on  Wednes- 
day evening,  October  24th.  Rev.  Cor- 
nelius H.  Patton,  D.  D.,  '83;  Rev.  Ne- 
hemiah  Boynton,  D.  D.,  '79;  Rev.  Ed- 
ward C.  Boynton,  '07;  and  Rev.  M.  R. 
Boynton,  '10,  took  part  in  the  ceremony. 

A  daughter,  Mary  Lee,  was  born  on 
December  17th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pren- 
tice Abbot  of  5  First  Place,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. 

Announcement  was  made  at  Christ- 
mas of  the  engagement  of  First  Lieu- 
tenant Waldo  Shumway  and  Miss  Helen 
Davis,  daughter  of  Mrs.  H.  C.  Davis 
of  Boston. 


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Donnell  B.  Young  has  been  secured 
to  coach  the  Amherst  track  team  this 
year,  during  the  absence  of  Professor 
Nelligan.  He  is  in  Amherst  three  times 
a  week  during  the  winter  and  every  day 
during  the  spring. 

William  Baker  Powell  sailed  on  De- 
cember 12th  for  France  where  he  is 
engaged  in  war  work  of  the  National 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

G.  W.  Williams  has  recently  sailed  for 
Russia,  where  he  will  be  connected  with 
the  Military  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  the  front. 

1912 

Alfred  B.  Peacock,  Secretary, 
384  Madison  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Frank  J.  McFarland,  acting  Sergeant 
apprentice  of  Battery  A,  305th  Field 
Artillery,  lost  his  life  at  Camp  Upton, 
Long  Island,  on  October  29,  1917,  from 
injuries  received  in  a  railroad  crash  at 
the  camp  the  previous  day,  Sunday.  A 
large  number  of  visitors  spent  the  day 
at  the  camp  and  most  of  the  soldiers 
were  at  the  railroad  station  to  greet 
them.  Hundreds  of  the  soldiers  climbed 
up  on  some  freight  cars  which  were 
backed  on  a  siding. 

They  were  singing  and  cheering  when 
an  empty  Long  Island  railroad  excur- 
sion train  from  Brooklyn  drew  out  to 
make  way  for  another  excursion  train. 
The  empty  train  was  backed  on  to  the 
siding  where  the  freight  cars  were,  and 
before  anyone  realized  the  danger 
struck  the  freight  cars  at  the  end  of  the 
siding,  forcing  one  box  car  over  a  tem- 
porary bumper  and  into  a  crowd  of  sol- 
diers and  civilians.  The  victims  were 
pinned  under  the  rods  and  trucks  of  the 
freight  car. 

One  soldier  died  before  he  could  be 
pried  out  from  under  the  wheels.  Mc- 
Farland, who  had  been  standing  on  the 


platform,  fell  beneath  the  wheels  and 
one  leg  was  amputated  while  the  other 
was  badly  crushed.  He  was  taken  at 
once  to  the  Base  Hospital,  but  died 
within  a  few  hours.  Twelve  other  sol- 
diers were  seriously  injured. 

Sergeant  McFarland  was  a  member 
of  the  National  Army  and,  before  being 
drafted,  had  taken  a  preliminary  train- 
ing course  at  Governor's  Island,  for  he 
was  anxious  to  make  himself  as  efficient 
a  soldier  as  possible.  As  a  result  of  his 
training  he  was  made  a  non-commis- 
sioned officer.  Following  his  death,  his 
battery  commander  paid  him  a  stirring 
tribute  before  the  members  of  his 
battalion. 

He  lived  with  his  parents  at  117  Han- 
cock Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  on 
leaving  Amherst  entered  the  employ  of 
the  American  Express  Company.  Since 
1913  he  had  been  assistant  to  the  general 
manager  of  Browne  &  Co.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Chi  Psi  fraternity  and 
was  24  years  old. 

J.  Henry  Vernon  and  Miss  Ruth  L. 
Hill,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Fred 
Hill,  were  married  on  Thursday,  No- 
vember 8th,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
parents  in  Southbridge,  Mass.  After  a 
honeymoon  in  the  West,  Vernon  began 
his  studies  in  an  aviation  school. 

Lieutenant  John  Harrison  Madden 
was  married  on  Thursday,  December 
6th,  to  Miss  Margaret  Ford  McCarthy 
of  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Margaret  McCarthy.  The  bride 
is  a  niece  of  Justice  and  Mrs.  Victor  J. 
Dowling  of  New  York. 

Rev.  Robert  G.  Armstrong  of  Spencer 
Mass.,  sailed  the  week  of  December 
16th  for  France  where  he  will  engage 
in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work. 

Captain  DeWitt  H.  Parsons,  O.  R.  C, 
was  married  on  Saturday,   November 


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£4th,  at  Holy  Trinity  Rectory,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  to  Miss  Jane  Lockwood  of 
New  York  City.  George  W.  Whitney, 
'12,  acted  as  best  man. 

C.  Francis  Beatty  had  to  forego  the 
honor  of  working  for  Uncle  Sam,  after 
having  qualified  for  a  first  lieutenancy 
in  the  Quartermaster's  Department.  He 
is  still  in  service,  however,  being  a  lieu- 
tenant in  the  23rd  Infantry,  N.  Y.  G. 
and  has  been  on  duty  along  the  water 
supply  system. 

1913 

Lewis  G.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

George  L.  Stone  is  a  department  man- 
ager with  the  American  Employment 
Exchange  for  clerical  and  technical  men 
at  115  Broadway,  New  York  City.  An- 
noimcement  has  been  received  of  his 
marriage  last  August  to  Miss  Emma 
Kernnrich  in  New  York. 

J.  Wallace  Coxhead  was  married  on 
October  27th  to  Miss  Mary  Johnson  of 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.  They  are  making  their 
home  in  Denver,  Colo. 

The  engagement  was  announced 
shortly  before  Christmas  of  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Bassett  French,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Albert  French  of  Montclair, 
N.  J.,  and  Frank  L.  Babbott,  Jr.  Miss 
French  was  graduated  from  Vassar, 
Class  of  1914.  Babbott  graduates  this 
February  from  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons. 

Henry  S.  Leiper  is  a  member  of  the 
Food  Conservation  Coimty  Committee 
for  Bergen  County,  N.  J.  He  is  also  an 
associate  secretary  of  Camp  Welfare 
Activities  at  Camp  Merritt. 

Harold  H.  Plough  has  recently  pub- 
lished an  article  in  the  "Proceedings  of 


the  National  Academy  of  Sciences,"  en- 
titled "The  Effect  of  Temperature  on 
Linkage  in  the  Second  Chromosome  of 
Drosophila." 

Samuel  H.  Cobb  was  married  on  No- 
vember 3rd  to  Miss  Charlotte  Hull  of 
Ottawa,  111. 

Chauncey  P.  Carter  is  engaged  in 
W^ar  Trade  Work  in  the  Commerce 
Department,  Washington. 

Raymond  W.  Cross  is  stationed  at 
San  Francisco  as  an  inspector  of  leathers 
and  instructor  of  inspectors. 

On  December  19,  1917,  Nelson  Stone 
was  married  to  Miss  Marion  Heermans, 
of  Corning,  N.  Y. 

1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

W.  Otney  Morrow  was  rejected  for 
military  service  on  account  of  an  injury 
to  his  knee  which  he  received  while 
playing  football  in  college.  He  is  with 
the  New  York  Shipbuilding  Corpora- 
tion of  Camden,  N.  J.,  which  is  operat- 
ing under  the  supervision  of  the  Emer- 
gency Fleet  Corporation. 

S.  F.  Cushman,  Jr.,  was  married  to 
Miss  Rebecca  Kennedy  on  October  1st, 
at  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

F.  Everett  Glass  is  connected  with 
the  Greenwich  Village  Players  of  New 
York  City  and  is  appearing  in  one  of 
the  plays  now  being  given  by  that 
organization. 

Guy  H.  Gundaker  was  married  on 
September  15th  to  Miss  Vendeta  G. 
Cudmore  at  Oak  Park,  III. 

Maurice  E.  Childs  is  in  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work. 


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1915 

J.  L.  Snider,  Secretary, 
Fairfax  13,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

News  was  received  after  the  last 
Quarterly  went  to  press  of  the  death 
in  Florida  on  August  16,  1917,  of  J. 
Warnock  Campbell  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 
He  died  of  injuries  received  at  Reynolds- 
ville,  Fla.,  where  he  was  assistant 
superintendent  of  the  Florida  Mine 
Company. 

He  was  crushed  to  death  when  a  train 
of  cars  jumped  the  track  and  crashed 
against  the  mine  entrance  where  he  was 
standing,  and  was  almost  instantly 
killed,  living  onlj'  fifteen  minutes  after 
the  crash  and  never  regaining  conscious- 
ness. After  leaving  college  he  entered 
the  New  York  Office  of  the  Long  Coal 
Company  at  No.  1  Broadway,  but  a 
year  ago  he  decided  that  he  wanted  to 
learn  the  business  from  the  ground  up 
and,  in  order  to  get  a  more  thorough 
knowledge,  went  to  the  Reynoldsville 
mine,  where  he  had  been  working  since 
July  15,  1916.  During  that  time,  he 
made  many  warm  friends  and  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Clarksburg,  and  also  taught 
the  boys*  junior  class  in  the  church 
Sunday-school.  His  body  was  taken  to 
Montclair,  N.  J.,  where  the  interment 
was.  He  was  24  years  old,  and  was  a 
member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  fraternity. 

Miss  Mary  Cecilia  Parsons,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Parsons  of 
New  York  City,  and  Lieutenant  Rich- 
ardson Pratt,  son  of  Charles  M.  Pratt, 
'79,  were  married  on  Friday,  November 
9th,  at  the  Madison  Avenue  Presbyte- 
rian Church,  New  York.  Frank  Bab- 
bott,  '13,  acted  as  best  man. 


John  M.  Gans  was  married  on  De- 
cember 15th  at  Poland  Springs,  Me.,  to 
Miss  Janette  Ricker. 

Louis  T.  Eaton  was  married  to  Miss 
Margaret  Ayers  on  July  26th  in  Jack- 
sonville, EI. 

A  son,  John  Gilbert,  was  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  George  L.  Cutton  of  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y.,  on  October  9th. 

Sergeant  Conrad  Shumway  was  mar- 
ried on  Saturday,  December  22d,  at 
Glenfield,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss  Ettah  H. 
Cobb,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Laypeth  Cobb  of  that  place.  Lieuten- 
ant Lowell  Shumway,  '14,  brother  of  the 
groom,  acted  as  best  man. 

William  W'hiting  has  been  elected  a 
director  of  the  Union  Trust  Company 
of  Springfield. 

F.  Wesley  Blair  is  engaged  in  research 
work  in  chemistry. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Alvord  Trubee 
of  New  Rochelle,  announce  the  engage- 
ment of  their  daughter,  Margaret  Van 
Vleck  Trubee,  to  First  Lieutenant 
George  Hartman  Hubner  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Miss  Gertrude  Zeiss,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  L.  Zeiss  of  Waban, 
Mass.,  and  Evalsey  Clark  Ferguson. 
At  present  he  is  in  Government  employ 
at  the  Fore  River  plant  at  Squantum. 

Herbert  A.  Bristol  is  now  in  the  man- 
ufacturing department  of  Henry  Holt 
and  Co. 


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Homans  Robinson  again  donated  last 
fall  a  silver  football  to  the  member  of 
the  Amherst  football  team  judged  to 
have  been  the  most  valuable  player. 

1917 

R.  M.  FisHEH,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

H.  F.  Anthony  is  First  Assistant 
Clerk  of  Local  Exemption  Board  No.  4, 
Rhode  Island.  He  has  been  interpreting 
the  rules  and  regulations  to  the  drafted 
men.  His  address  is  15  Arch  Street, 
Providence,  R.  I. 

R.  S.  Woodward,  Jr.,  is  with  the 
Lewis  Manufacturing  Company.  His 
address  is  109  Common  Street,  Walpole, 
Mass.  He  has  been  kept  out  of  the 
service  on  account  of  his  eyes. 

Richard  T.  Hobart  is  studying  at  the 
Columbia  Medical  School. 

Frank  M.  Sleeper  is  organist  and 
master  of  music  and  military  training 
at  the  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa. 

H.  Harrison  Fuller  is  engaged  in 
commercial  organization  work  and  is 
now  assistant  manager  of  the  Jersey 
City  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

First  Lieutenant  George  Irving  Baily 
and  Miss  Dorothea  Gray  of  Brookline, 
Mass.,  were  married  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
on  Friday,  November  30th. 

F.  P.  Hawkes  is  teaching  ancient  his- 
tory in  the  Taunton  High  School.  His 
address  is  59  Harrison  Avenue,  Taunton 
Mass.    He  was  drafted,  but  exempted. 

E.  A.  Goodhue  is  teaching  chemistry 
at  the  University  of  Vermont. 

J.  C.  McGarrahan  is  studying  at  the 
Harvard  Medical  School.  His  address 
is  86  Francis  Street,  Fenway,  Boston. 


E.  F.  Loomis  is  on  the  staff  of  the 
Springfield  Republican. 

E.  Merrill  Root  is  an  assistant  in 
English  at  the  University  of  Missouri. 

George  E.  Bail  is  University  Scholar 
in  Latin  at  the  University  of  Missouri. 

First  Lieutenant  Sheldon  B.  Goodrich 
was  married  on  November  27th  to  Miss 
Nellie  D.  Kennedy  of  South  Easton, 
Mass. 

R.  B.  Ball  is  with  the  American  Tele- 
phone and  Telegraph  Co.  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

C.  L.  Bell  is  with  the  B.  F.  Goodrich 
Rubber  Co.  in  Akron,  Ohio. 

H.  S.  Boyd  is  teaching  at  Rice  Insti- 
tute, Houston,  Texas. 

M.  A.  Copeland  is  assistant  in  Eco- 
nomics at  the  University  of  Chicago. 
His  address  is  6148  University  Place, 
Chicago,  111. 

The  engagement  was  recently  an- 
nounced of  Miss  Rachel  Forbes,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Forbes 
of  Taunton,  Mass.,  and  Wadsworth 
Wilbar. 

D.  R.  Craig,  Jr.,  who  spent  the  sum- 
mer in  France  as  Secretary  to  Dr. 
Fitch,  is  now  at  Amherst,  assisting 
Professor  Gettell. 

H.  G.  Deeley  is  in  the  employ  of  the 
General  Electric  Company  at  Pittsfield, 
Mass. 

J.  G.  Gazley  is  studying  at  Columbia 
University. 

E.  L.  Godfrey  has  a  position  with  the 
Goodrich  Rubber  Company  at  Akron, 
Ohio. 

Charles  J.  Jessup  is  taking  graduate 
work  in  biology  at  Columbia. 


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C.  T.  Jones  is  teaching  at  Montclair 
Academy,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

T.  Kambour  is  working  in  an  ammu- 
nition plant  at  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

F.  B.  Marks  is  in  the  sales  department 
of  the  Oneida  Community  Ltd.,  at 
Kenwood,  N.  Y. 

Another  1917  man  at  work  for  the 
Goodyear  Tire  and  Rubber  Company 
is  C.  E.  Maynard,  whose  address  is  131 
N.  Union  Street,  Akron,  Ohio. 

R.  D.  Metcalf  is  teaching  French, 
History,  and  English  at  the  Chamber- 
layne  School,  Richmond,  Va. 

F.  L.  Moginot  is  South  End  Fellow 
in  Boston. 

E.  W.  Morse  is  in  the  laundry 
business  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

J.  J.  Murray  is  with  the  Graton  & 
Knight  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Worcester. 

W.  E.  Sibley  is  with  the  bond  firm  of 
Harris,  Forbes  and  Company,  35 
Federal  Street,  Boston. 

H.  A.  Smith  is  acting  as  chemist  for 
a  large  ammunition  factorj'. 

W.  M.  Tehan  is  helping  Uncle  Sam 
make  rifles  at  the  Springfield  Armory. 

Another  1917  man  studying  medicine 
is  T.  H.  Nelligan  who  is  at  Harvard 
Medical  School,  although  he  has  been 
accepted  for  the  draft  and  may  be 
called  at  any  moment. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Second  Lieutenant  D.  E.  Temple  and 
Miss  Marjorie  Lucy  of  Greenfield,  Mass. 


H.  W.  W'ells  is  taking  graduate  work 
in  English  at  Columbia  University. 

The  only  member  of  the  Class  study- 
ing for  the  ministry  is  R.  E.  McGowan 
who  is  at  Auburn  Theological  Seminary. 

R.  L.  Masten's  address  is  407  Sapphire 
Street,  Redondo,  Calif. 

G.  Hinman  has  a  position  with  the 
Fairbanks  Scales  Co. 

1918 

Robert  Ferry  Patton  of  Highland 
Park,  111.,  who  left  college  to  enlist  in 
the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserves,  and  is  now 
an  instructor  at  the  Harvard  Radio 
School,  was  married  on  Thursday,  No- 
vember 15th,  to  Miss  Mildred  Simonds, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Wil- 
liam Simonds  of  Cambridge  and  Mil- 
ford,  N.  H.  The  wedding  was  held  at 
the  Hotel  Somerset  in  Boston,  the  cere- 
mony being  performed  by  the  Rev. 
William  W.  Patton,  '11,  brother  of  the 
groom.  Charles  B.  McGowan,  '17,  was 
the  best  man,  and  the  ushers  included 
David  C.  Hale,  '17,  Gerald  Keith,  '15, 
and  Philip  H.  See,  '18. 

William  R.  Taber  has  lost  none  of 
his  pitching  skill  "Over  There."  A 
correspondent  for  the  Brooklyn  Daily 
Eagle,  writing  of  a  baseball  game  be- 
tween Ambulance  Corps  No.  6  and  the 
Roosevelt  Unit,  says  that  Taber  pitch- 
ing for  the  Roosevelt  Unit  fanned 
twelve  men  in  six  innings.  Several 
college  men  played  in  this  game,  in- 
cluding Lutkins,  '16,  who  caught  Taber. 

Donald  B.  Simmons,  of  Minneapolis, 
was  married  to  Miss  Katharyn  Urqu- 
hart  of  the  same  city,  on  August  25th, 
and  received  a  commission  as  Second 
Lieutenant  the  same  day. 


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VOL.  VII.— MAY,  1918.— NO.  3 


THE  COLLEGE  WINDOW 

FALSTAFF,  that  graceless  but  entertaining  old  reprobate  of 
Shakespeare's  immortal   creation,  as   he   was  on  the  eve 
of  war   and   urged   by   Prince   Hal   to   make  good   some 
of  his  boundless  brags,  fell   quite   unwontedly  into   a   reflective 
mood,  in  which  he  raised  the  question  of 
What  is  in  That      honor  and  its  claim  upon  him;    with  the 
Word  Scholarship  foregone  intent  (naturally  enough, — being 
a  cuss,  which  is  to  say,  a  slacker)  of  ex- 
plaining  the   thing   away.      His   fat   and   self-indulgent   body — 
nearly  everything  he  had  or  valued — was  for  once  facing  a  serious 
purpose  of  life,  and  finding  it  as  unreal  as  it  had  ever  been.  "What 
is  honor?    a  word.     What  is  in  that  word  honor?     What  is  that 
honor?    air.     A  trim  reckoning!     Who  hath  it?    he  that  died  o' 
Wednesday.     Doth  he  feel  it?    no.     Doth   he  hear  it?    no.     'Tis 
insensible,  then?    yea,  to  the  dead.     But  will  it  live  with  the 
living?    no.     Why?    detraction  will  not  suffer  it.     Therefore  I'll 
none  of  it.     Honor  is  a  mere   scutcheon:    and   so  ends  my  cate- 
chism." 

We  are  using  the  mold  of  Falstaff's  question,  but  in  the  place 
of  honor  putting  the  word  scholarship;  not,  however,  as  a  substi- 
tute, scarcely  as  an  alteration,  rather  as  the  analogy,  the  living 
synonym,  suited  to  our  sphere  of  life.  The  parallel  is  close  and 
weighty.  Scholarship  is  to  the  intellectual  life — that  life  of  which 
the  college  is  the  hopeful  symbol — what  honor  is  to  the  life  of 
enterprise  and  applied  action.  It  is  the  rich  and  radiant  light, 
the  mastery  genial  and  tempered,  to  which  the  college  windows 


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should  always  be  open  and  its  welcome  hospitable.  Hence  our 
re-worded  question,  made  doubly  emphatic  by  our  academic 
responsibility.     What  is  in  that  word  scholarship? 

Sir  John  Falstaff,  being  by  English  rank  a  gentleman,  was 
imputedly  a  man  of  honor;  the  two  things  were  naturally  supposed 
to  go  together.  There  have  been  times  in  our  land  of  happy-go- 
lucky  rank  when  the  two  terms  gentleman  and  scholar  could  be 
coupled  without  the  evocation  of  a  smile;  but  those  times  are 
long  past;  perhaps  it  was  too  frequent  an  infusion  of  certain 
Falstaffian  propensities  that  made  the  two  terms  part  company 
in  any  but  a  convivial  sense.  At  any  rate  the  scholarship  member 
of  the  pair  became  quite  vague;  its  idea  is  in  much  the  same  need 
of  inquiry  and  clarification  as  was  the  idea  of  honor  in  the  days 
of  Sir  John  and  Prince  Hal.  Shakespeare  has  portrayed  what  a 
sad  mess  the  knight  made  of  his  imputed  privilege;  that  is  why 
I  have  dragged  in  the  hoary  old  reprobate  as  an  awful  example. 
He  represents — if  you  will  patiently  suffer  the  pun — the  cuss  in 
our  discussion.  To  him  honor  was  "a  mere  scutcheon;"  and 
what  was  that  in  the  face  of  anything  testing  and  serious?  The 
thing  was  lightly  explained  away,  and  his  catechism  ended  as 
soon  as  risk  and  hazard  hove  in  sight.  Our  catechism,  however, 
may  have  a  different  outcome;  of  that  presently.  As  to  the  doubt- 
ful questioning,  we  have  only  to  recall  that  irksome  educational 
period — irksome  but  gradually  swelling  to  stormy — so  speedily 
cut  short  in  1914,  a  period  now  strangely  prehistoric,  when  the 
side-shows  of  liberal  learning  were  endangering  the  circus,  to 
realize  how  much  Falstaffian  insouciance  had  crept  into  our  col- 
leges the  sponsors  of  scholarship  and  our  preparatory  schools  its 
emulous  neophytes.  To  outsiders  and  insiders  alike  the  idea  of 
scholarship  was  wellnigh  as  unreal  as  the  idea  of  honor  had  been 
in  Falstaff's  time.  In  the  colleges  the  newspapers  saw  little  but 
games  and  amateur  scores,  and  heard  little  but  midnight  fiddling; 
and  as  for  the  students — bless  'em, — with  their  airy  contempt  for 
highbrows  and  digs  and  rank-stacking  sharks,  what  was  their 
cultural  ideal  or  care,  after  all?  It  is  hard  to  answer,  from  the 
surface  of  things.  In  the  height  of  that  anomalous  period  I  once 
ventured,  in  a  company  of  Amherst  alumni,  to  draw  out  a  little 
historical  sketch  of  certain  conditions  of  sentiment.    In  the  olden 


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time,  the  sketch  ran,  Pilate  raised  the  momentous  question, 
"What  is  truth?"  but,  as  Bacon  says,  he  "would  not  stay  for  an 
answer," — it  was  too  searching,  or  maybe  too  unreal.  In  a  more 
care-free  time  ages  after,  Charles  Lamb  avowed  his  preference  for 
the  question,  "What  is  trumps?"  and  his  sentiment  had  a  nu- 
merous following.  Still  later — in  contemporary  times  indeed — the 
absorbing  question  had  become,  "What's  the  score?"  Just  then 
in  my  sketch,  as  I  had  reached  the  time  for  summing  up,  my 
memory  was  perverse  enough  to  recall — it  was  in  the  malodorous 
early  automobile  days — a  picture  I  had  seen  representing  two 
little  black-and-white  animals  sitting  by  the  roadside  and  con- 
templating, with  the  sad  sense  of  an  occupation  gone,  the  smoke 
of  a  disappearing  machine.  "What's  the  use?"  was  their  de- 
spairing comment.  The  anticlimax  was  too  violent  for  any  but 
the  rankest,  most  vulgar  outsider  to  approve,  but — well,  what 
had  become  of  the  rich  fragrance,  the  bracing  air,  the  spicy  stim- 
ulus of  scholarship?  And  the  elaborate  educational  system — what 
was  it  for?  what  was  its  high  service  and  goal? 

I  WONDER  if  it  has  not  occurred  to  you,  my  reader,  as  it  has  to 
many,  that  those  light-minded  college  students — bless  'em — may, 
unconsciously,  perhaps,  have  had  considerable  reason  for  turning 
their  regards  away  from  the  alleged  scholarship  that  was  served 
out  to  them  and  concentrating  their  interests  on  something  more 
tangible  and  real,  albeit  less  substantial?  I  do  not  ask  this  in 
defense  of  the  substitutionary  side-shows  to  which  they  had  re- 
course; very  likely  these  were  only  partly,  if  at  all,  worthy  of 
their  most  serious  energies.  But  may  not  scholarship  itself,  in  its 
current  methods  and  conceptions,  have  fallen  into  a  pace  which 
earned  from  them  some  just  degree  of  reaction  and  resiliency? 
It  is  too  big  a  question  to  answer  at  length  here.  At  any  rate  a 
reaction,  of  more  searching  and  constructive  sort,  was  rising  in 
the  centers  of  learning  themselves,  not  as  against  something  dis- 
eased and  rotten,  but  as  against  something  inert  and  sterile, 
some  waste  or  balk  of  energy,  some  lack  of  large  outcome.  We 
cannot  lay  it  all  to  the  students  and  their  too  distracting  counter 
activities.  These  were  but  a  symptom.  Our  impulse  is  rather 
to  repeat  the  question  of  the  beginning,  not  in  the  evading  spirit 
of  Falstaff  and  his  ilk,  but  in  the  constructive  spirit  which  brings 


166   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

the  useful  answer.    What  is  in  that  word  scholarship?     What  is 
that  scholarship? 

This  world  war,  with  its  painfully  enlarging  eflFect,  is  teaching 
us  many  things,  and  not  least  among  them,  is  teaching  us  what 
true  scholarship  is  not.     It  is  not  kultur;   at  least  not  the  species 
that  is  made  in  Germany.    For  several  decades  our  leading  edu- 
cators have  thought  it  was,  and  have  shaped  their  systems  to  it. 
That  is  one  reason,  I  think,  why  a  little  prior  to  191-4  a  reaction 
was  rising  in  the  healthier  cultural  mind  of  our  country.     The 
glamour  of  the  German  patience,  method,  thoroughness,  efficiency 
was  strong  upon  us;   many  of  us  had  tasted  it  in  the  Fatherland 
itself  and  had  brought  its  steadying  spirit  home  with  us.    And  it 
has  done  our  educational  mind  much  good;   has  wrought  to  con- 
centrate it;  has  tightened  the  joints  of  our  too  ramshackle  methods 
and  appliances.    Its  basis  is  specialization.    To  wreak  one's  study 
on  a  single  delimited  sphere  of  research,  to  corral  all  that  is  known 
therein  and  make  some  original  contribution,  however  small,  to 
the  sum  total,  to  leave  the  things  of  other  spheres  to  their  own 
keepers, — such  is  its  interpretation  of  every  man's  cultural  duty. 
Every  scholar  is,  as  it  were,  fitted  into  a  niche  where  he  functions 
for  that  niche  alone.     I  am  speaking  of  the  realm  of  learning; 
but  it  is  just  so  also  in  every  walk  of  life.     Every  man's  work, 
every  man's  thought,  is  his  specialty,  noted  from  above  and  fitted 
into  a  vast  state  organism,  like  cogs  and  wheels  and  levers  and 
pinions  in  a  colossal  machine.     At  the  motor  center  of  all  this 
sits  a  Master  specialist  whose  specialty  is  statecraft,  a  specialty 
of  wellnigh  boundless  sway  over  the  countless  graded  movements 
below,  but  in  its  own  sphere  as  bounded  as  are  all  the  others 
whose    spheres    are   pooled    in    his.      Thus    specialization,    from 
laborer  to  emperor,  is  the  keynote  of  the  German  kultur,  and 
specialization,  by  its  very  genius,  is  limitation.    However  endless 
and  rewarding  the  discoveries  in  any  specialized  field,  the  field 
itself  must  be  so  delimited  from  the  vast  domain  of  the  universe 
that  the  mind  of  man  can  compass  it.     It  is  hazardous  for  the 
cobbler  to  go  beyond  his  last,  or  a  chemist  beyond  his  laboratory. 
We  set  a  great  German  chemist,  Wilhelm  Ostwald,  to  lecturing 
on  immortality  a  few  years  ago;  he  got  to  the  end  of  his  chemical 
tether;    the  rest  was  out  of  reach  beyond  his  specialty.     The 
formula  for  immortality  belonged  to  another  sphere. 


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Naturally  enough,  perhaps,  our  educators  did  not  realize  at 
first  the  limitations  of  the  much  vaunted  kultur;  they  committed 
themselves  with  zest  to  its  intensive  methods,  and  the  Ph.  D. 
mills  were  working  merrily,  when  with  the  fateful  outbreak  of 
war  the  disillusion  comes.  To  use  the  words  of  "Malice  in  Kul- 
turiand:" 

"  'Twas  dertag,  and  the  slithy  Huns 

Did  sturm  and  sturgel  through  the  sludge; 
All  bulgous  were  the  blunderguns, 
And  the  bosch  bombs  outbludge." 

Or,  to  stick  to  our  own  dialect,  the  Imperial  specialist,  having 
cleverly  harnessed  up  all  the  little  specialties  in  order,  pressed 
the  button  of  his  main  specialty  the  militaristic,  and  forthwith 
in  flame  and  thunder  and  hideous  atrocity  he  launched  his  long 
cherished  ambition,  which  was  to  impose  the  full  might  of  his 
kultur  on  the  outlying  barbarism,  riding  the  effete  world  like  an 
incubus,  sucking  its  material  juices  like  a  vampire,  proving 
thereby  kultur's  unapproachable  superiority.  And  his  spies  did 
what  was  put  into  them  to  do;  the  obsequious  diplomats  likewise; 
the  purveyors  of  war  news  took  efficient  charge  of  the  knowledge 
doled  out  at  home, — a  wonderfully  coordinated  machinery.  But 
one  department  had  been  contemned  and  neglected.  There  was 
no  specialist  in  human  souls.  Kultur  had  not  reckoned  with  the 
great  pulsing  heart  of  humanity;  was  profoundly  ignorant  of  what 
was  in  minds  and  hearts  beyond  the  frontiers  of  Germany.  There 
its  regards  stopped  short,  and  it  taught  men  so.  And  when,  its 
cause  being  questioned,  great  and  famous  professors  were  sum- 
moned to  give  their  verdict,  one  and  all— specialists  in  science, 
philosophy,  history,  theology — testified  in  the  same  blinded, 
heartless,  soulless,  made-to-order  strain.  Great  in  their  own 
narrow  lines,  outside  of  these  their  speech  ranked  with  that  of 
dolts  and  dupes,  for  anything  they  offered  to  clarify  the  situation. 
And  the  world  listened,  amazed.  Kultur  had  made  exposure  of  its 
human  limitations,  and  was  not  ashamed. 

Was  this  scholarship.'^ 

What  then  is  that  thing  scholarship.''  the  real  article,  I  mean, 
not  the  Falstaffian.  To  come  from  negatives  to  the  point,  it  is 
something  that  kultur  has  not  proved  itself  to  be;    human,  not 


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brutal  and  heartless;  the  quality  of  a  gentleman,  not  of  a  bar- 
barian; spiritual,  not  material,  not  even  exclusively  intellectual. 
To  enslave  it  to  these  alien  qualities  lowers  its  mentality  beyond 
its  legitimate  title  to  the  name,  whatever  subtle  and  incisive 
traits  it  may  still  retain.  The  vaunted  specialization  which  is  the 
basis  of  kultur  is,  after  all,  only  a  method,  a  good  method  indeed, 
and  if  ill-directed  or  ill-inspired,  its  undeniably  good  elements  of 
singleness,  thoroughness,  patience,  may  but  aggravate  its  poten- 
tial evil ;  and  all  the  more — how  unspeakably  much  more ! — when 
a  multitude  of  specialties,  like  tame,  docile  domestic  animals,  are 
pooled  together  as  factors  in  one  big  specialty  in  the  interest  of  a 
swollen  and  selfish  ambition.  For  this  not  the  method  itself,  as 
such,  is  to  blame,  or  inimical  to  scholarship.  We  need  not  go  far 
to  find  that  scholarship  may  burgeon  and  bear  rich  fruit  in  the 
intensive,  limited  culture  plot  of  a  specialty;  but  there  are  the 
air  and  rain  and  sunshine  of  heaven  to  reckon  with,  and  not  less 
the  fragrant,  friendly  human  soil  in  which  the  specialty  is  rooted. 
For  real  scholarship  draws  from  the  wells  of  personality;  we  dis- 
cern therein  more  than  the  results  of  a  method,  we  commune 
with  the  heart  of  a  man. 

This  brings  us  to  the  inner  secret  of  the  matter.  Up  against  its 
antagonist  of  complex  humanity  kultur,  with  all  its  spying  and 
prying,  with  all  its  wooden  intellectualism,  knew  only  what  it 
wanted  to  know;  to  it  had  come  the  nemesis  noted  by  Tennyson 
of  knowledge  as  detached  from  its  guiding  mentor  wisdom: 
"But  on  her  forehead  sits  a  fire: 

She  sets  her  forward  countenance 
And  leaps  into  the  future  chance. 
Submitting  all  things  to  desire." 

And  on  top  of  this  precipitate  "doing  the  desires  of  the  flesh  and 
of  the  mind"  (as  an  apostle  puts  it)  kultur  knew  only  what  it 
was  big  enough  to  know;  the  measure  with  which  it  metes  is 
measured  to  it  again, — and  beyond  its  lean,  restricted  ken  rises 
up  undiscovered  the  great  human  heart  of  the  world.  Shall  we 
not,  then,  draw  this  homely  conclusion:  It  is  the  privilege  of  the 
scholar,  and  therefore  his  duty,  to  be  bigger  than  his  job.'*  In- 
stances are  not  wanting  to  show  what  I  mean.  It  was  my  good 
fortune — albeit  sad — recently  to  look  over  the  body  of  thoughtful 


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notes  that  our  late  Professor  Morse  left  at  his  untimely  death, — 
a  death  no  doubt  hastened  by  his  deep  concern  for  the  issues  of 
the  war.  At  the  time  of  his  death  our  Government,  encountering 
ever  surer  manifestations  of  German  perfidy,  was  still  striving  to 
maintain  an  impossible  neutrality,  and  Russia  had  not  yet  shaken 
off  her  incubus  of  Czarism;  but  as  I  read  onward  through  the  ripe 
though  roughly  drafted  notes,  all  at  once  the  thought  impressed 
me,  "Here  is  scholarship — and  how  shall  I  define  it?"  A  sane, 
fair,  balanced,  dispassionate  though  keenly  sympathetic  mastery 
of  ideas.  All  who  had  known  Professor  Morse  would  have  no 
doubt  what  his  mind  would  be.  More  recently  I  read  the  posthu- 
mous essays  of  Prof.  Josiah  Royce,  whose  death  occurred  later 
in  the  same  year,  in  a  small  volume  entitled  "The  Hope  of  the 
Great  Community."  The  volume  is  prophetic,  though  the  essays 
are  professedly  "founded  upon  no  foresight  of  the  course  which 
the  world's  political  and  military  fortunes  are  to  follow," — not 
the  airing  of  a  specialty  but  the  fruitage  of  a  ripened  scholarship. 
And  here  again  my  sense  of  what  scholarship  essentially  is  was 
clarified.  These  two  men — two  cited  from  a  noble  company — 
were  always  bigger  than  their  job;  and  when  the  job  itself  grew 
bigger,  grew  well-nigh  overwhelming,  they  were  there  to  meet  and 
master  it. 

But  these  and  their  elderly  compeers  were  not  alone.  When 
the  shock  of  war  came,  and  especially  when  our  nation  was  drawn 
into  it,  one  would  look  in  vain  in  our  colleges  for  empty-minded, 
evading  Falstaffs.  In  a  trice,  we  may  say,  the  period  of  youthful 
larks  and  levities  disappeared,  and  with  the  same  abounding  spirit 
that  had  given  zest  to  these,  our  young  men  leaped  to  range  them- 
selves with  the  great  issues  before  them.  Though  for  the  time 
being  they  must  shift  their  specialties  to  the  requirements  and 
exactions  of  war,  yet  they  responded  in  no  myopic  narrowness  of 
spirit;  to  them  too  had  come  the  vision  of  true  scholarship,  that 
the  scholar  must  be  bigger  than  his  job.  And  so  their  impulse  too 
was  prophetic;  for  the  new -formed  scholarship,  unearthing  and 
correcting  the  faults  of  a  soulless  kultur,  has  its  mighty  problem 
and  task,  to  which  all  its  vision  and  power  and  faith  and  stead- 
fastness must  be  applied.  An  ancient  king,  summing  up  in  song 
the  avails  of  his  numerous  wars,  testified,  "He  brought  me  forth 


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also  into  a  large  place."  Our  destined  large  place  is  opening  with 
every  stroke  of  luminous  or  baffling  event;  and  there  must  be  the 
large  mind  to  occupy  and  subdue  it.  It  is  a  tremendous  claim 
upon  us,  God-given,  humanity-given,  to  live  and  think  in  these 
days. 


THE  KAISER  SOLILOQUIZES 

TRUMBULL   WHITE 

Three  years  ago  Mr.  White  sent  me  this  soliloquy,  which  by  some  mystic  faculty 
he  in  common  with  a  startled  world  seemed  to  have  overheard.  Subsequent  reve- 
lations of  the  Kaiser's  mind,  when  he  was  not  posing  for  effect,  have  not  belied 
its  vainglorious  tone.  A  quite  recent  utterance  of  his,  however,  though  still  in 
camouflage,  is  not  quite  so  self-inflated,  and  indeed  seems  trying  to  shirk  the  enor- 
mous responsibility.  On  a  visit  to  a  battlefield  near  Cambrai,  as  a  German  war 
correspondent  relates,  "His  Majesty's  silence  was  broken  only  once,  when  he 
remarked  to  an  officer  who  stood  beside  him,  '  What  have  I  not  done  to  preserve 
the  world  from  these  horrors?  '  "     One  word  answers  him,  "  Anything." — Editor. 


I 


T  was  for  me — for  this  great  day  of  mine 
That  Greek  Prometheus,  mortal,  dared  the  gods 
And  stole  an  ember  from  the  Olympian  hearth. 
All  down  the  ages,  little  creatures,  men. 
Mere  mortals  all,  have  built  their  petty  shame 
On  the  white  ashes  of  some  casual  fire. 
Writers  still  prate  of  the  ambitious  youth 
Who  fired  the  Ephesian  dome.     Cheap  infamy! 
The  flames  that  burned  the  Alexandrine  books 
Are  still  remembered  in  the  bookish  world. 
And  Nero!     He  who  burned  but  one  poor  town — 
And  that  his  own — lives  in  world  memory 
Because  he  fiddled  while  the  fire  swept  Rome. 
Poor  triflers  all,  mere  weaklings  of  a  day! 
Lost  is  their  place  forever  on  history's  page. 
They  were  but  mortals — I  shall  stand  with  gods! 
With  my  own  torch  I  set  the  world  on  fire! 


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AMHERST  AND  THE  NEW  EDUCATION 

Alfred  E.  Stearns 

IT  is  inconceivable  that  Amherst  men  should  remain  indiffer- 
ent to  the  assaults  that  are  being  made  so  persistently  against 
what  is  commonly  termed  the  "old  education."  The  Mod- 
ern School  and  the  Amherst  of  Seelye  are  as  far  apart  as  the 
poles.  The  utilitarianism  of  Mr.  Flexner  and  his  kind  is  the 
avowed  enemy  of  the  idealism  of  Garman.  No  Amherst  man  of 
recent  years  who  has  imbibed  anything  of  the  spirit  of  Amherst's 
great  leaders  can  stand  idly  by  while  this  conflict  rages  in  the 
educational  world.  To  do  so  is  to  play  the  traitor  to  the  ideals 
of  the  college  he  loves  and  from  which  he  has  received  his  invalu- 
able training  and  his  finest  inspirations.  If  the  modernists  are  to 
have  their  way  the  ideals  that  have  come  to  mean  so  much  to 
many  of  us  are  doomed. 

To  the  thoughtful  student  of  education  there  are  many  features 
of  the  modern  scheme  that  will  be  found  to  conflict  sharply  with 
the  Amherst  ideal.  But  even  to  the  layman  several  pronounced 
divergencies  are  at  once  apparent.  Let  us  note  briefly  what  some 
of  these  are. 

In  two  respects  at  least  the  differences  are  so  radical  as  to  offer 
no  ground  for  dispute.  First:  The  modern  scheme  of  education 
denies  with  emphasis  not  only  the  value  but  the  very  existence  of 
mental  discipline.  Second:  The  modern  scheme  is  avowedly 
materialistic  and  utilitarian.  The  utterances  of  the  modernists, 
spoken  and  written,  are  in  full  accord  on  these  two  essential  points. 
Hard  work  per  se  can  have  no  value  save  as  applied  to  a  specific 
task;  for  mental  discipline  resulting  therefrom  is  merely  a  delu- 
sion, and  mental  power  secured  in  this  way  cannot  be  transferred 
to  other  subjects  or  activities.  And  the  aim  of  the  new  education 
on  the  admission  of  its  advocates  is  to  "serve  a  useful  purpose" 
in  a  practical  world.  Surely  there  is  little  room  for  the  Amherst 
ideal  in  such  a  scheme  of  education  as  this. 

We  need  touch  but  briefly  on  this  question  of  the  value  of 
hard  work,  often  disagreeable,  and  the  reality  of  mental  training. 


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It  has  been  much  discussed  already.  Those  who,  through  per- 
sistent and  hard  mental  effort  in  school  and  college  days,  have 
experienced  in  their  own  lives  the  power  that  has  been  given 
them  to  grapple  with  life's  hardest  problems,  will  not  be  much 
impressed  with  the  school-room  charts  of  self-appointed  peda- 
gogical experts  presuming  to  show  that  mental  discipline  is  a 
myth  and  the  transfer  of  mental  power  an  impossibility.  Against 
the  complacent  utterances  of  these  "experts"  we  prefer  to  place 
the  testimony  of  the  greatest  thinkers  of  all  ages  and  the  humble 
confidence  in  our  own  experience  which  give  this  testimony  the 
lie.  Hard  work  in  any  line  has  better  fitted  us  to  meet  life's  per- 
plexing problems.  Sustained  mental  effort  on  any  given  subject 
has  enabled  us  to  grapple  more  courageously  in  law,  in  business, 
in  politics,  in  science,  with  the  problems  that  can  be  solved  only 
with  the  trained  mind  and  the  sharpened  intellect.  These  are 
facts  that  few  of  us  would  dare  deny. 

As  I  listen  to  the  noisy  clamor  of  the  modernists  demanding 
that  the  test  of  all  education  shall  be  its  practical  value  in  a 
bustling,  materialistic  world,  my  mind  goes  back  to  that  morning 
hour  in  Walker  Hall  where,  day  after  day,  an  eager  class  wrestled 
with  life's  greatest  problems  under  the  wise  and  masterly  guid- 
ance of  Amherst's  greatest  teacher;  where  were  unfolded  to  us 
the  spiritual  values  in  human  life;  where  the  interests  and  activi- 
ties of  the  material  world  were  rated  at  their  true  values.  I  recall 
the  vigorous  denunciation  of  the  supremacy  of  the  purely  practical 
and  utilitarian  in  life;  the  emphasis  on  hard  work  demanded 
alike  of  teacher  and  pupil;  the  challenge  to  young  manhood  to 
exalt  the  spiritual  above  the  physical  and  the  material,  and  to 
point  out  to  those  immersed  in  the  cares  and  activities  of  a  prac- 
tical world  the  road  to  growth  and  life.  I  can  see  that  class  sit- 
ting daily,  and  of  their  own  volition,  long  past  the  scheduled  hour 
of  closing,  treasuring  every  passing  moment  in  the  knowledge 
that  they  were  dealing  with  the  real  values  of  life  and  facing  life's 
supreme  issues.  And  with  little  effort  I  can  imagine  with  what  un- 
concealed scorn  and  pitiless  logic  that  master  mind  would  have 
torn  to  shreds  the  arguments  of  these  insistent  modernists  and 
laid  bare  the  glaring  fallacies  of  their  educational  scheme.  Prac- 
tical.^ There  was  nothing  that  could  be  termed  practical  in  the 
subjects  and  problems  with  which  we  dealt.    It  was  the  abstract. 


Amherst   and   the  New  Education        17S 

not  the  concrete,  that  claimed  our  undivided  attention.  But  un- 
der the  transforming  influences  that  worked  their  spell  upon  us  in 
that  historic  room  it  was  the  abstract  that  became  tangible  and 
real  and  the  concrete  that  took  the  form  of  the  passing  shadow. 
The  eternal  values  of  man's  spiritual  nature, — justice,  honor, 
righteousness,  virtue,  heroism,  truth,  freedom,  and  democracy. 
Can  these  abstract  verities  by  any  turn  of  man's  imagination  be 
regarded  as  of  practical  value  in  a  practical  world?  "Efficiency" 
is  a  favorite  term  with  these  modernists;  and  practical  efficiency, 
by  their  own  admission,  is  what  they  mean.  Can  we  conceive 
that  these  intangible  and  spiritual  entities  are  capable  of  being 
fitted  into  a  materialistic  scheme.^  And  yet  history  records  that 
throughout  man's  long  sojourn  on  this  planet  these  are  the  things 
with  which  man's  mind  has  ever  wrestled;  these  are  the  things 
that  have  always  led  him  onward  and  upward  in  his  struggle  for 
a  richer  and  a  fuller  life;  these  are  the  things  for  which  man 
gladly  dies.  To-day  in  the  gigantic  conflict  that  shakes  the  world 
it  is  these  abstract  and  spiritual  verities  that  inspire  man's  most 
heroic  sacrifice  and  claim  his  supreme  devotion. 

In  the  face  of  these  indisputable  facts  how  can  any  thoughtful 
man  attempt  to  argue  that  education  should  aim  for  and  end  at 
a  practical  goal?  Literature,  art,  music,  philosophy,  and  to  a 
large  degree  history  record  the  achievements  and  the  failures  of 
humanity  as  through  the  ages  it  has  bravely  or  weakly  grappled 
with  the  problems  of  its  spiritual  nature.  And  from  these  records 
through  all  the  passing  years  mankind  has  always  found  its  most 
helpful  lessons,  its  greatest  inspiration.  But  our  modernists 
would  close  the  book  of  history  to  us  save  as  isolated  facts  could 
be  gleaned  from  its  pages  to  serve  a  practical  purpose  and  meet 
the  passing  needs  of  local  conditions  in  an  ever  changing  world. 
Literature,  save  as  in  spots  it  appeals  to  individual  tastes  and 
interests  of  youth,  is  to  be  no  longer  worthy  of  our  thought  and 
study.  A  few  scholars  may  still,  and  doubtless  should,  enjoy  this 
intimate  contact  with  the  master  minds  of  the  ages;  but  why 
burden  with  such  useless  and  unpractical  stuff  the  minds  of  eager 
and  alert  youth  capable  and  desirous  of  building  bridges,  experi- 
menting with  engines,  and  working  with  wireless  telegraphy? 

"Whom  the  gods  would  destroy  they  first  make  mad."  As  one 
studies  the  doctrines  promulgated  by   the   modern  pedagogical 


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expert  one  is  almost  tempted  to  believe  that  an  overruling  Provi- 
dence, righteously  indignant  at  the  conceit  and  selfsufficiency  of 
a  people  immersed  in  material  interests  and  warped  by  the  struggle 
for  a  material  goal,  had  decreed  that  that  people  should  perish. 
Without  vision  no  people  can  survive.  And  we  shall  have  no 
vision,  no  inspiration,  no  goal  worthy  our  effort  as  spiritual  beings 
if  we  accept  this  modern  ideal  and  prostrate  our  institutions  of 
learning  to  the  attainment  of  a  material  goal. 


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THE  AMHERST  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 

MABEL   LOOMIS   TODD 

SOON  after  I  established  the  Mary  Mattoon  Chapter,  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  here  in  Amherst  in  1894, 
it  occurred  to  me  that  this  organization  might  sometime 
found  an  Historical  Society,  with  a  membership  of  both  men  and 
women.  Although  historical  relics  were  very  abundant  in  Am- 
herst, no  special  care  had  been  given  to  their  preservation.  Such 
a  society,  it  seemed  to  me,  might  make  it  possible  to  secure  a 
central  headquarters  jointly  with  the  Chapter,  where  such  early 
objects  could  be  cared  for  and  exhibited.  It  was  not  until  1898, 
however,  that  I  began  a  campaign  of  letter  writing  to  personal 
friends,  in  the  hope  of  securing  the  necessary  funds;  they  gradu- 
ally accumulated  until  its  meeting  of  April  6,  1899,  when  I  re- 
ported my  success  to  the  Chapter.  The  money  amounted  to 
nearly  six  hundred  dollars,  and  the  members  passed  several  enthu- 
siastic votes  of  approval.  The  Daughters  themselves  were  made 
honorary  members  of  the  Society,  and  for  thirteen  or  fourteen 
years  paid  no  dues. 

I  was  greatly  encouraged  by  the  late  Dr.  Herbert  B.  Adams,  of 
Johns  Hopkins  University  (Amherst,  '72),  who  expressed  his 
delight  that  at  last  Amherst  was  to  have  such  an  organization. 
He  said,  "I  have  time  only  to  send  you  my  congratulations  on  the 
prospective  opening  of  the  historical  rooms  in  Amherst.  You  are 
rendering  noble  service  to  the  cause  of  American  history  and  the 
development  of  public  spirit  in  old  Amherst.  It  is  difficult  to 
awaken  the  historical  consciousness  in  any  community,  but  noth- 
ing succeeds  like  succees.  Professor  Droysen,  one  of  the  greatest 
German  historians  in  Berlin  University,  used  to  say  '  the  practical 
significance  of  historical  studies  lies  in  the  fact  that  they,  and  they 
alone,  hold  up  before  the  state,  or  people,  its  own  picture.  Espe- 
cially is  historical  study  the  basis  for  political  improvement  and 
culture.'  " 

Dr.  Adams  sent  a  hundred  dollars  at  once,  several  fine  old 
engravings  of  Lord  Jeffrey  Amherst  and  other  historical  per- 


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sonages,  and  twenty -five  or  thirty  volumes,  thus  starting  the 
Society's  library.  Later  he  came  to  Amherst,  visited  the  rooms, 
and  talked  over  details  with  the  greatest  interest.  During  these 
early  days  the  co-operation  of  Miss  Katharine  Hinsdale,  and  a 
little  later  of  Mrs.  Belle  W.  Churchill  aided  greatly  in  my  some- 
what strenuous  efforts. 

At  last  a  real  beginning  had  been  made  in  the  ell  of  the  so- 
called  old  "Strong  mansion,"  on  Amity  Street.  Mrs.  Emerson, 
who  owned  the  house,  had  told  me  to  make  such  use  of  this  ell  as 
seemed  to  me  best;  so  I  proceeded  at  once  to  tear  out  the  old 
partitions,  putting  the  three  small  rooms,  the  hall  and  stairway, 
all  into  one  large  room.  In  so  doing  the  central  chimney  was  un- 
covered, itself  a  quaint  relic.  It  was  merely  repaired  where  the 
bricks  had  fallen,  and  the  two  ancient  fireplaces  were  restored  to 
their  original  form. 

Dr.  Adams  wrote  again,  "  I  hope  you  will  not  let  your  praise- 
worthy project  rest  until  the  Historical  Society  has  acquired  or 
secured  in  some  quiet  way,  the  Emerson  place,  and  fitted  up  the 
whole  house  with  historical  furniture,  books,  pictures,  etc.  That 
fine  old  home  has  capabilities,  in  some  respects,  superior  to  Mt. 
Vernon  and  the  Deerfield  Museum.  .  .  .  Do  not  despise  small 
beginnings.  I  developed  our  Historical  Museum  here  from  an 
Indian  axe  and  a  white  man's  brickbat  found  at  Joppa,  the  mother 
town  of  Baltimore." 

Mrs.  Amelia  Dickinson  Pope  had  presented  the  Society  with 
two  carved  mantels  from  the  well-known  Washington  Headquar- 
ters in  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey.  Five  or  six  Revolutionary 
bullet  holes  in  the  larger  of  the  two  greatly  enhance  its  historical 
value. 

The  room  was  formally  opened  on  June  5,  1899.  About  fifty 
persons  were  present,  and  the  programme  was  a  brilliant  one, 
concluding  with  a  characteristic  address  by  Mrs.  Julia  Ward  Howe, 
who  repeated  also  her  "Battle  Hymn  of  the  Republic."  Of  this 
occasion  Dr.  Adams  wrote  once  more,  "The  opening  of  the  Mary 
Mattoon  room  was  manifestly  a  success.  .  .  .  Capture  capital 
and  annex  the  Strong  house!  You  will  need  it  all  for  relics  and 
expansion.  You  are  certainly  doing  good  work  for  the  historical 
interests  of  Amherst  and  you  have  my  gratitude  and  hearty  co- 
operation." 


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Among  a  multitude  of  letters  received  at  this  time  was  the  follow- 
ing from  Dr.  Richard  Salter  Storrs  (Amherst  '39) :  "  It  is  a  pleasant 
thing  to  be  borne  in  mind,  that  such  a  society  once  started,  tends 
always  to  expand  and  grow  richer,  by  a  law  as  certain  as  that  which 
evolves  the  oak  out  of  the  acorn.  One  'find'  leads  unexpectedly 
to  another.  Opportunities  occur  that  were  unforeseen.  Friends 
present  themselves  on  whom  one  had  not  counted;  and  not  in- 
frequently popular  interest,  even  rising  to  enthusiasm,  takes  the 
place  of  popular  indifference.  This,  at  least,  has  been  my  experi- 
ence in  connection  with  our  Historical  Society,  and  I  hope  and 
anticipate  that  it  will  be  yours." 

To  make  a  list  of  donors  of  interesting  papers,  books,  furniture, 
and  other  valuable  articles  would  exceed  my  limits  at  this  time. 
The  portraits  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Luke  Sweetser,  bas-reliefs  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  M.  F.  Dickinson,  Sr.,  the  "Old  Pilgrim"  from  Mrs. 
Merrick  Marsh,  an  ancient  colored  print  from  Miss  Eliza  Barton, 
a  famous  old  engraving  of  a  stirring  event  at  Hadley  entitled  "The 
Perils  of  Our  Forefathers"  given  by  George  A.  Plimpton  (Amherst, 
'76),  a  flaxwheel  by  Mrs.  Lyman  Abbott,  a  flip  mug  and  iron  by 
Mrs.  Alice  Ward  Bailey,  who  also  helped  in  many  other  practical 
ways,  the  cradle  in  which  Helen  Hunt  was  rocked  as  a  baby,  and 
arrow  heads  and  bits  of  ancient  crockery — curious  Indian  relics — 
given  by  President  Harris  (Amherst  '76)  and  Dr.  Edward  Hitch- 
cock (Amherst  '49) :  these  are  only  a  few.  A  vast  quantity  of  china, 
pewter,  tall  combs,  army  caps,  old  bonnets  and  other  curios  of 
Revolutionary  and  pre-Revolutionary  times  completely  filled  the 
room.  Several  luxurious  books  from  Mr.  William  K.  Bixby,  the 
St.  Louis  bibliophile,  of  especial  interest  in  American  history, 
added  a  sumptuous  note. 

A  tea  was  given  November  4,  1899,  at  which  it  was  voted  to  in- 
corporate the  Historical  Society,  and  on  January  1,  1900,  the  books 
of  Mary  Mattoon  Chapter  and  the  Amherst  Historical  Society 
were  separated. 

M.  F.  Dickinson,  Esq.,  (Amherst,  '63)  of  Boston,  for  many 
years  our  well-beloved  vice  president,  had  the  Society  duly  in- 
corporated, so  that  it  was  officially  empowered  to  receive  gifts 
and  hold  property.  He  also  gave  several  delightful  talks  on 
old  days  in  Amherst,  with  recollections  of  his  ancestors  and 
friends,  inviting  the  Society  and  its  members  to  a  meeting  at  his 


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family  homestead,  "Mark's  Meadow,"  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
town. 

Meanwhile  Mrs.  Emerson  had  died;  her  daughter,  Miss  Laura, 
also,  who  left  her  share  of  the  house  to  the  Society.  Soon  after, 
another  daughter,  Mrs.  Alma  Miller  died,  leaving  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Felicia  E.  Welch,  the  only  remaining  owner  and  the  sole  surviving 
representative  of  her  family.  She  had  written  me  in  strict  confi- 
dence that  the  house  should  be  given  us  at  her  death^ — ^an  added 
impetus  to  further  effort. 

All  this  time  the  Society  had  labored  under  the  disadvantage 
of  headquarters  far  too  small  for  adequate  exhibition  of  its  in- 
creasing wealth  in  relics,  and  an  income  insufficient  to  carry  out 
its  ideas.  But  the  numerous  talks  from  distinguished  personal 
friends  provided  excellent  programmes  from  year  to  year,  and 
Colonel  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson  wrote  ".  .  .  .  These 
local  collections,  such  as  you  are  bringing  together,  are  becoming 
every  day  more  important  and  interesting.  Those  already  to  be 
seen  at  Deerfield  and  at  Ipswich,  for  instance,  are  worth  more 
attention  from  an  American  than  are  half  those  he  would  visit  in 
Europe,  for  they  show  him  at  a  glance  how  his  own  immediate 
ancestors  and  their  fellow  townsmen  lived.  There  are  dozens  of 
quaint  implements,  once  to  be  found  in  every  New  England 
farmhouse,  whose  very  names  are  now  forgotten,  and  their  use 
scarcely  remembered." 

Among  those  who  gave  talks  in  those  early  days  were  Dr. 
Charles  A.  Eastman,  Mr.  John  S.  Clark  of  Boston,  and  Prof.  R. 
P.  Utter;  an  interesting  meeting  for  Lincoln's  birthday  centen- 
nial was  held  in  the  Town  Hall  at  which  President  Butterfield,  of 
the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College,  presided.  The  late  Prof. 
Anson  D.  Morse  (Amherst,  '71),  E.  F.  Leonard,  Esq.,  a  personal 
friend  of  Lincoln,  Professor  Genung,  Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor 
(Amherst,  '67),  Rev.  W.  L.  Anderson,  and  Dr.  Frederick  Tucker- 
man  spoke  with  much  feeling  and  eloquence.  Addresses  were 
given  later  by  H.  L.  Bridgman  (Amherst,  '66)  of  Brooklyn, 
George  W.  Cable,  M.  F.  Dickinson,  Dr.  C.  F.  Branch,  who  also 
gave  us  some  relics  of  Fort  Ticonderoga  upon  which  he  spoke; 
Hon.  Frank  A.  Hosmer  (Amherst,  '75)  and  C.  O.  Parmenter, 
who  read  a  paper  on  General  Lincoln's  pursuit  of  Captain  Daniel 
Shays  from  Hadley  to  Petersham  in  1787. 


The   Amherst   Historical  Society        179 

At  the  150th  anniversary  of  Amherst's  birthday  (1909),  the 
Mary  Mattoon  Chapter  gave  a  boulder  and  bronze  tablet  in- 
scribed to  the  many  services  of  General  Mattoon,  and  the  Society 
held  a  reception  at  the  rooms.  A  meeting  in  memory  of  Mrs. 
Howe,  in  1910,  had  delightful  reminiscences  from  Mr.  W.  I. 
Fletcher  (Amherst  Honorary,  '84),  Mr.  Hosmer,  and  others.  Mr. 
Herbert  S.  Carruth,  Prof.  Robert  J.  Sprague,  Prof.  E.  L.  Ashley, 
Miss  Alice  Longfellow,  Mrs.  Roswell  D.  Hitchcock,  Yamei  Kin, 
M.  D.,  the  first  Chinese  woman  to  receive  a  degree  from  an 
American  college,  John  Baker,  the  Russian  Exile,  and  many 
others  in  more  recent  years  have  also  addressed  the  Society. 

Mr.  Fletcher  was  our  indefatigable  secretary  for  a  long  term  of 
years.  Dr.  Charles  S.  Walker  (Amherst,  Ph.  D.,  '85,)  has  been 
the  worthy  historian,  later  the  secretary,  and  he  has  prepared 
very  full  accounts  of  the  meetings  for  the  Spring'field  Union  and 
the  Boston  Globe.  Mrs.  C.  S.  Walker,  too,  has  written  many  de- 
lightful monographs  upon  Amherst's  early  history.  "Mary  Mat- 
toon and  Her  Hero  of  the  Revolution"  was  compiled  in  a  most 
painstaking  manner  from  original  sources,  reconstructing  our 
heroine  from  scattered  and  unimportant  accounts,  and  her  paper 
on  the  "River  of  Pines"  was  read  to  us  at  an  early  meeting. 

The  late  Mr.  Carruth  twice  entertained  us  in  June  meetings  at 
his  beautiful  home  "Larchwood,"  and  Arthur  H.  Dakin,  Esq. 
(Amherst,  '84),  George  Cutler,  Jr.,  the  efficient  treasurer.  Dr. 
Frederick  Tuckerman,  and  Ernest  M.  Whitcomb  (Amherst,  '04) 
have  given  much  time  and  thought  to  the  Society's  interests. 
The  historical  sites  all  over  the  town  have  been  marked  by  Mr. 
Hosmer,  and  the  Society  exhibited  a  few  of  its  relics  and  photo- 
graphs at  the  St.  Louis  Exposition  in  1904. 

In  the  spring  of  1916  Mrs.  Welch  died,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-seven,  bequeathing  the  house  to  the  Society,  with  much  of 
her  old  furniture  and  three  thousand  dollars  in  money.  So  the 
hope,  almost  the  anticipation,  of  Dr.  Adams,  nearly  twenty  years 
before,  became  an  established  fact.  It  was  determined  that  the 
fund  should  be  kept  intact,  that  its  income  might  be  perpetually 
used  for  the  Society.  The  residuary  legatee  was  Miss  Sabra 
Snell,  and  on  October  1,  1916,  she  turned  the  house  over  to  me,  as 
president  of  the  Society.  I  immediately  wrote  more  than  four 
hundred  letters  to  personal  friends,  alumni  of  the  college,  and 


180        Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 

others  whose  interest  was  sought.  Over  two  thousand  dollars 
were  received  in  response,  many  persons  becoming  life  members. 
With  this  sum  the  renovation  of  the  old  house  was  effected. 

Temporary  modern  partitions  that  had  taken  up  much  space 
were  removed  and  the  rooms  restored  to  their  original  spacious- 
ness. Three  of  the  ancient  fireplaces  were  remade  on  the  old 
lines,  a  furnace  was  put  in  with  registers  inconspicuously  placed, 
electric  lights  were  inserted  in  old  lanterns  (thus  avoiding  all  ap- 
pearance of  newness),  and  a  concession  to  modern  life  was  made 
by  installing  a  bathroom  for  the  convenience  of  future  caretakers. 
The  rooms  were  papered  in  designs  copied  from  the  earliest 
epochs  and  the  old  board  panels  of  wood  were  restored  to  view 
and  painted  in  the  original  cream  color. 

Many  gifts  for  which  the  Society  had  no  place  previously  have 
been  arranged  in  the  house,  among  them  the  fine  bequest  of  old 
mahogany  furniture  from  Mrs.  Louisa  Baker.  A  large  flag  has 
been  presented  by  Dr.  Rawson,  and  some  of  the  ancient  and  very 
interesting  tavern  signs  have  been  put  into  an  upper  room. 

On  the  first  floor,  the  room  at  the  right  on  entering  is  the  library. 
The  drawing  room  in  old  days  at  the  left,  together  with  a  long 
dining  room  adjacent,  is  used  by  the  Society  and  the  Mary  Mat- 
toon  Chapter  for  their  meetings.  On  the  next  floor  the  room  over 
the  drawing  room,  furnished  with  her  high-post  bedstead  and  other 
old  furniture,  is  kept  as  it  was  throughout  Mrs.  Emerson's  life  as 
a  memorial  to  her.  Several  fine  pieces  occupy  the  opposite  cham- 
ber, and  the  large  hall  at  the  back,  above  the  dining  room,  is 
filled  with  cases  of  curios,  portraits,  etc.  A  valuable  collection  is 
also  beginning  in  the  third  story,  together  with  antique  house- 
hold and  kitchen  articles,  and  a  few  foreign  curiosities.  Book- 
cases and  objects  with  distinctively  Amherst  traditions  fill  the 
large  hall  at  the  back. 

A  most  appropriate  gift  has  recently  been  received  from  Mrs. 
Anson  D.  Morse,  in  memory  of  her  husband.  Professor  Morse, 
who  was  vice  president  of  the  Society  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
She  has  provided  funds  for  making  an  old-fashioned  garden,  in 
keeping  with  his  well-known  delight  in  growing  things.  This  gar- 
den was  completed  during  the  spring  and  summer  of  1917,  under 
the  direction  of  Mrs.  Churchill. 

The  funds,  except  the  three  thousand  dollars  which  is  safely  in- 


Amherst  Histokical  Society 
Corner  of  tlic  Lihrai-v 


Till:.  ()uuji.\Ai,  MAuy  Mattoon  Room 


Amherst  Historical  Society 

The  Meeting  Room 

Formerly  the  Dining  Room 


The  Drawing  Room 
Also  used  for  Meetings 


The   Amherst   Historical   Society        181 

vested  by  the  finance  committee,  have  been  exhausted  in  these 
necessary  improvements.  But  altogether  the  Amherst  Historical 
Society,  in  its  twentieth  year  of  life,  has  manifestly  come  to  stay, 
an  increasing  source  of  pride  and  satisfaction,  both  to  Amherst 
residents  and  those  who  claim  descent  from  the  heroic  struggles  of 
Colonial  da  vs. 


182        Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 


AMHERST  IN  WARTIME 

WILLIAM   J.    NEWLIN 

Special  Two- years  Course. — The  most  striking  modification 
of  the  work  at  Amherst  in  the  College's  response  to  wartime  needs 
is  the  introduction  of  the  new  two-years  course  of  study  for 
students  who  are  within  two  years  of  draft  age.  Realizing  that 
such  men  may  not  be  able  to  complete  four  years  at  college  be- 
fore they  are  called,  they  are  to  be  allowed  to  elect  at  will  from  the 
curriculum  of  the  college  such  courses  as  will  be  most  desirable 
and  helpful  to  make  up  a  satisfactory  combination  during  their 
stay  at  Amherst.  This  will  make  it  possible  for  them  to  get  a 
valuable  section  of  the  college  training  and  instruction,  in  the 
limited  time  at  their  disposal.  Their  choice  of  courses  is  to  be 
supervised  by  regular  advisers  from  the  Faculty,  so  that  the 
choice  may  be  carefully  and  wisely  made.  It  will  be  quite  possi- 
ble for  such  men  at  any  time  to  get  in  line  for  the  regular  A.  B. 
degree  by  completing  the  remainder  of  the  college  requirements, 
which  for  the  moment  are  overlooked  in  their  favor. 

Special  Courses  in  the  Curriculum  of  a  Military  Impor- 
tance : — 

1 — Dean  Olds,  of  the  Department  of  Mathematics,  is  giving  a 
special  course  in  Navigation  for  those  who  anticipate  Naval 
service. 

2 — A  course  is  given  in  Topographical  Drawing,  with  special 
attention  paid  to  military  map  making,  and  practical  exer- 
cises in  the  neighborhood. 

3 — There  is  a  course  in  Radio  work,  which  utilizes  the  valuable 
equipment  of  the  Physics  Laboratory  in  giving  the  students 
a  thorough  knowledge,  theoretical  and  practical,  of  wireless 
signalling. 

4 — In  the  Biological  Department  a  course  in  Bacteriology  is  of 
great  value  to  those  anticipating  service  in  the  Sanitary 
Division. 

5 — The  Department  of  Chemistry  is  engaged  in  research  work 


Amherst    in    War    Time  183 

for  the   Government,   and   offers   valuable   opportunities   for 
training  along  these  lines. 

6 — There  is  a  short  course  in  the  theory,  mechanical  details,  and 
operation  of  gasoline  and  oil  motors,  special  attention  being 
paid  to  the  air-plane  type. 

7 — Courses  in  History,  Economics,  and  Political  Theory  are  of 
special  importance  in  such  times  as  these,  and  are  shaped  to 
be  of  the  greatest  value  in  helping  the  future  leaders  to  meet 
with  intelligence  the  problems  facing  them. 

General  Military  Training: — In  addition  to  the  above  special 
features  there  is  an  Infantry  Unit  of  the  regular  R.  O.  T.  C,  where 
the  usual  training  afforded  in  such  a  course  is  carried  on,  under 
the  supervision  of  Colonel  Richard  H.  Wilson  of  the  Regular 
Army,  and  Major  Frank  C.  Damon  of  the  M.  V.  M. 

These  items  will  suggest  something  of  the  Amherst  Spirit  in 
its  response  to  the  call  of  the  country.  Education  is  an  im- 
portant item  of  equipment  for  the  soldier,  and  much  more  so  for 
the  soldiers'  leaders.  In  promoting  the  best  type  of  education 
in  the  best  way  possible  for  it,  Amherst  believes  it  is  rendering 
a  real  and  valuable  service  to  the  Country  in  this  time  of  need. 


184       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 


WHAT  ARE  WE  FIGHTING  FOR? 

WALTER  A.    DYER 

IS  it  for  justice  or  for  revenge?  Is  it  to  punish  a  national 
criminal  or  to  gain  for  perplexed  and  blundering  humanity 
a  clearer  vision  of  the  aim  and  purpose  of  human  life  and 
endeavor,  to  establish  human  ethics  on  a  firmer  foundation? 

It  can  scarcely  be  both,  for  they  are  as  antagonistic  as  oil  and 
water.     No  man  can  serve  two  masters. 

We  are  fighting,  but  how  can  we  fight  to  the  best  purpose  if 
we  are  not  in  complete  agreement  as  to  what  we  are  fighting  for? 
Ask  a  dozen  soldiers,  or  men  of  affairs,  or  women  at  home  what 
we  are  fighting  for,  and  you  will  receive  no  two  answers  alike; 
most  of  them  will  betray  a  sadly  muddled  logic. 

We  hear  a  good  deal  about  mixed  motives,  but  this  is  no  time 
for  mixed  motives.  They  lead  us  constantly  away  from  the  main 
issue,  to  flounder  among  pitfalls  of  misunderstanding  and  uncer- 
tainty. Only  a  clear  definition  of  motive,  based  on  universal  and 
fundamental  truth,  can  serve  us  now.  Not  otherwise  can  we 
hope  to  deal  wisely  and  effectively  with  such  problems  as  those 
presented  by  the  situation  in  Russia.  We  must  school  ourselves 
to  distinguish  between  expediency  and  righteousness.  Which 
shall  we  follow  now?  Which  shall  we  choose  as  the  guiding 
principle  of  life  for  the  future? 

Honesty,  consistency,  and  unassailable  principles  are  essential 
in  this  fight.  The  doctrine  of  righteousness  has  ceased  to  be 
pedantic  and  academic;  it  has  become  practical  and  potent.  Are 
we  prepared  to  adopt  it  or  repudiate  it?  We  must  do  one  thing 
or  the  other.  We  must  for  once  be  honest  with  ourselves.  We 
must  know  what  we  are  fighting  for;  that  issue  is  no  longer  to 
be  evaded.  Nor  can  one  hope  to  exist  as  a  crusader  one  moment 
and  a  savage  the  next,  now  that  the  ways  of  men  are  being  sub- 
jected to  the  searching  light  of  moral  criticism. 

To  fight  for  revenge  or  to  inflict  punishment  is  to  yield  to  an 
impulse  scarcely  more  lofty  than  that  of  ruthless  self-interest, 
which  has  plunged  the  world  into  war. 


What    Are    We    Fighting    For?  185 

To  fight  for  democracy  and  justice  is  to  take  an  irrevocable 
stand  for  the  progressive,  noble,  permanent,  God-given  elements 
of  life  and  human  evolution. 

There  are  persons  who  beg  us  to  talk  less  about  democracy  and 
more  about  murdered  babies,  that  we  may  fire  the  spirit  of  the 
nation  and  enlist  it  to  its  fullest  strength.  But  in  the  last  analysis 
we  are  fighting  for  democracy  and  justice,  and  it  is  our  duty  to 
make  all  people  see  what  justice  and  democracy  mean.  They 
can  be  made  as  immediate  and  definite  a  cause  for  fighting  as  a 
blow  below  the  belt,  if  it  can  only  be  demonstrated  how  vitally 
and  fundamentally  these  principles  affect  our  lives,  individually 
and  collectively.  Slain  babies  will  not  ruin  the  human  race;  a 
slain  morality  will. 

Truth,  justice,  democracy  are  terms  which  bewilder  many 
minds  by  reason  of  their  abstract  and  seemingly  bloodless  char- 
acter. But  they  form  the  only  solid  ground  upon  which  we  may 
safely  set  our  feet.  If  they  are  but  vaguely  understood,  then  it 
remains  for  thinking  men,  for  philosophers  if  you  please,  to  clarify 
and  vitalize  them. 

We  are  fighting  for  justice,  to  make  the  world  safe  for  democ- 
racy, to  settle  for  all  time  the  question  whether  governments 
and  codes  and  the  organization  of  society  shall  or  shall  not  rest 
on  a  foundation  of  democratic  principles.  A  world-wide  solution 
of  the  problem  has  been  forced  upon  us  by  the  universal  growth 
of  civilization.  Hereafter  can  mankind  count  on  obtaining  indi- 
vidual and  collective  justice  or  not?  It  is  not  going  to  be  a  matter 
of  doubt  any  longer;  it  must  be  settled  one  way  or  the  other. 

We  are  fighting  to  insure  the  establishment  of  these  ideals  and 
principles  as  universal  laws  for  the  guidance  and  protection  of 
mankind.  More  precisely,  we  went  to  war  to  prevent  Germany 
from  establishing  and  spreading  opposing,  antagonistic  doctrines. 
We  perceived  at  last  the  imminent  danger  that  such  an  establish- 
ment would  be  permanent,  progressive,  overwhelming.  Does  not 
this  menace  offer  a  casus  belli  at  once  fundamental  and  all-era- 
bracing,  vital  and  concrete?  Can  we  any  longer  look  upon  our 
principles  of  democracy  and  justice  as  mere  subjects  for  debate? 
Have  they  not  become  something  to  fight  and  die  for? 

Democracy  is  not  merely  a  form  of  government;  it  is  a  principle 
of  human  relationship  which  we  have  been  striving  to  comprehend 


186   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

since  man  first  had  dealings  with  man.  Christ  sought  to  teach 
democracy,  and  Christ's  teachings  are  still  but  dimly  understood. 
Democracy  means  fair  dealing,  common  and  complete  integrity, 
the  brotherhood  of  man. 

It  is  proper  to  take  cognizance  of  German  atrocities  and  crimes 
against  mankind  and  that  our  souls  be  stirred  thereby,  not  that 
we  may  seek  revenge,  but  that  we  may  appreciate  more  fully  the 
seriousness  of  the  German  menace.  They  are  concrete  evidences 
of  the  fact  that  Germany  is  the  great,  militant  enemy  of  democracy 
and  justice.  That  enemy  must  be  fought  and  beaten  by  the  forces 
of  democracy,  not  merely  that  certain  forms  of  government  may 
not  perish  from  the  earth,  but  that  we  may  save  from  annihila- 
tion those  fundamental  principles  of  life  and  ethics  without  which 
life  has  no  meaning,  is  not  worth  the  living.  And  it  will  require 
all  the  forces  of  democracy  to  accomplish  it. 

We  have  come,  in  short,  to  the  parting  of  the  ways.  It  is  no 
longer  permitted  us  indolently  to  close  our  eyes  to  truth.  We 
must  choose  between  the  two  mighty  principles  of  concrete  self- 
interest  and  abstract  justice. 

It  is  a  time  for  clear  thinking,  straight  thinking,  honest  think- 
ing. It  is  a  time  for  the  clarifying  and  crystalizing  of  ideals  and 
principles.  It  is  a  time  when  moral  and  intellectual  leadership  is 
as  sorely  needed  as  military  and  political  leadership.  The  people 
must  get  back  of  this  war  with  all  their  individual  and  collective 
power.  Still  groping  in  the  twilight  of  half-understanding,  they 
need  teachers  whose  doctrines  are  substantially  grounded  on  con- 
viction and  thorough  comprehension.  The  call  is  sounded  for  all 
the  intellect  and  idealism  the  American  people  can  muster.  Power 
and  efficiency  are  needed  not  more  than  vision,  for  where  there 
is  no  vision  the  people  perish. 

There  never  was  a  time,  in  fine,  when  a  greater  responsibility 
rested  on  the  shoulders  of  the  educated  man,  the  college  man, 
the  man  trained  to  think,  to  reason,  to  reach  judgments  based 
not  upon  impulse  but  upon  an  examination  of  all  the  evidence. 
From  our  colleges  there  should  stream  forth  a  light  that  will 
guide  the  people  in  their  sore  distress,  that  will  cast  a  clear  illumi- 
nation upon  those  things  for  which  we  are  fighting,  and  so  solidify 
our  resolve  and  our  unity.     Terras  irradient! 


Roger  Coxaxt  Perkins 


Amherst's   First   Sacrifice   to   War      187 

Cl^e  ^ml^er^t  Commemoratii^e 

AMHERST'S  FIRST  SACRIFICE  TO  WAR 

ROGER  CON  ANT  PERKINS,  '17,  the  first  Amherst  under- 
graduate to  fall  in  the  service,  lost  his  life  in  a  hydro- 
plane accident  while  training  for  Naval  Aviation  at  Key 
West,  Florida.  He  was  taking  his  3000-foot  test,  and  had  been 
out  about  twenty  minutes  when  his  machine  was  seen  falling 
from  a  height  of  500  feet.  Planes  and  boats  rushed  to  the  spot 
where  it  struck  the  water,  but  the  young  aviator  was  already 
dead  when  they  reached  him.  He  had  probably  been  killed 
instantly. 

Perkins  was  among  the  first  of  those  in  college  to  enlist  after 
the  declaration  of  war.  He  entered  the  Naval  Reserve,  and  after 
a  few  brief  assignments,  spent  several  months  in  the  Brooklyn 
Navy  Yards  on  board  the  Adroit,  a  converted  pleasure  yacht. 
He  transferred  to  Naval  Aviation  in  November  and  entered  the 
ground  school  at  M.  I.  T.,  Cambridge,  Mass.  There  were  one 
hundred  and  twenty  men  in  his  class.  Of  these,  ninety  completed 
the  course,  Perkins  standing  second  with  an  average  of  over  99%. 
He  was  sent  to  the  flying  school  at  Key  West,  Fla,,  the  second 
week  in  February,  and  had  made  rapid  progress  in  his  training 
there. 

Perkins  played  a  prominent  part  in  undergraduate  activities 
while  in  college.  He  was  defender  of  the  flag  during  the  flag  rush 
in  his  sophomore  year.  He  won  a  'varsity  letter  as  quarter-back  of 
the  1916  football  team,  was  manager  of  the  baseball  team  and  a 
member  of  Scarab.  He  was  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  his 
class.  Phi  Kappa  Psi  was  his  fraternity.  He  was  twenty-two 
years  old. 

An  older  brother,  C.  K.  Perkins,  '12,  is  in  Army  Aviation  in 
France.  His  father  is  Rev.  S.  K.  Perkins,  '77,  of  Manchester, 
Vt.  His  mother  and  two  sisters,  Jane  and  Ruth,  also  survive 
him.  The  following  editorial,  under  title  of  "The  First  Sacrifice," 
appeared  in  The  Amherst  Student,  March  18th: — 

We  have  had  occasion  at  various  times  throughout  the  year 
to  point  out  how  the  war  was  gradually  coming  closer  and  closer 
to  us  in  our  sheltered  college  life.     Last  week,  at  one  bound,  it 


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placed  itself  squarely  in  our  midst,  with  an  emphasis  which  will 
be  lasting. 

The  incident  which  linked  the  war  definitely  with  the  college, 
also  put  the  first  name  on  the  Roll  of  Honor  of  last  year's  under- 
graduates killed  in  the  service.  We  knew  that  some  time  this  roll 
must  start,  but  kept  persuading  ourselves  that  it  would  be  still 
far  in  the  future.  Hence  we  have  our  first  personal  and  intimate 
knowledge  of  the  paralyzing  uncertainty  of  war  and  of  the  great 
sacrifices  it  demands. 

Of  the  details  of  Roger  Perkins'  death  we  know  little,  except 
that  it  was  in  an  aeroplane  accident.  Of  his  life  as  a  student,  how- 
ever, we  can  certainly  say  that  it  was  a  brilliant  success  and  that 
the  enviable  record  he  made  here  led  us  all  to  expect  great  things 
of  him  in  the  service  and  elsewhere.  These  expectations  he  was 
amply  fulfilling  when  an  accident  cut  short  his  promising  career 
just  as  he  was  about  to  receive  his  commission. 

Those  who  knew  "Rog"  feel  a  keen  sense  of  personal  loss,  and 
the  whole  college  is  shaken  by  this  first  death.  We  feel  the  abso- 
lute uselessness  of  trying  to  find  words  to  express  our  feelings. 
All  we  can  say  is  that  this  first  Amherst  boy  to  make  the  great 
sacrifice  was  the  very  embodiment  of  the  hopes  and  ideals  of  the 
college  and,  as  such,  can  ill  be  spared  by  his  family,  friends,  or 
the  world  at  large. 

All  honor  to  Roger  Perkins,  first  to  die,  as  he  was  also  one  of 
the  first  to  enlist.  His  spirit  and  example  still  remain  as  an  in- 
spiration to  us  all  and  the  name  he  made  for  himself  in  college, 
coupled  with  the  manner  of  his  death,  will  unite  to  give  him  an 
enviable  place  among  Amherst's  sons. 

A  note  of  sympathy  from  the  classmates  of  his  father  will  be 
found  among  the  class  notes  of  1877. 


THE 

Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Published  by  THE  ALUMNI   COUNCIL  OF  AMHERST  COLLEGE 

John  Franklin  Genung,  Editor 

Associate  Editors,  Waltek  A.  Dteb  '00,  John  B.  O'Brien  '05 

Publication  Committee 
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under  the  Act  of  March  3,  1879. 


EDITORIAL  NOTES 

FOR  the  frontispiece  to  this  number  of  the  Quarterly  we 
present  to  our  readers  a  picture  of  the  new  Chi  Phi  house 
on  College  Street,  the  latest  fraternity  house  of  the  half 
dozen  that  have  been  erected  in  the  last  five  or  six  years.  We 
have  delayed  publishing  the  view  until  we  could  present  it  not  as 
it  appears  in  the  architect's  drawing  but  as  its  grounds  and  sur- 
roundings contribute  to  set  it  off.  The  architect  is  Mr.  Cox,  of 
the  Boston  architectural  firm  of  Putnam  and  Cox,  the  same  who 
designed  the  four  other  ones  near  by,  the  Psi  Upsilon,  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta,  the  Beta  Theta  Pi,  and  the  Delta  Upsilon.  In  the  erection 
of  this  house  he  has  well  availed  himself  of  the  experience  gained 
in  designing  the  others,  an  experience  in  which,  as  he  says,  like 
every  scholarly  man,  "he  has  learned  many  new  things  with  every 
new  job."  The  other  houses  were  designed  with  artistic  reference 
to  each  other  and  to  their  situation  on  or  near  the  Common, — 
all  in  a  harmonious  and  homogeneous  relation,  though  with  varia- 
tions suited  to  the  tastes  and  desires  of  each  fraternity.  In  the 
present  house,  somewhat  removed  from  the  others  and  with  dif- 
ferent outlook,  the  architect  desired  something  "different." 
Hence  the  present  comely  structure  in  pure  Georgian  style,  and 
with  charmingly  convenient  interior  for  a  collegian's  home. 


190   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

IN  spite  of  the  war,  and  partly  because  of  it,  Amherst  still  has 
her  educational  problems.  The  proponents  of  materialistic, 
utilitarian  types  of  education  ("made  in  Germany,"  by  the 
way),  emphasizing  vocational  training,  have  been  gaining  ground 
of  late.  A  sort  of  Teutonic  educational  cult  has  grown  up  in  the 
environment  of  such  centers  as  Milwaukee  and  Cincinnati.  Amer- 
icans must  be  on  their  guard  against  this,  as  against  all  things  of 
that  ilk.  Though  the  drive  has  been  directed  chiefly  against  sec- 
ondary schools,  its  influence  will  sooner  or  later  reach  upward  to 
the  colleges.  The  time  may  conceivably  arrive  when  there  will 
be  few  public  high  schools  that  prepare  students  for  such  colleges 
of  general  culture  as  Amherst.  Shall  we  fight  this  tendency,  or 
bend  to  it?  It  is  not  merely  a  question  of  more  or  less  Latin  or 
Greek;  the  whole  theory  of  higher  education  is  involved. 

Let  us  have  free  discussion  of  these  things.  The  debate  is 
opened  by  Al.  Stearns  in  this  issue  of  the  Quarterly.  We  recom- 
mend a  thoughtful  perusal  of  his  article. 

RECENTLY  compiled  figures  show  a  decrease  in  attendance 
in  every  college  in  the  country,  due  to  war  conditions, 
ranging  from  eight  per  cent,  at  DePauw  to  forty  per 
cent,  at  Harvard,  Princeton,  Tulane,  and  William  &  Mary. 
Amherst's  contribution  to  the  American  man-power  is  somewhat 
above  the  average,  or  approximately  thirty  per  cent,  of  her  former 
enrollment. 

Amherst  College  is  confronted  with  an  operating  deficit  almost 
exactly  equal  to  the  decrease  in  tuition  fees.  If  the  alumni  make 
good  this  deficit  they  will  be  paying  the  expenses  incurred  by  the 
college  in  sending  its  manhood  to  war.  The  connection  is  too 
marked  to  be  overlooked,  and  we  have  every  confidence  that  the 
alumni  will  respond  to  the  call  recently  sent  out  by  the  Alumni 
Council  and  wipe  out  the  deficit. 

WHEN  you  stop  to  think  of  it,  it  is  extraordinary  what 
trust  we  place  in  words  in  view  of  the  fact  that  words 
are  constantly  proving  themselves  to  be  fickle  and  unre- 
liable. Hopefully  we  send  forth  carefully  selected  words  in  order 
to  make  clear  our  motives  and  aims  to  the  world,  knowing  full 


Editorial   Notes  191 

well  that  many  words  are  mere  turn-coats,  able  to  argue  on  either 
side  of  a  question  or  to  turn  state's  evidence  altogether. 

Take  the  word  class,  for  example.  In  its  sociological  sense  it  is 
a  hateful  word.  It  connotes  the  things  we  have  been  struggling 
against  for  twenty  centuries — caste,  coercion,  privilege,  injustice. 
In  democratic  America  there  should  be  a  censorship  upon  such 
perversive  and  reactionary  terms  as  "intellectual  class,"  "gov- 
erning class,"  "working  class,"  "leisure  class."  An  end  to 
class ! 

But  let  the  word  class  disappear  for  a  moment  in  the  wings 
and  reappear  miraculously  re-costumed  in  its  collegiate  garb. 
What  a  transformation!  Fraternity  stands  where  tyranny  stood, 
and  class  means  nothing  but  sincerity,  fellowship,  fair  dealing. 
What  could  be  more  democratic  than  a  college  class?  For  it  is 
an  artificial  grouping  of  men  irrespective  of  caste.  In  its  formation 
and  amalgamation  vexed  questions  of  priority  have  no  place. 

To  the  freshman  the  class  presents  a  clean  sheet  whereon  to 
write  his  name.  Here  is  a  fair  field  and  no  favor,  honor  to  be  won 
by  merit  and  no  otherwise,  the  battle  of  the  strong  and  the  race 
of  the  swift.  In  our  alumni  classes  we  have  millionaires  and  con- 
gressmen, we  have  poor  teachers  and  preachers  and  scribblers. 
Think  of  the  most  loved  and  the  most  honored;  has  occupation, 
fortune,  or  station  anything  whatever  to  do  with  it.'* 

This  is  democracy,  and  fortunate  are  we  who  have  inherited  its 
traditions.  Long  live  the  class,  in  its  collegiate  sense.  And  may 
its  creed  enlighten  the  world. 


OUR  fair  neighbors  across  the  river  have  a  new  president 
who  has  been  acquiring  a  reputation  for  wit  and  humor, 
among  other  estimable  qualities.    The  following  anecdote, 
clipped  from  a  daily  paper,  will,  we  fancy,  delight  the  average 
Amherst  man: 

President  Neilson,  of  Smith  College,  whose  humor  is  much 
enjoyed  by  the  young  women  of  that  institution,  has  recently  told 
of  an  amusing  experience  which  he  had  when  returning  home  from 
a  speech-making  trip.  While  in  the  observation  car,  he  and  a 
"drummer"  were  trying  to  pass  away  the  time  with  a  chat.  Just 
as  the  train  was  nearing  the  president's  station,  the  "drummer," 


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in  a  final  burst  of  confidence,  said,  "My  line's  skirts;  what's 
yours?"  As  he  picked  up  his  luggage  and  hurried  out,  Dr.  Neilson 
called  back:  "So's  mine." 

NEWS  items  for  insertion  in  the  August  issue  of  the  Quar- 
terly should  be  mailed  before  June  £5,  1918,  to  John  B. 
O'Brien,    309    Washington    Avenue,    Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
Promptness  facilitates  editorial  work.     Letters,  newspaper  clip- 
pings,  business   announcements,   etc.,   giving  information   about 
Amherst  men,  are  solicited. 


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Ci^e  CBoofe  Cable 

1900  and  1910 

Two  Chapters  from  "The  Cambridge  History  of  American  Literature" 
(Early  Essayists  by  George  Frisbie  Whicher,  1910,  and  Transcendentalism  by 
Harold  Clark  Goddard,  1900). 

The  first  of  the  three  volumes  of  the  long  awaited  "Cambridge  History  of 
American  Literature"  has  recently  appeared.  It  is  a  matter  of  special  interest 
to  Amherst  men  that  two  of  the  eighteen  chapters  are  by  members  of  the  classes 
of  1900  and  1910,  and  that  one  of  the  four  general  editors  is  John  Erskine,  who 
also  spent  his  four  years  at  Amherst,  though  as  teacher  rather  than  student. 

The  work  as  a  whole  is  one  of  the  modern  type  of  scholarship — a  vast  editorial 
mosaic,  the  product  of  many  minds  and  methods.  What  such  an  undertaking 
gains  in  authoritative  exactitude  at  every  point  is,  and  must  be,  fully  offset  by 
the  loss  of  synthesis  of  plan  and  harmony  of  treatment.  In  the  nature  of  the  case 
it  must  become  a  succession  of  more  or  less  related  monographs,  rather  than  a 
consecutive  history,  a  mosaic,  as  I  say,  rather  than  a  fabric.  Moreover,  the  col- 
legiate neglect  of  American  literature  as  a  subject  for  legitimate  study  has  re- 
sulted in  the  striking  fact  that  there  is  no  group  of  avowed  and  devoted  experts 
in  this  field.  In  the  circumstances  the  book  had  to  be  a  by-product  of  men  whose 
interests  were  primarily  in  other  fields,  and  the  history  is  thus  far  the  work  of 
professors  of  English,  History,  and  Philosophy  supplemented  by  an  ex-editor 
an  ex-publisher  and  a  librarian.  The  disjointedness  consequent  on  such  dis-joint 
authorship  is  illustrated  by  the  two  chapters  under  discussion.  To  Mr.  Whicher 
was  assigned  "Early  Essayists"  but  he  had  to  omit  Irving,  the  chief  of  them, 
for  the  elderly  reminiscences  of  Major  George  Haven  Putnam.  One  is  reminded 
— with  perfect  respect  for  both — of  a  medical  student  and  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
carving  in  turn  off  the  same  turkey;  the  student  scientifically  dispensing  calories, 
and  Mr.  Holmes  serving  lavishly  "a  leg  and  wing  and  a  piece  of  the  breast"  with 
spoonfuls  of  anecdotal  stuffing.  And  comparably  to  Mr.  Goddard  was  assigned 
"The  Transcendentalists,"  but  he  perforce  omitted  Emerson  for  the  amiable 
lucubrations  of  Mr.  Paul  Elmer  More,  and  Thoreau — for  whom  it  doth  not  yet 
appear.  To  either  contributor  the  task  was  about  as  logical  as  a  discussion  of 
the  Civil  War  would  be  without  detailed  mention  of  Lincoln. 

Criticism  of  the  first  of  these  chapters — that  on  The  Essayists — should  be 
especially  tempered  in  view  of  the  limitations  under  which  the  author  labored. 
In  twelve  pages  he  was  to  dispose  of  the  American  light  essay  in  the  first  half  of 
the  nineteenth  century.  The  turkey  metaphor  should  be  withdrawn.  His  prob- 
lem was  much  more  like  spending  a  dollar  at  a  cafeteria  in  twenty  minutes.  To 
paraphrase  one  of  Mr.  Whicher's  own  sentences:  "It  is  unnecessary,  therefore, 
to  dwell  upon  the  reasons  for  the  nondigestion  of  this  immense  repast;  they  are 
obvious."  What  the  writer  did  was  to  mention  quite  scrupulously  all  the  essay- 
ists in  the  period  who  deserved  mention,  necessarily  limiting  himself  to  obiter 
dicta  on  all  but  three,  Joseph  Dennie,  James  K.  Paulding,  and  Nathaniel  P.  Wil- 


194   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


lis,  but  showing  in  these  units  his  ability  to  individualize  and  summarize  an  author 
and  his  output,  as  for  example  in  the  following  comments:  "Like  many  of  his 
contemporaries  Paulding  could  not  refrain  from  using  his  stylus  as  a  dagger  when- 
ever patriotically  aroused He  may  best  be  remembered  as  an  author 

whose  faults  and  virtues  combined  to  make  him  exclusively  and  eminently  na- 
tional." And  again:  "There  where  woods  and  streams  were  enlivened  by  flowered 
waistcoats,  pink  champagne,  and  the  tinkle  of  serenades,  Willis  found  a  setting 
for  some  of  his  most  characteristic  writings."  Mr.  Whicher  accomplished  what 
he  set  out  to,  the  brief  presentation  of  a  big  subject,  omitting  no  cardinal  fact. 
For  this  he  should  receive  full  credit;  but  I  would  have  been  eager  to  give  him 
much  more  credit  if  he  had  carried  out  with  equal  success  the  harder  task  of  writ- 
ing a  critical  rather  than  a  didactic  chapter,  and  of  interpreting  this  belated  tide 
of  Georgian  prose,  more  nearly  as  J.  R.  Dennett  did  in  his  famous  essay  on  The 
Knickerbockers, — or  as  Mr.  Goddard  succeeded  in  doing  in  his  chapter  in  this 
same  volume  on  The  Transcendentalists. 

Mr.  Goddard  is  one  of  the  minority  of  contributors  to  the  volume  whose  selec- 
tion for  a  particular  chapter  was  inevitable,  for  his  "Studies  in  New  England 
Transcendentalism"  (1908)  is  one  of  the  preeminent  books  on  this  subject.  He 
was  therefore  writing  out  of  a  full  mind.  Yet  he  did  the  work  afresh,  not  even 
repeating  any  of  the  brilliant  passages  for  whose  recurrence  I  was  half  expectant. 
There  is  nothing  in  the  new  chapter  with  quite  the  glitter  of  this  from  ten  years 
ago:  "Pale  abstractions,  touched  with  passion,  took  on,  in  a  moment,  a  strange 
vitality;  weak  sentiment,  fastening  upon  thought,  assumed  a  sudden  power.  Out 
of  this  ferment  of  emotions  and  ideas,  profound  changes  at  the  very  heart  of  Euro- 
pean life  could  scarcely  fail  to  come.  Far  enough  from  revolutionary  in  temper 
was  the  author  of  the  Essay  on  the  Human  Understanding,  or  the  little  printer 
whose  novels  made  the  whole  of  Europe  weep;  yet — we  might  almost  say — 
Locke  plus  Richardson  gives  us  Rousseau."  But  on  the  whole  the  style  of  the  new 
chapter  is  firm  and  mature — no  less  so  than  the  structure  of  it  or  the  judgments 
in  it. 

It  is  introduced  with  a  treatment  of  Transcendentalism  as  related  to  the  world 
thought  of  the  day,  proceeds  via  Edwards  and  the  elder  Channing  to  the  Tran- 
scendental group,  thence  to  the  essential  elements  of  their  philosophy,  and  its 
expression  in  Alcott  and  George  Ripley,  in  Brook  Farm  and  The  Dial,  in  Margaret 
Fuller  and  Theodore  Parker.  And  it  is  concluded  with  this  effective  summary: 
"These  men  were  no  mere  dreamers.  Emerson  resigning  his  pulpit  rather  than 
administer  the  Lord's  Supper  or  pray  when  he  did  not  feel  like  praying,  Thoreau 
going  to  jail  for  a  refusal  to  pay  his  taxes,  Alcott  closing  his  school  sooner  than 
dismiss  a  colored  pupil  (yes!  even  Alcott  planting  "aspiring"  vegetables),  Parker 
risking  reputation  and  life  in  the  anti-slavery  crusade — these  are  typical  examples 
of  the  fact  that  when  these  men  were  put  to  the  test  of  acting  up  to  their  principles 
they  were  not  found  wanting.  The  Puritan  character  was  the  rock  on  which 
transcendentalism  was  built."  A  further  paragraph  of  post-conclusion  performs 
the  critical  jeu  d'esprit  of  linking  Edwards,  Emerson,  and  William  James — ,d  la 
the  final  trio  of  Faust,  Marguerite  and  Mephistopheles — and  so  ends  the  chapter. 
Except  for  this  gratuitous  frisk  it  is  a  sane  and  rich  discussion  of  a  complexly 
nebulous  theme,  a  solid  compound  of  fact  and  criticism.     The  attentive  reader 


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misses  in  the  warp  and  woof  of  it  any  evident  use  of  the  great  store  of  material 
in  the  Journals  of  Emerson,  which  have  appeared  since  the  publication  of  Mr. 
Goddard's  theses;  but  in  no  case,  except  perhaps  in  the  Emersonian  comment  on 
Alcott,  would  the  present  findings  have  been  modified. 

To  the  professed  student  of  American  literature  there  are  certain  disappointing 
features  in  this  first  volume  of  the  Cambridge  History;  but  they  are  not  in  the 
two  "Amherst"  chapters.  Mr.  Whicher's  contribution  is  well-balanced,  compact 
and  accurate;  Mr.  Goddard's  shows  wisdom  as  well  as  understanding. 

P.    H.    BOTNTON. 

1900 

"Sam  Houston. "      By  George  S.  Bryan.    New  York:    The  Macmillan  Company. 
1917. 

Within  the  past  decade  or  two  so-called  juvenile  literature  has  taken  on  a  new 
character.  Adventurous  trash  is  still  written  for  boys  and  silly  sentiment  for  girls, 
but  among  those  books  which  succeed  because  they  win  authoritative  approval, 
an  educational  element  is  to  be  noted  and  a  higher  standard  of  form  and  authen- 
ticity. This  is  particularly  true  of  those  books  which  are  intended  primarily  for 
use  as  supplementary  reading  in  schools  or  for  inclusion  in  school  libraries. 

Mr.  Bryan's  book  is  one  of  the  latest  additions  to  a  series  of  "True  Stories  of 
Great  Americans,"  which  now  includes  eighteen  titles.  The  present  reviewer  is 
unable  to  comment  on  the  other  books  in  this  series,  but  if  they  approach  the  stand- 
ard set  by  Mr.  Bryan  they  are  worthy  of  being  considered  as  permanent  contri- 
butions to  the  better-class  literature  of  youth. 

Most  of  us  have  read  something  of  General  Sam  Houston,  pioneer,  soldier,  states- 
man. United  States  senator,  and  twice  president  of  the  Republic  of  Texas.  Few  of 
us,  it  is  safe  to  say,  could  give  anything  like  a  connected  account  of  his  life,  though 
he  was  one  of  the  most  picturesque  figures  in  American  history.  The  facts  of  his 
life  are  not  hidden;  they  are  given  in  many  histories  and  biographies  that  are 
available  in  any  good  library;  but  who  in  these  days  takes  the  time  for  such  his- 
torical research.'* 

Mr.  Bryan  has  done  the  work  for  us.  In  183  pages  he  has  told  the  whole  story, 
has  put  it  all  plainly,  simply,  logically,  accurately.  The  result  is  a  narrative  that 
makes  as  fascinating  reading  for  the  busy  man  as  for  the  schoolboy.  That,  indeed, 
was  Mr.  Bryan's  task — to  combine  the  accuracy  and  calm  judgment  of  the  scholarly 
historian  with  the  most  direct  and  understandable  form  of  presentation.  The 
result  is  not  merely  a  superior  type  of  juvenile  history  and  biography,  but  a  correct, 
comprehensive  study  of  the  life  and  work  of  one  of  the  builders  of  America.  Mr. 
Bryan  has  succeeded  admirably  in  making  Sam  Houston  live  again,  in  clothing 
his  figure  with  a  certain  reality  without  depriving  it  of  its  aura  of  romance.  The 
reviewer  read  the  book  through  with  as  much  pleasure  and  profit  as  if  he  had  been 
thirty  years  younger.. 

— W.  A.  D. 


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AMHERST  MEN  IX  THE  NATIONAL  SERVICE 
FOURTH  IXST.\LMEXT 

Note. — Unless  otherwise  stated  the  date  of  the  following  notes  is  March,  1918. 

ABBREVIATIOXS  USED.—yi.  O.  R.  C.  Medical  Officers  Reserve  Corps. 
O.  R.  C,  Officers  Reserve  Corps.  X.  A.,  National  Army.  C.  A.  C,  Coast  Artil- 
lery Corps.  U.  S.  R.,  United  States  Reserve.  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  United  States  Naval 
Reserve  Force.  N.  G.,  National  Guard.  F.  A.,  Field  Artillery.  A.  A.  F.  S., 
American  Ambulance  Field  Ser\*ice.  R.  D.  N.  R.,  Radio  Division  Naval  Re- 
serve. M.  E.  R.,  Medical  Enlisted  Reserve.  O.  T.  C,  Officers  Training  Camp. 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C,  A\'iation  Section  Signal  Officers  Reserve  Corps.  S.  O.  R.  C, 
Signal  Officers  Reserve  Corps.  A.  S.  S.  E.  R.,  A\Tation  Section  Signal  Enlisted 
Reserve. 


'1:2. — Roger  W.  Birdseye  enlisted  with 
the  1st  Canadian  Expeditionary  Force 
August,  191-1.  He  trained  at  Salisbury 
Plains  during  the  winter  of  191-i-15, 
going  to  France  as  Private  in  the  id 
Battalion  and  ser\-ing  in  the  trenches 
until  February,  1916.  He  was  made 
Sergeant  on  the  field  at  the  Second  Bat- 
tle of  Ypres,  April  ii-i9,  1915,  and  was 
the  first  American  to  receive  a  "Distin- 
guished Conduct  Medal."  He  also 
served  as  Platoon  Sergeant  and  Com- 
pany Sergeant-Major  and  finally  wa^ 
commissioned  a  Lieutenant  and  took  a 
full  course  in  the  Canadian  Staff  School 
at  ShornclifiFe,  England.  Returning  to 
France  in  August,  1916,  he  fought  in  the 
Battle  of  the  Somme  imtil  severely 
wounded  last  October.  After  six 
months  in  hospitals  in  England  he  re- 
tiu-ned  to  Canada,  where  he  is  still  in  a 
hospital. 

"19. — Paul  Holton  Ballou  went  from 
Amherst  to  Yale  and  served  from  May 
26th  to  October  26,  1917,  with  the  A.  A. 
F.  S.  in  France  as  a  member  of  S.  S.  U. 
64,  a  Yale  unit.  He  was  awarded  the 
Croix  de  Guerre  for  his  services  at  Ver- 
dun.    The  citation  reads  as  follows: 


"Volontaire  americain,  conducteur 
dune  auto  sanitaire.  A  fait  preuve  de 
courage  et  de  mepris  absolu  du  danger 
en  evacuant  les  blesses  de  la  Di\'ision 
dans  des  conditions  tres  penibles,  sur 
des  routes  frequemment  soumises  a  des 
bombardements  violents." 


"75. — Stephen  D.  Brooks  has  been  a 
medical  officer  of  the  U.  S.  Public 
Health  Ser\'ice  since  1883.  His  present 
rank  is  "Senior  Surgeon."  In  times  of 
war  the  Public  Health  Ser\'ice  consti- 
tutes a  part  of  the  military  forces  of  the 
United  States. 

'79. — Nehemiah  Boynton,  having 
served  as  Chaplain  of  the  13th  Regi- 
ment, N.  Y.  C.  A.  C,  answered  the  call 
to  colors  with  his  regiment  last  August, 
and  is  now  Chaplain,  U.  S.  A. 

'82. — George  E.  Bellows  is  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  M.  O.  R.  C.  and  at  present 
is  a  member  of  the  Examining  Board, 
M.  O.  R.  C,  Kansas  City. 

'83 — Dr.  John  B.  Walker  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Surgeon  General, 
Surgeon-in-Chief  of  a  special  fractin-e 
hospital,  known  as  Base  Hospital  No. 
116,  with  the  rank  of  Major  M.  R.  C. 


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This  hospital  will  have  one  thousand 
beds  and  is  now  mobilizing  at  the  71st 
Regiment  Armory,  New  York  City. 
Major  Walker  was  in  the  office  of  the 
Surgeon  General  for  three  months  get- 
ting supplies,  and  sailed  for  Europe 
during  the  winter.  When  last  heard 
from  he  was  making  a  trip  of  inspection 
of  English  and  French  hospitals. 

"87. — Daniel  Weston  Rogers  is  a  Ma- 
jor, M.  O.  R.  C,  Uith  F.  A.,  Camp 
Logan. 

Alvan  F.  Sanborn  enlisted  in  the  For- 
eign Legion  September  1,  1914,  serving 
in  the  trenches  of  the  Somme  during  the 
winter  of  1914-15.  He  was  invalided, 
after  a  narrow  escape  from  pneumonia, 
in  April,  1915,  and  last  July  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Permanent 
Inter-Allied  Committee  for  the  Re-edu- 
cation of  War  Cripples. 

'90. — Last  February  William  O.  Gil- 
bert was  appointed  and  commissioned 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  X.  A.  and  reas- 
signed to  duty  in  the  Judge  Advocate 
Generals  Department,  Washington. 

'91. — Jesse  S.  Reeves  is  Captain  A.  S. 
S.  O.  R.  C.  and  President  of  the  Avia- 
tion Examining  Board,  Indianapolis. 

'93. — Frank  B.  Cummings  is  a  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  of  the  103rd  Infantry, 
France. 

'94. — Warren  D.  Brown,  Captain,  A. 
S.  S.  O.  R.  C,  is  in  France. 

Frederick  C.  Herrick,  Captain,  M.  O. 
R.  C,  has  been  stationed  at  the  Rocke- 
feller Institute  for  Medical  Research.  He 
is  now  at  the  Base  Hospital,  Rockford. 

Pancoast  Kidder,  Captain,  '27th  Di- 
vision, U.  S.  A.,  is  in  France. 

'95. — Palmer  A.  Potter  is  a  Captain, 
M.  O.  R.  C.  He  was  commissioned  last 
January  but  has  not  yet  been  assigned 
to  active  service. 


'96. — Aurin  M.  Chase  is  a  Major,  O. 
R.  C,  Motor  Equipment  Section,  En- 
gineering Bureau,  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment, Washington. 

Frank  E.  Harkness  is  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  R.  O.  T.  C.  and  is  teaching  in  an 
Illinois  camp. 

'97. — Lieut.  George  G.  Bradley  joined 
the  Ser^•ice  last  November  and  worked 
for  two  months  in  the  Rock  Island  Arse- 
nal.   At  present  he  is  at  Camp  Jackson. 

Prof.  Charles  W.  Cobb  is  a  Captain 
in  the  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  Director  of 
Technical  Instruction  in  United  States 
Schools  of  Military  Aeronautics. 

'97. — From  December,  1916,  to  Janu- 
ary, 1918,  KendaU  Emerson  was  Major 
R.  O.  M.  C,  B.  E.  F.,  France,  base  at 
No.  a  General  Hospital.  Last  Septem- 
ber he  was  detailed  to  No.  10  Casualty 
Clearing  Station,  Belgium.  After  re- 
signing his  Britbh  Commission  in  Janu- 
ary he  was  commissioned  Major  M.  R. 
C,  L".  S.  A.  and  detailed  to  the  Surgeon 
General's  Office,  Washington. 

Captain  Jerome  P.  Jackson,  U.  S.  En- 
gineers, is  in  France  in  charge  of  the  re- 
modelling and  enlargement  of  an  old 
monastery  for  the  use  of  our  govern- 
ment as  Base  Hospital  No.  27. 

Henry  M.  Moses  is  in  charge  of  the 
Medical  Service  in  the  Kings  Co.  Base 
Hospital  Unit,  No.  37,  (1000  beds)  with 
the  rank  of  Major. 

'98.— Captain  Walter  H.  Eddy,  Sani- 
tary Corps,  Food  Division,  is  now  in 
France.  He  went  with  the  first  food 
party  that  was  sent  abroad. 

Earl  H.  Lyall  volimteered  in  the  En- 
gineers Corps,  was  at  Plattsburg,  and 
at  Washington  where  he  received  his 
commission  as  Captain  in  the  Engineers 
U.  S.  R.,  and  was  assigned  to  Camp  Dix. 
He  sailed  for  France  just  before  Christ- 
mas. 


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'99. — Captain  Harry  A.  Bullock  has 
been  assigned  to  the  Staff  of  the  Divi- 
sion Quartermaster,  First  Division,  A. 
E.  F. 

Captain  James  C.  Graves,  Jr.,  M.  O. 
R.  C.  (orthopedic  surgeon),  was  sta- 
tioned in  England  from  last  May  until 
November,  and  since  then  has  been  in 
France. 

Edward  W.  Hitchcock  is  a  Sergeant 
in  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  Section  588, 
France.  At  first  he  was  with  the  Colum- 
bia Unit  and  later  transferred  to  the 
University  of  Indiana  Unit. 

Dr.  Henry  T.  Hutchins  is  a  Major, 
M.  R.  C. 

Robert  Talbott  Miller,  Jr.,  of  the 
University  of  Pittsburgh  Medical  School 
organized  Base  Hospital  No.  27  and 
sailed  for  France  in  September  as  direc- 
tor of  the  Unit  with  the  rank  of  Major. 

'00. — Captain  Thomas  J.  Hammond, 
Co.  I,  104.th  Inf.,  sailed  for  France  last 
fall  and  spent  the  winter  with  his  regi- 
ment in  a  small  French  village  of  which 
he  was  "Town  Major."  On  February 
3rd  he  writes: 

"Have  weathered  two  months  of 
winter  and  slept  for  four  weeks  in  a 
perfect  imitation  of  one  of  our  tobacco 
sheds,  even  to  the  lack  of  a  floor.  Am 
in  the  best  of  health  and  feel  fit  to 
tackle  anything.  The  company  is  in 
fine  shape,  the  best  I  ever  saw  it." 

Cleveland  C.  Kimball  is  Surgeon  of 
the  U.  S.  S.  Minneapolis,  U.  S.  N.  Be- 
fore the  present  war  he  was  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  the  1st  Battalion  Naval  Mili- 
tia N.  Y.  1910-15;  Past  Assistant  Sur- 
geon of  the  same  organization  1915-16; 
Sm-geon  of  the  National  Naval  Volun- 
teer U.  S.  N.  up  to  June  1,  1917,  when 
he  was  assigned  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Minne- 
apolis. 

'01. — William  D.  Ballantine  is  Trav- 


eling Accountant  in  the  Q.  M.  C,  Con- 
struction Division. 

Charles  E.  Mathews  is  a  1st  Lieuten- 
ant, Interpreters  Corps,  4th  Division, 
stationed  at  Camp  Greene. 

William  R.  Rushmore  is  in  training  as 
a  Supply  Officer  at  Atlanta.  He  was 
previously  at  the  Ground  Officers'  Train 
ing  School,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C,  San  Anto- 
nio. 

Dr.  John  R.  Herrick  is  a  captain  in 
the  M.  O.  R.  C. 

'02. — Wilbur  A.  Anderson  is  Pay 
Clerk,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  stationed  at  the 
U.  S.  Naval  Station,  Pearl  Harbor, 
Hawaii. 

William  D.  Clarke  is  a  Captain,  En- 
gineers, U.  S.  R.,  and  attached  to  the 
23rd  Regiment  at  Camp  Meade. 

Isaac  H.  Jones  is  a  Major,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
He  is  not  attached  to  any  Unit  but  is 
doing  special  work  establishing  Medical 
Aviation  Examining  Units  in  Europe 
and  standardizing  the  tests  and  exam- 
iners. 

'02. — ^Howard  W.  Taylor  was  Ser- 
geant in  Troop  G,  1st  N.  Y.  Cavalry 
and  served  nine  months  on  the  Mexican 
Border.  He  was  mustered  out  of  Fed- 
eral service  in  March,  1917,  and  entered 
the  first  R.  O.  T.  C.  where  he  was  com- 
missioned a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Q.  M. 
C.  and  assigned  to  Camp  Dix.  Later 
his  commission  was  changed  to  Field  Ar- 
tillery and  he  was  assigned  to  Co.  F, 
303rd  Ammunition  Train.  He  has  since 
then  been  promoted  to  1st  Lieutenant 
and  is  serving  as  supply  officer  in  the  2d 
Battalion  Headquarters. 

'03. — Gouverneur  H.  Boyer  was  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant  M.  O.  R.  C. 
last  June  and  reported  for  duty  with  the 
British  Army  last  fall,  afterwards  sailing 
for  France.  He  is  now  serving  with  the 
133rd  Field  Ambulance,  B.  E.  F. 


Amherst   Men   in  the  National  Service  199 


Chester  E.  Burg  enlisted  in  1903  as  a 
Private  in  Battery  A,  N.  G.  of  Missouri. 
He  served  continuously  in  this  battery 
until  July,  1908,  when  he  was  appointed 
1st  Lieutenant,  S.  C.  N.  G.  of  Missouri. 
He  resigned  in  1910  and  was  out  of  the 
service  until  last  May  when  he  entered 
the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C.  Ft.  Riley,  where  he 
was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  Q. 
M.  C,  N.  A.  At  present  he  is  Assistant 
to  the  Camp  Quartermaster  at  Camp 
Funston  with  the  rank  of  1st  Lieu- 
tenant. 

Captain  Joseph  W.  Hayes  is  stationed 
at  Camp  Dix  and  is  in  charge  of  the 
Psychological  Tests  of  men  in  Service. 

Lieut.  Foster  W.  Stearns  sailed  for 
France  shortly  after  being  commissioned. 
He  is  probably  with  the  41st  Division. 

'04. — Albert  Otto  Baumann  was  com- 
missioned a  Captain  Inf.  in  the  Ohio 
N.  G.  in  May,  1914,  and  assigned  to  Co. 
K,  6th  Ohio  Inf.  Since  June,  1916.  he 
has  been  in  the  Federal  Service  and  is 
now  in  Co.  K,  147th  Inf.,  Camp  Sheri- 
dan. 

Last  summer  Heman  B.  Chase  was  at 
Cannock  Military  Hospital,  England, 
and  in  the  autumn  at  General  Hospital 
No.  22,  or  the  Harvard  Surgical  Unit, 
France.  At  both  of  these  places  he  held 
an  honorary  temporary  commission  as 
Lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Army  Medical 
Corps.  He  is  now  a  1st  Lieutenant  M. 
R.  C.  and  holds  the  official  position  of 
American  Debarkation  Medical  Officer 
at  a  foreign  port  and  also  serves  as  med- 
ical officer  at  the  American  Military  Red 
Cross  Hospital  No.  4.  He  was  one  of 
the  American  surgeons  who  went  to  the 
Island  of  Islay  to  attend  the  survivors 
of  the  torpedoed  Tuscania  and  identify 
the  dead. 

Kenneth  R.  Otis  enlisted  as  a  Sapper 
in  the  Canadian  Overseas  Railway  Con- 
struction Corps  at  Montreal  in  March, 


1915.  He  is  still  in  France  with  the 
B.  E.  F.  and  with  the  same  Corps. 

George  K.  Pond  is  a  2d  Lieutenant, 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C,  stationed  at  Ellington 
Field. 

Donald  Symington  is  a  Captain,  Ord. 
O.  R.  C.  and  is  on  duty  at  Frankford 
Hospital,  Philadelphia. 

Last  March,  Paul  A.  Turner  was  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  O.  R.  C, 
Washington  N.  G.  and  mustered  into 
Federal  Service  with  that  regiment. 
He  is  in  France  with  the  163rd  Field 
Hospital,  116th  Sanitary  Train. 

'05. — Kenneth  C.  Mcintosh  entered 
the  Pay  Corps  as  Ensign  in  1905.  He 
has  served  as  Lieutenant  J.  G.,  Lieuten- 
ant and  Lieutenant  Commander  but  his 
official  title  is  Paymaster.  During  his 
term  of  service  he  has  been  on  duty  at 
the  Navy  Department,  on  the  U.  S.  S. 
Dubuque,  at  Newport  Training  Station, 
on  U.  S.  S.  Lancaster,  at  Guam,  at  the 
Naval  Academy,  on  U.  S.  S.  Memphis, 
U.  S.  S.  Kansas,  and  is  now  Paymaster 
on  one  of  the  transports  engaged  in  tak- 
ing troops  to  France. 

Elmer  E.  Ryan  is  now  in  the  Aviation 
Service. 

'06. — Last  August,  John  J.  Curran 
was  appointed  Secretary  to  the  Pay- 
master of  the  6th  Regiment  U.  S.  Ma- 
rine Corps  and  official  interpreter  for  the 
regiment  overseas.  He  is  now  in  France 
in  the  office  of  the  Chief  Paymaster. 

Last  September  Ernest  G.  Draper  was 
commissioned  an  Ensign  in  the  Trans- 
port Service  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  assigned 
to  the  O.  T.  C.  of  Naval  Auxiliary  Re- 
serve, Pelham  Bay  as  an  Instructor  in 
Navigation.  In  January  he  was  com- 
missioned a  Lieutenant,  J.  G.  and  ap- 
pointed head  of  the  Department  of  Nav- 
igation, O.  T.  C.  of  the  Naval  Auxiliary 
Reserve  (Transport  Service),  Pelham 
Bay. 


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'06. — Warren  F.  Draper  is  Past  As- 
sistant Surgeon  of  the  U.  S.  Public 
Health  Service  and  Medical  OflBcer  in 
charge  of  the  Extra-Cantonment  Zone 
of  Camp  Lee.  The  Public  Health  Serv- 
ice is  a  part  of  the  military  forces  of  the 
U.  S.  and  is  taking  charge  of  the  civil 
areas  surrounding  the  cantonments  to 
see  that  sanitary  conditions  are  main- 
tained, and  to  control  the  spread  of  com- 
municable diseases  among  the  civil  pop- 
ulation in  order  to  protect  the  troops  in 
the  cantonments. 

James  S.  Hamilton  has  been  serving 
as  Medical  Sergeant  at  Etretat,  France, 
and  has  made  a  marked  success  of  the 
statistical  work  there. 

Last  November  Vern  Priddy  was 
commissioned  a  Captain  at  the  2d  R.  O. 
T.  C.  Plattsburg  and  assigned  to  the 
Ordnance  Department  on  the  General 
Staff. 

Harold  Remington  spent  four  years 
with  the  National  Guard,  was  at  Platts- 
burg in  1916  and  at  the  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Madison  Barracks  in  1917.  He  is  now  a 
Captain  in  the  350th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix. 

James  N.  Worcester  is  now  a  Captain 
in  the  U.  S.  Medical  Reserve  Corps  and 
is  stationed  at  the  Blake  Hospital  in 
Paris. 

'07. — Sergeant  Lewis  W.  Everett  is  a 
French  Interpreter  at  Headquarters  3rd 
Battalion,  6th  Regiment,  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps,  France.  In  addition  to  his  work 
as  Interpreter  he  is  acting  "Town  Ma- 
jor." In  this  capacity  he  does  all  buy- 
ing and  billing  of  officers,  controls  street 
traffic,  fixes  price  that  peasants  shall 
charge  for  produce,  does  all  statistical 
work,  makes  arrangements  for  the  hous- 
ing of  horses,  mules,  etc.,  and  for  trans- 
portation. 

R.  Jewett  Jones  attended  the  R.  O. 
T.  C,  Ft.  Riley,  and  was  commissioned 


a  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf.  O.  R.  C.  He  was 
attached  to  the  2d  Iowa  Inf.  34th  Divi- 
sion, Camp  Cody,  and  then  transferred 
to  Co.  C,  110th  Ammunition  Train, 
Camp  Doniphan.  He  is  now  detailed  as 
an  Instructor  in  the  Divisional  Officers' 
Training  School,  35th  Division,  Camp 
Doniphan. 

Frank  E.  Lewis,  1st  Lieutenant,  M. 
O.  R.  C,  is  a  member  of  the  Orthopedic 
Division  under  Major  Joel  Goldthwaite, 
and  is  stationed  at  the  Highfield  Mili- 
tary Hospital,  England. 

John  J.  Morton,  Jr.,  is  a  Captain  in 
General  Hospital  No.  13,  U.  S.  A.  Base 
Hospital  No.  5,  B.  E.  F.,  France. 

'08.— Holbrook  Bonney  has  been 
transferred  to  the  Headquarters  De- 
tachment, 166th  Field  Artillery  Brigade, 
Camp  Lewis. 

George  C.  Elsey  is  a  Captain,  18th 
Inf.,  France. 

Daniel  B.  Jones  is  a  1st  Lieutenant, 
U.  S.  R.,  and  is  stationed  at  M.  I.  T., 
Cambridge. 

Harold  C.  Keith  is  doing  special  work 
in  the  Ordnance  Department  at  Wash- 
ington. 

Ralph  L.  Loomis  is  an  Ensign,  U.  S. 
N.  Aviation  Service.  Last  year  he  was 
with  the  French  Army,  having  trained 
in  the  aviation  schools  in  France. 

Chapin  Marcus  is  a  Captain,  155th 
F.  A.,  Brigade  Headquarters,  Camp  Lee. 

Last  August  Arthur  P.  Paine  was 
commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant  Ord- 
nance O.  R.  C.  and  ordered  to  active 
duty  at  Sandy  Hook.  He  has  been 
transferred  to  Aberdeen  and  is  now  a 
Captain. 

M.  Hayward  Post  is  Oculist  to  Base 
Hospital  No.  33  at  Albany. 

Paul  R.  Powell  was  a  1st  Lieutenant 
Engineers,  O.  R.  C,  but  resigned  last 


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January  to  enter  the  Signal  Corps  as 
Inspector  of  Airplane  Machines.  He  is 
located  temporarily  at  New  Brunswick. 
Robert  B.  Woodbury  was  with  Co.  C, 
1st  Pa.  Engineers  at  Camp  Stewart,  El 
Paso  from  July,  1916,  to  February, 
1917.  He  was  appointed  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenant and  shortly  after,  his  company 
was  mustered  into  Federal  Service.  He 
was  on  detached  service  with  his  com- 
pany on  construction  work  at  Camp 
Jackson  and  is  now  Judge  Advocate  of 
Co.  A,  111th  Inf.,  Camp  Hancock. 

'09. — Henry  B.  Allen  is  a  Lieutenant, 
Ordnance  O.  R.  C,  and  is  now  in 
France. 

Edward  J.  Bolt  enlisted  in  the  Marine 
Corps  last  June  and  was  at  Paris  Island 
until  December.  He  was  appointed 
Drill  Inspector  and  just  before  sailing 
for  France  was  made  a  Corporal. 

F.  Marsena  Butts  has  been  promoted 
to  Captain,  Ordnance  Equipment  Divi- 
sion, Washington. 

Last  June,  Merrill  F.  Clarke  obtained 
leave  of  absence  from  his  Church  and 
enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  as  Private 
attached  to  Section  39.  He  is  in  France 
assigned  to  the  French  Army,  S.  S.  U. 
570539. 

George  Dowd,  301st  F.  A.,  Camp 
Devens,  has  been  promoted  to  1st  Lieu- 
tenant. 

Last  August,  David  F.  Goodnow  en- 
listed as  a  Private  in  the  M.  O.  R.  C. 
He  was  promoted  to  Sergeant  and  then 
Sergeant-Major  of  General  Hospital  No. 
1,  where  he  is  now  stationed. 

Gordon  R.  Hall  is  a  2d  Lieutenant  F. 
A.  O.  R.  C. 

Vogel  A.  Helmholz  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
in  the  Leather  Inspection  Division  of 
the  Ordnance  Department  and  has 
charge  of  the  inspection  at  the  tanneries 
in  the  Middle  West. 


Last  July,  C.  Clothier  Jones  reported 
for  active  duty  to  the  Signal  Corps  Avia- 
tion School  at  Essington,  Pa.  He  was 
commissioned  Captain  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
and  assigned  as  Adjutant  of  the  Post, 
and  later  was  appointed  President  of 
the  Aviation  Examining  Board. 

Levon  H.  Koomey  is  with  the  For- 
estry unit  in  France. 

Stoddard  Lane  is  with  the  U.  S.  A.  A. 
S.,  Section  539,  France,  and  has  recently 
been  made  corporal  in  the  section. 

J.  Marshall  MacCammon  attended 
the  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Niagara,  was  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Con- 
struction Division  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  as- 
signed to  work  in  that  division  at 
Washington. 

Keith  F.  McVaugh  served  for  seven 
months  at  the  Border  with  Squadron  A, 
N.  Y.  Cavalry.  He  attended  the  1st 
Plattsburg  Camp  where  he  was  commis- 
sioned a  2d  Lieutenant.  In  December 
he  was  promoted  to  1st  Lieutenant  and 
is  now  in  the  304th  F.  A.,  Camp  Upton. 

Harrison  W.  Meelen  enlisted  in  the 
M.  V.  M.,  Troop  B,  Cavalry  Unit  in 
1915.  He  entered  the  Federal  Service 
in  1916  and  went  to  the  Border  with  his 
troop.  Last  July  he  was  again  called 
out  and  was  in  camp  in  Boston  until  he 
sailed  for  France  as  a  1st  Class  Private. 
He  has  since  been  made  a  Corporal  and 
is  now  acting  mess  sergeant  for  his 
troop. 

Theodore  Pratt  is  a  1st  Lieutenant, 
Ordnance,  O.  R.  C. 

Edward  H.  Sudbury  is  attending  the 
Artillery  School  at  Fontainbleau,  France. 

William  A.  Vollmer  has  been  pro- 
moted to  1st  Lieutenant  in  Battery  A, 
306th  F.  A.,  Camp  Upton. 

William  H.  Wright  is  a  2d  Lieutenant, 
Headquarters  Co.,  168th  Inf.  A.  E.  F., 
Regimental  Intelligence  OflSce. 


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'10. — Lieut.  Lindsay  C.  Amos,  Bat- 
tery A,  309th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix,  is  acting 
as  Assistant  Adjutant. 

Last  July,  Harold  E.  Bardwell  was 
commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  is  now  in  France. 

Edward  T.  Bedford  has  been  commis- 
sioned 1st  Lieutenant  Sanitary  Corps, 
N.  A. 

Horace  S.  Cragin  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
M.  O.  R.  C.  and  is  stationed  at  the  Nor- 
folk Naval  Hospital,  Portsmouth. 

Raymond  F.  Gardner  is  a  Private  in 
the  A.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C. 

Donald  M.  Gildersleeve  was  commis- 
sioned a  1st  Lieutenant  M.  O.  R.  C.  in 
August,  1915,  and  has  been  in  active 
service  since  April,  1916.  He  is  now  in 
France  with  the  1st  Depot  Battalion, 
Signal  Corps. 

Weston  W.  Goodnow  is  a  Cadet  in  the 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  He  attended  the 
Ground  School  at  Cornell  University 
and  was  then  transferred  to  London 
where  he  is  training  with  the  Royal 
Flying  Corps.  Previous  to  this  he 
served  three  years  with  the  1st  N.  Y. 
Cavalry,  9  months  on  the  Mexican  Bor- 
der and  three  on  the  New  York  Aque- 
duct as  Private,  Corporal,  and  Sergeant. 

Bartow  H.  Hall  is  in  France  as  1st 
Lieutenant,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C. 

Last  August,  Graham  B.  Jacobus  was 
commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  O.  R.  C. 
at  Ft.  Sheridan  and  assigned  to  Co.  A, 
341st  Inf.  N.  A.,  Camp  Grant. 

Last  December,  S.  Edward  McAdam 
enlisted  as  a  2d  Class  Seaman  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  received  orders  to  re- 
port to  the  Commanding  OfBcer,  St. 
Helena  Training  Station  at  Norfolk  for 
St.  Julian's  Creek  Magazine  detail. 

William  R.  Marsh,  after  training  at 
Ft.  Snelling  and  Ft.  Monroe,  received  a 
commission  as  1st  Lieutenant  and  was 


stationed  at  Ft.  Saint  Philip,  75  miles 
down  the  river  from  New  Orleans.  He 
was  assigned  to  the  3rd  Co.,  C.  A.  C, 
Coast  Defense  of  New  Orleans,  a  regular 
Army  Company. 

Last  December,  Robert  C.  Murray 
enlisted  in  the  M.  O.  R.  C.  and  was  at- 
tached to  General  Hospital  No.  5,  sta- 
tioned at  Ft.  Ontario. 

Sterling  W.  Pratt.  2d  Lieutenant,  Q. 
M.  C,  N.  A.,  is  stationed  at  the  3rd 
Reg.  Armory,  Philadelphia. 

Bert  C.  Schellenburg  enlisted  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  last  May,  received  a  dis- 
charge and  re-enlisted  in  the  A.  S.  S.  E. 
R.  C.  He  is  now  a  Flying  Cadet  at 
Rich  Field. 

Kenneth  T.  Tucker  was  with  the  7th 
Regiment  N.  Y.  N.  G.  for  seven  years, 
including  Border  Service  in  Texas  in 
1916.  He  attended  the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C. 
at  Plattsburg,  was  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  and  assigned  to  Co.  E,  307th 
Inf.,  at  Camp  Upton.  In  January  he 
was  promoted  to  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
same  Company  and  Regiment. 

'11.— Clifford  B.  Ballard  is  a  2d 
Lieutenant  in  the  Machine  Gun  Com- 
pany, 339th  Infantry,  Camp  Custer; 
George  W.  Brainerd,  who  is  stationed  at 
U.  S.  Army  Base  Hospital  No.  9,  has 
been  appointed  a  Wardmaster.  Last 
August,  Charles  C.  Campbell  was  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant  Inf.  O. 
R.  C.  at  Madison  Barracks  and 
assigned  to  Co.  G,  309th  Inf.,  Camp 
Dix.  Last  April,  Everett  B.  Davenport 
enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  as  Gunner's 
Mate  3rd  Class;  he  received  Marks- 
man's rating,  was  advanced  to  Gunner's 
Mate,  2d  Class,  and  since  June  has 
served  on  patrols  at  Block  Island  (S.  P. 
54  and  S.  P.  56).  Beekman  J.  Delatour 
is  a  1st  Lieutenant  M.  O.  R.  C.  and  at 
present  is  a  Medical  Officer  with  the 


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A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  at  Kelly  Field.  Capt. 
Horace  R.  Denton's  address  is  Head- 
quarters 67th  Field  Artillery  Brigade, 
A.  E.  F.,  via  New  York.  William  P.  S. 
Doolittle  attended  the  2d  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Ft.  Niagara,  where  he  was  commis- 
sioned in  November  and  assigned  to 
Co.  I,  307th  Inf.,  Camp  Upton.  Frank 
R.  Elder  is  a  member  of  the  Master 
Signal  Electrician  Depot,  Co.  F,  N.  A., 
but  at  present  is  attending  the  Signal 
Corps  School  of  Instruction  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vermont.  Robert  H.  George 
attended  the  1916  Plattsburg  Camp  and 
then  enlisted  for  the  1st  Plattsburg 
Camp  in  1917;  he  was  commissioned  a 
Captain  and  put  in  charge  of  Co.  I, 
304th  Inf.  at  Camp  Devens,  but  was 
detached  in  order  to  serve  as  instructor 
at  the  2d  Plattsburg  Camp;  at  the  end 
of  that  camp  he  returned  to  Camp 
Devens  and  took  charge  of  his  company. 
Arthur  S.  Gormley  is  a  1st  Lieutenant, 
Ordnance,  O.  R.  G.  Robert  E.  Hine 
enlisted  last  August  and  until  January 
was  an  inspector  at  large  of  aeroplanes 
and  aeroplane  engines.  Signal  Service; 
he  was  then  commissioned  a  2d  Lieuten- 
ant A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  is  stationed  at 
Camp  Hancock.  Alfred  R.  Hofler  was 
commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf.  at 
the  2d  Plattsburg  Camp.  Paul  C. 
Jacobs  is  stationed  in  Co.  E,  7th  Regi- 
ment, Camp  Perry  and  is  training  for 
Radio  Service,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Jolm  H. 
Keys  enlisted  in  the  20th  Engineers  last 
September  and  went  to  Camp  American 
University;  he  is  now  in  France  in 
Co.  D,  10th  Regiment  Engineers. 
Hubert  Loomis,  Battery  A,  101st  Regi- 
ment, F.  A.,  France,  has  been  commis- 
sioned a  2d  Lieutenant.  Herbert  G. 
Lord,  Jr.,  is  a  1st  Lieutenant,  Ordnance, 
O.  R.  C.  and  at  present  is  assistant  to 
the  commanding  officer  in  the  New  York 
Arsenal.  George  II.  McBride  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  Ordnance,  O.  R.  C.  and  is 


stationed  at  Edgewood,  Md.  Campbell 
Marvin  has  enlisted  in  the  A.  S.  E.  R.  C. 
as  Balloon  Observer;  he  will  be  sta- 
tioned at  Omaha  for  a  period  of  school- 
ing. George  B.  Parks  is  a  2d  Lieutenant, 
Inf.,  attached  to  the  Press  Division  of 
the  Intelligence  Section,  General  Staff, 

A.  E.  F.  James  W.  Post  is  attending 
the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C.  Camp  Grant.  Roy 
E.  Pushee  enlisted  in  the  Ordnance 
Corps  last  July  and  is  now  a  Lieutenant 
on  duty  at  the  Machine  Gun  School, 
Springfield  Armory.  Last  October 
Charles  B.  Rugg  enlisted  in  the  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.  and  was  assigned  to  active 
duty  at  the  Cadet  School  at  Cambridge. 
His  first  rating  was  Chief  Boatswain's 
Mate  and  in  January,  1918,  he  was  com- 
missioned an  Ensign  and  reported  for 
duty  in  the  Bureau  of  Ordnance,  Navy 
Department,     Washington.       Richard 

B.  Scandrett,  Jr.,  is  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
Aviation  Section.  Lieut.  Waldo  Shum- 
way,  Co.  M,  103rd  Inf.,  France,  was 
commissioned  at  Plattsburg  and  was 
one  of  the  1400  picked  men  from  the 
training  schools  to  be  sent  to  France  for 
further  training;  after  two  months  of 
training  there  he  was  appointed  in- 
structor in  Trench  Warfare.  Brantley 
A.  Weathers,  Jr.,  is  a  Captain  Q.  M.  O. 
R.  C,  and  is  Division  Exchange  Officer 
at  Atlanta,  Ga.  Lawrence  Wood  is  a 
Sergeant  in  the  Ordnance  Department. 
Ralph  S.  Wyckoff  was  in  the  3rd  Train- 
ing Regiment  from  May  to  August;  he 
then  enlisted  in  the  regular  army  and 
was  assigned  to  the  303rd  Regiment, 
N.  A.;  in  December  he  was  made  a 
Corporal. 

'12. — George  A.  Carl  in  is  a  Sergeant 
in  Co.  M,  1st  Army  Headquarters  Regi- 
ment, Inf.,  and  was  transferred  to 
Camp  Greene  with  the  others  from 
Camp  Wadsworth  and  all  the  other 
camps,  who  were  able  to  speak  French. 


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Harry  F.  Dann  enlisted  last  July  in  the 
Headquarters  Co.,  Nashville,  Tenn.; 
he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Sevier, 
Headquarters  Co.,  119th  Inf.,  as  non- 
commissioned officer  and  is  now  in  the 
3rd  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Leon  Springs.  Ernest 
Gregory,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is 
Commanding  OflBcer  of  the  U.  S.  Sub- 
marine Chaser  24.  Ralph  Heavens 
enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  last  April 
and  spent  the  summer  on  the  Patrol 
Boat  Alert  at  Portsmouth;  he  is  now  a 
junior  officer  on  the  battleship  Louisiana 
with  rank  of  Ensign.  Claude  H.  Hub- 
bard was  selected  for  the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C. 
at  Camp  Devens.  Levi  R.  Jones  is  a 
member  of  the  26th  Co.,  7th  Battalion, 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens.  Benja- 
min F.  Knapp  is  in  the  13th  Co.,  4th 
Training  Battalion,  156th  Depot  Bri- 
gade, Camp  Jackson.  William  S. 
Lahey,  Co.  E,  311th  Inf.,  has  been  pro- 
moted to  1st  Lieutenant.  Arthur  B. 
Lyon  is  a  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Irving  T.  Thornton  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
in  the  Headquarters  Corps,  A.  E.  F. 
(operating  section.  General  Staff). 
Joseph  H.  Vernon  is  with  the  Balloon 
School  at  San  Antonio.  U.  S.  Navy 
Hospital  No.  1,  in  which  Edward  B. 
Vollmer  is  a  Hospital  Apprentice,  has 
been  recently  transferred  to  France. 
Sargent  H.  Wellman  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
with  the  American  Expeditionary 
Forces,  at  present  a  casual  officer,  Inf. 

'13. — Frank  L.  Babbott,  Jr.,  is  in  the 
M.  E.  R.  C.  and  is  training  in  a  civilian 
hospital.  Horace  P.  Belden  attended 
the  2d  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Benjamin 
Harrison  and  was  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant,  F.  A.  O.  R.  C;  in  January 
he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Dodge, 
attached  to  the  163rd  Depot  Brigade, 
and  later  reassigned  to  Battery  D, 
337th  F.  A.  Wayland  H.  Brown  served 
with  Battery  B,  1st  Minn.  F.  A.  from 


June,  1916,  up  to  August,  1917,  when 
he  entered  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft.  Snell- 
ing;  he  was  commissioned  a  1st 
Lieutenant  and  assigned  to  the  333rd 
F.  A.,  Camp  Grant.  Russell  F.  Chapin 
is  taking  a  course  in  an  Ordnance  Train- 
ing School  at  Camp  Jackson.  Dwight 
E.  Ely  has  been  commissioned  an  Ensign 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Benjamin  ^Y.  Estabrook 
has  been  transferred  to  the  Signal  Corps, 
Aerial  Gunnery  as  an  instructor  and  has 
received  a  commission  as  1st  Lieuten- 
ant. Richard  B.  Hager  is  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  115th  F.  A.,  30th  Division,  sta- 
tioned at  Greenville,  S.  C.  William  G. 
Hamilton  enlisted  last  June  and  is  now 
a  Seaman,  2d  Class  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R. 
Training  Camp,  San  Pedro.  Howard 
C.  Harding  is  a  Private  in  Headquarters 
Co.  No.  1,  M.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Green- 
leaf.  Last  April,  Robert  A.  Jenkins 
enlisted  as  Seaman  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
and  served  at  the  Aviation  Field  in 
Squantum  for  several  months;  he  then 
attended  the  Harvard  Naval  School, 
was  commissioned  an  Ensign,  and  is 
now  on  the  U.  S.  S.  De  Kalb.  F.  Carl 
Keller  enlisted  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment last  November  and  is  now  attend- 
ing the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Lewis. 
Last  December,  John  L.  King  enlisted 
as  Seaman,  2d  Class,  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
and  was  called  for  duty  at  the  Municipal 
Pier  Training  School,  Chicago;  last 
February  he  was  ordered  to  Philadelphia 
for  a  coastwise  training  cruise;  he 
expects  to  report  about  May  1st  for 
final  training  and  study  for  a  commis- 
sion at  Pelham  Bay;  he  is  now  a 
Quartermaster,  3rd  Class.  Capt. 
Herschel  S.  Konold  is  Adjutant  to 
Colonel  Palmer,  Camp  Grant.  Edward 
C.  Knudson  is  a  Yeoman,  1st  Class, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  3rd  Naval  District. 
Henry  S.  Loomis,  who  is  in  the  U.  S. 
Air  Service  in  France,  has  been  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant.    Last  June, 


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James  F.  McClure  enlisted  as  Private 
in  the  Ordnance  E.  R.  C;  he  was  in 
active  service  at  the  Ordnance  Training 
Detachment,  Augusta  Arsenal,  and 
later  transferred  to  the  107th  Ordnance 
Depot  Co.,  Camp  Gordon;  he  was  made 
Corporal  and  then  Ordnance  Sergeant 
and  is  now  in  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Camp 
Gordon.  James  G.  Martin  is  Corporal 
and  Company  Clerk  of  Co.  K,  334th 
Inf.,  Camp  Taylor.  Arthur  J.  Mealand, 
Jr.,  attended  the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft. 
Benjamin  Harrison;  was  commissioned 
a  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.,  and  assigned  to 
the  322d  F.  A.,  Camp  Sherman;  in 
January,  he  was  promoted  to  1st 
Lieutenant,  and  is  in  France  acting  as 
Billeting  Officer.  Walter  W.  Moore  is 
a  1st  Lieutenant,  attached  to  the  51st 
Inf.  at  Chickamauga  Park.  George  D. 
Olds,  Jr.,  enlisted  last  December  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  as  Gunner's  Mate,  3rd 
Class;  he  is  stationed  at  the  Naval 
Reserve  Barracks,  Newport,  and  is 
acting  company  commander  of  succes- 
sive training  units.  Charles  E.  Parsons 
is  a  Private  in  the  M.  E.  R.  C.  and  has 
been  detailed  to  finish  his  course  in  the 
Medical  School  at  Baltimore.  Second 
Lieutenant  Russell  Pope  is  at  the  Staff 
College,  A.  E.  F.  Lieutenant  James  R. 
Quill,  who  was  commissioned  at  the 
R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Meyer,  has  recently 
been  transferred  from  Camp  Stanley  to 
Camp  Wheeler  to  train  a  National 
Guard  outfit;  he  has  been  appointed 
regimental  instructor  of  athletics  since 
going  to  Camp  Wheeler.  Gain  Robin- 
son received  a  commission  as  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  at  the  2d  R.  O. 
T.  C,  Ft.  Sheridan;  he  is  in  France  and 
has  not  yet  been  assigned  to  any  unit. 
Charles  F.  Sheridan  was  drafted  from 
District  2,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  last  Septem- 
ber and  was  in  charge  of  the  first  five 
per  cent,  sent  from  his  district  to  Camp 
Dix.    There  he  was  detailed  to  Co.  E, 


310th  Inf.  and  to  clerical  work  at  Regi- 
mental Headquarters;  in  November  he 
was  sent  to  Washington  for  instruction 
at  the  ofiices  of  the  War  Risk  Insurance 
Bureau,  and  in  December  he  sailed  for 
France.  Frank  P.  Stelling  was  recently 
called  by  the  Adjutant  General  from 
Spartanburg,  where  he  was  attached  to 
the  Sanitary  Detachment,  105th  Ma- 
chine Gun  Battalion,  for  special  service 
in  Washington;  he  is  now  at  Camp 
Meigs  in  the  Quartermasters  Corps. 
Albert  L.  Stirn  is  a  Government  Textile 
Inspector  and  is  stationed  at  the  Spring- 
dale  Finishing  Co.;  he  is  a  2d  Lieuten- 
ant, Ordnance,  O.  R.  C.  Lieut.  Nelson 
Stone  is  now  in  France.  Robert  I. 
Stout  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieuten- 
ant, F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  at  the  2d  Plattsburg 
Camp  and  is  stationed  at  Camp  Stanley. 
Word  has  been  received  from  the  War 
Department  that  last  March  Hunt 
Warner,  Co.  M,  165th  Inf.,  42d  Divi- 
sion, was  slightly  wounded  in  action. 
Sanford  P.  Wilcox  enlisted  last  July 
and  is  now  a  Private  in  Hospital  Unit 
Q.  M.  F.  R.  C.  at  Ft.  McPherson. 
William  J.  Wilcox  is  now  a  Sergeant  in 
Headquarters  Co.,  327th  Inf.,  Camp 
Gordon.  James  E.  Willetts  is  in  France 
and  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  Co.  I,  117th 
Ammunition  Train. 

'14. — Joseph  J.  Beatty  is  in  the 
Q.  M.  O.  R.  C.  at  Camp  Johnston. 
Frank  A.  Bernero  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in 
the  310th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix.  Mervin 
W.  Bliss  was  in  the  Bureau  of  Standards 
at  Washington  for  a  time  and  then  went 
to  Camp  Mineola;  he  is  now  in  France 
with  the  201st  Aero  Squadron,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Carleton  H.  Brace  is  a  private  in  Co.  K, 
303rd  Inf.  at  Camp  Devens.  Earle  D. 
Butler  is  a  member  of  the  M.  R.  C, 
Camp  Hancock.  Dwight  N.  Clark 
attended  the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C,  Plattsburg, 
and  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant 


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Q.  M.  ('.;  until  January,  he  was  assistant 
to  the  Canij)  Quartermaster  at  Camp 
Devens  and  is  now  assistant  to  the 
Depot  Quartermaster  at  Washington 
with  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. 
Edward  S.  Cobb  is  in  the  Ordnance 
Department  at  Washington.  John 
Herbert  Creedon,  who  has  been  train- 
ing at  the  Army  School  of  Military 
Aeronautics,  Princeton,  has  been  trans- 
ferred to  Scott  Field,  Belleville.  Lieut. 
Ralph  Darrin  is  teaching  the  new  Light 
Browning  at  the  Machine  Gun  School 
at  Springfield,  Mass.  Charles  R. 
DeBevoise  has  been  promoted  to  1st 
Lieutenant  and  is  Quartermaster  of  the 
Base  Hospital  at  Camp  Lee.  John  R. 
Dickson  is  a  Lieutenant  in  Co.  L  11th 
Inf.,  Camp  Hancock.  Frank  H.  Ferris 
has  been  appointed  Acting  Chaplin  in 
the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant  (junior  grade).  George  R. 
Foldy,  Jr.,  was  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  in  the  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and 
in  December  called  into  active  service; 
he  was  stationed  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  and 
later  transferred  to  Miamisburg,  Ohio. 
Last  July,  Charles  B.  Glann  was  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant  and  assigned 
to  active  duty  at  Silver  Creek;  in 
November  he  was  transferred  to  Camp 
Upton  and  attached  to  Co.  C,  302d 
Field  Signal  Battalion.  Cecil  J.  Hall 
attended  the  2d  Plattsburg  Camp  and 
was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  Inf., 
O.  R.  C;  he  was  attached  to  the  321st 
Field  Signal  Battalion  and  stationed  at 
Camp  L^pton.  Austin  Hersh  has  been 
assigned  to  the  116th  U.  S.  Infantry 
Band,  Camp  McClellan.  Louis  Huth- 
steiner,  Co.  A,  307th  Regiment,  Camp 
Upton,  has  been  promoted  to  1st  Lieu- 
tenant. James  R.  Kimball  is  a  member 
of  the  21st  Company,  6th  Battalion, 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens.  Richard 
M.  Kimball,  1st  Lieutenant  Supply  Co., 
55th   Regiment,   C.   A.    C,   is  now  in 


France;  he  has  been  practically  Com- 
pany Commander  since  he  was  assigned 
to  the  Supply  Co.,  and  when  he  went 
to  Camp  Merritt  before  sailing  the 
inspector  general  wrote  the  following  on 
his  inspection  report: 

"The  favorable  consideration  of  the 
Commanding  General  is  asked  in  the  case 
of  Lieut.  R.  M.  Kimball,  C.  A.  C,  55th 
Artillery,  C.  A.  C,  on  account  of  his  es- 
pecially clean  barracks  and  general  sol- 
dierly bearing  of  his  men.  This  officer, 
while  not  commanding  this  company,  is 
stated  by  his  Company  Commander  to 
have  had  practical  control  of  the  Supply 
Co.  Capt.  R.  W.  Wilson,  C.  A.  C.  of 
the  Supply  Co.,  being  complimented  on 
this  condition,  disclaimed  the  right  of 
this  compliment  and  wished  it  turned 
over  to  Lieut.  Kimball." 

Colin  Livingstone  is  now  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenant with  the  3i8th  F.  A.  Camp  Lewis. 
Alfred  E.  Mallon  is  a  Corporal  in  Co. 
B,  29th  Engineers,  Camp  Devens;  the 
company  consists  of  surveyors,  topog- 
raphers, range-finders,  computers, 
serial  observers,  subterranean  micro- 
phone listeners,  etc.  Charles  M.  Mills, 
although  an  ordained  minister  and 
exempt  from  service,  entered  the  2d 
R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Meyer,  and  received  a 
1st  Lieutenancy  in  November;  he  was 
assigned  to  Camp  Meade  and  attached 
to  Co.  G,  313th  Inf.  Robert  J.  Murphy 
was  assigned  to  Supply  Co.,  350th  Inf., 
and  served  as  Company  Clerk  until  put 
on  detached  service  to  attend  the  R.  O. 
T.  C,  Camp  Dodge.  Fritz  E.  Oster- 
kamp  is  a  Private  First  Class  in  Co.  A 
(Radio),  321st  Field  Signal  Battalion 
and  is  stationed  at  Camp  Upton. 
Franklin  Ward  Renfrew  has  enlisted  in 
the  M.  R.  C.  and  is  at  Cornell  Uni- 
versity Medical  School.  Marlor  B. 
Seymour,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C,  is  at 
Camp  Shelby.  Kenneth  O.  Shrewsbury 
is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation 
Division,  U.  S.  Signal  Corps  and  is  now 
in   France.     Walton   K.    Smith   is   in 


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England  in  the  Royal  Flying  Corps. 
Last  June,  Fred  W.  Stafford  enlisted  in 
the  Q.  M.  E.  R.  C;  he  attended  the 
2d  Plattsburg  Camp  on  detached  serv- 
ice, was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant 
Inf.,  O.  R.  C,  and  assigned  to  the  153rd 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix.  John  J. 
Tierney  enlisted  last  June  in  the  Ord- 
nance, O.  R.  C,  and  was  stationed  at 
Ft.  Jay;  he  is  now  in  France.  Ralph  W. 
Whipple  is  a  mechanic  with  the  U.  S. 
A.  A.  S.,  Section  539,  France.  Ernest 
A.  Whittemore  is  in  PVance  in  Aviation. 
Charles  W.  Williams  is  Chief  Machin- 
ist's Mate,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  and  at  pres- 
ent is  engaged  in  supervising  construc- 
tion at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Home,  Phila- 
delphia. 

'15.— Kenneth  W.  Banta,  of  the  307th 
F.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  1st  Lieu- 
tenant. W.  Gerald  Barnes  went  to 
France  last  spring  and  served  for  several 
months  with  the  American  Red  Cross, 
driving  an  ambulance;  he  is  now  in  the 
Aviation  Corps.  Frederick  M.  Bissinger 
entered  the  service  last  September  and 
was  with  the  363rd  Inf.  at  Camp  Lewis 
for  six  months;  he  is  now  in  the  Quarter- 
masters Corps,  detailed  for  duty  at  the 
Quartermaster  General's  Office,  Wash- 
ington. Clarence  K.  Boucher  is  in  the 
Aviation  Service  at  Gustner  Field. 
Kenneth  F.  Caldwell  is  stationed  on  the 
U.  S.  S.  Cigarette,  Coast  Patrol.  Last 
July,  Frederick  L.  Chapman,  Jr.,  en- 
listed in  Co.  F,  108th  Engineers  and 
was  sent  to  Camp  Logan;  last  Febru- 
ary, he  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Motor  Transport  Divi- 
sion, Q.  M.  C.  J.  Gerald  Cole  has  been 
promoted  to  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
C.  A.  C.  and  assigned  to  Regimental 
Headquarters  of  the  56th  Artillery,  Ft. 
H.  G.  Wright.  Kingsley  B.  Colton  is 
an  Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  is 
stationed  at  New  York.    Raymond  B. 


Cooper  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, Q.  M.  C,  at  the  1st  Plattsburg 
Camp  and  is  at  present  in  Army  Trans- 
port Service  in  New  York  City.  Lieut. 
David  S.  Cutler  is  in  France  with  the 
103rd  Inf.  Gardner  P.  Eastman  is  a 
student  at  the  Naval  Aviation  Detach- 
ment, M.  I.  T.;  previous  to  this  he  was 
Gunner's  Mate  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Wacondah. 
Louis  F.  Eaton  is  an  Ensign,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.;  he  took  intensive  training  at 
Annapolis  and,  after  receiving  his 
diploma,  was  sent  to  the  U.  S.  S. 
Arizona,  where  he  is  in  training  as  an 
engineer.  Harold  C.  Fonda  is  a  Private 
in  U.  S.  Base  Hospital  No.  1,  France. 
In  January,  Randolph  M.  Fuller  en- 
tered the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Camp  Wads- 
worth;  he  was  nine  months  on  the 
Mexican  Border  with  the  1st  Cavalry, 
N.  Y.  N.  G.,  which  was  changed  to  a 
Machine  Gun  Battalion  when  it  was 
sent  to  Spartanburg;  he  has  the  rank 
of  Sergeant.  Last  December,  Phillips 
F.  Greene  enlisted  in  the  M.  O.  R.  C; 
he  was  detailed  to  continue  his  Medical 
School  course  at  Harvard  University 
and  was  also  listed  for  emergency  work 
at  Camp  Devens.  George  S.  Hamilton 
is  a  Mechanic  in  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  at 
Allentown.  George  C.  Harding  is 
attending  the  Training  School  for  non- 
commissioned officers  for  the  Medical 
Corps  at  Camp  Greenleaf.  Stuart  F. 
Heinritz  is  a  Sergeant,  Co.  A,  317th 
Field  Signal  Battalion,  Camp  Devens. 
Charles  H.  Houston  attended  the 
R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Des  Moines,  and  was 
commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf., 
O.  R.  C,  in  October;  he  reported  for 
duty  at  Camp  Meade  and  was  assigned 
to  the  368th  Inf.  George  H.  Hubner  is 
a  1st  Lieutenant,  4th  Provisional  Regi- 
ment, Aviation  Camp,  Waco,  Texas. 
Gerald  Keith  enlisted  last  March  as  a 
Seaman,  2d  Class,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  he 
attended  the  Naval   Cadet  School  at 


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Cambridge,  was  made  Boatswain's 
Mate,  1st  Class,  and  later  Ensign;  he 
is  now  attached  to  Admiral  Sims'  Staff 
in  London.  Edwin  H.  Konold  is  at- 
tending the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp 
Grant;  before  entering  the  camp  he 
had  the  noncommission  rank  of  Regi- 
mental Sergeant-Major.  Joseph  N. 
Lincoln  of  the  317th  Field  Signal  Bat- 
talion, Camp  Devens,  has  been  pro- 
moted to  Sergeant.  Samuel  Loomis 
enlisted  in  the  C.  A.  C.  as  assistant 
electrical  engineer,  with  the  rank  of 
Sergeant;  he  attended  the  officers' 
School  at  Fortress  Monroe,  and  is  now 
a  2d  Lieutenant,  C.  A.  C.  Robert  A. 
McCague  is  in  France  and  as  yet  is  un- 
attached; previous  to  his  sailing  he  was 
stationed  at  Camp  Dodge.  Robert  R. 
McGowan,  322d  Infantry,  Camp  Sher- 
man, has  been  promoted  to  1st  Lieu- 
tenant. Maurice  L.  McNair  attended 
the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C,  Plattsburg,  and  was 
commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant;  he  was 
stationed  at  Camp  Bartlett  in  the 
Supply  Co.,  104th  Regiment  and  is  now 
in  France.  Arthur  J.  Manville  is  a 
Seaman  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Alassachvsetfs. 
Charles  D.  Martin  is  at  the  Army 
Balloon  School,  Ft.  Omaha.  Francis  C. 
Newton  is  a  Private  in  the  M.  E.  R.  C. 
but  will  be  on  inactive  duty  until  he 
completes  his  course  at  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  in  February,  1919. 
John  E.  Ostrander,  Jr.,  is  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Charles  R.  Parks 
is  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Q.  M.  C.  sta- 
tioned at  Camp  Johnston.  Richardson 
Pratt,  2d  Lieutenant,  3G9th  U.  S. 
Infantry  (colored),  formerly  the  15th 
N.  Y.  Infantry,  is  in  France.  Last 
August,  Stuart  E.  Price  enlisted  in  the 
A.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C;  he  attended  the 
Ground  School  at  the  Ohio  State  Uni- 
versity and  was  then  stationed  at  the 
Garden  City  Concentration  Camp;  he 
is  now  in  a  detachment  of  Flying  Cadets 


at  Kelly  Field.  In  June,  1916,  Kenneth 
S.  Reed  enlisted  in  Troop  A,  1st  Oregon 
Cavalry  and  served  on  the  Mexican 
Border  until  the  troop  was  ordered  home 
and  mustered  out  of  service;  he  at- 
tended the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C,  Presidio, 
was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant 
Cavalry,  and  assigned  to  active  duty 
at  Camp  Lewis  with  the  348th  Machine 
Gun  Battalion,  Co.  C,  there  being  no 
Cavalry  Division  at  this  time  in  the 
National  Army;  he  has  since  been  made 
a  mounted  officer.  Richard  A.  Robin- 
son was  commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant, 

F.  A.  O.  R.  C.  at  Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison 
and  assigned  to  the  326th  F.  A.,  Camp 
Taylor.  Charles  W.  Seelye  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  Ordnance,  O.  R.  C, 
and  is  stationed  in  the  Ordnance  De- 
partment, Washington.  James  K. 
Smith  enlisted  last  December  in  the 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  is  training  at  the 
School  of  Military  Aeronautics,  Ithaca. 
Lowell  R.  Smith  has  completed  his 
training  at  Park  Field  and  is  now  a  2d 
Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C,  stationed 
at  Camp  Dick,  Texas.     Lieut.  William 

G.  Thayer  has  been  transferred  to  the 
7th  Battalion,  101st  Regiment,  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Devens.  J.  Brinkerhoff 
Tomlinson  is  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
aboard  the  U.  S.  S.  S.  C.  215.  Webster 
H.  Warren  is  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the 
G.  A.  C,  Ft.  H.  G.  Wright.  Paul  D. 
Weathers  is  at  Kelly  Field,  San  Antonio 
and  has  just  earned  his  commission  in 
the  Signal  Reserve  Corps,  Aviation 
Section. 

'16. — Last  June,  Carl  Ahlers  enlisted 
in  the  Veteran  Corps  of  Artillery,  9th 
Battery,  N.  Y.  N.  G.,  was  a  Sergeant 
of  the  1st  Provisional  Battery,  and  then 
in  the  Supply  Co.,  306th  Inf.,  N.  A.; 
he  is  now  attending  the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C, 
Camp  Upton.  The  following  is  an 
extract  from  a  letter  from  Charles  B. 


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Ames,  Ensign  U.  S.  X.  R.  Flying  Corps 
stationed  at  the  Naval  Air  Station,  San 
Diego : 

"We  are  developing  a  new  air  sta- 
tion here  and  are  kept  busy  with 
executive  work,  and  teaching  Ground 
School  to  numerous  mechanics.  North 
Island,  where  a  large  Army  Aviation 
School  is  located,  is  to  be  shared  by  us 
and  the  Navy  is  building  hangars  and 
quarters  there  as  fast  as  possible.  I 
expect  to  be  transferred  there  in  a  couple 
of  weeks  and  get  back  at  my  old  job, 
teaching  flying." 

Robert  J.  Anderson  is  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, 301st  F.  A.,  Camp  Devens. 
Edward  D.  Andrews  enlisted  in  the 
Q.  M.  C.  and  since  last  August  has 
been  stationed  in  the  Camp  Quarter- 
masters' Detachment,  Camp  Devens. 
Harold  V.  Andrews  is  at  Camp  Dix. 
Thomas  AV.  Ashley  is  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  Marine  Corps  stationed  at  Quantico, 
Va.  Henry  W.  Barnes,  Jr.,  is  in  France 
with  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  C.  Tony  Barone 
is  a  member  of  the  2d  Training  Brigade, 
Line  4,  Kelly  Field.  Wilfrid  S.  Bastine 
is  a  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C.  William 
A.  Bowers  is  in  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment, Paris.  Merrill  H.  Boynton  is  in 
France  as  a  private  in  the  11th  Engi- 
neers; this  regiment  was  in  the  action 
before  Cambrai  in  which  the  engineers 
dropped  their  shovels  and  took  to  their 
guns — the  first  Americans  to  fight  in 
the  open.  Harold  G.  Brewton  enlisted 
last  April  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  is 
Gunner's  Mate,  3rd  Class.  Herbert  G. 
Bristol  has  enlisted  in  Co.  B,  302d  Field 
Battalion,  Signal  Corps.  Lowell  Cady 
is  a  Lieutenant,  junior  grade,  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Oscar  L.  Chell  is  a 
Radio  Electrician,  3rd  Class,  on  board 
the  U.  S.  S.  PennsijJvania.  Franklin 
Clark  is  an  Ensign  in  the  Naval  Flying 
Corps,  and  has  been  training  at  Akron, 
and  also  at  the  Naval  Air  Station, 
Rockaway  Beach.     Last  Ai)ril,  John  F. 


Creamer.  Jr.,  joined  Battalion  C, 
R.  1.  N.  C;  this  battalion  was  mustered 
into  the  Federal  service  in  July  and 
assigned  to  the  301st  F.  A.;  he  sailed  for 
France  in  October.  David  S.  Cutler 
attended  the  Plattsburg  Camp,  was 
commissioned  a  Lieutenant,  and  as- 
signed to  the  103rd  Infantry;  he  is  now 
in  France.  Theodore  R.  Dayton  is  a 
Cadet  in  the  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C;  he  has 
completed  his  Ground  School  Course  at 
M.  I.  T.  and  will  continue  his  training 
at  the  Flying  School  at  Park  Field. 
Alfonso  G.  Dugan  served  for  two  years 
in  the  1st  111.  Cavalry;  after  being  at 
Camp  Logan  in  the  122d  F.  A.  for  six 
months,  he  was  detailed  to  the  R.  O. 
T.  C.  at  Camp  Stanley,  but  is  now  back 
with  his  regiment  at  Camp  Logan. 
William  C.  Esty,  2d,  is  a  member  of 
Co.  B,  333rd  Machine  Gun  Battalion, 
Camp  Grant.  William  Gates,  Jr.,  2d 
Lieutenant,  151st  F.  A.,  is  on  detached 
service  as  an  Aerial  Observer.  Lieut. 
Robert  S.  Gillett,  who  has  been  sta- 
tioned at  Camp  Devens,  has  been  ap- 
pointed an  aerial  observer  and  sent  to 
Ft.  Sill  for  training.  Edwin  H.  Good- 
ridge  joined  the  Headquarter  Troop  at 
Camp  Devens,  last  September;  the 
duties  of  this  troop  are  to  act  as  guard 
and  escort  for  the  Divisional  Staff 
Officers  and  as  orderlies  and  dispatch 
bearers;  it  is  a  mounted  organization; 
he  has  been  selected  for  the  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Roland  B.  Graham  enlisted  last  May  in 
Troop  A,  1st  Penn.  Cavalry;  he  is  now 
in  the  3rd  Officers'  Training  Class  in 
Headquarters  Co.,  108th  U.  S.  F.  A., 
Camp  Hancock.  Paul  S.  Greene  is  in 
France  and  is  a  Lieutenant  in  the  A.  S. 
S.  E.  R.  C;  he  was  formerly  with  the 
Norton-Harjes  Ambulance  Unit  No.  5. 
Howard  J.  Heavens  enlisted  last  April 
in  the  6th  Mass.  Inf.;  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Co.  A,  2Gth  Mounted  Police 
and  has  been  in  France  since  last  Octo- 


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ber.  Percy  M.  Hughes  was  commis- 
sioned a  1st  Lieutenant  at  the  2d 
R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Niagara,  and  attached 
to  the  155th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Lee; 
he  is  now  permanently  assigned  to 
Co.  E,  55th  Pioneer  Inf.,  at  present 
located  at  Camp  Wadsworth.  George 
N.  Keeney  enlisted  with  the  New  York 
Hospital  Unit  last  Jinie;  he  is  now  a  1st 
Class  Private  in  Base  Hospital  No.  9, 
France.  Lewis  M.  Knapp  is  in  the  3rd 
Battery,  F.  A.,  Leon  Springs  Training 
Camp,  Camp  Stanley.  George  H. 
Lane  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  last 
April;  he  was  called  into  active  service 
at  the  New  Haven  Training  Station 
with  the  rating  of  Coxswain;  in  Janu- 
ary, he  was  commissioned  an  Ensign 
and  temporarily  assigned  to  the  Naval 
Training  Camp,  Pelham  Bay;  later  he 
was  given  command  of  a  Submarine 
Chaser.  Bertram  G.  Leiper  is  a  Chief 
Yeoman  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  is  on 
the  U.  S.  S.  Neio  York,  the  flagship  of 
the  Atlantic  Squadron.  John  S.  Mc- 
Cloy  is  a  2d  Lieutenant,  Headquarters 
Co.,  77th  F.  A.  Ralph  Mansfield  was 
in  the  first  draft  to  Camp  Upton  and 
was  assigned  to  Co.  F,  308th  Inf.;  in 
November,  he  was  transferred  to  the 

A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C,  and  sent  to  Camp 
Kelly.  Alan  D.  Marks,  Cadet,  A.  S.  S. 
O.  R.  C,  is  attending  the  School  of 
Military  Aeronautics,  Princeton.  Law- 
rence C.  Meredith  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
in  the  Sanitary  Corps.  Lieut.  Douglas 
D.  Milne  is  in  Co.  18,  164th  Depot 
Brigade  and  at  present  is  engaged  in 
receiving  and  training  drafted  men  com- 
ing to  Camp  Funston.     Lieut.  Charles 

B.  Peck,  after  receiving  his  commission 
at  Plattsburg,  was  stationed  for  some 
time  at  Camp  Dix  but  finally  joined  the 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  is  now  stationed 
at  Waco,  Texas,  with  the  45th  Squadron, 
3rd  Regiment.  Murray  J.  Quinn  is  in 
the  Q.  M.  O.  R.  C.  stationed  at  Camp 


Johnston.  Stuart  W.  Rider  attended 
the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Snelling,  was 
commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 
O.  R.  C.  and  assigned  to  Battery  B, 
337th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dodge;  he  is  now 
taking  a  three-months  course  in  Auto- 
mobile Mechanics  at  Dunwoody  In- 
stitute, Minneapolis.  Harold  W. 
Sawyer  is  in  the  Quartermasters'  Truck 
LTnit  at  Camp  Meigs;  he  was  transferred 
from  the  33rd  Co.,  9th  Battalion,  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Devens,  and  has  been 
in  service  since  last  November.  Charles 
F.  Weeden,  Jr.,  has  transferred  from 
the  F.  A.  to  the  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  is 
taking  a  course  at  the  Princeton  Military 
School  of  Aeronautics.  Arthur  P. 
White,  having  been  three  months  with 
the  307th  F.  A.,  Camp  Dix,  is  attending 
the  R.  O.  T.  C.  1st  Battery,  Camp  Dix. 

'17. — Lieut.  G.  Irving  Baily  is  now  on 
the  Headquarters'  Stafif  at  Camp  Dix. 
Last  April,  Myers  E.  Baker  enlisted  in 
the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  was  stationed  on 
a  private  yacht  which  had  been  turned 
over  to  the  Naval  Service;  he  was  later 
transferred  to  Naval  Aviation  and 
entered  M.  I.  T.  for  a  course  in  ground 
work;  on  the  completion  of  his  course 
he  went  to  Key  West  and  was  commis- 
sioned an  Ensign.  Earle  F.  Blair  has 
been  promoted  to  Sergeant  M.  O.  R. 
and  is  stationed  at  Camp  Upton.  Frank 
L.  Buckley.  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  a 
Military  Instructor  at  the  Navy  Pay 
School  for  Ensigns  in  Washington;  he 
has  been  stationed  there  since  last 
October  and  is  awaiting  orders  to  go  to 
sea.  John  D.  Clark,  2d  Lieutenant,  is 
attached  as  an  Instructor  to  the  15th 
F.  A.,  France.  Craig  P.  Cochrane,  who 
is  a  2d  Lieutenant,  30th  Inf.,  has  been 
commended  as  being  the  officer  best 
qualified  to  instruct  in  the  use  of  the 
French  Automatic  Rifle.  Herbert  R. 
DeBevoise  is  with  Co.  I,  34th  Engineers 


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Corps,  Camp  Dix.  Lieut.  Ralph  E. 
DeCastro  is  in  Fiance.  E.  Page  Downer 
is  in  France  with  the  New  York  City 
Hospital  Unit  with  the  rank  of  Sergeant. 
Henry  I.  Fillman  is  in  France  with  the 
U.  S.  Army  Base  Hospital  No.  15. 
Walter  P.  Fraker,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has 
received  his  commission  as  Ensign  and 
is  now  stationed  at  Detroit  in  the  Sec- 
tion Patrol.  Henry  H.  Fuller  has  en- 
listed in  the  Aviation  Corps  and  is 
awaiting  call.  Last  July,  Charles  C. 
Card  enlisted  in  Battery  E,  1st  Ohio 
Field  Artillery;  he  was  furloughed  in 
September  to  enter  the  2d  R.  O.  T.  C, 
Ft.  Benjamin  Harrison,  received  a  com- 
mission as  2d  Lieutenant  and  was  as- 
signed to  Camp  Funston,  where  he  was 
attached  to  the  342d  Regiment,  F.  A. 
Lieut.  Sheldon  B.  Goodrich,  Co.  K, 
310th  Inf.,  was  ordered  to  Ft.  Sill  for 
the  grenade  school  and  has  now  re- 
turned to  his  Company  at  Camp  Dix 
with  the  rank  of  Assistant  Divisional 
Instructor.  David  C.  Hale  completed 
his  course  at  the  M.  I.  T.  Naval  Avia- 
tion Ground  School  in  January  and  was 
recommended  for  aerographic  work  at 
Blue  Hill  Observatory;  in  January,  he 
joined  the  Royal  Flying  Corps  at  Ft. 
Worth.  Samuel  A.  Howard,  Jr.,  is  in 
the  Q.  M.  O.  R.  C.  at  Camp  Johnston. 
Paul  A.  Jenkins  enlisted  in  the  1st 
Illinois  Engineers;  he  was  appointed 
Battalion  Sergeant  Major  and  later 
Regimental  Sergeant  Major;  last  Janu- 
ary, he  was  selected  for  the  R.  O.  T.  C. 
and  is  now  at  Leon  Springs  Training 
Camp,  Camp  Stanley.  Charles  J. 
Jessup  is  a  member  of  Base  Hospital 
No.  37  and  is  stationed  at  the  14th 
Regiment  Armory,  Brooklyn.  Chandler 
T.  Jones  has  recently  enlisted  as  Yeo- 
man in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Paul  C. 
Lestrade  is  in  France  and  is  a  Sergeant 
in  the  103rd  F.  A.,  Battery  C,  26th 
Division.     William  F.  Loomis  is  a  1st 


Lieutenant,  Aviation  Corps;  he  served 
with  the  French  Army  until  February, 
1918,  when  he  transferred  to  the  Avia- 
tion Service,  U.  S.  A.  John  C.  Mc- 
Garrahan  is  a  1st  class  hospital  appren- 
tice, U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  and  is  attending 
the  Harvard  Medical  School.  Ensign 
Charles  B.  McGowan  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  the  Officers'  Reserve  School 
at  Annapolis.  Lieut.  Edward  J. 
Maloney,  Machine  Gun  Co.,  50th 
U.  S.,  has  been  transferred  from  an  In- 
fantry Officer  in  Co.  D,  to  a  mounted 
Machine  Gun  officer;  his  company  is 
stationed  with  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment on  guard  duty  in  So.  Baltimore. 
Eric  H.  Marks,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  doing 
special  work  in  connection  with  the 
U.  S.  Naval  Communications  Service. 
Edward  S.  Marples  attended  the 
R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Ft.  Sheridan,  was  com- 
missioned a  2d  Lieutenant  in  August, 
and  assigned  to  the  341st  Inf.,  Camp 
Grant;  in  January,  1918,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  1st  Lieutenant.  Lieut.  Alfred 
D.  Mason,  Jr.,  has  been  transferred  to 
the  15th  Co.,  152d  Depot  Brigade, 
Camp  Upton.  Herbert  H.  Melcher 
took  a  six-weeks  Stores  Course  at 
Columbia  University  in  preparation 
for  entering  the  Ordnance  Department; 
at  the  end  of  the  course  he  continued 
his  studies  at  Watertown  Arsenal  and 
was  then  transferred  to  the  Ordnance 
Department  at  Washington.  William 
M.  Miller's  address  is  Co.  M,  305th  Inf., 
Camp  LTpton,  N.  Y'.  Corporal  Francis 
L.  Moginot,  Headquarters  Co.,  55th 
Artillery,  C.  A.  C,  is  now  in  France  and 
has  been  assigned  to  office  duties. 
Robert  F.  Moore  is  a  Sergeant  in  Base 
Hospital  No.  37,  France.  Robert 
Munroe  served  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
from  June  to  December,  and  was  then 
transferred  to  the  Aviation  Service;  he 
is  now  waiting  to  be  called  to  the 
Ground  School  at  M.  I.  T.    Joseph  J. 


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Murray  enlisted  last  December  in  the 
Quartermaster's  Corps,  as  Storekeeper 
and  was  stationed  at  Camp  Johnston. 
Richard  A.  O'Brien  is  a  Sergeant  in  the 
103rd  Ammunition  Train,  28th  Divi- 
sion, Camp  Hancock.  Hilmar  E. 
Rauschenbusch,  who  went  across  with 
the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  (Amherst  Unit),  has 
been  transferred  to  a  unit  serving  with 
the  French  armies.  Whitney  W.  Stark 
enlisted  last  June  in  the  Q.  M.  E.  R.  C; 
he  reported  for  duty  at  Governor's 
Island  and  was  assigned  to  recruiting 
duty  in  New  York  City;  in  August,  he 
reported  on  detached  service  at  Platts- 
burg  and  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, Inf.;  he  sailed  in  January  as  a 
Casual  Officer  and  was  made  Ship's 
Censor  going  over;  he  is  now  in  France. 
Sergeant  Freeman  Swett  is  attending 
the  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Devens.  Last 
June,  Herbert  G.  Vaughn  enlisted  in 
the  U.  S.  M.  E.  R.  C.  and  attached  to 
Base  Hospital  No.  33;  he  is  training  in 
Albany  preparatory  to  service  abroad. 
Palmer  C.  Williams  was  commissioned 
a  2d  Lieutenant  at  the  1st  Plattsburg 
Camp  and  assigned  to  Co.  K,  302d  Inf., 
Camp  Devens.  Barnard  Willis'  first 
assignment  was  the  314th  Engineers, 
Co.  A,  Camp  Funston;  in  December, 
he  was  transferred  to  the  1st  N.  H.  Inf., 
Camp  Greene;  all  the  men  in  this  regi- 
ment speak  French.  Last  December, 
William  R.  Whitney,  enlisted  in  the 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C;  he  is  now  attending 
an  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Austin,  Texas. 
Marmaduke  R.  Yawger  is  a  Chief 
Yeoman,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  previous  to 
his  enlistment  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  he 
had  served  as  Sergeant  in  the  1st  N.  Y. 
Cavalry,  Machine  Gun  Troop,  but  was 
honorably  discharged  last  August. 

'18.— Arthur  T.  Atkinson,  Battery 
D,  112th  F.  A.,  Camp  McClellan,  has 
been  appointed  Corporal  and  Clerk  of 


the  Company.  Albert  W.  Bailej%  who 
is  with  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  has  been  in 
actual  service  with  a  French  Division 
since  last  fall.  Raymond  P.  Bentley  is 
an  Ensign  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Matsonia. 
Dwight  B.  Billings  is  a  Cadet,  15th  Co., 
Naval  Aviation  Detachment,  M.  I.  T. 
David  D.  Bixler  is  in  the  Officers'  Train- 
ing School,  3rd  Co.,  79th  Division, 
Camp  Meade.  T.  Bradford  Boardman 
enlisted  last  July  with  the  American 
Red  Cross  and  served  until  December, 
when  he  attended  an  Artillery  School  of 
Instruction  with  the  rank  of  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, F.  A.;  in  January,  he  was  at- 
tached as  Instructor  to  Battalion  F, 
15th  F.  A.,  and  a  little  later  transferred 
to  the  12th  F.  A.  John  B.  Brainerd,  Jr., 
Co.  F,  Inf.,  9th  Regiment,  has  been  pro- 
moted to  1st  Lieutenant.  Franklin  C. 
Butler  is  a  Corporal  in  Battery  B,  103rd 
F.  A.,  now  in  PVance;  he  enlisted  in  the 
R.  I.  N.  G.  last  April  and,  when  the 
National  Guard  was  mobilized  in  July 
and  taken  over  into  the  U.  S.  Service, 
his  battalion  became  a  part  of  the  103rd 
Regiment  of  heavy  field  artillery,  26th 
Division;  he  is  now  a  Corporal.  Vahan 
A.  Churukian  is  with  the  French  Legion 
D'Orient.  Gordon  M.  Curtis  enlisted 
in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  last  June;  he  has 
been  transferred  to  the  Aviation  Service, 
and  is  now  waiting  to  be  called  to  the 
Ground  School,  M.  I.  T.  Charles  H. 
Durham,  Jr.,  attended  the  U.  S.  N.  R. 
Mine-laying  School  at  Newport,  and  was 
assigned  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Roanoke.  Last 
June,  Ralph  E.  Ellinwood  sailed  with 
the  A.  A.  F.  S.;  upon  the  discontinu- 
ance of  this  service  he  enlisted  in  the 
U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  for  the  period  of  the  war 
and  was  assigned  to  the  unit  S.  S.  U.  68. 
James  T.  Fredericks  is  a  Private  at 
Fortress  Monroe.  John  S.  Gillies' 
address  has  been  changed  to  S.  S.  U. 
631,  Convois  Autos,  Par  B.  C.  M., 
France.     Lieut.  Edward  B.  Greene  has 


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been  transferred  to  the  315th  Machine 
Gun  Battalion.  Arthur  R.  Holt  has 
enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  Flying  Corps 
and  is  in  training  at  Cambridge.  Dexter 
Hunneman  is  a  Boatswain's  Mate  in 
the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Last  December, 
Gardner  Jackson  enlisted  as  a  Private 
in  the  Aviation  Section  of  the  S.  R.  C. 
at  Ft.  Logan;  in  January,  he  was  de- 
tailed to  the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp 
Funston;  before  enlisting,  he  was  a 
volunteer  worker  in  El  Paso  County  for 
the  U.  S.  Food  Administration.  Dexter 
M.  Keezer  enlisted  on  the  declaration 
of  war  and  entered  the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C, 
Ft.  Riley;  he  was  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  and  assigned  to  Co.  A, 
340th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  Camp 
Funston;  last  January,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  1st  Lieutenant.  W.  Duncan 
Macfarlane  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
last  June  and,  after  training  at  the 
Harvard  Radio  School,  has  been  on  duty 
on  the  LT.  S.  S.  Kearsarge  as  Electrician, 
3rd  Class.  Last  April,  Charles  S. 
Matthews  enlisted  in  Co.  E,  1st  N.  Y. 
Cavalry,  but  was  transferred  to  the 
A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C.  and  assigned  to  the 
Ground  School  at  M.  I.  T.;  shortly 
after  his  graduation  he  left  for  France 
to  complete  his  flying  instruction,  and 
in  February  was  sent  to  Italy  to  undergo 
further  intensive  training.  Burton 
Orell  is  in  the  2d  N.  Y.  Ambulance  Co. 
at  Camp  Wadsworth.  Waldo  E.  Pratt, 
Jr.,  served  with  the  American  Red  Cross 
from  July  until  November,  when  he 
attended  an  Artillery  School  of  Instruc- 
tion with  the  rank  of  2d  Lieutenant; 
in  January,  he  was  attached  as  In- 
structor to  Battalion  F,  15th  F.  A.,  but 
was  later  transferred  to  the  12th  F.  A. 
Leonard  M.  Prince  has  completed  the 
course  in  the  School  for  French  Officers 
at  Meaux,  to  which  he  was  recom- 
mended by  French  Officers  with  whom 
he  served,  because  of  his  excellent  work. 


John  H.  Quill,  gunner,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
was  assigned  to  the  South  Dakota  until 
the  last  of  March,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Brooklj'n  Navy  Yard. 
Pilot  Raymond  T.  Ross  has  been  in 
France  in  the  French  Aviation  Service 
for  over  a  year;  he  has  personally  as- 
sumed all  expenses  connected  with  his 
work.  Lieutenant  Sigourney  Thayer, 
Aviation  Corps,  is  in  France.  Byron  E. 
Thomas  is  in  France  with  the  U.  S. 
A.  A.  S.,  Casual  Co.  No.  2.  Arthur  F. 
Tylee  is  a  Battalion  Sergeant  Major  in 
the  Headquarters  Detachment,  Motor 
Section,  301st  Ammunition  Train, 
Camp  Devens.  William  C.  Washburn 
has  completed  his  training  at  Park  Field 
and  is  now  a  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  O. 
R.  C,  stationed  at  Camp  Dick,  Texas. 
Morris  H.  Williams  is  a  Flying  Cadet 
at  Park  Field.  Clifford  J.  Young  is  a 
Private,  M.  O.  R.  C,  at  Base  Hospital 
No.  15,  France. 

'19. — George  T.  Boone  has  been  com- 
missioned an  Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Charles  B.  Bull  is  a  member  of  U.  S. 
Base  Hospital  No.  1  and  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  the  12th  Regiment  Armory, 
New  York  City.  Last  August,  John 
Chester  enlisted  as  Private  in  Head- 
quarters Troop,  37th  Division  at 
Columbus,  Ohio,  and  is  now  Sergeant 
in  the  same  troop  at  Camp  Sheridan. 
John  R.  Cotton  sailed  last  spring,  ex- 
pecting to  drive  an  ambulance,  but 
instead  entered  the  Aviation  Corps  in 
the  Lafayette  Escadrille;  he  was  trained 
at  Avord,  Savy  and  Plessis-Belville  and 
is  now  at  the  front  driving  a  Breguet 
machine  with  the  Escadrille  Breguet 
No.  120,  located  in  the  Vosages.  Philip 
Y.  F^astman,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has  been 
transferred  to  Naval  Aviation  and  is 
training  at  the  Naval  Aviation  Detach- 
ment, M.  I.  T.;  previous  to  his  transfer 
he  was  3rd  class  Quartermaster  on  a 


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patrol  boat.  James  H.  Ehvell  is  a 
Private,  10th  Co.,  3rd  Battalion,  151st 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens.  Ray- 
mond E.  Evleth  is  in  an  Aviation 
School.  Willis  H.  McAllister  enlisted 
in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Auxiliary,  upon 
the  School  Municipal  Pier,  Chicago; 
the  purpose  of  the  organization  is  to 
train  men  for  oflBces  in  the  Naval  Re- 
serve Auxiliary.  Bruce  S.  McDonald 
enlisted  last  February  in  the  R.  D.  N.  R. 
as  Seaman,  2d  Class;  he  is  at  present 
training  at  the  Naval  Training  Station, 
Seattle.  Merriam  W.  Sheldon  is  a 
Corporal  in  the  Washburn  Ambulance 
Co.,  No.  347,  312th  Sanitary  Train 
Division,  Camp  Pike;  this  company 
has  made  a  remarkable  record;  with  12 
ambulances  and  as  many  drivers,  the 
company  has  taken  care  of  all  the  sick 
and  disabled  of  Camp  Pike  during  the 
winter  of  1917-18,  carrying  sometimes 
as  many  as  120  cases  a  day  for  weeks  at 
a  time,  to  and  from  base  hospitals; 
also,  during  the  eight  months  the  com- 
pany has  been  in  service  there  has  not 
been  a  single  case  of  discipline  recorded. 
Stuart  P.  Snelling  is  a  Sergeant,  Co.  F, 
306th  Inf.,  Camp  Upton.  Harold  B. 
Spencer,  who  has  been  located  at  Fort 
Ethan  Allen,  was  transferred  to  Camp 
Merritt  last  March  and  from  there 
sailed  for  France;  he  was  promoted  to 
Sergeant  and  is  in  the  Sanitary  Detach- 
ment, 2d  Cavalry.    John  B.  Stanton  is 


a  Field  Clerk  in  the  Adjutant  General's 
Office,  and  at  present  is  on  duty  in  a 
French  seaport  in  charge  of  the  records. 
Henry  D.  Whitcomb  entered  the  service 
last  April  as  a  1st  Class  Seaman  and 
was  detailed  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Gurkha, 
where  he  served  until  September;  he 
then  attended  the  Hingham  Naval 
Cadet  School  and  in  February  entered 
the  Harvard  Ensign  School.  Last 
November,  Robert  R.  White,  Jr.,  was 
transferred  from  Field  Hospital  No.  105 
to  Headquarters  Troop,  27th  Division, 
Camp  Wadsworth. 

'20. — Paul  Apraham  has  been  sta- 
tioned at  the  Naval  Torpedo  Station  at 
Narragansett  Bay,  Class  2,  from  which 
he  has  been  transferred  to  the  Naval 
Auxiliary  Reserves,  Class  3.  Stanley 
Ayers  has  been  ordered  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  State  of  Texas  at  Austin 
for  special  instruction  in  Aviation. 
Dudley  B.  Cornell  is  in  the  104th  Ma- 
chine Gun  Battalion  at  Camp  Wads- 
worth.  Burton  E.  Hildebrandt  is  train- 
ing for  an  Ensignship  in  Naval  Aviation 
at  the  Naval  Aviation  Detachment, 
M.  I.  T.  Harry  R.  Horgan  is  a  2d  Class 
Seaman  on  board  Submarine  Chaser 
No.  248.  Albert  B.  Weaver,  Jr.,  is  in 
France  with  Hospital  Unit  D.  Henry 
M.  Young  is  a  Flying  Cadet,  S.  E.  R.  C. 
at  Gerstner  Field. 


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THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 


The  Fifth  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Alumni  Council  on  March  15th  and 
16th  brought  together  the  largest  gath- 
ering of  Amherst  men  ever  held  in 
Springfield.  As  at  the  meeting  in  Wash- 
ington a  year  ago,  "The  Great  War" 
was  the  central  theme.  Then  the  mem- 
bers listened  to  the  Secretary  of  State 
as  he  told  them  in  impressive  words 
that  our  country  was  "on  the  brink  of 
war."  This  year  they  M'ere  thrilled  as 
President  Meiklejohn  declared  that  "no 
country  was  ever  better  united  on  an 
issue,  a  fight  and  a  danger  than  America 
is."  He  continued,  "The  issue  is  one 
particularly  appealing  to  college  men, 
because  we  are  fighting  for  an  ideal. 
A  nation  has  refused  to  believe  in  the 
things  of  truth  and  justice  which  college 
men  cling  to  when  their  ideals  are  high- 
est. A  nation  thinks  that  right  is  fist 
power  and  that  truth  is  force,  and  we 
are  determined  that  no  such  doctrine 
shall  prevail  on  the  face  of  the  earth." 

The  meeting  opened  with  a  dinner  in 
the  ball  room  of  the  Hotel  Kimball. 
Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  President  of  the 
Connecticut  Valley  Alumni  Association, 
presided  and  wittily  introduced  the 
toastmaster,  the  Rev.  Nehemiah  Boyn- 
ton,  D.  D.,  Chaplain  of  the  13th  Regi- 
ment, Ft.  Hamilton.  The  speakers 
were  President  Meiklejohn,  and  Dr. 
Albert  Parker  Fitch  of  the  Amherst 
Faculty.  Major  Kendall  Emerson,  '97, 
who  was  to  have  been  present,  was  de- 
tained in  Washington.  He  sent  as  his 
message  a  tribute  to  the  British.  "For 
the  past  eighteen  months  I  have  been 
serving  under  two  flags.     The  experi- 


ence has  greatly  strengthened  my  love 
for  America.  It  has  also  aroused  a  pro- 
found affection  for  the  British  race,  a 
people  too  little  understood  by  us  with 
our  scanty  knowledge  of  national  char- 
acter. To  know  your  England  you 
must  know  Englishmen,  tens  of  thou- 
sands of  them,  in  the  primitive  naked- 
ness of  war.  Modest  as  a  maid,  she 
shrinks  from  the  praise  of  a  grateful 
world,  choosing  to  be  misunderstood, 
if  necessary  to  avoid  exploitation.  For 
nearly  three  years  she  stood  between  us 
and  the  Barbarian,  voluntarily  and  un- 
thanked,  nay,  rewarded  by  suspicion 
and  even  curses  and  a  threatened  breach 
of  fraternal  feeling.  She  has  endured 
our  awkward  puppy  bungling  with  the 
patience  of  a  St.  Bernard.  Some  day 
America  will  know  what  she  has  done 
for  us."  Re  concluded  with  a  toast 
"To  America  and  to  England." 

Dr.  Fitch  told  of  his  experiences  in 
Europe  as  a  Field  Inspector  of  the 
American  Red  Cross  and  gave  a  vivid 
picture  of  the  first  American  troops  in 
France,  and  of  the  return  of  the  repa- 
triates at  Evian-les-Bains. 

President  Meiklejohn,  in  the  words  of 
the  Springfield  Republican,  emphasized 
the  fact  that  "Amherst,  like  its  sister 
colleges,  is  a  college  at  war,  taking  its 
place  with  all  loyal  Americans  in  defense 
of  the  country  and  of  the  ideals  and 
ideas  for  which  it  is  fighting."  The  Re- 
publican  continued:  "Scores  of  under- 
graduates and  hundreds  of  alumni  in 
active  war  .service,  nearly  every  student 
eagerly  training  under  skilled  leaders 
for  service  at  the  front  when  his  turn 
shall  come;  this  was  the  picture  simply 
presented,  not  as  peculiar  to  Amherst 
but  as  typical  of  American  manhood 
and     womanhood     everywhere.       De- 


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pleted  rolls  of  undergraduate  classes, 
and  marching  men  on  the  campus, 
meaning  that  the  rolls  are  still  further 
to  be  depleted,  show  the  college  mili- 
tant. But  reassuring  also  is  the  record 
of  scholarship,  showing  fully  main- 
tained standards,  though  the  appeals 
for  action  are  insistent  and  distracting." 
Referring  to  President  ISIeiklejohn's 
announcement  of  the  establishment  by 
Amherst  of  an  Infantry  imit  of  the 
Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps  and 
also  of  a  two-years'  course  for  men  who 
wish  to  combine  two  years  of  liberal 
education  with  two  years  of  military 
training,  the  Republican  added,  "To 
adjust  the  curriculum  of  a  college  to 
meet  the  demands  alike  for  direct  serv- 
ice in  the  fighting  forces  of  the  nation, 
and  for  making  educated  men  is  a  prob- 
lem difficult,  if  not  impossible,  fully  to 
solve.  Shortened  courses,  in  which 
something  of  continuity  and  thorough- 
ness must  be  sacrificed,  supply  as  well 
as  possible  the  needs  of  many  of  the 
younger  students  whom  the  great  war 
may  yet  call  upon;  specialized  instruc- 
tion must  be  provided  that  the  students 
serving  in  the  military  forces  may  be  as 
useful  as  possible.  Amherst  is  meeting 
its  task  with  intelligence  and  faith.  The 
Connecticut  Valley  is  proud  of  it." 

At  the  business  session  on  Saturday 
reports  were  made  by  the  Secretary  and 
the  Treasurer  of  the  Council  and  by  the 
Executive  and  Finance  Committees  and 
the  Committee  on  War  Records,  Com- 
mencement, Publication,  Publicity,  Ath- 
letics, and  Schools. 

The  Secretary  reported  the  death  of 
Winston  H.  Hagen,  Esq.,  Representa- 
tive of  the  Class  of  1879  and  the  resig- 
nation of  George  W.  Wilder  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Southern  California.  As  the 
Secretary  of  the  Council  is  ex-officio,  a 
member  of  all  committees  and  had  a 
part  in  the  work  of  all  the  committees 
whose  reports  were  presented,  his  report 
was  confined  to  an  oral  presentation  of 
those  matters  which  had  been  handled 
by  him  personally.  These  included  an 
account   of   the   work  of   the   Faculty 


Advisory  Committee  appointed  by  Pres- 
ident Meiklejohn  last  spring  of  which 
he  was  a  member.  The  function  of  this 
committee  was  to  advise  with  under- 
graduates leaving  College  for  some  form 
of  government  service.  The  committee 
endeavored  to  become  acquainted  with 
the  various  branches  of  service  open  to 
undergraduates  and  to  make  sure  that 
each  man  was  familiar  with  the  service 
he  proposed  to  enter  and  reasonably  well 
qualified  for  it. 

The  Finance  Committee  reported 
that  in  the  five  years  since  the  Council 
was  organized  the  Alumni  Fund  had 
increased  from  $20,000  to  $88,000  and 
in  addition  the  Council  had  given  to  the 
College  for  Instruction  $22,000  and  had 
appropriated  for  Publicity  $934.30.  The 
expenses  of  the  Council  organization 
have  averaged  about  $6,000  and  been 
met  by  about  one  hundred  men.  This 
year  the  Finance  Committee  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  reported  to  the  Fi- 
nance Committee  of  the  Alumni  Council 
that  the  College  was  facing  a  deficit  for 
the  current  year  of  $20,000  and  bespoke 
the  aid  of  the  Council  in  meeting  this 
deficit.  The  Finance  Committee  has 
accordingly  solicited  the  alumni  body 
for  subscriptions.  The  letter  which  has 
been  sent  out  contained  the  following 
summary  of  "The  Amherst  of  To-day." 

Nearly  700  Alumni  are  with  the  colors 

Nearly  300  undergraduates  are  en- 
rolled with  the  Amherst  Unit  of  the 
Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps. 

Nine  members  of  the  Faculty  are  en- 
gaged in  war  work,  five  of  them  being 
on  leave  of  absence. 

The  College  enrollment  has  dropped 
from  500  to  350. 

The  loss  in  tuition  for  the  current 
year  will  be  approximately  $20,000. 

Five  College  buildings  have  been 
closed  to  aid  in  meeting  the  local  fuel 
situation. 


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217 


All  economies  possible  have  been 
made,  and  yet  there  will  be  an  operating 
deficit  of  about  $20,000  for  the  current 
year. 

The  report  of  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee referred  to  the  changes  made  neces- 
sary in  the  Commencement  program  by 
the  entrance  of  our  country  into  the 
war,  to  the  American  University  Union 
and  Paris  Bureau  project,  and  to  the 
new  committee  on  War  Records. 

Shortly  after  the  declaration  of  war, 
a  Committee  on  War  Records  was  cre- 
ated by  the  Executive  Committee.  It 
was  felt  that  for  the  present  the  greater 
part  of  the  work  would  be  done  by  the 
Secretary's  office,  but  that  later  a  com- 
mittee would  be  necessary  to  edit  and 
perhaps  publish  the  material.  The 
records  are  kept  on  cards  which  specify 
briefly  the  name,  class,  home  address, 
parents'  names  and  address,  date  and 
place  of  enlistment  or  entry,  rank  on 
enlistment,  and  branch  of  service,  com- 
pany, regiment,  unit,  etc.,  or  name  of 
Civil  Committee  of  which  the  alumnus 
is  a  member.  The  names  are  divided 
into  "Army  and  Navy"  and  "Civil" 
and  a  duplicate  set  of  "Army  and 
Navy"  was  sent  to  the  Paris  Bureau  of 
the  American  University  Union.  Up  to 
date  over  one  thousand  names  have 
been  received.  Of  these  718  are  in  ac- 
tive service  in  the  Army  and  Navy,  36 
are  actively  engaged  in  Red  Cross  and 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work,  25  of  them  being  in 
Europe.  About  one-third  of  the  men 
in  active  service  are  already  in  Europe 
and  the  rest  are  in  training  camps  in 
different  parts  of  the  country,  most  of 
them  being  commissioned  officers. 
Through  the  War  Records  Committee, 
Christmas  Greetings  from  the  Council 
were  sent  to  all  men  in  service,  and  the 
Secretary's  office  arranged  for  forward- 
ing a  Christmas  Greeting  from  the 
President    and    Mrs.    Meiklejohn    and 


greetings  from  the  Boston  and  New 
York  Alumni  Associations. 

As  has  been  already  announced,  Am- 
herst has  become  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican University  Union  in  Paris,  the  gen- 
eral object  of  which  is  to  give  the  privi- 
leges of  an  American  University  Club 
to  American  College  men  and  their 
friends  who  are  in  Europe  for  military 
or  other  service  in  the  cause  of  the 
Allies.  Amherst  has  also  joined  with 
Harvard,  Bowdoin,  Brown,  Dartmouth 
and  Williams  in  maintaining  a  Bureau 
with  staff  at  the  Paris  headquarters  of 
the  Union.  A  notice  in  regard  to  the 
Union  and  Bureau  was  sent  by  the 
Council  to  all  alumni,  and  a  booklet 
with  map  describing  the  Union  was  sent 
to  all  alumni  in  active  service.  The 
registrants  at  the  University  Union 
from  the  affiliated  colleges  up  to  April  1 
have  been  as  follows:  Harvard,  427; 
Amherst,  69;  Bowdoin,  24;  Brown,  40; 
Dartmouth,  74;  Williams,  54. 

The  following  Amherst  men  regis- 
tered at  the  Union  from  December  27th 
to  March  12th.  This  list  supplements 
the  one  given  in  the  February  issue  of 
the  Quarterly. 

K.  O.  Shrewsbury,  '14,  1st  Lieut. 
A.  S.  O.  R.  C;  Jerome  P.  Jackson,  '97, 
Eng.  U.  S.  R.;  Earle  H.  Lyall,  '98, 
Capt.,  Eng.  U.  S.  R.;  Emory  Pottle 
'99,  1st  Lieut.  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C;  New- 
ton M.  Kimball,  '15,  2d  Lieut.  F.  A.  Q. 
R.  C;  M.  H.  Boynton,  '16,  11th  Eng.; 
Ralph  L.  Loomis,  '08,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.;  William  A.  Bowers,  '16,  Sergeant 
Ordnance  O.  R.  C;  C.  C.  St.  Clare,  '03, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.;  Winfield  A.  Townsend, 
'05,  Y.  M.  C.  A.;  G.  R.  Hall,  '15,  Gas 
Defense  Service;  Glenn  F.  Card,  '20, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Arthur  L.  Ralston,  '15, 
American  Overseas  Motor  Transport; 
R.  B.  Chalmers,  '16,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.; 
Harry  K.  Granger,  '17,  Lieut.  Inf.  O. 
R.  C;  Robert  G.  Armstrong,  '12,  Y.  M. 


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C.  A.;  Sargent  H.  Wellman,  '12,  1st 
Lieut.  Labor  Dept.  Inf.;  William  F. 
Peirce,  '88,  Publicity  Red  Cross;  John 
P.  Ashley,  '11,  Y.  M.  C.  A.;  Edward  J. 
Bolt,  '09,  U.  S.  N.  Air  Service;  Robert 
H.  Kennedy,  '08,  1st  Lieut.  M.  O.  R.  C; 
Lawrence  C.  Ames,  '19,  Am.  Red  Cross; 
Charles  E.  Putnam,  '20,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.; 
George  T.  Boone,  '19,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.;  Fred  B.  Galloway,  '85,  Sec'y, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.;  Ralph  Whitelaw,  '02,  Y. 
M.  C.  A.;  H.  Rauschenbusch,  '17,  U.  S. 
A.  A.  S. 

The  athletic  report  showed  that  the 
College  had  followed  the  same  general 
policy  this  year  as  the  one  adopted  early 
last  spring.  Sports  are  being  main- 
tained but  expenses  have  been  reduced 
to  a  minimum.  The  Publicity  Report 
referred  to  the  fact  that  some  of  the 
publicity  work  heretofore  carried  on 
had  given  way  to  matters  of  pressing 
importance  brought  on  by  the  war. 
During  the  year  a  Press  Bureau  was 
organized,  and  an  illustrated  booklet 
"At  Amherst  in  War  Time"  will  soon 
be  published. 

The  Publication  Committee,  report- 
ing for  the  Amherst  Graduates' 
Quarterly,  recalled  the  appointment 
of  John  B.  O'Brien,  '05,  as  editor  of  the 
Alumni  Notes  Department  of  the  Quar- 
terly and  called  attention  to  the  re- 
cording of  the  work  of  Amherst  Alumni 
in  the  National  Service  through  the 
"War  Notes"  of  the  Quarterly.  The 
Treasurer  of  the  Quarterly  presented 
his  report  which  showed  a  deficit  for  the 
year  of  about  $200.  The  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Commencement  referred 


to  the  substitution  of  a  patriotic  meet- 
ing for  the  lawn  ffite  on  Tuesday  evening 
and  showed  total  expenses  for  last  Com- 
mencement of  $722.05  with  all  bills  paid 
and  a  balance  on  hand  of  $84.64.  The 
meetings  concluded  with  an  extended 
discussion  on  Saturday  afternoon  of 
alumni  aid  in  meeting  the  current  obli- 
gations of  the  College  and  of  bringing 
Amherst  to  the  attention  of  desirable 
students  in  the  preparatory  schools  of 
the  country. 

In  choosing  Springfield  as  the  place 
for  the  Fifth  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Council,  the  Executive  Committee  felt 
that  at  no  time  since  the  Council  was 
organized  has  it  been  more  important 
for  alumni  to  be  acquainted  with  the 
work  and  problems  of  the  College  and 
to  stand  firmly  behind  her,  and  that  as 
central  a  place  as  possible  should  be 
selected  for  the  meeting.  The  success 
of  the  meeting  showed  the  wisdom  of 
the  choice. 

The  following  officers  were  elected 
for  the  ensuing  year: 

President,  William  Ives  Washburn,  '76 
Vice-Presidents 

Joseph  R.  Kingman,  '83 

Charles  B.  Raymond,  '88 

Luther  Ely  Smith,  '94 
Secretary,  Frederick  S.  Allis,  '93 
Treasurer,  Ernest  M.  Whitcomb,  '04 
Executive  Committee 

Chairman,  Henry  H.  Titsworth,  '97 

Walter  C.  Low,  '85 

Lucius  R.  Eastman,  '95 

Charles  K.  Arter,  '98 

Maurice  L.  Farrell,  '01 

Robert  W.  Maynard,  '02 


I 


A^A 


The  Associations 


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THE   ASSOCIATIONS 


New  York. — In  place  of  its  annual 
banquet  the  Amherst  Association  of 
New  York  held  a  most  successful  smoker 
and  patriotic  rally  at  the  Waldorf-Asto- 
ria on  Wednesday  evening,  February 
27th.  George  Barry  Mallon,  '87,  presi- 
dent of  the  Association,  presided,  and 
the  speakers  were:  Prof.  John  M.  Tyler, 
'73,  Will  Irwin,  War  Correspondent  of 
the  Saturday  Evening  Post,  and  Captain 
Arthur  Rudd,  a  graduate  of  Williams, 
who  was  in  Russia  during  1917  as  special 
assistant  to  the  American  ambassador 
at  Petrograd. 

Professor  Tyler  spoke  of  the  part  Am- 
herst is  playing  in  the  war,  telling  about 
the  undergraduates  and  members  of  the 
faculty  who  are  engaged  in  war  work. 
Captain  Rudd  spoke  on  Russia  and  the 
Red  Cross  work  being  done  in  the  war 
zone.  The  address  of  Will  Irwin  was 
the  principal  feature  of  the  evening.  His 
intensely  interesting  account  of  the 
Italian  armies  held  the  members  of  the 
association  for  over  an  hour  and  his 
wonderful  power  of  vivid  description 
and  story  of  the  remarkable  work  which 
the  Italians  have  been  able  to  do  and 
which  is  little  understood  in  this  country 
made  a  profound  impression. 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  '93,  on  behalf  of 
the  Amherst  Recruiting  Committee  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  asked  for  the  names  of 
desirable  men  to  undertake  this  work. 
Collin  Armstrong,  '77,  was  chairman 
of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  eve- 
ning's entertainment,  which  was  consid- 
ered one  of  the  best  the  New  York  Asso- 
ciation has  held  in  years. 

The  following  resolutions  were 
adopted  after  a  telegram  had  been  read 


from    Lieutenant-Colonel    William    G. 
Schaffler,  '86: 

The  members  of  the  Amherst  Associa- 
tion of  New  York  assembled  in  a  pa- 
triotic reunion  to  listen  to  vivid  por- 
trayals of  incidents  of  the  war  by  men 
who  have  lived  in  the  areas  of  the  con- 
flict, and  to  pledge  their  support  to 
fight  for  humanity,  desire  to  definitely, 
enthusiastically,  and  sincerely  assured 
their  fellow  alumni  and  the  under- 
graduates who  are  in  the  service  of  our 
country,  of  our  heartfelt  appreciation  of 
the  sacrifices  they  are  making  and  of  the 
great  adventure  they  have  undertaken. 

We  therefore  direct  the  President  and 
the  Secretary  of  this  Association  to  con- 
vey this  fraternal  message  to  every  Am- 
herst man  who  is  in  the  service,  with  our. 
most  cordial  greetings  and  our  sincere 
wishes  for  his  welfare  and  safe,  speedy, 
and  victorious  return. 

God  speed  each  and  every  one  of  you. 

Chicago.  —  On  February  15th  the 
Chicago  Amherst  Club  held  their  annual 
dinner  at  St.  Hubert's  Grill.  In  accord- 
ance with  the  spirit  of  the  times  the  ban- 
quet itself  was  Hooverized,  but  not  the 
old  Amherst  spirit,  which  was  as  much 
in  evidence  as  ever.  Annual  elections 
were  held  and  the  following  officers  were 
installed: 

Eugene  S.  Wilson,  '02,  President;  S. 
Bowles  King,  '02,  Vice  President;  D.  W. 
Lewis,  '09,  Secretary;  Royal  Firman, 
'14,  Treasurer;  Directors:  E.  W. 
Blatchford, '91;  A.  Mitchell, '10;  S.  D. 
Chamberlain,  '14;  F.  A.  Watkins,  '94, 
and  P.  B.  Palmer,  Jr.,  '04. 

The  special  entertainment  of  the  eve- 
ning was  an  illustrated  talk  by  Louis  G. 
Caldwell,  '13,  on  his  six  months'  Ambu- 
lance Service  on  the  French  Front 
during  1917.  This  was  supplemented 
by  an  illustrated  talk  by  S.  B.  King,  '02, 


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Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 


about  the  Civilian  Naval  Cruise  in 
Southern  waters  as  conducted  a  year  or 
so  ago. 

The  Club  voted  to  continue  its  weekly 
luncheons  on  Monday  noon,  but  to  fore- 
go all  unnecessary  expense  for  large  din- 
ners in  these  war  times. 

Louis  Caldwell  has  since  left  Chicago 
on  his  return  trip  to  France,  sailing  in 
March  to  be  gone  for  an  indefinite 
period. 

In  connection  with  the  meeting  of  the 
National  Security  League  Congress  held 
in  Chicago,  February  20th  to  23rd,  the 
Chicago  Amherst  Club  was  host  at  a 
University  Club  luncheon  to  Governor 
Whitman  of  New  York.  He  talked  in- 
formally with  the  boys,  telling  particu- 
larly of  his  work  in  securing  a  Universal 
Training  Law  for  New  York  State.  He 
also  told  us  of  the  part  that  Amherst 
men  were  playing  in  various  public  posi- 
tions in  New  York  State. 

The  Club  again  extends  its  invitation 
to  all  Amherst  men  visiting  or  passing 
through  Chicago.  The  secretary's  ad- 
dress is  D.  W.  Lewis,  care  of  Gould 
Coupler  Company,  Rookery  Bldg., 
Chicago. 

Connecticut  Valley.  —  The  annual 
banquet  of  the  Connecticut  Valley  Asso- 
ciation was  held  this  year  in  connection 
with  the  meeting  of  the  Alumni  Council 
at  the  Hotel  Kimball  in  Springfield  on 
Friday  evening,  March  loth.  There 
was  a  large  attendance.  Music  was  fur- 
nished by  the  college  orchestra.  The 
speakers  included  President  Meiklejohn, 
Dr.  Albert  Parker  Fitch,  of  Amherst, 
Lieutenant-Governor  Calvin  Coolidge, 
'95,  of  Massachusetts,  and  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Nehemiah  Boynton,  '79,  who  acted  as 
toastmaster.  H.  P.  Field,  '80,  was  in 
the  chair.  A  telegram  was  read  from 
Major  Kendall  Emerson,  '97,  who  was 
to  have  been  one  of  the  chief  speakers, 


but  who  was  unable  at  the  last  moment 
to  attend. 

New  officers  for  the  association  were 
elected  as  follows:  President,  Nathan 
P.  Avery,  '91,  of  Holyoke;  Vice  Presi- 
dent, Kingman  Brewster,  '06,  of  Spring- 
field; executive  committee,  the  oSicers 
and  Herbert  E.  Riley,  '96,  of  North- 
ampton, John  Corsa,  '99,  of  Amherst, 
and  Dr.  William  Goodell,  '01,  of  Spring- 
field. 

Boston.  —  Instead  of  holding  its  an- 
nual dinner  this  year,  the  Amherst  Asso- 
ciation of  Boston  joined  with  forty- 
eight  other  colleges  and  held  at  the  Bos- 
ton Opera  House  on  Saturday  evening, 
February  16th,  an  All-College  Rally. 
A  large  number  of  Amherst  men  were 
present.  Louis  E.  Cadieux,  '03,  was 
chairman  of  the  executive  committee  in 
charge  of  the  rally. 

Southern  California.  —  The  Am- 
herst Alumni  of  Southern  California 
tendered  a  dinner  to  Professor  Olds  at 
the  University  Club  in  Los  Angeles  on 
Thursday  evening,  January  24th.  The 
following  alumni  were  present:  A.  L. 
Bartlett,  '07,  S.  D.  Brooks,  '75,  M.  L. 
Bishop,  '01,  A.  D.  Bissell,  '79,  Daniel 
Beecher,  '07,  A.  B.  Call,  '87,  K.  P. 
Draper,  '82,  F.  K.  Dyar,  '98,  Lon  C. 
Feagans,  '08,  H.  D.  French,  '95,  Stuart 
W.  French,  '89,  V.  P.  Gilbert,  '89,  W. 
E.  Hawkes,  '07,  W.  P.  Hubbard,  '06, 
A.  H.  Keese,  '08,  C.  A.  Kelley,  '95,  H. 
M.  Loud,  '94,  J.  P.  Loftus,  '84,  Wm. 
Carey  Marble,  '03,  Henry  W.  Rolfe,  '80, 
W.  F.  Skeele,  '88.  A.  F.  Skeele,  '75. 

William  Carey  Marble,  president  of 
the  Association,  acted  as  toastmaster 
and  called  upon  Dean  Olds  to  tell  about 
the  college.  The  Dean  responded  in  his 
very  delightful  manner,  bringing  to  the 
men  of  Southern  California  something 
of  the  life  of  Amherst  during  these  days 
of  war.     The  toastmaster  then  called 


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upon  Stuart  W.  French,  Prof.  A.  D. 
Bissell,  W.  P.  Hubbard,  J.  B.  Loftus, 
and  Daniel  Beecher,  all  of  whom  re- 
sponded briefly.  Loftus,  '84,  gave  some 
very  interesting  reminiscences  of  Clyde 
Fitch,  '86,  recalling  the  first  appear- 
ance of  Clyde  Fitch  in  senior  dramatics 
at  Amherst. 

Central  Nevt  York.  —  The  nine- 
teenth annual  meeting  of  the  Amherst 
Alumni  Association  of  Central  New 
York  was  held  at  the  University  Club 
in  Syracuse  on  December  28,  1917. 
After  a  business  meeting,  an  informal 
dinner  was  served.  There  was  no  repre- 
sentative from  the  college  present,  and 
there  were  no  formal  speeches,  but 
many  of  the  twenty  members  in  attend- 
ance spoke  of  the  college  as  it  was  and 
is  to-day. 


The  following  officers  were  elected 
for  the  coming  year:  President,  James 
G.  Riggs,  '88,  Oswego,  N.  Y.;  Vice 
President,  Walter  R.  Stone,  '95,  Syra- 
cuse; secretary,  Roy  W.  Bell,  '07,  Syra- 
cuse; treasurer,  F.  F.  Moon,  '01,  Syra- 
cuse; executive  committee:  Giles  H. 
Stilwell,  '81,  Syracuse;  J.  Edward 
Banta,  '80,  Syracuse;  E.  C.  Witherby, 
'96,  Syracuse;  Dewey  H.  Hurd,  '00, 
Watertown;  Rev.  Thos.  V.  Parker,  '00, 
Binghamton;  J.  Carl  Connell,  '07, 
Baldwinsville;  Lawrence  W.  Roberts, 
'11,  Utica;  Lieut.  H.  G.  Storke,  'U, 
Auburn. 

On  March  25th,  Dr.  Talcott  Williams, 
'73,  was  in  Syracuse  speaking  in  one  of 
the  lecture  courses  of  the  university,  and 
lunched  with  several  of  the  local 
alumni. 


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SINCE  THE  LAST  ISSUE 


1855.  —  Rev.  Elijah  Stites  Fairchild, 
on  February  6,  1918,  at  Chicago,  111.,  in 
his  8-lth  year. 

1860.  —  Rev.  John  Otis  Barrows,  on 
January  26,  1918,  at  Norwichtown, 
Conn.,  aged  84  years. 

1869.  —  Henry  Martyn  Matthews,  on 
September  25,  1917  (not  previously  re- 
corded), at  Chicago,  111.,  in  his  75th 
year. 

1874.  —  Judge  Howard  Burr  Scott,  on 
February  6,  1918,  at  Danbury,  Conn., 
aged  67  years. 

1874.  —  Charles  H.  Marsh,  on  Octo- 
ber 9,  1917  (not  previously  recorded),  at 
Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  aged  65  years. 

1875.  —  DeWitt  Clinton  Henry, 
early  this  year,  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  aged 
66  years. 

1878.  —  Dr.  George  S.  Ely,  on  De- 
cember 11,  1917,  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
aged  71  years. 

1879.  —  Winston  Henry  Hazen,  on 
February  1,  1918,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
aged  60  years. 

1882.  —  Dr.  Edward  H.  Martin,  on 
December  29,  1917,  at  Burlington,  Vt., 
aged  56  years. 

1882.  —  George  Nesbitt  Cowan,  on 
December  25,  1917.  at  Sanford,  N.  Y., 
in  his  58th  year. 

1883.  —  Frank  Ballard  Marsh,  on 
January  14,  1918,  in  New  York  City, 
aged  57  years. 

1883.  —  Edward  Allen  Guernsey,  on 
January  21,  1918,  at  Allston  Heights, 
Mass.,  aged  57  years. 

1899.  —  Walter  A.  Buxton,  about 
April  1,  1918,  at  Worcester,  Mass., 
aged  41  years. 

1902.  —  James  C.  Young,  on  Decem- 
ber 24,  1917.  at  Calgary,  Alberta,  Can- 
ada, aged  39  years. 

1904.  —  Charles  Willett  Beam,  on 
October  13,  1917  (not  previously  re- 
corded), at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  aged  35  years. 


1904.  —  James  J.  Quill,  on  March  8, 

1917,  at  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  aged  38 
years. 

1917.  —  Roger  Conant  Perkins,  in 
the  service  of  his  country,  on  March  13, 

1918,  at  Key  West,  Fla.,  aged  22  years. 


1900.  —  In  New  York  City,  on  Octo- 
ber 1,  1917  (not  previously  recorded). 
Rev.  Horace  C.  Broughton  and  Miss 
Lucina  Woodard  Braymer. 

1906.  —  In  New  York  City,  on  No- 
vember 27,  1917  (not  previously  re- 
corded), Reuben  J.  Peacock  and  Miss 
Grace  Glover. 

1911.  —  At  Pelham  Manor.  N.  Y.,  on 
February  12,  1918,  Vernon  Radcliffe 
and  Miss  Phoebe  Randall. 

1912.  —  In  New  York  City,  on  March 
23,  1918,  Rufus  W.  Gaynor  and  Miss 
Margaret  Haskell. 

1913.  —  At  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on  Decem- 
ber 29,  1917,  W'illiam  Joralemon  Wilcox 
and  Miss  Ellen  Chittenden. 

1913.  —  In  Montclair,  N.  J.,  on 
March  2,  1918,  Dr.  Frank  Lusk  Bab- 
bott,  Jr.,  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Bassett 
French. 

1914.  —  In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on 
March  4,  1918,  Lieutenant  Lowell 
Shumway  and  Miss  Ruth  Dwight 
Fuller. 

1915.  —  In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1918,  Lieutenant  Robert  Reed 
McGowan  and  Miss  Helen  Chadwick 
Butler. 

1916.  —  At  Syracuse.  N.  Y.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1918,  Lieutenant  Percy 
Hughes  and  Miss  Helen  Harriet  Tal- 
bot. 

1916.  —  In  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on  Jan- 
uary 5,  1918,  Humphrey  Fuller  Red- 
field  and  Miss  Amy  Louise  Cowing. 

1919.  —  At  Amherst,  Mass.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 17. 1918,  Rodney  Fielding  Starkey 
and  Miss  Maude  Greben. 


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1882.  —  Ruth  Partridge,  on  Novem- 
ber 5,  1917,  at  Proctor,  Vt.,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  C.  Partridge. 

1905.  —  Charles  Wilbar  Utter,  on  De- 
cember 6,  1917,  at  Westerly,  R.  I.,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Benjamin  Utter. 

1903.  —  Phyllis  Mary  Fisher,  on 
January  19,  1918,  at  East  Orange,  N.  J., 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  L.  Fisher. 

1903.  —  Donald  Kerr  Tead,  on 
March,  1918,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stanley  H.  Tead. 


1910.  —  Ray  Adams  Mitchell,  at  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abraham 
Mitchell,  on  March  14,  1918. 

1913.  —  Charles  Mark  Hopkins,  at 
Lansing,  Mich.,  on  November  21,  1917, 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carroll  L.  Hopkins. 

1914.  —  Joseph  Holferty  Firman,  at 
Oak  Park,  111.,  on  March  24,  1918,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Royal  Firman. 

1914.  —  Harriet  Chamberlain,  on 
April  3,  1917  (not  previously  recorded), 
at  Chicago,  111.,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sydney  D.  Chamberlain. 


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THE  CLASSES 


1845 

Major  General  Peyton  C.  March,  the 
new  chief  of  staff  of  the  United  States 
Army,  is  a  son  of  the  late  Prof.  Francis 
Andrew  March,  who  graduated  from 
Amherst  in  the  class  of  1845,  and  who 
taught  at  Lafayette  College  for  half  a 
century. 

1854 

The  February  issue  of  Forest  and 
Stream,  the  magazine  founded  by  the 
late  Charles  Hallock,  who  died  in  De- 
cember, contained  the  following  tribute 
to  him: 

"Charles  Hallock  is  dead,  in  the 
eighty-fourth  year  of  his  age.  His  long 
life  spanned  the  period  during  which 
the  gun  and  the  rod  in  America  had  its 
rise  and  chief  growth.  .  .  .  Although 
Charles  Hallock  wrote  and  compiled  a 
number  of  useful  and  excellent  books, 
his  just  claim  to  fame  rests  on  the  fact 
that  he  had  the  genius  to  conceive  the 
idea  of  Forest  and  Stream,  the  person- 
ality to  interest  in  it  the  best  men  in 
the  country  and  the  means  to  establish 
and  carry  it  on.  For  what  he  then  did, 
sport  and  conservation  owe  to  his  mem- 
ory a  debt  that  could  never  be  paid,  and 
we  who  are  interested  in  these  kindred 
subjects  appreciate  the  weight  of  that 
obligation.  Hallock  must  always  be 
considered  one  of  the  founders  of  con- 
servation in  America." 

1855 

Rev.  Elijah  Stites  Fairchild,  head  of 
the  Fairchild  Publishing  Company,  and 
also  widely  known  in  the  clothing  man- 
ufacturing industry  of  the  country  as  an 
associate  with  the  Fairchild  publications 
of  Chicago  and  New  York,  died  at  his 
home,  755  Buena  Avenue,  Chicago,  on 
Wednesday,  February  6th,  in  his  84th 
year. 


He  was  born  in  Mendham,  Morris 
County,  N.  J.,  on  May  23,  1835,  at- 
tended his  father's  classical  boarding 
school,  and  entered  Amherst  in  the  class 
of  1885.  He  did  not  complete  his 
course,  however,  but  later  graduated 
from  Princeton,  and  from  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  becoming  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Mor- 
risonia,  N.  Y.  There  he  remained  until 
1862,  when  he  went  to  Oyster  Bay, 
where  he  was  pastor  for  three  years. 
He  then  became  pastor  of  the  Reformed 
Dutch  Church  of  Flushing,  N.  Y.,  and 
in  1880  of  the  Old  Reformed  Church  on 
Sixth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

In  1889  Mr.  Fairchild  moved  to  Chi- 
cago, where  he  preached  in  St.  Mat- 
thew's Reformed  Episcopal  Church  un- 
til 1911  when  he  retired  to  enter  the 
textile  publishing  business,  as  an  asso- 
ciate with  the  Fairchild  publications: 
Men's  Wear,  The  Chicago  Apparel  Ga- 
zette, Daily  News  Record,  and  Women  s 
Wear. 

He  was  married  on  October  4,  1859, 
to  Miss  Louise  Edgar  Leavitt,  and  is 
survived  by  six  sons. 

1857 

Rev.  Denis  Wortman,  Secretary, 
40  Watson  Ave.,  East  Orange,   N.  J. 

Rev.  Joseph  Kimball,  of  Haverhill, 
Mass.,  was  tendered  a  reception  by  the 
Riverside  Memorial  Church  on  his  8Gth 
birthday,  March  13th.  A  program  of 
musical  and  literary  numbers  was 
greatly  enjoyed  by  the  large  number 
attending  the  reception.  The  honor 
guest  was  presented  with  two  birthday 
cakes,  one  being  of  immense  size  and 


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225 


adorned  with  myriads  of  miniature  flags, 
which  was  cut  and  distributed  to  the 
guests,  and  the  other,  a  smaller  one,  also 
decorated  with  the  national  colors.  In 
accepting  the  cakes,  Mr.  Kimball  ex- 
pressed his  pleasure  and  entertained  the 
company  with  many  humorous  stories 
which  he  is  an  adept  in  telling. 

The  editors  desire  to  publish  a  portion 
of  a  letter  received  recently  from  the 
Rev.  William  Crawford  of  '57,  who  now 
makes  his  home  at  2106  East  GStli 
Street,  Chicago,  111.  It  is  with  pleasure 
that  attention  is  called  to  the  notice  re- 
garding the  late  Matthew  Walker  as 
his  death  was  learned  just  as  the  Feb- 
ruary issue  was  going  to  press  and  too 
late  to  obtain  much  information  con- 
cerning him.  Mr.  Crawford's  letter, 
which  we  wish  we  were  permitted  to  re- 
produce in  full,  says: 

"Dr.  Wortman's  report  of  our  Class 
of  1857  in  the  last  Graduates'  Quar- 
terly was  not  quite  correct.  Of  the  46 
graduating  members  only  six  survive, 
not  seven.  Rev.  George  A.  Beckwith, 
whom  he  mentions  as  living,  died  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1914.  Rev.  Henry  A.  Stevens, 
whom  he  does  not  mention,  is  still  living 
at  Brighton,  Mass.  He  has  just  suffered 
on  the  3rd  of  this  month,  the  great  af- 
fliction of  losing  his  wife  at  the  age  of  78. 
"Matthew  Walker  deserved  a  better 
notice  than  he  got.  Knowing  how  difii- 
cult  it  often  is  to  obtain  information,  I 
do  not  blame  the  editor.  Walker  in 
Barre  was  a  general  utility  man,  capa- 
ble, public  spirited,  upright,  and,  there- 
fore, chosen  to  look  after  the  public  li- 
brary, the  schools,  the  cemetery,  to  be 
a  trial  judge,  and  to  act  as  chairman  of 
the  board  of  assessors  for  more  than 
thirty  years.  He  left  an  estate  of  some 
thirty  thousand  dollars  of  which  four  or 
five  thousand  were  left  to  various  chari- 
ties. I  know  these  facts  because  Barre 
was  my  native  town. 

"The  obituary  notice  of  my  classmate 
Frisbie  is  a  good  one,  but  brief.  In  my 
judgment  Frisbie  belongs  among  the 
Amherst  Illustrious. 

"In  my  time  at  Amherst  there  were 
surviving  traditions  of  Francis  A.  March 


of  the  Class  of  1845,  who  in  a  very  easy 
and  leisurely  \va.y  carried  a\\ay  the  first 
honors  above  his  hard-working  and  am- 
bitious competitor.  March  became 
eminent  and  famous  as  a  philologist,  be- 
ing a  leading  professor  in  Lafayette  Col- 
lege for  many  years.  The  other  day  by 
chance  I  learned  that  Peyton  C.  March, 
Chief  of  Staff  at  Washington,  is  his  son. 
Curiosity  led  me  to  examine  his  record, 
and  I  was  surprised  to  discover  that  five 
sons  of  Professor  March,  all  graduates 
of  Lafayette  College,  are  eminent 
enough  to  have  a  place  in  Who's  Who  in 
America.  How  much  glory  should  Am- 
herst take  from  giving  Francis  A.  March 
the  right  kind  of  a  start.* 

"I  have  always  thought  that  my 
classmate  Eastman  made  a  wonderful 
record  in  putting  seven  fine  sons  through 
Amherst  College,  but  I  think  that  per- 
haps Professor  March's  record  is  more 
wonderful  still. 

"Let  me  say  that  no  magazine  comes 
to  me  which  has  more  of  interest  than 
the  Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly, 
and  no  part  of  the  magazine  is  more  in- 
teresting than  the  news  of  the  classes." 

1858 
Rev.  Samuel  B.  Sherrill,  Secretary, 
415  Humphrey  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Rev.  W^illiam  L.  Bray  plans  to  go  to 
Amherst  for  Commencement  this  June. 
He  is  in  Pasadena,  Calif.,  sometimes 
preaches,  and  often  assists  at  the  com- 
munion service. 

The  Rev.  John  Whitehill,  of  North 
Attleboro,  Mass.,  has  spent  nearly  50 
years  in  one  pastorate.  His  first  sermon 
was  preached  at  North  Attleboro,  the 
last  Sunday  in  March,  1869,  and  his 
work  as  a  pastor  there  began  on  May 
16,  1869.     He  writes: 

"  I  am  still  young  and  frisky,  in  good 
health,  and  can  run  like  a  boy.  I  have 
tried  to  resign  my  pastorate  in  favor  of 
some  younger  man,  but  the  people  say 
'No.'    Therefore,  I  am  still  on  the  job." 

He  was  born  in  1833  and  is  now  in  his 
85th  year.  During  his  pastorate  of 
nearly  half  a  century,  he  has  baptized 


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123  children,  has  officiated  at  315  mar- 
riages, and  at  629  funerals.  Only  three 
members  now  in  the  church  were  there 
when  he  first  came.  He  has  had  nine 
children,  eight  of  whom  are  still  living, 
six  of  whom  are  married.  One  of  his 
sons,  Edwin,  is  a  graduate  of  Amherst 
and  a  teacher  at  Watertown,  Mass.  He 
also  has  ten  grandchildren. 

1859 

Mrs.  Mary  Alvord  Ewing,  widow  of 
Rev.  Edward  C.  Ewing,  who  long  was 
active  in  the  Congregational  ministry, 
died  at  her  home  in  West  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  on  Monday,  March  11th,  aged 
80  years.  She  was  married  in  1863  to 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Ewing,  who  died  about  a 
year  ago,  and  is  survived  by  four  sons, 
the  Rev.  George  Henry  Ewing,  "90,  of 
Norwichtown,  Conn.,  the  Rev.  Charles 
E.  Ewing,  '90,  of  Janesville,  Wis.,  the 
Rev.  Addison  A.  Ewing,  '92,  of  New- 
castle, Del.,  and  William  C.  Ewing  of 
Boston. 

1860 

Rev.  John  Otis  Barrows  died  on  Sat- 
urday morning,  January  26th,  after  an 
illness  of  only  six  days,  at  the  home  of 
his  daughter  in  Norwichtown,  Conn. 

He  was  8-i  years  old  and  was  born  at 
Mansfield,  Conn.,  on  August  4,  1833, 
the  son  of  Andrew  and  Sarah  (Storrs) 
Barrows.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Kim- 
ball Union  Academy  in  New  Hampshire 
and  after  graduating  from  Amherst  went 
to  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  He 
was  ordained  at  No.  Hampton,  N.  H., 
on  June  6,  1864,  served  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  there  for  two  years  and 
then  became  pastor  of  the  First  Church 
of  Exeter,  N.  H.  In  1869  he  became 
for  eleven  years  a  missionary,  under  the 
American  Board  for  Foreign  Missions. 
From  1869  to  1875  he  was  at  Caesarea, 
Asia  Minor,  then  for  a  year  at  Manisa, 


Turkey,  and  for  the  next  four  years  at 
Constantinople.  In  1880  he  returned 
to  America  and  served  several  New 
England  churches,  including  the  First 
Church  of  Stonington  for  sixteen  years. 

About  ten  years  ago  he  retired, 
though  he  continued  to  supply  pulpits 
frequently  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

He  was  married  on  May  6,  1864,  to 
Miss  Clara  Storrs  Freeman  of  Mans- 
field, Conn.  She  survives  him,  as  do 
also  one  son,  Frederick  A.  Barrows  of 
Hyde  Park,  Boston,  and  two  daughters, 
Mrs.  Dwight  W.  Avery  of  Norwich- 
town,  Conn.,  and  Mrs.  Dwight  C.  Stone 
of  Stonington,  Conn. 

1863 

Edward  W.  Chapix,  Secretary, 
181  Elm  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Rev.  Frederick  B.  Allen  has  been 
elected  President  of  the  Watch  and 
Ward  Society  of  Boston. 

WTien  the  next  Amherst  College 
Commencement  on  June  5th  arrives, 
fifty -fire  years  will  have  passed  since  the 
Class  of  '63  graduated.  It  is  the  wish 
and  hope  of  members  still  living  to 
meet  again  this  year  and  the  class  sec- 
retary has  accordingly  sent  notices  to 
the  surviving  members  to  meet  in  Am- 
herst on  Tuesday  afternoon,  June  4th, 
at  such  place  as  will  be  previously  se- 
lected. 

1864 

The  old  WTiitcomb  mansion,  for 
nearly  forty  years  the  home  of  the  late 
George  Henry  Whitcomb,  at  the  corner 
of  Highland  and  Harvard  streets, 
WWcester,  Mass.,  together  with  its 
spacious  grounds,  has  been  given  to 
the  Memorial  Home  for  the  Blind  and 
from  now  on  will  be  officially  known  as 
Whitcomb  Hall.  The  gift  is  made  by 
the  three  sons  of  Mr.  Whitcomb: 
Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  '94,  of  Worcester; 


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Ernest  M.  Whitcomb,  '04,  of  Amherst; 
and  David  Whitcomb,  '00,  of  Seattle. 
Henry  E.  Whitcomb  has  been  made  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Home.  The  estate,  which  was 
transferred,  is  one  of  the  finest  old 
homes  in  Worcester.  The  house  was 
begun  in  1879  and  finished  in  1881, 
and  in  making  the  gift  to  the  Memorial 
Home  Corporation  it  was  with  the  un- 
derstanding that  first  consideration 
shall  be  given  to  the  needy  soldiers  and 
sailors  who  lose  their  sight  as  the  result 
of  the  present  war.  It  is  the  only  or- 
ganization in  New  England  for  the  care 
of  the  adult  blind. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carleton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman  has  been  elected 
vice  president  of  the  American  Scenic 
and  Historic  Preservation  Society.  He 
has  also  been  chosen  a  member  of  the 
committee  formed  by  the  Board  of  Re- 
gents of  the  State  of  New  York  to  co- 
operate with  the  Americanization  Com- 
mittee of  the  New  York  State  Woman's 
Suffrage  Party  in  the  work  of  educating 
for  citizenship  immigrant  women  who 
become  citizens  by  the  naturalization 
of  their  husbands.  He  also  served  on 
the  Brooklyn  executive  committee  for 
the  Third  Liberty  Loan. 

1867 

Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Prof.  William  C.  Peckham  and  Mrs. 
Peckham  celebrated  their  golden  wed- 
ding at  their  residence  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  on  January  1,  1918.  They  were 
married  at  Kingston,  Mass.,  on  January 
1.  1868,  and  have  been  residents  of 
Brooklyn  since  1873,  coming  first  to 
New  York  in  1871.  Professor  Peckham 
is  head  of  the  department  of  physics  at 


Adelphi  College  and  is  Past  Commander 
of  U.  S.  Grant  Post  No.  327,  G.  A.  R. 
On  January  8th  he  was  installed  as 
adjutant  of  the  post,  entering  upon  his 
eighth  year  in  that  office.  Mrs.  Peck- 
ham is  President  of  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers of  the  Congregational  Home  for 
the  Aged  in  Brooklyn,  is  active  in  church 
affairs  and  in  the  Ladies  Auxiliary  of 
Grant  Post.  * 

1868 
William  A.  Brown,  Secretary, 
17  State  Street,  New  York  City 

The  Class  of  1868  will  hold  its  semi- 
centennial Royal  Jubilee  Reunion  at 
Amherst  this  commencement.  A  large 
number  of  the  class  plan  to  be  present. 
The  Crosby  House  on  Amity  Street  has 
been  secured  for  headquarters.  The 
class  officers  are:  Lucien  G.  Toe  of 
Chicago,  111.,  president;  George  T. 
Buffum  of  Winchester,  N.  H.,  vice  pres- 
ident; William  A.  Brown  of  New  York 
City,  secretary-treasurer. 

Early  in  January,  William  C.  Ball, 
Esq.,  of  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  slipped  on 
the  ice  and  broke  the  radius  bone  of 
his  left  arm.  He  is  now  all  right  and 
has  learned  to  write  with  his  left  hand 
as  well  as  with  his  right.  He  will 
attend  the  reunion  in  June. 

Lucien  G.  Toe's  grandson  is  to  enter 
Amherst  this  £all. 

1869 

William  R.   Brown,   Esq.,   Secretary, 
18  East  41st  Street,  New  York  City 

The  death  has  not  been  recorded  in 
these  columns  of  Henry  Martyn  Mat- 
thews, Esq.  It  occurred  at  Wesley  Me- 
morial Hospital,  Chicago,  111.,  on  Sep- 
tenber  25th,  1917. 

Mr.  Matthews  was  in  his  seventy- 
fifth  year.  He  was  born  in  Covington, 
N.  Y.,  on  April  16,   1843,  the  son  of 


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Isaac  V.  and  Phebe  Ann  (Brooks)  Mat- 
thews. He  prepared  for  college  at 
Middlebury  Academj',  and  after  spend- 
ing three  years  at  Union  College  entered 
Amherst,  graduating  in  1869.  He 
studied  law  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  with 
Laning,  Folsom  and  Willett,  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  on  January  5,  1872, 
practiced  in  Buffalo  for  one  year  and 
then,  in  1873,  moved  to  Chicago.  For 
a  great  many  years  he  was  senior  part- 
ner of  the  law  firm  of  Matthews  & 
Dicker  of  that  city. 

1S70 

Dr.  John  G.  Stanton,  Secretary, 
99  Huntington  St.,  New  London,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Carrie  P.  Fowie,  wife  of  the 
late  Rev.  James  L.  Fowle  who  died  in 
1916,  died  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Hos- 
pital, Baltimore,  Md.,  in  December. 
From  1879  until  three  years  ago  they 
were  missionaries  in  Turkey.  The 
funeral  services  were  conducted  by  the 
Rev.  Stephen  A.  Norton,  D.D.,  '78, 
assisted  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  C.  H.  Patton, 
'83, 

Julius  Chambers,  the  eminent  jour- 
nalist, discussing  under  Walks  and 
Talks  in  the  Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle  for 
March  18th  the  question  of  a  successor 
to  Dr.  Maxwell  as  Superintendent  of 
the  New  York  public  schools,  says : 

"Despite  the  expressed  opinion  of 
Mayor  Hylan  that  the  position  of  Su- 
perintendent of  the  New  York  Public 
Schools  should  be  filled  by  a  teacher 
already  associated  with  the  educational 
system  of  this  city,  one  would  think 
the  best  man  in  the  United  States  none 
too  good  to  succeed  Dr.  Maxwell.  Very 
little  accurate  preparation  for  so  im- 
portant a  post  can  be  acquired  in  sub- 
ordinate positions.  Therefore,  a  tried 
hand  should  have  preference  to  any 
local  teacher  who  has  risen  no  higher 
than  principal  of  a  grammar  school. 

"  If  the  Board  of  Education  is  looking 
for  a  Superintendent  of  the  highest  pos- 


sible grade,  its  members  should  turn 
their  eyes  toward  New  Orleans  and  get 
into  communication  with  Brandt  Van 
Blarcom  Dixon,  president  of  tlie  New- 
comb  Memorial  College,  in  that  city. 
In  1887  Mr.  Dixon  was  called  from  St. 
Louis,  where  he  was  principal  of  the 
high  school,  to  New  Orleans,  to  organ- 
ize the  Newcomb  Memorial  College  for 
which  S.  H.  Newcomb  had  left  a  large 
sum  of  money,  and  he  has  since  made 
it  one  of  the  highest  grade  scholastic 
institutions  of  the  South. 

"Mr.  Dixon  is  very  nearly  a  New 
Yorker.  He  was  born  at  Paterson, 
N.  J.,  in  1850.  He  studied  at  Amherst, 
and  was  graduated  at  Cornell  Univer- 
sity with  high  honors,  in  1870.  He  is  a 
born  organizer,  a  fine  classical  scholar, 
and  has  had  more  than  forty  years' 
experience  in  all  grades  of  instruction." 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Talcott  Williams,  director  of  the  Co- 
lumbia School  of  Journalism,  was  one 
of  the  signers  of  the  cablegram  sent  on 
March  14th  to  the  All-Russian  Congress 
of  Soviets  at  Moscow  by  the  League  for 
National  Unity.  As  a  part  of  the  Amer- 
ican movement  of  the  National  Security 
League  a  series  of  exchange  lectures 
was  given  late  in  March  simultaneously 
to  the  public  school-teachers  in  Chicago 
and  New  York.  Talcott  Williams  was 
one  of  the  New  York  speakers  sent  to 
Chicago.  Dr.  Williams  has  been  elected 
vice  president  of  the  American  College 
for  Girls  and  Women  at  Constanti- 
nople. 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler  has  returned  to 
Amherst,  after  spending  the  winter  in 
New  York,  where  he  has  been  collecting 
material  for  his  new  book,  which  will 
be  a  treatise  on  neolithic  man.  During 
the  week  of  April  14th  he  lectured  at 
Amherst  on  the  Beecher  Foundation, 
his  subject  being  "The  Beginning  of 
Civilization  in  Northern  Europe." 


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1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Secretary, 
15  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Judge  Howard  Burr  Scott,  for  many 
years  on  the  Fairfield  County  Common 
Pleas  Bench,  died  at  his  home  in  Dan- 
bury,  Conn.,  on  Wednesday,  February 
6th,  aged  67  years. 

He  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
on  August  25,  1851,  the  son  of  Albert 
and  Caroline  (Seeley)  Scott.  He  fitted 
for  college  at  High  Ridge  school, 
Ridgefield,  Conn.,  and  with  a  private 
tutor.  On  graduating  from  Amherst  he 
became  a  teacher  in  Greenwich.  Mean- 
while his  parents  had  moved  from 
Bridgeport  to  Danbury  and  in  July, 
1876,  he  went  to  Danbury  and  entered 
the  law  office  of  Brewster  &  Tweedy 
and  prepared  for  the  bar,  to  which  he 
was  admitted  in  July,  1878.  He  sub- 
sequently became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Brewster,  Tweedy  &  Scott,  which 
continued  until  1909,  when  Mr.  Whit- 
tlesey retired  and  went  to  New  York 
and  the  firm  became  Tweedy  &  Scott. 
In  1906  Judge  Scott  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Judge  Samuel  A.  Davis, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Scott  &  Davis. 
This  partnership  continued  until  Judge 
Scott  was  appointed  to  the  Bench  of 
the  Common  Pleas  Court,  in  PYbruary, 
1907. 

When  the  Borough  Court  of  Dan- 
bury was  created  in  1884,  he  was  ap- 
pointed associate  judge  of  that  court 
and  continued  in  that  capacity  until 
the  creation  of  the  City  Court,  coinci- 
dent with  the  adoption  of  the  municipal 
form  of  government,  when  he  was  made 
associate  judge  of  that  court.  In  1905 
he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  City 
Court  and  held  that  position  until  his 
appointment  to  the  Bench  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas. 

Concerning  his  work  of  the  bench  the 


Danbury  Evening  Nervs  of  February  7th 
says: 

"In  the  City  Court  his  work  and  de- 
cisions were  characterized  by  the  same 
careful  and  conscientious  consideration 
that  was  given  to  all  his  other  judicial 
and  professional  duties.  He  was  clear- 
headed, impartial,  and  guided  by  a 
keen  sense  of  justice  and  right.  By 
virtue  of  his  position  as  judge  of  one  of 
the  higher  courts  of  the  county  and  by 
his  ability  as  a  lawyer.  Judge  Scott,  by 
common  consent  of  his  professional  as- 
sociates and  in  the  public  mind,  was 
ranked  as  the  leader  among  the  mem- 
bers of  the  bar  in  this  city  and  as  one 
of  the  foremost  lawyers  in  Fairfield 
County.  His  death  is  a  distinct  loss  to 
his  home  community,  as  well  as  to  the 
bench  and  the  bar. 

"An  able  and  learned  man,  a  keen 
observer  of  men  and  events,  and  an 
excellent  judge  of  human  nature.  Judge 
Scott  v.as  fitted  both  by  his  natural 
talents  and  his  education  and  training 
for  the  duties  of  the  judgeship  to  which 
he  was  called  in  the  prime  of  his  life, 
and  of  his  professional  career.  His  fair- 
ness and  integrity  were  unquestioned, 
and  the  general  soundness  of  his  legal 
decisions  was  indicated  by  the  fact  that 
with  but  few  exceptions  they  were  up- 
held by  the  higher  courts  when  carried 
up  on  appeal.  The  statement  was  made 
by  one  of  the  foremost  lawyers  in  the 
state  a  few  months  before  the  retire- 
ment of  Judge  Scott  from  the  Common 
Pleas  Bench  that  the  decisions  of  Judge 
Scott  has  been  reversed  by  the  higher 
court  less  frequently  than  those  of  any 
other  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  in  Connecticut.  His  decisions  re- 
flected the  careful  study  and  research 
that  he  gave  to  each  case  upon  which 
he  was  called  to  pass  judgment,  and 
also  the  depth  and  power  of  his  legal 
knowledge. 

"The  surviving  relatives  are  two 
brothers.  Dr.  Albert  L.  Scott,  of  White 
Plains,  N.  Y.,  and  William  D.  Scott,  of 
Portland,  Ore.,  and  one  sister.  Miss 
Mary  E.  Scott,  of  this  city." 

The  American  Political  Science  Re- 
view for  February  contained  as  its  lead- 
ing feature  an  article  by  Professor  Mun- 
roc  Smith  on  "The  Nature  and  the  Fu- 


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ture  of  International  Law."  Professor 
Smith,  who  is  Professor  of  Jurispru- 
dence at  Columbia  University,  has  re- 
cently published  a  new  book,  "  Mili- 
tarism and  Statecraft."  The  Putnams 
are  the  publishers. 

According  to  Washington  political 
gossip.  Congressman  Frederick  H.  Gil- 
lett  will  be  the  next  speaker  of  the 
House  of  Representatives,  if  the  Re- 
publicans win  enough  of  the  Congres- 
sional elections  in  the  fall. 

Rev.  J.  W.  Ballantine,  who  completed 
a  ten-year  pastorate  at  West  Stafford, 
Conn.,  and  resigned  on  December  31st, 
is  now  supplying  pulpits  in  Eastern 
Massachusetts. 

News  has  recently  been  received  of 
the  death  on  October  9,  1917,  at  Los 
Angeles,  Calif.,  of  Charles  H.  Marsh. 

Mr.  Marsh's  life  since  his  marriage 
on  January  5,  1882,  was  spent  mostly 
in  the  open  air,  he  having  a  contract  to 
collect  bird  skins  for  the  Smithsonian 
Institute  at  Washington,  D.  C.  The 
life  suited  him  well  in  point  of  health, 
especially  in  the  6000  foot  altitude  in 
New  Mexico,  and  he  remained  there 
about  two  years  in  a  mining  camp  until 
it  was  unsafe  on  account  of  Indians  led 
by  Geronimo,  being  on  the  war  path. 
He  then  moved  to  California  and  located 
on  a  ranch  in  the  foot  hills  for  several 
years,  where  he  regained  his  health. 
For  the  last  twenty  years  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  Henry  C.  Davison  of  New 
York  City,  importer  and  manufacturer 
of  Japanese  paper  letter  press  books,  in 
business,  Mr.  Marsh  having  charge  of 
the  Pacific  Coast.  His  death  was 
caused  by  Bright's  Disease. 

In  writing  of  his  life  in  the  West, 
Mrs.  Marsh  says: 

"He  always  had  a  smile  and  a  pleas- 
ant word  for  everyone  and  all  his  cus- 
tomers and  friends  loved  him.    He  was 


particularly  interested  in  the  young  men 
here  belonging  to  the  Chi  Psi  Fraternity 
and  was  their  president  for  ten  years 
until  his  death.  They  esteemed  him 
highly,  and  several  years  ago  presented 
him  with  a  beautiful  loving  cup.  He 
always  held  his  Amherst  classmates  in 
loving  remembrance.  He  left  no  chil- 
dren, our  only  little  daughter  having 
died  many  years  ago  in  Santa  Fe,  New 
Mexico." 

Mr.  Marsh  was  65  years  old.  He  was 
born  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  on  August  24, 
1852,  the  son  of  Henry  and  Flavia  Jane 
(Bagg)  Marsh,  and  prepared  for  college 
at  Amherst  High  School.  After  gradu- 
ating from  college  and  before  taking  up 
the  study  of  ornithology,  he  edited  for 
some  years  the  Amherst  Transcript. 

1875 

Frank  A.  Hosmer,  Secretary, 
22  No.  Prospect  Street,  Amherst,  Mass. 

DeWitt  Clinton  Henry  died  suddenly 
recently  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  from  the  re- 
sults of  a  fall  while  on  his  way  to  his 
home.  He  caught  his  toe  on  the  curb- 
stone and  fell,  striking  his  nose  and 
breaking  it.  He  failed  to  rise  and  he 
was  hurriedly  taken  to  the  office  of  a 
nearby  doctor,  where  he  died  within  a 
few  minutes.  It  is  believed  that  the 
shock  from  the  fall  might  have  brought 
on  a  sudden  attack  of  heart  disease,  as 
there  was  no  fracture  at  the  base  of  the 
skull  and  no  cerebral  hemorrhage. 

Mr.  Henry  was  a  well-known  toy 
manufacturer  and  was  66  years  old. 
He  was  the  son  of  Albert  and  Mary  K. 
(Ralston)  Henry  and  was  born  in  Low- 
ville,  N.  Y.,  on  August  16,  1851.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  Whitestown 
Seminary,  Whitesboro,  N.  Y.  He  left 
Amherst  before  the  end  of  his  Freshman 
year  and  engaged  in  business.  He  went 
to  Auburn  in  1876  and  since  1880  had 
been  interested  in  various  manufac- 
turing   industries    there.      He    was    of 


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Scotch  ancestry  and  was  the  descendant 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Lowville,  having 
been  born  in  the  same  house  in  which 
his  father,  grandfather,  and  great- 
grandfather were  also  born. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Henry 
was  vice  president  of  the  Butler  Manu- 
facturing Company  of  Butler,  Ind.,  and 
of  the  Denner  Manufacturing  Companj' 
of  Lancaster,  Penn.  He  was  married 
on  May  21,  1878,  to  H.  Adella,  daughter 
of  Charles  A.  Baker  of  Auburn,  who 
survives  him  with  one  son,  Percy  Henry, 
who  was  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  manufacture  of  children's  vehicles 
and  toys. 

Mr.  Henry  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Auburn  an 
belonged  to  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
fraternity. 

Frank  A.  Hosmer  has  been  reap- 
pointed by  Governor  McCall  of  Massa- 
chusetts a  trustee  of  M.  A.  C. 

Rev.  Arthur  F.  Skeele  has  resigned 
his  pastorate  at  Monrovia,  Cal. 

Prof.  David  Todd  of  Amherst  had  an 
article  in  the  March  issue  of  Popular 
Astronomy  entitled,  "On  Selecting  Sta- 
tions for  Totality  of  1918,  June  8,  and 
Probable  Cloud  Conditions  at  Eclipse 
Time." 

1876 

William  M.  Decker,  Secretary, 
277  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Dr.  George  A.  Plimpton  is  a  member 
of  the  Emergency  Fund  Committee 
which  is  raising  $2,000,000  for  the  Navy 
Relief  Society,  for  the  families  of  officers 
and  men  of  the  navy  who  lose  their 
lives  in  service. 

1877 
Rev.  a.  DeW.  Mason,  Secretary, 
222  Garfield  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


The  smoker  which  took  the  place,  this 
year,  of  the  annual  banquet  of  the  New 
York  Alumni  Association,  was  held  at 
the  Waldorf-Astoria  on  February  27th, 
as  reported  in  another  column.  Of  our 
class,  Armstrong,  who  was  chairman  of 
the  entertainment  committee.  Fowler, 
Loomis,  Pratt,  and  Mason  were  present. 

The  secretary,  who  has  long  vainly 
tried  to  get  into  touch  with  Morrell,  has 
finally  discovered  a  clue  in  an  article  on 
the  proper  kind  of  a  man  for  head  of 
the  police  department  of  New  York 
City  which  appeared  in  the  Brooklyn 
Eagle  of  February  18th.  Morrell's  ad- 
dress is  therein  given  as  56  Pine  Street, 
New  York. 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance 
has  recently  given  the  following  inter- 
esting account  of  the  work  of  our  class- 
mate Loomis,  who  has  lately  been 
chosen  as  associate  secretary  of  the 
American  Missionary  Association,  which 
conducts  educational  work  for  the  dis- 
tinctive races  of  the  United  States  and 
our  island  territorial  possessions.  The 
statement  says: 

"Dr.  Loomis's  last  pastorate  was  one 
of  seven  years  in  Westfield,  N.  J.  The 
years  1896-1907  mark  his  Boston  min- 
istry in  the  pastorate  of  Union  Church, 
as  successor  to  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton. 
During  these  years,  the  character  of  the 
South  End  had  so  greatly  changed,  that 
the  Congregational  problem  became  a 
serious  one.  To  meet  the  change,  he  ad- 
vocated and  was  active  in  the  Plan  of 
Union  whereby  Berkeley  Temple  surren- 
dered its  property  and  became  a  part  of 
the  L'nion  Church  by  its  membership 
being  entirely  absorbed  in  Union  Church 
which  kept  name,  property  and  tradi- 
tions. Dr.  Loomis  resigning  and  Dr. 
Stockdale  becoming  pastor  of  the  joint 
enterprise. 

"Beginning  with  his  Boston  life.  Dr. 
Loomis  as  pastor  has  been  actively  en- 
gaged in  denominational  matters.  As 
associate  secretary,  he  will  aid  Dr.  Cady 
in  the  presentation  of  the  American  Mis- 


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sionary  Association's  fresh  claims  upon 
the  churches  as  emphasized  by  the  depu- 
tation report  of  the  Commission  on  Mis- 
sions and  the  recent  definite  action  of 
the  National  Council.  His  hand  will  be 
evident  in  the  publication  and  programs 
of  the  Association  and  in  all  its  fresh- 
ened forms  of  presentation  to  the  mem- 
bership of  the  churches.  He  will  repre- 
sent the  Association  in  the  joint  board 
of  editors  of  the  American  Missionary." 

Leete,  who  is  the  New  England  Field 
Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Church 
Building  Society,  has  recently  written 
an  article  for  The  Congregationalist  enti- 
tled "Keeping  up  the  Supplies,"  which 
contains  sane  words  so  true  and  so  sug- 
gestive, and  withal  so  apt  to  be  forgotten 
in  these  war  times,  that  we  quote  them: 

"It  is  for  us  to  make  sure  our  heritage 
on  every  side.  We  must  fight  this  war 
through  with  supreme  energy.  There 
must  be  no  lack  in  food,  in  munitions, 
in  soldiers,  in  ships,  but  let  us  not  forget 
that  it  is  right  ethical  principles  and 
strong  religious  affections  which  engen- 
dered in  growing  minds  guarantee  the 
future  strength  of  the  Republic.  If 
churches  are  not  organized  and  housed 
the  nation  to-morrow  will  be  that  much 
weaker." 

Hingeley  for  some  years  has  been  the 
manager  of  the  Methodist  campaign  for 
a  large  annuity  fund  for  the  aged  or  dis- 
abled ministers  of  that  church.  The 
movement  was  begun  in  1912  with  an 
objective  of  five  million  dollars.  Later 
this  sum  was  raised  to  ten  and  still 
later  to  twenty  millions.  Over  ten 
millions  have  now  been  subscribed,  and 
it  is  predicted  that  the  entire  sum 
sought  will  be  attained  within  five  years 
more.  Those  who  know  the  energy, 
ability,  and  devotion  to  his  work  of  Dr. 
Hingeley  are  the  more  confident  that 
this  expectation  will  be  fully  realized. 

The  entire  Class  of  1877  sincerely 
sympathizes  with  its  younger  brothers 
of  the  Class  of  1917  in  the  death  of  the 
first  of  their  members  to  give  up  his  life 


in  his  country's  service,  Roger  C.  Per- 
kins, a  son  of  our  own  classmate  Sidney 
K.  Perkins.  Roger  Perkins  enlisted  in 
the  Naval  Reserve  last  spring,  soon  after 
war  was  declared  and  was  recently 
transferred  to  the  aviation  branch  of  the 
service,  and  was  engaged  in  training  at 
Key  West,  Fla.,  when,  on  March  14th, 
his  hydro-aeroplane  in  some  way  be- 
came disabled  and  fell  into  the  water 
from  a  height  of  500  or  600  feet,  inflict- 
ing such  injuries  upon  the  young  aviator 
that  he  died  almost  immediately.  His 
funeral  was  held  at  his  parents'  home  in 
Manchester,  Vt.,  on  March  19th.  Many 
'77  men  wrote  to  his  father  letters  which 
were  greatly  appreciated  by  him,  and  in 
his  reply  to  such  a  letter  from  the  secre- 
tary, Perkins  says, 

"I  am  proud  to  have  been  the  father 
of  such  a  son,  and  for  him  I  must  feel 
that  a  larger  service  was  waiting." 

Roger  Perkins'  ability  was  such  that 
he  graduated  second  in  his  class  at  the 
Ground  School  of  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  and  in  a  few 
more  weeks  he  would  have  been  fully 
prepared  for  his  hazardous  work  as  a 
military  aviator.  He  was  a  good  scholar 
at  Amherst,  and  was  active  in  athletic 
sports,  being  on  the  'Varsity  football 
team  and,  later,  manager  of  the  baseball 
team.  The  many  tributes  to  his  mem- 
ory from  his  friends  and  associates  in 
his  home  town  and  college  show  in 
what  estimation  he  was  held  by  them. 
His  was  the  first  fatality  among  the  re- 
cent graduates  of  Amherst,  and  thus  he 
has  earned  the  sad  distinction  of  leading 
what  may  prove  to  be  the  long  list  of 
sacrifices  in  the  cause  of  liberty,  from 
our  college.  Mr.  Perkins  only  other 
son,  Charles  K.  Perkins,  Amherst  '12, 
left  a  fine  position  in  Walpole,  Mass., 
with  the  Lewis  Mfg.  Co.,  and  enlisted 
last  August.  He  graduated  fourth  in 
his  class  at  the  Ground  Aviation  School 


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of  Cornell,  and  is  now  an  instructor  in 
a  gunnery  school  in  Southern  France. 
We  of  "77  not  only  sympathize  with  our 
classmate  in  the  heroism  of  his  sons,  but 
congratulate  him  on  being  the  father  of 
such  devoted  and  patriotic  men. 

Members  of  our  class  who  are  not  now 
subscribers  for  the  Amherst  Gradu- 
ates' Quarterly  are  again  urged  to  be- 
come subscribers  and  those  who  take 
the  Quarterly  are  asked  to  try  to  ex- 
tend its  circulation  among  our  class  till 
each  of  our  members  becomes  a  sub- 
scriber and  reader.  This  is  now  the 
only  way  in  which  to  keep  fully  and 
regularly  informed  of  matters  of  interest 
and  importance  to  us  all  as  a  class. 

Dr.  Charles  Sumner  Nash  with  John 
Wright  Buckham  is  editor  of  a  volume 
recently  published  by  the  Pilgrim  Press 
entitled  "Religious  Progress  on  the  Pa- 
cific Coast."  It  comprises  addresses 
and  papers  on  subjects  historical,  social 
and  philosophical  at  the  celebration  of 
the  semicentennial  anniversary  of  the 
Pacific  School  for  Religion  at  Berkeley, 
Calif. 

1878 
Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner,  Secretary 
187  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Charles  S.  Nisbet  of  Amsterdam, 
N.  Y.,  has  been  elected  vice  president  of 
the  New  York  State  Bar  Association. 
Charles  Evans  Hughes  is  the  new  presi- 
dent of  the  association. 

Ex-Senator  Charles  H.  Fuller  has 
been  elected  a  director  of  the  newly  or- 
ganized Brooklyn  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. He  has  also  been  elected  vice 
president  of  the  Flatbush  Democratic 
Club  of  Brooklyn. 

Frank  L.  Babbott  has  been  re- 
elected vice  president  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of   the   Brooklyn   Public   Li- 


brary. He  is  also  a  director  of  the  New 
England  Society  of  Brooklyn.  He 
served  on  the  Brooklyn  executive  com- 
mittee for  the  Third  Liberty  Loan. 

Frank  W.  Stearns  is  a  member  of  the 
Special  Fund  committee  for  the  Y.  W. 
C.  A.  in  Boston. 

Dr.  Marcus  B.  Carleton,  who  a  few 
years  ago  was  obliged  to  give  up  his 
work  in  India  on  account  of  his  health, 
has  recovered  and  hopes  eventually  to 
return  to  India.  At  present  he  is  teach- 
ing physiology  and  biology  in  Fisk 
University. 

Dr.  Guy  Hinsdale,  of  Hot  Springs, 
Va.,  Secretary  of  the  American  Cli- 
matological  and  Clinical  Association 
and  Fellow  of  the  (English)  Royal  So- 
ciety of  Medicine,  has  lately  published, 
among  other  articles,  two  dealing  with 
the  bearing  of  his  specialty  on  soldiers 
injured  or  diseased  in  the  war.  One 
entitled  "Hydrology  in  Military  Prac- 
tice" deals  generally  with  the  subject; 
the  other,  "  Hydrotherapeutics  in  the 
War,"  proposes  the  organization  of  a 
hydrotherapeutical  unit  to  be  attached 
to  each  general  military  hospital  and 
especially  each  reconstruction  hospital, 
and  calls  attention  to  the  facilities  af- 
forded by  the  various  spas  and  springs 
in  this  country. 

Prof.  H.  N.  Gardiner  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  the  position  of  a  translator 
in  the  service  of  the  Government. 

William  N.  Osgood  has  published  un- 
der the  auspices  of  the  People's  Service 
League  a  book  entitled  "The  Vital 
Question,  or  How  to  Get  Real  Democ- 
racy in  the  United  States." 

Dr.  George  S.  Ely,  Principal  Exam- 
iner of  the  United  States  Patent  Office, 
died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  on  Decem- 
ber 11,  1917. 


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He  was  the  son  of  Ezra  Sterling  and 
Harriet  Mason  Ely  and  wiis  born  in 
Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  on  April  17,  1846.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  the  State  Normal 
School  in  Fredonia  and,  after  graduat- 
ing from  Amherst,  studied  at  Johns 
Hopkins  University.  In  1883  he  be- 
came Professor  of  Mathematics  and 
Physics  in  Bechtel  College  and  in  Octo- 
ber, 1884,  entered  the  U.  S.  Patent 
Office  as  an  examiner.  At  his  death  he 
was  Principal  Examiner. 

Dr.  Ely  received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D. 
from  Johns  Hopkins  University.  He 
was  married  on  August  22,  1883,  to 
Miss  Susie  Scofield,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  William  C.  Scofield,  then  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  West- 
hampton,  Mass.  She  survives  him,  to- 
gether with  two  children.  Interment 
was  at  Albion,  N.  Y. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 
1140  Woodward  Bldg.,Washington,D.C. 

James  G.  Carleton  is  traveling  in 
South  America  and  left  Para  in  March, 
expecting  to  be  a  thousand  miles  be- 
yond mail  connection. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton, 
Chaplain  of  the  13th  Coast  Defense, 
stationed  at  Fort  Hamilton,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Brooklyn  executive  Commit- 
tee for  the  Third  Liberty  Loan.  He 
was  the  principal  speaker  at  the  annual 
meeting  in  January  of  the  New  York 
Federation  of  Churches  and  said  that 
the  young  men  who  had  gone  to  camps 
would  return  home  with  a  higher  char- 
acter than  when  they  left,  and  would 
bring  back  something  with  them  to  de- 
posit in  the  life  of  the  country. 

"The  camps  are  character  making," 
he  said,  "not  character  smashing,  as 
some  misguided  persons  would  claim. 
They  are  tiie  people  who  take  the  one 
bad  man  in  a  thousand  as  an  example. 


The  men  in  the  camps  are  thinking  se- 
riously of  the  great  problems  of  life,  and 
are  coming  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
genuine  things  are  the  only  ones  worth 
while.  They  are  beginning  to  under- 
stand that  there  is  no  use  giving  their 
body  to  their  country  unless  they  add 
their  spirits.  The  average  of  morality 
at  my  camp  is  so  far  above  that  of  New 
York  that  I  refrain  from  giving  the  sta- 
tistics out  of  pity  for  the  New  Yorkers." 

W'inston  Henry  Hagen,  prominent 
lawyer,  head  of  the  law  firm  of  Hagen, 
Goodrich  (Amherst  1880)  &  Coughlan 
at  49  W^all  Street,  New  York,  and  rep- 
resentative of  the  Class  of  1879  on  the 
Alumni  Council,  died  suddenly  in 
Brooklyn  on  Friday,  February  1st. 
After  lunching  with  a  friend  in  New 
York,  Mr.  Hagen  had  gone  to  Brooklyn 
to  see  a  client.  When  within  a  door  or 
two  of  his  destination,  he  was  taken 
suddenly  ill  and  fell  in  the  street.  An 
ambulance  took  him  to  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Hospital  where  he  died  from 
heart  disease  a  few  minutes  after  his 
arrival. 

Mr.  Hagen  was  60  years  old.  He  was 
born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  September  18, 
1857,  the  son  of  Michael  Talbot  and 
Virginia  (Winston)  Hagen,  and  prepared 
for  college  at  Adelphi  Academy  in 
Brooklyn.  After  graduation  he  studied 
law  in  New  York,  in  the  offices  of  Bris- 
tow,  Peet,  Burnett  &  Opdyke,  and  in 
Columbia  Law  School  He  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  in  1881,  and  from  that 
date  to  the  end  of  his  life  he  practiced 
law  successfully  in  New  York,  chiefly 
at  49  Wall  Street.  At  one  time  he  was 
the  law  partner  of  General  Henry  C. 
Burnett,  formerly  United  States  Dis- 
trict Attorney,  and  of  Judge  Edward  B. 
Whitney.  In  recent  years  he  was  head 
of  the  firm  of  Hagen,  Goodrich (H.  L. 
Goodrich  of  '80),  and  Coughlan. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  University 
Club  of  New  York,  the  Hobby  Club, 
the  Grolier  Club,  and  the  India  House 


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Club,  and  an  associate  member  of  the 
Legal  Advisory  Board,  of  New  York. 
Besides  his  legal  knowledge,  he  was  a 
man  of  learning  and  fine  taste  in  Eng- 
lish literature,  and  especially  devoted 
to  the  poetry  of  the  classical  period  be- 
tween 1640  and  1780.  In  this  field  he 
was  a  notable  collector  of  books,  and 
left  an  extensive  and  valuable  library. 
His  collection  of  Popes  and  Drydens 
was  unequalled  in  this  country.  Al- 
ways generous  to  the  college,  he  encour- 
aged such  studies  there  by  founding, 
some  time  ago,  the  Hagen  Prize  in  Eng- 
lish Literature,  a  prize  of  fifty  dollars, 
awarded  each  year  to  the  student  who 
has  done  the  best  piece  of  work  upon 
some  literary  subject,  chosen  for  that 
year  by  the  donor. 

Mr.  Hagen  is  survived  by  his  wife 
and  four  children — two  sons  and  two 
daughters.  He  was  twice  married,  first 
on  October  9,  1864,  to  Laura,  daughter 
of  H.  D.  Fearing  of  Amherst,  who  died 
on  February  13,  1897,  and  second,  on 
June  15,  1898,  to  Lucy,  daughter  of 
William  Trotter  of  New  York  City. 

The  funeral  was  held  on  Monday, 
February  4th,  at  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension  in  New  York,  Fifth  Avenue 
and  Tenth  Street,  of  which  Mr.  Hagen 
was  a  vestryman. 

As  a  student  in  college  he  was  intelli- 
gent and  successful,  but  was  especially 
distinguished  for  wit,  friendliness,  and 
companionable  qualities.  His  class- 
mates remember  with  pleasure  and 
pride  his  Grove  Oration,  which  was  at 
least  as  witty  and  amusing  as  any  of 
its  time,  but,  in  contrast  to  the  run  of 
such  performances  in  those  days,  con- 
tained not  a  word  that  was  out  of 
taste  or  conveyed  an  unkind  reflection 
on  any  one.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Alumni  Council,  and  in  that  capacity 
he  sent  to  his  classmates,  only  a  few 
days   before  his   death,   a   cheery   and 


amusing  circular  letter,  which  they  will 
treasure  as  characteristic.  They  will 
miss  him  sorely.  He  was  the  life  of 
their  reunions,  at  which  he  was  always 
present.  They  will  cherish  the  memory 
of  his  good  fellowship,  his  intelligence 
and  high  character,  his  constant  kind- 
ness, his  sunny  temper,  his  lambent  and 
harmless  wit. 

1880 

Hon.  Henrt  P.  Field,  Secretary, 

86  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Dr.  George  G.  Sears  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  Mayor  Peters,  of  Boston, 
trustee  of  the  Boston  City  Hospital. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  visiting 
staff  of  the  hospital  for  twenty-six 
years,  is  a  specialist  on  the  heart,  and 
has  been  connected  with  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  for  years. 

In  recognition  of  his  work  for  the 
soldiers,  the  Rev.  Dr.  L.  Mason  Clarke, 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  has  been  made  an 
honorary  member  of  U.  S.  Grant  Post 
No.  327,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  Prof.  Wil- 
liam C.  Peckham,  '67,  is  Adjutant.  Dr. 
Clarke  was  also  a  member  of  the  Brook- 
lyn Executive  Committee  for  the  Third 
Liberty  Loan. 

Frank  A.  Whiting  of  Holyoke  is  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  New  England  Coal  Dealers'  Associ- 
ation. 

A.  F.  Bemis  has  been  elected  Treas- 
urer of  The  Federal  Trust  Company  of 
Boston. 

Miss  Martha  Elizabeth  Whittemore, 
daughter  of  Prof.  L.  D.  Whittemore, 
died  at  Topeka,  Kansas,  December  27, 
1917. 

Cummings,  Gillett,  C.  L.  Field,  and 
H.  P.  Field  attended  the  joint  dinner  of 
the  Connecticut  Valley  Association  of 


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the  Alumni  and  the  Alumni  Council  at 
Springfield,  March  15th. 

1881 

Frank  S.  Parsons,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

60  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

William  G.  Dwight  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  newly  elected  mayor  of 
Holyoke  one  of  the  Playground  Com- 
missioners of  that  city. 

1882 
John  P.  Cushing,  Secretary, 
Whitneyville,  Conn. 

Dr.  Edward  H.  Martin  of  Middlebury 
died  December  29,  1917,  at  the  Mary 
Fletcher  Hospital,  Burlington,  of  which 
he  was  consulting  surgeon.  He  was  born 
February  9,  1861,  at  Foo  Chow,  China, 
where  his  father.  Rev.  Carroll  Martin, 
was  a  missionary.  Having  fitted  at  the 
Montpelier  Seminary,  he  entered  Am- 
herst College  in  the  Class  of  1882.  After 
graduation  he  studied  medicine  at  the 
University  of  Vermont,  receiving  his 
degree  in  1884.  He  married  Ida  M. 
Hinkley  of  Georgia,  Vt.,  October  12, 
1882,  who  survives  him  with  six  chil- 
dren, Edward  H.  of  San  Francisco,  the 
Class  Boy  of  1882,  Carl  S.  of  Twin  Falls, 
Idaho,  Harold  H.  of  Seattle  and  Mrs. 
Lucius  Butolph,  Marjorie  and  Mildred 
of  Middlebury. 

Dr.  Martin  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  at  Salisbury,  Vt.,  and  moved 
to  Middlebury  in  1892,  where  he  made 
his  home  for  twenty-five  years.  He 
was  consulting  surgeon  at  hospitals  in 
Burlington  and  Winooski  and  had  an 
extensive  practice  throughout  the  slate. 
Modest  and  retiring  in  his  manner,  he 
was  sought  to  fill  many  positions  of  re- 
sponsibility. He  was  treasurer  of  the 
medical  societies  of  both  the  county  and 
state  and  he  served  his  home  town  as 
trustee  of  the  village,  member  of  the 
school  board,  and  for  one  year  he  was 


road  commissioner.  In  Masonry  he 
took  an  active  part  and  was  for  two 
years  commander  of  Mount  Calvary 
Commandery. 

At  the  funeral  his  class  was  repre- 
sented by  the  president,  F.  C.  Partridge 
of  Proctor,  and  S.  A.  Howard  of  Rut- 
land. 

Rev.  James  W.  Bixler,  D.  D.,  who 
spent  last  winter  as  Professor  of  The- 
ology at  Atlanta  Theological  Seminary, 
has  accepted  a  call  to  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church,  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  . 
began  his  work  January  20th. 

Rev.  Frederick  T.  Rouse,  D.  D.,  who 
was  acting  pastor  at  the  Old  South 
Church,  Worcester,  Mass.,  1916-17, 
while  the  pastor  was  absent,  is  now 
serving  as  interim  pastor  at  the  First 
Church,  Madison,  Wis.,  one  of  the 
largest  churches  in  the  State  and  largely 
attended  by  the  faculty  and  students  of 
Wisconsin  University. 

Ruth  Partridge,  the  fourth  child  of        i 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  C.  Partridge,  was 
born  at  Proctor,  Vt.,  November  5,  1917. 

Rev.  Joseph  Wheelwright,  who  was 
for  some  years  at  Tamworth,  N.  H.,  is 
now  settled  over  the  church  at  Webster, 
N.  H. 

The  Christian  Work  for  January  5th 
reprinted  the  address  by  Rev.  Chas.  S. 
Mills,  D.  D.,  on  "The  Church  and  the 
World  Crisis"  which  was  delivered  be- 
fore the  National  Council  of  the  Con- 
gregational Churches  of  America  at 
Columbus,  Ohio. 

George  Nesbitt  Cowan  died  at  San- 
ford,  N.  Y.,  on  December  25,  1917,  in 
his  fifty-eighth  year,  after  a  long  illness. 
He  was  the  son  of  Hector  H.  and  Esther 
(Nesbitt)  Cowan  and  was  born  in  Stam- 
ford, N.  Y.,  on  October  7,  1860.  He 
fitted  for  college  at  Stamford  Seminary, 


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graduated  from  Amherst  in  1882,  and 
received  his  M.  A.  degree  in  1887.  After 
graduation  he  studied  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  on  April  25,  1885. 

Mr.  Cowan  specialized  in  corporation 
law  and  in  waterworks  construction, 
and  he  promoted  water  companies  in 
the  following  places  in  New  York  State 
—  Cattaraugus,  Cadossa,  Hancock, 
Yorkshire,  Sinclairville,  Hobart, Worces- 
ter, Livingstone  Manor,  Liberty,  Bliss, 
Arcade  and  Sandusky.  He  also  organ- 
ized The  Record  and  Advertiser  of  Delan- 
son,  N.  Y.,  in  addition  to  his  law  and 
engineering  practice,  and  he  was  presi- 
dent of  several  corporations. 

On  December  23,  1884,  he  married 
Jessie  B.  Gillespie  of  Stamford,  and  to 
them  was  born  one  son,  Jesse,  on  Janu- 
ary 26,  1886.  In  May,  1894,  both  he 
and  his  wife  were  taken  with  diphtheria, 
his  wife  dying,  while  he  was  left  an  in- 
valid for  years  as  a  result  of  the  disease. 
His  son,  who  had  prepared  to  enter 
Amherst  in  the  fall  of  1901,  died  of 
appendicitis  the  previous  January. 

1883 

Dr.  John  B.  Walker,  Secretary, 

51  East  50th  Street,  New  York  City 

Frank  Ballard  Marsh,  assistant  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  of  the  Manufac- 
turing Perfumers'  Association  of  the 
United  States,  was  stricken  suddenly 
with  coma  in  the  offices  of  that  concern 
at  309  Broadway,  New  York  City,  on 
Monday,  January  14th,  and  was  re- 
moved to  the  Hudson  Street  Hospital, 
where  he  died  soon  after,  without  re- 
gaining consciousness.  His  home  was 
at  326  Clermont  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Marsh  was  57  years  old.  He  was 
the  son  of  Edward  H.  and  Harriet 
(Wells)  Marsh  and  was  born  in  Brook- 
lyn on  July  20,  1860.  He  fitted  for  col- 
lege at  Brooklyn  Poly.  Prep.,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  Fra- 


ternity. He  was  married  on  October  3, 
1888,  to  Marion,  daughter  of  William 
H.  Bolton  of  Brooklyn,  who  survives 
him,  together  with  two  sons  and  a 
daughter:  Edward  H.  Marsh,  Amherst, 
1911,  a  member  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Re- 
serves; Morrison  Marsh  and  Miss  Ma- 
rion Penelope  Marsh. 

The  funeral  services  were  conducted 
at  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of 
the  Messiah  in  Brooklyn,  of  which  Mr. 
Marsh  was  a  member,  and  interment 
was  at  Hewlett,  Long  Island. 

Edward  Allen  Guernsey  died  at  his 
home  in  Allston  Heights,  Mass.,  on 
January  21st,  at  the  age  of  57  years. 

He  was  the  son  of  Peter  C.  and  Mar- 
tha T.  (Allen)  Guernsey  and  was  born 
at  Montrose,  Penn.,  on  January  1,  1861, 
moving  later  to  Amherst.  He  prepared 
for  college  at  Amherst  High  School  and 
after  graduation  taught  for  one  year  in 
the  Boys'  School  at  Colora,  Md.  He 
then  became  assistant  principal  in  the 
River  Falls  (Wis.)  High  School,  and 
from  1884-85  took  a  post-graduate 
course  in  Latin  and  Greek  at  Amherst, 
after  which  he  taught  at  Straight  Uni- 
versity in  New  Orleans.  He  then  en- 
tered business  and  for  three  years  was 
in  the  office  of  the  Bridge  Teachers' 
Agency  in  Boston,  Minneapolis,  and 
St.  Paul.  For  the  next  six  years  he  was 
with  a  wholesale  music  house  at  St. 
Paul  and  Minneapolis,  returning  east 
in  1897,  since  which  time  he  had  been 
in  business  in  Boston. 

Mr.  Guernsey  was  married  on  No- 
vember 10,  1887,  to  Miss  Helen  C. 
Shipman,  daughter  of  George  H.  Ship- 
man  of  Philadelphia.  She  survives  him. 
Interment  was  at  Amherst. 

The  Missionary  Review  of  the  World 
for  January  contained  an  article  by  the 
Rev.  C.  H.  Patton,  D.  D.,  on  "A  Conti- 
nental Program  for  Africa."    On  March 


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11th,  Dr.  Patton  addressed  the  New 
Haven  Congregational  Club  on  "Africa 
and  the  World  Crisis." 

The  Congregationalist  for  January 
17th  contained  an  article  by  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Howard  A.  Bridgman  on  "Planning 
the  Christian  Conquest  of  the  World," 
the  article  having  to  do  with  the  Stu- 
dent Volunteer  Conference  at  North- 
field.  Dr.  Bridgman  preached  at 
Wheaton  College  on  February  17th. 

Prof.  Williston  Walker  has  recently 
published  through  Scribners,  "A  His- 
tory of  the  Christian  Church."  The 
volume  has  been  most  favorably  re- 
viewed. 

Rochester  University,  of  which  Dr. 
Rush  Rhees  is  the  President,  has  been 
selected  as  the  first  college  of  twenty  or 
more  throughout  the  country  to  co- 
operate with  the  Government  in  the 
establishment  of  a  course  for  employ- 
ment managers.  The  graduates  are  to 
serve  in  government  and  war  work. 

1884 

WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 

2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City 

Rev.  Frederick  C.  Taylor  has  re- 
ceived and  accepted  a  call  to  London- 
derry, Vt.,  and  is  now  installed  over  the 
Congregational  Church  of  that  place. 
He  has  been  previously  at  North  Brook- 
field,  Mass. 

Former  Congressman  Edward  M. 
Bassett  has  been  chosen  a  director  of 
the  Congregational  Church  Extension 
Society  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn  for 
the  ensuing  year. 

1885 

Frank  W.  Whitman,  Secretary, 

411  West  114th  Street,  New  York  City 

Prof.  Herbert  Vaughn  Abbott  had  an 
article  in  The  Outlook  for  February  l20th 


on  "Sidney  Colvin's  New  Life  of 
Keats."  On  the  same  date  he  addressed 
the  Western  Massachusetts  Library 
Club  on  the  subject  of  "Ways  of  Re- 
form in  Modern  Drama." 

The  Rev.  Dr.  William  Greenough 
Thayer,  headmaster  of  St.  Marks  school 
at  Southboro,  Mass.,  has  been  appointed 
chaplain  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment  of 
Infantry  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Guard. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  George  Loring  Todd, 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Plymouth,  Pa.,  has  gone  to  France  un- 
der the  auspices  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Na- 
tional War  Work  Council  to  do  relief 
work.  He  is  well  fitted  for  the  task  as 
he  has  been  director  and  treasurer  of  the 
Bolivian  National  Institute,  Bolivar, 
South  America,  director  and  disbursing 
officer  of  the  State  Reform  School  in 
Cuba,  has  done  social  work  in  the  hos- 
pitals of  the  War  Department  in  Cuba, 
and  speaks  both  Spanish  and  French. 

The  following  letter  was  received  re- 
cently from  Galloway,  who  is  engaged 
in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France: 

Having  survived  the  ocean  voyage 
and  two  air  raids  since  my  arrival  in 
Paris,  I  am  prepared  to  give  you  a  short 
resume  of  what  I  have  been  doing.  In 
the  first  place,  we  had  a  wonderful 
ocean  trip,  wonderful  as  to  its  calmness 
and  mild  weather  and  wonderful  to 
have  been  ten  days  with  such  a  gather- 
ing of  men  and  women  coming  over  here 
to  do  whatever  they  can — and  there  is 
plenty  to  do— and  to  have  felt  the  in- 
spiration and  uplift  of  their  earnestness 
and  devotion  to  the  cause  of  our  coun- 
try. They  now — alas — have  mostly 
scattered  to  their  various  posts.  I  am 
held  here  for  a  few  days  longer  until  I 
get  my  police  permit  to  travel.  As  my 
trunk  was  lost  for  three  days — I  found 
it  in  another  hotel  quite  by  accident — I 
could  not  furnish  my  photographs  in 
time  to  get  immediate  assignment.  I 
am  particularly  happy  over  my  work  to 
be.     There  was  a  friendly  rivalry  be-      ' 


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tween  Mr.  Davis,  the  head  of  the  French 
Department,  who  wanted  to  send  me  to 
Les  Joyers  du  Soldats  in  the  French 
Army,  and  Mr.  Steele,  who  wanted  me 
to  lecture  on  French  history  and  the 
causes  of  the  war,  and  sing  to  our  boys. 
Dr.  Anson  Phelps  Stokes  of  Yale  added 
his  voice  to  the  Educational  Side  and  so 
I  am  to  go  the  end  of  the  week  to  stay 
three  weeks  among  a  number  of  our 
camps.  After  that,  just  where  I  will  be 
sent  I  know  not. 

I  found  there  was  a  crying  need  for 
just  what  I  had  prepared  myself  in  be- 
fore leaving  America  and  so  I  was  wel- 
comed with  open  arms.  If  I  thought 
New  York  Office  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  ef- 
ficient, it  is  not  a  circumstance  to  what 
they  are  doing  here  in  Paris.  And  yet 
the  cry  is  more  men,  more  men  and 
women.  The  women's  work  is  wonder- 
ful beyond  expression.  I  want  to  say 
with  pride  that  our  army  is  the  cleanest, 
best  behaved,  best  ordered  that  ever  was 
gathered  together  and  all  the  German 
propoganda  stuff  as  to  their  conduct  or 
our  hospitals  or  anything  else  are  lies 
pure  and  simple. 

If  I  could  only  tell  you  what  our  Gov- 
ernment is  doing  here  in  France  you 
would  be  dumbfounded.  But  still  it  is 
but  a  beginning  and  the  American  peo- 
ple must  realize  that  they  have  a  long 
hard  proposition  before  them,  the  enor- 
mity of  which  they  do  not  begin  to 
realize. 

But  France!  Oh  how  noble,  how 
great,  how  incomparable  she  has  been 
and  is.  She  is  far  from  bled  white  and 
Kaiser  Bill  and  the  whole  German  peo- 
ple— because  they  are  as  guilty  as  he  is 
— may  as  well  realize  that  if  the  whole 
world  failed  them,  the  French  will  never 
be  downed.  Paris  is  sad  beyond  words 
but  interesting  in  its  wholly  different 
aspect.  As  I  said,  we  have  had  two 
raids,  the  one  last  night  being  the  worst. 
About  twenty  bombs  fell  near  here,  that 
is  about  the  distance  from  Leonard 
Street  to  Bowling  Green,  and  I  went 
over  there  this  morning  to  see  the  dam- 
age, and  the  grisly  sight  of  where  a  num- 
ber were  killed.  I  do  not  take  to  a  cave, 
as  they  call  it,  when  the  sirens  blow, 
but  go  out  to  see  what  is  doing.  The 
flashing  shrapnel  and  flashlights  and 
noise  of  the  anti-aircraft  guns  is  exciting 
and  makes  you  realize  you  are  in  the 
midst  of  the  real  thing. 


The  ciu-ious  psychology  of  the  Ger- 
man mind  thinks  the  raids  destroy  the 
morale  of  the  French.  Far  from  it,  as  it 
only  makes  them  more  determined  than 
ever.  I  have  met  many  friends  over 
here  and  find  my  music  is  known  widely. 
The  first  morning  I  went  into  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  the  obliging  mail  clerk,  a  young 
woman  said,  "Are  you  the  great  com- 
poser.'" whereupon  I  had  to  retire  to 
cover  my  blushes  and  diminished  head. 

Being  so  familiar  with  Paris,  I  could 
spend  my  whole  time  guiding  our  people 
about  if  I  had  not  much  else  to  do.  At 
night,  Paris  is  black  and  one  gropes 
one's  way  about  by  instinct  but  the 
streets  were  never  safer  save  for  taxis. 
The  restaurants  are  open  from  6.30  to 
9.30  and  the  theatres  begin  at  7.30  and 
end  at  11. 

Any  American  who  wants  to  help  his 
Country,  no  matter  what  his  occupation 
or  supposed  limitations  can  do  so  by 
coming  over  here  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Saint  or  Sinner — and  believe  me  some  of 
the  so-called  Sinners  do  the  best  work. 


1886 

Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 

4  Marble  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Munsey's  Magazine  for  February  con- 
tained a  noteworthy  article  by  Secre- 
tary of  State  Robert  Lansing  on  "Our 
Present  Foreign  Relations."  The  Sec- 
retary was  the  principal  speaker  at  the 
annual  meeting  in  January  of  the  New 
York  State  Bar  Association.  Secretary 
Lansing  is  to  be  the  Honorary  Chancel- 
lor at  the  1918  Commencement  at  Union 
College,  and  as  such  will  deliver  the  ad- 
dress to  the  graduating  class. 

The  late  Clyde  Fitch,  American  play- 
wright, bequeathed  his  art  collection  to 
the  Actor's  Fund  of  America.  The  col- 
lection was  sold  in  February  at  the 
American  Art  Galleries  in  New  York, 
nearly  twenty -five  thousand  dollars  be- 
ing realized.  Among  the  purchasers 
were  David  Belasco,  Lillian  Russell, 
Jack  Barrymore,  and  some  of  the  lead- 
ing actors  in  the  country. 


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Miss  Ethel  Rugg,  daughter  of  Walter 
A.  Rugg,  Amherst,  '86,  is  a  member  of 
the  graduating  class  at  Stanford  Uni- 
versity. Rugg  is  a  successful  insurance 
man,  doing  business  in  the  Bay  Cities 
and  at  Palo  Alto. 

Osgood  T.  Eastman,  who  is  manager 
of  the  Omaha  branch  of  the  Federal  Re- 
serve Bank  in  Kansas  City,  is  also  in 
charge  of  the  Liberty  Bond  work  for 
Nebraska  and  Wyoming,  which  latter 
duty  has  been  taking  practically  all  of 
his  time  lately.  Amherst  men  in  the 
East  will  be  particularly  interested  in 
what  Mr.  Eastman  writes  in  regard  to 
war  conditions  in  Nebraska.     He  says: 

"We  have  completed  a  most  thorough 
organization  and  there  is  no  doubt  but 
what  Nebraska  and  Wyoming  will  do  as 
they  have  done  before— their  quota  and 
then  some.  This  is  true  not  only  in  Lib- 
erty Bond  work,  but  in  every  war  work 
activity.  You  may  possibly  have  read 
press  dispatches  to  the  effect  that  Ne- 
braska is  the  first  state  to  have  sub- 
scribed its  quota  of  War  Saving  Stamps. 
I  simply  mention  these  facts  so  that  you 
may  spread  the  statement  that  the 
Middle  West  is  by  no  means  unmind- 
ful of  the  fact  that  we  are  at  W' ar. 

"In  spite  of  the  large  German  popu- 
lation, Nebraska  has  been  close  to  the 
top  in  every  line  connected  with  the 
War,  not  omitting  the  percentage  of 
volunteers  now  in  the  service.  It  only 
took  a  very  small  number  of  men  to  fill 
up  our  quota  of  the  first  draft,  over  and 
above  the  number  who  volunteered. 

"Our  Red  Cross  work  is  away  ahead 
of  our  quota,  both  financially  and  in 
War  supplies  of  every  kind.  Our  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  and  K.  of  C.  quotas  were  largely 
over-subscribed  in  short  order.  Many 
counties  throughout  the  state  already 
have  the  funds  collected  more  than  suf- 
ficient to  take  care  of  their  quota  of  the 
next  Red  Cross  drive,  and  so  it  goes  all 
along  the  line." 

Dr.  Ralph  H.  Seelye  is  chairman  of 
the  Medical  Advisory  Board  for  the 
draft  in  Springfield,  Mass. 


1888 

Asa  G.  Baker,  Secretary, 
6  Cornell  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Rev.  Edward  L.  Marsh,  of  Plymouth 
Congregational  Church,  Providence,  has 
been  elected  moderator  of  the  Rhode 
Island  Association  of  Congregational 
ministers. 

Dr.  Paul  C.  Phillips  has  again  been 
elected  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Society  of  Directors  of  Physical  Educa- 
tion in  Colleges. 

Rev.  Lincoln  B.  Goodrich  of  Taun- 
ton, Mass.,  was  given  a  three  months 
leave  of  absence  in  February  for  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  service  at  Camp  Devens. 

William  M.  Prest  of  Boston,  who  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Boston  Licensing 
Board,  has  been  appointed  by  Governor 
McCall  Judge  of  the  Probate  Court  to 
fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of 
Judge  George. 

1887 

Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  Boston  Evening  Transcript  has 
recently  contained  several  very  inter- 
esting articles  by  Alvan  F.  Sanborn, 
who  is  the  official  interpreter  to  General 
Pershing.  Among  the  articles  worthy 
of  special  mention  that  have  appeared 
are  "Clemenceau,  The  Man  Whose 
Words  are  Deeds;"  "Lengthening  the 
Arms  of  the  Red  Cross"  and  "Paris 
Makes  Gay  with  the  Penny  Print." 

Frederic  B.  Pratt  has  been  elected  a 
director  of  the  newly  organized  Brook- 
lyn Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn  Execu- 
tive Committee  for  the  Third  Liberty 
Loan. 


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1889 

Henry  H.  Boswortii,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

15  Elm  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

James  A.  McKibben  of  Boston  is  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  for 
Suffolk  County  in  the  War  Savings 
Campaign.  Mr.  McKibben  is  also  sec- 
retary of  the  Boston  Chamber  of  Com- 


Dr.  John  S.  Hitchcock,  of  Northamp- 
ton, health  officer  of  the  Connecticut 
Valley  district,  has  been  appointed  di- 
rector of  the  division  of  communicable 
diseases  in  the  state  department  of 
health. 

Arthur  Curtiss  James  is  a  member  of 
the  Emergency  Committee,  which  is 
raising  $2,000,000  to  aid  widows  and 
orphans  of  the  navy. 

Superintendent  Frank  E.  Spaulding 
of  the  Cleveland  schools  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  joint  commis- 
sion of  educators  to  study  current  prob- 
lems in  relation  to  prevent  the  shortage 
of  teachers,  the  necessity  to  provide 
more  efficient  workers  in  war  activities 
and  the  training  of  men  in  short  courses 
to  meet  wartime  emergencies. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Governor  Charles  S.  Whitman,  it  is 
understood,  is  a  candidate  for  a  third 
term  as  Governor  of  New  York.  Recently 
he  was  presented  with  a  silver  medallion 
as  a  tribute  to  his  interest  and  cooperation 
in  the  construction  of  the  Catskill  Aque- 
duct. The  presentation  was  made  by 
the  Committee  on  the  Celebration  of  the 
Completion  of  the  Aqueduct.  In  mak- 
ing the  presentation,  George  McAneny, 
the  General  Chairman,  said, 

"In  the  administration  of  the  State 


during  the  years  covered  by  this  great 
work,  there  has  been  no  one  at  Albany 
whose  heart  and  sympathy  have  been  in 
this  matter  in  a  greater  degree  than 
yours  now.  We  have  recognized  that 
you,  as  a  citizen  of  New  York,  have 
appreciated,  perhaps  even  more  than  any 
other,  what  this  meant  to  the  city,  to 
its  life,  its  trade,  the  public  health,  and 
to  everything  that  would  go  to  make 
its  future  greatness." 

Governor  Whitman  characterized  the 
aqueduct  as  a  "tremendous  undertak- 
ing, in  some  ways  the  greatest  of  its 
kind,  perhaps,  in  this  country  or  in  any 
country." 

The  Governor  addressed  the  conven- 
tion of  the  Department  of  Superin- 
tendents of  the  National  Educational 
Association  at  Atlantic  City  in  Febru- 
ary, and  spoke  in  favor  of  compulsory 
military  training. 

Commissioner  of  Highways  Edwin 
Duffey  of  New  York  State  had  an  in- 
teresting article  in  State  Service  for 
March  on  "Building  Highways  During 
the  War." 

Edward  Gates,  eighteen  years  old, 
son  of  Herbert  W.  Gates,  Amherst,  '90, 
of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  was  frozen  to 
death  during  the  cold  wave  on  January 
1,  1918.  He  was  found  dead  by  his 
mother  on  the  floor  of  the  family  garage 
where  he  had  gone  to  make  some  re- 
pairs on  Mr.  Gates'  automobile.  It 
had  been  arranged  that  he  should  meet 
his  parents  downtown  for  dinner  later 
in  the  day.  The  young  man  was  a  stu- 
dent at  the  East  High  School,  was  quite 
an  athlete,  captain  of  the  school  basket- 
ball team,  manager  of  the  tennis  team, 
a  physical  director  at  the  Brick  Church 
Institute,  and  popular  both  with  teach- 
ers and  pupils. 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 


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The  following  is  copied  from  a  recent 
issue  of  The  Churchman: 

"One  of  the  oddest  out  of  the  scores 
of  varied  ministries  which  Dr.  John 
Timothy  Stone  has  found  open  to  him 
in  his  service  as  religious  work  director 
in  Camp  Grant  at  Rockford,  111.,  was 
the  rescue  of  a  lovelorn  soldier  from  the 
depths  of  despair  through  waiting  for 
him  a  model  love  letter.  The  luckless 
and  discouraged  soldier  confided  to  Dr. 
Stone  that  his  girl  had  gone  back  on 
him  completely.  She  did  not  want  him 
to  go  into  the  army  and  he  tried  to  pla- 
cate her  by  buying  her  a  Liberty  Bond 
before  he  enlisted,  but  even  that  he  said 
did  not  'fetch  her'  and  he  had  not 
heard  from  her  in  three  weeks.  So  Dr. 
Stone,  full  of  sympathy,  got  down  be- 
side the  boy,  handed  him  a  notebook 
and  made  him  copy  down  word  by  word 
a  love  letter  which  the  famous  preacher 
guaranteed  would  win  the  girl's  heart 
if  she  was  worth  winning.  Though 
there  is  no  later  report  from  the  case, 
there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  the 
youth  was  justified  in  the  confidence 
with  which  he  went  away  murmuring  to 
himself,  'Gosh,  I'll  get  her  yet!'  " 

Arthur  B.  Chapin  was  re-elected 
treasurer  of  the  University  Club  of  Bos- 
ton at  the  annual  meeting  in  January. 

Rev.  Edward  Arthur  Dodd,  for  eleven 
years  rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  Rose- 
bank,  N.  Y.,  has  gone  to  France  to  do 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  under  the  auspices  of 
the  National  War  Work  Council. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  So.  Summit  Street,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 

Hon.  William  H.  Lewis,  formerly  As- 
sistant Attorney  General  of  the  United 
States,  will  deliver  in  June  the  com- 
mencement address  to  the  graduating 
class  of  Wilberforce  University,  Wilber- 
force,  Ohio. 

It  was  briefly  stated  in  the  last 
Quarterly  that  Allen  Johnson,  Ph.  D., 
Professor  of  American  History  in  Yale 


University,  was  editing  a  series  of  fifty 
historical  narratives  to  be  published  by 
the  Yale  University  Press  under  the 
general  title  of  "The  Chronicles  of 
America."  It  appears  that  this  is  to 
be  a  historical  work  of  distinguished  im- 
portance, the  fifty  volumes  being  writ- 
ten by  authors  especially  selected  for 
their  authoritative  knowledge  of  certain 
periods  of  American  history,  and  the 
whole  covering  the  story  of  the  United 
States  from  the  first  settlements  to  the 
present  time.  The  publishers  have  just 
issued  an  elaborate  and  beautifully 
printed  prospectus  offering  a  special 
limited  edition  for  advance  sale,  to  be 
known  as  the  Abraham  Lincoln  edition. 
Professor  Johnson  will  not  only  edit  the 
series,  but  has  been  announced  as  the 
author  of  the  fifteenth  volume,  on 
"Jefferson  and  His  Colleagues."  The 
forty-seventh  volume,  on  "Theodore 
Roosevelt  and  His  Times,"  is  by  Harold 
Howland,  '98. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Charles  D.  Norton  has  retired  as 
Vice  President  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  New  York  and  has  been  elected 
President  of  the  First  Security  Com- 
pany, an  aflBliated  institution,  succeed- 
ing George  F.  Baker,  who  has  become 
Chairman  of  the  Board.  He  has  also 
been  re-elected  a  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank.  Mr.  Norton  has  also 
been  appointed  a  member  of  the  Budget 
Committee  to  administrate  the  funds  of 
the  war  camps  community  service. 

Rev.  Lewis  T.  Reed  of  Flatbush  Con- 
gregational Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
has  been  in  charge  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work 
at  the  army  camp  at  San  Antonio,  Tex. 
He  preached  at  Amherst  on  January 
13th  and  left  for  Texas  on  the  17th,  his 


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church  having  granted  him  a  three 
months'  leave  of  absence.  They  ten- 
dered him  a  farewell  dinner  on  January 
9th.  He  also  served  on  the  Brooklyn 
executive  committee  for  the  Third  Lib- 
erty Loan. 

The  Rev.  Frederick  W.  Beekman,  di- 
rector of  the  American  Soldiers'  and 
Sailors'  Club  in  Paris,  has  recently  re- 
ceived the  following  letter  from  General 
Pershing: 

"Please  accept  my  congratulations 
upon  the  success  of  the  American  Sol- 
diers' and  Sailors'  Club.  You  are  doing 
a  noble  work,  and  I  bespeak  for  the  club 
the  accomplishment  of  great  good  dur- 
ing the  New  Year.  With  very  best 
wishes,  believe  me     (signed)  Pershing." 

The  corner  where  the  club  is  located 
is  said  to  be  the  busiest  corner  in  Paris. 

John  L.  Kemmerer  is  a  member  of  a 
committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  of  which 
H.  L.  Pratt,  '95,  is  Chairman,  appointed 
to  secure  athletic  directors  for  the 
camps  in  this  country  and  the  forces  in 
Europe. 

William  C.  Breed  is  a  member  of  the 
Mayor's  Committee  on  National  De- 
fense (New  York  City),  assigned  to 
shipping  and  harbor  defense. 

The  memory  of  '93's  "Twentieth"  is 
still  present  and  plans  had  been  made 
for  making  the  twenty-fifth  reunion  a 
great  occasion.  Of  course  this  could  not 
be  thought  of  with  our  country  at  war. 
From  the  returns  received  by  the  class 
secretary,  however,  it  seemed  clear  that 
a  considerable  number  of  the  class  want 
to  come  to  Amherst  in  June  if  they  pos- 
sibly can  and  have  a  quiet  gathering 
and  so  the  Executive  Committee  has 
engaged  Miss  Brown's  house  on  Spring 
Street  as  headquarters. 

From  replies  received  up  to  April  1st, 
the  following  men  expect  to  be  present 


for  at  least  a  day  or  two  during  Com- 
mencement, June  1-5:  George  B.  Zug 
and  wife;  Arthur  V.  Woodworth  and 
wife;  Charles  H.  Keating;  George  D. 
Pratt  and  wife;  Thomas  C.  Trask;  T. 
Bellows  Buffum  and  wife;  Lewis  By- 
ron; Robert  I.  Walker  and  wife;  W.  H. 
Wood,  Chester  P.  Dodge,  wife  and  chil- 
dren; Walter  H.  Ross  and  wife;  Frank 
M.  Lay,  possibly  wife  and  son;  Henry 
B.  Hallock,  wife  and  children;  Charles 
D.  Norton;  Frank  D.  Blodgett  and 
wife;  Walter  L.  Tower  and  wife;  Frank 
H.  Smith,  wife  and  children;  Henry  H. 
Abbott  and  wife;  William  C.  Breed, 
and  John  L.  Kemmerer;  Herbert  P. 
Gallinger  and  wife;  Thomas  C.  Esty 
and  wife;  Frederick  S.  Allis  and  wife; 
W.  D.  Hunt. 

1894 
Henbt  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Eugene  William  Ly- 
man, who  has  been  professor  of  the 
philosophy  of  religion  and  Christian 
ethics  at  Oberlin  Graduate  School  of 
Theology,  has  been  called  to  the  new 
Professorship  of  the  Philosophy  of  Re- 
ligion at  Union  Theological  Seminary 
in  New  York  City.  Recently  he  pub- 
lished through  the  Pilgrim  Press  "The 
God  of  the  New  Age,"  dedicated  to  the 
Congregational  ministers  of  Vermont 
who  assembled  in  convocation  at  Mid- 
dlebury  College  last  September. 

Principal  Alfred  E.  Stearns  of  Phillips 
Andover  was  the  preacher  at  M.  A.  C. 
on  Sunday,  January  13th. 

Harlan  F.  Stone  is  a  member  of  a 
committee  appointed  by  the  New  York 
City  Bar  Association  to  consider  amend- 
ments to  the  law  and  to  investigate 
measures  introduced  in  the  Legislature 
affecting  political  campaigns  and  elec- 
tions.   Dean  Stone  spoke  at  Amherst  in 


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March  on  "Amherst  in  the  '90's."  He 
is  also  Counsel  to  the  Draft  Appeal 
Board  in  New  York. 

Willis  Wood  is  Chairman  of  the  Suf- 
folk County  (N.  Y.)  Red  Cross  Cam- 
paign Committee  and  was  also  on  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Fund  Campaign 
Committee. 

G.  A.  Goodell,  Chicago,  111.,  is  Super- 
intendent of  the  Dry  Color  works, 
Sherwin-Williams  Plant  No.  2,  also  Su- 
pervisor of  the  new  Ago  Dye  plant  and 
Bichromate  plant.  The  last  is  his  own 
installation.  He  has  offered  his  services 
to  the  Government  as  Chemist  or 
Chemical  Operator. 

Ralph  B.  Putnam,  R.  F.  D.  No.  5, 

Box  100,  Phoenix.  Ariz.,  is  interested  in 
the  raising  of  cotton  and  alfalfa. 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb's  eldest  son, 
Henry  D.,  Amherst,  '19,  is  in  the  Har- 
vard Ensign  Cadet  School  at  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

Rev.  E.  A.  Burnham's  son,  Randolph, 
the  Class  Boy,  is  in  the  Ground  Avia- 
tion Section,  Quartermasters'  Depart- 
ment of  the  United  States  Navy,  and  is 
stationed  at  Charleston,  S.  C. 

"Art  in  Buttons,"  Henry  T.  Noyes's 
company,  has  offered  the  use  of  its  plant 
for  laboratory  purposes  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Rochester,  in  connection  with  the 
new  course  established  at  the  request  of 
the  Government  for  employment  man- 
agers. 

1895 

William  S.  Ttler,  Secretary, 
30  Church  Street,  New  York  City 

Herbert  L.  Pratt  has  gone  to  France 
to  take  charge  of  the  army  canteens  for 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  At  the  request  of  Gen- 
eral Pershing  they  are  to  be  operated  on 
the  chain-store  system  and  Mr.  Pratt  is 


to  direct  the  work,  with  a  corps  of  Amer- 
ica's best  known  business  men  as  his 
assistants.  Mr.  Pratt  is  also  chairman 
of  the  College  Recruiting  Committee  for 
Athletic  Directors  to  teach  athletics  to 
the  soldiers  in  France  and  at  training 
camps  in  this  country. 

Rev.  J.  T.  Stocking,  D.  D.,  of  Upper 
Montclair,  N.  J.,  was  the  college  preacher 
at  Amherst  on  Sunday,  February  3rd. 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  has  been  in  Eng- 
land and  on  the  Continent  on  a  war 
mission. 

William  S.  Tyler  of  Plainfield,  N.  J., 
a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agricul- 
ture, has  been  appointed  by  President 
Wilson  Food  Administrator  for  New 
Jersey.  He  succeeds  ex-Governor  James 
Fielder. 

The  Century  Company,  New  York, 
announces  the  preparation  of  a  volume 
of  short  stories,  edited  by  Frederick  H. 
Law,  Ph.  D.,  principal  of  the  Stuyvesant 
High  School,  New  York  City.  The  col- 
lection will  consist  of  about  twenty-two 
stories,  all  by  modern  authors,  and  will 
be  designed  for  use  as  a  textbook.  One 
of  the  stories  which  Dr.  Law  has  se- 
lected for  this  volume  is  "Gulliver  the 
Great,"  by  Walter  A.  Dyer,  '00. 

J.  A.  Rawson,  Jr.,  is  working  with 
the  Equipment  and  Supplies  Bureau  of 
the  National  War  Work  Council  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  with  headquarters  at  34.7 
Madison  Ave.,  Yew  York  City.  His 
special  work  is  the  preparation  of  illus- 
trated lectures  for  the  use  of  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
workers  overseas. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

W.  Eugene  Kimball,  who  closed  up 
many  of  his  business  affairs  in  Septem- 


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ber  last  to  take  the  post  of  business  man- 
ager for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  organization  at 
Camp  Upton,  Yaphank,  N.  Y.,  has  be- 
come business  manager  for  the  Eastern 
Department  of  the  War  Work  Council 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  He  piloted  the 
"Y"  through  the  days  of  its  organiza- 
tion in  camp  and  after  things  were  run- 
ning with  the  smoothness  and  despatch 
of  a  well  organized  and  perfectly  bal- 
anced machine,  he  found  there  was  a 
bigger  and  more  important  job  waiting 
for  him.  He  left  Camp  Upton  late  in 
January  to  assume  his  new  duties  and 
at  the  time  he  left,  the  following  state- 
ment was  made  at  the  camp: 

"There  is  a  feeling  of  genuine  regret 
at  his  departure.  He  possesses  that  rare 
ability  to  combine  hard-headed  business 
tactics  with  a  genial  personality  and  a 
kindly  manner.  He  never  was  too  busy 
to  talk  to  an  enlisted  man  and  there  are 
many  members  of  the  National  Army  in 
camp  to-day  who  have  not  the  slightest 
idea  who  the  'good  fellow'  they  talked 
with  really  was." 

Herbert  E.  Riley  has  been  elected 
President  of  the  Northampton  (Mass.) 
Credit  Bureau. 

Mortimer  L.  Schiff  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  Mayor's  Committee  on 
National  Defense  chairman  of  a  Com- 
mittee on  Civic  Problems  which  will 
take  cognizance  of  all  problems  affect- 
ing New  York  City  and  relating  to 
charitable  and  reformatory  questions 
arising  from  the  war. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  Williams  Street,    Brooklyn,   N.   Y. 

The  Twenty-first  Annual  Dinner  of 
the  Class  of  Ninety-Seven  as  Alumni, 
held  in  New  York  (at  the  new  home  of 
the  Columbia  University  Club,  4  West 
43rd  Street)  on  Saturday  evening, 
March   16,    1918,   proved  notable  and 


unique  in  several  particulars.  It  was 
declared  by  all — and  that  includes 
summa-cum-laude,  lOO-per-cent-in-at- 
tendance  Tom  McEvoy — that  it  was 
the  "best  ever."  To  begin  with,  all  the 
present  class  officers  were  there  and 
also,  for  the  first  time  in  years,  if  ever, 
all  the  Presidents — "Budge"  Coles, 
"Josh"  Billings,  Ed  Esty,  Tom  Mc- 
Evoy and  Jack  Carnell.  Greatest  in- 
terest and  sentiment,  however,  centered 
in  the  presence  of  the  Class  Secretary, 
Major  Kendall  Emerson,  M.  D.,  for- 
merly of  the  British  Army  and  now  at- 
tached to  the  Surgeon-General's  staff  in 
Washington.  For  over  a  year  Major 
Emerson  had  been  "over  there"  as  a 
member  of  the  surgical  staff  of  the  Har- 
vard Unit,  from  November,  1916,  to 
December,  1917,  experiencing  all  the 
vicissitudes  of  that  hard  and  exacting 
and  dangerous  life.  His  absence  on  the 
occasion  of  the  Twentieth  Anniversary 
Reunion  of  the  Class  in  Amherst  last 
June  was  the  one  serious  drawback  to 
the  prefection  of  that  otherwise  highly 
successful  and  memorable  gathering. 
It  was,  therefore,  with  a  deep  under- 
current of  thankfulness  over  his  safe 
return  from  manifold  perils,  to  which 
he  had  been  continually  exposed  in  his 
great  work  and  on  the  high  seas,  that 
the  Class  assembled  to  clasp  by  the 
hand  and  welcome  back  him  who  as 
Secretary  and  as  man  has  done  more 
than  any  other  member  toward  strength- 
ening Class  ties  and  College  loyalty  for 
nearly  twenty-one  years. 

After  the  excellent  repast  and  a  lusty 
rendition  of  the  Class  Yell  that  has  re- 
mained unchanged  from  the  first  meet- 
ing of  the  Class,  before  the  Cane  Rush 
in  September,  1893,  President  Carnell 
arose,  referred  briefly  to  certain  mat- 
ters, including  an  appreciative  tribute 
to  Charles  F.  Richmond,  who  passed 
away  suddenly  last  summer,  and  then 


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called  upon  the  Major  to  speak  of  his 
experiences  just  behind  the  front,  in 
Belgium  and  Northern  France.  And 
then  for  fully  two  hours  the  Class  lis- 
tened with  intense  interest  to  a  won- 
derful story,  told  simply  yet  graphically, 
without  oratorical  effect,  yet  eloquent 
in  its  revelation  of  sacrifice  and  heroism. 

Beginning  with  the  statement  that  he 
himself  had  naturally  been  most  con- 
cerned with  the  technical  aspect  of  his 
work,  the  Major  told  of  his  surroundings 
and  companions,  the  personnel  of  the 
staff  and  certain  details  of  the  routine. 
He  paid  early  in  his  talk  a  high  tribute 
to  the  British  character,  explaining  that 
it  is  constitutionally  difficult  for  an  Eng- 
lishman to  speak  of  his  own  intimate  in- 
terests, regarding  those  who  do  as 
"bounders,"  and  expressing  his  firm 
conviction  that  one  important  result  of 
the  war  will  be  a  better  understanding 
of  one  another  on  the  part  of  the  Allies. 
The  British  are  true  sportsmen,  in  a 
word. 

Among  episodes  touched  upon  were 
the  famous  bombing  of  the  hospital 
tents  by  German  airplanes  last  fall,  in- 
cluding a  discussion  of  different  kinds  of 
bombs  and  other  explosives;  a  detailed 
account  of  the  kinds  of  wounds  made  in 
present-day  warfare,  set  forth  in  clear- 
est fashion  the  great  diversity  of  opera- 
tions and  the  constant  demand  for  the 
surgeon  through  long  hours;  and  the 
courage  of  the  British  wounded  and  the 
offensive  character  of  German  prisoners 
treated.  One  particularly  interesting 
incident  related  to  the  feeling  of  disunity 
within  the  German  Empire  itself,  as 
follows:  A  placard  was  sent  over  from 
the  German  lines,  thus  laboriously  done 
into  English.  "Englishmen!  We  are 
Saxons.  You  have  killed  our  Colonel. 
He  was  a  Prussian.  We  thank  you!" 
In  general  the  Major  said  the  German 
prisoners  were  "disgusting,"  the  Prus- 


sians being  particularly  "surly"  and 
manifesting  little  or  no  appreciation. 
The  "Sisters,"  as  all  nurses  are  styled, 
could  scarcely  bring  themselves  to  wait 
upon  German  prisoners,  so  atrociously 
have  women  been  treated  by  the  Huns. 

One  enlivening  touch  was  the  Major's 
account  of  the  arrival  of  the  first  de- 
tachment of  the  American  forces  in 
Paris,  on  the  Fourth  of  July,  1917,  and 
of  their  wild  acclaim  and  frantic  wel- 
come by  the  populace.  Led  by  the  su- 
perb figure  of  General  Pershing,  flanked 
by  "Papa"  Joffre  and  President  Poin- 
care,  the  troops  paraded,  somewhat 
travel  stained  but  showered  and  en- 
twined with  roses  by  French  girls,  who 
broke  into  the  ranks  and  marched  arm 
in  arm  with  the  "Sammies." 

On  the  whole,  however,  the  talk  was 
serious  throughout,  at  times  very  sol- 
emn, and  no  overplus  of  optimism  was 
shed  by  the  speaker  as  to  any  prospect 
of  "an  early  peace"  or  an  immediate 
victory.  From  now  on  Major  Emerson 
expects  to  devote  his  attention  to  rec- 
lamation work  on  American  wounded, 
that  is,  setting  aright  the  errors  result- 
ing from  hasty  or  improper  surgical 
work  done  just  behind  the  front  "over 
there."  Meanwhile  and  always  his  talk 
to  Ninety-Seven  will  be  remembered  as 
the  best  statement  of  conditions  in  the 
service  one  could  ask  to  hear. 

Twenty-nine  were  present,  thanks  to 
the  seasonable  notices  sent  out  by  the 
Committee  of  Arrangements,  A.  F. 
Warren,  Chairman,  T.  J.  McEvoy  and 
L.  H.  Hall.  The  choice  of  the  Colum- 
bia Club  was  made  on  recommendation 
of  E.  P.  Grosvenor,  one  of  its  governors, 
and  all  agreed  it  was  highly  satisfactory 
in  every  respect.  Men  came  from  Al- 
bany, Philadelphia, Connecticut,  Worces- 
ter, Boston,  and  Gloucester.  Letters  and 
telegrams  of  regret  were  read  from  many 
unwilling  absentees.    It  was  stated  that 


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there  are  at  least  twelve  men  of  the  class 
in  war  work  of  various  kinds.  Bradley 
holds  a  Captain's  commission  in  the 
army;  while,  besides  Emerson,  Cobb, 
Morse,  W.  A.,  Moses,  and  Polk  have 
the  rank  and  title  of  Major:  Cobb  in 
aviation,  Morse  in  the  Vermont  Militia, 
Moses  in  medical  reserve,  now  abroad, 
also  Polk  in  the  regular  army.  Also  In- 
gersoll  and  W.  S.  Hawes  are  in  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work,  the  former  having  lately 
left  for  France,  and  Jackson  is  in  France 
remodeling  an  old  monastery  into  a 
hospital. 

The  men  present  were  Billings,  Bird, 
Blakeslee,  Carnell,  Cowan,  Coles,  Craw- 
ford, Durgin,  Emerson,  E.  T.  Esty, 
Fiske,  Griffin,  E.  P.  Grosvenor,  H.  B. 
Hall,  L.  H.  Hall,  Holt,  Hood,  Keep, 
Kellogg,  McEvoy,  Maxwell,  Merrill, 
Morgan,  Patch,  Perry,  G.  M.  Rich- 
mond, Rushmore,  Warren,  and  Wilde. 

Austin  Baxter  Keep,  of  the  history 
department  of  the  College  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  who  edited  with  Prof.  H. 
L.  Osgood,  '77,  of  Columbia,  the  English 
Colonial  Records  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  is  on  a  publication  committee 
appointed  by  former  Mayor  Mitchel  to 
superintend  the  editing  of  the  remaining 
manuscript  records  of  the  city,  from 
1784  to  1831.  It  is  estimated  that  the 
work  will  make  twenty  volumes  of  600 
pages  each.  Keep  is  at  present  assisting 
in  editing  for  the  Trustees  of  Columbia 
University  a  volume  of  Charters,  Acts, 
Wills,  and  other  documents  relating  to 
the  University. 

Major  B.  Kendall  Emerson  gave  an 
interesting  informal  talk  on  his  experi- 
ences in  the  war  and  war  conditions  as 
he  has  seen  them  before  the  Faculty 
Club  of  Amherst  in  January. 

Former  Park  Commissioner  Raymond 
V.  Ingersoll  of  Brooklyn  has  gone  to 
France  as  a  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


He  passed  up  many  lucrative  offers  be- 
cause he  felt  that  he  ought  to  serve  his 
country,  and  he  would  have  gone  to 
Russia  to  work  under  the  Red  Cross, 
had  not  the  Russian  collapse  upset  all 
his  plans.  He  had  volunteered  for  Red 
Cross  work  and  had  made  all  his  plans 
to  leave.  He  carried  with  him  when  he 
went  to  France  a  wonderful  submarine 
suit.  It  is  like  a  diver's  suit  with  a  huge 
ring  about  four  feet  across — like  a  life 
preserver — which  goes  about  his  body 
and  will  hold  food.  If  a  ship  is  torpe- 
doed and  a  man  is  cast  adrift  he  may 
feed  and  sustain  himself  for  two  or  three 
days  with  one  of  these  suits.  Rubber 
boots  and  rubber  gloves  go  with  the  out- 
fit, making  it  an  absolute  protection 
against  exposure. 

Raymond  McFarland  is  Major  of 
Vermont  Volunteer  Militia,  and  is  in 
charge  of  the  Middlebury  College 
Division. 

Stuart  Crawford  had  a  very  interest- 
ing article  in  the  magazine  section  of 
the  New  York  Sun  for  Sunday,  March 
10,  on  "Fighting  for  a  Real  Port  in 
New  York." 

An  article  by  Dr.  Henry  M.  Moses 
on  "Communicable  Diseases"  was  pub- 
lished in  The  Trained  Nurse  in  the  Jan- 
uary and  February  issues. 

Herbert  F.  Hamilton,  formerly  pro- 
fessor in  the  English  department  at  Am- 
herst, is  now  in  Japan  with  the  Union 
Estate  and  Investment  Company.  His 
address  is  P.  O.  Box  169,  Yokohama. 
During  the  early  part  of  last  year  he 
was  with  Hoover  in  Belgium.  "  It  was," 
he  writes,  "the  most  thrilling  and  inter- 
esting experience  of  my  life."  On 
March  7,  1918,  he  wrote  from  Yoko- 
hama as  follows : 

"I  am  likely  to  remain  here  till  the 
war  is  over.    It  is  jolly  exciting  to  be 


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here  just  now,  for  the  whole  world  is 
trailing  out  of  Russia  and  the  Far  East 
through  this  port.  Japan  may  have  mo- 
bilized and  jumped  into  Siberia  before 
this  reaches  you." 

Hamilton's  friends  will  be  glad  to 
learn  that  his  health  has  been  greatly 
improved. 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 
201  College  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Marion  L.  Gaillard  of  Worcester,  Mass., 
and  Prof.  Haven  D.  Brackett.  Miss 
Gaillard  is  a  graduate  of  Smith  College, 
Class  of  1902.  Professor  Brackett  was 
one  of  the  speakers  at  the  meeting  of 
the  Classical  Association  of  New  Eng- 
land in  March.  His  subject  was,  "The 
Present  and  Future  of  Greek  in  New 
England  Secondary  Schools." 

Rev.  Herbert  C.  Ide  of  Redlands, 
Calif.,  is  on  leave  to  be  camp  pastor  at 
Camp  Kearney,  San  Diego. 

Another  '98  man  doing  religious  work 
in  the  camps  is  the  Rev.  James  P. 
Gregery,  of  the  People's  Church,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  He  is  doing  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work  among  the  colored  troops. 

Rev.  Ferdinand  Q.  Blanchard  of  the 
Euclid  Avenue  Congregational  Church, 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  is  spending  four 
months  as  a  special  lecturer  at  Camp 
Sherman. 

Harold  Howland  is  the  author  of  a 
book  entitled  "Theodore  Roosevelt  and 
His  Times,"  which  is  to  be  published 
by  the  Yale  University  Press  as  one  of 
a  series  of  fifty  volumes  called  "The 
Chronicles  of  America,"  of  which  Prof. 
Allen  Johnson,  '92,  is  the  editor.  The 
Independent  for  January  26th  contained 


a  war  article  by  Mr.  Howland,  entitled, 
"The  Sleeper  Wakes." 

H.  G.  D wight  has  gone  to  France  as 
an  interpreter. 

In  a  list  of  the  best  sixty-three  Amer- 
ican short  stories  in  1917,  given  in  the 
February  issue  of  The  Bookman,  "The 
Emperor  of  Elam,"  by  H.  G.  Dwight, 
published  in  The  Century,  is  given  19th 
place,  with  this  comment: 

"Those  who  have  read  Mr.  Dwight's 
volume  of  short  stories,  entitled,  '  Stam- 
boul  Nights,'  do  not  need  to  be  told  that 
Mr.  Dwight  is  the  one  American  short- 
story  writer  whom  we  may  confiden- 
tially set  beside  Joseph  Conrad  as  a 
master  in  a  similar  literary  field.  Amer- 
ican editors  have  been  diffident  about 
publishing  his  stories  for  reasons  which 
cast  more  discredit  on  the  American 
editor  than  on  Mr.  Dwight,  and  accord- 
ingly, it  is  a  pleasure  to  encounter  '  The 
Emperor  of  Elam,'  and  to  chronicle  the 
hardihood  of  the  Century  Magazine. 
The  story  is  a  modern  odyssey  of  ad- 
venture, set  as  usual  in  the  Turkish 
background  with  which  Mr.  Dwight  is 
familiar.  In  it  atmosphere  is  realized 
completely  for  its  own  sake,  and  as  a 
motive  power  urging  the  lives  of  its 
characters  to  their  inevitable  end." 

Mr.  Dwight  has  recently  published  a 
new  book  entitled,  "Persian  Minia- 
tures." Doubleday,  Page  &  Company 
are  the  publishers.  The  book  is  very 
favorably  reviewed  in  the  New  York 
Times  Book  Review  which  gives  it  more 
than  a  column,  and  says,  "  Mr.  Dwight's 
style  is  irresistible."  Among  the  sub- 
jects treated  are:  Persia  and  the  Persian, 
Oriental  rugs,  differences  in  religious  be- 
liefs between  the  Arabs  and  Turks  on 
the  one  hand  and  the  Persians  and 
most  of  the  Mohammedan  Indians  on 
the  other;  the  social  life  of  the  much- 
mixed  foreign  colony;  the  ways  of  Per- 
sian servants;  and  a  number  of  brief 
and  thrilling  tales  out  of  Persian  legend 
and  history. 


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1899 

Edward  W.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
Woodbury  Forest  School, Woodbury, Va. 

William  F.  Lyman  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  committee  of  West- 
field,  Mass.,  on  a  nonpartisan  ticket  at 
the  annual  town  meeting  in  March. 

Rev.  F.  W.  Raymond  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  at  Glastonbury, 
Conn.,  spent  the  winter  in  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
service  as  Religious  Work  Secretary  at 
Camp  Lee,  Va. 

Walter  A.  Buxton,  aged  41  years  and 
11  months,  and  one  of  the  most  widely 
known  metal  dealers  in  Massachusetts, 
died  at  his  home  in  Worcester,  in  the 
week  of  April  1,  1918,  from  a  hemor- 
rhage of  the  brain. 

Born  in  Worcester,  the  son  of  Azro 
L.  D.  and  Eva  (Smythe)  Buxton,  he 
was  educated  in  the  grammar  schools 
of  this  city,  later  going  to  the  Ohio 
Western  University,  then  spending  two 
years  in  Amherst  and  finally  rounding 
out  his  education  with  a  one-year  course 
in  Harvard.  Upon  leaving  college,  he 
entered  business  with  his  father,  con- 
ducting the  E.  Buxton  &  Son  Co.,  deal- 
ers in  scrap  iron  and  metals  in  South 
Worcester.  In  a  few  years,  through  his 
fine  work,  he  was  promoted  to  general 
manager  of  the  corporation,  and  branch 
offices  and  yards  were  established  in 
Maine  and  Watertown,  with  a  district 
office  in  Boston. 

In  1910  he  organized  in  Boston  the 
Buxton-Doane  Co.,  which  was  a  con- 
solidation of  the  business  of  the  Boston 
branch  of  the  Worcester  concern  and 
the  scrap  iron  business  of  G.  P.  Doane  & 
Son  of  Boston.  In  1911  the  business 
was  further  enlarged  to  a  yard  in  Chel- 
sea, and  in  1912  the  Perry,  Buxton  & 
Doane  Co.,  which  was  a  consolidation 
of  the  E.  Buxton  &  Son  Co.,  the  Buxton- 
Doane  Co.,  and  the  business  of  William 


H.  Perry  was  established.  Upon  this 
merger,  vards  were  opened  in  Provi- 
dence,    oston,  and  Portland. 

Mr.  Buxton  remained  on  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  corporation  until 
1913,  when  health  required  him  to  give 
up  his  business.  He  left  Boston  and 
came  to  Worcester  where  he  made  his 
home  at  398  Lincoln  Street,  and  for  one 
year  kept  away  from  his  business  rela- 
tions. In  1914  he  started  in  business 
for  himself  at  40  Central  Street,  Worces- 
ter, and  kept  increasing  the  business  as 
his  health  permitted. 

He  was  very  fond  of  all  outdoor  exer- 
cises, and  enjoyed  golf,  horseback  rid- 
ing, and  automobiling  immensely.  For 
the  last  few  days  he  seemed  to  have  a 
premonition  of  coming  sickness. 

Besides  his  wife,  he  leaves  his  father 
and  three  brothers,  Philip  L.  of  Worces- 
ter, Edward  W.  of  New  London,  and 
William  S.,  who  is  now  with  the  Ameri- 
can Expeditionary  Forces  in  France. 

1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  Street,  New  York  City 

At  the  last  annual  meeting  of  the 
Modern  Language  Association  of  Amer- 
ica, Prof.  Ernest  H.  Wilkins  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  was  elected  vice 
president  and  was  appointed  chairman 
of  a  committee  on  Romance  Language 
Instruction  and  the  War.  Since  last 
spring  he  has  been  active  in  the  organi- 
zation of  classes  in  French,  among  men 
in  military  posts  in  and  near  Chicago, 
and  in  other  forms  of  war  work  involv- 
ing knowledge  of  modern  foreign  lan- 
guages, and  has  encouraged  the  develop- 
ment of  similar  enterprises  elsewhere. 
Two  books  prepared  by  him  with  colla- 
borators, "First  Lessons  in  Spoken 
French  for  Men  in  Military  Service," 
and  "First  Lessons  in  Spoken  French 
for  Doctors  and  Nurses,"  published  last 


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summer  by  the  University  of  Chicago 
Press,  have  been  used  very  widely  in  the 
great  training  camps  and  elsewhere. 
The  first  of  these  books  has  now  been 
replaced  by  an  improved  book  entitled 
"Army  French,"  by  Wilkins  and  Cole- 
man, of  the  University  of  Chicago. 
Henry  Holt  and  Company  have  recently 
published  "A  Handbook  of  French  Pho- 
netics," by  Nitze,  formerly  Professor 
at  Amherst,  now  at  the  University  of 
Chicago,  and  Wilkins. 

1900  now  has  the  honor  of  having  the 
youngest  Lieutenant  Colonel  among 
Amherst's  commissioned  men.  As  ex- 
plained in  the  war  notes  in  this  issue. 
Dr.  Edwin  St.  John  Ward  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  American  Red  Cross  So- 
ciety deputy  commissioner  to  Palestine, 
with  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel. 

Theodore  Ellis  Ramsdell  and  Miss 
Edith  Benjamin  Bell  were  married  on 
February   27th   at   Great   Barrington, 

Mass. 

Rev.  Irving  H.  Childs  resigned  his 
pastorate  at  Granby,  Mass.,  on  April 
30th  to  become  pastor  to  the  Congrega- 
tional churches  in  Blandford  and  North 
Blandford,  beginning  his  new  work  at 
once.  He  has  been  pastor  of  the  Church 
of  Christ  in  Granby  for  five  years. 

Recent  magazine  contributions  by 
Walter  A.  Dyer  include  "Home,"  a 
story,  in  The  Black  Cat  for  March; 
"Knights  of  Health"  in  The  Red  Cross 
Magazine  for  April,  and  regular  monthly 
contributions  in  Country  Life  and  The 
Art  World. 

George  S.  Bryan  is  engaged  in  inde- 
pendent literary  work,  dividing  his  time 
between  New  York  and  his  home  at 
Broolifield  Center,  Conn.  He  is  the 
author  of  a  biography  of  Sam  Houston, 
recently  published  by  the  Macmillans 


in  a  series  of  stories  of  great  Americans 
for  young  people. 

A  textbook  of  story  telling  edited  by 
members  of  the  faculty  of  Colorado  Uni- 
versity, recently  published  by  Roe,  Pe- 
terson &  Co.  of  Chicago,  and  entitled 
"Story  Telling  for  Upper  Grade  Teach- 
ers," includes  in  its  collection  of  tales 
Walter  A.  Dyer's  story,  "The  Vision  of 
Anton." 

Rev.  Horace  C.  Broughton  and  Miss 
Lucina  Woodard  Braymer  were  married 
in  New  York  City  on  October  1, 
1917. 

Harold  I.  Pratt  has  given  the  sum  of 
$20,000  to  the  Brooklyn  Bureau  of 
Charities  for  relief  work  among  suffering 
and  destitute  families.  This  is  the  first 
endowment  made  to  the  society  since 
New  York  and  Brooklyn  were  consoli- 
dated. Mr.  Pratt  is  chairman  of  the 
Eastern  Division  of  the  War  Work 
Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  that  is  recruiting 
college  men  as  athletic  directors  for  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  the  camps  here  and  work 
abroad.  He  is  also  serving  on  the 
Emergency  Committee  which  is  raising 
$2,000,000  as  a  relief  fund  for  the  fami- 
lies of  officers  and  men  of  the  navy  who 
lose  their  lives  in  the  service. 

David  Whitcomb,  Fuel  Administrator 
for  the  State  of  Washington,  has  been 
doing  special  work  in  the  department  at 
Washington.  His  name  was  brought 
forward  in  Seattle  recently  as  a  candi- 
date for  mayor,  the  claim  being  made 
that  as  a  wide-awake  citizen  of  the 
younger  class,  unhampered  by  factional 
strife  of  the  past,  he  would  prove  gener- 
ally acceptable  to  the  electorate,  but 
Mr.  Whitcomb  was  too  busy  with  Gov- 
ernment service  to  give  the  matter  any 
encouragement  or  even  consideration. 


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1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  Williams  Street,  New  York  City 

Loren  H.  Rockwell  is  a  member  of  the 
school  board  of  Rockville  Center,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Preserved  Smith  of  Vassar  Col- 
lege had  an  interesting  article  in  the 
January  issue  of  the  Bibliotheca  Sacra 
entitled,  "The  Reformation,  1517- 
1917."  It  was  the  leading  article  in  the 
magazine. 

Dr.  John  R.  Herrick  of  Hempstead, 
N.  Y.,  has  received  a  commission  as 
captain  in  the  medical  corps  of  the 
United  States  Army,  having  passed  the 
examinations  with  a  high  percentage. 

1902 

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

The  death  of  James  C.  Young  oc- 
curred at  Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada,  on 
December  24,  1917,  caused  by  blood 
poisoning  from  an  infected  boil.  He  was 
sick  from  July  until  the  time  of  his 
death. 

James  C.  Young  was  born  in  North 
Shields,  England,  on  July  9,  1878.  He 
was  a  graduate  of  Mt.  Hermon,  1899, 
and  the  Class  of  1902  Amherst  College, 
completing  his  course  in  three  years, 
and  would  have  graduated  from  the 
Hartford  Theological  Seminary  in  1905 
had  his  health  not  failed  him  five  weeks 
before  commencement.  He  spent  a 
year  at  his  home  in  North  Shields,  Eng- 
land, in  recovering  his  health,  and  then 
returned  to  this  country  and  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Standard  Oil  Company 
of  New  York.  Later  he  entered  the 
real  estate  and  investment  business  in 
Calgary,  Canada,  which  business  he 
conducted  with  much  success  until  the 
outbreak  of  the  war  and  the  consequent 
upsetting  of  business  conditions  in  Can- 


ada. He  managed  to  weather  the  gale, 
however,  and  was  getting  well  on  his 
feet  in  a  business  way  when  he  was 
taken  sick  last  July. 

On  April  22,  1915,  he  married  Miss 
Alice  Lowry,  a  little  girl  Evelyn  being 
born  to  them  on  March  13,  1916.  Mr. 
Young  is  also  survived  by  his  mother, 
Mrs.  S.  Yoimg  of  27  Hopper  Street, 
North  Shields,  England. 

Mrs.  Lizzie  Southworth  Gibbs,  wife 
of  Howard  B.  Gibbs,  died  on  February 
20th,  at  Newtonville  (Mass.)  from  an- 
gina pectoris.  She  was  married  to  Mr. 
Gibbs  on  August  22,  1906. 

John  F.  White  of  Amherst,  1902,  is 
not  the  John  F.  White  of  Wakefield, 
who  was  one  of  the  victims  of  the  Tus- 
cania.  WTiite  of  1902  lives  in  Wake- 
field and  is  President  of  a  large  shoe 
company. 

1903 

Clifford  P.  W^arren,  Secretary, 
26  Park  Street,  West  Roxbury,  Mass. 

Louis  E.  Cadieux  was  chairman  of 
the  committee  in  charge  of  the  College 
Rally  held  in  Boston  in  February,  in 
which  forty-nine  colleges  and  universi- 
ties took  part,  the  rally  taking  the  place 
of  their  usual  reunions  and  dinners. 

James  McVickar  Breed  has  been 
elected  a  member  of  the  Bar  Associa- 
tion of  New  York. 

Albert  W.  Atwood's  always  interest- 
ing articles  continue  in  the  Saturday 
Evening  Post,  besides  which  he  is  doing 
a  great  deal  of  writing  on  financial  sub- 
jects in  other  magazines.  His  recent 
articles  in  the  Post  include:  "Finance 
or  Gambling"  (March  23),  "The  Rich 
Poor  Man"  (March  9),  "Have  Stock- 
holders Any  Rights"  (March  2),  "What 
is  the  Use  of  Saving"    (February  9), 


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"Putting  the  Lid  on  the  Stock  Market" 
(January  26),  "Making  Wealth  Work" 
(January  5),  and  "New  Wrinkles  of 
Low  Finance"  (January  5). 

Lynn  Fisher  has  a  new  daughter, 
Phyllis  Mary,  born  January  19,  1918. 

"Every  Week,"  in  its  issue  of  Janu- 
ary 23rd,  reproduced  a  photograph  of 
Ed  Longman  that  apparently  dates 
from  college  days.  While  there  may  be 
other  reasons  for  displaying  Ed's  photo- 
graph, the  only  one  given  is  that  he  was 
voted  the  handsomest  man  in  his  class 
at  Amherst,  fifteen  years  ago. 

C.  C.  Patrick  was,  at  last  accounts, 
with  the  Inspection  Department  of  the 
Equipment  Division  at  Washington,  but 
was  momentarily  expecting  a  commis- 
sion in  another  branch  of  the  service. 

1903  is  planning  for  a  simple  reunion 
at  Commencement.  The  committee 
consists  of  A.  T.  Foster,  chairman, 
Louis  Cadieux,  president  of  the  class, 
and  Clifford  P.  Warren,  permanent 
secretary. 

A.  G.  Baker  has  recently  associated 
himself  with  A.  H.  Favour  at  Prescott, 
Arizona,  in  the  practice  of  law,  giving 
up  the  position  with  the  Post-OfSce 
Department  that  he  has  occupied  for 
many  years. 

E.  E.  Wells  is  in  charge  of  the  ac- 
counts and  finances  of  the  Lumber  De- 
partment of  the  Emergency  Fleet  Cor- 
poration, with  the  title  of  Local  Auditor. 
He  was  last  located  at  New  Orleans. 

There  is  a  new  Tead,  born  in  March, 
named  Donald  Kerr  and  the  son  of 
Stan. 

1904 

Karl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 

Charles  Willett  Beam  died  at  the 
Homeopathic  Hospital  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 


on  October  13,  1917,  from  bronchitis, 
which  developed  after  a  heavy  cold 
which  he  contracted  in  the  summer. 
Only  a  few  months  before  he  had  been 
made  Assistant  Division  Engineer  of  the 
Maintenance  of  Ways  Department  of 
the  New  York  Central  Railroad,  Syra- 
cuse Division,  with  headquarters  in 
Buffalo. 

He  was  generally  known  to  his  class- 
mates at  Amherst  as  "Bijah"  Beam 
and  was  one  of  Amherst's  famous  long- 
distance runners  in  the  days  when  the 
Purple  and  White  won  the  New  Eng- 
land Intercollegiates  four  times  in  suc- 
cession. His  specialties  were  the  mile 
and  two-mile  run.  Mr.  Beam  was  born 
in  Passaic,  N.  J.,  on  November  13,  1881, 
the  son  of  Attorney  and  Mrs.  William 
H.  Beam  of  that  city.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  the  Passaic  High  School,  was 
a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  man  at  Amherst  and, 
following  his  graduation,  went  to  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1907,  and 
entered  on  his  career  as  a  civil  engineer. 
He  went  first  to  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  in 
the  engineering  department  of  the  New 
York  Central  Railroad,  on  the  Rome, 
Watertown  and  Ogdensburg  Division. 
In  1912  he  was  transferred  to  the  Fall 
Brook  Division,  with  headquarters  in 
Jersey  Shore,  Pa.  At  Jersey  Shore  he 
had  charge  of  the  Maintenance  of  Ways 
Department  for  the  New  York  Central 
in  the  coal  fields.  He  was  made  assist- 
ant division  engineer  of  the  Maintenance 
of  Ways  Department  of  the  New  York 
Central,  Syracuse  Division,  with  head- 
quarters at  Buffalo,  in  May,  1917,  which 
position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
While  engaged  as  an  engineer  of  general 
construction  work,  his  specialty  was  in 
Bridge  Construction  in  which  he  was 
beginning  to  be  well  known  to  his  chief 
engineer. 

He  was  married  on  September  6,  1911, 


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to  Miss  Cora  Wilson,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Frank  L.  Wilson  of  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.  His  wife  died  on  June  3, 
1914.  There  are  no  children.  Funeral 
services  for  Mr.  Beam  were  held  in 
Watertown.  Interment  was  made  in 
Brookside  Cemetery  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Beam  attended  the  training  camp 
at  Plattsburg  in  August  of  1916  and  it 
was  understood  that  he  had  been  offered 
a  commission  as  Lieutenant  about  May, 
1917,  but  he  was  unable  to  accept.  In 
college  he  was  one  of  the  most  popular 
and  most  highly  respected  men  of  his 
class. 

James  J.  Quill,  famous  at  Amherst  as 
a  football  player  and  for  the  last  seven 
years  Clerk  of  the  Hudson  County  (New 
Jersey)  Grand  Jury,  died  very  suddenly 
at  Battle  Creek,  Michigan,  on  Friday, 
March  8th.  He  had  left  for  Battle 
Creek  on  Wednesday,  March  6th,  to  be 
treated  for  Bright's  disease,  but  it  was 
not  supposed  that  his  condition  was  at 
all  serious,  and  his  death  came  as  a 
great  shock  to  his  many  friends. 

Mr.  Quill  was  born  in  Holyoke,  Mass., 
and  was  38  years  old.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  Holyoke  High  School  where 
he  captained  the  football  team  for  two 
years.  After  spending  one  year  at 
Tufts  he  entered  the  Class  of  1904  at 
Amherst,  where  he  played  fullback  in 
Amherst's  most  famous  football  days. 
He  continued  his  football  prowess  when 
he  went  to  the  Yale  Law  School  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1906.  His  de- 
fensive playing  on  Tom  Shevlin's  fa- 
mous champion  Yale  team  in  the  Har- 
vard game  of  1905  was  particularly 
brilliant. 

His  untimely  death  cut  short  a  career 
full  of  promise.  It  was  freely  predicted 
that  he  would  soon  occupy  some  high 
political  office  in  Jersey  City  where  he 
made  his  home  with  his  mother,  Mrs. 
Ellen  Quill,  at  92  Summit  Avenue.  After 


leaving  law  school  he  practiced  in  New 
York  for  a  short  time  and  then  moved 
to  Jersey  City.  Always  interested  in 
politics  he  at  once  became  a  favorite  and 
some  years  ago  people  began  to  say  it 
would  not  be  long  before  he  became 
mayor,  at  least.  His  funeral  was  at- 
tended by  several  supreme  court  judges 
and  the  leading  officials  of  the  city. 
Interment  was  in  Holyoke.  McCoy, 
'04,  Lynch,  '05,  and  Raftery,  '05,  ac- 
companied the  body  to  Massachusetts, 
acting  as  pallbearers. 

The  Outlook  for  January  9th  contained 
an  article  by  J.  Frank  Kane,  entitled, 
"A  Big  Brother  for  the  Naturalization 
Applicant." 

Ernest  M.  Whitcomb  of  Amherst  was 
chairman  of  the  Third  Liberty  Loan 
Campaign  for  Hampshire  County. 

To  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  en- 
listment in  the  navy  of  G.  K.  Pond,  the 
secretary  has  been  appointed  as  class 
treasurer  until  the  next  reunion.  As 
soon  as  the  accounts  are  arranged  state- 
ments will  be  sent  out  to  all  of  the  men 
in  the  class.  The  reunion  in  1919  will 
require  the  cooperation  of  every  man. 

The  Editor  and  Publisher  of  New  York 
City  for  March  9. 1918,  contained  a  long 
account  of  the  hearing  before  the  Fed- 
eral Trade  Commission  concerning  the 
fixing  of  the  price  of  news  print  paper. 
E.  O.  Merchant  has  had  charge  of  a  part 
of  this  investigation.  There  is  in  this 
issue  an  excellent  portrait  of  Merchant. 
The  Quarterly  Journal  of  Economics  for 
February  published  an  article  of  his  on 
"The  Government  and  News  Print 
Paper  Manufacturers." 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Edward  A.   Baily  has  been  elected 


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secretary  of  the  Edison  Electric  Illu- 
minating Company  of  Brooklyn.  He 
has  been  secretary  to  the  vice  president 
and  general  manager  of  the  company. 
He  has  also  served  three  terms  as  assist- 
ant secretary  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Edison  Illmninating  Companies. 

Rev.  Fritz  W.  Baldwin  has  resigned 
his  pastorate  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  and 
is  now  at  Camp  Devens  where  he  has 
been  appointed  educational  secretary 
in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  at  the  camp. 

Franklin  E.  Pierce,  who  has  been  for 
some  years  Principal  of  the  Olean  (N. 
Y.)  High  School,  has  become  Super- 
visor of  Physical  Education  for  the  town 
of  Montclair,  New  Jersey.  His  address 
is  40  Union  Street,  Montclair.  He  has 
also  received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from 
Columbia  University. 

The  Class  of  1905  has  purchased  sev- 
eral Liberty  Bonds  of  the  third  issue. 

A  son,  Charles  Wilbar  Utter,  was  born 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  B.  Utter  of  Wes- 
terly, R.  I.,  on  December  6,  1917. 

E.  Frank  Hussey  of  2521  Pillsbury 
Ave.,  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  has  gone  to 
France  to  do  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  under 
the  direction  of  the  National  War  Work 
Council.  He  was  manager  of  the  sales 
department  of  the  Kettle  River  Com- 
pany, and  has  also  done  six  years'  settle- 
ment work.  He  was  also  scoutmaster 
of  the  Farr's  Boys'  Club  Troop,  No.  103, 
Boy  Scouts  of  America. 

Winfield  A.  Townsend  is  also  in 
France,  where  he  is  doing  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work.  He  is  an  editor  of  the  American 
Book  Company,  has  been  an  organizer 
in  the  Boy  Scout  Movement  and  a  leader 
of  boys'  clubs  in  the  Jacob  Riis  Settle- 
ment. 

Rev.  William  Crawford  has  become 


pastor  of  one  of  the  large  Presbyterian 
churches  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  His  address 
is  care  of  the  Yonkers  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

The  following  clipping  is  taken  from 
The  Boston  Post,  after  the  election  of 
Mayor  Peters  as  mayor  of  Boston. 

"As  a  result  of  the  Peters  victory, 
Robert  J.  Bottomly,  of  the  Good  Gov- 
ernment Association,  looms  up  as  one 
of  the  most  powerful  political  figures  in 
the  next  administration.  From  the  be- 
ginning, Bottomly  was  largely  responsi- 
ble for  getting  Mr.  Peters  to  run.  He 
conducted  the  campaign  and  was  prac- 
tically the  head  of  the  board  of  strategy. 
He  will  undoubtedly  command  great 
influence  with  the  next  Mayor." 

Emerson  G.  Gaylord  was  chairman 
of  the  Third  Liberty  Loan  Campaign  in 
Chicopee,  Mass. 

1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 

Care  of  Tracy-Parry  Advertising  Co., 

Lafayette  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

William  H.  Webster  has  been  made 
assistant  manager  of  the  Copper  Queen 
Branch  of  the  Phelps-Dodge  Corpora- 
tion. As  previously,  his  headquarters 
win  be  at  Douglas,  Arizona. 

Reuben  J.  Peacock  was  married  on 
November  27,  1917,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Miss  Grace  Glover.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Peacock  are  residing  at  665  West  160th 
Street,  New  York  City. 

Clifford  M.  Bishop  was  a  member  of 
the  Brooklyn  Executive  Committee  for 
the  Third  Liberty  Loan. 

Dr.  James  B.  Cross  has  been  ap- 
pointed Attending  Genito-Urinary  Sur- 
geon at  the  Deaconess'  Hospital,  Buf- 
falo. N.  Y. 

Robert  C.  Powell  is  with  the  Tracy- 
Parry  Advertising  Company,  Lafayette 
Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


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1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 
202  Lake  Ave.,  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

Bruce  Barton  is  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Publicity  of  the  War  Work 
Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  On  March 
3rd  he  spoke  at  the  Christian  Associa- 
tion at  Amherst  on  "The  World  after 
the  War." 

Rev.  Edward  C.  Boynton  was  the 
college  preacher  at  Amherst  on  Sunday, 
March  24th. 

Roy  W.  Bell  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  is 
Deputy  Fuel  Administrator  for  Onon- 
daigua  County. 

On  April  12th,  Doubleday,  Page  & 
Co.  published  "The  Making  of  George 
Groton,"   a  novel,   by   Bruce   Barton. 

"The  big,  outstanding  thing  that  Bruce 
Barton  has  done  in  this  novel,"  say  the 
publishers,  "is  to  dramatize  success  in 
business  and  love — the  false,  flashy 
kind,  and  the  real  and  lasting  thing 
which  only  comes  with  the  development 
of  character." 

1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 

Oyster  Bay  was  visited  by  burglars 
on  the  night  of  February  16th.  Several 
of  the  summer  homes  there  were  ran- 
sacked. One  of  the  houses  entered  was 
that  of  Donald  B.  Abbott  where  among 
other  things  $700  worth  of  clothing  and 
linen  were  taken. 

Ralph  Keller  is  located  at  Kendall- 
ville,  Ind. 

Ned  Powley  has  just  returned  from 
an  extended  trip  through  Idaho  adjust- 
ing telephone  rates  in  that  state. 

William    Burg    had  charge    of  the 

Third    Liberty    Bond  Drive    for  the 

metropolitan  business  district  of  St. 
Louis. 


1909 

Edward  H.  Sudbury,  Secretary, 
154  Prospect  Ave.,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

The  following  is  copied  from  the 
Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle: 

"Morris  G.  Michaels,  who  lives  at 
the  Hotel  Montague,  is  a  happy  man 
to-day.  He  has  just  been  notified  that 
Arthur  Hammerstein  and  A.  H.  Woods 
have  accepted  a  musical  comedy  written 
by  him  and  in  which  Lew  Fields,  the 
comedian,  is  to  be  starred.  The  comedy 
is  so  far  unnamed,  but  those  who  have 
read  it  say  it  is  a  'corker.'  It  will  be 
given  an  early  out-of-town  tryout  and 
will  then  be  brought  into  New  York 
either  this  spring  or  early  next  fall. 

"  Young  Michaels  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Brooklyn  Manual  Training  High  School, 
Amherst  College,  and  the  New  York 
University  Law  School.  For  a  time  he 
was  instructor  in  English  at  the  Manual 
High  School,  but  at  present  he  is  prac- 
ticing law  in  Manhattan. 

"During  his  spare  moments,  Mr.  Mi- 
chaels worked  hard  on  his  musical  com- 
edy book,  having  had  a  most  original 
idea  for  the  work,  something  that  he 
feels  will  prove  a  genuine  novelty.  As 
soon  as  Mr.  Hammerstein  had  read  the 
book  he  saw  its  great  possibilities  and 
at  once  got  into  communication  with  A. 
H.  Woods.  Woods  was  equally  enthu- 
siastic over  the  Brooklyn  man's  book 
and  it  was  decided  to  produce  it  at  an 
early  date.  " 

1910 

George   B.    Burnett,   Jr.,   Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Charles  W.  Barton,  formerly  business 
and  advertising  manager  of  The  Ad- 
vance before  it  was  consolidated  recently 
with  The  Congregationalist,  has  become 
connected  with  the  American  Chicle 
Company  of  New  York  as  assistant 
general  sales  and  advertising  manager. 

John  P.  Henry,  who  was  the  leading 
catcher  in  the  American  League  last 
year  and  who  has  been  playing  ball  for 
the  Washington  Americans  ever  since 
his  graduation,  has  secured  his  release 


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to  the  Boston  team  of  the  National 
League  with  which  team  he  is  now  play- 
ing. Henry  has  business  interests  in 
Amherst  and  desired  to  be  nearer  home. 
A  son,  Ray  Adams,  was  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Abraham  Mitchell  of  River- 
side, 111.,  on  March  14,  1918. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  North  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Announcement  has  been  made  of  the 
engagement  of  Miss  Helen  Louise  Day, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  L. 
Day,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  Wil- 
liam B.  Dall  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  is 
on  the  staff  of  the  New  York  Journal  of 
Commerce. 

Vernon  Radcliife  was  married  on 
Tuesday,  February  12th,  to  Miss 
Phoebe  Randall,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Bradley  Randall  of  Pel- 
ham  Manor,  N.  Y.  Radclifife,  who  has 
been  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  New 
York  Sun  for  some  time,  is  now  con- 
nected with  the  Signal  Corps  of  the 
U.  S.  A. 

Leighton  S.  Thompson,  submaster  of 
the  Maiden  High  School,  has  resigned 
to  accept  the  position  of  Principal  of 
the  Foxboro  (Mass.)  High  School.  Be- 
fore going  to  Maiden  he  taught  at  Pow- 
der Point  School  and  the  Roxbury 
Latin  School. 

The  following  item  of  interest  lately 
appeared  in  one  of  the  Chicago  papers: 

"A  letter  was  received  in  Chicago  to- 
day from  Captain  Horace  R.  Denton, 
brigade  headquarters,  Sixty-Seventh  Ar- 
tillery Brigade,  a  Western  Springs  man 
who  helped  organize  Battery  E  of  the 
First  Illinois  Artillery  last  year.  It  is 
said  that  he  was  on  duty  'over  there' 
recently  when  a  bunch  of  German  pris- 
oners marched  past.  A  young  German 
called  out  'Hello,  Horace!' 

"  The  prisoner  turned  out  to  be  a  man 


who  had  been  at  Amherst  College  with 
Captain  Denton  a  few  years  ago.  He 
was  caught  in  Germany  while  visiting 
there  and  forced  to  serve  in  the  army. 
"  'I'm  mighty  glad  to  be  captured, 
too,'  he  said,  when  he  left  Captain  Den- 
ton on  his  way  to  the  rear." 

John  P.  Ashley  has  been  accepted  by 
the  War  Work  Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  for  service  as  an  overseas  secretary 
with  the  American  expeditionary  forces 
now  in  France. 

Rev.  Laurens  H.  Seelye  spoke  on 
"  Intellectualism  and  Christian  Democ- 
racy" at  the  Christian  Association  at 
Amherst  on  March  17. 

1912 

Alfred  B.  Peacock,  Secretary, 
384  Madison  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

William  F.  Johns  has  joined  the  west- 
ern oflSce  of  Good  Housekeeping,  New 
York,  with  headquarters  in  Chicago. 
He  was  for  five  years  with  the  Chicago 
oflBce  of  Omara  &  Ormsbee,  special 
newspaper  representatives,  and  for  the 
past  year  and  a  half  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Chicago  staff  of  the  Paul  Block 
Advertising  Agency. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Miss  Elizabeth  Carol  Schmidt,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carl  G.  Schmidt  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Lieutenant  Philip 
Layton  Turner.  Dr.  Turner  has  lately 
completed  his  term  as  house  surgeon 
at  St.  Luke's  Hospital  and  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Oglethorpe,  Georgia. 

The  Century  Magazine  for  January 
contained  as  one  of  its  leading  features 
an  article  by  Ordway  Tead  on  "The 
American  Labor  Situation  in  War 
Time."  In  The  Public  for  February 
16th  he  discusses  "  Labor  for  Shipyards." 
The  March  issue  of  The  Political  Science 
Quarterly  contained  an  article  by  him, 
"  The  British  Reconstruction  Programs." 


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Mr.  Tead  was  the  speaker  of  the  Chris- 
tian Association  at  Amherst  on  March 
24th,  when  he  took  as  his  topic,  "The 
American  Labor  and  Reconstruction," 
and  told  of  some  of  the  results  of  his 
special  investigations  of  labor  conditions 
and  his  experiences  in  social  work. 

Rufus  W.  Gaynor,  son  of  the  late 
Mayor  Gaynor  of  New  York,  was  mar- 
ried on  Saturday,  March  23rd,  to  Miss 
Margaret  Haskell  of  New  York  City. 
The  ceremony  was  performed  at  St. 
Thomas'  Episcopal  Church,  Fifth  Ave- 
nue and  Fifty-third  Street,  by  the  Rev. 
Dr.  E.  M.  Stires. 

1913 

Lewis  D.  Stillwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  Street,  Syracuse, 

N.  Y. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Elliott  Field 
announce  the  marriage  of  their  daugh- 
ter, Ellen  Chittenden,  to  William  Jorale- 
mon  Wilcox,  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on  Satur- 
day. December  29,  1917. 

A  son,  Charles  Mark,  was  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carroll  L.  Hopkins  of 
Lansing,  Mich.,  on  November  21,  1917. 

Dr.  Frank  Lusk  Babbott,  Jr.,  was 
graduated  in  February  from  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  New 
York  and  on  Saturday,  March  2d,  was 
married  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Bassett  French,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  French  of  that 
place.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Edmund  Wiley,  as- 
sisted by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  S.  Mills. 
'82.  The  bridegroom's  father,  Frank 
L.  Babbott,  '78,  acted  as  best  man.  Dr. 
William  S.  Ladd,  '10,  George  D.  Olds, 
Jr.,  '13,  Albert  M.  Morris,  '13,  Theodore 
A.  Greene.  '13,  and  Hugh  W.  Littlejohn. 
'13.  were  among  the  ushers.  The  bride 
is  a  graduate  of  Vassar  in  the  Class  of 


1914  and  has  been  active  in  the  Junior 
War  Work  Council  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A. 

Dr.  George  R.  Havens,  instructor  in 
French  at  Indiana  University,  is  the 
author  of  an  article  in  Modern  Language 
Notes  for  March,  1918.  The  subject  of 
the  article  is  the  "Date  of  Composition 
of  'Manon  Lescaut.'  " 

Theodore  A.  Greene  spoke  at  the 
Christian  Association  meeting  at  Am- 
herst in  February,  taking  as  his  topic, 
"Afloat  on  the  Labrador."  and  telling 
of  the  work  of  the  Grenfell  expeditions 
and  his  own  experiences. 

Henry  Smith  Leiper  and  Eleanor 
Cory  Leiper,  under  appointment  by  the 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  for 
Foreign  Missions  to  the  North  China 
Mission,  left  New  York  on  April  1,  to 
sail  from  Vancouver,  B.  C,  April  11th, 
on  S.  S.  Empress  of  Russia.  Their  ad- 
dress in  China  is  care  of  the  American 
Board  Mission,  Peking, 

1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Miss  Katherine  Nasmith  Whitten, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  C.  Winsor  Whitten 
of  Wakefleld,  Mass.,  and  First  Lieuten- 
ant Walter  Howard  McGay,  former 
Amherst  football  captain.  Miss  Whit- 
ten is  a  graduate  of  Wellesley,  Class  of 
1916. 

Lieutenant  Lowell  Shumway  was 
married  on  Monday,  March  4th,  to  Miss 
Ruth  Dwight  Fuller,  daughter  of  ex- 
Senator  and  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Fuller, 
'78,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Eric  Shumway, 
'17,  acted  as  best  man. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of 
Henry  Maxwell  Kimball,  ex-' 14,  son  of 
Prof.   A.   L.   Kimball   of  Amherst,   to 


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Miss  Dorothy  Long  of  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J. 
Mr.  Kimball  is  a  graduate  of  Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology  of  the 
Class  of  1917,  and  is  at  present  em- 
ployed as  government  inspector  of  ship 
construction  at  the  Morse  Dry  Dock 
and  Repair  Company,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Wendell  P.  Shattuck  of  Dundee,  N. 
Y.,  has  been  chosen  secretary  of  Dundee 
Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  No.  450. 

The  address  of  F.  Everett  Glass  is 
438  West  116th  Street,  New  York. 

The  Class  Boy,  Royal  Firman,  Jr., 
has  a  brother,  born  March  24,  1918, 
named  Joseph  Holferty  Firman,  being 
named  after  his  grandfather. 

Harriet  Chamberlain  was  born  on 
April  3,  1917,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sydney 
D.  Chamberlain  of  Chicago,  111. 

The  Rev.  Daniel  S.  Smart  is  a  Reli- 
gious Director  of  the  Army  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  hopes  to  have  an  appointment  as 
chaplain  in  the  army.  He  is  now  at 
Camp  Alfred  Vail,  Little  River,  N.  Y. 

1915 

J.  L.  Snider,  Secretary, 
Fairfax  13,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Arthur  H.  Washburn  has  returned  to 
the  United  States  after  an  absence  of 
three  years  abroad.  After  graduating 
from  Amherst,  he  went  immediately  to 
Turkey  to  teach  in  Roberts  College, 
where  his  late  grandfather  did  notable 
work.  The  following  year  the  college 
was  forced  to  close  on  account  of  the 
war  and  Washburn  went  to  France, 
where  he  has  been  serving  in  the  ambu- 
lance corps.  He  has  returned  to  this 
country  for  the  purpose  of  entering  some 
branch  of  the  U.  S.  service. 

First  Lieutenant  Robert  Reed  Mc- 
Gowan  was  married  on  Saturday,  Feb- 


ruary 9th,  to  Miss  Helen  Chadwick 
Butler,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  mother,  Mrs.  Edwin  Ruth- 
sen  Butler.  Charles  B.  McGowan,  '17, 
acted  as  best  man. 

Leslie  O.  Johnson  has  been  elected 
submaster  of  the  Maiden  (Mass.)  High 
School,  succeeding  Leigh  ton  S.  Thomp- 
son, '11,  who  becomes  Principal  of  the 
Foxboro  High  School.  He  has  been 
teaching  at  Wellesley  High  School  and 
will  have  charge  of  the  classes  in 
chemistry  at  Maiden. 

Walter  R.  Agard,  now  a  private  at 
Camp  Devens,  spoke  at  Amherst  on 
February  17th  on  "The  School  of  the 
Soldier."  He  emphasized  the  cheerful 
side  of  the  war,  and  found  his  cause  for 
cheerfulness  in  the  remarkable  work 
which  the  Government  is  doing  in  cul- 
tivating personal  growth  in  the  men  in 
its  training  camps.  He  also  paid  a 
tribute  to  the  splendid  work  Captain 
Nelligan  of  Amherst  is  doing  at  Camp 
Devens. 

James  K.  Smith  has  been  continuing 
his  work  in  architecture  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  acting  as  an  in- 
structor this  year  half  the  time  and 
studying  the  rest.  He  has  been  elected 
to  the  Architectural  Society  of  the  Uni- 
versity and  to  the  Scientific  Honorary 
Society  of  Sigma  Xi. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Humphrey  Fuller  Redfield,  son  of  the 
Secretary  of  Commerce  and  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam C.  Redfield,  was  married  on  Satur- 
day, January  5th,  to  Miss  Amy  Louise 
Cowing  of  Wyoming,  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  R.  A.  Cowing.  William  G. 
Avirett,   '16,   acted  as   best  man  and 


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259 


Lieutenant  James  Bracken,  '17,  as 
usher.  Both  Redfield  and  Avirett  are 
assistant  paymasters  of  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Reserve  Forces  and  are  stationed  at 
Washington,  D.  C.  The  wedding  gift 
of  President  and  Mrs.  Wilson  was  a  set 
of  six  silver  and  china  after-dinner  coffee 
cups  and  saucers. 

Charles  Hitchcock  is  studying  this 
year  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Medical 
School. 

Leon  N.  Shaw,  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  a 
member  of  the  branch  of  the  National 
City  Bank  in  Petrograd,  was  imprisoned 
when  the  Bolshevik  government  seized 
the  bank,  but  was  later  released  when 
conditions  became  more  settled. 

Percy  M.  Hughes,  Jr.,  was  married 
on  Feburary  18,  1918,  to  Miss  Helen 
Harriet  Talbott,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  James  H.  Talbott,  507  University 
Ave.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  After  a  wedding 
trip  of  about  a  week,  Lieut,  and  Mrs. 
Hughes  arrived  at  Spartanburg,  South 
Carolina,  where  he  is  stationed  with  the 
55th  Pioneer  Infantry,  at  Camp  Wads- 
worth. 

1917 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

The  death  of  Roger  Conant  Perkins, 
the  first  Amherst  graduate  sacrifice  to 
the  war,  seems  to  merit  a  place  where  it 
will  come  to  the  attention  of  our  whole 
alumni  body;  and  accordingly  we  have 


transferred  the  account  of  it,  and  of  his 
life,  from  this  place  in  the  class  notes  to 
page  187  under  "The  Amherst  Com- 
memorative." The  class  notes  of  1877, 
this  being  his  father's  class,  have  taken 
note  of  the  same  event. 

Major  Louis  B.  Lawton,  U.  S.  A., 
stationed  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and  Mrs. 
Lawton  have  recently  announced  the 
engagement  of  their  daughter.  Miss 
Josephine  Van  Voorhees  Lawton,  to 
Lieutenant  Craig  Parsons  Cochrane. 

Another  1917  engagement  lately  an- 
nounced is  that  of  Miss  Dorothy  Mor- 
dorf  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  M.  R. 
Yawger,  who  is  a  Chief  Yeoman  in  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  Miss  Mordorf  is  a 
graduate  of  Vassar. 

The  engagement  of  Henry  H.  Fuller 
to  Miss  Lucile  Keeler  of  New  York 
City  was  recently  announced.  Mr. 
Fuller  is  at  present  connected  with  the 
Jersey  City  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
but  recently  enlisted  in  the  aviation 
section  of  the  Signal  Corps,  and  when 
the  Quarterly  went  to  press  was  await- 
ing his  call  into  service. 

1919 

Rodney  Fielding  Starkey  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  and  Miss  Maude  Greben  of 
Hadley  were  married  on  Monday,  Feb- 
ruary 17th,  in  Amherst. 

Henry  D.  Whitcomb  is  in  the  Har- 
vard Ensign  Cadet  School  at  Cambridge 
Mass. 


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GRADUATES'    QUARTERLY 

VOL.  VII.— AUGUST,  1918.— NO.  4 


THE  COLLEGE  WINDOW 

FROM  time  to  time  Amherst  men  have  sent  me  copies  of 
books  and  articles  that  they  have  written,  and  I  have 
read  these  with  the  keen  interest  and  appreciation  due 
to  personal  acquaintance  with  the  writers.    I  have  wanted    to 
tell  them  so,  but  for  the  most  part  any- 
An  Amherst  thing  like  adequate  notice  of   them  has 

Dozen  been   crowded   out   of   the   Quarterly's 

pages  by  the  limited  time  and  space  at 
my  disposal.  A  goodly  pile  of  books  has  thus  accumulated  on 
my  hands,  and  still  they  come;  until  I  have  to  confess  a  feeling 
of  shame  for  the  neglect  in  which  unavoidably  I  have  seemed 
to  have  left  them.  I  have  selected  a  dozen  to  talk  about  now; 
my  idea  being  not  so  much  to  review  them  as  to  give  our  graduate 
family  an  idea  of  how  our  men  of  thought,  old  and  young,  are 
handling  their  intellectual  wares  to  fit  the  issues  of  the  times 
and  of  the  ages, — for  both  present  and  past  are  blended  in  the 
survey.  Not  that  these  dozen  books  represent  the  actual  output; 
they  are  only  such  as  have  reached  my  eye,  and  of  these  only 
a  selection.  Nor  indeed  would  I  assume  that  their  merit  is  all 
to  be  credited  to  Amherst,  proud  as  Amherst  is  of  whatever 
share  she  has  in  it.  It  is  their  own,  coined  out  of  their  studies 
and  activities  however  inspired.  But  the  fact  that  every  writer 
was  here,  personally  known  to  me,  that  like  Milton  and  Lycidas, 
"we  were  nursed  upon  the  self -same  hill,"  gives  a  thrill  of  zest 
to  every  word  they  write.  Nor  again  am  I  speaking  of  relative 
weight  or  merit;  that  is  a  personal  matter  which  each  must 
earn  or  miss  according  to   his  specific  gravity;   but  with   the 


262   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

severest  judgment  I  could  pass  upon  them  I  might  still  say  to 
them,  as  the  good  monk  said  to  the  Arthurian  Knight  Sir  Percivale, 

"For  good  ye  are  and  bad,  and  like  to  coins. 
Some  true,  some  light,  but  every  one  of  you 
Stamp'd  with  the  image  of  the  Xing." 

And  as  for  odds  in  weight — well,  we  are  not  always  careful  to  put 
our  currency  on  the  scales.  And  literary  coinage  has  its  compen- 
sations. Weighty  is  not  the  same  as  heavy,  nay,  it  is  quite  con- 
sistent with  buoyancy  of  temper  and  lightness  of  touch, — in  fact, 
profits  by  them.  We  are  not  handling  the  old  silver  dollar  as  we 
used  to  do,  but  somehow  we  manage  to  get  our  dollar's  worth. 
There  is  a  backing  more  than  metallic  behind  it. 

The  Amherst  backing, — can  one  feel  this  in  reading  the  books 
that  Amherst  men  write?  And  if  so,  what  is  it,  what  supporting 
power  and  influence  seeming  to  weave  itself  into  the  writings 
of  the  successive  decades  as  older  and  younger  alumni  add  their 
respective  contributions  to  the  sum?  Especially  in  these  times  of 
frantic  upturnings,  of  "world-wide  fluctuations?"  I  think  I  can 
in  part  name  it.  It  is  the  Amherst  steadiness  of  poise  and  pace, 
the  disposition  to  keep  both  its  head  and  its  vigor.  Work  and 
war  each  has  its  slogan,  and  the  two  are  at  constant  quarrel  each 
with  the  other,  "Business  as  usual"  assailed  by  the  importunate 
"For  God's  sake,  hurry  up!"  Both  slogans  need  strenuous  heed; 
both  need  the  application  of  the  whole  man;  and  yet  no  one-track 
mind  is  equal  to  either  or  both  observed  as  it  ought  to  be.  Amherst 
thought  does  not  evince  the  one-track  mind.  In  all  the  calmness 
and  poise  of  business  as  usual,  yet  her  men  are  not,  as  they  cannot 
be,  in  business  as  usual  but  rather  as  unusal  need  s  rise  and  so 
they  are  ready  as  the  crisis  calls  to  hurry  up  for  God's  sake, 
knowing  all  the  while  that  God  is  not  in  a  hurry,  and  that  he  that 
believeth  shall  not  make  haste.  There  is  too  much  at  stake  for 
un thought  haste;  too  much  also  for  any  ignoble  slowness  or  hes- 
itation, or  anything  short  of  the  steady  alertness  of 

"Large  elements  in  order  brought. 
And  tracts  of  calm  from  tempest  made;" — 

for  this  is  the  educated  man's  business  in  these  days.     Such  is 


The    College    Window  263 

the  backing  I  seem  to  feel,  more  or  less  tangible,  behind  these 
Amherst  men's  books.  They  are  molded  by  the  influence  of  the 
sane  Amherst  spirit. 

Before  me  on  my  desk  are  three  small  volumes  which  have 
reached  me  from  the  decade  of  the  'seventies.  The  first,  from 
an  honored  editor  and  critic  W.  C.  Brownell,  '71,  reminds  me, 
for  its  stimulating  effect,  of  the  motto  I  used  to  read  over  the 
stage  of  the  old  Gewandhaus  in  Leipzig,  "Res  severa  est  verum 
gaudium. "  Severe,  in  its  good  and  bracing  sense,  is  the  name  for 
this  study,  though,  to  use  Mr.  Brownell's  own  phrase,  it  belongs  to 
"voices  less  noisy  than  penetrating."  It  is  a  monograph  on 
"Standards,"^ — as  applied  to  matters  of  art  and  literature,  sub- 
jects which  as  a  constructive  critic  Mr.  Brownell  has  for  many 
years  made  distinctively  his  own.  The  book  will,  I  am  sure, 
take  its  permanent  place  among  the  most  searching,  discriminat- 
ing, judicial  products  of  American  thinking.  It  stimulates  and 
satisfies  thought;  but  the  reader  must  already  have  thought  a 
great  deal,  and  be  acquainted  with  much  of  the  world's  most 
fruitful  contemplation,  before  he  is  qualified  to  appreciate  and 
appropriate  the  writer's  solid  yet  subtle  argument.  Once  entered 
therein,  however,  he  is  in  the  bracing  company  and  atmosphere 
of  the  ripest  education  and  culture;  and  when  at  the  end  he 
thinks  back  over  the  revelations  that  have  been  made  of  the 
slipshod  notions  and  habits  now  prevailing,  he  is  aware  not  only 
of  the  sad  fact  but  of  the  most  searching  and  merciless  reasons 
for  it,  while  also  he  is  not  left  unaware  of  alleviations  and  reme- 
dies. To  my  mind  Matthew  Arnold's  style  of  literary  criticism, 
weighty  though  it  has  been,  is  quite  inconclusive  by  the  side  of  this. 

Mr.  Brownell's  book  is  up  with  the  times  and  ready,  not  in  the 
nervous  hurry-up  spirit  but  in  that  of  the  real  and  clear.  So 
also  is  the  next  book  we  take  up,  the  author's  first  incursion,  if 
I  mistake  not,  into  book  publication.  It  is  a  volume  by  William 
Ives  Washburn,  '76,  honored  President  of  the  Amherst  Alumni 
Council,  on  "The  Holy  Spirit."*  Raphael  and  Dante,  you  know, 
in  Browning's  poem,  each  of  them  once  tried  something  out  of 
his  own  technical  line,  Raphael  to  write  sonnets,  Dante  to  paint 

1  Standards:  by  W.  C.  Brownell.     New  York:  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1917. 
'  The  Holy  Spirit.    A  Layman's  Conception.    By  William  Ives  Washburn  of  the  New  York 
Bar.     G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.     New  York  and  London.  1918. 


264       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 

an  angel, — each  of  them  to  satisfy  something  deeper  than  an 
artistic  or  hterary  sense,  something  caUing  to  him  from  what  he 
had  most  intimately  at  heart.  Mr.  Washburn,  with  his  "lay- 
man's conception,"  would  doubtless  disown  any  attempt  to  emu- 
late such  lofty  company,  but  that  is  what  he  has  done.  The  prac- 
tical lawyer,  "of  the  New  York  bar,"  has  at  heart  something 
more  vital  than  the  externalities  of  his  profession,  yet  not  foreign 
to  it.  It  is,  one  may  say,  "the  law  of  the  spirit  of  life,"  a  cherished 
influence  from  his  New  England  ancestry  and  faith;  and  his 
desire  is  to  share  this  with  others  in  like  case  with  him, — laymen 
who  want  to  get  at  realities  underneath  the  formal  shell  of  church 
and  theology.  The  book  is  written  with  everyday  clearness  and 
conviction  in  the  interest  of  a  subject  which  is  going  to  be  of 
supreme  moment  in  the  large  social  and  religious  readjustments 
of  the  pregnant  era  now  impending. 

Of  quite  different  tenor,  though  still  coming  round  eventually 
to  the  same  needed  solution  of  things,  or  as  the  author  expresses 
it,  to  "the  age  of  the  foundations  at  hand,"  is  a  book  by  Stanton 
Coit,  '79,  our  eminent  alumnus  who  for  many  years  has  taught 
Ethical  Culture  in  London,  entitled,  "Is  Civilization  a  Disease?"' 
It  is  a  volume  of  the  Barbara  Weinstock  Lectures  given  in  the 
University  of  California.  Mr.  Coit  propounds  his  subject  thus 
metaphorically  in  order  to  avoid  undesirable  connotations  insepa- 
rable from  any  form  of  literal,  and  leaves  the  question  unanswered 
until  he  has  brought  in  from  exceedingly  remote  and  elemental 
sources  all  the  reasons  for  explaining  ni  ivhat  sense  civilization 
may  be  deemed  diseased,  and  whether  the  disease  is  really  func- 
tional or  not.  The  book  ranges  over  biological,  ethical,  and  so- 
ciological considerations,  following  an  evolution  beginning  with 
the  anthropoid  ape  and  tracing  step  by  step  successive  discoveries 
which  increased  comfort  but  diminished  freedom,  until  a  reverse 
movement  came  in  the  fifteenth  Christian  century,  since  when 
the  tendency  toward  our  supreme  struggle  for  the  freedom  of 
humanity  has  been  in  progress.  The  book  makes  this  stage  of  the 
disease  work  its  own  remedy,  which  in  fine  is  Christianity  not 
dogmatic  but  essential. 

From  the  decade  of  the  'eighties  come  to  me  three  books,  two 


'  Is  Civilization  a  Disease?     By  Stanton  Coit.     Boston  and  New  York.     Houghton  Mifflin  i 
Company,  1917. 


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of  them  by  trustees  of  the  college,  the  third  from  an  eminent 
professor  in  Columbia  University.  Dr.  Cornelius  H.  Patton,  '83, 
of  the  American  Board,  writes  a  very  moving  and  enthusiastic 
little  book  on  "The  Lure  of  Africa,"^  which  continent  he  visited 
a  few  years  ago  in  the  interests  of  the  Missionary  Education 
Movement.  It  is  a  rapidly  made  book,  as  the  occasion  required, 
but  not  hastily  made,  nor  perfunctorily.  "Let  me  disavow  for 
the  book,"  the  author  says,  "any  claim  to  erudition  or  complete- 
ness. All  I  would  urge  is  that  it  has  been  written  out  of  a  real 
love  for  Africa  and  with  the  single  aim  of  advancing  the  Kingdom 
in  that  continent."  It  is  this — not  trade,  not  exploitation,  not 
diamonds  and  ivory  and  rubber — that  gives  Africa  the  real  "lure," 
to  which  in  other  ways  our  great  war  enterprise  is  to-day 
responding. 

Dr.  Patton's  classmate,  Williston  Walker,  '83,  professor  in  Yale 
Divinity  School,  has  finished  a  work  of  solid  research  and  scholar- 
ship on  which  he  has  long  been  engaged,  in  his  "History  of  the 
Christian  Church."^  To  treat  so  vast  a  subject  in  a  single  volume 
requires  special  gifts — condensation,  proportioning  of  parts,  main- 
tenance of  a  consistent  poise  and  scale  of  treatment,  ability  to 
make  every  statement  count  for  clearness  and  point — all  of  which 
Professor  Walker  has  in  eminent  degree.  One  reads  the  book 
with  the  sense  that  here  is  a  dispassionate,  fair-minded,  hospitable 
portrayal  of  all  the  great  movements  of  religious  thought  and 
practice  that  have  in  multitudinous  ways  shaped  the  impulse 
started  by  the  spirit  and  teachings  of  Christ  into  an  endlessly 
diverse  yet  unitary  organism. 

There  comes  to  me  also  another  volume  of  sound  and  seasoned 
thought  from  the  eighties,  by  Professor  Woodbridge,  '89,  of  Col- 
umbia University,  on  "The  Purpose  of  History,"^ — three  lectures 
given  to  the  University  of  North  Carolina.  The  lectures  confess 
to  a  certain  maturity  of  subject  and  treatment  beyond  the  un- 
dergraduate thinking, — a  treatment  somewhat  over  the  student's 
head,  perhaps,  but  deliberately  directed  to  where  the  student's 
head  ought  some  time  to  be.    When  the  young  head  gets  there  it 


*  The  Lure  of  Africa.  By  Cornelius  H.  Patten.  New  York:  Missionary  Education  Move- 
ment of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  1917. 

'  A  History  of  the  Christian  Church.  By  Williston  Walker.  New  York:  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons,  1918. 

•The  Purpose  of  HLstory.  By  Frederick  J.  E.  Woodbridge.  New  York:  Columbia  Uni- 
versity Press.     1916. 


266   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

may  find  that  "maturity  is  not  necessarily  wise,"  that  indeed 
"historical  studies  may  be  pursued  with  little  comprehension  of 
their  aim  or  meaning;  and  history  may  be  taught  with  little 
reflection  on  its  philosophical  significance."  Some  satisfaction 
of  this  lack  these  lectures  aim  in  outline  to  supply.  Their  object 
is  rather  to  clarify  than  to  explore.  "There  is  discoverable  in 
history  no  purpose,"  the  author  discriminates,"  if  we  mean  by 
purpose  some  future  event  towards  which  the  whole  creation 
moves  and  which  past  and  present  events  portend;  but  there 
is  purpose  in  history,  if  we  mean  that  the  past  is  utilized  as  ma- 
terial for  the  progressive  realization,  at  least  by  man,  of  what  we 
call  spiritual  ends."  And  the  book  does  much  to  make  these 
spiritual  ends  both  clear  and  real. 

The  Amherst  men  of  the  'nineties  whose  books  have  reached 
my  hands  are  in  the  thick  of  practical  instruction,  looking  out  for 
yet  not  unmindful  of  the  larger  door  of  opportunity  and  action 
that  is  now  opening.  This  is  well  exemplified  in  a  little  book  by 
Professor  Lyman,  '94,  of  Oberlin,  until  recently  called  to  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  on  "The  God  of  the  New  Age.'"'  No 
other  subject  of  inquiry,  I  imagine,  can  match  this,  in  the  turmoil 
and  uncertainty  of  this  war,  for  depth  and  poignant  earnestness. 
And  one  doubts  whether  many  could  be  found  who  in  the  compass 
of  forty-seven  generously  spaced  pages  could  give  so  rounded 
and  satisfying  an  answer,  couched  not  in  the  stifi"  terms  of  the 
dogmatic  systems  but  in  the  pulsating  language  of  the  everyday 
thinking  man.  One  does  not  think  of  "theology"  in  reading  Dr. 
Lyman's  book;  one  thinks  rather  of  the  Reality  above  and  behind 
the  speculations  of  scholars,  the  Being  who  is  making  Himself 
real  in  the  interrelations  of  men  and  nations. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  get  a  well-selected  and  well-edited  book  for 
the  educational  needs  of  secondary  schools.  Such  a  book  is 
"Modern  Short  Stories"*  by  F.  H.  Law,  '95,  whose  experience  as 
Head  of  the  Department  of  English  in  the  Stuyvesant  High 
School  of  New  York  City  creates  an  expectation  abundantly 
realized.    The  book  consists  of  a  series  of  short  stories,  one  from 


'  The  God  of  the  New  Age.     A  Tract  for  the  Times.     By  Eugene  William  Ljinan,  D.D 
The  Pilgrim  Press:  Boston,  Chicago.     1918.     60  cents  net. 

8  Modern  Short  Stories.    A  Book  for  High  Schools.    Edited,  with  Introduction  and  Notes,  I 
by  Frederick  Houk  Law,  Ph.D.     New  York:  The  Century  Co.     1918. 


The    College    Window  267 

each  of  twenty-two  leading  writers  in  this  genre,  ingeniously  graded 
to  show  up  narratives  of  various  types  from  the  primitive  folk- 
and-fairy-tale  upward,  adapted  to  young  intellects  without  talking 
down  to  them,  and  always  embodifying  a  healthy  moral  tone  and 
purpose.  Brief  notes  at  the  end  of  the  volume  bring  out  the  type 
and  traits  of  each,  in  simple  and  luminous  language,  with  a  few 
words  of  information  about  each  author  and  his  or  her  best  known 
works.  It  is  worth  mention  that  one  of  the  twenty-two  is  an 
Amherst  graduate  (Walter  A.  Dyer),  whose  story  of  Gulliver  the 
Great  (already  reviewed  in  these  pages),  represents  him.  It  is 
a  very  ably  compiled  collection  for  its  educational  purpose,  which 
is,  to  impart  a  just  sense  of  literary  values  without  seeming  to  do 
so,  and  without  the  austerity  of  schoolmaster  exposition. 

Ninety-seven  comes  close  after  ninety-five,  and  close  after  a 
collection  of  modern  short  stories  comes  a  scholarly  anthology  of 
American  Poetry'  by  Percy  H.  Boynton,  '97,  Associate  Professor 
of  English  in  the  University  of  Chicago.  The  volume  is  naturally 
of  more  mature  and  ambitious  scope  than  Mr.  Law's;  it  is  meant 
for  the  best  needs  of  university  study  and  literary  judgment. 
The  two  main  points  kept  in  mind  in  the  compilation  were: 
"First,  that  taken  as  a  whole,  the  poems  should  be  observable  as 
an  index  both  to  the  progress  of  American  poetry  and  to  the 
progressions  of  American  thought;  second  that  they  should  fairly 
represent  the  chief  characteristics  of  the  authors."  Of  its  closely 
printed,  double-columned  pages,  589  are  taken  up  with  representa- 
tive poems  of  twenty-five  poets  and  four  time-groups  following 
epochs  of  American  history.  The  rest  of  the  volume,  to  page  721, 
contains  critical  comments  on  its  twenty-nine  successive  units, 
nearly  all  written  by  Mr.  Boynton,  and  amounting  to  a  critical 
history  of  American  poetry;  of  which  comments  a  dominant 
feature  is  their  condensed  vigor  and  point,  wasting  no  words,  yet 
sparing  nothing  essential.  In  this  respect,  as  also  in  their  justness, 
these  comments  are  models.  The  very  free  Table  of  Contents  at 
the  beginning,  and  a  remarkable  succession  of  Indexes  at  the  end 
(Of  Subjects,  Of  Periodical  Publication,  Of  Titles,  and  Of  First 
Lines)  furnish  every  facility  for  varied  and  easy  reference.    Pro- 


'  American  Poetry.  Edited  by  Percy  H.  Boynton,  with  the  assistance  of  Howard  M. 
Jones,  George  W.  Sherburn,  and  Frank  M.  Webster.  New  York:  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 
1918. 


268        Amherst    Gkaduates'    Quarterly 

fessor  Bojmton  knows  not  only  how  to  study  books  but  how  to 
make  them. 

Of  the  work  of  H.  G.  Dwight,  '98,  I  have  received  a  rather 
dainty  vohime  which,  though  charmingly  characteristic,  must 
perhaps  be  regarded,  the  author  so  intimating,  as  a  kind  of  by- 
product of  his  pen, — a  book  of  "Persian  Miniatures."^"  Since 
his  book  "Stamboul  Nights"  (reviewed  in  these  pages)  was  pub- 
lished, Mr.  Dwight  has  gone  on  rapidly  making  name  and  fame  as 
a  leading  short-story  writer;  so  that  one  finds  a  story  of  his,  "The 
Emperor  of  Elam,"  marked  with  three  stars  in  Mr.  O'Brien's 
book  of  "The  Best  Short  Stories  of  1917."  Owing  to  his 
birth  and  long  residence  in  the  Orient  he  has  a  field  all  his  own, 
to  which  his  imaginative  and  graceful  style  gives  peculiarly  fit 
appeal.  These  miniatures,  as  the  author  is  swift  to  aver,  "contain 
nothing  but  a  collection  of  sketches  in  printer's  ink;"  but  knowing 
what  Mr.  Dwight's  quality  of  work  is,  we  can  take  them  at  his 
appraisal  and  find  both  the  sketch-work  and  the  printer's  ink 
worthy  of  the  author. 

With  the  closing  class  of  the  decade  we  come  upon  our  genial 
friend  Burges  Johnson,  '99,  who  glorifies  his  calling  as  teacher  of 
English  in  Vassar  College  by  publishing  a  volume  of  essays  enti- 
tled, "The  Well  of  English  and  the  Bucket. "^^  Such  is  the  heading 
of  the  opening  essay,  but  the  whole  book  is  devoted  to  phases  of 
this  subject,  with,  I  think,  increasing  sureness  and  mastery  of 
matter  and  manner  as  the  writer  goes  on.  Mr.  Johnson  has  a 
valuable  gift,  the  gift  of  saying  weighty  things,  thought-laden 
things,  in  a  lightly  touched  and  carrying  way.  And  this  is  largely 
due  to  a  quality  that  has  already  familiarized  him  to  Amherst 
graduates,  his  sense  of  humor.  By  this  I  do  not  mean  that  his 
style  is  charged  with  whimsey  and  laughter,  but  that  it  is  flexible 
and  comradey,  bending  round  to  all  sides  and  colors  of  the  thought, 
and  especially  to  the  common  sense  of  things.  The  book  as  a 
whole  goes  into  various  common-sense,  unacademic,  unpedantic 
views  of  writing,  teaching,  and  learning  English,  and  thus  in  its 
way  is  a  genial  contribution  to  the  new  education  that  is  making 
its  claims  felt. 


10  Persian  Miniatures.  By  H.  G.  Dwight.  Illustrated  with  Drawings  by  Wilfred  J.  Jones. 
Garden  City,  New  York.     Doubleday,  Page  and  Company.     1917. 

"  The  Well  of  English  and  the  Bucket.  By  Burges  Johnson.  Boston:  Little,  Brown  and 
Company.     1917. 


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Those  who  have  known  W.  A.  Dyer,  '00,  through  his  charming 
smaller  books  like  Gulliver  the  Great,  Bonnyacres,  and  Humble 
Annals  of  a  Back  Yard  (some  of  which  have  been  mentioned 
in  these  pages)  will  hardly  realize  that  he  does  excellent  work  of 
quite  different  kind,  more  in  the  nature  of  a  specialty.  An  example 
lies  before  us,  in  his  sumptuously  illustrated  book,  "Creators  of 
Decorative  Styles. "^^  It  is  one  volume  of  a  kind  of  series  devoted 
to  artistic  and  artisan  work  of  various  kinds;  like  its  subjects  a 
workmanlike  job  of  writing,  making  no  claims  to  literary  elegance 
or  distinction.  It  is  what  one  may  call  an  appetizing  book;  one 
likes  to  turn  it  over  and  look  at  the  pictures  and  read  about 
Inigo  Jones  and  Sir  Christopher  Wren  and  Grinling  Gibbons, 
whose  works  are  so  characteristic  of  England,  and  about  the  old 
furniture  makers,  whose  works  have  been  so  cherished  and  im- 
itated in  our  modern  styles. 

I  am  running  on  to  a  baker's  dozen,  you  see.  For  even  at 
the  risk  of  a  measure  pressed  down  and  running  over  we  must 
make  generous  room  in  our  esteem  for  Bruce  Barton,  '07,  already 
a  widely  distinguished  representative  of  our  latest  graduate  decade. 
His  recently  published  novel,  "The  Making  of  George  Groton,"^^, 
is,  we  think,  his  first  novel,  but  it  is  only  the  story  form  of  a  kind 
of  work  in  which  he  has  become  eminent;  for  in  all  his  writing,  edi- 
torial and  otherwise,  he  has  supremely  at  heart  the  "making"  of 
true,  clean,  virile  young  men,  men  fit  for  the  best  tasks  and  achieve- 
ments of  a  Christian  civilization.  Thus  in  the  great  warfare  of  our 
age  he  is  as  truly  on  the  spiritual  firing  line  as  are  our  young  men  at 
the  front  on  the  physical.  The  book  makes  George  Groton  narrate 
in  the  first  person  not  merely  the  nice  and  helpful  things  but  the 
follies,  the  mistakes,  the  failures,  the  narrow  escape  from  ruin, 
which  he  encountered  in  his  experience  as  an  ambitious  and 
energetic  young  broker.  It  enters  thus  the  arena  of  practical 
business  and  reveals  its  chances  for  the  crooked  and  the  straight, 
the  above-board  and  the  underhand;  with  the  eventual  shaping 
to  the  true  that  came  from  the  corrective  and  molding  power  of 
good  nurture  and  good  conscience.     The  book  is  written  in  the 


'2  Creators  of  Decorative  Styles.  Being  a  Survey  of  the  Decorative  Periods  in  England 
from  1600  to  1800,  with  Special  Reference  to  the  Masters  of  Applied  Art  Who  Developed  the 
Dominant  Styles.  By  Walter  A.  Dyer.  Illustrated  with  Sixty-four  Full  Pages  of  Photo- 
graphs.    Garden  City,  New  York:  Doubleday,  Page  and  Company.     1917. 

"  The  Making  of  George  Groton.  By  Bruce  Barton.  Illustrated  by  Paul  Stahr.  Garden 
City,  New  York:  Doubleday,  Page  and  Company.     1918. 


270       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 

forthright,  vigorous,    unhampered    style  reflective  of  a  healthy 
Christian  mind. 

Thus  our  decades  show,  from  the  seventies  onward,  in  the 
books  that  have  come  to  my  hands  almost  at  random,  what  our 
Amherst  men  of  thought  are  doing,  but  more  than  that,  what 
sterling  men  they  are. 

Hence,  to  life's  thronged  field  of  glory. 
Deeds  unsung  or  told  in  story, 

Pitching  tent  on  many  a  strand. 
Forth  have  gone  th'  alumni  wearing 
Amherst's  impress,  nobly  bearing 

Amherst's  power  to  every  land. 

Honoring  her  in  every  land. 


Thirty-five  Years  from  Alma  Mater    271 


THIRTY-FIVE  YEARS  FROM  ALMA  MATER 

HOWARD   A.    BRIDGMAN 

[Reprinted,  by  permission,  from  The  Congregationalist,  whose  Editor-in-Chief, 
the  writer,  is  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the  Class  of  1883.] 

ON  a  fair  and  famous  New  England  hill-top  over  which  the 
feet  of  ardent  youth  in  quest  of  a  college  education  have 
roved  for  nearly  a  century,  thirty  men  assembled  from 
all  parts  of  this  land  have  just  commemorated  the  passing  of  the 
thirty -fifth  milestone  in  their  post-collegiate  journey.  Their  re- 
union was  so  typical  of  many  another  held  at  other  academic 
shrines,  East  and  West,  that  the  reflections,  sentiments  and  im- 
pulses which  it  generated  represent  what  is  taking  place  in  the 
minds  and  hearts  of  thousands  of  returning  graduates  the  country 
over  during  this  month. 

Uppermost,  of  course,  is  the  thought  of  the  enduring  worth  of 
college  friendships.  When  one  has  recited  or  flunked  for  four 
years  with  a  man,  when  the  two  have  participated  in  the  same 
nocturnal  pranks,  when  they  have  eaten,  studied,  frolicked  and 
slept  together  in  years  when  men  are  most  frank  and  open  in  their 
dealings  and  in  their  speech,  they  can  never  afterward  become 
under  any  illusions  with  regard  to  one  another. 

Because  they  sat  at  the  feet  of  the  same  teachers,  sang  the  same 
songs,  went  and  came  together  day  by  day,  they  reach  an  intimacy 
of  mutual  knowledge  and  acquire  a  reality  of  human  relationship 
that  nothing  can  obliterate.  So  though  they  come  back  after  a 
long  interval  of  years,  some  gray-headed,  some  whose  hair  "pre- 
ferred death  to  dishonor,"  some  more  portly  and  better  groomed 
than  in  the  days  of  yore,  some  so  changed  that  even  those  who 
sat  near  them  in  the  classroom  have  to  draw  a  comrade  aside  and 
whisper,  "Oh,  say,  who  was  that  fellow  in  a  black  cut-a-way  and 
light  trousers  who  just  came  up  on  the  piazza?" — it  takes  but  a 
moment  to  roll  back  the  tide  of  years  and  to  become  boys  again. 


This  is  not  saying  that  the  "gentle  offices  of  time"  are  not 


272       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 

apparent  in  the  lives  and  on  the  faces  of  these  returning  "grads." 
But  the  marvelous  thing  about  the  passing  years  is  that  they  have 
wrought  only  improvement  in  character,  deportment  and  spirit. 
Not  a  single  man  has  retrograded.  Many  have  made  conspicuous 
gains  in  steadiness,  poise  and  breadth.  If  you  liked  them  in 
college,  you  like  them  even  better  now.  If  you  didn't  care  for 
them  particularly  then,  you  can't  help  being  drawn  to  them  now. 
Something  has  deepened  and  bettered  them.  It  may  have  been 
the  flowering  of  the  seed  which  the  college  planted;  it  may  have 
been  the  touch  of  wife  or  child;  it  may  have  been  the  silent,  potent 
influence  of  discipline  or  bereavement — for  not  a  man  in  the 
group  had  escaped  sorrow  in  some  form  or  other  and  several  had 
gone  down  more  than  once  into  the  valley  of  the  shadow.  What- 
ever the  cause,  the  hours  spent  in  one  another's  company  revealed 
perceptible  and  in  many  cases  very  noticeable  growth  in  manhood. 

They  were  rather  a  raw  lot  when  they  matriculated  nearly 
twoscore  years  ago — perhaps  no  cruder  than  the  average  fresh- 
man class — but  long  ago  they  emerged  from  the  "kid  stage," 
leaving  behind  them  "as  outworn  shells"  the  petty  rivalries  and 
foolish  dissensions  of  undergraduate  days.  This  emerging  into 
larger  life  has  put  an  end  to  all  factions  and  cliques.  No  one 
now  recalls  the  fact  that  Joe  was  a  "Chi  Phi"  or  Tom  a  "Psi  U." 
Gone  is  all  the  bitterness  that  ever  had  to  do  with  the  attainment 
of  certain  honors  and  offices. 

And  one  beautiful  phase  of  the  reunion  was  the  genuine  esteem 
and  honor  accorded  to  every  one  there  from  every  other  one. 
Naturally  the  chief  justice  of  his  state,  the  recipient  of  the  honorary 
degree  on  the  morrow  from  Alma  Mater  because  of  his  literary 
attainments,  the  university  president,  the  distinguished  professor 
of  church  history,  the  leading  American  authority  in  the  field  of 
finance,  were  all  in  turn  presented  with  due  solemnity,  more  or 
less  mock,  to  admiring  wives  and  children,  but  it  was  realized,  as 
one  of  the  more  gifted  members  of  the  class  said  at  the  banquet, 
that  fortune  does  not  always  deal  out  its  prizes  and  dignities 
with  an  even  hand. 

So  the  classmate  who  had  made  a  brave  fight  all  these  years 
against  ill  health  and  who  had  kept  sweet,  the  classmate  who  had 
never  wandered  far  from  the  country  town  where  he  was  born  and 
reared,  the  classmates  who  were  doing  faithful,  but  non-spectacular 


T  H  I  R  T  Y  -  F I  V  E  Years  from  A  i.  m  a  Mater    273 


and  seldom  heralded  work  in  the  professions  and  in  business,  were 
just  as  highly  regarded  as  those  who  had  risen  to  fame.  Every- 
one felt  that  the  true  measures  of  success  after  thirty-five  years 
were  not  this  or  that  appendage  to  one's  name,  but  a  kind  and 
generous  heart,  right-mindedness,  trustworthiness  in  all  the  com- 
mon relations  of  life,  fidelity  to  one's  own  task. 


But  for  these  men  at  least,  one  of  the  primal  satisfactions  of  the 
reunion  was  that  when  their  life  was  young,  they  had  been  together 
in  a  relatively  small  group  at  a  country  college  where  they  could 
know  each  other  well  enough  to  call  one  another  ever  afterward 
by  their  first  names,  where  they  could  look  forth  day  by  day 
upon  lovely  meadows  and  hillsides  blanketed  in  winter  with 
snow  and  in  summer  carpeted  with  living  green,  where  they 
could  form  a  permanent  connection  with  an  ancient  and  honorable 
institution,  which  has  ever  stood  for  liberal  culture  and  Christian 
ideals,  whose  sons  have  gone  north,  south,  east,  west  and  overseas, 
carrying  with  them  the  torch  of  truth  and  all  the  liberalizing 
influences  of  a  Christian  education. 

This  particular  group  came  to  young  manhood  too  late  for 
participation  in  the  Civil  War,  too  early  to  have  any  active  share 
in  fighting  for  democracy  to-day.  The  better  part  of  their  active 
lives  having  been  spent  between  two  wars,  they  can  now  help 
as  only  civilians  can  help,  who  are  debarred  by  health,  age  and 
circumstances  from  a  place  in  the  ranks.  Yet  almost  every  other 
one  of  the  men  present  had  a  son  or  a  nephew  at  the  front  or  on 
the  way  thither,  and  when  the  depleted  senior  class,  after  the 
baccalaureate  sermon,  filed  out  of  the  old,  familiar  chapel  on  Sun- 
day morning  into  the  bright  June  sunshine,  a  throb  more  of  envy 
than  of  pity  was  felt  in  the  hearts  of  many  of  their  elders  looking 
on  with  hope  and  admiration.  For  to  every  generation  comes  its 
own  chance  and  its  own  task.  And  nothing  can  make  the  old 
"grads"  happier  than  sons  sensitive  to  the  call  of  duty  and  of 
honor.  And  as  long  as  Alma  Mater  breeds  year  after  year  men 
as  ready  and  as  eager  to  fare  forth  and  do  their  best  in  a  war-torn 
world,  as  we  were  in  a  world  where  peace  reigned,  we  will  sing 
with  all  our  hearts : 


274   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Hail,  Alma  Mater,  our  well  loved  mother, 
Old  Amherst,  here's  to  thee! 

We  love  thee  ever. 

All  boys  together, 
And  ever  faithful  be. 


THE  TEACHER 

PAUL  A.    FANCHER 
[Reprinted  by  permission  from  The  Bookman.] 

1   FLAUNT  no  chevron  on  my  threadbare  sleeve; 
No  epaulettes  upon  my  shoulders  stand; 
And  yet  my  heart's  a-throbbing  with  the  drum; 
My  feet  keep  pace  with  soldiers  in  the  land. 

'Tis  mine  to  tread  the  cautious  precept  path, 

And  feel  my  heart  belie  Gamaliel  looks; 
'Tis  mine  to  see  boys'  wistful  faces  glow 

With  far-off  thoughts  which  come  not  from  their  books. 

With  buoyant  step  and  outstretched  hand  they  come 
To  say  good-bye,  their  souls  with  faith  imbued. 

Tomorrow  sees  their  empty  chairs;  a  ringing 
Silence  there !  a  pulsing  solitude ! 

No  hate,  no  bitter  thoughts  within  them  burn; 

For  them,  the  sure  emprise  of  high-born  quest. 
They  fare  to  France  (O  miracle  of  time!) 

And  knighthood  lives  again  within  each  breast. 

Some  part  I  have,  no  doubt,  which  I  may  claim 

Of  that  fair,  lofty  vision  which  they  see. 
But  I  must  be  content  to  point  the  way. 

And  yield  to  them  the  sword  of  chivalry. 


A    School    of    the    Soldier  275 


A  SCHOOL  OF  THE  SOLDIER 

WALTER    R.    AGARD 

WE  have  plenty  of  indoor  sports  at  Camp  Devens.  One  of 
them  is  reading  the  articles  written  about  us  by  the 
journalists,  who  form  part  of  the  impedimenta  of  our 
cantonment.  It  is  an  innocent  amusement,  and  no  one,  I  am  sure, 
will  begrudge  us  this  enjoyment  of  one  of  the  subtle  satisfactions 
of  an  otherwise  simple  and  strenuous  existence. 

I  am  writing  not  from  any  desire  to  join  these  ranks  of  the  fourth 
estate,  but  rather  from  a  sense  of  gratitude.  I  want  to  offer  my 
thanks  and  congratulation  to  the  Government  for  one  sort  of 
training  it  is  providing  for  us:  a  liberal  education  carried  on 
under  the  direction  of  the  Commission  on  Training  Camp  Activi- 
ties, a  "modernist  school  of  the  soldier." 

No  one  can  very  well  deny  that  war  is  the  stiffest  test  a  govern- 
ment like  ours  can  face.  We  are  a  social  scheme  built  essentially 
for  peace,  favoring  individuality,  humor,  variety  of  experience 
and  expression,  and  all  this  is  challenged  severely  by  the  require- 
ments of  war.  Some  people  resign  themselves  to  the  conclusion 
that  we  must  for  the  moment  abandon  our  normal  ideals  for  the 
sake  of  military  efficiency.  And  as  far  as  the  soldiers  are  con- 
cerned, I  suppose  they  would  apply  to  us  Rupert  Brooke's  sonnet 
on  "The  Dead"  to  show  how  the  humor,  richness  and  complexity 
of  life  must  be  swept  aside  and  one  austere,  inflexible  emotion 
take  their  place. 

It  is  apparent  that  the  Government  has  adopted  a  different 
view  with  reference  to  its  fighting  men.  It  has  believed  that  the 
waters  hitherto  "blown  by  changing  winds  to  laughter  and  lit 
by  the  rich  skies  all  day"  need  and  should  not  yet  be  quite  con- 
gealed. It  has  dared  to  have  confidence  that  it  will  wage  a  more 
effective  war  by  training  its  soldiers,  not  only  in  the  latest  and  most 
effective  instruments  of  death,  but  also  in  the  healthy  and  con- 
structive elements  of  personal  and  collective  growth.  It  has  aimed 
for  an  army  that  shall  not  have  abandoned  intellectual  self-respect 


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and  fineness  of  feeling  because  of  its  increased  emphasis  upon 
strength  of  will.  It  is  educating  us  in  more  than  the  school  of  war. 
When  we  arrived  here  we  found  out  pretty  soon  among  other 
things  that  our  muscles  hadn't  learned  the  first  requirement  of  a 
soldier;  they  wouldn't  do  what  they  were  told.  The  fact  was, 
they  couldn't.  Most  of  us  had  watched  plenty  of  games,  but 
had  never  played  them  enough  to  boast  of  the  fact.  We  had 
been  too  busy  in  factories  and  offices  and  on  farms  to  learn  first- 
hand the  advantages  of  sport.  We  were  physically  slow,  stupid, 
dull. 

So  we  had  a  Sports  Director  to  teach  us  that  play  is  one  of  the 
things  men  live  by.  Amherst  men  may  well  find  satisfaction  in 
the  fact  that  Professor  (now  Captain)  Nelligan  was  the  man  sent 
to  Devens.  He  is  repeating  among  soldiers  the  results  he  obtained 
with  students.  Working  with  him  are  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  K.  of  C 
Secretaries.  They  have  set  us  all  to  boxing,  playing  basketball, 
volleyball,  hockey  and  baseball.  The  idea  is  not  to  train  a  few 
Camp  Devens  teams.  Each  company  in  camp  is  to  have  teams 
in  all  of  half  a  dozen  sports,  competing  constantly  against  rival 
companies  in  the  regiments.  In  this  way  we  have  stopped  being 
spectators;  we  are  participants. 

Daily  setting-up  drill  is  making  us  all  capable  of  smarter  and 
more  accurate  muscular  control.  Over  600  games  were  played  in 
this  camp  last  winter,  and  the  baseball  schedule  has  made  this 
look  like  a  preliminary  training-trip  series.  Probably  the  biggest 
cross-country  races  ever  held  in  history  were  run  here  recently, 
including  two  races  with  2800  and  1900  starting.  Every  man  in 
entire  brigades  had  to  run,  unless  he  was  unfortunate  enough  to 
be  away  on  pass,  on  special  duty  or  in  confinement!  It  was  over 
the  same  dusty  courses  where  we  had  marched  earlier  in  the  day; 
it  presented  a  contrast  similar  to  working  a  treadmill  yourself 
and  slapping  the  mule  that  runs  one.  And  the  swimming  require- 
ments of  camp,  like  those  of  college,  refuse  to  tolerate  slackers. 

This  is  no  hit-or-miss  scheme  of  athletics.  The  physical  educa- 
tion experts  among  our  ranks  have  been  meeting  weekly  throughout 
the  winter  and  have  worked  up  games,  including  indoor  events  for 
the  barracks  and  exercises  for  the  setting-up  work.  Boxing  has 
been  considered  so  important,  particularly  in  relation  to  bayonet 
fighting,  that  a  special  instructor,  a  national  champion,  has  been 


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sent  here  to  teach  us  the  manly  art.  He  has  worked  with  classes 
of  500  non-coms  all  winter,  taking  a  single  class  for  twelve  lessons, 
and  has  spent  afternoons  with  the  different  companies  and  bat- 
talions, putting  them  through  a  carefully  planned  boxing  drill, 
which  gives  them  the  blows,  feints,  parries,  and  general  strategy 
to  practice  out  in  barracks  scraps. 

Do  the  grim,  gray  Germans  play  ping-pong?  Well,  hardly. 
That's  one  of  the  reasons  why  they're  bound  to  be  trimmed.  For 
the  American  army  does,  and  thus  shows  that  it  has  a  sense  of 
humor.  And  the  army  with  a  sense  of  humor  can  stand  the  strain 
longer  and  fight  harder  when  the  pinch  comes. 

This  is  good  psychology,  and  is  recognized  as  such  by  our  ath- 
letic authorities.  Anybody  could  play  the  regular  games,  but 
why  not  have  some  lively  originality  besides?  So  not  only  the 
sports  calling  for  husky  players  and  big  muscular  activity  are 
being  encouraged,  but  also  indoor  games  requiring  subtle  and 
accurate  response — and  a  sense  of  the  ridiculous. 

Ping-pong  is  one  of  them.  A  dozen  sets  are  in  constant  use  in 
camp.  To  see  a  red-blooded  young  Yankee,  who  has  spent  the 
day  in  going  over  the  top  and  lunging  furiously  and  with  finesse 
at  dummy  Kaisers,  busily  batting  a  little  ball  across  a  table  in 
the  evening  might  make  you  laugh;  but  that  shows  how  little 
you  know  about  ping-pong.  For  it  demands  just  as  quick  an  eye 
as  regular  tennis,  along  with  greater  accuracy  of  movement  cor- 
responding to  its  smaller  compass.  It's  a  game  for  quick-witted 
and  smartly  reacting  athletes,  and  has  won  its  place  among  the 
minor  sports  of  the  camp.  Indoor  baseball  and  handball  have 
also  been  gaining  increasing  popularity.  These  three  games  are 
not  only  exercise;  they  are  the  original  gloom-dispellers. 

Bowling  alleys  at  the  camp  clubhouse  and  in  Ayer  are  always 
in  great  demand.  But  it  isn't  necessary  for  us  to  leave  our  own 
barracks,  for  plenty  of  indoor  sport  is  usually  on  hand  there  in  the 
evenings.  Several  huskies  of  course  prefer  to  lean  on  the  piano 
keys,  play  checkers  (a  man's  game)  or  write  replies  to  pink- 
tinted  missives;  but  you'll  usually  find  enough  "pep"  of  the 
fighting  variety  to  get  up  some  sort  of  a  scrap.  Perhaps  it's  just 
a  plain  rough-house;  not  a  pillow  fight,  for  there  aren't  any  pil- 
lows ("you're  in  the  Army  now");  but  anyway  a  violent  affair 
with  blankets.     More  likely  it  is  a  set  of  boxing  bouts  to  settle 


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over  again  the  company  supremacy,  or  wrestling,  or  jiu-jitsu. 
Then  there  are  a  hundred  indoor  games  that  stimulate  keen 
competition,  such  as  swat-tag  and  hot-hand;  the  games  we  all 
played  when  we  were  kids,  but  touched  up  a  little  by  the  physical 
education  experts. 

All  this  is  making  us  nervously  alert,  physically  fit,  versed  in 
the  healthy  articles  of  faith  of  competitive  sport.  In  fact  we  are 
realizing  so  many  benefits  of  this  sort  that  Captain  Nelligan 
insists  that  there  is  a  grain  of  truth  in  the  philosophy  of  Mike. 
Pat  and  Mike  were  in  the  trenches,  and  in  a  comparatively  quiet 
moment  Pat  wiped  the  mud  off  his  mouth  and  ejaculated:  "Be- 
gob,  Mike,  this  is  a  hell  of  a  war."  But  Mike,  being  of  Celtic  dis- 
position, replied:  "Yes,  but  sure,  Pat,  it's  better  than  no  war 
at  all." 

It  is  not  surprising,  of  course,  that  this  outdoor  life  should  make 
us  healthier  people.  But  it  is  clearly  a  different  matter  to  keep 
us  mentally  alert.  It  is  urged  that  fighting  and  thinking  are  not 
a  Jonathan-David  combination,  and  whether  or  not  this  be  true, 
fatigue  is  no  aid  to  thought. 

I  would  hardly  claim  that  the  camp  is  a  stimulating  school  of 
thought.  Still,  the  Government  has  tried  to  train  us  in  mental 
sincerity.     The  Commission  became  worried  over  the  line 

I  may  not^know  what  the  war's  about, 

and  gave  the  lad  from  Missouri  good  cause  for  saying 
But  you  bet,  by  Gosh,  I'll  soon  find  out. 

It  is  trying  to  make  us  well  aware  of  the  aims  we  are  fighting 
for;  what  are  the  implications  of  democracy;  what  the  enemy  is 
after.  The  distribution  of  President  Wilson's  address,  talks  by 
national  leaders,  series  of  historical  and  education  lectures  ar- 
ranged by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  have  helped  to  make  the  camp  thought- 
ful in  candid  if  modest  ways.  However  we  may  fall  short  in  imagi- 
nation and  continuity  of  reasoning,  we  at  least  may  boast  a  lack 
of  hysteria,  a  mental  balance  that  might  be  emulated  in  certain 
communities  that  have  apparently  surrendered  to  mania.  And 
even  after  the  day's  routine  I  have  heard  some  lively  arguments 
on  such  subjects  as  socialism,  the  present  labor  problem  here  and 
in  England,  the  comparative  value  of  democratic  and  autocratic 


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methods;  and  these  were  not  Sunday-school  "discussions,"  but 
real  debates,  with  sometimes  a  colonel's  chauffeur,  a  Harvard 
graduate  and  a  Connecticut  jeweler  taking  the  lead. 

Two  agencies  which  are  doing  valiant  service  in  helping  us  in 
this  way  are  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  the  American  Library  Associa- 
tion. The  Y.  M.  is  busily  engaged  in  teaching  English  to  the 
scores  of  nationalities  represented  in  camp,  and  French  to  us 
rather  ambitious  young  Yankees;  also  mathematics,  current 
events,  history.  The  camp  library  has  20,000  volumes  constantly 
in  circulation,  cozy  reading  rooms  with  magazines,  reference 
books  and  excellent  collections  of  both  the  most  recent  works  and 
the  classics.  According  to  the  librarian,  Mr.  Lowe,  formerly  of 
the  Williams  library,  38%  of  the  books  taken  out  are  fiction,  as 
compared  with  about  73%  in  the  average  city  library.  And  the 
mental  stimulation  of  personal  contacts  is  worth  a  great  deal. 
I  am  thinking  particularly  of  the  Russian  Pole  who  said:  "We 
carry  little.  I  have  left  the  few  books  I  own  with  friends,  but  I 
take  with  me  here  and  to  the  front  Plato's  'Republic,'  in  Greek, 
Shakespeare's  sonnets,  in  English,  Goethe's  poems  in  German, 
and  two  of  my  native  poets." 

Some  of  the  most  interesting  phases  of  our  camp  education 
occur  in  the  fields  of  beauty  and  religion. 

We  are  living  in  a  bare  and  commonplace  environment.  No 
wonder  the  sense  of  equilibrium  in  us  demands  beauty.  An  art 
student  I  used  to  know  would  regularly  cultivate  musical  comedy 
just  to  relieve  the  tension.    We  have  simply  reversed  the  situation- 

One  corporal  of  the  guard  decided  to  follow  the  advice  of  his 
high  school  principal  and  learn  poetry  during  the  night  watches 
to  while  away  the  monotony.  He  brought  along  the  Oxford  Book 
of  verse.  We  are  getting  a  many-sided  training  in  music.  A 
university  professor  of  music  is  in  charge  of  camp  singing,  and  a 
Belgian  bandmaster  of  the  regimental  bands.  These  men  have 
livened  up  the  marches  with  gay  ragtime.  Nearly  every  barracks 
has  its  piano  player  and  victrola.  Here  you  can  find  an  interesting 
study  in  temperaments.  When  a  man  reaches  up  his  hand  for  a 
music  roll  will  he  choose  a  jazz-band  selection  or  Aida,  "Down 
South  Everybody's  Happy  "  or  Siegmund's  Love  Song?  It  sounds 
easy,  but  don't  be  too  sure.  Many  cautious  or  reckless  explora- 
tions are  being  made  into  the  mysteries  of^musical|interpretation 


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and  expression.  I  heard  one  man  in  from  fatigue  duty  sigh  as  he 
finished  playing  Beethoven's  Moonhght  Sonata,  "Gee,  that's  a 
pippin."  And  I  shall  hardly  forget  one  night  at  a  Y.  M.  hut 
when  Caruso  and  Mischa  Elman  hushed  with  the  poignant  melody 
of  Massenet's  Elegie  the  commonplaces  of  camp  sound  into 
serenity. 

The  Liberty  Theatre  is  well  named,  for  it  has  a  rare  opportunity 
to  liberate  our  stunted  and  inhibited  sense  of  beauty.  Clever 
stock  to  Shakespeare,  movies,  musical  comedies,  all  are  given,  and 
usually  of  a  quality  to  make  us  less  satisfied  with  the  shows  we 
used  to  see.  Two  red-letter  days  were  those  when  the  Boston 
Symphony  played  for  us  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  auditorium  and  the 
Ben  Greet  Players  put  on  "The  Merchant  of  Venice." 

Did  you  ever  stand  guard?  If  so,  you  will  understand  how  there 
is  a  new  experience  grown  out  of  guard  duty.  Or  more  likely  you 
got  the  feeling  on  some  August  morning,  say  at  4  o'clock,  while 
way  down  east  in  Maine,  when  you  really  for  the  first  time  saw 
Orion  and  the  other  friendly,  mysterious  stars.  A  night  like  that 
develops  a  habit  of  contemplation  very  unusual  in  us  energetic 
Americans.  And  those  of  us  who  have  been  cooped  up  in  cities 
all  our  lives  are  now  for  the  first  time  sensing  the  extravagant 
beauty  of  rainbow  clouds  on  a  winter's  afternoon,  or  radiant  sun- 
sets— and  sunrises! 

We  have  a  community  secretary  in  town,  sent  by  the  Playground 
and  Recreational  Association.  His  particular  job  is  to  provide 
for  the  social  life  outside  the  camp.  He  manages  the  club  houses, 
arranges  dances,  sends  great  truck-loads  of  fellows  out  to  holiday 
and  Sunday  dinners.  He  is  the  promoter  of  a  healthy  social 
spirit;  and  the  value  of  his  work  in  giving  some  of  us  an  insight 
into  home  life  can  hardly  be  estimated.  From  the  opening  of 
camp  up  to  nearly  June  first  it  was  Ray  S.  Hubbard,  '00,  who 
held  this  position,  and  he  performed  an  exceedingly  capable  and 
helpful  service.  He  has  since  been  promoted  to  broader  super- 
vision in  the  same  field.  The  Hostess  House,  run  by  the  Y.  W.  C.  A 
might  fairly  be  called  Hospitality  House,  and  is  one  of  the  few 
really  charming  buildings  we  have  in  this  mushroom  town  of  ours. 

It  would  be  neither  fair  nor  conventional  to  disregard  our 
religion.  It  is  not  to  be  disregarded.  This  fact  has  been  settled 
by  religious  institutions,  which  are  providing  for  Sunday  services, 


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special  addresses,  Bible  classes,  personal  interviews.  Many  re- 
ligious organizations  have  been  quick  to  realize  that  this  grouping 
of  thousands  of  young  men  in  one  community  offers  an  unusual 
opportunity  to  get  at  us  and  perhaps  remedy  the  somewhat 
alarming  lack  of  religious  expression,  if  not  feeling,  in  the  younger 
generation. 

We  certainly  appreciate  the  sincerity  of  their  efforts,  and  they 
are  performing  such  generous  service  in  meeting  our  needs  in 
many  ways  not  actually  religious  that  it  is  difficult  to  criticize 
them.  I  do  so  while  in  hearty  sympathy  with  their  general  aims. 
I  think  there  are  two  common  criticisms  which  may  be  justly 
leveled  at  the  religious  agencies  in  camp.  First,  their  treatment 
of  religion  is  too  anaemic;  it  is  not  strong  enough  in  vigorous  ideas. 
The  old  theology  was  concerned  with  knotty  ideas,  to  be  sure. 
Those  terrific  preachers,  like  Calvin  and  Jonathan  Edwards,  used 
to  torment  people's  minds.  But  of  course  we  are  not  interested  in 
that  particular  sort  of  ideas.  The  old  formulations  of  dogma  and 
creed  do  not  seem  very  real  to  us.  Yet,  whether  we  care  to  admit 
it  or  not,  we  are  beginning  to  feel  the  need  of  new  expressions 
of  a  thoughtful  attitude  toward  life;  and  as  we  go  on  in  this  busi- 
ness of  battle  we  shall  be  wanting  some  help  in  thinking  out  our 
problems  of  purpose  and  destiny. 

But  we  get  few  solid  ideas  on  these  questions.  The  general  trend 
of  our  sermons  is  along  the  direction  of  prohibitive  exhortation. 
"Don't  do  wrong.  You  have  temptations;  you  must  stand  firm 
against  them  for  the  sake  of  your  own  futures,  those  who  care  for 
you,  your  country's  welfare,  because  of  God."  I  wish  our  preach- 
ers would  repeat  less  the  command  "Don't  sin"  and  lead  us  more 
in  considerations  of  what  things  it  is  right  to  do,  what  things  are 
courageous  and  honorable  and  just.  I  wish  they  would  concen- 
trate on  ideas,  not  the  predigested  ones  of  the  pulpits,  but  ideas 
in  the  making,  being  forged  since  a  new  social  order  came  into 
being,  born  of  the  war;  not  the  settled  formulations  that  bring 
serenity,  but  the  fierce  struggles  of  thought  whereby  men  to-day 
are  seeking  after  God  if  haply  they  may  find  him.  For  we  feel 
that  God  is  still  somewhat  behind  the  veil  through  which  we 
cannot  see;  he  is  not  within  our  grasp,  in  spite  of  Mr.  Wells; 
new  guesses  are  yet  to  be  made;  and  it  is  only  the  fool  who  hath 
said  in  his  heart  that  man  knows  the  will  of  God. 


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To  put  it  definitely,  we  are  not  concerned  with  apologetics.  We 
are  interested  in  the  applications  of  principles  of  living  to  action. 
We  do  not  want  so  much  to  feel  who  Jesus  was  as  to  feel,  think 
and  act  as  He  did.  This  means  we  want  to  grasp  reality  in  our 
religion. 

My  second  suggestion  is  this.  If  the  men  who  preach  and 
offer  advice  to  us  are  to  satisfy  us  that  they  are  in  touch  with 
religion  in  the  making  they  must  adopt  more  than  they  do  the 
very  Christian  virtue  of  humility.  They  will  need  a  new  technique. 
They  must  discard  the  iron-clad  certainty  of  the  old  theology  and 
the  somewhat  anaemic  compromise  of  the  present.  They  must 
stand  forth  as  men  attacking  the  problems  of  life,  rather  than  as 
solvers;  they  must  abandon  dogmatism.  We  shall  respect,  not 
distrust  them  for  this.  For  it  is  our  own  attitude.  How  can  one 
have  any  other  these  days?  Armies  swamped  by  circumstances 
they  cannot  control,  doing  things,  as  Henri  Barbusse  says,  in  the 
face  of  heaven  that  no  one  wants  to  do,  managed  by  diplomats 
who  have  been  caught  in  a  scheme  they  had  not  the  wit  to  manipu- 
late justly,  all  mankind  brutalizing,  killing,  destroying — who  cares 
to  be  complacent? 

The  clean,  hard  heroism  of  France;  the  consciousness  that  our 
country  has  claims  transcending  our  own;  the  love  of  liberty, 
worth  dying  for;  all  these  are  profoundly  humiliating  to  personal 
vanity.  In  more  ways  than  we  have  yet  realized  we  are  thinking 
of  ourselves  in  terms  of  institutions  and  qualities  bigger  than  we 
are.  I  should  say  that  in  this  way  we  are  beginning  to  get  ac- 
quainted with  God. 


I  was  talking  this  all  over  with  a  civilian  the  other  day.  He 
said:  "I  like  to  think  of  your  still  being  educated.  Heaven 
knows  you  need  it.  But  I  thought  we  were  training  you  up 
there  to  beat  Germany." 

Well,  that  is  precisely  the  reason  and  justification  for  this 
extra-military  school  of  the  soldier.  It  is  no  extravagance,  no 
exhibition  of  silly  sentiment  on  the  part  of  the  Government,  un- 
necessary and  unwise  at  this  time,  keeping  us  behindhand  in 
fulfilling  our  obligations  in  France.  No,  it  is  making  us  better 
fighters.     Only  the  narrowest  and  most  mechanical  imagination 


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would  keep  such  an  army  as  ours  everlastingly  drilling.  Stupid 
minds  and  frayed  nerves  would  be  the  result.  We  are  being 
given  enough  of  our  normal  environments  to  keep  us  cheerful  and 
alert,  capable  of  doing  the  military  with  enthusiasm  and  vigor. 
This  is  good  psychology;  the  War  Department  has  been  wise 
enough  to  act  upon  it.     So  shall  the  war  be  won. 

There  is  also  a  future  to  be  borne  in  mind,  aprh  la  guerre.  The 
war  will  end,  but  the  dead  past  will  not  utterly  bury  its  dead. 
We  shall  have  the  living  dead  of  shattered  nerves  and  wrecked 
bodies  among  us,  the  pitiful  residuum  of  war.  But,  thanks  to 
the  foresight  of  the  Government,  we  shall  also  have  better  sports- 
men, saner  minds,  deeper  sympathies,  than  before  the  war.  We 
are  being  educated  for  post-bellum  days.  For  the  music  we  have 
heard,  the  books  we  have  read,  the  homes  we  have  gone  into,  have 
been  woven  into  the  texture  of  our  spirits,  and  will  be  abiding 
influences  as  long  as  life  shall  last. 

As  I  remember  it,  Stevenson  somewhere  illumined  the  platitude 
that  "All  life  is  a  school"  with  examples  of  differential  calculus 
and  the  band  playing  in  the  park.  Both  take  up  chapters  in  the 
same  book  of  life.  I  think  this  remark  occurred  in  "An  Apology 
for  Idlers."  We  are  not  idlers  here  in  camp,  and  we  are  not 
looking  for  ready-made  apologies.  There  is  serious  work  to  be 
done,  and  we  are  about  it.  But  it  is  not  good  for  seriousness  to 
live  alone.  It  grows  stale  and  sours.  The  cultivation  of  humor 
and  a  healthy  amount  of  variety  are  part  of  the  school  curriculum 
even  of  military  life.  And  the  fact  that  we  have  had  so  liberal 
a  training  will  without  doubt  partly  account  for  the  fact  that, 
although  it's  a  long  way  to  Berlin,  we'll  get  there! 

Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens,  Mass. 
Field  Hospital  No.  304. 


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TO  LIBERTY 


WILLIAM    L.    CORBIN 


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HEN  you  were  a  child  you  romped  among  the  hills 
And  were  the  playmate  of  the  winds  and  clouds, 
You  danced  along  the  brooks,  and  the  wood-birds 
Carolled  their  gladness  to  your  waking  soul; 
Such  joy  was  yours — such  April-hearted  joy — 
As  only  baby  angels  feel  in  heaven. 
So  the  long  years  laughed  by  till  you  were  grown 
To  womanhood.     Then  on  a  quiet  dawn 
You  heard  below  in  a  near  valley  sounds 
Of  tumult  and  the  call  of  dying  men. 
And  straight  you  knew  and  left  your  hills  and  ran, 
And  as  you  ran  the  tumult  fell  away. 
Many  a  valley  since  has  called  to  you 
And  you  have  run  to  it  and  bared  your  sword. 
And  given  freely  of  your  life  as  each 
Has  lain  farther  and  farther  from  your  hills. 
Till  now  but  two  remain  of  all  the  valleys — 
Most  distant  and  most  dim — and  at  this  hour 
From  their  dark  depths  a  voice  ascends  to  you. 
Upborne  above  the  frenzied  carnival— 
A  voice  pleading  in  stricken  syllables — 
And  must  it  plead  in  vain,  or  will  you  run 
To  those  last  valleys  where  the  tyrant  reigns 
And  bare  your  sword  that  they  too  may  be  free? 
O  Spirit,  if  you  will,  when  you  return 
You  may  live  on  in  peace  among  your  hills 
And  the  whole  world  will  follow  with  its  heart. 


RuFUS  Pratt  Lixcolx,   M.  1). 

{From  painting  by  Edwin  B.  Child) 


RuFUs    Pratt    Lincoln  285 


RUFUS  PRATT  LINCOLN 

JOHN  M.  TYLER 

ALMOST  sixty  years  ago  the  members  of  the  class  of 
1862  bade  farewell  to  one  another  and  to  the  college 
in  this  room.  As  a  class  it  had  overflowed  with  fun  and 
jollity,  mirth  and  song,  comradeship  and  life.  I  have  the  privi- 
lege of  telling  you  a  little  about  one  of  its  members.  A  little 
above  medium  height,  of  slight  build,  with  dark  hair  and  eyes, 
his  face  gave  you  the  impression  of  feeling  and  sentiment,  of 
delicacy  and  somewhat  fastidious  refinement  rather  than  of 
rugged  strength. 

He  enlisted  immediately  as  second  lieutenant,  and  after  a  few 
months  became  captain.  His  regiment  was  commanded  by  Col. 
Edwards,  a  born  leader  of  men,  who  was  a  strict  disciplinarian. 
It  was  assigned  to  the  "bloody"  sixth  corps,  whose  symbol  was 
the  red  cross.     It  earned  its  title. 

A  little  more  than  two  years  later — disheartening  years  of  hard 
fighting,  heavy  losses,  successive  defeats  and  very  few  victories 
— the  Federal  Army  was  forcing  its  way  through  that  no-man's 
land  of  mutual  entanglements,  undergrown  forests  and  swamps, 
brier  and  brush,  scrub  and  thicket,  known  as  the  Wilderness. 
In  this  almost  impenetrable,  unknown  country,  whose  every  foot 
and  trail  was  well  known  to  the  enemy,  where  no  commander 
could  see  more  than  a  few  rods  in  front  of  him,  Lee  thoroughly 
intrenched  and  concealed  lurked  in  ambush,  waiting  to  spring 
upon  them.  Here  on  the  morning  of  May  6th  a  division  of  our 
army  was  advancing  successfully,  when  suddenly  in  the  woods 
fresh  enemy  brigades  fell  upon  its  flank  and  threatened  disaster. 
Captain  Lincoln's  regiment  was  one  of  three  ordered  to  charge 
full  in  the  face  of  these  brigades  and  delay  their  advance  until 
the  line  could  be  reformed.  The  regiment  attacked  so  fiercely 
that  they  actually  drove  back  the  astonished  enemy  more  than 
one-half  a  mile.  Then  the  Confederate,  discovering  the  thinness 
of  their  unsupported  line,  rallied,  pressed  forward  on  their  flanks 
and  began  to  surround  them.  They  fought  their  way  back  un- 
broken, firing  steadily,   until  they  regained  the  support  of  the 


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reformed  division.  The  enemy's  attack  had  been  stayed  and 
practically  stopped,  and  the  threatened  defeat  averted.  The 
general  in  command  said  to  their  colonel:  "You  have  made  a 
splendid  charge.  Your  regiment  alone  has  done  all  that  I  wished 
and  more  than  I  hoped."  But  in  this  charge  the  regiment  lost 
one-fourth  of  its  number  and  Captain  Lincoln  was  wounded. 
This  was  May  6th. 

On  May  12th,  after  a  week  of  marching  by  night  and  fighting 
by  day,  the  regiment  was  holding  one  side  of  the  so-called  "Bloody 
Angle"  near  Spottsylvania.  This  salient  in  the  Confederate  line 
of  intrenchments  had  just  been  captured  by  Federal  troops,  and 
Lee  determined  to  retake  it  at  all  costs.  He  hurled  wave  after 
wave  of  attack  against  the  intrenchment  but  his  troops  fell  back 
shattered.  One  southern  regiment  was  practically  annihilated 
and  its  colors  were  captured  just  before  the  redoubt.  There  was 
no  man  left  to  defend  them.  Says  General  Gordon  in  command 
of  the  Confederates  at  this  point:  "Firing  into  each  others'  faces 
beating  one  another  down  with  clubbed  muskets,  the  foremost 
ranks  fought  across  the  embankment's  crest,  almost  within  arm's 
reach,  the  men  behind  passing  up  to  them  freshly  loaded  rifles 
as  their  own  were  emptied.  The  bullets  seemed  to  fly  in  sheets. 
Standing  timber  fell  before  them.  The  coming  of  darkness  failed 
to  check  the  raging  battle.  It  only  served  to  increase  the  awful 
terror  of  the  scene." 

As  evening  fell  an  attempt  was  made  to  relieve  this  regiment. 
Fresh  troops  crept  forward  and  took  their  place,  and  they  with- 
drew a  couple  of  rods  into  the  second  line.  Suddenly  about 
9  p.  M.  these  troops  stampeded  to  the  rear — "skedaddled" — crying 
out  that  the  rebels  were  in  the  works.  The  colonel  instantly 
ordered  the  regiment  to  advance  with  the  bayonet.  In  the  dark- 
ness of  the  night  and  a  pouring  rain  they  swept  forward,  cleared 
the  works,  held  them  until  3  a.  m.  the  next  morning,  May  13th, 
when  the  enemy  withdrew. 

Now  only  one-half  of  their  number  remained  to  report  for  duty. 
Here  Captain  Lincoln  received  a  second  and  very  serious  wound, 
which  disabled  him  for  months  and  from  which  he  never  com- 
pletely recovered,  though  he  returned  and  shared  in  the  final 
advance  on  Richmond.  Several  times  he  received  honorable 
mention,  was  bre vetted  twice  for  bravery  in  the  field,  was  pro- 


RuFUS  Pratt  Lincoln         287 

moted  and  finally  left  the  service  as  colonel.     Such  was  his  first 
course  of  post-graduate  training. 

Colonel  Lincoln  left  the  army  to  join  the  ranks  of  young  physi- 
cians struggling  for  the  leading  place  in  their  profession.  His 
material  resources  were  very  slender,  and  he  had  few  influential 
friends.  Here  again  he  won  steady  but  at  first  slow  promotion. 
He  never  could  have  attained  eminence  without  the  unfailing  aid 
and  support  of  the  energy,  ability,  courage,  pluck,  endurance  and 
wisdom  of  his  noble  wife.  I  say  this  because  he  would  have 
commanded  it.  He  would  have  emphasized  this  fact  more  strongly 
than  I  can.  His  shrewdness  in  diagnosis  and  skill  in  operating 
won  him  recognition  and|favor;  and  he  was  sought  for  consulta- 
tion. Here  the  qualities  of  the  soldier  appeared.  Often  the 
surgeon  who  consulted  with  him  agreed  that  only  an  operation 
could  save  the  patient's  life,  but  said  that  the  chance  of  recovery 
was  so  slight  that  to  operate  would  be  useless  and  almost  criminal. 
Dr.  Lincoln  answered  quietly:  "If  our  only  chance  lies  in  an 
operation,  we  must  take  it.  If  you  will  not  operate,  I  will." 
And  he  calmly  performed  the  desperate  operation  on  a  dying 
man,  and  saved  the  life  of  more  than  one  sufferer.  Such  was  the 
man  who  had  charged  in  the  Wilderness  and  stood  at  the 
Bloody  Angle  obedient  to  orders. 

In  1900  he  developed  appendicitis  and  was  attended  by  the  best 
surgeons  in  the  city.  They  were  bafiled  by  abnormalities  in  the 
position  of  the  diseased  organs,  and  the  operation  was  a  failure. 
After  he  had  recovered  consciousness,  had  learned  the  truth,  and 
the  surgeon  had  left  the  room,  he  said  to  his  wife:  "I  am  not 
afraid  to  die,  but,  oh,  the  disgrace  of  it."  Death  he  had  often 
faced,  but  the  thought  of  the  defeat  or  dishonor  of  his  profession 
he  could  not  endure.     He  died  a  few  days  later. 

His  motto  was  that  of  the  Roman  pilot  in  the  storm:  "Nep- 
tune, you  can  save  me  if  you  will.  Neptune,  you  can  sink  me  if 
you  will.  But,  Neptune,  whether  you  save  me  or  sink  me,  I'll 
hold  my  rudder  true." 

During  his  lifetime  he  had^uggested  to  his  wife  a  very  generous 
gift  to  his  college.  Two;years^ago,  therefore,  Mrs.  Lincoln  endowed 
the  Rufus  T.  Lincoln^professorship  in  memory  of  their  only  son, 
who  had  died  some  years^before,  and  as  a  fitting  monument  to 
her  husband. 


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Mr.  President:  On  behalf  of  the  donors  I  have  the  honor  to 
present  to  you  this  portrait  of  Colonel  and  Doctor  Rufus  P. 
Lincoln:  soldier,  surgeon,  brave  and  courteous  gentleman,  a 
reverend  soul,  loyal  to  his  family  and  friends,  to  his  college  and 
country;  loyal  above  all  to  duty.  May  it  speak  eloquently  to 
generations  yet  unborn. 


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Fli.VNK    Al.\  AN     HoSMKH 


An  Episode  that    made  Frank  Hosmer  Illustrious  289 


AN   EPISODE  THAT   MADE   FRANK  HOSMER 
ILLUSTRIOUS 

E.    A.    THOMPSON 

fin  the  Class  Notes  for  1875  will  be  found  a  sketch  of  Frank  Hosraer's  life, 
with  brief  mention  of  his  residence  and  services  in  Honolulu;  but  one  episode 
which  it  was  impossible  to  get  from  Mr.  Hosmer  himself,  and  which  in  the  eyes 
of  Amherst  men  makes  him  illustrious  and  heroic,  was  learned  by  a  later  visitor 
to  the  Sandwich  Islands. — Ed.] 

THE  story  of  the  late  Frank  Hosmer's  experience  during 
the  epidemic  of  Bubonic  Plague  that  raged  in  the  city  of 
Honolulu  in  1893  or  1891,  as  told  by  W.  D.  Alexander, 
Surveyor  General  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  to  the  writer,  while 
on  the  Eclipse  Expedition  to  Japan  in  1896,  is  well  worth  repeating 
at  this  time.    I  will  give  it  as  nearly  as  possible  in  his  own  words. 

Closing  the  college  of  which  he  was  president,  and  bidding 
good-bye  to  his  wife,  he  left  his  home  and  offered  himself  to  the 
Chief  of  Police  for  any  service  in  the  work  of  checking  the  plague 
that  might  be  given  him.  From  that  time  on  until  the  scourge 
was  entirely  under  control  Mr.  Hosmer  threw  himself  into  the 
work  with  all  the  energy  he  possessed.  It  soon  developed  that 
he  was  the  prime  organizer  of  all  efforts  being  made,  people  of 
all  classes  and  conditions  depending  on  him  implicitly  for  every 
act  of  counsel,  authority  and  leadership.  At  the  same  time  he 
worked  hand  in  hand  with  the  doctors,  nurses,  and  even  with  those 
whose  duty  was  to  bury  the  dead  in  the  night,  taking  the  place 
of  nurses  who  were  stricken  and  caring  for  the  sufferers  wherever 
and  whoever  they  might  be.  One  incident  may  be  given  as 
typical  of  many.  To  one  family  several  of  whose  members  were 
stricken  and  some  dying  he  was  called  in  the  night.  Soon  after 
his  arrival  the  nurse  herself  was  stricken,  and  he  was  left  alone 
to  care  for  the  distracted  family.  Taking  the  nurse's  place  in  the 
sick  room  he  watched  through  the  night,  caring  gently  for  each 
invalid,  until  relief  could  be  obtained  well  on  into  the  next  day. 

A  native  official  of  standing,  I  think  the  Chief  of  Police,  a  man 
who  had  been  Mr.  Hosmer's  bitter  political  enem3%  and  would  a 


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some  of  the  trying  revolutionary  times  of  the  Islands  have  mur- 
dered him,  told  Mr.  Alexander  that  with  his  energy,  his  efficiency, 
and  cheer,  Mr.  Hosmer  did  more  toward  checking  the  plague 
than  any  other  man  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Alexander  himself,  a  very  distinguished  man  in  the  Ha- 
waiian Islands,  since  deceased,  could  hardly  find  words  suffi- 
ciently eulogistic  to  express  his  appreciation  of  the  services  ren- 
dered during  that  terrible  scourge  by  this  heroic  son  of  Amherst 
College.  We  have  perhaps  been  too  heedless  to  appreciate  this 
gentle,  self-effacing,  unobtrusive  neighbor  of  ours;  but  for  such 
services  as  these,  so  nobly  and  silently  done,  we  are  proud  to  hold 
him  illustrious. 


THE 

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Published  by  THE   ALUMNI   COUNCIL  OF  AMHERST  COLLEGE 

John  Franklin  Genung,  Editor 

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EDITORIAL  NOTES 

THE  pictures  on  the  cover  and  frontispiece  pages  respectively 
will  serve  to  show,  or  at  least  to  hint,  what  an  exceptional 
Commencement  and  College  year  it  is  in  part  the  duty  of 
this  number  of  the  Quarterly  to  commemorate.  The  procession 
shown  on  the  cover,  representing  the  whole  assemblage  of  trustees, 
recipients  of  honorary  degrees,  faculty,  and  alumni,  is  a  new 
feature  of  our  Commencement  season, — new,  that  is,  in  that  in- 
stead of  comprising  a  little  handful  of  recipients  of  degrees  with 
their  escorts  who  emerge  from  the  President's  house  and  gently 
slip  into  the  next  building  but  one,  the  more  comprehensive  com- 
pany starts  on  the  hill  where  Johnson  Chapel  is  and  make  tlieir 
way  in  large  enough  numbers  and  long  enough  route  to  give  such 
imposing  effect  as  the  ceremony  is  worth.  The  war  has  made  our 
company  relatively  small  this  year;  it  will  not  always  be  so. 
The  fact  that  some  of  our  Commencement  exercises  had  to  be 
curtailed  this  year  to  allow  our  company  of  Plattsburgers  to  go 
to  their  camp  will  perhaps  give  point  to  the  significance  of  our 
frontispiece  and  the  Amherst  faith  and  loyalty  which  it  connotes. 


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HENEVER  an  Amherst  man  reads  of  General  Peyton  C. 
March,  our  United  States  Army's  Chief  of  Staff,  let  him 
remember  with  pride  that  General  March  is  a  grandson 


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of  Amherst,  his  father  being  Prof.  Francis  A.  March,  Amherst 
'45,  whose  portrait  hangs  in  Johnson  Chapel  as  that  of  one  of  our 
most  distinguished  alumni  and  one  of  the  renowned  scholars  of 
the  world.  General  March's  alma  mater  was  Lafayette  College 
(A.  B.  '84),  where  his  father  was  a  professor;  but  Amherst  may 
claim  the  humbler  distinction  of  being  his  alma  avia,  with  the 
sincere  pride  and  honor  that  befits  the  relation. 


HITCHCOCK  FIELD,  the  place  where  we  made  so  good  a 
beginning  at  setting  the  whole  college  at  play, — what  of 
that  in  these  days  ?  Well,  the  boys  have  gone  in  large  num- 
bers to  sterner  fields  of  exercise,  and  the  land  where  two  years  ago 
were  tennis  courts  and  other  places  for  sport  is  now  laid  out  in  gar- 
den plots  where  members  of  the  Faculty  and  others  may  raise  vege- 
tables they  need  for  these  war  times.  Nothing  could  be  more  fit- 
ting and  patriotic  than  this.  So  to  their  liberal  learning  numbers 
of  the  professors  are  adding  practical  horticulture  and  the  sense  of 
bodily  fatigue-centers  which  tennis  and  golf  had  left  uninvaded. 
The  editor  inspected  those  comely  garden  plots  the  other  day, 
and  naturally  enough  found  more  weeds  and  fewer  hoe  marks  in 
some  than  in  others;  but  never  mind,  there's  odds  in  professors  as 
in  everybody  else. 


THE  following  is  quoted  from  a  letter  written  by  W.  G. 
SchaufHer,  Jr.,  an  aviator  in  France,  to  his  father,  Lieut. 
Col.  Wilham  G.  Schauffler,  '86: 
"I  flew  a  new  bus  up  from  Paris,  the  same  kind  I  did  before, 
and  had  a  fine  trip.  The  two  days  we  were  waiting  for  clear 
weather  in  Paris  we  had  a  taste  of  the  long  range  gun.  Isn't  it  a 
remarkable  thing?  One  noon  a  shell  struck  a  building  right  along- 
side of  me  and  killed  several  people,  but  as  a  whole  the  Parisians 
don't  seem  to  mind  it  now  just  as  long  as  it  doesn't  come  from 
the  aeroplane.     .     . 

"Coyle,  one  of  our  bunch,  saw  a  funny  thing  connected  with 
the  big  gun.  He  was  walking  along  a  street  when  one  of  the  shells 
hit  the  house  across  the  way,  but  from  the  rear.  He  heard  the 
explosion  and  was  looking  for  a  shower  of  bricks — or  rather  for 


Editorial    Notes  293 

a  place  to  dodge  the  shower — when  all  of  a  sudden  a  great  green 
parrot  came  screeching  out  of  a  blown-out  window  yelling,  'Oh 
my  God!  the  dirty  Huns!'  over  and  over  in  English.  Coyle  was 
so  surprised  he  could  hardly  move  for  a  second,  and  then  he 
rushed  in  to  see  who  the  English-speaking  people  were  who 
owned  the  parrot  with  the  choice  line  of  talk.  They  were  English, 
and  none  of  them  were  hurt  at  all,  so  everything  was  all  right. 
Nobody  in  the  building  was  killed,  but  several  were  cut  by  the 
falling  glass  and  plaster. 

"  I'd  like  to  own  that  parrot  and  hear  what  he  had  to  say  after 
a  few  nights  up  in  this  section  when  things  break  loose." 

OWING  to  the  publication  in  this  issue  of  the  complete 
Roster  of  Amherst  Men  in  service,  and  an  otherwise 
crowded  number,  it  has  been  found  necessary  to  omit  the 
individual  war  notes  and  news  of  men  at  the  front.  The  editors 
are  planning  to  publish  an  unusually  complete  and  interesting 
collection  of  notes  of  Amherst  men  in  service  in  the  November 
number. 

BY  reason  of  decreased  enrollment  because  of  the  war,  it 
is  quite  likely  that  Amherst  College  will  face  another 
operating  deficit  next  year.  The  alumni  everywhere  are 
called  upon  to  rally  to  the  support  of  their  Alma  Mater  in  this 
contingency  and  to  do  what  they  can  to  send  boys  to  Amherst. 
A  special  two-years  course  has  been  arranged,  as  described  by 
Professor  Newlin  in  the  last  issue  of  the  Quarterly,  for  students 
who  are  within  two  years  of  draft  age  and  who  could  not  therefore 
expect  to  complete  a  four-years'  course.  This  plan  offers  an  un- 
usual opportunity  for  such  men,  but  it  needs  advertising.  It  is 
up  to  the  alumni  to  see  to  it  that  prospective  students  everywhere 
learn  of  it.  Let  each  of  us  constitute  himself  a  publicity  committee 
of  one.  On  request,  Mr.  Allis  will  suggest  ways  and  means,  and 
will  send  a  copy  of  the  new  booklet,  "Amherst  in  War  Time." 
Let  us  serve  together. 


H 


ERE  is  a  question  for  debate.  How  much  attention  should 
a  college  of  liberal  arts  pay  to  the  so-called  fine  arts?  Is 
there  anything  wrong  with  a  college  that  has  produced 


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one  great  architect,  one  great  playwright,  and  a  mere  corporal's 
guard  of  artists,  musicians,  and  men  of  letters  scattered  through 
the  honorable  ranks  of  successful  business  men,  educators,  men  of 
affairs,  doctors,  lawyers,  and  clergymen?  To  be  specific,  should 
Amherst  College  do  more  to  foster  an  appreciation  of  beauty,  as 
well  as  of  science  and  learning,  as  a  part  of  the  higher  culture? 
We  have  heard  mild  criticisms  along  this  line.  If  any  Amherst 
alumnus  has  a  conviction  on  this  point,  let  his  voice  be  heard. 


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An    Immortal    Six  295 


AN  IMMORTAL  SIX 

WALTER  A.  DYER 

Up  to  the  time  of  going  to  press  the  records  show  that  six 
of  the  Amherst  men  who  have  engaged  in  national  war  service 
have  offered  up  the  supreme  sacrifice  for  their  country,  have 
faced  the  ultimate  Great  Adventure.  Some  of  them  died  in 
the  midst  of  the  actual  din  of  battle.  Later  casualty  lists  will 
undoubtedly  bring  us  other  names  to  sorrow  and  glory  over, 
but  these  six  stand  in  a  special  roll  of  honor  as  the  first  to  give 
their  lives  in  the  struggle  for  those  principles  which  are  part 
and  parcel  of  the  Amherst  tradition. 

The  first  of  these  was  Merrill  Stanton  Gaunt,  '14,  who  was 
a  member  of  the  Harvard  Ambulance  Unit  and  saw  service 
near  Verdun.     He  died  of  cerebro-spinal  meningitis  on  April  3, 

1916,  at  Bar-le-Duc,  France,  having  contracted  infection  from 
soldiers  wounded  by  shrapnel.  He  was  awarded  the  Croix  de 
Guerre  and  his  death  was  a  worthy  end  to  a  devoted  life. 

Frank  J.  McFarland,  '12,  was  the  first  to  die  in  the  uniform 
of  the  United  States  National  Army.  He  was  acting  Sergeant 
apprentice  of  Battery  A,  305th  Field  Artillery.  He  died  at  Camp 
Upton,  Long  Island,  on  October  29,  1917,  from  injuries  received 
in  a  railroad  crash  at  the  camp  the  previous  day. 

Birdseye  Blakeman  Lewis,  '10,  died  in  France  on  November  3, 

1917.  Full  particulars  of  his  death  were  never  received.  He 
held  the  rank  of  Major  on  General  Pershing's  staff  and  was  in 
the  aviation  section  of  the  U.  S.  Signal  Corps. 

Roger  C.  Perkins,  '17,  was  the  first  of  our  recent  graduates  to 
lose  his  life  in  the  service.  He  had  enlisted  in  the  aviation  branch 
and  was  engaged  in  training  at  Key  West,  Fla.,  when,  on  March 
14,  1918,  his  hydro-aeroplane  became  disabled  and  he  was  killed 
by  the  fall. 

Charles  W.  Chapman,  '18,  was  the  first  Amherst  undergraduate 
soldier  to  meet  his  death.  He  was  a  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
aviation  section  in  France  and  was  killed  in  a  spectacular  air 


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battle  northwest  of  Toul  on  May  3,  1918,  after  bringing  down  his 
German  adversary. 

Harry  A.  Bullock,  '99,  was  the  oldest  and  best  known  of  the 
honored  six.  He  was  Assistant  Quartermaster  in  the  First  Di- 
vision, A.  E.  F.,  with  the  rank  of  Captain,  and  was  killed  by  an 
aerial  bomb  near  Cantigny,  France,  on  May  30th. 

This  brief  summary  is  perhaps  sufficient  for  purposes  of  record 
and  editorial  comment  seems  somehow  futile  and  out  of  place. 
The  facts  speak  for  themselves.  These  loyal  Amherst  men  have 
given  their  lives  for  all  the  rest  of  us  and  our  feeling  is  one  of 
reverent  grief  lighted  up  by  a  certain  lofty  and  triumphant  pride, 
tempered,  it  may  be,  with  honest  humility.  These  six  have  not 
died  in  vain.  Let  their  names  be  emblazoned  forever  on  the 
hearts  of  Amherst  men. 

Footnote. — Fuller  particulars  regarding  the  deaths  of  these  men  may  be 
found  in  this  and  previous  issues  of  the  Quarterly  as  follows:  Gaunt,  on  page  296, 
August,  1916,  and  subsequent  issues;  McFarland  in  February,  1918,  page  157; 
Lewis  in  February,  1918,  page  155;  Perkins  in  May,  1918,  on  pages  187  and  232; 
Chapman  and  Bullock  in  the  present  issue  among  the  class  notes  of  '18  and  '99. 

Hale,  '06,  has  been  reported  killed,  but  later  advices  report  him  alive  and  unhurt. 
An  account  of  his  achievements  appeared  in  February,  1918,  on  page  87. 


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THE  COLLEGE  YEAR 

R.    P.    UTTER 

A  SUMMARY  of  the  year  at  the  College  is  necessarily  a 
brief  account  of  the  effect  of  the  war  on  us  and  our  activi- 
ties. The  call  to  service  has  taken  from  the  Faculty 
Professor  Nelligan,  who  has  been  in  charge  of  all  athletics  at  Camp 
Devens,  lately  with  the  rank  of  Captain.  Professor  Toll,  with 
the  rank  of  Captain,  is  attached  to  the  Surgeon  General's  Office, 
and  is  working  as  psychological  examiner  at  various  cantonments. 
Professor  Arthur  U.  Pope,  who  for  a  time  was  helping  the  Depart- 
ment of  Philosophy,  was  called  away  for  work  in  the  intelligence 
propaganda.  Professor  C.  W.  Cobb  left  the  Department  of 
Mathematics,  and  is  in  Washington,  with  the  rank  of  Captain, 
working  on  the  courses  of  instruction  for  the  schools  of  aviation. 
Professor  H.  C.  Lancaster  is  in  France  engaged  in  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work  with  the  French  army.  Professor  R.  G.  Gettell  is  in  Wash- 
ington at  work  on  some  of  the  problems  of  the  Shipping  Board. 
Mr.  Leland  Olds  is  also  working  for  the  Shipping  Board,  specifi- 
cally on  labor  problems.  Professor  Stewart  was  in  Washington 
for  part  of  the  winter  helping  to  work  out  the  policy  of  the  Third 
Liberty  Loan.  Professor  A.  W.  Marsh,  of  the  Department  of 
Physical  Education,  was  drafted  into  the  army.  He  held  the 
rank  of  First  Lieutenant  in  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  before  he  left.  Pro- 
fessors Eastman  and  Parker  took  up  again  this  spring  their  work 
with  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  as  Major  and  Captain,  respectively.  Professor 
Eastman  is  at  Plattsburg  this  summer  taking  further  training. 

Other  members  of  the  Faculty  are  doing  their  part  of  the  work 
while  still  in  Amherst.  Professor  Manthey-Zorn  is  working  to 
counteract  German  propaganda  among  Germans  in  the  United 
States.  Professor  Doughty  has  been  at  work  all  winter  in  the 
laboratory  on  chemical  problems  for  the  Government.  Professors 
Eastman  and  Bigelow  have  been  reading  German  periodicals  for 
purposes  of  Government  supervision. 

The  courses  in  military  science  have  been  organized  into  a  regu- 


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lar  unit  of  the  R.  O.  T.  C,  at  first  under  the  command  of  Lieut. 
G.  W.  B.  Kinnear  of  the  Canadian  Expeditionary  Force;  later, 
when  he  was  recalled,  under  Col.  R.  H.  Wilson,  U.  S.  A.,  retired, 
assisted  by  Major  F.  C.  Damon,  M.  V.  M.,  members  of  the  Corps 
receive  college  credit  for  the  work.  A  machine-gun  course  on  the 
same  basis  of  Government  recognition  as  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  has 
been  in  charge  of  J.  K.  Eilert,  '18,  a  Major  in  the  R,  O.  T.  C, 
who  studied  machine  guns  at  the  Springfield  Armory.  The  class 
has  had  a  Colt  automatic  and  a  heavy  Browning  gun  for  instruc- 
tion. The  Corps  sent  twenty  men  in  May  to  the  fourth  Ofiicers' 
Training  Camp  at  Devens,  and  somewhat  more  than  a  hundred 
members  were  recommended  for  the  Plattsburg  camp  in  June. 

Aside  from  the  R.  O.  T.  C,  the  most  important  change  in  the 
curriculum  is  a  special  two-year  course  of  study  for  students 
within  two  years  of  draft  age,  merely  as  a  war  measure,  not  as  a 
permanent  return  to  the  old  system  of  "special  students."  Except 
for  the  requirements  of  English  and  mathematics,  such  students 
are  allowed  free  election  of  courses,  and  may  transfer  to  the  regular 
arts  course  by  completing  its  requirements. 

Special  war  courses  are  offered  by  various  departments:  one  in 
astronomy  and  navigation  for  naval  men,  and  one  in  topographical 
drawing  and  military  map-making,  by  the  Department  of  Mathe- 
matics; one  in  radio-telegraphy  by  the  Department  of  Physics; 
individual  study  and  research  as  preparation  for  Government 
work,  by  the  Department  of  Chemistry;  research  work  in  biology 
with  reference  to  medical  and  sanitary  work,  by  the  Department 
of  Biology. 

Amherst  has  had  this  year  but  317  students  as  against  a  normal 
five  hundred.  One  hundred  and  eighty-three  men  who  would 
normally  be  in  college  are  in  the  army  or  navy,  and  seven  in  other 
war  work.  The  Senior  Class  had  no  more  than  forty  members 
last  fall;  of  these  only  twenty-seven  were  present  to  receive  their 
diplomas  in  June.  All  the  classes  have  lost  members,  not  only  in 
the  groups  that  have  gone  to  the  training  camps,  but  to  Army 
and  Navy  aviation,  tank  service,  medical  corps,  and  other  branches 
throughout  the  year. 

Naturally  this  state  of  affairs  has  had  its  effect  on  athletics,  in 
the  decreased  interest,  shifting  personnel  of  teams,  and  restriction 
of  schedules.    The  football  season,  however,  was  fairly  successful 


The    College    Year  299 

except  for  the  Williams'  game.  Basketball  was  a  failure, — the 
team  won  only  one  game.  There  were  few  swimming  meets,  but 
in  these  the  team  made  a  fair  showing,  as  did  the  track  team  under 
the  coaching  of  "Don"  Young.  In  tennis,  the  two  matches 
played  were  less  important  in  results  than  was  the  individual 
work  of  the  captain,  E.  H.  Hendrickson,  who  won  in  the  course  of 
the  season  both  the  National  Junior  Indoor  Championship  and 
the  New  England  Intercollegiate  Championship. 

Many  of  the  customary  activities  and  festivities  were  cancelled 
outright,  such  as  Glee  Club  concerts,  class  smokers,  Sabrina 
Banquet,  Senior  Hop  and  Junior  Prom.  The  Christian  Associa- 
tion, though  obliged  to  close  its  rooms  to  save  coal,  has  been  active 
in  prison  camp  work,  supplying  reading  matter,  etc.,  to  men  in 
service,  and  entertainment  at  Devens,  in  addition  to  such  of  its 
usual  work  as  it  could  carry  on. 

In  general,  the  undergraduates  have  steadied  to  their  college 
work  better  this  year  than  last.  Scholarship  statistics  so  far  as 
they  have  been  compiled  are  much  more  nearly  normal  than  were 
those  of  last  year. 


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THE  COMMENCEMENT  SEASON 

A  SMALL  and  quiet  commencement  season  was  expected 
and  had  this  year;  for  many  of  the  more  recent  classes 
had  resolved  not  to  hold  formal  reunions,  and  it  was 
known  that  less  than  half  of  the  graduating  class  would  be 
present  to  receive  their  degrees  in  person.  What  the  effect  of  this 
would  be  upon  the  spirit  and  mood  of  the  occasion  was  a  matter 
of  uncertainty,  not  to  say  of  dread.  It  turned  out  to  be  one  of  our 
most  notable  and  satisfying  commencements,  especially  as  a  re- 
union season  where  the  older  alumni,  their  wives  with  them  and 
having  many  of  their  sons  in  the  army  or  navy,  could  live  their 
college  days  over  again  and  compare  reminiscences  of  their  expe- 
riences since.  It  was  quite  distinctively  a  commencement  season 
of  the  elderly  alumni,  to  whom  life  has  already  brought  rich 
returns  of  spiritual  and  material  welfare.  Serious  too — as  must 
needs  be  in  such  a  time  as  this — but  it  was  the  wholesome  seri- 
ousness of  steadfastness  and  resolve  and  hope. 

We  need  only  give  here,  in  bulletin  fashion,  some  leading 
features  of  the  commencement  season  as  they  were  reported  in 
the  public  prints. 

The  Baccalaureate  Service. — The  preliminary  jubilations 
incident  to  Saturday  evening  were  wholly  dispensed  with,  almost 
the  first  sign  that  alumni  were  present  at  all  being  their  appear- 
ance in  reassuring  numbers  at  the  baccalaureate  service  in  College 
Church.  The  baccalaureate  sermon  was  given  by  Professor  Albert 
Parker  Fitch,  who  took  as  his  text  John  xix,  12:  "If  thou  let  this 
man  go,  thou  art  no  friend  of  Cajsar."  The  conflict  of  ideas  in- 
duced by  the  war,  and  the  contrast  of  Christian  idealism  to  Cse- 
sarism  were  dwelt  upon  in  an  inspiring  address.  We  give  the 
final  paragraphs,  the  address  to  the  class: 

"Fellow  classmates,  I  turn  to  you,  young  men,  who  still  have 
honor  in  your  eyes.  For  better  or  for  worse  the  field  of  reflection 
will  not  be  yours  for  some  years  to  come.  A  stern  and  desperate 
fate  calls  you  into  immediate  and  most  strenuous  activity.    But 


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in  that  moral  world  of  conduct  what  shall  we  do,  who  would  help 
our  idea,  the  Christ-idea  against  Caesar  and  his  paganism?  When- 
ever we  shall  assert,  and  act,  that  every  human  life  comes  out  from 
God  and  that  to  exploit  and  dishonor  it  is  to  exploit  and  dishonor 
Him  there  we  live  as  young  idealists.  Whenever  we  assert  that 
the  revealer  of  the  eternal  is  a  human  spirit  and  that  therefore 
men  may  not  be  used  for  hot  and  frivolous  and  cruel  and  heart- 
less things,  there  we  stand  up  to  the  faitli  of  our  college  and  no 
less  to  the  faith  of  our  Lord.  The  call  of  the  hour  to  the  free  thinker 
is  to  insist  on  the  inalienable  rights  and  the  supreme  values  of  the 
individual  and  to  work  out  without  blenching  all  the  implications 
for  church,  society  and  state,  which  that  carries.  It  is  not  difficult 
to  prove  our  thesis  for  where  did  the  world's  ideals  come  from? 
They  arose  in  awe  and  tears  out  of  a  human  soul. 

"Ever^^  time  we  put  pleasure  before  principle;  desire  before 
character;  conquest  before  justice;  the  things  of  this  world  before 
the  rights  of  the  men  who  inhabit  it,  there  we  range  ourselves  with 
the  idea  which  wars  on  Christ,  with  the  paganism  which  is  now 
drenching  the  continents  in  sorrow.  Wherever  we  revere  ourselves 
and  our  fellow-men  as  expressions  of  the  eternal;  wherever  we 
exalt  the  sanctity  of  personality  and  acknowledge  the  holy  mystery 
of  every  human  life;  wherever  we  put  the  good  of  the  many  over 
against  the  domination  of  a  few,  whenever  we  say  we  will  not  own 
what  we  cannot  share,  we  confess  the  idea  which  lies  behind  all 
free  education,  all  democratic  states,  all  just  industry,  every 
actually  Christian  institution.  And  nothing  is  needed  to  lay 
Caesar  low  except  to  leave  Christ  free." 

The  Afternoon  Concert.— The  annual  commencement  concert 
was  given  in  College  hall  in  the  afternoon  of  Sunday,  under  the 
direction  of  Prof.  William  Pingry  Bigelow,  '89,  and  was  enjoyed 
by  a  large  audience.  The  program  consisted  of  Beethoven's  Sym- 
phony No.  1,  played  by  the  College  Orchestra  with  the  aid  of 
men  from  the  Boston  Symphony,  and  the  St.  Cecilia  mass  of 
Gounod,  sung  by  a  chorus  made  up  of  College  and  town  singers. 
The  soloists  were  Miss  Anna  M.  Wollman,  soprano;  E.  E.  Hosmer, 
tenor;  W.  B.  March,  bass;  Miss  Bessie  McGuinness  and  Miss 
Laura  Kidder,  pianists. 

The  Reunions. — Accounts  of  these  will  be  found  in  the  latter 


302       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 

part  of  this  number.  All  of  these,  so  far  as  known,  were  homelike 
and  domestic,  the  wives  attending  and  dining  with  the  husbands, 
and  many  acquaintanceships  made  and  renewed.  It  was  the  for- 
tune of  the  present  writer  to  attend  the  supper  of  the  fifteen-year 
class,  which,  not  having  arranged  for  a  formal  reunion,  yet  mus- 
tered sixteen  members  and  wives  all  told,  and  he  has  seldom  had 
a  more  enjoyable  time.  These  reunions  will  long  be  remembered 
as  the  especially  valued  feature  of  the  Commencement  week. 

Commencement  Day  Service. — Instead  of  the  hitherto  cus- 
tomary commencement  speeches  by  graduates  a  short  address  to 
the  graduating  class  was  given  by  President  Meiklejohn.  He 
said  to  them,  in  part: 

"When  we  present  these  degrees  as  bachelor  of  arts,  what  does 
it  all  mean?  It  means  that  these  men  before  me  are  being  re- 
ceived into  a  fellowship,  a  comradeship  into  which  they  enter  and 
into  which  we  are  glad  to  receive  them.  First,  there  is  the  fellow- 
ship of  the  college  itself — the  comradeship  of  those  who  love 
these  hills,  these  trees,  the  new  fraternity  houses,  Johnson  Chapel, 
this  old  College  hall,  the  new  library.  These  men  enter  into  the 
heritage  of  those  who  love  this  place  and  who  enter  into  its  per- 
sonality. 

"Then  there  is  the  comradeship  of  joyous  youth — the  comrade- 
ship of  quip  and  jest,  of  thrust  and  parry.  Close  to  this  is  the 
comradeship  of  scholarship — an  acquaintance  with  the  world  of 
Plato,  Dante,  and  Shakespeare.  This  fellowship  is  alive  in  every 
corner  of  the  civilized  world — in  every  laboratory,  every  study, 
every  corner  of  the  earth.  It  is  the  fellowship  of  those  who  seek 
to  know,  to  understand. 

"We  are  seeking  to  find  the  way  of  truth.  But  this  way  is  lost, 
overcome  by  a  mad,  strange  hurricane  of  force.  It  runs  amuck, 
and  scholars  are  the  ones  who  must  find  it  again.  We  stand  for 
seeking  the  way  of  human  life.  You  are  our  fellows  in  the  com- 
radeship of  truth." 

Degrees  were  awarded  to  sixty-five  students  out  of  a  class  of 
one  hundred  and  three  members,  but  many  of  the  sixty -five  were 
not  present  to  receive  the  honors,  being  in  military  or  naval 
service  of  the  United  States.  Twenty -five  of  the  sixty-five 
received  their  degrees  honoris  causa  for  three  years  of  work  and 


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eleven  others  who  had  finished  the  four-years'  course  received 
them  in  absentia  as  they  were  unable  to  attend  commencement, 
all  these  men  now  being  in  khaki  or  blue. 

The  degree  of  bachelor  of  arts  honoris  causa  was  conferred  on 
all  those  men  who  completed  three  years  of  work  and  who  are 
now  in  the  service  of  the  United  States  or  her  allies.  Among  these 
was  Charles  Wesley  Chapman,  Jr.,  of  Waterloo,  la.,  who  was 
killed  in  an  aviation  fight  over  the  German  lines  about  a  month 
before  and  was  the  first  member  of  the  class  of  1918  to  die  in  the 
war.  Four  of  the  "honorary  bachelors"  were  present  to  receive 
their  unique  diplomas. 

The  following  honorary  degrees  were  conferred,  the  formulas  of 
award  being  pronounced  by  Professor  Williston  Walker,  '83,  of 
Yale  University: 

LL.D.  William  Allan  Neilson,  President  of  Smith  College. 
President  Neilson  is  one  of  the  leading  English  scholars  in  this 
country  and  his  work  as  investigator  in  the  period  of  Mediaeval 
and  Elizabethan  literature,  as  editor  and  as  a  leading  member  of 
many  learned  societies,  has  given  him  an  international  reputation. 
President  Neilson  has  held  professorships  in  English  at  Bryn 
Mawr,  Columbia,  Harvard  and  Radcliffe.  He  has  lectured  at  the 
University  of  California  and  at  the  Sorbonne  as  exchange  professor. 
At  the  close  of  his  courses  there  he  received  the  medal  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Paris  in  recognition  of  his  services  to  the  University  in 
wartime.  As  editor,  his  activities  in  English  scholarship  have 
covered  a  wide  field.  He  has  been  president  of  the  New  England 
Association  of  teachers  of  English,  Vice-president  of  the  American 
Folklore  Society  and  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  of 
America  and  is  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences. 

LL.D.  General  Sir  James  Willcocks,  soldier  and  governor 
of  Bermuda  since  1917.  His  distinguished  services  to  the  British 
government  in  Egypt,  the  Soudan,  Burmah,  South  Africa  and 
India  have  been  many  times  recognized.  In  1900  he  received  the 
freedom  of  the  city  of  London  and  a  sword  of  honor  and  was 
mentioned  in  the  King's  speech  at  the  opening  of  the  first  Parlia- 
ment. He  served  in  the  European  war  in  1914  and  1915,  and  was 
twice  mentioned  in  dispatches. 


304       Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 

LL.D.  Frank  Dickinson  Blodgett,  President  of  Adelphi 
College  and  a  graduate  of  Amherst  College  in  the  Class  of  1893. 
President  Blodgett  was  a  professor  of  Greek  and  Latin  and  later 
of  Logic  and  Pedagogics  in  the  State  Normal  School,  Oneonta, 
New  York,  for  twenty  years.  In  1912  and  1913  he  was  Mayor  of 
Oneonta  and  since  1915  has  been  President  of  Adelphi  College, 
Chairman  of  the  Educational  Committee  of  the  Central  Branch 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Brooklyn,  and  President  of  the  Amherst 
Alumni  Association  of  Brooklyn. 

D.D.  Rev.  James  Dexter  Taylor,  Missionary  of  the  Ameri- 
can Board  of  Commissioners  of  Foreign  Missions,  a  graduate  of 
Amherst  College  in  the  Class  of  1896.  Dr.  Taylor  is  now  in  this 
country  completing  a  revision  which  is  practically  a  new  transla- 
tion of  the  Zulu  Bible.  Thirty-one  years  ago  the  first  edition  of 
the  complete  Zulu  Bible  reached  Natal.  The  translation  was  the 
work  of  twenty  individuals  and  imperfect  as  it  was,  this  version 
has  had  an  immense  influence  on  Zulu  life.  For  fifteen  years  the 
Natal  Missionary  Conference  had  in  hand  the  task  of  a  thorough 
revision  which  was  finally  committed  to  one  member  of  the 
American  Mission,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Taylor,  with  the  best  native 
assistant  obtainable.  The  present  work  which  will  have  taken 
nearly  five  years  by  the  time  it  is  completed,  is  a  revision  of 
manuscripts  already  prepared  by  a  previous  reviser,  rendering  it 
practically  a  double  revision  of  two  existing  texts. 

D.D.  Rev.  Ferdinand  Quincy  Blanchard,  Congregational 
minister,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  College  in  the  Class  of  1898, 
Mr.  Blanchard  has  had  parishes  in  Southington,  Conn.,  in  East 
Orange,  N.  J.,  and  is  at  present  pastor  of  the  Euclid  Avenue  Con- 
gregational Church,  Cleveland.  He  was  a  member  of  the  School 
Board  at  Southington  and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
at  East  Orange  and  for  two  years  was  President  of  the  Board. 
His  present  parish  is  one  of  the  strongest  in  northern  Ohio.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  American  Missionary 
Association  and  its  secretary.  He  is  the  author  of  an  edition  of 
Treasure  Island,  of  several  hymns  and  a  published  volume  of 
sermons. 

M.A.  Walter  Taylor  Field,  author,  member  of  the  editorial 
staff   of  Ginn  &  Company,  Chicago,  and  a  graduate  of  Amherst 


The    Commencement    Season  305 

College  in  the  Class  of  1883.  After  graduation  Mr.  Field  engaged 
in  newspaper  work  in  Chicago  and  then  studied  and  travelled  in 
Italy.  He  is  the  author  of  a  series  of  literary  readers  for  schools 
which  have  shown  critical  ability  coupled  with  an  unusual  literary 
style. 

M.A.  Charles  Beebe  Raymond,  manufacturer,  administrator 
of  many  public  trusts.  Mr.  Raymond  is  second  Vice-president  of 
the  B.  F.  Goodrich  Co.  of  Akron,  Ohio,  Director  of  the  First-Second 
National  Bank  of  Akron,  a  Vice-president  of  the  Amherst  Alumni 
Council,  a  Trustee  of  Kenyon  College,  and  has  been  actively  con- 
nected with  many  of  the  public  institutions  of  his  home,  Akron, 
Ohio.  He  is  Senior  Warden  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  City  Hospital,  Trustee 
of  the  Mary  Day  Nursery  and  Children's  Hospital,  President  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, a  member  of  the  Akron  War  Council,  and  for  two  years  active 
President  of  the  American  Red  Cross,  Summit  County  Chapter. 
For  two  years  he  was  President  of  the  Akron  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  for  the  past  six  years  he  has  been  Chairman  of  the 
Water  Committee,  having  in  charge  the  building  of  the  new  five 
million  dollar  municipal  water  plant. 

Following  the  conferring  of  the  honorary  degrees  a  portrait  of 
Dr.  Rufus  Pratt  Lincoln,  '62,  painted  by  Edwin  B.  Child,  '90, 
was  presented  to  the  college.  The  presentation  address,  which 
will  be  found  on  another  page,  was  given  by  Professor  Emeritus 
John  M.  Tyler. 

The  Dinner — At  the  Commencement  dinner  following  the 
exercises  President  Rush  Rhees,  '83,  of  Rochester  University 
acted  as  toastmaster,  and  informal  addresses  were  made  by 
him,  President  Meiklejohn,  General  Sir  James  Willcocks,  Gov- 
ernor of  Bermuda,  President  Neilson  of  Smith  College,  and 
others. 

President  Meiklejohn  announced  that  within  the  past  year  and 
a  half  the  endowment  funds  of  the  college  had  been  increased  by 
$675,000.  This  includes  class  gifts  to  the  alumni  fund  this  com- 
mencement amounting  to  $21,000  contributed  by  the  following 
classes:  1868,  $200;  1877,  $300;  1882,  $1500;  1890,  $2000;  1892, 
$3000;  1893,  $13,000;  1898,  $330;  1903,  $400. 


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In  addition  to  this,  $15,000  has  been  contributed  by  alumni 
toward  the  operating  deficit  of  the  college  for  the  current  year 
which  will  amount  to  approximately  $20,000.  The  alumni  fund 
at  this  commencement  passed  the  $100,000  mark  at  which  time 
the  income  of  the  fund  goes  to  the  college  for  general  college 
purposes.  During  the  past  five  years  there  has  been  appropriated 
from  the  fund  for  instruction  in  the  college  $22,000. 

It  was  announced  that  the  reunion  trophy  cup  was  awarded  to 
the  Class  of  1868,  the  50-year  class,  with  a  percentage  of  46. 


The    Alumni    Council 


307 


£Dfiinal  anti  i^erjsonal 


THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 


For  the  past  three  months  the  Coun- 
cil has  concerned  itself  chiefly  in  an 
attempt  to  aid  the  College  to  meet  its 
current  obligations,  and  to  show  in  a 
concrete  way  how  Amherst  is  meeting 
war  conditions. 

During  the  winter  the  serious  finan- 
cial situation  confronting  Amherst  in 
common  with  other  American  colleges, 
because  of  the  war,  was  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  Finance  Committee  of 
the  Alumni  Council,  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  and  the  alumni  of  the  College 
were  appealed  to  by  the  committee  for 
aid.  As  a  result  it  was  announced  at 
Commencement  that  $15,655.60  had 
been  contributed  by  four  hundred  and 
thirty-four  alumni  toward  the  operating 
expenses  of  the  College  for  the  current 
year.  The  operating  deficit  for  the  year 
has  been  estimated  at  $20,000,  the  loss 
in  tuition  for  the  current  year  being  ap- 
proximately this  amount. 

The  class  gifts  to  the  Alumni  Fund  at 
Commencement  brought  the  Fund  over 
the  $100,000  mark,  at  which  time  the 
income  of  the  P^und  goes  to  the  College 
for  general  college  purposes.  During 
the  past  five  years  there  has  been  appro- 
priated from  the  Fund  for  Instruction 
$22,230.00  and  for  the  Publicity  work 
of  the  Council  $934.30.  The  class  gifts 
to  the  Alumni  Fund  at  Commencement 
were  as  follows: 

1868  $    250.00  1892  $  3,000.00 

1877  314.10  1893  13,000.00 

1882  1,588.00  1898  331.78 

1890  2,000.00  1903  400.00 


These  gifts  amounting  to  $20,883.88 
were  the  means  of  bringing  twice  that 
amount  to  the  College  as  an  alumnus 
had  offered  to  give  to  the  Endowment 
Funds  of  the  College  an  amount  equal 
to  the  class  gifts  to  the  Alumni  Fund 
this  Commencement. 

To  show  to  alumni  and  to  prospective 
students  and  their  parents  how  Amherst 
has  been  meeting  war  conditions,  the 
Council  has  published  through  its  Pub- 
licity Committee  an  illustrated  booklet 
"Amherst  in  the  War".  Prof.  George 
F.  Whicher  edited  the  booklet  which 
was  printed  under  the  supervision  of  the 
Tracy-Parry  Company  of  Philadelphia 
(William  B.  Tracy,  '08,  Edwin  S.  Parry, 
'01,  Robert  C.  Powell,  '06).  Photo- 
graphs, taken  by  Gordon  of  Holyoke, 
have  been  reproduced  to  some  extent 
by  the  public  press,  a  remarkable  full 
page  photograph  of  Johnson  Chapel  ap- 
pearing in  the  issue  of  June  16th  of  the 
New  York  Tribune.  Several  thousand 
copies  of  this  booklet  have  been  dis- 
tributed among  prospective  students 
and  alumni  who  have  shown  special  in- 
terest in  the  College.  Copies  may  be 
obtained  on  application  to  Frederick  S. 
AUis,  Secretary,  Amherst,  Mass. 

Amherst  men  continue  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  privileges  of  the  Ameri- 
can University  Union  and  the  New 
England  Bureau  in  Paris.  The  follow- 
ing men  have  registered  either  at  the 
Union  or  the  Bureau  since  the  last  issue 
of  the  Qu.\rterly: 

Henry  S.   Loomis,  '13,   Air  Service 


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Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


William  T.  Loomis,  '17,  1st  Lieut.  A.  S. 
S.  C;  Charles  W.  Chapman,  '18,  2d 
Lieut.  Aviation;  Herbert  L.  Pratt,  '95, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.;  John  R.  Cotton,  '19,  Es- 
cadrille;  Raymond  Ingersoll,  '97,  Y.  M. 
C.  A.;  James  A.  Sprenger,  '08,  Y.  M. 
C.  A.;  J.  Gerald  Cole,  '15,  1st  Lieut. 
56th  Artillery;  Frank  R.  Otte,  '16,  2d 
Lieut.  32d  Inf.;  Henry  I.  Fillman,  '17, 
2d  Lieut.  F.  A.;  Horatio  E.  Smith,  'OS, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.;  Louis  G.  Caldwell,  '13; 
George  B.  Parks,  '11,  A.  E.  F.;  Henry 
Knauth,  '18,  2d  Lieut.  A.  E.  F.;  Fred- 
eric A.  Washburn,  '92,  Major  M.  O.  R. 
C;  Lawrence  C.  Ames,  '19,  Cadet, 
Aviation;  Hugh  L.  Hamilton,  '20,  U. 
S.  A.  A.  S.;  Richard  H.  Bacon,  '15,  2d 
Lieut.  F.  A.;  Sigourney  Thayer,  '18, 
1st  Lieut.  Aviation;  Henry  S.  Kingman, 
'15,  S.  S.  U.  539;  William  G.  Rogers, 
'18,  S.  S.  U.  539;  John  B.  Warner,  '10, 
1st  Lieut.  16th  Inf.;  Frank  G.  Finch, 
'14,  Inf.  5th  Machine  Gun  Battalion. 


Through  the  courtesy  of  Harold  I. 
Pratt,  '00,  the  third  installment  of  Ser- 
vice Records  of  Amherst  men  in  the 
Army  and  Na\y  were  taken  to  Paris 
in  June.  There  is  now,  therefore,  at  the 
New  England  Bureau  at  the  L^niversity 
Union  a  duplicate  set  of  the  cards  of  the 
War  Records  Committee,  so  that  Am- 
herst men  in  Paris  on  visiting  the 
Bureau  can  find  some  details  at  least 
about  the  eight  hundred  Amherst  men 
in  the  Army  and  Navy. 

Prof.  J.  Vi.  Cimliffe,  of  Columbia 
University,  has  been  appointed  director 
of  the  London  branch  of  the  University 
Union  with  headquarters  in  the  Farm- 
ers' Loan  and  Trust  Company  Building, 
16  Pall  Mall  East.  Excellent  hotel  ar- 
rangements have  been  made  with  the 
St.  James's  Palace  Hotel  on  Bury  Street 
near  Jermyn  Street  and  Piccadilly  Cir- 
cus. It  is  expected  that  a  branch  of  the 
Union  at  Rome  will  be  established  soon. 


THE  ASSOCIATIONS 


Boston. — The  Amherst  men  of  Bos- 
ton and  vicinity  held  an  informal  re- 
imion  at  the  Boston  City  Club  on 
Monday  evening.  May  13th.  This 
gathering  was  in  the  nature  of  an  in- 
formal dinner  and  no  great  effort  was 
made  to  get  the  men  out,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  Amherst  was  the  leader  in 
starting  the  "All  College  Rally."  How- 
ever, the  affair  was  a  success  from  all 
points  of  view;  over  one  hundred  were 
present,  and  the  speeches  aroused  much 
enthusiasm. 

A  feature  of  the  evening  was  an  origi- 
nal song  by  E.  W.  Stedman,  '10,  entitled 
"Up  and  at  'Em."  After  singing  it 
the  first  time,  he  was  called  upon  for 
repeated  encores. 

Rev.  Dr.  W^  G.  Thayer,  '85,  head  of 
St.  Marks  school,  presided  and  the  other 


speakers  included  Lieutenant  Governor 
Calvin  Coolidge,  '95;  Claude  Hubbard, 
'12;  Senator  George  B.  Churchill,  '89; 
Lieutenant  D.  B.  Temple,  '17;  and  Dr. 
A.  P.  Fitch  of  the  Amherst  College 
faculty.  The  address  of  Dr.  Fitch  made 
a  profound  impression  upon  all  present. 
He  told  of  the  splendid  sacrifice  Amherst 
is  making  in  the  war,  as  illustrated  by 
what  the  father  of  Charles  W.  Chap- 
man, '18,  WTote  concerning  his  son's 
death  in  an  air  battle  in  France — "I  am 
proud  and  thankful  for  my  son's  death." 
Lieutenant  Temple  spoke  of  the  life  at 
Plattsburg.  Hubbard  spoke  of  war 
camp  actix'ities  at  Camp  Devens.  Lieu- 
tenant Governor  Coolidge  was  intro- 
duced as  the  next  Governor  of  ^lassa- 
chusetts.  Dr.  Fitch  related  some  of  his 
experiences  in  France  last  summer. 


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309 


The  Association  fe-elected  its  officers 
for  the  ensuing  year. 

Worcester. — On  Thursday  evening, 
April  11th,  the  Amherst  Alumni  of 
Worcester  held  an  informal  meeting 
at  which  Dr.  W.  C.  Seelye,  '95,  pre- 
sided. President  Meiklejohn  and  Cap- 
tain Nelligan  were  the  speakers  of  the 
evening. 

Cle\t;l.\nd. — The  first  debate  of  the 
Amherst  Debating  League  in  Cleve- 
land, founded  last  winter  by  the  Am- 
herst Alumni  in  Cleveland,  was  held  on 
May  17th  in  the  Shaw  High  School 
between  Shaw  High  of  East  Cleveland 
and  the  GlenviUe  High  School  of  Cleve- 
land. The  question  debated  was  "That 
a  Single  Tax  on  land  values  should  be 
adopted  in  the  United  States."  The 
debate  roused  much  interest  and  en- 
thusiasm and  was  won  by  Shaw  High, 
supporting   the   affirmative.      A    third 


school,  the  University  School  of  Cleve- 
land, is  anxious  to  join  the  League  and 
next  year  the  contest  will  probably  be 
among  these  three  schools. 

Camp  De^'exs. —  Saturday,  May 
18th,  was  Amherst  Day  at  Camp 
Devens.  President  Meiklejohn  and 
Dean  Olds,  representing  the  College, 
thoroughly  inspected  the  camp  in  the 
afternoon  and  in  the  evening  they  at- 
tended a  gathering  of  all  the  Amherst 
men  in  the  camp  at  the  War  Commu- 
nity Headquarters.  The  men  gathered 
for  a  supper  and  a  sing  and  just  a  good 
get-together  without  speeches.  The 
affair  was  under  the  supervision  of 
Walter  R.  Agard,  '15,  Captain  Nelligan 
of  Amherst,  Captain  Winslow,  '89,  Dr. 
Ladd,  '10,  C.  W'.  Tyler,  '09,  Professor 
Eastman  of  Amherst,  and  about  fifty 
Amherst  men  attending  the  Officers' 
Reserve  Corps  training  camp  were 
present. 


THE  REUNIONS 


1863 

Seven  members  of  the  class  of  "63, 
comprising  three  ministers,  three  law- 
yers, and  one  doctor,  celebrated  the 
Fifty-fifth  anniversary  of  graduation  by 
a  class  supper  at  the  Hotel  Nonotuck 
in  Holyoke,  on  the  evening  of  June  -Ith, 
and  on  the  following  day  attended  the 
Commencement  exercises  at  Amherst. 

Adv'ancing  years  have  not  lessened 
the  congenial  spirits  of  old-time  class- 
mates as  they  recalled  the  pleasant 
years  of  college  life  and  called  to  mind 
former  associations. 

The  Civil  War  began  while  we  were 
in  college  and  fifteen  of  our  class  joined 
the  army.  Among  those  who  entered 
the  service  was  our  classmate  Frazer 
Augustus  Stearns,  the  son  of  our  college 


president.  His  early  death  in  the  con- 
flict brought  sorrow  to  his  many  friends 
and  dear  classmates.  Henry  Ward 
Beecher  thus  spoke  of  his  death: 

"TMiile  we  bring  our  sorrowing  sym- 
pathy we  also  bear  congratulations.  A 
long  and  full  life  has  been  completed, 
half  a  century  of  ordinary  li\Tng  in  an 
hour.  His  country  accepts  that  life 
given  for  her  and  records  his  name 
imperishably. 

Nor  is  his  work  done.  Of  the  hun- 
dreds of  generous  young  men  who  will 
surround  his  bier,  will  there  be  one 
whose  heart  will  be  unsusceptible  to  the 
lesson  taught  by  the  self-sacrifice  of 
this  young  patriot.''" 

As  a  few  of  us  returned  to  Amherst 
this  year  and  found  so  many  students 
absent  on  account  of  the  present  war, 
we  recalled  the  past  history  of  former 


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I 


days  when  the  war  was  waged  to  secure 
a  United  Country.  Now,  it  is  waged  to 
secure  a  Peace  for  a  United  World. 

The  following  are  the  members  of  the 
class  who  attended  the  reunion: 

Rev.  Frederick  B.  Allen  of  Boston; 
Edward  W.  Chapin,  Esq.,  of  Holyoke, 
Mass.;  Rev.  LeavittH.  Hallock  of  Port- 
land, Me.;  Dr.  Henry  O.  Marcy,  Boston; 
Rev.  James  G.  Merrill,  Winter  Park, 
Fla.;  Henry  O.  Smith,  Esq.,  Leicester, 
Mass.;  Joseph  A.  Titus,  Esq.,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

1868 
The  class  of  1868  won  the  Reunion 
Trophy  Cup  at  Amherst  with  fifteen  of 
the  twenty-three  living  graduates  pres- 
ent. L.  G.  Yoe,  of  Chicago,  is  president 
of  the  class,  George  T.  Buffum,  vice- 
president,  and  William  A.  Brown,  sec- 
retary and  treasurer.  The  following 
report  in  regard  to  the  semi-centennial 
reunion  is  submitted  by  William  A. 
Brown : 

For  five  years  the  class  had  looked 
forward  to  their  Semi-Centennial  with 
the  keenest  interest,  regarding  it  as  a 
climax,  the  top  of  the  hill  from  which  to 
survey  the  past  and  surmise  as  to  the 
future  and  thus  a  strong  representation 
was  to  be  expected. 

Out  of  twenty-three  living  graduates 
fifteen  attended  the  Reunion  Dinner  on 
June  4th,  at  Class  Headquarters,  the 
Cosby  House,  viz. :  Ball,  Bayley,  Brown 
Buchanan,  Buffum,  Eaton,  French, 
Hewett,  Lancaster,  Miner,  Rockwell, 
Smart,  Smith,  Tyler  and  Yoe,  and 
these  were  regaled  by  the  speeches  of 
classmates,  being  especially  edified  by 
the  remarks  of  Prof.  W.  T.  Hewett, 
Hon.  Francis  W.  Rockwell  and  Judge 
Stephen  S.  Lancaster.  A  very  interest- 
ing poem  by  Wheeler  and  letters  from 
Peabody  and  others  also  were  read.  The 
class  baby,  Willard  H.  Wood  (Amherst 
'93),  also  was  present,  but  the  adopted 
daughter  of  the  class.  Miss  Edith  A. 
Winship,  was  absent  in  Paris  doing  Can- 
teen work  for  Y.  M.  C.  A.  The  class  roll 
includes  many  Grand  Army  men,  and 
a  number  of  sons  of  the  class  are  now 
in   our  Army   "over  there."'      Buffum 


and  Lancaster  had  just  said  Godspeed 
to  sons,  army  boys  ready  to  sail  at  a 
moment's  notice. 

After  reading  the  above  none  will  be 
surprised  that  the  class  of  '68  won  the 
Reunion  Trophy  Contest. 

The  class  was  honored  by  and  felt 
much  pleased  with  a  visit  from  Presi- 
dent Meiklejohn  and  Secretary  Allis  on 
Monday  evening,  June  3d. 

On  the  evening  of  the  4th  inst.,  '68, 
in  full  attendance,  formally  presented 
Sabrina  to  the  class  of  1903,  the  gift 
being  received  by  Secretary  Clifford  P. 
Warren  and  acknowledged  by  the  class 
orator.  The  class  of  '68  is  now  headed 
straight  for  its  next  Reunion  in  1921 
coincident  with  the  College  Centennial. 

On  Wednesday  p.  m.  the  class  placed 
flowers  on  the  graves  of  all  their  old 
teachers  whose  memory  they  hold  with 
deepest  reverence  and  affection.  The 
class  has  drunk  deep  of  the  Amherst 
spirit  and  finds  it  good,  revivifying, 
strengthening  —  God  bless  Amherst 
College!  How  dark  would  be  a  college 
Commencement  without  the  presence 
of  its  Alumni  in  large  numbers!  And 
thus  we  believe  in  the  Reunion  Trophy 
Contest;  it  helps — Preserve  it  faith- 
fully! 

Also  we  believe  that  the  location  of 
the  Amherst  House  is  the  best  location 
as  a  gathering  place  for  all  those  who 
for  one  reason  or  another  maj^  wish  to 
visit  the  village  of  Amherst,  and  that 
in  the  hands  of  a  really  artistic  architect 
the  present  hotel  building  can  be  re- 
modeled so  as  to  be  entirely  satisfactory 
to  the  officials  of  the  College.  The  Re- 
union, a  momentous  occasion  for  the 
members  of  the  class,  was  successful 
and  satisfactory  in  every  respect. 

As  our  esteemed  brother  Edwin  F. 
Bayley  is  expected  to  treat  the  subject 
of  our  Semi-Centennial,  from  a  different 
viewpoint    and    on    broader   lines,    the 


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above  is  submitted  as  a  preliminary  and 
partial  report. 

The  following  ode  was  written  for 
the  Jubilee  Reunion  by  Hiland  Hill 
Wheeler,  '68,  and  dedicated  to  the  Class 
President,  L.  G.  Yoe: 

At  this  our  jubilee. 
Old  Amherat,  unto  thee 
To-day  we  sing. 

Here,  where  we  first  did  meet. 
Now,  when  we  last  do  greet, 
How,  where,  when  can  more  meet 
Our  voices  ring? 

It  was  some  luckj'  fate 
That  did  match  mates  with  mate, 
Our  class  create; 

By  contact  with  our  peers 
More  than  with  books  or  seers 
Made  us  within  four  years, 
The  "Great,  Great,  Great!" 

Therefore  we  thank  the  Lord, 
That  He  did  by  His  Word 
Us  segregate. 

And  while  on  earth  we  be 
We'll  shout  most  heartily 
For  Amherst,  for  'twas  she 
Bore  Sixty-Eight. 

1878 
Thirty  members  of  the  Class  of  1878 
attended  the  40th  Reunion  at  Com- 
mencement as  follows: — Babbott,  Co- 
nant,  Cowles,  Eaton,  Fairley,  Fuller, 
Gardiner,  Goodnow,  Hedden,  Hinsdale, 
Hitchcock,  Holden,  Johnson,  Joy, 
Kingsbury,  Mossman,  Norton,  Osgood, 
Peck,  Peet,  Plimpton,  Sabin,  Sanders, 
Searle,  Sleeper,  Smith,  Spahr,  Stearns, 
Wellman,  and  White.  The  class  and 
their  wives  were  entertained  at  dinner 
at  The  Davenport  in  Amherst  on  the 
evening  of  June  3d  as  guests  of  the 
Class  President,  F.  L.  Babbott,  who 
has  held  the  office  uninterruptedly  since 
the  Senior  year.  Forty-five  were  pres- 
ent at  the  dinner,  twenty-nine  of  the 
men  (Kingsbury  arrived  later)  and  six- 
teen members  of  their  families;  namely, 
Mrs.  F.  L.  Babbott,  Jr.,  the  wives  of 
Conant,  Cowles,  Fuller,  Hedden,  Joy, 
Peet,  Sabin,  Smith,  Wellman  and  White, 
daughters  of  Norton,  Osgood  and  White, 


and  sons  of  Johnson  and  Peck.  Greet- 
ings by  letter  and  telegrams  were  re- 
ceived from  absent  members. 

At  the  close  of  the  dinner,  which  was 
most  enjoyable,  the  members  of  the 
families  withdrew.  The  Secretary  re- 
ported that  eight  men  had  died  since 
the  last  Reunion, — Mellen,  Dyer,  Mer- 
riam,  Foskett,  Dougherty,  Ely,  Pierce 
and  Davis — and  that  the  number  of 
living  graduates,  so  far  as  known,  was 
now  60,  of  non-graduates,  13.  The  old 
officers  were  re-elected,  the  executive 
committee  consisting  of  the  President, 
the  Secretary,  and  Professor  Cowles. 
It  was  suggested  that  the  next  Reunion 
be  held  three  years  hence  at  the  time 
of  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the 
College,  and  it  was  voted  to  leave  this 
matter  in  the  hands  of  the  executive 
committee.  Babbott  was  re-elected  to 
serve  as  representative  of  the  Class  on 
the  Alumni  Council.  Reports  being 
called  for  from  the  members  of  the 
Class  concerning  the  war  activities  of 
themselves  and  their  families,  it  was 
found  that  every  man  who  had  a  son 
at  or  near  the  draft  age  had  from  one 
to  three  sons  either  in  the  service  or 
preparing  to  enter  the  service.  It  was 
then  voted  that  the  Secretary  should 
prepare  a  circular  to  send  to  all  the 
members  of  the  Class  to  secure  from 
them  a  war  record  of  the  activities  of 
the  relatives  of  '78.  A  vote  of  thanks 
was  passed  to  Professor  and  Mrs. 
Cowles  for  their  hospitality  in  making 
their  home  once  again  so  delightfully 
the  home  and  headquarters  of  the  Class 
at  the  Reunion,  to  Babbott  for  his 
splendid  hospitality  in  entertaining  the 
Class  at  the  dinner,  and  to  Mi's.  Dav- 
enport for  her  excellent  management  of 
the  catering. 

The  following  song,  written  by  Rev. 
Stephen  A.  Norton,  D.  D.,  for  the  '78 
Reunion,    was    sung   at    the    Reunion 


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Dinner   to   music   composed   by   Rev. 
William  W.  Sleeper: 

Amherst  the  beautiful, 

Jby  we  to  tell 

How  thy  sons  dutiful 

All  love  thee  well; 

Our  Alma  Mater  dear, 

Come  we  with  song  and  cheer 

Thy  praise  to  swell. 

Love  we  thy  loyalty, 

Learning  and  light. 

Thine  ancient  royalty, 

Uncrowned  Might, 

Thy  fearless  bravery, 

Hatred  of  slavery. 

Strength  for  the  right. 

Men  of  the  older  day 

Sing  we  our  song; 

Youth  of  the  bolder  day. 

Roll  it  along! 

Amherst,  thy  sons  are  brave 

Freedom  and  truth  to  save; 

Death  to  the  wrong. 


1883 

The  Class  of  Eighty-Three  at  the 
last  Commencement  celebrated  its  thir- 
ty-fifth year  out  of  college.  Headquar- 
ters were  at  the  Carter  Inn  on  South 
Prospect  Street.  The  men  began  to 
arrive  Saturday  afternoon,  and  before 
Wednesday  noon  thirty-four  had  re- 
ported. Those  present  were  Bancroft, 
Bridgman,  Byington,  Callahan,  Com- 
stock,  Cotton,  Dyer,  Field,  G.  B.  Foster, 
S.  W.  Hallett,  Hatch,  Hyde,  Kingman, 
Lew,  Lewis,  Low,  Morse,  H.  V.  Nash, 
W.  K.  Nash,  Noyes,  Wm.  Orr,  Palmer, 
Parsons,  Patton,  Rhees,  Arthur  P.  Rugg, 
George  Rugg,  Semple,  H.  A.  H.  Smith, 
Sprout,  Williston  Walker,  Warren, 
Whitcomb,  and  Williams. 

Saturday  evening  was  spent  in  in- 
formal visiting;  Sunday,  some  of  the 
Class  attended  the  Baccalaureate  and 
the  afternoon  concert  in  College  Hall; 
others  spent  the  day  in  revisiting  old 
scenes  and  recalling  old  memories.  At 
eight  o'clock  in  the  evening  a  brief  re- 
cital was  given  in  the  chapel  by  the 
College  organist  upon  the  Eighty-Three 
organ  (presented  ten  years  ago  by  the 
Class.)  This  recital  was  followed  by  an 
nformal  meeting  under  the  direction  of 


Bridgman,  at  which  the  men  spoke  in- 
timately of  their  work  and  thought  and 
recalled  the  changes  and  development 
that  the  years  had  brought.  Monday 
was  devoted  to  an  outing  and  excursion 
to  Mount  Tom.  A  special  trolley  was 
engaged  which  took  the  Class  through 
the  Notch,  South  Hadley,  and  Holyoke, 
and  across  the  river  to  the  foot  of  the 
mountain.  Thence  they  went  up  the 
inclined  railway  and  enjoyed  a  picnic 
luncheon  on  the  summit.  The  return 
was  made  in  time  to  attend  the  ball 
game  and  see  Amherst  beat  Williams 
7  to  1. 

At  7.45  the  Class  Dinner  was  served 
at  Carter's  on  the  large  porch,  illumi- 
nated by  strings  of  electric  lights  ar- 
ranged especially  for  the  occasion.  After 
an  ample  meal,  the  evening  until 
midnight  was  devoted  to  speaking,  in 
which  every  member  of  the  Class  who 
was  present  took  part.  Noyes,  the 
Class  President,  acted  as  toastmaster. 
The  introductory  speeches  were  made 
by  A.  P.  Rugg,  Rhees,  Patton,  King- 
man and  Sprout;  a  poem  was  read  by 
Field.  As  might  have  been  expected, 
the  war  and  problems  arising  out  of  it 
formed  the  dominant  note  of  the  speak- 
ing. Lewis,  Low,  Palmer  and  Williams, 
who  had  not  been  present  at  former 
reunions,  were  welcomed  as  converts 
to  the  reunion  group,  which  is  increas- 
ing steadily.  A  few  that  the  class  have 
depended  upon  at  former  reunions  were 
kept  away  this  year,  by  the  war.  Dr. 
J.  B.  Walker,  now  a  major  in  the  army, 
is  in  France,  in  charge  of  a  large  field 
hospital.  Cushman,  also  a  major,  is  a 
judge  advocate  and  is  at  present  sta- 
tioned in  Washington. 

During  the  evening,  short  apprecia- 
tions were  read,  of  the  lives  and  work  of 
Houghton,  D.  L.  Bardwell,  Holcombe, 
Marsh,  Guernsey,  Owen  and  Whitaker, 
all  of  whom  have  died  within  the  last 


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five  years.  Out  of  96  members  of  the 
Class  now  living,  the  34  present  at  the 
Reunion  showed  a  percentage  of  35. 

Though  the  war  conditions  made  the 
spirit  of  the  meeting  somewhat  more 
serious  than  usual,  the  interest  and  the 
fine  spirit  of  comradeship  marked  this 
as  one  of  the  best  of  Eighty-Three's 
reunions. 

The  local  arrangements  were  made 
by  David  Hatch,  Jr.,  of  the  class  of 
'21,  and  to  his  efficiency  was  due  in 
large  measure  the  success  of  the  details 
of  the  reunion. 

1888 

No  formal  reunion  of  the  Class  of 
1888  was  held  at  Commencement,  but 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Class,  the  following 
officers  were  elected  for  the  term  of  five 
years: — President,  William  M.  Prest, 
Boston;  Vice-President,  Arthur  M. 
Heard,  Manchester,  N.  H.;  Secretary, 
William  B.  Greenough,  Providence,  R. 
I.;  Treasurer,  Charles  B.  Raymond, 
Akron,  Ohio;  member  of  the  Alumni 
Council,  John  E.  Oldham,  Boston. 

The  above  officers,  together  with 
Paul  C.  Phillips,  to  constitute  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee. 

1893 

Five  years  ago  seventy-two  Ninety- 
Three  men  journeyed  to  Amherst — 
many  of  them  with  wives  and  children 
— and  held  the  most  successful  reunion 
in  the  history  of  the  Class.  "Every 
man  back"  had  been  the  slogan  and 
nearly  every  man  came  back.  This 
year,  at  its  twenty-fifth,  Ninety-Three 
could  muster  only  seventeen,  but  this 
small  group  was  again  the  means  of 
bringing  support  to  the  College,  new 
spirit  to  the  class  organization,  and  a 
glow  in  each  man's  heart. 

There  had  been  no  attempt  to  urge 
men  to  come  back.    The  Reunion  Com- 


mittee had  merely  said  to  the  Class 
"come  back  if  you  can,  renew  the  old 
ties,  and  see  for  yourself  what  Amherst 
and  Amherst  men  are  doing  for  'the 
Great  Cause.'  "  And  they  came,  seven- 
teen of  them,  eleven  with  their  wives, 
three  with  wives  and  children.  There 
was  no  display,  no  extravagance,  noth- 
ing inconsistent  with  one's  first  duty  in 
this  war  time,  and  those  who  could 
come,  went  back  home  with  a  deeper 
sense  of  obligation,  because  of  a  better 
knowledge  of  what  Amherst  men,  and 
what  Ninety-Three  men  are  doing  in 
the  world. 

The  headquarters  as  usual  were  at 
Miss  Brown's  on  Spring  Street,  and 
Miss  Marsh's  house  on  Main  Street 
served  as  an  annex.  Sunday  some  of 
the  men  heard  Dr.  Fitch  preach  the 
Baccalaureate,  and  those  who  knew 
said  "Amen"  when  he  declared  that 
after  the  war  men  would  be  weary  and 
would  want  rest,  and  that  the  Ameri- 
can College  and  American  College  men 
must  continue  to  think  through  the  is- 
sues and  fight  for  ideals.  Many  of  the 
men  had  not  been  in  Amherst  since 
the  last  reunion,  and  Sunday  was  given 
over  to  viewing  the  changes.  The  new 
buildings — the  new  library  and  the  new 
fraternity  houses — and  the  old — partic- 
ularly College  Hall  and  the  Chapel 
seemed  especially  to  impress  the  men. 
After  dinner  some  of  the  fellows  sat  in 
the  shade  outside  College  Hall  and  lis- 
tened to  "Billy"  Bigelow's  chorus  and 
orchestra  give  Gounod's  Saint  Cecilia 
Mass  and  give  it  well. 

Sunday  evening  the  Class  motored 
to  Hadley  for  supper,  and  Monday  af- 
ternoon after  the  ball  game  (Amherst 
7 — Williams  1)  motored  to  Mr.  George 
Cutler's  farm  for  the  Class  picnic.  The 
farm  lies  on  Pelham  Ridge,  above  the 
late  Professor  Morse's  country  home, 
and   one  gets   a  superb  sweep   of  the 


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country  from  the  little  old  farm  house, 
built  in  the  eighteenth  century — valley 
and  river,  winding  away  to  the  north, 
the  Holyoke  Range,  and  the  lower 
Berkshires  with  Greylock  in  the  dis- 
tance. After  supper  a  Class  meeting 
was  held.  Letters  were  read  from 
George  Pratt,  President  of  the  Class, 
who,  for  the  first  time  in  twenty-five 
years  could  not  be  with  the  Class  at  a 
reunion,  and  from  William  Breed,  who 
as  chairman  of  the  New  York  Com- 
mittee had  just  completed  a  successful 
Red  Cross  Drive  for  twenty-five  million. 
The  Secretary  told  of  the  part  Ninety- 
Three  men  were  playing  in  the  war. 
Hamilton,  Eeebe,  Beekman,  Cummings 
and  Johnson  in  France,  and  nearly 
every  man  in  this  country  helping  in 
some  form  of  war  work. 

The  Class  voted  a  gift  of  thirteen 
thousand  dollars  to  the  Alumni  Fund, 
which  was  doubled  by  a  generous  alum- 
nus. It  was  also  voted  to  hold  a  mid- 
winter meeting  in  Springfield  next 
January,  the  exact  date  to  be  deter- 
mined later,  and  to  hold  the  next  formal 
reunion  of  the  Class  in  1921  or  the  first 
Commencement  after  the  end  of  the 
war.  Ninety-Three  received  an  im- 
pressive list  of  honors  from  the  College. 
Breed  was  elected  Alumni  Trustee  for 
a  term  of  five  years;  Blodgett  received 
the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.,  Norton 
was  appointed  Marshal  of  the  academic 
procession  on  Commencement  Day, 
Pratt  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
Nominating  Committee  on  Alumni 
Trustees  for  the  ensuing  year,  Lay  was 
elected  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents  of  the 
Society  of  the  Alumni,  and  Allis  was 
re-elected  Secretary  of  the  Society  of 
the  Alumni.  The  following  Class  offi- 
cers were  elected  to  serve  until  the  next 
reunion: — President,  George  D.  Pratt; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Frederick  S. 
Allis;   Auditor,  Frank  H.  Smith;   Rep- 


resentative on  Alumni  Council,  George 
D.  Pratt. 

The  men  present  were  Allis,  Abbott, 
Blodgett,  Buffum,  Dodge,  Esty,  Lacey, 
Lay,  Nash,  Norton,  Olmsted,  Smith, 
Tower,  Trask,  Walker,  Wood  ("Whisk- 
ers"), Zug. 

The  ladies  present  were: — Mrs.  Buf- 
fum, Mrs.  Blodgett,  Mrs.  Esty,  Mrs. 
Norton,  Mrs.  Olmsted,  Mrs.  Smith, 
Mrs.  Zug,  Mrs.  Tower,  Mrs.  Walker, 
Mrs.  Dodge,  Mrs.  Nash.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Dodge,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Walker  brought  their  children. 
Reginald  Manwell,  the  Class  boy,  acted 
as  assistant  to  the  Secretary  at  Reunion 
headquarters. 

1903 

The  Fifteen  Year  Reunion  of  the 
Class  of  1903  brought  together  at  Am- 
herst thirteen  of  the  fellows,  six  wives 
and  two  children,  as  follows: 

Armsby,  Atwood;  Burke,  with  his 
wife  and  daughter,  Nancy;  Louis  and 
Mrs.  Cadieux;  Childs;  Clark;  Alec 
and  Mrs.  Ewen;  Haradon;  Johnson, 
H.  N.;  J.  A.  Jones,  with  his  wife  and 
son,  Tom;  Patrick,  G.  N.;  "Dusty" 
and  Mrs.  Rhodes;  and  "Clift"  and 
Mrs.  Warren. 

The  Class  had  no  headquarters,  but 
most  of  the  married  men  stayed  at  "The 
Perry"  and  the  others  at  the  fraternity 
houses. 

The  Class  Dinner  was  held  Monday 
evening  at  "The  Perry",  with  ten  of 
the  fellows  and  five  wives  in  attendance. 
"Nungie"  was  also  present  as  a  guest 
of  the  Class,  and  was  one  of  the  boys 
for  the  entire  evening,  contributing 
selections  from  "Pup"  Stearns"  letters 
to  his  family,  as  well  as  several  excellent 
stories  and  an  inspiring  ode  to  the  flag, 
of  his  own  composing.  Frank  W. 
Stearns,  '78,  also  dropped  in  for  a  few 
minutes. 


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Wednesday  morning  such  of  the  Class 
as  were  left  went  to  the  former  residence 
of  Professor  (iarman  and,  as  guests  of 
Miss  Miner,  listened  to  remarkable  pho- 
nographic records  of  the  voice  of  Am- 
herst's greatest  teacher. 

From  Saturday  night  until  Wed- 
nesday noon  the  Class  kept  up  its 
reputation  for  constant  song.  Although 
appreciating  the  impressive  seriousness 
of  the  Commencement  atmosphere,  the 
Class  did  its  best  to  give  the  Reunion 
a  little  of  the  melodious  flavor  of  the 
past. 

Rhodes  was  elected  Chairman  of  the 
new  Reunion  Committee  and  Atwood 
was  chosen  as  the  representative  of  the 
Class  in  the  Alumni  Council. 


The  Decennial  Reunion  of  1908  was 
a  most  informal  afifair,  no  special  effort 
having  been  made  to  bring  the  men 
back;  but  the  few  who  did  come  were 
very  glad  that  they  made  the  effort. 

The  following  men  were  present: — - 
Arthur  L.  Kimball,  Jr.,  George  Burns, 
Eben  Luther,  Corp.  Guy  Moulton, 
Dwight  Rogers,  Bob  Flint,  Jack  Mar- 
shall, R.  C.  Huffman,  Harold  Baily,  D. 
M.  Ellis,  E.  H.  Glynn. 

A  corporal's  guard,  but  yet  the  1908 
banner  floated  over  Mr.  Pease's  spacious 
mansion  on  Northampton  Road;  and 
while  the  Reunion  was  quiet,  everyone 
had  a  thoroughly  enjoyable  time  dis- 
cussing old  days  and  especially  the 
effect  that  the  war  has  upon  the  Class. 
A  great  many  of  the  men  are  in  service. 
Roscoe  Conkling  is  a  major;  Chip 
Marcus,  Art  Paine  and  Holbrook  Bon- 
ney  are  captains;  Charles  Merrill,  Flem- 


ing, Elsey,  Jones,  Kennedy,  Shute, 
Deroin  and  Shattuck  are  lieutenants; 
and  most  of  them  are  now  in  France. 
"Pop"  Loomis  is  flying  in  France  higher 
than  he  ever  pole-vaulted  at  Amherst. 
Wells  is  also  an  officer  in  France  and 
Sprenger  is  doing  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in 
that  country.  Moulton  is  at  Camp 
Devens  and  Dewing  is  at  Camp  Upton. 

Without  question,  Huffman  won  the 
long  distance  cup.  bringing  Mrs.  Huff- 
man with  him  to  show  her  Amherst  and 
meet  old  friends.  George  Burns  and 
wife  arrived  over  the  road  in  a  very 
chummy  roadster,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Eben  Luther  came  from  Boston  with  a 
chummier  one.  The  rest  live  in  single 
blessedness. 

At  a  business  meeting  held  on  June 
3d,  Harold  Baily  was  unanimously 
elected  to  speak  for  the  Class  at  the 
Alumni  Dinner.  The  Class  also  elected 
Harold  C.  Keith  president  until  the 
next  reunion,  and  Harry  Zinsmaster, 
secretary  and  treasurer.  George  Burns 
of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Alumni  Council.  Dwight 
Rogers  acted  as  honorable  secretary  for 
these  official  meetings. 

Nobody  was  sorry  that  they  came 
back  to  Amherst  this  June. 

1917 

The  Class  of  1917  held  an  informal 
Reunion  Dinner  last  Commencement 
at  Rahar's  Inn,  Northampton.  Seven 
members  of  the  Class  were  present. 
Eisner,  Fisher,  Johnson,  Marks,  Nor- 
ton, Sibley  and  Wells.  Of  the  139  men 
in  the  class,  107  are  now  in  service,  46 
are  overseas,  and  45  are  commis- 
sioned. 


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SINCE  THE  LAST  ISSUE 


1852.— Henry  Sabin,  LL.  D.,  on  March 
22,  1918,  at  Chula  Vista,  California, 
aged  88  years. 

1860. — Benjamin  Wormelle,  on  June 
21,  1918,  at  Brighton,  Mass.,  aged  82 
years. 

1870.— Rev.  Dr.  Washington  Choate, 
on  April  21,  1918,  at  Essex,  Mass., 
aged  72  years. 

1875. — Frank  Alvan  Hosmer,  on  May 
27,  1918,  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  aged  65 
years. 

1878. — Hon.  Benjamin  Franklin 
Davis,  on  May  14,  1918,  at  Cape  Giran- 
deau.  Mo.,  aged  63  years. 

1880.— Frank  Albert  Whiting,  on 
May  5,  1918,  at  Holyoke,  Mass.,  aged 
62  years. 

1899.— Captain  Harry  A.  Bullock, 
on  May  30,  1918,  somewhere  in  France, 
in  the  service  of  his  country,  aged  39 
years. 

1899.— Ralph  Waldo  Wight,  on  May 
20,  1918,  in  New  York  city,  aged  41 
years. 

1918. — Lieutenant  Charles  W.  Chap- 
man, Jr.,  on  May  3,  1918,  somewhere  in 
France,  in  the  service  of  his  country. 


1892. — Katherine  Chase  Fairley,  on 
June  12,  1918,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.. 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  C. 
Fairley. 

1910. — John  Ailing,  on  February  10, 
1918  (not  previously  recorded),  in  De- 
troit, Mich.,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robert  B.  Ailing. 

1910.— Rockwood  W.  Bullard,  Jr., 
on  January  24,  1918  (not  previously 
recorded),  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rockwood  Bullard. 

1910. — Charles  Henry  Wight,  2d,  on 
January  5,  1918  (not  previously  re- 
corded), in  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J.,  son  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  C.  Wight. 


1913. — Chauncey  P.  Carter,  Jr.,  on 
April  16,  1918,  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chauncey  P. 
Carter. 

1919. — Barbara  Jane  Glann,  on  East- 
er Sunday,  1918,  at  Cortland,  N.  Y., 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry  B. 
Glann. 


MARRIED 

1881.— In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  April 
27,  1918,  Frank  H.  Parsons  and  Miss 
Mabel  Howard  Randall. 

1898. — At  Worcester,  Mass.,  on  June 
15,  1918,  Professor  Haven  D.  Brackett 
and  Miss  Marion  L.  Gaillard. 

1901. — In  New  York  city,  on  June 
20,  1918,  Preserved  Smith  and  Miss 
Lucy  Henderson  Humphrey. 

1905. — In  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  on  June 
7,  1918,  C.  Irving  Peabody  and  Miss 
Elsie  Gillham. 

1905. — In  Cambridge,  Mass.,  on  June 
12,  1918,  Rev.  William  Crawford  and 
Miss  Mary  Frances  Willard  Anderson. 

1906. — At  Wilkinsburg,  Pa.,  on  June 
5,  1918,  George  A.  Wood  and  Miss  Joan 
Donaldson. 

1907. — ^In  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  January 
26,  1918  (not  previously  recorded), 
Eugene  F.  Williams  and  Miss  Marie 
Ewing  Wight. 

1907. — In  Springfield,  Mass.,  on  May 
4,  1918,  Lieutenant  Frank  A.  Dervin 
and  Miss  Ruth  Harvey. 

1909.— At  Athol,  Mass.,  on  April  16, 

1917,  Ernest  L.  Earle  and  Miss  Bernice 
L.  Brock. 

1910.— At  Montclair,  N.  J.,  in  May 

1918,  Sergeant  Robert  Wetherell  Boy- 
den  and  Miss  Florence  Beebe. 

1911. — In  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  on 
June  29,  1918,  William  B.  Ball,  Jr.,  and 
Miss  Helen  Louise  Day. 

1911.— At  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  on  May 
4,  1918,  Albert  Thomas  Stearns  and 
Miss  Margery  Conant  Thornton. 


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1912. — At  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on  June  21, 
1918,  Lieutenant  Claude  H.  Hubbard 
and  Miss  Alice  E.  Jones. 

1913.— At  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  on 
May  23,  1918,  Rev.  Theodore  A.  Greene 
and  Miss  Dorothy  G.  Thayer. 

1914. — In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  June 
22,  1918,  Lieutenant  George  R.  Foddy, 
Jr.,  and  Miss  Helen  May  Egerton. 

1914. — At  Greenfield,  Mass.,  on  April 
2,  1918,  Clarence  D.  Rugg  and  Miss 
Dorothy  C.  Phelps. 

1915. — At  Winchester,  Mass.,  on 
May  12,  1918,  Lieutenant  Lowell 
Ridgeway  Smith  and  Miss  Hannah 
Sargent  Locke. 

1916. — In  New  York  city,  on  April 


10,  1918,  Luman  Birch  Wing  and  Miss 
Mildred  Downey. 

1916.— In  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  on 
March  25,  1918,  Lieutenant  Francis  M. 
Dent  and  Miss  Grace  Newman. 

1917. — In  New  York  city,  on  May 
5,  1918,  Lieutenant  David  Warman 
Morrow  and  Miss  Doris  Mae  Atkinson. 

1917.— At  Greenfield,  Mass.,  on 
March  30,  1918,  Lieutenant  Donald  E. 
Temple  and  Miss  Marjorie  A.  Luey. 

1917. — At  Huntington,  Mass.,  on 
April  6,  1918,  Edward  F.  Loomis  and 
Miss  Edith  L.  Thomas. 

1919. — At  Brookline,  Mass.,  on  June 
25,  1918,  Nehemiah  Boynton,  Jr.,  and 
Miss  Eleanor  M.  Brown. 


THE  CLASSES 


1846 

The  oldest  living  graduate  of  Am- 
herst, both  in  years  and  in  point  of 
graduation,  is  now  Daniel  E.  Barnard, 
Esq.,  of  Chicago,  111.,  of  the  class  of 
1846.  He  celebrates  his  ninety-second 
birthday  this  month. 

1852 

Henry  Sabin,  widely  known  in  the 
educational  world,  died  at  his  home  at 
Chula  Vista,  Cal.,  on  March  22d,  aged 
88  years.  He  was  one  of  Amherst's 
oldest  Alumni.  He  was  born  on  Octo- 
ber 23,  1829,  at  Pomfret,  Conn.,  the 
son  of  Noah  and  Betsy  (Cleveland) 
Sabin.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Wood- 
stock Academy  in  Connecticut  and 
received  the  degree  of  A.  B.  from  Am- 
herst in  1852.  Later  he  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  LL.  D.  from  Drake 
University,  Cornell  College,  Iowa,  and 
the  State  LTniversity  of  Iowa. 

On  graduating  from  Amherst  he  took 
up  teaching  as  his  life  work,  and  before 
going  to  Iowa  taught  in  Connecticut, 
New  Jersey,  and  Illinois.  For  five 
years  he  was  in  charge  of  the  Union 


School  at  Naugatuck,  Conn.,  and  he 
then  became  owner  and  principal  of  the 
Collegiate  Institute  at  Matawan,  N.  J. 
In  1864  he  became  principal  of  the 
Eaton  Grammar  School  at  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

His  principal  work  in  the  educational 
field,  however,  was  done  in  the  state  of 
Iowa.  In  1870  he  went  to  Clinton  of 
that  state  as  superintendent,  and  in  1888 
he  became  State  Superintendent  of  Pub- 
lic Instruction  for  Iowa,  filling  that 
position  until  1892  and  serving  again 
from  1894  to  1898.  He  was  president 
of  the  State  Teachers'  Association  in 
1878  and  president  of  the  Department 
of  Superintendence,  N.  E.  A.,  in  1893, 
being  the  only  man  from  the  state  of 
Iowa  ever  so  honored. 

After  retiring  from  the  office  of  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  he  or- 
ganized and  maintained  a  reliable 
teachers'  agency  in  partnership  with  his 
eldest  son,  wrote  books  and  magazine 
articles  and  delivered  addresses.  He 
later  moved  to  California  and  made  his 
home  in  Chula  Vista,  with  his  son, 
Edwin  L.  Sabin  who,  with  another  son. 


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Elbridge  H.  Sabin,  survives  him.  Both 
his  sons  are  well  known  authors. 

He  was  married  in  1858  to  Esther  F. 
Hotchkiss.  His  best  known  books  are 
"The  Making  of  Iowa,"  "Talks  to 
Young  People"  and  "  Common  Sense 
Didactics."  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  and  in  politics  was  a 
strong  Republican. 

The  Journal  of  Education  for  April 
4th  contained  the  following  tribute  to 
Dr.  Sabin: 

"Dr.  Henry  Sabin  was  one  of  Iowa's 
most  distinguished  educators  and  he 
remained  in  the  game  until  he  was 
eighty  years  of  age.  He  was  the  only 
man  in  the  state  to  be  honored  with 
the  Presidency  of  the  Department  of 
Superintendence.  He  wTote  the  most 
widely  sold  book  on  education  of  any 
man  in  Iowa.  He  was  probably  the 
most  eminent  state  superintendent  in 
the  Middle  West  of  his  time.  He  was 
for  several  years  an  acceptable  lecturer 
on  educational  platforms.  He  was  for- 
tunate in  his  sons,  who  gave  him  a  com- 
fortable life  in  his  failing  health  and 
advanced  age.  He  was  appreciated  by 
lowans  to  the  last." 

1854 

Rev.  Charles  Hoover  Holloway  of 
Philadelphia  writes  that  being  of  the 
class  of  1854  he  is  too  old  to  take  more 
than  an  interest  in  the  war,  but  that 
his  heart  is  contra  German.  He  is  in 
his  87th  year,  has  been  totally  deaf  for 
33  years,  has  a  son  58  years  old,  a 
grandson  33  years  old,  and  a  great 
grandson,  one  year  old. 

1856 

The  issue  of  Christian  Work  for  April 
13th  contained  an  interesting  article  on 
the  late  Rev.  Dr.  William  Hayes  Ward 
under  the  title  of  "Recollection  of 
Great  Men — William  Hayes  Ward." 
The  article  is  written  by  Frederick 
Lynch,  D.  D. 


1857 

Although  in  his  87th  year.  Professor 
Joseph  Kimball  is  still  very  active.  He 
was  present  at  Amherst  this  June  for 
Commencement  and  is  making  his  plans 
to  be  on  hand  for  the  Centennial  cele- 
bration in  1921.  He  is  widely  known 
for  his  lectures  and  for  his  writings. 
The  Scientific  American  published  a  few 
months  ago  a  most  interesting  article 
from  his  pen  on  Natural  Science.  The 
course  of  ten  lectures  which  Professor 
Kimball  has  delivered  several  times 
during  the  present  year  in  various  cities 
and  towns  in  eastern  Massachusetts  in- 
cluding Lawrence,  Andover,  Stratham 
and  Haverhill,  comprised  the  following: 

"Lessons  from  the  Past,"  "Electri- 
city in  our  Affairs,"  "America  before 
Columbus,"  "Pleasures  of  Seeing,"  "A 
Successful  Life,"  "A  Mighty  and  Mys- 
terious Force,"  "A  Gigantic  Source  of 
Evil,"  "The  Ancient  Arts,"  "The  Unu- 
sual and  its  Uses,"  "Character  and 
Culture." 

1859 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Holyoke 
Public  Library  on  May  20th,  James  H. 
Newton  was  elected  President.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee. Mrs.  Newton  is  Chairman  of 
the  Book  Committee  and  has  been 
elected  President  of  the  W^omen's  Mu- 
nicipal League  of  Holyoke. 

1860 

Benjamin  Wormelle,  for  more  than 
forty  years  principal  of  the  Brighton 
High  School,  Brighton,  Mass.,  died  at 
his  home  on  Friday,  June  21st,  aged  82 
years. 

He  was  the  son  of  John  Dennett  and 
Mary  Ann  (Tucker)  Wormelle  and  was 
born  at  Peru,  Maine,  on  January  10, 
1836.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Abington  High  School  and  originally 
entered  Amherst  in  1854,  remaining  two 


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years.  In  1858  he  returned  and  com- 
pleted his  course  with  the  class  of  1860. 
On  leaving  Amherst  he  took  up  his  life 
work  of  teaching,  first  at  North  Bridge- 
water  (now  Brockton),  and  subse- 
quently at  Groton  High  School;  at 
Ticonderoga,  N.  Y.;  Kingston,  N.  Y.; 
and  the  Eliot  school  in  Boston.  In 
1870  he  became  Principal  of  the 
Brighton  school. 

Mr.  Wormelle  was  married  on  Janu- 
ary 17th,  1870,  to  Lizzie  J.,  daughter  of 
Jesse  Reed,  Jr.,  of  Abington.  He  leaves 
two  sons,  one  of  whom  is  Dr.  Charles 
B.  Wormelle  of  Brighton,  one  daughter 
and  several  grandchildren. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carleton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
On  account  of  his  physician's  advice. 
President  Emeritus  George  Harris 
deemed  it  advisable  to  cancel  his  en- 
gagement as  college  preacher  at  Am- 
herst on  Sunday,  May  26th. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  H.  Parkhurst 
preached  his  last  sermon  in  the  Mad- 
ison Square  Presbyterian  Church  (New 
York  City)  on  Sunday,  May  26th,  the 
congregation  having  formed  a  union 
with  the  University  Place  and  Old  First 
Presbyterian  Churches,  the  united  con- 
gregations to  worship  in  the  First 
Church  Edifice  at  Fifth  Avenue  and 
Twelfth  Street.  Dr.  Parkhurst  thus 
closes  a  long  and  notable  pastorate. 
He  is  spending  the  summer  at  his  sum- 
mer home  on  Lake  Placid.  His  last 
sermon  dealt  not  with  the  accomplish- 
ments of  the  old  church,  but  with  the 
task  before  the  new — particularly  with 
the  responsibility  which  the  amalga- 
mated body  assumes  in  staying  with 
downtown  districts  which  churches  in 
recent  years  have  tended  to  forsake. 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman  is  President  of 


the  Publishers'  Association  of  New 
York  City.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Mayor's  Committee  on  Organized 
Guard  and  also  served  on  the  Brooklyn 
Executive  Committee  for  the  Second 
Red  Cross  drive. 

1867 

Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
At  the  fifty-second  annual  encamp- 
ment of  the  New  York  State  Depart- 
ment, G.  A.  R.,  held  in  Ithaca  the  week 
of  June  27th,  Professor  William  C. 
Peckham  of  Brooklyn  was  elected  Ad- 
jutant General  and  Quartermaster 
General. 

1868 

William  A.  Brown,  Secretary 

17  State  Street,  New  York  City 

William  C.  Ball  writes  that  "at  71 

years  of  age  one  is  a  military  liability 

rather  than  an  asset,"  and  then  goes 

ahead   to   disprove   the   statement   by 

adding  that  he  is  President  of  the  Terre 

Haute  (Ind.)  chapter  of  the  American 

Red  Cross. 

George  T.  Buffum,  author  of  "  Smith 
of  Bear  City,"  has  written  a  new  book 
just  published  by  Lothrop,  Lee  and 
Shepard  Co.,  under  the  title  of  "On 
Two  Frontiers."  The  frontispiece  is  by 
Maynard  Dixon,  pen-and-ink  illustra- 
tions by  Frank  T.  Merrill.  Mr.  Buffum 
while  sojourning  in  the  regions  men- 
tioned in  his  book  gathered  the  legends 
and  observed  the  incidents  referred  to 
and  which  thus  come  first-hand  to  the 
reader.  The  book  is  both  interesting 
and  instructive. 

1869 

William   R.    Brown,    Esq.,    Secretary 
17  State  Street,  New  York  City. 
Professor  Waterman  T.  Hewitt,  for- 


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merly  of  Cornell  University,  was  one  of 
the  speakers  at  the  Commencement 
dinner  of  the  Bates  College  alumni. 

1870 

Dr.  John  G.  Stanton,  Secretary, 
99  Huntington  St.,  New  London,  Conn. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Washington  Choate, 
cousin  of  the  late  Professor  Edward 
Payson  Crowell,  '53,  died  at  the  old 
family  homestead  in  Essex,  Mass.,  sud- 
denly on  Sunday,  April  21,  1918.  He 
was  72  years  old. 

Dr.  Choate  was  for  many  years  one 
of  the  officials  of  the  Congregation- 
alist  Home  Missionary  Society.  He  was 
born  in  Essex  on  January  17,  \8iQ, 
the  son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  Wade 
Crowell,  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips 
Andover  Academy  and  received  the  de- 
gree of  B.  A.  from  Amherst.  Later — 
in  1893 — Amherst  conferred  the  degree 
of  D.  D.  upon  him. 

On  leaving  Amherst  he  taught  at 
Adelphi  Academy  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
for  three  years  and  then  attended  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  graduating  in 
1875.  He  was  ordained  in  the  Congre- 
gational ministry  the  same  year  and 
became  pastor  of  the  Franklin  Street 
Congregational  Church  in  Manchester, 
N.  H.  In  1880  he  went  to  Irvington-on- 
the  Hudson  as  pastor  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church.  There  he  remained 
for  eight  years  and  then  for  three  years 
was  pastor  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Greenwich,  Conn., 
where  he  lived  for  ten  years.  For  the 
next  sixteen  years,  from  1891  to  1907, 
he  served  as  corresponding  secretary  of 
the  Congregational  Home  Missionary 
Society  and  from  1907  to  1909  as  treas- 
urer. He  then  became  Professor  of 
Systematic  Theology  at  Talladega  Col- 
lege in  Alabama,  remaining  there  until 
1912,  when  he  returned  to  his  birthplace 


in  Massachusetts  to  spend  the  rest  of 
his  life. 

Dr.  Choate  was  married  on  Septem- 
ber 21,  1875,  to  Miss  Grace  R.  Whiton 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  is  survived  by 
two  daughters.  Miss  Miriam  and  Miss 
Helen  C.  Choate,  the  latter  assistant 
professor  of  botany  at  Smith  College. 

The  Essex  paper  in  writing  of  the 
death  of  Dr.  Choate  says: 

"A  void  is  heavily  realized  by  the 
church  with  which  from  early  manhood 
Rev.  Dr.  Choate  has  been  connected, 
returning  by  letter  after  the  years  of 
his  public  ministry,  always  in  his  cus- 
tomary place  unless  detained  by  sick- 
ness, taking  part  in  the  meetings  for 
prayer,  ever  ready  to  give  his  best  to  its 
service.  The  church  is  sorelj' stricken,  the 
empty  place  being  hard  to  fill.  Besides 
his  daughters,  one  brother  in  feeble 
health,  the  last  of  the  family,  with  one 
nephew,  and  three  nieces  remain  to  re- 
member a  kindly,  cheerful  and  loving 
relative  and  friend.  One  brother,  Rufus 
Choate,  passed  away  very  suddenly 
some  six  years  ago,  and  another  brother, 
Dr.  David  Choate  of  Salem,  died  after 
a  long  illness  quite  recently." 

William  K.  Wickes  of  Syracuse,  N. 
Y.,  is  one,  of  the  Four  Minute  Men  and 
is  also  Historian  of  the  Empire  State 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution. 

1871 

Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary, 
623  West  113th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Rev.  Edwin  M.  Bliss,  D.  D.,  is  chair- 
man of  the  Congregational  Committee 
on  Welfare  of  Enlisted  Men  and  also  a 
member  of  the  General  Committee  on 
Chaplains,  Federal  Council  of  Churches 
of  Christ  in  America.  His  address  is 
Fontanet  Courts,  Fairmont  and  14th 
Streets,  Washington,  D.  C. 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 


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Dr.  John  R.  Hobbie  of  North  Adams, 
Mass.,  has  been  elected  President  of  the 
Berkshire  County  Association  of  Boards 
of  Health. 

Arthur  M.  Bridgman  of  Stoughton, 
Mass.,  is  Associate  member  of  the  Legal 
Advisory  Board,  No.  35,  in  his  district. 

Rev.  J.  Brainerd  Thrall  of  Asheville, 
N.  C,  has  been  active  in  war  work.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee 
Asheville  Chapter  of  the  American  Red 
Cross,  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee for  the  city  of  Asheville  in  the 
Liberty  Loan  Drives,  organizer  and 
head  of  the  Asheville  Boy  Scouts  and 
director  of  the  Boy  Scout  War  Work, 
and  member  of  the  Asheville  City  Com- 
mittee Thrift  Savings  Stamp  Cam- 
paign. 

In  honor  of  two  famous  Amherst  pro- 
fessors, Dr.  and  Mrs.  Talcott  Williams 
of  1873  tendered  a  reception  in  their 
New  York  City  home  on  Thursday, 
April  4th,  to  Professors  Benjamin  K. 
Emerson,  '65,  and  John  M.  Tyler,  '73. 
A  number  of  Amherst  men  were  present, 
including : — President  Emeritus  and 
Mrs.  Harris,  '66;  Prof,  and  Mrs.  J.  B. 
Clark,  '72;  Prof.  Munroe  Smith,  '74; 
Prof.  H.  S.  Redfield,  '77;  Prof.  A.  D. 
F.  Hamlin,  '75;  George  B.  Plimpton, 
'76;  Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Nehemiah 
Boynton,  '79;  Prof.  H.  G.  Lord,  '71; 
President  F.  D.  Blodgett,  '93;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henry  W.  Goodrich,  '80;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Orr,  '83;  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
Milo  IL  Gates,  '86;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Her- 
bert L.  Bridgman,  '66;  A.  C.  Rounds, 
'87;  R.  S.  Rounds,  '87;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  L.  Kemerer,  '93;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  Haller,  '08;  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
William  J.  Seelye,  '79;  Rev.  Laurens 
Seelye,  '11;  John  C.  Williams,  '82; 
ex-President  William  F.  Slocum,  '74; 
and  Prof.  H.  B.  Gallinger,  '93. 


1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Nathan  Morse  of  Akron,  Ohio,  has 
served  on  committees  for  the  sale  of 
Liberty  Bonds  and  raising  funds  for  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  war  work. 

Monroe  Smith,  Professor  of  Jurispru- 
dence at  Columbia  University,  has  edited 
for  the  National  Security  League,  "Out 
of  Their  Own  Mouths,"  a  war  pamphlet 
which  has  been  translated  into  Ger- 
man, French,  Dutch,  Danish  and  Swed- 
ish and  which  is  published  by  Apple- 
tons.  Other  war  pamphlets  of  his, 
circulated  by  the  Carnegie  Endowment 
for  International  Peace,  include,  "Mil- 
itary Strategy  versus  Diplomacy," 
"German  Land  Hunger  "  and  "Demo- 
cratic Aspects  of  Universal  Military 
Service." 

1875 

Frank  Al.van  Hosmer,  known 
throughout  the  country  as  an  editor 
and  as  president  for  ten  years  of  Oahu 
College,  and  also  secretary  of  the  class 
of  1875,  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in 
Amherst,  May  27,  1918.  The  cause  of 
his  death  was  cerebral  hemorrhage 
He  retired  in  his  usual  good  health;  but 
about  two  o'clock  in  the  morning  sus- 
tained the  first  paralytic  shock,  becom- 
ing unconscious  and  dying  within  two 
hours.  Mr.  Hosmer's  death  was  prob- 
ably due  in  a  measure  to  the  active 
part  he  had  taken  in  the  Red  Cross 
drive;  for  he  was  very  enthusiastic  in 
his  efforts  to  make  the  town  of  Amherst 
materially  exceed  its  quota.  He  was 
65  years  old. 

Mr.  Hosmer  was  born  on  November 
14,  1853,  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  son  of 
Alvan  and  Octavia  E.  (Poole)  Hosmer; 
and  prepared  for  college  at  tiie  Woburn 
High   School.     He  graduated   in    1875 


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with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and 
in  1878  was  given  the  M.  A.  degree  for 
his  post  graduate  work  in  history  and 
in  political  science.  For  some  years 
after  graduating  he  taught;  first,  in  his 
home  town  of  Woburn;  then  in  Brim- 
field  and  Palmer,  and  in  1879  was  called 
to  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  to  become 
principal  of  the  high  school  and  super- 
intendent of  schools,  a  dual  position 
that  he  held  until  1888.  From  1888  to 
1899  he  was  editor  and  publisher  of  the 
Berkshire  Courier  in  Great  Barrington, 
and  was  correspondent  while  there  of 
the  New  York  Herald.  The  Herald  sent 
him  as  its  special  correspondent  to  re- 
port the  famous  Johnstown  flood. 

In  1890  Mr.  Hosmer  went  to  Hono- 
lulu to  be  president  of  Oahu  College  and 
remained  there  for  ten  years.  During 
that  period  he  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  social  and  political  life  of  the 
Islands.  During  the  cholera  and  bu- 
bonic plague  epidemics  he  was  actively 
engaged  in  its  suppression  as  a  member 
of  the  advisory  council,  which  enforced 
its  orders  by  the  use  of  troops  at  a  cost 
of  $2,000,000.  The  board  turned  out 
20,000  natives  from  their  homes,  burned 
their  buildings  and  possessions  and  final- 
ly were  successful  in  checking  the  plague. 

In  the  events  culminating  in  the  over- 
throw of  the  monarchy  and  the  estab- 
lishment of  Hawaii  as  a  territory  of  the 
United  States,  Mr.  Hosmer  took  a 
prominent  part  among  the  American 
leaders  and  had  many  exciting  experi- 
ences. He  was  sought  by  the  Queen  of 
Hawaii,  who  wanted  his  head  cut  off, 
and  for  a  time  he  was  in  conflict  with 
the  United  States  authorities  before 
President  Cleveland  was  succeeded  by 
President  Harrison. 

Mr.  Hosmer  returned  to  the  United 
States  and  to  Amherst  in  1900  and  set- 
tled in  Amherst  in  1901  after  making  a 
visit  to  Great  Britain  and  France. 


Mr.  Hosmer's  life  was  thus  divided 
into  four  periods;  first,  as  a  student, 
when  he  was  hungry  for  knowledge  and 
quick  to  profit  by  high  school,  college 
and  post-graduate  courses;  second,  as  a 
teacher,  when  he  inspired  hundreds  of 
pupils;  third,  when  he  was  in  Hawaii 
and  did  much  towards  the  develop- 
ment of  that  territory;  and  finally  the 
fourth  period,  the  last  eighteen  years  of 
his  life  spent  in  Amherst  and  perhaps 
the  most  active  period  of  all. 

During  the  last  eighteen  years  Mr. 
Hosmer  has  served  the  town  and  com- 
munity of  Amherst  in  many  ways.  He 
was  a  strong  Republican  in  politics 
and  served  as  secretary  of  the  Repub- 
lican town  committee,  chairman  of  the 
Republican  county  committee,  member 
of  the  Republican  committee  of  the 
Second  Congressional  district  and  of 
the  Republican  state  committee.  In 
1908  and  1909  he  represented  the  Third 
Hampshire  district  in  the  Massachu- 
setts Legislature,  making  a  most  excel- 
lent record.  He  was  a  trustee  for  seven 
years  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Col- 
lege and  had  recently  been  reappointed 
for  that  post  by  the  Governor  for 
another  term  of  seven  years.  Always  a 
ready,  fluent  and  interesting  speaker, 
his  services  were  often  sought  and  es- 
pecially since  the  war  began  in  behalf 
of  the  Liberty  Loan,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and 
Red  Cross  drives.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Amherst  school  board,  being 
chairman  in  the  last  year;  was  president 
of  the  Amherst  club,  Amherst  gun  club, 
and  of  the  Amherst  board  of  trade,  vice- 
president  of  the  Amherst  Historical 
Society,  member  of  the  Hawaiian  His- 
torical Society,  a  master  Mason,  and 
member  of  the  Boston  City  club.  He 
was  one  of  the  college's  most  enthusi- 
astic alumni.  He  was  a  member  in 
college  of  the  Delta  Upsilon  fraternity. 

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kept  in  his  home  a  map  which  he  had 
drawn  and  colored  with  great  accuracy, 
changing  it  from  time  to  time  with  the 
changing  fortunes  of  the  belligerents. 
This  map  had  often  been  consulted  by 
members  of  the  faculty  of  both  colleges 
It  ought  also  to  be  mentioned  that  it  was 
largely  owing  to  the  eflfort  of  Mr.  Hos- 
mer  that  the  town  of  Amherst  adopted 
the  Gettemy  system  of  town  account- 
ing and  the  establishment  of  the  finance 
board. 

Mr.  Hosmer  was  married  on  August 
14,  1878,  to  Miss  Esther  Mayo  Kellogg, 
daughter  of  Willard  M.  Kellogg  of  Am- 
herst, who  survives  him.  There  were 
no  children.  He  was  the  author  of 
several  books  and  articles,  including  the 
"History  of  Great  Barrington,"  "How 
to  Teach  Geography,"  "Practical  Stud- 
ies in  the  High  School  Course,"  "No- 
blesse Oblige,"  and  "Manners  Maketh 
a  Man." 

The  Amherst  Record  for  May  29th 
pays  the  following  tribute  to  Mr. 
Hosmer  in  an  editorial  entitled  "Life's 
Work  Well  Done": 

"It  is  not  on  the  battle  front  alone 
the  grim  reaper  is  taking  his  toll  of 
human  life.  He  invades  the  homes, 
and  when  he  passes,  the  home-makers 
have  departed  with  him.  Amherst 
mourns  today  the  passing  on  of  a  rep- 
resentative citizen,  one  who  has  honored 
the  town  and  whom  the  town  has  hon- 
ored, Frank  A.  Hosmer.  Numbered 
among  those  whose  citizenship  has 
exerted  large  influence  in  a  wide  range 
of  activities,  the  loss  seems  more  severe, 
in  that  it  came  almo.st  without  warning. 
His  life  in  Amlierst  has  meant  much  to 
the  town  and  to  his  fellow  citizens.  In 
the  many  interests  that  appealed  to  him 
he  was  an  earnest  worker,  and  his  work 
counted.  He  had  that  quality  which 
inspires  work  in  others.  He  was  a  leader 
in  the  church,  in  educational  affairs,  in 
the  cause  of  public  betterment,  in  social 
and  fraternal  organizations,  in  politics. 
His  acquaintance  was  wide,  his  personal 
friendships  many  and  abiding,  his  home 


life  dearer  to  him  that  aught  else  on 
earth.  The  town  of  Amherst  will  miss 
Frank  Hosmer;  it  is  the  better  for  his 
having  lived  in  it." 

Rev.  Edward  S.  Tead  made  an  ad- 
dress at  the  66th  annual  meeting  of  the 
W^orcester  Central  Association  of  Con- 
gregational Churches  on  May  14th  at 
Oxford  (Mass.).  His  subject  was  "Our 
Nation-Wide  Education  Work." 

1876 

William  M.  Decker,  Secretary, 
277  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Professor  Frank  Sargent  Hoffman  of 
the  Union  College  faculty  had  a  narrow 
escape  on  the  night  of  April  18th  when 
his  residence  on  the  college  campus  was 
destroyed  by  fire,  his  three-year-old 
grandson  with  nurse  burned  to  death, 
and  two  students  injured. 

The  fire  started  in  Professor  Hoff- 
man's library  about  three  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  and  before  the  fire  was  dis- 
covered and  the  family  in  the  front  of 
the  house  could  be  aroused,  that  entire 
section  of  the  house  was  a  mass  of 
flames.  Wentworth  Micks,  the  three- 
year  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ransom 
Micks  of  Seneca  Falls  and  a  grandson 
of  Professor  Hoffman,  together  with 
the  nurse,  were  suffocated  by  the 
flames.  Mrs.  Micks  was  seriously 
burned.  Miss  Grace  Hoffman  slightly 
burned,  two  students  in  attempting  res- 
cues were  injured,  but  the  rest  of  the 
household  escaped. 

Professor  Hoffman  is  head  of  the 
Department  of  Philosophy  at  Union 
and  last  year  was  honored  by  the  Junior 
class  in  having  their  class  book  dedi- 
cated to  him. 

Arthur  C.  Boyden,  Principal  of  the 
State  Normal  School  at  Bridgwater, 
Mass.,  is  Secretary  of  the  local  Fuel 
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1877 

Rev.  a.  DEWitt  ]VLa.son,  Secretary, 
222  Garfield  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  State  Revieiv  for  April  contained 
an  article  on  "  What  the  State  is  Doing 
for  Science,"  by  Dr.  John  M.  Clarke, 
director  of  the  New  York  State  Muse- 
um. Dr.  Clarke  is  a  member  of  the 
Council  of  National  Defense  (Research 
Council)  and  is  chairman  of  the  War 
Committee  on  Geology. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  William  W.  Leete  of 
Newtonville,  Mass.,  is  President  of  the 
Monson  Academy  Alumni  Association. 
In  the  CongregationaUst  and  Advance  for 
April  11th,  Dr.  Leete  had  an  article 
on  "The  Church  and  the  Camp  De- 
nominations Joining  Hands  at  Dix  and 
Upton." 

DeWitt  C.  Morrell's  address  is  now 
56  Pine  Street,  New  York  City. 

A  recent  item  in  the  CongregationaUst 
notes  that  Rev.  C.  H.  Barber  of  Daniel- 
son,  Conn.,  has  so  far  recovered  from 
his  long  and  severe  illness  as  to  be  able 
to  supply  pulpits  occasionally  in  the 
vicinity  of  his  home. 

Dr.  J.  B.  Hingeley  reports  an  increase 
during  the  past  year  of  $3,375,000  for 
the  Conference  Claimant  Fund  for  aged 
and  disabled  ministers  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church.  The  total  sum 
aimed  at  is  $20,000,000,  of  which 
approximately  $12,000,000  is  already 
collected  or  in  sight,  and  Dr.  Hingeley 
hopes  to  raise  the  entire  amount  within 
the  next  five  years. 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Congre- 
gational Club  of  Brooklyn  Charles  E. 
Hartwell  was  elected  chairman  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  club  for  the 
coming  year. 

On  the  retirement  of  Rev.  Henry  P. 
Schauffler,  "93,  as  superintendent  of  the 


Brooklyn  City  Mission  and  Tract  So- 
ciety, Rev.  A.  DeW.  Mason,  who  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Direct- 
ors of  the  society  for  many  years,  was 
requested  by  the  Board  to  serve  as 
acting  superintendent  pending  the  selec- 
tion of  a  permanent  successor  to  Mr. 
SchaufHer.  Mr.  Mason  has  also  been 
appointed  by  the  General  Synod  of  the 
Reformed  Church  in  America  as  chair- 
man of  the  permanent  committee  on 
public  morals  of  that  denomination. 

Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Thrall  has  com- 
pleted twenty-five  years  of  continuous 
service  as  superintendent  of  church  ex- 
tension in  the  South  Dakota  district  of 
the  Congregational  Church  and  the 
event  was  suitably  recognized  at  the 
recent  annual  conference  held  at  Wes- 
sington,  S.  D. 

J.  Converse  Gray,  treasurer  of  '77, 
and  an  honorary  member,  E.  A. 
Thompson,  were  the  only  representa- 
tives of  the  class  present  at  the  recent 
Amherst  Commencement.  As  one  of 
the  vice  presidents  of  the  Society  of  the 
Alumni,  Gray  presided  at  the  annual 
meeting  in  Johnson  Chapel.  He  turned 
over  to  the  Alumni  Council  $325  as  the 
class  contribution  to  the  alumni  fund. 

The  secretary  has  received  data  from 
a  few  of  the  members  of  the  class  re- 
garding their  connection,  or  that  of 
members  of  their  families,  with  some 
form  of  war  work.  A  fuller  account 
will  appear  later  in  the  Quarterly. 
Kyle  is  associate  member  of  the  Legal 
Advisory  Board  of  his  district.  His  son, 
Lieut.  Atherton  Kyle,  is  attached  to  in- 
fantry headquarters  at  Fort  Lee,  Ya. 
Mason  is  a  Four  Minute  Man  in  the 
church  section  of  that  work.  His  son, 
Lieut.  A.  DeWitt  Mason,  Jr.,  infantry, 
is  stationed  at  Camp  ITpton,  N.  Y.,  and 
his  son-in-law,  Lieut.  Kinsley  W.  Slau- 
son,  is  with  a  motor  truck  vmit,  quar- 


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termasters'  department,  somewhere  in 
France.  Loomis  is  making  good  use  of 
his  many  opportunities  for  patriotic 
addresses  in  connection  with  his  duties 
as  secretary  of  the  American  Home 
Missionary  Association.  His  son,  Hen- 
ry S.  Loomis,  is  a  first  lieutenant  in  the 
aviation  section,  somewhere  in  France. 
Toby  has  donated  the  use  of  his  farm 
to  the  local  conservation  committee. 
His  son-in-law  is  in  the  headquarters 
regiment  at  Camp  Wadsworth,  Spar- 
tanburg, S.  C.  Perkins,  as  was  told  in 
the  last  issue,  gave  one  son  to  his  coun- 
try who  has  made  the  supreme  sacrifice. 
His  other  son,  Lieut.  Charles  K.  Per- 
kins, is  in  France  with  the  aviation 
section.  His  daughter,  Ruth  K.  Per- 
kins, is  Y.  W.  C.  A.  secretary  at  Lake- 
wood,  N.  J.,  and  is  doing  much  work 
among  the  army  nurses  who  are 
mobilized  at  that  place,  as  well  as  the 
soldiers  from  Camp  Dix  and  the  base 
hospital.  Wright  is  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Connecticut  State  Guard.  He  has  also 
acted  as  medical  examiner  on  two  local 
draft  boards.  One  of  his  daughters  has 
fitted  herself  for  corrective  work  with 
crippled  soldiers.  The  other  is  engaged 
in  farm  work.  His  son,  as  president  of 
the  Artistic  Bronze  Company  of  Bridge- 
port, Conn.,  is  doing  important  work  in 
production  for  the  Government. 

1878 

Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner,  Secretary, 
187  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Clarence  Earle  Hedden  has  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  professor  of  vocational 
education  in  the  Carnegie  Institute  of 
Technology,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

William  Fairley,  Principal  of  Com- 
mercial High  School  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
is  a  member  of  the  National  Security 
League  and  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Serv'r<»  to  Drafted  men. 


Local   Exemption    Board,   No.  64, 
Brooklyn. 

Dr.  Guy  Hinsdale,  of  Hot  Springs, 
Va.,  has  been  elected  President  of  the 
American  Climatological  and  Clinical 
Association. 

Frank  L.  Babbott  has  been  chosen  as 
First  Vice-President  of  the  Brooklyn 
Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

William  M.  Ladd  of  Portland,  Ore., 
is  a  member  of  the  National  Campaign 
Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  its 
drive  for  a  $100,000,000  war  fund. 

Dr.  Edward  N.  Kingsbury  is  chief  of 
staff  at  the  W^oonsocket  (R.  I.)  Hospi- 
tal and  member  of  the  examining  board 
for  men  of  the  draft.  He  has  a  son  who 
is  inspector  of  steel  for  munitions. 

J.  Edward  Plimpton  is  busy  at  his 
foundry  casting  diving  bells,  iron  pulleys 
("sheeves")  and  other  machinery  con- 
nected with  Government  ship-building. 

Rev.  Stephen  A.  Norton,  D.  D.,  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
in  Woburn,  Mass.,  wrote  for  the  cele- 
bration of  the  one  hundredth  anniver- 
sary of  the  Sunday  School  of  the  church, 
which  occurred  in  the  month  of  June,  a 
historical  pageant.  The  pageant  devel- 
oped the  story  of  religious  education 
from  the  days  of  the  old  prophets  to  the 
present  time,  with  special  reference  to 
the  history  of  the  Woburn  church.  The 
story  follows  Paul  to  Rome  and  Augus- 
tin  to  Canterbury,  then  Capt.  Edward 
Johnson,  author  of  the  "Wonder 
Working  Providence,"  from  Canterbury 
to  Woburn,  where  he  led  in  the  found- 
ing of  the  town  and  church;  it  then 
deals  with  local  history  and  present 
work  in  the  teaching  of  the  youth  of  the 
parish  in  Christian  truth. 

Charles  A.  Ricker  retired  a  year  ago 
from  teaching  in  the  public  schools  of 


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New  York  and  is  at  present  at  work  for 
the  New  York  Life  Insurance  Company 
at  its  branch  in  Boston,  Address  Room 
427,  141  Milk  Street. 

Judge  Benjamin  Franklin  Davis  was 
accidentally  drowned  on  May  14th  by 
the  upsetting  of  the  boat  in  which  he 
was  returning  with  his  law  partner,  B. 
C.  Hardesty,  to  his  home  in  Cape 
Girardeau,  Mo.,  after  a  day  spent  at 
his  farm  some  miles  distant  inspecting 
the  effects  of  the  floods  which  had  sub- 
merged the  region  round  about.  Their 
boat  was  caught  in  the  current  and  was 
capsized.  Mr.  Hardesty  was  able  to 
reach  the  shore;  but  Judge  Davis  was 
swept  under.  He  had  expected  with 
his  daughter  to  attend  the  reunion  of 
his  class  in  June  and  had  already  en- 
gaged rooms  in  Amherst. 

He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  J.  and 
Mary  J.  (Potter)  Davis,  and  was  born 
at  Milford,  Del.,  on  January  27,  1855. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  Monson 
Academy  and  after  graduating  from 
Amherst  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
Hon.  N.  D.  Smithers  at  Dover,  Del., 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1882. 
While  pursuing  his  law  studies  he  also 
taught  German  and  Mathematics  in  the 
Wilmington  Conference  Academy. 

He  removed  to  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo., 
in  1882  and  taught  Latin  and  Mathe- 
matics at  the  Missouri  State  Normal 
School  there,  for  several  terms;  and 
also  carried  on  the  practice  of  law.  In 
1910  he  was  elected  judge  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas  and  held  that  position 
for  one  term.  He  was  a  leading  member 
of  the  Missouri  bar,  a  Republican  in 
politics,  a  tireless  worker  in  his  commu- 
nity for  everything  tending  to  promote 
better  citizenship,  a  patriotic  citizen, 
who  since  America  entered  the  war 
never  failed  to  respond  to  calls  for  his 
services. 

Judge  Davis  was  married  on  Novem- 


ber 9,  1887,  to  Miss  Olivia  Waples  of 
Dover,  Del.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife 
and  their  only  daughter,  Elizabeth. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 
1140WoodwardBldg.,Washington,D.C. 

Charles  Appleton  Terry  is  a  member 
of  the  General  War  Service  Commit- 
tee of  the  Electrical  Manufacturing 
Industry. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  John  Ellery  Tuttle  of 
Swarthmore,  Pa.,  is  a  member  of  the 
military  committee  to  counteract  Ger- 
man propaganda,  for  Swarthmore  and 
vicinity.  He  is  also  First  Lieutenant 
and  Chaplain  of  the  Swarthmore  Re- 
serves and  chairman  of  the  Advisory 
Committee  on  Volunteer  Enlistments 
for  Swarthmore. 

Rev.  Edwin  H.  Dickinson,  who  re- 
signed as  pastor  of  the  North  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Buffalo  a  little  more 
than  a  year  ago,  after  nineteen  years' 
service  there,  has  received  a  call  to  the 
pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Geneva,  New  York.  Since 
leaving  Buffalo,  he  has  been  secretary 
of  the  Centennial  Committee  of  Auburn 
Theological  Seminary. 

Two  Germans,  one  employed  as  the 
head  dairyman  and  the  other  as  an  as- 
sistant on  the  Pratt  estate  at  Glen  Cove, 
N.  Y.,  were  arrested  in  May,  charged 
with  violating  the  alien  enemy  act. 
Charles  M.  Pratt  was  a  member  of 
Brooklyn's  Red  Cross  Central  Com- 
mittee, in  charge  of  the  Second  Red 
Cross  drive. 

The  Rev.  Nehemiah  Boynton  has 
been  re-elected  vice-president  of  the 
American  Seaman's  Friend  Society.  He 
was  the  college  preacher  at  Amherst  on 
Sunday,  April  28th.  In  a  recent  issue 
of  Christian  Work  Dr.  Boynton  had  an 
article  entitled  "Headcraft." 


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The  famous  library  of  the  late  Win- 
ston H.  Hagen  was  sold  at  auction  in 
May  at  the  Anderson  Galleries  in  New 
York  City.  The  proceeds  of  the  sale 
amounted  to  over  $150,000.  The  li- 
brary comprised  a  magnificent  collection 
of  the  great  things  in  English  literature, 
not  a  name  missing  from  the  roll  of 
famous  authors  from  late  in  1500  down 
to  1916.  $9,700  was  paid  for  "Speke 
Parrot,  the  Deth  of  the  Noble  Prince, 
Kyng  Edward  the  Fourth;  A  Treatyse 
of  the  Scottes;  Ware  the  Hawke  and 
the  Tunnyng  of  Elynour  Rummynge," 
by  John  Skelton,  poet  laureate  to  King 
Henry  VII.,  London,  circa  1520.  It 
was  the  earliest  known  edition.  A 
volume  of  poems  by  Shakespeare 
brought  $5,010,  the  third  folio  of 
Shakespeare  (1664)  brought  $5,900,  a 
rare  first  edition  of  Biu-ns  $2,750,  a  first 
edition  of  Robert  Browning's  "Pauline" 
which  was  originally  owned  by  Brown- 
ing's uncle  $1,610,  a  second  folio  of 
Shakespeare  under  date  of  1632  brought 
$2,950,  the  first  issue  of  the  first  edition 
of  Pope's  "The  Dunciad"  $2,025,  while 
one  of  the  rarest  volumes  in  the  English 
language,  "Songs  and  Sonets,"  by 
Henry  Howard,  Earl  of  Surrey,  pub- 
lished in  London  in  1574,  sold  for 
$4,125.  Several  other  books  brought 
exceptionally  high  prices  at  this  most 
noteworthy  sale  since  the  disposal  of 
the  Hoe  library. 

1880 

Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  Secretary, 
86  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Phineas  C.  Headley,  Jr.,  is  a  member 
of  the  New  Bedford  (Mass.)  Committee 
of  100  for  Safety,  a  member  of  the  Red 
Cross,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  several  other 
committees,  representing  organizations 
active  in  war  work. 

Clifton  L.  Field  of  Greenfield,  Mass., 
was  chairman  of  the  local  committee  in 


charge  of  raising  the  fund  for  libraries 
at  the  different  cantonments.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  local  legal  advisory 
board. 

Governor  McCall  of  Massachusetts 
has  appointed  Judge  H.  P.  Field  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Northampton  State  Hospital.  He  was 
also  appointed  as  one  of  the  speakers 
for  Hampshire  County  on  behalf  of  the 
Third  Liberty  Loan. 

The  following  members  of  1880  at- 
tended the  1918  Commencement  at 
Amherst:  A.  F.  Bemis,  C.  L.  Field,  H. 
P.  Field,  Gillett,  Perkins  and  Turner. 

Frank  Albert  Whiting,  treasurer  and 
manager  of  the  Holyoke  Coal  and  Wood 
Company  and  of  the  Gaylord  Coal  Com- 
pany, died  at  his  home  in  Holyoke  on 
Sunday,  May  5th,  aged  62  years,  after 
one  week's  illness  of  pneumonia. 

He  was  born  in  Holyoke  on  April  7, 
1856,  the  son  of  W.  B.  Whiting,  and 
was  one  of  a  family  of  eleven  children. 
His  early  education  he  received  from 
the  Holyoke  schools  and  at  Williston 
Seminary.  In  his  school  days  he  was 
active  in  athletics  and  as  a  pitcher  for 
the  Williston  baseball  team  suffered  a 
sunstroke  in  pitching  an  extra  inning 
game  and  never  completely  regained 
his  health. 

Because  of  the  condition  of  his  health 
he  did  not  complete  his  course  at  Am- 
herst, but  later  he  graduated  from  the 
Boston  Law  School.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  practiced  law  in  Holyoke 
for  a  time,  but  owing  to  illness  later 
gave  up  his  law  work  and  in  1886  started 
the  coal  business  under  the  name  of  the 
Holyoke  Coal  and  Wood  Company.  In 
1906  he  took  over  the  business  of  the 
Gaylord  Coal  Company. 

Mr.  Whiting  was  prominent  in  Hol- 
yoke affairs.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Holyoke   Chamber  of  Commerce,   the 


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Holyoke  Canoe  Club,  Humboldt  Lodge 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the 
Holyoke  Club.  He  was  one  of  the 
leading  members  of  the  New  England 
Retail  Coal  Dealers'  Association,  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
that  organization,  and  at  its  annual 
meeting  last  March  read  a  paper  on  the 
fuel  problem.  He  was  twice  married, 
first  to  Miss  Fannie  Sherive  of  Bolton, 
who  died  in  1897,  and  second  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Robinson  of  Hartford,  Conn., 
who  died  in  1913. 

He  is  survived  by  his  daughter.  Miss 
Helen  F.  Whiting;  a  brother,  Edward 
G.  Whiting;  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Harriet 
N.  Flower  of  Westfield,  N.  J.  Inter- 
ment was  at  Forestdale  Cemetery. 

1881 
Frank  H.  Parsons,  Esq.,  Secretary 
CO  Wall  Street,  New  York  City. 
Charles  E.  Ladd  of  Carlton,  Oregon, 
is  Local  Chairman  of  the  Food  Conser- 
vation Committee. 

Dr.  Frederic  W.  Sears  of  Burlington, 
Vt.,  is  a  member  of  the  Medical  Advis- 
ory Board  in  his  district. 

Rev.  Elmer  S.  Forbes  of  Boston  is  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Boston  Committee  on  War  Camp 
Community  Service,  and  chairman  of 
the  sub-committee  on  Church  activities. 

B.  Preston  Clarke  is  assistant  to 
Henry  B.  Endicott,  Food  Administrator 
for  Massachusetts. 

Dr.  Walter  J.  Richardson  of  Fair- 
mont, Minn.,  served  as  Surgeon  for 
Company  E.,  2d  Minnesota  Inf.,  while 
they  were  in  camp  in  that  state.  He  is 
the  medical  member  of  his  county  draft 
board. 

Rev.  Henry  G.  Smith  and  Rev.  An- 
drew F.  Underhill,  both  of  North- 
ampton, were   appointed    speakers  for 


Hampshire    County   on   behalf   of   the 
Third  Liberty  Loan. 

As  a  testimonial  of  their  esteem  and 
admiration,  4,000  graduates  of  the 
chemistry  department  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania State  College  have  presented  Dr. 
G.  G.  Pond,  dean  of  the  School  of 
Natural  Science,  with  a  $5,000  Liberty 
Bond  of  the  third  issue.  The  gift  was 
made  in  connection  with  the  celebration 
of  his  thirty  years  of  service  with  the 
college. 

Frank  H.  Parsons  was  married  on 
Saturday  noon,  April  27th,  at  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Brooklyn,  to 
Miss  Mabel  Howard  Randall,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Howard  Randall  of  Brooklyn. 
Professor  Edward  S.  Parsons,  '83, 
brother  of  the  groom,  acted  as  best  man. 
Lawrence  F.  Abbott,  '81,  and  W^alter 
H.  Crittenden,  "81,  were  two  of  the 
ushers.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  L.  Mason  Clarke,  '80. 
They  will  reside  at  200  Hicks  Street, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Wilford  L.  Robbins, 
formerly  dean  of  the  Episcopal  Semi- 
nary in  New  York,  is  a  member  of  the 
committee  on  the  War  and  the  Religious 
Outlook,  as  the  representative  of  the 
Episcopal  Church.  This  committee  is 
made  up  of  leading  clergymen  of  the 
different  denominations  whose  duty  it 
is  to  find  out  if  possible  the  effect  on 
churches  of  the  war  to  date,  the  prob- 
able effect  of  the  war  to  come,  and  what 
the  church  ought  to  get  ready  to  do 
when  the  war  comes  to  an  end. 

Walter  H.  Crittenden  has  been  elected 
Second  Vice-President  of  the  Brooklyn 
Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

1882 

John  P.  Gushing,  Secretary, 
Whitneyville,  Conn. 


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Franklin  B.  Ingraham's  son.  Lieu- 
tenant Franklin  Temple  Ingraham,  U. 
S.  A.,  C.  A.  C,  died  of  pneumonia  at  his 
home  in  Wellesley  on  April  11th.  Lieu- 
tenant Ingraham  was  a  Harvard,  1914, 
man. 

Rev.  Frederick  T.  Rouse,  D.  D.,  who 
recently  closed  his  interim  pastorate  at 
First  Congregational  Church,  Madison, 
Wis.,  is  now  supplying  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Rev.  Edson  D.  Hale  of  Martinez, 
Cal.,  is  a  member  of  the  California 
Home  Guard  and  was  chairman  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Work  Drive  in 
Martinez. 

Rev.  Roland  Cotton  Smith,  D.  D., 
rector  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  with  Mrs.  Smith 
is  spending  the  summer  vacation  at  his 
summer  home  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  which 
is  called  "  Cottonfield." 

The  college  preacher  at  Amherst  on 
Sunday,  May  12th,  was  the  Rev.  Lucius 
H.  Thayer  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

1883 

Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 
2301-2311  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
Avery  F.  Cushman  has  recently  been 
appointed  a  Judge  Advocate  in  the 
U.  S.  Army,  with  the  rank  of  Major, 
and  is  stationed  at  Washington  at  the 
office  of  the  Judge  Advocate  General. 

George  E.  Hooker  has  recently  been 
appointed  by  Governor  Lowden  of  Illi- 
nois, a  member  of  the  State  Board  of 
Pensions.  He  is  Civic  Secretary  of  the 
City  Club  of  Chicago,  a  member  of  the 
Resident  Board  of  Management  of 
Hull  House,  and  a  member  of  the  Ex- 
emption Board  of  the  district  in  which 
Hull  House  is  situated. 

Theodore  G.  Lewis,  who  has  been  in 
newspaper  work  for  a  number  of  years 


in  various  New  England  cities,  has  re- 
turned to  the  practice  of  law,  and  is 
now  connected  with  the  firm  of  Elder, 
Ball  &  Lavigne,  at  423  Main  Street, 
Springfield,  Mass. 

Calvin  H.  Morse  has  been  appointed 
chairman  for  the  Rocky  Mountain 
States  of  the  Hotel  Division  of  the 
National  Food  Administration, — also  a 
member  of  the  Colorado  State  Food 
Control  Committee.  He  is  manager  of 
the  Brown  Palace  Hotel  of  Denver. 
His  son,  Bradbury  Morse,  is  now  in 
college  in  the  class  of  '19. 

Corey  McFarland  has  recently  gone 
into  the  steel  business  in  connection 
with  the  Fluid  Compressed  Steel  Com- 
pany. He  still  maintains  his  interest 
as  proprietor  of  the  McFarland  Paper 
Company,  and  as  vice-president  of  the 
Standard  Four  Tire  Company.  He  is 
chairman  of  the  Keokuk  (Iowa)  Chap- 
ter of  the  Red  Cross,  and  has  done  much 
effective  public  speaking  for  both 
the  Red  Cross  and  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
He  has  a  son  in  France,  a  first  lieu- 
tenant in  the  Military  Transportation 
Department. 

Charles  H.  Pratt  is  now  connected 
with  the  U.  S.  Reclamation  Service  and 
stationed  at  Torrington,  Wyoming. 
He  has  charge  of  two  divisions  of  con- 
struction work  on  a  large  irrigation 
canal  that  will  water  about  one  hundred 
thousand  acres  of  arid  land.  It  is 
known  as  the  Fort  Laramie  unit  of  the 
North  Platte  project. 

Rev.  E.  H.  Byington  has  published 
through  the  Pilgrim  Press  the  "City  of 
the  Second  Life,"  described  as  "a  re- 
cital of  unexpected  experiences  in  the 
other  world,  unfolding  like  a  story  of 
adventure." 

The  General  Court  of  the  Connecti- 
cut Society  of  Colonial  Wars  held  in 


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May  elected  Williston  Walker  as  Gov- 
ernor. He  was  also  chosen  Historian 
of  the  society. 

Dr.  Cornelius  H.  Patton  has  recently 
made  an  extended  trip  west  to  the 
Pacific  Coast,  but  was  able  to  return  for 
Commencement  and  the  class  reunion 
at  Amherst  in  June.  Dr.  Patton  deliv- 
ered the  Commencement  address  on 
May  2d,  at  the  Pacific  School  of  Religion 
in  Berkeley,  Cal.  In  a  recent  issue  of 
the  Congregationalist  and  Advance  he 
gives  impressions  of  his  trip  in 
an  article  entitled  "Transcontinental 
Glimpses." 

Osgood  Smith  was  largely  responsible 
for  the  success  of  the  Third  Liberty 
Loan  in  Cuba,  being  secretary  of  the 
committee  in  charge. 

Justice  Arthur  Prentice  Rugg  was 
elected  in  May  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society. 

The  May  issue  of  the  Quarterly 
contained  an  account  of  the  death  of 
Edward  A.  Guernsey,  with  a  short 
sketch  of  his  life.  To  that  sketch,  how- 
ever, should  be  added  the  fact  that  at 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  advertising 
manager  for  the  Ivers  &  Pond  Piano 
Company. 

Because  of  his  experience  in  the 
United  States  Signal  Service  from  1883 
to  1888,  Enoch  W.  French,  of  Ray, 
Arizona,  was  chosen  as  one  of  the  "Four 
Minute  Men."  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  County  Board  of  Fuel  Conserva- 
tion. 

Henry  A.  Simonds  of  Bothell,  Wash., 
is  Secretary  of  the  King  County  Coun- 
cil for  Patriotic  Service  (Bothell  auxil- 
iary) and  is  also  Secretary  of  the  Four 
Minute  Men  of  Bothell. 

Professor  Edward  S.  Parsons  is  serv- 
ing in  the  Bureau  of  Overseas  Personnel 


of  the  National  War  Work  Council  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Besides  being  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Education  of  the  Commission 
on  Training  Camp  Activities,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  War  Department, 
William  Orr  is  Educational  Director 
of  the  National  War  Work  Council  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  in  charge  of  educa- 
tional activities  in  this  country  and 
over-seas. 

Edwin  Fowler  has  changed  his  ad- 
dress to  W'eona,  Ark.,  for  one  year. 

The  financial  articles  on  topics  relat- 
ing to  the  war,  written  bj'  Alexander  D. 
Noyes,  and  appearing  in  several 
magazines,  are  attracting  a  great  deal  of 
attention.  Especially  interesting  are 
his  articles  in  the  Nation,  among  which 
are  the  following  since  the  last  issue  of 
the  Quarterly  went  to  press: — "The 
Market  and  the  Battle"  (April  4),  "The 
Third  War  Loan"  (April  11),  "War 
Revenue  and  War  Trade"  (May  4), 
"The  Rise  in  Stocks"  (May  18), 
"Financing  the  Railroads"  (May  25), 
"Why  Our  Exports  Decrease"  (June 
1),  "The  Problem  of  Railway  Rates" 
(June  8),  "Governing  Influences"  (June 
15),  "The  Harvest  Outlook"  (June  22), 
and  "The  Next  War  Loan"  (June  29). 

Richard  E.  Whitaker  of  Wrentham, 
Mass.,  who  is  expecting  to  enter  Am- 
herst this  fall,  is  a  son  of  the  late 
Elbridge  J.  Whitaker  of  '83. 

1884 

WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City 

Walter  S.  Robinson  of  Springfield, 
Mass.,  has  been  appointed  by  Governor 
McCall  as  trustee  of  the  Monson 
State  Hospital. 

Dr.  Michael  B.  Milan  of  Providence 


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is  a  member  of  District  Board  No.  1  for 
the  state  of  Rhode  Island. 

Rev.  Frank  E.  Butler  is  a  member  of 
the  8th  Company,  Providence  (R.  I.) 
Constabidary. 

Edward  M.  Bassett  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  Secretary  of  War  one  of 
a  board  of  five  to  appraise  the  property 
of  the  Bush  Terminal  Company  in 
Brooklyn,  with  a  view  to  the  U.  S.  Gov- 
ernment taking  permanent  possession 
of  the  piers  and  warehouses,  as  well  as 
to  fix  a  just  rate  of  compensation  for 
the  temporary  possession.  Mr.  Bassett 
was  also  a  member  of  the  American  Red 
Cross  Second  War  Fund  Committee  of 
Brooklyn. 

Another  new  book  from  the  pen 
of  Professor  James  H.  Tufts  of  the 
University  of  Chicago  has  made  its 
appearance.  It  is  entitled  "The  Real 
Business  of  Living,"  and  is  a  discussion 
of  the  subject  of  doing  one's  work  in 
the  world.  Henry  Holt  and  Company 
are  the  publishers.  The  International 
Journal  of  Ethics  for  April  had  for  its 
leading  article  an  essay  by  Professor 
Tufts  on  "Ethics  and  International 
Relations." 

Walter  C.  Low  has  been  chosen  a 
director  of  the  Municipal  Club  of 
Brooklyn. 

1885 

Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  Street,  New  York  City 

Homer  H.  Johnson,  Esq.,  of  Cleve- 
land, who  was  appointed  on  October 
12,  1917,  as  the  Federal  Fuel  Adminis- 
trator for  Ohio  and  who  has  maintained 
his  headquarters  at  Columbus,  O.,  has 
resigned  as  Fuel  Administrator. 

Arthur  F.  Stone  is  one  of  the  incor- 
porators and  Vice-President  and  Sec- 
retary of  the  W.  D.  Pelley  Publishing 


Co.,  of  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  which, 
beginning  May  6th,  owns  and  publishes 
the  St.  Johnshury  Caledonia.  Mr.  Stone 
will  continue  as  editor. 

Prof.  Edwin  G.  Warner  has  returned 
from  Texas,  where  for  five  months  he 
has  been  engaged  in  Army  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work  as  an  Educational  Secretary  at 
Kelley  Field.  He  reports  the  experience 
most  interesting,  but  looks  forward  to 
still  more  interesting  events  in  France, 
where  he  expects  shortly  to  go  in  further 
work  of  the  same  kind.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  War  Work  Commission 
of  the  National  Council  of  Congrega- 
tional Churches. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  town  of  South- 
boro,  Mass.,  unfurling  on  April  17th 
the  Honor  Flag  awarded  to  the  town  by 
the  National  Liberty  Loan  Committee 
in  recognition  of  its  being  the  first  town 
in  the  State  to  oversubscribe  its  allot- 
ment of  the  Third  Liberty  Loan,  the 
Governor  and  Rev.  W.  G.  Thayer,  '85, 
headmaster  of  St.  Marks'  School,  de- 
livered the  addresses. 

At  the  eleventh  annual  meeting  of  the 
Massachusetts  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety, held  in  Springfield  in  May,  the 
Rev.  Sherrod  Soule  delivered  one  of  the 
principal  addresses. 

Mary  Adelaide  Ralsten,  born  in 
Miimeapolis  on  February  5th,  1918,  is 
a  granddaughter  of  Frank  E.  Whitman, 
'85. 

Warren  E.  Russell  of  Massillon,  Ohio, 
is  serving  as  representative  of  his  own 
county  on  the  County  Fuel  Commission, 
by  appointment  of  H.  H.  Johnson. 

Sir  Herbert  B.  Ames  spoke  in  June 
at  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  on  "How  Canada  is  Financ- 
ing the  War."  By  special  invitation 
all   Amherst   men   in   Cleveland   were 


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asked  to  attend  and  a  large  number 
did  so. 

1886 

Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Addis  M.  Whitney,  formerly  treas- 
urer of  the  Massachusetts  Lighting 
Companies  of  Boston,  also  treasurer 
and  director  of  twenty-one  subsidiary 
companies  owned  by  it  and  furnishing 
light,  heat  and  power  to  thirty-one 
Massachusetts  cities  and  towns,  has 
been  appointed  Supervisor  of  Public 
Utilities  by  A.  W.  Shaw,  chairman  of 
the  commercial  economy  board,  a  de- 
partment of  the  War  Industries  Board. 
Mr.  Whitney  has  accordingly  moved  to 
Washington. 

Charles  M.  Starkweather  of  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  was  elected  at  the  Spring 
city  elections  a  member  of  the  High 
School  Committee.  He  ran  on  the 
Republican  ticket. 

Robert  A.  Woods  is  a  member  of  the 
Ayer  War  Camp  Recreation  Committee, 
chairman  of  the  Advisory  Committee 
on  Housing  and  Transportation  of  the 
Massachusetts  War  Efficiency  Board, 
member  of  the  National  Committee  on 
War  Prohibition,  and  President  of  the 
National  Conference  of  Social  Work 
which  covers  all  forms  of  war-time 
social  service. 

Mr.  Woods  has  been  elected  a  director 
of  the  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
to  serve  until  1920.  He  has  also  been 
elected  Second  Vice-President  of  the 
United  Improvement  Society  of  Boston. 
The  leading  article  in  the  Survey  for 
April  20th  was  by  Mr.  Woods  on 
"Massachusetts  Ratifies,"  Mr.  Woods 
being  chairman  of  the  State  Council  for 
National  Prohibition. 

Professor  Harris  H.  Wilder  of  the 
Department  of  Zoology  of  Smith  Col- 


lege has  been  elected  a  member  of  the 
Galton  Society  which  held  its  first  meet- 
ing in  New  York  City  this  spring.  The 
object  of  the  society  is  "  the  promoting 
of  the  study  of  racial  anthropology  and 
more  especially  of  the  origin,  migra- 
tion, physical  antl  mental  characters, 
crossing  and  evolution  of  human  races, 
living  and  extinct,  and  kindred  objects." 
The  membership  is  limited  to  twenty- 
five. 

The  Journal  of  E<lucation  states  that 
former  Superintendent  of  Schools,  J. 
M.  H.  Frederick  of  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
will  be  a  candidate  for  the  Republican 
nomination  for  Congress  in  the  twenty- 
second  Ohio  district.  He  is  one  of  the 
Four  Minute  Men  of  Cleveland. 

William  F.  Whiting  has  been  elected 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
and  also  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Holyoke  library. 

As  the  Quarterly  goes  to  press  there 
is  considerable  talk  among  New  York 
Democrats  in  regard  to  nominating 
Secretary  of  State  Robert  Lansing  for 
Governor.  This  is  regarded  as  un- 
likely, however.  In  the  first  place,  the 
Secretary  himself  has  frowned  upon  all 
such  talk,  and  in  the  second  place  the 
President  will  doubtless  feel  that  the 
Secretary  is  of  greater  value  to  the 
country  just  at  present  in  the  position 
he  so  ably  fills. 

Secretary  Lansing  received  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  LL.  D.  from  both 
Columbia  and  Union  at  the  Commence- 
ments in  June  and  delivered  noteworthy 
addres.ses  at  both  institutions. 

1887 
Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
.\rthur  Kendrick  of  Newton,  Mass., 
is  consulting  engineer  on  the  Gas  De- 
fense work  of  the  Bureau  of  Mines. 


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John  F.  Harper  of  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
is  an  associate  member  of  the  Legal 
Advisory  Board  in  Milwaukee  and  has 
also  been  assisting  the  District  Board, 
Eastern  District  of  Wisconsin. 

Walter  Porter  White  is  working  with 
the  staff  of  the  Geophysical  Laboratory 
at  Washington  on  the  production  of 
optical  glass  for  the  military  service  of 
the  Government. 

Professor  Frank  C.  Sharp  is  chairman 
of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  Faculty 
Committee  on  War  Publications.  This 
committee  has  charge  of  publishing  arti- 
cles in  the  newspapers  on  war  subjects 
at  the  expense  of  the  State  Council  of 
Defense  and  pamphlets  on  the  same 
subjects. 

Frederic  P.  Johnson  writes  that  he  is 
Principal  of  the  Hayward  (Cal.)  Union 
High  School  and  as  he  has  a  wife  and 
five  children  dependent  on  him  he  pre- 
sumes his  "bit"  of  service  will  be  at 
home,  but  adds  that  "if  Uncle  Sam 
wants  me  anywhere  else  to  help  in  the 
great  fight  for  human  welfare,  I  shall 
be  ready  to  report  for  duty."  "It  is 
a  pleasure,"  he  says,  "to  note  from  time 
to  time  Amherst's  aim  towards  educa- 
tion for  leadership,  not  for  the  glory  of 
it,  but  for  the  real  service,  the  helpful- 
ness thus  given." 

Frederic  B.  Pratt  has  been  elected  an 
honorary  member  of  the  Brooklyn 
Engineers'  Club.  Mr.  Pratt  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Red  Cross  Second 
War  Fund  Committee  in  Brooklyn. 

Howard  O.  Wood  was  a  member  of 
the  Brooklyn  Red  Cross  Central  Com- 
mittee for  the  Second  Red  Cross  drive. 

1888 
Wm.  B.  Gkeenougii,  Esq.,  Secretary 
32  WesLminster  St.,  Providence,  R.  L 

Arthur  M.  Heard  of  Manchester,  N. 


H.,  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  New  Hampshire  Commit- 
tee on  Public  Safety. 

George  N.  Seymour  of  Elgin,  Nebr., 
is  District  Chairman  of  the  Nebraska 
Liberty  Loan  Committee  and  Vice- 
Chairman  of  the  County  Council  of 
Defense. 

As  an  instructor  at  the  Cornell  Medi- 
cal School,  Dr.  James  Ewing  has  been 
doing  his  bit  by  conducting  classes  of 
military  surgeons  in  the  pathology  of 
fractures,  wounds  and  infections  en- 
countered in  military  service.  He  is 
also  lecturing  to  classes  in  Roentgen- 
ology assigned  to  the  school  from  the 
Surgeon  General's  office. 

Rev.  Frank  E.  Ramsdell  of  New 
Bedford,  Mass.,  is  a  lieutenant  in  Com- 
pany B,  17th  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
State  Guard. 

A  two-column  letter  was  published 
on  the  editorial  page  of  the  New  York 
Times  for  May  29th,  from  Professor 
Garrett  W.  Thompson,  head  Professor 
of  German  at  the  University  of  Maine. 
The  subject  of  the  letter  was  "The 
Future  of  German  Study."  Professor 
Thompson  advocated  putting  the  whole 
subject  in  the  hands  of  American  teach- 
ers, stating  that  the  presence  of  German 
teachers  in  American  education  is  a 
menace  too  great  to  be  overlooked.  He 
foresees  a  danger  when  peace  comes, 
with  the  American  proverbially  kind 
and  generous  heart  which  does  not  en- 
courage the  harboring  of  deep  wrongs, 
and  fears  that  German  intrigue  will  not 
cease  there,  but  will  through  German 
teachers  sow  German  Proi)aganda  in 
our  schools  and  colleges.  In  other  words 
he  favors  the  teaching  of  German,  but 
only  by  native  Americans.  The  article 
aroused  much  comment,  l)oth  pro  and 
con,   and   was   the  subject    of  a   great 


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many  "letters  to  the  editor"  for  some 
time. 

Frederick  H.  Paine  of  the  Eastern 
District  High  School  of  Brooklyn,  N. 
Y.,  has  been  chosen  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  School- 
masters' Association  of  New  York  and 
Vicinity. 

Charles  W.  Marshall  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Northampton  Committee 
for  Food  Production  and  Conserva- 
tion. 

Dr.  William  F.  Peirce,  President  of 
Kenyon  College,  was  one  of  a  party  of 
prominent  speakers  who  went  to  Eu- 
rope in  March  to  study  conditions  at  the 
Allied  battle  front.  After  an  extensive 
inspection  trip  along  the  front  in  France 
and  Belgium,  Dr.  Peirce  was  invited  to 
take  charge  of  the  "Rolling  Canteen," 
an  absolutely  unprecedented  concession. 
During  the  five  weeks  in  which  he  con- 
tinued at  this  work  with  the  French 
army  at  the  front  line  trenches,  his 
experiences  were  remarkable,  and  his 
opportunities  for  observation  were  per- 
haps as  great  as  has  been  given  to  any 
other  civilian  since  the  beginning  of  the 
war.  Dr.  Peirce  has  since  returned  to 
this  country  and  has  delivered  a  number 
of  most  interesting  lectures,  including 
one  before  the  University  Club  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Dr.  Peirce  has  also  been  appointed 
by  Governor  Cox  of  Ohio  a  member  of 
an  honorary  commission,  known  as  the 
History  Board,  which  will  direct  the 
collection  and  preservation  of  material 
bearing  on  Ohio's  part  in  the  war,  with 
a  view  of  obtaining  a  full  and  complete 
history  of  the  state's  participation  in 
the  war. 

Rev.  William  Dwight  Marsh  died  on 
Saturday,  April  20th,  at  Brushton,  N. 
Y.,  aged  52  years.  He  was  born  in 
Bernardston,  Mass.,  on  November  21, 


1865,  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Dwight  W. 
and  Elizabeth  (Le  Baron)  Marsh  and 
fitted  for  college  at  the  Northampton 
and  Amherst  High  Schools. 

After  graduating  from  Amherst  he 
taught  for  two  years  at  Joffria  College, 
Ceylon,  and  then  for  four  years  took 
up  graduate  work,  first  at  Yale  and 
later  at  the  University  of  Chicago, 
graduating  from  the  Chicago  Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

He  donated  his  life  to  evangelistic 
work  at  Schroon  Lake,  N.  Y.,  and 
East  Northfield,  Mass.,  most  of  the 
time  in  the  Adirondacks.  He  was 
married  on  October  9,  1897,  to  Miss 
Lillian  A.  Sawyer  of  Schroon  Lake, 
who  with  one  son,  John  Marsh,  survives 
him.  Interment  was  in  West  Cemetery, 
Amherst. 

1889 

Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary 

15  Elm  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Dr.  George  A.  Harlow  of  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  is  a  member  of  the  Wisconsin 
Committee  of  National  Defense  and  is 
also  assistant  to  Major  G.  V.  L  Brown 
in  examining  Wisconsin  physicians  for 
commissions  in  the  Medical  Officers' 
Reserve  Corps. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  William  Horace  Day 
is  Chaplain  and  Captain  of  the  Fourth 
Regiment  Connecticut  Home  Guard. 
Dr.  Day  was  the  College  Preacher  at 
Wellesley  on  Sunday,  May  19th. 

Rev.  Arthur  F.  Newell  is  one  of  the 
Four  Minute  Men.  He  has  also  done 
clerical  work  as  assistant  to  the  Wood- 
berry  County  (Iowa)  Board  of  Exemp- 
tion and  has  spoken  frequently  in  Iowa 
during  the  financial  campaign  for  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Work. 

Robert  D.  Holt  is  a  member  of  Com- 
pany D,  Newton  (Mass.)  Constabulary, 
for  home  service,  and  is  also  a  special 


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police  officer,  his  commission  expiring 
one  month  after  the  close  of  the  war. 

Dr.  John  S.  Hitchcock  is  vice-chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Hygiene, 
Medicine  and  Sanitation  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Committee  on  Public  Safety. 

Professor  W.  E.  Chancellor,  head  of 
the  Department  of  Social  Science  Col- 
lege of  Wooster,  is  teaching  this  summer 
session  educational  sociology  and  school 
hygiene  at  the  new  School  of  Education, 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  which  has  been  formed 
by  combination  of  departments  from 
Western  Reserve  University  and  the 
City  Normal  School  of  Cleveland. 

E.  E.  Jackson,  Jr.,  acted  as  chairman 
of  the  Corporation  Division  in  the 
Second  Red  Cross  Drive  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Elmer  H.  Copeland,  wife  of  Dr. 
Elmer  H.  Copeland  of  Northampton, 
has  been  chosen  as  Corresponding 
Secretary  of  the  Massachusetts  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution. 

Rev.  Edwin  B.  Dean,  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  North- 
field,  Minn.,  is  a  sergeant  in  Company 
A,  7th  Battalion,  Minnesota  Home 
Guard.  He  is  also  director  in  the  North- 
field  Chapter  of  the  American  Red 
Cross,  one  of  the  Four  Minute  Men, 
and  Boy  Scout  Commissioner  for  the 
Boy  Scout  Council  of  Northfield. 

Robert  H.  Cushman  is  a  trustee  and 
also  secretary  of  the  Monson  (Mass.) 
War  Fund  Association. 

James  A.  McKibben  has  been  re- 
elected Secretary  of  the  Boston  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce. 

Arthur  Curtiss  James  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  National 
Committee  in  charge  of  raising  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  war  fund  of  $100,000,000. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Distributing 


Committee    of    the    United    Hospital 
Fund  of  New  York  City. 

Senator  George  B.  Churchill  of  Am- 
herst has  announced  that  he  will  be  a 
candidate  for  renomination  at  the  pri- 
maries this  fall  and  the  Amherst  College 
trustees  have  granted  him  a  year's  leave 
of  absence.  During  the  debate  in  the 
Senate  on  the  Prohibition  amendment, 
he  made  one  of  the  leading  speeches 
in  its  favor  and  at  the  annual  meeting 
in  the  spring  of  the  Merchants'  Club 
of  Boston  he  debated  against  the  initia- 
tive and  referendum. 

Daniel  V.  Thompson,  and  Mrs. 
Thompson  with  him,  are  in  the  United 
States  Army  and  Navy  Hospital  at 
Williamsbridge,  New  York,  he  as  As- 
sistant Field  Director,  and  she  as  host- 
ess in  the  Red  Cross. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  Allan  MacNeill  is  occupy- 
ing the  post  of  General  Secretary  for 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  France.  His  address 
is  12  Rue  d'Augisseau,  Army  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  Headquarters,  Paris.  During  his 
absence  Mrs.  MacNeill  is  making  her 
home  in  Amherst.  For  twenty-five 
years  he  has  been  the  pastor  of  Union 
Church,  Ridgefield  Park,  N.  J. 

The  summer  home  of  Governor 
Charles  S.  Whitman  of  New  York  at 
Newport,  R.  T.,  was  badly  damaged  by 
fire  on  May  26lh.  The  fire  was  discov- 
ered by  a  member  of  the  Coast  Guard 
and  is  supposed  to  have  been  caused  by 
lightning.  Governor  Whitman  has  been 
delivering  a  number  of  patriotic  and 
political  addresses  during  the  past  two 
months.  The  Governor  has  also  been 
elected  Honorary  Vice-President  of  the 
National  Opera  Club  of  America. 


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J.  Herbert  Low,  head  of  the  Erasmus 
Hall  High  School,  has  been  re-elected 
as  President  of  the  Municipal  Club  of 
Brooklyn. 

Charles  R.  Fay  of  the  Erasmus  Hall 
High  School  in  Brooklyn  has  charge  of 
the  work  of  the  farm  cadets  in  Madison 
County  of  New  York  State  and  has  a 
large  number  of  school  boys  under  his 
supervision. 

The  State  Revieio  for  June  contained 
an  article  by  Commissioner  of  High- 
ways James  Duffey  of  New  York  State 
on  "The  State  to  Acquire  the  Toll 
Bridges." 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  D wight  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Dr.  D.  E.  Smith  of  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  is  doing  medical  work  among  the 
refugees  in  Trance,  under  the  Red  Cross. 
He  sailed  for  France  in  April  and  is  to  be 
gone  at  least  one  year  and  probably  for 
the  duration  of  the  war.  He  also 
writes: — "Rev.  John  Timothy  Stone, 
'91,  with  the  commission  of  Captain, 
has  been  doing  a  very  wonderful  work 
among  the  soldiers  at  Camp  Grant, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
His  church  gave  him  leave  of  absence 
for  part  of  each  week  for  six  months 
and  extended  the  time  to  nine  months. 
His  personal  touch  for  a  higher  life 
among  the  men  had  a  marked  effect 
upon  the  morals  of  Camp  Grant." 

Calvin  E.  Woodside  is  a  member  of 
Local  Exemption  Board  No.  14,  Los 
Angeles,  Cal. 

Dr.  Arthur  Stoddard  Cooley  has 
changed  his  address  to  23  North  New 
Street,  Bethlehem,  Pa.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Company  A,  Battalion  for  Home 
Defense,  Bethlehem,  chairman  of  the 
Food  Conservation  Committee  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Bethle- 
hem, and  associate  member,  Legal  Ad- 
visory Board,  Local  Exemption  Board. 


Professor  Robert  Sessions  Wood- 
worth,  Ph.  D.,  Professor  of  Psychology 
at  Columbia  University,  was  the  recip- 
ient at  the  last  Columbia  Commence- 
ment of  the  Butler  medal,  one  of  the 
principal  university  awards,  given  for 
showing  the  most  competency  in  phil- 
osophy and  in  educational  theory, 
practice  or  administration  during  the 
preceding  year.  Professor  Woodworth 
has  recently  published  through  the 
Columbia  University  Press  a  new  book 
entitled  "Dynamic  Psychology." 

Nathan  P.  Avery  has  been  elected  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  and 
of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Holyoke  public  library. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  So.  Summit  Street,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 
R.    Stuart    Smith    is    assisting    Mr. 
Endicott,  the  Red  Cross  Commissioner 
for  Great  Britain. 

Amasa  B.  Bryant  of  Gardner,  Mass., 
has  been  acting  as  chairman  of  the 
Liberty  Loan  Committee  for  Gardner 
and  surrounding  towns.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  County  Committee  on 
Thrift  Stamps  and  War  Savings. 

Rev.  John  H.  Grant  of  Elyria,  Ohio, 
has  been  spending  a  portion  of  the  years 
1917-1918  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work,  his 
church  having  granted  him  leave  of 
absence.  More  recently  he  has  been 
Religious  Work  Director  at  Camp  Sheri- 
dan, Montgomery,  Ala. 

The  Springfield  Republican  for  May 
9th  announced  that  Lyman  W.  Griswold 
of  Greenfield,  Mass.,  would  contest 
with  Senator  George  B.  Churchill,  '89, 
the  Republican  senatorial  nomination 
in  the  fall  primaries  for  the  Franklin 
Hampshire  district.  Mr.  Griswold  has 
previously  served  in  the  lower  branch 


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of  the  Legislature  in  1906,  1907  and 
1908,  taking  a  prominent  part  in  accom- 
plishing much  important  work.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory 
Board. 

Edward  N.  Huntress  is  the  State 
Director  of  Massachusetts  for  the  Red 
Triangle  $35,000,000  campaign. 

A  daughter,  Katherine  Chase  Fairley, 
was  born  on  June  12th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Samuel  C.  Fairley.  Mr.  Fairley  is 
serving  in  the  Equipment  and  Supplies 
Division  of  the  National  War  Work 
Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Former  Assistant  United  States  At- 
torney General  William  H.  Lewis  deliv- 
ered the  Commencement  address  at 
Wilberforce  University  in  Ohio  on  June 
20th.  During  the  Liberty  Loan  cam- 
paign he  delivered  a  number  of  ad- 
dresses, including  one  in  Springfield, 
Mass.  At  the  Wilberforce  University 
Commencement  the  honorary  degree 
of  LL.D.  was  conferred  upon  Mr. 
Lewis. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

On  the  advice  of  his  physicians,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Henry  P.  Schauffler  has  given 
up  his  work  as  head  of  the  Brooklyn 
City  Mission,  to  which  he  has  devoted 
himself  tirelessly  for  the  past  five  years. 
The  invaluable  work  he  has  done  for 
religion  in  Brooklyn  is  expressed  by  the 
directors  in  strong  resolutions  which 
in  reference  to  his  task  of  radically 
reorganizing  the  work  of  the  society 
state: 

"To  this  he  brought  an  unusual 
knowledge  and  a  wide  vision  which 
resulted  in  a  constructive  program, 
which  has  won  the  commendation  of  all. 
Much  of  this  program  by  his  loyalty 
and  unfailing  energy,  he  has  been  able 
to  realize.     The  York  Street,  Goodwill 


Center,  the  Goodwill  Industries,  House 
of  Goodwill,  and  the  Atlantic  Avenue 
Goodwill  Center  are  all  monuments  to 
his  wisdom  and  devotion." 

The  resolutions  continue: 

"We  wish  to  express  our  deep  sense 
of  attachment  to  and  appreciation  of 
those  personal  qualities  which  have 
made  Dr.  Schauffler  not  only  a  trusted 
leader,  but  a  valued  friend;  to  acknowl- 
edge his  constructive  vision  and  his 
loyal  service  and  to  express  our  obliga- 
tion to  maintain  and  complete  the 
things  for  which  he  has  given  his  health 
and  the  best  years  of  his  life,  and  recom- 
mend that  his  resignation  as  superin- 
tendent be  accepted  with  regret." 

Says  the  Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle: 

"It  is  a  very  great  pity  that  in  his 
enthusiasm  for  this  work  Dr.  Schauffler 
should  have  overtaxed  his  strength  and 
have  been  compelled  to  withdraw.  But 
he  has  pointed  the  way  and  set  the 
work  so  firmly  upon  its  feet  that  it  will 
be  continued  along  the  lines  he  devised. 
His  influence  will  be  felt  here  for  years 
and  if  he  should  in  time  become  strong 
enough  to  justify  his  return  to  an  ex- 
tremely strenuous  life,  he  would  be 
welcomed  by  men  and  women  whose 
confidence  and  support  is  an  honor." 

Professor  William  L.  Raub  of  Knox 
College,  111.,  is  chairman  of  the  Knox 
County  Committee  on  Publicity  and  a 
member  of  the  Knox  County  Executive 
Committee  of  the  State  Council  of  De- 
fense of  Illinois.  In  a  recent  issue  of  the 
Knox  Ahimnvs  Dr.  Raub  discusses 
"German  War  Philosophy,"  showing 
that  America  and  her  allies  fight  not 
only  to  make  the  world  safe  for  democ- 
racy, but  also  for  religion,  ethics  and 
civilization. 

Rev.  Frederic  Beekman,  formerly  of 
the  Church  of  the  Nativity,  Bethlehem, 
Pa.,  has  succeeded  Rev.  Samuel  M. 
Walton  as  rector  of  the  American 
Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity  in  Paris, 
where  he  has  been  doing  war  work  as 
director  of  the  Atnerican  Soldiers'  and 


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Sailors'  Club.  He  oflBciated  at  the  fu- 
neral in  May  of  the  late  James  Gordon 
Bennett,  the  owner  of  the  New  York 
Herald. 

Randall  K.  Brown  is  Vice-Chairman 
of  the  Red  Cross  in  Omaha,  Nebr. 

Charles  D.  Norton  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors of  the  new  American  Railway 
Express  Company,  the  merger  by  the 
Govermnent  of  the  express  companies. 
In  the  second  Red  Cross  drive  in  New 
York,  he  was  chairman  of  the  insurance 
sub-committee.  On  May  18th  he  spoke 
to  the  students  at  Amherst  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  Red  Cross. 

The  great  success  of  the  second  Red 
Cross  drive  in  New  York  City  was  due 
largely  to  William  C.  Breed,  who  was 
chairman  of  the  committee,  and  who 
worked  unceasingly  for  several  weeks 
in  its  behalf.  Mr.  Breed  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Amherst  College  Board 
of  Trustees  by  the  Alumni  at  the  last 
Commencement.  He  is  a  lawyer  and 
member  of  the  firm  of  Breed,  Abbott  & 
Morgan,  New  York  City.  While  in  col- 
lege he  was  business  manager  of  the 
Amherst  Student,  Ivy  orator,  one  of  the 
Commencement  speakers.  Hardy  de- 
bater and  Hyde  prize  speaker.  He  was 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  class  of 
1893  from  graduation  up  to  1913,  and  is 
now  vice-president  of  the  Amherst  As- 
sociation of  New  York. 

Mr.  Breed  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
New  York  in  1895  and  is  chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Bureau  of  Mu- 
nicipal Research,  of  the  Church  Club 
of  New  York,  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Union  League  Club.  When 
the  war  broke  out  he  was  in  London  and 
became  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
American  Citizens'  Relief  Committee 
in  that  city. 


1894 

Henry    E.    Whitcomb,    Secretary 
53  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Dr.  H.  R.  M.  Landis  of  Philadelphia 
is  President  of  the  Tuberculosis  Ex- 
amining Board  at  Camp  Dix,  New 
Jersey. 

Much  regret  is  felt  at  Oberlin  Theo- 
logical Seminary  over  the  departure  of 
Dr.  Eugene  W.  Lyman,  who,  as  an- 
nounced in  the  last  issue  of  the  Quar- 
terly, has  just  become  Professor  of  the 
Philosophy  of  Religion  and  Christian 
Ethics  at  Union  Theological  Seminary 
in  New  York  City.  His  picture  appears 
in  the  issue  for  April  8th  of  the  Congre- 
gationalist,  which  says  of  him: 

"Professor  Lyman  went  to  Oberlin 
from  Bangor  Seminary  five  years  ago, 
and  immediately  entered  into  the  life 
of  the  community  and  the  First  Church 
as  well  as  into  the  work  of  his  classroom. 
As  a  teacher  be  has  commanded  the  in- 
tellectual respect  and  the  hearty  loyalty 
of  his  students.  His  progressive  spirit, 
his  eminent  fairness,  his  wide  learning 
and  mature  scholarship  have  been 
carried  into  the  foreign  field  and  into 
many  parishes  throughout  the  Middle 
West  by  the  students,  who  have  studied 
with  him  rather  than  under  him.  For 
Professor  Lyman  may  be  called  a  com- 
panion teacher,  not  dominating  but 
walking  with  his  students.  Many  of 
Oberlin  students  during  the  past  five 
years  bear  witness  to  his  clear  insight 
and  his  strong  grasp  of  the  varied  prob- 
lems rising  in  his  department.  He  has 
sent  them  forth  grounded  through  their 
own  thinking  under  his  leadership." 

Dr.  Lyman  has  recently  published 
a  new  book  entitled  "The  Experience 
of  God  in  Modern  Life,"  described  by 
the  Brooklyn  Eagle  as  a  "book  showing 
that  religion  is  the  essential  fact  in 
personality  and  progress."  The  Con- 
gregationalist  and  Advance  for  May  2d 
contained  an  article  by  Dr.  Lyman  on 
"God's  Saving  Power  at  Work  Today, 
Signs  of  his  Redeeming  Activity." 


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Rev.  Edmund  A.  Burnham,  pastor 
of  Plymouth  Church,  in  Syracuse,  N. 
Y.,  went  early  in  May  to  Camp  Dix  in 
New  Jersey  to  act  for  three  months  as 
camp  pastor. 

The  Columbia  Law  Review  for  April 
contained  an  article  by  Harlan  F. 
Stone  on  "The  Equitable  Rights  and 
Liabilities  of  a  Stranger  to  a  Contract." 

When  the  members  of  1894  learn  that 
Congressman  Bertrand  H.  Snell  played 
center  field  for  the  Republicans,  they 
will  then  understand  why  the  annual 
baseball  game  between  the  Republican 
and  Democratic  members  of  the  House 
of  Representatives  on  June  8th  was 
won  by  the  Republicans  by  a  score  of 
19 — 5.  From  the  low  score  it  will  be 
seen  that  runs,  not  errors,  were  counted. 
The  game  was  played  this  year  for  the 
benefit  of  the  American  Red  Cross. 

Principal  Alfred  E.  Stearns  of  Phil- 
lips Andover  Academy  had  an  article 
in  the  May  issue  of  Education  entitled 
"Education  and  the  New  Order." 

Charles  W.  Disbrow  is  in  charge  of 
the  Boys'  Working  Reserve;  made  up 
of  Cleveland  boys  who  are  endeavoring 
to  do  their  bit  this  summer  in  produc- 
tive work.  Three  camps  have  been 
established,  one  at  North  End,  one  in 
Dover  Center,  and  one  at  Perry.  The 
plan  of  each  camp  is  to  help  100  farmers 
during  the  summer.  The  farmer  is  ex- 
pected to  telephone  the  camp  in  the 
morning,  telling  the  director  what  work 
he  needs  done  and  how  many  boys  will 
be  necessary  to  do  it. 

1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
30  Church  Street,  New  York  City 

Dr.  G.  Walter  Fiske,  dean  of  Oberlin, 
was  the  college  preacher  on  Sunday, 
April  28th,  at  Wheaton  College. 


Dwight  W.  Morrow  returned  in  May 
after  spending  several  months  in  Eu- 
rope on  a  war  mission.  In  the  latter 
part  of  April,  19  Smith  College  gradu- 
ates, doing  war  work  in  France,  ten- 
dered a  dinner  in  Paris  to  Mrs.  Morrow, 
who  is  President  of  the  Smith  College 
Alumnae  Association. 

During  Mr.  Morrow's  absence  the 
report  of  the  Investigating  Commission 
of  the  State  Prison  System  of  New 
Jersey,  of  which  commission  Mr.  Mor- 
row was  the  chairman,  was  made  pub- 
lic, attracting  wide  and  favorable 
attention.  An  editorial  in  the  New 
York  Evening  Post,  under  the  title  of 
"A  Notable  Prison  Report,"  says: 

"This  report,  compiled  under  the 
personal  direction  of  Dwight  W.  Mor- 
row, chairman  of  the  commission,  is  in 
important  respects  unique.  We  venture 
to  say  that  it  will  become  a  classic  in  the 
field  of  penalogy,  essentially  funda- 
mental to  any  study  of  the  subject." 

Rev.  Sherman  W.  Haven  is  chief  of 
District  F  of  the  Oneida  County  (N. 
Y.)  Home  Defense  Committee,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  War  Committee  of  the  Oneida 
County  Board  of  Supervisors,  and  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
the  War  Chest  Association  of  the  town 
of  Sangerfield,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Frederick  H.  Law  has  published 
a  book  for  use  in  high  schools  entitled 
"  Modern  Short  Stories."  The  Century 
Company  are  the  publishers. 

The  mayors  of  the  cities  of  New  York 
State  holding  their  ninth  annual  con- 
ference on  June  12th  at  Newburg  elected 
Mayor  Walter  R.  Stone  of  Syracuse  as 
president  of  the  association. 

Rev.  Robert  W.  Dunbar,  pastor  for 
nine  years  of  the  Second  Congregational 
Church  at  Millbury,  Mass.,  has  re- 
signed to  take  effect  by  the  last  of 
July,    having   accepted    a   call    to    the 


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Congregational  Churches  of  Greenville 
and  Mason,  N.  H. 

Professor  Charles  T.  Burnett  has  been 
elected  director  of  the  Walker  Art  Mu- 
seum at  Bowdoin  College. 

Lieutenant-Governor  Calvin  Cool- 
idge  has  announced  his  candidacy  for 
the  Republican  nomination  for  Gover- 
nor of  Massachusetts.  He  has  always 
been  known  as  a  splendid  vote-getter 
and  his  nomination  and  subsequent 
election  are  regarded  as  more  than 
probable  in  political  circles.  He  was 
born  in  Plymouth,  Vt.,  and  after 
graduating  from  Amherst  studied  law 
with  two  Amherst  men  in  Northampton. 
His  first  political  office  was  that  of  city 
solicitor  of  Northampton  in  1900  and 
1901.  In  1907  and  again  in  1908  he 
represented  the  First  Hampshire  dis- 
trict in  the  Massachusetts  House.  He 
was  Mayor  of  Northampton  in  1910 
and  1911.  The  next  four  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  State  Senate,  acting  as 
President  for  that  body  in  1914  and 
1915.  In  1916  he  was  elected  lieuten- 
ant-governor and  last  year  was  re-elect- 
ed, running  ahead  of  his  ticket  by  over 
10,000  votes. 

Herbert  L.  Pratt,  who  has  charge  of 
the  army  canteens  in  France  for  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  is  to  spend  six  months  of 
the  year  in  that  country.  He  returned 
to  the  United  States  in  June  and  a  re- 
cent issue  of  the  Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle 
contained  a  full  page  interview  with 
him,  full  of  the  greatest  interest. 

"Do  not  worry  about  the  way  our 
boys  are  fighting,"  he  said.  "I'll  tell 
you  something.  They  used  to  bring  in 
a  lot  of  prisoners.  While  I  was  on  the 
Toul  front  they  found  two  of  their  com- 
rades crucified.  Now  there  are  fewer 
prisoners.  They  shoot  the  Huns  down 
like  rats  and  they  will  continue  to 
shoot  them  down  like  rats.  I  do  not 
mean  that  they  never  take  any  prison- 
ers at  all.    One  dav  while  I  was  on  the 


front  they  brought  in  over  a  hundred; 
another  time,  two  hundred  and  forty. 
But  there  are  no  small  batches  of  prison- 
ers. Rushing  forward  and  crying  'Kam- 
erad!  Kamerad!'  doesn't  pay.  Ger- 
mans are  killed,  that's  all. 

"The  folks  at  home  should  not  worry 
either,  about  the  German  drives.  The 
only  anxiety  in  France  is  when  the 
Germans  are  making  no  drives.  In  the 
last  one  we  got  three  or  four  Germans 
for  every  Allied  soldier  fallen.  And 
just  before  I  left  France  there  began 
to  be  real  anxiety  because  no  new  Ger- 
man drive  had  been  started.  The  Allies 
feared  they  would  miss  more  opportu- 
nities to  kill  Germans. 

"One  thing  puzzled  me  when  I  first 
went  to  France,"  he  said.  "I  could  not 
understand  the  seriousness  of  our  boys. 
There  appeared  to  be  never  a  smile  on 
their  faces.  Now,  the  main  trouble  is 
that  our  boys  never  sing.  I  don't 
think  I  heard  any  singing  among  them 
while  I  was  there,  except  that  which  I 
heard  at  religious  services — and  that 
was  so  sad  in  its  nature  that  it  made  me 
and  others  who  heard  it  cry. 

"  This  condition  of  sadness  is  brought 
about  mainly  because  the  boys  are 
lonely.  They  need  big  brothers  to  talk 
to  and  cheer  them  up.  They  need  big 
red-blooded  men  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work  there.  Men  of  the  right  type,  who 
will  bring  cheer  and  comfort. 

"If  we  seek  the  cause  of  this  condi- 
tion among  the  men,  all  we  have  to  do 
is  to  go  back  over  their  environment 
here  for  the  past  twenty-five  years.  The 
American  boy  has  had  everything  pro- 
vided to  relieve  the  monotony  and 
tension  of  his  work.  And  now,  when 
we  take  thousands  upon  thousands — 
millions  even- — of  them  and  insist  that 
they  confine  their  activities  along  one 
channel,  we  have  got  to  provide  some- 
thing to  relieve  the  tension,  or  there 
will  be  trouble." 

William  S.  Tyler,  who  in  March  last 
was  appointed  Federal  Food  Admin- 
istrator for  New  Jersey,  has  established 
the  oflSce  of  the  Food  Administration  at 
601  Broad  Street,  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
for  the  period  of  the  war. 

Saxe  Hanford  of  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
served  as  chairman  of  the  Advertising 


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Committee  for  the  second  and  third 
Liberty  Loan  campaigns  of  that  city 
and  had  charge  of  all  the  loan  publicity. 

1896 

Thomas^B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Edwin  C.  Witherby  is  a  member  of 
the  Disbursement  Committee  of  the 
Syracuse  (N.  Y.)  War  Chest  Associa- 
tion. Mayor  Walter  R.  Stone,  '95,  is 
a  member  of  the  same  committee. 

Rev.  James  Dexter  Taylor  of  the 
Zulu  Branch  of  the  American  Board's 
South  African  Mission  is  spending  a 
furlough  in  this  country  and  is  using 
part  of  the  time  in  preparing  for  publi- 
cation the  manuscript  of  a  Zulu  Bible 
upon  which  he  has  been  at  work  for 
ten  years.  In  addition  to  having  super- 
vision of  a  mission  district,  he  has  been 
a  professor  in  the  seminary  at  Impol- 
weni.  At  the  last  Commencement 
Amherst  honored  him  with  the  Degree 
of  D.  D. 

William  D.  Steger  by  appointment  of 
the  Adjutant  General  of  New  York 
State  is  the  Government  Appeal  Agent 
for  Draft  Board  No.  211,  New  York 
City. 

Chester  T.  Porter  is  Second  Lieu- 
tenant in  Company  H,  No.  65,  19th 
Regiment  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Guard. 

John  T.  Pratt  is  doing  Red  Cross 
work  in  France.  Mrs.  Pratt  was  chair- 
man of  the  Woman's  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  third  Liberty  Loan  for 
the  Second  Federal  Reserve  District. 
Their  youngest  daughter,  Ruth  Baker 
Pratt,  aged  one  year  and  four  months, 
died  in  New  York  on  Thursday,  May 
23d,  suddenly,  of  pneumonia. 

Rev.  John  Reid  of  Franklin,  Mass., 
is  a  member  of  the  Town  Public  Safety 


Committee,  Vice-President  of  the  Frank- 
lin Chapter  of  the  American  Red  Cross, 
chairman  of  the  Armenian  Syrian  Re- 
lief Committee  of  Franklin  and  mem- 
ber of  the  committees  on  war  drives 
of  the  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Rev.  Frank  B.  McAllister  of  Cohas- 
set,  Mass.,  assumed  the  pastorate  of  the 
Park  Congregational  Church  of  Worces- 
ter on  May  19th. 

Rev.  Herbert  A.  Jump  has  been  as- 
signed by  the  War  Commission  of  the 
Federated  Council  of  Churches  to  study 
the  field  at  Quincy  and  the  Fore  River 
Shipbuilding  plant,  to  ascertain  what 
help  the  Federal  Council  might  offer. 
He  preached  the  baccalaureate  sermon 
at  the  New  Hampshire  State  College 
Commencement.  He  had  an  article 
in  the  Congregationalist  and  Advance  for 
June  13th  on  "The  Duty  of  War-Time 
Play." 

Announcement  is  made  of  the  forma- 
tion of  the  law  firm  of  Mitchell  & 
Staples  (Charles  J.  Staples)  with  offices 
at  Suite  1144  Prudential  Building, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Walter  Savage  Ball  is  acting  as  war 
correspondent  for  the  Providence  Jour- 
nal and  his  war  articles  are  one  of  the 
features  of  that  paper.  His  mail  ad- 
dress is  8  rue  de  Richlieu,  Paris,  France. 

William  G.  Hawes  is  doing  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work,  first  as  secretary  at  Camp 
Greene,  Charlotte,  N.  C,  and  later  as 
secretary  at  Fort  McPherson,  Atlanta, 
Georgia. 

Robert  T.  Elliott  is  a  member  of  the 
Worcester  (Mass.)  Home  Guards. 

A  Diocesan  War  Commission  of  five 
members   was   created   at   the   annual 


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meeting  this  spring  of  the  Diocese  of 
Western  Massachusetts  of  the  Protest- 
ant Episcopal  Church.  Judge  Edward 
T.  Esty  of  Worcester  is  a  member  of 
the  commission. 

Dr.  Leslie  R.  Bragg  of  Webster, 
Mass.,  is  a  member  of  the  Medical 
Advisory  Board,  Massachusetts  Dis- 
trict No.  11. 

Isaac  Patch  is  Captain  of  Company 
K,  (84)  15th  Infantry,  Massachusetts 
State  Guard. 

Everett  De  F.  Holt  has  served  as 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary,  U.  S.  Marines, 
at  Quantico,  Virginia,  and  also  as  in- 
structor of  French  to  officers  and  pri- 
vates under  the  auspices  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  while  he  was  at  Quantico. 

Besides  serving  as  Major  in  the  Mid- 
dlebury  College  Battalion,  Prof.  Ray- 
mond McFarland  is  Adjutant  of  the  In- 
tercollegiate Intelligence  Bureau,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  secretary  of  the  District 
Public  Safety  Committee,  and  one  of 
the  Four  Minute  Men. 

Rev.  Samuel  A.  Fiske,  for  twelve 
years  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Berlin,  Conn.,  and  one  of  the 
best  known  ministers  in  the  state,  has 
been  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  Willi- 
mantic.  Conn. 

The  National  Municipal  Review  for 
last  March  contained  an  article  on  "The 
Recent  New  York  City  Fusion  Cam- 
paign." by  Raymond  V.  Ingersoll, 
former  Park  Commissioner  of  Brooklyn, 
but  now  doing  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in 
France. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons  announce  the 
publication  of  "American  Poetry," 
edited  by  Percy  Boynton.  It  is  an  an- 
thology from  the  earliest  times  down  to 
the  present  day,  with  brief  critical 
comment. 


Harry  W.  Kidder  has  been  elected 
Vice-President  of  the  Northampton 
High  School  Alumni  Association. 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 
201  College  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
Daniel  B.  Trefethen  of  Seattle, 
W^ash.,  is  chairman  of  the  exemption 
board  in  his  district,  member  of  the  war 
council  of  the  American  Library  Asso- 
ciation, captain  of  the  Seattle  Home 
Guards,  and  chairman  of  the  committee 
in  charge  of  raising  the  Liberty  Loans. 

Frank  M.  Warren  of  Portland,  Ore., 
is  assistant  in  the  Canned  Food  De- 
partment, U.  S.  Food  Administration. 

The  trustees  have  voted  to  give  Pro- 
fessor Alfred  S.  Goodale  a  year's  leave 
of  absence  during  1918-19,  with  full 
salary.  He  expects  to  spend  it  in  the 
study  of  botany  at  Harvard  or  the 
University  of  Chicago,  and  upon  his 
return  to  Amherst  will  probably  devote 
his  entire  time  to  the  botany  depart- 
ment. In  addition  to  teaching  botany 
he  has  been  registrar  for  several  years, 
and  has  been  connected  with  the  Am- 
herst faculty  for  eighteen  years. 

Dr.  Robert  A.  Rice  of  Fitchburg  is 
a  member  of  the  Voluntary  Aid  Com- 
mittee of  the  Public  Safety  Committee 
and  of  the  Fitchburg  Medical  War 
Relief  Society. 

Prof.  Haven  D.  Brackett  of  Clark 
College,  Worcester,  Mass.,  has  been 
made  chairman  of  the  New  England 
committee  on  educators  to  conduct 
a  campaign  to  maintain  and  promote 
the  study  of  the  Greek  language  and 
culture  in  secondary  schools.  Professor 
Brackett  was  married  on  Saturday 
June  15th,  to  Miss  Marion  L.  Gaillard, 
Smith  College,  '02,  the  ceremony  being 


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performed  at  St.  Mark's  Church, 
Worcester,  Robert  T.  Elliott,  '97.  was 
one  of  the  ushers.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Brack- 
ett  will  be  at  home  after  October  1, 
1918,  at  114  Woodland  Street,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

The  June  issue  of  the  Century  con- 
tained a  story  entitled  "The  Emerald 
of  Tamerlane,"  written  by  H.  G. 
Dwight  in  collaboration  with  John 
Taylor. 

Rev.  Charles  W.  Merriam  of  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.,  was  on  board  the 
steamer  Orissa  which  was  torpedoed 
by  a  submarine  on  Sunday  morning, 
April  28th,  off  the  British  coast  and 
sunk  within  twelve  minutes.  He  was 
one  of  a  party  of  fifty-seven  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
men,  bound  for  France  to  do  war  relief 
work.  All  escaped  safely  except  some 
members  of  the  crew,  being  picked  up 
in  life  boats  and  landed  at  a  British 
port.  Before  sailing  for  France,  Mer- 
riam served  as  chairman  of  the  Publici- 
ty Committee  for  the  American  Library 
Association  War  Fund  Campaign  for 
Western  Michigan  and  was  a  speaker 
in  that  territory  in  behalf  of  the  Liberty 
Loan,  Red  Cross,  and  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
drives.  A  sermon  he  delivered  at  Park 
Congregational  Church  in  Grand  Rap- 
ids on  September  16,  1917,  on  "The 
Army  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Work  at  Camp 
MacArthur"  has  been  published  in 
pamphlet  form. 

Rev.  Arthur  J.  Wyman  of  Little 
Falls,  N.  Y.,  has  been  granted  leave  of 
absence  from  his  church  and  is  in  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work  at  Camp  Merritt,  N.  J. 

E.  H.  Barnum,  who  represents  the 
B.  F.  Goodrich  Rubber  Company  in 
San  Francisco,  was  chairman  of  the 
convention-attendance  committee  of 
the  Associated  Advertising  Clubs  of  the 
World  and  was  largely  responsible  for 


the  success  of  the  association's  annual 
convention  and  war  council  which  was 
held  in  San  Francisco  July  7th  to  11th. 

1899 

Edward  W.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
Woodbury  Forest  School, Woodbury,  Va. 

Besides  assisting  the  Government  and 
the  Red  Cross  in  the  purchase  and  ap- 
portionment of  contracts  for  surgical 
dressings,  Henry  P.  Kendall  is  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  Industrial  Rela- 
tions of  the  U.  S.  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. The  importance  of  this  commit- 
tee can  be  judged  by  a  glance  at  its 
make-up  which  comprises  the  vice- 
president  of  the  American  Metal  Com- 
pany, the  president  of  the  Sloss-Shef- 
field  Iron  and  Steel  Company,  the 
president  of  the  Newport  News  Ship- 
building and  Dry  Dock  Co.,  the 
treasurer  and  general  manager  of  Will- 
iam Filene's  Sons  Company,  the  presi- 
dent of  Dartmouth  College,  the  man- 
ager of  the  Bureau  of  Information  of 
the  Southeastern  Railways,  the  vice- 
president  of  the  Westinghouse  Electric 
and  Manufacturing  Company,  the 
President  of  the  Goodyear  Tire  and 
Rubber  Company,  and  the  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Rail- 
road. This  committee  advises  with  the 
Government  on  labor  policies  to  assure 
maximum  production  in  the  country, 
freedom  from  strikes,  etc.,  during  the 
period  of  the  war. 

Rufus  E.  Miles  was  from  May  to 
August,  1917,  associate  state  director 
of  the  Red  Cross  for  Ohio.  Since  then 
he  has  been  spending  a  large  part  of 
his  time  cooperating  with  the  Federal 
Food  Administration  for  Ohio. 

Dr.  Albert  E.  Austin  of  Sound  Beach, 
Conn.,  is  a  member  of  the  local  exemp- 
tion board,  a  member  of  the  Liberty 
Loan    Committee    for    the    town    of 


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Greenwich,  one  of  the  Four  Minute 
Men  and  Chief  Surgeon,  Connecticut 
Home  Guard,  4th  Military  District, 
with  rank  of  Major. 

Charles  E.  Mitchell  has  been  elected 
a  director  of  the  Virginian  Railway 
Company. 

Emery  Pottle  had  a  poem  in  the  April 
Harper's,  entitled  "To  an  Italian 
Statue." 

Donald  W.  Brown  is  in  the  service 
of  the  American  Red  Cross.  He  is  in 
Paris  and  is  Assistant  General  Manager 
with  the  rank  of  Captain.  Address  No. 
4,  Place  de  la  Concorde,  Paris. 

Albert  C.  Howe  of  Lafayette,  Colo., 
is  chairman  of  the  Lafayette  Chapter, 
American  Red  Cross;  secretary-treas- 
urer of  the  local  Y.  M.  C.  A.  war  fund; 
treasurer  of  the  War  Fund  Committee, 
A.  R.  C;  chairman  of  the  Liberty 
Bond  Committee;  and  associate  mem- 
ber. Legal  Advisory  Board  for  Boulder 
County. 

Rev.  Frederick  W.  Raymond  of 
Glastonbury,  Conn.,  spent  some  time 
at  Camp  Lee,  Va.,  as  Religious  Work 
Secretary.  He  is  also  a  private  in  the 
Connecticut  Home  Guard. 

Robert  A.  Coan  of  New  York  has 
been  doing  war  work  for  the  "  Mayor's 
Committee  on  Defense,"  being  one  of 
the  regular  speakers  last  fall  at  the 
battleship  Recruit,  for  recruiting  for 
the  Navy.  His  home  address  is  416 
Westminster  Road,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Professor  David  C.  Rogers  has  been 
giving  a  course  at  Smith  College  in 
training  for  mental  reconstruction  work 
with   disabled   soldiers. 

Burges  Johnson  has  been  active  in 
war  work.  He  is  a  member  of  a  com- 
mittee, under  the  chairmanship  of 
Ernest  Poole,  working  under  the  direc- 


tion of  the  Committee  on  Public 
Information.  He  is  chairman  of  the 
publicity  committee  of  Home  Defense 
for  Dutchess  County.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Vigilantes,  a  group  of 
WTiters  who  have  pledged  the  service  of 
their  pens  to  the  government  for  any 
campaign  of  publicity,  and  is  one  of 
fifty  writers  within  the  organization 
bound  by  pledge  to  supply  articles  on 
a  moment's  notice.  He  has  assisted 
in  the  New  York  State  campaign  on 
war  education,  in  the  preparation  of 
reports  and  the  arranging  of  mass 
meetings.  In  connection  with  his  work 
at  V^assar  College,  he  directs  the  writing 
by  Vassar  students  of  economy  para- 
graphs for  theatre  programs  and  for 
Mr.  Hoover's  "States  Publicity." 

The  Outlook  for  April  10th  contained 
an  article  by  Professor  Johnson,  en- 
titled "Is  the  Woman's  College  Essen- 
tial in  War  Time.''"  It  was  prompted 
by  an  inquiry  of  an  oflBcial  as  to  whether 
the  Vassar  buildings  were  suitable  in 
case  of  Govermnent  preemption  for 
use  as  a  military  hospital. 

In  the  June  Century  he  had  a  story 
entitled  "Iron  Heroines,"  and  in  the 
May  Harper's  a  poem,  "Play."  In 
May  he  spoke  at  Amherst  upon  the 
extent  of  German  propaganda. 

Ralph  Waldo  Wight  of  Indian  Or- 
chard, Mass.,  formerly  president  of 
the  City  Council  and  also  of  the  Board 
of  Alderman  of  Springfield,  died  at  the 
neurological  institute  in  New  York  City 
on  Monday,  May  20th.  Early  this 
last  spring  his  health  began  to  fail  him 
and  he  relinquished  business  activities 
in  the  hope  that  rest  would  restore  his 
health.  His  condition,  however,  became 
so  serious  that  an  operation  was  necess- 
ary. That  was  followed  by  pneumonia 
which  caused  his  death.  He  was  forty- 
one  years  old. 

Mr.  Wight  was  born  on  August  6, 


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1876,  the  son  of  Henry  Kirke  and  Jane 
(Eaton)  Wight.  He  graduated  from 
the  Springfield  High  School  in  1895, 
where  he  was  pitcher  on  the  school 
baseball  team.  He  entered  Amherst 
where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Theta 
Delta  Chi  fraternity.  On  completing 
his  course  in  1899,  he  went  back  to 
Indian  Orchard  to  make  his  home  and 
took  a  position  with  the  Indian  Orchard 
Company.  In  1905  he  was  elected 
treasurer  of  the  Chapman  Valve  Man- 
ufacturing Company,  which  position 
he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  also  treasurer  of  the  Wight-Thayer 
Company. 

His  death  is  a  great  loss  to  the  city 
of  Springfield,  as  he  had  taken  an  active 
interest  in  politics;  and  in  fact  had  fre- 
quently been  mentioned  for  Mayor; 
but  he  always  declined  to  run.  He 
gave  a  large  amount  of  time  to  the  city's 
business  and  was  much  interested  in 
city  afl^airs.  He  represented  Indian 
Orchard  in  the  city  government  as 
councilman  from  1904  to  1907  and  as 
alderman  from  1907  to  1911,  serving  as 
president  of  each  board.  Says  the 
Springfield  Republican: 

"During  his  city  council  experience 
Mr.  Wight  has  been  a  member  of  the 
most  important  joint  committees  of 
the  council.  He  was  for  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  finance  committee  and 
chairman  of  the  street  lighting  com- 
mittee, besides  being  on  numerous  spe- 
cial committees.  He  was  chairman  of 
the  fire  and  police  buildings  committee, 
which  erected  the  new  fire  and  police 
headquarters  stations,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  charter  revision  committee.  By 
virtue  of  his  office  as  president  of  the 
board  he  was  a  member  of  the  river- 
front advisory  commission.  In  his 
political  as  well  as  his  business  life  he 
was  an  assiduous  worker,  tireless  in  his 
efiforts  and  always  cheerful  no  matter 
how  disagreeable  the  task.  Harboring 
no  ill  toward  anyone,  cheerful  always, 
and  with  a  heart  full  of  sympathy  for  the 
unfortunate  and  needy,  he  gained  the 


friendship  of  poeple  in  all  walks  of  life, 
whose  friendship  he  held  to  the  time  of 
his  death.  In  business  he  was  held  in 
the  highest  esteem  by  his  associates 
and  business  men  not  only  of  this  city 
but  throughout  the  country." 

It  was  largely  due  to  Mr.  Wight's 
efforts  that  the  citizens'  association  of 
Indian  Orchard  was  organized,  and  he 
served  as  its  president  for  two  years. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  Springfield 
lodge  of  Masons,  Indian  Orchard  lodge 
of  Masons  and  a  3'2d  degree  Mason. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Nayasset  Club, 
the  Rotary  Club,  the  Manchconis  Club, 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and 
Indian  Orchard  Masonic  Club,  a  trus- 
tee of  the  Evangelical  parish  and  direc- 
tor in  the  Springfield  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

Mr.  Wight  was  married  on  January 
14,  1905,  to  Miss  Laura  Stafford,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Stafford, 
of  Stafford  Springs,  Conn.,  and  she 
with  two  children  Kirk,  aged  twelve, 
and  Lynda,  aged  two,  survive  him. 

Captain  Harry  A.  Bullock,  assigned 
to  the  Quartermaster's  Reserve  Corps, 
met  his  death  near  Cantigny  in  France 
on  Decoration  Day.  He  was  killed  by 
an  aerial  bomb,  which  struck  him  while 
on  duty  at  division  headquarters  about 
five  miles  from  the  first  line  trenches 
where,  on  a  certain  sector,  American 
troops  were  standing  off  the  great  Hun 
offensive.  The  same  bomb  also  killed 
his  superior  officer,  former  Congress- 
man Colonel  B.  T.  Clayton.  Colonel 
Clayton  and  Captain  Bullock  were 
supervising  the  bringing  up  of  the  sup- 
plies for  the  troops  at  the  time. 

Captain  Bullock  was  for  nearly  ten 
years  a  member  of  the  reportorial  staff 
of  the  New  York  Times  and  was  later 
secretary  of  the  Municipal  Railway 
Corporation,  a  subsidiary  of  the  Brook- 
lyn Rapid  Transit  Company.     He  was 


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one  of  the  first  Platt.sbiirg  men  to  go 
overseas,  and  in  letters  which  he  wrote 
he  said  that  for  some  time  he  had  been 
detailed  to  study  the  transportation 
problem  in  France;  but  when  the  great 
German  offensive  began,  he  was  detailed 
to  an  especially  active  sector  of  the 
American  line. 

Born  in  Wellesley  Hills,  Mass.,  in 
1878,  he  prepared  for  college  at  the  local 
schools  and  graduated  from  Amherst  in 
1899.  He  immediately  took  up  news- 
paper work  and  after  working  for  sev- 
eral years  as  a  reporter  on  New  Haven, 
Springfield  and  Boston  newspapers 
came  to  New  York  in  1902  to  join  the 
staflf  of  the  New  York  Times.  While 
with  the  Times  he  did  notable  work  on 
the  insurance  investigation,  the  Union- 
Pacific  Interstate  Commerce  Commis- 
sion case  of  1907  and  the  traction 
investigation  of  1911.  It  was  said  that 
his  chief  asset  in  his  journalistic  days, 
aside  from  a  tireless  energy,  was  a 
dogged  persistence  which  kept  him  on 
a  "story"  until  he  got  all  the  facts,  and 
correctly. 

It  was  this  determination  which 
enabled  him  to  achieve  the  distinction 
of  being  the  first  reporter  to  induce  the 
late  E.  H.  Harriman  to  talk  for  publi- 
cation. Mr.  Bullock's  interview  occu- 
pied a  full  page  in  the  Times  and  at- 
tracted wide  attention.  He  also  ob- 
tained the  last  interview  the  railroad 
man  accorded  before  his  death.  As 
a  newspaper  man  he  gained  a  wide 
knowledge  of  transit  aflFairs  and  in 
August,  1911,  accepted  an  offer  in  the 
Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Company. 
He  first  acted  as  a  special  investigator 
under  the  immediate  direction  of  the 
president  of  the  road,  and  a  little  later 
was  appointed  secretary  of  the  New- 
York  Municipal  Railway  Corporation. 
In  addition  to  his  other  duties  Captain 
Bullock    organized    and    enlarged    the 


scope  of  the  B.  R.  T.'s  welfare  work, 
established  the  Bureau  of  Public 
Safety,  and  started  the  company's 
medical  bureau,  which  provides  free 
treatment  to  all  employes.  As  part  of 
his  work  he  became  one  of  the  principal 
organizers  of  the  Brooklyn  Institute 
for  Safety,  was  chairman  of  the  Elec- 
tric Railway  Section  of  the  National 
Safety  Council  and  of  the  Claims 
Transportation  Committee  of  the  Amer- 
ican Electric  Railway  Association. 

He  had  taken  his  1916  vacation  in 
training  at  Plattsburg,  and  as  soon  as 
war  was  declared  secured  his  release 
from  the  B.  R.  T.  and  was  ordered  in 
May,  1917,  to  report  as  an  assistant 
in  the  Quartermaster's  Department  for 
the  first  training  camp  at  Plattsburg. 
From  there  he  went  directly  to  the  other 
side  in  August.  After  various  tem- 
porary assignments,  he  was  made  as- 
sistant quartermaster  of  the  First  Divi- 
sion of  the  A.  E.  F.,  and  was  serving 
with  that  division  when  killed. 

He  leaves  two  sisters  and  two  broth- 
ers, one  of  whom  is  professor  in  the 
Department  of  Economics  at  Harvard. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Theta  Delta 
Chi  fraternity,  and  also  belonged  to  the 
Hamilton  Club  at  Brooklyn,  Brooklyn 
Civic  Club,  Brooklyn  Press  Club,  Don- 
gan  Hills  Golf  and  Country  Club,  and 
the  Atlantic  Yacht  Club. 

On  hearing  of  the  death  of  Cap- 
tain Bullock,  Colonel  T.  S.  Williams, 
head  of  the  B.  R.  T.  system,  made  this 
statement: 

"The  announcement  of  Captain  Bul- 
lock's death  brings  the  war  home  very 
closely  to  us  in  the  B.  R.  T.  Bul- 
lock had  an  exceptionally  fine  charac- 
ter and  unusual  abilities.  In  his  work 
for  us  he  quickly  demonstrated  his 
abilities.  In  addition  to  being  secretary 
of  the  New  York  Municipal  Railway 
Corporation,  he  was  in  charge  of  all 
of  our  welfare  activities,  and  he  brought 
to  his  tasks  not  only  great  talent  as  an 


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organizer  and  as  a  thorough  and  capa- 
ble investigator,  but  great  enthusiasm 
and  energy.  He  had  very  high  ideals. 
Before  our  country  became  iravolved 
in  the  war  he  felt  that  it  was  his  duty 
to  become  prepared  for  assisting  it  in 
case  of  necessity,  and  took  the  prelimi- 
nary training  at  Plattsburg.  We  shall 
miss  Bullock  very  much  in  our  organiza- 
tion, and  personally  his  death  is  a  great 
shock  to  me,  for  I  had  not  only  great 
respect  and  admiration  for  his  abilities 
and  high  purpose,  but  there  was  a 
strong  bond  of  affection  and  sympathy 
between  us." 

On  June  17th  the  Association  of  City 
Hall  reporters  in  New  York  City  met 
with  other  newspaper  men  to  pay  a 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  Captain 
Bullock.  Next  day  the  New  York  Times 
Association  and  the  Brooklyn  Institu- 
tion for  Safety  met  and  passed  similar 
resolutions  and  a  memorial  meeting 
was  held  in  Brooklyn,  largely  attended 
by  the  employes  of  the  Brooklyn  Rapid 
Transit  Company. 

The  following  editorial  from  the  New 
York  Times  of  June  6th  is  perhaps  the 
most  splendid  of  all  the  many  tributes 
made  to  the  memory  of  Captain 
Bullock: 

FOR    DEATH    CROWNED    HIS   CAREER. 

For  the  newspaper  men  of  New  York  City, 
and  especially  for  the  members  of  the  Times 
staff,  the  news  that  Captain  Harry  A.  Bul- 
lock has  been  killed  by  a  German  airman's 
bomb  in  France  will  cause  a  grief  that  is  miti- 
gated only  by  the  thought  that  this  is  the 
death  he  would  have  chosen — the  death  that 
all  who  knew  him  would  have  expected  him 
to  be  risking  at  any  time  when  his  country 
needed  the  service  of  strong  arms  and  bold 
hearts. 

That  Harry  Bullock  would  be  in  arms  and 
at  the  front  among  the  first  Americans  was 
made  inevitable  by  the  traits  his  whole  life 
had  exemplified.  His  associates  in  the  Times 
office  remember  him  as  among  the  ablest  of 
reporters — one  to  whom  was  constantly  in- 
tru.sted  work  difficult,  important,  and  respon- 
sible— and  that  he  performed  every  such  task 
in  a  way  that  won  for  him  the  confidence,  the 
appreciation,  and  the  respect  of  all  in  and  out 
of  the  office  with  whom  he  was  brought  into 
relation. 

The  amount  of  work  that  he  did  was  not 
less  remarkable  than  the  speed  at  which  it 
was  done  or  the  high  quality  that  marked  it. 
No  subject  was  too  complicated  or  too  tech- 
nical for  him  to   grasp   understandingly  all 


its  details,  and  when  necessary  he  could  pre- 
sent them  all  with  a  vigor  and  a  lucidity 
characteristic  of  journalism  in  its  very  highest 
phases.  In  the  later  months  of  his  service  on 
the  Times  staff  he  had  become  a  recognized 
authority  on  all  the  phases  of  the  city's  rapid 
transit  problems,  and  the  way  in  which  he 
could  come  in  from  a  long  hearing  before  the 
Commissioners  and  dictate  without  hesitation 
or  the  need  of  changing  a  word  column  after 
column  of  testimony  and  exposition  was  a 
marvel  even  to  those  who  were  not  unfamiliar 
with  the  higher  possibilities  of  journalistic 
achievement. 

Captain  Bullock  was  more  than  a  writer. 
He  had  the  build  and  muscles  of  the  trained 
athlete,  the  education  that  fitted  him  for 
what  was  then  his  profession,  and  the  energy 
and  industry  that  were  essential  to  the 
efficiency  of  his  other  qualities.  The  call  to 
war  found  him  ready.  As  soon  as  there  was 
a  Plattsburg  camp  he  was  in  it  training  for 
the  commission  that  came  to  him  as  a  matter 
of  desert  as  well  as  of  course.  Now  he  is 
dead!  But  it  was  a  good  death.  He  had  lived 
— more  if  not  longer  than  many  a  man  who 
will  attain  the  gray  hairs  that  were  not  for 
Harry  Bullock  to  wear. 


1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  Street,  New  York  City 

Rev.  Christopher  C.  St.  Clare  of 
Port  Henry,  N.  Y.,  is  in  France,  where 
he  is  doing  Overseas  War  Work  for  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Ray  S.  Hubbard  was  appointed  by 
the  Commission  on  Training  Camp 
Activities  to  have  charge  of  all  activi- 
ties for  the  benefit  of  the  soldiers  of 
Camp  Devens  outside  the  camp  limits. 
He  runs  club-houses,  sends  boys  out  to 
neighboring  communities  for  dances, 
dinners,  entertainments,  etc.,  and  in 
general  is  a  grand  good  friend  of  all  the 
boys  in  the  camp. 

Bernard  L.  Paine  of  Sharon,  Mass.,  is 
a  member  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment, 
Massachusetts  State  Guard. 

Professor  Ernest  H.  Wilkins  of  the 
University  of  Chicago  has  been  ap- 
pointed Associate  Executive  Secretary 
of  the  War  Personnel  Board  of  the 
National  War  Work  Council  of  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  in  charge  of  the  recruiting  of 
educational  secretaries  for  the  camps  of 


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the  U.  S.  army  in  this  country  and  in 
France,  of  instructors  in  French  for  the 
camps  in  this  country,  and  of  secre- 
taries to  serve  with  the  French  and  Ital- 
ian armies.  He  is  located  during  the 
summer  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Headquar- 
ters, 347  Madison  Avenue,  New  York 
City.  Professor  Wilkins  has  also  been 
appointed  adviser  on  French  to  the 
Committee  on  Education  of  the  Com- 
mission on  Training  Camp  Activities. 

The  expedition  to  Palestine,  led  by 
Dr.  Edwin  St.  John  Ward,  who  has  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  has  reached 
its  destination  in  safety,  after  a  long 
and  hard  trip.  The  object  of  the  expe- 
dition is  to  follow  up  the  victories  of 
the  Allied  Forces  with  the  work  of  re- 
habilitating the  land  and  repatriating 
the  remnants  of  its  people.  It  is  made 
up  of  sixty  persons,  all  experts  in  their 
several  lines,  and  includes  missionaries, 
physicians,  nurses,  sanitary  engineers, 
and  general  relief  workers.  The  party 
was  obliged  to  proceed  by  a  roundabout 
way,  going  first  to  Cape  Town,  then 
through  the  Indian  Ocean  to  Cairo. 
From  Cairo  the  unit  planned  to  follow 
up  the  line  of  the  British  army.  The 
expedition  carried  with  it  500  tons  of 
building  material  and  disinfectants,  an 
immense  quantity  of  industrial  tools, 
great  numbers  of  seeds,  etc.  The  Amer- 
ican Red  Cross  finances  the  undertaking. 

Prof.  Harold  C.  Goddard  of  Swarth- 
more  is  spending  the  summer  with  his 
family  at  their  farm  in  Cummington, 
Mass.  Prof.  Goddard  has  recently 
contributed  a  number  of  timely  articles 
to  the  New  Republic  and  other  periodi- 
cals. An  essaj'  by  him,  entitled  "Should 
Language  be  Abolished.'",  appeared 
in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  July. 

Harold  I.  Pratt  is  now  in  France, 
taking  charge  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  can- 
teens.   He  and  his  brother,  Herbert  L. 


Pratt,  '95,  will  divide  their  time  in 
France  with  this  task.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  Brooklyn's  Red  Cross  Cen- 
tral Committee  for  the  second  Red 
Cross  drive. 

Among  recent  magazine  contribu- 
tions by  Walter  A.  Dyer,  the  following 
have  appeared: — "A  Lighthouse  to 
Guide  French  Soldiers,"  an  article  in 
The  Independent  for  July  6;  "One 
Collector's  Hobbies,"  an  article  in 
Country  Life  for  July;  "The  Alms- 
house Flag,"  a  story  in  The  Woman  s 
Magazine  for  July,  and  "The  House 
on  Chester  Street,"  a  story  in  The  Black 
Cat  for  July.  Mr.  Dyer  has  two  books 
on  the  press  for  publication  this  fall — 
"Handbook  of  Furniture  Styles,"  by 
the  Century  Company,  and  "The  Dogs 
of  Boytown,"  a  juvenile,  by  Henry 
Holt  &  Co. 

Rev.  x\lden  H.  Clark  and  family  have 
returned  from  their  mission  field  in 
Ahmednagar,  India,  and  will  remain 
in  this  country  for  a  few  years  while  the 
children  are  being  educated.  They 
have  been  spending  the  summer  in  Am- 
herst. Mr.  Clark  expects  to  be  en- 
gaged in  secretarial  work  for  the  Ameri- 
can Board  while  in  this  country.  He 
plans  to  spend  some  time  in  New  York 
this  fall  and  winter  as  manager  of  the 
New  York  office  of  the  Board,  after 
which  he  will  probably  settle  in  Boston. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  Street,  New  York  City 
John  L.  Vanderbilt  has  become  as- 
sociated with  A.  S.  Cookman  in  the 
import  and  export  business  at  85  Wall 
Street,  New  York  City,  and  the  firm 
name  has  been  changed  to  A.  S.  Cook- 
man  &  Company. 

Edward  C.  Smith  of  1126  Birchard 
Avenue,  Fremont,  Ohio,  has  been  busy, 


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off  and  on,  assisting  the  research  chem- 
ists at  the  National  Carbon  Company, 
working  on  Government  problems  for 
the  Bureau  of  Mines. 

Dr.  Francis  G.  Barnum  has  changed 
his  address  from  Hyde  Park  to  481 
Beacon  Street,  Boston.  He  is  medical 
referee  of  Division  24,  Boston  Draft 
Board. 

Reuben  F.  Wells  is  chairman  of  the 
Hatfield  (Mass.)  committee  on  food 
production  and  conservation  under  the 
Massachusetts  Committee  on  Public 
Safety. 

Preserved  Smith  was  married  on 
Thursday,  June  20th,  to  Miss  Lucy 
Henderson  Humphrey,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  M.  Humphrey  of 
New  York  City.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  by  the  groom's  father,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Henry  Preserved  Smith,  '69. 
The  leading  article  in  the  April- June 
issue  of  the  Monist  was  by  Dr.  Pre- 
served Smith,  on  "Christian  Theo- 
phagy,  an  historical  sketch." 

Frederick  F.  Moon,  who  has  gained 
considerable  standing  as  a  Forester  and 
who  is  in  charge  of  the  forestry  work  of 
Palisades  Inter-state  Park,  is  now  act- 
ing dean  of  the  New  York  State  College 
of  Forestry  connected  with  Syracuse 
University,  in  addition  to  holding  a  pro- 
fessorship as  Forest  Engineer  of  that  in- 
stitution. He  has  written  another  new 
book  entitled  "The  liook  of  Forestry." 

1902 

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

Silas  D.  Barber  is  in  France,  doing 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work. 

Rev.  Horace  E.  Holton  spent  the 
month  of  April  preaching  for  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  at  army  camps.  He  is  one  of  the 
Four  Minute  Men  in  St.  Louis  and  is 


also  enrolled  as  a  speaker  for  the  Red 
Cross,  Liberty  Bond  and  Food  Conser- 
vation campaigns,  averaging  about  two 
appointments  to  speak  weekly.  Mr. 
Holton  has  just  recently  accepted  a 
call  extended  to  him  by  Porter  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Brockton,  Mass.,  to 
become  its  pastor. 

John  Eastman  is  a  member  of  the 
First  Troop,  Massachusetts  Cavalry, 
and  of  the  Wellesley  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Pub- 
lic Safety  Committee. 

Frank  L.  Boyden  was  chairman  of 
the  Third  Liberty  Loan  Committee  for 
Deerfield,  Mass.,  and  has  been  ap- 
pointed one  of  a  committee  of  three  to 
organize  the  Junior  Red  Cross  societies 
in  Franklin  County. 

Arthur  W.  Dennon  is  President  of  the 
Sheepshead  Bay  Board  of  Trade  in 
Brooklyn. 

Rev.  Jason  N.  Pierce  has  resigned  his 
pastorate  at  Dorchester,  Mass.,  to  be- 
come a  chaplain  in  the  army,  going  first 
to  Nashville,  Tenn.,  for  a  month's 
instruction.  In  June  he  sailed  for 
France  with  the  43d  Engineers. 

Rev.  Andrew  Magill  is  a  member  of 
the  Jamaica  (N.  Y.)  Branch  Committee 
of  the  Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and 
Sciences. 

Ralph  T.  Whitelaw  of  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
is  in  France,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
National  War  Work  Council  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  acting  as  a  canteen 
supervisor. 

Rev.  Frank  L.  Briggs  of  Union  Evan- 
gelical Church  in  Springfield  has  been 
granted  a  year's  leave  of  absence  for 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France.  During 
his  absence  his  wife,  who  is  a  licensed 
preacher,  will  fill  his  pulpit  and  assume 
other  pastoral  duties. 

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July  xinder  the  auspices  of  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  as  a  physical  director  with  the 
Italian  armies. 

1903 

Clifford  P.  AVarren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
The  general  brokerage  and  invest- 
ment business  formerly  conducted  by 
Auchincloss,  Joost  &  Company,  at  61 
Broadway,  New  York,  is  to  be  contin- 
ued by  a  new  firm,  Auchincloss,  Joost 
&  Patrick.  The  new  partner  is  George 
N.  Patrick,  who  will  be  in  charge  of  the 
Troy  office.  Sherman  B.  Joost  is  a 
member  of  1904. 

Dr.  Arthur  A.  Gushing  of  Brookline, 
Mass.,  served  from  May  1,  1917,  to 
September  14,  1917,  as  private  and 
corporal  in  First  Provisional  Cavalry 
Troop,  Massachusetts  State  Guard.  On 
September  14th  he  was  appointed  cap- 
tain in  the  Medical  Corps  and  since 
that  date  has  been  assigned  to  the  11th 
Regiment,  Massachusetts  State  Guard. 

Stanley  King,  who  has  held  an  im- 
portant post  in  the  war  department,  has 
recently  been  made  private  secretary 
to  Secretary  of  War  Baker. 

Albert  W.  Atwood's  financial  articles 
in  the  Saturday  Evening  Post  continue 
to  be  one  of  the  features  of  that  publi- 
cation. Those  that  have  appeared 
since  the  last  Quarterly  went  to  press 
are  as  follows: — "Taxing  What  you 
Spend"  (June  29th),  "Savings  Banks 
in  Wartime"  (June  1st),  "What  are 
Luxuries.''"  (May  18th),  " Selling  Bonds 
in  Small  Communities"  (May  4th), 
"Your  Insurance  Policy  in  Wartime" 
(April  27th),  "The  Penny  Come  into 
its  Own"  (April  20th),  "The  Field 
Marshal  of  Finance"  (April  13th). 

The  following  was  written  in  a  letter 
from  France  to  ex-Mayor  Fitzgerald  of 
Boston: 


"Next  came  our  trip  through  the 
mill  to  see  in  what  line  we  were  best 
fitted,  resulting  in  my  being  kept  here 
under  a  lieutenant  from  Boston  by  the 
name  of  Stearns.  .  .  He  sure  is  a 
great  man  to  work  under  and  a  man 
that  Boston  should  be  proud  of.  I 
hope  that  all  the  other  Boston  men  who 
come  over  here  turn  out  to  be  such 
good  men  as  he  is  in  taking  care  of 
people  from  Boston.  He  is  always 
ready  to  lend  a  hand  to  anybody  from 
Boston  who  is  in  need." 

1904 

KL'VRL  0.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
11306  Knowlton  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Rev.  John  Linda  Clymer,  whose  ad- 
dress is  now  Parkside  Drive,  Berkeley, 
California,  is  director  of  the  Bureau  of 
Development,  Pacific  Division,  Ameri- 
can Red  Cross. 

Dr.  John  Colwell  Paine  of  Exeter 
was  commissioned  1st  Lieutenant  in 
the  Medical  Reserve  Corps  in  June, 
1917,  and  was  honorably  discharged  in 
November  because  of  physical  disability. 

At  the  one  hundred  and  sixteenth 
annual  conference  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Churches  of  Massachusetts,  held 
in  Springfield  in  May,  Rev.  Harrison 
L.  Packard  of  Shelburne  Falls  was 
elected  assistant  registrar. 

J.  Frank  Kane  is  a  member  of  a 
committee  which  is  placing  fatherless 
children  of  France  in  the  care  of  inter- 
ested Americans. 

June  21st,  Governor  McCall  of  Massa- 
chusetts appointed  Joseph  B.  Eastman 
to  the  Public  Service  Commission  of  the 
state.  Mr.  Eastman  has  for  several 
years  been  a  member  of  the  old  Public 
Service  Commission,  consisting  of  five 
members,  having  been  recently  re- 
appointed by  Governor  McCall.  The 
legislature  this  year  provided  for  the 
re-organization  of  the  Commission, 
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three  members,  one  for  three  years, 
one  for  two  years  and  one  for  one  year, 
two  of  the  three  members  to  be  of  the 
old  Commission.  It  is  universally 
recognized  that  Mr.  Eastman  has  been 
at  the  same  time  progressive  and  emi- 
nently fair.  It  is  very  pleasing  to  his 
friends  that  the  Governor,  by  appoint- 
ing him  for  the  two  year  term,  has  rec- 
ognized the  unusual  qualifications  that 
Mr.  Eastman  possesses  and  the  high 
ideals  of  public  service  for  which  he  had 
consistently  stood. 

Ernest  M.  Whitcomb  of  Amherst  has 
been  acting  as  chairman  of  the  War 
Savings  Stamps  campaign  committee 
for  Hampshire  County. 

Sherman  B.  Joost  of  the  firm  of 
Auchincloss,  Joost  &  Patrick  has  been 
made  floor  manager  on  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange  in  place  of  James  C. 
Auchincloss. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1905  held  its  annual  mid-winter 
dinner  at  Keen's  Chop  House,  West 
36th  Street,  New  York  City,  on  Friday 
evening,  April  19th.  In  keeping  with 
the  war  spirit,  no  special  menu  was 
arranged,  but  each  man  ordered  what 
he  wanted,  a  private  room  having  been 
reserved.  The  dinner  was  especially 
noteworthy  in  that  F.  E.  Pierce,  famous 
in  Amherst  football  history,  as  an  ail- 
American  tackle,  was  present,  it  being 
the  first  time  that  most  of. the  men  had 
seen  him  since  1905.  Robert  W.  Pease 
came  down  from  Northampton  on  pur- 
pose to  attend  the  dinner.  A  most 
interesting  war  discussion  was  one  of 
the  features  of  the  evening.  Those 
present  included:  —  J.  G.  Anderson, 
A.  Baily,  L.  R.  Fort,  H.  G.  Grover,  C. 
E.  T.  Hopkins,  W.  C.  Moon,  A.  S.  Nash, 


C.  F.  Nickerson,  J.  B.  O'Brien,  F.  E. 
Pierce,  R.  W.  Pease,  W.  T.  Rathbun 
and  R.  D.  Wing. 

Dr.  Walter  W.  Palmer  was  elected 
Secretary  of  the  American  Society  for 
Clinical  Investigation  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  society  at  Atlantic  City 
in  May.  He  has  been  made  Visiting 
Physician  to  the  Presbyterian  Hospital 
in  New  York  City  and  Associate  Pro- 
fessor of  Medicine  in  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  Columbia 
University.  During  the  past  year  in 
the  absence  of  Professor  Longcape  he 
has  been  acting  Medical  Director  of 
both  the  Department  of  Medicine  in 
the  University  and  of  the  hospital.  Dr. 
Palmer  is  an  officer  in  the  Medical 
Reserve  Corps,  but  the  officials  of 
Columbia  University  greatly  desire  his 
continued  presence  there  for  the  good 
of  the  Medical  School. 

A  recent  issue  of  Every  Week  con- 
tained an  illustrated  article  on  "What 
Becomes  of  Football  Heroes."  It  com- 
prised pictures  and  sketches  of  half  a 
dozen  famous  football  captains  of  about 
a  decade  ago  and  included  one  in  regard 
to  Palmer  and  his  work  in  connection 
with  the  Rockefeller  Institute. 

C.  Irving  Peabody  was  married  on 
Friday,  June  7th,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
to  Miss  Elsie  Gillham  of  that  city. 

George  Schwab  returned  to  this  coun- 
try on  May  1st  for  a  year's  furlough. 
With  Mrs.  Schwab  he  is  in  charge  of 
the  Presbyterian  Mission  at  Metet 
station  in  the  Cameroons,  West  Africa. 
He  had  to  wait  half  a  year  before  he 
could  get  a  boat  coming  to  this  country, 
was  on  the  ocean  six  weeks,  and  had 
a  very  exciting  encounter  with  a  sub- 
marine. He  has  recently  revised  a  Bulu 
primer  and  has  lately  finished  a  Bulu 
grammar  which  is  about  to  be  pub- 
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Ward  C.  Moon,  Superintendent  of 
Schools  in  Freeport,  N.  Y.,  is  chairman 
of  the  Thrift  War  Savings  campaign  in 
Freeport,  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  local  Red  Cross,  is  in 
charge  of  the  Junior  Red  Cross  chapter 
in  Freeport,  a  member  of  the  Liberty 
Loan  Committee  and  the  Home  De- 
fense League. 

J.  Maurice  Clark  has  been  acting  as 
volunteer  assistant,  Meat  Division,  U. 
S.  Food  Administration. 

Before  enlisting  in  the  Quartermas- 
ter's Corps,  Claude  M.  Fuess  served 
as  assistant  secretary  for  New  England 
of  the  Red  Cross  in  Andover  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board. 

Edward  A.  Baily  was  in  charge  of  the 
Men's  Club  Division  of  Protestant 
churches  in  Brooklyn  in  the  Second 
Red  Cross  Drive. 

Harry  Greenwood  Grover's  poem, 
"Prayer  of  the  Violin,"  which  originally 
appeared  in  the  Amherst  Graduate' 
Quarterly,  was  republished  in  a  re- 
cent issue  of  Current  Opinion.  He  is 
one  of  the  speakers  for  the  National 
Security  League. 

Miss  Mary  Frances  Willard  Ander- 
son, daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Reid  Anderson  of  Cambridge,  Mass., 
and  Rev.  William  Crawford  were  mar- 
ried in  Cambridge  on  Wednesday 
June  12th. 

Emerson  G.  Gaylord  representing 
Chicopee  was  chosen  a  trustee  of  the 
Citizen's  War  Fund  Association  for  the 
Greater  Springfield  district. 

Rev.  Nelson  F.  Cole  has  accepted 
a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  Bonesteel,  S.  Dakota. 

Edward  Hall  Gardner  is  now  assist- 
ant professor  of  advertising  and  market- 
ing at  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 


Rev.  A.  J.  Derbyshire  who  spent 
part  of  the  winter  in  France,  doing 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work,  retiu-ned  in  March 
and  has  since  resigned  his  pastorate 
in  Brooklyn. 

John  G.  Anderson  has  been  playing 
a  great  deal  of  golf  in  behalf  of  the  Red 
Cross,  both  in  the  vicinity  of  New  York 
and  in  the  Middle  West.  On  May  25th 
at  the  Garden  City  Golf  Club,  at  the 
conclusion  of  an  eighteen-hole  Red 
Cross,  match  between  Anderson  and 
Francis  Ouimet  against  Jerome  D. 
Travers  and  Oswald  Kirkby  in  which 
Anderson  played  the  best  golf  of  the 
day,  his  brassie  was  auctioned  off  at 
$50.00.  Many  clubs  were  auctioned  on 
this  occasion  for  the  Red  Cross,  but  the 
star  article  put  up  was  a  putter  of  the 
old  wooden  type  made  48  years  ago, 
which  Anderson  picked  out  at  the  shop 
of  old  Tom  Morris,  at  St.  Andrews, 
Scotland.  Anderson  brought  a  laugh 
to  the  large  gallery  numbering  nearly 
1,000  when  in  explaining  things  about 
this  wonderful  old  club  he  remarked: 
"And  let  me  assure  you  that  you  can 
miss  as  many  putts  with  it  as  with  any 
other."  This  was  disposed  of  for  $125. 
On  June  22d  Anderson  won  for  the 
second  year  in  succession  the  West- 
chester Golf  Association  champion- 
ship, this  being  one  of  the  chief  Metro- 
politan titles. 

Ralph  W.  Hemenway  of  Northamp- 
ton, Mass.,  is  a  member  of  the  local 
Legal  Advisory  Board.  He  is  law  part- 
ner of  Lieutenant  Governor  Calvin 
Coolidge,  '95,  who  is  expected  to  be 
the  Republican  nomineee  for  Governor 
this  fall. 

George  W.  Ellis  of  Monson,  Mass., 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Hamp- 
den County  committee  for  the  war 
savings  stamp  drive. 

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Appeal  Agent  for  the  Draft  in  District 
No.  3  of  New  Jersey. 

At  the  Democratic  State  Convention 
in  Connecticut,  held  on  June  26th  and 
27th,  in  forming  the  state  central  com- 
mittee Senator  Edward  W.  Broder  was 
chosen  as  Vice-President  for  District 
No.  1. 

1908 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 

Tracy-Parry  Advertising  Co., 

Lafayette  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Gardner  Lattimer  was  loaned  by  the 

Commerce  Club  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  to  the 

local  Food  Administration,  of  which  he 

is  acting  secretary  for  the  county. 

Dr.  James  B.  Cross  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
is  urologist  for  the  Medical  Advisory 
Board  for  the  city  of  Buffalo,  is  on  the 
Aviation  Examining  Board  and  the 
Buffalo  Red  Cross  Medical  Service 
Commission. 

George  A.  Wood  was  married  on 
June  5th  to  Miss  Joan  Donaldson  of 
Wilkinsburg,  Pa.  They  will  make 
their  home  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  where 
he  is  an  instructor  in  Ohio  Univer- 
sity. 

Rev.  Arthur  Harold  Gilmore  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church,  Topsfield, 
Mass.,  has  enrolled  for  war  service  over- 
seas with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  war  work 
council.  While  he  is  abroad,  his  wife 
will  make  her  home  with  her  parents 
in  Chicago. 

Morton  Snyder  on  July  1st  assumed 
the  office  of  State  Inspector  of  High 
Schools  for  Connecticut,  a  position 
which  he  will  create.  His  address  is 
care  of  State  Board  of  Education,  The 
Capitol,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Mason  W.  Tyler,  Ph.  D.,  is  the  joint 
author  with  Prof.  William  Stearns 
Davis  and  William  Anderson  of  a  cur- 


rent historical  work  entitled  "The 
Roots  of  the  War,"  published  by  the 
Century  Company. 

Arthur  W.  Hale,  who  has  been  faculty 
director  of  athletics  for  the  past  four 
years  at  the  Huntington  school  in  Bos- 
ton, has  resigned  to  accept  a  position 
as  superintendent  of  schools  in  Frank- 
lin, Mass.  He  assumed  his  new  duties 
on  August  1st. 

Robert  C.  Powell,  formerly  Captain 
in  the  National  Army  at  Camp  Lee, 
Va.,  who  found  it  necessary  to  resign 
from  the  service  in  April,  is  back  again 
in  the  advertising  atmosphere.  His 
address  is  now  care  of  the  Tracy-Parry 
Co.,  Lafayette  Building,  Philadelphia, 
advertising  agents.  Both  Tracy  and 
Parry  are  Amherst  men,  the  former 
1908  and  the  latter  1901.  On  the  staff 
of  the  agency  is  also  John  E.  D.  Coffey, 
Amherst  1913. 

Phil  Bridgman's  family  has  recently 
been  increased  by  one.  Specifications 
have  not  yet  been  received. 

The  Secretary  requests  members  of 
the  class  to  supply  him  with  some  in- 
formation regarding  themselves,  other- 
wise this  section  of  the  Quarterly  is 
going  to  be  one  of  the  biggest  blanks 
they  ever  saw.  He  appreciates  the 
compliment,  but  disclaims  any  accu- 
rate knowledge  of  the  machinery  of 
spiritualism. 

Captain  William  Hale,  Jr.,  the  Am- 
herst hero,  whose  winning  of  the  Brit- 
ish military  cross  for  valiant  service 
at  the  battle  of  Vimy  Ridge,  and 
whose  capture  of  five  husky  Germans 
when  he  was  only  armed  with  a  small 
flashlight  and  a  pair  of  scissors,  was 
described  in  the  February  issue  of  the 
Quarterly  was  erroneously  reported 
killed  in  action  on  June  8th. 

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appeared  in  the  Springfield  Republican 
of  July  15th: 

Capt.  William  Hale,  Jr.,  Amherst 
college  man,  the  Canadian  medical 
officer  whose  army  life  might  well  il- 
lumine the  pages  of  fiction,  has  now 
been  raised  from  the  dead — resurrected 
by  the  Canadian  war  department  after 
being  reported  killed  in  action  on  June  8. 
Letters  of  condolence  over  his  untimely 
end  have  reached  his  relatives,  includ- 
ing his  uncles,  David  and  James  Hale 
of  this  city,  from  every  corner,  but  grief 
was  dispelled  by  joy  when  a  telegram 
arrived  from  the  Canadian  war  depart- 
ment stating  that  an  error  had  been 
made  and  that  while  a  certain  Capt. 
Hale  of  the  42d  Canadian  Highlanders 
had  been  killed,  it  was  not  Capt.  Hale, 
the  doctor,  also  of  the  4'2d.  Closely 
following  this  message  came  a  letter 
from  Capt.  Hale,  himself,  written  on 
June  16,  eight  days  after  he  had  sup- 
posedly met  his  death  in  action. 

Capt.  Hale  won  the  British  distin- 
guished service  cross  for  heroism  at 
Vimy  ridge,  where  single-handed  and 
armed  only  with  a  flash  light  and  a  pair 
of  scissors,  he  captured  five  husky 
Germans  armed  to  the  teeth.  It  was 
while  endeavoring  to  locate  a  new  first 
aid  station  in  the  wake  of  a  British  ad- 
vance that  he  discovered  his  sturdy 
opponents  in  a  dark  and  supposedly 
unoccupied  dugout.  Greeted  by  the 
cry,  "Mercy — kamerad,"  he  had  but 
little  time  to  parley.  His  knowledge  of 
the  German  tongue  was  limited  but 
practical,  and  flashing  his  light  on  the 
men  he  cried  fiercely.  "Heraus  mit 
you,"  and  the  Huns  filed  obediently  up 
the  stairs.  Afterward  he  remained  on 
duty  in  the  first-aid  station  for  some  60 
hours  attending  to  the  wounded  and 
instilling  cheer  into  the  men. 

Capt.  Hale  was  born  in  Gananoque, 
Ont.,  the  son  of  William  Hale.  He 
graduated  from  Amherst  college  in  the 
class  of  1906,  and  practiced  medicine  in 
Utica,  N.  Y.,  before  enlisting  in  the 
Canadian  medical  service.  He  is  still 
serving  with  the  42d  Canadian  High- 
landers. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 
202  Lake  Ave.,Newton  Highlands,Mass. 


Alfred  L.  Bartlett  is  a  member  of  the 
California  Legislature,  representing  the 
sixty-third  Assembly  District  which  in- 
cludes a  portion  of  the  city  of  Los 
Angeles.  He  is  a  member  of  several 
important  committees,  including  the 
committee  on  Commerce  and  Naviga- 
tion, Constitutional  Amendments,  Ju- 
diciary, Military  Affairs,  Public  Morals 
and  Public  Health  and  Quarantine. 

Eugene  F.  Williams  was  married  on 
Saturday  afternoon,  January  26th,  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  to  Miss  Marie  Ewing 
Wight,  daughter  of  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Ira  Edward  Wight. 

Charles  P.  Searle  of  Honesdale,  Pa., 
is  a  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory 
Council  for  Pennsylvania  which  con- 
sists of  five  members,  the  Chief  Justice 
of  the  State  Supreme  Court  and  four 
lawyers,  whose  duty  it  is  to  assist 
the  Governor  in  the  creation  of  local 
advisory  boards.  He  is  also  chairman 
of  the  Speakers'  Bureau  for  Wayne 
County  for  Committee  for  Public  Safety 
for  Pennsylvania,  chairman  of  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  campaign  for  Wayne  County, 
member  of  the  county  Legal  Advisory 
Board,  member  of  the  Liberty  Loan  ex- 
ecutive committee  of  Wayne  County, 
chairman  of  the  Wayne  County  Four 
Minute  Men,  member  of  the  Red  Cross 
Speakers'  Bureau,  District  Chairman 
National  War  Savings  Committee,  and 
First  Lieutenant,  Co.  D,  2d  Infantry, 
P.  R.  M. 

Herbert  H.  Palmer  of  Waban,  Mass., 
is  a  private  in  Company  A,  11th  Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts  State  Guard. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Ruth  Harvey, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  S.  Harvey 
of  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  Lieutenant 
Frank  A.  Deroin  of  Chicopee  took  place 
on  Saturday,  May  4th.  Lieutenant 
Deroin  is  a  member  of  the  301st  rapid- 
fire  gun  battalion. 


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The  Red  Cross  Magazine  for  May 
contained  a  story  by  Bruce  Barton, 
entitled  "The  Man  who  did  not  Know 
he  was  Dead."  His  new  novel,  "The 
Making  of  George  Groton,"  has  met 
with  a  very  favorable  reception.  Says 
the  New  York  Stin,  editorially: 

"The  quality  of  keen  yet  kindly 
philosophy  that  has  aided  so  greatly 
in  popularizing  the  editorials  of  Bruce 
Barton,  editor  of  Every  Week,  is  also 
apparent  in  his  new  novel,  'The  Mak- 
ing of  George  Groton,'  which  Double- 
day,  Page  &  Co.  have  just  published." 

Every  Week,  the  magazine  Bruce 
Barton  has  edited  so  ably  since  its 
foundation,  has  ceased  publication 
owing  to  war  conditions  and  the  high 
price  of  paper,  the  last  issue  appearing 
in  June.  Mr.  Barton  has  been  ap- 
pointed chairman  of  the  publicity 
committee  of  the  National  War  Work 
Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  for  the 
$100,000,000  drive  this  fall. 

1908 
Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 

Duluth,  Minn. 
Harold  C.  Keith  is  chairman  of  the 
Brockton     (Mass.)     Chapter     of     the 
American  Red  Cross. 

Marston  L.  Hamlin  is  chief  chemist. 
Plant  D,  Butterworth-Judson  Corp., 
Newark,  N.  J.,  manufacturers  of  high 
explosives  for  war  use. 

Harold  J.  Baily  is  doing  war  work  at 
Washington  in  the  Department  of  Jus- 
tice. His  work  is  with  the  Special 
Assistant  to  the  Attorney  General  in 
connection  with  enemy  aliens. 

The  Columbia  University  Quarterly 
for  last  April  contained  an  article  by 
William  Haller  entitled  "Seven  Barrels 
on  Democracy." 

Horatio  E.  Smith  is  in  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
service  with  the  French  army. 


Dwight  W.  Ellis  is  a  trustee  of  the 
Monson  (Mass.)  War  Fund  Association. 

1909 

Edward  H.  Sudbury,  Secretary, 
154  Prospect  Ave.,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Christian  A.  Ruckmich  is  a  member 
of  the  committee  of  the  American 
Psychological  Association  on  the  inves- 
tigation of  problems  in  acoustics  and 
the  war.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
University  Committee  on  the  problems 
of  re-education  of  disabled  soldiers. 

Ernest  L.  Earle  was  married  to  Miss 
Bernice  L.  Brook  of  Athol  on  April  16th. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Earle  will  live  at  Water- 
town,  N.  Y. 

George  F.  Leary  and  Morris  G.  Mi- 
chaels were  initiated  into  the  Gamma 
Phi  Chapter  of  the  Delta  Tau  Delta 
fraternity  at  Amherst  in  May  when  the 
Amherst  chapter  was  installed. 

Harold  Ladd  Smith  was  chairman  of 
the  First,  Second,  and  Third  Liberty 
Loan  Committees  in  Proctor,  Vermont. 
He  is  also  secretary  to  the  County 
Manager  of  the  State  War  Savings 
Committee,  chairman  of  the  Four  Min- 
ute Men  in  Proctor,  vice-president  of 
the  Proctor  Branch  of  the  American 
Red  Cross  and  chairman  of  the  Ameri- 
can Red  Cross  State  Supply  Service. 

Joseph  L,  Seybold  has  recently  been 
elected  secretary  of  the  Wells-Dickey 
Company,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

1910 

George  B.   Burnett.,  Jr.,   Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Sergeant  Robert  Wetherell  Boyden, 
U.  S.  A.,  of  Newtonville,  Mass.,  was 
married  in  May  to  Miss  Florence  Beebe, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  W. 
Beebe  of  Montclair,  N.  J.  The  wedding 
was  hastened  because  of  his  receiving 
sudden  orders  to  go  to  France. 


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F.  E.  Williams  has  been  appointed 
Ad-measurer  of  Vessels  for  the  Panama 
Canal  at  Balboa,  C.  Z.,  and  has  intro- 
duced a  new  system  eliminating  the 
forty-eight  hour  delay  of  ships  for  Ad- 
measurement of  Tolls. 

Charles  Henry,  2d,  arrived  safely  at 
the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  C. 
Wight,  on  January  5th.  Their  new- 
address  is  50  Glen  Ridge  Avenue,  Glen 
Ridge,  X.  J. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rockwood  Bullard 
announce  the  safe  arrival  of  Rockwood 
W.  Bullard,  Jr.,  on  January  24th,  at 
their  home  in  Minneapolis. 

Mrs.  Charlotte  Thome  Lewis,  widow 
of  the  late  Major  Birdseye  Blakeman 
Lewis,  '09,  who  died  "somewhere  in 
France"  on  November  3d,  last,  was 
married  on  April  3d  in  Santa  Barbara, 
Cal.,  to  Major  Phillips  Chancellor, 
U.  S.  A. 

The  Nation  for  May  11th  contained 
an  article  by  Talbot  F.  Hamlin,  entitled 
"American  Architectiu-e  in  a  World  at 
War." 

Rev.  Morrison  R.  BojTiton  has  been 
elected  President  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Club  of  Brooklyn. 

A  son,  John  Ailing,  was  born  on  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1918,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert 
B.  Ailing  of  Detroit,  Mich. 

Three  1910  men— W.  O.  Goddard, 
P.  A.  San  Souci,  and  J.  C.  Wight — were 
initiated  into  the  Gamma  Phi  chapter 
of  the  Delta  Tau  Delta  fraternity  in 
May  when  the  Amlierst  chapter  of  that 
fraternity  was  installed. 

Robert  A.  Hardy  has  resigned  his 
position,  which  he  has  held  for  four 
years  with  Good  Housekeeping,  and  ac- 
cepted an  appointment  in  the  Publicity 
Department  of  Shipyard  Volunteers,  U. 
S.  Shipping  Board,  Washington,  D.  C. 


Rev.  A.  B.  BojTiton  is  doing  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work  in  Liverpool,  England,  just 
at  present,  his  address  being  46  Lord 
Street,  Liverpool. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  North  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Lieutenant  Clifford  Bateman  Bal- 
lard and  Miss  Florence  Homer  Snow, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  V. 
Snow  of  Franklin,  Mass.  Miss  Snow 
is  a  graduate  of  Smith  College  and  gen- 
eral secretary  of  the  Smith  Alumnae 
Association. 

Philip  N.  Lilienthal,  Jr.,  has  been 
ser^^ng  as  assistant  executive  secretary 
of  the  Liberty  Loan  Committee  of  the 
l^th  Federal  Reserve  District,  compris- 
ing the  states  of  Oregon,  Washington, 
Idaho,  Nevada,  Utah,  Arizona  and 
California. 

Miss  Margery  Conant  Thornton, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  George  M.  Thornton 
of  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  and  Albert  Thomas 
Stearns  were  married  on  Saturday,  May 
■1th,  at  the  home  of  the  bride.  They  are 
to  make  their  home  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Carl  K.  Bowen  is  a  corporal  in  Com- 
pany 1,  First  Regiment,  New  Hamp- 
shire State  Guard.  While  not  on  duty 
he  is  acting  as  General  Manager  of 
the  Bowen  Mills,  Charlestown,  N.  H. 
(lumber  operators). 

L.  E.  Wakelee  has  resigned  his  posi- 
tion with  the  Chesapeake  and  Potomac 
Telephone  Company  of  Baltimore,  Md., 
to  accept  a  position  as  Managing  Direc- 
tor of  the  Country  Homes  Publishing 
Co.,  320  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 
His  resident  address  is  117  Scotland 
Road,  South  Orange,  N.  J. 

William  B.  Dall,  Jr.,  was  married  on 
Saturdav    afternoon,    June    idth,    in 


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Minneapolis,  Minn.,  to  Miss  Helen 
Louise  Day,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  LawTence  Day  of  that  city. 
Prentice  Abbot,  '11,  acted  as  best  man. 

1912 

Alfred  B.  Peacock,  Secretary, 
384  Madison  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  April  issue  of  the  Yale  Renew 
contained  an  article  by  Ordway  Tead 
on  "Labor  and  Reconstruction."  He 
also  had  an  article  in  the  Public  for 
April  oth  on  "International  Economic 
Functions." 

Dr.  E.  E.  Dickson  of  Holyoke  en- 
listed last  summer  in  the  22d  Ambu- 
lance Corps,  U.  S.  Army,  and  later  was 
transferred  to  Washington  to  the 
Textile  Laboratory,  Bureau  of  Stand- 
ards, where  he  is  engaged  in  military 
research  work  for  the  U.  S.  Government. 

P.  H.  Lucey  and  L.  E.  Williams  were 
initiated  into  the  Delta  Tau  Delta 
fraternity  at  Amberst  in  May,  when 
the  Amherst  Chapter  was  installed. 

According  to  cable  despatches  re- 
ceived from  France  on  June  27th  by 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Work  CouncU,  the 
Rev.  Robert  Grenville  Armstrong  has 
been  wounded  and  is  now  recovering 
from  shell  shock.  Mr.  Armstrong,  who 
is  the  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  at  Spencer,  Mass.,  sailed  for 
France  last  December  to  do  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work.  He  was  in  the  Toul  sector  when 
wounded. 

Lieutenant  Claude  H.  Hubbard  was 
married  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on  Friday, 
June  21st,  to  Miss  Alice  E.  Jones  of 
Brattleboro,  Vt. 

1913 

Lewis  G.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 


Ralph  W.  Westcott  is  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  at  Mansfield,  Mass. 
He  is  also  an  associate  member. 
Legal  Advisorj'  Board,  Division  41, 
Massachusetts. 

Charles  L.  Johnston,  Jr.,  is  engaged 
in  Government  work  with  the  Alien 
Property  Custodian  at  111  Broadwaj', 
New  York  City,  in  the  General  Business 
Department.  His  work  includes  per- 
sonal investigation  and  supervision  of 
alien  owned  property. 

Theodore  A.  Greene  graduated  from 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  May  and 
went  directly  to  Labrador  as  secretarj'  to 
Dr.  Grenfell  on  the  Strathcoma,  the 
hospital  ship  of  the  International  Gren- 
fell Association.  On  returning  in  Oc- 
tober to  the  States,  he  will  go  into 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France  or  if  possible 
receive  a  chaplaincy  for  the  period  of 
the  war  in  the  U.  S.  Navy.  On  May 
23d  he  was  married  to  Miss  Dorothy 
G.  Thayer,  daughter  of  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
Lucius  H.  Thayer,  "82,  of  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Raymond  W.  Cross  is  Inspector  of 
Ordnance,  a  ci^■il  ser\nce  position  in  the 
inspection-equipment  Division,  Ord- 
nance Department,  L'.  S.  Army. 

Samuel  H.  Cobb  is  doing  army  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  work.  He  is  assistant  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Physical  Director  at  Camp  Dix 
and  Recreational  Director  of  Building 
No.  4. 

Arthur  J.  Mealand,  Jr.,  married 
Miss  Agnes  Conklin,  of  Binghamton, 
N.  Y.,  Smith  College  graduate,  shortly 
before  he  left  for  the  front. 

Leroy  J.  Buttolph  is  acting  as  Junior 
Gas  Chemist  in  the  U.  S.  Bureau  of 
Mines  and  has  been  assigned  to  Clark 
University  for  war  research  work,  under 
Dr.  Charles  A.  Kraus. 

After  escaping  from  a  burning  bun- 


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galow  with  his  family  in  the  middle  of 
the  night  of  March  29th,  C.  P.  Carter 
was  on  April  16th,  1918,  presented  by 
Mrs.  Carter  with  a  son,  Chauncey  P. 
Carter,  Jr.,  who  will  enter  Amherst 
with  the  class  of  1940.  Present  ad- 
dress, 1028  Si.\teenth  Street,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Miss  Agnes  Shea,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
John  Shea  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  and 
Bartholomew  J.  Connolly,  Jr.,  former 
Amherst  football  captain.  At  present 
he  is  at  work  in  a  shipbuilding  plant 
in  Philadelphia. 

Dr.  Frank  L.  Babbott,  Jr.,  has  been 
elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Pratt  Institute  in  Brooklyn. 
He  is  a  grandson  of  the  founder  of 
the  Institute. 

1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont   Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Clarence  D.  Rugg  was  married  to 
Miss  Dorothy  C.  Phelps  of  Greenfield, 
Mass.,  on  Tuesday,  April  2d,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Rugg  are  located  in  Quebec. 

Roswell  P.  Young  is  a  member  of  the 
Tenth  Regiment,  Company  104,  Massa- 
chusetts State  Guard.  His  home  ad- 
dress is  41  Long  Avenue,  AUston. 

Mark  E.  Maxom  is  acting  as  assist- 
ant in  the  Law  Department,  License 
Division  of  the  U.  S.  Food  Adminis- 
tration and  is  stationed  at  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Thomas  K.  Patterson  was  initiated 
into  the  Gamma  Phi  Chapter  of  the 
Delta  Tau  Delta  fraternity  at  Amherst 
in  May  when  the  Amherst  chapter  was 
installed. 

Hallock  Luce  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  from  the  College  of 


Phj'sicians  and  Surgeons  of  Columbia 
University  at  the  last  Commencement. 

Lieutenant  George  R.  Foddy,  Jr., 
and  Miss  Helen  May  Egerton,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Egerton 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  were  mai-ried  on 
Saturday,  June  22d,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  parents. 

1915 

J.  L.  Snider,  Secretary, 
Fairfax  13,   Cambridge,   Mass. 

Miss  Hannah  Sargent  Locke,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilbur  Sargent 
Locke  of  Winchester,  Mass.,  and  a 
graduate  of  Vassar  in  the  class  of  1915, 
was  married  on  May  12th  to  Lowell 
Ridgeway  Smith.  The  wedding  was 
hastened  by  a  call  to  active  service  of 
Mr.  Smith,  who  is  a  lieutenant  in  the 
aviation  corps  of  the  army. 

William  Whiting  was  a  member  of 
the  Third  Liberty  Loan  General  Com- 
mittee in  Holyoke. 

William  Mellema  is  with  Cramp  and 
Company,  the  Philadelphia  shipbuild- 
ers, as  Reinforced  Concrete  Engineer, 
engaged  in  the  design  of  a  number  of 
reinforced  concrete  buildings  for  the 
Government,  such  as  the  naval  store- 
house, the  cold  storage  and  ice  making 
plants  at  Hampton  Roads,  and  two 
extensions  to  the  Quartermaster's  De- 
pot at  Philadelphia,  as  well  as  the 
marine  barracks  at  Cape  May. 

Lieutenant  Richardson  Pratt  has 
been  made  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Pratt  Institute  in  Brooklyn. 

George  C.  Bratt,  who  has  been  study- 
ing in  the  University  of  Zurich  since 
the  spring  of  1917,  has  returned  to  this 
country. 

When  the  Amherst  Chapter  of  the 
Delta   Tau    Delta   fraternity   was   in- 


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stalled  in  May,  three  members  of  1915 
were  initiated — L.  O.  Johnson,  W. 
Macdonald  and  S.  R.  Packard. 

Harry  B.  Coxhead  is  doing  special 
radio  work  for  the  Government  at  New 
London,  Conn. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 
Douglas  C.  Stearns  is  in  the  Bureau 
of  War  Trade  Intelligence,  War  Trade 
Board.    His  war  address  is  1449  Massa- 
chusetts Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Robert  H.  Park  is  manager  of  the 
Red  Cross  war  fund  in  Taunton,  Mass. 
He  is  unable  to  enlist  because  of  poor 
eyesight. 

Harry  Barnes  and  "Al"  Seamans 
both  of  '16,  together  with  Lieutenant 
Grainger,  '17,  and  Baker  and  Hazel- 
dine,  '19,  had  a  little  reunion  at  Nice, 
France,  early  last  spring.  From  all 
reports  they  had  some  party,  talking 
over  old  times  together  and  relating 
experiences  "over  there." 

Luman  B.  Wing  was  married  on 
Wednesday,  April  10th,  to  Miss  Mil- 
dred Downey,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wallace  Downey  of  New  York 
City.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wing  are  making 
their  home  at  260  Washington  Avenue, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Lieutenant  Francis  M.  Dent,  308th 
Infantry,  U.  S.  R.,  was  married  to  Miss 
Grace  Newman  of  Philadelphia  on 
Monday,  March  25th. 

1917 

R.  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
A.  M.  Clarke,  who  taught  at  Phil- 
lips Andover  Academy  as  assistant  in- 
structor in  physics  this  past  year,  has 
entered  Government  service.   At  present 


his  work  is  in  the  chemical  department 
of  one  of  the  Government's  powder 
mills. 

Miss  Marjorie  A.  Luey,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lester  A.  Luey  of  Green- 
field, Mass.,  and  Lieutenant  Donald 
E.  Temple  were  married  on  Saturday, 
March  30th.  Among  the  guests  were 
J.  G.  Gazley,  '17,  R.  M.  Fisher,  '17. 
and  H.  F.  Wheeler,  '18. 

Edward  F.  Loomis  was  married  on 
April  6th  at  Huntington,  Mass.,  to 
Miss  Edith  L.  Thomas,  Mount  Hol- 
yoke,  '17. 

C.  T.  Jones  and  H.  A.  Smith  were 
initiated  into  the  Delta  Tau  Delta  fra- 
ternity at  Amherst,  in  May  when  the 
Amherst  Chapter  was  installed. 

R.  Stanley  Woodward  has  enlisted 
in  the  Merchant  Marine  service,  and 
reported  for  duty  at  the  Charlestowa 
Navy  Yard  on  April  15th. 

Lieutenant  David  Warman  Morrow 
of  the  311th  Infantry  was  married  on 
May  5th  at  St.  Bartholomew's  Chapel, 
New  York  City,  to  Miss  Doris  Mae 
Atkinson,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Adelaide 
Thorne  Atkinson. 

Eric  Shumway  is  employed  in  the 
Standard  Oil  Company  at  Long  Island 
City. 

1918 

The  first  undergraduate  of  Amherst 
to  give  his  life  for  his  country  is  Charles 
W.  Chapman,  Jr.,  of  the  class  of  1918, 
who  lived  at  Waterloo,  Iowa. 

Chapman  was  killed  in  a  spectacular 
battle  in  the  air  northwest  of  Toul  on 
May  3d,  when  his  machine  was  shot 
down  and  fell  back  of  the  German  lines. 
He  was  instantly  killed;  but  the  fact 
of  his  death  was  not  definitely  estab- 
lished until  June  5th. 

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in  the  battle  in  which  the  Amherst  man 
lost  his  life.  The  Americans  were  pa- 
trolling over  the  German  lines  at  dawn 
when  they  saw  the  enemy  fliers  coming. 
Chapman,  the  youngest  of  the  Ameri- 
cans, was  engaged  by  two  Germans. 
After  maneuvering  for  an  advantageous 
position  Chapman's  machine  and  one 
of  the  German  machines  suddenly 
burst  into  flames  and  fell  together  on 
German  territory.  His  comrades  saw 
his  extremity  and  tried  to  save  him,  but 
were  unable  to  be  of  any  help.  The 
attack  occurred  when  the  American 
machines  had  patrolled  the  sector  once 
and  were  starting  on  a  second  tour 
when  several  sparkling  specks  were 
seen  far  away  within  the  German  lines. 
The  American  airmen  turned  quickly, 
but  kept  their  formation.  Suddenly 
the  American  formation  took  a  dive 
toward  the  Germans,  who  swung  about 
sharply.  Then  the  machine  guns  came 
into  action  and  the  battle  was  on,  while 
the  watchers  on  the  ground  could  not 
tell  which  machine  was  which,  as  all 
machines  darted  in  and  out,  up  and 
down,  and  turned  and  banked.  Sud- 
denly one  machine,  a  German,  left  the 
formation  and  Chapman  followed,  his 
gun  spitting  bullets.  The  German 
banked  and  Chapman  did  likewise,  and 
as  another  machine  came  towards  him 
both  machines  suddenly  burst  into 
flames  and  fell  to  the  ground.  Chap- 
man's companions  continued  the  battle 
with  the  Germans,  who  soon  retired. 
The  American  aviators  returning  to 
their  hangars  were  full  of  admiration 
for  the  fine  fight  and  pluck  shown  by 
Chapman,  to  whom  they  referred  as 
"the  kid." 

The  French  Government  awarded  to 
Lieutenant  Chapman  the  war  cross  in 
recognition  of  his  bravery. 

Charles  W.  Chapman  was  one  of  the 
first  men  of   1918  to  enlist.     He  left 


college  in  the  latter  part  of  his  junior 
year  to  enter  the  ambulance  service; 
but  early  last  fall  was  transferred  to 
aviation,  and  later  became  a  member  of 
the  Lafayette  flying  squad.  He  received 
his  commission  as  second  lieutenant  in 
February  of  this  year. 

While  in  Amherst  Chapman  was  very 
popular.  He  was  the  business  manager 
of  last  year's  Olio,  a  member  of  his  class 
basketball  team  and  of  the  Phi  Delta 
Theta  fraternity.  He  also  acted  as 
chairman  of  the  Junior  smoker  of  the 
class  of  1918. 

Lieutenant  Chapman  prepared  for 
college  at  the  West  High  School,  Water- 
loo, la.,  where  he  made  an  excellent 
record  both  as  a  student  and  all-around 
athlete.  He  played  half  back  on  the 
football  squad  and  was  captain  of  the 
team  in  1913.  After  leaving  high  school 
he  entered  Amherst;  and  his  affection 
for  the  college  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
he  christened  his  aeroplane  "Lord 
Jeff." 

Lieutenant  Chapman  thoroughly  en- 
joyed his  aviation  experiences  and  in 
his  last  letter  to  his  mother,  written 
under  date  of  April  22,  1918,  he  says: 

"Well,  I  have  been  baptized  with 
fire.  I  have  made  my  first  patrols.  My 
initiation  took  place  from  6  to  7  a.  m., 
three  days  ago.  .  .  .We  flew  directly 
towards  the  line,  climbing  towards  the 
line  so  as  to  have  some  height  when  we 
reached  there.  All  the  way  out  I  was 
having  a  hard  time  getting  my  motor 
regulated.  It  was  my  second  ride  in 
this  particular  machine  and  the  fourth 
of  this  type.  When  we  reached  the 
lines  I  was  slowly  dropping  behind  and 
losing  comparative  altitude.  .  .  .1  was 
over  the  lines  for  an  hour  learning  the 
sector.  Finally  I  decided  to  go  down 
and  see  where  I  was.  I  thought  I  was 
south  of  our  own  trenches,  but  what  I 
thought  were  ours  turned  out  to  be 
boche.  I  cut  my  engine  and  came 
down  through  the  clouds.  Just  as  I 
came  out  of  the  clouds  I  heard  a  crack! 
crack!    I  looked  off  to  one  side  and  saw 


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small  black  puffs  of  smoke  which  I 
knew  were  boche  anti-aircraft  shells 
exploding.  A  second  later  I  saw  red 
streaks  going  past  me  on  the  other  side 
and  I  knew  that  these  were  the  tracer 
bullets  from  machine  guns.  I  looked 
down  at  the  ground  and  saw  that  I  was 
exactly  over  the  German  trenches.  I 
put  on  my  motor  and  headed  for  the 
nearest  cloud.  It  couldn't  have  taken 
me  more  than  a  minute  to  get  to  it  but 
it  sure  seemed  long.  All  the  time  I 
could  hear  the  shells  exploding  and  now 
and  then  see  another  streak  of  a  tracer. 
When  I  reached  my  cloud  I  changed 
my  direction  and  then  jumped  from  one 
to  another.  I  headed  southwest  for 
ten  minutes,  came  down  below  the 
clouds  again  and  was  right  over  our 
field.  When  I  had  landed  I  looked  over 
my  plane.  There  wasn't  a  bullet  hole 
in  it." 

The  Amherst  Student  for  May  6th 
pays  the  following  tribute  to  Lieutenant 
Chapman : 

"The  first  undergraduate  has  given 
his  life  for  his  country,  the  first  Amherst 
man  has  died  in  battle.  The  name  of 
Charles  W.  Chapman,  Jr.,  of  the  class 
of  1918,  is  in  the  list  of  those  who,  put 
to  the  supreme  test,  have  brought  honor 
to  themselves  and  to  their  country. 
The  loss  of  this  man,  whom  many  of  us 
knew,  is  hard  to  realize;  the  sense  of 
loss  that  increasing  realization  brings, 
cannot  be  expressed. 

"Quiet,  congenial,  helpful,  Chapman 
lived  among  us  and  made  a  host  of 
friends  by  his  sincerity  and  kindness. 
He  was  one  of  those  men  always  ready 
and  able  to  do  his  share.  The  honor 
he  won  for  himself  was  the  recognition 
and  respect  of  his  coUegemates  for  his 
pleasing  and  worthy  personality. 

"In  his  death.  Chapman  was  true  to 
himself  and  rendered  unflinchingly  the 
full  measure  of  his  devotion  to  a  cause 
we  all  hold  dear.  There  is  little  that 
can  be  said  adequately  to  honor  him  or 
to  express  the  spirit  of  loss  we  must 
feel.  There  is  one  thing  that  we  can 
resolve,  to  endeavor  to  live  as  worthily 
and,  if  necessary,  to  die  as  bravely  as 


this  first  man  on  our  undergraduate  roll 
of  honor." 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Phillip  Arnold  of  Providence,  R.  I., 
and  Miss  Marion  B.  Harris  of  the  same 
city. 

1919 

A  daughter,  Barbara  Jane,  was  born 
Easter  Sunday  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry  B. 
Glann  of  Cortland,  N.  Y.  He  is  a  for- 
mer member  of  the  class  of  1919. 

Nehemiah  Boynton,  Jr.,  and  Miss 
Eleanor  M.  Brown,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Harry  Hosmer  Brown  of 
Brookline,  Mass.,  were  married  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  parents  on  Tuesday, 
June  25th.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah 
Boynton,  '79,  father  of  the  groom,  per- 
formed the  ceremony,  assisted  by  the 
Rev.  Edward  C.  Boynton,  '07,  brother 
of  the  groom.  This  was  another  war 
wedding,  Mr.  Boynton  having  left  col- 
lege to  enter  the  service  and  is  now  an 
ensign  in  the  naval  station. 

1920 

Ralph  E.  Bailey  is  assistant  to  Ellis 
Loring  Dresel,  the  director  of  the  Ameri- 
can Red  Cross  Central  Committee  for 
American  Prisoners  at  Berne,  Switzer- 
land. This  committee  is  the  one  organi- 
zation officially  authorized  by  the  U.  S. 
Government  to  send  food  parcels  to 
American  prisoners  (army,  navy  or 
civilian)  in  Germany.  This  is  essen- 
tially Red  Cross  work,  but  there  is  so 
much  diplomacy  bound  up  with  it  that 
it  has  become  a  part  of  the  work  of  the 
Legation.  Bailey  has  also  become  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer  of  the  American 
Civilian  Relief  Fund  of  Switzerland. 
His  address  is  the  American  Legation, 
Berne,  Switzerland. 


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AMHERST  MEN  IN  THE  NATIONAL  SERVICE 
FIFTH  INSTALMENT 


The  following  pages  contain  a  roster  of  Amherst  men  in  the  National  Service, 
according  to  the  records  of  the  Committee  on  War  Records  of  the  Alumni  Council, 
July  1,  1918.  The  Committee  realizes  that  there  are  errors  and  omissions  in  this 
list,  and  it  hopes  that  readers  of  the  roster  will  send  to  the  Committee  at  once 
any  additions  or  corrections  which  should  be  made.  Address  Frederick  S.  Allis, 
Secretary,  Amherst,  Mass. 


Abbreviations  used*: 

A.    A.    F.    S. — American    Ambulance    Field 

Service 
A. — Army 
Adjt. — Adjutant 
Adv . — Advisory 
Aer. — Aerial 

A.  L.  A. — American  Library  Association 
Am.^American 
Arab . — Ambulance 
Amm. — Ammunition 
Appt. — Appointment 
Art. — Artillery 

A.  S. — Aviation  Section 
Ath. — Athletic 

Aux. — Auxiliary 
Av. — Aviation 

Bal. — Balloon 
Bat. — Battery 
Batn. — Battalion 
Bd.— Board 

B.  E.  F. — British  Expeditionary  Forces 
Br. — Branch 

Brig. — Brigade 
Bur. — Bureau. 

C. — Corps 

C.  A.  C. — Coast  Artillery  Corps 

C.  E.  F. — Canadian  Expeditionary  Force 
Can . — Canadian 

Ch.— Chief 
Chap. — Chaplain 
Chn . — Chairman 
Com. — Committee 
Comm. — Commission 
Commdg. — Commanding 
Commdr. — Commander 
Cons. — Conscription 
Conserv. — Conservation 
Const. — Constructor 
Constrg. — Constructing 
Cox. — Coxswain 
Cy. — County 

D.  E.  B. — District  Exemption  Board 
Def. — Defense 

Dep. — Deputy 
Det. — Detachment 
Dir. — Director 
Dist. — District 


Elec. — Electrician 
Emer. — Emergency 
Eng.— Engineers 
Ent. — Entertainment 
Equip. — Equipment 
Evac. — Evacuation 

F. — Force 

F.  A.— Field  Artillery 

Fd.— Fund 

Fed. — Federal 

Fin. — Finance 

Form. — Formerly 

Fr. — French 

F.  R.  D. — Federal  Reserve  District 

F.  S.— Field  Signal 

G.  D.  S. — Gas  Defense  Service 
Gr. — Ground 

Hd.— Head 

H.  D.  L. — Home  Defense  League 

H.  G. — Home  Guard 

Hosp. — Hospital 

L  I.  B. — Intercollegiate  Intelligence  Bureau 
Insp. — Inspector 
Instr. — Instructor 
Int. — Intelligence 

J.  G. — Junior  Grade 
Jud. — Judicial 
Just. — Justice 

L.  E.  B. — Local  Exemption  Board 

Leg. — Legal 

L.  L. — Liberty  Loan 

Mar.— Marine 

M.  C. — Medical  Corps 

M.  O.  R.  C. — Medical  Officers  Reserve  Corps 

M.  E. — Medical  Enlisted 

Mech. — Mechanic 

Med. — Medical 

Mem. — Member 

Mer. — Merchant 

M.  G. — Machine  Gun 

Mil. — Military  and  Militia 

Mis. — Mission 

M.  I.  T.— Mass.  Institute  of  Technology 


*  Acknowledgment  is  made  to  the  Yale  Alumni  Weekly  for  the  form  of  abbreviations  used. 


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Mun. — Munition 
Mus. — Musician 

N. — Naval 

N.  A. — National  Army 

N.  A.  S. — Naval  Air  Service 

Nat. — National 

N.  D. — National  Defense 

N.  G. — National  Guard 

N.  R.  C. — National  Research  Council 

N.  Y.  C— New  York  City 

N.  Y.  G.— New  York  Guard 

N.  Y.  N.  G.— New  York  National  Guard 

N.  Y.  S.  G.— New  York  State  Guard 

Obs . — Observer 

O.  R.  C. — Officers'  Reserve  Corps 

Ord . — Ordnance 

O.  T.  S. — Officers'  Training  School 


Pay.- 
Pers.- 
Phvs 
P.  O. 
Pol.- 
Prov. 
P.  S.- 
Pub.- 
Pur.- 


— Paymaster 

— Personnel 

. — Physical 

—Petty  Officer 

-Police 

— Provisional 

—Public  Safety 

—Public 

—Purchasing 


Q.  M.  C. — Quartermaster  Corps 

R.  D.  N.  R. — Radio  Division  Naval  Reserve 

R. — Reserve 

Rep. — Representative 

Repr. — Representing 

Res. — Reserve 


Ret. — Retired 

R.  F.  C— Royal  Flying  Corps 

R.  O.  T.  C. — Reserve  Officers'  Training  Camp 

R.  W.— Religious  Work 

Ry. — Railway 

San. — Sanitary 

S.  C. — Signal  Corps 

S.  O.  R.  C. — Signal  Officers'  Reserve  Corps 

Sch. — School 

S.  C.  N.  D. — State  Council  National  Defense 

Sec. — Section 

Secy . — Secretary 

Ser.  and  Serv. — Service 

S.  G. — State  Guard 

Sig. — Signal 

Squad. — Squadron 

Spec. — Special 

Sup. — Supply 

Surg. — Surgeon 

Surv. — Surveyor 

Tr. — Train 

Trans. — Transport  and  Transportation 

Trg. — Training 

U.  S.  R. — United  States  Reserve 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. — United  States  Naval  Reserve 

Force 
U.    S.    A.    A.    S.— U.    S.    Army    Ambulance 

Service 

Vol. — Voluntary  and  Volunteered 
W.  W.— War  Work 
Yeo. — Yeoman 


ROLL  OF   HONOR 

(Up  to  July  1,  1918) 

Merrill  Stanton  Guant,  '14,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Died  of  cerebro-spinal  meningitis  at 
Bar-le-Duc,     France,    March     30, 
1916. 

Frank  Janvier  McFarland,  '12,  Acting 
Sergeant,  Camp  Upton 
Killed  in  railroad  accident  at  Camp 
Upton,  October  29, 1917 

Birdseye  Blakeman  Lewis,  '10,  Major, 
Aviation  Sector,  S.  C. 
Died  in  France,  cause  not  recorded, 
November  3,   1917 

Roger  Conant  Perkins,  '17,  N.  A.  S. 
Killed   at   Key   West,   Fla.,   by   fall 
from  a  hydroplane,  March  13,1918 

Charles  Wesley  Chapman,  Jr.,  '18,  2d 
Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Killed    in    France    in    combat    with 
enemy  monoplane.  May  3,  1918 

Harry  AU)ert  Bullock,  '99,  Captain  Q. 
M.  C. 
Killed  in  France  by  an  aerial  bomb, 
May  30,   1918 


MILITARY  HONORS 

Roger  W.  Birdseye,  '12,  First  Lieuten- 
ant, C.  E.  F. 
Awarded    Distinguished    Conduct 
Medal 

William  Hale,  Jr.,  '06,  Captain  Cana- 
dian A.  M.  C. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 

Paul  H.  Ballou,  '19,  West  Point 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 

Louis  G.  Caldwell,  '13,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
Section  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 

Ralph  N.  Dawes,  '13,  Chief  Musician, 
104th  Inf. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 

Charles  W.  Chapman,  Jr.,  '18,  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 

Gouverneur    H.   Boyer,   '03,   1st  Lieu- 
tenant M.  O.  R.  C. 
Awarded  British  Military  Cross 

Wallace  M.  Leonard,  '16,  1st  Lieuten- 
ant Inf. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 


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Merrill  Stanton  Guant,  '14,  U.  S.  A.. 
A.  S. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 

John  R.   Cotton,   '19,    1st   Lieutenant 
Aviation  Corps 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 

FACULTY 

President  Alexander  Meiklejohn 

Member  Mass.  Com.  Pub.  Safety; 
Member  Com.  on  Education,  Adv. 
Com.  C.  N.  D. 

Prof.  Benjamin  K.  Emerson 

Member  N.  R.  C,  Geology  Com. 

Prof.  Harry  DeForest  Smith 
Red  Cross,  Amherst 

Prof.  George  B.  Churchill 
Patriotic  speaker 

Prof.  Frederic  B.  Loomis 
Red  Cross,  Amherst 

Prof.  Clarence  W.  Eastman 

Maj.  Amherst  Unit  R.  O.  T.  C. 

Prof.  Frederic  L.  Thompson 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 

Prof.  Henry  C.  Lancaster 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 

Prof.  Walton  H.  Hamilton 

Expert  Adviser  to  Department  of 
Labor 

Prof.  Raymond  G.  Gettell 

Priorities  Com.  of  Shipping  Bd. 

Prof.  Walter  W.  Stewart 
Federal  Reserve  Bd. 

Prof.  Albert  Parker  Fitch 

Field  Inspector,  American  Red  Cross 

Prof.  John  Corsa 

Liberty  Loan,  Amherst 

Prof.  Richard  F.  Nelligan 

Captain  Ath.  Dir.  Camp  Devens 

Prof.  Charles  H.  ToU^ 

Psychological  Sec.  Surg.  Gen.'s  Office 

Prof.  Laurence  H.  Parker 

Captain  Amherst  Unit  R.  O.  T.  C. 

Prof.  Charles  W.  Cobb 

Dir.  Tech'l  Instn.  U.  S.  Schs.  Mil. 
Aeronautics 

Prof.  Allison  W.  Marsh 

Central  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee 


Prof.  Howard  W.  Doughty 

Conducting  experiments  for  the  Gov- 
erment 

Dr.  John  B.  Zinn 

Conducting  experiments  for  the  Gov- 
ernment 

Mr.  Leland  Olds 
Shipping  Bd. 

ARMY  AND   NAVY 

Class  of  1879 
Boynton,    Nehemiah,    Chaplain    13th 

Reg. 
Marvine,  Walter,  Chaplain  U.  S.  A. 

Class  of  1882 
Bellows,  George  E.,  1st  Lieutenant  M. 
O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1883 
Walker,  John  B.,  Major  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1884 
Bridgman,    Burt    N.,    Captain    British 
M.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1885 
Breck,    Edward,    Lt.    Commdr.,    U.    S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Butler,  John  E..  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1886 
Schauffler,  William  G.,  Lt.  Col.  M.  O. 

R.  C. 
Smith,  Allan,  Col.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1887 
Rogers,  Daniel  W.,  Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Stevens,  Charles  B.,  Capt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1888 
Ewing,  James,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Noyes.  William  B.,  1st  Lt.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1890 
Gilbert.  William  O.,  Lt.  Col.,  N.  A. 

Class  of  1891 
Jackson,  Thomas  W.,  Maj.M.  O.  R.  C. 
Morse,  George  A.,  2d  officer,  U.  S.  N. 

R.  F. 
Reeves,  Jesse  S.,  Capt.  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1892 
Comstock,  Earl,  Capt.  Q.  M.  O.  R.  C. 


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Shattuck,  George  B.,  2d  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Washburn,    Frederic   A.,    Maj.    M.    O. 

R.  C. 
Williams,  Harry  B.,  Capt.  Q.  M.  C. 

Class  of  1893 
Beebe,  Edwin  L.,   Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Cummings,   Frank  B.,   Lt.   Col.,   103d 

Inf. 
Hamilton,  George  L.,  Maj.  Q.  M.  C. 
Walker,  Robert  I.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  189-1 
Brown,  Warren  D.,  Capt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 

R.  C. 
Herrick,  Frederick,  C.  Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Kidder,  Pancoast,  Billiting  Capt.  27th 

Div. 
Smith,  Luther  E.,  Capt.  F.  A. 

Class  of  1895 
Bryant,  Emmons,  Capt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Osgood,  Robert  B.,  Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Potter,  Palmer  A.,  Capt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Roelker,  Alfred  E.  Jr.,  Capt.  305th  M. 
G.  Batn. 

Class  of  1896 
Chase,  Aurin  M.,  Maj.  Motor  Equip. 

Sec. 
Gates,  Merrill  E.,  Jr.,  2d  Lt.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Harkness,  Frank  E.,  Lt.  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Olmsted,  Ernest  S.,  Capt.  313th  Amm. 

Tr. 
Perry,  Edward  F.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1897 
Bradley,    George  G.,    1st   Lt.   Ord.   O. 

R.  C. 
Cobb,  Charles  W.,  Capt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 

R.  C. 
Emerson,   Benjamin   K.,   Maj.   M.   O. 

R.  C. 
Jackson,  Jerome  P.,  Capt.  Eng. 
Moses,  Henry  M.,  Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Polk,  Harry  N.,  Maj.  Cav.  88th  Div. 

Class  of  1898 
Eddy,  Walter  Howard,  Capt.  San.  C. 
Foster,  Nellis  B.,  Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Goddard,    Frederick    W.,    Capt.    54th 
F.  A. 


Lyall,  Earl  H.,  Capt.  Eng.  U.  S.  R. 
Mossman,  Albert,  Capt.  C.  A.  C. 

Class  of  1899 
DeWitt,    Charles   I.,    Maj.   Sup.    Div. 

Ord.  Dept. 
Graves,  James  C,  Jr.,  Capt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Griffin,  Walter  H.,  Capt.  Inf.  8th  Batn. 
Hitchcock,   Edward  W.,  Sergt.,   U.  S. 

A.  A.  S.  Sec.  588 
Hutchins,  Henry  T.,  Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Miller,  Robert  T.,  Jr.,  Maj.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Pottle,  Emory  B.,  A.  A.  F.  S. 

Class  of  1900 
Connor,   James   F.,    Lt.    Commdr.   U. 

S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hammond,   Thomas   J.,    Capt.    Co.    I. 

104th  Inf. 
Kimball,   Cleveland   C,   Lt.   Commdr. 

M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1901 
Ballantine,  William  D.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Buflfum,  Edwin  C,  106th  F.  A. 
Hatch,  William  S.,  Capt.  307th  Amm. 

Tr. 
Herrick,  John  R.,  Capt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Hunt,  Albert  W.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Hurty,  Gilbert,  J.  Capt.  San.  C. 

Class  of  1901 

Mathews,  Charles  E.,  1st  Lt.  Inter- 
preters'  Corps. 

Moore,  Harry  V.  D.,  Maj.  57th  Inf. 
29th  Div. 

Rushmore,  William  R.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S. 
S.  O.  R.   C. 

Class  of  1902 
Anderson,    Wilber   A.,    Pay   Clerk,    U. 

S.   N.   R.   F. 
Baeslack,  Frederick  W.,   Capt.   M.  O. 

R.  C. 
Baker,  Stanley,  R.  O.  T.   C. 
Barber,  Harry  C,  Co.  C,  33d  Eng. 
Clarke,  William  D.,  Capt.  23d  Eng. 
Jones,  Isaac  H.,  Lt.  Col.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Taylor,  Howard  W.,  1st  Lt.  303d  Amm. 

Tr. 
van  Siclen,  Matthew,  1st  Lt.  A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.  C. 
Wilson,  Eugene  S.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 


366 


Amherst   Graduates'  Quarterly 


Class  of  1903 
Bover,  Gouverneur  H.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O. 

*  R.  C. 
Burg,  Chester,  Capt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Hayes,  Joseph  W.,   Capt.,  Psycholog- 
ical Examiner 
Phalen,  Paul  S.,  1st  Lt.,  A.  S.  S.  O. 

R.  C. 
Stearns,  Foster  W.,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 

Cl.\ss  of  lOO-i 

Bauman,  Albert  O.,  Capt.  147th  Inf. 

Chase,  Heman  B.,  Lt.  M.  0.  R.  C. 

Lund,  H.  Gardner,  Lt.  104th  Inf. 

Marquis,  Charles  A.,  Q.  M.  C. 

Otis,  Kenneth  Rouse,  Eng.  Construc- 
tion C. 

Pond,  George  K.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 
R.  C. 

Symington,  Donald,  Capt.  Ord.  R.  R.  C. 

Turner,  Paul  A.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1905 

Bixby,   Sidney,   R.    C.   Rep.   attached 

U.  S.  Div. 
Fort,  Leslie  R.,  1st  Lt.  N.  A. 
Hale,  Fraray,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Hewitt,  Ralph  H.,  Capt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Holmes,  Vancleve,  Capt.  Inf. 
Judge,  Francis  H.,  1st  Lt.  N.  A. 
Mcintosh,  Kenneth  C,  Paymaster  U. 

S.  N.  R.  F. 
Palmer,  W.  Walter,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Ryan,  Elmer  E.,  Lt.  A.  C. 

Class  of  1906 
Hale,  William  Jr.,  Capt.  Can.  A.  M.  C. 
Curran,  John  J.,  Paymaster  U.  S.  Mar. 

C. 
Draper,  Ernest  G.,  Lt.  J.  G.,  U.  S.  N. 

R.  F. 
Draper,   Warren  F.,   Assist.   Surg.   M. 

O.  R.  C. 
Foster,  Norman  P.,  Capt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Hamilton,  James  S.,  1st  Lt.  San.  Corps. 
Priddy,  Vern,  Capt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Remington,  Harold,  Capt.  350th  F.  A. 
Worcester,  James  N.,  Capt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1907 
Deroin,   Frank   A.,   301st   Rapid   Fire 
Gun  Batn. 


Everett,    Lewis   W.,    Sergt.    6th   Reg.      ^I 
Mar.  C.  ^ 

Jones,  R.  Jewett,  1st  Lt.  Divisional 
O.  T.  C. 

Jones,  Wilkins,  Capt.  Inf. 

Lewis,  Frank  E.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Morton,  John  J.,  Capt.  M.  O.  R.  C, 
B.  E.  F. 

Pond,  Walter  F.,  Capt.  30th  Eng. 

Scott,  Robert  H.,  Surg.  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Class  of  1908 
Bonney,  Holbrook,  Capt.  166th  F.  A. 
Burt,  Philip  H.,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Elsey,  George  C,  Capt.  18th  Inf. 
Fleming,  James  P.,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Jones,  Daniel  B.,   1st  Lt.  Av.  Repair 

Sec. 
Jones,  Hildeburn,  1st  Lt.  Prov.  Batn. 
Keith,  Harold  C,  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Kennedy,   Robert  H.,   1st  Lt.   M.   O. 

R.  C. 
Loomis,   Ralph   L.,   Ensign   U.   S.   N. 

R.  F. 
Marcus,  Chapin,  Capt.  155th  F.  A. 
Merrill,  Charles  E.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Paine,  Arthur  P.,  Capt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Post,  Martin  Hayward,  Jr.,  Capt.  M. 

O.  R.  C. 
Powell,  Paul  R.,  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Shattuck,  Maxwell,  11th  Batn.  F.  A. 
Shute,  Kenneth  B.,  2d  Lt.  303d  F.  A. 
Sleeper,  James  T.,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Smith,  James  E.,  Jr.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Welles,  Paul,  1st  Lt.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Woodbury,   Robert   B.,    1st  Lt.   111th 

Inf. 

Class  of  1909 

Allen,  Henry  B.,  Lt.  Ord  O.  R.  C. 

Bolt,  Edward  J.,  Corp.  U.  S.  N.  Avi- 
ation 

Butts,  F.  Marsena,  Capt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 

Chapin,  Edward  L.,  1st  Lt.  302d  F. 
S.  Batn. 

Chapin,  Robert,  Seaman  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Clarke,  Merrill  F.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  Sec. 
539 

Demarest,  Donald  J.,  Cav. 

Dickinson,  E.  Pope,  1st.  Lt. 

Dowd,  George,  1st  Lt.  301st  F.  A. 


Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service   367 


Dyer,  Edward  L.,  Capt.  C.  A.  C. 
Foster,  Elliott  O.,  1st  Lt.  Fin.  &  Sup. 

Div.  M.  C. 
Goodnow,   David   F.,   Sergt.-Maj.    M. 

O.  R.   C. 
Hall,  Gordon  R.,  2d  Lt.   120th  F.  A. 
Hatch,  Charles  U.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Helmolz,    Vogel   A.,    1st   Lt.   Ord.    O. 

R.  C. 
Hickey,  Thomas  R.,   Corp.  Q.   M.  C. 
Hill,  William  E.,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 
Jamieson,    Joseph     B.,   Capt.   Ord.   O. 

R.  C.  Eng.  Sec. 
Jones,  C.  Clothier,  Capt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 

R.  C. 
Jones,  Wilbur  B.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 

R.  C. 
Koomey,  Levon  H.,  20th  Eng. 
Lane,  Stoddard,  Corp.  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 

Sec.  539 
MacCammon,    J.    Marshall,     1st    Lt. 

Const.  Div.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
McVaugh,  Keith,  1st  Lt.  304th  F.  A. 
Mayo-Smith,  Richmond,  Capt.  San.C. 
Mellen,  Harrison  W.,  Sergt.  Hdqrs.  Tr. 

26th  Div. 
Pierce,  Albert  F.,  Jr.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Pratt,  Theodore,  1st  Lt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Sudburv,    Edward   H.,    Aspirant    15th 

F.  A. 
Vollmar,    William    A.,    1st    Lt.    306th 

F.  A. 

Wright,  William  H..  2d  Lt.  168th  Inf. 

Class  of  1910 
Amos,  Lindsay,  2d  Lt.  309th  F.  A. 
Bardwell,  Harold  E.,  1st  Lt.  A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.  C. 
Bedford,  Edward  T.,   1st  Lt.  San.  C. 
Bisbee,  Joseph  B.,  Jr.,  Capt.  Overseas 

Casuals 

Cragin,  Horace  S.,  Asst.  Surg.   U.  S. 
N.  R.  F. 

Drewsen,  Pierre,  Capt.  Inf. 
Gardner,  Raymond  F.,  A.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C. 
Gildersleeve,   Donald  M.,   1st  Lt.   M. 
O.  R.  C. 

Goodnow,   Weston  W.,    1st  Lt.   A.   S. 

S.  O.  R.  C. 
Hall,  Bartow  H.,  1st  Lt.  6th  F.  A. 
Harris,  Herbert  B.,  151st  Depot  Brig. 


Jacobus,  Graham  B.,  2d  Lt.  341st  Inf. 
Knight,  Fred  S.,  42d  Inf. 
Ladd,  William  S.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
McAdam,    S.    Edward,    Seaman    (2d 

class)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Marsh,  William  R.,  Capt.  C.  A.  C. 
Millar,  Clifford  W.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Murray,  Robert  C,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Porter,   John,  Jr.,  U.   S.   N.   Aviation 
Pratt,  Sterling  W.,  2d  Lt.  Q.   M.   C. 
Quinn,  John  R.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Schellenberg,  Bertram  C,  2d  Lt.  A.  S. 

S.  E.  R.  C. 
Seligman,  Eustace  G.,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Taylor,  George  B.,  Int.  Dept. 
Tucker,  Kenneth  T.,  1st  Lt.  307th  Inf. 
Turner,  Charles  W.,  2d  Lt.  Inf. 
Warner,  John  B.,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 

Class  of  1911 
Abele,  Richard,  Q.  M.  C. 
Bailey,  William,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Ballard,  Clifford  B.,  2d  Lt.  339th  Inf. 
Brainerd,    G.    Winthrop,    Pvt.    M.    O. 

R.  C. 
Campbell,    C.    Colfax,    1st    Lt.    309th 

Inf. 
Corry,  William  F.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Davenport,  Everett  B.,  Ensign,  U.  S' 

X.  R.  F. 
Delatour,   Beeckman,  Jr.,   1st  Lt.   M. 

O.  R.  C. 

Denton,  Horace  R.,  Capt.  67th  F.  A. 
Doolittle,  William  P.  S.,  1st  Lt.  307th 

Inf. 
Elder,  Frank  R.,  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Fish,  Gordon  T.,  2d  Lt.  301st  Inf. 
George,   Robert  H.,   Capt.   304th   Inf. 
Gormley,  Arthur  S.,   1st  Lt.   Ord.  O. 

R.  C. 
Hine,  Robert  E.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 

R.  C. 
Hofler,  Alfred  R.,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 
Jacobs,  Paul  C,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Kane,  Leo,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Keyes,  John  H.,   10th  Eng. 
Loomis,  Hubert  H.,  2d  Lt.  101st  F.  A. 
Lord,  Herbert  G.,  Jr.,  Capt.  O.  R.  C. 
McBride,  George  H.,  Ist  Lt.  Ord.  O. 

R.  C. 


368 


Amherst    Graduates*    Quarterly 


Marvin,  Campbell,  A.  S.  E.  R.  C. 
Nichols,  Clifford,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Parks,  George  B.,  2d  Lt.  Inf. 
Patterson,  Arthur  D.,  Maj.  330th  Inf. 
Pennock,  Eugene  R.,  U.  S.  N.  Aviation 
Pohl,  Frederick  J.,  Pvt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Post,  James  W.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Pushee,  Roy  Edward,  Lt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Riker,  Joseph  M.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Rugg,   Charles   B.,   Ensign,   U.   S.   N. 

R.  F. 
Scandrett,   Richard,   M.   A.   S. 
Shumway,   Waldo,    1st   Lt.    103d   Inf. 
Smith,   Donald   P.,   Asst.   Pay.   U.   S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Weathers,  Brantley  A.,  Jr.,   Capt.  Q. 

M.  C. 
Wood,  Lawrence,  Sergt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Wyckoff,  Ralph  S.,  Corp.  303d  Inf. 

Class  of  1912 

Atwater,    William    C,    Jr.,    Ch.    Yeo. 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bacon,  Howard  R.,  2d  Lt.  Cav. 
Birdseye,  Roger  W.,  1st  Lt.  D.  C.  O. 
Brock,  Roland  H..  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Burt,   Wilbur  F.,   Sergt.    11th   Eng. 
Carlin,   George   A.,   Sergt.    1st   Hdqrs. 

Regt. 
Cook,  Allan  W.,  1st  Lt.  19th  Inf. 
deChasseaud,   H.   Gordon,   2d   Lt.   A. 

S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Crandall,  Harold  W.,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 
Dann,   Harry   F.,   Sergt.    119th  Inf. 
Gregory,  Ernest,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Heavens,  Ralph,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hubbard,  Claude,  2d  Lt.  24th  Inf. 
Huszagh,   Victor  L.,   Cav. 
Jones,  Levi  R.,  Lt.  Depot  Brig. 
Jones,  Lloyd,  1st  Lt.  J.  G.,  U.  S.  N. 

R.   F. 
Knapp,   Benjamin  F.,   R.  O.  T.   C. 
Lahey,  William  S.,  1st  Lt.  311th  Inf. 
Lyon,  Arthur  B.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Madden,     John     H.,     Judge     Advoc. 

302d  Inf. 
Moller,  Lester  J.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Mulvihill,  Frank  D.,  Sergt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Nichols,  George  H.,  1st  Lt.  344th  Inf. 


Parsons,  DeWitt  H.,  Capt.  309th  Inf. 
Peacock,  Alfred  B.,  Asst.  Pay.  U.  S. 

N.   R.   F. 
Perkins,  C.  Kingman,  1st  Lt.  A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.  C. 
Quinn,   James  J.,   Lt. 
Siegrist,  William,  Jr.,  Sergt.  305th  Inf. 
Thornton,  Irving  T.,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 
Turner,  Philip  L.,  1st  Lt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Vernon,   Joseph   H.,   Bal.   Div.   S.   O. 

R.   C. 
Vollmer,   Edward   B.,   M.   O.   R.   C. 
Vroom,  Clifford  H.,  Med.  Dept.  103d 

Inf. 
Wellman,    Sargent    Holbrook,    1st    Lt. 

Inf. 

Class  of  1913 
Allen,  Harold  G.,  Sergt.  U.  S.  A.  A.  C. 
Atkinson,  Geoffroy,  Sergt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Babbott,  Frank  L.,  Jr.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Belden,  Thomas  F.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 

R.   F. 
Benedict,  Chauncey  C,  11th  Eng. 
Bixby,  Harold  M.,  Bal.  C. 
Brown,  Wayland  H.,  1st  Lt.  333d  F. 

A.  Bal.  Obs. 
Caldwell,  Louis,  Fr.  Art.  Sch. 
Chapin,  Russell  F.,  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ord. 

Dept. 
Cousins,  Thomas  F.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 

R.   F. 
Coyle,  Walter  W.,  Instr.  Aerial  Gunnery 
Creede,  Thomas  R.,  Jr.,   Capt.   104th 

Eng. 
Dawes,  Ralph  N.,  Band  Leader  104th 

Inf. 
Ely,  Dwight  C,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Estabrook,     Benjamin     W.,     1st     Lt. 

Instr.    Aerial    Gunnery 
Good,  Paul  F.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hager,  Richard  B.,  1st  Lt.  115th  F.  A. 
Hamilton,    William    G.,    Seaman    (2d 

Class)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Harding,  Howard  C,  Pvt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Hopkins,  Carroll  L.,  Ch.  P.  O.,  U.  S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Hutchens,  Harold,  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Jenkins,  Robert  A.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 

R.  F. 
Keller,  F.  Carl,  R.  O.  T.  C. 


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Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service     369 


King,    John     L,.     Quartermaster     (3d 

Class)   U.  S.   N.  R.  F. 
Klingenfeld,   John  H.,   Tank   C 
Knudson,  Edward  C,  Yeo.  (1st  Class) 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Konold,  Herschel  S.,   Capt.   Inf. 
Loomis,  Henry  S.,  1st  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 

R.   C. 
McClure,  James  F.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Marquis,   John  B.,   Sergt. 
Marsh,  Allison  W.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Martin,  James  G.,  San.  C. 
Mealand,  Arthur  J.,  Jr.,  1st  Lt.  332d 

F.    A. 
Miller,  Robert  S.,   1st  Lt.   Inf. 
Moore,  Walter  W.,  1st  Lt.  51st  Inf. 
Morse,   Edward  S.,   Ensign  U.   S.   N. 

R.   F. 

Olds.  George  D.  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Parsons,  Charles  E.,  Pvt.  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Patten,  Kenneth  S.,  S.  O.  R.  C.  Equip. 

Div. 
Pope,  Russell,  2d  Lt.  A.  E.  F. 
Pride,  Hammond,  2d  Lt.  111th  Inf. 
Quill,  James  R.,   1st  Lt.  F.  A. 
Robinson,  Gain,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Scatchard,  George,   1st  Lt.  San.   C. 
Sheridan,     Charles     F.,     Batn.     Sergt. 

Maj.   War  Risk   Ins.   Dept. 
Stelling,  Frank  P.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Stilwell,  Lewis  D.,  M.  O.  R.  C,  104th 

F.    A. 
Stirn,  Albert  L.,  2d  Lt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Stone,  Nelson,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Stout,  Robert  I.,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Tilden,  James  A.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Tuttle,  Miner  W.,  Pvt.  N.  A. 
Urquhart,    Douglas,    Corp.    104th   Inf. 
Wadhams,    Charles    H.,    Sergt.    106th 

M.  G.  Batn. 
Warner,  Hunt,  2d  Lt.   165th  Inf. 
Whitney,   William  H.,   Q.   M.   C. 
Wilcox,  Sanford  P.,  Sergt.  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Wilcox,   William  J.,  Sergt.  327th  Inf. 
Wilder,  Harry  C,  Capt.  309th  F.  A. 
Willetts,  James  E.,  Capt.  117th  Amm. 

Tr. 

Class  of  1914 
Beatty,  Joseph  J.,  Q.   M.  C. 


Bernero,  Frank  A.,  1st  Lt.  310th  Inf. 

Bliss,  Mervin  W.,  Pvt.  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 

Brace,  Carleton  H.,  Pvt.  San.  C,  M. 
Q.  R.   C. 

Brough,    Frank    C,    6th    Regt.    U.    S. 
Mar.   C. 

Brown,  Donald  H.,  2d  Lt.  151st  F.  A. 

Butler,  Earle  D.,  Sergt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Clark,  Dwight  N.,   1st  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 

Cobb,  Edward  S.,  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 

Cowham,  Robert  N.,  1st  Lt.  A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.   C. 
Creedon,  John  Herbert,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.  C. 
Dana,   Lockwood  N.,   Pvt.  Q.   M.   C. 
Darrin,  Ralph,  1st  Lt.  M.  G.  Co. 
DeBevoise,  Charles  R.,  1st  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Dickson,  John  D.,  Lt.llth  Inf. 
Ferris,  Frank  H.,  Chap.  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Finch,  Frank  C,  2d  Lt.  M.  G.  Batn. 
Foddy,  George  R.  Jr.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.  C. 
Glann,  Charles  B.,  1st  Lt.  F.  S.  Batn. 
Hall,  Cecil  J.,  2d  Lt.  321st  F.  S.  Batn. 
Hall,  Maynard  H.,  16th  F.  A. 
Hardy,  Paul  W.,  Aviation  Corps 
Heald,  Stanley,  2d  Lt.  303d  F.  A. 
Hersh,   Austin,   Mus.    116th   Inf. 
Hickson,  Leslie  M.,  Aviation  Corps 
Huthsteiner,  Louis,  1st  Lt.  307th  Inf. 
Jewett,  Harold  E.,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Johnson,  Herbert  B.,  Sergt.  308th  F.  A. 
Kimball,  James  R.,  Depot  Brig. 
Kimball,  Richard  M.,  1st  Lt.  C.  A.  C. 
Livingstone,  Colin,  1st  Lt.  348th  F.  A. 
McGay,  Walter  H.,  1st  Lt.  F.  A. 
Mallon,   Alfred  E.,   29th  Eng. 
Miller,  Tilford  W.,  M.  O;  R.  C. 
Mills,  Charles  M.,   1st  Lt.  313th  Inf. 
Murphy,  Robert  J.,  2d  Lt.  4th  Inf. 
Osterkamp,  Fritz  E.,  Pvt.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Outwater,  John  O.,   1st  Lt.   15th  Inf. 
Renfrew,  Franklin  W.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Rugg,  Charles  P.,  1st  Lt.  102d  Inf. 
Seymour,  Marlor  B.,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Shrewsbury,    Kenneth   ().,    1st    Lt.    A. 

S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Shumway,    Lowell,   2d   Lt.   308th   Inf. 


370 


Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


Smith,  Walton  K.,  Cadet  R.  F.  C. 

Stafford,  Fred  W.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  O. 
R.   C. 

Suydam,  Frederick  D.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 

Tierney,  John  J.,  Sergt.  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 

Van  Ingen,  Richard  S.,  Sergt.  Q.  M.  C. 

Washburn,  George  E.,  1st  Lt.  349th 
F.   A. 

Whipple,  Ralph  W.,  Mechanic  U.  S. 
A.    A.    S. 

Whittemore,  Ernest  A.,  2d  Lt.  Avia- 
tion Corps 

Williams,  Charles  W.,  Ensign  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F. 

Wiltsie,  George  H.,  Jr.,  Q.  M.  C. 

Class  of  1915 
Agard,  Walter  R.,  Field  Hos.  304 
Atwater,  John  J.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Babcock,  Ralph  B.,  A.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C. 
Bacon,  Richard  H.,  2d  Lt.  15th  F.  A. 
Bancroft,  Richard  C.  A.   C. 
Banfield,  Richard,  2d  Lt.  351st  Inf. 
Banta,    Kenneth    W.,    1st    Lt.    307th 

F.    A. 
Barnes,  W.  Gerald,  Aviation  Corps 
Bengs,  Max  A.,  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Bissenger,   Frederick  M.,  Q.   M.   C. 
Bonner,  Hampton,  Mar.   Corps 
Boucher,    Clarence   K.,   Lt.   A  v.    C. 
Breckenridge,    Warren,    2d    Lt.    344th 

F.   A. 
Burke,  Francis  J.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Cady,   Arnold,   2d  Lt.   F.   A. 
Caldwell,  Kenneth  F.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Chapman,    Frederick   L.,    Jr.,    2d   Lt. 

Q.  M.  C. 
Cole,  J.  Gerald,  1st  Lt.  56th  F.  A. 
Colton,  Kingsley,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Cooper,  Raymond  B.,  1st  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Craig,  James  W.,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Cross,  J.  Theodore,  2d  Lt.  307th  F.  A. 
Cutler,  David  S.,  2d  Lt.   103d  Inf. 
Day,  Chester  S.,  Can.  A. 
Eastman,  Gardiner  P.,  N.  A.  S. 
Eaton,  Louis  F.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Fonda,  Harold  C,  Pvt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Fuller,  Everett  W.,  1st  Lt.  San.  C. 
Fuller,    Randolph    M.,    2d    Lt.    106th 

M.  G.  Batn. 


Goodwin,  Arthur  P.,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Greene,  Phillips  F.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Hall,  Gordon  R.,  Sergt.  G.  D.  S. 
Hamilton,  George  S.,  Mechanic  U.  S, 

A.    A.    S. 
Harding,  George  C,  Corp.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Heinritz,    Stuart   F.,    Sergt.    317th   F. 

S.  Batn. 
Henin,  Louis  C,  2d  Lt.  Inf. 
Houston,    Charles    H.,   1st    Lt.   368th 

Inf. 
Hubbard,  Silas  G.,  Ord.  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Hubner,    George   H.,    1st    Lt.    Av.    C. 
Humphries,    George    R.,    2d    Lt.    5th 

Replacement  Batn. 
Keith,  Gerald,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Kimball,  Newton  M.,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Kingman,  Henry,  French  Artillery 
Konold,   Edwin  H.,   R.   O.   T.   C.   2d 

Lt.  F.  A. 
Lincoln,    Joseph    N.,    Sergt.    317th   F. 

S.  Batn. 
Loomis,  Samuel,  2d  Lt.  C.  A.  C. 
McCague,   Robert  A.,   2d  Lt.   Inf. 
McGowan,   Robert   R.,    1st   Lt.    332d 

Inf. 
McNair,  Maurice  L.,  2d  Lt.  104th  Inf. 
Manville,    Arthur   J.,    Seaman    U.    S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Martin,  Charles  D.,  Bal.  C. 
Moulton,  Robert,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Newton,  Francis  C,  Pvt.  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Nicholson,  John  R.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Ostrander,    J.    Edwin,    Lt.    U.    S.    N. 

R.  F. 
Parks,  Clarence,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Pratt,   Richardson,   2d  Lt.   369th  Inf. 
Price,  Stuart  E.  2d  Lt.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C. 
Ralston,  Arthur  E.,  2d  Lt.  A.  A.  F.  S. 
Reed,   Kenneth  S.,   1st  Lt.  348th  M. 

G.  Batn. 
Robinson,  Edward  W.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Robinson,  R.  Alexander,  1st  Lt.326th 

F.    A. 
Seelye,   Charles   W.,    1st   Lt.   Ord.   O. 

R.   C. 
Shaw,  Harold  E.,  Av.  C. 
Shumway,  Conrad,  2d  Lt.  306th  Inf. 

M.  G.  Co. 
Smith,  James  K.,  A.  S.  O.  R.  C. 


Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service     371 


Smith,    James   N.,    Ensign   U.    S.    N. 

R.   F. 
Smith,  Lowell  R.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  E. 

R.   C. 
Thayer,   William  G.,  Jr.,   2d  Lt.   Inf. 
Tomlinson,    J.    Brinkerhoff,    U.    S.    N. 

R.   F. 
Warren,  Webster  H.,  2d  Lt.  C.  A.  C. 
Weathers,  Paul  D.,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Webster,  Leslie  T.,  Pvt.  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Whitmore,    George   D.,    Corp.    M.    O. 

R.   C. 

Class  of  1916 

Ames,    Charles   B.,    Ensign   U.    S.    N. 

R.   F. 
Anderson,  Robert  J.,  2d  Lt.  301st  Inf. 
Andrews,  Edward  D.,  Corp.  Q.  M.  C. 
Andrews,  Harold  V.,  Camp  Dix 
Ashley,  Thomas  W.,  2d  Lt.  5th  Reg. 

Mar.  Co. 
Avirett,  William  G.,  Asst.  Pay.  U.  S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Barnes,  Henry  W.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Barone,  Tony,  2d  Trg.   Brig. 
Bastine,  Wilfrid  S.,  2d  Lt.  106th  F.  A. 
Bowers,   William  A.,   Ord.   O.   R.   C. 
Boynton,   Merrill  H.,  Pvt.   11th  Eng. 
Brewton,   Harold   G.,   Gunners'   Mate 

(3d  Class)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bristol,  Herbert  G.,  302d  F.  S.  Batn. 
Bryan,  Walter  C,  Student  Flight  Off. 

N.  A.  S. 
Cadv,   Lowell,   Lt.    (J.   G.)   U.   S.   N. 

R.   F. 
Chell,  Oscar  L.,  Radio  Elec.  (3d  Class) 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Clark,  Franklin,  Ensign  N.  A.  S. 
Conant,    H.    Nelson,    Pvt.    15th   Aero 

Squad 
Creamer,    John    F.,    Jr.,    Corp.    301st 

F.   A. 
Dayton,   Theodore   R.,   2d   Lt.   A.    S. 

S.  O.  R.  C. 
Douglas,  Lewis  W.,  347th  F.  A. 
Dugan,  Alfonso  G.,  Sergt.  122d  F.  A. 
Esty,  William  C,  333d  M.  G.   Batn. 
Gates,  William,  Jr.,  2d  Lt.  151st  F.  A. 
Gillett,  Robert  S.,  1st  Lt.  F.  A.  Aer. 

Obs. 
Goodridge,   Edwin   H.,   2d   Lt.   Depot 

Brigade 


Graham,  Roland  B.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Greene,  Paul  S.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C. 
Hardy,  Donald  E.,  2d  Lt.  301st  F.  A. 
Heavens,  Howard  J.,   101st  Mil.   Pol. 
Hughes,   Percy,   1st  Lt.   55th  Pioneer 

Inf. 
Jenkins,  John  M.,  1st  Lt.  F.  A. 
Johnson,  Herbert  C,  M.  0.  R.  C. 
Keeney,  George  N.,  Pvt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Knapp,  Lewis  M.,  Med.  Dept.  F.  A. 
Lane,  George  H.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Leiper,   Bertram  G.,   Ch.   Yeo.   U.   S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Leonard,   Wallace,    1st   Lt.   6th   Regt. 

Mar.    C. 
Lutkins,  Edwin  H.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
McCloy,  John  S.,  1st  Lt.  160th  F.  A. 
Mansfield,  Ralph  L.,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Marks,  Alan  D.,  A.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Meredith,  Lawrence  C,  1st  Lt.  San.  C. 
Milne,    Douglas,    2d    Lt.,    Batn.    Adj. 

5th  Batn.,  Reg.  Adj.  2d  Reg. 
Otte,   Francis   R.,    2d   Lt.    125th   Inf. 
Peck,   C.   Baldwin,  Jr.,   1st  Lt.   A.  S. 

S.  O.  R.  C. 
Quinn,  Murray  J.,  Sergt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Redfield,    Humphrey    F.,    Asst.    Pay. 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Rider,  Stuart,   1st  Lt.   337th  F.   A. 
Robinson,  Homans,   2d   Lt.   303d  Inf. 
Sawyer,  Edmund,  2d  Lt.  Tank  Corps 
Sawyer,  Harold  E.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Seamans,   Elton  H.,   U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 
Smith,  Robert  W.,    1st  Lt.   U.   S.   A. 

A.  S. 
Smith,  Winthrop,   2d  Lt.   4th   F.   A. 
Washburn,    George    W.,    2d    Lt.    22d 

Inf. 
Weedon,   Charles  F.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.  C. 
White,  Arthur  P.,  F.  A. 
Young,   Lawrence,    1st   Lt.   Q.   M.   C. 

Reclamation   Dept. 

Class  of  1917 
Appleby,  Theodore  F.,   Mar.   C. 
Baer,  Bernard  L.,  Seaman  (2d  Class) 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Baily,  G.  Irving,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 
Baker,  Myers  E.,  Ensign  N.  A.  S. 


372 


Amheest   Gbaduatbs*   Quarteklt 


Banta,  Henry  H„  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Bartholomew,    Charles    H.,    Pvt.    Q. 

M.  C. 
Bell,  Frederick  D.,  Lt.  F.  C. 
Blair,  Earle  F.,  Sergt.  M.  O.  R.   C. 
Bristol,   Ralph  B.,   Asst.   Pay,   U,   S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Buckley,  Frank  L.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 

R.  F. 
Carpenter,  Kenneth  DeF.,  Ensign  U, 

S.  N.  R.  F. 
Clark,  John  D„  2d  Lt.  15th  F.  A. 
Clark,  Lloyd  M.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Cochrane,  Craig  P.,  2d  Lt.  30th  Inf. 
Craig,  David  R.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
DeBevoise,  Herbert  R.,  34th  Eng, 
DeCastro,  R.  E.,  2d  Lt.  A.  S.  S.  O, 

R.  C, 
Dent,  Francis  M.,  1st  Lt.  368th  Inf. 
D'Ooge,  Benjamin  S.,  Sergt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Downer,  E.  Page,  Sergt.  A.  A.  F.  S. 
Eisner,  Mortimer,  Ch.  P.  O.  U.  S.  N, 

R.   F. 
Elish,  Kari  M.,  2d  Lt.  303d  Inf. 
Fillman,  Henry  I.,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Fraker,  Walter  P.,  Ensign  U.  S.   N. 

R.  F. 
Fuller,  Henry  H.,  A.  S.  S.  E.  R.  C. 
Card,  Charles  C,  2d  Lt.  F.  A. 
Glann,  James  E.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Godfrey,  Edgar  L.,   U.  S.   N.   R.   F. 
Goodrich,  Sheldon  B.,   Ist  Lt.  310th 

Inf. 
Hale,  David  C,  R.  F.  C. 
Hawkins,  James  A.,  Sergt.  &  Chemist 

M.  O.  R.  C. 
Heaslip,  John  W.,  M.  O.  R.  C, 
Hendricks,   Walter,    2d   Lt.   A.   S.   S. 

O.  R.  C. 
Hobart,  Richard  T.,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Howard,  Samuel  A.,  Jr.,  R.  0.  T.  C. 
Ivimey,  Theodore,  2d  Lt.  306th  F.  A. 
Jenkins,  Paul  A.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Jessup,  Charles  J.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Jones,  Chandler  T.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Lemcke,    Norman   R.,    Ensign    U.    S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Lestrade,  Paul,  Sergt.  103d  F.  A. 
Lewis,  Cyril  B.,  Ord.  O.  R.  C. 
Loomis,   Edward   F.,    Camp   Upton 


Loomis,  William  F.,   1st  Lt.  F,  C. 

Low,  Carroll  B.,  2d  Lt.  101st  F.  A. 

McCague,  Laurence  M.,  U,  S,  A.  A.  S. 

McGarrahan,  John  C,  U.  S.  N.  R,  F, 

McGowan,  Charles  B.,  Ensign  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F. 

Maloney,  Edward  J.,  2d  Lt.  50th  Inf. 
Marks,  Eric  H.,  Yeo.  (3d  Class)  U. 

S.  N.  R.  F. 
Marples,  Edward  S.,  1st  Lt.  341st  Inf. 
Marshall,     Donald    E.,    Sergt.     303d 

Guard  &  Fire  Co. 
Mason,    Alfred    DeW.,    Jr.,    2d    Lt. 

Depot   Brig. 
Maurer,  Keith  L.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Melcher,  Herbert  H.,  Sergt,  Ord.  O. 

R.  C. 
Miller,  William  M.,  Corp.  305th  Inf. 
Moginot,  Francis  L.,  Corp.  56th  Ar- 
tillery,  C.  A.   C. 
Moore,  Robert  F.,  Sergt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Morrow,  David  W.,  1st  Lt.  Inf. 
Morse,  Edward  W.,  320th  Replacement 

Unit 
Munroe,  Robert,  N.  A.  S. 
Miuray,  Joseph  J,,  Sergt.  Q.   M.  C. 
O'Brien,     Richard     A.,     Sergt.     lOSd 

Amm.  Tr. 
Pettee,  Herbert  B.,  103d  F.  A. 
Plough,  Paul,  2d  Lt.  38th  Inf. 
Proctor,  Edward  R.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Rauschenbusch,  Hilmar,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Robinson,  Hayden,  2d  Lt. 
Rome,  Gardiner  H.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Romer,  Alfred  S.,  Sergt.  A.  S.  S.  E, 

R.  C. 
Ross,  Raymond  T.,  Pilot,  Av.  C. 
Sanders,  Frank  K.,  Jr.,  1st  Lt.  309th 

Inf. 
Scandrett,  Jay  J.  M.,  2d  Lt.  39th  Inf. 
Schmid,  Herbert  W.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Sibley,  Walcott  E.,  N.  R.  R.  D. 
Sleeper,  Frank  M.,  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Spear,  Irving  L.,  Med.  Sup.  Dept. 
Stapleton,  Luke  D.,  2d  Lt.  101st  F.  A. 
Stark,    Whitney,    2d    Lt.    6th    Regt. 

Mar.   C. 
Swett,  Jesse  Freeman,  301st  F.  A. 
Temple,  Donald  E.,  2d  Lt.  30l8t  F.  A. 


Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service     373 


Vaughn,  Herbert  G.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Vielbig,  Joseph  F.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Wadhams,  Robert  W.,   106th  M.   G, 

Batn. 
Whitcomb,  John  L.,  R.  F.  C. 
Widmayer,  Theodore  L.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A. 

A.  S. 
Wilbar,  Wadsworth,  Av.  C. 
Williams,  Palmer  C,  2d  Lt.  302d  Inf. 
Williamson,  Raymond  E.  S.,   1st  Lt. 

157th  F.  A. 
Willis,    Barnard,     1st    Army    Hdqrs. 

Regt. 
Witney,  William  R.,  Av.  C. 
Woodward,  R.  Stanley,  Mar.  C. 
Yawger,    Marmaduke    R.,    Ch.    Yeo. 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Class  of  1918 
Ahlers,  Carl,  1st  Sergt.  306th  Inf. 
Aiello,    Gaetano   R.,    Lt.    Italian   Av. 

Comm. 
Atkinson,  Arthm-  T.,  Corp.  112th  F.  A. 

Babcock,   A.   Emerson,   Jr.,   A.   S.   S. 

E.  R.  C. 

BaUey,  Albert  W.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Barber,  Kenneth  W.,  9th  F.  A. 
Bednarski,  Roger  E.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Bentley,  Raymond  P.,  Ensign  U.  S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Billings,  Dwight  B.,  N.  A.  S. 
Bixler,  David  D..  Lt.  Inf. 
Blair,  Roy  R.,  N.  A.  S. 
Boardman,  T.  Bradford,  2d  Lt.   12th 

F.  A. 

Brackett,  Roger  A.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Brainerd,  John  B.,  Jr.,  1st  Lt.  9th  Inf. 
Breed,   Philip   M.,   P.   O.    (2d   Class) 

Mar.  C. 
Butler,  Franklin  C,  Corp.  103d  F.  A. 
Chase,  Paul  A.,  Pvt.  Inf. 
Churukian,    Vahan   A.,    Corp.    Legion 

D'Orient 
Cross,  Gorham  L.,  N,  A.  S. 
Curtis,  Gordon  M.,  N.  A.  S. 
Durham,    Charles   H.,   Jr.,    U.   S.    N. 

R.  F. 
Eilert.  John  K.,  M.  G.  Co. 
EUinwood,  Ralph  E.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Evans,  James  B.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 


Fredericks,  James  T.,  2d  Lt.  C.  A.  C. 

Garrett,  John  B.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 

Gillies,  John  S.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 

Grainger,  Harry  K.,  2d  Lt.  Av.  C. 

Greene,  Edward  B.,  2d  Lt.  315th  M. 
G.   Batn. 

Hall,  Merwin  P.,  Pvt.  325th  Inf. 
Haven,  Alfred  C,  Jr.,  Ensign  R.  D. 

N.  R. 
Holt.  Arthur  R.,  N.  A.  S. 
Hunneman,  Dexter  R.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Jackson,  Gardner,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Johnson,  Harold  F.,  N.  A.  S. 
Keezer,  Dexter  M.,  1st  Lt.  340th  M, 

G.   Batn. 
Kelsey,  Robert  P.,  N.  A.  S. 
Kenyon,  Owen  H.,  R.  D.  Mar.  Co. 
Kimball,    Bradford,    Elec.    (3d    Class) 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Knauth,  Henry,  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Ladd,  Henry  A.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Macfarlane,    W.    Duncan,    Elec.    (3d 

Class)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
McGarrahan,    Francis   C,    M.   G,   O. 

T.   S. 
Matthews,    Charles   S.,    1st   A.   S.   S. 

O.  R.  C. 
Moore,  Murray  S.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Morehouse,  Andrew  R.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Myers,  Ralph  W.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Norton,  Curtis  L.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Orlady,  Lewis  T.,   1st  Lt.  338th  M. 

G.   Batn. 
Orrell,  Burton,  108th  Amb.  Co. 
Parkhurst,    Morrill    H.,    Tank    Corps 
Parsons,    Truston   H.,    Ensign   U.    S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Patton,  Robert  F.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F, 

Pratt,    Waldo    E.,    Jr.,    2d    Lt.    12th 

F.   A. 
Prince,  Leonard  M.,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
QuiU,  John  H.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Robinson,  William  C,  Jr.,  2d  Lt.  Inf. 
Rogers.  William  G.,   U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Schmidt,    Rudolph    W.,    309th    F.    S. 

Batn. 
Seamans,  Chester  G.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
See,  Philip  Hudson,  Ensign  N.  A.  S. 
Sharp,  Malcolm  P.,  N.  A.  S. 


374 


Amherst   Graduates'   Quarterly 


Simmons,    Donald    B.,    2d    Lt.    338th 

M.  G.  Batn. 
Smith,  Elmer  G.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Stitt,  WUliam  B.,  N.  A.  S. 
Taber,  William,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Thayer,   Lucius   E.,   U.   S.   N.   R.   F. 
Thayer,    Sigourney,    1st   Lt.    Av.    C. 
Thomas,   Byron   E.,   U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 
Thompson,   William   L.,   309th   Inf. 
Tooker,   Winfred   C,   U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 
Traver,  Clarence  H.,  N.  A.  S. 
Tylee,    Arthur   F.,    Reg.    Sergt.    Maj. 

301st   Amm.    Tr. 
Van  Dyck,  Rawdon,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Warren,  James   C,   Ord.   O.   R.   C. 
Washburn,   William  C,   2d  Lt.   A.  S. 

S.  E.  R.  C. 
Wheeler,  Harry  F.,  R.  O.  T.   C. 
Williams,  Morris  H.,  Av.   C. 
Young,  Clifford  J.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1919 
Bailey,     Franklin    F.,     Quartermaster 

(3d  Class)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Baker,  Ingham  C,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Ballou,  Paul  H.,  West  Point 
Barton,   Russell   P.,   U.   S.   N.   R.   F. 
Bell,  John  B.,  Yeo.  (1st  Class)  U.  S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Boone,  George  T.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Boynton,  Oliver  G.,  N.  A.  S. 
Bracken,  James  W.,  2d  Lt.  Q.  M.  C. 
Brinkerhoff,  Robert  J.,  N.  A.  S. 
Brown,  Arthur  F.,  R.  O.  T.  C, 
Bull,  Charles  H.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Burnett.  William  A.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Burr,  Marcus  R.,  Seaman  (1st  Class) 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Chase,   Charles  R.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Chester,    John,    Sergt.    Hdqrs.    Troop 
Clark,  Richard    W.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N 

R.   F. 
Cummings,  William  B.,  R.  O.  T.   C. 
Cotton,  John  R.,  1st  Lt.  Av.  C. 
Darling,   Thurston   V.,    R.    O.    T.    C. 
Davis,  Robert  J.,  N.  A.  S. 
Donahue,  Lawrence  L,.  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Eastman,   Philip   Y..   N.   A.   S. 
Elwell,  James  H.,   Corp.   151st  Depot 

Brig. 


Emery,   William  H.,   Jr.,   Av.   C. 
Evans.  Rowland  C,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Evleth,    Raymond   E.,    Av.    C. 
Forbes,  Wilbur  E.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Gardiner,  Charles  M.,  N.  A.  S. 
Goodwin,    Clarence   B.,   R.   O.   T.    C, 
Hallock,   Leavitt  D.,   R.   O.   T.   C. 
Hand,  Alfred,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hazeldine,  Arthur  E.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Holden,  Roger  C,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Howe,    Burr,    N.    A.    S. 
Kiley,  Marcus  P.,   U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Kimball,    Parker   B.,    R.    O.    T.    C. 
Lay,  Harold  M.,  Am.  Art.  Sch. 
Lyman,  Joesph  M.,   U.   S.   A.   A.  S. 
McAllister,    Willis   H.,    U.    S.    N.    R. 
F.  Aux. 

McDonald,   Bruce  S.,   R.   D.   N.  R. 
McGregor,    Alexander,   Jr.,    P.    O.    U. 
S.  N.  R.  F. 

Marks,   Warren  L.,   Canteen  Steward 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Mayers,  Warren  T.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 

R.   F. 
Miller,  Lloyd  W.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Mitchell,   Donald  G.,   Jr.,   Sergt.    (1st 

Class)  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Mulholland,   Hugh  A.,  Depot  Brig. 
Neiley,  Richard  B.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N. 

R.   F. 
Norton,   Algernon   Sidney,   Jr.,    P.   O. 

(3d  Class)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Riefler,   Winfield  W.,   U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Savoy,  John  A.  G.,  A.  A.  F.  S. 
Schaaf,   Oliver  H.,   U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 
Sheldon,     Merriam     W.,     Amb.     Co. 

No.  347 
Smith,  Lincoln  B.,  Corp.   103d  F.  A, 
Snelling,  Stuart  P.,  Sergt.  306th  Inf. 
Southworth,   Theodore,    R.    O,   T.    C. 
Spencer.  Harold  B..  Sergt.  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Stanton,  John  B.,  Field  Clerk 
Story,   Robert  W.,   R.   D.   N.  R. 
Taber,   Benjamin,   M.   O.  R.   C. 
Tilton,  Thomas  A.,  N.  A.  S. 
Vermilya,  Howard  P.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
Virden,    Emerson,   R.    O.   T.    C. 
Whitcomb,    Henry   D.,   Ensign   U.   S. 

Na   R.    F. 


Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service     375 


White,    Robert    R.,    Jr.,    Hdqrs    Tr. 

27th   Div. 
Whitman,    Barrett.    U.    S.    N.    R.    F. 
Yarrington,  Frederic  L.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 

Class  of  1920 

Apraham,   Paul,   Quartermaster  U.   S. 

N.  R.  F. 
Arnold,   Cyril  D.,   R.   O.   T.   C. 
Avery,   Clarence   E.,    M.   O.   R.   C. 
Ayres,  Stanley  W.,  A.  S.  S.  O.  R.  C. 
Boynton,  Nehemiah,  Jr.,  R.  D.  N.  R. 
Briggs,    John   L.,    Av.    C. 
Card,   Glenn  F.,   Coxswain  U.   S.   N. 

R.   F. 
Clay,  John  H.,   Av.   C. 
Cornell,  Dudley  B.,  104th  M.  G.  Batn. 
Corson,  Frederic  W.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Crooks,    Laurence    E.,    Sergt.    Motor 

Truck  Co.  327 
Dade,    Alexander   L.,   Jr.,    1st   Lt.    S. 

O.  R.   C. 
Darling,  Millard  S.,  R.  O.  T.  C. 
DeKlyn,   Charles    C.   R.   O.   T.   C. 
Furbish,  Henry  Ordway,  Q.   M.   C. 
Goebel,   Grant  A.,   U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 
Hadley,    Francis    E.,    Jr.,    U.    S.    N. 

R.  F. 
Hamilton,  Hugh  L.,  R.  O.  T.  C,  Art. 
Haskell,    Merrill   C,   Am.   Red   Cross 

Amb.  C. 
Hildebrandt,   Burton   E..   N.   A.   S. 
Hinch.  James  H.,  Pvt.  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Holmes,  Joshua  M.,  Jr.,  Tank  Corps 
Horgan,   Harry   R.,   U.   S.   N.   R.   F. 
Jenkins,    Ferry    C,    Ord.    O.    R.    C. 
Jones,   Daniel  W.,   U.  S.   N.  R.  F. 
McCandlass,    Thomas    H.,    U.    S.    N. 

R.   F. 
McCracken,    Andrew    V.,    U.    S.    N. 

R.   F. 
McFeely,    William    Clarence,    U.    S. 

A.    A.    S. 
Montague,   Wallace  R.,   Jr.,   A.  S.  S. 

O.  R.   C. 
Newell,   Horatio  W.,   U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 
Perry,   Donald  I.,   Av.   C. 
Putnam,   Charles  E..   U.  S.   A.   A.  S. 
Shipman,  Sherman  D.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Stevens,    Rufus   L.,    U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 


Stewart,   Robert   G.,   U.   S.   A.   A.   S. 
Thompson,    Alexander   G.,    U.    S.    N. 

R.   F. 
Weaver,  Albert  B.,  Jr.,  M.  O.  R.  C. 
Whittemore,  George  S.,  Av.  C. 
Young,   Henry   M.,   2d   Lt.   A.   S.   S. 

E.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1921 
Bell,  Jesse  G.,  Tank  Corps 
Costales,  Clarence  F.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Gilliam,    Lewis   G.,    U.   S.   N.   R.   F. 
Jones,  Daniel  W.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Stanford,   Alfred  B.,   U.  S.   N.   R.  F. 
Walker,  John  B.,   U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Young,  Wallace  M.,  Tank  Corps 

GOVERNMENTAL 
AND  CIVIL 

Class  of  1861 

Comstock,   Edward,   Red   Cross,   War 

Chest  drives,  Rome   (N.  Y.) 

Class  of  1865 
Emerson,  Benjamin  K.,  Mem.  N.  R. 
C,  Geology  Com. 

Class  of  1867 
Thompson,    Frederick    H.,    Surg.    M. 
N.   G.,   Fitchburg   (Mass.) 

Class  of  1868 
Ball,   William   C,   Pres.   Terre  Haute 
Br.  Am.   Nat.  Red  Cross 

Class  of  1869 
Benner,  Edward  A.,  Patriotic  speaker 

Class  of  1870 
Wickes,    William    K.,    Four    Minute 
Man;     L.    L.,    War   Chest,   Syra- 
cuse   (N.    Y.) 

Class  of  1871 

Bliss,    Edwin    M.,    Chn.    Cong.    Com. 

on  Welfare  of  Enlisted  Men 

Class  of  1873 
Bridgman,    Arthur    M.,    Mem.    Leg. 

Adv.  Bd. 
Thrall,  J.  Brainerd,  Mem.  Exec.  Com. 

Red  Cross,  L.  L.,  W.  S.  S.,  Ash- 

ville  (N.  C.) 
Williams,    Talcott,    Patriotic    speaker 


376 


Amhebst  Gbaduatbs'  Quabtsblt 


Class  of  1874 
Atwell,   George   W.,    Secy.    N.   Y.    S. 

Bd.  of  Appeals,  Rochester 
Morse,  Nathan,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd.,  L.  L., 

Y.  M.  C.  A.  Akron  (Ohio) 
Slocum,  William  F.,  Mem.  League  to 

Enforce  Peace,  H.  D.  L.,  N.  D., 

Red  Cross,  L.  L. 

Class  of  1875 
Brooks,  Stephen  D.,  Sn.  Surg.  U.  S. 
Pub.  Health  Serv. 

Class  of  1876 
Boyden,  Arthur  C,  Secy.  Fuel  Com,, 

Pub.     Serv.     Com.,     Bridgewater 

(Mass.) 
Plimpton,    George    A.,    Treas.    Com. 

Am,  Amb,   in   Italy 
Washburn,  William  Ives,  Secy.  N,  Y. 

S.  Bb.  of  Appeals,  N.  Y,  C, 

Class  of  1877 
Armstrong,    Collin,    Chn.    War.    Adv. 

Com.    of    Am.    Assoc,    of    Adv. 

Agencies 
Clarke,  John  M.,  Chn.  N.  D.,   Chn, 

War   Geology    Com. 
Gray,  J,  Converse,  Mem.   Leg,  Adv, 

Bd.,  Boston 

Class  of  1878 
Fairley,  William,  L,  E.  B.,  Nat.  Se- 

curity    League    Brooklyn 
Sleeper,  William  W.,  Mem.  P.  S.  Com. 

Wellesley    (Mass.) 

Class  op  1879 

Allen,  Lamson,  H,  D,  L.,  Worcester 
(Mass.)  Bond,  Benjamin  D.,  L. 
E.  B.,  Kohala  (Hawaii) 

Cbapin,  George  M.,  Official  photog- 
rapher U.  S.  Shipping  Bd.,  H.  G., 
Jacksonville  (Fla.) 

Goodnow,  Frank  J.,  Trustee  Am. 
Univ.  Union,  Mem.  Exec.  Com, 
Baltimore  Br,  Red  Cross 

Hutchins,  Augustus  S„  Responsible 
for  Ford  Amb.  in  France 

Jameson,  John  F.,  Mem.  Nat.  Bd. 
Historical  Serv. 

Sherman,  George,  Local  Merchant 
Rep.  of  State  and  Fed.  Food  Ad- 
ministration, Northboro  (Mass.) 

Shumway,  Edgar  S.,  N,  Y.  S,  G. 


Terry,  CharlesfA.,  Gen.  War  Serv, 
Com.    of^Elec.    Mfg.    Industry 

Tuttle,  John  EUery,  H.gD.^L.,   Chn. 
Adv.  Com.  Vol.  EcJistments, 
Swarthmore    (Pa.) 

Class  of  1880 

Banta,  J.  Edward,  Four  Minute 
Speaker,  L.  L.,  War|Chest,  Syra- 
cuse (N.  Y.) 

Farwell,  Parris  T.,  H.  G.,  Boston 

Field,  Clifton  L.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd.  Green- 
field  (Mass.) 

Field,  Henry  P.,  L.  E.  B.,  Govt.  Appeal 
Agt.  Northampton  (Mass.) 

Headley,  Phineas  C,  Jr.,  P.  S.  Com. 
Red  Cross,  New  Bedford  (Mass.) 

Lane,  Charles  S.,  Exec.  Com.  Red 
Cross,  W.  Hartford  (Conn.) 

Perkins,  George  G.  S.,  H.  G.,  P.  S, 
Com.,  Chn.  Com.  on  Soldiers' 
Information  and  Honor  Roll,  Wel- 
lesley (Mass.) 

Stuart,  William  V.,  Cy.  Chn.  W.  S.  S. 
Lafayette  (Ind.) 

Class  of  1881 
Clarke,  B.  Preston,  Asst.  Mass.  Food 

Admin.,  P,  S.  Com.  Boston 
Forbes,    Elmer   S.,    Exec.    Com.   War 

Camp  Community  Serv.,  Boston 
Ladd,    Charles   E.,    Chn.    Food    Con- 

serv.  Com.,  Carlton  (Oreg.) 
Richardson,  Walter  J.,  Cy.  Draft  Bd., 

Fairmont  (Minn.) 
Sears,   Frederic  W.,   Med.   Adv.   Bd., 

Burlington  (Vt.) 
Stilwell,  Giles  H.,  Four  Minute  Man, 

L.  L.,  War  Chest,  Syracuse  (N,  Y.) 

Class  of  1882 
Hale,  Edson  D.,  H.  G.,  Chn.  Y.  M. 

C.  A.  drive,  Martinez  (Cal.) 
Perry,  Joseph  H.,  N.  R.  C. 

Class  of  1883 

Bancroft,  Edward  E.,  Mem.  P.  S. 
Com.,  Wellesley  (Mass.) 

Cushman,  Avery  F.,  Judge  Advocate, 
Washington  (D.  C) 

Field,  Walter  T.,  Editorial  Staff,  Nat, 
War  Work  Council,  Y,  M.  C.  A. 

French,  Enoch  W.,  Four  Minute  Speak- 
er, Mem.  Cy.  Bd.  Fuel  Conserv. 


Amherst  Men  in  the  Nat'.onal  Service    377 


Hooker,   George  E.,   Chn.   L,   E.   B., 

Chicago 
McFarland,  Corey  F.,  Chn.  Red  Cross, 

Keokuk,  la. 
Morse,   Calvin   H.,   Chn.   Rocky   Mt. 

States,    Hotel    Div.    Nat.    Food 

Administration 
Orr,   William,   Educ.   Dir.    Nat.   War 

Work    CouncU,    Y.    M.    C.    A.. 

New  York  City 
Parsons,   Edward  S.,   War  Pers.   Bd. 

Nat.  War  Work  Council,  Y.  M, 

C.    A.    Assoc.    Secy.,    New    York 

City 
Rainey,    Henry    T.,    Com.    Ways    & 

Means,  Dl.  Dist. 
Rhees,  Rush,  Patriotic  Speaker 
Simonds,  Henry  A.,  Secy.  Council  for 

Patriotic    Serv.,    Bothel    (Wash.) 

Class  of  1884 

Butler,  Frank  E,,  H.  G,,  Providence 

(R.  I.) 
Kelsey,  Charles  E.,  Chn.  Newton  Br. 

Am.  Red  Cross 
Milan,   Michael  B.,   Mem.   D.   E.   B. 

(R.  I.) 
Smith,  Fred  M.,  Chn.  L.  E.  B.,  South 

Hadley  (Mass.) 
Willcox,  Walter  F.,  Statistician,  U.  S. 

Shipping  Bd. 

Class  of  1885 

Ames,  Herbert  B.,  Hon.  Treas.  Can.  N. 

Patriotic  Fund 
Galloway,  Tod  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 
Johnson,  Homer  H.,  Fuel  Administra- 
tion, (O.)  (form.) 
Russell,  Warren  F.,  Fuel  Administra- 
tion, Massillon  (O.) 
Todd,  George  L.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 
Warner,  Edwin  G.,  Educ.  Secy.  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  San  Antonio 

Class  of  1886 
Coates,  Hallam  F.,  Red  Cross,  France 
Cutler,  Henry  F.,  Mem.  Comm.,  for 

Relief  in  Belgium 
Frederick,  James  H.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd. 

Cuyahoga  Cy.  (O). 
Seelye,  Ralph,  P.  S.  Com.  Springfield 

(Mass.) 
Treadway,  Allen  T.,  M.  C,  Mass.  Dist. 


Woods,  Robert  W.,  Pres.  Nat.  Confer- 
ence of  Social  Work;  Nat.  Com. 
War  Prohibition 

Class  of  1887 
CaU,  Arthur  B.,  N.  R.  C. 
Harper,  John  F.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd.  Mil- 
waukee (Wis.) 
Kendrick,  Arthur,  Consulting  Eng.  G. 

D.  S.,  Bureau  of  Mines 
Pratt,  Frederick  B.,  Chn,  Educ.  Biu-eau 

of  Nat.  W.  W.  Coun.  of  Y.  M.  C,  A. 
Sanborn,  Alvan  F.,  Mem.  Permanent 

Inter-Allied  Com.  for  Professional 

Re-Ed.  of  Cripples 
Sharp,  Frank  C,  Chn.  Com.  on  War 

Publications,  Madison  (Wis.) 
Sibley,  Charles  A.,  P,  S.  Com.,  WeUes- 

ley  (Mass.) 
White,  Walter  P.,  Production  of  optical 

glass,  Washington  (D.  C.) 
Wood,  Howard  O.,  N.  Y.  S.  Bd.  of 

Appeals 

Class  of  1888 

Clark,  Sidney  A.,  Med.  Adv.  Bd.,  Secy. 
Med.  Sec.  Hampshire  Dis.  C.  N.  D., 
Northampton  (Mass.) 

Ewing,  James,  Instr,  Cornell  Med.  Sch, 

Greenough,  William  B.,  Fuel,  Com. 
Providence  (R.  I.) 

Heard,  Arthur  M.,  Mem.  Exec.  Com. 
N.  H.  P.  S.  Com. 

Huntington,  EUery  C,  Athletic  Super- 
visor, Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 

Kebbe,  David  L.,  C.  N.  D.,  Conn. 

Marshall,  Charles  W.,  Food  Production 
and        Conserv.,       Northampton 
(Mass.) 
Oldham,  John  E.,  P.  S.  Com.  Boston 
Peirce,  Pres.  William  F.,  Red  Cross 
Ramsdell,  Frank  E..  M.  S.  G. 

Seymour,  George  N.,  L.  L.,  Vice-Chn. 
Cy.  C.  N.  D.,  Elgin  (Nebr.) 

Class  of  1889 

Day,  William   H.,  H.  G.,  Bridgeport 

(Conn.) 
Dean,  Edwin  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 
French,  Stuart  W.,  S.  C.  N.  D.,  Douglas 

(Ariz.) 
Harlow,  George  A.,  C.  N.  D. 


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Amherst    G2a.duates'    Quarterly 


Hitchcock,  John  S.,  Mem.  Aux.  Med. 
Def .  Com.  of  Hampshire  Cy.,  Mass. 
P.  S.  Com. 

Holt,  Robert  D.,  H.  G.,  special  police 

officer,  Newton  (Mass.) 

James,  Arthur  Curtiss,  Mem.  N.  Y.  & 

N.  J.  Port  &  Harbor  Comm. 
Newell,  Arthur  Frost,  4  Minute  Man 

Cl.'Vss  of  1890 

MacNeill,  Allen,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secy., 
France 

Raymond,  Edward  D.,  Chn.  Red  Cross 
Campaign,  Fairhaven  (Vt.) 

Class  of  1891 

Avery,  Nathan  P.,  Chn.  L.  E.  B.,  Hol- 

yoke  (Mass.) 

Bagg,  Rufus  M.,  W.  S.  S.;  Mem.  War 
Bd.  of  Lawrence  Coll. 

Blatchford,  Edward,  Mem.  Civilian 
Navy  Recruiting  Com.,  Chicago 

Boynton,  Henry  W.,  Publicity  Work  for 
Surgeon  Gen.'s  Office 

Cooley,  Arthur  S.,  H.  D.  L.;  Leg.  Adv. 
Bd.;  Food  Conserv.  Com.,  Bethle- 
hem (Pa.) 

Gushing,  Harry  A.,  Govt.  Appeal  Agt., 
L.  E.  B.,  New  York  City 

Dodd.  Edward  Arthur,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
France 

Gay,  H.  Nelson,  Rep.  Poets'  Amb. 
Corps,  Italy 

Hyde,  Clarence  R.,  L.  E.  B.,  Brooklyn 

Lyall,  Herbert  J.,   L.  E.   B.,  Summit 

(N.  J.) 
Merrill,  Oliver  B.,  Chn.  L.  L.  Com.; 

Mem.  Exec.  Com.  Red  Cross;  Chn. 

Red  Cross  Fund,  Summit  (N.  J.) 

Smith,  David  E.,  Red  Cross,  France 

Stone,  John  Timothy,  Capt.  111.  Reserve 

Mil.,  Chicago 
Weston,   Robert   S.,    Eng.    Bureau   of 

Housing 
Williams,  Waterman  W.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd., 

L.  L.,  Red  Cross,  Holden  (Mass.) 

Woodruff,  James  P.,  H.  G.,  Litchfield 
(Conn.) 

Woodside,  Calvin  E.,  L.  E.  B.,  Los  An- 
geles (Cal.) 

Woodworth,  Robert  S.,  N.  R.  C. 


Class  of  1892 

Bryant,   Amasa   B.,   L.   L.,   W.   S.   S. 
Funds,  Gardner  (Mass.) 

Burbank,  Charles  E.,  M.  S.  G.;  Mass. 
P.  S.  Com. 

Chard,  J.  Alfred,  N.  Y.  N.  G. 

Grant,  John  N.,  R.  W.  Dir.  Y.  M.  C.  A., 

Camp  Sheridan 

Griswold,  Lyman  W.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd., 
Greenfield  (Mass.) 

Hildreth,    Charles,    Adv.    Council    of 
N.  C.  D. 

Huntress,  Edward  N.,  State  Dir.  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Fund  (Mass.) 

Moody,  Ambert  G.,  L.  E.  B. 

Smith,  R.  Stuart,  Asst.  to  Mr.  Endicott, 
Red  Cross  Comm.  for  Great  Britain 

Class  of  1893 
Abbott,  Henry  H.,  Red  Cross,  N.  Y.  C. 
Allen,  J.  Hall,  Med.  Adv.  Bd. 
Allis,  Frederick  S.,  L.  L.,  Amherst 
Babson,    Herman,    Speaker   Am.    Red 

Cross;  Ind.  State  &  Cy.  C.  N.  D. 
Beekman,    Frederick,    Hd.    "Am.   Sol- 
diers' and  Sailors'  Club,"  France 
Blodgett,  Frank  D.,  L.  L.,  Brooklyn 
Breed,  William  C,  Chn.  N.  Y.  Com. 

3d  Red  Cross  War  Fund 
Brown,    Randall    K.,    Vice-Chn.    Red 

Cross,  Omaha  (Nebr.) 
Clark,   Charles  H.,  L.  L.,  Red  Cross 

Corns.,  Bainbridge  (N.  Y.) 
Davidson,  Albert  B.,  War  Preparedness 

Com.;  L.   L.;  Red  Cross;   Y.   M. 

C.  A.;  W.  S.  S. 
Dodge,   Chester  P.,   M.   S.  G.;   Mass. 

P.  S.  Com. 
Edgell,  Frank  D.,  L.  E.  B.,  Brooklyn 
Ellis,  George  W.,  Pres.  Lawson  Aircraft 

Co. 
Goodrich,  Joseph  A.,  Red  Cross;  W.  S. 

S.;  L.  L.;  Jefferson  (O.) 
Harbaugh,  Henry  O.,  Red  Cross,  Corn- 

ing  (O.) 
Hawes,  Edward  S.,  L.  L.;  Red  Cross; 

W.  S.  S.;  Hartford  (Conn.) 
Hodgdon,  Clarence  R.,  A.  L.  A.,  Spen- 
cer (Mass.) 
Keating,  Charles  H.,  Selective  Cons.  Bd 

Mansfield  (O.) 


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Kennedy,  Gilbert  F.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd.; 
L.  L.;  Red  Cross;  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
Kingston  (N.  Y.) 

Kimball,  Harry  G.,  H.  D.  L.,  Wash- 
ington (D.  C.) 

Lay,  Frank  M.,  Chn.  N.  D.  Coram., 
Kewanee  (111.),  Secy.  Fin.  Com. 
S.  C.  N.  D. 

Norton,  Charles  D.,  Red  Cross  War 
Council 

Nourse,  Ernest  M.,  C.  N.  D.;  L.  L.; 
W.  S.  S.;  Chn.  Home  Serv.  Com., 
Gunnison  (Colo.) 

Olmsted,  Julian  H.,  Red  Cross;  L.  L.; 
W.  S.  S.,  Homer  (N.  Y.) 

Olmsted,  Robert  E.  S.,  Composer  of 
War  Songs 

Raub,  William  L.,  Chn.  Knox  Cy.  Com. 
on  Publicity;  Mem.  Knox  Cy. 
Exec.  Com.  S.  C.  N.  D. 

Reed,  Lewis  T.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  San  An- 
tonio 

Reed,  Silas  D.,  Taunton  Co.,  M.  S.  G. 

Ross,  Walter  H.,  Red  Cross,  Brooklyn 

Schauffler,    Henry   P.,    Mayors'    Com. 

N.  D.,  N.  Y.;  Red  Cross,  H.  G.,  N.  Y.  C. 

Smith,  Frank  H.,  Chn.  Pub.  Safety 
Com.,  Hadley  (Mass.) 

Trask,  Thomas  C,  L.  E.  B.,  Brooklyn 

Tufts,  Percy  H.,  A.  L.  A. 

Wales,  George  F.,  Sergt.  1st  Co.,  M.S.G. 

Wood,  Herbert  C,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd., 
Mayors'  Adv.  Bd.,  Cleveland  (O.) 

Wood,  W.  Hubert,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd.,  Bos- 
ton 

Zug,  George  B.,  Lectures  to  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
under  Nat.  War  Work  Council 

Class  of  1894 

Bacheler,  Gilbert  H.,  Red  Cross  speaker 

Burnham,  Edmund  A.,  Cong.  Camp 
Pastor,  Camp  Dix. 

Cheney,  Herman  S.,  Public  Safety  Com. 
Southbridge  (Mass.) 

Clark,  Frank  L.,  Red  Cross,  Oxford  (O.) 

Hyde,  Benjamin  D.,  Capt.  Q.  M.  C, 
M.  S.  G. 

Landis,  Henry  R.  M.,  Pres.  Tubercu- 
losis Exam.  Bd.,  Camp  Dix 

Noyes,  Hemy  T.,  Chn.  L.  L.  Com., 
Rochester  (N.  Y.) 

Stone,  Harlan  F.,  Counsel  to  Draft 
Appeal  Bd. 


Whitcomb,  Henry  E.,  L.  L.,  Vice-Chn. 

2d  Red  Cross  Campaign,  Y.  M.  C. 

A.,  M.  S.  G.,  Worcester 
Wood,   Willis,   Chn.   Suffolk   Cy.   Red 

Cross  Com.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  L.  L. 

Class  of  1895 
Coolidge,  Lt.  Gov.  Calvin,  Mem.  Nat. 

Welfare  Com. 
Eastman,  Lucius  R.,  Jr.,  Mem.  Com.  to 

cooperate  with  army  dis.  depot  Q. 

M.,  N.  Y. 
Hanford,  Saxe  H.,  Chn.  2d  L.  L.  Com.. 

Rochester  (N.  Y.) 
Haven,    Sherman    W.,    Ch.    Dist.    F., 

Oneida  Cy.  H.  D.  L. 
Post,  Augustus,  Foreign  Service  Comm. 
Pratt,  William  B.,  Pub.  Safety  Com., 

Wellesley  (Mass.) 
Stocking,  Jay  T.,  R.  W.  Dir.  Y.  M. 

C.  A.,  Camp  Lee 

Stone,  Walter  R.,  Dir.  Syracuse  war 
activities 

Tyler,  William  S.,  Fed.  Food  Adminis- 
trator for  N.  J. 

Class  of  1896 
Bouton,    Archibald,    Mayors'    Comm. 

Nat.  Def.,  New  York  City 
Cauthers,  James  B.,  Govt.  Appeal  Agt. 

D.  E.  B.,  New  York  City 
Haskell,  Joseph  N.,  Exec.  Secy.  Y.  M. 

C.  A.,  France 
Kimball,  W.  Eugene,  Treas.  Y.  M.  C. 

A.,  Camp  Upton 
Porter,    Chester    T.,    2d    Lt.    Co.    H, 

M.  S.  G. 
Pratt,  John  T.,  Red  Cross,  France 
Reid,    John,    Pub.    Safety    Com.    Vice 

Pres.    Franklin    Br.    Red    Cross, 

Franklin  (Mass.) 
Robinson,  Edwin  B.,  Pub.  Safety  Com., 

Holyoke  (Mass.) 
Stiger,  William  D.,  Govt.  Appeal  Agt. 

L.  E.  B.,  New  York  City 
Witherby,  Edwin  C,  Mem.  Disburse- 
ment  Com.   Syracuse  War   Chest 

Assn. 

Class  of  1897 

Backus,    Alexander    H.,    War    Relief 

Work,  Paris 
Ball,   Walter  S.,  Staff  Correspondent, 

Providence  Journal 


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Bragg,  Leslie  R.,  Med.  Adv.  Bd„  Web- 
ster (Mass.) 

Elliott,  Robert  T.,  H.  G.,  Worcester 
(Mass.) 

Gates,  Carl  M.,  Pub.  Safety  Com., 
Wellesley  (Mass.) 

Geddes,  Daniel  M..  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
France 

Hawes,  William  G.,  Secy.  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
Ft.  McPherson 

Holt,  Everttt  DeF.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secy., 
Inst,  of  French 

Ingersoll,  Raymond  V.,  Y.  M.  C.  A, 
Secy.  France 

McFarland,  Raymond,  Adj.  I.  I.  B.; 
Secy.  Pub.  Safety  Com.  Middle- 
bury  (Vt.) 

Morse,  WiUiam  A.,  Y,  M.  C.  A. 

Patch,  Isaac,  Co.  K,  M.  S.  G. 

Titsworth,  Henry  H,,  Mem.  Storage 
Com.  C.  N.  D. 

Class  of  1898 

Arter,  Charles  K.,  Special  Leg.  work  for 
Dept.   of  Just. 

Blanchard,  Ferdinand  Q.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Dyar,  Fred  K.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd.  Los 
Angeles  (Cal.) 

Gregory,  James  F.,  W.  W.  Religious 
Secy.  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Ide,  Robert  C,  Repr.  Cong.  Confer- 
ence of  Southern  Cal. 

Merriam,  Charles  W.,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
France 

Rice,  Robert  A.,  Mem,  Vol.  Aid  Com. 
Pub.  Safety  Com,,  Fitchburg 
(Mass.) 

Tobey,  Henry  E.,  N.  Y.  N. 

Trefethen,  Daniel  B.,  Mem.  War 
Council  A.  L,  A.;  H.  G.,  Seattle 
(Wash.) 

Warren,  Frank  M.,  Asst.  canned 
Foods  Dept.,  U.  S.  Food  Admin- 
istration 

Class  of  1899 

Austin,  Albert  E.,  H.  G.;    L.  E.  B.; 

L.  L.  Com.;  Sound  Beach  (Conn.) 
Boyden,  Edward  S.,  M.  S,  G, 
Brooks,  Edwin  M„  M,  H.  G.,  Wellesley 

(Mass.) 
Brown,  Donald  W.,  Red  Cross,  France 
Coan,  Robert  A.,  Mayors'  Com,  N.  D. 


Howe,  Albert  C,  Chn.  Lafayette  Br, 
Am,  Red  Cross;  Secy.-Treas,  Y, 
M.  C.  A,  &  Red  Cross  Fund 
Com.,  Mem.  Leg.  Adv.  Bd,, 
Lafayette  (Colo.) 

Johnson,  Burges,  Y,  M.  C.  A.,  France 
(three  months) 

Kendall,  Henry  P.,  Chn,  Com.  on 
Industrial  relations  of  U.  S.  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce 

Miles,  Rufus  E.,  Associate  State  Dir. 
Red  Cross  (O.) 

Mitchell,  Charles  E.,  L.  L.  Com,, 
New  York  City 

Raymond,  Frederick  W.,  H.  G.,  Glas- 
tonbury (Conn,) 

Roundy,  Rodney  W.,  N.  H,  Com.  for 
War  Relief 

Swain,  Harrison  T,,  Charge  of  recruit- 
ing dist,  of  Southern  Cal,,  Arizona 
and  New  Mexico 

Wight,  Ralph  W.,  H.  G.,  Springfield 
(Mass.) 

Class  of  1900 

Hardy,  Warren  F.,  Mem.  Exec.  Com. 
S,  C,  N.  D.,  Decatur  (111.) 

Hubbard,  Ray  S.,  Organizer,  Comm. 
on  Trg.  Camp  Activities  in  Com- 
munity organization 

Paine,  Bernard  L„  13th  Reg.  M.  S.  G. 
Sharon  (Mass.) 

Pratt,  Harold  I.,  Chn.  Eastern  Div. 
W,  W.  Council.  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

St.  Clare,  Christopher  C,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
France 

Ward,  Edwin  St.  John,  Lt.  Col.,  Deputy 
Comm.  in  Palestine  for  Red  Cross. 

Whitcomb,  David,  Fuel  Administra- 
tor, State  of  Washington 

Wilkins,  Ernest  H.,  Assoc.  Secy.  War 
Personnel  Bd.,  Nat.  War  Work 
Council,  New  York  City 

Class  of  1901 

Baker,  William  B.,  L.  L.  and  Red  Cross, 
West  Newton   (Mass.) 

Bamum,  Francis  G.,  Med.  Adv.  Bd., 
Boston 

Kretschmar,  Frederick  K.,  1st  Motor 
Corps,  M.  S.  G. 

Moon,  Frederick  F.,  Four  Minute 
Speaker,  L.  L„  War  Chest,  Syr- 
acuse 


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Smith,  Edward  C,  Researsh  chemist, 
National  Carbon  Co. 

Wells,  Reuben  F.,  Pub.  Safety  Com., 
Hatfield    (Mass.) 

Wiggins,  Elmer  W.,  Supt.  E.  I.  Du- 
Pont  de  Nemours  &  Co.,  Arling- 
ton, N.  J. 

Class  of  1902 
Barber,  Silas  D.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 
Eastman,  John,  Pub.  Safety  Com.,  M. 

S.  G.  Wellesley  (Mass.) 
Ford,  James  L.,  Jr.,  Red  Cross,  St. 

Louis   (Mo.) 
Herrick,  Louis  R.,  Pub.  Safety  Com., 

St.  Paul 
Helton,     Horace     E.,     Four     Minute 

Speaker 
Keith,  Eldon  B.,   Chn.  W.  S.   Com., 

Plymouth  (Conn.) 
King,   S.    Bowles,   Mem.   War  Times 

Conditions    Com.,    City    Club   of 

Chicago 
McCluney,    Samuel,    Red    Cross,    St. 

Louis,  (Mo.) 
Maynard,  Robert  W.,  M.  S.  G. 
Morse,   Anson  Ely,   Physical  director 

in   Italian  armies   under  auspices 

of  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Pierce,  Jason  N.,  14th  Inf.  M.  S.  G. 
Plimpton,  T.  Bamet,  L.  L,  and  Red 

Cross,  Boston 
Reid,  William,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Field  Secy., 

France 
Whitelaw,    Ralph   T.,    Y.    M.    C.    A. 

France 

Class  of  1903 
Gushing,  Arthur  A.,  11th  Reg.  M.  S.  G. 
Gould,  Henry  B.,  9th  C.   A.   C,  N. 

Y.  S.  G. 
King,  Stanley,  Pvt.  Secy,  to  Secy,  of 

War 
McCluney,    James,    Red    Cross,    St. 

Louis  (Mo.) 
Wells,    E.    Edward,    Auditing    Dept., 

Emergency  Fleet  Corp. 

Class  of  190-1 

Ballou,  Charles  E.,  H.  G.,  Worcester 
(Mass.) 

Clymer,  John  L.,  Dir.  Bureau  of  De- 
velopment, Pacific  Div.,  Am.  Red 
Cross 


Kane,  J.  Frank,  Mem.  Com.  for  Fath- 
erless Children  of  France 

Packard,  Harrison  L.,  H.  G.,  Shel- 
bume  Falls   (Mass.) 

Whitcomb,  Ernest  M.,  Chn.  L.  L. 
Com.;  Chn.  Pub.  Safety  Com. 
Mem.  Finance  Amherst 

Class  of  1905 
BaUy,  Edward  A.,  Nat.  W.  S.  S.  Com., 

Washington  (D.  C.) 
Baldwin,  Fritz  W.,  Ed.  Secy.  Y.  M. 

C.  A.,  Camp  Devens 
Clark,  John  M.,  Col.  Asst.  Meat  Div. 

U.  S.  Food  Administration 
Crossett,  Edward  C,  Hd.  Production 

Dept.  Red  Cross 
Derbyshire,  Arthur  J.,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 

France 
Ellis,  George  W.,  Mem.  Hampden  Cy. 

W.  S.  Exec.  Com. 
Freeman,  Ralph,  Mem.  H.  D.  L.,  So. 

Orange  (N.  J.) 
Gaylord,  Emerson  G.,  3d  L.  L.,  Y.  M. 

C.    A.;     Trustee    Citizens'    War 

Fund  Assoc.  Chicopee 
Grover,  Harry  G.,  Speaker,  Nat.  Se- 
curity League 
Hartgrove,   Robert  S.,   Govt,   Appeal 

Agt.  Jersey  City  (N.  J.) 
Hemenway,  Ralph  W.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd. 

Northampton  (Mass.) 
Hussey,  E.  Frank,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 
McTeman,  Charles  C,  L,  L.,  Water- 
Bury    (Conn.) 
Moon,  Ward  C.  H.  D.  L.,  Chn.  W. 

S.    S.    Com.,    Exec.    Com.    Red 

Cross,  Freeport  (N.  Y.) 
Townsend,  Winfield  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 

France 
Utter,  George  W.,  Mem.  R.  I.  Food 

Com. 

Class  of  1906 

Alden,  Lester  F.,  Vice-Chn.  W.  S.  S.; 
Food  Production  Comm.;  Pub- 
Safety    Com.,    Wareham    (Mass.) 

Barlow,  Harry  E.  Chn.  W.  S.  S. 
Com.,  Amherst 

Bale,  Frederick  S.,  Capt.  L.  L.  Com.; 
Capt.  W.  S.  S.  Com.  Englewood 
(N.  J.) 

Bishop,  Clifford  M.,  L.  L.  Com., 
Brooklyn 


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Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


Blatchford,    Nathaniel    H.,    Jr.,    Four 

Minute   Man,   Chicago 
Brewster,    Kingman,    U.    S.    Shipping 

Bd.  Emergency  Fleet  Corp.,  Dept. 

of  Trans.  &  Housing 
Carter,   George   B.,   U.  S.   Pub.   Serv. 

Reserve 
Crawford,  Harry,  1st  Duty  Sergt.  M. 

S.  G. 
Cross,  James  B.,  Urologist,  Med.  Adv. 

Bd.;    Av.  Exam.  Bd.;    Red  Cross 

Med.  Serv.  Com.  Buffalo 
Delabarre,    Everett    M.,    Mem.    Com. 

Classification   Pers.,    Adjt.    Gen.'s 

Office 
Fox,    George    H.,    Med.     Adv.     Bd., 

Binghamton  (N.  Y.) 
Gaunt,  Ernest  H.,  Pvt.,  H.  G.  Provi- 
dence (R.  I.) 
Hartzell,  Clinton  H.,  W.  S.  S.;    L.  L. 

Coms.,  Utica  (N.  Y.) 
Hayward,  Afton  S.,  Red  Cross,  Seattle 

(Wash.) 
Kane,    Maurice    J.,    Montclair    Batn. 

N.  J.  G. 
Lattimer,    Gardner,    Secy.    Cy.    Food 

Administration,    Toledo    (Ohio) 
Norton,  George  E.,  Four  Minute  Man 
Powell,    Robert   C,    W.    S.    S.    Phila- 
delphia (was  Capt.  318th  Inf.) 
Sparrow,     Charles     A.,     Capt.     Med. 

Corps,    M.    S.    G. 
Spear,   Clarence  A.,   Mem.   Leg.  Adv. 

Bd.,  N.  Y.  C. 
Thayer,  Frederick  G.,  H.  G.;    L.  L.; 

Red  Cross,  Quincy  (Mass.) 
Twitchell,  Rev.  Edmund  W.,  Garden 

Comm.;  L.  L.  Com.;  Glens  Falls 

(N.   Y.) 
Tyler,    Mason    W.,    Special    research. 

State  Department  (Minn.) 
Wood,  George  A.,  Pvt.  Co.  E.  Reserve 

G.,  Red  Cross,   Columbus  (Ohio) 

Webster,  William  H.,  Vice-Chn.  L.  L. 
Com.;  Chn.  W.  S.  S.  Com.;  Trus- 
tee   War    Charities    Bd.    Douglas 

(Ariz.) 

Class  of  1907 

Bartlett,  Alfred  L.,  Mem.  Leg.  Adv. 
Bd.,   Los  Angeles   Cy.   (Cal.) 

Beecher,  Daniel,  Mem.  Adv.  Bd.,  Los 
Angeles  (Cal.) 


Bell,  Roy,  Fuel  Administration,  Syra- 
cuse (N.  Y.) 

Palmer,  Herbert  H.,  M.  S.  G. 

Searle,  Charles  P.,  Leg.  Adv.  Bd., 
Exec.  Com.  2d  L.  L.,  Dist.  Chn. 
Nat.  W.  S.  S.  Wayne  Cy.  Pa. 

Willard,  John  D.,  Field  Secy.  Com. 
Agricultural  Production,  Pub. 
Safety  Com.,  Greenfield,  Mass. 

Williams,  Eugene  F.,  Red  Cross,  St. 
Louis  (Mo.) 

Class  of  1908 

Baily,  Harold  A.,  Asst.  to  Hon.  J.  L, 
O'Brien,  Washington  (D.  C.) 

Burg,  William  H.,  Vice-Chn.  Sales 
Organization  L.  L.,  St.  Louis 
(Mo.) 

Cobb,  Perry  R.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 

Feagans,  Lon  G.,  Fin.  Com.  Red 
Cross  &  L.  L.,  Los  Angeles  (Cal.) 

Forbes,  Allen  W.,  Munitions  works 

Hamlin,  Marston,  Ch.  Chemist,  But- 
terworth-Judson  Corp.,  Newark 
(N.  J.) 

Keith,  Harold  C,  Chn.  Brockton  Br. 
Am.  Red  Cross,  Brockton  (Mass.) 

Marshall,  John  E.,  Secy.  R.  I.  Br. 
Nat.  Security  League,  Secy.  Pub. 
Safety  Com.  Providence 

Smith,  Horatio  E.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 

Sprenger,    James    A.,    Y.    M.    C.    A., 

France 
Turner,  Richard  C,  Wash.  S.  G. 

Class  of  1909 

Earle,    Ernest    L.,    Clerk,    Cost    Div. 

Watertown  (Mass.) 
Ruckmich,   Christian  A.,  Mem.   Com, 

of  Am.  Psychological  Assn. 

Sleeper,    William    A.,    Manufacturing 

special  U.  S.  Supplies 

Smith,  Harold  L.,  Chn.  Am.  Red 
Cross,  State  Sup.  Serv.,  Secy. 
Cy.  Manager  State  W.  S.  S. 
Proctor  (Vt.) 

Class  of  1910 

Boynton,  A.  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  England 

Mitchell,  Abraham,  2d  Lt.  Sec.  E,  2d 
Reg.  Trans.  Tr.  of  111.  Reserve 
Mil.,    Chicago 


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Woodward.  Harold  E.,  Ch.  Food  Re- 
search Lab.,  Bureau  of  Chemistry, 
Philadelphia 

Class  of  1911 
Ashley,  John  P.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France 
Lilienthal,  Philip  N.,  Jr.,  Asst.  Exec. 

Secy.   L.   L.    Com.   of   12th   Fed. 

Reserve  Dist. 
Powell,    William    B.,    Y.    M.    C.    A., 

France 
Seelye,    Laurens    H.,    1st    Lt.    Chap. 

Coast  Defense,  Narragansett  Bay 
WiUiams,   George   W.,   Y.   M.   C.   A.. 

Russia 

Class  of  1912 
Armstrong,  Robert  G.,  Y.  M.  C.  A., 

France 
Atwater,  William  C,  Mem.  C.  N.  D. 
Beatty,  C.  Francis,  N.  Y.  G. 
Dickson,  Earle  E.,  Mil.  Research  work, 

Washington  (D.   C.) 
Stiles,    Loren,    Jr.,    Oil    Inspector,    Q. 

M.  Dept. 
Stuart,     Merritt     C,     Manufacturing 

munitions 

Class  of  1913 
Bassett,   Preston  R.,   Bliss  Gyroscope 

Co. 
Buttolph,  Leroy  J.,  Jr.  Gas  Chemist, 

U.  S.  Bureau  of  Mines 
Carter,    Chauncey    P.,    Asst.    to    Ch., 

Bureau    of    Foreign    &    Domestic 

Commerce 
Cobb,    Samuel   H.,    Physical    Dir.    Y. 

M.  C.  A.,  Camp  Dix 
Cross,     Raymond     W.,     Inspector     of 

Ord.,  Inspection-Equip.  Div.,  Ord. 

Dept. 
Johnston,  Charles  L.,  Jr.,  Alien  Prop- 
erty Custodian 
Leiper,    Henry   Smith,    Missionary   to 

China   under  Am.   Bd. 
Westcott,   Ralph  W.,   Leg.   Adv.   Bd., 

Mansfield   (Mass.) 

Class  of  1914 
Childs,  Maurice  E.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Kimball,  Henry  M.,  Govt.  Inspector, 

Navy  Dept. 
Maxon,  Mark  E.,  Asst.  in  Law  Dept. 
U.  S.  Food  Administration,  Wash- 
ington (D.   C.) 


Miller,  Stanwood,  N.  G.,  Boston 
Smart,  Daniel  S.,  R.  W.  Secy.  Y.  M. 

C.  A. 
Young,  Roswell  P.,  M.  S.  G. 

Class  of  1915 

Blair,  F.  Wesley,  Research  Chemistry 
work 

Coxhead,  Harry  B.,  Radio  work.  New 
London  (Conn.) 

Gaus,  John  M.,  Office  of  Supervisor 
of  Administration,  Boston 

Mellema,  William,  Bldg.  re-inforced 
concrete  bldgs.  for  Govt. 

Van  Valkenburgh,  Edward  A.,  Chemi- 
cal Inspector  of  Gas  Masks,  Greene 
(N.  Y.) 

Class  of  1916 

Ferguson,  Eralsey  C,  Aberthaw  Con- 
struction Co. 

Park.  Robert  H.,  Red  Cross,  L.  L., 
Taunton  (Mass.) 

Stearns,  Douglas  C,  War  Trade  Bd., 
Washington  (D.  C.) 

Class  of  1917 
Masten,  Richard  L.,  Ship  Building 
Smith,    Harold    A.,    Research    work, 
Butterworth-Judson   Co.,   Newark 

(N.  J.) 

Class  of  1918 

Michener,  William  H.,  Chemist,  But- 
terworth-Judson Co.,  Newark  (N. 
J.) 

Partenheimer,  Joseph  E.,  Research 
work,  Butterworth-Judson  Co., 
Newark   (N.   J.) 

Class  of  1919 
Ames,     Lawrence,     Am.     Red     Cross, 

France 
Hooper,    Ralph    W.,    U.    S.    Armory, 

Springfield    (Mass.) 
Reed,    Paul    E.,    Munitions    Factory 

Springfield  (Mass.) 
Scott,  Arthur  L.,  Great  Northern  Ry., 

routing  Govt,   supplies 

Class  of  1920 
Bailey,  Ralph  E.,  Asst.  to  Dir.  of  Am. 

Red  Cross  Central  Com.  for  Am. 

prisoners,  Europe 
Haskins,    Gerald    E.,    United    Electric 

Co.,  Springfield  (Mass.) 


AMHERST 
GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


VOLUME  VIII 
November,  1918  to  Augtjst,  1919 


PUBLISHED  BY  THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL  OF 
AMHERST  COLLEGE 


AMHERST 

GRADUATES'     QUARTERLY 

VOL.  VIII— NOVEMBER,  1918— NO.  1 


THE  QUARTERLY'S  WAR  FRONT 

JOHN    F.    GENUNG 

FOR  seven  memorable  years,  four  of  them  years  of  a  war  which,  beginning 
three  thousand  miles  away,  has  disturbed  the  intervening  air  and  ocean  until 
it  has  ruthlessly  sucked  our  nation  into  the  midst  of  its  horrid  whirlpool,  the 
Quarterly  has  kept  its  College  Window  open,  in  every  number,  to  the  movements 
and  events  that  have  seemed  to  make  for  its  specific  interests.  Seven  volumes  have 
recorded  its  outlooks.  There  is  no  occasion  now,  at  the  outset  of  our  eighth  volume, 
to  indulge  in  reminiscence  of  the  motley  sense  and  nonsense  that  has  emanated 
therefrom,  nor  of  the  vast  and  kaleidoscopic  landscape  that  has  elicited  our  survey. 
Nor,  indeed,  is  it  because — to  use  the  words  of  an  old-time  sage — "those  that  look 
out  of  the  windows  be  darkened"  that  we  lower  the  shutters  for  a  season  and  betake 
ourselves  to  a  more  restricted  and  less  expensive  duty.  Those  that  look  out  of  the 
window  are  still  there,  and  still  faithfully  looking.  But  you  all  know,  fellow  gradu- 
ates of  Amherst,  what  necessities  the  war  is  imposing.  You  need  your  money  for 
liberty  loans  and  war  savings;  you  need  our  subscribers  for  the  camps  and  the  trenches; 
you  need  your  thoughts  and  plans  for  the  immediate  business  of  making  the  world 
safe  for  freedom  and  humanity.  And  these  needs  of  yours  interact,  naturally  and 
justly,  with  ours.  We  of  the  Quarterly  need  more  money  than  we  are  getting,  or 
can  rightly  ask  you  for,  to  keep  our  publication  going.  For  you  see  the  printer  too 
— in  the  same  boat  with  us — has  his  shortages  of  material  and  labor  and  his  greatly 
increased  expenses  to  reckon  with.  So  we  must  all  draw  our  belt  a  little  tighter  and 
consider  the  things  that  we  can  spare.  We  hate  to  discontinue  the  Quarterly,  or 
even  suspend  it.  I  speak  for  the  management.  We  have  an  idea  that  it  has  been 
and  still  may  be  of  service  to  our  honored  family  of  alumni.  And  more  than  ever, 
in  these  chaotic  times  of  war,  we  want  to  keep  in  touch  with  one  another,  and  espe- 
cially with  our  boys,  our  sons  and  brothers,  over  there.  liut  we  nuist  do  as  we  can. 
Hence  the  reduced  size  and  contents — reduced  to  the  compass  of  a  bulletin — which 
you  see  in  the  number  now  before  you. 

The  enterprise  of  learning  for  which  the  College  stands  has  suffered  no  eclipse. 
It  is  simply  turned  into  a  new  and  hitherto  little  heeded  channel,  a  channel  which, 
narrowed  at  the  outset  to  the  hideous  gutter  of  havoc  and  carnage,  opens  out  speedily 
to  a  broader,  higher,  deeper  reach  than  has  occupied  our  serious  thoughts  heretofore. 


2  AMHERST  GRADUATES'   QUARTERLY 

If  for  the  moment  we  have  had  to  let  some  things  go  it  is  only  to  take  a  firmer  hold 
farther  on  and  up.  Our  educational  front  has  resolved  itself  into  a  war  front;  and 
that,  you  know,  for  strategy  and  tactics,  is  manoeuvering  to  be  as  short  and  compact 
and  efficient  as  possible.  It  must  be  as  truly  a  w'ar  front  as  if  it  were  somewhere  in 
France  or  Germany.  I  imagine  one  of  our  older  graduates  would  rub  his  eyes  if  he 
should  revisit  College  hill  and  see  how  this  appears  at  present  on  the  campus  and  in 
the  dormitories  and  mess-rooms.  At  a  certain  memorial  celebration  that  I  recently 
attended  this  changed  state  of  things  was  described  by  a  representative  of  Princeton, 
and  it  may  stand  with  little  alteration  for  all  our  colleges  and  universities.  "When 
our  trustees  met  in  June,"  he  said,  "they  had  in  charge  an  American  country  college 
with  a  university  attachment.  When  they  met  in  September,  after  the  summer 
vacation,  it  was  a  kind  of  West  Point  with  some  suggestions  of  Annapolis.  And  the 
change  had  been  made  in  four  days."  You  can  perhaps  imagine — no,  you  can't  either 
— what  tumult  of  adjustment  our  President  and  Dean  and  Faculty  had  to  undergo 
in  tackling  our  enforced  lightning  change,  when  as  soon  as  one  plan  of  procedure  or 
curriculum  was  devised  new  orders  from  the  War  Department  would  come,  and  come 
repeatedly,  to  overturn  it  all.  You  can  be  sure — for  you  know  your  Amherst — our 
Yankee  resource  and  inventiveness  were  not  idle  nor  failing  when  the  supreme  emer- 
gency called.  For  though  the  war  call  is  inexorable,  yet  it  is  on  the  young  men  of 
thought  and  culture  and  character  that  were  consigned  to  our  charge.  Our  duty  is 
to  them,  as  to  our  country,  and  to  the  cause  of  right  and  humanity.  If  it  is  for  the 
nation  at  large  to  furnish  the  men  of  the  ranks,  it  is  for  us  to  furnish  the  officers, 
the  men  of  leading;  and  this  not  only  for  the  immediate  business  of  the  march  and 
of  the  fight  but  for  the  far  more  momentous  business  of  righting  and  reconstruction. 
It  is  a  high  honor,  a  great  opportunity  that  the  Government  has  laid  upon  our  colleges 
and  universities.  Vest  la  guerre,  indeed,  as  the  French  say,  and  we  take  it  so;  but 
there  is  no  shrugging  of  shoulders  over  it.  We  have  not  yet  reached  the  pitch  of 
suffering  and  heroic  sacrifice  that  expresses  itself  thus.  But  the  healthy  spirit  is 
there.  At  this  point  in  my  writing  I  had  to  pause;  and  as  I  was  up  street  I  met  the 
student  body  in  khaki  and  in  military  order  marching,  down  College  hill  to  mess. 
Their  young  shoulders  looked  fit  for  the  burden,  and  the  light  of  the  cause  was  in 
their  eyes. 

So  IT  is,  the  country  over.  It  makes  us  proud  to  be  college  men,  to  have  the 
atmosphere  of  liberal  learning  around  us.  Not  that  college  men  are  disposed  to 
nurse  their  distinction,  as  if  they  were  set  off  in  a  class  by  themselves.  Their  whole- 
some sense  of  responsibility,  tempering  their  pride,  precludes  that.  There  is  no 
exclusiveness,  no  sham  autocracy,  in  war  learning.  What  impresses  one  rather  is 
the  wonderful  feeling  of  fellowship,  of  together-ness,  go  where  we  will.  Lay  and 
learned,  low  and  high,  are  learning  to  occupy  common  ground,  to  take  each  other 
for  granted.  A  queer  sense  of  this  came  to  me,  not  without  amusement,  the  other 
day.  I  spoke  above  of  a  certain  memorial  celebration  that  I  recently  attended  as 
delegate  of  the  College.  It  was  an  impressive  affair,  being  no  less  than  the  centennial 
celebration  of  one  of  our  leading  theological  seminaries.  A  notable  company  of  men, 
representative  of  the  highest  learning  and  sanctity  of  the  country — bishops,  clergy, 
college  presidents,  professors — were  present,  not  omitting  Governor  Whitman  and 
Secretary  Lansing,  both  Amherst  men.     To  be  a  delegate  on  such  occasions,  you 


THE  QUARTERLY'S  WAR  FRONT  3 

know,  consists  mainly  in  wearing  academic  costume  and  looking  distinguished.  As 
these  representatives  were  entering  the  place  where  they  were  to  robe  for  the  proces- 
sion, a  military  band  stationed  outside  was  interpreting  the  occasion  by  its  music; 
and  the  strain  that  greeted  our  ears  as  we  filed  in  was  "Hail,  hail,  the  gang's  all  here, 
— what  the  h —  do  we  care."  I  don't  know  how  many  noticed  this,  or  felt  its  fitness. 
When  we  emerged,  however,  in  the  full  glory  and  splendor  of  academic  display  and 
took  our  places  in  the  procession,  the  tune  had  changed  to  "Onward,  Christian  sol- 
diers" and  "How  firm  a  foundation."  But  the  gang  was  all  there,  just  the  same, 
and  I  think  our  war  time  had  made  room  for  both  strains  of  sentiment.  Somehow, 
too,  when  the  momentary  smile  had  passed,  it  seemed  to  me  like  a  kind  of  musical 
parable;  it  portrayed  in  such  naive  way  the  buoyant,  rollicking  sense  that  has  a  per- 
fect right  to  lurk  in  solemnity.  And  I  found  my  thought  traveling  back  to  the  first 
poetical  description  we  have  of  the  world  war  in  which  we  are  engaged, — war  against 
a  cruel  and  greedy  imperialism.  Perhaps  you  do  not  recall  it,  though  doubtless  you 
have  read  it  in  your  Bible.  It  was  given  by  the  prophet  Isaiah,  when  he  had  a  presage 
of  the  tremendous  elan  with  which  Jehovah  would  wage  his  campaign  against  Pan- 
Assyrianism, — the  primitive  stage  of  our  self-same  war.  "And  every  stroke  of  the 
appointed  staff,"  the  description  runs,  "which  Jehovah  shall  lay  upon  him,  shall  be 
with  the  sound  of  tabrets  and  harps;  and  in  battles  with  the  brandishing  of  his  arm 
will  he  fight  with  them."  To  associate  that  old-time  music  with  this,  as  we  marched 
along,  our  thoughts  busy  with  war,  gave  a  strange  sense  of  the  unity  of  things.  Centu- 
ries and  imperialisms,  from  Assyria  to  Germany,  seemed  to  have  melted  together 
into  one  great  battle  of  right  against  wrong,  wherein  all  of  us,  "the  gang  all  here," 
were  minded  to  keep  step  and  stroke  to  one  divine  music.  Is  not  some  such  sense 
and  stamina  as  this  what  we  mean  by  our  morale?  The  war,  with  the  wonderful 
response  it  has  elicited  from  all  classes,  is  initiating  us  into  this  morale,  which  has 
not  failed  the  vision  of  men  since  Isaiah  spoke. 

Such  is  the  tremendous  War  Front,  which  the  Quarterly  must  recognize,  and 
deal  with  as  it  can.  It  is  the  spirit  of  young  Amherst,  as  we  fall  into  line  with  the 
great  educational  force  of  the  Republic,  to  maintain  the  enterprise  of  learning  along 
with  the  unchosen  enterprise  of  war,  on  the  sanest,  highest  lines.  For  making  the 
world  safe  for  democracy,  indeed,  means  nothing  less  than  making  the  world  safe  for 
the  civilization  and  culture  that  each  race  and  nation  and  individual  needs.  To 
such  education  we  are  devoted;  it  is  involved  in  our  war  aim;  it  is  humane  culture 
rising  against  a  soulless  kultur.  And  it  times  its  march  and  stroke  to  the  beat  of  the 
same  music,  to  the  elan  of  the  same  campaign,  as  did  the  prophet  of  old.  There  is 
elemental  hate  and  indignation  in  both.  If  the  modern  strain  of  "To  hell  with  the 
Kaiser!"  sounds  profane  to  peace-dulled  ears,  it  is  after  all  only  the  present  day 
echo  of  Isaiah.  "For" — the  prophet  goes  on  to  say — "a  Tophet  is  prepared  of  old; 
yea,  for  the  king  it  is  made  ready"  (Assyrian  or  Prussian,  what  odds.^*);  he  hath 
made  it  deep  and  large."  But  a  still  deeper  and  larger  purpose,  an  all-surviving 
guaranty  of  victory  peculiar  to  college  men,  is  there  too.  Let  me  put  it  in  the  w^ords 
of  Sir  Arthur  Quiller-Couch  addressed  in  the  second  year  of  the  war  to  university 
men.  "Here  is  something,"  he  says,  "that  your  enemy  can  as  little  take  from  us  as 
he  can  imitate  it:  that  the  best  part  of  revenge  is  to  be  difl'erent  from  our  enemy, 
and  hopelessly  beyond  his  copying,  whatever  he  may  destroy." 


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THE  OPENING  OF  THE  COLLEGE  YEAR 


Uncertainty,  inevitable  confusion,  and 
a  determined  endeavor  on  the  part  of  the 
College  authorities  and  the  Student  body, 
to  meet  successfully  the  many  difficult 
and  urgent  problems  which  were  con- 
stantly arising — such  are  some  of  the  more 
obvious  characteristics  of  the  opening  of 
the  college  year  at  Amherst  in  the  autumn 
of  the  year  nineteen  eighteen. 

The  S.  A,  T.  G.  In  answer  to  the  ur- 
First  Plan  gent    question     of     our 

young  men  last  summer  "How  can  I 
render  the  most  valuable  service  to  my 
country  during  the  period  of  the  war" 
— the  War  Department  answered  "Enter 
college  if  fitted  to  do  so,  or  return  to  col- 
lege if  already  enrolled,"  and  through  its 
Committee  on  Education  and  Special 
Training,  the  Department  proceeded  to 
formulate  plans  for  a  new  Students'  Army 
Training  Corps  which  should  succeed  the 
Reserve  Officers'  Training  Corps  already 
established  at  Amherst  and  other  colleges, 
and  be  the  means  of  giving  military  in- 
struction to  American  College  Students. 
Four  hundred  odd  institutions  of  collegiate 
grade  throughout  the  country  were  to  be 
used  by  the  War  Department  as  training 
schools  for  officers.  The  plan  provided 
that  undergraduates  eighteen  years  of  age 
or  more  might  enlist  in  the  Students'  Army 
Training  Corps,  and  thereby  become 
members  of  the  military  forces  of  the 
United  States  for  the  duration  of  the  war. 
The  members  of  the  Corps  were  to  receive 
equipment  and  military  instruction  at 
governmental  expense.  The  military  in- 
struction prescribed  by  the  government 
was  to  consist  of  drill,  military  theory,  a 
course  in  "War  Aims"  and  courses  in 
allied   college   subjects,   such   as   mathe- 


matics, English,  spoken  French  or  Ger- 
man, and  the  sciences.  The  War  Depart- 
ment announced  that  its  policy  would  be 
to  permit  members  of  the  Corps  to  re- 
main in  College  until  the  June  following 
their  twenty-first  birthday,  unless  the 
needs  of  the  service  required  their  earlier 
transfer. 

As  soon  as  these  plans  were  announced 
President  Meiklejohn  advised  the  W^ar 
Department  of  Amherst's  desire  to  co- 
operate with  the  Government,  and  the 
following  telegram  was  received  by  him 
from  the  iVdjutant  General: 

"Regarding  our  letter  of  August  5, 
you  having  expressed  your  wish  to  operate 
during  the  war  under  the  Students'  Army 
Training  Corps  plans,  you  are  authorized 
to  announce  that  a  unit  of  the  Students' 
Army  Training  Corps  will  be  established 
at  your  institution  next  month.  Addi- 
tional rifles,  uniforms  and  other  equip- 
ment will  be  provided  so  far  as  necessary." 

The  Revised  While  the  authorities  at 
Plan  Amherst,  in  common  with 

other  colleges,  were  completing  arrange- 
ments for  the  operation  of  the  college 
during  the  coming  year,  in  accordance 
with  these  plans,  the  War  Department 
announced  a  meeting  of  the  Depart- 
ment's Committee  on  Education  and 
Special  Training,  and  the  College  Presi- 
dents of  the  Country,  at  Plattsburgh  on 
September  5th.  At  that  meeting  it  was 
stated  that  the  proposed  lowering  of 
the  draft  age  to  eighteen,  and  the  deter- 
mination of  the  Administration  to  put 
four  million  men  in  France  by  next  June, 
had  compelled  the  abandonment  of  the 
scheme  of  military  instruction  in  the  col- 
leges which  had  been  previously  adopted. 


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THE  OPENING  OF  THE  COLLEGE  YEAR 


There  had  been  substituted  a  plan  by 
which  students  were  to  be  fitted  as  rapidly 
as  possible,  through  the  Students'  Army 
Training  Corps,  for  the  military  or  tech- 
nical service  which  awaited  them.  The 
colleges  were  to  be  used  as  a  means  of 
training  and  classifying  the  officer  mate- 
rial of  the  country.  Membership  in  the 
Corps  would  be  obtained  by  induction 
with  the  approval  of  the  local  draft  board 
— rather  than  by  voluntary  enlistment, 
and  a  student  would  at  once  become  a 
member  of  the  military  forces  of  the 
United  States  and  receive  a  private's  pay 
— $30  a  month — and  at  governmental  ex- 
pense tuition,  food,  quarters  and  equip- 
ment. He  would  be  under  military  disci- 
pline and  control.  The  course  of  study, 
prescribed  by  the  Government,  would  in- 
clude military  training  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Commanding  Officer,  a  selec- 
tion from  the  usual  college  subjects,  mod- 
ified to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  War 
Department;  and  "War  Issues"  a  course 
to  which  various  departments  of  the  Col- 
lege might  contribute. 

The  college  year  would  be  divided  into 
four  cpiarters  of  three  months  each.  At 
the  end  of  each  quarter,  each  man's  mili- 
tary and  scholastic  record  would  be  ex- 
amined, and  on  the  basis  of  it  he  would 
be  transferred  to  a  Central  Officers'  Train- 
ing Camp,  or  to  a  non-commissioned 
Officers'  Training  School,  or  to  a  voca- 
tional section  of  the  Corps  for  technical 
training  of  military  value,  or  to  a  canton- 
ment for  duty  as  a  private,  or  he  would 
be  assigned  to  his  present  corps  for  further 
intensive  work  along  a  specified  line. 

The  men  who  would  be  thus  transferred 
would  be  replaced  by  men  from  the  sec- 
ondary schools  and  men  from  the  Depot 
Brigades  whose  ratings  would  indicate 
them  to  be  officer  material,  but  not  yet 
ready  to  enter  an  officers'  training  camp. 
While  it  was  the  expectation  of  the  Gov- 


The  Problems 
at  Amherst 


ernment  that  men  of  eighteen  would  re- 
main in  college  nine  months,  men  of 
nineteen,  six  months,  and  men  of  twenty, 
three  months,  transfers  would  be  made 
throughout  the  year  in  case  of  necessity. 
The  Government  would  make  a  contract 
with  each  college  under  which  the  college 
would  agree  to  furnish  instruction,  food 
and  quarters  at  a  specified  compensation. 
The  quarters  and  mess  should  correspond 
as  far  as  possible  wath  those  in  a  military 
school  or  camp. 

Such  in  brief  was  the  plan  presented 
to  the  College  Presidents  of  the  country 
at  that  memorable  meeting  on  Septem- 
ber 5th.  Their  response  was  immediate 
and  unanimous.  Faculties  and  equip- 
ment were  placed  at  the  Government's 
disposal.  All  that  was  asked  was  definite 
instructions  as  to  the  procedure  desired. 
It  was  at  once  clear  to 
the  Amherst  authorities 
that  this  new  plan  de- 
manded the  early  solution  of  difficult  and 
urgent  problems.  Amherst  had  offered 
only  one  regular  course  of  study — a  course 
of  liberal  training  in  which  Greek  or 
Latin  was  a  required  study.  For  several 
years  prior  to  the  outbreak  of  the  war  no 
special  students  had  been  received.  It 
had  no  commons ;  its  students  had  formed 
eating  groups  ranging  in  size  from  a  dozen 
boys  to  four  or  five  times  that  number. 
Its  thirteen  fraternities  formed  an  im- 
portant part  of  its  dormitory  system, 
fifty-five  per  cent,  of  the  student  body 
living  in  the  fraternity  houses.  It  had 
no  union  nor  central  student  meeting 
place;  its  social  life  centered  to  a  large 
extent  around  the  fraternities,  over  ninety 
per  cent,  of  its  students  being  fraternity 
members.  To  so  change  Amherst's  edu- 
cational policy  and  its  eating  and  housing 
system  as  to  conform  to  the  Government 
plan  was  the  first  task  of  the  administra- 
tion. 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


The  first  problem  was  met  by  Faculty 
action  by  which  it  was  voted  to  receive 
as  special  students  graduates  of  a  four- 
year  preparatory  school  course,  or  those 
who  had  had  equivalent  educational  qual- 
ifications; the  second  by  the  leasing  from 
the  Town  of  Amherst  of  the  Armory,  to 
the  rear  of  the  Town  Hall,  and  establish- 
ing a  mess  capable  of  seating  at  one  time 
nearly  four  hundred  men.  H.  F.  Carter, 
of  Amherst,  was  engaged  as  Mess  Sergeant. 
Meeting  of  It  was  thought  at  first 

Fraternity  that  the  three  college 

Representatives  dormitories  would  be 
inadequate  to  house  the  men  as  the  Gov- 
ernment desired,  and  in  order  to  ascer- 
tain whether  the  College  could  count  on 
the  Fraternity  houses  in  case  of  need,  and 
also  to  acquaint  the  fraternity  corpora- 
tions officially  with  the  situation  con- 
fronting them  and  the  College,  President 
Meiklejohn  invited  prominent  members 
of  the  respective  Fraternities  to  meet  with 
him  in  Amherst  on  September  12th.  All 
but  one  of  the  Fraternities  were  repre- 
sented by  one  or  more  members.  The 
President  stated  the  plans  of  the  War 
Department  in  so  far  as  they  had  been 
received,  and  announced  that  he  had  been 
informally  advised  by  the  military  au- 
thorities that  Fraternity  life  as  it  was 
known  at  Amherst,  would  not  be  permit- 
ted to  be  continued  after  the  military 
regime  began.  It  was  the  sentiment  of 
the  meeting  that  the  Fraternity  houses 
be  offered  to  the  college  for  the  purposes 
of  the  military  authorities,  and  that  the 
Fraternities  hold  the  usual  "rushing" 
season  in  order  to  make  it  as  easy  as  pos- 
sible to  carry  on  the  Fraternity  system 
when  the  College  is  again  under  normal 
conditions.  It  now  seems  probable  that 
the  college  will  not  be  obliged  to  take 
advantage  of  the  generous  offer  of  the 
Fraternities.  The  Government  has  made 
it  clear  that  it  desires  the  men  to  be  quar- 


tered in  barracks  formation  and  nearly 
four  hundred  men  can  be  hovised  in  this 
way  in  the  college  dormitories.  Since  this 
meeting  the  War  Department  has  directed 
that  all  Fraternity  activities,  including 
meetings,  shall  be  suspended  until  further 
notice.  The  Fraternity  houses  were 
therefore  closed  the  latter  part  of  October. 
Social  and  To  formulate  and  carry  out 
Religious  a  plan  for  maintaining  the 

social  and  religious  life  of 
the  students  under  these  new  conditions, 
the  President  appointed  a  committee  of 
fourteen — seven  members  of  the  Faculty 
and  seven  students.  This  Committee  has 
not  yet  completed  its  work,  but  it  seems 
probable  that  one  of  the  college  buildings 
will  be  properly  equipped  and  used  as  a 
social  center  for  the  men,  and  that  the 
Sunday  church  service  and  morning  chapel 
service  will  be  continued. 
The  Teaching  The  change  in  the 

Force  and  Courses  plans  of  the  War 
^^  S*"^y  Department  which 

have  been  referred  to,  made  necessary 
certain  changes  in  the  courses  of  study. 
At  Amherst,  these  changes  had  been 
adopted  and  the  student  body  had  about 
finished  making  its  elections,  when  word 
was  received  prescribing  a  new  scheme  of 
studies  radically  different  from  the  one 
which  had  been  previously  announced. 
Classes  were  accordingly  postponed  until 
the  new  schedules  could  be  arranged.  An 
added  difficulty  at  Amherst  was  the  large 
number  of  Faculty  members  absent  on 
leave  to  engage  in  War  Work.  Of  the 
four  members  of  the  department  of 
mathematics,  for  example,  two  are  in  the 
Army  and  the  two  remaining  men  are 
responsible  for  a  large  part  of  the  admin- 
istrative detail.  As  this  situation  obtains 
in  practically  all  of  the  colleges,  it  seems 
probable  that  it  will  be  met  in  time  by  a 
detail  by  the  War  Department  of  com- 
petent men  to  fill  the  vacancies. 


THE  OPENING  OF  THE  COLLEGE  YEAR 


.  Amherst    opened    on    Sep- 

Number  ,        •  ,  • 

of  Students  tember  lOth  with  approxi- 
mately 400  students.  Of 
these  about  100  were  regular  freshmen, 
100  special  freshmen,  and  200  members 
of  the  three  upper  classes.  In  addition 
to  the  above  division  of  the  men  this  year, 
there  are  the  inducted  men, — members 
of  the  Corps — ;  the  enrolled  men,  who  are 
under  eighteen  but  are  receiving  military 
instruction;  and  a  small  third  group  com- 
posed of  men  under  eighteen  and  men  not 
physically  ciualified  for  military  service, 
who  are  taking  the  regular  course  of  study. 

_    ^      .^  The     Fraternities     pledged 

Fraternity  ,    ,  • 

Initiations  ^^^  hundred  and  thirty-one 
out  of  210  new  men  at  the 
opening  of  the  College.  Of  these  95  were 
regular  freshmen,  candidates  for  a  degree, 
4  were  upper  classmen,  also  candidates  for 
a  degree,  and  32  were  special  students.  As 
it  was  thought  induction  into  the  Army 
would  take  place  October  1st,  all  of  these 
men  were  initiated  by  the  Fraternities 
during  the  last  week  of  September.  The 
Alumni  corporations  of  the  different 
Chapters  will  have  the  responsibility 
during  the  coming  year  of  meeting  a 
budget  which  will  include  taxes,  insur- 
ance, maintenance  and  in  some  cases,  in- 
terest, with  no  revenue  by  way  of  rent 
from  the  undergraduate  chapter.  Re- 
ferring to  the  Fraternities'  future,  the 
"Student"  said:  "The  initiations  held 
last  week  were  marked  by  a  note  of  so- 
lemnity, which  might  be  described  as  a 
prayer  of  thanks  and  a  flush  of  hope.  We 
are  indeed  thankful  that  our  Fraternities 
iiave  been  able  to  propagate  their  tra- 
ditions at  a  most  critical  time  in  the 
life  of  Greek  letter  societies.  We  are 
grateful  that  our  new  brothers  have 
had  an  opportunity  to  catch,  in  part 
at  least,  the  loyal  fraternal  spirit  that  is 
so  characteristic  of  Amherst  as  a  col- 
lege." 


rr.      r  a  Duriug    September    the 

The  Influenza  .       °.        ^  ^ 

Epidemic  epidemic  of  Spanish   in- 

fluenza had  become  so 
serious  in  the  Eastern  part  of  Massachu- 
setts, that  on  September  28th  the  College 
authorities  decided  to  put  in  force  certain 
regulations  to  prevent  the  invasion  of  the 
epidemic  in  a  serious  form.  Induction 
was  postponed  by  the  Commanding  Offi- 
cer to  October  'lOth.  Acting  under  the 
advice  of  the  local  Board  of  Health  the 
Chapel  and  church  services  and  all 
classes  were  suspended.  Instead  of  quar- 
tering the  men  in  barracks  formation  as 
had  been  intended  and  serving  meals  to 
all  the  men  in  the  new  mess-hall,  the 
Fraternities  were  requested  to  take  over 
their  freshmen  and  keep  open  their  houses 
until  further  notice.  The  old  eating 
groups  were  continued  and  the  mess-hall 
was  only  used  to  furnish  meals  to  men  who 
had  no  regular  boarding  place.  The  spe- 
cial students  were  quartered  in  Pratt 
Dormitory  and  the  regularly  enrolled 
freshmen,  not  members  of  the  Fraterni- 
ties, were  transferred  to  South  Dormitory. 
A  quarantine  against  leaving  town  was 
put  in  force  and  a  complete  scheme  of 
civilian  organization  established  which 
was  later  taken  over  by  the  military 
authorities.  Through  the  Interfraternity 
Council,  each  Fraternity  house  main- 
tained an  organization  under  which  the 
quarantine  and  other  regulations  were 
carried  out  and  a  similar  scheme  for  spe- 
,  cial  students  and  non-fraternity  men  was 
adopted  for  the  dormitories. 

The  results  of  this  procedure,  at  this 
writing,  have  been  most  satisfactory. 
There  have  been  twenty -five  cases  in  the 
College,  all  of  which  have  been  cared  for 
at  Pratt  Health  Cottage.  Of  these  per- 
haps a  dozen  have  had  the  epidemic  in 
a  serious  form  and  one  student  has  died. 
The  old  Delta  Upsilon  house,  now  owned 
by  the  College,  was  equipped  as  an  aux- 


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iliary  hospital  for  emergency  use.  The 
response  on  the  part  of  the  student  body 
to  the  efforts  of  the  College  authorities 
was  excellent. 


The  S.  A.  T.  G 
Officers 


Captain  Stanley  G. 
Eaton  (Dartmouth, 
1911)  was  the  com- 
manding officer  at  the  opening  of  the 
College  and  was  assisted  by  a  first  lieu- 
tenant and  six  second  lieutenants,  Lieu- 
tenant Laurence  H.  Parker  of  the  Am- 
herst Faculty  being  personnel  officer,  and 
Dr.  Nelson  C.  Haskell  (Amherst  '87), 
contract  surgeon.  The  latter  part  of 
October  Captain  Eaton  was  relieved  by 
Captain  Dan  T.  F.  Dixon  (University  of 
Pittsburgh  1914),  Captain  Eaton  taking 
Captain  Dixon's  former  detail  at  the 
New  Hampshire  State  College. 

_      ,     ^  The  military  authorities  an- 

Student  ,    ,         ,  , 

Activities  nounced  that  the  usual  stu- 
dent activities  would  be 
continued  under  the  direction  of  the  Stu- 
dent Council  whose  membership  would 
be  increased  by  eight  members,  two  from 
each  of  the  four  Companies  of  the  Corps. 

Football  practice  began  early 
Football         with  about  forty  candidates 

for  the  varsity  team.  Coach 
Gettell  declared  there  was  the  best  ma- 
terial he  had  ever  had  since  he  began 
coaching.  The  development  of  a  team, 
however,  has  been  retarded  first  by  the 
quarantine — the  games  with  Middlebury 
Union,  Bowdoin  and  Worcester  being 
cancelled, — and  later  by  the  detail  of 
thirty  men  for  Officers'  Training  Camps 
on  October  10th.  These  included  Captain 
Phillips  and  eleven  out  of  sixteen  mem- 
bers of  the  squad.  A  new  start  was  made 
after  the  loss  of  the  original  squad  and 


every  effort  is  being  made  to  develop  a 
team  which  shall  make  a  creditable  show- 
ing in  the  remaining  games  which  are  to 
be  played.  An  Interfraternity  tennis 
tournament  and  an  intercompany  track 
meet  were  held  last  month,  and  plans 
are  being  formed  for  varsity  swimming 
and  basketball  teams.  The  "Student" 
will  appear  weekly,  and  later  a  glee 
and    mandolin    club   will    be    organized. 


The  British 
Educational 
Mission 


Amherst  was  visited  in 
October  by  the  British 
Educational  Mission  to 
the  United  States.  The  members  of  the 
mission  were  the  guests  of  members  of  the 
Faculty  and  a  reception  in  their  honor 
was  given  at  the  President's  house. 

_,      „       ^,  In    the    recent    Liberty 

The  Fourth  .  "^ 

Liberty  Loan  Loan  Campaign  the  town 
of  Amherst  exceeded  its 
quota  by  over  a  hundred  thousand  dollars 
and  nearly  that  amount  of  bonds  was 
sold  in  an  open  air  rally  on  the  Common. 
Arthur  H.  Dakin,  '84,  was  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  and  a  large  number  of  the 
members  of  the  Faculty  were  active  in 
the  campaign.  Through  the  allotment 
system,  100%  of  the  Amherst  unit  of  the 
Students'  Army  Training  Corps  sub- 
scribed $23,250,  and  in  addition,  through 
local  Committees,  Amherst  students  sub- 
scribed $13,950,  making  a  total  of  $37,200. 
Such  is  a  somewhat  detailed  record  of 
the  first  few  months  of  the  current  year, 
*  but  it  is  only  by  a  review  of  these  de- 
tails that  one  can  realize  the  many  prob- 
lems that  have  had  to  be  met.  That  they 
have  been  met,  as  successfully  as  they 
have  is  a  tribute  to  the  determination 
of  the  College  authorities  and  to  the  fine 
co-operation  of  the  Student  Body. 


AMHERST  IN  THE  WAR 


AMHERST  IN  THE  WAR 

A  recent  summary  compiled  by  the  War  Records  Committee  of  the  Alumni 
Council  shows  that  there  are  943  Amherst  men  in  the  United  States  Army  and  Navy,  50 
men  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Work,  34  of  whom  are  overseas,  and  11  men  in  the  American 
Red  Cross,  all  of  whom  are  overseas.  420  men  have  received  commissions  in  the 
United  States  Army  and  75  in  the  United  States  Navy.  Of  the  men  in  the  Army, 
7  have  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  30  the  rank  of  Major,  69  the  rank  of  Captain, 
150  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant,  and  164  the  rank  of  2d  Lieutenant.  Of  the  men  in 
the  Navy,  4  have  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Commander,  12  the  rank  of  Lieutenant 
Junior  Grade,  59  the  rank  of  Ensign;  4  men  are  Chaplains,  two  in  the  Army  and  two 
in  the  Navy. 

The  War  Records  Committee  of  the  Alumni  Council  hopes  that  it  will  be  pos- 
sible to  publish  later,  some  of  the  interesting  letters  which  have  been  received  from 
Amherst  men  in  the  War.  The  first  of  the  following  letters  is  from  Lieutenant  Com- 
mander Kenneth  Chafee  Mcintosh,  '05,  P.  C.  U.  S.  A.  and  is  in  acknowledgment 
of  a  series  of  letters  from  members  of  the  Amherst  College  Faculty,  which  the  Alumni 
Council  has  been  sending  to  Amherst  men  in  the  War.  The  second  letter  is  from 
James  A.  Sprenger,  '08,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Divisional  Secretary  of  the  Savoie  Leave  Areas. 
Mr.  Sprenger  by  the  way  possesses  a  pipe  given  him  by  the  great  French  Marshal, 
on  which  is  written  "Souvenir  du  Marechal  Joffre." 


Lieutenant  Commander  Mcintosh,  '05 

Naval  Air  Station,  Pensacola,  Fla. 
August  26,  1918. 
Dear  Amherst: 

The  first  installment  of  letters  reached  me  to- 
day, and  I'm  stealing  time  to  tell  you  all  right 
away  that  they  were  mighty  welcome — they've 
filled  a  distinct  and  rather  wistful  vacancy — and 
they've  added  a  big  bit  to  a  very  real  asset  that 
every  former  Amherst  man  carries  out  with  him — 
the  feeling  that  he  has  got  something  bigger  than 
an  education  from  his  college — he  has  been  adopted 
as  a  son  by  an  actual  Alma  Mater  in  the  com- 
pletes! sense — elected  for  life  to  a  brotherhood  of 
a  vital  and  helpful  kind. 

President  Mciklejohn  I  do  not  know.  He  has 
come  to  Amherst  since  my  time;  but  his  letter 
breathes  Amherst  as  I  knew  her  and  loved  her  in 
every  line.  The  other  letters  were  almost  vocal — 
I  could  place  every  intonation  and  every  gesture  as 
clearly  as  if. I  actually  heard  each  word.  I  do  not 
know  whether  the  writers  of  them  remember  me. 
If  they  do,  I'm  afraid  the  memory  is  not  an  un- 
mixed joy;  for  I  passed  through  a  very  stormy 
and  depressing  period  of  what  1  was  pleased  to  call 
"development"  in  those  days — wasn't  it  Kipling 
who  made  Ihe  remark  about  pujjpies  who  inevitably 
eat  soajj  and  blacking.-'  Hut  although  Amherst  had 
to  put  up  with  me  during  a  most  objectional)ie  sea- 
son, it  was  Amherst  and  her  inspiration  that  helped 
me  pull  out  of  the  slough  later.     For  above  any- 


thing and  everything  else  that  the  college  has  to 
give,  the  thing  that  sticks  longest  and  hardest  and 
dearest  is  the  manhood  of  the  men  who  signed  those 
letters.  To  be  a  man  among  men  is  a  great  thing; 
but  to  be  a  man  among  boys  is  possibly  the  hardest 
thing  I  know.  An  Amherst  boy  who  doesn't  do 
his  possible  toward  becoming  a  real  man  has  missed 
the  biggest  thing  in  the  College.  Professor  Tyler 
says  his  generation  has  made  a  mess  of  things — well, 
maybe  so.  And  maybe  the  mess  was  well  mi.\ed 
and  brewing  long  before  Professor  Tyler's  genera- 
tion. But  one  thing  we  know — it's  the  inspiration 
and  the  knowledge  and  the  example  of  Professor 
Tyler  and  his  generation  and  his  kind  that  is  put- 
ting the  punch  and  pep  into  the  American  sectors 
of  the  Vesle  and  Aisne  and  Picardy  fronts;  that's 
shoving  the  transports  and  the  freighters  and  the 
destroyers  over  at  a  rate  that  makes  everybody  sit 
up  and  take  notice.  There  is  no  sudden  reversal 
of  methods  and  ideas — we  fellows  are  standing  on 
your  shoulders,  and  find  them  a  good  solid  founda- 
tion. 

At  present,  I  pensonally  am  in  a  peaceful  though 
far  from  quiet  backwater  of  the  Big  Game;  but 
I've  had  my  fourteen  months  Over  There,  and  can 
hope  to  go  back  if  it  lasta  beyond  the  period  of  my 
duty  here.  And  somebody  must  do  what  I'm 
doing  and  1  can  perliaj)s  do  it  quicker  and  chca])er 
and  better  than  somebody  else  without  my  thir- 
teen years  of  doing  it  behind  iiim.  So  I'm  keeping 
my  thoughts  to  myself  and  chucking  myself  into 
what's  in  front  of  me — trying  to  play  Amherst's 


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game  in  Amherst's  way.  I  wish  I  could  tell  you 
of  what  I've  seen  yonder — it  would  pay  you  for 
the  troubles  all  the  crazy  rattlepates  that  ever  sat 
on  the  steps  of  Walker  Hall  ever  caused  you,  to 
see  how  the  boys  are  going  to  it.  But  most  of  all, 
aside  from  thanking  vou  all  for  those  letters,  I 
want  to  tell  you— KEEP  ON  WRITING  THEM. 
There  will  be  no  discouragement  at  the  front  while 
the  boys  know  that  you're  carrying  on  here  at 
home.  For  that,  right  down  at  the  bottom  of 
things,  is  what  we  went  over  about — just  to  make 
sure  that  Amherst  and  what  she  stands  for  will 
carry  on  to  the  end  of  time.  It's  a  long  job  and  a 
tough  one;  and  I'm  afraid  that  it  won't  be  done 
in  time  for  us  all  to  get  to  the  Centennial.  But  it 
will  be  done  right — finished  and  settled  before  we 
quit.  No  Amherst  man  would  have  the  face  to 
come  back  and  face  you  if  it  wasn't. 

James  A.  Sprenger,  '08. 

August  29,  1918. 
"A  few  nights  ago  at  Aix,  I  was  just  about  to 
turn  in  at  12:30  and  was  looking  at  the  beautiful 
moonlight  on  the  mountains  when  I  heard 
'  By  the  light  of  the  moon 
By  the  light  of  the  moon 

By  the  light,  by  the  light,  by  the  light  of  the  moon' 
It  seemed  to  roll  away  the  past  ten  years  of  my 
life  and  I  felt  as  if  I  were  standing  at  my  window 
in  the  old  Deke  house,  listening  to  some  late  home 
comers  from  Hamp.  I  rather  hated  to  hear  the 
next  line  because  it  would  break  the  charm — but 
no, — 

'  If  you  want  to  come  to  Amherst 

Just  come  along  with  me. 

By  the  light,  by  the  light  of  the  moon.' 

It  continued  to  the  end  and  I  knew  that  there  were 
some  Amherst  men  in  town.  They  were  too  far 
away  for  me  to  call  to  them  that  night  but  the 
next  day  Horatio  Smith,  '08,  and  I  found  them  and 
arranged  for  an  Amherst  luncheon  down  by  the 
Lake. 

"Six  of  us  sat  around  the  table  under  the  trees 
by  the  beautiful  blue-green  Lac  du  Bourget, — Ho- 
ratio, Shortie  McCague,  '16,  almost  a  head  shorter 
than  I,  Shortie  Yarrington — as  tall  as  Shorts  Hol- 
lender,  Hazeldine  and  Baker,  of  '17  or  '18,  and  I. 
It  was  the  finest  Amherst  reunion  I  ever  attended. 
Horatio  and  I  lost  our  ten  years  and  entered  into 
the  singing  of  all  the  Amherst  songs  as  heartily  as 
the  youngsters.  We  ate  and  sang  and  sang  and  ate 
from  12:30  to  four.    The  rest  were  all  good  singers 


so  I  didn't  matter.  Not  a  single  other  diner  left 
while  we  were  there.  Several  shapshots  were  taken 
by  the  enthusiastic  French  neighbors. 

"We  decided  that  no  other  college  could  possibly 
have  such  a  get-together,  because  no  other  college 
men  can  commune  together  in  such  wonderful 
songs.  Then  we  talked  of  the  college,  professors, 
fraternities,  the  record  Amherst  men  are  making 
in  this  war,  and  last  but  not  least  of  the  many 
personal  friends  from  Amherst  who  have  died  on 
the  Field  of  Honor.  These  young  men,  two  of  them 
with  Croix  de  Guerre,  talked  like  real  men  who 
have  had  real  experiences  with  life  and  death, 
speaking  casually  of  heroic  deeds  that  ten  years 
ago  we  should  have  considered  blood-curdling  but 
which  today  have  become  commonplace. 

"Everyday  I  am  struck  with  the  commonplace 
of  the  heroic.  It  is  the  order  of  the  day  for  deeds 
of  valor  and  thrill  and  they  go  unnoticed.  A  man 
with  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross  just  yesterday 
said  when  I  asked  him  how  lie  earned  it — 'Oh,  so 
many  men  are  doing  now  what  I  did  two  months 
ago  that  they  no  longer  give  them  for  the  thing  I 
did.  They  wouldn't  have  half  enough  to  go  around.' 
I  pressed  him  to  tell  me  and  finally  he  said  in  an 
offhand  way  'Oh,  I  just  crept  out  into  no-man's 
land  to  deliver  a  message  and  the  Boches  did  their 
darndest  to  get  me  but  couldn't.  That's  all.'  It 
doesn't  require  much  of  an  imagination  to  picture 
what  he  did  to  deserve  the  decoration. 

"Another  man  told  the  most  gruesome  story  of 
driving  his  ambulance  along  a  road  strewn  on  either 
side  with  piles  of  German  dead.  It  was  in  the 
course  of  the  last  retreat  by  the  Germans.  Allen 
had  to  hurry  along  because  the  shells  were  landing 
near  him.  Suddenly  he  saw  an  American  lying 
flat  on  his  face  and  he  rather  thought  he  saw  a 
slight  movement  of  an  arm.  He  stopped  his  car, 
went  to  the  American  whom  he  thought  must  be 
dead,  turned  him  over  and  it  was  his  own  brother! 
He  was  still  alive  and  Allen  hurried  him  to  the 
hospital  where  it  was  found  that  he  still  had  a 
chance  to  live.  Allen  had  seen  him  the  day  before 
he  left  and  he  was  sure  to  recover. 

"After  a  talk  on  these  and  other  things  just  as 
thrilling  is  it  any  wonder  that  we  insisted  on  singing 
a  second  time  at  the  end  of  the  luncheon,  Jimm.\' 
Hamilton's  inspired 

Strangers  once  we  came  to  dwell  together 
Sons  of  a  Mother  tried  and  true. 

Now  we're  bound  by  ties  that  cannot  sever 
All  our  whole  life  through.'  " 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


II 


€)ffinal  and  pcrisonal 


ROLL  OF  HONOR 

(Previously  reported,  6) 

Robert  Belville  Woodbury,  '08,  1st  Lieutenant, 
Company  A,  111th  Infantry 

Lieutenant  Woodbury  died  as  the  result  of  wounds 
received  in  action  in  Fismette,  France,  August  9, 
1918.  He  had  served  on  the  Mexican  Border  and 
been  with  the  colors  in  all  nearly  two  and  one-half 
years.  He  enlisted  March  4,  1916,  in  Co.  F,  4th 
Penn.  Infantry.  He  was  commissioned  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenant of  Co.  C,  June  16,  1917,  transferred  to  Com- 
pany A  of  the  111th  Infantry,  February  1,  1918, 
and  held  the  position  of  Senior  1st  Lieutenant  until 
the  time  of  his  death.  His  company  was  with  the 
!28th  Division.  The  men  were  trained  at  Camp  Han- 
cock and  went  overseas  last  May.  The  Division  to 
which  Lieutenant  Woodbury  was  attached  saw  some 
of  the  hardest  fighting  of  the  war  between  Chateau 
Thierry  and  Fismette.  A  dispatch  filed  on  the  4th 
of  September  states  "Lieutenants  Robert  B.  Wood- 
bury and  Walter  Ettinger,  both  of  Pottsville,  Pa., 
had  commands  in  Fismette  and  by  their  example 
and  energy  kept  their  men  at  their  posts,  going  for 
three  days  without  sleep  and  walking  up  and  down 
the  lines  encouraging  the  men." 

Lieutenant  Woodbury  was  born  in  Pottsville, 
Pa.,  September  11,  1886,  the  son  of  Wesley  K. 
Woodbury  and  Mrs.  Woodbury.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  the  Pottsville  High  School  and  at  Amherst 
was  a  member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Frater- 
nity, manager  of  the  tennis  team  and  a  member  of 
the  Olio  Board.  He  graduated  in  1912  from  the 
law  school  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and 
was  associated  with  his  father  in  the  practice  of  the 
law.  He  was  married  on  April  26,  1917,  to  Miss 
Ruth  M.  Gunton  of  Plainfield,  N.  J.  A  son,  Robert 
Belville  Woodbury,  Jr.,  was  born  February  16,  1918. 

IsADORE  David  Levy,  '11 
Private,  5th  Company,  152nd  Depot  Brigade 
Private  Levy  died  at  Camp  Upton,  September 
27,  1918,  of  pneumonia  following  an  attack  of  in- 
fluenza.   He  had  been  at  Camp  Upton  only  a  few 
\\eeks. 

Private  Levy  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Octo- 
ber 17,  1888,  the  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Phineas  Levy. 
He  came  to  (ireenfield  with  his  parents  when  a 
child.  He  fitted  for  college  at  the  Greenfield  High 
School,  and  after  graduation  from  Amherst  took 
the  law  course  at  Harvard  University,  was  admitted 
to  the  Massachusetts  Bar  and  formed  a  law  partner- 
ship at  Greenfield  with  his  l)rother.  Lieutenant 
Maurice  J.  Levy,  who  is  an  instructor  at  Camp 
Joseph  A.  Johnston,  Jacksonville,  Fla.  He  was 
unmarried. 

Douglas  Ukqijuart,  '13 
Sergeant,  Company  D,  104th  Infantry 
Sergeant  Urquhart  died  in  France,  July  29,  1918, 
from  wounds  received  in  action  on  July  22d.    It  is 


reported  that  he  was  wounded  defending  a  village, 
and  that  when  the  American  army  retired  he  had  to 
be  left  to  face  the  German  advance.  Later  the 
town  was  recaptured  and  Urquhart  who  had  been 
taken  prisoner  by  the  Germans  was  left  in  the  town 
by  the  enemy.  When  the  Americans  retook  the  vil- 
lage, he  was  taken  to  a  base  hospital,  but  died  soon 
after. 

Sergeant  Urquhart  was  born  October  9,  1891.  He 
was  the  son  of  the  late  Dr.  J.  E.  and  Helen  S.  Urqu- 
hart of  Ashfield.  At  Amherst  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity.  He  left  college  at 
the  end  of  his  sophomore  year  to  go  into  business. 
He  was  with  Pershing  on  the  Border  in  1916,  and 
when  the  European  war  broke  out  joined  his  old 
Company,  Company  D,  104th  Regiment,  which  has 
seen  much  action  and  suffered  heavy  losses.  He  was 
unmarried. 

Walton  Kimball  Smith,  '14 
Cadet,  Royal  Flying  Corps 

Flight  Cadet  Smith  was  killed  in  an  aeroplane 
accident  in  England,  July  16,  1918. 

He  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  September  21,  1890, 
the  son  of  the  late  A.  A.  Smith.  He  fitted  for  college 
at  Milwaukee  Academy.  At  Amherst  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  Fraternity  and  of 
Sphinx,  the  Amherst  Stock  Company,  and  the  Col- 
lege Orchestra.  After  graduation  he  studied  law  at 
Harvard  University.  In  October,  1917,  he  went 
overseas  expecting  to  join  the  American  Ambulance 
Field  Service  but  later  decided  to  become  an  aviator 
and  joined  the  Royal  Flying  Corps. 

Thomas  Williams  Ashley,  '16 

2d  Lieutenant,  Company  8,  5th  Regiment, 

U.  S.  Marine  Corps 

Lieutenant  Ashley  was  killed  in  action  in  the 
Battle  of  Belleau  Wood,  France,  some  time  during 
the  month  of  June.  He  was  reported  on  the  casualty 
list  of  July  3  as  missing  since  June  7th,  and  on  the 
list  of  July  21st  as  killed  in  action. 

Lieutenant  Ashley  was  born  January  9,  1894. 
He  was  the  son  of  Charles  H.  Ashley"  and  Mrs. 
Ashley,  of  Deerfield,  Mass.  He  prepared  for  College 
at  Deerfield  Academy  where  he  played  both  baseball 
and  football.  At  Amherst  he  was  prominent  in 
football,  baseball  and  basketball.  In  football  he 
played  fullback  until  his  senior  year  when  he  was 
placed  at  left  tackle.  As  a  plunging  fullback, 
Ashley  has  had  few  ecjuals  at  Amherst.  He  was 
awarded  the  cup  his  junior  year  as  the  most  valuable 
member  of  the  team.  He  also  played  baseball 
during  his  junior  and  senior  years,  playing  in  the 
outfield,  and  was  cai)lain  of  the  basketball  team. 
He  graduated  witii  special  honors  in  history.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  Fraternity 
and  of  Scarab,  the  honorary  Senior  Society. 

Lieutenant  Ashley  enlisted  in  the  ^Larines,  April 
13,  1917,  received  his  military  training  at  Norfolk, 


12 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Va.,  Ft.  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  and  Quantico,  Va.,  was 
commissioned  a  2nd  Lieutenant  of  Company  8,  Ma- 
chine Gun  Battery,  and  sailed  for  France  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1918.  His  brother,  Johnathan  Ashley,  '11, 
is  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  France.  He  was  un- 
married. 

Robert  Swift  Gillett,  '16 

First  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Chief  Observer,  2nd  Provisional  Wing, 

191st  Aero  Squadron 

Lieutenant  Gillett  was  killed  in  an  aeroplane 
accident  at  Kingsville,  Texas,  September  17,  1918. 
He  was  flying  with  Second  Lieutenant  Edward  C. 
Davidson,  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  when  the  aeroplane 
went  into  a  tail  spin  and  fell  from  a  height  of  several 
hundred  feet.     Both  men  were  killed. 

Lieutenant  Gillett  was  born  at  Hartford,  March  5, 
1895.  He  was  the  son  of  Prof.  Arthur  L.  Gillett, 
D.D.,  '80,  and  Mary  Bradford  (Swift)  Gillett.  At 
Amherst  he  was  a  member  of  the  Musical  Clubs, 
leader  of  the  Mandolin  Club,  a  member  of  the  1916 
baseball  and  hockey  teams,  the  Varsity  Golf  team 
and  the  Cotillion  Club.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Alpha  Delta  Phi  Fraternity. 

He  was  a  student  at  the  Harvard  Law  School 
when  war  broke  out.  He  was  at  Plattsburg  in  1916 
and  at  the  Officers'  Training  Camp,  Plattsburg,  in 
1917,  where  he  received  a  second  lieutenant's  com- 
mission in  the  Field  Artillery.  At  Camp  Devens  he 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 
In  April,  1918,  he  passed  his  examinations  for 
aerial  observer  and  was  sent  to  the  School  for 
Aerial  Observers  at  Post  Field,  Ft.  Sill,  Okla.  His 
squadron  had  been  practicing  maneuvers  and  map- 
making  near  Kingsville,  Texas. 

He  was  married  October  13,  1917,  to  Miss  Mar- 
jorie  Stafford  Root  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  a  graduate 
of  Smith  College  in  the  class  of  1917.  A  daughter, 
Mary,  was  born  July  22,  1918. 

MILITARY  HONORS 

(Previously  reported,  10) 

Captain  John  O.  Outwater,  '14,  15th  Infantry 

Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Captain  Outwater  brought  into  the  American 
trenches  a  German  oflBcer,  questioned  him  in  Ger- 
man, and  obtained  valuable  data  about  the  enemy 
disposition  of  troops. 

Private  Frederick  L.  Yarrington,  '19, 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  621 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre  for  services  ren-' 
dered  during  the  German  attack  from  May  27th 
to  June  4th,  1918. 

Private  Arthur  E.  Hazeldine,  '19, 
U.   S.   A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  621 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre  for  services  ren- 
dered during  the  German  attack  from  May  27th 
to  June  4th,  1918. 

Private  John  Savot,  '19, 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  621 
Section  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 
The  citation  reads  as  follows: 
"With  the  French  Army, 


Le  General  Commandant  of  the  Division 

cites  in  the  order  of  his  division  the  S.  S.  U.  621. 

United  and  animated  with  the  finest  spirit  of 
sacrifice  during  the  strenuous  days  from  the  27th 
of  May  to  the  4th  of  June  gave  proof  of  great  en- 
durance and  fortitude,  by  which  they  succeeded  at 
the  cost  of  severe  losses  and  in  spite  of  the  pressure 
of  the  enemy  to  take  out  the  wounded  from  the 
regimental  posts  and  from  the  forward  resting  places. 
As  cited  the  13th  day  of  June. 
By  the  Commanding  General." 


THE   CLASSES 

Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service 
Sixth  Instalment 

Note:  It  is  difficult  to  assign  dates  to  the  war 
notes.  They  are  intended  merely  to  give  a  bit  of 
news  about  Amherst  men  in  the  National  Service 
which  was  at  one  time  accurate.  In  many  cases 
the  form  of  Service  has  changed  by  the  time  the 
Quarterly  reaches  its  readers.  Additions  or  cor- 
rections are  solicited.  Address  Frederick  S.  Allis, 
Secretary,  Amherst,  Mass. 

Abbreviations  used: 

A.  A.  F.  S. — American  Ambulance  Field  Service. 

A.  S.  S.  C. — Aviation  Section  Signal  Corps. 

Eng. — Engineers. 

F.  A.— Field  Artillery. 

F.  A.  R.  D. — Field  Artillery  Radio  Division. 

Inf. — Infantry. 

Mar.  C. — Marine  Corps. 

M.  C. — Medical  Corps. 

M.  G. — Machine  Gun. 

M.  T.  D. — Motor  Transport  Division. 

M.  T.  R.  S.— Motor  Transport  Repair  Shop. 

N.  A. — National  Army. 

N.  G. — National  Guard. 

N.  A.  S. — Naval  Air  Service. 

O.  T.  S. — Officers'  Training  School. 

R.  O.  T.  C. — Reserve  Officers'  Training  School. 

R.  D.  N.  R. — Radio  Division  Naval  Reserve. 

R.  M.  A. — Reserved  Military  Aviator. 

S.  .\.  F.  S. — Small  Arms  Firing  School. 

S.  C. — Signal  Corps. 

San  C. — Sanitary  Corps. 

U.  S.  A.  A.  S. — United  States  Army  Ambulance 

Service. 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.— United  States  Naval  Reserve  Force. 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  C— United  States  Naval  Reserve 

Flying  Corps. 

1831 

At  the  ninety-ninth  anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  this  summer,  the 
most  outstanding  event  was  the  unveiling  of  a 
bronze  tablet  to  the  memory  of  Professor  Daniel 
Smith  Talcott,  D.  D.,  Professor  of  Sacred  Literature 
at  Bangor  from  1839  to  1881.  Prof.  Talcott  was 
a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the  class  of  1831.  The 
tablet  was  given  by  Hon.  B.  H.  Dowse  of  Boston, 
whose  father,  the  Rev.  Edmund  Dowse,  was  also 
an  Amherst  man,  in  the  class  of  1836. 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


13 


1858 
Rev.  Samuel  B.  Sherrill,  Secretary, 
415  Humphrey  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Mrs.  Olive  Gleason,  wife  of  the  Rev.  John  F. 
Gleason,  for  many  years  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  South  Amherst,  died  in  August  at 
the  home  of  her  son,   Dr.  Edwin  P.  Gleason,   '88 
at  Onset  (Mass.). 

1860 
Rev.  George  F.  Chapin,  pastor  for  35  years  of 
the  Congregational  Church  at  Saxton's  River,  Vt., 
recently  observed  his  82d  birthday.      In  point  of 
years  he  is  dean  of  Vermont  ministers. 

1861 

Mrs.  Martha  A.  Dyer,  widow  of  E.  Porter  Dyer, 
'61,  and  mother  of  Walter  A.  Dyer,  '00,  died  sud- 
denly of  apoplexy  in  Chicago  on  September  14th. 

1865 

Prof.  B.  K.  Emerson,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
John  C.  Hammond  addressed  the  full  bench  of 
the  Supreme  Court  at  Northampton  on  September 
17th  with  reference  to  his  completion  of  50  years 
in  the  practice  of  law,  giving  reminiscences  of  in- 
terest concerning  judges,  lawyers  and  cases  within 
that  period.  Chief  Justice  Arthur  P.  Rugg,  '83, 
was  among  the  judges  present.  Most  of  the  leading 
members  of  the  bar  of  Hampshire  Coimty  were  in 
the  court  room. 

1866 
Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carlton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
During  the  recent  campaign  Herbert  L.  Bridgman 
was  a  member  of  the  Campaign  Committee  of  the 
Union  League  Club  of  New  York. 

1868 

William  A.  Brown,  Secretary, 

17  State  St.,  New  York  City 

William  Greenleaf  Elliot  Pope  died  at  Verona, 
New  Jersey,  on  September  3rd,  aged  72  years. 
He  was  born  at  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  Dec.  1,  1845. 
In  his  early  years  he  was  principal  of  a  grammar 
school  at  Brighton,  Mass.,  and  superintendent  of 
schools  at  West  Milton,  Carlisle,  and  West  Salem, 
Ohio.  In  his  later  years  he  was  associated  with 
William  Wood  &  Co.,  Medical  Publishers,  New  York 
and  with  a  stock  brokerage  house  in  New  York  of 
which  one  of  his  sons  was  senior  partner.  He  was 
married  in  April,  1873,  to  Miss  Georgianna  Alex- 
ander and  left  three  sons.  He  was  a  loyal  member 
of  the  class,  never  missing  an  opportunity  to  attend 
its  reunions.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Rev.  John  H.  Williams,  D.  D.,  who  has  been 
supplying  a  church  at  Honolulu  for  the  past  year 
or  so,  has  become  acting  pastor  of  Pilgrim  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Seattle,  Wash. 

1869 

William  R.  Brown,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
17  State  St.,  New  York  City 
Rev.  Alfred  Francis  Tenny,  for  nearly  twenty- 
five  years  rector  of  Christ  Chvirch,  Pelham  Manor, 
N.  Y.,  and  professor  in  the  (iencral  Theological 
Seminary  in  New  York  City,  died  at  the  rectory 


August  10,  1918,  at  the  age  of  71  years.  He  was 
born  at  South  Braintree,  Mass.,  July  24,  1847. 
After  graduating  from  Amherst  he  taught  for  a 
time,  and  in  1882  became  rector  of  All  Saints  Church 
at  Briar  Cliff,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1893  of  Christ  Church, 
Pelham  Manor,  assuming  charge  when  the  church 
was  but  a  little  chapel  and  raising  the  funds  for 
enlarging  and  making  it  the  quaint  gem  of  archi- 
tecture that  it  now  is.  He  was  a  faithful,  loyal  and 
diligent  worker,  with  many  friends.  Since  1902 
he  had  also  acted  as  instructor  in  elocution  at  the 
General  Theological  Seminary.  He  was  married 
on  August  16,  1876  to  Elizabeth  Russell  of  Phila- 
delphia and  leaves  a  widow  and  one  daughter, 
Miss  Laura  Tenny.  The  "Churchman"  for  Sep- 
tember 14,  1918  contains  an  appreciative  article  on 
his  life  and  work. 

1870 

Dr.  John  G.  Stanton,  Secretary, 

99  Huntington  St.,  New  London,  Conn. 

Jonas  Sayre  Van  Duzer  died  at  Horseheads,  N.  Y., 
June  14,  1918  at  the  age  of  71  years.    He  was  born 
at  Horseheads,  December  2,  1846.    He  was  at  Am- 
herst only  one  year  and  then  took  up  farming  at 
Horseheads.     He  was  editor  of   The  Husbandman 
and  for  some  years  was  superintendant  of  schools 
in  Chemung  County.    He  was  married  on  March  2, 
1869  to  Miss  Julia  Amanda  Rogers,  daughter  of 
Daniel  B.  Rogers  of  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
1872 
Rev.  George  L.  Clark,  Secretary, 
Wethersfield,  Conn. 

William  H.  Riley,  for  sixteen  years  correspondent 
for  the  Springfield  Republican  for  Hampshire  and 
Franklin  Counties,  died  at  Florence,  Mass.,  July  3, 
1918.  He  was  born  in  Kent  County,  England, 
March  26,  1849.  He  came  to  this  country  when 
he  was  ten  years  old  and  entered  Amherst  from 
Wabash  College,  Indiana,  but  was  prevented  from 
graduating  because  of  ill  health.  As  proprietor  of 
a  book  store  and  news  room  in  Florence  and  news- 
paper correspondent,  he  was  one  of  the  best  in- 
formed and  widely  known  men  in  Western  Massa- 
chusetts. In  1895  he  purchased  an  interest  in  a 
plumbing  and  heating  firm  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  the  head  of  the  firm  of  W.  H.  Riley  and 
Company.  He  had  many  interests.  He  was  cap- 
tain of  the  one  time  famous  Nonotuck  Hose  Com- 
pany of  Florence  and  First  Assistant  Chief  of  the 
Northampton  Fire  Department,  Secretary  of  the 
Three-County  Agricultural  Society,  a  member  of 
the  first  Apollo  Musical  Club  of  Northampton, 
Chairman  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  erection 
of  the  Lilly  Library  in  Florence  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  a 
member  of  the  Florence  Congregational  Church, 
clerk  of  the  parish  for  thirty  years.  Superintendent 
of  the  Sunday  School  for  many  years  and  deacon 
during  the  past  few  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
school  committee  for  nine  years. 

He  was  catcher  on  the  Eagle  Baseball  team  of 
Florence  famous  50  years  ago,  and  was  one  of  the 
first  catchers  to  stand  up  behind  the  bat,  using  a 
rubber  between  the  teeth  as  his  only  protection. 

He  was  married  in  1871  to  Kliza  A.  Smead  at 
Shclburne  and  is  survived  by  4  children,  7  grand- 
children, and  5  brothers.  Herbert  E.  Riley,  Am- 
herst 1896,  is  one  of  his  sons. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Rev.  Francis  Parker  died  at  Hartland,  Vt.,  Au- 
gust 3,  1918  at  the  age  of  70  years.  He  was  born 
in  Gloucester  in  1847  and  graduated  from  Amherst 
in  1872  and  from  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary 
in  1875.  His  pastorates  included  Enfield,  N.  H. 
Craftsburg,  Vt.,  Redlands,  Cal.,  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  and 
East  Haddam,  Conn.  For  the  past  six  years  he  had 
been  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Hartland. 

Rev.  Arthur  J.  Benedict  tells  of  the  missionary 
work  he  is  doing  in  Arizona  in  the  Congregafionalist 
and  Advance  for  July  18,  1918  in  an  article  entitled 
"Horses  versus  the  Ford,  How  an  Automobile 
Bridges  the  Gaps." 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Ttler,  Secretary, 
x\mherst,  Mass. 
Dr.  Caleb  R.  Layton  of  Georgetown,  Del.,  was 
nominated  for  Representative  in  Congress  by  the 
Republican  State  Convention  held  in  August  at 
Dover. 

Talcott  Williams  was  a  member  of  the  National 
Committee  on  Allied  Tribute  to  France  which 
celebrated  on  July  14th  the  fall  of  the  Bastille. 

1874 

Elihxj  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Professor  Monroe  Smith  of  Columbia  University 
has  translated  Prince  Lichnowsky's  "Memoran- 
dum" from  the  German  text  as  it  appeared  in  the 
Berlin  Boersen-Covrier  on  March  21  last,  and  the 
American  Association  for  International  Concilia- 
tion is  preparing  to  distribute  100,030  copies  of  the 
pamphlet  free.  "Militarism  and  Statecraft"  is  the 
title  of  Professor  Smith's  latest  book,  recently  pub- 
lished by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons. 

Dr.  William  F.  Slocum,  President  Emeritus  of 
Colorado  College,  is  one  of  the  volunteer  speakers 
of  the  league  to  enforce  peace.  Dr.  Slocum  is  speak- 
ing at  the  military  cantonments  and  before  labor 
organizations  and  also  on  behalf  of  the  Red  Cross, 
Liberty    Loan    and    War    Savings    Committees. 

Congressman  Frederick  H.  Gillett  of  Springfield, 
Mass.,  the  Republican  leader  in  the  House,  was 
renominated  at  the  September  primaries  and  is 
unopposed  by  either  a  Democratic  or  a  Socialist 
candidate. 

1876 

William  M.  Docker,  Secretary, 

277  Broadway,  New  York  City 

"Christian  Work"  for  August  17,  1918,  contained 
an  article  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dwight  Mallory  Pratt 
on  "Can  Nations  Become  Insane." 

Richard  Wells  Darling  died  in  Brooklyn,  October 
2,  1918,  age  58  years.  He  was  the  son  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Henry  Darling  one  time  president  of  Hamilton 
College.  After  graduating  from  Amherst  he  began 
the  practice  of  the  law  on  lower  Broadway,  New 
York  City  and  became  well  known  as  a  lawyer. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Brook- 
lyn and  the  Memorial  Presbyterian  Church.  He 
was  a  bachelor  and  is  survived  by  three  sisters,  the 
Misses  Mary  and  Margaretta  Darling,  with  whom 
he  lived,  and  Frances,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Edward  Niles  of  Baltimore,  Md.. 


1877 
Rev.  a.  DeW.  Mason,  Secretary, 
222  Garfield  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  first  death  to  occur  in  the  class  of  1877  for 
nearly  two  years  is  that  of  Herbert  Levi  Osgood, 
Ph.D.,  Professor  of  History  in  Columbia  University. 
Prof.  Osgood  died  at  Brentwood,  N.  Y.,  September 
11,  1918.  He  was  born  at  Canton,  Me.,  April  9, 
1855,  received  from  Amherst  the  degree  of  A.B.  in 
1877  and  of  A.M.  in  1880,  taught  at  Worcester 
Academy  for  two  years,  then  studied  history  and 
political  economics  at  Amherst  from  1879-1880,  at 
Yale  from  1880-1881,  and  at  Berlin  University  from 
1881-1882.  He  received  his  Ph.  D.  from  Columbia 
in  1889.  Prof.  Osgood  was  teacher  of  historv  in  the 
Brooklyn  Boys'  High  School  from  1883  to  1889,  and 
then  went  to  Columbia  as  adjunct  professor,  becom- 
ing full  professor  in  1896,  and  holding  that  chair  to 
his  death.  His  most  important  contribution  to  the 
literature  of  his  profession  is  "The  American  .Colon- 
ies in  the  Eighteenth  Century."  He  was  one  of  the 
editors  of  the  Political  Science  Quarterly  and  wrote 
many  articles  for  that  publication.  He  was  married 
July  2,  1885  to  Caroline  A.  Simonds  of  Pownal,  Vt. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  a  son,  Harold  S. 
Osgood,  now  in  France,  and  a  daughter,  wife  of 
Prof.  Dixon  R.  Fox  of  Columbia.  A  delegation  from 
'77  consisting  of  Armstrong,  Fowler  and  Pratt  at- 
tended Dr.  Osgood's  funeral  and  placed  a  wreath 
on  the  coffin  as  a  token  of  esteem  from  all  his 
classmates. 

Treasurer  Gray  has  reported  as  surviving  mem- 
bers of  the  class,  graduates — 42,  non-graduates, 
who  have  kept  up  their  interest  in  the  College  and 
the  class — 3,  honorary  members — 1,  graduates,  ad- 
dresses unknown — 2,  total — 48.  This  list  does  not 
include  nine  or  ten  non-graduates  who  have  never 
attended  any  reunions  nor  displayed  any  interest 
in  the  College  or  class.  Of  46  active  members, 
35  responded  to  the  Treasurer's  appeal  for  the  usual 
alumni  gift  to  the  Alumni  Fund.  The  gift  amounted 
to  $332.10  which  was  doubled  by  a  generous  alum- 
nus of  the  college. 

On  July  24,  1918,  Harold  H.  Barber,  son  of 
Rev.  Charles  H.  Barber,  was  ordained  to  the  minis- 
try in  his  father's  church  at  Danielson,  Conn,  and 
on  August  9 til  was  married  to  Miss  Barbara  S. 
Howland,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Howland  (Amherst  '76)  of  Mexico  City.  The 
father  of  the  groom  and  a  brother,  the  Rev.  Laur- 
ence L.  Barber,  officiated  at  the  service.  Mr.  Barber 
and  his  bride  are  under  appointment  by  the  Ameri- 
can Board  as  missionaries  to  Mexico  and  have  al- 
ready left  for  their  new  field. 

Only  eight  men  have  failed  to  respond  to  the  Secre- 
tary's request  for  data  as  to  the  war  work  of  the 
members  of  our  class  and  their  immediate  families. 
Should  anyone  reading  this  item  become  conscience- 
smitten  please  respond  promptly.  Of  the  thirty- 
eight  men  who  have  answered,  thirteen  have  dis- 
claimed any  personal  activities,  although  it  is 
evident  that  an  undue  porportion  of  modesty  has 
caused  some  to  enter  this  class  who  should  not  be 
in  it.  Twenty-five  members  acknowledge  that  they 
are  busy  with  some  form  of  war  activity,  usually 
as  public  speakers,  chairmen  of  Liberty  Loan  or  Red 
Cross  Committees  or  some  such  work.     Six  wives 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


15 


are  similarly  listed,  but  this  is  evidently  a  mistake. 
The  secretary  would  say  that  all  were  busy  in  one 
way  or  another.  Twenty-five  sons  are  in  the  service 
in  the  army  or  navy,  many  of  them  as  officers.  Nine 
daughters  are  engaged  in  suitable  work,  most  of 
them  in  the  very  definite  way  of  Y.  W.  C.  A.  or 
hospital  work.  Six  sons-in-law  are  also  in  service, — 
making  a  total  of  active  workers  from  our  class  of 
at  least  seventy  persons  and  probably  more  who 
are  not  properly  listed  or  reported.  The  Secretary 
invites  additions  or  corrections  to  this  list. 

1878 

Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner,  Secretary, 

187  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Dr.  William  Fairley,  principal  of  the  Commercial 
High  School,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  died  at  Waquoit, 
Mass.,  July  8,  1918.  Dr.  Fairley  was  born  in  Hex- 
ham, England,  August  26,  1857.  When  he  was  ten 
years  old  his  family  moved  to  America.  At  Amherst 
he  took  prizes  in  Latin  and  Greek,  was  elected  to 
Phi  Heta  Kappa  and  was  one  of  the  commencement 
speakers.  After  graduating  from  Amherst  he 
taught  for  several  years,  studying  theology  pri- 
vately at  the  same  time  and  in  1880  was  ordained 
in  the  Reformed  Episcopal  Ministry.  He  became 
rector  of  the  Reformed  Episcopal  Church  of  the 
Cornerstone,  at  Newburgh,  N.  Y.  and  later  rector 
of  Christ  Church;  Peoria,  111.  where  he  served  for 
ten  years  with  conspicuous  success  becoming  one 
of  the  well  known  men  in  the  Reformed  Episcopal 
church.  In  1894  he  was  chosen  professor  of  church 
history  in  the  theological  seminary  of  his  church 
at  Philadelphia.  Here  he  remained  for  four  years, 
meanwhile  pursuing  studies  in  philosophy  and 
history  in  the  University  of  Penn.sylvania,  receiving 
the  degree  of  Ph.D.  Beloit  College  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  D.  D. 

In  1899  Dr.  Fairley  came  to  what  was  his  greatest 
life  work.  He  became  a  teacher  of  history  in  the 
Commercial  High  School,  Brooklyn,  rising  soon 
after  to  be  the  head  of  the  history  department,  and 
in  1910  to  the  principalship  of  the  school,  which  is 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  successful  commercial 
high  schools  in  the  country,  having  over  one  hundred 
teachers  and  about  four  thousand  pupils.  Dr. 
Fairley  was  singularly  successful  in  dealing  both 
with  pupils  and  teachers.  He  developed  a  spirit 
ill  his  school  which  was  of  the  finest.  He  will  be 
sadly  missed  and  sincerely  mourned  in  the  great 
school  with  which  he  has  been  connected  for  nine- 
teen years. 

Dr.  Fairley  was  married  in  1888  to  Sherah  R.  Spike 
of  Chicago.  He  is  survived  by  his  widow,  by  two 
sisters  and  three  brothers.  The  latter  are  all  Am- 
herst men,  Edwin  Fairley,  '86,  James  Fairley,  '88, 
and  Samuel  Fairley,  '92.  Dr.  Fairley  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Historical  Association,  the  New 
York  State  Historical  Association,  the  University 
Club  of  Brooklyn,  and  was  President  at  the  time  of 
his  death  of  the  High  School  Principals'  Associa- 
tion of  New  York  City.  He  published  several 
books  including  "Notitia  Dignilatum,"  "Monu- 
mentum  Ancyranum,"  and  a  history  of  Rome  for 
schools.  He  had  done  nuicli  work  for  the  various 
patriotic  movments  of  the  past  year,  speaking  for 
the  Liberty  Loans,  the  Red  Cross,  and  War  Savings, 
and  serving  as  a  volunteer  on  a  local  exemption 
board. 


Charles  Shelton  Wright,  son  of  Charles  H.  Wright 
of  Tallmage,  O.,  has  been  awarded  the  Croix  de 
Guerre.  He  enlisted  in  the  American  x\mbulance 
Field  Service  early  in  1917  and  was  made  a  Cor- 
poral after  the  Service  was  taken  over  by  the 
United  States  Government.  The  citation  reads 
as  follows: 

"Wright,  Charles  Shelton,  of  the  American  Auto- 
mobile Section,  S.S.U.  630.  American  automobil- 
ist,  whose  calmness,  whose  courage  and  whose  cool- 
ness won  the  admiration  of  all  during  the  days  of 
April  25  and  26,  1918.  Removing  many  wounded 
from  a  regimental  first  aid  post  under  a  bombard- 
ment of  unheard  of  violence.  His  good  conduct 
enabled  him  to  save  numerous  wounded." 

Rev.  William  H.  Lester,  D.D.,  recently  resigned 
the  active  pastorate  of  the  church  in  Santiago, 
Chile,  which  he  has  held  for  over  30  years,  and 
became  pastor  emeritus.  His  address  is  Santiago, 
Chile,  Casilla,  1778, — Frank  L.  Babbot  is  a  member 
of  the  Finance  Committee  appointed  to  erect  a 
memorial  to  the  late  Major  John  Purroy  Mitchel, 
Mayor  of  New  York.  Mr.  Babbot  took  an  active 
interest  in  the  campaign  of  Governor  Whitman, 
being  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Kings  County  Whitman  Primary  Campaign 
Committee. 

Returns  from  23  members  of  '79  report  29  sons 
and  3  sons-in-law  in  the  service  of  the  Government. 
Of  these  6  are  designated  as  in  medical  service, 
3  each  in  the  infantry  and  the  signal  corps,  2  each 
in  anti-aircraft  artillery,  field  artillery  and  ship- 
building, one  each  come  under  the  headings  airplane 
manufacture,  flight  commander,  wireless  opera- 
tor, machine  gun  battalion,  chemical  section,  den- 
tal, .ship  carpenter,  asst.  paymaster,  quartermaster 
dept.,  G.R.C.  and  automobile,  and  three  are  un- 
specified. They  include  3  captains,  3  lieutenants,  5 
1st  lieutenants,  5  2d  lieutenants,  1  Jr.  lieutenant, 
1  acting  sergeant,  1  corporal,  3  privates,  the  returns 
not  specifying  the  rank  of  the  others.  .Thirteen 
are  reported  as  in  France  or  in  the  American  E.  P., 
9  as  in  camp  or  cantonment,  2  as  in  Government 
ship-yards,  4  as  at  sea,  and  4  were  not  located.  The 
returns  are  partial,  but  probably  representive; 
it  is  hoped  that  continued  reports  will  enable  the 
secretary  to  make  them  more  complete. 

Atlanta  Theological  Seminary  recently  invited 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  A.  Norton  of  Woburn  to  be- 
come Professor  of  Biblical  Literature,  but  he  has 
decided  not  to  leave  Massachusetts. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,   Secretary, 
1140  Woodward  Bldg.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Dr.  Edward  Learned  Bailey  died  in  Ashland, 
Hanover  County,  Va.,  July  12,  1918  at  the  age  of 
58.  He  had  been  in  poor  health  since  1916,  when 
he  was  seriously  injured  while  riding  to  the  hounds 
in  a  fox  hunt. 

Dr.  Bailey  was  born  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  Nov. 
3,  1857.  He  left  Amherst  at  the  end  of  freshman 
year  to  study  medicine  and  in  1881  received  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Long  Island  Hospital, 
Brooklyn.  He  practiced  his  profession  for  a  time 
with  his  father  in  Pillsfield  but  in  recent  years  has 
been  engaged  in  horse-raising  in  \'irginia.  He 
leaves  two  daughters  in  Ashland.     He  will  be  re- 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


membered  by  his  classmates  as  a  young  man  of 
pleasant  disposition  and  kindly  ways.  He  was 
married  on  November  3,  1885,  to  the  daughter  of 
E  H.  Allen  of  East  Brookfield,  Mass.,  where  he 
owned  a  stock  farm. 

Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton  has  received  an 
honorable  discharge  from  the  Army.  He  has  been 
chaplain  of  the  Thirteenth  Coast  Artillery  of 
Brooklyn  and  has  expected  to  go  overseas,  having 
passed  all  physical  requirements,  until  early  in 
July  when  he  was  notified  from  Washington  that 
he  was  too  old  to  go  "over  there."  His  relations 
with  the  oflBcers  and  men  of  his  regiment  were  most 
happy  and  all  regretted  that  army  regulations  pro- 
hibited his  remaining  with  the  boys — none  more  so 
than  the  Doctor  himself.  He  has,  accordingly, 
resumed  his  duties  as  pastor  of  Clinton  Avenue 
Congregational  Church  in  Brooklyn. — J.  Franklin 
Jameson  has  been  elected  a  corresponding  fellow 
of  the  British  Academy. 

1880 
Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  Secretary, 
86  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Susan  Strong  Burr,  wife  of  George  Lindsley 
Burr  of  New  York  and  daughter  of  the  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  George  A.  Strong,  '80,  of  Boston,  died  on 
September  26th,  a  victim  of  Spanish  influenza. — 
Charles  F.  Hopkins  of  Roseburg,  Oregon,  has  been 
doing  a  great  deal  of  speaking  in  Douglas  County, 
in  behalf  of  the  Red  Cross,  Liberty  Loans,  W.  S.  S. 
and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  funds.  He  is  also  one  of  the  four 
minute  men  and  associate  member  of  the  legal 
advisory    board. 

1881 

Frank  H.  Parsons,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

60  Wall  St.,  New  York  City 

Bradford  Washburne  Hitchcock  of  the  New  York 
law  firm  of  Reeve,  Todd  and  Hitchcock  died  at 
Toms  River,  N.  J.,  September  3,  1918.  He  had 
not  been'  in  the  best  of  health  for  some  time  and 
in  August  last  became  seriously  ill  and  was  taken 
to  Forked  River,  N.  J.  where  he  had  been  accus- 
tomed to  spend  his  holidays  for  many  years.  He  was 
the  son  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Roswell  Dwight  Hitchcock, 
class  of  1836,  one  time  president  of  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  Fraternity,  of  Beta  Nu  (Senior  Society), 
and  took  the  second  Ely  prize  (Junior  year)  for 
excellence  in  English  composition.  He  always 
took  unusual  interest  in  the  college  and  his  fra- 
ternity. He  graduated  from  the  Columbia  Law 
School  in  1883  and  has  been  since  then  continu- 
ously in  the  practice  of  the  law  in  New  York  City. 
He  received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  Amherst  in 
188-1,  and  in  1887  became  a  director  of  the  Durfee 
Mills   (cotton)   at  Fall  River,   Mass. 

He  leaves  a  sister,  wife  of  Professor  Emerson  of 
Burlington,  Vt.  Interment  was  at  Fall  River, 
Mass.,  where  his  cousin,  John  S.  Brayton,  Amherst 
1888,  resides. 

George  W.  Brainerd  and  W.  D.  Dwight  were  mem- 
bers of  the  general  committee  in  Holyoke,  in 
charge  of  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan. — Giles  H.  Stil- 
well  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  contested  the  Republi- 
can nomination  for  Congress  in  the  Thirty-fifth 
New  York  district,  which  includes  Syracuse  and 
Cortland,    at    the  September  primaries  with  Rep- 


resentative Walter  W.  Magee.  Stilwell  was  the 
candidate  of  the  "  drys "  and  anti-organization 
element  and  though  unsuccessful  waged  a  cam- 
paign which  attracted  wide  attention  through- 
out the  state. — Lawrence  F.  Abbott  was  one  of 
the  members  of  the  National  Committee  on  Allied 
Tribute  to  France  which  on  July  \it\\  celebrated 
throughout    the    nation    the    fall   of    the    Bastille. 

Frank  H.  Parsons  was  a  member  of  the 
Campaign  Committee  of  the  Young  Republican 
Club  of  Brooklyn  during  the  recent  Campaign. — 
"Science"  for  September  13th  contained  an 
article  by  Dr.  James  F.  Kemp  of  Columbia  Uni- 
versity on  the  late  John  Duer  Irving  who  was 
Captain  of  the  11th  U.  S.  Engineers  and  pro- 
fessor of  economic  geology  at  Sheflaeld  Scientific 
School  of  Yale.  —  The  boards  of  instruction  on 
the  draft  of  Western  Massachusetts  have  con- 
solidated and  will  work  hereafter  under  the  super- 
vision of  a  committee  of  seven  which  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  plan  out  the  work  for  the  western  part 
of  the  state.  Rev.  Andrew  F.  Underhill  of  North- 
ampton is  a  member  of  this  committee. 

1882 
John  P.  Gushing,  Secretary, 
Whitneyville,  Conn. 
William  F.  Stearns,  Jr.,  son  of  the  Rev.  William  F. 
Stearns,   is  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Class  at 
Amherst.  —  The   Rev.    Dr.    Lucius   H.    Thayer    is 
chairman  of  the  State  committee  of  30  in  New 
Hampshire    for    the    Pilgrim    Memorial    Fund. — - 
Former  District  Attorney  W^illiam  T.  Jerome  was 
a  member  of  William  Church  Osborn's  Campaign 
Committee   in   his   primary   fight   for   the    Demo- 
cratic nomination  for  Governor  of  New  York. 

1883 

Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 

2301-2311  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Major  Avery  F.  Cushman,  Judge  Advocate,  U.  S. 
Army,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  and  Miss  Anne 
Parmelee,  of  Newport,  N.  H.,  were  married  on 
July  6th  at  the  Church  of  Epiphany,  Newport. — 
Congressman  Henry  T.  Rainey  scored  an  easy 
victory  in  September  primaries  and  was  renomi- 
nated by  the  Democrats. — The  Rev.  Dr.  Howard  A. 
Bridgman,  editor  of  the  Congregationalist  and  Ad- 
vance, is  in  France  on  a  special  publicity  mission 
for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  His  articles  are  now  appear- 
ing in  the  magazine  of  which  he  is  editor. 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance  in  its  issue  of 
July  25,  1918,  contained  an  article  on  "School- 
ing the  Fighting  Man"  by  William  Orr,  director 
of  the  Educational  Bureau  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
National  War  Work  Council  and  one  on  "  Christ's 
Second  Coming"  by  Professor  Williston  Walker. 
— Rev.  David  P.  Hatch  had  a  poem  in  the  Con- 
gregationalist and  Advance  for  October  3rd.  en- 
titled "O  Mother  of  a  Soldier  Boy." 

1884 
WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City 
Dr.  Burt  N.  Bridgman  is  a  Captain  in  the  British 
Medical  Corps  and  is  stationed  at  a  Medical  Hospi- 
tal at  Johannesburg,  S.  A. 


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17 


The  class  of  1884  has  recently  published  a  fifty- 
page  booklet  describing  their  forty-first  reunion, 
held  December  31,  1917.  It  contains  a  poem 
entitled  "Why  We  Fight"  by  Herbert  D.  Ward, 
and  a  paper  on  "Amherst  at  War"  by  Charles  W. 
Eustis.  W.  C.  Atwater  has  attended  every  re- 
union of  the  class,  A.  H.  Dakin  has  missed  only 
one  out  of  -il,  while  W.  S.  Rossiter  has  missed  but 
two.  One  member  of  the  class  has  been  in  active 
service  for  two  years. — Dr.  B.  N.  Bridgman  of 
Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  is  serving  as  surgeon  in  the 
British  Army,  with  the  rank  of  Captain. 

Samuel  H.  Kinsley  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colo., 
has  succeeded  Dr.  F.  A.  Morse  of  Lynn  as  president 
of  the  class  of  1884.— Fred  M.  Sniith  of  South  Had- 
ley  Falls,  Mass.,  has  been  appointed  chairman  of 
the  local  exemption  board  of  Division  7. — .\rthur 
H.  Dakin  was  chairman  of  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan 
Campaign  in  Amherst. 

The  last  Bulletin  of  the  Geological  Society  of 
America  contained  a  memorial  of  the  late  William 
Bullock  Clark,  written  by  Dr.  John  M.  Clarke, 
'77,  and  originally  read  before  the  society  at  its 
meeting  last   winter,   in  which  he  says: 

"Dr.  Clark's  last  work  was  for  his  country.  He 
had  entered  on  and  perfected  the  organization  of 
an  extensive  survey  of  the  Atlantic  Seaboard  and 
Gulf  States  for  the  purpose  of  locating  all  available 
materials  for  road  construction  and  fortification, 
and  to  make  these  important  data  of  location  and 
transportation  immediately  available.  Into  this 
undertaking  he  put  his  intense  energy,  made  quick 
connections  with  many  men  and  cooperating  agen- 
cies, traveled  far,  made  sharp  appointments  with 
his  associates  at  hotels  and  railroad  stations,  grasped 
and  covered  the  entire  field,  designated  his  lieu- 
tenants and  formulated  his  suggestions — and  then 
he  died,  in  the  heart  of  a  fine  service.' ' 

1885 
Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  Street,  New  York  City 
Lieutenant  Commander  Edward  Breck,  who  re- 
turned   in    March   from    thirteen    months'   active 
service  abroad,  has  been  appointed   U.  S.   Naval 
Attache    in    Portugal. 

Robert  H.  Thayer,  son  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  William 
G.  Thayer,  and  Lawrence  L.  Soule,  son  of  the 
Rev.  Sherrod  Soule,  are  members  of  the  Freshman 
Class  at  Amherst. 

1886 
Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Colonel  Allan  Smith,  M.  C,  is  in  France  with 
Base  Hospital  No.  7. 

■  Dr.  George  F.  Kenngott  has  recently  completed 
an  extensive  study  of  a  large  number  of  Indian 
schools,  both  governmental  and  missionary,  on 
behalf  of  the  Society  for  the  Propaganda  of  the 
Gospel  among  the  Indians  of  North  America.  His 
tour  included  Arizona,  New  Mexico,  Kansas,  Wis- 
consin, the  Dakotas  and  the  Pacific  Northwest. 
He  also  visited  army  camps  in  the  vicinity  of  In- 
dian reservations  to  investigate  the  success  of  the 
soldier-pastor  plan. — The  Survey  for  July  6th  con- 
tained an  article  by  Robert  A.  Woods  on  "The 
Regimentation  of  the  Free." 


William  F.  Whiting  was  a  member  of  the  Hol- 
yoke  general  committee  in  charge  of  the  Fourth 
Liberty  Loan. — Congressman  Allen  T.  Treadway 
was  renominated  for  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives by  the  Republicans  of  Berkshire  County 
at  the  fall  primaries.  He  has  also  recently  received 
the  honor  of  becoming  a  grandfather,  through  the 
birth  on  June  15th  of  Miss  Margaret  MacKenzie 
Treadway,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heaton  Ives 
Treadway. — Secretary  of  State  Robert  Lansing 
wrote  an  article  for  the  July  Forum,  entitled  "Our 
Partners  for  Liberty. " — Charles  M."  Starkweather 
has  been  a  private  with  the  Home  Guard  ever  since 
its  organization  in  Connecticut.  The  Guard  is  well 
organized  with  full  equipment  for  service  in  the 
state,  and  drills  once  a  week. 

1887 

Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 

Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Major  Daniel  W.  Rogers,  M.  C,  who  has  been 
attached  to  the  124th  F.  A.,  was  recently  transferred 
to  the  131st  Field  Hospital  and  is  now  overseas. 

George  B.  Mallon  has  become  a  member  of  the 
staff  of  the  Bankers'  Trust  Company  in  New  York 
City.  He  was  for  twelve  years  City  Editor  of  the 
New  York  Sun  and  for  the  past  five  years  was  asso- 
ciated with  E.  J.  Ridgway  in  editing  the  group  of 
five  Butterick  Magazines  and  was  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Ridgway  Company  which  pub- 
lishes Everybody  s  Magazine,  and  Adventure.  He 
has  been  recently  acting  as  State  Publicity  Director 
for  the  National  War  Savings  Committee  for  New 
Jersey  and  editor  of  War  Thrift.  Forbes'  Magazine 
for  September  7th,  under  the  caption  "Men  Mak- 
ing Their  Marks,"  devotes  a  full  page  to  "George 
B.  Mallon,  Weaver  of  Lasting  Friendships,"  in  the 
course  of  which  the  writer,  J.  G.  Donley,  Jr.,  says: 
"Mallon's  career  has  been  as  much  a  history  of 
lastingly  enjoyable  friendships  as  of  personal  ac- 
complishments. Everybody  likes  George  Mallon; 
somehow  he  has  found  the  time  to  do  the  things  that 
endear  and  endure.  Next  to  his  capacity  for  unre- 
mitting hard  work,  his  unconscious  mastery  of  the 
gentle  art  of  making  and  keeping  friends  has  perhaps 
stood  him  in  as  good  stead  in  winning  a  high  place 
in  the  community  as  any  other  one  thing." 

Howard  O.  Wood  was  a  member  of  an  executive 
committee  of  thirty-eight,  consisting  of  prominent 
business  and  professional  men  in  Brooklyn,  which 
was  formed  to  make  a  vigorous  campaign  to  secure 
a  renomination  for  Governor  Whitman  in  the  Re- 
publican primaries  in  September. — Northam  God- 
dard,  son  of  George  N.  Goddard,  is  a  member  of 
the  Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. 

Dr.  Nelson  C.  Haskell  is  Contract  Surgeon  for 
the  Amherst  College  unit  of  the  Students'  Army 
Training  Corps.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Amherst 
Board  of  Health  which  put  in  force  the  quarantine 
and  other  regulations  in  the  recent  influenza 
epidemic. 

1888 

William  B.  Greknough,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

32  Westminster  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

James  Ewing  is  a  Contract  Surgeon,  engaged  in 

pathological  service  at  the  Army  Medical  Museum. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Charles  W.  Marshall,  for  many  years  principal  of 
the  Amherst  High  School,  has  accepted  the  princi- 
palship  of  Wilton  Academy,  Wilton,  Maine. 

1889 
Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  Elm  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
James  A.  McKibben,  secretary  of  the  Boston 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  has  been  appointed  secre- 
tary of  the  War  Resources  Committee  and  the  Ad- 
visory Committee  in  New  England. — Frank  E. 
Spaulding,  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  has  accepted  the  chairmanship  of  a  committee 
of  American  educators  who  are  in  France  to  organ- 
ize a  school  and  university  system  for  i.\merican 
soldiers. — Arthur  Truslow  was  a  member  of  the 
campaign  committee  of  the  Young  Republican  Club 
of  Brooklyn  during  the  recent  political  campaign. 
— Rev.  Edward  B.  Dean  of  Northfield,  Minn.,  has 
been  granted  a  year's  leave  of  absence  by  his  church 
to  do  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France. 

John  C.  Esty,  son  of  Professor  William  E.sty  of 
Lehigh  University,  is  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Class  at  Amherst. — Senator  George  B.  Churchill  of 
Amherst  and  Amherst  College  was  renominated  for 
the  Massachusetts  Senate  at  the  September  pri- 
maries. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  campaign 
committee  of  the  "Association  for  Representative 
Government,"  formed  to  oppose  ratification  in 
Massachusetts  of  the  Initiative  and  Referendum 
Amendment. — Robert  H.  Cushman  of  Monson, 
Mass.,  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  State  con- 
vention in  October  which  was  presided  over  by  an 
Amherst  man  and  which  chose  another  Amherst 
man  as  candidate  for  Governor. — Dr.  Herbert  C. 
Emerson  was  one  of  the  committee  in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  who  interviewed  physicians  for  the  volun- 
teer medical  corps  of  the  United  States. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
Rev.  Charles  E.  Ewing  has  resigned  his  pastorate 
at  Janesville,  Wis.,  to  become  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary 
for  the  Chinese  Laborers  in  France. — Thomas  D. 
Sayles,  son  of  Frederick  C.  Sayles,  is  a  member  of 
the  Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Frederick  R.  Abbe  has  been  commissioned  a  Cap- 
tain in  the  Medical  Corps,  and  assigned  to  the  train- 
ing camp,  Ft.  Oglethorpe. — Major  Jesse  S.  Reeves 
is  Judge  Advocate  of  the  20th  Division,  Camp 
Sevier.  He  has  been  receiving  Staff  Instruction  at 
the  Army  War  College,  W'ashington. — George  A. 
Morse  is  now  First  Officer  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Onward, 
the  Flagship  of  S(|uadron  One,  with  headquarters 
at  Norfolk,  Va. 

Rev.  Sartell  Prentice,  D.  D.,  of  Nyack,  N.  Y., 
has  gone  to  France  for  a  year  as  Red  Cross  Hospital 
Chaplain. — Frederick  H.  Tarr,  Esq.,  of  Gloucester, 
Mass.,  is  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Public 
Safety  in  Rockport,  and  chairman  of  the  Legal  Ad- 
visory Board,  District  No.  22,  which  includes 
Gloucester  and  Rockport. — Frederick  H.  Hitchcock, 
Esq.,  is  Business  Agent  in  New  York  of  the  Social 
Hygiene  Division  of  the  War  and  Navy  Depart- 


ments Commission  on  Training  Camp  Activities 
■ — The  September  number  of  the  Bookman  contained 
a  review  of  the  sea.son's  war  books  by  H.  W.  Boyn- 
ton,  entitled  "Out  of  the  War."  In  the  Outlook 
for  September  25th  he  writes  of  "Our  Medical 
Corps  in  Action." 

The  Class  Boy  is  an  ensign  detailed  for  duty  at 
Annapolis,  instructing  in  Artillery  and  taking  a 
course  himself.  His  father,  Professor  Stephen  P. 
Knowlton  of  Haverford,  Pa.,  writes  that  another 
son,  Donald  W.,  is  in  the  Signal  Corps,  and  that  his 
third  son  is  a  Junior  at  Haverford  College,  expect- 
ing to  enlist  in  aviation  this  fall.  His  two  other 
sons  are  too  young  for  service. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  from 
Capt.  David  E.  Smith,  American  Red  Cross, 
France:  "I  am  in  Lourdes,  France,  with  the  en- 
tire medical  care  of  6,000  refugees.  Besides  having 
direct  care  of  my  own  hospital,  the  Hospital  Croix 
Rouge  Americaine,  I  have  patients  in  two  other 
hospitals  and  make  often  as  high  as  twenty  daily 
visits  to  the  patients  lodged  by  the  government  in 
many  hotels.  Under  the  Red  Cross  we  have  es- 
tablished a  dispensary — infant  welfare  work — social 
service  department,  a  school  for  children  and  work 
has  been  furnished  for  refugees.  The  work  is  very 
interesting  and  I  am  taxed  to  my  uttermost.  There 
is  only  one  other  English  speaking  man  in  the 
community." 

Edwin  F.  Northrup,  Ph.  D.,  has  recently  com- 
pleted three  months  work  in  the  Palmer  Laboratory 
at  Princeton  University  for  the  Naval  Consulting 
Board.  For  two  years  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
development  of  a  new  type  of  electric  furnace  very 
useful  in  the  heat  treatment  of  glass,  steel  and  brass 
and  certain  other  materials.  Two  years  ago  he 
organized  the  Pyrolectric  Instrument  Co.  of  Tren- 
ton, N.  J.,  of  which  he  is  President.  This  company 
makes  scientific  apparatus  and  during  the  past  year 
has  manufactured  several  thousand  dollars'  worth 
of  special  scientific  apparatus  for  direct  and  indirect 
use  in  the  prosecution  of  the  war.  He  is  also  con- 
tinuing his  scientific  courses  at  Princeton. 

George  L.  Leonard  is  Corresponding  Secretary  of 
the  Gospel  Committee  for  Work  among  War  Pris- 
oners. He  is  also  corresponding  secretary  of  a  new- 
organization — the  Russian  Missionary  and  Educa- 
tional Society,  the  purpose  of  which  is  to  prepare 
and  send  to  Russia  Gospel  workers,  and  also  to  dis- 
tribute the  Scriptures  and  engage  in  other  forms  of 
Missionary  activity  in  the  Russian  Empire  as  soon 
as  the  way  opens. 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance  for  July  4th 
contained  pictures  of  Governor  Milliken  of  Maine 
and  Ralph  W.  Crockett,  together  with  an  article 
on  "Temperance  Conditions  in  Maine,"  in  which 
high  tribute  is  paid  Mr.  Crockett  for  the  way  in 
which  he  as  chairman  of  the  Police  Commission  in 
Lewiston  backed  up  the  Governor  in  seeing  that  the 
law  was  properly  enforced.  Mr.  Crockett  had 
charge  of  the  speakers'  Bureau  of  Androscoggin, 
0.xford  and  Franklin  Counties  during  the  last  Lib- 
erty Loan  Campaign  and  also  for  his  own  county 
in  the  last  Red  Cross  Drive. 

H.  Nelson  Gay  writes  to  the  class  secretary  as 
follows,  under  date  of  August  10th: 

"  I  believe  that  there  are  many  Italians  in  Hol- 
yoke.   When  you  meet  them  on  the  street,  take  off 


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your  hat  to  them,  and  tell  them  that  you  know  that 
their  coimtry  has  twice  saved  the  cause  for  civiliza- 
tion and  the  Allies,  and  that  at  last  the  United 
States  is  waking  up  to  a  just  realization  of  Italy's 
pure  worth.  You  ask  what  I  have  been  doing.  I 
am  not  in  the  Government  service,  except  for  odd 
jobs.  The  Government  sent  me  up  to  Genova  to 
make  the  Italian  address  in  the  opera  house  on  May 
i^ih — the  third  anniversary  of  Italy's  entry  into 
the  war,  and  to  Milan  on  July  4th  to  speak  in  the 
Piazza  del  Duomo." 

Mr.  Gay  is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Library  for 
American  Studies  in  Italy,  the  other  two  trustees 
being  the  American  Ambassador  and  James  Byrne. 
The  following  clipping  is  taken  from  the  Christian 
Science  Monitor  of  September  10th: 

"H.  Nelson  Gay  of  Rome,  Italy,  who  acted  as 
spokesman  for  the  authors  of  America  when  their 
recent  gift  of  apparatus  for  Red  Cross  work  was 
given  to  the  army,  was  born  and  grew  up  in  New- 
ton, Mass.  After  study  at  Amherst  College  and 
Harvard  University  he  won  a  fellowship  at  Harvard 
that  took  him  to  Europe,  and  there  he  has  remained 
most  of  the  time  since  1898,  Rome  having  become 
his  permanent  home.  He  has  written  much  on 
modern  Italian  history  and  has  been  aclive  in  pro- 
moting all  enterprises  intended  to  further  adequate 
commemoration  of  non-Italian  authors  like  Shelley 
and  Keats.  Following  the  earthquakes  in  Sicily 
and  Calabria  he  gave  of  his  services  and  his  means 
in  organizing  reconstruction  work  carried  on  by 
Americans.  Since  the  war  opened  he  has  served 
admirably  in  all  civilian  labors  to  make  the  lot  of 
the  Italian  soldiers  and  refugees  more  tolerable. 
Formal  honors  have  come  to  him  from  the  Greek 
and  the  Italian  Governments." 

H.  M.  Nims  of  Troy.  N.  Y.,  was  discharged  from 
service  when  he  returned  from  the  Mexican  Border 
last  year  owing  to  a  slight  physical  defect  as  a  re- 
sult of  fever  contracted  while  on  the  border,  brought 
on  largely  by  overwork.  He  has  a  boy,  Henry  S. 
Nims,  who  is  now  in  France  with  the  105th  Infan- 
try, his  old  company. 

L.  F.  Gibbs  of  Colton,  Wash.,  was  the  local 
chairman  of  both  the  1917  and  1918  Red  Cross 
campaigns,  member  of  the  Liberty  Loan  Committee 
on  all  drives,  division  chairman  for  that  part  of 
Whitman  County  in  the  recent  W.  S.  S.  campaign 
and  is  the  deputy  food  administrator  for  the  dis- 
trict, U.  S.  Employment  Agent  for  Colton,  local 
chairman  of  the  Four  Minute  Men,  and  secretary 
of  the  Colton  branch  of  the  Whitman  County  De- 
fense League.  He  has  two  sons  in  the  service,  his 
older  .son  having  been  in  France  for  eleven  months 
with  Battery  F,  146th  Regiment,  Field  Artillery. 

James  P.  Woodruff  is  a  member  of  the  Connect- 
icut State  Guard,  Co.  F,  10th  Separate  Battalion, 
infantry. — Rev.  Charles  N.  Thorp  of  Duluth, 
Minn.,  has  made  several  speeches  in  connection 
with  tlie  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  War  Fund 
Drives  and  had  charge  of  a  .section  of  the  city  when 
those  funds  were  raised.  His  church  has  organized 
a  plan  wlicreby  the  Pilgrim  boys  in  servic-e  receive 
a  monthly  news  letter,  made  up  in  part  from  their 
own  letters  home  and  also  from  items  of  home 
interest. 

Henry  S.  Gane,  of  Santa  Barbara,  Calif.,  is  presi- 


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dent  of  the  California  Castor  Bean  Association. 
During  the  past  year  he  completed  the  task  of 
putting  some  12,000  acres  in  this  state  under  the 
cultivation  of  the  castor  bean.  The  oil  from  the 
bean  is  the  only  oil  which  can  be  used  in  flying  ma- 
chines. The  California  Castor  Bean  Association 
had  previously  secured  a  contract  from  the  Gov- 
ernment to  plant  5,000  acres  to  the  castor  bean  in 
this  state;  but  later  the  w'ar  department  decided 
that  the  state  should  plant  as  much  as  10,000  acres. 
Thereupon  Mr.  Gane  and  his  associates  hustled 
around  and  secured  7,000  acres,  making  12,000 
acres  planted  to  the  castor  bean,  2,000  "over  the 
top."  Mr.  Gane  and  his  assistants  had  no  easy 
task,  as  they  encountered  a  great  many  obstacles, 
at  one  time  losing  a  contract  for  9,000  acres  through 
the  efforts  of  enemies  of  the  movement,  who  stated 
that  the  proposition  was  German  propaganda. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  So.  Summit  Street,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 

Harry  B.  Williams,  who  is  stationed  at  the  office 
of  the  Quartermaster  General,  Washington,  has 
received  a  Major's  Commission  in  the  Quarter- 
master's Corps. 

G.  Preston  Hitchcock  has  entered  the  service  of 
the  Nicholas  Copper  Company,  25  Broad  Street, 
New  York  City,  in  the  sulphate  department. — 
Ernest  W.  Tooker  of  Riverhead,  N.  Y^.,  has  been 
appointed  by  Governor  Whitman  as  the  Govern- 
ment Appeal  Agent  for  the  Local  Draft  Board  in 
the  Third  Division. — Prof.  Frederic  L.  Thompson 
of  the  History  Department  at  Amherst  has  gone  to 
France  in  the  service  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. — George 
Cable  Chard,  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Alfred  Chard, 
'92,  of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  and  a  grandson  of  George 
W .  Cable,  the  author,  for  whom  he  was  named,  was 
killed  on  the  Flanders  front  on  August  15th.  He 
was  an  old  7th  Regiment  man  and  went  to  France 
with  the  107th  Infantry,  N.  Y.  Division.  He  was 
22  years  old  and  fell  in  the  first  battle  in  which  the 
old  Seventh  took  part. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Robert  I.  Walker,  who  is  a  1st  lieutenant  in  the 
Medical  Corps,  is  serving  with  Base  Hospital  No. 
91,  an  overseas  unit. 

George  D.  Pratt,  Conservation  Commissioner  of 
the  state  of  New  York,  has  been  elected  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  International  Association  of  Game  and 
Fish  Commissioners.  At  the  tenth  annual  conven- 
tion of  the  association  on  September  13th  in  New 
York  he  read  a  paper  on  "Methods  of  Ascertaining 
Game  Resources."  In  a  recent  issue  of  New  York 
Forestry,  Commissioner  Pratt  wTites  on  "Conser- 
vation in  the  Adirondacks." 

President  Frank  D.  Blodgett  of  Adelphi  College 
Brooklyn  was  a  member  this  fall  of  the  campaign 
committee  of  the  Young  Republican  Club  of  Brook- 
lyn.— William  C.  Breed  and  Charles  D.  Norton 
have  been  appointed  members  of  the  reorganized 
Finance  Committee  of  the  New  York  War  Camp 
Community  Service.  Breed  has  also  been  chosen 
a   member  of   the    Finance   Coumiittee   formed    to 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


erect  a  memorial  to  the  late  Major  John  Purroy 
Mitchel,  Mayor  of  New  York. 

Senator  Silas  D.  Reed  of  Taunton,  Mass.,  was 
renominated  by  the  Republicans  at  the  September 
primaries.  As  he  is  opposed  only  by  a  Socialist, 
the  Democrats  having  failed  to  name  a  candidate, 
his  election  is  practically  assured. — Walter  L.  Tower 
of  Dalton  was  nominated  for  the  Massachusetts 
House  of  Representatives  by  the  Republicans  of  the 
Fifth  Berkshire  district  at  the  September  primaries. 
— Edward  P.  Lay,  a  son  of  Frank  M.  Lay,  is  a 
member  of  the  Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. 

1894 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Frederick  C.  Herrick,  M.  C,  has  been  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Major  and  is  serving  as  Surgical 
Chief  of  the  Base  Hospital  at  Ft.  Des  Moines. — 
Capt.  Pancoast  Kidder,  who  has  been  Zone  Major, 
Headquarters  9th  Billeting  Area,  France,  is  now  in 
the  combat  area,  being  General  Intelligence  Officer 
in  the  78th  Division. 

Professor  Edgar  Burr  Smith,  for  the  past  thirteen 
years  Principal  of  the  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  High  School, 
has  been  elected  Principal  of  the  Greenfield  (Mass.) 
High  School.  He  has  had  a  very  successful  career 
as  a  High  School  Principal. — In  only  two  districts 
in  New  York  State  did  the  Democrats  fail  to  desig- 
nate a  candidate  for  Congress.  One  of  these  two 
districts  is  the  thirty-first,  now  represented  by  Con- 
gressman Bertrand  H.  Snell  of  Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  who 
was  renominated  by  the  Republicans  at  the  Sep- 
tember primaries. 

George  F.  Fiske  has  been  elected  Principal  of  the 
Noble  and  Greenough  School  of  Boston. — Henry  E. 
Whitcomb  was  elected  Delegate  from  North  Brook- 
field  to  the  Massachusetts  Republican  State  Con- 
vention held  in  Boston  in  October. — Herman  S. 
Cheney  of  Southbridge  was  renominated  for  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives  by  the 
Republicans  of  the  5th  Worcester  County  district 
in  September. 

The  Boston  Globe  printed  a  recent  interview  with 
Benjamin  D.  Hyde  who  is  part  owner  in  a  fine  duck- 
ing stand  in  Chatham.  Hyde  believes  that  the 
Cape  section  of  Massachusetts  ought  to  afford  as 
good  quail  shooting  as  South  Carolina  and  he  and 
his  associates  own  a  great  tract  of  practically  barren 
land  which  he  believes  could  be  put  to  good  use  in 
the  propagation  of  quail. 

Harwood  Bigelow  Smith  was  accidentally  killed 
early  in  the  morning  of  September  20th  when  he 
was  run  down  by  a  trolley  car  at  New  and  Broad 
Streets,  Newark,  N.  J.  He  had  just  alighted  from 
one  car  and  was  about  to  board  another  when  he 
was  struck  by  a  car  going  in  the  opposite  direction. 
He  was  taken  to  the  Newark  City  Hospital  where 
the  surgeons  found  him  suffering  from  a  fractured 
skull  and  other  injuries.  He  died  without  regaining 
consciousness. 

Smith  was  born  in  East  Abington,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1872.  His  father  was  an  editor  and  in  1895 
Smith  became  associate  editor  of  the  Rockland 
(Mass.)  Standard.  In  1896  he  was  made  Secretary 
of  the  Massachusetts  Press  Association,  and  the 
next  year  a  member  of  the  Rockland  School  Com- 


mittee, becoming  its  chairman  in  1899.  In  1900 
Smith  came  to  New  York  and  for  fifteen  years  was 
a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  New  York  Tribune. 
Three  years  ago  he  went  to  the  New  York  Times. 
He  married  Miss  Edith  M.  Jacobs  of  Newark,  N.  J., 
April  25,  1899,  and  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  a 
son  and  two  daughters. 

1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Secretary, 

30  Church  Street,  New  York  City. 

Dr.  George  R.  Critchlow,  who  is  a  Captain  in  the 
Medical  Corps,  has  enrolled  in  the  Surgical  Division, 
Camp  Greenleaf. — Captain  Palmer  Potter,  M.  C, 
received  his  military  training  at  Camp  Greenleaf 
and  was  then  assigned  to  the  Base  Hospital,  Camp 
Upton. — Robert  B.  Osgood,  M.  C,  who  has  been 
Assistant  Director  of  Military  Orthopaedics  for  the 
Am.  E.  F.,  has  been  promoted  from  the  rank  of 
Major  to  that  of  Lieutenant  Colonel.  He  is  now 
Orthopaedic  Consultant  of  the  Reconstruction  Base 
Hospital  in  this  country. 

William  J.  Boardman  is  in  France  with  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  He  is  visiting  the  different  huts  as  lec- 
turer and  entertainer. — Dwight  W.  Morrow  is 
Counsel  to  -the  Interallied  Shipping  Board.  For  a 
time  he  was  in  France  at  General  Pershing's  Head- 
quarters and  is  now  in  England. 

Calvin  Coolidge  was  elected  Governor  of  Mass- 
achusetts at  the  November  Elections.  He  has 
been  Lieutenant  Governor  for  the  past  two 
years.  He  was  the  unanimous  candidate  of  the 
Republicans  and  confined  his  campaign  to  two 
weeks  only,  declaring  that  he  did  not  deem  it 
patriotic  to  permit  a  political  campaign  to  divide 
interest  with  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan  Campaign. 

Henry  R.  Noyes,  of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  has  been 
appointed  by  the  State  Department  to  represent 
the  War  Trade  Board  in  Madrid,  Spain,  where  he 
now  is  and  probably  will  remain  for  the  balance  of 
the  war.  Mr.  Noyes  is  a  lawyer  practicing  in  New 
York  and  New  Jersey,  and  has  specialized  in  foreign 
commerce.  He  speaks  Spanish,  French,  and  Ger- 
man fluently. 

Herbert  L.  Pratt  writes  as  follows  under  date  of 
September  23rd  in  regard  to  his  trip  abroad  in 
behalf  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. : — "  I  had  a  powerful  inter- 
esting three  months  trip  to  England  and  France  this 
spring  on  behalf  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Paris  headquar- 
ters cabled,  asking  if  I  would  go  over  and  help  them 
set  up  the  'Army  stores  business,'  which  General 
Pershing  had  put, in  their  hands.  As  the  business 
already  amounts  to  over  $5,000,000  per  month  and 
will  be  a  $100,000,000  per  year  business  by  next 
year,  it  was  a  job  worth  tackling.  I  spent  a  week 
in  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  hut  on  the  front  line  in  the  Toul 
sector,  which  although  'quiet'  at  that  time  gave 
us  a  taste  of  artillery  work  and  gas  attacks.  Our 
tent  was  constantly  being  shot  over  and  the  gas 
enough  to  make  constant  use  of  the  gas  mask 
necessary.  Saw  quite  a  little  of  Major  George 
Hamilton,  '93,  who  is  doing  some  fine  work  for 
General  Pershing." 

James  S.  Lawson  was  a  member  of  the  Campaign 
Committee  of  the  Young  Republican  Club  of 
Brooklyn  during  the  recent  campaign. — Sidney 
Andrews,  son  of  Charles  A.  Andrews,  is  enrolled  in 
the  Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. — Augustus  Post 


I 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


21 


has  been  showing  the  public  and  the  military  and 
aviation  camps  the  Official  French  Aerial  Warfare 
moving  pictures  entitled  "  Mastery  of  the  Air."  He 
was  instrumental  in  giving  New  York  City  its  first 
aerial  parade  on  the  Fourth  of  July. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Merrill  E.  Gates,  Jr.,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in 
the  Quartermasters  Corps,  is  Judge  Advocate  of 
the  77th  Division,  France. — Ernest  S.  Olmsted, 
who  has  been  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Major,  is  in  France  in  ccftnmand  of  the  313th 
Ammunition  Train,  88th  Division. — Lieutenant  Ed- 
ward F.  Perry,  M.  C,  received  his  military  training 
at  Camp  Greenleaf  and  is  now  in  France. — Captain 
Alexander  C.  Eastman,  M.  C,  is  stationed  at  Camp 
A.  A.  Humphreys. 

Herbert  E.  Riley  has  been  elected  a  trustee  of  the 
Lilly  Librarv  in  Northampton  to  succeed  his  father, 
the  late  William  H.  Riley,  '73.— The  Rev.  Herbert 
A.  Jump  spent  a  part  of  the  summer  as  a  laborer 
in  the  Fore  River  Shipbuilding  Corporation  plants 
at  Quincy  and  Squantum. — Mortimer  L.  Schiff  is  a 
member  of  the  committee  appointed  by  the  Invest- 
ment Bankers'  Association  to  take  steps  to  protect 
in  the  future  the  interests  of  American  investors  in 
foreign  securities.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  re- 
organized Finance  Committee  of  the  New  York  War 
Camp  Community  Service  and  a  member  of  the 
National  Committee  of  the  National  Security  League 
which  had  in  charge  the  celebration  of  Bastille  Day 
Day  on  July  14th. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  Williams  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 

George  G.  Bradley,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
Ordnance  Department,  is  in  France. — John  E.  Bur- 
nette  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Corps.  He 
received  his  training  at  Camp  Greenleaf,  and  is 
now  stationed  at  the  Base  Hospital,  Camp  Devens. 
— Major  Benjamin  K.  Emerson,  M.  C,  has  been 
appointed  consulting  attending  surgeon  at  the 
VValter  Reed  Military  Hospital,  Washington. — Cap- 
tain Edwin  P.  Grosvenor,  who  is  in  the  Military 
Intelligence  Division,  is  in  the  Office  of  the  Chief 
of  Staff  at  Washington. — Major  Henry  M.  Moses, 
M.  C,  is  in  charge  of  the  medical  section  of  Base 
Hospital  No.  37. — Major  Harry  H.  Polk  graduated 
last  May  from  the  Army  General  Staff  College, 
France,  in  the  department  of  Administration  and 
Coordination.  He  is  now  Adjutant  of  the  17Gth 
Infantry  Brigade,  88th  Division,  France. 

William  Cary  Duncan  has  written  a  new  operetta, 
known  as  "Fiddlers  Three"  which  was  produced  for 
the  first  time  at  the  Cort  Theatre  in  New  York  on 
September  2d.  It  has  received  a  very  favorable 
reception  by  the  critics.  The  scene  is  in  Cremona 
and  the  story  is  of  three  makers  of  violins  who 
compete  with  their  handiwork  in  an  annual  contest. 

Prof.  Raymond  McFarland  received  a  commis- 
sion at  the  Plattsburg  S.  .\.  T.  C.  in  September  and 
was  appointed  Personnel  Officer  at  the  Middlebury 
College  unit.  A  book  by  Professor  McFarland, 
"Skipper  John  of  the  Nimbus,"  has  been  recently 
published  by  the  Maeraillan  Company. 


The  Rev.  Samuel  A.  Fiske  has  declined  the  call 
extended  to  him  by  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Willimantic,  Conn.,  as  announced  in  the 
last  issue  of  the  Quarterly. — Prof.  Albert  F.  Gil- 
man  has  resigned  as  Professor  of  Chemistry  at 
Huron  College,  Huron,  S.  Dak.,  to  go  into  war  work 
in  the  chemical  research  field. 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 
201  College  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
Major  Nellis  B.  Foster  is  director  of  the  School  of 
Military  Medicine,  Chief  Medical  Service,  U.  S. 
General  Hospital  No.  li.  Fort  Oglethorpe. — Fred- 
erick W.  Goddard  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Captain  in  the  Headquarters  54th  F.  A.  Brigade, 
Camp  McClellan.  For  a  short  time  he  was  in  com- 
mand of  a  battery  in  the  111th  F.  A. — Albert 
Mossman,  C.  A.  C,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Major. 

Frederick  A.  Blossom  has  been  elected  First  Vice- 
President  of  the  Birth  Control  League  of  New 
York. — Harold  Howland,  associate  editor  of  the 
Independent,  is  with  the  Italian  Army  under  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

1899 

Major  C.  I.  De  Witt,  Secretary, 
Supply  Division,  Ordnance  Department, 
Sixth  and  B  Streets,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Captain  James  C.  Graves,  Jr.,  M.  C,  is  now 
Orthopaedic  Consultant  in  all  the  American  hospi- 
tals in  Tours,  Blois,  and  Orleans.  He  has  charge 
of  the  Orthopaedic  Training  Area,  is  instructor  in 
the  Demonstration  School  where  men  are  trained 
to  render  service  on  the  battlefield,  and  is  also 
Orthopaedic  Surgeon  to  the  Division  where  troops,^ 
as  they  land,  are  examined  and  classified  for  re- 
placements at  the  front. — Walter  H.  Griffin,  who  is 
in  command  of  the  8th  Battalion  Inf.,  Camp  Upton, 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major. — Edward 
W.  Hitchcock,  S.  S.  U.  588,  has  just  completed  a 
course  at  a  French  Training  School. — Major  Henry 
T.  Hutchins,  M.  C,  is  at  present  stationed  at  the 
Base  Hospital,  Camp  Upton. — Captain  David  C. 
Rogers,  of  the  Sanitary  Corps,  is  engaged  in  psy- 
chological research  work  at  the  Medical  Research 
Laboratory,  Hazelhurst  Field. 

Charles  E.  Mitchell,  President  of  the  National 
City  Company,  has  been  appointed  a  member  of 
the  committee  of  bondholders,  formed  to  work  out 
a  plan  for  supporting  the  market  for  Liberty  Loan 
bonds.  He  has  also  been  made  a  member  of  the 
committee  appointed  by  the  Investment  Bankers' 
Association  to  protect  in  the  future  the  interests  of 
American  Investors  in  foreign  securities. 

Deacon  Stebbins  of  1821  and  1899  is  to  become 
even  better  known,  as  Burges  Johnson  has  brought 
him  out  in  book  form,  "The  Little  Yankee  College 
and  the  Random  Rhymes  of  Deacon  Stebbins." 
The  A.  V.  Ilaight  Comj)any  are  the  publishers. 
The  book  is  bound  in  heavy  paper,  with  decorative 
end  papers  showing  a  i)anoramic  view  of  the  Pelham 
and  Ilolyoke  hills. 

Smith  (JoUege  has  granted  leave  of  absence  to 
Prof.  David  C.  Rogers,  Professor  of  Philosophy 
since  1914,  so  that  he  can  accept  a  commission  of 
Captain  in  the  sanitary  department  of  the  Medical 


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Corps. — The  Rev.  Rodney  W.  Roundy  is  the  author 
of  an  article  in  the  July  18th  issue  of  The  Congrega- 
tionalist  and  Advance  on  "The  War  Time  South." — 
William  F.  Lyman  is  secretary  of  the  school  com- 
mittee of  Westfield  (Mass.). 

Professor  Burges  Johnson  of  Vassar  College  has 
recently  returned  from  a  three  month's  service  in 
France  in  the  Entertainment  Department  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Beyond  the  front  line  trenches  on  the 
Western  front  are  observation  and  listening  posts 
reached  by  trench,  which  are  held  by  men  who  most 
need  visiting  and  entertainment  and  get  it  least. 
Professor  Johnson  spent  a  month  with  these  men, 
sleeping  in  his  bedroll  and  going  on  foot  from  one 
group  to  another.  He  talked  to  the  men  "in  gunpits, 
in  a  busted  church,  in  a  cow  shed, — oftenest  in  the 
woods — any  place  that  would  camouflage  a  crowd." 
He  talked  about  anything  "so  long  as  it  is  cheerful, 
optimistic  and  frank  with  an  elaborate  sprinkling 
of  everyday  funny  stories."  While  in  Paris,  he  did 
hospital  service  in  one  of  the  American  hospitals. 
"For  sheer  pluck,  endurance  and  good  humour 
Avhen  wounded,"  he  writes  to  the  Vassar  Miscellany 
News,  "I  believe  our  boys  are  unsurpassed. 
Jason  Pierce,  '02,  Senior  Chaplain,  Second  Division, 
writes:  "I  wish  that  you  could  have  seen  him 
at  work  as  one  of  the  star  entertainers  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Out  of  the  trenches  and  dugouts, 
scratching  fleas  and  cooties,  and  hungry  for  news 
from  home,  the  men  would  pour  by  scores  and 
hundreds  to  hear  "BURGES  JOHNSON,  EX- 
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF  OF  JUDGE."  At  the  times 
our  troops  were  in  attack  and  the  wounded  were 
carried  into  the  triage  or  sorting  station,  there 
was  Johnson  at  work,  now  giving  some  doughboy  a 
cigaret  and  a  light,  now  kneeling  beside  a  stretcher 
with  a  cup  of  hot  chocolate  and  a  tube  while  some 
chap  who  had  done  his  bit  drank  the  welcome  re- 
freshment, or  again  helping  the  surgeon  cut  away 
the  clothing  and  dress  the  woimd." 

1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  Street,  New  York  City. 

James  F.  Connor  is  a  Lieutenant  Commander, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F. — The  following  tribute  has  been 
paid  to  Capt.  Thomas  J.  Hammond  of  Co.  I,  104th 
Inf.,  by  George  H.  Seldes,  the  Springfield  Republi- 
can's correspondent  in  France: 

"Capt.  James  H.  McDade  and  Capt.  T.  J.  Ham- 
mond each  commanding  a  battalion,  shared  honors 
in  capturing  Belleau  town  and  other  strong  points. 
Each  went  over  in  the  first  wave  of  the  attack, 
setting  an  example  which  inspired  the  men,  not  only 
in  the  heat  and  dust  of  battle,  but  to  this  very  day, 
for  they  talk  of  nothing  else  but  the  bravery  of 
their  commanders.  Of  the  men  Capt.  McDade 
said:  'Every  man  fought  as  though  the  result  of 
the  whole  war  depended  on  him.'  The  new  colonel 
of  the  104th  said:  'They  have  done  well.  The 
Chateau  Thierry  battle  has  been  the  real  test,  and 
the  regiment  has  shown  its  real  worth.  I  am  glad 
to  say  that  almost  all  our  wounded  have  come  back. 
The  officers  have  distinguished  themselves  in  the 
fighting.  Capts.  McDade  and  Hammond  led  their 
attacks  brilliantly.'  " 

Capt.  Hammond  has  been  recently  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Major. 


Hamilton  G.  Merrill  has  resigned  his  position  of 
Forest  Supervisor  in  the  U.  S.  Forest  Service  and  is 
now  living  on  his  almond  and  prune  ranch  near 
Paso  Robles,  California.  Address — Box  627,  Paso 
Robles,  Calif. — A.  Leroy  Halford  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan  Committee  in 
Ludlow  (Mass.). — Rev.  George  H.  Driver  of  Chap- 
paqua,  N.  Y.,  has  resigned  his  pastorate  to  become 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  secretary  of  Religious  Work  at  Camp 
Mills,  N.  Y. 

Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  will  publish  before  the 
holidays  a  war  book,  the  tentative  title  of  which  is 
"With  the  Help  of  God  and  a  Few  Marines."  The 
book  will  include  a  history  of  the  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps  and  an  eye-witness  story  of  the  achievements 
of  the  Marines  in  France.  Walter  A.  Dyer  is  col- 
laborating on  this  book  with  Brig. -Gen.  A.  W. 
Catlin,  U.  S.  M.  C,  who  commanded  the  Sixth 
Regiment  of  Marines  at  the  Battle  of  Belleau  Wood 
and  was  himself  wounded  there. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  Williams  Street,  New  York  City. 

Corp.  Edwin  C.  Buffum  is  in  France  with  the 
Headquarters  Co.,  106th  F.  *\..— Bradford  Butler 
has  been  commissioned  a  Major  in  the  Judge  Ad- 
vocate's Department.  He  is  stationed  in  Washing- 
ton.— Dr.  William  Goodell  has  received  a  commis- 
sion in  the  Medical  Corps  and  ordered  to  Washing- 
ton.— Nathaniel  L.  Goodrich  has  been  commissioned 
a  Captain  in  the  Military  Intelligence  Division  of 
the  General  Staff.  At  present  he  is  on  detached 
duty  in  the  office  of  the  Chief  of  Staff. 

William  S.  Hatch  is  Captain  and  Adjutant  of  the 
307th  Ammunition  Train,  82d  Division,  France. — 
Captain  John  R.  Herrick,  M.  C,  is  stationed  at 
Camp  Sherman. — Albert  W.  Hunt  served  in  the 
American  Ambulance  Hospital,  Neuilly,  Paris,  in 
1915,  and  in  1916  was  Aide-Surveillant  in  Mrs. 
Harry  P.  Whitney's  Hospital  in  Juilly. — Major 
Harry  V.  D.  Moore  is  Adjutant  of  the  57th  Inf. 
Brigade,  29th  Division,  France. — William  R.  Rush- 
more  is  a  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C,  and  is  attached 
to  the  School  for  Aerial  Observers,  Langley  Field. 

Rev.  Noble  S.  Elderkin  has  resigned  as  pastor  of 
the  Second  Congregational  Church  of  Oak  Park,  111. 

1902 

Eldon  B.  Keith,  Secretary, 
36  South  Street,  Campello,  Mass. 
Captain  Fred  H.  Allen,  M.  C,  is  Instructor  in  the 
School  of  Military  Medicine,  Camp  Greenleaf. — 
Harry  C.  Barber  is  in  Co.  C,  33rd  Engineers,  Camp 
Devens. — William  D.  Clark  is  in  France  with  the 
23rd  Engmeers  (Highway). — Isaac  H.  Jones  is  a 
Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the  Medical  Corps  attached 
to  the  Aviation  Service. — Matthew  van  Siclen  is 
a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service  of  the  Signal 
Corps. 

David  H.  Keedy  was  nominated  by  the  Re- 
publicans in  the  September  primaries  for  Member 
of  the  Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives 
from  the  Third  Hampshire  district  which  includes 
Amherst.  As  neither  the  Democrats  nor  Socialists 
have  named  a  candidate,  his  nomination  is  equiva- 
lent to  an  election. — Eldon  B.  Keith  has  been 
chosen  as  sub-regional  chairman  for  district  C  of 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


23 


Massachusetts  of  the  War  Resources  Committee. 
This  inchides  the  shoe  district  of  Middleboro, 
Brockton,  Rockland,  North  Abington  and  Whitman, 
as  well  as  Southern  Massachusetts. 

The  Rev.  Andrew  Magill  delivered  the  principal 
address  at  the  exercises  in  dedication  of  the  service 
flag  at  the  reunion  of  the  Hitchcock  Free  Academy 
Alumni  Association  of  Brimfield  (Mass.),  on  August 
29th.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Academj',  class  of 
1898. — Rev.  Horace  F.  Holton  has  entered  upon 
his  new  work  as  pastor  of  the  Porter  Congregational 
Church  of  Brockton(  Mass.)— P.  C.  Hyde  has  been 
detailed  Mess  Sergeant  of  Troop  A,  New  Jersey 
Reserve,  the  only  state  cavalry  organization  in 
New  Jersey. 

1903 

Clifford  P.  Warren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Chester  Burg,  Q.  M.  C,  Camp  Funston,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. — Captain 
J.  W.  Hayes  is  chief  psychological  examiner  at 
Camp  Upton. — Paul  S.  Phalen,  who  was  commis- 
sioned a  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.,  at  Plattsburg  in  1917, 
has  gone  to  France  as  Chaplain  with  the  1st  Motor 
Mechanics  Regiment,  Aviation  Section  with  the 
rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. — Lieut.  Foster  W.  Stearns, 
who  has  been  in  a  Classification  Camp,  France, 
since  last  January,  has  been  assigned  to  Co.  D, 
16th  Regiment  Inf. 

Stanley  King,  private  secretary  to  Secretary  of 
AVar  Baker,  has  been  elected  a  director  of  the 
Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

1904 

K.\RL  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
11306  Knowlton  Avenue,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Captain  Albert  O.  Baumann  is  in  France  with 
Co.  K,  147th  Inf.,  37th  Division.— Heman  B. 
Chase,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Medical 
Corps,  has  been  recently  transferred  from  England 
to  France  and  is  now  attached  to  Camp  Hospital 
No.  39. — Lieut.  Charles  A.  Marquis  is  in  France 
with  the  13Sth  Inf.,  35th  Division. 

Ernest  M.  Whitcomb  is  in  France  in  charge  of 
a  French  section  of  the  Red  Cross  with  the  rank  of 
Captain.  His  address  is  care  of  American  Red 
Cross  Commissioner  for  France,  Paris. — Prof.  Ed- 
ward J.  Eaton,  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  delivered  the 
Commencement  address  last  June  at  the  Nurses' 
Training  School  of  the  Congregational  Hospital  at 
Des  Moines.  This  is  the  first  Congregational  Hos- 
pital in  the  country. — T.  C.  Brown,  in  addition  to 
conducting  Laurel  Bank  Farm,  near  Fitclil)urg, 
Mass.,  is  teaching  mechanical  drawing  in  the  Fitch- 
burg  High  School. — Arthur  F.  Dodge  is  serving  as 
staff  instructor  for  the  Emergency  Fleet  Corpora- 
lion.  He  spent  the  summer  at  Hog  Island,  and  is 
now  at  Shooter's  Island. 

Dr.  Isaac  Hartshorne  is  a  member  of  the  Medical 
Advisory  Board  and  an  examiner  in  the  Aviation 
Dcparlmcnt. — Layton  S.  Hawkins'  new  address  is 
iVii)  Illinois  Ave.,  Washington,  D.  C,  where  lie  is 
chief  of  llie  Division  for  Vocational  Education  of 
the  Federal  Board,  in  charge  of  the  organization  of 
classes  to  train  men  in  mechanical  lines  for  army 
service. — Another  member  of  the  cla.ss  to  join  the 
government  forces  in  Washington  is  John  W.  Rob- 


erts, who  is  assisting  the  Board  of  Review  in  the 
assessment  of  excess  profit  taxes. — Dr.  Nathan  C. 
Bulkley  is  now  practicing  medicine  in  Evanston, 
111.,  and  living  at  847  Judson  Avenue. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 
309  Washington  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1st  Lieutenant  Leslie  R.  Fort  has  been  assigned 
to  the  Emergency  Branch  of  the  Purchase  and  Sup- 
ply Division  of  the  General  Staff. — Claude  M. 
Fuess,  who  has  received  a  Major's  commission  in 
the  Quartermasters'  Corps,  is  stationed  at  Camp 
Joseph  E.  Johnston  as  Chief  of  the  Personnel  Di- 
vision.— Francis  H.  Judge  has  received  a  commis- 
sion as  1st  Lieutenant,  N.  A.,  Unattached.  He  is 
now  with  the  War  Industries  Board,  having  previ- 
ously served  with  the  Production  Branch  of  the 
Purchase  and  Supply  Department  of  the  General 
Staff. 

Van  Cleve  Holmes,  9th  Training  Battalion,  Camp 
Sherman,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major. 
— Lt.  Commander  Kenneth  C.  Mcintosh  completed 
another  three  years  of  sea  duty  in  July  and,  on  Aug- 
ust 1, 1918,  was  assigned  to  Pensacola,  Fla.,  to  have 
charge  of  the  Naval  Air  Station  there.  He  had  been 
acting  for  the  previous  eight  months  as  paymaster 
on  one  of  the  big  transports  and  witnessed  the  sink- 
ing of  the  President  Lincoln.  His  own  ship  was  only 
200  feet  from  the  Lincoln  when  she  was  struck  by 
the  torpedo.  The  torpedo  was  evidently  intended 
for  the  troop  ship,  but  the  Lincoln  got  in  its  way. — 
Elmer  E.  Ryan,  who  is  a  2d  Lieutenant,  Engineers, 
U.  S.  Air  Service,  is  in  France  and  unattached. 

Prof.  John  M.  Clark,  of  the  University  of  Chicago, 
is  one  of  the  editors  of  a  book  announced  for  fall 
publication  by  the  University  of  Chicago  Press 
under  the  title  "Readings  in  the  Economics  of  War 
and  Reconstruction."  Prof.  Walton  H.  Hamilton, 
of  the  Amherst  College  Faculty,  and  Harold  G. 
Moulton  are  the  other  editors. — Prof.  John  Adams 
Taylor,  of  the  University  of  North  Dakota,  has 
obtained  a  year's  leave  of  absence  to  engage  in  war 
work.  He  sailed  in  August  under  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  has  been  assigned  to  France.  His  rank  is  that 
of  Captain.  Professor  Taylor  has  been  a  popular 
speaker  and  lecturer  on  the  lyceum  and  commence- 
ment platforms  and  in  the  interest  of  the  Red  Cross. 

In  honor  of  Lt.  Commander  Mcintosh  of  the  U.  S. 
Navy,  the  1905  men  in  New  York  held  a  dinner  on 
Monday  evening,  July  1st,  at  Keene's  Chop  House 
West  36th  St.,  New  York.  The  dinner  was  ar- 
ranged in  a  great  hurry  and  it  was  only  possible  to 
notify  those  who  could  be  reached  easily  by  tele- 
phone. Notwithstanding,  eleven  men  were  present. 
Mcintosh  had  some  very  interesting  stories  to  tell 
about  his  experiences  as  Paymaster  on  one  of  the 
big  transports  taking  our  troops  al)road.  Those 
present  at  the  dinner  included:  Baily,  Crowell, 
Gilbert,  Hopkins,  Lynch,  Mcintosh,  Nash,  Nicker- 
son,  O'Brien,  Raftery,  and  Wing. 

Maurice  A.  Lynch  has  been  appointed  Assistant 
District  Attorney  in  New  York  ("ity. — Chauncey 
[j.  {'arsons,  who  for  some  years  has  been  head  of 
the  Englisli  department  and  Registrar  of  Tome 
School  in  Port  Dejjosit,  Md.,  is  teaching  this  year 
at  St.  Marks  School,  Southi)oro,  Mass. — Dr.  Fraray 
Hale  and  Miss  Mabell  Camp  Dorsey  were  married 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


at  Wallingford,  Conn.,  on  Saturday,  August  24th. — 
At  the  Rhode  Island  Republican  State  Convention 
on  September  24th,  G.  B.  Utter  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Republican  State  Central  Committee. 

Ward  C.  Moon,  Superintendent  of  Schools  at 
Freeport,  N.  Y.,  has  accepted  an  appointment  from 
the  National  War  Work  Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
under  Dr.  Frank  E.  Spaulding,  '89,  Superintendent 
of  Schools  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  was  one  of  a 
commission  of  fifteen  educators  who  sailed  for 
France  early  in  November. — Emerson  G.  Gaylord, 
President  of  the  Cabot  Trust  Company,  of  Chico- 
pee,  has  been  elected  vice-president  of  the  Chicopee 
Savings  Bank.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Fourth 
Liberty  Loan  in  Chicopee. — Curtis  J.  Bostwick  has 
been  appointed  manager  of  the  lumber  yard  re- 
cently established  in  Seattle,  Washington,  at  1033 
Jackson  Street,  by  the  Mackintosh-Truman  Lumber 
Company.  He  was  formerly  manager  of  the  Holmes 
Lumber  Company  of  Seattle. 

1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 

Tracy-Parry  Advertising  Company, 

Lafayette  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Sergeant  John  J.  Curran  of  the  Marine  Corps  is 
assistant  to  the  Paymaster  of  Marine  Corps,  France. 
— Edward  M.  Durban  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant Inf.  at  the  2d  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Oglethorpe. 
He  was  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieu- 
tenant and  assigned  to  the  156th  Depot  Brigade, 
Camp  Sevier.  He  also  served  on  the  Mexican  bor- 
der in  1916-1917. — Captain  Norman  P.  Foster, 
Q.  M.  C,  has  been  recently  transferred  from  the 
Schuylkill  Arsenal,  Philadelphia,  to  the  new  storage 
department  at  New  Cumberland,  Pa. — James  S. 
Hamilton,  who  is  in  France,  has  recently  received  a 
commission  as  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Sanitary 
Corps. 

John  J.  Curran,  of  the  U.  S.  Marines,  was  married 
in  Paris,  France,  on  Wednesday,  August  14th,  to 
Mademoiselle  Clementine  Dufrene.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  at  the  Church  of  St.  Paul  St.  Louis 
on  the  Rue  St.  Antoine. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 
202  Lake  Avenue,  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

Frank  X.  Deroin  is  a  member  of  the  301st  rapid- 
fire-gun  battalion.  Camp  Devens. — Lieut.  R.  Jewett 
Jones  is  in  the  Infantry  Replacement  and  Training 
Camp,  Camp  MacArthur. — Captain  Wilkins  Jones 
has  been  commanding  the  30th  Company,  164th 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Funston,  since  September — 
Chilton  L.  Powell  has  been  commissioned  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  Military  Intelligence  Department 
and  is  stationed  at  Washington. 

Bruce  Barton,  whose  editorials  were  one  of  the 
chief  features  of  Every  Week,  will  hereafter  write 
for  the  Red  Book  magazine.  The  latter  publication 
announces  that  beginning  with  the  September  issue, 
"Bruce  Barton's  editorials,  the  most  American, 
most  sensible,  most  helpful,  and  best  written  edito- 
rials in  the  United  States  will  appear  exclusively  in 
the  Red  Book."  In  connection  with  his  work  as 
chairman  of  the  publicity  department  of  the  Na- 
tional War  W^ork  Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  for  the 
$100,000,000  drive  this  fall,  Mr.  Barton  prepared 


an  interesting  booklet  for  the  campaign,  entitled 
"This  is  the  Hut  the  'Y'  Built."  It  presents  a 
mass  of  interesting  data  concerning  the  work  that  is 
carried  on  in  the  1200  huts  by  the  organization.  He 
shows  in  just  what  way  the  service  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
contributes  to  the  comfort,  health,  and  morale  of 
the  men  at  the  front. 

Rev.  George  E.  Cary,  of  Holden,  Mass.,  spent  the 
month  of  July  at  Camp  Dix  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work. — 
Otto  C.  Meyer  was  host  to  a  number  of  Amherst 
men  at  the  University  Club,  Erie,  Pa.,  last  July. 
Those  present  included  John  A.  Brown,  '19,  A.  E. 
Harris,  '18,  H.  P.  Stimson,  '18,  C.  E.  Nelson,  '21, 
Willard  Godwin,  '19,  Walter  C.  Allen,  '20,  and  O.  C. 
Colton.  They  were  all  employed  during  the  summer 
at  one  of  the  munition  plants. 

1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 

Lieutenant  Robert  B.  Woodbury,  whose  death  is 
reported  elsewhere  in  this  issue  wrote  in  part  as 
follows  under  date  of  July  26th,  last: 

"I  understand  that  General  Pershing  calls  our 
Division  the  'Iron  Division'  and  the  boys  certainly 
have  proved  themselves  deserving  of  the  name,  for 
we  have  been  tested  and  tried  under  all  sorts  of  cir- 
cumstances, ever  since  the  third  of  July.  I  had  the 
first  real  sleep  for  a  week  last  night  and  feel  quite 
rested  this  evening.  I  have  not  seen  a  real  bed  or 
even  a  cot  or  bedding  roll  since  the  third  of  July  and 
most  of  the  time  have  been  using  my  trench  coat  as 
a  cover.  The  Captain  and  I  landed  two  blankets 
and  a  shelter  half  night  before  last  and  the  blankets 
together  with  our  trench  coats  enable  us  to  keep 
warm  at  night  and  the  shelter  half  stretched  above 
us  keeps  off  the  rain,  and  we  certainly  are  having 
plenty  of  rain  these  days.  I  wish  I  could  describe 
everything  since  July  3rd;  but  things  have  hap- 
pened so  fast  and  furious  that  I  cannot  remember 
half  of  it.  From  the  3rd  to  the  15th  we  moved 
around  along  the  line  from  place  to  place,  re-en- 
forcing points  where  the  Hun  started  things.  On 
the  15th  we  took  up  position  between  Crezancy  and 
Fossoy  where  he  had  succeeded  in  crossing  the 
Marne  and  stayed  his  progress  there.  After  five 
days  there  the  Hun  having  been  forced  back  across 
the  Marne  we  were  rushed  back  to  Chateau  Thierry 
and  it  was  there  that  I  wrote  you  last.  Since  then 
we  have  been  up  at  Epieds  and  Compoli.  The  Hun 
retreated  so  fast  that  we  had  to  keep  going  night 
and  day  to  keep  in  contact  with  him  and  even  had 
hard  work  doing  that.  I  think  that  soon  he  will  be 
back  on  his  old  line  and  then  we  will  have  to  drive 
him  out  of  that  and  back  into  his  own  country. 
The  French  and  American  artillery  certainly  have 
made  things  hot  for  old  Fritz.  He  left  thousands  or 
rather  millions  of  dollars  worth  of  ammunition  in 
his  hasty  withdrawal  and  he  had  his  crack  troops  at 
this  point;  We  have  already  seen  more  real  action 
than  the  Division  who  relieved  us  who  have  been 
'over  here'  for  a  year.  I  thought  that  I  hated  the 
Hun  before  but  now  I  know  what  he  really  is,  and 
I  both  hate  and  pity  him,  for  he  is  a  slave  to  the 
powers  higher  up." 

Philip  H.  Burt  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant 
in  the  Quartermasters'  Corps  at  the  OflBcers'  Train- 
ing Camp,  Camp  Johnston  and  assigned  duty  as 


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supply  officer  at  the  camp. — Captain  George  C. 
Elsey  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major.  He 
served  in  the  trenches  in  France  last  winter  until 
he  was  invalided  back.  Later  he  was  appointed 
Judge  Advocate  in  Southern  France  and  afterward 
sent  to  England  to  study  the  tank  service. — James 
P.  Fleming  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  in 
the  Quartermaster  Corps  at  the  1st  R.  O.  T.  C, 
Ft.  Sheridan.  He  was  ordered  to  France  last  March 
and  is  now  commanding  officer  of  Salvage  Squad 
No.  18,  77th  Division. — Hildeburn  Jones  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  Provisional  Battalion,  Camp 
Perry. 

Chapin  Marcus  was  commissioned  a  Captain, 
F.  A.,  at  Ft.  Meyer  last  August.  He  specialized  in 
Liaison  work  at  Camp  Lee,  and  was  sent  to  France 
with  the  155th  F.  A.,  80th  Division.  Upon  his 
arrival  he  was  made  Information  Officer  and  sent 
to  the  front  to  represent  the  headquarters  of  his 
brigade. — Captain  Arthur  P.  Paine,  Ordnance  De- 
partment, is  in  charge  of  the  new  Proving  Grounds 
at  Savanna,  111. — Captain  M.  Hayward  Post,  Jr., 
M.  C,  is  oculist  at  Base  Hospital  No.  33,  stationed 
at  Portsmouth,  England. 

Paul  R.  Powell,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Air 
Craft  Service,  is  Inspector  of  Air-Craft  factories  at 
Detroit. — Maxwell  C.  Shattuck,  who  is  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, 349th  F.  A.,  Battery  E,  92d  Division,  France 
has  been  attending  a  special  school  for  reconnaisance 
officers. — James  T.  Sleeper  of  the  Quartermasters' 
Corps  is  now  Transport  Quartermaster  with  the 
rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. — A.  Maynard  Stearns  has 
received  a  commission  as  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
Chemical  Warfare  Service,  and  is  now  in  France. — - 
Paul  Welles,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Signal 
Corps,  has  been  on  duty  at  the  Headquarters  Source 
of  Supplies,  and  also  with  the  Chief  Signal  Officer, 
France. 

Dwight  W.  Ellis  was  a  member  of  the  Fourth 
Liberty  Loan  Committee  in  Monson,  Mass. — News 
has  been  received  of  the  death  in  May,  1917,  in 
New  York  City  of  Henry  H.  Midwood,  ex  '08.— 
James  O.  Mumford,  of  Homestead,  Pa.,  is  Chief 
Deputy  Food  Administrator  for  Wayne  County. 
He  is  also  one  of  the  three  regular  appointed  mem- 
bers of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  for  Wayne 
County. 

1909 

Edward  H.  Sudbury,  Secretary, 
154  Prospect  Avenue,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Edward  L.  Chapin,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in 
the  Signal  Corps,  302d  Field  Signal  Battalion,  is  in 
France. — Charles  U.  Hatch  is  "top"  Sergeant  of 
the  47th  Co.,  Group  4,  M.  T.  D.,  Camp  Hancock.— 
Edward  J.  Bolt  is  stationed  at  the  Navy  Yard, 
Portsmouth,  N.  H. — Walter  Cary,  who  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Corps,  is  stationed  at 
Ft.  Worth. — Cliarles  P.  Chandler  is  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenant in  Hospital  Train  No.  ()2,  France. — Lester 
W.  Dann  is  serving  on  the  Medical  Reserve  Board, 
Murfreesboro. 

Elliot  O.  Foster  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Finance 
and  Supply  Division,  Medical  Dei)artment  of  the 
Chief  Surgeon's  Office,  France.  He  lias  l)(!('n  made 
Office  Manager  and  Adjutant,  and  appointed  His- 
torical Officer  for  the  Medical  Department. — 2d 
Lieutenant  Gordon  R.  Hall  is  with  the  308th  F.  A. 


For  three  months  he  was  instructor  in  Saumur. — 
Thomas  R.  Hickey  is  Corporal  of  Supply  Co.  No. 
312,  Q.  M.  C,  France.— William  E.  Hill  is  a  Private 
in  the  Eastern  Detachment,  472d  Engineers. — 
Joseph  B.  Jamieson,  Jr.,  who  is  in  France  in  the 
Ordnance  Department,  Engineer  Section,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. 

W^ilbur  B.  Jones,  who  is  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the 
Air  Service,  is  stationed  at  Vancouver  Barracks, 
Washington. — 1st  Lieutenant  Keith  F.  McVaugh  is 
in  France  with  the  304th  F.  A. — Harrison  W.  Mel- 
len,  who  is  in  France  with  the  Headquarters  Troop, 
26th  Division,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Sergeant. — John  R.  Quinn,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C, 
was  on  the  casualty  list  for  April  6th  as  slightly 
wounded  in  action.  He  was  commissioned  in  June, 
1917,  and  left  for  France  a  few  months  later.  After 
serving  in  the  Aberdeen  Hospital  for  two  months  he 
was  sent  to  the  front  and  was  in  the  trenches  when 
wounded. — Edward  H.  Sudbury  has  completed  his 
training  at  Fontainebleau  and  is  now  an  Aspirant 
with  the  15th  Regiment  F.  A. — William  A.  Vollmer, 
who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  306th  F.  A.,  writes: 
"I  have  made  two  trips  to  the  base  as  I  was  ap- 
pointed Coimsel  to  a  prisoner  in  a  recent  case.  .  .  . 
I  lay  no  claims  to  being  a  lawyer  and  it  is  rather 
fortunate  that  the  prisoner  had  a  fairly  good  case. 
.  .  .  .  The  Judge  Advocate  turned  out  to  be  an 
Amherst  man,  Merrill  Gates  ('96)." — Lieut.  William 
H.  Wright  has  been  appointed  Aide  de  Camp  to 
Brig.-Gen.  MacArthur  of  the  84th  Brigade. 

A  daughter,  Linda  Main,  was  born  on  July  27th 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Raymond  Main  of  West 
Haven,  Conn. — Miss  Gladys  Dowley,  of  Worcester, 
Mass.,  Wellesley,  '13,  daughter  of  George  B.  Dow- 
ley, and  Dunbar  W.  Lewis  were  married  on  Sep- 
tember 21st.  Mr.  Lewis  is  working  at  the  Reming- 
ton Arms  Plant,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

1910 

George  B.  Burnett,  Jr.,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Lieut.  Lindsay  Amos  is  in  France  with  the  309th 
Heavy  Field  Artillery. — Charles  W.  Barton,  who  is 
Chief  Quartermaster  in  Naval  Aviation,  is  in  train- 
ing at  M.  I.  T. — Captain  Joseph  B.  Bisbee,  Jr., 
Inf.,  has  been  assigned  to  the  permanent  detachment 
overseas  casuals.  Camp  Merritt. — Morrison  R. 
Boynton  has  been  appointed  acting  Chaplain  in  the 
Navy. — Horace  S.  Cragin,  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S. 
N.,  was  in  charge  of  the  Contagion  Camp  at  the 
Naval  and  Marine  Hospital,  Norfolk,  until  last 
August.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  examining 
surgeon  at  the  War  College,  Newport,  R.  I. 

The  following  letter  is  from  Harold  E.  Bardwell, 
who  is  in  France,  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service: 
"For  four  weeks  I  lived  with  30  French  officers 
none  of  whom  could  sjieak  English.  ...  I  was 
in  command  of  114  men  stationed  at  this  point  and 
led  the  (jynmcyer  Memorial  Day  parade  with  my 
men  wlio  were  the  only  .Vmericans  within  a  radius 
of  ()()()  miles  and  were  given  tlic  ])lace  of  honor. 
After  us  came  French,  Ja]>anesc,  Algerians,  'I'u- 
nisians,  Singelese,  Indo-Ciiinese,  Amaiiites.  iiiid 
Arabs.  .  .  .  After  the  speeches  the  best  French 
fliers  went  into  the  air  and  gave  exiiibitions  of  fancy 
flying.  Mud  is  the  principle  topic  of  conversation 
at  the  place  where  I  am  now.     I  never  saw  such 


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stuff  in  my  life,  ankle  deep  all  over  the  landscape. 
It  sticks  like  glue." 

Captain  Pierre  Drewsen,  Inf.,  has  been  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Major. — Donald  M.  Gildersleeve, 
who  was  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment, 1st  Depot  Battalion,  Signal  Corps,  was  in- 
valided from  France,  and  honorably  discharged 
from  the  Service,  July  30,  1918,  while  a  patient  at 
the  Walter  Reed  General  Hospital.  He  had  served 
fifteen  months  here  and  abroad. — Weston  W.  Good- 
now,  who  is  in  France  with  the  Royal  British  Flying 
Corps,  has  been  commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant  in 
the  Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Corps. — Stuart 
T.  B.  Morrison  has  entered  the  Naval  Aviation 
School  at  M.  I.  T. 

Bartow  H.  Hall,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the 
Field  Artillery,  has  been  assigned  to  the  6th  F.  A., 
France. — Elijah  P.  Harris  has  enlisted  in  the  Tank 
Corps,  and  is  stationed  at  Raleigh,  N.  C,  with 
Casual  Co.  No.  1. — Herbert  B.  Harris  is  in  the  11th 
Co.,  3rd  Bn.,  151st  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens. — 
Fred  S.  Knight  is  with  the  Headquarters  Co.,  4'2d 
Infantry,  Dover,  N.  J. — S.  Edward  McAdam  is  an 
Ensign  in  the  Pay  Corps,  U.  S.  N.  He  went  to  the 
Paymasters'  School  at  Annapolis  and  was  sent 
overseas  last  August. — Bert  C.  Schellenberg,  who  is 
a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation  Corps,  is  in  France. 

Capt.  William  R.  Marsh  is  doing  coast  defense 
work  at  Fort  Saint  Philip  and  preliminary  training 
of  recruits  at  Camp  Nichalls,  New  Orleans. — John 
Porter,  Jr.,  who  is  an  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.,  is  an  in- 
structor in  Naval  Aviation  at  M.  I.  T. — Eustace 
Seligman,  who  is  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Field  Ar- 
tillery, is  stationed  at  Camp  Jackson. — 1st  Lieu- 
tenant Kenneth  T.  Tucker  is  in  France,  attached 
to  Co.  E,  Inf.,  307th  Regiment. — Lieut.  John  B. 
Warner,  Co.  I,  16th  Inf.,  after  eight  months'  service 
in  France,  was  ordered  home  in  May  to  act  as  In- 
structor of  units  in  this  country.  At  present  he  is 
at  the  Small  Arms  Firing  School,  Camp  Perry. — 
Raymond  P.  Wheeler  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, Inf.,  at  the  Central  O.  T.  S.,  and  assigned 
to  the  School  of  Fire,  Camp  Perry. 

On  September  23rd  Abraham  Mitchell  commenced 
work  at  the  Remington  Arms  Works,  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  entering  as  a  civilian.  Later  he  is  to  be 
transferred  to  the  Ordnance  Department. — Alfred 
D.  Keator  has  been  elected  Librarian  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Dakota.  He  served  during  the 
summer  as  Camp  Librarian  at  Camp  Humphreys, 
Va. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 

170  No.  Parkway,  E.  Orange,  N.  J. 

Private  Isadore  David  Levy  died  at  Camp 
Upton,  September  27,  1918,  of  pneumonia,  following 
an  attack  of  influenza.  His  death  is  reported  else- 
where in  the  Quarterly. 

Captain  Richard  Abele,  Q.  M.  C,  is  a  Subsistent 
Officer  in  France. — Lieut.  C.  Colfax  Campbell  is  in 
France  with  Co.  G,  309th  Inf. — Chester  F.  Chapin 
is  in  France  with  the  318th  F.  A. — Ensign  Everett 
B.  Davenport,  U.  S.  N.,  has  completed  his  course 
at  the  Naval  Academy  and  been  assigned  to  the 
Office  of  the  Superintendent  of  Construction, 
U.  S.  N.,  New  York.— Lieut.  Gordon  T.  Fish  has 
been  assigned  to  Co.  C,  301st  Inf.,  Camp  Devens. — 


Captain  Robert  H.  George,  Co.  I,  301'th  Inf.,  is  in 
France  at  an  Officers'  Training  Camp. — Charles  D. 
Higgs  has  been  in  the  Naval  Reserve  since  last  year. 
— Paul  C.  Jacobs,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  in  training  at 
the  Harvard  Radio  School. 

1st  Lieutenant  Beeckman  J.  Delatour,  M.  C,  is 
in  France  with  the  325tlf  Ambulance  Co.,  307th 
Sanitary  Train.  He  received  his  military  instruc- 
tions at  Ft.  Oglethorpe  and  was  then  sent  to  Kelly 
Field  where  he  was  in  charge  of  a  detachment  of 
500  men. — Ensign  Leo  Kane,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has 
been  acting  as  representative  of  the  Navy  on  the 
Clearance  Committee  of  the  War  Industries  Board, 
by  which  body  all  Government  purchases  must  be 
approved  before  being  made.  He  is  also  Navy 
member  of  four  of  the  most  important  commodity 
sections  of  the  War  Industries  Board  and  handles 
practically  all  the  large  Navy  purchases  of  uniforms 
and  woolen  goods. 

John  H.  Keyes,  who  is  in  France  with  the  10th  En- 
gineers, has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Corporal. 
He  met  with  an  accident  last  February  and  has  only 
recently  been  discharged  from  the  hospital. — Her- 
bert G.  Lord,  Jr.,  who  is  in  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment, has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain 
and  is  stationed  at  Govenor's  Island. — Ensign  Ed- 
ward H.  Marsh,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  enlisted  in  March, 

1917,  as  Quartermaster,  3rd  class.  After  serving  on 
submarine  patrol  boats  and  doing  research  work  in 
New  York  and  Washington  he  received  his  commis- 
sion.— Major  Arthur  D.  Patterson  is  in  France  with 
the  802d  Pioneer  Infantry. — Eugene  R.  Pennock, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  in  training  at  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Aviation  Detachment,  M.  I.  T. 

Private  Frederick  J.  Pohl,  N.  A.,  is  stationed  at 
Ft.  McPherson,  assisting  in  the  treatment  of  re- 
turned soldiers  who  are  suffering  from  shell  shock. 
— James  W.  Post  has  been  transferred  to  Barracks 
E-10,  Camp  Pike. — Harold  C.  Roberts  enlisted  in 
the  Aviation  Corps  last  December  and  is  now  sta- 
tioned in  England. — Richard  B.  Scandrett,  Jr.,  of 
the  Naval  Air  Service,  has  completed  his  course  at 
M.  I.  T.  and  is  now  stationed  at  Pensacola. — Lieut. 
Waldo  Shumway,  who  is  an  Adjutant  of  the  3r(l 
Battalion,  103rd  Inf.,  was  wounded  and  gassed  in 
the  fighting  of  last  July.  He  was  in  the  Base  Hos- 
pital in  August. — William  S.  Woodside  is  attached 
to  Co.  31,  8th  Bn.,  153rd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix. 

Rev.  Laurens  H.  Seelye  has  resigned  his  pastorate 
at  Chatham,  N.  J.,  to  accept  a  chaplaincy  in  the 
army.  He  reported  for  duty  at  Fort  Adams,  R.  I., 
on  July  15th. — Chester  C.  Crewes  has  been  ap- 
pointed an  instructor  in  English  at  Case  School  of 
Applied  Science,  Cleveland,  Ohio. — L.  W.  Roberts, 
manager  of  the  Utica  Branch  of  the  Fisk  Rubber 
Company  since  1915,  was  appointed  manager  of 
the  company's  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Branch  in  March, 

1918.  His  "^address  is  718  Main  Street.  David 
Henry  Roberts,  2d,  arrived  at  the  home  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Roberts  on  June  8th. 

1912 

Alfred  B.  Peacock,  Secretary, 
384  Madison  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Howard  R.  Bacon  is  Captain  of  Co.  23,  6th  Bat- 
talion, Military  Police,  Camp  Dix. — Fred  B.  Bar- 
ton, who  is  in  Naval  Aviation,  has  completed  his 
course  at  Goodvear  Field,  and  is  now  stationed  in 


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New  York  Harbor. — Roland  H.  Brock,  who  is  on 
duty  at  the  Arsenal,  Philadelphia,  has  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. — Sergeant 
George  A.  Carlin  is  in  France  with  Co.  M,  1st  Army 
Headquarters  Regiment. — Lieut.  H.  Gordon  Chas- 
seaud,  who  had  been  stationed  at  San  Antonio, 
sailed  for  France  last  March.  He  is  doing  liaison 
duty  at  one  of  the  headquarters  of  the  Aviation 
Service. — Allan  W.  Cook,  19th  Inf.,  has  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. — -Harold  W. 
Crandall,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  of  Co.  G,  42d  Di- 
vision, is  now  on  detached  service  in  Paris  in  the 
office  of  the  Chief  Liaison  Officer. 

Harry  F.  Dann  is  Lieutenant  of  the  119th  Machine 
Gun  Co.,  30th  Division,  France. — id  Lieutenant 
Reinhart  L.  Gideon,  Light  F.  A.,  is  at  the  School  of 
Fire,  Ft.  Sill. — Ensign  Ernest  Gregory,  U.  S.  N.,  is 
commanding  officer  of  U.  S.  S.  C.  No.  6. — Harris 
L.  Haight  is  in  France  with  Headquarters  Co., 
312th  Inf.,  Signal  Platoon. — Ensign  Ralph  Heavens, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  was  transferred  from  the  U.  S.  S. 
Louisiana  to  the  Officers'  Torpedo  Class,  Newport, 
and  later  assigned  to  the  Destroyer  Force  as  Tor- 
pedo and  Gunnery  officer  on  one  of  the  destroyers. 
— 1st  Lieutenant  L.  Ronald  Jones  is  Personnel  Ad- 
jutant of  the  1st  Training  Group,  151st  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Devens. 

Claude  Hubbard  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, Inf.,  at  the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Devens, 
and  assigned  to  the  24th  Iijf.,  2d  Replacement  Di- 
vision, Camp  Gordon.  Since  that  time  he  has  been 
acting  as  Military  Instructor  in  different  schools 
throughout  the  country. — 2d  Lieut.  Maurice  J. 
Levy,  Q.  M.  C,  is  an  instructor  at  Camp  Johnston. 
— Lieut.  John  H.  Madden  is  in  France  with  Co.  F, 
302d  Inf.,  76th  Division.— Frank  D.  Mulvihill  is  a 
Sergeant  in  the  Commissary  Department,  Q.  M.  C, 
Camp  Wadsworth. — George  H.  Nichols  is  a  1st 
Lieutenant  in  Co.  H,  344th  Inf.,  Camp  Grant. — 
DeWitt  H.  Parsons  is  in  France  with  the  309th  Inf. 
—Ensign  Thomas  W.  Bussom,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has 
been  in  service  since  October,  1917. 

Reed  C.  Peters,  Naval  Aviation,  is  stationed  at 
Hampton  Roads,  Va. — Loren  Stiles,  Jr.,  is  engaged 
in  the  Oil  Branch  of  the  Quartermasters'  Depart- 
ment.— Philip  L.  Turner,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C, 
who  was  stationed  at  Field  Hospital  No.  35,  Ft. 
Oglethorpe,  is  now  in  France  with  the  Mobile 
Operating  Unit,  Medical  Department.— Clifford  H. 
Vroom  was  in  active  service  until  last  July  when  he 
was  pronounced  unfit  for  service  at  the  front  because 
of  his  eyes.  He  was  transferred  to  a  Headquarters 
Company  and  afterward  assigned  to  the  office  of 
The  Stars  and  Stripes,  Paris. — Lieut.  Sargent  H. 
Wellman  is  Assistant  Secretary  General  Staff^ 
S.  O.  S.,  Tours,  France. 

C.  Kingman  Perkins,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
of  the  Air  Service,  is  an  expert  in  Aviation 
(junnery.  For  a  time  he  traimnl  and  lectured 
other  men  and  at  j)resent  is  being  trained  in  flying. 
He  writes:  "I  have  been  retained  here  as  a  staff 
pilot,  doing  any  work  that  the  powers  that  be  de- 
sire, riding  observers  around,  testing  various  in- 
struments, wireless  and  so  forth,  in  general  sort  of 
an  odd  job  man  in  the  air." 

Ordway  Tead  is  the  author  of  an  article  in  the 
August  Atlantic  Monthly  entitled  "The  New  Place 
of  Labor."    In  The  Public  for  August  10th  he  wrote 


of  "Raw  Materials  and  Peace."  Mr.  Tead  is  now 
employed  by  the  National  Department  of  Labor  in 
connection  with  the  War  Industries  Board  and  is 
director  of  a  War  Emergency  Employment  Man- 
agement Course  at  Columbia  University. 

A  son,  Alan  Gardner  Orr,  Jr.,  and  a  grandson  of 
William  Orr,  '83,  was  born  on  September  26th  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alan  Gardner  Orr  of  Philadelphia. — 
Lieutenant  Roland  H.  Brock  was  married  last  Feb- 
ruary to  Miss  Mildred  Burpee,  of  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  a  graduate  of  Smith  College,  Class  of  1918. 

1913 

Louis  G.  Stillwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  Street,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Sergeant  Douglas  Urquhart  died  in  France,  July 
29,  1918,  from  wounds  received  in  action  on  July 
22d.  His  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quar- 
terly. 

Charles  F.  Bailey  is  an  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.— 
2d  Lieutenant  Horace  P.  Belden  attended  the  School 
of  Fire,  Ft.  Sill,  and  has  been  recently  transferred  to 
Headquarters  Co.,  29th  F.  A.,  Camp  Funston. — 
Russell  F.  Chapin  is  a  Sergeant  in  the  2d  Provisional 
Regiment,  Camp  Jackson,  in  training  for  Ordnance. 
— Samuel  H.  Cobb,  Seaman  1st  Class,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
is  stationed  at  Pelham  Bay. — Lieutenant  Walter 
W.  Coyle  is  an  instructor  in  Aerial  Gunnery  at 
Hicks  Field,  Ft.  Worth.— Lieut.  Dwight  C.  Ely, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  in  the  Transport  service. — Ben- 
jamin W.  Estabrook  has  been  recently  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Captain  and  is  in  the  Gunnery  Branch 
of  the  Department  of  Military  Aeronautics,  Wash- 
ington. 

Paul  F.  Good  enlisted  immediately  after  his 
graduation  from  Oxford  in  June,  1917,  and  was  in- 
ducted into  the  U.  S.  Navy.  He  was  later  commis- 
sioned an  Ensign  and  ordered  to  Brest  where  he  is 
now  stationed.  He  is  directly  connected  with  the 
Admiral's  Flagship. — Lieut.  Richard  B.  Hager  is  in 
France  with  the  115th  F.  A.,  30th  Division.— En- 
sign Carroll  L.  Hopkins,  Pay  Corps,  L^.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
is  at  present  Assistant  Supply  Officer,  Boston  Navy 
Yard. — Harold  W.  Hutchens,  M.  C,  is  now  in 
France  with  Base  Hospital  No.  33. — Ensign  Robert 
A.  Jenkins,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has  been  transferred 
from  the  DeKalb  and  was  last  reported  at  San 
Francisco,  waiting  orders. 

F.  Carl  Keller  is  a  Sergeant,  1st  class,  in  the 
Medical  Supply  Depot.,  Liverpool. — John  L.  King, 
who  is  a  3rd  Class  Quartermaster  in  the  Naval  Re- 
serve, is  at  the  Pelham  Training  School. — John  H. 
Klingenfeld  has  been  appointed  a  Sergeant  in  charge 
of  statistics  relating  to  the  Tank  Corps  Schools.  He 
is  located  at  Camp  Polk. — Edward  C.  Knudson, 
Asst.  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  stationed  at  the 
Naval  Reserve  Paymasters'  School,  Annapolis. — 
Capt.  Herschel  S.  Konold  has  been  transferred  from 
Camp  Grant  to  Camp  Upton  where  he  has  com- 
mand of  the  37th  Co.,  10th  Battalion,  152d  Depot 
Brigade. 

C:harles  T.  Ladd  is  a  Private  in  the  90th  Spruce 
Squad,  U.  S.  Spruce  Production  Division. — Carl  O. 
Lalhrop,  who  is  a  Lieutenant  in  tlic  Sanitary  Corps 
is  engaged  in  Medical  Research  at  the  Rockefeller 
Institute. — James  F.  McClurc  is  Ordnance  Sergeant 
in  charge  of  the  Ordnance  Detachment,  serving 
with  the  Central  Machine  Gun  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Han- 


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cock. — Allison  W.  Marsh,  who  attended  the  Central 
O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee,  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, Inf.,  and  assigned  to  the  8th  Battalion, 
151st  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Devens. — James  G. 
Martin,  Sanitary  Corps,  is  a  Meterologist  in  charge 
of  the  Weather  Bureau  at  Edgewood  Arsenal,  Lake- 
hurst  Experimental  Grounds. — John  H.  Mitchell  is 
a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Chemical  Warfare  Service, 
Gas  Defense  Division. 

1st  Lieut.  Arthur  J.  Mealand,  322d  F.  A.,  83rd 
Division,  on  his  arrival  in  France  was  put  on  billet- 
ing work,  getting  the  small  towns  ready  for  the  in- 
coming troops. — Ensign  George  D.  Olds,  Jr.,  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.,  is  at  the  Naval  Academy,  Annapolis. — 
Last  September  Kenneth  S.  Patten  enlisted  in  the 
Tank  Corps  and  was  stationed  at  Camp  Colt.  Up 
to  the  time  of  his  enlistment  he  was  employed  in 
the  Disbursing  Section  of  the  Bureau  of  Aircraft 
Production,  Washington. — Harold  H.  Plough,  who 
has  been  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the 
Sanitary  Corps,  is  on  duty  at  the  Brady  Laboratory, 
Yale  Medical  School. — 2d  Lieut.  H.  Hammond 
Pride  is  in  France  with  Co.  G,  111th  Inf. — 2d  Lieut. 
Gain  Robinson  is  in  France  with  Battery  F,  10th 
F.  A. — Private  Lewis  D.  Stillwell,  Medical  Detach- 
ment, 104th  F.  A.,  27th  Division,  France,  has  been 
acting  as  Secretary  of  the  Detachment. — 2d  Lieut. 
Robert  I.  Stout,  F.  A.,  is  Personnel  Officer  at  the 
Artillery  School,  Camp  Taylor. 

Clarence  L.  Tappin,  who  is  in  the  Field  Artillery, 
is  at  the  Central  Officers'  Training  School. — Ser- 
geant Charles  H.  Wadhams,  Co.  A,  106th  Machine 
Gun  Battalion,  27th  Division,  is  attending  a  Ma- 
chine Gun  School  in  France. — Lieutenant  Hunt 
Warner,  who  was  slightly  gassed  last  March,  was 
wounded  severely  in  action  during  the  month  of 
August.  Reports  received  in  September  indicated 
that  he  was  in  a  base  hospital  at  Bordeaux  recover- 
ing from  severe  chest  wounds.  He  has  been  at- 
tached to  the  old  "Fighting  69th"  Regiment,  now 
the  165th  Regiment. — Ralph  S.  Westcott  enlisted 
last  May  and  is  now  at  Base  Hospital  J2,  Camp 
Upton.  He  is  with  the  psychological  group  under 
Capt.  Boring. — Sanford  P.  Wilcox  is  a  Sergeant  in 
Hospital  Unit  Q,  which  is  attached  to  an  American 
Red  Cross  Hospital  in  France. 

Sergeant  William  J.  Wilcox  is  in  France  with 
Headquarters  Co.,  327th  Inf.,  82d  Division. — Harry 
C.  Wilder  is  in  France  with  the  309th  Regiment 
Heavy  Artillery  and  has  been  recently  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Major.— James  E.  Willetts,  117th  Am- 
munition Train,  Rainbow  Division,  France,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. — Louis  G. 
Caldwell,  who  served  for  six  months  with  the  Army 
Ambulance,  receiving  the  Croix  de  Guerre,  is  at- 
tending the  French  Artillery  School  at  Fontaine- 
bleau. — Captain  Thomas  R.  Creede,  Q.  M.  C,  was 
commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  and  stationed  at 
Sea  Girt  with  the  104th  Engineers  until  August, 
1917,  when  he  was  transferred  to  Anniston,  Ala. 
Just  before  being  sent  overseas  he  was  commissioned 
a  1st  Lieutenant  and  Captain  and  sailed  with  Co.  F, 
302d  Stevedore  Train  Regiment.  He  is  now  with 
Co.  D,  336th  Lab.  Battalion. 

Edward  S.  Morse  is  an  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
He  has  been  coxswain  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Vedette,  a  sub- 
marine patrol,  for  almost  a  year,  and  while  serving 
in  this  capacity  took  part  in  a  French  military  re- 


view on  the  occasion  of  awarding  medals  to  soldiers 
and  sailors  who  had  distinguished  themselves  in 
action.  Detachments  from  all  the  ships  took 
part.  The  Vedette  had  the  color  guards  and  Mr 
Morse  was  color  bearer.  They  were  lined  up  at  at- 
tention while  the  medals  were  awarded  and  after- 
wards marched  up  the  avenue  in  company  front  past 
the  reviewing  officers,  the  colors  leading.  Companies 
of  our  army  were  also  there  and  it  was  the  first  time 
our  army  and  navy  had  marched  together  in  France. 

The  June  issue  of  Advertising  and  Selling  con- 
tained as  its  leading  article  a  contribution  from 
Chauncy  P.  Carter  of  the  Bureau  of  Foreigii  and 
Domestic  Commerce  on  "Why  We  Need  a  Real 
Trade-Mark  for  U.  S.  Made  Goods."— Harold  V. 
Caldwell  resigned  from  the  faculty  of  Ohio  Wes- 
leyan  last  June,  to  accept  an  appointment  as  in- 
structor in  the  English  Department  at  Case  School 
of  Applied  Science,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  In  connection 
with  his  teaching  he  is  doing  editorial  work  on  the 
Cleveland  Plain  Dealer.  He  is  living  at  1225  E.  124th 
Street. 

Clark  Monroe  Price  of  Woodmere,  N.  Y.,  mana- 
ger of  the  New  Jersey  Music  Company,  was  married 
on  Saturday,  June  22nd  to  Miss  Henrietta  Florence 
Jay,  daughter  of  former  Judge  and  Mrs.  William 
H.  E.  Jay  of  Hewlett,  L.  I.  —Ensign  Paul  F.  Good 
was  married  September  1, 1917  to  Miss  Dorothy  Col- 
lins, a  sister  of  one  of  his  Oxford  class-mates.  Mrs. 
Good  is  an  English  girl  and  her  parents  live  at 
Exton.  On  August  2,  1918,  a  son,  John  Paul  Good, 
was  born  to  Ensign  and  Mrs.  Good,  at  Brest,  France. 

1914 

RosvvELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  Street,  Boston,  M^ss. 

Flight  Cadet  Walton  K.  Smith  was  killed  in  an 
aeroplane  accident  in  England  July  16,  1918.  His 
death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

Carleton  H.  Brace,  who  is  a  Private  in  the  Sani- 
tary Corps,  Medical  Department  is  stationed  at  the 
American  University,  Washington. — Earle  D.  But- 
ler, who  is  a  Sergeant,  1st  class,  M.  C,  is  in  France 
— Capt.  Dwight  N.  Clark  is  now  Assistant  Division 
Q.  M.  to  the  13th  Division,  Camp  Lewis. — Robert 
N.  Cowham  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation 
Section  of  the  Signal  Corp. — 2nd  Lieut.  John  Her- 
bert Creedon,  A.  S.  S.  C,  is  stationed  at  Scott  Field. 
— Lockwood  N.  Dana  is  a  Private  in  the  Quarter- 
masters Corps,  Section  Z-31,  Camp  Sherman. — 
Frank  H.  Ferris  is  a  Chaplain  on  the  U.  S.  S. 
Mercy. — Lieut.  Frank  C.  Finch  is  in  France  with 
Co.  5,  Machine  Gun  Battalion. 

On  September  16th  word  was  received  that 
Lieut.  Marvin  K.  Curtis,  Aviation  Corps,  had  been 
killed  in  action,  but  subsequent  reports  show  that 
he  is  a  prisoner  in  an  enemy  camp.  Lieut.  Curtis 
received  his  ground  training  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  and  was  then  sent  to  England  where  he 
received  his  commission.  Since  last  July  he  had 
been  piloting  a  fast  scout  plane  on  the  French  front. 

Lieut.  Donald  H.  Brown,  17th  F.  A.,  writes  as 
follows  under  date  of  July  30th:  "We  are  back  in 
active  service  now.  .  .  .  We  have  followed  the 
advance  so  closely  that  we  were  into  the  German 
Lines  one  day  only  a  few  hours  after  they  had  left. 
In  the  building  in  which  we  have  our  office  at  pres- 
ent is  a  printed  list  of  a  French  section  which  had 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


originally  occupied  the  place  before  the  Germans." 
Under  date  of  August  17th  he  tells  of  his  new  assign- 
ment. 'My  assignment  as  Artillery  Aide  to  Gen- 
eral Lejune,  Major  General  commanding  the  Sec- 
ond Division,  came  today,  and  I  am  leaving  the 
regiment  as  detached.  .  .  .  The  General  was 
formerly  in  command  of  Ouantico  and  is  a  Marine.' " 

Lieut.  Charles  Glann  is  in  France  with  Co.  C, 
302nd  Field  Signal  Battalion. — Maynard  H.  Hall  is 
in  France  with  Battery  F,  16th  F.  A. — Stanley  Heald 
was  commissioned  a  2nd  Lieutenant  at  Plattsburg 
August,  1917.  He  was  stationed  at  Camp  Devens 
until  he  sailed  for  France  with  the  303rd  F.  A. — 
Musician  Austin  H.  Hersh  is  in  France  with  the 
29th  Division,  Headquarters  Co.,  llGth  Inf. — Silas 
G.  Hubbard  is  in  the  Ordnance  Training  Camp, 
Camp  Hancock. — Lieut.  Walter  H.  McGay,  who 
was  to  go  to  France  last  December,  received  orders 
a  few  days  before  sailing  to  remain  in  this  country 
and  is  at  Camp  Merritt.— Alfred  E.  Mallon  is  in 
France  with  Co.  B,  29th  Engineers.— Tilford  W. 
Miller  is  a  Sergeant  in  the  Medical  Department, 
Base  Hospital,  Camp  Hancock. 

1st  Lieut.  Theodore  H.  Hubbard  of  the  Air  Ser- 
vice, played  an  important  part  in  a  recent  air  battle 
in  which  eighteen  American  pursuit  planes  worsted 
twenty-five  Fokkers  and  brought  seven  of  them  down 
over  the  German  lines  east  of  the  Argonne  Forest. 
The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  newspaper  clip- 
ping in  regard  to  it:  "The  American  flyers  were  on 
a  special  bombing  expedition,  and  were  flying  in  four 
tiers  of  altitude.  Lieut.  Hubbard  was  in  the  lowest 
tier,  and  was  about  4,000  feet  up.  It  was  his  first 
big  fight,  and  he  declared  things  happened  so  fast 
he  was  dazed.  The  whole  fight  lasted  only  four  or 
five  minutes.  The  Americans  caught  sight  of  the 
Fokkers  through  a  hole  in  the  clouds  and  dropped 
their  bombs  in  the  fields  and  opened  the  attack. 
Lieut.  Hubbard  saw  one  Fokker  rising  rapidly  to 
the  combat,  and  dived  straight  for  it,  sending  it  to 
earth  in  a  nose  spin.  He  got  his  second  in  the  same 
way,  when  he  rescued  one  of  his  companions." 

Herbert  B.  Johnson,  who  has  been  stationed  in 
the  Signal  Corps,  Radio  Division,  308th  Field  Bat- 
tery, is  now  attending  the  Radio  School  at  Mary- 
land having  been  chosen  to  represent  Camp  Sherman 
for  Radio  work.  When  his  course  is  completed  he 
will  rejoin  his  regiment  in  France. — Robert  J.  Mur- 
phy is  a  2nd  Lieutenant  in  the  4th  Training  Regi- 
ment, Inf.  Replacement  Camp,  Camp  Pike,  and  is 
Acting  Adjutant  to  the  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Com- 
mander of  the  4th  Training  Regiment. — Fritz  E. 
Osterkamp  is  a  Corporal,  Co.  A,  321st  Field  Signal 
Battalion,  France. — Lieut.  Charles  B.  Rugg  is  in 
France  with  Co.  L,  102nd  Inf. — Harold  E.  Shaw 
has  enlisted  in  the  Aviation  Service.  After  com- 
pleting the  ground  school  at  Cornell  he  was  sent  to 
the  concentration  camp  at  Camp  Dick,  and  from 
there  to  Ft.  Wright  Field  for  flying  training. 

Charles  M.  Mills  was  commissioned  a  1st  Lieuten- 
ant, Inf.  at  the  2nd  R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Myer  and  at- 
tached to  the  313th  Inf.,  Camp  Meade.  He  was 
later  transferred  to  Camp  Wadsworth  where  he 
served  in  several  different  companies  and  regiments, 
finally  sailing  as  Senior  Lieutenant  with  Co.  M, 
3rd  Pioneer  Inf. — 1st  Lieut.  Kenneth  O.  Shrews- 
bury of  the  Air  Service,  received  his  ground  and 
flying  training  at  Mineola  and  San  Antonio  where  he 


received  his  commission.  He  was  sent  overseas  last 
November  and  is  now  in  the  actual  flying  service 
— Lowell  Shumway,  152nd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp 
Upton,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieu- 
tenant. 

Last  February,  Lieut.  Fred  W.  Stafford  was  trans- 
ferred from  the  Infantry  to  the  Signal  Corps  and 
attended  the  School  of  Military  Aeronautics,  Colum- 
bus, Ohio.  In  April  he  was  ordered  to  Southern 
Field. — Frederick  D.  vSuydam,  who  attended  the 
R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Camp  Devens,  was  commissioned  a 
Lieutenant,  and  assigned  to  Battery  A.  2nd  Regi- 
ment F.  A.,  Camp  Sill. — Richard  S.  Van  Ingen, 
Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C,  is  attending  the  Quartermasters' 
Officers'  Training  School,  Camp  Joseph  E.  Johnston. 
— Lieut.  George  E.  Washburn  is  in  France  with 
Battery  F,  349th  F.  A.  During  the  past  winter  he 
had  been  at  Camp  Devens  attached  to  the  301st 
F.  A. — 2nd  Lieut.  Ernest  A.  Whittemore,  of  the 
Aviation  corps  is  in  training  in  Italy. — Ensign 
Charles  W.  Williams,  U.  S.  N..,  has  just  completed 
a  course  at  Annapolis. 

As  the  Quarterly  was  going  to  press,  news  was 
received  of  the  death  at  Tucson,  Arizona,  on  August 
5th  of  Philip  W.  Payne.  Payne  had  been  in  ill 
health  for  some  time.  He  was  at  one  time  assistant 
in  philosophy  at  Amherst  and  instructor  in  English 
at  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  fraternity.  His 
home  was  in  Omaha,  Nebraska. 

Sergeant  Tilford  W.  Miller  of  Hartford,  Conn., 
was  married  on  Monday,  September  16th,  to 
Miss  Dorothy  Scofield  Day,  daughter  of  William 
Doty  Day  of  Campbell,  N.  Y.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  aunt,  Mrs. 
Lewis  Darling,  Lawrenceville,  Pa.  After  a  brief 
honeymoon  at  Keuka  Lake  in  Western  New  York, 
Sergeant  and  Mrs.  Miller  left  for  Augusta,  Ga., 
where  he  was  then  stationed  at  Camp  Hancock. 
Mrs.  Miller  is  a  graduate  of  Wellesley  College, 
class  of  1915. 

First  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Mead  Darrin 
announce  the  arrival  of  Ralph  Mead  Darrin,  Jr., 
on  May  25,  1918,  at  Pittsfield,  Mass.— A  daughter 
was  born  on  July  11th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wendell 
P.  Shattuck  of  Dundee,  N.  Y. 

John  Cuthbert  Long  is  one  of  the  two  War  Camp 
Community  Service  secretaries  in  Greenville,  S.  C, 
near  Camp  Sevier. — Captain  Dwight  N.  Clark's 
engagement  to  Miss  Mariquita  Putnam  Eddy, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Osgood  Eddy,  Middle- 
boro,  Mass.,  has  been  recently  announced.  Miss 
Eddy  is  a  graduate  of  Radcliffe  College,  and  is  now 
a  teacher  of  English  at  the  North  High  School, 
Worcester,  Mass. 

1915 

J.  L.  Snider,  Secretary, 

Fairfax  13,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Walter  R.  Agard  is  in  France  with  the  304lh 
Field  Hospital,  301st  Sanitary  Train. — Ensign  John 
J.  Atwater,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  attending  the  Naval 
Academy,  Annapolis. — Richard  II.  Bacon  attended 
an  Artillery  School  in  France  and  is  now  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, liattery  A,  15th  F.  A. — Lieut.  Richard 
Banfield  is  in  France  with  Co.  F,  351.st  Inf.,^  88th 
Division. — Lieut.  Kenneth  W.  Banta  is  in  France 
with  Battery  F,  307th  Reg.  F.  A.,  78th  Division.— 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Max  A.  Bengs  is  in  France  with  1st  Co.,  5th  P.  O. 
D.  BattaUon.^ — Clarence  K.  Boucher,  who  is  a  2d 
Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation  Corps,  is  stationed  at 
Mitchell  Field,  Barracks  25. — 2d  Lieut.  Warren 
Breckenridge,  S-l^th  F.  A.,  went  to  France  with  the 
Headquarters  Co.  of  the  90th  Division  as  Billeting 
Officer.— Kenneth  F.  Caldwell,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  in 
training  at  the  Officers'  Material  School,  Harvard 
University. 

Lieut.  Frederick  L.  Chapman,  Jr.,  is  in  France 
with  Co.  F,  302d  Water  Tank  Train.  Previously 
he  was  in  Washington  writing  an  instruction  book 
for  army  motor  truck  drivers,  was  transferred  to 
the  Motor  Transport  Corps  and  trained  at  Camp 
Holabird,  Md.— Kingsley  B.  Colton,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
spent  three  months  in  France  last  summer  in  a  base 
hospital.  On  his  return  to  this  country  in  August, 
he  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
assigned  to  the  Overseas  Naval  Transportation 
Service,  New  York  City. 

Raymond  B.  Cooper,  Q.  M.  C,  Army  Transport 
Service,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st 
Lieutenant. — After  several  months  service  in  France 
J.  Theodore  Cross  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  1st  Lieutenant  and  returned  to  this  country  for 
special  service.  He  is  at  present  assigned  to  the 
58th  F.  A.,  Fort  Ethan  Allen.— Gardner  P.  East- 
man, U.  S.  N.  Aviation,  has  completed  his  course  at 
M.  I.  T.  and  is  now  training  at  the  Naval  Air  Sta- 
tion, Goodyear  Field.^Ensign  Louis  F.  Eaton, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has  been  transferred  from  U.  S.  S. 
Arizona  to  U.  S.  S.  Pennsylvania  and  is  in  charge  of 
the  Radio  work. — 1st  Lieut.  Everett  W.  Fuller, 
Chemical  War  Service,  has  been  ordered  to  France 
for  military  training. — Lieut.  Randolph  M.  Fuller 
is  in  France  with  Co.  B,  106th  Machine  Gun 
Battalion. 

Sergeant  Arthur  P.  Goodwin  is  with  the  638th 
Aero  Squadron,  England.: — George  C.  Harding, 
having  completed  his  course  in  the  non-commis- 
sioned officers'  school,  is  now  at  Detention  Camp 
No.  5,  Camp  Greenleaf. — Louis  C.  Henin,  who  at- 
tended the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Camp  Devens,  was 
commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  and  assigned  to  Co. 
H,  1st  Prov.  Regiment,  Detention  Camp  No.  2, 
Camp  Funston. — John  D.  Hird,  Jr.,  who  has  been 
commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Aviation 
Corps,  is  stationed  at  Park  Field. — Lieut.  George 
H.  Hubner  is  in  Aero  Construction  Company  No. 
15,  France. 

Charles  H.  Houston  served  as  1st  Lieutenant 
with  the  368th  Inf.  until  last  June  when  he  was 
placed  on  detached  service  with  the  22d  Battery  to 
attend  the  F.  A.  Training  School  at  Camp  Taylor. 
At  the  end  of  the  course  he  was  commissioned  a 
2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.,  and  is  now  overseas. — George 
R.  Humphries  attended  the  3d  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp 
Lewis,  and  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant. 
He  then  entered  the  Machine  Gun  Service  and  was 
sent  to  the  Machine  Gun  School  at  Camp  Hancock, 
where,  after  an  advanced  course,  he  was  made  an 
instructor  and  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieu- 
tenant.— Henry  S.  Kingman,  who  has  been  in  France 
for  over  a  year,  part  of  the  time  with  the  Morgan 
Harjes  Ambulance  Corps,  and  part  with  the  Italian 
Ambulance  Corps,  joined  the  French  Artillery  and 
has  just  graduated  from  the  Artillery  School,  Fon- 
tainebleau. 


2d  Lieut.  Edwin  H.  Konold,  F.  A.,  has  been  sent 
to  France  for  a  special  coiU"se  in  Artillery. — 1st 
Lieut.  Robert  R.  McGowan,  Co.  L,  332d  Inf.,  is 
now  stationed  in  Italy.  These  were  the  first  Ameri- 
can troops  to  set  foot  in  Italy  and  they  were  greeted 
with  enthusiasm  wherever  they  went.  Of  late  they 
have  been  in  camp  close  to  the  front. — Charles  D. 
Martin,  Balloon  Corps,  has  received  a  commission 
as  2d  Lieutenant. — Sidney  R.  Packard  enlisted  in 
the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  last  April  and  at  present  is  a 
Cadet  at  the  Officers'  Material  School,  Cambridge. 
— Arthur  E.  Ralston  is  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Mo- 
tor Transport  Service  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  but  at  present 
is  attached  to  the  French  army. — Kenneth  S.  Reed, 
348th  Machine  Gvm  Battalion,  Camp  Lewis,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. 

Edward  W.  Robinson  is  an  interpreter  for  the 
367th  Regiment,  Co.  D,  92d  Division. — 1st  Lieut. 
R.  Alexander  Robinson  III,  326th  F.  A.,  84th  Di- 
vision, graduated  from  the  School  of  Fire,  Ft.  Sill, 
last  July  and  is  now  in  France. — Conrad  Shumway 
was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  at  the  R.  O.  T. 
C,  Camp  Upton,  last  April.  He  was  sent  overseas 
immediately,  attended  the  Gun  School  near  Paris, 
and  is  now  in  the  124th  Machine  Gun  Battalion, 
33d  Division. — James  K.  Smith,  who  completed  the 
Ground  School  course  at  Cornell,  is  now  receiving 
his  Flying  Training  at  Kelly  Field. — Ensign  James 
N.  Smith,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  in  command  of  a  patrol 
boat,  2d  Naval  District. — 2d  Lieut.  Lowell  R. 
Smith,  A.  S.  S.  C,  has  been  transferred  to  Rockwell 
Field,  San  Diego,  Cal. — Phillips  Tead  is  at  the 
Naval  Aviation  Training  School,  M.  I.  T. — Leslie 
T.  Webster  has  enlisted  in  the  Medical  Corps  and 
is  completing  his  training  at  the  Johns  Hopkins 
Medical  School. 

Corp.  George  D.  Whitmore,  M.  C,  is  in  France 
with  Evacuation  Hospital  No.  4. — 2d  Lieut.  William 
G.  Thayer,  Jr.,  Inf.,  was  an  instructor  at  the  4th 
R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Devens. — 2d  Lieut.  Stuart  E. 
Price,  A.  S.  S.  C,  is  stationed  at  Ellington  Field. — 
2d  Lieut.  John  C.  Lind  of  the  Air  Service  is  in 
France. — Stuart  F.  Heinritz,  who  has  been  com- 
missioned a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Signal  Corps,  has 
been  assigned  as  Instructor  at  the  Signal  O.  T.  C, 
Camp  Meade. — 2d  Lieut.  George  D.  Clapperton, 
A.  S.  S.  C,  is  in  France. — Richard  Bancroft  is  a 
private,  C.  A.  C,  having  been  lately  transferred 
from  the  302d  Ambulance  Corps. 

Arthur  H.  Washburn  is  teaching  this  year  at 
Phillips  Andover  Academy,  Ando\'er,  Mass. — John 
M.  Gaus  is  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  War  Labor 
Policies  Board  at  1607  H  Street,  N.  W.,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. — A  daughter,  Elaine,  was  born  on  June 
29th,  at  Medford,  Mass.,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Phili]) 
F.  Whitten. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Lieut.  Thomas  W.  Ashley  was  killed  in  action  in 
France  some  time  during  the  month  of  June.  His 
death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

Lieut.  Robert  Swift  Gillett  was  killed  in  an  aero- 
plane accident  at  Kingsville,  Texas,  September  17, 
1918.  His  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the 
Quarterly. 


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31 


Robert  W.  Smith  is  a  1st  Lieutenant,U.  S.  A.  A. 
S.,  S.  S.  U.  592.— 1st  Lieut.  C.  Baldwin  Peck,  Jr., 
A.  S.  S.  C,  has  been  transferred  from  Waco,  Texas, 
to  Camp  Greene. — Wallace  M.  Leonard,  who  was 
with  the  79th  Co.,  6th  Regiment  Marine  Corps, 
has  returned  to  this  country.  He  was  recently 
awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. — Ensign  Charles  B. 
Ames,  after  acting  as  instructor  for  sev^eral  months 
in  the  San  Diego  Flying  Station,  is  now  in  the 
Information  Section  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Aviation 
Department,  Washington. — Ensign  William  G. 
Avirett  is  now  acting  as  aide  to  the  officer  in  charge 
of  the  Purchase  Division,  Bureau  of  Supplies  and 
Accounts,  Washington. — 2d  Lieut.  Tony  Barone, 
Aviation  Corps,  is  stationed  at  Call  Field,  Wichita 
Falls. 

Wilfred  S.  Bastine,  formerly  1st  Lieutenant  Q. 
M.  C,  attended  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Spartanburg, 
was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  and  assigned  to 
the  106th  F.  A.,  Battery  C.  27th  Division.  He  is 
now  in  France. — Private  Merrill  H.  Boynton,  Co. 
D,  11th  Regiment  Engineers,  has  two  service 
stripes,  having  been  in  France  since  July,  1917. — 
Walter  C.  Bryan  is  a  Student  Flight  Officer,  Naval 
Aviation,  stationed  at  Bay  Shore. — Scott  M.  Bu- 
chanan, U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  attending  the  Officers' 
Material  School,  Naval  District,  Cambridge. — 
Robert  B.  Chalmers  is  a  private  in  S.  S.  IJ.  511,  and 
has  been  driving  an  ambulance  at  the  front  since 
last  Christmas. 

Oscar  L.  Chell,  3rd  class  Radio  Electrician,  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.,  is  stationed  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Nevada. — En- 
sign Franklin  S.  Clark's  address  is  U.  S.  Naval  Air 
Station,  Queenstown,  care  of  Postmaster,  New  York 
City. — H.  Nelson  Conant  is  a  private  in  the  15th 
Aero  Squadron.  Mineola. — Theodore  R.  Dayton 
was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  A.  S.  S.  C.  at 
Park  Field  and  assigned  to  Camp  Dick,  Texas. 
From  there  he  went  to  Payne  Field  for  a  course  in 
advanced  flying  and  is  now  in  France  at  a  French 
Aviation  School. — Sergeant  Alfonso  G.  Dugan  is  in 
France  with  the  122d  F.  A. — Howard  J.  Heavens 
has  been  detached  from  the  101st  Military  Police 
and  assigned  to  the  34th  Aero  Squadron,  2d  Avia- 
tion Instruction  Center,  France. 

Lewis  M.  Knapp  is  in  the  Medical  Department, 
5th  Division,  F'rance. — Lieut.  John  S.  McCloy,  who 
was  with  the  77th  F.  A.,  was  promoted  to  Aide  de 
Camp  to  General  Preston  and  assigned  to  the  160th 
F.  A.,  Camp  Custer. — Ralph  L.  Mansfield  has 
graduated  from  the  Military  School  of  Aeronautics 
Austin,  Texas,  and  been  assigned  to  the  Flying 
School,  Camp  Dick. — 2d  Lieut.  Alan  D.  Marks, 
Aviation  Service,  is  stationed  at  the  Wilbur  Wright 
Field  for  advanced  training. — Sergeant  Donald  E. 
Marshall  is  a  member  of  the  25th  Co.,  Central 
0.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee. — 1st  Lieut.  Lawrence  C.  Mere- 
dith, San.  C,  is  Bacteriologist  of  Evacuation  Hos- 
pital Unit  No.  10,  now  stationed  at  Camp  Dix. — • 
Lieut.  Douglas  D.  Milne  is  in  France  commanding 
a  company  of  draftees  whom  he  trained,  equipped 
and  got  ready  to  .sail  in  four  weeks. 

Sergeant  Murray  J.  Quinn  is  in  France  with  the 
Sales  &  Issue  Commissary,  Q.  M.  C. — John  I  J. 
Rel)cr  is  stationed  at  Pelham  IJay,  N.  Y. — Ensign 
Humphrey  F.  Rcdfiold,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  one  of  the 
officers  of  the  U.  S.  S.  Princess  Matoika. — Edmund 


E.  Sawyer  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  at 
the  3rd  R.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Devens,  and  assigned 
to  the  Infantry  Replacement  Troops,  Camp  Gor- 
don. Later  he  was  transferred  to  the  Tank  Corps 
and  is  stationed  at  Camp  Colt. — Harold  E.  Sawyer 
is  a  private  in  Co.  2,  Motor  Transport  Repair  Shop 
303,  France.  In  July  he  received  a  service  stripe 
for  six  months  in  foreign  service. — Lieut.  Winthrop 
H.  Smith,  Headquarters  Co.,  4th  F.  A.,  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  Corpus  Christ i,  Texas. — Corporal  Wayne 
P.  Stiles,  Battery  D,  301st  F.  A.,  is  in  France.— 
Lieut.  Arthur  P.  White  has  completed  his  course 
in  a  French  Artillery  School  and  assigned  to  ser- 
vice in  the  Heavy  Artillery. — Lee  B.  Wood  went  to 
France  in  June,  1917,  with  the  A.  A.  F.  S.  and  was 
later  transferred  to  the  Motor  Transport  Service. 
He  is  now  in  Motor  Supply  Co.  363. — Laurence 
Young  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Reclamation  De- 
tachment, Camp  Merritt.  He  has  charge  of  all 
salvage  and  transportation  at  Camp  Merritt. 

1st  Lieut.  Paul  S.  Greene,  11th  Aero  Squadron, 
France,  is  acting  as  an  observer  and  Machine  Gun 
man  for  Pilot  Lieut.  Thomas  M.  Ring,  who  has  re- 
cently written  about  Greene  as  follows:  "We  pick 
our  observers  and  team  up  with  them.  I  have  a 
boy  by  the  name  of  Paul  Greene,  a  good  machine 
gun  man  and  a  fine  companion.  He  is  a  former 
pilot  but  has  taken  the  observing  end,  figuring  he 
could  get  more  shooting."  The  11th  Aero  Squad- 
ron was  commended  by  the  Commanding  Oflicer 
for  its  work  during  the  battle  of  St.  Mihiel.  The 
letter  reads  in  part  as  follows:  "This  Group  under 
the  most  difficult  conditions,  with  new  equipment, 
and  pilots  and  observers  recently  arrived  on  the 
front,  has  shown  a  devotion  to  duty  and  an  initiative 
which  has  not  been  surpassed  by  any  troops  on  the 
front." 

Miss  Mary  Harrison  Thayer,  daughter  of  Hiram 
Harrison  Thayer  of  Minneapolis,  and  Corporal 
Julius  Seelye  Bixler  were  married  in  Westfield, 
Mass.,  on  September  21st.  The  officiating  clergy- 
men were  the  Rev.  James  W.  Bixler,  '82,  of  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  father  of  the  bridegroom,  and  the  Rev.  L. 
Clark  Seelye,  President  emeritus  of  Smith  College. 
Lieut.  Charles  F.  Weeden,  Alfred  H.  Washburn  and 
E.  C.  Ferguson  acted  as  ushers,  and  the  Rev. 
Laurens  H.  Seelye,  '11,  acted  as  best  man.  The 
bride  is  a  graduate  of  Smith  College,  class  of  1917. 
— Ensign  George  Homer  Lane  was  married  April 
17th  to  Miss  Susan  E.  Chase,  Smith  1917.  They 
lived  in  New  London  until  May,  when  Ensign  Lane 
went  overseas. 

Lieut.  Craig  P.  Cochrane,  Co.  A,  30th  Regiment, 
is  a  member  of  the  9th  Machine  Gun  Battalion 
which  was  conimciuled  by  the  Major  General  last 
July  for  the  i)art  taken  by  the  Battalion  in  the 
recent  operation  in  which  the  Third  Division 
participated. 

1917 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
Indiana,  Pa. 
Carroll  B.  Low  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  1st  Lieutenant  and  is  now  Adjutant  of  I  lie  2d 
Battalion,  101st  F.  A.,  France.  He  writes  tlial  lie 
went  through  the  Chateau  Tliierry  and  St.  Miliicl 
battles  without  a  scratch,  although  he  did  not  sleei) 
for  60  hours  on  a  stretch. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Robert  Munroe,  Naval  Aviation,  is  a  student  at 
the  Naval  Air  Detachment,  Pensacola,  Fla. — Luke 

D.  Stapleton,  who  has  been  in  France  with  the 
101st  F.  A.,  26th  Division,  since  September,  1917, 
has  returned  to  this  country  and  is  now  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenant, 56th  Artillery,  Camp  Bowie. — Corp.  Frank 
M.  Sleeper,  S.  C,  is  stationed  at  Camp  Alfred  Vail. 
— Private  Walcott  E.  Sibley  is  a  Radio  Instructor 
in  the  10th  Reg.  Radio  School,  F.  A.  R.  D.,  Camp 
Jackson.  — David  C.  Hale,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  C,  is 
attached  to  the  214th  Squadron,  Royal  Air  Force 
(British).  He  received  a  slight  wound  around  the 
face,  but  is  back  with  his  squadron  now. — Lieut. 
Frederick  D.  Bell,  Aviation  Corps,  is  stationed  at 
Park  Field. — Corp.  Henry  W.  Moore  is  attached 
to  the  13th  Training  Battery,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  C, 
Camp  Zachary  Taylor.  Previously  he  was  with  Co. 
17,  5th  Battalion,  153d  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix. 
— Sergt.  Waldo  B.  Ames  is  in  France  with  Co.  320, 
Motor  Supply  Train  405. 

Herbert  H.  Melcher,  who  attended  the  Armorers' 
School,  Wilbur  Weight  Field,  was  commissioned  a 
2d  Lieutenant  and  sent  to  the  Erie  Proving  Ground, 
Port  Clinton.  He  is  now  in  France  as  an  Aero 
Armament  Officer. — G.  Irving  Baily  has  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Captain  and  assigned  to 
Personnel  Work  as  assistant  to  the  Personnel  Ad- 
jutant, Adjutant  General's  Department,  Camp  Dix. 
Ensign  Myers  E.  Baker,  U.  S.  N.  Aviation,  is  Aid 
to  the  Squadron  Commander  and  Flight  Com- 
mander, Key  West.— Carlton  L.  Bell,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
is  attending  the  Officers'  Material  School,  First 
Naval  District,  Cambridge. — 2d  Lieut.  Earle  F. 
Blair,  Sanitary  Dept.,  is  now  stationed  at  Yale. 
While  at  Camp  Upton  he  was  in  charge  of  three 
laboratories  at  the  Base  Hospital. 

Ensign  Frank  L.  Buckley,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  As- 
sistant Paymaster  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Susquehanna. — 
Ensign  Kenneth  DeF.  Carpenter,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
has  been  transferred  to  the  Destroyer  Hull. — 
Lloyd  M.  Clark  enlisted  as  Seaman,  2d  class,  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.,  in  April,  1917,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
U.  S.  S.  Powhatan.  He  was  commissioned  an  En- 
sign and  transferred  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Wadena.  He 
served  in  foreign  waters  for  a  short  time  and  then 
returned  to  this  country  and  was  assigned  to  the 
Naval  Station,  Guantanawo  Bay,  Cuba. — 1st  Lieut. 
Craig  P.  Cochrane,  9th  Machine  Gun  Battalion, 
was  cited  for  bravery  with  his  battalion. — Morris 
A.  Copeland  is  a  private,  1st  class,  Q.  M.  C,  Camp 
Dix. — David  R.  Craig,  Jr.,  has  enlisted  in  the  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.  and  at  present  is  on  duty  in  Washington 
as  assistant  to  the  Officer-in-charge  of  the  Purchase 
Division,  Bureau  of  Supplies  and  Accounts. 

Corporal  Herbert  R.  DeBevoise  is  in  France  with 
the  34th  Engineers,  Co.  I. — Lieut.  Francis  M.  Dent 
is  in  France  with  the  368th  Inf.,  92d  Division. — 
Sergt.  Benjamin  S.,  D'Ooge  is  in  France  with  Co. 

E,  313th  Supply  Train.— Lieut.  Karl  M.  Elish, 
103d  Inf.,  France,  has  been  appointed  Regimental 
Liaison  Officer. — 2d  Lieut.  Henry  I.  Fillman,  F.  A., 
has  been  taking  a  course  in  map-drawing  and  topog- 
raphy and  is  now  teaching  topography  and  orien- 
tation at  different  camps  in  France.  Previously  he 
was  with  Base  Hospital  No.  15. — Ensign  Walter  P. 
Fraker,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  stationed  at  Sault  St. 
Marie  with  the  Section  Patrol. — Henry  H.  Fuller, 
Cadet,  Air  Service,  graduated  from  the  U.  S.  School 


of  Military  Aeronautics,  Princeton,  last  June,  was 
sent  to  Camp  Dick,  Texas,  and  later  transferred  to 
Barron  Field  where  he  is  now  training. 

2d  Lieut.  Charles  C.  Gard,  F.  A.,  trained  as  an 
aerial  observer  at  Ft.  Sill,  and  then  had  a  three 
weeks'  course  in  aerial  gunnery  at  Selfridge  Field. 
He  is  now  in  France. — James  E.  Glann  is  in  France 
in  Co.  F,  American  ^Mission,  M.  T.  D. — Edgar  L. 
Godfrey  has  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  is 
stationed  at  Pelham  Bay. — Elbridge  A.  Goodhue  is 
at  present  with  the  156th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp 
Sevier,  and  is  working  temporarily  in  the  bacteri- 
ological laboratory  at  the  Base  Hospital.  He  is 
awaiting  transfer  to  the  chemical  service. — Lieut. 
Harry  K.  Grainger,  who  is  in  France,  has  been 
transferred  to  the  Aviation  Section  and  is  with  the 
1st  Corps. — James  A.  Hawkins,  Base  Hospital  No. 
6,  France,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Ser- 
geant, 1st  class.^ — 2d  Lieut.  Walter  Hendricks,  A.  S. 
S.  C,  is  stationed  at  Chanute  Field. 

Cadet  Richard  T.  Hobart,  A.  S.  S.  C,  is  stationed 
at  Eberts  Field. — Samuel  A.  Howard  is  attending 
the  R.  O.  T.  C.  at  Waco,  Texas.— 2d  Lieut.  Theo- 
dore Ivimey,  Headquarters  Co.,  306th  F.  A.,  is 
completing  his  training  in  France. — Paul  A.  Jen- 
kins, who  has  been  with  the  108th  Engineers,  is  now 
a  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.,  and  attending  the  Field 
Artillery  School,  Saumur,  France. — Harry  J.  Ko- 
hout  is  in  France  with  the  Headquarters  Co.,  312th 
Engineers. — Ensign  Norman  R.  Lemcke,  U.  S.  N., 
is  now  with  the  Pacific  fleet.  Previously  he  was 
stationed  at  the  Pelham  Naval  Training  Camp, 
where  he  took  charge  of  the  men  after  they  com- 
pleted their  training,  adjusted  their  ratings  and  saw 
that  they  entered  the  branch  of  the  service  for 
which  they  were  best  fitted. 

Edward  F.  Loomis  is  attached  to  the  6th  Co., 
152d  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Upton. — 1st  Lieut. 
William  F.  Loomis,  A.  S.,  has  been  officially  credited 
with  destroying  German  aircraft  on  August  1,  1918. 
—Ensign  Charles  B.  McGowan,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has 
completed  his  course  at  Annapolis,  and  ordered  to 
the  submarine  school  at  New  London. — Lieut.  Ed- 
ward J.  Maloney  recently  graduated  from  the  In- 
fantry School  of  Arms,  Ft.  Sill,  and  returned  to  his 
regiment,  50th  Inf.,  where  he  instructed  a  class  in 
Machine  Gun  work.  He  is  now  detached  from  his 
regiment  and  instructing  at  Camp  Hancock. — 
Eric  H.  Marks,  Chief  Storekeeper,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
is  stationed  at  the  Officers'  Material  School,  Pay 
Corps,  Pelham  Bay.  He  has  been  on  active  duty 
in  the  Coast  Patrol  and  later  in  the  Cable  Censor's 
Office. — Lieut.  Edward  S.  Marples  attended  the 
Small  Arms  Firing  School,  Camp  Perry,  and  was 
then  sent  to  France  with  Co.  K,  341st  Inf.,  86th 
Division. 

Alfred  DeW.  Mason,  Jr.,  152d  Depot  Brigade, 
Camp  Upton,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st 
Lieutenant.  He  is  engaged  in  training,  equipping 
and  dispatching  drafted  men  for  overseas  duty. — 
Sergeant  W.  Melbourne  Miller,  Co.  M,  305th  Inf., 
was  gassed  and  burned  last  August  and  sent  to  a 
Base  Hospital. — Francis  L.  Moginot  is  in  France 
with  the  Headquarters  Co.,  55th  Artillery,  C.  A.  C. 
—Private  Edward  W.  Morse,  Q.  M.  C.  N.  A.,  is  in 
France. — Joseph  J.  Murray  has  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Sergeant,  1st  class,  and  stationed  in  the 
Misc.    Quartermasters'    Co.,    Unit   No.    2,    Camp 


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33 


Johnston. — Richard  A.  O'Brien  is  now  in  France 
with  the  103rd  Ammunition  Train,  28th  Division. — ■ 
Paul  H.  Plough,  who  is  serving  with  the  38th  Inf., 
France,  has  been  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
1st  Lieutenant. 

Edward  R.  Proctor,  Jr.,  is  a  private,  U.  S.  Mobile 
Hospital  No.  2.  He  sailed  with  the  New  York 
Presbyterian  Hospital  Unit  in  May,  1917,  and  spent 
a  year  with  British  General  Hospital  No.  2. — Ser- 
geant Gardiner  H.  Rome,  U.  S.  Base  Hospital  No. 
37,  was  in  England  last  summer. — Alfred  S.  Romer, 
who  was  formerly  in  the  A.  A.  F.  S.,  is  now  a  Ser- 
geant in  the  A.  S.  S.  C. — 1st  Lieut.  Frank  K.  Sanders, 
Jr.,  is  Battalion  Adjutant  (3rd  Battalion)  309th 
Inf.,  78th  Division,  France.- — Eric  Shumway  has 
enlisted  in  the  Merchant  Marine  Corps  and  is  serv- 
ing as  fireman  on  the  Training  Ship  Meade. — 
Lieut.  Whitney  W.  Stark,  Marine  Corps,  who  was 
severely  wounded  last  June,  has  been  appointed 
Assistant  Provost  Marshal.  He  is  wearing  a  gold 
chevron  on  each  arm,  one  for  six  months'  service  in 
the  Zone  of  the  Advance  and  the  other  a  wound 
chevron. 

Jesse  F.  Swett  attended  the  Officers'  Training 
School,  Saumur,  France,  where  he  was  commissioned 
a  2d  Lieutenant,  Heavy  F.  A. — Herbert  G.  Vaughn 
is  in  France  with  Base  Hospital  No.  33. — Robert 
W.  Wadhams  is  in  France  with  Co.  A,  106th  Ma- 
chine Gun  Battalion,  27th  Division. — Pvt.  Henry 
W.  Wells  is  in  France  with  Co.  D,  52d  Pioneer 
Infantry. — Ensign  Wadsworth  Wilbar,  Naval  Avia- 
tion, received  his  ground  school  training  at  M.  I.  T. 
and  his  flying  at  Pensacola,  where  he  was  commis- 
sioned and  ordered  to  Montank,  L.  I. — Capt.  Ray- 
mond E.  S.  Williamson  is  Aide  de  Camp  to  Brig. 
Gen.  C.  D.  Rhodes,  157th  F.  A.,  Brigade  Headquar- 
ters, 82d  Division,  France. 

Lieut.  Jay  J.  M.  Scandrett,  39th  Inf.,  was 
wounded  in  the  Chateau  Thierry  fight.  He  was  re- 
ported to  have  had  a  knife  wound  in  the  shoulder 
which  would  seem  to  mean  that  he  got  pretty  close 
to  a  German.  After  a  month  in  a  French  hospital 
he  was  able  to  return  to  his  division  but  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  59th  Inf. — Thomas  H.  Nelligan  is  a 
1st  class  Hospital  Apprentice,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

At  last  reports  the  following  nineteen  members  of 
the  class  were  reported  as  married:  Appleby,  Baily, 
Brunjes,  Craig,  Dent,  Goodrich,  Hawkes,  Kambour, 
Lanyon,  E.  F.  Loomis,  C.  B.  McGowan,  McLaugh- 
lin, Maynard,  Moore,  Morrow,  Patterson,  Temple, 
Williams  and  Wilbar.    There  are  four  children. 

David  Rankin  Craig,  U.  S.  N.  R.,  was  married 
on  August  22d  at  Noroton,  Conn.,  to  Miss  Eleanor 
Randall  Wilson  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.— T.  Kambour 
was  married  on  May  4th  to  Miss  Mary  Charlton  of 
Marlboro,  Mass. — Lieut.  Palmer  C.  Williams  and 
Miss  Dorothy  I.  Goodrich  of  Taunton,  Mass., 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Lincoln  B.  Goodrich,  '88,  and 
sister  of  Lieut.  Sheldon  B.  Goodrich,  '17,  were 
married  in  Taunton  on  June  3rd,  the  bride's  father 
officiating.  J.  C.  McGarrahan,  "17,  II.  S.  N.  R., 
acted  as  best  man. — Ensign  Charles  Batehelor  Mc- 
Gowan and  Miss  Bertha  Devcge,  daughter  of  J.  A. 
Devege,  (Jeneral  Supt.  of  the  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  and 
H.  R.  R.,  were  married  on  June  1st  at  Deer  Park, 
Md.,  the  ancestral  home  of  the  bride's  fatlicr's 
family.  She  is  a  graduate  of  Mt.  Holyokc,  class 
of  1917. 


J.  G.  Gazley  received  his  M.  A.  degree  at  Colum- 
bia last  June  for  graduate  work  in  history.  He  is 
now  in  service. — Prior  to  his  enlistment  in  the  sum- 
mer, E.  L.  Godfrey  acted  as  special  sales  represen- 
tative of  the  Goodyear  Tire  and  Rubber  Company, 
with  field  of  operations  anywhere  in  the  U.  S.  He 
had  been  busy  studying  trade  conditions,  checking 
up  on  sales  and  endeavoring  to  widen  the  distribu- 
tion of  Goodyear  tires.  During  this  time  he  visited 
every  state  in  the  Union. — R.  A.  Middleton,  turned 
down  by  the  draft,  is  working  in  a  bond  house  in 
Utica,  N.  Y.    His  address  is  263  Genesee  Street. 

C.  F.  Norton  is  in  the  advertising  department  of 
the  Strathmore  Paper  Company  at  Mittineague, 
Mass. — Robert  M.  Fisher  has  entered  Harvard 
Law  School. — Harmon  S.  Boyd  is  doing  laboratory 
work  in  the  physics  department  of  the  bureau  of 
research  at  Washington,  D.  C.  Last  year  he  taught 
at  Rice  Institute,  Houston,  Texas. 

Corporal  Henry  Wilson  Moore  of  Brockport,  N. 
Y.,  and  Miss  Marion  Abbe,  daughter  of  Mrs.  George 
Eugene  Abbe  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  were  married 
on  August  31st  at  the  summer  home  of  the  bride's 
mother  in  Bethlehem,  N.  H. — The  class  boy  of  1917 
is  Harry  Edgar  Maynard,  born  April  2,  1918,  at 
Akron,  Ohio,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Edgar  Maynard. 

1918 

William  W.  Yerrall,  Secretary, 
88  Maplewood  Terrace,  Springfield,  Mass. 

2d  Lieut.  Edward  B.  Greene,  315th  Machine  Gun 
Battalion,  Co.  C,  160th  Brigade,  80th  Division, 
writes  that  his  job  consists  in  getting  all  neces.<!ary 
supplies  from  the  Battalion  supply  to  the  Company 
and  seeing  that  it  is  well-clad  and  fed. — Paul  A. 
Chase,  Private  Co.  E,  304.th  Inf.,  76th  Division,  is 
in  France  and  at  last  reports  he  was  taking  a  six 
weeks  course  in  telephony  at  a  Base  Signal  School. 
—Philip  M.  Breed,  R.  D.  N.  R.,  is  a  2d  class  Petty 
Officer  in  the  Merchant  Marine,  and  at  present  is 
at  the  Naval  Officers'  Material  School,  Naval 
Operating  Base. — Lieut.  John  B.  Brainerd,  Jr.,  has 
returned  from  France  and  was  detailed  as  instruc- 
tor at  the  Plattsburg  Camp  last  summer. 

David  D.  Bixler  is  at  the  Infantry  Replacement 
Camp,  Camp  Lee,  training  men  for  overseas  duty. 
He  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. 
— Ensign  Dwight  B.  Billings,  U.  S.  Naval  Aviation, 
is  at  the  Great  Lakes  Training  Station. — Gaetano 
R.  Aiello  is  purchasing  agent  of  Pomilio  Bros. 
Corporation,  which  is  constructing  model  planes 
to  carry  Liberty  motors. — Ensign  Arthur  R.  Holt 
of  the  Naval  Air  Service  is  stationed  at  Ham{)ton 
Roads. — 2d  Lieut.  Ralph  W.  Myers,  Inf.,  has  been 
assigned  to  the  153d  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix. — 
Merrill  Anderson,  who  has  enlisted  in  Naval  Avia- 
tion, is  at  M.  I.  T. — ('ori)oral  Arthur  T.  Atkinson 
is  with  Battery  D,  112th  Heavy  Field  .Vrtillery,  29th 
Division. — William  H.  Beach  is  a  Coxswain,  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F.,  and  at  i)resent  stationed  at  the  Petty 
Officers'  School,  I'clhani  Training  Station. 

Roger  E.  Bednarski  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, Inf.,  at  Camp  Lee. — Raymond  G.  Beniis  is 
a  private  in  the  National  Army. — Augustus  W. 
Bcnnet,  who  has  enlisted  in  Naval  Aviation,  is  at 
M.  1.  T. — Raymond  I'.  Hcntley  has  been  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  J.  G.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  and 
assigned  to  the  Ice  King,  a  freight  transport. — Roy 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


R.  Blair,  Naval  Aviation,  has  completed  the  ground 
school  course  at  M.  I.  T.,  and  is  now  being  instructed 
in  flying  at  Miami. — Sergt.  Franklin  C.  Butler, 
Battery  B,  103rd  F.  A.,  France,  has  been  made 
instrument  sergeant  and  chief  of  the  special  detail 
of  the  battery. — Gorham  L.  Cross  has  completed 
his  course  in  the  Ground  School  of  Naval  Aviation 
at  M.  I.  T.  and  is  taking  the  course  in  flying  at  Bay 
Shore,  L.  I. — Ensign  Gordon  M.  Curtis,  Naval 
Flying  Corps,  is  acting  as  instructor  at  Pensacola, 
Florida. 

Charles  H.  Durham,  Jr.,  is  signalman  on  the  U.  S. 
S.  Roanoke. — John  K.  Eilert  is  in  the  Ordnance 
Department  at  Bridgeport. — James  T.  Fredericks 
was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  at  the  Artillery 
R.  O.  T.  C,  Ft.  Monroe,  and  assigned  to  Coast 
Artillery,  Ft.  Wright. — Merwin  P.  Hall  is  a  private 
in  Co.  M,  325th  Inf.,  France.— Ensign  Alfred  C. 
Haven,  Jr.,  U.  S-  N.  R.  F.,  is  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Man- 
chavia  in  the  transport  service. — Ensign  Dexter  R. 
Hunneman,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  attending  the 
"Cloyne"  school,  Newport. — Gardner  Jackson  is  a 
2d  Lieutenant,  36th  Co,  3rd  Group,  M.  T.  D., 
Machine  Training  Center,  Camp  Hancock. — Dex- 
ter M.  Keezer  is  1st  Lieutenant  and  Supply  Officer 
of  the  340th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  89th  Division, 
France. — Robert  P.  Kelsey  has  enlisted  in  Naval 
Aviation. — Henry  A.  Ladd  is  in  France  with  Base 
Hospital  Unit  46. 

Owen  H.  Kenyon  is  a  Radio  Operator,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.,  and  is  stationed  on  the  Merchant  Marine 
S.  S.  Pathfinder. — Lieut.  Henry  Knauth  is  in  the 
Fuel  Division  and  his  permanent  address  is  Q.  M.  C, 
N.  A.,  care  of  C.  Q.  M.,  Fuel  Dept.  Am.  E.  F.,  A. 
P.  O.  No.  717.  He  writes,  "Am  cutting  fire  wood 
to  keep  the  soldiers  warm  the  coming  winter.  Have 
Spanish  laborers  doing  the  work,  but  it  keeps  me 
going  to  keep  them  working  correctly.  The  French 
are  very  particular  about  their  forests  and  we  have 
to  do  the  work  just  so." 

W.  Duncan  Macfarlane  has  been  transferred  from 
the  U.  S.  S.  Kearsarge  to  U.  S.  S.  Chemung. — 
Francis  C.  McGarrahan,  who  has  been  attending  a 
Machine  Gun  Training  School  at  Camp  Hancock, 
has  been  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  and  assigned 
temporarily  to  the  8th  Co.,  1st  Group,  Training 
Depot. — 1st  Lieut.  Charles  S.  Matthews,  American 
Air  Service,  has  been  assigned  to  an  allied  squadron 
defending  Paris  from  air  raids.  Last  spring  he  was 
at  an  Aviation  Station  in  Italy  with  Whittemore, 
'15. — Edward  W.  Morehouse  is  with  the  4th  Co., 
1st  Prov.  Battalion,  156th  Depot  Brigade,  Camp 
Jackson.  Previous  to  this  he  was  with  the  U.  S. 
Shipping  Board. 

Ensign  Curtis  L.  Norton,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  who  grad- 
uated from  the  Pelham  Naval  Auxiliary  School,  has 
been  on  duty  in  France  with  the  Transport  Service. 
— Lieut.  Lewis  T.  Orlady  is  in  France  with  the  338th 
Machine  Gun  Battalion. — Morrill  H.  Parkhurst, 
who  enlisted  in  the  Tank  Corps,  has  been  detailed 
to  Co.  A,  303rd  Battalion,  Camp  Colt.— Ensign  T. 
Homans  Parsons,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has  been  on  trans- 
port duty  since  last  February.  At  present  he  is 
stationed  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Harrisburg. — Robert  F. 
Patton  is  an  instructor  in  the  Naval  Radio  School 
at  Cambridge. — Pvt.  Rudolph  W.  Schmidt,  who 
enlisted  in  a  Radio  Corps  in  Kentucky,  is  now  in 


France  with  the  84th  Division,  Co.  A,  309th  Field 
Signal  Battalion. — Malcolm  P.  Sharp  is  a  student 
Naval  Aviator  and  is  stationed  at  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Air  Station,  Miami,  Fla. 

Ralph  E.  EUinwood  of  Bisbee,  Ariz.,  was  reported 
in  the  casualty  list  of  July  4th  as  missing  in  action 
on  May  28th  in  the  battle  before  Soissons.  His 
father  has  since  received  word  that  he  is  a  prisoner 
in  Germany  and  well.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Ambulance  Section,  S.  S.  U.  621. — Philip 
H.  See  has  received  a  commission  as  Ensign  in  the 
Naval  Aviation  Service. — 2d  Lieut.  Donald  B. 
Simons  is  in  France  with  the  338th  Machine  Gun 
Battalion,  Co.  C,  88th  Division. — Ensign  William 
B.  Stitt,  Naval  Aviation,  is  stationed  at  the  Naval 
Air  Station,  Miami. — Ensign  Robert  W.  Story,  who 
graduated  from  the  Naval  Auxiliary  School,  Pel- 
ham  Bay,  has  been  taking  a  special  course  in  com- 
munication work  in  New  York  City. — William  R. 
Taber  is  a  private,  A.  S.  S.  C,  Co.  2,  Regiment  2, 
France. — Lucius  E.  Thayer,  who  served  for  six 
months  in  France  with  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  has  en- 
listed in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

1st  Lieut.  Sigourney  Thayer,  Aviation  Corps, 
is  attached  to  the  12th  Aero  Squadron. — William 
L.  Thompson  is  a  Corporal,  Headquarters  Co., 
309th  Inf.,  78th  Division,  France.— W.  Clyde 
Tooker,  U.  S.  A.  A.  C,  served  with  the  Italian 
Army  for  about  three  months  and  was  then  trans- 
ferred to  France. — Ensign  Clarence  H.  Traver, 
Naval  Aviation,  after  completing  his  ground  school 
course  at  M.  I.  T.,  was  sent  to  the  Flying  School 
at  Bayshore  and  from  there  to  the  Naval  Air  Sta- 
tion, Hampton  Roads. — Rawdon  M.  Van  Dyck  at- 
tended the  Central  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee,  was  com- 
missioned a  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf.,  and  assigned  to 
the  S.  A.  F.  S.,  Camp  Perry. — James  C.  Warren  is 
a  private  in  the  104th  Ordnance  Supply  Co.,  Camp 
Upton.— 2d  Lieut.  William  C.  Washburn,  A.  S. 
S.  C,  is  at  the  Gernstner  Field  Flying  School  where 
he  is  receiving  gunnery  practice. — 2d  Lieut.  Harry 
F.  Wheeler  is  in  the  5th  Co.,  Inf.,  2d  Battalion,  153rd 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix,  doing  special  duty  in 
the  Camp  Personnel  Department. — William  W. 
Yerrall  is  in  the  Depot  Brigade  at  Camp  Upton. 

William  G.  Rogers,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  has  been  rec- 
ommended for  the  Distinguished  Conduct  Medal. 
During  48  hours  he  slept  only  three  and  his  car  was 
running  almost  continually.  The  majority  of  the 
trips  were  made  at  night  under  heavy  shell  fire  and 
through  waves  of  gas.  He  made  23  trips  and  car- 
ried 85  wounded  men. — Carl  T.  Ahlers,  who  has 
been  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.,  was 
formerly  Top  Sergeant,  Supply  Co.,  306th  Inf. 

The  following  letter  is  from  William  G.  Rogers 
who  is  with  the  Amherst  Ambulance  Unit,  S.  S.  U. 
539:  "Oh,  yes,  it's  true.  The  Germans  didn't 
retreat  very  far  without  hearing  from  the  Amherst 
Section!  Leave  it  to  us.  For  once  we  fell  right 
into  luck.  We  saw  the  first  of  the  big  come-back. 
Unfortunately  I  was  away  at  Aix  for  the  first  few 
days,  but  I  was  back  in  time  to  get  a  fairly  good 
idea  of  it.  After  we'd  pushed  them  back  the  first 
stage  we  went  "en  repos",  and  then  two  weeks  ago 

went  back  to  about  the  same  place  again 

The  boches  have  a  new  scheme,  of  not  putting  ar- 
tillery near  the  front  but  using  merely  heavy  guns 


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35 


farther  back;  this  obviously  enables  them  to  get 
the  guns  out  unless  the  Allies  are  coming  very  fast. 
But  those  big  guns  work  havoc.  We  had  our  first 
wounded  man  from  one  three  days  ago.  Heinle 
Hinch  got  several  scraps  of  schrapnel  in  the  fleshy 
part  of  his  leg.  A  big  250  landed  in  the  kitchen. 
About  two  yards  to  the  right  of  where  it  landed 
were  two  carts  loaded  with  nitro-glycerine!  And 
not  quite  as  far  beyond  were  200  litres  of  essence! 
On  both  the  other  sides  were  several  of  the  rest  of 
us.  Joe  Lyman  was  knocked  out  for  a  couple  of 
minutes;  several  of  us  were  covered  with  dirt,  and  I 
got  a  big  stone  dropped  on  my  shoulder.  I  had  been 
shaving  just  on  the  edge  of  the  hole,  and  stepped 
out  to  see  a  car  that  was  coming  in,  which  very 
cleverly  saved  my  valuable  life.  We  are  the  original 
horseshoe  section,  if  there  ever  was  one.  Think  of 
having  been  in  a  year  with  only  one  man  slightly 
wounded!  I  think  it's  the  black  cat  on  our  cars, 
although  that  didn't  prevent  a  shell  from  ruining 
Riefler's  car,  just  after  he  was  safe  in  a  dug-out.  I 
know  it  takes  a  lot  of  narrow  escapes  to  get  a  man, 
•but  we've  had  an  unusual  number  of  them,  every 
one  of  us.  Well,  anyway,  the  boches  are  beating 
it  here  and  there.  The  general  outlook  is  very 
favorable.  The  only  trouble  is  that  people  are  be- 
ginning to  look  for  a  solution  this  year." 

Alvin  Emerson  Harris  died  at  Erie,  Pa.,  August 
3,  1918,  of  creeping  paralysis.  He  had  been  working 
in  a  munition  plant  and  intended  to  return  to  Am- 
herst this  fall  as  assistant  in  English.  He  was  born 
in  Shelburne  Falls,  Mass.,  where  he  prepared  for 


College.  At  Amherst  he  won  a  reputation  as  a 
scholar  and  a  poet  and  contributed  frequently  to 
the  Amherst  Monthly.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Tau  Delta  fraternity  and  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
was  editor  of  the  Amherst  Monthly,  a  member  of 
the  1918  Olio  board,  the  Kellogg  Fifteen  and  his 
class  Debating  Team.  He  graduated  magna  cum 
laude  and  took  final  honors  in  history  and  philos- 
ophy. He  is  said  to  have  had  the  highest  average 
rank  of  any  man  in  his  class. 

The  engagement  is  announced  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Willard  C.  Warren  of  West  Newton,  Mass.,  of  their 
daughter,  Margaret  Moore  Warren,  to  Gorham 
Lamont  Cross  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  of  the  Naval  Air 
Service.  Miss  Warren  is  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1919  at  Smith  College. — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Har- 
ris Floyd  announce  the  marriage  of  their  daughter, 
Gertrude  Marie,  to  Ensign  Raymond  P.  Bentley, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  on  Saturday,  the  eighth  of  June, 
in  New  York. 

Allen  F.  Saunders  passed  the  summer  in  Phila- 
delphia doing  social  work.  He  is  acting  as  the 
Christian  Association  Secretary  at  Amherst  this 
year. — Kenneth  Godwin  is  engaged  in  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
war  work  at  Newport,  R.  I. — T.  M.  Greene  is  war 
secretary  with  the  British  Army  in  Mesopotamia. 
His  address  is  care  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  5  Russell  Street, 
Calcutta,  India,  via  Pacific. 

A  daughter  was  born  to  Lieutenant  and  Mrs. 
Donald  B.  Simmons  July  7,  1918,  at  Des  Moines, 
Iowa. 


ADVERTISEMENTS 


Where  Parallels  Meet 

With  Apologies  to  "Georgie"  Olds 


The  British  View  Point 

From  an  address  delivered  in  New  York,  August, 
1918,  by  Mr.  Val  Fisher,  London  Publisher. 

"British,  manufacturers  who  have 
not  a  dollar's  worth  of  merchandise 
to  sell,  whose  entire  plants  are  em- 
ployed on  Government  work,  are 
keeping  their  advertising  continu- 
ously before  the  public,  because  while 
they  are  perfectly  willing  to  turn  their 
profits  over  to  the  Government,  while 
they  are  perfectly  willing  for  the  sake 
of  winning  the  war  to"  have  their 
factories  commandeered  and  their 
normal  business  completely  stopped, 
yet  they  are  not  willing  to  sacrifice 
their  good-will;  they  are  not  willing 
to  have  their  names  or  their  prod- 
ucts forgotten. 

"And  so  they  continue  their  ad- 
vertising, continue  building  their 
good-will,  so  that  when  the  war  shall 
be  won  there  will  be  an  immediate 
demand  for  the  billions  of  dollars' 
worth  of  merchandise  that  their 
greatly  enlarged  factories  will  then 
turn  out. 

"What  are  you  going  to  do  with  your 
acres  and  acres  of  enlarged  factory  space 
now  employed  in  the  making  of  War 
Products  all  over  America,  if  you  don't 
build  good-will  now  for  the  goods  you  are 
going  to  make  when  the  war  is  won? 

"The  war  has  taught  the  manufacturers 
and  business  men  of  Britain  that  adver- 
tising is  not  only  the  least  expensive  way 
to  sell  goods,  but  that  it  also  has  the  far 
more  important  function  of  BUILDING 
GOOD-WILL — a  good-will  whose  bene- 
fits, especially  in  critical  times,  can  hardly 
be  measured.  British  business  men  have 
also  learned  that  advertising  can  be  used 
in  time  of  war  to  stop  the  sale  of  their 
goods,  and  at  the  same  time  retain  and 
even  increase  the  good-will  of  the  public. 
In  a  few  cases  British  corporations  have 
realized  when  it  was  too  late,  and  after 
irrevocable  damage  was  done,  that  ad- 
vertising would  have  saved  them." 


The  American  View  Point 

From  an  article  in  the  Editor  and  Publisher,  August 

24,   1918,  by  Hon.  William  B.  Colver,  Chairman 

Federal  Trade  Commission. 

Discontinuance  of  even  sharp  curtail- 
ment of  advertising  because  of  temporary 
war  conditions,  would  seem  to  imperil  the 
most  valuable  asset  that  any  business  has 
— namely,  its  good-will.  No  more  faulty 
logic  can  be  found  than  that  which  would 
impel  a  manufacturer  to  cease  building 
for  the  future  by  means  of  advertising 
simply  because  the  output  of  his  factory 
is,  for  the  time  being,  restricted;  or  be- 
cause diversion  of  his  facilities  to  war 
work  has  operated  to  withhold  his  goods 
from  accustomed  markets. 

Dominating  the  minor  considerations  of 
ways  and  means  is  the  big  idea  that  an 
advertiser  is  justified,  in  the  face  of 
suspended  animation,  commercially  speak- 
ing, in  doing  everything  within  his  power 
to  sustain  liis  commercial  integrity  and 
preserve  his  commercial  identity.  Let  the 
corporation  with  such  an  asset  use  its 
surplus,  employ  its  undivided  profits, 
or  even  borrow  money  to  protect,  by 
means  of  consistent  and  insistent 
advertising,  that  invaluable,  intan- 
gible asset — good- will,  which  is  the 
one  thing  that  cannot  be  bought  out 
of  hand  after  the  war. 

They  told  me  when  I  was  a  youngster 
that  "even  the  Lord  can't  make  a  two- 
year-old  calf  in  a  minute."  Big  adver- 
tising spreads  after  the  war  will  meet 
equally  big  spreads.  Business  will  bid 
for  pulilic  attention  and  interest  on  a 
bull  market.  The  purpose  will  be  to  put 
a  punch  into  the  good-will  that  has  gone 
flabby.  The  man  who  goes  into  that  con- 
test with  a  public  attention  and  interest 
which  he  has  never  allowed  to  relax  will 
go  in  with  his  good-will  trained  to  the 
minute.     He  will  win. 


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AMHERST  MEN  IN  FINANCE 

ALBERT    W.    ATWOOD 

ALTHOUGH  it  would  be  hard  to  imagine  a  more  tactless  and  graceless  act 
than  for  a  writer  in  the  Quarterly  to  question  the  wisdom  of  its  editors, 
I  am  about  to  commit  that  very  sin.  To  suggest  an  article  on  xVmherst  men 
in  finance  is  exactly  like  ordering  an  article  on  Amherst  men  who  are  good  fellows. 
One  might  as  well  summon  for  roll  call  all  the  alumni  who  are  handsome,  or  who 
treat  their  wives  well,  or  who  love  their  alma  mater.  The  subject  is  quite  too 
inclusive.  It  lacks  well  defined  limits  because  in  my  experience  few  if  any  men 
are  insulted  by  being  considered  financiers. 

In  moments  of  cynicism  I  have  placed  all  Americans,  male  and  female,  in  two 
groups — those  who  are  utter  blockheads  in  matters  financial,  or  modestly  consider 
themselves  such,  and  those  who  take  cjuite  the  opposite  view  of  their  fiscal  abilities. 
The  logical  fallacies  of  this  classification  are  readily  admitted,  but  the  impression 
persists.  In  all  seriousness  there  is  a  widespread  tendency  among  both  men  and  women 
to  go  to  extremes  in  this  rather  vague  subject  of  finance.  They  either  throw  up 
their  hands  at  the  very  mention  of  investments,  banking  and  kindred  topics,  or  they 
feel  that  one  flier  in  Wall  Street  has  qualified  them  to  accept  the  Secretaryship  of 
the  Treasury  when  Mr  Glass  steps  out. 

It  is  natural  that  an  ever  increasing  number  of  the  graduates  of  Amherst,  or  of 
any  other  college  for  that  matter,  should  assume  a  real  and  active  interest  in  finance. 
That  huge  thing  which  we  call  "business,"  the  means  by  which  the  world  makes  its 
living,  almost  daily  occupies  a  larger  place  in  our  lives.  We  may  bewail  the  fact, 
but  there  it  is  none  the  less.  Science,  invention,  the  demands  of  comfort,  health, 
and  sanitation,  peace  and  war,  democracy — almost  everything  modern  we  can  think 
of — seem  to  add  to  the  extent  and  elaborateness  of  the  business  organism.  And  fi- 
nance moves  hand  in  hand  with  business.  It  may  be  only  the  shadow  rather  than  the 
substance,  the  mere  bookkeeping  of  production  rather  than  production  itself;  but 
it  grows  apace. 

Of  course  the  war  has  enhanced  the  importance  of  finance,  and  renders  defini- 
tion almost   superfluous.     If   we   have   twenty  million  owners  of   Liberty  bonds,  if 


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the  American  people  are  to  become  investors  in  securities  on  a  scale  which  such  figures 
suggest,  then  there  need  be  no  apology  in  asking  where  any  particular  group  of  men 
stand  in  relation  to  this  whole  problem.  If  my  interests  are  primarily  those  of  Am- 
herst, or  of  Methodism,  or  geographically  those  of  Chicago,  and  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
then  my  curiosity  as  to  whether  Amherst  Alumni,  or  Methodists,  or  residents  of 
Chicago  and  Bridgeport  are  qualified  to  take  an  enlightened  and  substantial  part 
in  these  great  movements  needs  no  apology. 

Now  it  can  be  stated  emphatically  that  Amherst  men  have  been  and  are  holding 
their  own  in  the  big  developments  of  finance.  Whether  boastfulness  is  in  order  I  am 
not  prepared  to  say.  An  exhaustive  study  of  the  Williams'  Alumni  list  would  have 
to  be  the  first  step,  and  the  second  would  needs  be  an  equally  close  survey  of  the 
achievements  of  Harvard,  Yale,  and  Columbia  men  with  an  eye  to  relative  num- 
bers, and  so  on  through  the  whole  list  of  colleges  and  universities — an  obviously 
impossible  task. 

One  might  not  expect  Amherst,  with  its  once  ministerial,  and — dare  I  use  such 
hackneyed  words — its  classical  and  cultural  traditions,  to  produce  many  leaders  in 
the  money  marts.  For  here  we  must  face  certain  hard  facts.  I  venture  the  guess 
that  if  one  take  a  group  of  say  a  hundred  of  the  most  distinguished  financiers  in  the 
country,  or  we  might  as  well  say  captains  of  industry,  or  bankers,  or  manufacturers, 
or  any  other  group  of  industrial  leaders,  only  a  very  small  proportion  would  be  col- 
lege graduates.  Most  are  essentially  "self-made"  men.  So  I  do  not  think  we  need 
look  to  any  of  the  colleges  or  universities  as  the  mothers  of  the  older  generation  of 
financiers.  And  when  it  comes  to  the  younger  generation  there  is  naturally  a  ten- 
dency to  patronize  Harvard,  Yale,  and  Princeton.  If  it  be  cynicism,  then  make  the 
most  of  it,  but  the  unadorned  fact  is  that  dynastic  wealth  seems  attracted  like  the 
iron  to  the  magnet,  to  the  prestige  of  those  great  universities.  Quantitatively,  then,  I 
should  be  inclined  to  think  that  a  larger  proportion  of  what  might  be  termed  the 
second  generation  of  finance,  in  so  far  as  it  is  inheritable,  heads  for  the  sunny  slopes 
of  Princeton's  old  town  or  for  the  cities  of  New  Haven  and  Cambridge  rather  than 
for  the  hills  of  Hampshire. 

Exceptions  fairly  bristle  into  view.  But  I  wish  to  escape  the  danger  of  "over- 
confidence,"  of  narrow  self-satisfaction,  of  particularism.  An  ordinary  sense  of  pro- 
portion, not  to  mention  a  decent  generosity,  compels  us  to  admit  that  Amherst  has 
not  produced  all  the  financial  giants  of  our  day  any  more  than  she  has  all  the  states- 
men, authors,  and  divines. 

It  requires  no  stretching  of  the  truth,  however,  to  perceive  a  certain  admirable 
Amherst  quality  in  her  financial  production,  the  more  admirable  because  she  has 
lacked  certain  advantages  which  the  great  universities  have  possessed.  It  imme- 
diately occurs  to  one  that  the  Amherst  men  who  have  distinguished  themselves  in 
finance  have  in  several  notable  instances  an  unusual  power  of  expression,  a  real 
gift  toward  the  simplification  of  problems,  and  a  keen  taste  for  public  service.  Per- 
haps it  is  my  blind  loyalty  to  the  college,  a  remnant  of  sophomoric,  nay  even  of 
freshman  enthusiasm,  but  I  seem  to  feel  a  quality  of  idealism,  of  achievement  other 
than  mere  quantity  accumulation  of  money,  in  the  work  of  many  who  may  be  named. 


AMHERST   MEN  IN  FINANCE  39 

This  much  may  be  said  of  Amherst  men  in  numerous  business  as  well  as  financial 
affairs — that  at  least  a  higher  degree  of  intelligence  marks  their  work  than  that 
of  the  average  run  of  men  in  similar  positions. 

In  each  profession  and  occupation  there  are  peculiar  and  characteristic  pro- 
fessional jealousies.  Professors  seem  to  develop  a  strong  set  of  not  always  too  com- 
plimentary opinions  of  each  other,  writers  would  have  an  equally  large  assortment 
of  jealousies  if  they  were  thrown  in  closer  personal  contact,  and  business  men,  bank- 
ers, and  the  like  have  their  own  peculiar  way  of  sizing  up  one  another.  Two  bank 
presidents,  like  two  members  of  the  same  college  faculty,  may  be  the  best  of  friends, 
but  each  has  a  strong,  well  marked  opinion  of  the  other,  not  all  of  which  is  favorable. 

Bankers,  financiers,  and  the  like,  if  I  may  be  allowed  to  repeat  what  is  after 
all  only  a  personal  observation  and  opinion  that  cannot  be  proved,  have  altogether 
too  strong  a  tendency  to  underrate  the  altruistic  motives  of  their  rivals.  There  is  far 
too  great  an  inclination  to  sneer  at  the  other  fellow's  supposed  pretenses  of  dis- 
interestedness. There  is  always  an  undercurrent  of  opinion  that  what  the  other 
chap  is  after,  "and  we  all  know  it  perfectly  well  is  to  make  money,  big  money,  and  all 
this  talk  about  giving  service  in  his  bank  or  his  factory  is  only  bunk,  or  a  good  adver- 
tising dodge." 

I  have  heard  the  president  of  one  of  the  largest  banks  in  New  York,  in  "sizing 
up"  a  close  business  associate,  a  fellow  director  in  many  giant  corporations  and  a 
partner  in  the  largest  underwritings,  mergers,  etc.,  seriously  state  thaf  to  judge 
the  other  man  one  must  always  bear  in  mind  that  his  animating  motive  is  to  make 
a  big  pile  of  money.  This  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  other  bank  president  has  long 
been  known  to  the  public  generally  as  one  of  the  most  forward  looking  men  and  one 
of  the  closest  students  of  economic  conditions  among  the  more  conspicuous  bank 
presidents  of  the  country.  In  the  same  way  among  a  college  faculty  you  will  hear 
a  member  of  one  department  accuse  the  other  members  of  the  same  department 
as  being  "unscientific,"  or  too  easy  on  the  students,  or  too  popular  in  their  methods, 
or  too  dull. 

Of  course  the  average  banker  just  like  the  average  manufacturer  or  merchant 
desires  to  "make  money."  There  are  few  standards  to  judge  a  bank  or  bond  house 
l)y  if  you  wholly  discard  the  standard  of  profits.  But  admitting  this  as  obvious, 
there  runs  alongside  this  motive  just  as  powerful  a  desire  in  thousands  of  instances 
to  be  of  public  service,  to  do  good  in  the  community,  as  in  any  other  human  occu- 
j)ation.  Let  banker  B  sneer  at  banker  A's  ideas  of  service.  The  outsider  may  be  a 
better  judge.  Just  so  the  student  who  has  received  inspiration  from  a  professor  may 
be  a  better  judge  of  that  teacher's  usefulness  than  another  member  of  the  faculty 
who  knows  onh'  that  the  professor  in  question  never  quite  completed  his  Ph.  D.  course 
and  utterly  condemns  him  in  consequence. 

Perhaps  men  should  not  always  be  taken  at  their  face  value.  But  is  not  that 
measure  often  a  truer  one  than  the  uhderground  slurring  of  the  street.'*  So  I  repeat 
at  tiie  possible  danger  of  being  considered  over  innocent  that  thousands  of  financial 
leaders  in  this  country  to-day,   among  whom   must   !)<>  numbered   many  Amherst 


40  AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 

men,  have  ideals  not  one  whit  lower  than  those  of  any  other  profession  or  occupation, 
and  are  struggling  just  as  hard  to  put  them  into  practice. 

Events  of  a  few  years  ago  have  been  thrown  far  back  into  ancient  history  by 
the  war,  and  most  of  us  have  forgotten  that  the  country  was  somewhat  stirred  up 
not  so  long  ago  by  assaults  made  upon  the  so-called  "Money  Trust."  This  was  a 
most  intangible  beast,  never  quite  tracked  to  its  lair,  never  proved  guilty  of  any- 
thing at  all  definite,  and  indeed  as  likely  to  leave  an  impression  of  innocence  and 
benefit  upon  the  public  mind  as  one  of  guilt.  All  that  was  proved  or  could  be  proved 
was  that  an  enormous  concentration  of  financial  power  existed  in  New  York  City 
and,  as  one  of  the  Congressional  reports  said,  if  I  remember  rightly,  the  "head  and 
front"  consisted  of  J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.,  Kuhn,  Loeb  &  Co.,  the  National  City  Bank 
and  the  First  National  Bank. 

Financial  power  ebbs  and  flows,  rises  and  falls.  It  is  a  fluid  thing.  To-day 
there  is  a  trust  company  in  New  York  which  a  current  investigation  would  place 
with  the  big  four,  thereby  making  a  big  five.  But  the  big  four  was  and  is  a  colossal 
reality.  Those  "in  the  know"  have  always  realized  it.  Here  was,  and  is,  not  only 
the  "  head  and  front,"  but  the  center,  the  core,  as  well. 

Perhaps  some  Williams  man  will  rise  to  confute  me,  but  I  doubt  if  any  other 
college  or  any  University  either,  has  an  alumnus,  and  a  relatively  young  alumnus 
at  that,  ensconced  in  each  of  these  four,  at  least  in  a  position  of  the  first  order  of 
responsibility.  Whatever  else  may  be  said  of  these  four  great  concerns,  it  is  probably 
safe  to  state  that  they  are  the  four  central  pillars  of  the  investment  security  structure 
of  the  country.  They  are  the  four  great  "underwriters;"  in  reality,  the  four  domi- 
nant manufacturers  of  investment  securities  in  America. 

DwiGHT  W.  Morrow,  '95,  Mortimer  L.  Schiff,  '96,  Charles  E.  Mitchell,  '99, 
and  Charles  D.  Norton,  '93,  have  none  of  them,  we  can  be  sure,  quite  passed  beyond 
their  late  forties.  They  are  young,  without  being  infant  prodigies  or  boy  wonders. 
Success  at  forty -five  is  not  a  marvel  to  gape  at;  it  is  well  earned.  Morrow  and  Schiff 
are  partners  respectively  in  the  private  banking  firms  of  J.  P.  IVIorgan  &  Co.,  and 
Kuhn,  Loeb  &  Co.,  and  Mitchell  and  Norton  are  the  presidents  of  the  National  City 
Company  and  the  First  National  Company  respectively,  the  security-investment- 
bond  adjuncts  of  the  two  great  banks,  National  City  and  First  National. 

May  I  be  bokl  enough  to  suggest  that  Mitchell  seems  to  have  the  most  inter- 
esting job  of  the  lot.f*  His  concern  is  at  present  the  largest  "distributing"  house  for 
investment  bonds  in  the  country.  It  sells  the  largest  quantity  of  securities  to  in- 
vestors, and  it  aims  to  sell  even  more.  Mitchell  had  a  huge  organization  to  start  with 
and  he  is  galvanizing  it  into  even  greater  strides.  He  wishes  to  make  the  purchase 
of  a  sound  investment  bond  as  simple  and  easy  as  any  other  article  of  merchandise; 
he  believes  he  has  the  means  at  hand  to  do  it,  and  he  has  back  of  his  organization 
the  largest  bank  in  this  hemisphere.  He  is  the  country's  foremost  retail  merchan- 
diser of  securities,  and  he  fully  realizes  the  responsibilities  of  his  position. 

I  do  not  think  anyone  who  talks  to  Mitdiell  more  than  half  a  minute  will  doubt 
that  he  is  a  man  of  action.  Superficially  he  would  appear  to  have  all  the  qualities 
that  make  for  success,  but  much  more  delightful  to  one  who  is  occasionally  bored  by 


AMHERST  MEN  IN  FINANCE  41 

too  much  success  is  the  possession  of  a  real  gift  of  expression.  He  never  lacks  ideas 
and  he  puts  them  into  words  that  go  straight  to  the  heart  of  the  matter.  Not  only 
can  he  talk  on  his  feet,  but  he  can  talk  sitting  down.  He  has  something  to  say,  and 
says  it  to  the  point. 

Mitchell  came  into  the  big  financial  league,  so  to  speak,  through  manufac- 
turing, Norton  through  insurance,  Morrow  through  the  law,  and  SchiflF  grew  up  in  it. 

Unfortunately  I  cannot  say  whether  Norton's  job  is  interesting  or  not.  Like 
Mitchell,  he  is  the  head  of  the  security  investment  end  of  his  bank,  but  it  does  not 
appear  to  seek  a  vast  list  of  customers.  The  First  National  Bank  of  New  York  is 
distinctly,  and  I  say  it  seriously  without  a  trace  of  disrespect  or  even  sarcasm,  not 
only  a  rich  man's  bank,  but  a  multi-millionaire's  bank.  It  has  few  customers  and  I 
suppose  it  is  supremely  lucky  to  be  able  to  build  up  a  business  of  several  hundreds  of 
millions  on  the  savings  of  a  few  men  and  a  few  corporations. 

But  to  manage  the  investments  of  a  few  near  billionaires  can  hardly  be  as  in- 
teresting as  an  attempt  to  popularize  and  democratize  the  whole  field  of  investment. 
The  First  National  Company  and  the  First  National  Bank,  however,  form  a  mighty 
big  cog  in  the  inside  machinery  of  finance.  Nor  is  Norton  satisfied  merely  to  direct 
such  a  large  money  engine.  Norton  gave  up  his  work  for  a  year  and  went  to  Wash- 
ington as  a  member  of  the  National  War  Work  Council  of  the  Red  Cross,  where  he 
took  hold  of  that  vital  work  with  the  same  spirit  of  enthusiastic  service  with  which 
he  did  so  much  to  awaken  a  civic  spirit  in  Chicago. 

Mitchell,  Morrow,  and  Schiff  do  not  confine  themselves  to  business  by  any 
means.  Mitchell  has  been  one  of  a  small  group  of  a  half  dozen  which  has  borne  the 
executive  brunt  of  the  sale  of  four  Liberty  Loans  in  New  York  City.  Morrow  not 
only  has  handled  more  than  his  share  of  the  difficult  problems  which  a  banking  house 
like  Morgan  has  had  to  solve  since  the  European  war  broke  out,  but  has  in  addition 
been  in  charge  of  the  prison  reform  situation  in  New  Jersey  and  was  the  head  of  the 
war  savings  movement  in  that  state.  He  has  also  done  a  remarkable  piece  of  work 
in  France  and  England  as  council  to  the  Inter-Allied  Maritime  Transport  Council. 

Morrow  is  another  Amherst  man  gifted  to  an  unusual  degree  with  the  power 
of  clear  thinking  and  remarkably  clear  expression.  The  details  of  his  service  in  help- 
ing to  arrange  the  financial  relations  between  the  Allies  and  this  country  in  the  early 
stages  of  the  war  will  some  day  make  a  most  interesting  story.  In  his  work  perhaps 
the  dominant  trait  is  an  intensity  of  concentration  which  never  escapes  the  notice 
of  even  the  most  unobservant  person. 

Schiff  has  shown  his  public  spirit  by  the  arduous  labor  which  he  has  put  upon 
tax  reforms  in  New  York  state.  He  is  another  straight  thinking,  straight  spoken 
Amherst  man,  and  while  he  obviously  has  not  reached  his  present  position  as  exclu- 
sively through  his  own  efforts  as  the  other  three,  there  can  be  no  holding  back  from 
the  paths  of  success  such  a  vigorous  personality  as  his. 

To  the  understanding  of  finance  as  distinguished  from  its  practice,  Amherst  has 
added  much  qualitatively,  if  not  quantitatively.  Alexander  1).  Noyes,  '83,  financial 
editor  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  stands  easily  at  the  head  of  his  profession  in 
America,  indeed  so  far  ahead  of  any  rival  that,  to  use  a  hackneyed  phrase,  he  stands 


42  AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 

in  a  class  by  himself.     His  clear,  authoritative,  disinterested  articles  have  now  for 
many  years  been  the  last  word  journalistically  on  these  subjects. 

Collin  Armstrong,  '77,  and  Daniel  F.  Kellogg,  '86,  were  successive  financial 
editors  of  the  New  York  Sun  and  spoke  with  as  unmistakable  an  accent  of  authority 
as  any  writers  in  the  country.  Kellogg's  style  was  a  joy  to  all  who  had  occasion  to 
follow  his  articles,  and  his  rare  speeches  are  gems  of  the  same  clarity  of  thought 
and  expression. 

Underlying  the  everyday  practice  and  preaching  on  finance  is  the  theory  of 
economics,  and  in  this  field  America  has  had  no  more  brilliant  student  than  Prof. 
John  B.  Clark,  '72,  of  Columbia. 

Naturally,  Amherst  men  have  not  all  settled  in  or  migrated  to  New  York  City. 
On  the  Pacific  Coast  one  of  the  strongest  and  most  influential  banks,  the  Ladd-Tilton, 
of  Portland,  Oregon,  is  managed  by  William  M.  Ladd,  '78.  Another  banker  on  the 
Pacific  Coast  is  George  W.  Lewis,  '93,  of  San  Francisco.  Stuart  W.  Wells,  '00,  of 
Minneapolis,  is  a  partner  of  Wells  &  Dickey,  one  of  the  most  enterprising  and  best 
known  firms  of  farm  mortgage  bankers  in  the  country.  Other  bank  officers  are  Clay 
H.  Hollister,  '86,  president  of  the  Old  National  Bank  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. ;  Arthur 
M.  Heard,  '88,  president  of  the  Amoskeag  National  Bank,  Manchester,  N.  H.;  Ar- 
thur B.  Chapin,  '91,  vice  president  of  the  American  Trust  Co.  of  Boston;  Osgood  T. 
Eastman,  '86,  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Omaha,  Neb.;  Ernest  M.  Whitcomb, 
'04,  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Amherst,  Mass.;  Louis  V.  Hubbard, 
'87,  vice  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Montclair,  N.  J.;  and  Emerson  G. 
Gaylord,  '06,  president  of  the  Cabot  Trust  Company  of  Chicopee,  Mass.;  Frederick 
S.  Bale,  '06,  is  a  partner  in  the  bond  and  note  brokerage  firm  of  George  H.  Burr 
and  Company  of  New  York;  F.  Winchester  Denio,  '06,  is  vice-president  of  the 
Old  Colony  Trust  Co.,  of  Boston;  James  McCluney,  '03,  headquarters  at  St.  Louis, 
is  perhaps  the  largest  commerical  paper  broker  in  the  Southwest,  and  William  C. 
Breed,  '93,  was  chairman  of  the  New  York  City  Red  Cross  drive  in  which  a  total  for 
the  country  of  $100,000,000  was  raised.  While  it  would  be  impossible,  obviously,  to 
mention  all  the  sons  of  Amherst  who  have  given  themselves  to  Liberty  Loan  work, 
it  may  not  be  out  of  place  to  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  Howard  S.  Kinney,  1900, 
has  been  one  of  the  chief  men  in  the  permanent  executive  organization  of  the  Phil- 
adelphia Federal  Reserve  district. 

Naturally,  there  are  a  number  of  Amherst  men  who  are  brokers  in  New  York 
City.  Willis  D.  Wood,  '94,  is  a  member  of  the  governing  committee  of  the  New- 
York  Stock  Exchange,  and  is  a  close  student  of  railroad  securities.  Maurice  L. 
Farrell,  '01,  started  out  by  being  a  financial  writer,  and  was  for  a  time  managing  edi- 
tor of  the  leading  financial  daily  in  the  country,  the  Wall  Street  Journal.  But  the 
close  study  which  he  made  of  a  particular  class  of  securities,  the  Standard  Oil  stocks, 
soon  rendered  him  invaluable  as  a  partner  in  one  of  the  largest  brokerage  houses  in 
the  "Street."  In  Boston,  John  E.  Oldham,  '88,  of  Merrill,  Oldham  &  Co.,  has  made 
a  sound  reputation  for  himself  as  being  an  authority  on  railroad  securities.  One 
hears  of  him  in  that  connection  not  only  in  Boston  but  in  New  York  and  Wash- 
ington. 


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It  is  questionable  how  far  this  article  should  venture  over  into  the  general  field 
of  industry  or  into  the  legal  profession,  whose  every  member  appears  sooner  or  later 
to  develop  financial  aspirations.  Amherst  h  as  its  share  of  representatives  at  the 
head  of  great  industries,  notable  among  whom  are  Arthur  C.  James,  '89,  of  Phelps, 
Dodge  &  Co.,  copper,  and  the  Pratt  brothers  in  Standard  Oil.  Both  the  Pratts 
and  James  are  also  powerful  factors  in  several  of  the  larger  financial  institutions  in 
New  York. 

JoHX  S.  RuxNELLS,  '65,  president  of  the  Pullman  Company,  was  a  lawyer,  as 
was  Starr  J.  Murphy,  '81,  who  stands  so  high  in  the  councils  of  John  D.  Rockefeller, 
and  whose  position  and  influence  with  Mr.  Rockefeller  make  him  in  reality  one  of 
the  great  factors  to  reckon  with  in  affairs  financial.  Naturally,  no  individual  has 
more  influence  upon  investments  than  Mr.  Rockefeller.  H.  C.  Folger,  '79,  president 
of  the  Standard  Oil  Company  of  New  York,  and  formerly  secretary  of  the  old  parent 
Standard  Oil  Company,  started  as  a  humble  statistician  and  has  won  his  way  to 
industrial  leadership.  Charles  B.  Raymond,  '88,  is  a  vice  president  of  the  B.  F. 
Goodrich  Rubber  Company. 

William  H.  Mooke,  '71,  was  formerly  one  of  the  chief  owners  and  organizers 
of  the  Rock  Island  system  of  railroads.  He  was  an  outstanding  figure  of  the  great 
period  of  industrial  formation  that  began  about  1900.  A  younger  alumnus,  Roberts 
Walker,  '90,  although  primarily  a  lawyer,  has  been  one  of  the  country's  closest  stu- 
dents of  railroads,  corporate  organization  and  reorganization,  and  the  corporate 
aspects  of  taxation.  He,  too,  has  the  characteristically  Amherst  faculty  of  clear 
expression.  His  papers  on  such  subjects  as  the  corporate  mortgage  are  pungent, 
incisive,  vivid.  He  makes  what  might  to  the  uninitiated  seem  like  a  dull  subject  a 
live  and  intensely  interesting  one.  Language  for  him  is  not  to  conceal  thought  but 
to  make  it  lucid  with  words  that  glow  with  meaning.  And  if  I  have  seemed  to  over- 
emphasize the  point  of  clear  expression  in  this  article  I  have  no  apology  to  oflFer. 
It  may  be  a  small  point  to  make  perhaps,  but  it  is  enough  in  a  W'orld  full  of  turbidity. 


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TOUT  CE  QUE  NOUS  AVONS  EST  A  VOUS* 


JANE    C.    CROWELL 

"All  that  we  have  is  yours!"     The  clarion  cry 
Of  those  who  faltered  not  nor  knew  a  fear 
But  through  barrage  of  fire,  though  life  was  dear. 
Risked  all  but  glory  while  they  charged  to  die. 
"All  that  we  have  is  yours!"     Their  bodies  lie, 
Mute  testimony,  but  the  world  shall  hear 
Their  sacrificial  message  ringing  clear. 
And,  swift  saluting,  evil's  might  defy. 
"All  that  we  have  is  yours!"     The  gift  supreme 
They  gave,  mere  lads,  a  heritage  divine. 
For  us.     Shall  we  not  royally  receive. 
And  prove  their  valor  answered,  not  a  dream. 
But  truth  eternal  which  undimmed  shall  shine 
Till  all  mankind  shall  glory  to  believe! 


Merrill  Stanton  Gaunt,  '14 
Frank  Janvier  McFarland,  '12 
Roger  Conant  Perkins,  '17 
Charles  Wesley  Chapman,  Jr., 
Harry  Albert  Bullock,  '99 
Thomas  Williams  Ashley,  '16 
Walton  Kimball  Smith,  '14 
Frank  Christopher  Brough,  '14 
Douglas  Urquhart,  '13 
Robert  Belville  Woodbury,  '08 
Robert  Swift  Gillett,  '16 
Gordon  Robert  Hall,  '09 
Kenneth  Rouse  Otis,  '04 
William  Stewart  Lahey,  '12 


Isadore  David  Levy,  '11 
Morrill  Holden  Parkhurst,  '18 
Daniel  Stevenson  Smart,  '14 
'18  Robert  Harry  Scott,  '07 

George  Littleton  Dawson,  '12 
Austin  Herman  Hersh,  '14 
Thomas  Bradford  Boardman,  '18 
Robert  Clinton  Hanford,  '14 
Harris  Losee  Haight,  '12 
Wallace  Minot  Leonard,  Jr.,  '16 
Henry  Martin  Young,  '20 
Charles  Putnam  Searle,  '07 
Birdseye  Blakeman  Lewis,  '10 
Ralph  Norton  Dawes,  '13 


*  These  words  are  written  on  the  entrance  hall  of  the  Converse  Memorial  Library  above  the  names  of  the  Amherst  men 
have  given  their  lives  in  the  Great  War. 


THE  COLLEGE  YEAR 


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THE   COLLEGE  YEAR 


The  alumnus  who 
From  Camp  to       hoped     that     "Ara- 
College  herst    has    survived 

the  strenuous  busi- 
ness of  war"  would  have  felt  a  glow  of 
satisfaction  last  month,  could  he  have 
seen  the  return  from  the  camps  of  Seniors 
and  Juniors,  and  the  flexibility  which 
Amherst  showed  in  making  the  adjust- 
ment from  camp  to  college.  With  a  few 
exceptions,  the  sixteen  Faculty  members 
who  have  been  engaged  in  war  work  are 
teaching  again,  and  students  and  Faculty 
alike  seem  to  have  a  new  appreciation  of 
the  value  of  the  enterprise  of  learning. 
It  seems  clear  that  the  winter  and  spring 
of  the  college  year  1918-19  will  see  Am- 
herst again  functioning  as  a  college  of 
liberal  training,  and  the  rich  background 
of  Amherst  life — the  sports,  the  music, 
the  dramatics,  the  Christian  Association, 
the  publications,  the  debating,  the  social 
life — again  restored. 

The  demobiliza- 
tion of  the  Amherst 
Unit  of  the  Students' 
Army  Training 
Corps  began  on  December  11.  Including 
the  men  under  eighteen,  enrolled  in  the 
Corps  but  not  inducted,  there  were  in 
college  on  that  date  338  men,  of  whom 
109  were  special  students.  Last  month 
the  enrollment  was  as  follows:  Seniors, 
48;  Juniors,  94;  Sophomores,  93;  Regu- 
ilar  Freshmen,  111;  Special  Freshmen, 
'30;  a  total  of  376.  To  enable  former 
students  who  had  been  in  military  serv- 
ice to  return  to  college,  the  Faculty 
\'oted  to  give  full  academic  credit  to  for- 
mer students  who  had  been   absent   in 


Demobilization 

Its  Effect  on 

Numbers 


Government  Service,  and  also  to  open  a 
number  of  courses  to  men  returning  to 
college  late  in  the  year. 

As     a   war   emer- 
On  the  gency    measure    the 

Curriculum  Faculty  had  voted  to 

receive  as  special  stu- 
dents graduates  of  a  four-year  High 
School  course  or  those  having  equivalent 
educational  qualifications.  With  the  pass- 
ing of  the  emergency  this  vote  was  re- 
scinded, and  continuing  the  policy  which 
has  obtained  for  some  years,  special  stu- 
dents will  no  longer  be  received.  The 
entrance  requirements  will  be  the  same 
as  before  the  war.  All  of  the  Emergency 
War  Courses  such  as  Military  Law,  To- 
pography and  Map  Drawing,  Sanitation 
and  Hygiene  have  been  discontinued,  and 
in  the  new  year  the  only  change  in  the 
curriculum  from  the  pre-war  basis  will  be 
the  offering  of  the  beginners'  courses 
to  men  returning  late. 

With    the   coming 
On  Fraternity        of    peace,    the    War 
Life  Department      with- 

drew its  restrictions 
on  fraternity  activities,  and  the  college 
authorities  announced  that  they  consid- 
ered it  very  desirable  that  the  fraternity 
houses  be  reopened  as  soon  as  feasible, 
in  order  that  the  usual  conditions  of  col- 
lege life  and  study  might  be  restored. 
Accordingly,  on  the  opening  of  college  in 
January,  all  but  one  of  the  fraternity 
houses  were  prepared  to  lodge  their  mem- 
bers, hold  their  usual  meetings  and  give 
the  freshmen,  especially,  the  influences 
of  fraternity  life  which  are  such  a  large 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


factor  at  Amherst  in  a  student's  pleasure 
and  development.  Approximately  188 
men  will  be  living  in  the  fraternity  houses 
this  term.  These  will  be  distributed 
about  as  follows:  Alpha  Delta  Phi  21; 
Delta  Upsilon  20;  Psi  Upsilon  14;  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  20;  Chi  Psi  13;  Chi  Phi 
21;  Beta  Theta  Pi  14;  Theta  Delta  Chi 
14;  Phi  Delta  Theta  14;  Phi  Gamma 
Delta  10;  Phi  Kappa  Psi  15;  Delta  Tau 
Delta  12. 

The  military   authorities 
On  at  Amherst  encouraged  the 

Sports  carrying  on  of  the  usual  fall 
sports  but  the  influenza  epi- 
demic and  the  policy  of  selecting  men  at 
frequent  intervals  for  training  at  Officers' 
Camps  made  this  exceedingly  difficult.  Am- 
herst now  returns  to  its  regular  program  of 
organized  sport.  The  importance  attached 
to  this  program  by  the  college  authori- 
ties is  shown  by  the  appeal  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  College  in  his  annual  report  for 
the  early  completion  of  Hitchcock  Field. 

Hitchcock  Field  is  a  playground  for 
the  whole  college.  Early  in  September 
the  freshmen,  under  a  competent  instruc- 
tor, are  put  through  setting-up  exercises, 
and  then  tried  out  in  every  kind  of  field 
event,  high  jump,  broad  jump,  hurdling, 
putting  the  shot,  etc.,  with  a  view  to  im- 
proving each  man's  all-round  develop- 
ment as  well  as  finding  some  special  form 
of  event  which  each  can  excel  in.  This  is 
preparatory  to  the  "Cider  Meet"  in  Oc- 
tober, the  annual  field  contest  between 
the  freshmen  and  sophomore  classes. 
After  the  "Cider  Meet"  the  freshmen 
class  is  divided  into  teams  and  plays  more 
vigorous  games,  such  as  basketball,  and 
soccer.  This  procedure  is  required  of  all 
freshmen  except  those  who  cannot  swim, 
who  go  to  the  Pratt  Natatorium  three 
times  a  week  for  instruction  in  swim- 
ming. 

During  the  autumn  months  the  sopho- 


mores and  juniors  are  required  to  engage 
in  some  sort  of  outdoor  sport  three  times 
a  week.  They  have  their  choice  of  cross- 
country running,  soccer,  tennis,  basket- 
ball, golf,  and  football.  There  is  an  inter- 
class  soccer  contest  between  the  three 
lower  classes  for  which  there  has  been  a 
large  number  of  entries  and  much  inter- 
est. A  full  sized  soccer  football  on  a  ped- 
estal is  the  trophy  competed  for.  There 
is  also  in  the  autumn  an  interclass  tennis 
contest  between  the  freshmen  and  sopho- 
more classes  conducted  by  the  Tennis  As- 
sociation and  interclass  baseball,  as  well 
as  basketball,  golf,  and  varsity  football. 

During  the  winter  months  the  students 
in  the  three  lower  classes  are  arranged 
according  to  ability.  In  the  most  ad- 
vanced class  a  student  is  allowed  to  elect 
from  several  activities,  boxing,  wrestling, 
squash,  hand-ball,  etc.,  and  of  late  the 
work  has  been  made  more  varied  by  the 
introduction  of  games,  free  play,  and 
"stunts."  During  the  winter  there  is 
also  an  interclass  and  interfraternity  relay 
race  on  the  board  track  back  of  the  Pratt 
gymnasium.  There  is  also  in  the  Natato- 
rium an  interclass  swimming  meet,  a  relay 
race  with  ten  men  from  each  class.  The 
swimming  requirement  is  that  freshmen 
must  swim  four  lengths  of  the  pool  and 
the  sophomores  eight  lengths.  There  is 
interclass  hockey  on  Pratt  Rink. 

After  the  spring  vacation  baseball,  ten- 
nis, and  track  are  the  principal  sports  in 
the  open.  There  is  an  interfraternity 
baseball  series  composed  of  two  leagues 
of  fourteen  teams.  There  are  forty-three 
games  in  the  series  with  three  finals  be- 
tween the  winners  of  each  league.  About 
one  hundred  and  fifty  men  take  part.  No 
varsity  men  are  eligible.  There  is  also  an 
interfraternity  and  interclass  track  meet, 
a  man  entering  both  for  his  class  and  his 
fraternity,  with  a  silver  cup  as  a  prize. 
The  series  determines  the  college  cham- 


THE  COLLEGE  YEAR 


47 


pion  and  the  college  team  for  the  intercol- 
legiate contest.  There  are  also  interclass 
tennis  contests. 

At      the      regular 
The^Mee^ting        November     meeting 

I  Cor*I,oration         ^f     the     Board     of 

Trustees,  held  in 
Springfield,  President  Meiklejohn  pre- 
sented his  second  formal  report  upon  the 
state  of  the  college,  a  copy  of  which  will 
be  sent  to  every  graduate  and  former  stu- 
dent. Three  members  of  the  Faculty 
were  promoted.  Associate  Prof essor  Joseph 
0.  Thompson,  '84,  to  be  Professor  of 
Physics,  Associate  Professor  Herbert  P. 
Gallinger,  '93,  to  be  Professor  of  History, 
and  Associate  Professor  Otto  Manthey- 
Zorn,  to  be  Professor  of  German;  and 
two  resignations  were  accepted,  that  of 
Associate  Professor  of  Physics,  William 
R.  Westhafer  who  becomes  Professor  of 
Physics  at  Wooster  College,  and  that  of 
Associate  Professor  of  Mathematics  Lau- 
rence H.  Parker,  who  goes  to  France  to 
engage  in  the  Educational  War  Work  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  The  appointment  of 
two  new  members  of  the  Faculty  was 
announced,  that  of  Mr.  John  Dickinson, 
instructor  ad  interim  in  history,  and  Mr. 
Emerson  H.  Swift,  instructor  ad  interim 
in  Greek.  Mr.  Dickinson  took  his  first 
degree  at  Johns  Hopkins  and  his  Master's 
degree  at  Princeton.  He  is  taking  Pro- 
fessor Thompson's  courses  in  American 
History  while  Professor  Thompson  is  in 
France.  Mr.  Swift  is  a  graduate  of 
Williams,  has  been  a  student  at  the 
American  School  of  Classical  Studies  at 
Athens,  and  of  late  has  been  a  graduate 
student  at  Princeton. 

In    November    it 
The  Sage  was  announced  that 

Bequest  the   late  Mrs.   Mar- 

garet Olivia  Sage, 
widow  of  the  late  Russell  Sage,  liad  be- 


queathed the  residuum  of  her  estate  to 
fifty-two   philanthropic   and   educational 
institutions  of  which  Amherst  is  one.     It 
is  not  yet  known  what  the  exact  amount 
of  each  share  will  be  but  it  is  thought 
that  after  the  payment  of  taxes  it  will 
amount  to  about  $600,000.     This  is  the 
largest  single  gift  which  Amherst  has  ever 
received,  although  since  1912  there  have 
been   a   large   number   of   notable   gifts. 
Among  those  referred  to  by  the  President 
in  his  report  to  the  Trustees  are  "The 
George  Daniel  Olds  Professorship  Fund 
in    Economics    amounting    to    $100,000 
from  an  unknown  donor,  the  Rufus  Tyler 
Lincoln  Professorship   Fund  in   Science, 
with  preference  for  Biology,  Physics,  and 
Chemistry     in     order,     amounting     to 
$100,000  given  by  Mrs.  Rufus  Pratt  Lin- 
coln in  memory  of  her  son,  the  Alumni 
Fund  which  has  now  passed  $100,000,  the 
annual   contribution    of   $7,500   for   five 
years   made  by   the  Alumni   Council  to 
increase  the  amount  available  for  instruc- 
tion, the  building  of  four  excellent  houses 
for  members  of  the  Faculty  by  an  un- 
known   donor,    the    Converse    Memorial 
Library  in  memory  of  James  Blanchard 
(Converse  of  the   Class   of   1867,   by  his 
brother,  Edmund  G.  Converse,  at  a  cost 
of  $250,000,  an  increase  of  $700,000  in 
general    endowment    announced    at    the 
1917  Commencement  raised  by  the  con- 
tributions of  fifteen  men  amounting  to 
$.S50,000,  and  the  matching  of  this  amount 
dollar  for  dollar  by  another  friend  of  the 
college,   the  contribution  of  $15,551   se- 
cured   through    the   Alumni    Council    to 
help   meet   the   operating  deficit   due   to 
war  conditions  of  the  year  1917-18."     In 
addition  to   these   larger   gifts,   the  col- 
lege has  received  many  gifts  of  smaller 
amount   and,    during   this   same   period, 
five    new    fraternity    houses    have    been 
erected  at  a  cost  above  $200,000, 


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Amherst 

In  The 

Public  Service 


Amherst's  record 
of  giving  able  public 
servants  to  the  state, 
in  a  proportion  unu- 
sual to  the  number  of  her  graduates,  was 
marked  this  autumn  by  the  election  of 
Calvin  Coolidge,  '95,  to  the  governorship 
of  Massachusetts  and  the  appointment 
of  Joseph  Bartlett  Eastman,  '04,  to  mem- 
bership on  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission.  The  Chairman  of  the 
Commission,  Henry  Clay  Hall,  is  also  an 
Amherst  graduate  in  the  class  of  1881. 

Coolidge  is  one  of  the  youngest  men 
who  have  held  the  office  of  Governor  of 
Massachusetts.  He  has  proved  his  case 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  people  of  the 
State  working  his  way  by  gradual  logical 
steps  from  the  City  Council,  City  Solic- 
itorship  and  Mayoralty  of  Northampton, 
through  the  various  stages  at  the  State 
House, — member  of  the  Lower  House, 
member  and  later  President  of  the  Sen- 
ate, Lieutenant-Governor  and  Governor. 
He  has  a  remarkably  detailed  working 
knowledge  of  the  various  departments  of 
the  state  which  is  exceptional  for  a  man 
holding  the  governor's  position.  He  has 
greatly  magnified  the  service  of  the  posi- 
tion of  lieutenant-governor,  especially  in 
many  forms  of  war  service;  and,  during 
the  past  two  or  three  years,  he  has  come 
into  a  recognized  position  among  the 
really  eminent  personalities  of  the  state, 
aside  from  any  question  of  office  held.  It 
has  been  said  of  him  that  "Among  her 
politicians  Massachusetts  has  ...  no 
one  who  is  more  direct,  simple,  single 
minded,  persistent,  faithful,  and  experi- 
enced in  protecting  the  common  interests 
of  all  the  citizens  than  Governor  Cool- 
idge." 

Eastman  got  his  special  training  and 
gained  his  footing  of  influence  in  Boston 
as  Secretary  of  the  Public  Franchise 
League  which  had  remarkable  influence 


in  establishing  the  principle  that  the 
franchises  of  public  service  corporations 
were  a  community  asset  and  should  be 
administered  from  that  point  of  view. 
It  was  the  means  of  making  the  subways 
in  Boston  public  property  and  this  result 
had  a  decided  influence  upon  establishing 
the  same  principle  in  New  York  City. 
The  League  was  also  able  to  secure  in  the 
public  interest  an  equitable  capitalization 
of  the  gas  company  with  the  principle 
that  dividends  could  go  up  only  in  pro- 
portion as  the  price  of  gas  went  down. 
Eastman  was  appointed  to  the  Public 
Service  Commission  of  Massachusetts  as* 
successor  to  George  W.  Anderson,  Judge 
of  the  United  States  District  Court, 
whom  he  is  succeeding  as  member  of  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission.  He  is 
serving  his  second  term  in  the  Massachu- 
setts Public  Service  Commission,  having 
been  re-appointed  by  Governor  McCall. 
In  his  personal  attitude  Eastman  is  ex- 
tremely responsible  and  judicious.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  holders  of  the  Amherst 
South  End  House  Fellowship,  and  it  was 
in  that  connection  that  his  practical 
interest  in  franchise  questions  began. 

"The  Graduates'  Quar- 
terly is  fortunate  ir 
being  able  to  present  ir 
this  issue  an  article  on  'Amherst  Men  ir 
Finance,'  by  the  well-known  financia 
writer  Albert  W.  Atwood,  '03,  who  begai 
as  a  reporter  for  the  New  York  Su? 
under  George  B.  Mallon,  '87,  and  Danie 
F.  Kellogg,  '86.  Mr.  Atwood  has  beei 
financial  editor  of  Harper's  Weekly,  Mc 
Clure's  Magazine,  and  Every  Week,  an( 
since  1917  has  been  engaged  exclusiveb 
in  writing  on  financial  topics  for  the  Sat 
iirday  Evening  Post  of  Philadelphia.  H' 
has  given  lecture  courses  at  Princeton  an< 
since  1915  has  given  a  course  in  financis 
journalism  at  the  Columbia  Universit.^ 
School  of  Journalism. 


Amherst  Men 
in  Finance 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


49 


€)fficial  anD  ^crisonal 


ROLL  OF  HONOR 

(Previously  reported,  12) 
Charles  Putnam  Searle,  '07 

Major,  Judge  Advocate  General's  Department 

Major  Searle  died  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  January 
10,  1919.  He  was  a  Major  in  the  Judge  Advocate 
General's  Department  and  had  been  stationed  in 
Washington  since  his  appointment  last  September. 

Major  Searle  was  born  in  Honesdale,  Pa.,  April 
15,  1885,  the  son  of  Judge  Alonzo  T.  (Amherst,  '77) 
and  Margaret  B.  Searle.  He  graduated  from  the 
Montclair  Military  Academy  and  after  graduation 
from  Amherst  in  1907  was  admitted  to  the  Wayne 
County  Bar.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Council  of  The  American  Bar  Association  and  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Farmers'  &  Mechanics' 
Bank,  and  also  Ex-President  of  the  Montclair 
Alumni  Association,  and  member  of  the  Amherst 
Club  of  New  York,  the  Chi  Phi  Association  of  New 
York,  and  many  other  clubs  and  orders. 

He  was  married,  September  16,  1914,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Harriet  Arnold,  who  survives  him. 

Robert  Harry  Scott,  M.  D.,  '07 
1st  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  Navy 

Dr.  Scott  died  of  pneumonia  at  the  Naval  Rifle 
Range,  Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  October  15,  1918.  He  en- 
listed in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force  just  before 
America  entered  the  war.  For  a  time  he  was  en- 
gaged in  recruiting  work  and  then  was  sent  to 
Bridgeport,  Conn.  During  the  influenza  epidemic 
he  was  sent  to  the  Peekskill  Naval  Rifle  Range 
where  he  was  taken  ill  within  a  week  of  his  arrival. 

Dr.  Scott  was  born  in  Canoustic,  Scotland,  the 
son  of  Dr.  Peter  S.  and  Isabel  (Noble)  Scott  and 
was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Brooklyn  when  very 
young.  He  prepared  for  College  at  Boys'  High 
School,  Brooklyn,  and  at  Amherst  was  a  member 
of  the  Phi  Gamma  Delta  fraternity.  After  gradu- 
ating from  Amherst,  he  attended  the  Long  Island 
Medical  College  and  before  his  enlistment  in  the 
Navy  was  a  practicing  physician  in  Brooklyn.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  King's  County  Medical  Soci- 
ety, the  Pathological  Society,  the  Municipal  Club, 
master  of  Acanthus  Lodge,  No.  179,  F.  and  A.  M., 
and  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  America,  Clan 
MacDonald  and  also  of  the  American  Medical 
Association.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Lorence 
Whitsel,  and  his  father. 

Gordon  Robert  Hall,  '09 
1st  Lieutenant,  308th  Field  Artillery 
Lieutenant  Hall  died  in  France  as  the  result  of 
wounds  received  in  action  September  18,  1918.  In 
the  summer  of  1917  he  entered  the  second  Officers' 
Training  Camp  at  Fort  Sheridan,  and  after  his 
graduation  was  commissioned  a  second  lieutenant. 
He  was  ordered  home  to  await  an  assignment  and 
on  December  23rd  he  sailed  from  New  York  for 


France.  Upon  his  arrival  there  he  attended  the 
artillery  school  at  Saumur  for  three  months,  and 
was  sent  behind  the  front  lines  for  two  months  and 
then  ordered  back  to  the  school  as  an  instructor. 
Later  he  was  attached  to  the  129th  Field  Artillery, 
and  after  serving  with  that  regiment  for  a  short 
time  was  transferred  to  the  308th  Artillery.  He 
served  on  the  front  lines  with  both  regiments.  He 
had  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant. 
Lieutenant  Hall  was  born  in  Chicago,  February 
23,  1887.  He  fitted  for  College  at  Sheldon  School 
and  the  Lakeview  High  School.  At  Amherst  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity. 
On  graduation  he  became  a  member  of  the  staff  of 
the  Daily  News  and  later  was  made  publicity  di- 
rector for  the  W.  D.  Allen  Co.,  Jefferson  and  W^est 
Lake  streets.  He  was  widely  interested  in  boys' 
work  in  Chicago  in  connection  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  with  the  Larrabee  Boys'  Club  of  which  he  was 
a  director.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  England 
Church  and  special  member  of  the  Church  Council 
and  active  in  church  and  Sunday  School  work.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  City  Club  and  the  Amherst 
Club  of  Chicago. 

George  Littleton  Dawson,  '12 

Private,  Camp  Personnel  Adjutants'  Detachment, 

Camp  Lee,  Va. 

Private  Dawson  died  of  pneumonia  following  an 
attack  of  influenza  at  Camp  Lee,  Va.,  October  19, 
1918. 

Private  Dawson  waived  exemption,  was  accepted 
for  service  and  assigned  to  the  Camp  Personnel 
Adjutants'  Detachment  at  Camp  Lee,  Va.  He 
showed  marked  ability  for  this  work  and  had  been 
assigned  to  the  work  of  a  Sergeant-Major. 

He  was  born  at  Uniontown,  Pa.,  January  12, 
1892,  the  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  W.  Dawson. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  the  local  high  school  and 
at  Washington  and  Jefferson  academy.  He  spent 
one  year  at  W^ashington  and  Jefferson  college  and 
then  transferred  to  Amherst.  After  graduating 
from  Amherst  he  taught  for  two  years  in  the  high 
school  of  Uniontown,  while  he  was  studying  law 
with  his  father  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  on 
February  15,  1915.  He  practiced  his  profession  in 
Uniontown  until  he  was  called  to  Camp  Lee  on 
July  23rd  last. 

He  was  married  on  December  30,  1915,  to  Faith 
G.  Holcomb,  of  Tariffville,  Conn.,  who  died  in 
Uniontown  on  February  7th  last.  He  is  survived 
by  his  parents,  one  sister,  and  a  son,  Charles  Hol- 
comb Dawson,  born  December  11,  1916.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  fraternity. 

Harris  Losee  Haight,  '12 
Private,  Headquarters  Company,  312th  Infantry 

Private  Haight  died  of  pneumonia  in  France, 
November  1,  1918. 

Private  Haight  was  born  in  Mabbettsville,  New 


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York,  January  24,  1887,  the  son  of  Mr.  Leonard 
Haight,  of  Dover  Plains,  and  the  late  Phoebe  Tripp 
(Losee)  Haight.  He  fitted  for  college  at  the  Mill- 
brook  Union  Free  School  and  Suffield  Literary  In- 
stitute, Sufficld,  Conn. 

William  Stewart  Lahey,  '12 
1st  Lieutenant,  Company  E,  311th  Infantry 
Lieutenant  Lahey  died  in  France  from  wounds 
received  in  action,  October  31,  1918.  When  war 
was  declared  he  was  assigned  to  the  Oflacers'  Train- 
ing Camp  at  Madison  Barracks,  New  York  where 
he  received  a  commission  as  '■2d  Lieutenant.  He 
was  afterward  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieu- 
tenant at  Camp  Dix.  He  went  overseas  with  the 
311th  Infantry.  Lieutenant  Lahey  was  born  in 
Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  October  15,  1890,  the  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Richard  Lahey.  He  fitted  for  college 
at  the  Jersey  City  High  School.  He  was  at  Amherst 
only  one  year,  completing  his  course  at  the  Co- 
lumbia School  of  Journalism. 

Ralph  Norton  Dawes,  '13 
Musician,  Headquarters  Company,  104th  Infantry 

Musician  Dawes  was  killed  in  a  railroad  wreck  in 
France,  December  5,  1918.  He  was  awarded  the 
Croix  de  Guerre  last  spring  for  conspicuous  bravery 
under  fire. 

Musician  Dawes  was  born  October  10,  1888,  the 
son  of  Mr.  Edward  Dawes  of  Springfield.  He  fitted 
for  college  at  the  West  Springfield  (Mass.)  High 
School.  At  Amherst  he  was  a  member  of  the  Sigma 
Delta  Rho  fraternity. 

Frank  Christopher  Brough,  '14 

Private,  82d  Company,  6th  Regiment,  U.  S. 

Marine  Corps 

Private  Brough  died  in  France  from  wounds  re- 
ceived in  action  near  Vierzy,  Soissons  Sector,  Amer- 
ican Front,  July  23,  1918.  He  enlisted  in  December, 
1917,  and  after  three  months'  training  at  Paris 
Island,  S.  C,  was  sent  overseas  with  the  2d  Re- 
placement Battalion. 

Private  Brough  was  born  in  Bayonne,  N.  J., 
July  28,  1893,  the  son  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  T. 
Brough  of  New  York.  He  fitted  for  college  at  the 
Hackensack  (N.  J.)  High  School.  At  Amherst  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Kappa  Theta  Fraternity, 
pitcher  on  the  baseball  team,  Captain  of  the  Swim- 
ming Team  in  his  Senior  year,  and  also  member  of 
the  Hitchcock  Memorial  Committee  and  Smoker 
Committee.  He  was  Edward  Hitchcock  Fellow 
from  1914  to  1915.  Up  to  the  time  of  his  enlist- 
ment he  was  instructor  in  Physical  Education  at 
AVorcester  Polytechnic  Institute. 

Robert  Clinton  Hanford,  '14 
Sergeant,  Company  G,  311th  Infantry 

Sergeant  Hanford  died  in  France  of  wounds  re- 
ceived in  action  October  25,  1918.  At  the  outbreak 
of  the  war.  Sergeant  Hanford  joined  the  Westfield 
(N.  J.)  battalion  and  June  5,  1917,  he  enlisted  and 
was  sent  to  Camp  Dix  where  he  was  assigned  to 
Company  G,  311th  Infantry.  In  June,  1918,  he 
went  to  France  as  a  member  of  the  78th  Division, 
and  saw  service  in  some  of  the  principal  engage- 
ments on  the  Western  Front. 

Sergeant  Hanford  was  born  in  Westfield,  Union 


County,  N.  J.,  July  5,  1892,  the  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  E.  G.  Hanford.  He  fitted  for  college  at  the 
Westfield  High  School.  After  graduating  from  col- 
lege he  became  associated  for  two  years  with  the 
Clay  Products  Company  of  Chicago,  when  he  re- 
turned East  and  was  employed  by  the  United 
States  Steel  Corporation.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents  and  three  sisters.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Chi  Psi  Fraternity. 

Austin  Herman  Hersh,  '14 
Musician,  Headquarters  Company,  116th  Infantry 

Musician  Hersh  was  killed  in  action  near  Metz, 
October  23,  1918. 

He  was  the  son  of  Edmund  S.  and  Lily  H.  Hersh 
of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  was  26  years  old.  While  at 
Amherst  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Amherst 
Stock  Company  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Four 
Leaf  Clover  Board,  the  Varsity  Relay  Team  in  his 
Junior  year,  Varsity  Track  Team,  Olio  Board,  Cap- 
tain of  the  Cross  Country  Team  in  his  Senior  year, 
Stage  Manager  of  Dramatics,  member  of  the  Senior 
Chapel  Committee,  and  Grove  Orator. 

Daniel  Stevenson  Smart,  '14 
Chaplain  and  1st  Lieutenant,  328th  Infantry 

Lieutenant  Smart  was  killed  in  action,  October 
15,  1918,  while  performing  the  burial  service  for 
the  dead  in  the  midst  of  the  action  near  San  Juvin 
and  Sommerance.  He  was  wounded  by  a  shell  and 
died  the  same  night  in  the  hospital  at  Les  Islettes. 

Lieutenant  Smart  was  commissioned  Chaplain 
and  1st  Lieutenant  at  Camp  Zachary  Taylor  on 
July  5,  1918,  and  in  August  sailed  for  France.  He 
was  detailed  to  the  328th  Infantry,  and  was  in 
action  with  them  in  September  and  again  in  October. 

Lieutenant  Smart  was  the  son  of  the  Rev.  John  G. 
(Amherst,  1868)  and  Leleka  Allen  Smart,  of  Cam- 
bridge, New  Y^ork.  He  was  born  in  Schoharie, 
New  York,  on  August  24,  1890;  but  had  lived  in 
Cambridge  since  he  was  two  years  old.  He  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Cambridge  Union  School  and  at 
Rutgers'  Preparatory  School,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
and  graduated  from  Amherst  in  the  class  of  1914. 
At  Amherst  he  was  a  member  of  the  Chi  Psi  fra- 
ternity, the  Class  Baseball  Team  and  Track  Teams, 
was  Class  Gymnasium  Officer  and  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Association  Cabinet.  After  leaving  Am- 
herst he  studied  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary 
for  two  years  and  during  the  summer  of  1915  was 
Home  Missionary  under  the  Canadian  Board  of 
Missions  at  Tongue  Creek,  Alberta,  Canada.  The 
year  1916  to  1917  he  spent  as  Y.  M.  C.  A.  secretary 
at  Rutgers  College.  He  was  ordained  and  licensed 
to  preach  by  Argyle  Presbvtery  at  the  Coila  U.  P. 
Church,  July  25,  1917. 

Wallace  Minot  Leonard,  Jr.,  '16 
1st  Lieutenant,  6th  Regiment,  79th  Company, 

U.  S.  Marines 
Lieutenant  Leonard  died  of  pneumonia  at  Camp 
Sherman,  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  December  11,  1918. 
He  attended  the  second  Plattsburg  Camp  in  August, 
1917,  and  became  ranking  1st  Lieutenant  of  his  com- 
pany. He  sailed  for  France,  January  15,  1918,  and 
subsequently  spent  five  weeks  in  an  Officers'  Train- 
ing Camp  there.  He  was  then  made  Lieutenant  of 
the  6th  Regiment,  79th  Company,  U.  S.  Marines, 


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51 


and  served  in  the  front  trenches  at  Bonzie  and  at 
Watronville  in  the  Verdun  sector.  He  was  in  the 
Chateau-Thierry  engagement  and,  on  June  6th,  his 
company  participated  in  the  attack  and  capture  of 
Bouresches.  In  that  engagement  Lieutenant 
Leonard  lost  all  but  four  of  his  men.  He  was  cited 
for  bravery  and  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre 
and  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross.  Subsequently 
he  was  ordered  to  this  country  and  detailed  to 
Camp  Sherman  as  instructor  of  the  new  draft  army. 

Lieutenant  Leonard  was  the  son  of  Wallace  M. 
Leonard  (Amherst,  '88)  and  Mrs.  Leonard  of  New- 
ton Highlands,  Mass.,  and  was  24  years  old.  He 
fitted  for  college  at  the  Newton  High  School.  At 
Amherst  he  was  a  member  of  the  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  fraternity,  the  musical  clubs,  the  Freshman 
Kellogg  Five,  the  Gymnastic  team  of  which  he  was 
the  Captain  his  senior  year,  the  Amherst  Student 
Board  of  which  he  was  managing  editor  his  senior 
year,  the  Olio  Board,  the  Sphinx  Club,  and  Scarab. 

Li  June,  1917,  he  married  Miss  Dorothy  MacCIure, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Laurens  MacCIure,  rector  of 
Grace  Church,  Newton. 

Thomas  Bradford  Boardman,  '18 
2d  Lieutenant,  Field  Artillery 

Lieutenant  Boardman  died  at  Camp  Zachary 
Taylor,  Kentucky,  of  pneumonia  following  influenza. 
October  "22,  1918.  The  general  orders  announcing 
his  death  stated  that  his  military  service  was  as 
follows:  "Six  months  service  in  France  with  the 
Norton  Harges  Ambulance  formation,  serving  with 
the  French  Army.  He  attended  the  Officers'  Train- 
ing School  at  Valdalion,  France,  and  upon  being 
commissioned  Second  Lieutenant,  Field  Artillery, 
he  was  assigned  to  the  15th  Field  Artillery  in  No- 
vember, 1917,  and  later  was  transferred  to  the  12th 
P'ield  Artillery,  and  served  five  months  at  the  front. 
I'pon  his  return  to  the  United  States,  he  attended 
tlie  School  of  Fire  at  Fort  Sill,  Oklahoma,  which 
course  he  successfully  completed  and  was  assigned 
as  Instructor  at  this  School  on  October  15,  1918." 
He  took  part  in  the  Battle  of  Chateau-Thierry  and 
other  engagements  during  the  spring  of  1918. 

Lieutenant  Boardman  entered  Amherst  in  1914 
with  the  class  of  1918,  but  in  1916  transferred  to 
Trinity  College  in  order  to  be  nearer  home.  He 
was  born  March  9.  1895,  the  son  of  Thomas  J.  and 
Mary  (Simpson)  Boardman.  He  fitted  for  college 
at  the  Hartford  High  School.  He  is  survived  by  his 
parents,  three  brothers  and  a  sister. 

Morrill  Holdex  Parkhurst,    18 

Private,  Company  A,  303rd  Battalion, 

Heavy  Tank  Corps 

I'rivate  Parkhurst  died  of  pneumonia  at  Dorset, 
England,  October  12,  1918.  He  was  Ordnance  Ser- 
geant of  the  Amherst  unit  of  the  Reserve  Officers' 
Training  Corps  in  1918.  .Although  excnij)!  from 
many  forms  of  military  service,  because  of  his 
deafness,  he  was  accepted  by  the  Heavy  Tank 
Corps  in  May,  1918,  was  sent  to  Camp  Colt  at 
Gettysburg  in  the  summer  of  1918,  and  to  France  in 
August,  1918. 

Private  Parkhurst  was  born  in  Orange,  N.  J.. 
February  10,  1894,  the  son  of  Burleigh  and  Anna 
Hall  (Morrill)  Parkhurst.  He  was  educated  by  pri- 
vate tutors,  studied  in  (iermany  in  1913,  and  gradu- 


ated from  Dean  Academy  in  1914.    At  Andierst  he 
was  active  in  fencing. 

Henry  Martin  Young,  '20 
2d  Lieutenant,  Reserved  Military  Aviator 

Lieutenant  Young  died  of  pneumonia  following 
influenza  at  Taliaferro  Field,  Dallas,  Texas,  De- 
cember 14,  1918. 

Lieutenant  Young  was  born  in  New  York  Citv. 
March  21,  1896,  the  son  of  the  late  Frederick  W. 
Young  and  Mrs.  Young.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  Phillips  Andover  Academy.  At  Amherst  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity  and 
was  prominent  in  cross-country  running. 

1922 

Harold  E.  Bradway  died  at  Amherst  on  October 
8th  of  Spanish  Influenza  which  developed  into 
pneumonia.  He  went  to  Amherst  on  September 
29th  to  enter  the  students'  army  training  corps,  and 
was  taken  ill  within  a  day  or  two  of  his  arrival. 
He  was  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Bradway,  of 
Sheffield,  Mass.,  a  native  of  Dalton,  a  graduate  of 
the  Sheffield  High  School  in  the  class  of  1918.  He 
was  19  years  old. 

Patrick  James  Curran,  '22,  died  at  Pratt  Hospi- 
tal on  December  9th  from  influenza.  He  was  ill  a 
comparatively  short  time,  and  seemed  to  be  on  the 
road  to  recovery  when  a  relapse  occurred.  He  was 
the  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Curran,  of  Holyokc, 
and  while  in  service  at  Amherst  was  a  member  of 
Co.  D.,  of  the  Amherst  S.  A.  T.  C. 


MILITARY  HONORS 

(Previously    reported,    14) 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  citation  awarded 
to  the  American  unit,  S.  S.  V.  539.  It  was  issued 
after  the  approval  of  General  Pershing  and  signed 
by  Marshall  Retain.  It  is'  an  army  citation,  the 
highest  there  is,  and  entitles  the  members  of  the 
Unit  to  paint  tlie  Croix  de  Guerre  with  palm  on  all 
the  ambulances: 

"During  the  operations  of  the  5th  Division  of 
Infantry  in  the  region  of  Oulchy-le-Ville  from  July 
16  to  July  28,  1918,  this  section  rendered  most  valu- 
al)le  service  in  assuring  the  evacuation  of  the 
wounded  with  the  maximum  speed  and  without 
regard  of  danger,  the  cars  being  often  advanced  to 
points  greatly  exposed  to  fire.  The  entire  personnel 
made  superhuman  efforts,  willingly  consenting  be- 
cause of  the  greatness  of  the  task  confronting  them. 
Their  duty  was  accomplished  to  the  complete  satis- 
faction of  all  those  who  saw  them  work." 

The  following  .\mherst  men  are  members  of  this 
Unit:  Merrill  F.  Clarke,  '09;  Stoddard  Lane,  '09; 
Elton  H.  Seamans,  '16;  Joseph  F.  Vielbig,  '17; 
Theodore  L.  Widmayer,  '17;  .\lbert  W.  Bailey,  '18; 
James  B.  Evans,  '18;  Murray  S.  Moore,  "IS;  William 
G.  Rogers,  '18;  Chester  (i.  Seamans,  '18;  Williant 
A.  Burnett.  Jr.,  '19;  Jo.seph  \L  Lvinan,  '19;  Llov.l 
W.  Miller,  19;  Donald  G.  Mitchell,  '19;  Winfield 
W.  Riefler,  '19;  Grant  A.  Goebel,  '20;  James  H. 
Hindi,  '20;  William  C.  McFeely,  '20;  Horatio  W. 
Newell,  '20;  Sherman  D.  Shipman,  '20;  Rufus  L. 
Stevens,  '20;   Robert  G.  Stewart,  '20. 


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Lieut.  Ralph  E.  DeCastro,  17,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
has  been  awarded  the  D.  S.  C.  (Distinguished  Serv- 
ice Cross),  the  highest  U.  S.  Military  honor  thus  far 
awarded,  for  extraordinary  heroism  in  action  near 
St.  Mihiel  on  September  12,  1918.  Lieutenant  De- 
Castro  was  commissioned  in  the  aviation  section  of 
the  Signal  Corps  last  June  and  has  been  in  France 
since  July,  attached  to  the  First  Aero  Squadron, 
U.  S.  Air  Service.  Because  of  intense  aerial  activity 
on  the  opening  day  of  the  St.  Mihiel  offensive, 
Lieutenant  DeCastro,  pilot,  and  Lieut.  A.  E.  Ester- 
brook,  observer,  volunteered  to  fly  over  the  enemy's 
lines  on  a  photographic  mission,  without  the  usual 
protection  of  accompanying  battle  planes.  Not- 
withstanding the  low  hanging  clouds  which  neces- 
sitated operation  at  an  altitude  of  only  400  meters, 
they  penetrated  four  kilometers  beyond  the  German 
lines.  Attacked  by  four  enemy  machines,  they 
fought  their  foes,  completed  their  photographic 
mission  and  returned  safely. 

Lieut.  Raymond  T.  Ross,  '17,  Aspirant  with  the 
French  Army,  has  been  cited  three  times.  He  has 
been  decorated  with  the  Croix  de  Guerre,  and  on 
the  tri-colored  ribbon  he  wears  a  silver  star,  which 
means  that  he  has  been  cited  for  bravery  before  his 
division;  a  gold  star,  which  indicates  that  he  has 
been  cited  for  bravery  before  the  corps,  and  the 
palm,  which  shows  that  he  has  been  cited  for  brav- 
ery before  the  entire  French  Army,  the  highest 
honor  that  can  be  conferred  upon  a  French  soldier. 
For  the  last  few  months  previous  to  the  signing  of 
the  armistice  he  was  engaged  in  the  perilous  task 
of  flying  over  the  German  lines  and  signalling  to  the 
French  Artillery.  At  the  last  report  he  was  in  an 
oflBcers'  hospital  at  Cherbourg  with  a  badly  shat- 
tered right  arm. 

Private  Charles  R.  Chase,  '19,  S.  S.  U.  636,  has 
been  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre.  The  following 
is  a  copy  of  the  citation:  "  Charles  R.  Chase,  former 
volunteer  driver,  has  given  a  fine  example  of  courage 
and  cool  headedness  on  July  29th.  His  machine 
being  broken  down  in  the  ravine  of  Chazelles,  he 
has  gone  on  foot  to  get  another  from  the  postc  de 
secours  at  Lachelles  and  then,  after  having  con- 
ducted his  blesses  to  the  dressing  station,  returned 
to  get  his  machine  which  he  brought  back  after 
several  hours'  work  under  a  violent  bombardment." 


Stoddard  Lane,  '09 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U. 


539 


Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows :  "Caporal  courageux 
et  endurant  est  demure  presque  continuellement 
aux  postes  avances  durant  I'offensive  du  18  au  26 
Juillet  1918,  reglent  la  releve  des  voitures  sanitaire 
et  I'evacuation  des  blesses." 


Ralph  W.  Whipple,  '14 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 

Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows:  "A  pris  part  aux 
evacuations  des  postes  avances  durant  les  offensives 
du  11  au  23  Octobre  1918,  donnant  le  plus  bel  ex- 
ample d'energie  et  sang-froid;  un  conducteur  rempli 
de  deveument  et  d'esprit  de  devoir." 


Theodore  L.  Widmayer,  '17 

U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 

Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows;  "A  pris  part  aux 
evacuations  des  posts  avances  durant  les  offensives 
du  11  au  23  Octobre  1918,  refusant  d'etre  releve  et 
donnant  le  plus  bel  example  de  sang-froid  et  d'ener- 
gie." 

James  B.  Evans,  '18 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 
The  citation  reads  as  follows:    "A  pris  part  aux 
evacuations  des  postes  avances  durant  les  offensives 
du  11  au  23  Octobre  1918,  refusant  d'etre  releve  et 
donnant  le  plus  bel  example  de  sang-froid  et  d'ener- 
gie." 

Grant  A.  Goebel,  '20 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 
The  citation  reads  as  follows:    "A  pris  part  a 
toutes  les  evacuations  des  postes  avances  durant 
les  offensives  du  11  au  23  Octobre  1918,  refusant 
d'etre  releve  et  donnant  le  plus  bel  example  de 
sang-froid  et  courage  et  d'energie-malgre  les  condi- 
tions les  plus  perilleuses." 

William  C.  McFeeloy,  '20 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 
The  citation  reads  as  follows:    "A  pris  part  aux 
evacuations  des  postes  avances  durant  les  offensives 
du  11  au  23  Octobre  1918,  refusant  d'etre  releve  et 
donnant  le  plus  bel  example  de  sang-froid  et  d'ener- 
gie." 

Sherman  D.  Shipman,  '20 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 

Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows:  "Conducteur  re- 
markable par  sang-froid  et  son  endurance  a  pris  part 
aux  evacuations  de  18  au  26  Juillet  1918,  se  trouvant 
dans  un  poste  de  secours  avance,  au  moment  dun 
chargement  de  blesses,  n'a  echappe  a  la  mort  que 
grace  a  son  casque  perfore  par  un  eclat  d'obus,  n'a 
pas  moins  continue  le  chargement  avec  le  plus 
grand  calme." 


THE   CLASSES 

Amherst  Men  in  the  National  Service 
Seventh  Instalment 

Note:  It  is  difficult  to  assign  dates  to  the  war 
notes.  They  are  intended  merely  to  give  a  bit  of 
news  about  Amherst  men  in  the  National  Service 
which  was  at  one  time  accurate.  In  many  cases  the 
form  of  Service  has  changed  by  the  time  the  Quar- 
terly reaches  its  readers.  Additions  or  corrections 
are  solicited.  Address  Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Abbreviations  Used 

A.  A.  F.  S. — American  Ambulance  Field  Service. 
A.  S.  S.  C. — Aviation  Section  Signal  Corps. 
A.  S.  A.  P. — Air  Service,  Aircraft  Production. 


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C.  A.  C — Coast  Artillery  ("orps. 

Engrs. — Engineers. 

F.  A. — Field  Artillery. 

Inf. — Infantry. 

M.  C. — Medical  Corps. 

M.  G.— Machine  Gun. 

O.  T.  S. — Officers'  Training  School. 

R.  O.  T.  C. — Reserve  Officers'  Training  School. 

R.  D.  N.  R. — Radio  Division  Naval  Reserve. 

S.  A.  F.  S. — Small  Arms  Firing  School. 

San.  C. — Sanitary  Corps. 

U.  S.  A.  A.  S. — V.  S.  Armv  Ambulance  Service. 

U.  S.  N.  R.  F.— U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force. 

V.  S.  N.  R.  F.  C. — V.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Flying  Corps. 

Brooklyn 

Anilierst  Alumni  in  Brooklyn  held  a  reunion  and 
dinner  at  the  University  Club  of  Brooklyn  on  Mon- 
day evening,  October  28th.  The  feature  of  the 
evening  was  a  splendid  war  talk  by  Talcott  Williams, 
'73,  and  a  brief  address  by  William  A.  Lawrence, 
'61,  who  not  only  had  just  celebrated  his  85th 
birthday,  but  came  from  out  of  town  to  attend  the 
dinner.  Addresses  were  also  made  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Nehemiah  Boynton,  '79,  and  the  Rev.  Lewis  T. 
Reed.  '93,  who  gave  an  interesting  account  of  his 
work  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  Texas.  Officers  were 
elected  as  follows:  Dr.  Frank  D.  Blodgett,  '93, 
President;  (J.  Preston  Hitchcock,  '9-2,  vice-presi- 
dent; FVancis  C.  Nickerson,  "05,  secretary;  Arthur 
Stahlman,  '14,  treasurer;  Henry  E.  Tobey,  '98, 
executive  member;  John  B.  O'Brien,  '05,  chairman 
of  the  publicity  committee;  Herbert  L.  Bridgman, 
'66,  delegate  to  the  Alumni  Council;  and  Arthur 
Stahlman,  '14,  chairman  of  the  entertainment  com- 
mittee. 

Amherst  Association  of  New  York 

On  P'riday  evening,  F'ebruary  21st,  the  Andierst 
Association  of  New  York  is  planning  to  do  homage 
to  the  Amherst  men  who  have  rendered  such  notable 
service  to  our  country.  Every  Amherst  man  in 
Service  is  invited  to  be  the  guest  of  the  Association 
at  its  after-the-war  reunion  dinner,  which  will  be 
held  on  February  21st  at  the  new  Hotel  Pennsyl- 
vania, New  York.  Men  in  Service  will  appear  in 
tlie  uniform  of  their  rank,  and  if  living  out  of  New 
York  will  be  entertained  by  members  of  the  New 
York  Association,  provided  due  notice  is  sent  to 
Mr.  Collin  Armstrong,  Chairman  of  the  Dinner 
Committee,  1463  Broadway,  New  York.  Through 
the  War  Records  Committee  of  the  Alumni  Council, 
invitations  have  been  sent  to  every  man  in  Service. 

1852 

Rev.  Orson  Parda  Allen  died  on  June  21,  1918, 
ul  Constantinople,  Turkey,  aged  90  years. 

He  was  born  in  Smyrna,  N.  \ .,  on  November  6, 
1827,  the  son  of  Marsena  and  Hamiah  (IVrcival) 
.Allen  and  was  j)rei)ared  for  college  by  the  Rev.  C.  H. 
Buckley  of  Mount  Morris,  N.  Y.  .\fter  graduating 
from  Amherst  he  studied  theology  at  Andover  The- 
ological Seminary  and  was  ordained  at  Mount  Mor- 
ris, N.  Y.,  on  Septeml)er  26,  1855.  He  became  a 
missionary  under  the  .\merican  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,  and  for  two  vears  was  stationed  at  Snnrna 


and  Trebizond,  Turkey.  For  the  next  forty  years 
he  was  at  Harpoot,  Turkey. 

Besides  missionary  work  in  the  latter  place  he 
also  taught  for  some  time  in  the  theological  seminary 
there,  and  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  institu- 
tion, and  treasurer  of  the  mission.  In  1896  he  re- 
turned to  this  country  because  of  the  failing  health 
of  his  wife;  but  in  1912  he  accompanied  his  daugh- 
ter, Annie,  back  to  Turkey,  where  tiiey  resided  in 
Bronsa,  until  unsettled  conditions  made  it  necessary 
to  go  to  Constantinople. 

He  was  married  on  September  5,  1855,  to  Caroline 
R.,  daughter  of  Joel  Wheeler,  of  Hampden,  Maine. 

1856 

In  honor  of  the  late  editor  of  the  Indepcndenf,  a 
new  $50,000  science  building,  to  be  known  as  the 
William  Hayes  Ward  Science  Building,  is  to  be 
erected  at  Wilberforce  University  in  Ohio. 

1857 

Rev.  Denis  Wortman,  D.  D.,  Secretary, 
East  Orange,  N.  J. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  AVortman,  secretary  of  the  class, 
reports   that    1857   did   not   lose  a   single   member 
during  the  year  1918. 

1858 

Rev.  Samuel  B.  Sherrill,  Secretary, 

415  Humphrey  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Ellen  Jewett,  wife  of  Dr.  Henry  S. 

Jewett,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  died,  December  19,  1918, 

of  pneumonia,  after  only  two  days  illness.    She  was 

particularly  active  in  church  and  uplift  work  and 

was  born  in  South  Hadley,  Mass.     Interment  was 

in  the  Rural  Cemetery  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

1863 

Hon.  Edward  W.  Chapin,  Secretary. 

181  Elm  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Leavitt  H.  Hallock  of  Portland, 

Me.,   has   been   serving  as   acting   pastor  of  Hope 

Congregational   Church,   Springfield,   Mass.,   while 

the  pastor  has  been  away  at  Camp  Devens. 

1864 

While  watching  the  peace  parade  on  the  evening 
of  November  11th,  the  Rev.  Martin  Luther  Willis- 
ton  died  suddenly  of  heart  failure  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  He  was  an  old  soldier  himself  and  the  ex- 
citement proved  too  much  for  him.  He  was  75 
years  old. 

He  was  the  son  of  Origen  B.  and  Charlotte 
(Thompson)  Williston,  and  was  born  in  Attleboro, 
Mass.,  on  March  20,  1843,  preparing  for  college  at 
the  Northampton  High  School  and  at  L.  G.  Dudley's 
private  school.  He  entered  Amherst  in  the  fall  of 
1859,  remaining  three  years,  when  he  enlist<'d  in  tiic 
Union  Army,  lli^  was  orderly  sergeant  of  the  52(1 
Mass.  \ Olunleers,  and  later  for  a  number  of  years 
was  Cliai)lain  of  the  regiment.  .Vfter  serving  two 
vears  in  the  Civil  War,  he  returned  to  college  in 
the  fall  of  1863,  graduating  with  the  class  of  1864. 

Aft<'r  graduation  he  taught  in  Conway  (Mass.) 
Academy  and  at  Wilmington,  N.  C,  and  then 
studied  at  Andover  'i'heological  Seminary  for  two 
years  and  at  Union  Thi-ological  Seminary,  gradual- 


54 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


ing  in  1869.  He  was  ordained  on  March  3,  1870,  at 
Flushing,  New  York,  where  he  was  pastor  for  two 
years.  He  subsequently  held  pastorates  at  Gales- 
burg,  HI.,  Jamestown,  New  York,  Davenport,  Iowa, 
and  Barrington,  Conn.,  before  going  to  Hartford. 
In  the  meantime  he  studied  from  1879  to  1881  at 
Heidelberg  and  Bonn,  Germany,  and  on  his  return 
became  professor  of  history  in  Carlton  College  in 
Minnesota.    Later  he  returned  to  the  ministry. 

He  was  married  on  May  29,  1869,  at  Northamp- 
ton, to  Louise  G.,  daughter  of  Prof.  Solomon  Stod- 
dard, of  Middlebury  College,  and  is  survived  by 
her  and  three  children,  Agnes  Louise  Williston  of 
Hartford,  Charles  Stoddard  Williston  of  Elmhurst, 
III.,  and  Frances  G.  W.  Burks  of  Hollywood,  Calif. 

1865 

Prof.  B.  K.  Emerson,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
The  Northampton  Institution  for  Savings  at  its 
annual  meeting  on  December  27th  elected  Prof. 
Henry  M.  Tyler  as  vice  president. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carlton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Frank  D.  Sargent,  pastor  of  the  Second 
Congregational  Church  of  Putnam,  Conn.,  for  28 
years,  and  one  of  the  most,  widely  known  clergymen 
in  Eastern  Connecticut,  died,  November  13th,  at 
the  Day  Kimball  hospital  in  Putnam,  following  an 
operation  for  appendicitis.  Mr.  Sargent  had  been 
in  poor  health  for  some  time  and  the  operation  was 
deemed  necessary  as  the  only  hope  of  his  recovery. 
He  had  passed  his  74th  birthday  only  the  preceding 
Sunday. 

He  was  born  on  November  10,  1844,  in  Boston, 
the  youngest  of  six  children  born  to  John  and 
Louisa  (Hunt)  Sargent.  At  the  age  of  10  his  parents 
moved  to  Newton  where  he  attended  school  and 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Silver  Lake  Seminary. 
At  the  age  of  17  he  was  admitted  to  Amherst,  where 
he  was  one  of  the  original  five  members  who  founded 
the  Alpha  Chi  Chapter  of  the  Chi  Psi  fraternity. 
After  his  graduation  he  spent  a  year  at  Newton 
Seminary  and  then  attended  the  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  graduating  in  1869.  In  the  same  year 
he  received  a  call  to  the  Congregational  church  at 
Brookline,  N.  H.,  where  he  remained  as  resident 
pastor  for  17  years,  preaching  also  at  Townsend  for 
three  years  and  making  the  latter  place  his  home. 
During  that  time  he  received  no  less  than  20  calls 
to  other  churches,  many  of  them  very  flattering. 
He  decided  to  remain  in  New  Hampshire  until 
September  1,  1890,  when  he  became  pastor  of  the 
Second  Congregational  church  in  Putnam. 

WTiile  in  Brookline  Mr.  Sargent  interested  him- 
self in  education,  serving  for  12  years  as  superin- 
tendent of  schools.  He  also  became  prominent  in 
the  United  Order  of  the  Golden  Cross,  having  been 
the  grand  commander  of  the  state,  and  was  twice 
delegate  to  the  supreme  commandery  session  at 
Washington  and  Knoxville.  He  was  also  personally 
instrumental  in  the  establishment  of  a  telephone 
line  between  Townsend  and  Nashua. 

His  pastorate  at  Putnam  was  a  most  successful 
one.  He  always  took  an  active  interest  in  public 
affairs  and  was  known  as  a  public  speaker  and  lec- 


turer. When  he  came  to  Putnam  to  assume  charge 
of  the  church  he  was  elected  for  only  one  year. 
Each  year  thereafter  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  he 
was  chosen  again  as  pastor.  He  was  one  of  the  trus- 
tees of  the  Day  Kimball  hospital,  was  also  a  trustee 
of  the  Connecticut  Bible  Society,  and  one  of  the 
corporators  of  the  American  Board  of  Commission- 
ers of  Foreign  Missions,  a  director  of  the  State  Mis- 
sionary Society  and  Fund  for  Ministers,  member 
of  the  Congregational  Ministers'  Supply,  Boston, 
and  member  of  the  Windham  County  Association 
of  Congregational  Ministers.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  Israel  Putnam  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows. 

He  was  married  on  October  21,  1869,  the  day 
after  he  was  ordained,  to  Miss  I^mma  S.  Taylor, 
daughter  of  Deacon  S.  S.  and  Rachel  (Hillis)  Taylor 
of  Dunstable,  Mass.,  who  survives  him,  with  three 
children.  Bertha  Louise,  of  Putnam,  Florence  Ger- 
trude, a  teacher  at  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.,  and  Harold 
Taylor,  Amherst,  1909,  of  Worcester.  Interment 
was  in  Newton,  Mass. 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman  was  a  member  of  the  recep- 
tion committee  which  welcomed  the  French  ami 
British  Missions  in  New  York  in  November. 

1867 

Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 

Joseph  Board  of  Chester,  New  Jersey,  died  sud- 
denly on  November  5th,  while  calling  on  friends  at 
Maybrook.  Earlier  in  the  day  he  had  voted  and 
appeared  to  be  in  very  good  health. 

Mr.  Board  was  born  in  Chester,  N.  J.,  and  had 
been  a  prominent  business  man  in  that  place,  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  King,  Board  and  Bryan,  feed 
dealers,  up  to  a  few  years  ago,  when  he  retired. 
He  was  born  on  November  9,  1842,  being  the  eldest 
child  of  Peter  S.  and  Madeline  (Conklin)  Board. 
He  received  his  primary  education  in  Chester  under 
Prof.  Edward  Orton.  He  entered  Amherst  with  the 
class  of  1866,  was  a  member  of  that  class  for  three 
years.  He  finished  his  course  in  1867  with  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  honors.  While  in  college  he  with  Weston, 
Morley  and  Wood,  all  of  1866,  took  a  famous  walk- 
ing trip  to  Hoosac  Tunnel. 

After  leaving  Amherst  he  returned  to  Chester 
and  engaged  in  the  feed  and  lumber  business.  In 
1883  he  added  coal  and  was  very  successful  in  this 
business.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  and  a  Republican,  casting  his  first  presiden- 
tial vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln  in  1864.  In  1878  he 
was  elected  Supervisor  from  the  town  of  Chester, 
filling  the  position  for  three  years.  In  1883  he  was 
again  chosen  for  this  position  and  served  for  two 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chester  Board  of 
Education  for  a  number  of  years  and  served  as 
president  of  the  board  for  several  years.  He  was 
vice  president  of  the  Chester  National  Bank  at  the 
time  of  his  death. 

In  1892  he  served  as  managing  superintendent  of 
the  laying  of  the  pipes  for  the  Chester  water  works 
and  was  also  clerk  of  the  Village  Board  of  Chester. 
In  1887  he  made  a  trip  to  Europe,  spending  four 
months  in  his  foreign  travels.  In  1884  he  was  the 
Republican  candidate  for  member  of  Assembly  and 
was  defeated  by  sixty-seven  votes. 

Mr.  Board  was  married  on  January  3,  1868,  to 
Miss  Josephine   Bradbury   Curry,   of   Sanbornton, 


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55 


N.  H.  She  died  on  April  6,  1869,  and  on  November 
i,  1870,  he  married  Hannah  A.  Curry,  sister  of  his 
former  wife,  who  died  on  January  18,  1917.  Three 
children  survive  him,  Joseph  Orton,  Mrs.  E.  D. 
Chamberlain,  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Johnson,  all  of 
Chester. 

Jefferson  Clark,  a  lawyer  with  offices  at  13  William 
Street,  New  York  City,  dropped  dead  at  the  Uni- 
versity Club,  New  York,  December  14th.  Death 
was  due  to  heart  disease  from  which  he  had  been 
a  chronic  sufferer. 

Mr.  Clark  was  71  years  old.  He  was  the  son  of 
Amasa  Ford  and  Belinda  (Ward)  Clark  and  was 
born  in  Jefferson,  Vermont,  on  October  3,  1846. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  Orleans  Liberal  Institute 
and  Newbury  Seminary,  Vermont,  spent  his  Fresh- 
man year  at  Wesleyan  and  then  joined  the  class  of 
1867  at  Amherst.  After  graduation  he  taught  for 
two  years  at  Needham,  studied  law  at  Columbia 
Law  School  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  on  May  2,  1870.  He  has  practiced 
in  New  York  since  1871.  He  leaves  a  widow  who 
was  Miss  Cynthia  Bennett,  a  member  of  a  Revolu- 
tionary family. 

1868 
William  A.  Brown,  Secretary, 
17  State  St.,  New  York  City. 
Lieut.   Daniel  S.   Smart,   A'mherst  1914,   son  of 
the  Rev.  John  G.  Smart  of  1868,  was  killed  in  action 
in  France  on  October  15,  1918.    An  account  of  his 
death  is  given  elsewhere  in  this  issue  of  the  Quar- 
terly. 

1871 

Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary, 
623  West  113th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord  of  Columbia  University 
has  recently  published  a  book,  "The  Psychology  of 
Courage."  John  W.  Luce  and  Co.  of  Boston  are  the 
publishers.  His  son,  Capt.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Jr., 
'11,  is  on  the  staff  of  General  McRoberts,  Chief  of 
Ordnance,  in  France. 

1872 

Rev.  George  L.  Clark,  Secretary, 
Wethersfield,  Conn. 
Rev.  David  L.  Holbrook  has  resigned  his  pas- 
torate at  Spring  Valley,  Wise,  to  make  his  home 
in  Ripon. — Dr.  Gordon  R.  Hall  is  medical  adviser 
of  the  Brooklyn  Bureau  of  Charities. — Miss  Alice 
Thorne  Barrows,  daughter  of  N.  D.  Barrows,  Am- 
herst, '72,  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  was  recently  married 
to  Charles  James  Trent  of  the  same  city. 

Hyland  Clare  Kirk  of  Washington,  D.  C,  died 
recently,  aged  72  years. 

He  was  born  in  Phelps,  N.  Y.,  on  March  8,  1846, 
and  prepared  for  college  at  Canandaigua  N.  Y. 
High  School.  After  one  term  at  Amherst  in  1868 
he  engaged  in  teaching.  He  served  in  the  Civil  War, 
enlisting  in  the  Union  Army,  Company  D,  11th 
New  York  Volunteers,  on  May  12,  1863,  when  only 
seventeen  years  old.  He  was  later  transferred  to 
Company  F,  4th  New  York  Volunteers,  and  com- 
missioned a  Second  Lieutenant,  Lieutenant  Kirk 
was  the  author  of  "Heavy  Guns  and  Light,"  "A 
History  of  the  4th  New  York  Heavy  Artillery," 


"The  Possibility  of  Not  Dying,"  "A  History  of  the 
New  York  State  Teachers  Association,"  "Vladimir 
the  Mystic,  a  Poem  of  the  Snow,"  "When  Age 
Grows  Young,"  "A  Romance  of  the  World's  Fair, 
1893,"  "The  Revolt  of  the  Brutes"  and  "Physical 
Immortality." 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Ttler,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
The  Outlook  for  October  23rd  contained  a  poem 
by  the  Rev.  J.  Brainerd  Thrall,  entitled  "The  Cap- 
tain."— Dr.  Caleb  R.  Layton,  Jr.,  of  Georgetown, 
Del.,  was  elected  to  Congress  at  the  November 
elections.  He  ran  on  the  Republican  ticket  and 
succeeds  a  Democrat. 

Dr.  Talcott  Williams  has  been  appointed  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  on  Organized  Education  of 
the  National  Security  League.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  committee,  headed  by  ex-President  Taft,  of 
the  League  to  Enforce  Peace  which  drafted  a  plat- 
form early  in  December  calling  for  the  formation  at 
the  Peace  Congress  of  a  League  of  Free  Nations, 
with  judicial  administrative  and  executive  powers 
and  functions.  Dr.  Williams  spoke  on  "Our  War 
Aim"  at  the  fall  meeting  on  November  14th  of  the 
New  York  City  Association  of  Congregational 
churches.  He  has  been  re-elected  Honorary  Vice 
President  of  the  Honest  Ballot  Association. 

1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
Congressman  Frederick  H.  Gillett,  who  was  re- 
elected at  the  last  election,  is  one  of  the  leading 
figures  in  the  present  House.  The  Boston  Transcript 
for  November  9th  devoted  an  entire  page  to  Con- 
gressman Gillett's  record,  paying  special  attention 
to  his  achievements  during  the  war.  There  was 
also  a  tribute  to  Congressman  Gillett  by  his  col- 
league, Congressman  Allen  T.  Treadway,  Amherst, 
'86. 

1875 

Prof.  Charles  A.  Buffum,  Secretary, 
Easthampton,  Mass. 
Rev.  Charles  L.  Woodworth  of  Weld,  Maine,  is 
recovering  slowly  from  a  nervous  breakdown.     It 
is  not  probable  that  he  will  again  assume  his  pas- 
torate at  Weld. 

Whitman  Cross  has  been  Treasurer  of  the  Na- 
tional Research  Council  during  the  past  year,  and 
Vice-chairman  of  its  Division  of  Geology  and 
Geography.  Pending  the  reorganization  he  is 
Chairman  of  the  Division  and  remains  Treasurer. 
During  1918  he  was  President  of  the  Geological 
Society  of  America  and  the  title  of  his  address  on 
retiring,  December  28th,  was  "Geology  in  the  War 
and  After." 

1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 

277  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

William  Ives  Washburn  has  published  recently, 

through  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  "The  Holy  Spirit, 

a  Layman's  Conception."    The  book,  not  technical, 

is  <lesigned  in  part  for  undergraduates  who  are  in- 


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terested  in  religion  or  in  mental  and  moral  philoso- 
phy and  who  may  be  in  doubt  or  perplexity  in  ref- 
erence to  this  most  important  subject. 

The  issue  for  November  !2d  of  Christian  Work 
contained  an  article  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dwight  Mal- 
lory  Pratt  on  "Allied  Reprisals  or  German  Restora- 
tion!'"'— John  B.  Stanchfield  of  New  York  was  one 
of  the  vice-chairman  of  the  Citizens'  Committee, 
formed  by  Independent  Democrats,  last  fall,  which 
carried  on  an  aggressive  fight  in  behalf  of  the  candi- 
dacy of  Alfred  E.  Smith,  who  was  elected  Governor 
of  New  York. 

A  son,  Calvin  Hastings  Plimpton,  was  born  on 
October  7th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Plimpton. 

1878 

Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner,  Secretary, 

187  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Dr.  Frederic  Carroll  Heath,  a  noted  specialist  in 
eve  and  ear  practice,  died  at  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
(ictober  16,  1918. 

He  was  born  at  Gardiner,  Me.,  January  19,  1857, 
the  son  of  Alvan  M.  C.  Heath,  editor  and  founder 
of  the  Gardiner  Journal,  a  volunteer  in  the  Civil 
War,  killed  in  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  and  of 
Sarah  H.  Heath,  a  descendant  of  New  England 
pioneers  and  revolutionary  soldiers.  He  was 
i)rought  up  in  an  atmosphere  of  books  and  high 
ideals.  He  attended  the  Gardiner  Public  Schools 
and  graduated  at  the  high  school  in  1874.  After 
graduation  at  Amherst  in  1878,  he  studied  medicine 
at  the  Bowdoin  Medical  College,  where  he  took  his 
degree,  valedictorian  of  his  class,  in  188-1.  Some 
years  later  he  carried  on  post-graduate  medical  stud- 
ies in  New  York.  He  was  for  six  years  in  the  Ma- 
rine Hospital  Service,  practiced  for  a  few  years  in 
Lafayette,  Ind.,  and  finally  (since  1892)  settled  in 
Indianapolis. 

He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, Secretary  of  the  State  Medical  Society  of 
Indiana,  1896-1910,  President,  1910,  President  of 
the  Indianapolis  Medical  Society,  1905,  Professor 
of  Ophthalmology  in  Indiana  Medical  University, 
1901-1918,  Eye  Surgeon  in  the  Indianapolis  City 
Hospital  and  Dispensary,  the  German  Lutheran 
Asylum,  the  Eleanor  Hospital  and  the  Old  Ladies' 
Home  of  Indianapolis.  His  medical  papers  were 
published  in  the  leading  journals.  He  was  a  popular 
speaker  at  banquets  and  political  gatherings.  He 
developed  strength  and  earnestness  in  delivery  and 
a  lucid  and  forcible  style.  His  thought  was  clear 
and  convincing.  He  was  a  good  story-teller.  His 
medical  lectures  were  full  of  optimism  interspersed 
with  a  humor  and  philosophy  that  lightened  bur- 
dens. 

He  leaves  a  widow  and  one  child,  a  daughter  of 
twelve,  a  sister,  who  is  also  a  physician,  of  Gardiner, 
Me.,  and  a  brother,  living  in  Plymouth. 

Robert  Miller  Holden,  one  of  the  three  sons  of 
Rev.  F.  A.  Holden  in  the  service,  took  part  in  the 
attack  made  by  the  2d  Division  which  stopped  the 
Germans  on  the  way  to  Paris,  was  used  up  in  con- 
sequence and  has  recently  been  in  the  Fort  Parker 
Hospital  at  Buffalo. — At  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Nonotuck  Savings  Bank  of  Northampton,  on  No- 
vember   28th,    Prof.    H.    Norman    Gardiner    was 


elected  vice-president. — Frank  W.  Stearns  was  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  McCall  of  Massachusetts  a 
member  of  the  General  Committee  that  had  charge 
of  the  Boston  reception  to  Gen.  Clarence  R.  Ed- 
wards, former  commander  of  the  Yankee  Division. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 
1140  Woodward  Bldg.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton  had  an  article 
in   Christian    Work  for   November   16th   on   "The 
Church  of  the  Living  God." 

1880 

Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  Secretary, 
86  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 
Prof.  H.  W.  Rolfe,  formerly  of  Stanford  Univer- 
sity, now  of  Chesham,  N.  H.,  managed  a  course  of 
eight  lectures  on  W'ar  Issues  in  Northampton  re- 
cently. Professor  Rolfe  gave  one  of  the  lectures. 
Another  lecture  was  given  by  Professor  Gettell  of 
Amherst. — G.  G.  S.  Perkins,  of  Wellesley,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  State  Guards. 
— Rev.  Parris  T.  Farwell  of  Boston  has  accepted  a 
call  to  become  associate  pastor  of  Shawmut  Con- 
gregational Church,  Boston. 

1881 

Frank  H.  Parsons,  Esq., 
60  Wall  Street,  New  York  City. 

The  class  secretary  has  compiled  the  following 
information  regarding  some  of  the  sons  of  1881  in 
service:  Edmund  S.  Hayes,  Captain,  Inf.;  Emerson 
Hinchliffe,  1st  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  A.;  Thorn  Dickin- 
son, 1st  Lieutenant,  Eng.;  Andrew  F.  Underbill, 
Jr.,  1st  Lieutenant,  301st  F.  A.;  Bartow  H.  Hall, 
Captain  6th  F.  A.  now  in  Base  Hospital,  France, 
with  machine  gun  bullet  in  lung;  Oliver  M.  Smart, 
Samuel  C.  Smart,  Howard  Forman  Smith,  2d  Lieu- 
tenants, U.  S.  A.;  Allan  W.  Clark,  Lester  C.  Mar- 
tin, Privates,  U.  S.  Inf.;  Ashley  M.  Gould,  Jr., 
Anson  M.  Lyman,  Jr.,  Privates,  U.  S.  A.;  Clinton 
W.  Richmond,  Private,  Sanitary  Corps;  Lewis  D. 
Stilwell,  Private  Med.  Detachment,  104th  F.  A.; 
Clarence  D.  Rugg,  Officers'  Training  School;  Bryant 
F.  Chapin,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.;  Burney  K.  Martin, 
U.  S.  Radio  Service;  Fred  H.  Martin,  Engineer, 
Merchant  Marine;  Rufus  S.  Woodward,  Jr.,  Sea- 
man, Merchant  Marine. 

George  S.  Dickinson,  son  of  Rev.  George  R.  Dick- 
inson, has  become  Professor  of  History  and  Theory 
of  Music  at  Vassar  College. — Starr  J.  Murphy  is 
one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Laura  Spelman 
Rockefeller  Memorial,  recently  organized  in  memory 
of  Mrs.  John  D.  Rockefeller. 

1882 

Prof.  John  P.  Cushing,  Secretary, 

W'hitneyville,  Conn. 

Capt.  George  E.  Bellows,  M.  C,  is  stationed  at 

the  Base  Hospital,  Ft.  Riley.     Previously  he  was  a 

member  of  the  examining  board  at  Kansas  City. 

1883 
Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 
2301-2311  Prairie  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 
Chief  Justice  Arthur  P.  Rugg  of  the  Massachu- 


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setts  Supreme  Court  has  been  elected  vice-president 
of  the  Colonial  Society  of  Massachusetts.  He  has 
also  been  chosen  one  of  the  councillors  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society. —  The  Congregation- 
alist  and  Advance  for  November  7th  contained  an 
article  by  the  Rev.  Edwin  H.  Byington  on  "  Modern 
Circuit  Riding,  the  'Y'  at  the  Naval  Training  Sta- 
tions."— After  more  than  twenty  years'  service  the 
Rev.  Almon  J.  Dyer  has  recently  resigned  his  pas- 
torate of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Sharon, 
Mass. 

Alexander  D.  Noyes  had  an  article  in  the  Bankers' 
Magazine  for  November,  entitled  "Our  Interna- 
tional Banking  in  War  Time.  " — Dr.  Edward  E. 
Bancroft  has  been  recently  appointed  a  member  of 
the  Medical  Advisory  Board  for  Newton  and  ad- 
joining towns.  He  is  also  consulting  physician  for 
Wellesley  College. — Richard  Bancroft,  '15,  is  with 
the  U.  S.  Coast  Artillery  at  Fortress  Monroe. 

Major  Avery  F.  Cushman  has  been  stationed  at 
the  office  of  the  Judge  Advocate  General  since 
April  1,  1918,  as  chief  of  the  Admiralty  and  Wartime 
Division. — Major  John  B.  Walker  has  been  recently 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  is 
Commanding  Officer  of  Base  Hospital  No.  116, 
France. 

1884 
WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City. 
At  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  California,  Prof.  James  Hayden  Tufts, 
head  of  the  Department  of  Philosophy  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  gave  the  Barbara  Weinstock 
lecture,  his  subject  being  "The  Ethics  of  Co-opera- 
tion." He  also  gave  an  address  before  the  teachers 
of  the  Bay  Association  on  the  subject  of  "Moral 
Education." — Herbert  D.  Ward  contributed  a 
Thanksgiving  story,  "The  Boy  Bobby,"  to  The 
Congregationalist  and  Advance  for  November  21  and 
November  28.  To  the  issue  of  The  Independent 
for  December  28th  he  contributed  a  very  interesting 
sketch  of  his  father,  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  William 
Hayes  Ward,  '56,  formerly  the  editor  of  that 
publication. 

1885 
Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  Street,  New  York  City. 
Sir  Herbert  B.  Ames  has  been  appointed  chairman 
of  the  National  War  Savings  Committee  of  Canada. 
With  him  are  associated  fifteen  members,  represent- 
ing every  province  in  the  Dominion. — Dr.  Edwin 
G.  Warner  is  serving  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  France. 
— In  October  Dr.  Franklin  W .  Barrows  and  family 
removed  to  301  Quail  Street,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where 
he,  since  August  1,  1918,  has  been  Assistant  Medical 
Inspector  of  Schools  in  the  State  Department  of 
Education. 

Dr.  John  E.  Butler,  55  Virginia  Street,  Upham's 
Corner,  Boston,  Mass.,  was  incorrectly  reported  in 
the  August  Alumni  Quarterly  as  a  member  of  the 
M.  O.  R.  C.  Dr.  Butler  states  that  the  age  limit 
prevented  his  service  in  that  capacity  and  he  lias  had 
to  content  himself  with  doing  the  work  of  other 
doctors  who  have  gone  across,  and  lecturing  to  the 
training  classes. 


The  address  of  Herbert  G.  Mank,  Ph.  D.,  is  now 
12  Reservoir  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. — Charles  H. 
Smith's  address  is  Morristown  School,  Morristown, 
N.  J. — Rev.  George  L.  Todd,  D.  D.'s  correct  address 
is  224  East  Main  Street,  Plymouth,  Penn. 

George  M.  Turner  removed  in  July,  1917,  to  228 
Linwood  Place,  Riverside,  Calif.,  where  he  has  the 
Department  of  Chemistry  in  the  Polytechnic  High 
School  and  Junior  College.  During  the  past  summer 
he  served  under  Dr.  David  T.  Day,  U.  S.  Govern- 
ment Specialist  on  petroleum,  as  chemist  for  the 
experimental  plant  that  is  testing  a  new  govern- 
mental process  for  the  extraction  of  oil  from  shale 
rock. 

Lieut.  Commndr.  Edward  Breck,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
who  is  serving  as  Naval  Attache  in  Portugal,  has 
received  the  Cross  and  Star  of  the  ancient  Portu- 
guese Order  of  Avis  "for  distinguished  services  to 
the  cause  of  Portugal  and  the  Allies." 

1886 

Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
With  much  pride  record  is  made  of  the  fact  that 
Amherst  is  represented  at  the  Peace  Conference  at 
Versailles  in  the  person  of  Secretary  of  State  Robert 
Lansing.  It  is  understood  that  after  the  return  of 
the  President,  the  Secretary  is  to  head  the  American 
delegation.  Secretary  Lansing  was  the  principal 
speaker  in  October  at  the  100th  anniversary  of 
Auburn  Theological  Seminary.  Mrs.  Lansing  has 
accompanied  the  Secretary  to  France. 

Lieutenant  George  Merrick  Hollister,  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Clay  H.  Hollister  (Amherst,  '86,  and 
President  of  the  Old  National  Ba:nk  of  Grand  Rap- 
ids, Mich.),  was  killed  in  action  in  France  on  Octo- 
ber 7,  1918,  with  his  regiment,  the  61st  Infantry. — 
Edwin  Fairley's  son  is  captain  of  the  Jamaica 
(N.  Y.)  High  School  cross  country  team.  He  enters 
Amherst  this  fall. — Prof.  H.  F.  Cutler  was  chairman 
of  the  Red  Cross  Drive  for  membership  in  December 
at  Mount  Hermon,  Mass. 

1887 
Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Rev.  Edwin  Noah  Hardy,  Ph.  D.,  has  accepted 
an  appointment  as  Field  Secretary  of  the  American 
Tract    Society    at    50    Bramfield    Street,    Boston. 
He  has  for  20  years  been  pastor  of  two  large  churches 
— at  Quincy,  Mass.,  and  at  La  Grange,  111.,  a  suburb 
of  Chicago — and  is  well  known  as  a  preacher,  writer 
and  administrator.    The  society  is  planning  an  en- 
largement of  its  important  work  in  New  England. — 
Frederic  B.  Pratt  was  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn 
Committee  of  the  United  War  Work  Campaign. 

1888 
William  B.  Greenough,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
32  Westminster  Street,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Dr.  James  G.  Riggs,   President  of  the  Oswego 
Normal  School,  was  married  on  Monday,  December 
23,  1918,  to  Miss  E.  May  Jones  of  Ridgeway,  Mich. 
The  marriage  took  place  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  aunt.    The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 


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The  menihers  of  1888  will  sympathize  with  Wal- 
lace M.  I^onard,  of  Newton  Highlands,  Mass.,  in 
the  loss  of  his  son,  1st  Lieutenant  Wallace  M. 
Leonard,  Jr.,  Amherst,  '16,  who  was  one  of  the 
famous  Marines  that  saved  Paris  at  Chateau- 
Thierry,  who  won  the  Croix  de  Guerre  on  that  occa- 
sion, only  to  return  to  the  I'nited  States  to  be 
stricken  by  the  epidemic  at  Camp  Sherman,  Ohio. 

Shattuck  O.  Hartwell  has  been  appointed  super- 
intendoiit  of  schools  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.  He  entered 
on  the  duties  of  his  office  in  September,  1918. 

1889 

Henry  H.  Boswobth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

15  Elm  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Prof.  George  B.  Churchill  of  Amherst  College  has 

l>een  re-elected  to  the  Massachusetts  State  Senate. 

— The  Rev.  Dr.  William  Horace  Day  was  the  college 

jireacher  at  Amherst  on  Sunday,  November  10th. — 

Walter  H.  Dodd's  son,  Walter  Dodd,  was  chosen  as 

right    guard    on    the    Brooklyn    All-Interscholastic 

football  team  last  fall.    He  has  been  elected  Captain 

of  the  1919  team  at  Poly.  Prep,  and  is  preparing  for 

Amherst.    During  the  last  season  he  alternated  at 

guard  and  fullback. 

Arthur  Curtiss  James  is  President  of  the  new  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York 
City  formed  by  the  consolidation  of  the  Old  First, 
University  Place  and  Madison  Square  churches. 
Mr.  James  has  also  been  elected  a  trustee  for  a 
term  of  four  years  of  the  Children's  Aid  Society  of 
New  York.  He  recently  sailed  for  Europe  as  a 
member  of  the  recently  organized  Committee  for 
Relief  in  the  Far  East. 

The  School  Review  for  October  contained  an  article 
by  Superintendent  Frank  E.  Spaulding  of  Cleve- 
land on  "Co-operation  in  School  Administration." 
— Sherwin  Cody  is  Managing  Director  of  the  Na- 
tional Associated  Schools  of  Scientific  Business. 
The  Government  has  directed  him  to  make  efficiency 
tests  among  soldiers  mustered  out  who  are  desirous 
of  seeking  occupations  other  than  those  they  fol- 
lowed before  entering  the  army  to  determine  in 
what  lines  they  are  best  fitted. 

Edgar  H.  Parkman,  who  has  been  taking  an  in- 
tensive course  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  training  at  Columbia 
University,  is  now  in  France. 

Frank  E.  Spaulding,  member  of  the  Army  Edu- 
cational Commission  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  is  in  Europe 
organizing  and  directing  the  educational  work 
among  the  soldiers.  While  his  headquarters  are  in 
Paris,  he  visits  the  Front  frequently  for  the  purpose 
of  holding  conferences  with  the  men  engaged  in 
educational  work.  The  teachers  are  being  largely 
recruited  from  the  army,  though  superintendents 
and  supervi.sors  are  going  over  from  this  country. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
("harles  S.  Whitman  has  become  senior  partner 
of  a  new  law  firm  that  has  just  been  formed,  with 
offices  in  the  Equitable  Building,  120  Broadway, 
New  York  City.  The  associates  of  the  former 
(Jovernor  are  Supreme  Court  Justice  Nathan  Ot- 
tinger  and  William  L.  Ransom,  chief  counsel  of  the 


Public  Service  Commission. — Prof.  John  Mantle 
Clapp,  recently  professor  of  English  at  Lake  Forest 
College,  has  been  delivering  this  winter  at  the 
Brooklyn  Y.  M.  C.  A.  the  Caragey  Course  of  lec- 
tures in  eflective  public  speaking. 

ChaflFraix  Kayser  Lackland  died  recently  at 
Barnes'  Hospital  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  of  heart  disease, 
after  an  illness  of  ten  days. 

He  was  superintendent  of  agents  of  the  State 
Mutual  Life  Assurance  Company  and  was  50  years 
old.  He  was  the  son  of  Edgar  C.  and  Elise  (Kayser) 
Lackland  and  a  grandson  of  the  late  Rufus  J.  Lack- 
land, for  38  years  President  of  the  Boatmen's  Bank 
of  St.  Louis.  He  was  born  on  September  19,  1868. 
and  was  prepared  for  college  by  the  Rev.  R.  G. 
Williams  of  Amherst.  He  spent  two  terms  at  Am- 
herst. He  is  survived  by  his  widow,  Mrs.  Josephine 
Burgh  Lackland. 

Folgar  McFadden,  ele^'en  jears  old,  son  of  Robert 
McFadden,  was  killed  in  an  automobile  accident  at 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  on  October  22,  1918.  He  was 
struck  by  an  automobile  when  riding  a  bicycle. — 
Rev.  Allan  B.  MacNeill  during  the  past  year  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Division  Secretary  with  a  large  aviation  di- 
vision in  Southern  France,  has  been  transferred  to 
educational  work  with  the  division  having  head- 
quarters at  Goundercourt. 

William  O.  Gilbert  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Colonel  in  the  Judge  Advocate  Generals 
Department,  Washington. 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

H.  Foster  Jones  has  resigned  his  chair  of  English 
in  Huron  College  to  accept  a  lectureship  in  English 
at  the  University  of  North  Dakota. — The  Rev.  Dr. 
John  Timothy  Stone  has  declined  the  call  recently 
extended  to  him  by  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  New  York  and  has  decided  to  remain  in  Chicago 
as  pastor  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  in 
that  city.  Dr.  Stone  felt  that  his  work  in  Chicago 
was  not  completed  and  that  it  was,  therefore,  his 
duty  to  remain  there. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Sartell  Prentice  went  to  France  in 
June,  1918,  at  the  request  of  the  National  Federa- 
tion of  Churches  as  the  representative  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  to  act  as  Red  Cross  Chap- 
lain. He  served  until  the  middle  of  October  at 
Base  Hospital  101,  S.  O.  S.,  when  at  his  urgent 
request  he  was  transferred  to  Evacuation  Hospital 
13. — Each  month  The  Bookman  publishes  an  article 
of  literary  criticism  and  review  of  recent  books  by 
H.  W  Boynton.  The  titles  of  recent  papers  are  as 
follows:  October,  "Stories  of  Here  and  There," 
November,  "Yarns  of  Sea  and  Land,"  December, 
"All  Sorts." — Henry  S.  Nims,  only  son  of  Lieut.  H. 
Miles  Nims,  '91,  of  Troy,  N.  Y.,  was  killed  in 
action  in  France  on  September  25th. 

Capt.  Frederick  R.  Abbe,  M.  C,  is  President  of 
the  Disability  Board  at  Camp  Zachary  Taylor. — 
Charles  L.  Upton  received  a  commission  as  Captain 
in  the  Medical  Corps  in  June,  1917,  and  after  three 
months  at  the  Officers'  Training  School  at  Ft. 
Benjamin  Harrison  was  assigned  to  Camp  Zachary 
Taylor  as  a  member  of  the  Base  Hospital  Staff. 


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For  the  past  few  months  he  has  been  President  of 
the  Disability  Board  at  the  Camp. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  So.  Summit  Street,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 

Rev.  Howard  A.  Lincohi  has  resigned  his  pas- 
torate of  the  Union  Congregational  Church  of 
Westford  (Mass.),  to  work  under  the  Federal  Board 
for  Vocational  Education  in  training  and  rehabili- 
tating disabled  soldiers  and  sailors.  He  is  to  be  at 
the  district  oflSce  in  Boston. — William  H.  Lewis 
was. appointed  by  Governor  McCall  a  member  of 
the  Boston  committee  to  have  charge  of  the  recep- 
tion tendered  Gen.  Clarence  R.  Edwards,  former 
Commander  of  the  Yankee  Division. — Samuel  C. 
Fairley  has  been  chosen  assistant  superintendent  of 
the  Bible  School  of  the  Clinton  Avenue  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Capt.  Earl  Conistock,  commandant  of  the  Re- 
mount Station,  Ft.  Sill,  writes  under  date  of  Novem- 
ber 8th:  "Fort  Sill,  since  April,  has  no  recruits  nor 
draft  men,  but  is  postgraduate  school  for  artillery 
oflScers,  nearly  3,000  being  here  at  all  times  under 
intensive  instruction,  with  nine  regiments  of  artil- 
lery pounding  away  all  day  and  part  of  the  night. 
UnofEciallv  I  am  'Master  of  the  Horse'  having  from 
3000  to  8000  here.  .  .  .  I  have  nothing  to  do  but 
handle  some  four  hundred  men,   the  horses,  and 

work  from  seven  a.  m.  until  I  finish I  was 

ordered  overseas  in  June  to  command  remount  over 
there,  but  was  ordered  back  just  as  I  was  embarking 
at  Hoboken."- — Frederic  A.  Washburn  has  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  in  the  Medical 
Corps  and  is  stationed  at  Base  Section  No.  3, 
France. 

1893 

F^REDERiCK  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

As  a  result  of  the  last  election  Senator  Silas  D. 
Reed  of  Taunton  was  re-elected  to  the  Massachu- 
setts Senate  and  Walter  R.  Tower  of  Dalton  was 
elected  to  the  Massachusetts  House  of  Representa- 
tives from  the  F'ifth  Berkshire  district.  Both  are 
Republicans. — Conservation  Commissioner  George 
D.  Pratt  of  New  York  had  an  article  in  State  Serv- 
ice for  November,  entitled  "Pheasant  Farms  in 
New  York  State." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Vestry  of  the  American 
Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity  in  Paris,  France,  in 
October,  the  \ery  Rev.  Frederick  W.  Beekman, 
formerly  Dean  of  Bethlehem,  Pcnn.,  and  for  over  a 
year  director  of  the  American  Soldiers'  and  Sailors' 
Club  in  I'aris,  was  elected  to  and  acceyitcd  the  Rec- 
torship. Dean  Beekman  has  since  April  been  taking 
charge  of  the  church  services,  dividing  his  time  be- 
tween the  church  and  the  American  Soldiers'  and 
Sailors'  Club.  Dean  Beekman  is  the  third  Rector 
of  the  American  Church,  the  largest  and  most  beau- 
tiful of  all  American  churches  outside  America. 

Major  George  L.  Hamilton  is  acting  as  liaison 
officer  between  general  Army  head(juarters  at  Chau- 
niont  and  the  American  Red  Cross  and  .\merican 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  headquarters  in  Paris.  All  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M,  C.  A.  were  under 


Army  supervision,  and  in  order  to  carry  on  their 
work  it  was  necessary  for  them  to  go  to  all  parts  of 
France.  Both  the  Armj-  and  these  two  great  or- 
ganizations were  interested  in  the  leasing  of  ware- 
houses, the  transportation  of  supplies,  the  purchas- 
ing of  locally  produced  building  material  and  many 
other  similar  matters,  the  Army,  of  course,  having 
a  preference,  and  it  has  been  in  the  adjustment  of 
these  matters  that  HamiRon  has  shown  a  fine  de- 
gree of  diplomacy  which  has  won  for  him  the  com- 
mendation of  General  Pershing  as  well  as  the  officers 
of  both  the  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Herbert  P.  Gallinger  has  been  promoted  from 
Associate  Professor  to  Professor  of  History  at 
Amherst. 

^  Paul  Abbott,  son  of  Henry  H.  Abbott,  is  in  the 
J'rench  Army  and  has  been  assigned  to  the  Breton 
Regiment,  which  is  probably  now  in  Luxemburg. 

1894 
Henby  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Congressman  Bertrand  H.  Snell  is  chairman  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Republican  State 
Committee  in  New  York  State. — Principal  Alfred 
E.  Stearns  of  Phillips-Andover  Academy  has  been 
appointed  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Organiza- 
tion of  the  American  Classical  League. — The  Secre- 
tary has  received  a  copy  of  the  address  of  the  Rev. 
Eugene  William  Lyman,  D.  D.,  at  his  inauguration 
as  Professor  of  the  Philosophy  of  Religion,  Union 
Theological  Seminary  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

Nathan  H.  Weeks  is  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in 
FVance.  He  has  been  stationed  there  since  Septem- 
ber 1st  in  the  Leave  Area  Work  at  Dinard.  He  ex- 
pects to  be  overseas  a  year.^ — Henry  E.  Whitcomb 
was  Vice  Chairman  of  the  United  War  Work  Cam- 
paign for  Worcester  County,  and  County  Chairman 
for  the  Worcester  Chapter,  American  Red  Cross, 
in  the  Christmas  "  Roll  Call "  Campaign  for  member- 
ship. On  each  of  these  drives  the  district  went 
"over  the  top,"  in  the  first  instance  60%  over  its 
quota  and  in  the  latter,  100%  increase  in  member- 
ship. 

Announcement  has  been  received  from  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Harold  ¥.  Hayes  of  the  arrival  of  a  seven 
pound  son,  a  "chip  of  the  old  block,"  on  December 
IGth.    Of  course,  his  name  is  Harold  Perkins  Hayes. 

Major  P'rederick  C.  Herrick  is  Chief  Surgeon  in 
Base  Hospital  83,  F'rance. — Capt.  Warren  D. 
Brown,  A.  S.  S.  C,  was  Post  .\djutant  and  later 
F^xecutive  Officer  at  Taylor  Field  until  last  Septem- 
ber, when  he  became  Adjutant  and  Acting  Com- 
manding Officer  of  the  344th  Handley-Page  Service 
Stjuadron  at  the  Air  Service  Depot  at  Garden  City. 

1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
30  Church  Street,  New  York  City 
Not  as  a  matter  of  news,  but  simply  for  record 
should  be  recorded  announcement  of  the  election  in 
November  of  Calvin  Coolidge  as  Governor  of 
Massachusetts.  In  spile  of  the  fact  that  Massa- 
chusetts elected  a  Democratic  United  States  Sena- 
tor, the  Republican  state  ticket  headed  by  Calvin 
Coolidge  .scored  a  triumi)h.    In  its  comment  on  the 


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election  the  Boston  Evening  Transcript  editorially 
said: 

"The  people  of  Massachusetts  have  done  well  by 
themselves  in  their  choice  of  Governor  ....  It 
is  often  said  of  Calvin  Coolidge  that  the  people  trust 
him;  it  is  not  said  often  enough  that  Calvin  Coolidge 
trusts  the  j)eople.  He  never  plays  tricks  with  them  or 
upon  thcni  ....  Here  we  have  a  leader  for  the 
times.  Massachusetts  is  fortunate  in  finding  him 
and  wise  in  putting  him  at  the  head  of  her  affairs." 

The  Governor  was  elected  on  November  28th 
President  of  the  Nonotuck  Savings  Bank  of  North- 
ampton. 

Augustus  Post  took  part  in  the  first  aerial  banquet 
in  history  on  November  28th,  in  an  airplane  2800 
feet  above  the  new  flying  field  of  the  U.  S.  Aerial 
Mail  Service  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J.  A  big  Hundley- 
Page  machine  rose  and  during  a  flight  of  22  minutes, 
a  real  Thanksgiving  feast  was  served  to  nine  persons. 
On  the  menu  were  roast  turkey,  a  variety  of  vegeta- 
bles and  the  "trimmings"  sacred  to  the  day.  The 
fle.scent  was  hastened  somewhat  because  of  bad 
weather  conditions. — Herbert  L.  Pratt  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Brooklyn  campaign  committee  in  charge 
of  the  United  War  Work  Campaign  last  November. 

Capt.  George  R.  Critchlow,  M.C.,  is  in  France 
with  Base  Hospital  No.  136  —  Sherman  W. 
Haven,  who  was  attending  the  Field  Artillery 
Central,  O.T.S.,  Camp  Zachary  Taylor,  has  received 
his  honorable  discharge. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mortimer  L.  Schiff  is  chairman  of  the  Finance 
Committee  of  the  Jewish  Welfare  lioard.  With 
George  W.  Perkins,  chairman  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee of  the  War  Work  Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
he  sailed  for  Europe  on  December  5th  at  the  request 
of  the  Committee  of  Eleven  of  the  seven  accredited 
war  work  organizations,  expecting  to  remain  abroad 
for  two  months.  Mr.  Schiff  and  Mr.  Perkins  went 
to  Europe  to  coordinate  the  work  of  the  various 
organizations,  supervise  the  expenditure  of  the 
$203,000,000  fund  collected  in  the  recent  drive, 
eliminate  duplications  as  far  as  possible,  and  devise 
the  best  means  of  spending  the  large  fund.  Another 
task  will  be  to  see  that  the  text  books  for  the  "  Khaki 
university"  are  promptly  provided.  They  will  also 
give  careful  attention  to  the  relation  of  the  army  to 
the  civilian  population. 

Dr.  Everett  Kimball,  Professor  of  History  at 
Smith  College,  delivered  a  course  of  lectures  on 
"The  Citizen  and  the  Government"  before  the 
Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences  last  fall. 

Maj.  Aurin  M.  Chase  of  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment, after  a  year  in  Washington,  went  to  France 
last  June  with  Brigadier-General  Rice  to  prepare 
motor  trucks  and  try  out  field  kitchens  for  the  army. 
1st  Lieut.  Merrill  E.  (iates,  Jr.,  Q.M.C.,  is  with 
the  Headquarters  of  the  77th  Division,  France. 

Ernest  S.  Olmsted  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  is  Commanding  Officer  of 
the  313th  .\mnumition  Train. — John  E.  Priddy, 
who  was  attending  the  F.A.C.O.T.S.,  Camp  Taylor, 
has  been  honorably  discharged. 


Maj.  John  T.  Pratt  served  overseas  with  the 
.\merican  Red  Cross  from  January  to  December, 
1918.  He  was  manager  of  the  Department  of  Mili- 
tary affairs  (both  Army  and  Navy  Departments)  of 
the  .\merican  Red  Cross  of  France. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kend.^ll  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Capt.  Edwin  P.  Grosvenor,  a  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Cadwalader,  Wickersham  and  Taft  in  New 
York  and  a  son  of  Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  '67, 
was  married  on  Saturday,  October  26th,  to  Miss 
Thelma  Cudlipp  of  New  York  whose  sketches  and 
illustrations  have  appeared  in  various  magazines, 
including  the  Saturday  Evening  Post.  The  marriage 
took  place  at  Wild  Acres,  Bethesda,  Md.,  the 
country  home  of  Gilbert  Grosvenor.  Owing  to  the 
recent  death  in  action  in  France  of  the  bride's 
brother,  the  wedding  was  a  small  one,  ex-Pres. 
W'illiam  H.  Taft  giving  the  bride  in  marriage. 
Captain  Grosvenor  is  stationed  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  in  the  Military  Intelligence  Division  in  the 
office  of  the  Chief  of  Staff. 

A  son,  Raymond  C.  Ingersoll,  was  born  on  Octo- 
ber 4,  1918,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond  V.  Ingersoll 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  When  Mr.  Ingersoll  first  went 
to  France  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  he  was  with  the  Italian 
troops  for  a  month.  During  July  he  was  at  Epernay. 
He  has  since  been  Assistant  Regional  Director  of 
the  section  south  and  west  of  Rheims  with  about 
forty  foyers  in  his  charge.  At  last  reports  (Decem- 
ber) he  was  about  to  go  into  Germany  with  the 
American  troops. 

Everett  DeF.  Holt,  formerly  instructor  in  French 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Quantico, 
Va.,  has,  since  July,  been  acting  as  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
secretary  to  the  French  sailors  who  have  come  to  our 
shores.  He  was  detailed  to  set  up  classes  in  English 
for  the  Frenchmen  and  now  every  one  of  those  men 
is  doing  interpreter's  work  for  French  Naval  Officers 
on  this  side.  Then  the  work  took  on  a  larger  phase 
and  the  oflScers  on  board  allowed  all  interested  to 
study  English.  Classes  have  numbered  as  many  as 
250  and  300.  Motion  picture  service  has  been 
secured.  An  officer  writes:  "Bj^  offering  so  gra- 
ciously to  our  sailors  recreation  and  study  which  will 
maintain  their  cheerfulness  and  contribute  to  keep 
up  their  morale,  I,  together  with  my  crew,  unite  in 
thanking  you!" — Rev.  Daniel  M.  Geddes  at  last 
reports  was  in  P^ngland  in  charge  of  a  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
hut  at  Hursley,  near  Winchester,  having  been  there 
since  September.  He  is  prepared  to  spend  a  year 
in  the  service,  if  needed. 

Arthur  H.  Swett,  President  of  the  Swett  and 
Sibley  Company  of  Boston,  died  at  his  home  in 
Winchester  on  November  10,  1918,  aged  43  years. 
After  graduating  from  Amherst  he  entered  business 
in  Lowell  and  Boston.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Vesper  County  Club  of  Lowell  and  is  survived  by 
his  father,  Charles  E.  Swett  and  a  sister.  Miss  Edith 
J.  Swett  of  Winchester.  His  mother  who  died  a  few 
years  ago,  was  Clementine  E.  (Keyes)  Swett.  While 
in  college  Mr.  Swett  was  a  member  of  the  Delta 
Kappa   Epsilon   Fraternity  and  of  the  Banjo  Club. 

William  G.  Hawes,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary,  has 
been  at  the  Aberdeen  Proving  Ground  where  gun^, 


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powder,  bombs,  fuses,  etc.,  are  tested.  He  writes 
that  it  was  like  being  on  the  firing  line.  He  has  been 
recently  transferred  to  the  Hud.son  Hut  at  Hoboken 
where  he  meets  many  of  the  men  returning  from 
aljroad. 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 
401  College  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

A  son,  Mark  Estabrook  Rice,  was  born  on  Sunday, 
November  10,  1918,  to  Captain  and  Mrs.  Robert  A. 
Rice  of  Fitchburg,  Mass.  Captain  Rice  is  in  the 
Army  Medical  Corps. 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam  completed  his  six 
months  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  France  and  landed 
in  Boston  on  September  7th,  after  an  experience 
which  he  states  he  "would  not  sell  for  anything." 
This  included  a  narrow  escape  when  on  board  the 
Orissa  which  was  torpedoed  by  a  submarine  and 
was  sunk  in  twelve  minutes. — Frederick  W.  Fosdick, 
vice-president  of  1898,  has  been  serving  as  chairman 
of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board  in  Medford,  Mass. — 
Rev.  L.  H.  Austin  has  resigned  his  postorate  of  the 
Congregational    Church   at   Roslindale,    Mass. 

Major  Xellis  B.  F'oster,  M.  C,  has  been  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel.  He  is  director 
of  the  School  of  Military  Medicine,  Army  General 
Hospital  14,  at  Camp  Greenleaf. — Major  Albert 
Mossman  has  been  assigned  to  the  30th  Artillery, 
Coast  Artillery  Corps  and  is  stationed  at  Camp 
Eustis. 

1899 

Lieut.  Col.  C.  L  DeWitt,  Secretary, 
2318  20th  Street,  X.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Harrison  T.  Swain  has  been  promoted  from  the 
rank  of  Captain  to  that  of  Major,  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps,  on  the  Retired  List,  and  at  last  reports  was 
Officer  in  Charge  Recruiting  District  of  Los  Angeles, 
Calif. — Prof.  W.  J.  Xewlin  is  serving  at  the  head- 
quarters of  the  X'ational  War  Work  Council  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  as  Educational  Recruiting  Secretary 
of  the  War  Personnel  Board. — The  December  issue 
of  Everybody  s  Magazine  contained  a  poem  by 
Burges  Johnson,  entitled  "A  Difference."  — Rich- 
ard B.  Thompson,  seven-year  old  son  of  E.  E. 
Thompson,  died  from  influenza,  December  16th  at 
Westfield,  N.  J. 

Charles  L  DeWitt  of  the  Orthiance  Department 
has  been  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel. — James  C.  Graves,  M.  C.,  France, 
has  been  promoted  from  the  rank  of  Captain  to  that 
of  Major. — Edward  Hitchcock,  who  has  been  in 
France  in  the  Ambulance  Service  for  some  time,  has 
received  a  commission  as  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  ('., 
.\mbulance  Service. — Robert  T.  Miller,  Jr.,  has  been 
l)rom<)ted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel.  For 
a  time  he  served  with  a  French  Ambulance  Company 
at  the  front  and  later  was  chief  surgeon  in  Mobile 
Hospital  1  (.\merican)  following  uj)  our  men  in 
their  advance.  He  is  now  back  at  Base  Hospital  27  of 
which  he  is  director.     This  is  a  hospital  of  5000  beds. 

Major  Walter  H.  (iriffin,  Inf.,  has  been  made  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Putney,  (^uanibly  &:  Putney, 
2  Rector  Street,  New  York  City.  Louis  H.  Hall, 
'97,  is  a  member  of  the  same  firm. 


1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  Street,  New  York  City. 

Rev.  Philip  A.  Job  has  resigned  as  assistant  pastor 
of  the  Central  Congregational  Church,  Fall  River, 
Mass.,  and  is  now  in  the  employ  of  the  Crownin- 
shield's  Shipbuilding  Company  of  South  Somerset, 
where  he  is  at  work  on  one  of  the  Government  boats 
now  under  construction. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Edward  St. John  Ward  entered 
Beirilt,  Syria,  only  two  days  after  it  was  occupied 
by  the  French  and  was  able  to  attend  the  first  as- 
sembly of  the  American  L'niversity,  where  he  occu- 
pied the  chair  of  surgery  for  many  years.  He  was 
following  the  army  to  make  a  survey  of  the  relief 
work  necessary  ift  that  region.  Mrs.  Ward  and 
children  left  Monday,  X'^ovember  25th,  to  join  her 
husband  in  Palestine,  going  by  way  of  Seattle, 
Japan,  the  Philippines,  Hong  Kong,  and  Bombay, 
she  having  a  British  permit  to  enter  Egypt. 

Dr.  John  H.  Finley,  head  of  the  Red  Cross  Com- 
mission to  Palestine,  recently  returned  to  this 
country,  leaving  Colonel  Ward,  the  Deputy  Com- 
missioner, in  charge  of  a  work  of  great  scope  and 
importance.  Dr.  Finley  reported  in  glowing  terms 
regarding  Colonel  Wards  work,  of  which  some  men- 
tion has  already  been  made  in  these  notes.  More 
than  10,000  sick  civilians  have  been  cared  for  in 
one  month  by  Colonel  Ward  and  his  staff  of  twenty- 
six  commissioned  officers,  surgeons,  and  engineers, 
and  thirty-three  enlisted  nurses.  The  commission 
has  already  established  several  orphanages  for  both 
boys  and  girls,  hospitals,  a  school  for  the  blind,  a 
day  nursery,  and  industrial  workrooms.  An  effort 
is  being  made  to  educate  the  natives  in  modern 
methods  of  agriculture.  In  short,  the" commission 
has  closely  followed  the  army  of  deliverance,  carry- 
ing to  these  primitive  and  ruined  peoples  something 
of  modern  civilization. 

George  S.  Bryan  has  written  the  lyric  "Blue-bon- 
net," which  was  set  to  music  by  M.  Irene  Berge, 
Massenet's  favorite  pupil,  and  won  a  prize  in  open 
competition  for  a  state  song  for  Texas.  This  has 
been  adopted  by  Texas  and  is  published  by  (?. 
Schirmer,  Inc.,  for  solo  voice  and  for  mens, women's, 
and  mixed  choruses.  Mr.  Bryan  also  wrote  for  M. 
Berge  the  lyrics  for  a  suite  of  "  Four  Venetian  Love 
Songs,"  also  published  by  Schirmer.  He  is  engaged 
in  literary  work  at  Brookfield  Center,  Conn.,  and  in 
February,  1918,  was  elected  to  the  Author's  Cluh. 
X^ew  York.  He  is  a  frequent  contributor  to  the 
various  periodicals. 

Walter  .\.  Dyer  is  s{)ending  the  winter  in  X'ew 
York,  at  354  West  End  Aveiuie.  The  war  book, 
"With  the  Help  of  God  and  a  Few  Marines,"  on 
which  he  collaborated  with  Brig.-Cien.  .\.  W.  Catlin, 
was  published  by  Doul)lc(lay,  Page  &  Co.,  on  Jan- 
uary 25th.  He  was  the  author  of  the  text  of  the 
October  number  of  The  Mentor,  devoted  to  dogs,  and 
is  contributing  reviews  and  articles  to  The  Hookman. 
Among  his  recent  magazine  contributions  are  the 
following:  "Bally  Shannon,  Dog  of  War,"  in  Coun- 
try Life  for  Xovcinbcr;  "Dogs  and  P<-oj)le"  in  The 
Independent  for  Xovember  9th;  and  "The  Dogs  of 
the  Alpine  Monks,"  in  Country  Life  for  December. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Prof.  Harold  Goddard  of  Swarthmore  is  the 
author  of  a  book  entitled  "Morale,"'  recently  pub- 
lished by  the  George  H.  Doran  Company.  It  is  a 
discussion  of  the  general  subject  of  morale,  what  it 
is  and  how  to  obtain  it,  among  civilians  as  well  as 
soldiers,  in  {)eace  as  well  as  in  war,  and  it  contains 
special  chapters  on  the  morale  of  victory  and  re- 
construction. Professor  (ioddard  is  also  the  author 
of  two  recent  contributions  to  The  Journal  of  Phi- 
losophy— "Politics,  I'hiiosopiiy,  and  Poetry,"  in  the 
October  10th  issue,  and  "The  Coming  Bravery — .\ 
Spencerian  Dream,"  on  November  !ilst. 

Prof.  Ernest  H.  Wilkins  has  a  year's  leave  of  ab- 
sence from  the  University  of  Chicago  and  is  serving 
at  the  National  Headquarters  of  the  War  Work 
<  'ouncil  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  as  Director  of  the  Educa- 
tional Bureau,  which  has  general«harge  of  the  edu- 
cational work  carried  on  by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  the 
.\rmy  camps  and  Naval  stations  in  this  country. — 
David  Whitcomb,  who  has  been  Executive  Secre- 
tary of  the  Euel  Administration  and  living  in  Wash- 
ington with  Mrs.  Wliitcorab  and  David,  Jr.,  has  re- 
turned to  the  Pacific  Coast  as  the  Euel  Administra- 
tion is  now  being  demobilized. 

Lieut.  Commdr.  Cleaveland  C.  Kimball  is  Sen- 
ior Medical  Officer  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Louisville. — 
Lieut.  Commdr.  James  E.  Connor,  V.  S.  N.,  is 
Officer-in-Charge  of  the  Employment  Division  in 
the  Bureau  of  Supplies  and  Accounts  of  the  Navy. 

Christopher  C.  St.  Clare  went  overseas  last  Jan- 
uary as  Y.  M.  C.  A.  overseas  secretary.  He  was  with 
various  units  of  the  "^d  Division  until  the  Battle  of 
Belleau  Wood,  when  he  was  sent  as  Chaplain  to 
Evacuation  Hospital  No.  8.  As  the  war  was  draw- 
ing to  a  close  the  Colonel  of  the  hospital  expressed 
to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Eirst  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Port  Henry,  New  York,  of  which  Mr. 
St.  Clare  is  pastor,  his  appreciation  of  the  services 
rendered  by  Mr.  St.  Clare  during  his  term  of  service. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  Street,  New  York  City. 

Ernest  W.  Pelton  is  President  of  the  Chamber  of 
(  ommerce  of  New  Britain,  Conn. — Herbert  P. 
Houghton  has  been  elected  to  the  presidency  of 
Carroll  College  at  Waukesha,  Wisconsin.  He  en- 
tered upon  his  new  duties  at  the  beginning  of  the 
college  year  last  fall.  He  came  to  Carroll  College 
from  Waynesburg  College  in  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  has  been  President  for  some  years. 

William  D.  Ballantine  has  received  a  commission 
as  Major  in  the  Quartermasters'  Corps. — Major 
Bradford  Butler  of  the  Judge  Advocate's  Depart- 
ment is  serving  overseas. — William  Goodell  has  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  Captain  in  the  Medical 
Corps  and  is  on  duty  at  Washington. — Major  Harry 
V.  D.  Moore  is  attending  the  Army  General  Staff 
College  in  Erance.  He  was  Adjutant  of  the  57th 
Infantry  lirigade  for  over  a  year  and  spent  eleven 
weeks  on  the  Alsace  Front. 

1902 

Eldon  B.  Keith,  Secretary, 
3(i  South  Street,  Campello,  Mass. 
Dorothea  Ells,  wife  of  Arthur  E.  Ells,  of  W'atcr- 
bury,  died  of  pneumonia,  October  20,  11)18. 


During  the  a})sence  in  France  of  the  Rev.  Jason 
Noble  Pierce,  his  father.  Dr.  Albert  F.  Pierce,  will 
be  the  acting  pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational 
Church,  Dorchester,  Mass. — Frank  L.  Boyden  was 
Chairman  of  the  Red  Cross  Membership  Drive  in 
December  at  Deerfield,  Mass. — Silas  D.  Barber  was 
in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  Erance  from  December, 
1917,  to  October,  1918,  when  he  had  to  return  to 
this  country  for  business  reasons.  He  served  as 
Hut  Secretary,  principally  with  the  26th  Division 
and  the  23rd  Engineers. 

Anson  E.  Morse  is  doing  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in 
Italy.  Although  he  went  as  Athletic  Director,  his 
work  has  included  hospital  work  and  caring  for  the 
prisoners  returned  from  Austria.  He  has  also  taught 
the  Italian  officers  English  and  American  history .^ — 
Ralph  T.  W^hitelaw  of  the  Traffic  Department  of 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  France,  writes  about  his  work  as 
follows:  "We  look  after  material  of  all  sorts  from 
the  time  it  leaves  America,  England,  Spain,  Switzer- 
land, Algiers,  etc.,  until  it  has  gone  into  use  or  con- 
sumption somewhere  here  in  France  or  Italy,  so 
with  thousands  of  tons  and  hundreds  of  cars  moving 
in  all  directions  you  can  readily  imagine  the  mass 
of  detail  to  be  kept  up  with  and,  of  course,  it  is  all 
the  harder  because  we  are  operating  in  a  strange 
country." 

W'ilber  A.  Anderson  is  an  Assistant  Paymaster 
in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve. — Harry  C.  Barber  is  in 
France  with  the  33rd  Engineers. — Capt.  William 
D.  Clarke  of  the  23rd  Regiment  Highway  Engineers, 
went  to  France  last  April.  For  several  months  he 
did  maintenance  work  in  Lorraine  and  was  then 
transferred  to  a  sector  near  Verdun,  where  he  was 
Acting  Corps  Road  OflBcer,  having  charge  of  several 
roads  leading  to  the  Front. 

1903 

Clifford  P.  Wakren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Dr.  Robert  D.  Hildreth,  of  Westfield,  Mass.,  was 
married,  October  5,  1918,  to  Carrie  Wilcoxson 
Moses,  of  Willimantic,  Conn. — Arthur  B.  Birge  is 
now  connected  with  the  Aluminum  Castings  Com- 
pany of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Another  Amherst  man, 
Brainerd  Dyer,  '05,  is  advertising  manager  of  this 
company. 

Sam  Higginbottom,  who  is  Superintendent  of  the 
Department  of  Agriculture  of  Ewing  Christian  Col- 
lege at  Allahabad,  India,  writes  in  a  very  interesting 
manner  concerning  his  work  in  that  country.  In 
one  of  his  late  letters  he  says,  "During  this  period 
of  world  shortage,  we  are  doing  our  best  to  increase 
the  supply  of  food  grains,  fibre,  and  oil  seeds  which 
are  essential  to  the  Allies.  India  with  its  enormous 
agricultural  population  is  capable  of  a  greater  im- 
mediate response  than  any  other  country  on  earth. 
Not  only  has  India  the  agricultural  population  to 
help  to  feed  and  clothe  the  world,  but  she  has  the 
climate  and  the  fertile  soil.  All  she  needs  is  demon- 
stration and  leadership,  and  to  this  the  Government 
is  now  awake.  During  the  last  few  years  the  results 
of  agricultural  research  have  given  India  new  and 
improved  varieties  of  wheat,  cotton,  sugarcane,  rice, 
jute,  millet,  sorghum,  indigo.  We  are  helping  to 
introduce  these  to  large  tracts  of  country  that  knew 
them  not,  and  it  is  not  only  going  to  help  the  Indian 


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cultivator,  but  it  is  going  to  give  a  large  surplus  for 
use  in  Europe  as  soon  as  shipping  is  available.' 

1st  Lieut.  Gouvemeur  H.  Boyer,  M.  C,  b  a 
Surgeon  in  the  308th  Regiment  Engineers,  &3rd 
Division,  France.  He  was  transferred  from  the 
133rd  Field  .\mbulance,  B.  E.  F.  Lieutenant  Boyer 
has  been  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. 
— ^Raymond  W.  Jones  is  a  Ist  Lieutenant  in  the 
Corps  of  Interpreters.  He  was  commissioned  last 
June  and  .stationed  for  a  time  at  Ft.  O^ethorpe. 
He  is  now  at  Ft.  McWierson. — Last  August,  Ist 
Lieut.  Foster  W.  Steams  was  assigned  to  the  16th 
Regiment,  Infantry.  He  was  wounded  a  little  later 
and  after  a  few  weeks  spent  in  a  hospital  was  as- 
signed to  the  General  Staff,  id  Section- 

19W 

K-UiL  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 

113f>6  Knowlton  Avenue,  Clevdan<L  Ohio. 

A  high  honor  has  come  to  one  of  Amherst's 
younger  alumni  in  the  appointment  by  President 
Wilson  of  Joseph  B.  Ea.stman  as  a  member  of  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission,  to  succeed 
George  W.  Anderson,  who  had  been  appointed  Fed- 
eral Circuit  Judge  at  Boston.  The  nomination  was 
sent  &om  France  by  wireless.  Eastman  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Public  Service 
Commission  and  is  a  Republican.  He  has  oc-cupied 
during  the  last  few  months  a  number  of  other  posi- 
tions whidi  bring  honor  and  responsibility.  In 
November,  he  rendered  a  report  to  the  Convention 
of  the  National  Association  of  Railroad  and  Utilities 
Commissioners  as  Chairman  of  the  Special  War 
Committee  of  the  Association.  At  the  same  con- 
vention he  was  elected  Second  Mce  President  of 
the  Association.  He  was  appointed  by  Postmaster- 
General  Burleson  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
the  Standardization  of  Telegraph  Rates. 

Mrs.  Helen  Stanton  Bishop,  wife  of  Merrill 
Bishc^,  who  as  a  member  of  the  Signal  Corps  of  the 
Canadian  Reserves  was  in  England,  died  on  Wednes- 
day, November  6th.  during  the  epidemic,  at  the 
home  of  her  mother  in  Brooklyn. — Rev.  Harrison 
L.  Packard  has  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of 
the  North  Congregational  Church  erf  Winchendon, 
Mass.  Mr.  Packard  resigned  his  pastorate  in  Shel- 
bume  FalU  to  take  up  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France; 
but  just  as  he  was  about  to  sail  in  September  he 
was  taken  seriously  iD. — C.  IL  Keep  has  assisted 
the  War  Risk  Insurance  Bureau.  U.  S.  Treasur>- 
Department,  as  an  investigator  in  Brooklyn.  Keep 
is  Probation  Officer  of  King's  County  Court. — M. 
T.  Abel  is  supervisor  trf  the  Reliance  Insurance 
Company.  1114  White  Building,  Seattle,  Wash. — 
J.  G.  Dobbins,  Montdair,  N.  J.,  has  been  doing 
^^ar  Camp  Community  ServTce  in  New  Jersey. 

John  W.  Roberts  has  received  the  degree  of  a 
Colified  Public  Accountant  from  the  state  of  North 
Carolina,  after  ptassing  the  state  examination.  While 
doing  government  work  for  the  Board  of  Re\Tew 
in  the  assessment  of  excess  profit  taxes,  Roberts" 
address  is  1354  Randolph  Street,  N.  W„  Washing- 
too,  D.  C.  His  p>erTnaDent  address  is  9  Northern 
.\venue.  New  York  City. — Harrj-  E.  Taylor  sailed 
for  Europe  in  October  with  a  party  of  publishers  on 
a  combined  business  and  sight-seeing  trip.  The 
party  indoded  fifteen  Business  Paper  Editors,  se- 


lected as  representatives  of  the  industries  to  which 
their  several  publications,  some  fifty  in  number,  are 
devoted.  They  went  as  guests  erf  the  British 
Government, 

1st  Lieut.  Heman  B.  Chase,  who  is  on  dut^-  at 
Camp  Hospital  No.  39,  France,  was  at  one  tin»e 
during  the  influenza  epidemic  the  only  medical 
cfficer  who  was  not  ill. — id  Lient.  George  K.  PcnmI 
is  still  stationed  at  Ellington  Held,  bat  has  been 
transferred  from  the  Ground  Officers'  branch  of  the 
Air  Service  to  the  Pilot  branch. 

Ernest  M.  Whitoomb  has  returned  from  France, 
where  he  served  as  Red  Cros  Representative  at 
U.  S.  Base  Hospital  No.  51,  TouL  in  charge  <rf  the 
Red  Cross  staff  and  activities  there.  This  indoded 
supplying  the  hospital  with  surgical  dressings,  med- 
ical supplies,  ^lecial  dietary  foods,  recreation  rooms 
for  men,  nurses,  and  cheers,  and  the  daily  distribu- 
tion to  the  patients  <rf  cigarettes,  chocolate,  writing 
materials,  papers,  magazines,  etc., — ^in  short,  any- 
thing that  would  aid,  cheer  up,  or  entertain  sick  and 
convalescent  men.  An  (»cfaestxa  of  eight  pieces 
was  organired  to  play  through  the  wards  and  for 
entertainments.  Whitcomb  pays  a  fine  tribote  to 
the  fortitude,  cheerfulness,  and  morale  of  the 
American  enlisted  men. 

JoHX  B.  O'Bhiex,  Srrretary. 
3tf9  Washington  Avaiue,  Brocilyn.  N.  Y. 

Edward  W.  Broder  was  re-dected  to  the  Con- 
necticut Senate  in  November  from  the  First  District 
which  indudes  the  city  of  Hartford.  Running  in 
1916  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in  what  was  ccMisid- 
ered  a  strong  Republican  district,  Senator  Broder 
won  out  by  Si  votes.  This  last  dection  be  tri- 
umphed by  i>4  votes.— The  Rev.  Fritz  W.  Bald- 
win, Jr.,  has  become  assistant  |>astor  of  the  Qinton 
Avenue  Congregational  Church  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
of  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton,  '79,  is 
pastCH".  He  has  also  been  choeen  Superintendent  of 
the  Bible  SchooL — ^When  last  heard  from.  John 
.\dams  Taylor,  who  went  to  France  last  August  for 
the  Y'.  M.  C.  A-  was  engaged  in  educational  work 
in  a  camp  just  outside  the  old  city  erf  Dijon.  He 
writes  that  "the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  is  a  dub,  library,  home, 
church,  school,  and  theatre — all  in  one." — Just 
prior  to  his  sailing  for  France  in  November  to  engage 
in  the  educational  work  abroad  luider  the  auspices 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  -\.,  the  New  Ywi:  Schoolmaster>i 
Qub  tendered  a  reception  to  Ward  C.  Moon. 
Supointendent  <rf  Schools  at  Freeport,  N.  Y. 

Prof.  Edward  Hall  Gardner  of  the  Lniversity  of 
Wisconsin  has  recently  published  through  the 
Ronald  Press  a  book,  entitled  "New  Collection 
Methods,"  which  is  considered  the  most  author- 
itative volume  yet  written  on  this  so  vital  sub- 
ject to  business  firms.  Sdool  and  Soriftjf  in  its 
issue  of  October  lith  contained  an  artide  by  Pro- 
fessor Gardner  on  "Teaching  Business  Corre- 
spondence.'' He  is  a  director  ot  the  Better  Letters 
.Association  and  is  now  in  charge  <rf  the  preparation 
of  a  course  in  Foreign  Trade  Corrt'spondeDce  by 
the  Association,  for  the  Bureau  of  Vocational  Edu- 
cation. He  has  also  served  as  State  Director  of 
the  Students'  War  Service  Campaign  in  Wisconsin. 


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Tlif  members  of  190.3  will  all  be  greatly  saddened 
to  learn  of  the  death  from  pneumonia  following  in- 
fluenza of  AVilliam  \  rooman  Ottley  on  December 
•■20,  1918,  and  of  Mrs.  Ottley  from  the  same  cause 
on  December  id,  1918.  Mr.  Ottley  fainted  away 
at  rtie  Grand  Central  station  on  his  arrival  in  New 
York  on  December  Hth  and  was  taken  to  the  Neth- 
erlands Hotel  where  his  illness  was  diagnosed  as 
influenza.  Pneumonia  soon  set  in  and  he  died 
within  six  days.  Mrs.  Ottley  was  taken  ill  the  same 
\\  eek.     Their  burial  was  at  Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Vrooman  Ottley  was  one  of  the  most  popular 
men  in  the  class  of  1905,  and  always  loyal  to  Am- 
herst. Many  a  time  he  journeyed  from  his  home 
in  Buffalo  to  New  York,  just  to  attend  a  class  dinner 
and  return  home  the  same  evening.  He  never 
missed  a  reunion  at  Amherst.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Chi  Psi  fraternity  and  of  the  1905  Olio 
Board. 

He  was  born  in  Geneva,  X.  Y.,  on  March  4, 
1880,  the  sou  of  Thomas  B.  and  Nellie  A.  (Vrooman) 
Ottley  and  prepared  for  college  at  the  Geneva  High 
School,  where  he  captained  the  school  football 
team.  On  graduating  from  Amherst  where  every- 
one was  his  friend,  he  entered  business  with  J.  F. 
Newman,  college  fraternity  jeweler,  and  a  year 
later  went  with  the  firm  of  AUyn  and  Bacon,  pub- 
lishers. He  remained  with  them  until  1912  when 
he  became  connected  with  the  American  Book 
Company  and  was  placed  in  charge  of  Western 
New  York  by  that  firm,  with  headquarters  at 
Buffalo  where  he  made  his  home  from  that  time  on 
at  775  Richmond  Avenue.  The  same  year  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Winifred  Santee  of  Hornell,  N.  Y'. 

Mr.  Ottley  was  a  member  of  the  Park  Club  of 
Bufi'alo,  the  American  Archeological  Institute  and 
the  Elks  Club. 

Major  Claude  M.  Fuess,  Q.  M.  C,  who  has  been 
stationed  at  Camp  Joseph  E.  Johnston  since  last 
April  is  writing  a  history  of  the  camp  for  the  Quar- 
termaster General. 

1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 

Tracy-Parry  Advertising  Co., 

Lafayette  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Reuben  Jeffery  Peacock  died  in  New  York  City 
on  October  31,  1918,  following  a  weeks  illness  of 
influenza  and  pneumonia. 

Born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y..  August  20,  1883,  he 
attended  the  local  public  schools  and,  following  his 
graduation  from  Amherst,  continued  to  reside  in 
that  borough  until  shortly  before  his  death. 

His  first  two  years  after  leaving  Amherst  were 
spent  in  the  employ  of  the  Western  Electric  Com- 
j)any.  New  Y  ork  Telephone  Company  and  Diamond 
Rubber  Company.  In  1908  he  became  associated 
with  his  father  in  a  general  insurance  brokerage 
business,  which  developed  into  a  partnership  in 
1911,  and  continued  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

On  November  27,  1917,  he  was  married  to  Grace 
Comstock  Glover  of  New  York  City,  by  whom  he 
is  survived,  also  by  his  parents  and  two  brothers, 
one  being  Lieut.  A.  B.  Peacock,  '12,  U.  S.  N. 

In  the  passing  of  "Reub"  Peacock,  Amherst  has 
lost  one  of  her  most  devoted  sons.  None  was  more 
interested  in  her  welfare  and  success  as  evidenced 
l)y  his  several  years  service  as  an  efficient  and  loyal 


officer  of  his  class  and  the  Brooklyn  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation. Frequently  he  journeye<l  to  Amherst 
whether  his  class  was  reunioning  or  not  and  he  was 
a  regular  attendant  at  Amherst  functions  held 
within  the  greater  city.  Known  to  many  alumni 
in  a  long  succession  of  classes,  the  news  of  his  death 
will  l)ring  deep  regret.  By  his  host  of  friends,  his 
hearty  greeting,  warm  handshake  and  genial  per- 
sonality, will  be  ever  remembered,  and  keenly 
missed. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  frater- 
nity, the  Beta  Theta  Club  of  New  York,  and  for- 
merly of  the  I'niversity  Club  of  Brooklyn.  His 
grandfather  for  whom  he  was  named  was  the  late 
Rev.  Dr.  Reuben  Jeffrey,  the  founder  and  first 
pastor  of  the  Marcy  Avenue  Baptist  Church  in 
lirooklyn. 

The  newspapers  for  December  Itli  announced 
that  Mrs.  Jean  E.  Burrill,  wife  of  Prof.  Edgar  Bur- 
rill,  assistant  to  Prof.  Brander  Matthews  in  the 
English  Department  at  Cohmil)ia,  had  filed  suit  in 
the  Supreme  Court  against  the  authors  of  the  suc- 
cessful play,  "The  Very  Idea,"  for  an  accounting 
of  the  profits  on  the  ground  that  the  play  is  a 
plagiarism  of  her  story,  "The  Bargains."  Mrs. 
Burrill  alleges  that  when  the  defendants  were  editors 
of  a  weekly  publication  she  submitted  to  them  her 
story,  "The  Bargains,"  which  was  rejected,  but 
when  she  saw  the  performance  of  the  play,  "The 
Very  Idea,"  she  recognized  it  as  taken  from  her 
story. 

F.  Winchester  Denio  of  Newton  Center  has  been 
elected  vice  president  of  the  Old  Colony  Trust 
Company  in  Boston.  He  has  been  in  the  legal  de- 
partment of  the  Old  Colony  Trust  Company  for 
the  past  four  years  and  before  that  was  with  the 
law  firm  of  Fish,  Richardson,  Herrick  and  Neave 
of  Boston.  The  Old  Colony  is  the  largest  trust 
company  in  New  England. — E.  S.  Hildreth  has  left 
his  mission  post  in  Foochow,  China,  and  volunteered 
for  Y'.  M.  C.  A.  work  along  the  Siberian  front  with 
the  Czechs-Slavs.  His  wife  came  to  the  United 
States  in  July,  and  on  November  23rd  a  son  was 
born  to  them  in  Boston,  John  Lane  Hildreth. 

Edward  K.  Browne  has  entered  the  Field  Artillery 
Central  Officers"  Training  School  at  Camp  Zachary 
Taylor. — 1st  Lieut.  Edward  M.  Durban  has  been 
assigned  to  Co.  L,  90th  Regiment,  2()th  Division, 
Camp  Sevier. — Capt.  Vern  E.  Priddy  is  a  Small 
Arms  Inspector  in  the  First  Army,  France. — Capt. 
James  N.  Worcester,  M.  C,  is  on  the  Staff  of  the 
Chief  Surgeon  of  the  2d  Army  in  France. — Capt. 
William  Hale,  M.  O.  42d  Bn.,  Canadians,  was 
wounded  in  the  right  side  and  arm  July  19,  1918. 
It  was  a  clean  machine-gun  wound  and  he  was 
back  with  his  battalion  in  August. 

Warren  F.  Draper,  Passed  Assistant  Surgeon  in 
the  U.  S.  Public  Health  Service,  had  charge  of  the 
Entra  Cantonment  Sanitation  at  Camp  Lee  from 
July,  1917,  to  July,  1918.  He  then  took  charge  of 
the  same  work  at  Newport  News  where  he  served 
until  the  epidemic  of  influenza  broke  out.  During 
this  period  he  had  charge  of  the  Public  Health 
Service  activities  in  the  New  England  States  and 
later  in  Pennsylvania.  He  is  now  in  charge  of  the 
organization  of  the  Reserve  Corps  of  the  Public 
Health  Service  in  Washington. 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


65 


1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 

10-1  Lake  Avenue,  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

1st  Lieut.  Robert  H.  Scott,  U.  S.  Navy,  died  ()f 

pneumonia   at   the   Naval   Rifle  Range,    Peekskill, 

N.  Y.,   October   15,    1918.     His  death   is   reported 

elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

Major  Charles  P.  Searle,  Judge  Advocate  Gen- 
eral's  Department,    died   January    10,    1919.     His 
.  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

Mrs.  Hugh  Hartshorne,  wife  of  Prof.  Hugh  Harts- 
horne  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York, 
and  daughter  of  the  late  Prof.  Edward  L.  Curtis  of 
the  Yale  Divinity  School,  died  on  October  U,  1918, 
from  Spanish  influenza  which  developed  into  pneu- 
monia. She  was  a  graduate  of  Smith  College,  class 
of  1907,  and  had  been  very  active  in  war  work. — 
Susan  Elizabeth  Wyman,  wife  of  Edward  Allen 
Wyman,  died  in  St.  Louis  on  December  3rd  last. 

The  Rev.  Edward  C.  Boynton  has  resigned  as 
pastor  of  the  Adams  Square  Congregational  Church 
in  Worcester,  Mass.,  to  become  a  Chaplain  in  the 
United  States  Naval  Reserve  Service.  He  has  since 
been  made  Chaplain  of  the  receiving  ship  at  the 
Brooklyn  Navy  Yard.— Albert  E.  Rand  went  to 
Paris  as  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary  in  June,  1918,  and 
m  September  was  loaned  to  the  Army  to  be  Secre- 
tary of  an  Inter-Allied  Committee  for  the  care  of 
disabled  soldiers.— "The  Why  of  the  'Y'  "  is  the 
title  of  an  article  by  Bruce  Barton  which  appeared 
in  the  Red  Cross  Magazine  for  November.  —  Felix 
B.  Atwood  has  been  made  Treasurer  of  the  Spring- 
field Facing  Co.,  and  is  now  living  in  Springfield. 

Frank  A.  Deroin  was  commissioned  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenant at  Plattsburg  in  November,  1917,  and  as- 
signed to  the  301st  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  Camp 
Devens,  where  he  was  stationed  until  the  76th  Di- 
vision sailed  for  France.  He  is  now  Billeting  Oflacer 
attached  to  the  Headquarters  of  the  76th  Divison. 
— R.  Jewett  Jones  is  a  Captain  Infantry  at  Camp 
MacArthur,  Texas.— Frank  E.  Lewis  has  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Captain.  He  is  still  stationed 
at  Highfield  Military  Hospital,  Knotty  Ash,  Liver- 
pool, England. 

Capt.  Walter  F.  Pond,  1st  Gas  Regiment,  C.  W. 
S.,  was  recently  transferred  to  this  country  with 
several  other  Gas  Officers  to  organize  and  train  the 
2d  Gas  Regiment.  Owing  to  the  signing  of  the 
armistice  the  original  plans  have  been  abandoned 
and  he  expects  to  be  discharged  soon.  For  four 
months  previous  to  his  transfer,  Captain  Pond  had 
been  the  commander  of  a  company  which  had  been 
serving  the  French  and  U.  S.  forces  wherever  needed 
along  the  front. 

1908 
Harry  W.  Zins.viaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 
Hugh  W.  Hubbard  is  director  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
at  Paotingfu,  China,  60  miles  from  Peking. 

Roscoe  S.  Conkling  was  appointed  a  1st  Lieuten- 
ant, Inf.  O.  R.  C,  in  April,  1917,  ami  Deputy 
Attorncy-Cieneral,  Slate  of  New  York  and  assigned 
to  the  Adjutant-General's  Oflace,  Albany,  during 
the  mobilization  of  the  National  Guard.     He  was 


not  given  active  military  service  because  of  execu- 
tive work  as  a  State  official  in  negotiating  the  State 
Census  and  first  registration  under  the  Selective 
Service  Law.  L'pon  completion  of  the  registration 
he  was  given  charge  of  the  organization  of  the 
Draft  machinery  in  New  York  City  and  remained 
there  until  the  organization  was  completed  and  the 
first  two  increments  of  National  Army  troops  had 
been  forwarded  to  camp.  He  was  then  commis- 
sioned a  Major,  Judge  Advocate  and  assigned  to 
the  staff  of  Gen.  E.  H.  Crowder,  Provost  Marshall 
General,  Washington.  He  was  made  Chief  of 
Classification  Division  for  United  States,  Alaska, 
Hawaii  and  Porto  Rico  and  later  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel.  Upon  the  cessation  of 
hostilities  he  was  honorably  discharged  and  resumed 
his  work  as  Deputy  Attorney-General  of  New  York 
State. 

Harold  E.  Keith  has  received  a  commission  as 
Captain  in  the  Quarmasters  Corps.  He  is  at  the 
head  of  the  shoe  and  leather  end  of  the  chief  re- 
search bureau  and  specification  branch  of  the  clothing 
and  equipage  division  of  the  Quartermaster  Corps. 

Capt.  Chapin  Marcus  of  the  115th  F.  A.  was 
sent  to  the  firing  line  with  his  brigade  on  Sep- 
tember 25th  and  fought  continuously  until  the  last 
gun  was  fired.  Under  date  of  November  16th 
he  writes:  "Well,  it's  finished,  and  here  we  are 
almost  in  Bocheland,  waiting  to  see  what  is  going 
to  happen  to  us.  On  the  next  push  our  guns  would 
have  shot  into  Germany." — 1st  Lieut.  Paul  Welles 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  and  is  on 
special  duty  at  the  Signal  Corps  Headquarter;, 
France. 

1st  Lieut.  Stanley  L.  Wolff  spent  nine  months  as 
Assistant  in  the  Bureau  of  Enemy  Trade  and  of 
War  Trade  Intelligence  of  the  War  Trade  Board  and 
also  six  months  in  the  offices  of  the  Quartermaster 
General  and  the  Director  of  Purchase  and  Storage. 
General  Staff.  Four  months  of  this  time  he  served 
as  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C,  and  two  months  as 
Executive  Assistant. 

2d  Lieut.  Philip  H.  Burt,  Q.  M.  C,  was  stationed 
at  Camp  Joseph  E.  Johnston  during  the  summer  oi 
1918  and  then  assigned  as  supply  officer  to  Motor 
Supply  Train  No.  426  and  sent  overseas.  He  is 
stationed  at  Neuf chateau,  Dept.  of  Vosges. — 1st 
Lieut.  Hildeburn  Jones  is  attached  to  the  Provi- 
sional Battalion  Inf.  at  Camp  Benning,  and  is  acting 
adjutant.  Camp  Benning  is  a  proposed  new  rifle 
range.  Lieutenant  Jones  received  a  medal  as  sharp- 
shooter at  Camp  Peiry. — 2d  Lieut.  Kenneth  B. 
Shute  is  in  France  with  Battery  E,  303rd  F.  A., 
76th  Di\ision. 

1909 

Edward  II.  Sudbury,  Secretary,^ 
154  Prospect  Avenue,  Mt.  \ernon,  N.  Y. 

Lieut.  Gordon  R.  Hall  of  Chicago.  111.,  wa^ 
reported  in  the  casualty  list  of  November  10.  1918. 
as  killed  in  action.  His  death  is  rei)orted  elsewhere 
in  the  Quarterly. 

The  f(jllowing  resolutions  were  adopted  by  the 
Andierst  Club  of  Chicago,  November  5,  1918: 

Whereas,  Lieut.  Gordon  R.  Hall,  308tli  F.  A., 
U.  S.  Army,  whose  death  in  France  in  the  active 
service  of  "his  coiuitry   was  recently   reported,   has 


66 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


l)een  since  his  graduation  from  Amherst  College  in 
1909  an  active  and  loyal  member  of  this  Club,  hav 
ing  been  at  difTerenl  times  a  director  and  officer, 
and  Whereas,  wr,  his  fellow  alumni  of  Amherst 
College  feel  keenly  the  loss  of  a  friend,  whose  manly 
and  sincere  character  we  admired  and  depended 
upon,  be  it  Resolved  that  we  express  to  his  parents 
our  deep  sympathy  with  them  in  his  and  their 
sacrifice  and  our  sense  of  pride  in  his  patriotism  and 
his  record,  both  in  War  and  Peace,  and  be  it  Re- 
solved that  th(  se  resolutions  be  spread  upon  the 
records  of  the  Amherst  Club  of  Chicago,  and  that  a 
copy  of  them  be  sent  to  the  Amherst  Student  and 
to  the  Graduates'  Quartekly  for  publication. 
For  the  Club, 

S.  Bowles  King, 

Vice  President. 
S.  D.  Chamberlain, 

Acting  Secretary. 

Sergt.  Edward  J.  Bolt,  U.  S.  Marine  Corps,  was 
first  attached  to  a  special  detachment  at  the  Naval 
Aviation  Headquarters  in  Paris,  later  assigned  to 
the  Special  Guard  at  the  U.  S.  Embassy,  and  finally 
transferred  to  the  Toul  Sector,  taking  part  in  the 
action  at  Chemin  des  Dames.  He  was  invalided 
home  and  received  his  medical  discharge  last  Octo- 
ber. He  is  attached  to  the  Ordnance,  Arms  and 
Ammunition  Division  of  the  War  Industries  Board 
in  Washington. 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance  for  December 
Hth  contained  an  article  by  Corporal  Stoddard 
Lane  entitled,  "Our  First  Franco-American  Christ- 
mas, How  the  Great  Holidav  was  celebrated  in 
1917." 

Corp.  Stoddard  Lane,  S.  S.  U.  539,  writes  as  fol- 
lows under  date  of  October  31st:  "We  began  to 
move  up  as  the  attack  commenced  on  October  13th. 
It  began  with  a  simply  tremendous  barrage — a 
terrific  thing.  Work  began  with  a  vengeance. 
Every  day  we  mo\ed  up.  tra\eling  roads  that  had 
just  been  fought  over,  with  fresh  shell-holes  in  them, 
trees  across  them,  dead  horses  alongside  them,  and 
sometimes  dead  men.  Progress  was  rapid.  After  the 
taking  of  an  important  city  the  first  day,  the  divi- 
sion advanced  by  jumps.  Following  up,  we  some- 
times changed  posts  two  or  three  times  a  day.  We 
had  all  sorts  of  quarters — a  shell-ridden  farmhouse, 
a  chateau,  the  vegetable  cellar  of  a  town  house,  the 
floor  of  an  inn,  etc.  And  what  a  welcome  we  got! 
Everywhere  it  was  the  same — people  wild  with  joy 
at  being  liberated.  Never  shall  forget  our  entrance 
int(j  a  city  near  here.  The  Boches  had  cleared  out 
just  the  night  before.  Mine  happened  to  be  the 
first  of  the  cars  to  enter.  It  was  a  triumphal  entry. 
C(iuld  hardly  get  through  the  crowds.  Everybody 
shouting  'Vive  la  France!'  'Welcome  to  our 
.saviours!'  " 

Robert  C.  Chapin  has  received  a  commission  as 
Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  He  was  in  active  service  in 
Euroj)ean  waters  on  a  destroyer  for  four  months 
and  on  a  repair  ship  for  eight  months.  He  is  now 
stationed  in  New  York. — E.  Pope  Dickinson  is  a 
1st  Lieutenant  in  Base  Hosi)ilal  No.  95,  France. — 
Elliott  O.  Foster  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Captain.  He  is  in  the  Finance  and  Accounting 
Division  of  the  Chief  Surgeon's  Office,  France. — 
William  E.  Hill  is  a  Private  with  the  472d  Engineers, 


stationed  at  Fort  Banancas,  Fla. — Wilbur  B.  Jones 
has  been  promoted  from  the  rank  of  2d  Lieutenant 
to  that  of  1st  Lieutenant.  A.  S.  A.  P. 

2d  Lieut.  William  H.  Wright  was  jjromotcd  to 
the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant  last  June,  at  which  time 
he  was  Intelligence  Officer  of  the  lG8th  Inf.  .\fter 
the  battle  of  Chateau-Thierry  he  was  selectefl  .Vide 
de  Camp  to  Brig.-Gen.  Douglas  McArthur  of  the 
84th  Inf.  Brig.  Headquarters,  42d  Division.  This 
Division  is  now  with  the  Army  of  Occupation  and 
Lieutenant  Wright  is  with  General  Mc.Vrfhtir  in 
Germany . 

Henry  B.  Allen  of  the  Ordnance  Department  has 
been  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain.  He 
served  in  the  office  of  the  Chief  Ordnance  Officer  of 
the  American  E.  F.,  France  from  August,  1917,  to 
December,  1918,  and  is  now  serving  in  Washington. 
— Sergt.  Albert  F.  Pierce,  who  went  overseas  with 
Hospital  Unit  No.  9,  was  transferred  to  Evacuation 
Ho.spital  No.  1.  early  last  year  and  is  stiil  there.  At 
first  he  had  charge  of  the  operating  rooms  but  now 
has  charge  of  the  disposition  of  the  ho.spital  force 
numbering  over  400. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  R.  Bishop  of  Brooklyn 
announce  the  engagement  of  their  daughter,  Evelyn, 
to  Percival  D.  Nash  of  Hastings  on  Hudson,  N.  Y. 

Frank  Sturgis  is  working  on  a  new  comic  opera. 
He  has  been  living  in  London  for  several  years. 

1910 

George  B.  Burnett,  Jr.,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Ralph  Beaman  who  has  been  located  in  Ridley 
Park,  Pa.,  for  the  last  eighteen  months  as  Assistant 
Superintendent  of  the  Congoleum  Co.,  a  branch  of 
the  Barrett  Co.,  announces  the  advent  of  Richard 
Probert  Beaman,  on  Octoiier  8th.  at  which  time  both 
father  and  mother  were  suffering  with  infltien/.a. — 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  A.  San  Souci  of  Providence, 
R.  I.,  announce  the  arrival  of  a  daughter  on  Novem- 
ber 21. St. 

Robert  A.  Hardy  is  now  connected  with  the  U.  S. 
Shipping  Board,  Emergency  Fleet  Corp,  and  is 
located  in  Philadeljjhia. — All  Jube  and  Scott  Fink 
are  both  .serving  in  the  U.  S.  Navy. — R.  B.  Ailing 
was  at  Camp  Zachary  Taylor  last  fall. 

Charles  W.  Barton,  who  is  a  Chief  Quartermaster 
in  the  Naval  Air  Service,  has  been  placed  on  the 
"Inactive  List." — Pierre  Drew.sen,  who  served  as 
Captain  of  the  25th  Co.,  7th  Training  Battalion  for 
nine  months,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Major  and  is  Brigade  In.spector  of  the  155th  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Lee. — 1st  Lieut.  Weston  W.  (iood- 
now  is  Flight  Commander  of  the  17th  Aero  Squadron 
and  has  fought  in  a  number  of  battles. — Bartow  H. 
Hall  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  of 
the  6th  Regiment  Field  Artillery.  He  was  wounded 
by  a  shot  through  the  lung  about  two  weeks  before 
the  signing  of  the  armistice.  He  is  at  present  in 
the  southern  part  of  France  recuperating. 

Elijah  P.  Harris  is  attached  to  Casual  Company 
No.  1,  Tank  Corps.  Camp  Polk. — Herbert  li.  Harris 
is  Regimental  Sergeant  Major  in  the  Camp  Head- 
(piarters  Company,  Machine  Gun  Training  Center. 
Camp  Hancock,  Ga. — Sterling  W.  Pratt  has  been 
promoli'd   to   the  rank  of   1st  Lieutenant   in   the 


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Quartci  masters  Department  and  is  stationed  at 
Philadelphia. —  George  B.  Taylor,  Seaman,  1st  class 
in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  interpreter  of  French  and 
Spanish  at  the  Headquarters  of  the  Fourth  Naval 
District,  Philadelphia. —  Capt.  Eustace  Seligman 
has  been  transferred  to  the  2d  Regiment  F.  A.. 
Replacement  Depot,  Camp  Jackson. —  1st  Lieut. 
Kenneth  T.  Tucker  of  Co.  E,  307th  Regiment  In- 
fantry, was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Fismes  in  the 
Chateau  district  on  August  27th,  while  leading  a 
charge  at  that  point.  After  about  five  weeks  spent 
in  the  Whitelaw  Reid  Hospital  at  Paris,  he  returned 
to  the  front  again. 

Cadet  Raymond  F.  (iardner  received  his  pre- 
liminary training  at  (^amp  Dick  and  then  attended 
the  ground  school  at  Princeton  where  he  was  one  of 
about  14  to  graduate  from  a  class  of  150.  As  no 
more  pilots  were  to  be  trained  he  took  an  intensive 
course  in  artillery  observing  at  Ft.  Monroe,  gradu- 
ated and  would  have  been  commissioned,  but  no 
more  commissions  were  being  given.  He  then 
entered  the  flying  school  at  Langley  Field  only  to 
have  it  shut  down  the  same  day. 

Morrison  R.  Boynton  has  the  rank  of  Lieutenant, 
J.  G.  in  the  Chaplain's  Corps  of  the  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps. 

Sergt.  Major  Herbert  B.  Harris  was  married 
October  2,  1918,  to  Miss  Charlotte  Mae  Hall  of 
Meridcn.  N.  H. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  No.  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

George  L.  Treadwell  is  assistant  manager  of  the 
Chinese  American  Publishing  Company,  26  Canton 
Road,  Shanghai.  This  is  an  American  firm  repre- 
senting D.  Appleton  and  Co.  of  New  York,  Laird 
and  Lee  of  Chicago,  and  other  American  publishing 
houses.  His  work  carries  him  to  every  big  center 
where  schools,  colleges,  hospitals,  clubs,  and  book- 
buyers  of  general  taste  are  located. 

George  W.  Williams  who  went  to  Russia  for  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  August,  1917,  entered  the  U.  S. 
Consular  Service  in  May,  1918,  as  Vice  Consul  at 
Moscow,  Russia,  and  is  still  in  that  service,  doing 
most  excellent  work. — Jonathan  P.  Ashley  of  Deer- 
field,  Ma.ss.,  ha.s  returned  from  France.  He  left 
New  York  on  February  17,  1918,  and  arrived  in 
Paris  March  1.  He  was  assigned  to  the  motor  de- 
partment of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  to  the  1st  Di- 
vision, A.  E.  F.,  then  located  at  Toul.  He  worked 
as  a  helper  and  later  as  a  driver  on  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
trucks  and  went  with  the  Division  across  France  to 
the  Somme.  He  was  located  near  Montdidier  and 
("antigny  until  July  Cth,  when  the  division  was  re- 
lieved and  took  part  in  the  July  offensive  around 
Soissons.  He  also  saw  the  bomb  fall  which  killed 
Captain  Bullock,  '99. 

Harold  Watson  llaldt-iuan  died  of  pneumonia  on 
October  24,  1918.  He  was  the  only  son  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  1.  M.  Haldeman  of  389  West  End 
.\ venue.  New  York  City.  At  Amherst  he  was  very 
prominent  in  his  class  and  played  tackle  on  the 
football  team.  Interment  was  in  Woodlawn  Ceme- 
tery. 


Chester  F.  Chapin,  who  went  overseas  with  the 
318th  F.  .\.,  has  been  assigned  to  the  School  for 
Artillery  OflScers  at  Saumur,  France. — 2d  Lieut. 
Gordon  T.  Fish  is  in  France  with  Co.  C,  301st  Inf. 
— 1st  Lieut.  Arthur  S.  Gormley,  Ordnance  Dept., 
has  been  stationed  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  during  the 
past  summer  and  fall. —  Paul  C.  Jacobs,  U.  S.  N. 
R.  F.,  after  training  at  the  Great  Lakes  Naval 
Station  and  the  Harvard  Radio  School,  has  been 
assigned  to  the  Radio  Station  at  Sayville,  L.  I. — 
Ensign  Leo  Kane,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant. — John  H.  Keyes  of  the  10th 
Engineers  has  been  recently  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  and  is  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Peek 
in  the  Fuel  Wood  project. — Ensign  Edward  H. 
Marsh  has  been  assigned  to  duty  at  the  Navy 
Yard,  Industrial  Department,  Norfolk,  Va. — Ver- 
non Radclifte  of  the  Signal  Corps  is  stationed  at 
Camp  Vail. 

Frederick  J.  Pohl,  who  is  in  the  Neuro-Psychia- 
tric  Division  of  the  Medical  Department,  Platts- 
burg  Barracks,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Sergeant. — Charles  B.  Rugg  has  been  promoted 
from  the  rank  of  Ensign  to  that  of  Lieutenant,  J.  G., 
and  is  assistant  gunnery  officer  on  the  U.  S.  S. 
Great  Northern  in  the  transport  service. — Richard 
Scandrett  has  received  a  commission  as  Ensign  in 
the  Naval  Flying  Corps. — Donald  P.  Smith  is  Sup- 
ply Officer  with  the  rank  of  Assistant  Paymaster 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Jason. — Arthur  H.  Walbridge  is  an 
Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  Navy. — Capt.  Brantley  A. 
W^eathers,  Camp  Exchange  Officer  at  Camp  Gordon 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major.  He  will 
remain  at  Camp  Gordon. — Sergt.  Lawrence  Wood 
attended  the  Field  Artillery  Central  O.  T.  S., 
Camp  Taylor. — Donnell  B.  Young  has  enlisted  in 
the  Sanitary  Corps  but  is  not  assigned  as  yet,  being 
at  the  Yale  Arm  Laboratory  for  further  training. 

George  H.  McBride  has  been  promoted  from  the 
rank  of  1st  Lieutenant  to  that  of  Captain  in  the 
Chemical  Warfare  Service  and  is  on  duty  at  the 
Edgewood  Arsenal,  Md. — Capt.  Herbert  G.  Lord, 
Jr.,  received  an  appointment  to  General  McRoberts' 
Staff  and  sailed  for  France  early  in  November. 
Owing  to  an  attack  of  influenza  he  was  unable  to 
sail  three  weeks  earlier  with  his  staff. — Private 
William  S.  Woodside  was  honorably  discharged  from 
the  service  November  26,  1918.  .\t  the  time  of  his 
discharge  he  was  attending  the  Field  .\rtillery  C.  O. 
T.  S.,  ('amp  Zachary  Taylor. 

1st  Lieut.  AValdo  Shumway  is  Adjutant  of  the 
3rd  Battalion,  103rd  Infantry.  In  the  battle  of 
Chateau-Thierry  he  was  gassed  and  wounded 
slightly,  but  exhaustion  from  lack  of  food  and  sleep 
kept  him  in  a  hospital  and  convalescent  camp 
nearly  two  months.  He  returned  to  his  regiment 
in  time  to  go  over  the  top  at  St.  Mihiel.  He  i.s 
now  with  the  Army  of  Occupation. — Harold  C. 
lioberts  enlisted  in  December,  1917,  in  the  Aviation 
Section  of  the  Signal  Corps,  recci\ed  his  early  train- 
ing with  the  35th  Squadron  at  Kelly  Field  and  was 
later  transferred  to  the  74lh  Aero  Squadron, 
Wichita  Falls.  When  the  74th  Squadron  was 
broken  uj)  he  joined  the  Handley-Page  Replace- 
ment Dej)ot  and  sailed  for  England  the  last  of 
August.  He  is  now  with  the  Aircraft  Acceptance 
Park  No.  2. 


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2d  Lieut.  Roy  E.  Pushee,  Ordnance  Department, 
is  Casual  Officer  in  the  1st  Air  Service  Depot,  Ar- 
mament Division,  France.  At  the  time  of  his  en- 
listment he  was  sent  to  Camp  Taylor  and  from  there 
to  Camp  Meade,  where  he  received  his  commission. 
Before  going  overseas  he  was  stationed  at  the 
Springfield  (Mass.)  Armory. — Alfred  R.  Hoffler  at- 
tended the  Plattsburg  O.  T.  C.  in  1917,  was  com- 
missioned a  1st  Lieutenant  of  Infantry  and  assigned 
to  the  153rd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix,  where  he 
was  stationed  until  last  July.  He  then  became  in- 
structor in  the  Central  Officers'  Training  School  at 
Camp  Lee  and  served  in  this  capacity  until  honor- 
ably discharged,  December  1,  1918. 

Charles  D.  Higgs  has  been  in  active  service  on  the 
transport  U.  S.  S.  Manchuria  since  April,  1918. 
After  his  fifth  voyage,  because  of  excellent  service, 
he  was  chosen  to  enter  the  Paymaster's  Corps  at 
Princeton.  He  was  prevented  from  doing  this  by 
the  signing  of  the  armistice. — Capt.  Robert  H. 
George,  who  served  with  the  304th  Inf.,  has  been 
detailed  to  Paris  as  Aide  to  Charles  H.  Haskins, 
Dean  of  the  Graduate  School  of  Harvard  and  Chair- 
man of  the  Harvard  History  Department,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  Advisory  Commission  to  the  Ameri- 
can Peace  Delegation,  as  specialist  on  Alsace- 
Lorraine  and  Belgium. 

A  son,  James  Randall  Radcliffe,  was  born,  De- 
cember 2,  1918,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vernon  RadclifiFe 
of  Pelham  Manor. 

1912 

Alfred  B.  Peacock,  Secretary, 
384  Madison  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Robert  G.  Armstrong  returned  from  France 
in  November,  having  spent  nearly  a  year  in  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work  there. 

Ordway  Tead  is  the  author  of  "The  People's 
Part  in  France,"  recently  published  by  Henry  Holt 
&  Co.  The  volume  discusses  the  economic  prob- 
lems and  the  war  aims  which  must  be  settled  by 
the  Peace  Conference  and  declares  that  the  peace 
the  people  desire  is  "a  peace  under  which  the 
spiritual  enterprises  of  our  day  can  be  carried  for- 
ward and  the  plain  people  of  the  world  can  really 
win  in  the  high  adventure  of  having  life  and  having 
it  more  abundantly."  Mr.  Tead  is  also  the  author 
of  "Instincts  in  Industry,"  published  by  the 
Houghton  Mifflin  Company.  According  to  the  an- 
nouncement of  the  publishers,  "The  basic  instincts 
on  which  our  whole  life  and  conduct  rest  are  here 
analyzed  to  show  just  how  they  affect  the  worker's 
relation  to  his  job.  The  author  has  gathered  his 
material  at  first  hand  during  his  wide  experience  as 
industrial  counsellor,  and  his  suggestions  for  needed 
readjustments  are  both  definite  and  practical." 

Private  George  L.  Dawson,  Camp  Personnel  Ad- 
jutant's Detachment,  died  of  pneumonia  following 
an  attack  of  influenza  at  Camp  Lee,  October  19, 
1918.  His  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the 
Quarterly. 

Private  Harris  L.  Haight,  Headquarters  Co., 
312th  Inf.,  died  of  pneumonia  in  France,  November 
1,  1918.  His  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the 
Quarterly. 

1st  Lieut.  William  Stewart  Laliey,  Co.  E,  311th 
Inf.,  died  in  France  from  wounds  received  in  action. 


October  31,  1918.    His  death  is  reported  elsewhere 
in  the  Quarterly. 

James  Zearing  Colton  died  in  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
of  diabetis  on  September  14,  1918,  where  he  had 
gone  from  his  cranberry  marsh  in  Springbrook, 
Wise.  At  the  time  it  was  very  cold  and  damp  and 
he  was  very  busy  buying  machinery.  The  hotel 
was  not  sufficiently  heated,  the  only  heat  being 
from  one  big  fireplace,  and  he  did  not  have  suffi- 
cient strength  to  resist  the  cold.  His  wife  was  with 
him  at  the  time,  he  having  been  married  three  years 
ago  to  Miss  Anna  Chase  of  Springbrook,  Wise, 
daughter  of  Archdeacon  Chase. 

He  was  a  son  of  Buel  P.  Colton  who  graduated 
from  Amherst  in  1874  and  Charlotte  (Zearing) 
Colton.  His  mother  survives  him.  For  some  years 
he  had  engaged  in  the  production  of  cranberries. 
Interment  was  at  Princeton,  111. 

Ensign  Fred  B.  Barton  has  been  detailed  as  an 
Instructor  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Aviation  Station, 
Akron,  Ohio. — Wilbur  F.  Burt  has  received  a  com- 
mission as  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  11th  Engineers, 
and  just  before  the  signing  of  the  armistice  he  was 
recommended  for  a  1st  Lieutenancy.  He  is  wearing 
two  gold  service  stripes. — 2d  Lieut.  Reinhart  L. 
Gideon  is  attached  to  Battery  A  of  the  25th  F.  A., 
Camp  McClellan. — Ernest  Gregory,  U.  S.  N.,  has 
been  promoted  from  the  rank  of  Ensign  to  that  of 
Lieutenant.— Under  the  S.  A.  T.  C,  2d  Lieut. 
Claude  Hubbard  was  Commanding  Officer  at  the 
State  Normal  School  in  Warrensburg,  Mo.— Lloyd 
Jonnes,  Assistant  Surgeon,  J.  G.,  is  located  at  the 
Naval  Operating  Base  Hospital,  Norfolk,  Va. — 
Leland  Olds  is  a  Sergeant  in  the  9th  Regiment 
F.  A.  R.  D.,  Camp  Jackson. 

1st  Lieut.  B.  Franklin  Knapp  graduated  from  the 
Field  Artillery,  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Taylor,  and  was 
sent  overseas  with  the  Headquarters  Co.,  18th 
Regiment,  F.  A.,  Replacement  Division. — 2d  Lieut. 
Maurice  J.  Levy,  Q.  M.  C,  was  recommended  for 
promotion  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant  and  has 
been  appointed  Assistant  Judge  Advocate  at  Camp 
Johnston. — Capt.  Arthur  B.  Lyon,  M.  C,  has  the 
title  of  Pneumonia  Expert,  having  been  a  member 
of  a  special  commission  sent  to  Camp  Dodge  to 
study  the  disease.  He  is  stationed  at  the  Rocke- 
feller Hospital.— Lieut.  (J.  G.)  Alfred  B.  Peacock, 
Pay  Corps,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  stationed  at  the  Bureau 
of  Supplies  and  Accounts  in  charge  of  purchases  of 
ordnance  material  and  fabricated  metals. — William 
Siegrist  has  received  a  commission  as  2d  Lieutenant 
and  been  assigned  to  the  128th  Infantry,  28th 
Division,  France. 

Reed  C.  Peters  has  received  a  commission  as 
Ensign  in  Naval  Aviation  and  is  stationed  at  Hamp- 
ton Roads. — Hobart  P.  Swanton  enlisted  in  the 
Navy  in  June,  1917,  and  because  of  former  military 
experience  was  promoted  rapidly  until  he  is  now  a 
Senior  Lieutenant  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Martha  Wash- 
ington, which  is  being  used  as  a  transport.- — 2d  Lieut. 
Joseph  H.  Vernon  is  in  France  with  the  44th  Balloon 
Co. — Irving  T.  Thornton  attended  the  Plattsburg 
Camp  in  1916  and  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieuten- 
ant. In  1917  he  took  the  R.  O.  T.  C.  course  at  Fort 
Niagara,  received  a  commission  as  1st  Lieutenant, 
Inf.,  and  was  sent  overseas  for  a  course  in  the 
Am.  E.  F.  Army  School.    He  was  then  transferred 


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to  the  Staff  of  Headquarters,  First  Army  Corps, 
Operations  Section.  He  has  been  recently  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Captain. 

1913 

Lewis  G.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  Street,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Miss  Lucy  Bradford  Besse,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Lyman  W.  Besse  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  and 
Lieut.  John  Houston  Mitchell  of  the  Chemical 
Warfare  Service  were  married  on  Wednesday,  No- 
vember 27th,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Philip  S.  Moxom  per- 
forming the  ceremony.  She  is  a  graduate  of  Welles- 
ley  College,  class  of  1918. 

Lieut.  John  H.  Klingenfeldt,  who  enlisted  several 
months  ago  as  a  private  in  the  Tank  Corps  and  was 
subsequently  promoted  from  the  ranks,  was  mus- 
tered out  in  December  and  has  re-entered  the  ad- 
vertising business. — Henry  S.  Leiper  arrived  in 
Peking,  China,  last  June,  preparatory  to  taking  up 
the  teaching  of  Philosophy  in  the  Peking  (Metho- 
dist) Univeristy.  With  the  sudden  developments 
on  the  Siberian  Front  and  calls  for  volunteers  in 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work,  he  has  gone  to  Vladivostak. 
Mrs.  Leiper  and  child  will  remain  in  Peking,  address 
care  of  American  Board  Mission. — Lieut.  Clyde 
Fulmer  Vance  has  been  gassed  and  when  he  wrote 
on  September  8th  had  been  in  the  hospital  for  a 
month.  He  entered  service  in  May,  1917,  was  com- 
missioned at  Fort  Sheridan,  and  went  overseas  in 
March  of  1918  with  the  308th  Infantry.— Alfred 
Newbery  is  teaching  in  the  Mahan  School,  Yang- 
chow,  China. 

Musician  Ralph  N.  Dawes,  Headquarters  Com- 
pany, 101th  Inf.,  was  killed  in  a  railroad  wreck  in 
France,  December  5,  1918.  His  death  is  reported 
elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

2d  Lieut.  Harold  G.  Allen  is  with  the  Coast  Ar- 
tillery Corps,  France. — Geoffroy  Atkinson,  who  was 
in  a  base  hospital  in  France  for  over  a  year,  has 
been  commissioned  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Sanitary 
Corps. — Ensign  Charles  F.  Bailey  is  on  duty  on 
the  U.  S.  S.  Santa  Olivia. —  C.  Chauncey  Benedict 
was  transferred  from  the  11th  Engineers  to  the 
Field  Artillery,  and  after  a  course  at  the  Saumur 
Artillery  School  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant, 
F.  A. — 1st  Lieut.  Wayland  H.  Brown  is  a  1st  Class 
Observer  in  the  U.  S.  Air  Service.  Although  he 
has  been  in  France  since  last  August  he  has  been 
in  no  active  service. — Aspirant  Louis  Caldwell  is 
serving  with  the  9th  Batterie,  13th  Regiment  Artil- 
lerie,  5th  Corps  d'Armies.  This  is  a  battery  of 
the  famous  French  75's. 

Russell  F.  Chapin  has  been  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  and  assigned  to  the  2d  Provisional  Regi- 
ment, Camp  Hancock. — Capt.  Thomas  R.  Creede, 
Jr.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  and 
transferred  to  the  transportation  division.  He  has 
been  overseas  since  last  June. — Capt.  William  G. 
Dickinson,  M.  C,  is  stationed  at  Base  Hospital 
No.  84,  France. — Lieut.  Dwight  C.  Ely  is  stationed 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Zeelandia.  He  has  just  returned 
with  a  shipload  of  wounded  soldiers.  It  was  his 
sixth  trip  across. — William  G.  Hamilton  has  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Reserves.  He  received  his  training  at  San  Pedro 
and  is  now  stationed  at  the  Headquarters  of  the 


12th  Naval  District,  San  Francisco. — Howard  C 
Harding  graduated  from  the  Central  O.  T.  S., 
Camp  Lee,  last  October,  and  is  now  a  2d  Lieuten- 
ant Inf.,  Development  Bn.  No.  3,  Camp  Upton. — 
Private  Frederick  J.  Heinritz  is  in  the  Quarter- 
masters' Detachment  at  St.  Louis. 

James  G.  Martin  is  a  Sergeant  at  the  Lake- 
hurst  Proving  Grounds,  Lakehurst,  N.  J. —  John 
H.  Mitchell,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Chem- 
ical W'arfare  Service,  is  stationed  at  the  Head- 
quarters in  New  York  City. — 1st  Lieut.  Walter  W. 
Moore  went  overseas  last  June  with  the  51st  In- 
fantry. He  was  later  placed  on  the  staff  at  Division 
Headquarters  of  the  7th  Army  Corps. — Ensign 
Edward  S.  Morse  is  stationed  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Isabel. 
— Ensign  George  D.  Olds,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.,  graduated 
first  in  a  class  of  550  at  Annapolis  last  September. 
He  is  now  Communication  Officer  and  stationed  at 
the  Academy. — Private  Charles  E.  Parsons,  of  the 
Medical  Reserve  Corps,  was  a  member  of  the  S.  A. 
T.  C.  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  Medical  School.  He 
has  now  been  mustered  out  of  the  Corps. 

Sergt.  Fernando  C.  Keller  has  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Sanitary  Corps  of 
the  Medical  Supply  Depot  in  England.  He  is  also 
Property  Officer  and  Censoring  Officer  for  this  de- 
tachment.— Ensign  John  L.  King,  U.  S.  N.,  was 
commissioned  at  Pelham  Bay  last  July  and  assigned 
as  Assistant  to  the  Navigating  Officer  on  the  U.  S.  S. 
Santa  Louisa,  a  transport.  On  his  return  from  his 
second  trip  across  in  November  he  was  detached 
and  assigned  to  shore  duty.  He  has  applied  for  a 
discharge. — Russell  Pope,  a  member  of  the  Head- 
quarters' Staff  of  the  Second  Division,  France,  has 
been  recently  promoted  from  the  rank  of  2d  Lieu- 
tenant to  that  of  1st  Lieutenant. — Private  Clark  M. 
Price,  of  the  Chemical  Warfare  Service,  has  been 
Inspector  in  Charge  of  the  Gas  Defense  Division  at 
the  Klaxon  Company,  Newark,  since  last  Septem- 
ber. This  company  was  manufacturing  Gas  Warn- 
ing Signals. — 2d  Lieut.  Albert  L.  Stirn,  Q.  M.  C, 
who  has  been  stationed  at  the  Springdale  Finishing 
Co.,  Canton,  Mass.,  has  been  sent  to  France. 

2d  Lieut.  Hammond  Pride  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  1st  Lieutenant  last  July  and  later  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Captain.  He  is  still  with  Co.  D,  of 
the  111th  Inf. — 1st  Lieut.  Gain  Robinson,  of  the 
10th  Field  Artillery,  is  with  the  1st  Army  of  Occu- 
pation. He  was  at  the  Front  from  the  last  of  June 
until  the  end  of  the  fighting. — Harvey  I.  Rothberg, 
U.  S.  N.,  is  in  the  Paymasters'  Unit  of  the  Officers' 
Material  School,  Pelham  Bay.  His  rating  is  Chief 
Petty  Officer.— Private  Frank  P.  Stelling,  Q.  M.  C, 
is  located  in  Paris,  France,  doing  special  work. — 
Until  last  November,  2d  Lieut.  Nelson  Stone  was 
Staff  Instructor  at  the  Saumur  Artillery  School. 
He  was  then  as.signed  to  Battery  B  of  the  (ilh  Field 
Artillery.— 2d  Lieut.  Robert  I.  Stout,  F.  A.,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st 
Lieutenant. 

Clarence  L.  Tappin  received  the  commission  of 
2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Field  Artillery  and  was  as- 
signed to  the  Reserve  Corps. — James  A.  Tilden, 
Jr.,  having  completed  the  course  at  the  Second 
Naval  District  Training  School,  Newport,  R.  I., 
has  been  conmiissioned  an  Ensign  and  is  stationed 
at  the  District  Base,  New  London. — Miner  W. 
Tuttle  was  one  of  a  group  of  lawyers  and  court 


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stenographers  who  expected  to  be  sent  overseas  in 
the  Judge  Advocate's  Department  to  American 
Headquarters  in  France. — Sergt.  Sanford  P.  Wilcox, 
who  went  to  France  with  Ilospital  Unit  Q,  has 
taken  a  position  witli  the  U.  S.  Intelligence  OflBce 
at  the  Consulate,  Cardiff,  Wales. 

2d  Lieut.  Hvnit  Warner  served  with  the  165th 
Infantry  from  January  until  July  29,  1918,  when 
he  was  severely  wounded  in  the  Chateau-Thierry 
Counter  offensive.  After  spending  about  three 
months  in  Base  Hospital  Nos.  6  and  8  in  France, 
he  was  sent  back  to  this  country  and  placed  in 
General  Hospital  No.  1,  Xew  York  City,  from 
which  he  was  discharged  about  the  first  of  the 
year. — Major  Harry  C.  Wilder  of  the  309th  Regi- 
ment Heavy  Artillery  fought  all  through  the  St. 
Mihiel  engagements  and  then  went  to  the  Argonne 
Forest,  where  he  first  took  part  in  the  fighting  on 
the  Eastern  side  and  then  passed  through  the 
forest  to  the  Western  side.  He  is  now  with  the 
Army  of  Occupation. 

On  January  28,  1918,  a  daughter,  Anne  Rutledge 
Moore,  was  born  to  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Walter 
W.  Moore  at  Martinsburg,  W.  Va. 

1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 

140  Tremont  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Private  Frank  C.  Brougli,  82d  Co.,  6tli  Regiment 

U.  S.  Marine  Corps,  died  in  France  from  wounds 

received  in  action,   July  23,    1918.     His  death  is 

reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

Sergt.  Robert  C.  Hanford,  Co.  G,  311th  Inf., 
died  in  France  of  wounds  received  in  action,  Octo- 
ber 25,  1918.  His  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in 
the  Quarterly. 

Musician  Austin  H.  Hersh,  Headquarters'  Co., 
116th  Inf.,  was  killed  in  action,  October  23,  1918. 
His  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

1st  Lieut.  Daniel  S.  Smart,  Chaplain  of  the  328th 
Infantry,  was  killed  in  action,  October  15,  1918. 
His  death  is  reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

Joseph  J.  Beatty  has  been  recently  commissioned 
a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  18th  Division,  Supply 
Train,  Camp  Travis. — Mervin  W.  Bliss  has  been 
commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service 
(nonflying). — Donald  H.  Brown  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
in  the  Artillery  Headquarters,  2d  Division  and  Ar- 
tillery Aide  to  the  Major  General. — Sergt.  Earle  D. 
Butler  is  with  the  Medical  Department  of  the  5th 
.\rmy  Corps,  France. — Louis  B.  DeVeau,  Jr.,  served 
six  months  with  the  Engineers  at  Camp  Hum- 
phreys and,  when  mustered  out  of  service  January 
.3rd,  was  1st  Sergeant  of  Co.  D,  551st  Engineers. — 
Frank  H.  Ferris  has  the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  J.  G., 
ia  the  Corps  of  Chaplains,  U.  S.  N.  He  is  stationed 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Mercy. — 2d  Lieut.  Stanley  Heald, 
of  the  303rd  Field  Artillery,  France,  has  been  trans- 
ferred from  Battery  F  to  Battery  E. 

Silas  G.  Hubbard,  Instructor  in  Calisthenics  at 
(^amp  Hancock,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Ser- 
geant, and  later  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant. 
— Herbert  B.  Johnson,  who  took  a  special  course 
in  Radio,  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant  and 
joined  his  regiment,  the  319th  Field  Signal  Bat- 
talion, in  France. — Richard  M.  Kimball  has  been 


promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  in  Battery  B, 
55th  Artillery,  C.  A.  C,  France.— Private  Alfred  E. 
Mallon,  of  the  29th  Engineers,  has  been  in  France 
since  last  February,  most  of  the  time  on  detached 
service  with  topographic  survey. — Robert  J.  Mur- 
phy is  now  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf.,  and  Adjutant  to 
the  Senior  Instructor  of  the  Central  O.  T.  S.,  Camp 
Pike. 

Marlor  B.  Seymour  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  1st  Lieutenant  and  is  subsistence  OflBcer  in 
the  Quartermasters'  Corps,  Camp  Shelby,  Miss. — 
2d  Lieut.  Harold  E.  Shaw  is  an  Instructor  in  Avia- 
tion, stationed  at  Brooks  Field,  San  Antonio. — 2d 
Lieut.  Frederick  D.  Suydam  is  taking  a  course  of 
intensive  training  in  the  Field  Artillery  at  Ft.  Sill. 
He  has  chosen  to  remain  in  the  Reserves. — Sergt. 
Richard  S.  Van  Ingen  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  2d  Lieutenant.  He  is  still  stationed  in  the 
Quartermasters'  Corps  at  Camp  Johnston. — Ensign 
Charles  W.  Williams  is  stationed  at  the  U.  S.  Sub- 
marine Base  at  New  London,  Conn. — Sergt.  George 
H.  Wiltsie  is  in  France  with  Salvage  Unit  No.  319, 
Q.  M.  C. 

Private  Maynard  H.  Hall  of  Battery  F,  16th  F.  A., 
has  been  at  the  Front  since  about  the  first  of  August. 
He  has  been  working  in  the  Battery  and  Headquar- 
ters' Company  Details,  keeping  up  communication 
between  the  Infantry  and  the  Artillery.  His  regi- 
ment is  now  with  the  Army  of  Occupatn. 

Capt.  J.  O.  Outwater,  369th  Infantry,  A.  E.  F.. 
is  now  in  Fessenhein,  Alsace,  France.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  regiment  to  reach  the  Rhine,  and  has 
been  twice  decorated  for  bravery. — 1st  Lieut.  Colin 
Livingstone  is  now  at  Petange,  Luxemberg,  with  the 
348th  Artillery.  He  writes  that  he  has  seen  Stan 
Heald  of  the  303rd  F.  A.  and  was  at  the  same  Artil- 
lery Training  Corps  with  him  at  Royal.  He  met 
George  Washburn  of  the  349th  F.  A.,  and  at  Barle- 
Duc  he  saw  Dick  Kimball,  who  is  now  Captain  of 
Artillery. 

Sergt.  Tilford  W.  Miller  of  Camp  Babcock,  Au- 
gusta, Ga.,  was  married  on  September  16,  1918,  to 
Miss  Dorothy  S.  Day  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
father  in  Lawrenceville,  Pa.  They  are  living  in 
Augusta,  Ga.,  where  Sergeant  Miller  is  connected 
with  the  Base  Hospital,  Camp  Hancock.  Mrs. 
Miller  graduated  from  Wellesley  College  in  1915. 

A  son  was  born  on  May  26,  1918,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Roswell  P.  Young.  He  is  named  Philip  Pratt 
Young. 

1915 

Joseph  R.  Snider,  Secretary, 
Fairfax  13,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

John  M.  Gaus  had  an  article  in  The  Public  for 
December  21st,  entitled  "A  Challenge  to  Liberals." 
— A  late  issue  of  the  Sewanee  Review  contained  an 
article  by  Walter  R.  Agard,  entitled  "A  New  Drive 
for  Greek." — Homer  M.  Smith  was  rejected  on 
account  of  near-sightedness  but,  by  personal  appli- 
cation at  the  War  Office  in  New  York,  was  accepted 
for  special  work,  and  has  been  very  busy  making 
calculations  and  drawing  maps  as  a  regular  enlisted 
man. 

Charles  Warner  Seely,  1st  Lieutenant,  Ordnance 
R.  C,  was  married,  July  30,  1918,  to  Miss  Emma 
Pennington  Lester  of  New  Y'ork  City,  a  graduate 


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of  Vassar  College,  1915,  and  since  then  doing  wel- 
fare work  in  Wanamaker's,  New  York  City. 

Walter  R.  Agard,  who  is  in  France  with  Field 
Hospital  No.  304,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Corporal. — Ensign  John  J.  Atwater,  U.  S.  N., 
graduated  from  Annapolis  last  September  and  is 
Junior  Navigating  Officer  on  the  U.  S.  Transport 
Aeolvs. — Ralph  B.  Babcock,  who  is  a  1st  Lieutenant 
in  the  Air  Service,  has  returned  to  this  country. — 
Richard  Bancroft  has  received  a  commission  as  2d 
Lieutenant  in  the  Coast  Artillery  Corps. — Ensign 
Kenneth  F.  Caldwell  is  Junior  Watch  and  Division 
Officer  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Rhode  Island. — Lieut.  George 
D.  Clapperton,  of  the  U.  S.  Air  vService,  France,  has 
been  located  at  Tours  as  Flying  Pilot,  training  ob- 
servers for  active  service  at  the  Front. — James  W. 
Craig,  2d  Lieutenant,  Motor  Transport  Corps,  is 
now  located  at  the  Commission  Regulatrice  Auto- 
mobile Interalliee,  which  is  a  branch  of  the  French 
General  Staff. 

1st  Lieut.  J.  Theodore  Cross  has  been  released 
from  service,  and  in  December  re-entered  Harvard 
Law  School. — Ensign  Gardner  P.  Eastman  has  re- 
ceived his  commission  as  a  Dirigible  Pilot,  and  has 
been  assigned  to  the  Coastal  Air  Station,  Chatham, 
Mass. — Harold  C.  Fonda,  Base  Hospital  No.  1, 
France,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Corporal. 
— Arthur  P.  Goodwin  is  Master  Electrician  with 
the  638th  .\eio  Squadron,  France. — Gordon  R.  Hall 
has  been  promoted  from  Sergeant  to  the  rank  of 
2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Chemical  Warfare  Service. 
He  has  been  in  service  in  France  for  over  a  year. — 
2d  Lieut.  Stuart  F.  Heinritz,  who  was  an  Instructor 
in  the  Signal  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Franklin,  received  his 
discharge  last  December. — Sergt.  Joseph  N.  Lincoln 
has  been  in  active  service  since  last  September  with 
the  317th  Field  Signal  Battalion. 

1st  Lieut.  Richard  Banfield  is  with  the  351st  In- 
fantry in  France.  He  was  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  in  August,  1917,  at  Ft.  Snelling,  went 
overseas  the  following  August  with  the  88th  Di- 
vision, and  was  later  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st 
Lieutenant. — 1st  Lieut.  Kenneth  W.  Banta  was 
with  Battery  F,  ,307th  F.  A  ,  in  France  until  last 
September,  when  he  was  sent  back  to  America, 
promoted  to  a  Captaincy,  and  assigned  to  the  44th 
F.  A.,  Camp  Stanley,  Texas. — Louis  F.  Eaton  was 
promoted  recently  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  J.  G., 
detached  from  the  Flagship  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
had'been  a  Radio  Officer,  and  ordered  to  the  An- 
napolis Naval  Academy  as  an  Instructor  in  Radio, 
Electricity,  and  Engineering. 

1st  Lieut.  David  S.  Cutler  has  been  in  France  with 
the  103rd  Infantry  since  September,  1917.  He  was 
in  the  fighting  at  Chateau-Thierry,  Belleau  Wood 
and  Saint  Mihiel.  He  was  slightly  wounded  at 
Chateau-Thierry  but  has  completely  recovered. — 
Last  September  Private  Phillii)s  F.  Greene  was 
transferred  from  Harvard  University  to  the  Auburn- 
dale  Emergency  Hospital  as  Ward  Surgeon.  He 
was  later  detailed  back  to  the  Harvard  Medical 
School  and  honorably  discharged  from  the  service. 
— 2d  Lieut.  Edwin  H.  Konold  is  in  France  with  the 
142d  F.  A.,  Battery  B.— M.  Walker  Jones  is  in  the 
Army  Service  Corps,  Co.  D,  2d  Detachment,  France. 

Henry  Kingman  graduated  from  the  Artillery 
School  at  Fontainbleau  with  the  rank  of  Aspirant, 


and  returned  to  his  regiment,  the  10th  P'ield  Artil- 
lery of  the  French  Army,  serving  with  them  until 
the  armistice  was  signed. — Max  A.  Bengs  attended 
the  Ord.  O.  T.  C.  at  Camp  Hancock  last  summer 
and  received  a  commission  as  2d  Lieutenant.  Upon 
his  arrival  in  France  he  was  assigned  to  an  ammu- 
nition school  for  special  instruction  in  artillery  am- 
munition, and  early  in  November  was  made  Officer- 
in-Charge  of  an  " Ammunition  Dump"  in  an  ad- 
vance zone.  He  is  attached  to  the  Second  Army 
Headquarters. 

1st  Lieut.  Robert  R.  McGowan  of  the  332d  In- 
fantry was  with  the  Tenth  Italian  Army  when  the 
great  drive  against  the  Austrians  began  and  when 
the  Austrians  were  pursued  across  Northern  Italy 
into  Austria.  Lieutenant  McGowan  is  now  with 
the  Army  of  Occupation  in  Fiume,  Italy. — 2d 
Lieut.  Samuel  Loomis  is  with  the  71st  Regiment, 
C.  A.  C.  Headquarters'  Company,  France.  He  has 
charge  of  placing  telephone  wires  for  communica- 
tion with  the  batteries  and  other  field  wire  work.- — 
Arthur  J.  Manville  is  stationed  on  the  U.  S.  S. 
Louisiana. — C.  Warner  Seely,  1st  Lieutenant,  O. 
R.  C,  is  now  in  France. 

Charles  D.  Martin,  after  completing  his  course  at 
Fort  Omaha,  was  transferred  to  Camp  AVise,  where 
he  received  a  commission  as  2(1  Lieutenant  and  as- 
signed to  the  45th  Balloon  Company.  He  is  now  in 
France. — Lieut.  J.  Edwin  Ostrander,  U.  S.  N.,  is 
with  the  American  Fleet  operating  in  foreign  waters. 
—2d  Lieut.  Clarence  R.  Parks,  Q.  M.  C,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant  and  is  sta- 
tioned at  Westpoint,  Ky. — Edward  W.  Robinson  is 
a  Corporal  in  Co.  D,  367th  Infantry.  He  has  seen 
service  in  the  Vosges  and  the  Moselle. — Ensign 
James  N.  Smith  has  been  assigned  as  an  Instructor 
to  the  Training  Ship  U.  S.  S.  Wasp,  Annapolis. — 
2d  Lieut.  William  G.  Thayer,  Inf.,  went  overseas 
with  the  76th  Division  last  July. — 1st  Lieut.  Web.ster 
H.  Warren  has  been  in  the  Coast  Artillery  Corps 
since  May,  1917.  At  present  he  is  with  the  28tli 
Artillery  at  Fort  Andrews,  and  his  duties  are  thos<- 
of  Adjutant  and  Personnel  Adjutant. — Richardson 
Pratt  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  369th  Infantry.  His  regiment  fought 
in  the  Argonne  sector  for  a  period  of  ten  days  and, 
according  to  newspaper  reports,  was  cited  for  con- 
spicuous bravery. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 
Lieut.  Charles  F.  Weeden  of  the  Aviation  Section 
had  a  narrow  escape  on  the  night  of  November  2(1. 
A  Curtiss  dual  control  airplane  which  he  was  oper- 
ating developed  engine  tr()ul)le  from  a  fire  whicii 
started  in  the  exhaust  while  flying  over  Camj)  Upton 
on  his  return  from  Westerly,  R.  I.,  to  Brindlay 
Field,  Conunaek,  N.  Y.  The  machine  narrowlv 
escaped  crashing  into  the  old  Sixth  Battalion  i)ar- 
racks  and  was  saved  from  destruction,  according  to 
rej)orts  .sent  out  from  Camp  Upton,  through  the 
skill  of  the  i)ilot.  Lieutenant  Weeden.  .Vfter  cutting 
away  the  damaged  bumpers  and  rci)airing  the  motor, 
he  and  his  mechanic  got  away  at  1 1  o'clock  the  next 
morning. 

Eralsey  Clark  Ferguson  and  Miss  Gertrude  Zeiss, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Zei.ss  of  Newton,  Mass., 


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were  married  in  Newton  on  Saturday,  October  26, 
1918,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Cortland  Myers  of  Tremont 
Temple,  Boston.  They  are  to  make  their  home  in 
Webster  Road,  East  Milton. — Everett  G.  Smith, 
who  has  been  in  the  Chinese  Customs  Service  at 
Peking  was  planning  to  return  to  the  United  States 
to  enlist  and  probably  started  for  America  before 
the  armistice  was  signed.. 

1st  Lieut.  Wallace  M.  Leonard,  Jr.,  6th  Regt., 
79th  Co.,  U.  S.  Marine  Corps,  died  of  pneumonia 
at  Camp  Sherman,  December  11,  1918.  His  death 
is  reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

1st  Lieut.  John  S.  McCloy,  Aide  de  Camp  to 
Brig. -General  Preston,  is  in  France  with  the  160th 
Field  Artillery,  8oth  Division. — J.  Seelye  Bixler  is 
a  Corporal  in  the  40th  Co.,  10th  Battalion,  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Devens. — W'alter  C.  Bryan  has  re- 
ceived his  commission  as  Ensign  and  is  an  Instructor 
in  Naval  Aviation  at  Pensacola,  Fla. — Ensign  Frank- 
lin Clark  is  stationed  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Air  Station, 
Halifax.  Previously  he  has  been  stationed  at  Brest, 
France. — H.  Nelson  Conant  is  attending  the  School 
of  Military  Aeronautics  at  Princeton. ^Sergt.  Al- 
fonso G.  Dugan,  who  has  been  serving  with  the 
122d  Field  Artillery,  is  now  attending  the  Artillery 
School  at  Saumur,  France. 

Ensign  Charles  B.  Ames,  who  was  stationed  in 
the  Information  Department,  Washington,  last  fall, 
was  transferred  to  Marine  Aviation  with  the  rank 
of  2d  Lieutenant  and  sent  to  Miami  to  join  an  over- 
seas squadron.  He  was  prevented  from  sailing  by 
the  signing  of  the  armistice. — 1st  Lieut.  Edwin  H. 
Goodridge,  Co.  B,  45th  Infantry,  Ciimp  Sheridan, 
has  been  selected  a  number  of  times  as  counsel  for 
the  enlisted  men  who  were  court-martialed.  He 
was  recommended  by  the  Judge  Advocate,  who 
told  the  Adjutant  that  Lieutenant  Goodridge  was 
the  best  of  the  counsels  who  had  represented  the 
enlisted  men  in  the  court. 

Herbert  C.  Johnson  received  his  commission  as 
2d  Lieutenant  last  October  and  reported  to  the 
Medical  Supply  Depot  at  Camp  P'unston. — Lewis 
M.  Knapp  is  a  Corporal  in  Ambulance  Company 
No.  30,  France. — Edwin  H.  Lutkins  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  1st  Lieutenant  in  the  Sanitary  Corps. — 
1st  Lieut.  Lawrence  C.  Meredith  is  in  France  with 
Evacuation  Hospital  Unit  No.  10.  He  is  the  Bac- 
teriologist of  the  unit. — John  U.  Reber  enlisted  in 
the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  last  July  and  is  now  at  the  Petty 
Officers'  School,  Pelham  Bay. — 2d  Lieut.  Edmund 
P>.  Sawyer  is  in  France  with  the  327th  Light  Tank 
Battalion. — 1st  Lieut.  Robert  W.  Smith,  who  has 
been  in  France  with  the  Ambulance  Corps,  is  at 
St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital  in  Anacostia  suffering  from 
shell  shock. 

Wayne  P.  Stiles  is  now  a  Sergeant  of  the  301st 
F.  A.,  Battery  D,  76th  Division  in  France. — Lee  B. 
Wood  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  2d  Lieu- 
tenant in  Motor  Truck  Co.  No.  363,  France. — Bur- 
bank  C.  Young  is  attending  the  U.  S.  N.  Radio 
School  at  Cambridge.  He  received  his  early  training 
at  Norfolk  and  Hampton  Roads,  l)eing  transferred 
to  Cambridge  last  July. — Malcolm  O.  Young  is  a 
Private  in  Co.  B,  2d  Battalion,  N.  G.,  stationed  at 
Jersey  City. 

Arthur  II.  Lee  attended  the  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Sheri- 
dan, was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  and  as- 


signed to  Camp  Custer.  Later,  he  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  1st  Lieutenant  and  went  overseas 
with  the  310th  Ammunition  Train,  8oth  Division. 
—Francis  R.  Otte  of  the  167th  Infantry,  42d  Di- 
vision, has  been  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
1st  Lieutenant.  For  several  months  last  summer 
he  acted  as  "Town  Major"  in  a  number  of  French 
villages,  but  in  September  rejoined  his  regiment 
and  was  in  active  service  until  the  end  of  the  war. — 
Capt.  Stuart  Rider  was  just  completing  his  overseas 
training  at  the  time  of  the  signing  of  the  armistice. 
Since  receiving  his  Captaincy  he  has  been  Battalion 
Adjutant  in  the  337th  F.  A. 

1st  Lieut.  C.  Baldwin  Peck,  Jr.,  upon  his  arrival 
in  France  last  September,  was  transferred  from  the 
Aviation  Section  of  the  Signal  Corps  to  the  161st 
Regiment  Inf.  In  November  he  was  ordered  to 
one  of  the  large  ports  to  receive  troops  and  get 
them  ready  for  the  home  trip. — 2d  Lieut.  Winthrop 
H.  Smith  is  now  with  the  2d  Regiment,  F.  A.  R.  D., 
Camp  Jackson.  He  was  at  the  R.  O.  T.  C,  Platts- 
burg  in  1916  and  1917,  was  commissioned  and  as- 
signed to  the  4th  F.  A.,  Camp  Pine.  While  attached 
to  this  regiment  he  was  stationed  at  Camp  Shelby, 
Camp  Logan,  and  Corpus  Christi.  He  was  about 
to  go  overseas  when  the  armistice  was  signed. — - 
When  Lieut.  Douglas  D.  Milne  arrived  in  France 
last  September  he  was  assigned  to  a  Replacement 
Division  and  soon  after  to  the  126th  Inf.  and  or- 
dered to  the  Front.  He  fought  in  the  front  line 
trenches  in  the  Argonne  Forest,  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Captain  and  placed  in  the  support  line, 
where  he  remained  during  the  remainder  of  the 
fighting.    He  is  now  with  the  Army  of  Occupation. 

The  11th  Aero  Squadron,  in  which  1st  Lieut. 
Paul  S.  Greene  is  one  of  the  bombers,  has  been  cited 
twice  by  the  Commanding  Officer  and  Lieutenant 
Greene  is  credited  with  bringing  down  one  Boche. 
The  following  account  of  the  fight  was  written  by 
Lieutenant  Greene's  Pilot: 

"Got  lost  in  the  clouds  and  separated  from  my 
formation  yesterday  morning,  so  missed  a  stiff  scrap. 
We  lost  one  team  (two  men)  in  this  scrap  and  it 
was  the  best  one  we  have  had  yet.  We  (our  team) 
didn't  lose  a  man  and  downed  three  bodies,  one  of 
which  is  credited  to  my  bomber,  Paul  Greene,  and 
me.  .  .  .  Just  as  we  dropped  our  bombs  thirty 
boches  jumped  us.  Four  picked  on  us  and  one  got 
directly  under  and  behind  my  tail.  I  didn't  see 
him  go  in  and  Paul  couldn't  shoot  except  through 
our  own  tail  and  rudder.  This  third  had  four  for- 
ward guns  and  was  using  them  as  fast  as  they  would 
work.  ...  It  got  so  hot,  the  tractor  bullets  were 
flying  all  around  us,  that  Paul  deliberately  shot 
through  our  tail  and  the  boche  ducked  out.  Then 
the  old  boy  had  a  clear  chance  and  settled  his 
boche." 

2d  Lieut.  Alan  D.  Marks  of  the  Air  Service  has 
received  his  discharge. 

1917 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
Indiana,  Pa. 
Robert  Avery  Middleton  and  Miss  Dorothy  Dick- 
inson Scales  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  were  married  in  that 
city  on  September  22,   1918,  and  are  making  their 
home  at  263  Genesee  Street,  Utica.    He  is  with  the 


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Mohawk  Valley  Investment  Corporation. — The 
wedding  of  Miss  Dorothy  Alice  Mordorf  and  Mar- 
madnke  Rogers  Yawger  was  solemnized  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  on  October  26,  1918.  She  is  a  graduate 
of  Vassar. — The  engagement  was  announced  in  De- 
cember of  Luke  D.  Stapleton,  Jr.,  son  of  former 
Supreme  Court  Justice  Luke  D.  Stapleton,  and 
Miss  Helene  Simon,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Franklin  Simon  of  New  York  City. 

Robert  D.  Metcalf,  not  having  been  accepted  for 
full  military  service,  trained  at  Silver  Bay,  Lake 
George,  for  Y.  M.  C.  A.  secretary.  He  served  tem- 
porarily at  the  Charlestown  Army  and  Navy  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  and  at  Tufts  Medical  S.  A.  T.  C,  and  was 
then  appointed  as  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary  at 
New  Hampshire  State  College. — It  was  reported 
from  Paris  on  December  26th  that  Lieut.  Whitney 
y  W.  Stark  had  been  assigned  to  President  Wilson's 
staff,  while  the  President  was  in  Europe. 

Lieut.  Theodore  F.  Appleby  is  commanding  officer 
of  a  marine  detachment  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Galveston, 
which  has  been  doing  convoy  duty. — Ensign  Myers 
E.  Baker  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieu- 
tenant, J.  G.  He  is  still  stationed  in  the  Naval 
Flying  Corps  at  Key  West. — Carlton  L.  Bell  has 
received  a  commission  as  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
and  is  3rd  Division  Officer  at  the  Receiving  Ship 
Annex,  Boston. — 2d  Lieut.  John  D.  Clark  is  with 
Battery  C  of  the  15th  F.  A.,  France. — Morris  A. 
Copeland  is  now  a  Sergeant  in  the  Quartermaster 
Corps  at  Camp  Dix. — Sergt.  Harold  G.  Deeley  is 
in  Auxiliary  Remount  Depot  No.  301,  Camp 
Devens. — Lieut.  Henry  I.  Fillman,  as  Liaison  Offi- 
cer (Artillery),  has  been  with  the  French  Army  at 
Chateau-Thierry,  Soissons,  Toul,  Verdun,  Argonne 
and  the  Vesle.    He  is  at  present  stationed  in  Paris. 

Craig  P.  Cochrane,  of  the  Machine  Gun  Company 
of  the  30th  Infantry,  has  been  recently  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Captain.  He  is  at  present  with  the 
Army  of  Occupation  in  Germany. — Sergt.  Benjamin 
S.  D'Ooge,  who  is  in  France  with  the  313th  Supply 
Train,  has  been  on  the  Alsace  Front  near  Toul  most 
of  the  time  since  last  September.  He  has  acted  as 
official  interpreter  and  as  commander  of  the  truck 
convoys,  and  was  recommended  for  a  commission 
just  before  the  signing  of  the  armistice. — Charles 
H.  Bartholomew  enlisted  in  June,  1917,  attended 
the  3rd  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee,  was  commissioned  a 
2d  Lieutenant  Inf.,  and  assigned  to  the  Machine 
Gun  School  for  Officers,  Camp  Hancock.  He  quali- 
fied as  Machine  Gun  Officer  and  was  assigned  to  a 
Machine  Gun  Group. — Ensign  Walter  P  Fraker, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  who  was  stationed  at  Sault  Ste. 
Marie,  Mich.,  during  the  summer,  reported  for  sea 
duty  last  November. — Edgar  L.  Godfrey,  1st  Class 
Petty  Officer,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  at  the  Officers' 
Material  School,  Pelham  Bay. 

Capt.  G.  Irving  Baily  has  been  recently  travelling 
through  the  western  cantonments — Camp  Sherman, 
Camp  Grant,  Camp  Dodge,  and  Camp  Funston — 
inspecting  the  Demobilization  Systems  for  the  War 
Department.  Previously  he  was  staticmed  in  the 
office  of  the  Personnel  Commissioned  Branch  on  the 
General  Staff  in  Washington. —  Private  Elbridge  A. 
Goodhue  has  been  transferred  to  the  Chemical 
Warfare  Service  at  Nela  Park,  Cleveland. — 1st 
Lieut.  Sheldon  B.  Goodrich,  Co.  I,  310th  Inf.,  was 


wounded  last  fall  by  a  Machine  Gun  bullet  in  the 
lower  right  leg.  At  last  reports  he  was  at  Base 
Hospital  No.  52. — Private  George  Hinman  is  in 
France  with  Co.  F,  303rd  Infantry. 

Samuel  A.  Howard,  Jr.,  has  received  a  commission 
as  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.,  and  assigned  to  Battery  D, 
5th  Regiment,  Field  Artillery  Replacement  Depot, 
Camp  Taylor. — Brooks  E.  Johnson  has  received  a 
commission  as  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. — Private 
Cyril  B.  Lewis,  Ordnance,  U.  S.  A.,  is  a  Chemical 
Engineer  at  the  Spencer  Engineering  Co.,  Toledo. 
— Sergt.  Edward  F.  Loomis  of  the  152d  Depot 
Brigade,  Camp  Upton,  has  been  connected  with  the 
chemical  service  of  the  Camp,  but  is  at  present  en- 
gaged in  the  work  of  discharging  the  men. — 1st 
Lieut.  William  F.  Loomis  has  been  flying  on  the 
front  near  Verdun  at  the  head  of  his  esquadrille. 
After  eight  months'  continuous  service  he  has  been 
transferred  to  the  Aerial  Gunnery  School  at  St. 
Jean  de  Monts  as  Instructor. 

Private  Charles  J.  Jessup,  U.  S.  Base  Hospital 
No.  37,  writes  as  follows:  "Two  other  1917  men  are 
here,  Robert  Moore,  Sergeant,  1st  class,  and  Gar- 
diner Rome,  Corporal.  We  are  all  well  and  happy 
— attempting  to  do  our  bit  but  having  one  royal 
time  in  the  bargain.  Looks  like  Duration  of  War 
in  England  for  us,  but  we  are  far  beyond  the  worry- 
ing or  longing  stage." — 1st  Lieut.  Carroll  B.  Low 
has  been  a  member  of  the  26th  Division  which  has 
had  such  a  wonderful  record.  In  April,  May,  and 
June,  they  held  the  front  line  in  the  Woerve  Sector; 
in  July  and  August  they  fought  at  Chateau-Thierry, 
Torcy,  and  Bruvesnes.  They  were  then  shifted  to 
St.  Mihiel,  and  fought  that  battle  in  September, 
and  immediately  were  sent  in  North  of  Verdun, 
fighting  the  battle  of  the  Meuse,  and  were  con- 
stantly in  action  to  the  moment  that  hostilities 
ceased. 

1st  Lieut.  Alfred  DeW.  Mason,  Jr.,  has  been 
detailed  as  Assistant  Military  Attache  to  the  Unit- 
ed States  Legation  in  Switzerland.  His  addn^ss  is 
%  American  Consular  Service,  Basel,  Switzer 
land. —  C.  Edgar  Maynard  has  received  his  dis- 
charge from  the  Naval  Aviation  Service. — Sergt. 
Francis  L.  Moginot,  who  has  been  a  member  of 
the  55th  Artillery,  C.  A.  C,  hiis  been  transferred 
to  the  Saumur  Artillery  School.  France. —  Ensign 
Robert  Munroe,  Naval  Air  Service,  is  an  in- 
structor at  Pensacola. —  Edward  M.  Root  volun- 
teered for  the  Friends'  Reconstruction  Unit  in 
France,  sailing  last  February.  After  working  with 
the  unit  for  some  time  he  was  taken  ill  with  pneu- 
monia and  last  September  returned  to  America. — 
Herbert  W.  Schmid  has  received  the  commission  of 
Ensign  and  is  stationed  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Air 
Station,  Pensacola,  Fla. — Private  Walcott  E.  Sibley 
was  an  instructor  in  Radio  Work  at  Camp  Jackson 
from  August  to  November,  1918.  At  the  end  of 
this  time  he  was  transferred  to  the  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S., 
Camp  Taylor. 

Henry  W.  Wells  of  the  52d  Pioneer  Infantry 
writes:  "For  seven  weeks  my  company  has  been 
in  No-Man's-Land,  where  we  have  seen  only  ruined 
and  deserted  towns,  shelltom  fields  and  shellshot 
forests.  The  German  Artillery  has  been  at  us  inter- 
mittently about  all  the  while.  ,  .  .  We  went 
over  the  top  only  a  couple  of  hours  after  the  dough- 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


boys  and  kept  to  our  job  of  jjetting  up  the  artillery, 
working  sometimes  day  and  night.  The  work  was 
not  hard  compared  with  that  of  the  dough-boys 
but  it  kept  up  steadily  and  taxed  us  heavily  for 
we  were  hardened  by  only  two  months'  training 
at  the  most,  and  found  the  exposure  to  the  constant 
autumn  rains  in  our  low  dog-tents  and  on  the  open 
roads  a  real  hardship." 

Henry  W.  Moore  served  as  Private  in  Co.  17, 
5th  Bn.,  153rd  Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Dix,  was 
later  promoted  to  Corporal  and  transferred  to  Camp 
Taylor  as  a  Candidate  in  the  Field  Artillery  Central 
O.  T.  S.  On  November  26th,  he  was  honorably 
discharged  from  the  service  and  resumed  his  duties 
as  Secretary  of  the  Moore-Shafer  Shoe  Manufac- 
turing Company,  Brockport,  N.  Y. — 1st  Lieut. 
David  W.  Morrow  went  overseas  last  May  with 
the  311th  Infantry,  78th  Division,  and  had  been 
there  about  three  months  when  he  was  ordered 
home  to  assist  in  training  the  new  division.  He 
was  assigned  at  first  to  the  71st  Infantry  but  later 
transferred  to  the  32d  Machine  Gun  Battalion. 

Frank  M.  Sleeper  received  a  commission  as  iid 
Lieutenant  in  the  Signal  Section  of  the  Officers' 
Reserve  Corps.  He  will  now  resume  his  teaching  at 
the  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.— 1st  Lieut.  Luke 
D.  Stapleton,  who  was  returned  to  this  country  a 
short  time  ago  and  assigned  to  the  56th  Artillery, 
Camp  Bowie,  has  received  his  honorable  discharge. 
— 2d  Lieut.  Donald  E.  Temple  is  in  France  with  the 
301st  Field  Artillery.— William  K.  Witney  has  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  Lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service 
and  is  stationed  at  Love  Field  for  advanced  training. 
— Henry  W.  Wells,  who  is  a  member  of  Co.  D,  52d 
Pioneer  Inf..  has  lieen  detailed  as  regimental  orderly. 
His  regiment  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Verdun,  in 
the  fighting  for  Varennes  and  in  the  push  toward 
Sedan. — 2d  Lieut.  Palmer  C.  Williams,  Inf.,  was 
transferred  to  Prisoner  of  War  Escort  Co.  No.  239 
after  the  76th  Division  was  reduced  to  permanent 
personnel  and  sent  back  to  this  country  last  No- 
vember. 

2d  Lieut.  Jesse  F.  Swett  left  the  Saumur  Artillery 
School  the  last  of  September  and  was  transferred  to 
the  Angers  Motor  School  of  Heavy  Artillery.  Upon 
the  completion  of  his  course  he  was  assigned  to 
Platoon  A  of  the  Casual  Replacement  Battalion  at 
the  French  Artillery  Center  as  an  instructor. — 
Sergt.  Barnard  Willis  has  been  in  service  in  France 
since  last  March  with  the  1st  Army  Hdqrs  Regi- 
ment in  charge  of  a  receiving  station.  In  September 
he  was  sent  to  Paris  and  then  to  London  on  special 
detail  work  and  is  now  located  at  Southampton, 
England. 

Private  Henry  H.  Banta  is  in  the  Medical  Detach- 
ment of  the  lOl^th  F.  A.  An  account  of  the  lOith's 
activities  says  "The  One  Hundred  Fourth's  real 
work  in  the  war  was  to  begin  the  firing  late  in 
September,  (m  a  sector  where  there  had  been  no 
fighting  since  the  battle  of  Verdun,  in  1916,  and 
then  the  organization  was  moved  up  to  a  point 
where  it  led  the  way  in  the  big  battle  of  the  Argonne 
which  resulted  in  a  c-omplete  victory  for  the  Ameri- 
can armies  and  ended  in  the  envelopment  of  Sedan 
by  the  Americans  just  before  the  signing  of  the 
armistice." 


Eric  II.  Marks  has  received  a  commission  as  En- 
sign in  the  Pay  Corps,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F  ,  and  is  sta- 
tioned temporarily  at  the  Pelham  Bay  Naval  Train- 
ing Camp. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Lieut.  (J  (i.) 
Myers  Elliott  Baker  to  Miss  Maria  Osborne,  of 
Havana,  Cuba. 

1918 

William  W.  Yerr.\ll,  Secretary, 
88  Maplewood  Terrace,  Springfield,  Mass. 
2d  Lieut.  Thomas  B.   Boardman,   Inf.,  died  at 
Camp  Zachary  Taylor,  Ky.,  of  pneumonia  following 
influenza,  October  22,  1918. 

Private  Morrill  H.  Parkhurst,  Co.  A,  303rd  Bat- 
talion, Heavy  Tank  Corps,  died  of  pneumonia  at 
Dorset,  England,  October  12.  1918.  His  death  is 
reported  elsewhere  in  the  Quarterly. 

Ensign  Dexter  Richards  Hunneman  and  Miss 
Alberta  Rosalind  Merrill,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Albert  L.  Merrill  of  Hamilton,  ^Vlass.,  were  married 
on  Friday,  October  25,  1918. — Daniel  Redmond  is 
in  the  steel  and  iron  business  at  Philadelphia. 

Chester  G.  Seamons,  in  France  as  an  ambulance 
driver,  wrote  in  October  of  a  furlough  he  took  with 
Goebel,  '20,  and  ISIiller,  '19,  going  to  Brittany, 
where  this  Amherst  trio  enjoj-ed  a  dip  in  the  ocean 
and  sightseeing  in  general. — Lieut.  Charles  S.  Mat- 
thews of  Brooklyn.  N.  Y.,  was  reported  under  date 
of  December  20th  as  in  a  convalescent  camp  at  Le 
Havre,  France,  under  treatment  for  wounds  and 
gas  poisoning.  He  was  in  the  aviation  section, 
connected  with  the  Allied  Squadron,  guarding 
Paris.  The  Brooklyn  papers  reported  that  his  legs 
and  arms  are  broken  and  his  eyesight  seriously 
impaired. — R.  Kenneth  Godwin  had  a  very  severe 
attack  of  influenza,  followed  by  pneumonia,  last 
November.  He  has  recovered  and  resumed  his 
duties  as  Secretary  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Fort 
Kearney,  Saunderstown,  R.  1. 

Robert  P.  Kelsey  was  married  last  fall  to  Miss 
Alice  McGiffen  at  Petersburg,  Va. — While  at  Camp 
Upton  William  W.  Yerrall  was  attached  to  the  6th 
Development  Battalion  as  instructor  in  English. 
This  battalion  was  composed  of  enemy  aliens  and 
non-English  speaking  soldiers.  About  thirty  in- 
structors, all  college  men,  were  assigned  to  the 
Battalion  as  English  instructors. — Clarence  Traver 
of  New  York  City  and  Miss  Margaret  Madden  of 
Knoxville,  Tenn.,  were  married  last  October. 

The  following  1918  men  have  been  discharged 
from  the  Service:  Gaetano  R.  Aiello,  A.  S.  A.  P.; 
Merrill  Anderson,  Naval  Aviation;  William  H. 
Beach,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.;  Gorham  L.  Cross,  Naval 
Aviation;  Charles  H.  Durham,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.; 
Carter  L.  Goodrich,  C.  A.  C;  Augustus  S.  Hough- 
ton, Chemical  Engineering;  Gardner  Jackson,  2d 
Lieutenant,  Motor  Transport  Division;  Rawdon 
M.  VanDyck,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf.  Aiello,  Durham, 
Jackson,  and  VanDyck  are  taking  courses  at  Am- 
herst. 

William  H.  Beach  had  passed  examinations  pre- 
paratory to  entering  the  Ensign  School  at  Pelham 
Bay  but  has  been  honorably  discharged  and  will 
enter  the  Harvard  Law  School. — Gorham  L.  Cross, 
Naval  Aviation,  has  been  released  from  Service  and 


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will  soon  return  to  his  post-graduate  work  at  Har- 
vard. Just  prior  to  the  signing  of  the  Armistice 
he  had  accepted  the  position  of  Instructor  of  Naval 
Aviation  Pilots  for  a  four  months'  course  at  the 
new  air  station  at  Brunswick,  Ga.,  with  release  to 
go  into  overseas  service  at  the  end  of  that  term. 

Flying  Cadet  A.  Emerson  Babcock,  Jr.,  is  sta- 
tioned at  the  Marine  Aviation  Station,  Miami. — 
Kenneth  W.  Barber  is  a  Candidate  in  the  Field 
Artillery  Central  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Taylor.— Ray- 
mond G.  Bemis  is  attending  the  Field  Artillery 
Central  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Taylor. — George  Benneyan 
is  a  Corporal  in  the  9th  Co.,  Heavy  Artillery,  Fort 
Adams,  R.  I. — Roy  R.  Blair,  Naval  Aviation,  who 
has  been  training  at  Miami,  has  been  transferred 
to  inactive  duty.— Philip  M.  Breed  has  received 
a  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  Navy. — Sergt. 
Franklin  C.  Butler,  of  Battery  B,  103rd  Field  Ar- 
tillery. 2Cth  Division,  was  ordered  to  report  at  the 
"School  of  Motorization,"  November  1st,  prepara- 
tory to  the  motorization  of  the  battery. — Corp. 
Vahan  A.  Churukian,  Legion  D'Orient,  took  part 
in  the  famous  campaign  of  General  AUenby  against 
the  Turks  in  Palestine.— Jacob  P.  Esty  is  in  the 
Chemical  Warfare  Service  and  is  stationed  at  Ft. 
Dolphin,  L.  I. — 2d  Lieut.  James  T.  Fredericks  is  in 
France  with  Battery  B,  48th  Artillery,  C.  A.  C. 
At  present  he  is  detached  from  his  regiment  and  in 
command  of  a  detachment  of  100  men  who  are  at- 
tached to  a  regiment  of  Engineers. 

2d  Lieut.  Edward  B.  Greene,  of  the  Sloth  Ma- 
chine Gun  Battalion,  160th  Brigade,  attended  a 
Machine  Gim  School  during  September  and  then 
returned  to  the  Argonne  Forest  where  he  was  with 
one  of  the  companies  which  relieved  Colonel  Whit- 
tlesey and  his  lost  battalion.  His  hat  and  the  pack 
on  his  back  were  shot  through  and  four  times  he 
was  buried  by  explosions  but  he  came  through  un- 
wounded,  save  where  a  piece  of  shell  cut  through 
both  of  his  lips. 

Ensign  Alfred  C.  Haven,  who  has  been  on  the 
transport  Manchuria,  has  been  recently  ordered  to 
conduct  a  naval  unit  at  the  Washington  State  Col- 
lege.— Ensign  Robert  L.  Hunter,  Naval  Air  Service, 
has  completed  his  advanced  training  at  Pensacola. 
— Ensign  Robert  P.  Kelsey,  U.  S.  N.,  has  received 
.special  instruction  in  aerography  and  will  be  sta- 
tioned uerograjjher  in  an  aviation  base  overseas. 
— Ensign  Bradford  Kimball,  who  is  stationed  at  a 
ba.se  on  the  Irish  .shore,  is  one  of  the  Sujjply  Officers 
for  the  destroyers  and  submarine  chasers  using  that 
base. — Henry  Little,  Jr.,  has  enlisted  in  Naval 
Aviation  and  is  stationed  at  the  Receiving  Ship, 
Cambridge. —  W.  Duncan  Macfarlane  i.s  stationed 
at  the  Offit^ers'  Material  School,  Paymasters'  Corps, 
Princeton. 

Merwin  P.  Hall,  of  the  32,5th  Inf.,  received  a  flesh 
wound  in  the  thigh  during  the  fighting  in  the  Ar- 
gonne sector.  He  writes:  "I  was  a  stretcher-bearer, 
and  when  I  realizi-  how  thick  the  shrai)nel  was  flying 
and  how  badly  our  company  got  smashed  up,  I  can 
consider  my.self  the  luckiest  of  men." — Murray  S. 
Moore,  who  was  with  S.  S.  U.  539,  the  Amherst 
Unit,  attended  an  Officers'  Training  ScIkjoI  at 
Meaux,  during  March  and  Ai)ril,  1918,  and  was 
commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant,  Motor  Transjjort 
Service,  U.  S.  A. 


2d  Lieut.  Francis  C.  McGarrahan  has  been  trans- 
ferred to  Co.  B,  25th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  Camp 
Sheridan. — J.  Stewart  Meiklejohn  is  a  Private  in 
the  Athletic  Office,  Camp  Devens. — Andrew  R. 
Morehouse  is  a  Corporal  in  Base  Hospital  No.  15, 
France.  On  November  11th,  too  late  to  be  effective, 
he  received  his  transfer  to  the  Artillery  Corps. — 
Edward  W.  Morehouse  is  Acting  Sergeant  Major 
of  the  Motor  Truck  Corps,  Battery  C,  12th  Regi- 
ment, Camp  Jackson. — Ensign  Curtis  L.  Norton, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  an  officer  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Maumee. 
— 2d  Lieut.  Lewis  T.  Orlady  attended  an  intensive 
Machine  Gun  School  in  France  where  he  received 
his  commission. — Corp.  Burton  Orrell  is  in  France 
with  the  108th  Ambulance  Co.,  102d  Sanitary 
Train. 

Ensign  T.  Homans  Parsons  has  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  J.  G.,  and  is  on  the  U.  S.  S. 
H a rrishurg.— Walter  R.  Peabody,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,is 
at  the  Ensign's  Schot)l  Pelhani  Bay. — 2d  Lieut. 
Leonard  M.  Prince  is  in  France  with  Motor  Trans- 
port Company  368. — 2d  Lieut.  William  C.  Robin- 
son, Jr.,  is  an  instructor  in  Machine  Gunnery  in 
France.— Private  Rudolph  W.  Schmidt,  309th  Field 
Signal  Battalion,  went  overseas  with  the  84th  Di- 
vision last  September.  This  Division  has  not  seen 
active  service. 

2d  Lieut.  Waldo  F.  Pratt,  Jr.,  while  serving  with 
the  12th  F.  A.  in  France,  fought  in  the  W^oevre 
Sector  for  about  a  month  and  also  took  part  in  the 
Battle  of  Belleau  Wood.  He  was  then  ordered  back 
to  this  country,  assigned  to  Fort  Sill  and  then  to 
Columbia  University,  where  he  graduated  as  Artil- 
lery Officer.  He  was  then  ordered  to  the  Air  Service 
Radio  School  at  Pennfield,  Austin,  Texas,  as  an 
Instructor  in  the  operation  between  Air  Service  and 
Artillery. — Ensign  Philip  H.  See,  of  the  Naval  Air 
Service,  has  been  appointed  permanent  Commander 
of  the  8th  Aerial  Squadron  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Air 
Station,  Miami.  This  is  the  largest  squadron  in  the 
station. 

Malcolm  P.  Sharj)  has  received  a  commission  as 
Ensign  in  the  Naval  Air  Service  and  been  appointed 
an  Instructor  in  Aviation  at  the  Naval  Air  Station, 
Miami. — 2d  Lieut.  Elmer  G.  Smith,  Inf.,  was  com- 
missioned at  the  Central  Officers"  Machine  Gun 
Training  School  last  Sci)temb('r  and  assigned  to  the 
358th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  9,")th  Division,  Camp 
Sherman. — Private  Byron  E.  Thomas,  a  member 
of  Section  640  of  thc'U.  S.  Ambulance  Service,  is 
with  the  Army  of  Occupation  in  Germany. — Regi- 
mental Sergt.-Major  Arthur  F.  Tylee  is  in  France 
with  the  301st  Train  Headquarters  and  Military 
Police. — James  C.  Warren  was  Candidate  in  the 
Field  Artillery  Central  O.  T.S.,  Camp  Taylor.  At  diff- 
erent times  he  was  recommended  for  a  2d  Lieutenant- 
cy  in  the  Chemical  Warfare  Service  and  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenantcy  in  the  Ord.  U.  S.  A.,  but  preferred  the 
F.  A. — 2d  Lieut.  William  C.  Washburn  is  attached 
to  the  217th  Sciuadron  at  Field  2,  Garden  City. 

2d  Lieut.  Carl  Aiders,  Battery  A,  113lh  Regiment 
F.  A.,  55th  F.  A.  Brigade,  writes  as  follows:  "I 
was  one  of  the  fortunate  ones  to  be  assigned  to  the 
front  from  Saumur.  .  .  .  The  first  evening  I 
was  here,  we  received  orders  for  a  heavy  barrage 
during  the  nigiit.  Change  in  orders  kcjjt  vis  u])  all 
nigiit  figuring  all  possible  combinations  of  firing 
data  and  in  between  I  was  bu.sy  getting  ammunition 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


in.    .    .    .    The  noise  when  we  opened  up  at  the  set 

hour  is  simply  beyond  description.  There  were  bat- 
teries everywhere  around  us.  American,  French,  all 
happily  mingled  together.  We  paid  back  with  high 
interest  all  the  shells  the  Germans  had  sent  over 
during  the  evening  and  night.  ...  A  new  order 
came  and  the  Captain  gave  two  guns  in  my  charge. 
It  was  fun  to  have  something  of  my  own." 

Theodore  M.  Greene  is  serving  in  Mesopotamia 
under  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  After  graduating  from 
Amherst  he  went  into  an  aviation  camp  as  educa- 
tional secretary,  remaining  there  until  he  sailed. 
When  last  heard  from  he  was  leaving  Paris  for 
Bombay. 

John  K.  Eilert  is  at  the  Bridgeport  Office  of  the 
Ordnance  Department,  in  a  civilian  capacity,  as  an 
assistant  to  the  Engineering  Manager  of  that 
district. 

1919 

A  letter  from  John  Savoy,  who  is  in  the  Ambu- 
lance Service  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  tells  of  the  attack  of 
last  May  and  June.  "We  have  just  come  out  of 
the  big  attack  after  being  in  it  ten  days  and  we  are 
now  'en  repos'  near  Paris.  .  .  .  By  the  way,  we 
got  four  Croix  de  Guerre  in  our  section  and  the 
section  received  a  citation.  The  citation  allows  us 
to  paint  the  Croix  de  Guerre  on  our  cars.  The 
men  to  receive  the  Croix  de  Guerre  were  Hazeldine, 
Yarrington,  Dunkell,  and  Fisher.  The  first  two  are 
ambulance  men  and  classmates  of  mine.  .  .  .  the 
men  who  disappeared  were  Ralph  Ellinwood,  an 
Amherst  man,  Ted  Lockwood,  a  Harvard  man,  and 
Billy  Heckert  from  Pennsylvania.  .  .  .  Oily 
Schaff  was  sent  back  to  the  States  about  two 
months  ago  to  a  hospital  in  Virginia.  He  has  had 
an  attack  of  Tuberculosis." 

Robert  L.  Hunter  and  Stanley  A.  Rauh  have  en- 
listed in  Naval  Aviation. — John  G.  Howard  has  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  Naval  Avia- 
tion.— 2d  Lieut.  William  B.  Cummings,  after  re- 
ceiving his  commission  in  the  Inf.  was  stationed  in 
the  Depot  Brigade  at  Camp  Dix  until,  at  his  own 
request,  he  was  transferred  to  the  109th  Supply 
Train,  34th  Division  for  overseas  duty.  He  sailed 
in  October. — Lawrence  Ames  received  his  commis- 
sion as  a  2d  Lieutenant  in  Army  Aviation  last  sum- 
mer and  was  completing  his  advanced  training  when 
taken  ill  with  influenza.  The  armistice  was  signed 
before  he  was  able  to  finish  his  course. 

The  following  1919  men  have  been  discharged  from 
the  service:  2d  Lieut.  Walter  K.  Beknap,  Inf.;  2d 
Lieut.  Parker  B.  Kimball,  Inf.;  Marcus  P.  Kiley,  U. 
S.  N.  R.  F.,  Ensign  Philip  Y.  Eastman,  Naval  Avia- 
tion; Ensign  Noble  T.  Macfarlane,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.; 
Halvor  R.  Seward,  F.  A.;  David  S.  Soliday,  Chemi- 
cal Warfare  Service;  and  2d  Lieut.  Theodore 
Southworth,  Inf.;  Roger  C.  Olden,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
■ — Merriam  W^  Sheldon  is  in  France  with  the  Am- 
bulance Company  347,  Sanitary  Train  312,  87th 
Division;  Benjamin  F.  Taber,  with  Field  Hospital 
Co.  No.  105.— John  B.  Bell,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  train- 
ing at  the  Officers'  Material  School,  Pelham  Bay. 
— Franklin  F.  Bailey  is  an  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. — 
Arthur  F.  Banfield  was  cho.sen  for  the  O.  T.  S., 
Camp  Lee. — Aaron  Bodenhorn,  who  is  in  Marine 
Aviation,  is  stationed  at  the  Marine  Flying  School, 


Miami. — Paul  H.  Ballou,  who  was  awarded  the 
Croix  de  Guerre,  has  returned  to  this  country  and 
received  an  appointment  to  the  U.  S.  Military 
Academy,  West  Point.  He  is  a  Cadet  Captain. — 
Russell  P.  Barton,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has  been  trans- 
ferred to  the  Officers'  Material  School,  University 
of  Pennsylvania. 

Ensign  Robert  J.  Davis,  Naval  Aviation,  is  Gun- 
nery Officer  at  Key  W'est.  He  writes  as  follows: 
"Doc  Traver,  '18,  Phil  Eastman,  '19,  Bryan,  '16, 
Waddy  Wilbar,  '17,  and  Bob  Hunter,  '19,  were  all 
at  Pensacola  when  I  left  there.  .  .  .  All  my 
bunch  are  across  and  I  have  to  stay  here  and  teach 
these  students  some  of  the  fundamentals  instead 
of  being  able  to  do  my  bit  over  there." 

G.  Thomas  Boone  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
in  April,  1917,  was  promoted  to  Quartermaster,  3rd 
class,  and  later  commissioned  as  an  Ensign  and 
assigned  to  transport  service  aboard  the  U.  S.  S. 
Susquehanna.  He  has  been  recently  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  J.  G.,  and  assigned  to  the 
U.  S.  S.  Polar  Sea. — Nehemiah  Boynton,  Jr.>  is  an 
Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.— Oliver  G.  Boynton  is  a 
Private  in  Co.  H,  13th  Regiment,  Marine  Corps, 
France. — Robert  J.  Brinkerhoff  has  completed  his 
training  at  M.  I.  T.  and  is  now  flying  at  Bay  Shore, 
L.  I. — Arthur  F.  Brown  at  last  reports  was  a  Can- 
didate, 1st  Co.,  1st  Battalion,  Central  Line  O.  T.  S., 
Camp  Lee. — Herman  D.  Brown  has  transferred  to 
Naval  Aviation  and  is  now  at  M.  I.  T. — Charles  B. 
Bull,  who  has  been  serving  with  Base  Hospital  No.  1 
since  last  February,  has  charge  of  one  of  the  wards 
at  the  Hospital. 

William  A.  Burnett,  Jr.,  is  in  active  service  with 
the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  on  the  Western  front. — Marcus 
R.  Burr  is  a  1st  Class  Seaman,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  He 
was  previously  with  the  106th  Machine  Gun  Bat- 
talion.— Sergt.  John  J.  Chester  of  the  37th  Head- 
quarters Troop,  France,  is  in  charge  of  the  trans- 
portation service  for  gasoline  driven  vehicles. — 
Richard  W.  Clarke,  after  taking  a  course  at  An- 
napolis, has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Ensign, 
U.  S.  N.,  and  assigned  to  duty  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Great 
Northern. — Thurston  V.  Darling  graduated  from 
the  C.  O.  T.  C,  Camp  Lee,  with  the  rank  of  2d 
Lieutenant  and  was  assigned  to  Camp  Dix. — En- 
sign Philip  Y.  Eastman  of  the  Naval  Air  Service  is 
stationed  at  Cape  May,  N.  J.  He  received  his 
training  at  the  Naval  Air  Station,  Key  West. — 
James  H.  Elwell  is  a  Sergeant,  Co.  2,  Engineers 
O.  T.  C,  Camp  Humphreys. 

2d  Lieut.  William  H.  Emery,  Jr.,  Aviation  Corps, 
is  an  instructor  in  flying  at  Taylor  Field.  On 
November  30th  he,  with  another  instructor,  made 
a  flight  of  250  miles. — Ensign  Rowland  C.  Evans 
is  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Corona. — Ensign  Wilbur  E. 
Forbes,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  received  his  commission  as 
a  result  of  competitive  examinations  and  is  now  in 
the  Communication  Office,  Navy  Department, 
Washington. — Ensign  C.  Morris  Gardiner,  "Mor- 
rie"  U.  S.  N.  Aviation  Section,  is  stationed  at  the 
Naval  Air  Station,  Coco  Sola,  Panama,  as  Flight 
Officer. — Clarence  B.  Goodwin  graduated  from  the 
Central  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee,  with  the  rank  of  2d 
Lieutenant,  Inf.,  and  was  assigned  to  the  154th 
Depot  Brigade,  Camp  Meade. — Burr  Howe  has 
been    transferred    from    the    Great    Lakes    Naval 


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77 


Training  Station  to  the  Dunwooddie  School,  Min- 
neapolis. He  expects  to  complete  his  training  in 
aviation.— Harold  M.  Lay  completed  the  course  at 
the  American  Artillery  School  at  Saumur  with  the 
rank  of  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.  After  being  trans- 
ferred from  one  unit  to  another  he  was  finally 
assigned  to  the  Headquarters  Co.  of  the  80th  F.  A. 
as  Telephone  Officer.  His  duty  is  to  establish  tele- 
phone communication  between  the  Battalion  Post 
Command  and  the  Battalion  Observation  Post. — 
Noble  T.  Macfarlane  has  received  a  commission  as 
Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Reserve  Force.— Willis 
H.  McAllister  has  been  commissioned  an  Ensign  m 
the  U.  S.  Naval  Forces.  He  attended  the  Officers' 
Material  School  at  Pelham  Bay.— Alexander  Mc- 
Gregor, Jr.,  is  a  Chief  Electrician  (Radio)  m  the 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.— Bruce  S.  McDonald,  Student  Flight 
Officer,  Naval  Aviation,  has  completed  his  ground 
school  course  at  Seattle,,  graduating  second  high 
man,  and  is  now  taking  his  preliminary  fiight  tram- 
ing  at  the  U.  S.  Naval  Air  Station,  San  Diego. 

Donald  G.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  is  a  Sergeant,  1st  Class, 
in  the  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.,  Section  539.— Bradbury  B. 
Morse,  who  enlisted  in  the  Marine  Corps  last 
August,  is  stationed  at  Marine  Barracks,  Pearl 
Harbor,  T.  H.— John  G.  Gibson  received  the  com- 
mission of  id  Lieutenant,  F.  A.,  at  Plattsburg  last 
summer. — Sergt.  Hugh  A.  MulhoUand  is  with  the 
Headquarters  Detachment,  Infantry,  Camp  Lee.— 
Ensign  Algernon  S.  Norton,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is 
an  officer  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Hatturas.  He  received  his 
commission  at  the  Pelham  Naval  Auxiliary  School. 
—Sergt.  Harold  B.  Spencer  is  in  the  Sanitary  De- 
tachment of  the  2d  Cavalry,  France.— Stuart  F. 
Snelling,  who  went  overseas  with  the  306th  Inf., 
was  wounded  in  the  shoulder  about  the  first  of  July, 
and  after  a  month  in  a  base  hospital  was  sent  to  an 
Officers'  Training  School.  He  graduated  with  the 
rank  of  2d  Lieutenant  and  was  assigned  to  the 
18th  Inf.— Lieut.  Theodore  Southworth  has  been 
ordered  to  Camp  McClellan.— Louis  B.  Thornton 
is  a  Corporal  in  the  Electrical  Section  of  the  Camp 
Utility  Company  at  Camp  Sevier. 

Thomas  A.  Tilton  has  been  transferred  from  the 
Naval  Air  Station  at  Key  West  to  the  Naval  Air 
Station  at  Pensacola.— Ensign  Richard  B.  Neiley, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  on  a  110  footer  in  Europe  as  Ex- 
ecutive Officer.— Emerson  H.  Virden  is  in  Franqe 
with  the  811th  Pioneer  Infantry.  He  received  his 
commission  at  the  Central  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee.— 
Ensign  Cadet  Barrett  Whitman  is  at  the  Officers 
Material  School,  First  Naval  District,  Cambridge. 
— Private  Frederick  L.  Yarrington,  S.  S.  U.  621,  re- 
ceived the  Croix  de  Guerre  for  .services  with  his 
division  during  the  German  attack  from  May  27  to 
June  4.— Corp.  Robert  R.  White  is  with  the  Head- 
quarters Troop,  27th  Division,  France.  He  i.s  an 
authorized  teacher  of  bayonet  and  physical  training. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  newspaper 
clipping:  "Corp.  Lincoln  B.  Smith  is  a  member  of 
Battery  B,  103rd  F.  A.  His  crew  has  been  cited 
three  times  for  breaking  \\\)  enemy  machine  gun 
nests  and  had  destroyed  two  (ierman  tanks  by  point 
blank  firing.  As  tlie  time  drew  near  for  the  cessa- 
tion of  firing,  says  Bert  Ford,  a  war  correspondent, 
Corp.  Smith,  in'charge  of  one  firing  sciuad  told  his 
men:  'You  had  better  shoot  the  ramrod  for  this  i.s 
the  last  round.     Come  on,   fellows,  all  together.' 


The  lanyard  was  lengthened  to  20  feet  so  that  every 
member  of  the  crew  could  have  a  hand  in  firing  the 
last  round." 

Ensign  Henry  D.  Whitcomb,  son  of  Henry  E. 
Whitcomb,  '94,  was  married  July  21,  1918,  to  Miss 
Florence  Miriam  Martin,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bertram  T.  Martin  of  Winchester.  Ensign  Whit- 
comb was  an  officer  on  the  Cruiser  San  Diego, 
which  sank  off  Fire  Island  last  July,  and  narrowly 
escaped  drowning. 

1920 

James  Hutton  Hinch  was  reported  in  the  Brook- 
lyn Eagle  of  October  17th  as  in  a  Paris  hospital 
suffering  from  severe  wounds  in  both  legs,  sustained 
when  a  German  shell  burst  in  a  cantonment  where 
he  was  doing  kitchen  police  work.  He  was  so  busy 
with  his  K.  P.  duties  that  his  comrades  had  to  call 
his  attention  to  the  wounds  in  his  legs  caused  by 
shell  fragments.  He  was  able  to  walk  to  the  base 
hospital,  but  later  had  to  be  removed  to  a  Paris 
hospital  for  more  thorough  treatment.  He  received 
his  wounds  on  Labor  Day.  On  October  17th,  with 
the  aid  of  crutches,  he  was  able  to  get  out  of  bed 
for  the  first  time.  He  had  thirteen  wounds  and  also 
suffered  from  shell  shock. 

At  the  same  time  Sherman  Shipman  was  reported 
O.  K.  after  a  slight  illness. 

Ralph  E.  Bailey  has  been  acting  as  Director  of 
the  Bureau  of  Home  Communication  at  Berne, 
Switzerland,  of  the  Department  Prisoners  of  War. 

2d  Lieut.  Henry  M.  Young,  Aviation  Service, 
died  of  pneumonia  following  influenza  at  Taliaferro 
Field,  December  14,  1918.  His  death  is  reported 
elsewhere  in  the  Qu.irterly. 

Among  the  1920  men  who  received  commissions 
as  2d  Lieutenants  at  Plattsburg  in  September,  1918, 
are  the  following:  Ralph  S.  Anthony,  Inf.;  Ken- 
neth M.  Bouv6;  Edward  O.  Clark,  Jr.,  Adjutant's 
School;  A.  David  Cloyd,  F.  A.;  Ernest  L.  Fisher, 
F.  A.;  Rufus  P.  Cushman,  Jr.,  Inf.;  Roland  Wood, 
Inf.;  Willard  L.  Thorp,  Personnel  Corps;  Eastburn 
R.  Smith,  Inf.;  George  U.  Moran,  Inf.;  John  R. 
Meiklejohn,  F.  A.;  William  M.  Cowles,  Inf.; 
George  D.  Haskell,  Inf.;  Kenneth  B.  Low,  F.  A.; 
Edgar  Nichols,  Inf.;  Ralph  Beebe,  F.  A.;  Robert 
C.  Wilcox,  Inf. 

Bouve  was  assigned  to  the  Springfield  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
College;  Clark,  to  the  Dental  College  of  Oral 
Surgery,  New  York  City  as  Personnel  Officer; 
Wood,  to  Camp  Grant;  Thorp,  as  Personnel  Ad- 
jutant to  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  at  the  Iniversity  of  Pitts- 
burgh; Smith,  to  the  5th  Development  Battalion, 
IGLst  Departmental  Brigade,  Camp  Grant;  Moran, 
to  the  1st  Co.,  Infantry  Replacement  and  Training 
Troops,  Camp  Grant;  Cowles,  as  instructor  at 
Camp  Grant;  Haskell,  to  Citadel  College  as  an 
instructor;  Nichols,  as  Adjutant  at  the  Lowell 
Textile  School ;  Beebe,  to  Camp  Perry,  and  later 
to  the  Weslcyan  I'nit  of  the  S.  A.  T.  C.;  Cushman, 
to  the  Infantry  Replacement  and  Training  Troops, 
Camp  Grant;  Low,  to  the  ArtilK-ry  School,  Camp 
Taylor;  Cloyd,  as  instructor  at  Hastings  College, 
Nebraska,  and  later  Yale;  and  Wilcox,  to  Camp 
Grant. 

Cushman,  Wilcox,  Low,  and  Cloyd  have  now 
received  their  discharges. 


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The  following  1920  men  were  chosen  for  the  In- 
fantry, O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee:  Theodore  L.  Buell, 
Daniel  Bliss,  2(1,  Alexander  Duff,  Porter  Thompson, 
Waller  Allen,  John  Hanselmann,  Richard  W.  May- 
nard.  \Yilliam  H.  Farwell,  Alvah  E.  Davison,  Jr., 
Frank  F.  Davidson,  Jr.,  Edward  G.  Tuttle,  George 
V.  D.  Clarke,  Delos  S.  Otis,  Norman  Olsen,  Julian 
F.  Rowe,  Paul  K.  Phillips;  Edward  B.  Wight  has 
gone  to  the  Machine  Gun  O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Hancock; 
Arthur  C.  Sisson  has  gone  to  the  Heavy  Artillery, 
().  T.  S.,  Fort  M<mroe. 

Of  these,  the  following,  according  to  our  records, 
have  been  discharged  from  service:  Bliss,  Thomp- 
son, Davidson,  Otis,  Olsen,  and  Sisson. 

Paul  Apraham  received  his  commission  as  Ensign 
at  the  Pelham  Bay  Officers'  Training  School  last 
July.  He  volunteered  to  go  on  patrol  duty  and  at 
last  accounts  was  to  go  to  Cardiff  to  take  a  ship. — 
Cyril  D.  Arnold  attended  the  O.  T.  S.,  Jacksonville, 
Fla.,  in  June,  1917,  where  he  was  commissioned  a 
2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C,  Division  of  Water  Trans- 
portation. While  home  on  a  furlough  he  was  taken 
seriously  ill,  and  at  last  report  was  slowly  con- 
valescing.— Clarence  E.  Avery  is  at  the  Base  Hos- 
pital Medical  Department,  Camp  McClellan. — 
Stanley  W.  Ayres  has  been  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C,  and  appointed  Instructor 
at  Carruthers'  Field. — Alden  M.  Bartlett  enlisted 
last  June  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  and  after  serving 
at  the  naval  stations  at  Hingham,  Bumkin  Island, 
Wakefield  Rifle  Range  is  now  stationed  at  the  Offi- 
cers" Material  School,  Harvard  University. — John 
L.  Briggs  is  in  training  for  aviation  at  Cornell 
University.  He  served  foin-  months  with  the  A.  A. 
F.  S.  in  France. — Ensign  Glen  F.  Card  has  been 
transferred  from  the  U.  S.  S.  Remiik  to  the  destroyer 
U.  S.  S.  Fairfax. — Dudley  B.  Cornell  is  in  France 
with  the  104th  Machine  Gun  Battalion,  Co.  A, 
27th  Division. — John  H.  Clay  enlisted  in  the  Royal 
Air  Service  in  Canada,  was  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  and,  in  September,  sent  to  England  to 
complete  his  training.  He  was  there  transferred  to 
the  British  Department  of  the  Royal  Air  Service 
and  sent  with  a  detachment  to  EgjT)t  on  a  special 
mission. — Frederic  W.  Corson,  Chief  Quartermas- 
ter, Naval  Aviation,  is  completing  a  six  months' 
course  for  a  Reserve  Corps  at  M.  I.  T. — Laurence 
E.  Crooks  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Cor- 
poral in  the  .S12th  Supply  Train,  France. — Alvah 
H.  Davison  will  complete  his  course  at  the  Central 
O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee,  and  then  return  to  Amherst. 

Alexander  L.  Dade,  Jr.,  pas.sed  the  examinations 
for  a  provisional  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  regular  army 
in  July  1917,  but  accepted  a  1st  Lieutenantcy  in  the 
aviation  section  of  the  signal  corps.  He  was  sta- 
tioned at  Wa.shington  in  the  personnel  Division  and 
later  .sent  as  Adjutant  to  (\imp  Dick,  Texas.  He 
was  then  tran.sferred  to  Camp  Sevier  and  from 
there  went  to  Mitchell  Field,  where  he  has  been 
Adjutant  since  last  August.  He  has  won  his  "  wings' ' 
as  a  Reserve  Military  Aviator  and  has  been  recom- 
mended for  a  caj)taincy.  He  would  have  gone  over- 
seas November  15th  had  not  the  signing  of  the 
armistice  prevented. 

Willard  S.  Darling  has  been  commissioned  a  2d 
Lieutenant  Inf.,  and  assigned  to  the  Depot  Brigade, 
Camp  Dix. — Henry  O.  Furbish  is  a  Private,  Q.  M.  C. 


Headquarters  Co.  France. — Hugh  L.  Hamilton  has 
been  commissioned  a  2d  Lieutenant  and  assigned  to 
Battery  E,  302d  F.  A.,  France.— Merrill  C.  Haskell 
went  to  France  with  the  A.  A.  F.  S.  and  was  as- 
signed to  Section  68  under  the  French  Army.  He 
was  released  from  duty  in  October  and  is  now  with 
the  American  Red  Cross  Transportation  Depart- 
ment, Marseille. 

Charles  C.  DeKlyn,  who  attended  the  Central 
O.  T.  C,  Camp  Lee,  was  commissioned  a  2d  Lieu- 
tenant, Inf.,  and  assigned  to  the  Depot  Brigade, 
Camp  Dix. — Burton  E.  Hildebrandt  has  received 
a  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  Naval  Reserve  Fly- 
ing Corps. — Corporal  Joshua  M.  Holmes  is  in  France 
with  Co.  A,  328th  Battalion,  Tank  Corps. — Perry 
B.  Jenkins  has  enlisted  in  the  Ordnance,  O.  R.  C. — 
Ensign  Daniel  W.  Jones.  U.  S.  N.,  is  Gunnery  Officer 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Watonwan,  a  troop  transport. — 
Thomas  H.  McCandless,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  has  been 
assigned  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Indiana. 

Harry  R.  Horgan  is  Boatswain's  Mate  on  Sub- 
marine Chaser  No.  248.  He  writes  as  follows  about 
the  battle  of  Durazzo:  "It  is  the  only  naval  battle 
that  American  ships  have  been  in  and  we  sure  did 
fine  work  all  right.  Everybody  on  this  side  has  a 
fine  word  for  the  little  chasers  that  screened  the 
big  fleet  and  sank  the  three  subs  sent  out  to  get 
them." 

Andrew  V.  McCracken,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  Com- 
manding Officer  of  the  Naval  Section,  S.  A.  T.  C, 
at  the-  University  of  Pittsburgh. — Cadet  W^alter  B. 
Mallon  is  stationed  at  the  University  of  Texas. — 
Joseph  M.  March  is  in  France  with  Battery  B, 
105th  F.  A.— Wallace  R.  Montague,  Jr.,  is  a  Top 
Sergeant  in  the  Headquarters  Detachment,  Motor 
Supply  Train  416,  France. — Donald  I.  Perry  has  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Avia- 
tion Service.  He  has  been  training  at  Ebert  Field. 
— Charles  E.  Putnam  is  with  S.  S.  LT.  552.  Ambu- 
lance Service,  U.  S.  A. — Cadet  Owen  T.  Reeves  is 
stationed  at  the  Naval  Air  Station,  Key  West. — 
Alexander  G.  Thompson  is  Chief  Boatswain's  Mate 
in  the  Naval  Reserve.  He  has  charge  of  loading 
with  coal  all  Allied  vessels,  transports,  men  of  war, 
etc.,  in  New  York  Harbor. 

Frederic  A.  Lyman  was  to  have  reported  at  the 
Cornell  Aviation  Ground  School  on  November  11th 
but  the  signing  of  the  armistice  caused  the  cancella- 
tion of  the  order. — George  S.  Whittemore,  of  the 
Aviation  Service,  is  stationed  at  Camp  Dick,  Texas. 

Private  Rufus  L.  Stevens,  who  is  with  S.  S.  U. 
539,  the  Amherst  Unit,  writes  as  follows:  "Ten 
days  ago  ten  of  us  were  on  duty  at  a  hospital. 
Just  outside  the  town  there  was  an  objective  for 
enemy  fire.  We  arrived  at  the  hospital  at  midnight 
and,  after  placing  the  cars  in  the  yard,  went  to  bed 
in  them.  I  was  awakened  the  next  morning  by  a 
shell  landing  the  other  side  of  the  railroad  about 
150  yards  away.  I  got  my  clothes  on  .  .  .  and 
another  one  landed  on  my  side  of  the  tracks.  .  .  . 
The  other  fellows  were  up  and  in  the  kitchen  drink- 
ing coffee.  .  .  .  They  came  running  out  with 
their  cups  in  their  hands  and  we  all  started  for  the 
cave.  We  had  just  made  the  street  when  a  shell 
landed  in  the  kitchen  and  took  the  stove  clean  out 
through  the  roof  without  touching  the  wall.  We 
looked  around  and  missed  Kelleher.     He  had  gone 


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back  to  his  car  to  get  his  pipe.  The  car  was  backed 
up  to  the  kitchen  and  he  was  standing  htteen  teet 
from  where  the  shell  struck,  but  the  car  was  between 
him  and  the  shell.  He  was  knocked  down,  not 
hurt  a  bit  and  the  car  was  covered  with  debris. 
The  stove  was  everywhere,  a  piece  piercing  the 
roof  of  my  ambulance.  That  stove  would  make 
six  ranges  like  we  have  at  home  look  sick." 

Robert  G.  Stewart,  S.  S.  U.  539,  writes  of  an  air 
raid  he  was  in:  "I  guess  we  will  have  to  go  back  to 
the  front  in  order  to  be  safe,  as  a  couple  of  nights 
ago  the  Gothas  came  over  the  line  to  bomb  a  town 
located  about  a  kilometre  from  where  we  are. 
Either  they  couldn't  get  by  the  air  defenses,  for 
they  gave 'them  a  mighty  hot  reception,  or  they 
thought  thev  were  over  the  town,  as  all  the  bombs 
came  down  in  our  vicinity.  The  raid  started  about 
nine  thirty  and  lasted  till  nearly  one.  No  one  could 
sleep  there  was  so  much  racket  and  what  with 
bombs  and  pieces  of  anti-aircraft  shells  coming 
down  all  around,  no  one  thought  much  about  sleep- 
ing either.  Two  bombs  landed  in  an  open  lot. 
They  made  holes  twenty  feet  deep  and  ninety  feet 
in  circumference.  You  could  put  three  or  four  am- 
bulances in  one  of  them.  And  stone  houses  are 
knocked  over  like  a  house  of  cards." 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  from  Pri- 
vate J.  Hutton  Hinch,  A.  A.  F.  S.:  "We  are  again 
at  the  front  and  this  letter  is  written  from  a  dug-out 
in  the  drabbiest,  dreariest,  snowiest,  wettest,  cold- 
est, muddiest  country  God  ever  made.  I  guess  the 
Boches  figure  this  region  isn't  worth  trying  to  take. 
Every  once  in  a  while  somebody  fires  a  couple  of 
shells  or  turns  on  a  mitralleuse  just  to  keep  from 
;  getting  out  of  practice.  .  .  •  Twasn't  always 
thus,  however.  Our  post  is  on  the  edge  of  a  one- 
time village  that's  had  a  terrible  strafing.  It  looks 
like  the  last  days  of  Pompeii,  only  Pompeii  was  in- 
teresting probably.  Still  we  may  have  some  excite- 
ment for  some  of  our  posts  are  at  hospitals  and  the 
Boche  air  men  amuse  themselves  in  this  region  very 
frequently  by  tossing  bombs  at  anything  marked 
with  a  red  cross." 

Ensign  Francis  Ernest  Hadley,  Jr.,  of  New  York, 
and  Miss  Mary  Adams  Waterbury  of  Newark,  N.  J., 
were  married  in  New  York  City  on  Tuesday,  August 
6th. 

Harold  Kaiser  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  died-  of 
pleurisy  with  a  complication  of  sarcoma  on  July 
29th  at  Pratt  Cottage,  Amherst.  At  the  time  he 
was  the  college  guide  for  the  summer,  and  before 
succumbing  to  pleurisy  had  suffered  a  nervous 
breakdown. 

He  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  on  September 
20,  1899.  He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Kaiser  of  Rochester,  where  he  prepared  for  college. 
In  the  spring  of  his  Freshman  year  the  amputation 
of  his  right  leg  was  made  necessary  by  an  attack  of 
sarcoma  which  threatened  his  life.  Although  it 
was  evident  after  the  operation  that  his  health  was 


permanently  undermined,  he  still  insisted  on  return- 
ing to  Amherst  and  going  on  with  his  college  course. 
None  of  his  mates  loved  the  college  more  deeply 
than  he,  and  his  courage,  enthusiasm,  and  never 
failing  cheerfulness  won  the  afifection  and  respect 
of  all  who  touched  him  in  his  college  life. 

1921 

Among  the  1921  men  who  received  commissions 
as  2d  Lieutenants  at  Plattsburg  in  September,  1918, 
are  the  following:  Curtis  R.  Hatheway,  Jr.,  F.  A.; 
Louis  Hasbrouck,  Inf.;  Everett  D.  Flood  Inf.; 
Dennison  B.  Cowles,  F.  A.;  George  P.  Hall,  Int.; 
Douglas  Whitcomb,  Inf.  ... 

Hatheway  was  assigned  to  the  35th  Iraming 
Battery,  Ckmp  Taylor;  Hasbrouck,  as  Instructor 
at  George  Washington  University;  Flood,  to  Tem- 
ple I^niversity,  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  put  in 
command  of  a  company  of  men  to  train  and  prepare 
them  for  an  O.  T.  C;  Cowles,  to  the  Artillery 
School  at  Camp  Taylor;  Hall,  to  Stevens  Institute 
of  Technology  as  Assistant  Instructor  in  Military 
Science;  Whitcomb,  to  the  Georgia  School  of  Tech- 
nology as  Instructor  in  Military  Science. 

The  following  1921  men  were  chosen  for  the  In- 
fantry O.  T.  S.,  Camp  Lee;  Philip  Brisk,  Harry 
Case  'Harry  Disston,  Kenneth  R.  Mackenzie, 
Robert  Metcalf,  Bradford  B.  Church,  Thomas  F. 
Moran,  Jr.,  Waldo  E.  Palmer,  Harold  H.  Owen, 
Abraham  L.  Stauft,  Rowell  Schleicher,  James  A. 
Thaver,  Bradford  G.  Webster;  Kimber  A.  Taylor 
has  "gone  to  the  Machine  Gun,  O.  T.  S.,  Camp 
Hancock;  Edward  W.  Hooker  has  gone  to  the 
Heavy  Artillerv  O.  T.  C,  Fortress  Monroe. 

Of  these,  the  following,  according  to  our  records, 
will  complete  the  course:  Case,  Disston,  Mackenzie, 
Moran,  Thayer,  and  Webster,  and  the  following 
have  been  discharged:  Metcalf,  Stauft,  and  Taylor. 
Sergt  Jesse  G.  Bell  has  been  in  France  since  last 
August  with  Company  A,  328th  Battalion,  Light 
Tank  Corps.— Clarence  F.  Costales  has  enlisted  in 
the  IT.  S.  N.  R.  F.— Alfred  B.  Stanford,  U.  S.  N.  R. 
F.,  is  in  training  at  the  Junior  Deck  Officers'  School 
at'  Pelham  Bay.— Joseph  Stanley  has  enlisted  in 
Marine  Aviation  and  is  stationed  at  the  Marine 
Flying  School,  Miami.— Charles  R.  Tillson,  U.  S.  N. 
R  F  is  in  the  Signal  Quartermasters'  Corps  at 
Bumkin  Island.— Corp.  Wallace  M.  Young  is  in 
France  with  Co.  C,  30(ith  Battalion,  Tank  Corps. 

Private  E.  Huling  Woodworth  was  drafted  and 
assigned  lo  the  11th  Company,  Southern  New  York 
C  A  C.  last  October.  He  was  on  the  Officer  Ma- 
terial List  for  appointment  to  the  Training  bchool 
at  Fort  Monroe  but  the  school  closed  at  the  signing 
of  the  armistice. 

L.  Gordon  Gilliam,  having  received  a  release  from 
active  duty,  has  returned  to  college.  He  has  had 
six  months  overseas  service  on  the  transport  .\orth- 
ern  Pacijic,  which  was  recently  stranded  on  iMre 
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THE   STORY   OF   THE   AMHERST   SECTION 

SHERMAN   D.    SHIPMAN 

WHEN  the  war  broke  out  in  1914  the  French  Army  was  up  against  it  for 
some  means  to  evacuate  their  wounded  rapidly.  All  they  had  that  resembled 
ambulances  were  two  wheeled,  one  horsed  carts.  So  a  commission  from 
France  visited  the  United  States  to  recruit  volunteers  from  the  universities  and  col- 
leges of  the  country.  These  student  soldiers  of  fortune  made  up  the  personnel  of  the 
American  Field  Service,  who,  along  with  the  Red  Cross  and  the  Norton-Harjes 
sections,  did  practically  all  the  evacuation  of  the  wounded  of  the  French  Army. 

In  the  spring  of  1917,  after  the  United  States  entered  the  war,  another  French 
commission  came  to  the  United  States.  One  of  their  requests  was  that  the  United 
States  Army  take  over  the  sections  of  the  American  Field  Service,  Norton-Harjes 
and  Red  Cross  then  operating  in  France,  and  recruit  more  men  from  the  colleges  of 
the  country.  This  was  done.  The  three  different  organizations  in  France,  together  with 
the  sections  recruited  by  the  Army  in  this  country  were  all  incorporated  into  one  organi- 
zation, called  the  "United  States  Army  Ambulance  Service  with  the  French  Army." 

On  Sunday,  June  11,  1917  at  three  forty-five  in  the  afternoon  about  twenty-two 
fellows  were  waiting  for  the  train  at  the  B.  and  M.  Station  at  Amherst.  Although  it 
was  drizzling,  a  large  crowd,  which  included  the  student  body,  G.  A.  R.  veterans, 
and  townspeople,  gathered  to  say  good-bye  to  the  men  who  had  laid  aside  their  books 
and  sports  when  the  call  sounded. 

We  arrived  at  Allentown,  Pa.,  the  next  morning  and  the  only  word  of  greeting 
or  explanation  we  received  for  what  was  to  happen  for  a  long  time  to  come  was  "You're 
in  the  army  now!"  The  next  few  weeks  we  spent  doing  "fours  east"  "fours  west," 
listening  to  lectures  on  first  aid,  and  K.  P., — in  fact  we  did  everything  except  learn 
how  to  drive  Fords,  which  was  the  one  thing  we  were  going  to  do  in  France  During 
these  few  weeks  our  roster  was  swelled  by  some  more  Amherst  men,  and  undergradu- 
ates from  other  colleges,  so  that  when  we  walked  up  the  gangplank  of  the  S.  S.  San 
Jacinto  of  the  Mallory  Line  in  dock  at  Hoboken  our  payroll  provided  for  forty-five 
men  under  command  of  Lieutenant  Bibby. 

The  trip  across  the  Atlantic  was  a  memorable  one.  Guards  posted  at  every  door, 
ladder  and  gangway  on  the  ship  kept  us  moving  to  the  tune  of  "You  can't  stay  here," 
which  became  the  watchword.  There  was  one  period  of  thirty  mirmtes  when  there 
was  absolutely  no  place  where  a  poor  soldier  could  stay,  nor  was  it  permitted  to  jump 
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On  the  13th  day  out,  the  monotony  was  broken  when  the  convoy  ran  into  a  nesi 
of  submarines  and  a  two  hour  running  battle  with  the  U-Boats  ensued  the  result  ol 
which  was  that  at  least  two  Unterseebooten  went  to  Davy  Jones'  locker. 

On  the  afternoon  of  August  20,  1917,  we  steamed  into  the  harbor  of  St.  Nazaire 
We  are  very  proud  of  the  fact  that  we  were  among  the  first  thirty  thousand  Americar 
soldiers  to  land  in  France. 

During  our  six  weeks'  stay  in  the  debarkation  camp  at  St.  JVazaire,  we  did  some 
more  "fours  east"  and  "fours  west;"  also  spent  a  week  on  the  docks  unloading  shi])s. 
and  another  two  weeks  assembling  our  ambulances  which  had  been  shipped  over  in 
"knocked  down"  form — two  bodies  in  one  case  and  two  chassis  in  another. 

On  September  29th  we  cranked  our  Fords  and  along  with  three  other  sections 
started  on  a  three  day  trip  across  France,  passing  through  the  larger  cities  of  Nantes, 
Angers,  Le  Mans,  Nogent  le  Rotrou  and  Versailles.  Our  destination  was  Sandricourt 
a  little  hamlet  about  twenty-five  miles  northeast  of  Paris,  which  was  then  the  base 
camp  of  the  Ambulance  Service.  After  another  week  of  "fours  east"  and  "fours 
west"  we  abandoned  our  Fords  and  went  to  the  front  by  train. 

A  psychologist  could  probably  give  some  interesting  data  on  just  how  we  felt, 
when  we  actually  realized  that  we  were  going  to  the  front.  We  took  the  train  from! 
Paris  to  Chalons,  staying  there  overnight,  and  the  next  morning  were  driven  froml 
Chalons  to  Somme-Suippes  in  trucks.  As  we  got  nearer  to  the  front,  the  country| 
became  more  devastated,  and  we  passed  groups  of  French  poilus  also  "going  up." 
There  wasn't  much  conversation  then — everybody  was  busy  with  his  own  thoughts. 
Well,  we  felt  just  like  a  freshman  feels  on  the  Hamp-Amherst  car  when  he  is  about  toj 
start  his  college  career — all  the  stories  of  hazing  he  has  read  pass  through  his  mind- 
even  the  conductor  may  be  a  sophomore  in  disguise. 

To  get  back  to  our  story,  we  arrived  at  Somme-Suippes,  October  10th,  when  we  I 
relieved  the  Red  Cross  Section  57  and  took  over  their  Fiat  ambulances,  which  had 
already  seen  three  years'  service  at  the  front.  Half  of  us  had  never  driven  gear  shift  j 
cars,  but  that  didn't  worry  us  any.    We  gave  them  gas,  water,  oil  and  they  ran. 

We  were  attached  to  the  47th  Division  of  Chasseurs-Alpins,  popularly  known! 
as  the  "Blue  Devils,"  and  a  finer  group  of  fighters  never  lived — the  Boches  expressed 
that  opinion  also.  We  were  then  in  the  Tahure  sector  of  the  Champagne  front,  about 
twenty  miles  north  of  Chalons-sur-Marne.  For  the  past  two  years  the  front  had  not 
changed — it  was  quiet,  not  only  in  the  military  sense  but  also  in  the  literal.  Occa- 
sionally a  few  shots  were  exchanged. 

At  the  end  of  October  our  division  was  ordered  to  entrain  for  Italy.     Arrange- 
ments had  been  made  for  the  transportation  of  our  ambulances  on  flat  cars.     We] 
were  wildly  enthusiastic.    Then  suddenly  some  Frenchman  in  the  division  discovered] 
that  the  United  States  was  not  at  war  with  Austria,  and  that  our  presence  as  Ameri- 
can soldiers  in  Italy  might  serve  as  a  causus  belli  between  Austria  and  the  Unitec 
States,  even  though  we  did  nothing  more  than  shift  gears. 

So  we  said  good-bye  to  our  division  and  we  were  left  behind — a  lost  section.! 
During  the  month  of  November  we  did  nothing,  that  is,  in  a  military  sense.  We  hadi 
no  division,  so  our  activities  were  limited  to  waiting  for  mail  and  the  next  meal.  We 
no  sooner  were  nicely  settled  in  one  town  than  someone  in  authority  made  us  pack  up] 
and  move  to  another  town.     Nobody  wanted  us. 


THE  STORY  OF  THE  AMHERST  SECTION  83 

On  November  22d  we  turned  in  our  Fiats,  went  to  Sandricourt  and  were  issued 
twenty  Ford  ambulances,  one  Ford  truck  (which  later  became  known  as  the  "louse- 
chariot"  and  the  appellation  passed  on  to  its  driver,  Lloyd  Miller,  '19,  who  was 
and  shall  always  be  known  as  "Cootie"  Miller),  one  trailer  kitchen,  and  one  motor- 
cycle. We  drove  these  new  acquaintances  up  to  Chalons  and  on  December  20th  were 
attached  to  the  28th  Division  which  was  then  en  repos.  But  again  we  were  doomed 
to  disappointment.  We  were  with  this  division  no  more  than  a  fortnight  when  it 
entrained  for  Alsace-Lorraine  and  would  not  take  us  because  too  much  gasoline  would 
be  required  for  us  to  make  the  trip.  At  this  time  there  was  a  deplorable  shortage  of 
gasoline  in  France. 

So  when  the  year  of  1917  passed  into  history  we  were  stranded  in  the  little  town 
of  Margerie-Hancourt,  the  weather  was  bitter  cold,  four  of  our  men  were  sick  in  the 
hospital  and  the  end  of  the  war  could  not  be  seen  by  even  our  most  optimistic  strate- 
gists. But  this  did  not  last  long.  On  January  11th  we  moved  into  good  barracks  at 
Vitry  le  Frangois,  became  attached  to  the  5th  Division  and  the  cold  spell  left.  In 
fact  the  weather  became  so  lovely  that  we  were  able  to  play  baseball  in  the  fields 
beside  the  Marne  and  some  of  the  fellows  even  went  in  swimming  in  the  historic 
river. 

We  remained  on  the  Champagne  Front  for  the  first  five  months  of  the  year, 
seeing  active  service  in  March  and  May  in  the  Souain  sector,  but,  as  in  the  previous 
October,  there  was  no  action  to  speak  of  except  for  a  fake  attack  that  the  Boche 
made  in  our  sector  March  21st,  their  idea  being  to  make  the  Franch  believe  they  were 
going  to  make  a  large  scale '  off ensive  on  the  Champagne  Front  and  thus  divert  the 
French  troops  on  reserve  in  Picardy,  where  the  Boches  were  making  an  attack  in 
force  in  a  vain  attempt  to  split  the  British  and  French,  capture  Amiens,  Calais  and 
end  the  war.  But  as  usual  their  well  laid  plans  did  not  work  out — our  division  stopped 
the  Boches  without  calling  for  reinforcements.  Three  of  our  men,  Rogers,  Simpson 
and  Spaulding  later  received  personal  letters  of  commendation  from  General  Pershing 
for  their  services  in  this  engagement  when  all  through  the  night  of  March  21st  they 
drove  back  and  forth  through  gas  waves  and  under  heavy  shell  fire  with  utter  dis- 
regard for  anything  except  their  task. 

On  the  16th  of  June  we  said  good-bye  to  the  Champagne  Front  and  drove  to 
Picardy.  It  was  a  three  day  trip  over  wonderful  roads  with  stop-overs  at  Meaux  and 
Beauvais.  At  Beauvais  we  came  across  the  Smith  College  Unit  of  the  Red  Cross,  who, 
during  the  next  month  gave  us  many  bundles  of  chocolate,  cigarettes  and  lots  of  other 
good  things. 

Our  division  was  on  reserve  for  about  a  month  in  Picardy  so  we  didn't  have  much 
work  to  do,  but  had  lots  of  time  for  baseball  and  swimming.  On  the  4th  of  July  we 
held  an  athletic  meet  followed  by  a  banquet  and  musical  comedy  (words  and  music 
by  Bill  Rogers,  '18)  in  the  evening.  Several  of  us  got  to  see  Amiens — more  than  the 
Boches  did. 

They  say  a  calm  precedes  a  storm.  During  these  first  two  weeks  of  July  every- 
body knew  something  was  going  to  "break"  and  break  it  did.  On  July  12th  we 
moved  down  into  the  Aisne  country,  and  while  on  reserve  we  watched  preparations. 
For  three  days  before  it  "broke"  ammunition  and  supply  trucks  went  up  day  and 
night  with  a  few  feet  between  vehicles.    There  was  no  less  traffic  on  the  Soissons — 


84  AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 

Villers-Cotterets  road  those  days  than  there  is  on  Fifth  Avenue  to-day.    On  the  even 
ing  of  July  17th  we  were  in  Boursonne  (halfway  between  Soissons  and  Chateau 
Thierry).     We  were  advised  to  go  to  bed  early  with  these  instructions,  "Everyone 
see  that  his  car  is  in  good  shape;    barrage  starts  to-night  at  midnight  and  continue 
till  five  o'clock  when  our  division  will  'go  over'  at  Corey." 

The  next  morning  we  went  up.  We  realized  that  the  previous  nine  months  in 
Champagne  had  been  child's  play.  Now  we  began  to  see  war  in  all  its  aspects.  The 
wounded  soon  began  coming  in  fast.  We  had  to  evacuate  them  from  Corey  to  Bour- 
sonne, a  distance  of  fifteen  miles,  and  on  account  of  the  heavy  traffic  it  took  two  and 
a  half  hours  in  the  day  and  four  hours  at  night  to  make  the  round  trip.  Part  of  this 
trip  was  through  the  dense  Villers-Cotterets  Forest.  Driving  through  this  forest 
at  night  with  no  lights,  in  such  congestion  of  traffic,  while  the  guns  roared  continu- 
ously, was  a  nightmare.  Most  of  the  drivers  went  continuously  these  first  three  and 
four  days  without  sleep.  But  credit  must  not  go  to  the  drivers  alone.  Our  mechanics 
were  working  all  the  time  as  were  also  the  cooks.  Any  time  of  the  day  or  night  when 
we  passed  camp  we  could  jump  out  of  our  car,  gulp  down  a  cup  of  coffee  and  some  bread 
and  jam,  which  was  then  our  principal  sustenance,  exchange  a  "so-long"  and  "good- 
luck"  and  then  go  out  again  for  what  was  a  fifty-fifty  chance  of  being  a  last  trip. 

If  time  and  space  permitted  a  whole  book  might  be  written  about  our  part  in  j| 
this  Second  Battle  of   the  Marne,  officially  known  as   the  Aisne-Marne  Offensive 
Suffice  to  say  that  our  Division  in  ten  days,  advanced  from  Corey  to  Oulchy-la-Ville, 
a  distance  of  fifteen  miles — the  advance  was  dearly  won — the  division  lost  thirty  per 
cent,  but  this  was  war. 

After  the  division  was  relieved  we  moved  to  La  Bruyere  on  the  Oise  River,  nea: 
Compiegne.  Here,  during  August,  we  indulged  in  a  hard  earned  rest  after  we  first' 
got  our  cars  in  shape,  for  they  were  sadly  in  need  of  overhauling  after  cavorting  fori 
ten  days  through  field,  forest,  shell-holes  and  ditches. 

On  August  18th  we  left  La  Bruyere  and  went  to  Troesnes  where  we  did  evacua-1 
tion  work  for  another  division  while  our  own  division  was  on  reserve.    On  the  27thj 
we  moved  to  Septmonts,  about  four  kilometers  south  of  the  Aisne.    Our  division  theni 
went  into  the  lines  and  for  the  next  two  weeks  we  went  through  an  ordeal  in  thisj 
Aisne-Marne  Offensive  which  surpassed  the  Second  Battle  of  the  Marne  with  regan 
to  danger  and  difficulty  of  work.     Our  camp  at  Septmonts  was  very  near  the  lines 
and  Jerry's  song  birds  came  whizzing  over  not  infrequently.     In  fact  one  afternoo 
a  good  sized  shell  landed  right  in  camp,  blowing  a  wheel  off  our  rolling  kitchen  an 
wounding  Hutton  Hinch,  '20,  in  fourteen  places.    Hindi  was  evacuated,  aiiJ  as  hii 
wounds  proved  more  serious  than  at  first  seemed,  he  did  not  rejoin  the  sec  ■  ii  unti 
three  months  later.     Hinch  was  the  only  man  wounded  during  our  entire  stay  i 
Europe. 

The  division  crossed  the  Aisne  River  and  was  relieved  September  17th,  afte 
which  we  went  to  Crepy-en-Valois  where  we  rested  for  a  week.  During  all  our  sta; 
in  France  it  was  our  earnest  hope  and  prayer  that  we  would  never  get  to  Flanders 
But  alas  for  our  hopes.  On  the  last  of  September  we  drove  to  Flanders,  which  prove 
to  be  everything  that  is  claimed  for  it.  It  is  undoubtedly  the  rainiest,  muddiest  an 
dreariest  place  on  earth  with  the  exception  of  Brest.  In  Brest  it  rains  every  day  while 
in  Flanders  the  sun  does  shine  once  in  a  great  while.    A  dreary  waste  in  peace  time. 


THE  STORY  OF  THE  AMHERST  SECTION  85 

four  years  of  warfare  without  gain  for  either  side  made  this  stretch  of  desert  look  hke 
Dante's  Inferno  Illustrated. 

Oi'R  division  went  in  the  lines  October  13th  near  Ypres  and  in  twelve  days  ad- 
vanced to  and  crossed  the  Lys.  It  was  the  great  Belgian  Offensive  when  Belgians, 
French,  English  and  the  91st  and  37th  American  divisions  under  the  personal  command 
of  King  Albert  swept  the  Boches  before  them.  "Sweep"  is  the  only  verb  that  can 
describe  the  precipitated  retreat  of  Ludendorff's  hordes.  On  account  of  the  swiftness 
of  the  advance  the  evacuation  hospitals  could  not  be  established  quickly  enough  at 
their  ordinary  distance.  So  as  time  went  on  our  evacuations  were  longer  in  time  and 
distance,  so  that  a  round  trip  of  fifty  miles  taking  anywhere  from  six  to  twelve  hours 
to  make  on  account  of  the  congestion  of  traffic,  frightful  conditions  of  the  roads  and 
darkness,  became  our  regular  program.  Ambulances  were  supposed  to  have  the  right 
of  way  but  it  turned  out  to  be  "Ever3d:)ody  for  himself"  and  drivers  of  heavy  trucks 
didn't  have  the  least  hesitation  in  driving  us  off  the  road  despite  the  fact  that  we  were 
carrying  badly  wounded  men. 

Our  division  was  relieved  after  it  crossed  the  Lys  on  October  24th.  We  had  two 
weeks  of  repos.  On  November  9th  in  our  sector  preparations  were  being  made  to 
simply  annihilate  the  Boches  without  mercy  if  they  turned  down  the  Armistice,  and 
we  were  told  that  these  same  preparations  were  going  on  from  Switzerland  to  the 
North  Sea.  Each  division  in  Flanders  had  seven  times  as  much  artillery  as  it  ordi- 
narily had  and  there  was  plenty  of  ammunition  and  all  other  necessary  supplies. 
Even  then  there  was  doubt  in  our  minds  whether  the  Boches  would  sign,  doubt  not 
founded  on  logic  but  because  of  the  fact  that  after  being  in  this  war  for  a  year,  and 
seeing  so  much  death,  desolation  and  suffering,  it  seemed  to  be  the  natural  course  of 
events.  Well,  the  Armistice  was  signed  and  we  will  leave  to  the  readers'  imaginations 
how  we  felt  on  November  11th  and  what  we  did. 

The  rest  of  the  month  was  spent  in  "seeing  Belgium."  Sightseeing  trips  to 
Ghent,  Brussels,  Ostende,  Antwerp,  and  Bruges  were  taken.  Our  division  was  fol- 
lowing up  the  Boches  as  they  evacuated  Belgium.  We  expected  to  follow  them  right 
into  their  own  "Vaterland,"  but  when  we  got  to  Brussels,  orders  were  changed  and 
our  division  marched  all  the  way  back  to  France,  and  was  quartered  in  various  coast 
towns  on  the  North  Sea  during  the  month  of  December.  The  section  was  located  at 
Petite  Synthe,  about  two  miles  from  Dunkirk,  and  there  we  had  our  Thanksgiving 
and  Second  xA.nnual  Overseas  Christmas  Dinner.  About  the  second  week  of  January 
orders  came  to  go  to  Germany.  Railroad  transportation  could  not  be  procured  at 
Dunkirk  so  the  division  had  to  march  back  into  Belgium  where  it  entrained  at  Courtrai 
during  the  first  week  in  February.  For  a  time  we  expected  that  we  would  never  have 
the  pleasure  of  riding  in  box  cars,  but  we  finally  had  the  experience  when  we  drove  our 
ambulances  al)<)ar(l  flat  cars  and  settled  in  box  cars  for  the  trip  to  Germany  Land.  It 
happened  that  the  coldest  sjjell  of  the  winter  settled  in  just  these  two  days  we  spent 
on  the  train  between  Courtrai  and  Grunstadt,  Bavaria.  Arriving  in  Germany  Febru- 
ary 12th,  we  put  up  at  Herxheim  for  a  week  and  then  at  Bad-Durkheim,  near  by, 
which  is  about  twenty  miles  west  of  Mannheim. 

February  25tii  was  a  happy  day  for  us.  Orders  came  through  to  proceed  by 
road  immediately  to  Paris  where  we  were  to  turn  in  our  cars.  Our  division  was  very 
sorry  to  see  us  go,  as  was  shown  in  a  letter  from  the  medicin-divisionnaire  to  Colonel 


86  AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 

Jones,  Chief  of  the  Ambulance  Service,  highly  commending  our  work.  It  is  our  proud 
boast  that  during  the  thirteen  months  we  were  with  the  Fifth  Division,  a  wounded 
or  sick  man  was  never  kept  waiting  because  an  ambulance  was  not  ready.  In  an 
emergency  case  where  a  man  had  to  be  evacuated  who  was  not  at  a  post  where  our 
cars  were  stationed,  a  telephone  call  or  a  messenger  would  bring  a  car  immediately. 
We  are  one  of  but  four  units  in  the  American  Army  that  have  won  the  fourragere,  a 
braided  shoulder  cord  given  to  units  which  have  been  twice  cited  to  the  army  by 
Marshal  Petain.  The  other  units  are  Section  625  of  our  service  and  the  Lafayette 
Escadrille,  who  with  us  have  the  green  and  red  fourragere  of  the  colors  of  the  Croix 
de  Guerre  for  two  army  citations,  while  Section  646  has  green  and  yellow  fourragere  of 
the  colors  of  the  Medaille  Militaire  for  four  army  citations. 

Early  February  27th,  we  left  Bad-Durkheim  and  proceeded  over  the  road  to 
Paris.  The  trip  took  four  days  with  stop-overs  at  Metz,  Chalons  and  Meaux.  We 
arrived  in  Versailles  on  March  2d,  remained  there  two  days,  after  which  we  drove  the 
cars  to  the  main  garage  of  the  Ambulance  Service  near  the  St.  Ouen  Gate.  We  worked 
for  two  days  overhauling  the  cars,  and  were  allowed  out  from  five  to  twelve  in  the 
evening  to  see  the  city,  although  each  one  of  us  had  been  to  Paris  several  times  before. 
After  the  cars  were  overhauled  and  passed  inspection,  we  drove  them  over  to  St. 
Cloud  where  they  were  turned  over  to  the  Red  Cross.  Then  we  had  twenty-four 
hours'  leave  in  the  big  city.  Everybody  reported  back  at  the  end  of  the  twenty -four 
hours  on  March  7th,  and  we  left  that  evening  for  Ferriers-en-Gatinais,  about  seventy- 
five  miles  south  of  Paris  where  the  Base  Camp  of  the  Ambulance  Service  is  located. 

We  only  remained  at  Ferriers  four  days  during  which  time  we  were  deloused, 
inspected,  and  issued  packs  and  new  uniforms  if  we  needed  them.  We  left  Ferriers 
March  11th  with  nine  other  sections.  Although  there  are  plenty  of  coaches  on  the 
sidings  in  every  railroad  yard  in  France,  we  were  allowed  ten  box  cars — one  car  for  a 
section  of  thirty  men — and  one  first-class  coach  for  our  ten  oSicers.  A  box  car  in 
France  contains  exactly  two  hundred  square  feet  of  floor  space.  The  trip  from  Ferriers 
to  Brest  is  only  three  hundred  and  fifty  miles  but  it  took  four  days. 

We  arrived  in  Brest,  March  15th.  At  that  time  the  mention  of  Brest  anywhere 
in  France  would  cause  any  doughboy  to  shudder,  for  Camp  Pontanezen  in  Brest  was 
I^opular  only  in  that  it  was  the  last  stop  in  France  on  the  way  home.  But  when  we 
got  there  things  had  improved  wonderfully.  Though  the  weather  was  wet,  it  was  not 
cold  and  we  were  fed  pretty  well. 

We  received  sailing  orders  on  March  19th  and  left  camp  March  20th.  It  was  a 
five  mile  hike  to  the  dock — but  we  were  homeward  bound.  France  faded  from  view 
that  afternoon  at  four  o'clock  when  the  U.  S.  S.  President  Grant  ploughed  her  way 
through  the  high  seas  towards  the  setting  sun.  Despite  the  fact  that  everyone  should 
have  been  happy,  we  were  not  under  way  very  long  before  a  great  many  felt  that  it 
didn't  make  much  difi'erence  whether  the  ship  sank  or  not.  But  the  mal  de  mer  wore 
off  the  next  day  and  from  then  on  we  enjoyed  a  pleasant  voyage — that  is,  as  pleasant 
a  voyage  as  a  soldier  can  have  on  a  transport. 

We  docked  at  Newport  News  on  April  2d,  marched  to  Camp  Stuart  where  we 
were  again  deloused,  inspected  and  issued  more  uniforms  if  we  needed  them.  On 
April  5th  we  went  to  Camp  Lee  where  the  jolliest  bunch  of  fellows  that  has  ever 
represented  Amherst  College  said  good-bye  to  each  other  and  went  their  way. 


THE  COLLEGE  YEAR 


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THE   COLLEGE   YEAR 


As  the  College  year  draws  to  a  close 
Amherst  is  looking  toward  the  future, 
toward  the  first  after-the-war  Commence- 
ment, toward  the  celebration  of  the  cen- 
tenary of  the  founding  of  the  college, 
toward  the  changes  in  educational  policy 
which  are  taking  place  at  other  colleges 
and  their  probable  reactions  on  Amherst, 
toward  the  task  of  trustees,  faculty,  un- 
dergraduates and  alumni  in  the  two  short 
years  ahead. 

The     1919     Com- 
Commencement     mencement    will    be 
1919  a  great  after-the-war 

Reunion.  Alumni 
who  have  been  in  service  are  coming  back, 
the  regular  reunion  classes  are  coming 
back,  classes  whose  reunions  were  post- 
poned because  of  the  war  are  coming  back, 
the  non-reunion  classes  are  coming  back. 
From  June  15th  to  18th  there  promises  to 
be  a  larger  number  of  alumni  in  Amherst 
than  ever  before.  As  the  Quarterly  goes 
to  press  the  official  program  has  not  been 
announced,  but  plans  are  now  in  formu- 
lation to  hold  Exercises  on  Commence- 
ment Day  in  memory  of  the  Amherst  men 
who  gave  their  lives  in  the  war,  and  to 
make  the  Tuesday  evening  Senior  Night, 
an  occasion  for  welcoming  all  Amherst 
men  who  have  been  in  the  service. 

The    curriculum 
Educational         changes  at  Yale  and 
Policies  Princeton,    and    the 

charge  of  the  Boston 
Superintendent  of  Schools  that  Amherst 
and  other  colleges  are  keeping  out  desir- 
able boys  because  of  "exclusive"  en- 
trance requirements,  have  been  the  sub- 


ject of  discussion  at  more  than  one  alumni 
gathering.  Superintendent  Thompson's 
charge  was  discussed  by  President  Meik- 
lejohn  at  the  dinner  of  the  Connecticut 
Valley  Alumni  Association,  and  at  the 
dinner  of  the  Association  of  Central 
Massachusetts  at  Worcester,  Principal 
Stearns  of  Andover,  "an  old  fashioned 
school-master"  as  he  styled  himself, 
spoke  on  the  value  of  the  classics  in  a 
course  of  liberal  training.  Ought  the 
Colleges  to  receive  any  student  who  holds 
a  high  school  diploma  as  Mr.  Thompson 
advocates  .f*  Has  the  college  no  right  to 
use  the  principle  of  selection?  Of  course 
the  high  school  uses  that  principle  in 
granting  its  diplomas,  as  President  Meik- 
lejohn  pointed  out  and  Amherst  has 
always  accepted  the  certificate  of  high 
schools  to  the  effect  that  their  boys  are 
prepared  for  college  work  of  the  Amherst 
type.  There  would  seem  to  be  no  ques- 
tion as  to  the  necessity  of  the  use  by 
school  and  college  of  the  principle  of 
selection  nor  of  an  insistence  that  a  boy 
be  prepared  to  do  the  w^ork  of  the  college 
which  he  is  to  enter.  The  real  question 
would  seem  to  be  primarily  one  of  func- 
tion. The  decision  in  1912  to  discontinue 
the  B.  S.  degree  implied  that  it  was  im- 
material whether  or  not  Amherst  had  a. 
large  student  body,  and  whether  or  not 
that  student  body  w^as  representative  of 
every  section  of  the  country.  Amherst 
apparently  was  determined  to  do  only 
one  piece  of  work,  to  offer  only  a  single 
course  of  liberal  training.  Did  Amherst 
at  the  same  time  become  committed  to  the 
theory  that  the  study  of  an  ancient  lan- 
guage is  an  essential  preparation  for  such  a 


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course,  and  that  a  boy  with  neither  Greek 
nor  Latin  must  go  elsewhere?  Dr. 
Stearns  beheves  that  lie  knows  from  long 
experience  the  value  of  Greek  and  Latin 
as  preparatory  subjects  for  such  a  course, 
and  he  asks  what  subjects  can  be  substi- 
tuted for  them  and  get  like  results. 

The  Graduates'  Quarterly  would 
welcome  a  discussion  by  alumni  of  this 
question  and  of  what  it  involves.  Does 
Amherst  want  more  than  five  hundred 
students?  If  so,  are  its  alumni  prepared 
to  make  the  changes  which  would  be 
necessary  to  take  care  of  a  substantially 
larger  number?  Does  Amherst  want 
more  men  from  the  middle  west  and  the 
far  west?  If  so,  is  it  prepared  to  modify 
its  entrance  requirements  to  meet  the 
average  western  high  school?  Or  does 
Amherst  believe  that  its  function  is  to 
take  a  limited  number  of  men — prepared 
substantially  as  its  graduates  have  been 
prepared  for  a  number  of  generations — 
and  endeavor  to  fit  them  for  any  field  of 
work.  With  the  growing  number  and 
power  of  the  State  Universities,  with  the 
appeal  which  our  great  endowed  institu- 
tions are  making  to  boys  whose  fit  is  that 
of  the  average  high  school — is  there  need 
of  a  large  Amherst  competing  with  them 
all,  or  rather  of  an  old  Amherst,  doing 
under  modern  conditions  and  with  a  mod- 
ern outlook  the  work  she  has  done  for 
the  past  hundred  years.  Before  W^Zl 
these  questions  should  be  met  and  an- 
swered by  trustees,  faculty  and  alumni. 
We  should  enter  the  new  century  with  a 
clear  purpose,  and  a  clear  understanding 
of  what  is  essential  to  achieve  that  pur- 
pose. 

In  the  days  of  the 
Amherst  in  the      Civil   War   from    '61 
Public  Service        to   '63,   the   Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives was  Galusha  Aaron  Grow  a 
graduate  of  Amherst  in  the  class  of  1844. 


The  Speaker  of  the  next  House,  which 
must  face  the  tremendous  problems  of 
reconstruction,  will  be  Frederick  Hunt- 
ington Gillett,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in 
in  the  class  of  1874.  The  New  York  Times 
(Independent)  voiced  the  opinion  of  the 
press  generally  when  it  said  editorially 
"Frederick  H.  Gillett,  who  will  be  the 
next  Speaker,  is  not  only  a  good  man,  or 
the  right  man  to  elect,  but  he  is  con- 
spicuously fitted  for  the  place  above  all  his 
competitors.  *  *  *  *  Gillett,  able,  ex- 
perienced, broad-minded,  and  yet  no 
mugwump,  but  a  vigorous  honest  parti- 
san, stood  out  over  all  the  others,  and  even, 
it  may  be  said,  over  those  who  might 
have  been  put  forward  but  were  not." 

Mr.  Gillett  was  admitted  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts bar  in  1877,  after  graduating 
from  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  two 
years  afterward  was  made  Assistant 
Attorney  General  of  Massachusetts.  In 
1890  he  was  elected  to  the  Massachusetts 
Legislature,  and  in  189^2  he  was  elected  to 
Congress  from  the  Second  (Amherst) 
District  and  has  been  reelected  at  each 
election  since.  He  has  the  record  of  the 
longest  continuous  service  of  any  member 
of  the  House,     It  has  been  said  of  him: 

"Mr.  Gillett's  ability  has  been  tested 
through  many  years.  A  modest  man, 
eschewing  publicity  agents  and  frequent 
interviews  and  all  kinds  of  self-exploita- 
tion, he  has  advanced  steadily  in  positions 
of  responsibility  and  in  influence  over  his 
fellow-Republican  members.  At  68  he 
achieved  the  Speakership.  His  strength 
is  the  slow,  sure  advance  of  solid  merit. 
He  neither  takes  nor  is  he  likely  to  lead 
others  into  a  position  which  he  cannot 
hold. 

More  even  than  in  business  life,  a  chief 
problem  of  Congress  is  financial.  The 
complexities  and  scope  of  this  problem, 
coming  at  the  end  of  the  colossal  costs  of 
the  war  and  stretching  out  into  the  future 
reconstruction  program,  are  beyond  the 
thorough  grasp  of  any  but  the  ablest 
members   of   Congress.      The   ability   to 


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group  the  problem  is  very  different  from 
the  abiUty  to  make  an  eloquent  speech 
on  the  need  of  some  social  reform,  but  for 
intelligent,  vigorous  leadership  in  the 
House  in  these  critical  days  that  quality 
is  far  more  necessary  than  skill  in  talking 
and  arguing  with  whatever  facility  and 
charm.  Mr.  Gillett  is  one  of  the  authorities 
on  finance  in  the  House.  He  has  long  been 
a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Appropria- 
tions. He  was  a  member  of  a  small  sub- 
committee which  formulated  the  great 
bulk  of  the  appropriations  for  all  branches 
of  the  Government  in  the  first  six  months 
of  the  war.  ******  In  the 
Speaker's  chair  Mr.  Gillett  will  have  the 
advantage  of  this  immediate  touch  with 
the   central  financial  problem." 

Mr.  Gilletts'  father  of  the  class  of  1839 
was  a  member  of  the  Amherst  Board  of 
Trustees  from  1861  to  1896  and  his  brother 
Professor  Arthur  L.  Gillett  D.D.  of  the 
class  of  '80  is  now  a  member  of  the  Board. 

The  Sixth  Annual 
The  Alumni         Meeting      of     the 
Council  Alumni  Council  was 

held   in    New    York 
on  February  21st  at  the  time  of  the  An- 
nual dinner  of  the  Amherst  Association 
of  New  York.    The  summary  of  what  has 
been  accomplished  in  the  past  five  years 
(see  page  94  of  this  issue  of  the  Quar- 
terly) gives  promise  of  what  may  be  ex- 
pected in  the  future  from  this  organized 
alumni  effort.    The  next  annual  meeting 
of  the  Council  will  be  held  in  Chicago  and 
will  be  the  occasion  of  bringing  together 
the  most  notable  gathering  of  Amherst 
men  ever  held  in  the  West.    The  Council 
goes  west  on  the  invitation  of  the  Amherst 
Club    of    Chicago,    with    the    Amherst 
Associations  of  St.  Louis,  Des  Moines, 
Cleveland,  the  Southwest  (Kansas)   and 
the  Northwest  (Minneapolis)  cooperating. 


Amherst    was    almost 

College       unique  among  the  colleges  in 

Sports        preserving   throughout   the 

war  period  the  form  of  her 


organization  and  control  of  athletics.  As 
a  result  the  opening  of  the  winter  term 
found  her  machinery  ready  when  the  re- 
action from  military  service  was  over  and 
interest  once  more  centered  on  the  college 
activities. 

The  energy  to  operate  this  machinery 
however,  that  is,  funds  to  conduct  athle- 
tics were  entirely  lacking  because  of    the 
meagre  receipts  during  the  war  period. 
The    undergraduates,    who   had   already 
contributed  six  dollars  each  for  the  fall 
term,  taxed  themselves  nine  dollars  more 
making  a  total  of  fifteen  dollars  per  man 
for  the  year  and  a  grand  total  of  $4,668.50 
to    support    college    sports.      Even    this 
amount  was  inadequate  to  finance  all  the 
sports  as  planned  for  the  rest  of  the  year. 
Through  the  active  interest  and  support 
of  the  Athletic  Advisory  Committee  of  the 
Alumni  Council  sufficient  guarantees  were 
criven  to  enable  the  Student  Council  to 
proceed  with  a  program  for  all  sports; 
basketball,  swimming,  track  and  tennis. 

With  but  375  students  from  whom  to 
select,  and  a  new  Coach  who  w^as  also  an 
undergraduate,  the  basketball  team  won 
three  out  of  nine  games. 

The  swimming  team  completed  a  suc- 
cessful season,  winning  from  Harvard, 
Y.M.C.A.  College  and  from  Wesleyan 
twice  and  losing  only  to  Yale.  Captain 
Cowles  acheived  the  distinction  of  being 
runner-up  in  the  220-yard  swim  at  the 
Intercollegiate  Championships. 

The  baseball  association  suffered  a 
severe  loss  in  the  inability  to  retain 
George  S.  Davis  as  Coach;  his  place  is 
being  acceptably  taken,  however,  by 
F.  J.  Jacklitsch,  formerly  of  the  Phila- 
delphia Nationals.  The  material  for  the 
nine  is  excellent,  a  fine  schedule  has  been 
arranged  and  as  the  Quarterly  goes  to 
press  a  successful  season  is  anticipated. 

Professor  Nelligan  who  was  athletic 
director  at  Camp  Devens  for  a  year  and 


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a  half  is  back  in  his  old  position  of  Head 
Coach  of  all  athletics  and  special  Coach 
of  the  track  team  An  unusual  amount 
of  enthusiasm  is  being  manifested  in 
track  and  field  athletics  and  a  large  squad 
is  at  work.  Its  quality  is  yet  to  be  tested 
but  the  nucleus  of  point  winners  from 
last  year  is  in  earnest  for  a  good  record. 

In  tennis  Captain  Hendrickson  and 
"Bob"  Davis  are  expected  to  come 
through  in  most  of  their  intercollegiate 
matches  and  to  win  points  in  Longwood. ' 

Football  prospects  are  the  brightest 
for  years.  Coach  Gettell  expects  to  have 
the  heaviest  and  fastest  team  since  he 
has  coached  at  Amherst.  Outside  of 
Seniors  some  fifteen  veterans  are  now  in 
college  who  expect  to  return  next  fall. 
There  is  also  much  good  new  material. 

In  this  issue  of  the 
The  Amherst  Quarterly,  Sher- 
Ambulance  Unit  man  D.  Shipman, 
'20,  writes  "The 
Story  of  the  Amherst  Section."  On 
April  23  Amherst  College,  together  with 
the  townspeople  and  the  students  of 
the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College, 
turned  out  in  full  force  to  do  homage 
to  the  returning  Amherst  Ambulance 
Unit,  or  Section  Sanitaire,  Unit  539,  as 
it  is  officially  known.  At  this  time  the 
members  of  the  unit  turned  over  their  flags 
to  Amherst  College  as  a  lasting  testi- 
monial of  a  part  of  Amherst's  "bit"  in 
the  war.  There  was  a  short  parade  of  the 
unit  ending  at  the  college  fence  where 
appropriate  exercises  were  held.  Presi- 
dent Meiklejohn  delivered  an  address  of 
welcome,  after  which  Stoddard  Lane,  of 


the  class  of  1909,  presented  the  colors  to 
the  College.  Dean  Olds  made  the  speech 
of  acceptance  in  behalf  of  the  College. 
With  regard  to  the  speech  of  presenta- 
tion by  Stoddard  Lane,  President  Meikle- 
john afterward  wrote  to  Lane  as  fol- 
lows : 

"I  must  write  to  express  my  delight  in 
and  appreciation  of  the  talk  you  gave 
yesterday.  I  do  not  think  I  have  ever 
heard  a  talk  which  seemed  to  me  more 
finely  fitted  to  its  occasion  than  yours 
was.  After  all  the  stress  and  strain  of 
these  war  experiences  it  was  like  a  breath 
from  the  hills  to  get  the  sanity  and  good 
humor  and  fearlessness  of  what  you  said 
and  the  way  you  said  it." 

This   unit   was   recruited   at   Amherst 
College  in  June,  1917,  trained  at  Allen- 
town,  Pa.,  and  left  Hoboken  on  August  7, 
1917.    It  was  composed  of  about  twenty- 
five  alumni  and  undergraduates  of  Am- 
herst College,  together  with  a  few  under- 
graduates  of   other   colleges.      The   unit 
saw  nineteen  months  of  service,  received; 
two  army  citations,  and  twenty-two  of| 
their    number    received    individual    cita- 
tions.    They  are  entitled  to  the  croix  de. 
guerre  with  palm.    The  unit  took  part  inj 
three  major  operations,  the  Aisne-MarneJ 
the  Oise-Aisne,  and  the  Ypres-Lys  offen-j 
sives.     In  addition  they  saw  action  with] 
the  French  in  four  minor  operations  on! 
the   Tahure,    Souvain,    St.    Hilaire,    and! 
Jumel  sectors.    The  unit  arrived  at  New- 
port News  on  the  President  Grant  on  April  J 
2.    Some  of  the  men  were  discharged  at] 
Camp  Lee,  but  the  majority  of  the  Am- 
herst   men    were    discharged    at    Campj 
Devens  during  the  week  of  April  14. 


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ROLL  OF  HONOR 

Howard  William  Irwin,  1902 
Captain,  118th  Engineers 

Captain  Irwin  died  in  France,  Januarj'  6,  1919, 
of  bronchial  pneumonia. 

Captain  Irwin  received  his  commission  last  May 
and  was  assigned  to  the  51st  Engineers  at  Camp 
Humphreys,  but  was  immediately  transferred  to 
the  61st  Engineers  at  Fort  Benjamin  Harrison, 
going  overseas  in  July.  They  were  established  as  a 
railroad  outfit  at  Rennes  and  Captain  Irwin  was 
appointed  Superintendent  of  Motive  Power  of  the 
Etat  R.  R.  covering  the  Brest-Le  Mans  Division. 
At  the  end  of  a  month  he  was  called  to  Tours  and 
appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Midi  R.  R.  en- 
tire, with  office  at  Bordeaux.  In  this  position  he 
controlled  all  the  lines  in  south-western  France  to 
the  Spanish  border.  He  remained  in  this  position 
until  the  signing  of  the  armistice  when  he  was  or- 
dered to  Camp-de-Grasse  with  the  118th  Engineers. 
It  was  here  that  he  was  taken  ill  and  died. 

Captain  Irwin  was  born  in  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  in 
1877.  For  the  past  nine  years,  up  to  the  time  of 
his  enlistment,  he  was  superintendent  of  equip- 
ment of  the  Bay  State  Street  Railway  Company. 
He  was  a  32nd  degree  Mason  and  a  member  of  the 
Elks  and  at  Amherst  was  a  member  of  Phi  Delta 
Theta  Fraternity.  Besides  his  wife  he  is  survived 
by  two  daughters. 

Clifford  Bateman  Ballard,  '11 

2d  Lieutenant,  Machine  Gun  Company 

339th  Infantry 

Lieutenant  Ballard  was  killed  in  action  in  Russia 
February  7,  1919,  meeting  his  death  on  a  most 
difficult  front.  Full  information  as  to  the  details 
is  not  now  at  hand.  The  Captain  of  his  Machine 
Gun  Company,  339th  Infantry,  wrote  from  Russia 
under  date  of  February  12  last  as  follows: 

"Lieutenant  Ballard  had  made  an  enviable  repu- 
tation for  bravery  and  valor  during  his  period  of 
service  in  Russia,  equalled  by  very  few  of  our 
officers.  He  was  the  beloved  commander  of  the  3rd 
platoon  of  my  company,  and  as  such  endeared 
himself  in  the  heart  of  each  and  every  man  in  it. 
The  officers  and  men  of  'K'  Company,  with 
whom  he  served  most  conspicuously  in  action  on 
this  front,  can  find  no  praise  sufficient  for  the  work 
carried  on  by  Lieutenant  Ballard.  His  loss  will  be 
keenly  felt  in  Vjoth  regiment  and  company." 

Lieutenant  Ballard  attended  the  first  R.  O.  T.  C. 
at  Fort  Sheridan,  111.,  where  he  received  a  com- 
mission as  2d  Lieutenant,  Infantry.  He  was  as- 
signed to  the  339th  Infantry  and  was  stationed  at 
Camp  Custer,  Mich.,  until  sent  overseas. 

Lieutenant  Ballard  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
November  5,  1887,  the  son  of  Thomas  P.  Ballard, 
1876,  and  Isabella  Clark  Ballard,  who  died  Febru- 


ary 11,  1888.  He  prepared  for  College  at  the  Wil- 
liam Penn  Charter  School,  Philadelphia,  and  for 
two  years  was  a  resident  of  the  College  Settlement 
of  that  city.  At  Amherst  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Fraternity.  He  won  the 
Sawyer  Medal  in  his  sophomore  year. 

For  a  year  and  a  half,  after  graduation,  he  was 
assistant  in  Geology  in  Amherst  College.  '  In  1913 
a  long  nurtured  ambition  for  social  work  led  him 
to  become  a  Visitor  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Board  of  Charity.  In  1916  he  accepted  a  call  to 
the  new  Juvenile  Detention  Home  of  Detroit  as 
Head  of  the  Educational  Department.  At  the 
time  of  his  enlistment  in  April,  1917,  he  was  serv- 
ing in  this  capacity. 


MILITARY  HONORS 

DwiGHT  W.  Morrow,  '95 

Member  of   the  American  Shipping  Mission, 

Awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Medal. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows:  "D wight  W.  Mor- 
row, member  of  the  American  Shipping  Mission, 
was  responsible  for  the  first  intelligent  epitomiza- 
tion  of  the  complete  Allied  tonnage  situation,  and 
his  able  presentation  of  the  situation  of  the  allied 
countries  materially  affected  the  tonnage  policy,  re- 
sulting in  all  possible  economy". 


S.  S.  U.  539  has  been  awarded  an  army  citation 
for  the  second  time  and  all  members  of  the  unit  now 
wear  the  Fourragere  of  the  Croix  de  Guerre.  The 
citation  reads  as  follows: 

"Conducteurs  d'un  courage  digne  des  plus  grands 
elages,  ont  rempli  malgre  les  dangers  et  les  difficultes 
des  toutes  natures  leur  bienfaisant  mission.  Au 
cours  des  offensives  de  I'Aisne  (Aoflt-Septembre 
1918)  et  des  Flandre  (Octobre  1918)  sous  la  direction 
de  leurs  chefs  ont  fait  preuve  des  plus  grands  quali- 
tes  d'energie,  de  sang-froid  et  de  devouement  se  dis- 
putant I'honneur  d'etre  aux  postes  perilleuses.  lis 
ont  amplemcnt  merite,  on  meme  temps  que  I'admi- 
ration  de  ceux  qui  les  ont  vu,  a  I'oeuvre  la  recon- 
naisance  des  blesses  qui  furent,  gr^ce  a  eux,  rapide- 
ment  recuilles  et  sauves. " 

Merrill  F.  Clark,  '09 

U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 

Awarded  the  Croix   de  Guerre  with  silver  star. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows:  "Conducteur  plein 
d'abnegation  et  desprit  de  devoir.  A  pris  part  k 
toutes  les  evacuations  durant  les  combats  du  18  au 
28  Juillet  1918  et  du  28  Aoiit  au  18  Septembre 
1918.  Toujours  volontaire  pour  les  missions  peril- 
leuses, a  ete  un  bel  example  de  courage  et  sang- 
froid." 


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Sergt.  Franklin  C.  Butler,  '18 
Battery  B,  103(1  Field  Artillery 
Cited  in  General  Orders.    The  following  is  a  copy 
of  the  certificate  issued  to  him. 

"I  have  read  with  much  pleasure  the  reports  of 
your  regimental  commander  and  your  brigade  com- 
mander regarding  your  gallant  conduct  and  devo- 
tion to  duty  in  the  field  on  July  2'-2,  1918  while  estab- 
lishing communications  under  heavy  enemy  fire  at 
Beuz,  second  Battle  of  the  Marne,  and  have  ordered 
your  name  and  deed  to  be  entered  in  the  record  of 
the  Yankee  Division. 

C.  R.  Edwards,  Major  General 

Commanding  26th  Division.' 

Chester  G.  Seamans,  '18 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 

Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre  with  silver  star. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  citation:  "Con- 
ducteur  particulierement  calme  ct  resolu.  Allant 
reconnaitre  le  6  Septembre  1918  une  route  continuell- 
ment  battue  par  le  tis  de  mitrailleuses  ennerais  pour 
I'establissement  d'un  nouveau  poste  avance,  n'a 
pas'hesite  a  poursuire  son  chemin  afin  d'aller  cher- 
cher  les  blesses  le  plus  pres  possible  des  lignes." 

Laurence  L.  Donahue,  '19 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.  U.  627 

Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows:  "Conducteur,  qui 
a  fait  I'admiration  de  ses  comrades  s'est  a  plusieurs 
reprises  pendant  la  bataille  entre  le  18  au  25  Juillet, 
rendu  aux  poste  de  secours  de  premiere  ligne,  sous 
un  feu  violent  et  incessant  d'artillcrie  et  de  mitrail- 
leuses ennemis,  assurant  avec  un  repris  de  danger 
parfait  et  calme  imperturbable  I'evacuation  des 
blesses." 

Donald  G.  Mitchell,  Jr.  '19 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance    Service,  S.  S.  U.  539 

Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

The  citation  reads  as  follows:  "Grade  plein  de 
devouement  et  d'esprit  du  devoir.  S'est  depense 
sans  compter  pour  assurer  le  bon  fonctionnement  des 
evacuations  durant  les  combat  du  18  au  21  Juillet 
1918  et  du  28  Aout  au  18  Septembre  1918,  reglant  la 
releve  des  Voitures  et  les  evacuations,  dans  des  con- 
ditions particulierement  penibles  et  dangereuses. " 

Hutton  Hinch,  '  20 
U.  S.  A.  Ambulance  Service,  S.  S.U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre  with  silver  star 
The  citation  reads  as  follows:    "A  fait  preuve  en 
toutes  circumstances  des  belles   qualites  de  sang- 
froid et  de  courage  au  cours  d'evacuations  dans  les 
conditions  les  plus   perilleuses.     A   ete  blesse  le   1 
Septembre  1918  par  de   nombreux  eclats   d'obus." 
The  following   honors   have   been   awarded   but 
copies  of  the  citations  have  not  yet  been  received: 
William  F.  Corry,  '11  Croix  de  Guerre;  Charles  H. 
Moulton,  cited  for   bravery  in  action;    Donald  H. 
Brown,  '14  Croix  de  Guerre;    Charles  P.  Rugg,  '14 
recommended      for  Distinguished    Service     Cross; 
Francis  R.  Otte,  'l(i.   Regiment  cited;    Richard   A. 
O'Brien,  '17,  Regiment  cited  5  times  by  U.  S.  and 
4  times  by  France;  Paul  Plough,  '17  Regiment  com- 
mended and  colors  decorated. 


THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 

The  sixth  annual  meeting  of  the  Alumni  Council 
was  held  in  New  York  on  February  21  at  the  time 
of  the  dinner  of  the  Amherst  Association  of  New 
York. 

The  various  committees  made  their  reports  and 
there  was  a  general  discussion  of  several  alumni 
projects,  such  as  the  Lawn  Fete,  and  the  Amherst 
Graduates'  Quarterly,  the  extent  of  which  had 
been  limited  during  the  war.  It  was  the  sense  of 
the  meeting  that  these  should  now  be  restored.  A 
new  Committee  on  an  Inn  for  Amherst  was 
authorized. 

The  Alumni  Council  was  organized  in  the  spring 
of  1914,  and  at  the  close  of  this  five  year  period  it 
seemed  pertinent  to  the  Finance  Committee  to  in- 
quire, "What  has  the  Council  done  for  Amherst?" 
Has  it  been  worth  its  cost.^  The  Secretary's  report 
showed  that  through  its  Finance  Committee  it  has 
brought  to  the  College,  directly  and  indirectly,  ap- 
proximately $200,000.  The  Alumni  Fund  has  been 
increased  from  $20,521.40  to  $112,069.01  through 
the  Alumni  Council's  aid.  Through  its  Executive 
Committee  it  suggested  and  planned  two  western 
trips  of  the  President  of  the  College,  who  visited 
Chicago,  Des  Moines,  Colorado  Springs,  Denver, 
Salt  Lake  City,  Los  Angeles,  San  Francisco,  Port- 
land, Seattle,  Spokane,  Minneapolis,  and  St.  Louis. 
It  has  aided  in  bringing  together  five  notable  gath- 
erings of  Amherst  men  at  the  time  of  its  annual 
meetings  in  New  York  (1915),  Boston  (1916),  Wasli- 
ington  (1917),  Springfield  (1918),  and  New  York 
(1919).  Plans  for  a  great  western  meeting  in  1920 
are  now  under  way. 

Through  its  Publicity  Committee  it  has  notified 
every  alumnus  and  former  student  of  the  College 
of  significant  events  at  Amherst,  especially  during 
the  past  year.  These  have  included  announcements 
regarding  the  American  University  Union  and  Paris 
Bureau;  the  establishment  at  Amherst  of  the  Re- 
serve Officers'  Training  Corps;  the  establishment  of 
the  Students'  Army  Training  Corps,  etc.  It  has 
published  and  distributed  an  illustrated  booklet, 
"Amherst  Life"  (10,000  copies),  and  a  pamphlet, 
"Students"  Expenses  and  College  Aid."  It  has 
secured  handsome  carbon  photographs  of  Amherst 
views  for  presentation  to  Schools  and  University 
Clubs,  and  a  set  of  colored  lantern  slides  and  one 
moving  picture  film  for  the  use  of  schools  and  alumni 
associations.  It  has  cooperated  with  the  under- 
graduate Press  Club  in  sending  items  to  the  Press, 
and  has  carried  on  special  publicity  campaigns  with 
good  results,  according  to  the  returns  from  the 
Press  Clipping  Bureau.  It  published  and  distrib- 
uted last  year  several  thousand  copies  of  an  illus- 
trated booklet,  "Amherst  in  the  War." 

Through  its  Publication  Committee  it  has  pub- 
lished the  Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly  since 
1915. 

Through  its  Committee  on  War  Records  it  has 
kept  a  Service  list  of  Amherst  men  who  have  served 
in  the  army  and  navy,  the  Red  Cross  and  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  and  other  forms  of  civil  war  work.  It  has  had 
special  photographs  taken  of  the  College  units  of 
the  Reserve  Officers"  Training  Corps  and  the  Stu- 
dents' Army  Training  Corps  and  has  collected  a 
large  amount  of  material  concerning  Amherst  men 
in  the  war.    This  includes  photographs,  newspaper 


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clippings,  books,  articles,  etc.  Last  year  it  became 
a  member  of  the  American  University  Union,  Paris, 
on  behalf  of  Amherst,  and  joined  with  Harvard, 
Bowdoin,  Brown,  Dartmouth  and  Williams  in 
maintaining  a  special  bureau  with  staff  at  the  Paris 
headquarters  of  the  Union  under  the  name  of  the 
New  England  Bureau.  Through  the  generosity 
of  alumni  associations  and  individual  alumni  it  has 
sent  greetings  to  the  men  in  Service  from  time  to 
time.  These  have  included  two  sets  of  letters  from 
members  of  the  Faculty,  a  roster  of  Amherst  men 
in  Service,  and  one  number  of  the  Graduates" 
Qu.^.RTERLY,  which  contained  a  large  number  of 
war  notes. 

Through  literature,  letters,  and  entertainment 
at  Amherst,  it  has  aided  alumni  and  undergradu- 
ates in  turning  boys  toward  Amherst.  It  has  aided 
class  Committees  in  making  arrangements  for  re- 
unions, and  through  its  Committee  on  Commence- 
ment has  planned  and  directed  alumni  participa- 
tion in  Commencement.  It  has  tabulated  the 
results  of  questionnaires  sent  to  Amherst  teachers 
and  has  been  of  service  to  the  College  authorities 
when  requests  have  come  to  them  for  teachers. 

Through  its  Advisory  Committee  on  Religious 
Work  it  has  aided  the  undergraduate  Christian 
Association.  Its  advisory  Committee  on  Athletics 
has  advised  the  undergraduate  and  College  au- 
thorities in  regard  to  schedules,  selection  of  coaches 
and  general  athletic  policy. 

It  has  kept  a  duplicate  set  of  alumni  addresses, 
grouped  alphabetically,  geographically  and  by 
classes,  and  has  been  recently  asked  by  the  College 
authorities  to  become  responsible  for  the  publish- 
ing of  all  alumni  records.  It  has  conducted  the 
Trophy  Cup  Competition  since  1915.  It  has  pro- 
vided a  medium  for  the  expression  of  Alumni 
sentiment.  It  was  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Alumni 
Council  that  the  charter  of  the  College  was  amended 
and  the  distinction  between  lay  and  clerical  mem- 
bers of  the  Board  of  Trustees  abolished.  At  the 
request  of  the  College  authorities  the  Secretary  of 
the  Alumni  Council  has  served  on  a  number  of 
Faculty  Committees.  An  instance  of  this  was  the 
Advisory  Faculty  Committee  which  met  with  those 
men  who  left  College  for  Government  Service  in 
the  spring  of  1917. 

In  addition  to  carrying  on  the  activities  enumer- 
ated above,  the  Alumni  Council  has  raised  the 
funds  necessary  to  carry  on  its  work.  These  have 
amounted  to  between  six  and  seven  thousand 
dollars  a  year. 

THE  ASSOCIATIONS 

NEW  YORK 

The  Amherst  Association  of  New  York  held  its 
annual  banquet  at  the  Hotel  Pennsylvania,  on 
Friday  evening,  February  21st.  It  was  one  of  the 
most  successful  Amherst  gatherings  ever  held  out- 
side of  the  town  of  Amherst  and  was  attended  by 
over  900  Amherst  men.  Included  in  the  assemblage 
were  more  than  2,50  Amherst  men  in  uniform  who 
have  seen  service  in  the  war.  A  large  number  of 
Amherst  wives  were  in  the  gallery. 

This  Amherst  Victory  Dinner  was  a  real  reunion 
of  College  men  interspersed  witii  College  yells  and 
College  songs  and  preceded  by  an  imjjressive  pag- 
eant of  welcome,  in  which  the  spirits  of  Peace,  Vic- 


tory and  Amherst  were  portrayed.  The  triumphal 
march  from  "Aida"  was  played  by  the  band  of  the 
9th  coast  artillery,  New  York  state  guard,  which 
furnished  the  music  for  the  dinner. 

The  Amherst  units  of  army  and  na^y,  preceded 
by  the  color  guard,  took  up  their  places  to  complete 
the  tableau.  The  hall  was  then  darkened  and 
searchlights  played  on  the  national  colors  and  the 
purple  and  white  of  Amherst.  A  giant  Service 
Flag  with  a  star  for  every  man  in  service  and  (at 
that  time)  28  gold  stars  was  then  presented  to  the 
College  by  the  New  York  Alumni  Association. 

George  Barry  Mallon,  '87,  president  of  the  Asso- 
ciation, acted  as  toastmaster.  Practically  every 
Amherst  class  since  1860  was  represented.  The 
oldest  alumnus  present  was  Col.  Alexander  Crane 
of  1854.  During  the  evening  the  following  cable- 
gram was  sent  to  Secretary  of  State  Robert  Lan- 
sing, '86,  at  the  Peace  Conference: 

"The  New  York  Alumni  Association  of  Amherst 
College  assembled  to  welcome  Amherst  men  who 
served  in  the  war  expresses  hope  for  the  continued 
success  of  your  eminent  services  in  promoting  peace 
and  its  pride  that  an  Amherst  graduate  is  numbered 
among  the  world's  foremost  statesmen." 

The  speeches  of  the  evening  were  made  by  Mr. 
Mallon,  Dwight  W.  Morrow,  '95,  who  was  in  France 
and  England  during  the  past  year  as  legal  adviser 
to  the  Allied  Maritime  Transport  Council,  and 
spoke  eloquently  of  the  work  done  by  the  American 
army  in  France;  President  Meiklejohn,  who  spoke 
of  the  part  Amherst  played  in  the  war;  Deacon 
Stebbins,  in  the  person  of  Burges  Johnson,  '99, 
poet  laureate  of  Amherst;  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Ne- 
hemiali  Bojmton,  '79,  Chaplain  of  the  13th  Coast 
Artillery  Regiment.  The  invocation  was  by  Presi- 
dent-Emeritus George  Harris,  '66.  A  feature  ot  the 
evening  was  the  singing  of  George  Harris,  Jr.,  '06. 

Amherst  men  came  from  far  distant  points,  not 
only  from  New  England,  but  from  the  West,  to 
attend  this  dinner,  which  was  one  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful Amherst  dinners  ever  held. 

BOSTON 

The  Amherst  Alumni  Association  of  Boston  held 
its  annual  banquet  on  the  evening  of  Wednesday, 
February  5th,  with  an  attendance  of  356.  This 
was  the  first  opportunity  Amherst  men  have  had 
to  welcome  Governor  Calvin  Coolidge  of  the  class 
of  1895,  who  was  the  principal  speaker  of  the 
evening. 

At  the  head  table  besides  the  Governor  were 
President  Alexander  Meiklejohn,  the  Rev.  Dr.  W. 
G.  Thayer,  '85;  Dr.  Albert  P.  Fitch  of  Amherst; 
Joseph  B.  Eastman,  '04,  of  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission;  J.  P.  Deoring,  '95,  of  the  Maine 
Senate;  Chief  Justice  A.  P.  Rugg,  '83;  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  Payson  W.  Smith,  the  Rev.  P. 
W.  Lyman,  "67,  Prof.  J.  F.  (Jenung,  Frank  W. 
Stearns,  '78,  Major  Thomas  J.  Hammond,  '00, 
Captain  John  Brainerd,  Dwight  W.  Morrow,  '95, 
and  the  oldest  graduate  attending  the  reunion,  the 
Rev.  Joseph  Kimball,  '57,  of  Haverhill,  87  years 
old  at  his  last  birthday. 

New  officers  of  the  Association  were  elected  as 
follows: — L.  E.  Cadieux,  "03,  president;  secretary, 
Lowell  R.  Smith,  '15;  treasurer,  J.  B.  Melcher,  '09; 
representative  on  the  Alumni  Council,  C.  H.  Cobb, 
'99;    executive  committee,  L.  E.  Cadieux,  E.  W. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Bancroft,  J.  S.  Dow-ney,  D.  D.  McKay,  A.  H. 
Lyon,  Clifford  P.  Warren,  Raymond  D.  Hunting, 
Roswell  P.  Young,  A.  H.  Clarke. 

Governor  Coolidge  made  the  principal  address 
of  the  evening.  The  other  speeches  were  by  Presi- 
dent Alexander  Meiklejohn,  Prof.  Albert  Parker 
Fitch,  Joseph  B.  Eastman,  Major  Thomas  J.  Ham- 
mond and  Senator  J.  P.  Deering.  H.  A.  Lyon,  '15, 
gave  an  entertaining  reading  and  when  the  Gover- 
nor was  introduced  he  was  greeted  with  a  stein 
song,  beginning,  "Here's  to  you,  now,  Calvin 
Coolidge." 

The  Boston  Association  has  offered  a  trophy  for 
the  school  winning  the  senior  division  in  the  Massa- 
chusetts High  School  Athletic  Association's  track 
and  field  meet.  It  is  to  remain  in  competition  until 
one  school  has  won  it  three  years. 

PHILADELPHIA 

The  Amherst  Alumni  Association  of  Philadelphia 
and  vicinity  resumed  its  annual  dinners  on  the 
night  of  March  18  at  the  Poor  Richard  Club  in  that 
city.  More  than  40  were  present.  Officers  for  the 
ensuing  year  were  elected  as  follows: — President, 
Dr.  Clinton  A.  Strong,  '98;  Vice-President,  Edwin 
S.  Parry,  1901;  Secretary-Treasurer,  Robert  C. 
Powell,  1906;  member  of  the  Alumni  Council  from 
this  Association  for  two  years,  Theodore  W.  Seck- 
endorff,  1903. 

The  retiring  president,  Robert  P.  Esty,  1897, 
acted  as  toast-master. 

The  speakers  were  President  Alexander  Meikle- 
john of  the  College;  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
missioner Joseph  B.  Eastman,  1904,  Frederick  S. 
AUis,  1893,  Secretary  of  the  Alumni  Council,  and 
Lieut.  Norman  Sweetser,  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1914,  who  spoke  of  his  experiences  and  ob- 
servations in  connection  with  the  U.  S.  A.  S.  in 
active  bombing  operation  while  attached  to  the 
Piave  front  of  the  Italian  armies  of  Northern 
Italy. 

Letters  of  greeting  from  ex-President  George 
Harris,  '66,  and  to  the  "oldest  living  alumnus"  of 
the  College  and  a  member  of  the  Association,  Hon. 
Samuel  W.  Dana,  LL.  D.,  1847,  of  New  Castle, 
Pa.,  were  read. 

CHICAGO 

With  a  rousing  dinner  to  President  Meiklejohn 
and  Secretary  Allis  and  with  the  adoption  of  a  reso- 
lution inviting  the  Alumni  Council  Meeting  to 
Chicago  in  1920,  the  Amherst  Club  of  Chicago  on 
March  21st  closed  their  official  war  regime. 

Over  65  men  were  in  attendance  at  the  Univer- 
sity Club  for  the  banquet.  During  the  day  the 
President  was  entertained  about  the  city  and  with 
a  luncheon  of  the  Directors  at  noon. 

"Prexy"  gave  a  stirring  talk  on  Amherst  affairs 
and  Amherst  achievements,  followed  by  his  inter- 
esting plan  of  curriculum  development.  One  could 
sense  between  his  words  the  problem  that  Amherst 
teachers  are  facing  and  resolutely  determining  to 
solve.  The  statement  of  greater  appreciation  of 
"the  teacher"  at  Amherst  was  met  with  enthusiastic 
applause. 

A  silent  standing  tribute  was  given  those  Am- 
herst men  whose  names  the  President  read  from 
the  Honor  Roll  in  Converse  Library. 

Former  Prof.  Symmington  made  a  forceful  and 


convincing  plea  that  Amherst  College  continue  to 
make  her  teachers  more  and  more  free  of  the  wor- 
ries of  living  in  order  that  they  may  perform  their 
best  work. 

Rev.  John  Timothy  Stone  spoke  a  few  words,  as 
did  Josiah  T.  Reade  of  the  class  of  '56,  and  also  E. 
Allan  Wyman,  "07,  the  St.  Louis  delegate. 

Secretary  Allis  was  welcomed  as  the  Alumni's 
spokesman  and  gave  a  clear  brief  of  what  the  Alumni 
Council  has  done  and  is  doing.  He  said  the  Council 
was  prepared  to  go  into  the  plan  of  holding  its 
1920  meeting  here  if  the  western  men  wanted  it. 

Expressions  had  been  sought  from  the  various 
Western  Associations  as  regards  the  proposed 
Alumni  Meeting  in  1920  and  St.  Louis  responded 
with  a  delegate,  and  Minneapolis  and  Cleveland 
and  Des  Moines  telegraphed  their  backing. 

The  annual  election  of  officers  took  place  and 
the  majority  of  those  in  office  were  retained.  The 
officers  for  the  following  year  are: 

President,  E.  S.  Wilson,  '02;  Vice-President,  S. 
B.  King,  '02;  Secretary,  S.  D.  Chamberlain,  '14; 
Treasurer,  R.  Firman,  '14.  Directors: — A.  Mitch- 
ell, '10;  Dr.  A.  M.  Hall,  '85;  W.  J.  Burke,  '02; 
E.  C.  Beach,  '03;  F.  A.  Watkins,  '96;  P.  B. 
Palmer,  Jr.,  '04. 

SYRACUSE 

The  20th  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Central  New 
York  Alumni  Association  was  held  on  February  25th 
at  the  University  Club,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  President 
Meiklejohn  and  Secretary  Allis  brought  the  news 
from  the  College  and  the  big  dinner  at  New  York. 

President  Meiklejohn  also  delivered  an  address 
on  "The  Liberal  College"  before  the  University 
Club. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  en- 
suing year: 

President,  Walter  R.  Stone,  '95;  Vice-President, 
Halsey  M.  Collins,  '96;  Treasurer,  F.  Franklin 
Moon,  '01;    Secretary,  Roy  W.  Bell,  '07. 

ROCHESTER 

On  the  evening  of  February  24th,  at  the  Univer- 
sity Club  of  Rochester,  this  Association  was  fortu- 
nate enough  to  have  with  it  President  Meiklejohn 
and  Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary  of  the  Alumni 
Council.  President  Meiklejohn  stopped  at  Roches- 
ter on  his  way  from  Buffalo.  At  the  dinner  there 
were  about  fifty  Amherst  men  and  guests  present, 
with  their  wives  and  sisters. 

Before  the  dinner  an  informal  reception  was  held 
in  the  Club's  parlors.  President  Meiklejohn  spoke 
in  an  informal  manner  to  the  gathering  at  the  din- 
ner of  the  College  during  the  war  and  its  future 
prospects.  One  of  the  most  interesting  features  of 
his  talk  was  of  the  endeavor  to  create  a  more  in- 
tellectual environment,  and  to  stimulate  the  under- 
graduates to  a  greater  degree  of  interest  in  their 
work. 

ST.  LOUIS 

The  Amherst  Association  of  St.  Louis  gave  a 
warm  welcome  to  President  Meiklejohn  and  Secre- 
tary Allis  at  the  annual  dinner  of  the  Association 
at  the  University  Club  on  March  20.  James  L. 
Ford,  Jr.,  '02,  presided  and  the  speakers  beside  the 
President  and  Secretary  Allis  were  Luther  Arm- 
strong, '61,  and  Luther  Ely  Smith,  Esq.,  '94.  There 


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was  a  fine  spirit  of  comradeship  in  evidence  and  the 
dinner  was  voted  one  of  the  most  successful  ever 
held  by  the  Association.  During  the  day  the  visi- 
tors were  entertained  at  luncheon  at  the  Country 
Club  by  Sydney  Bixby,  05,  and  Wilbur  B.  Jones, 
'09,  and  the  President  "trimmed"  the  champion 
of  the  University  Club  at  squash. 

CONNECTICUT  VALLEY 

The  Connecticut  Valley  Association  held  its  an- 
nual dinner  at  the  Hotel  Nonotuck  in  Holyoke  on 
Friday,  March  28th,  with  about  15  present.  The 
speakers  were  Nathan  P.  Avery,  '91,  President  of 
the  Association,  who  presided;  President  Meikle- 
john.  Major  Thomas  J.  Hammond,  "00,  and  the 
Rev.  E.  B.  Robinson,  '96.  The  following  officers 
were  elected: 

President.  Charles  W.  Walker,  '99;  Secretary,  R. 
S.  Kneeland,  '05;  Executive  Committee  OfiBcers: — 
William  F.  Whiting,  '86;  W.  S.  Robinson,  '84;  E. 
S.  Gardner,  '98. 

BUFFALO 

The  Association  of  Buffalo  and  vicinity  held  its 
annual  dinner  at  the  University  Club  on  February 
22d.  President  Meiklejohn  was  the  guest  of  honor. 
Charles  J.  Staples,  '96,  is  President  of  the  Associa- 
tion and  Harry  W.  Cole,  '15,  is  Secretary. 

CENTRAL  MASSACHUSETTS 

The  Alumni  of  Amherst  and  Williams  colleges 
met  on  the  evening  of  April  9th  at  the  Tatnuck 
Country  Club,  Worcester,  for  the  first  joint  banquet 
ever  held  by  the  two  associations.  The  toast  master 
was  George  Rugg,  Amherst,  '84,  and  the  associate 
toastmaster  was  W.  S.  B.  Hopkins,  Williams,  '93, 
who  made  a  very  witty  presentation  of  his  guest  of 
the  evening,  Lieutenant  Mclntyre. 

THE  CLASSES 

Eight  Amherst  men  were  included  among  the  vice 
presidents  at  the  League  of  Nations  meeting  on 
March  4  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House  in  New 
York  at  which  President  Wilson  and  Ex-President 
Taft  were  the  speakers.  They  were:  Dr.  Talcott 
Williams,  73;  John  B.  Stanchfield,  '76;  Charles  M. 
Pratt,  '79;  Lawrence  Abbott.  '81;  Charles  S.  Whit- 
man, "90;  William  C.  Breed,  '93;  Charles  D.  Nor- 
ton, '93;   and  Dwight  W.  Morrow,  '95. 

1846 

Amherst's  oldest  graduate,  both  by  class  and  in 
point  of  years,  Daniel  Emerson  Barnard,  died  on 
March  7.  1919,  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  111.,  at  the 
age  of  92  years  anrl  a  little  over  six  months. 

Captain  Barnard  was  born  on  August  26,  1826,  in 
Worc'ester,  Mass.  (in  a  town  called  at  that  time 
^\  ard).  He  was  the  son  of  William  and  Alice  (Emer- 
son) Barnard,  and  prejjared  for  college  at  Amherst 
Academy.  After  his  graduation  he  taught  for  a 
short  time  and  then  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  has 
lived  ever  since,  for  a  number  of  years  spending  the 
winters  at  St.  Petersburg,  Fla. 

He  studied  law  at  Chicago  and  at  Waukegan,  III., 
and  practiced  his  profession  in  Chicago  from  1857 
to  1918,  except  for  lliree  years  of  the  Civil  War,  when 
he  was  Captain  of  Company  F,  of  the  88th  Infantry, 


Illinois  Volunteers,  known  as  the  Second  Board  of 
Trade  Regiment.  He  gathered  together  the  mem- 
bers who  formed  his  Company.  He  was  in  eighteen 
battles,  was  never  in  the  hospital  for  a  day,  and  w^as 
never  away  on  leave  of  absence  during  his  period  of 
service  from  September  1862  to  June  1865.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Chicago  Bar  Association  for  more 
than  65  years. 

Among  the  battles  in  which  he  was  engaged  were 
those  in  the  Kentucky  campaign  near  Nashville  and 
Murfreesboro,  Tenn.,  in  1862  and  1863,  adv'ance  of 
Tullahoma,  Bridgeport  and  Chattanooga  in  1863, 
the  Knoxville  and  Atlanta  campaigns  in  1864.  He 
was  mustered  out  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  in  June  of 
1865. 

Captain  Barnard  was  a  devoted  member  of  the 
Bethany  Union  Church.  His  long  day's  work  was 
done  in  faithfulness  and  honor. 

1847 

A  despatch  from  New  Castle,  Pa.,  under  date  of 
March  15th,  states: 

"Attorney  S.  W.  Dana,  dean  of  the  Lawrence 
County  Bar  Association,  celebrated  his  ninety-first 
birthday  by  appearing  at  his  office  yesterday  ready 
for  work  and  enjoying  the  best  of  health.  He  has 
practiced  law  in  the  offices  which  he  now  occupies  for 
the  past  62  years." 

1855 

The  Rev.  Martin  Stoddard  Howard.,  A.  M.,  one 

of  the  oldest  Congregational  ministers  of  New  Eng- 
land, and  for  fifty  years  pastor  of  the  church  at  Wil- 
braham,  Mass.,  died  on  Sunday  morning,  February 
2d,  at  his  home  in  that  place.  He  was  88  years  old. 
He  had  been  stricken  with  a  paralytic  shock  on 
January  21st,  from  which  he  failed  to  rally. 

He  was  the  son  of  Jotham  and  Mary  x\nn  (White) 
Howard,  and  was  born  in  Milford,  Mass.,  on  August 
22,  1830.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Mt.  Hollis 
Seminary;  and,  after  graduating  from  Amherst  in 
1855,  he  taught  for  a  year  at  So.  Dennis,  at  the  same 
time  studying  theology  by  himself.  In  1858  he  re- 
ceived his  master's  degree  from  Amherst;  but  in  the 
meantime  was  licensed  to  preach  and  was  ordained 
at  West  Yarmouth  on  November  20,  1856.  He  was 
pastor  there  for  three  years  and  for  the  next  six  years 
at  South  Dartmouth,  Mass.,  and  for  three  more 
years  at  Groveland.  He  came  to  Wilbraham  in  1868, 
and  on  November  20,  1918,  he  celel)rated  the  50th 
anniversary  of  his  installation.  He  felt  that  the  re- 
ception tendered  him  at  that  time  was  the  crowning 
event  of  his  life  and  labors.  He  was  the  active  pas- 
tor of  the  church  in  Wilbraham  up  to  1911,  when  the 
church  was  burned  to  the  ground.  As  a  result  of  this 
fire,  the  Congregational  church  was  federated  with 
the  Metht)dist  Church  and  Mr.  Howard  beccame  pas- 
tor emeritus  of  the  church,  i)rea<'hing  the  dedication 
sermon  and  often  officiating  at  church  services  up  to 
within  a  short  time  of  his  death. 

He  was  the  author  of  "Dawn  and  Eventide"  and 
of  various  sermons  and  addresses  and  numerous  arti- 
cles for  the  Congregationalist.  He  was  also  engaged 
as  newspaper  correspondent  for  various  papers,  in- 
cluding the  Boston  Recorder,  the  Pacific,  a  San  Fran- 
cisco newspaper,  and  the  California  weekly. 

With  one  exception,  his  stood  first  in  years  of  min- 
isterial service  among  the  pastors  of  Massachusetts. 


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Mr.  Howard  was  married,  on  September  26,  1885, 
to  Mary  Adeline,  daughter  of  Horatio  N.  Carlton,  of 
Hopkinton.  She  died  in  1912.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  survive. 

Aside  from  increasing  deafness,  his  physical  pow- 
ers were  vigorous  to  the  end.  Abraham  Lincoln  was 
his  great  hero;  and  one  of  the  chief  regrets  of  his  life 
was  that  he  was  rejected  for  active  service  as  chap- 
lain during  the  Civil  war,  since  he  was  not  able  to 
pass  the  physical  examination. 

1860 

Rev.  Cornelius  E.  Dickinson  in  addition  to  his 
church  work  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  is  looking  after  the 
Congregational  churches  in  Little  Muskingum  and 
Stanleyville. 

1862 

Rev.  CAL\^N  Stebbins,  Secretary, 

Framingham  Centre,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Rufus  P.  Lincoln,  who  was  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Rufus  P.  Lincoln,  '62,  died  on  February  1st  at  her 
home  in  New  York  of  pneumonia.  She  was  the 
donor  of  the  "Rufus  Tyler  Lincoln  Professorship" 
at  Amherst,  an  endowment  of  $100,000  given  in  1916 
to  establish  a  professorship  in  science  in  memory  of 
her  son. 

The  Rev.  William  Edward  De  Riemer  died  at  his 
home  in  Washington,  D.  C,  on  November  18,  1918, 
aged  79  years.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  in 
the  service  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution.  He  had 
been  in  poor  health  for  several  years  and  was  injured 
in  1917  by  an  automobile.  He  recovered  and  was  at 
his  office  Saturday,  dying  in  his  sleep  Monday  morn- 
ing. 

He  was  the  son  of  Jacob  B.  and  Sarah  M.  (Ded- 
erer)  De  Riemer,  and  was  born  in  Springfield,  111., 
on  May  5, 1839.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Law- 
rence University  in  Wisconsin,  and  after  three  years 
at  Lawrence  University  entered  Amherst  in  the  fall 
of  1860,  graduating  with  the  Class  of  1862.  After 
graduation  he  taught  in  the  West  and  then  studied 
theology  at  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  being 
ordained  on  April  18,  1867. 

He  preached  at  St.  Charles,  111.,  until  1869,  when 
he  became  missionary  under  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  in 
Ceylon,  remaining  there  for  nine  years.  After  his 
return  in  1878,  he  was  missionary  in  Flushing,  N.  Y., 
and  then  at  Ashland,  Wis.,  and  Union  Grove. 

When  he  gave  up  his  religious  work,  he  entered 
the  service  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  He  was  married,  on  September  1, 
1868,  to  Emily  F.,  daughter  of  Rev.  C.  K.  True  of 
Newton  Upper  Falls,  Mass. 

1863 

Edward  W.  Chapin,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
181  Elm  Street,  Ilolyoke,  Mass. 
After  more  than  twenty  years'  continuous  service 
as  Judge  of  the  Holyoke  district  court,  Judge  Ed- 
ward W.  Chapin  has  resigned.  He  was  appointed  an 
associate  justice  in  1877  by  Governor  Rice  and  held 
that  office  until  1898,  when  Governor  Roger  Wolcott 
appointed  him  Judge.  Judge  Chapin  has  taken  a 
very  active  part  in  Ilolyoke  affairs  and  much  regret 
has  been  expressed  by  lawyers  over  his  resignation; 
but  he  had  come  to  the  conclusion  that  he  had  held 
the  office  long  enough.    Judge  Chapin  is  president 


of  the  Farr  Alpaca  Company,  Holyoke's  largest  tex- 
tile mill,  a  director  of  the  Mechanics  Savings  Bank, 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Mount  Hol- 
yoke College,  director  of  the  Holyoke  and  Westfield 
railroad,  director  of  the  Holyoke  Public  Library  and 
of  the  Holyoke  City  Hospital,  and  holds  many  other 
offices  of  trust. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted  by  the 
Holyoke  Bar  Association: 

"Resolved  by  the  members  of  the  Bar  of  Holyoke 
that  Judge  Chapins  retirement  from  the  bench  re- 
moves from  a  position  of  great  usefulness  and  esteem 
a  public  servant  who  was  faithful  and  diligent 
throughout  his  long  service. 

A  student  of  books  before  he  was  a  judge,  he  be- 
came upon  his  accession  to  the  bench  a  student  of 
mankind  in  a  position  that  is  very  close  to  the  life  of 
the  community.  He  brought  to  the  office  experi- 
ence, learning,  dignity  and  refinement,  and  he  ad- 
ministered his  trust  with  conscientious  endeavor. 

Justice,  as  he  saw  it,  and  Compassion  waited  al- 
ways in  his  court  for  litigant  and  witness,  for  accused 
and  unfortunate.  To  counsel  he  was  at  all  times, 
often  under  most  trying  circumstances,  a  patient  and 
courteous  gentleman. 

Resolved,  that  the  members  of  this  Bar  felicitate 
Judge  Chapin  upon  a  course  well  run  and  express  the 
hope  that  happy  years  may  follow  his  more  active 
life. 

Resolved,  that  these  resolutions  be  presented  to 
the  Judges  of  the  Police  Court  of  Holyoke  with  the 
request  that  they  may  be  spread  upon  its  records 
and  that  a  copy  be  transmitted  to  Judge  Chapin." 
John  Hildreth     1    Committee 
James  C.  Shea        >  on 

Fred  F.  Bennett  J  Resolutions. 

1865 

Prof.  B.  K.  Emerson,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
Principal  Joseph  H.  Sawyer,  of  Williston  Semi- 
nary, has  been  chosen  as  President  of  the  Easthamp- 
ton  Public  Library  Association. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carlton  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Harrison  Merriam  recently  completed  50 
years  as  deacon  at  Old  South  Congregational  Church 
in  Worcester.  The  occasion  was  celebrated  with  a 
reception  at  the  church,  when  letters  were  read  from 
five  ex-pastors,  brief  addresses  made  by  heads  of  or- 
ganizations, and  greetings  were  brought  by  the  Rev. 
F.  D.  Thayer,  '97,  of  the  Shrewsbury  Church  from 
which  Mr.  Merriam  took  his  bride.  Miss  Marella  E. 
Harlow,  on  September  1,  1863.  Mrs.  Merriam  was 
presented  with  a  pot  of  Scotch  heather  by  the  La- 
dies' Association,  and  Mr.  Merriam  was  given  a 
souvenir  book  of  hand-wrought  leather,  inscribed 
illuminated  and  illustrated  by  a  member.  He  was 
elected  deacon  for  life.  Mr.  Merriam  served  in  the 
Civil  War  with  the  42d  Mass.  Inf.,  cutting  short  hisj 
college  career.  He  was  elected  deacon  at  the  age  of  | 
28.  Ten  pastors  have  served  the  church  in  this  half 
century.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Merriam  are  in  good 
health  and  spend  the  summers  at  Shrewsbury. 

The  Trustees  of  the  American  Museum  of  Natural 
History  of  New  York  City  have  recently  elected 


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Herbert  L.  Bridgman  Honorary  Fellow  of  the  insti- 
tution, in  recognition  of  his  valuable  assistance  ren- 
dered by  service  on  a  number  of  its  most  important 
exploration  committees,  and  in  especial  acknowledg- 
ment of  his  contribution  to  the  advancement  of  sci- 
ence and  education  through  his  writings  in  the  public 
press.  Other  Honorary  Fellows  of  the  American 
Museum  are:  Roald  Amundsen,  Dr.  Bashford  Dean, 
Lieut.  George  T.  Emmons,  U.  S.  N.,  George  Bird 
Grinnell,  Baron  Ludovic  Moncheur,  Rear-Admiral 
Robert  E.  Peary,  U.  S.  N.,  Dr.  Leonard  C.  Sanford, 
Sir  Ernest  Henry  Shackelton,  Wilhjalmur  Stefanson. 
The  late  Colonel  Theodore  Roosevelt  was  also  an 
Honorary  Fellow. 

1867 

Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
When  Charles  E.  Hibbard,  President  of  the  Berk- 
shire Loan  and  Trust  Company,  reached  his  office  in 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  on  the  morning  of  March  15th  he 
found  a  large  bouquet  of  pink  roses  on  his  desk  with 
a  card  signed  by  his  fellow  officers  and  clerks,  calling 
attention  to  the  fact  that  it  was  his  75th  birthday. 
He  was  Pittsfield's  first  mayor  and  on  April  21,  1919, 
completed  50  years'  service  as  a  member  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts bar.  Mr.  Hibbard  says  he  keeps  young 
by  association  with  young  people.  He  is  said  to  have 
tried  more  cases  than  any  other  attorney  in  Berk- 
shire County. 

In  the  December  issue  of  the  National  Geographic 
Magazine,  Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor  had  an  exten- 
sive article  on  the  "Races  of  Europe."  The  article 
has  been  much  discussed  and  widely  quoted. 

1872 

Rev.  George  L.  Clark,  Secretary, 
Wethersfield,  Conn. 
Prof.  John  Bates  Clark  is  chairman  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  New  York  Union  for  Interna- 
tional Justice,  of  which  Andrew  Carnegie  is  Presi- 
dent. 

Rev.  A.  G.  Benedict  has  come  East  from  Arizona 
for  platform  work  in  behalf  of  Home  Missions. 
Dates  are  being  arranged  for  him  beginning  May  1st. 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
The  World's  Work  for  February  contained  an 
article  by  Dr.  Talcott  Williams  entitled  "To  Pre- 
vent the  Balkanization  of  the  World."  In  the  Janu- 
ary issue  of  the  Review  of  Rericirti,  he  wrote  of  "The 
Congress  of  Nations,  Past  and  Present."  Dr.  Wil- 
liams was  a  member  of  the  New  York  City  Com- 
mittee of  the  Armenian  relief  drive. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Stearns  Tyler,  daughter  of  Prof. 
John  M.  Tyler,  died  at  Sedan,  France,  on  February 
25th  where  she  was  engaged  in  reconstruction  work 
under  the  American  Red  Cross.  Death  was  due  to 
conij)licati()ns  following  bronchitis.  She  had  studied 
at  the  Sorbonnc,  Paris,  and  was  a  graduate  of  Smith 
College,  and  of  Columbia  University,  where  siie  re- 
ceived the  Ph.  D.  degree  in  French  language  and 
literature  shortly  before  her  departure  for  Europe 
last  year. 


Congressman  Caleb  R.  Layton,  representing  the 
state  of  Delaware,  is  a  member  of  the  important 
Committee  on  Committees  of  the  House.  Rev. 
Kingsley  F.  Norris,  of  Middleton,  Mass.,  has  re- 
ceived a  call  to  Little  Valley,  N.  Y. 

1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

In  order  to  make  the  records  of  the  Class  of  1874 
complete,  mention  should  be  made  here  of  the  fact 
that  the  new  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives will  be  Congressman  Frederick  H.  Gillett,  of 
Springfield,  Mass.  As  all  Amherst  men  know,  he 
was  named  on  the  first  ballot  and  was  an  easy  winner 
over  James  R.  Mann  of  Illinois  and  Phillip  P.  Camp- 
bell of  Kansas.  Mr.  Gillett's  election  is  commented 
on  editorially  in  this  issue  of  the  Quarterly. 

Two  sons  of  the  Class  Secretary  have  distin- 
guished themselves  in  France. 

Lieut.  Samuel  Loomis  enlisted  in  the  Coast  Artil- 
lery and  was  given  the  position  of  assistant  electrical 
engineer  with  the  rank  of  Sergeant.  He  served  at 
Fort  Strong  and  later  was  in  charge  of  one  of  the 
electric  search  lights  which  illuminated  the  entrance 
to  Boston  Harbor  and  afterwards  had  charge  of  a 
second  light  on  Senator  Lodge's  grounds  at  Nahant. 
In  January,  1918,  he  entered  the  oflScers'  training 
school  at  Fortress  Monroe  and,  graduating,  ob- 
tained the  rank  of  2d  lieutenant  and  was  incorpo- 
rated in  the  71st  regiment  of  coast  artillery  which 
sailed  for  France  in  September  of  1918.  Reaching 
France,  the  regiment  was  engaged  in  work  in  the 
practice  areas  up  to  the  time  of  the  armistice.  Re- 
turning, Lieutenant  Loomis  reached  Boston  and 
was  discharged  from  Camp  Devens  late  in  March, 
1919. 

Lieut.  William  F.  Loomis  wears  the  Lafayette 
ribbon  and  was  awarded  the  croix  de  guerre  for  dis- 
tinguished service  as  a  flight  commander.  He  went 
to  France  in  May,  1917  as  a  member  of  the  American 
Ambulance  Field  Service,  and  later  joined  the  La- 
fayette Corps. 

Dr.  William  F.  Slocum,  President  Emeritus  of 
Colorado  College,  delivered  the  address  at  the  meet- 
ing of  the  National  Society  of  New  England  Women 
in  Brooklyn  on  March  13th.  His  subject  was  "The 
New  Call  to  Patriotism." 

Sidney  Dickinson,  traveller,  magazine  writer  and 
newspaper  correspondent,  died  at  Obcrlin,  Ohio,  on 
February  7th,  aged  68  years  old,  as  a  result  of  inju- 
ries sufl'ered  on  the  night  of  February  -ith,  when  he 
was  run  down  by  an  interurban  car.  He  never  re- 
gained consciousness.  Mr.  Dickinson  came  of  a 
family  which  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
Amherst  College.  He  was  the  son  of  Henry  K.  and 
.\ngeline  (Dunham)  Dickinson,  and  was  born  in 
Agawam,  Mass.,  on  March  29,  1851.  He  prepared 
for  college  at  Williston  Seminary  and  on  graduating 
fr()m  Amherst  took  up  journalism  as  his  life  work. 
He  was  cm  the  stafl'  for  the  Si>riiigficld  Republican 
from  1874!  to  1875,  the  Kvcning  liulhtin  of  San  Fran- 
cisco from  1875  to  187()  and  tlic  Boston  Journal  from 
187()  to  1884.  He  then  studied  .\rt  History  and 
Criticism  in  Eurojx'  and  lectured  on  .\rt  History  and 
Travel  in  the  United  Statt's,  .\ustralia,  and  New 
Zealand,  for  the  next  four  or  five  years.     After  his 


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return  he  went  into  the  insurance  business  with  the 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.  in  New  York  City  and 
was  stationed  in  Melbourne,  Australia,  as  manager, 
from  1890  to  1893.  Since  then  he  was  with  the  same 
company  in  Philadelphia  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

Mr.  Dickinson  crossed  the  continent  several  times 
and  navigated  the  globe  twice  prior  to  1886,  and 
that  was  a  greater  feat  than  it  is  today.  He  received 
the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  Amherst  in  1886  and  in 
1893  he  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Geo- 
graphical Society  in  London. 

He  was  married  on  September  5,  1876,  to  Miss 
Minnie  Stockwell,  daughter  of  F.  A.  Stockwell  of 
Northampton,  Mass.  She  died  on  June  16,  1877, 
and  on  October  1,  1879,  he  married  Marion,  daugh- 
ter of  T.  L.  Miller,  of  Blandford,  Mass. 

Prof.  Munroe  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  committee 
appointed  by  the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  headed  by  Elihu  Root,  to  deal  with 
the  League  of  Nations  project. 

1875 

Prof.  Charles  A.  Buffum,  Secretary, 
Easthampton,  Mass. 

Prof.  David  Todd  has  published  within  the  past 
few  months  the  following  articles  and  papers: 

On  selecting  stations  for  totality  of  1918,  June 
8th,  and  probable  cloud  conditions  at  eclipse  time. 
"Popular  Astronomy." 

On  high-level  laboratories  for  scientific  research. 
The  American  Astronomical  Society,  August,  1918. 

On  the  total  eclipse  of  1918,  June  8,  as  observed 
in  Florida,  September,  1918. 

Sir  William  Rowan  Hamilton,  an  apostle  of  pure 
science.     "The  Nation,"  October  19,  1918. 

1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 
111  Broadway,  New  York  City 
George  A.  Plimpton  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  recently  organized  American  Mid- 
European  Association,  formed  to  help  the  liberated 
people  of  Mid-Europe  in  their  spiritual  and  material 
development  and  to  inform  Americans  of  the  life, 
ideals,  and  needs  of  these  people.  Mr.  Plimpton  has 
also  been  elected  a  corresponding  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

The  Rev.  William  H.  Sybrandt  of  Troy,  N.  Y., 
announces  the  arrival  of  a  grandson,  Warren  Sy- 
brant  Treadwell,  at  Shanghai,  China,  on  January 

nth. 

1877 
A.  DeW.  Mason,  D.D.,  Secretary, 
222  Garfield  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  "Victory  Dinner"  of  the  College,  on  Febru- 
ary 21st,  was  one  of  the  most  successful  and  inspir- 
ing reunions  ever  held  by  Amherst  men  outside  of 
the  old  College  town.    Collin  Armstrong  was  chair- 
man of  the  Dinner  Committee,  and  to  his  efforts  and 
those  of  Mrs.  Armstrong  much  of  the  success  of  this 
memorable  occasion   must   be  ascribed.     The   '77 
table  was  well  up  in  front  as  usual  and  around  it 
were  gathered  no  less  than  ten  of  our  class:    Arm- 
strong, Bond,  Hartwell,  Loomis,  Mason,  Maxson 
(H.  D.),  Redfield,  Salter,  Searle,  and  Wright.     In 


the  '77  box,  the  ladies  of  '77  were  assembled:  Mrs. 
Armstrong,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Bond,  Mrs.  Hartwell, 
Mrs.  Loomis,  Mrs.  Mason,  Mrs.  Maxson,  and  Mrs. 
Salter,  making  a  total  '77  representation  of  eighteen 
persons.  Aside  from  the  general  enjoyableness  of 
the  occasion  the  pleasure  of  the  reunion  of  so  many 
of  our  class  and  their  ladies  was  greatly  appreciated; 
and  the  fact  that  the  ladies  were  enabled  to  gather 
around  their  well-spread  table  in  the  balcony,  while 
their  lesser  halves  were  similarly  engaged  "below 
stairs,"  was  an  innovation  that  commended  itself  to 
all.  Letters  of  regret  were  received  from  Clarke, 
Gray,  Marsh,  Pratt,  and  Stockbridge,  who  were 
unavoidably  detained  from  meeting  with  us.  The 
enthusiasm  and  patriotic  spirit  of  the  great  gathering 
stirred  the  hearts  of  all  present,  and  '77  once  more 
rejoiced  that  we  were  Amherst  men,  loyal  sons  of 
the  "Fairest  College  of  them  all." 

Stockbridge,  Mason,  and  possibly  others,  have 
been  among  the  great  multitude  of  "Flu"  victims 
this  past  winter,  but  providentially  have  been  spared 
very  serious  consequences  and  are  now  about  in  their 
usual  health  and  are  busied  with  their  accustomed 
work. 

It  had  been  expected  to  print  an  appreciation  of 
our  classmate  Prof.  Herbert  L.  Osgood  in  the  Am- 
herst Alumni  Quarterly,  as  such  a  memorial  has 
been  prepared  by  his  colleague.  Prof.  Munroe  Smith, 
of  Columbia.  But  the  change  in  the  character  of  the 
Quarterly,  necessitated  by  war  conditions,  has 
made  this  impossible;  and  so  the  members  of  the 
Class  at  the  New  Y'ork  Alumni  dinner  voted  to  issue 
a  special  pamphlet  with  Professor  Smith's  article 
and  a  recent  portrait  of  Professor  Osgood.  This  will 
be  done  as  soon  as  possible  and  a  copy  will  be  sent 
to  each  member  of  the  Class. 

The  Class  will  deeply  sympathize  with  Judge 
Searle  in  the  loss,  through  illness,  of  his  only  remain- 
ing son.  Major  Charles  Putnam  Searle,  '07,  who  was 
a  Judge  Advocate  in  the  Army,  and  whose  untiring 
devotion  to  the  public  service  for  many  months  be- 
fore entering  the  Army  and  his  subsequent  labors  in 
his  important  office  made  him  the  easier  victim  to 
the  influenza  epidemic.  His  name  appeared  on  the 
Honor  Roll  of  the  College,  as  printed  on  the  pro- 
gram at  the  New  York  dinner.  The  name  of  Roger 
Conant  Perkins,  '17,  son  of  Sidney  K.  Perkins  of 
our  Class,  also  is  printed  among  the  "immortals," 
who,  in  giving  their  lives  for  their  country,  will 
always  be  held  in  the  affectionate  remembrance  of 
their  College  and  Classmates. 

Collins  H.  Gere  is  a  member  of  the  Northampton 
Committee  on  Reception  to  soldiers,  and  to  erect  a 
soldiers'  and  sailors'  memorial  in  that  city.  Charles 
S.  Hartwell  has  been  elected  President  of  the  Brook- 
lyn Congregational  Club. — The  Rev.  Dr.  William 
W.  Leete  is  a  member  of  the  National  Service  Com- 
mission of  the  Congregational  churches  of  America. 

1878 

Prof.  H.  Norm.\n  Gardiner,  Secretary, 

187  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Frank  L.  Babbott  has  been  elected  a  trustee  of 
the  Brooklyn  Trust  Company.  He  also  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Brooklyn  committee  in  the  Syrian 
and  Armenian  relief  drive. 


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99 


Ex-Senator  Charles  H.  Fuller  has  been  elected 
President  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Brooklyn 
City  Mission  and  Trust  Society. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 
1140  Woodward  Bldg.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Dr.  Frank  J.  Goodnow,  President  of  Johns  Hop- 
kins University,  had  the  honor  of  being  appointed  in 
March  to  assist  in  framing  a  constitution  for  the  new 
Polish  Government.  Dr.  Goodnow  is  an  interna- 
tional authority  on  government. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton  is  a  member  of 
the  National  Service  Commission  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Churches  of  America. 

Mrs.  Margaret  Pratt  Frost,  daughter  of  Charles 
M.  Pratt,  '79,  and  sister  of  Theodore  Pratt,  '09,  and 
Lieut.  Richardson  Pratt,  '15,  died  at  her  home  in 
Brooklyn,  on  January  20th,  after  a  brief  illness. 

The  Rev.  Frank  M.  Carson  of  Greenwich,  Conn., 
died  onJJanuary  13,  1919,  after  an  illness  of  several 
months.     He  was  61  years  old. 

He  was  born  in  New  York  City  on  November 
23,  1857,  the  son  of  George  W\  and  Laura  M. 
(Tileston)  Carson,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Adel- 
phi  Academy  in  Brooklyn.  After  graduating  from 
Amherst  he  studied  theology  at  Union  Theological 
Seminary  and  was  ordained  on  November  3,  1886. 
His  first  pastorate  was  at  Mattawan,  New  York, 
lasting  six  years.  He  then  went  to  Clinton,  Iowa,  for 
five  years,  and  from  1897  to  1912  was  pastor  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Lakeview,  Chicago, 
III.  Since  1912  he  has  been  pastor  at  Greenwich, 
Conn.  Coe  College  of  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  con- 
[f erred  upon  him  the  degree  of  D.  D.  in  1897.  Dr. 
'  Carson  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  three  daughters. 
He  was  married  on  October  2,  1894,  to  Jennie  M., 
daughter  of  Dr.  J.  F.  H.  Sugg  of  Clinton,  Iowa.  He 
was  the  author  of  articles  on  religious  and  historical 
subjects  in  the  Chicago  Inferior. 

Dormer  Ferry  Chapin  died  of  heart  disease  at  his 
[home  in  Saco,  Me.,  on  January  13,  1919. 

He  was  the  son  of  Dolphin  D.  and  Achsah  M. 
(Ferry)  Chapin,  and  was  born  in  Granby,  Mass.,  on 
May  6,  1852.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Powers 
Institute  in  Bernardstown,  Mass.  On  graduating 
from  Amherst  he  taught  for  five  terms  in  Granby 
high  school.  He  was  principal  of  the  Granby  School 
Board  for  six  years.  In  1892  he  moved  to  Saco,  Me., 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  and  dairying.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Common  Council  at  Saco  and  was 
married  on  January  17,  1888,  to  Myra  E..  daughter 
of  William  H.  Deering  of  Saco,  Me.  There  were 
nine  children,  of  whom  .seven  survive. 

1881 

Frank  H.  Parsons,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
60  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 

Dr.  Robert  V.  Sawin  died  on  January  19,  1919,  at 
Storrs,  Conn.,  after  an  illness  of  eight  months.  He 
was  widely  known  as  a  practicing  physician  in  Brim- 
field,  Mass. 

He  was  the  son  of  Charles  M.  and  Lucy  W. 
Sawin,  was  born  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  July  13,  1856, 


and  prepared  for  college  at  the  Worcester  High 
School.  In  college  he  was  an  Olio  editor.  After 
graduation  he  became  for  a  short  time  Principal  of 
a  school  at  Milbury,  Mass.,  and  then  entered  the 
Jefferson  Mediqal  College,  Philadelphia,  from  which 
he  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1885.  He  resided 
in  Brimfield,  where  he  successfully  practiced  his 
profession.  He  had  been  a  trustee  of  the  Hitchcock 
Free  High  School,  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  Brimfield  Hotel  Company,  and  a  fellow  of  the 
Massachusetts  and  Hampden  Medical  societies, 
Chairman  of  the  School  Committee,  Town  Physi- 
cian, and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  Brim- 
field. 

He  was  married,  July  2,  1883,  to  Nettie  E.,  daugh- 
ter of  Oscar  E.  and  Louise  M.  Washburne,  of  Brock- 
ton, and  had  three  children:  Donald  Washburne, 
born  November  2,  1886,  died  March  23,  1888;  Alice 
Ida,  born  June  22,  1889;  Robert  Washburne,  born 
February  29,  189G.  Mrs.  Sawin  died  on  November 
21,  1912,  and  on  December  21,  1914,  he  was  married 
again  to  Mrs.  Myra  Moore  Foskett. 

James  Perrott  Prince  was  married  on  Saturday, 
March  15th,  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  to  Miss  Leila 
Wells  Swan.  His  daughter,  Hilda,  was  married  on 
February  15th  to  Henry  Chase  Hopewell.  Rev. 
Andrew  F.  Underhill  is  a  member  of  the  Committee 
on  Reception  to  soldiers  and  to  erect  a  soldiers'  and 
sailors'  memorial  in  Northampton. 

Frank  H.  Parsons  has  been  elected  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Brooklyn  City  Mission  and  Trust 
Society.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  G.  Smith  has  been 
chosen  as  secretary  of  the  Hampshire  County 
Branch  of  the  Massachusetts  Association  of  the 
League  of  Free  Nations. 

Lawrence  F.  Abbott  is  writing  a  book  to  be  enti- 
tled "Impressions  of  Theodore  Roosevelt,"  which 
Doubleday,  Page  and  Co.  will  publish  at  an  early 
date.  Mr.  Abbott  accompanied  the  Colonel  in  1910 
on  his  trip  through  Egypt,  Europe,  and  Great  Bri- 
tain, and  during  his  four  years  as  contributing  editor 
of  the  Outlook  was  in  daily  intimate  contact  with 
him.  In  the  Outlook  for  January  15th  Mr.  Abbott 
had  a  very  interesting  article  on  the  late  President. 
Mr.  Abbott  is  chairman  of  the  recently  organized 
"World  War  Veterans  of  America." 

1882 

Former  District  Attorney  William  Travers  Jerome 
of  New  York  was  the  principal  speaker  at  the  an- 
nual dinner  in  February  of  the  Colgate  Alumni 
Association  of  New  York. 

President  Howard  S.  Bliss  has  been  representing 
the  American  Educational  interests  of  Turkey  at 
the  Peace  Conference.  In  a  recent  letter  to  the 
Trustees  of  the  Syrian  Protestant  College  at  Beiriit, 
Syria,  of  which  Dr.  Bliss  is  President,  fourteen  mem- 
bers of  the  General  Faculty  of  the  ('ollege  recorded 
their  testimony  to  the  value  of  his  services  in  the 
following  words: 

"To  the  magnitude  and  tlie  liigli  (laulity  of  the 
services  which  have  been  rendered  to  this  Institu- 
tion, in  all  its  branches  and  D('i)arlinents,  by  our 
President,  Dr.  Howard  S.  Bliss,  services  which  were 
made  i)ossible  by  reason  of  the  tact,  the  address, 
the  devotion,   and  the  steady  adherence  to  a  lofty 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


principle  of  conduct  during  the  long,  anxious  and 
perilous  period  through  which  we  have  just  passed. 
.  .  .  .  The  past  four  years  have  confronted  us 
with  difficulties  that  were  wellnigh  overwhelming. 
.  .  .  .  and  contributed  to  produce  a  situation 
that  demanded  from  our  President  the  highest 
qualities  of  leadership.  These  qualities  we  take 
pleasure  in  thus  briefly  and  inadequately  acknowl- 
edging. 

"The  skill  which  President  Bliss  has  displayed  in 
handling  the  many  delicate  questions  arising  out  of 
the  relations  of  the  College,  and  of  individuals,  to 
the  Turkish  Government  have  undoubtedly  averted 
consequences  which  might,  under  less  tactful  man- 
agement, have  proved  disastrous.  His  ready  ability 
to  meet  men  of  all  classes,  who  were  often  hostile  to 
the  College,  and  by  his  address  to  disarm  their  hos- 
tility have  always  placed  the  interests  of  the  College 
in  a  more  favorable  position  than  they  could  other- 
wise have  occupied.  His  constant  cheerful  sacrifice 
of  self  in  the  service  of  the  College,  involving  a 
steady  devotion  to  duty,  frequently  under  condi- 
tions that  would  have  been  discouraging  to  one  less 
persevering  or  less  consecrated,  have  been  an  in- 
spiration to  both  teachers  and  students  alike  and 
have  brought  hope  to  many  in  the  darkest  days  of 
the  war.  His  steady  insistence  on  the  principle  of 
absolute  frankness  and  fair  dealing  even  with  those 
whose  motives  he  had  every  reason  to  distrust,  of 
yielding  always  and  everywhere,  respect  to  all  that 
is  respectable,  honor  to  all  that  is  honorable,  and 
due  submission  to  all  lawfully  constituted  authority, 
won  for  the  College  under  his  leadership  the  regard 
and  confidence  of  those  in  power,  who  by  tradition 
and  experience  had  learned  to  look  upon  all  foreign 
enterprises  in  the  Empire  with  distrust  and  suspicion. 

"Although  the  difficulties  before  the  College  may 
be  greater  than  those  from  which  it  has  but  recently 
escaped,  we  feel  the  moment  opportune  to  express 
to  the  Trustees  of  the  College  our  confidence  in,  and 
affection  for.  President  Bliss,  and  our  admiration  for 
the  manner  in  which  he  has  led  us  through  the  four 
most  momentous  years  in  the  history  of  the  world." 

1883 

Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 

2301-2311  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  Almon  J.  Dyer,  who  resigned  his  pastorate 
at  Sharon,  Conn.,  last  December  after  more  than 
20  years'  service,  has  been  elected  to  the  Secretary- 
ship of  the  Massachusetts  Total  Abstinence  Society 
at  30  Bromfield  Street,  Boston,  entering  upon  his 
new  duties  in  January.  He  has  been  a  director  of 
the  society  for  ten  years  and  of  late,  chariman  of 
the  Board. 

Dr.  John  B.  Walker  has  made  an  enviable  record 
in  France.  In  January,  1918,  he  was  given  a  position 
in  the  Surgeon  General's  Department  with  the  rank 
of  Major,  and  organized  the  first  special  army  hos- 
pital in  France.  This  was  situated  near  the  front 
lines  and  cared  for  a  large  number  of  desperately 
wounded  men.  Under  Dr.  Walker's  management  it 
more  than  doubled  its  capacity,  and  during  the  last 
summer  received  more  than  ten  thousand  patients. 
In  recognition  of  his  work  Dr.  Walker  was  advanced 
to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Howard  A.  Bridgman,  editor  of  The 
Congregationalist  and  Advance,  is  a  member  of  the 


National  Service  Commission  of  the  Congregational 
Churches  of  America.  Dr.  Bridgman  was  the  college 
preacher  at  Wheaton  College  on  Sundav,  January 
26th. 

Prof.  Edward  S.  Parsons  had  an  article  in  The 
Congregationalist  and  Advance  for  February  20th  on 
"The  Message  of  James  Russell  Lowell,  His  Value 
for  Today." 

Dr.  Cornelius  H.  Patton,  Secretary  of  the  Ameri- 
can Board,  will  sail  this  month  (May)  from  San 
Francisco  on  a  missionary  journey  around  the 
world.  It  will  be  a  journey  similar  to  the  one  which 
he  took  several  years  ago,  and  which  was  described 
in  his  book,  "The  Lure  of  Africa,"  but  will  have  to 
do  more  largely  with  the  Asiatic  and  European  mis- 
sions. Mrs.  Patton  will  accompany  him;  also  his 
brother,  Robert  W.  Patton,  '76,  and  wife. 

W^alter  Taylor  Field  has  just  published  through 
Ginn  and  Company  "Readings  from  English  and 
American  Literature,"  a  book  for  junior  high  schools 
and  upper  grammar  grades. 

Honorable  Arthur  Prentice  Rugg,  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  of  the  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts,  spoke  on  behalf  of  the 
American  Judiciary  at  the  dinner  given  in  April  by 
the  Bar  of  the  City  of  New  York,  to  His  Excellency, 
the  Right  Honorable  the  Earl  of  Reading  G.  C.  6. 
Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England,  British  Ambassador 
Extraordinary  and  Plenipotentiary  on  Special  Mis- 
sion and  High  Commissioner  in  the  United  States. 

1884 

WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 

2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City 

The  Class  of  1884  held  its  forty-second  reunion  at 
the  Hotel  Kimball,  Springfield,  Mass.,  on  the  eve- 
ning of  December  31st  last.  This  is  the  latest  of  the 
long,  unbroken  series  of  reunions  held  by  Amherst, 
'84,  since  December  31,  1884,  when  the  first  reunion 
of  the  class  was  held  in  New  York  City  with  an 
attendance  of  fourteen.  Attendance  varies  from  fif- 
teen to  forty.  Twenty-three  were  present  at  the 
recent  reunion  in  Springfield. 

Owing  to  the  absence  of  the  President,  'Judge 
Kinsley  of  Colorado,  Joseph  H.  Spafford,  the  Vice 
president  of  the  Class,  presided.  Rev.  Frank  J. 
Goodwin  acted  as  toastmaster.  The  Class  history 
was  read  by  W.  S.  Rossiter  of  Concord.  The  Class 
Poet  was  James  P.  Loftus  of  Hollywood,  Calif. 
The  Poet  was  not  present,  but  a  very  clever  poem 
which  he  contributed  was  read  at  the  dinner. 
Speeches  were  made  by  various  members  of  the 
Class— W.  C.  Atwater  of  New  York,  Prof.  J.  O. 
Thompson  of  Amherst,  E.  M.  Bassett  of  New  York, 
and  others.  S.  F.  Miller  of  New  York,  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  War  Service  of  the  Class  and 
Children,  reported  one  member  of  the  Class  and 
fifty-five  sons  and  two  daughters  engaged  in  the 
Service,  and  the  Class  fiag  was  unfurled  containing 
the  appropriate  number  of  stars.  Arrangements  for 
the  thirty-fifth  reunion  at  Amherst  at  the  approach- 
ing Commencement  were  discussed  and  perfected. 
Officers  for  the  ensuing  year  were  elected. 

The  Secretary  of  Commerce  recently  invited  the 
American  Statistical  Association  and  the  American 
Economic  Association  to  appoint  a  joint  committee 


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101 


for  the  purpose  of  advising  the  Director  of  the  Cen- 
sus in  connection  with  the  approaching  Fourteenth 
Census,  its  organization,  personnel  and  taking.  The 
two  associations  at  their  meeting  at  Richmond  in 
December  appointed  such  joint  committee  composed 
of  three  members  from  each  association.  The  com- 
mittee met  in  Washington,  February  10th,  and  or- 
ganized with  the  definite  purpose  of  energetic  and 
effective  cooperation  with  the  Director  of  the  Cen- 
sus. Two  members  of  Amherst,  '84,  are  on  this 
committee,  which  is  composed  as  follows:  W.  S. 
Rossiter,  '84,  of  Concord,  N.  H.;  Prof.  W.  F.  Will- 
cox,  '84,  of  Cornell  University;  Prof.  W.  C.  Mitchell 
of  Columbia  University;  Prof.  C.  W.  Doten  of  Mas- 
sachusetts Institute  of  Technology;  Prof.  E.  R.  A. 
Seligman  of  Columbia  University;  and  Dean  E.  F. 
Gray  of  Harvard  University.  By  the  organization 
of  the  committee,  Rossiter,  '84,  was  elected  chair- 
man. 

Former  Congressman  Edward  M.  Bassett  has  been 
elected  President  of  the  New  York  and  Brooklyn 
Congregational  Church  Extension  Society.  Rev. 
Charles  H.  Smith  has  resigned  the  pastorate  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Barre,  Mass.,  to  take 
effect  April  1st. 

William  Place  Reynolds  died  at  his  home  in 
Tacoma,  W^ash.,  on  September  9,  1918.  He  was 
born  in  Osceola,  Pa.,  on  June  20,  1860,  the  son  of  the 
Rev.  N.  and  Emma  (Knox)  Reynolds,  and  prepared 
for  college  at  Cooper  Academy  at  Havana,  N.  Y. 
He  did  not  complete  his  course  at  Amherst,  but  left 
to  teach  first  in  the  Barnstable  (Mass.)  Grammar 
School  and  later  becoming  principal  of  the  Hyannis 
(Mass.)  High  School  until  1889.  While  he  was  in 
Hyannis  he  also  studied  law  and  in  1887  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  In  1889  he  was  school  superin- 
tendent of  the  Hyannis  schools  and  for  two  years 
he  acted  as  editor  for  the  Cape  Cod  Item.  From 
1890  to  1892  he  was  Judge  of  the  First  District 
Court  in  Barnstable.  He  then  moved  to  Tacoma, 
Wash.,  where  he  was  elected  City  Solicitor,  and  in 
1895  he  was  President  of  the  Tacoma  Commercial 
Club. 

1885 
Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  St.,  New  York  City 

Homer  J.  Johnson,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  who  acted 
as  Federal  Fuel  Commissioner  of  Ohio,  is  a  member 
of  the  United  States  Liquidation  Commission,  War 
Department,  appointed  to  liquidate  the  business  and 
financial  affairs  of  the  American  Army  in  England 
and  France.  The  commission  consists  of  five  mem- 
bers. Mr.  Johnson  and  Senator  Hollis,  another  mem- 
ber of  the  commission,  sailed  for  Europe  in  February. 

Prof.  Edwin  G.  Warner  is  a  member  of  the  Na- 
tional Service  Commission  of  the  Congregational 
Churches  of  America.  Tod  B.  Galloway,  Esq.,  and 
Dr.  E.  G.  Warner  have  recently  returned  from  their 
work  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  France. 

Lieutenant-Commander  Edward  Breck  states 
that  he  has  been  very  ill  for  eleven  weeks  from 
fevers  with  Grippe  as  a  starter  and  part  of  the  time 
his  life  was  despaired  of.  He  has  been  in  Lisbon  dur- 
ing the  revolutions,  assassinations,  etc.,  and  twice 
since  the  armistice  has  been  signed  has  Ijeen  under 
shrapnel  fire.     He  expected  to  be  invalided  home 


very  shortly,  and  to  be  at  his  home,  170  Brookline 
Ave.,  Brookline,  Mass.,  about  the  20th  of  March. 

Arthur  F.  Stone,  Esq.,  has  sold  his  stock  in  The 
Evening  Caledonian  and  has  given  up  the  strenuous 
work  of  managing  that  paper  which  he  has  per- 
formed during  the  absence  of  the  president  and 
former  manager.  Mr.  Stone,  some  time  ago,  re- 
ceived an  appointment  as  manager  of  the  local  gov- 
ernment employment  bureau.  The  Evening  Cale- 
donian of  January  27th  contains  the  following  edi- 
torial notice: 

MR.  STONE  RETIRES 

"Mr.  Stone  has  sold  his  interest  and  holdings  in 
The  Evening  Caledonian  to  Mr.  Pelley  for  the  same 
reasons  that  Mr.  McAdoo  retired  from  the  Presi- 
dent's cabinet. 

"Like  Mr.  McAdoo,  he  has  made  a  success  of  his 
job  and  he  retires  with  the  best  wishes  and  all 
friendly  feeling  and  good  spirit  between  his  asso- 
ciates and  himself.  It  was  no  easy  job  to  take  the 
helm  of  this  publication  last  September  and  act  as 
editor,  manager,  ad-man,  superintendent,  janitor, 
stenographer,  office  boy  and  ash-man  after  the 
retirement  of  Wallace  H.  Gilpin.  He  deserves  all 
the  praise  he  can  get  and  if  he  wants  it  easier  for  a 
time,  he  is  entitled  to  the  vacation. 

"A  rolling  Stone  may  gather  no  moss,  but  who 
wants  to  be  mossy,  anyhow.''  Our  Brother  Stone 
doesn't  and  isn't.  He's  rather  the  kind  of  Stone  the 
Good  Book  talks  about,  whose  existences  are  ser- 
mons; he's  been  a  whole  preachment  in  this  news- 
paper case  of  a  man  rising  commendably  to  an 
emergency  and  staying  loyally  by  his  guns  and  his 
friends  until  the  last  shot  is  fired  or  reinforcements 
can  come  up. 

"The  reinforcements  have  arrived. 

"The  second  phase  of  the  battle  is  on. 

"Thus  far  the  casualties  show  promise  of  being 
light!" 

Mrs.  Ethel  Griffen  Whitman,  wife  of  Frank  E. 
Whitman  and  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Howard  J. 
Griffen  of  White  Plains,  N.  Y.,  died  suddenly  on 
Tuesday,  March  18th,  at  her  home  in  New  York 
City. 

Frederick  C.  Gladden  died  at  his  home  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  suddenly  on  February  27,  1919.  He  was 
the  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Washington  Gladden 
of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  died  of  paralysis  after  an 
illness  of  a  week.  He  was  born  in  the  old  town  of 
Morrisania  (now  part  of  New  York  City)  fifty-six 
years  ago  and  was  educated  in  Amherst  College,  at 
the  Columbus  (Ohio)  Law  School  and  at  the  law 
school  of  Cornell  University,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1894. 

After  practicing  law  in  New  York  he  was  for 
eight  years  private  secretary  to  the  late  Justice 
George  Barrett  of  the  State  Supreme  Court.  There- 
after he  held  similar  position  with  Justices  Clinch 
and  Page.  He  then  accepted  an  appointment  as  as- 
sistant to  Assistant  Attorney-General  Warren  in 
the  Department  of  Justice  at  Washington  and  he 
remained  in  the  service  of  that  Department  for  two 
years.  Last  December  he  returned  to  this  city  to 
become  .secretary  to  Justice  Hotchkiss  of  the  Su- 
preme Court. 

Mr.  Gladden  was  considered  an  expert  brief 
writer.     He  had  an  unusually  acute  and  analytic 


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mind  and  was  especially  efficient  in  analyzing  and 
presenting  cases  which  demanded  knowledge  of  the 
history  as  well  as  the  practice  of  law. 

He  leaves  a  widow,  an  elder  sister,  Miss  Alice 
Gladden  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  a  younger  brother, 
George  Gladden,  an  editor  and  writer,  whose  home 
is  in  New  York. 

Dr.  W.  Stanton  Gleason  died  suddenly  on  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1919,  at  his  home  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  just 
a  short  time  after  he  had  been  elected  a  Fellow  of  the 
American  College  of  Physicians. 

Dr.  Gleason  was  born  at  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island, 
N.  Y.,  on  July  24.,  1860,  a  son  of  the  Rev.  William 
H.  Gleason  and  Ellen  (Gladwin)  Gleason.  His  early 
education  was  in  the  different  schools  of  Sag  Harbor, 
and  he  then  entered  Williston  Seminary  where  he 
prepared  for  Amherst.  On  leaving  Amherst  he  at- 
tended the  University  Medical  College  of  New  York 
and  after  a  term  of  practical  hospital  work,  he  began 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  where 
his  father  had  been  pastor  of  the  American  Reformed 
Church  and  where  his  mother  died. 

Dr.  Gleason  soon  achieved  prominence  in  his  pro- 
fession. He  was  a  member  of  the  staff  of  St.  Luke's 
Hospital  in  Newburgh,  and  had  served  as  President 
of  the  New  Y'ork  Medical  Society,  the  Orange 
County  Medical  Association,  the  Newburgh  Bay 
Medical  Society.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Physicians  Mutual  Aid  Association  of  New  York 
and  other  medical  bodies.  He  was  vice  president  of 
the  Newburgh  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  head  of 
the  Civic  Bureau.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Examining  Surgeons  for  pensions, 
and  during  the  late  war  he  was  Chairman  of  the 
Medical  Advisory  Board  of  the  Selective  Service. 
Dr.  Gleason  had  also  been  active  in  matters  of  edu- 
cation, having  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  the  City  of  Newburgh.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Hudson  River  Lodge  F.  &  A.  M.,  Highland 
Chapter  of  the  R.  A.  Masons,  Knights  Templar, 
Royal  Arcanum  and  Newburgh  City  Club. 

In  1888  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Grace  Hoysradt,  daughter  of  Senator  J.  W.  Hoys- 
radt  of  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  who,  with  one  son,  Charles 
B.  Gleason,  survives. 

The  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  City  of  New- 
burgh pays  the  following  tribute  to  Dr.  Gleason: 

Expression  of  loss,  to  the  city  and  the  organiza- 
tion, given  by  the  members  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  yesterday  afternoon, 
when  the  following  memorial  was  adopted  on  the 
death  of  Dr.  W.  Stanton  Gleason,  a  member  of  the 
board,  and  head  of  the  Civic  Bureau  of  the  Chamber 
for  several  years  past: 

"A  mantle  of  sorrow  enshrouds  the  City  of  New- 
burgh. Its  citizens  mourn  the  loss  of  a  friend,  coun- 
sellor and  benefactor.  The  death  of  Dr.  W.  Stanton 
Gleason  brings  unspeakable  grief  upon  us. 

"Personal  power,  diplomatic  aggressiveness,  keen 
conception,  brotherly  kindness  and  a  sympathetic 
nature  won  for  him  the  just  tribute  of  the  high  posi- 
tion held  in  the  hearts  of  the  citizenship  of 
Newburgh. 

"  He  was  a  man  of  .sterling  qualities,  an  exceptional 
physician  and  adviser,  ever  ready  to  sacrifice  self 
that  from  his  wealth  of  knowledge  and  ability  he 
might  alleviate  pain,  distress  and  sorrow.  He  knew 
no  class  nor  caste  in  his  ministrations,  and  the 


hearts  of  the  poor  alike  with  others  are  aching  with 
grief  and  sorrow. 

"His  medical  powers  and  keen  interest  in  the  wel- 
fare of  his  fellow  physicians  made  him  the  dean  of 
the  profession  of  the  city. 

"His  interest  in  the  matters  that  stood  for  civic 
welfare  had  brought  him  into  intimate  contact  with 
every  feature  of  city  life,  and  the  city  has  been 
blessed  thereby. 

"His  splendid  work  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
has  done  much  to  bring  it  to  its  present  high  stand- 
ing of  efficiency,  winning  unparalleled  prestige 
through  state  and  nation  for  its  close  cooperation  in 
civic  and  federal  matters. 

"The  citizens  have  lost  a  physician  and  a  friend; 
the  city  has  lost  one  of  its  foremost  citizens;  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  has  lost  a  counsellor  and 
loyal  supporter." 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance  for  February 
13th  contained  an  article  by  James  Eaton  Tower  on 
"The  Youth  at  the  Prayer-Meeting,  a  fond  look 
down  the  corridors  of  time." 

1886 
Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Wesley  Manley  Cleaver  died  at  his  home  in  Cata- 
wissa.  Pa.,  on  December  15,  1918,  of  influenza,  at 
the  age  of  6-1. 

Mr.  Cleaver  was  the  son  of  Elijah  Collins  and 
Martha  Ann  (Cool)  Cleaver.  He  was  fitted  for  the 
Sophomore  year  of  Dickinson  College,  Carlisle,  Pa., 
at  the  Bloomsburg  (Pa.)  State  Normal  School.  After 
two  years  at  Dickinson,  he  transferred  to  Amherst  in 
the  fall  of  1885  and  was  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1886.  He  taught  both  before  and  after  his  course  at 
Amherst.  Among  the  positions  which  he  held  were 
the  following:  Teacher  in  a  private  school  in  Johns- 
town, Pa.,  supervising  principal  at  Ashley  and  at 
Millersburg  in  the  same  state.  Later  he  entered 
Johns  Hopkins  for  a  graduate  course,  specializing  in 
geology  with  the  intention  of  returning  to  the  work 
of  teaching;  but  just  before  taking  his  degree,  the 
death  of  his  father  made  it  necessary  for  him  to 
change  his  plans  and  to  go  home  to  take  up  the  work 
of  a  farmer;  and  in  this  work  the  rest  of  his  life  was 
spent.  It  was  a  keen  and  lifelong  regret  to  Mr. 
Cleaver  that  the  way  into  professional  life  never 
opened  again;  but  he  became  a  good  farmer  and  an 
expert  on  soils  and  their  possibilities,  a  fact  which 
made  him  much  respected  and  consulted  by  neigh- 
bors. In  1892  he  married  Miss  Nellie  Dyer,  by 
whom  he  had  three  children:  George  Collins,  Grant, 
and  Bruce,  all  of  whom  survive  their  father.  Mrs 
Cleaver  died  in  1907. 

Mr.  Cleaver's  funeral  was  held  on  December  19, 
1918,  and  he  was  buried  in  the  Brick  Church  Ceme- 
tery, Catawissa. 

Secretary  of  State  Robert  Lansing  was  elected  at 
the  Peace  Conference,  President  of  the  Committee 
on  Responsibility  for  the  War.  The  Governor  of 
Massachusetts  has  reappointed  Robert  A.  Woods  as 
trustee  of  the  Norfolk  State  Hospital.  Mr.  Woods 
was  also  a  member  of  the  committee  appointed  by 
the  Mayor  of  Boston  to  welcome  President  Wilson 
on  his  return  from  the  Peace  Conference  on  February 
24th.  The  Rev.  Milo  H.  Gates,  rector  of  the  Chapel 
of  the  Intercession  in  New  York  City,  was  a  recent 


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college  preacher  at  Amherst.  On  January  5th  he 
held  a  special  service  marking  the  15th  anniversary 
of  his  vicarship.  In  the  Churchman  for  February 
8th  he  wrote  of  "The  Importance  of  the  Small 
Chapel." 

1887 
Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary. 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  World's  Work  for  January  contained  an  arti- 
cle by  George  B.  Mallon,  entitled  "The  Fighting 
Dollars,  Financing  the  War." 

1888 

William  B.  Greenough,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

32  Westminster  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Rev.  Herbert  P.  W^oodin,  for  eleven  years  pastor 
of  the  Elm  Street  Congregational  Church,  Auburn, 
Me.,  has  resigned  to  accept  the  pastorate  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Brattleboro,  Vt. 
Plymouth  Church  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  of  which  the 
Rev.  E.  L.  Marsh  is  pastor,  has  recently  dedicated  a 
new  church  building.  A  picture  of  the  pastor  ap- 
pears in  the  CongregationaJist  and  Advance  for 
March  27th. 

1889 

Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

15  Elm  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Because  of  his  appointment  as  one  of  the  Arme- 
nian Relief  Commissioners,  Arthur  Curtiss  James  has 
resigned  as  a  member  of  the  Commission  to  Inv^esti- 
gate  Port  Conditions  at  the  Port  of  New  York.  Mr. 
James  sailed  for  Armenia  in  January.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  New  York  committee  which  raised 
$30,000,000  for  relief  work  in  Armenia,  Syria,  and 
the  Near  East. 

Rev.  Robert  C.  Denison,  of  New  Haven,  Conn., 
has  been  serving  in  Serbia  as  a  Major  of  the  Ameri- 
can Red  Cross.  Major  Denison  has  been  doing  relief 
work  among  the  Serbs  and  establishing  Red  Cross 
stations  in  the  northern  part  of  the  country.  Rev. 
Claire  F.  Luther,  for  ten  years  pastor  of  the  West- 
ville  Congregational  Church  at  New  Haven,  Conn., 
has  resigned  to  accept  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  Oxford.  The  Rev.  Dr. 
William  H.  Day  has  accepted  an  invitation  to  go  to 
France  on  a  speaking  mission  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  National  Service  Com- 
mission of  the  Congregational  Churches  of  America. 

Daniel  V.  Thompson  has  been  Assistant  Field 
Director  of  General  Hospital  No.  1  in  New  York, 
Assistant  Field  Director  of  General  Hospital  No.  3 
at  Colonia,  N.  J.,  and  is  now  Field  Director  of  Con- 
valescent Hospital  No.  1,  Lawrenceville,  N.  J.  This 
is  a  reconstruction  post,  and  proposes  to  teach  sol- 
diers and  discharged  men  various  branches  of  agri- 
culture. 

Frank  Smith  Kenyon  died  at  his  home  in  Adams, 
N.  Y.,  on  February  17,  1!)19,  from  injuries  received 
when  he  was  struck  by  a  shifting  engine. 

Mr.  Kenyon  was  the  son  of  Henry  O.  and  Euretta 
E.  (Smith)  Kenyon  and  was  born  in  Adams,  N.  Y., 
on  January  25,  1807.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Adams  Collegiate  Institute,  and  after  one  year  at 
Amherst  entered  business,  becoming  a  traveling  rep- 
resentative for  H.  E.  Bucklin  and  Company,  Chi- 


cago, a  drug  firm.  He  remained  with  this  firm  until 
1889,  when  he  became  a  manufacturer  of  proprietary 
medicines  at  Adams,  N.  Y.,  in  partnership  with  his 
father.  Later  the  firm  name  became  Kenyon  and 
Thomas  Company.  He  remained  in  this  busines 
until  1901  when  he  was  appointed  postmaster  of 
Adams,  which  office  he  held  until  1917.  In  1915  he 
was  appointed  third  deputy  superintendent  of  banks 
and  a  year  ago  he  was  promoted  to  first  deputy  in 
Watertown,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  on  October  3,  1894,  to  Nellie, 
daughter  of  William  Owen,  who  survives  him,  to- 
gether with  one  child,  Owen  Kenyon,  Amherst,  '18. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

J.  Herbert  Low,  Principal  of  the  Erasmus  Hall 
High  School  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  has  been  elected 
President  of  the  Flatbush  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Rev.  G.  H.  Ewing  in  January  resigned  the  pastorate 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  at  Norwich- 
town,  Conn.,  to  enter  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  among  the 
Chinese  overseas. 

Former  Governor  Charles  S.  Whitman  is  one  of 
the  incorporators  of  the  Villages  Liberes,  an  or- 
ganization founded  to  give  "voluntary  aid,  relief, 
and  assistance  to  the  needy  people  of  France,  es- 
pecially in  the  hamlets  devastated  by  war."  Rev. 
Edward  P.  Kelley  is  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France. 

Bernard  F.  Tenney  enlisted  in  the  Quartermaster 
Corps  last  September  and  served  at  Jefferson  Bar- 
racks, Camp  Meigs,  and  Camp  Hill,  until  honorably 
discharged  in  January.  Previous  to  his  enlistment 
he  served  as  chairman  on  various  committees  in  Ada, 
and  was  organizer  and  Captain  of  Company  "E," 
11th  Battalion,  Minn.  Home  Guard. 

1891 

N.\,THAN  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

H.  W.  Boynton's  monthly  reviews  of  current  pub- 
lications in  The  Bookman  include  the  following 
titles:  "A  Round-up  of  Western  Stories"  in  Janu- 
ary, "The  Story -Telling  Art  in  Some  Current 
Novels"  in  February,  "Novels  of  Character  and 
Atmosphere"  in  March,  and  "Challenge  and 
Quest"  in  April. 

Capt.  Frederick  R.  Abbe,  Base  Hospital,  Camp 
Taylor,  has  been  discharged  and  has  resumed  his 
practice  at  15  Sayward  St.,  Dorchester,  Mass. 
Lieut.  Col.  Thomas  W.  Jackson,  Medical  Reserve 
Corps,  has  received  his  discharge  and  is  located  at 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  as  assistant  to  the  Commissioner 
of  Health. 

Edward  Blatchford  sailed  for  France  last  Decem- 
ber as  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary.  Edward  A.  Dodd 
was  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France  about  a  year. 
His  first  appointment  was  at  Camp  Coetqudon, 
France,  where  he  served  as  P^flucational  Secretary. 
P'rom  there  he  went  to  Neufchatcau  as  Chaplain  at 
Base  Hospital  No.  110  and  finally  was  sent  to  the 
Front  with  the  Headquarters  Co.  of  the  111th  In- 
fantry, remaining  until  the  signing  of  the  armistice, 
when  he  was  transferred  to  the  Swiss  Border  to 
receive  the  American  soldiers  who  had  been  im- 


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prisoned  in  Germany.    He  relumed  to  this  country 
last  January. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  So.  Summit  St.,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 

Ernest  W.  Tooker  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Suffolk  County  Trust  Co.  of  River- 
head,  N.  Y.  R.  L.  Williston  is  a  member  of  the 
Committee  on  Reception  to  soldiers  and  to  erect  a 
soldiers'  and  sailors'  Memorial  in  Northampton. 

Col.  Frederic  A.  Washburn,  Medical  Corps,  was 
discharged  from  service  April  7,  1919,  and  can  now 
be  reached  at  190  Bay  State  Road,  Boston,  Mass. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
Prof.  George  B.  Zug  of  Dartmouth  College  has 
given  up  his  teaching  duties  for  a  year  in  order  to 
do  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  the  army  camps  in  America. 
Conservation  Commissioner  George  D.  Pratt  had 
an  article  in  the  State  Revieiv  for  January  on  the 
"Development  of  State  Water  Powers."  The  Rev. 
Lewis  T.  Reed  was  vice  chairman  of  the  American 
and  Syrian  relief  drive  in  Brooklyn. 

Major  George  L.  Hamilton  of  the  Quartermas- 
ters' Department,  France,  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Colonel.  1st  Lieut.  Robert  L  Walker  is  in 
France  with  Base  Hospital  No.  91. 

On  April  4th,  seventeen  '93  men  sat  down  to  a 
beefsteak  dinner  at  the  Hotel  Highland,  Spring- 
field. The  excellent  arrangements  for  the  dinner 
were  made  by  Tower,  Chairman  of  the  Dinner 
Committee.  George  Pratt  came  on  from  Albany, 
Kimball  H.  G.  from  Washington,  D.  C,  Wood- 
worth  from  Brattleboro,  Senator  "Si"  Reed  and 
the  Honorable  "Shorty"  from  the  Legislative  Cham- 
bers "Under  the  Gilded  Dome,"  and  "Buff," 
"Whiskers,"  "Stubbie"  Taylor,  Dodge,  Barber, 
Frank  Smith,  Olmsted  R.  E.,  Hodgdon,  Gallinger, 
Na.sh,  Esty,  and  Allis  from  other  parts  of  Massa- 
chusetts. It  was  a  pleasant  evening,  not  the  least 
pleasant  being  the  excellent  wit  produced  by  Sena- 
tor "Si"  and  the  Honorable  "Shorty."  "Shorty," 
by  the  way,  as  a  member  of  the  two  important 
committees  of  the  House,  "Game  and  Fisheries" 
and  "Roads  and  Highways,"  is  one  of  the  real 
working  members  of  the  Legislature. 

During  the  evening,  several  matters  of  business 
were  transacted.  The  Treasurer  rendered  his  ac- 
counts, which  had  been  audited  by  Frank  Smith, 
and  they  were  ordered  approved.  It  was  voted  to 
hold  a  reunion  in  June,  1920.  It  was  announced 
that  on  the  first  Thursday  of  every  month  at  12.45 
o'clock  members  of  the  Class  in  the  vicinity  of 
Boston  would  gather  at  the  "Lounge"  of  the  City 
Club,  Boston,  and  take  luncheon  together.  Class 
members  having  old  photographs  and  memorabilia 
were  requested  to  send  them  to  Fred  Allis  at  Am- 
herst.    A  permanent  collection  is  being  formed. 

1894 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

The  Class  of  1894  is  preparing  to  celebrate  its 


25th  reunion  at  the  coming  commencement.  The 
headquarters  have  been  contracted  for  at  Hotel 
Perry.  A  large  tent  is  to  be  erected  below  the  library 
on  the  site  of  the  old  Colonel  Houghton  house,  and 
rooms  for  men  not  accompanied  by  their  wives  will 
be  assigned  in  the  Pratt  Dormitory.  Acceptances 
are  being  received  by  the  secretary  which  leads  him 
to  believe  that  there  will  be  a  large  gathering,  and 
the  other  classes  who  are  looking  forward  to  win- 
ning the  Trophy  Cup  will  have  considerable  diffi- 
culty in  doing  it.  The  Class  has  won  it  three  times, 
and  it  is  not  beyond  the  bounds  of  probability  that 
this  June  will  see  them  a  fourth  winner. 


1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
30  Church  St.,  New  York  City 

Charles  A.  Andrews  of  Waban  is  one  of  the  direc- 
tors of  the  recently  organized  Republican  League  of 
Massachusetts. 

Robert  H.  Mainzer,  who  as  a  civilian  has  taken 
an  active  interest  in  the  work  of  the  New  York  Fire 
Department  and  who  was  an  Honorary  Chief  of 
Battalion,  has  been  promoted  to  be  Honorary  Dep- 
uty Chief  of  the  Fire  Department  as  a  reward  for 
long  and  faithful  services,  culminating  in  deeds  of 
bravery  at  the  chemical  fire  at  the  foot  of  East 
Forty-eighth  St.  on  February  17th.  The  order  for 
the  promotion  stated  that  Mr.  Mainzer  had  sub- 
jected himself  to  unusually  severe  hazards  in  resus- 
citating thirty  firemen  who  had  been  overcome  by 
the  deadly  fumes. 

A  series  of  ten  articles  on  "The  Society  of  Free 
Nations,"  written  by  Dwight  W.  Morrow,  appeared 
in  the  New  York  Evening  Post  in  February  and 
March. 

John  P.  Deering,  who  represents  York  County  in 
the  Maine  Senate,  announced  in  March  that  he  is 
to  be  a  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomination  for 
governor  of  Maine.  Should  he  be  nominated  and 
elected,  the  Class  of  1895  would  have  the  unique 
distinction  of  having  two  of  its  members  governors 
of  the  two  largest  New  England  States.  Of  particu- 
lar interest  is  the  fact  that  while  in  college  Deering 
and  Governor  Coolidge  of  Massachusetts  were  also 
roommates,  so  if  the  Maine  man  is  the  winner,  1895 
will  have  a  record  perhaps  never  equaled  by  any 
other  class  in  any  college. 

Gov.  Calvin  Cooldige  of  Massachusetts  took  an 
active  part  in  the  recent  national  conference  of 
governors  at  Washington.  Governor  Coolidge  is 
one  of  the  incorporators  of  "Villages  Liberes,"  an 
organization  founded  to  give  relief,  aid,  and  as- 
sistance to  the  needy  people  in  France,  in  the 
hamlets  devastated  by  war. 

Capt.  Emmons  Bryant,  Q.  M.  C,  has  been  re- 
cently made  Regulating  Officer  at  Coblenz,  Ger- 
many. He  takes  care  of  nine  divisions  and  two 
army  corps. 

Saxe  H.  Hanford  entered  Y.  M.  C.  A.  service  last 
October.  After  serving  at  Paris  for  a  short  time  he 
was  transferred  to  the  "Leave  Area"  at  Nice.  He 
served  as  general  hut  secretary  and  is  now  in  charge 
of  automobile  trips  for  soldiers  through  the  Riviera. 


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1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

W.  Eugene  Kimball  was  married  on  Saturday, 
February  8th,  to  Mrs.  Josephine  Hotchkiss  Wil- 
liams in  the  chantry  of  St.  Thomas  Church,  New 
York  City,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Ernest  M.  Stires  officiating. 
They  went  to  Palm  Beach  for  their  honeymoon  and 
are  making  their  home  at  oil  Park  Ave.,  New  York. 

Prof.  Everett  Kimball  of  Smith  College  has  been 
elected  a  director  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  of  Northampton. 

The  Rev.  James  D.  Taylor,  D.D.,  of  South  Africa, 
lectured  at  Pilgrim  Hall,  Boston,  on  January  25th, 
on  "The  Black  Man  in  White  Man's  Africa,"  illus- 
trated with  views  showing  the  remarkable  industrial 
and  economical  development  of  South  Africa. 

Rev.  Edward  F.  Sanderson,  director  of  the  Peo- 
ple's Institute  of  New  York,  is  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Board  of 
Review  of  Motion  Pictures. 

Rev.  Herbert  A.  Jump,  pastor  of  the  Hanover  St. 
Congregational  Church,  Manchester,  N.  H.,  has 
been  granted  leave  of  absence  for  six  months,  be- 
ginning March  1st,  in  order  that  he  might  go  to 
France  as  one  of  a  company  of  specially  chosen  min- 
isters to  be  used  at  the  huts  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and 
at  the  camps  where  the  American  soldiers  are 
living. 

Rev.  John  Reid,  pastor  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  Franklin,  Mass.,  who  last  year  was 
given  a  leave  of  absence  to  take  up  field  work  among 
the  soldiers  at  the  U.  S.  Base  Hospital,  Norfolk,  Va., 
has  resigned  his  pastorate  as  his  present  work  will 
continue  for  many  months  and  he  feels  that  the 
church  should  have  a  pastor  meantime. 

Mortimer  L.  Schiff  has  recently  returned  from 
France,  where  he  went  as  a  member  of  the  Finance 
and  Executive  Committees  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and 
the  Jewish  Welfare  Board  to  take  up  the  matter  of 
the  coordinating  of  the  overseas  work  under  new 
conditions.  As  Senior  Vice  President  of  the  Boy 
Scouts  of  America,  Schiff  also  represented  the  Boy 
Scouts  as  special  commissioner  in  France.  Regard- 
ing criticism  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  he  says: 
"As  to  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  I  know  of  the  criticism, 
and  after  a  close  study  of  its  activities  I  believe  most 
of  it  is  without  basis.  We  must  not  overlook  the 
fact  that  now  is  the  time  of  faultfinding  that  our 
men  are  returning  home  dissatisfied  with  many 
things,  and  that  criticism  is  the  natural  reaction 
after  the  strain  of  war.  In  a  certain  way  much  of 
the  complaint  about  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  is  in  itself  a 
compliment.  Our  troops  have  become  so  accus- 
tomed to  the  service  it  renders  that  they  take  it 
for  granted  when  they  receive  it  and  complain  when 
it  is  absent.  Of  course  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  has  made 
mistakes,  and  some  serious  ones  at  that,  but  under 
the  conditions  under  wliich  it  has  had  to  work,  it 
would  be  surprising  if  this  were  not  the  case.  No- 
l)ody  who  has  not  been  there  can  understand  all  the 
difficulties  with  which  it  had  Lo  contend.  Take  the 
problem  of  transportation  alone. 

"When  I  was  in  Coblenz  early  in  January,  100 
carloads  of  supplies  were  on  the  road  between  there 


and  Paris,  and  none  had  arrived.  As  a  result  the 
shelves  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  were  bare.  I  can  well 
understand  how  the  average  soldier  should  have 
felt  about  this  and  blame  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. — even  I, 
who  know  the  situation,  thought  it  must  be  due  to 
mismanagement,  until  on  my  return  journey  I  found 
that  on  the  fastest  passenger  train,  owing  to  the 
congestion  of  traffic,  it  took  me  fourteen  hours  to 
go  from  Metz  to  Toul,  a  distance  of  about  fifty 
miles." 

Mr.  Schiff  has  been  appointed  by  Governor  Smith 
of  New  York  a  member  of  the  Reconstruction  Com- 
mittee which  will  attempt  to  solve  the  post-war 
problems  facing  the  state. 

Dr.  Charles  B.  Adams  is  practicing  medicine  at 
47  Irving  Place,  New  York  City.  Previous  to  last 
October  he  was  instructor  in  genitourinary  diseases 
at  the  Postgraduate  Medical  School  and  Hospital. 

Rev.  Joseph  N.  Haskell,  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in 
France,  writes  under  date  of  February  17th  from 
the  Riviera  where  he  was  then  on  sick  leave.  For 
some  months  after  reaching  France  he  taught  Eng- 
lish in  I'Ecole  d'Artillerie  at  Fontainebleau.  In  De- 
cember he  was  traversing  the  line  from  Damvillers 
in  the  north  to  below  Verdun.  His  mail  address  is 
in  care  of  the  Y'.  M.  C.  A.  12  rue  d'Aguesseau, 
Paris. 

Harrison  F.  Hunt  is  treasurer  of  the  Swett  & 
Sibley  Co.,  46  Cornhill,  Boston,  manufacturers  of 
ornamental  iron  and  grill  work.  The  President  of 
this  company  was  A.  H.  Swett,  '97,  whose  death 
was  reported  in  the  February  issue  of  the  Quar- 
terly. 

Lieut.  Merrill  E.  Gates,  Jr.,  is  claims  officer  for 
the  77th  Division,  France.  He  has  been  continu- 
ously with  the  77th  Division  since  September,  1917, 
as  one  of  the  assistants  to  the  Division  Quartermas- 
ter at  Camp  Upton  and  in  France.  The  Division 
went  overseas  in  April  and  after  two  months'  train- 
ing with  the  British  army  were  sent  to  the  front, 
where  they  saw  almost  continual  service  until  the 
signing  of  the  armistice,  first  in  the  Baccarat  Sector 
in  the  Vosges,  then  in  the  Vesle  Sector  and  finally 
in  the  Argonne. 

1st  Lieut.  Edward  F.  Perry  went  overseas  in 
June  and  was  located  at  Base  Hospital  No.  6  as 
Assistant  Surgeon  for  the  20th  Engineers  in  the 
Forestry  Section.  He  was  also  Assistant  Surgeon  at 
Base  Hospital  No.  22.  He  returned  to  this  country 
last  January  and  was  honorably  discharged. 

Edwin  Chaplin  Witherby,  '96,  whose  death  in  Bos- 
ton on  the  2,'5rd  of  P^ebruary  last  from  pneumonia 
followed  a  year  or  more  of  declining  health,  is  repre- 
sented by  a  single  line — his  name,  without  other  title 
or  degree, — among  Bachelors  of  Science  from  his 
class  in  the  most  recent  General  Catalogue  of 
Amherst  College.  His  career  was  one  the  College  will 
honor.  He  carried  into  life,  a  life  brief  but  destined 
to  large  and  practical  endeavor,  the  native  talent, 
integrity,  and  leadershij)  that  Amherst  seeks  to  de- 
velop in  its  men.  In  undergraduate  days,  with  "  small 
Latin  and  less  (Jreek."  he  was  conspicuous  as  a  stu- 
dent in  all  lines  of  lliouglit  and  activity  l)earing  on 
modern  industry  and  scientific  method.  He  not  only 
earned  an  election  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  but  also  won 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


the  Bond  Prize  as  speaker  on  the  1896  Commence- 
ment stage. 

Witherby  went  from  college  to  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology  and  after  his  post-graduate 
years  proceeded  at  once  to  what  was  to  be  his  first 
and  last  job,  working  up  from  the  bottom  to  a 
leading  place  with  the  Semet-Solvay  Company,  an 
American  branch  of  the  famous  Belgian  soda-ash 
concern,  at  its  plant  in  the  limestone  region  of  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.  He  began  as  superintendent  of  coke 
ovens,  about  1898  travelling  six  nights  in  every 
seven  to  remote  plants  in  Michigan,  Pennsylvania, 
West  Virginia  and  Alabama.  Twenty  years  later,  he 
bore  varied  and  still  weightier  responsibilities  as 
vice  president  of  the  Semet-Solvay  Co.,  charged 
with  a  vast  war  work;  trustee  of  the  estate  of  his 
father-in-law,  the  late  Frederick  R.  Hazard,  of  that 
company,  and  director  in  many  industries,  banks, 
and  charities  of  Central  New  York. 

His  classmates  recall  Witherby  as  a  tall,  athletic, 
sunny  tempered  chap,  who  made  friends  both  by 
his  engaging  personal  traits  and  his  early  manifest 
ability  and  character.  He  leaves  a  widow  and  three 
children,  whose  home  is  on  the  Hazard  estate  in  the 
hills  west  of  vSyracuse,  overlooking  Onondaga  Lake. 
Mrs.  Hazard  and  Mrs.  Witherby  were  with  him 
during  a  year's  fight  for  health  at  Narragansett 
Pier,  and  afterward  at  the  hospital  in  Boston  where 
he  died.  He  was  buried  near  his  parents'  home  and 
own  birthplace  at  Worcester,  Mass. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
.56  William  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

The  22d  annual  dinner  of  the  Class  of  1897  was 
held  at  the  Boston  City  Club,  on  .Saturday,  March 
1,  1919.  Those  present  were:  Bird,  Bragg,  Butler, 
Campbell,  Carnell,  Downey,  Fletcher,  H.  G., 
Fletcher,  R.  S.,  Frisbee,  Gates,  C.  M.,  Griffin,  Hall, 
L.  H.,  Hawes,  A.  T.,  Hawes,  M.  G.,  Lamson, 
McEvoy,  Maxwell,  Obear,  Perry,  Richmond,  Tits- 
worth,  Thayer,  and  Wilde. 

President  Carnell  made  optimistic  patriotism  the 
keynote  of  the  meeting,  and  Toastmaster  Bird 
elaborated  the  theme  so  that  each  one  might 
frankly  state  his  own  contribution  to  national  wel- 
fare. Backus,  Bradley,  Emerson,  Ingersoll,  Jack- 
son, Moses,  and  Patch  were  named  in  connection 
with  foreign  service;  while  Ballou,  Cobb,  W.  G. 
Hawes,  Holt,  and  others  are  still  associated  with 
war  activities  in  this  country.  Every  man  in  the 
class  has  done  some  distinctive  work.  Special 
tribute  was  given  to  Emerson,  who  went  from  the 
Walter  Reed  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C,  January 
8th,  as  surgeon  for  the  American  Red  Cross  in 
Siberia. 

The  Class  voted  $250  to  help  defray  the  expenses 
of  the  Alumni  Council  in  Amherst. 

E.  M.  Blake,  whose  .service  in  constructing  the 
Liberty  Shipyard  Drydock  became  well  known,  has 
left  Boston  to  accept  the  position  of  Production 
Manager  for  Chas.  R.  McCormick  &  Company, 
Fife  Bldg.,  San  Francisco.  That  firm  handles  lum- 
ber, steamship,  wood  preserving,  and  export  lines. 

Rev.  W.  J.  Ballou,  of  Ludlow,  Vt.,  sailed  in  March 
to  engage  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  overseas  as  a  hut 


superintendent,  his  church  having  granted  him  a 
six  months  leave  of  absence. 

The  New  Republic  for  February  22d  contained  an 
article  by  Prof.  Percy  H.  Boynton  on  "Lowell  in 
His  Times." 

First  Lieut,  and  Chaplain  William  B.  Gates  has 
been  transferred  from  the  330th  Infantry  to  the 
Senior  Chaplain's  Office  at  the  Headquarters  at 
Le  Mans,  as  School  Officer  for  the  American  Em- 
barkation Center.  He  has  charge  of  the  Army 
Educational  work  for  the  soldiers  in  this  area. 

Gilbert  H.  Grosvenor  completed  in  April  the  twen- 
tieth anniversary  of  his  connection  with  the  National 
Geographic  Society.  During  this  period  the  Society 
has  grown  from  a  body  of  900  members  to  the  largest 
scientific  society  in  the  world,  with  more  than 
700,000  members,  numerous  educational  and  re- 
search activities,  and  a  record  of  exploration  ranging 
from  the  aid  given  the  Peary  expedition  which  dis- 
covered the  North  Pole  to  those  which  discovered 
the  Valley  of  Ten  Thousand  Smokes,  in  Alaska,  and 
uncovered  the  wonders  of  Machu  Picchu,  the  lost 
city  of  the  Incas,  in  Peru.  The  appeal  of  its  maga- 
zine so  extended  its  membership  that  the  income 
enabled  the  Society  to  undertake  a  wide  range  of 
activities,  such  as  its  many  explorations;  its  prepa- 
ration of  maps,  like  those  of  Europe's  battle  fronts 
and  of  the  races  of  Europe:  the  printing  of  such 
elaborate  series  as  that  of  the  1,200  flags  in  colors, 
including  those  of  all  civilized  nations,  every  state 
in  the  Union,  historic  standards  and  signal  flags; 
sending  daily  and  without  cost  to  more  than  500 
newspapers  a  geographic  bulletin  service;  and 
granting  outright  $20,000  to  help  purchase  a  section 
of  land  to  be  added  to  the  Sequoia  National  Park 
and  thus  save  from  the  woodman  the  giant  red- 
woods, the  nation's  biggest  trees  and  the  oldest 
living  things  in  exsitence.  The  Society  is  housed 
in  beautiful  buildings  on  16th  and  M  streets  and 
gives  employment  to  more  than  500  persons  in 
Washington.  Outside  of  the  Government  it  is  the 
largest  customer  of  the  Washington  City  post  office. 
Grosvenor  has  recently  been  commended  by  the 
Board  of  Managers  of  the  Society  for  his  superb 
work  in  creating  an  organization  which  has  meant 
so  much  in  the  history  of  the  Capitol. 


1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 
201  College  Ave.  N.  E.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

The  Mittineague  (Mass.)  Congregational  Church 
has  granted  three  months  leave  of  ab.sence  to  its 
pastor,  the  Rev.  Oliver  B.  Loud,  to  engage  in  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  work. 

The  Independent  for  January  18th  contained  an 
article  by  Harold  J.  Howland,' entitled  "Theodore 
Roosevelt  and  His  Times."  "Battling  against  a 
Deep-Rooted  Evil"  is  the  title  of  an  article  in  The 
Congregationaiist  and  Advance  for  February  13th  by 
the  Rev.  F.  Q.  Blanchard.  Edward  H.  Barnum, 
advertising  manager  on  the  Pacific  Coast  for  the 
B.  F.  Goodrich  Rubber  Company,  was  the  author 
of  an  article  in  the  Christmas  number  of  the  San 
P'rancisco  News  Letter,  entitled  "Obligations  to  Vic- 
tory; How  Peace  Came  to  Sausalito." 


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107 


Prof.  H.  D.  Brarkett  of  Clark  College  has  been 
elected  vice  president  of  the  Classical  Association 
of  New  England. 

Since  last  December,  Capt.  Walter  H.  Eddy  has 
been  acting  director  of  the  overseas  .section  of  Food 
and  Nutrition.  His  headquarters  are  at  Dijon  but 
he  travels  all  over  France  and  Germany  to  oversee 
the  work  of  his  men. 

1899 

LiEUT.-CoL.  C.  I.  De  Witt,  Secretary, 
2318  20th  St.  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Virginia  Post  Brown,  aged  14,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Donald  W.  Brown,  '99,  and  grand- 
daughter of  William  Reynolds  Brown,  '69,  died  in 
New  York  on  Sunday,  March  9th.. 

The  New  York  Times  for  January  20th  contained 
a  strong  endorsement  on  the  editorial  page — 2  col- 
umns— of  "The  Y'.  M.  C.  A.  and  the  Army,"  written 
by  Burges  Johnson,  answering  the  criticisms  con- 
cerning the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  as  regards  methods  and 
personnel.  The  New  York  Times  Magazine  Supple- 
ment for  February  9th  contained  an  article  by 
Lieut.  Emery  Pottle,  entitled  "The  Riot  of  Joy  in 
Alsace." 

Major  James  C.  Graves,  M.  C,  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  General  Pershing  as  one  of  the  ten 
physicians  to  represent  this  country  at  an  inter- 
allied conference  upon  the  problem  of  the  disabled 
soldier,  to  be  held  in  Rome  May  19th. 

After  serving  a  two  years'  term  on  the  Board  of 
Education  of  the  City  of  New  York,  Walter  H.  Gil- 
patric  has  been  appointed  a  trustee  of  Hunter  Col- 
lege of  the  City  of  New  York  for  a  term  of  nine 
years.  While  on  the  Board  of  Education  he  was 
chairman  of  the  War  Service  Committee,  and  dur- 
ing the  year  1917  organized  the  teaching  staff,  as 
well  as  the  scholars,  along  many  war  service  activi- 
ties. 

1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  St.,  New  York  City 

Major  Thomas  J.  Hammond  has  been  re-elected 
City  Solicitor  of  Northampton.  He  received  his 
discharge  from  the  army  at  Camp  Dix  on  January 
25th.  Major  Hammond  went  to  France  as  a  Cap- 
tain with  the  104th  Infantry,  26th  Division,  in  July 
1917,  participated  in  the  battles  of  Chateau-Thierry, 
St.  Mihiel  and  the  Argonne  Forest,  and  up  to  No- 
vember 8th,  1918,  he  was  away  from  his  company 
only  48  hours. 

Harold  I.  Pratt  has  been  elected  a  trustee  of  the 
Brooklyn  Trust  Company.  Rev.  George  H.  Driver 
has  decided  to  remain  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  service  and 
he  is  at  present  at  Camp  Mills  on  Long  Island. 

The  war  book,  "With  the  Help  of  God  and  a  Few 
Marines,  "on  which  Walter  A.  Dyer  collaborated 
with  Brigadier  General  A.  W.  Catlin,  leaped  into 
the  best-seller  class  shortly  after  publication  and 
has  gone  through  its  third  edition.  Recent  maga- 
zine contributions  by  Mr.  Dyer  include  the  follow- 
ing: "The  Furniture  of  the  Italian  Renaissance — 
and  Appreciation,"  in  The  Architectural  Record  for 
January;      "Distinguishing    Insignia    for    Disting- 


uished Authors,"  in  The  Bookman  for  February; 
"Looking-Glasses  Old  and  New,"  in  Arts  and  Dec- 
oration for  February;  "The  New  Crop  of  Garden 
Books,"  in  The  Bookman  for  March,  and  "The 
United  States  Marines,"  in  The  Bookman  for  April. 
After  a  winter  spent  in  New  Y'ork,  Dyer  has  re- 
turned for  the  summer  to  his  farm  in  the  Pelham 
Hills. 

Ray  S.  Hubbard,  with  the  War  Camp  Community 
Service,  has  been  transferred  from  Massachusetts 
to  Albany,  N.  Y.  According  to  General  Munson, 
chief  of  the  morale  branch  of  General  Staff,  Harold 
Goddard's  book,  "Morale,"  has  been  routed  for 
reading  to  the  members  of  the  new  morale  staff 
which  was  recently  appointed.  Frederick  P.  Young 
has  resigned  his  pastorate  in  South  Brooklyn  to  go 
into  business.  He  is  now  a  bond  salesman  with  the 
National  City  Company  of  New  Y^ork. 

An  exceptionally  interesting  pamphlet  on"  Teach- 
ers' Salaries  and  Cost  of  Living"  was  recently  issued 
by  the  National  Education  Association.  It  embodies 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Teachers'  Salaries, 
Tenure,  and  Pensions,  of  which  President  Joseph 
Swain  of  Swarthmore  is  chairman,  and  it  is  of  vital 
interest  to  all  in  the  teaching  profession.  Credit  is 
given  to  Prof.  Harold  C.  Goddard  '00,  of  Swarth- 
more, for  editing  the  report  and  for  contributing  the 
leading  article  on  "The  Nation  and  the  Crisis  in 
Its  Schools. 

Walter  L.  Righter  attended  the  Field  Artillery 
Central  Officers'  Training  School  at  Camp  Zachary 
Taylor  last  fall  and  was  commissioned  a  Major. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  Street,  New  York  City 
Major  Bradford  Butler  was  among  the  first 
U.  S.  officers  to  reach  German  territory.  He  was 
serving  at  Ahrweiler,  Germany,  as  judge  advocate 
with  the  Rainbow  Division  of  the  Third  Army  of 
Occupation.  He  has  helped  to  prepare  the  code 
for  dealing  with  the  offenses  committed  by  the  civil 
population  in  Germany  through  provost  courts. 
Maj.  Butler's  familiarity  with  the  German  language 
eminently  equips  him  for  his  position. 

Rev.  Charles  N.  Lovell  is  now  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Monson  Mass. 

Capt.  John  R.  Herrick  is  in  France  with  Base 
Hospital  No.  99. — Major  Harry  V.  D.  Moore  at- 
tended the  Army  General  Staff  College  last  October 
and  after  graduation  was  assigned  as  Assistant  Chief 
of  Staff'  of  the  36th  Division  and  handles  the  intelli- 
gence end  of  the  General  Staff  work. 

1902 

The  whole  College  mourns  with  the  Class  of  1902, 
the  sudden  death  of  its  Secretary,  Eldon  Bradford 
Keith  who  died  of  i)neumonia  in  London,  on  Feb- 
ruary 23d,  after  but  a  very  brief  illness.  He  had  gone 
to  England  in  the  Service  of  the  Nation,  having  been 
appointed  by  Secretary  Wilson,  on  a  special  Com- 
mission to  study  labor  conditions  in  Eurojjc. 

Eldon  Keith  was  the  son  of  George  E.  and  Anna 
G.  (Reed)  Keith.  He  was  born  in  Campello,  Brock- 
ton, Mass.  October  18th,  1879.  He  was  graduated 
from  High  School  in  '98,  and  from  Amherst  in  1902. 


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AlVfflERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


He  married  Lulie  H.  KeitH  of  Brockton  May  20, 
1903.  Mrs.  Keith  and  two  sons,  besides  his  father, 
and  his  brother  Capt.  Harold  C.  Keith,  Amherst 
1908  survive  him. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Chi  Phi  Fraternity,  and 
very  active  in  the  erection  of  its  new  Chapter  House. 
At  the  close  of  his  senior  year  he  was  elected  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa.  As  permanent  Class  Secretary  he 
gave  generously  of  his  time  and  thought  to  this 
work.  To  him  the  class  owes  much  of  the  "Esprit 
de  Corps"  which  has  always  characterized  its  differ- 
ent Reunions. 

After  leaving  Amherst  he  became  Assistant  Treas- 
urer of  the  George  E.  Keith  Company  of  Brockton, 
and  in  1906  he  was  made  Treasurer  of  this  large 
Corporation.  He  was  a  Director  of  the  Brockton 
National  Bank,  Treasiu-er  of  D.  Armstrong  Co., 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  Trustee  of  the  Peoples  Savings 
Bank  of  Brockton,  a  Director  of  the  Eastern  Mfg. 
Co.  of  Bangor,  Maine,  and  of  the  Liberty  Mutual 
Insurance  Co.  of  Boston. 

For  fifteen  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Brockton 
School  Board,  and  for  the  past  six  years  its  Presi- 
dent. His  vision  and  accomplishment  in  this  work 
was  marked.  In  1912  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Re- 
publican National  Convention  in  Chicago. 

Keith  was  very  prominent  in  various  War  Work 
activities.  He  was  Plymouth  County  Chairman 
of  the  War  Savings  Campaign,  Regional  Director 
of  the  Committee  for  the  Supervision  of  War 
Industries,  and  was  Chairman  of  the  sub-committee 
having  in  charge  the  solicitations  of  large  contrib- 
utors in  the  Fourth  Liberty  Loan  Campaign  in 
Brockton.  Only  these  pressing  duties  kept  him 
from  going  overseas  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Notwithstanding  all  these  other  demands,  he 
found  time  for  active  religious  and  social  work.  For 
seventeen  years  he  was  a  Trustee  and  active  worker 
in  the  South  Church  of  Brockton.  At  the  same 
time  he  was  one  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Brockton  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  being  its  President  in  1909 
and  1910. 

A  quiet  efficiency  extended  to  all  that  he  did  in 
this  busy  career.  Always  a  student  and  a  thinker 
he  worked  continually  for  the  higher  good.  A  practi- 
cal minded  man  he  never  lost  sight  of  his  ideals. 
Garmans  Philosophy  of  "Sovereignty  through  Ser- 
vice" he  faithfully  exemplified  in  all  he  did. 

Eldon  Keith  was  a  worthy  son  of  Amherst  Col- 
lege— higher  commendation  than  this,  no  real 
Amherst  man  may  seek  to  deserve. 

Captain  Howard  W.  Irwin  of  Winthrop,  Mass., 
formerly  superintendent  of  equipment  of  the  Bay 
State  Street  Railway  Company  and  a  member  of 
the  118th  Engineers,  died  at  Camp  de  Grasse, 
France,  on  January  6th,  following  an  attack  of  pneu- 
monia. He  was  a  nephew  of  Judge  Richard  Irwin 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  Massachusetts. 

His  death  is  noted  under  "Roll  of  Honor  in 
this  issue  of  the  Quarterly. 

Anson  Ely  Morse  is  head  of  the  educational  de- 
partment of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  Rome.  This  work  is 
being  put  on  a  permanent  basis  for  time  of  peace. 
He  has  received  a  war  service  badge  from  the  Ital- 
ian Government. 

John  Eastman  was  elected  m  March  Selectman 
for  the  town  of  Wellesley. — Captain  Fred  H.  Allen 


of  the  Medical  Corps,  who  served  during  the  war  at 
Camp  Oglethorpe,  has  been  discharged  and  has  re- 
turned to  his  home  and  practice  in  Holyoke. 

The  Rev.  Jason  Noble  Pierce  has  returned  to  his 
post  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational  Church 
of  Dorchester.  He  has  been  overseas  for  eight 
months  and  has  risen  to  the  position  of  Senior  Chap- 
lain of  the  Second  Division.  He  has  accompanied 
the  Army  of  Occupation  and  so  has  become  familiar 
with  the  region  around  the  Rhine.  All  reports  speak 
of  Chaplain  Pierce  as  having  conducted  himself  with 
notable  gallantry.  He  narrowly  escaped  a  serious 
disaster  not  long  ago  when  the  horse  which  he  was 
riding  slipped  and  he  was  thrown  under  a  truck. 
Only  his  steel  helmet  prevented  a  severe  injury.  A 
wheel  of  the  truck  passed  over  his  hand,  but  as  the 
ground  was  soft,  no  bones  were  broken. 


1903 

Clifford  P.  Warren, 
354  Congress  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Ralph  H.  Clarke,  Treasurer  of  the  Wheeler 
Osgood  Company  of  Tacoma,  Wash.,  and  one  of  the 
leading  business  men  in  that  city,  died  from  pneu- 
monia following  an  attack  of  influenza,  on  January 
24,  1919. 

He  was  born  in  Tacoma,  on  January  14,  1881. 
Most  of  his  school  years  were  spent  in  Portland,  and 
from  the  high  school  there  he  went  to  Pacific  Uni- 
versity, Forest  Grove,  Oregon.  He  entered  Amherst 
at  the  beginning  of  his  Junior  year  and  became  a 
member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi.  Upon  graduation  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Wheeler-Osgood  Com- 
pany, of  Tacoma,  large  manufacturers  of  yellow  fir 
doors,  mouldings,  sashes,  shingles  and  the  like,  soon 
becoming  its  Treasurer. 

The  outstanding  quality  of  the  man  was  depend- 
ability. His  friendship  and  loyalties  were  strong, 
his  ideals  of  the  highest.  There  was  in  him  no  swerv- 
ing or  pretense,  but  a  straightforward  assertion  in 
act  and  word  of  the  things  in  which  he  believed.  In 
many  regards  he  was  a  modern  and  a  most  friendly 
and  lovable  Puritan. 

Mr.  Clarke's  father  spent  many  years  of  his  life 
in  the  town  of  Amherst,  and  his  three  brothers  are 
graduates  of  the  college,  Capt.  W.  D.  Clarke  of  1902, 
Alfred  H.  Clarke  of  1911,  and  Herbert  H.  Clarke  of 
1912.  He  married  Edna  Stenagle,  who  also  sur- 
vives him. 

Mrs.  Thomas  F.  Burke  died  at  Lowell,  Mass., 
Christmas  morning,  1918.  Those  who  met  Mrs. 
Burke  and  her  very  charming  little  daughter  at  the 
reunion  at  Amherst  in  June  will  particularly  sym- 
pathize with  Tom  in  his  great  loss. 

Alpheus  H.  Favour  and  Arthur  G.  Baker,  both  of 
1903,  have  formed  a  partnership  with  Howard  Cor- 
nick,  formerly  of  Knoxville,  Tenn.  The  partnership 
has  opened  its  office  for  the  general  practice  of  law  at 
Prescott,  Ariz.,  under  the  name  of  Favour  &  Cornick. 

Harold  Abbott  Varnum,  formerly  city  solicitor  of 
Lowell,  Mass.,  died  on  March  9th  at  his  home,  89 
Varnum  Avenue,  after  a  long  illness. 

He  was  born  in  Lowell  in  1880,  graduated  from 
Amherst  in  1903,  and  from  Harvard  law  school  in 
1906.    He  then  entered  into  the  practice  of  law  in 


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109 


Lowell,    being     elected     city    solicitor    five    years 
ago. 

At  Amherst  Mr.  Varnura  was  a  member  of  the 
Theta  Delta  Chi  Fraternity.  He  played  tackle  for 
three  years  on  the  Amherst  football  team  when 
Amherst  defeated  Harvard  and  Dartmouth  the 
same  year.  He  also  held  the  college  strength  rec- 
ord. He  was  a  member  of  the  Kilwinning  lodge, 
A.  and  F.  M.  of  the  Yorick  Club  and  the  Vesper 
Country  Club.  He  is  survived  by  his  mother,  Mrs. 
A.  C.  Varnum,  and  a  brother,  Arthur  Varnum. 

Henry  B.  Gould  served  with  the  New  York 
Guards  from  October  1917  until  May  1918  when 
he  was  appointed  a  1st  lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Army 
and  assigned  to  Co.  A,  l^th  Battalion,  U.  S.  Guards 
Ft.  Niagara.  This  Company  was  on  guard  duty  at 
Cramp's  Shipyard  at  Philadelphia  until  last  January 
when  it  was  sent  to  Camp  Dix  to  be  mustered  out. 
Lieut.  Gould  was  then  assigned  to  the  Casual 
Officers  Detachment  at  Camp  Dix  from  which  he 
was  discharged  last  March. 

1904 

Karl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
11336  Knowlton  Ave.  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

G.  G.  Newell  is  teaching  English  at  Mount 
Hermon. — F.  W.  Whitman  has  been  transferred 
from  the  Chicago  office  of  the  Oneida  Community 
Silverware  Company,  to  the  main  factory  in  Oneida, 
N.  Y. — E.  J.  Eaton  became  principal  of  the  West 
High  School  in  Des  Moines  September  1918,  after 
two  years  of  successful  service  as  principal  of  the 
North  High  School  of  the  same  city. 

C.  A.  Legg  is  in  private  legal  practice  in  Chicago, 
with  offices  at  Room  1 177,  208  La  Salle  St.  The  Out- 
look for  January  29th  contained  three  poems  by 
William  Northrup  Morse,  under  the  title  "Three 
Songs  of  Child  Life." 

As  stated  in  the  last  issue  of  the  Quarterly, 
Joseph  B.  Eastman  has  been  named  by  the  Presi- 
dent a  member  of  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission. The  Traffic  World  referring  to  the  appoint- 
ment speaks  of  Commissioner  Eastman  as  follows: 

"His  nomination  is  received  with  great  satis- 
faction among  those  who  know  him,  and  especially 
by  those  in  touch  with  the  state  railroad  com- 
missioners. The  appointment  is  especially  pleas- 
ing to  Charles  E.  Elmquist,  the  representative  in 
Washington  of  the  national  association  of  railroad 
compiissioncrs.  Mr.  Eastman's  prospective  col- 
leagues on  the  Commission  naturally  would  not  com- 
ment on  him,  but  it  is  known  that  several  of  them 
regard  him  as  exceptionally  well  fitted  for  the  work — 
fitted  by  experience  in  the  regulation  of  state  rates, 
by  close  study,  and  by  a  poise  and  vision  that  will 
enable  him  to  go  into  the  work  of  the  national  body 
with  every  promise  of  making  a  good  record." 

Capt.  A.  Otto  Baumann  of  Co.  K,  147th  Inf., 
has  returned  to  this  country.  Capt.  Baumann  saw 
his  last  bit  of  active  duty  in  the  Argonne  region 
last  Septemb(!r.  Major  Welsh,  owing  to  an  attack 
of  illness,  was  unable  to  take  command  of  his  bat- 
talion in  the  147th  Inf.  and  Capt.  Baumann,  who 
was  senior  captain,  took  his  place.  It  was  during 
this  battle  that  he  was  severely  gassed  and  also  suf- 


fered from  shell-shock.  He  spent  some  time  in  a 
hospital  in  France  and  upon  his  return  to  this 
country  was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Hampton  Roads 
and  later  transferred  to  Camp  Sherman. 

Gordon  C.  Smith  received  a  commission  as  Cap- 
tain in  the  Engineers  Corps  last  October  and  was 
discharged  from  service  in  December.  He  had  been 
attached  to  the  403rd  Engineers  at  Fort  Douglas 
and  in  training  at  Camp  Humphreys. 

William  N.  Morse  is  Americanization  Secretary 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  Chester,  Pa. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 

309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1905  was  represented  at  the  big  New  York  Vic- 
tory dinner  by  Alpers,  Baily,  Baldwin,  Crossett, 
Crowell,  Cruikshank,  Fuess,  Gilbert,  Hopkins,  Nash, 
Nickerson,  O'Brien,  Palmer,  Pease,  Raftery, 
Rathbun  and  Wing.  Of  these,  Cruikshank  came 
all  the  way  from  Ottawa,  Canada,  Crossett  from 
Washington,  Pease  from  Northampton,  Fuess  from 
Andover  and  Senator  Broder  from  Hartford. 

Edward  C.  Cros.sett  was  in  January  appointed 
director  of  the  Department  of  Development  of  the 
American  Red  Cross,  to  succeed  James  G.  Blaine, 
Jr.  On  completion  of  his  work  at  Washington  he 
will  go  to  his  summer  home  at  Wianno  on  Cape  Cod, 
returning  to  Davenport,  Iowa,  in  the  fall — Robert 
J.  Bottomly  was  a  member  of  the  committee  ap- 
pointed by  the  Mayor  of  Boston  to  welcome 
President  Wilson  on  his  return  from  the  Peace 
Conference  on  February  24th. 

George  Schwab  expects  soon  to  return  to  West 
Africa,  after  spending  his  sabbatical  year  in  this 
country.  He  has  been  spending  his  time  studying 
anthropology  at  Harvard  University.  He  has  also 
been  busy  in  preparing  a  map  for  the  Peace  Confer- 
ence, showing  the  distribution  of  African  tribes. 
The  completed  sections  were  sent  to  Paris  on  New 
Year's  Eve.  The  map  was  on  a  1:2000000  scale 
large  enough  to  paper  a  small  room. 

Blyth,  Witter  and  Company  of  San  Francisco 
(Charles  R.  Blyth,  '05)  have  opened  offices  at  61 
Broadway,  New  York  City,  to  deal  in  municipal 
and  corporation  bonds.  Blyth  will  remain  in  San 
Francisco. — C.  C.  McTernan,  owner  of  the 
McTernan  School  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  has  built 
a  new  school  building  on  Columbia  Boulevard  of 
that  city — George  A.  Brown  writes  from  Panama 
that  he  is  already  making  his  plans  to  attend  the 
class  reunion  at  Amherst  in  June,  1920. 

Major  Claude  N.  Fuess  has  been  mustered  out  of 
service.  He  was  first  sent  to  Camp  Johnston,  Jack- 
sonville, Fla.,  and  later  was  assigned  in  the  Quarter- 
master General's  office  in  Washington. 

The  Rev.  Fritz  W.  Baldwin  is  making  his  home 
at  44  Marlboro  Road,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 
202  Lake  Ave.  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

John  D.  Willard  has  been  appointed  by  the  trus- 
tees  of  M.  A.  C.  as  extension  professor  of  agricult- 


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ural  economics.  He  has  had  a  wide  experience  in  so- 
cial and  economic  work  in  Massachusetts.  For  some 
time  he  was  the  agent  of  the  Society  for  the 
Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children  and  later  became 
secretary  of  the  Franklin  County  Fa  "m  Bureau. 

Professor  Albert  E.  Rand  of  BroT/n  University 
has  returned  from  service  in  France — Captain 
Walter  F.  Pond  of  the  Engineers  has  received  his 
discharge  and  has  returned  to  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology  to  complete  his  interrupted 
post  graduate  studies. 

Bruce  Barton  has  formed  a  new  advertising 
agency  in  New  York  with  Roy  S.  Durstine,  to  be 
known  as  the  Barton  and  Durstine  Company.  In 
the  Red  Cross  Magazine  for  March  he  wrote  of 
"What  has  the  War  Done  for  the  Preacher,"  and 
in  the  American  Magazine  for  March  he  had  an 
article  in  "How  High  Do  You  Stand  In  the  Rating 
Scale. " 

1st  Lieut.  R.  Jewett  Jones  received  his  discharge 
last  December  and  has  returned  to  St.  Louis. — 
Lewis  W.  Everett  of  the  6th  Regiment,  U.  S.  Ma- 
rines, has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  2d  Lieuten- 
ant. He  is  with  the  Army  of  Occupation. — Claude 
T.  Wilson  is  a  Lieutenant,  Senior  Grade,  with  the 
rank  of  Civil  Engineer  in  the  Civil  Engineer  Corps, 
U.  S.  N.  He  enlisted  for  the  duration  of  the  war 
and  was  in  January  stationed  at  the  Fifth  Naval 
District,  Hampton  Roads,  Va.,  on  the  staff  of  the 
Public  Works  Officer,  Admiral  F.  R.  Harris. 

1908 

H.\RRY  W.  ZiNSMASTER,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 

The  new  Attorney  General  of  New  York  State 
has  reappointed  Roscoe  S.  Conkling  Deputy  Attor- 
ney General  as  chief  of  the  bureau  in  New  York  City. 
This  is  a  very  high  honor.  Until  called  for  war  work 
where  he  won  the  title  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  he 
was  Deputy  Attorney  General  in  the  Whitman 
administration.  He  now  succeeds  Alfred  L.  Becker 
who  investigated  evidences  of  German  propaganda. 
He  has  more  recently  resigned  in  order  to  enter  the 
banking  house  of  Goldman  Sachs  and  Company  of 
New  York. 

Frederick  P.  Smith,  formerly  assistant  to  General 
Counsel,  United  States  Railroad  Administration, 
has  become  associated  in  the  practice  of  law  with 
Crowell  and  Rouse  (J.  D.  Crowell,  '05,)  at  24  Broad 
Street,  New  York  City. 

Harold  J.  Baily  has  resumed  the  practice  of  law 
at  32  Liberty  Street,  New  York  City,  after  com- 
pleting his  work  as  special  attorney  for  war  work 
in  the  Department  of  Justice.  His  work  had  to  do 
with  the  enforcement  of  the  dry  and  vice  zones 
around  military  camps,  drafting  needed  legislation, 
suppression  of  enemy  propaganda  and  the  enforce- 
ment of  war  statutes.  The  most  important  work 
was  done  in  connection  with  the  preparation  of  the 
government's  briefs  in  the  appeals  from  convictions 
under  the  Espionage  Act  which  have  so  far  reached 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  U.  S.,  of  which  cases 
Debs  vs.  U.  S.  is  the  most  famous. 

Charles  E.  Merrill,  First  Lieutenant  Army  Avi- 
ation, has  received  his  discharge  from  the  service 


and  is  again  with  ^lerrill,  Lynch  and  Company, 
New  York. — Dr.  Marston  L.  Hamlin  has  joined 
the  staff  of  Ricketts  and  Co.,  Inc.,  280  Madison 
Avenue,  New  York  City. — Ned  Powley  after  a 
severe  attack  of  the  "Flu"  in  Seattle  is  back  at  his 
work  in  San  Francisco.  He  has  been  recently  elected 
a  Director  of  the  Pacific  Tel.  &  Tel.  Company. 

Capt.  M.  H.  Post,  Jr.,  of  the  Medical  Corps  is  now 
back  in  St.  Louis  after  a  year's  absence  in  England. 

Capt.  Paul  Welles  who  is  still  in  France  in  the 
Signal  Corps  may  go  into  business  in  Paris. — H.  C. 
Keith  is  now  back  in  Campcllo,  after  serving  as  a 
Captain  in  the  Quartermaster's  Department  at 
Washington.  H.  W.  Zinsmaster  was  recently  elect- 
ed Treasurer  of  the  National  Association  of  the 
Baking  Industry. 

James  P.  Fleming  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C.  He  is  still  in  charge  of 
Salvage  Unit  No.  18  of  the  77th  Division,  France. 

The. following  is  a  list  of  the  1908  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached: 
Roscoe  Conkling,  Goldman,  Sachs  &  Co..  60  Wall 
St.,  New  York,  N.  Y.,  Kenneth  M.  Gibson,  27 
Washington  Square,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  Robert  H. 
Kennedy,  M.D.,  Tuxedo  Park,  N.  Y.;  John  E. 
Marshall,  24  Commerce  St.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I.; 
Charles  E.  Merrill,  7  Wall  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y.; 
James  T.  Sleeper,  15  Hampden  St.,  Wellesley,  Mass. 

1909 

Edward  H.  Sudbury,  Secretary, 
154  Prospect  Ave.  Mi.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced  of  Miss 
Evelyn  H.  Bishop,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  R.  Bishop  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  Percival 
D.  Nash. 

Francis  M.  Caughey  has  taken  the  position  of 
treasurer  of  the  Spartan  Products  Company  Inc., 
with  offices  at  120  Broadway,  New  York  City. — 
Joseph  H.  Caughey  has  left  the  office  of  Cashier  of 
the  Pittsburgh  Agency  of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company  and  is  now  Manager  of  the 
Proctor  and  Gamble  Distributing  Company  with 
offices  at  Wood  St.  and  Oliver  Ave.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

James  S.  Bernard  is  in  the  grocery  business  at 
Kalispell,  Mont. — Albert  W.  Blackmer,  53  Institute 
Road,  Worcester,  Mass.,  is  a  member  of  Mirick 
and  Blackmer,  Attorneys;  Chairman  of  the  Wor- 
cester Four  Minute  Men  and  Legal  Adviser  for 
Selective  Service  Board. — Carlton  R.  Blades  is 
with  the  Geo.  E.  Keith  Shoe  Co.,  Brockton,  Mass. — 
Arthur  G.  Brodeur  is  Assistant  Profes.sor  of  Eng- 
lish in  the  University  of  California. 

Raymond  J.  Burby  is  a  Public  Accountant  at  201 
Knox  Ave.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. — F.  Marsena  Butts,  of 
No.  9  Simpson  Terrace,  Newtonville,  held  a  cap- 
taincy in  the  Ordnance  Department  when  dis- 
charged. He  is  now  sales  manager  of  Butts 
&  Ordway,  heavy  hardware  merchants.  Dr. 
Walter  Cary  is  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Medical 
Corps,  at  Camp  Bowie,  Iowa. — Dr.  Charles  P. 
Chandler  is  with  Hospital  Train  No.  2  A.  E.  F., 
France — Ensign  Robert  C.  Chapin  is  stationed  at 
Hobokcn,  N.  J.,  in  the  transportation  service.    He 


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was  on  the  destroyer  "Larason"  during  the  war. 
Dr.  Sherrill  A.  Cleveland  is  engaged  in  private  prac- 
tice in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  His  address  is  2119  E. 
46th  St. — Scott  J.  Corbctt,  is  Gen.  Agent  of  the 
Penn  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.,  of  Northumber- 
land, Pa.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Public  Safety 
Commission  of  Pennsylvania,  and  District  Chair- 
man of  the  Liberty  Loan  Committee. — Sheldon 
D.  Dunlap,  of  No.  21  Carroll  St.,  Buffalo,  handles 
Produce  Dealers  Supplies. 

Samuel  B.  Fairbank  is  president  and  manager  of 
the  Judith  Milling  Co.,  of  Hobson,  Mont.— Alfred 
S.  Frank  is  practicing  law  in  Dayton,  Ohio.  He  is 
a  member  of  Brown  &  Frank. — F.  Raymond  Gil- 
patric,  of  No.  35  Park  Place,  New  Britain,  Conn,  is 
connected  with  the  Stanley  Co.  He  is  City  Chair- 
man of  the  War  Savings  Committee,  a  Four  Min- 
ute Speaker,  a  member  of  the  City  War  Bureau  and 
a  member  of  the  Home  Guard — Harold  W.  Hobbs 
is  with  the  American  Library  Association,  War 
Service  Library  at  Camp  Meade,  Md. 

Joseph  B.  Jamieson,  Jr.,  of  No.  34  Eldredge  St., 
Newton,  Mass.,  was  a  Captain  in  the  Ordnance 
Department,  and  served  in  France  from  June  1918 
to  February  1919. — C.  Clothier  Jones  is  in  the 
brokerage  business,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  He  was 
a  Captain  in  the  Air  Service,  from  June  1917  to 
November  1918. — Wilbur  B.  Jones,  3rd  National 
Bank  Building  at  St.  Louis,  was  a  First  Lieutenant 
in  the  Air  Service  Production,  a  Four  Minute  Speak- 
er and  a  member  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board. 
Paul  L.  Kirby  is  Gen.  Secretary  of  the  Children's 
Aid  Society,  Indianapolis,  Ind. — Donald  D.  Mc- 
Kay is  with  Harris,  Forbes  &  Co.,  Boston.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Liberty  Loan  Committee  of  New 
.England,  secretary  of  the  City  of  Boston  Liberty 
Loan  Committee,  chairman  of  the  Newton  Four 
Minute  Men  and  secretary  of  the  Republican  City 
Committee  of  Newton,  Mass. — James  B.  Melcher 
is  secretary  and  assistant  treasurer  of  the  Newton 
Trust  Co.,  secretary  of  the  Newton  Centre  Red 
Cross  and  secretary  of  the  Newton  Centre  Liberty 
Loan  Committee. — Christian  A.  Ruchmich  is  Assis- 
tant Professor  of  Psychology  and  acting  head  of  the 
department  at  the  Univeristy  of  Illinois,  Urbana, 
111. 

Rev.  A.  O.  Tritsch  is  at  the  St.  Luke's  Rectory, 
Beacon-on-Hudson,  N.  Y. — Clinton  W.  Tylee,  of 
No.  5.58  California  St.,  Newtonville,  Mass.,  is  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  the  Federal  Metallic 
Packing  Co.,  in  Boston. — Halton  E.  Underbill,  of 
No.  730  Main  St.,  New  London,  Conn.,  is  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Labor, 

The  Class  of  1909  made  itself  famous  at  its  3rd 
and  6th  reunions  through  exceptionally  large  at- 
tendance, enthusiasm  and  general  "pep."  The  New 
York  Scottish  Highlanders  Pipe  and  Drum  Band 
added  zest  to  those  reunions,  but  the  plans  for  the 
10th  bid  well  to  surpass  all  previous  records.  Three 
houses  have  been  leased  so  far  for  headquarters  and 
the  bookings  indicate  that  these  will    not  suffice. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1909  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  the  .service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  th(>y  can  now  be  reached: — 
Vogel  H.  Ilelmholz,  625  Van  Buren  St.,  Milwaukee, 
Wis;  Charles  U.  Hatch,  Aetna  Life  Ins.  Co.,  289 
Main  St.,  Springfield,  Mass;   Edward  J.  Bolt,  Cer- 


tain-teed Products  Corp.,  New  Stock  Exchange 
Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Edward  H.  Sudbury,  154 
Prospect  Ave.,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y,;  Wilbur  B.  Jones, 
17  Lenox  Place,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Richmond  Mayo- 
Smith,  The  Plimpton  Press,  Norwood,  Mass. 

1st  Lieut.  Charles  B.  Rayner  has  been  discharged 
from  the  Quartermaster  Corps  and  has  gone  to 
England. — 1st.  Lieut.  J.  Marshall  McCammon, 
25th  Construction  Co.,  Air  Service,  was,  in  January, 
stationed  at  the  Henry  J.  Damm  Aviation  Field, 
Babylon,  L.  I.  as  Assistant  Construction  officer  for 
the  1st  Provisional  Wing  Group  "D". 

1910 

George  B.  Burnett,  'secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
A  daughter,  Barbara,  was  born  on  January  25th 
to  Captain  and  Mrs.  Joseph  B.  Bisbee,  Jr.,  at  En- 
glewood,  N.  J. 

The  Church  Architecture  number  of  The  Church- 
man (Feb.  8)  contained  an  article  by  Talbot  F. 
Hamlin,  entitled  "Monument  or  Parlor". — Rev. 
A.  B.  Boynton,  who  has  been  in  the  "Y"  service 
stationed  in  Liverpool,  England,  for  the  past  ten 
months  was  married  on  November  7,  1918,  to  a 
"Scotch  lassie,"  Miss  Elizabeth  Bell. — R.  B.  Ailing, 
who  has  received  his  discharge  from  the  Artillery 
Officers'  Training  School,  Camp  Zachary-Taylor, 
is  with  the  Phonograph  Company  of  Detroit. — John 
P.  Henry  is  now  connected  with  the  sales  depart- 
ment of  Spalding  Bros.  Sporting  Goods  Company 
of  Boston.  He  is  also  keeping  up  his  interest  in 
Baseball  and  is  playing  with  the  Boston  National 
League  team. 

Harold  L.  Warner  announces  the  arrival  of  a 
son. — Abraham  Mitchell,  Jr.,  has  returned  with  his 
family  to  Riverside,  111.,  after  spending  four  months 
in  government  work  with  the  Remington  Arms  Co., 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Scott  Fink  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  last 
June  but  was  not  called  to  active  duty  until  Sep- 
tember. He  trained  at  the  Great  Lakes  Naval 
Training  Station,  at  Pelham  Bay  and  was  attend- 
ing the  Officers'  Material  School  for  the  Pay  Corps 
at  Princeton  in  January  when  released  to  inactive 
duty.  Previous  to  his  enlistment  he  was  chairman 
of  the  Four  Minute  Men  of  Irwin,  Pa.  and  Chair- 
man of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board,  Local  Draft 
Board  No.  2  for  Westmoreland  County. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1910  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached:  E. 
Preble  Harris,  254  Keystone  Ave.,  River  Forest, 
111.;  Joseph  B.  Bisbee,  Jr.,  Bellows  Falls,  Vt.;  Her- 
bert B.  Harris,  40  Court  St.,  Boston,  Mass.;  Ken- 
neth T.  Tucker,  200  West  72d  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y.; 
Robert  B.  Ailing,  256  Woodward  Ave.,  Detroit, 
Mich.;  Lindsay  C.  Amos,  136  W.  44th  St.,  New 
York,  N.  Y.  ; '  William  S.  Ladd,  304  West  107th 
St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  No.  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Josephine 
Johnson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Johnson 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


of  Milton,  Mass.,  and  William  Newton  Barnum. 
He  is  secretary  of  the  R.  W.  Greess  Company  of 
New  York. 

Mrs  Helen  Sewell  Young,  wife  of  Professor  Don- 
nell  B.  Young  of  Springfield,  died  on  Wednesday 
March,  5th  after  a  brief  illness,  at  the  home  of  her 
sister,  Mrs.  Roswell  W.  Austin,  in  St.  Albans,  Vt., 
where  she  was  visiting.  She  was  a  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  John  L.  Sewell  and  a  graduate  of  Smith  Col- 
lege.    They  were  married  about  three  years  ago. 

George  L.  Treadwell,  assistant  manager  of  the 
Chinese  American  Publishing  Company  in  Shang- 
hai, is  editor  of  Alma  Mater,  a  four  page  paper 
published  every  month  by  the  American  University 
Club  of  China.  A  son,  Warren  Sybrandt  Treadwell, 
was  born  on  January  11th,  at  Shanghai,  China,  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  L.  Treadwell. 

Rev.  Alan  M.  Fairbank,  formerly  of  Isabel,  S. 
Dak.,  has  been  honorably  discharged  from  service 
and  is  now  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Edgemont,  S.  Dak. 

A  second  daughter,  Mary  Averett  Seelye,  was 
born  to  Laurens  H.  Seelye  and  wife  of  Chatham, 
N.  J.  Seelye  has  been  stationed  at  Fort  Greble,  R.  I. 
for  the  past  nine  months  as  chaplain.  He  received 
his  discharge  on  March  26th,  and  he  is  now  work- 
ing with  the  American  Committee  for  Relief  in  the 
Near  East,  with  headquarters  in  New  York  City. 

Lieutenant  Clifford  Bateman  Ballard  of  North- 
ampton was  killed  at  Archangel,  Russia,  on  Febru- 
ary 7th.  He  went  to  Russia  with  the  338th  Infan- 
try and  was  the  first  Amherst  man  to  lose  his  life 
with  the  American  forces  in  Siberia.  An  account  of 
his  life  is  given  under  the  Roll  of  Honor  in  this  issue 
of  the  Quarterly. 

2d  Lieut.  Frank  R.  Elder  is  taking  a  course  in 
Radio  Engineering  at  the  Sorbonne,  France. — 
Chief  Yeoman  Robert  E.  Myers,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F., 
was  on  duty  in  February  at  the  U.  S.  Cable  Censor's 
Office,  New  York  City. — Major  Harold  M.  Rayner 
was,  in  February,  a  member  of  the  General  War  Staff 
at  Washington. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1911  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached: 
Edward  H.  Marsh,  44  So.  Oxford  St.,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.;  George  H.  McBride,  The  American  Ex- 
porter, 17  Battery  PI.,  N.  Y.  C;  C.  Colfax  Camp- 
bell c/o  Fort  Orange  Paper  Co.,  200  Fifth  x\ve., 
N.  Y.  C;  Robert  E.  Hine,  S.  K.  F.  Administrative 
Corp.,  Chicago,  111.;  Harold  C.  Roberts.  Fisk  Rub- 
ber Co.,  230  East  Ave.,  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  Alfred 
R.  Hofler,  808  Lincoln  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.; 
Laurens  H.  Seelye,  Chatham,  N.  J.;  William  S. 
Woodside,  Armstrong  Cork  &  Insulation  Co.,  318 
W.  Randolph  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

1912 

Alfred  B.  Pe.\cock,  Secretary, 
384  Madison  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Another  war  romance  is  revealed  in  the  announce- 
ment from  Paris  by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ernest  Howard 
Lines,  long  American  residents  in  the  French  capi- 
tol,  of  the  engagement  of  their  daughter.  Miss  Mary 
Conover  Lines  to  Sargent  Holbrook  Wellman,  First 


Lieutenant,  U.  S.  A.,  whose  home  is  in  Maiden, 
Mass.  Lieutenant  Alfred  B.  Peacock,  U.  S.  N., 
was  married  on  Saturday,  Mar.  22d,  at  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  to  Miss  Hazel  Sanford,  daughter  of  Hon. 
and  Mrs.  Alpheus  Sanford,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Charles 
F.  Weeden,  "84.  After  securing  his  discharge  from 
the  service  at  Washington  and  a  visit  to  Detroit, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peacock  went  to  Vancouver  and  then 
sailed  for  Australia  on  a  tour  round  the  world  for 
their  wedding  journey.  Mrs.  Peacock  is  a  graduate 
of  Mount  Holyoke,  Class  of  1916. 

Two  members  of  1912  have  recently  addressed  the 
undergraduates  at  Amherst.  Leland  Olds  explained 
the  Soviet  representative  system,  setting  fourth 
the  need  of  a  new  economic  order  to  replace  capi- 
talism. Ordway  Tead  spoke  on  "The  New  Inter- 
nationalism." 

Wilbur  F.  Burt,  who  has  been  in  France  with  the 
11th  Engineers  since  July,  1917,  has  received  a 
commission  as  Lieutenant.  Capt.  DeWitt  H.  Par- 
sons of  the  309th  Infantry  has  lately  recovered  from 
an  attack  of  influenza  which  kept  him  from  active 
duty  for  seven  weeks.  His  command  fought  through 
the  Argonne  Forest,  and  was  in  the  vicinity  of  Sedan 
when  the  Armistice  was  signed.  In  October,  with 
the  Major  wounded,  the  Captains  and  several  of 
the  Lieutenants  casualties,  he  led  his  battalion 
through  a  hot  night  and  day  engagement,  and  has 
since  been  acting  Major.  His  infant  daughter  an- 
nounces that  she  expects  to  see  her  daddy  (for  the 
first  time)  about  the  middle  of  May. 

A  son,  David  Ford  Brock,  was  born  December  19, 
1918  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roland  H.  Brock. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1912  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached:  Ro- 
land H.  Brock,  Athol,  Mass.;  Ralph  B.  Heavens, 
20  Chilton  St.,  Plymouth,  Mass.;  Frank  D.  Mul- 
vihill,  1341  Bedford  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1913 

Lewis  G.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oliver  C.  Mordorf  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  announce  the  engagement  of  their  daughter. 
Miss  Jeanne  Mordorf,  to  Preston  R.  Bassett. 

John  H.  Klingenfeld  is  now  with  the  advertising 
service  department  of  the  McGraw-Hill  Company 
of  New  York.  Chauncey  P.  Carter  is  the  new  repre- 
sentative in  Chicago  of  the  Bureau  of  Foreign  and 
Domestic  Commerce.  His  office  is  at  504  Federal 
Building,  Chicago.  John  B.  Stanchfield,  Jr.,  has 
been  appointed  a  deputy  assistant  district  attorney 
in  New  York.  He  is  one  of  the  youngest  men  on 
the  staff  of  District  Attorney  Swann.  He  has  been 
assigned  to  the  Jefferson  Market  Court. 

The  following  is  a  summary  of  the  military  his- 
tory of  2d  Lieut.  Walter  W.  Coyle.  Enlisted  as  1st 
class  private  July  30,  1917;  School  Military  Aero- 
nautics Princeton,  September  22  to  November  17, 
1917;  Concentration  Camp,  Garden  City,  Novem- 
ber 17  to  December  27,  1917;  Flying  School,  Kelly 
Field,  December  20  to  March  27,  1918;  Commis- 
sioned 2d  Lieut.;  Concentration  Camp,  Camp  Dick, 
March  27  to  April  11,  1918;   Pilot  Instructor  School 


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Aerial  Gunnery,  Taliaferro  Field,  until  October, 
1918;  Assistant  Officer  and  then  Officer  in  charge 
of  Flying  at  Taliaferro  Field. 

Ensign  Edward  C.  Knudson  of  the  Pay  Corps, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  is  stationed  at  Base  No.  29,  Cardiff, 
Wales.— 1st  Lieut.  Arthur  J.  Mealand  is  with  the 
Army  of  Occupation  in  Germany  guarding  the 
bridge  head  of  Coblenz.— 1st  Lieut.  James  R.  Quill 
of  the  117th  Field  Artillery,  returned  to  this  country 
last  December  after  spending  three  months  with  his 
regiment  in  France.— Miner  W.  Tuttle  sailed  for 
France  last  October.  He  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Sergeant  and  is  stationed  at  the  Judge  Ad- 
vocates Office,  Headquarters  District  of  Paris. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1913  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached:  Clar- 
ence L  Tappin,  E.  Templeton,  Mass.;  Geoffroy 
Atkinson,  434  West  120th  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y.; 
Harvey  Rothberg,  119  West  Front  St.,  Plain6eld, 
N  J.  ;  Howard  C.  Harding,  311  W.  3rd  St.,  Mans- 
field, Ohio;  James  A.  Tilden,  Jr.,  c/o  Hayden 
Stone  &  Co.,  87  Milk  St.,  Boston,  Mass.;  Samuel 
H.  Cobb,  117  Irvington  Ave.,  So.  Orange,  N.  J.; 
John  H.  Klingenfeld,  McGraw-Hill  Co.,  10th  Ave. 
at  36th  St.,  N.  Y.  City;  Henry  S.  Loomis,  HI  E. 
56th  St.,  New  Y'ork,  N.  Y.;  Allison  W.  Marsh, 
Amherst,  Mass.;  Harold  H.  Plough,  Amherst, 
Mass.;  Lewis  D.  Stilwell,  1906  W.  Genesee  St., 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.;  George  L.  Stone,  31  North  St., 
Bronx,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  Edward  S.  Morse,  36 
Union  Square,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  James  G.  Martin, 
402  S.  Illinois  St.,  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  Russell  Pope; 
412  Avenue  C,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

UU 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  following  is  a  portion  of  a  letter  received  by 
Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Smart  of  Cambridge,  N.  Y.,  in 
regard  to  her  brother,  Daniel  S.  Smart,  who  was 
killed  in  action  in  France  last  fall.  The  letter  is  of 
interest  as  it  tells  how  this  gallant  chaplain  met 
his  death: 

"In  making  a  visit  to  my  brother,  who  was 
wounded  and  in  the  hospital,  I  came  across  one  of 
our  soldiers  who  told  me  he  was  from  the  82d  divi- 
sion, and  when  I  asked  him  he  said  it  was  the  328th. 
Noticing  that  I  was  a  chaplain,  he  said:  'What  be- 
came of  that  chaplain  we  had,  the  one  who  always 
smiled.''  I  tell  you  he  was  a  brave  one  but  he  always 
smiled'.  And  that,  it  seems  to  me,  is  the  best  de- 
scription we  have  of  your  brother. 

"On  October  14,  1918,  we  were  in  the  midst  of 
that  frightful  conflict,  ami  his  regiment  was  near  San 
Juvin  and  Sommerance.  He  had  been  to  the  front 
with  a  Mr.  Barker,  a  Red  Cross  worker,  with  some 
supplies  of  chocolate  and  tobacco  for  the  men.  As 
they  came  back  they  found  several  other  men  who 
had  been  killed  and  they  stopped  to  give  tlieiii 
burial.  While  engaged  in  this  a  shell  exploded  near 
them,  instantly  killing  Mr.  Barker  and  wounding 
Daniel. 

"Then,  in  a  f  .w  days  we  searched  all  the  hospitals 
around  us,  but  ,.e  could  not  locate  him.  On  either 
the  first  or  seco.id  of  November,  while  making  a 
visit  to  one  of  our  hospitals,  at  Les  Islettes,  I  asked 


if  they  had  had  any  chaplains  and  was  told  that 
they  never  had  but  one  as  a  patient,  and  when  I 
asked  if  his  name  was  Smart,  the  man  said  yes.  To 
my  question  as  to  his  whereabouts  he  said:  'He 
died  the  same  night,  sir'.  Then  I  sought  the  chap- 
lain and  the  nurse  and  they  told  me  that  your 
brother  was  conscious  when  he  reached  the  hospital; 
that  his  smile  was  still  with  him,  and  that  while  he 
was  waiting  to  be  taken  into  the  dressing  room  he 
laughed  and  comforted  other  lads  supposed  to  be 
more  seriously  wounded  than  he.  Yet  he  died  be- 
fore he  was  taken  from  the  X-Ray  table.  He  lies 
there  in  a  beautiful  little  spot  near  L^^  Islettes 
where  his  grave  is  carefully  marked  and  recorded." 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1914  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached:  Mar- 
vin K.  Curtis,  1644  Hillcrest  Rd.,  Cleveland,  Ohio; 
Fred  D.  Suydam,  Hill  School,  Pottstown,  Pa.; 
George  E.  Washburn,  238  Commonwealth  Ave., 
Boston,  Mass.;  Dwight  N.  Clark,  c/o  Phoenix 
Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.,  Hartford,  Ct.;  Theodore  H. 
Hubbard,  29  Lafayette  St.,  White  Plains,  N.  Y.; 
John  T.  Carpenter,  417  W.  117th  St.,  New  York, 
N.  Y.;  John  H.  Creedon,  c/o  Comm.  General  Life 
Ins.  Co.,  387  Main  St.,  Springfield,  Mass;  Louis 
B.  Deveau,  Jr.,  675  West  End  Ave.,  New  York, 
N.  Y.;  Tilford  W.  Miller,  c/o  H.  G.  Thomson, 
Wilton,  Conn.;  G.  R.  Foddy,  Jr.,  1308  Pacific  St., 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Lieut.  (J.  G.)  Frank  H.  Ferris  is  now  Chaplain 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Texas.  He  was  ordered  to  the  Texas 
after  a  year's  service  as  Chaplain  of  the  Mercy, 
first  as  part  of  the  Atlantic  Fleet  and  then  as  part 
of  the  Cruiser  and  Transport  Force. — 2d  Lieut. 
Harold  F.  Jewett  is  teaching  English  in  the  A.  E.  F. 
University  at  Beaune,  France. — 1st  Lieut.  Charles 
M.  Mills  has  been  transferred  from  the  Third  Pi- 
oneer Infantry  and  is  now  in  command  of  Co.  D, 
Headquarters  Battalion,  G.  H.  Q.,  Bourges,  France. 
He  is  in  charge  of  about  four  hundred  men  who  are 
at  work  on  tracing  casualities  and  missing  men  and 
many  forms  of  social  service  for  the  troops. —  Sergt. 
John  J.  Tierney,  who  has  been  in  France  since 
October,  1917.  is  now  stationed  at  Base  Ordnance 
Depot  No.  4,  Base  Section  No.  2,  and  is  engaged  in 
shipping  guns  and  war  material  to  the  States. 

1915 

J.  L.  Snider,  Secretary. 

Announcement  has  been  made  of  the  engage- 
ment of  Everett  Webb  Fuller  and  Miss  Gertrude 
Laura  Gladding,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter 
M.  Gladding  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  is  a  son  of 
ex-Senator  Charles  H.  Fuller,  '78,  was  a  first  lieu- 
tenant in  the  Chemical  Warfare  Service,  A;  E.  F., 
and  returned  from  France  late  in  December,  having 
since  secured  his  discharge. 

Another  191;>  engagement  lately  announced  is 
Lhat  of  Dr.  Phillii)s  Foster  Greene  and  Miss  Ruth 
I'eabody  Allman,  Wellesley  1918,  (laughter  of  the 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  D.  Lee  Altman  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Dr.  Greene  has  received  an  appointment  as  surgi- 
cal interne  at  St.  Lukes'  Hospital,  New  York  City. 

Ensign  Sidney  R.  Packard  has  received  his  dis- 
charge and  has  taken  a  position  as  assistant  pro- 


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AIVIHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


fessor  of  history  at  Harvard.  Paul  D.  Weathers 
who  was  a  First  Lieutenant  stationed  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  is  now  in  the  credit  department  of 
the  Scandinavian  Trust  Company  of  New  York 
City. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1915  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached: 
Phillips  F.  (Ireene,  St.  Lukes  Hospital,  W.  113th 
St.,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  Everett  W.  Fuller,  Dept. 
Applied  Chemistry,  M.  I.  T.,  Cambridge,  Mass.; 
Charles  H.  Houston  1314  V  St.,  N.  W.,  Washington, 
D.  C;  J.  Theodore  Cross,  Harvard  Law  School, 
Cambridge,  Mass.;  Stuart  F.  Heinritz,  16  Wash- 
ington Ave.,  Holyoke,  Mass.;  George  H.  Hubner, 
c/o  Hornblower  &  Weeks,  42  Broadway,  N.  Y^.  C; 
Sidney  R.  Packard,  47  Conant  Hall,  Cambridge, 
Mass.;  James  K.  Smith,  45  Graduate  House,  U. 
of  P.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Lowell  R.  Smith,  Library 
Bureau,  43  Federal  St.,  Boston,  Mass.;  Gerald 
Barnes,  208  Washington  Park,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.; 
George  C.  Harding,  934  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Corp.  Walter  R.  Agard  has  been  placed  on  the 
faculty  of  the  A.  E.  F.  University  at  Beaune,  France. 
— 1st  Lieut.  J.  Gerald  Cole  sailed  for  France  in 
April  1918,  and  was  on  active  duty  with  the  56th 
Artillery.  He  also  served  as  instructor  at  the  Heavy 
Artillery  School  in  Argers. — 1st  Lieut.  Raymond 
B.  Cooper,  Q.  M.  C,  was,  in  February,  stationed  at 
Pier  No.  90,  N.  R.,  New  Y'ork  with  the  Shipping 
Control  Committee. — M.  Walker  Jones  is  in  France 
with  the  Headquarters  Company  of  the  Army 
Service  Corps. 

2d  Lieut.  Robert  A.  McCague  has  been  in  France 
in  the  Billeting  Service  since  December  1917.  He 
is  now  stationed  at  Toul. — 2d  Lieut.  Charles  D. 
Martin,  45th  Balloon  Co.,  is  attending  the  Uni- 
versity of  Toulouse,  France. — 1st  Lieut.  Clarence 
Parks  of  the  Quartermaster  Corps  was  located  in 
February  at  Camp  Knox. — Edward  A.  Van  Valken- 
burgh,  who  is  in  France  with  the  Chemical  War- 
fare Service,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  1st 
Lieutenant. 

1st  Lieut.  Kenneth  S.  Reed,  who  went  overseas 
with  the  348th  Machine  Gun  Battalion  was  trans- 
ferred last  November  to  the  182d  Inf.  Brigade  Head- 
quarters and  made  Intelligence  Officer  for  the 
Brigade.  During  the  time  the  91st  Division  was 
in  the  Argonne  sector,  he  was  Brigade  Liaison 
Officer  to  the  35th  Division.  Lieut.  Reed  witnessed 
the  triumphal  entry  of  King  Albert  and  the  Queen 
into  Brussels. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

W.  Clark  Knowlton  died  suddenly  at  his  home 
in  Akron,  Ohio,  on  March  21st.  The  cause  of  his 
death  was  acute  pneumonia.  Services  were  held  at 
his  home  in  Akron  on  March  22d  and  burial  took 
place  in  Middletown,  Conn. 

Less  than  a  week  before  his  death  he  was  in  his 
usual  rugged  health;  but  a  light  case  of  influenza 
was  followed  by  an  attack  of  pneumonia,  which 
was  quick  and  fatal. 

Mr.  Knowlton  was  25  years  old  and  was  a  native 


of  Northampton,  Mass.  His  family  later  moved  to 
Missouri  where  he  prepared  for  college  at  Kirkwood. 
At  Amherst  he  made  a  notable  record,  both  in  the 
classroom  and  on  the  atheltic  field.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  also  of  Beta  Theta  Pi. 
He  specialized  in  chemistry,  but  found  time  for 
football  and  track  athletics.  He  played  on  the  foot- 
ball team  first  at  fullback  and  in  his  junior  and  sen- 
ior years  at  right  tackle.  The  Amherst  tackles 
of  the  team  of  1915  which  was  an  unusually  good 
eleven  comprised  Ashley  and  Knowlton,  both  of 
1916,  and  both  of  them  have  since  gone,  Ashley 
having  been  killed  in  the  war. 

On  leaving  Amherst  Mr.  Knowlton  took  a  position 
with  the  Goodrich  Rubber  Company  at  Akron,  the 
position  having  been  offered  him  while  he  was  still 
in  college.  He  began  his  career  with  that  company 
in  1916  and  he  did  so  well  that  he  was  rapidly  pro- 
moted and  quickly  gained  the  confidence  of  the 
company.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he  occupied  a 
very  responsible  position  as  assistant  to  the  Vice 
President  and  was  in  charge  of  an  important  de- 
partment. In  fact,  he  proved  himself  of  such  worth 
to  the  company  that  the  Vice  President  in  advising 
young  men  and  emphasizing  character  and  duty 
said,  "  If  you  want  to  make  a  success  in  life,  follow 
Clark  KnoM^ton's  example." 

He  was  married  on  May  26,  1917  to  Miss  Wini- 
fred Whittlesey,  daughter  of  H.  C.  Whittlesey  of 
Middletown,  Conn.,  who  survives  him.  He  also 
leaves  a  baby  girl,  ten  months  of  age. 

Homans  Robinson  is  attending  Harvard  Law 
School  and  is  rooming  with  Robert  Monroe,  '17. 
Corp.  Lewis  M.  Knapp  is  at  the  American  School 
Detachment  at  Clermont  Ferrand,  France. — 1st 
Lieut.  Francis  R.  Otte  of  the  167th  Infantry,  when 
last  heard  from  was  a  member  of  the  Rainbow 
Division.  His  regiment,  the  84th  Infantry  Brigade, 
was  especially  mentioned  and  cited  by  the  Com- 
manding Officer. — Murray  J.  Quinn,  Q.M.C.,  is 
attending  the  University  of  Paris  where  he  is  taking 
advanced  French  and  Law. 

Lieut.  Charles  F.  Weeden,  Jr.,  who  has  been  dis- 
charged from  the  Aviation  Service,  has  gone  as 
Assistant  Commissioner  on  the  expedition  for  the 
Relief  of  the  Near  East. — Ensign  George  Homer 
Lane,  who  has  been  in  command  of  a  Submarine 
Chaser,  received  from  the  British  Admiralty  a  paper 
thanking  him  for  services  in  damaging  a  submarine. 
— Geoffrey  Neiley  has  been  across  since  last  May 
with  S.  C.  84.  The  packet  has  been  given  credit 
for  getting  two  submarines. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1916  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached:  Her- 
bert G.  Jolmson,  Western  Electric  Co.,  85  Summer 
St.,  Boston,  Mass.;  William  G.  Avirett,  Amherst, 
Mass.;  J.  Seelye  Bixler,  Amherst,  Mass.;  Harold 
G.  Brcwton,  1109  Boylston  St.,  Boston,  Mass.; 
Paul  S.  Greene,  17  Court  St.,  Boston,  Mass.;  Alan 
D.  Marks,  4  East  94th  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y.; 
Donald  E.  Marshall,  G.  H.  Bass  Shoe  Co.,  Wilton, 
Me.;  Homans  Robinson,  Harvard  Law  School, 
Cambridge,  Mass.;  Winthrop  H.  Smith,  118  W. 
73rd  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


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1917 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
Indiana,  Pa. 

Another  Amherst  war  romance  was  revealed  in 
February  when  announcement  was  made  of  the 
marriage  at  Vincennes,  France,  of  Lieutenant  Ralph 
E.  de  Castro,  D.S.C.,  and  Mile.  Yvonne  Cheron, 
daughter  of  M.  and  Mme.  Jean  Cheron  and  a  niece 
of  Senator  Cheron  of  France.  They  were  married 
on  February  20th  at  the  bride's  home.  Lieutenant 
de  Castro  met  his  bride  while  on  a  furlough  last 
October,  recuperating  at  Nice  from  the  strain  of 
six  month's  continued  flying.  Mrs.  de  Castro  is 
a  linguist  of  unusual  accomplishment  and  a  talented 
pianist.  Her  husband  wears  the  Distinguished 
Service  Cross. 

Earl  F.  Blair,  '17,  with  his  brother,  Roy  Blair,  '18, 
were  on  the  Southwestern  Limited  of  the  New  York 
Central  on  January  15th,  the  night  it  ran  into  the 
Wolverine  express  and  22  people  were  killed.  They 
were  uninjured,  but  had  a  close  call.  They  were  on 
their  way  to  Cincinnati  where  they  have  both  taken 
positions  with  the  chemical  firm  of  Proctor  and 
Gamble,  where  their  brother,  F.  Wesley  Blair,  '15, 
has  been  employed  for  some  time. 

Captain  G.  Irving  Baily  has  received  his  discharge 
from  the  service  and  has  recently  recovered  from 
an  operation  for  appendicitis.  He  is  now  with 
Montgomery,  Ward  and  Company  of  Chicago  and 
is  living  at  727  Barry  Avenue,  Chicago,  111.  Arthur 
M.  Clarke,  who  has  been  in  the  Chemical  War  Ser- 
vice, stationed  at  the  Hercules  Powder  Company 
plant  at  Nitro,  W.  Va.,  has  received  his  discharge 
and  is  teaching  Chemistry  and  Physics  at  the 
"  Citadel,"  a  military  school  at  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Robert  Monroe  is  attending  Harvard  Law  School. 

Sergt.  Benjamin  S.  D.  Ooge  of  the  313th  Supply 
Train  is  attending  the  Montpellier  University, 
France. — Mortimer  Eisner  graduated  from  the 
Naval  Officers  Training  School  at  New  London, 
Conn,  last  December  with  the  rank  of  Ensign. — 
Corp.  George  D.  Whitmore,  a  member  of  Evacua- 
tion Hospital  No.  4,  is  at  Coblenz,  Germany. — 
Sergt.  Paul  C.  Lestrade  served  with  the  103d  Regi- 
ment F.  A.,  26th  Division  until  last  September  when 
he  was  transferred  to  the  Military  Postal  Service.- — 
Alfred  S.  Romer,  who  has  been  serving  with  the 
490th  Aero  Squadron  at  Romorantin,  France,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  2d  Lieutenant. — 
Lucius  E.  Thayer  is  a  member  of  the  Armenian 
Relief  Commission  which  sailed  from  France  last 
January. — Henry  W.  Wells  has  been  detailed  from 
his  regiment,  the  52d  Infantry,  for  a  three  months' 
course  at  the  University  of  Montpellier,   France. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1917  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service  together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached:  Nor- 
man R.  Lemcke,  14  Van  Nest  Place,  New  York, 
N.  Y.;  E.  A.  Goodhue,  University  of  Vermont, 
Burlington,  Vt.;  Eric  H.  Marks,  4  East  94th  St., 
New  York,  N.  Y.;  Walcott  E.  Sibley,  Wellesley, 
Mass.;  Theodore  F.  Appleby,  Main  &  Mattison 
Aves.,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J.;  Frederick  D.  Bell,  Am- 
herst, Mass.;  Charles  Edgar  Maynard,  5  Franklin 
St.,  Northampton,  Mass.;  Kenneth  DeF.  Carpen- 
ter, 369  Bainbridge  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;    Wads- 


worth  WMlbar,    14   Webster  St.,   Taunton,   Mass.; 
Charles  J.  Jessup,  177  Taylor  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1918 

W.  W.  Yerr.\ll,  Secretary^ 
51  Oxford  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Each  member  of  the  Class  is  urged  to  attend  the 
first  reunion  of  the  Class  next  June  at  Amherst. 
Plans  are  now  being  made  for  the  event.  Harold 
F.  Johnson  is  chairman  of  the  Reunion  Committee 
of  the  Class  of  1918. 

Gardner  Jackson,  Fred  Mathews  and  George 
Benneyan  are  in  the  graduate  school  of  Columbia 
University.- — Clarence  Traver  has  a  position  with 
the  Willys-Overland  Auto  Co.  in  Poughkeepsie, 
New  York. — Duncan  Macfarlane  recently  received 
his  commission  as  Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Re- 
serve. 

Merrill  Anderson  is  working  for  Harper  Bros, 
publishers,  in  New  York  City. — Raymond  P, 
Bentley  has  a  position  in  Detroit,  Mich. — Augustus 
W.  Bennet  and  George  Cornell  are  studying  law 
at  the  Columbia  University  Law  School. — Stewart 
Meiklejohn  is  an  instructor  at  Amherst  in  Freshman 
Economics. — Carter  Goodrich  recently  sailed  for 
England  where  he  is  going  to  study  at  the  London 
School  of  Economics. — Harold  F.  Johnson  is  an 
agent  for  the  Premier  car  at  Denver,  Colo.  He  has 
recently  ordered  an  aeroplane,  the  first  air  machine 
to  be  owned  privately  in  Denver. 

Philip  H.  See  has  a  position  in  Boston. — William 
H.  Beach,  Roger  Bednarski  and  William  W.  Yer- 
rall  are  studying  law  at  the  Harvard  Law  School.— 
Philip  H.  Breed,  has  recently  been  discharged  from 
the  navy  and  is  now  located  with  Little,  Brown  Co., 
publishers  at  34  Beacon  St.,  Boston. — John  Brain- 
erd  is  an  assistant  Professor  of  Military  Science  at 
M.  I.  T. — Allen  Saunders  is  Christian  Association 
Secretary  at  Amherst  this  year. — Stewart  M.  Prince 
is  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Army  Transport  Corps, 
and  is  with  the  Army  of  Occupation. 

William  H.  Williams  is  in  the  oil  business  in 
Kentucky. — Edward  Ward  Morehouse  is  doing  the 
work  of  a  sergeant  major  with  the  Motor  Trans- 
port Corps  at  Camp  Jackson,  S.  C. — William  Stitt 
and  Dwight  Billings  are  both  flying  at  Miami. — 
Roy  Blair  has  a  position  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  See 
1917  notes. — John  Elwood  is  assistant  to  the  vice 
president  of  the  General  Electric  Company. 

Joseph  Gray  Estey  and  Miss  Alice  Lou  Wilson 
of  Huntington,  W.  Va.,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  R.  Wilson  and  a  graduate  of  Smith  College, 
were  married  on  Wednesday,  April  2d,  in  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Baptist  Church  of  Huntington. 

Irving  W.  Soare  has  received  his  discharge  from 
the  service  and  is  with  the  Vacuum  Oil  Company 
in  New  York. — J.  C.  Warren  is  with  W.  S.  Powers 
Co.  in  New  York. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1918  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service,  ^together  with  the 
addresses  at  which  they  can  now  be  reached: 
W.  Duncan  Macfarlane,  219  Lancaster  St.,  Albany. 
N.  Y.;  Ralpli  E.  Ellinwood,  Bisbee,  Ariz.;  Robert 
P.  Kelsey,  Youth's  Companion,  881  Commonwealth 
Ave.,  Boston,  Mass.;    William  W.  Yerrall,  51  Ox- 


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ford  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass.;  George  W.  Cornell,  Jr., 
Box  32,  Livingston  Hall,  Columbia  Univ.,  N.  Y.  C; 
Jacob  P.  Estey,  Estey  Organ  Co.,  Brattleboro,  Vt.; 
Waldo  E.  Pratt,  Jr.,  Amherst,  Mass.;  Rawdon  M. 
VanDyck,  Amherst,  Mass.,;  James  C.  Warren, 
c/o  W.  F.  Powers  Co.,  30  Ferry  St.,  New  York; 
Owen  S.  White,  Carnegie  Inst,  of  Tech.;  John  H. 
Quill,  North  Brookfield,  Mass.;  Francis  C.  Mc- 
Garrahan,  47  Fort  Covington  St.,  Malone,  N.  Y. 

Corp.  Paul  A.  Chase  of  the  Signal  Corps  was 
given  charge  of  the  Central  Message  Station  for 
the  37th  Corps  having  about  twenty  message  car- 
riers under  him  during  the  St.  Mihiel  Salient  and 
continued  in  this  capacity  until  the  signing  of  the 
armistice.  He  was  then  made  billeting  agent  for 
the  officers  of  the  148th  Regiment  and  attached  to 
Regimental  Headquarters. 

Pvt.  Roger  A.  Brackett  of  the  307th  Motor  Trans- 
port Corps  sailed  for  France  last  October.  He  is 
stationed  at  Verneuil  doing  clerical  work  which 
consists  of  checking  over  German  prisoners. — 
Lieut.  Edward  B.  Greene  is  at  the  Beaume  A.  E.  F. 
University  teaching  Freshman  English  and  study- 
ing History,  Economics  and  French. — 1st  Lieut. 
Dexter  M.  Keezer,  340th  Machine  Gun  Battalion, 
is  studying  at  the  Sorbonne  University,  Paris. 

1919 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  1919  men  who  have 
been  discharged  from  service  and  are  now  in  College: 
Franklin  F.  Bailey,  Walter  K.  Belknap,  Morris  L. 
Bowman,  Arthur  F.  Brown,  Herman  D.  Brown, 
Robert  S.  Caulkins,  Raymond  M.  Colton,  Thurston 
V.  Darling,  Robert  J.  Davis,  Philip  Y.  Eastman, 
John  G.  Gibson,  William  R.  Gillies,  Clarence  B. 
Goodwin,  Leavitt  D.  Hallock,  Marcus  P.  Kiley, 
Parker  B.  Kimball,  Noble  T.  Macfarlane,  Alexander 
McGregor,  Jr.,  Halvor  R.  Seward,  Roy  V.  A.  Shel- 
don, David  S.  Soliday  and  Howard  P.  Vermilya. 

The  following  men  have  been  discharged  and  can 
be  reached  at  the  addresses  given:  Thomas  A.  Til- 
ton,  86  Dalton  Road,  Ne\\i;on  Center,  Mass., 
Rufus  C.  VanSant,  VanSant,  Kitchen  &  Co.,  Ash- 
land, Ky.;  William  H.  Emery,  Jr.,  Columbia  Col- 
lege, New  York,  N.  Y.;  Robert  B.  Tyler,  Amer., 
Tel.  &  Tel.  Co.,  Princeton,  N.  J.;  Lawrence  Ames, 
300  Highland  St.,  West  Newton,  Mass.;  James  W. 
Bracken,  Goodyear  Tire  &  Rubber  Co.,  Akron, 
Ohio;  James  H.  Elwell,  5  Lincoln  Ave.,  Amherst, 
Mass.;  Roger  C.  Holden,  c/o  White  Weld  &  Co., 
14  Wall  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  and  Theodore  South- 
worth,  Scripps-Booth  Corp.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Charles  L.  Blatchford  has  received  a  commission 
as  Ensign  in  the  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.  and  will  remain  in 
the  Navy  for  a  year  or  so. — 2d  Lieut.  Arthur  F. 
Brown,  Chemical  Warfare  Service,  after  receiving 
his  commi.ssion  at  Camp  Lee,  was  ordered  to  Camp 
Sherman  for  duty  with  the  1st  Gas  Regiment.  La- 
ter he  was  transferred  to  Camp  Kendrick  to  attend 
the  U.  S.  Gas  School,  preparatory  to  going  overseas 
as  a  regimental  gas  officer.  The  course  was  not 
completed  until  after  the  signing  of  the  armistice 


at  which  time  he  was  discharged,  and  is  now  in    j 
College. — Lieut.  (J.  G.)  George  T.  Boone  is  serving    i 
on  the  U.  S.  S.  Edward  Lucketibach,  a  troop  trans- 
port.— Pvt.  Charles  R.  Chase  of  Ambulance  Unit    ; 
636    is    attending    the    University    of    Dijon. — 2d    ! 
Lieut.  William  B.  Cummings  of  the  109th  Motor    j 
Supply  Train  has  been  granted  a  leave  of  absence 
for  three  months  to  attend  the  University  of  Paris. — 
John  B.  Stanton  has  returned  to  this  country  after 
12  months'  service  as  a  field  clerk  in  the  service 
of  supply  in  France. 

1920 

The  following  is  a  list  of  1920  men  who  have  been 
discharged  from  service  and  are  now  in  College: 
Walter  C.  Allen,  Ralph  S.  Anthony,  Stanley  W. 
Ayres,  Howard  M.  Bassett,  Ralph  A.  Beebe,  Daniel 
Bliss,  2d,  Kenneth  M.  Bouve,  Theodore  L.  Buell, 
Andrew  N.  Clarke,  George  V.  D.  Clarke,  William 
M.  Cowles,  A.  David  Cloyd,  Millard  S.  Darling, 
Frank  F.  Davidson,  Jr.,  Alanson  C.  Davis,  Alvah 
E.  Davison,  Jr.,  Charles  C.  DeKlyn,  Alexander  Duff, 
William  H.  Farwell,  John  J.  Hanselmann,  George 
D.  Haskell,  Robert  C.  Wilcox,  Herbert  E.  Wolff, 
Edward  B.  W'right,  Kenneth  B.  Low,  Frederick  A. 
Lyman,  Thomas  H.  McCandless,  Richard  W.  May- 
nard,  John  R.  Meiklejohn,  George  LI.  Moran,  Edgar 
D.  Nichols,  Norman  Olsen,  Delos  S.  Otis,  Paul  K. 
Phillips,  Julius  R.  Pratt,  Julian  F.  Rowe,  George  P. 
Savoy,  Edward  M.  Schellenger,  Franklin  P.  Searle, 
Arthur  C.  Sisson,  Eastburn  R.  Smith,  Porter  W. 
Thompson,  Willard  L.  Thorp,  Edward  G.  Tuttle,  Jr., 
Fritz  C.  Weber,  George  S.  Whittemore,  Roland  A. 
Wood,  Rufus  P.  Cushman,  170  Huntington  Ave., 
Boston,  Mass.;  Kenneth  O'Brien,  219  W.  Franklin 
Ave.,  Minneapolis,  Minn., 

Lieut.  Hugh  L.  Hamilton  is  at  the  American 
Detachment  of  the  University  of  Grenoble,  France. 
— Merrill  C.  Haskell  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Lieutenant  and  is  in  charge  of  the  Bureau  of 
Supplies  for  the  American  Red  Cross  in  Marseille. — 
2d  Lieut.  Kenneth  B.  O'Brien,  after  receiving  his 
commission  at  Plattsburg,  attended  the  Machine 
Gun  Officers  School  for  overseas  duty  at  Camp 
Hancock.  He  was  recommended  for  a  1st  Lieu- 
tenancy but  the  signing  of  the  armstice  prevented 
both  the  commission  and  the  overseas  duty.  He 
was  awarded  a  medal  as  pistol  expert. — Hubert 
R.  Zeller  was,  in  January,  stationed  at  the  Aviation 
School  at  Miami. 

1921 

The  following  is  a  list  of  1921  men  who  have  been 
discharged  from  service  and  are  now  in  College: 
Philip  Brisk,  R.  W.  Carney,  Harry  W.  Case,  Brad- 
ford LeB.  Church,  Dennison  B.  Cowles,  Harry 
Disston,  Everett  D.  Flood,  Lewis  G.  Gilliam, 
George  P.  Hall,  Curtis  R.  Hatheway,  Jr.,  Edward 
W.  Hooker,  Kenneth  R.  Mackenzie,  Robert  K. 
Metcalf,  Thomas  F.  Moran,  Jr.,  Waldo  E.  Palmer, 
Rowell  A.  Schleicher,  Abraham  L.  Stauft,  Alfred  B. 
Stanford,  Joseph  Stanley,  Kimber  A.  Taylor,  James 
A.  Thayer,  Charles  R.  Tillson,  Bradford  G.  Webster, 
Douglas  Whitcomb,  Emmett  H.  Woodworth. 


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VOL.  VIII— AUGUST,  1919— NO.  4 


I 


THE   VICTORY   COMMENCEMENT 


GEORGE   F.    WHICHER 


UNDERGRADUATES  whom  obligation  or  curiosity  held  in  town  until  June 
18th  witnessed  the  revival  of  one  of  the  firmest  college  traditions — an  old-time 
Commencement.  For  most  undergraduates  this  was  a  new  taste  of  Amherst 
experience.  Only  the  graduating  class  could  remember  an  ante-bellum  Commence- 
ment, and  even  those  alumni  wdiose  memories  went  back  further  than  three  years 
could  not  recall  a  celebration  more  true  to  type  than  that  which  closed  Amherst's 
ninety-eighth  year. 

Fourteen  classes,  including  six  within  the  last  decade,  held  regular  or  postponed 
reunions,  and  although  a  considerable  number  of  the  younger  alumni  were  still  in 
overseas  service,  nearly  nine  hundred  sons  of  Amherst  revisited  the  Campus  during 
the  Commencement  period.    This  in  itself  sets  a  memorable  standard  for  reunions. 

But  statistics  do  not  tell  the  real  significance  of  the  1919  Commencement.  It 
marked,  in  the  first  place,  the  revival  of  active  and  affectionate  loyalty  to  the  College 
after  two  years  in  which  every  atom  of  loyalty  has  vibrated  in  a  greater  cause.  The 
proper  note  of  festive  reminiscence,  established  early  Saturday  afternoon  by  return- 
ing alumni  and  intensified  by  the  ninth-inning  victory  of  the  baseball  team  over 
M.  A.  C,  was  sustained  in  the  evening  by  the  usual  costume  parade  in  Amherst  and 
by  a  more  unique  gathering  in  Northampton,  where  present  and  former  editors  of 
the  Amherst  Student  at  the  invitation  of  Grosvenor  H.  Backus,  '94,  celebrated  the 
semi-centennial  of  "the  oldest  college  paper  to  maintain  continuous  publication." 
After  a  banquet  rendered  highly  convivial  by  those  "followers  of  Backus,  "  the  class  of 
'94,  Dr.  Talcott  Williams,  Dean  of  the  Columbia  University  School  of  Journalism 
recalled  the  early  days  of  the  Student  and  urged  the  revival  of  the  custom  of  holding 
a  ''Student  breakfast"  during  Commencement  week.  President  Meiklcjohn  spoke 
of  the  function  of  the  paper  as  an  organ  of  undergraduate  opinion,  Theodore  L.  Buell, 
'20,  the  present  editor-in-chief,  outlined  the  history  of  the  paper,  and  Dwight  W. 
Morrow,  '95,  conveyed  the  coinpliineiils  of  tlie  "7^/^"  to  its  esteemed  conteinporay. 
Letters  were  read  from  J.  K.  Richardson,  '(59,  the  only  survivor  of  the  first  editorial 
board,  W.  C.  Brownell,  '71  of  Scribners  Magazine,  and  Selah  M.  Clarke,  '71,  formerly 
of  the  New  York  Evening  Snn. 

Thus  auspiciously  heralded  by  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  Amherst  l)an<|uets 
in  recent  years,  Connnencemenl  progressed  through  its  several  exercises,  beginning 


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with  the  Baccalaureate  Sermon  by  Professor  Albert  Parker  Fitch  and  continuini 
through  the  ten-inning  victory  over  Williams  to  the  last  speech  of  the  traditiona 
dinner,  everything  that  a  Commencement  ought  to  be.  It  remains  to  chronicle,  noi 
the  usual  features  of  the  Glee  Club  concert  or  Phi  Beta  Kappa  meeting,  but  the  cere 
monies  and  the  spirit  that  separated  Amherst's  victory  Commencement  from  others 
past  or  to  come. 

Two  unusual  notes  dominated  the  alumni  gathering.  One  was  a  spirit  of  over- 
whelming curiosity  to  know  how  the  college  had  survived  the  shock  of  the  S.  A.  T.  C . 
interregnum  and  what  its  projects  were  for  the  future.  The  latter  inquiry  focused 
on  the  discussion  of  President  Meiklejohn's  recent  Report  to  the  Trustees  outlining 
the  proposed  "  New  College."  Everywhere  one  could  hear  in  addition  to  the  customary 
greetings,  "How  are  you?  What  you  doing  now?"  the  query,  "What's  this  I  hear 
about  the  College?"  Members  of  the  faculty  were  kept  busy  explaining  the  proposed 
changes  from  their  several  angles  of  attitude,  and  at  the  invitation  of  the  class  of  1909 
President  Meiklejohn  discussed  the  probable  effect  of  the  new  plan  with  interested 
alumni.  This  is  not  the  place  for  comment  on  the  merits  of  the  new  organization  or 
for  correction  of  misapprehensions  of  it.  But  if  the  interest  in  the  procedure  of  edu- 
cation manifested  by  alumni  last  June  leads  to  closer  contact  between  the  College 
and  its  graduates,  to  an  honest  effort  of  alumni  to  strengthen  every  valuable  Amherst 
tradition,  we  may  hail  the  1919  Commencement  as  beginning  a  healthy  movement 
to  integrate  all  the  forces  of  the  College  more  effectively  than  ever  before.  i 

A  second  unusual  feature  of  the  victory  Commencement  was  the  solemn  note  of  i 
commemoration  of  Amherst's  part  in  the  war.  At  the  lawn  fete  a  ceremony  in  honor  \ 
of  the  1016  undergraduates  and  alumni  who  served  the  United  States  or  her  Allies  *, 
culminated  in  the  unfurling  of  Amherst's  service  flag.  The  Commencement  exercises  i 
proper  marked  the  connection  of  the  College  and  the  great  cause  in  three  ways:  by  i 
the  granting  of  B.  A.  degrees  honoris  causa  to  undergraduates  of  three  years'  college  ■ 
standing  who  had  completed  their  education  in  the  school  of  war;  by  the  conferring  ; 
of  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.  D.  upon  the  Chief  of  Staff  of  the  United  States  Army; 
and  by  an  address  in  commemoration  of  the  Amherst  dead  by  Dean  Olds. 

The  presentations  of  the  various  honorary  degrees  are  here  given: 

M.  A.  Charles  Edwin  Lamson,  pianist  and  composer,  a  graduate  of  Amherst 
in  the  class  of  1899. 

"A  college  into  whose  spirit  music  has  gone  deep,  a  college  which  delights  in  the 
generous  comradeship  of  men,  has  marked  the  achievements  of  you,  her  son.  x\s  an 
expression  of  her  pride  in  you,  as  well  as  of  her  permanent  devotion  to  the  cause  you 
serve,  she  bestows  upon  you  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts." 

M.  A.  Clarence  Hawkes,  blind  author  and  lecturer,  a  resident  of  the  neigh- 
boring town  of  Hadley,   Massachusetts. 

"To  a  neighbor  who  has  triumphed  over  heavy  hindrances,  who  has  read  with 
his  hands  when  his  eyes  failed  him,  who  has  taught  little  children  the  ways  of  Nature 
and  older  children  the  lessons  of  beauty  and  of  courage — to  a  neighbor  who  has  won 
merited  fame  abroad  we  extend  the  hand  of  fellowship  at  home.  Amherst  College 
claims  you,  sir,  as  her  son,  bestowing  upon  you  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts." 


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Of!        D.D.     Lewis  Thurston  Reed,  pastor  of  the  Flatbush  Congregational  Church, 
lal'Brooklyn,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the  class  of  1893. 

I         "From  a  college  which  would  spread  light  throughout  the  world,  you  graduated 

in  1893.     Loyally  you  have  kept  the  faith  and  fearlessly  done  the  work.     You  have 

gathered  about  you  throngs  of  people,  men  and  women,  old  and  young,  and  have  told 

them  the  story  of  life  as  it  shall  ever  be  taught  in  this  old  college.    Your  mother  in 

learning  delighting  in  you,  her  worthy  son,  bestows  upon  you  the  degree  of  Doctor 

of  Divinity." 
i 
,  D.D.     Robert  Charles  Denison,  pastor  of  the  United  Church  on  the  Green, 

New  Haven,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the  class  of  1889. 

I  "It  is  recorded,  sir,  that  Noah  Webster,  when  he  had  intellectual  work  to  do, 

I  departed  from  New  Haven  and  came  to  Amherst  town.  Here  finding  the  plainness 
of  living  and  the  depth  of  learning  that  he  sought,  he  helped  to  found  a  college  in 
which  that  combination  might  be  maintained  forever.  And  then  his  intellectual  work 
being  done,  he  took  himself  again  into  the  neighborhood  of  Yale.  You,  sir,  have 
risked  the  dangers  which  he  dared  not  face.  For  ten  years  the  pastor  of  the  United 
Church  on  the  Green  at  Yale,  you  yet  have  read  and  written  books,  have  scribbled 
Letters  to  Young  Friends,  have  sung  Songs  of  the  Spirit  in  the  Time  of  War.  And 
in  addition  to  your  pastoral  work,  you  have  served  your  country  in  active  ways  as 
well.  We  honor  you  for  being  the  scholar  and  singer  amid  the  deeds  of  busy  men. 
On  behalf  of  the  college  which  sent  you  forth,  I  confer  upon  you  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity." 

LL.D.  Solomon  Buckley  Griffin,  until  March,  1919,  managing  editor  of 
the  Springfield  Republican,  and  for  nearly  forty-seven  years  a  member  of  its  editorial 
force,  a  graduate  and  trustee  of  Williams  College. 

"A  little  college  in  the  country,  sir,  takes. courage  from  seeing  what  you  and  your 
fellows  have  done  in  journalism.  Wherever  in  the  Western  World  affairs  of  human 
action  are  discussed,  your  words  have  gone,  have  found  a  hearing.  In  distant  lands 
(I  hope  you  will  not  quote  me  to  your  fellow  citizens  at  home)  men  do  not  know  where 
Springfield  is,  whether  in  Colorado  or  Illinois.  But  they  do  know  Springfield's  Re- 
publican. We  may  not  say  you  are  right  in  policy,  since  colleges  do  not  take  sides 
on  matters  of  opinion.  But  this  we  say,  'Fairness  and  honesty  and  courage  you  have 
shown,  surpassed  by  none'. 

"Your  neighboring  country  college,  then,  seeking  to  make  knowledge  effective 
in  the  lives  of  men,  claims  fellowship  with  you  and  yours.  We,  too,  are  fain  to  tell 
the  truth.  You,  sir,  our  sister's  son,  we  make  to-day  our  own.  Son  of  Williams, 
in  the  name  of  Amherst,  I  confer  upon  you  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws." 

LL.D.  Howard  Sweetser  Bliss,  D.D.,  President  of  the  Syrian  Protestant 
College,  Beirut,  Syria,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the  class  of  188!^,  and  a  son  of  the 
late  president  and  founder  of  this  college,  Daniel  Bliss,  who  was  a  graduate  of  Amherst 
in  the  class  of  1852. 

"There  are  so  many  ways  in  which  you  are  our  own  that  we  can  hardly  choose 
which  ones  to  name.     Your  are  your  father's  son,  his  grandson's  father.     You  lead  a 


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college  in  a  distant  land  and  there  have  made  men  see  against  a  darker  backgrouni; 
than  our  own  the  clear  and  vivid  doctrines  that  a  college  has  to  teach.  You  have  bui 
up  and  laid  foundations  deep  for  future  building.  When  the  storm  of  war  broke  loos 
upon  you,  you  did  not  break,  nor  did  you  yield  one  inch.  And  now  the  storm  bein 
spent,  your  eyes,  though  tired,  can  see  the  dawning  of  the  day  of  your  desires. 

"We,  sir,  at  home,  whose  college  is  your  own,  whose  hopes  and  fears,  losses  an 
gains,  are  yours  as  well,  we  greet  you  as  comrade,  leader,  gallant,  fearless  friend.  I 
high  praise  of  what  you  are  and  what  you  have  done  we  confer  upon  you  the  degre 
of  Doctor  of  Laws." 

LL.D.  Calvin  Coolidge,  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  a  graduate  of  Anihers 
in  the  class  of  1895. 

"As  you  have  learned  and  used  the  lessons  of  this  college,  so  would  she  lean 
and  use  in  speaking  of  you,  a  lesson  which  you  teach,  that  of  adequate  brevity.  Upoi 
you,  sir,  shrewd  observer  of  men  and  affairs,  tireless  student  of  the  ways  of  govern 
ment,  fearless  without  flightiness,  leader  of  men  not  simply  by  office  but  by  intelli 
gence  and  integrity,  honored  son  of  Amherst,  trusted  Governor  of  the  Commonwealtl 
of  Massachusetts,  we  confer  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws." 

LL.D.  General  Peyton  Conway  March,  Chief  of  Staff,  United  States  Army 
a  son  of  the  late  Professor  Francis  A.  March,  who  was  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  th( 
class  of   1845. 

"  Your  father,  sir,  we  taught  the  ways  of  peace,  and  greatly  he  learned  them  audi 
taught  them  to  other  men.  You  learned  from  him  and  other  teachers  the  ways  of 
war,  learned  them  so  well  that  when  the  military  crisis  of  the  world  had  come  this 
people  made  you  its  army's  Chief  of  Staff.  Your  country  faced  a  task  which  human- 
kind believed  could  not  be  done.  The  task  was  done  and  victory  came.  And  we  with, 
all  your  fellow  countrymen  unite  today  in  paying  tribute  to  you  who,  as  the  army's 
immediate  chief,  have  borne  the  burden  and  made  sure  of  the  outcome. 

"Upon  you,  sir,  son  of  a  great  teacher  whom  this  college  will  ever  revere,  you  who 
have  won  the  confidence  and  the  admiration  of  a  great  people,  upon  you  we  confer 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws." 

It  is  most  fitting  also  to  preserve  a  part  of  the  tribute  by  Dean  Olds  to  the  Amherst 
men  who  died  in  the  war: 

"Thirty-three  of  them.  I  can  almost  see  them  before  me  now  in  their  college 
days,  fine,  clear-eyed,  true-hearted  boys,  with  their  enthusiasm,  their  idealism,  their 
joy  in  very  living  .  .  .  Joy  and  peace,  peace  all  about  them  on  the  hills,  in  the  val- 
leys, peace  in  all  their  life  here  ....  In  the  midst  of  this  peace  came  the  brazen 
voice  of  war.  In  the  midst  of  this  life  came  the  call  to  death.  With  what  alacrity 
those  boys  responded!  Those  earliest  days  come  vividly  before  me!  ....  Our 
committee  on  enlistment  met  day  after  day,  sometimes  till  midnight,  listening  to 
the  pleading  of  the  men  whose  hearts  had  responded  with  answering  beats  to  the  call 
of  a  country's  danger,  to  the  cry  of  an  imperiled  world-civilization.  We  would  reason 
with  them,  expostulate  with  them,  try  to  persuade  them  that  their  proposed  enlist- 
ment was  premature.  We  would  quote  from  the  President  of  the  United  States,  from 
the  Secretary  of  war,  from  the  Chief  of  Staff ^who  said,  "Wait  until  the  explicit  call 
comes  for  you,"'  but  it  was  of  no  avail,  in  a  trice  they  were  gone — the  training  camp. 


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■■"iiiKJthe  transport,  further  training  in  a  foreign  land,  second  line  trenches,  first  line  trenches, 
biii  jthe  cold  morning  hour,  the  advance  and  in  the  end  perhaps  death.    My  friends,  I  look 
'ooiiiback  on  the  experience  of  those  days  from  the  distance  of  two  years  and  I  can  see  that 
'eiiian  their  precipitancy,  their  apparent  rashness,  these  boys  were  right  and  we  were  wrong. 
Vast  national  uprisings,  the  concerted  movements  of  peoples  are  never  reasoned  out. 
;ai,^!iThey  are  instinctive,  the  most   magnificent  examples  of  instinct  known  to  human 
j[ji experience.     A  great  war  is  a  superb  manifestation  of  will,  of  a  common  purpose,  of 
>(T^la  sinking  of  all  minor  differences  of  opinion  and  belief,  of  prejudice  and  jealousy  and 
I  hatreds.    The  philosopher  Schopenhauer  in  his  great  thesis  on  'The  World  as  Will' 
[finds  will  in  the  law  of  gravitation;    and  the  common  purpose,  the  concentrated  effort, 
[the  determined  will  of  a  hundred  million  people  does  seem  like  the  vast  compelling 
force  that  holds  a  planet  in  its  orbit.     Here  we  have  one  of  the  great  paradoxes  of 
life,  the  apparent  warfare  of  intellect  and  instinct.     If  we  have  faith  in  education, 
we  may  not  dethrone  the  intellect.     It  is  and  must  always  remain  our  mistress.     We 
must  believe  that  the  very  evil  of  this  world  is  born  of  ignorance  far  more  than  of 
malevolence.     Yet  there  come  times  in  the  life  of  a  nation  as  of  an  individual  when 
instinct  dominates.     Like  a  dictator  it  rules  without  a  constitution,  overriding  the 
legislative  authority  of  the  rational   powers.     If  we  believe  in  a  fundamental  order 
of  the  world,  this  contradiction  can  be  only  apparent,  but  it  exists.    Perhaps  the  recon- 
ciliation lies  in  thinking  of  instinct  as  the  fruitage  of  the  reason  of  the  race.    Certain 
it  is  that  the  things  we  do,  the  expression  of  our  real  selves,  are  not  thought  out  at 
the  moment,  but  are  automatic  acts  resting  upon  inheritance  and  breeding,  on  the 
painstaking  practice  of  the  past. 

"These  Amherst  boys  acted  instinctively  and  unerringly,  and  so  did  the  splen- 
did group  of  older  Amherst  men,  the  thousand  who  went  with  them  into  the  furnace 
of  the  great  war.  It  was  not  that  they  had  not  thought;  their  thinking  had  been  done 
before  and  prepared  them  for  the  great  sacrifice,  and  when  the  crisis  came,  there»was 
the  man — ready.  It  was  the  moment  for  acting  and  they  acted.  As  Victor  Hugo  says, 
speaking  of  the  French  Revolution, '  If  there  was  to  be  a  revolution,  it  was  not  because 
Rousseau  premeditated  it,  Condorcet  foretold  it,  Diderot  preached  it,  but  because 
Danton  dared  it'  .  .  .  Say  what  one  will,  the  most  profound  instinct  of  mankind 
makes  death  the  ultimate  test  of  human  jiurpose  and  human  sacrifice.  It  is  to  the 
dead  and  not  to  the  living  that  men  erect  monuments.  It  was  more  the  death  of 
Abraham  Linclon  than  his  life,  superb  as  it  was,  that  has  established  his  primacy  in 
the  hearts  of  our  country  and  of  the  world.  It  was  Nelson's  dying  on  his  flagship. 
Victory,  that  has  been  the  great  central  fact  of  P^nglish  naval  history.  It  was  not 
the  temptation  in  the  wilderness,  not  the  agony  in  Gethsemane,  but  the  death  on 
Calvary  that  has  been  the  great  central  fact  in  all  history.  The  emblem  of  Christen- 
dom is  the  cross.  These  thirty-three  Amherst  men  died  in  the  service  of  their  country, 
and  in  the  great  tragedy  that  we  hope  has  saved  civilization  Amherst  College  has  had 
a  share  that  will  last  forever." 

The  concluding  event  of  Commencement  week  was  the  Ahinmi  Dinner  in  Pratt 
Gymnasium.  During  the  dinner  Mr.  F.  S.  AUis  announced  tiie  list  of  ofliccrs  of  the 
Society  of  the  Alumni  for  the  ensuing  year  and  awarded  the  reunion  tropiiy  to  the  class 
of  1879.  The  toastmasler,  (Irosvenor  H.  liackus,  '04,  then  ititroduccd  President 
Meiklejohn,  General  March,  Governor  Coolidge,  Dr.  Bliss,  and  Stoddard  Lane,  '90, 


126  AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 

as  speakers  of  the  occasion.     Of  especial  interest  were  the  remarks  of  Dr.  BHss  oi 
"The  Inescapable  Mandatory  of  America." 

"I  am  not  thinking  "said  Dr.  Bliss,  "of  the  Political  Mandatories  which  hav< 
been  spoken  of  in  connection  with  the  United  States,  though  as  a  matter  of  fact  ] 
believe  that  America  should  not  hesitate  to  assume  mandatories  of  this  class,  but  li 
wish  to  speak  about  the  Moral  Mandatory  which  has  been  laid  upon  us  by  the  fad 
of  the  astonishingly  widespread  belief  in  America's  disinterestedness  in  entering  tht 
great  conflict  and  in  the  spirit  of  democracy  which  she  exemplifies.  America's  con-i 
duct  has  captured  the  imagination  of  the  world  and  has  awakened  the  hope  of  op- 
pressed and  dying  peoples.  They  are  now  looking  to  America  for  guidance  in  their 
material,  intellectual  and  moral  development,  and  America  must  not  fail  them.  She 
must  continue  the  work  of  relief  so  nobly  begun;  she  must  strengthen  the  educational 
and  missionary  establishments  already  at  work.  She  must  send  her  sons  as  advisers 
in  the  pressing  problems  of  reconstruction.  She  must  furnish  capital  for  worthy  and 
needy  enterprises.  But  America  must  do  more  than  all  this.  She  must  awake  to  a 
sense  of  her  own  defects  and  to  the  necessity  of  adopting  higher  standards  of  li\'ing 
if  she  is  to  fulfill  worthily  this  Moral  Mandatory. 

"She  must  herself  conceive  of  patriotism  in  a  new  way,  emphasizing  as  never 
before  the  responsibilities  that  go  with  citizenship.  She  must  be  more  serious,  more 
thoughtful,  more  just,  more  fair,  more  courageous.  Our  Congress  must  be  less  petty. 
Labor  and  Capital  must  seek  and  find  a  common  meeting  ground  where  mutual  respect 
and  confidence  are  established.  Our  legal  procedure  must  be  less  technical  and  more 
speedy.  We  must  demand  a  more  responsible  Press.  We  must  insist  that  the  Min- 
istry should  be  more  efficient,  more  industrious,  more  honest,  more  open-minded 
more  spiritual,  better  able  to  interpret  the  divine  mysteries  of  the  universe  and  to 
formulate  in  passing  creeds  the  eternal  truths  of  God. 

"And  finally  the  ever  })resent  problem  of  American  education  must  be  grappled 
with  afresh.  Our  teachers  must  be  inspired  to  do  better  work  in  Schools  and  in  Col- 
leges and  in  Universities.  And  we,  as  x\mherst  men,  must  not  let  Amherst,  'the  fair- 
est college  of  them  all,'  lag  behind.  Our  pride  in  her,  our  satisfaction  in  what  she 
stands  for  as  a  courageous  champion  of  physical,  intellectual  and  moral  culture,  nuist 
not  blind  us  to  her  shortcomings. 

"She  has  done  great  things  for  us.  She  is  doing  greater  things  for  our  sons.  We 
must  hold  her  President,  her  teachers,  her  students  to  still  higher  standards,  to  still 
better  achievements,  if  she  and  all  our  Sister  Colleges  and  all  of  our  beloved  America 
is  to  fulfill  worthily  the  Inescapable  Mandatory  which  God  and  Man  have  laid  ui)<)n 
these  United   States!" 

With  Commencement  ended  one  of  the  most  difficult  years  of  Amherst's  existence, 
a  year  devoted  first  to  service  of  the  country  through  the  last  months  of  the  war  and 
then  to  the  task  of  repairing  the  morale  of  the  college  after  the  shattering  confusion 
of  war  and  pestilence.  The  spirit  of  Commencement  accurately  reflected  the  three 
dominant  feelings  of  the  present  Amherst — its  pride  in  the  achievement  of  \'ictory, 
its  hopes  and  eager  curiosity  for  the  future,  and  its  confidence  in  having  recovered 
its  social  solidarity  and  renewed  the  link  that  binds  it  to  the  beloved  Amherst  of  the 
past. 


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THE   COLLEGE   YEAR 


An  event  of  un- 
f:      Physical  Education    usual    significance 
at  Amherst  was     the     winning 

last   May   by   Am- 
I    herst  freshmen  of  the  trophy  offered  by 
the  National  Collegiate  Athletic  Associa- 
j  tion  to  that  college  whose  freshmen  made 
!   the  best  record  in  mass  Athletics.     The 
events   were   running   high   and   running 
broad  jumps,  one  hundred  yard  dash  and 
vault — and  the  conditions  required  a  par- 
I    ticipation  of  at  least  80%  of  the  class. 
j    Out  of  a  possible  12  points,  the  nine  col- 
I    leges  which   finished,   out   of   thirty-two 
I    entered,  scored  as  follows :    Amherst  10.75 
'    Oberlin    9.98,    Wesley  an    9.67,    Wooster 
;    9.65,   Case  School  9.64,   Hamilton  9.03, 
Oregon  State  Agricultural  College  8.09, 
Williams  7.53,  Vanderbilt  University  7.'28. 
These  figures  are  significant.     If  they 
indicate  anything,  it  is  that  the  kind  of 
physical  work  students  have  been  doing 
at  Amherst  fits  them  for  the  fundamen- 
tal  athletic  exercises,  running,   jumping, 
vaulting  and  the  like,  as  a  class.    It  is  sur- 
prising that  at  the  first  contest  Amherst 
should  lead  all  others  by  nearly  a  whole 
point,  or  about  7%,  and  it  was  very  ap- 
propriate that  the  prize   in  the  first  of 
these  annual  competitions  should  fall  to 
the  college  which  in  1860  established  the 
first    department    of    physical    education 
in  any  American  college  and  in  1904  first 
introduced  outdoor  athletics  as  a  part  of 
the  college  course. 

With    the    opening    of 

1919  Football    college  in  the  fall,  Am- 

Prospects        herst   expects  to  resume 

athletics    on    a    pre-war 

basis.    The  interest  in  sports  will  probably 


be  increased  by  the  emphasis  placed  on 
physical  exercise  and  outdoor  life  during 
the  period  of  military  training.  Football 
prospects  at  this  time  are  fairly  bright. 
Of  the  1917  team  six  members  are  still  in 
college  and  eligible  to  play.  These  in- 
clude Capt.  Phillips,  Olsen,  Reusswig, 
Bliss,  Davison,  and  Kilby.  In  addition, 
Maynard,  Brisk,  Palmer,  Zink,  and  Car- 
ney of  the  original  varsity  last  fall  will  be 
available.  Six  other  men  remain  from  the 
team  that  was  organized  last  October 
after  the  original  varsity  had  been  sent  to 
officers'  training  camps.  These  include 
Vail,  Clark,  Mathews,  Davison,  Wing 
and  Stisser.  Card,  who  played  a  good 
game  on  the  Freshman  team  in  1917,  has 
also  returned  to  college  after  a  year  in  the 
Navy.  Whether  Bodenhorn,  who  cap- 
tained the  1917  team,  will  return  is  un- 
certain. From  this  and  other  material 
that  may  be  developed,  a  team  that  will 
average  about  170  lbs.  and  be  fairly  fast 
will  be  built  up. 

The  schedule,  which  opens  on  Septem- 
ber 27th  and  closes  on  November  15th, 
includes  home  games  with  Worcester 
Tech.,  Bowdoin,  New  York  L^niversity, 
and  Wesley  an,  and  out  of  town  games 
with  Trinity,  Union,  Columbia,  and 
Williams.  The  strength  of  all  these  teams 
will  probably  be  much  greater  than  last 
year,  Williams  especially  expecting  to 
have  a  great  team  under  the  leadership 
of  Boynton,  her  famous  quarterback  in 
1917. 

Practice  at  AmiiersL  begins  on  Septem- 
ber 10th,  and  will  be  in  charge  of  Prof. 
Raymond  (i.  (iettell,  who  has  coached 
tiie  teams  of  the  past  two  years.  Theo- 
dore   Widmayer,    1916,    former   All-New 


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England  center,  has  been  appointed 
Hitchcock  Fellow  at  Amherst  and  will 
assist     in     coaching. 


Baseball 


The  baseball  team  got 
away  to  a  rather  poor  start 
in  spite  of  our  bright  antici- 
pations, losing  to  Holy 
Cross,  Brown  and  Dartmouth  in  succes- 
sion— all  strong  teams,  however.  On  May 
3rd  they  came  to  their  own,  winning  from 
Wesleyan  at  Middletown  in  impressive 
style  8—3,  and  on  the  14th  from  M.  A.  C. 
8 — 0.  Then  came  a  series  of  six  defeats 
by  Columbia,  Harvard,  Wesleyan,  Yale, 
Williams  and  Dartmouth.  The  finish 
of  the  season  was  of  the  most  spectacular 
kind.  After  winning  from  Trinity  11 — 0 
Amherst  pulled  the  M.  A.  C.  Com- 
mencement game  out  of  the  fire  in  the 
9th  inning — and  won  a  notable  10  inning 
game  from  Williams  in  a  long,  hard- 
fought  struggle  on  Tuesday  following,  by 
a  score  of  7 — 6.  It  was  7.30  P.  M.  when 
Capt.  Dick  Maynard's  line  drive  over 
second  cleared  the  bases,  brought  the 
game  to  an  end  and  the  crowd  to  their 
feet.    The  final  score  was  7 — 6. 

Result  of  the  season:  5  games  won,  9 
lost.  Fortunately  we  broke  even  with  our 
chief  rivals  and  won  both  games  from 
M.  A.  C. 

The  material  at  the  beginning  of  the 
season  looked  good  although  we  lacked 
second  string  pitchers,  Clark  and  Zink 
being  our  mainstays  for  most  games. 
The  loss  of  coach  Davis  handicapped  us 
for  some  time  and  the  inal)ility  to  secure 
a  fit  successor  for  a  while  delayed  the 
early  shaping  of  the  team.  Through  the 
good  offices  of  the  Athletic  (x)mmittee 
of  the  Alumni  Council  Mr.  Jacklitsch, 
formerly  catcher  of  the  Philadelphia  team, 
was  secured.  He  has  proved  himself  to 
be  a  man  who  knows  baseball  thoroughly 
and  is  able  to  teach  it   to  the  team.     By 


his  earnest  work  and  genuineness  he  lias 
gained  the  confidence  of  the  men.  The 
defeats  cannot  be  ascribed  to  him.  The 
team  was  weak  at  the  bat  and  until  late 
in  the  season  did  not  hit  in  the  pinches. 
To  the  new  coach's  credit  are  the  dis- 
covery of  Davison  as  a  catcher,  the  de- 
velopment of  Nash  into  a  first  string 
pitcher  and  the  bringing  out  of  Eveleth 
as  an  all  around  hitter  and  run  getter. 

No  one  graduates  from  the  team  this 
year.  With  the  old  men  including  three 
good  pitchers,  back  next  fall  and  the  pos- 
sibility of  some  new  material,  we  antici- 
pate a  better  showing  for  the  team  of  19'20. 


Tennis 


With  Capt.  Hendrickson 
and  Davis  to  head  the  ten- 
nis team  and  a  lot  of  fine 
material  to  contest  for  the 
other  places,  the  tennis  prospects  looked 
unusually  bright  in  March.  Several  of 
the  most  promising  players,  however, 
became  ineligible  and  the  season  started 
with  the  two  mentioned  and  Sprague  and 
Thorpe.  With  this  team  we  hoped  to 
make  an  excellent  showing  and  perhaps 
get  suflScient  points  to  secure  the  Long- 
wood  cup.  The  results  were  fair  but  not 
up  to  our  expectations.  The  team  lost  to 
the  Springfield  Country  Club  "i — 5,  Yale 
6 — 0,  Harvard  1 — 5,  Dartmouth  2 — 4, 
and  won  from  Trinity  6 — 0,  M.  I.  T. 
4 — 2,  Williams  4 — 2,  and  Wesleyan  4 — 2. 
No  points  were  scored  at  Longwood,  the 
team  being  beaten  by  the  very  men  whom 
they  had  defeated  in  early  matches. 

It  will  take  good  men  to  fill  the  vacan- 
cies made  by  the  graduation  of  Hendrick- 
son and  Davis.  There  is  enough  material 
in  college  if  the  men  are  eligil)le. 


At  the  Alumni  Dinner 
the  following  gifts  aggre- 
gating $32,844,  obtained 
through      the     xVlunmi 
Council  since  last  Commencement,  were 


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announced.  $22,500  of  this  amount  was 
to  the  Ahimni  Fund,  $9,544.50  to  admin- 
istration expenses  of  the  Council  and 
$1,250  to  general  income.  The  Alumni 
Fund  gifts  were  credited  to  the  following 
classes:  '69  $250,  '79  $1,200,  '84  $5,000, 
contributed  by  thirty -eight  men,  '89 
$15,000,  contributed  by  fifty-five  men, 
'04  $250,  '09  $250,  '13  $100.  '94  pledged 
a  gift,  the  exact  amount  to  be  fixed  later. 
The  gifts  to  the  administration  expenses 
were  credited  to  the  following  classes: 
'68  $100,  '69  $5,  '70  $50,  '71  $600,  '76 
$406,  '78  $500,  '81  $265,  '82  $401,  '83  $35, 
'84  $259.50,  '85  $250,  '87  $190,  '88  $250, 
'89  $277,  '90  $225,  '91  $140,  '93  $1,125, 
'94  $265,  '95  $1,250,  '96  $1,170,  '97  $250, 
'98  $135,  '99  $25,  '00  $750,  '01  $66,  '02 
$15,  '04  $250,  '10  $100,  '11  $105,  '13  $500, 
'17  $50. 

The  following  class  representatives 
on  the  Alumni  Council  were  elected  by 
reunion  classes  at  Commencement:  '69 
Wilham  J.  Holland,  Ph.  D.,  '79  Charles 
A.  Terry,  Esq.,  '84  Edward  M.  Bassett, 
Esq.,  *89  Prof.  William  P.  Bigelow,  '94 
Benjamin  D.  Hyde,  Esq.,  '99  Prof.  Burges 
Johnson,  '04  Harry  E.  Taylor,  '09  Rich- 
mond Mayo-Smith,  '13  Theodore  A. 
Greene.  Frederick  J.  E.  Woodbridge, 
'89,  and  Ernest  M.  Whitcomb,  '04,  were 
elected  representatives  from  the  Society 
of  the  Alumni. 

At  the  Commencement  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  the  following  important 
matters  were  referred  to  the  Alumni 
Council  for  consideration  and  advice: 
The  further  development  of  Hitchcock 
Field,  the  question  of  an  Amherst  Cen- 
tennial Memorial  in  Japan,  the  matter  of 
an  Inn  in  Amherst  for  the  accommodation 
of  the  alumni  and  friends  of  the  College, 
and  the  question  of  a  history  of  the  Col- 
lege in  connection  with  the  approaching 
centenary  in  1921. 


In     addition     to 
Gifts  at  the    gifts    obtained 

Commencement  through  the  Alumni 
Council  it  was  an- 
nomiced  that  the  Class  of  1884  as  a  part 
of  its  reunion  celebration  was  to  finance 
an  expedition  of  Professor  Frederic  B. 
Loomis,  '96  to  Scott's  Bluff  in  western 
Nebraska,  to  add  to  the  important  col- 
lection of  vertebrates  in  the  College.  Am- 
herst already  has  an  important  evolu- 
tionary series  in  the  development  of  the 
horse,  camel,  rhinoceros  and  dog,  and  the 
object  of  Professor  Loomis's  expedition 
this  summer  is  to  find  new  forms  and  more 
complete  material  of  forms  known  now 
only  in  a  fragmentary  way.  He  will  also 
continue  the  systematic  study  of  prehis- 
toric vertebrates  which  already  has  been 
begun,  especially  the  relationships  and 
sequence  in  occurrences  of  the  fauna  of 
Miocene  times. 

It  was  also  announced  that  the  decen- 
nial class  1909  had  made  three  gifts  to  the 
College:  an  annual  scholarship  of  $200 
to  be  awarded  on  the  basis  of  scholastic 
and  athletic  ability;  a  silver  loving  cup 
to  be  competed  for  annually  by  the 
four  classes  and  awarded  to  the  class 
having  the  largest  number  of  its  mem- 
bers engaged  in  athletic  sports,  and 
also  an  indefinite  amount  for  the  purpose 
of  sending  students  to  Amherst  to  visit 
the  College  and  secure  a  realization  of  its 
advantages. 

In  this  issue  of  the 
Amherst  in         Graduates'     Qiar- 
the  War  terly  the  War  Rec- 

ords Committee  of 
the  Ahunni  Council  presents  a  complete 
roster,  according  to  its  records,  of  Am- 
herst men  in  the  Army,  Navy,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  Red  Cross  during  the  Great  War. 
This  record  is  undoubtetlly  incomplete 
and  the  Committee  will  welcome  addi- 


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tions  or  corrections.  They  should  be 
sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Alumni  Coun- 
cil at  Amherst. 


Biographical 

Record  of 

the  War 


In  connection  with 
the  approaching  cen- 
tenary of  the  College 
the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Alumni  Council  is  planning 
to  compile  a  biographical  record  of  every 
Amherst  man,  and  in  the  early  autumn 


Alumni  will  be  requested  through  their 
class  organizations  to  co-operate  in  this 
important  work  by  supplying  the  neces- 
sary information  to  the  Alumni  Council. 
The  Council  is  co-operating  with  the 
Trustees  in  the  publication  of  a  History 
of  the  College  for  the  past  century  and  a 
History  of  Amherst  in  the  War,  and  this 
biographical  record  will  form  an  impor- 
tant part  of  the  material  for  both  these 
publications. 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


131 


C>ffidal  anD  pcrjSonal 


ROLL  OF  HONOR 

Kenneth  Rouse  Otis,  1904 
Sapper,  Canadian  Overseas  Railway 
Construction  Corps 

Mr.  Otis  (lied  in  France,  November  28,  1918,  of 
pneumonia . 

I  In  March,  191.3,  Mr.  Otis  enlisted  as  a  sapper  in 
the  Canadian  Overseas  Railroad  Construction 
{Corps,  Montreal,  Canada,  and  served  four  years  in 
the  Canadian  and  Imperial  Army. 

Mr.  Otis  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Feb.  20, 
1881,  the  son  of  William  L.  and  Francis  R.  (Rousej 
Otis.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Adelphi  Academy. 
After  three  years  at  Amherst  he  studied  at  a  school 
for  Engineers,  Parsons,  Kan.,  and  engaged  in  civil 
engineering  up  to  the  time  of  his  enlistment. 

Mr.  Otis  was  married  April  20,  1904,  to  Kathryn 
E.  Rollins,  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  who  survives  him. 
There  were  no  children. 

Albert  Beebe  Houghton,  1909 
United  States  Naval  Reserve  Force 

Mr.  Houghton  died  of  pneumonia,  March  7,  1919, 
in  Omaha,  Nebraska. 

After  two  years  at  Amherst,  Mr.  Houghton  went 
into  business,  becoming  traveling  salesman  for  a 
furniture  company  and  later  founding  the  Houghton 
Furniture  Company,  Kansas  City,  Mo.  which 
became  very  successful.  He  enlisted  in  the  Navy 
in  May,  1918,  and  served  in  the  North  Bombing 
Squadron  in  France  until  invalided  home. 

Mr.  Houghton  was  born  in  Fort  Calhoun,  Neb., 
November  15,  1880,  the  son  of  Frederick  W.  and 
Geneva  M.  (Beebe)  Houghton.  He  fitted  for  col- 
lege at  Worcester  (Mass.)  Academy.  He  was  mar- 
ried April  10,  1915,  to  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Dr.  John 
Taylor  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  who,  with  a  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  survives  him. 

John  Gough  Howard,  1919 
Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 

Ensign  Howard  was  lost  at  sea,  April  25,  1919, 
off  Provincetown,  Mass.,  when  his  sea-plane,  due 
to  engine  trouble,  was  forced  to  settle  in  a  heavy  sea. 

Ensign  Howard  left  Amherst  in  May,  1918,  to 
enter  Naval  Aviation.  He  was  trained  at  Pensa- 
cola,  Fla.,  and  later  at  Chatham,  receiving  his  com- 
mission as  Ensign  in  December,  1918.  He  was  born 
in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  May  18,  1897,  the  son  of  Clin- 
ton N.  and  Angeline  M.  (Keller)  Howard.  He 
fitted  for  college  at  the  West  High  School,  Rochester. 

ASSOCIATIONS 

Boston 

The  Scholarship  Committee  of  the  Boston  Am- 
herst Alumni  Association  announces  the  award  of 


the  scholarship  for  the  coming  year  to  Mr.  Charles 
A.  George  of  the  Walpole  High  School.  I.  H.  Agard, 
'09,  who  is  Principal  of  the  School,  speaks  in  the 
highest  terms  of  Mr.  George,  who  is  a  fine  student, 
a  boy  of  high  character,  and  an  athlete,  having 
played  on  all  the  school  teams  this  year.  Honorable 
mention  is  given  Mr.  Winthrop  H.  Root  of  Somer- 
ville  and  Mr.  Lincoln  Fairley  of  Jamaica  Plain. 


THE  REUNIONS 

1869 

It  was  our  tenth  reunion, — our  fiftieth  year.  Our 
"triennial"  came  in  1871,  a  year  earlier  than  it 
ordinarily  does,  in  order  to  synchronize  with  that 
never-to-be-forgotten  event,  the  semi-centennial 
of  Amherst,  when  such  men  as  Bullock,  Beecher 
and  Park  not  only  graced  the  occasion  but  electri- 
fied it. 

Had  any  man  prophesied  at  our  reunion,  five 
years  ago,  "Within  six  weeks  a  mighty  war  will  be 
launched  upon  the  world;  it  will  last  five  years; 
our  country  will  be  involved  in  it,  but  you  will  come 
together  just  as  it  closes,  in  the  crash  of  the  greatest 
military  nation  ever  known,"  we  should  have  put 
him  down  as  insane.  It  has  come  to  pass.  At  our 
recent  reunion  it  was  apparent  that  not  one  member 
of  "69,  who  had  sons  or  daughters  eligible  for  ser- 
vice, had  failed  to  make  his  contribution  to  secure 
the  final  victory. 

Out  of  twenty-six  living  graduates,  fifteen  met 
for  our  jubilee, — Allen,  Benner,  Bogart,  Brown, 
Cook,  Hammond,  Hewett,  Hobble,  Holland,  Ear- 
ned, Lewis,  Richardson,  Seabury,  Smith,  and  Stod- 
dard. When  we  consider  that  out  of  the  eleven 
members  of  '69  who  were  not  present,  three  are  in 
California,  one  in  Kansas,  and  one  in  India,  we  are 
not  ashamed  of  our  showing.  Our  headquarters 
were  at  8  Spring  St.,  where  we  have  rendezvoused 
for  several  years. 

Most  of  our  men  arrived  in  season  to  attend  the 
President's  reception,  Monday  afternoon.  All  of 
them  were  at  the  Class  supper  at  7  p.m. 

There  were  also  present  five  ladies,  wives  of  our 
men,  whose  presence  added  much  to  our  pleasure. 
After  supper  we  were  by  ourselves  for  four  hours. 
It  was  an  event  long  to  be  remembered,  toward 
which  we  had  been  looking  with  unabated  interest 
as  the  climax  of  our  graduate  life. 

Since  our  last  reunion  ten  of  our  men  have  died, 
among  them  some  of  the  most  loyal  men  of  '69  who 
were  always  present  at  our  reunions,  and  whom  we 
sadly  missed  at  our  late  gathering; — Eastman,  our 
very  efficient  and  belovetl  class  historian,  Howes, 
Kellogg,  McNeill,  Matthews,  Putnam,  Slocuni  and 
Tenney;  and  Humphrey  and  Warren,  non-gradu- 
ates, men  who  have  filled  honoral)le  places  in  pro- 
fessional and  mercantile  life.  Two  of  them  were 
scholarly  and  effective   preachers;    two    were 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


yers  of  high  stanthng;  one  a  physician,  a  practi- 
tioner of  original  and  effective  methods;  one  was  a 
resourceful  journalist;  three  held  positions  of  influ- 
ence in  the  business  world;  one  was  an  educator 
and  author  of  national  reputation.  At  our  meeting 
Stoddard  fittingly  characterized  these  men,  re- 
minding us  of  our  loss. 

During  the  evening  letters  were  read  from  ab- 
sent members  of  the  Class.  In  this  way  nearly 
every  man  was  heard  from,  either  by  his  own  pres- 
ence or  by  written  communication.  Close  as  is  the 
tie  that  binds  "(59  men  together,  this,  our  jubilee 
anniversary,  made  us  more  nearly  one  than  we  have 
ever  been. 

Speech-making  seemed  out  of  order,  but  we  es- 
pecially enjoyed  the  remarks  of  our  President, 
Francis  D.  Lewis  Esq.,  Hon.  Charles  H.  Allen, 
Trustee,  of  Amherst,  Prof.  W.  T.  Hewett  of  Cornell 
University,  who  had  intimate  knowledge  of  the  war, 
and  Dr.  William  J.  Holland  of  the  Carnegie  Insti- 
tute, Pittsburg.  Each  of  these  men,  and  others 
spoke  of  matters  of  which  they  were  especially  quali- 
fied to  speak,  to  the  delight  of  all. 

Ten  of  our  men  remained  for  the  Alumni  dinner, 
where  we  joined  the  chorus  of  classes  who  had  their 
class-cheer  well  practiced,  while  ours  was  purely 
extemporaneous : 

"Fine,  fine,  superfine. 
We're  the  men  of  '69.  " 

The  success  of  this,  as  of  all  former  reunions,  was 
due  largely  to  the  discriminating  and  untiring  labors 
of  William  Reynolds  Brown,  our  Class  secretary, 
whose  service  for  fifty  years  was  chronicled  in  a 
resolution  offered  by  Prof.  Preserved  Smith  at  our 
supper,  assuring  him  that  the  Class  holds  him  in 
most  grateful  and  fraternal  regard,  for  his  devotion 
to  the  interests  of  the  Class  during  this  long  period. 

And  now  we  are  approaching  another  great  aca- 
demic function, — the  centennial  of  our  beloved 
Alma  Mater.  Arrangements  for  the  event  are  left 
with  our  officers,  but  it  is  sure  to  bring  us  together 
again  two  years  from  now,  instead  of  five  years, 
as  it  did  fifty  years  ago,  when  we  gathered  for  our 
triennial. 

J.  B.  S. 

1874 

The  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  graduation 
of  the  Cla.ss  of  1874,  at  Amherst  College  this  year 
was  a  marked  success. 

There  are  now  living  thirty-six  out  of  the  original 
sixty-six  members  who  graduated.  Of  these  there 
were  present  at  the  dinner:  Atwell,  Ballantine, 
Bancroft,  Brown,  Birdseye,  Biscoe,  Darling,  Dewey, 
Dow,  Judd,  Lcland,  Loomis,  Morse,  Mills,  Rich- 
mond, Sawhill,  Slocum,  Turner,  eighteen  in  all. 
Besides  these  Mellen,  who  was  unable  to  attend  the 
dinner,  was  present  at  Amherst  on  Baccalaureate 
Sunday  with  his  son.  If  Stoddard  and  Mellen  had 
registered  we  are  told  that  the  Class  might  have 
been  in  a  position  to  claim  the  Amherst  trophy, 
as  it  would  have  made  our  average  of  attendance 
higher  than  that  of  the  Class  that  took  the  cup. 

The  Class  Dinner  was  held,  as  previously  an- 
nounced, at  the  Draper,  Northampton,  and  was  in 
many  respects,  equal  to,  if  not  better  than  the  din- 
ner of  five  years  ago.  We  regretted  the  absence 
of  our  President,  Gillett,  whose  duties  as  Speaker 


of  the  House  detained  him  in  Washington.  After 
Commencement,  thirteen  of  the  Class,  including 
Mrs.  Slocum,  visited  the  Lake  Placid  Club  in  the 
Adironacks  as  guests  of  Dewey.  « 


1879 


The  Class  of  1879  held  its  forty-year  reunion  ( 
during  Commencement  week.  Out  of  seventy- « 
seven  graduate  and  non-graduate  members  forty- 
one  were  present,  making  a  percentage  of  53.  With  j 
that  percentage  of  attendance  the  Class  won  the| 
reunion  trophy,  though  no  special  effort  to  win  it 
had  been  made,  the  secretary  not  having  mentioned 
the  trophy  to  any  of  the  members  of  the  Class  in 
his  circulars,  but  relying  on  their  personal  interest 
in  the  reunion  and  their  loyalty  to  the  Class  and 
college  to  bring  them  to  Amherst.  In  forty  years 
only  twelve  who  graduated  with  the  Class  had  died. 
Six  live  outside  the  United  States,  and  could  not 
be  expected  to  come,  but  one  of  them,  Baron  Xaibu 
Kanda  of  the  Japanese  House  of  peers,  was  repre- 
sented by  his  son  Yasaka  Takagi  and  the  latter's 
bride.  Mr.  Takagi  has  come  to  the  L'nited  States 
for  three  years  of  study,  having  been  appointed  to 
the  new  professorship  of  American  History  and 
Institutions  which  A.  Barton  Hepburn  of  New  York 
has  founded  in  the  University  of  Tokyo.  At  the 
Class  dinner,  the  Class  enjoyed  the  hospitality  of 
its  president,  Charles  M.  Pratt.  Besides  the  mem- 
bers, some  twenty  wives  and  ten  or  a  dozen  sons 
and  daughters  were  present.  At  the  Class  meeting 
Mr.  Pratt  was  re-elected  president,  A.  L.  Hardy 
chairman  of  the  committee  of  local  arrangements, 
and  J.  F.  Jameson  secretary.  Charles  A.  Terry 
was  elected  representative  of  the  Class  in  the  Alumni 
Council  in  the  place  of  the  late  Winston  H.  Hagen. 
On  Tuesday  the  Class  picknicked  at  Orient  Springs 
in  Pelham,  coming  back  in  season  for  the  Amherst- 
Williams  ball  game. 

1884 

The  Class  of  '84  held  its  35th  year  reunion  at  the 
Davenport  House,  a  large  number  of  the  Class 
arriving  on  Saturday  and  staying  through  until 
Thursday  morning.  The  number  of  classmates 
attending  was  30.  The  entire  Davenport  House 
was  given  over  to  the  use  of  the  Class,  many  of  the 
wives,  sons  and  daughters  being  present  for  the 
occasion. 

The  amount  of  the  subscription  to  the  College 
Fund  was  $5000. 

The  final  gathering  of  the  Class  took  place  Wed- 
nesday evening,  at  which,  counting  the  wives  and 
children,  there  were  about  t>5  present.  The  '84 
Quartette  and  the  College  Quartette  besides  the 
College  Jazz  Band,  furnished  musical  entertainment 
for  the  evening.  As  nearly  as  possible,  the  (irove 
Exercises  given  by  the  Class  in  the  year  1884  were 
duplicated,  both  the  poem  and  the  oration  being 
again  rendered  by  the  authors. 

A  moving  picture  entertainment  was  also  enjoyed 
and  was  the  occasion  of  great  mirth,  the  principal 
feature  being  the  reproduction  of  members  of  the 
Class  as  they  were  supposed  to  have  appeared  at 
varying  times  from  babyhood  up  to  their  entrance 
into  college  as  Freshmen.  Later  on  some  pictures 
were  shown  as  many  of  the  Class  appeared  when  in 
college. 


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133 


1889 

,     Headquarters  for  "SO's  Thirtieth  were  at  Masonic 

Hall  with  Frank  Wood  catering.     Forty-five  men 

were  present,  Ajipleton,  W.  P.  Bigelow,  Bosworth, 

Callahan,  Churchill,  Cody,  Cooke,  Copeland,  Cush- 

man   Denison,  Derr,  Dicken,  Dickinson,  Eastman, 

Emerson,    Esty,    French,    Holt,    Holton,    Howard, 

James,  Jones,  Kellogg,   Kimball,   Loomis,  Luther, 

I  Mighill,  Moore,  Phelps,  Rich,  Smith,  E.  E.,  Smith 

iH    ^     Stearns,  Storrs.  Taylor,   Walker,  Watkins, 

J.M.,' Watkins,  R.  P.,  White,  E.  A.,  White,  R.  R., 

Whitney,  Wier,  Wilder,  Wilson,  and  ^\oodbndge, 

i  with    twenty-five    wives    and    thirty    children — an 

I  exact  hundred. 

Class  Dinner  at  Headquarters  Monday  night 
■  was  informal  with  telegrams  from  some  still  in 
,  Europe  and  one  from  "Jimmy"  Tufts.  The  very 
1  recent  death  of  Jackson  saddened  all. 
j  Meanwhile  the  ladies  were  dining  with  Mrs. 
I  Churchill  and  the  younger  set  were  dancing  at  the 
!  Orient. 

I  Tuesday  noon  all  autoed  for  dinner  to  the  summit 
I  of  Mt.  Holyoke,  the  lowery  clouds  hiding  the  dis- 
j  tant  view,  but  by  constant  changes  adding  more 

beauty  to  the  foreground. 
'  Some  may  be  saddened  to  know  that  '89's  famous 
i  "department  R"  forever  passed  into  oblivicm  June 
I  25,  1914,  but  Frank's  steaks  and  chickens  proved 
i  just  as  tempting  as  thirty  odd  years  ago — for  once 
I  memory  did  not  trick  or  exaggerate. 
,  The  reunion  was  the  smallest  the  Class  has  held 
for  a  long  time  but  over  sixty  shared  in  the  contri- 
bution of  $15,250.00  to  the  Alumni  Fund. 

1894 

Arrivals  in  chronological  order  were, — Mitchell, 
wife  and  daughter;    Whitcomb,  wife  and  three  sons; 
:   C.G.Smith  and  wife;  Wood,  wife  and  .son;   Backus, 
!   wife,  daughter,  two  sons  and  niece;   Noyes;  Kidder; 
j  Johnston;     Brown;     Schmuck;     Tucker;     Howe; 
\   Snell  and  wife;    Cheney  and  wife;    L.  E.  Smith; 
!    H.  F.  Stone  and  wife;    Streeter,  wife,  two  daughters 
j   and  son;    E.  B.  Smith  and  wife;    Hinsdale;    Hyde; 
i    Lyman,  wife,  son  and  daughter;    M.  C.  Burt  and 
\   wife;    Disbrow;    Capen;    Burnham  and  son;    Loud 
'    and   wife;     Fletc'her   and    wife;     Howes;     Russell; 
Fhtchner;  Hurlburt;    McAllister  and  wife;   Stearns; 
Pitman  and  Hall.    The  first  arrivals  came  on  Friday. 
Siuiday  morning  most  of  the  men  in  town  sat  in 
the  Headcjuarters"  tent,  located  on  the  north  side 
of   Converse   Littrary,   and    talked   over   old   times 
while   the   wives   attended    church.      Late   Sunday 
afternoon   the   ('lass   motored    to   South    Dccrficld 
for  diimer,  where  they  had  a  most  enjoyable  repast. 
On    Monilay   night,   Hyde,   the   Class   President, 
and  Snell,  the  Congressman,  entertained  the  entire 
("lass  and  their  wives  at  a  dinner  in  South  Deerfield, 
which    was    a    great    success.      The    Class    officers 
elected   at   that    time   were, — President,    Benjamin 
D.  Hyde;    Vice  President,  Eugene  Lyman;    Secre- 
tary, Henry  E.  Wiiitcomb;    Treasurer,  Herman  S. 
Cheney;     Executive  Committee,  the  al)ove  officers 
and   Percival   Schmuck,    Warren    Brown   and    Roy 
Hinsdale.     Benj.  D.  Hyde  was  elected  delegate  to 
the  Alumni  Council. 

Tuesday  the  Class  had  their  i)icnic  at  the  Orient 
attended  l)y  about  fifty  members.  Tiiis  luncheon 
was  preceded  by  a  Morning  Cofi'ee  at  tiie  iioiiie  of 


Mr  and  Mrs.  Ernest  M.  Whitcomb  on  Lincoln 
Ave  On  returning  from  the  Orient  picnic,  the 
Class  picture  was  taken  on  the  steps  of  the  Town 

Hall.  .  ,,  „ 

The  Lawn  Fete  in  the  evening  was  pretty  well 
attended,  but  the  omission  of  the  Class  booths  of 
the  Reunion  classes  was  felt  to  be  a  decided  draw- 
back to  the  success  of  the  evening.  There  was  no 
gathering  place,  as  in  former  Reunions,  and  the 
result  was  that  no  one  could  find  anyone  else  except 
bv  good  fortune. 

^Wednesday  morning  the  Class  attended  Com- 
mencement exercises  and  the  Commencement 
dinner  was  the  closing  event  of  a  very  successful 
Reunion.  One  of  the  honors  conferred  on  '94  was 
the  selection  of  Grosvenor  H.  Backus  as  Toast- 
master  at  the  dinner  and  Luther  Smith  as  Marshal 
of  the  Commencement  procession. 

The  Class  Trophy  cup  had  already  been  won  three 
times  by  the  Class  at  the  Reunions  and  no  special 
effort  was  made  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Class  to  win  a  fourth  time.  The  result  was  that  an 
even  50%  were  registered,  while  the  winners  of  the 
Trophy  cup.  Class  of  '79,  had  a  percentage  of  53.2%. 

1898 

The  Class  of  "98  held  its  delayed  20th  Reunion 
with  Headquarters  at  Mrs.  Florence  Blair's,  North- 
ampton Road.  Thirty-five  men  reported,  half  a 
dozen  wives  and  about  the  same  number  of  children.  ' 
The  numbers  were  somewhat  smaller  than  at  the 
10th  and  the  15th  but  the  general  opinion  seemed 
to  be  that  it  was  the  most  enjoyable  reunion  ever 

held.  ,      ^^      , 

The  Class  supper  was  held  at  the  Headquarters 
Monday  night.  Wellman  read  another  of  his  inimi- 
table original  poems  which  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Class  deserve  enduring  place  in  Amherst  Literature. 
Officers  were  re-elected  as  follows:  F.  B.  Goddard, 
Pres.;  F.  W.  Fosdick,  Vice  Pres.;  C.  W.  Merriam, 
Sec;    F.  Q.  Blanchard,  Treas. 

On  Tuesday  morning  the  Class  attended  a  chapel 
service  conducted  by  Professor  Tyler  with  exactly 
the  same  order  of  Service  followed  in  the  years 
"94-98.  The  men  then  proceeded  in  a  body  to  the 
class  room  on  the  third  floor.  Walker  Hall,  where  in 
junior  year  Professor  Grosvenor  met  practically 
the  whole  Class  the  first  hour  four  days  a  week. 
"Grosvie""  called  the  roll  and  gave  a  "Lecture."" 
Both  of  these  features  rolled  away  twenty-one  years. 
"98  and  '99  then  staged  a  ball  game  which  "98 
won  by  timely  batting  in  its  half  of  the  fourth. 
After  this  there  was  a  delightful  hour  spent  with 
Mrs.  Grosvenor  and  Professor  (irosvenor  who  were 
"at  home"  for  "98. 

The  remainder  of  the  Commencement  time  the 
Class  either  shared  in  the  general  features  for  all  or 
enjoyed  the  good  fellowship  and  comlort  at  Head- 
quarters. 

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The  Hfleenth  reunion  was  held  at  Commence- 
ment time,  with  a  total  attendance  of  24.  The 
head(|uarlers  were  at  the  Carter  House.  The  busi- 
ness meeting  was  held  Monday  evening  at  the 
Amherst  CJun  Club.  Tiie  following  registered: 
C.  E.  Ballou,  D.  L.  and  Mrs.  Bartlett.  F.  I{.  and 
Mrs.  Dow,  W.  W.  Fox,  Dr.  Isaac  Hartsiiorne, 
J.  F.  Kane,  R.  .V.  Kennedy,  J.  A.  Lowe,  H.  G.  Lunil, 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


E.  O.  Merchant.  W.  N.  Morse,  J.  H.  O'Donnell. 
G.  K.  and  Mrs.  Pond,  C.  A.  Porter,  H.  S.  Richard- 
son, J.  W.  Roberts,  A.  A.  Savage,  R.  S.  and  Mrs. 
Stowell,  F.  E.  Sturgis,  H.  E.  and  Mrs.  Taylor,  K.  O. 
and  Mrs.  Thonij)son,  \Y.  L.  \'osburgh,  E.  M.  and 
Mrs.   Wliitcomh,   and   R.   S.    Morgan. 

1909 

1909  had  a  Uirge  and  successful  Decennial  Re- 
union, there  being  68  members  of  the  Class  in  at- 
tendance. Although  the  Class  ranked  only  fourth 
in  the  Cup  Contest  with  a  percentage  of  4i5.94, 
our  total  of  68  j)resent  was  greater  by  '20  men  than 
the  registration  of  any  other  Reunion  Class.  The 
wives  of  '2'2  of  the  men  were  also  at  the  reunion. 

The  following  Honorary  Members  of  1909  were 
present  at  the  Decennial:  Barry  Bulkley,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C;  Prof.  H.  C.  Lancaster,  and  James 
S.    Hamilton. 

At  the  Class  Meeting  held  at  Reunion,  the  fol- 
lowing Officers  were  elected:  President,  Wilbur 
B.  Jones,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Secretary,  Donald  D. 
McKay,  Xewton  Highlands,  Mass.;  Treasurer, 
Walter  R.  Main,  West  Haven,  Conn.;  Reunion 
Com.  Chairman,  Clinton  W.  Tylee,  Xewtonville, 
Mass.;  James  B.  Melcher,  Xewton  Centre,  Mass.: 
William  A.  ^'ollmer,  Brooklyn,  X\  Y.;  Alumni 
Council  Rep.  Richmond  Mayo-Smith,  Dedham, 
Mass. 

It  was  voted  that  the  following  gifts  be  made 
to  the  College;  1st;  A  .scholarship  of  $'200.00 
a  year  to  be  given  to  a  prospective  member  of  the 
Freshman  Class  under  conditions  and  terms  to  be 
decided  upon  by  a  Class  Committee.  Init  with  the 
basic  idea  that  this  .scholarship  shall  be  awarded 
for  combined  scholastic  and  athletic  ability. 

2d;  A  fund  of  $.500.00  to  be  used  for  the  purpose 
of  bringing  Preparatory  School  men  to  Amherst 
in  the  hope  that  such  visits  may  influence  such  men 
to  choose  Amherst  as  their  .\lma  Mater. 

3rd;  A  loving  cup  to  be  jjresented  to  that  Under- 
graduate Class  which  shall  have  the  largest  per- 
centage of  its  membership  engaged  in  athletic 
contests,  the  details,  conditions,  and  systems  of 
count  to  be  worked  out  by  a  Cla.ss  Committee. 

4th;    A  gift  of  $''2rj0.00  to  the  Alumni  Fund. 

15)13 

The  Class  of  191,'5  held  a  small  but  very  happy 
sixth  reunion  at  the  last  Commencement.  Our 
Headquarters  at  old  'Wlco-hall"  on  Woodside 
Avenue  were  gay  with  colored  lights,  and  the 
rollicking  music  of  a  five-piece  undergraduate 
orchestra.  Open  house  was  kept  each  evening  un- 
til after  midnight,  and  many  friends  from  familiar 
classes  made  our  house  their  own.  The  Class  co.s- 
tume  of  flaming  red  shirts,  blue  breeches  and  broad 
straw-liats  was  distinctively  cons{)icuous  and  com- 
fortable. When,  thus  clad,  we  trundled  to  the 
Saturda^y  night  frolic  on  a  hay  wagon  lit  with  red 
lanterns,  the  sight  was  gorgeous. 

The  Class  dinner  at  the  Drajjer  was  the  best  the 
Class  ever  held.  After  the  feast  and  the  songs,  we 
spent  a  fascinating  hour  recalling  the  names  and 
exploits  of  the  absent  brothers  until  we  almost  felt 
that  everyone  was  there. 

The  Class  elected  the  following  officers: 

President,  H.  M.  Bixby;  Secretary,  L.  Stilwell; 
Secretary    for   Xew    York    City,    C.    C.    Benedict; 


.Vlumui  Council  Represeutatixe,  T.  .V.  (ireene.  It 
was  voted  to  send  words  of  sympathy  to  the  reia-j 
tives  of  the  two  men  who  had  died  in  France — 
Douglas  I'rquhart.  and  Ralph  Dawes. 

.\  delightfully  large  number  of  the  wives  added 
to  the  joy  of  the  reunion.  There  were  present, — 
Mrs.  Babbott.  Mrs.  Bailey,  Mrs.  Bond,  Mrs.  Coyle, 
Mrs.  Greene,  Mrs.  Littlejohn,  Mrs.  Mitchell, 
Mrs.  Morse,  Mrs.  Partenheimer,  Mrs.  Plough,  Mrs. 
Proctor,  Mrs  \'oorhees,  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Wilcox. 
The  following  men  were  present — H.  G.  Allen, 
.\tkinson,  Babbott,  Bailey,  Beckwith,  Benedict, 
Bixl)v.  Bond,  Burnett,  Burns,  Cadman,  L.  G.  Cald- 
well, Cobb,  Cousins,  Coyle,  Greene,  Goff,  Hardy, 
Heinritz,  Hopkins,  Klingenfeldt,  Littlejohn,  Marsh, 
Mitchell,  J.  S.  Moore,  Morris,  Morse.  Parteulieiraer, 
K.  S.  Patten,  Plough,  Proctor,  F.  M.  Smith,  Scat- 
chard,  Stelling,  Stilwell,  Storrs,  Stout,  Swanton, 
Voorhees,  Wesby,  Westcott,  Wallace,  S.  P.  Wilcox, 
"  W.  J.  Wilcox,  Warner,  Wilder,  and  Williamson. 
Total— 1.7. 

1916 

Burt  .\mes,  as  chairman  of  the  Reunion  Com- 
mittee, pulled  off,  this  last  Commencement,  the 
nicest  little  Reimion  that  1916  ever  had — an  aflFair 
that  is  comparable  only  [o  those  that  1916  is  going 
to  have  in  the  future.  Twenty-nine  men  were  back, 
not  so  bad,  considering  the  fact  that  the  Class  has 
only  sixty-one  living  graduate  members  with  a 
large  proportion  of  them  still  overseas.  The  fol- 
lowing signed  up  for  the  trophy:  Ames,  Avirett, 
Baker,  Balmos,  Bixler,  Blanchard,  Boynton,  Bristol, 
Clark,  Conant,  Esty,  Ferguson,  (iail,  (iiliies.  (Jood- 
ridge,  Johnson,  Lane,  Lutkins,  Xeiley.  Olle.  Park, 
Proctor,  Roi)inson,  E.  E.  Sawyer,  W.  H.  Smith, 
Stearns,  both  Washburns  (Al  and  (reorge).  and 
B.  C.  Young.  The  big  time  for  all  was  the  dinner 
at  the  Xonotuck  Sunday  evening  when  in  the  finesf 
spirit  of  fellowship  current  topics  were  di.scussedS 
differences  thrashed  out,  and  plans  made  for  the 
future.  The  Class  is  now  on  its  toes,  ready  for  whal> 
ever  is  to  come.  The  debts  incurred  because  of  the 
war  have  been  met.  the  premiums  on  the  insurance 
toward  the  alunmi  fund  are  paid  up  to  June  1920, 
and  the  first  issue  of  the  Class  paper  this  year  will 
appear  about  October  loth.  Send  all  contributions 
for  it  to  J.  S.  Bixler,  Amherst,  Mass.  The  close  of 
the  Class  meeting  on  Baccalaureate  Sunday  was 
given  over  to  a  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  five 
members  of  the  Class  who  had  died  during  the 
|)rec((iing  twelve  months:  Ashley,  Gillett,  Knowl- 
ton,  Leonard,  and  ^'e^  X'^oov. 


1917 


) 


Xineteen-seventeen's  postponed  first  reimion 
has  passed  into  history.  We  weren't  as  numerous 
as  had  been  hoped — only  41  were  present.  But  the 
fact  that  we  still  have  20  men  overseas,  and  most 
of  us  are  only  a  few  months  out  of  service,  will  ac- 
coimt  for  that;  while  the  "old  pep"  increased 
steadily  from  the  Aggie  game  on  Saturday  right 
through  to  Wednesday's  alumni  dinner. 

Butch  Hobart,  a  week  early,  was  tlie  first  1917 
man  on  the  scene,  (His  fellow  butcher,  McCiarralian, 
didn't  appear  till  later).  Close  on  his  trail  followed 
Monty  ("lark,  prompted  by  his  interest  in  two  com- 
mencements— ours   and   Smith's.      (Rat    Robinson 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


13.) 


tells  the  s^amt'  uf  Rookie  Munroe).  By  Saturday 
when  Prexy  Eisner  arrived  on  the  Hamp  car  some 
two  dozen  members  had  arrived  to  lend  a  voice  to 
the  cheering  that  helped  win  the  Aggie  game. 

The  Class  banquet  took  place  Monday  evening 
in  the  Draper,  that  little  room  next  to  the  bar. 

Tuesday  afternoon  came  the  grove,  with  Gibson 
and  Sheldon  (the  R.  V.  A.  one)  as  the  butts  of  '09"s 
heavy  humor.  Prexy  drojjjjcd  into  the  tent  after- 
wards, we  had  our  picture  taken,  and  then  trooped 
off  to  the  Williams  game.  Mrs.  Dutch  Lemcke 
came  with  us  in  costume,  but  balked  at  our  dash 
around  the  bases. 

Among  those  who  received  degrees  Wednesday 
morning  were  :  Chief-of  Staff-March,  Bob  Moore, 
and  Monty  Clark.  The  last  two,  however,  did  not 
fict  LL.  DVs 

The  Class  numbers  were  dwindling  by  this  time — 
(inly  17  were  there  for  the  alumni  banquet.  And 
l)y  nightfall  (counting  out  hardened  natives  like 
Tom  Xelligan  and  Irv  Spear)  only  the  gallant 
Hutch,  first  to  arrive,  was  left  behind  to  brave  the 
horrors  of  Amherst  in  vacation  time. 

1918 

During  the  Commencement  period,  about  forty 
members  of  the  Class  of  1918  returned  to  Amherst 
for  the  first  Class  Reunion.  On  Monday  evening, 
the  Class  had  a  dinner  at  "Dick's."  Professors 
Gettell  and  Young,  honorary  members  of  the  Class, 
were  among  those  present.  The  committee  in  charge 
consisted  of  "Jay"  Estey,  "Al"  Saunders  and 
"Stewie"  Meiklejohn.  l!)18"s  first  Reunion  was  a 
marked  success. 

NOTE:  News  iti-ms  for  insertion  in  the  Novem- 
ber Quarterly  should  l)e  mailed  before  September 
25th  to  John  B.  O'Brien,  309  Washington  .\ venue, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


THE  CLASSES 

1847 

Samuel  \\()rccstcr  Dana,  of  New  Caslle,  Pa., 
is  now  the  oldest  living  alumnus  of  Amherst  College. 
He  was  born  on  March  14,  18*28.  His  grandfather 
was  a  Revolutionary  patriot  and  his  father  was  an 
1812  veteran,  a  temperance  reformer  and  an  alioli- 
tionist.  Mr.  Dana  is  a  member  of  the  bar,  and  has 
been  practicing  at  New  Castle,  Pa.,  since  1853. 

1853 

The  Rev.  Dr.  John  Morton  Greene,  known 
throughout  the  country  as  the  "Father  of  Smith 
College,"  died  at  the  home  of  his  daughter  in  Boston 
on  Monday,  .\[)ril  48tli,  after  an  illness  of  four 
weeks,  at  the  age  of  89  years.  Dr.  Greene  was  one 
of  the  most  loyal  of  Amherst  alunmi  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  0\-erseers  of  the  Amherst 
College  Charitable  Fund,  having  held  this  office 
for  a  great  many  years. 

Dr.  Greene  was  born  in  Hadley  on  .March  12, 
1830,  and  was  the  son  of  Simon  and  Fysther  (Haw- 
ley)  (Ireene.  He  prei)arcd  for  college  at  Willislon 
Seminary,  received  the  degree  of  \.\i.  from  .\ndierst 
jn  1853,  A.M.  in  1850  and  D.D.  in  1881. 


During  his  first  pastorate  at  Hatfield  he  became 
adviser  of  Miss  Sophia  Smith,  one  of  the  members 
of  his  church;  and  when  her  brother  died  in  1861, 
leaving  her  a  fortune,  he  suggested  that  she  found 
a  woman's  college  in  Northampton,  and  also  the 
academy  in  Hatfield.  He  gave  her  the  plan  of 
Smith  College.  It  was  adopted;  the  college  was 
foimded  and  also  the  academy  he  advised  in  Hat- 
field. His  interest  in  Smith  College  never  lessened, 
and  the  fine  auditorium  of  the  college,  the  John  M. 
Greene  Hall,  was  named  in  his  honor. 

Dr.  Greene  was  not  only  one  of  the  incorporators 
of  Smith  College,  but  a  trustee  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Board  of 
of  Trustees  of  the  International  College  at  Spring- 
field for  a  number  of  years;  secretary  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  Mt.  Holyoke  College  for  nearly  10 
years  and  president  of  the  Rogers  Hall  School 
Board  from  1892  to  1909.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity  and  was  also  a  member 
of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  had  done  considerable 
literary  work  and  in  addition  to  various  magazine 
articles  he  published  "The  Blessed  Dead,  "  "Happy 
Wedlock,"  "Looking  on  the  Bright  Side,"  "Genea- 
logy of  Timothy  Green  "  and  was  co-author  of  the 
"Book  of  Esther."  Many  of  his  sermons  were  also 
printed. 

During  the  Civil  War  he  served  as  a  member  of 
the  United  States  Christian  Mission  in  caring  for 
the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  of  the  Union  army 
at  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

He  was  married  on  September  30,  1857,  to  Miss 
Louise  Dickinson  of  Amherst.  She  died  about  36 
years  ago.  He  is  survived  by  two  sons,  William 
S.  Greene,  Amherst  1882,  and  Harry  B.  Greene, 
both  of  Lowell,  and  two  daughters,  Miss  Louise 
Greene  and  Helen  Greene  of  Boston. 

1855 

Levi  S.  Packard  died  at  his  home  in  Pinebluff, 
N.  C,  on  F>iday,  March  21st,  in  his  85th  year. 

He  was  born  in  Spencer,  Mass.,  on  June  7th,  1834, 
the  son  of  Le\i  and  Clarissa  (Sanford)  Packard, 
and  prepared  for  college  at  Leicester  and  Mon.son 
.\cademies.  .\fter  grarluating  from  .\ndicrst,  he 
took  up  teaching  as  his  life  work,  moving  to  New 
York  State,  where  he  became  prominent  in  educa- 
tional circles.  He  taught  at  Chatham,  Nassau  and 
Si)encertown  and  at  West  Stockbridge,  Mass.  In 
1860  he  became  principal  of  Charlton,  N.  Y.  Acad- 
emy, and  in  18(!9  superintendent  of  schools  at  Sara- 
toga S|)rings,  whei'e  he  remained  for  thirlec'u  years. 
In  1888,  Professor  Packard  removed  to  Pincbluff 
which  has  been  his  home  continuously  since,  or  for 
nearly  thirty-one  years.  He  was  closely  associated 
with  John  T.  i'utrick,  recently  deceased,  in  the 
hitter's  varied  activities,  and  was  president  of  tiic 
Pincbluff  Board  of  Trade  for  many  years. 

He  was  married  .\|)ril  15,  1858,  to  .\nne  K.  Traver, 
daughter  of  Kpiu-iain  Tra\cr,  of  N'alatie,  N.  Y., 
who  died  on  September  2,  1875.  His  second  wife 
was  Marion  P.  Brown,  daughter  of  Wm.  (i.  Brown, 
of  Plattsburgh,  N.  Y.  and  now  deceased.  He  iiad 
six  children,  three  of  w-hom  survive  him. 

185G 

Dr.  Cyrus  Ilcmy  Pendleton,  said  to  be  the  oldest 
practicing  ])liysician  in  tiie  stale  of  Connecticut, 
died  of  \al\iilar  heart   trouble,  after  a  l)rief  illness, 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


on  Sunday,  April  6th,  aged  88  years  and  six  months. 
The  news  of  his  death  was  broken  on  Sunday  morn- 
ing according  to  the  old  country  custom  by  the 
tolling  of  his  age  on  the  church  bell.  He  was 
a  country  physician  of  the  old  school,  having 
ministered  to  the  needs  of  patients  in  Hebron 
and    adjoining   towns  since  1860. 

He  was  the  son  of  Adam  and  Hannah  (Marsh) 
Pendleton,  and  was  born  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  on 
October  5,  1830.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Phil- 
lips Andover  academy,  and  after  graduation  studied 
medicine  at  Western  Reserve  I  niver.'iity,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  I860.  After  practicing  for 
a  short  time  in  Montville  and  Yantic,  Conn.,  he  then 
settled  in  Hebron,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 

Dr.  Pendleton  was  active  in  church  affairs,  was 
a  diligent  student  of  the  classics  and  the  day  before 
his  death  read  his  customary  chapter  from  Thucyd- 
ides.  At  Amherst  he  was  a  roommate  of  William 
Hayes  Ward,  afterwards  editor  of  the  Independent. 
He  took  a  deep  interest  in  botany.  A  bystander 
once  saw  him  stop  his  horse  and  rescue  a  mud  turtle 
from  a  roadside  fire  which  threatened  to  overtake 
it.  He  would  never  sell  a  horse,  but  kept  each  of 
his  faithful  animals  until  it  died  or  was  mercifully 
killed.  Up  to  the  day  before  his  death  he  was  pre- 
scribing for  patients,  although  his  son,  a  practicing 
physician  at  Colchester,  had  taken  over  the  greater 
part  of  his  practice  during  the  past  few  years. 

He  was  married  on  July  9,  1866,  to  Mary  M., 
daughter  of  Oliver  Welles  of  Hebron,  Conn. 

1857 

Rev.  Dr.  Denis  Wortman,  Secretary, 
40  Watson  Ave.,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
The  Rev.  Joseph  Kimball  was  tendered  a  recep- 
tion by  the  Riverside  Memorial  church  of  Haver- 
hill onhis  87th  birthday  on  March  13th.  Mr.  Kim- 
ball has  reached  the  greatest  age  of  any  member 
of  the  Class.  A  year  ago  at  Commencement  he  was 
the  oldest  graduate  in  attendance.  He  seems  much 
younger  than  his  age  indicates  and  has  constantly 
been  mistaken  for  a  man  from  60  to  78  years  old. 
He  walks  with  ease  two  or  three  miles  a  day.  Like 
President  Wilson,  Mr.  Kimball  considers  13  his 
lucky  number,  as  he  was  born  on  March  13,  1832. 
There  are  also  thirteen  letters  in  his  name. 

One  of  Amherst's  most  loyal  alumni  in  the  person 
of  Dr.  William  Crawford,  retired  minister,  died  at 
his  home  in  the  Bryn  Mawr  community  of  Chicago 
on  May  25th.  He  was  the  son  of  William  Theron 
and  Almira  (Clark)  Crawford  and  was  born  at 
Ijarre,  Mass.,  on  January  .'5,  183.5.  He  prepared 
for  college  at  Leicester  Academy,  and  after  grad- 
uating in  1857  studied  theology  at  the  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary  for  one  year  and  then  at  the  An- 
dover Theological  Seminary,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1860.  He  was  ordained  at  Clearwater,  Minn., 
on  May  2,  1861,  which  was  his  first  charge.  He 
organized  the  church  at  JJoulder,  Colo.,  and  then 
.served  the  churches  of  (Jreen  Jiay,  Sj)arta  and  Mazo- 
manie  in  Wi-sconsin,  giving  in  all  40  years  to  them. 
He  retired  from  active  service  seven  years  ago.  He 
was  one  of  the  noblest  of  a  long  list  of  higii-minded, 
progressive  and  intelligent  ministers  that  New  Eng- 
land has  given  to  the  West.  He  was  the  author  of 
"Letters  from  Abroad,"  sermons,  lectures,  addresses 
iind  a  pamplet,  "Expository  Preaching." 


In  a  letter  to  the  editor  of  the  Quarterly  a  year 
ago.  Dr.  Crawford  made  mention  of  his  great  love 
for  Amherst  and  added,  "Let  me  say  that  no  maga- 
zine comes  to  me  which  has  more  of  interest  than 
the  Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly,  and  no  part 
of  the  magazine  is  more  interesting  than  the  news 
of  the  classes." 

1858 

Rev.  Samuel  Bartlett  Sherrill,  who  died  at  the 
home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Charles  Foster  Kent  of 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  on  April  29th,  was  born 
in  Lebanon.  New  York,  February  3rd,  1832.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Homer  Academy,  Homer, 
N.  \  .,  and  was  graduated  from  Amherst  in  1858. 
He  studied  for  the  ministry  at  Andover  Theological 
Seminary  and  was  graduated  from  that  instutition 
in  1861.  On  June  21, 1864,  he  married  Louise  Blood- 
good  Root,  daughter  of  Judge  P.  Sheldon  Root  of 
Utica,  N.  Y.,  who  died  September  28th,  1873.  They 
had  three  children,  two  of  whom  survive  him. 
Miss  Ruth  Dakin  Sherrill  and  Mrs.  Charles  Foster 
Kent  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

April  11,  1877,  he  married  a  cousin  of  his  first 
wife,  Annie  Bloodgood  McCall,  who  died  at  Clifton 
Springs,  N.  Y.,  December  2,  1909. 

He  preached  his  first  sermon  in  Eaton,  New  York, 
the  home  of  his  parents,  March  31,  1861.  He  was 
pastor  in  New  Hartford,  N.  Y.,  Merideon.  N.  Y., 
Bellevue,  Ohio,  Fair  Haven,  Vt.,  Moravia,  N.  Y. 
and  West  Bloomfield,  N.  Y.  He  retired  from  active 
work  in  1891,  but  after  that  preached  179  times. 
He  preached  his  2638th  and  last  sermon  at  his 
summer  home  in  Westmore,  ^'t..  when  in  his  79th 
year,  just  having  returned  from  Europe. 

Mr.  Sherrill  was  secretary  of  his  class  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Amherst  Alumni  Council.  He  was  always 
a  loyal  Amherst  alumnus. 

The  story  which  he  used  to  tell  to  illu.strate  the 
loyalty  of  the  Amherst  undergraduates  to  the 
alumni  also  reveals  his  own  strong  sense  of  humor. 
At  their  50th  reimion  in  1908,  the  graduating 
class  through  him  provided  the  class  with  tickets 
to  all  their  class  functions  and  in  general  showed 
a  most  devoted  and  fraternal  spirit.  Commence- 
ment morning  a  group  of  the  graduating  class  sur- 
rounded him  and  asked  if  there  was  anything  more 
that  they  could  do  for  him.  "There  is  one  thing," 
he  replied,  witii  a  merry  twinkle  in  his  eyes,  "My 
shoes  arc  dusty  and  1  do  not  know  where  to  get 
them  polished."  Instantly  half  a  dozen  of  the  young 
men  had  pulled  out  their  handkerchiefs  and  were 
on  their  knees  vying  with  each  other  in  their  efforts 
to  remove  the  dust.     This  was  his  favorite  story. 

Rev.  John  Whitehill  on  May  11th  passed  the 
50th  anniversary  of  his  pastorate  at  First  Congre- 
gational Church,  North  Attleboro.,  Mass.  This 
church  was  the  first  place  of  worship  established 
in  Attleboro  and  is  the  mother  (or  grandmother) 
of  all  the  parishes  in  that  city  as  well  as  in  Paw- 
tucket  and  Central  Falls  over  the  state  line  in  Rhode 
Lsland.  It  is  fittingly  known  as  The  Oldtown 
Church.  Mr.  Whitehill's  is  by  far  the  longest  pas- 
torate in  Massachusetts;  but  one  of  his  predeces- 
sors in  the  same  pulpit  attained  to  45  years.  Mr. 
Whitehill  had  offered  his  resignation  at  his  45th 
anniversary,  but  it  was  energetically  refu.sed.  The 
50th  milestone  was  appropriately  observed. 


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137 


1865 
Professor  B.  K.  Emerson,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
Dr.  Joseph  H.  Sawyer  has  resigned  the  principal- 
ship  of  Williston  Seminary,  after  having  been  a 
member  of  tlie  Faculty  for  more  than  fifty  years 
and  principal  for  over  twenty-five  years.  His 
resignation  was  announced  at  a  meeting  of  the  board 
of  trustees  on  June  I'Jth,  in  connection  with  the 
seventy-eighth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the 
.school."  He  resigns  because  of  considerations  of 
health,  but  at  the  time  of  the  Quarterly  going  to 
press,  it  was  uncertain  as  to  whether  the  resignation 
would  be  accepted  or  whether  an  arrangement  could 
be  made  to  relieve  him  of  some  of  the  burdens  of 
management . 

Prof.  H.  M.  Tyler  is  President  of  the  Northamp- 
ton Street  Railway  Company. 

1869 

William  R.  Brown,  Esq.,  Secretary 
17  State  St.,  New  York  City 

Dr.  Henry  Pitt  Warren,  head  master  of  Albany 
Academy  for  many  years  and  an  educator  known 
throughout  the  country,  died  on  May  27th,  at  his 
home  in  Albany. 

He  was  born  at  Windham,  Me.,  on  March  21, 
1846,  the  son  of  Rev.  William  and  Mary  Hubbard 
(Lamson)  Warren.  He  prepared  for  college  at 
Phillips  Andover  Academy.  He  stayed  one  year 
at  Amherst,  later  went  to  Yale,  graduating  in  1870. 
At  Yale  he  was  a  member  of  Wolf's  Head,  Senior 
Society. 

Dr.  Warren  became  principal  of  the  Grammar 
school  in  New  Bedford  in  1870,  remaining  there 
two  years.  He  then  went  to  the  high  .school  in 
Dover,  N.  H.  for  three  years  and  to  the  State  Nor- 
mal School  at  Plymouth  for  four  years.  In  1883 
he  became  English  Master  at  Lawrenceville  and 
in  1886  head  master  of  Albany  Academy. 

Although  he  did  not  complete  his  course  at  Am- 
herst, Dr.  Warren  always  retained  his  love  for  the 
Massachusetts  college,  and  many  of  his  boys  later 
matriculated  at  Amherst.  He  was  a  Republican 
in  politics,  a  Presbyterian  in  religion,  a  trustee  of 
the  Albany  Institute,  a  member  of  the  .\rt  and 
Historical  Society  and  a  member  of  the  Psi  Upsilon 
fraternity.     He  was  the  author  of  many  text  books. 

He  was  married  on  August  18,  1879,  to  Annie 
L.  Lyman  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

1870 

Dr.  John  G.  Stanton,  Secretary, 
i)0  Huntington  St.,  New  London,  Conn. 

The  Rev.  Judson  Titsworth,  D.  D.,  died  on  April 
9,  1919,  at  Daytona,  Fla.,  of  heart  trouble.  His 
remains  were  cremated  and  burial  was  at  the  Forest 
Home  Cemetery  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Dr.  Titsworth  always  took  a  great  interest  in 
Amherst,  and  his  three  sous  arc  gra(hiatcs  of  tlie 
college,  Henrv  II()i)kiiis  'I'ilsworlli  of  tlie  class  of 
1897,  Godfrey  \.  1).  Titsworth  of  the  class  of  1902 
and  Judson  Titsworth,  Jr.,  of  the  cla.ss  of  1907.  He 
is  surved  l)y  two  daughters,  Susan  Sayre  Titsworth 
and  Julia  Tit.sworth. 

He  was  the  son  of  Lsaac  Dunham  and  Ilaimah 


Ann  (Sheppard)  Tit.sworth,  and  was  born  on  Octo- 
ber 23,  1845.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Alfred 
Seminary,  Alfred,  N.  Y.,  and  after  graduating  from 
Amherst  took  a  course  in  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1873. 
He  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Westfield,  Mass.,  from  1873  to  1878,  at  Chelsea, 
Mass.,  from  1878  to  1883  and  in  1883  he  became 
pastor  of  the  Plymouth  Church  in  Milwaukee.  He 
was  pastor  there  until  1910,  when  he  became  pastor 
emeritus.  He  also  served  for  seven  years  as  chap- 
lain of  the  National  Soldiers  Home  at  Milwaukee. 
He  served  in  the  United  States  Navy,  during  the 
Civil  War,  and  later  as  commander  of  the  Wolcott 
Post,  G.  A.  R. 

Dr.  Titsworth  was  honored  by  the  degree  of  D.D. 
both  by  Amherst  and  Beloit  Colleges.  He  was  a 
trustee  of  Beloit  College  and  of  the  Rochester  (Wis.) 
Academy  and  also  of  the  Milwaukee-Downer  College. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
fraternity  and  a  member  of  several  clubs  in  Mil- 
waukee, including  the  University  club,  the  Blue 
Mound  club  and  the  Country  club.  He  was  married 
on  September  23,  1873,  the  year  in  which  he  was 
ordained  to  the  ministry,  to  Miss  Julia  Van  Duzer 
of  Horseheads,  N.  Y. 

William  Nelson  Noble,  one  of  the  most  prominent 
lawyers  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  and  widely  recognized 
as  a  legal  authority,  died  very  suddenly  at  the 
Wilbur  House,  in  Sayre,  Pa.,  on  May  30,  1919. 

He  was  the  son  of  Nelson  and  Mary  J.  (Pratt) 
Noble,  and  was  born  on  March  25,  1850,  at  Covert, 
New  York.,  He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Tru- 
mansburg  Academy,  and  after  spending  two  years 
at  Williams  College,  entered  Amherst  as  a  Jimior, 
graduating  with  the  class  of  1870.  He  then  studied 
law  at  Columbia  University,  receiving  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1872.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  on 
November  12th  of  that  year. 

Since  then,  he  had  practiced  for  47  years  in  Ithaca. 
Among  the  members  of  his  profession  he  was  known 
as  an  untiring  student  of  the  law  and  his  opinion 
on  intricate  legal  problems  was  in  demand  and  fre- 
quently asked  by  fellow  members  of  the  bar.  At  the 
time  of  his  death,  he  was  actively  engaged  in  cam- 
paigning for  the  new  Commission  form  of  govern- 
ment in  Ithaca.  He  wrote  several  pamphlets  and  a 
book  called  "The  Sale  of  Decedents'   Property." 

He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  who  was  visiting 
relatives  near  Brookline,  Mass.,  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  a  sister  and  a  brother. 

The  Rev.  William  P.  Sprague  died  at  his  home 
in  Shortsville,  N.  Y.  on  February  9,  1919,  of  heart 
failure.     His  age  was  76  years. 

Mr.  Sprague  was  the  son  of  Theodore  and  Emily 
Steele  Sprague,  and  was  born  in  East  Bloomficid, 
N.  v.,  (m  June  20,  1S4.'5.  He  pre])are(l  for  college 
at  Hamilt(m,  N.  Y.  He  took  his  theological  course 
at  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  graduating  in  1873; 
and  in  the  spring  of  1874  went  to  Kalgan,  North 
China,  as  a  missionary  for  the  American  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions.  He  remained  there  for  35 
years. 

His  first  wife  was  Miss  Margaret  Henderson  of 
England,  to  whom  he  was  married  in  1873.  She 
died  in  1891,  and  on  Sei)tembcr  30,  1893,  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Viette  Isabel  Brown,  daugliter  of 
Hiram  L.  Brown  of  Shortsville,  N.  Y.,  the  ceremony 


138 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


taking  place  in  Tientsin.  China.  She  survives  him 
and  also  an  adopted  son,  Arthur  W.  Sprague,  a 
student  in  the  New  York  School  of  Design. 

1871 

Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary, 
623  West  113th  Street,  New  York  City 
The  Rev.  George  M.  Howe  has  resigned  his  pas- 
torate at  Groton,  Mass.,  to  take  effect  on  October 
1st  of  this  year. 

1873 

Professor  John  M.  Tyler.  Secretary, 
Amherst  Mass. 
Dr.  Talcott  Williams  who  has  been  Director  of 
the  School  of  Journalism  of  Columbia  University 
since  its  foundation,  retired  as  active  head  of  the 
school  on  June  30th,  at  which  time  the  title  of 
Professor  Emeritus  was  conferred  upon  him.  Dr. 
Williams  became  70  years  old  on  July  20th,  and  be- 
cause of  his  age,  decided  the  time  had  come  to  retire. 
His  resignation  was  accepted  with  great  regret,  as 
the  great  success  of  the  school  has  been  due  to  his 
untiring  efforts.  In  recommending  Dr.  Williams 
to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  the  Committee  of  Honors 
spoke  of  his  career  as  a  journalist  having  been  a 
distinguished  one  and  said  that  the  committee  did 
not  feel  it  necessary  to  call  the  attention  of  the 
trustees  to  services  he  had  rendered  to  the  Univer- 
sity, as  the.se  were  so  well  known.  Dr.  Williams 
has  had  a  long  and  varied  newspaper  career.  He 
started  his  work  on  the  New  York  World,  then  he 
became  Washington  correspondent  of  the  New  Yorlc 
Sun  and  Sa7i  Francisco  Chronicle,  next,  an  editorial 
writer  on  The  Springfield  Repvblican  and  in  1881 
he  joined  the  staff  of  The  Philadelphia  Press,  be- 
coming editorial  writer,  managing  editor,  associate 
editor  and  editor  in  the  order  named.  He  has  been 
very  active  in  war  work  and  as  Amherst  men  know, 
he  is  also  a  trustee  of  Amherst  College. 

At  the  recent  meeting  of  the  Northampton  Street 
Railway  Company,  Charles  N.  Clark  was  elected 
a  director. 

1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
When  Congre.s.sman  Frederick  H.  Gillett  was 
installed  as  speaker  of  the  House  on  May  19th,  he 
used  a  gavel  which  had  been  given  him  for  the  oc- 
casion and  which  was  made  out  of  wood  from  the 
hull  of  Admiral  Pearys  North  Pole  ship  "Roo.se- 
velt."  The  citizens  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  tendered 
Speaker  Gillett  a  welcome  and  banquet  in  his  honor 
at  the  Hotel  Kimball  on  the  night  of  April  9th. 
Three  hundred  and  fifty  were  present. 

1875 

Prof.  Charles  A.  Buffum,  Secretary, 
Easthampton,  Mass. 
Professor  David  Todd  of  Amherst  College  sailed 
on  May  13th  on  the  American  steamship  Elinor, 
bound  for  Montevideo,  to  take  observation  of  the 
solar  eclipse  on  May  29th.  It  was  announced  at 
the  time  that  Professor  Todd  would  make  his  ob- 


servations from  a  naval  airplane  at  an  altitude  of 
10,000  to  15,000  feet,  taking  photographs  of  the  phe- 
nomenon from  the  vantage  in  height  thus  gained, 
which  is  an  innovation  in  astronomical  observations. 
Widespread  interest  has  been  expressed  })y  scientists 
in  the  plan  of  Professor  Todd  to  observe  the  total 
eclipse  of  the  sun  from  a  hydroaeroplane.  The 
plan  was  ft)r  the  plane  to  fly  from  the  deck  of  a  ship 
1,200  miles  southeast  of  Cara,  on  the  coast  of  Brazil. 
On  his  way  south,  Professor  Todd  stopped  at  the 
port  of  St.  George  in  Bermuda  and  gave  the 
Governor,  General  Sir  James  Willcocks,  who  re- 
ceived an  honorary  degree  from  Amherst  in  1918, 
the  first  birds-eye  view  ever  obtained  of  his  domain 
and  delighted  the  Bermudians  with  a  sight  of  the 
first  aircraft  ever  to  fly  over  their  island.  There 
are  365  islands  in  the  Governor's  domain  and  he 
had  an  opportunity  to  make  a  full  survey  of  all  of 
them.  Later  the  machinery  of  the  Elinor  broke 
down,  and  it  was  with  great  difficulty  that  the  steam- 
ship reached  Pernambuco,  Brazil.  While  arrange- 
ments were  being  made  to  give  the  inhabitants  of 
this  city  their  first  view  of  an  airplane  in  flight, 
one  of  the  most  severe  storms  in  years  tore  the 
airplane  from  its  moorings.  The  series  of  mishaps 
in  which  the  expedition  culminated  has  attracted 
widespread  comment  in  the  newspapers  of  the 
country. 

1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 
277  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
John  B.  Stanchfield,  has  been  elected  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  County  Lawyers'  Association. 
He  has  also  been  chosen  a  director  of  the  Importers 
and  Exporters  Insurance  Company. 


1877 
Rev.  a.  DeW.  Mason,  Secretary, 
222  Garfield  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  Class  will  remember  that  the  suggestion 
was  lately  made  to  them  that  they  raise  a  small 
fund  for  the  work  of  Thrall  Academy,  at  Strool, 
South  Dakota,  a  Home  Mission  School  under  the 
care  of  the  Congregational  Board  of  Home  Misssons 
and  named  in  recognition  of  the  long  and  successful 
service  of  our  Classmate,  Rev.  W.  Herbert  Thrall, 
D.D.,  who  for  nearly  thirty  years  has  been  in  Home 
Missionary  work  in  the  great  Northwest.  He  is 
now  Superintendent  of  Home  Missions  in  South 
Dakota  and  in  this  and  in  other  official  capacities 
has  the  oversight  of  some  225  Churches  and  over 
11,000  members,  besides  Sunday  Schools,  etc. 
"Some  job!"  but  Thrall  seems  to  have  done  it, 
so  much  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  officers  of  his 
Society  that  they  have  named  this  new  academy 
in  his  honor.  The  Class  readily  responded  to  the 
suggestion  of  our  Boston  group,  headed  by  Con. 
Gray,  and  gave  in  all  $180  which  was  sent  in  the 
name  of  the  Class  to  Thrall  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Thrall  Academy.  His  response  showed  his  deep 
appreciation  of  the  feeling  of  his  classmates  toward 
him  and  his  work,  which  he  expressed  in  the  follow- 
ing extract  from  a  letter  sent  to  Gray  on  May  22d, 
In  it  he  says,  "I  am  sure  that  the  inspiration  which 
comes  with  this  gift  will  mean  much  to  those  who 
are   working   for   that    school,   some   of   whom   are 


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139 


giving  life  and  energy  to  help  in  molding  into  Chris- 
tian citizens  the  young  men  and  young  women  of 
that  Northwestern  part  of  our  new  State. 

"It  comes  to  me  personally  as  a  token  of  friend- 
ship and  love  which  means  more  than  I  can  express. 
So  far  as  my  own  life  is  concerned,  there  is  nothing 
in  it  to  call  for  any  memorializing,  tho  I  have 
sought  to  invest  what  there  is  of  it  where  it  has 
seemed  it  would  count   for  the  best   things. 

"I  would  he  glad  when  you  have  an  opportunity 
to  send  my  hearty  thanks  to  the  boys  in  my  own  be- 
half as  well  as  in  behalf  of  the  school  and  the  work 
it  is  seeking  to  do." 

We  all  rejoice  to  thus  have  expressed  our  recog- 
nition of  Thrall's  good  work  for  humanity  and  trust 
that  his  life  which  surely  has  "counted  for  the  best 
things"  may  still  be  fruitful  in  its  faith  and  good 
works. 

The  memorial  of  Osgood  which  has  been  pre- 
pared for  publication  by  the  Secretary  will  soon  be 
ready  for  distribution  and  a  copy  will  be  sent  to 
each  member  of  the  Class.  If  such  copy  fails  to  reach 
any  member  please  notify  the  Secretary.  The  de- 
lay in  its  issue  has  been  caused  by  a  variety  of 
conditions  which  were  beyond  the  Secretary's  con- 
trol, but  which  he  has  tried  to  overcome  as  speedily 
as  possible. 

Miss  Margaret  E.  Hingeley,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Hingeley,  was  married  to 
Mr.  Edgar  Blake,  Jr.,  on  May  22d,  at  the  first 
M.  E.  Church  of  Evanston,  Illinois. 

Lowe  has  been  elected  Superintendent  of  Public 
Schools  at  Sulphur  Springs,  Arkansas,  and  will  move 
to  that  place  and  take  up  his  new  work  in  the  fall. 
Our  Classmate  must  be  growing  younger  rather 
than  older  as  the  years  go  by,  or  else  he  would  hesi- 
tate at  assuming  new  responsibilities  at  an  age  when 
most  men  are  laying  them  by.  The  local  paper 
from  which  the  above  item  is  taken  pays  a  well- 
deserved  compliment  to  Lowe  when  it  says — "Dr. 
Lowe  is  thorough  in  his  work,  highly  educated,  has 
the  highest  grade  certificates  as  an  educator  from 
Colleges  and  Boards  of  Education,  and  will  make 
the  Sulphur  Springs  Schools  the  best  in  the 
County." 

Hingeley  sent  his  classmates  an  "  Easter  Greeting"' 
this  year  in  the  shape  of  a  modest  but  most  interest- 
ing collection  of  original  verses,  entitled  from  the 
first  of  the  selections,  "The  Bend  of  the  Road." 
A  number  of  patriotic  and  religious  compositions 
are  included  in  the  little  pamphlet,  many  of  which 
betray  a  depth  of  poetic  feeling  and  power  which 
perhaps  but  few  of  us  suspected  was  included  in  the 
"make  up"  of  our  hardworking  and  practical 
Cla.ssmate. 

Barber's  son,  the  Rev.  Laurence  L.  Barber,  was 
installed  as  pastor  of  the  Pilgrim  Congregational 
Church  at  Nashua,  N.  H.,  on  P'ebruary  ioth.  Our 
Classmate,  his  father,  was  not  able  to  be  present 
at  the  exercises  but  wrote  the  i)rayer  of  installation 
which  was  read  at  the  proper  point  in  the  .service. 

The  address  of  Geo.  L.  Fowler  is  changed  from 
83  Fulton  St.  to  120  Liberty  St.,  New  York  City; 
and  the  address  of  Thonuis  J.  Eddy  is  now  315 
Cabot  St.,  Beverly,  Mass. 


One  of  the  two  Amherst  men  who  were  honored 
at  Princeton's  172d  Commencement  this  June 
was  Dr.  John  Mason  Clarke,  New  York  State 
Geologist,  upon  whom  was  conferred  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Science.  Dr.  Clarke,  who  is 
chairman  of  the  section  of  geology  and  paleontology, 
National  Academy  of  Science,  has  also  been  chosen 
as  vice-president  of  the  National  Parks  Association, 
a  nation-wide  organization  of  American  citizens, 
to  boom  the  national  parks,  interest  people  and 
extend  the  study  of  the  Park  system. 

1878 

Prof.  H.  Norm.\n  Gardiner,  /Secretary, 

187  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 

At  the  commencement  season  there  were  present 

in  Amherst  from  the  Class,  Ayers,  Babbott,  Cowles, 

Herbert,    Hitchcock,    Mossman,    Norton,    Smith, 

Stearns,  Whipple  and  White. 

Prof.  H.  N.  Gardiner  is  recovering  from  an  opera- 
tion which  confined  him  for  over  two  months  in 
the  Corey  Hill  Hospital,  Brookline. 

At  the  celebration  in  honor  of  the  young  men  in 
Southeastern  Essex  County  who  had  returned 
from  the  war,  held  in  Salem,  June  18th,  Judge  White 
delivered  the  address. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Fr.\xklin  J.\meson,  Secretary, 
1140  Woodward  Bldg.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y".,  sailed  for  Europe  on  the  Mauretania  on  July 
11th.  He  sailed  under  the  auspices  of  the  British 
Commission  and  is  under  engagement  to  speak  in 
many  places.  On  the  first  of  October  he  will  go 
to  The  Hague  as  a  delegate.  He  will  return  to  his 
pulpit  the  latter  part  of  October. 

1880 

Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  Secretary, 
86  Main  Street,  Northampton,  Mass. 
Professor  Frederick  J.  Bliss  is  at  present  in  Jeru- 
salem engaged  in  exploration.     During  the  war  he 
was  in  Beirut,  Syria. 

Cummings,  Gillett,  Perkins  and  H.  P.  Field 
attended  Commencement.  Cummings'  son,  Wil- 
liam Barton  Cummings,  was  granted  a  degree  of 
B.A.  Honoris  Causa. 

The  address  of  Joseph  B.  Bisbee  is  at  present 
Brandon,  Vermont.  He  has  recently  moved  there 
from   Bellows  Falls. 

Gillett  attended  the  opening  session  of  the  Con- 
gress at  which  his  brother  F.  H.  Gillett  '74  was 
elected  Speaker. 

Farwell  is  now  assistant  Pastor  of  the  Shawniut 
Ave.  Church  in  Boston  but  continues  his  editorial 
work  on  the  C'ongregationalist. 

Stoddard  Lane,  son  of  Rev.  C.  S.  Lane,  made 
the  speech  for  his  class  at  the  Commencement 
dinner,  it  being  the  tenth  reunion  of  his  Class. 

Dr.  George  Gray  Sears  has  resigned  the  profes- 
sorship of  clinical  medicine  in  the  Harvard  Medical 
School,  and  has  l)een  appointed  Professor  Emeritus. 
Dr.  Sears  has  been  on  the  teaching  staff  of  the  medi- 
cal school  since  1897. 


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1881 

Frank  H.  Parsons,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
60  Wall  Street,  New  York  City 
Mrs.  Lillian  Haynes  Crittenden,  wife  of  Walter 
H.  Crittenden,  died  in  May  after  an  illness  of  sev- 
eral weeks.  Mrs.  Crittenden  was  an  artist  and 
recently  held  an  exhibition  of  her  paintings  at  the 
Macbeth  Gallery  and  also  at  the  Brooklyn  Art 
Museum. 

B.  Preston  Clark  was  appointed  this  spring  by 
the  Governor  of  Massachusetts  as  a  member  of  the 
New  Commission  for  aiding  returned  soldiers, 
sailors  and  marines  to  find  employment.  He  was 
connected  with  the  Public  Safety  Committee  during 
the  war  and  had  much  to  do  with  the  termination 
of  its  wartime  activities  and  matters  relating  to  the 
employment  of  soldiers. 

1882 

Prof.  John  P.  Cttshing,  Secretary, 

Whitneyville,  Conn. 

Dr.   Howard  S.   Bliss,   President  of  the  Syrian 

Protestant  College  of  Beirut,  is  now  on  a  visit  to 

America  for  the  first  time  in  six  years.    He  was  in 

Turkey  during  the  whole  of  the  war  and  before 

coming  to  this  country  he  spent  seven  weeks  in 

Paris,   having  been  invited  to  appear  before  the 

"Big  Ten"  in  order  to  furnish  information  as  to 

conditions  in  Syria. 

1883 

Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 
2301-2311  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
Prof.  Edward  S.  Parsons  has  been  elected  Presi- 
dent of  Marietta  College  in  Southern  Ohio.  Since 
his  retirement  nearly  two  years  ago  from  Colorado 
College,  where  for  many  years  he  was  professor 
oi  English  Literature  and  dean  of  the  institution, 
he  has  been  closely  associated  with  the  War  Work 
Council  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  He  has  been  a  leading 
worker  in  the  Bureau  of  Personnel  and  had  much 
to  do  with  the  men  who  went  overseas.  Despite 
the  desire  of  the  association  leaders  that  he  should 
remain  permanently  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  organiza- 
tion, he  has  accepted  the  call  to  Marietta,  much 
to  the  satisfaction  of  his  many  friends. 

The  Rev.  Cornelius  H.  Patton  of  the  American 
Board  of  f'oreign  Missions  now  on  a  trip  around 
the  world  has  recently  published  through  the  Asso- 
ciation Press  "World  Facts  and  America's  Respon- 
sibility." It  is  an  intensely  interesting  volume, 
dealing  with  the  situation  partly  resulting  from  the 
world  war  and  partly  from  forces  previously  in 
action.  Dr.  Patton  has  since  found  that  Buddhism 
has  ceased  increasing,  that  thousands  of  educated 
Chinese  are  enrolled  in  classes  for  the  study  of  Chris- 
tianity  and  that  Mohammedanism  is  a  receding 
force. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Howard  A.  Bridgman  was  the  Com- 
mencement speaker  at  Gushing  Academy 

John  Hart  Manning  has  taken  a  position  on  the 
Phillips  Andover  Academy  faculty. 

Prof.  Edwin  H.  Byington  delivered  the  bacca- 
laureate sermon  in  June  at  the  Gordon  Bible  College. 


George  E.  Hooker,  after  sixteen  years  service  as 
Civic  Secretary  of  the  City  Club  of  Chicago,  has 
resigned  his  position  and  is  planning  to  devote  his 
energies  to  the  new  Labor  Party,  with  which  he 
has  recently  identified  himself. 

1884 

WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary 

2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City 

Rev.  Chas.  H.  Smith,  for  fifteen  years  pastor  of 

the  Congregational  Church   at   Barre,   Mass.,  has 

accepted  a    call  to  the  Congregational  Church  of 

Granby. 

1885 
Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  Street,  New  York  City 
Lieutenant  Commander  Edward  Breck  has  been 
decorated    by    the    Portuguese    Government    for 
"distinguished  services  in  the  war,"  with  the  order 
and  star  of  the  ancient  order  of  Aviz  (founded  about 
1200).     For  the  part  he  took  in  the  Madiera  afl'air 
he  has  the  Red  Cross  decoration  and  the  Portuguese 
war  medal. 

Because  of  his  knowledge  of  Spanish  and  other 
languages  and  his  executive  ability,  the  Rev.  George 
L.  Todd  has  accepted  a  call  tendered  him  on  his 
return  from  more  than  a  year's  service  in  France 
to  look  after  church  and  educational  work  in  West 
Tampa,  Florida.  Dr.  Todd's  church  at  Plymouth, 
Pa.,  relinquished  him  with  great  regret. 

Newspapers  in  Cleveland  tell  of  a  dinner  tendered 
by  Homer  H.  Johnson  of  Cleveland  at  the  Ritz 
Hotel  to  the  Cleveland  Chamber  of  Commerce  dele- 
gation, with  General  Pershing,  Secretary  of  the  Navy 
Daniels  and  Herbert  Hoover  and  the  French  Minis- 
try of  Munitions  among  the  distinguished  guests. 
Mr.  Johnson  is  a  member  of  the  Liquidation  Board 
in  Paris  who  supplied  war  claims  that  ran  into 
almost  untold  billions  of  dollars. 

Judge  Tod  B.  Galloway,  who  spent  a  year  in 
overseas  service  in  France  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 

has  delivered  a  number  of  very  entertaining  lectures 
since  his  return.  Four  months  of  his  stay  abroad 
were  spent  at  the  front  and  while  there  he  took 
with  him  an  upright  piano,  which  had  been  cut 
down  to  the  smallest  possible  dimensions  in  order 
that  it  might  be  carried  forward  to  the  trenches. 
An  important  feature  of  his  program  was  the  songs 
which  he  played  and  sang  nightly,  following  his 
lectures.  Generally  his  lectures  were  followed  by 
four  or  five  of  his  own  songs  and  one  of  the  most 
popular  was  his  newest  composition,  "Your  Flag, 
My  Flag."  In  other  sections.  Judge  Galloway 
would  travel  on  a  flat  car,  carrying  his  piano  with 
him  and  singing  and  talking  from  the  car.  .\n 
article  concerning  his  work  illustrated  with  a  picture 
of  the  flat  car  eciuijMnent  recently  appeared  in  the 
magazine  from  the  pen  of  Maximilian  Foster,  the 
well   known   writer. 

1886 

Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Rev.  William  A.  Trow  who  is  completing  the  20th 
year  of  his  pastorate  at  Sherburne,  N.  Y.,  has  been 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


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elected  Moderator  of  the  New  York  State  Confer- 
ence of  Congregational  Churches. 

Edwin  Fairley  has  been  appointed  one  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  National  Council  on  Uniform  College 
Entrance  requirements  in  English. 

As  the  Quarterly  was  going  to  press  the  news- 
papers announced  that  Secretary  of  State  Robert 
Lansing,  who  became  head  of  the  American  Peace 
delegation  on  the  departure  of  President  Wilson, 
would  leave  the  conference  and  return  to  this  coun- 
try this  summer.  Recently  the  Secretary  was  the 
guest  of  King  George  of  England. 

1888 
William  B.  Greexough,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
32  Westminster  Street,  Providence,  R.  I. 
A  dozen  "88  men  were  in  Amherst  during  Com- 
mencement and  eight  of  them  motored  to  South 
Deerfield  where  they  had  a  very  enjoyable  dinner 
and  evening  together  on  Monday,  June  16th. 

Statistics  from  about  two  thirds  of  the  Class 
showed  that  thirty-five  sons  of  '88  men  had  enlisted 
in  the  Army  and  Navy,  most  of  whom  saw  service 
in  France.  Many  received  citations  for  disting- 
uished service. 

These  statistics  also  showed  a  record  of  sixteen 
grandchildren. 

Davis  was  chairman  of  aluminum  committee, 
nonferreous  metal  section.  War  Industries  Board, 
and  member  of  one  of  the  War  Industry  Board 
Commissions    to    France. 

Dickerman  is  now  manager  of  the  Philadelphia 
office  of  P.  W.  Brooks  &  Co.  Inc.,  Investment  Bank- 
ers.    P.  W.  Brooks  is  a  brother  of  Sam  Brooks  '88. 

Homer  Gard,  owner  of  the  Hamilton  Evening 
Journal,  is  serving  his  second  term  as  Postmaster  of 
Hamilton,  Ohio.  His  son  was  appointed  Adjutant 
of  18Gth  Aero  Squadron  at  the  8th  Corps  Head- 
quarters, Latrecey,  France. 

Heard.  President  of  Amoskeag  National  Bank, 
Manchester,  N.  H.  is  reported  to  be  the  leading 
bank  man  in  the  state.  He  has  acted  as  Director 
of  the  Federal  Reserve  liank  of  Boston,  and  is  an 
officer  in  many  important  corporations.  He  has 
a  son  in  the  Junior  Class  at  Amherst. 

Huntington  has  returned  to  his  position  as  head 
of  tlie  Physical  Department,  at  Colgate,  after  a  year 
and  a  half  in  France.  He  says  that  when  the  nights 
were  l)ad  around  Chateau  Thierry,  Soissons,  St. 
Mihiel,  or  in  the  Argonnc,  he  made  noble  resolutions 
never  to  miss  a  Commencement  at  Amherst  if  he 
ever  g(jt  back  to  .\merica.  One  of  liis  sons  was 
Captain  of  tiie  ,'{07tli  Field  Artillery  and  the  other 
First  Lieut.  '•2.)8tli  .\cro  Scjiiadron,  both  in  France. 

F.  S.  Hyde  is  a  professor  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Col- 
lege, Springfield,  Ma.s.sachusctts.  He  is  continuing 
liis  musical  career  and  has  written  two  operas. 

Montague  died  at  his  home  in  Matlison,  Wiscon- 
sin, after  an  illness  of  one  week.  His  son,  who  was 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  1920  at  Amherst,  was 
serving  with  the  I'nited  States  Army  in  Fra.H'c  at 
the  time. 


Dr.  Phillips  will  take  his  Sabbatical  year  in  1919- 
20.  He  expects  to  spend  it  in  this  country,  going 
as  far  west  as  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Tillery  is  serving  his  third  term  as  County  Judge, 
Noble  County,  Oklahoma,  and  is  still  a  bachelor. 

Prof.  Warren  J.  Moulton  of  Bangor,  Me.,  has  been 
elected  President  of  the  Maine  State  Conference 
of  Congregational  Churches. 

John  E.  Oldham,  of  Boston,  who  is  a  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  Investment  Banker's  Association  and 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Railway  Securities,  has 
recently  published  a  pamphlet  entitled  "  A  Discussion 
of  some  of  the  Fundamental  Considerations  Involved 
in  a  Satisfactory  Solution  of  the  Railroad  Problem." 

He  has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the  special 
Railroad  Committee  of  the  Investment  Bankers" 
Association  of  America.  The  Committee  does  not 
expect  to  formulate  a  complete  or  detailed  plan  for 
the  return  of  the  railroads  to  private  control;  but 
it  is  studying  the  problem  closely  and  believes 
the  roads  should  be  returned  to  their  shareholders 
as  soon  as  possible.  The  so-called  Oldham  plan, 
proposed  by  Mr.  Oldham,  that  the  roads  of  the 
country  be  merged  into  thirteen  main  systems  is 
being  seriously  considered. 

As  President  of  the  Muncipal  Art  Society  of 
New  York,  Albert  S.  Bard  presented  to  the  city  of 
New  York  on  May  13th  the  Evangeline  Wilbour 
Blashfield  Memorial  Fountain  in  the  Queensboro 
Bridge  Market. 

1889 

Hexry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
387  Main  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Edwin  Eliphalet  Jackson,  Jr.,  lawyer  and  one 
of  the  most  prominent  organizers  of  business  cor- 
porations in  the  country,  died  suddenly  of  acute 
indigestion  on  the  morning  of  May  ^Gth,  at  his 
home,  424  Clinton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Jack- 
son was  widely  known  throughout  the  country  as 
the  principal  organizer  of  the  hardware  "trust," 
and  he  was  also  well  known  for  his  part  in  the  organ- 
ization of  other  great  business  combinations,  nota- 
bly in  the  steel  and  wire  industry. 

He  was  born  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  fifty- 
two  years  ago,  and  after  graduating  from  .\niherst 
in  1889,  he  attended  and  graduated  from  the  Colum- 
bia Law  School.  Soon  afterwards  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Noble,  Jackson  and  Hubbard, 
.32  William  St.,  New  York.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Booruin  &  Pease,  the  largest  blank 
book  manufacturers  in  the  world,  on  Front  St., 
Brooklyn,  and  was  presid(>nt  and  treasurer  of  the 
corporation  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

It  was  while  a  lawyer  for  large  corporations  that 
he  conceived  the  idea  of  organizing  concerns  in  the 
same  line  of  business  on  a  large  scale,  and  began 
with  the  large  manufat'lurers  of  builders'  hardware. 
At  first  they  were  unwilling  to  take  a  chance  with 
the  anti-trust  laws,  but  he  ottered  to  put  the  man- 
agement intoett'ect  and  devote  all  his  time  to  it  free 
of  charge  if  his  .scheme  did  not  pan  out,  and  was 
willing  to  make  his  reward  contingent  upon  the 
extra  money  the  comi)anies  earned  through  his  plan, 
and  he  was  told  to  go  ahead.  He  made  good  to  such 
an  extent  that   he  was  credited  in  the  New  York 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


papers  willi  making  $"250, 000  a  year  from  this  source. 
One  of  his  biggest  combinations  was  the  wire  pool. 

Mr.  Jackson  liuilt  for  himself  one  of  the  finest 
houses  on  Clinton  Ave.,  Brooklyn's  finest  residen- 
tial street.  It  is  a  massive  pile  t)f  brick  and  stone, 
and  the  building  alone  is  said  to  have  cost  $100,000. 
Mr.  Jackson  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
Club  in  Manhattan,  The  Oxford  Club,  Brooklyn, 
and  attended  the  Clinton  Ave.  Congregational 
Church,  of  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Xehemiah  Boynton, 
'79  is  pastor.. 

He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Mrs.  Carolina  Mather 
Boorum,  daughter  of  William  Boorum  of  the  old 
and  prominent  Boorum  family  in  Brooklyn. 

Arthur  Curtiss  James  has  been  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  Philharmonic  Society  in  New  York. 

Rev.  Arthur  L.  Golder  has  accepted  a  call  to 
Cannon  Falls,  Minn.,  and  is  now  at  work  in  his  new 
parish. 

The  Congregafioiialist  and  Advance  in  a  recent 
issue  contained  the  following  which  is  of  interest 
to  Amherst  men: 

"For  several  weeks  now  two  of  our  best  known 
American  ministers.  Dr.  William  Horace  Day  and 
Dr.  Hugh  Black,  have  been  speaking  to  large  con- 
gregations abroad.  To  Dr.  Day,  Dr.  Jowett  ac- 
corded the  honor  of  occupying  his  own  pulpit  at 
Westminster  Chapel  one  Sunday  morning,  when 
the  American  Congregational  moderator  made  a 
strong  plea  for  an  even  closer  friendship  between 
Great  Britain  and  America  in  the  future  than  in  the 
past.  The  reporter  of  the  British  Weekly  refers  to 
Dr.  Day  as  'the  tall,  handsome,  gray-haired 
preacher,  with  his  pale,  ascetic  features,  sensitive 
lips  and  honest  glance."  He  has  also  been  enter- 
tained at  a  luncheon  party  by  Sir  Albert  Spicer, 
where  he  met  a  representative  party  of  ministers 
and   laymen." 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
mi  Dwight  Street,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
The  Rev.  John  Timothy  Stone  received  at  the 
last  Columl)ia  University  Commencement  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  Doctor  of  Sacred  Theology. 

Oliver  B.  Merrill,  eastern  representative  of  the 
Youth's  Companion,  has  been  elected  treasurer  of 
the  Advertising  Club  of  New  York  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  club  on  May  13th. 

Rev.  Albert  H.  Plumb,  for  nearly  eight  years 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Oakham 
Mass.,  has  resigned.  His  resignation  becomes 
effective  September  1st. 

H.  W.  Boynton's  reviews  of  current  fiction  con- 
tinue to  appear  in  The  Bookman — "Adventures 
and  Riddles"  in  May  and  "Some  British  Novels" 
in  June. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 

George  Welcome  Lewis  and  Mrs.  Edythe  AVard- 

well   Marion   were   married   on   April   !23rd   in  San 

Francisco,    Cal. 

William  C.  Breed  has  been  elected  a  director  of 
the  New  York  County  Lawyers'  Association. 


The  Rev.  L.  T.  Reed  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  who 
was  honored  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
by  .\mherst  in  June,  has  retired  from  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  New  York  State  Conference, 
of  which  he  has  been  president  for  three  years.  He 
has  been  remarkably  successful  in  his  work  in 
Brooklyn.  At  the  time  he  assumed  the  pastorate 
of  the  P'latbush  Congregational  Church  in  1907, 
the  church  numbered  '275  members.  Since  then  a 
new  church  has  been  built  and  the  membership  has 
increased   to    1554. 

A.  W.  McCurdy  is  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
committee  of  48,  a  representative  body  from  all 
states  to  discuss  problems  of  reconstruction  and 
politics,  non-partisan  and  drawing  from  all  inter- 
ested in  the  affairs  of  the  day. 

Frederick  W.  Beekman,  Rector  of  the  Holy 
Trinity  Church,  Paris,  had  an  article  in  the  May 
number  of  Scribner's  Magazine  entitled  "The  Day 
of  Liberation." 

1894 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  Street,  Worcester,  Mass. 
In  honor  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  found- 
ing of  the  Amherst  Student,  Grosvenor  H.   Backus 
tendered  a  dinner  to  the  former  editors  at  the  Hotel 
Draper,  Northampton,  Mass.  on  June  14th. 

Dr.  Edward  W.  Capen,  long  secretary  of  the 
Hartford  Theological  Seminary  and  professor  of 
sociology,  has  been  elected  Dean  of  the  School  of 
Missions. 

Willis  D.  Wood  has  been  elected  a  member  of 
the  governing  committee  of  the  New  York  Stock 
Exchange  for  a  term  of  four  years. 

Rev.  Austin  Rice,  pastor  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  Wakefield  was  awarded  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  D.D.  by  Whitman  College  of  Walla 
Walla,  Wash.,  in  June.  Dr.  Rice  delivered  the 
principal  address  at  the  Commencement  exercises 
there.  For  nine  years  he  was  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Walla  Walla. 

1895 

WiLLi.\M  S.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
30  Church  St.,  New  York  City 
Tufts  College  honored  Governor  Calvin  Coolidge 
with  the  degree  of  LL.D.  last  Commencement.  The 
Governor  attended  the  Amherst  Commencement 
and  was  one  of  the  chief  speakers  at  the  alumni 
banquet. 

Lucius  R.  Eastman  is  Chairman  of  the  Foreign 
Trade  Committee  of  the  Merchants"  Association 
of  New  York.  In  the  May  5th  issue  of  Greater  New 
York  there  is  a  picture  of  Mr.  Eastman  and  the 
leading  article  describes  the  work  of  the  Foreign 
Trade  Committee. 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  is  the  author  of  "The  Society 
of  Free  States"  recently  published  by  Harpers. 
It  is  a  collection  of  articles  that  have  appeared 
during  the  past  year,  now  gathered  into  book  form, 
on  the  League  of  Nations  and  the  political  and 
economic  aspects  of  reconstruction.     Mr.  Morrow 


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is  also  author  of  an  article  in  The  Aflaufic  Monlhlij 
for  June,  entitled  "International  Co-operation 
during  the  War." 

August  Post  was  recently  awarded  a  prize  of  $50 
by  the  contest  committee  of  the  Pan  American 
Aeronautic  Convention  for  taking  fourth  place  in 
the  intercollegiate  seaplane  race  held  at  Atlantic 
City  in  May.  Mr.  Post  who  is  secretary  of  the 
Aerial  League  of  America  is  one  of  the  advisory 
editorial  board  and  a  Contributor  to  "The  Aero 
Blue  Book  and  Directory  of  Aeronautic  Organiza- 
tions," recently  published. 

On  April  19th  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Greenville,  N.  H.,  of  which  the  Rev.  R.  W.  Dunbar 
is  pastor,  was  destroyed  by  fire.  The  church  was 
organized  in  1847. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  Street,  Boston  Mass. 
The  Rev.  Frank  B.  McAllister,  pastor  of  Park 
Church,  Worcester,  Mass.,  was  married  in  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  to  Miss  Mary  Woodburn  Adams  of 
Worcester  by  the  Rev.  George  M.  Butler,  '97,  on 
April  21st. 

The  Rev.  Edward  S.  Sanderson  is  treasurer  of 
the  Goodwill   Industries   Committee  of   Brooklyn. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Walter  S.  Ball,  of  the  Providence  Journal,  is  said 
to  have  been  the  first  of  the  war  correspondents  to 
recognize  the  meritorious  work  of  the  Salvation 
Army  in  the  great  world  war  and  to  give  the  people 
of  this  country  an  idea  of  what  that  organization 
accomplished. 

Edward  T.  Esty,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  was  mar- 
ried on  Saturday,  March  1st,  to  Miss  Grace  Howard 
of  Trenton,  N.  J.,  at  the  home  of  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Robert  L.  Stephens,  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 

The  yew  York  Times  for  April  29th  contained 
a  column  letter  from  Robert  P.  Esty,  entitled 
"Partners  in  Industry,"  in  regard  to  the  problem 
of  a  just  and  equitable  division  of  the  profits  of  in- 
dustry between  its  owners  and  its  employees. 

Percy  H.  Boynton,  had  an  article  in  the  New 
Republic  for  May  31st,  on  Walt  Whitman. 

The  Rev.  Herbert  A.  Barker  has  resigned  the 
pastorate  of  the  Eliot  Church  in  Lowell  and  on 
May  1st  assumed  the  pastorate  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Randolj)!!  Center,  Vt. 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance  for  June  19th 
contained  an  article  by  the  Rev.  Frederick  D. 
Thayer  on  "Co-operative  Gardening." 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  W.  Merriam,  Secretary, 
201  College  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Frank  Davis,  Jr.,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  has  been 
appointed  by  Attorney  General  Palmer  as  Assistant 
Attorney  (ieneral  of  the  United  States,  to  succeed 
Huston  Thompson. 


The  Rev.  Oliver  B.  Loud  has  resigned  his  pas- 
torate at  Mittineague  ,Mass.,  in  order  to  continue 
his  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  Camp  Upton,  where  he 
has  met  with  great  success. 

1899 

Charles  H.  Cobb,  Secretary, 
224  Albany  Street,  Cambridge 
Edward  Samuel  Boyden  died  on  October  30th, 
1918,  at  his  home  in  Southbridge,  Mass.,  from 
cancer.  He  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Caroline 
(Appleby)  Boyden,  and  was  born  in  Oxford,  Mass., 
on  November  28th,  1875.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  Woodstock  Academy,  but  did  not  finish  his 
course  at  Amherst.  On  leaving  college  he  became 
an  optician  and  worked  at  the  Standard  Optical 
Company  in  Geneva,  New  York,  for  ten  years  and 
at  the  American  Optical  Company  in  Southbridge, 
Mass.,  for  eight  years.  He  was  married  on  July 
14th,  1904,  to  Miss  Bessie  May  Pearce. 

Charles  E.  Mitchell,  President  of  the  National 
City  Company,  is  one  of  the  special  committee  of 
bankers  which  was  formed  in  June  to  draft  a  plan 
for  financing  the  railway  equipment  over  which 
there  has  been  much  controversy  between  the  rail- 
road committee  and  the  railroad  management. 
The  committee  consists  of  six  members. 

The  Stokes  Company  announces  for  Fall  publi- 
cation a  new  and  revised  edition  of  the  late  Edward 
B.  Nitchie's  "Lip  Reading:  Its  Principles  and 
Practice,"  which  the  author  had  prepared  before 
his  death,  basing  it  on  his  own  notes  and  experience. 

Prof.  Burges  Johnson  of  Vassar  is  the  joint  author 
with  Ralph  Mayhew  of  "The  Bubble  Books"  for 
children,  published  by  Harpers.  The  latest  is  "The 
Pie-Party  Bubble  Book."  Prof.  Johnson  also  wrote 
the  introduction  to  "The  Fight  for  the  Argonne" 
by  William  B.  West,  the  story  of  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  man 
in  France,  published  by  the  Abingdon  Press. 

An  article  by  Everett  E.  Thompson,  entitled 
"A  Horseshoe  of  Volcanoes,"  appeared  in  the  New 
York  Times  Sunday  Magazine  for  June  15th.  It 
describes  the  volcanoes  on  the  island  of  Java  which 
have  recently  been  in  violent  eruption. 

1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary,, 
225  West  57th  Street,  New  York  City 
Major  Thomas  J.  Hammond,   City  Solicitor  of 
Northampton  for  seven  years,   has  announced  his 
candidacy  for  the  Republican  nomination  for  Dis- 
trict Attorney. 

Lieutenant  (^olonel  Eduin  S.  Ward  has  been 
released  from  his  commission  in  Palcstiiu'  in  order 
to  accept  his  former  place  as  Professor  of  surgery 
in  the  College  at  Beirut,  Syria. 

Rev.  P.  A.  Job  has  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastor- 
ate of  the  Peoples  Church  in  Providence,  R.  I. 

Ernest  H.  Wilkins  has  written  new  nnisic  for  the 
hymn  "America,"  which  has  been  copyrighted  and 
printed  by  the  International  Comniitlee  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 


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Rev.  T.  Valentine  Parker  of  Binghamton,  X.  Y., 
is  the  author  of  an  article  entitled  "  Premillenar- 
ianism:  an  Interpretation  and  an  Evaluation," 
which  was  published,  with  editorial  commendation, 
in   The  Bibical  ]]'orld  for  January. 

Walter  A.  Dyer  of  Amherst  has  completed  the 
writing  of  a  story  of  the  war  for  boys,  entitled 
"Ben,  the  Battle  Horse,"  which  will  be  published 
by  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  this  fall.  Recent  magazine 
contributions  by  Mr.  Dyer  include  the  following: 
"The  Chinese  Chow  Dog"  in  Country  Life  for  April; 
"The  Majolica  of  Mexico"  in  Country  Life  for  April; 
"Tyl  Ulenspiegel"  in  The  Bookman  for  >Iay;  "Old 
Models  for  New  Furniture:  an  Appreciation"  in 
The  Touchstone  for  May;  "Transplanting  a  Colonial 
Hou.se"  in  Country  Life  for  June;  "The  Knock  at 
the  Door,"  a  story,  in  The  Womuns' Magazine  for 
July;  "The  Spirit  of  the  Rooms"  in  Country  Life 
for  Julv;  "The  Himting  Dog"  in  The  Bookman  for 
July. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  Street,  New  York  City 
A  son,  Allen  Keyes  Eastman,  was  born  on  June 
5th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Keyes  Eastman. 

The  Outlook  for  April  23rd  contained  an  article 
by  Preserved  Smith  entitled  "Luther  and  the 
HohenzoUerns." 

Arthur  W.  Towne,  superintendent  of  the  Brook- 
lyn Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Chil- 
dren, has  recently  issued  an  interesting  pamphlet 
entitled   "For   Child,  Community,  and  Country." 

1902 

The  will  of  the  late  Eldon  B.  Keith  contained 
many  public  bequests,  among  them  the  following: 

Brockton  Hospital  Corporation,  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  Amherst  College  and  South 
Congregational  Church,  Campello,  $5,000  each; 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  P^oreign 
Missions,  $1,000;  Mt.  Hermon  School  for  Boys, 
at  East  Xorthfield,  Xorthfield  Seminary,  Memorial 
for  Huntington  School,  Campello,  Brockton  branch 
S.  P.  C.  A.,  Brockton  branch  Salvation  Army,  $500 
each;  Phi  Corporation  of  Chi  Phi  fraternity  of 
Amherst  College,  $100. 

Meredith  X.  Stiles  has  been  appointed  to  the 
Buenos  Aires  Bureau  of  the  Associated  Press,  which 
on  June  1st  established  a  news  service  throughout 
the  South  American  continent,  taking  in  twenty- 
six  i)apers  as  meml)ers  in  various  cities.  He  sailed 
for  South  America  on  July  <Sth  and  his  address  is 
the  Associated  IVess,  Calle  San  Martin  .'Jl^.  He 
plans  to  remain  for  three  years. 

Dr.  Anson  Ely  Mor.se,  who  has  l)een  engaged  for 
a  year  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  Italy,  will  resume 
his  duties  this  fall  as  history  reference  librarian  at 
Princeton  University.  He  has  been  decorated  by 
the  Italian  Government  for  service  in  educational 
work. 

The  Churchman  for  April  olli  contained  an  arti- 
cle by  the  Rev.  Harold  S.  Brewster,  entitled  "The 
League:    A  Western  Point  of  View." 


Mrs.  George  Buchanan  True  of  Xewtonville, 
Mass.,  announces  the  marriage  of  her  daughter, 
Glenna,  to  Mr.  Walter  Thornton  Bryant  on  Wed- 
nesday, May  7th. 

One  year  from  the  day  he  put  on  the  uniform  of 
a  private  of  the  I'nited  States  Army,  Rev.  Jason 
Xoble  Pierce,  pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational 
Church  in  Dorchester,  set  foot  in  Xew  York,  the 
senior  chaplain  of  the  2d  Division  of  the  Army. 
"And  it  is  my  opinion,  "says  Mr.  Pierce,  "that  the 
Germans  would  do  the  same  thing  over  again  at 
the  drop  of  the  hat,  and  the  only  change  in  their 
program  would  be  that  for  the  sake  of  winning, 
they  would  not  try  to  draw  America  into  the  war. 
The  Germans  are  unrepentant,  they  will  not  con- 
cede that  they  did  anything  wrong.  Why,  at  tlie 
headquarters  of  Xeuwied,  one  German  pastor  de- 
fended the  right  of  the  German  conquerors  to  ravage 
the  women  and  children  of  invaded  areas." 

It  is  extremely  doubtful  if  any  one  American 
saw  as  much  warfare  in  the  space  of  a  year  as  fell 
to  the  lot  of  the  author  of  "  Cheer  for  Old  Amherst." 
Within  a  few  days  of  his  arrival  in  France  he  was 
assigned  to  the  2d  Division,  just  then  making  his- 
tory at  Chateau  Thierry,  and  he  remained  in  that 
outfit  until  he  left  it,  April  5th,  occupying  German 
territory  to  the  north  of  Coblenz.  He  kept  a  diary 
for  the  entire  year  and  it  reads  like  a  romance, 
bristling  with  exciting  incidents,  but  not  one  word 
in  regard  to  the  part  played  by  the  chaplain  himself. 

Captain  W.  D.  Clark,  23rd  U.  S.  Engineers,  after 
service  for  more  than  two  years  in  France,  returned 
to  this  country  this  summer  and  has  probably  been 
mustered  out  by  now.  He  returned  in  command 
of  the  4th  Battalion  of  the  23rd  Engineers,  and  was 
to  be  mustered  out  at  Camp  Lewis,  Wash. 

1903 

Clifford  P.  Warren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

A  son.  Minor  Giles  Atwood,  was  born  on  April 
28th,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  W.  Atwood  of  Princeton, 
X.  J.  The  yoimg  man  has  one  brother  and  two 
sisters.  Mr.  Atwood,  whose  articles  on  finance 
economics  in  the  Saturday  Evening  Post  continue 
to  be  one  of  the  chief  features  of  that  magazine, 
has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the  committee 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  determining  u|)()n  a 
comprehensive  and  intensive  campaign  of  thrift 
among  school  children.  The  committee  is  to  recom- 
mend to  the  Treasury  Department  a  course  of 
action.  He  was  given  the  honorary  degree  of  A.M. 
by  Princeton  at  the  June  Commencement. 

1904 

Karl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
11306  Knowlton  Ave.,  Cleveland  Ohio, 

Ward  .\ugustus  Smith  died  at  his  home  in  X'orth 
Brookfield,  Mass.,  suddenly  on  April  14,  1!)1<), 
after  a  brief  illness. 

He  was  born  in  Xorth  Brookfield  on  August  14, 
1880,  the  son  of  Frank  A.  and  Content  (Skerry) 
Smith.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the  high  school 
in  Xorth  Brookfield  and  then  entered  Amherst, 
leaving  before  his  course  was  completed  to  assist 
his  father  in  the  insurance  business.     At  Amherst 


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\w  was  a  member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Fra- 
ternity. He  became  one  of  the  leading  insurance 
men  in  Central  Massachusetts  and  was  very  suc- 
cessful. He  was  a  member  of  the  School  Committee 
and  a  trustee  of  the  Town  Library. 

Mr.  Smith  was  married  on  September  12,  1912, 
to  Miss  Eva  L.  Perry  of  Belmont,  Mass.  She  sur- 
vives him.  There  are  no  children.  Burial  was  in 
Walnut  Grove  cemetery  at  North  Brookfield. 

Leland  B.  Dow  has  transferred  his  insurance 
office  from  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  to  Memphis,  Tenn., 
where  he  may  be  reached  at  the  Union  and  Planters 
Bank   Building. 

Ely  O.  Merchant  has  resigned  as  agent  in  econo- 
mies' for  the  Federal  Trade  Commission  and  has 
associated  himself  in  a  similar  capacity  with  the 
Container  Co.,  manufacturers  of  paper  receptacles, 
in  Chicago,  111.  His  office  will  be  Room  638,  Trans- 
portation   Building. 

Since  his  discharge  from  the  Aviation  service, 
Ceorge  K.  Pond  has  resumed  his  real  estate  business 
in  Greenfield,  Mass.  He  will  confine  himself  to  this 
activity,  pursuing  his  legal  work  only  as  the  oc- 
casion requires. 

After  a  course  in  dentistry  in  Chicago,  A.  A. 
Savage  has  opened  an  office  in  South  Manchester, 
Conn.  Inasmuch  as  Savage  was  principal  of  the 
high  school  in  South  Manchester  for  several  years, 
he  will  find  many  friends  in  his  new  work. 

Sanford  M.  Salyer  has  been  awarded  the  Willard 
scholarship  at  Harvard. 

The  Outlook  for  April  16th  contained  a  poem  by 
William  N.  Morse,  entitled  "Puzzled." 

Dr.  Heman  B.  Chase,  who  is  still  in  France  with 
the  U.  S.  Medical  Corps,  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of   Captain. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary. 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  annual  reunion  dinner  of  the  Class  of  1905 
was  held  on  Friday  evening,  April  25th,  at  Keen's 
English  Chop  House  in  New  York.  Such  distant 
points  as  West  Africa,  Waterbury,  Northampton, 
Davenport,  Iowa,  and  Westerly,  R.  I.,  were  repre- 
sented. The  feature  of  the  evening  was  a  most 
interesting  talk  by  George  Schwab  of  his  work  in 
the  Kameroons  of  Africa  among  the  cannibals  and 
pigmies,  of  how  the  war  came  to  this  land  and  the 
Germans  were  driven  out,  and  of  the  great  ])ossi- 
bilities  for  foreign  trade  which  arc  l)(-ing  recog- 
nized by  nearly  all  the  Great  Powers  except  America. 
He  also  told  some  of  the  tril>al  stories  in  the  origi- 
nal Bula  language  which  is  markedly  musical.  At 
this  dinner  important  arrangements  in  regard  to 
the  Class  reunion  at  Amherst  in  1920  were  c()m- 
pleted.  Those  present  included:  Anderson,  Baily 
Baldwin,  Crossett,  Fort,  Freeman,  Lynch,  McTer- 
nan,  Nash,  Nickerson,  O'Brien,  Pease,  Schwab 
and  Wing. 

Edward  C.  Crossett  will  move  to  New  York  this 
fall,  making  his  home  at  the  Devon,  70  West  55th 
Street.  He  jilans  to  stay  in  tlie  East  for  a  year  and 
then  reside  permanently  in  Chicago. 


Francis  C.  Nickerson  has  moved  his  law  office 
to  80  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Rev.  William  Crawford  is  pastor  of  the  Day 
Springs  Presbyterian  Church  of  Yonkers.  His 
address  is  Elm  and  Walnut  Streets,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

John  G.  Anderson  was  a  member  of  the  Inter- 
national team  which  has  been  competing  this  sum- 
mer in  Canada  under  the  auspices  of  the  L^nited 
States  Golf  Association  and  the  Royal  Canadian 
Golf  Association.  With  the  leading  golfers  of  the 
country  he  has  also  toured  Western  Canada  in  be- 
half of  the  Red  Cross.  Anderson's  home  address 
is  Hollywood  Avenue,  Crestwood,  N.  Y. 

Sidney  T.  Bixby  and  E.  Frank  Hussey  have  re- 
turned from  their  war  service  in  France.  Lieuten- 
ant Elmer  E.  Ryan  of  the  Aviation  corps  has  also 
returned  and  been  mustered  out. 

Leslie  R.  Fort  has  been  promoted  to  Captain. 
He  has  since  April  been  acting  as  publisher  and  busi- 
ness manager  of  the  Home-Again,  the  soldier's  news- 
paper, published  by  soldiers  at  the  Debarkation 
and  General  Hospitals  of  the  Port  of  New  York. 
Before  being  "loaned"  to  the  Division  of  General 
Publicity,  Surgeon  General's  Office,  Captain  Fort 
was  in  charge  of  casualty  list  work  in  the  Adjutant 
General's  office,  Washington. 

Assistant  District  Attorney  Maurice  A.  Lynch 
of  New  York  City  was  assigned  on  July  1st  to  han- 
dle cases  in  the  Women's  Court. 

Paul  Vi.  Norton  has  been  elected  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Boston  Delta  Upsilon 
Club. 

Charles  E.  Bennett  has  been  promoted  to  a  full 
professorship  in  Latin  at  Amherst. 

Harry  G.  Grover  is  now  residing  at  239  Donald- 
son Avenue,  Rutherford,  New  Jersey.'  A  sketch, 
"Before  Eve,"  written  by  Mr.  Grover,  was  pro- 
duced for  the  first  time  in  May  by  the  Faculty 
Dramatic  Club  of  the  Dickinson  High  School  in 
Jersey  City. 

When  last  heard  from  W^nrd  C.  Moon  was  with 
the  Army  of  Occupation  at  Coblenz,  Germany.  His 
work  is  that  of  an  educational  director. 

George  Schwab  with  Mrs.  Schwab  returned  to 
his  work  in  Africa  in  July,  after  a  stay  of  fourteen 
months  in  this  country.  Most  of  his  time  was  spent 
in  study  at  Harvard  Cniversity  where  he  won  his 
M.A.  degree  this  past  June.  He  has  also  been  elected 
as  associate  assistant  of  the  Peal)ody  Museum  at 
Harvard.  Mr.  Sciiwal),  who  lias  previously  made 
several  valuable  gifts  to  .\mherst,  has  presented  to 
the  Museum  of  Comparative  Zoology  at  Harvard 
a  noteworthy  collection  of  bugs,  beetles,  spiders, 
ants  and  ant  guests,  worms,  grasshoppers,  amphibia, 
reptiles,  fish,  i)irds,  mammals — all  sorts,  from  mice 
and  bats  to  anthr()i)()id  apes,  including  the 
gorilla. 

Baily,  Marsh,  Pease  and  Weed  attended  the  \m- 
herst  Commencement  this  Jinie. 


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1906 

RoBEKT  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 
Tracy-Parry  Advertising  Companj%  Lafayette  Bldg. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
The  Rev.  Ellison  S.  Hildrcth  was  introduced  for 
the  first  time  to  his  son,  John  Lane  Hildreth,  this 
summer.  The  young  man  was  born  on  November 
23,  1918,  when  Mr.  Hildreth  was  in  Siberia,  doing 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  among  the  Czecho-Slavs.  He  was 
subsequently  released  and  returned  to  China,  where 
he  was  much  needed.  He  left  China  May  5th  for 
the  U.  S.  A.,  expecting  to  remain  in  this  country 
for  at  least  a  year. 

Edwin  A.  Wright  has  been  elected  a  member  of 
the  executive  committee  of  the  Boston  Delta  Up- 
silon  Club. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 
202  Lake  Ave.,  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 
Bruce  Barton  is  the  author  of  a  serial  which  began 
in  the  American  Magazine  for  May,  entitled  "What 
Shall  It  Profit  a  Man?" 


1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 
William  Ives  Washburn,  Jr.,  formerly  on  the 
editorial  staff  of  the  Century  Company,  but  for  the 
past  year  an  officer  in  the  Tank  Corps,  U.  S.  A., 
has  received  honorable  discharge  from  the  army  and 
has  joined  the  editorial  department  of  the  George 
H.  Doran  Company. 


1909 

Donald  D.  McKay,  Secretary, 
Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 
Hal  ton  E.  Underbill  has  become  sales  manager 
for  the  Metropolitan  district  for  the  L.  Sonneborn 
&  Son  in  motor  oils.  He  had  previously  acted  for 
eleven  months  as  manager  for  the  Home  Regis- 
tration Service  and  chairman  of  the  Community 
Labor  Board,  in  New  London,  Conn. 

Percival  D.  Nash  and  Miss  Evelyn  H.  Bishop 
were  married  on  April  23rd  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  at 
St.  Mark's  M.  E.  Church.  Alexander  S.  Nash,  '05, 
brother  of  the  groom,  acted  as  best  man  and  the 
ushers  included  Robert  C.  Cliapin,  '()!),  Lindsay 
C.  Amos,  '10,  Frank  R.  Goodell,  "08  and  Charles 
W.  Niles,  Jr.,  '08. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morris  G.  Michaels,  who  were 
married  on  Monday,  June  9th,  came  to  the  Decen- 
nial on  their  wedding  trip. 

J.  B.  Jamieson,  Jr.,  formerly  Superintendent  of 
the  Brighton  Mills,  Passaic,  N.  J.,  is  now  in  the 
Cotton  Yarn  business  with  J.  B.  Jamieson,  77  Sum- 
mer St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Patrick  J.  Foley  is  District  Manager  of  the  Mass- 
achusetts Bonding  Company,  244  Main  St.,  Spring- 
field, Mass. 


A  son  was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Lyman  Smith, 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  on  June  15th. 

Albert  Beebe  Houghton  died  of  pneumonia  on 
March  7,  1919,  in  Omaha,  Neb. 

He  was  thf  son  of  Frederick  W.  and  Geneva  M. 
(Beebe)  Houghton  and  was  born  at  Fort  Calhoun, 
Neb.,  on  Nov.  15,  1886.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  Worcester  Academy.  After  two  years  at  Amherst 
he  entered  business  and  in  1911  became  traveling 
salesman  for  Beebe  and  Runyan  Furniture  Company 
of  Omaha,  Neb.  In  1917  he  founded  the  Houghton 
Furniture  Company,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  which 
became  very  successful.  In  May,  1918,  Mr  Hough- 
ton enlisted  in  the  navy.  He  served  in  the  North 
Bombing  Squadron  in  France  and  in  this  service 
was  incapacitated,  his  illness  developing  later  into 
pneumonia. 

He  was  married  in  1915  to  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Dr.  John  Taylor  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  who  survives 
him.  There  was  one  child,  Elizabeth,  l)orn  on 
Feb.   16,   1918. 

1910 

George  B.  Burnett,  Secretary. 
Amherst,  Mass. 
Sterling  W.  Pratt,  formerly  a  First  Lieutenant, 
has  received  his  discharge  and  is  now  in  the  adver- 
tising   department    of    the    Magazine    Circulation 
Company  of  Chicago  and  is  living  at  Riverside,  111. 

The  Class  secretary  is  on  the  job  again  after  a 
three  months'  "flu"  vacation,  and  is  anxious  to 
receive  war  autobiographies  from  all  men  who  have 
been  in  the  service. 

A  son,  John  Fox,  was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George 
F.  Whicher  in  the  New  York  Nursery  and  Child's 
Hospital,  on  June  2,  1919. 

Edward  Farrier  has  been  made  Secretary  of  the 
Stevens  Yarn  Co.,  Inc.,  with  office  at  1  Thomas 
Street,  New  York  City. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hubert  C.  Barton  of  South  Amherst 
announce  the  arrival  of  a  son,  William  Irving,  on 
June  9,  1919. 

Paul  A.  Fancher  has  just  completed  his  third  year 
at  Hamilton  College  where  he  is  Assistant  Pro- 
fessor of  English.  He  also  has  direction  of  the  work 
of  the  Dramatic  Association. 

A  daughter,  Ellen  Virginia,  was  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  A.  Mitchell  on  June  29,  1919. 


1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  No.  Parkway,  East  Orange,  X.  J. 
Tlioinas  Desire  Pawley  is  now  head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  English  at  the  \'irginia  Normal  and  Indus- 
trial Institute.  For  the  six  years  previous,  he  had 
been  head  of  the  Department  of  English  at  Jackson 
College  in  Mississippi. 

A  second  son.  Dexter  Stearns  Haven,  was  born 
on  November  2d,  1918,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  O. 
Haven,  of  Chicago,  111. 


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147 


Campbell  Marvin  is  state  superintendent  of 
jagencies  for  Illinois  in  the  War  Savings  Stamps 
I'l  campaign. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Russell  of  New  York  City 
have  announced  the  engagement  of  their  daughter, 
;  Frances,  to  Hubert  Hillhouse  Loomis  of  Bedford, 
1;  Mass. 

Assistant  City  Solicitor  Harold  P.  Small  of  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  has  announced  his  candidacy  for  the 
Republican  nomination  for  district  attorney.  He 
is  now  serving  his  first  year  as  assistant  city  solicitor, 
but  has  been  a  member  of  the  common  council  of 
Springfield,  resigning  to  enlist  in  the  navy  when  the 
war  broke  out.  He  was  commissioned  an  ensign 
and  made  several  trips  back  and  forth  through  the 
submarine  zone.  He  has  done  excellent  work  as 
assistant  city  solicitor,  personally  conducting  some 
important  cases  with  success. 

Horace  Ray  Denton,  former  Captain  in  the  149th 
Regiment,  has  just  returned  from  France  with  his 
Rainbow  Division  and  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Major. 

1912 

C.  Fr.\xcis  Beatty,  Secretary, 
953  President  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Charles  Kingman  Perkins  was  married  on  April 
10th  at  Cazenovia,  New  York,  to  Miss  Marguerite 
C.  Kiley,  daughter  of  Judge  M.  H.  Kiley,  and  a 
graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke,  class  of  1916.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  by  the  groom's  father. 
Rev.  S.  K.  Perkins,  '77. 

Another  1912  wedding  is  that  of  Dr.  Phillip  Lay- 
ton  Turner  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Carol  Schmidt, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carl  G.  Schmidt,  of 
Brooklyn,  X.  Y.  They  were  married  on  May  "^-Ith, 
at  the  home  of  the  bride,  Herbert  C.  Allen,  Jr., 
Amherst  '12,  acting  as  best  man.  Mrs.  Turner  is 
a  graduate  of  Smith  College. 

George  A.  Carlin,  who  recently  returned  from  a 
year  in  France  where  he  was  a  sergeant  in  First 
Army  Headquarters  Regt.,  has  been  sworn  in  as  a 
member  of  the  New  York  Bar.  He  was  graduated 
from  Fordham  Law  School  in  the  spring  of  1917, 
but  before  he  had  a  chance  to  enter  upon  his  pro- 
fession, he  was  sent  to  Spartanburg  with  the  27th 
Division.  Previous  to  his  law  study,  he  was  engaged 
in  newspaper  work,  first  with  the  Brooklyn  Daily 
Eagle,  then  with  the  Brooklyn  Standard  Union  and 
the  New  York  Evening  Sun. 

Leland  Olds  had  an  article  entitled  "Guild  So- 
cialism and  the  Railway  Brotherhoods"  in  the 
April — May    i.ssue    of    the    Intercollcyiate    Socialist. 

J.  H.  Vernon,  recently  returned  from  service 
overseas  with  the  balloon  division  of  the  air  service, 
is  now  president  of  King's  Optical  Shop,  Inc.,  at 
12  Maiden  Lane,  N.  Y.  C. 

Fred  Barton  was  married  to  Mi.ss  Marguerite 
Albrechl,  Smith  1913,  on  May  14th,  at  Akron,  Ohio. 
They  will  make  their  home  in  Akron  where  Barton 
IS  m  the  wholesale  grocery  business. 

Alfred  B.  Peacock  and  his  bride  are  now  in  Aus- 
tralia. After  visiting  the  princii)al  cities  they  expect 
to  leave  for  Bombay,  traveling  by  automobile  to 


Rangoon,  Delhi,  Lucknow  and  Mandalay.  Peacock 
is  ¥a.T  Eastern  distributor  for  the  Paige  Motor  Car 
Co.  of  Detroit. 

Miss  Effie  May  Dixon,  who  was  one  of  the  first 
hundred  Canadian  nurses  to  arrive  overseas  in  1914, 
and  Roger  W.  Birdseye,  late  lieutenant,  Canadian 
Expeditionary  Force,  British  Army,  D.  C.  M., 
were  married  at  Maplewood,  X.  J.,  on  June  3d. 
Bird-seye,  who  enlisted  as  a  private  in  1914,  was  one 
of  the  famous  First  Canadian  Contingent  and  met 
Miss  Dixon  while  he  was  in  a  hospital  in  France. 
He  is  now  in  the  Foreign  Trade Dept. of  the  Guaran- 
ty Trust  Co.,  140  Broadway,  Xew  York. 

Avery  C.  Hand  was  recently  elected  president  of 
the  Tracv-Avery  Co.,  wholesale  grocers,  of  Mans- 
field, Ohio. 

Capt.  De  Witt  H.  Parsons  reached  the  States 
early  in  June  after  serving  in  France  with  the  309th 
Infantry,  78th  (Lightning)  Division,  in  which 
regiment  C.  C.  Campbell,  '11,  was  also  an  officer. 
At  St.  Mihiel,  Parsons  and  two  lieutenants  were 
the  only  officers  of  their  battalion  who  were  not  put 
out  of  action,  "De"  commanding  the  battalion 
in  the  latter  phases  of  the  engagement. 

Although  no  attempt  was  made  to  carry  on  a 
reunion  to  replace  the  one  which  normally  would 
have  been  held  in  1918,  fifteen  members  of  the  Class 
were  in  Amherst  for  the  Commencement  festivities. 
This  afforded  an  opportunity  for  discussion  of  the 
decennial  reunion  in  1922,  and  a  start  was  made  by 
securing  an  option  on  the  Pease  house  on  Xorthamp- 
ton  Road,  where  the  successful  1905  reunions  have 
always  been  held. 

All  members  of  1912  in  Amherst  on  June  15th 
assembled  at  Dick  Rahar's  for  dinner  and  a  session 
of  The  Rul)icon  Club.  P'ortunately,  we  had  the 
same  room  where  so  many  Rubicons  were  crossed 
in  1912  and  where  "Mike"  Madden  delighted  in 
leading  the  singing  of  "There  was  an  old  hen." 
Dick's  has  changed  not  a  bit,  but  by  1922 — well, 
bring  your  wife  to  Decennial;    it'll  be  perfectly  safe. 

The  following  1912  men  were  in  Amherst  during 
Commencement : 

Stuart,  VoUmer,  Moller,  Brock,  Simpson,  Hub- 
bard, Rankin,  Pease,  Parsons,  Davis,  Beatty,  Swan- 
ton,  Davenport,  Dick  and  Chasseaud. 

Ordway  Tead's  new  book,  "The  People's  Part 
in  Peace,"  recently  published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co., 
has  been  attracting  favorable  attention  from  the 
reviewers.  It  deals  largely  with  economic  questions 
growing  out  of  the  war.  In  the  New  Republic  for 
June  25th  he  had  an  article  on  "Shop  Committees." 

1913 

Lkwis  G.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
61  Hampden  Hall,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Charles  L.  Johnson,  Jr.,  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Pynchon  and  Co.,  New  York,  bond  brokers,  has 
entered  the  Chicago  office  of  that  firm. 

A  daughter,  I'riscilla,  was  born  on  Tuesday, 
April  1st,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  ]{alph  Wells  Wcstcott. 
He  is  superintendent  of  schools  at  Mansfield,  Mass. 

Lieutenant  Clarence  L.  Tappin  and  Miss  .Ade- 
laide   Florence    Smith    of    Barre    were    married   on 


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February  '•2d.  Tlu'ir  present  address  is  276  Orange 
Street,  Slaneliester,  X.  H.,  but  Mr.  Tappin  expects 
to  resume  liis  former  position  of  teacher  of  Spanish 
and  French  at  the  Mt.  N'ernon  (N.  Y.)  High  School 
at  the  opening  of  the  school  this  fall. 

Herschel  S.  Konold  has  been  made  a  captain  in 
the  officers"  reserve  corps.  He  is  at  present  in  Flor- 
ida planning  to  engage  in  fruit  farming. 

H.  G.  Allen  has  accepted  a  position  with  the  Bab- 
son  Investment  Service.  He  is  living  temporarily 
with  his  parents  at  147  Hancock  St.,  Auburndale. 

Geoffrey  Atkinson  is  teaching  Romance  Language 
in  Teachers'  College,  X^w  York. 

Lieut.  A.  H.  Bond,  V.  S.  N.,  is  serving  as  an  en- 
gineer in  the  Xavy  Yard  at  Charleston,  S.  C. 

R.  H.  Browne  has  taken  up  fruit-farming  in  Med- 
ford.  Ore. 

The  marriage  of  Leroy  Buttolph  and  Miss  Con- 
stance Orcutt  of  Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  took  place  on 
June  19,   1919. 

G.  D.  Olds,  Jr.,  has  recently  moved  to  Mayberry, 
West  Va.,  where  he  is  working  with  the  Elkhorn  Coal 
and  Coke  Co. 

C.  E.  Parsons  has  recently  graduated  with  dis- 
tinction from  Johns  Hopkins  Medical  School,  and 
is  spending  the  summer  with  Dr.  Grenfell  in  Labra- 
<lor. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Meta  Mallory  and  J.  A. 
Seaman  took  place  on  June  30th,  in  the  South  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Springfield. 

C.  F.  Sheridan  has  been  appointed  an  Assistant 
Secretary  of  the  American  Legion  with  offices  at 
19  West"  44th  St.,  New  York  City. 

J.  W.  Steele  has  begun  a  slow  process  of  recovery 
from  pulmonary  trouble  in  a  Cleveland  hospital. 

R.  L  Stout  is  vice-president  of  the  First  X^ational 
Bank  of  Tekamah,  Neb. 

Hvmt  Warner  has  been  discharged  from  the  army 
hospital  as  practically  cured  of  his  wounds.  He 
will  be  located  in  Boston. 

A  baby,  Harry  Converse  Wilder,  Jr.,  arrived  at 
Malone,  N.  Y.,  while  his  father  was  still  in  service 
overseas. 

B.  J.  Connolly  is  assistant  to  the  Steam  Machin- 
ery Engineer  at  the  Hog  Lsland  Ship  yards. 

John  E.  Farwell  is  publishing  a  patent  ex{)ense 
book  called  "Xpenso"  at  Geneva,  X.  Y. 

P.  F.  Good,  with  wife  and  daughter,  has  returned 
from  Europe  to  his  home  in  Lincoln,  Xeb. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  W.  G.  Hamilton 
to  Miss  Esther  Daniels  of  Riverside,  Cal.  Miss 
Daniels  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Marjorie  L.  Glover  and 
H.  C.  Harding  was  solemnized  on  June  17th,  at 
Mansfield,  Ohio. 

G.  R.  Havens  is  serving  in  France  witli  tlie  Foyers 
du  Soldat. 


The  recent  death  of  Mrs.  Carroll  L.  Hopkins  at 
Lansing,  Mich.,  has  brought  sorrow  to  many  of  j 
Hopkins'    classmates. 

Alfred  X'ewbery  expects  to  return  to  America 
this  summer,  after  five  years  of  teaching  in  the  Ma- 
han  School,  Yangchow,  China.  Xewbery  will  enter 
the  General  Theological  Seminary  to  prepare  for 
the  Episcopal  ministry. 

A  son,  Samuel  Henry,  Jr.,  was  born  March  23, 
1919.  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  H.  Cobb,  at  the  home 
of  the  fathers"  parents,  at  South  Orange,  X.  J. 

Four  new  appointments  to  the  Research  Fellow- 
ship Board  which  will  promote  fundamental  re- 
search in  physics  and  chemistry  were  announced 
recently  by  the  Xational  Research  Council.  One 
of  the  four  was  George  Scatchard. 

1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  St.,  Boston  Mass., 

Edward  Sprague  Cobb  died  suddenly  on  May  11, 
1919,  at  his  home  in  Montclair,  X.  J.,  of  pneumonia 
and  influenza. 

He  was  the  son  of  George  Henry  Cobb,  '85, 
and  Laura  D.  (Sprague)  Cobb,  and  was  born 
in  New  York  City  on  March  17,  1892.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Newark  Academy  and  on 
graduating  from  Amherst  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Xational  Cloak  and  Suit  Company  of  Xew  York. 
He  remained  with  them  for  over  a  year,  when  he 
accepted  a  position  with  the  Dry  Goods  Economist. 
During  the  war  he  served  at  Washington  in  the 
Ordnance  Department,  and  was  in  service  for  nine 
months.  On  his  release  he  became  associated  with 
the  Frank  Seaman  Advertising  Agency  in  Xew  York 
City,  and  his  work  showed  promise  of  much  success 
in  the  future.  He  was  one  of  the  most  popular  men 
of  his  Class  and  just  before  his  marriage  on  October 
28,  191(),  the  Class  tendered  him  a  dinner  at  Keen's 
Chop  House  in  Xew  York.  He  married  Helen 
Louise  Hobbs,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  J.  Howard 
Hobbs,  of  I'tica.  X.  Y.,  and  is  survived  by  her  and 
a  son,  Edward  Sprague  Cobb,  Jr.,  born  Jidy  Ui.1918. 
His  brother.  Samuel  H.  Cobb,  is  also  a  graduate  of 
Andierst  in  the  class  of  1913.  Burial  was  in  Rose- 
dale  Cemetery  in  Orange,  N.  J. 

John  T.  Carpenter  is  now  with  the  Johnson  and 
Higgens  Marine  Insurance  Co.  of  Xew  York. 

Richard  S.  Van  Ingen  has  accepted  a  position  in 
the  legal  department  t)f  the  Title  Guarantee  and 
Trust  Co.  of  Xew  York. 

Everett  Glass  was  a  member  of  the  teaching  start' 
at  the  A.E.F.  L'niversity  at  Beaune,  France.  In 
the  May  17th  issue  of  the  yew  Republic  he  has  an 
article  entitled  "More  About  That,"'  in  regard  to 
the  attitude  of  Americans  towards  the  French. 

Royal  Firman  has  left  the  employ  of  Marshall 
Field  and  Co.,  and  is  with  the  Xational  Importing 
and  Trading  Company,  30  Xorth  Dearborn  Street, 
Chicago,   111. 

Ralph  Wheaton  \Vhii)[)le  and  Miss  IVhirjorie 
Davis,  of  Sterling,  Mass.,  were  married  on  June  19tli 
at  the  summer  camp  of  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Harris  H. 


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A'ilder,  '86,  on  Mt.  Toby.     They  will  make  their 
lome  at  27  IJelmont  Ave.,  Northampton. 

1915 

Joseph  L.  Snider,  Secretary, 
13  Fairfax,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Sidney  R.  Packard  has  been  awarded  the  Bayard 
Cutting  Fellowship  at  Harvard. 

Harold  C.  Fonda  was  married  on  May  24th  at 
i3ea  Cliff,  N.  Y.,  to  Miss  Harriet  Carter  Place  of 
I  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Sergeant  Fonda  recently  returned 
from  fifteen  months'  service  in  France,  where  he 
[was  with  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Unit. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.    Y. 
Lester  Carlton  Yer  Nooy  died  at  his  home  in 
Cortland,  N.  Y.,  on  Sunday,  January   19th.  after 
an  illness  covering  two  months.     His  health  had 
ibeen  gradually  failing  for  the  last  two  years;    but 
'  it  was  not  until  November  last  that  he  became  seri- 
iously  ill  at  Urbana,  111.,  where  he  was  doing  special 
post-graduate  work  at  the  I'niversity  of  Illinois. 
His  father.  Dr.  Charles  D.  Ver  Nooy  of  Cortland, 
himself  a   skilled   physician,  went   to   him   and   re- 
I  mained  with  him  until  it  was  safe  to  remove  him  to 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  for  five  weeks 
1  under    the    care    of    a    specialist.     He    was    then 
I  brought  home  on  Sunday,  January  12th,  when  it 
[  became  evident  that  he  was  beyond  human  help. 
I      He  was  born  in  Enfield,  Tompkins  County,  N.  Y., 
!  on  February  20,  1894,  and  came  to  Cortland  with 
■  his  parents  when  he  was  four  years  of  age.     He 
prepared  for  Amherst  at  the  Central  High  School 
at  Cortland  and  at  the  State  Normal  School  and 
while  at  Amherst  was  very  active  in  the  college  life. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  fraternity, 
business   manager  of  the   Amherst   Student   in   his 
senior  year,  one  of  the  sophomore  Kellogg  Five  and 
an  excellent  student.     He  was  awarded  a  scholar- 
ship in  l)iology  at  Wood's  Hole,  Mass.,  and  it  was 
his  ambition  to  prepare  for  the  medical  profession. 
Being  obliged  to  give  up  this  idea  on  account  of 
his  health,  he  entered  in  the  fall  of  1916  the  Uni- 
versity of   Michigan  for  a  year  of  post-graduate 
study  in  his  chosen  work — biology.     In  September, 
1917,  he  went  to  the  University  of  Illinois,  where 
he  received  his  Master  of  Arts  degree  a  year  ago. 
He  was  studying  for  his  Ph.  I),  degree  at  the  time 
of  his  death  and  had  been  ai)pointed  instructor  in 
vertebrate  anatomy  and   ciiibryology.     The  cause 
of  death   was  ccrcbra!    hemorrhage  and  the  inter- 
ment was  in  Cortland  Rural  Cemetery. 

Captain  Douglas  Duncan  Milne  and  Miss  Vir- 
ginia P.  Hastings  were  married  on  June  25th  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  sister  in  llinghani,  Mass.  The 
ceremony  was  followed  by  a  reception  on  the  lawn. 

Miss  Grace  Wallace  Hutchinson  of  Montclair, 
N.  J.,  and  Harry  Leroy  Balmos  were  married  on 
May  31st  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents. 

1917 

RoBEUT  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
Indiana,  Pa. 
L.  M.  Clark  is  with  the  II.  K.  McCann  Adver- 


tising Agency  at  61    Broadway,  New  York  City- 
His  home  address  is  250  W^est  72d  St. 

T.  F.  Appleby  is  secretary  to  the  Frank  Appleby 
Co.,  Real  Estate  and  Insurance,  Main  and  Madison 
Avenues,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J.  A  daughter,  Marie 
Winsoh,  was  born  on  May  8th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Appleby. 

R.  D.  Ball  is  with  the  United  Natural  Gas  Co., 
and  his  address  is  3  Harriet  Ave.,  Oil  City,  Pa. 

M.  Eisner  was  released  from  service  in  January, 
having  been  commissioned  ensign  and  has  since 
been  studying  at  Columbia  Law  School. 

H.  H.  Fuller  after  his  discharge  from  service  ac- 
cepted a  position  with  the  Bethlehem  Steel  Cor- 
poration. 

J.  G.  Gazley  on  his  discharge  from  service  in  Feb- 
ruary took  up  teaching  at  Morris  Heights  High 
School,   New   York  City. 

C.  T.  Jones,  who  was  released  from  service  last 
December,  has  been  teaching  at  Montclair  Academy 
and  taking  graduate  work  at  Columbia  L'niversity. 

C.  E.  Maynard  of  55  Washington  Ave.,  Northamp- 
ton, Mass.,  is  now  with  the  Fisk  Rubber  Co.  at 
Chicopee  Falls,   Mass. 

The  wedding  of  Harold  A.  Smith  and  Marion  F. 
Hill,  Wheaton  College  '17,  took  place  PViday  even- 
ing, April  11th,  at  the  bride's  home,  206  South 
St.,  Northampton.  Mr  Smith  is  employed  as 
a  chemist  by  the  Chemical  Paper  Company  of 
Holyoke. 

H.  H.  Melcher  claims  to  be  the  champion  brief 
visitor  of  the  United  States  Army.  He  received 
his  commission  as  second  lieutenant  and  was  in 
France  only  25  days;  then  the  Germans  called  off 
the  war  and  he  came  home.  He  is  now  with  Merrill, 
Lynch  &  Co.,  an  Investment  House  in  New  Y'ork 
City. 

A  S.  Romer  on  his  return  from  France,  where  he 
received  his  second  lieutenancy,  has  been  studying 
biology  at  Columbia  University. 

D.  E.  Temple,  after  recovering  from  a  severe 
attack  of  pneumonia  and  pleurisy,  secured  a  posi- 
tion with  the  Japanese  Tissue  Paper  Mills  of  Hol- 
yoke. He  is  efficiency  man  and  also  doing  consider- 
able cost-finding  work. 

J.  L.  Whitcomb  is  now  with  the  T.  .\.  Scott  Co., 
Marine  Contractors,  New  London,  Conn.  His 
address  is  130  Rivervicw  x\ve..  New  London,  Conn. 

M.  R.  Yawger  is  with  Newson  &  Co.,  73  Fifth 
Ave.,  New  York  ('ity. 

Announcement  is  made  of  the  engagement  of 
Miss  Alice  Gilbert  Smith,  daughter  of  Mr.  amd  Mrs. 
J.  Foster  Smith  of  Salem,  and  William  Fitch  Loomis, 
a  son  of  Jutlge  Klilni  Loomis,  "74.  Miss  Smith  is  a 
graduate  of  Smith  College,  class  of  1919. 

J.  Freeman  Swett  has  been  elected  Secretary  of 
the  Amherst  Alumni  Association  of  Boston. 

Ralph  E.  De  Castro  had  an  article  recently  in  the 
magazine  section  of  the  i\vw  York  Times,  entitled 
"Roving  Eyes  of  the  Infantry." 


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Osbiirn  Whitney  Brown  died  of  pneumonia, 
following  influenza,  Nov.  11,  1918,  in  Ben  Avon,  Pa. 
He  was  born  in  Pittsburgli,  Feb.  25,  1895,  the  son 
of  George  L.  and  Louise  A.  (Osborn)  Brown.  He 
was  fitted  for  college  at  East  Liberty  Academy, 
Pittsburgh. 

After  graduation  from  Amherst  he  was  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  Marshall  Foundry  Company, 
Pittsburgh,   until  his  death. 

He  was  married  Oct.  9,  1918,  to  Mary  A., 
daughter  of  Frank  M.  Howard  of  Bellevue,  Pa., 
who  survives  him. 

1918 

Robert  P.  Kelsey,  Secretary, 
122  South  Michigan  Boulevard,  Chicago,  111. 
At  John's  Episcopal  Church  in  Newtonville 
Mass.,  on  Saturday,  June  28th,  occurred  the  mar- 
riage of  Gorham  Lament  Cross  and  Miss  Margaret 
Moore  Warren,  Smith  '19,  and  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Willard  C.  Warren  of  West  Newton. 
T.  Theodore  Cross,  '15,  acted  as  best  man,  and  the 
ushers  included  Raymond  G.  Bemis,  '18,  John  G. 
Gibson,  2d,  '19,  and  Delos  S.  Otis,  '20. 

Donald  Marshall,  having  been  discharged  from 
the  service,  has  accepted  a  position  as  manager  of 
the  receiving  department  of  the  G.  H.  Bass  Shoe 
Company  at  Wilton,  Maine. 

1919 

Walter  K.  Belknap,  Secretary, 
160  Grand  St.,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
John  Gough  Howard  lost  his  life  at  sea  off  Prov- 
incetown,  Mass.,  on  April  25,  1919,  when  his  sea- 
plane was  forced  to  settle  from  engine  trouble 
in  a  heavy  sea.  Howard  was  an  ensign  in  Naval 
Aviation  at  Chatham,  and  with  a  Lieutenant  had 


made  a  flight  over  the  marching  Yankee  Division 
in  Boston.  The  seaplane  was  returning  after  tak- 
ing part  in  this  demonstration  and  the  first  word 
that  they  were  in  trouble  was  received  by  wireless, 
saying  that  the  failure  of  the  engine  had  forced  them 
to  land  on  the  water  half  way  between  Plymouth 
and  Provincetown.  There  was  a  very  heavy  sea  at 
the  time,  but  patrol  boats  were  sent  out  at  once. 
They  were  unable  to  locate  the  flyers,  but  on  April 
30th,  a  fisherman  brought  to  Provincetown  a 
leather  flying  suit  and  a  pair  of  goggles  which  are 
believed  to  have  been  worn  by  Ensign  Howard. 
The  clothing  was  picked  up  about  seven  miles 
from  Race  Point,  and  officials  said  that  the  flyers 
probably  discarded  their  heavy  clothing  when  the 
machine  broke  up,  in  the  hope  of  being  able  to 
keep  afloat  until  they  could  reach  shore.  It  was 
some  time  before  the  naval  authorities  gave  up 
hope.     The  bodies  were  not  recovered. 

Ensign  Howard  was  one  of  the  best  known  men 
in  Amherst.  At  the  end  of  his  junior  year,  he  left 
to  go  into  training  for  Naval  Aviation  and  was 
stationed  in  Pensacola,  Florida,  and  later  in  Chat- 
ham, Mass.  He  won  the  Kellogg  Prize  Speaking 
contest  in  his  freshman  year.  He  was  chairman  of 
the  Membership  Committee  of  the  Christian  Asso- 
ciation, Managing  and  Associate  Editor  of  the 
Student,  a  member  of  the  Student  Council,  Manager 
of  the  Press  Bureau,  and  Secretary  of  the  Student's 
Association  1917-1918.  Ensign  Howard  was  a 
member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Fraternity. 

His  home  was  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  prepared  for  college  at  the  West  High  School. 
He  was  the  son  of  Clinton  N.  and  Angeline  M. 
(Keller)    Howard. 

Leavitt  Duane  Hallock  was  married  on  May  1st 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  P.  Stevens,  of  Appleton,  Wis. 
The  bride  is  a  graduate  of  Smith  College,  Class  of  '16. 


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Abbreviations  used: 

A.  A.  F.  S. — American  Ambulance  Field  Service 
Adv.  Gen.  Dept. — Advocate  General's  Department 
A.  S. — Air  Service 

A.  S.  A.  P. — Air  Service,  Aircraft  Production 
A.  S.  M.  A. — Air  Service  Military  Aeronautics 
A.  S.    S.  C. — Air  Service  Signal  Corps 

C.  A.  C. — Coast  Artillery  Corps 

C.  E.  F. — Canadian  Expeditionary  Forces 

C.  P.  O.— Chief  Petty  Officer 

C.  W.  S. — Chemical  Warfare  Service 

D.  B. — Depot  Brigade 

Engrs. — Engineers 

E^R.  O. — Electrician  2d  class,  Radio  Operator 

F.  A. — Field  Artillery 

F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S.— Field  Artillery  Central  Officers 
Training  School 

Hdqrs. — Headquarters 


Inf. — Infantry 

J.  G. — Junior  Grade 

M.  C. — Medical  Corps 

M.  E.  R.  C. — Medical  Enlisted  Reserve  Corps 

M.  G.  Bn.— Machine  Gun  Battalion 

M.  G.  T.  C. — Machine  Gun  Training  Corps 

Mar.  C. — Marine  Corps 

M.  T.  C. — Motor  Transport  Corps 

Ord.  Dept. — Ordnance  Department 

P.  H.  S.— Public  Health  Service 

Q.  M.  C. — Quartermaster  Corps 

San.  C. — Sanitary  Corps 

S.  C. — Signal  Corps 

S.  O.  S. — Service  of  Supply 

U.  S.  A.  A.  S. — United    States    Army    Ambulance 

Service 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F.— United  States  Naval  Reserve  Force 


ROLL  OF  HONOR 

(Up  to  July  1,  1919) 

Harry  Albert  Bullock,  '99,  Captain,  Q.  M.  C. 
Killed  in  France  by  an  aerial  bomb.  May  30,  1918. 

Howard  William  Irwin, '02,  Captain,  118th  Engineers. 
Died  in  France  of  pneumonia,  January  6,  1919. 

Kenneth  Rouse  Otis,  '04,  Sapper,  Canadian  Over- 
seas Railway  Construction  Corps. 
Died  in  France  of  influenza,  November  28,  1918. 

Robert  Harry  Scott,  '07,  1st  Lieutenant  U.S.N.R.F. 
Died  at  Peekskill,  N.  Y.  of  pneumonia,  October 
15,  1918. 

Charles  Putnam  Searle,  '07,  Major,  Judge  Advocate 
General's  Office. 
Died  of  ptomaine  poisoning,  January  10,  1919. 

Robert    Belville    Woodbury,    '08,    1st    Lieutenant 
Company  A,  111th  Inf. 
Killed  in  France,  August  9,  1918. 

Gordon  Robert  Hall,  '09,  2d  Lieutenant,  308th  F.  A. 
Died   in  France  of  wounds   received   in  action, 
September  18,  1918. 

Albert  Beebe  Houghton,  '09,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Died  of  pneumonia,  March  7,  1919. 

Clifford     Bateman    Ballard,     '11,    2d    Lieutenant 
33»th  Inf. 
Killed  in  action  in  Russia,  February  7,  1919. 

Isadore  David  Levy,  '11,  Pvt.  152d  Depot  Brigade. 
Died  at  Camp  Upton  of  pneumonia,  September 
27,    1918. 


George  Littleton  Dawson,  '12,  Pvt.  Camp  Person- 
nel Adjutants'  Detachment. 
Died  at  Camp  Lee  of  influenza,  October  19,  1918. 

Harris  Losee  Haight,  '12,  312th  Inf. 

Died  in  France  of  pneumonia,  November  1,  1918. 

William  Stewart  Lahey,  '12,  1st  Lieutenant,  311th 
Inf. 
Died   in   France   of  wounds   received   in   action 
October  31,   1918. 

Frank  Janvier  McFarland,  '12,  Sergeant,  30.5th  F.  A. 
Killed  in  railroad  accident  at  Camp  Upton,  Octo- 
ber 30,  1917. 

Ralph   Norton   Dawes,    '13,   Musician,    104th   Inf. 
Band. 
Killed  in  railroad  accident  in  France,  December 
5,    1918. 

Douglas  Urquhart,  '13,  Sergeant,  104th  Inf. 

Died   in   France  of  wounds   received   in  action, 
July  29,   1918. 

Frank  Christopher  Brough,  '14,  6th  llegt.  Marine 
Corps. 
Died  in  France  of  wounds  received  in  action,  July 
23,  1918. 

Merrill  Stanton  Gaunt,  "14,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 

Died    in    France    of    cerebro-spinal    meningitis, 
March  30,  191G. 

Robert  Clinton  Ilanford,  '14,  311th  Inf. 

Died   in   France  of  wounds  received  in  action, 
October  25,   1918. 


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Austin  Herman  Hersh,   "14,   Musician,   116th  Inf. 
Band. 
Killed  in  action,  October  23,  1918. 

Daniel  Stevenson  Smart,  '14,   1st  Lieutenant  and 
Chaplain.  328th  Inf. 
Killed  in  action,  October  lo,  1918. 

Walton  Kimball  Smith,   "H,  Cadet,  Royal  Flying 
Corps. 
Killed  in  aeroplane  accident  in  England,  Julv  16, 
1918. 

Thomas  Williams  Ashley,  (2d  Lieutenant,  5th  Regt. 
Marine    Corps. 
Killed  in  action,  June  7,  1918. 

Robert   Swift   Gillett,    '16,    1st   Lieutenant,    191st 
Aero  Squadron. 
Killed  at  Kingsville,  Tex.,  by  fall  from  aeroplane, 
September   17,    1918. 

Wallace  Minot  Leonard,  Jr.,  '16,   1st  Lieutenant, 
6th  Reg.  Marine  Corps. 
Died  at  Camp  Sherman  of  pneumonia,  Decem- 
ber 11,   1918. 

Roger  Conant  Perkins,  '17,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation. 
Killed  at  Key  West,  Fla..  by  fall  from  a  hydro- 
plane, March  13,  1918. 

Thomas  Bradford  Boardman,  '18,  2d  Lieutenant, 
12th  F.  A. 
Died   at   Camp  Taylor  of  pneumonia,   October 
23,    1918. 

Charles  Wesley  Chapman,  Jr.,  '18,  2d  Lieutenant, 
^_A.  S.S.  C. 
Killed  in  France  in  combat  with  enemy  mono- 
plane.  May  3,   1918. 

Morrill    Holden    Parkhurst,    '18,    Pvt.    303d    Bn., 
Tank  Corps. 
Died  in  England  of  pneumonia,  October  12,  1918. 

John  Gough  Howard,  '19,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation. 
Lost  at  sea,  April  26,  1919. 

Henry  Martin  Young,  '20,  2d  Lieutenant,  Air  Ser- 
vice. 
Died  at  Dallas,  Tex.,  of  pneumonia,  December 
14,    1918. 

Harold  Elmer  Bradway,  '22,  S.  A.  T.  C. 

Died  at  Amherst  of  influenza,  October  8,  1918. 

Patrick  James  Curran,  '22,  S.  A.  T.  C. 

Died  at  Amherst  of  influenza,  December  9,  1918. 

Eldon  Bradford  Keith,  '02,  Member  United  States 
Labor   Commission. 
Died  in  London  of  pneumonia,  February  23,  1919- 

MILITARY  HONORS 

(Up  to  July  1,  1919) 

Dwight  W.  Morrow,  '95,  Member  American  Ship- 
ping Mission. 
Awarded  Distinguished  Service  Cross 

Gouverneur  H.  Boyer,  '0.3,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Awarded  the  British  Military  Cross. 


William  Hale,  Jr.,  '06,  Captain,  Can.  M.  C. 
Awarded  the  British  Military  Cross. 

Merrill  F.  Clarke,  '09,  S.  S.  U.  539. 
.\ warded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Stoddard  Lane,  '09,  Sergeant,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded   the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Edward  H.  Sudbury,  '09,  1st  Lieutenant,  1.5th  Art. 
Regiment  cited  for  bravery. 

William  F.  Corry,  '11,  S.  S.  U.  631. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Roger  W.  Birdseye,    12,  1st  Lieutenant,  C.  E.  F. 
Awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross. 

Louis  G.  Caldwell,  '13,  Lieutenant,  13th  Regt.  Art. 
Section  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Donald  H.  Brown,  '14,  1st  Lieutenant,  2d  Div. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Merrill  S.  Gaunt,  '14,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Charles  H.  Moulton,  '14,  103d  F.  A. 
Cited  for  bravery. 

John  O.  Out  water,  '14,  Captain,  369th  Inf. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Charles  P.  Rugg,  '14,  1st  Lieutenant,  102d  Inf. 
Cited  for  bravery  and  recommended  for  Distin- 
guished Service   Cross. 

Ralph  W.  Whipple,  '14,  S.  S.  U.  539. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Richardson  Pratt,  '15,  1st  Lieutenant,  369th  Inf. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Wallace  M.  Leonard,  '16,  6th  Reg.  Mar.  C. 
Awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Frank  R.  Otte,  "16,  1st  Lieutenant,  167th  Inf. 
Regiment  cited  for  bravery. 

Craig  P.  Cochrane,  '17,  Captain,  9th  M.  G.  Bn. 
Regiment  cited  for  bravery. 

Laurance  M.  McCague,  '17,  S.  S.  U.  621 
Section  received  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

William  F.  Loomis,  '17,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Richard  A.  O'Brien,  '17,  Sergeant,  103d  Ammuni- 
tion Train. 
Regiment  cited  for  bravery. 

Paul  H.  Plough,  '17,  1st  Lieutenant.  38th  Inf. 
Regiment  cited  for  bravery. 

Raymond  T.  Ross,  '17,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Joseph  F.  Vielbig,  '17,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Theodore  L.  Widmayer,  Jr.,  '17,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 


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Albert  AV.  Bailey,  '18,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Franklin  C.  Butler,  '18,  Sergeant,  103d  F.  A. 
Regiment  cited  for  bravery. 

Charles  W.  Chapman,  '18,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross. 

Ralph  E.  DeCastro,  '18,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Awarded  the  Distinguished  Service  Cross. 

James  B.  Evans,  '18,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

William  G.  Rogers,  "18,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Cited    for    Bravery. 

Chester  G.  Seamans,  "18,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Paul  H.  Ballou,  '19,  S.  S.  U.  64 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

William  A.  Burnett,  '19,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Charles  R.  Chase,  '19,. S.  S.  U.  636 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

John  R.  Cotton,  '19,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Laurence  L.  Donahue,  '19,  S.  S.  U.  627 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Arthur  E.  Hazeldine,  '19,  S.  S.  U.  621 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Donald  G.  Mitchell,  '19,  Sergeant,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

John  A.  G.  Savoy,  '19,  S.  S.  U.  621 
Section  awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Frederic  L.  Yarrington,  '19,  S.  S.  U.  621 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Grant  A.  Goebel,  '20,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Hutton  Hinch,  "20,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

William  C.  McFeely,  '20,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 

Sherman  D.  Shipman,  '20,  S.  S.  U.  539 
Awarded  the  Croix  de  Guerre. 


ARMY  AND  NAVY 

Class  of  1879 
Boynton,  Xehemiah,  Chaplain,  13tli  Reg.,  C  A.  C. 
Marvine,  Walter,  Chajjlain,  C.  A.  C. 

Class  of  1882 
Bellows,  George  E.,  Captain,  M.  C. 

Cl.\ss  of  1883 
Cushman,    Avery    F.,    Major,    Judge    Advocate's 

Department. 
Walker.  John  B.,  Col.,  M.  C.     (France) 


Class  of  1884 
Bridgman,   Burt   N.,   Captain,   British   M.   C.    (S. 
Africa) . 

Class  of  1885 
Breck,  Edward,  Lieutenant  Commdr.,  V.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

(Portugal) 
Prentice,  E.  Parmalee,  Major,  Ord.  Department. 

Class  of  1886 
SchaufHer,  William  G.,  Lieutenant  Col.,  M.  C. 
Smith,  Allan,  Col.,  M.  C.  (France) 

Class  of  1887 
Rogers,  Daniel  W.,  Major,  M.  C.  (France) 
Stevens,  Charles  B.,  Captain,  M.  C. 

Cl.\ss  of  1888 
Ewing,  James,   Contract  Surgeon,   Army  Medical 

Museum. 
Noyes,  William  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 

Class  of  1890 
Gilbert,  William  O.,  Col.  Judge  Adv.  Gen.  Depart- 
ment,   (France) 
Tenney,  Bernard  F.,  Q.  M.  C. 

Class  of  1891 
Abbe,  Frederick  R.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Jackson,  Thomas  W.,  Lieutenant  Col.  M.  C. 
Morse,  George  A.,  1st  Officer,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Prentice,  Sartell,  Jr.,  Lieutenant  &  Chaplain,  t.  S. 

A.    (France) 
Reeves,  Jesse  S.,  Major,  Judge  Adv.  Division. 
Upton,  Charles  L.,  Captain,  M.  C. 

Cl.\ss  of  1892 
Comstock,  Earl,  Captain,  Q.  M.  C. 
Waite,  Herbert  H.,  Contract  Surgeon. 
Washburn,  Frederick  A.,  Col.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Williams,  Harry  B.,  Major,  Q.  M.  C. 

Class  of  1893 
Bebee,  Edwin  L.,  Major,  M.  C. 
Cummings,  Frank  B.,  Lieutenant  Col.,   103d   Inf. 

(France) 
Hamilton,  George  L.,  Col.,  AL  C.  (France) 
Walker,  Robert  L,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 

Class  ok  1894 
Brown,  Warren  D.,  Captain,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Haskell,  Hans  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  ^L  C. 
Herrick,  Frederick  C,  Major,  M.  C.  (France) 
Kidder,  Pancoast,  Captain,  312th  Inf.  (France) 
Smith,  Luther  E.,  Captain,  F.  A. 

Class  of  1895 
Bryant,  Emmons,  Major,  Engr.  Corps,  (France) 
Critchlow,  (ieorge  R.,  Captain,  M.  C.  (France) 
Haven,  Sherman  W.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Osgood,  Robert  B.,  Lieutenant  Col..  M.  (".   (France) 


154 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Potter,  Palmer  A.,  Captain,  M.  C 

Roelker,  Alfred  E.,   Jr.,  Captain,  ;50jtli  M.  G.  Bn. 

(France) 
Rowley,  Alfred  M.,  M.  C.  (France) 

Class  of  1896 
Cauthers,  James  B.,  (2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Chase,  Aurin  M.,  Major,  Ord.  Department,  (France) 
Eastman,  Alexander  C.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Gates,   Merrill  E.,  Jr.,   1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

(France) 
Harkness,  Frank  E.,  Lieutenant,  Instructor  R.  O. 

T.  C. 
Olmstead,  Ernest  S.,  Lieutenant  Col.,  F.  A.  (France) 
Perry,  Edward  F.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Priddy,  John  E.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Stiger,  William  D.,  Captain,  Ord.  Dept. 

Class  of  1897 

Bradley,   George  G.,    1st  Lieutenant,   Ord.    Dept. 

(France) 
Burnette,  John  E.,  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Cobb,  Charles  W.,  Captain,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Emerson,  Benjamin  K.,  Major,  M.  C.  (France) 
Gates,  William  B.,  Lieutenant  &  Chaplain,  330th 

Inf. 
Grosvenor,  Edwin  P.,  Captain,  Office  of  Chief  of 

Staff. 
Jackson,  Jerome  P.,  Captain,  Engrs.  (France) 
Moses,  Henry  M.,  Lieutenant  Col.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Polk,  Harry  H.,  Major,  ITGth  Inf.  (France) 

Class  of  1898 
Eddy,  Walter  H.,  Captain,  San.  C.  (France) 
Foster,  Nellis  B.,  Lieutenant  Col.,  M.  C. 
Goddard,  Frederick  W.,  Captain,  54th  F.  A. 
Lyall,  Earl  H.,  Captain,  Engrs.  (France) 
Mossman,  Albert,  Major,  30th  Ky,  C.  A.  C. 
Rice,  Robert  A.,  Captain,  M.  C. 

Class  of  1899 
DeWitt,   Charles  I.,  Lieutenant  ('ol.,  Ord.   Dept. 
Graves,  James  C,  Jr.,  Major,  M.  C.  (France) 
Griffin,  Walter  H.,  Major,  8th  Inf. 
Hitchcock,  Edward  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  S.  S.  U.  588 

(France) 
Hutchins,  Henry  T.,  Major,  M.  C. 
Miller,    Robert   T.,    Jr.,    Lieutenant    Col.,    M.    C. 

(France) 
Rogers,  David  C,  Cai)tain,  San.  C. 

Class  of  1900 
Connor,  James  F.,  Lieutenant  Commdr.,  I'.  S.  N. 
Hammond,  Thomas  J.,  Major,  104th  Inf.  (France) 
Kimball,  Cleaveland  C,  Lieutenant  Commdr.  L .  S. 

N.  R.  F.,  M.  C. 
Righter,  Walter  L.,  Major,  Art. 
Royse,  Samuel  D.,  Major,  39th  M.  G.  Bn. 


Class  of  1901 
Ballantine,  William  D.,  Major,  Q.  M.  C. 
Barnum,  Francis  G.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Buffum,  Edwin  C,   Corp.   106th  F.   A.,   (France) 
Butler,  Bradford,  Major,  Judge  Adv.  Dept.  (France) 
Goodell,  William,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Goodrich,  Nathaniel  L.,  Captain,  General  Staff. 
Hatch,    William    S.,    Captain,    307th    Ammunition 

Train    (France) 
Herrick,  John  R.,  Captain,  M.  C.  (France) 
Hunt,  Albert  W.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Hurty,  Gilbert  J.,  Major,  San.  C. 
Mathews,  Charles  E.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Interpreters 

Corps. 

Moore,  Harry  V.   D.,  Lieutenant   Col.,  57th   Inf. 

(France) 
Proctor,  Thomas,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Rushmore,  William  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Class  of  1902 
Allen,  Fred  H.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Anderson,  Charles  W.,  Jr.,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France) 
Anderson,  Wilber  A.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Barber,  Harry  C,  Pvt.  33d  Engrs.  (France) 
Clarke,  William  D.,  Captain,  23d  Engrs.  (France) 
Jones,  Isaac  H.,  Lieutenant  Col.,  M.  C,  A.  S. 
Livingston,  James  A.,  Major,  M.  C.  (France) 
Pierce,    Jason    N.,   Senior   Chaplain,   2d    Division 

(France) 
Van  Siclen,  Matthew,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Taylor.  Howard  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  ,303d  Ammuni- 
tion Train. 

Class  of  1903 
Bartlett,  Draper,  4th  Observation  Battery. 
Boyer,  Gouverneur  H.,  Captain  M.  C.  (France) 
Burg,  Chester,  Captain,  Q.  M.  C. 
Burke,  Thomas  F.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Gushing,  Arthur  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Hayes,  Joseph  W.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Gould,  Henry  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  C.  A.  C. 
Jones,  Raymond  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Interpreters 

Corps. 
Phalen,  Paul  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Shearer,  Frederick  W.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Stearns,  Foster  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  16th  Inf. 
Stone,  Frederick  N.,  C.  A.  C. 
Wells,  John  M.,  Lieutenant  &  Chaplain,  Inf. 

Cl.\ss  of  1904 
Baumann,  .\lbert  O.,  Captain,  147th  Inf.  (France) 
Bishop,  Merrill,  S.  C. 
Browne,  Evans,  1st  Lieutenant,  Motor  Transport 

Corps 
Chase,  Heman  B.,  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Eveleth,  Samuel  C,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Gray,  Harry  G.,  Chaplain. 


AMHERST  MEN  IN  THE  NATIONAL  SERVICE 


Lund,  H.  Gardner,  1st  Lieutenant,  10-lth  Inf. 
Marquis,  Charles  A.,  Lieutenant,  138th  Inf. 
Paine,  John  C,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Pond,  George  K.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Smith,  Gordon  C,  Captain,  Engrs. 
Symington,  Donald,  Captain,  Ord.  Dept. 
Turner,  Paul  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 

Cl.\ss  of  1905 
Fort,  Leslie  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Adj.  Gen.  Dept. 
Fuess,  Claude  M.,  Major,  Q.  M.  C. 
Hewitt,  Ralph  H.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Holmes,  Vancleve,  Major,  Inf. 
Judge,  Francis  J.,  1st  Lieutenant,  N.  A. 
Mcintosh,  Kenneth  C,  Lieutenant  Commdr.  Pay. 

Corps,  U.  S.  N. 
Palmer,  W.  Walter,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Ryan,  Elmer  E.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.   (Engineer 

Officer) 

Cl.\ss  of  1906 
Atwood,  Roy  L.,  Captain,  Inspector  Gen.  Dept. 
Bale,  Frederick  S.,  Captain,  C.  W.  S. 
Browne,  Edward  K.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Curran,  John  J.,  Sergeant,  Mar.  C. 
Draper,  Ernest  G.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Draper,  Warren  F.,  Past  Asst.  Surgeon,  P.  H.  S. 
Durban,  Edward  M.,  1st  Lieutenant,  156th  D.  B. 
Foster,  Norman  P.,  Captain,  Q.  M.  C. 
Hale,  William,  Jr.,  Captain,  M.  C.  (France) 
Hamilton,  James  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  San  C.  (France) 
Powell,  Robert  C,  Captain,  318th  Inf. 
Priddy,  Vern,  Captain,  Ord.  Dept.  (France) 
Remington,  Harold,  Captain,  350th  F.  A. 
Ward.  Mark  H.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Worcester,  James  N.,  Major,  M.  C.  (France) 

Cl.\ss  of  1907 

Boynton,  Edward  C,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  &  Chaplain, 
U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Deroin,  Frank  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  301st  M.  G.  Bn. 
(France) 

Everett,  Lewis  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Oth  Reg.  Mar.  C. 

Irvan,  John  L.,  Pvt.  Tank  Corps,  (France) 

Jones,  R.  Jewett,  1st  Lieutenant,  110th  Annnuni- 
tion  Train. 

Jones,  Wilkins,  Captain,  Inf. 

Lewis,  Frank  E.,  Captain,  M.  C.  (France) 

Morton,  John  J.,  Major,  M.  C. 

Pond,    Walter  F.,    Captain,   30th   Engrs.    (France) 

Powell,  Chilton  L.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Military  Intel- 
ligence Dept. 

Sheehan,  Daniel  F.,  Isl  ]>iciitcnant,  Orel.  Dept. 
(France)  ) 
laude  T.,  Lieutenant,  (Senior  Grade 
Civil  Engr.  Corps,  U.  S.  N. 

Class  of  1908 
Black,  Lyman  F.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 


Conkling,  Roscoe,  Lieutenant  Col.,  Provost  Mar- 
shal  Gen.   Office. 

Connell,  Edgar  W.,  Captain,  Tank  Corps. 

Bonney,  Holbrook,  Captain,  347th  F.  A. 

Burt,  Philip  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 

Crary,  James  H.,  Instructor  of  machinery,  U.  S.  N. 

Elsey,  George  C,  Major,  18th  Inf. 

Fleming,  James  P.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Gibson,  Kenneth  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Motor  Trans- 
port  Corps. 

Graves,  Merle  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Jones,  Daniel  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  A.  P. 

Jones,  Hildeburn,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Keith,  Harold  C,  Captain,  Q.  M.  C. 

Kennedy,  Robert  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 

Loomis,  Ralph  L.,  Ensign  Naval  Aviation. 

Marcus,  Chapin,  Captain,  155th  F.  A.  (France) 

Marshall,  John  E.,  1st  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Merrill,  Charles  E.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 

Post,  M.  Hayward,  Captain,  M.  C.  (France) 

Powell,  Paul  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  A.  P. 

Shattuck,  Maxwell,  2d  Lieutenant,  349th  F.  A. 

Shute,  Kenneth  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  303d  F.  A. 

Sleeper,  James  T.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Stearns,  A.  Maynard,  1st  Lieutenant,  C.  W.  S. 
(France) 

Washburn,  William  Ives,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  334th 

Bn.,  Tank  Corps 
Welles,  Paul,  Captain,  S.  C.  (France) 
Wolff,  Stanley  L.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Young,  Henry  N.,  Engrs.  O.  T.  C. 

Clas.s  of  1909 
Allen,  Henry  B.,  Captain,  Ord.  Dept.  (France) 
Blanchard,  Alden  H.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Bolt,  Edward  J.,  Sergeant,  U.  S.  M.  C. 
Bush,  Asahel,  Jr.,  Lieutenant,  (France) 
Butts,  F.  Marsjena,  Captain,  Ord.  Dept. 
Carey,  Walter,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Case,  Cyrus  A.,  Lieutenant,  Mar.  C.     (France) 
Chandler,  Charles  P.,  Captain,  M.  C.  (France) 
Chapin,  Edward  L.,  1st  Lieutenant,  S.  C.  (France) 
Chapin,  Robert,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Clarke,  Merrill  F.,  S.  S.  IT.  539  (France) 
Colebrook,  Maus  W.,  Lieutenant,  Ord.   Dept. 
Dickinson,  E.  Pope,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Dowd,  George,  1st  Lieutenant,  301st  F.  A. 
Dyer,  Edward  L.,  Major,  C.  A.  C.  (France) 
Eldred,  Allen  D.,  Inf. 
Foster,  Elliot  O.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
(ioodnow,  David  F.,  Lieutenant,  San.  C. 
Hamilton,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  M.  C. 
Hatch,  Charles  U.,  Sergeant,  M.  C. 
Helmlioltz,  Vogel  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
llickey.  Tliomas  H.,  Corp.  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 
Hill,  William  E.,  Pvt.  472(1  Engrs. 


156 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Jamieson,  Joseph  B.,  Captain,  Ord.,  Engr.  Section 

Jones,  C.  Clothier,  Captain,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Jones,  Wilbur  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  A.  P. 

Koomey,  Levon  H.,  Engrs.  (France) 

Lane,  Stoddard,  Sergeant,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 

MacCammon,  J.  Marshall,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  A. 

P. 
McVaugh,    Keith,    1st    Lieutenant,    304th    F.    A. 

(France) 
Mayo-Smith,  Richmond,  Lieutenant-Col.,  C.  W.  S. 
Mellen,    Harrison    W.,    Sergeant,    Hdqrs.    Troop, 

26th  Division,  (France) 
Nash,  Percival  D.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Pierce,  Albert  F.,  Jr.,  Sergeant  M.  C.  (France) 
Pratt,  Theodore,  Captain,  Ord.  Dept. 
Quinn,  John  R.,  Jr.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Rayner,  Charles  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Sudbury,   Edward   H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  loth   Reg. 

Art.   (France) 
\'ollmer,  William  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  306th  F.  A. 

(France) 
Wright,  David  S.,  Inf. 
Wright,    William   H.,    1st   Lieutenant,    168th    Inf. 

(France) 

Class  of  1910 

Ailing,  Robert  B.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Amos,  Lindsay,  1st  Lieutenant,  309th  F.  A.,  (France) 

Bardwell,  Harold  E.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
(France) 

Barton,  Charles  W.,  Chief,  Q.  M.  Naval  Aviation 

Bedford,  Edward  T.,  1st  Lieutenant,  San.  C. 

Bennett,  Philip  T.,  L.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Bisbee,  Joseph  B.,  Jr.,  Captain,  Inf. 

Boynton,  Morrison  R.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  Chap- 
lain Corps,  U.  S.  N. 

Cragin,  Horace  S.,  Asst.  Surgeon,  U.  S.  N. 

Drewsen,  Pierre,  Major,  Inf.  (France) 

Fink,  J.  Scott,  U.  S.  N. 

(iardner,  Raymond  F.,  Cadet,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

(iildersleeve,   Donald   M.,    1st  Lieutenant,   M.   C. 
(France) 

Goodnow,  Weston  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 

Hall,  Bartow  H.,  Captain,  6th  F.  A.  (France) 

Harris,  E.  Preble,  Tank  Corps 

Harris,  Herbert  B.,   Reg.  Sergeant,   Major  M.  G. 
T.   C. 

Hood,  Robert  H.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Jacobus,  Graham  B.,  1st  Lieutenant  49th  Inf. 

Jiibe,  Albert  R.,  U.  S.  N. 

Knight,  Frederick  S.,  42d  Inf. 

Ladd,  William  S.,  1st  M.  C. 

McAdam,  S.  Edward,  Ensign,  Pay  Corps,  U.  S. 
N.  R.  F. 

Maclnnis,  Murdock  N.,  2d  Lieutenant  Inf. 

McClure,  Lawrence  L.,  Army 

Marsh,  William  R.,  Captain  36th  Art.,  C.  A.  C. 


Merchant,  Mylon  D.,  Captain,  Chaplains  Corps, 

U.  S.  A. 
Morrison,  Stuart  T.  B.,  Naval  Air  Service 
Murray,  Robert  C,  M.  C. 
Porter,  John  Jr.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Pratt,  Sterling  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Schellenberg,  Bertram  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M. 

A.    (France) 
Seligman,  Eustace,  Captain,  2d  Reg.  F.  A. 
Taylor,  George  B.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Tucker,   Kenneth   T.,    1st   Lieutenant,   307tli    Inf. 

(France) 
Turner,  Charles  W.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Warner,  John  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  16th  Inf.  (France) 
Wheeler,  Raymond  P.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Cl.\ss  of  1911 
Abele,  Richard,  Major,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 
Baldwin,  Norman  L.,  Captain,  35th  Inf. 
Brainerd,  G.  Winthrop,  Sergeant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Campbell,   C.   Colfax,    1st   Lieutenant,   309th   Inf. 

(France) 
Chapin,  Chester  F.,  318th  F.  A. 
Corry,  William  F.,  S.  S.  U.  631 
Cranshaw,  Harold  B.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Creesy,  Morton  R.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Davenport,  Everett  B.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Delatour,    Beeckman    J.,    1st    Lieutenant,    M.    C. 

(France) 
Denton,  Horace  R.,  Major,  67th  F.  A.  (France) 
Doolittle,  William  P.  S.,  Captain,  307th  Inf. 
Elder,  Frank  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  320th  Signal  Bn. 

(France) 
Fish,  Gordon  T.,  2d  Lieutenant,  301st  Inf.  (France) 
George,  Robert  H.,  Captain,  304th  Inf.  (France) 
Gormley,  Arthur  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Ord.  Dept. 
Higgs,  Charles  D.,  V.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hine,  Robert  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  A.  P. 
Hofler,  Alfred  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Jacobs,  Paul  C,  E2.  R.  O.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Kane,  Leo,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Keyes,  John  IL,  2d  Lieutenant,  10th  Engrs.  (France) 
Lilienthal,  Philip  N.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Loomis,    Hubart   H.,    2d   Lieutenant,    101st    F.    A. 

(France) 
Lord,  Herbert  (i.,  Jr.,  Captain,  Ord.  Dept.  (France) 
McBride,  George  H.,  Captain,  C.  W.  S. 
Marsh,  Edward  H.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Marvin,  Campbell,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Myers,  Robert  E.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Parks,  George  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Intelligence  Sec. 

(France) 
Patterson,    Arthur   I).,    Major,    802d    Pioneer   Inf. 

(France) 
Patti.son,  A.  Eugene,  Inf. 
Pennock,  Eugene  R.,  Naval  Aviation 
Pohl,  Frederick  J.,  Sergeant,  M.  C. 


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157 


Post,  James  W.,  Army 

Pushee,  Roy  E.,  ^d  Lieutenant,  M.  G. 

Radcliffe,  Vernon,  Photographic  Div.  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Raynor,  Harold  M.,  Major  Gen.,  War  Staff 

Riker,  Joseph  M.  Jr.,  Q.  M.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Roberts,  Harold  C,  A.  S.  M.  A. 

Rugg,  Charles  B..  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Scandrett,  Richard,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 

Schadel,  Samuel,  Army 

Scrymgeour,  Clarence  H.,  Sl^th  Inf. 

Seelye,    Laurens    H.,    1st    Lieutenant,    Chaplain's 

Corps,  U.  S.  A. 
Shumway,  Waldo,  1st  Lieutenant,  103d  Inf.  (France) 
Smith,  Donald  P.,  Asst.  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Smith,  G.  Gifford,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Walbridge,  Arthur  H.,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Weathers,  Brantley  A.,  Jr.,  Major,  Q.  M.  C. 
Wood,  Lawrence,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 
W^oodside,  William  S.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Wyckoff,  Ralph  S.,  Corp.  303d  Inf. 
Young,  Donnell  B.,  Pvt.,  M.  C. 

Class  of  1912 
Atwater,  William  C,  Yeo.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bacon,  Howard  R.,  Captain,  153d  D.  B. 
Banfield,  Everett  C,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Barton,  Fred  B.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Birdseye,    Roger    W.,    1st    Lieutenant,    C.    E.    F. 

(France) 
Brock,  Roland  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Bronaugh,  Lewis  J.,  Pvt.  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  (France) 
Burt,  Wilbur  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  11th  Engr.  (France) 
Bussom,  Thomas  W.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Carlin,    George    A.,    Sergeant,    1st    Army    Hdqrs. 

(France) 

deChasseaud,  H.  Gordon,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Cook,  Allan  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  19th  Inf. 
Crandall,  Harold  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Dann,  Harry  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  119th  Inf. 
Gaynor,  Rufus,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France) 
Gideon,  Reinhart  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  25th  F.  A. 
Gregory,  Ernest,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N. 
Heavens,  Ralph,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hubbard,  Claude,  2d  Lieutenant,  24th  Inf. 
Huszagh,  Victor  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Jones,  Levi  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  151st  D.  B. 
Jonnes,  Lloyd,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Knapp,  Benjamin  F.,   1st  Lieutenant,   18th  F.  A. 

(France) 
Levy,  Maurice  J.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Lyon,  Arthur  B.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Madden,  John  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  302d  Inf. 

( France) 
Millett,  Frederick  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Miner,  Edward  C,  Corp.,  C.  W.  S. 
Moller,  Lester  J.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 


Mulvihill,  Frank  D.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 

Nichols,  George  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  341ith  Inf. 

Olds,  Leland,  Sergeant,  F.  A.  9th  Reg. 

Parsons,  DeWitt  H.,  Captain,  309th  Inf.  (France) 

Peacock,  Alfred  B.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G).  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Peirce,  Harry,  U.  S.  N. 

Perkins,  C.  Kingman,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  A.  S.  C. 

(France) 
Peters,  Reed  C,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Ramage,  Alfred  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Siegrist,   William  Jr.,    2d    Lieutenant,    112th   Inf. 

(France) 
Stiles,  Loren,  Jr.,  Oil  Instructor,  Q.  M.  C. 
Swanton,  Hobart  P.,  Lieutenant,  (S.  G.)  U.  S.  N. 
Thornton,  Irving  T.,  Captain,  Inf.  (France) 
Turner,  Philip  L.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Vernon,  Joseph  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  44tli  Balloon  Co. 

(France) 
VoUmer,  Edward  B.,  Naval  unit.  Base  Hospital  No. 

1.    (France) 
Vroom,  Clifford  H.,  Reg.  Sergeant  Major,  S.  O.  S. 

(France) 
Weis,  Herman,  342d  F.  A.  (France) 
Wellman,  Sargent  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf.  (France) 

Class  of  1913 

Allen,  Harold  G.,  2d  Lieutenant,  46th  C.  A.  C. 

(France) 
Atkinson,  Geoffrey,  1st  Lieutenant,  San.  C.  (France) 
Babbott,  Frank  L.,  Jr.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Bailey,  Charles  F.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bassett,  Preston  R.,  Engrs. 
Belden,  Horace  P.,  2d  Lieutenant,  29th  F.  A. 
Benedict,  C.  Chauncey,  2d  Lieutenant,  11th  Engr. 

(France) 
Bixby,  Harold  M.,  Balloon  Corps 
Brown,  Wayland  H.,   1st  Lieutenant,  333d  F.  A. 

(France) 
Caldwell,  Louis,  Lieutenant,  13th  Reg.  Art. 
Chapin,  Russell  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Ord.  Dept. 
Clapp,  George  E.,  29th  C.  A.  C. 
Cobb,  Samuel  H.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Cousins,  Thomas  F.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Coyle,  Walter  W..  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Creede,  Thomas  R.,  Jr.,  Major,  Q.  M.  C. 

(France) 
Crippen,  Ephraim  C,  Army 
Dickinson,  William  G.,  Captain,  M.  C. 
Ely,  Dwight  C,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Estabrook,  Benjamin  W.,  Captain,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Glessner,  Arthur  P.,  27th  Inf.  Siberia 
Good,  Paul  F.,  Ensign,  I'.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hager,    Richard    B.,    1st   Lieutenant,    115tii    F.   A. 

(France) 
Hamilton,  William  G.,  Ensign,  V.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Harding,  Howard  Cm.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Heinritz,  Frederick  J.,  Q.  M.  C. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Hopkins,  Carrol!  L.,  Ensign,  Pav  Corps,  U.  S.  N. 

R.  F. 
Hutc'hcns,  Harold,  M.  C.  (France) 
Jenkins,  Robert  A.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Keller,   F.   Carl,    1st   Lieutenant,   Medical  Supply 

Depot  (France) 
King,  John  L.,  Ensign,  V.  S.  X.  R.  F. 
Klingenfeld,  John  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Tank  Corps 
Knudson,  Edward  C,  Ensign,  Pav  Corps,  U.  S. 

X.   R.   F. 
Konold"  Herschel  S.,  Captain,  Inf. 
Ladd,  Charles  T.,  A.  S.  A.  P. 
Lathrop,  Carl  O.,  Lieutenant,  San.  C. 
Loomis,  Henry  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
McClure,  James  F.,  Sergeant,  Ord.  Dept. 
Macdonald,  James  F.,  Captain,  13th  Inf. 
Marquis,  John  B.,  Sergeant,  108th  Engr.  (France) 
Marsh,  Allison  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  42d  Inf. 
Martin,  James  G.,  Sergeant,  San.  C. 
Mealand,  Arthur  J.,  Jr.,  1st  Lieutenant,  322d  F.  A. 

(France) 
Miller,  Robert  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Mitchell,  John  H.,  Lst  Lieutenant,  C.  W.  S. 
Moore,  Walter  W.,  Captain,  51st  Inf.  (France) 
Morse,  Edward  S.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  X.  R.  F. 

Xoble,  Arthur  W.,  302d  Inf.  (France) 
Olds,  George  D.,  Jr.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  X"^. 

Parsons,  Charles  E.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 

Patten,  Kenneth  S.,  Tank  Corps 

Plough,  Harold  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  San.  C. 

Pope,  Russell,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf.  (France) 

Price,.  Clark  M.,  C.  W.  S. 

Pride,  Hammond,  Captain,   111th  Inf.   (France) 

Quill,  James  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  117th  F.  A.  (France) 

Radding,  Moses  B.,  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 

Robinson,  Gain,  1st  Lieutenant,  10th  F.  A.  (France) 

Rothberg,  Harvey  I.,  C.  P.  O.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Scatchard,  George,  1st  Lieutenant,  San.  C.  (France) 

Seaman,  James  A.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 

Smith,    Walter   W.,    Sergeant,    314th    M.    G.    Bn. 
(France) 

Sheriden,    Charles   F.,   Bn.   Sergeant   Major,   War 
Risk  Insurance  Det.  (France) 

Stelling,  Frank  P.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 

Stewart,  Lewis  M.,  Art.  Aviation 

Stilwell,  Lewis  D.,  Pvt.,  M.  C,  104th  F.  A.  (France) 

Stirn,  Albert  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 

Stone,  George  L.,  Q.  M.  C. 

Stone,  Xelson,  2d  Lieutenant,  6th  F.  A.  (France) 

Stout,  Robert  I.,  1st  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Tappin,  Clarence  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Thomas,  Walter  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 

Tilden,  James  A.  Jr.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Tuttle,  Miner  W.,  Sergt.  Judge  Adv.  Dept,  (France) 

Vance,  Clyde  F.,  Lieutenant,  308th  Inf.  (France) 

Wadhams,  Charles  H.,  Sergeant,  106th  M.  G.  Bn. 
(France) 


Warner,  Hunt,  2d  Lieutenant,  165th  Inf.  (France) 
Wesner,  Edwin,  Ensign,  U.  S.  X".  R.  F. 
Westcott,  Ralph  S.,  M.  C. 

Whitney,  William  H.,  Sergeant,  C.  W.  S.  (France) 
Wilcox,  Sanford  P.,  Sergeant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Wilcox,  William  J.,  Sergeant,  327th  Inf.   (France) 
Wilder,  Harry  C,  Major,  309th  F.  A. 
Willetts,    James    E.,  Captain,   117th    Ammunition 
Train  (France) 

Class  of  1914 

Averill,  Xorman  W.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Barton,  Raymond  G.,  Pvt.,  Inf. 

Beatty,  Joseph  J.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Bernero,  Frank  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  310th  Inf. 

Bliss,  Mervin  W.,2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.C.  (France) 

Brace,  Carleton  H.,  C.  W.  S. 

Buffington,  Kenneth,  103d  Signal  Bn.  (France) 

Bronk,  James  E.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S .  (France) 

Brown,   Donald  H.,   1st  Lieutenant,  2d  Division. 

Burdick,  Percy  J.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Butler,  Earle  D.,  Sergeant,  M.  C.  (France) 

Carpenter,  John  T.,  U.  S.  X.  R.  F. 

Child,  J.  R.,  A.  A.  S.  C. 

Clark,  Dwight  X.,  Captain,  Q.  M.  C. 

Cohn,  Edwin  J.,  1st  Lieutenant,  San,  C. 

Cowham,  Robert  X.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Creedon,  John  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Curtis,  Marvin  K.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 

Dana,  Lockwood  X".,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Darrin,  Ralph,  1st  Lieutenant,  Ord. 

DeBevoise,  Charles  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Deveau,  Louis  B.  Jr.,  Sergeant,  551st  Engrs. 

Dickson,  John  D.,  Lieutenant,  11th  Inf.  (France) 

Ferris,  Frank  H.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G).  Chaplain's 
Corps,  U.  S.  X. 

Finch,  Frank  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  M.  G.  Bn.  (France) 

Foddy,  George  R.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  A.  P. 

Glann,  Charles  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  302d  Field 
Signal  Bn.  (France) 

Glass,  F.  Everett,  San.  C.   (France) 

Hall,  Cecil  J.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf.  321st  Field  Sig- 
nal Bn. 

Hall,  Maynard  H.,  16th  F.  A.  (France) 

Hardy,  Paul  W.,  A.  S.  A.  P. 

Heald,  Stanley,  2d  Lieutenant,  303d  F.  A.  (France) 

Hickson,  Leslie  M.,  A.  S.  (France) 

Hubbard,  Silas  G.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Ord. 

Hubbard,  Theodore  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
(France) 

Huthsteiner,  Louis,  1st  Lieutenant,  307th  Inf. 
(France) 

Insley,  Herbert,  C.  W.  S. 

Jenkins,  A.  Sydney,  Pvt.,  472d  Engrs. 

Jewett,  Harold  E.,  2d  Lieutenant,  314th  F.  A. 
(France) 


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159 


Johnson.  Herbert  B.,  Lieutenant,  3U)th  Field  Sig- 
nal Bn.  (France) 

Kimball,  James  R.,  Sergeant,   M.  T.  C.  (France) 

Kimball,  Richard  M.,  Captain,  55th  Art.  C.  A.  C. 
(France) 

Livingstone,  Colin,  Captain,  348th  F.  A.  (France) 

McGay,  Walter  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Art. 

Mallon,  Alfred  E.,  29th  Engrs.  (France) 

Miller,  Tilford  W.,  Sergeant,  M.  C. 

Mills,  Charles  M.,  Lst  Lieutenant,  3d  Pioneer  Inf. 
(France) 

Moulton,  Charles  H.,  Pvt.  103d  F.  A.  (France) 

Murphy,  Robert  J.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Osterkamp,  Fritz  E.,  102d  Field  Signal  Bn.  (France) 

Outwater,  John  O.,  Captain,  369th  Inf.  (France) 

Patterson,  Thomas  K.,  C.  A.  C. 

Potter,  Walter  D.,  2d  Inf. 

Renfrew,  Franklin  W.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 

Richardson,  Burdick  N.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Ord.  Dept. 

Richmond,  Clinton  W.,  San.  C. 

Rugg,  Charles  P.,  1st  Lieutenant,  102d  Inf.  (France) 

Rugg,  Clarence  D.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Seymour,  Marlor  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Shaw,  Harold  E.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 

Shrewsbury,  Kenneth  O.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A- 

Shumway,  Lowell,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Stafford,  Fred  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  S.  C. 

Strahan,  John  W.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Suydam,  Frederick  D.,  1st  Lieutenant,  2d  F.  A. 

Tierney,  John  J.,  Sergeant,  Ord.  Dept.  (France) 

Van  Ingen,  Richard  S.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Washburn,  George  E.,  1st  Lieutenant,  34'9th  F.  A. 
(France) 

Whipple,  Ralph  W.,  Mechanic,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 

Whittemore, Ernest  A.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 

Williams,  Charles  W.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Wiltsie,  George  H.,  Jr.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Cl.^.ss  of  1915 

Agard,    Walter    R.,    Corp.    304th    Field    Hospital 

(France) 
Atwater,  John  J.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Babcock,  Ralph  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 

(France) 
Bacon,  Richard  H.,   1st  Lieutenant,   15th  F.   A. 

(France) 
Bancroft,  Richard,  2d  Lieutenant,  C.  A.  C. 
Banfield,  Richard,  1st  Lieutenant,  351st  Inf.  (France) 
Banta,  Kenneth  W.,  Captain,  44th  F.  A.  (France) 
Barnes,  W.  Gerald,  A.  S.  (France) 
Bangs,  Max  A.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Ord.  Uept.  (France) 
Bissenger,  Frederick  M.,  Corp.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Bonner,  Hampton,  153d  M.  G.  Bn.,  Mar.  C. 
Boucher,  Clarence  K.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Breckenridge,  Warren,  2d  Lieutenant,  344th  F.  A. 

(France) 
Burke,  Francis  J.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  (France) 


Cady,  Arnold,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 
Caldwell,  Kenneth  F.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Chapman,  Frederick  L.,  Jr.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  T.  C. 

(France) 
Clapperton,  George  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

(France) 
Cole,  J.  Gerald,  1st  Lieutenant,  56th  Art.  C.  A.  C. 

(France) 
Colton,  Kingsley  B.,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Cooper,  Raymond  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Craig,  James  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C.    (France) 
Cross,  J.  Theodore,  1st  Lieutenant,  307th  F.  A. 

(France) 
Cutler,  David  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  103d  Inf.  (France) 
Day,  Chester  S.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Eastman,  Gardner  P.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Eaton,  Louis  F.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.  )  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Fonda,  Harold  C,  Sergeant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Fuller,  Everett  W.,  1st  Lieutenant,  C.  W.  S.  (France) 
Fuller,  Randolph  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  106th  M.  G. 

Bn.  (France) 
Goodwin,  Arthur  P.,  Sergeant,  638th  Aero  Squadron 

(France) 
Greene,  Phillips  F.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Hall,  Gordon  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  C.  W.  S.  (France) 
Hamilton,  George  S.,  Mechanic,  S.S.U.556  (France) 
Harding,  George  C,  Sergeant,  M.  C. 
Heinritz,  Stuart  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  S.  C. 
Henin,  Louis  C,  2d  Lieutenant  Inf. 
Hird,  John  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Humphries,  George  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  G.  T.  C. 
Houston,  Charles  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  351st  F.  A. 

(France) 
Hubner,   George  H.,    1st  Lieutenant,   A.  S.  A.  P. 

(France) 
Jones,  M.  Walker,  Army   Service  Corps  (France) 
Kamm,  Walker  W.,  Naval  Aviation 
Keith,  Gerald,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Kimball,  Newton  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  149th  F.  A. 

(France) 
Kingman,  Henry,  Lieutenant,  10th  F.  A.  (France) 
Konold,    Edwin   H.,    2d   Lieutenant,    142d   F.    A. 

(France) 
Langspecht,  Henry,  313th  Inf.  (France) 
Lincoln,  Joseph  N.,  Sergeant,  317th  Field  Signal  Bn. 

(France) 
Lind,  John  E.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 
Loomis,  Samuel,  2d  Lieutenant,  C.  A.  C.  (France) 
McCague,  Robert  A.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf.  (France) 
McGowan,  Robert  R.,   1st  Lieutenant,   332d  Inf. 

(France) 
McNair,    Maurice   L.,    2d   Lieutenant,    104th    Inf. 

(France) 
Manville,  Arthur  J.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Martin,  Charles  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  45tli  Balloon  Co. 

(France) 
Moulton,  Robert,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Newton,  Francis  C,  M.  E.  R.  C. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Ostrander,  J.  Edwin,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N. 
Packard,  Sidney  R.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Parks,  Clarence  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Pratt,  Richardson,  1st  Lieut.,  369th  Inf.  (France) 
Price,  Stuart  E.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Ralston,    Arthur    E.,    1st.    Lieutenant,    M.  T.   C. 

(France) 
Reed,  Kenneth  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  348th  M.  G.  Bn. 

(France) 
Robinson,  Edward  W.,  367th  Inf.  (France) 
Robinson,    R.    Alexander,    1st    Lieutenant,    326th 

F.  A.   (France) 
Seelye,   Charles    W.,    1st   Lieutenant,   Ord.   Dept. 

(France) 
Shumway,  Conrad,  2d  Lieutenant,  124th  M.  G.  Bn. 

(France) 
Smith,  James  K.,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Smith,  James  N.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Smith,  Lowell  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Tead,  Phillips,  Naval  Aviation 
Thayer,  William  G.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  101st  Inf. 

(France) 
Tomlinson,  J.  Brinkerhoff,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
VanValkenburgh,  Edward  A.,  1st  Lieutenant,  C.  W. 

S.    (France) 
Warren,  Webster  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  C.  A.  C. 
Weathers,  Paul  D.,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
W^ebster,  Leslie  T.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Whiting,  William,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Whitraore,  George  D.,  Corp.  M.  C.  (France) 
Witherill,  Brayton,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Class  of  1916 
Ames,  Charles  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Marine  Aviation 
Anderson,  Robert  J.,  2d  Lieutenant,  301st  Inf. 
Andrews,  Edward  D.,  Corp.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Andrews,  Harold  V.,  Army 
Avirett,  W'illiam  G.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Barnes,  Henry  W.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S.  (France) 
Barone,  Tony,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Bastine,   Wilfrid  S.,   2d   Lieutenant,    106th   F.   A. 

(France) 
Bixler,  J.  Seelye,  Sergeant,  D.  B. 
Bowers,  William  A.,  Ord.  Dept.  (France) 
Boynton,  Merrill  H.,  Pvt.,   11th  Engrs.   (France) 
Brewton,  Harold  G.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bristol,  Herbert  G.,  302d  Field  Signal  Bn. 
Bryan,  Walter  C,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Buchanan,  Scott  M.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bulger,  Maurice  L.,  Sergeant,  M.  G.  T.  C. 
Cady,  Lowell,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.  )  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Chalmers,  Robert  B.,  S.  S.  U.  511  (France) 
Chell,  Oscar  L.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Clark,  Franklin,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Conant,  H.  Nelson,  15th  Aero  Squadron 
Creamer,  John  F.,  Jr.,  Corp,  301st  F.  A.  (France) 


Dayton,  Theodore  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 

(France) 
Douglas,  Lewis  W.,   1st  Lieutenant,   347th   F.  A. 

(France) 
Dugan,  Alfonso  G.,  Sergeant,  122d  F.  A.  (France) 
Esty,  William  C,  111th  M.  G.  Bn.  (France) 
Gates,   William,   Jr.,   2d   Lieutenant,    151st   F.   A. 

(France) 
Glen,  Edward  C,  307th  Inf. 
Goodridge,  Edwin  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  45th  Inf. 
Graham,  Roland  B.,  108th  F.  A.  (France) 
Greene,  Paul  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A.  (France) 
Hardy,    Donald   E.,    2d    Lieutenant,    301st   F.    A. 

(France) 
Heavens,  Howard  J.,  A.  S. 

Hughes,  Percy,  1st  Lieutenant,  55th  Pioneer  Inf. 
Jenkins,  John  M.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Johnson,  Herbert  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  M.  C. 
Keeney,  George  N.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Knapp,  Lewis  M.,  Corp,  M.  C,  (France) 
Lane,  George  H.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Lee,  Arthur  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  310th  Ammunution 

Train   (France) 
Leiper,  Bartram  G.,  Yeo.  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Lutkins,  Edwin  H.,  1st  Lieutenant,  San.  C.  (France) 
McCloy,    John    S.,    1st   Lieutenant,    160th    F.    A. 

(France) 
Mansfield,  Ralph  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Marks,  Alan  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Marshall,  Donald  E.,  Sergeant,  M.  P. 
Meredith,   Lawrence  C,   1st  Lieutenant,   San.   C. 

(France) 
Milne,  Douglas  D.,  Captain,  126th  Inf.   (France) 
Neiley,  Geoffrey,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Osborne,  Samuel  S.,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 
Otte,  Frank  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  167th  Inf.  (France) 
Peck,  C.  Baldwin,  Jr.,   1st  Lieutenant,  161st  Inf. 

(France) 
Quinn,  Murray  J.,  Sergt.  D.  M.  C.  (France) 
Reber,  John  U.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Redfield,  Humphry  F.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Rider,  Stuart,  Captain,  337th  F.  A.  (France) 
Robinson,    Homans,    2d     Lieutenant,    303d     Inf. 

(France) 
Sawyer,    Edmund,    2d    Lieutenant,    Tank    Corps, 

(France) 
Sawyer,  Harold  E.,  Q.  M.  C. 
Seamans,  Elton  H.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Smith,    Robert  W.,    1st  Lieutenant,  S.  S.  U.  259 

(France) 
Smith,  Winthrop  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  2d  F.  A. 
Stiles,  Wayne  P.,  Sergeant,  301st  F.  A.  (France) 
Washburn,  Alfred  H.,  M.  E.  R.  C. 
Washburn,    George    W.,    2d    Lieutenant    22(1    Inf. 

(France) 
Weeden,  Charles  F.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
White,  Arthur  P.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.  (France) 


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'Wood,  Lee  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  M.  T.  S.  (France) 
Young,  Burbank  C,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Young,  Malcolm  O.,  Pvt.,  Army 
Young. Laurance,  IstLieutenant, Reclamation  Dept. 

Class  of  1917 
Ames,  AVaklo  B.,  Sergeant,  M.  T.  S. 
Anthony,  Henry  F.,  C.  W.  S. 
Appleby,  Theodore  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Mar.  C. 
Baer,  Bernard  L.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Baily,  G.  Irving,  Captain,  Adj.  Gen.  Dept. 
Baker,  Myers  E.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.  )Naval  Aviation 
Ball,  Ralph  B.,  A.  S. 
Banta,  Henry  H.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Bartholomew,  Charles  H.,  Lieut.,  27th  M.  G.  Bn. 
Bell,  Carlton  L.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bell,  Frederick  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 
Blair,  Earle  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  San.  C. 
Bristol,  Ralph  B.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Buckley,  Frank  L.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Carpenter,  Kenneth  DeF.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Clark,  John  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  15th  F.  A.  (France) 
Clark,  Lloyd  M.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Clarke,  Arthur  M.,  C.  W.  S. 
Cochrane,  Craig  P.,  Captain,  M.  G.  Co.  30th  Inf. 

(France) 
Copeland,  Morris  A.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Craig,  David  R.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
l)e  Bevoise,  Herbert  R.,  Corp.  34th  Engr.  (France) 
DeCastro,  Ralph  E.,  2d  Lieutenant,   A:  S.  S.  C. 

(France) 
Deeley,  Harold  G.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 
I  )ent,  Francis  M.,  1st  Lieutenant,  368th  Inf.  (France) 
DOoge,  Benjamin  S.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 
Downer,  E.  Page,  Sergeant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Eisner,  Mortimer,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Elish,  Karl  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  103d  Inf.  (France) 
Fillman,  Henry  I.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.   (France) 
i-Vaker,  Walter  P.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Fuller,  Henry  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
.  (iard,  Charles  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
(iazley,  John  G.,  Army 
(;iann,  James  E.,  M.  T.  S.  (France) 
(lodfrcy,  Edgar  L.,  P.  O.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
(ioodhue,  Elbridge  A..  C.  W.  S. 
Goodrich,  Sheldon  B.,   1st   Lieutenant,  310th    Inf. 

(France) 
Grainger,  Harry  K.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 
Hale,  David  C,  Naval  Aviation 
Hawkins,  James  A.,  Sergeant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Heaslip,  John  W.,  Sergeant,  27th  Div.  Hdfjrs. 
Hendricks,  Walter,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Tlinman,  George,  .303d  Inf.   (France) 
llobart,  Richard  T.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 
Howard,  Samuel  A.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 
Ivimey,  Theodore,  2d  Lieut,.  30{jth  F.  A.  (France) 


Jenkins,  Paul  A.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A.  (France) 

Jessup,  Charles  J.,  M.  C.  (France) 

Johnson,  Brooks  E.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Jones,  Chandler  T.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Kambour,  Theodore,  C.  W.  S. 

Kohout,  Harry  J.,  312th  Engrs.,  (France) 

Lemcke,  Norman  R.,  Ensign,  LT.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Lestrade,  Paul,  Sergeant,  F.  A.  (France) 

Lewis,  Cyril  B.,  Ord.  Dept. 

Loomis,  Edward  F.,  Sergeant,  152d  D.  B. 

Loomis,  William  F.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 

Low,  Carroll  B.,  1st  Lieutenant,  101st  F.  A.  (France) 

McCague,  Laurence  M.,  S.  S.  U.  621  (France) 

McGarrahan,  John  C,  U.  S  N.  R.  F. 

McGowan,  Charles  B.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N. 

Maloney,  Edward  J.,  1st  Lieutenant,  M.  G.  C. 

Marks,  Eric  H.,  Ensign,  Pay  Corps,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Marks,  Frederic  B.,  Ord.  Dept. 

Marples,    Edward   S.,    1st   Lieutenant,    3-llst    Inf. 

(France) 
Mason,  Alfred  DeW.,  Jr.,   1st  Lieutenant,  M.  P. 
Masten,  Richard  L.,  A.  S. 
Maurer,  Keith  L.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Maynard,  C.  Edgar,  Naval  Aviation 
Melcher,   Herbert  H.,   2d   Lieutenant  Ord.   Dept. 

(France) 
Miller,  William  M.,  Sergeant,  110th  Inf.  (France) 
Moginot,  Francis  L.,  Sergeant,  55th  Art.,  C.  A.  C. 

(France) 
Moore,  Henry  W.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Moore,  Robert  F.,  Sergeant,  M.  C.  (France) 
Morrow,    David    W.,   1st    Lieutenant,    311th    Inf. 

(France) 
Morse,  Edward  W.,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 
Munroe,  Robert,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Murray,  Joseph  J.,  Sergeant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Nelligan,  Thomas,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
O'Brien,  Richard  A.,  Sergeant,  103d  Ammunition 

Train,   (France) 
Patterson,  John  A.,  A.  S. 
Pettee,  Herbert  B.,  F.  A.  (France) 
Plough,  Paul,  1st  Lieutenant,  38th  Inf.  (France) 
Proctor,  Edward  R.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Rauschenbusch,  Ililmar,  M.  C.  (France) 
Richardson,  Lee  K.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
i{()hins()n,  Hayden,  Corp.,  320th  Inf.  (France) 
Rome,  Gardiner  H.,  Corp.  M.  C.  (France) 
Romer,  Alfred  S.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C.  (France) 
Ross,  Raymond  T.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 
Sanders,  Frank  K.,  Jr.,  Captain,  309th  Inf.  (France) 
Scandrett,    Jay    J.   M.,   2d    Lieutenant,   59t]i    Inf. 

(France) 
Schmid,  Herbert  W.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Sibley,  Walcott  E.,  F.  A. 
Sleeper,  Frank  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  S.  C. 
Spear,  Irving  L.,  M.  C. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Stapleton,  Luke  D.,  Ist  Lieut.,  56th  Art.  (France) 
Stark,  Whitney,  2d  Lieutenant,  6th  Reg.  Mar.  C. 
Swett,  Jesse  F.,  2d  Lieut.,  301st  F.  A.  (France) 
Temple,  Donald  E.,  2d  Lieut.,  301st  F.  A.  (France) 
Vaughn,  Herbert  G.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Vielbig,  Joseph  F.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Wadhams,  Robert  W.,  106th  M.  G.  Bn.  (France) 
Wells,  Henry  W'.,  52d  Pioneer  Inf.  (France) 
Whitcomb,  John  L.,  Camion  Service  (France) 
Widmayer,  Theodore  L.,  Jr.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Wilbar,  W^adsworth,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Williams,  Palmer  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf.  (France) 
Williamson,  Raymond  E.  S.,  Captain,  157th  F.  A. 

(France) 
Willis,  Barnard,  Sergeant,  1st  Army  Hdqrs.  (France) 
Witney,  William  R.,  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Woodward,  R.  Stanley,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Yawger,  Marmaduke  R.,  C.  P.  O.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Class  of  1918 

Ahlers,  Carl,  2d  Lieutenant,  113th  F.  A.  (France) 

Aiello,  Gaetano  R.,  Sergeant,  A.  S.  A.  P. 

Anderson,  Merrill,  Naval  Aviation 

Atkinson,  Arthur  T.,  Corp.,  112th  F.  A.  (France) 

Babcock,  A.  Emerson,  Jr.,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Bailey,  Albert  W.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 

Barber,  Kenneth  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Beach,  W.  Howard,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Bednarski,  Roger  E.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Bemis,  Raymond  G.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Bennet,  Augustus  W.,  Naval  Aviation 

Benneyan,  George,  Corp.,  F.  A. 

Bentley,  Raymond  P.,  Lieut.,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Billings,  Dwight  B.,  Lieut.,  (J.  G.)  Naval  Aviation 

Bixler,  David  D.,  1st  Lieutenant,  18th  Inf. 

Blair,  Roy  R.,  Naval  Aviation 

Brackett,  Roger  A.,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 

Brainerd,  John  B.,  Jr.,  Captain,  9th  Inf.  (France) 

Breed,  Philip  M.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Butler,  Franklin  C,  Sergeant,  103d  F.  A.  (France) 

Campbell,  J.  Ellsworth,  2d  Lieutenant. 

Chase,  Paul  A.,  Corp.,  304th  Inf.  (France) 

Churukian,     Vahan     A.,    Corp.,     French     Legion 

D'  Orient 
Cornell,  George  W.,  Jr.,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Cross,  Gorham  L.,  Naval  Aviation 
Curtis,  Gordon  M.,  Lieut.,  (J.  G.)  Naval  Aviation 
Durham,  Charles  H.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Ellinwood,  Ralph  E.,  S.  S.  U.  621  (France) 
Esty,  Jacob  P.,  C.  W.  S. 
Evans,  James  B.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Fredericks,  James  T.,  2d  Lieut.,  C.  A.  C.  (France) 
(iarrett,  John  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Gillies,  John  S.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Goodrich,  Carter  L.,  61st  Ammunition  Train 


Greene,  Edward  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  315th  M.  G.  Bn. 

(France) 
Hall,  Merwin  P.,  325th  Inf.  (France) 
Haven,  Alfred  C.  Jr.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Holt,  Arthur  R.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Houghton,  Augustus  S.,  C.  W.  S. 
Hunneman,  Dexter  R.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Hunter,  Robert,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Jackson,  Gardner,  2d  Lieutenant,  M.  T.  C. 
Johnson,  Harold  F.,  Naval  Aviation 
Keezer,  Dexter  M.,  1st  Lieutenant,  340th  M.  G.  Bn. 

(France) 
Kelsey,  Robert  P.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Kenyon,  Owen  H.,  Radio  operator,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Kimball,  Bradford,  Ensign,  Pay  Corps,  U.S.  N.  R.F. 
Knauth,  Henry,  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 
Ladd,  Henry  A.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Little,  Henry,  Jr.,  Naval  Aviation 
Macfarlane,  W.  Duncan,  Ensign,  Pay  Corps,  U.  S. 

N.  R.  F. 
McGarrahan,  Francis  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  M.  G.  Bn. 
Matthews,  Charles  S.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

(France) 
Meiklejohn,  James  Stewart,  Athletic  Officer 
Moore,  Murray  S.,  2d  Lieutenant,  M.  T.  S.  (France) 
Morehouse,  Andrew  R.,  Corp.  M.  C.  (France) 
Morehouse,  Edward  W.,  Sergeant,  M.  T.  C. 
Myers,  Ralph  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Norton,  Curtis  L.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Orlady,  Lewis  T.,  2d  Lieutenant,  338th  M.  G.  Bn. 

(France) 
Orrell,     Burton,     Corp.,     108th     Ambulance     Co. 

(France) 
Parsons,  Truxton  H.,  Lieut.,  (J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Patton,  Robert  F.,  Instructor  Naval  Radio  School 
Peabody,  Walter  R.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Pratt,  Waldo  E.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,   12th  F.  A. 

(France) 
Prince,   Leonard   M.,   2d   Lieutenant,   M.   T.    C. 

(France) 
Quill,  John  H.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Robinson,  William  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf.  (France) 
Rogers,  William  G.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Schmidt,  Rudolf  W.,  Pvt.,  309th  Field  Signal  Bn. 

(France) 
Seamans,  Chester  G.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
See,  Philip  IL,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Sharpe,  Malcolm  P.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Simmons,  Donald  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  338th  M.  G. 

Bn.   (France) 
Smith,  Elmer  G.,  2d  Lieutenant,  358th  M.  (i.  Bn. 
Smith,  Richard  O.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Soare,  Irving  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 
Stitt,  William  B.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Taber,  William,  A.  S.  S.  C.  (France) 
Thayer,  Sigourney,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  (France) 
Thayer,  Lucius  R.,  A.  A.  F.  S.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 


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Thomas,  Byron  E.,  S.  S.  U.  640  (France) 
Thompson,  William  L.,  Corp.,  309th  Inf.  (France) 
Tooker,  W.  Clyde,  S.  S.  V.  599  (France) 
Traver,  Clarence  H.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Tylee,    Arthur    F.,    Reg.    Sergt.    Maj.,    G.    H.    Q. 

(France) 
Van  Dyck,  Rawdon  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Warren,  James  C,  Sergeant,  Ord.  Dept.,  F.  A.  C. 

O.  T.  S. 

Washburn,  William  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Wheeler,  Harry  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

White,  Owen  S.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Williams,  Morris  H.,  A.  S. 

Yerrall,  William  W.,  D.  B. 

Young,  Clifford  J.,  M.  C.  (France) 

Class  of  1919 
Ames,   Lawrence,   2d   Lieutenant,   A.   S.    (France) 
Bailey,  Franklin  F.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Baker,  Ingham  C,  S.  S.  U.  621  (France) 
Ballou,  Paul  H.,  S.  S.  U.  64  (France) 
Banfield,  Arthur  F.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Barton,  Russell  P.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Belknap,  Walter  K.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Bell.  John  B.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Blatchford,  Charles  L.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Bodenhorn  Aaron,  2d  Lieutenant,  Marine  Aviation 
Boone,  George  T.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G. )  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Boynton,  Nehemiah,  Jr.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Boynton,  Oliver  G.,  13th  Marine  Corps  (France) 
Bowman,  Morris  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  C.  W.  S. 
Bracken,  James  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 
Brinkerhoff,  Robert  J.,  Naval  Aviation 
Brown,  Arthur  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  C.  W.  S. 
Brown,  Herman  D.,  Naval  Aviation 
Bull,  Charles  B.,  M.  C.  (France) 
Burnett,  William  A.,  Jr.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Burr,  Marcus  R.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Calkins,  Robert  S.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Cavart,  Alphonse  E.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Chase,  Charles  R.,  S.  S.  U.  636  (France) 
Chester,  John  J.,  Sergt.,  37th  Hdqrs.  Troop  (France) 
Clarke,  Richard  W.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N. 
Colton,  Raymond  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Cotton,  John  R.,  1st  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  M.  A. 
Cummings,  William   B.,    2(1    Lieutenant,  M.  T.  C. 

( France) 
Darling,  Thurston  V.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Davis,  Robert  J.,  Lieutenant,  (J.  G.)  Naval  Aviation 
Doiialiu.-.  Joseph  F.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Donaluic,  Lawrence  L.,  S.  S.  U.  627  (France) 
Dumm,  Paul  J.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Eastman,  Philip  Y.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Edee,  Allen  B.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
P]lwell,  James  II.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Emery,  William  H.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 


Evans,  Rowland  C,  F'nsign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Evleth,  Raymond  E.,  1st  Lieutenant.'A.  S.  M.  A. 

Forbes,  Wilbur  E.,  Ensign,  V.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Gardiner,  C.  Morris,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 

Gibson,  John  G.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Gillies,  W'illiam  R.,  Naval  Aviation 

Goodwin,  Clarence  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Hallock,  Leavitt  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Hand,  Alfred,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Hazeldine,  Arthur  E.,  S.  S.  U.  621  (France) 

Hendrickson,  E.  H.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Hill,  Kenneth  T.,  Signal  Corps 

Holden,  Roger  C,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Howe,  Burr,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 

Johnston,  Robert  M.,  M.  C. 

Kiley,  Marcus  P.,  C.  P.  O.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Kimball,  Parker  B.  2d  Lieutenant,  73d  Inf. 

Lay,  Harold  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  80th  F.  A.  (France) 

Lebrun,  Pierre  N.,  L^  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Lyman,  Jo.seph  M.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 

Macfarlane,  Noble  T.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

McAllister,  Willis  H.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

McDonald,  Bruce  S.,  Naval  Aviation 

McGregor,  Alexander,  Jr.,  Ch.  Elec,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Marks,  Warren  L.,  Canteen  Steward,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

May,  Fred  S.,  Pvt.,  M.  C.  (France) 

Mayers,  Warren  T.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Miller,  Lloyd  W.,  S.  S.  U.  539,  (France) 

Mitchell,  Donald  G.,  Jr.,  Sergeant,  S.  S.   U.  539 

(France) 
Morse,  Bradbury  B.,  Pvt.,  Mar.  C. 
MulhoUand,  Hugh  A.,  Sergeant,  Inf. 
Neiley,  Richard  B.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Norton,  Algernon  S.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Patton,  Carl  H.,  A.  S. 
Rauh,  Stanley  E.,  Naval  Aviation 
Ruble,  Fred  W.,  Sergeant,  M.  C. 
Riefler,  Winfield  W.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Savoy,  John  A.  G.,  S.  S.  U.  621  (France) 
Schaaf,  Oliver  H.,  U.  S.  A.  A.  S. 
Seward,  Halvor  R.,  Pvt.,  F.  A. 
Sheldon,  Merriam  W.,  Sergeant,  347th  Ambulance 

Co.  (France) 
Sheldon,  Roy  V.  A.,  2(1  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Smith,  Lincoln  B.,  Corp.,  lO.'Jd  F.  A.  (France) 
Snelling,  Stuart  P.,  2d  Lieutenant  18lli  Inf. 
Soliday,  David  S.,  C.  W.  S. 
Southworth,  Theodore,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Spencer,  Harold  B.,  Sergeant,  San.  C.  (France) 
Stacy,  Philip  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Stanton,  John  B.,  Field  Clerk  (France) 
Stark ey,  Rodney  F.,  A.  S. 
Story,  Robert  W.,  Ensign.  V.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Taber,  Benjamin,  M.  C.  (France) 
Thornton,  Louis  B.,  Corp.,  Camp  Utilities  Co. 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Tilton,  Thomas  A.,  Ensign,  Naval  Aviation 
Tyler,  Robert  B.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Van  Sant,  Rufus  Campbell,  2d  Lieutenant 
Vermilya,  Howard  P.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
N'irden,  Emerson  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Whitcomb,  Henry  D.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
White,  Robert  R.,  Jr.,  Hdqrs.  Troop  (France) 
Whitman,  Barrett,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Yarrington,  Frederic  L.,  S.  S.  U.  621  (France) 

Class  of  1920 

Allen,  Walton  C,  Inf.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Anthony,  Ralph  S.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Apraham,  Paul,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Arnold,  Cyril  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Q.  M.  C. 

Avery,  Clarence  E.,  Sergeant,  M.  C. 

Ayres,  Stanley  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S.  S.  C. 

Bartlett,  Alden  M.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Bassett,  Howard  M. 

Beckhard,  Arthur  J.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Beebe,  Ralph  A.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Bliss,  Daniel,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Bouve,  Kenneth  M.,  2d  Lieutenant.,  Inf. 

Briggs,  John  L.,  A.  S. 

Buell,  Theodore  L.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Card,  Glenn  F.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Clark,  Edward  O.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Clarke,  Andrew  N.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Clarke,  George  V.  D.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Clay,  John  H.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 

Cornell,  Dudley  B.,  104th  M.  G.  Bn.,  (France) 

Corson,  Frederic  W.,  Naval  Aviation 

Crooks,  Lawrence  E.,  Corp.,  312th  Supply  Train 
(France) 

Cowles,  William  M.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Cloyd,  David  A.,  2d  Lieutenant 

Cushman,  Rufus  P.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Dade,  .\lexander,  Jr.,  1st  Lieutenant,  Signal  Corps 

Darling,  Millard  S.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Davidson,  Frank  F.,  Jr.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Davis,  Alanson  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Davison,  Alvah  E.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

DeKlyn,  Charles  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Duff,  Alexander,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Estey,  Jo.seph  G.,  .\.  A.  F.  S.  (France) 

Farwell,  William  H.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Fisher,  Ernest  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Furbish,  H.  Ordway,  Pvt.  Q.  M.  C.  (France) 

(ioebel.  Grant  A.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 

Hadley,  Francis  E.,  Jr.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Hamilton,  Hugh  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  302d  F.  A. 
(France) 

Hanselnuinn,  John  J.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Haskell,  (ieorge  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Haskell,  Merrill  C,  Lieutenant,  Red  Cross  Trans- 
portation   Dept. 


Hildebrandt,  Burton  E.,  Ensign,   Naval   Aviation 

Hinch,  James  H.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 

Holmes,  Joshua  M.,  Corp.,  Tank  Corps  (France) 

Horgan,  Harry  R.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Hough,  Leonard  B.,  A.  A.  F.  S.  (France) 

Jenkins,  Perry  B.,  Ord.  Dept. 

Jones,  Daniel  W.,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Low,  Kenneth  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Lyman,  Frederick  A.,  A.  S. 

McCandless,  Thomas  H.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

McCracken,  Andrew  V.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

McFeely,  William  C,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 

Mallon,  Walter  B.,  A.  S. 

March,  Joseph  M.,  105th  F.  A.  (France) 

Maynard,  Richard  W.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Meiklejohn,  John  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Montague,  Wallace  R.,  Jr.,  Sergeant,  M.  T.  S. 

(France) 
Moran,  George  Upham,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Newell,  Horatio  W.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Nichols,  Edgar  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
O'Brien,  Kenneth,  2d  Lieutenant,  M.  G.  C. 
Olsen,  Norman,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Otis,  Delos  S.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Parker,  Raeburn  H.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Perry,  Donald  I.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Phillips,  Paul  K.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Pratt,  Julius  R.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Putnam,  Charles  E.,  S.  S.  U.  552  (France) 
Reeves,  Owen  T.,  Naval  Aviation 
Rowe,  Julian  F.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Savoy,  George  P.,  West  Point 
Schellenger,  Edward  M. 
Searle,  Franklin  P.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Shipman,  Sherman  D.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Sisson,  Arthur  C,  F.  A.  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Smith,  Eastburn  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Stevens,  Rufus  L.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Stewart,  Robert  G.,  S.  S.  U.  539  (France) 
Thompson,  Alexander  G.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 
Thompson,  Porter  W.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Thorp,  Willard  L.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Tuttle,  Edward  G.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 
Weaver,  Albert  B.,  Jr.,  M.  C.  (France) 
W'eber,  Fritz  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Whittemore,  George  S.,  2d  Lieutenant,  A.  S. 
Wilcox,  Robert  C,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Wolff,  Herbert  E.,  2d  Lieutenant 
Wood,  Roland  .\.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 
Wright,  Edward  B.,  M.  G.  O.  T.  S. 
Zeller,  Hubert  R.,  Naval  Aviation 

Class  of  1921 
Beardslee,  Martin  B.,  Pvt.,  Tank  Corps  (France) 
Bell,  Jesse  G.,  Sergeant,  Tank  Corps  (France) 
Brisk,  Philip,  C.  O.  T.  S. 


AMHERST  MEN  IN  THE  NATIONAL  SERVICE 


165 


Carney,  R.  W.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Case,  Harry  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Church,  Bradford  LeB.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Costales,  Clarence  F.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Cowles,  Dennison  B.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Disston,  Harry,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Flood,  Everett  D.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Gilliam,  Lewis  G.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Hall,  George  P.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Hasbrouck,  Louis,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Hatheway,  Curtis  R.,  Jr.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Hooker,  Edward  W.,  2d  Lieutenant,  F.  A. 

Mackenzie,  Kenneth  R.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Metcalf,  Robert  K.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Moran,  Thomas  F.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Murnane,  H.  S.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Owen,  Harold  H.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Palmer,  Waldo  E.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Schleicher,  Rowell  A.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Stauft,  Abraham  L.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

Stanford,  Alfred  B.,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Stanley,  Joseph,  Marine  Aviation 

Taylor,  Kimber  A.,  M.  G.  O.  T.  S. 

Thayer,  James  A.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Tillson,  Charles  R.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Walker,  John  G.,  U.  S.  N.  R.  F. 

Webster,  Bradford  G.,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Whitcomb,  Douglas,  2d  Lieutenant,  Inf. 

Woodworth,  Emmett  Huling,  C.  A.  C. 

Young,  Wallace  M.,  Tank  Corps  (France) 

Class  of  1922 
Albee,  A.  D.,  C.  O.  T.  S 
Buckingham,  R.  L.,  C.  O.  T.  S. 

RED  CROSS  AND  Y..M.  C.  A. 

Class  of  1883 
Bridgman,  Howard  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  National  War 

Work  Council  (France) 
Orr,  William,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Educational  Director 

National  War  Work  Council 
Parsons,  Edward  S.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Asso.  Secy.,  War 

Personnel  Board,  National  War  Work  Council 

Class  of  1885 
Galloway,  Tod  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Todd,  George  L.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Warner,  Edwin  G.,  Ed.  Secy.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1886 
Coates,  Hallam  F.,  Red  Cross,  (France) 

Class  of  1887 
Pratt,  Frederic  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Chm.  Educational 
Committee  of  the  National  War  Work  Council 

Class  of  1888 
Goodrich,  Lincoln  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Devens) 


Huntington,  EUery  C,  Athletic  Supervisor,  Y.  M. 

C.  A.  (France) 
Pierce,  William  F.,  Red  Cross  (France) 
Woodin,  Herbert  P.,  Ed.  Secy,.  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp 

Devens) 

Class  of  1889 
Dean,  Edwin  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Parkman,  Edgar  H.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Spaulding,  Frank,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1890 
Child,  Edwin  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Ewing,  Charles  E.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
James,  Arthur  Curtiss,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  National  War 

Work  Council 
Kelley,  Edward  P.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
MacNeill,  Allen,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1891 
Blatchford,  Edward,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Dodd,  Edward  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Gay,  H.  Nelson,  Poets'  Ambulance  Corps  (Italy) 
Smith,  David  E.,  Captain,  Red  Cross  (France) 

Class  of  1892 
GraTit,  John  H.,  Y.   M.   C.   A.    (Camp  Sheridan, 

Great  Lakes) 
Phillips,  LeRoy,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Smith,  R.  Stuart,  Red  Cross  (France) 
Thompson,   Frederic  L.,   Y.   M.   C.   A.    (France) 

Class  of  1893 
Baldwin,  Martin  T.,  Red  Cross  (France) 
Olmstead,  Julian  H.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Reed,  Lewis  T.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Kelly  Field,  Camp 

Stanley) 
Sheldon,  Frank  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Hingham) 

Cl.\ss  of  189 J. 
Weeks,  Nathan  H.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1895 
Boardman,  William  J.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Hanford,  Saxe  H.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Pratt,  Herbert  L.,  Canteen  Service,  (France) 
Stocking,  Jay  T.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Lee) 

Class  of  1896 
Haskell,  Jos(>ph  N.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Jump,  Herbert  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Kimball,  W.  Eugene,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Upton) 
Pratt,  John  T.,  Major,  Red  Cross  (France) 
Reid,  John,  Field  Director,  Red  Cross 

Class  of  1897 
Backus,    Alcxaufler   H.,  War  Relief  Work   (Paris) 
Ballou,  William  J.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Emerson,  B.  K.,  Inspector  for  Red  Cross  (Siberia) 
Geddes,  Daniel  M.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Hawes,  William  G.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Aberdeen  Proving 
Ground) 


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AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Holt,  Everett  DeF..  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Ingersoll,  Raymond  V.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1898 
Howland,  Harold  J.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Italy) 
Merriam,  Charles  W.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Wyman,  Arthur  J.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Merritt) 

Class  of  1899 
Johnson,  Burges,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Newlin,  William  J.,  National  Educational  Recruit- 
ing Secy.   (France) 
Raymond,  Frederick  W.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Lee) 

Class  of  1900 
Brown,  Donald  W.,  Captain,  Red  Cross  (France) 
Conant,  Francis  O.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Driver,  George  C,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Mills) 
Pratt,  Harold  I.,  Canteen  Service  (France) 
St.  Clare,  Christopher  C,  Y'.  M.  C.  A.   (France) 
Ward,  Edwin  St.  J.,  Lieut.  Col.,  Red  Cross  (Over- 
seas) 

Wilkins,   Ernest    H.,    Y.    M.  C.   A.,    Educational 
Bureau  National  War  Work  Council 

Class  of  1901 
Robertson,  Charles  E.,  Field  Director,  Red  Cross 

Class  of  1902 
Barber,  Silas  D.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Briggs,  Frank  L.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Cook,  Frank  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Morse,  Anson  Ely,  Physical  Director,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
(Italy) 

Reid,  William,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Whitelaw,  Ralph  T.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1904 
Morse,  W'illiam  N.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Whitcomb,  Ernest  M.,  Captain,  Red  Cross  (France) 

Class  of  1905 

Baldwin,  Fritz  W.,  Ed.  Secy.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp 

Devens) 
Bixby,  Sidney,  Red  Cross  (France) 
Derbyshire,  Arthur  J.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Hussey,  E.  Frank,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Moon,  Ward  C,  Ed.  Secy.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Taylor,  John  A.,  Captain,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Townsend,  Winfield  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Cl.\ss  of  1906 
Iliidreth,  Ellison  S.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Siberia) 

Class  of  1907 

Gary,    George   E.,    Y.    M.    C.    A.    (Camp   Meade, 

Camp  Dix) 
Pratt,  Elmer  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Pitt) 
Rand,  Albert  E.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1908 
Cobb,  Perry  R.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 


Smith,  Horatio  E.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Sprenger,  James  A.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1909 
Thomas,  David,  Red  Cross  (Servia) 

Cl.a^ss  of  1910 
Boynton,  Arthur  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (England) 

Class  of  1911 
Ashley,  John  P.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 
Powell,  William  B.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (England) 
Williams,  George  W.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Russia) 

Class  of  1912 
Armstrong,  Robert  G.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (France) 

Class  of  1913 
Leiper,  Henry  S.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  (Vladivostok) 

Class  of  1914 
Childs,  Maurice  E.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Camp  Merritt) 
Long,   John   C,    War   Camp   Community   Service 

Class  of  1915 
Washburn,  Arthur  H.,  Y.  M.  C.  .\.  (France) 

Cl.\ss  of  1917 
Metcalf,  Robert  D.,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Plimpton,  B.  F.,  Red,  Cross  (France) 
Root,  Edward  M.,  Reconstruction  Work  (France) 

Class  of  1918 

Godwin,  R.  Kenneth,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Newport;    Ft. 

Kearney) 
Greene,  Theodore  M.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  (Mesopotamia) 

Class  of  1920 
Bailey,  Ralph  E.,  Major,  Red  Cross,  (Switzerland) 

STUDENT  ARMY  TRAINING  CORPS 

Early  in  the  fall  a  unit  of  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  was  es- 
tablished at  the  College  and  this  organization  was 
continued  until  the  end  of  the  first  term.  During 
this  period  the  usual  curriculum  and  courses  of  study 
were  modified  so  as  to  meet  the  re(|uirements  of  the 
War  Department  as  formulated  by  its  Committee  on 
Education  and  special  training. 

Officers 
*Stanley  G.  Eatt)n,  Captain  Infantry,  U.  S.  A. 
Dan  Thorston  Ringwalt  Dickson,  Captain  Infantrv, 

U.  S.  A. 
George    Albert    Harris,    1st    Lieutenant    Infantry, 

U.  S.  A. 
Laurence  Houghton  Parker,  2d  Lieutenant  Infantry, 

U.  S.  A. 
Herbert  Oliver  Funsten,  2d  Lieutenant  Infantry, 

U.  S.  A. 
Herbert  Raiford  Gaffney,  2d  Lieutenant  Infantry, 

U.  S.  A. 
Walter  Edmund  Grasheim,  2d  Lieutenant  Infantry, 

U.  S.  A. 

♦Withdrew  October  17,  1918. 


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Marvin  Lee  Gray,  ^d  Lieutenant  Infantry,  I'.  S.  A. 
Harrv  Lewis  Harvin,  2d  Lieutenant  Infantry,  U. 

S.  A. 
Raeburn   Stanley   Hunt,   id   Lieutenant    Infantry, 

U.  S.  A. 

Members  o?'  the  Corps 


Abele,  Edward  S. 
Abele,  Louis  T. 
Albee,  Arlon  D. 
Albright,  Henry  H. 
Albright,  Paul  E. 
Allen,  Walton  C. 
Allison,  William  K. 
Anderson,  Wallace  W. 
Aronson,  Arnold  I. 
Atkinson.  Frank  C. 
Baker.  James  S. 
Baker,  Louis  E. 
Balcom,  Carroll  S. 
Banfield,  Arthur  F. 
Barnes,  Robert  P. 
Barton.  Paul  B. 
Bass,  James  G. 
Bassett,  Howard  M. 
Bayer,  Walter  V. 
Bell  John  M. 
Bemis,  George  E. 
Bennett,  Charles  M. 
Bixby,  Ralph  F. 
Black,  Arthur  P. 
Black,  Robert  L. 
Blanchard,  Kenneth  E. 
Blanton.  Alexander  J. 
Blanton.  Forest  W. 
Blinn,  Holland  L. 
Bliss,  Daniel  B. 
Born,  George  D. 
Bowman,  Kimberly 
Brennan,  Ralph  A. 
Bretey,  Pierre  R. 
Brickett.  Allen  E. 
Bridge.  Richard  W. 
Brisk,  Philip  W. 
Brooks,  Frederick  E. 
Brough,  Hazen  W. 
Brown,  Harold  V. 
Brown,  John  K.  A. 
Brown,  Sumner  J. 
Brown,  Walter  B. 
Buckingham,  Rotjcrt  L. 
Buell,  Tlicodore  L. 
Burgc,  Miles  C. 
Burnett,  Charles  S. 
Busch,  William  M. 
Caldwell.  Edward  C. 
Callahan,  John  R. 
Cardinal,  Roland  S. 
Carley,  Edward  A. 
Carney,  Richard  W. 
Carr,  Alfrc(|  V. 
Carlw right.  Clarence  C. 
Case,  Harry  W. 
Calkins,  Robert  S. 
Cavart,  Aiphonse  E. 
Chillson,  Burton  S. 
Church,  Bradford  L. 
Clapj),  Wilfreds. 
Clark.  Francis  R. 


Clark,  Lee  C. 
Clarke,  George  V. 
Cobb,  George  D. 
Congdon,  Thomas  B. 
Conway,  John  F. 
Cooke,  Francis  T. 
Cooley,  Edward  E. 
Copeland,  Arthur  H. 
Curran,  Don  E. 
Curran,  Patrick  J. 
Cusick,  James  F. 
Damon,  Stuart  B. 
Davenport,  Charles  K. 
Davidson,  Frank  F. 
Davis,  Elias  K. 
Davison,  Alvah  E. 
Dayton,  Robert  B. 
Demarest,  Arthur  K. 
Dickerman,  Harold  A. 
Dickinson,  Mason  A. 
Dickinson,  Porter  S. 
Deichmann,  Gustav  H. 
Disston,  Harry  B. 
Dodge,  William  J. 
Donoghue,  William  J. 
Donohue,  Florence  J. 
Duff,  Alexander 
Dunbar,  Edson  S. 
Fames,  Edward  W. 
Eaton,  Dwight  H. 
Edwards,  Roger  G. 
Emery,  Herbert  M. 
Eveleth,  Noah  S. 
Everett,  Samuel  H. 
Far\vell,  William  H. 
Fein,  Sanuiel  A. 
Fenno,  Richard  F. 
Ferreira,  Harry  A. 
Field,  Leonard  H. 
Fischer,  William  W. 
Fitz  Gibbon,  Edward  F. 
Flannagan,  Robert  J. 
Foster,  William  J. 
French,  Justin  D. 
French,  Stuart  R. 
Fricl,  LcoTi  C. 
Gadsby,  Edward  N. 
Gardner,  Donfred  H. 
Gerarden,  Karl  E. 
Gerisch,  Henry  A. 
Goleinbeski,  Anthony  E 
Graham,  Haldanc  C. 
(Jranficld,  Thomas  M. 
Green,  Harland  C. 
(ireene,  Frederick  S. 
(iuenthcr,  Walter  E. 
Hagenl)ucklc,  Herman  F 
Hand,  Raymond  T.  1). 
Hanselmann,  John  J. 
Ha])p,  Linley  C. 
Harmon,  Edwin  W. 
Hartzell,  Frank  C. 


Hatch,  David  P. 
Hawkins,  William  B. 
Heard,  Carlton  F. 
Hennig,  Herman  C. 
Hennion,  Harold  F. 
Herrick,  Warren  G. 
Heselton,  John 
Hewitt,  William  W. 
Higbec,  Donald  M. 
Hooker,  Edward  W. 
Hooper,  Claude  E. 
Hough,  Leonard  B. 
Howes,  Carroll  V. 
Howland,  Barnard 
Hull,  John  H. 
Jacobs,  Harrison  D. 
John,  Ralph 
Johnson,  Thomas  H. 
Johnson,  Walter  W. 
Jones,  Sewell  A. 
Jorgensen,  Norman  A. 
Joyce,  Bernard  S. 
Judge,  Gerald  A. 
Kalman,  Benjamin 
Karp,  Joseph 
Keeler,  Lansing  H. 
Keeney,  Robert 
Kennedy,  Henry  B. 
Kenyon,  Harold  F. 
Kilby,  John  B. 
King,  (ieorge  W. 
Kissani,  William  A. 
Koonz,  Francis  W'. 
Kuesel,  Frederick  H. 
Labrovitz,  Ed\vard  B. 
La  Clair,  Huston  L. 
Larkin,  Clarence  J. 
Lay,  Edward  T. 
Leavitt,  Joseph  C. 
Lee,  Franklin  T. 
Levine,  Benjamin  W. 
Lorimer,  Linus  J. 
Loring,  Raymond  A. 
Loughman,  James  H. 
Lowe,  Wallace  G. 
Lowther,  Charles  R. 
Lum,  Frederick  R. 
Lumb,  Charles  L. 
Lynch,  John  C. 
Mackenzie,  Kenneth  R. 
Mann.  Philip  S. 
Manwell.  Reginald  D.. 
Marker,  Clifford  H. 
Marks,  Warren  L. 
Martin,  Leo  F. 
Matthews,  George  T. 
McCabc,  Edward  J. 
McCoid,  Eugene  C. 
McCullougii,  Alfred  A. 
McFaddcn,  (Icorge  W. 
McKinstrv,  Willard  L. 
Maynard.' Richard  W. 
Merrick.  James  H. 
Melcalf,  Robert   K. 
Michelsen,  Rolf  T. 
Miller,  Barney 
Mitchclson,  Josei)h  A. 
Mitchell,  Joiui  M.  Z. 
Milch. •II,  Tiieo.iorc  M. 


Moran,  Thomas  F. 
Morgan,  Edward  A. 
Morgan,  Patrick  J. 
Morris,  Harvey  S. 
Morse,  William  N. 
Mossman,  Alexander  H. 
Moynahan,  Joseph  P. 
Munn,  John  P. 
Murnane,  Horace  S. 
Murphy,  Henry  W. 
Murrin,  Edward  P. 
Mutschler,  Ernest 
Nelson,  Clarence  E. 
Nichols,  John  C. 
Nichols,  Stuart  B. 
Norman,  John  A. 
Oatley,  Ralph  H. 
O'Connell.  Raymond  M. 
O'Donnell,  Edward  S. 
ODonnell,  Raymond  J. 
Olsen,  Norman  N. 
O'Neil,  Arthur  H. 
Osgood,  Robert  W. 
Otis,  Delos  S. 
0\ven,  Harold  H. 
Page,  Laurence  S. 
Palmer,  Waldo  E. 
Parker,  Frederick  A. 
Parsons,  Ed\vard  S. 
Pearlman,  Leon  L. 
Perrault,  Oscar  B. 
Perry,  Merton  E. 
Phel'ps,  Marshall  L. 
Phillips,  Paul  K. 
Phinney,  Allison  W. 
Plumer.  Leonidas  N. 
Pope,  Elmer  D. 
Pope,  Ernest  E. 
Poi  ter,  Charles  S. 
Porter,  Edward  T. 
Powers,  Haven  M. 
Powers,  James  B. 
Pruyne,  Lafayette  S. 
Rauschenbusch,  Paul  A. 
Reed,  Carlton  C. 
Reed,  Frederick  R. 
Reed,  J()se])h  S. 
Reilly,  Thomas  F. 
Reusswig,    Ernest  N. 
Rice,  Henry  T. 
Rich,  Raymond  T. 
Richards.  Edward  A. 
Roberts,  Ernest   H. 
Rolu-rts,  William  M. 
Rol)crtson,  John  M. 
Rowc,  Julian  F. 
Saunders,  Allen  F. 
Savoy,  George  P. 
Sayles,  Thomas  B. 
Schleicher,  Rowell  .\. 
Scolt,  George  C. 
Seymour,  Henry  W. 
Seymour,  Li'onard  N. 
Sliaugi messy.  I{ichar(l 
Shaw,  Janu's  E. 
Shea,  Patrick  H. 
Sliea.  Tlinmas  F. 
Siiea.  William  F. 
Sliccliaii,  Harold  T. 


168 


AMHERST  GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


Simons,  Gilbert  P. 
Sinclair,  Ronald  \'. 
Sisson,  Arthur  C. 
Skeel,  John  S. 
Smith,  Harold  A. 
Smith,  Harry  K. 
Smith,  Myron  H. 
Smith,  Wallace  F. 
Snider,  F'rank  L. 
Spati'ord,  Justin  N. 
Sprague,  Atherton  H. 
Starkweather,  Lyman 
Statler,  Frederick  C. 
Stauft,  Abraham  L. 
Stearns,  William  F. 
Stelle,  Percy  M. 
Stisser,  Frank  G. 
Sturtevant,  Rol)crt  F. 
Swan,  Hobart  B. 
Sylvester,  Arthur  J. 
Taylor,  Kimber  A. 
Thayer,  James  A. 
Thomas,  William  D. 
Thompson,  Porter  W. 
Thorpe,  Leon  A. 
Tillev,  Laurence  E. 


Treat,  Amos  S. 
Tucker,  Francis  S. 
Tustin,  James  F. 
Tuttle,  Edward  G. 
Uchida,  Brow  R. 
Vail,  Charles  C. 
\'er  Nooy,  Stewart 
Vogelius,  Edmund  L. 
Voigt,  William  L. 
Walsh,  John  S. 
Ward,  Martin  M. 
W.Warner,  Kenneth  L. 
Webster,  Bradford  G. 
Webster,  Stephen  P. 
W^einberg,  Charles  L. 
Weinberg,  Max  M. 
Werne,  Ernest  R. 
W^essel,  Herman  M. 
West,  Calvin  S. 
Wliitaker,  Richard  E. 
W'hitaker,  Sidney  H. 
W'hite,  Carter  P. 
White,  Thomas  F. 
W'hiting,  Elbridge  C. 
W'illiams,  Robert  Y. 
Willmott,  John  F. 


Wilson,  Nathaniel  W.        Wrav.  Charles  G. 


Wing,  Franklin 
Wing,  Thorndike  D. 
Withercll,  Arthur  B. 
Wittlig,  Emil  U. 
Wood,  Remsen  V. 
Woodard,  Henrv  S. 


Wray,  James  B. 
Wright,  Edward  B. 
Yager,  Newton  T. 
Young,  William  C. 
Zink,  Walter  N. 


SUMMARY 

Died  in  the  Service 34 

Served  in  the  Army 892 

Served  in  the  Navy (221 


Served  in  the  S.  A.  T.  C 

328 

Total 

1,475 

Deducted  for  names  counted  twice     . 

43 

Net  Total 

1,432 

Received  Military  Honors 

46 

Croix  de  Guerre 

.    28 

Distinguished  Service  Cross 

6 

British  Military  Cross     .... 

2 

Members  of  Regiments  cited 

.      8 

Members  of  ambulance  sections 

awarded  Croix  de  Guerre 

.      2 

AMHERST 
GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 


VOLUME  IX 

November,  1919  to  August,  1920 


>^ 


PUBLISHED  BY  THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL  OF 
AMHERST  COLLEGE 


Lord  Jeffrey  Amherst 


AMHERST 

GRADUATES'    QUARTERLY 

Vol.  IX— NOVEMBER,  1919— No.  1 


THE  COLLEGE  WINDOW 

OF  course  you  are  familiar  vdth  the  mossy  old  story  which, 
I  hope,  may  avail  to  redeem  the  uncouth  suggestion  of 
my  heading:  the  story  of  the  Irish  laborer  at  the  edge  of 
a  bridge  holding  on  by  main  strength  to  a  rope,  while  a  fellow 
laborer,  whom  the  rope  suspends  over  the  water 
Our  below,  is  doing  a  hazardous  piece  of  work.     "Jist 

Uncle   Sam        howld  on  down  there,  Mike,"  is  our  Irishman's 
Spits   on  friendly  direction,  "while  I  spit  on  me  hands." 

His  Hands        No  tug-of-war's  man  need  be  reminded  what  a 
strain  such  a  grip,  what  a  help  such  a  primitive 
moistening  may  be. 

Well,  that  is  about  how  matters  look,  now  that  after  a  year's 
pause  we  draw  back  the  curtain  and  resume  our  customary  station 
at  the  College  Window. 

When  we  last  looked  forth  America  was  just  strenuously  com- 
mitted to  her  vigorous  grip  of  affairs,  and  we  left  her  going  over 
the  top.  It  was  her  initial  tug  of  war,  cogent  and  peremptory,  and 
we  all  felt  the  thrill  of  it.  But  the  armistice,  speedily  ensuing, 
changed  its  objective,  and  with  it  the  sense  of  the  strain;  so  that 
now,  down  where  so  lately  was  a  whirlpool  of  war,  a  baffling  task 
of  readjustment  and  reconstruction  is  pulling,  desperately  tense 
and  urgent,  while  America,  relatively  calm  on  her  station  above  it, 
holds  the  upper  end  of  the  supporting  rope.  The  job,  getting 
momently  more  thick  and  stern,  will  suffer  no  release.  And  our 
good-natured  Uncle  Sam,  who  has  a  strong  dash  of  the  Irish  in 
him,  seems  minded  to  spit  on  his  hands. 
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4     Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Not  that  the  genial  old  fellow  has  the  disposition  to  let  go. 
More  like  the  opposite  rather,  he  wants  to  take  a  new  hold.  Nor 
can  we  deny  him  the  credit  of  hearty  good-will  to  all  the  nations  of 
the  earth.  That  is  what  his  sturdy  grip  meant  and  means;  it  is  the 
helpful  strain  of  the  Irish  and  the  Yankee  in  him.  But  meanwhile 
— ^Ay,  there's  the  rub.  The  whole  Hibernian  point  of  the  situation 
lies  in  that.  There  is  peril  in  that  meanwhile,  however  momentary 
it  is  meant  to  be.  It  is  a  moment  of  letting-go,  however  well 
meant,  a  self-regarding  moment  while  the  sense  of  responsibility 
and  consequence  is  eclipsed.  If  he  spits  on  his  hands  at  this  crit- 
ical juncture,  can  he  catch  on  again  in  time  to  save  the  job?  And 
all  the  more,  can  he  do  so  if  hidebound  kickers  and  boneheads  seize 
the  occasion  to  expectorate  great  mouthfuls  of  stupid  and  partisan 
rancor  over  hands,  rope,  job  and  all,  making  the  grip  not  firm  but 
foul  and  slippery?  That  does  not  seem  fairly  to  represent  our 
wise  Uncle  Sam,  whose  initial  purpose  looked  so  constructive,  still 
less  our  large-hearted  American  people  whose  spirit  of  broad  help- 
fulness has  so  nobly  brought  thus  far  and  is  so  fervently  welcomed 
by  a  stricken  world. 

Perhaps,  however,  I  am  on  the  wrong  tack.  Is  it  Uncle  Sam, 
after  all,  is  it  our  American  people,  to  whom  this  Irish  bull  applies? 
It  is  a  ticklish  matter  to  raise  the  question  while  suspense  is  so 
great  and  passions  are  so  discordant,  but  just  at  present  writing 
it  is  fair  to  ask  whether  it  is  Uncle  Sam  at  the  rope  or  Uncle  Henry 
and  Uncle  Hiram — ^^vith  other  like-minded  uncles  butting  in — 
whose  political  keenness  we  have  been  wont  to  honor.  The  trouble 
is,  these  self -constituted  imcles  are  not  speaking  in  the  authentic 
Uncle  Sam  character;  they  are  belittling  their  role.  The  Uncle 
Sam  who  inspired  us  over  the  top  is  imperturbably  good-natured; 
has  faith  as  well  as  caution;  has  a  sense  of  humor  as  well  as  of 
seriousness;  his  native  insight  and  shrewdness  charged  with  help- 
fulness and  hope  and  cheer,  as  befits  the  constructive  mood  and 
motive.  It  does  not  come  natural  to  him  to  buck  and  kick.  It 
spoils  our  common  identification  with  him  when  he  is  made  sour 
and  morose  and  recalcitrant.  It  is  too  much  like  congealing  us  in 
the  education  of  Henry  Adams.  It  remains  to  be  seen  whether,  in 
our  allotted  world  drama,  we  will  let  our  part  be  queered  in  this 
way. 


The    College    Window 


Still,  when  all  discounts  are  made,  a  mood  is  prevalent  which 
ails  us  all.  What  is  it?  A  misread  quotation  which  I  once  heard 
comes  here  to  mind;  it  makes  sense  albeit  garbled.  A  person  not 
quite  so  mighty  in  the  scriptures  as  Apollos  was  spoke  of  "putting 
one's  hand  to  the  plow  and  looking  black."  We  were  all  proud  and 
elated  when  America  put  her  hand  so  bravely  and  blithely  to  the 
plow;  we  backed  her  up  so  long  as  the  action  was  simple  and  impul- 
sive; but  when  she  sensed  the  length  and  toughness  of  the  furrow 
she  (or  her  counselors  and  sponsors)  fell  to  an  irksome  extent  into 
the  mood  of  looking  black.  It  was  the  reflux  of  her  too  uncon- 
sidered elation.  The  fact  is,  we  are  experiencing  the  after-chill 
of  a  foreshortened  view.  You  know  what  I  mean.  You  have 
seen  it  in  the  work  of  an  artist  who  will  put  before  you  an  out- 
stretched arm  so  \'ividly  that  you  feel  its  sweep  and  objective, 
yet  he  has  not  dra"vsTi  the  arm  at  all,  only  suggested  it  so  that  its 
actual  detail  is  hid  in  the  story  it  tells  and  the  impulse  it  inspires. 
But  when,  like  a  prosaist,  you  try  to  fill  in  the  intervening  space 
with  its  irksome  jolts  and  jogs  you  are  brought  to  pause.  You 
had  not  reckoned  on  that.  You  must  fall  back  on  a  stamina 
sounder  than  shouting  and  impulse  to  keep  your  objective  unim- 
paired and  not  look  black.  The  ability  to  meet  the  after-chill  of 
the  foreshortened  view  and  keep  your  courage  and  purpose  strong 
is  the  test  of  what  is  most  genuine  in  you,— in  you  to  stay  and 
prevail.  It  determines  whether  you  meet  it  haltingly  or  con- 
structively. 

And  indeed  the  prospect  that  suddenly  uprolled  before  us  when 
we  committed  ourselves  to  an  unselfish  war  was  well  calculated  to 
give  us  pause  as  well  as  exultation.  America  had  never  seen  the 
like  before.  Let  me  speak  of  the  effect  in  the  words  of  another, 
written  while  the  war  was  yet  new.  "If  the  present  war,"  he 
writes,  "has  seemed  to  set  us  back,  it  is  chiefly  because  of  the 
immense  vistas  it  has  opened  up.  It  is  as  though  all  our  lives  we 
had  had  our  eyes  upon  the  earth,  and  had  suddenly  looked  up  at 
the  stars.  For  centuries  we  had  compared  ourselves  with  our 
fathers,  to  our  vast  advantage.  Then  there  was  a  shock,  and  we 
found  ourselves  facing  the  future.  What  we  had  done  was  sud- 
denly throwTi  up  against  not  what  our  fathers  had  done,  but  what 
we  had  not  done,  and  we  were  overwhelmed.     We  are  small,  we 


6     Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

are  ignorant,  we  are  barbarous.  We  were  exalted,  and  we  are 
cast  down.  'Except  ye  .  .  .  become  as  little  children,  ye 
shall  in  no  wise  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  heaven.'  War  has 
made  us  children.  Now  we  are  ready  to  go  forward.  Or  at  least 
we  are  ready  to  look  around  us  in  humility  and  wdth  open  minds. 
And  looking  about  us,  we  see,  amid  the  utter  wreck  of  all  that  we 
have  and  are,  that  our  sole  hope  lies  in  the  fuller  unfoldment  of 
humanity, — unfoldment,  education.  For  how  without  this  shall 
we  find  our  way  out  of  the  morass  into  which  we  have  wandered?" 

That  was  written  before  the  sudden  armistice  precipitated  too 
prematurely  the  baffling  problems  of  peace-making  and  recon- 
struction; was  written  before  we  read  the  "Education  of  Henry 
Adams"  and  the  like-minded  opinions  of  its  distinguished  editor; 
was  written  just  when  our  college  men,  %vith  souls  wide  open  to  the 
educational  vision,  were  addressing  themselves  to  the  most  intelli- 
gent soldier -work  in  the  w^orld.  The  vision  was  foreshortened 
then,  but  there  was  no  shrinking  from  the  after-chill,  no  nervous 
weighing  of  economic  and  political  effects  on  trembling  America. 
With  the  joyous  intrepidity  of  youth  they  forged  onward  until 
they  found  a  world's  need  depending  on  them;  like  children  at  their 
noble  game  but  not  childishly;  nor  when  the  tug  of  responsibility 
became  intense,  was  it  they,  one  feels  sure,  who  were  minded  with 
the  Irishman's  naive  insouciance  to  jeopard  their  hold  by  spitting 
on  their  hands.  Their  forward-looking  education  is  teaching  them 
more  creative  things.  The  grip  is  hard;  latent  Bolshe\ism  and 
labor-greed  are  making  it  harder;  we  cannot  expect  the  universal 
unrest  after  so  great  turmoil  to  quiet  down  without  many  perilous 
and  inveterate  upheavals ;  but  through  it  all  we  believe  that  Amer- 
ica, whose  mission  in  the  earth  is  larger  even  than  that  of  our  canny 
and  politic  Uncle  Sam,  will  heed  the  divinity  that  shapes  our 
rough-hewn  ends  and  wisely,  steadfastly  cooperate  therewith. 

For  the  thing  that  came  into  the  hearts  of  college  men  by  that 
Williamstown  haystack  a  hundred  and  twenty  years  ago  has  passed 
the  limits  of  prayer  and  dream;  it  has  become  an  imperative  destiny 
and  duty,  with  all  practical  and  historical  involvements. 


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ENGLISH  IMPRESSIONS 

ALEXANDER   MEIKLEJOHN 

I  MUST  begin  my  story  of  a  hurried  summer  holiday  by  referring 
to  the  task  assigned  me  by  the  editor  of  the  Graduates' 
Quarterly.  I  cannot  do  this  without  paying  my  tribute  to 
him  who  had  been  the  Quarterly's  editor  since  its  foundation. 
Professor  Genung  is  gone, — gentle,  humorous,  scholarly,  great  of 
spirit,  altogether  the  most  book-loving  man  I  have  ever  known. 
He  had  and  he  gave  as  few  men  have  done,  the  joy  of  the  written 
record  of  human  life — its  beauty  and  its  significance. 

Mr.  Whicher,  the  new  editor  of  the  Quarterly,  had  asked  me  to 
gather  up  for  him  impressions  of  English  education.  And  I  was 
very  glad  to  do  this  because  my  chief  interest  in  crossing  the  water 
was  to  come  into  closer  touch  with  the  men  who  are  determining  the 
course  of  British  education.  And  this  was  especially  true  because 
more  and  more  I  have  found  my  own  opinions  as  to  the  proper  forms 
of  liberal  education  turning  toward  the  British  models.  The 
principles  underlying  the  proposal  of  the  Junior-Senior  College  plan, 
while  not  intentionally  drawn  from  the  British  scheme,  are  very 
closely  akin  to  it.  I  was,  therefore,  very  eager  to  talk  with  men 
engaged  in  college  work  in  England,  to  hear  of  their  experiences  and 
to  receive  their  suggestions.  It  was  a  collection  of  those  which  I 
was  requested  to  prepare  for  this  issue  of  the  Quarterly. 

From  the  very  beginning,  however,  the  planning  went  agley.  A 
rapid  series  of  unexpected  happenings  brought  it  about  that  my 
five  weeks  in  England,  France,  and  Scotland  were  devoted  to  gath- 
ering men  rather  than  impressions.  Presumably,  however,  the 
purpose  of  the  trip  will  be  served,  for  the  men  who  come  from  Eng- 
land, Scotland,  and  France  bring  with  them  the  genuine  acquaint- 
ance with  foreign  schemes  of  education — a  possession  far  more 
valuable  to  the  community  here  than  the  hasty  impressions  which 
I  might  have  gathered. 

In  all  six  men  were  engaged  to  take  part  in  our  teaching  during 
the  coming  year.  In  Paris,  Horatio  Edwin  Smith  (Amherst,  '08) 
was  persuaded  to  leave  Yale  and  come  to  us  as  professor  of  French. 


Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


He  brought  with  him  as  instructor  in  French  M,  Louis  Landre,  a 
student  at  the  University  of  Paris.  In  England,  three  Oxford 
teachers,  Ernest  Barker,  fellow  and  senior  tutor  in  history  at  New 
College,  Richard  Tawney,  fellow  of  Balliol,  and  Henry  Clay,  fellow 
of  New  College,  seemed  glad  to  come  to  Amherst  each  for  three 
months,  to  join  in  our  teaching  and  to  get  into  touch  with  educa- 
tional and  social  movements  in  America.  In  Edinburgh,  my  old 
teacher  of  philosophy,  Professor  James  Seth,  found  for  me  one  of 
his  own  pupils,  a  graduate  of  1915,  who  comes  as  instructor  in  Greek 
and  philosophy.  These  men,  I  am  sure,  will  give  us  the  needed  in- 
formation and  advice  concerning  the  ideals  and  methods  of  French 
and  British  education.  Mr.  Barker  is  not  only  a  leader  in  educa- 
tional discussion  at  Oxford,  but  he  has  served  as  external  examiner 
at  Cambridge,  Manchester,  Leeds,  Wales,  Bristol,  and  Birmingham. 
Mr.  Clay  was  for  six  years  lecturer  at  the  University  of  Leeds  and 
can,  therefore,  tell  us  of  the  provincial  universities  which  are  grow- 
ing so  rapidly  in  England.  Mr.  Tawney  was  the  first  teacher  of  a 
tutorial  class  in  England,  and  as  a  Balliol  man,  comes  from  the 
very  heart  of  English  liberal  education.  Mr.  Smith  and  Mr. 
Landre  will  tell  us  of  the  French  procedure  and  Mr.  Brown  of  the 
Scottish.  With  these  men  to  help  us,  we  may  well  give  ourselves  to 
a  quiet,  patient  consideration  of  our  own  methods,  out  of  which 
may  perhaps  come  a  new  zeal  for  the  College  and  a  new  insight  as 
to  the  ways  in  which  its  work  may  best  be  done. 

What  I  have  written  so  far  is  my  excuse  to  the  editor  of  the  Quar- 
terly for  not  having  kept  my  promise.  I  am  claiming  to  be  justi- 
fied by  having  done  something  of  much  greater  value  to  the  College. 
I  am  hoping  also  that  some  or  all  of  our  visitors  may  be  induced  to 
write  for  the  Quarterly  genuinely  informed  accounts  of  educa- 
tional procedure  abroad  as  they  have  known  it  in  their  own  colleges. 

I  should,  however,  be  unworthy  of  the  traveller's  tradition  if  I 
had  come  home  without  "impressions."  I  have  some,  in  fact  I 
have  three  groups  of  them,  very  external,  very  hastily  gathered, 
and  yet  perhaps  of  some  interest  to  the  graduates  of  a  liberal 
college  in  America. 

The  first  of  these  is  that  of  the  great  significance  for  us  of  the 
University  Tutorial  Class  movement  in  England  and  her  colonies. 
The  purpose  of  this  movement  is  to  give  genuine  liberal,  non-tech- 
nical instruction  of  college  grade  to  men  and  women  of  the  working 


English     Impressions  9 

classes.  The  teachers  of  the  classes  are  professors,  fellows,  and 
tutors  of  the  universities  and  colleges;  the  members  are  working 
men  and  women  who  pledge  themselves  to  serious  liberal  study. 
An  account  of  the  movement  is  given  by  Albert  Mansbridge  in  the 
August  Atlantic  of  the  present  year.  Mr.  Mansbridge  was  secre- 
tary of  the  first  Joint  Committee  of  the  Oxford  Tutorial  Classes, 
is  now  vice-chairman  of  the  General  Committee  on  Tutorial  Classes 
and  is  also  secretary  of  the  Workmen's  Educational  Association. 
He  is  coming  this  winter  to  give  lectures  at  the  Lowell  Institute 
and  has  promised  to  visit  Amherst  for  conference  and  the  making 
of  acquaintance. 

I  find  some  personal  interest  in  the  fact  that  the  first  of  the 
University  Tutorial  Classes  was  held  in  the  town  of  my  birth, 
Rochdale,  England,  and  that  it  was  taught  by  Mr.  Tawney  who 
comes  to  us  in  the  period  from  Easter  to  Commencement.  Inci- 
dentally Mr.  Tawney  has  raised  the  level  of  my  appreciation  of 
Rochdale.  I  had  known  it  was  the  birthplace  of  John  Bright,  the 
home  of  the  co-operative  movement,  and  a  center  for  professional 
foot  races  and  other  sports.  Mr.  Tawney  tells  me  that  in  spirit 
and  general  aptitude  for  intelligence  it  seems  to  him  the  best  of  the 
English  towns.  It  is  very  pleasant  to  find  one's  place  of  origin 
standing  so  high. 

iVs  for  the  Tutorial  Class  movement  itself,  I  am  sure  that  we 
should  give  it  very  careful  study.  It  is  radically  different  from  the 
University  Extension  movement  in  its  demand  for  serious  intellec- 
tual effort.  A  student  pledges  to  study  a  given  subject  for  three 
years,  writing  a  paper  in  each  of  the  twenty -four  weeks  of  a  year 
during  which  the  classes  run.  It  seems  to  be  thoroughly  estab- 
lished that  a  considerable  proportion  of  the  papers  written  by  men 
and  women  in  these  classes  are  of  the  grade  of  the  honors  papers  at 
Oxford  and  Cambridge. 

At  this  point,  as  at  some  others,  I  should  like  to  see  Amherst 
following  the  lead  which  Balliol  College  has  given  us.  Some  slight 
beginnings  have  already  been  made  in  this  country  but  I  am  hoping 
that  Mr.  Mansbridge's  visit  will  carry  us  far  beyond  the  stage  of 
mere  beginnings.  If  working  men  and  women  can  do  studying 
of  college  grade  when  guided  by  college  teachers,  if  our  institutions 
of  liberal  training  can  be  brought  into  frank  and  sympathetic 
touch  with  the  most  active  minds  of  the  working  population,  the 


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educational  possibilities  are  tremendous.  I  wish  that  Amherst 
might  have  a  part  in  the  making  of  the  attempt  here. 

The  second  point  that  seemed  to  me  especially  interesting  was 
that  the  ancient,  endowed  universities  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge 
are  applying  to  the  national  government  for  financial  aid  and  are 
submitting  to  government  inspection  in  their  hope  that  their  re- 
quest may  be  favorably  acted  upon.  It  appears  that  both  univer- 
sities find  it  necessary  after  the  war  to  increase  their  funds,  es- 
pecially those  devoted  to  scientific  laboratories  and  equipment. 
In  those  respects,  they  are  far  behind  American  institutions.  They 
have,  therefore,  made  application  to  the  government  for  grants  of 
money,  giving  detailed  accounts  of  present  expenditures.  In 
reply,  Mr.  H.  A.  L.  Fisher,  president  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
has  promised  favorable  consideration  of  the  request  on  condition 
that  the  universities  would  co-operate  with  the  government  in 
determining  whether  or  not  the  existing  resources  are  properly  ap- 
plied and  economically  used.  To  this  the  universities  have  agreed 
and  it  is  now  understood  that  a  Parliamentary  commission  will  be 
appointed  during  the  next  yeaj  to  make  examination  of  the  proce- 
dure of  the  universities.  It  is  announced  that  the  government  has 
decided  to  appropriate  at  least  half  a  million  pounds  to  the  univer- 
sities of  the  kingdom,  the  apportionment  not  yet  being  determined. 

In  this  situation  there  are  two  aspects  of  peculiar  interest.  The 
first  is  that  there  is  strong  popular  feeling,  especially  among  the 
workingmen,  that  the  funds  of  universities  and  colleges  have  been 
diverted  from  their  original  use  of  providing  for  relatively  indigent 
scholars  and  are  now  used  to  provide  leisure  and  some  instruction 
for  the  sons  of  the  wealthy  and  aristocratic  classes.  The  historical 
point  as  to  the  original  foundations  seems  to  be  not  very  well  taken. 
The  demand  for  present  changes  is,  however,  strong  and  spirited. 
It  is  the  appeal  for  genuinely  democratic  freedom  of  opportunity 
from  the  bottom  to  the  top  of  the  educational  scheme,  from  primary 
school  to  university. 

The  most  interesting  feature  of  the  situation  is  that  hitherto 
Oxford  and  Cambridge  have  steadfastly  refused  government  aid, 
fearing  government  control.  Now  they  ask  for  the  one  and  con- 
sent to  the  other.  Here  is  a  change  of  attitude  at  a  very  vital  point 
and  one  which  is  exceedingly  interesting  to  us  in  America  with  our 
sharp  separation  of  privately  endowed  and  publicly  supported 
institutions. 


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The  deepest  impression  which  I  got  of  EngUsh  education  was  that 
of  its  close  and  intimate  connection  with  actual  living.  The  Eng- 
lish universities  are  not  so  vocational  as  ours,  but  they  are  more 
practical.  On  my  first  evening  in  Oxford  I  heard  Lord  Milner  tell 
how  all  his  life  had  been  given  to  the  working  out  of  his  hopes  and 
aspirations  for  the  British  Empire,  which  found  their  first  formula- 
tion while  he  was  an  undergraduate.  In  a  very  different  way  I 
found  that  the  English  Civil  Service  offers  men  lines  of  activity 
toward  which  their  education  may  be  directed,  and  in  which  they 
may  find  permanent  and  successful  careers.  And  the  training  for 
this  service  is  not  technical  and  vocational.  It  is  rather  based  upon 
a  conviction  of  the  essential  value  of  liberal  education  for  actual 
living.  Through  and  through,  the  British  study  and  teaching 
seems  to  be  dominated  by  the  conviction  that  learning  leads  to  an 
end,  enables  men  to  do  successfully  the  things  which  a  man  ought 
to  attempt.  In  England  this  belief  has  gone  largely  into  the  convic- 
tion that  the  liberally  trained  man  will  best  serve  the  Empire.  And 
so  out  from  the  schools  and  colleges  have  gone  year  by  year  boys 
and  men  to  every  corner  of  the  world,  to  every  kind  of  social, 
political,  industrial,  human  relationship,  and  they  have  gone  with 
the  conviction  that  the  schools  were  sending  them  there.  I  envy 
the  British  teachers  that  conviction,  that  faith.  It  is  not  the 
notion  of  the  Empire  which  I  crave.  But  I  do  long  for  the  spirit 
which  it  inspires.  What  can  we  find  in  America  which  shall  do  the 
same  for  us?  What  ideal  end  shall  we  hold  up  before  our  boys  as 
the  goal  of  all  their  training,  the  common  value  of  all  their  separate 
pursuits?  Our  boys  are  craving  such  an  end  as  never  before. 
They  seem  to  me  less  selfish,  less  self -centered  than  ever  before. 
Can  we  give  them  the  vision  of  the  things  for  the  sake  of  which  it  is 
worth  while  to  forget  self?  Can  we  tell  them  or  help  them  to  see 
what  things  in  life  are  worth  living  for  and  worth  doing?  If 
we  can  see  these  things  and  make  of  them  a  sane,  practical  immedi- 
ate working  enterprise  we  shall  bring  into  American  education 
what  seems  to  me  the  most  precious  thing  in  the  British.  In  the 
hope  of  such  a  consummation  it  is  worth  while  trying  to  see  and  to 
do  what  one  can. 


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THE   'EIGHTY-FOUR  EXPEDITION 

ONE  of  the  gifts  to  the  College  last  Commencement  from  the 
class  of  '84,  the  restorers  of  College  Hall,  was  an  offer  to 
finance  a  geological  expedition  to  the  bad  lands  of 
Nebraska  and  Colorado  in  search  of  fossil  remains.  Professor 
Frederic  B.  Loomis  gladly  availed  himself  of  the  offer  in  order  to 
secure  specimens  of  Miocene  and  Oligocene  remains  to  supplement 
the  collection  of  early  horses,  camels,  and  other  mammals  brought 
to  the  College  Museum  by  previous  expeditions.  Scott's  Bluffs 
near  Gering,  Neb.,  was  selected  as  the  first  objective  of  the 
collectors. 

The  party  consisted  of  Professor  Loomis  and  Mr.  John  W.  Har- 
low, preparateur  of  the  department  of  Geology.  Tent,  sleeping- 
bags,  and  a  cooking  outfit  were  purchased  in  Amherst,  packed  on 
the  rear  of  a  Ford  delivery  truck,  and  on  June  30  the  expedition 
started  for  Nebraska  on  its  own  wheels,  camping  by  the  roadside 
at  night.  The  run  out  of  2125  miles  occupied  fourteen  days  with- 
out mishaps.  Besides  Scott's  Bluffs,  which  proved  not  to  be  so 
fertile  in  Miocene  deposits  as  the  geologists  had  hoped,  the  party 
visited  five  other  localities  in  western  Nebraska  and  eastern  Colo- 
rado, camping  near  ranch  houses  where  water  was  obtainable  and 
staying  in  each  place  from  a  few  days  to  three  weeks  as  they  found 
the  prospecting  scanty  or  plentiful.  By  the  end  of  the  summer 
collections  filling  eighteen  cases  had  been  shipped  to  Amherst. 
The  party  returned  in  the  Ford,  arriving  September  12. 

The  hunting  grounds  for  the  fossil  game  that  the  expedition  was 
after  are  the  bluffs  located  along  the  north  and  south  branches  of 
the  Platte  River.  These  bluffs  are  sometimes  as  much  as  seventy- 
five  miles  long,  sometimes  isolated  knobs  like  the  Pawnee  Buttes, 
rising  from  two  hundred  to  six  hundred  feet  above  the  present 
level  of  the  river  bottom.  They  are  composed  either  of  Miocene 
sandstones  of  the  flood  plain  type  or  of  a  sandstone  cap  underlaid 
by  Oligocene  clays,  locally  known  as  "magnesia"  and  representing 
the  drifted  dust  of  an  ancient  prairie.  The  Miocene  deposits  are 
estimated  to  be  about  a  million  and  a  half  years  old,  the  Oligocene 
a  million  years  older.     Along  the  eroded  sides  of  the  bluffs  the 


Pawnee  Buttes 


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geologists  scrambled,  searching  for  fragments  of  bone  brought  to 
the  surface  by  weathering.  After  locating  a  desirable  specimen, 
the  collectors  set  to  work  to  uncover  it  with  pick  and  shovel,  or 
when  the  embedding  rock  was  exceptionally  hard,  with  chisel  and 
mallet.  To  get  a  fossil  bone  out  in  good  condition  is  not  a  delicate 
operation  since  the  rock  usually  comes  away  from  the  bone  easily. 
In  fact  the  bagging  of  an  ancient  mammoth  tusk  or  rhinoceros 
bone  or  even  a  giraffe-camel  skeleton,  which  stands  fourteen  feet 
high  when  mounted,  is  a  sport  no  more  exhilarating  than  digging 
a  drain  or  cutting  letters  on  a  tombstone.  Often  the  monotony 
of  the  work  is  increased  by  days  of  search  with  only  a  few  dis- 
coveries. In  such  cases  the  party  soon  packs  up  its  equipment 
and  tries  another  region.  Again  a  spot  may  prove  exceptionally 
rich  in  choice  specimens  and  every  day's  collecting  brings  to  light 
new  material  of  scientific  interest. 

One  of  the  best  grounds  discovered  by  the  '84  expedition  was 
near  Grover,  Col.,  where  Professor  Loomis  unearthed  a  pocket  two 
to  three  feet  wide  and  six  feet  deep  filled  with  isolated  bones  and 
teeth,  a  geologist's  treasure  trove.  From  this  one  hole  came  175 
teeth,  mostly  of  two  or  three  species  of  horses,  but  representing 
also  the  giraffe-camel,  the  ruminating  hog  or  oreodon,the  mastodon, 
and  the  rhinoceros. 

Another  fertile  field  for  the  collectors  was  a  three  mile  stretch  of 
country  near  the  head  of  George  Creek  which  apparently  repre- 
sented an  old  river  bottom  with  its  adjacent  shelves.  Here  the 
party  remained  for  three  weeks,  working  and  reworking  the 
ground.  Their  search  yielded  the  most  important  find  of  the  sum- 
mer, a  nearly  complete  skeleton  of  the  Miocene  horse,  the 
second  ever  discovered.  They  also  found  the  skull  and  all  parts 
of  a  \arge  giraffe-camel,  most  of  an  oreodon,  the  skeleton  of  a 
horned  rodent  about  the  size  of  a  woodchuck,  and  the  antlers  of 
various  deer.  At  Pawnee  Buttes  a  farmer  visiting  the  geologists 
picked  up  a  fossil  egg  about  the  size  of  a  hen's  egg.  Only  two  or 
three  specimens  of  eggs  of  the  same  antiquity  are  known  to  scien- 
tists. This  one  had  been  in  storage  for  about  two  and  a  half  million 
years  and  was  perfect  except  for  one  or  two  cracks  in  the  shell. 
Asked  to  value  his  prize,  the  farmer  said  that  he  guessed  it  might 
be  worth  a  dollar,  and  Professor  Loomis  cheerfully  closed  the 
bargain. 


14    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

The  result  of  the  summer's  work  is  a  collection  which  Professor 
Loomis  describes  as  equal  to,  if  not  better  than  that  which  any 
expedition  has  brought  in.  The  complete  list  of  the  specimens 
secured  is  as  follows: 

1  horse  skeleton 
1  giraffe-camel  skeleton 
1  rodent  skeleton 
1  fossil  egg 
42  skulls 
136  lots  of  bones,  limbs,  jaws,  teeth,  turtles,  etc. 

These  have  been  brought  to  Anjherst,  and  Mr.  Harlow  is  now 
engaged  in  assembling  the  skeletons  and  preparing  the  choicer 
specimens  for  exhibition.  It  will  be  two  years,  however,  before 
the  entire  collection  can  be  put  into  shape.  Besides  accomplish- 
ing its  primary  object  of  securing  scarce  Miocene  material,  the 
expedition  brought  in  valuable  Oligocene  remains  to  add  to  those 
already  in  the  Amherst  collection.  With  these  accessions  Amherst 
now  possesses  a  collection  of  American  fossils  equal  to  that  of  any 
university  and  surpassed  only  by  the  collections  of  the  American 
Museum  of  Natural  History  and  the  National  Museum  at  Wash- 
ington. In  particular,  the  evolutionary  series  of  the  horse,  one  of 
the  most  interesting  to  students  of  comparative  anatomy,  is  repre- 
sented here  with  unusual  completeness.  Professor  Loomis  is 
already  preparing  the  first  of  a  series  of  papers  describing  the 
scientific  data  obtained  by  the  expedition.  Thus  through  the 
ready  generosity  of  the  class  of  '84  Amherst  has  been  enabled  con- 
siderably to  improve  its  position  on  the  paleontological  map. 


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A  NEW  PORTRAIT  OF  LORD   JEFF 

[The  connection  between  Amherst  College  and  Lord  Jeffrey  is  no  less  strong  for 
being,  not  historical,  but  entirely  sentimental.  His  name  is  sung  wherever  Amherst 
men  assemble,  and  copies  of  well  known  portraits  of  him  hang  in  the  Chapel  and  in 
College  Hall.  We  reproduce  as  a  frontispiece,  through  the  courtesy  of  Herbert  L. 
Pratt,  '95,  an  early  American  portrait  of  Amherst,  painted  while  he  was  victoriously 
campaigning  against  "the  Frenchmen  and  the  Indians."  The  following  notes  on 
the  painter  and  his  subject  are  taken  from  an  article  by  Lawrence  Park  on  "Two 
Portraits  by  Blackburn"  in  Art  in  America. — Editor.] 

AMHERST'S  career  may  be  so  easily  investigated  by  those 
who  are  interested  in  it  that  it  is  only  necessary  within  the 
limits  of  this  article  to  give  a  few  of  its  important  facts. 
He  was  born  in  England  in  the  county  of  Kent  in  1717  and  after  a 
series  of  promotions  was  selected  in  1758  by  Pitt  to  command  the 
expedition  which  had  for  its  purpose  the  British  conquest  of  the 
French  possessions  in  North  America.  The  expedition  sailed  in 
May,  and  Louisburg  surrendered  in  July.  In  the  following  July 
Amherst  captured  Fort  Ticonderoga,  and  in  September,  1760,  aided 
by  two  other  armies,  he  accomplished  the  fall  of  Montreal.  He  was 
at  once  appointed  Governor-General  of  British  North  America. 
He  returned  to  England  in  1763  and  in  1776  was  created  Baron 
Amherst.  He  died  at  Montreal,  his  seat  in  Kent,  in  1797,  and  the 
towns  of  Amherst  in  Nova  Scotia,  Massachusetts,  and  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  a  county  in  Virginia,  of  which  colony  he  was  at  one  time 
governor,  perpetuate  his  name  on  this  continent, 

Amherst  arrived  in  Boston  from  Louisburg  on  September  14, 
1758,  in  the  ship  Captain  and  "was  received  and  congratulated," 
says  the  contemporary  newspaper  account,  "with  the  Respect  and 
Esteem  due  to  so  brave  a  Commander.  The  Guns  at  Castle  Wil- 
liam and  those  on  the  Batteries  in  this  Town  and  at  Charlestown 
were  discharged  on  this  occasion  and  the  Bells  of  the  Town  were 
rung:  in  the  Evening  there  were  Bonfires  and  a  great  variety  of 
Fire-works  play'd  off.  Between  30  and  40  Transports  which  came 
out  under  Convoy  of  the  Captain  Man  of  War  are  also  arrived, 


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having  on  board  the  2d  BattaUon  of  Royal  Scots,  General  Forbes's, 
Lascelle's,  and  Webb's  Regiments,  and  also  Fraser's  Highlanders; 
they  arrived  here  in  good  Health,  and  were  all  disembarked  on 
Thm"sday  Morning  and  encamped  on  the  Common,  and  on  Satur- 
day Morning  (17  September)  they  decamped  and  proceeded  on  their 
march  for  Lake  George." 

Amherst  set  out  from  New  York  for  Boston  on  October  15th 
following  and  on  November  2d  set  sail  from  Cape  Ann  for  Halifax. 
Two  days  after  his  departure  a  vessel  reached  Boston  from  England 
bringing  his  commission  as  commander-in-chief  of  His  Majesty's 
forces  in  North  America.  Mr.  Pratt's  picture  was  thus  evidently 
painted  either  in  the  three  days  of  September  that  Amherst  passed 
in  Boston  or  more  probably  during  his  second  visit  in  the  last  two 
weeks  of  the  following  month. 

He  is  shown  wearing  a  red  coat  and  w^aistcoat,  both  with  brass 
buttons,  and  the  coat  with  black  lapels  and  cuffs.  A  black  cocked 
hat,  trimmed  with  a  silver  button,  rests  jauntily  upon  his  light 
brown  hair,  which  is  tied  in  a  queue,  with  one  end  of  the  black 
queue  bow  falling  carelessly  over  the  left  shoulder.  About  the 
neck  is  a  white  neckcloth,  and  ruffles  are  shown  at  his  wrist.  The 
complexion  is  ruddy  and  the  small  eyes  are  blue.  The  background 
is  composed  of  warm  tones  of  browns  and  olives.  The  pose  is 
dignified  and  the  expression  supercilious,  with  a  suggestion  of 
cruelty  lurking  about  the  eyes.  It  is  one  of  the  best  examples  of 
portraiture  painted  in  America  prior  to  1760  that  I  know  of — an 
excellent  piece  of  simple,  straightforward  workmanship,  and 
although  the  reproduction  conveys  this  impression  it  naturally  fails 
to  give  a  just  idea  of  the  brilliantly  decorative  qualities  of  the 
picture.  The  canvas  measures  31 1  inches  in  height  and  26  inches 
in  width  and  is  signed  in  the  lower  left  corner  with  the  artist's 
customarily  minute  signature  I.  Blackburn  Pinxit  1758.  It  thus 
antedates  by  seven  years  Reynold's  first  portrait  of  Amherst,  by 
ten  years  the  second  portrait,  and  by  about  sixteen  years  that  by 
Gainsborough,  and  shows  him  at  the  age  of  forty-one  and  at  the 
height  of  his  career.  The  fact  that  this  distinguished  visitor  to 
Boston  had  his  likeness  drawn  by  Blackburn  is  probably  not 
without  significance,  as  showing  the  relative  rank  of  the  artist  at 
this  time. 


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The  artist  of  this  portrait  presents  one  of  the  most  baffling  mys- 
teries in  the  history  of  early  art  in  this  country.  Were  it  not  for 
the  fact  that  his  signature  appears  upon  some  of  his  canvases,  it  is 
doubtful  if  his  name  would  have  survived,  for  no  contemporary 
record  of  him  has  yet  been  found  and  the  question  of  whence  he 
came  and  whither  he  went  remains  unanswered.  Tuckerman 
speaks  of  him  as  a  visiting  foreigner. 

The  earliest  date  found  upon  a  portrait  by  him  is  1754,  and  the 
latest  1761,  and  the  eight  years  included  within  these  two  dates 
may  be  fairly  assumed  to  cover  the  period  of  his  sojourn  in  this 
country.  Unlike  Smibert  and  Pelham,  he  seems  not  to  have  identi- 
fied himself  in  any  way  with  his  new  surroundings.  He  apparently 
bought  no  property,  associated  himself  with  no  church,  involved 
himself  in  no  legal  entanglements,  and  one  finds  no  reference  to  wife 
or  children,  yet  judging  from  the  social  position  of  his  sitters  he 
must  have  been  more  or  less  familiar  with  the  best  that  New  Eng- 
land had  to  offer.  His  sitters  look  like  what,  for  the  most  part,  they 
were,  the  members  of  the  New  England  aristocracy — rich  nabobs  of 
commerce,  with  their  wives  and  sons  and  daughters,  and  a  sprink- 
ling of  landed  proprietors,  governors,  judges,  and  gentlemen  of 
leisure — the  Apthorps,  Bowdoins,  Bethunes,  Ervings,  Faneuils, 
and  Phillips'  of  Boston  and  the  Atkinsons,  Cutts',  Warners,  and 
Wentworths  of  Portsmouth.  Generally  speaking,  however,  his 
portraits,  although  sincere  and  dignified,  are,  like  much  of  the 
product  of  this  school,  uninspired.  While  considerably  bound  by 
its  traditions,  he  nevertheless  often  shows  unexpected  freedom  in 
the  originality  and  variety  of  his  poses,  more  freedom,  Copley  and 
Charles  Willson  Peale  excepted,  than  any  other  painter  working  in 
this  country  before  the  Revolution,  but  his  sitters  as  a  rule  probably 
posed  only  for  the  head,  the  figure,  costume,  and  accessories  being 
usually  painted  from  the  lay  figure  and  studio  property.  Follow- 
ing a  common  custom  in  this  and  earlier  periods  and  habitually 
adopted  by  Sir  Peter  Lely,  he  frequently  shows  his  sitter  with  the 
face  slightly  averted,  but  with  the  eyes  directed  toward  the  specta- 
tor, a  pose  which,  in  the  case  of  his  portraits  of  young  women,  is  apt 
to  produce  an  effect  of  amusing  coyness  which,  though  affected,  is 
often  attractive.  His  portraits  of  men  are  more  studied  and  more 
convincing  in  the  analysis  of  character  than  those  of  his  women, 


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and  that  of  Thomas  Amory,  painted  in  1760,  when  compared 
with  Copley's  portrait  of  the  same  man  painted  about  fourteen 
years  later,  shows,  allowing  for  the  difference  in  the  sitter's  age, 
that  his  portraits  of  men  at  least  may  be  relied  upon  as  truthful 
likenesses. 


Sir  Herbert  Brown  Ames,   "85 


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THE  AMHERST  ILLUSTRIOUS 

SIR  HERBERT  AMES 

SIR  HERBERT  AMES,  Member  of  the  Canadian  Parliament 
for  the  St.  Antoine  division  of  Montreal,  has  recently  been 
appointed  by  the  Prime  Minister,  Sir  Robert  Borden,  to 
the  post  of  Financial  Director  in  the  Secretariat  of  the  League  of 
Nations.  He  sailed  for  Europe  early  in  September  to  assume  his 
new  duties.  His  appointment  should  be  a  matter  of  pride  to 
Amherst  College  and  particularly  to  the  class  of  1885  of  which  he 
was  a  member. 

The  post  which  Sir  Herbert  Ames  is  about  to  fill  is  practically 
that  of  a  business  manager  to  the  Secretariat.  He  has  explained 
the  office  in  his  own  words.  "The  peace  treaty,"  he  said,  "includes, 
of  course,  the  covenant  of  the  League  of  Nations.  When  the 
peace  treaty  has  been  ratified  by  the  various  signatory  powers  the 
League  of  Nations  becomes  automatically  an  established  fact. 
Now  the  League  of  Nations  provides  for  the  setting  up  at  Geneva 
of  a  permanent  secretariat.  This  will  be  a  sort  of  international 
expert  civil  service,  the  duties  of  which  will  be  to  gather  informa- 
tion and  prepare  data  to  be  submitted  to  the  council  of  the  League 
and  to  the  assembly  in  order  to  enable  them  to  make  their  decision 
on  accepted  facts.  The  covenant  has  thus  far  provided  only  for 
the  appointment  of  the  secretary-general.  Sir  Eric  Drummond,  a 
Scotchman,  who  has  had  life-long  experience  in  the  diplomatic 
service.  As  a  preliminary,  Sir  Eric  is  getting  in  touch  with  prom- 
inent men  in  all  parts  of  the  world  with  a  view  to  gathering  around 
him  a  body  of  experts  who  will  form  the  nucleus  of  the  permanent 
staff  of  the  League.  In  July  of  this  year  the  suggestion  was  made 
to  the  Canadian  Government  by  Sir  Eric  Drummond  through  the 
High  Commissioner's  office  in  London,  that  in  the  formation  of 
this  international  staff  Canada  should  furnish  a  financial  director 
of  the  internal  economy  of  the  organization. 

"The  work  that  will  fall  to  me,  as  I  understand  it,  will  be  to 
prepare  the  annual  budget  of  the  expenditure  of  the  secretariat 


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and  of  the  commissions  under  its  direction.  This  will  involve 
consultation  with  all  heads  of  departments,  and  a  review  of  their 
estimates.  If  the  League  of  Nations  is  the  success  which  we  hope 
and  anticipate  it  will  be,  this  expenditure  will,  doubtless,  be  very- 
large  within  a  short  time.  It  is  probable  that  the  League  will 
require  and  will  erect  permanent  quarters  in  Geneva." 

One  might  not  gather  from  his  modest  statement  the  great 
importance  and  value  of  Sir  Herbert  Ames's  work.  In  preparing 
budgets,  presenting  estimates  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  League 
Council,  arranging  for  the  collection  of  assessments,  and  supervis- 
ing the  expenditures  of  the  secretariat,  he  and  his  staff  will  be 
responsible  not  only  for  vast  expenditures  but  also  for  a  mass  of 
information  upon  the  accuracy  of  which  will  depend  many  of  the 
fair  and  just  decisions  of  the  League. 

Sir  Herbert  Ames  is  worthy  of  the  trust.  Born  in  Canada  of 
Massachusetts  and  New  York  stock,  he  received  his  education  at 
Amherst  College.  He  has  for  many  years,  as  a  leading  citizen  of 
Montreal,  devoted  much  study  and  time  to  civic  welfare  move- 
ments. At  the  outbreak  of  the  great  war  he  was  asked  by  the 
Governor  General  of  Canada  to  assume  the  position  of  honorary 
secretary  of  the  National  Canadian  Patriotic  Fund,  which  provides 
for  the  wives  and  dependent  relatives  of  soldiers.  The  marked 
success  attending  this  organization  was  largely  due  to  his  initiative 
efforts,  and  in  1915  Mr.  Ames  had  conferred  upon  him  the  honor 
of  knighthood  by  the  King.  His  facility  in  the  French  language, 
the  general  medium  of  communication  in  diplomatic  circles,  should 
be  valuable  to  him  in  his  new  post.  Sir  Herbert  has  travelled 
extensively  and  has  given  much  time  and  attention  to  the  discus- 
sion of  trade  questions,  tariffs,  and  treaties,  with  other  countries. 


Hp:rbert  Levi  Osgood,  '77 


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HERBERT  LEVI  OSGOOD 

HERBERT  LEVI  OSGOOD,  M.A.,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  was 
born  at  Canton,  Me.,  on  April  9,  1855,  the  son  of 
Stephen  and  Joan  (Staples)  Osgood.  He  fitted  for 
College  at  Wilton  Academy,  Wilton,  Me.,  and  after  his  graduation 
in  1877  taught  at  Worcester  Academy  until  1879.  He  then  took 
a  post-graduate  course  in  History  and  Political  Economy  in 
Amherst, '79-'80;  at  Yale,  '80-'81,  and  in  Berlin,  Germany,  '81-'82. 
Returning  to  America  he  taught  in  the  Boys'  High  School,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  for  six  years,  1883-1889.  He  then  became  adjunct 
professor  of  History  in  Columbia  University,  New  York  City,  in 
1890,  and  in  1896  was  made  full  professor  in  that  Department, 
continuing  in  that  position  until  his  death  at  Brentwood,  N.  Y., 
on  September  11,  1918.  He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Ph.D. 
from  Columbia  in  1889  and  that  of  LL.D.  from  Amherst  in  1907, 
on  the  occasion  of  the  thirtieth  anniversary  of  his  graduation. 
For  nearly  nine  years  Professor  Osgood  was  almost  constantly 
engaged  in  research  work  upon  the  topic,  "The  American  Colo- 
nies in  the  Eighteenth  Century,"  which  work  was  nearly  completed 
when  it  was  interrupted  by  this  gifted  scholar's  death.  On  July 
22, 1885,  Dr.  Osgood  was  married  to  Caroline  A.  Simonds,  daughter 
of  the  Rev.  A.  H.  Simonds,  of  Pownal,  Vt.,  who,  with  two  of  their 
three  children,  survives  him. 

A  discriminating  appreciation  of  the  character  and  value  of 
Professor  Osgood's  life  work,  the  History  to  which  reference  has 
been  made  above,  has  been  written  at  the  request  of  the  class  of 
1877  by  Professor  Munroe  Smith  of  Columbia  University.  It  is 
here  reprinted  as  a  worthy  tribute  to  a  distinguished  Amherst 
scholar. 

PROFESSOR  Osgood's  "history  of  the  American  colonies" 

With  the  publication,  in  1904,  of  the  first  two  volumes  of  his 
History  of  the  American  Colonies,  Osgood  won  for  himself  a  unique 
place  in  the  front  rank  of  American  historians.  To  scholars  he 
was  already  well  and  favorably  known  by  articles  in  scientific 
reviews.     It  was  this  earlier  work,  done  in  spite  of  the  grinding 


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drudgery  of  his  high-school  teaching  (1883-89),  that  secured  for 
him,  in  1890,  a  seat  in  the  Columbia  Faculty  of  Political  Science 
and  the  opportunity,  first  to  devote  himself  to  English  and  Ameri- 
can history,  and  later  to  concentrate  his  labors  on  the  history  of 
the  thirteen  colonies  in  which  our  separate  national  existence 
began. 

Earlier  writers  on  our  colonial  period  (as  has  been  recently 
pointed  out  by  one  of  Osgood's  pupils,  who  later  became  one  of 
his  colleagues)  had  concentrated  their  attention  on  the  immediate 
causes  of  the  American  revolt  against  British  authority  and  had 
presented  evidence  selected  to  justify  this  revolt  rather  than  objec- 
tive descriptions  or  judicial  analyses  of  the  clash  between  British 
imperial  and  American  local  interests.  In  dealing  with  our  earlier 
colonial  history,  American  writers  had  given  disproportionate 
space  to  the  details  of  discovery,  exploration  and  settlement  and 
had  bridged  the  century  and  a  half  between  first  settlements  and 
revolt  with  "a  series  of  more  or  less  picturesque  episodes."  In 
Osgood's  judgment  the  real  foundations  of  our  national  life  were 
to  be  sought  in  the  political  and  legal  institutions  of  the  colonies 
and  in  the  gradual  adaptation  of  these  transplanted  institutions  to 
their  new  environment.  For  this  task  he  was  prepared  by  the 
study  of  economics  as  well  as  politics  and  by  familiarity  with 
English  history  and  institutions.  His  further  studies  were  prose- 
cuted on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  Three  periods  of  investiga- 
tion in  England  (1889-90,  1908-09,  and  1914)  enabled  him  to 
appreciate  the  imperial  side  of  colonial  questions.  The  data  found 
in  England,  together  with  those  collected  by  extended  researches 
in  each  of  the  thirteen  original  states,  furnished  the  material  for  his 
monumental  work.  Of  this  a  third  volume  appeared  in  1907. 
These  volumes  won  him  the  Loubat  prize  (awarded  once  every 
five  years  for  the  most  valuable  contribution  to  American  history, 
archaeology  or  ethnology)  and  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Amherst. 
He  has  left  four  more  volumes,  completed  and  almost  ready  for 
the  press,  bringing  the  narrative,  as  he  had  planned  from  the  out- 
set, down  to  the  eve  of  the  War  of  Independence.  An  article  by 
him  in  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica  (11th  edition,  vol.  27,  pp. 
633-684)  gives  his  own  digest  of  the  entire  work  and  sets  forth 
many  of  his  conclusions. 

Osgood  has  studied  in  Germany  (1881-83)  as  well  as  in  American 


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universities,  and  in  all  his  work  he  exhibited  the  best  qualities 
of  European  scholarship,  particularly  an  unwillingness  to  accept, 
without  personal  verification,  the  traditional  version  of  events — 
what  Voltaire  called  the  fable  convenue.  He  was  tireless  in  his 
search  for  the  most  direct  and  authentic  evidence.  Here  inheri- 
tfince  and  early  environment  perhaps  counted  even  more  than 
precept;  for  Osgood  came  of  Puritan  stock  and  his  historical  con- 
science had  much  of  the  stifiF  texture  of  the  Puritan  soul.  To  this, 
however,  he  added  a  quality  of  mind  that  is  rare  in  any  country, 
and  perhaps  rarer  in  Germany  than  in  England  or  in  France — an 
instinctive  perception  of  the  central  and  significant  factors  and 
processes  of  social  development.  His  presentation  of  facts  and 
conclusions  is  terse  and  clear, 

A  work  like  Osgood's  history  of  the  American  Colonies  cannot 
be  expected  to  reach  a  very  wide  circle  of  readers.  Institutional 
history  lacks  the  human  appeal  of  biographical  history,  in  which 
the  personal  agency  of  great  men  is  emphasized.  Moreover  the 
historian  who  strives  to  be  fair — and  Osgood  had  a  strong  sense  of 
justice — is  less  interesting  than  those  writers  who  take  sides. 
There  is  a  natural  warmth  in  advocacy  that  is  lacking  in  the  dry 
light  of  a  judicial  opinion.  Osgood's  volumes,  however,  will  be 
read  by  all  students  who  wish  to  gain  anything  more  than  a  super- 
ficial knowledge  of  the  historical  foundations  of  our  national  life. 
They  will  be  studied  by  the  writers  of  more  popular  histories,  and 
his  views  and  conclusions  will  thus  help  to  mould  American  and 
world  opinion. 

A  similar  indirect  and  wide-reachmg  influence  has  long  been 
exerted  upon  American  life  and  thought  through  Osgood's  activity 
as  a  teacher  of  graduate  students.  Many  of  these  hold  teaching 
positions  in  American  universities  and  colleges;  many  have  sup- 
plemented his  work  by  special  studies  in  the  history  of  particular 
sections  or  single  commonwealths.  In  his  work  with  his  pupils 
Osgood  was  always  the  comrade  in  quest  of  truth,  not  the  master 
seeking  to  make  disciples.  From  him  they  gained,  before  all 
things,  distrust  of  superficial  views  and  a  priori  judgments  and 
skepticism  as  regards  accepted  statements — in  a  word,  the  cult 
of  the  historical  conscience. 


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COLLEGE   NOTES 

faculty  changes 

A  large  number  of  changes  on  the  Faculty  were  necessitated  this 
year  by  the  resignations  of  Professors  Lancaster,  Corsa,  Utter, 
and  Zinn,  by  the  absence  on  leave  of  Professors  Phillips,  Young, 
Toll,  Stowell,  and  Goodale,  and  by  the  termination  of  the  interim 
appointments  made  after  the  S.  A.  T.  C.  period.  Professor  Newlin 
also  left  just  before  College  opened  to  spend  a  portion  of  the  year 
in  reconstruction  work  in  Serbia.  Professor  Churchill  has  returned 
to  teaching  after  three  terms  in  the  Massachusetts  Senate,  and 
Professor  F.  L.  Thompson  after  a  year  with  the  Foyer  du  Soldat 
in  France.  Twelve  new  men  have  been  added  to  the  staff,  four 
professors  from  other  colleges  are  giving  one  or  more  courses  each 
in  Amherst,  and  three  Oxford  tutors  will  visit  the  College  for  sev- 
eral months. 

Decidedly  the  most  interesting  development  in  the  personnel  of 
the  Faculty  is  the  coming  of  these  distinguished  English  scholars  to 
take  part  in  the  teaching  of  economics  and  history.  Mr.  Ernest 
Barker  and  Mr.  R.  H.  Tawney  are  expected  to  be  in  Amherst,  the 
first  from  January  till  Easter,  the  second  from  Easter  till  Com- 
mencement. Mr.  Henry  Clay  will  also  come  to  Amherst  for  a 
short  period  if  the  political  situation  in  England  permits  him  to  do 
so.  Ernest  Barker  is  a  graduate  of  Balliol,  one  time  fellow  of  St. 
John's  and  Merton  colleges,  and  now  senior  history  tutor  in  New 
College.  He  is  the  author  of  "The  Political  Philosophy  of  Plato 
and  Aristotle"  and  "Political  Theories  in  England."  R.  H.  Taw- 
ney was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Balliol.  He  has  been  fellow  of 
Balliol,  first  tutor  of  University  Tutorial  Classes,  labor  candidate 
for  Parliament  from  Rochdale  in  1918,  and  a  member  of  the  Coal 
Commission.  He  has  published  "The  Agrarian  Problem  of  the 
Sixteenth  Century"  and  "Studies  in  the  Minimum  Wage."  He 
enlisted  and  saw  active  service  until  he  was  wounded  in  1916.  Mr. 
Clay  is  well  known  as  the  author  of  "Economics,  an  Introduction 
■  for  the  General  Reader. "  He  graduated  from  University  College, 
was  a  tutor  of  tutorial  classes  from  1909-17,  served  in  the  Ministry 


CollegeNotes  25 

of  Labour  (Whitby  Report)  1917-18,  and  lectured  at  Leeds  Uni- 
versity, 1912-16.  The  Nation  (27  Sept.)  makes  the  following 
editorial  comment  upon  these  appointments:  "Amherst  is  to  be 
congratulated  on  securing  the  services  of  three  such  men  as  Ernest 
Barker,  R.  H.  Tawney,  and  Henry  Clay.  The  business  of  exchange 
professorships  in  the  past  has  been  far  too  much  a  matter  of  send- 
ing distinguished  scholars  to  serve  as  purveyors  of  compliments  to 
the  universities  and  especially  to  the  official  classes  of  the  countries 
to  which  they  were  accredited.  .  .  .  We  need  to  understand 
better  the  identity  of  spirit  and  purpose  between  progressive  Ameri- 
can and  British  thought.  The  coming  of  independent,  fearless, 
sound  British  scholars  is  therefore  to  be  welcomed  as  an  event  of 
real  importance.     We  cannot  have  too  many  of  them." 

President  Meiklejohn  secured  two  other  teachers  from  abroad 
during  his  summer  trip.  M.  Louis  Landre  of  the  University  of 
Paris  joins  the  French  department  as  instructor.  Mr.  George 
Browii  of  the  University  of  Edinburgh  is  giving  instruction  in 
Greek  and  Philosophy.  Other  new  members  of  the  Faculty  are 
Clarence  E.  Ayres,  a  graduate  of  Brown,  who  taught  in  Amherst 
three  years  ago  and  who  returns  for  the  first  term  only  as  associate 
professor  of  Philosophy;  Mr.  Robert  Phillips,  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Michigan,  who  becomes  instructor  in  Social  and  Eco- 
nomic Institutions.  In  addition  four  teachers  from  neighboring 
colleges  are  giving  courses  at  Amherst:  Professors  Schintz  of 
Smith  and  MacKimmie  of  M.  A.  C.  in  French,  Professor  Warbeke 
of  Mount  Holyoke  in  Philosophy,  and  Professor  Laurence  H. 
Parker,  who  now  belongs  to  the  staff  of  M.  A.  C,  in  Descriptive 
Geometry. 

Besides  these  teachers  new  to  the  College  Amherst  welcomes  eight 
alumni  to  positions  on  the  Faculty:  Horatio  E.  Smith,  '08,  comes 
from  two  years'  service  as  regional  director  in  the  Foyer  du  Soldat 
to  be  professor  of  Romance  Languages;  George  Scatchard,  '13, 
becomes  associate  professor  of  Chemistry;  Chilton  L.  Powell,  '07, 
instructor  in  English  and  Public  Speaking;  Everett  Glass,  '14, 
instructor  of  English  and  coach  of  Dramatics;  Walter  R.  Agard, 
'15,  instructor  of  Greek;  Mervin  Bliss,  '14,  assistant  in  Physics; 
Theodore  L.  Widmayer,  '17,  assistant  in  Physical  Education,  and 
Reginald  Manwell,  '19,  assistant  in  Biology.  L.  Seelye  Bixler, 
'16,  is  the  holder  of  a  new  position  on  the  Faculty,  that  of  director 


26    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

of  Religious  Activities,  which  supersedes  the  old  office  of  graduate 
secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  The  task  of  preserving  the  identity 
of  the  College  is  made  difficult  by  the  many  changes  on  the  Fac- 
ulty, but  with  the  help  of  graduates  of  Amherst  who  now  return  as 
teachers  it  should  be  successfully  accomplished. 

freshman  athletes 

For  the  present  year  Amherst  is  assured  of  strong  teams  in  nearly 
every  branch  of  athletics.  Graduation,  however,  will  deprive  us 
of  a  number  of  veteran  players.  The  athletic  promise  of  the  enter- 
ing class  is  therefore  a  matter  of  especial  interest.  In  football  the 
Freshmen  have  a  strong  offensive  team,  which,  supplemented  by  a 
few  upperclassmen,  has  given  a  good  account  of  itself  against  the 
'Varsity.  The  line  is  light,  but  in  the  backfield  Johnson  at  full- 
back, Wood  and  Daniels  at  half,  and  Jillson  at  quarter  have  shown 
effective  ground-gaining  power.  These  light,  fast  backs  with 
Card,  Zink,  Demarest,  and  Brisk  of  the  present  'Varsity  still  in  the 
running  should  give  Coach  Gettell  material  for  a  powerful  striking 
weapon  in  next  season's  games.  The  participation  of  Freshmen  in 
second  semester  contests  should  considerably  strengthen  the  track, 
swimming,  and  tennis  teams.  In  baseball  practically  the  entire 
team  of  last  year  is  still  in  College,  and  with  Ducharme,  '23,  added 
to  the  pitching  staff,  the  prospects  for  a  winning  season  are  unusu- 
ally bright.  Among  Freshmen  track  stars  R.  H.  Clark  can  be 
reckoned  on  for  points  in  the  high  jump  and  the  sprints,  Johnson 
in  the  pole  vault.  Murphy  in  the  quarter  mile,  and  A,  C.  Fairley 
in  the  mile.  Professor  Marsh  is  developing  the  class  as  a  whole  in 
the  hundred  yard  dash,  broad  jump,  and  shot  put,  in  the  hope  of 
winning  for  the  second  time  the  nation-wide  Freshman  athletic 
contest,  which  the  class  of  1922  won  by  a  handy  margin  over  the 
Freshmen  of  thirty-two  other  colleges.  For  the  swimming  team 
Wood,  Kilby,  Stimson,  and  Spear  should  make  the  relay  or 
figure  in  the  sprints.  Basket-ball  material  has  not  yet  been  dis- 
closed, and  though  a  large  number  of  Freshmen  entered  the  Fresh- 
man-Sophomore tennis  tournament,  none  have  shown  ability  to 
fill  the  places  on  the  tennis  team  left  vacant  by  the  graduation  of 
Capt.  Hendrickson  and  Davis.  This  year  the  contest  for  the 
Williaras-Amherst  trophy  should  be  close,  and  upon  the  ability 
of  the  Freshman  athletes  to  maintain  their  eligibility  the  decision 
may  rest. 


CollegeNotes  27 


CHRISTIAN   ASSOCIATION 

The  Christian  Association  is  placed  this  year  upon  a  new  footing 
by  the  appointment  to  the  Faculty  of  Julius  Seelye  Bixler,  '16, 
as  director  of  Religious  Activities.  The  director  will  take  charge 
of  the  religious  life  of  the  college  in  all  its  phases,  including  the 
Christian  Association,  which  is  no  longer  controlled  by  a  graduate 
secretary.  The  most  important  change  inaugurated  by  Mr.  Bixler 
will  be  in  the  scope  of  the  Sunday  evening  meetings,  which  this 
year  will  consist,  not  as  in  the  past  of  a  medley  of  economic,  ethi- 
cal, and  literary  talks,  but  of  an  organized  course  in  the  meaning 
of  religion  and  of  its  application  both  in  college  and  in  the  various 
professions.  Such  men  as  President  McGiffert  of  Union  Theolog- 
ical Seminary,  Henry  F.  Ward,  author  and  social  worker,  Dr.  Joel 
E.  Goldthwait,  Howard  S.  Bliss  of  Beirut,  Syria,  and  Rabbi 
Stephen  S.  Wise  are  announced  among  the  speakers  for  the  year. 
The  meetings  of  the  association  will  be  devotional  as  well  as  inform- 
ative. Another  important  phase  of  the  Christian  Association 
work  will  be  the  opening  of  opportunities  for  direct  social  service  in 
Amherst  and  the  vicinity.  Classes  in  English  for  foreigners  will 
be  carried  on  with  the  co-operation  of  the  School  Committee  of 
Amherst,  Boys'  Clubs  will  be  organized  in  the  Amherst  High  School 
and  at  Grace  Church,  Holyoke,  and  the  Amherst  Vacation  School 
of  Holyoke  will  be  revived  next  summer  with  an  Amherst  College 
student  at  its  head.  It  is  the  policy  of  the  College  that  henceforth 
all  undergraduate  religious  activities  shall  be  controlled  by  a  man 
of  both  collegiate  and  thorough  theological  training. 

FALL   ATHLETICS 

Amherst  will  be  represented  this  fall  by  a  soccer  team,  the  first 
in  the  history  of  the  College.  In  response  to  a  petition  from  a 
number  of  men  interested  in  the  sport  and  willing  to  pay  their  own 
expenses,  the  Faculty  has  voted  to  authorize  the  organization  of  a 
'Varsity  soccer  team  on  condition  that  no  member  of  the  team 
shall  be  at  the  same  time  a  member  of  the  Rugby  football  squad. 
Soccer  has  been  popular  as  an  interclass  game  for  several  years — 
an  interclass  series  was  played  during  the  latter  part  of  October — 
and  Professor  Marsh  of  the  department  of  Physical  Education 
expects  to  have  no  difficulty  in  getting  out  men  to  form  two  teams 
from  which  the  'Varsity  can  be  selected.     Amherst's  participation 


28    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

in  intercollegiate  hockey  has  also  been  approved  by  the  Faculty, 
but  no  man  on  the  hockey  team  is  allowed  to  play  basketball. 
The  organization  of  these  teams  and  the  restrictions  on  their 
membership  both  spring  from  the  conviction  that  as  many  under- 
graduates as  possible  should  have  a  chance  to  take  part  in  inter- 
collegiate contests. 

An  unusual  number  of  track  meets  have  been  a  feature  of  the 
autumn  months.  The  Freshmen  handily  defeated  the  Sopho- 
mores in  the  annual  Cider  Meet  by  a  score  of  115-74,  R.  H.  Clark, 
'23,  winning  both  dashes  and  the  high  jump  and  taking  second 
place  in  the  broad  jump.  A  practice  meet  with  M.  A.  C.  in  which 
both  'Varsity  and  Freshmen  teams  were  to  take  part  had  to  be 
canceled,  but  a  Sabrina  meet — even  classes  against  odd — ^was 
arranged  in  its  place.  Cross-country  running  as  a  sport  elective 
is  also  attracting  a  number  of  men. 

Interfraternity  athletics  are  likewise  flourishing.  Alpha  Delta 
Phi  was  the  victor  in  the  interfraternity  doubles  tennis  tourna- 
ment, defeating  Phi  Kappa  Psi  three  sets  to  two  in  a  hard-fought 
match.  An  interfraternity  golf  contest  was  also  in  progress  as  the 
Quarterly  went  to  press. 

FOOTBALL  SCORES 

Amherst  3 — Bowdoin  0,  at  Amherst 
Amherst  2 — ^N.  Y.  University  0,  at  Amherst 
Amherst  12 — Union  0,  at  Schenectady 
Amherst  48 — ^Trinity  7,  at  Hartford 
Amherst  vs.  Columbia  in  New  York  City 
Amherst  vs.  W,  P.  I.  in  Amherst 
Amherst  vs.  Wesleyan  in  Amherst 
Amherst  vs.  Williams  in  Williamstown 


Sept. 

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Oct. 

11. 

Oct. 

18. 

Oct. 

25. 

Nov. 

1. 

Nov. 

8. 

Nov. 

15. 

THE 

Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Published  by  THE   ALUMNI    COUNCIL   OF   AMHERST    COLLEGE 
George  F.  Whicher,  Editor  John  B.  O'Brien,  Associate  Editor 

Publication  Committee 
Robert  W.  Maynard,  '02,  Chairman      Frederick  S.  Allis,  '93,  Secretary 
Gilbert  H.  Grosvenor,  '97  Frederick  K.  Kretschmar,  '01 

Clifford  P.  Warren,  '03  George  F.  Whicher,  '10 

Published  in  November,  February,  May,  and  August 
Address  all  communications  to  Box  607,  Amherst,  Mass. 
Subscription,  $2.00  a  year  Single  copies,  50  cents 

Advertising  rates  furnished  on  request 

Copyright,  1919,  by  the  Alumni  Council  of  Amherst  College 

Entry  as  second-class  matter  at  the  post-office  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  pending 


EDITORIAL   NOTES 

PROFESSOR  JOHN  FRANKLIN  GENUNG  died  at  his 
home  in  Amherst  after  a  brief  ilhiess  on  October  1.  His 
sudden  death  came  as  a  shock  to  his  many  friends  in  the 
College  and  the  town.  Until  within  a  day  or  two  of  the  end  he 
was  taking  an  active  part  in  the  production  of  the  November 
Quarterly  and  laying  plans  for  his  projected  Centennial  History 
of  Amherst  College.  Had  he  lived  until  January  he  would  have 
completed  his  seventieth  year. 

No  hurried  appreciation  should  be  written  of  a  man  whose 
whole  life  was  a  model  of  ripe  deliberation.  Of  Nungie's  services 
as  a  teacher  in  Amherst  College,  of  his  industrious  and  fruitful 
scholarship,  of  his  keenly  sympathetic  interpretation  of  literature, 
of  the  large  humanity  that  endeared  him  to  colleagues  and  pupils, 
the  Quarterly  will  publish  memorials  in  the  coming  issue.  Here 
we  would  speak  only  of  his  loss  to  this  magazine,  of  which  he  was 
for  seven  years  the  editor.  Under  his  direction  the  Quarterly 
assumed  from  the  start  a  leading  position  among  college  alumni 
publications.  It  was  received  outside  of  Amherst  circles  by  libra- 
ries which  admitted  no  other  magazine  of  its  kind.     Its  success  was 


30    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

in  large  measure  due  to  his  liberal  conception  of  what  an  Amherst 
Alumni  magazine  ought  to  be,  to  his  insight  in  linking  college  prob- 
lems to  important  issues  in  education  and  citizenship,  and  not  least 
to  the  genial  contributions  from  his  own  pen  which  appeared  from 
quarter  to  quarter  in  The  College  Window.  These  inimitable 
papers,  interrupted  by  the  war,  were  to  have  been  made  a  feature 
of  the  new  Quarterly.  The  College  Window  for  the  present 
number  lay  on  Nungie's  desk  at  the  time  of  his  death,  engrossed  in 
that  beautiful  script  which  marked  every  bit  of  his  writing  as  a 
labor  of  love.  Nothing  in  the  article  betrays  any  lessening  of  his 
powers  or  hints  that  it  was  to  be  his  last.  In  the  loss  of  his  happy 
fund  of  recollections,  his  shrewd  and  kindly  judgment,  his  fine  gift 
of  expression,  and  his  painstaking  editorial  care,  the  Quarterly 
suffers  an  irreparable  bereavement. 


WE  are  all  concerned  ...  in  having  a  magazine  which 
shall  be  broadly  representative  of  Amherst  College, — 
not  only  of  its  current  life,  as  this  is  lived  from  day  to 
day,  but  of  its  deeper  and  matilrer  life,  as  this  is  reflected  in  the 
goodly  body  of  alumni  who  bear  its  influence  into  later  years. 
Amherst  lays  a  power  upon  the  student  of  which  he  is  only  partially 
aware  until  it  has  become  a  memory.  Then  the  old  friendships, 
scholarly  pursuits,  activities,  return  upon  him  with  strangely 
augmented  value,  and  the  continued  welfare  and  progress  of  the 
institution  with  which  he  has  been  so  intimately  identified  becomes 
one  of  the  great  interests  of  his  life.  But  Amherst  has  a  past,  too, — 
a  list  of  men  and  ideals  of  which  he  is  proud;  and  a  future,  prophe- 
sied in  her  growth,  her  developing  purpose,  her  response  to  the 
movements  of  the  time.  It  is  becoming  more  truly  the  place  where 
his  sons  after  him,  and  the  sons  of  his  friends,  may,  with  assured 
confidence,  find  their  cultural  home.  All  these  things  we,  as 
graduates,  are  concerned  to  keep  in  mind.  It  is  ours  to  promote 
and  defend  her  interests,  that,  as  new  and  larger  occasions  rise, 
neither  she  nor  we  shall  fall  behind  in  the  high  objects  for  which  she 
stands." 

In  these  words  the  first  editor  of  the  Quarterly  stated  its  pur- 
poses as  an  alumni  publication.  They  are  reprinted  now  as  a 
pledge  to   Amherst  men   that  under   its  new  management   the 


Editorial    Notes  31 

magazine  will  attempt  to  perform  the  functions  broadly  conceived 
and  ably  executed  by  Professor  Genung  in  the  seven  years  of  his 
editorship.  During  the  war  the  Quarterly  was  kept  alive  as  a 
bulletin,  edited  by  the  secretary  of  the  Alumni  Council,  to  record 
the  history  of  the  College  under  the  military  regime  and  the  doings 
of  the  alumni,  especially  of  those  in  national  service.  Now  that 
the  magazine  resumes  its  former  scope,  it  is  proper  to  define  again 
the  services  that  it  offers  to  Amherst  graduates. 

In  its  simplest  aspect  the  Quarterly  is  no  more  than  what  it  has 
been  during  the  war,  a  budget  of  alumni  news.  Nearly  one  half  of 
each  issue  is  given  over  to  a  record,  class  by  class,  of  what  Amherst 
men  are  doing  and  to  the  minutes  of  the  Alumni  Council  and  of  the 
various  alumni  associations.  For  the  publishing  of  this  essential 
information  no  other  organ  of  the  College  exists.  In  giving  news  of 
the  College,  however,  the  Quarterly  is  restricted  by  its  infrequent 
appearance  and  by  the  three  or  four  weeks  necessary  to  the  printing 
of  each  issue.  Consequently  it  leaves  to  the  Student  the  reporting 
of  college  news  and  records  only  those  events  whose  significance 
does  not  lie  in  their  novelty. 

The  main  function  of  the  Quarterly  is  to  record  the  successive 
milestones  in  the  development  of  Amherst,  to  discuss  its  policy  as 
an  educational  mechanism,  and  to  elucidate  the  workings  of  that 
unseen  force  known  as  the  Amherst  spirit.  To  these  ends  all  the 
articles  in  the  magazine  will  be  devoted.  As  we  reach  the  con- 
sciousness of  a  hundred  years  of  existence,  some  will  be  backward 
looking,  searching  out  the  purposes  and  character  of  the  men  who 
shaped  the  College  as  she  today  is.  Others  will  be  records  of  recent 
achievements  by  Amherst  graduates,  whether  in  the  advancement 
of  knowledge  or  in  the  execution  of  high  trust.  Still  others  will  deal 
with  the  future,  with  the  growing  needs  of  the  College,  with  the 
more  effective  working  of  its  social  and' academic  systems. 

It  is  not  the  part  of  an  alumni  magazine  to  take  sides  in  any  dis- 
cussion involving  the  welfare  of  the  College.  Its  pages  are  open  to 
the  expression  of  all  shades  of  opinion,  and  now  that  educational 
changes  are  in  the  air,  it  especially  welcomes  vigorous  criticism  of 
Amherst's  procedure  in  any  field  of  collegiate  interest.  And  it  will 
welcome  answers  to  such  criticism  with  the  same  enthusiasm. 

As  it  declines  to  be  a  medium  for  the  propaganda  of  one  party 
or  another  within  the  College,  the  Quarterly  refuses  likewise  any 


32    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

call  to  celebrate  even  Amherst  itself  in  a  partisan  spirit.  It  is  not 
an  advertising  sheet  for  the  College,  nor  does  it  believe  that  Am- 
herst requires  such  a  publication.  The  best  advertisement  of 
Amherst  is  the  men  that  she  turns  out.  The  Quarterly  exists 
primarily,  not  that  graduates  may  through  it  celebrate  the  merits 
of  the  College  to  the  world  at  large,  but  in  order  that  Amherst  men 
may  speak  quietly  among  themselves  of  those  college  interests 
which  they  have  in  common. 


The    Alumni    Council 


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OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 


Last  June  the  Trustees  referred  to  the 
Alumni  Council  certain  questions  for 
consideration  and  report.  When  the 
Executive  Committee  came  to  consider 
them,  it  was  felt  that  an  intelligent  an- 
swer really  depended  on  completer 
information  than  they  had  as  to  the 
general  needs  and  plans  of  the  College, 
and  it  was  therefore  decided  to  suggest 
to  the  President  and  Trustees  that  the 
Alumni  Council  hold  a  special  meeting  in 
Amherst  this  autumn  to  consider  the 
questions  which  had  been  referred  to  it 
and  especially  to  acquaint  the  members 
of  the  Council  as  far  as  possible  with  the 
actual  work  of  the  College,  its  plans, 
prospects,  and  needs. 

The  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Council  accordingly  invited  the  Presi- 
dent, the  Dean,  the  Secretary  of  the 
Faculty,  and  certain  Trustees  to  meet 
with  them  to  consider  the  suggestion. 
As  a  result  of  this  conference  it  was 
decided  to  call  a  special  meeting  of  the 
Council  in  Amherst  on  November  7,  8, 
and  9.  An  interesting  program  was 
being  arranged  as  the  Quarterly  went 
to  press,  and  it  was  hoped  that  a  large 
number  of  the  Council  would  avail 
themselves  of  the  opportunity  to  become 
familiar  with  the  working  of  the  College 
in  its  educational,  administrative,  and 
athletic  and  social  aspects. 

At  no  time  since  the  Alumni  Council 
was  organized  has  there  been  a  greater 
interest  on  the  part  of  its  members  or  a 
greater  desire  to  be  of  service  to  the 
College.  The  regular  fall  meetings  of 
the  various  committees  have  been  held 


and  plans  formulated  for  an  active  year. 
F.  J.  E.  Woodbridge,  '89,  is  chairman 
of  the  Executive  Committee;  Dwight 
W.  Morrow,  '95,  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee; Cornelius  J.  Sullivan,  '92,  of 
the  Athletic  Committee;  Henry  W. 
Giese,  '02,  of  the  Committee  on  Sec- 
ondary Schools;  Collin  Armstrong,  '77, 
of  the  Publicity  Committee;  Robert 
W.  Maynard,  '02,  of  the  Publication 
Committee,  and  William  S.  Rossiter, 
'84,  of  a  new  Committee  on  Class 
Records  and  Organization,  Avhich  is 
about  to  put  in  operation  a  plan  for 
gathering  the  biographical  records  of 
alumni  for  the  proposed  history  of 
Amherst. 

The  Finance  Committee  reports  that 
on  October  15  the  following  classes  had 
paid  part  or  all  of  their  quota  toward 
the  administration  expenses  of  the 
Council  for  the  current  year:  '68,  '70, 
'71,  '76,  '81,  '82,  '84,  '85,  '86,  '87,  '88, 
'89,  '90,  '91,  '93,  '94,  "95,  '96,  '97,  '98, 
'00,  "01,  '03,  '04,  '05,  '06,  '07,  '10,  '11, 
'15,  '16,  '17. 

Being  advised  by  the  athletic  man- 
agement at  Amherst  of  the  need  of  a 
football  training  table  this  fall,  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Council 
voted  to  advance  $500  to  the  manage- 
ment for  that  purpose.  The  Publica- 
tion Committee  has  let  the  contract  for 
publishing  the  Graduates'  Quarterly 
for  the  coming  year  in  its  original  form 
to  The  Rumford  Press  of  Concord, 
N.  H.,  of  which  William  S.  Rossiter, 
'84,  is  president. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Council 


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will  be  held  in  Chicago,  probably  in 
April,  1920,  and  it  promises  to  be  the 
most  notable  gathering  of  Amherst 
men  ever  held  in  the  West.  Prominent 
Amherst  men  from  all  over  the  country 
will  be  in  attendance,  and  the  western 


alumni  expect  to  be  on  hand  to  a  man. 
The  meeting,  it  is  believed,  will  be  the 
means  of  making  the  West  better 
acquainted  with  Amherst  and  of  putting 
before  western  alumni  the  Amherst  of 
today. 


THE  ASSOCIATIONS 


Chicago. — There  was  a  meeting  of 
the  Amherst  Club  of  Chicago  at  Field's 
Grill  on  September  11th.  The  thing 
I  remember  most  about  it  was  this,  that 
it  was  a  crowd  full  of  enthusiasm.  How 
shall  I  describe  it  to  you!  I  came  early 
but  it  was  all  they  could  do  to  make 
room  for  me.  And  still  others  kept  on 
coming.  I  was  introduced  to  the  men 
I  could  see,  but  there  were  so  many 
names  I  think  I  forgot  all  of  them  in- 
stead of  remembering  a  few.  Of  course 
there  were  the  exceptions  in  the  names 
of  the  fellows  I  knew  at  school.  Then 
there  were  many  I  could  not  see,  who 
had  to  find  other  places.  And  as  for 
the  luncheon,  I  almost  see  the  men  leav- 
ing one  by  one  and  myself  waiting  to  be 
served.     Someone  who  knew  said  that 


it  was  the  largest  meeting  ever  held 
there.  Then  I  think  it  was  the  oldest 
Amherst  graduate  who  was  there,  the 
president  of  the  Club  (how  easy  not  to 
have  to  give  his  name),  (I  need  not  men- 
tion his  enthusiasm),  spoke  about  the 
plans  for  the  Annual  Alumni  Council 
Meeting  for  Chicago  in  1920.  He  told 
what  had  been  done  and  what  there 
was  to  do.  I  was  a  new  alumnus  and 
this  was  the  first  meeting  I  had  ever 
attended.  When  I  was  asked  to  write 
to  you  about  it,  I  wondered  how  I  could 
do  it  with  no  previous  information  for 
comparison.  Everybody  was  there,  but 
there  will  be  more  at  the  next  meeting — 
more  room,  more  men,  more  enthusiasm, 
and  all  for  Amherst. 

Walter  Hendricks,  '17. 


SINCE  THE  LAST  ISSUE 


1844. — Eev.  William  Ely  Boies,  on 
July  15,  1919,  at  Knoxville,  Tenn., 
aged  96  years. 

1853. — Judge  Reuben  Moore  Ben- 
jamin, on  August  4, 1917  (not  previously 
recorded),  at  Bloomington,  111.,  aged 
84  years. 

1858. — John  Walker,  on  June  28, 
1919,  in  Lewiston,  Maine,  aged  86 
years. 

1861. — John  Herbert  Evans,  on 
August  19,  1919,  at  Long  Beach,  Cal., 
aged  82  years. 


1862. — Ezra  Christian  Ebersole,  on 
July  14,  1919,  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  aged  78 
years. 

1865. — Franklin  Emerson  Smith,  on 
August  8,  1919,  at  Groton,  Conn.,  aged 
76  years. 

1871.— Dr.  Edwin  Munsell  Bliss,  on 
August  6,  1919,  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
aged  70  years. 

1873. — Charles  Nathaniel  Clark,  on 
July  19,  1919,  at  Northampton,  Mass., 
aged  66  years. 

1873. — George  Wickart  Edmond,  on 
July  19,  1919,  at  Santa  Monica,  Cal., 
aged  67  years. 


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1875. — Rev.  Edward  Sampson  Tead, 
on  September  7,  1919,  in  Boston,  Mass., 
aged  66  years. 

1879. — Charles  Von  Valkenburg,  on 
July  28,  1919,  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y., 
aged  65  years. 

1894. — Wheelock  Tenney  Craig,  on 
May  15,  1919,  at  Falmouth,  Mass., 
aged  47  years. 

1908. — Harrison  L.  Clough,  on  Octo- 
ber 12,  1918  (not  previously  recorded), 
at  Manchester,  N.  H. 

1912. — Howell  Powell,  on  November 
7,  1918  (not  previously  recorded),  at 
Shadeland,  Pa.,  aged  29  years. 


1890. — In  New  London,  Conn.,  on 
July  30,  1919,  William  Barnabas  Doyle 
and  Miss  Frances  Josephine  Herrick. 

1894. — In  Boston,  Mass.,  on  June  26, 
1919,  Warren  W.  Tucker  and  Miss 
Josephine  W.  Secor. 

1909.— At  Wellesley,  Mass.,  on  Sep- 
tember 16,  1919,  Charles  Usher  Hatch 
and  Miss  Katharine  Leighton  Rollins. 

1909.— At  Wyoming,  111.,  on  Sep- 
tember 17,  1919,  Allen  Dorset  Eldred 
and  Miss  Helen  Mary  Walters. 

1910.— In  Chicago,  111.,  on  July  21, 
1919,  Dr.  George  L.  Curran  and  Miss 
Claire  E.  Russell. 

1910.— At  Ashville,  N.  C,  on  July 
16, 1919,  Raymond  P.  Wheeler  and  Miss 
Evelyn  Bush  King. 

1911.— In  New  York  City,  on  Sep- 
tember 20,  1919,  Hubert  Hillhouse 
Loomis  and  Miss  Frances  Russell. 

1912. — In  Paris,  France,  on  October 
1,  1919,  Sargent  Holbrook  Wellman 
and  Miss  Mary  Conover  Lines. 


1913.— At  Northport,  N.  Y.,  on  July 
23,  1919,  Lewis  Morton  Stewart  and 
Miss  Marie  Cecile  Leplat. 

1915.— In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  Sep- 
tember 15,  1919,  Everett  Webb  Fuller 
and  Miss  Gertrude  Laura  Gladding. 

1916.— At  Norfolk,  Va.,  on  Febru- 
ary 22,  1919  (not  previously  recorded), 
Walton  C.  Baker  and  Miss  Frances 
Jenkins. 

1916.— At  Brockport,  N.  Y.,  on  Sep- 
tember 13,  1919,  Francis  R.  Otte  and 
Miss  Margaret  Mathews. 

1917.— In  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  on  July 
21,  1919,  WTiitney  W.  Stark  and  Miss 
Frances  Mitchell  Blake. 

1918.— In  New  York  City,  on  Sep- 
tember 6,  1919,  Daniel  G.  Redmond  and 
Miss  Claire  Patterson. 

1918. — At  Northampton,  Mass.,  on 
August  15,  1919,  Donald  E.  Marshall 
and  Miss  Doris  Aline  Hill. 


1910.— Elizabeth  Milloy,  on  June  11, 
1919,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  M. 

Milloy. 

1911. — George  Randall  Yerrall,  3rd, 
on  September  23,  1919,  in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George 
Randall  Yerrall. 

1916. — Wallace  Minot  Leonard,  on 
August  15,  1919,  at  Newton  Highlands, 
Mass.,  daughter  of  the  late  Captain  and 
Mrs.  Wallace  Minot  Leonard. 

1916. — Elizabeth  Clark  Ferguson,  on 
September  10,  1919,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Eralsey  C.  Ferguson. 


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1829 

The  Class  of  1829  has  the  honor  of 

being  mentioned  in   these  columns  as 

record  should  be  made  of  the  fact  that 

Henry  F.  Allen's  great,  great  grandson, 

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Ward  Wadsworth  Fenner,  is  a  member 
of  the  Freshman  Class  this  year. 
1839 
1839  is  similarly  honored  through  the 
entrance    into    Amherst    this    year    of 


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Frederick  Webster  Gillett,  grandson  of 
Edward  B.  Gillett. 

1844 

The  Rev.  William  Ely  Boies,  who 
spent  two  years  at  Amherst  and  two 
years  at  Yale,  and  was  the  oldest  living 
graduate  of  Yale,  died  at  his  home  in 
Knoxville,  Tenn.,  on  July  15th,  at  the 
age  of  96. 

He  was  born  on  January  27,  1823,  in 
Charleston,  S.  C,  being  the  son  of  the 
Rev.  Artemas  Boies  and  Abigail  Ely 
Boies.  The  family  came  north  when  he 
was  an  infant,  and  his  father  was  settled 
over  the  Congregational  Church  in 
South  Hadley  for  a  few  years.  At  the 
death  of  his  mother,  when  he  was  only 
three  years  old,  he  went  to  live  with  his 
grandparents  at  Longmeadow,  Mass. 
Not  long  ago  Mr.  Boies  gave  the  fol- 
lowing interesting  reminiscences  of  his 
early  life: 

"There  have  been  wonderful  changes 
in  the  mode  of  travelling  since  I  was 
young.  I  made  a  trip  in  a  sailing  vessel 
from  Charleston  to  New  York  when  six 
months  old.  In  1835  Uncle  Ely  took  us 
children  in  his  two-seated  road  wagon 
all  the  way  from  Longmeadow  to  Bos- 
ton, where  father  was  settled.  My 
first  advent  to  Amherst  College  as  a 
freshman  in  1840  was  made  with 
Grandpa  Ely  in  the  'deacon's  one-hoss 
shay'  and  I  recall  with  special  interest 
my  trip  up  the  river  by  the  plucky 
little  stern-wheeled  steamer  to  the  old- 
time  landing  in  the  meadows  to  spend 
my  first  vacation  from  Yale." 

Later  he  took  a  course  in  the  Lane 
Theological  Seminary  in  Cincinnati; 
and  while  he  occasionally  preached,  a 
throat  trouble  prevented  him  from  fol- 
lowing the  profession  of  his  father.  He 
received  the  degree  of  A.M.  from  Yale 
in  1850  and  after  teaching  for  a  while  in 
Ohio    and    Kentucky,    he   returned   to 


Longmeadow  and  was  married  on  June 
15,  1864,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Phelps 
Wright  of  Blandford. 

Mr.  Boies  removed  to  Knoxville, 
Tenn.,  in  1891,  his  daughter  having 
married  and  being  a  resident  of  that 
city.  His  wife  died  on  March  7,  1917, 
but  he  leaves  a  son,  Dr.  William  A. 
Boies,  with  whom  he  made  his  home,  a 
granddaughter  and  a  niece  living  in 
Longmeadow. 

Mr.  Boies'  life  was  not  only  pro- 
longed far  into  his  97th  year,  but  his 
faculties  were  retained  to  a  most 
remarkable  degree.  He  continued  to 
write  nearly  every  week  prose  or  poetry 
for  the  Knoxville  Journal  and  Tribune 
and  sometimes  for  the  Springfield  Repub- 
lican. A  humorous  vein  was  especially 
noticeable  in  his  writing.  He  was  also 
a  musician  and  for  a  time  was  organist 
for  the  First  Congregational  Church 
in  Longmeadow. 

1853 

Record  should  be  made  in  these 
columns  of  the  death  of  Judge  Reuben 
Moore  Benjamin  on  August  4,  1917,  at 
his  home  in  Bloomington,  111.  The 
word  of  his  death  was  not  received  by 
the  College  until  a  short  time  ago. 

Judge  Benjamin  was  born  on  June 
29,  1833,  at  Chatham  Center,  N.  Y., 
the  son  of  Darius  and  Martha  (Rogers) 
Benjamin.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  Kinderhook  Academy,  N.  Y'.,  was 
given  the  degree  of  A.B.  at  Amherst  in 
1853,  and  the  degree  of  A.M.  in  1856. 
The  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  con- 
ferred the  degree  of  LL.D.  upon  him  in 
1880.  After  leaving  college  he  became 
principal  of  Hopkins  Academy  at  Had- 
ley, and  for  one  year  was  a  tutor  at 
Amherst.  He  studied  law  at  Harvard 
Law  School  and  with  the  firm  of  Grid- 
ley  &  Wickizer,  at  Bloomington,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1856. 


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He  was  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
Constitutional  Convention  in  1870  and 
drafted  Article  II,  Bill  of  Rights,  pro- 
hibiting irrevocable  grants  of  special 
privileges  or  immunities  and  led  the 
debate  which  resulted  in  Article  XI, 
Section  12,  giving  the  Legislature  power 
to  establish  maximum  freight  and  pas- 
senger rates  on  Illinois  railroads.  He 
was  elected  county  judge  of  McLean 
County  in  1873,  and  was  re-elected  and 
served  until  1886.  He  was  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics. 

From  1874  to  1891,  he  was  dean  of 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  LTniversity,  after 
which  until  the  time  of  his  death,  he 
was  professor  of  real  property  and  con- 
stitutional law. 

He  was  the  author  of  "Student's 
Guide  to  Elementary  Law,"  "Princi- 
ples of  Contracts,"  "Principles  of 
Sales,"  and  "Cases  on  Contract." 

He  married  Miss  Laura  E.  Woodin,  of 
Chatham  Four  Corners,  N.  Y.,  on 
September  15, 1856. 

1856 

An  autobiography  of  the  late  David 
Otis  Mears,  D.D.,  has  recently  been 
published  by  the  Pilgrim  Press  with 
memoir  and  notes  by  H.  A.  Davidson. 
The  book  is  described  as  being  "  graphi- 
cally written  and  sympathetically 
edited." 

1858 

John  Walker  died  during  the  summer 
in  Lewiston,  Me.  On  the  afternoon  of 
June  28th,  he  was  found  lying  in  a  room 
on  the  fourth  story  of  a  building  at  159 
Lincoln  St.,  Lewiston.  He  had  appar- 
ently been  in  that  condition  for  about 
forty-eight  hours.  He  was  taken  to  one 
of  the  local  hospitals  and  died  the  next 
day  without  regaining  consciousness. 
He  was  buried  at  Exeter,  Me.,  the  town 
of  his  birth.     Mr.  Walker  had  lived  the 


life  of  a  recluse  in  Lewiston  for  some 
years.  He  spent  much  of  his  time  in 
the  Public  Library. 

He  was  born  January  1,  1833,  son  of 
John  and  Hannah  G.  (Hamilton) 
Walker,  and  prepared  for  college  at 
Waterville,  Me.  After  leaving  college, 
he  studied  theology  at  Yale  Seminary 
and  also  in  New  York  City.  He  became 
a  teacher,  however,  and  taught  in  New 
York  City  and  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  from  1863 
to  1870.  Since  1870  he  had  been  an 
invalid  and  his  address  had  not  been 
known  to  the  college  authorities  for 
some  years.  During  the  Civil  War  he 
was  agent  for  the  Sanitary  Commission. 
He  was  86  years  old. 

1861 

John  Herbert  Evans  died  at  his  home, 
1409  East  Eighth  St.,  Long  Beach, 
Cal.,  on  the  evening  of  August  19,  1919. 
He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Margaret 
(Evans)  Evans,  and  was  born  in  Jack- 
son County,  Ohio,  on  September  23, 
1836.  .He  prepared  for  college  at 
Gallia  Academy,  Gallipolis,  Ohio,  and 
during  the  Civil  W'ar  was  first  lieuten- 
ant and  captain  in  the  56th  Ohio  Volun- 
teers. After  the  Civil  War,  he  became 
county  auditor  for  Gallia  County  and 
held  that  position  for  a  great  many 
years.  Later,  he  moved  to  California. 
He  was  married  on  July  16,  1868,  to 
Miss  Sarah  Mayall,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Hawes,  of  Ashland,  Me. 

1862 

Calvin  Stebbins,  Secretary, 
Framingham  Centre,  Mass. 
Ezra  Christian  Ebersole  died  on 
July  14th.  He  was  a  distinguished 
educator,  an  important  law  officer,  and 
greatly  respected  throughout  Iowa. 
He  died  at  his  home  in  Toledo,  leaving 
a  wife  and  an  adopted  daughter. 
Though  his  health  was  never  good,  he 


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was  a  tremendous  worker.  For  the 
last  eight  months  of  his  life  he  was  com- 
pletely prostrated. 

He  was  born  at  Mount  Pleasant,  Pa., 
on  October  18,  1840,  the  son  of  Jacob 
and  Catharine  (Kleister)  Ebersole. 
He  attended  Mount  Pleasant  College 
and  Otterbein  University  in  Ohio  from 
1858  to  1861,  when  he  entered  Amherst 
and  graduated  with  the  Class  of  1862. 
He  taught  in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  for  a 
year  and  then  joined  the  Pennsylvania 
Cavalry  Home  Guards  for  service  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War.  He  was  later  pro- 
moted to  sergeant  and  transferred  to 
the  44th  Iowa  Volunteers  at  Davenport, 
Iowa. 

After  the  Civil  War  he  became  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics  and  natural 
science  at  the  Western  College  (Iowa) 
and  then  principal  of  the  Fort  Madison 
(Iowa)  Academy.  For  the  year  1867-8 
he  was  acting  president  of  Western  Col- 
lege. Subsequently  he  became  assist- 
ant professor  of  Latin  and  Greek  at 
the  Iowa  State  University  and  principal 
of  the  Preparatory  Department.  He 
studied  law  in  Iowa  City  and  at  Adele, 
Iowa,  and  then  moved  to  Toledo,  Ohio, 
where  he  established  his  practice.  He 
was  married  on  September  21,  1865,  to 
Frances  E.,  daughter  of  David  Spencer 
of  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

1863 

Hon.  Edward  W.  Chapin,  Secretary, 
181  Elm  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
The  Merrills  after  having  spent  sev- 
eral winters  South  plan  to  spend  the 
coming  winter  North.  Rev.  James  G. 
Merrill,  D.D.,  will  be  with  his  son, 
O.  B.  Merrill,  '91,  at  Summit,  N.  J., 
and  his  daughter  at  Mountain  Lakes, 
N.  J.  His  wife  and  her  nurse  are  with 
him.  William  F.  Merrill  and  his  wife 
will  be  with  his  son,  C.  F.  Merrill,  '99, 
at  Warwick,  N.  Y. 


1864 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Tenney,  wife  of  Dr. 
H.  M.  Tenney,  pastor  emeritus  of  the 
Second  Congregational  Church  in  Ober- 
lin,  died  early  in  July  at  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
in  her  70th  year.  Besides  her  husband, 
she  leaves  four  children.  WTierever 
Dr.  Tenney  has  ministered — in  Winona, 
Minn.,  Steuben  ville,  Cleveland,  and 
Oberlin,  Ohio — Mrs.  Tenney  has  aided 
him  greatly  in  his  work. 

1865 
Prof.   Benjamin  K.  Emerson,  Secre- 
tary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
The    secretary    recently    dined    very 
pleasantly  at  the  Bankers'  Club  in  New 
York  with  Bishop  and  Gray.     Bishop 
still  has  his  law  office  in  New  York. 
Gray  has  retired  from  business  in  San 
Francisco.     His  son  was  one  of  Hoover's 
principal  assistants  in  Belgium  and  is 
now  on  Hoover's  recommendation  the 
purchasing  agent  of  the  Belgian  Gov- 
ernment, with  offices  in  New  York  City. 

J.  C.  Hammond  carried  on  the  whole 
work  of  Hammond  and  Hammond, 
lawyers,  while  his  son,  a  junior  part- 
ner, was  in  service  on  the  Mexican 
border  as  captain  and  later  as  major  in 
the  104th  U.'S.  Inf.,  26th  Division,  in 
France. 

Dr.  E.  A.  Jones  was  signally  honored 
this  summer  by  being  elected  a  life 
member  of  the  Ohio  State  Teachers' 
Association.  By  resolution  this  body 
authorized  the  Executive  Committee  to 
select  three  distinguished  educators 
each  year  for  this  high  honor,  and  each 
person  elected  to  this  high  position  must 
have  rendered  signal  service  to  educa- 
tion. Dr.  Jones  is  the  first  one  to  be 
shown  the  honor.  A  recent  issue  of 
Public  Opinion  in  Westerville,  Ohio, 
says: 


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"No  person  in  Ohio  has  rendered  the 
cause  of  education  more  vahiable 
service  than  Dr.  Jones.  He  was  elected 
state  school  commissioner  at  a  time 
when,  if  two  or  three  teachers  got 
together,  it  was  to  fuss  over  the  kind  of 
supervision  the  rural  schools  should 
have.  In  the  meantime,  they  got  none. 
The  state  office  was  the  place  where  the 
clashes  came.  By  his  royal  good  bear- 
ing, his  steadfast  purpose  to  serve  well 
the  interests  of  Ohio  .  .  .  refusing  to 
swerve  one  iota  from  the  straight  course 
of  duty,  he  gave  an  administration  that 
will  stand  forth  in  history  as  one  of  the 
cleanest,  most  effective  administrations 
in  the  history  of  the  state.  .  .  . 
Ohio  State  Teachers'  Association  has 
honored  itself  by  honoring  Dr.  Jones." 

Franklin  Emerson  Smith,  for  more 
than  fifty  years  engaged  in  the  drug 
business  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  died  on 
Friday,  August  8th,  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter  in  Groton,  Conn.  He  was 
born  in  Chicopee  Falls,  Mass.,  on  July 
10,  1843,  the  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  F. 
and  Julia  A.  (Buckland)  Smith.  His 
father  was  a  noted  Massachusetts  prac- 
titioner. He  prepared  for  college  at 
Amherst  Academy,  and  with  Prof. 
Richard  H.  Mather,  of  Amherst.  He 
was  married  on  September  1,  1874,  to 
Susie  M.,  daughter  of  David  S.  Cooke 
of  Amherst. 

1871 

Prof.    Herbert    G.    Lord,    Secretary, 
623  West  113th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Dr.  Edwin  Munsell  Bliss,  author, 
editor  and  authority  on  missionary  sub- 
jects, died  suddenly  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  on  Wednesday,  August  6th. 
He  formerly  was  associate  editor  of  the 
Independent,  but  since  1907  had  been 
connected  with  the  Census  Bureau  in 
Washington. 

Dr.  Bliss  was  born  on  September  12, 
1848,   at   Erzerum,  Turkey,  where  his 


parents  were  missionaries.  His  father, 
Isaac  Grout  Bliss,  was  a  graduate  of 
Amherst  in  the  Class  of  1844.  He 
prepared  for  Amherst  at  Robert  Col- 
lege in  Constantinople  and  one  year  at 
the  Springfield  (Mass.)  High  School. 
He  studied  theology  at  Yale  Theological 
Seminary,  but  instead  of  accepting  a 
pastorate,  he  became  agent  for  the 
Bible  Society  in  the  Levant  and  travelled 
extensively  in  Turkey  and  Persia. 
He  returned  to  the  United  States  in 
1888  and  edited  the  "Encyclopedia  of 
Missions,"  a  m.onumental  work  in  ten 
or  a  dozen  volumes,  which  brought  him 
wide  recognition  in  religious  circles. 

He  then  joined  the  staff  of  the  Inde- 
pendent and  for  ten  years  was  associate 
editor.  He  left  the  Independent  to 
take  up  special  work  with  the  Bureau 
of  the  Census  at  Washington,  where  he 
had  charge  of  religious  statistics.  He 
continued  with  this  work  until  his 
death.  He  was  also  at  one  time 
editorial  writer  for  Harper's  Weekly 
and  the  New  York  Times,  and  in  1905 
was  elected  general  secretary  of  the 
Foreign  Missions  Industrial  Association. 

Amherst  conferred  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Divinity  on  him.  He  was  an 
indefatigable  worker,  genial  and  friendly. 
He  had  written  a  great  deal  for  maga- 
zines and  other  publications  and  besides 
the  "Encyclopedia  of  Missions"  his 
books  include  "The  Turk  in  Armenia, 
Crete  and  Greece,"  "Concise  History 
of  Missions,"  and  a  "  Summary  of  State 
Laws  Relating  to  Dependent  Classes." 

Dr.  Bliss  was  twice  married.  His 
first  wife  was  Marie  Louise  Henderson 
of  New  York,  whom  he  married  in  Persia 
on  June  5,  1885.  She  died  December 
12,  1887.  His  second  wife  was  E. 
Theodora  Crosl)y  of  Georgetown,  Mass., 
whom  he  married  on  November  8, 
1900.     She  survives  him. 


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1872 

Rev.  George  L.  Clark,  Secretary, 
Wethersfield,  Conn. 

The  July  26th  issue  of  the  Christian 
World  contained  an  article  by  Rev. 
George  L.  Clark,  entitled,  "Reconstruc- 
ted Christianity." 

Rev.  Arthur  S.  Benedict  represented 
Amherst  College  at  the  installation  of 
Dr.  R.  B.  von  Kleinsmid  as  president  of 
the  University  of  Arizona  at  Tucson. 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Charles  Nathaniel  Clark,  treasurer  of 
Smith  College  and  president  of  the 
Northampton  National  Bank,  died 
at  the  Dickinson  Hospital  in  Northamp- 
ton on  July  19th,  after  an  illness  of 
several  months.  Mr.  Clark,  although 
he  had  of  late  years  given  his  attention 
largely  to  financial  matters,  was  a 
lawyer  whose  large  experience  made  him 
one  of  the  most  prominent  members  of 
the  Hampshire  county  bar. 

He  was  the  son  of  Charles  and  Mary 
(Strong)  Clark  and  was  born  in  North- 
ampton, on  April  4,  1853.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  the  local  high  school, 
and  after  graduating  from  Amherst 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Delano  and 
Hammond,  Northampton.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  October,  1877,  and 
soon  acquired  a  large  practice.  He  had 
been  a  trustee  and  treasurer  of  Smith 
College  since  July  1,  1888.  His  activ- 
ity in  business  affairs  began  almost  at 
the  outset  of  his  career,  when  he  became 
a  director  of  the  Hampshire  Mutual 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  a  trustee  of 
the  Northampton  Institution  of  Sav- 
ings, and  president  of  the  Northampton 
Gas    Lighting    Company.     For    thirty 


years  he  was  moderator  of  the  annual 
meetings  of  First  Church. 

The  public  service  of  Mr.  Clark 
included  three  terms  as  representative 
in  the  State  Legislature,  from  1883  to 
188.5,  and  two  terms  as  senator  from  the 
Berkshire-Hampshire  district.  A  num- 
ber of  years  ago  he  was  prominently 
mentioned  for  the  Republican  nomina- 
tion for  governor;  but  in  view  of  condi- 
tions at  the  time  it  was  thought  best 
for  political  reasons  to  give  the  nomina- 
tion to  the  eastern  section  of  the  state. 
He  was  a  former  member  of  the  school 
committee  and  always  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  affairs  of  the  town  and  Col- 
lege. In  his  will  he  left  virtually 
$500,000  to  be  divided  between  Smith 
and  Mount  Holyoke  colleges. 

Amherst  conferred  the  degree  of 
M.A.  on  Mr.  Clark  in  1876.  He  was 
unmarried  and  lived  with  his  sister  at 
the  old  Clark  homestead  on  South 
Street,  until  her  death,  when  he  made 
his  home  with  his  cousin,  Mrs.  George 
Strong. 

George  Wickart  Edmond  died  on 
July  19th  at  his  home  in  Santa  Monica, 
Cal.  He  was  the  son  of  Alexander 
Edmond  and  was  born  on  January  8, 
1852.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Port- 
land High  School,  Portland,  Me.,  and 
attended  Amherst  for  five  terms,  from 
1869  to  1871.  In  1884  he  received  the 
degree  of  A.B.  at  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity. He  was  in  business  at  Wood- 
fords,  Me.,  from  1883  to  1901,  and  then 
moved  to  California. 

Talcott  Williams  was  a  member  of 
the  committee  named  to  welcome  the 
President  on  his  return  from  the  Peace 
Conference.  He  is  also  one  of  the 
contributors  to  the  volume  of  articles 
recently  published  by  the  Macmillan 
Co.  on  "The  Church  and  Its  American 
Opportunity." 


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1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

James  Maynard  of  Knoxville,  Tenn., 
has  just  completed  twenty-two  years' 
service  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  University  of  Tennessee. 
Fourteen  years  of  this  period  were  spent 
as  treasurer  of  the  University,  during 
which  time  he  devoted  his  entire  salary 
to  clerical  assistance  in  the  treasurer's 
office  and  he  himself  served  without  any 
financial  compensation.  His  term  ex- 
pired on  July  1st,  and  the  Board  of 
Trustees  has  expressed  its  grateful 
appreciation  of  the  steadfast  and  help- 
ful services  rendered  to  the  University 
by  Mr.  Maynard  in  proper  resolutions. 

1875 

Prof.  Charles  A.  Buffum,  Secretary, 
Easthampton,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  Edward  Sampson  Tead 
died  on  September  8th  at  the  Peter 
Bent  Brigham  Hospital.  If  he  had 
lived  until  the  end  of  the  week,  he  would 
have  been  67  years  old,  as  his  birthday 
was  on  September  14th. 

He  was  born  in  Boston  in  1852,  the 
son  of  Edward  Long  Tead  and  Lucretia 
Hovey  (Cleasby)  Tead.  After  grad- 
uating from  Amherst,  he  attended  the 
Yale  Divinity  School  and  Andover 
Theological  Seminary.  He  was  or- 
dained in  1878  in  the  Congregational 
ministry  and  became  pastor  of  a  church 
in  Cumberland  Mills,  Me.  There  he 
remained  until  1884  when  he  moved  to 
Somerville,  Mass.  For  seventeen  years 
he  was  pastor  of  the  Prospect  Hill 
Congregational  Church,  in  Somerville. 
He  has  since  resided  in  Atlantic. 

In  1901  he  became  secretary  of  the 
Congregational  Educational  Society 
and  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  his  church. 
He  served  as  trustee  of  Tabor  Institute 


and  was  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  American  Missionary 
Association.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity,  the  Monday 
Club,  and  the  Boston  City  Club.  He 
was  married  on  July  2,  1878,  to  Miss 
Louisa  M.  Graves  of  Hatfield,  Mass., 
who  died  in  1887.  In  October,  1889, 
he  married  Miss  Louise  Moore  Ordway 
of  Jamaica  Plain,  who  survives  him  with 
five  children. 

His  four  sons  all  went  to  Amherst. 
They  are  Stanley  H.  Tead,  '03,  of  Phil- 
adelphia; Ordway  Tead,  '12,  of  New 
York  City;  Phillips  Tead,  '15,  of  New 
York  City,  and  Donald  G.  Tead,  '03, 
of  Berkeley,  Cal.  His  daughter.  Miss 
Constance  Tead,  resides  in  Cambridge. 

Telegraph  despatches  from  Omaha, 
Neb.,  under  date  of  September  23rd, 
give  the  following  very  interesting  in- 
formation : 

"Leo  Stevens,  balloon  instructor  at 
Fort  Omaha,  announced  today  that 
Prof.  David  Todd  will  attempt  to  com- 
municate with  the  planet  Mars  this 
fall  in  a  balloon  to  be  constructed  and 
piloted  by  Stevens.  The  balloon  is  to  be 
the  largest  ever  made,  and  will  ascend 
50,000  feet,  Stevens  said. 

"The  balloon  will  be  enabled  to  rise 
to  the  expected  height,"  Stevens  said, 
"  by  use  of  an  invention,  which  divides, 
the  balloon  in  two  compartments,  the 
upper  containing  hydrogen  gas  and  the 
lower  fresh  air. 

"Professor  Todd,  just  returned  to 
Amherst  College  from  Brazil,  has  per- 
fected a  signaling  apparatus  for  the 
experiments." 

1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 

'ill  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

George  A.  Plimpton  sailed  for  Europe 

on  September  20th  to  attend  the  con- 


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ference  of  the  International  Committee 
of  the  World  Alliance  for  International 
Friendship  Through  the  Churches,  which 
met  at  the  Hague.  He  was  a  delegate 
representing  the  American  branch  of  the 
World  Alliance.  Mr.  Plimpton  is  also 
a  member  of  the  committee  that  has 
been  appointed  to  direct  the  work  of 
raising  a  $2,000,000  endowment  fund 
for  Phillips  Exeter  Academy. 

The  Rev.  Dwight  M.  Pratt  has  given 
up  his  pastorate  at  Housatonic,  Mass., 
having  been  appointed  to  the  Pilgrim 
Memorial  Fund  work,  with  headquar- 
ters at  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Edward  Dickinson  has  recently  pub- 
lished, through  Houghton  Mifflin  Co., 
'The  Student's  Book  of  Inspirations." 
It  comprises  a  choice  selection  of  inspira- 
tional passages  in  verse  and  prose  from 
"poets  and  scholars  who  have  put  into 
breathing  thoughts  and  burning  words 
the  inspirations  that  have  come  to  them 
in  their  own  passionate  search  for  truth 
and  beauty." 

John  B.  Stanchfield  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  mayor  of  New  York  as 
a  member  of  the  Mayor's  Committee 
on  Receptions  to  Distinguished  Guests. 
The  function  of  the  committee  is  to 
supply  proper  welcome  and  reception 
to  foreign  dignitaries,  accredited  repre- 
sentatives of  European  governments, 
and  other  distinguished  visitors  to  the 
city  of  New  York. 

1877 
A.  DeW.  Mason,  D.D.,  Secretary, 
222  Garfield  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Attention  is  called  to  the  fact  that 
Prof.  Munro  Smith's  appreciation  of  our 
classmate,  Herbert  L.  Osgood,  has  been 
printed  and  was  distributed  to  the  class 
by  mail  last  June.     Should  any  mem- 
ber ha\  e  failed  to  receive  a  copy  it  will 
be    sent   him    on    application    to    the 
secretary. 


It  is  some  months  since  any  news 
has  come  to  the  secretary  from  any 
member  of  the  class.  He  would  be  glad 
to  hear  from  any  of  our  men  regarding 
themselves  or  classmates.  Address  as 
above. 

Joel  Lawrence  Leete,  son  of  the  Rev. 
William  W.  Leete  of  Newton,  Mass.,  is 
a  member  of  the  Freshman  Class  at 
Amherst. 

Judge  Henry  Stockbridge  and  J. 
Converse  Gray  were  delegates  to  the 
American  Bar  Association  Convention 
which  was  held  in  Boston  in  September. 

J.  Converse  Gray  died  on  Monday 
evening,  October  13,  at  his  home  near 
Boston.  The  funeral  was  held  on 
Thursday,  October  16th,  and  Armstrong, 
Copeland,  and  Kyle  of  our  class  at- 
tended the  services.  "  Con"  Gray  was 
well  remembered  and  loved  by  all  our 
class  and  his  removal  indeed  makes  a 
wide  gap  in  our  thinning  ranks.  The 
news  of  his  death  comes  while  this  num- 
ber of  the  Quarterly  is  being  printed 
and  so  a  more  extended  notice  of  his  life 
and  work  will  appear  in  the  next  issue. 

1878 

Prof.    H.    Norton    Gardiner, 
Secretary, 
Northampton,  Mass. 

Dr.  Guy  Hinsdale  delivered  the  presi- 
dential address  at  the  meeting  of  the 
American  Climatological  and  Clinical 
Association  held  in  Atlantic  City, 
July  14, 16,  and  17,  1919. 

In  the  course  of  memorial  exercises 
in  the  Court  House,  Salem,  at  a  special 
session  of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court, 
April  26,  1919,  Judge  Alden  P.  White 
paid  eloquent  tribute  to  the  late  William 
Henry  Moody,  of  the  Essex  Bar,  secre- 
tary of  the  Navy  and  attorney-general 
in  Mr.  Roosevelt's  cabinet  and  associate 


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justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States.  The  eulogy  has  been 
printed. 

Frank  W.  Stearns  is  a  member  of  the 
Advisory  Committee  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Repubhcan  Finance   Committee. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 
1140  Woodward  Bldg.,  Washington, 
D.  C. 
Charles  Von  Valkenburg  died  at 
Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  on  July  28th.  He 
was  the  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Brewer) 
Von  Valkenburg,  and  was  born  in 
Afton,  N.  Y.,  on  September  28,  1853. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy  at  Andover,  and  was  president 
of  his  class  at  Amherst  in  his  freshman 
year,  but  did  not  continue  in  college. 
His  subsequent  years  were  spent  at 
Binghamton  in  a  state  of  health  increas- 
ingly impaired.  He  entered  journalism 
on  leaving  college  and  was  on  the  staff 
of  the  Morning  News  and  Sunday  Trib- 
une, Binghamton. 

William  Trotter  Hagen,  son  of  the 
late  Winston  H.  Hagen,  died  at  Wash- 
ington, Conn.,  on  July  28th,  in  his  15th 
year. 

Dr.  Isaac  M.  Agard  is  now  professor 
of  education  at  Straight  College,  New 
Orleans,  and  head  of  the  department  in 
that  institution. 

Walter  H.  Knapp  was  a  delegate  to 
the  American  Bar  Association  Con- 
vention which  was  held  in  Boston  in 
September. 

1880 

Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  Secretary, 
Northampton,  Mass. 

Prof.  A.  L.  Gillett  has  another  son 
entering  Amherst  this  year — Frederick 
Webster  Gillett.     His  older  son,  a  grad- 


uate of  Amherst  in  the  Class  of  1916,  is 
on  Amherst's  Roll  of  Honor. 

1881 
Frank  H.  Parsons,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
60  Wall  St.,  New  York  City. 
Lawrence  F.  Abbott  was  a  member  of 
the  committee  appointed  to  welcome 
the  President  on  his  return  from  the 
Peace  Conference.  His  articles  in  the 
World's  Work  in  regard  to  the  late 
Theodore  Roosevelt  have  been  making 
a  very  wide  and  favorable  impression. 

1882 

Prof.  John  P.  Cushing,  Secretary, 
W'hitneyville,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Mabel  Seelye  Bixler  died,  aged 
47,  W^ednesday,  July  2nd,  in  Jaffrey, 
N.  H.,  after  a  lingering  illness.  Her 
husband,  the  Rev.  James  W.  Bixler, 
D.D.,  is  pastor  of  the  First  Church  of 
Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  was  formerly  pastor 
of  the  Second  Congregational  Church 
of  New  London,  Conn.  She  was  the 
youngest  daughter  of  the  late  Pres. 
Julius  H.  Seelye  of  Amherst  College. 
A  service  was  conducted  on  Thursday 
at  the  Jaffrey  Church  by  the  Rev. 
David  C.  Torrey,  pastor  of  the  church, 
aided  by  two  classmates  of  Dr.  Bixler, 
the  Rev.  Frederick  W.  Greene  of  Mid- 
dletown.  Conn.,  and  the  Rev.  Charles 
S.  Mills,  D.D.,  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 
A  brief  service  was  held  the  next  day 
in  the  family  home  of  the  late  Dr. 
Edward  Hitchcock  in  Amherst,  next 
door  to  Mrs.  Bixler's  early  home,  con- 
ducted by  the  Rev.  Laurens  H.  Seelye, 
a  nephew  of  Mrs.  Bixler,  who  is  soon 
to  sail  for  the  Syrian  Protestant  Col- 
lege at  Beirut,  Syria.  The  burial  was 
in  the  Seelye  family  lot  at  Wiidwood 
Cemetery,  Amherst.  Mrs.  Bixler  is 
survived  by  her  husband,  and  by  Julius 
Seelye  Bixler,  director  of  religious 
work    at    Amherst   College,   Elizabeth 


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Seelye  Bixler,  a  sophomore  at  Smith 
College,  James  AV.  Bixler,  Jr.,  prepar- 
ing for  college  at  Deerfield  Academy, 
and  Herbert  Edwards  Bixler. 

Mrs.  Bixler  came  of  fine  old  New 
England  stock,  connected  by  direct 
descent  with  the  early  colonial  days. 
On  her  mother's  side  she  was  a  near 
relative  of  the  late  Prof.  William  James 
of  Harvard,  and  of  Henry  James,  the 
novelist.  She  was  a  niece  of  Pres.  L. 
Clark  Seelye,  under  whose  presidency 
she  graduated  from  Smith  College  in  the 
Class  of  1894. 

In  both  parishes  where  Mrs.  Bixler 
met  the  many  and  varied  problems  of 
a  pastor's  wife  she  was  loved  for  her 
amiable  disposition,  her  genuine  and 
constant  friendliness  to  all,  and  her 
self-forgetting  devotion  to  good  works 
in  both  church  and  community  life. 
Though  taken  from  active  service  in  the 
midst  of  her  years,  she  had  completed 
already  a  lifetime  of  ministry.  The 
impress  of  her  beautiful  nature  upon 
many,  both  in  the  family  and  in  the 
circle  of  her  wider  activity,  is  a  certain 
and  enduring  witness  to  the  abiding 
quality  of  her  spirit. 

Some  years  ago  Mrs.  Bixler  became 
interested  in  building  a  little  cottage  in 
New  Hampshire,  almost  in  the  shadow 
of  Mount  Monadnock.  Year  by  year 
she  devoted  her  summers  to  making  it 
a  home  for  her  family  and  for  the  young 
people  who  gathered  with  them  from 
school  and  college.  To  them  all  she 
was  a  happy  and  precious  comrade,  in 
work  and  play  and  conversation.  The 
years  did  not  alter  this,  nor  did  her  ill- 
ness. Her  friendship  was  not  that  of  a 
heart  kept  youngby  effort,  but  of  a  life 
continuing  young  with  the  sincerity  of 
love.  It  was  in  a  room  in  this  little 
home,  beside  the  pansies,  hollyhocks, 
and  other  fl.iwers  which  she  had  planted 
and   loved,    with   her   window   looking 


out  towards  Monadnock  as  to  a  silent 
but  mighty  guardian,  that  her  spirit 
peacefully  took  its  flight  from  earth. 

F.  W.  Greene's  third  son,  W.  Ains- 
worth  Greene,  is  a  member  of  the  Fresh- 
man Class  at  Amherst.  One  son  grad- 
uated in  1913  and  the  second  son  is  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1920. 

1883 
Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 
2301-2311.  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
George  E.  Hooker  is  making  an  in- 
vestigation for  the  Bureau  of  Foreign 
and  Domestic  Commerce  of  the  United 
States  Department  of  Commerce,  into 
transportation  conditions  in  the  Great 
Lakes  region  with  special  reference  to 
water  traffic. 

Alexander  D.  Noyes  had  an  able 
financial  article  in  Scribners  for  August, 
entitled  "After  the  Return  of  Peace." 
In  July  he  discussed  "The  Terms  of 
Peace." 

Dr.  Horatio  B.  Newell  presided  and 
made  one  of  the  addresses  at  the  exer- 
cises attending  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  the  founding  of  the  Japan  Mission. 
The  meeting  was  held  at  Kobe,  Japan, 
in  May,  and  was  attended  by  represen- 
tatives from  all  parts  of  the  Empire. 

Prof.  H.  K.  Krikorian  of  Constanti- 
nople has  recently  issued  a  pamphlet, 
"The  Mandate  for  Armenia,"  in  which 
he  argues  that  America  should  accept 
the  charge  of  Armenia  and  that  some 
other  nation  should  take  care  of  Tur- 
key, thus  absolutely  separating  Turkey 
and  Armenia. 

Coincident  with  the  trip  around  the 
world  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Cornelius  H. 
Patton,  a  number  of  very  interesting 
articles  from  his  pen  are  appearing  in 
the  Congregationalist  and  Advance,  con- 
cerning conditions  which  he  has  found. 


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Justice  Arthur  P.  Rugg  was  one  of 
the  delegates  to  the  American  Bar 
Association  Convention  held  in  Boston 
in  September. 

M.  A.  Callahan  has  retired  as  prin- 
cipal of  the  Highland  Grammar  School 
in  Holyoke. 

1885 
Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  St.,  New  York  City. 

The  U.  S.  Destroyer  No.  283,  which 
was  constructed  by  the  Fore  River 
Company  at  Squantum,  Mass.,  and 
launched  on  August  28th,  has  been 
christened  the  Breck,  in  honor  of  Lieut. - 
Com.  Joseph  B.  Breck,  LT.  S.  N.,  who 
died  of  exposure  in  the  Wilmington 
blockade  at  the  close  of  the  Civil  War. 
Soley's  history  says  of  him:  "Breck 
was  an  officer  of  pluck  and  resource  who 
won  a  name  for  himself  by  his  dashing 
successes  on  the  blockade."  He  cap- 
tured six  of  the  largest  prizes  of  the 
war,  including  the  famous  Ella  and 
Annie." 

Joseph  Breck  was  the  father  of 
Lieut.-Com.  Edward  Breck,  Amherst, 
'85,  and  his  daughter,  Ellen  Breck 
Macnee,  was  the  sponsor  at  the  christen- 
ing. The  Cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honor 
has  been  conferred  by  the  French 
Government  upon  Lieut-Com.  Edward 
Breck,  for  distinguished  services  to 
France  and  to  the  cause  of  the  Allies. 

Dr.  William  G.  Thayer,  headmaster 
of  St.  Marks  School  at  Southboro, 
Mass.,  has  been  released  for  three 
months  to  work  by  invitation  with  the 
General  Board  of  Religious  Education. 
He  is  to  make  an  educational  tour  of 
church  schools  and  then  prepare  a  re- 
port presenting  the  financial,  intellec- 
tual, and  religious  conditions  in  church 
schools  and  the  responsibility  which 
they  owe  the  church  and  the  church 
owes  them. 


James  Baker  Williams,  son  of  Samuel 
Hubbard  Williams,  is  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. 

The  appointment  of  Sir  Herbert  B. 
Ames,  who  has  accepted  the  position  of 
financial  director  of  the  permanent 
secretariat  of  the  League  of  Nations,  is 
chronicled  in  this  issue  under  "Am- 
herst Illustrious." 

Homer  H.  Johnson,  member  of  the 
L'nited  States  Liquidation  Commission, 
has  returned  from  his  work  in  Paris. 

1886 

Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
The  Rev.  E.  P.  Ayer,  bhnd  pastor  of 
the  Mansfield  Congregational  Church, 
submitted  to  the  trustees  his  resigna- 
tion to  take  effect  January  1,  1920. 
While  in  college  his  sight  began  to  fail 
and  by  the  time  he  was  ordained  his 
vision  was  very  dim.  For  some  time 
Mr.  Ayer  has  been  totally  blind;  but  in 
spite  of  this,  he  has  been  able  to  do  the 
usual  clergyman's  tasks  and  his  pas- 
torate at  Mansfield  has  been  verj'  sat- 
isfactory. He  was  one  of  the  men 
selected  to  engage  in  the  canvass  of  Con- 
necticut for  the  Pilgrim  Memorial  Fund 
during  the  past  four  months.  He  has 
been  pastor  of  the  Mansfield  Church 
for  seven  years. 

At  the  annual  convention  of  the 
American  Bar  Association  held  in  Bos- 
ton in  September,  the  principal  ad- 
dress was  delivered  by  Secretary  of 
State  Lansing  on  "Legal  Aspects  of  the 
Peace  Conference."  The  French  Gov- 
ernment has  presented  to  the  city  of 
Watertown,  where  the  secretary  makes 
his  home,  two  German  cannons  cap- 
tured during  the  war,  as  a  tribute  to 
Secretary  Lansing. 

Robert  A.  Woods  with  Mrs.  Woods 
left  Bo.ston  on  Friday,  August  29th,  for 


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a  pleasure  trip  around  the  world.  He 
has  resigned  as  trustee  of  the  Norfolk 
State  Hospital. 

Congressman  Allen  T.  Treadway 
presided  at  the  Republican  State  Con- 
vention in  Massachusetts  which  was 
held  in  Boston  in  October. 

Arthur  S.  Fairley,  son  of  Edwin 
Fairley,  is  a  member  of  the  Freshman 
Class  at  Amlierst. 

1887 
Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Edward  P.  Holton,  who  has  been  for 
thirty  years  a  missionary  to  India,  is 
now  home  on  furlough.     He   had  an 
article  in  the  Congregationalist  and  Ad- 
vance for  July  10th,  entitled,  "China's 
Destruction  of  Opium,  Moral  Courage 
in  International  Contrast." 

Ralph  S.  Rounds  is  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  League  of 
Free  Nations  Association. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Edwin  Noah  Hardy  has 
recently  published  through  the  Ameri- 
can Tract  Society  a  "Manual  of  Ameri- 
can Citizenship." 

Magistrate  Alexander  Brough  of 
New  York  City  is  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee appointed  to  establish  a  home  for 
friendless  and  wayward  colored  girls 
in  New  York. 

1888 

William  B.  Greenough,  Esq., 

Secretary, 

32  Westminster  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Rev.  Frank  L.  Garfield  has  a  younger 

son — Frank     Richardson     Garfield — in 

the  Freshman  Class  at  Amherst.     His 

older  son  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of 

1915. 

William  B.  Greenough  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  American  Bar  Association 


Convention  which  was  held  in  Boston 
in  September. 

1889 

Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  Elm  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 
Mrs.  Bertha  E.  Pierce  Walker,  wife  of 
Sec.  John  J.  Walker  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Home  Missionary  Society,  died 
suddenly  on  August  16th.  She  was  a 
graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  College 
and  after  her  graduation  taught  in  the 
High  School  in  Amherst.  Since  Mr. 
Walker's  connection  with  the  Home 
Missionary  Society  they  had  made  their 
home  in  Ne^vton  Highlands.  She  is 
survived  by  her  husband,  two  daughters 
and  a  son. 

The  Rev.  Edward  B.  Dean,  North- 
field,  Minn.,  returned  on  August  5th 
from  France,  where  he  has  been  head- 
quarters chaplain  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
in  Paris  for  seven  months.  He  was 
granted  a  year's  leave  of  absence  from 
his  church  to  go  overseas  in  August, 
1918;  but  owing  to  a  serious  accident 
during  his  first  week  in  New  York,  he 
was  detained  there  for  several  weeks, 
and  afterward  was  kept  at  the  New 
York  headquarters  as  head  of  the  Con- 
tinuation Schools  for  overseas  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  workers  until  December,  when  he 
went  to  Paris.  On  the  return  voyage  • 
Dr.  Dean  was  in  charge  of  the  717 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  secretaries  on  board  the 
S.  S.  Haverford. 

A  book  entitled  "Commercial  Tests 
and  How  to  Use  Them,"  Avritten  by 
Sherwin  Cody,  secretary  and  managing 
director  of  the  National  Associated 
Schools  of  Scientific  Business,  appears 
as  one  of  the  School  Efficiency  Mono- 
graphs. The  author  sets  forth  the 
history  and  technique  of  the  National 
Business  Ability  Tests  that  were  used 
as  the  basis  for  the  eflBciency  employ- 


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47 


ment  register  of  high  school  graduates 
which  is  now  offered  by  the  United 
States  Employment  Service  in  New 
York  City. 

Senator  George  B.  Churchill  of 
Amherst  is  district  chairman  of  the 
Massachusetts  Republican  Finance 
Committee. 

Prof.  Robert  W.  Crowell  has  accepted 
a  position  in  the  Department  of  Ro- 
mance Languages  at  Union  College, 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Miss  Frances  Josephine  Herrick  and 
William  Barnabas  Doyle  were  married 
in  New  London,  Conn.,  on  July  30th. 

Ernest  Darwin  Daniels  has  a  son — 
Ernest  Atkinson  Daniels — in  the  Fresh- 
man Class  at  Amherst.  Dr.  Calvin  B. 
West  has  also  another  son  entering 
Amherst  this  fall — -Bradford  Williams 
West. 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

362  Dwight  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Henry  A.   Gushing  and   Nathan  P. 
Avery  were  delegates  to  the  American 
Bar  Association  Convention  which  was 
held  in  Boston  in  September. 

Rev.  Charles  N.  Thorp,  for  seven 
years  pastor  of  the  Pilgrim  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Duluth,  Minn.,  has 
accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  Hol- 
yoke, Mass. 

H.  W.  Boynton's  keen  and  lively 
criticisms  of  current  fiction  are  a  regular 
feature  of  The  Bookman.  "Novels  of 
Various  Moods"  appeared  in  July, 
"All  Over  the  Lot"  in  August,  and 
"Novels    of    Change"    in    September. 


Boynton   is   also   contributing   weekly 
notices  of  fiction  to  The  Review. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  So.  Summit  St.,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 
R.  Stuart  Smith,  who  has  lately  been 
acting  as  Red  Cross  commissioner  for 
Great  Britain  with  the  rank  of  lieuten- 
ant-colonel, has  been  elected  to  the 
Middle  Temple  and  called  to  the  English 
Bar. 

Winthrop  Sawin  Tilley,  son  of  Charles 
E.  Tilley,  is  enrolled  in  the  Freshman 
Class  at  Amherst. 

Lyman  W.  Griswold  of  Greenfield, 
Mass.,  was  nominated  for  state  senator 
in  the  Franklin  and  Hampshire  district 
by  'the  Republicans  at  the  primaries 
this  fall. 

1893 
Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
Schauffler  is  director  of  the  New  York 
Metropolitan  Survey  and  Program  Con- 
struction  for    the    Interchurch    Move- 
ment. 

Dean  Frederick  W.  Beekman  of  the 
American  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity 
in  Paris  plans  to  establish  an  "Ameri- 
can War  Memorial  Church  of  France." 
Dean  Beekman  was  chaplain-director 
of  the  American  Soldiers'  and  Sailors' 
Club,  for  which  an  endowment  fund  of 
$500,000  is  now  being  raised.  Dean 
Beekman's  plan,  which  had  the  sup- 
port of  Generals  Pershing,  Liggett,  and 
others,  provides  for  the  insertion  of  two 
tablets  in  the  walls  of  the  church,  one  to 
the  memory  of  American  soldiers  slain 
and  the  other  to  the  dead  of  our  allies. 

Breed,  who  is  chairman  of  the  Mem- 
ber's Council  of  the  Merchants'  Asso- 
ciation of  New  York,  presided  over  a 
notable  luncheon  for  Cardinal  Mercier 


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which  was  held  at  the  Hotel  Astor  on 
October  7. 

Adelphi  College,  of  which  Blodgett  is 
president,  is  reported  to  have  had  the 
largest  summer  school  and  the  largest 
freshman  class  in  the  history  of  the 
college. 

Wales  has  been  with  the  State  Guard 
of  Massachusetts  doing  police  duty. 
Wales  WTites  "I  get  eight  hours  leave 
out  of  each  seventy-two;  no  business,  no 
family,  and  little  sleep,  but  we  are  pre- 
pared to  back  Governor  Coolidge  all 
winter  if  necessary,  until  a  new  police 
force  can  be  formed." 

Cummings,  who  has  been  a  colonel  in 
the  Great  War,  has  returned  to  Port- 
land and  writes  that  he  is  "a  private 
citizen  iox  life."  He  is  publicity  direc- 
tor of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
during  the  summer  has  been  trying  to 
make  smooth  the  paths  of  the  greatest 
crowd  of  "resorters"  that  Maine  has 
ever  had. 

Allis  attended  Dartmouth's  sesqui- 
centennial  as  Zug's  guest.  The  Art 
and  War  Lectures  which  Zug  gave  dur- 
ing the  war  at  the  different  camps  were 
so  successful  that  he  will  continue  to 
give  them  under  the  managership  of  the 
J.  B.  Pond  Lyceum  Bureau.  Seven 
Amherst  men  are  teaching  at  Dart- 
mouth. Zug  is  head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Modern  Art. 

L.  T.  Reed  preached  six  weeks  in  San 
Francisco  this  past  summer  and  on  his 
return  visited  the  Yosemite  and  the 
Grand  Canyon  with  his  wife  and  son. 

Reginald  Manwell,  '93's  class  boy, 
who  graduated  from  Amherst  last  June 
has  returned  to  Amherst  as  assistant  in 
the  Biological  Department.  His  sister 
is  a  junior  in  Smith;  two  brothers  served 
as  deck  hands  on  the  Great  Lakes  this 


summer  and  are  now  back  in  school  in 
Austinburg,  Ohio. 

By  an  appointment  of  the  officers  of 
the  State  Conference  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Churches  Goodrich  has  been 
convassing  the  churches  of  a  section  of 
Ohio  in  the  interest  of  the  Pilgrim  Me- 
morial Fund.  His  pastorate  is  at 
Jefferson,  Ohio. 

Kimball  is  a  member  of  the  Public 
Order  Committee  of  the  Washington 
Board  of  Trade  and  one  of  the  Home 
Defence  League.  During  the  race  riots 
in  Washington  this  summer  one  of  the 
League  was  killed  and  Kimball  had  a 
close  call  with  a  bullet  through  his  coat. 

Senator  Silas  D.  Reed,  of  Taunton, 
Mass.,  who  represents  the  first  Bristol 
district  in  the  Massachusetts  Senate, 
has  been  renominated  by  the  Republi- 
cans. 

Walter  L.  Tower  of  Dalton,  Mass. 
elected  to  the  Massachusetts  House  of 
Representatives  last  year  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket,  has  been  renominated  in  the 
fifth  Berkshire  district. 

William  C.  Breed  was  a  member  of 
the  committee  named  to  welcome  the 
President  on  his  return  from  the  Peace 
Conference.  He  has  also  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  mayor  of  New  York  as  a 
member  of  the  Mayor's  Committee  on 
Receptions  to  Distinguished  Guests. 

Allan  W.  McCurdy  has  been  chosen 
executive  secretary  of  the  committee  of 
forty-eight  and  in  that  capacity  has  an- 
nounced that  a  conference  will  be  held  in 
St.  Louis  on  December  9th  to  form  a 
new  party  and  to  determine  and  spe- 
cifically set  forth  the  fundamental  prin- 
ciples for  dealing  with  the  political, 
social  and  economic  facts  and  prob- 
lems which  affect  the  lives,  liberties  and 
responsibilities  of  Americans  today. 


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1894 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 

53  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
Warren  W.  Tucker  of  93  Sedgwick  St., 
Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  was  married  on 
June  26th  to  Miss  Josephine  W.  Secor, 
Boston,  Mass. 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  of  Worcester, 
Mass.,  is  district  chairman  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Republican  Finance  Commit- 
tee. 

Wheelock  Tenney  Craig  died  at  his 
home  in  Falmouth,  Mass.,  on  May  15, 
1919.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Henry  K. 
and  Harriette  R.  (Tenney)  Craig,  and 
was  born  in  Falmouth  on  February  10, 
1872.  He  prepared  for  college  at 
Phillips  Andover  Academy  and  since 
graduation  was  in  the  hotel  business 
at  Falmouth. 

1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Secretary, 
30  Church  St.,  New  York  City 
Gov.  Calvin  Coolidge  of  Massachu- 
setts was  renominated  without  opposi- 
tion by  the  Republicans  this  fall. 

The  Boston   Transcript  comments  as 
follows  on  the  governor's  renomination : 

"It  is  the  Republican  party  in  Massa- 
chusetts that  has  honored  itself  by 
renominating,  without  opposition.  Gov- 
ernor Coolidge  for  a  second  term.  His 
administration  of  the  state's  affairs  has 
been  of  a  high  order;  the  people's 
business  has  been  discharged  with 
"  dignity  and  despatch;  the  operating 
power  has  been  exercised  with  scrupu- 
lous regard  to  the  public  welfare;  the 
Legislature  has  lacked  neither  the  accu- 
rate information  nor  the  sound  recom- 
mendations that  it  is  the  constitutional 
function  of  the  chief  executive  to  supply; 
nor  has  it  lacked  that  wise  counsel  with 
which  the  governor  has  been  glad  to 
respond  when  the  co-ordinate  branch 
invited  it;  the  state's  institutions  have 
enjoyed  a  sympathy  and  a  supervision 
alike  alert  and  well  informed." 


Governor  Coolidge's  able  handling  of 
the  police  strike  in  Boston  has  won 
for  him  a  national  if  not  an  international 
reputation.  Not  only  has  he  been 
highly  praised  in  Massachusetts;  but  it 
is  interesting  to  note  how  he  is  regarded 
elsewhere.  The  following  is  an  edito- 
rial from  the  New  York  World  of  Sep- 
tember 16th: 

A    REAL   GOVERNOR 

"As  governor  of  Massachusetts, 
Calvin  Coolidge  has  already  proved  a 
most  acceptable  addition  to  American 
public  life.  In  the  presence  of  the 
issues  presented  to  him  as  a  result  of  the 
policemen's  strike,  there  were  oppor- 
tunities for  demagogy  which  many  a 
man  so  placed  would  have  seized  flam- 
boyantly. He  turned  instantly  to  the 
law  and  to  his  sworn  duty  and  he  never 
swerved. 

"The  appeals  made  to  him  by  Mr. 
Gompers  to  reinstate  the  police  deserters 
were  coupled  with  a  statement  that 
that  would  be  taking  a  broad  view  of 
their  offense.  On  the  contrary,  such 
an  act  was  impossible  except  in  obe- 
dience to  the  narrowest  of  all  considera- 
tions. Weakness,  timidity  and  a  desire 
to  court  the  favor  of  a  formidable  polit- 
ical element  might  have  impelled  him  to 
compromise  with  flagrant  wrong,  but 
the  iDroader  his  view  the  stronger  must 
be  his  determination  to  abate  nothing 
of  the  sovereignty  of  his  state  or  the 
obligations  of  his  office. 

"At  a  time  when  classism  is  rampant 
everywhere,  it  is  reassuring  to  find  in 
high  station  men  whose  breadth  of  view 
ex-poses  all  its  sophistries  and  impu- 
dences. It  is  the  merit  of  Governor 
Coolidge  that  in  trying  days,  without 
bluster  and  with  never  a  doubt,  he 
stood  resolutely  in  behalf  of  the  whole 
people  for  orderly  government.  By  so 
doing  he  commended  himself  not  to  one 
state  alone  but  to  all  of  the  states,  in 
some  of  which  his  example  is  sorely 
needed." 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance 
for  September  25th  states: 

"Gov.  Calvin  Coolidge  is  in  danger  of 
being  bracketed  with  Massachusetts' 
famous    and    fearless    war    governor. 


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John  A.  Andrew.  The  present  chief 
executive  is  also  the  master  of  a  com- 
pact and  cogent  Entrlisli  style.  Here 
are  two  gems  from  his  telegram  to  Mr. 
Gompers:  'There  is  no  right  to  strike 
against  the  public  safety  by  anybody, 
anywhere,  any  time.'  'Tlie  right  of 
the  police  of  Boston  to  affiliate  has 
always  been  questioned,  never  granted, 
is  now  prohibited."' 

Municipal  Court  Justice  Charles  B. 
Law  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  was  prom- 
inently mentioned  as  the  Republican 
nominee  for  Supreme  Court  in  the  Sec- 
ond District.  Although  it  was  felt  that 
he  would  add  considerable  strength  to 
the  county  ticket,  Justice  Law  was 
not  induced  to  enter  the  race,  as  he  has 
several  years  yet  to  serve  in  his  present 
office. 

Largely  through  the  efforts  of  Rev. 
R.  W.  Dunbar,  the  Congregational  and 
Baptist  churches  at  Greenville,  N.  H., 
have  recently  federated.  The  former 
lost  its  church  building  by  fire  last 
April,  and  as  the  other  Congregational 
churches  were  looking  for  a  minister  at 
the  time,  it  was  decided  to  federate  with 
Mr.  Dunbar  as  pastor  of  the  United 
Church. 

The  Independent  Corporation,  New 
York,  announces  a  correspondence 
course  in  business  talking  and  public 
speaking,  based  on  Frederick  Ilouk 
Law's  "Mastery  of  Speech."  Regard- 
ing  the   author,   the   publishers   state: 

"As  educator,  lecturer,  executive, 
traveler,  and  author  few  men  are  so 
well  equipped  by  experience  and  train- 
ing as  Doctor  Law  to  teach  the  art  of 
effective  speaking.  His  'Mastery  of 
Speech'  is  the  fruit  of  twenty  years' 
active  lecturing  and  instruction  in 
Eastern  schools  and  colleges,  preceded 
by  an  education  at  Oxford  Academy, 
Amherst  College,  Columbia  University, 
Teachers'  College,  Brown  University, 
and  New  York  University.  He  holds 
the  degrees  of  A.B.,  A.M.,  and  Ph.D. 
Doctor  Law  is  the  author  of  two  novels. 


two  books  of  poetry,  and  editor  of  six 
school  text-books.  He  was  lecturer  in 
Pedagogy  in  the  Extension  Work  of  the 
College  of  the  City  of  New  York  and  is 
head  of  the  Department  of  English  in 
the  Stuyvesant  High  School  and  writer 
of  the  Weekly  Lesson  Plans  for  the 
Independent." 

Dwight  Morrow  is  a  member,  with 
other  distinguished  Americans,  of  the 
Administrative  Board  of  the  recently 
founded  Institute  of  International 
Education. 

Lucius  R.  Eastman,  Jr.  is  a  member 
of  the  Executive  Committee  of  seven  of 
the  Congregational  Church  which  has 
charge  of  raising  a  Pilgrim  Memorial 
Fund  of  $5,000,000  to  be  used  for  min- 
isters' pensions.  Mr.  Eastman  is  also 
vice-president  of  the  National  Free 
Zone  Association  which  is  interested  in 
getting  general  legislation  through  Con- 
gress for  the  establishment  of  free  zones 
in  the  United  States.  The  latter  is  in 
connection  with  his  work  as  chairman 
of  the  Foreign  Trade  Committee  of  the 
Merchants"  Association. 

Nelson  Kingsland  has  returned  to 
New  York  after  several  years  with  the 
army  in  the  South,  having  taken  a 
position  with  the  Illustrated  Daily  News, 
25   City  Hall   Place. 

Clayton  Tracy  Griswold,  son  of 
Tracy  B.  Griswold,  is  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. 

In  appreciation  of  the  efficient  service 
of  the  New  York  Fire  Department  at 
the  big  Standard  Oil  fire  in  Brooklyn  in 
September,  Herbert  L.  Pratt  of  the 
Standard  Oil  Company  has  presented 
to  the  department  a  check  for  $10,000 
which  is  to  go  to  the  Neustadt  ^lemorial 
Fund  for  injured  firemen.  In  his  letter 
Mr.  Pratt  said  that  it  is  especially 
gratifying  that  the  fire  in  question  was 
handled  with  such  care  and  skill  that 


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there  was  no  loss  of  life  or  serious  injury 
to  any  person,  and  that  the  splendid 
courage,  discij)line,  and  efficiency  of  the 
department  which  was  so  clearly  demon- 
strated in  that  emergency  ought  to  be 
rewarded. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  Herbert  Atchinson  Jump,  of 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  recently  returned 
to  this  country  after  spending  several 
months  in  France  as  special  speaker  and 
investigator  for  the  Federal  Council  of 
Churches.  On  Memorial  Day,  he  was 
in  Neufchateau  and  wrote  a  Memorial 
Day  poem  in  honor  of  the  150  American 
dead  whose  bodies  lie  in  the  Neufchateau 
cem.etery,  members  of  the  New  England 
26th  Division. 

Previous  to  that,  he  had  swung 
around  France  from  Brest  to  Nice  and 
from  Saint  Nazaire  to  Chamonix.  A 
Mothers'  Day  greeting  from  the  Riviera 
written  by  him  was  circulated  in  an 
edition  of  5,000  copies.  He  brought 
home  a  large  amount  of  data  with  re- 
spect to  the  effect  of  the  war  and  of 
army  life  upon  the  American  soldier, 
which  data  is  to  be  used  in  compiling 
his  report,  at  the  request  of  the  presi- 
dent of  Oberlin.  He  has  been  a  recent 
contributor  of  some  very  interesting 
articles  to  the  Congregationalist  and 
Advance. 

Rev.  Edwin  B.  Robinson,  of  Holyoke, 
has  recently  been  a  contributor  to  the 
Congregationalist  and  Advance.  His 
article  in  the  issue  of  August  21st  on 
the  "Suppression  of  Sunday  Sport" 
attracted  much  attention. 

John  T.  Pratt  is  chairman  of  the 
National  Budget  Committee  which  is 
making  a  campaign  for  the  adoption 
of  the  National  Budget  System  by 
Congress. 


John  Galhraith  Smith  has  a  son — 
William  Galbrailh  Smith — in  the  Fresh- 
man Class  at  Amherst. 

Mortimer  L.  Schiff  has  been  appointed 
by  the  mayor  of  New  York  as  a  member 
of  the  committee  of  prominent  citizens, 
known  as  the  Mayor's  Committee  on 
Receptions  to  Distinguished  Guests. 

1897 
Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 

56  William  St.,  W'orcester,  Mass. 

Raymond  N.  Kellogg's  son,  Raymond 
N.  Kellogg,  Jr.,  is  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. 

Katherine  Rhodes  Howland,  daughter 
of  Karl  V.  S.  Howland,  publisher  of  the 
Independent,  and  Wilhelmina  Howland, 
died  at  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  on  August 
1st,  aged  12  days. 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 

201  College  Ave.,  N.  E., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

First  Assistant  Attorney-General 
William  H.  Hitchcock  was  one  of  the 
six  contestants  at  the  Republican  prim- 
aries this  fall  for  the  nomination  of 
attorney-general.  He  made  an  excel- 
lent run,  coming  in  third  in  the  contest. 

1899 

Charles  H.  Cobb,  Secretary, 
224  Albany  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
A  post  of  the  American  Legion  in 
honor  of  the  late  Capt.  Harry  A.  Bul- 
lock, who  was  killed  in  France  on 
Decoration  Day,  1918,  has  been  formed 
in  New  York. 

Prof.  Burges  Johnson  has  accepted  an 
invitation  from  Mills  College,  Cal.,  to 
reorganize  their  department  of  English. 

E.  W.  Hitchcock,  first  lieutenant, 
S.  S.  U.  588  and  Henry  T.  Hutchins, 
major,  M.  C,  have  both  returned  to  this 
country  from  France. 


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Howard  Chester  Walker,  son  of 
Albert  M.  Walker,  is  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Class  at  Amherst. 

1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  St.,  New  York  City 
Major  Thomas  J.  Hammond  was 
nominated  by  the  Republicans  in 
September  for  district  attorney  in  the 
Northwestern    Massachusetts    district. 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance 
for  July  24th  contained  an  interesting 
article  by  the  Rev.  Alden  H.  Clark  con- 
cerning Narayan  Waman  Tilak  of  India. 

Henry  Holt  &  Company,  New  York, 
published  on  October  1st,  "Ben,  the 
Battle  Horse,"  a  story  of  the  war  for 
boys,  by  Walter  A.  Dyer.  Recent 
magazine  contributions  by  Mr.  Dyer 
include  "The  Three  Musketeers,"  a 
story,  in  The  Woman's  Magazine  for 
August;  "The  Return  of  the  Chesa- 
peake" in  Country  Life  for  August; 
"Dogs  of  Peace  and  War"  in  The  Book- 
man for  September;  "Two  T\Tio  Loved 
Boy  Blue,"  a  story,  in  The  Woman's 
Magazine  for  October. 

1901 

.  Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  WiUiam  St.,  New  York  City 
Rev.  Rowland  B.  Dodge  has  been 
invited  to  take  charge  of  the  Extension 
Department  of  the  Pacific  School  of 
Religion,  at  Berkeley,  Cal.  He  entered 
upon  his  new  work  this  fall.  For  the 
past  fourteen  years  he  has  done  some 
remarkable  constructive  work  on  the 
island  of  Maui,  Hawaii,  where  he  was 
pastor  of  Union  Congregational  Church 
at  Wailuku.  He  decided  to  return  to 
the  states  because  his  children  have 
come  to  an  age  where  they  need  edu- 
cational facilities  not  obtainable  at 
Maui.     Besides  teaching,  he  will  direct 


field  work  of  students  and  superintend 
the  work  of  the  Congregational  Exten- 
sion Society. 

A  son  was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  K. 
Kretschmar  last  August  and  "has 
already  emitted  several  lusty  Amherst 
yells."  Mr.  Kretschmar  is  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Publication  Committee  of  the 
Alumni  Council. 

The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  was 
recently  conferred  by  Ripon  College 
upon  Pres.  H.  P.  Houghton  of  Carroll 
College. 

R.  C  Hawley  was  in  charge  of  the 
summer  course  of  the  Yale  School  of 
Forestry  in  camp  at  Milford,  Pa. 

1902 

S.  Bowles  King,  Secretary, 
Winnetka,  III. 
Rev.  William  Reid  has  been  appointed 
district  secretary  for  the  Baptist  Lay- 
men's Committee  with  headquarters 
in  New  York.  His  home  address  is 
9  Pinehurst  Ave.,  New  York  City. 
Prior  to  that,  he  spent  a  year  of  service 
in  France. 

The  Rev.  Jason  Noble  Pierce,  who 
served  for  a  year  overseas  as  senior 
chaplain,  has  been  mentioned  in  a  dis- 
patch from  abroad  because  of  the  good 
work  he  performed.  The  general  order 
concerning  this  citation  was  issued 
from  the  headquarters  of  the  Second 
Division  of  the  A.  E.  F.  His  citation 
reads : 

"Chaplain  Jason  N.  Pierce,  Senior 
Chaplain,  Second  Division — This  oflScer 
participated  in  all  the  engagements  in 
which  the  division  was  engaged.  By 
his  untiring  energy  and  fortitude  on  the 
field  of  battle,  and  by  rendering  spiritual 
and  physical  aid  to  the  wounded  men, 
he  contributed  greatly  to  the  success  of 
the  division." 


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At  the  Commencement  last  June  of 
Drury  College  in  Missouri,  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  on 
the  Rev.  Horace  F.  Holton  of  Brockton, 
Mass. 

1903 
Clifford  P.  Warren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Harold  F.  Greene  has  been  appointed 
manager  of  the  Bond  Department  of 
the  Guaranty  Trust  Company  of  New 
York.  He  came  to  the  Guaranty 
Trust  Company  in  November,  1917,  a 
general  sales  manager,  and  his  promo- 
tion has  been  rapid.  In  July,  1918,  he 
was  given  the  position  of  assistant 
manager  of  the  Bond  Department,  and 
his  appointment  as  bond  manager 
followed  in  July  of  this  year. 

1904 

Karl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
11306  Knowlton  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio 
George  K.  Pond  of  Greenfield,  Mass., 
was  nominated  by  the  Republicans  of 
the  second  Franklin  district  for  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representa- 
tives at  the  September  primaries. 

Newspaper  despatches  of  July  8, 1919, 
quoted  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
missioner Joseph  B.  Eastman  as  being 
opposed  to  returning  the  railroads  to 
the  owners.  In  a  communication  of 
the  Senate  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mittee he  stated  that  better  transporta- 
tion results  can  be  obtained  by  main- 
taining and  improving  federal  operation 
than  by  returning  to  old  methods  in 
whatever  guise.  He  admitted  that 
there  were  grounds  for  criticism  of 
operation  and  policy  since  the  beginning 
of  federal  control,  but  explained  that 
most  of  these  were  products  of  the  times 
in  which  we  have  been  living.  For 
some  the  Railroad  Administration  were 
responsible,  but  none  of  them  justified 


the  conclusion  that  national  opera- 
tion is  unsound  or  that  it  ought  to  be 
abandoned. 

Capt.  Heman  B.  Chase  of  the  Medi- 
cal Corps  returned  from  Bordeaux  on 
June  24th  and  on  June  30th  received  his 
discharge  and  returned  to  his  home  in 
Hyannis,  Mass.  On  October  4th  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Josephine  De  Wolfe 
of  Provincetown,  Mass.  On  October 
8th,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Chase  sailed  from 
New  York  for  Peru,  where  he  has  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  physician  for  the 
Cerro  de  Pasco  Copper  Company  which 
operates  in  the  Andes  at  an  altitude  of 
14,000  feet. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary., 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Walter  W.  Palmer  has  been 
elected  associate  professor  of  Medicine 
at  Johns  Hopkins  University  at  Balti- 
more, Md.  During  the  past  two  years, 
he  has  been  acting  head  of  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital  in  New  York  City. 

He  also  served  during  the  war  as 
acting  head  of  the  Department  of 
Medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  Columbia  University, 
and  prior  to  that  in  1916  was  associate 
professor  of  Medicine  at  Cornell  Uni- 
versity Medical  School.  His  new  post 
carries  with  it  both  teaching  and  re- 
search, and  affords  him  a  wonderful 
opportunity. 

Franklin  E.  Pierce  has  been  appointed 
head  of  the  Battin  High  School  at 
Elizabeth,  N.  J.  He  returned  recently 
from  overseas  after  six  months'  service 
with  the  Third  Army  Corps,  as  edu- 
cational director,  having  more  than 
10,000  members  of  the  American  Army 
of  Occupation  in  Germany  enrolled 
under  his  direction.  His  headquarters 
were  at  Neuwied,  Germany. 


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Brainerd  Dyer,  who  has  been  adver- 
tising manager  of  the  Aluminum  Cast- 
ings Company,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for 
the  past  three  years,  has  been  promoted 
and  is  now  handling  the  work  of  the 
sales  extension  department. 

Robert  J.  Bottomly  was  one  of  the 
six  contestants  at  the  Republican 
primaries  this  fall  for  the  nomination  of 
attorney-general  of  Massachusetts.  He 
made  an  excellent  run,  carrying  the  city 
of  Boston,  but  lost  out  in  the  state  at 
large,  but  by  a  narrow  margin.  Of  the 
six  contestants  Bottomly  finished  sec- 
ond. The  first  was  J.  Weston  Allen  of 
Newton,  getting  39,495  votes.  Bot- 
tomly received  34,141  votes.  The 
third  contestant,  likewise  an  Amherst 
man,  William  H.  Hitchcock,  received 
19,499  votes.  Bottomly's  majority  in 
Boston  was  256  votes.  Allen  was  much 
better  known  throughout  the  state,  as 
he  made  the  run  against  the  present 
attorney-general  a  year  ago,  and  that 
counted  in  his  favor;  but  the  race  was  a 
very  close  one,  the  contest  really  being 
between  Allen  and  Bottomly. 

Leonard  G.  Diehl  is  business  man- 
ager of  the  Great  Falls  Tribune,  Great 
Falls,  Mont. 

J.  Waldo  Bond  has  been  made  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Federal  Mutual 
Liability  Insurance  Company,  10  Trem- 
ont  St.,  Boston. 

Dwight  P.  Cruikshank  is  managing 
director  of  the  Steel  Equipment  Co., 
Limited,  of  Ottawa,  Canada. 

A.  E.  Roberts  has  left  the  teaching 
profession  and  is  now  with  the  Barrett 
Co.,  Frankford,  Pa.  His  home  address 
is  Corn  wells  Heights,  Pa. 

James  L.  Gilbert  has  moved  to  327 
No.  Fulton  Ave.,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 


Claude  M.  Fuess  has  recently  pub- 
lished through  the  Yale  University 
Press  "Phillips  Academy  at  Andover 
in  the  Great  War."  This  volume  not 
only  tells  the  part  that  the  famous 
academy  played  in  the  war,  but  it  con- 
tains a  complete  roster  of  the  students 
from  the  academy  who  were  in  the 
service.  Dr.  Fuess  is  also  editor  of  the 
Phillips  Bulletin,  and  has  been  elected 
historian  of  the  Andover  Post  of  the 
American  Legion. 

The  address  of  George  Schwab  is 
Metet,  via  Douala-Y'aounde,  Camer- 
oun,  W.  Africa,  Presbyterian  Mission. 

Prof.  Edward  Hall  Gardner  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin,  has  recently 
published  a  new  book  on  "  Constructive 
Dictation."  The  publishers  are  the 
Gregg  Publishing  Co.  The  book  ex- 
plains how  to  plan  your  letter  and 
deals  with  the  subject  of  letters  that 
compel  attention  and  secure  results. 

Leslie  R.  Fort  is  now  with  the  firm  of 
O'Keeffe  &  Lynch,  Inc.,  Brokers  & 
Adjusters,  at  45  John  St.,  New  York 
City.  He  acted  as  the  publicity  man- 
ager for  Governor  Runyon  of  New 
Jersey,  in  his  campaign  for  renomina- 
tion  and  in  this  capacity  practically  had 
full  charge  of  the  campaign. 

1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 

Tracy-Parry  Advertising  Co.,  Lafayette 

Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Morton  Snyder  has  resigned  the 
inspectorship  of  high  schools  in  Connec- 
ticut to  become  head  master  of  the 
University  High  School  at  Chicago  and 
instructor  in  Education  in  the  School  of 
Education,  University  of  Chicago.  His 
address  is  University  High  School, 
University  of  Chicago,  Chicago,  111. 


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Philip  A.  Bridgman,  formerly  in  the 
Insurance  business  in  Springfield,  is  now 
with  the  Norton  Company  at  Worcester. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocum,  Secretary, 
202  Lake  Ave.,  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

E.  Clement  Taylor  of  Springfield  has 
been  chosen  secretary  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  North  Adams.  He  has 
established  his  office  in  the  New  Kimball 
building.  Mr.  Taylor  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  American  City  Bureau 
and  has  had  considerable  experience  in 
organizing  chambers  of  commerce. 

Rev.  George  E.  Gary  of  Holden, 
Mass.,  has  accepted  a  call  to  the  pas- 
torate of  the  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Bradford,  Haverhill.  He  began  his  new 
work  on  September  28th. 

Hugh  Hartshorne  has  recently  pub- 
lished through  the  Pilgrim  Press, 
"Childhood  and  Character,"  dealing 
with  the  intimate,  direct,  scientific 
study  of  children.  The  book  is  attract- 
ing wide  and  very  favorable  attention. 

William  E.  Conley  has  been  acting  as 
coach  of  the  Manual  Training  High 
School  football  team  in  Brooklyn  this 
fall. 

Several  very  interesting  articles  have 
recently  appeared  in  Collier's  Maga- 
zine, written  by  Bruce  Barton.  His 
advertising  agency  in  New  York  has 
been  enlarged  with  the  addition  of  a 
branch  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Chilton  L.  Powell  returns  from  over- 
seas service  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  to  take 
the  position  of  instructor  of  English  and 
Public  Speaking  in  Amherst. 

1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 

Duluth,  Minn. 
William  Ives  Washburn,  Jr.,  formerly 
with   the   Century   Company   and   re- 


cently with  the  George  H.  Doran  Com- 
pany, has  accepted  a  position  as  asso- 
ciate editor  of  Adventure  and  Romance, 
published  by  the  Butterick  Company, 
New  York. 

Horatio  E.  Smith  is  now  professor  of 
Romance  Languages  in  Amherst.  Pro- 
fessor and  Mrs.  Smith  are  living  in  Old 
Doc's  house  on  College  Street. 

Harrison  L.  Clough.  general  superin- 
tendent of  the  factories  of  the  W.  H. 
McElwain  Company  at  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  died  on  October  12,  1918,  a  vic- 
tim of  the  influenza  epidemic.  Mr. 
Clough  was  head  of  the  sole  leather  divi- 
sion both  in  Manchester  and  in  Merri- 
mac.  After  leaving  Amherst  he  at- 
tended the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  son,  daughter,  and  mother. 

1909 

Donald  D.  McKay,  Secretary, 
Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 
Charles  Usher  Hatch  of  West  Newton 
was  married  on  Tuesday,  September 
16th,  to  Miss  Katharine  Leighton  Rol- 
lins, daughter  of  Mrs.  Theodore  Bige- 
low  Rollins,  of  Wellesley,  Mass.  C.  W. 
Tylee,  '09,  acted  as  best  man.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hatch  will  be  at  home  after 
November  1st  at  108  Byers  St.,  Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Another  1909  marriage  is  that  of 
Allen  Dorset  Eldred,  of  Springfield, 
Mass.,  and  Miss  Helen  Mary  Walters, 
daughter  of  John  W.  Walters,  at  Wyo- 
ming, 111.,  on  Wednesday,  September 
17th.  She  attended  Smith  College. 
They  will  make  their  home  in  Long- 
meadow,  Mass. 

Rev.  Elliott  O.  Foster  has  returned 
from  France,  and  been  discharged  from 
service    after    sixteen    months    in    the 


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A.  E.  F.  Accepting  a  commission  as 
first  lieutenant  in  the  Sanitary  Corps, 
he  served  for  more  than  a  year  in  the 
Finance  and  Accounting  Division,  Chief 
Surgeon's  office,  at  the  Service  of  Sup- 
plies Headquarters  at  Tours,  France, 
and  for  four  months  as  historical  officer. 
He  was  promoted  to  a  captaincy  in 
November,  1918. 

F.  Marsena  Butts,  Joseph  B.  Jamie- 
son,  Jr.,  Clinton  W.  Tylee,  James  B. 
Melcher,  and  Donald  D.  McKay  served 
as  members  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Guard  in  policing  Boston  during  the 
recent  strike. 

1910 

George  B.  Burnett,  Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 

Capt.  George  L.  Curran  and  Miss 
Claire  E.  Russell  of  Seattle,  Wash.,  were 
married  in  Chicago,  111.,  on  July  21st. 
He  had  just  returned  from  France, 
where  he  met  his  bride  when  serving  at 
Base  Hospital  No.  50  at  Mesves.  Dr. 
Curran  was  elected  president  of  the 
Northern  Berkshire  Medical  Associa- 
tion in  September. 

Capt.  Bartow  Hall,  who  has  been  dis- 
charged from  the  service,  has  moved  to 
New  York,  and  is  practicing  law  there. 

Harris  L.  Corey  has  been  elected 
a  director  of  the  Toledo  Advertising 
Club. 

Dr.  William  S.  Ladd  is  with  the  De- 
partment of  Medicine  at  Johns  Hop- 
kins University.  His  new  address  is 
216  Ridgewood  Road,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Courtney  Campbell  is  vice-president 
and  general  manager  of  the  Carolina 
Stock  Farms,  Inc.,  comprising  some 
4,300  acres. 

Robert  A.  Hardy  is  now  with  the 
J.  Walter  Thompson  Co.,  advertising 
agency,  244  Madison  Ave.,  New  York 
City. 


Joseph  B.  Bisbee,  Jr.,  is  with  Smith 
Brothers,  cough  drop  manufacturers, 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

W.  A.  Bancroft  is  in  the  electrical 
business  in  Portland,  Me. 

A.  M.  Milloy  announces  the  arrival 
of  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  on  June  11, 
1919. 

Francis  O.  Sullivan  is  running  a 
Woman's  Specialty  Shop  in  Cortland, 
NY. 

Charles  W.  Barton  is  assistant  pub- 
lisher of  the  New  York  Morning  Tele- 
graph with  office  at  20  Broad  St. 

Max  Shoop  is  leaving  this  country 
the  last  of  September  on  a  three  years' 
mission  for  his  company. 

Raymond  P.  Wheeler  was  married  to 
Miss  Evelyn  Bush  King  at  Ashville, 
N.  C,  onJuly  16,  1919. 

At  the  last  Commencement  of  Ripon 
College,  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  Pres. 
J.  D.  Brownell  of  Northland  College, 
Ashland,  Wis. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  No.  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Richard  B.  Scandrett,  Jr.,  on  his  dis- 
charge from  the  Naval  Aviation,  where 
he  served  as  ensign,  moved  to  New  York 
City,  and  is  now  practicing  law  at  62 
Cedar  St. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  A.  Darling  of 
New  York  City,  recently  announced  the 
engagement  of  their  daughter,  Grace,  to 
R.  Evershed  Myers  of  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

A  son,  George  Randall  Yerrall,  3rd, 
was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  R. 
Yerrall  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  on  Sep- 
tember 23. 


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Hubert  Hillhouse  Loomis  and  Frances 
Russell,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Alfred  Lovell  Russell,  of  New  York 
City,  were  married  on  Saturday,  Sep- 
tember 20th,  at  the  Hotel  Ansonia  in 
New  York.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed by  the  Rev.  Samuel  L.  Loomis, 
D.D.,  '77.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Loomis  will 
make  their  home  at  "  Bouldercroft," 
Billerica  Road,  Bedford,  Mass. 

1912 

C.  Francis  Beatty,  Secretary, 
953  President  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
John  H.  Madden  has  formed  a  law 
partnership  with  James  T.  Heenehan, 
who  is  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  in  1914, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Heenehan  and 
Madden,  with  offices  in  the  Court 
Square  Theatre  Building,  Springfield, 
Mass.  Mr.  Madden  went  to  France 
with  the  76th  Division,  and  after  being 
transferred  to  the  78th,  received  his 
discharge  on  July  1st. 

Claude  H.  Hubbard  has  been  chosen 
by  Western  Reserve  University  at 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  to  take  charge  of  gym- 
nastics and  indoor  athletics.  Last  year 
he  was  at  the  Missouri  State  Normal 
School  at  Warrensburg,  where  he  was  in 
command  of  the  Students'  Army  Train- 
ing Corps.  Previously  he  was  coach 
and  physical  director  at  the  New  York 
State  College  at  Albany. 

Marion  Reed  Atwater,  wife  of  William 
C.  Atwater,  Jr.,  died  on  Friday,  August 
22nd. 

Sargent  Holbrook  Wellman,  son  of 
Hon.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Holbrook  Well- 
man  of  Maiden,  Mass.,  was  married  on 
October  1st,  in  Paris,  France,  to  Miss 
Mary  Conover  Lines,  daughter  of  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Ernest  Howard  Lines,  long 
residents  at  the  French  capital.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  at  the  Ameri- 
can Church.     After  a  trip  in  Southern 


France  and  other  European  countries, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wellman  will  return  to 
the  United  States  in  December  and  make 
their  home  in  Topsfield,  Mass. 

Another  death  to  be  added  to  the  vic- 
tims of  the  influenza  epidemic  is  that  of 
Howell  Powell,  who  died  at  his  home  in 
Shadeland,  Pa.,  on  November  7,  1918. 
He  was  attacked  by  the  disease  while 
assisting  in  the  care  of  his  brother  who 
died  on  the  29th  of  October. 

Howell  Powell  was  born  at  Shadeland, 
Pa.,  on  November  18,  1888,  the  oldest 
son  of  Watkin  G.  and  Minnie  E.  Powell. 
He  graduated  from  the  Springboro 
High  School  in  1906  and  from  the  Bor- 
dentown  Military  Institute  in  1908.  He 
then  entered  Amherst,  where  he  was 
completing  his  second  year  when  he 
was  called  home  by  the  death  of  his 
father,  and  business  interests  prevented 
his  returning  to  complete  his  course. 
He  took  up  the  management  of  the 
large  business  of  Powell  Brothers,  and 
was  successfully  carrying  it  on  at  his 
death.  He  was  a  progressive  stock- 
man and  farmer,  and  under  his  charge 
the  world-famous  Shadeland  farm  was 
keeping  up  its  reputation  for  breeding 
milk-producing  strains  of  cattle  and  the 
best  in  other  live  stock.  With  the 
heavy  demands  of  the  large  farm  on  his 
hands,  he  was  yet  able  to  bear  his  full 
share  and  more  in  the  activities  of  pub- 
lic life.  He  was  postmaster  at  Shade- 
land  for  eight  years,  retiring  last  April 
before  his  death;  was  a  member  of  the 
Springboro  Township  School  Board; 
captain  of  the  Springboro  Camp  of 
State  Police;  one  of  the  organizers  and 
president  of  the  Springboro  Local  of 
the  Co-operative  Dairymen's  Associa- 
tion; a  member  of  the  University  Club 
of  Erie;  of  the  Chi  Phi  fraternity  and  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Conneaut- 
ville,  and  an  officer  in  the  Shadeland 


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Sunday  School.  He  had  been  very 
activ  e  in  war  work,  in  the  Liberty  Loan 
and  Red  Cross  campaigns. 

1913 

Lewis  G.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
1906  West  Genesee  St.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Wayland  Hoyt  Brown,  of  Minne- 
apolis, to  Miss  Adele  Birdsall,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Birdsall  of 
Roselle,  N.  J. 

Another  1913  engagement  announced 
during  the  summer  is  that  of  Albert 
Louis  Stirn  and  Miss  Mary  Augusta 
Fenno,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Her- 
bert L.  Fenno  of  Canton,  Mass. 

Lewis  Morton  Stewart  was  married 
on  Wednesday,  July  23rd,  at  Northport, 
L.  I.,  to  Miss  Marie  Cecile  Leplat, 
daughter  of  the  late  Henry  Leplat. 

Besides  his  duties  as  superintendent 
of  schools  at  Mansfield,  Mass.,  Ralph 
W.  Westcott  is  this  year  to  devote  one 
day  a  week  to  the  schools  at  Sharon. 

George  R.  Havens  is  instructor  in 
History  at  Ohio  State  College,  Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 

1914 
RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Miss  Marjorie  McBride,  of  South 
Weymouth,  Mass.,  to  Stanley  Heald. 

1915 

Joseph  R.  Snider,  Secretary, 
13  Fairfax,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Everett  Webb  Fuller,  son  of  ex- 
Senator  Charles  H.  Fuller,  '78,  and 
Miss  Gertrude  Laura  (iladding,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  M.  Gladding, 
were  married  on  September  loth  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  parents  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  Randolph  M.  Fuller,  '15,  acted 
as  best  man. 


1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Road,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

On  August  15,  1919,  a  little  daughter 
was  born  to  Mrs.  Wallace  Minot  Leon- 
ard. In  memory  of  her  husband  Mrs. 
Leonard  has  named  the  child  W^allace 
Minot  Leonard. 

Charles  F.  Weeden,  Jr.,  after  his  dis- 
charge from  the  280th  Aviation  Brig- 
ade, where  he  served  as  lieutenant, 
sailed  for  the  Near  East  with  the  relief 
party  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  L.  Barton.  He 
was  on  the  first  relief  train  that  went 
into  Asia-Minor,  and  later  was  put  in 
charge  of  the  relief  work  at  Ufa.  He 
WTote  of  this  work  in  an  interesting 
article  in  a  recent  issue  of  the  Boston 
Evening  Transcript  under  the  title  of 
"  Relief  W^ork  in  a  Land  of  Unspeakable 
Tragedy." 

Edward  D.  Andrews  is  teaching  at 
the  Fessenden  School,  West  Newton. 

G.  Homer  Lane,  who  as  lieutenant 
(J.  G.)  U.  S.  N.  R.  F.,  was  in  command 
of  S.  C.  86  in  foreign  waters,  has  been 
released  from  the  service  and  has  re- 
entered Hartford  Theological  Seminary. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lane  will  make  their  home 
in  West  Hartford,  Conn. 

Charles  Burton  Ames  was  discharged 
from  the  Marine  Corps  Flying  Corps  on 
April  1,  1919.  At  present  he  is  sales 
executive  for  the  Vacuum  Oil  Co.,  61 
Broadway,  New  York.  The  last  heard 
from  Ames  he  was  busy  showing  the 
fair  mermaids  at  Far  Rockaway  how  to 
do  the  swan  dive. 

Walton  C.  Baker  was  married  to  Miss 
Frances  Jenkins  of  Norfolk,  Va.,  on 
February  22,  1919.  Baker  is  now  sales- 
man for  the  Farmers'  Cotton  Oil  Co. 
at  Wilson,  N.  C. 


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Henry  Walter  Barnes,  Jr.,  having 
spent  a  very  interesting  life  in  France 
from  September  4,  1917,  to  April  20, 
1919,  as  a  non-com  in  the  Ambulance 
Service  with  the  French  Army,  returned 
to  the  United  States  with  six  Croix  de 
Guerres,  Fourragere  of  Croix  de  Guerre, 
and  Medaille  Militaire.  He  is  now 
assistant  cashier  of  the  Plymouth 
National  Bank,  Plymouth,  Mass. 

Wilfrid  Stuart  Bastine  returned  from 
France  May  1,  1919,  where  he  served 
with  the  106th  F.  A.  and  50th  Aero 
Squadron.  He  is  now  salesman  for  the 
American  Mutual  Liability  Insurance 
Co.,  18  East  41st  St.,  New  York. 

Julius  Seelye  Bixler  at  present  is 
busily  engaged  in  publishing  the  Sab- 
rinan,  the  1916  class  paper.  He  is  di- 
rector of  Religious  Activities  at  Amherst 
College. 

Merrill  Holmes  Boynton  is  now  sales- 
man for  the  Library  Bureau  at  Buffalo, 
N.  Y. 

Charles  Henry  Brown  is  secretary  of 
the  Brown  Manufacturing  Co.,  54  West 
Lake  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Harold  George  Brewton  is  an  interior 
decorator  and  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Vincent  Collins,  Inc.,  749  Fifth  Ave., 
New  York  City. 

H.  Nelson  Conant,  since  getting  out 
of  the  army,  has  been  with  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Boston. 

Francis  Morse  Dent  served  as  first 
lieutenant  in  the  Infantry,  with  the 
92nd  Division  in  France,  and  since 
being  discharged  in  May,  1919,- has  been 
with  the  Ford  Motor  Co.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Alfonso  Gray  Dugan  is  with  the  Ad- 
vertising Department  of  the  Chicago 
Tribune,  Tribune  Bldg.,  Chicago,  111. 

William  Cole  Esty  is  in  the  Adver- 
tising Department  of  the  Home  Sector, 


the  United  States  edition  of  our  old 
friend,  the  Stars  and  Stripes.  Call  him 
up  at  the  Butterick  Publishing  Co., 
242  West  104th  St.,  New  York,  if  you 
have  any  kicks  against  the  Q.  M. 

To  Eralsey  Clark  Ferguson  and  Mrs. 
Ferguson  the  class  all  extend  heartiest 
congratulations  on  the  arrival  of  a  little 
daughter.  Miss  Elizabeth  Clark  Fer- 
guson, whose  birthday  was  September 
10,  1919.  May  she  enjoy  good  health 
and  long  life.  "Ferg"  is  with  Howes 
Brothers  Company,  321  Summer  St., 
Boston,  Mass. 

Roland  B.  Graham  is  salesman  for 
the  Cortright  Coal  Co.,  918  Pennsyl- 
vania Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

The  latest  news  from  Donald  E. 
Hardy  was  received  on  September  4th 
in  a  letter  to  his  parents,  written  from 
Riga,  Russia,  on  July  3rd.  He  is 
lieutenant  on  the  American  Relief  Ad- 
ministration in  the  Baltic  District, 
Russia.  Don  surely  is  having  some 
wonderful  experiences.  We  hope  how- 
ever that  by  the  time  this  goes  to  press 
he  will  be  at  home  again. 

George  Nelson  Keeney  is  teaching  at 
the  University  School,  245  Park  Ave., 
Paterson,  N.  J. 

Lewis  Mansfield  Knapp  is  enjoying 
home  life  with  his  parents  at  Groton, 
Mass.,  after  having  spent  a  year  over- 
seas with  the  5th  Division  in  Ambulance 
Co.  No.  30. 

Arthur  Hurd  Lee  hasn't  been  heard 
from  for  years  until  just  recently.  He 
was  married  February  9,  1918,  to  Miss 
Inez  Gose  of  Hennessey,  Okla.,  and  is  at 
present  with  the  Farmers'  and  Mer- 
chants' National  Bank  iii  the  same  city. 
"General"  got  his  LL.B.  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  in  1917. 


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Lawrence  C.  Meredith  married  Miss 
Lilian  Dale  Wandel  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
May  23,  1917.  A  little  son  was  born  to 
them  on  November  15,  1918;  his  name 
is  Lawrence  Meredith,  Jr.  "Merry" 
is  a  sanitary  expert  and  before  entering 
the  army  was  working  at  St.  Luke's 
Hospital  in  New  York.  At  present  he  is 
living  at  307  Marshall  St.,  Syracuse, 
N.  Y. 

Douglas  D.  Milne  is  with  the  Com- 
mercial Department,  Long  Distance 
Lines,  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph 
Co.,  195  Broadway,  New  York. 
"Dugle"  is  trying  to  locate  the  lost, 
strayed  or  stolen  members  of  the  class. 
Anyone  who  can  tell  him  where  to 
locate  "Dave"  Stevenson,  Seth  Twit- 
chell,  and  Ed  Catchpole  will  be  helping 
the  cause  materially. 

Thomas   B.   Munro  is  lecturer  and 

instructor  in  Philosophy  at  Columbia 

University.     His  address  is  711  West 
178th  St.,  New  York. 

Geoffrey  Cooke  Neiley  is  now  with 
the  Insurance  Company  of  Field  and 
Cowles,  85  Water  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Francis  R.  Otte  was  married  on 
September  13,  1919,  to  Miss  Margaret 
Mathews  of  Brockport,  N.  Y.  At 
home  after  October  1,  1919,  104  Ridge- 
way  Ave.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Robert  Matthews  Proctor  is  assistant 
personnel  manager  of  the  National  City 
Bank  of  New  York,  55  Wall  St. 

John  U.  Reber  is  in  the  advertising 
business  of  J.  Walter  Thompson,  244 
Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 

Humphrey  Fuller  Redfield  is  endeav- 
oring to  get  a  little  money  from  the  boys 
since  he  has  recently  taken  over  the  job 
as  class  treasurer.  He  is  working  for 
the  Eastern  Steamship  Corporation, 
Pier  18,  North  River,  New  York. 


Edmund  E.  Sawyer  is  insurance 
representative  for  the  Phoenix  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Co.,  217  Broadway,  New 
York. 

Robert  Williams  Smith  is  agent  for 
the  American  Book  Co.,  300  Pike  St., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Winthrop  H.  Smith  is  still  with  the 
brokers  firm  of  Merrill,  Lynch  &  Co., 
120  Broadway,  New  York.  If  you 
want  to  know  anything  about  George 
Washburn,  ask  Smith,  he  knows  as  little 
as  anyone. 

Alfred  H.  Washburn  at  present  is 
studying  to  be  a  doctor  at  the  Harvard 
Medical  School.  His  address  is  238 
Commonwealth  Ave.,  Boston,  Mass. 

George  W.  Washburn,  our  good  old 
president,  is  one  of  the  lost,  strayed  or 
stolen.  Reward  given  for  the  man  who 
can  get  him  to  write  the  secretary  of  the 
class.  We  hear  from  various  sources 
that  George  is  up  to  his  old  tricks  again, 
but  as  in  the  days  of  old,  no  one  can  get 
much  on  him. 

Lambert  F.  Whetstone  is  teacher  at 
St.  Paul's  School  at  Concord,  N.  H. 

Arthur  P.  White  is  studying  for  the 
ministry  at  Harvard  Theological  School. 
Address  72  Mt.  Vernon  St.,  Boston, 
Mass.  "Art"  is  also  about  to  join  the 
ranks  of  married  men,  having  an- 
nounced his  engagement  to  Miss  Mary 
H.  Huter  of  Corning,  N.  Y.,  in  August, 
1919. 

1917 
Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
,    Indiana,  Pa. 

Whitney  W.  Stark  and  Miss  Frances 
Mitchell  Blake,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  M.  Mitchell  Blake  of  New  York, 
were  married  in  Christ  Church,  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y.,  on  Monday,  July  21st.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Stark  are  residing  at  216  Ash 


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St.,  Akron,  Ohio,  where  he  is  now  in 
business. 

The  engagement  has  been  recently 
announced  of  Miss  Helen  Stearns  Cum- 
mings,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
S.  Cummings  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to 
Robert  Wiltsie  Wadhams. 

1918 

Robert  P.  Kelsey,  Secretary, 
122  So.  Michigan  Blvd.,  Chicago,  111. 
At  the  June  Class  Meeting  the  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected  to  serve 
until  the  reunion  in  1921:  Dwight  B. 
Billings,  president;  Robert  P.  Kelsey, 
secretary-treasurer. 

Morris  H.  Williams  has  accepted  a 
position  with  the  Travelers'  Life  In- 
surance Company  at  Hartford,  Conn. 

L.  M.  Prince  returned  from  France 
last  June  and  is  now  studying  law  at 
Harvard  Law  School.  A.  W.  Bennett 
and  W.  B.  Stitt  are  studying  law  in 
New  York  City;  P.  A.  Chase  at  Brattle- 
boro,  Vt.,  W.  W.  Yerrall  and  W.  H. 
Beach  at  Harvard  and  A.  W.  Cornell 
at  Columbia. 

Capt.  John  B.  Brainerd  has  rejoined 
the  9th  Infantry  and  is  stationed  at 
Camp  Travis,  Texas. 

Lucius  E.  Thayer  is  now  serving 
abroad  with  the  American  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions. 

R.  P.  Bentley  is  now  in  Chicago  with 
the  Erwin  &  Wasey  Company,  adver- 
tising agents. 

Clarence  H.  Traver  is  living  in  Janes- 
ville.  Wis.,  and  is  employed  by  the 
General  Motors  Company. 

J.  C.  Warren  is  now  with  W.  F. 
Powers  &  Company,  New  York  City. 

Roy  R.  Blair  is  now  in  Wyoming, 
Ohio,  with  the  Richardson  Paper  Com- 
pany. 


A.  C.  Haven  is  in  business  with  the 
New  York  Telephone  Company. 

P.  H.  See  is  in  the  wool  business  with 
Crimmins  and  Pierce,  Boston. 

W.  C.  Washburn  is  in  the  leather 
business  in  Salem,  Mass. 

R.  F.  Patton  has  accepted  a  position 
with  C.  S.  Simonds  &  Co.,  Boston. 

D.  B.  Billings  is  in  Springfield,  Mass., 
in  the  tobacco  business. 

P.  M.  Breed  is  with  Little,  Brown  & 
Co.,  Publishers,  Boston. 

Harold  F.  Johnson  is  in  the  aeroplane 
business  with  his  brothers  in  Denver, 
Colo.  We  wish  him  better  success  when 
he  attempts  a  flight  to  the  reunion  in 
1921. 

M.  P.  Sharp  is  now  teaching  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin. 

C.  L.  Norton  is  in  the  real  estate 
business  in  New  York  City. 

F.  C.  Butler  is  in  the  wholesale 
jewelry  business  in  Providence. 

A.  R.  Holt  has  accepted  a  position 
with  the  Library  Bureau. 

The  following  1918  men  have  re- 
turned to  college:  A.  W.  Morehouse, 
W.  C.  Rogers,  C.  G.  Seamans,  W.  E. 
Pratt,  C.  H.  Durham,  M.  P.  Hall,  D.  M. 
Keezer. 

The  marriage  of  Daniel  G.  Redmond 
to  Miss  Claire  Patterson  of  New  York 
City  took  place  on  Saturday,  Septem- 
ber 6th.  Miss  Patterson  is  a  graduate 
of  Barnard  College.  Mr.  Redmond  is 
now  in  the  mail  order  business  with 
Robert  Hunter. 

D.  B.  Bixler  is  with  the  Western 
Electric  Company  in  Philadelphia. 

R.  J.  Brinkerhoff  is  in  the  bond  busi- 
ness with  Biddle  &  Henry  of  Philadel- 
phia. 


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H.  F.  Wheeler  is  in  Philadelphia  with 
the  Equitable  Insurance  Company. 

J.  K.  Eilert  is  sales  manager  of  the 
American  Motors  Corporation  in  New 
York. 

T.  H.  Parsons  has  been  released  from 
the  navy  and  is  now  with  Prosser  and 
Homans,  a  Life  Insurance  Company  in 
New  York. 

A.  F.  Tylee  returned  from  France  in 
July.  Since  the  armistice  he  has  been 
doing  post-graduate  work  at  the  A.  E.  F. 
University  in  France,  and  he  plans  to 
enter  Harvard  Law  School  this  fall. 

Donald  E.  Marshall  was  married  on 
August  15th  to  Miss  Doris  Aline  Hill  of 
Northampton,  Mass. 

William  H.  Michener  is  instructor  in 
Physics  at  Lafayette  College,  Easton, 
Pa. 

Henry  Ladd  and  J.  Stuart  Meiklejohn 
are  at  Cornell  University.  Ladd  will 
specialize  in  English,  Meiklejohn  in 
Philosophy. 

1919 

Walter  K.  Belknap,  Secretary, 
196  Grand  St.,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

On  the  Monday  night  of  "rushing 
season"  the  class  held  an  informal 
supper  at  Dick's  at  which  the  follow- 
ing were  present:  Cummings,  Hooper, 
Howe,  Moore,  Manwell,  Neiley,  Patton, 
Seward,  E.  R.  Smith,  L.  B.  Smith, 
Staples  and  Virden.  Some  of  these 
men  had  just  returned  from  overseas 
and  some  were  back  to  complete  their 
courses  which  were  interrupted  by  the 
war.  The  following  men  will  be  among 
those  from  1919  who  will  be  in  Amherst 
during  the  winter  in  order  to  get  their 
degrees  next  June:  Cummings,  East- 
man, Howe,  Patton,  E.  R.  Smith, 
Spencer,  Staples. 


Merrill  Anderson  is  with  Harper  and 
Bros,  in  New  York  City. 

Walter  K.  Belknap  put  in  the  summer 
teaching  Latin  and  English  in  the  sum- 
mer school  in  his  home  town. 

John  B.  Bell  is  with  the  John  Boyle 
Co.  in  New  York  City. 

George  T.  Boone  is  with  the  Travel- 
ers' Insurance  Co.  in  New  York  City. 

Nehemiah  Boynton,  Jr.,  is  with 
Harry  H.  Brown  and  Co.,  cotton  bro- 
kers, in  Boston. 

Oliver  G.  Boynton  is  back  from  serv- 
ice overseas  with  the  Marines. 

James  W.  Bracken  is  with  the  Good- 
rich Rubber  Co. 

William  L.  Brunt  is  principal  of  the 
public  grade  and  high  school  at  Middle- 
ville,  N.  Y.,  after  studying  all  summer 
at  Columbia. 

Marcus  R.  Burr  is  with  the  Diamond 
Match  Co.  in  Pittsburgh. 

Alphonse  E.  Cavart  is  in  the  Export 
Department  of  the  American  Chain 
Co.  in  New  York  City. 

Charles  R.  Chase  got  back  in  July 
from  twenty-five  months'  service  in 
France,  first  in  the  ambulance  service 
and  then  as  a  student.  He  has  been 
discharged  and  has  been  taking  a  vaca- 
tion at  his  home  in  Michigan. 

Thurston  V.  Darling  is  an  advertising 
manager  for  a  retail  store  in  Rochester, 

N.  Y. 

Robert  J.  Davis  is  with  the  Hills 
Bros.  Co.,  fruit  importers,  in  New  York 
City. 

AUyn  B.  Forbes  is  at  the  South  End 
House  in  Boston. 

Elhanan  H.  Golomb  is  studying  for 
additional  degrees  at  the  Dropsie  Col- 


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63 


lege  of  Hebrew  and  Cognate  Languages 
and  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Perry  B.  Glann  is  in  business  with  his 
father  in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

Leavitt  D.  Hallock  is  with  the  Ohio 
Rubber  Co. 

Edmund  H.  Hendrickson  is  in  the 
New  York  advertising  ofBce  of  the 
Sunset  Magazine. 

Leonard  P.  Moore  spent  last  summer 
as  a  tutor  in  the  Canadian  woods. 

Bradbury  B.  Morse  is  back  in  this 
country  after  service  with  the  Marines 
in  Hawaii. 

Ernest  Mutschler  has  a  fellowship  at 
Princeton. 

Charles  S.  Porter  is  an  instructor  in 
Mathematics  at  Worcester  Polytechnic 
Institute. 


Arthur  L.  Scott  is  with  the  Great 
Northern  R.  R.  Co.  at  Seattle,  Wash. 

Halvor  R.  Seward  is  with  the  Youth's 
Companion  in  Boston. 

Roy  V.  A.  Sheldon  spent  last  summer 
as  a  reporter  on  the  New  York  Globe. 

David  S.  Soliday  is  with  the  D.  E. 
Winebrenner  Co.,  growers  and  packers, 
in  Hanover,  Pa. 

Theodore  Southworth  is  with  the 
Scripps-Booth  Co.  in  Detroit. 

W^ilfred  B.  Utter  is  with  the  Daily 
Sun  at  Westerly,  R.  I. 

Howard  P.  Vermilya  is  with  the  Air 
Reduction  Co.  in  New  York  City. 

Frederick  L.  Yarrington  is  with  the 
Scripps-Booth  Co.  in  Detroit. 


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JOHN  FRANKLIN  GENUNG 

JOHN   M.    TYLER 

ABOUT  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  John  Guenon, 
a  Huguenot  born  near  La  Rochelle,  arrived  in  New  York 
and  became  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Flushing,  L.  I.  He 
married  Margreta  Sneden,  a  native  of  Amsterdam.  Not  far  from 
1700  another  Huguenot,  having  the  name  of  Petell,  was  admitted 
to  citizenship  at  Boston.  His  daughter  married  Andrew  Nichols, 
a  Scotchman  from  the  north  of  Ireland.  Their  daughter  became 
the  wife  of  Daniel  Dye,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  and  probably 
of  Dutch  descent.  The  Dyes  were  characterized  by  kindliness, 
sense  of  humor,  and  love  of  music;  Daniel  Dye's  wife  certainly  ought 
to  have  inherited  an  abundance  of  firmness  of  character. 

The  name  Guenon  had  by  this  time  been  corrupted  or  changed, 
as  was  usually  the  case  with  the  fine  old  French  names,  into 
Genung  or  Ganong.  Abram  Genung  married  Martha  Dye,  and 
their  son,  John  Franklin,  was  born  at  Wilseyville  in  southern  New 
York,  January  27,  1850.  Martha  Dye  had  several  brothers  who 
were  ministers.  Abram  Genung  was  partly  a  farmer,  but  evi- 
dently by  preference  a  carpenter-builder.  For  this  was  still  the 
time  when  the  builder  was  also  carpenter  and  architect  and  could 
whittle  out  a  tall-spired  New  England  church  or  a  fine  old  colonial 
farmhouse,  worthy  of  the  name  of  a  mansion.  He  had  vision  and 
a  keen  sense  for  proportion  and  values. 

The  child  John  and  his  twin  brother  grew  up  on  the  farm  at 
Wilseyville.  Here  was  the  early  environment  and  education 
which,  even  more  than  school  or  college,  made  the  farmers'  sons  of 
that  generation  leaders  in  all  communities.  Every  ploughing  prob- 
ably brought  up  a  new  stratum  of  stones  to  be  picked  up  by  the 


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boys.  The  farm  was  a  hive  of  all  sorts  of  industry.  Here  the  boy 
had  abundant  physical,  industrial,  and  manual  training:  to  name 
only  a  few  of  his  daily  exercises,  nature  study  and  care  of  animals 
were  unavoidable;  he  had  his  share  in  the  responsibilities  of  the 
family,  and  it  was  no  small  one;  he  learned  firmness  and  self- 
reliance,  skill  and  ingenuity  through  emergencies.  The  stranger, 
though  a  friend,  dares  not  invade  and  describe  the  family  life,  the 
moral  and  spiritual  atmosphere,  of  that  Huguenot,  Dutch,  Scotch- 
Irish  household.  We  know  what  it  must  have  been;  John  had 
time  and  opportunity  to  think  for  himself.  Church  and  "little 
red  schoolhouse"  did  the  rest. 

In  1864  his  parents  "  moved  to  Owego  for  the  sake  of  better  school 
advantages," — as  Professor  Genung  says  in  the  "Vita"  at  the  end 
of  his  doctor's  thesis.  Here  he  attended  an  academy,  a  great 
institution  in  those  days,  usually  led  and  governed  by  a  man  of 
some  learning  and  more  power  and  vitality.  He  made  such  use  of 
his  time  and  opportunities  that  after  four  years  he  was  admitted 
to  the  junior  class  of  Union  College.  It  was  a  day  of  comparatively 
small  things  and  advantages  in  all  our  colleges.  Their  material 
equipment  was  very  meagre,  the  recitation  rooms  were  bare  and 
ugly,  the  library  was  practically  a  sealed  book  to  most  students. 
The  professors  were  pioneers  none  too  well  prepared  for  their  spe- 
cial work ;  but  there  were  among  them  strong  men  well  aware  of 
their  own  limitations  and  resolved  that  students  standing  on  their 
shoulders  should  gain  a  wider  and  clearer  view  of  the  glories  of  the 
promised  land  of  learning. 

Among  these  was  one  of  whom  Professor  Genung  spoke  often 
with  especial  love  and  reverence.  Professor  Tayler  Lewis  was  a 
deep  and  broad  scholar.  In  spite  of  hindrances  and  difficulties  he 
had  gained  a  thorough  knowledge  of  Latin  and  Greek,  Hebrew  and 
Arabic,  and  was  a  profound  student  of  the  Bible.  He  was  soaked 
through  and  through  with  oriental  literature,  thought  and  spirit. 
In  1855,  when  the  theory  of  evolution  had  been  forgotten,  not  to 
be  revived  until  the  publication  of  Mr.  Darwin's  "Origin  of  Spe- 
cies" almost  fifteen  years  later,  Professor  Lewis  published  his  "Six 
Days  of  Creation,"  in  which  he  showed  that  the  generally  or  uni- 
versally accepted  crude  conception  of  immediate  creation  of  species 
was  unscholarly  and  unbiblical  and  against  the  whole  spirit  of 
oriental  thought.     He  was  vigorously  denounced  by  a  few  theolo- 


John    Franklin    Genung  67 

gians  and  scientists,  but  was  generally  disregarded  and  neglected, 
the  usual  fate  of  a  pioneer  thinker  too  far  in  advance  of  his  age. 
He  replied  vigorously  in  a  second  book,  for  he  was  a  "mighty  man 
of  valor,"  and  the  subject  dropped.  Professor  Lewis  showed  the 
hungry  young  Genung  the  "beauty  that  was  Greece"  and  the 
little  known  glory  and  depth  of  oriental  thought,  and  taught  him 
how  to  study  the  Bible  and  literature.  All  this  was  but  a  small 
part  of  what  the  old  hero,  laying  off  the  harness,  did  for  his  young 
pupil  and  disciple.  He  might  well  have  said  with  Nestor:  "My 
teaching  made  thee  great. " 

Mr.  Genung  completed  a  course  in  theology,  and  was  pastor  of 
a  church  from  1875  to  1878.  But  during  his  pastorate  his  desire  to 
study  and  to  prepare  for  teaching  grew  continually  stronger.  In 
October,  1878,  he  entered  the  University  of  Leipzig,  where  he 
remained  for  three  years,  excepting  six  months'  stay  in  London. 
He  devoted  himself  to  English  literature.  Biblical  study  was  not 
neglected,  but  does  not  seem  to  have  stood  first  in  his  thought  and 
interest.  He  was  laying  foundations.  His  doctor's  thesis  was  a 
careful  and  thorough  study  of  Tennyson's  "In  Memoriam."  He 
returned  to  Amherst  College,  taught  rhetoric,  and  wrote  a  text- 
book on  that  subject  which  has  been  used  throughout  the  country. 

What  attracted  him  most  was  not  so  much  the  beauty  of  form  or 
style  or  even  of  content  as  the  truthful  expression  of  life.  His 
work  on  "In  Memoriam"  is  a  study,  not  of  versification  and 
poetry,  but  of  a  soul  in  pain  and  struggle.  This  was  the  expression 
of  the  Huguenot,  Dutch,  and  Scotch  strains  in  his  richly  blended 
blood.  He  loved  beauty  of  expression,  but  it  was  largely  the 
beauty  of  exact,  definite  truthfulness.  The  first  draft  of  any 
manuscript  never  satisfied  him;  it  must  be  written  again  and  re- 
written. Every  word  and  sentence  must  be  true  to  his  thought 
and  message,  though  the  rewriting  sometimes  worked  injury  to  his 
style.  With  his  ancestry  he  could  not  do  otherwise  than  "hold 
his  rudder  true." 

From  the  same  source  came  his  steady,  firm  self-determination 
and  his  dour  pertinacity.  He  was  a  prodigious  worker,  doing  a 
day's  task  before  most  of  us  had  left  our  beds,  and  still  having  time 
for  a  walk  before  breakfast.  His  sturdy  body  seemed  incapable 
of  weariness.  He  appeared  to  have  never  experienced  hurry, 
worry,  or  fret.     His  college  duties  and  exercises  were  never  neglected ; 


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every  lecture  and  recitation  was  most  carefully  prepared.  Every 
theme  handed  to  him  was  read  with  painstaking,  and  usually  with 
pain,  and  the  supposed  value  was  scrupulously  entered  in  a  large 
book.  But  almost  every  year  there  appeared  a  new  study,  of 
close  thought  and  rare  finish,  the  product  of  a  brain  which  seemed 
to  grow  and  flourish  and  work  while  other  men  slept. 

In  the  presence  of  meanness  or  falsehood  he  could  be  a  blaze  of 
indignation.  But  his  humanity  and  humanitarianism  were  too 
large  to  allow  him  to  devote  overmuch  anxiety  to  classroom  dis- 
cipline. If  certain  "lewd  fellows  of  the  baser  sort"  in  the  rear 
seats  were  conspicuously  inattentive,  listless,  and  heedless,  he 
quietly  kept  on  "casting  pearls. "  Once  in  an  unusually  vigorous 
written  protest  he  characterized  some  pupils  as  personae  non  gratae, 
but  I  believe  that  they  remained  through  the  course.  One  of  them 
is  to-day  one  of  his  most  ardent,  though  not  most  learned  admirers. 
Like  some  of  the  rest  of  us,  he  was  sometimes  or  often  imposed 
upon,  but  it  had  its  compensations. 

Soon  the  vitality  and  heart  of  the  man  began  to  draw  him  from 
the  books  of  modern  writers  to  the  wisdom  literature  of  the  Bible, 
the  grand  drama  of  Job,  the  shrewd  results  of  ages  of  experience 
crystallized  in  Proverbs,  and  the  ripe  observation  and  thought  of 
Ecclesiastes;  to  the  far  vision  of  the  Prophets  and  the  companion- 
ship of  the  Apostles  and  their  Master.  This  was  his  real  life- 
work,  a  labor  of  love,  completed  by  him  when  the  second  volume 
of  his  "Guide  Book  to  the  Biblical  Literature"  appeared  a  few 
months  before  his  death.  He  had  no  great  enthusiasm  for  aca- 
demic textual  criticism,  for  wild  guesses,  or  for  negative  results .  His 
sane  common  sense  and  feeling  of  values  had  taught  him  that  to 
sift  merely  the  chaff  out  of  a  grand  literature  was  hardly  worth 
while.  He  was  searching  for  wisdom  and  life,  and  he  either  found 
it,  or,  if  not,  he  did  not  publish  a  tome  to  inform  others  how  little 
he  had  discovered  or  appreciated  in  a  great  treasure  house.  Schol- 
ars and  plain  people  enjoyed  him.  His  research  was  patient,  broad 
and  deep,  original  and  individual  like  that  of  the  teacher  whose 
mantle  had  fallen  on  his  shoulders.  He  was  never  afraid  to  stand 
alone. 

He  followed  the  gleam  with  intent  and  single  eye,  and  when 
pursuing  a  line  of  truth  he  had  little  interest  in  any  other  subject. 
If  you  asked  him  about  Jeremiah,  you  might  sometimes  be  sur- 


John    Franklin    Genung  69 

prised  to  receive  in  answer  a  flood  of  information  about  the  early 
Perizzites;  and  you  could  not  win  him  over  to  your  interests.  At 
that  time  his  mind  was  occupied  by  Perizzites.  He  thought  hard 
and  to  good  purpose. 

He  had  plenty  of  avocations.  He  was  editor  of  the  Quarterly 
from  its  start.  He  loved  music  and  was  always  a  member  of  two 
or  more  orchestras.  On  this  subject  he  was  ready  to  talk  gladly. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  Town  Planning  Board,  and  could  always 
find  time  to  map  a  new  street  or  design  a  bridge  or  a  building. 
Here  too  he  showed  the  same  sanity  and  accuracy  of  thought  that 
characterized  his  scholarship.  He  was  the  minister's  right-hand 
man  in  the  church.  When  the  Jones  Memorial  Library  was 
founded,  he  was  eager  to  help.  Some  of  the  choicest  sets  of  litera- 
ture in  his  private  library  will  form  by  his  expressed  wish  the 
nucleus  of  a  literary  corner  in  its  reading  room.  He  had  as  many 
neighbors  as  the  Good  Samaritan,  He  once  said  to  a  friend: 
"When  I  die,  I  hope  some  one  will  say:  Ts  John  Genung  dead.'' 
It's  too  bad.'  "     His  hope  was  fulfilled  a  tnousand  fold. 

After  his  death  there  was  found  among  his  papers  the  manuscript 
of  a  new  book  entitled  "The  Life  Indeed."  Here  he  brought 
together  the  results  of  all  his  explorations  in  modern  and  ancient 
literature,  in  science  as  well  as  in  the  Bible,  in  one  volume.  It  is 
his  last  message,  crystallized  out  of  study,  thought,  and  the  experi- 
ence of  trial,  struggle,  and  success — out  of  a  broad  and  deep  life. 
It  is  an  altogether  fitting  last  word.  Life  and  life  indeed  was  his 
specialty. 

There  are  some  men  whose  size  you  do  not  appreciate  until  you 
stand  close  to  them  and  measure  them  by  yourself.  Then  you 
recognize  their  stature  and  breadth  of  shoulders  and  know  that 
you  are  looking  at  a  big  man.  We  all  had  this  feeling  when  we 
met  our  friend  and  caught  a  glimpse  of  the  size  and  symmetry  of 
his  soul  and  heart.  The  Greeks  would  have  spoken  of  his  sound 
mind  and  inward  strength.  There  was  nothing  of  Zarathustra's 
"reversed  cripple"  about  John  Genung.  Says  Professor  Huxley: 
"That  man,  I  think,  has  had  a  liberal  education  who  has  been  so 
trained  in  youth  that  his  body  is  the  ready  servant  of  his  will,  and 
does  with  ease  and  pleasure  all  the  work  that,  as  a  mechanism,  it  is 
capable  of;  whose  intellect  is  a  clear,  cold,  logic  engine,  with  all  its 
parts  of  equal  strength  and  in  smooth  working  order;  ready,  like  a 


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steam-engine,  to  be  turned  to  any  kind  of  work,  and  spin  the 
gossamers  as  well  as  forge  the  anchors  of  the  mind;  whose  mind  is 
stored  with  the  great  and  fundamental  truths  of  Nature  and  of  the 
laws  of  her  operations;  one  who,  no  stunted  ascetic,  is  full  of  life 
and  fire,  but  whose  passions  are  trained  to  come  to  heel  by  a  vigor- 
ous will,  the  servant  of  a  tender  conscience;  who  has  learned  to 
love  all  beauty,  whether  of  Nature  or  of  art,  to  hate  all  vileness,  and 
to  respect  others  as  himself. "  Genung  pressed  toward  the  goal  of 
a  liberal  education. 

After  all,  is  it  true  that  salvation  is  nothing  more  nor  less  than 
wholeness,  the  attainment  of  perfect  health ;  that  health,  haleness, 
wholeness,  and  holiness  are  all  one  in  root-meaning?  Did  we  all 
rightly  as  well  as  instinctively  draw  close  to  Genung  because  "vir- 
tue went  out  of  him?"  Is  health  more  infectious  or  contagious 
than  disease  ?  And  we  cannot  help  noticing  that  such  men  of  sound 
sense  and  good  taste  as  Genung  and  Dr.  Hitchcock  always  had  a 
surprising  predilection  and  hearty  liking  for.  sinners — such  appar- 
ently was  also  the  minj  of  the  Master.  And  sinners  loved  them. 
Such  abounding,  overflowing,  health-giving  lives  are  the  irrefutable 
argument  for  immortality.  The  "narrow  stream  of  death "  is  alto- 
gether too  shallow  to  overwhelm  a  great  soul.  Try  as  hard  as  we 
will,  it  is  impossible  to  imagine  them  as  dead.  They  heard  the 
sunset  gun,  rested  a  little  on  their  arms,  but  at  sunrise  were  again 
marching  on  refreshed  and  renewed  to  the  service  and  victories  of 
a  brighter  day. 


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THE   SCHOLAR  WHOM  WE  KNEW 

JOHN   ERSKINE 

PROFESSOR  GENUNG  used  to  tell  of  his  boyhood  that  he 
was  brought  up  on  a  farm  self-sufficient  in  economic  and 
other  ways ;  the  household  provided  itself  with  food,  with 
shoes,  with  clothing,  with  all  its  physical  comforts  and  with  almost 
all  its  spiritual  satisfactions.  This  remembrance  of  his  childhood 
became,  I  think,  the  ideal  of  his  maturity  and  the  explanation  or 
at  least  the  symbol  of  his  character.  In  whatever  he  did,  he  liked 
to  begin  as  close  as  might  be  to  the  raw  material,  and  he  worked 
always  on  a  generous  scale,  to  some  large  end,  having  in  mind  as  it 
were  the  needs  of  the  whole  household.  No  scholar  in  his  genera- 
tion had  a  finer  training  in  the  ancient  literatures  and  languages, 
as  well  as  in  English,  and  none  was  more  thorough  than  he,  yet  he 
had  no  mind  for  specialization;  with  him  it  was  the  whole  subject 
from  the  ground  up,  with  all  its  implications.  I  heard  him  say 
how  rich  life  was  when  the  clothes  on  your  back,  the  room  that 
sheltered  you,  the  chair  you  sat  in,  the  candle  that  lighted  you,  the 
food  on  your  table,  and  the  table  itself,  were  all  wrought  by  your 
own  hands.  I  think  he  would  have  loved  nothing  better  than  to 
produce  books  written,  printed,  and  bound  by  himself,  with  pen 
and  paper  and  ink  and  press  and  thread  of  his  own  manufacture, 
all  for  the  pleasure  and  the  service  of  his  friends. 

His  love  of  making  things  was  not  confined  to  books.  He  once 
asked  me  whether  I  had  ever  designed  buildings  and  put  up  houses 
from  my  own  plans.  When  I  confessed  I  had  never  done  this,  he 
laughed  in  his  hearty  way,  and  broke  the  news  to  me  quite  frankly 
that  I  had  missed  one  of  the  main  pleasures  of  life.  When  you 
entered  his  study,  that  large  airy  room  lined  to  the  ceiling  with  his 
books,  you  could  not  be  sure  whether  you  would  find  him  composing 
an  essay  or  a  book  in  his  marvelous  handwriting,  illuminating  his 
chapter  initials  with  his  quill  pen,  like  a  medieval  scribe;  or 
whether  his  desk  for  once  would  be  swept  clear,  to  make  room  for 
the  drawing  board  and  the  'draughtman's  instruments.  Indeed, 
he  followed  the  same  method  and  displayed  the  same  beautiful 


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skill  in  his  handwriting  as  in  his  drawing.  Whatever  he  made,  he 
made  for  pleasure;  the  manuscript  of  his  books  was  a  delight  to 
the  eye,  and  secondarily,  it  seemed,  copy  for  the  printer,  and  the 
plans  he  drew  would  satisfy  an  artist  as  well  as  a  carpenter.  No 
wonder  that  for  him  the  joy  of  tracing  a  manuscript  was  quite 
distinct  from  the  joy  of  creating  a  book,  for  in  the  art  of  beautiful 
lettering  he  was  a  master,  with  few  rivals,  as  he  well  knew,  in  these 
days.  I  remember  the  glee  with  which  he  told  me  one  day  that 
a  maker  of  types  had  asked  permission  to  cast  a  font  of  some  un- 
usually fine  Genung  letters.  I  remember  also  seeing  him  at  work 
one  day  on  the  first  page  of  a  chapter.  The  initial  letter  he  had 
illuminated  elaborately  in  black  and  red  ink.  But  having  found 
something  to  criticize  in  the  page,  he  had  rewritten  it,  with  another 
illuminated  capital — and  this  he  had  done  four  times,  still  finding 
something  to  improve.  The  four  discarded  pages  with  the  brilliant 
letters  lay  scattered  over  his  broad  desk. 

He  showed  the  same  thoroughgoing  craftsmanship  in  his  love 
of  music.  We  shall  not  soon  forget  him  as  he  played  his  beloved 
viola  with  Harry  Kidder  or  with  some  less  permanent  enthusiasts; 
as  I  remember,  Brahms  was  his  favorite  in  chamber  music,  but  he 
would  play  with  a  catholic  appreciation  through  all  the  composers, 
so  long  as  he  could  find  companions  in  a  trio  or  a  quartet.  No  one 
has  really  touched  the  heart  of  music,  he  would  say  cheerfully  to 
the  mere  pianist,  who  has  not  played  the  viola.  I  don't  know  what 
Professor  Bigelow's  orchestra  must  look  like  now,  without  that 
kindly  figure  in  it,  reading  the  score  with  absorbed  interest  and 
playing  as  though  there  were  no  world  but  that  of  music.  More 
rarely  he  would  join  forces  with  Professor  Bigelow  and  other  col- 
leagues, to  sing  a  German  chorale  or  folk-song.  His  unusually 
deep  bass  was  at  home  in  that  solid  music,  which  in  many  ways, 
like  the  compositions  of  Brahms,  seemed  kindred  to  his  disposition. 
It  surprises  me  that  he  did  not  sing  more  often.  The  last  time  I 
heard  him  was  at  an  informal  reception  the  Faculty  gave  him  on 
the  completion  of  thirty  years  of  teaching.  I  went  back  to  Amherst 
that  night  to  make  one  at  the  festival,  and  toward  the  end  of  the 
evening  we  sang  his  "Memory  Song,"  only  recently  composed.  I 
had  not  heard  it  before,  and  it  moved  me  deeply — the  noble 
words,  the  lovely  music  Professor  Bigelow  had  arranged  for  it, 
and  Professor  Genung  himself  singing  heartily,   more  youthful 


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than  the  youngest  of  us,  of  the  great  men  gone  who  call  us  to  high 
endeavor. 

Though  only  the  words  of  this  fine  song  were  his,  he  composed 
music  too,  and  his  manuscript  notes  were  as  beautifully  made  as 
the  letters  in  his  handwriting.  He  copied  four  bars  of  music — 
the  theme  of  Beethoven's  Fifth  Symphony — to  illustrate  some 
remarks  in  the  Amherst  Graduates' Quarterly  for  May,  1916; 
the  other  day  I  came  upon  them  once  more  in  turning  over  the  wise 
pages  he  wrote  for  us  in  The  College  Window,  and  the  sight  of  the 
characteristic  script  took  me  back  with  a  suddenness  all  but 
startling  to  hours  in  his  study  when  music  rather  than  books  or 
architecture  happened  to  be  our  theme.  Curiously,  I  recalled  an 
incident  which  illustrates  not  only  the  self-sufficiency  of  his  scholar- 
ship but  his  large  humor  as  well;  he  told  me  one  day  that  a  dis- 
tinguished gathering  of  theologians  had  asked  him  to  give  a  talk 
on  the  Best  Hymns,  or  some  such  title.  "Of  course," he  said, 
raising  his  eyebrows,  "it's  of  no  use  to  talk  about  hymns  without 
giving  examples,  so  I've  arranged  to  have  four  or  five  hymns  sung. 
Do  you  know,"  he  added  with  his  own  chuckle  of  delight,  "I'm 
writing  them  myself,  words  and  music." 

Though  his  energy  spent  itself  in  so  many  directions,  scholar- 
ship and  books  were,  of  .course,  his  master  passion.  He  began  as 
an  interpreter  of  English  poetry,  with  his  still  authoritative  com- 
mentary on  Tennyson's  "In  Memoriam,"  in  1883.  He  then  made 
himself  easily  our  most  comprehensive  master  of  the  theory  of 
composition,  in  the  series  of  text-books  beginning  with  the  "Prac- 
tical Elements  of  Composition,"  in  1886,  and  culminating  in  the 
great  "Working  Principles  of  Rhetoric,"  in  1901.  Meanwhile  he 
made  his  fine  translation  of  the  Book  of  Job  in  1891,  and  in  later 
years  he  returned  to  the  wisdom  literature  of  the  Old  Testament 
with  his  study  of  Ecclesiastes  in  1904,  and  of  the  "Hebrew  Litera- 
ture of  Wisdom,"  two  years  later.  Other  books  he  published  from 
time  to  time,  with  remarkably  sustained  power,  but  these  seem  to 
me  the  chief  monuments  of  his  scholarship.  Probably  the  trans- 
lation of  the  Book  of  Job,  with  its  commentary,  and  the  "Work- 
ing Principles  of  Rhetoric"  are  his  masterpieces.  I  have,  of  course, 
no  training  to  judge  the  Biblical  studies,  but  there  is  a  quality  in 
the  translation  and  discussion  of  Job  which  persuades,  and  which 
seems  to  be  truth;  moreover,  the  memory  of  the  Hebrew  text  open 


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at  Professor  Genung's  hand  whenever  he  studied  the  Scriptures, 
gives  confidence  in  his  simple  yet  rare  method  of  going  to  the 
sources  and  building  from  the  ground  up,  with  patience  and  good 
sense.  As  to  the  "^Yorking  Principles"  I  can  justify  to  myself  the 
opinion  that  it  is  and  will  probably  remain,  for  serious  students  at 
least,  the  most  helpful  modern  inquiry  into  the  theory  of  dis- 
course. The  best  French  grammars  (I  mean  grammars  written 
in  France  for  French  students)  approach  it  in  philosophic  grasp, 
but  no  other  in  English,  so  far  as  I  know;  and  since  the  fashion  now 
is  to  teach  grammar  and  composition  pragmatically  rather  than 
philosophicfflly,  no  competition  is  likely  to  threaten  the  preemi- 
nence of  the  book  in  its  wide  and  difficult  field. 

I  think  it  an  illuminating  disclosure  of  his  intellectual  integrity 
that  in  his  several  volumes  on  rhetoric  and  composition,  from  1886 
to  1901,  Professor  Genung  moved  steadily  away  from  the  purely 
practical  aspects  of  his  subject,  and  concerned  himself  more  and 
more  with  the  theory  of  it — in  spite  of  the  tendency  among  school 
and  college  teachers  during  those  years  to  move  in  the  other  direc- 
tion. The  famous  daily-theme  courses  at  Harvard  set  most  Eng- 
lish teachers  in  the  faith  that  much  writing  makes  a  writer — a 
rather  bald  faith,  as  some  of  us  felt  who  came  under  its  operation. 
The  more  he  watched  the  American  student  at  his  task  of  learning 
to  write,  handicapped  increasingly  by  ignorance  of  any  other 
language  than  his  own,  by  ignorance  of  logic,  by  lack  of  any  tradi- 
tion in  his  speech — the  more  Professor  Genung  was  convinced 
that  in  this  matter  also  a  good  builder  must  begin  with  the  founda- 
tion, and  that  practice  must  be  postponed  for  a  while  until  some 
principles  may  be  supplied  for  its  guidance.  I  can  fancy  his  ap- 
proving the  remark  of  Aristotle  that  in  all  those  things  which  are 
not,  like  breathing,  instinctive,  man  learns  by  doing;  a  good  painter 
becomes  a  painter  by  painting — and  a  bad  painter  becomes  a  bad 
painter  by  painting.  In  his  teaching  Professor  Genung  occupied 
this  attitude  somewhat  to  an  extreme;  the  disposition  grew  in 
him  to  let  students  postpone  the  practice  of  writing,  sometimes, 
it  seemed,  to  postpone  it  entirely.  As  a  theorist  of  composition, 
on  the  other  hand,  he  held  that  the  practice  should  accompany 
step  by  step  the  study  of  principles;  he  so  stated  his  belief  in  the 
preface  to  the  "Working  Principles,"  where  he  promised  to  give  us 
later  a  manual  of  practice.     As  a  theorist,  that  is,  he  remembered 


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Aristotle  again,  where  the  philosopher  says  that  not  the  abstract 
idea  but  the  special  application  is  the  end  of  morals — that  the 
physician  investigates  not  health  after  a  general  and  abstract 
fashion,  but  the  health  of  man,  or  of  this  or  that  man,  since  he 
heals  individuals.  But  temperamentally  Professor  Genung  was 
accustomed  to  stand  on  his  own  feet  in  scholarship  as  in  other 
matters,  and  perhaps  he  never  quite  understood  what  other 
manual  of  practice  a  man  should  need  than  his  own  work  in  the 
world. 

When  I  began  my  teaching  at  Amherst  I  thought  that  in  this 
attitude  Professor  Genung  was  quite  mistaken;  like  others  in  the 
fashion,  I  would  gladly  have  discarded  all  books  of  theory,  and 
would  have  put  the  students  at  once  to  composing  themes.  Though 
I  should  not  now  follow  Professor  Genung's  method  completely, 
I  know  that  I  was  much  more  wrong  than  he  was.  Sooner  or 
later  the  student  must  learn  to  think  straight,  and  he  must  under- 
stand the  uses  to  which  his  predecessors  have  put  the  instrument  of 
language,  before  he  can  express  himself  to  his  satisfaction  or  to 
ours.  Not  all  of  piano-playing  is  learned  at  the  piano,  nor  is  the 
art  of  writing  soaked  up  into  a  man's  system  from  the  paper 
through  the  pen ;  the  art  flows  the  other  way.  And  the  happiness 
of  life  is  not  altogether  acquired  by  expression;  silence  pleases 
at  times,  even  in  ourselves.  Who  ever  hoped  for  an  eternity  of 
daily  themes?  I  think  that  as  he  grew  older  Professor  Genung, 
himself  in  many  ways  a  man  of  profound  silence,  would  have 
consented,  upon  very  slight  persuasion,  to  offer  a  course  in  the 
Rhetoric  of  Reticence. 

But  if  he  was  willing  that  young  men  should  postpone  their 
writing,  he  never  for  a  moment  would  have  approved  the  opti- 
mistic program  now  creeping  into  our  colleges,  which  provides 
that  students  shall  be  bothered  with  neither  theory  nor  practice, 
but  shall  learn  to  write  by  contagion.  Nobody  was  more  con- 
vinced than  he  that  art  is  long,  and  that  the  discipline  which  makes 
it  possible  implies  persistence,  and  patience,  and  sound  instruc- 
tion. When  he  discussed,  as  he  occasionally  would,  recent  recipes 
for  acquiring  an  art  by  painless  and  immediate  processes,  he  would 
usually  conclude  with  the  philosophic  reflection  that  there  are 
some  curious  folks  around  now-a-days. 

If  the  "Working  Principles"  had  no  other  interest,  I  think  the 


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book  would  still  attract  the  lover  of  good  reading  by  its  extraordi- 
nary footnotes,  in  which  the  most  apt  illustrations  are  cited  from 
the  widest  range  of  writers.  Professor  Genung  was  conscious  of 
this  merit  in  the  volume;  he  refers  to  it  in  his  preface.  He  in- 
tended merely  to  show  from  the  best  authors  the  way  in  which 
the  main  principles  of  composition  are  variously  applied;  this 
purpose,  of  course,  he  would  share  with  any  maker  of  a  text-book 
in  the  subject.  But  few  text-book  makers  approach  in  any  degree 
the  scope  of  his  reading,  or  his  keenness  to  detect  in  a  new  book  the 
really  skilful  passages.  I  find  myself  often  referring  to  the  "Work- 
ing Principles"  for  help  in  some  technical  point,  and  whenever  1 
open  its  pages,  I  am  tempted  to  read  the  notes,  for  the  sheer  pleas- 
ure of  tasting  the  choice  morsels.  They  record  Professor  Genung's 
habitual  train  of  thought;  he  lived  with  the  great  writers,  and  their 
words  and  phrases  were  constantly  on  his  lips. 

A  kind  of  scholarship  so  complete,  so  self-sufficient,  as  Professor 
Genung's,  might  well  lead  to  a  monastic  withdrawal  from  the 
world,  and  traces  of  the  tendency  were  obvious  enough  in  his 
career.  He  worked  by  himself;  he  did  not  greatly  avail  himself 
of  the  collaboration  or  the  criticisms  of  his  colleagues;  in  scholar- 
ship he  preferred,  as  he  would  say,  to  play  a  lone  hand.  But 
there  was  too  great  a  wealth  of  good-fellowship  in  his  nature  for 
him  to  become  really  the  monastic  type  of  scholar.  He  was  the 
kindest  of  friends,  loyal  to  his  students  and  to  his  colleagues,  and 
ready  always  to  spend  with  them  that  cheerful  hour  which  Milton 
recommends.  In  our  memory,  I  fancy,  he  will  remain  no  solitary 
figure,  but  linked  always  with  some  sympathetic  companion;  for 
myself,  I  shall  remember  him  with  Professor  Richardson,  with 
Professor  Bigelow,  with  Mr.  Kidder.  All  his  relations  with  us 
were  touched  with  kindness  and  humor.  Who  of  his  intimates 
will  forget  the  two  files  in  which  he  recorded  the  names  of  his  worst 
students — the  very  bad  and  the  still  worse?  To  be  in  his  black 
list,  however,  was  to  be  in  Purgatory,  not  in  Inferno,  and  merely  to 
have  one's  name  inscribed  among  the  sinners  proved  to  be  itself 
an  expiation.  He  would  come  back  from  a  particularly  provok- 
ing class,  shift  a  few  names  from  the  file  of  the  less  to  the  file  of  the 
more  execrable,  light  his  pipe  and  survey  the  two  groupings  in  sor- 
rowful meditation,  until  his  sense  of  humor  had  asserted  itself  and 
he  could  turn  to  his  writing  with  equanimity.     "This  brings  me  up 


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to  the  mark,  I  believe,  Professor,"  said  a  hardened  reprobate,  as 
he  handed  in  his  written  work  about  three  months  overdue.  "To 
your  mark,"  rephed  Professor  Genung.  And  the  boy  was  saved, 
having  been  the  occasion  of  wit  in  his  gentle-hearted  and  wit- 
loving  teacher. 

I  write  these  lines  in  the  Christmas  season,  when  we  used  to  look 
for  Professor  Genung  at  the  Watch  Night  meeting  of  the  New  York 
Authors'  Club.  Even  in  that  festival  of  general  talk  and  enter- 
tainment he  made  himself  felt  as  one  who,  having  used  wisdom  in 
his  daily  life,  had  thereby,  in  the  words  of  a  proverb  he  loved, 
become  the  friend  of  God.  We  shall  feel  his  presence  still;  and 
I  cannot  imagine  an  Amherst  from  which  he  could  altogether 
depart. 

TO  J.  F.  G.i 

A    SONNET 

George  Frederick  Genung 

Twin  brother  dead,  thy  genial  pulsing  soul 

Is  living  still  with  me,  in  wealth  complete. 

Thy  work  thou  knewest  as  the  gift  of  God,  and  sweet 

Its  challenge  to  thy  might,  its  art  thy  goal. 

'Twas  thine  to  know  the  world's  best  thought,  and  when 

It  came  to  life  in  thee,  to  give  it  forth 

Creative  from  thy  quickening  mind,  its  worth 

Resurgent,  and  made  bright  for  coming  men. 

Thine  eye  saw  straight,  thy  mind  constructive  wrought. 

Fearless,  because  thy  love  ne'er  sensed  a  foe; 

Eager,  like  Him  who  our  salvation  bought. 

Men's  broken  lights  in  healing  Truth  to  show. 

Interpreter,  one  of  a  thousand,  thou 

Dost  wear  the  crown  of  truth  upon  thy  brow. 

iFrom  the  Springfield  Republican,  November  7,  1919. 


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MEMORIES   AND    TRIBUTES 

genung  and  rhetoric^ 

IT  is  told  that  Professor  Simpson  of  Edinburgh  University  was 
once  asked  by  the  university  Ubrarian  to  indicate  in  the 
Ubrary  the  books  on  his  subject  that  were  no  longer  needed. 
His  answer  was :  "Take  every  text-book  that  is  more  than  ten  years 
old  and  put  it  down  in  the  cellar."  By  a  reverse  process,  most  of 
the  works  of  instruction  surviving  from  my  undergraduate  days 
have  gravitated  upward  to  the  attic,  where  they  repose  amid 
invalided  furniture,  stores  of  ancient  hickory  nuts,  and  the  rejected 
finery  of  yesteryear.  But  I  still  keep  within  easy  reach  James's 
"Psychology,"  "Desipient  Horace,"  and  Genung's  "Practical 
Elements  of  Rhetoric." 

With  its  indices,  in  the  edition  that  I  have,  it  numbers  488  pages. 
From  the  opening  sentence,  "Rhetoric  is  the  art  of  adapting  dis- 
course, in  harmony  with  its  subject  and  occasion,  to  the  require- 
ments of  a  reader  or  hearer,"  to  the  very  end  is  neither  picture  nor 
embellishment;  nothing  but  straight,  solid  reading — very  solid, 
but  also  very  straight.  It  is  something  you  can  set  your  teeth  into, 
as  the  old  actor  said  in  "Trelawney."    It  means  business. 

When  Professor  Genung  died  recently,  one  editorial  writer 
seemed  half  of  a  mind  to  consign  the  "Practical  Elements"  to 
either  Simpson's  limbo  or  mine.  He  had  an  idea  that  Genung  is 
"a  little  forbidding  to  the  modern  college  student."  Genung,  he 
seemed  to  think,  had  rhetorically  erred  by  wrong  distribution  of 
emphasis,  bearing  down  too  much  on  rules  and  details.  However, 
in  his  final  sentence  he  pleasantly  relents  and  allows  this  formal 
disciplinarian  to  remain  for  a  bit  longer  on  the  library  shelves. 

I  have  long  been  out  of  touch  with  academic  methods.  No 
doubt  Genung's  books  are  now  referred  to  as  declasse  by  clever 
young  instructors  and  assistant  professors  whose  chief  fear  is  that 
they  may  not  be  considered  men  of  the  world.  Personally  I  believe 
the  "Practical  Elements"  to  be  one  of  the  distinguished  American 
contributions  to  systematized  knowledge.     Professor  Genung,  of 

^From  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  October  11,  1919. 


Memories     and     Tributes  79 

course,  fully  understood  the  value  of  "practice  in  composition,  the 
use  of  models  and  devices  for  arousing  interest  in  writing."  Of 
all  these  he  made  use  in  his  work  as  a  teacher.  The  "Practical 
Elements"  has  to  do  with  matters  more  fundamental. 

Its  viewpoint  is  explicitly  stated  in  the  preface.  "Literature  is, 
of  course,  infinitely  more  than  mechanism ;  but  in  proportion  as  it 
becomes  more,  a  text-book  of  rhetoric  has  less  business  with  it. 
It  is  as  mechanism  that  it  must  be  taught;  the  rest  must  be  left 
to  the  student  himself.  To  this  sphere,  then,  the  present  work  is 
restricted :  the  literary  art,  so  far  as  it  is  amenable  to  the  precepts  of 
a  text-book  and  to  the  demands  of  a  college  course."  The  method 
of  the  book  is  likely  to  be  "forbidding"  to  any  mind,  undergrad- 
uate or  other,  that  is  by  constitution  averse  to  thoroughness  and 
precision.  We  are  all  a  bit  like  the  society  dame  who  warned  her 
language  tutor  that  she  would  not  be  bothered  with  verbs  and 
participles.  Some  of  us  are  actually  repelled  by  a  viodus  operandi 
that  insists  on  strict  clarity,  completeness,  and  order,  and  resent 
the  calling  of  a  fault  a  fault,  whether  in  rhetoric  or  in  personal 
conduct.  Al  Jones,  the  jazz  king,  who  picks  out  his  immortal 
melodies  with  an  inspired  index  finger,  declares  counterpoint  and 
harmony  "old  stuff";  what  little  he  needs  of  'em  can  be  bought. 
Adolf  Wolff  says  that  what  he  writes  is  poetry,  also.  And  a  gentle- 
man writes  to  a  business  magazine  (he  actually  did,  yes)  as  follows: 
"To-day  there  is  an  almost  entire  unanimity  of  authoritative 
opinion  that  points  to  the  split  infinitive  not  as  a  linguistic 
frailty  but  as  a  quite  admirable  propriety  when  used  by  clear 
thinkers." 

Now,  of  course,  this  gentleman  isn't  going  to  like  to  be  told  that 
clear  thinkers  don't  use  split  infinitives.  He  doesn't  think  much  of 
Genung,  who  tells  him  f orthrightly :  "The  infinitive  should  not  be 
divided  by  an  adverb  between  the  preposition  to  and  the  verb. 
The  adverb  belongs  to  the  whole  expression,  and  should,  therefore, 
stand  either  before  or  after,  not  in  the  midst  of  it."  He  prefers 
Professor  Krapp,  who  thus  proclaims  liberty  to  all  the  land:  "By 
the  test  of  actual  use  and  by  the  test  of  the  feeling  for  modern 
English  idiom,  the  'split  infinitive'  is  not  only  a  natural  but  often 
an  admirable  form  of  expression."  And  he  gets  busy  collecting 
specimens  of  the  split  infinitive  from  Ruskin  and  Landor  and  rare 
Ben  Jonson,  and  points  to  these  with  a  certain  scandalous  pride,  as 

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one  might  say  that  Joaquin  Miller  liked  his  boots  on  the  outside 
of  his  trousers,  or  that  John  Clark  Ridpath  never  wore  a  necktie. 

Meanwhile,  some  of  us  old-fashioned  folk,  in  our  backwaters 
away  in  the  hollows  of  the  hills,  are  glad  of  this  reasoned  volume 
of  sane  counsel.  Among  us  are  those  who  listened  to  "Nungie's" 
living  voice;  and  the  book  is  in  so  many  ways  the  man.  It  speaks 
his  sweetness  and  light;  both,  possibly,  qualities  scorned  now  in  ad- 
vanced circles.  It  speaks  his  belief  that  rhetoric  is  a  noble  study, 
much  thought  upon  since  before  Quintilian;  that  it  is  based  on  cer- 
tain principles  which  may  be  defined  and  explicated  and,  as  well  as 
may  be,  followed.  This  book  establishes  a  reference  standard  of 
the  best  practice.  "Let  us,"  said  Webster,  "...  refer  to 
the  point  from  which  we  departed,  that  we  may  at  least  be  able 
to  conjecture  where  we  now  are." 

But  there  was  that  in  the  man  which  no  book  could  ever  com- 
pass— certainly  no  text-book.  His  was  a  rich,  human  personality, 
with  a  racy  love  of  fun  that  radiated  from  his  full  visage  and 
twinkled  behind  his  glasses.  He  loved  music  and  played  the  viola 
with  considerable  skill.  Probably  those  of  the  students  who  came 
to  know  him  best  were  those  whom  he  selected  as  members  of  the 
string  quartet  that  met  in  the  charming  music-room  of  his  house 
and  studied  the  choice  compositions.  His  readings  were  caviare  to 
many  collegians,  but  a  deep  source  of  pleasure  to  the  goodly  number 
that  attended  them.  Town  was  admitted;  and  these  evenings 
became  cultural  affairs.  Professor  Genung  was  probably  not  far 
behind  Corson  as  a  student  of  Browning,  whose  manner  of  facing 
the  world  had  so  much  in  common  with  his  own.  He  read  with  a 
full-throated  voice  that  seemed  never  to  tire.  At  times  he  fairly 
rose  to  the  level  of  impersonation. 

He  had  taken  his  Ph.  D.  at  Leipzig.  I  wonder  if  an  American 
will  ever  do  that  again.  Yet  if  he  had  learned  there  to  dive  deeply, 
he  did  not  come  up  muddy.  When  I  knew  him,  he  had  a  kind  of 
sunny  urbanity  that,  I  am  bound  to  say,  all  small-town  professors 
do  not  have.  He  took  a  friendly  interest  in  his  students,  and 
especially  if  they  showed  fondess  for  trying  their  hand  at  any 
writing.  Above  his  chair  in  the  classroom  he  had  had  this  motto 
frescoed:  Qui  novit  neque  id  quod  sentit  exprimit  perinde  est  ac  si 
nesciret.  John  Franklin  Genung  never  failed  to  express  himself 
clearly,  whether  in  a  text-book,  or  a  piece  of  critical  writing  (like 


Memories     and     Tributes  81 

his  "Stevenson's  i\.ttitiide  to  Life"),  or  helpful  friendship.  It  will 
soon  be  twenty  years  since  I  saw  him  last.  I  should  like  to  place 
this  poor  tribute  above  his  rest. 

George  S.  Bryan,  '00. 

IN  the  book  the  man 

One  who  since  early  manhood  has  felt  so  strong  a  sense  of  per- 
sonal indebtedness  to  Professor  Genung  should  declare  it  now. 
Probably  I  never  spoke  with  Professor  Genung  a  half  hour,  all  our 
meetings  put  together.  Not  until  recent  years  did  I  meet  him  at 
all.  Yet  for  nearly  thirty  years  I  have  been  under  obligations  of 
respect  and  honor  to  him.  For  I  knew  the  man.  He  had  disclosed 
himself  in  that  text-book  of  thought  and  life,  his  "Practical  Ele- 
ments of  Rhetoric." 

The  ragged,  broken-backed  volume  is  before  me  now.  A  note 
in  it  says  that  I  bought  it  in  1892,  before  I  entered  college,  and 
that  I  paid  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  for  it.  But  it  was  priceless,  for 
gradually  it  brought  an  uncertain  youth  confirmation  of  his  ideals, 
and  it  brought  him  also  what  he  had  been  groping  after,  guidance 
and  standards.  For  years  it  was  like  a  Bible  to  me,  and  text-book 
though  it  was,  I  felt  throughout  it  then,  and  I  still  feel,  the  kindly, 
firm,  and  admirable  character  of  the  man  who  wrote  it.  It  is  one 
of  those  few  text-books  which  contain  not  only  the  letter  but  the 
spirit  of  the  law.  And  turning  its  pages  now  from  chapter  to 
chapter,  I  find  Professor  Genung  as  he  always  seemed  to  me. 

From  him  I  discovered  better,  I  think,  than  from  any  scientist 
what  is  the  scientific  spirit.  He  revealed  the  meaning  of  thorough- 
ness— thoroughness  in  scholarship  and  thoroughness  in  effort.  He 
impelled  to  industry.  He  compelled  to  intellectual  truth.  He 
possessed  and  taught  the  standards  of  disciplined  taste,  sane, 
sound,  and  catholic.  He  inspired  to  reverence  of  the  little  things 
for  the  sake  of  the  greater  things.  One  discerned  in  him  a  recon- 
ciled allegiance  to  goodness,  truth,  and  beauty,  and  perceived  his 
devotion  to  method  and  to  order.  He  knew  how  to  hitch  the  team, 
ideals  and  practicality,  to  the  wagon  instruction,  and  somehow  he 
contrived  to  convey,  in  that  one  manual,  a  workable  epitome  of  a 
philosophy  for  life. 

These  things,  of  course,  were  not  so  much  to  be  found  in  the 
text-book  as  through  it.     They  were  Professor  Genung  himself; 


82    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarter  l  y 

the  book  was  a  projection  of  his  ideals  and  his  character.  But  not 
all  of  them  might  have  been  perceived  so  clearly  or  felt  so  strongly- 
had  it  not  been  for  something  else  that  one  felt  first — a  kindly 
liking  that  seemed  to  reach  out  a  hand  to  the  youngster,  and  say, 
"Come,  son,  let  us  have  a  httle  walk  and  a  little  talk  together." 
That  touch  of  human  sympathy  rounded  out  and  vitalized  his 
simple  greatness. 

Robert  W.  Neal. 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  College. 

PROFESSOR    GENUNg's   FIRST    CLASS   AT    AMHERST 

The  class  of  1885  was  the  first  to  begin  the  study  of  rhetoric  with 
Dr.  Genung,  then  a  young  man  of  thirty-two,  recently  home  from 
a  German  university.  President  Seelye  announced  his  coming 
with  evident  interest,  and  it  seemed  something  of  a  departure  to 
have  a  Baptist  minister,  and  a  graduate  of  Union  besides,  as  pro- 
fessor at  Amherst.  It  was  with  a  hard  G  that  the  president  pro- 
nounced the  name,  but  we  soon  learned  that  the  professor  himself 
gave  both  the  G  and  the  U  the  natural  English  sound. 

The  text-book  which  we  used  was  not  one  of  the  later  familiar 
volumes  in  blue  cloth,  but  a  smaller,  tentative  treatise  in  light 
gray.  This  book  was  not  particularly  interesting,  but  back  of  the 
doctor's  rather  dry  manner,  as  it  then  appeared,  many  of  us  soon 
found  a  genuine  enthusiast  for  literature,  a  quiet  inspirer  of  earnest 
and  profitable  study. 

Among  the  themes  of  the  course  which  followed  this  introductory 
study  were  such  as  these:  "The  Use  of  the  Supernatural  in  Mac- 
beth"; "A  Comparison  of  Malory's  'Morte  d'Arthur'  and  Tenny- 
son's Idyls  of  the  King'";  "Sir  Thomas  More's  'Utopia.'"  This 
was  before  the  vogue  of  daily  themes.  Each  of  us  was  expected 
to  write  two  or  three  essays  of  about  two  thousand  words  after 
careful  study  of  some  masterpiece  of  literature.  I  do  not  know 
what  changes  were  made  in  the  professor's  later  methods,  but  the 
inspiration  of  his  scholarly  spirit,  his  kindly  criticism,  and  his 
cheering  words  of  encouragement,  still  remain  after  all  these  years, 
calling  forth  unfailing  veneration  and  gratitude. 

Francis  L.  Palmer,  '85. 


IHeardHim  83 


I  HEARD  HIM 

WILLIAM   L.    CORBIN 

I  heard  him — only  yesteryear  it  seems — 
One  morning  when  the  cherry  trees  were  white, 
Whisthng  across  the  campus,  while  his  dog 
Trotted  beside  him,  and  I  rose  and  stood 
Listening  at  the  window  till  he  passed. 
And  only  yesterday  I  talked  with  him 
And  saw  him  smile — this  man  that  Amherst  knew. 
This  friendly  spirit,  mellow  with  time  and  lore. 
And  now,  my  college  mates,  I  mourn  with  you 
Another  star-led  master,  who  wrought  well 
That  we  might  grow  in  freedom  of  the  truth 
And  love  the  beauty  that  the  poet  loves. 

He  dreamed  the  scholar's  dream  until  the  last. 
Save  when  the  world  was  torn  with  tumult :   then 
At  the  monstrous  wrong  he  hurled  his  patriot  wrath, 
Fashioned  to  phrases  of  deliberate  art. 
With  lurking  humor,  winged  with  eloquence — 
A  shaft  of  flame  that  lit  the  midnight  way 
Which  men  must  travel  to  the  larger  dawn ; 
And  often  on  his  quivering  lips  there  fell 
A  silence  that  breathed  pity  for  the  blind. 

His  labor  was  a  singing  with  his  heart. 
His  leisure  was  a  singing  with  his  hands. 
For  in  his  soul  there  dwelt  a  morning  song. 
And  every  day  to  him  the  whole  year  through 
On  Amherst  hills  the  cherry  trees  were  white. 


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THE  AMHERST  ILLUSTRIOUS 
CALVIN  COOLIDGE,  ADMINISTRATOR 

WALTER   R.    STONE 

THE  perpetuation  of  the  Great  Republic  is  assured  in  the 
certainty  that  as  each  national  crisis  arrives  there  appears 
a  man  splendidly  endowed  with  God-given  powers  and 
ready  to  lead — always  a  plain  man  with  a  capacity  for  sound  think- 
ing because  of  simple  living  and  native  faith  in  the  fundamentals ; 
always  a  courageous  man  because  of  that  faith  and  by  reason  of 
the  moral  fibre  that  is  his  inheritance  from  God-fearing  forebears. 

Each  epoch  in  American  history  has  been  based  on  new  tenets. 
Fields  untrod  by  any  other  people  were  boldly  entered  under  the 
wise  guidance  of  the  Father  of  his  Country.  When  later  the  great 
internal  quarrel  arose  and  it  became  necessary  to  uproot  a  deep- 
seated  institution  in  order  to  insure  the  permanence  of  one  nation 
indivisible,  there  came  the  Great  Emancipator,  determined  to 
"preserve  the  government  by  every  indispensable  means." 

Following  the  multitudinous  events  of  the  World  War  this  nation 
has  taken  a  bold  step  in  broader  and  world-wide  fields.  The 
clouds  that  were  once  only  viewed  from  afar  are  now  our  clouds. 
They  dim  and  embarrass  our  way.  So  another  great  crisis  in  the 
nation's  affairs  is  reached — a  crisis  comparable  with  any  which 
we  have  met  and  conquered.  Clear- thinking  men  whose  great 
concern  is  the  continuance  of  this  free  government,  and  whose 
faith  is  in  the  Constitution  as  the  organic  law,  must  be  and  will 
be  found  to  lead — as  always  in  crucial  times  this  nation  has  been 
led — wisely,  patiently,  safely  into  tranquil  times  and  the  unham- 
pered enjoyment  of  peaceful  pursuits. 

It  has  been  said  of  one  of  Amherst's  illustrious  sons:  "One 
man  in  authority  knew  the  right  and  had  a  most  tremendous  deter- 
mination to  do  it  thoroughly.  That  man  was  Calvin  Coolidge, 
governor  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts." 

Down  from  the  sheltered  hills  of  Vermont,  where  the  legends  , 
and  folk  lore  of  New  England,  together  with  simple  living  and 
old-fashioned  habits  of  industry  and  integrity,  have  kept  clean 


Calvin     Coolidge,     Administrator        85 

the  American  strain,  there  came  a  shght-built,  quiet,  yet  fun-loving 
American  boy.  He  came  into  the  Connecticut  Valley,  on  past 
Sugar  Loaf  and  across  the  river  through  old  Hadley  to  Amherst, 
where  the  many-windowed  College  stands  upon  the  hill.  Guarded 
by  the  gaunt  range  of  Holyoke  and  the  rolling  sweep  of  Pelham, 
Amherst  has  been  steadily  receiving  and  training  red-haired  Ver- 
mont boys  and  others,  whose  souls,  filled  with  lofty  inspirations 
and  worthy  ambitions,  directed  their  footsteps  unto  her  benign 
influence.  In  some  way  it  seemed  that  this  boy  at  once  absorbed 
the  spirit  of  Amherst.  He  early  learned  and  since  has  emulated 
the  Amherst  ideals.  He  adheres  to  the  Amherst  doctrine:  "A 
man  who  builds  a  factory  builds  a  temple.  The  man  who  works 
there  worships  there,  and  to  each  is  due,  not  scorn  and  blame,  but 
reverence  and  praise." 

Calvin  Coolidge's  career  in  Amherst  was  marked  by  a  quiet, 
sustained  earnestness  in  his  work.  He  had  more  than  the  respect 
of  his  fellows;  he  had  the  power  to  attract  their  youthful  regard, 
and  he  holds  to-day  the  sincere  affection  of  his  classmates,  not 
because  of  the  honors  he  has  acquired,  but  because  of  the  character 
they  learned  to  admire  in  the  days  when  he  scampered  with  the 
rest  up  the  steps  and  into  chapel  to  beat  out  the  last  quick  strokes 
of  the  old  bell. 

Calvin  Coolidge  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Vermont,  July  4,  1872 — 
a  significant  birth  date  for  an  exponent  of  real  Americanism.  His 
father.  Col.  John  Coolidge,  enjoys  a  rare  reputation  for  trust- 
worthiness in  the  section  of  Vermont  where  he  still  lives.  It  has 
been  said  by  a  prominent  man  of  Vermont  that  beyond  any  man 
of  his  acquaintance  he  admired  Calvin  Coolidge's  grandfather  for 
his  sterling  qualities  and  his  uncanny  horse-sense.  Coolidge's 
mother  died  when  he  was  twelve,  but  she  lives  for  him  in  the 
daguerreotype  hidden  away  in  a  little  silver  locket  which  is 
never  out  of  his  possession. 

Calvin  attended  school  at  Plymouth,  and  later  was  a  student  at 
Black  Rock  River  Academy  at  Ludlow,  Vermont.  He  entered 
Amherst  at  nineteen  and  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
with  high  honors  in  1895.  Coolidge  was  Grove  Orator  at  Com- 
mencement, and  in  his  senior  year  he  won  the  first  prize — a  gold 
medal — offered  by  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  for  the 
best  essay  on  "The  Principles  of  the  War  for  American  Inde- 


86    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

pendence."  This  was  won  in  competition  with  undergraduates  of 
all  American  colleges. 

Determined  on  following  that  profession,  he  read  law  in  the 
offices  of  Hammond  &  Field  at  Northampton,  and  after  twenty 
months'  study,  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  thereupon  opened  an 
office  in  Northampton,  where  he  soon  established  his  reputation 
as  a  lawyer,  achieved  his  first  success  in  the  field  of  politics,  and 
gained  his  rating  as  a  good  citizen  and  a  zealous,  broad-minded 
promoter  of  the  community's  welfare. 

He  was  appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  the 
Hampshire  County  clerk,  but  refused  his  party's  nomination  for 
election  to  succeed  himself.  His  natural  bent  for  doing  the  day's 
work,  combined  with  his  ability  and  integrity,  so  brought  him 
into  the  esteem  of  his  fellow-townsmen  that  he  was  elected  to 
the  City  Council  of  Northampton  and  soon  after  was  chosen  city 
solicitor  and  served  with  honor  in  that  position  for  two  years. 
In  1907  and  1908  he  represented  his  city  in  the  lower  branch  of 
the  General  Court,  but  was  called  from  this  service  to  return  to 
his  home  city  as  its  mayor,  which  office  he  held  for  two  years. 
He  was  then  chosen  senator  and  served  with  distinction  for  four 
years,  during  the  last  two  of  which  he  was  president  of  the  Senate. 
Immediately  following  his  term  as  senator,  the  great  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts  called  him  to  be  lieutenant-governor  for 
three  years,  and  his  record  in  that  office  was  brilliant.  He  became 
naturally  the  candidate  of  his  party  for  the  governorship  and  was 
elected  and  served  with  dignity  during  the  trying  days  of  the  war. 
His  innate  patriotism  made  him  stand  high  among  the  governors 
of  the  states  in  his  support  of  the  national  government  in  its  deter- 
mination to  free  the  world  of  tyranny  and  autocracy.  This  fall 
he  was  again  elected  governor  by  an  overwhelming  vote. 

Governor  Coolidge  refused  to  be  partisan  in  his  conception  of 
his  duties  in  these  momentous  times.  He  said:  "We  want  peace, 
but  we  want  more.  We  want  prosperity,  but  we  want  more. 
These  are  the  means,  not  the  end;  the  accidental,  not  the  essential. 
'Man  cannot  live  by  bread  alone.'  Whether  peace  come  and 
prosperity,  or  war  come  and  adversity,  we  demand  an  administra- 
tion that  shall  provide  for  every  American  citizen  the  full  measure 
of  his  highest  manhood,  honor,  and  righteousness  of  action  at 
home  and  abroad.     The  Republican  call  is  not  a  call  to  expediency; 


Calvin     Coolidge,     Administrator        87 

it  is  a  call  to  duty."     A  high  resolve  nobly  lived  up  to  as  the  days 
went  on. 

Calvin  Coolidge  was  never  a  talker.  He  was  and  is  a  man  of 
restrained  enthusiasm.  Without  special  gift  for  public  speaking, 
his  earnestness  impressed  itself  upon  every  occasion  where  he 
made  a  public  appearance.  We  must,  however,  look  to  his  written 
rather  than  to  his  spoken  word  for  the  secret  of  his  power.  He 
is  a  maker  of  phrases  and  epigrams,  and  through  these  is  revealed 
his  statesmanship: 

"Industry  cannot  flourish  if  labor  languish." 

"The  weakness  of  representative  government  is  the  weakness  of 
us  imperfect  human  beings  who  administer  it." 

"Self-government  means  self-support;  the  people  cannot  look 
to  legislation  generally  for  success." 

"Ultimately  property  rights  and  personal  rights  are  the  same 
thing.     The  one  cannot  be  preserved  if  the  other  be  violated." 

"Large  profits  mean  large  pay-rolls,  but  profits  must  be  the 
result  of  service  performed." 

"Expect  to  be  called  a  'stand-patter,'  but  don't  be  a  'stand- 
patter.' Expect  to  be  called  a  demagogue,  but  don't  be  a  dema- 
gogue. Don't  hesitate  to  be  as  revolutionary  as  science.  Don't 
hesitate  to  be  as  reactionary  as  the  multiplication  table." 

"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." 

"Work  is  not  a  curse.  It  is  the  prerogative  of  intelligence, 
the  only  means  to  manhood  and  the  measure  of  civilization.  Sav- 
ages do  not  work." 

"It  may  be  of  little  importance  at  any  time  to  determine  just 
where  we  are,  but  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance  to  determine 
whither  we  are  going." 

"Do  not  expect  to  build  up  the  weak  by  pulling  down  the 
strong." 

"Do  not  hurry  to  legislate.  Give  administration  a  chance  to 
catch  up  with  legislation." 

"I  am  not  much  concerned  over  the  agitation  for  shorter  hours 
or  the  discussion  as  to  what  number  of  hours  a  man  should  devote 
to  his  task  of  the  day.  If  people  would  only  work  through  the 
hours  they  are  supposed  to  devote  to  work,  there  would  not  be 
much  trouble,  but  most  of  them  don't." 


88    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Governor  Coolidge's  recent  Thanksgiving  proclamation  will  take 
a  place  with  the  inspired  expressions  of  great  Americans,  who 
conveyed  their  messages  on  momentous  occasions  in  language 
which  simply  but  eloquently  carries  to  those  who  still  read  them 
convincing  thoughts  for  the  betterment  of  mankind: 

"The  people  have  had  a  year  of  peace.  It  has  been  marked  not 
by  sorrow  at  the  departure  of  those  who  nobly  served  a  cause 
great  as  America,  but  by  joy  at  their  return  with  righteousness 
victorious.  The  sense  of  loss  has  been  tempered  by  the  sense  of 
gain  from  duty  patriotically  done. 

"With  peace  has  come  prosperity.  Burdens  have  been  great, 
but  the  strength  to  bear  them  has  been  greater.  The  condition 
of  those  who  toil  is  higher,  better,  more  secure  than  in  all  the  ages 
past.  Out  of  the  darkness  of  great  conflict  has  appeared  the  vision 
nearer,  clearer  than  ever  before  of  a  life  on  earth  less  and  less  under 
the  deadening  restraint  of  force,  more  and  more  under  the  vitaliz- 
ing influence  of  reason.  Moral  power  has  been  triumphing  over 
physical  power.  For  satisfaction  with  present  conditions  there  is 
every  evidence,  every  reason  deep  and  enduring;  for  discontent 
there  is  only  the  purpose  of  those  who  wish  to  advance  the  cause 
of  public  enemies. 

"For  peace,  for  prosperity,  for  present  attainment,  for  future 
hope,  for  the  power  to  know  and  the  resolution  to  do  the  right, 
for  the  peace  of  mind  that  has  come  from  duty  done,  in  accord 
with  custom  for  centuries  past,  when  Massachusetts  was  weak, 
and  not  forgotten  now  when  she  is  strong;  for  these  bounties,  for 
this  vision,  Thursday,  November  27,  1919,  is  hereby  set  apart  as 
a  day  of  Thanksgiving  and  praise  for  giving  thanks  to  'the  giver 
of  every  good  and  perfect  gift,'  for  giving  praise  to  those  who  have 
done  His  works,  in  prayer  for  a  strength  to  see,  for  a  purpose  to 
endure,  may  the  people  of  this  Commonwealth,  as  through  all 
generations  of  her  history,  mark  and  observe  this  day." 

These  and  many  more  of  his  adequately  brief  public  statements 
are  being  read  and  reread  throughout  the  land. 

In  one  act  Governor  Coolidge  dealt  anarchy  a  mortal  blow  and 
inspired  confldence  in  American  institutions.  In  defying  those 
who  would  ignore  our  Constitution,  he  brought  courage  to  the 
many  who  were  dismayed  until  he  spoke.  The  clarion  call  to 
first  principles  came  when  he  uttered  these  words  which  still  ring 
in  every  American  heart: 

"There  is  no  right  to  strike  against  the  public  safety  by  any- 
body, anywhere,  anytime.  I  am  determined  to  defend  the  sov- 
ereignty of  Massachusetts,  and  to  maintain  the  authority  and 


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jurisdiction  over  her  public  officers  where  it  has  been  placed  by  the 
Constitution  and  the  laws  of  her  people." 

Governor  Coolidge  dared  every  vicious  and  every  blundering 
force  in  the  Boston  police  strike  on  the  elemental  issue  of  right. 
He  took  his  stand  against  un-Americanism,  and  on  that  issue  be- 
came at  once  a  leader  in  the  minds  of  patriots  everywhere.  He 
spoke  for  the  American  people.  His  faith  in  their  essential  love 
of  country  bred  their  faith  in  him.  In  one  of  his  earlier  speeches 
Coolidge  said:  "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  not  given  to  dema- 
gogues, slavishly  pandering  to  their  selfishness,  merchandising 
with  the  clamor  of  the  hour,  but  to  statesmen  ministering  to  their 
welfare,  representing  their  deep,  silent,  abiding  convictions." 

Anyone  who  will  read  Governor  Coolidge's  speeches,  published 
under  the  characteristic  title  of  "Have  Faith  in  Massachusetts," 
will  be  impressed  with  the  conviction  that  the  governor's  action 
at  the  time  of  the  desertion  of  the  Boston  police  was  for  him  the 
only  possible  action  and  that  his  whole  thinking  and  self-training 
gives  the  assurance  that  in  other  crises,  as  they  arise,  he  will  act 
with  the  same  clear  grasp  of  the  situation  and  with  the  same 
firmness. 

Of  humble  means,  his  storehouse  of  knowledge,  of  faith,  and  of 
passion  for  the  right  is  richly  full.  He  has  a  modest  home,  where 
his  wife,  who  is  a  devoted  helpmate,  and  his  two  sons,  John  and 
Calvin,  Jr.,  live  with  him  the  plain  life  of  the  average  American 
family.  That  home,  however,  is  radiant  with  the  love  of  service, 
fine  with  the  elements  of  culture,  and  happy  in  its  adherence  to 
Christian  faith. 

Much  more  could  be  said  in  sketching  the  life  and  setting  forth 
the  work  of  Calvin  Coolidge.  Much  has  been  written,  but  nothing 
has  been  said  of  him  which  is  so  perfect  an  epitome  of  the  character 
of  the  man  as  the  words  President  Meiklejohn  used  when  confer- 
ring upon  him  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  at  the  last  Commencement: 

"Calvin  Coolidge,  as  you  have  learned  and  used  the  lessons  of 
this  College,  so  would  she  learn  and  use  in  speaking  of  you  a  lesson 
which  you  teach,  that  of  adequate  brevity.  Upon  you,  sir,  shrewd 
observer  of  men  and  affairs,  tireless  student  of  the  ways  of  gov- 


90    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

ernment,  fearless  without  flightiness,  leader  of  men,  not  simply  by 
office  but  by  intelligence  and  integrity,  honored  son  of  Amherst, 
trusted  governor  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  we 
confer  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws." 

Amlierst  men  wherever  found  have  greater  reason  to  love  their 
Alma  Mater  because  of  her  part  in  moulding  the  character  of 
Calvin  Coolidge.  America  is  the  better,  the  safer,  the  stronger 
because  Calvin  Coolidge  not  only  made  law  secure  in  Massachu- 
setts, but  inspired  the  people  of  other  commonwealths  to  greater 
respect  for  the  laws  of  the  nation.  He  is  a  great  administrator  of 
the  laws  of  a  people  whose  faith  is  founded  on  that  greatest 
of  human  documents,  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of 
America. 


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COLLEGE  NOTES 

REVIEW  OF  THE  FOOTBALL  SEASON 

The  Amlierst  College  football  team  closed  the  season  of  1919 
with  a  record  of  six  victories  and  two  defeats,  scoring  123  points  to 
their  opponents'  53.     The  detailed  record  follows: 

Sept.  27,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  3 — Bowdoin  0 

Oct.  4,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  2 — New  York  University  0 

Oct,  11,  at  Schenectady,  Amherst  12 — Union  0 

Oct.  18,  at  Hartford,  Amherst  48— Trinity  7 

Oct.  25,  at  New  York,  Amherst  7 — Columbia  9 

Nov.  1,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  42 — Worcester  P.  I.  0 

Nov.  8,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  9 — Wesleyan  7 

Nov.  15,  at  Williamstown,  Amherst  0 — WiUiams  30 

In  number  of  games  won  and  in  total  points  scored  this  record 
is  the  best  made  by  any  Amherst  football  team  in  fifteen  years. 
Amherst  football  has  not  been  successful  in  recent  years,  as  the 
following  table  shows : 


Year 

Won 

Lost 

Amherst 

Opponents 

1907 

3 

5 

49 

73 

1908 

3 

5 

67 

44 

1909 

1 

7 

11 

87 

1910 

4 

4 

55 

35 

1911 

3 

5 

34 

58 

1912 

3 

5 

55 

155 

1913 

3 

5 

74 

85 

1914 

2 

6 

39 

73 

1915 

5 

3 

81 

66 

1916 

1 

6 

37 

160 

1917 

4 

3 

95 

79 

1918 

2 

2 

48 

26 

1919 

G 

2 

123 

53 

From  the  above  record  it  will  be  seen  that  the  1919  team  was 
the  first  Amherst  team  in  a  long  period  to  score  more  than  100 
points.  It  is  also  worthy  of  note  that  Zink,  the  quarterback  of 
this  year's  Amherst  team,  was  the  third  highest  individual  scorer 
in  the  country,  scoring  six  touchdowns,  kicking  fourteen  goals 
after  touchdowns,  and  five  goals  from  the  field,  for  a  total  of  65 


92    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

points.  As  another  factor  in  the  football  tradition  now  growing 
up  at  Amherst  it  may  be  mentioned  that  Amherst  has  not  lost  a 
football  game  on  its  home  field  during  the  past  three  seasons. 

The  1919  team  was  not  heavy,  averaging  about  166  pounds. 
Because  of  the  unusual  rainfall  during  the  autumn  almost  all  the 
games  were  played  on  soft  or  muddy  fields,  and  this  handicapped 
the  speed  and  coordination  of  the  team  considerably.  Captain 
Paul  K.  Phillips,  a  light  but  fast  halfback,  who  had  been  a  brilliant 
groundgainer  two  years  ago,  suffered  especially  because  of  the 
heavy  footing.  In  the  Williams  game  the  Amherst  team,  not 
properly  shod  for  the  extremely  muddy  field,  was  helpless  against 
the  brilliant  open-field  work  of  Boynton,  captain  of  the  Williams 
team. 

The  best  game  of  the  season  was  played  against  Wesleyan  at 
the  time  of  the  Alumni  Council  meeting.  Previous  to  this  game 
W^esleyan  had  not  been  scored  upon  and  had  defeated  Williams 
16  to  0.  In  this  game  Amherst  outplayed  Wesleyan  decisively, 
scoring  fifteen  first  downs  to  Wesleyan's  one,  and  keeping  Wesleyan 
at  a  safe  distance  from  the  Amherst  goal-line.  The  finished  team- 
work and  the  excellent  judgment  with  which  the  team  was  run 
were  especially  noteworthy.  Against  Columbia  the  team  suffered 
from  stage  fright  and  did  not  get  started  until  late  in  the  game. 
Against  the  spectacular  work  of  Boynton  in  the  Williams  game 
the  team,  though  fighting  hard,  was  outclassed.  The  effects  of  the 
hard  Wesleyan  game  of  the  previous  week  were  evident. 

As  groundgainers,  Zink,  Phillips,  and  Kilby  stood  out  for  con- 
sistent work.  On  the  defensive  Card  and  Olsen  were  conspicuous. 
Davison  played  a  strong  game  at  end,  especially  in  receiving  for- 
ward passes.  The  ability  of  Zink  in  kicking  goals  from  the  field 
was  a  valuable  asset.  The  interest  of  the  student  body  in  football 
revived  after  its  slump  during  the  war,  and  the  present  system  of 
football  gives  promise  of  successful  seasons  in  the  future.  Mr. 
Marsh  and  Mr.  Widmayer  of  the  Department  of  Physical  Educa- 
tion gave  valuable  assistance  to  Professor  Gettell,  who  was  in 
charge  of  the  coaching  system. 

The  following  men  were  awarded  the  football  A :  P.  K.  Phillips, 
N.  Olsen,  E.  N.  Reusswig,  W.  Palmer,  A.  K.  Demarest,  R.  Carney, 
C.  Vail,  F.  Clark,  W.  B.  Cummings,  A.  E.  Davison,  P.  Brisk,  A. 
Davidson,  W.  Zink,  G.  F.  Card,  J.  V.  Kilby.     Of  these  men,  seven 


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had  previously  played  on  Amherst  'varsity  football  teams.  Eight 
remain  to  form  the  nucleus  of  next  year's  team.  Glenn  F.  Card  is 
captain-elect  for  the  1920  season. 

A    GIFT    AND    THE    SPIRIT    OF   THE    GIVER 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Alumni  Council,  President  Meiklejohn 
announced  the  gift  to  the  College  of  $100,000  to  found  "The 
Amherst  Memorial  Fellowship  for  the  study  of  social,  economic, 
and  political  institutions."  A  letter  from  the  donor,  whose 
name  is  withheld,  describes  the  purpose  of  the  gift,  as  follows: 

"a  fellowship  to  PERPETUATE  THE  MEMORY  OF  THOSE 
AMHERST  MEN  WHO  GAVE  THEIR  LIVES  FOR  AN  IDEAL. 

"Realizing  the  need  for  better  understanding  and  more  complete 
adjustment  between  man  and  existing  social,  economic,  and  politi-- 
cal  institutions,  it  is  my  desire  to  establish  a  Fellowship  for  the 
study  of  the  principles  underlying  these  human  relationships. 

"To  be  eligible  for  appointment  to  this  Fellowship,  a  candidate 
should  be  a  college  or  university  graduate,  though  not  of  necessity 
a  recent  graduate.  He  should  be  a  man  of  sound  health.  During 
his  previous  training  he  should  have  shown  those  qualities  of  leader- 
ship which  are  founded  on  strength  of  character.  He  should  have 
given  evidence  of  marked  mental  ability  in  some  branch  of  the 
Social  Sciences — economics,  political  science,  and  history — and 
have  given  promise  of  original  contribution  to  his  particular  field 
of  study.  He  should  have  demonstrated  a  spirit  of  service  rather 
than  ambition  for  personal  advancement,  and  should  intend  to 
devote  his  life  to  the  betterment  of  social  conditions  through  teach- 
ing in  its  broad  sense,  journalism,  politics,  or  field  work. 

"A  Fellow  shall  be  appointed  every  second  year  for  a  period  of 
not  more  than  four  years,  depending  upon  the  qualifications  and 
requirements  of  the  individual  candidate.  It  is  earnestly  desired 
that  at  least  half  of  his  appointment  shall  be  spent  in  study  in 
Europe.  The  last  year,  in  part  or  in  whole,  depending  upon  the 
decision  of  the  Committee  in  charge  and  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  College,  shall  be  given  to  Amherst  College.  It  is  hoped  that 
each  Fellow  shall  at  some  time  deliver  a  course  of  lectures  at 
Amherst,  and  that  these  may  be  published. 

"The  Fellowship  Fund  will  provide  $2,000  a  year  for  each 
Fellow. 

"The  Committee  in  charge  shall  be  composed  of  five  men: 
The  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Amherst  College,  the 
President  of  Amherst  College,  and  three  others  to  be  appointed 
by  them,  one  of  whom  shall  be  a  member  of  one  of  the  Departments 
of  Social  Science  at  Amherst  College.     Of  the  two  remaining 


94    Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

members,  at  least  one  shall  have  no  connection  with  Amherst 
College.  One  shall  be  a  business  or  professional  man,  and  one 
shall  be  definitely  associated  with  some  other  college  or  university. 
"It  is  desired  to  have  this  Fellowship  meet  the  demands  of 
existing  social  and  intellectual  requirements,  and  to  this  end  the 
Committee  may  modify  this  original  deed  of  gift  every  ten  years. 
The  donor  reserves  the  right  to  consult  with  the  Committee  regard- 
ing suggested  modifications.  If  at  any  time,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Committee,  there  is  no  further  need  for  this  Fellowship,  the  Fund 
shall  be  transferred  to  the  General  Endowment  Fund  of  Amherst 
College.'" 

registration 

The  undergraduate  enrollment  for  the  present  year  is  the  largest 
Amherst  has  known  since  1916-17.  In  that  year  there  were  505 
students  in  College.  The  registration  for  1919-20  is  503.  The 
following  table  shows  the  enrollment  by  classes : 

Graduate  students 2 

Fellows 3 

Seniors 102 

Juniors 107 

Sophomores 138 

Freshmen 146 

Students  not  candidates  for  degrees 5 

Total 

503 

The  classification  by  residence  shows  that  New  York  still  leads 
as  the  state  from  which  the  greatest  number  of  students  come, 
with  Massachusetts  second.  The  figures  are:  New  York  145, 
Massachusetts  135,  Pennyslvania  40,  Connecticut  36,  New  Jersey 
27,  Ohio  17,  Illinois  13,  District  of  Columbia  7,  Michigan  7,  New 
Hampshire  7,  Rhode  Island  7,  Vermont  7,  Nebraska  6,  Kentucky  5, 
Maine  5,  California  4,  Wisconsin  4,  Colorado  3,  Indiana  3,  Iowa  3, 
Maryland  3,  Washington  3,  Arkansas  1,  Delaware  1,  Florida  1, 
Idaho  1,  Louisiana  1,  Missouri  1,  New  Mexico  1,  North  Carolina 
1,  Tennessee  1,  Virginia  1,  Armenia  1,  Japan  2,  Newfoundland  1, 
Poland  1,  Syria  1;   total  503. 


BookTable  95 


BOOK  TABLE 

1871 

Civilization  and  the  World  War.  By  Anson  D.  Morse.  New  York:  Ginn  and 
Company.     1919. 

The  author  of  this  posthumous  book  taught  history  at  Amherst  from  1876  until 
his  retirement  in  1907.  In  spite  of  ill  health,  by  which  he  was  greatly  hampered 
during  much  of  this  period,  he  not  only  exerted  a  strong  influence  as  a  teacher, 
but  became  widely  known  outside  of  Amherst  circles  for  his  articles  on  various 
aspects  of  the  political  and  party  history  of  the  United  States.  From  1907  to  his 
death  in  1916  he  resided  mainly  at  "Greyrocks,"  his  estate  on  Pelham  Mountain,  a 
beautiful  place  which  commands  a  grand  view  of  the  Connecticut  Valley.  When 
the  war  broke  out  he  gave  himself  whole-heartedly  to  a  study  of  its  causes  and  prob- 
able consequences.  Unhappily  he  did  not  survive  to  witness  the  victory  of  the 
Allies,  with  whom  he  strongly  sympathized  and  whose  success  he  confidently  pre- 
dicted. Nor  did  he  quite  finish  the  book  upon  which  he  was  at  work;  this,  however, 
had  progressed  so  far  that  his  family  were  able  to  complete  it  and  give  it  to  the 
public  under  the  above  title. 

Although  in  the  war  both  sides  claimed  to  be  fighting  for  civilization,  there  has 
been  but  little  systematic  investigation  of  the  meaning  of  civilization  and  the  con- 
ditions which  favor  its  development.  This  is  the  subject  to  which  Professor  Morse 
first  addresses  himself,  about  half  of  the  book  being  devoted  to  these  fundamental 
considerations;  in  the  second  part  he  takes  up  the  war  itself,  presenting  not  so  much 
a  narrative  of  the  events  as  a  philosophic  inquiry  into  its  causes,  the  relation  of 
America  to  the  issues  involved,  what  German  victory  would  mean,  what  on  the 
other  hand  the  victory  of  the  Allies  would  mean,  and  finally  how  the  world  after 
the  war  should  be  reorganized  so  as  to  avoid  a  similar  catastrophe  in  the  future. 

The  source  of  most  of  the  world's  evils  the  author  finds  in  the  selfishness  of  indi- 
viduals and  groups  which  seek  "to  appropriate  for  their  own  special  uses  all  good 
things  that  belong  to  the  world  as  a  whole."  Progress  requires  the  construction  of 
a  more  rational  ideal  towards  which  civilized  beings  the  world  over  should  strive, 
and  then  the  modification  of  the  character  and  conduct  of  the  individual  to  con- 
form to  that  ideal. 

The  treatment  of  war  in  its  relation  to  civilization  will  illustrate  the  sanity,  mod- 
eration, and  judiciousness  which  characterize  the  work  as  a  whole.  War  deter- 
mines not  "the  spiritual  merits  of  belligerents,"  but  their  fighting  capacity.  Yet 
wars  have  played  a  great  part  in  history;  those  of  Napoleon,  "until  after  the  middle 
of  his  meteoric  career,  may  be  likened  to  a  conflagration  which  burns  up  human 
rookeries,  masses  of  venerated  but  noxious  rubbish,  and  much  else  which  has  not 
only  ceased  to  be  useful  but  has  become  ob.structive  to  progress."  Other  wars 
have  saved  cultured  peoples  from  being  engulfed  by  barbarians.  But  "only  those 
wars  are  justified  which  result  in  making  men  better  and  add  sensibly  to  the  world's 
moral  treasure."  "But  who  is  to  judge  as  to  the  righteous  or  unrighteous  cause? 
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In  the  end  the  enlightened  moral  sense  of  mankind  will  judge  truly,  but  we  cannot 
wait  for  this  judgment.  This  is  so  true  that  the  world  needs  a  tribunal  where 
aggrieved  nations  can  plead  their  causes  before  going  to  war.  Such  a  course  wisely- 
adopted  would  prevent  all  great  and  general  wars  and  most  others." 

The  establishment  of  a  world  tribunal  for  the  promotion  of  international  justice 
is  the  principal  subject  of  the  last  chapter,  entitled  "After  the  War  a  New  World." 
The  plan  of  a  United  States  of  the  World  here  set  forth  with  prophetic  vision  antici- 
pated to  a  considerable  extent  the  plan  of  the  League  of  Nations  embodied  three 
years  later  in  the  Versailles  treaty.  The  manuscript  of  this  chapter  was  sent  to 
President  Wilson  before  he  departed  for  Versailles,  and  as  he  took  it  with  him  across 
the  water,  it  is  more  than  likely  that  it  influenced  the  formulation  of  an  epoch- 
making  document. 

H.  P.  Gallinger. 

1887 

Education  for  Character:  Moral  Training  in  the  School  and  Home.  By  Frank 
Chapman  Sharp,  Ph.D.  Indianapolis:  The  Bobbs-Merrill  Company. 
1917. 

Not  many  years  ago  some  persons  gravely  discussed  the  question  whether  edu- 
cation has  or  can  have  any  influence  upon  character  and  life.  In  particular,  it  was 
urged  that  any  moral  education  in  the  schools,  aside  from  the  general  effects  of 
"discipline,"  was  either  futile  or  worse.  The  home  was  supposed  to  be  the  agency 
for  doing  all  that  needed  to  be  done — unless  the  church  could,  in  the  half  hour 
weekly  of  a  Sunday  School  period,  supply  valuable  aid.  But  the  European  war 
and  the  subsequent  social  and  industrial  revolutions  have  demonstrated  so  clearly 
that  even  persons  who  have  never  read  history  can  see,  that  it  is  possible  to  educate 
a  nation  in  such  a  way  as  to  influence  action,  and  that  ideas  may  be  a  power.  Those 
who  scoffed  at  "morals"  have  learned  a  profound  respect  for  "morale."  If  morale 
can  win  or  lose  a  war,  there  must  be  something  in  it.  Perhaps  it  is  worth  consid- 
ering in  planning  the  curriculum  of  the  school.  Perhaps  it  is  as  important  for  the 
parent  to  know  something  about  the  moral  sources  of  success  or  shipwreck  in  the 
careers  of  his  children  as  to  consider  their  health.  And  in  these  days  when  the  war 
has  emphasized  the  difference  between  the  expert  and  the  well-meaning  but  un- 
trained man,  it  does  not  seem  so  absurd  to  ask  parents  as  well  as  teachers  to  seek 
expert  advice  in  the  moral  training  of  their  children. 

Professor  Sharp  has  for  years  been  a  teacher  of  ethics  not  only  in  the  University 
of  Wisconsin,  but  in  the  high  school  of  that  university.  He  has  also  made  important 
inductive  studies  of  the  moral  judgments  and  motives  of  young  people.  He  has 
humor  as  well  as  a  wide  acquaintance  with  the  literature  of  the  subject.  His  prob- 
lem is  treated  with  the  comprehensiveness,  proportion,  and  siu-eness  of  touch  which 
come  only  from  mastery  of  the  field.  But  the  book  is  not  primarily  a  theoretical 
discussion;  it  is  a  survey  of  actual  concrete  aims  and  of  methods  which  have  been 
tried  and  tested,  with  such  critical  estimates  as  will  assist  teacher  and  parent  to 
give  its  due  weight  to  each  of  the  many  important  agencies  described.  Although 
the  subject  is  stated  to  be  primarily  moral  education  in  the  school,  much  of  the 
material  is  as  valuable  for  the  parent  as  for  the  teacher. 

The  three  main  types  of  agencies  for  moral  education  considered  are  the  influence 


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of  personality,  moral  training  through  discipline  or  activities  of  various  kinds,  and 
moral  instruction  in  which  training  in  moral  thoughtfulness  is  the  most  important 
factor.  In  moral  education,  as  in  other  fields  of  life,  the  tendency  of  the  person 
who  has  no  expert  knowledge  of  the  subject  is  to  underestimate  the  complexity. 
He  goes  to  a  physician  "to  give  him  something  that  will  make  him  well."  He 
goes  to  a  business  man  for  a  recipe  in  one  sentence  that  will  insiu-e  a  successful 
career.  He  wants  some  one  to  tell  him  "what  to  do  with  my  boy,  who  isn't  turning 
out  well."  There  is  no  magical  device  for  moral  education  any  more  than  there  is 
any  magical  elixir  of  life.  Moral  education,  in  the  author's  conception,  is  rather 
a  process  as  complex  as  himaan  nature,  but  not  on  this  account  something  which 
only  a  gifted  few  can  produce.  Teachers  and  parents  can  master  it  as  they  master 
other  tasks  if  they  are  willing  to  take  the  necessary  pains.  The  first  step  is  to  know 
the  resources  which  ethics,  psychology,  and  educational  experiments  have  made 
available.  There  is  no  introduction  to  the  subject  which  is  so  good  as  that  of  Pro- 
fessor Sharp.     And  not  the  least  of  its  merits  is  that  it  is  interesting. 

James  H.  Tufts, 
1895 
Have  Faith  in  Massachusetts.     By  CAL\^N  Coolidge.     Boston:     Houghton  Mifflin 
Company.     1919. 

The  American  system  requires  an  orderly  and  adequate  fimctioning  of  extra- 
legal party  groups  in  order  that  the  legislatm-e  and  the  executive  may  act  in  har- 
mony. Hence  the  successful  governor  of  an  American  Commonwealth  is  not  only 
a  capable  administrator,  but  also  has  a  large  share  in  developing  the  party  program. 
An  important  means  possessed  by  the  governor  for  reconciling  these  two  functions 
is  his  opportunity  to  address  the  electorate  on  the  state's  needs  as  an  administrator 
sees  them,  and  the  program  which  his -party  offers  to  meet  those  needs. 

The  addresses  of  Governor  Coolidge  offer  an  interesting  example  of  how  one 
governor  uses  this  means.  The  method  employed  is  to  present  general  policies, 
not  open  to  effective  attack,  which  will  enable  the  party  to  recruit  from  independent 
groups;  and  having  secm-ed  effective  support,  to  leave  the  working  out  of  details  to 
conference  among  the  legislative  and  executive  leaders  who  are  responsible  for 
results.  One  finds,  for  example,  a  general  discussion  of  the  institutional  problem 
of  the  state  (pages  42-46),  of  social  insurance  (pages  51-54),  and  of  universal  mili- 
tary training  (page  145).  These  references  are  obviously  left  vague  for  future 
analysis,  study,  and  orientation  with  changing  conditions.  There  is  a  danger, 
however,  that  the  electorate  may  not  be  given  enough  information  on  the  state's 
problems  and  the  proposed  methods  of  meeting  those  problems,  and  so  in  voting 
register  not  a  real  opinion  but  rather  a  pious  wish.  This  so-called  signing  of  a 
"blank  check'  leaves  very  great  freedom  to  the  legislature  and  the  executive  in 
the  interpretation  of  what  is  at  best  a  vague  mandate  from  the  people.  Governor 
Coolidge's  speeches,  considered  as  political  addresses  (and  the  addresses  of  a  man 
so  consistently  and  successfully  in  public  life  must  be  viewed  in  part  at  least  from 
their  reaction  upon  the  public  mind)  are  not  propaganda  for  definite  proposals, 
but  part  of  a  general  program  for  creating  effective  popular  support  for  the  large 
aims  of  the  party. 

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ployed  (to  take  a  contemporary  example)  by  Governor  Smith,  of  New  York  state. 
His  addresses  on  the  need  for  reorganizing  the  state  government  are  full  of  detail 
and  present  a  definite  and  immediate  program.  They  contain  quotations  from 
chapter  and  verse  of  the  experience  of  the  state,  and  base  proposed  changes  upon 
that  experience.  This  method  often  leaves  the  user  more  open  to  attack,  since 
specific  proposals  ahvays  find  some  enemies  where  generalized  statements  may  be 
acceptable  to  all  groups  in  the  community. 

It  is  wise,  in  weighing  the  merits  of  political  addresses  at  least,  to  be  familiar  with 
both  methods  of  using  "an  appeal  to  the  people"  and  to  know  the  values  and  dan- 
gers of  both.  Governor  Coolidge's  speeches  admirably  illustrate  the  effective  use 
of  what  may  be  called  a  generalized  treatment  of  political  issues.  The  real  test 
comes  in  the  further  application  of  the  ideas. 

The  style  of  these  addresses  is  of  interest.  They  are  not  political  harangues,  but 
political  sermons,  a  little  reminiscent  of  some  of  the  state  papers  of  President  Cleve- 
land with  his  phrase,  "Public  office  is  a  public  trust."  They  are  collections — some- 
times loose — of  brilliant  epigrams  and  phrases  that  are  an  earnest  of  a  combination 
of  substance  and  pithiness.  I  should  like  to  quote  freely,  but  there  is  room  for 
only  a  few.  "Good  government  cannot  be  found  on  the  bargain  counter."  "De- 
spite some  campaign  oratory,  some  of  us  are  not  yet  perfect."  "Don't  hesitate  to 
be  as  revolutionary  as  science.  Don't  hesitate  to  be  as  reactionary  as  the  multipli- 
cation table."  "Whatever  is,  is  old."  "The  people  who  start  to  elect  a  man  to 
get  what  he  can  for  his  district  will  probably  find  that  they  have  elected  a  man 
who  will  get  what  he  can  for  himself."  There  is,  too,  a  skillful  employment  of 
historical  reference — never  lugged  in  and  thrown  at  one's  feet  but  pertinently  called 
up  in  support  of  more  general  statements. 

Many  of  the  ideas  contained  in  the  addresses  although  stated  briefly  and  in  a 
non-controversial  manner  are  very  debatable,  since  they  comprise  many  of  the  issues 
which  are  now  before  the  country.  In  general  Governor  Coolidge  may  be  said  to 
suggest  policies  as  a  background  for  further  interpretation  and  reflection  before 
action  is  desirable.  The  tumult,  the  shouting,  the  give  and  take  of  debate  are  left 
to  be  muffled  in  the  conference  chamber.  This  is  consistent  with  the  method 
employed  in  using  political  addresses  already  described.  Nevertheless  one  can  see 
emerging  from  these  pages  a  clearly  Hamiltonian  conception  of  politics  and  eco- 
nomics. The  tradition  of  the  Hamilton  of  the  Treasury,  the  Madison  of  the  Con- 
vention of  1787,  and  of  the  Adams  of  the  Massachusetts  Constitution  lives  and  is 
influential  in  these  addresses. 

The  presence  of  such  a  mind  in  an  important  public  office  offers  an  interesting 
and  profitable  field  for  study.  One  may  agree  with  President  Meiklejohn's  felici- 
tous characterization  of  Governor  Coolidge  as  possessing  an  "adequate  brevity." 
But  there  are  phrases  which  seem  fundamental  to  an  understanding  of  Governor 
Coolidge's  policies  that  stir  one's  curiosity.  "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  reconstructed  faith  that  the 
final  approval  of  the  people  is  given  not  to  demagogues,  slavishly  pandering  to 
their  selfishness,  merchandising  with  the  clamor  of  the  hour,  but  to  statesmen, 
ministering  to  their  welfare,  representing  their  deep,  silent,  abiding  convictions." 
No  one  would  disagree  with  that  statement.     But  we  may  well  ask  from  this  sue- 


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cessful  administrator  that  he  define  more  fully  the  limits  of  that  "twilight  zone" 
which  lies  between  the  demagogue  and  the  statesman.  People  are  often  puzzled 
in  these  shifting  scenes,  as  to  what  the  deep  silent,  abiding,  convictions  in  the  politi- 
cal life  of  a  community  really  are;  and  one  may  wish  that  Governor  Coolidge  tell  us 
more  about  them,  and  how  the  state  government  is  to  be  organized  and  adminis- 
tered harmoniously  with  them. 

John  Merriman  Gaus. 

1905 

Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  in  the  Great  War.  Edited  by  Claude  Moore  Fuess. 
New  Haven:  Yale  University  Press.  1919. 
This  book  is  a  model  commemorative  volume,  carefully  edited  and  beautifully 
printed.  It  contains  an  account  of  Phillips  Academy  during  the  war,  biographies 
of  the  graduates  who  died  in  service,  a  list  of  men  decorated  or  cited  for  extraordi- 
nary bravery,  the  history  of  the  Andover  Ambulance  Unit,  and  the  war  record  of 
more  than  two  thousand  alumni.  It  is  dedicated  to  the  memory  of  the  seventy- 
seven  Andover  men  who  fell  in  the  war.  No  pains  have  been  spared  to  record  in 
perfect  form  this  proudest  chapter  in  the  history  of  the  great  Academy. 

1908 

The  Early  Life  of  Robert  Southey.  By  William  Haller,  Ph.D.  New  York: 
Columbia  University  Press.     1917. 

Two  books  published  within  a  year  of  each  other  are  a  rendinder  that  neither  the 
name  nor  the  WTi tings  of  Robert  Southey  have  yet  been  forgotten.  Professor 
Jacob  Zeitlin's  attractive  selection  from  "The  Doctor"  and  other  essays  empha- 
sizes the  maturer  Southey,  the  master  of  perfect  Georgian  prose.  The  present 
study  attempts  the  more  difficult  task  of  reconstructing  the  young,  poetic  Southey, 
before  he  settled  down  at  Keswick  to  domesticity,  epic-grinding,  and  quarterly 
reviewing.  The  task  is  difiicult  because  Southey,  like  his  friends  Wordsworth  and 
Coleridge,  lived  to  become  venerated  in  the  flesh,  and  the  memory  of  his  effervescent, 
formative  years  were  overlaid  by  impressions  of  his  later  life.  Nor  are  there  any 
such  striking  pictures  of  the  young  Southey  as  exist  in  Lamb's  recollections  of  the 
schoolboy  Coleridge — "Logician,  Metaphysician,  Bard" — or  in  Wordsworth's 
poetic  autobiography.  Professor  Haller  has  had  to  piece  together  his  conception 
of  Southey' s  personality  from  scattered  and  unorganized  hints,  from  the  scanty 
memorials  of  Southey's  boyhood  and  young  manhood  in  Cuthbert  Southey's  "Life 
and  Letters"  of  his  father,  from  the  rambling  and  unreliable  reminiscences  of  Cottle, 
and  from  the  slight  and  inconclusive  reference  of  other  contemporaries.  If  the 
resultant  synthesis  of  Southey's  character  seems  like  a  mosaic  of  many  impressions 
incompletely  harmonized  in  comparison  with  Professor  Legouis'  integral  portrait 
of  the  young  Wordsworth,  the  fault  lies  with  the  documents  at  the  scholar's  disposal. 

In  such  a  study  as  this  one  does  not  look  for  a  thesis  so  much  as  for  information. 
This  Professor  Haller  supplies  with  exemplary  thoroughness.  Probably  no  more 
accurate  and  complete  narrative  will  ever  be  given  us  of  Southey's  boyhood,  of  his 
Oxford  days  and  his  successive  enthusiasms  for  poetry,  Edith  Fricker,  and  Coleridge, 
of  the  famous  project  for  founding  a  Utopian  colony  on  the  banks  of  the  Susque- 
hanna, of  his  journey  to  Portugal  and  the  foundation  of  his  studies  in  the  literature 


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of  the  Peninsula,  and  of  the  poetic  influences  that  molded  his  own  writing.  The 
book  leaves  a  vivid  impression  of  the  bewilderingly  complex  tendencies  that  played 
upon  the  minds  of  sensitive  young  men  during  the  Revolutionary  period.  Of  their 
vague  dreams  of  human  betterment  and  social  simplification  and  of  their  awakening 
to  a  sober  sense  of  reality  Southey's  career  was  most  tj^jical,  because  he  could  not 
devote  himself  to  his  kind  at  the  expense  of  his  kindred.  His  family  included 
Coleridge's  wife  and  children  as  well  as  his  own.  His  was  not  a  life  of  high  detach- 
ment merely,  but  a  brave  attempt  to  reconcile  lofty  principles  with  practical  neces- 
sities without  sacrificing  either.  Even  his  scheme  for  Pantisocracy,  as  Professor 
Haller  shows,  was  not  more  a  device  for  regenerating  mankind  than  it  was  a  means 
for  promoting  an  early  marriage  with  Edith  Fricker.  "  The  fact  that  he  lost  while 
playing  gallantly  for  the  highest  stakes  should  not  detract  from  our  personal  respect 
for  him."  Southey's  character  more  than  his  achievement  commands  the  admira- 
tion of  his  biographer.  The  respect  for  his  reputation  which  with  difficulty 
survives  a  reading  of  his  "Complete  Poetical  Works  "  is  renewed  as  we  learn  the 
circumstances  under  which  his  poems  were  produced. 

The  value  of  Professor  Haller's  biography  lies  not  more  in  its  thoroughness  than 
in  its  correction  of  the  prevalent  impressions  of  Southey.  Those  who  think  of  him 
in  the  spirit  of  his  best  known  poem,  "My  Days  Among  the  Dead  are  Past,"  as  an 
old  man  groping  about  in  a  library,  or  who  associate  him  with  Lamb,  Hazlitt,  and 
DeQuincey  as  a  genial  writer  of  prose,  or  who  remember  mainly  his  quixotic  tilting 
with  imaginary  windmills  of  disaster  in  the  columns  of  the  Quarterly  Review,  may 
with  profit  study  the  glimpses  of  the  impetuous,  ardent,  but  responsible  young 
poet  and  lover  that  Professor  Haller  has  assembled.  Take,  for  example,  the  descrip- 
tion of  Southey  at  work  upon  his  first  grandiloquent  poem,  "Joan  of  Arc,"  writing 
two  books  a  week  in  the  summer-house  of  a  suburban  garden,  and  pausing  now  and 
then  from  the  act  of  composition  to  shoot  at  wasps  with  horse-pistols  loaded  with 
sand.     "Each  life  its  critic  deed  reveals."     In  this  is  the  apotheosis  of  Southey. 

George  F.  Whicher. 


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EDITORIAL  NOTES 

A  GRADUATE  MANAGER  AND  UNDERGRADUATE  LEISURE 

THE  meeting  of  the  Alumni  Council  at  Amherst  has  come 
and  gone.  More  than  one  hundred  graduates  renewed 
their  acquaintance  with  the  College,  and  the  College  with 
them.  Their  visit  is  a  pleasant  memory.  But  what  more  is  to 
come  of  it?  To  be  worth  while,  it  must  be  only  the  first  step  in  a 
series  bringing  the  alumni  body  into  more  intimate  and  responsible 
association  with  the  College.  On  the  material  side  Amherst 
greatly  needs  the  immediate  support  of  its  alumni;  with  salaries 
at  the  universities  rising  25  to  50  per  cent  or  more,  Amherst  must 
make  a  marked  advance  in  its  salary  scale  if  it  is  to  retain  good 
men  on  its  teaching  staff  or  secure  better  men  against  university 
competition.  Then  there  are  the  Commons,  a  new  or  remodeled 
Gymnasium,  and  the  development  of  Hitchcock  Field  to  be  thought 
of.  Whether  these  and  a  host  of  smaller  needs  may  best  be  pro- 
vided for  by  a  "drive"  or  left  to  voluntary  benefactions  is  now 
being  considered  by  a  joint  committee  of  the  Trustees  and  the 
Alumni  Council.  Shortly  after  this  number  of  the  Quarterly 
appears,  the  plan  of  the  committee  will  probably  be  ready  for 
announcement. 


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Meanwhile  not  the  least  benefit  of  the  Alumni  Council  visit  was 
the  opportunity  it  gave  to  older  sons  of  Amherst  to  realize  anew 
what  a  hard-earned,  smashing  victory  of  an  Amherst  team  means 
to  the  spirit  of  the  College.  Watching  the  purple  and  white  play- 
ers sweeping  the  undefeated  Wesleyan  team  off  its  feet  was  a  joy 
that  made  Amherst  men  brothers  indeed.  It  joined  them  in  a 
bond  of  elation,  in  a  united  beat  of  pulses  and  confident  pride  of 
power  such  as  our  militant  Puritan  ancestors,  when  they  felt  them- 
selves more  than  commonly  on  the  Lord's  side,  called  a  "sense  of 
Grace."  Such  an  elation  one  can  feel  vibrating  in  Marvell's  lines 
to  the  victorious  Cromwell,  returned  from  benevolent  extermina- 
tion of  the  Irish: 

"But  thou,  the  war's  and  fortune's  son, 
March  indefatigably  on."     .     .     . 

The  life  of  a  college,  too,  marches  indefatigably  on  after  a  splen- 
did triumph  on  diamond,  field,  or  track.  Men  go  about  their 
work  with  a  lift  of  the  heart  that  conquers  difficulties  before  they 
arise,  irritations  and  grievances  vanish,  and  thinking  is  given  the 
ultimate  push  that  carries  it  over  into  achievement.  It  is  impor- 
tant to  Amherst,  therefore,  that  its  teams  should  expect  victory — 
and  mostly  get  it.  Beating  Williams  should  be,  not  a  surprise,  but 
a  habit.     This  year  our  seven  days  of  grace  were  only  too  short. 

Since  winning  teams  unite  alumni  and  undergraduates,  induce 
a  healthy  pride  in  the  College,  and  bring  Amherst  into  the  public 
eye,  it  is  small  wonder  that  loyal  graduates  should  be  eager  to 
establish  a  strong  athletic  tradition  at  Amherst.  But  eagerness  to 
have  the  College  participate  largely  and  successfully  in  intercol- 
legiate sports  may  lead  to  paying  a  price  out  of  proportion  to  the 
advantage  derived.  Signs  of  a  tendency  to  lay  indiscriminate 
emphasis  on  athletic  success  have  been  evident  at  the  last  two 
alumni  gatherings.  At  Commencement,  1919,  the  class  of  1909 
offered  the  College  as  part  of  their  decennial  gift  a  prize  to  be  given 
yearly  to  the  class  having  most  men  on  'varsity  teams.  \t  the 
Alumni  Council  meeting  a  motion  was  passed  to  put  a  graduate 
manager  in  charge  of  Amherst  athletics.  A  graduate  manager, 
if  he  has  any  virtue,  is  an  enthusiastic  promoter  of  athletics.  His 
function  is  to  incite  undergraduates  to  the  utmost  athletic  en- 
deavor; to  extend  schedules  to  the  limit  allowed  by  the  Faculty; 


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to  arrange  ambitious  games  with  larger  colleges  for  advertising 
purposes;  to  persuade  students  to  come  out  for  teams  who  would 
not  voluntarily  do  so;  in  short,  to  demand  that  as  much  of  the 
students'  time  and  energy  as  possible  be  given  to  the  development 
of  winning  teams.  There  is  no  doubt  that  alumni  can  make  ath- 
letics a  more  important  part  of  college  life  than  it  now  is  by  exert- 
ing pressure  on  the  undergraduates,  who  are  never  as  a  body  reluc- 
tant to  proceed  in  that  direction.  But  the  cost  of  such  a  demand 
upon  the  small  margin  of  leisure  that  college  students  now  have 
for  discovering  and  developing  their  own  natures  is  ponderable. 
The  point  was  forcefully  stated  by  Professor  John  Erskine  in  a 
Senior  Chapel  Address  before  the  class  of  1909 : 

"In  the  first  place,  as  alumni  you  can  give  the  College  more  of 
that  shelter,  that  seclusion,  which  her  work  demands.  In  plain 
English  you  can  remember  to  keep  your  hands  off  the  undergrad- 
uates' time.  When  your  justifiable  pride  in  the  College  leads  you 
to  ask  for  more  of  her  doings  on  the  sporting  page  of  your  Sunday 
papers,  you  can  remember  that  it  is  as  bad  for  a  college  as  for  a 
boy  to  overtax  his  strength,  and  at  your  alumni  meetings  you 
won't  clamor  for  winning  teams  at  all  costs. 

"  So  far  as  I  know  the  college  life  in  Amherst,  I  should  say  that 
the  danger  is  less  in  frivolous  conversations  after  class  than  in 
the  dreadful  pressure  upon  the  brightest  students,  which  prevents 
them  from  doing  any  thinking  at  all.  This  pressure  is  not  from 
the  curriculum,  but  from  that  false  public  opinion,  fostered  I  think 
by  the  alumni  in  most  of  our  colleges,  which  demands  that  as  many 
students  as  possible  shall  be  conspicuous,  whether  or  not  they  are 
getting  an  education.  You  know  as  well  as  I  that  there  are  men 
in  college  who  work  on  as  absolute  a  schedule  as  the  clerks  in  a 
railroad;  they  pass  from  the  recitation  to  their  duties  as  managers 
or  editors  or  actors  or  athletes,  one  man  sometimes  carrying  three 
or  four  such  interests  at  once,  until  his  only  hour  of  complete  leisure 
for  thinking  over  his  own  private  affairs  is  in  the  classroom.    .    .    . 

"It  is  customary  to  charge  this  unfortunate  condition  to  some 
modern  unideal  inheritance,  from  father  to  son;  the  trouble,  we  are 
told,  is  in  the  family.  But  the  graduates  of  our  colleges  must,  I 
think,  accept  part  of  the  blame,  since  they  could  at  least  give  the 
students  a  better  chance.  How  many  of  you  have  been  entirely 
free  to  develop  your  character  as  your  own  instincts  prompted? 
How  many  of  you  who  attained  college  honors,  did  so  because 
your  nature  turned  by  choice  to  the  wearisome  competitions  and 
the  laborious  vain-glory.'^  The  boys  who  come  here  have  the  right 
to  be  free,  to  live  out  their  own  good  impulses,  and  to  be  sheltered; 
and  it  is  your  privilege  upon  graduation  to  establish  the  public 
opinion  that  will  make  their  shelter  secure." 


104       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 

If  we  were  trying  to  persuade  a  boy  to  come  to  Amherst,  and 
could  say  to  him  one  of  two  things :  "  In  our  College  you  can  spend 
four  years  cheering  for  winning  teams,"  or  "In  our  College  you 
will  have  time  and  means  to  find  out  what  you  can  do  and  to  train 
yourself  to  do  it,"  which  would  we  choose  as  the  more  effective? 
Effective,  that  is,  on  the  type  of  man  whom  we  would  be  glad  to 
welcome  into  the  brotherhood  of  the  alumni.  Of  course,  we  would 
want  to  say  both,  but  should  we  be  willing  to  stake  the  best  inter- 
ests of  the  College  on  making  the  first  true  at  any  great  sacrifice 
of  the  second? 


LIBRI   SCRIPTI   PERSON.E 

Professor  John  M.  Tyler  was  a  member  of  the  Am- 
herst Faculty  when  Professor  Genung  joined  it,  and  with 
him  entered  the  ranks  of  the  emeriti  in  1917. 

John  Erskine,  professor  of  English  at  Columbia  and 
during  the  war  head  of  the  A.  E.  F.  university  at  Beaune, 
France,  was  from  1903  to  1909  a  teacher  in  Amherst. 

Rev.  George  Frederick  Genung  of  Brooklyn,  Conn., 
is  the  twin  brother  of  Professor  Genung. 

Robert  W.  Neal  of  M.  A.  C.  describes  the  influence  of 
Genung's  Rhetoric  on  an  outsider.  Rev.  Francis  L. 
Palmer,  '85,  and  George  S.  Bryan,  '00,  reveal  Professor 
Genung's  power  as  a  teacher  at  the  beginning  and  at  the 
full  meridian  of  his  career. 

William  L.  Corbin,  '96,  who  has  often  contributed  poems 
to  the  Quarterly,  is  professor  of  English  at  Wells  College. 

Walter  R.  Stone  writes  of  his  distinguished  classmate 
from  the  mayor's  office  of  Syracuse.  He  was  also  president 
of  the  New  York  State  Mayors'  Conference  last  year. 

Of  the  reviewers,  James  H.  Tufts,  '84,  is  professor  of 
philosophy  at  the  University  of  Chicago.  John  M.  Gaus, 
'15,  lives  at  the  South  End  House,  Boston,  where  he  is 
doing  social  research  work  for  the  state.  Professor  Gal- 
linger  next  Commencement  comes  of  age  as  an  Amherst 
teacher,  completing  then  his  twenty -first  year  in  the  history 
department . 


Alumni     Council 


105 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


ALUMNI   COUNCIL 


Last  October  the  executive  commit- 
tee of  the  Alumni  Council  sent  to 
Council  members  and  other  influential 
alumni  a  letter  which  contained  the  fol- 
lowing paragraphs: 

"Last  June  the  Board  of  Trustees 
referred  to  the  Alumni  Council  certain 
matters  for  consideration  and  report. 
One  of  these  was  the  further  develop- 
ment of  Hitchcock  Field.  \Mien  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Council 
came  to  consider  these  matters,  it  felt 
that  intelligent  answers  depended  on 
greater  information  than  the  Council 
had  as  to  the  general  plans  and  needs  of 
the  College.  It  felt,  too,  that  the  alumni 
body  as  a  whole  lacked  definite  informa- 
tion about  the  College.  In  its  campaigns 
to  raise  money  for  the  College  through 
the  alumni  fund,  the  Alumni  Council 
officers  have  observed  that  men  gave 
from  a  sense  of  "reminiscent  loyalty," 
and  not  because  they  were  really  famil- 
iar with  the  work  of  the  College  and 
believed  in  it.  The  Council  has  felt  this 
lack  of  definite  information,  also,  in  its 
endeavor  to  turn  boys  toward  Amherst. 
Here,  too,  it  was  found  that  alumni 
knew  very  little  about  the  College. 

"The  Council  realized  that  in  1921 
the  College  is  to  celebrate  the  one  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  its  founding,  an 
occasion  which  surely  will  be  marked  by 
a  renewed  interest  on  the  part  of  alumni 
in  the  cause  for  which  Amherst  stands, 
and  an  endeavor  on  their  part  to  do 
w^hatever  is  necessary  to  enable  it  the 
better  to  fulfill  its  work.  The  executive 
committee,  therefore,  decided  to  sug- 
gest informally  to  the  College  authori- 
ties that  the  Alumni  Council  hold  a 
special  meeting  in  Amherst  this  autumn, 
not  only  to  consider  the  matters  which 
had  been  referred  to  it  by  the  Trustees, 
but  more  especially  to  acquaint  the 
members  of  the  Council  as  far  as  pos- 
sible with  the  actual  work  of  the  College, 
its  plans,  its  prospects,  and  its  needs." 


It  seemed  to  be  the  general  feeling 
that  the  plan  was  a  good  one,  and  a 
meeting  in  Amherst  was  called  for  Fri- 
day, Saturday,  and  Sunday,  November 
7,  8,  and  9. 

A  large  number  of  Council  members 
reached  Amherst  on  Thursday  evening, 
and  on  Friday  morning  attended  Chapel, 
which  was  led  by  President  Meiklejohn. 
At  nine  o'clock  the  first  meeting  was 
called  to  order  in  the  Latin  room  in 
Williston  Hall  by  the  president  of  the 
Alumni  Council,  Dean  Frederick  J.  E. 
Woodbridge,  '89.  Over  sixty  Council 
members  and  other  alumni  were  present 
at  this  early  session,  and  this  number 
was  increased  to  nearly  one  hundred  as 
the  meeting  progressed.  Dean  Wood- 
bridge  stated  the  object  of  the  meeting 
and  then  invited  President  Meiklejohn 
to  address  the  Council.  The  President 
was  followed  by  Professors  Kimball, 
Hamilton,  and  Frost  who  spoke  on  be- 
half of  the  Science  Group,  the  Human- 
istic Science  Group,  and  the  Language 
and  Literature  Group  respectively.  At 
eleven  o'clock  the  formal  session  ad- 
journed, and  for  the  remainder  of  the 
morning  informal  conferences  were  held 
between  the  professors  in  the  different 
departments  of  the  College  and  small 
alumni  groups.  The  following  depart- 
ments of  the  College  were  represented: 
Ancient  Language,  Modern  Language, 
English,  the  Humanistic  Sciences, 
Mathematics,  Physics  and  Chemistry, 
Biology  and  Geology,  Music  and 
Dramatics,  Religious  Activities. 

After  the  Alumni  Council  members, 
the    Faculty,     Trustees,     and    invited 


106 


Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


alumni  had  taken  luncheon  together  in 
the  Old  Library,  President  Meiklejohn, 
Dean  Olds,  and  Mr.  Kidder  addressed 
the  Council  on  the  administration  of  the 
College,  and  conferences  were  held  with 
the  administrative  officers  of  the  College 
and  for  the  purpose  of  becoming  ac- 
quainted with  the  new  building  program, 
the  plan  for  the  publication  of  a  series  of 
"Amherst  Studies,"  and  Pratt  Health 
Cottage.  On  Friday  evening  were  held 
the  fraternity  initiations.  The  next 
morning  President  Meiklejohn,  Mr. 
Morrow,  Professor  Marsh,  Professor 
Gettell,  Professor  Nelligan,  and  Mr.  Low 
gave  addresses  on  the  Financial  Admin- 
istration of  the  College,  Physical 
Education,  Intercollegiate  Athletics, 
Athletic  Equipment,  and  Student 
Activities.  Informal  conferences  were 
then  held  with  these  different  depart- 
ments of  the  College  and  with  the  fol- 
lowing: the  committee  on  Student 
Activities,  the  Student  Council  and 
Scarab,  the  Interfraternity  Council,  the 
Christian  Association,  the  Musical  and 
Dramatic  Associations,  College  Publi- 
cations. In  each  of  these  the  activity 
was  represented  by  the  undergraduate 
officers  or  members.  At  the  close  of  the 
morning  session  the  Council  had  a  short 
business  meeting. 

Saturday  afternoon  Amherst  beat 
Wesleyan  in  an  exciting  and  remarkably 
well  played  football  game.  Saturday 
evening  the  student  body  gave  a 
"smoker"  with  capital  singing  and  some 
clever  vaudeville  acts  in  honor  of  the 
visiting  alumni.  Kenneth  B.  Low,  '20, 
president  of  the  Student  Council,  pre- 


sided, and  Dean  Frederick  J.  E.  Wood- 
bridge,  president  of  the  Alumni  Council, 
spoke  on  behalf  of  the  Council.  Dean 
Woodbridge  also  addressed  the  Chris- 
tian Association  on  Sunday  ev'ening. 
After  the  game  Saturday  afternoon 
President  and  Mrs.  Meiklejohn  received 
the  alumni,  and  on  Sunday  afternoon 
Professor  and  Mrs.  Arthur  J.  Hopkins 
were  also  at  home  to  the  visiting  alumni. 

The  program  had  been  carefully 
worked  out  by  a  joint  committee  of  the 
Faculty  and  Council  members.  The 
addresses  gave  every  alumnus  an 
opportunity  to  see  in  outline  what  the 
Faculty  educational  groups,  the  officers 
of  administration,  the  department  of 
physical  education,  the  various  athletic 
teams  and  other  student  activities  are 
doing  and  trying  to  do,  and  the  informal 
conferences  which  followed  these  ad- 
dresses gave  an  opportunity  for  frank 
and  most  interesting  discussions. 

There  seems  to  be  no  question  but 
that  the  general  results  of  the  meeting 
were  good.  Approximately  one  hundred 
influential  alumni  representing  over 
forty  different  classes  and  seven  alumni 
associations  spent  two  days  in  becoming 
acquainted  with  the  members  of  the 
Faculty  and  with  the  actual  work  of 
the  College.  As  the  Quarterly  goes 
to  press  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Council  is  drafting  a  detailed  report  of 
the  proceedings  which  will  be  sent  to 
every  alumnus,  and  the  committee  is 
meeting  with  representatives  of  the  Trus- 
tees to  decide  what  steps  had  best  be 
taken  to  carry  out  some  of  the  sugges- 
tions which  the  meeting  brought  forth. 


THE  ASSOCIATIONS 


BUFFALO 

On    November    17th,    the    Amherst 
men  of  Buffalo  gave  an  informal  dinner 


at  the  Buffalo  Consistory  to  the  Rev. 
C.  Arthur  Lincoln,  '02.  The  gathering 
was  occasioned  by   the  resignation  of 


The     Association 


107 


Mr.  Lincoln  from  his  pastorate  at  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Buffalo 
to  accept  a  charge  at  .the  Kings  Highway 
Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn, 
N.Y.,  efiFective  December  1,  1919. 

AN    INVITATION    FROM    CHICAGO 

The  pot  is  boiling  in  Chicago! 
Can't  you  hear  that  growing  rumble  of 
things  happening — that  hissing  of  the 
steam  of  enthusiasm?  There's  a  gather- 
ing force  that  reaches  from  Minneap- 
olis to  the  Coast,  to  Denver,  to  St. 
Louis,  to  Washington,  to  New  York,  to 
Boston,  to  Ohio,  to  Michigan,  and  back 
to  Chicago — a  power  generated  in  all 
that  area  that  is  to  go  over  the  top  with 
the  greatest  Amherst  gathering  ever 
held  in  the  West!  Come,  ye  loyal  sons 
of  Lord  Jeff — come  ye  to  Chicago — 
April  16th  and  17th.  Come  on  East — 
show  the  West!  Oh,  come  you  West- 
erners— show  the  Easterners ! 

NEW    YORK 

The  younger  alumni  in  New  York 
have  organized  and  plan  to  hold  several 
meetings  during  the  year.  The  first 
was  a  dinner  held  at  the  Hotel  McAlpin 
on  Friday  evening,  October  24th,  to  stir 


up  enthusiasm  for  the  game  with  Colum- 
bia on  the  following  day.  About  100 
alumni,  mostly  from  the  classes  of  1917, 
1918,  and  1919,  were  present.  Morti- 
mer Eisner  of  1917  acted  as  toastmaster 
and  Augustus  W.  Bennet,  '18,  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  in  charge.  The 
speakers  included  Professor  Gettell, 
Dean  Harlan  F.  Stone,  '94,  of  the  Colum- 
bia Law  School,  Strahan,  '14,  and  Eric 
Marks,  '17.  An  impromptu  quartet, 
composed  of  Craig,  Low,  and  Jessup  of 
1917,  and  Warren  of  1918,  performed 
very  creditably.  At  the  second  dinner, 
on  November  13th,  several  new  faces 
appeared,  members  of  1915  and  1916 
being  present  also.  This  dinner  was  at 
La  Maisonette,  and  the  principal  ad- 
dress of  the  evening  was  made  by 
Lucius  R.  Eastman  of  1895.  A  third 
dinner  was  scheduled  for  an  early  date 
in  January. 

BOSTON 

On  November  12,  1919,  the  Boston 
alumni  held  a  smoker  at  the  Boston 
City  Club.  The  entertainment  by 
Roland  A.  Wood,  '20,  whose  little  act 
put  the  audience  in  an  uproar,  was  one 
of  the  main  features.  Jason  N.  Pierce, 
'02,  gave  a  very  interesting  talk. 


SINCE  THE  LAST  ISSUE 


1856. — Professor  Charles  Henry 
Hitchcock,  on  November  7,  1919,  at 
Honolulu,  Hawaii,  aged  83  years. 

1859.— George  Brown  Knapp,  on 
December  21,  1919,  at  Auburndale, 
Mass.,  aged  83  years. 

1861. — Rev.  Benjamin  Franklin  Ham- 
ilton, on  December  13,  1919,  at  West 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  aged  84  years. 

1862. — Rev.  Charles  M.  Perry,  on 
December  4,  1919,  at  Ellington,  Conn., 
aged  80  years. 

1865. — Dr.  Joseph  Henry  Sawyer,  on 
November  5,  1919,  at  Easthampton, 
Mass.,  aged  77  years. 


1872. — Rev.  George  Larkin  Clark,  on 
October  28,  1919,  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  aged 
70  years. 

1874. — Professor  John  Tappan  Stod- 
dard, on  December  9,  1919,  at  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  aged  67  years. 

1877. — Joseph  Converse  Gray,  on 
October  14,  1919,  at  Boston,  Mass., 
aged  64  years. 

1878. — Professor  Edward  Ayres,  on 
December  16,  1919,  at  Lafayette,  Ind., 
aged  62  years. 

1879. — Frederick  Dwight  Kellogg,  on 
November  19,  1919,  at  Amherst,  Mass., 
aged  64  years. 


108      Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


1879. — Dr.  Hiram  Henry  Seelye,  on 
November  3,  1919,  at  Daytona,  Fla., 
aged  63  years. 

1880. — Rev.  Sidney  Augustus  Burn- 
aby,  on  October  26,  1919,  at  Spencer, 
Mass.,  aged  68  years. 

1881. — John  Van  Beuren  Scarborough, 
on  November  4,  1919,  at  Cincinnati,  O., 
aged  60  years. 

1883. — George  M.  Trowbridge,  on 
November  29,  1919,  at  Portland,  Ore., 
aged  60  years. 

1890. — Rev.  Walter  Reynolds  Bart- 
lett,  on  December  1,  1919,  at  Brain  tree, 
Mass.,  aged  52  years. 

1898. — Howard  Hill  Mossman,  on 
November  21,  1919,  at  New  York  City. 

1899.— Ralph  W.  Smith,  on  Decem- 
ber 1,  1919,  at  St.  Joseph,  Mich.,  aged 
42  years. 

1905. — Harold  Frederic  Coggeshall, 
on  November  12,  1919,  at  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  aged  36  years. 

1916.— William  Howard  Tow,  on 
December  21,  1919,  at  New  York  City, 
aged  26  years. 

MARRIED 

1897.— At  Newark,  N.  J.,  on  October 
15,  1919,  Walter  S.  Frisbee  and  Miss 
Florence  Disbrow. 

1897. — At  Marseilles,  France,  on  Sep- 
tember, 18, 1919,  Rev.  Alexander  Ham- 
ilton Backus  and  Mile.  Juliette  Blattes. 

1905.— At  New  York  City,  on  No- 
vember 11,  1919,  Ernest  Alpers  and  Miss 
Margaret  Bracken. 

1908.— At  Denver,  Col.,  on  October 
22,  1919,  Gilbert  Weed  Benedict  and 
Mrs.  Margaret  D.  Hargis. 

1910.— At  Guilford,  Conn.,  on  Octo- 
ber 18,  1919,  Robert  A.  Hardy  and  Miss 
Ruth  Howard. 

1913. — At  Chicago,  111.,  on  Septem- 
ber 30,  1919,  Robert  I.  Stout  and  Miss 
Anna  Louise  Wallace. 

1914. — At  New  Haven,  Conn.,  on 
November  5, 1919,  Dr.  Hallock  Luce  and 
Miss  Mary  Alice  Pratt. 

1915. — At  Cambridge,  Mass.,  on 
October  11,  1919,  David  S.  Cutler  and 
Miss  Hazel  Wavle. 

1915. — AtLancaster,  Ohio,  on  Novem- 
ber 15,  1919,  Lawrence  E.  Goeller  and 
Miss  Hazel  Wadsworth. 


1915. — At  Niles,  Mich.,  on  November 
8,  1919,  Edwin  H.  Konold  and  Miss 
Dorothy  E.  Jefferson. 

1916.— At  Greenfield,  Mass.,  on  De- 
cember 24,  1919,  Edwin  H.  Goodridge 
and  Miss  Alice  E.  Coates. 

1917.— At  New  York  City,  on  Octo- 
ber 22,  1919,  Myers  Elliott  Baker  and 
Miss  Maria  M.  Osborne. 

1918.— At  Katonah,  N.  Y.,  on  No- 
vember 1,  1919,  Harry  F.  WTieeler  and 
Miss  Eleanor  Todd. 

1918.— At  Fairmont,  W.  Va.,  on 
December  3,  1919,  Harry  K.  Grainger 
and  Miss  Louise  Virginia  Hite. 

1918.— At  New  York  City,  on  Octo- 
ber 24,  1919,  Andrew  R.  Morehouse  and 
Miss  Dorothea  Thomas. 

1919.— At  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  on  Octo- 
ber 8,  1919,  Frederick  E.  Mygatt  and 
Miss  Helen  Louise  Terry. 


1894. — Ruth  Bartlett,  on  November 
18,  1919,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Warren  T.  Bartlett  of  North  Brookfield, 
Mass. 

1903. — Ruth  Wentworth  Cadieirx,  on 
October  4,  1919,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Louis  E.  Cadieux  of  Belmont,  Mass. 

1903.— WilliamFitts  Warren,  on  Octo- 
ber 11,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clif- 
ford P.  Warren  of  Boston,  Mass. 

1905. — Tyler  Alexander  Hopkins,  on 
September  28,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  T.  Hopkins  of  Jamaica,  N.  Y. 

1905. — William  H.  Patch,  on  Septem- 
ber 28,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ralph  S.  Patch  of  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

1905. — Christ  abel  Grover,  on  Decem- 
ber 25,  1919,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Harry  G.  Grover  of  Rutherford,  N.  J. 

1908. — Jane  Zinsmaster,  on  October 
10,  1919,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.W. 
Zinsmaster  of  Duluth,  Minn. 

1909. — Chipman  Woodard  Cunning- 
ham, on  November  24,  1919,  son  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kenneth  C.  Cunningham 
of  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

1909. — Frederic  Harrington  Butts,  on 
December  4,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
F.  Marsena  Butts  of  Newtonville,  Mass. 

1911.— A  son,  on  October  29,  1919, 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hylton  L.  Bravo  of 
Phillips  Beach,  Mass. 


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1913.— Milliard  Proctor,  Jr.,  on  No- 
vember 19,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hilliard  A.  Proctor  of  New  Britain, 
Conn. 

1913. — Samuel  Parkes  Cadman,  2nd, 
in  September,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frederick  Leslie  Cadman  of  Brooklyn, 
N.Y. 

1915. — John  J.  Atwater,  Jr.,  on  June 
3,  1919  (not  previously  recorded),  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  J.  Atwater  of 
Bluefields,  W.  Va. 


1915. — Dorothy  Bennett,  on  July  23, 
1919  (not  previously  recorded),  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oliver  B.  Bennett  of 
Mapleton,  Iowa. 

1915. — Robert  Lockwood  Seaman,  on 
June  25,  1919  (not  previously  recorded), 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  L.  Seaman 
of  New  York. 

1916. — John  Hutchins  Reber,  on 
September  22,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  U.  Reber  of  New  Rochelle, 
N.Y. 


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1856 

Prof.  Charles  Henry  Hitchcock,  noted 
geologist  and  son  of  Dr.  Edward  Hitch- 
cock, the  third  president  of  Amherst 
College,  and  Orra  (White)  Hitchcock, 
died  on  November  7,  1919,  at  his 
home  in  Honolulu,  Hawaii,  at  the  age 
of  83. 

Professor  Hitchcock  was  also  a 
brother  of  the  late  Dr.  Edward  Hitch- 
cock, who  was  known  and  loved  by  all 
Amherst  men  as  "Old  Doc."  He  was 
for  forty  years  professor  of  geology 
and  mineralogy  at  Dartmouth  College. 
He  was  born  in  Amherst,  on  August  23, 
1836,  prepared  for  college  at  Williston 
Seminary,  and  after  graduating  from 
Amherst  in  1856  studied  for  one  year  at 
Yale  Theological  Seminary  and  later 
at  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1861. 

He  did  not  enter  the  ministry,  how- 
ever, but  became  assistant  geologist  in 
the  survey  of  Vermont  and  lecturer  on 
zoology  at  Amherst  from  1858  to  1864. 
He  was  also  director  of  the  Maine 
Geological  Survey  from  1861  to  1862. 
At  the  close  of  the  Civil  War  he  went  to 
London  where  he  studied  at  the  Royal 
School  of  Mines  and  did  research  work 
at  the  British  Museum.  On  his  return 
to  this  country  his  connection  with 
Dartmouth  College  began.     At  about 


the  same  time,  Professor  Hitchcock 
served  as  mineralogist  of  New  York 
State  and  for  five  years  was  director  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Geological  Survey. 
He  lectured  at  Lafayette  College  for 
four  years  and  at  Mt.  Holyoke  College 
from  1870  to  1896,  this  in  addition  to 
his  work  at  Dartmouth.  He  was  state 
geologist  for  Maine,  New  Hampshire, 
and  Vermont,  and  was  recognized  as  one 
of  the  leading  authorities  on  geology  in 
America. 

In  the  winter  of  1871  he  headed  an 
expedition  which  occupied  Mt.  Wash- 
ington in  New  Hampshire,  accomplish- 
ing the  first  high  mountain  observatory 
in  the  country.  Several  geological  maps 
of  the  LTnited  States  were  compiled  by 
him  for  researches  in  ichnology,  geology 
of  the  crystalline  schists,  and  glacial 
geology.  He  was  a  founder  and  former 
vice-president  of  the  Geological  Society 
of  America,  a  member  of  the  Interna- 
tional Geological  Congress  in  1877, 
member  of  the  American  Philosophical 
Society  and  several  other  scientific  or- 
ganizations. He  was  the  author  of  vari- 
ous geological  reports  and  nearly  150 
scientific  papers.  One  of  his  last  tasks 
was  performed  after  he  went  to  Hawaii, 
when  he  prepared  a  careful  report  of  the 
volcanoes  there,  which  was  published 
under    the    title    of    "Hawaii    and    Its 


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Volcanoes."      He   had   been   in   failing 
health  for  some  years. 

Professor  Hitchcock  was  married  on 
June  19,  1862,  to  Martha  Bliss,  daugh- 
ter of  Prof.  Elijah  Porter  Barrows, 
D.D.,  of  Andover.  There  are  five 
children. 

1859 

James  H.  Newton  of  Holyoke  re- 
cently at  the  age  of  88  underwent  an 
operation  for  appendicitis.  The  opera- 
tion was  successful.  The  City  National 
Bank  of  Holyoke,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  founders,  lately  celebrated  its 
fortieth  anniversary. 

George  Brown  Knapp  died  suddenly 
on  December  21st  at  his  home  in  Au- 
burndale,  Mass.;  aged  83  years.  He  had 
been  a  resident  of  Auburndale  for  fifty 
years. 

Mr.  Knapp  was  born  at  St.  Johns- 
bury,  Vt.,  on  April  9,  1836,  the  son  of 
Hiram  and  Sophronia  (Brown)  Knapp, 
and  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Johns- 
bury  Academy  and  Phillips  Andover 
Academy.  After  graduating  from 
Amherst  he  entered  the  counting  house 
of  Gardner  Brewer,  the  well-known 
Boston  merchant,  soon  became  his 
private  secretary,  and  after  Mr.  Brew- 
er's death  was  for  many  years  the  con- 
fidential manager  of  his  large  estate. 

He  was  a  devoted  friend  of  PhiUips 
Andover  and  its  oldest  trustee,  having 
been  elected  to  that  office  in  1899.  His 
lasting  memorial  there  is  Brothers 
Field,  the  athletic  grounds,  given  by 
him  in  the  joint  name  of  himself  and 
brother,  the  late  Arthur  Mason  Knapp. 
He  was  also  a  benefactor  of  Berea  Col- 
lege in  Kentucky  and  a  most  generous 
contributor  to  the  work  of  many  Bos- 
ton charities.  He  was  a  member  of  St. 
John's  lodge  of  Masons,  the  Bostonian 
Society,  and  the  New  England  His- 
toric-Genealogical Society. 


Mr.  Knapp  was  married  in  1862  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  D.  Story,  who  died  in 
1915.     He  leaves  no  immediate  family. 

1861 

Rev.  Edwin  A.  Adams,  Secretary, 
854  Lakeside  PL,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  Benjamin  Franklin  Hamilton, 
D.D.,  died  in  his  85th  year,  on  Saturday, 
December  13,  1919,  at  his  home  in  West 
Roxbury,  Mass.  He  was  for  a  long 
period  active  prominently  in  the  Con- 
gregational ministry.  His  last  regular 
pastorate  was  at  the  Eliot  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Roxbury,  which  he 
resigned  after  twenty-five  years'  con- 
tinuous service.  He  had  been  gradually 
failing  in  health  and  strength  for  some 
time.  Funeral  services  were  conducted 
by  the  Rev.  Edwin  H.  Byington,  '83. 

Dr.  Hamilton  was  born  in  Chester, 
Mass.,  on  November  4,  1835,  son  of 
John  Hamilton,  3rd,  and  Sarah  (Biu-- 
ton)  Hamilton.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  Williston  Seminary.  He  graduated 
from  Amherst  in  1861,  and  was  awarded 
the  degree  of  D.D.  at  his  Alma  Mater 
in  1886.  He  graduated  from  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  in  1864,  and  be- 
came pastor  at  North  Andover  in  1865, 
where  he  remained  until  1871,  when  he 
was  called  to  Roxbury.  He  continued 
there  until  1897.  Since  then  he  had 
supplied  various  pulpits  temporarily. 

In  other  activities  Dr.  Hamilton 
served  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
in  the  Civil  War  as  field  agent  of  the 
Christian  commission.  In  1893  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  Evangelical 
alliance  of  Boston  and  vicinity,  and  for 
twenty  years  or  more  was  secretary  of 
the  Massachusetts  convention  of  Con- 
gregational ministers.  He  also  served 
as  officer  in  various  church  and  benevo- 
lent organizations.  Many  of  Dr.  Ham- 
ilton's sermons  have  been  published  in 
the  form  of  brochures. 


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He  was  married  on  June  21,  1876,  in 
Boston,  to  Angenette  F.  Tinkham,  who 
died  December  8,  1913.  He  is  sm-vived 
by  two  children  and  one  grandson.  He 
is  also  sm-vived  by  two  brothers,  Rev. 
Dr.  John  Hamilton,  '53,  of  Cambridge, 
who  reached  the  age  of  90  on  December 
8th,  and  the  Rev.  H.  H.  Hamilton,  '68, 
of  Somerville,  and  by  one  sister,  Mrs. 
Louise  Cooss  of  Burnt  Hills,  N.  Y.,  who 
is  97  years  old. 

1862 

Rev.  Calvin  Stebbins,  Secretary, 
Framingham  Centre,  Mass. 

A  biography  of  the  late  Henry  Hill 
Goodell  has  been  written  by  his  class- 
mate, Calvin  Stebbins.  Dr.  Goodell 
was  the  son  of  a  famous  missionary,  was 
educated  at  Amherst,  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Civil  War,  and  served  for  almost 
forty  years  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  as  teacher  and  president 
of  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Col- 
lege. 

Rev.  Cyrus  M.  Perry,  chaplain  of  the 
old  24th  New  York  Cavalry  and  a  re- 
tired Congregational  minister,  died  on 
December  4th  at  his  home  in  Ellington, 
Conn.,  as  a  result  of  a  shock.  He  was 
80  years  old. 

He  was  born  in  Holden,  Mass.,  and 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Howe  School 
at  Billerica  and  at  Leicester  Academy. 
He  studied  for  the  ministry  at  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  He  enlisted  in 
the  army  in  1864  as  an  agent  of  the 
United  States  sanitary  commission  and 
was  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac 
when  he  became  chaplain  of  the  old 
24th  New  York  Cavalry.  After  the  war 
he  began  his  work  as  a  regular  clergy- 
man and  held  pastorates  at  North  Gage, 
N.  Y.,  Jordan,  N.  Y.,  Southwick,  Mass., 
Pembroke,  N.  H.,  Concord,  N.  H., 
Slaterville,  R.  I.,  South  Brewer,  Me., 
Keene  Valley,  N.  Y.,  and  Bolton,  Conn., 
4 


where  he  remained  for  eleven  years, 
preaching  his  last  sermon  on  September 
26,  1909,  and  then  retired  after  forty- 
five  years  in  the  ministry. 

Mr.  Perry  was  married  in  1858  to 
Miss  Sarah  A.  Johnson.  In  his  early 
years  he  travelled  extensively  in  Europe 
and  the  Holy  Land,  and  again  in  1904, 
he  went  to  Jerusalem  to  attend  the 
international  Sunday  School  conven- 
tion. He  was  active  in  his  town  and  in 
schools  and  served  as  secretary  of  the 
Bolton  School  committee.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife  and  two  adopted 
children. 

Lucinda  M.  Beebe,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
Calvin  Stebbins,  died  on  December 
11th,  at  her  home  in  Framingham 
Centre,  Mass. 

1863 

Hon.  Edward  W.   Chapin,   Secretary, 

181  Elm  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Louisa  W.  B.  Merrill,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  James  G.  Merrill,  died  on  October 
16th  at  the  home  of  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
C.  S.  McFarland,  at  Mountain  Lake, 
N.  J.  She  was  in  her  80th  year  and 
had  been  married  to  Dr.  Merrill  for 
fifty-three  years.  She  leaves  her  hus- 
band, two  sons,  and  a  daughter,  eight 
grandsons,  and  two  granddaughters. 

1865 

Prof.  B.  K.  Emerson,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Dr.  Joseph  Henry  Sawyer,  who  re- 
signed as  principal  of  Williston  Semi- 
nary last  June  after  having  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Faculty  for  fifty-four  years 
and  head  of  the  school  for  twenty-three 
years,  died  on  Wednesday,  November 
5th,  at  his  home  in  Easthampton. 

He  was  born  in  Davenport,  N.  Y., 
May  29,  1842,  the  son  of  Henry  and 
Margaret  (Multer)  Sawyer,  and  pre- 
pared for  college  at  the  Delaware  Lit- 


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erary  Institute  in  Franklin,  N.  Y.  At 
Amherst  he  joined  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
fraternity.  On  graduation  he  taught 
for  one  year  at  Monson  Academy  and 
then,  in  1866,  came  to  Williston  as 
teacher  of  mathematics  and  mental 
science.  He  was  made  principal  in 
1896. 

Dr.  Sawyer's  activities  in  many  so- 
cieties and  organizations  testify  to  the 
breadth  of  his  interests  and  his  willing- 
ness to  serve.  For  years  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Easthampton  school  com- 
mittee and  also  of  the  board  of  sewer 
commissioners.  He  was  also  president 
of  the  Village  Improvement  Society  and 
of  the  Easthampton  Library  Associa- 
tion. He  was  a  former  president  of 
the  Connecticut  Valley  Congregational 
Club,  a  trustee  of  the  American  Inter- 
national College  in  Springfield,  presi- 
dent of  the  Headmaster's  Association  of 
the  U.  S.,  member  of  the  American  Phil- 
osophical Association,  the  American 
Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science, 
and  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

He  was  married  on  June  29,  1870,  to 
Miss  Sarah  W.  Beekman,  who  survives 
him.  Dr.  Sawyer  was  a  frequent  visitor 
at  Amherst. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  E.  Babb  and  Mrs. 
Babb  of  Holden,  Mass.,  celebrated  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  their  marriage  on 
September  27th  and  28th.  They  were 
married  in  Bangor,  Me.,  September  28, 
1869. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carlton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  Amherst  College  library  recently 
received  a  gift  of  fifty  or  sixty  books 
from  the  widow  of  Prof.  H.  Humphrey 
Neill.  Professor  Neill  was  of  the  class 
of  1866,  and  later  became  professor  of 
English  literature  at  Amherst.  The 
books  are  standard  editions  of  Byron, 


Co\A-per,  Coleridge,  DeQuincey,  Dryden, 
Johnson,  Hazlitt,  Pope,  Spenser,  and 
Swift,  and  will  be  placed  in  the  English 
seminar  room. 

1869 
William  R.  Browtt,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
17  State  St.,  New  York  City. 
Mrs.  Mary  Lincoln  Richardson, 
widow  of  the  late  Prof.  Henry  Bullard 
Richardson  of  Amherst  College,  who 
was  one  of  the  most  popular  members 
of  the  Amherst  Faculty,  died  on  Thurs- 
day, December  18th,  at  the  home  of 
her  daughter,  Mrs.  Herman  Babson,  at 
West  Lafayette,  Ind.  Her  father  was 
Rufus  S.  Lincoln  of  Amherst  and  her 
brother  was  Dr.  Rufus  Pratt  Lincoln,  a 
noted  throat  specialist  in  New  York. 
She  leaves  three  children,  Mary  L.,  wife 
of  the  Rev.  John  Reid,  '96,  of  Franklin, 
Mass.;  Carrie  A.,  wife  of  Prof.  Herman 
Babson,  '93,  of  Purdue  University;  and 
Henry  S.  Richardson,  '04,  of  the  fed- 
eral board  for  N'ocational  reeducation 
in  Boston;  and  one  grandson,  Lincoln 
Reid. 

1871 

Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary, 
623  West  113th  St.,  New  York  City. 
To  the  members  of  '71,  particularly 
to  those  who  knew  Anson  Morse  at  all 
well  (so  to  know  him  was  to  love  him), 
and  to  the  later  Amherst  men  whose 
privilege  it  was  to  study  under  him,  the 
publication  of  a  volume  of  his  essays 
brings  great  satisfaction.  His  wife,  sons, 
and  daughter-in-law  in  collecting  and 
editing,  and  Ginn  and  Company  in  pub- 
lishing these  papers  under  the  title, 
"  Civilization  and  the  World  War,"  have 
conferred  a  benefit  on  all  who  read 
them.  There  should  be  many  such. 
The  large  view  of  questions  involved, 
the  fair-mindedness,  the  spirit  of  sweet 
reasonableness  that  was  always  his,  and 
withal    the    moral   vision   exhibited   in 


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these  papers  make  them  valuable,  espe- 
cially in  times  of  such  emotional  dis- 
turbance as  are  these.  Take  for  exam- 
ple the  essay  on  The  Relations  of  War 
and  Peace  to  Civilization,  in  which  one 
finds  an  admirable  statement  of  war's 
positive  contributions  to  civilization, 
and  yet  a  vision  that  penetrates  beyond 
its  praiseworthy  heroisms  to  its  ultimate 
destructiveness.  Another  discussion, 
that  entitled  America  and  Germany, 
reveals  clearly  the  proper  limits  of  the 
neutrality  of  America  in  the  World  War. 
A  just  criticism  is  made  of  President 
Wilson's  call  to  an  impossible  mental, 
and  thus  moral  neutrality  in  Ameri- 
cans, whose  moral  idealism  was  shocked 
by  Germany's  purposes  and  methods. 
And  yet  there  is  not  the  slightest  evi- 
dence of  that  carping,  pernicious  criti- 
cism of  the  President,  with  which  in 
these  days  we  are  only  too  familiar. 
The  fervor  of  Morse's  moral  condemna- 
tion of  Germany  is  hot,  but  the  light  in 
which  he  sees  remains  white  and  clear. 
Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary,  '71. 

Judge  William  H.  Moore  was  the 
biggest  winner  at  the  annual  Horse 
Show  held  at  the  Madison  Square  Gar- 
den in  New  York  in  November,  with 
twenty-seven  first  prizes,  including 
championships  won  on  the  final  day. 
His  nearest  competitor  secured  seven- 
teen blue  ribbons. 

The  Rev.  George  M.  Howe  is  to 
make  his  home  at  Brunswick,  Me.  He 
retired  as  pastor  at  Groton  on  October 
5th,  after  a  service  of  about  eighteen 
years. 

1872 

Lyman  M.  P.vixe,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
4224  Langley  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

The  Rev.  George  Larkin  Clark,  one  of 
the  best  known  clergymen  in  the  state 
of  Connecticut  and  secretary  of  the 
class  of  1872,  died  of  apoplexy  at  Buf- 


falo, N.  Y.,  on  October  28th.  He  was 
returning  to  his  home  in  Wethersfield, 
Conn.,  from  the  Congregational  Na- 
tional Council  at  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., 
accompanied  b\'  the  Rev.  Alden  Clark, 
'00,  of  Boston,  a  son  of  his  classmate. 
Prof.  John  B.  Clark  of  Columbia  Uni- 
versity. He  had  visited  upon  his  west- 
ern trip,  his  classmates  Harry  S.  Ste- 
vens and  Paine,  2d,  in  Chicago,  Hon. 
John  W.  McElhinney  in  Clayton,  Mo., 
and  the  Rev.  David  L.  Holbrook  in 
Ripon,  W'is. 

Mr.  Clark  was  born  in  Tewksbury, 
Mass.,  August  16,  1849,  the  son  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  R.  (Trull)  Clark.  He 
attended  Yale  Divinity  School  two  years 
and  was  graduated  from  Union  Theolog- 
ical Seminary  in  1876,  and  married  in 
the  same  year  Miss  Emma  F.  Kimball, 
daughter  of  David  F.  and  Harriet  H. 
(W^ebster)  Kimball.  Mrs.  Clark  died 
March  22,  1912.  His  pastorates  were  at 
Shelburne,  Mass.,  eight  years;  Westerly, 
R.  I.,  four  years;  Farmington,  Conn., 
twelve  years;  and  Wethersfield,  Conn., 
nineteen  years.  He  assisted  Wethers- 
field in  obtaining  a  fund  for  a  new 
library  and  was  active  in  the  Grange, 
the  Business  Men's  Association,  the 
Army  and  Navy-  Club,  and  the  Red 
Cross.  It  was  his  custom  to  visit  every 
room  in  every  school  in  town  once  or 
twice  each  year.  A  group  of  boys  called 
Knights  of  King  Arthur  met  at  his 
house  each  week  for  study  and  play. 
He  was  well  known  throughout  the 
State,  and  was  elected  president  of  the 
Connecticut  Congregational  Club. 

His  publications  were  characteristic  of 
the  man.  They  showed  him  to  be  an 
artist,  a  humorist,  a  Christian  gentle- 
man, and  a  scholar.  "Notions  of  a 
Yankee  Parson"  was  published  in  1910; 
"Silas  Deane"  in  1912;  and  his  mag- 
num opus,  "The  History  of  Connecti- 
cut," in  1914.    A  volume  depicting  life 


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in  New  England  during  the  post-Revo- 
lution period  was  nearlj'  ready  for  pub- 
lication at  his  death.  He  is  survived  by 
four  children  and  nine  grandchildren. 

Hon.  Loranus  E.  Hitchcock  of  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  president  of  the  class,  has 
appointed  Mr.  Lyman  M.  Paine  to  be 
class  secretary  in  place  of  the  Rev. 
George  L.  Clark,  deceased. 

1874 

Elihxt  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary. 
15  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

During  the  recent  visit  of  the  Prince 
of  Wales,  the  Speaker  and  Mrs.  Fred- 
erick H.  Gillett  tendered  him  a  dance  at 
the  Country  Club  at  Grassland,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  The  dance  was  attended 
by  the  Speaker  and  Mrs.  Gillett,  Con- 
gressman and  Mrs.  Nicholas  Long- 
worth,  and  about  fifty  young  people 
who  had  been  assembled  in  honor  of 
the  Prince  and  his  suite.  It  proved  to 
be  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  functions 
he  attended  while  in  this  country.  He 
threw  aside  all  formality  for  the  time 
and,  according  to  the  reports,  danced 
and  chatted  with  the  young  people  as  if 
he  had  known  them  all  his  life.  It  is 
said  that  His  Royal  Highness  did  not 
miss  a  single  dance. 

Prof.  John  Tappan  Stoddard,  senior 
member  of  the  Smith  College  Faculty 
and  head  of  the  department  of  chem- 
istry and  a  noted  authority  on  chem- 
istry, died  at  his  home  in  Northampton 
on  December  9th,  of  heart  disease.  He 
had  not  been  in  good  health  for  several 
weeks,  but  had  not  given  up  his  college 
work. 

He  was  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Solomon 
Stoddard,  a  famous  early  Northampton 
minister.  His  grandfather,  also  named 
Solomon  Stoddard,  was  clerk  of  the 
Northampton  courts.  The  Tappans 
were  a  prominent  family  of  Northamp- 


ton merchants.  Professor  Stoddard's 
father  was  William  Henry  Stoddard  of 
Northampton  and  his  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  Humphrey  of  South- 
wick.  He  was  born  in  Northampton, 
October  20,  1852,  and  graduated  from 
Amherst  College  in  1874.  In  1875  he 
was  assistant  principal  of  the  North- 
ampton High  School,  and  the  follow- 
ing two  years  studied  chemistry  in 
the  University  of  Gbttingen,  Ger- 
many, from  which  he  received  the 
degree  of  Ph.D. 

Professor  Stoddard's  connection  with 
Smith  College  began  in  1878,  when  he 
was  appointed  instructor  in  physics  and 
mathematics,  and  he  has  been  head  of 
the  department  of  chemistry  since  1897. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Deutsche 
Chemische  Gesellschaft  and  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society.  His  books 
include  "Outline  of  Qualitative  Experi- 
ments in  General  Chemistry,"  "Lecture 
Notes  on  General  Chemistry,"  "Quanti- 
tative Experiments  in  General  Chemis- 
try," and  "Introduction  to  General 
Chemistry."  He  had  been  a  contrib- 
utor of  scientific  articles  to  reviews, 
encyclopedias,  and  magazines.  Another 
book  of  Professor  Stoddard's  recalls  his 
membership  in  the  Northampton  Club, 
— a  book  on  the  science  of  billiards,  of 
which  it  has  been  said  it  afforded  "de- 
lightful glimpses  of  the  author  as  a 
gentleman  and  scholar."  Professor  Stod- 
dard was  a  member  of  St.  Botolph's 
Club  of  Boston.  He  won  considerable 
recognition  among  those  interested  in 
photography  and  from  the  general 
public  by  his  successful  experiments 
in  composite  photography,  among 
which  were  composite  photographs  of 
the  members  of  graduating  classes  at 
leading  colleges. 

Professor  Stoddard  married,  June  26, 
1879,  Mary  Grover  Leavitt,  daughter 
of  Dr.  William  S.  Leavitt,  pastor  of  the 


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Northampton  First  Church,  who  with 
three  children  survives  him. 

1875 

Prof.  A.  D.  F.  Hamlix,  Secretary, 

105  Morningside  Ave.,  New  York  City, 

Prof.  A.  D.  F.  Hamlin  of  Columbia 
University  was  honored  on  December 
8th  when  the  Cross  of  the  Order  of 
George  the  First  was  bestowed  upon 
him  as  one  of  six  members  of  the  relief 
committee  for  Greeks  in  Asia  Minor. 
The  decorations  were  awarded  by  King 
Alexander  of  Greece  and  were  con- 
ferred by  the  Hon.  George  Roussos, 
Greek  ambassador  to  the  United  States. 
The  decorations  are  given  in  apprecia- 
tion of  the  work  done  by  the  six  men  to 
whom  the  award  was  made,  in  aiding 
the  Greeks  who  suffered  as  a  result  of 
Tiurkish  deportations  in  Asia  Minor. 

F.  E.  Adams,  reported  some  months 
ago  as  fatally  injured  in  Pomona,  Cal., 
considers  that  the  report  was  grievously 
unfair.    He  is  alive  and  well  at  Pomona. 

Dr.  S.  D.  Brooks  has  retired  from 
active  service  in  the  Marine  Hospital 
Corps,  and  is  living  at  602  Carondelet 
St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

W.  B.  Sawyer  died  at  his  home  in 
Riverside,  Cal.,  during  the  last  sum- 
mer. Further  particulars  have  not  been 
received. 

Rev.  A.  F.  Skeele  is  cultivating  a 
small  fruit  ranch  in  Southern  California. 
His  address  is  225  Monroe  PL,  Mon- 
rovia, Cal. 

The  death  of  Rev.  E.  S.  Tead,  which 
occurred  in  Jamaica  Plain  last  summer, 
was  the  subject  of  an  extended  notice 
in  the  Congregationalist  and  Advance  of 
September  20th. 

Lindley  Vinton  may  be  addres.sed  at 
435  Central  Park  West,  New  York  City. 


1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 

299  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

George  A.  Plimpton  is  a  member  of 

the   citizens'   committee  appointed  by 

the  Merchants'  Association  to  conduct 

the  traction  inquiry  and  seek  a  solution 

of  the  financial  problems  involved. 

Rev.  Henry  H.  Kelsey  is  leader  of 
the  Pacific  Coast  drive  for  the  Pilgrim 
Memorial  Fund. 

John  B.  Stanchfield  is  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  newly  organized  Navy 
Legal  Aid  Association. 

1877 

Rev.  Alfred  D.  Mason,  Secretary, 

222  Garfield  PL,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Collin  Armstrong  has  been  appointed 

national  chairman  of  the  committee  on 

newspapers  of  the  American  Association 

of  Advertising  Agencies. 

The  following  tribute  to  the. late  J. 
Converse  Gray  is  contained  in  the  Con- 
gregationalist and  Advance  for  December 
11th: 

"To  have  served  the  Old  South 
Church  of  Boston  as  its  clerk  for  a 
longer  term  than  any  of  his  predecessors 
is  to  hold  high  honor  in  Congregational- 
ism. At  his  death,  on  October  14th, 
Mr.  Gray  had  given  twenty-four  years 
to  that  office.  He  had  previously  been 
the  assistant  clerk  for  six  years.  Few 
men  are  qualified  to  serve  so  well.  His 
records  are  of  great  value,  complete, 
admirably  kept.  The  same  qualities 
shone  forth  in  all  that  made  up  his  life. 
A  capable  and  conscientious  lawyer, 
trustee,  man  of  affairs,  director  and  ad- 
viser at  meetings  in  the  Congregational 
House,  he  spared  neither  time  nor  pains 
in  giving  to  all  duties  the  best  that  was 
in  him  to  give. 

"He  loved  his  work,  the  sea,  his  col- 
lege, his  college  fraternity,  his  friends, 
his  family.  His  going  leaves  a  wide  gap 
in  the  ranks  of  the  Amherst  class  of 
1877.  He  did  not  recover  from  the 
effects  of  a  seemingly  minor  surgical  op- 


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eration  done  in  September,  and  never 
left  the  hospital.  His  wife,  a  daughter, 
one  sister,  three  grandsons,  survive  him. 
At  the  service  in  his  house,  filled  with 
friends,  neighbors,  and  his  college  asso- 
ciates. Dr.  Gordon  paid  a  rare  tribute 
to  the  man  with  whom  his  own  life  in 
Boston  had  from  the  outset  been  so  in- 
timately and  delightfully  associated." 

The  Board  of  Regents  of  the  State  of 
New  York  has  recently  presented  the 
gold  medal  of  the  Society  for  the  Pro- 
tection of  Wild  Life  to  Director  John  M. 
Clarke  of  the  State  Museum  at  Albany. 
This  medal  is  awarded  only  for  large 
results  actually  achieved  in  practical 
wild  life  protection. 

The  Congregaiionalist  and  Advance  for 
October  16th  contained  an  article  by 
the  Rev.  Joseph  B.  Hingeley,  corres- 
ponding secretary  of  the  M.  E.  board  of 
conference  claimants,  on  the  "Program 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for 
Aged  Ministers." 

1878 

Prof.  H.  N.  Gardiner,  Secretary, 
187  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 
Mayor  Peters  of  Boston  has  ap- 
pointed a  committee  of  fifteen  with  the 
Corporation  Counsel  as  chairmen  to 
organize  a  campaign  of  education  to 
stamp  out  Bolshevism.  Frank  W. 
Stearns  is  a  member  of  this  committee. 

Ex-Senator  Charles  H.  Fuller  was 
elected  on  December  11th  a  member  of 
the  governing  committee  of  the  Brook- 
lyn Democratic  Club. 

Prof.  Edward  Ayres,  head  of  the  Eng- 
lish department  at  Purdue  University, 
died  suddenly  after  an  operation  for 
appendicitis  at  Lafayette,  Ind.,  on 
December  16th.  He  was  born  on  April 
15,  1857,  at  Hadley,  where  his  father, 
the  Rev.  Roland  C.  Ayres,  was  for  many 


years  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Chiu-ch.  After  graduating  from  Am- 
herst, where  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Psi  Upsilon  fraternity,  he  entered  the 
teaching  profession.  From  1890  to 
1902  he  was  city  superintendent  of  the 
Lafayette  public  schools;  in  1902  he 
was  appointed  professor  of  English  at 
Purdue,  and  later  became  a  member  of 
the  executive  committee  of  the  Univer- 
sity. In  1893  he  married  Miss  Alice 
Hanna  Wilson  of  Lafayette;  their  one 
daughter,  Agnes,  graduated  in  June  at 
Smith  College. 

Edward  Ayres  possessed  a  singular 
charm  of  personality  which  endeared 
him  to  his  classmates  and  made  friends 
for  him  wherever  he  was.  He  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  educational 
affairs  of  the  town  where  he  made  his 
home  and  in  the  work  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  there,  which  he  served 
for  many  years  as  clerk  of  sessions,  and 
where    he    was    universally    esteemed. 

Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner  has  re- 
cently published  three  articles  on  affec- 
tive psychology  in  ancient  writers,  two 
on  Plato  and  Aristotle  in  the  Philo- 
sophical Revieic,  and  one  on  the  Post- 
Aristotelians  in  the  Psychological  Re- 
view. 

Rev.  Frederick  A.  Holden  reports 
that  all  three  of  his  sons  returned  last 
summer  from  their  war  activities.  The 
youngest,  Robert,  was  severely  shell- 
shocked  at  Chateau-Thierry. 

The  class  will  deeply  sympathize 
with  George  T.  Spahr  in  his  bereave- 
ment. Mrs.  Spahr,  who  was  well- 
known  to  the  Amherst  men  from  her 
frequent  attendance  at  the  reunions 
with  her  husband,  died  at  their  home 
in  Columbus,  Ohio,  on  November  23rd 
after  a  long  illness. 


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1879 
Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 

1140  Woodward  Bldg.,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Henry  Clay  Folger,  Jr.,  is  reported 
in  the  newspapers  as  being  the  Shakes- 
peare collector  who  paid  the  Rosenbach 
Company  of  Philadelphia  the  other  day 
the  record  price  of  $100,000  for  a  unique 
copy  of  the  first  collected  edition  of  the 
famous  dramatist's  works.  Mr.  Folger, 
who  is  president  of  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  of  New  York,  has  ^VTitten 
many  monographs  on  Shakespeare  and 
owns  what  is  regarded  as  the  finest 
library  on  Shakespeare  in  America, 
comprising  more  than  20,000  volumes. 
His  recent  purchase  came  from  the 
Marsden  J.  Perry  library,  which  the 
Rosenbach  Company  purchased  three 
years  ago  for  almost  $500,000.  The 
highest  price  previously  paid  at  auction 
for  a  book  was  $50,000  which  Henry  E. 
Huntington  gave  for  a  copy  of  the 
Gutenberg  Bible  from  the  library  of  the 
late  Robert  Hoe.  The  volume  which 
Mr.  Folger  has  bought  contains  nine 
quarto  plays  of  Shakespeare  and  was 
printed  in  London  in  1619  for  Thomas 
Pavier  by  William  Jaggard.  This  only 
known  copy  found  its  way  to  Sweden 
where  it  was  bought  and  brought  back 
to  England.  At  one  time  it  belonged 
to  Edward  Gwynn,  the  Elizabethan 
collector.  It  was  purchased  by  Mr. 
Perry  through  one  of  his  agents  abroad 
for  a  few  thousand  dollars. 

The  Rev.  Nehemiah  Boynton  has 
been  reelected  to  his  old  post  as  chaplain 
of  the  13th  Regiment  in  Brooklyn,  with 
the  rank  of  captain.  He  was  one  of  the 
speakers  at  the  national  Congregational 
convention  in  Grand  Rapids  in  October, 
taking  as  his  subject  "The  Race  Prob- 
lem under  Democracy."  Dr.  Boyn- 
ton's  daughter.  Miss  Grace  Boynton, 


has  gone  to  China,  where  she  will  take 
up  the  work  of  teaching  English  in  the 
Woman's  College  of  Pekin.  This  makes 
four  members  of  Dr.  Boynton's  family 
to  be  engaged  in  Christian  work.  Dr. 
Boynton  returned  in  October  from  Hol- 
land, where  he  was  one  of  the  American 
delegates  to  the  international  congress 
of  the  Church  Peace  Union  at  the 
Hague. 

Frederick  D wight  Kellogg  died  at 
Amherst,  after  a  brief  illness,  on  Novem- 
ber 19th.  He  was  born  in  Hadley  on 
July  20,  1855,  the  son  of  Stillman 
Kellogg,  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm 
in  that  town,  near  the  Amherst  line, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Amherst  High  School.  Throughout 
his  college  years  he  was  a  quiet  and 
faithful  student,  endeared  to  his  class- 
mates by  constant  gentleness  and  kind- 
ness and  high  character.  On  Septem- 
ber 14,  1880,  he  married  Miss  Hattie 
W.  PhiUips  of  Amherst.  He  spent  the 
first  two  years  after  graduation  in  busi- 
ness, chiefly  in  the  money  department 
of  the  American  Express  Company  at 
St.  Paul,  but  his  father's  poor  health 
required  his  return,  and  since  the  begin- 
ning of  1882  he  was  always  engaged 
in  farming,  living  in  Amherst  at  Mill 
Valley.  For  fully  thirty  years  he 
was  a  deacon  in  the  village  church  at 
Amherst,  and  for  lesser  periods  superin- 
tendent of  the  Sunday  School  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Amherst  High  School 
Alumni  Association.  He  leaves  a 
widow,  a  son,  Neil  H.  Kellogg,  a  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Stephen  P.  Puffer,  and  three 
grandsons. 

Mr.  Kellogg  was  a  model  of  quiet 
Christian  virtue,  a  good  husband  and 
father,  a  good  citizen,  a  good  friend, 
one  whose  house  was  always  open  to 
his  classmates;  he  added  much  to  the 
pleasure   of   all   reunions   by  his   hos- 


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pitable  kindness,  his  cheerful  greetings, 
his  obvious  affection,  and  the  constant 
sense  of  goodness  and  worth  which 
came  to  everyone  that  encountered 
him. 

Dr.  Hiram  Henry  Seelye  (better 
known  to  his  classmates  and  friends  as 
Harry  Seelye)  died  on  November  3rd 
at  Daytona,  Fla.,  where  for  a  number 
of  years  he  had  practised  his  profession 
of  medicine.  He  was  born  on  April  12, 
1856,  at  Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y.  His  father 
was  a  cousin  of  President  Seelye.  He 
was  prepared  for  college  by  tutors  in 
Amherst.  In  College,  besides  being 
highly  thought  of  as  a  genial  and  pleas- 
ant companion,  he  was  an  enthusiastic 
gymnast,  and  easily  foremost  among 
those  of  his  time  at  Amherst.  Many 
of  his  feats  are  still  remembered  as 
extraordinary;  indeed,  in  pulling  his 
body  up  to  a  horizontal  bar  ("chin- 
ning," it  used  to  be  called)  his  record 
is  still  the  world's  record.  His  home 
with  his  widowed  mother  and  sister 
was  a  hospitable  place  for  all  members 
of  his  class. 

After  graduation  he  studied  medicine 
in  the  University  of  the  City  of  New 
York  and  in  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  receiving  the  degree  of 
M.D.  from  both  institutions,  in  1881 
and  1882,  and  winning  notable  prizes 
there  offered.  Then  for  a  year  and  a 
half  he  was  an  intern  at  Bellevnie  Hos- 
pital. In  1884  he  came  to  Amherst 
to  practise  medicine  and  to  act  as  an 
assistant  to  Dr.  Hitchcock  in  the  college 
gymnasium.  On  June  12th  of  that 
yeai^  he  married  Miss  Lucile  H.  Heness. 
For  eighteen  years  he  continued  his 
medical  practice  in  Amherst,  and  from 
1884  to  1894  his  functions  as  college 
physician  and  assistant  physical  di- 
rector, developing  a  notable  series  of  an- 
thropometric charts  and  other  records. 
For   a   time   he   was  president   of   the 


Hampshire  District  Medical  Society. 
In  1902  he  removed  to  Daytona,  Fla., 
where  he  practised  medicine,  was  city 
physician,  and  interested  himself  much 
in  the  work  of  the  Florida  East  Coast 
Automobile  Association.  In  1902  he 
removed  to  Key  West,  where  an  illness 
incapacitated  him  for  two  years  from 
the  active  pursuit  of  his  profession; 
and  even  after  his  recovery  he  never 
had  great  strength  for  its  work.  His 
later  years  were  spent  at  Tampa,  Atlan- 
tic Beach,  and  Daytona,  and  were  oc- 
cupied partly  with  medical  practice  until 
1918,  when  a  stroke  of  paralysis  made 
further  practice  impossible.  Dr.  Seelye 
leaves  a  widow,  a  son,  Seth,  who 
served  in  France  as  an  officer  in  the  23rd 
Engineer  Corps,  and  a  daughter,  wife 
of  Major  C.  A.  Lutz  of  the  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps.  Both  children  and  two  grand- 
children are  now  in  Haiti. 

Dr.  Seelye  was  a  careful  and  intelli- 
gent physician,  especially  skilled  in 
diagnosis.  He  was  a  man  of  cheerful 
temperament,  a  sincere  and  genial 
friend,  a  straightforward  and  kind- 
hearted  gentleman,  to  whom  his  class- 
mates were  much  attached. 

1880 
Hon.     Henry     P.     Field,     Secretary, 

86  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Rev.  Sidney  Augustus  Burnaby  died 
at  Spencer,  Mass.,  on  October  26th, 
aged  68  years,  after  an  illness  of  six 
months. 

He  was  the  son  of  Eldridge  H.  and 
Charlotte  (Whitman)  Burnaby,  and  was 
born  at  North  Brookfield,  Nova  Scotia, 
on  July  17,  1851.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  Acadia  Academy,  spent  two 
years  at  Acadia  College,  and  then  came 
to  Amherst  as  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1880,  with  which  he  graduated.  He 
studied  theology  at  Bangor  and  An- 
dover    Theological    Seminary    and    at 


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Oxford,  England,  and  was  ordained  in 
the  Congregational  ministry  in  1881. 
For  ten  years  he  was  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Lancaster,  N.  H., 
and  later  held  pastorates  at  South- 
bridge,  Mass.,  and  Canaan,  Conn.  He 
then  gave  up  the  ministry  and  until 
1916  was  connected  with  the  James  H. 
Earle  Publishing  Company  of  Boston. 
Mr.  Burnaby  married  on  January  22, 
1896,  Jeannette,  daughter  of  Thomas  M. 
Prince  of  Danville,  111.  She  survives 
him. 

A  recent  issue  of  Telephone  Topics,  a 
publication  of  the  New  England  Tele- 
phone and  Telegraph   Company,  con- 
tained a  picture  of  George  G.  S.  Per- 
kins, who  has  been  directory  manager, 
or,   as  he  was  known  for  some  time, 
superintendent  of  directory  and  print- 
ing of  the  company  for  more  than  twen- 
ty-eight years.     It  may  be  of  interest 
to  Amherst  men  to  learn  that  the  mod- 
ern city  telephone  directory  was  origi- 
nated by  Mr.  Perkins.     In  the  days  be- 
fore  telephone    directories    were    used, 
there  were  printed  cards  in  some  sec- 
tions giving  telephone  numbers;   but  to 
Mr.  Perkins  was  given  the  job  of  getting 
out  correctly  the  first  telephone  direct- 
ory.    This  he  did  in  1892  and  its  total 
circulation  then  amounted  to   18,000, 
as  compared  with  the  last  issue  of  300,- 
000  in  the  metropolitan  division  alone, 
which  shows  how  Mr.  Perkins'  depart- 
ment has  grown.     Mr.   Perkins  is  an 
authority  on  cooperative  banks,  having 
been  president  of  the  Boston  Coopera- 
tive Bank  for  a  number  of  years.     He 
is    intensely    interested   and   active   in 
civic  and  social  affairs  and  has  served 
the  town  of  Wellesley  in  many  oflSces. 
At  present  he  is  a  lieutenant  in   the 
State  Guard.     Botany  and  geology  are 
his  hobbies,  and  his  flower  garden  near 
his  home  in  Wellesley  is  second  to  none 
in  that  section  of  Massachusetts. 


The  Congregationalist  and  Advance 
for  November  6th  contained  an  article 
entitled  "The  Lanes  in  the  Ministry," 
with  pictures  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Stod- 
dard Lane  and  his  two  sons.  Rev.  Stod- 
dard Lane,  '09,  and  George  Homer 
Lane,  '16.  Rev.  Charles  Stoddard 
Lane  is  now  secretary  of  the  Hartford 
Seminary  Foundation,  Hartford  Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

Clifton  L.  Field  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  Greenfield 
Savings  Bank. 

1881 

Frank  H.   Parsons,   Esq.,   Secretary, 

60  Wall  St.,  New  York  City. 

John  Van  Beuren  Scarborough  died 
at  his  home  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on 
November  4th. 

Mr.  Scarborough  was  the  son  of 
William  W.  and  Sarah  (Van  Beuren) 
Scarborough,  and  was  born  in  Cincin- 
nati on  August  10,  1859.  He  prepared 
for  college  at  a  private  school  and  when 
in  college  was  a  member  of  the  Torch 
and  Crown  Society  and  of  Epsilon  Pi 
Delta  (Senior  Society).  He  was  an 
enthusiastic  Amherst  man,  always  had 
an  interest  in  the  College,  and  by  his 
will  he  bequeathed  Amherst  $20,000 
and  the  Amherst  Chapter  of  Beta 
Theta  Pi,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
charter  members,  $3,000.  After  grad- 
uation he  went  into  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness, at  the  same  time  studying  law  at 
the  Cincinnati  Law  School.  Besides 
being  engaged  in  real  estate,  he  was 
interested  in  many  other  enterprises. 
He  was  trustee  of  the  Cincinnati  Sink- 
ing Fund  from  1901  to  1903,  was  vice- 
president  of  the  Zoological  Society, 
president  of  the  Spring  Grove  Cemetery 
Association,  and  a  member  of  the  Ohio 
State  Board  of  Charities.  He  was 
unmarried. 

Starr  J.  Murphy  is  a  member  of  the 


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committee  appointed  by  the  stock- 
holders of  the  Manhattan  Railway 
Company  to  guard  their  interests  in- 
volved in  its  lease  of  the  elevated  lines 
to  the  Interborough  Rapid  Transit 
Company. 

Lawrence  F.  Abbott's  book,  "Im- 
pressions of  Theodore  Roosevelt,"  re- 
cently published  by  Doubleday,  Page 
and  Company,  has  attracted  wide  and 
favorable  .attention.  It  is  not  an 
attempt  at  biography  and  no  effort  is 
made  at  a  chronological  narrative  of 
the  Colonel's  career  as  a  political  leader 
and  statesman.  It  is  rather  an  intimate 
sketch  of  a  well-loved  friend  and  asso- 
ciate, and  as  such  is  far  more  interesting 
than  a  biography.  It  is  full  of  per- 
sonal anecdotes,  recollections,  quota- 
tions, explanations  of  some  of  his  acts, 
and  comments  upon  his  attitude  on 
issues  rising  from  time  to  time.  It 
contains  some  "inside  history"  of  big 
events,  and  is  a  book  which  every  ad- 
mirer of  Theodore  Roosevelt  will  wish 
to  have  in  his  library. 

Mr.  Abbott  was  one  of  the  speakers 
at  the  convocation  of  the  Board  of 
Regents  of  the  State  of  New  York  last 
fall,  and  at  that  time  made  the  state- 
ment that  Theodore  Roosevelt's  great- 
est contribution  towards  the  winning 
of  the  World  War  was  his  famous  Guild- 
hall speech  in  London,  when  he  was  on 
the  way  back  to  America  after  his 
African  hunting  trip. 

1882 

Prof.    John    P.    Cushing,    Secretary, 
Whitney ville,  Conn. 

John  H.  Lovell  has  published  through 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons  "The  Flower 
and  the  Bee,"  in  which  he  treats  of  the 
interrelation  of  bees,  beetles,  and  flies 
with  plants  and  trees.  Mr.  Lovell  has 
devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  insects 


and  flowers  and  since  1897  has  pub- 
lished many  papers  on  the  subject  and 
in  addition  he  is  the  botanical  editor  of 
the^.  B.  C.  of  Bee  Culture. 

C.  S.  Loomis  sailed  in  September  for 
Beirut,  SjTia,  where  he  is  to  join  the 
teaching  force  of  the  SjTian  Protestant 
College,  of  which  H.  S.  Bliss  is  president. 

In  the  Congregationalist  and  Advance 
for  October  16th,  the  Rev.  Charles  S. 
Mills  tells  the  story  of  the  Pilgrim  Me- 
morial Fund  and  how  it  came  to  be. 

1883 

Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 
2301-2311  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Martin  L.  Griffin  has  discontinued  his 
connection  with  the  Oxford  Paper  Com- 
pany at  Rumford,  Me.,  to  become  asso- 
ciated with  the  Mount  Hope  Finishing 
Company  at  North  Dighton,  Mass. 
His  oldest  son.  Archer,  is  now  a 
sophomore  at  Rensselaer  Polytechnic 
Institute,  Troy,  N.  Y.,  taking  a  course 
in  civil  engineering.  His  youngest  son, 
Carroll,  is  taking  an  interim  year  at  the 
New  York  Military  Academy  at  Corn- 
wall-on-Hudson.  He  is  appointed  prin- 
cipal candidate  to  enter  West  Point, 
June  14,  1920. 

Dr.  Edward  S.  Parsons  was  inaugu- 
rated as  president  of  Marietta  College 
on  October  17th.  Amherst  was  offi- 
cially represented  by  the  Rev.  Howard 
A.  Bridgman,  also  of  1883. 

Dr.  Parsons'  address  on  the  occasion 
attracted  wide  and  very  favorable 
comment.  His  inaugural  started  with 
the  two  out-standing  facts  in  American 
education  which  the  war  has  revealed: 
first,  the  large  number  of  illiterates  in 
the  draft  army — twenty-five  per  cent 
of  the  enrollment,  and  second,  the  re- 
markable contribution  of  the  schools 
and  colleges  to  the  winning  of  the  war. 


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This  evidence  of  the  worth  of  higher 
education  is  strengthened  by  recent 
utterances  of  British  labor  leaders.  Dr. 
Parsons  then  set  forth  illuminatingly 
what,  under  these  circumstances,  should 
he  the  work  of  the  American  college. 
It  should  help  the  student  to  the  expe- 
rience of  the  new  birth — intellectual 
and  spiritual.  Then  it  should  intro- 
duce him  to  his  world. 

Some  excerpts  from  President  Par- 
sons' inaugural  address  are  as  follows: 

"As  a  nation  we  are  barely  sixth 
graders.  In  fifteen  states  the  average 
of  our  schooling  is  falling  short  of  the 
sixth  grade." 

"A  college  can  never  truly  grow  un- 
less the  teaching  force  is  growing  in 
intellectual  and  personal  power." 

"Students  can  be  taught  perhaps  but 
not  educated  in  regiments." 

"The  revolutions  that  men  are  plan- 
ning do  not  leave  education  at  one  side." 

"Marietta  College  believes  in  God,  in 
the  fear  of  whom  is  the  beginning  of  all 
wisdom  and  in  whose  love  and  just  pur- 
pose is  the  safety  and  hope  of  the  world. 
It  believes  that  in  Jesus  Christ  and  no- 
where else  is  the  solution  of  all  human 
problems  and  the  inspiring  energy  of 
the  best  human  development." 

After  an  absence  of  more  than  six 
months  from  his  Boston  headquarters. 
Dr.  Cornelius  H.  Patton,  home  secre- 
tary of  the  American  Board,  returned 
about  December  1st  from  his  trip  in 
Japan,  Korea,  and  China.  He  had 
some  wonderful  experiences,  some  of 
which  have  already  been  told  in  articles 
written  by  him  for  the  Congregationalist 
and  Advance.  Still  other  contributions 
from  his  pen  will  appear  shortly. 

Just  as  the  Quarterly  was  going  to 
press,  announcement  was  made  by  Yale 
University  of  a  very  high  honor  ac- 
corded an  Amherst  man  in  the  appoint- 
ment of  Dr.  Willislon  Walker  as  provost 
of  the  University.  Ilis  new  duties  are 
concerned  primarily  with  education  and 
faculty  relations.     He  is  to  assist  the 


president  in  matters  affecting  faculties, 
departments,  divisions,  and  deans  and 
in  coordinating  the  educational  work  of 
the  various  schools,  departments,  and 
divisions  of  the  University.  Accord- 
ingly, he  is  an  ex-officio  member  of  all 
faculties  and  governing  boards  and 
chairman  of  the  University  Council. 

Professor  Walker  together  with  Mr. 
Newman  Smyth  has  edited  a  book  re- 
cently published,  entitled  "Approaches 
towards  Church  Unity."  This  book, 
the  publishers  state,  affords  a  very  real 
opportunity  to  those  readers  who  are 
keeping  abreast  of  modern  thought  and 
action.  It  deals  with  the  historical 
background  and  the  vital  principles 
involved,  and  is  a  book  of  the  hour 
which  will  become  a  reference  work. 

Mrs.  Williston  Walker  has  been 
elected  president  of  the  Woman's  Home 
Missionary  Federation. 

George  M.  Trowbridge,  for  many 
years  editor  of  the  Oregon  Journal  of 
Portland,  Ore.,  died  on  November  29th. 
He  suffered  a  serious  illness  in  January, 
1916,  and  at  that  time  underwent  an 
operation  which  was  only  partially 
successful.  After  nine  months  of  rest 
he  was  able  to  return  to  his  desk,  but 
last  August  he  was  again  stricken  and 
a  second  operation  failed  to  arrest  the 
disease. 

Trowbridge  was  58  years  of  age.  He 
was  born  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  in  1861, 
and  spent  his  boyhood  in  and  near 
Chicago.  After  graduating  from  Am- 
herst he  studied  law  at  Northwestern 
University  and  practised  for  several 
years  in  Chicago,  and  afterwards  in 
Arizona.  More  than  twenty  years  ago 
he  abandoned  the  law  and  entered  news- 
paper work,  being  associated  succes- 
sively with  the  Los  Angeles  Herald  as 
city  editor,  the  San  Francisco  Bulletin, 
and    the    Oregon    Journal   as    political 


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Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


writer.  In  1906  he  became  editor  of 
the  last-named  paper,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  his  death. 

Trowbridge  never  married  and  is 
survived  by  a  sister  and  two  brothers. 
He  was  a  man  of  quiet,  unassuming 
manners,  but  of  sterling  character  and 
wide  influence.  He  made  his  paper  a 
power  for  political  reform  at  a  time 
when  Oregon  politics  were  unspeakably 
corrupt,  and  he  is  entitled  to  a  large 
share  of  the  credit  for  the  reform  which 
later  swept  that  state. 

Oliver  C.  Semple  last  summer  re- 
signed his  position  as  counsel  to  the 
Public  Service  Commission  of  New 
York.  After  a  long  vacation  he  has 
returned  to  his  private  law  practice  in 
New  York  City  with  special  interest 
in  matters  pertaining  to  the  traction 
tangle. 

William  Orr,  who  has  been  a  member 
of  the  permanent  committee  on  voca- 
tional training  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  read 
the  report  of  that  committee  at  the 
international  convention  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  in  Detroit,  November  19-24. 
This  report  has  been  printed  and  has 
attracted  wide  attention. 

The  United  States  Government  has 
recently  issued,  through  the  Bureau  of 
Education,  a  bulletin  (1919,  No.  53) 
on  the  "Educational  Work  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association," 
by  William  Orr,  as  senior  educational 
secretary  of  the  international  com- 
mittee. This  will  appear  as  a  part  of 
the  "Biennial  Survey  of  Education  in 
the  United  States,  1916-1918."  It  is 
an  exceedingly  important  document, 
and  covers  the  educational  work  done 
by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  both  in  this  country 
and  abroad  during  the  period  of  the  war. 

H.  A.  Hammond-Smith  recently 
spent  several  weeks  in  Chicago,  restor- 
ing some  important  old  Dutch  canvases 


for  the  Art  Institute  of  that  city.  He 
also  restored  several  paintings  for  the 
Cleveland  Art  Museum,  before  return- 
ing to  his  private  work  and  his  work  for 
the  Metropolitan  Museum  in  New  York 
City. 

Walter  T.  Field  delivered  an  address 
on  "The  Spiritual  Values  of  Literature 
in  the  Schools"  before  the  Arkansas 
State  Teachers'  Association  in  Little 
Rock,  October  31st. 

The  Colonial  Society  of  Massachu- 
setts has  elected  Supreme  Court  Jus- 
tice Arthur  Prentice  Rugg  as  vice- 
president. 

1884 

W^iLLAED  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City. 
Prof.  James  H.  Tufts  of  the  Univer- 
sity   of    Chicago    is    chairman    of    the 
Board    of   Arbitration   for   the    men's 
clothing  industry  in  Chicago. 

Edward  M.  Bassett  is  a  member  of 
the  Brooklyn  Roosevelt  INIemorial 
Association  committee.  He  was  also 
elected  on  December  11th  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Brooklyn  Democratic  Club. 

1885 

Frank    E.    Whitman,    Secretary, 
66  Leonard  St.,  New  York  City. 

From  the  November  15th  number  of 
Canada,  an  illustrated  journal  pub- 
lished in  London  and  Toronto,  we 
quote  the  following: 

DINNER   TO    SIR    HERBERT    AMES 

"The  executive  committee  of  the 
U.  K.  branch  of  the  Empire  Parliamen- 
tary Association,  on  November  6th, 
gave  a  private  dinner  to  Sir  Herbert 
Ames,  financial  director  of  the  League 
of  Nations  secretariat,  in  the  House  of 
Commons. 

"Sir  Herbert  is  still  a  member  of  the 
Canadian  House  of  Commons,  and  was 
chairman  of  the  executive  of  the  Cana- 


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dian  branch  of  the  Empire  Parliamen- 
tary Association,  in  which  capacity  he, 
on  a  number  of  occasions,  had  enter- 
tained visiting  members  of  the  other 
British  Parliaments. 

"Lord  Milner  occupied  the  chair,  and 
a  number  of  members  of  both  Houses 
were  present.  Lord  Robert  Cecil  was 
among  the  speakers.  Sir  Herbert 
Ames,  in  replying  to  the  toast  in  his 
honour,  spoke  regarding  Canada's  new 
status  as  a  member  of  the  League  of 
Nations." 

1886 

Chaeles    E.    Maeble,    Secretary, 
4  Marble  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

When  the  Prince  of  Wales  made  his 
recent  visit  to  the  United  States,  it  fell 
to  the  lot  of  an  Amherst  man  to  have 
the  honor  of  escorting  him  to  the 
Capital.  Secretary  of  State  Robert 
Lansing  met  the  Prince  at  Rouse's 
Point  and  accompanied  him  to  Wash- 
ington, and  during  his  visit  at  the 
Capital  he  dined  informally  with  the 
Secretary  at  the  latter's  home,  follow- 
ing a  reception  which  was  held  in  his 
honor  in  the  Library  of  Congress.  The 
next  day  the  Secretary  took  the  Prince 
to  visit  Mt.  Vernon. 

Secretary  Lansing  was  a  short  time 
ago  awarded  the  degree  of  LL.D.  at 
the  annual  convocation  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  State  of  New  York  in  Albany 
on  October  17th.  Only  four  other 
living  men  have  been  similarly  honored, 
Cardinal  Mercier,  Thomas  A.  Edison, 
Elihu  Root,  and  Ambassador  Jusserand 
of  France.  The  Secretary  chose  for  his 
subject,  "The  Power  of  Democracy," 
and  advocated  a  trial  of  the  League  of 
Nations,  fearing  that  rejection  would 
discourage  future  attempts  among 
nations  to  act  together  for  international 
peace.  He  said  also  that  the  League 
would  be  a  curb  on  radicals. 

The  Rev.  G.  B.  Kambour  has  re- 
signed his  pastorate  at  Charlemont, 
Mass.,  effective  November  1st. 


Rev.  George  F.  Kenngott,  Ph.D.,  is 
chairman  of  an  editorial  committee 
appointed  by  the  Southern  Califor- 
nia Congregationalist  Conference  to 
issue  a  monthly  news  bulletin,  entitled 
The  Congregational  Herald.  This  con- 
ference paper  is  intended  simply  for  the 
benefit  of  the  churches  in  southern 
California. 

1887 

Frederic    B.     Pratt,     Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  engagement  was  recently  an- 
nounced of  Arthur  Kendrick  of  New- 
ton, Mass.,  to  Miss  Mary  Child,  sister 
of  Mayor  E.  O.  Child  of  Newton. 
They  are  to  be  married  early  in  1920 
and  will  make  their  home  at  45  Himne- 
well  Ave.,  Newton,  Mass. 

Frederic  B.  Pratt  has  been  elected 
vice-president  of  the  Brooklyn  Bureau 
of  Charities  to  succeed  his  brother, 
Charles  M.  Pratt,  '79.  He  has  also 
been  chosen  a  director  of  the  New 
England  Society  in  Brooklyn. 

1888 

William  B.  Greenough,  Secretary, 
32  Westminster  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Clifton  L.  Sherman  has  recently  be- 
come managing  editor  of  the  Hartford 
(Conn.)  Times.  For  the  past  thirty 
years,  with  the  exception  of  three  and 
a  half  years  when  he  served  as  copy 
editor  of  the  New  York  Sun,  he  has 
been  connected  with  the  Hartford 
Courant  as  telegraph  editor  for  three 
years  and  since  then  as  managing  editor^ 

Dr.  Paul  C.  Phillips  of  Amherst  is 
spending  the  winter  in  California, 
where  he  is  taking  the  opportunity  of 
visiting  the  Pacific  Coast  universities 
and  studying  their  systems  of  physical 
education  and  equipment. 


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At  the  meeting  of  the  American  In- 
vestment Bankers'  Association  in  St. 
Louis  in  November,  John  E.  Oldham 
was  again  chosen  as  vice-president. 

Albert  S.  Bard  was  a  member  of  the 
campaign  committee  organized  last  fall 
by  the  Citizens'  Union  in  New  York 
City  to  defeat  the  Tammany  supreme 
court  judicial  ticket. 

1889 

Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  Elm  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Herbert  S.  Worthley  has  recently 
been  appointed  assistant  corporation 
counsel  in  New  York  City. 

Arthur  Curtiss  James  is  a  member  of 
the  committee  on  invitation  for  the 
first  national  marine  exposition  in  this 
country  in  twenty  years,  which  is  to  be 
held  at  the  Grand  Central  Palace  in 
New  Y^ork  City  in  April  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  National  Marine  League. 
The  object  of  this  exposition  is  to 
develop  a  popular  interest  in  American 
shipping  in  order  to  make  the  United 
States  as  great  a  maritime  nation  at 
least  as  England  is  at  present,  or  as 
Germany  was  before  the  war.  Mr. 
James  was  also  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee which  distributed  $1,000,000, 
raised  in  the  United  Hospital  Fund  last 
November  and  December.  This  com- 
mittee consisted  of  the  mayor,  the 
president  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, the  president  of  the  Merchant's 
Association,  Mr.  James,  and  three  other 
prominent  citizens.  The  money  was 
distributed  among  the  forty-six  hospi- 
tals in  New  Y^ork  that  do  free  work. 
Mr.  James  has  been  elected  a  trustee  of 
the  newly  organized  Navy  Legal  Aid 
Association. 

Prof.  William  Estabrook  Chancellor 
recently  published  through  Forbes  and 


Company  of  Chicago  a  book  entitled 
"The  Health  of  the  Teacher."  This 
is  a  practical  guide,  showing  in  detail 
how  teachers  may  keep  themselves  in 
perfect  health  and  at  the  highest  point 
of  efficiency. 

Rev.  Arthur  F.  Newell  of  Sloan, 
Iowa,  has  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastor- 
ate of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Alden,  Iowa. 

Rev.  William  Horace  Day  was  the 
college  preacher  at  Amherst  on  Decem- 
ber 14th. 

1890 

George     C.     Coit,     Esq.,     Secretary, 
6  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  Walter  Reynolds  Bartlett  died 
at  his  home  at  Braintree,  Mass.,  Decem- 
ber 1,  1919,  after  three  days  of  illness 
with  pneumonia.  Born  in  Bethel,  Me., 
in  1867,  the  son  of  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
Edwin  M.  Bartlett,  he  was  fitted  for 
college  in  the  public  schools,  and  gradu- 
ated from  Amherst  College  in  1890.  He 
served  as  principal  of  the  high  school 
at  Enfield,  Mass.,  one  year,  and  then 
entered  the  Newton  Theological  Insti- 
tution, from  which  he  graduated  in 
1894. 

He  was  ordained  at  West  Hartford, 
Conn.,  in  December,  1895,  serving  as 
pastor  besides  this  church,  at  Charles- 
ton, R.  I.;  Rockport,  Me.;  Avon, 
Dighton,  Rockport  and  Holliston, 
Mass.  During  the  war  he  applied  for 
overseas  work,  and  while  waiting  en- 
gaged in  work  at  the  Fore  River  Ship- 
yard as  a  bolter.  At  the  same  time  he 
preached  nearly  every  Sunday  as  oppor- 
tunity offered. 

Mr.  Bartlett  married  Florence  E. 
Martin  of  Revere  in  1895.  Four  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them,  three  of  whom 
survive  him:  Ensign  Alden  M.  Bart- 
lett, who  enlisted  in  the  United  States 


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Navy  in  June,  1918,  and  was  aboard  a 
destroyer  at  Panama,  on  his  way  to  the 
Pacific  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death; 
and  Priscilla,  and  Weidman  Lorimer,  at 
school  at  Braintree.  Funeral  services 
were  held  at  his  home,  December  3rd, 
Rev.  Harry  Grimes,  of  Braintree,  and 
Rev.  Daniel  Gross,  of  Portland,  Me., 
officiating.  Three  Amherst  classmates, 
Delabarre,  Lacey,  and  Coit,  and  a  New- 
ton friend  acted  as  honorary  bearers. 

Dr.  George  Ray  Hare,  eye  specialist, 
has  recently  removed  his  offices  from 
28  East  38th  St.  to  107  East  39th  St., 
New  York  City. 

Ex-Governor  Charles  S.  ^Miitman  of 
New  York  is  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee of  bankers  and  business  men 
organized  to  raise  funds  in  aid  of  under- 
nourished children  in  Germany,  with 
Herbert  C.  Hoover  as  purchasing  agent. 

1891 

Nathan    P.    Avert,    Esq.,    Secretary, 
362   Dwight  St.,   Holyoke,   Mass. 

Rev.  Sartell  Prentice  has  published 
through  E.  P.  Dutton  and  Company, 
"Padre — A  Red  Cross  Chaplain  in 
France."  This  book  is  a  record  of  his 
experiences  as  a  chaplain  in  the  army 
hospitals  of  France.  Much  of  Dr. 
Prentice's  experience  was  in  Base  Hos- 
pital 101,  at  St.  Nazaire,  and  then  in 
Evacuation  Hospital  13,  where  he  was 
near  enough  to  the  lines  to  hear  the 
constant  rumbling  of  the  guns  and  to 
receive  the  wounded  immediately  from 
the  fields.  The  book  in  general  de- 
scribes the  painful  scenes  in  hospitals 
with  which  the  daily  news  records  have 
made  the  world  familiar,  as  well  as 
many  incidents  of  the  fighting  as  re- 
lated by  wounded  boys  who  were  still 
able  to  talk,  and  of  course,  is  intensely 
interesting. 


Ex-Mayor  N.  P.  Avery  of  Holyoke 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  school 
board  at  the  annual  city  election  in 
December. 

H.  A.  Cushing  was  recently  elected  a 
member  of  the  nominating  committee 
of  the  Century  Association,  New  York 
City.  He  has  been  reelected  secretary 
of  the  New  England  Society  of  New 
York. 

"New  Novels  of  Substance"  is  the 
title  of  H.  W.  Boynton's  article  in 
the  November-December  number  of 
the  Bookman. 

H.  Nelson  Gay,  who  has  been  active 
in  war  and  relief  work  in  Italy,  sub- 
mitted to  the  Peace  Conference  a  so- 
lution of  the  Fiume  problem,  but  it  is 
said  President  Wilson  refused  to  accept 
the  scheme,  which  would  have  given 
the  city  of  Fiume  with  its  local  port  to 
Italy  and  an  international  port  to  the 
League  of  Nations. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,  Secretary, 
43  S.  Summit  St.,  YpsUanti,  Mich. 

Samuel  C.  Fairley  has  been  appointed 
as  assistant  director  of  the  Common- 
wealth Fund,  of  which  Prof.  Max 
Farrand  of  Yale  is  general  director. 
This  is  a  charitable  corporation  estab- 
lished in  November,  1918,  and  is  de- 
scribed as  a  "new  philanthropic  foun- 
dation of  large  significance." 

George  P.  Hitchcock  and  Samuel  C. 
Fairley  are  members  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Clinton  Avenue  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Brooklyn,  of 
which  Rev.  Nehemiah  Boynton,  '79,  is 
pastor. 

Lyman  W.  Griswold  of  Greenfield, 
Mass.,  was  elected  state  senator  on 
the  Republican  ticket  in  the  Franklin- 


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Ilampshire  district  on  November  4th. 
Senator  Griswold  is  well  qualified  for 
bis  new  duties,  having  previously  served 
three  terms  in  the  lower  house.  He 
succeeds  Senator  George  B.  Churchill, 
'89. 

Cornelius  J.  Sullivan  of  the  Garden 
City  Golf  Club  will  again  direct  the 
affairs  of  the  Metropolitan  Golf  Asso- 
ciation, having  just  been  reelected. 
The  season  of  1920  will  be  his  third  as 
president. 

Rev.  Henry  L.  Ballou  has  resigned 
his  pastorate  at  Chester,  Vt.,  on  account 
of  ill  health. 

Prof.  Allen  Johnson  has  been  elected 
a  member  of  the  Yale  University 
Council. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Alus,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

Charles  D.  Norton,  president  of  the 
First  Security  Company  in  New  York, 
has  been  elected  a  trustee  and  treasurer 
of  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation.  He 
has  also  been  appointed  by  the  War 
Department  as  a  member  of  the  com- 
mission to  advise  Brigadier-General 
H.  M.  Lord,  director  of  finance,  with 
respect  to  budget  procedure  within  the 
War  Department.  The  other  members 
of  this  committee  are  Otto  H.  Kahn,  of 
Kuhn,  Loeb  and  Company,  Charles  B. 
Seger,  president  of  the  U.  S.  Rubber 
Company,  and  C.  G.  DuBois,  president 
of  the  Western  Electric  Company.  Mr. 
Norton  has  been  elected  president  of  the 
New  Gauley  Coal  Corporation.  He  has 
also  been  elected  a  director  of  Mont- 
gomery Ward  and  Company. 

Senator  Silas  D.  Reed  of  Taunton, 
Mass.,  was  reelected  to  the  Massachu- 
setts Senate  last  No\-ember.  He  is  a 
Republican. 


^^'illiam  C.  Breed  was  chairman  of 
the  united  hospital  fund  committee 
which  raised  $1,000,000  last  November 
and  December  in  New  York  City  to 
distribute  among  the  forty-six  hospitals 
in  the  city  that  do  free  work. 

Mr.  Breed  is  also  a  member  of  the 
citizens'  transit  committee  appointed 
by  the  Merchants'  Association  to  make 
a  thorough  inquiry  into  the  traction 
situation  in  the  city  with  the  view  of 
finding  some  solution  of  the  financial 
problems  which  threaten  to  destroy 
the  transportation  systems. 

Frank  M.  Lay  of  Kewanee,  111.,  has 
presented  to  the  Amherst  chapter  of 
Beta  Theta  Pi  the  sum  of  $2,000,  the 
interest  of  which  is  to  be  divided  into 
three  prizes  of  $50,  $30,  and  $20  each  to 
be  awarded  in  the  fall  to  the  three 
Sophomores  attaining  the  highest  aver- 
age in  their  delegation  during  the  pre- 
ceding year. 

Rev.  Lewis  T.  Reed,  D.D.,  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  is  chairman  for  New  York 
of  the  Pilgrim  Memorial  Fund. 

1894 

Henry   E.    Whitcomb,    Secretary, 
53  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

A  daughter,  Ruth,  was  born  to 
Warren  T.  and  Elida  Thompson  Bart- 
lett  on  November  18th,  at  North  Brook- 
field,  Mass. 

Henry  E.  'WTiitcomb  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  mayor  of  Worcester  as 
a  member  of  the  Worcester  fair  price 
commission  to  act  under  the  direction 
of  the  state  commissioner  of  the  necessi- 
ties of  life. 

Principal  A.  L.  Stearns  of  Phillips 
Andover  Academy  was  the  college 
preacher  at  Amherst  on  December  7th. 


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1895 

William  S.  Ttleh,  Secretary, 
30  Church  St.,  New  York  City. 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  has  been  awarded 
a  gold  medal  embossed  with  the  seal  of 
the  national  committee  on  prisons  and 
prison  labor.  The  award  was  made  by 
the  organization  to  five  men.  President 
Wilson,  Samuel  Gompers,  William  E. 
Rappard  of  Switzerland,  Thomas  Mott 
Osborne,  and  Dwight  W.  Morrow. 

Mr.  Morrow  was  one  of  the  principal 
speakers  at  the  international  trade  con- 
vention held  in  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  last 
fall.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee formed  to  care  for  the  interests 
of  the  holders  of  the  first  and  refunding 
mortgage  5  per  cent  bonds  of  the  Inter- 
borough  Rapid  Transit  Company  of 
New  York. 

Robert  H.  Mainzer  has  been  elected 
a  director  of  the  American  Malt  and 
Grain  Company. 

Municipal  Court  Justice  Charles  B. 
Law  of  Brooklyn  has  made  a  ruling  that 
if  your  girl  promises  to  marry  you  at 
some  date  in  the  not  far  distant  future, 
and  you  give  her  an  engagement  ring  to 
seal  the  agreement,  and  she  later  decides 
to  keep  the  ring  but  not  the  promise, 
you  can  appeal  to  the  courts  and  they 
will  require  that  the  lady  in  question 
either  keep  her  promise  or  return  the 
ring.  That  was  the  outcome  of  a  suit 
in  his  court  late  last  fall,  his  decision  in 
the  matter  attracting  wide  attention. 
This  is  thought  to  be  the  first  case  on 
record  of  the  decision  of  a  court  that  an 
engagement  ring  is  a  gift  which  is  con- 
ditional on  the  continuance  of  the 
engagement. 

Lucius   R.   Eastman   was   elected   a 

member  of  the  executive  committee  of 

the  national  council  of  Congregational 

Churches  at  the  convention   late  last 

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fall.  Mr.  Eastman  is  chairman  of  the 
Merchants'  Association's  committee  on 
foreign  trade  in  New  York  and  of  the 
reception  program  committee  which 
recently  welcomed  the  foreign  indus- 
trial missions. 

Dr.  Charles  R.  Otis  of  Dundee,  N.  Y., 
has  been  elected  vice-president  of  the 
Yates  County  Medical  Association. 

In  another  part  of  this  magazine,  trib- 
ute is  paid  to  Calvin  Coolidge,  but 
record  shoidd  be  made  here  of  the  fact 
of  his  reelection  to  governorship  of 
Massachusetts  by  a  vote  larger  than 
that  ever  received  by  any  other  govern- 
mental candidate  in  the  state.  His 
election  was  regarded  not  merely  as  a 
state  affair,  but  almost  as  a  national 
issue.  "Coolidge  and  law  and  order" 
was  the  slogan  raised  throughout  the 
state.  The  unusual  interest  in  this 
campaign  is  manifested  by  the  fact 
that  four  governors,  as  well  as  promi- 
nent men  in  Congress,  came  to  Massa- 
chusetts to  speak  in  his  behalf.  These 
speakers  included  Gov.  Henry  Allen 
of  Kansas,  Gov.  J.  A.  A.  Burnquist  of 
Minnesota,  Gov.  William  C.  Sproul  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  Gov.  Carl  E.  Milli- 
ken  of  Maine. 

Since  the  election,  the  name  of  Calvin 
Coolidge  has  been  mentioned  in  all  parts 
of  the  country,  both  for  presidency 
and  vice-presidency.  If  the  Republican 
nomination  goes  to  a  man  in  the  West, 
it  is  quite  likely  that  Governor  Coolidge 
will  be  named  for  vice-president.  The 
Republican  Club  of  Massachusetts  has 
formally  come  out  for  the  governor, 
as  presidential  candidate,  by  the  adop- 
tion of  a  unanimous  resolution. 

At  the  Williams  College  victory 
celebration  in  October,  when  the  men 
in  service  were  honored,  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  was  conferred  on  Governor 
Coolidge. 


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Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mortimer  L.  Schiff  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  national  com- 
mittee on  European  finance  to  study 
definite  plans  for  supplying  necessary 
long  time  credit  for  Eiu-ope's  purchases 
in  the  United  States.  The  committee 
was  appointed  by  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  the  United  States.  Mr. 
Schiff  has  also  been  appointed  to  rep- 
resent Brazil  at  the  Pan-American 
financial  conference,  and  Governor 
Smith  of  New  York  has  appointed  him 
as  one  of  eleven  financiers  to  serve  as  a 
committee  which  will  investigate  the 
subject  of  safeguarding  the  investing 
public  in  securities  ofltered  for  sale.  At 
the  recent  meeting  of  the  Replogle 
Steel  Company,  Mr.  Schiff  was  elected 
a  director. 

John  T.  Pratt  is  one  of  the  trustees  of 
the  fund  of  the  New  York  committee  on 
after  care  of  infantile  paralysis  cases. 
This  committee  is  looking  after  the  chil- 
dren who  survived  the  epidemic  of 
1917,  many  of  whom  have  been  per- 
manently ciu-ed  as  a  result  of  this  after 
care.  During  last  year,  8,253  cases 
were  taken  care  of. 

Rev.  John  Reid  has  recently  returned 
to  the  ministry,  having  withdrawn  from 
his  work  at  Army  Hospital  No.  34  at 
East  Norfolk,  Va.,  and  received  his 
honorable  discharge.  His  post  was 
that  of  director  of  Red  Cross  activities. 

At  the  December  city  election  in 
Northampton,  Herbert  E.  Riley  was 
elected  school  committeeman-at-large. 
He  was  nominated  on  both  the  Repub- 
lican and  Democratic  tickets.  Mr. 
Riley  has  also  been  elected  a  director 
of  the  newly  organized  Northampton 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  one  of  the  trus- 


tees of  the  Lilly  Library  Association  of 
Northampton,  and  vice-president  of  the 
board. 

F.  S.  Fales  has  recently  been  elected 
as  director  of  the  Standard  Oil  Com- 
pany of  New  York,  and  president  of 
the  Standard  Transportation  Company, 
which  operates  their  oil-carrying  fleet. 

Philip  Mansfield,  ex-'96,  is  with  the 
law  firm  of  Vahey  and  Casson  at  18 
Tremont  St.,  Boston.  This  firm  acts 
as  counsel  for  most  of  the  prominent 
labor  organizations  of  Boston,  and  was 
particularly  active  on  behalf  of  the 
patrolmen  following  their  strike  last  fall. 

M.  E.  Gates,  Jr.,  is  with  the  law  firm 
of  Guthrie,  Bangs,  and  Van  Sinderen  at 
44  Wall  St.,  New  York.  Shortly  after 
obtaining  his  discharge  from  the 
A.  E.  F.  he  entered  the  legal  depart- 
ment at  the  head  office  of  the  Morris 
Plan  Company,  leaving  there  in  October 
to  take  his  present  position. 

The  Amherst  CoUege  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
has  maintained  a  Daily  Bible  Vacation 
School  at  Grace  Church,  Holyoke,  for 
the  past  ten  years.  The  student 
leaders  have  been  A.  B.  Boynton,  '10; 
Leland  Olds,  '12;  George  Olds,  Jr.,  '13; 
Charles  M.  Mills,  '14;  Walter  F.  Greene, 
'14;  Seelye  Bixler, '16;  WUliam  Rogers, 
■'18;  Daniel  Bliss,  '20.  Because  of  war 
and  post-war  conditions  a  student 
leader  was  out  of  the  question,  for  the 
past  two  summers,  and  Rev.  Edwin  B. 
Robinson,  pastor  of  Grace  Church,  took 
personal  charge.  This  year  he  was 
assisted  by  his  son,  Bradford  Robinson, 
who  plans  to  enter  Amherst  next  fall. 
This  school  has  the  use  of  Pilgrim  Field, 
a  new  possession  of  Grace  Church,  in- 
cluding all  the  land  between  Grace 
Church  and  the  Holyoke  Boy's  Club, 
a  splendid  playground  in  the  heart  of 
the  mill  section.     When  he  was  at  the 


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head  of  the  Vacation  School,  Seelye 
Bixler  started  a  printing  plant,  which 
has  developed  into  the  best  printing 
plant  connected  with  any  chm-ch  in 
New  England. 

Recently  as  moderator  of  Hampden 
Association  of  Congregational  Churches 
and  Ministers,  Mr.  Robinson  accepted 
a  gavel,  presented  by  the  Earl  of  Buck- 
inghamshire, a  direct  descendant  of 
John  Hampden.  The  gavel  is  made  of 
beechwood,  which  was  growing  near 
Hampden  House  during  John  Hamp- 
den's life  time. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
RajTuond  V.  Ingersoll  has  accepted 
the  post  of  secretary  of  the  City  Club 
of  New  York.     After  his  term  as  head 
of  the  Brooklyn  Park  Department  dur- 
ing the  Mitchel  administration,  he  went 
overseas  and  did  welfare  work  on  the 
I        French  front.     After  the  armistice  he 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Paris  com- 
mittee of  the  League  to  Enforce  Peace. 

k  Walter     S.     Frisbee     married     Miss 

Florence  Disbrow  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  on 
October  15th.  Rev.  Samuel  A.  Fiske, 
'97,  performed  the  ceremony,  and 
Henry  R.  French,  '99,  and  H.  Grmnell 
Disbrow,  '09,  were  among  the  ushers. 

Richard  Billings,  former  president 
of  the  Cormecticut  River  Railroad, 
has  been  elected  a  member  of  the  new 
board  of  directors  of  the  reorganized 
Boston  and  Maine  Railroad. 

Since  his  return  from  France,  where 
he  was  in  service  with  the  A.  E.  F.  at 
Bordeaux  and  Soissons,  E.  D.  Holt  hs^s 
made  his  home  at  91  Greenwich  Ave., 
Stamford,  Conn.  With  Dr.  Fred  B. 
Kelly  he  has  recently  published  a 
booklet  entitled,  "Bordeaux,  Historic 
and  Artistic." 


The  Rev.  Alexander  Hamilton 
Backus,  who  has  been  located  in  France 
for  several  years,  has  returned  to  this 
country.  He  was  married  on  Septem- 
ber 18th  in  Marseilles  to  Mile.  Juliette 
Blattes. 

1898 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Merriam,  Secretary, 

201  College  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Grand 

Rapids,  Mich. 

Howard  Hill  Mossman  died  at  his 
home,  971  Park  Ave.,  New  York  City, 
on  Friday,  November  21, 1919.  He  had 
not  been  in  good  health  for  some  time. 
He  was  a  son  of  the  late  Dr.  Nathan 
Ames  and  Mary  Hill  Mossman  and 
brother  of  Albert  Mossman.  He  was 
married  on  February  17,  1909,  to 
Miss  Edith  C.  Martin,  and  had  a  son, 
Howard,  born  in  1910.  The  Quar- 
terly regrets  that  at  the  time  of  going 
to  press  further  particulars  have  not 
been   learned. 

Prof.  AKred  S.  Goodale  of  Amherst 
is  spending  this  year  in  special  study  at 
Harvard. 

1899 
Charles  H.  Cobb,  Secretary, 

224  Albany  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Henry  P.  Kendall  has  been  appointed 
by  Governor  Coolidge  of  Massachu- 
setts as  a  member  of  the  advisory  board 
of  the  division  of  education  of  aliens  of 
the  department  of  education. 

In  writing  to  the  editor  of  the  Atlantic 
Monthly  concerning  his  article  "Is 
After-dinner  Speaking  a  Disease.'" 
Burges  Johnson  says,  "I  am  a  professor, 
but  I  am  inclined  to  avoid  the  constant 
announcement  of  that  fact  in  personal 
address.  If  Miss  Jones  calls  me  Pro- 
fessor Johnson,  surely  courtesy  requires 
that  I  shall  call  her  Student  Jones." 
The  article  in  question  will  be  especially 
interesting  to  those  who  attend  dinners 


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where  after-dinner   speaking  still   sur- 
vives. 

Rev.  Rodney  W.  Roimdy,  after  two 
and  a  half  years  of  effective  and  exceed- 
ingly valuable  service  as  assistant  secre- 
tary of  the  American  Missionary  Asso- 
ciation, has  resigned  in  order  to  accept 
a  position  as  associate  executive  secre- 
tary of  the  Home  Missions  Council  of 
the  Congregational  Church.  One  of 
his  first  tasks  in  connection  with  his 
new  service  is  the  pushing  of  a  move- 
ment to  arouse  the  churches  of  all 
denominations  in  the  northern  cities  to 
more  prompt  and  eflBcient  effort  for  the 
benefit  of  the  new  Negro  population, 
especially  in  those  parts  where  race 
relations  have  become  strained. 

W.  K.  Wright  is  assistant  professor  of 
philosophy  at  Dartmouth  College. 

Prof.  William  J.  Newlin  of  Amherst 
has  been  appointed  director  of  edu- 
cational work  in  Serbia  under  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Prof.  John  Corsa,  who  retired  from 
the  Amherst  Faculty  last  June,  is  study- 
ing horticulture  at  the  University  of 
Florida,  preparatory  to  taking  charge 
of  a  large  fruit  plantation. 

Ralph  W.  Smith  died  very  suddenly 
on  Monday,  December  1st,  while  at 
work  in  his  office.  He  was  advertising 
manager  of  the  Cooper- Wells  Company, 
manufacturers  of  the  Ironclad  brand  of 
seamless  hosiery,  situated  at  St.  Joseph, 
Mich. 

Mr.  Smith  was  42  years  old.  He  was 
born  in  Hadley,  Mass.,  and  was  the 
youngest  son  of  G.  M.  and  Mary  Cook 
Smith.  He  received  his  education  at 
Hopkins  Academy,  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  Amherst,  from  which  he 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1899.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta 
fraternity.     He  came  to  St.  Joseph  on 


September  1,  1917,  and  in  the  short 
time  he  had  been  in  his  new  connection 
he  had  been  very  successful  and  it  is 
doubtful  if  there  was  a  more  popular 
man  in  the  organization.  He  also 
looked  after  the  sales  department  and 
was  office  manager.  He  came  to  St. 
Joseph  from  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.,  where  he 
had  been  assistant  sales  advertising 
manager  for  the  Ft.  Waj-ne  Knitting 
Company.  Although  a  resident  of  St. 
Joseph  for  a  short  time,  IMr.  Smith  was 
active  in  civic  life.  He  assisted  in  many 
of  the  war  loan  campaigns,  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  Rotary  Club,  and  was 
its  first  vice-president;  he  was  active 
in  the  work  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
chairman  of  the  advertising  and  con- 
vention committee. 

He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  who  was 
Miss  Edith  Wink  of  Chicago,  together 
with  one  son,  Ralph,  Jr.,  aged  11,  and 
two  brothers,  one  of  whom  is  Dr.  Frank 
H.  Smith,  '93,  of  Hadley. 

1900 

Arthur  V.  Ltall,  Secretary, 
225   West  57th  St.,   New  York  City. 

Harold  I.  Pratt  is  one  of  the  incor- 
porators of  the  American  central  com- 
mittee for  Russian  relief,  which  was 
organized  with  the  election  of  Charles 
W.  Eliot,  president-emeritus  of  Harvard 
University,  as  its  first  president.  Its 
pin-pose  is  to  coordinate  the  collection 
of  funds  and  other  necessities  for  the 
stricken  people  of  Russia,  and  the  in- 
corporation was  granted  with  the  ap- 
proval of  Supreme  Court  Justice 
Giegerich,  on  the  understanding  that 
the  purpose  was  to  aid  non-Bolshevist 
Russians. 

Thomas  J.  Hammond  was  elected  on 
the  Republican  ticket  in  November,  by 
a  majority  of  four  thousand,  as  district 


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attorney  in  the  northwestern  district  of 
Massachusetts.  Major  Hamnaond  has 
also  been  elected  a  director  of  the  newly 
organized  Northampton  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

Recent  magazine  contributions  by 
Walter  A.  Dyer  include  "Books  of  the 
Golden  Days"  in  the  Bookman  for 
October,  "The  Popular  Boston  Terrier" 
in  Country  Life  for  November,  and 
"Cashmere  and  Paisley  Shawls"  in 
Country  Life  for  December. 

1901 

Hakrt  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  St.,  New  York  City. 

Rev.  Noble  S.  Elderkin  sailed  last 
fall  from  New  York  to  attend  the  inter- 
national conference  of  the  Fellowship 
of  Reconciliation,  which  was  held  in 
Utrecht.  He  is  field  secretary  of  the 
Fellowship  in  the  United  States,  and 
was  appointed  delegate  at  the  national 
conference  held  in  September. 

HuU  Rockwell,  the  fourteen  year  old 
son  of  ISIr.  and  Mrs.  Loren  H.  Rock- 
well, of  Rockville  Center,  N.  Y.,  died 
on  October  13th,  after  an  illness  of  five 
weeks.  He  was  in  his  junior  year  in 
high  school,  was  active  in  the  school 
life,  and  very  popular. 

N.  L.  Goodrich  is  librarian  at  Dart- 
mouth College. 

1902 

S.  Bowles  King,  Secretary, 
Winnetka,  111. 

Robert  W.  Maynard  has  been  elected 
a  member  of  the  board  of  managers  of 
the  Boston  Dispensary. 

Frank  L.  Boyden  spoke  at  Amherst 
on  November  2nd  about  his  work  at 
Deerfield  Academy.  He  explained  in 
detail  the  interesting  experiment  at  the 
school    which    he    is    conducting.     His 


success  has  attracted  wide  attention  in 
educational  circles,  and  in  fact,  he  has 
had  many  opportunies  to  go  elsewhere, 
but  he  has  felt  that  it  was  wisest  to 
continue  the  work.  Mr.  Boyden  was 
recently  elected  one  of  the  trustees  of 
the  Franklin  County  Trust  Company. 

Howard  B.  Gibbs  has  been  put  in 
charge  of  the  mathematics  department 
at  Deerfield  Academy. 

Rev.  Clarence  A.  Lincoln  has  re- 
signed the  pastorate  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
to  become  pastor  of  the  King's  High- 
way Congregational  Church  in  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.  He  assumed  his  new  duties 
on  December  1st. 

F.  B.  Cross  is  with  the  Century  Fur- 
niture Company,  in  Springfield. 

Frank  A.  Cook,  upon  his  return  from 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  France,  has  ac- 
cepted a  position  in  the  advertising 
department  of  the  Neiv  York  Commercial. 

Eugene  S.  Wilson,  counsel  for  the 
Chicago  Telephone  Company  for  the 
past  two  years,  has  been  appointed 
assistant  to  the  vice-president  of  the 
American  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Company,  in  charge  of  rate  making 
for  the  entire  Bell  system.  Mr.  Wilson 
moved  to  New  York  on  January  1st  to 
assume  his  new  duties.  He  will  con- 
tinue as  president  of  the  Amherst  Club 
of  Chicago  (of  which  S.  B.  King  is  vice- 
president  and  W.  J.  Burke  a  director) 
until  after  the  meeting  at  Chicago, 
next  April,  of  the  Alumni  Council. 

Charles  H.  Dayton  has  been  ap- 
pointed class  treasurer  and  S.  Bowles 
King  class  secretary,  to  fill  the  vacancy 
caused  by  Eldon  B.  Keith's  death. 
President  Maynard  announces  that 
these  appointments  will  hold  until  the 
next  reunion. 


132      Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


1903 

Clifford  P.  Warren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Louis  E.  Cadieux  has  resigned  from 
the  American  Book  Company  to  be- 
come manager  of  the  Maiden  branch  of 
the  Arms  ^Manufacturing  Company, 
of  South  Deerfield,  manufacturers  of 
leather  novelties.  Mr.  Cadieux  will 
live  in  Belmont  as  heretofore.  His 
daughter  and  first  child,  Ruth  Went- 
worth,  was  born  on  October  4th. 

William  Fitts  Warren,  fourth  child  of 
Clififord  P.  Warren,  was  born  on  October 
11th. 

Stanley  King  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Wilson  one  of  the  seventeen  mem- 
bers of  the  second  industrial  conference, 
which  began  its  sessions  in  Washington 
December  1st.  The  report  and  recom- 
mendations of  the  conference  will  prob- 
ably have  been  made  public  by  the  time 
this  Quarterly  issues.  It  can  now  be 
said  that  the  conference  is  probably 
one  of  the  most  important  gatherings 
that  the  country  has  ever  seen,  and 
that  the  appointment  of  Mr.  King  to  a 
body  of  such  importance  and  com- 
prised of  men  of  such  distinction  is  a 
great  honor  to  him.  He  was  appointed 
temporary  secretary  of  the  conference 
until  an  executive  secretary,  not  a 
delegate,  could  be  chosen. 

Sam  Higginbottom,  "the  Presby- 
terian lay  missionary,  preacher  of  the 
plough,  principal  of  the  Agricultural 
Institute  at  Allahabad,  India,  director 
of  agriculture  of  Givalior  State,  and 
superintendent  of  the  Leper  Asylum  at 
Naini,  India,"  has  arrived  in  this  coun- 
try with  his  six  children,  all  of  whom 
were  born  in  India. 

R.  W.  Jones  is  assistant  professor  of 
German  at  Dartmouth  College. 


G.  P.  Putnam's  have  recently  pub- 
lished an  "Investment  Handbook"  by 
Albert  W.  At  wood.  It  is  a  volume  of 
nearly  400  pages.  The  book  is  very 
readable  and  should  prove  of  the 
greatest  value  both  to  the  experienced 
investor  and  to  the  novice. 

1904 

Karl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
11306  Knowlton  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

J.  Willard  Roberts,  formerly  of  the 
Income  Tax  Unit,  Bureau  of  Internal 
Revenue,  Washington,  D.  C,  has 
opened  an  office  for  the  general  practice 
of  public  accountancy  at  165  Broadway, 
New  York  City.  He  is  now  residing  at 
423  West  120th  St.,  New  York. 

George  K.  Pond  of  Greenfield  was 
elected  on  the  Republican  ticket  to  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representa- 
tives at  the  November  election. 

H.  T.  Ballard  is  vice-president  of  the 
Sunset  Motor  Company,  Seattle,  Wash., 
with  home  address  at  2621  Cascadia 
Ave. 

C.  H.  Brown,  Jr.,  is  assistant  general 
manager  of  the  Wollensak  Optical  Com- 
pany, Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Since  giving  up  his  work  with  the 
Emergency  Fleet  Corporation,  A.  F. 
Dodge  has  resumed  his  teaching  in  the 
Somerville  (N.  J.)  High  School. 

A.  A.  Livingston  is  editor  of  the  For- 
eign Press  Service  in  New  York  City, 
and  is  living  at  2880  Broadway. 

Mrs.  William  Northrop  Morse  died 
in  Amherst,  August  19,  1919,  from  the 
effects  of  overwork  in  Red  Cross  and 
other  forms  of  war  service.  Before  her 
marriage  she  was  Miss  Margaret  Hincks 
of  San  Jose,  Cal.  Both  in  war  work  and 
in  literary  work  she  assisted  her  husband 
in  every  way  possible,  proving  herself 


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very  efficient.    She  leaves  two  sons  and 
a  daughter,  the  oldest  a  boy  of  ten. 

H.  S.  Richardson  is  training  assistant 
with  the  Federal  Reserve  Board  for 
vocational  rehabOitation  in  district  No. 
1,  with  headquarters  in  the  Little  Build- 
ing, Boston,  Mass. 

N.  U.  Birdseye  is  second  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Detroit  Graphite  Company, 
in  charge  of  the  office  in  the  Equitable 
Building,  New  York  City. 

D.  L.  Symington  is  president  of  the 
Symington  Corporation,  with  office  in 
the  Maryland  Trust  Building,  Balti- 
more, Md. 

1905 

John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Harold  Frederic  Coggeshall,  one  of  the 
most  popular  members  of  the  class  of 
1905  and  famous  in  Amherst's  athletic 
history  as  the  man  who  scored  the 
touchdown  at  Harvard  when  Amherst 
defeated  the  Crimson  in  1903,  died  at 
his  home  in  Hollywood,  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  on  Wednesday,  November  12th, 
after  a  long  and  painful  illness  from 
pernicious  anaemia. 

Harold  Coggeshall  was  exceedingly 
gifted.  Like  his  father,  who  was  a  lead- 
ing political  figure  in  New  York  State 
for  two  decades,  he  was  an  exceptional 
orator,  and  his  undeniable  charm  and 
personal  magnetism  made  him  count- 
less friends.  Few  men  of  the  class  were 
more  rich  in  promise.  His  natural  elo- 
quence, his  capacity  for  friendshij)  and, 
his  alert  intelligence  would  have  carried 
him  far  if  he  had  not  been  prematurely 
stricken. 

He  was  born  in  Waterville,  N.  Y.,  son 
of  Senator  Henry  J.  Coggeshall,  on  Au- 
gust 27,  1883,  and  attended  the  Water- 
ville High  School,  where  he  won  prizes 


in  public  speaking  and  a  scholarship. 
At  Amherst  he  was  very  active  in  class 
and  college  affairs.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity, 
played  fullback  on  his  class  and  'varsity 
football  teams,  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Kellogg  fifteen  and  Kellogg 
five,  senior  class  orator,  winner  of  the 
Ladd  prize  in  Junior  year,  member  of 
Scarab,  the  Hyde  fifteen,  the  Hardy 
sixteen,  and  the  Hyde  six.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Sophomore  Hop  com- 
mittee and  chairman  of  the  Junior  Prom 
committee,  and  chairman  of  the  Senior 
Prom  committee. 

After  graduation  he  entered  business 
in  New  York  for  a  short  time  and  then 
accepted  a  position  under  the  govern- 
ment with  the  Indian  Commission. 
Most  of  the  time  he  was  assigned  to  the 
West,  and  he  rendered  very  valuable 
service  in  helping  to  suppress  illicit 
liquor  traffic  with  the  Indians.  At  the 
time  he  was  stricken,  early  in  1917,  he 
was  at  Shiprock,  N.  M.,  where  he  had 
charge  of  the  San  Juan  Navajo  Reser- 
vation. He  had  nearly  seven  thousand 
Navajos  scattered  over  a  territory  of 
five  thousand  square  miles  to  look  after, 
as  well  as  the  supervision  and  care  of 
two  large  Indian  boarding  schools,  a 
coal  mine,  sawmill,  and  many  varied 
activities,  which  meant  a  tremendous 
strain  on  his  vitality.  AVhen  he  was 
taken  ill,  he  went  to  Redlands,  Cal.,  and 
later  to  Los  Angeles.  A  year  ago  his 
condition  was  very  serious;  but  early 
last  spring  he  improved  considerably, 
which  improvement  continued  until 
about  September  1st. 

He  married  Miss  Marjorie  Wilson  of 
Waterville,  N.  Y.,  sister  of  Claude  T. 
Wilson,  '07,  and  L.  H.  Wilson,  '11,  on 
June  1,  1911.  Besides  his  wife,  he  is 
survived  by  his  mother,-  two  brothers, 
and  a  sister. 

Ward  C.  Moon  has  been  elected  su- 


134   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


perintendent  of  schools  at  Poughkeep- 
sie,  N.  Y. 

A  son,  Tyler  Alexander  Hopkins,  was 
born  on  September  28,  1919,  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  T.  Hopkins. 

A  son,  William  H.  Patch,  was  born  on 
the  same  day,  September  28th,  to  Mr. 
and] Mrs.  Ralph  S.  Patch  of  Plainfield. 
N.J. 

Brainerd  Dyer  of  the  Aluminum 
Casting  Company  of  Cleveland  was  one 
of  the  principal  speakers  at  the  annual 
convention  of  the  association  of  Na- 
tional Advertisers  which  was  held  in 
Lakewood,  N.  J.,  in  December.  He 
served  as  a  director  of  the  association 
last  year.  His  correct  home  address  is 
2919  Scarborough  Rd.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Ernest  Alpers  was  married  on  Tues- 
day, November  11,  in  New  York  City, 
to  Miss  Margaret  Bracken,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  De  Witt  Lloyd  Bracken. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alpers  are  residing  at  519 
West  21st  St.,  New  York  City. 

Dr.  Claud  M.  Fuess  is  executive  sec- 
retary of  the  Phillips  Andover  Academy 
endowment  fund.  The  goal  is  $1,500,- 
000.  With  Principal  A.  E.  Stearns,  Dr. 
Fuess  went  as  far  west  as  the  Pacific 
Coast  late  last  fall  to  address  alumni 
meetings  in  the  interest  of  the  fund. 

John  B.  O'Brien  has  accepted  a  posi- 
tion with  the  Aeolian  Company  of  New 
York. 

A.  F.  Noble  acted  as  official  at  several 
of  the  big  football  games  last  fall,  in- 
cluding the  Yale-Brown  game,  where 
he  served  as  field  judge. 

Ashley  B.  Sturgis  is  now  located  at 
538  Pershing  Ave.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Harry  G.  Grover  has  removed  to  278 
Carmita  Ave.,  Rutherford,  N.  J.  A 
daughter,  Christabel,  was  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Grover  on  Christmas  day. 


1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 

Tracy-Parry   Advertising   Company, 

Lafayette  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

James  S.  Hamilton  is  serving  tem- 
porarily as  the  editor  of  Romance,  New 
York.  In  the  spring  he  expects  to  get 
into  the  moving-picture  game  on  its 
editorial  side. 

John  H.  A.  Williams  is  with  the 
American  Smelting  and  Refining  Com- 
pany, Aquascalientes,  Mexico. 

1907 

Charles   P.    Slocum,    Secretary, 

202    Lake    Ave.,    Newton    Highlands, 

Mass. 

In  addition  to  his  advertising  agency 
and  the  writing  of  various  magazine 
articles,  Bruce  Barton,  has  received  an 
appointment  from  the  School  of  Com- 
merce, Accounts,  and  Finance  of  New 
York  University  and  is  giving  a  course 
in  the  essentials  of  advertising.  He  was 
one  of  the  principal  speakers  at  the 
recent  annual  banquet  of  the  Credit 
Men's  Association  in  New  York. 

L.  E.  Kreider  has  been  made  manager 
of  the  Boston  office  of  the  American 
Lithographic  Company. 

Felix  B.  Atwood,  who  was  formerly 
with  the  Cleveland  Osborn  Company, 
is  now  treasurer  of  the  Springfield  Fac- 
ing Company. 

Walter  F.  Pond  has  finished  his  course 
at  M.  I.  T.  and  is  now  with  the  Missouri 
State  Biu-eau  of  Mines,  Joplin,  Mo. 

Rev.  Edward  C.  Boynton,  who  has 
been  stationed  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  as 
navy  chaplain,  returned  early  in  De- 
cember to  his  pastorate  at  Adams 
Square  Congregational  Church,  Wor- 
cester, Mass. 


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The  trustees  of  the  Massachusetts 
Agricultural  College  have  appointed 
John  D.  Willard  to  succeed  Prof.  W.  D. 
Hiu"d  as  director  of  the  extension  serv- 
ice. Mr.  Willard  came  to  the  college 
early  in  1919  to  take  charge  of  the  ex- 
tension work  in  marketing,  which  posi- 
tion he  filled  until  Governor  Coolidge 
appointed  him  to  act  on  the  commission 
on  the  necessities  of  life.  He  took  up 
his  new  work  at  M.  A.  C.  on  January 
1st. 

1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 

Captain  George  C.  Elsey  has  received 
through  the  War  Department  the  Soli- 
daridad  medal  from  the  Panama  Re- 
public. The  following  citation  accom- 
panied the  medal:  "The  Republic  of 
Panama  has  this  date  given  to  Major 
G.  C.  Elsey,  U.  S.  A.,  the  medal  of  La 
Solidaridad  of  the  third  class,  for  merit 
of  his  distinguished  services  for  the  cause 
of  the  allies." 

Captain  Elsey  served  in  France  with 
the  18th  Infantry  of  the  famous  1st 
Division,  and  since  his  return  to  this 
country  has  been  stationed  in  Boston  on 
recruiting  work.  His  regular  rank  in  the 
army  is  that  of  captain,  although  he 
served  as  major  during  the  war. 

Gilbert  Weed  Benedict  and  Mrs. 
Margaret  D.  Hargis  were  married  on 
Wednesday,  October  22nd,  in  Denver, 
Col.  They  are  at  home  at  812  West 
State  St.,  Albuquerque,  N.  M. 

A  daughter  was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
H.  W.  Zinsmaster  on  October  10,  1919. 

Dr.  M.  H.  Post,  Jr.,  has  resumed  his 
practice  in  St.  Louis,  after  his  absence 
with  the  U.  S.  Army  in  England. 

Holbrook  Bonney  was  recently  mar- 
ried. 


Paul  Welles  has  returned  to  New 
York  City,  after  seeing  service  in  France. 
He  is  living  at  789  West  End  Ave. 

Ned  R.  Powley  has  been  appointed 
division  commercial  superintendent  of 
the  southern  division  of  the  Pacific 
Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company  and 
commercial  superintendent  of  the  South- 
ern California  Telephone  Company. 

1909 
Donald  D.  McKay,  Secretary, 
Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 
A  son,  Chipman  Woodard  Cunning- 
ham, was  born  November  24th  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Kenneth  C.  Cunningham,  of 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

On  December  4th,  a  son,  Frederic 
Harrington  Butts,  2nd,  was  born  to  Mr 
and  Mrs.  F.  Marsena  Butts,  of  New- 
tonville,  Mass. 

Rev.  Elliott  O.  Foster  has  accepted 
a  call  to  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Athol,  Mass. 

The  Class  Paper,  the  Whifenpoof, 
will  be  mailed  very  soon  to  all  the  mem- 
bers of  the  class.  Its  publication  was 
delayed  on  account  of  the  printers' 
strike  in  New  York. 

1910 

George  B.  Burnett,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
Harold  E.  Woodward  has  been  with 
E.  I.  du  Pont  de  Nemours  and  Com- 
pany at  Deepwater  Point,  N.  J.,  doing 
research  work  on  special  dyes. 

R.  F.  Gardner  is  in  the  educational 
department  of  the  McGraw-Hill  Book 
Company  of  New  York  City,  and  is 
living  at  22  Engle  St.,  Englewood,  N.  J. 

Rev.  A.  B.  Boynton  is  pastor  of 
the  Mohawk  Reform  Church,  Mohawk, 
N.  Y. 


136   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


Raymond  P.  Wheeler  has  been  ap- 
pointed chau-man  of  the  class  tenth  re- 
union committee.  He  has  been  trans- 
ferred to  the  Xew  York  branch  of  the 
Tra\-elers  Insurance  Company,  with 
office  at  76  Williams  St. 

Robert  A.  Hardy  was  married  to 
Miss  Ruth  Howard  at  Guilford,  Conn., 
on  October  18th.  They  are  living  at 
162  Twenty-fifth  St.,  Elmhurst,  L.  I. 

Abe  Mitchell  is  secretary  of  the  Mag- 
azine Circulation  Company,  which  pub- 
lishes the  Woman's  Weekly  with  a  cir- 
culation of  257,000.  This  is  the  same 
company  with  which  S.  W.  Pratt,  '10, 
is  connected  in  the  advertising  depart- 
ment. Mitchell  is  also  publishing  a 
small  magazine,  entitled  Over-Here,  be- 
ing president  of  the  company.  Camp- 
bell Marvin, '  1 1,  is  secretary  and  business 
manager. 

Eustice  Seligman  was  a  member  of 
the  campaign  committee  organized  last 
fall  by  the  Citizens'  Union  in  New  York 
to  defeat  the  Tammany  supreme  court 
judicial  ticket. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  N.  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
W.  Curtis  Stith,  who  has  been  a 
member  of  the  editorial  department  of 
the  Neiv  York  World  during  the  last  six 
years,  has  joined  the  copy  stafiF  of  the 
Blackman-Ross  Company,  advertising 
agency,  New  York  City. 

Chester  F.  Chapin,  who  returned 
from  artillery  training  at  Saumur, 
France,  late  last  summer,  has  rejoined 
the  Vick  Chemical  Company,  at  Greens- 
boro, N.  C,  as  assistant  to  the  adver- 
tising manager. 

The  firm  of  J.  S.  Patterson  and  Sons, 
of  Findlay,  Ohio,  established  in  18-t9, 
has   been   dissolved    through    the   pur- 


chase of  all  its  interests  by  Charles  W. 
Patterson,  U.  S.  Army,  senior  member 
of  the  firm,  and  his  son,  Arthur  D. 
Patterson,  recently  major  of  Infantry, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  firm  name  of  C.  W.  Patterson  and 
Son. 

A.  K.  Pattison  is  assistant  professor 
of  French  and  Waldo  Shumway  is  assist- 
ant professor  of  biology  at  Dartmouth. 

Frank  C.  Elder  is  connected  with  the 
General  Electric  Company  at  Schenec- 
tady. 

William  E.  Boyer  is  sales  manager  of 
the  Cliquot  Club  Company,  at  Millis, 

Mass. 

A  son,  Robert  Barrett,  was  born  on 
October  29th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hylton 
L.  Bravo  of  Phillips  Beach,  Mass. 
Mr.  Bravo  is  with  the  Coburn  Kittredge 
Company  of  Boston. 

George  W.  Williams  has  recently  re- 
tuj-ned  from  Siberia,  where  he  was 
American  Consul  to  the  All-Russian 
government  at  Omsk.  He  was  for- 
merly in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  in  Siberia, 
but  was  forced  to  give  it  up  on  account 
of  the  counter-revolution  against  the 
Kerensky  government. 

Campbell  Marvin  is  secretary  and 
business-manager  of  a  magazine  en- 
titled Over-Here,  published  in  Chicago, 
and  printed  twice  a  month  "to  keep  up 
the  friendships  over  here,  made  by  the 
boys  over  there." 

1912 

C.  Francis  Beatty,  Secretary, 
953  President  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Fred  B.  Millett  has  accepted  an  ap- 
pointment as  professor  of  English  on  the 
Faculty  of  the  Carnegie  Institute  at 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.  He  has  been  teaching 
for  several  years  at  Whitman,  Mass. 


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Dr.  Philip  L.  Turner  is  now  out  of  the 
service  and  has  opened  an  office  for  the 
practice  of  medicine  and  surgery  at  30 
Kenyon  Court,  Utica,  N.  Y.  After 
serving  in  several  camps  in  this  country 
and  being  commissioned  a  first  lieuten- 
ant in  the  Medical  Corps,  he  sailed  with 
the  Mobile  Operating  Unit  No.  1,  on 
July  6,  1918,  for  the  other  side.  He  was 
at  Chateau-Thierry  in  August,  1918, 
and  near  Verdun  during  the  Argonne 
offensive. 

A  letter  was  recently  received  from 
Alfred  B.  Peacock,  written  from  Sydney, 
Australia,  under  date  of  October  27, 
1919.  Peacock  is  acting  as  foreign  sales 
representative  for  the  Paige  Motor 
Car  Company.  He  writes:  "I  came 
out  here  in  April  and  do  not  expect  to 
return  to  America  for  some  months  to 
come,  for  I  have  a  schedule  which  in- 
cludes Australasia,  India,  China,  Japan, 
Siam,  Singapore,  the  Malay  States, 
Indo-China,  Manchuria.  After  a  visit 
to  New  Zealand  for  which  I  am  leaving 
this  week,  I  am  off  to  Ceylon,  and  from 
Bombay  hope  to  drop  in  on  Ahmed- 
nagar  and  see  if  any  of  the  Amherst 
Fairbanks  are  there.  While  in  Pekin  I 
expect  to  see  Leiper,  '13,  and  I  hope 
some  others.  I  have  hopes  of  getting 
back  for  Commencement,  1921,  and 
will  be  much  disappointed  if  I  fail." 

Arthur  B.  Lyon  is  on  the  staff  of  the 
Rockefeller  Foundation  Hospital,  66th 
St.,  and  Avenue  A,  New  York  City. 

1913 

Lewis  D.   Stilwell,   Secretary, 
8  School  St.,  Hanover,  N.  H. 

Ralph  AV.  Westcott  is  now  superin- 
tendent of  schools  at  Walpole,  Mass. 

H.  K.  Murphy  is  teaching  history  in 
Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  N.  Y. 

Lewis   D.   Stilwell   has   returned   to 


Dartmouth    College    as    instructor    in 
history. 

Hunt  Warner  has  accepted  a  position 
with  Lawrence  Minot,  18  Tremont  St., 
Boston. 

H.  S.  Leiper  has  begun  work  with  the 
Y.   M.   C.   A.   student   department  in 
^tt'ientsin,  China. 

L.  G.  Caldwell  is  junior  member  of 
the  law  firm  of  McCormick,  Kirkland, 
Patterson  and  Fleming  in  the  Tribune 
Building,  Chicago. 

Wallace  Coxhead  is  completely  re- 
covered from  his  long  illness,  and  is 
doing  well  in  the  automobile  business  in 
Denver. 

H.  G.  Allen  is  in  the  service  of  the 
Babson  Statistical  Bureau,  living  at  344 
High  St.,  Newark,  N.  J. 

William  G.  Hamilton  is  with  the 
Holmes  Eureka  Lumber  Company,  San 
Francisco. 

Edward-  C.  Knudson  is  a  protection 
engineer  with  the  Automatic  Sprinkler 
Company  of  America,  123  William  St., 
New  York. 

H.  L.  Loomis  is  now  with  Rufus 
French,  Inc.,  a  publishers'  service  house, 
at  1133  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

W.  J.  Wilcox  has  become  employ- 
ment manager  of  the  Rome  Wire  Com- 
pany, Rome,  N.  Y. 

John  L.  King  is  now  manager  of  the 
Buckfield  Stock  Farm  in  Yemassee, 
S.  C. 

Jack  Steele  is  recovering  from  a  seri- 
ous illness  at  St.  Joseph's  Sanitorium, 
Asheville,  N.  C. 

A  bad  attack  of  pneumonia  has  sent 
Dr.  Frank  Babbott  to  Hot  Springs,  Va., 
for  a  period  of  recuperation. 

Alfred  Newbury  has  been  busy  with 


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the  New  York  City  publication  depart- 
ment of  the  nation-wide  campaign  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

H.  H.  Pride  is  now  with  the  Ingersoll 
Watch  Company  and  living  at  301  West 
108th  St.,  New  York  City. 

H.   P.  Partenheimer  has  moved  his 
home  from  Springfield  to  109  Broadway# 
Chicopee  Falls.    He  has  a  baby  boy. 

Paul  F.  Good  has  hung  out  his  shingle 
as  a  lawyer  in  the  Security  Mutual 
Building,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

Robert  I.  Stout  and  Miss  Anna 
Louise  Wallace  were  married  in  Chicago 
on  September  30th. 

J.  F.  Macdonald  is  now  branch  man- 
ager for  the  Braden  Preserving  Com- 
pany in  San  Francisco. 

Miner  Tuttle  returned  in  October 
from  France,  and  has  resumed  his  law 
work  with  Sullivan  and  Cromwell,  at  49 
Wall  St.,  New  York  City. 

K.  S.  Patten  is  now  with  the  auditing 
department  of  the  Emergency  Fleet 
Corporation  in  Philadelphia. 

At  the  annual  convention  of  the  Con- 
necticut State  Teachers'  Association  at 
South  Norwalk  on  October  27th,  C.  L. 
Tappin,  of  the  Crosby  High  School 
Faculty,  Waterbury,  Conn.,  addressed 
the  meeting  on  the  "Best  Methods  of 
Teaching  Modern  Languages,"  at  the 
same  time  emphasizing  the  obligation 
of  language  teachers  to  take  advantage 
of  every  opportunity  for  comparison  of 
ideas  and  ideals  and  the  furthering  of 
Americanism. 

A  son,  Hilliard,  Jr.,  was  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hilliard  A.  Proctor  on  No- 
vember 19th  at  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  Leslie  Cad- 
man  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  also  announce 


the   recent   arrival    of    a    son,    Samuel 
Parkes  Cadman,  2d. 

Walter  W.  Smith,  recently  returned 
from  France,  is  now  physical  instructor 
in  the  North  Union  High  School,  Union- 
town,  Pa. 

Emerson  Sheldon  Searle  was  re- 
cently admitted  to  the  bar  in  Holyoke. 
He  received  his  law  training  at  the 
Boston  University  Law  School  and  in 
the  law  oflSce  of  David  A.  Keedy,  '02. 

Assistant  District  Attorney  John  B. 
Stanchfield,  Jr.,  of  New  York  City,  has 
recently  received  the  Italian  War  Cross 
and  brevet  in  recognition  of  his  services 
in  sinking  a  number  of  German  sub- 
marines at  Dm-azzo  in  October,  1918. 
He  then  was  ensign  on  submarine  chaser 
No.  327.  Mr.  Stanchfield  received  the 
cross  through  the  Bureau  of  Navigation 
at  Washington. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  H.  Paul  Barnes  of  Ambler,  Pa.,  to 
Miss  Sevenna  C.  Moore  of  Philadelphia. 
Miss  Moore  is  the  daughter  of  Congress- 
man and  Mrs.  J.  Hampton  Moore. 
Congressman  Moore  has  been  one  of  the 
most  prominent  members  of  the  House 
and  was  recently  elected  mayor  of  Phil- 
adelphia by  a  big  majority. 

Sanford  P.  W'ilcox  has  offered  two 
cups  as  first  and  second  prizes  for  the 
Interfraternity  Squash  Tom-nament  at 
Amherst  to  be  held  soon.  The  cups 
will  go  each  year  to  the  winner  and 
runner-up  of  the  tournament. 

Friday  night,  December  5th,  at  Keen's 
Chop  House  in  New  York,  seventeen 
members  of  '13  gathered  for  a  class 
supper.  The  following  men  were  pres- 
ent :  Atkinson,  Benedict,  Cobb,  Cousins, 
Coyle,  Cutler,  Greene,  Harwood,  Little- 
john,  Loomis,  Morse,  Newbery,  Quill, 
Seaman,  Stelling,  Stubbs,  and  Tuttle. 


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139 


1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Dr.  Haliock  Luce  was  married  on 
November  5th,  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
to  Miss  Mary  Alice  Pratt,  daughter  of 
the  late  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Austin 
Pratt,  and  cousin  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Hills  Her,  at  the  latter's  home. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Luce  are  making  their 
home  at  Riverhead,  N.  Y. 

John  K.  Hough  has  been  appointed 
manager  of  the  auto  tire  department  of 
the  Goodyear  Tire  and  Rubber  Com- 
pany. Charles  H.  Moulton  is  con- 
nected with  the  same  company  in  their 
Boston  ofBce. 

Theodore  H.  Hubbard  is  with  the 
Federal  Adding  Machine  Company. 

Walter  F.  Greene,  who  for  the  past 
five  years  has  been  teaching  in  the 
Protestant  College  at  Beirut,  Syria,  has 
returned  to  this  country  and  is  in- 
structor in  biology  at  Yale  University, 
where  he  is  also  studying  for  a  Ph.D. 

Royal  Firman  has  been  transferred 
to  the  New  York  branch  of  the  National 
Importing  and  Trading  Corporation  of 
50  Broad  St. 

Frank  A.  Bernero  is  with  Kichin, 
Woolsey  and  Hickox,  lawyers,  27  Wil- 
liam St.,  New  York  City. 

A  memorial  tablet  in  honor  of  the 
late  Austin  Hersh,  killed  at  Metz,  on 
October  23,  1918,  was  unveiled  at  the 
Congregation  B'  Nai  Israel  of  Eliza- 
beth, N.  J.,  on  October  23,  1919. 
Among  those  attending  was  a  delega- 
tion of  the  class  of  191-1.  Hersh's  ca- 
reer in  college  and  the  qualities  which 
caused  him  to  be  loved  and  respected 
by  all  that  knew  him  were  eulogized  by 
John  W.  Strahan,  Jr.,  '14. 


Walter  McGay,  former  Amherst  foot- 
ball captain,  who  has  played  with  the 
Hammond,  Ind.,  professional  team  this 
fall,  is  leaving  the  employ  of  Mont- 
gomery Ward  and  Company  to  accept 
the  position  of  assistant  treasurer  of  a 
new  concern  being  formed  in  Boston  for 
the  manufacture  of  glue. 

1915 

Louis  F.  Eaton,  Secretary, 
210  Ash  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 

John  J.  Atwater,  the  class  president, 
is  engaged  in  the  coal  business,  dividing 
his  time  between  Fall  River,  Mass.,  and 
Bluefields,  W.  Va.  John  J.  Atwater, 
Jr.,  born  June  3,  1919,  is  among  the 
lively  offspring  of  '15. 

Leon  M.  Barnes  of  Windsor,  Conn., 
is  connected  with  the  Connecticut 
River  Banking  Company  of  Hartford. 

Oliver  B.  Bennett  is  an  attorney  and 
farm  loan  appraiser,  connected  with  the 
real  estate  and  farm  mortgage  depart- 
ment of  the  N.  Y.  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. He  is  located  in  Mapleton,  Iowa, 
with  offices  in  Sioux  Falls  and  Mapleton. 
Dorothy  Bennett  was  born  on  July  23, 
1919. 

Frederick  M.  Bissinger  is  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  at  Front  and  Jackson 
Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

Francis  Wesley  Blair  has  been  con- 
nected for  some  time  with  the  chemical 
department  of  the  Proctor  and  Gamble 
Company  and  is  living  in  Wyoming, 
Ohio.  Wesley  married  Miss  Ruth  Clark 
of  Amherst  and  started  the  1915  mat- 
rimonial race  so  far  ahead  of  the  rest  of 
the  field  that  they  have  few  competitors 
with  two-year-olds  whose  names  will 
later  add  to  Amherst's  fame.  Clark 
Lewis  Blair  was  born  November  18, 
1917. 


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Warren  A.  Breckenridge,  after  two 
years  at  the  Harvard  Law  School,  has 
decided  not  to  practice  the  law,  but  has 
entered  the  candy  business  with  his 
brother-in-law,  with  the  Gordon-Rain- 
etter  Company  of  Omaha.  Breck's  en- 
gagement to  Miss  Adele  Bardwell  of 
Minneapolis  has  been  announced. 

J.  Theodore  Cross  completed  his 
work  at  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  the 
fall,  and  is  now  assiduously  pursuing  the 
law  at  the  offices  of  Breed,  Abbott,  and 
Morgan,  32  Liberty  St.,  New  York 
City.  Two  of  the  members  of  the  firm 
are  Amherst  men,  so  Ted  should  at 
least  have  the  opportunity  to  attract  a 
little  attention. 

Da\ad  S.  Cutler  was  married  October 
11,  1919,  to  Miss  Hazel  Wavle  of  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.  They  noAV  live  in  Nashua, 
N.  H.,  where  Davy  works  for  the 
Nashua  Gummed  and  Coated  Paper 
Company.  1915  was  well  represented 
at  the  wedding.  Ted  Cross  acted  as 
best  man,  and  the  ushers  were  John  M. 
Gaus,  '15,  Gordon  R.  Hall,  '15,  Roswell 
P.  Young,  '14,  and  Gerald  Keith,  '15, 
while  James  W.  Craig,  G.  P.  L.  Gail, 
N.  M.  Kimball,  and  L.  F.  Eaton  were 
also  present. 

Gardner  P.  Eastman  is  with  the  U.  S. 
Mortgage  and  Trust  Company,  115 
Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Everett  W.  Fuller  is  at  the  laboratory 
of  applied  chemistry,  M.  I.  T.,  Boston, 
Mass. 

George  H.  Hubner  is  assistant  sales 
manager  of  the  bond  department,  Horn- 
blower  and  Weeks,  New  York  City. 
He  married  Miss  Margaret  V.  Trubee 
of  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  and  New  Rochelle, 
N.  Y. 

George  R.  Humphreys  is  teaching  at 
the  Potter  School  for  Boys  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. 


M.  Walker  Kamm  of  7  Russian  Hill 
PL,  San  Francisco,  is  engaged  in  bank- 
ing in  Portland,  Ore.,  and  mining  in 
California.  He  married  Miss  Louise 
Roberts  of  San  Bernadino,  Cal.  Charles 
Roberts  Kamm  was  born  on  November 
1,  1917. 

Gerald  Keith  is  with  the  Brockton 
Webbing  Company,  manufacturers  of 
narrow  fabrics,  Brockton,  Mass.  Asso- 
ciated with  him  in  the  business  is  his 
brother,  Roger  Keith,  '11. 

Wilson  McDonald  is  teaching  Latin 
at  the  Choir  School  of  the  Cathedral  of 
Saint  John  the  Divine,  New  York  City. 

W'illiam  Mellema  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Thompson  and  Mellema,  rein- 
forced concrete  engineers,  640  Broad- 
way, New  York  City.  He  married  on 
January  1,  1918,  Miss  Lillian  Heck  of 
Paterson,  N.  J.  Mrs.  Mellema  died 
on  February  5,  1919. 

L.  Milton  Phillips  is  teaching  Latin 
and  English  at  the  Boys'  High  School 
in  New  London,  Conn.  He  married 
Miss  Eva  Arleen  Kilhum  of  Hartford, 
Conn.  J.  M.  Phillips,  Jr.,  was  born  on 
February  10,  1919. 

William  Leslie  Seaman  is  assistant 
general  manager  of  the  W'alk-Over 
stores  in  New  York  City.  He  married 
Miss  Alfreda  Day  of  Brockton,  Mass. 
Robert  Lockwood  Seaman  was  born  on 
June  25,  1919. 

Sidney  R.  Packard  of  Brockton, 
Mass.,  is  travelling  abroad  under  the 
BajTd-Cutting  fellowship  in  history 
from  Harvard.  At  present  he  is  in 
Paris,  having  spent  several  weeks  in 
England. 

Phillips  Tead  is  engaged  in  stage  work 
in  New  York  City.  He  married  Miss 
Jessica  Schouler  of  Pittsfield,  Mass. 


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Arthur  H.  Washburn  is  instructing  in 
English  at  Andover  Academy. 

Paul  D.  Weathers,  until  recently  with 
the  Scandinavian  Trust  Company,  New 
York  City,  is  now  with  the  Bankers' 
Trust  Company. 

William  WTiiting  is  treasurer  of  the 
Whiting  Paper  Company,  Holyoke, 
Mass. 

Brayton  Witherell  is  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Knox  Hat  Company, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  married  Miss 
Rachel  Penniman  of  New  York  City. 

George  D.  Whitemore  is  with  Greene 
and  Bennett,  a  law  firm  in  New  York 
City. 

Arthur  H.  Elliott  has  returned  to  the 
Far  East,  and  is  managing  Standard 
Oil  affairs  at  Penang,  Straits  Settle- 
ments, Federated  Malay  States.  He 
married  Miss  Kathleen  Morrow. 

Webster  H.  Warren  is  a  first  lieuten- 
ant in  the  Army,  and  is  located  at  Fort 
Grant,  Canal  Zone. 

LawTence  E.  Goeller  was  married  on 
November  15,  1919,  to  Miss  Hazel 
Wadsworth  of  Lancaster,  Ohio.  Dutch 
is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  GoeUer  and 
Sons,  broom  manufacturers  of  Circle- 
ville,  Ohio. 

Dr.  Philip  E.  Greene  is  a  member  of 
the  staff  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  New 
York  City. 

M.  L.  McNair  is  with  the  Burns 
and  Bassich  Company  of  Bridgeport, 
Conn. 

Harry  W.  Cole  is  manager  of  the 
General  Carbonic  Company's  plant  at 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.  Harry  has  two  children, 
Carolyn  and  Katherine  Cole. 

Lowell  R.  Smith  is  with  the  Library 
Bureau  in  Detroit. 


Two  members  of  the  class  won  the 
Croix  de  Guerre,  Richardson  Pratt  and 
Henry  S.  Kingman.  Heinie  drove  an 
ambulance  with  Norton-Harjes  Corps 
at  Verdun  during  the  hardest  fighting, 
and  later  was  with  the  American  Red 
Cross  for  six  months  in  Italy.  The 
award  was  made  for  work  under  fire  at 
Verdun.  Dick  was  first  lieutenant  of  a 
company  of  colored  regulars  who  took 
part  in  all  the  major  engagements. 
The  class  feels  greatly  honored  that  two 
of  its  most  popular  members  should  be 
thus  recognized. 

Walter  R.  Agard  was  the  principal 
speaker  at  the  13th  annual  meeting  of 
the  Western  Massachusetts  section  of 
the  Classical  Association  of  New  Eng- 
land on  November  8th.  His  subject  was 
"Some  Greek  and  French  Parallels." 

Edwin  H.  Konold  of  Oak  Park,  III., 
was  married  to  Miss  Dorothy  E.  Jeffer- 
son on  Saturday,  November  8th,  in 
Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  Niles,  Mich. 
Walter  H.  McGay,  '14,  was  best  man. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Konold  will  live  in  Beau- 
mont, Tex.,  where  he  is  in  the  oil  busi- 
ness. 

Joseph  L.  Snider  has  been  appointed 
a  tutor  in  the  division  of  history,  gov- 
ernment, and  economics  at  Harvard 
University.  Mr.  Snider  took  his  M.A. 
degree  at  Harvard  in  1918,  and  has  been 
connected  with  the  University  for  sev- 
eral years,  during  three  of  which  he  was 
an  assistant  in  social  ethics. 

J.  Brinkerhoff  Tomlinson  is  studying 
law  with  Judge  Wells  at  Bordentown, 
N.J. 

Maurice  L.  McNair  is  purchasing 
agent  for  the  Burns  and  Bassick  Com- 
pany, Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Rev.  E.  C.  Garfield  is  now  minister 
of  the  Congregational  Church  of  West 
Brookfield,  Mass. 


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Morris  S.  Bulger  is  connected  -with 
the  Bell  Telephone  Company  at  Union- 
town,  Pa. 

William  G.  Thayer,  Jr.,  is  in  business 
with  Guy  Loring  and  Company,  archi- 
tects, in  Boston. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
Drake  Rd.,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 
Frederick  Crosby  AUen  of  Auburn- 
dale,  Mass.,  has  been  announced  as  one 
of  the  winners  of  the  AUis  scholarship 
in  the  Yale  Divinity  School.  The  Allis 
premiums  are  awarded  annually  for  gen- 
eral high  scholarship.  Mr.  Allen  is  a 
member  of  the  Senior  class  of  the  Divin- 
ity School. 

A  son,  John  Hutchins  Reber,  was 
born  on  Monday,  September  22nd,  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Uhrich  Reber  at 
Beacon  Hall,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

Howard  J.  Heavens  is  now  living  at 
Akron,  Ohio,  where  he  is  connected  with 
the  Goodyear  Tire  and  Rubber  Com- 
pany. 

The  engagement  was  announced  in 
December  of  Alan  D.  Marks  and  Miss 
Rosalie  Dannenbaum,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morris  Dannenbaum  of 
Philadelphia. 

William  G.  Avirett  is  in  the  advertis- 
ing business  with  the  merchandising 
department  of  Frank  Seaman,  Inc.,  470 
Fourth  Ave.,  New  York  City.  His  ad- 
dress is  704  Eighth  Ave.,  Brooklyn. 

Edwin  H.  Goodridge  was  married  on 
December  24th  to  Miss  Alice  E.  Coates 
of  Greenfield,  Mass.  He  is  connected 
with  the  New  Departure  Company  of 
Bristol,  Conn. 

George  W.  Washburn  has  accepted 
a  position  with  George  H.  Burr  and 
Company,    120   Broadway,   New    York 


City.  He  is  in  the  same  offices  as  is 
Harold  L.  GiUies,  '16,  and  in  the  same 
building  with  W.  H.  Smith,  '16.  Wash- 
burn's address  is  3485  Broadway. 

Humphrey  F.  Redfield  has  given  up 
his  position  with  the  Eastern  Steamship 
Lines,  Inc.,  in  favor  of  a  position  with 
the  United  States  Shipping  Board,  divi- 
sion of  operations,  45  Broadway,  New 
York  City.  His  address  is  610  West 
141st  St. 

Douglas  D.  Milne  has  been  appointed 
commercial  representative  of  the  Amer- 
ican Telephone  and  Telegraph  Com- 
pany at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  with  headquar- 
ters in  the  Hurt  Building. 

Donald  E.  Marshall  has  accepted  a 
position  as  principal  of  the  high  school 
at  Hope  Valley,  R.  I. 

F.  Stetson  Clark  is  now  with  the 
Business  Training  Corporation,  185 
Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

It  is  with  a  very  deep  sense  of  regret 
that  we  have  learned  of  the  death  of 
William  Howard  Tow  of  the  class  of 
1916,  and  yet  we  know  that  the  works  of 
God  are  always  for  the  best  and  we  feel 
that  a  brave  man  has  been  relieved 
from  long  and  severe  suffering  and  an 
unconquerable  illness,  though  fighting 
as  he  always  fought  to  the  last  breath 
with  the  heart  and  soul  of  a  man  who 
never  says  die.  He  died  at  his  home, 
12  East  127th  St.,  New  York  City,  on 
December  21,  1919. 

Ever  since  January,  1917,  Bill  had 
suffered  from  osteomyditis,  an  abscess 
of  the  bone  marrow,  which  at  that  time 
centered  in  his  left  arm.  This  illness 
prevented  his  going  to  Plattsburg  dur- 
ing the  summer  of  1917,  and  from  Octo- 
ber, 1917,  to  February,  1918,  he  spent 
a  great  part  of  the  time  in  the  hospital 
in  New  York,  undergoing  several  severe 


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operations.  The  surgeons  wanted  to 
amputate  his  arm,  but  Bill  said  "nothing 
doing,"  and  he  won  out.  Apparently  he 
was  recovering,  although  his  case  was 
unparalleled  in  the  annals  of  surgery, 
and  he  said,  "I  fooled  them  all,  and 
now  all  the  doctors  are  showing  me  off 
as  one  of  the  Seven  Wonders  of  the 
World."  He  was  refused  admission  to 
the  military  service  and  to  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  although  he  applied  many  times. 
"They  seem  to  think  I  can't  stand  the 
game.  However,  I  still  have  a  few  good 
fights  left  in  me,  and  if  you  want  any 
help  you  can  always  bet  on  me." 

In  December,  1918,  the  old  trouble 
came  back  and  spread  to  other  parts  of 
his  body.  He  spent  four  months,  from 
April,  1919,  to  July,  1919,  in  the  Gen- 
eral Memorial  Hospital  in  New  York,  at 
the  end  of  which  time  he  returned  to  his 
home  and  was  confined  to  his  bed.  In 
October  of  this  year  he  persuaded  his 
physicians  to  let  him  go  out  to  see  the 
Amherst-Columbia  football  game,  say- 
ing "I'm  going  to  see  that  game  if  it's 
the  last  thing  I  do." 

The  few  bits  of  quotation  above  show 
the  spirit  of  the  man  as  he  was  at  the 
last  and  as  we  all  knew  him,  and  we 
grieve  to  have  one  of  our  number  with 
that  spirit  and  zest  for  all  things  taken 
from  us. 

William  Howard  Tow  was  born  in 
New  York  City  on  May  26,  1893.  He 
attended  the  High  School  of  Commerce 
preparatory  to  entering  college.  At 
Amherst  he  was  a  member  of  the  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  fraternity;  president  of  the 
Press  Club,  1915  and  1916;  played 
quarterback  on  the  'varsity  football 
team  for  two  years,  being  all  New  Eng- 
land quarterback  in  1915;  played  for- 
ward on  the  College  basketball  team, 
and  participated  in  all  class  athletics 
and  activities.  He  graduated  from 
Amherst  in  the  class  of  1916. 


^  1917 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
14  Fairfax  Hall,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
The  engagement  has  recently  been 
announced  of  Miss  Beatrice  Hecht, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Meyer  Hecht 
of  New  York  City,  and  Eric  H.  Marks. 
Miss  Hecht  is  a  Smith,  ex-'21,  girl. 

Myers  Elliott  Baker  of  Great  Neck, 
N.  Y.,  and  Miss  Maria  M.  Osborne  of 
Havana,  Cuba,  were  married  on  Octo- 
ber 22nd  in  the  West  End  Collegiate 
Church  of  New  York  City.  William  A. 
Kissam  of  Great  Neck  was  the  best 
man,  and  the  ushers  included  K.  Mel- 
lick  Baker,  J.  Montgomery  Clark,  and 
Edmund  Sawyer. 

Lieutenant  Ralph  E.  de  Castro  of  the 
Air  Service,  who  won  the  D.  S.  C.  in 
1918,  has  been  awarded  the  Medal  of 
Honor  of  the  Aero  Club  of  America. 

John  W.  Heaslip  is  in  the  construction 
business  with  his  father  in  Brooklyn, 
NY. 

Capt.  R.  E.  S.  Williamson,  regular 
army,  has  returned  from  France,  where 
he  served  at  Chateau  Thierry,  St. 
Mihiel,  in  the  Argonne;  and  at  Spa  on 
the  armistice  commission,  which  crossed 
the  lines  on  November  11th.  He  has 
won  the  cross  of  the  Legion  d'  Honneur 
and  the  Belgian  War  Cross.  He  is  at 
present  stationed  with  the  first  division 
at  Louisville,  Ky.,  but  hopes  to  go  to 
Sibera  in  the  spring. 

Richard  A.  O'Brien  is  with  the  R.  C. 
Rathbone  Insurance  Company,  New 
York  City. 

C.  L.  Bell  has  recently  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  to  the  superintendent 
of  the  rug  and  carpet  division  of  Mont- 
gomery Ward  and  Company,  Chicago. 

G.   I.   Baily  holds    the    position   of 


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merchandise    auditor    of    the    Chicago 
house  for  the  same  firm. 

P.  A.  Jenkins  is  assistant  editor  of 
the  Popular  Mechanics  Magazine  and 
he  has  several  signed  editorials  appear- 
ing in  the  recent  editions  of  this 
publication. 

Henry  W.  Wells  is  studying  English 
at  Columbia. 

Charles  B.  McGowan  has  been  re- 
lieved from  active  duty  in  the  Navy  and 
is  in  business  with  his  father  in  Steuben- 
ville,  Ohio. 

1918 
HoBERT  P.  Kelsey,  Secretary, 

122  S.  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Harry  F.  Wheeler  and  Miss  Eleanor 
Todd  were  married  on  Satiu-day,  No- 
vember 1st,  at  Katonah,  N.  Y.  WTieeler 
is  now  with  the  Equitable  Insurance 
Company  in  Philadelphia. 

P.  R.  Arnold  is  now  in  Utica,  N.  Y., 
representing  the  U.  S.  Gutta  Percha 
Paint  Company,  Providence,  R.  I. 

John  W.  Elwood  is  with  the  General 
Electric  Company  in  New  York  City. 
R.  M.  Van  Dyck  is  with  the  same  con- 
cern in  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

J.  B.  Brainerd,  Jr.,  has  resigned  from 
the  Army  and  has  accepted  a  position 
with  Mallory  Mitchell  and  Faust,  an 
advertising  agency  in  Chicago,  111. 

William  H.  Michener  is  now  an  in- 
structor in  physics  at  Lafayette  College, 
Easton,  Pa. 

Fred  Mathews  and  W.  R.  Peabody 
are  teaching  at  the  Harvey  School, 
Hawthorne,  N.  Y. 

F.  W.  Getty  is  now  in  London, 
England,  representing  the  New  York 
Tribune. 

Harry  K.  Grainger  was  married  on 
December  3,  1919,  to  Miss  Louise  Vir- 
ginia Hite  of  Fairmont,  W.  Va. 


C.  L.  Goodrich  has  been  giving  a 
series  of  talks  before  tutorial  classes  of 
laborers  and  matching  wits  with  the 
labor  leaders  of  England.  He  plans  to 
return  to  this  country  this  winter  and 
continue  his  studies  at  the  University 
of  Chicago. 

F.  E.  Bogart,  Jr.,  has  accepted  a  posi- 
tion with  Farrand,  Williams  and  Clark, 
wholesale  druggists  of  Detroit,  Mich. 

W.  D.  Macfarlane  is  with  the  Thatcher 
Propeller  Company  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 

I,  W.  Scare  is  with  the  Vacuum  Oil 
Company  in  New  York  City. 

Merrill  Anderson  is  doing  settlement 
work  at  the  Henry  Street  Settlement, 
New  York  City. 

A.  W.  Bailey  is  studying  osteopathy 
at  the  University  of  Chicago. 

R.  E.  Bednarski  is  studying  law. 

R.  R.  Blair  is  now  with  the  Heppes 
Nelson  Roofing  Company  of  Chicago. 

C.  H.  Bratt  is  an  instructor  in  French 
at  the  University  of  Michigan. 

F.  C.  Butler  is  in  the  wholesale  jewelry 
business  in  Providence,  R.  I. 

D.  B.  Simmons  is  with  the  Bemis 
Bros.  Bag  Company  at  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

Sigourney  Thayer  is  in  the  advertis- 
ing department  of  the  Boston  Herald. 

Andrew  H.  Morehouse  of  Oakwoods, 
N.  C,  and  Miss  Dorothea  Thomas  of 
Scotland,  Conn.,  were  married  on  Octo- 
ber 24th,  in  New  York  City,  by  the 
Rev.  Theodore  A.  Greene,  '13. 

1919 

Walter  K.  Belknap,  Secretary, 
196  Grand  St.,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
Miss  Helen  Louise  Terry,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  L.  Terry  of 


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Plainfield,    N.    J.,    and    Frederick    E. 
Mygatt  were  married  on  October  8th. 

Thomas  P.  Pitre  is  teaching  chemis- 
try at  Phillips  Andover  Academy. 

C.  Morris  Gardner  is  connected  with 
Morris  and  Company  of  Chicago,  hav- 
ing been  discharged  from  the  air  service. 
Gardner  was  stationed  at  Panama  for 
two  years. 

Ingham  C.  Baker  has  entered  Tuck 


School  of  Finance,  at  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege. 

Walter  K.  Belknap  is  in  the  circula- 
tion department  of  the  Spur  and  Golf 
Illustrated  in  New  York  City. 

Noble  T.  Macfarlane,  after  taking  a 
graduate  course  in  the  School  of  Life 
Insurance  Salesmanship  at  Carnegie 
Tech.,  is  located  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  with 
the  Provident  Life  and  Trust  Company 
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Vol.  IX— march,  1920— No.  3 


THE   EXAMINATION  SYSTEM  IN  ENGLAND 

ERNEST   BARKER 

[President  Meiklejohn  in  his  Report  to  the  Trustees  (1918)  suggested  the  establish- 
ment of  two  examinations,  one  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year  and  one  at  the  close 
of  the  college  course,  to  be  conducted  by  an  external  Board  of  Examiners.  A 
modification  of  this  plan,  including,  when  requested  by  the  professors  in  charge,  an 
examination  by  an  examiner  from  outside  the  College,  is  a  feature  of  the  new 
Junior  and  Senior  majors  described  in  the  College  Notes  of  this  issue.  In  view  of 
these  proposals,  the  Quarterly  gladly  lays  before  all  who  may  be  interested  in 
the  educational  policy  of  the  College  a  comprehensive  account,  by  Mr.  Ernest 
Barker,  of  New  College,  Oxford,  and  lately  visiting  professor  of  history  and  political' 
science  at  Amherst,  of  the  function  of  such  external  examinations  in  the  British, 
educational  system. — Editor.] 

WRITING,  as  I  do,  under  the  shadow  of  a  college  over  which 
a  practised  logician  presides,  I  must  begin  by  making  a  bow 
to  the  science  (if  it  be  a  science)  of  logic,  and  by  attempt- 
ing a  preliminary  definition  of  terms.  When  that  is  done,  I  shall 
cheerfully  abandon  logic,  and  do  my  best  to  treat  of  facts.  By 
our  examination  system,  then,  I  mean  a  system  under  which  boys 
and  young  men — or,  for  that  matter,  girls  and  young  women —  at 
the  end  of  a  course  of  study,  pursued  for  two  years  or  so,  are  com- 
pelled to  take  a  written  examination,  lasting  for  a  week  or  more, 
which  is  designed  to  test  the  proficiency  they  have  attained  in  the 
course  of  study  which  they  have  pursued.  And  I  confine  myself  to 
England — saying  nothing  of  Scotland  (though  Scotland  has,  as 
one  might  expect  of  that  shrewd  country,  an  admirable  system  of 
examinations),  or  of  Wales,  or  of  Ireland — because  I  am  only 
acquainted  with  the  examination  system  in  England,  and  because 
the  examination  system  in  England  is  different  from  that  of  the 
other  countries  of  the  United  Kingdom.     Even  as  regards  England 


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I  shall  be  silent  (because  I  am  ignorant)  about  the  examination  of 
primary  schools;  and  I  shall  only  deal  with  examinations  in 
secondary  schools  and  in  universities. 

Examinations  are  like  Troy;  they  are  attacked  by  Greeks  and 
defended  by  Trojans.  I  am  neither  a  Hector  nor  a  Paris,  but  I 
would  designate  myself  as  a  plain  Trojan  private;  and  as  such  I 
will  try  to  state  what  I  have  heard  of  the  views  of  the  captains 
of  the  Greeks,  and  what  I  believe  to  be  the  answering  views  of  the 
Trojan  leaders.  I  must  premise  that  examinations  in  England 
are  for  the  most  part,  and  in  a  greater  or  less  degree,  conducted 
by  external  bodies ;  and  therefore  the  Troy  which  is  to  be  defended 
is  a  place  and  abode  of  external  examiners,  as  if — let  us  say — the 
Woolworth  building  were  to  be  held  by  the  New  York  State 
Regents  in  the  face  of  attack  and  criticism. 

"Examinations,"  the  Greeks  say,  "are  a  triple  curse:  they  kill 
the  pupil's  interest,  or  corrupt  his  character;  they  corrupt  the 
teacher's  purity  of  aim  and  destroy  his  freedom  of  action;  they 
misguide  the  community.  A  pupil  who  prepares  Shakespeare's 
'Macbeth'  for  an  examination  in  an  annotated  edition,  and  is 
asked  in  the  examination  to  comment  on  'gobbets'  from  the  play, 
will  contract  a  lifelong  disgust  for  Shakespeare;  and  such  work 
as  he  does  under  such  a  system  is  done  from  the  wrong  motive— 
from  the  instinct  of  competition  with  other  candidates,  or  from 
the  desire  of  winning  a  prize  or  a  'class'^ — and  not  from  the  one 
true  motive  for  all  intellectual  work,  which  should  be  the  satisfac- 
tion of  divine  curiosity  and  the  acquisition  of  divine  wisdom.  A 
teacher,  again,  who  prepares  his  pupils  for  examination  loses 
purity  of  aim  and  freedom  of  action:  he  teaches  in  order  to  gain 
results,  and  not  in  order  to  give  wisdom;  he  teaches  under  the  yoke 
of  a  fixed  curriculum,  prescribed  periods,  and  set  books,  and  he  is 
not  free  to  wander  himself,  or  to  guide  his  pupils,  into  the  abundant 
green  pastures,  where  they  may  either,  as  they  list,  browse  here 
and  there  at  large,  or  concentrate  intensively  upon  research  in 
one  lonely  field.  Finally,  the  community  is  misguided;  for  it 
takes  the  grades  and  classes  into  which  external  examiners  sort 
and  pen  candidates  as  if  they  were  true,  objective,  ultimate 
categories — which  they  are  very  far  from  being.  For  a  teacher 
who  lives  with  his  pupils  may  know  them  and  their  work;  but  an 
external  examiner,  who  examines  from  afar,  and  generally  without 


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seeing  the  examinees,  has  only  the  evidence  of  a  few  scraps  of 
paper,  and  may  very  well  misinterpret  even  that  exiguous  evidence. 
Examiners  are  very  human;  and  since  it  is  human  to  err,  they  may 
err  abundantly." 

Audi  tamen  alteram  partem:  listen  to  the  Trojan  case.  "Exam- 
iners may  be  prone  to  err  in  their  judgments  of  examinees;  teachers 
are  almost  certain  to  err  in  their  judgment  of  the  pupils  they  have 
taught.  The  enthusiastic  teacher  sees  his  pupils  in  a  rosy  mist; 
indeed,  it  is  perhaps  a  condition  of  ardent  and  enthusiastic  teaching 
that  the  teacher  should  idealize  his  pupils,  and,  believing  greatly 
in  their  capacity,  should  exert  himself  greatly  to  attain  the  reach 
of  that  supposed  capacity.  Besides,  his  pupils  are,  in  a  sense,  the 
work  of  his  hands;  and  each  of  us  tends  to  believe  in  the  work  of 
his  hands.  A  self-conscious  and  self -critical  teacher  may  very 
well  distrust  his  own  judgments,  if  he  remembers  these  prejudices 
to  which  he  is  liable;  he  may  very  well  desire  to  have  his  judg- 
ments reviewed  and  corrected  by  an  external  verdict.  There  is  a 
further  consideration.  Life  itself  is  an  examination — an  examina- 
tion conducted  by  external  examiners.  We  are  always  being 
tested  and  tried  at  the  judgment  bar:  if  we  are  barristers,  we  plead 
before  a  critical  judge;  if  we  are  journalists,  we  argue  in  the  forum 
of  public  opinion;  whatever  we  are  and  whatever  we  do,  the  court 
is  set  and  opinion  is  given  upon  our  work.  This  is  all  to  the  good: 
/3tos  ave^eraaTos  ov  jStwcrt^tos — an  unexamined  life  is  not  worth 
living.  But  if  life  be  a  test,  and  a  test  before  an  external 
body,  is  it  not  wise,  in  the  days  of  preparation  for  life  and  its 
tests,  in  the  flower  of  youth  and  strength  and  courage,  boldly  to 
court  the  same  austere  judgment,  and  to  run  for  our  garlands, 
not  without  dust  and  heat,  under  arduous  tests  and  trials?  Many 
of  us  are  ready  to  answer  'Yes';  and  in  giving  that  answer  we  can- 
not but  think  of  a  further  and  final  factor  in  the  case.  In  the  field 
of  athletics  we  train  ourselves  rigorously  for  the  day  of  a  test 
before  judges  or  referees  who  come  from  outside,  and  knowing 
that  we  are  to  go  before  such  judges,  we  put  our  hearts  into  our 
training.  In  the  field  of  intellectual  effort  the  same  results  may 
follow  on  the  use  of  the  same  methods.  When  men  have  to  face  an 
external  examination,  upon  a  course  of  training  spread  over 
months  or  years,  they  may  take  pains  to  acquaint  themselves  with 
the  nature  of  that  examination;  they  may  train  themselves  in 


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reading  and  study  on  their  own  account  for  the  day  of  its  coming; 
they  may  work  individually,  energetically,  spontaneously.  A 
system  of  external  examinations  does  tend  to  make  men  work,  and, 
at  its  best,  to  make  them  work  on  their  own  account.  They  may, 
indeed,  fall  into  mere  'cramming';  but  they  may  also  ascend  into 
places  where  they  wrestle  in  a  grave  solitude  with  the  angels  of 
doubt  and  inquiry." 

But  I  will  abandon  Greeks  and  Trojans;  I  will  cease  to  be  a 
reporter  of  their  different  sayings;  and  I  will  speak  for  myself 
from  my  own  experience.  I  have  seen  some  bad  results  of  the 
system  of  external  examination.  It  may  lead  to  memorization  of 
textbooks  and  lecture  notes;  but  I  believe  that  it  only  leads  to  this 
result  when  the  examination  is  badly  conducted,  and  the  questions 
set  are  such  as  to  test  the  memory  instead  of  stretching  the  mind. 
And  anyhow  this  result  is  as  much  (if  not  more)  apt  to  ensue  when 
the  teacher  is  himself  the  examiner  (for  being  human  he  is  prone  to 
desire  to  see  his  views  reflected  in  his  pupil's  mind,  "as  in  a  glass 
darkly"),  as  when  the  examiner  is  an  external  person  or  body  of 
persons.  Again,  it  is  true  that  a  system  of  external  examinations 
may  involve  a  strain  on  the  health  of  a  nervous  examinee,  and 
that  the  day  of  examination  may  find  a  candidate  in  ill  health, 
and  unfit  to  do  justice  to  his  real  knowledge  and  genuine  ability. 
But  it  is  also  true  that  this  danger  is  hypothetical  rather  than  real, 
and  that  the  health  and  insouciance  of  youth  face  ordeals  that 
might  dismay  a  maturer  age  with  a  careless  equanimity.  All  in 
all,  I  believe  that  external  examinations  are  good  for  the  teacher 
and  good  for  the  taught.  They  are  good  for  the  teacher,  in  the 
sense  that  they  are  a  test  of  his  teaching,  and  in  the  sense  that  they 
provide  an  alternative  and  more  objective  judgment  upon  his 
pupils  which  may  supplement  and  correct  his  own  judgment.  It 
is  a  good  thing  for  a  teacher  to  have  his  teaching  tested :  it  prevents 
him  from  becoming  a  crank  and  enforcing  his  hobbies  upon  his 
pupils;  it  prevents  him  from  becoming  indolent  and  letting  his 
pupils  down.  Ours  is,  indeed,  a  mixed  world;  there  is  evil  as  well 
as  good  in  the  testing  of  the  teacher;  and  a  teacher  who  teaches 
under  the  test  of  external  examinations  may  limit  himself,  and  his 
study  and  his  teaching,  to  the  scope  of  a  prescribed  curriculum 
and  the  ambition  of  being  a  successful  "crammer,"  while  the 
general  world  may  measure  him  more  by  the  "successes"  of  his 


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pupils  than  by  the  true  and  ultimate  test  of  his  own  power  of 
inspiration.  But  so  far  as  I  can  see,  the  good  that  external  exam- 
inations bring  to  the  teacher  is  more  than  the  evil;  and  I  believe 
that  what  is  true  of  the  teacher  is  also  true  of  the  taught.  My 
pupils  viay  lose  by  being  perverted  from  the  study  of  what  is  good 
per  se  to  the  study  of  what  pays  in  the  examination;  they  may 
lose  by  directing  their  work,  in  too  utilitarian  a  spirit,  to  the 
attainment  of  a  "first"  rather  than  to  the  attainment  of  wisdom. 
But  I  believe,  after  twenty  years  of  teaching  under  a  system  of 
external  examination,  that  they  gain  more  than  they  lose.  They 
have  a  definite  goal  set  for  them  in  the  prescribed  curriculum  of  the 
examination;  they  have  an  incentive  to  work  in  order  to  attain 
that  goal;  they  can  measure,  and  they  do  measure,  the  time  and 
the  effort  that  are  needed  in  order  to  win  success.  And  with 
that  I  am  content. 

I  turn  from  these  theorizings  to  an  examination  of  the  facts. 
Under  the  general  English  practice,  as  it  stands  to-day,  a  boy  may 
take  an  external  examination  twice  while  he  is  at  school.  The 
system  of  conducting  these  two  examinations  with  which  I  am 
most  familiar  is  that  of  the  Joint  Board  of  the  Universities  of 
Oxford  and  Cambridge.  This  board  is  composed  of  twelve 
representatives  of  either  university,  who  are  all  persons  engaged 
in  active  work  in  their  university.  The  board  prescribes  the 
curriculum  for  the  examinations  which  it  conducts  and  appoints 
the  examiners;  and  the  examiners  whom  it  appoints,  like  the 
members  of  the  board  itself,  are  almost  all  persons  engaged  in 
active  work  in  one  or  other  of  the  universities.  English  schools  are 
free  to  select  the  examining  board  by  which  they  prefer  to  have 
their  pupils  tested;  and  many  of  the  best  and  oldest  schools 
(both  for  boys  and  for  girls)  select  the  examinations  of  the  Joint 
Board.  The  two  examinations  which  it  conducts  are  the  School 
Certificate  Examination,  which  is  a  test  of  general  knowledge, 
taken  at,  or  about,  the  age  of  sixteen;  and  the  Higher  Certificate 
Examination,  which  is  a  test  of  proficiency  in  an  "advanced 
course,"  taken  at,  or  about,  the  age  of  eighteen.  In  the  School 
Certificate  Examination  a  boy  must  offer,  if  my  memory  is 
correct,  five  subjects  in  all;  and  among  these  subjects  one  must  be 
a  language  other  than  his  own,  one  must  be  mathematics  or  a 
branch  of  natural  science,  and  one  must  be  what  I  may  call  a 


154   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

general  subject,  such  as  English,  or  Scripture  Knowledge,  or 
History.  A  boy  who  passes  this  examination  is  thereby  qualified 
for  admission  to  the  Universities  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge,  pro- 
vided that  among  the  subjects  taken  there  are  included  those 
which  the  university  specially  requires  as  the  special  conditions 
of  admission  into  its  body.  The  conditions  for  admission  to 
Oxford  are  slightly  different  from  those  for  admission  to  Cambridge. 
Under  a  statute  passed  in  the  beginning  of  this  March,  Oxford 
requires,  as  the  condition  of  admission,  a  knowledge  of  two  lan- 
guages other  than  English,  one  of  which  must  be  a  classical  lan- 
guage, and  a  knowledge  of  either  mathematics  (which  includes 
arithmetic,  algebra,  and  geometry)  or  a  branch  of  natural  science. 
It  follows  that  a  boy  who  has  taken  successfully,  in  the  examina- 
tion for  a  School  Certificate,  the  five  subjects  of  Latin,  French, 
Mathematics,  English,  and  Scripture  Knowledge  (a  subject  very 
generally  taken),  will  have  at  once  gained  a  School  Certificate 
and  qualified  for  admission  to  the  university.  I  shall  add  that 
not  only  is  a  School  Certificate  (provided  that  it  certifies  the 
candidate  to  have  passed  in  certain  required  subjects)  a  qualifica- 
tion for  admission  to  a  university;  it  is  also  a  qualification  for 
entry  into  certain  professions. 

So  far  of  the  School  Certificate.  The  examination  for  the 
Higher  Certificate  is  an  examination  in  which  a  candidate  offers 
classical  studies,  or  modern  studies,  together  with  at  least  one 
subsidiary  subject,  of  a  different  order  from  his  main  group  of 
studies,  and  studied  with  less  intensity  and  less  specialization  than 
that  main  group.  This  examination  is  not,  as  yet,  very  generally 
taken;  and  it  is  perhaps  too  highly  specialized.  Success  in  it 
does  not  exempt  a  candidate  from  any  requirements  in  his  later 
course  at  the  university;  but  there  has  been  a  demand,  of  later 
years,  that  a  change  should  be  made,  and  that  a  candidate  who  has 
taken  the  Higher  Certificate  should  be  exempt  from  some  of  the 
preliminary  examinations  which  he  takes  at  the  end  of  his  first 
year  in  the  university.  The  examination,  like  that  for  the  School 
Certificate  (but  to  an  even  greater  extent),  is  conducted  with  a 
very  considerable  care.  The  papers  set  in  each  group  of  studies 
are  set  by  a  body  of  "awarders"  taken  from  the  two  universities, 
who  exchange  criticisms  of  one  another's  papers;  and  they  are 
then  further  reviewed  by  a  general  body  of  "revisers,"  who  pass 


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further  criticisms.  The  answers  of  the  candidates  are  marked 
by  special  examiners  appointed  for  each  school,  each  examining  in 
his  own  subject;  and  the  answers  of  all  the  candidates  in  a  partic- 
ular group  of  subjects  are  further  considered  by  a  body  of  award- 
ers (composed  of  the  persons  who  originally  set  the  papers),  with 
the  aim  of  correcting  the  discrepancies  in  marking  between  the 
different  school  examiners  who  have  marked  answers  in  that  group 
of  subjects.  It  is  a  valuable  feature  of  the  system  of  examination 
that  after  each  examination  there  is  a  conference  between  members 
of  the  Joint  Board  and  representatives  of  the  headmasters,  for  the 
discussion  of  any  defects  in,  or  criticisms  of,  the  conduct  of  the 
preceding  examination.  It  is  another  valuable  feature  that  con- 
ferences are  beginning  to  be  held  between  the  awarders  in  each 
subject  and  the  teachers  in  the  schools  who  have  prepared  candi- 
dates in  that  subject.  The  merit  of  the  whole  system  depends  on 
the  fact  that  the  Joint  Board,  the  awarders,  the  headmasters,  and 
the  teachers  in  the  schools  (all  of  them  probably  university  men 
with  the  same  training)  are  kept  in  contact,  and  can  readily 
exchange  views.  The  examination  is  thus  external  in  the  sense 
that  candidates  prepared  by  teachers  in  schools  are  examined  by 
men  who  are  teachers  in  universities;  but  the  living  contact 
between  the  different  parties  and  interests  concerned  makes  the 
examination,  while  it  remains  external,  a  sympathetic  examination. 
So  much  (some  of  my  readers  may  murmur,  "Too  much,") 
of  school  examinations.  It  remains  to  describe  university  examina- 
tions. I  will  describe  them  as  they  exist  in  Oxford  (they  are  much 
the  same  in  all  universities),  and,  for  the  most  part,  as  they  exist 
in  the  department  of  modern  history  at  Oxford.  Roughly  speaking 
one  may  say  that  there  are  two  university  examinations  taken  by 
each  student^ — a  preliminary  examination,  for  which  he  sits,  during, 
or  at  the  end  of,  his  first  year;  and  a  final  examination,  taken  at 
the  end  of  his  course  and  after  two  further  years  of  residence  and 
study.  The  preliminary  examination  is,  in  the  main,  a  qualifying 
examination,  which  a  student  must  pass  before  he  enters  upon 
his  "final  school";  the  final  examination,  on  the  results  of  which 
students  are  grouped  in  four  classes,  is  the  essential  thing,  and 
everything  depends  on  the  winning  of  a  good  "class"  (if  possible 
a  first  class)  in  this  examination.  There  are  some  peculiarities 
in  the  departments  of  classics  and  mathematics  (the  oldest  depart- 


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ments,  in  comparison  with  which  the  other  departments  are  recent 
growths) :  here  the  prehminary  examination  (which  is  called 
Honour  Moderations)  is  taken  later;  classes  are  awarded  upon  its 
results  in  the  same  way  as  they  are  awarded  upon  the  results  of 
the  final  examinations;  and  the  final  examinations  in  these  depart- 
ments are  normally  taken  not  at  the  end  of  three  years,  but  after 
four  years  of  study. 

I  will  confine  myself  to  the  department — or,  as  we  call  it  in 
Oxford,  the  Faculty — of  Modern  History.  The  curriculum  for 
the  final  (as  also  for  the  preliminary)  examination  in  this  Faculty 
is  prescribed  by  the  board  of  the  Faculty  of  Modern  History. 
The  board  consists  of  two  elements:  it  contains  all  the  university 
professors  in  the  Faculty,  and  it  contains  an  equal  number  of 
elected  representatives  of  the  college  tutors  in  the  various  colleges, 
elected  by  the  general  body  of  such  tutors.  The  curriculum 
prescribed  for  the  final  examination  embraces  English  History, 
on  which  two  papers  are  set;  Political  Science  and  Economic 
History,  on  each  of  which  two  papers  are  set;  and  a  special  subject, 
in  history  or  political  science  or  economics,  which  must  be  studied 
in  original  authorities,  and  on  which  two  papers  are  set.  Not 
only  is  the  study  of  original  authorities  prescribed  in  the  special 
subjects;  the  study  of  constitutional  sources  is  prescribed  in 
English  History,  and  the  study  of  authoritative  books  (such  as 
Aristotle's  "Politics,"  part  of  Hobbes'  "Leviathan,"  and  Mill's 
"Essay  on  Liberty")  is  equally  prescribed  in  the  field  of  Political 
Science.  The  curriculum  is  printed  in  the  Examination  Statutes 
of  the  University;  the  student  uses  those  statutes,  and,  with  the 
assistance  of  his  college  tutor  and  of  the  intercollegiate  lectures 
(open  to  students  of  all  colleges)  which  are  given  by  all  the  college 
tutors  as  well  as  by  the  professors,  he  prepares  himself  for  the 
final  examination  based  on  the  curriculum.  The  examination  is 
conducted  by  a  board  of  salaried  examiners,  five  in  number. 
These  examiners  are  appointed  by  the  vice-chancellor  and  the 
two  proctors  acting  in  conjunction  with  three  representatives 
appointed  for  the  purpose  by  the  board  of  the  Faculty;  it  is  as  if 
examiners  should  be  appointed  at  Amherst  for  each  department  by 
the  president,  the  dean,  and  the  secretary  of  the  Faculty  acting  in 
conjunction  with  three  representatives  appointed  by  the  Faculty 
groups.     The  Board  of  Examiners  thus  appointed  is,  in  a  sense,  a 


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permanent  body;  each  examiner  is  appointed  for  a  term  of  three 
years,  but  fresh  appointments  are  made  each  year,  so  that  con- 
tinuity may  be  unbroken  and  a  tradition  may  be  maintained. 
As  a  result  the  Board  of  Examiners  is  never  entirely  composed  of 
new  members ;  in  any  given  year,  two  of  the  members  of  the  board 
will  have  been  examiners  in  the  preceding  year,  and  one  or  two  will 
have  been  examiners  in  the  two  preceding  years.  The  members 
of  the  board  are  for  the  most  part  college  tutors  in  Oxford;  and 
our  system  thus  means  that  we  examine  one  another's  pupils,  who, 
it  must  be  remembered,  are  strangers  to  us,  and  whom  we  do  not 
personally  know,  though  they  may,  of  course,  have  attended  the 
intercollegiate  lectures  we  have  given.  It  is  part  of  the  system, 
as  may  readily  be  seen  on  reflection,  that  a  college  tutor  who  is  a 
university  examiner  may  have  to  examine  the  answers  of  his  own 
pupils  in  one  or  more  subjects;  but  the  same  pupils  will  be  under- 
going examination  at  the  same  time  in  other  subjects  from  other 
examiners  to  whom  they  are  unknown,  and  any  bias  which  an 
examiner  may  feel  in  favor  of  his  own  pupils  is  thus  automatically 
corrected — the  more  as  his  verdict  in  the  subjects  in  which  he  is 
examining  is  often  reviewed  and,  it  may  be,  corrected  by  another 
examiner  who  also  reads  the  answers  of  the  candidate  in  the  same 
subjects. 

Generally  an  external  examiner — a  college  tutor  from  Cambridge, 
or  a  professor  from  one  of  the  universities  outside  Oxford  and  Cam- 
bridge—is appointed  as  one  of  the  five  members  of  the  board. 
This  obviously  increases  the  chances  of  an  objective  and  imper- 
sonal verdict  on  the  work  of  all  the  candidates.  But  even 
without  the  addition  of  such  an  external  examiner  there  is  every 
likelihood  of  the  proper  return  of  such  a  verdict.  Five  different 
examiners  read  the  different  parts  of  a  candidate's  work;  they 
compare  and  collate  their  results;  if  there  is  any  doubt  still  remain- 
ing, and  if  it  still  remains  uncertain  into  which  class  a  candidate 
should  be  put,  his  answers  are  re-read  in  each  subject  by  examiners 
who  have  not  seen  them  on  the  first  reading.  To  make  assurance 
doubly  sure,  a  viva  voce  examination  of  every  candidate  is  added 
to  the  written  examination;  and  each  candidate  comes  before  the 
whole  Board  of  Examiners  and  answers  questions  orally  upon  his 
work.  In  many — perhaps  most — cases,  the  viva  voce  examination 
is  only  formal ;  but  in  all  cases  of  doubt  it  is  a  very  real  and  a  very 


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useful  part  of  the  examination.  The  results  of  the  examination 
are  not  published  until  every  candidate  has  undergone  his  viva  voce; 
and  the  whole  examination  may  thus  occupy,  as  it  often  does, 
a  period  of  two  months,  during  most  of  which  the  examiners  are 
busy  at  work  in  reading  answers  and  in  conducting  viva  voce  exam- 
inations. The  position  of  the  examiners  is  one  of  considerable 
dignity;  each  board  has  a  tradition  of  responsibility;  and  each 
board  reports  regularly  to  the  Board  of  the  Faculty  concerned 
upon  the  general  results  of  the  examination,  and  upon  the  amend- 
ments of  the  curriculum  which  the  experience  of  the  examination 
suggests.  This  (it  may  be  remarked  incidentally)  is  a  valuable 
result  of  our  whole  system  of  examination;  it  not  only  tests  the 
pupil  and  his  tutor — it  also  tests  the  curriculum  on  which  the  work 
of  the  pupil  and  tutor  has  been  based. 

Apart  from  the  viva  voce,  a  final  examination  occupies  the  time  of 
a  candidate  for  five  or  six  days  (generally  continuous),  on  each  of 
which  he  takes  two  papers,  and  writes  for  three  hours  on  each 
paper.  Each  paper  contains  from  fifteen  to  twenty -five  questions ; 
a  candidate  is  expected  to  answer  four  or  five,  at  his  choice.  The 
effect  is  that  the  candidate  writes  four  or  five  little  essays  in  three 
hours  on  those  subjects  which  touch  his  previous  reading  and 
study  most  closely.  Critics  sometimes  say  that  cleverness  in 
improvising  such  "essayettes"  (or  "leaderettes")  is  more  likely 
to  win  a  first  class  than  solid  work  and  genuine  industry.  There 
is  some  truth  in  the  criticism.  We  give  a  first  class  at  Oxford 
to  native  capacity  and  ability  backed  by  evidence  of  a  satisfactory 
amount  of  reading;  we  very  often  give  a  second  class  to  men  who 
have  done  more  reading  and  show  more  undigested  knowledge,  but 
lack  of  native  capacity  and  ability.  I  am  inclined  to  think  that 
we  are  right;  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  the  stamp  of  first  class 
ought  not  to  be  put  upon  men  who  are  not  first  class  by  nature  as 
well  as  by  art.  But  there  are  obviously  two  sides  to  the  question. 
And  anyhow  it  ought  to  be  added  that  in  the  Faculty  of  Modern 
History  we  allow  candidates  who  desire  to  do  so  to  submit  to  the 
examiners  a  written  thesis  or  dissertation,  which  they  have  written 
beforehand  in  their  own  studies;  and  if  such  a  thesis  or  dissertation 
reaches  a  high  standard  of  merit,  we  take  it  very  seriously  into 
consideration  in  determining  the  class  to  which  a  candidate  prop- 
erly belongs. 


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Our  Oxford  examination  system  has  no  doubt  its  defects.  The 
friends  of  research  are  its  special  critics :  they  feel  that  the  system 
deters  men  from  work  on  their  own  account — work  which  goes 
deep — and  steers  them  into  a  superficial  general  knowledge  adorned 
by  an  easy  facility  of  expression.  I  myself  have  been  bred  and 
have  worked  under  the  examination  system;  and  I  believe  in  it. 
The  vast  majority  of  our  Oxford  students  have  no  intention  of 
becoming  researchers.  Those  who  have  that  intention  find  their 
chance  in  the  dissertation  we  permit  them  to  submit.  Those  who 
have  not  that  intention — those  who  intend  to  enter  parliament, 
or  the  civil  service,  or  the  legal  profession^ — are  best  tested  and 
tried,  in  the  light  of  the  work  which  they  will  have  afterwards  to 
do,  by  an  examination  system  directed  to  ascertaining  each  man's 
capacity  for  acquiring  and  arranging  a  body  of  knowledge  and 
expressing  that  knowledge,  upon  interrogation,  with  a  prompt 
and  easy  lucidity. 

TO  ROBERT  LANSING 

(February  13,  1920) 
William  L.  Corbin 

THIS  hour  you  are  the  hero  of  brave  men 
Who  love  their  country  first.      They  laud  the  deed 
You  dared,  unclouded  by  the  dark  of  self; 
For  in  your  doubt  you  found  a  beaconing  star. 
Shining  above  the  conflict  and  the  gloom, 
And  followed  unafraid.      And  when  the  night 
Shall  pass,  the  day — unpartisan — will  show 
The  path  you  trod  led  to  the  patriot  dawn. 


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THE  AMHERST  BOOKS 

BY  vote  of  the  Trustees  in  June,  1919,  the  celebration  of  the 
one  hundredth  anniversary  of  Aniherst  College  will  include 
a  feature  of  more  permanent  value  than  the  exercises  of  a 
day,  the  foundation  of  a  series  of  pubhcations  to  be  known  as  the 
Amherst  Books.  The  conception  of  the  series  differs  widely  from 
that  of  most  centennial  publications:  the  Amherst  Books  will  be 
works  of  general  interest  to  educated  men,  not  monographs  for 
special  scholars;  they  will  represent  the  life  of  a  New  England 
country  college  in  all  its  phases,  both  its  professional  interests 
and  its  intellectual  avocations;  they  will  open  a  means  of  publica- 
tion to  Faculty,  visiting  lecturers,  alumni,  and  advanced  students; 
and  they  will  not  be  limited  by  the  occasion  which  they  commem- 
orate, but  will  continue  as  long  as  they  receive  adequate  support 
from  the  reading  public.  If  the  first  books  published  prove 
successful,  it  is  expected  that  funds  for  the  permanent  endowment 
of  the  series  will  be  provided  either  by  special  appropriations  by 
the  Trustees  or  by  private  gifts.  Thus  the  completion  of  Amherst's 
first  hundred  years  will  find  the  College  appealing  to  a  wider 
public  than  at  any  time  in  its  history. 

Though  begun  in  honor  of  the  centennial,  the  publication  of 
the  first  books  will  not  be  postponed  until  the  formal  celebration 
of  that  event.  Three  manuscripts  are  now  ready  for  the  press 
and  will  be  issued  as  soon  as  they  can  be  printed.  The  first  of  the 
series  is  appropriately  a  collection  of  the  speeches  and  essays  of 
President  Meiklejohn  on  the  problems  of  the  liberal  college.  This 
book  has  been  long  desired.  President  Meiklejohn's  Inaugural 
Address  at  once  marked  him  as  the  ablest  exponent  of  the  small 
college  in  the  country,  and  this  collection  of  his  views  on  college 
policy  will  be  of  exceptional  interest,  not  only  to  Amherst  graduates 
as  defining  the  educational  leadership  of  their  college,  but  also  to 
all  friends  of  liberal  education.  The  two  books  which  are  to 
follow  immediately  upon  the  publication  of  President  Meiklejohn's 
are  the  work  of  two  of  Amherst's  most  respected  teachers  and 
scholars.  One  is  by  the  late  Professor  Anson  D.  Morse  on  "Par- 
ties and  Party  Leaders,"  a  phase  of  American  history  of  which  he 


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made  a  long  and  careful  study.  The  papers  included  in  this  volume 
are  political  essays  which  have  appeared  in  various  periodicals  and 
are  now  for  the  first  time  made  available  in  a  single  volume. 
Nothing  that  he  has  written  better  exhibits  his  power  of  analysis 
and  his  open-minded  criticism  of  the  working  of  American  institu- 
tions. The  other  book,  called  "The  Life  Indeed,"  was  found 
completed  among  the  papers  of  Professor  Genung;  it  is  the  last 
and  finest  expression  of  a  life  devoted  to  the  study  of  Christian 
literature  and  Christian  living.  These  three  volumes,  written 
with  the  authority  of  scholars  on  subjects  of  immediate  and 
general  interest,  will  indicate  the  intended  nature  of  the  Amherst 
Books.  Other  manuscripts  are  now  being  considered  by  the 
Board  of  Editors,  and  still  others  are  in  preparation.  The  editors 
plan  to  invite  contributions  to  the  series  not  only  from  members  of 
the  Faculty  but  also  from  other  WTiters  identified  in  some  way 
with  Amherst,  especially  from  the  alumni. 

The  terms  of  the  foundation,  as  voted  by  the  Trustees,  provide 
that  a  manuscript  for  publication  must  be  the  work  of  a  member 
of  the  Faculty,  or  of  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
College,  or  of  a  lecturer  upon  a  special  foundation,  or  of  an  alum- 
nus, or  must  in  some  way  be  representative  of  the  College.  It 
must  either  as  embodying  the  results  of  research  or  as  an  inter- 
pretative study  make  a  real  contribution  to  the  subject  with  which 
it  deals.  Translations  having  literary  or  scholarly  value  may  also 
be  accepted,  but  it  is  not  the  general  policy  of  the  series  to  include 
textbooks  or  short  papers  which  might  satisfactorily  be  published 
in  the  journals  of  various  societies.  All  manuscripts  must  also 
be  approved  by  the  editorial  board. 

The  editorial  board  is  made  up  of  the  President  of  the  College, 
ex-officio,  a  managing  editor,  and  three  assistant  editors  represent- 
ing the  three  Faculty  groups,  language  and  literature,  natural 
science,  and  humanistic  science.  The  members  of  the  board  are 
nominated  by  the  President  with  the  approval  of  the  Faculty  and 
elected  by  the  Trustees.  The  present  editorial  board  consists  of 
President  Meiklejohn,  Professor  Harry  deForest  Smith,  manag- 
ing editor,  and  Professors  Eastman,  Hamilton,  and  Kimball 
representing  the  three  groups  of  the  Faculty. 

In  arranging  for  the  publication  of  the  Amherst  Books,  the  first 
business  of  the  editorial  board  after  organization  early  last  summer 


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was  to  find  a  suitable  publishing  house  for  the  series.  After  a 
thorough  investigation  of  this  matter,  they  selected  the  Marshall 
Jones  Company  of  Boston  as  the  firm  best  prepared  to  meet  their 
needs  and  desires.  It  is  a  firm  of  excellent  reputation,  thoroughly 
identified  with  New  England  scholarship,  and  not  too  much 
occupied  with  other  interests  to  give  the  Amherst  Books  the  most 
careful  attention.  The  last  factor  is  the  more  needful  since  the 
Amherst  Books  must  undergo  comparison  with  the  best  work  of 
university  presses.  If  they  are  to  be,  as  the  editors  wish  to  make 
them,  examples  of  the  best  bookmaking,  the  personal  interest 
of  the  publisher  is  indispensable.  This  the  Amherst  Books  are 
sure  to  have  with  the  Marshall  Jones  Company;  for  Mr.  Jones, 
the  head  of  the  firm,  is  an  enthusiastic  supporter  of  the  venture. 

A  standard  format  for  the  series  has  also  been  decided  upon. 
The  volumes  will  be  of  uniform  size  (except  in  special  instances), 
convenient  to  handle,  and  attractive  to  the  eye  whether  thick  or 
thin.  For  binding  material  the  publisher  has  secured  an  English 
black  cloth  unique  in  this  country,  upon  which  the  title  and  the 
colophon  will  be  stamped  in  gold.  With  clear  type  and  a  distinc- 
tive page  the  volumes  will  command  the  respect  of  the  connoisseur 
in  fine  books.  They  will  be  published  at  prices  not  larger  than 
those  of  similar  publications  from  the  Harvard,  Yale,  or  Princeton 
presses. 

Such  at  present  writing  is  the  progress  of  the  enterprise  on  its 
material  side.  Through  the  Amherst  Books  the  College  hopes  to 
extend  the  range  of  its  influence  and  to  provide  a  channel  for  the 
direct  expression  of  its  intellectual  achievement.  By  facilitating 
the  publication  of  valuable  studies  it  hopes  to  bring  together  all 
members  of  the  Amherst  community  in  critical  and  creative  efl^ort, 
to  enable  them  better  to  understand  their  several  interests  as 
scholars,  and  to  obtain  an  objective  test  of  the  work  of  the  College 
when  the  results  of  that  work  are  laid  open  to  public  examination. 

The  editors  desire  the  participation  of  the  alumni  both  in  con- 
tributing to  the  series  and  in  supporting  it.  The  books  issued  from 
time  to  time  will  afford  graduates  who  wish  to  keep  in  touch  with 
the  intellectual  life  of  Amlierst  an  opportunity  to  do  so,  either 
by  subscribing  to  the  series  as  a  whole  or  by  buying  separate 
volumes  that  touch  a  special  field  of  interest.  The  Amherst 
Books  will  be  one  of  the  most  tangible  proofs  of  the  quality  of  the 


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163 


College;  alumni  who  are  interested  in  sending  boys  from  their 
vicinity  to  Amherst,  therefore,  should  see  that  the  Amherst  Books 
are  available  in  school  and  town  libraries  or  are  otherwise  brought 
to  the  attention  of  all  who  may  become  interested  in  Amherst. 
The  success  and  the  value  of  the  publications  depend  upon  the 
extent  to  which  Amherst  men  are  willing  to  enlist  themselves  in 
the  enterprise — one  which  represents  the  College  before  the  world 


in  its  most  vital  capacity  as  a  community  united  in  the  pursuit  of 
knowledge  and  the  love  of  wisdom. 

The  colophon  used  on  all  the  Amherst  Books  will  be  an  adapta- 
tion of  the  design  here  reproduced.  The  symbols  of  the  book  and 
rising  sun,  familiar  on  the  Amherst  seal,  are  readily  transferable 
to  this  new  Amherst  venture;  the  dates  indicate  the  connection  of 
the  publications  with  the  centennial  of  the  College;  and  the  motto, 
Terras  irradient,  acquires  a  fresh  significance  in  the  determination 
of  Amherst  College  to  send  into  the  world  books  expressive  of  its 
own  most  lucid  thinking. 


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CENTENNIAL  BIOGRAPHIES:  TWO  AMHERST 
DICKINSONS 

AUSTIN    BAXTER   KEEP 
REV.    AUSTIN    DICKINSON,    A.M. 

IF  some  future  generation  should  ever  conceive  the  idea  of 
erecting  a  statue  to  commemorate  the  founder  of  Amherst 
College,  the  man  most  deserving  the  honor  would  be  the 
Rev.  Austin  Dickinson."  So  wrote  in  1871  the  Rev.  Jacob  Abbott, 
father  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  author  of  the  once  famous 
"Rollo"  books,  and  a  professor  at  Amherst  in  its  early  years, 
when  called  upon  for  his  recollections  of  the  institution  when 
struggling  for  very  existence  in  the  most  critical  period  of  its 
history. 

A  partial  explanation  of  any  seeming  neglect  by  the  college 
authorities  toward  the  memory  and  services  of  this  forgotten — or, 
more  exactly,  little  known — benefactor  appears  in  the  same  letter 
as  follows:  "He  had,  however,  no  formal  connection  of  any  kind 
with  the  College,  and  so  quiet  and  unostentatious  was  his  action 
in  all  these  proceedings,  and  so  entirely  was  his  interest  in  the 
work  confined  to  a  desire  to  have  it  accomplished,  without  any 
wish  to  secure  to  himself  the  honor  or  the  consideration  due  to  the 
one  who  was  the  means  of  accomplishing  it,  that  I  am  not  surprised 
to  learn  that  his  name  does  not  appear  upon  the  college  records 
of  those  days." 

The  "proceedings"  above  referred  to  were,  so  the  same  source 
tells  us,  "all  action  of  a  legal  or  political  character  connected  with 
the  efforts  to  obtain  a  charter  for  the  College."  But  before 
recounting  the  truly  remarkable  series  of  events  that  culminated 
in  success  under  the  influence  of  an  unpretentious  young  clergyman, 
it  were  well  to  outline  briefly  his  early  life  and  circumstances. 

Austin  Dickinson  was  born  in  Amherst,  February  15,  1791,  in 
a  house  still  standing  on  the  easterly  road  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  town,  second  of  the  four  sons  of  Azariah  and  Mary  Eastman 
Dickinson.  Of  a  meditative  temperament  and  trained  in  a  home 
atmosphere  of  intelligence  and  piety,  he  early  planned  to  become 


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a  minister.  His  collegiate  course  was  taken  at  Dartmouth,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  1813.  Despite  a  frail  constitution  and  fre- 
quent suffering  from  eye-strain,  he  maintained  "a  prominent 
place  among  the  best  scholars  of  his  class."  This  from  his  room- 
mate, who  added:  "There  was  no  branch  of  study  to  which  he 
was  not  fully  adequate,  but  he  excelled  in  languages  and  composi- 
tion.    He  was  a  deep  thinker  and  a  strong  original  writer." 

After  graduation  he  read  law  for  a  while  in  an  Amherst  office 
and  then  spent  several  months  in  horseback  travel  for  his  health. 
After  a  course  of  study  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  he  was 
licensed  to  preach,  but  felt  physically  unable  to  accept  a  stated 
charge.  Again  he  set  forth  on  horseback,  journeying  toward 
the  south,  preaching  by  the  way,  and  visiting  colleges  and  semi- 
naries without  regard  to  denomination.  "The  great  aim  of  his 
life,"  said  one  who  knew  him  well,  "was  the  elevation  and  salvation 
of  humanity  and  the  honor  of  his  Divine  Master";  and  he  con- 
cerned himself  but  little  with  sectarianism. 

From  his  journal  it  appears  that  on  this  pilgrimage  he  declined 
several  calls  to  a  settled  pastorate,  but  assisted  in  establishing 
schools,  missionary  societies  and  Bible  and  tract  distributing 
centers,  and  in  securing  subscriptions  to  religious  periodicals,  of 
which  there  were  then  but  few. 

As  evidence  of  his  astonishing  powers  of  organization,  as  well  as 
his  breadth  of  vision,  it  should  be  told  how  he  raised  by  personal 
solicitation  within  less  than  nine  months  the  sum  of  $35,000  to 
found  a  theological  seminary  in  eastern  Tennessee.  On  this 
mission  he  rode  through  six  adjoining  states,  bearing  a  letter  of 
endorsement  from  General  Jackson,  later  President,  himself  a 
generous  contributor  to  the  enterprise.  Besides  this  he  set  in 
operation  in  Richmond  a  non-sectarian  religious  newspaper.  The 
Family  Visitor,  the  first  of  its  kind  south  of  Mason  and  Dixon's  line. 

Upon  his  return  to  Amherst,  in  June,  1822,  he  found  another 
field  of  effort  awaiting  him.  The  "Collegiate  Institution"  had 
only  just  been  started  with  the  primal  purpose  of  aiding  indigent 
young  men  in  preparation  for  the  Christian  ministry.  There  was 
immediate  need  of  a  fund  of  $30,000  to  insure  its  continuance,  and 
to  Mr.  Dickinson  the  call  to  assist  in  this  enterprise  of  enlightened 
piety  proved  irresistible.  In  the  library  of  President  Moore  he 
drew  up   a  subscription  paper,   and  with   the  assistance  of  his 


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brother,  the  Rev.  Baxter  Dickinson,  and  others  he  soon  raised  one 
tenth  of  the  sum  in  and  around  Amherst.  The  remainder  he  took  a 
leading  part  in  obtaining  from  outside  sources  within  a  year. 

From  the  very  beginning  he  had  been  deeply  interested  in  the 
movement  to  estabhsh  a  college  in  his  native  town ;  and  his  efforts  to 
induce  the  acceptance  of  its  presidency  by  Dr.  Moore,  then 
president  of  Williams  College,  in  whose  family  he  had  lived  when  a 
student  at  Dartmouth,  are  attested  in  these  personal  words  from 
Mrs.  Moore:  "If  it  had  not  been  for  your  influence  with  my 
husband,  we  never  should  have  been  in  Amherst." 

And  now  a  new  and  formidable  task  presented  itself,  namely, 
to  secure  for  the  College  a  charter  in  the  face  of  an  organized, 
virtually  state-wide  opposition,  due  chiefly  to  the  evangelical 
character  of  the  institution.  First  President  Moore  and  Mr. 
Dickinson  consulted  their  distinguished  fellow-alumnus,  the  Hon. 
Daniel  Webster,  who  had  not  long  before  made  his  memorable 
and  successful  plea  in  behalf  of  Dartmouth  College  against  a  hostile 
legislature,  and  were  greatly  heartened  by  his  assurances  that  their 
cause  was  not  only  worthy  but  eminently  just.  Similar  approval 
came  from  other  prominent  men. 

At  that  time  the  leaders  of  the  Federalist  party,  then  in  power, 
were  openly  opposed  to  the  College  and  its  appeal  for  a  charter. 
As  the  state  election  approached,  they  nominated  for  governor 
Harrison  Gray  Otis,  a  wealthy  Bostonian,  while  their  opponents 
(then  called  Republicans)  put  up  William  T.  Eustis,  of  Roxbury, 
their  unsuccessful  nominee  of  the  year  before.  By  personal 
inquiry  Mr.  Dickinson  ascertained  that  Mr.  Eustis,  if  elected, 
would  favor  the  charter.  He  thereupon  conceived  the  design  of 
influencing  numbers  of  Federalists  to  change  their  vote  to  the  other 
party  and  actively  set  about  its  accomplishment  by  personal 
visits  to  men  in  all  walks  of  life,  ministers,  professors,  business  men, 
and  farmers,  besides  writing  hundreds  of  letters  and  issuing  appeals 
in  the  current  press.  The  result  was  truly  dramatic,  as  Mr. 
Eustis  was  elected  by  a  decisive  majority. 

This  was,  however,  but  the  beginning;  a  renewed  application 
for  the  charter,  though  favorably  reported  by  a  joint  committee  of 
the  legislature,  was  deferred  for  consideration  till  the  next  session. 
Hard  upon  this  disappointment  came  a  tragic  set-back  in  the  sud- 
den death  of  President  Moore.     One  incident  will  serve  to  reveal 


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the  hostility  manifested  toward  the  College.  An  Andover  profes- 
sor in  a  conversation  asking,  "Can  they  get  a  successor?"  was  met 
with  the  harsh  rejoinder  from  another  eminent  theologian,  "The 
question  is  whether  they  ought  to  have  a  successor." 

Here  again  the  services  of  Mr.  Dickinson  were  invoked,  and  he 
was  entrusted  by  the  authorities  with  the  important  and  delicate 
mission  of  persuading  the  man  of  their  choice,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Heman 
Humphrey,  pastor  of  a  large  and  united  congregation  in  Pittsfield, 
to  leave  that  advantageous  station  to  become  the  head  of  a  strug- 
gling young  college,  whose  efforts  to  gain  legal  standing  were  at 
that  very  time  vigorously  resisted. 

Once  more  success  crowned  his  labors,  and  the  acceptance  of 
the  office  by  Dr.  Humphrey,  no  less  than  his  able  inaugural  address, 
gained  the  College  strong  reenforcements.  Nevertheless,  despite 
all  this  and  further  personal  efforts,  the  bill  to  grant  the  charter 
failed  to  pass  early  in  1824.  Then  came  the  reelection  of  Mr. 
Eustis  as  governor,  and  a  new  bill  was  introduced  in  May.  This 
time  the  opposition,  not  feeling  itself  strong  enough  to  risk  a  vote, 
secured  the  appointment  of  a  joint  committee  to  investigate  actual 
conditions  at  Amherst. 

In  preparation  for  this  visitation  Mr.  Dickinson  was,  if  possible, 
more  tireless  than  before,  advising  Trustees  and  Faculty  and  again 
faring  forth  with  a  subscription  paper,  this  time  for  $15,000,  and 
again  meeting  with  success.  The  committee  spent  a  fortnight  in  a 
minute  inspection  of  the  whole  situation  and  reported  favorably; 
whereupon,  though  only  after  another  prolonged  and  heated  dis- 
cussion, the  legislature  voted  to  grant  the  charter,  in  February, 
1825. 

In  that  same  month  Mr.  Dickinson  completed  his  thirty-fourth 
year.  Says  the  Rev.  Jacob  Abbott  again:  "I  think  it  was 
generally  understood  at  Amherst,  while  the  question  of  its  legal 
establishment  was  pending,  that  he  was  the  main  and,  indeed, 
almost  the  sole  reliance  of  its  friends  for  all  the  plans  formed  and 
the  measures  adopted  to  promote  success."  And  from  President 
Humphrey  comes  this  further  word:  "Mr.  Dickinson  brought 
influences  to  bear  upon  the  public  mind  which  few  men  could  have 
wielded  with  such  skill  and  success,  and  for  which  the  College  is 
more  indebted  for  its  establishment  and  prosperity  than  one  in  a 
hundred  of  its  present  friends  is  or  ever  will  be  aware  of." 


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Furthermore,  as  if  that  were  not  enough,  Mr.  Dickinson  had  for 
over  a  year  of  this  time  of  strain  and  stress  been  "supplying" 
the  pulpit  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Amherst  (the 
present  College  Hall),  and,  in  the  words  of  Professor  Abbott, 
who  extolled  his  imagery  and  diction,  "these  services  were  looked 
forward  to  with  great  anticipation  by  the  officers  and  students 
of  the  College  and  by  the  cultivated  portion  of  the  community." 
Another  former  member  of  the  Faculty,  the  Rev.  Solomon  Peck, 
declared  that  "his  power  to  move  others  was  conspicuous  in  public 
address  scarcely  less  than  in  private  intercourse." 

From  Professor  Abbott  we  have  this  as  to  his  character: 
*'I  remember  Mr.  Dickinson  as  the  most  grave  and  austere  man 
I  ever  knew,  with  no  thought  and  no  word  of  interest  for  anything 
light  or  trifling,  but  wholly  engrossed  at  all  times  in  his  deep-laid 
plans  and  schemes  for  the  advancement  of  the  College."  Professor 
Peck  wrote  long  afterward  of  his  personal  appearance:  "He  was  a 
man  to  make  lasting  impressions.  His  features  and  their  habitual 
expression,  sedate,  earnest,  sometimes  bordering  on  sadness,  but 
occasionally  brightening  into  a  smile;  his  deliberate,  measured 
gait,  with  brow  inclined,  as  if  weighed  down  with  momentous 
aims  and  plans;  the  directness  but  kindness  of  his  appeals;  and 
his  prolific  inventiveness,  ever  devising  new  methods  of  influencing 
the  general  mind  for  good, — all  stand  out  before  me  at  this  hour  as 
if  I  had  seen  him  but  yesterday." 

Although  here  ends  the  story  of  his  connection  with  Amherst 
College,  it  will  not  be  amiss  to  review  briefly  his  subsequent 
career,  which  was  in  keeping  with  the  nature  of  his  earlier  activ- 
ities. His  next  exertions  were  directed  toward  the  improvement 
of  the  American  pulpit,  as  he  felt  that  its  printed  sermons  were 
inferior  to  those  of  British  divines.  Accordingly  he  undertook  the 
monthly  publication  of  sermons  by  eminent  living  preachers  of 
all  denominations,  calling  the  periodical  The  National  Preacher. 
This  wholly  novel  work,  published  in  New  York,  within  less  than 
three  years  attained  a  circulation  of  twelve  thousand  and  was 
continued  with  great  usefulness  for  forty  years.  Mr.  Dickinson 
remained  its  editor  and  proprietor  for  nearly  thirteen  years  and 
personally  distributed  gratis  a  number  of  copies  equal  to  the  list  of 
subscriptions.  Throughout  these  years  he  also  gave  generously 
of  his  time  and  substantial  income  to  all  worthy  objects,  acting 


Centennial  Biographies       169 

for  a  while  as  editor  of  the  American  Tract  Society,  as  well  as 
preaching  constantly  on  Sundays  to  some  destitute  congregation. 

Then  followed  a  voyage  to  England,  partly  for  the  benefit  of 
his  health,  but  chiefly  to  study  the  educational  and  benevolent 
institutions  of  Great  Britain.  On  his  return  he  devoted  such  time 
as  his  health  would  permit  for  the  next  six  years  to  securing  sub- 
scriptions for  The  Neio  York  Observer. 

In  1844  he  entered  upon  his  last  and  most  important  enterprise, 
namely,  to  quote  his  words,  the  insertion  of  "interesting  religious 
matter"  into  secular  newspapers,  there  "to  be  read  by  millions 
who  would  never  see  a  religious  journal  and  many  of  whom  would 
only  despise  a  tract."  That  this  project,  in  which  he  met  with 
unqualified  success,  was  not  only  original  and  revolutionary  but 
beset  with  no  little  difficulty,  is  evident  from  his  own  further  state- 
ment: "Previous  to  this  undertaking,  the  editors  of  secular 
papers,  generally,  scarcely  noticed  religious  movements  or  seemed 
to  feel  any  interest  in  them.  Much  delicacy  and  prudence  were, 
therefore,  necessary  in  any  attempt  so  to  change  their  views  and 
tastes  that  political  journals  might,  without  exciting  prejudice,  be 
made  the  heralds  of  sacred  truth  and  religious  instruction." 

In  furthering  this  work  he  was  frequently  seen,  after  midnight, 
mounting  the  stairs  to  some  printing  office,  on  a  fourth  or  fifth 
floor  perhaps,  to  read  proof,  as  proof  readers  were  very  apt  to  make 
serious  errors  in  religious  articles.  He  was  also  often  obliged  to 
write  nearly  all  night  long  to  furnish  an  account  of  some  import- 
ant meeting  to  several  morning  papers  simultaneously,  since  no 
editor  would  publish  such  items  the  second  day  after. 

In  the  midst  of  disinterested  toil  he  died  at  the  home  of  his 
brother.  Dr.  Baxter  Dickinson,  during  the  cholera  epidemic  in 
New  York,  August  15,  1849.  He  was  survived  by  his  wife,  form- 
erly Miss  Laura  W.  Camp  of  New  Preston,  Conn.,  a  lady  of 
superior  intellectual  gifts  and  culture.  Their  only  child,  a  daughter, 
died  in  infancy.  Of  all  the  printed  tributes  to  his  memory  the 
following  sentence  in  The  American  Messenger  of  October,  1849, 
will  suffice  as  an  apt  characterization:  "He  was  a  man  of  great 
singleness  of  purpose  and  of  unyielding  perseverance,  fruitful  in 
devising  and  laborious  in  executing  plans  of  usefulness."  And 
then  after  life's  fitful  fever  he  was  laid  to  rest  in  the  "old"  cemetery 
in  the  town  of  Amherst  on  Pleasant  Street,  as  the  inscription  on 


170      Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 

the  tall  marble  monument  "erected  by  a  few  friends"  testifies, 
"after  a  life  of  eminent  Christian  enterprise  and  usefulness." 

rev.    BAXTER    DICKINSON,    D.D, 

Baxter  Dickinson  was  born  on  April  14,  1795,  in  the  town  of 
Amherst,  the  youngest  of  the  four  sons  of  Azariah  and  Mary  ^ 

Eastman  Dickinson,  his  brothers  being  named  respectively  Ransom,  S 

Austin,  and  Daniel.  His  father,  a  prosperous  farmer,  had  enlisted 
as  a  minute  man  in  the  Revolutionary  War  upon  news  of  the  battle 
of  Lexington. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  made  profession  of  faith  in  Christ 
and,  like  his  elder  brother  Austin,  planned  to  enter  the  ministry. 
He  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  with  honors  in  1817  and 
from  Andover  Theological  Seminary  four  years  later  as  valedic- 
torian of  his  class. 

His  first  charge  was  at  Longmeadow,  now  a  part  of  Springfield, 
where  he  was  ordained  March  5,  1823.     It  was  at  this  time  that  <^ 

he  rendered  material  assistance  in  raising  funds  for  the  young  | 

college  at  Amherst  and  from  the  first  fruits  of  his  slender  salary  f 

made  a  personal  contribution  thereto,  as  the  records  show. 

From  1829  to  1835  he  was  pastor  of  the  Third  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  resigning  to  become  professor  of  sacred  i^ 

rhetoric  and  pastoral  theology  at  Lane  Theological  Seminary, 
Walnut  Hills,  Ohio.  From  1839  to  1847  he  held  the  same  chair  at 
Auburn  Seminary,  Auburn,  N,  Y.,  resigning  that  post  to  take  an  ; 

important  office  in  the  Foreign  Evangelical  Society,  continuing 
the  same  work  after  its  merger  into  the  American  and  Foreign  (' 

Christian  Union.  He  at  first  took  up  his  residence  in  New  York, 
but  after  some  years  removed  to  Boston.  During  this  period 
he  also  gave  instruction  in  Andover  Seminary. 

From  1859  to  1868  Dr.  Dickinson  conducted  with  his  four 
daughters  a  school  for  young  ladies  in  Lake  Forest,  111.,  with 
notable  success.  His  declining  years  he  passed  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
where  he  died  December  7,  1875,  at  the  age  of  eighty.  He  was 
survived  by  his  wife,  formerly  Miss  Martha  Bush,  youngest 
daughter  of  Col.  Jotham  Bush  of  Boylston,  Mass.,  a  lady  of  great 
personal  charm,  characterized  by  Dr.  Nelson  as  "wise,  modest, 
motherly,  saintly,"  whose  beautiful  old  age  was  lengthened  to 
nearly  ninety -five  years. 


Centennial  Biographies       171 

As  a  teacher  Dr.  Dickinson  is  said  by  Dr.  Henry  Kendall,  a 
former  student,  to  have  had  "the  faculty  of  quickly  discerning  the 
gifts  and  mental  aptitudes  of  his  pupils,  and  instead  of  holding 
constantly  before  them  some  high  special  model,  he  encouraged 
them  to  do  their  best  in  the  way  most  natural."  Among  others  to 
bear  out  this  witness  was  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  who  personally 
said  to  members  of  Dr.  Dickinson's  family :  "  Your  father  did  more 
for  me  than  any  teacher  I  ever  had.     He  made  me  work!" 

His  published  writings  are  chiefly  sermons,  a  number  of  which 
appeared  in  The  National  Preacher.  One  of  them,  "The  Day  of 
Pentecost,"  was  published  in  England.  Another,  entitled  "Alarm 
to  Distillers,"  was  widely  circulated  as  a  prize  tract  and  is  to 
be  found  in  the  volume  "Permanent  Temperance  Documents." 

The  most  noteworthy  production  of  his  pen  is  "The  True 
Doctrines,"  embodied  in  the  protest  of  the  minority  against  the 
exscinding  acts  of  the  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  of  1837, 
subsequently  adopted  by  the  famous  Auburn  Convention  and  ever 
since  known  in  Presbyterian  Church  history  as  the  "Auburn 
Declaration."  This  statement,  pronounced  "one  of  the  most 
remarkable  documents  of  the  century"  by  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Henry 
A.  Nelson,  was  accepted  thirty-one  years  later  by  the  two  Presby- 
terian Churches,  which  parted  at  the  very  time  it  was  written,  as 
the  symbol  of  their  doctrinal  harmony  when  they  again  became 
one.  Dr.  Nelson  adds,  to  justify  his  assertion:  "The  self- 
possession,  discrimination,  and  power  of  lucid,  unambiguous 
expression  which  it  exhibits  are  marvelous,  especially  when  we 
consider  all  the  circumstances  in  which  it  was  written,  amid  the 
intense  excitement  of  the  Assembly  of  1837."  It  is  pleasant  to 
imagine  the  profound  gratification  occasioned  by  this  circumstance 
to  its  venerable  author,  then  seventy  years  of  age. 

Dr.  Dickinson  was  made  an  honorary  alumnus  of  Amherst  by 
the  conferring  of  the  degree  of  Doctor  in  Divinity  upon  him  in 
1838.  The  next  year  he  was  chosen  moderator  of  the  Presby- 
terian General  Assembly  (New  School) .  He  had  a  lifelong  interest 
in  Amherst  College,  to  which  he  sent  his  two  sons,  the  Rev.  Richard 
Salter  Storrs  Dickinson,  of  the  class  of  1844,  and  the  Rev.  William 
C.  Dickinson,  D.D.,  valedictorian  of  the  class  of  1848  and  for  a 
year  after  graduation  an  instructor  in  the  College. 


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COLLEGE  NOTES  t 

SABRINA    irredenta 

After  twenty-nine  years  in  the  exclusive  possession  of  the  even- 
classes  Sabrina  passed  into  the  keeping  of  the  odds  on  the  night 
of  March  3rd.  The  capture  of  the  goddess,  wildly  celebrated  by 
the  Juniors  and  Freshmen  in  midnight  parade  at  Amherst  and 
announced  by  the  chief  newspapers  of  the  country  on  the  following 
day,  followed  hard  upon  her  appearance  at  the  Boston  Alumni 
Banquet  in  the  Copley-Plaza  Hotel.  The  committee  in  charge  of 
the  banquet  had  advertised  that  the  dinner  would  be  the  occasion 
for  a  big  surprise.  It  was;  but  the  surprise  turned  out  to  be  bigger 
than  any  but  a  small  number  of  odd-classmen  had  anticipated. 
While  the  guardians  of  Sabrina,  aware  that  their  intentions  were 
known  to  the  enemy,  were  making  arrangements  for  the  quick  and 
safe  exit  of  the  goddess  after  her  appearance,  the  odd-class  conspira- 
tors carefully  laid  the  plans  which  resulted  in  her  capture. 

Early  on  the  day  of  the  banquet  Sabrina  was  taken  to  Fram- 
ingham,  just  outside  of  Boston,  escorted  by  two  Seniors.  The 
undergraduates  there  turned  her  over  to  an  alumni  committee, 
who  spirited  her  safely  into  Boston  to  await  the  banquet. 

In  an  attempt  to  draw  the  fire  of  the  odd-classmen,  a  truck 
carrying  an  empty  packing-case  was  run  up  to  the  rear  door  of  the 
Copley-Plaza  shortly  before  the  real  Sabrina  was  brought  in.  But 
the  enemy  was  too  astute  to  be  foiled  by  this  ruse.  The  even-class 
committee  then  proceeded  to  carry  out  its  arrangements.  Sabrina 
was  carried  to  the  hotel  on  a  truck  belonging  to  R.  H.  Stearns 
Company.  Truck  and  statue  were  raised  to  the  level  of  the 
banquet  hall  on  a  freight  elevator,  and  the  statue  was  removed 
from  its  case  and  mounted  on  a  rolling  platform.  In  the  midst 
of  President  Meiklejohn's  speech,  two  large  doors  were  flung  open 
and  what  appeared  to  be  a  huge  bottle  bearing  the  label  "Gordon's 
Gin"  was  pushed  into  the  hall.  The  covering  was  torn  away, 
Sabrina  made  her  momentary  appearance  and  was  quickly  with- 
drawn, while  even-classmen  attempted  to  guard  the  doors.  After 
the  usual  uproar  of  welcome,  the  banqueters  settled  down  to  hear 


College    Notes  173 

what  was  left  of  President  Meiklejohn's  speech.  The  incident 
appeared  to  be  closed,  but  sensational  events  were  happening 
outside. 

The  truck  bearing  Sabrina  and  her  guardians  had  not  gone 
far  from  the  Copley-Plaza,  when  its  path  was  blocked  by  three 
automobiles  drawn  up  across  the  street  by  the  odd-classmen. 
Thereupon  the  truck  attempted  to  cross  a  vacant  lot,  and  as  the 
odd-class  strategists  had  foreseen,  stalled  in  a  snowdrift.  Seward 
and  MacGregor,  '19,  who  had  witnessed  Sabrina's  appearance 
at  the  banquet  and  had  left  the  hall  by  a  convenient  side  entrance, 
reached  the  street  at  this  moment,  and  with  Boynton,  '19,  who 
had  been  deputed  to  watch  the  truck,  jumped  into  a  car  and  drove 
some  distance  beyond  the  truck.  MacGregor  stayed  in  the  car, 
Boynton  went  back  to  the  hotel  for  reenforcements,  and  Seward 
walked  up  to  the  truck.  There  pandemonium  reigned.  Every- 
body was  shouting  different  instructions  and  the  truck  was  sinking 
deeper  and  deeper  into  the  snowdrift.  In  the  excitement  of  the 
moment  he  was  mistaken  for  an  even-classman.  At  his  suggestion 
the  guardians  of  Sabrina  placed  the  statue  in  a  Ford  car  hired 
by  the  non-Sabrina  men,  climbed  in  themselves,  and  started  off, 
followed  by  a  medley  of  even-  and  odd-class  cars,  the  odds  pre- 
dominating. When  the  Ford  turned  toward  Cambridge  contrary 
to  the  intentions  of  the  Sabrina  men,  a  short  scuffle  ensued.  When 
the  fracas  ended  the  Ford  moved  away  with  but  one  even-classman 
inside.  On  Harvard  Bridge  all  the  cars  containing  even-classmen 
were  successfully  blocked.  At  a  sufficiently  secluded  spot  in 
Cambridge  the  Ford  stopped,  and  the  sole  representative  of  the 
even-classes  was  offered  a  ride  back  to  Boston.  One  look  at  the 
forces  of  the  captors  persuaded  him  to  accept.  Sabrina  was  then 
taken  to  a  prearranged  place  of  concealment. 

At  10.45  the  same  evening  telegraphic  news  of  the  capture 
reached  Amherst,  where  the  night  soon  reechoed  the  triumph  of 
the  odd-classes.  A  huge  bonfire  was  built  on  the  campus,  the 
chapel  bell  tolled,  a  fraternity  cannon  was  fired,  revolvers  dis- 
charged, and  "All  hail,  Sabrina  dear!"  chanted  by  unfamiliar 
throats.  At  the  chapel  service  the  next  morning  the  Doxology 
was  replaced  by  the  Sabrina  Song,  the  Freshmen  ran  out  a  banner 
bearing  the  words,  "Sabrina  Day — No  Classes,"  and  the  odd- 
classmen  left  chapel  in  a  body  to  continue  the  celebration. 


174       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 

According  to  the  rules  of  the  Sabrina  contest,  the  statue  must 
be  produced  before  the  college  body  at  least  once  annually  and 
that  during  the  last  twelve  weeks  of  the  college  year.  In  expecta- 
tion of  her  approaching  visit  to  the  campus  both  even-  and  odd- 
classes  are  learning  the  Sabrina  and  anti-Sabrina  songs.  Mean- 
while alumni  whose  loyalty  or  disloyalty  to  the  goddess  has  not 
been  disturbed  for  almost  thirty  years  may  well  prepare  themselves 
for  a  change  of  heart  next  Commencement — unless,  indeed,  Sabrina 
should  be  recaptured  before  that  time. 

A    NEW    SYSTEM    OF   MAJORS 

For  Seniors  and  Juniors  who  desire  to  take  a  larger  share  of 
responsibility  for  their  studies  than  has  hitherto  been  possible,  the 
Faculty  has  voted  to  offer  a  new  arrangement  of  major  courses. 
According  to  the  new  plan  a  student  will  elect  for  the  year  a  group 
of  three  related  courses  and  one  other  course;  instead,  however, 
of  electing  a  fifth  course  he  will  be  allowed  to  read  or  to  do  a  piece 
of  investigation  under  the  direction  of  the  professor  in  charge  of 
one  of  his  related  courses,  who  will  meet  him  in  conference  once  a 
week.  At  the  end  of  the  year  he  will  be  examined  both  on  his 
courses  and  on  his  special  reading.  The  present  rule  forbidding 
any  student  to  take  at  one  time  more  than  two  courses  in  the  same 
department  or  under  the  same  professor  will  still  hold  good  and 
will  prevent  too  great  "specialization"  under  the  proposed  plan. 
Furthermore,  the  plan  is  optional  both  to  students  and  to  teachers, 
and  will  not  involve  the  offering  of  a  large  number  of  new  majors 
nor  any  change  in  the  courses  as  now  given.  The  plan  will  be  tried 
experimentally  during  the  next  two  academic  years,  and  at  the 
end  of  that  time  either  extended  or  allowed  to  lapse. 

As  voted  by  the  Faculty,  the  provisions  for  the  new  majors  are : 

I.  A  Senior  or  Junior  will  be  allowed  to  take  only  four  courses, 
instead  of  five  as  formerly  required,  provided  he  enroll  for  a  major 
as  defined  by  the  following  conditions. 

II.  A  major  shall  be:  (1)  Three  courses  taken  in  the  same  year 
and  approved  by  a  Faculty  group  as  so  closely  related  as  to  form  a 
well  unified  field  of  study.  (2)  Assigned  reading  or  investigation 
within  the  field  of  study  so  selected. 

III.  Majors  shall  be  arranged  in  conference  by  the  professors  in 
charge  of  the  courses  concerned,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
Committee  on  Instruction.     The  students  enrolling  for  a  major 


College     Notes  175 

shall  pursue  it  under  the  direction  of  the  professor  in  charge  of  one 
of  the  courses,  and  he  shall  have  general  responsibihty  for  their 
guidance  in  connection  with  it.  No  student  shall  be  admitted  to  a 
major  without  the  written  consent  of  the  professor  in  charge. 

IV.  At  the  close  of  the  year  candidates  for  major  credit  shall  be 
examined  upon  the  field  of  study,  including  the  content  of  the 
courses  and  of  the  reading  and  investigation.  This  examination 
shall  be  set  and  the  papers  graded  by  the  professors  in  charge,  and, 
in  case  they  so  request,  an  outside  examiner  shall  be  selected  by 
the  president  to  cooperate  in  the  work. 

Notes.  It  is  contemplated  that  under  this  plan  the  Juniors 
of  next  year  who  enroll  for  major  courses  will  have  offered  to  them 
the  following  year  major  courses  which  will  be  a  continuation  of 
those  taken  in  the  preceding  year. 

A  Junior  of  next  year  will  have  the  privilege  of  returning  to  the 
five-course  basis  for  his  Senior  year  if  he  so  desires. 

winter  sports 

Hampered  by  the  unusually  heavy  snows  of  last  winter,  which 
sometimes  prevented  the  basketball  and  swimming  teams  from 
traveling  and  caused  the  abandonment  of  practically  the  entire 
hockey  schedule,  the  minor  sports  of  the  winter  term  went  through 
a  season  of  uncertain  and  not  very  satisfactory  performance. 
The  fine  record  of  the  Amherst  swimmers  and  the  one  victory  of 
the  basketball  team  over  Williams  are  the  only  pleasant  memories 
that  remain  from  a  period  of  consistent  disappointment.  Four 
basketball  games  out  of  the  eleven  scheduled  had  to  be  canceled 
because  of  the  weather,  two  swimming  meets  were  called  off,  and 
after  the  third  week  in  January  the  hockey  team  ceased  to  exist. 

The  basketball  team  began  its  season  with  a  large  number  of 
veterans  on  the  squad  and  prospects  good  for  the  development  of  a 
winning  team.  These  hopes  were  rapidly  dimmed  by  three  over- 
whelming defeats  at  the  hands  of  Springfield,  M.  A.  C,  and 
Wesleyan.  In  the  home  game  with  Williams  on  February  13th 
Amherst  showed  its  only  flash  of  power.  Fighting  an  uphill  battle 
against  the  brilliant  but  erratic  playing  of  the  Williams  five, 
Captain  Kennedy's  men  pulled  out  an  unexpected  victory,  Elliott 
slapping  the  ball  into  the  basket  for  the  winning  score  from  a 
toss-up  in  the  last  minute  of  play.  The  team,  however,  could  not 
maintain  the  stride  developed  on  this  occasion.  Handicapped  by 
the  loss  of  first-team  players  through  illness,  the  team  was  again 


176   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


helpless  before  Wesleyan  and  Springfield,  and  concluded  an 
unsuccessful  season  by  losing  the  return  game  to  Williams.  Out 
of  420  points  scored,  Amherst  registered  only  150  to  its  opponents' 
270.  Waldo  G.  Palmer  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  has  been  elected 
captain  of  the  1920-21  basketball  team. 

The  swimming  team  added  another  fine  record  to  its  series  of 
triumphs,  holding  four  meets  without  a  single  defeat  and  winning 
fourth  place  in  the  National  Intercollegiate  meet.  Syracuse, 
Harvard,  Williams,  and  Wesleyan  were  in  turn  outclassed  by  the 
Amherst  watermen,  who  piled  up  a  total  of  148  points  against 
their  opponents'  64.  In  the  New  England  Intercollegiates  at 
Boston,  Damon  won  the  50-yard  dash,  and  later  placed  second 
in  the  National  Intercollegiates  at  Yale.  Captain  Cowles,  who 
was  undefeated  in  the  220-yard  swim  throughout  the  year,  was 
unable  to  compete  at  either  of  these  meets  because  of  the  opening 
of  the  baseball  season.  Douglas  Whitcomb  of  Worcester,  a 
member  of  this  season's  successful  relay  team  and  a  consistent 
point  winner  in  the  100-yard  swim,  will  be  captain  of  the  swimming 
team  next  year. 

The  two  hockey  games  played  before  blizzards  buried  the  ice 
were  both  victories  for  Amherst. 

The  detailed  scores  for  the  different  minor  sports  were : 

Basketball 

Jan.  17,  at  Springfield,  Amherst  41 — Springfield  59 

Jan.  21,  at  Amherst  (M.  A.  C.  Drill  Hall),   Amherst   11— 

M.  A.  C.  15 
Jan.  24,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  19 — Wesleyan  41 
Feb.  13,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  27— Williams  26 
Feb.  20,  at  Middletown,  Amherst  19 — Wesleyan  48 
Mar.  10,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  31 — Springfield  49 
Mar.  13,  at  Wilhamstown,  Amherst  15 — Williams  32 

Sivimming 

Feb.  14,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  41 — Syracuse  12 
Feb.  18,  at  Boston,  Amherst  38 — Harvard  15 
Feb.  20,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  38 — Williams  15 
Feb.  25,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  31 — Wesleyan  22 

Hockey 
Jan.  17,  at  Springfield,  Amherst  1 — Springfield  0 
Jan.  21,  at  Amherst,  Amherst  3— M.  A.  C.  1 


College    Notes  177 


DRAMATICS 

On  February  19th  the  Masquers  presented  in  College  Hall  "The 
Bonds  of  Interest,"  a  three-act  play  by  the  contemporary  Spanish 
playwright,  Jacinto  Benavente.  Thanks  to  the  hard  work  of  the 
cast,  the  untiring  energy  of  the  coach,  Mr.  Everett  Glass,  and  the 
brilliant  costumes  designed  by  Mr.  Henry  Hunt  Clark  of  the 
Boston  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  the  presentation  was  a  great  success. 
It  has  been  twice  repeated,  at  South  Hadley  Falls  on  March  5th, 
and  at  Englewood,  N.  J.,  on  April  30th. 

The  play,  a  satirical  comedy  reviving  the  stock  characters  and 
situations  of  the  Commedia  dell'  Arte  and  dependent  more  upon 
characterization  and  dialogue  than  upon  plot,  challenged  the  best 
efforts  of  college  actors.  Mr.  Granville  Barker  calls  it  one  of  the 
most  difficult  plays  of  modern  repertory.  Theme  and  setting  are 
both  artificial  and  alien,  the  element  of  suspense  is  very  slight, 
and  there  are  no  dramatic  thrills.  The  effect  of  the  whole  play 
rests  squarely  upon  the  acting.  The  performance  was,  therefore, 
an  excellent  test  of  the  histrionic  ability  of  the  cast,  a  test  from 
which  they  emerged  triumphant.  Mr.  Roland  Wood,  a  comedian 
far  above  the  average,  kept  his  audiences  continually  entertained 
by  appropriate  gesture  and  intonation  in  his  difficult  and  sustained 
role  of  Crispin,  the  arch  intriguer  and  rogue  who  evolves  all  the 
complications  that  make  up  the  plot.  He  was  well  supported 
by  the  rest  of  the  cast. 

A  feature  of  the  Masquers'  performance  was  the  costumes  and 
settings,  more  elaborate  than  any  attempted  for  several  years. 
In  designing  the  costumes  Mr.  Clark  followed  closely  the  traditions 
of  the  Commedia  dell'  Arte,  using  combinations  of  gorgeous  color. 
His  settings  were  simple  in  design  and  neutral  in  tone  to  set  off 
the  brilliantly  colored  figures  in  the  foreground.  By  certain  rear- 
rangements of  position  the  same  flats  were  used  in  all  acts,  varied 
by  different  lighting  effects.  Costumes  and  scenery  were  executed 
by  three  of  Mr.  Clark's  pupils.  Miss  Thelma  Tapley,  Mr.  Eugene 
Frost,  and  Mr.  Edward  Ely. 

An  original  musical  comedy  called  "Oh,  What  a  Chance,"  the 
libretto  by  Harmon  and  MacKenzie,  the  music  by  Woodard, 
is  now  in  process  of  rehearsal  for  presentation  at  Prom  time.  It  is 
something  of  an  adventure  both  for  authors  and  audience.  Noth- 
ing  like   it   has   been   attempted   in   Amherst   for  a  good  many 


178       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 

years,  though  record  of  former  musical  shows  might  be  found 
among  Senior  dramatic  performances  during  the  nineties.  Its 
relation  to  "The  Bonds  of  Interest"  chronologically  in  the  college 
year  suggests  a  parallel  between  the  Old  Italian  Comedy  and  the 
Opera  bouffe  which  followed  it.  As  yet  the  secrets  of  the  play  are 
closely  guarded,  but  the  authors  and  producers  guarantee  that  the 
final  result  will  be  little  less  than  astonishing.  The  music  is  said  to 
be  unusually  effective.  Three  of  the  songs,  with  a  cover-design  by 
Ewer,  will  be  published  by  T.  B.  Harms  Company  of  New  York. 

Before  the  production  of  the  musical  comedy  the  Masquers 
plan  to  put  on  a  bill  of  original  one-act  plays.  Three  such  plays, 
two  adaptations  and  one  entirely  original,  have  been  presented 
during  the  season.  An  original  one-act  play  by  Dexter  M.  Keezer, 
'19,  was  acted  at  a  reception  given  by  the  Ladies  of  Amherst 
College  to  the  Amherst  Faculty  and  the  Faculty  and  Ladies  of 
M.  A.  C.  Two  plays,  adapted  from  short-stories,  by  R.  Wood 
and  G.  V.  D.  Clark,  were  presented  before  the  Comedy  Club  of 
the  Amherst  Faculty.  These  last  with  an  original  Irish  play  by 
E.  M.  Cody  will  be  given  by  the  Masquers. 

The  one-act  plays  and  the  musical  comedy  are  pieces  of  work 
done  by  students  in  Mr.  Glass's  course  in  Play  Writing,  open  to 
Juniors  and  Seniors.  It  is  of  great  value  to  men  doing  such  work 
to  have  an  opportunity  to  see  their  plays  produced.  The  Dramatic 
Club  is  the  natural  co-worker  in  such  an  enterprise,  and  the  Clyde 
Fitch  theatre  in  College  Hall  is  the  laboratory  for  dramatic  experi- 
ments. A  natural  corollary  to  the  writing  and  acting  would  be 
some  sort  of  instruction  in  scene  painting  and  costume  designing, 
so  that  eventually  plays  would  be  written,  produced,  and  acted 
entirely  within  the  College.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Alumni 
Council,  the  committee  on  dramatics  and  music  suggested  that 
more  students  might  well  be  trained  in  dramatics.  For  next  year 
it  is  proposed  to  offer  Dramatic  Reading  as  an  option  for  the 
Freshman-Sophomore  course  in  Public  Speaking.  Such  a  course 
might  well  be  arranged  to  give  all  members  practice  in  dramatic 
reading  and  impersonation,  and  to  lead  to  the  presentation  of  a 
play  by  a  selected  group  as  a  final  piece  of  course  work.  It  would 
thus  serve  as  a  training  school  for  the  Masquers  and  also  as  a 
medium  for  trying  out  plays  written  by  the  students  in  the  play- 
writing  course. 


Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Published   by  THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL  OF  AMHERST  COLLEGE 
George  F.  Whicher,  Editor  John  B.  O'Brien,  Associate  Editor 

Publication  Committee 
Robert  W.  Matnard,  '02,  Chairman     Frederick  S.  Allis,  '93,  Secretary 
Gilbert  H.  Grosvenor,  '97  Frederick  K.  Kretschmak,  '01 

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under  the  act  of  March  3,  1S79. 


EDITORIAL  NOTES 

CLASS-SECRETARIES— this  note  is  for  them— have  the 
responsibihty  for  writing  the  most  popular  section  of 
the  Quarterly.  Nine  graduates  out  of  ten  turn  first  to 
the  class  notes  of  their  own  year,  and  few  perhaps  read  more  than 
the  items  concerning  the  men  they  knew  in  college.  So  it  is  impor- 
tant that  the  duty  of  sending  in  information  about  alumni  should 
be  felt  as  insistent,  and  that  secretaries  train  their  classmates  to 
report  items  of  interest  continuously  and  automatically.  It  is 
also  important  that  alumni  news  should  reach  the  associate  editor 
on  time  and  in  such  shape  that  it  will  not  have  to  be  recopied 
for  the  printer.  Blessed  is  the  class-secretary  who  avails  himself 
of  a  typewriter,  thrice  blessed  is  he  who  abbreviates  only  where 
good  usage  requires.  And  as  to  time :  copy  must  reach  the  printers 
one  month  before  the  Quarterly  appears ;  the  editors,  by  super- 
human effort,  can  put  the  copy  in  shape  for  press  in  one  week; 
consequently  the  contributions  from  the  class-secretaries  should 
be  in  the  hands  of  the  editors  at  least  five  weeks  before  the  month 
of  the  Quarterly's  appearance.  Items  for  the  August  Quar- 
terly should  he  mailed  to  John  B.  O'Brien,  309  Washington 
Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  not  later  than  June  23rd. 


180      Amherst     Graduates'    Quarterly 

AS  a  matter  of  permanent  record  and  for  the  sake  of  class- 
mates unable  to  attend,  the  story  of  each  class  reunion 
held  next  Commencement  should  be  written  for  the 
August  Quarterly.  Such  stories  should  deal  with  matters  of 
particular  interest  to  the  classes  concerned,  accovmts  of  reimion 
headquarters,  lists  of  the  men  present,  class  gatherings,  ball  games, 
etc.,  and  should  touch  only  incidentally,  if  at  all,  the  general 
features  of  Commencement  week,  which  are  recorded  elsewhere. 
Copy  should  be  mailed  as  soon  as  possible  after  June  16th  to  the 
Editor,  Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly,  Box  607,  Amherst, 
Mass. 

A  NUMBER  of  alumni  have  asked  whether  the  editor  would 
welcome  communications  discussing  the  policies  of  the 
College.  He  would.  The  pages  of  the  Quarterly  may 
be  regarded  as  an  open  forum  where  graduates  of  the  College  may 
voice  their  opinions  on  any  subject  of  interest  to  fellow-alumni. 
A  special  department  for  alumni  letters  will  be  opened  as  soon  as 
enough  communications  are  available  for  the  purpose.  All  alumni 
who  are  interested  in  shaping  the  procedure  of  the  College  in  any 
of  its  aspects,  scholarly,  athletic,  or  social,  are  hereby  invited  to 
lay  open  their  convictions  for  general  discussion.  Criticism  of  the 
College  as  it  is  and  of  its  plans  for  the  future  is  earnestly  desired, 
constructive  suggestions  are  in  order,  and  commendation  will  not 
necessarily  be  rejected. 

ERNEST    BARKER 

TEACHERS  brought  to  American  colleges  from  England, 
France,  or  Germany  have  not  infrequently  represented 
merely  an  official  gesture  of  courtesy  from  European  to 
American  scholarship  and  have  failed  to  enter  in  any  effective 
way  into  the  activities  of  the  institutions  that  welcomed  them. 
Mr.  Ernest  Barker,  the  Oxford  historian  who  spent  the  winter  term 
in  Amherst,  proved  to  be  a  delightful  exception  to  this  rule.  No 
graduate  of  the  College  could  have  entered  more  intimately  into  its 
life  or  adjusted  himself  to  its  educational  machinery  with  less 
friction  than  he.  In  the  courses  in  history  and  political  theory 
that  he  conducted  during  his  brief  stay  he  did  much  to  impress 
his  students  with  the  broader  meaning  and  ultimate  uses  of  these 


Editorial    Notes  181 

studies.  As  lecturer  on  the  Henry  Ward  Beecher  foundation,  he 
presented  a  carefully  considered  digest  of  the  main  problems  now 
confronting  the  British  Empire,  discussing  specifically  the  admin- 
istration of  India,  the  Irish  question,  the  labor  situation,  and 
education.  He  also  gave  a  series  of  Wednesday  afternoon  lectures 
on  English  Working-Class  Conditions  and  Problems  from  1688  to 
1840,  illuminating  the  subject  with  apt  detail  and  pungent  com- 
ment. In  other  ways  as  well  he  made  himself  an  integral  part  of 
the  College;  he  took  a  leading  part  in  the  Faculty  play  given  at 
the  Senior  Smoker  and  gave  valuable  aid  to  the  Instruction  Com- 
mittee of  the  Faculty  in  devising  the  new  plan  of  major  studies. 
Besides  his  work  at  Amherst,  he  visited  a  number  of  colleges  and 
universities  in  the  East,  including  Columbia,  Harvard,  Yale, 
Princeton,  Williams,  Western  Reserve  University,  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia,  and  spoke  on  a  variety  of  historical  and  political 
topics.  His  colleagues  for  the  moment  on  the  Amherst  Faculty 
will  not  soon  forget  the  example  of  Mr.  Barker's  powerful  and 
searching  scholarship,  vigorous  both  in  the  mastery  of  fact  and  in 
the  expression  of  conviction.  They  will  remember  long  his  homely 
and  simple  manner,  his  keenness  in  repartee,  and  his  gusto  in  the 
cheerful  hour.  To  many  it  was  an  unexpected  pleasure  to  find 
him  just  such  a  man  as  might  have  come  from  Shutesbury  or 
Pelham,  a  man  grounded  firmly  on  traditions  rooted  in  the  past, 
on  local  affections,  on  national  instincts;  a  thinker  who  spoke 
concretely  of  "your  country"  and  "my  country,"  never  of 
"humanity"  or  "our  world";  a  scholar  of  the  first  rank  who  used 
the  pure  intellect  as  his  tool,  not  as  his  guide.  From  such  a  man 
Amherst  has  indeed  something  to  learn. 

DEBATING 

AFTER  total  extinction  during  the  war,  debating  is  again  re 
viving.  The  customary  triangular  contest  with  Williams 
and  Wesleyan  was  held  on  December  5th,  Williams  win- 
ning both  its  debates  while  the  Amherst  negative  team  triumphed 
over  Wesleyan.  The  Amherst- Williams  debate  in  College  Hall  was 
well  supported  by  the  student  body.  The  Amherst  team  upheld 
the  aflSrmative  of  the  question.  Resolved :  That  the  right  of  wage- 
earners  to  organize  without  discrimination,  to  bargain  collectively, 
and  to  be  represented  by  representatives  of  their  own  choosing  in 


182   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

negotiations  and  adjustments  with  their  employers  in  respect  to 
wages,  hours  of  labor,  and  conditions  of  employment,  should  be 
recognized.  Williams,  representing  the  negative,  obtained  a  two- 
to-one  decision,  the  debate  being  closely  contested  only  because 
both  sides  were  powerless  to  make  out  a  convincing  case.  Hurried 
preparation  and  inexperience  in  the  strategy  of  argument  were 
evident  handicaps  to  both  teams.  Negotiations  for  a  debate  with 
Princeton  are  now  under  way,  and  this,  if  it  can  be  arranged,  will 
afford  the  Amherst  speakers  valuable  practice  in  preparation  for 
next  year's  triangular  contest. 

The  Freshmen  defeated  the  Sophomores  in  the  annual  interclass 
debate  by  a  decision  of  two  to  one.  The  winners  opposed  the 
resolution,  that  through  appropriate  legislation  a  minimum  wage 
scale  should  be  put  into  effect  throughout  the  United  States. 

Courses  in  Public  Speaking  for  Freshmen  and  Sophomores  are 
now  being  planned  to  include  fundamental  training  in  the  investi- 
gation and  oral  presentation  of  arguable  questions.  An  advanced 
course  in  Argumentation,  open  to  Juniors  and  Seniors,  will  afford 
additional  opportunity  for  practice  in  debate.  It  is  a  matter  of 
moment  for  Amherst  to  stand  high  in  what  is  in  many  ways  the 
most  valuable  of  intercollegiate  contests. 


LIBRI  SCRIPTI  PERSONS 

Ernest  Barker,  senior  tutor  of  history  in  New  Col- 
lege, Oxford,  was  a  member  of  the  Amherst  Faculty 
during  the  winter  term. 

Austin  Baxter  Keep,  '97,  a  grand-nephew  and  grand- 
son respectively  of  the  Rev.  Austin  and  the  Rev.  Baxter 
Dickinson,  is  a  teacher  of  history  in  the  College  of  the 
City  of  New  York  and  author  of  "The  History  of  the 
New  York  Society  Library"  and  "The  Library  in 
Colonial  New  York." 


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The    Associations 


183 


OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


THE  ASSOCIATIONS 


THE   ASSOCIATION   OF   NORTHERN 
CALIFORNIA 

A  meeting  of  the  Amherst  Association 
of  Northern  California  was  held  at  the 
University  Club,  San  Francisco,  on 
February  17th.  Prof.  Charles  H.  Toll, 
who  is  absent  on  leave  for  one  year  from 
Amherst  and  is  spending  that  time  in 
Berkeley,  Cal.,  was  present  and  gave 
an  interesting  informal  talk  upon  the 
Amherst  of  to-day.  E.  H.  Fallows, 
'86,  was  present  and  was  named  as  a 
delegate  to  the  Alumni  Council  meeting 
in  Chicago  in  April.  The  class  of  '86 
had  the  largest  representation,  being 
represented  by  Fallows,  Rugg,  and 
Whitney.  A  resolution  expressing  the 
appreciation  and  regard  of  the  associa- 
tion, offered  by  H.  A.  Whitney,  was 
unanimously  adopted,  and  the  secretary 
was  instructed  to  wire  the  same  to 
Robert  Lansing  at  Washington. 

The  meeting  was  pronounced  by  all 
who  attended  as  a  most  enjoyable  one. 

THE    ASSOCIATION    OF    SOUTHERN 
CALIFORNIA 

On  Friday  evening,  January  9th,  the 
Association  of  Southern  California  had 
a  little  party  at  the  University  Club, 
Los  Angeles,  for  Dr.  Paul  C.  Phillips. 
The  following  were  present:  Dr.  Paul 
C.  Phillips,  '88;  Wm.  Carey  Marble, 
'03;  Rev.  Herbert  C.  Ide,  '98,  of  Red- 
lands;  Rev.  J.  H.  Williams,  '68,  of 
Redlands;  Walter  P.  Hubbard,  '06; 
Stuart  W.  French,  '89;  F.  K.  Dyar, 
'98;  Dr.  S.  D.  Brooks,  '75;  A.  B.  Call, 
'87;  V.  P.  Gilbert,   '89;  A.  H.  Keese, 


'08;  W.  B.  Thorp,  '87;  W.  F.  Skeele' 
"88;  H.  E.  Storrs,  '64;  Harold  C.  Lee, 
'12;  C.  A.  Kelley,  '95;  W.  W.  Wales, 
'05;  R.  L.  Hasten,  '17;  W.  A.  Dresser, 
'77;  W.  G.  Chapman,  '16;  A.  F.  Skeele, 
'75;  and  Daniel  Beecher,  '07. 

Mr.  Marble  presided  as  toastmaster 
and  called  on  Dr.  Phillips  to  tell  some- 
thing about  the  College.  Dr.  Phillips' 
remarks  were  interesting  and  pleasing 
to  all.  The  toastmaster  then  called 
upon  Ide,  '98,  Williams,  '68,  French, 
'89,  and  Beecher,  '07,  secretary  of  the 
association,  all  of  whom  responded  with 
well  chosen  remarks  upon  the  occasion. 
All  had  an  enjoyable  evening  with  Dr. 
Phillips,  and  the  occasion  was  a  very 
pleasant  one. 

THE   ASSOCIATION    OF   CONNECTICUT 

The  Connecticut  Association  held  its 
eleventh  annual  banquet  on  Febru- 
ary 27th  at  the  University  Club,  Hart- 
ford. Thirty-five  Alumni  were  present. 
Prof.  Stanley  L.  Galpin  gave  a  message 
from  Trinity  College  to  the  men  of 
Amherst;  Prof.  Arthur  L.  Gillett,  '80, 
gave  a  report  on  the  recent  dinner  in 
New  York;  Prof.  Horatio  E.  Smith, 
*08,  of  Amherst,  spoke  as  the  official 
representative  of  the  College.  New 
officers  were  elected  as  follows:  Presi- 
dent, George  A.  Conant,  '78,  of  Hartford ; 
secretary  and  treasurer,  H.  A.  Proctor, 
'13,  of  New  Britain;  executive  com- 
mittee, C.  M.  Starkweather,  '86;  R.  L. 
Gideon,  '12;  H.  G.  Zweygart,  '11;  rep- 
resentative to  the  Alumni  Council,  Rev. 
Chas.  S.  Lane,  '80. 


184      Amherst    Graduates*    Quarterly 


THE   ASSOCIATION    OF   CENTRAL 
NEW   YORK 

The  annual  reunion  of  the  Central 
New  York  Alumni  Association  of  Am- 
herst was  held  at  the  University  Club 
in  Syracuse,  Monday,  December  29th. 

Mayor  Walter  R.  Stone,  '95,  the 
president  of  the  association,  presided 
and  acted  as  toastmaster.  The  speak- 
ers were:  Dr.  Herbert  P.  Gallinger, 
'93,  of  the  Amherst  Faculty,  formerly 
of  Cortland;  Dr.  Frank  P.  Blodgett, 
'93,  president  of  Adelphi  College, 
Brooklyn;  Thomas  H.  Johnson,  '20, 
of  Syracuse;  Dr.  James  G.  Riggs,  '88, 
principal  of  the  Oswego  State  Normal 
School;  and  Prof.  W.  K.  Wickes,  '70. 
of  Syracuse.  Haley  M.  Collins,  '96,  of 
Cortland,  was  elected  president  of  the 
association  for  next  year. 

THE    ASSOCIATION    OF    CHICAGO 

On  the  evening  of  March  12th  the 
Amherst  men  of  Chicago  gathered  to 
greet  Secretary  F.  S.  Allis,  who  came  to 
tell  them  of  the  Alumni  Council  meeting 
to  be  held  in  Chicago  April  16th  and 
17th. 

In  lieu  of  the  larger  Council  meeting 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  Amherst 
Club  of  Chicago  was  given  up  and  this 
informal  gathering  with  Secretary  Allis 
took  its  place. 

The  regular  business  of  the  associa- 
tion was  transacted  and  the  following 
oflBcers  were  elected — their  terms  to 
commence  with  the  completion  of  the 
Council  meeting  plans  by  the  present 
oflBcers:  President,  G.  H.  Lounsbery, 
'92;  vice-president,  S.  D.  Chamber- 
lain, '14;  secretary,  John  Brainerd,  '18; 
treasurer,  E.  C.  Beach,  '03;  two  year 
directors,  W.  E.  Lewis,  '00,  Morton 
Snyder,  '06;  three  year  directors,  W.  E. 
Field,  '83,  S.  B.  King,  '02;  directors 
retained,  W.  J.  Burke,  '02,  A.  Mitchell, 
'10. 


By  the  time  this  is  printed,  Chicago 
will  have  had  the  greatest  Amherst 
gathering  ever  held  in  the  West. 

THE    ASSOCIATION    OF    RHODE    ISLAND 

The  Rhode  Island  Association  held 
its  annual  meeting  on  the  evening  of 
February  10th  in  Providence.  OflBcers 
were  elected  as  follows  for  the  ensuing 
year:  President,  Frank  E.  Butler,  '84; 
vice-president,  John  E.  Marshall,  '08; 
secretary,  Robert  C.  Chapin,  '09;  Dele- 
gate for  three  years  from  Rhode  Island 
to  the  Alumni  Council,  H.  Edward 
Thurston,  '79.  There  were  twenty-four 
members  present,  and  while  it  was  a 
small  meeting,  it  was  markedly  suc- 
cessful. 

THE   ASSOCIATION   OF   BROOKLYN 

The  winter  dinner  of  the  Association 
of  Brooklyn  was  held  at  the  Brooklyn 
Chamber  of  Commerce  on  February 
3rd.  A  small  but  spirited  gathering 
was  present.  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Esty 
made  an  address  which  was  of  absorbing 
interest  to  those  present  and  which 
deserved  a  much  larger  audience. 
Prof.  F.  J.  E.  Woodbridge,  '89,  was  to 
have  spoken  but  was  prevented  from 
attending  by  an  unfortunate  attack  of 
the  prevailing  influenza.  G.  Preston 
Hitchcock,  '92,  took  his  place  with  a 
talk  rich  in  that  delightful  wit  and 
humor  which  he  can  always  command 
at  will.  Frank  D.  Blodgett,  '93,  re- 
tired from  office  as  president  of  the 
association,  having  presided  over  its 
affairs  in  a  most  capable  manner  for  two 
years. 

The  association  elected  the  follow- 
ing oflBcers:  President,  G.  Preston 
Hitchcock,  '92;  vice-president,  Ernest 
G.  Draper,  '06;  secretary,  Harold  L. 
Warner,  '10;  treasurer,  Frank  P.  Stel- 
ling,  '13;  members  of  the  executive 
committee,   Thomas  J.   McEvoy,   '97; 


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Robert  G.  Perry,  '97,  continues  in  office 
as  delegate  to  the  Alumni  Council. 

THE    ASSOCIATION    OF    ROCHESTER 

The  Association  of  Rochester  held 
its  largest  gathering  on  the  evening  of 
January  2nd  at  the  University  Club. 
Heretofore,  the  association  has  been  a 
part  of  the  Association  of  Western  New 
York,  but  with  the  increasing  number 
of  Rochester  men  going  to  Amherst  it 
was  thought  best  that  a  separate  organ- 
ization be  established. 

After  the  annual  dinner,  at  which 
Dr.  Rush  Rhees,  '83,  president  of  the 
University  of  Rochester,  was  the  prin- 
cipal speaker,  the  following  officers 
were  elected  for  1920:  President, 
George  Burns,  '08;  secretary,  Charles 
B.  Peck,  Jr.,  '1(J;  treasurer,  Thurston 
Darling,  '19;  executive  committee, 
Henry  Howard,  '04,  Charles  Wadhams, 
'13.  A  vote  of  appreciation  was  given 
Henry  Howard,  '04,  the  retiring  presi- 
dent, for  his  excellent  and  untiring  work 
with  the  association. 

Winfield  Riefler,  '19,  a  Croix-de- 
Guerre  member  of  the  Amherst  Ambu- 
lance Unit,  in  representing  the  under- 
graduates, outlined  the  college  activities 
for  the  year  and  said  that  there  were 
fifteen  Rochester  men  in  Amherst  at 
present.  The  association  went  on  record 
as  favoring  bringing  the  Amherst  Mu- 
sical Clubs  to  Rochester  in  the  spring. 

The  following  alumni  were  present 
at  the  meeting:  Dow,  '74;  Rhees,  '83 
Bishop,  '98;  Brown,  '04;  Howard,  '04 
Knapp,  '05;  Burns,  '08;  Colebrook,  '09 
Wetmore,  '10;  Wortman,  '10;  Babcock, 
'11;  Brown,  '11;  Myers,  '11;  Wash- 
burn,  '11;  Bacon,  '12;  Cross,  '13;  Wad- 
hams,  '13;  Williamson,  '13;  Otte,  '16; 
Peck,  '16;  Cochrane,  '17;  Rauschen- 
busch,  '17;  Darling,  '19;  Riefier,  '19; 
Blanton,  '20;  Davis,  '20;  Goebel,  '20; 
Rauschenbusch,  '20;  Wood,  '20;  Blan- 


ton, '21;  Copeland,  '21;  Draper,  '21; 
Cochrane,  '22;  Rauschenbusch,  '22; 
Gibson,  '23. 

THE    ASSOCIATION    OF    NEW    YORK 

Eight  hundred  alumni,  from  every 
section  of  the  United  States  and  Canada 
gathered  at  the  Hotel  Commodore  at 
the  fortieth  annual  dinner  of  the 
Amherst  Association  of  New  York, 
Saturday,  February  14th.  This  dinner 
was  the  largest  gathering  of  alumni 
since  the  war,  and  in  spite  of  the  diffi- 
culties of  transportation  due  to  the 
recent  blizzard,  the  banquet  was  a  great 
success,  and  the  attendance  exceeded 
that  of  the  Williams  banquet  by  two 
hundred. 

The  entire  personnel  of  the  Musical 
Clubs  made  the  trip  to  New  York  to 
furnish  entertainment  and  to  assist 
in  the  singing.  Nineteen  of  the  thirty- 
one  professors,  and  a  number  of  the 
senior  class  were  also  guests  of  the 
association.  In  the  balcony  were  about 
one  hundred  guests  of  the  alumni. 

After  the  usual  reviewing  of  old 
times,  the  Mandolin  Club  played  the 
dinner  march  and  the  alumni  took  their 
seats  according  to  classes.  After  the 
Invocation  the  Glee  Club  started  "Lord 
Geoffrey  Amherst,"  and  the  alumni 
joined  in  as  only  Amherst  men  can. 
At  this  point  a  telegram  from  Robert 
Lansing  was  read,  announcing  that  an 
engagement  would  prevent  his  being 
present.  After  a  "long  Amherst"  for 
Lansing,  ex-Governor  Charles  S.  Whit- 
man arose  and  introduced  a  reso- 
lution expressing  the  confidence  of 
his  fellow-alumni  in  the  former  secre- 
tary of  state,  which,  after  being  carried 
unanimously,  was  dispatched  to  Mr. 
Lansing  by  wire.  A  telegram  of 
greeting  from  Governor  Coolidge  was 
then  read,  and  immediately  the  hall 
resounded  with  a  cheer  for   Coolidge. 


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William  C.  Breed,  '93,  president  of  the 
association,  started  the  speeches  as 
toastmaster  with  an  address  of  welcome 
to  the  alumni,  professors,  seniors,  musi- 
cal clubs,  and  (above  all)  the  ladies. 
He  said  in  part:  "It  has  been  said 
that  on  a  percentage  basis  Amherst 
has  had  more  leaders  in  public  life  than 
almost  any  other  college.  She  had  a 
secretary  of  state  until  yesterday, 
a  state  governor  who  is  a  presidential 
possibility,  the  ex-governor  of  New 
York,  and  the  speaker  of  the  House  of 
Representatives.  The  occupant  of  the 
last  office  is  really  at  the  head  of  our 
representative  government.  He  con- 
trols and  handles  some  four  hundred 
and  thirty  men  from  all  over  the  country. 
This  is  the  type  of  man  Amherst  has 
produced."  With  this  he  introduced 
Speaker  Frederick  H.  Gillett,  '74,  who 
spoke  on  "The  Spirit  of  Amherst  in 
Public  Life." 

Next  on  the  program  came  selections 
by  R.  A.  Wood,  who  brought  down  the 
house  with  "Jerusalem  Mornin'."  The 
crowd  insisted  on  more,  so  forthwith 
came  a  selection  from  Ellis  Parker 
Butler  entitled  "How  to  Make  Seventy- 
Two  Lamp  Chimneys  Out  of  a  Dozen 
Champagne  Bottles." 

President  Meiklejohn  was  next  intro- 
duced. He  began  by  describing  the 
Senior  Smoker  and  the  recent  basket- 
ball victory  over  Williams.  He  con- 
tinued, "I  would  turn  now  to  consider 
the  serious  subject  assigned  to  me — the 
needs  of  the  College.  Colleges  need 
much  just  at  present.  They  are  un- 
able to  provide  for  their  professors 
so  that  the  work  can  be  carried  on  well. 
We  need  $60,000  for  professors  this 
year.  The  salary  rate  should  rise  with 
the  cost  of  living.  So  far  we  have 
increased  the  salary  of  associate  pro- 
fessors and  instructors,  but  not  those 
of  full  professors.     Some  alumni  have 


given  money  so  that  we  can  give  bonuses 
for  the  second  half  of  the  year.  At 
present  we  have  six  or  seven  thousand 
dollars  a  year  to  pay  for  books,  and  we 
need  more  and  better  books  for  our 
library.  Since  we  are  going  to  increase 
our  tuition  we  will  need  more  scholar- 
ships to  help  the  poorer  students. 

"Money  is  needed  for  repairs  of  the 
grounds  and  buildings,  for  Chapel,  Col- 
lege Hall,  the  Octagon,  the  College 
Church,  Pratt  Field,  Pratt  Cottage,  etc. 
We  have  been  so  eager  to  put  our  money 
into  instruction  that  these  have  been 
neglected.  Johnson  Chapel  needs  re- 
finishing.  The  College  Church  needs 
a  new  organ,  and  the  interior  should  be 
made  more  conducive  to  reverence 
and  worship.  A  Commons  is  needed 
badly,  where  proper  board,  which  is 
now  expensive,  could  be  furnished  at 
reasonable  prices.  Improvement  is 
needed  for  the  athletic  equipment  of 
the  College,  for  Hitchcock  Field  is  the 
same  as  it  was  eight  years  ago.  More 
room  for  indoor  sports  is  needed.  There 
is  a  very  great  need  for  a  theater,  where 
we  could  have  ample  room  for  the  pro- 
duction of  plays,  for  lectures,  and  for 
concerts. 

"The  real  need  at  the  bottom  is  that 
of  money  for  the  purpose  of  teaching 
properly.  We  have  places  for  the  best 
of  teachers  and  we  must  have  such 
teachers.  We  need  your  belief  in  our 
work.  The  teachers  are  seeing  the 
vision  of  what  can  be  done  for  the  coun- 
try by  the  promotion  of  learning.  Take 
us  into  the  fellowship  of  Amherst  men 
so  that  we  can  all  be  bound  by  the  com- 
mon love  of  something  worth  living  for." 

Dwight  Morrow,  '95,  was  the  next 
speaker,  and  spoke  on  "Amherst  as  We 
Alumni  See  It."  He  spoke  of  how  the 
College  seemed  now  as  compared  with 
the  older  days.  He  outlined  the  need 
of   better   salaries   for   professors,    and 


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spoke  of  the  plans  for  the  centennial 
celebration.  He  concluded,  "There  is 
need  of  every  man's  fulfilling  his  chance 
to  do  something  for  Amherst,  and  every 
man  should  be  proud  to  do  it." 

After  this  speech  a  telegram  was 
read  announcing  the  victory  of  the  Am- 
herst swimming  team  over  Syracuse, 
which  brought  forth  great  cheers. 
Then  Eugene  S.  Wilson,  president  of 
the  Chicago  Alumni  Association,  an- 
nounced the  meeting  of  the  Alumni 
Council  which  is  to  be  held  in  Chicago 
next  April.  As  the  final  event  of  the 
evening  the  class  of  '77  Attendance 
Trophy  was  awarded  to  the  class  of 
1917,  which  had  twenty  members 
present.  Honorable  mention  was  given 
to  the  war  class  of  1919,  which  out  of  a 
possible  thirty-five  had  fifteen  present. 

THE    ASSOCIATION    OF    BOSTON 

The  fifty-sixth  annual  dinner  of  the 
Boston  Association  was  held  at  the 
Copley-Plaza  Hotel  on  March  3rd. 
Chief  Justice  Arthur  P.  Rugg  of  the 
Massachusetts  supreme  court,  Frank 
W.  Stearns,  well  known  as  the  leading 
political  friend  of  Governor  Coolidge, 
former  State  Treasurer  Arthur  B. 
Chapin,,  Judge  William  T.  Forbes  of 
the  Worcester  probate  court,  ministers, 
doctors,  lawyers,  educators,  and  busi- 
ness men  rubbed  elbows  and  sang 
together  the  praises  of  Lord  Geoffrey 
Amherst.  Edward  T.  Esty,  '97,  district 
attorney  of  Worcester  county,  was 
toastmaster,  Gov.  Calvin  Coolidge,  '95, 
sat  at  Toastmaster  Esty's  right,  Prof. 
Ernest  Barker,  of  Oxford  University, 
sat  on  his  left,  and  then  came  President 
Meiklejohn,  who  had  entered  during 
the  dinner  amidst  great  cheering. 
Rush  Rhees,  '83,  president  of  Rochester 
University,  sat  next,  and  then  Rev.  Dr. 
Cornelius  Patton,  '83,  who  acted  as 
chaplain  of  the  dinner. 

Toastmaster  Esty  opened  the  after- 


dinner  speaking  and  paid  tribute  to 
Frederick  Allis,  secretary  of  the  Alumni 
Council,  for  the  work  done  by  him  on 
its  behalf.  Governor  Coolidge  was  then 
introduced,  and  was  enthusiastically 
cheered.  He  began  his  address  by  de- 
fining the  aims  of  such  a  college  as 
Amherst,  and  by  dwelling  especially 
on  the  fundamental  principles  that 
ought  to  be  imparted  to  young  men,  and 
imparted  "not  merely  for  the  purpose 
of  giving  information,  but  also  that  they 
may  have  within  them  a  process 
which  will  enable  them  to  discover  the 
truth." 

President  Meiklejohn,  who  was  next 
introduced,  gave  an  account  of  the 
activities  of  the  college  and  stressed  its 
needs.     He  said  in  conclusion: 

"The  College  has  an  important  part 
to  play  in  our  social  scheme,  especially 
at  a  time  when  we  are  facing  the  possibil- 
ity of  people  trying  to  get  what  they 
want  by  force.  Its  part  is  that  of  set- 
ting up  the  ideal  of  the  scholar  who,  in 
the  midst  of  differences  of  opinion, 
never  loses  his  courage  or  his  patience. 
Our  colleges  have  more  than  ever  the 
task  of  giving  us  confidence  in  our- 
selves, so  that  we  may  start  to  live  in 
peace  with  ourselves  and  with  one 
another." 

The  excitement  over  Sabrina  came 
while  President  Meiklejohn  was  speak- 
ing, the  statue  being  brought  in  sud- 
denly from  the  side  aisle  of  the  banquet 
hall,  and  as  suddenly  exposed  to  view 
and  withdrawn. 

The  brief  closing  addresses  were  made 
by  Professor  Barker  and  President 
Rush  Rhees. 

At  the  business  meeting  these  officers 
were  elected:  Secretary,  J.  Freeman 
Swett,  '17;  treasurer,  E.  C.  Ferguson, 
'16;  representative  on  the  general  coun- 
cil, Charles  E.  Kelsey,  '84;  executive 
committee,  Charles  H.  Cobb,  '99;  F.  K. 
Kretschmar,  '01;  Gordon  R.  Hall,  "15; 


188       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


nominating  committee,  Louis  E.  Cadi- 
eux,  '03;  Clifford  P.  Warren,  '03;  Ray- 
mond D.  Hunting,  '12. 

In  a  special  box  sat  Mrs.  Coolidge, 
with  the  wives  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee, Mrs.  Louis  E.  Cadieux,  Mrs. 
Donald  McFay,  Mrs.  James  B.  Melcher, 
Mrs.  Raymond  D.  Hunting,  Mrs.  E. 
Clark  Ferguson,  Mrs.  Roswell  R.  Young, 
Mrs.  Harold  A.  Lyon,  Mrs.  E.  W.  Ban- 
croft, Mrs.  Clifford  P.  Warren,  and  Mrs. 
James  Downing. 

The  older  alumni  present  were  the 
Rev.  Joseph  Kimball,  '57;  Simon  W. 
Hatheway,  "57;  Rev.  George  L.  Gleason, 
'61;  Rev.  George  G.  Phipps,  '62;  Rev. 
Calvin  Stebbins,  '62;  Rev.  John  God- 
dard,  "62,  and  William  J.  Pope,  '64. 


BOSTON    YOUNG    ALUMNI 

Thirty-two  members  of  the  classes 
of  1914,  1915,  1916,  and  1917  from  in 
and  around  Boston  gathered  at  the  City 
Club  on  Wednesday  evening,  February 
11th,  for  a"  banquet  and  get-together. 
The  younger  alumni  are  planning  to 
hold  several  such  meetings. 

Those  present  were:  '14,  Kimball, 
McGay,  Morse,  Moulton,  Shaw,  and 
Young;  '15,  Caldwell,  Craig,  Cutler, 
Everett,  Fuller,  Gaus,  Hall,  Johnson, 
Kimball,  Muench,  Plimpton,  Thayer, 
and  Whitten;  '16,  Ferguson,  Johnson, 
Robinson,  Stiles,  and  Washburn;  '17, 
Cochrane,  Fisher,  Hale,  Hawkes,  Kim- 
ball, Kohout,  Munroe,  Sanders,  and 
Swett. 


SINCE  THE  LAST  ISSUE 


1857. — Rev.  Daniel  Warren  Richard- 
son, on  December  31,  1919,  at  Middle- 
ton,  Mass.,  aged  88  years. 

1859. — Samuel  Gallusha  Stone,  on 
October  30,  1919,  at  East  Hartford, 
Conn.,  aged  86  years. 

I860.— Dr.  Edward  Selah  Frisbee, 
on  March  14,  1920,  at  Albany,  N.  Y., 
aged  83  years. 

1869. — William  Marsh  Benedict,  on 
February  26,. 1920,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
aged  72  years. 

1871. — Lucius  Osgood  Robertson,  on 
November  17,  1919,  at  Alpine,  Cal., 
aged  73  years. 

1872. — Judge  Loranus  Eaton  Hitch- 
cock, on  March  15,  1920,  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  aged  69  years. 

1873. — David  Young  Comstock,  on 
March  21,  1920,  at  Arlington,  Mass., 
in  his  68th  year. 

1877.— Rev.  Dr.  Rufus  B.  Tobey,  on 
January  6,  1920,  at  Middleboro,  Mass., 
aged  70  years. 

1878.— L.  Whitney  Searle,  on  March 
22,  1920,  at  West  New  Brighton,  N.  Y., 
aged  67  years. 

1878. — Olin  Adams  Holbrook,  on  Jan- 


uary 18,  1920,  at  Quincy,  Mass.,  aged 
64  years. 

1878.— Rev.  Dr.  William  Hand  Lester, 
on  August  10,  1919,  (not  previously 
recorded),  at  Miromar,  Chili,  aged  63 
years. 

1879.— George  W.  Lattimer,  on  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1920,  at  Columbus,  Ohio, 
aged  63  years. 

1881. — Anson  Marshall  Lyman,  on 
February  10,  1920,  at  Brookline,  Mass., 
aged  61  years. 

1881.— Charles  Elliott  Ladd,  on 
March  20,  1920,  at  Carlton,  Ore.,  aged 
62  years. 

1882. — Rev.  Frederick  W.  Greene, 
on  January  4,  1920,  at  Jaffrey,  N.  H., 
aged  60  years. 

1885.— Dr.  Edward  Gerry  Tuttle,  on 
February  29,  1920,  at  New  York  City, 
aged  57  years. 

1888.— Henry  S.  Fi.sh,  on  February 
6,  1920,  at  Holyoke,  Mass.,  aged  52 
years. 

1903. — Percy  Ray  Baker,  on  Feb- 
ruary 11,  1920,  at  Amherst,  Mass., 
aged  40  years. 

1911. — Erastus  Otis  Haven,  on  Jan- 
uary 28,  1920,  at  Highland  Park,  111., 
aged  30  years. 


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MARRIED 

1911.— At  Wickford,  R.  I.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1920,  John  H.  Keyes  and 
Miss  Eleanore  H.  Northrop. 

1913.— At  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  on 
March  3,  1920,  Harry  Paul  Barnes  and 
Miss  Sevena  O.  Moore. 

1915.— At  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1920,  Randolph  Mercien  Ful- 
ler and  Miss  Jessie  Margaret  Catlin. 

1915. — At  Bozeman,  Mont.,  in  Jan- 
uary, 1920,  Lieut.  Richard  Hamlin  Ba- 
con and  Miss  Estelle  Accola. 

1917.— At  New  York  City,  on  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1920,  Eric  H.  Marks  and  Miss 
Beatrice  Hecht. 

BORN 

1890. — Theodore  Woods  Lacey,  on 
December  18,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Edward  N.  Lacey  of  Boston,  Mass. 

1897.— Charles  W.  Cobb,  Jr.,  on  De- 
cember 21,  1919,  son  of  Professor  and 
Mrs.  Charles  W.  Cobb  of  Amherst, 
Mass. 

1905. — Donald  McTernan,  on  De- 
cember 15,  1919,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
C.  C.  McTernan  of  Waterbury,  Conn. 

1905. — Jean  Diehl,  on  January  29, 
1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard 
G.  Diehl  of  Great  Falls,  Mont. 


1909. — Barbara  Arline  Lewis,  on 
March  13,  1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dunbar  W.  Lewis  of  Evanston, 
111. 

1909. — Mary  Melcher,  on  March  23, 
1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James 
B.  Melcher  of  Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

1910. — Michael  Kirchwey  Clark,  on 
June  27,  1919  (not  previously  recorded), 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Evans  Clark  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

1910. — Mary  Dickinson  Rugg,  on 
September  4,  1919  (not  previously 
recorded),  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frank  D.  Rugg  of  Greenfield,  Mass. 

1915. — Althea  May  Mandrey,  on 
January  8,  1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  H.  Mandrey  of  Hartford. 
Conn. 

1915. — Jean  McGowan,  on  January 
17,  1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robert  R.  McGowan  of  Steubenville, 
Ohio. 

1917. — George  Williston  Loomis,  on 
January  22,  1920,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Edward  F.  Loomis  of  New  London, 
Conn. 

1918.— Frank  Floyd  Bentley,  on 
March  12,  1920,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Raymond  P.  Bentley  of  Evanston,  111. 


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Of  the  one  hundred  and  fifty  delegates 
to  the  International  Congregational 
Council  which  is  to  be  held  in  Boston  this 
June,  fifteen  are  Amherst  men,  and  of 
the  alternates,  seven  are  Amherst  men. 
The  delegates  are :  Rev.  Dr.  Nehemiah 
Boynton,  '79;  Rev.  Dr.  H.  A.  Bridg- 
man,  '83;  President  J.  D.  Brownell, 
'10;  Rev.  E.  A.  Burnham,  '94;  Rev. 
Dr.  W.  H.  Day,  '89;  L.  R.  Eastman, 
'95;  Rev.  H.  A.  Jump,  '96;  Rev.  G.  W. 
Merriam,  '98;  Rev.  Dr.  C.  S.  Mills,  '82; 
President  C.  S.  Nash,  '77;  Rev.  F.  B. 
Richards,  '85;  Rev.  F.  T.  Rouse,  '82; 
Rev.  L.  H.  Thayer,  '82;  Dr.  Williston 


Walker,  '83;  and  Hon.  A.  H.  Wellman, 
'78.  The  alternates  are:  Rev.  C.  S. 
Hager,  '98;  Rev.  J.  R.  Danforth,  '88; 
Rev.  J.  N.  Pierce,  '02;  President  E.  S. 
Parsons,  '83;  Rev.  G.  P.  Eastman,  '84; 
Rev.  A.  L.  Rice,  '94;  and  Rev.  W.  B. 
Thorp,  '87. 

1856 
The  Geological  Society  of  America 
is  considering  the  erection  of  a  memorial 
on  the  top  of  Mt.  Washington  in  New 
Hampshire  to  the  late  Prof.  Charles 
Henry  Hitchcock  who  numbered  among 
his  scientific  achievements  the  deter- 
mination of  records  of  glaciation  upon 
the  top  of  Mt.  Washington. 


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1857 

Rev.  Denis  Wortmax,  D.D.,  Secretary, 
40  Watson  Ave.,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Two  members  of  the  class  of  1857 
were  present  at  the  Boston  alumni 
dinner  in  March, — Rev.  Joseph  Kimball 
and  Simon  W.  Hatheway. 

The  Rev.  Daniel  Warren  Richardson 
died  at  Middleton,  Mass.,  on  December 
31,  1919.  He  was  born  in  the  same 
town,  November  7,  1831.  He  spent 
two  years  at  Amherst  and  later  grad- 
uated from  Union  College  and  from 
Andover  Theological  Seminary.  He 
was  ordained  in  1862  to  the  pastorate  of 
the  Congregational  Church  in  Dayville, 
Conn.  He  served  with  the  Christian 
Commission  during  the  latter  years 
of  the  Civil  War,  held  pastorates  at 
Auburn,  Mass.,  Easton,  East  Bridge- 
w^ater,  Derry,  N.  H.,  Sudbury,  Mass., 
Lee,  N.  H.,  Chatham,  Mass.,  and 
Center  Ossipee,  N.  H.  Retiring  from 
continuous  service  at  the  age  of  73,  he 
ministered  during  the  summer  for  three 
years  to  missionary  churches  in  Vermont. 
He  was  married  twice,  to  Miss  Anna  E. 
Ayers,  of  Spencer,  Mass.,  who  died  in 
1892,  and  to  Mrs.  Isabelle  Furbur,  who 
survives  him. 

Mr.  Richardson  was  in  character 
eminently  worthy  of  his  high  call- 
ing. He  was  serious,  scholarly,  faithful, 
frank  in  word,  considerate,  sympathetic, 
discreet,  and  modest,  with  a  sponta- 
neous and  unfailing  sense  of  humor. 
Though  almost  totally  blind  during 
the  last  ten  years  of  his  life,  he  saw 
clearly  with  the  inner  eye,  kept  in  touch 
with  the  world's  events,  and  was  ever 
cheerful  and  companionable. 

Friends  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Kimball 
of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  tendered  him  a 
reception  at  his  parsonage  in  honor  of 
his  eighty-eighth  birthday,  March  13, 


1920.  The  storm  and  consequent  bad 
traveling  prevented  the  large  attend- 
ance of  former  years,  but  a  goodly 
number  called  to  extend  their  congrat- 
ulations. Many  others  telephoned 
regrets.  Rev.  Mr.  Kimball  received 
many  gifts,  including  a  birthday  cake 
handsomely  decorated  and  bearing  the 
dates  1832-1920.  He  expressed  his  ap- 
preciation of  the  many  expressions 
of  friendship  and  entertained  with  a  few 
well-told  stories.  Mr'  Kimball  is  active 
for  one  of  his  years  and  takes  a  keen 
interest  in  civic  and  national  affairs  as 
well  as  in  religious  matters. 

1859 

Rev.  Alpheus  R.  Nichols,  Secretary, 

Brookfield,  Mass. 

By  the  will  of  the  late  George  Brown 
Knapp,  Amherst  College  receives  a  gift 
of  $2,000. 

Samuel  Gallusha  Stone  died  at  his 
home  in  East  Hartford,  Conn.,  on 
October  30,  1919,  aged  86  years.  He 
was  born  in  Cavendish,  Vt.,  on  October 
30,  1833,  the  son  of  Thomas  S.  and 
Martha  (Spaulding)  Stone.  On  leaving 
college  he  became  a  teacher.  He  taught 
in  Hanover,  Rochester,  Ware,  Westerly, 
and  Charlestown.  In  1869  he  went  into 
the  insurance  business.  Mr.  Stone  was 
married  on  August  6,  1866,  to  Miss 
Alice  Pamelia  Beaumont  of  East  Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

1860 

Lewis  W.  West,  Secretary, 

Hadley,  Mass. 

Dr.  Edward  Selah  Frisbee,  for  many 
years  president  of  Wells  College  at 
Aurora,  N.  Y.,  died  at  his  home  in 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  on  March  14th.  He 
was  83  years  old. 

Dr.  Frisbee  was  born  in  Meredith, 
N.  Y.,  on  February  2,  1837,  the  son  of 


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Milton  and  Angeline  (Park)  Frisbee. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  the  Delphi 
(N.  Y.)  Delaware  Academy  and  the 
Delaware  Literary  Institute  at  Franklin, 
N.  Y.  On  graduating  from  Amherst 
he  taught  for  two  years  at  Williston 
Seminary  and  later  served  as  principal 
of  the  Amherst  High  School  for  four 
years,  and  of  Northampton  High  School 
for  a  similar  period.  In  the  meantime 
he  studied  at  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary and  was  licensed  to  preach. 

After  a  term  of  three  years  as  prin- 
cipal of  the  Binghamton  (N.  Y.)  High 
School,  Dr.  Frisbee — in  1875 — became 
president  of  Wells  College  where  he 
served  for  many  years.  Amherst  con- 
ferred the  degree  of  D.D.  upon  him  in 
1878. 

Dr.  Frisbee  was  married  on  August 
11,  1864,  to  Miss  Caroline  Haskell  of 
Amherst.  The  burial  was  in  the  Am- 
herst cemetery. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 

604  Carlton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  H.  Parkhurst 
was  a  member  of  the  committee  in 
charge  of  New  York's  music  week  last 
February. 

Mrs.  Helen  Bartlett  Bridgman,  wife 
of  Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  has  written 
a  book  which  is  attracting  wide  atten- 
tion. Its  title  is  "Within  My  Horizon" 
and  it  contains  descriptions  of  notable 
people  she  has  met  and  charming 
pictures  of  her  travels.  Small,  May- 
nard  and  Company  are  the  publishers. 

1869 

William  R.  Brown,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
17  State  St.,  New  York  City. 

William  Marsh  Benedict,  a  well- 
known  lawyer  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  died 
at  his  home  in  that  city  on  February 


26th  of  pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of 
only  eight  days.     He  was  72  years  old. 

Mr.  Benedict  was  born  in  Brooklyn 
on  November  17,  1847,  the  son  of  Dr. 
William  Curtis  Benedict  and  Elizabeth 
(Marsh)  Benedict.  His  father  was  an 
oldtime  physician  of  Brooklyn.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Brooklyn 
Polytechnic  Institute  and  after  grad- 
uating from  Amherst  in  1869,  studied 
law.  He  practiced  for  nearly  forty 
years  in  the  down-town  section  of 
Brooklyn  and  among  his  clients  were 
the  old  theatrical  firm  of  Hyde  and 
Behman  and  the  famous  Brooklyn 
Jockey  Club.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  King's  County  Bar  Association, 
the  Brooklyn  Club,  and  the  Lafayette 
Avenue  Presbyterian  Church. 

Surviving  Mr.  Benedict  are  his  wife, 
Mrs.  Jennie  R.  Benedict,  two  daughters, 
two  sons  and  two  sisters. 

William  Reynolds  Brown  and  Mrs. 
Brown  are  soon  going  to  Europe  for  a 
protracted  stay,  to  join  the  family  of 
their  son,  Donald  W.,  Brown,  '99, 
who  has  been  for  some  time  past  in  the 
service  of  the  League  of  Red  Cross 
Societies,  with  headquarters  at  Geneva. 
His  son  and  daughter  are  at  boarding 
schools  at  and  near  Vevey  on  Lake 
Geneva.  During  the  war,  Donald 
Brown  served  the  American  Red  Cross, 
in  France  for  one  year. 

Dr.  Waterman  T.  Hewett  delivered 
an  address  on  "Personal  Memories  of 
Distinguished  Men"  at  the  annual 
mid-winter  meeting  of  the  Charleston 
(S.  C.)  City  Federation  of  Woman's 
Clubs  in  February. 

1871 

Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary, 
623  West  113th  St.,  New  York  City. 

WUliam  C.  Brownell  has  been  re- 
elected  vice-president  of  the  Century 


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Association,  New  York  City,  and 
LawTence  F.  Abbott,  '81,  and  Roberts 
Walker,  '96,  have  been  elected  members 
of  the  admissions  committee  of  the 
Century. 

Lucius  Osgood  Robertson  died  at 
Alpine,  Cal.,  on  November  17,  1919, 
very  suddenly.  He  was  born  in  Minot, 
Me.,  on  April  17,  1845,  and  prepared 
for  college  at  Edward  Little's  Institute 
in  Auburn.  He  served  as  a  volunteer 
in  the  Civil  War.  After  leaving  college 
he  entered  business,  became  president 
of  a  life  insurance  company,  and  was 
for  many  years  the  editor  of  the  finan- 
cial paper.  The  Economist.  Later  he 
went  west  and  engaged  in  mining  at 
Leadville,  Col.  The  latter  part  of  his 
life  he  devoted  to  work  of  a  philan- 
thropic character,  including  the  care 
of  a  colony  of  orphaned  children.  He 
was  twice  married. 

1872 

Lyman  M.  Paine,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

4224  Langley  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

The  Hon.  Loranus  Eaton  Hitchcock, 
judge  of  the  superior  court  of  Massa- 
chusetts and  president  of  the  class  of 
'72  ever  since  graduation,  died  on 
Monday,  March  15,  1920,  of  neuritis, 
at  his  home,  46  Mt.  Vernon  Street, 
Cambridge,  Mass. 

Judge  Hitchcock  was  born  in  Ro- 
chester, Vt.,  February  3,  1851,  son  of 
the  Rev.  Harvey  and  Mahala  (Ward) 
Hitchcock.  His  mother  died  when  he 
was  an  infant,  and  his  father  moved  to 
Chicopee,  Mass.,  where  Loranus  grad- 
uated from  the  high  school  in  1868. 
In  Amherst  College  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Upsilon  and  was  president  of 
its  trustees  at  the  time  of  building  the 
new  fraternity  house.  He  received  the 
degree  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia  Uni- 
versity in  1874.     He  opened  an  offige 


in  Chicopee  and  soon  became  a  partner 
with  the  late  ex-Gov.  George  D.  Robin- 
son. In  1877  he  was  appointed  judge  of 
the  police  court  of  Chicopee  for  a  life 
term.     He  practiced  law  in  Springfield. 

In  1901  he  was  promoted  to  the 
superior  court  bench  for  life  by  Gov. 
John  L.  Bates.  He  was  an  active 
member  of  the  Methodist  Church  in 
Chicopee,  Springfield,  and  Cambridge. 
He  was  also  prominent  in  Masonry, 
being  P.  M.  of  Chicopee  Lodge,  member 
of  Unity  Royal  Arch  Chapter  of  Chic- 
opee Falls,  Springfield  Council,  R. 
and  S.  M.,  Springfield  Commandery 
K.  T.,  and  Massachusetts  Consistory. 
His  funeral  services  at  the  Epworth  M. 
E.  Church  were  attended  by  a  large 
delegation  from  the  Boston  Bar  Associa- 
tion. The  honorary  pall  bearers  were 
Justices  De  Courcey  and  Crosby  of  the 
supreme  court.  Chief  Justice  Aiken 
and  Justice  White  of  the  superior  court, 
E.  B.  Woodworth  of  the  church  trustees, 
and  C.  C.  Chase,  secretary  of  the 
Cambridge  Y.  M.  C.  A.  The  burial 
was  at  Mt.  Auburn. 

Judge  Hitchcock  was  the  author  of 
"New  England  Sheriffs  and  Consta- 
bles" and  a  system  of  graded  Sunday 
School  lessons.  He  was  married  in 
October,  1875,  to  Miss  Ella  Asenath 
Goldthwaite,  daughter  of  George  and 
Catherine  (Danks)  Goldthwaite  of  Chic- 
opee. Mrs.  Hitchcock  and  three  chil- 
dren survive  him:  Raymond  Hitchcock 
of  Bangor,  Me.,  recipient  of  the  class 
cup  of  '72;  Mrs.  Alfred  F.  Whitman 
of  Norberth,  Pa.,  and  Mrs.  Edward  H. 
Redstone  of  Cambridge. 

Memorial  services  for  the  late 
Timothy  G.  Spaulding,  '72,  and  Charles 
Clark,  '73,  were  held  on  February  28th 
in  the  superior  court  room,  Northamp- 
ton. Both  were  prominent  members 
of  the  Hampshire  County  Bar  and  Mr. 


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Spaulding  was  the  association's  presi- 
dent for  many  years. 

When  the  late  Rev.  George  Larkin 
Clark  was  passing  through  the  central 
states  last  October,  he  bestowed  his  ben- 
ediction upon  four  of  his  classmates;  at 
Chicago,  on  Harry  S.  Stevens,  assistant 
commissary  of  the  Burlington  System 
and  on  the  class  secretary,  Lyman  M. 
Paine,  in  life's  afternoon  still  enjoying 
the  practice  of  the  law;  on  John  W. 
McElhinney,  at  Clayton,  Mo.,  judge 
of  the  circuit  court  of  St.  Louis  county 
since  1901,  but  planning  to  avoid  re- 
election at  the  end  of  his  present  term 
in  1923;  and  on  David  L.  Holbrook, 
at  Ripon,  Wis.,  where  the  sweet  singer 
of  72  and  '72  is  crowning  his  forty-one 
years  of  preaching  with  a  wreath  of 
poppy,  otium  cum  dignitate. 

1873 

Prof.  John  M.  Tyler,  Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 

Edward  M.  Hartwell,  Ph.D.,  has 
been  elected  a  member  of  the  Colonial 
Society  of  Massachusetts. 

Dr.  Talcott  Williams  is  to  lecture  at 
the  University  of  Vermont  1920  Summer 
School.  He  delivered  a  course  of  six 
Lowell  lectures  during  the  winter  in 
Boston  on  "The  Ottoman  Empire." 
Dr.  Williams  has  been  appointed  a 
member  of  the  mayor's  committee  on 
New  York's  permanent  memorial  to 
commemorate  the  great  war  heroes. 
In  the  January  issue  of  Asia,  he  had 
an  article,  entitled  "The  American 
Idea  in  the  Near  East." 

Just  as  the  Quarterly  was  going  to 
press  and  only  in  time  to  insert  these 
few  lines,  word  was  received  of  the 
death  on  March  21st  of  David  Young 
Comstock,  son  of  the  late  Daniel  F. 
and   Emily   Young   Comstock,   at   his 


home  in  Arlington,  Mass.,  after  a  brief 
illness.  He  was  in  his  68th  year. 
Interment  was  at  Danbury,  Conn. 

1874 

Elihu  G.  Loomis,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
15  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Prof.  Monroe  Smith  of  Columbia 
University  has  been  elected  a  trustee  of 
the  Academy  of  Political  Science. 

Speaker  Frederick  H.  Gillett  is  a 
member  of  the  advisory  committee  on 
policies  and  platform  for  the  Republican 
national  convention. 

1875 
Prof.  Alfred  D.  F.  Hamlin,  Secretary 
105  Morningside  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

Prof.  David  Todd  attended  the  Pan- 
American  aeronautic  congress  and  ex- 
position in  Havana,  Cuba,  February 
21st  to  March  1,  1920,  on  the  invitation 
of  the  Liga  Aerea  de  Cuba. 

1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 
299  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

John  B.  Stanchfield  acted  as  counsel 
for  the  New  York  state  legislature  in 
the  ouster  proceedings  against  the  five 
Socialist  members.  Mr.  Stanchfield 
has  also  been  elected  a  director  of  the 
Petroleum  Heat  and  Power  Company. 

1877 

A.  DeW.  Mason,  Secretary, 

222  Garfield  PL,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Death  has  removed  another  classmate 
from  the  ranks  of  '77,  the  Rev.  Rufus 
B.  Tobey,  who  died  at  Middleboro, 
Mass.,  after  a  long  illness,  on  January 
6,  1920.  His  life  was  one  of  singular 
usefulness  and  devotion  to  the  good  of 
others,  and  he  was  for  many  years  a 


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leader  in  philanthropic  and  benevolent 
enterprises  in  and  around  Boston. 

Mr.  Tobey  was  born  in  New  Bedford, 
Mass.,  on  May  6,  1849,  and  attended 
Phillips  Andover  Academy  in  prepara- 
tion for  Amherst.  In  1880  he  grad- 
uated from  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary and  became  pastor  at  Harwich. 
From  there  he  went  to  Helena,  Mont., 
as  a  missionary  and  established  the 
first  Congregational  church  in  that 
city.  He  returned  to  Harwich  and 
later  accepted  a  call  as  associate  pastor 
at  Berkeley  Temple,  where  his  work 
brought  him  into  close  association  with 
Edward  Everett  Hale.  Dr.  Hale  was 
one  of  Mr.  Tobey's  truest  friends  and 
was  a  loyal  supporter  of  his  activities 
in  founding  the  Boston  Floating  Hos- 
pital for  sick  children,  which  has  become 
one  of  the  most  valuable  charitable 
institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  United 
States.  Mr.  Tobey  was  also  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Ingleside  Home 
at  Revere,  a  home  for  young  girls. 
Another  of  his  interests  was  the  Mount 
Pleasant  Home  for  aged  men  and 
women. 

He  had  hundreds  of  friends  from  all 
ranks  of  life,  and  his  ability  to  counsel 
and  help  in  the  guidance  of  many  and 
greatly  varying  enterprises  won  him 
the  name  of  "the  many-sided  Tobey." 
He  was  always  much  interested  in  class 
activities  and  attended  the  reunions 
whenever  it  was  possible  for  him  to 
do  so.  Circumstances  were  such  that 
only  one  member  of  the  class — Leete — 
attended  the  funeral  services,  but 
flowers  were  sent  in  the  name  of  the 
class,  and  a  letter  of  sympathy  and 
appreciation  was  sent  to  his  widow  and 
daughter. 

The  annual  dinner  of  the  New  York 
alumni  was  attended  by  only  five  of 
the  class,  Armstrong,  Hartwell,  Maxson, 


Pratt,  and  Wright.  Illness  prevented 
Redfield,  Fowler,  and  Mason  from  at- 
tending. Letters  were  received  from 
Searle,  Bond,  Stockbridge,  and  Salter. 
A  pleasant  incident  of  the  dinner  oc- 
curred when  the  toastmaster,  W.  C. 
Breed,  '93,  warmly  complimented  a 
certain  member  of  the  class  on  his 
wonderfully  successful  direction  of 
many  of  the  New  York  Amherst  dinners 
of  recent  years,  especially  the  great 
Victory  Dinner  of  1919,  and  called  for  a 
rising  vote  of  thanks  to  Collin  Arm- 
strong, '77,  which  was  given  to  the 
accompaniment  of  an  Amherst  cheer. 

George  Fowler  was  laid  up  in  the 
Brooklyn  Hospital  for  a  number  of 
weeks  during  January  and  February 
and  had  to  undergo  a  serious  operation. 
He  has  now  returned  home  with  every 
expectation  of  full  recovery.  He  is 
still  studying  and  publishing  those 
solutions  of  difficult  engineering  prob- 
lems which  have  given  him  a  high  stand- 
ing in  his  profession. 

The  class  treasury  has  had  so  many 
demands  made  upon  it  during  the  last 
year  or  two  that,  while  the  ofiicers  of 
the  class  do  not  think  it  wise  to  levy  a 
class  tax  at  this  time,  they  would  ask 
those  who  are  willing  to  send  a  couple 
of  dollars  to  the  treasurer  as  soon  as 
may  be.  Checks  should  be  sent  di- 
rectly to  William  A.  Copeland,  Treas- 
lu-er,  73  Tremont  Street,  Boston. 

Prof.  Isaac  I.  Lowe  is  now  at  Sulphur 
Springs,  Ark.,  engaged  in  educational 
work,  and  reports  himself  as  "in  good 
health  and  hard  at  work." 

Rev.  W.  Herbert  Thrall  writes  from 
his  home  at  Huron,  S.  Dak.,  that  he  is 
still  engaged  in  the  home  missionary 
work  to  which  so  much  of  his  life  has 
been  devoted. 

Rev.  Harold  H.  Barber,  son  of  the 


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Rev.  Clarence  H.  Barber,  died  recently 
at  Mazatlan,  Mexico,  where  he  had  just 
begun  his  work  as  a  missionary  of  the 
American  Board. 

Prof.  Henry  S.  Redfield  has  moved 
to  39  Claremont  Avenue,  New  York 
City. 

Fred  C.  Newman  has  recently  under- 
gone an  operation  for  failing  vision. 

Rev.  Sidney  K.  Perkins  writes  from 
Manchester,  Vt.,  in  good  health  and 
spirits.  That  his  "natural  force  is  not 
abated"  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that 
last  fall  he  drove  his  own  car  in  a  1,700- 
mile  trip  through  New  Hampshire  and 
Maine. 

William  A.  Dresser  has  been  living 
for  about  a  year  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
and  writes  that  he  expects  to  make  that 
city  his  permanent  home.  His  address 
when  wTiting  was  the  Hotel  Melrose. 

Charles  S.  Hartwell  sends  the  secre- 
tary news  of  the  recent  activities  of 
Miss  Mary  Frances  Smith,  a  daughter 
of  Arthur  Smith,  in  the  relief  of  Arme- 
nian children.  She  has  lately  arrived 
in  New  York  on  her  return  from 
Armenia  and  reports  not  only  a  lack 
of  food  and  clothing,  but  of  toys  or 
any  such  thing  to  bring  joy  to  these 
hapless  little  ones  or  a  respite  from  their 
sorrows  and  sufferings.  Through  the 
Society  for  Relief  in  the  Near  East 
she  appeals  for  help  to  supply  in  some 
measure  these  needs,  which  are  really 
an  actual  necessity  in  the  rehabilitation 
of  a  greatly  persecuted  people. 

W.  A.  Copeland,  Esq.,  has  been 
appointed  class  treasurer  by  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  class  to  succeed 
the  late  J.  Converse  Gray,  to  serve 
until  the  next  reunion. 

William  O.  Weeden  is  now  living  at 
3906  Ibis  Court,  San  Diego,  Cal.     He 

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writes:  "I  was  compelled  to  sell  my 
fruit  farm  in  Hollis,  N.  H.,  because  of 
labor  shortage,  and  came  to  southern 
California  with  Mrs.  Weeden  for  a 
year — perhaps  to  remain  permanently." 

The  1877  Attendance  Trophy  for  the 
New  York  banquet  was  won  this  year 
by  the  class  of  '17. 

1878 

Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner,  Secretary, 

187  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Charles  H.  Fuller,  Esq.,  has  recently 
been  elected  president  of  the  Flatbush 
Democratic  Club.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Brooklyn  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  president  of  the  Brooklyn  City 
Mission  Society. 

Olin  Adams  Holbrook,  ex-'78,  died 
of  heart  disease  on  January  18,  1920. 
He  had  practiced  his  profession  of 
optometrist  for  many  years  in  Quincy 
and  in  Boston  and  was  a  large  property 
owner  in  Quincy.  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife  and  two  daughters,  Helen,  wife 
of  A.  R.  Poquett,  of  Atlantic,  Mass., 
and  Marguerite,  wife  of  Rev.  G.  J. 
Slosser,  of  Holyoke,  Mass.  He  was  a 
native  of  Medford  and  was  born  on 
July  20,  1855. 

Rev.  William  Hand  Lester,  D.D.,  for 
37  years  Presbyterian  missionary  at 
Santiago,  Chili,  died  of  paralysis  at  the 
home  of  his  daughter  in  Miromar  on 
August  10,  1919.  He  was  the  son  of 
Rev.  William  Haven  Lester,  an  Amherst 
graduate,  for  many  years  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  at  West  Alexan- 
der, Pa.,  where  he  was  born  in  1856 
and  prepared  for  college  in  the  Academy 
in  his  father's  house.  At  Amherst  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Psi  Upsilon  fra- 
ternity, in  which  he  found  his  dearest 
college  friends.  He  studied  for  the 
ministry  in  Auburn  Theological  Semi- 


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nary,  was  licensed  to  preach  in  1881, 
and  a  year  later  ordained. 

He  shortly  afterwards  married  Sarah 
M.  Anderson,  of  West  Alexander,  with 
whom  he  went  immediately  to  Santiago 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Foreign 
Mission  Board  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  United  States.  He  gave 
himself  unreservedly  to  his  work  and 
was  for  a  number  of  years  pastor  of 
the  first  Chilean  evangelical  church  (La 
Santissima  Trinidad).  The  present 
church  building  was  built  under  his 
direction  after  the  destruction  of  the 
old  one  by  fire.  After  several  years  in 
this  ministry  he  accepted,  for  reasons 
of  health,  a  pastorate  at  Greenville, 
Tenn.,  which  he  held  for  five  years. 
He  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from 
Tusculum  College,  Tenn.  In  1904  he 
returned  to  Chili  and  became  pastor  of 
the  Union  Church  in  Santiago,  retaining 
at  the  same  time  his  connection  with 
the  Chili  Mission. 

On  account  of  failing  health  he  re- 
signed his  charge  in  May,  1918,  and 
was  made  pastor-emeritus.  Expanding 
his  missionary  work,  he  was  for  many 
years  a  popular  lecturer  in  English  sub- 
jects in  the  arts  course  of  the  State 
University  and  in  the  Presbyterian 
College  in  Chili,  of  which  he  was  at  one 
time  ad  interim  director.  He  also  for  a 
time  edited  El  Heraldo  Evangelico,  the 
religious  organ  of  the  mission.  He 
travelled  extensively  in  Argentina  and 
Brazil,  as  well  as  in  Europe,  for  observa- 
tion, and  on  occasional  visits  to  the 
United  States  preached  and  lectured 
on  conditions  in  South  America.  He 
interested  himself  in  the  advancement 
of  Santiago  and  in  the  progressive  move- 
ments of  the  country  and  was  often  of 
service  to  visiting  Americans.  He  had 
many  friends  among  the  people  of 
Santiago  and  the  esteem  in  which  he 
was    held    is    evidenced    by    eloquent 


tributes  in  both  English  and  Spanish 
at  his  funeral  and  by  the  presence  at 
the  burial  in  the  Protestant  cemetery  in 
Santiago  of  the  British  minister  and 
other  officials.  The  Chili  Mission  says 
this  of  him:  "A  cultured  Christian 
gentleman,  of  polished  and  winning 
address,  'suaviter  in  modo,  fortiter  in 
re,'  he  served  his  Master  in  his  habit  of 
saying  what  was  wise  and  loving,  while 
he  went  about  doing  what  was  kind 
and  helpful." 

Dr.  Lester  was  twice  married.  His 
first  wife  died  in  1884.  His  second  wife, 
who  was  a  Miss  Carrie  Fields,  of  Penn- 
sylvania, survives  him  with  two  sons 
and  two  daughters,  both  the  latter 
married  to  citizens  of  Chili.  Other 
living  relatives  are  a  brother,  Nathaniel 
T.,  and  a  sister,  Essie  E.  Lester,  both  of 
West  Alexander. 

Rev.  William  W.  Sleeper  has  resigned 
the  pastorate  of  the  church  at  Wellesley, 
Mass.,  which  he  has  held  for  eighteen 
years,  to  become  pastor  of  the  Mav- 
erick Congregational  Church  and  en- 
gage in  mission  work  in  East  Boston. 
A  sketch  of  Mr.  Sleeper's  ministerial 
activities,  written  by  Rev.  Charles  L. 
Goodrich,  '79,  appeared  in  the  Congre- 
gationalist  for  March  4th. 

Rev.  W.  D.  P.  Bliss,  D.D.,  addressed 
the  public  forum  in  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension,  New  York,  on  February  29, 
and,  according  to  the  report  in  the  Neio 
York  Times,  predicted  the  formation  of 
a  "Red  Empire,"  consisting  of  Germany, 
Russia,  and  Turkey,  directed  against 
the  Entente.  Peace,  he  said,  would  not 
come  to  the  world  until  fundamental 
changes  had  been  made  in  its  economic 
structure.  He  declared  himself  a  So- 
cialist, but  did  not  believe  in  sudden  or 
revolutionary  methods. 

During  the  war  from  early  in  1915 
till  after  the  armistice  Dr.  Bliss  was  in 


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Norway,  Denmark,  Sweden,  Germany, 
Switzerland,  and  France.  He  had 
charge  for  a  time  of  the  American 
church  in  Geneva.  In  1918  he  went 
into  educational  work  for  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  among  French  and  Belgian  in- 
ternes, later  supervised  the  work  at 
Interlaken,  where  educational  oppor- 
tunities were  provided  for  some  thou- 
sand officers  and  privates,  and  later 
still  had  charge  of  the  entire  edu- 
cational work  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
in  Switzerland,  with  headquarters  in 
Berne.  After  the  armistice  he  did  ed- 
ucational work  for  the  French  soldiers 
and  officers.  He  is  at  present  engaged 
in  ^Titing  and  speaking  for  the  inde- 
pendence of  Armenia.  His  address  is 
1609  Beverly  Road,  Brooklyn. 

Half  of  the  expenses  of  Charles  H. 
Moore,  supervisor  of  rural  schools  for 
negro  children  in  North  Carolina,  have 
been  recently  guaranteed  by  Julius 
Rosenwald,  the  Chicago  philanthropist. 
Formerly  they  were  all  met  by  an  or- 
ganization of  the  patrons  themselves. 
The  new  fund  is  also  designed  to  aid  in 
the  erection  of  modern,  well-appointed 
buildings  for  these  rural  schools. 

Lorenzo  Whitney  Searle  died  on 
March  22,  1920,  at  the  home  of  his 
niece.  Miss  Mary  B.  Searle,  of  West 
New  Brighton,  Staten  Island.  He  had 
suffered  for  some  time  from  hardening 
of  the  arteries  and  recently  from  a 
painful  glandular  swelling  in  the  neck. 
He  was  67  years  of  age,  having  been 
born  on  October  5,  1852,  in  Belcher- 
town,  Mass.,  where  his  father,  Bela 
Searle,  had  a  farm.  After  graduating 
from  college  he  taught  for  several  years 
in  a  boys'  school  in  Ossining,  N.  Y. 
He  studied  law,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  and  for  the  rest  of  his  life  carried 
on  a  law,  investment,  and  insurance 
business  in  New  York  City.     He  was 


never  married  and  leaves  but  few 
relatives.  He  was  a  man  of  genial 
and  kindly  disposition,  fond  of  books 
and  travel,  and  devoted  to  his  friends. 
He  was  a  regular  attendant  at  the  class 
reunions  and  very  loyal  to  the  class  and 
the  College.  Interment  was  in  Bel- 
chertown. 

Hon.  Arthur  H.  Wellman  is  chairman 
of  the  Pilgrim  International  Committee 
of  Boston,  of  which  Governor  Coolidge 
is  honorary  chairman.  This  committee 
has  to  do  with  the  International  Congre- 
gational Council  meeting  in  Boston 
June  29th  to  July  6th  in  celebration  of 
the  three  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
landing  of  the  Pilgrims. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 

1140  Woodward  BIdg.,  Washington, 

D.  C. 

While  watching  the  fire  which  de- 
stroyed the  pathological  building  of 
Johns  Hopkins  University  in  January, 
Dr.  Frank  J.  Goodnow,  president  of 
the  university,  fell  on  the  ice  and  broke 
his  left  leg. 

For  the  first  time  during  his  ministe- 
rial career  of  forty  years.  Dr.  Nehemiah 
Boynton  of  the  Clinton  Avenue  Con- 
gregational Church,  Brooklyn,  was  laid 
up  by  illness  this  winter.  The  "flu" 
was  responsible  for  this,  his  first  sickness 
since  his  college  days.  Dr.  Boynton  is 
chairman  of  the  Congregational-Epis- 
copal concordat. 

George  W.  Lattimer  died  in  Columbus, 
Ohio,  on  February  12,  1920,  of  per- 
nicious anaemia,  with  which  he  had 
been  ill  since  October.  He  was  born 
in  Columbus,  December  6,  1856,  was 
prepared  for  college  in  the  Columbus 
High  School,  and  lived  in  that  city  all 
his  life  except  for  the  four  years  of 


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college  and  a  year  or  two  immediately 
afterward,  during  which  he  was  engaged 
in  the  study  of  law  and  in  mining 
industries. 

From  1881  until  his  death  he  was 
engaged  in  the  wholesale  drug  business, 
being  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Kauffman-Lattimer  Drug  Company, 
and  held  positions  of  prominence  among 
men  occupied  with  that  business,  es- 
pecially that  of  president  for  some 
years  of  the  National  \Miolesale  Drug- 
gists' Association.  He  was  also  for 
many  years  president  of  the  Lattimer 
Stove  Company. 

But  a  very  large  part  of  his  life  was 
given  to  public  service.  He  never 
sought  or  held  political  office,  but  for 
many  years  there  were  few  under- 
takings for  the  betterment  of  Columbus 
in  which  he  did  not  take  an  active  and 
energetic  part.  He  was  at  various 
times  president  of  the  Columbus  Park 
Commission,  a  member  of  the  Ohio 
State  Flood  Commission,  vice-president 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  president 
of  the  Ohio  Institute  for  Public  Effi- 
ciency and  of  the  Central  Philanthropic 
Council,  and  one  of  the  managers 
of  the  Associated  Charities.  Espe- 
cially important  and  notable  was  the 
■work  he  did  throughout  the  war  as 
president  of  the  Red  Cross  chapter  of 
Columbus  and  Franklin  counties.  His 
public  spirit,  his  high  character,  and 
his  genial  disposition  won  him  universal 
regard  in  his  city.  Those  who  remem- 
ber what  he -was  in  college  will  not  be 
surprised  at  the  words  spoken  of  him 
editorially  in  the  Columbus  Dispatch: 

Columbus  lost  one  of  her  most  valua- 
able  and  beloved  citizens  during  the 
week  in  the  passing  of  Mr.  George 
W.  Lattimer.  No  kindlier  soul  ever 
graced  our  city — nor  gentleman  more 
courteous.  Of  splendid  business  judg- 
ment, he  was  successful  in  industry. 
"Warm-hearted,  he  had  faith  in  mankind. 


Sympathetic  always,  he  was  generous 
in  all  things.  Living  not  for  himself 
alone,  he  was  public-spirited  and  far- 
seeing.  Columbus  can  ill  afford  to  lose 
such  residents,  but  the  whole  com- 
munity is  richer  for  his  being  and  the 
good  example  in  citizenship  which  he 
gave  us  all  will  have  a  guiding  influence 
to  the  end  of  time. 

Mr.  Lattimer  was  the  son  of  Oliver 
H.  Lattimer  of  Columbus.  He  was 
married  in  1884  to  Miss  Isabel  Gardner, 
who  died  in  1886,  and  in  1898  to  Miss 
Minnie  Williams.  He  leaves  a  widow 
and  two  children,  Gardner  Lattimer, 
'06,  who  has  two  sons,  and  Jane,  a 
senior  in  Bryn  Mawr  College. 

1880 

Hon.  Henry  P.  Field,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
86  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

The  address  of  Prof.  F.  J.  Bliss,  who 
is  now  in  this  country,  is  1155  Yale 
Station,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

A  son  of  Noah  C.  Rogers  graduates 
at  Princeton  this  June. 

The  present  address  of  Dr.  Alfred  M. 
Seymour  is  411  West  Avenue,  Jenkin- 
town.  Pa.  He  is  health  officer  for  the 
Board  of  Health  of  that  town. 

Robert  S.  Stephenson  is  drawing 
plans  for  the  new  Chi  Psi  fraternity 
house  at  Amherst. 

Owing  to  the  death  of  Judge  Ham- 
mond of  Lafayette,  Ind.,  the  law  firm, 
of  which  W.  V.  Stuart  is  a  member,  has 
been  reorganized  under  the  name  of 
Stuart,  Simms  and  Stuart.  Address, 
Lafayette  Life  Building,  Lafayette,  Ind. 

Rev.  W.  C.  Taylor  is  chairman  of 
the  Vacancy  and  Supply  Committee  of 
the  Presbytery  of  Champlain,  N.  Y. 

H.  P.  Field  has  been  elected  president 
of  the  Hampshire  County  Bar  Associa- 
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The  fortieth  reunion  of  the  class 
will  be  held  at  Amherst  next  Commence- 
ment with  headquarters  at  8  Spring 
Street. 

1881 

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

Anson  Marshall  Lyman  died  Sunday, 
February  10,  1920,  as  a  result  of 
pneumonia.  He  was  born  at  Orange, 
Mass.,  on  July  19,  1858,  and  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Orange  High  School 
and  with  a  private  tutor.  He  left 
Amherst  during  Junior  year  and  went 
to  Orange,  where  he  lived  ufitil  Jan- 
uary, 1884,  studying  law  with  R.  D. 
Chase  of  Orange  and  later  at  Boston 
University  Law  School.  He  was  admit- 
ted to  the  Massachusetts  bar  in  the 
fall  of  1883  and  since  that  time  has 
practiced  law  in  Boston,  forming  in 
1885  a  law  partnership  with  Charles  F. 
Perkins,  under  the  name  of  Perkins 
and  Lyman.  In  1893  this  partnership 
was  dissolved  and  after  that  time  Mr. 
Lyman  practiced  alone.  In  June,  1900, 
he  received  his  degree  of  B.A.  from 
Amherst. 

On  June  19,  1890,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Annie  E.  Perkins  of  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  who,  with  a  son,  Anson,  Jr., 
and  two  daughters,  Mrs.  Pauline  Guest 
of  New  Haven  and  Mrs.  Ruth  Urquhart 
of  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  survive  him. 

Members  of  1881  have  very  interest- 
ing and  tender  memories  of  Lyman 
during  his  college  career.  He  was  a 
good  student  and  always  interesting 
because  of  his  shrewd  and  unexpected 
observations  and  comments  both  in 
and  out  of  the  class-room.  He  is 
remembered  affectionately  as  a  member 
of  what  was  then  known  as  the  East 
College  gang  and  his  ready  interest 
then    exhibited     in     college     activities 


found  expression  later  in  his  business 
and  social  relations.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  and  Boston  Bar 
Associations,  treasurer  of  the  Longwood 
Cricket  Club,  and  a  member  of  the 
Brookline  Country  Club,  the  Boston 
City  Club,  and  the  Brookline  Thursday 
Club.  He  was  for  over  thirty  years  a 
resident  of  Brookline,  Mass.  During 
the  war  he  served  as  chairman  of  the 
Brookline  Draft  Board,  and  on  January 
21st  was  given  a  testimonial  dinner  for 
his  service  by  the  Brookline  Country 
Club. 

Charles  Elliott  Ladd,  of  Carlton, 
Ore.,  died  on  March  20,  1920.  He  was 
the  son  of  William  S.  and  Caroline  A. 
Ladd;  was  born  at  Portland,  Ore., 
August  5,  1857,  and  prepared  for  college 
at  Phillips  Andover  Academy. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  and  of  Epsilon  Pi  Delta 
(Senior  society),  vice  gym  captain  in 
Junior  year,  and  marshal  on  Class  Day. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Portland 
and  entered  the  banking  house  of  his 
father,  the  firm  of  Ladd  and  Tilton. 
He  subsequently  became  secretary  of 
the  Portland  Flouring  Mills  Company, 
and  after  the  death  of  his  father  in  1893, 
left  the  milling  business  and  became  a 
member  of  the  banking  house  of  Ladd 
and  Tilton,  of  which  firm  he  remained 
a  director,  besides  being  president  of  the 
Carlton  Consolidated  Lumber  Company, 
Carlton,  Ore.,  and  Carlton  Coast  Rail- 
road Company. 

He  was  married  September  7,  1881, 
to  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  G.  and 
Sarah  Hall  of  Somerville,  Mass. 

Lawrence  F.  Abbott  is  a  member  of 
the  committee  appointed  by  the 
National  Civic  Federation  to  inquire 
into  the  objectives  and  tactics  of 
revolutionary  forces  in  this  country. 


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1882 

John  P.  Gushing,  Ph.D.,  Secretary, 
Whitneyville,  Conn. 

The  death  of  Rev.  Frederick  W. 
Greene  on  January  4,  1920,  came  as  a 
shock  to  his  friends  and  parishioners, 
though  his  work  had  been  interrupted 
by  ill  health  since  last  spring.  Mr. 
Greene  was  born  in  Brattleboro,  Vt., 
November  29, 1859,  the  son  of  Theodore 
Phinney  and  Mary  Minot  (Ainsworth) 
Greene.  The  father  was  a  naval 
ofiBcer,  ultimately  a  rear  admiral  in  the 
United  States  service,  a  man  marked  by 
the  simplicity  of  Christian  trust  and 
the  kindliness  and  manliness  of  relation- 
ship to  others  characteristic  of  the  best 
type  of  sailor.  The  mother  was  a 
descendant  of  Rev.  Laban  Ainsworth, 
the  first  pastor  of  Jaffrey,  N.  H.,  and 
through  her  the  house  which  he  built 
descended  to  Mr.  Greene.  There  he 
made  a  summer  home  of  wide-reaching 
and  unwearied  hospitality,  and  in  that 
house  he  died. 

Mr.  Greene  made  profession  of  his 
Christian  faith  while  still  in  his  boyhood 
home,  and  entered  Amherst  College 
in  the  class  of  '82,  already  determined 
to  devote  his  life  to  the  Christian  min- 
istry. Graduation  from  college  was 
followed  by  three  years  in  Hartford 
Theological  Seminary.  Soon  after  the 
completion  of  his  seminary  course  in 
1885,  he  was  ordained  to  the  pastorate 
of  the  West  Parish  Congregational 
Church  in  Andover,  Mass.  That  min- 
istry he  exchanged,  in  1895,  after  ten 
years  of  service,  for  the  pastorate  of  the 
South  Congregational  Church  of  Middle- 
town,  Conn.,  in  which  he  continued  till 
his  death.  These  long  ministries  were 
noticeably  marked  by  pastoral  leader- 
ship. Mr.  Greene  was  always  a 
preacher  of  earnestness  and  scholarly 
preparation;  but  his  preeminence  was 


in  his  intimate  and  affectionate  interest 
in  his  people.  He  knew  them  in  their 
joys  and  sorrows,  and  he  loved  them, 
and  they  in  turn  loved  and  respected 
him.  His  was  what  is  sometimes 
called  the  "old-fashioned"  relationship 
of  pastor  and  people, — an  intimacy  and 
understanding  which  only  long  walking 
together  in  Christian  paths  can  produce. 

Mr.  Greene's  interest  embraced  the 
welfare  of  the  community  in  which  he 
lived  and  of  the  state  of  his  ministry. 
His  quarter  of  a  century  in  Connecticut 
brought  him  an  intimate  acquaintance 
with  its  religious  concerns.  He  was 
greatly  trusted  by  his  ministerial  asso- 
ciates. He  served  his  old  seminary  as  a 
trustee.  He  was  in  constant  demand 
for  important  committee  service  in  his 
association  and  his  state  conference. 
To  all  he  undertook  he  gave  self- 
sacrificing  devotion,  great  patience,  and 
a  soundness  of  judgment  that  always 
commanded  the  confidence  of  his 
associates. 

To  his  friends  Mr.  Greene  was  always 
radiant  of  good  cheer.  His  home  in 
Jaffrey  was  the  center  of  a  wide  group 
of  classmates,  to  whom  he  was  the  chief 
attraction.  His  home  life  was  marked 
by  a  natural,  simple  piety  such  as  is  far 
too  seldom  encountered.  He  exhibited 
an  absolute  unselfishness  of  spirit.  No 
thought  of  self-seeking  or  of  personal 
advantage  apparently  ever  entered  his 
mind.  He  impressed  anyone  who  knew 
him  as  one  whose  fellowship  was  always 
with  the  abiding  and  eternal.  He  has 
entered  on  no  unknown  country.  His 
citizenship  has  been  there  since  boyhood. 

Mr.  Greene  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Eliza  Farrar  Walter,  whom  he  married 
in  June,  1885,  and  by  four  sons  and  two 
daughters.  Of  his  sons,  the  eldest, 
Theodore,  graduated  from  Amherst  in 
1913  and  is  a  minister  of  the  Brick 
Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York  City. 


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The  second,  Walter,  was  a  teacher  in 
the  Syrian  Protestant  College  in  Beirut 
thoughout  the  war,  and  is  now  an 
assistant  in  Yale  University.  The 
two  younger,  Frederick  and  William 
Ainsworth,  are  students  in  Amherst 
College.  Of  his  daughters,  Anna  Ban- 
croft is  a  teacher  of  art  in  Norwood, 
Mass.,  and  Dorothy,  a  teacher  of 
domestic  science  in  Delaware. 

The  interment  was  in  the  ancestral 
burying  ground  at  Jaffrey,  N.  H.  A 
memorial  service  was  held  at  Middle- 
town,  January  25th,  in  which  parts 
were  taken  by  his  college  classmate. 
President  H.  S.  Bliss  of  the  Syrian 
Protestant  College,  Beirut,  and  by  his 
seminary  classmate.  Dr.  James  L. 
Barton  of  the  American  Board. 

The  Rev.  G.  Howard  Hobbs  has  re- 
signed the  pastorate  of  the  Westminster 
Presbyterian  Church,  Utica,  N.  Y., 
where  he  has  been  for  the  past  eleven 
years.  The  resignation  is  to  be  effective 
September  1st. 

The  class  has  a  representative  on  the 
Congregational-Episcopal  concordat  in 
the  person  of  the  Rev.  Lucius  H.  Thayer 
of  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

1883 

Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 

2301-2311  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Dr.  Williston  Walker  and  President 
E.  S.  Parsons  are  members  of  the  Con- 
gregational-Episcopal concordat. 

A  series  of  articles  on  "New  Eng- 
land's World-wide  Influence"  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Howard  A.  Bridgman  have 
been  appearing  recently  in  the  Congre- 
gationalist  and  Advance. 

John  A.  Callahan,  for  many  years 
principal  of  one  of  the  city  schools  of 
Holyoke,   Mass.,   resigned  his  position 


last  fall  as  the  result  of  a  serious  dif- 
ference of  opinion  between  himself  and 
others  in  authority.  His  case  was 
taken  up  by  his  friends  and  neighbors, 
and  the  tables  were  turned  a  few  weeks 
later  by  his  election  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education. 

1884 
WiLLARD  H.  'Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City. 

The  forty-fourth  reunion  of  Amherst 
'84  took  place  at  the  Hotel  Kimball, 
Springfield,  Mass.,  January  2,  1920. 
This  was  the  thirty-seventh  annual 
reunion.  There  were  twenty-four  class- 
mates present.  A  large  number  of 
letters  and  telegrams  were  received 
from  absent  members  and  long  distance 
messages  came  in  frequently  during  the 
evening.  An  unusual  number  of  very 
interesting  communications  from  the 
Faculty  were  read  at  various  times  dur- 
ing the  evening,  some  of  which  struck 
such  a  responsive  chord  that  their  recep- 
tion was  greeted  with  the  class  yell. 
Reports  were  made  by  the  dean  of  the 
class  musical  committee  and  the  class 
representative  on  the  Alumni  Council. 
A  very  full  and  interesting  report  was 
read  by  Thompson  on  the  '84  geological 
expedition  of  last  summer.  The  usual 
class  custom  of  drinking  from  the  class 
cup  in  memory  of  the  living  and  dead 
was  observed.  Butler  presided  and 
Dakin  was  toastmaster.  The  following 
officers  were  elected  for  the  year  1920: 
President,  Butler;  vice-president,  F.  M. 
Smith;  .secretary  and  treasurer,  W.  H. 
Wheeler;  historian,  Eastta&n;  poet, 
Kinsley;  executive  committee,  Spaf- 
ford,  Alvord,  and  Thompson. 

Mrs.  Cynthia  Whitaker  Tufts,  wife 
of  Prof.  James  H.  Tufts  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  <lied  at  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital  in  Chicago  on  January  11th. 


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She  was  a  graduate  of  Smith  College 
and  was  a  sister  of  H.  K.  Whitaker,  '90, 
of  Northampton. 

Charles  E.  Kelsey  has  been  elected 
treasurer  of  the  Congregational  Church 
Union  of  Boston.  He  has  just  resigned 
the  superintendency  of  the  Sunday 
School  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Newton  Center,  after  a  serv- 
ice of  eighteen  years.  An  extract  from 
a  recent  letter  of  Mr.  Kelsey's  in  the 
Amherst  Student  is  worthy  of  republica- 
tion here: 

In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Student  the 
question  was  asked:  "What  Is  Am- 
herst's Distinctive  Feature.''" 

If  there  is  any  Amherst  man  who 
does  not  know,  let  me  inform  him.  It's 
the  life  at  Amherst.  Amherst's 
splendid  Faculty — Amherst's  favored 
location  near  three  other  large  and 
distinctive  educational  institutions — 
the  place  given  at  Amherst  to  physical 
education — the  fraternity  advantages — 
its  wonderful  location  up  among  the 
hills  and  away  from  the  dirt  and  tur- 
moil of  the  big  city,  all  these  are  worth 
much  to  the  Amherst  men.  But  it's 
the  life — the  opportunity  to  know  each 
other  intimately  in  these  surroundings — 
that  is  the  distinctive  feature  of  Amherst 
College.  It's  a  life  which  does  more  for 
the  average  man  than  any  other  insti- 
tution can  offer. 

Was  there  ever  a  college  that  devel- 
oped such  friendships  as  Amherst  men 
enjoy.'  Was  there  ever  known  a  place 
where  men  could  know  each  other 
under  such  wholesome  surroundings? 
Is  there  any  wonder  that  Amherst  men 
should  excel  in  both  understanding 
themselves  and  others  and  in  their  abil- 
ity to  look  fearlessly  upon  the  sel6sh 
struggles  of  the  time  in  which  they  live.' 

Amherst  men  everywhere  are  serving 
their  day  in  ability  and  in  distinction, 
for  which  they  owe  much  to  the  College 
on  the  Hill. 

1885 

Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  St.,  New  York  City. 

Robert  Erskine  Ely  is  named  as  one 
of  the  counsellors  of  the  newly  organized 


New  York  Institute,  formed  to  coordi- 
nate the  activities  of  various  unofficial 
bodies  engaged  in  public  work. 

Dr.  Edward  Gerry  Tuttle  died  at  his 
home  in  New  York  City  on  Sunday, 
February  29,  1920,  after  a  long  illness. 

Edward  Gerry  Tuttle,  A.M.,  M.D., 
fellow  of  American  College  of  Surgeons, 
was  born  in  Ware,  Mass.,  December 
9,  1862.  He  graduated  from  Phillips 
Andover  Academy  in  1881.  At  Am- 
herst he  was  a  member  of  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity.  His  medical 
training  was  acquired  at  the  New  York 
Homeopathic  Medical  College  and  the 
Flower  Hospital. 

He  studied  in  Germany,  Austria, 
England,  and  France  in  1889  and  1903. 
He  was  professor  and  head  of  the  de- 
partment of  gynecology  at  the  New 
York  Homeopathic  Medical  College 
and  the  Flower  Hospital,  attending 
surgeon  at  the  Flower,  Hahnemann, 
Yonkers  Homeopathic,  Ann  May  Me- 
morial Hospitals  and  at  the  Spring  Lake 
(N.  J.)  Hospital. 

He  belonged  to  the  following  clubs 
and  societies:  Chiron,  Meissen,  Unani- 
mous, American  Institute  of  Home- 
opathy, New  York  Medical,  and  the 
Academy  of  Pathological  Science. 

Dr.  Tuttle  was  particularly  known 
as  a  teacher  of  gynecology  in  the  New 
York  Homeopathic  Medical  College 
and  for  many  years  was  recognized  as 
an  authority  in  surgery  and  gynecology. 
He  was  a  quiet,  conservative  consult- 
•ant,  and  in  his  operative  work  was  noted 
for  his  careful  technique  and  good  judg- 
ment in  deciding  for  or  against  opera- 
tion, and  the  extent  of  operative  pro- 
cedure essential. 

Both  his  patients  and  his  professional 
colleagues  regarded  him  as  a  friend  to 
be  trusted  as  well  as  a  competent 
surgeon. 


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The  Rev.  W.  W.  Willard  has  accepted 
for  one  year  a  call  to  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church,  Beloit,  Wis. 

1886 

Charles    F.    Marble,    Secretary, 
4  Marble  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  Edwin  Fairley  has  accepted 
a  provisional  call  to  the  pastorate  of 
the  Unitarian  Church  of  Flushing,  N.  Y. 
He  has  been  preaching  in  the  Flushing 
church  for  some  weeks  and  the  trustees 
decided  to  ask  him  to  accept  a  provi- 
sional pastorate.  He  is  now  head  of  the 
English  department  of  the  Jamaica 
High  School  and  will  continue  in  that 
capacity  also.  For  the  present  Mr. 
Fairley  does  not  contemplate  leaving 
Brooklyn. 

Osgood  T.  Eastman  has  been  elected 
vice-president  of  the  Merchants'  Na- 
tional Bank,  Omaha,  Neb. 

The  Rev.  William  A.  Trow  has  served 
his  parish  at  Sherburne,  N.  Y.,  for  over 
twenty-five  years.  He  has  served  for 
the  past  five  years  as  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  New  York 
Congregational  Conference,  Inc.,  and 
is  at  present  moderator  of  this  con- 
ference. 

Congressman  Allen  T.  Treadway  has 
been  elected  president  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts State  Society  of  the  District  of 
Columbia. 

Allen  Eastman  Cross  has  written  a 
new  tercentenary  hymn,  entitled  "The 
Mayflower  Still  is  Sailing."  It  made 
its  appearance  on  the  outside  cover  of 
the  issue  of  March  11th  of  the  Congre- 
gationali.st  and  Advance. 

Hon.  Robert  Lansing's  withdrawal 
from  the  cabinet  and  his  unquestioned 
strength  with  the  people  have  been  the 
cause  of  much  speculation  reganling  his 


political  future.  The  attitude  of  the 
former  secretary  of  state  is  unknown, 
but  he  is  being  very  prominently  men- 
tioned as  the  Democratic  candidate  for 
both  governor  of  New  York  State  (in 
case  Governor  Smith  declines  a  renomi- 
nation)  and  for  United  States  senator. 
Mr.  Lansing  has  accepted  the  chair- 
manship of  the  general  committee  of 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  suc- 
ceeding F.  A.  Ayer  of  Philadelphia.  In 
the  fall  issue  of  the  Advocate  of  Peace 
the  secretary  had  an  article  on  "Legal 
Justice,  the  Basis  for  Peace." 

William  F.  Whiting  was  requested  by 
a  body  of  fifty  representative  men  to 
run  for  mayor  of  Hoi  yoke  on  a  citizen's 
ticket  at  the  local  election  last  Decem- 
ber. After  much  consideration  Mr. 
Whiting  decided  that  he  was  unable  to 
accede  to  their  wishes.  It  was  this 
same  non-partisan  body  which  was  re- 
sponsible for  the  nomination  and  elec- 
tion of  Nathan  P.  Avery,  '91,  a  few  years 
ago. 

The  following  interesting  story  in 
which  three  Amherst  men  figure  is 
copied  from  a  recent  issue  of  the  Brook- 
lyn Daily  Eagle: 

Certain  prominent  Brooklynites  are 
wondering  whether  Robert  Lansing 
wrote  his  letter  of  resignation  to  Presi- 
dent Wilson  with  his  right  hand  and 
signed  it  with  his  left.  He  is  quite 
capable  of  that  bit  of  ambidextrous 
work.  A  relative  of  Frederic  Pratt, 
who  occupies  a  position  in  the  State 
Department,  received  the  other  day 
a  handsome  photograph  of  Mr.  Lansing 
on  which  was  written  an  appropriate 
sentiment,  together  with  liis  signature. 
The  handwriting  of  the  signature  dif- 
fered markedly  from  that  of  tlie  ac- 
companying sentence. 

Mr.  Pratt  was  puzzled  by  the  dis- 
crepancy and  in  talking  with  Edward 
M.  Bassett  mentioned  the  incident. 

"Why  there  is  no  puzzle  about 
that  to  me,"  responded  Mr.  Bassett. 
"Don't  vou  remember  when  we  were  at 


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Amherst,  Lansing  was  noted  for  his 
trick  of  signing  his  name  with  his  left 
hand?  He  would  write  his  essays  with 
his  right  hand  and  put  his  signature 
on  with  his  left.  The  writing  of  the 
two  hands  differed  strikingly.  Appar- 
ently he  has  kept  up  the  practice." 

A  postal  card  from  Robert  A.  Woods, 
dated  January  20th,  from  Singapore, 
announces  his  arrival  there  on  his  trip 
around  the  world.  He  had  just  left 
China  where  he  spent  a  most  interesting 
time.  He  was  very  much  impressed 
with  the  work  which  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
are  doing  in  China. 

1888 

William  B.   Greenough,   Esq., 

Secretary, 

32  Westminster  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Henry  S.  Fish,  for  many  years  in  the 
clothing  business  in  Amherst,  died  on 
February  6,  1920,  at  the  Holyoke  City 
Hospital  of  valvular  heart  disease, 
after  an  illness  of  several  weeks.  He 
was  52  years  old. 

Mr.  Fish  was  born  in  Amherst  on 
September  9,  1867,  the  son  of  Dr.  Dyer 
Ball  Nelson  Fish  and  Georgiana  (Ward) 
Fish.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Amherst  High  School.  He  became  a 
traveling  salesman  for  Gushing,  01m- 
stead  and  Snow  of  Boston — wholesale 
clothiers.  Afterwards  he  engaged  in 
the  retail  clothing  business  in  Amherst, 
first  with  the  firm  of  Campion  and  Fish 
and  later  alone. 

Burial  was  in  Wildwood  cemetery. 
Mr.  Fish  was  unmarried.  He  leaves 
one  brother,  Fred  W.  Fish  of  Medford. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Lodge 
of  Masons. 

S.  D.  Warriner  of  Philadelphia,  presi- 
dent of  the  Lehigh  Coal  and  Navigation 
Company,  heads  the  committee  for  the 
operators  appointed  in  March  to  pass 
on  a  new  wage  agreement  between  the 


anthracite  operators  and  the  miners 
of  Penn.sylvania.  The  committee  con- 
sists of  four  operators,  four  miners,  and 
a  chairman  without  a  vote. 

John  E.  Oldham  has  issued  a  pamph- 
let of  thirty-five  pages  entitled  A  Dis- 
cussion of  Some  of  the  Fundamental 
Conditions  Involved  in  a  Satisfactory 
Solution  of  the  Railroad  Problem,  one  of 
the  most  valuable  papers  that  appeared 
while  the  question  was  before  Congress 
and  the  country  for  settlement.  It  is 
primarily  a  study  of  the  financial  aspect 
of  the  problem,  and  the  fact  that  the 
law  as  finally  enacted  embodies  in  prin- 
ciple many  of  the  features  advocated 
by  Mr.  Oldham  is  worthy  of  notice. 

The  author  limits  his  discussion  to 
the  three  plans  proposed :  first,  govern- 
ment ownership;  second,  the  return  of 
the  railroads  to  private  interests  to  be 
operated  substantially  as  they  were 
before  the  war;  and,  third,  the  return 
of  the  roads  to  their  owners  but  under 
such  conditions  as  would  involve  a  re- 
construction of  the  railroad  map  of  the 
country. 

He  rejects  the  first  plan  because  it 
would  result  in  no  competition  and  so 
in  little  motive  for  efficiency,  and  the 
second  because  it  would  lead  to  com- 
petition that  would  be  wasteful.  In 
advocating  that  railroads  should  be 
grouped  in  traffic  areas  composed  of 
strong  and  weak  roads  consolidated  or 
operated  as  a  unit,  Mr.  Oldham  gets 
rid  of  wasteful  competion,  and  thereby, 
in  the  opinion  of  some,  loses  a  most 
important  stimulus  to  individual  initia- 
tive. But  he  believes  that  initiative 
can  be  preserved  by  securing  to  the 
roads  an  adequate  return  on  invested 
capital  and  by  establishing  a  standard 
accounting  system  through  which  a 
comparison  of  management  could  be 
made  and  the  force  of  example  come 
into  play. 


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There  follows  an  interesting  discus- 
sion of  the  basis  of  consolidation,  which 
Mr.  Oldham  has  enlarged  upon  in  a 
subsequent  publication  containing  a 
series  of  carefully  prepared  maps  of  the 
proposed  groups.  But  it  is  not  enough, 
he  holds,  to  consolidate  and  eliminate 
the  burden  of  maintaining  the  weak 
roads.  To  return  them  without  pro- 
vision for  restoring  their  credit  and 
insuring  an  adequate  return  to  capital 
would  result  in  disaster.  In  his  expo- 
sition of  the  fundamentals  of  credit  Mr. 
Oldham  speaks  as  an  expert  in  a  field 
in  which  he  has  had  long  experience. 
Such  questions  as  those  of  the  proper 
ratio  of  stocks  and  bonds,  of  the  neces- 
sity of  surplus  earnings,  and  of  a  meas- 
ure of  fair  earnings,  as  well  as  that  of 
the  effect  of  government  guarantees, 
Mr.  Oldham  treats  with  admirable 
simplicity  and  lucidity. 

A  careful  reading  of  this  essay  will 
give  anyone  a  clear  understanding  of 
the  fundamental  points  at  issue  in  deal- 
ing with  financial  problems  which  must 
be  correctly  solved  if  our  great  railroad 
properties  are  to  be  preserved  for  public 
use.  J.  W.  Crook. 

The  following  members  of  the  class 
were  present  at  the  New  York  dinner 
of  the  alumni  in  February:  Bard, 
Ewing,  Houghton,  Noyes,  Ripley,  and 
Vaill. 

The  following  members  of  the  class 
were  present  at  the  Boston  alumni  din- 
ner: Fairley,  Greenough,  Marsh,  Old- 
ham, Prest,  and  Wilbar. 

Clarence  W.  Bispham  and  Mrs. 
Bispham  sailed  from  San  Francisco  on 
February  20th  for  China  on  a  trip 
around  the  world.  They  expect  to  be 
absent  about  a  year  and  a  half. 

William  B.  Greenough  was  elected 
first  vice-president  of  the  Rhode  Island 


Bar   Association   at   its   recent    annual 
meeting. 

Albert  B.  Ripley  is  connected  with 
the  bureau  of  attendance  of  the  Board  of 
Education  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

John  D.  Wright  and  Mrs.  Wright 
sailed  from  San  Francisco  for  Japan 
on  February  18th  on  the  steamship 
China  after  spending  a  month  in  Cali- 
fornia. They  will  be  abroad  a  number 
of  months. 

1889 
Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 

387   Main   St.,   Springfield,   Mass. 

For  the  second  time  this  year,  Yale 
University  has  paid  high  honor  to  an 
Amherst  man.  Following  closely  the 
appointment  of  Dr.  Williston  Walker, 
'83,  as  provost  of  the  university  comes 
the  announcement  that  Frank  E. 
Spaulding,  superintendent  of  public 
schools  in  Cleveland,  has  been  ap- 
pointed head  of  the  department  of 
education  of  the  Graduate  School.  He 
has  resigned  his  Cleveland  post,  effect- 
ive July  31st.  Mr.  Spaulding  is  one  of 
the  best  known  men  in  the  educational 
field  in  the  United  States.  His  career 
has  been  a  notable  one.  After  gradu- 
ating from  Amherst  he  studied  abroad 
for  three  years  and  returned  to  teach  in 
the  Louisville  Military  Academy.  He 
then  became  successively  superinten- 
dent of  schools  in  Ware,  Passaic,  New- 
ton, Minneapolis,  and  Cleveland.  In 
all  these  posts  he  won  great  honor. 
During  the  war  he  served  with  President 
Butterfield  of  M.  A.  C.  and  Prof.  John 
Erskine  of  Columbia  as  a  member  of 
the  commission  which  organized  an  ed- 
ucational program  for  American  troops 
overseas. 

Arthur  Curtiss  James  has  been  elected 
domestic  secretary  of  the  New  York 
Historical  Society. 


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The  Rev.  Dr.  Edwin  B.  Dean  has 
resigned  his  pastorate  to  accept  an 
appointment  as  assistant  to  the  presi- 
dent and  chairman  of  the  board  of  deans 
of  Carleton  College,  Northfield,  Minn. 

Rev.  Robert  C.  Denison  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  was  the  college  preacher 
at  Amherst  on  March  7th. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  Herbert  W.  Gates  has  been 
elected  missionary  education  secretary 
of  the  Congregational  Educational 
Society.  He  has  resigned  his  post  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  began  his  new 
work  in  February,  making  his  head- 
quarters at  14  Beacon  Street,  Boston. 

A  son,  Theodore  Woods  Lacey,  was 
born  on  December  18,  1919,  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Edward  N.  Lacey.  This  is  their 
third  child  and  second  son. 

Former  State  Senator  Edward  S' 
Boyd  of  Woodbury,  Conn.,  has  been 
named  by  Governor  Holcomb  as  a 
member  of  the  commission  to  represent 
the  state  of  Connecticut  at  the  three 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  landing 
of  the  Pilgrims  at  Plymouth  Rock. 

"  The  Red  Triangle  and  the  Chinese 
in  France"  is  the  subject  of  an  article 
by  the  Rev.  George  H.  Ewing  in  the 
issue  of  January  29th  of  the  Congrega- 
tionalist  and  Advance. 

Former  Governor  Charles  S.  Whit- 
man has  accepted  membership  on  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Law  Alumni 
Division  of  New  York  University  in  its 
campaign  for  a  $6,450,000  endowment 
fund.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
mayor's  committee  on  New  York's 
permanent  war  memorial. 


1891 

Nathan  P.  Avery,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

"When  Mayflowers  Blossom,"  a 
charming  historical  romance  by  Rev. 
Albert  H.  Plumb,  has  recently  been 
published  through  the  Fleming  H.  Re- 
vell  Company.  The  critics  have  given 
the   book   unstinted   praise. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  John  Timothy  Stone 
has  been  elected  president  of  the  Union 
League  Club  of  Chicago. 

H.  W.  Boynton's  contributions  to 
The  Bookman  include  "Novels  of  Vari- 
ous Moods"  in  January  and  "Adven- 
tures in  Portraiture"  in  March. 

1892 

DiMON  Roberts,   Secretary. 
43  South  Summit  St.,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 

Charles  E.  Hildreth  of  the  Whitcomb- 
Baisdell  Tool  Company  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Worcester  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

Robert  L.  Williston  has  been  elected 
a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  in 
Northampton. 

William  H.  Lewis  has  been  chosen  a 
member  of  the  Republican  national 
advisory  committee  on  policies  and 
platform. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 

The  Pilgrim  Memorial  Fund  Com- 
mission has  invited  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lewis 
T.  Reed  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  become 
executive  secretary  of  the  Pilgrim  Me- 
morial Fund.  The  trustees  of  the 
Annuity  Fund  have  also  elected  him 
secretary  of  the  Annuity  Fund.  The 
Flatbush  Congregational  Church,  of 
which  Dr.  Reed  has  been  pastor  since 
1907,  is  unwilling  to  accept  his  resigna- 


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tion  as  pastor,  and,  therefore,  grants 
him  a  six  months'  leave  of  absence  to 
act  as  secretary  of  the  Pilgrim  Fund 
and  the  Annuity  Fund.  At  the  end  of 
that  time,  the  final  decision  will  be  made 
as  to  the  secretaryship. 

Charles  D.  Norton  has  been  elected  a 
trustee  of  the  New  York  Metropolitan 
Museum  of  Art  to  succeed  the  late 
Henry  C.  Frick. 

At  the  meeting  in  March  of  the  New 
York  County  chapter  of  the  American 
Red  Cross,  William  C.  Breed  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  executive  committee. 
Mr.  Breed  who  is  president  of  the  Am- 
herst Alumni  Association  of  New  York, 
has  been  chosen  a  member  of  the 
mayor's  committee  on  New  York's 
permanent  war  memorial. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Park  Schauffler, 
director  of  the  survey  and  program 
construction  for  the  metropolitan  area 
of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement, 
has  worked  out  a  project  for  a  church 
community  house,  to  be  erected  in  the 
Times  Square  section  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 
So  far  the  project  does  not  include  hotel 
accommodations.  It  is  rather  a  club 
house  where  people  can  get  acquainted, 
and  will  contain  an  information  bureau, 
rest  rooms,  recreation  rooms,  and  as- 
sembly hall. 

At  the  thirty-fifth  annual  meeting  of 
the  Associated  Academic  Principals  of 
New  York  State,  held  during  the  winter 
in  Syracuse,  President  Frank  D.  Blod- 
gett  of  Adelphi  College  was  one  of  the 
chief  speakers.  His  subject  was  "Edu- 
cation and  Americanism." 

1894 

Henry   E.    Whitcomb,    Secretary, 

53  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Willis    D.    Wood    was    in    January 


elected    a    director    of    the    Brooklyn 
Trust  Company. 

Principal  Alfred  E.  Stearns  of  Phillips 
Andover  Academy  was  the  college 
preacher  at  Hamilton  College  on  March 
7th  and  at  Middlebury  College  on  Jan- 
uary 18th. 

The  Worcester  fair  price  commission, 
of  which  Henry  E.  Whitcomb  is  a  mem- 
ber, has  started  a  campaign  against  the 
rent  profiteers.  Mr.  Whitcomb  has 
been  delegated  to  take  charge  of  this 
part  of  the  commission's  work. 

1895 

William  S.  Tyler,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
30  Church  St.,  New  York  City. 

Robert  H.  Mainzer  is  one  Amherst 
man  who  not  only  protests  against 
profiteering,  but  who  has  the  courage 
of  his  convictions  to  fight  for  what  he 
believes  is  right.  He  regards  this  as  a 
public  duty.  Mr.  Mainzer,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  banking  firm  of  Hall- 
garten  and  Company,  New  York  City, 
and  an  honorary  battalion  fire  chief, 
bought  one  baked  Virginia  ham  on 
December  31st  from  a  delicatessen  shop 
near  his  home.  When  the  bill  came  in 
for  the  ham,  he  was  charged  $25.  He 
considered  this  an  exorbitant  charge, 
for  the  ham  did  not  weigh  quite  twelve 
pounds,  the  charge  thus  being  over  $2 
a  pound.  Mr.  Mainzer's  attitude  has 
been  favorably  commented  upon  by 
the  New  York  press.  In  an  interview 
recorded  in  the  New  York  Sun,  Mr. 
Mainzer's  reason  for  taking  this  action 
is  explained: 

"  I  regard  the  fighting  of  this  case  as 
a  public  duty.  I  can  afford  to  pay  the 
prices  this  man  asks,  but  every  one  in 
my  position  who  does  that  makes  it 
harder  for  people  of  moderate  and  small 
means  to  get  food.     He  helps  to  keep 


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prices  up.  And  if  one  dealer  learns 
that  another  is  charging  such  prices 
and  getting  away  with  them,  he  is 
likely  to  try  the  same  game." 

This  action,  now  famous  as  the  "ham 
case,"  came  up  for  trial  on  March  10th 
and  resulted  in  a  complete  victory  for 
Mr.  Mainzer.  The  verdict  stated  that 
Mr.  Mainzer  was  justified  in  making 
his  deduction  of  $11  from  the  price 
quoted  for  the  ham.  The  delicatessen 
man  had  to  pay  the  cost  of  the  action. 
Mr.  Mainzer  was  so  much  pleased  with 
the  verdict  that  he  donated  $500  to  the 
Henry  Street  Settlement,  a  New  York 
charity.  He  has  been  the  recipient  of 
letters  from  all  over  the  country  praising 
him  for  his  stand  in  this  matter. 

In  a  long  editorial  on  this  case,  the 
New  York  Times  says:  "If  more  men 
similarly  would  inconvenience  them- 
selves, the  way  of  the  profiteer  would 
become  a  rough  and  thorny  one,  instead 
of  the  smooth  and  easy  highway  it  is  at 
present,  and  the  cost  of  living  would  be 
measurably  decreased  for  everybody." 

Governor  Coolidge  will  deliver  the 
Commencement  address  this  year  at 
the  University  of  Vermont.  An  "anon- 
ymous donor"  has  given  a  copy  of 
Governor  Coolidge's  "Have  Faith  in 
Massachusetts"  to  all  normal,  high, 
and  vocational  schools  in  that  state. 

Augustus  Post  was  consulted  this 
winter  by  the  New  York  State  Aviation 
Commission  regarding  the  lack  of  ade- 
quate landing  fields  in  the  East.  He 
gave  the  commission  a  mass  of  data 
concerning  the  advancement  made  by 
England,  France,  and  Italy. 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  is  a  member  of 
the  executive  committee  appointed  by 
the  New  York  Association  for  Improv- 
ing the  Condition  of  the  Poor  to  raise 
$975,000. 


Lucius  R.  Eastman  has  been  elected 
a  director  of  the  Merchants  Association 
of  New  York. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Secretary, 
10  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Prof.  Frederick  B.  Loomis  of  Am- 
herst College  has  been  elected  president 
of  the  Paleontological  Society  of  Amer- 
ica and  vice-president  of  the  Geological 
Society  of  America. 

The  Northampton  Club  has  elected 
Herbert  E.  Riley  as  president. 

Mrs.  Mary  Josephine  Hotchkiss  Kim- 
ball, wife  of  W.  Eugene  Kimball,  died 
on  March  26th  at  her  home  in  New 
York  City.  She  had  been  ill  since  the 
first  of  the  year. 

Edward  W.  Bancroft  of  Wellesley 
has  been  appointed  by  Governor  Cool- 
idge as  special  justice  of  the  district 
court  of  northern  Norfolk. 

The  Rev.  John  Reid  of  Franklin, 
Mass.,  has  been  appointed  one  of  the 
directors  in  New  England  of  the  Inter- 
church  World  Movement. 

1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Gilbert  H.  Grosvenor,  for  twenty 
years  director  of  the  National  Geo- 
graphic Society  and  editor  of  the 
National  Geographic  Magazine,  has 
been  elected  president  of  the  society, 
to  succeed  the  late  Rear  Admiral  John 
E.  Pillsbury.  Henry  White  of  the 
American  Peace  Commission  was  chosen 
vice-president.  The  election  of  Mr. 
Grosvenor  was  a  tribute  to  his  energy, 
ability,  and  service  for  the  increase 
and  diffusion  of  geographic  knowledge, 
for  it  was  under  Mr.  Grosvenor's  di- 
rection that   the  National  Geographic 


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Society  increased  its  membership  from 
900,  when  he  took  charge,  to  the  more 
than  750,000  it  now  has,  making  it  the 
largest  scientific  educational  society  in 
the  world.  At  Mr.  Grosvenor's  coun- 
try residence,  "Wild  Acres,"  near 
Bethesda,  Md.,  is  a  bird  sanctuary, 
having  the  densest  and  most  varied  bird 
population  of  any  private  estate  in  the 
country. 

Rev.  William  J.  Ballou  has  resigned 
his  pastorate  at  Ludlow,  Vt.,  to  accept 
a  call  to  Chester,  Vt.,  to  succeed  the 
Rev.  H.  L.  Ballou,  '92,  who  resigned  on 
account  of  ill  health. 

A  son,  Charles  W.,  Jr.,  was  born  on 
December  21st  at  Springfield  to  Pro- 
fessor and  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Cobb. 

Twenty  members  rallied  to  the  annual 
mid-winter  dinner  of  the  Class  held  at 
the  Columbia  University  Club,  New 
York  City,  on  Saturday  evening,  March 
27th.  No  set  speeches  or  toasts  were 
delivered,  but  various  informal  talks 
were  given  by  several  men  present. 

The  chief  incident  of  interest  was  the 
reading  of  a  graphic  account  of  the 
rescue  of  Sabrina  from  her  prolonged 
captivity,  written  by  one  of  the  heroes 
of  the  exploit,  H.  R.  Seward,  '19. 
Under  the  leadership  of  President 
Carnell  the  class  essayed  singing  for 
the  first  time  the  "Sabrina  Song," 
and  passed  a  motion  of  thanks  and  con- 
gratulation to  the  rescuers. 

Eugene  S.  Wilson,  '02,  visited  the 
diners  to  outline  plans  for  the  coming 
meeting  of  the  Alumni  Council  in  Chi- 
cago, and  T.  J.  McEvoy  was  appointed 
class-delegate  to  attend  the  Council 
meeting,  expenses  paid.  Isaac  Patch 
gave  a  very  intimate,  man-to-man  talk 
on  his  experiences  as  a  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
secretary;  Rev.  Alexander  Backus 
spoke  earnestly  and  convincingly  on 
the   need   for  a   thorough   entente  be- 


tween English-speaking  nations;  and 
Crawford  gave  an  absorbingly  interest- 
ing account  of  the  results  of  the  ques- 
tionnaire on  presidential  candidates  in 
the  different  states.  A  straw  vote 
taken  on  the  spot  resulted  as  follows: 
Wood,  5;  Hoover,  5;  Coolidge,  5; 
Lowden,  4.  Postcards  and  letters  from 
absent  members  were  circulated  during 
the  dinner. 

Those  present  were:  Backus,  Boyn- 
ton,  Bragg,  Brown,  Carnell,  Clauson, 
Crawford,  Durgin,  E.  P.  Grosvenor, 
L.  H.  Hall,  Holt,  Hood,  Keep,  Mc- 
Evoy, Maxwell,  Merrill,  Morgan,  Patch, 
Perry,  and  Warren.  The  committee 
in  charge  consisted  of  McEvoy,  Perry, 
and  Keep,  chairman. 

1898 

Rev.   Ferdinand  Q.  Blanchard, 

Secretary, 
Euclid  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Frederick  W.  Fosdick  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  Governor  Coolidge  justice 
of  the  superior  court  to  succeed  Judge 
Frederick  H.  Chase.  Judge  Fosdick 
is  a  graduate  of  Harvard  Law  School, 
class  of  1901,  and  began  practice  in 
Boston  with  Stone,  Dallinger  and  Ban- 
croft, the  firm  later  becoming  Bancroft 
and  Fosdick. 

Frank  C.  Wellman  is  now  manager 
of  the  new  Cleveland  branch  of  the 
Lewis  Manufacturing  Company  and  is 
living  at  9719  Logan  Avenue,  Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

In  the  last  issue  of  the  Quarterly, 
brief  mention  was  made  of  the  death 
of  Howard  Hill  Mossman,  but  a  sketch 
of  his  life  was  not  received  in  time  for 
publication. 

He  was  born  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  on 
August  27,  1874,  and  prepared  for 
college     at     Williston     Seminary.     He 


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was  a  member  of  the  Psi  Upsilon  fra- 
ternity and  while  in  college  was  chair- 
man of  the  Junior  and  Senior  prom 
committees,  member  of  the  football 
and  track  teams  and  of  the  glee  club. 
After  graduation  at  Amherst  he  took  a 
course  in  Mechanical  Engineering  at 
Cornell.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Norwalk  Iron  Works  Company  until 
he  resigned  on  account  of  ill  health. 

William  H.  Hitchcock,  after  serving 
five  years  as  assistant  attorney  general 
of  Massachusetts,  has  recently  resigned 
and  established  a  law  office  at  1026 
Tremont  Building,  Boston. 

Rev.  F.  Q.  Blanchard,  pastor  of  the 
Euclid  Avenue  Congregational  Church 
of  Cleveland,  is  president  of  the  fede- 
rated churches  of  Cleveland. 

A  recent  issue  of  The  Congregationalist 
contained  a  short  article  outlining  the 
interesting  work  and  remarkable  prog- 
ress achieved  by  the  Congregational 
Church  of  Redlands,  Cal.,  of  which 
Rev.  H.  C.  Ide  has  been  pastor  for  the 
last  three  years. 

1899 

Charles  H.  Cobb,  Secretary, 
224  Albany  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Edith  Hodges  Walker,  wife  of 
Charles  W.  Walker,  died  on  Friday, 
February  6th,  at  her  home  in  North- 
ampton, of  bronchial  pneumonia.  Be- 
sides her  husband  she  leaves  two 
daughters,  Louise  and  Marjorie.  Mr. 
Walker  was  elected  in  January  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Insurance  Federation  of  Massachusetts 

William  F.  Lyman  has  been  elected 
secretary  and  a  director  of  the  West- 
field  (Mass.)  Atheneum.  He  has  also 
been  chosen  secretary  of  the  Tekoa 
Country  Club  of  Westfield. 

Burges  Johnson  had  an  article,  "The 


Dead  Hand,"  in  the  February  Harper  s. 
In  the  January  29th  issue  of  Life,  he 
had  a  poem  entitled  "The  Cynic." 

Mrs.  Florence  Champion  Roundy, 
wife  of  Rev.  Rodney  W.  Roundy, 
associate  secretary  of  the  Home  Mission 
Council,  died  on  January  31st  from 
pneumonia  at  her  home  in  Montclair, 
N.  J.  She  was  a  graduate  of  Smith 
College  and  besides  her  husband  leaves 
two  sons,  Paul  Champion  Roundy  and 
Rodney  Wiley  Roundy,  Jr.,  and  a 
daughter,  Virginia. 

Henry  P.  Kendall  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Webb,  Kendall  and  Bruce,  Inc., 
recently  formed  to  engage  in  industrial 
management,  with  offices  at  199  Wash- 
ington St.,  Boston,  and  65  Broadway, 
New  York. 

Charles  E.  Mitchell  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Bankers'  Committee 
on  Ship  Securities,  formed  by  Presi- 
dent Wilson  to  help  advise  on  financial 
problems  entailed  in  transferring  our 
government-owned  merchant  marine  to 
private  ownership. 

E.  W^.  Hitchcock  has  taken  a  position 
with  the  Munroe  Calculator  Company 
in  New  York  City. 

C.  I.  DeWitt  has  recently  returned 
to  Boston. 

Rev.  E.  D.  Gaylord,  pastor  of  the 
Pilgrim  Congregational  Church  of  Dor- 
chester, Mass.,  has  moved  his  resi- 
dence from  11  Half  Moon  Street  to  6 
Rocky  Hill  Avenue,  Upham's  Corner 
Station,  Boston. 

Harper  and  Brothers  of  New  York 
announce  that  the  sale  of  "The  Bubble 
Books,"  of  which  Prof.  Burges  Johnson 
is  one  of  the  authors,  now  exceeds  a 
million  copies  a  year.  An  entire  floor 
in  their  new  annex  is  used  as  a  shipping 
room  for  these  books. 


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1900 

Arthur  V.  Lyall,  Secretary, 
225  West  57th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Harold  I.  Pratt  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Metropolitan  Trust 
Company  of  New  York  City  to  succeed 
George  C.  Van  Tuyl,  Jr.,  former  state 
superintendent  of  banking.  Mr.  Pratt 
has  been  a  director  of  the  Metropolitan 
Trust  Company  for  several  years. 

Rev.  George  H.  Driver,  whose  address 
was  given  as  "unknown"  in  the  last 
Alumni  Address  List,  has  left  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  camp  service  and  is  located 
temporarily  at  Center  Road,  Shirley, 
Mass. 

S.  G.  Eliason  is  proprietor  of  the 
Superb  Farms  at  Monte\'ideo,  Minn., 
and  of  the  prize  breeding  herd  of 
Superb  shorthorns. 

Walter  A.  Dyer  has  just  completed  a 
historical  novel  entitled  "Sons  of 
Liberty — A  Story  of  the  Life  and  Times 
of  Paul  Revere."  It  will  be  published 
next  fall.  Recent  magazine  contribu- 
tions by  him  include  the  following: 
"Old  New  England  Doorways,"  in 
The  Bookman  for  January;  "\N'Tiat  Is 
a  Coonhound?"  in  Country  Life  for 
January;  "At  Rosy  Dawn,"  a  story, 
in  The  Top-Notch  Magazine  for  Jan- 
uary 15th;  "Furnishing  with  Old 
Cottage  Pieces"  in  House  and  Garden 
for  February;  "The  Great  Hound  of 
Ireland,"  in  Country  Life  for  February; 
"The  Fairyland  of  Books"  in  The 
Designer  for  February;  "Once  Upon 
a  Time,"  a  story,  in  The  Top-Notch 
Magazine  for  March  1st;  "In  Praise  of 
Nature  Faking,"  in  The  Bookman  for 
March;  "Phantom  Hound,"  a  story, 
in  The  Top-Notch  Magazine  for  March 
15th;  and  "Templeton's  Burglar,"  a 
story,  in  Romance  for  April. 
5 


Howard  S.  Kinney,  Esq.,  has  opened 
an  oflSce  in  Harrisburg  for  the  firm  of 
Graham,  Parsons  and  Company  of  Phil- 
adelphia. His  address  is  P.  O.  Box 
806,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

James  D.  Regan  recently  sent  in  his 
address  as  care  of  The  Farmers'  Loan 
and  Trust  Company,  39-41  Boulevard 
Haussmann,  Paris,  France. 

Dr.  Edwin  St.  John  Ward  is  surgeon 
in  the  hospital  at  the  American  College 
at  Beirut,  Syria.  Laurens  H.  Seelye, 
'11,  is  also  at  the  College  teaching 
psychology  and  philosophy. 

The  Rev.  Alden  H.  Clark  was  the 
college  preacher  at  Wheaton  College  on 
February  29th. 

Albert  B.  Franklin,  Jr.,  for  the  past 
ten  years  general  agent  at  Springfield, 
Mass.,  for  the  New  England  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  owing  to  his 
desire  to  be  relieved  of  general  agency 
responsibility,  has  retired  from  that 
relationship,  but  will  continue  with  the 
agency  as  special  representative. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 
100  William  St.,  New  York  City. 
Preserved  Smith  is  now  mentioned 
in  the  catalogue  of  Harvard  University 
as  "Lecturer  in  History."  Dr.  Smith 
is  also  lecturing  at  Wellesley  College. 
Articles  by  him  have  frequently  ap- 
peared recently  in  the  English  Historical 
Review,  the  Scotch  Historical  Review, 
and  the  Nation.  Henry  Holt  is  shortly 
to  publish  a  book  by  him,  entitled  "The 
Age  of  the  Reformation." 

Dr.  Smith's  wife,  Mrs.  Lucy  Hum- 
phrey Smith,  has  recently  published  a 
translation  from  the  French,  "Mira- 
belle  of  Pampaluna"  by  Colette  Yver. 

President  Herbert  P.  Houghton  of 
Carroll  College,  Waukesha,  Wis.,  was 


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recently  elected  president  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Presidents  and  Deans  of 
Wisconsin  colleges. 

Frank  E.  Wade,  Esq.,  has  moved 
from  908  Greene  Avenue  to  572  Decatur 
Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

H.  C.  Newell  is  teaching  at  Middle- 
bury  College,  Middlebiu"y,  Vt. 

1902 

S.  Bowles  King,  Secretary, 
672  Maple  Ave.,  Winnetka,  111. 

Solyman  G.  Hamlin  has  changed  his 
address  to  Idaho  Springs,  Col. 

Standish  Chard  has  been  elected  a 
vice-president  of  the  American  Forestry 
Association. 

The  Rev.  Jason  Noble  Pierce  has 
been  elected  vice-president  of  the  Boston 
Congregational  Club. 

F.  B.  Cross  wishes  it  understood  that 
the  report  in  the  last  Quarterly  is 
not  correct.  He  is  still  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  Century  Manufac- 
turing Company,  of  Springfield,  Mass., 
makers  of  duck  clothing,  etc. 

E.  S.  Wilson  has  been  elected  one  of 
the  vice-presidents  of  the  American 
Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company. 

William  H.  Best  has  opened  a  maga- 
zine subscription  agency  at  719  Oak 
Park  Avenue,  Oak  Park,  111. 

Anyone  knowing  the  present  occupa- 
tion of  the  following  1902  men  will 
please  send  information  to  S.  Bowles 
King,  Secretary:  Birdseye,  Brown, 
Leonard,  Pease,  Sedgwick,  Titsworth, 
Baker,  Gee,  Jarvis,  Kellogg,  McManus, 
Maxwell,  Potter. 

1903 

Clifford  P.  Warren,  Secretary, 
354  Congress  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Alpheus  H.  Favour  and  his  law  part- 
ner, Howard  Cornick,  have  purchased 


the  Prescott  (Ariz.)  Courier.  This 
is  a  Democratic  newspaper,  founded 
in  1882.  The  new  owners  in  making 
their  announcement  stated: 

"We  have  personally  purchased  the 
Prescott  Courier  as  a  straight-out  busi- 
ness proposition.  We  have  no  axe  to 
grind;  we  do  not  expect  to  run  for  any 
office;  we  are  not  advocating  the  can- 
didacy of  any  man.  We  plan  to  con- 
tinue the  publication  of  this  newspaper 
along  the  same  lines  as  heretofore  and 
our  allegiance  shall  be  to  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  For  the  time  being  we 
shall  be  fortunate  enough  to  have  Col. 
E.  A.  Rogers  as  editor.  We  ask  the 
support  of  this  community  for  this 
paper  and  its  policies,  and  in  its  job 
printing  business." 

Percy  Ray  Baker  died  at  his  home  in 
Amherst  on  February  11th,  after  a 
brief  illness  from  pneumonia.  He  was 
born  in  Amherst  on  April  7,  1879,  the 
son  of  E.  Dwight  and  Ellen  M.  Baker. 
He  graduated  from  the  Amherst  High 
School.  Mr.  Baker  was  a  member  of 
Pacific  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  of 
Amherst  Chapter  R.  A.  M.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Jessie  Gould  of  Amherst. 

1904 

Karl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 
1136  Knowlton  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

When  the  new  chairman  of  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  was  elected 
in  March  the  place  was  offered  to  Com- 
missioner Joseph  B.  Eastman,  who 
declined  because  of  the  opposition  he 
had  expressed  to  the  new  railroad  law, 
feeling  that  the  commission  should  be 
headed  by  a  man  in  sympathy  with  the 
provisions  of  the  new  legislation. 

A  pamphlet,  entitled  "Technique  of 
Consolidated  Returns,"  by  John  W. 
Roberts,  was  recently  published.  It 
was  reprinted  from  the  Journal  of 
Accountancy  of  January,  1920. 


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Dr.  Heman  B.  Chase,  who  sailed  for 
Peru  last  fall  with  his  bride  as  surgeon 
for  the  Cerro  de  Pasco  Copper  Corpora- 
tion, is  located  at  the  company's  coal- 
mining community  at  Goyllarisquisga, 
Peru,  14,200  feet  above  sea  level. 

At  the  Commencement  reunion,  the 
class  authorized  the  publication  of  a 
report  and  class  roll.  The  secretary 
issued  a  32-page  booklet  the  last  of 
March  giving  all  the  information 
available  concerning  the  members  and 
ex-members  of  the  class. 

Beginning  with  the  college  year  last 
September,  C.  T.  Fitts  became  head  of 
the  department  of  English  at  Pomona 
College,  Claremont,  Cal.  For  four- 
teen years  Fitts  had  been  in  Honolulu, 
as  instructor  and  principal  in  the  Oahu 
Preparatory  School. 

Walter  E.  Jones  may  be  reached  at 
100  West  Park  Street,  Westerville,  Ohio. 

For  four  years,  1915-1919,  John  L. 
Clymer  was  district  manager  for  the 
American  Red  Cross  on  the  Pacific 
coast.  Last  year  he  took  up  profes- 
sional organizing  and  promoting,  with 
headquarters  in  San  Francisco.  At 
the  present  time  he  is  agent  for  the  Near 
East  Relief.  His  residence  address  is 
133   Parkside  Drive,   Berkeley,   Cal. 

A.  R.  McKee  is  general  line  salesman 
for  the  Goodyear  Tire  and  Rubber 
Company,  for  the  Chicago  branch,  with 
temporary  ofiBce  at  Ottawa,  111. 

1905 

John   B.   O'Brien,   Secretary, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

The  class  is  planning  a  memorable 
reunion  this  Commencement.  Head- 
quarters will  be  at  the  Pease  House  on 
Northampton  Road  where  all  the 
1905  reunions  have  been  held.  Nelson 
Waite's  house  has  also  been  engaged 


and  restaurant  facilities  arranged,  so 
that  the  class  will  have  its  own  com- 
missary department.  Special  musical 
features  are  promised  and  Amherst 
can  look  forward  to  a  real  live  Com- 
mencement this  year.  Leslie  R.  Fort 
is  chairman  of  the  executive  committee. 
A  1905  dinner  was  held  at  Keen's 
English  Chop  House  in  New  York  City 
on  Saturday  evening,  January  10th. 
All  those  present  were  enthusiastic 
about  the  plans  for  the  reunion.  Those 
present  were :  Baily,  Baldwin,  Crossett, 
Crowell,  Dyer,  Fort,  Gilbert,  Grover, 
Hopkins,  Moon,  Nash,  O'Brien,  Patch, 
Rathbun,  and  Wing. 

Fred  W.  Burnett  is  now  located  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  being  engaged  in 
general  advertising  at  381  Main  Street 
under  the  firm  name  of  Chapin,  Burnett, 
and  Foye.  His  home  address  is  97' 
Spring  Street. 

A  son,  Donald  McTernan,  was  born 
on  December  15,  1919,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs_ 
C.  C.  McTernan  of  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Frank  H.  Judge,  who  as  a  member  of 
the  courier  service  made  four  trips  to 
France  in  the  latter  days  of  the  war, 
is  now  representing  the  Western  Felt 
Works  in  the  Cleveland  territory. 

Elmer  E.  Ryan  was  discharged  from 
the  air  service  last  November  and  is 
now  in  charge  of  the  interests  of  the 
Pyrene  Manufacturing  Company  in  the 
state  of  Ohio,  and  is  living  at  2029 
Warren  Street,  Toledo. 

John  G.  Anderson,  captain  of  the 
Siwanoy  golf  team  and  one  of  the  lead- 
ing golf  players  in  the  United  States, 
has  been  elected  secretary  of  the  West- 
chester County  Golf  Association. 

Leland  Hays  is  doing  newspaper 
work  on  the  Pacific  coast,  his  address 
being  719  Leighton  Avenue,  Oakland, 
Cal. 


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A  daughter,  Jean,  was  born  on  Jan- 
uary 29th  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard  G. 
Diehl  of  Great  Falls,  Mont. 

The  address  of  Clarence  Nelson  Stone 
is  3  Columbus  Street,  Newton  High- 
lands, Mass. 

Senator  Edward  W.  Broder  was 
practically  offered  the  Democratic  nom- 
ination for  mayor  of  Hartford  this 
spring,  but  declined  to  allow  his  name 
to  go  before  the  convention  on  March 
29th.  The  Hartford  Conrant  stated 
that  Senator  Broder  did  not  care  to 
sacrifice  his  extensive  law  practice. 
He  has  twice  been  elected  to  the  Con- 
necticut Senate  in  a  Republican  Dis- 
trict, and  was  regarded  as  the  best 
candidate  the  Democrats  could  put  up 
for  the  mayorality. 

Several  issues  of  the  1905  Mephifif 
have  lately  made  their  appearance. 

1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 
Tracy-Parry  Advertising  Company, 
Xafayette  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Robert  Adam  Spear,  the  six-year-old 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarence  A.  Spear 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  died  on  Monday, 
January  19th. 

The  Ansco  Company  of  Bingham  ton, 
N.  Y.,  manufacturers  of  cameras  and 
photographic  supplies,  have  announced 
the  appointment  of  L.  Dudley  Field  as 
sales  manager. 

William  H.  C.  Draper,  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ernest  G.  Draper  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  died  on  Sunday,  March  14th. 
The  boy  was  in  his  seventh  year. 

Lester  F.  Alden  has  resigned  the 
principalship  of  the  high  school  at 
Wareham,  Mass.,  to  become  head  of 
the  Chelmsford  (Mass.)  High    School. 


1908 

H.  W.  ZiNSMASTER,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 

Ned  Powley  has  recently  purchased  a 
home  in  Pasadena,  Cal. 

Hoffman  Keefe  is  busily  engaged  in 
the  real-estate  business  in  Pasadena, 
Cal.  The  past  year  has  seen  a  big  boom 
in  his  line  among  the  tourists. 

A  letter  from  Frank  Warner,  Taiku- 
Shansi,  China,  reports  that  he  and  his 
family  are  well  and  his  school  work 
going  fine. 

William  Sturgis  is  now  vice-president 
of  the  Collin-Armstrong  Advertising 
Agency,  42nd  Street  and  Broadway, 
New  York  City. 

Among  those  who  attended  the  New 
York  Amherst  banquet  were  Cobb, 
Merrill,  Niles,  Baily,  Washburn,  Welles, 
Fred  Smith,  H.  E.  Smith,  Sleeper, 
Sayre,  Hamlin,  Haller;  and  Delamater. 

1909 

Donald  D.  McKay,  Secretary, 

6  Aberdeen  St.,  Newton  Highlands, 

Mass. 

Percival  C.  Nash,  who  has  been  as- 
sociated with  the  Texas  Company 
for  several  years,  has  become  sales  man- 
ager of  the  Converse  Rubber  Company's 
tire  department,  Boston.  Residence 
address,   514   Audubon  Road,   Boston. 

A  daughter,  Barbara  Arline,  was 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dunbar  W.  Lewis, 
Evanston,  111.,  March  13th. 

The  class  paper.  The  Whiffenpoof, 
can  now  be  promised  for  very  early 
delivery.  A  printer's  strike  first  de- 
layed publication,  and  then  the  presses 
were  stopped  to  get  the  story  of  Sa- 
brina's  capture  by  the  odd-classmen  at 
the  Boston  Alumni  Banquet. 


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215 


Members  of  the  class  are  urged  to 
send  to  the  secretary  items  of  interest 
for  the  alumni  news.  Unfortunately 
we  cannot  maintain  a  staff  of  reporters 
to  call  upon  you  for  personal  interviews. 

The  Rev.  Watson  Wordsworth  has 
resigned  his  pastorate  in  Abington  to 
become  pastor  of  the  Village  Congre- 
gational Church,  Dorchester,   Mass. 

A  daughter,  Mary,  was  born  March 
23rd  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  B.  Melcher, 
Newton  Highlands,  Mass. 

Donald  D.  McKay  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Alumni  Association  of 
Boston. 

1910 

George    B.    Burnett,    Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 

Ernest  J.  Lawton,  who  has  been  in- 
structor in  mathematics  and  athletic 
director  of  the  Lynn  Classical  High 
School,  has  been  appointed  principal 
of  the  high  school  at  Wareham.  He 
succeeds  Lester  F.  Alden,  '06.  He  as- 
sumed control  of  his  new  duties  on 
February  6th. 

John  P.  Henry  is  serving  as  baseball 
coach  at  Cornell  University. 

R.  B.  Ailing  is  with  the  Phonograph 
Company  of  Detroit. 

R.  P.  Wheeler  has  been  appointed 
chairman  of  the  class's  tenth  reunion 
to  be  held  in  Amherst  this  June.  The 
other  members  of  the  committee  are 
the  president  and  secretary,  ex-officio, 
J.  C.  Wight,  D.  E.  Emrie,  K.  H.  Tucker, 
Eustace  Seligman  and  A.   Mitchell. 

John  Porter,  Jr.,  is  an  instructor  at 
the  St.  Louis  Country  Day  School  and 
is  living  in  Apartment  A,  858  Hamilton 
Avenue,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

John    F.    Swalley    is    president    and 


general  manager  of  the  Publishers  Press 
Company,  335  Erie  Street,  Toledo, 
Ohio. 

W.  Evans  Clark  announces  the  arrival 
of  a  son,  Michael  Kirchwey,  on  June 
27,  1919. 

A.  B.  Gilfillan  is  homesteading  and 
ranching  in  Buffalo,  S.  Dak. 

Frank  D.  Rugg  announces  the  arrival 
of  a  daughter,  Mary  Dickinson,  Septem- 
ber 4,  1919. 

F.  E.  Williams  is  chief  admeasurer 
of  vessels,  The  Panama  Canal,  Cristo- 
bal, C.  Z. 

After  April  15th  Joseph  B.  Bisbee, 
Jr.'s  address  will  be  Smith  Brothers, 
Michigan  City,  Ind. 

Louis  J.  Heath  is  temporarily  engaged 
in  the  state  educational  department  at 
Albany,  N.  Y. 

Raymond  P.  WTieeler  is  now  located 
in  New  York  City  with  the  Travelers 
Insurance  Company  at  76  William 
Street. 

An  article  on  Edward  Thomas,  the 
English  poet  and  critic,  by  George  F. 
Whicher,  appeared  in  the  Yale  Review 
for  April. 

Details  of  the  death  of  Ralph  Waldo 
Rice,  a  member  of  the  class  during 
Freshman  year,  have  just  been  received. 
He  died,  after  a  long  struggle  with 
tuberculosis,  at  Tucson,  Ariz.,  on  De- 
cember 2,  1917.  Rice  was  born  in 
Chicago,  111.,  on  January  2,  1887. 
After  one  year  in  Amherst,  where  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Theta  Delta  Chi 
fraternity,  he  was  obliged  by  failing 
health  to  leave  college  and  eventually 
to  move  to  Arizona.  He  married  there, 
in  1910,  Miss  Hixie  Akin  who,  with  a 
son  seven  years  old,  survives  him. 


216   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
170  N.  Parkway,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

George  W.  Williams,  formerly  secre- 
tary of  the  Leavitt  and  Johnson  Trust 
Company  of  Waterloo,  Iowa,  has  been 
elected  vice-president  of  the  Iowa  Loan 
and  Trust  Company,  Des  Moines,  Iowa. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Laurens  H.  Seelye  and 
their  two  daughters  left  last  fall  for 
Beirut,  Syria,  where  Seelye  is  to  be  a 
lecturer  in  philosophy  and  psychology 
at  the  American  College.  They  have 
gone  out  for  a  term  of  three  years  with 
the  possibility  of  remaining  longer. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Eleanore  H. 
Northrop,  Smith  '09,  of  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  and  John  H.  Keyes,  took  place 
at  Wickford,  R.  I.,  February  24th. 
They  will  reside  in  Keene,  N.  H.,  where 
Keyes  is  in  business. 

Erastus  Otis  Haven  died  at  High- 
land Park,  111.,  of  pneumonia  on  Janu- 
ary 28th,  after  a  brief  illness. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Chi  Psi 
fraternity  and  married  Miss  Katherine 
Stearns,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Albert  H.  Stearns  of  Ashmont,  Mass., 
and  a  sister  of  Maynard  and  Albert 
Stearns  of  the  classes  of  1908  and 
1911  respectively.  Besides  his  wife  he 
leaves  two  young  sons.  He  was  born 
in  Lake  Forest,  111.,  on  December  22, 
1889,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Lake 
Forest  Academy. 

Soon  after  graduation,  he  entered 
the  Quaker  Oats  Company,  working  up 
through  the  various  positions  at  their 
mill  in  Akron,  Ohio.  He  was  then 
transferred  to  Joliet,  111.,  where  he  was 
superintendent  and  in  full  charge  of 
their  small  mill  at  this  point.  Later 
he  was  transferred  to  Fort  Dodge, 
Iowa,  where  he  was  assistant  superin- 
tendent  of   their   very   large   plant   at 


this  point.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  two  years  ago,  he  requested  a 
transfer  to  the  Chicago  office  of  the 
Quaker  Oats  Company,  where  he  was 
in  their  grain  department  until  the  time 
of  his  death. 

Henry  C.  Durand,  '90,  and  A. 
Mitchell,  '10,  acted  as  pallbearers  at 
the  funeral. 

1912 

C.    Francis    Beattt,  Secretary, 
953  President  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  John  J.  Keogh  has  been  appointed 
assistant  football  coach  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania.  Last  fall  he  suc- 
cessfully coached  the  university  fresh- 
man eleven. 

A.  H.  Ramage  was  in  New  York  in 
February,  attending  the  meeting  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Mining  and  Met- 
allurgical Engineers. 

Fred  Barton  has  been  elected  assist- 
ant secretary  of  the  Fred  W.  Albrecht 
Grocery  Company,  Akron,  Ohio. 

Avery  Hand  is  president  of  the  Tracy 
and  Avery  Company,  wholesale  grocers, 
of  Mansfield,  Ohio. 

Howard  F.  Burns  is  practicing  law  in 
Cleveland. 

A.  V.  Baumann  is  prosecuting  attor- 
ney of  Sandusky  County,  Ohio. 

Attention  is  called  to  the  fact  that 
on  Wednesdays,  1912  men  in  New  York 
will  usually  find  some  of  the  class  hav- 
ing lunch  at  Robin's  Restaurant,  54 
Broad  Street,  upstairs.  It  is  planned 
to  make  these  Wednesday  luncheons  a 
fixture.  Telephone  the  secretary  at 
John  2200  or  Ed.  Vollmer  at  John  846. 

Beeman  Sibley  is  on  a  lengthy  busi- 
ness trip  through  the  South. 

At  the  dinner  of  the  New  York 
Amherst  Association  on  February  14th 


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the  following  1912  men  were  present: 
Stuart,  Burt,  Vernon,  Proudfoot,  Voll- 
mer,  Rankin,  Moller,  Simpson,  Beatty, 
Fitts,  Sibley,  Gaynor,  Tead,  and  S. 
Miller. 

1913 

Lewis  D.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
8  School  St.,  Hanover,  N.  H. 

Chauncey  P.  Carter  has  resigned  his 
post  as  assistant  to  the  president  of 
Musher  and  Company,  packers  of 
Pompeian  Olive  Oil,  and  is  now  in 
business  for  himself  at  1113  16th 
Street,  Washington,  D.  C,  advising 
and  assisting  manufacturers  in  con- 
nection with  the  adoption,  selection, 
use,  and  protection  of  trade-marks, 
labels,  and  advertising  matter,  and 
specializing  in  the  registration  of  trade- 
marks in  foreign  countries.  It  will  be 
recalled  that  Carter  was  for  some  time 
trade-mark  expert  of  the  U.  S.  Depart- 
ment of  Commerce. 

John  H.  Klingenfeldt  is  now  asso- 
ciated with  the  Bush  Advertising  Serv- 
ice in  New  York.  His  engagement  was 
recently  announced  to  Miss  Elizabeth 
Lear  of  Union  Hill,  N.  J. 

Dr.  Charles  E.  Parsons  has  been 
appointed  assistant  resident  physician 
at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  in  New 
York  City,  and  will  assume  his  new 
duties  this  summer.  Dr.  Parsons  grad- 
uated from  Johns  Hopkins  Medical 
School  in  1919  with  the  highest  rank 
ever  given  there.  He  has  since  been 
serving  as  intern  in  the  medical  school. 

G.  H.  Williamson  has  been  elected 
treasurer  of  the  Church  Extension  So- 
ciety of  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

The  Quarterly  is  pleased  to  acknowl- 
edge receipt  of  the  Symposium,  issued 
recently  by  the  class  of  1913.  This 
issue  contains  an  account  of  the  sixth 


reunion  of  the  class  and  some  very 
interesting  letters  from  members  of  the 
class. 

Samuel  H.  Cobb  has  offered  a  cup, 
to  be  known  as  the  "Cobb  Pentathlon 
Trophy,"  to  be  awarded  to  the  student 
at  Amherst  showing  the  best  all-round 
abihty  in  track  and  field  athletics. 

Miss  Sevena  C.  Moore,  daughter  of 
Mayor  J.  Hampton  Moore  of  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  and  Harry  Paul  Barnes 
were  married  on  March  3rd,  W.  H. 
Blackmer,  '13,  acting  as  best  man.  Mr. 
Barnes  is  secretary  to  the  vice-president 
and  general  manager  of  the  Keasby 
and  Mattison  Company,  Ambler,  Pa. 

Ten  members  of  the  class  of  1913  met 
for  a  class  supper,  Friday  night,  Jan- 
uary 9th,  at  Keen's  Chop  House,  New 
York.  Those  present  were:  Benedict, 
Cobb,  Coyle,  Crosthwaite,  Cutler,  Har- 
wood,  Morris,  Newbery,  and  Stelling. 

The  classes  of  1913  and  1914  held  a 
supper  at  Keen's  Chop  House  in  New 
York,  on  Thursday  evening,  February 
5th.  Fourteen  men  in  all  braved  the 
blizzard  to  attend:  1913 — Bailey,  Cobb, 
Greene,  Newbery,  Simpson,  Stelling, 
and  Tuttle;  1914— Averill,  Bernero, 
Carpenter,  DeCastro,  T.  Hubbard, 
Johnson,  and  Osterkamp. 

1914 

RoawELL  p.  Young,  Secretary, 
140   Tremont   St.,    Boston,    Mass. 

Harold  E.  Jewett  is  advertising 
manager  of  the  Worcester  Evening  Post, 
Worcester,  Mass. 

Kenneth   O.   Shrewsbury   is   now   in 
W^arsaw,    Poland,    a    member    of    the 
Kosciuszko  Aviation  Squadron  of  the 
■  Polish  Army. 

The  sexennial  reunion  of  1914  will  be 
held  at  Amherst  this  June,  and  will  be 


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particularly  spectacular  since  it  must 
embody  the  pep  of  the  triennial  reunion 
which  had  to  be  omitted.  The  reunion 
headquarters  will  be  the  old  college 
Hbrary,  where  the  ginger  ale  and  lemon 
pop  will  be  neatly  arrayed  on  the  shelves 
which  once  held  drier  volumes.  The 
reunion  committee  is  composed  of  T.  W. 
Miller  and  Royal  Firman. 

1915 

Louis  F.  Eaton,  Secretary, 
210  Ash  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 

Randolph  Mercein  Fuller  and  Miss 
Jessie  Margaret  Catlin,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Rufus  Olmstead  Catlin  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  were  married  on  Monday, 
February  16th.  James  K.  Smith,  '15, 
acted  as  best  man,  and  Everett  Webb 
Fuller,  '15,  was  one  of  the  ushers. 

Another  recent  1915  wedding  was 
that  in  January  of  Lieut.  Richard 
Hamlin  Bacon  of  Newton  Upper  Falls, 
Mass.,  and  Miss  Estelle  Accola,  daugh- 
ter of  Loiiis  Accola  of  Bozeman,  Mont., 
and  a  graduate  of  Smith  College  in  the 
class  of  1917.  They  will  make  their 
home  for  the  present  at  Camp  Travis, 
Tex.,  where  Lieutenant  Bacon  is  now 
with  his  regiment. 

Leslie  O.  Johnson,  submaster  of  the 
Maiden  (Mass.)  High  School,  has  been 
elected  principal  of  the  Daniels  Evening 
School,  Maiden. 

Mrs.  Stanley  Mirick  Cox  died  on 
February  14th  at  Overbrook,  Pa.  In 
addition  to  her  husband  and  parents, 
she  leaves  a  young  son. 

Announcement  has  been  made  of  the 
engagement  of  Miss  Marjorie  Parks 
Bell,  daughter  of  Alexander  Bell  of 
New  York  City,  and  Gardner  P.  East- 
man of  Orange,  N.  J. 

Henry  M.  Langspecht  is  in  the  oil 
business  at  Tulsa,  Okla. 


John  E.  Lind  is  an  examiner  in  the 
Patent  Office,  Washington,  D.  C.  He 
married  Miss  Jessie  Miles  Sterret  of 
Cumberland,  Md. 

James  C.  Lott  is  with  the  Equitable 
Office  Building  Corporation  of  New 
York  City. 

Robert  Reed  McGowan  is  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  McGowan  Brothers, 
wholesale  grocers,  Steubenville,  Ohio. 

C.  LawTcnce  Muench  is  with  the 
Hood  Rubber  Company  of  Watertown, 
Mass.,  as  a  department  manager.  He 
married  Miss  Leslie  Talbot  of  Brook- 
line,  Mass.  Talbot  Bradley  Muench 
was  born  on  September  27,  1917. 

George  K.  Ripley  is  connected  with 
the  Troy  Blanket  Mills  at  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Leon  Wroath  is  working  with  the 
International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  at  347  Madison  Avenue,  New 
York  City.  He  married  Miss  Lydia 
Fell  of  Mount  Holyoke.  They  live  at 
60  Roosevelt  Avenue,  East  Orange, 
N.J. 

J.  C.  Hayner  is  interning  at  the 
Hackermann  Hospital,  657  Pard  Ave- 
nue, New  York  City. 

Gerald  Cole  is  assistant  military 
attache  at  the  Embassy  in  Paris.  He 
has  recently  been  in  Norway  on  busi- 
ness for  the  Embassy. 

A.  U.  Ralston  is  with  the  Tiffin 
Products  Company  of  Long  Island 
City,  as  assistant  production  manager. 
The  business  is  manufacturing  candy. 

H.  N.  Conant  is  at  the  New  York 
office  of  the  First  National  Corpora- 
tion, connected  with  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Boston. 

Althea  May  Mandrey  was  born  Jan- 
uary 8,  1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Wilham  Mandrey. 


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219 


C.  H.  Houston  is  studying  at  the 
Harvard  Law  School. 

F.  W.  Blair  has  moved  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  is  now  assistant  super- 
intendent of  the  Proctor  and  Gamble 
plant  in  that  city. 

Gerald  Keith  is  now  connected  with 
the  Hope  Webbing  Company,  of  Paw- 
tucket,  R.  I. 

R.  S.  Moulton  has  moved  to  Boston 
and  is  now  assistant  secretary  of  the 
National  Fire  Protection  Association, 
with  offices  at  87  Milk  Street. 

A  daughter,  Jean,  was  born  January 
17,  1920,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  R. 
McGowan  of  Steubenville,  Ohio. 

F.  C.  Newton  is  siu-gical  house  officer 
at  the  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital  in 
Boston. 

Phillips  Tead  is  with  the  Paramount 
Moving  Picture  Company. 

J.  B.  Tomlinson  was  decorated  by  the 
Italian  Government  for  the  part  his 
submarine-chaser  215  took  in  the  raid  at 
the  battle  of  Durazzo,  off  Albania,  in 
October,  1918.  There  was  an  interest- 
ing account  of  the  performance  of  the 
U.  S.  S.  C.  215  in  the  February  World's 
Work. 

A.  J.  Manville  is  now  with  the 
Bronson  Townsend  Company  of  New 
Haven,  wholesale  dealers  in  hardware. 

A.  H.  Washburn  is  studying  phi- 
losophy at  Columbia  University. 

H.  Bonner  is  assistant  sales  manager 

of  the  Pennsylvania  Cement  Company, 

30  East  42nd  Street,  New  York  City. 

E.  W.  Robinson  is  at  Northwestern 

University  studying  law. 

1917 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
14  Fairfax  Hall,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Eric  H.  Marks,  son  of  former  Borough 
President  and  Mrs.  Marcus  M.  Marks 


of  New  York,  and  Miss  Beatrice  Hecht, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Meyer  Hecht, 
were  married  on  Thursday,  February 
5th,  in  the  Crystal  Room  of  the  Ritz- 
Carlton,  which  was  turned  into  a  chapel 
for  the  purpose.  Alan  Marks,  '16, 
acted  as  best  man,  and  among  the 
ushers  were  Mortimer  Eisner,  '17,  and 
Warren  L.  Marks,  '19.  After  a  honey- 
moon at  JekyI  Island  and  in  Cuba,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Marks  plan  to  make  their 
home  in  one  of  the  New  York  hotels. 

Edward  F.  Loomis,  for  the  past  eight 
months  assistant  city  editor  of  the 
Springfield  Republican,  has  resigned  to 
become  managing  editor  of  the  New 
London  Evening  Day,  New  London, 
Conn.  A  son,  George  Williston,  was 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Loomis  on 
January  22nd. 

John  G.  Gazley,  who  is  studying 
history  at  Columbia  University,  has 
been  awarded  the  Schiff  Fellowship  in 
political  science. 

The  class  of  1917  won  the  1877 
Attendance  Trophy  at  the  New  York 
banquet  in  February,  twenty  members 
of  the  class  being  present. 

1918 

Robert  P.  Kelset,  Secretary, 
122  S.  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
Boston  members  of  the  class  of  1918 
held  a  dinner  on  March  19th  at  Young's 
Hotel.  The  occasion  was  the  "ice- 
breaker" for  what  is  intended  to  be  a 
series  of  informal  "feeds."  The  fol- 
lowing were  present:  Breed,  Garrett, 
Gillies,  Moore,  Patton,  Pratt,  Prince, 
Tylee,  Washburn,  Watjen,  and  Yerrall. 

John  K.  Eilert  has  entered  the  bank- 
ing business  in  New  York  City. 

David  D.  Bixler  has  accepted  a 
position  with  the  Western  Electric 
Company  of  New  York. 


Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


Ralph  W.  Myers  is  now  in  New  York 
City  with  the  Chatham  Phoenix  Bank. 

Morris  H.  Williams  has  been  made 
cashier  of  the  Travellers  Insurance 
Company  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 

J.  B.  Brainerd,  Jr.,  has  been  elected 
secretary  of  the  Amherst  Club  of 
Chicago. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond  P. 
Bentley,  a  son,  Frank  Floyd  Bentley, 
on  March  12,   1920,  at  Evanston,  111. 

1919 

Walter  K.  Belknap,  Secretary, 
196  Grand  St.,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

Naturally  these  1919  notes  cannot 
be  complete  unless  they  shall  start  with 
an  "All  Hail"  for  Sabrina — the  most 
recent  honorary  addition  to  member- 
ship in  the  class.  The  story  of  her 
capture  (perhaps  we  are  privileged  to 
say  "rescue")  must  appear  elsewhere, 
but  this  is  the  place  for  an  acknowl- 
edgment of  the  debt  owed  to  Seward 
and  those  who  worked  with  him.  The 
debt  is  not  alone  that  of  a  class  to  its 
president;  it  is  the  debt  of  every  true- 
hearted,  red-blooded  Amherst  man  to 
that  fortunate  fellow  who  was  largely 
instrumental  in  bringing  to  pass  an 
event — long  anticipated  with  expect- 
ancy— which  cannot  help  but  rekindle 
and  cause  to  flame  anew  the  ever-warm 
embers  of  spirit  and  loyalty  for  one's 
class  and  college. 

The  class  now  is  informally  organized 
into  three  groups,  Amherst,  Boston, 
and  New  York,  with  about  twenty  men 
in  each.  Morse  heads  the  Amherst 
group  with  East  Smith  as  secretary; 
Tilton  is  the  chairman  in  the  Hub  with 
his  running-mate,  Boynton,  as  the 
under  dog;  the  New  Yorkers  have  no 
officers.     The  men  in  college  are  pre- 


serving their  identity  as  a  class  unit 
and  will  probably  be  graduated  in  a 
separate  group;  the  men  in  Boston 
meet  quite  frequently  for  dinner;  those 
in  the  big  city  meet  once  a  month  with 
'15,  '16,  '17,  '18  at  an  informal  supper. 

Seward  has  named  Bob  Davis  as 
chairman  of  the  reunion  committee 
with  Franklin  Bailey  and  Eastburn 
Smith  as  his  associates.  They  have 
not  announced  any  plans  as  yet,  but 
are  aiming  to  make  the  first  annual 
gathering  a  big  affair.  The  Nonotuck 
has  been  secured  for  the  Monday  night 
of  Commencement  week. 

In  addition  to  those  who  have  been 
named  as  being  back  at  Amherst  to 
finish  up  the  requirements  leading  to 
their  degrees  are:  Burnett,  J.  F.  Dona- 
hue, Elwell,  Fairbank,  Hooper,  May, 
Riefler,  Thornton,  Tyler,  Virden,  and 
Wilcox. 

L.  C.  Ames  is  with  the  American 
Hide  and  Leather  Company  in  Boston. 

John  Cotton  and  J.  M.  Lyman  have 
been  added  to  the  list  of  those  who  won 
the  Croix  de  Guerre.  They  both  re- 
ceived their  medals  during  the  winter, 
thus  bringing  the  total  for  the  class  up 
to  eleven.  John  is  with  the  Peerless 
Engraving  and  Coloring  Company  in 
Chicago  and  Joe  is  doing  newspaper 
work  in  Hamp. 

P.  H.  Ballon  is  studying  at  Yale. 

W.  V.  Bayer  is  with  the  Banks  Law 
Publishing  Company  in  New  York  City. 

C.  L.  Blatchford  is  staying  in  the 
Navy  as  an  ensign. 

A.  Bodenhorn  and  G.  L.  Nichols  are 
studying  music  in  the  Middle  West. 

•A.  T.  Brown  is  studying  law  at  Yale. 

J.  K.  A.  Brown  is  studying  law  at 
Harvard. 


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221 


C.  R.  Chase  is  with  the  Buick  Motor 
Company  in  New  York  City. 

R.  W.  Clark  is  in  the  cotton  business 
in  New  York  City. 

K.  F.  Gerarden  is  studying  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology. 

J.  C.  Gibson  is  studying  business  at 
Harvard. 

W.  R.  Gillies  is  a  bond  salesman  with 
Halsey  Stuart  and  Company  in  New 
York. 

W.  L.  Godwin  is  with  the  N.  Y. 
Telephone  Company  in  New  York  City. 

C.  B.  Goodwin  and  P.  B.  Kimball 
are  with  the  H.  A.  Balfour  Company 
in  Attleboro,  Mass. 

K.  T.  Hill  is  with  the  American 
Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company  at 
S.  Norwalk,  Conn. 

M.  P.  Kiley  is  with  Bennett,  Hooslef 
and  Company,  ship  brokers,  in  New 
York. 

P.  N.  LeBrun  got  out  of  the  service 
after  a  long  tour  of  duty  on  a  mine- 
sweeper and  spent  last  winter  in  Florida. 

N.  T.  Macfarlane  took  a  course  in 
insurance  at  Carnegie  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology and  now  has  taken  up  that  busi- 
ness in  Utica,  N.  Y. 

R.  D.  Manwell  is  assistant  in  biology 
at  Amherst. 

Warren  Marks  is  studying  law  at 
Columbia. 

Alex.  McGregor  is  with  the  Mutual 
Life    Insurance    Company    in    Boston. 

L.  W.  Miller  is  in  the  confectionery 
business  with  his  father  in  Boston. 

F.  E.  Mygatt  is  with  J.  P.  Morgan 
and  Company  in  New  York  City. 

R.  B.  Neiley  is  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness with  Field  and  Cowles  in  Boston. 


R.  V.  A.  Sheldon  is  an  instructor  in 
English  at  Union  College. 

S.  P.  Snelling  is  with  the  Edison 
Storage  Battery  Company  in  Orange, 
N.J. 

P.  H.  Stacy  is  studying  law  in  an 
oflSce  in  Haverhill,  Mass. 

R.  F.  Starkey  is  a  public  accountant 
in  New  York  City. 

T.  A.  Tilton  is  in  the  leather  business 
in  Boston. 

J.  F.  Vogelius  is  in  the  wholesale 
linen  business  with  Turtle  Bros,  in 
New  York. 

R.  H.  WTiite  is  studying  medicine  at 
Columbia. 

Barrett  Whitman  is  in  the  cotton 
business  in  Summerville,  S.  C. 

H.  D.  Whitcomb  is  with  the  Penn 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  in 
Worcester. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Nicholas  Kon- 
dolf  of  New  York  announce  the  engage- 
ment of  their  daughter.  Miss  Louise 
Huntington  Kondolf,  to  David  Shriver 
Soliday  of  Hanover,  Pa.  Mr.  Kondolf 
is  the  president  of  the  Remington  Type- 
writer Company. 

Merrill  Anderson  is  with  the  Harvey 
Porter  Company,  advertising,  in  New 
York  City. 

O.  G.  Boynton  is  with  the  National 
India  Rubber  Company  in  Bristol,  R.  I., 
after  serving  with  the  marines  until 
late  last  fall. 

W.  B.  Cummings  is  e.vpected  to  be 
one  of  Amherst's  mainstays  in  the 
pitching  box  this  season.  He  had  con- 
siderable experience  on  a  championship 
divisional  team  in  France. 

R.  M.  Johnston  is  with  the  Loft 
Candy  Company  in  Brooklyn. 


Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


L.  P.  Moore  was  studying  law  at 
Columbia  until  March,  when  he  left  to 
serve  as  instructor  in  Latin  at  Amherst 
for  the  remainder  of  the  year. 

A.  S.  Norton  is  in  the  bond  depart- 
ment of  the  Banker's  Trust  Company 
in  New  York  City. 

Theodore  Southworth  is  with  the 
New  York  office  of  the  Buick  Motor 
Company,  but  in  July  will  open  a 
Scripps-Booth  agency  in  Albany. 

H.  B.  Staples  graduated  from  Am- 
herst in  February. 

R.  C.  Van  Sant  is  in  the  lumber  busi- 


ness with  Van  Sant,  Kitchen  and  Com- 
pany in  Ashland,  Ky. 

H.  P.  Vermilya  is  in  the  paper  busi- 
ness in  Holyoke  with  White  and 
Wyckoff.  Last  summer  he  made  a 
trip  to  Panama  and  Hayti  as  a  sailor 
on  the  S.  S.  Colon. 

H.  M.  Wessel  is  teaching  school  in 
Port  Morris,  N.  J.,  preliminary  to  con- 
tinuing study  next  winter. 

With  fifteen  men  present,  1919  re- 
ceived honorable  mention  for  atten- 
dance at  the  annual  banquet  of  the 
New  York  Alumni  Association  on  Feb- 
ruary 14th. 


CONTENTS 

225 

Frontispiece:  George  Daniel  Olds       ....        Facing 

A  Portrait  of  the  Dean.     Jay  T.  Stocking 

225 

The  Year's  Work  of  the  Christian  Association.    Julius 

Seelye  Bixler 

229 

The  Amherst  Illustrious 

Howard  Sweetser  Bliss.     Charles  S.  Mills      .... 

236 

Portrait:  Howard  Sweetser  Bliss Facing 

237 

College  Notes 

Commencement 

242 

Diamond,  Court,  and  Track 

244 

Award  of  the  Amherst  Memorial  Fellowships 

246 

An  Adventure  in  Adult  Education 

248 

The  Book  Table 

Swift :    Psychology  and  the  Day's  Work,  and  Ruckmick : 

The  Brevity  Book  on  Psychology.     Sherwin  Cody 

249 

Lovell:  The  Flower  and  the  Bee.     H.  H.  Plough     .      . 

251 

Prentice:   Padre,  and  Elhnwood:   Behind  the  German 

Lines.     W.  R.  Agard 

251 

Editorial  Notes 

253 

Official  and  Personal 

Reunions 

257 

The  Alumni  Council 

267 

The  Associations 

270 

The  Faculty 

273 

Since  the  Last  Issue 

273 

The  Classes 

275 

A  Gateway — Electrical 


ONLY  a  forty-foot  gateway  bounded  by  two 
brick  pilasters  and  ornamental  lamps,  but 
unlike  any  other  gateway  in  the  entire  world. 

For  back  of  it  is  the  General  Electric  Company's 
main  office  building,  accommodating  2300  em- 
ployees. And  just  next  door  is  its  laboratory 
with  the  best  equipment  for  testing,  standard- 
izing and  research  at  the, command  of  capable 
engineers.  Then  down  th?  street — a  mile  long 
—  are  other  buildings  where  everything  elec- 
trical, from  the  smallest  lamp  socket  to  the 
huge  turbines  for  electrically  propelled  battle- 
ships, is  made  by  the  20,000  electrical  workers 
who  daily  stream  through. 


What  a  story  this  gate  would  tell,  if  it  could, 
of  the  leaders  of  the  electrical  industry  and 
business,  of  ambassadors  from  other  institu- 
tions and  from  foreign  lands. 

The  story  would  be  the  history  of  electric 
lighting,  electric  transportation,  electric  indus- 
trials and  electricity  in  the  home. 

This  gateway,  as  well  as  the  research,  en- 
gineering, manufacturing  and  commercial 
resources  back  of  it,  is  open  to  all  who  are 
working  for  the  betterment  of  the  electrical 
industry. 


Illustrated  bulletin,  Y-863,  describini  the  company's 
several  plants,  will  be  mailed  upon  request.  Address 
General  Electric  Company,  Desk  43,  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 


General  Office 
Schenectady.N.Y. 


Sales  Offices  in 
all  large  cities 


95-100  I 


From  a  portrait  by  G.  W.  Smedley 


GEORGE  DANIEL  OLDS 


AMHERST 

GRADUATES'  QUARTERLY 

Vol.  IX— august,  1920— No.  4 


A  PORTRAIT  OF  THE  DEAN  ^ 

JAY   T.    STOCKING 

LORD  DUNSANY  in  his  "Book  of  Wonders"  has  a  tale 
called  The  Cave  of  Kai.  King  Khanazar  of  Averon  grew 
weary  in  dull  days  following  his  coronation  and  longed  for 
the  exciting  days  that  were.  He  sought  soothsayers  and  wise 
men  and  demanded  of  them  that  they  bring  back  his  yesterdays. 
But  none  could  bring  them  back.  He  was  told  that  they  were  in 
a  cave  afar  guarded  by  the  sentinel  Kai.  Thence  he  journeyed 
and  demanded  his  yesterdays  only  to  be  told  by  the  stern  sentinel 
that  they  were  within  the  cave,  dust  mingled  in  a  heap  with  the 
dust  of  all  other  yesterdays.  He  returned  to  his  castle  discour- 
aged. One  day  there  came  to  him,  as  the  sun  was  setting,  a  harper 
with  a  golden  harp.  To  its  strings  had  clung,  like  dust,  the  hours 
and  deeds  and  words  of  the  days  that  were  gone.  At  the  word  of 
the  King,  the  harper  struck  his  harp,  and  as  his  fingers  tramped 
over  the  chords  as  the  gods  tramped  down  the  skies,  out  of  his 
golden  harp  there  rose  a  haze  of  memories  and  from  the  past  there 
came  to  life  the  brave  and  happy  days  of  old,  and  the  King  was 
content. 

We  have  been  striking  in  these  days  the  mystic  chords  of  mem- 
ory, bringing  to  life  former  days  and  familiar  figures  of  the  past. 
"What  is  history  but  a  resurrection  of  the  dead?"  someone  has 
asked.  What  is  history  but  the  world's  memory?  And  what  is 
memory  but  the  resurrection  of  the  dead?  As  we  have  walked 
among  our  glad  yesterdays  and  our  stirring  todays,  few  of  us  have 
failed  to  ask  in  some  form  the  question,  "What  makes  a  college?" 

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Recitation  rooms  are  convenient  in  an  educational  institution; 
but  recitation  halls  do  not  make  a  college.  Books  are  valuable 
tools  for  the  gaining  of  knowledge;  but  libraries  do  not  make  a 
college.  This  age  of  ours  insists  that  carefully  ascertained  facts 
should  lie  at  the  foundation  of  all  theories  and  systems;  but  labor- 
atories do  not  make  a  college.  There  are  those  who  say  that  a 
college  is,  what  Boston  is  reputed  to  be,  a  state  of  mind.  In  a 
college  that  state  of  mind  is  localized;  but  this  campus  with  all  its 
beauty  is  not  a  college. 

We  are  familiar  with  the  statement  that  a  wise  and  good  man 
sitting  in  close  proximity  to  a  young  man  who  asks  questions  and 
gains  replies  makes  a  university.  This  statement  points  the  way 
to  the  answer  of  our  question.  It  is  men  who  make  a  college,  its 
great  souls,  its  wise  teachers  and  administrators.  It  is  men  who 
see  the  light  of  truth  upon  the  summits  and  can  tell  what  they  see; 
men  who  hear  the  still  small  voice  in  which  in  our  noisy  day  wis- 
dom chooses  to  speak  and  can  say  what  they  hear;  men  who  can 
read  "the  manuscripts  of  God,"  the  fields,  the  rocks,  the  skies, 
the  waters,  the  heart  of  man,  and  translate  what  is  written  there; 
men  who  penetrate  the  haze  of  appearances  to  the  heart  of  reality, 
who  feel  "a  sense  sublime"  of  "something  deeply  interfused"  in 
this  universe  and  can  utter  what  they  feel;  men  who  love  the  heart 
of  youth  until  they  know  it  and,  knowing  it,  find  it  worthy  of  their 
love.  These  are  the  men  who  have  made  Amherst  great,  the  men 
among  whom  we  have  been  moving  in  these  reunion  days. 

Fortunately,  Amherst  College  is  not  without  this  type  of  man 
today.  Last  winter  one  day  as  I  went  into  the  Century  Club, 
New  York,  I  was  happily  surprised  to  see  on  the  wall  before  me  a 
portrait  which  now  stands  here  before  you.  You  recognize  the 
subject  [cheers],  a  man  beloved  of  every  Amherst  alumnus.  We  of 
'95  have  been  trying  these  days  to  preserve  the  proper  balance 
between  humility  and  justified  self -consciousness.  I  fear  that  we 
may  not  be  accused  of  overweening  lowliness  of  mind.  Our  chances 
of  being  so  accused  are  less  when  we  boast  that  this  is  the  portrait 
of  the  perpetual  vice-president  of  our  class.  We  rotate  the  ofiice  of 
president  but,  as  "Georgie"  said  the  other  evening,  we  rotate 
him  "on  his  own  axis."  He  came  to  Amherst  when  we  did  in  the 
fall  of  1891,  twenty-nine  years  ago.  He  was  generous  enough  to 
let  us  adopt  him,  and  we  have  been  generous  enough  to  share  him 


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with  the  rest  of  you  alumni.  A  friend  of  his,  an  alumnus  of  the 
College,  who  desires  his  name  withheld,  had  the  portrait  painted. 
The  artist  was  Mr,  G.  W.  Smedley.  We  regret  to  hear  that  this 
was  the  last  work  which  he  did  before  his  hand  was  stayed.  We 
are  happy  that  for  this  last  work  he  had  so  worthy  a  subject. 
The  owner  of  the  portrait  now  desires  to  present  it  to  Amherst 
College.  It  is  needless  for  me  to  express  the  appreciation  of  the 
alumni  that  he  has  permitted  us  to  share  in  his  possession. 

It  has  been  customary  to  place  on  the  walls  of  the  College  the 
portraits  of  those  who  have  finished  their  labors  here.  But  prec- 
edent is  only  what  others  have  done  and  we  may  do  what  we 
choose.  "Georgie"  Olds  is  still  with  us.  You  may  have  heard 
of  the  man,  with  something  of  Mark  Twain  in  him,  whose  obituary 
was  prematurely  printed  in  the  newspapers.  Upon  reading  it  he 
called  up  a  friend  over  the  'phone  and  inquired, — "Have  you 
read  my  obituary  this  morning?"  to  which  came  the  reply:  "Yes, 
from  where  are  you  speaking?"  Professor  Olds  is  speaking  and 
we  hope  will  long  continue  to  speak,  from  active  service  in  the 
College.  I  have  long  since  lost  any  desire  to  believe  in  miracles, 
as  they  have  been  understood,  but  there  is  one  miracle  which  I 
should  like  to  see  repeated,  if  it  ever  occurred,  and  that  is  that  the 
sun  and  moon  should  stand  still  for  a  season  and  bring  our  friend 
no  nearer  to  the  days  of  his  retirement.  I  am  afraid  that  so  long 
as  Calvin  Coolidge  is  governor  of  Massachusetts,  he  will  not  per- 
mit even  the  sun  and  moon  to  strike  "any  where,  any  time." 
However,  it  is  possible  that  if  the  doctors  and  ministers  combine, 
and  the  business  men  will  finance  the  undertaking,  we  may  be 
able  to  make  some  arrangement  with  the  cosmos  by  which  no  more 
years  shall  fall  upon  the  head  of  this  young  man. 

It  would  be  manifestly  improper  for  me  to  attempt  anything 
like  a  eulogy  of  Professor  Olds  at  this  time.  It  would  be  hazardous 
for  me  to  undertake  to  explain  the  secret  of  his  power  when  he  is 
present  in  this  audience  and  might  at  any  time  rise  and  attempt 
to  deny  the  facts.  I  see  nothing  out  of  the  way,  however,  in  my 
saying  what  I  see,  what  everybody  can  see,  in  this  portrait. 

We  see  the  scholar  with  eyes  unclouded.  We  see  the  man  of 
decision  who  is  never  less  than  just  but  never  unkind.  We  see  a 
man  whose  noble  emotions  express  themselves  in  fine  sentiment 
and  make  him  a  man  with  a  soul,  yet  one  who  has  never  permitted 


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his  emotions  to  be  his  master.  We  see  the  genial,  kindly,  friendly 
man  who  has  loved  us  all  into  larger  life,  and  whom  we  love  with 
imdying  affection. 

We  hope,  the  donor  hopes,  that  the  College  will  accept  this 
portrait  and  hang  it  in  a  prominent  place  on  her  walls. 

We  trust  that  this  will  not  be  unwelcome  to  the  subject  of  the 
portrait.  The  penalty  that  men  of  fine  feelings  and  high  ideals 
must  often  pay  for  their  nature  is  that  in  moments  of  fatigue,  or 
when  their  work  draws  near  a  close,  they  may  suffer  because  their 
accomplishments  seem  so  far  beneath  their  dreams.  We  hope 
that  this  picture  may  be  hung  in  such  a  place  that  if  moments  of 
depression  should  ever  overtake  "Georgie"  he  may,  without  being 
observed  too  much  by  the  public,  steal  in  to  where  it  hangs,  "see 
himself  as  ithers  see  him,"  and  be  reassured. 

For  us,  who  have  known  him,  and  love  him,  no  portrait  is  neces- 
sary. His  face  is  cut  deep  in  our  hearts,  where  storm  and  time  can 
never  erase  it.  But  there  will  come  a  time  when  a  race  of  men 
is  here  who  do  not  know  him  as  we  have  known  him.  One  of  our 
children,  or  one  of  our  grandchildren  it  may  be,  will  ask  us  some 
day:  "Who  were  the  great  men  of  Amherst  in  your  day.^  Who 
taught  you  here  to  love  the  truth  and  follow  it?  Who  taught  you 
to  put  your  trust  in  everlasting  principles  and  not  in  surface  ap- 
pearances?" You  will  talk  to  your  questioner  a  little  about  the 
men  of  the  old  days,  then  you  will  take  him  to  where  this  picture 
hangs  and  you  will  say  to  him:  "Here  was  one  of  the  greatest  of 
them  all.  Mr.  G.  W.  Smedley  made  the  portrait,  but  God 
Almighty  made  George  D.  Olds." 


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THE  YEAR'S  WORK  OF  THE  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION 

JULIUS   SEELYE   BIXLER 

THE  Amherst  College  Christian  Association,  like  every  similar 
organization  in  the  country,  found  itself  compelled  after 
the  war  to  make  a  fresh  beginning  and  to  establish  anew  its 
place  in  the  college  community.  An  aid  in  the  rebuilding  of  the 
Amherst  Association  was  the  change  made  last  fall  in  the  status  of 
the  officer  in  charge.  The  position  of  Graduate  Secretary  of  the 
Christian  Association  has  been  supplanted  by  that  of  Director  of 
Religious  Activities  in  Amherst  College.  The  responsibility  for  the 
religious  life  of  the  undergraduate  body  now  rests  not  with  the 
International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  nor  with  a  committee 
of  the  Alumni  Council,  but  with  the  College  itself.  The  affairs  of 
the  Christian  Association  from  now  on  will  be  in  the  hands  of  a 
member  of  the  Faculty,  a  man  appointed  by  and  responsible  to  the 
College.  A  further  step  forward  was  taken  at  the  Trustees'  meet- 
ing this  spring  when  it  was  decided  that  the  appointee  for  next 
year  should  have  the  rank  of  associate  professor  instead  of  instruc- 
tor as  this  year,  and  should  receive  double  the  present  salary. 
This  salary  is  to  be  paid  by  the  College,  and  not  solicited  from  the 
alumni.  It  is  assured,  therefore,  that  the  religious  activities  of 
the  undergraduates  will  be  supervised  by  a  man  who  in  addition 
to  being  the  special  representative  of  the  College  is  theologically 
trained  and  of  proved  capacity  for  leadership. 

Under  such  management  the  association  is  safeguarded  from 
engaging  in  any  undesirable  proselytizing  activity.  The  College 
has  definitely  assumed  responsibility  for  the  religious  life  of  the 
undergraduates.  But  the  College  as  a  liberal  institution  of  learn- 
ing cannot  permit  the  existence  of  any  propagandizing  influence  or 
of  any  interest  which  may  conflict  with  the  impartial  attitude  it  has 
set  for  itself.  The  assumption  on  which  the  work  of  the  Christian 
Association  is  based  is  that  each  undergraduate  needs  aid  in  devel- 
oping his  own  innate  moral  and  religious  tendencies,  and  this  aid 
the  association  attempts,  however  imperfectly,  to  supply. 

This  is  another  way  of  saying  that  there  is  no  sharp  line  of  cleav- 


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age  between  the  work  of  the  Christian  Association  and  that  of  the 
College  as  a  whole.  In  its  attempt  to  give  men  an  understanding 
of  human  life  and  to  stimulate  them  to  act  on  that  understanding, 
the  College  is  not  only  furnishing  its  students  with  an  insight  into 
religious  truth  but  it  is  also  offering  them  religious  inspiration. 
The  Christian  Association  could  not  if  it  wished  confine  to  itself 
all  the  religious  influence  which  is  brought  to  bear  upon  undergrad- 
uates. Its  function  is  supplementary.  By  the  nature  of  its 
organization  it  is  peculiarly  fitted  to  carry  on  certain  kinds  of  activi- 
ties which  in  all  ages  men  have  found  useful  as  aids  to  the  expres- 
sion of  the  religious  feeling  within  them.  Just  what  activities  are 
especially  adapted  to  the  needs  of  this  generation  of  college  students 
the  Christian  Association  has  tried  to  discover  in  this  year  of  re- 
newal, both  by  careful  consideration  beforehand  of  the  problems 
involved,  and  by  the  method  of  trial  and  error. 

It  has  seemed  that  if  the  religious  activities  of  the  College  are  to 
form  a  natural  part  of  the  life  of,  the  community,  they  must  be 
initiated  and  controlled  by  the  students  themselves.  If  they  are 
truly  to  aid  in  the  expression  of  the  religious  attitude  of  the  imder- 
graduates,  they  must  be  spontaneous.  The  director  of  the  associa- 
tion may  suggest  and  advise,  but  he  must  never  dictate.  The 
policies  of  the  association  have  this  year  been  controlled  by  the  cab- 
inet, which  is  composed  of  undergraduate  officers  and  committee 
chairmen.  In  planning  the  work  for  the  year  the  cabinet  has  tried 
to  steer  a  middle  course  between  two  possible  extremes.  It  has 
been  unwilling,  in  the  first  place,  to  carry  on  a  host  of  activities 
of  questionable  value  merely  for  the  sake  of  giving  the  association 
something  to  do.  We  have  felt  that  the  spirit  which  should  under- 
lie our  work  would  easily  be  lost  if  we  stumbled  into  the  pitfall  of 
over-organization  and  were  too  eager  to  add  to  the  multifarious 
activities  of  the  college  student  without  being  sufficiently  particu- 
lar as  to  the  actual  desirability  of  the  activities  which  we  ourselves 
offered.  On  the  other  hand,  we  have  endeavored  not  to  sink  into 
indifference  or  formalism,  but  have  worked  to  keep  constantly 
before  ourselves  and  the  College  the  purpose  which  called  the  asso- 
ciation into  being. 

To  turn  now  to  more  specific  details.  The  association  this  year 
has  had  no  distinguishing  basis  of  membership.  The  experience 
of  other  years  has  shown  that  when  any  pledge  or  statement  of 


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belief  has  been  made  a  requirement  for  membership,  90  per  cent  of 
the  College  have  joined — the  majority  probably  thoughtlessly — 
and  the  remaining  10  per  cent  have  been  excluded  because  of  con- 
scientious difficulties  rather  than  on  account  of  indifference.  This 
year,  proceeding  on  the  belief  stated  above  that  our  purpose  was 
not  to  proselytize  but  to  aid  the  religious  development  of  each  stu- 
dent, we  have  assumed  that  all  in  college  are  essentially  moral  and 
religious  men,  and  have  considered  all  the  members  of  the  College 
members  of  the  Christian  Association. 

Another  assumption  on  which  we  have  proceeded  has  been  that 
the  real  leaders  in  the  college  community,  certainly  the  real  mold- 
ers  of  college  opinion,  are  the  Faculty.  We  have  endeavored  to 
enlist  their  support,  and  whatever  success  our  work  may  have  had 
this  year  has  been  due  in  large  part  to  the  valuable  aid  which  they 
have  given  us.  Their  efforts  have  not  only  been  valuable  in  them- 
selves, but  the  fact  of  their  active  participation  in  the  work  has 
immeasurably  strengthened  the  position  of  the  association  in  the 
College.  President  Meiklejohn,  Dean  Olds,  Professor  Tyler, 
Professor  Kimball,  Professor  Stewart,  and  Professor  Whicher  have 
spoken  at  our  Sunday  evening  meetings;  President  Meiklejohn, 
Professor  Bennett,  Professor  Cobb,  and  Mr.  Agard  have  led  Sun- 
day Bible  classes;  Professor  Doughty  and  Professor  Tyler  have 
addressed  smaller  group  meetings;  Professor  Cowles,  Professor 
Churchill,  and  Professor  Fitch  have  opened  their  homes  to  the 
Beecher  Club ;  Professor  Fitch  has  aided  constantly  by  his  interest 
and  advice,  and  we  are  indebted  to  Mr.  AUis  for  a  number  of  val- 
uable suggestions.  Other  members  of  the  Faculty  have  given  us 
support  and  encouragement  in  the  form  of  financial  contributions 
and  frequent  attendance  on  our  Sunday  evening  meetings. 

Large  and  gratifying  responses  from  the  college  body  have  been 
received  in  two  departments  of  association  activity.  In  the  first 
place,  the  association  has  received  unprecedentedly  generous 
financial  support.  At  the  "ice-cream  rush"  held  on  the  first  Fri- 
day of  the  college  year  the  plans  of  the  association  were  outlined 
and  it  was  made  clear  that  the  work  of  the  year  would  be  exclu- 
sively along  religious  lines.  Special  emphasis  was  laid  on  this  point 
because  in  the  minds  of  many  the  association  had  developed  an 
interest  merely  in  economic  and  political  problems.  A  few  weeks 
after  this  announcement  the  proposed  budget  was  printed  in  the 


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Student,  and  a  day  or  two  later  the  treasurer  of  the  association  read 
the  items  of  the  budget  in  chapel  and  asked  the  undergraduates 
for  $1,050.  By  that  night  the  pledges  had  reached  nearly  $1,100. 
The  other  large  response  has  come  in  the  case  of  the  Sunday 
evening  meetings,  which,  on  the  whole,  have  been  very  well  at- 
tended. The  addresses  have  fallen  naturally  into  four  classes. 
The  nature  of  religion,  with  particular  reference  to  Christianity, 
has  been  discussed  by  Professor  James  Seth  of  Edinburgh,  Pro- 
fessor Kirsopp  Lake,  President  A.  C.  McGiffert,  Father  Harvey 
Officer,  Dean  F.  J.  E.  Woodbridge,  and,  at  an  unusually  interest- 
ing meeting  held  the  first  Sunday  in  January,  by  four  faculty  speak- 
ers: Dean  Olds,  and  Professors  Kimball,  Stewart,  and  Whicher. 
Religion  in  action  has  been  treated  by  President  Meiklejohn,  Pres- 
ident Neilson,  President  Butterfield,  Professor  Tyler,  Professor 
Harry  F.  Ward,  Mr.  Frank  L.  Boyden,  Mr.  Norman  Thomas,  and 
Rabbi  Stephen  S.  Wise.  The  foreign  missionary  appeal  has  been 
made  by  President  Howard  S.  Bliss  of  Beirut,  Dr.  R.  A.  Hume  and 
Rev.  A.  H.  Clark  of  India,  and  Dr.  W.  T.  Grenfell  of  Labrador. 
Our  nearest  approach  to  secular  addresses  has  been  a  series  of 
talks  on  the  professions :  law  by  Dean  Roscoe  Pound,  medicine  by 
Dr.  Richard  C.  Cabot,  teaching  by  Professor  John  Erskine,  and  the 
ministry  by  President  Bliss.  The  final  meeting  of  the  year  took 
the  form  of  an  organ  recital  by  Professor  Clarence  Dickinson  of 
New  York.  After  careful  consideration  the  cabinet  vetoed  the 
project  of  having  a  preliminary  devotional  service,  and  the  meet- 
ings have  consisted  of  the  addresses  frequently  preceded  by  instru- 
mental music  and  usually  followed  by  an  informal  discussion  period. 
The  average  attendance  for  the  year  has  been  79,  ranging  from  20 
to  152.  This  does  not  include  the  three  last  meetings  of  the  year, 
to  which  the  townspeople  were  invited  and  which  filled  respectively 
College  Hall,  the  Latin  Room  in  Williston  Hall,  and  the  College 
Church.  The  meetings  have  been  advertised  by  posters,  blotters, 
and  notices  in  the  Student,  in  addition  to  an  announcement  made 
by  an  undergraduate  every  Saturday  morning  in  chapel. 
-  The  Bible  study  classes  have  had  a  successful  season  under 
faculty  leadership.  President  Meiklejohn  has  conducted  a  class 
for  Seniors,  taking  up  the  moral  teachings  of  Jesus.  In  the  class 
for  Juniors  Professor  Cobb  has  discussed  Jesus'  influence  on  the 
personalities  with  which  he  came  into  contact.     Mr.  Agard  has 


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given  the  Sophomores  a  course  in  the  Gospel  of  John,  and  the 
Freshmen  have  studied  the  hfe  of  Jesus  under  Professor  Bennett. 
These  classes  have  been  held  during  the  winter  term  in  the  seminar 
rooms  of  the  college  library  immediately  after  church,  except  the 
President's  class,  which  has  met  at  his  home  in  the  afternoon. 
Although  the  time  of  meeting  has  conflicted  with  the  oratorio 
rehearsal,  the  Seniors  have  maintained  an  average  attendance  of 
14,  the  Juniors,  8,  the  Sophomores,  9,  and  the  Freshmen,  17. 

If  there  is  a  strong  religious  life  at  Amherst,  men  will  be  going 
from  Amherst  to  assume  positions  of  religious  leadership.  That 
they  are  doing  so  is  shown  by  the  interest  aroused  this  year  in  the 
Henry  Ward  Beecher  Club,  a  society  of  undergraduates  who  are 
considering  the  ministry  as  a  life  work.  Four  meetings  have  been 
held,  addressed  respectively  by  Professor  Tyler,  Mr.  Bayard  Dodge, 
President  Bliss,  and  by  three  young  ministers:  Mr.  Lane,  Mr. 
Greene,  and  Mr,  Noyes.  The  attendance  has  been  22,  25,  20,  and 
42.  Amherst  sent  eleven  men  to  the  conference  on  the  ministry 
held  this  year  in  Hartford.  President  Meiklejohn  gave  an  inspir- 
ing talk  to  a  group  which  met  at  his  home  on  "Why  Amherst 
Men  Should  Enter  the  Ministry."  Four  men  in  the  present  Senior 
class  have  decided  to  become  ministers,  and  two  more  are  consid- 
ering it  favorably.  One  or  two  others  have  it  in  mind  less  defi- 
nitely. In  addition,  one  man  is  going  to  India  under  the  American 
Board,  and  two  are  going  on  short  terms  to  Beirut.  This  enumera- 
tion of  course  does  not  include  those  who  in  their  professions  of 
teaching,  medicine,  or  social  work  will  find  themselves  in  positions 
of  spiritual  leadership.  In  the  Junior  class  four  have  already 
decided  on  the  ministry  as  a  life  work. 

The  College  this  year  has  felt  profoundly  the  influence  of  that 
remarkable  Christian  leader,  the  late  President  Howard  S.  Bliss  of 
Beirut.  Dr.  Bliss  visited  us  twice  during  the  year  and  spoke  seven 
times  at  church  and  chapel  services,  Sunday  evening  meetings,  and 
a  Beecher  Club  meeting.  After  each  visit  his  influence  was 
noticeable  to  a  marked  degree  in  a  quickened  interest  in  the  relig- 
ious life.  Any  account  of  the  work  of  the  Christian  Association 
this  year  would  be  sadly  incomplete  which  failed  to  acknowledge 
the  debt  of  the  association  to  his  indomitable  spirit. 

The  existence  of  a  genuine  missionary  interest  at  Amherst  is 
proved  by  the  formation  of  a  mission  study  class  this  year  upon  the 


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request  of  the  students  themselves.  Amherst  sent  her  quota  of 
seven  men  to  the  Student  Volunteer  Convention  in  Des  Moines 
during  the  Christmas  vacation,  and  asked  for  the  privilege  of  send- 
ing more.  This  spring  the  undergraduate  body  voted  favorably 
on  the  plan  suggested  by  Rev.  Alden  H.  Clark  for  a  Neesima  Me- 
morial at  the  Doshisha  in  Kyoto,  and  it  is  hoped  that  next  year  a 
member  of  the  graduating  class  may  be  sent  to  the  Doshisha  from 
Amherst  as  the  first  step  in  the  establishing  of  an  "Amherst  in 
Japan." 

In  addition  to  the  Sunday  evening  meetings,  Bible  and  mission 
study  classes,  and  Beecher  Club  meetings,  I  should  mention  the 
class  groups  which  have  met  privately  at  my  home.  These  groups 
have  been  formed  in  the  three  lower  classes  and  are  a  survival  of 
the  old  class  prayer  meetings,  except  that  the  devotional  period 
has  been  at  the  wish  of  the  students  largely  supplanted  by  a  discus- 
sion hour,  I  have  been  especially  gratified  by  the  persistency  of 
the  Sophomore  group  which  has  met  nearly  every  week  through 
the  fall  and  winter  terms,  and  which,  though  small,  has  been  com- 
posed of  class  leaders  whose  discussion  of  college  reUgious  problems 
has  been  to  me  at  least  exceedingly  stimulating. 

But  our  activity  has  not  been  confined  to  inspirational  meetings 
held  in  and  for  the  College.  We  have  tried  to  follow  the  Christian 
example  by  engaging  our  men  in  some  line  of  constructive  service 
in  which  they  will  find  no  material  reward,  but  where  their  efforts 
will  be  of  real  value  to  the  community.  We  have  aided  the  newly 
organized  Amherst  Boys'  Club  to  get  on  its  feet  by  supplying  lead- 
ers for  its  meetings  three  times  a  week.  A  student  has  gone  once 
a  week  to  Holyoke  for  work  with  boys  there.  This  summer  the 
association  is  paying  the  salary  of  an  undergraduate  who  will  be 
the  leader  of  the  Amherst  College  Vacation  School,  maintained 
in  connection  with  Grace  Church  of  Holyoke.  A  beginning  has 
been  made  toward  establishing  an  evening  school  for  foreigners 
in  the  North  Amherst  district,  the  teaching,  in  English  and  civics, 
to  be  done  by  Amherst  students.  The  Roman  Catholic  priest  has 
promised  us  his  full  cooperation,  and  the  school  committee  of  the 
town  have  given  us  the  use  of  a  building  and  voted  an  appropria- 
tion for  running  expenses.  We  were  handicapped  during  the 
winter  by  the  severe  weather,  but  our  hope  is  that  the  foundations 
have  been  laid  for  an  early  opening  of  the  school  in  the  fall.     We 


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have  tried  to  be  of  use  in  other  ways,  as  opportunities  have  arisen, 
such  as  taking  charge  of  the  sale  of  Red  Cross  stamps  and  sending  a 
barrel  of  clothing  to  a  missionary  school  in  Tennessee.  The  one 
request  from  the  churches  of  the  town  for  a  Sunday  school  teacher 
was  promptly  filled. 

Our  attempts  to  serve  the  members  of  the  College  have  as  in 
other  years  included  publishing  a  handbook  for  Freshmen  and  run- 
ning an  "ice-cream  rush"  at  the  beginning  of  the  year.  Our  em- 
ployment bureau  has  found  work  for  approximately  one  hundred 
students.  We  have  maintained  a  reading  room  in  Williston  Hall 
well  stocked  with  current  magazines,  and  have  subscribed  for 
newspapers  for  Pratt  Cottage,  the  college  infirmary. 

It  has  been  my  desire  to  have  my  home  and  my  time  as  much 
as  possible  at  the  disposal  of  the  undergraduates.  I  have  especially 
wanted  to  be  of  assistance  to  the  Freshmen  in  the  difficult  experi- 
ence of  adjusting  themselves  to  a  new  environment.  In  the  fall  a 
letter  was  sent  to  the  parents  of  Freshmen  telling  a  little  about  the 
work  of  the  association  and  inviting  communications,  and  to  this 
over  sixty  responses  were  received.  These  greatly  facilitated  the 
work  of  becoming  acquainted  with  the  new  men  in  college.  I  have 
found  further  means  of  contact  in  the  employment  bureau  and  in 
my  visits  to  Pratt  Cottage.  My  wife  has  cooperated  in  the  plan 
of  throwing  our  home  open  to  the  members  of  the  College  and  has 
made  it  possible  for  us  to  entertain  a  large  number,  most  of  whom 
have  been  Freshmen. 

The  tangible  results  of  the  year's  work  would  seem  to  have  been 
the  strengthening  of  the  convictions  of  the  rehgiously  minded  men 
in  college  through  their  association  with  each  other  and  with  the 
Faculty  in  the  work  of  the  association,  and  a  beginning  toward  the 
reestablishment  of  the  religious  activities  as  a  natural  and  normal 
part  of  the  life  of  the  college  community. 


236      Amherst    Graduates'    Quarterly 
THE  AMHERST  ILLUSTRIOUS 

HOWARD  SWEETSER  BLISS 

CHARLES   S.  MILLS 

""WTTE  have  been  listening  to  one  of  the  great  men  of  this 
WW  generation" — so  spoke  a  metropoHtan  preacher  as  Dr. 
Bhss  finished  an  intense  address  on  the  problems  of  the 
Near  East.  "He  belonged  to  no  time  and  is  in  men's  thoughts 
the  forerunner  of  a  new  era  for  East  and  West  alike,"  wrote  an 
eminent  editor,  "More  than  any  man  I  ever  knew,"  said  one  of 
his  classmates,  "he  taught  me  how  precious  a  thing  true  friendship 
is.  When  I  visited  Beirut  I  saw  the  opal  mountains  and  the  sap- 
phire seas  and  the  fine  college  campus  with  its  noble  buildings,  but 
I  came  away  thinking  not  so  much  of  these  as  of  the  stature  of  this 
man,  my  friend."  "The  other  day,"  wrote  another  of  his  class- 
mates connected  with  the  New  York  Public  Library,  "I  asked  a 
sweet-spirited  Syrian  woman,  visiting  the  Library,  if  she  knew 
him  and  she  said,  'He  was  the  greatest  man  who  ever  trod  Syrian 
soil  since  the  Lord  Jesus.'  " 

These  spontaneous  tributes  suggest  the  place  of  Howard  Bliss 
in  the  life  of  our  time.  He  had  the  gift  of  an  exceptional  person- 
ality. Over  six  feet  in  height,  erect,  alert,  vigorous,  with  a  fine, 
strong,  winsome  face,  a  keen  but  kindly  eye,  a  singularly  magnetic 
spirit,  he  was  imbued  with  the  optimism  of  a  great  faith  in  God 
and  man  and  radiated  light  wherever  he  went.  In  his  veins  flowed 
the  blood  of  the  Christian  pioneer.  He  never  forgot  that  he  was 
born  in  Syria  on  the  slopes  of  glorious  Lebanon,  and  that  marvelous 
mountain  range  was  a  fitting  symbol  of  his  hope  for  the  land  of  his 
birth.  His  father,  Daniel  Bhss,  D.D.,  Amherst,  '52,  with  fine 
prescience  and  rare  creative  spirit,  six  years  after  this  son  was 
born,  opened  the  Syrian  Protestant  College  at  Beirut,  and  the 
boy  in  his  early  years  breathed  an  atmosphere  impregnated  with 
the  loftiest  intellectual  and  spiritual  ideals.  With  his  soul  thrill- 
ing with  the  sense  of  such  a  heritage  he  came  to  Amherst  in  1873 
to  begin  in  the  public  schools  his  preparation  for  college,  which 
he  completed  under  a  private  tutor  in  Beirut.  Returning  to 
Amherst  in  1878,  he  entered  the  class  of  '82.  To  his  classmates  all 
that  he  became  in  after  life  he  was  in  spirit  forty  years  ago  when 


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Howard     Sweetser     Bliss  237 

they  walked  with  him  in  Amherst  and  felt  the  warmth  of  his  affec- 
tion, the  nobility  of  his  ideals,  the  manly  fibre  of  his  life.  Winning 
many  honors,  he  never  plumed  himself  in  foolish  pride.  A  scholar 
of  fine  attainments,  he  was  never  pedantic.  Magnetic,  high- 
visioned,  he  was  an  inspiring  comrade  and  a  friend  beyond  price. 
After  graduating  with  high  honors  in  scholarship  and  public 
speaking,  he  taught  for  two  years  at  Washburn  College,  Topeka, 
Kansas;  graduated  from  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York, 
in  1887;  received  the  Fellowship  for  highest  rank  and  continued 
his  study  at  Oxford  University,  1887-88,  and  the  following  year 
at  the  Universities  of  Gottingen  and  Berlin.  Returning  to  Amer- 
ica in  1889,  he  married  Amy  Blatchford,  a  sister  of  his  classmate, 
Paul  Blatchford,  and  a  daughter  of  Eliphalet  W\  Blatchford  of 
Chicago,  an  eminent  man  of  business  and  for  many  years  vice- 
president  of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions.  Her  gracious  womanhood,  winsome  simplicity,  sin- 
cerity of  spirit,  utter  devotion  to  all  he  held  dear,  and  her  watchful 
and  indefatigable  personal  ministries  to  him  in  his  strenuous  activ- 
ities were  powerful  factors  in  his  development,  while  the  five  chil- 
dren that  blessed  their  union  were  their  joy  and  crown,  four  of 
them  having  already  dedicated  themselves  to  the  college  of  their 
father  and  grandfather. 

In  the  year  of  his  marriage  he  became  the  assistant  pastor  at 
Plymouth  Church,  Brooklyn.  In  an  appreciative  editorial  in 
the  Outlook,  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  who  had  invited  him  to  become 
associated  with  him  in  the  pastorate,  expresses  his  admiration  for 
Dr.  Bliss  and  analyzes  his  qualities  as  intellectual  courage,  open- 
mindedness,  utter  democracy,  and  a  personal  winsomeness  which 
opened  all  hearts  to  him.  He  was  the  beloved  and  efficient  pastor 
of  the  Christian  Union  Congregational  Church  of  Upper  Mont- 
clair,  New  Jersey,  1894-1902,  where  the  memory  of  his  ministry, 
after  the  lapse  of  nearly  twenty  years,  is  cherished  with  unspeak- 
able gratitude. 

Then  came  the  opening  of  the  greater  career  for  which  all  before 
had  been  the  providential  preparation.  In  1902  his  father,  full  of 
years,  felt  the  time  had  come  when  he  should  relinquish  to  younger 
hands  the  leadership  of  the  college  at  Beirut  and  the  son  was  chosen 
to  succeed  him.  One  of  his  classmates  after  he  had  accepted  the 
position  said:    "Why  did  he  go  away  out  there.''     That  might  do 


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for  some  men,  but  not  for  such  a  man  as  Howard  Bliss."  But  the 
call  gave  him  a  field  in  which  all  that  was  best  in  his  endowment 
found  royal  development.  The  college  had  been  founded  as  the 
culminating  feature  of  a  program  of  progress  for  a  people  living 
in  ignorance  and  medieval  provincialism.  It  has  developed  until 
it  now  occupies  forty-seven  acres  of  land  magnificently  located, 
with  more  than  a  score  of  buildings  on  its  campus  and  approxi- 
mately a  thousand  pupils — Moslems,  Jews,  Bahais,  Druses,  men 
of  the  Greek  orthodox  and  Roman  Catholic  Churches,  and  Protes- 
tants. The  man  was  ready  for  the  task  and  the  task,  as  so  often 
is  shown  in  the  field  of  foreign  missions,  made  the  man.  Thrust 
by  his  eminent  position  into  the  thick  of  the  problems  of  the  Near 
East  and  the  broader  circle  of  international  relationships,  he  found 
that  the  flame  of  his  faith  glowed  more  and  more  brilliantly  and 
his  vision,  sweeping  the  wide  horizon,  grew  in  telescopic  power  to 
read  great  truths  in  the  world  field  and  to  translate  them  into  the 
things  of  the  common  life. 

He  was  an  inspiring  college  president  with  the  rare  faculty  of 
giving  himself  to  the  cosmopolitan  student  body  as  an  intimate, 
personal  friend.  Word  comes  across  the  sea  that  in  their  grief  at 
his  loss  students  and  faculty  alike,  on  drawing  his  portrait,  em- 
phasize his  strong  personality,  his  tremendous,  never-waning 
enthusiasm,  his  straightforward  dealing  with  every  man,  friend  or 
foe,  his  perfect  spirit  of  democracy,  and  his  devout  pray  erf  ulness, 
free  from  pietism.  They  were  proud  of  him,  his  handsome  pres- 
ence, the  fine  impression  made  by  his  addresses;  but  beyond  the 
pride  was  their  profound  personal  affection. 

What  the  war  meant  where  the  Turk  held  sway  only  those  who 
lived  there  can  fully  realize.  This  man  was  as  the  shade  of  a  great 
rock  in  a  weary  land  as  he  stood  among  a  beleaguered  people  and 
saved  the  precious  college  from  pillage  and  destruction.  He  thus 
drew  the  picture  of  it:  "The  Turkish  officials  were  at  the  start 
suspicious,  hostile,  and  eager  for  our  downfall.  The  Germans  were 
even  more  angry,  bitter,  and  malicious.  Our  friends  were  timid 
and  powerless.  The  possibility  of  deportation  was  always  before 
us.  Starvation  stalked  through  the  land.  The  cries  of  the  dying 
ever  rang  in  our  ears.  It  became  increasingly  difficult  to  secure 
money.  Medicine  and  hospital  supplies  diminished  at  an  alarm- 
ing rate.     The  consular  oflBcials  were  withdrawn.     We  were  under 


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martial  law.  A  single  false  step  might  have  precipitated  us  into 
unspeakable  suffering.  The  daily  drain  upon  our  sympathy 
knew  no  limit."  What  an  achievement  that  amid  these  turbulent 
cross-currents  the  college  held  steadily  to  its  course,  kept  its  doors 
open,  and  came  through  the  struggle  crowned  with  splendid 
prestige.  As  one  writes,  "It  was  as  if  Beirut  had  been  defended 
by  the  swords  of  archangels." 

The  marvelous  inner  strength  of  the  man  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  in  all  that  period  he  never  lost  a  night's  sleep.  But  there  was 
a  profound,  unavoidable,  subconscious  strain.  Vigilance  must 
be  unremitting.  Occasions  of  inflaming  hostility  must  be  avoided. 
The  watchwords  were,  "Do  not  linger  on  that  ugly  point."  " Keep 
sweet  and  move  on."  The  principle  in  dealing  with  the  foe  was, 
"Frankness  and  good- will."  Through  all  those  weary  years  he 
kept  his  head.  He  refused  to  retail  rumors.  He  paid  no  atten- 
tion to  the  insinuation  that  he  was  pro-German  or  pro-Turk.  He 
found  good  even  in  the  worst  of  men.  He  won  the  respect  of  the 
enemy  and  saved  the  day  by  his  fearless,  but  tactful  statesman- 
ship. His  name  is  written  high  on  the  roll  of  honor  of  the  heroes 
of  the  war. 

His  crowning  service  was  to  plead  at  Paris  before  the  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Allies,  met  to  frame  the  treaty  of  peace,  for  his 
beloved  Syria,  basing  his  plea  on  his  faith  in  the  people  and  their 
ability,  under  the  self-development  of  freedom  and  a  wise  coopera- 
tive service  by  the  strong  nations,  to  work  out  their  own  salvation. 
We  who  had  the  privilege  of  his  companionship  as  he  returned 
from  that  experience  will  never  forget  his  burning  zeal  for  his  cause 
and  his  illuminating  interpretation  of  international  diplomacy  seen 
at  first  hand. 

On  his  return  to  America  his  friends  were  shocked  to  see  in  him 
the  indelible  marks  of  the  anguish  he  had  endured.  Deep  lines 
furrowed  his  face.  He  had  lost  much  in  weight  and  strength. 
His  health  was  seriously  impaired.  Yet  he  would  not  spare  him- 
self. Aflame  with  his  message,  he  moved  from  place  to  place  tell- 
ing with  powerful  effect  the  story  of  need;  declaring  with  the  ardor 
of  a  prophet  the  principles  of  international  righteousness  as  God 
gave  him  to  see  the  right.  But  the  strain  was  too  great.  Sud- 
denly there  came  unmistakable  tokens  of  tuberculosis,  which,  on 
May  2,  1920,  caused  his  death.     He  was  willing  to  pay  the  last 


240   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

full  measure  of  devotion  on  the  altar  of  liberty.  When  he  knew 
that  his  days  were  numbered,  he  accepted  the  issue  with  brave 
heart  and  forward-looking  spirit.  He  said,  "Let  no  one  think  I 
am  lying  here  eating  my  heart  out.  This  sudden  ending  of  my 
personal  activity  has  not  removed  me  from  the  presence  of  God 
and  from  fellowship  with  him." 

It  was  a  singular  coincidence  that  as  he  was  breathing  his  last 
in  his  Adirondack  retreat  there  came  to  the  hands  of  his  friends  the 
last  product  of  his  pen,  "The  Modern  Missionary"  in  the  May 
Atlantic  Monthly.  It  was  an  unconscious  portrayal  of  his  own 
life.  He  was  himself  its  very  incarnation.  His  passionate  devo- 
tion to  the  Christian  ideal  did  not  exclude  the  catholicity  by  which 
he  could  sincerely  call  any  man  a  brother.  His  faith  in  the  king- 
dom of  God  ruled  his  statesmanlike  vision,  but  left  room  for  the 
faith  of  others  however  this  differed  from  his  own.  The  timeliness 
of  his  utterance  in  an  age  seeking  to  develop  unity  of  purpose 
among  all  who  seek  "to  follow  the  gleam"  is  singularly  significant. 
He  quotes  a  prophetic  word  spoken  by  his  father  at  the  laying  of 
the  corner-stone  of  College  Hall  fifty  years  ago:  "The  college  is 
for  all  conditions  and  classes  of  men,  without  reference  to  color, 
nationality,  race,  or  religion.  A  man,  white,  black,  or  yellow. 
Christian,  Jew,  Mohammedan,  or  Heathen,  may  enter  and  enjoy 
all  the  advantages  of  the  institution  for  three,  four,  or  eight  years, 
and  go  out  believing  in  one  God,  or  many  gods,  or  no  God;  but  it 
will  be  impossible  for  any  one  to  continue  with  us  long  without 
knowing  what  we  believe  to  be  the  truth  and  our  reasons  for  that 
belief." 

Perpetuating  and  developing  this  principle  in  sweetness  and 
strength,  the  son  of  this  forerunner  of  the  day  of  larger  freedom 
declares,  "The  whole  world  needs  the  whole  world.  The  mission- 
ary is  certain  that  the  Christian  view  of  the  world  is  so  superior 
to  all  other  views  as  to  make  it  infinitely  worth  while  to  proclaim 
it  to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth.  But  he  does  not  believe 
that  Christianity  is  the  sole  channel  through  which  divine  and 
saving  truth  has  been  conveyed.  All  men  who  are  themselves 
seeking  God  and  who  are  striving  to  lead  others  to  God  become  his 
companions  and  fellow-workers.  Christ's  essential  message  must 
remain  on  the  lips  of  his  messengers  simple  in  its  assertions,  ample 
in  its  outlines,  universal  in  its  terms.     .     .     .     Upon  one  thing 


Howard     Sweetser     Bliss  241 

he  insists,  the  personal  assimilation  in  the  disciple's  life  of  the 
teaching  and  of  the  spirit  of  Jesus.  Other  questions  may  be  impor- 
tant, but  they  can  wait.  What  Christ  puts  first,  he  would  put 
first.  He  is  sure  of  his  message;  he  is  sure  of  ultimate  success." 
For  many  years  Dr.  Bliss  had  dearly  loved  the  little  town  of 
Jaffrey,  New  Hampshire,  nestling  at  the  foot  of  Mount  Monad- 
nock.  Thither  he  had  been  drawn  by  the  life-long  friendship  of  a 
beloved  classmate,  Reverend  Frederick  W.  Greene,  who  had  there 
an  ancestral  home  and  who  departed  this  life  only  four  months 
before  him.  Thither,  too,  other  classmates  had  come  to  make 
their  summer  homes.  To  this  rural  retreat  he  always  made  his 
way  in  his  rest  days  when  in  America.  Upon  the  summit  of  the 
mountain  he  had  often  stood.  Over  its  pine-clad  slopes  he  had 
loved  to  ramble  and  as  he  lay  stricken  with  fatal  illness  he  requested 
that,  if  possible,  his  body  might  be  laid  at  its  base.  He  was  a 
mountain  man.  Born  on  Lebanon,  buried  by  Monadnock,  he 
exemplified  in  his  life  the  abiding  strength  and  lofty  aspiration  the 
mountain  symbolizes.  The  remembrance  of  his  triumphant  spirit 
made  the  funeral  service,  with  the  May  sunshine  flooding  the 
earth,  like  a  bit  of  heaven  itself.  As  his  family  and  his  classmates 
laid  away  the  precious  form,  they  heard  from  the  fibre  of  his  life 
the  challenge  of  immortality. 

"Thou  art  no  more!     Upon  thy  knightly  heart — 
With  its  pure  flame  of  love  for  humankind. 
With  its  consuming  zeal  for  common  good — 
The  Lord  hath  laid  his  hand! 

Thou  art  no  more!     Thou  who  didst  pour  thy  nard 
In  reckless  waste  of  love:  toiling  for  men 
Thy  brothers,  if  only  thou  mightst  right  their  wrongs 
And  lift  their  crushing  load! 

Thou  art  no  more!     In  far-off  land  and  clime, 
In  distant  places  where  thy  quickening  words 
Were  felt  by  hearts  o'erborne,  shall  many  grieve 
For  thee,  O  man  of  God! 

And  yet  thou  art  not  gone!     Still  do  we  hear  thy  voice 
Bidding  us  walk  the  paths  of  right.     Down  all  the  years 
The  currents  of  thy  life  and  love  shall  flow. 
Till  time  shall  be  no  more!" 


242   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 


COLLEGE  NOTES 

commencement 

Coming  as  it  did  between  the  Victory  celebration  of  last  year 
and  the  Centennial  of  next  June,  Amherst's  ninety-ninth  Com- 
mencement was  a  quiet  affair.  Rain  on  Sunday  and  Tuesday 
evening  helped  to  allay  enthusiasm,  and  the  alumni  occupied 
themselves  chiefly  in  seeing  the  College  and  in  quiet  talks  at  class 
headquarters.  Notable  among  reunions  was  that  of  '80,  which 
won  the  Reunion  Trophy  for  the  third  time.  A  large  number  of 
the  class  of  '05  also  attended  the  fifteenth  anniversary  of  their 
graduation,  while  '95  with  a  candidate  for  the  vice-presidency  of 
the  United  States  in  their  ranks  was  much  in  the  limelight.  Hon. 
Frederick  H.  Gillett,  '74,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives, 
and  Sir  Herbert  Ames,  '85,  Financial  Secretary  of  the  League  of 
Nations,  were  also  in  Amherst  during  the  Commencement  period. 

Commencement  week  began  on  Saturday  afternoon  with  a  well- 
played  ball  game  between  Amherst  and  Brown,  which  the  latter 
won  in  the  tenth  inning  after  Amherst  had  failed  to  make  the 
winning  tally  on  a  squeeze  play  in  the  ninth.  The  customary 
alumni  parade  and  band  concerts  occupied  the  evening. 

The  baccalaureate  sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  Nehemiah 
Boynton,  '79,  and  on  Sunday  afternoon  Mendelssohn's  "Wal- 
purgis  Night"  and  Henry  Hadley's  "The  New  Earth"  were  ren- 
dered by  the  College  Chorus  under  the  direction  of  Professor 
Bigelow. 

Gov.  Calvin  Coolidge,  '95,  Republican  candidate  for  vice- 
president,  dined  with  members  of  his  class  in  Springfield  on  Monday 
night,  and  on  Tuesday  attended  a  reception  in  his  honor  at  the 
Phi  Gamma  Delta  house  in  Amherst.  Mrs.  Coolidge  was  present 
at  the  Grove  exercises,  and  with  the  governor  was  a  guest  of  Presi- 
dent and  Mrs.  Meiklejohn  at  the  president's  reception.  The 
lawn  fete  could  not  be  held  in  the  open  because  of  inclement 
weather,  but  a  large  crowd  attended  the  glee  club  concert  in 
College  Hall  and  later  adjourned  to  the  Gymnasium  for  dancing. 

The  Commencement  procession  of  alumni.   Faculty,  and  the 


College    Notes  243 

graduating  class  formed  in  front  of  the  Converse  Memorial  Li- 
brary at  ten  o'clock,  and  marshaled  by  Professor  Charles  T.  Bur- 
nett, '95,  marched  to  College  Hall,  where  degrees  in  course  were 
conferred  upon  eighty-eight  Seniors  (five  as  of  the  class  of  1918 
and  four  as  of  the  class  of  1919),  ten  men  received  the  degree  of 
B.A.  honoris  causa,  and  certificates  of  honorable  distinction 
were  awarded  to  a  number  of  former  students  who  had  left  Col- 
lege to  serve  in  the  army  or  navy.  The  following  honorary  de- 
grees were  then  conferred: 

M.A.  Albert  William  Atwood,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the 
class  of  1903,  writer,  editor  and  lecturer  on  financial  subjects. 

M.A.  George  D.  Chamberlain,  former  member  of  the  Spring- 
field (Massachusetts)  City  Government,  of  the  Massachusetts 
House  of  Representatives,  and  now  serving  his  fourth  term  in  the 
Massachusetts  Senate;  leader  in  the  Boys'  Club  movement 
throughout  the  country  and  in  the  public  playgrounds  in  Spring- 
field; influential  in  the  passing  of  legislation  for  better  public 
schools;  an  authority  on  educational  conditions  and  needs  of  the 
Commonwealth;  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Spring- 
field Y.  M.  C.  A.  College. 

Litt.D.  Ernest  H.  Wilkins,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the 
class  of  1900,  head  of  the  department  of  Italian,  University  of 
Chicago;  writer  and  editor  in  the  field  of  Italian  literature,  di- 
rector of  the  Educational  Bureau  of  the  War  Work  Council  which 
involved  the  general  direction  of  all  educational  work  in  army 
and  navy  camps  and  stations  in  this  country  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

L.H.D.  James  Herbert  Low,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the 
class  of  1890,  teacher  and  lecturer  in  the  field  of  history  and  polit- 
ical science,  principal  of  Erasmus  Hall  High  School,  Brooklyn, 
president  of  the  department  of  political  science  and  secretary  of 
the  Council  of  Brooklyn  Institute,  a  leader  in  the  civic  and  political 
organizations  of  Brooklyn,  chairman  of  the  Victory  Loan  and 
Red  Cross  campaigns  for  the  Flatbush  (Brooklyn)  district. 

LL.D.  Frank  Ellsworth  Spaulding,  a  graduate  of  Amherst 
in  the  class  of  1889,  teacher,  superintendent  of  schools  at  Minne- 
apolis and  Cleveland,  chief  administrator  of  the  University  of 
Beaune,  head  of  the  New  School  of  Education  at  Yale. 

LL.D.     Alexander  Dana  Noyes,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the 


244       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 

class  of  1883,  financial  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post, 
authoritative  writer  and  lecturer  on  financial  and  economic 
subjects. 

LL.D.  Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  the 
class  of  1866,  editor  of  the  Brooklyn  Standard  Union,  author  and 
lecturer,  and  prominent  in  the  study  and  exploration  of  the  Polar 
Regions. 

LL.D.  Sir  Louis  H.  Davies,  K.  C.  M.  G.,  former  Premier  and 
Attorney-General  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  former  member  of 
the  Canadian  House  of  Commons,  former  Minister  of  Marine  and 
Fisheries  in  the  Canadian  Government,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Canada,  and  Chief  Administrator  of  Canada  in 
the  absence  of  the  Governor-General. 

Sir  Louis  Davies  was  the  guest  of  honor  and  principal  speaker 
at  the  Commencement  Dinner.  Hon.  Frederick  H.  Gillett  also 
spoke,  and  the  portrait  of  Dean  Olds  which  forms  the  frontispiece 
of  this  number  of  the  Quarterly  was  presented  to  the  College, 
Rev.  Jay  T.  Stocking,  '95,  making  the  address  of  presentation. 
In  conclusion  Toastmaster  Charles  A.  Andrews,  '95,  called  upon 
President  Meiklejohn,  who  announced  that  a  campaign  for  a 
$3,000,000  centennial  gift  to  the  College  would  be  started  early 
next  fall,  and  paid  affectionate  tribute  to  Dean  .Olds,  the  late 
John  W.  Simpson  of  the  Trustees,  and  the  late  President  Howard 
S.  Bliss  of  the  Syrian  Prostestant  College  at  Beirut. 

diamond,  court,  and  track 

The  baseball  team  by  the  loss  of  the  two  Commencement  gan^es 
closed  its  season  with  a  record  of  more  defeats  than  victories. 
This  was  a  surprise  in  view  of  the  number  of  experienced  players 
available  for  the  squad  and  the  excellent  showing  of  the  team  on 
its  Easter  trip  in  the  South,  where  Amherst  won  three  out  of 
the  four  games  played.  Of  the  games  on  the  regular  schedule 
three  were  won,  seven  lost,  and  seven  canceled  on  account  of  bad 
weather. 

Amherst  began  the  season  successfully  with  a  4-0  victory  over 
Trinity.  Both  Clark  and  Zink  pitched  excellent  ball,  the  out- 
fielders commenced  a  record  of  consistent  reliability,  and  the  team 
showed  signs  of  a  capacity  for  hitting  which  later  failed  them. 
The  two  succeeding  games  with  Cornell  and  the  University  of 


College    Notes  245 

Virginia  were  extra-inning  affairs,  Amherst  in  each  case  coming 
up  with  a  rush  to  tie  the  score,  but  lacking  power  to  clinch  victory. 
Cornell  won  by  a  score  of  6-5,  Virginia  4-3.  The  game  with  Har- 
vard at  Cambridge  was  one  of  the  best  played  of  the  season. 
Cummings  at  all  times  controlled  the  Crimson  batsmen  and  re- 
ceived air-tight  support  from  the  infield,  taking  the  game  3-1. 
From  this  time  on,  except  in  the  6-4  victory  over  M.  A.  C.  and 
the  Commencement  contest  with  Brown,  the  infield  suffered  what 
can  best  be  described  as  a  psychological  collapse  and  lost  game 
after  game  chiefly  through  errors.  Cornell  scored  a  second  extra- 
inning  victory  by  a  score  of  2-1.  Dartmouth  won  easily  a  loosely 
played  game  11-4,  scoring  six  runs  in  the  first  inning.  Williams 
broke  its  record  of  no  victories  by  defeating  Amherst  in  the  Me- 
morial Day  game  11-6.  The  University  of  California  team, 
though  forced  to  extend  itself,  came  out  ahead  10-9.  Brown 
took  the  first  Commencement  game  3-0,  and  M.  A.  C.  followed 
with  a  2-1  triumph.  The  spectacular  fielding  of  Maynard  and 
Seamans  and  the  reliable  pitching  of  Clark,  Zink,  and  Cummings 
were  the  only  alleviations  of  a  disastrous  season.  Seven  veterans 
of  this  year's  team  will  return  to  college.  Remington  A.  Clark, 
Amherst's  star  pitcher,  is  captain-elect  of  the  1921  team. 

The  track  team  won  one  of  its  three  dual  meets,  losing  to  Spring- 
field 79-47,  and,  in  a  meet  run  in  the  pouring  rain,  to  Williams 
74-52,  and  winning  from  Union  by  the  close  score  of  64-62.  R.  H. 
Clark,  '23,  who  won  the  100-yard  dash  in  the  last  contest  in  the 
record-breaking  time  of  9  4-5  seconds  and  who  took  first  place 
in  the  high  jump  at  the  New  England  Intercollegiates  and  tied 
for  fourth  place  in  the  same  event  at  the  I.  C.  A.  A.  A.  meet  at 
Philadelphia,  was  the  individual  star  of  the  season  with  a  total 
score  of  40  points.  A.  L.  Stauft  has  been  chosen  captain  for  the 
ensuing  year. 

The  tennis  team  won  from  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute 
with  a  score  of  5-1;  the  only  other  victory  of  the  season  was  the 
4-2  victory  over  Brown.  Dartmouth,  Williams,  and  Wesleyan 
came  out  ahead  in  hard-fought  contests,  and  the  Springfield 
Country  Club  won  handily  by  a  score  of  6-0.  Matches  with 
M.  I.  T.  and  the  University  of  California  were  canceled.  At  the 
end  of  the  season  Charles  M.  Bennett,  '22,  was  elected  captain 
of  next  year's  team. 


246   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

award  of  the  amherst  memorial  fellowships 

The  committee  on  the  Amherst  Memorial  Fellowships  for  the 
Study  of  Social,  Economic  and  Political  Institutions  has  awarded 
fellowships  for  one  year  to  Luther  Lee  Bernard  and  for  two  years 
to  Carter  Lyman  Goodrich  and  Leland  Hamilton  Jenks.  These 
men  were  selected  from  the  fifty-one  applicants  from  colleges  and 
universities  all  over  the  country  after  full  and  deliberate  considera- 
tion by  the  committee.  The  competitors  included  Seniors  in 
college,  members  of  graduate  schools,  and  teachers  up  to  and 
including  heads  of  departments  in  the  larger  universities.  They 
represented  all  interests  including  politics,  history,  economics, 
sociology,  and  ethics. 

The  purpose  of  these  fellowships  is  thus  expressed  in  the  deed 
of  the  gift:  "Realizing  the  need  for  better  understanding  and 
more  complete  adjustment  between  men  and  the  existing  social, 
economic  and  political  institutions,  it  is  my  desire  to  establish  a 
Fellowship  for  the  study  of  the  principles  underlying  these  human 
relationships. "  Graduates  of  any  college  or  university  are  eligible 
for  these  fellowships.  The  fellowship  fund  provides  two  thou- 
sand dollars  a  year  for  each  of  two  fellows.  It  is  the  largest  fel- 
lowship offered  in  the  country  at  the  present  time. 

The  principles  in  terms  of  which  the  committee  has  made  the 
awards  are  these:  "First,  justice  is  to  be  done  between  the  various 
candidates  in  terms  of  ability,  application,  and  promise.  Second, 
the  fellowships  are  not  to  be  used  to  support  men  who  are  to  devote 
their  time  to  the  satisfaction  of  formal  requirements  for  a  degree. 
Third,  the  fellowships  are  to  go  to  men  whose  intellectual  habits 
are  well  established  and  whose  problems  are  well  enough  in  hand 
to  enable  them  to  go  forward  with  their  studies  without  a  prelim- 
inary period  of  trial  and  error.  Fourth,  the  fellowships  are  to  be 
used  to  encourage  younger  men  to  venture  into  research  rather 
than  to  subsidize  the  efforts  of  experienced  scholars.  Therefore, 
the  burden  of  proof  is  to  be  upon  the  candidate  who  is  more  than 
thirty  years  of  age.  Fifth,  the  fellowships  are  to  be  awarded  to 
those  whose  plans  give  promise  of  the  most  significant  contribu- 
tions to  our  understanding  of  the  institutions  and  problems  of 
contemporary  culture. " 

In  addition  to  the  evidence  presented  by  the  candidates,  the 
committee  has  sought  further  information  from  those  whom  it 


College    Notes  247 

judged  able  to  speak  about  their  abilities,  types  of  mind,  and  in- 
tellectual interests.  The  committee  has  also  called  upon  several 
persons  whom  it  deemed  competent  to  appraise  the  plans  of  study 
of  various  candidates  in  terms  of  their  value,  their  relevancy,  and 
their  feasibility.  Upon  the  basis  of  this  evidence  and  by  the  use 
of  the  principles  given  above  the  committee  made  its  decision. 

Mr.  Bernard  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Missouri 
with  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1907.  He  received  his  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Chicago  in  1910.  He  has  taught  sociology  in  the 
University  of  Florida  and  the  University  of  Missouri,  and  is  at 
present  professor  of  sociology  in  the  University  of  Minnesota. 
He  is  the  author  of  "The  Transition  to  an  Objective  Standard 
of  Social  Control,"  and  of  numerous  articles  in  journals  of  psy- 
chology, sociology  and  economics.  Mr.  Bernard  will  spend  his 
year  in  completing  a  study  of  the  influence  of  the  environment 
upon  the  development  of  personality. 

Mr.  Goodrich  was  graduated  from  Amherst  College  with  the 
degree  of  B.A.  in  1918.  He  spent  the  summer  of  that  year  upon 
the  staff  of  the  National  War  Labor  Board  and  the  autumn  in 
the  coast  artillery.  He  spent  the  year  1919  in  study  and  investi- 
gation of  workshop  politics  in  England.  He  was  a  tutor  in  the 
school  held  for  workmen  at  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  in  the  summer 
of  1919.  At  present  he  is  doing  graduate  work  at  the  University 
of  Chicago,  He  is  the  author  of  "The  Frontier  of  Control:  A 
Study  in  British  Workshop  Politics,"  announced  for  publication 
by  Harcourt,  Brace  and  Howe.  Mr.  Goodrich  will  spend  the 
two  years  of  his  fellowship  in  a  study  of  the  underlying  causes  of 
the  movement  for  workers'  control. 

Mr.  Jenks  was  graduated  from  Ottawa  University  with  the 
degree  of  B.A.  in  1913.  He  took  the  degree  of  M.A.  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Kansas  in  1914,  and  has  just  completed  the  require- 
ments for  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Columbia  University.  During 
the  war  he  served  in  the  navy.  He  has  taught  history  at  the 
University  of  Minnesota  and  is  at  present  lecturer  in  history  and 
politics  at  Clark  University.  He  is  the  author  of  "English  Public 
Opinion  and  the  Revolution  of  1688."  Mr.  Jenks  will  spend  the 
two  years  of  his  fellowship  in  London  making  a  study  of  the  influ- 
ence of  British  foreign  investments  upon   international  politics. 


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248       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


AN  adventure  in  ADULT  EDUCATION 

The  Trustees  in  their  June  meeting  sanctioned  the  beginning 
of  a  movement  to  extend  such  liberal  education  as  Amherst  affords 
to  workers  in  the  neighboring  cities  of  the  Connecticut  Valley. 
The  plan  is  in  many  respects  parallel  to  the  system  of  tutorial 
classes  successfully  organized  among  workmen  by  the  British 
universities  and  is  closely  allied  to  the  movement  for  adult  edu- 
cation now  being  discussed  in  this  country.  It  aims  in  essence  to 
promote  liberal  culture  among  mature  men  engaged  in  various 
industrial  occupations.  The  College  will  provide  a  trained  in- 
structor to  conduct  the  several  courses,  the  students  in  return 
pledging  themselves  to  complete  the  work  of  the  course.  Confer- 
ences with  representatives  of  the  Railroad  Brotherhoods  in  Spring- 
field and  of  the  Central  Labor  Union  in  Holyoke  indicate  that 
the  proposal  will  receive  their  serious  consideration.  A  committee 
of  the  Faculty  is  now  drafting  a  tentative  list  of  courses  in  econom- 
ics, history,  English,  and  mathematics  which  will  be  submitted  to 
the  workmen's  organizations.  None  of  the  courses  are  in  any  sense 
vocational  in  scope.  They  will  be  similar  to  courses  now  in  the 
College  curriculum  and  will  be  given  by  members  of  the  Amherst 
College  Faculty  who  volunteer  for  the  work.  If  the  response  of 
the  workmen  is  favorable,  some  of  the  proposed  courses  will  be 
started  next  fall  as  an  experiment.  Mr.  Stacy  May,  instructor 
in  social  and  economic  institutions,  will  be  in  charge  of  organizing 
the  courses.  Eventually  it  is  hoped  that  other  colleges  of  the 
vicinity  will  cooperate  with  Amherst  in  the  movement,  which 
offers  to  the  workmen  opportunities  for  liberal  study  of  a  high 
grade  and  to  the  College  a  chance  for  vital  contact  with  the  com- 
munities about  it  such  as  it  has  hardly  known  since  the  early 
days  of  its  existence. 


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THE  BOOK  TABLE 

psychology  and  the  Day's  Work.     By  Edgar  James  Swift.     New  York:   Charles 

Scribner's  Sons.     1920. 
The  Brevity  Book  on  Psychology.     By  Christian  A.  Ruckmick.     Chicago:   Brevity 
Publishers  Inc. 

It  is  safe  to  predict  that  as  physical  science  and  mechanical  invention  were  the 
predominating  interests  of  the  nineteenth  century,  the  human  factor  and  mental 
science  will  absorb  the  chief  attention  of  the  twentieth.  The  war  with  Germany 
may  have  been  the  turning  point.  Germany  had  the  most  highly  organized  physi- 
cal system  known  in  the  history  of  the  world — more  highly  organized  than  the 
English  system  of  finance  or  the  American  system  of  commerce;  and  yet  she  made  a 
series  of  the  most  egregious  blunders  in  judging  not  only  the  minds  of  her  enemies 
but  the  minds  of  her  own  people.  Now  that  the  war  is  over,  every  great  nation  is 
confronted  with  problems  of  dealing  with  its  own  people  which  are  acknowledged  to 
be  the  most  pressing  and  difficult  these  nations  have  ever  had  to  face.  Ordinary 
human  experience  and  the  lessons  of  history  seem  helpless  to  provide  a  solution. 
To  what  shall  the  world  turn  if  not  to  the  science  of  psychology — to  systematic 
scientific  study  of  the  human  mind  and  the  way  it  works. 

Although  Amherst  College  seems  to  have  neglected  this  youngest  but  highly 
important  study  to  such  an  extent  that  the  recent  report  of  the  Alumni  Council 
does  not  so  much  as  mention  the  word  psychology  or  mental  science,  or  contain  any 
reference  to  it,  some  Amherst  men  have  been  active  in  this  field.  There  are  two 
kinds  of  psychology,  theoretical  or  laboratory  psychology,  and  so-called  "applied 
psychology,"  which  in  reality  is  psychology  using  actual  life  as  its  laboratory.  Of 
course  the  possibility  of  controlling  conditions  in  this  larger  laboratory  is  so  neces- 
sarily limited  that  laboratory  psychology  must  always  have  a  highly  important 
place;  but  when  the  conditions  of  actual  life  can  be  controlled,  the  results  of  scien- 
tific investigation  must  be  more  significant  for  human  progress. 

"Psychology  and  the  Day's  Work"  by  Edgar  J.  Swift,  '86,  professor  of  psychol- 
ogy at  Washington  University,  is  an  admirable  example  of  applied  psychology,  in  a 
field  that  cannot  but  appeal  strongly  to  Amherst  men,  namely  the  field  of  personal 
efficiency  in  doing  any  task  that  a  thinking  man  ought  to  be  doing.  The  ordinary 
educated  reader  will  not  find  an  unfamiliar  technical  term  in  the  entire  book,  but  it 
deals  competently  and  in  a  scholarly  fashion  with  its  subject  by  means  of  a  wonder- 
ful collection  of  concrete  illustrations,  examples,  and  quotations  carefully  identified 
in  footnotes,  which  it  certainly  must  have  taken  an  enormous  amount  of  work  to 
gather. 

Undoubtedly  it  is  the  duty  of  every  educated  man  to  understand  the  working  of 
his  own  mind,  and  know  how  to  direct  his  own  education — that  education  which 
usually  has  just  begun  when  a  man  leaves  college,  and  must  go  on  to  the  end  of  his 
life.  And  as  soon  as  he  has  children  of  his  own  he  has  before  him  the  p  roblem  of 
their  education,  which  he  will  probably  find  he  can  entrust  only  in  small  part  to 
regular  educational  institutions  but  must  himself  conduct  in  directions  far  removed 


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from  books.  Professor  Swift's  book  aims  to  substitute  the  ordered  analysis  of 
psychological  science  for  the  random  guesses  and  conclusions  of  individual  experi- 
ence— what  the  process  of  thinking  is,  and  the  difference  between  good  thinking  and 
bad  thinking;  memory  and  how  it  may  be  judged  and  how  it  may  be  cultivated; 
habit;  the  psychology  of  rumor  and  testimony,  and  of  fatigue  and  digestion,  etc. 
There  are  several  memory  courses  on  the  market,  and  courses  in  mental  develop- 
ment, which  the  present  writer  has  had  occasion  to  examine,  and  he  feels  safe  in 
saying  that  for  the  educated  man  this  book  is  more  positively  and  reliably  helpful 
than  any  of  them.  It  is  a  book  the  reviewer  has  wished  to  read  every  page  of  for  his 
own  benefit. 

There  are  three  aspects  of  mind  which  are  intensely  interesting  to  every  individual. 
The  first  is  memory,  learning  (the  thing  to  which  our  schools  are  chiefly  devoted), 
and  judgment  of  the  material  learned.  That  has  received  a  great  deal  of  attention 
from  the  time  of  Aristotle  and  Plato,  but  psychology  has  studied  the  subject  anew 
from  the  point  of  view  of  the  impressions  received  through  the  five  senses  and  the 
reactions  to  these  impressions,  and  has  held  itself  rigidly  to  observations  of  these 
impressions  and  their  reactions,  instead  of  wandering  off  into  speculation  as  phi- 
losophy is  forced  to  do  in  dealing  with  matters  that  are  not  within  the  range  of  scien- 
tific observation  and  experimentation.  It  is  to  be  feared  that  most  college  students 
do  not  clearly  see  where  scientific  observation  and  experimentation  end  and  specu- 
lation begins;  and  the  value  of  Professor  Swift's  book  is  that  it  does  not  slop  over 
into  speculation,  and  it  is  worth  reading  for  the  definite  impression  it  gives  of  the 
clear  line  beyond  which  psychology  does  not  go  in  mental  study.  Also  much  atten- 
tion is  given  to  judging  and  applying  the  material  in  practice. 

The  second  aspect  of  mind  that  interests  the  individual  is  imagination,  which 
constructs  the  unknown  out  of  the  material  of  observation,  memory,  and  learning. 
That  is  a  field  in  which  there  is  very  little  material,  and  Professor  Swift  does  not 
supply  any.  No  one  has  ventured  any  correspondence  course  on  how  to  develop 
and  use  the  imagination,  and  the  books  on  the  subject  are  slight.  And  yet  there  is 
no  reason  to  believe  that  it  is  not  just  as  capable  of  investigation  as  the  field  of  mem- 
ory and  learning.  A  practical  beginning  has  been  made  in  the  psychological  study 
of  advertising,  which  has  to  see  the  customer  a  thousand  miles  away  and  predict 
how  his  mind  will  respond  to  a  given  picture  or  suggestion  or  argument;  and  it  is 
imagination  that  has  lifted  business  above  the  commonplace  level  and  yielded  start- 
ling successes.  But  as  in  literature,  imagination  in  business  has  been  too  much 
thought  of  as  pure  genius,  whose  secret  it  was  not  possible  for  the  common  mortal 
to  penetrate.  It  should  be  at  the  very  foundation  of  a  college  course  in  literary 
composition,  which  would  then  become  a  fascinating  study. 

The  third  aspect  of  mind  of  intense  personal  interest  is  the  will  that  produces 
action,  or  how  to  get  men  to  do  what  we  want  them  to  do.  Salesmanship  has  made  a 
slight  beginning  in  the  application  of  psychology  to  the  problem  of  influencing  the 
will ;  but  the  subject  is  of  supreme  importance  to  the  clergyman  and  the  lawyer. 

Unfortunately  Professor  Swift's  book,  like  other  similar  books,  is  for  the  most 
part  silent  on  the  psychology  of  imagination  and  will. 

"The  Brevity  Book  on  Psychology"  by  Christian  A.  Ruckmick,  '09,  associate 
professor  of  psychology  at  the  University  of  Illinois,  is  a  popular  work  on  theoretical 
and  laboratory  psychology,  in  the  very  useful  field  occupied  by  the  Science  Primers 


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that  originated  in  England  a  good  many  years  ago.  Unfortunately  it  is  too  much 
concerned  with  the  technical  terms  of  the  science  rather  than  the  larger  facts  which 
might  be  of  use  to  the  untechnical  casual  reader.  It  is  interesting  to  note  its  up-to- 
dateness,  however,  with  its  preface  dated  October,  1919,  as  compared  with  Professor 
Swift's  book  with  its  preface  dated  in  the  fall  of  1918.  Books  on  psychology  get  out 
of  date  with  a  rapidity  that  is  appalling,  and  therefore  it  behooves  the  "old  grad" 
to  keep  abreast  of  the  times. 

Shervnn  Cody. 

The  Flower  and  the  Bee.  By  John  H.  Lovell.  New  York:  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons.  1918. 
The  methods  and  devices  by  which  flowers  are  pollinated  offer  a  fascinating  field 
of  study  for  a  careful  and  patient  observer.  Mr.  Lovell  has  given  many  years  to 
such  a  study,  and  has  attained  recognition  as  a  thoroughgoing  student  of  the  in- 
timate relations  between  flowers  and  their  insect  visitors.  When  bizarre  or  beau- 
tiful flowers  attract  us,  we  completely  forget  that  the  form  or  striking  color  often 
has  a  definite  purpose  in  the  life-history  of  the  plant.  The  present  volume  is  a  not- 
able attempt  to  place  a  general  sketch  of  the  facts  within  the  reach  of  any  lover  of 
flowers.  It  is  written  in  non-technical  language,  though  accuracy  of  statement  is 
not  sacrificed,  and  the  illustrations — of  which  there  are  over  a  hundred — are  so  good 
as  to  approach  the  actual  flowers  in  clearness  of  detail.  While  the  chief  interest  of 
the  author  is  in  the  various  modifications  of  flower  form,  arrangement,  or  color, 
which  accommodate  or  attract  the  bee,  the  most  important  insect  agent  of  pollina- 
tion, other  methods  of  fertilization  are  not  neglected.  There  are  sections  on  flowers 
pollinated  by  the  wind,  by  butterflies,  by  flies,  and  by  other  agents.  Mr.  Lovell's 
observations  lead  him  to  short  discussions  of  the  evolution  of  flowers,  the  advantages 
of  conspicuousness  of  color  in  attracting  insects,  and  the  values  of  specific  colors. 
The  book  should  be  welcome  to  any  who  desire  to  know  more  of  flowers  and  their 
place  in  nature. 

H.  H.  Plough. 

Padre:  A  Red  Cross  Chaplain  in  France.    By  Sartell  Prentice,  D.D.   New  York: 

E.  P.  Dutton  and  Company.  1919. 
Behind  the  German  Lines.  By  Ralph  E.  Ellinwood.  New  York:  The  Knicker- 
bocker Press.  1920. 
Among  war-welfare  organizations  it  is  fair  to  say  the  Red  Cross  won  unique  respect 
from  the  A.  E.  F.  There  are  two  reasons:  an  actual  record  of  service,  and  the  atti- 
tude of  the  personnel.  Dr.  Prentice  gives  data  in  evidence  of  both  in  a  straight" 
forward  account  of  his  work  as  a  Red  Cross  chaplain  at  Base  Hospital  10,  in  St. 
Nazaire,  and  Evacuation  Hospital  13,  at  Commercy,  south  of  St.  Mihiel.  He 
worked  in  wards  and  operating  rooms,  ministering  in  a  hundred  ways  during  the 
influenza  epidemic  and  the  evacuation  of  the  wounded.  And,  as  he  states,  the  men 
of  the  army  were  to  him  like  his  own  son,  demanding  not  charity  but  respect.  In 
many  ways  the  most  attractive  parts  of  Dr.  Prentice's  book  are  those  in  which  he 
narrates  stories  told  him  by  wounded  men,  in  whose  heroism  he  takes  pride.  De- 
scriptions of  war-time  Liverpool  and  London,  of  Paris  during  the  shelling,  the  Fourth 
of  July  and  the  Wilson  arrival  parades,  and  of  Verdun  add  to  the  interest  of  this 


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book,  which,  in  spite  of  its  somewhat  too  frequent  moralizings,  is  written  with  con- 
viction and  charm. 

There  is  more  rigor  and  unrelieved  realism  in  "Behind  the  German  Lines."  Mr. 
Ellinwood  went  for  seven  months  "through  the  mill"  of  drudgery,  insult,  and  priva- 
tion, from  the  night  of  May  6,  1918,  when,  as  a  member  of  Ambulance  Unit  621, 
he  found  himself  facing  a  German  luger.  This  was  near  Laon.  Mr.  Ellinwood 
tells  with  admirable  directness  of  his  adventures  at  the  Mont  Notre  Dame  Hospital, 
in  Belgium  and  south  Germany,  and  at  Langensalza  prison  camp  in  Saxony.  The 
life  of  prison  camps  and  of  an  individual  prisoner  farmed  out  to  German  peasants  is 
described  in  discriminating  detail  with  occasional  shafts  of  humor.  The  judgments 
are  frank;  there  is  hearty  condemnation  of  nearly  everything  German.  It  is  in  its 
descriptions  of  camaraderie  among  allied  prisoners  that  the  book  makes  its  finest 
appeal. 

W.  R.  Agard. 


I 


Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Published   by  THE  ALUMNI   COUNCIL  OF  AMHERST  COLLEGE 

George  F.  Whicher,  Editor  John  B.  O'Brien,  Associate  Editor 

Publication  Committee 

Robert  W.  Matnard,  '02,  Chairman     Frederick  S.  Allis,  '93,  Secretary 

Gilbert  H.  Grosvenor,  '97  Frederick  K.  Kretschmar,  '01 

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under  the  act  of  March  3,  1879. 


EDITORIAL   NOTES 

"what  are  patterns  for?" 

SEVERAL  gatherings  of  Amherst  alumni  during  the  year 
have  been  noticed  by  the  press  because  of  the  compara- 
tively large  number  of  men  prominent  in  the  political, 
professional,  and  business  life  of  the  country  who  received  their 
eariy  training  in  "a  small  New  England  college."  We  gladly 
reprint  an  editorial  note  from  the  Freeman  of  May  12  contrasting 
the  proved  achievement  of  the  liberal  college  with  the  promise  of 
the  vocational  schools: 

"Occasionally  something  happens  to  make  us  wonder  if  what 
a  student  gets  out  of  college  is  due  to  the  kind  of  work  he  has 
chosen  so  much  as  to  the  quality  of  work  he  has  done;  and  whether 
the  by-paths  and  flourishes  were  not  a  help  after  all.  For  instance, 
there  was  recently  held  in  Chicago  a  two-day  meeting  of  the 
Alumni  Council  of  Amherst  College.  Although  Amherst  is  a 
thousand  miles  from  Chicago,  there  were  two  hundred  and  fifty 
alumni  present — men  from  sixteen  different  states  all  the  way 
from  Massachusetts  to  Arizona.  The  professions  represented 
and  the  grade  of  men  representing  them  seem  to  me  to  furnish 


254       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 

Exhibit  "A"  for  the  colleges.  The  presiding  officer  was  the  Dean 
of  Columbia  University,  a  partner  of  J.  P.  Morgan  and  Company 
was  among  the  speakers;  and  messages  were  read  from  leading 
bankers,  journalists,  educators,  lawyers,  State  governors,  and 
Cabinet  oflBcers.  It  was  a  brilliant  showing  for  any  institution, 
and  especially  for  a  small  New  England  college  reunioning  a  thou- 
sand miles  away  from  Alma  Mater.  These  men  received  their 
training  from  a  classical  college  which  is  still  a  classical  college. 
It  was  quality  of  work,  then,  rather  than  kind  of  work  which  was 
their  educational  stepping-stone  to  the  business  and  professional 
peerage  of  the  world.  Such  an  array  certainly  does  not  argue 
against  colleges  even  if  it  does  not  argue  against  vocational  schools. 
But  it  leads  one  to  ask  in  the  way  of  a  challenge  whether  any 
strictly  vocational  school  can  boast  so  many  types  of  distinction 
among  its  graduates  as  can  the  little  old  New  England  college." 

Great  men  have  been  among  us,  it  is  true,  whose  names  Amherst 
is  proud  to  enroll  on  the  list  of  her  sons.  But  there  is  danger  in 
celebrating  the  fact  lest  it  overstress  a  conception  which  at  best 
is  but  half  the  truth — that  it  was  what  these  men  received  from 
the  College,  rather  than  what  they  brought  to  it,  that  made  them 
great.  The  idea  that  a  perfunctory  performance  of  certain  cere- 
monies may  ensure  salvation  is,  to  be  sure,  a  very  ancient  super- 
stition. As  applied  to  college  breeding  it  may  be  amusingly 
illustrated  by  a  dialogue  reported  to  have  taken  place  between  an 
Amherst  Junior  and  a  professor  in  a  neighboring  institution.  The 
Junior,  mistaking  the  professor  for  a  business  man,  opened  the 
conversation : 

Junior.  I'm  a  business  man  myself.  Ever  since  freshman 
year  I've  made  two  thousand  a  year  out  of  granite. 

Professor.     You're  studying  at  Amherst  College? 

Junior.     Gosh,  yes.     Didn't  think  I  was  an  Aggie,  did  you.? 

Professor.     Do  you  know  Professor  X?     He  teaches  at  , 

but  has  a  course  in  Amherst  this  year. 

Junior.     Don't  believe  I  know  him. 

Professor.  I  thought  you  might  have  noticed  him.  He's  a 
rather  queer-looking  man,  very — 

Junior.  Gosh,  that  doesn't  identify  him.  We've  got  lots  of 
freaks  over  here.  ...  I  don't  see  how  a  red-blooded  man  can 
teach  in  a  girl's  college. 


Editorial    Notes  255 

Professor.  You  think  it's  different  at  a  boy's  college?  That 
would  appeal  to  a  red-blooded  man? 

Junior.  Oh,  they  have  a  lot  more  freedom  over.  here.  Faculty 
in  a  girl's  college  haven't  the  resources  that  ours  have.  You 
know,  I've  often  wondered  what  they  did  talk  about,  so  last  time 
their  club  met  I  and  another  fellow  spent  the  whole  evening  under 
the  window  listening  just  to  find  out  what  they'd  say,  and,  gosh, 
they  did  have  a  good  time.  Every  minute  they  aren't  in  class 
they're  down  to  the  golf  links  or  over  in  the  club. 

Professor.     Don't  they  spend  some  time  preparing  for  classes? 

Junior.  Gosh,  no.  They've  all  been  through  college,  haven't 
they? 

Such  a  belief  in  the  talismanic  virtue  of  going  through  college 
is  happily  not  prevalent  among  Amherst  undergraduates.  It 
merely  represents  an  extreme  case  of  the  mistaken  view  that  the 
college  in  some  way  stamps  a  definite  pattern  upon  the  plastic 
minds  of  the  young  men  subjected  to  its  discipline.  Those  who 
hold  this  conception  are  always  fearful  lest  the  pattern  which 
they  approve  may  be  changed  behind  their  backs;  that  Amherst, 
instead  of  stamping  out  preachers  and  teachers  and  eminent  busi- 
ness men  as  in  the  past,  may  begin  to  stamp  out  Bolshevists  and 
selfish  profiteers.  The  Editor  has  on  his  desk  a  letter  from  a  man 
who  entered  Amherst  nearly  fifty  years  ago  vigorously  advocat- 
ing for  the  College  a  return  to  the  enterprise  of  training  men  for 
Christian  leadership  in  the  ministry  and  the  mission  field;  and 
suggesting  as  means  to  that  end  more  courses  for  teachers,  less 
emphasis  in  the  curriculum  upon  Latin  and  Greek  and  more  upon 
Christian  history,  sociology,  and  ethics,  a  closer  cooperation  with 
professional  schools,  and  required  vacation  work  in  business, 
agriculture,  or  industry.  Neither  Faculty  nor  Trustees,  how- 
ever, can  bring  about  such  a  return  to  the  purpose  for  which  Am- 
herst was  founded;  the  procedure  of  the  College  is  determined 
by  the  desires  of  those  who  study  there.  Education  is  not  a  proc- 
ess of  putting  in  but  of  bringing  out,  and  no  pedagogical  devices 
can  otherwise  than  disastrously  turn  the  current  of  a  boy's  will. 

In  any  generation  the  pattern  of  college  life  is  made  primarily 
by  the  men  in  college.  The  most  that  a  college  can  legitimately 
claim  to  do  is  to  give  each  of  its  students  a  running  start  in  that 
way  of  life  which  he  would  otherwise  enter  slowly  and  with  many 

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256   Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

false  steps.  It  may  trust  the  younger  generation  to  grow  accord- 
ing to  its  bent.  As  a  teacher  in  another  institution  has  finely 
said,  "We  are  not  dealing  with  inferior  minds,  but  with  young 
minds,  some  of  them  potentially  more  powerful  than  our  own." 
The  most  healthy  tendency  in  Amherst  today  is  that  embodied 
in  the  proposal  of  a  "Senior  College"  and  partly  realized  in  the 
new  plan  for  majors,  a  tendency  to  respect  the  student's  person- 
ality and  to  call  upon  him  for  a  definition  of  his  aims  in  order  that 
the  College  may  help  him  to  achieve  them.  Just  so  far  as  Amherst 
gives  every  student  an  opportunity  to  mature  "the  plan  that 
pleased  his  boyish  thought"  will  it  breed  a  race  of  Happy  War- 
riors for  the  future. 


LIBRI   SCRIPTI   PERSONS 

Jay  T.  Stocking,  '95,  is  pastor  of  the  Christian  Union 
Congregational  Church  of  Upper  Montclair,   New  Jersey. 

Julius  Seelye  Bixler,  '16,  after  a  year  of  effective  service 
as  director  of  religious  activities,  has  sailed  for  Beirut  to 
join  the  staff  of  the  Syrian  Protestant  College. 

Charles  S.  Mills,  a  classmate  of  the  late  President 
Howard  S.  Bliss,  is  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  Montclair,  New  Jersey. 

Sherwin  Cody,  '89,  now  connected  with  the  personnel 
development  service  of  Forbes  Magazine,  is  an  expert  in 
the  applications  of  psychology  to  business  life. 

Harold  H.  Plough,  '13,  is  associate  professor  of  biology 
in  Amherst  College. 

Walter  R.  Agard,  '15,  sometime  instructor  in  Greek,  is 
now  pursuing  advanced  study  in  Oxford. 


Reunions 


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OFFICIAL  AND  PERSONAL 


REUNIONS 


1870 


Among  the  pleasant  events  of  Com- 
mencement week  was  the  tenth  reimion 
of  the  fifty-year  class.  One  does  not 
hesitate  in  his  belief  that  when  nine  of 
the  thirteen  living  members  of  '70  came 
together  there  was  a  spontaneous  out- 
flow of  good  fellowship. 

Clover  Inn,  No.  4  Lessey  Street, 
supplied  an  unusually  palatable  class 
dinner  and  how  the  boys  lingered  around 
the  table!  Jokes,  aspersions,  hard 
raps,  and  attractive  wit  passed  from 
each  to  each.  All  ate  and  laughed, 
winked,  and  joyed.  In  the  midst  of 
the  hilarity  much  was  spoken  in  sadness 
about  the  loss  of  the  thirty^six  who  had 
passed  over  with  Charon  and  can  never 
return. 

As  a  final  act  of  the  dinner,  the  fol- 
lowing members  were  elected  as  officers 
for  five  years:  President,  William  K. 
Wickes;  vice-president,  Francis  J. 
Marsh;  secretary  and  treasurer,  John  G. 
Stanton;  member  of  Alumni  Council, 
Charles  L.  Harrington. 

Present  at  the  dinner  were  Henry  A. 
Davenport,  Charles  L.  Harrington, . 
Joel  S.  Ives,  Francis  J.  Marsh,  John  P. 
Richardson,  John  G.  Stanton,  George  H. 
Tilton,  William  K.  Wickes,  Edward  C. 
Winslow,  and  Raymond  L.  Bridgman. 
Bridgman  is  always  welcomed  as  a 
member  of  '70  although  he  graduated 
with  '71.  George  E.  Goodrich  was  in 
town,  but  could  not  be  found. 

At  Commencement  the  class  marched 
between  long  ranks  of  classes  each  of 
which  is  to  experience  in  turn  the  delight 


of  being  called  a  fifty-year  class.  There 
was  no  yellow-belt  nor  multicolored- 
uniform  display.  Nature,  however,  had 
provided  nine  white  mustaches  and  nine 
bald  heads  for  the  admiration  of  ob- 
servers. As  in  old  gymnasium  frolics, 
all  stood  erect,  all  had  undimmed  eyes. 
Thus  the  class  marched  into  College 
Hall  and  took  places  of  honor. 

Later  the  march  was  to  the  alumni 
dinner,  but  our  whistler  was  absent. 
Before  partaking  of  a  poor  dinner  poorly 
served,  '70  enlivened  the  crowd  of 
graduates  with  the  following  Wickes 
concoction : 

Hark!     Hark! 

Here  we  pass  the  half-ce«<ury  mark! 
Seventy!     Seventy! 
Look  for  Us  again!! 
Seventy!     Seventy! 

Class  after  class  responded  to  this 
vigorous  sentiment.  Seventy  ate  (a 
little),  helped  cheer  the  Olds  picture, 
and  separated. 

1875 

Sk  members  of  the  class  of  1875 
gathered  for  their  forty-fifth  year  re- 
union on  Monday  and  Tuesday,  June 
14  and  15  —exactly  25  per  cent  of  the 
members  living,  so  far  as  known  to 
the  Secretary.  But  as  no  one  has 
heard  of  any  tidings  of  W.  J.  Feemster 
for  over  forty  years,  nor  of  W.  H. 
DeWitt  since  1910  or  1912,  the  class 
can  only  count  on  twenty-two  members 
as  certainly  surviving,  so  tliat  the  per- 
centage of  attendance  may  fairly  be 
raised  to  27^  per  cent. 

The     class     headquarters     were     at 


us      Amhbrst  Graduates*  Quarterly 


Pratt  Porimtory,  »1\<to  :i  proliiniuary 
infonnal  iiuvliii^j  was  hold  MiMjiiay 
pvfuiiift-  Four  wore  present  tho  S«h^ 
nMnry.  ('.  W.  Koariiij;  of  S*>uth  Woy- 
luoiith,  Mass.,  llov.  V.  V.  San  illo  of 
(tiwnwii'li,  N.  Y..  ami  Limlloy  \  inton 
of  Now  York.  Tviosday  moruinj;  at  tlio 
rt'jjularly  apiHMnt*\l  busiiioss  luootiiii; 
tlio  attoinlaiuv  was  inorojustnl  .">()  por 
tvtit  hy  iho  arrival  of  llov.  E.  I'.  Arm- 
stroiij;  of  Honriotta,  N.  Y..  niul  Uov. 
1>.  M.  Mi>or<>  of  Oranj;*",  Mass.  .lust 
what  iuforomx"  should  ho  drawn  fn>Mi 
fho  fact  that  ono-half  of  thoso  in  at- 
tondaniv  wore  uiinistors,  as  l>oarink;  on 
tho  vitality  and  ola.ss  spirit  of  tho 
olorical  prt>fo,ssii>n  tho  S<vrotary  will  not 
atton\pt  ti>  dotorniino;  but  ho  n»>tos  that 
tho  thro<^  who  "ro-»n\od"  woro  7.>  per 
<vnt  of  tho  total  livini;  olorioal  tnoinhor- 
slup  of  tlio  class! 

.\t  tho  busino.ss  nitvtini;  ruosday 
nuirninjj.  Hon.  Oaniol  Kont  of  Wonvs- 
tor  was  oUvtinl  prosidont  of  tho  i-lass. 
IVofo.ssor  C^.  A.  llulTnn\  of  Kasthaniptoi\ 
olass  n^prosontalivo  in  Ahnnni  (\>unoil, 
and  IVofossor  A.  D.  F.  Hamlin  stvro- 
tary . 

riio  dinnor  was  sorvod  by  Mrs. 
>Naltor  (.\  .lohnson.  atul  was  attondod 
by  tho  six  tnonibors  alroady  lislt\i  and 
by  W.  M.  Ouokor  of  Now  York,  ono- 
half  of  wlioso  o'llojto  lifo  was  spout  in 
tho  olass  of  IST.I  althoujih  ho  kjrad- 
iiatinl  with  '7(5.  Thus  tho  "porftvt 
nunilH'r"  of  sovon  was  .soi'urivl,  which 
exactly  tilled  tho  possible  plaiws  arounil 
Mrs.  Johnson's  fcouorously  loailod  table. 
Tho  aflor-ilinner  talk  naturally  tix>k  tho 
form  of  romini-siYuix*  ami  life-stories,  in 
tho  fashion  of  fret'  and  intimate  narra- 
tive, natural  to  so  small  and  int innate  a 
fjathoring.  Tho  Stvretary's  nvital  was 
tvntine*!  to  a  brief  aixxumt  of  his  trip 
last  smunier,  on  a  mission  for  the  Near 
Fast    Relief    ('oivuuitttv    to    report    on 


the  (>>ndilion  of  the  destitute  (lr<N"k 
i»mmunities  in  western  Asia  Minor, 
nucker  told  us  all  alH>ut  his  bnsino.ss 
i>f  supplyiufj  jH>rtablo  houses  and 
«'hurches,  with  incidental  reforontv.s  to 
lH>yhooil  days  with  Kujjone  Field.  We 
loaruiHl  how  Foariuj;,  layman  and 
C'usloujs  Hou.so  olork,  had  framtsl  a 
cnnnl  for  a  churoh  an<l  had  iMmluctod  a 
fmioral  servi(x\  how  .Vrmstronn  and 
S(\>ville  had  fart>l  in  their  several  cler- 
ical t'har>j»\s.  how  Mt>on>  had  oxchanjjtHl 
tho  pulpit  for  the  plou^jh.  and  ho\>  \  in- 
ton had  cultivatotl  ri<v  in  Hritish  (uiian.i 
and  won  a  cup  in  l,tuidon  for  achioM"^ 
nients  in  india-rubber  i>roductii>n 
There  woro  revivals  of  i\)llojje  memories 
and  reminisixM\».vs  of  classmates  absent 
or  no  lon)j»*r  living;.  nn»i  the  ^rtiup  did  not 
break  up  until  nearly  11  p.  m. 

In  the  (.'onuueiuHMUont  pnuvssion 
N  inton  acted  as  (Mass  Marshal  folh>wed 
by  his  llock  of  five.  (>win»;  to  a  mix-up 
in  ('olloiio  Hall  wo  were  i>;nominiously 
i>ustod  from  tho  seats  suppo.stnlly  re- 
sorvtnl  for  us,  b\it  fo\uul  an  empty 
bench  on  a  side  aisle.  The  C^onunomt^ 
uicnt  dinner  oIo.sihI  the  exorcises  ol  the 
forty-tifth  year  reunion. 

.\t  the  IVvsidont's  nnx'ption  Tuesday 
afternoon,  all  six  members  of  tho  cla.ss 
had  the  pleasure  of  nuvtinj;  antl  (>>n- 
vorsim;  at  leujjth  with  Mrs.  Flwell  and 
Miss  F.lwell,  and  later  went  in  a  body  to 
call  on  Mrs.  Hosuut.  I'rofos.sor  KIwell 
and  Hon.  F.  .\.  Hi>sn»or  had  both  been 
pn^sont  at  the  last  previous  reunion,  and 
had  passed  since  then  to  tho  other  wi>rld. 

Sini,\>  the  last  reunion  ti\e  deatlis 
have  btvn  roiH>rtod  of  jjraduates; 
Flwell.  Hosmor.  LvivoU,  Siiwyer  a  nil 
Toad;  and  two  of  non-nraduates.  F.  H. 
(uHirjio  and  D.  C  Henry.  Flwell. 
Hosmor  and  Henry  wore  present  at  the 
last  rovmion. 

A.  /).  F.  ILvJiliu. 


Rsrif  ion  » 


259 


'Hi':  UirVif.lii  y'-nr  f.niuitii  <,\  t.Ji<-,  <\'a».>. 

Saf.iir'lay  Ut  'WfAtu-^iny .  H»«wlqiiar- 
Uth  w«rr«;  af,  l\it-  lirown  horjiK;  on  ~rf/rirn^ 
Sirwrt  with  lix;  Maroh  houv;  on  Main 
Sl.r<^  an  an  ann»rr.  M»:al>i  w<rr«; 
t4^rvfA  in  fii«;  Brown  hoii-y;  for  all  f.h»; 
'law!,  {similurn  and  inviWJ  irnfmlA. 
Mori/ jay  wa*  /lirvf /»>-/!  t/>  f.Jj/;  t.ra/jit.i//nal 
alWay  t.rij*  tx>  Mount.  'IV/rn  wiUi  flinrwrr 
at  n/x/n  at  tij«  Summit  Houv.  r«:«tAi>- 
rant.  The  trij*  t/xjk  in  S^/uth  Ha/lky, 
llolyokf.,  EaothAmpU/n,  arui  N'/rti>- 
tnfij/U>ri.  AFx/ut  (sixty  w»rr/l  '>n  thw 
tJTjj.  Th*;  f,ia«>  tWnritrT  wa*  h«;Jfi  at 
b«uJfjiiart/rr«  Si'frubxy  frv*rti]iiii.  S'vf/- 
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of  i'reKJ/l/rrjt  M'</r«;}f'/ry,  wJ»/>  wa« 
m'yjTfsii  in  tij*;  railr'/sfuj  wyvUmt  at 
fv,+ien*5frt.A/Jy  an/1  utinAAf.  i/t  at.t/rrj/J. 
'Hi*  old  ciaiM  f/ffi/>^»,  wf^re  r*3<:l»^rt*d 
ao/J  Jam/^  Turing  wau  *^t:f^frA  t^Mui^ 
r*:;j/rfc««mtativ*;  f/ri  th#;  Alurnni  <^>/ijrj/n'l. 
Tfj«r*:  wfTfc  f'/rt.y  rn/rn  jir'rvrrjt  at  th/; 
r*^jni/^rj,  whi/;h  wa#,  a  ;rr»:at  <fij/:/?aw!  a*  i* 
♦rvid*rn/*/l  hy  th*-  fa/rt  tijat  th*;  daw. 
ajRiiri  won  th*-,  trf/f>hy  f;»jj*.  '>J^J  ha«  h.ari 
four  trial*  at  th*:  ojp  wrj/*  th/;  fy/m- 
pfdttion  wa«  fstt.al<ILi>h/3^  an^j  ha».  '3if>- 
titred  it  tl/re*;  tim**.  M^rrn^xr*,  '/f  th^, 
daM  w#Tf:  \iifni*^i\.  trf/in  .Syria  an/i  from 
the  Pa/.-ific  fy^atrt.  'Hj^  h^sa/iqixart^tr*. 
art/J  all  arran;f»;Trj^ntji  f'/r  T'^/rtt*  w*^*:  in 
fiiarge  r/f  y^rkna.,  wii/,  rnJuniiitrfi  tiiAt 
part  '/f  lh>*:  r«run)/'/n  in  hi*  liwial  «:ffj/.-v;nt 
mariTM^.  .Many  f>f  thj/:  /ii**  brou^fht 
tb«!ir  families  wjtii  thiwrj  arvj  i!^v«^aj 
grawkiiiWrerj  wfre  pr«i«irt.  Ar,'^-.rj;^»;- 
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ratsAvnOf,.  Tiif.  wix;  ol/l  }'r«rx  »#:«rm*  t/> 
have,  furvntni  \.\ii:  pT^'jiruif.  tttt-An  '4  fJiia 
»tranj^«:  fi«'w  «rra  f/f  »/ijr«,  tJi/;  v«rry  «t,raint 
that  oijf  >./».t>rm«  w»^»:  <Ur*Uii*-A  »/< 
un'J<  •  'l<rfini»>;ly    f/<    h.av«-.    j/r'/- 

vi/1'  'Jo  !V->;ly,  an/1  f in-niinn 

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.S':';ly<:-^/arman  «;lixir  ifA*tr»^-/\  jfTK^ 
vrrvativ*:  j>//v/«rr«  whi/;h  w'rr*-,  rath/^ 
r'-,markahlft.  Witn/r**  th*:  r'rt.ijrn  for 
th/rir  thirty-fifth  r»njn>//n  '/f  n/^arly  half 
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Urfi/rr  pla/>T».  in  tij/-,  wf/rl/l  t>ian  tli#ry  di/l 
in  y'fijuiif^  y*st.n. 

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260 


Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


Dr.  Stanton  Gleason.  There  is  not  a 
family  of  the  poorer  or  middle  classes 
in  and  near  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  who  did 
not  deeply  mourn  the  passing  of  Dr. 
Gleason.  So  the  word  came  from  the 
banks  of  the  Hudson. 

Tod  Galloway  was  drafted  to  sing 
"The  Gypsy  Trail"  and  others  of  his 
own  fascinating  songs,  and  the  com- 
pany then  joined  in  a  delightful,  old- 
fashioned  "sing"  with  Upton  at  the 
piano.  The  occasion  was  a  memorable 
one;  it  will  linger  fondly  in  the  memory 
of  every  one  who  was  so  fortunate  as  to 
be  present. 

There  was  a  ball  game  Monday  fore- 
noon, organized  by  Sid  Sherman,  the 
'85  team  including  Ben  Brooks,  Sam 
Williams,  and  sundry  men  of  other 
classes  unknown  to  the  chronicler. 
The  rival  team,  whose  identities  were 
a  mystery  to  most  of  us,  but  largely 
from  the  Faculty,  was  defeated  by  a 
score  of  5  to  3. 

The  class  dinner  Monday  evening 
was  served  on  the  veranda  of  the  Carter 
house,  most  comfortably  and  satisfy- 
ingly.  Toastmaster  Upton  was  thor- 
oughly and  felicitously  at  home  at  the 
head  of  the  table.  Ben  Brooks'  stipu- 
lation against  strong  drink  at  head- 
quarters was  scrupulously  obeyed. 
Rev.  Charles  A.  Jones  related  some 
inside  history  of  the  closing  year  of  '85. 
Fred  Richards  celebrated  in  rhyme 
many  amusing  incidents  in  the  lives  of 
'85  men. 

The  most  notable  of  the  talks  was 
that  of  Sir  Herbert  Ames,  who  is  the 
treasurer  of  the  League  of  Nations,  with 
headquarters  at  Geneva,  Switzerland. 
His  outline  of  the  working  of  the  League 
was  masterly  and  his  plea  for  America's 
entry  was  eloquent  and  heard  with  the 
closest  attention.  It  contained  much 
that  was  new  to  all  of  us. 

The  years  rest  lightlv  on  Ames,  who 


gives  promise  of  long  and  distinguished 
service  to  his  country  and  the  cause  of 
world  peace. 

Lieut.-Commander  Edward  Breck, 
of  the  United  States  Navy,  in  summer 
uniform  of  white,  with  as  many  decora- 
tions as  John  Philip  Sousa,  was  a  dis- 
tinguished and  welcome  figure.  He 
made  a  plea  for  interest  in  and  support 
of  the  navy. 

James  B.  Best,  all  the  way  from  Ever- 
ett, Wash.,  revealed  himself  a  speaker 
of  rare  grace  and  charm  of  diction,  tell- 
ing us  about  the  "boys"  out  on  the 
coast.  Noble  sent  an  appeal  on  behalf 
of  a  Master-of-Arts  degree  for  Elliott, 
in  recognition  of  his  researches  and 
writings  in  Oregon  and  Washington 
history. 

The  speaking  throughout  was  in- 
formal, and  rich  in  the  sturdy  philosophy 
of  middle  age  and  in  rollicking  good  fun. 
The  best  series  of  after-dinner  speeches 
in  the  history  of  the  class.  Every  man 
was  called  upon  and  there  was  never  a 
flunk. 

While  the  men  dined,  the  families 
were  most  hospitably  entertained  at 
Miss  Hunt's  on  Northampton  Road. 

Mrs.  Hinman,  widow  of  Jason  Hin- 
man,  was  a  most  welcome  guest  through- 
out the  reunion,  which  she  seemed  to 
enjoy.  Mrs.  Tuttle  was  in  Amherst, 
her  son,  Gerry,  being  a  member  of  the 
graduating  class.  Russell  L.  Houghton, 
third  son  of  our  classmate,  and  now  a 
student  at  Amherst,  gave  us  much 
pleasure  by  joining  us  in  some  of  our 

affairs. 

James  E.  Tower. 

1890 

The  class  of  1890  held  its  seventh 
reunion,  celebrating  the  30th  anniver- 
sary at  Commencement. 

Thirty-four  of  the  sixty-eight  living 
members  of  the  class  were  present,  with 
seventeen  wives  and  sixteen  children. 


Reunions 


261 


The  reunion  was  a  great  success  in 
every  way  except  as  to  weather. 

The  class  had  for  headquarters  the 
Masonic  Hall  building  which  is  just 
below  the  Town  Hall  opposite  the  new 
Sweetser  Park,  on  the  way  to  the 
"Deke"  house.  It  is  a  very  spacious 
club  house  and  admirably  adapted  for 
the  purposes  of  a  class  reunion.  Frank 
Wood  provided  meals  and  arranged  for 
rooms  in  a  manner  that  more  than  made 
good  Buskey's  promise  of  creature  com- 
forts "to  the  nth  degree."  The  thanks 
of  the  class  are  due  to  Frank  and  his 
wife  and  daughter  for  the  efficient 
way  in  which  they  took  care  of  us  for 
four  days. 

We  superintended  the  alumni  parade 
Saturday  night,  attended  Baccalaureate 
services  on  Sunday  morning,  in  the 
rain,  heard  the  oratorio  in  the  after- 
noon and  were  present  at  the  "sacred" 
concert  thoughtfully  provided  by  '05 
in  the  evening. 

After  this  orthodox  beginning  we  fell 
from  grace  and  unblushingly  delegated 
W.  H.  Smith  to  represent  the  class  at 
all  subsequent  college  exercises.  He 
didn't  skip  one  from  the  Hyde  oration 
(where  he  was  one  of  the  audience  of 
about  nine  persons,  some  of  the  other 
classes  having  failed  to  send  a  delegate) 
on  through  the  entire  list,  and  sub- 
sequently reported  favorably,  i.e.,  that 
they  were  none  of  them  up  to  the  high 
'90  standard. 

On  Monday  we  inspected  the  College, 
also  neighboring  colleges,  and  in  the 
afternoon  saw  the  ball  nine  go  down  to 
defeat  at  the  hands  of  the  Aggie.  O 
temporal  O  mores!  'Twas  well  that 
Toby  Pope  and  Ray  Hare  were  not 
there  that  day! 

We  had  our  class  supper  at  Head- 
quarters while  the  ladies  and  children 
went  to  "The  Lilacs,"  a  celebrated  tea- 
house near  Amherst. 


On  Tuesday  we  had  our  pictures  taken 
on  the  steps  of  the  new  high  school 
building  just  across  the  park  from  our 
club  house,  and  after  that  was  over  felt 
better  and  all  went  up  to  the  Grove 
exercises  where  we  tried  to  post  our- 
selves to  date  on  college  jokes  and  to 
look  as  though  we  understood  what  was 
going  on  as  well  as  anybody,  and  then 
motored  out  to  Mrs.  Billy  Doyle's 
cottage  in  the  Pelham  hills.  At  this 
point  the  class  slipped  back  a  bit  into 
its  manners  of  undergraduate  days  and 
after  putting  on  the  Golden  Sword 
climbed  the  Golden  Stairs  and  other- 
wise disported  itself  while  from  time  to 
time  it  rained  golden  rain  which  wet  the 
grass  for  the  lawn  fete  so  that  it  was  a 
little  damp  around  the  edges. 

On  Wednesday  we  saw  Cal  West's 
boy  given  a  degree  that  he  had  worked 
for  for  four  years,  and  Herbert  Low 
given  an  honorary  degree  of  great  dis- 
tinction that  he  hadn't  worked  for  at 
all,  but  which  he  undoubtedly  deserved, 
and  the  class  unanimously  elected  him 
as  its  representative  on  the  Alumni 
Council  for  five  years. 

Marshalled  by  Colonel  Gilbert  we 
paraded  over  to  the  alumni  dinner, 
which  as  a  meal  suffered  somewhat  by 
comparison  with  those  we  had  become 
accustomed  to  at  the  class  rathskellar, 
and  as  the  speaking  progressed  late  into 
the  afternoon  the  class  reunion  grad- 
ually dissolved,  or  as  they  say  in  motion 
picture  circles,  "irised  out." 

This  bare  and  unadorned  outline  of 
the  events  of  the  reunion  is  addressed 
to  the  thirty-four  unfortunates  who, 
though  kept  at  home,  were  by  no  means 
forgotten. 

George  C.  Coit. 

1895 

Preparations  began  early  to  show  an 
almost  new  temper  of  nearly  uniform 


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trend  which  could  be  described  in  only 
one  way — indeed  the  first  batch  of 
replies  might  have  been  the  product  of 
a  rubber-stamp:  "We  are  coming 
early  to  stay  through."  Original  plans 
to  make  headquarters  at  Mrs.  Perry's  on 
Amity  Street  had  to  be  abandoned  to 
provide  for  the  crowd  that  was  evi- 
dently coming.  The  class  accepted  a 
timely  invitation  to  use  the  old  Tyler 
homestead  on  the  hill  in  the  oak  grove 
back  of  the  D.  K.  E.  house.  Arrange- 
ments were  made  with  a  housekeeper 
who  came  from  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  with  a 
corps  of  five  servants,  and  opened  up 
the  old  house  in  time  to  receive  those 
who  might  come  wandering  in  on  Satur- 
day evening.  A  few  pioneer  souls 
appeared  on  the  scene  Friday  evening 
and  Saturday  morning  showed  evi- 
dences of  the  real  meaning  of  the  earlier 
replies,  and  a  party  of  fifty-eight  sat 
down  to  dinner  at  headquarters  on 
Saturday  evening. 

It  was  the  happiest  and  most  en- 
thusiastic of  all  our  reunions.  While 
the  numbers  did  not  exceed  sixty  at  any 
one  time,  fifty-five  was  the  minimum 
at  any  meal  from  Saturday  night  to 
Wednesday  morning.  Now  and  again 
a  new  face  appeared  amidst  the  shouts 
of  welcome  from  the  front  porches. 
Two  or  three  of  the  boys  had  to  leave 
before  it  was  over.  For  the  most  part 
the  crowd  which  came  Saturday  stayed 
through  until  Wednesday.  There  were 
fifteen  wives,  eight  daughters  and  four 
sons.  Sidney  Andrews,  son  of  our 
classmate  and  newly  elected  president, 
was  the  "man  Friday"  of  the  reunion 
committee  who  negotiated  the  business 
in  Amherst,  opened  things  up  and 
closed  them  down  again,  a  job  well  done 
in  businesslike  fashion,  worthy  of  the 
blood  in  his  veins. 

It  was  appropriate  that  things  should 
make  their  real  start  at  Professor  Olds's 


house  on  Sunday  afternoon,  where  Mrs. 
Olds  was  hostess  at  an  informal  tea 
and  reception.  Of  course  all  of  '95  was 
there.  Monday  night  came  the  class 
dinner  at  the  Colony  Club  in  Spring- 
field. Automobiles  were  in  plenty  to 
transport  all  hands.  The  governor  of 
Massachusetts  was  with  us  and  made 
the  first  of  the  evening  speeches  after 
the  dinner,  followed  by  several  others 
whose  remarks  one  and  all  aroused  most 
genuine  interest  and  enthusiasm.  It 
was  a  much  more  notable  occasion  than 
the  big  banquet  on  Wednesday  at 
Amherst.  The  election  of  officers 
resulted  in  the  following:  President, 
Charles  A.  Andrews;  vice-president, 
George  D.  Olds;  treasurer,  Sherman  W. 
Haven;  secretary,  W.  S.  Tyler. 

Reference  to  the  sad  death  of  our  late 
treasurer,  Henry  W.  Lane,  provided  a 
solemn  side  of  the  occasion,  and  resolu- 
tions of  sympathy  were  voted  to  Mrs. 
Lane  to  be  forwarded  by  the  secretary. 

The  wives  and  daughters  attended  a 
banquet  of  their  own  Monday  night  at 
headquarters  in  Amherst  and  by  some 
previous  arrangement  presented  to  the 
men  at  their  Springfield  banquet  a 
large  birthday  cake  which  was  brought 
into  the  dining-room  and  presented 
with  a  silver  knife  to  cut  it — "the  gift 
of  the  '95  wives." 

Tuesday  morning  at  headquarters 
the  fair  skies  and  bright  sunlight  af- 
forded still  further  opportunities  to 
official  photographers  to  prepare  their 
pictures  for  the  coming  Sunday  editions 
of  the  newspapers.  An  explanation  of 
the  introduction  of  this  novelty  into  the 
class  exercises  was  again  found  in  the 
presence  of  the  governor  and  his  wife 
and  two  boys. 

A  full  attendance  at  the  alumni  din- 
ner in  the  G>Tnnasium  on  Wednesday 
both  on  the  floor  and  in  the  galleries 
bore    testimony    to    the    continuance 


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through  to  the  end  of  the  spirit  with 
which  our  reunion  started  and  there  was 
no  sign  of  breaking  away  until  the  after- 
noon of  Wednesday.  The  few  that 
remained  over  Wednesday  night  at 
headquarters  enjoyed  a  full  measure  of 
the  best  kind  of  visiting  together,  and 
on  Thursday  the  old  house  was  turned 
over  again  to  Sidney  Andrews  to  return 
to  its  former  state  of  unoccupied  lone- 
liness. W.  S.  Tyler. 
1900 

A  relatively  small  number  of  the 
class  of  1900 — thirty-three  in  all — 
attended  the  vicennial  reunion  of  the 
class  in  Amherst  during  Commence- 
ment, but  it  proved  to  be  one  of  the 
most  successful  and  enjoyable  reunions 
the  class  has  ever  held.  Headquarters 
were  established  in  the  Cosby  house,  15 
Amity  Street,  which  was  appropriately 
decorated. 

The  bunch  began  to  arrive  on  Satur- 
day, some  of  them  in  time  for  the 
Brown  game.  All  meals  were  served  at 
headquarters  and  meal  times  proved 
to  be  most  enjoyable  in  renewing  old 
friendships.  Saturday  evening  a  dozen 
of  the  class  took  part  in  the  alumni 
parade  and  later  gathered  in  the  tap- 
room at  headquarters  for  song  and  non- 
alcoholic libations. 

Sunday  was  cold  and  rainy,  but  the 
confinement  indoors  only  added  to  the 
opportunities  for  friendly  intercourse. 
On  Monday  afternoon  the  class  at- 
tended the  Aggie  game  in  a  body,  where 
they  were  joined  by  several  newcomers. 

The  class  supper  was  held  at  head- 
quarters on  Monday  evening,  while  the 
ladies  were  taken  care  of  at  the  Hotel 
Warren  in  South  Deerfield.  Cosby 
catered  and  the  supper  was  a  huge  suc- 
cess. After  hunger  had  been  satisfied, 
the  roll  of  the  class  was  called  and  each 
member  responded,  telling  of  the  things 
that  had  befallen  him  since  the  previous 


reunion.  Nearly  every  absent  member 
was  answered  for  by  a  friend.  Major 
Hammond,  our  chief  war  hero,  spoke 
most  interestingly  of  his  experiences  at 
the  front,  and  Turk  Righter  did  the 
Harry  Lauder  act.  The  crowd  broke 
up  regretfully  at  a  late  hour. 

During  the  dinner  a  brief  business 
meeting  was  held  and  the  following 
oflScers  were  elected  for  the  next  five 
years:  President,  H.  I.  Pratt;  secre- 
tary, W.  A.  Dyer;  treasurer,  A.  B. 
Franklin;  member  of  the  Alumni 
Council,  A.  B.  Franklin;  reunion  com- 
mittee, T.  J.  Hammond,  chairman. 
Dyer,  and  Franklin;  supplementary 
members,  Pratt,  Lyall,  and  Grant. 

On  Tuesday  morning  1900  played 
1914  a  stirring  game  of  baseball,  losing 
1  to  7  in  the  seventh  inning. 

On  Wednesday,  Professor  Ernest 
Hatch  Wilkins,  '00,  of  the  University  of 
Chicago,  was  awarded  the  degree  of 
Litt.D.  Many  of  the  class  remained  to 
attend  the  alumni  dinner  on  Wednesday 
noon,  where  it  was  announced  that 
Professor  Harold  C.  Goddard,  '00,  of 
Swarthmore  College,  had  been  elected 
honorary  vice-president  of  the  General 
Association  of  the  Alumni  of  Amherst 
College,  and  Dyer  was  elevated  to  the 
exalted  position  of  membership  on  the 
committee  on  nominations  of  Alumni 
Trustees. 

1905 

The  reunion  of  the  class  of  1905  was 
a  success  from  start  to  finish.  One 
member  of  1905 — George  A.  Brown — 
travelled  2,700  miles  on  purpose  to 
attend  the  reunion  and  this  is  thought 
to  be  the  long-distance  record  of  last 
Commencement. 

Class  headquarters  were  at  the  Pease 
House  on  Northampton  Road,  where 
all  the  1905  reunions  have  been  held. 
The  class  costume  consisted  of  white 
duck     suits     with     purple     trimmings. 


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Panama  hats,  purple  ties  and  white 
shoes,  while  the  class  wives  were  dressed 
in  white  and  wore  purple  sashes  and  the 
same  hats  as  the  men  and  carried  purple 
and  white  sunshades.  The  costume 
was  one  of  the  most  effective  seen  at  the 
Amherst  Commencement. 

1905  reunions  have  become  famous  at 
Amherst  for  their  pep  and  enthusiasm 
and  the  one  of  this  year  was  no  excep- 
tion. There  was  a  large  attendance 
and  an  unusually  large  number  of  class 
wives  were  present.  The  class  dined 
together,  having  taken  over  the  Nelson 
Waite  house  for  that  purpose. 

The  class  appeared  in  their  costumes 
in  time  for  the  alumni  parade  on  Satur- 
day night  when  the  first  sensation  of 
Commencement  was  sprung,  namely 
the  launching  of  the  1905  dirigibles. 
This  was  followed  by  a  concert  at  head- 
quarters with  the  famous  Eureka  Trio, 
who  have  appeared  at  Amherst  and 
Princeton  for  several  seasons.  Sunday 
afternoon.  Professor  and  Mrs.  Grosve- 
nor  tendered  the  class  a  reception, 
"Grosvie"  being  an  honorary  member 
of  1905.  On  Sunday  evening,  one  of 
the  most  successful  events  of  the  Com- 
mencement season  took  place  when  an 
alumni  sing  was  staged  by  1905  at  their 
headquarters.  Several  of  the  reunion 
classes  attended  in  a  body.  Speeches 
were  made  by  members  of  the  Faculty 
and  prominent  alumni  and  everybody 
joined  in  the  general  sing  and  in  addi- 
tion there  were  incidental  solos  ren- 
dered by  Mrs.  W.  E.  Rounseville,  the 
Amherst  Glee  Club,  Lay  of  1922,  and 
"Rex"  Boynton,  '05,  one  of  Amherst's 
most  famous  tenors. 

Monday  morning  the  1905  baseball 
team  crossed  bats  with  1910  at  Pratt 
Field  and  won  by  a  score  of  5-0,  with- 
out making  a  single  error. 

Monday  afternoon  the  class  attended 
the  varsity  baseball  game  and  Monday 


evening  while  the  class  wives  were 
holding  their  dinner  on  the  top  of  Mt. 
Tom,  the  class  dinner  was  held  at  the 
Hotel  Nonotuck  in  Holyoke.  Officers 
were  elected  as  follows:  President, 
E.  A.  Baily;  vice-president,  R.  W. 
Pease;  secretary,  J.  B.  O'Brien;  treas- 
urer, E.  C.  Crossett;  chairman  of  re- 
union committee,  L.  R.  Fort;  represent- 
ative on  Alumni  Council,  A.  S.  Nash. 

Throughout  the  Commencement  sea- 
son, 1905  was  much  in  evidence  and 
particularly  so  at  the  Grove  exercises  on 
Tuesday  afternoon. 

This  reunion  was  voted  as  one  of  the 
most  successful  the  class  has  yet  held. 
J.  B.  O'Brien. 

1910 

Nineteen-ten  with  John  Henry  to  the 
fore  furnished  a  bright  spot  in  an  other- 
wise sober  Commencement.  Early 
Saturday  evening  the  colored  lights  and 
flashing  skull  and  crossbones  attracted 
Pirates  and  "Pirenes"  to  the  Davidson 
house  on  the  Common,  where  class 
headquarters  had  been  established  under 
the  efficient  supervision  of  Burnett. 
Headed  by  the  Y.  D.  band,  the  class 
took  part  in  the  alumni  parade,  returned 
to  headquarters  for  a  band  concert  and 
get-together,  and  finally  dispersed  to 
visit  other  classes.  Thirty-seven  men 
in  all  visited  Amherst  during  the  re- 
union season,  not  enough  to  give  the 
class  a  creditable  standing  in  the 
reunion  trophy  competition,  but  enough 
when  supplemented  by  wives  and  chil- 
dren to  enliven  the  Campus  with  pirate 
costumes. 

On  Sunday  the  married  lunched  at 
the  Davenport,  and  thence  proceeded 
to  Hubert  Barton's  farm  in  South 
Amherst,  where  in  spite  of  the  rain  they 
enjoyed  a  garden  party  in  front  of  the 
Barton's  hospitable  fireplace.  That 
evening  the  class  held  the  traditional 


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ceremony  in  the  Grove  in  commemora- 
tion of  the  class  dead:  Thomas  Allen 
Benedict,  Birdseye  Blakeman  Lewis, 
and  Ralph  Waldo  Rice.  Afterwards 
at  headquarters  Professor  Gettell  and 
President  Meiklejohn  spoke  on  the 
work  of  the  College  and  a  lively  dis- 
cussion followed. 

With  the  Big  Leaguer  in  the  box  the 
1910  baseball  team  confidently  ex- 
pected a  victory  over  1905,  but  poor 
work  with  the  stick  left  them  with  the 
small  end  of  the  score.  Shortly  after 
lunch  the  Pirates  assembled  in  full 
force  to  man  the  pirate  ship,  and  led  by 
Prexy  Boynton,  marched  to  Pratt 
Field  to  witness  the  game  with  Aggie. 
Abe  Mitchell's  sign  on  the  vessel, 
"We  list  to  Coolidge,"  and  Bill  Ladd 
on  the  hobby-horse  attracted  much 
attention.  Jack  Wight  also  earned 
honors  as  a  baby  elephant.  For  the 
class-supper  the  Pirates  in  costume 
motored  to  the  Nonotuck,  where  one 
end  of  the  roof  garden  was  reserved  for 
them.  Dancing  until  midnight  con- 
cluded the  day. 

At  a  business  meeting  of  the  class  the 
following  morning  the  officers  of  the 
class  were  reelected  and  "Mike" 
Milloy  chosen  class  representative  on 
the  Alumni  Council.  A  few  members 
of  the  class  attended  the  Grove  exer- 
cises and  the  lawn  fete  and  seven  re- 
mained for  the  alumni  dinner.  The 
reunion  committee  consisted  of  Wheeler, 
chairman,  M.  R.  Boynton,  Burnett, 
Emrie,  Mitchell,  Seligman,  Tucker, 
and  Wight. 

G.  F.  W. 
1914 

On  June  12,  1920,  the  class  of  1914 
assembled  in  Amherst  to  celebrate  its 
sixth  reunion.  Owing  to  the  war  this 
class  had  no  third  reunion  and  accord- 
ingly celebrated  both  reunions  at  once 
with  great  success.     Fifty-three  mem- 


bers of  the  class  (and  fifteen  wives) 
came  back  out  of  a  possible  one  hundred 
and  twelve,  of  whom  only  seventy  were 
actually  available  for  this  reunion. 

The  headquarters  chosen  was  the 
old  College  library,  which  cannot  be 
surpassed  for  convenience,  size,  and 
adaptability.  The  pleasantest  feature 
of  the  reunion  was  the  serving  of  all 
meals  at  the  headquarters,  during  which 
the  entire  class  assembled  as  at  a  house- 
party.  The  Faculty  Club  room  was  at 
our  disposal  and  everything  desirable 
for  a  good  time  was  at  hand.  The 
costumes  were  the  creation  of  Miss 
Dixon,  who  is  shortly  to  become  Mrs. 
Osterkamp,  and  were  a  mandarin  com- 
bination with  a  yellow  sun  on  the  back 
of  a  purple  tunic,  proclaiming  the 
"rising  sons"  of  1914,  with  effective 
orange  oleomargarine  trousers  to  com- 
plete the  scintillating  color  scheme. 

The  class  first  assembled  for  dinner 
at  the  headquarters  on  Saturday  night 
and  then  fell  in  line  behind  a  36-piece 
band  from  Springfield  and  marched  in 
the  alumni  parade.  Following  this,  it 
attended  a  band  concert  at  the  head- 
quarters, and  at  10.30  fell  in  behind  the 
band  and  marched  to  the  town  hall, 
where  a  film  taken  at  our  Commence- 
ment in  1914  was  revealed  to  the  merri- 
ment of  the  onlookers.  Prof.  Gros- 
venor — honorary  1914 — spoke  feelingly 
of  the  relations  of  the  class,  of  his 
affection  for  the  class,  and  of  its  sadness 
in  the  loss  of  ten  of  its  members. 

Sunday  afternoon.  Prof,  and  Mrs. 
Grosvenor  entertained  at  their  home  at 
a  tea  for  1914.  Both  host  and  hostess 
wore  the  class  costume. 

Sunday  night  at  six  o'clock  the  class 
left  for  Hotel  Nonotuck,  Holyoke, 
where  it  enjoyed  a  class  supper.  Presi- 
dent Chamberlain  presided.  The  Sab- 
rina  episode  was  discussed.  A  reunion 
committee    was     elected     as     follows: 


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Chairman,  T.  W.  Miller,  Carpenter, 
T.  H.  Hubbard,  Osterkamp. 

A  "Bull "  committee  was  also  elected: 
Chairman,  DeCastro,  C.  P.  Rugg, 
Moulton. 

The  secretary-treasurer  was  reelected 
and  R.  P.  Young  was  elected  to  succeed 
Chamberlain  as  representative  on  the 
Alumni  Council.  President  Chamber- 
lain spoke  briefly  of  the  men  who  have 
died,  and  Strahan  spoke  of  his  last 
seeing  Hersh.  Mr.  Gundaker  told 
stories.     Enough  said. 

Most  of  the  class  returned  to  Amherst 
that  night  in  a  large  truck.  While 
going  to  Holyoke  on  this  truck,  we  were 
stopped  in  South  Hadley  by  a  gentle- 
manly constable  who  inquired  of  Car- 
penter if  he  were  Dean  Burns.  "What 
do  you  mean?"  said  our  eminent  jurist. 
"Well,"  said  the  constable,  "I  heard 
that  they  were  moving  the  Home  School 
and  I  just  wanted  to  know  if  this  was 
the  last  load." 

On  Monday  morning  1914  defeated 
the  Faculty  on  Pratt  Field,  or  at  least  it 
might  have  defeated  them  if  anybody 
had  thought  to  keep  the  score.  The 
rest  of  the  Commencement  period 
found  the  class  contributing  its  glam- 
orous support  on  all  occasions. 

Murphy  was  voted  the  man  who  had 
come  the  farthest.  Strahan  was  the 
man  who  brought  back  the  least  hair. 
Cunningham  brought  back  the  most 
avoirdupois.  Mrs.  George  Morse  was 
voted  the  best  sport  among  the  ladies, 
bringing  back  a  four  months'  old  baby. 
The  committee  was  unable  to  reach  a 
decision  as  to  the  best  looking  wife,  and 
protested  against  the  violent  and  unnec- 
essary lobbying  on  the  part  of  Mr. 
DeCastro.  Gundaker  was  voted  the 
best  story  teller  and  the  man  most 
changed  since  leaving  Amherst. 

Several  pictures  were  taken  and  the 
committee  requests  that  negatives  be 


sent  to  T.  W.  Miller,  Travelers'  Insur- 
ance Co.,  Hartford,  Conn.,  who  will 
have  plates  made  from  each  to  show  on 
the  screen  at  our  tenth  reunion. 

That  it  was  a  great  old  party,  "no- 
body can  deny." 

Roswell  P.  Young. 

1919 

The  first  reunion  for  '19  went  off 
according  to  schedule  with  almost  sixty 
men  back,  a  record  for  classes  out  such 
a  short  time.  In  this  number  were 
included  quite  a  few  who  had  been 
studying  in  Amherst  during  the  year. 
Headquarters  were  established  in  a 
tent  on  Campus  back  of  the  Octagon 
and  from  there  the  class  entered  into 
the  various  festivities.  Saturday  night 
Bob  Davis  provided  costumes  in  the 
way  of  yellow  sashes  and  red  bandanas 
and  the  class  joined  in  the  alumni 
"Peerade,"  making  a  notable  tassel  for 
the  tail  of  the  procession  as  it  wound  its 
way  around  town.  The  costumes  were 
inexpensive  but  effective  and  came  in 
for  considerable  favorable  comment. 

Monday  was  the  big  day  for  most  of 
the  men  who  were  back.  In  the  morn- 
ing there  was  a  class  meeting  at  the 
tent,  presided  over  by  Hal  Seward,  who 
was  unanimously  reelected  president 
for  a  term  of  office  extending  until  the 
next  regular  reunion.  He  was  also 
unanimously  elected  as  a  representa- 
tive to  the  Alumni  Council,  and  Bel- 
knap was  returned  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  by  the  same  vote. 

Monday  afternoon  the  class  paraded 
to  Pratt  Field  in  military  formation  and 
from  the  third  base  line  did  some  pray- 
ing and  cheering  for  Bart  Cummings, 
who  pitched  a  fine  game  against  Aggie. 
In  the  evening  the  class  met  at  the 
Nonotuck  and  enjoyed  a  good  dinner 
which  had  been  arranged  by  E.  R. 
Smith.     Professor  Hamilton  was  pres- 


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267 


ent  and  gave  a  very  happy  talk,  after 
which  Seward  told  how  Sabrina  had 
been  secured  for  membership  in  the 
class,  following  which  Jack  Gibson,  as 
toastmaster,  called  on  various  members 
for  remarks.  Many  of  the  men  re- 
turned to  their  homes  after  the  ban- 
quet, but  some  remained  in  Amherst  for 


the  Grove  exercises  on  Tuesday  and 
the  alumni  dinner  following  the  grad- 
uation exercises  on  Wednesday. 

With  the  6rst  reunion  over,  every 
member  of  the  class  is  looking  for- 
ward to  two  years  from  now  when  an 
even  more  real  reunion  can  and  will  be 
held. 


THE  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 


During  the  past  year  the  Alumni 
Council  has  held  two  meetings  the  re- 
sults of  which  promise  to  affect  vitally 
the  welfare  of  the  College.  The  6rst 
was  the  special  meeting  in  Amherst 
in  November.  The  second  was  the 
Seventh  Annual  Meeting  in  Chicago 
in  April.  The  Amherst  meeting  brought 
to  an  influential  group  of  alumni — and 
through  them  to  the  entire  alumni 
body — certain  definite  information 
about  the  actual  work  of  the  College, 
its  plans,  its  prospects,  and  its  needs. 
The  Chicago  meeting  acted  upon  this 
information,  and  voted  to  appeal  to  the 
alumni  for  a  Centennial  Gift  to  Amherst 
of  an  amount  sufficient  to  meet  at  least 
the  most  pressing  needs  of  the  College 
at  this  time,  and  authorized  the  Joint 
Trustee  and  Alumni  Council  Committee 
to  formulate  plans  for  making  such  an 
appeal.  This  Committee  thereupon 
decided  upon  a  form  of  organization 
and  plan  of  appeal — the  details  of  which 
will  be  communicated  to  the  alumni 
through  a  meeting  of  the  General  Com- 
mittee at  Amherst  in  the  early  autumn. 
The  proceedings  of  the  Amherst  meet- 
ing were  reported  at  length  and  a  copy 
sent  to  every  graduate  and  former  stu- 
dent of  the  College.  Additional  copies 
may  be  obtained  by  addressing  the 
Secretary  of  the  Alumni  Council  at 
Amherst. 

The    Chicago    meeting    brought    to- 
gether the  most  notable  gathering  of 


Amherst  men  ever  held  in  the  West. 
It  opened  with  an  informal  smoker  at 
the  Hotel  Blackstone  on  Friday  eve- 
ning, which  was  followed  by  the  busi- 
ness session  on  Saturday  and  a  dinner  in 
the  evening.  Grace  at  the  dinner  was 
said  by  the  Rev.  John  Timothy  Stone, 
D.D.,  '91.  Eugene  S.  Wilson.  Esq., 
'02,  president  of  the  Amherst  Club  of 
Chicago,  presided,  the  toastmaster 
was  Dean  Frederick  J.  E.  Woodbridge, 
'89,  of  Columbia  University,  and  the 
speakers  were  Professor  Percy  H. 
Boynton,  '97,  of  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, President  Alexander  Meiklejohn; 
President  Harry  Pratt  Judson  of  the 
University  of  Chicago;  D wight  W.  Mor- 
row, Esq.,  '95;  and  Dean  George  D. 
Olds.  A  poem  was  read  by  Frank  C. 
Wellman,  '98.  In  calling  the  business 
session  to  order,  Frederick  J.  E.  Wood- 
bridge,  '89,  president  of  the  Alumni 
Council,  said: 

"In  calling  this  the  Seventh  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Alumni  Council  of  Am- 
herst College  to  order,  the  Council  is,  I 
think,  to  be  congratulated  upon  a  year 
of  work  of  very  great  significance  for  the 
College.  The  work,  however,  that  the 
Council  has  undertaken  has  only  just 
begun.  The  sources  of  congratulation 
lie,  therefore,  not  so  much  in  what  has 
been  actually  accomplished  up  to  date, 
but  in  what  has  been  done  in  the  way  of 
preparing  the  ground,  so  to  speak,  for  a 
large  harvest  of  accomplishment  in  the 
future.  I  hesitate  to  embark  upon  a 
statement    of    the    situation    because^ 


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V 


being  an  academic  person,  I  am  handi- 
capped in  several  directions.  In  the 
first  place,  I  am  always  wound  up  to 
speak  for  fifty  minutes;  in  the  second 
place,  fate  has  compelled  me  to  be  very 
much  mixed  up  ever  since  I  began  my 
career  as  an  academic  person  with  ques- 
tions of  the  organization,  the  manage- 
ment and  administration  of  educational 
enterprises,  and  so  I  have  had  a  pretty 
keen  and  familiar  acquaintance  with 
the  problem  of  the  American  college 
and  the  problem  of  the  American  uni- 
versity. It  is  a  great  problem  and  a 
growing  problem.  Things  move  so  fast 
in  this  country  that  there  is  always  a 
great  danger  that  the  enterprises  in 
which  we  are  interested  get  beyond  our 
control  through  the  centrifugal  tenden- 
cies of  the  various  parts  which  go  to 
make  up  those  enterprises. 

It  was  not  so  long  ago  that  all  the 
different  elements  which  go  to  make  up 
a  college  were  very  greatly  unified,  that 
they  worked  together,  but  with  advanc- 
ing years,  with  the  growing  size  of  oiu- 
colleges  and  universities,  with  changes 
in  educational  demands  there  has  been 
a  growing  tendency  for  those  elements 
which  make  up  what  may  be  called  the 
great  corporate  body  of  an  educational 
institution  to  draw  farther  and  farther 
apart,  and  so  it  has  happened  that 
sharper  distinctions  than  heretofore  ex- 
isted have  grown  up  between  the  stu- 
dent body  and  the  faculty,  between  the 
faculty  and  the  president,  between  the 
president  and  the  trustees  and  between 
the  alumni  at  large  and  the  actual  cur- 
rent movements  of  the  college  or  the 
university  from  year  to  year,  and  that 
diffusion,  so  to  speak,  and  separation  of 
interests,  that  tendency  of  the  different 
elements  which  go  to  make  up  the  col- 
lege to  become  perhaps  self-centered 
and  to  work  too  largely  in  isolation  from 
one  another,  that  tendency  has  been 
one  which  those  who  have  watched 
the  growth  of  our  institutions  have 
been  particularly  concerned  about. 

Now,  briefly,  what  the  Alumni  Coun- 
cil has  done  diu-ing  this  past  year  has 
been  to  bring  all  those  elements  to- 
gether so  that  they  work  in  hearty 
cooperation  with  one  another,  with  full 
and  complete  understanding  of  the 
problems  which  affect  those  various 
elements   and   those   various   interests. 


and  to  promote  a  means  and  an  under- 
standing whereby  the  different  elements 
interested  in  the  College  can  discuss 
freely  and  understand  thoroughly  and 
completely  precisely  what  has  been 
going  on.  If  this  work  is  continued  the 
time  has  passed  for  Amherst  College 
when  the  different  elements  which  go  to 
make  it  up  do  not  understand  one 
another,  when  the  different  elements 
which  go  to  make  it  up  can  act  inde- 
pendent of  one  another,  but  the  time 
has  come  when  students.  Faculty, 
President,  Trustees,  and  the  alumni 
may  all  feel  that  in  reality  and  not 
simply  in  name  they  constitute  one 
large  corporate  body,  increasingly  fa- 
miliar with  the  affairs  of  the  College 
and  increasingly  having  a  determining 
hand  in  what  seems  to  be  the  wise, 
effective,  and  patriotic  carrying  out  of 
what  the  College  stands  for.  It  is 
because  of  this  basis  of  cooperation,  this 
freedom  of  intercourse,  this  better 
understanding  which  has  been  estab- 
lished that  I  think  the  Council  is  to  be 
heartily  congratulated  upon  the  work  of 
the  current  year." 

The  discussion  of  the  meeting  cen- 
tered on  foiu-  reports :  the  report  of  the 
Joint  Trustee  and  Alumni  Council 
Committee  in  regard  to  the  needs  of 
the  College;  the  report  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  Secondary  Schools;  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Athletics,  and  the 
report  of  the  Publicity  Committee. 
Under  the  first  report  the  members  of 
the  "Trans-Mississippi"  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation aroused  enthusiasm  by  a  vigor- 
ous presentation  of  the  theory  that 
if  the  needs  of  the  College  were  to  be 
met,  at  least  three  times  as  much  money 
as  had  been  proposed  must  be  forth- 
coming. The  report  of  the  Secondary 
Schools  Committee  showed  that  much 
thought  had  been  given  by  the  Com- 
mittee to  this  field  of  the  Council's 
work.  The  report  recommended  that 
the  literature  of  the  Council  be  im- 
proved and  that  there  be  more  of  it; 
that  the  Secretary  of  the  Council  have 
a  graduate  assistant  to  direct  the  work 
among  the  secondary  schools;  that  the 
various  alumni  associations  throughout 
the  country  offer  scholarships  of  the 
Rhodes  type  to  boys  in  their  territory, 
and  in  conclusion  "that  very  careful 
consideration   should   be  given  to  the 


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269 


question  of  removing  or  at  least  still 
further  modifying  the  ancient  language 
requirements  for  admission."  This  last 
recommendation  brought  out  much 
discussion.  Principal  Morton  D.  Sny- 
der of  Chicago,  who  had  sent  a  ques- 
tionnaire to  the  school  principals  in  the 
vicinity  of  Chicago  asking  for  answers  to 
such  questions  as  "Are  the  Classics 
gaining  or  losing  ground  in  your  school.^" 
reported  that  out  of  ten  schools,  Latin 
seemed  to  be  holding  its  own  in  four 
and  losing  in  six.  Mr.  Snyder  offered 
the  following  amendment  to  the  report 
of  the  Committee,  which  was  adopted: 
"Whereas  in  the  judgment  of  the 
oflBcers  and  directors  of  the  Amherst 
Club  of  Chicago  the  present  entrance 
requirements  of  Amherst  College  are 
such  as  practically  to  preclude  the  great 
majority  of  Western  high  school  stu- 
dents from  entering  Amherst,  Resolved: 
that  the  Faculty  and  Trustees  be  asked 
to  consider  the  possibility  of  modifying 
the  requirements  for  Amherst  so  as  to 
offer  a  wider  basis  of  appeal  to  high 
schools  and  preparatory  schools." 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Athletics  was  read  by  Samuel  H.  Cobb, 
'13,  a  member  of  the  Committee.  The 
Committee  reported  that  it  has  aided 
the  undergraduate  management  of 
athletics  through  counsel  in  the  selec- 
tion of  coaches,  and  by  appropriating 
$1,000  for  a  baseball  coach,  and  $364.13 
for  a  football  training  table.  At  the 
alumni  Council  Meeting  in  November 
a  resolution  was  adopted  calling  for  the 
appointment  of  a  Committee  to  report 
at  this  meeting  of  the  Council  with 
definite  suggestions  as  to  the  part  which 
alumni  should  play  in  relation  to  Col- 
lege athletics.  The  matter  was  referred 
to  the  Athletic  Committee  of  the  Coun- 
cil. This  Committee  reported  that 
two  opinions  seemed  to  be  held  in  regard 
to  future  athletic  management,  one 
that  a  graduate  manager  system  should 
be  adopted,  and  the  other  that  the 
students  should  control  and  manage 
their  own  activities — that  they  should 
have  the  supervision  of  the  Faculty,  and 
the  active  counsel  and  support  of  the 
alumni,  but  that  the  student  activities 
in  the  end  should  become  more  and  more 
student  affairs.  The  Athletic  Commit- 
tee reported  that  it  favored  the  second 
view  expressed,  and  was  not  in  favor  of 


a  graduate  manager  system.  The  Com- 
mittee referred  to  the  Report  of  the 
Proceedings  of  the  Amherst  Meeting  of 
the  Council,  which  showed  the  need  for 
an  enlarged  gymnasium  having  a  mod- 
ern baseball  cage  and  adequate  facili- 
ties for  winter  training,  and  the  need 
of  the  further  development  of  Hitch- 
cock Field.  This  report  caused  much 
discussion  and  after  a  motion  that  it  be 
the  sense  of  the  meeting  that  the  policy 
of  having  a  graduate  manager  of  ath- 
letics at  Amherst  be  approved,  was  lost, 
the  following  motion  was  adopted: 
Voted:  that  the  Alumni  Council  express 
its  strong  belief  in  intercollegiate  ath- 
letics and  its  firm  conviction  that  inter- 
collegiate athletics  at  Amherst  should 
be  given  the  hearty  support  of  the 
Faculty.  Under  the  report  of  the  Pub- 
licity Committee,  Professor  Burgess 
Johnson,  '99,  an  experienced  director  of 
college  publicity,  spoke  of  the  impor- 
tance in  Amherst  publicity  of  first 
knowing  oiu-  objective — what  we  want 
to  accomplish,  and  second  having  a 
member  of  every  alumni  association, 
able  and  willing  to  take  the  news 
about  Amherst,  and  "hang  it  on  a 
news  peg,"  which  will  interest  his  local 
constituency. 

The  Finance  Committee  reported 
that  at  the  previous  Commencement 
gifts  to  the  Alumni  Fund,  aggregating 
$22,420  had  been  given  by  the  following 
classes:  1869,  $250;  1874,  $620;  1879, 
$1,200;  1884,  $5,000;  1889,  $15,000; 
1904,  $250;  1913,  $100.  The  adminis- 
tration expenses  of  the  Council  had 
been  met  through  class  gifts  ranging  in 
amount  from  $50  from  the  younger 
classes  to  $250  from  those  classes  who 
are  apparently  best  able  to  give.  The 
Committee  recommended  that  in  view 
of  the  proposed  appeal  to  the  alumni  for 
a  Centennial  Gift  to  the  College,  no 
appeal  to  the  classes  at  the  1920  Com- 
mencement be  made  for  gifts  to  the 
Alumni  Fund,  and  that  the  adminis- 
tration expenses  of  the  Council  for  the 
current  year  be  met  by  an  appropriation 
from  the  Alumni  Fund.  This  recom- 
mendation had  the  approval  of  the 
Council  and  an  appropriation,  not  to 
exceed  $11,000,  was  made  from  the 
Alumni  Fund  to  meet  the  expenses  of 
the  Amherst  meeting  of  the  Council, 
the  cost  of  sending  a  report  of  such 


270       Amherst     Graduates'     Quarterly 


meeting  to  the  alumni,  and  the  admin- 
istration expenses  of  the  Council  for  the 
year  1920.  The  Council  also  voted  to 
underwTite  the  cost  of  publishing  the 
Graduates'  Quarterly  for  the  current 
year  and  to  make  an  appropriation  not 
to  exceed  $2,000  to  meet  the  cost  of 
printing  and  distributing  new  publicity 
loaterial  for  use  among  secondary 
schools. 

The  Commencement  Committee  rec- 
ommended that  at  the  1920  Commence- 
ment the  lawn  fete  be  restored  as  it 
was  before  the  war  with  the  canvas 
fence  surrounding  the  campus,  the  erec- 
tion of  class  tents,  all  electrical  equip- 
ment, refreshments  and  out-of-door 
dancing.  The  Publication  Committee 
reported  that  the  Graduates'  Quar- 
terly had  been  restored  to  its  old  form 
at  the  subscription  price  of  $2.00. 
The  Committee  expressed  its  opinion 
that  the  Quarterly  under  its  present 
editorship  is  a  publication  which  the 
alumni  should  continue  to  publish  at 
any  reasonable  cost,  and  it  recommended 
that  the  Alumni  Council  continue  the 
Quarterly  for  the  year  1920-21  and 
underwrite  the  cost  of  publication. 

On  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Re- 
ligious Work,  Dean  Olds  read  the  report 
of  Julius  Seelye  Bixler,  '16,  director  of 
religious  activities  at  the  College — a 
report  which  is  given  in  full  in  this 
issue  of  the  Quarterly. 

The  Executive  Committee  reported 
that  it  had  held  eight  meetings  during 
the  year  and  that  its  most  important 
work  had  been  the  conceiving  and  carry- 
ing out  of  the  special  meeting  of  the 
Council  at  Amherst  in  November,  the 


report  of  which  was  made  a  part  of  the 
Committee's  report.  The  Committee 
further  reported  that  during  the  year 
the  constitution  of  the  Council  had  been 
amended  so  that  now  the  income  from 
even  units  of  $100,000  of  the  Alumni 
Fund  goes  automatically  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees  for  general  college  expenses, 
but  while  a  unit  of  $100,000  is  being 
accumulated,  the  income  accumulates 
in  the  Fund  unless  appropriated  by  the 
Alumni  Council  with  Trustee  approval. 
The  Committee  recommended  that  in 
view  of  the  financial  needs  of  the  Col- 
lege at  this  time,  in  the  judgment  of 
the  Council,  the  matter  of  Amherst's 
participation  in  the  Doshisha  Univer- 
sity in  Japan,  through  a  memorial 
building,  be  postponed  for  the  present. 
The  Committee  also  recommended 
that  the  reunion  classes,  the  fraterni- 
ties, and  the  Senior  class  be  asked  to 
bear  the  expenses  of  the  lawn  fete  at 
the  1920  Commencement.  The  Am- 
herst Club  of  Chicago,  who  were  the 
hosts  of  the  Council,  were  lavish  in 
their  expenditure  of  time  and  money  and 
were  voted  the  Council's  hearty  thanks. 
The  officers  elected  for  the  ensuing 
year  were  as  follows:  President,  Frank 
H.  Parsons,  '81 ;  vice-presidents,  Charles 
B.  Raymond,  '88,  Eugene  S.  Wilson, 
'02,  Ralph  P.  Whitelaw,  '02;  secretary. 
Frederick  S.  Allis,  '93;  treasurer, 
Ernest  M.  Whitcomb.  '04;  Execu- 
tive Committee,  chairman,  Frederick 
J.  E.  Woodbridge,  '89,  Cornelius  J. 
Sullivan,  '92;  E.  D.  Raymond,  '90, 
Lucius  R.  Eastman,  '95,  Maurice  L. 
Farrell,  '01,  Sydney  D.  Chamberlain, 
'14,  Frank  H.  Parsons,  '81,  ex-officio. 


I 


THE  ASSOCIATIONS 


BROOKLYN 

The  spring  meeting  of  the  Amherst 
Alumni  Association  of  Brooklyn  was 
held  at  the  Brooklyn  University  Club  on 
the  evening  of  April  22,  1920.  The 
meeting  took  the  form  of  a  smoker  and 
it  was  attended  by  a  large  gathering  of 
Amherst  men  representing  classes  all 
the  way  from  1866  to  1919.  The  out- 
standing feature  of  the  meeting  was  its 
informality  and  the  spirit  of  reminiscence 


which  prevailed  and  which  brought  the 
men  intimately  together. 

George  P.  Hitchcock,  '92,  president 
of  the  Association,  presided  and  an- 
nounced that  the  theme  of  the  evening 
was  "The  Amherst  That  I  Knew." 
This  theme  was  treated  in  a  most  inter- 
esting and  amusing  fashion  by  four  of 
the  best  speakers  among  Amherst 
alumni:  Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  '66; 
Nehemiah  Boynton,   D.D.,   '79;   Fred- 


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271 


eric  B.  Pratt,  '87;  Roscoe  S.  Conkling, 
'08.  They  told  of  numerous  incidents 
and  amusing  occurrences  which  took 
place  while  they  were  in  college,  and 
those  present  were  in  a  state  of  laughter 
most  of  the  time.  Mr.  Bridgman  was 
in  college  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War 
and  it  was  very  interesting  to  hear  him 
tell  of  how  the  College  was  run  in  those 
days.  Smith  College  was  not  in  exist- 
ence in  Mr.  Bridgman's  time,  but  "it 
was  born,"  said  Dr.  Boynton,  "while  I 
was  at  Amherst."  He  told  in  his  most 
eloquent,  breezy,  and  humorous  fashion 
of  one  of  his  expeditions  to  Smith  when 
he  took  a  beautiful  maiden  out  riding  in 
a  buggy.  We  shall  not  attempt  to 
repeat  the  story,  for  it  could  not  be  told 
as  Dr.  Boynton  told  it.  Mr.  Pratt  gave 
a  very  interesting  talk  in  which  he  men- 
tioned the  college  politics  of  his  time,  its 
athletics,  and  the  fine  types  of  men  from 
whom  the  boys  received  their  training 
and  education.  He  painted  a  very 
fine  picture  of  the  College  as  he  knew  it. 
Mr.  Conkling  said  that  he  did  not  like 
the  expression  "The  New  Amherst" 
which  he  had  heard  so  frequently  of 
late.  He  referred  to  the  men  whom  the 
College  had  sent  out  in  the  past  and  who 
had  risen  to  the  highest  ranks,  saying 
that  they  were  men — not  necessarily 
scholars — but  men  of  vision  and  com- 
mon sense.  He  spoke  very  fondly  of 
Amherst  as  it  was  twelve  years  ago  and 
made  loving  reference  to  some  of  the  old 
professors  who  were  so  loyal  to  the  Col- 
lege and  who  inspired  a  spirit  of  loyalty, 
service,  and  devotion  in  the  hearts  of  all 
the  men.  He  recalled  that  on  one  occa- 
sion, when  word  had  come  that  Amherst 
had  scored  a  touchdown  on  Harvard, 
old  Professor  Genung  climbed  up  in  the 
belfry  of  the  college  church  and  played 
"Cheer  for  Old  Amherst"  on  the  college 
chimes. 

Professor  Albert  Parker  Fitch,  D.D., 


attended  the  meeting  as  a  representa- 
tive of  the  Amherst  of  today.  He  gave 
a  most  enthusiastic  talk  on  what  the 
College  is  now  doing  and  what  she  ex- 
pects to  do  in  the  way  of  turning  out 
men  who  are  qualified  to  cope  with  the 
great  problems  of  the  day.  He  praised 
President  Meiklejohn  very  highly,  de- 
scribing him  as  a  great  thinker  and  a 
man  keenly  interested  in  athletic  sports. 
He  prophesied  that  under  his  leader- 
ship, Amherst  had  before  it  a  great 
future. 

After  the  speaking,  refreshments  were 
served  and  everybody  got  together  to 
talk  over  old  times.  It  was  a  most 
enjoyable  meeting  and  did  not  break  up 
until  midnight. 

NEW   YORK   YOUNG    .^.LUMNI 

President  Meiklejohn  discussed  the 
affairs  and  the  purposes  of  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  College  before  about  eighty 
of  the  young  alumni,  on  May  13  at  La 
Maisonette,  12  West  45th  Street,  New 
York  City. 

The  occasion  was  the  last  meeting  for 
the  season  for  the  younger  alumni  in  and 
around  New  York  City.  Every  alum- 
nus present  had  been  an  undergraduate 
since  the  inauguration  of  President 
Meiklejohn  in  1912.  Many  questions 
were  asked  and  a  great  deal  of  interest 
was  shown  in  the  problems  under  dis- 
cussion. 

The  President's  discussion  covered  a 
wide  range  of  topics  in  response  to  the 
questions  that  were  put  to  him  by  the 
alumni.  The  evening  marked  the  cli- 
max of  a  series  of  meetings  so  suc- 
cessful that  they  will  probably  be 
repeated  next  year.  C.  B.  Ames,  '16, 
who  was  chairman  of  the  group  during 
the  winter,  announced  at  the  end  of  the 
formal  discussion  that  the  next  meeting 
would  be  held  in  October. 

Among  those  present  were  J.  T.  Cross, 


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'  15,  W.  G.  Avirett,  '16,  W.  C.  Esty,  '16, 
J.  U.  Reber,  '16,  F.  D.  Bell,  '17,  R.  A. 
O'Brien,  '17,  A.  S.  Romer,  '17,  A.  C. 
Haven,  Jr.,  '18,  K.  M.  Elish,  '17  and 

E.  H.  Marks,  '17. 

CONNECTICUT    VALLEY    ALUMNI 
ASSOCIATION 

The  annual  dinner  and  banquet  of  the 
Connecticut  Valley  Alumni  Association 
was  held  in  the  Hotel  Kimball  in  Spring- 
field on  Friday  evening,  April  10. 

The  meeting  was  featured  by  the 
reading  of  spirit  messages  from  former 
Faculty  members,  now  dead.  Rev. 
Charles  N.  Thorp,  '91,  conducted  "se- 
ances," supposed  inspirational  talks  on 
subjects  of  interest  to  the  alumni  coming 
from  President  Julius  H.  Seelye,  Pro- 
fessor Richard  H.  Mather,  Dr.  Edward 
Hitchcock,  Professor  Levi  Elwell,  Pro- 
fessor Charles  E.  Garman,  Professor 
H.  B.  Richardson,  and  Professor  John 

F.  Genung. 

Professor  George  B.  Churchill,  '89, 
was  the  first  speaker.  He  deplored  the 
distance  between  the  college  man  and 
the  business  man.  "The  average  New 
England  college  does  not  play  the  part  it 
should.  Certain  diflSculties  in  the  world 
and  in  the  college  keep  them  apart. 
The  world  of  action  challenges  us  on  our 
own  field.  It  accuses  us  of  not  know- 
ing, and  to  a  large  extent  it  is  right. 
That  is  the  criticism  of  the  politician — 
he  does  not  think  that  the  professor 
knows.  The  man  that  goes  out  in  the 
world  will  come  back  with  the  knowledge 
not  only  of  what  labor  is,  but  also  of 
what  a  laborer  is,  not  only  what  capital 
is,  but  what  the  capitalist  is.  Unless  a 
man  has  some  practical  contact  with 
life  he  can  never  really  know  what  is 
meant  by  common  welfare." 


President  Meiklejohn  announced  that 
the  celebration  of  the  centennial  of  the 
College  would  take  place  in  the  fall 
instead  of  at  Commencement.  The 
President  pointed  out  results  obtained 
in  the  English  universities  by  the  tutorial 
classes  which  help  to  coordinate  college 
and  business  life.  Their  program  in- 
cludes the  formation  of  classes  among 
the  laboring  men,  these  men  to  choose 
their  own  faculty  from  the  college.  In 
this  way,  a  professor  gets  in  closer  touch 
with  the  laborer,  and  at  the  same  time 
the  students  in  the  industrial  world 
have  great  opportunity  for  learning  and 
consequent  advancement. 

The  banquet  was  attended  by  about 
fifty-nine  alumni  and  was  a  success  from 
every  point  of  view.  At  the  business 
meeting  following  the  dinner  F.  S.  Allis, 
'93,  was  elected  president  and  John  H. 
Madden,  '12,  was  reelected  secretary. 
The  new  executive  committee  is  com- 
posed of  W.  F.  Whitmg,  '86,  of  Holyoke, 
Charles  W.  Walker,  '99,  of  Northamp- 
ton, and  Robert  S.  Kneeland,  '05,  of 
Springfield. 

WORCESTER 

The  Central  Massachusetts  Associa- 
tion held  a  successful  dinner  at  the  Tat- 
nuck  Country  Club,  Worcester,  on  Thurs- 
day evening,  April  8.  The  speakers 
were  Governor  Calvin  Coolidge,  '95, 
President  Meiklejohn,  and  D.  W.  Mor- 
row, '95. 

Governor  Coolidge  spoke  on  the 
necessity  of  developing  character  in  our 
modern  education.  The  keynote  of  his 
speech  was:  "The  faith  of  the  Amherst 
man  is  rather  in  man  than  in  things. 
We  recognize  the  desirability  of  and  the 
necessity  for  economic  development,  but 
we  go  a  little  further — we  want  a  further 
development  in  character." 


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THE  FACULTY 


President  Meiklejohn  will  be  away  on 
sabbatic  leave  for  the  first  and  second 
terms  next  year.  He  plans  to  spend 
some  time  in  Oxford  and  to  travel  in 
Italy.  Mrs.  Meiklejohn  and  his  children 
will  accompany  him.  In  his  absence 
Dean  Olds  will  be  acting-president  and 
Professor  Esty  will  fill  the  dean's  place. 
Professor  Manthey-Zorn  will  spend  the 
summer  and  a  sabbatic  half  year  in 
Germany  studying  the  changes  in  the 
mind  of  the  people  wrought  by  the  war 
and  the  revolution.  He  will  give  special 
attention  to  the  theatre.  "There  is 
good  reason  to  believe,"  he  writes,  "that 
a  study  of  the  repertory  of  the  theatre 
of  today  and  of  the  attitude  of  the 
audiences  to  the  plays  presented  will  be 
the  best  indication  of  what  degree  of 
faith  the  people  have  in  themselves  and 
in  what  direction  they  hope  to  develop 
under  the  new  conditions."  Mr.  Agard 
leaves  on  a  two-year  fellowship  to  study 
at  Oxford  and  in  Paris. 

Professor  David  Todd,  who  has  been 
absent  on  leave  for  the  past  three  years, 
now  becomes  professor-emeritus  of 
astronomy.  Professors  Frost,  Stowell, 
and  Litchfield  have  resigned  from  the 
Faculty,  Professor  Frost  to  engage  in 
farming.  Professors  Stowell  and  Litch- 
field on  account  of  ill  health.  Mr. 
Bixler,  director  of  religious  activities, 
has  gone  to  Beirut  to  join  the  Syrian 
Protestant  college  there.  Louis  Landr^, 
Robert  Phillips,  and  Lewis  W.  Douglas, 


instructors,  have  terminated  one-year 
appointments. 

Dr.  Phillips  and  Professors  Newlin, 
Young,  Toll,  and  Goodale  return  to 
College  next  fall  after  periods  of  sab- 
batic leave. 

New  appointments  to  the  rank  of 
associate  professor  include  the  follow- 
ing: Clarence  E.  Ayres,  a  graduate  of 
Brown  and  a  former  member  of  the 
Amherst  Faculty,  now  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  in  philosophy;  Francis 
H.  Fobes,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  and 
first  Massachusetts  Rhodes  Scholar  at 
Oxford,  now  at  Union  College,  in  Greek; 
Geoffrey  Atkinson,  '13,  now  at  Colum- 
bia, in  Romance  languages.  The  fol- 
lowing instructors  have  been  ap- 
pointed: Howard  E.  Hinners,  \lar\<ard, 
'19,  in  music;  Rene  Levesque,  iOKOO^ 
of  the  University  of  Illinois,  in  Romance 
languages;  Lawrence  Saunders,  M.A. 
Edinburgh,  sometime  of  Ruskin  Col- 
lege, Oxford,  in  history;  John  M.  Gaus, 
'15,  former  South  End  House  Fellow,  in 
political  science;  Stacy  May,  sometime 
special  student  at  Amherst,  in  social 
and  economic  institutions;  Benjamin 
Freeman,  '20,  in  chemistry;  Atherton 
H.  Sprague,  '20,  in  mathematics. 
Appointments  in  Latin  and  in  public 
speaking  are  still  to  be  filled.  Mr. 
Heiu-y  Clay,  the  distinguished  British 
economist,  will  probably  join  the 
Amherst  Faculty  for  the  third  term. 


SINCE  THE  LAST  ISSUE 


1856.— Edward  Gay,  on  June  1,  1920, 
at  Maiden,  Mass.,  aged  83  years. 

1858. — Rev.  John  Francis  Gleason, 
on  April  26,  1920,  in  Boston,  Mass.,  in 
his  85th  year. 


1858. — Rev.  William  Louis  Bray,  on 
April  21,  1920,  at  Darlington,  Wis., 
aged  88  years. 

1859. — Dr.  Edward  Horace  Spooner, 
on  May  30,  1920,  at  Park  Ridge,  N.  J., 
aged  82  years. 


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1863.— Alonzo  B.  Newell,  on  June  16, 
1920,  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  aged  85 
years. 

1868. — Dr.  Abner  Thomas  Buchanan, 
on  April  22,  1920,  in  Chicago,  111.,  aged 
78  years. 

1871. — John  Woodruff  Simpson,  on 
May  16,  1920,  in  New  York  City,  aged 
69  years. 

1877. — Rev.  Clarence  H.  Barber,  on 
April  10,  1920,  at  Danielson,  Conn., 
aged  67  years. 

1878.— Andrew  Duff  Heffern,  S.T.D., 
on  May  2,  1920,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
aged  64  years. 

1881.— Prof.  George  Gilbert  Pond, 
on  May  21,  1920,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  aged  59  years. 

1882. — Rev.  Dr.  Howard  Sweetser 
Bliss,  on  May  2,  1920,  at  Saranac  Lake, 
N.  Y.,  aged  59  years. 

1883.— Dr.  Nathaniel  H.  Kirby, 
recently,  at  Burdett,  N.  Y. 

1889.— William  Chambers  Dicken, 
on  March  6,  1920,  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
aged  54  years. 

1897.— Dr.  Oliver  Thompson  Hyde, 
on  February  2,  1920  (not  previously 
recorded),  in  Albuquerque,  N.  Mex., 
aged  44  years. 

1913. — John  Worthington  Steele,  on 
May  14,  1920,  at  Painesville,  Ohio. 

1914. — Carleton  H.  Brace,  on  June 
5,  1920,  at  Gloversville,  N.  Y.,  aged 
29  years. 

1919.— Otto  E.  Freer,  on  May  24, 
1920,  in  Chicago,  Dl. 


1886.— At  Berkeley,  Cal.,  on  June  2, 
1920,  Walter  A.  Rugg  and  Miss  Linnie 
R.  Spear. 

1901. — In  New  York  City,  on  April 
12,  1920,  William  M.  Clark  and  Miss 
Marguerite  Frances  Mitchell. 

1906.— In  New  York  City,  on  May 
19,  1920,  Dr.  James  N.  Worcester  and 
Miss  Gertrude  Fullerton. 

1907. — In  New  York  City,  on  June 
15,  1920,  Professor  Hugh  Hartshorne 
and  Miss  Evangeline  Wickersham. 

1909.— At  West  Hartford,  Conn.,  on 
June  22,  1920,  Rev.  Stoddard  Lane 
and  Miss  Stella  Louise  Hitchcock. 

1910. — In  Worcester,  Mass.,  on  June 
28,  1920,  Rev.  Morrison  R.  Boynton 
and  Miss  Clara  Davis. 

1911.— At    Portsmouth,    N.    H.,    in 


June,  1920,  T.  Leo  Kane  and  Miss 
Florence  Mary  Ward. 

1913. — In  California,  on  March  31, 
1920,  W.  G.  Hamilton  and  Miss  Esther 
Daniels. 

1915. — In  New  York  City,  on  June 
19,  1920,  Gardner  Eastman  and  Miss 
Marjorie  Parks  Bell. 

1915. — In  Portland,  Ore.,  on  April  5, 
1920,  Kenneth  S.  Reed  and  Miss 
Martha  Shieldo  Whiting. 

1915. — At  Concord  Junction,  Mass., 
on  June  19,  1920,  Samuel  Loomis  and 
Miss  Elizabeth  Grace  Snyder. 

1915. — In  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on  June 
17,  1920,  Dr.  Phillip  Foster  Greene  and 
Miss  Ruth  Peabody  Altman. 

1915. — In  New  York  City,  on  June 
17,  1920,  J.  Theodore  Cross  and  Miss 
Margaret  Huddleston. 

1916.— In  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  on  Feb- 
ruary 18, 1920  (not  previously  recorded), 
Merrill  H.  Boynton  and  Miss  Eleanor 
Patricia  Matthews. 

1916.— At  Corning,  N.  Y.,  on  April 

4,  1920,  Arthur  P.  White  and  Miss 
Mary  Huber. 

1916. — In  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  on  April 
12,  1920,  Alan  D.  Marks  and  Miss 
Rosalie  Dannenbaum. 

1917. — In  Boston,  Mass.,  on  June  1, 
1920,  Francis  Louis  Moginot  and  Miss 
Aline  Emily  Murphy. 

1917.— In  New  York  City,  on  Feb- 
ruary 16, 1920  (not  previously  recorded), 
Kenneth  deForest  Carpenter  and  Miss 
Jean  Elphinstone  Schonberg. 

1918. — In  Baltimore,  Md.,  on  May 
19,  1920,  Charles  S.  Matthews  and  Miss 
Theresa  Elizabeth  Carey. 

1918. — At  Plymouth,  Mass.,  on  April 
14,  1920,  Richard  K.  Godwin  and  Miss 
Esther  Barrows. 

1919.— In  New  York  City,  on  May 
8,  1920,  David  S.  Soliday  and  Miss 
Louise  Huntington  Kondolf. 

1919.— In  Toledo,  Ohio,  on  February 
10,  1920  (not  previously  recorded), 
Arthur  E.  Hazeldine  and  Miss  Grace 
King. 

BORN 

1884. — Samuel  Mountfort  Thomp- 
son, on  June  2,  1920,  to  Professor  and 
Mrs.  Joseph  Osgood  Thompson  of 
Amherst,  Mass. 

1893.— George  Pratt  Allen,  on  April 

5,  1920,  son  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jesse  H. 
Allen  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


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1897. — Marion  Vail  Ingersoll,  on 
April  25,  1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Raymond  V.  Ingersoll  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y. 

1901. — Carolyn  Couch,  on  January 
13,  1920  (not  previously  recorded), 
daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  R. 
Couch  of  Hartford,  Conn. 

1906. — William  Lees  Atwood,  on 
May  10,  1920,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roy 
L.  Atwood  of  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y. 

1908.— A  son,  in  May,  1920,  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Paul  Welles  of  New  York  City. 


1913. — Janet  Merrill,  on  June  4, 
1920,  daughter  of  Rev.  and  Mrs.  R.  S. 
Merrill  of  Longmeadow,  Mass. 

1914. — George  Huthsteiner,  son  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Huthsteiner  of 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

1917.— Whitney  William  Stark,  Jr., 
on  May  22,  1920,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W.  W.  Stark  of  Akron,  Ohio. 

1918. — Elizabeth  Burgess  Arnold,  on 
April  29,  1920,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Philip  Rhodes  Arnold  of  Utica, 
N.  Y. 


THE  CLASSES 


1856 

Edward  Gay,  for  fifty-four  years  a 
resident  of  Maiden  and  for  thirty-eight 
years  in  charge  of  the  Boston  oflBce  of 
the  Cochrane  Chemical  Company,  died 
on  June  1  at  his  home  in  Maiden,  Mass., 
aged  83  years.  He  retired  from  business 
ten  years  ago. 

Mr.  Gay  was  born  in  Nashua,  N.  H., 
the  son  of  Ira  and  Mary  (WTiite)  Gay. 
After  graduating  from  Amherst  in  1856, 
he  taught  for  a  number  of  years  in  the 
schools  of  Reading  and  Wakefield,  end- 
ing his  career  as  a  school  teacher  in  the 
Quincy  school  at  Boston.  He  then 
took  a  position  with  H.  Porter  Smith 
and  Company. 

He  was  a  deacon  in  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Maiden,  served 
two  terms  on  the  Maiden  school  com- 
mittee, and  was  chairman  of  the  build- 
ing committee  when  the  Maiden 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  was  built. 

His  wife,  who  was  Miss  Eloise  Fay 
of  Nashua,  N.  H.,  died  twenty-nine 
years  ago.  He  is  survived  by  one  sister, 
Mrs.  Ellen  A.  Smith  of  Maiden. 

1858 

Rev.  Joseph  B.  Clark,  D.D.,  Secretary, 

1114  St.  John's  PI.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  John  Francis  Gleason  died  in 

Boston  on  April  26  of  pneumonia  after 


a  few  days'  illness.  He  was  within  a 
month  of  85  years. 

He  was  born  in  Bedford,  Mass.,  on 
May  23,  1835,  the  son  of  Lewis  Putnam 
Gleason,  and  prepared  for  college  at 
Kimball  Union  Academy.  He  left  col- 
lege before  graduation,  but  was  later 
awarded  the  degree  of  M.A.  On  leav- 
ing Amherst  he  became  a  teacher,  but 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  en- 
listed in  the  22nd  Massachusetts  regi- 
ment, served  for  three  years,  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  sergeant,  and  after 
the  battle  of  Gettysburg  was  ordered 
to  the  War  Department  at  Washington 
by  the  Secretary  of  War  to  assist  in  the 
reorganization  of  the  colored  troops. 
He  remained  with  the  War  Department 
until  1866,  and  then  until  1868  held  the 
oflBce  of  Commissioner  of  Customs  in 
the  Treasury  Department. 

Leaving  the  government  service,  he 
studied  medicine  at  Georgetown  Medi- 
cal College  and  then  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  the  ministry,  studied  theology 
at  Columbian  in  Washington,  was  or- 
dained January  7,  1873,  and  accepted  a 
call  to  Williamsburg,  Mass.,  where  he 
was  at  the  time  of  the  famous  Mill  River 
flood,  in  which  he  had  a  very  narrow  es- 
cape, while  more  than  fifty  perished. 
His  subsequent  pastorates  were  at  Nor- 
folk, Conn.,  for  twelve  years;  Needham, 


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Mass.,  for  eight  years;  and  for  the  suc- 
ceeding twenty-three  years  at  the  South 
Congregational  Church  in  Amherst. 
He  retired  two  years  ago. 

Two  days  before  enlisting  in  the  Civil 
War  he  was  married  to  Miss  Olive  M. 
Jefferds,  and  while  living  in  Amherst 
they  celebrated  their  Bftieth  marriage 
anniversary. 

He  leaves  a  son.  Dr.  Edwin  P. 
Gleason,  of  the  class  of  1888  who  lives 
in  Onset,  Mass. 

On  the  evening  of  April  27,  William 
Louis  Bray  met  with  sudden  death  by 
accident  while  on  a  visit  among  early 
friends  in  Darlington,  Wis.  His  body 
was  found  beneath  a  railroad  trestle 
from  which  he  had  apparently  fallen 
while  taking  a  short  cut  to  the  house 
where  he  was  staying,  being  killed  in- 
stantly by  the  force  of  the  fall. 

Mr.  Bray  was  born  in  England  on 
February  5,  1832,  and  came  to  America 
with  his  father  in  1845,  settling  in  the 
vicinity  of  Darlington.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  Platteville  (Wis.)  Academy. 
After  graduating  from  Amherst,  he 
studied  theology  at  Chicago  and  An- 
dover  Theological  Seminaries  and  was 
ordained  in  1861.  All  his  pastorates, 
with  the  exception  of  one  at  Hatfield, 
Mass.,  were  in  western  cities,  Aurora, 
111.;  St.  Joseph,  Miss.;  Marshalltown, 
Iowa; Kalamazoo,  Mich.; Clinton,  Iowa; 
St.  Paul,  Minn.;  Oskaloosa,  Iowa; 
Kenosha,  Wis.;  and  Sheldon,  Iowa. 

Mr.  Bray  was  a  vigorous  preacher 
and  a  great  organizer,  and  wherever  he 
went  his  churches  were  notably  en- 
larged in  membership  and  efficiency. 
He  was  also  widely  known  as  a  wise 
counselor  in  all  Congregational  prob- 
lems. A  large  company  of  fellow- 
ministers  and  former  parishioners  gath- 
ered at  his  funeral  in  Kenosha  to 
mourn  his  tragic  death  and  to  bear  wit- 
ness to  his  long  and  fruitful  ministry. 


In  1861  Mr.  Bray  married  Emily 
Ann  Temple,  a  graduate  of  Mount 
Holyoke  College,  who  died  in  1919. 
Since  that  time  he  had  lived  with  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  John  R.  Todd  of  Sum- 
mit, N.  J.,  but  his  heart  was  in  the  West 
where  he  found  comfort  by  occasional 
visits  among  old  friends  and  parishion- 
ers. His  death  reduces  the  number  of 
his  surviving  classmates  to  five. 

1859 

Rev.  Aij»heu9  R.  Nichols,  Secretary, 

Brookfield,  Mass. 

Dr.  Edward  Horace  Spooner,  eighty- 
one  years  old,  a  Civil  War  veteran,  and 
for  years  a  prominent  practising  physi- 
cian in  Brooklyn,  died  on  Sunday,  May 
30,  at  his  residence  in  Park  Ridge,  N.  J. 
His  funeral  services  were  held  in  the 
Reformed  Church,  at  Park  Ridge,  inter- 
ment following  in  the  local  cemetery. 

Dr.  Spooner  was  born  in  Petersham, 
Mass.,  in  1838,  where  he  prepared  for 
college  at  the  Claverick  Institute.  He 
graduated  from  Amherst  with  first 
honors  in  1859.  Graduating  from 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in 
1860,  he  served  in  the  Presbyterian 
denomination  for  nearly  two  years. 
At  this  time  he  met  and  subsequently 
married  Miss  Lavina  Davenport,  the 
daughter  of  a  well-known  Manhattan 
family. 

When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  Dr. 
Spooner  enlisted  with  the  heavy  artil- 
lery of  his  native  State,  serving  with 
distinction  not  only  as  chaplain  but 
also  as  head  of  the  commissary  depart- 
ment attending  to  the  provisioning  of 
the  vast  New  England  division. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  the  war  he 
took  a  course  of  medicine  in  the  Homeo- 
pathic College  which  he  completed  with 
honors.  He  studied  in  the  allopathic 
school  later,  and  began  practising  in 
Reading,  Pa.,  where  he  spent  ten  years. 


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In  1877  he  moved  to  Brooklyn  and  here 
followed  thirty  years  of  earnest  work  as 
a  physician,  during  which  he  gained  a 
large  clientele. 

In  1906  failing  health  compelled  Dr. 
Spooner  to  give  up  his  profession, 
and  he  retired  to  Park  Ridge,  where 
he  passed  the  last  fourteen  years  of  his 
life.  His  widow  with  a  daughter,  Mrs. 
Harry  F.  Asbury,  survives  him. 

Dr.  Spooner  was  the  second  oldest 
member  of  G.  K.  Warren  Post  No. 
286,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Brooklyn. 

1863 

Hon.  Edward  W.  Chapin,  Secretary, 

181  Elm  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Alonzo  B.  Newell  died  at  the  Mercy 
Hospital  in  Springfield  on  June  16  after 
a  brief  illness.  He  had  passed  the 
winter  at  the  home  of  his  son,  John,  in 
Springfield,  but  intended  to  return  to  his 
home  in  Hampden  for  the  summer. 

Mr.  Newell  was  born  in  South  Wil- 
braham,  which  later  became  the  town 
of  Hampden,  June  6,  1835.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Wesleyan  Acad- 
emy, Wilbraham,  and  entered  Amherst 
College,  but  did  not  graduate  because 
of  ill  health.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity. 

After  leaving  college  he  taught  in  the 
public  schools  of  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  and 
other  places.  Later  he  conducted  the 
old  South  Wilbraham  academy  for  a 
number  of  years.  After  retiring  from 
teaching  he  carried  on  the  farm  which 
he  inherited  from  his  father.  On  Janu- 
ary 31,  1861,  he  was  married  to  Elvira 
Keep  of  Monson,  who  survives  him. 
He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Congregational 
Church  many  years  and  also  served  as 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school. 
He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Hamp- 
den Grange.  In  1868  Mr.  Newell  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  school  com- 
mittee of  the  town  of  Wilbraham,  and 


after  the  division  of  the  town  in  1878, 
he  served  on  the  school  committee  of  the 
town  of  Hampden  almost  continuously 
until  1919,  when  he  retired  from  oflBce, 
after  about  50  years  of  service.  During 
the  greater  part  of  the  time  he  acted  as 
chairman. 

Besides  his  widow,  he  leaves  three 
sons,  Irving  A.,  of  Longmeadow,  Her- 
bert D.  of  Klamath  Falls,  Ore.,  and 
John  M.,  of  Springfield;  also  two  daugh- 
ters, Miss  Annie  E.  Newell  of  New  York 
and  Mrs.  Frederic  Haigh  of  East  Orange, 
N.  Y.    There  are  three  grandsons. 

1865 

Prof.  BENJA^^N  K.  Emerson,  Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 

Judge  Charles  Willard  Turner  re- 
cently celebrated  his  seventy-sixth 
birthday  and  the  twenty-eighth  anni- 
versary of  his  connection  with  the 
University  of  Tennessee  in  the  capacity 
first  as  professor  and  now  as  Dean  of  the 
College  of   Law. 

John  C.  Hammond  has  resigned  as  a 
trustee  of  Williston  Seminary  after  being 
a  member  of  the  board  for  forty  years. 
His  resignation  was  accepted  in  June 
with  much  regret. 

1866 

Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  Secretary, 
604  Carlton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  Commencement  address  at  Os- 
wego Normal  School  was  delivered  this 
year  by  Herbert  L.  Bridgman,  who  is  a 
Regent  of  the  State  of  New  York.  Mr. 
Bridgman  has  been  elected  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Brooklyn  Warehouse  and 
Storage  Company. 

1867 

Prof.  Edwin  A.  Grosvenor,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
William  Rutherford  Mead  was  one  of 
the  honorary  pall-bearers  at  the  funeral 
of  William  Dean  Howells. 


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1868 

WiLUAM  A.  Brown,  Secretary, 
9  Prospect  Park  West,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Dr.  Abner  Thomas  Buchanan  died 
suddenly  of  myocarditis  on  April  22  in 
Chicago,  aged  seventy-eight  years. 
Although  he  had  long  been  subject  to 
severe  attacks  of  rheumatism,  his  death 
came  as  a  great  shock  to  every  member 
of  1868.  Writing  of  him,  William  A. 
Brown,  secretary  of  the  class,  says: 

"For  his  sterling  character,  his  genial 
disposition,  his  ever-present  good  spirits 
and  his  valued  companionship.  Brother 
Buchanan  was  not  only  respected,  but 
deeply  loved  by  every  member  of  his 
class.  We  tender  our  deepest  sympathy 
to  the  members  of  his  family,  realizing 
that  his  is  the  gain,  ours  the  great  loss." 

Dr.  Buchanan  was  the  son  of  David 
and  Elizabeth  (Clemens)  Buchanan  and 
was  born  in  Honey  Brook,  Pa.,  on 
February  20,  1842.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  the  State  Normal  School, 
Millersville,  Pa. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year 
in  a  select  school  at  Waynesburg,  Pa., 
and  then  at  Washington  University,  St. 
Louis.  He  took  his  degree  in  medicine 
in  1872  from  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Col- 
lege and  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  that  city,  having  charge  of  the  small- 
pox hospital  during  the  great  epidemic 
in  1872-73.  Later  he  studied  in  London 
and  Paris  hospitals. 

In  1879  he  entered  business  with  the 
Missouri  Car  and  Foundry  Company 
and  in  1889  removed  to  Chicago,  where 
he  was  connected  with  concerns  for  the 
furnishing  of  supplies  for  railroad  equipn 
ment. 

Dr.  Buchanan  served  during  the  Civil 
War,  being  promoted  to  captain  in 
1863,  and  serving  in  several  important 
battles.  He  was  an  elder  in  the  Wood- 
lawn  Park  Presbyterian  Church,  Chi- 
cago. 

He  is  survived  by  three  children  and 


his  wife,  Laura  E.  Earnist  of  Richmond, 
Ind.,  whom  he  married  on  May  17, 
1877. 

1869 
William  Reynolds  Brown,  Esq., 

Secretary, 
18  East  41st  St.,  New  York  City. 
Former  Governor  Charles  H.  Allen 
is  named  as  one  of  the  executors  of  the 
late  Levi  P.  Morton's  estate,  estimated 
at  over  $10,000,000.  He  was  also  one 
of  the  pall-bearers  at  the  funeral  of  the 
former  vice-president. 

J.  C.  Gilson,  for  many  years  principal 
and  teacher  in  the  Oakland  (Cal.) 
schools,  retired  at  the  end  of  the  school 
year  in  June.  Many  of  the  leading  busi- 
ness men  of  Oakland  and  vicinity  were 
pupils  of  Professor  Gilson. 

1870 

Dr.  John  G.  Stanton,  Secretary, 
99  Huntington  St.,  New  London,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Savage  Cooper  Stan- 
ton, wife  of  Dr.  John  Gilman  Stanton, 
died  at  her  home  in  New  London,  Conn., 
on  May  5.    Interment  was  in  Anaherst. 

1871 

Prof.  Herbert  G.  Lord,  Secretary, 
623  West  113th  St.,  New  York  City. 
William  C.  Brownell  was  an  honorary 
pall-bearer  at  the  funeral  of  William 
Dean  Howells. 

A  great  loss  has  come  to  Amherst 
College  and  to  the  class  of  1871  in  the 
death  of  John  Woodruff  Simpson.  His 
classmates  will  recall  his  manifest 
ability  as  scholar,  writer,  and  speaker. 
No  one  of  their  number  could  compare 
with  him  in  public  speaking,  chaste  in 
form,  able  in  thought,  easy  in  delivery, 
winning  consent  by  the  order  and  co- 
gency of  his  reasoning.  Those  who 
knew  him  at  all  intimately  will  think 


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of  his  rare  sense  of  humor,  his  fund  of 
anecdotes,  some  of  them  told  in  Scotch 
dialect  that  added  greatly  to  the  merri- 
ment. This  genial  sense  of  humor  with 
his  kindly  nature  made  him  throughout 
life  a  most  agreeable  companion  to  all 
whose  good  fortune  it  was  to  know  him 
at  all  well.  He  was  a  charming  host  and 
a  loyal  friend.  There  was  formed  in 
their  college  days  between  him  and 
Anson  Morse  (later  professor  of  history) 
an  intimate  friendship  that  held  strongly 
through  life,  which  reflected  credit  on 
the  character  of  each.  To  be  loved  and 
respected  by  either  was  a  guarantee  of 
high  worth. 

In  his  college  courses  he  attained 
without  effort  high  scholarly  rank, — 
he  was  Salutatorian  of  his  class; 
he  read  widely  and  took  into  after  life 
the  appreciations  of  a  literary  and 
artistic  connoisseur,  which  increased, 
rather  than  lessened  during  the  years 
in  spite  of  his  great  absorption  in  an 
extensive  practice  of  the  law.  In  this 
profession,  because  of  his  sound  judg- 
ment and  broad  mastery  of  the  funda- 
mental principles,  he  attained  high 
standing  as  counsel  and  became  head 
of  one  of  the  strongest  partnerships  of 
the  New  York  Bar.  This  6rm  was  that 
of  Simpson,  Thatcher  and  Bartlett,  to 
which  later  until  he  died  was  attached 
Tom  Reed,  one  of  the  greatest  Speakers 
for  several  terms  of  the  House  of 
Representatives.  Needless  to  say  so 
great  a  success  in  his  profession  brought 
wealth  to  Simpson. 

His  wife,  Kate  Seney,  daughter  of 
George  1.  Seney,  a  railroad  magnate  of 
the  last  century,  and  his  daughter,  Jean 
Walker  Simpson,  both  survive  him. 
In  their  beautiful  home  on  Fifth  Avenue 
were  collected  a  fine  library  and  many 
and  rare  works  of  art.  And  in  that 
home  in   close  companionship   with   a 


wife  of  great  charm  and  an  admirable 
daughter,  each  of  whom  gave  him  her 
most  intimate  sympathy  and  admiring 
love,  by  him  returned  in  full  measure, 
his  life  was  passed  in  harmony  with  its 
fair  surroundings.  Though  he  suffered 
much  from  rheumatism,  which  lamed 
him,  and  ultimately  was  responsible 
for  his  too  early  taking  off,  he  never  lost 
those  admirable  qualities  which  were 
his  from  the  beginning. 

As  trustee  of  Amherst  for  years  his 
services,  because  of  his  great  ability, 
were  of  necessity  of  high  value.  As 
citizen  he  was  always  on  the  side  of  the 
best  though  he  took  no  active  part  in 
practical  politics.  His  college  mates 
came  more  and  more  to  look  up  to  him 
with  respect  and  admiration,  and  he 
graduated  leaving  an  impression  of  a 
great  future.  Some  anticipated  for  him 
the  career  of  statesmanship,  for  which 
he  seemed  eminently  equipped.  It 
happened  otherwise,  though  the  nation 
would  have  been  fortunate  if  it  could 
have  had  the  services  of  a  man  of  such 
a  character  and  of  ability  such  as  was 
his  to  give. 

Herhert  G.  Lord. 

1872 

Lyman    M.    Paine,     Esq.,    Secretary, 

4224  Langley  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Otis  Cary  has  had  his 
furlough  from  his  missionary  station  at 
Kyoto,  Japan,  extended  by  a  year  in 
order  to  work  among  the  Japanese  in 
Ogden,  Utah.  His  address  is  316 
Twenty-fifth  Street. 

Professor  John  B.  Clark  of  Columbia 
University  has  been  elected  a  director 
of  the  recently  organized  Community 
Wholesale  Purchasing  Corporation. 
"Is  a  Corner  a  Crime?"  is  the  title  of 
an  article  by  Professor  Clark  which  ap- 
peared in  the  Independent  for  May  1. 


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1874 

Elihu    G.    L00MI8,    Esq.,    Secretary, 

15  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Speaker  Frederick  H.  Gillett  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  was  one  of 
the  Massachusetts  Big  Four  at  the 
Republican   National   Convention. 

Clarence  F.  Birdseye  has  recently 
published  through  the  Fleming  H. 
Revell  Company  "  American  Democracy 
versus  Prussian  Marxism."  This  book 
takes  up  the  question,  "Shall  we  be 
forced  to  choose  between  the  American 
form  of  government  and  Marxism?" 

In  the  Spring  number  of  the  Political 
Science  Quarterly  Professor  Munroe 
Smith  wrote  of  "War  Books  by  Ameri- 
can Diplomatists." 

1876 

William  M.  Ducker,  Secretary, 
299  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Arthur  C.  Boyden,  principal  of  the 
State  Normal  School  at  Bridgewater, 
Mass.,  had  a  very  interesting  article  in 
the  May  issue  of  Education,  entitled 
"Teacher  Training  is  Indispensable. 
Shall  It  Be  Raised  to  Collegiate  Rank?" 

John  B.  Stanchfield  has  been  chosen 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Victory  Hall  Association  of  New 
York.  A  fund  of  $20,000,000  is  to  be 
raised  to  construct  a  war-memorial 
building  on  Pershing  Square,  the  cam- 
paign to  start  on  Armistice  Day. 

The  Congregationalist  and  Advance 
for  May  27  contained  an  article  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Dwight  Mallory  Pratt,  en- 
titled "By-Products  of  the  Pilgrim 
Memorial  Drive." 

1877 

A.  DeW.  Mason,  D.D.,  Secretary, 

i2i  Garheld  PI.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Another   member   of   our   class   has 

passed  away,  making  the  fourth  of  our 


comrades  who  have  died  within  the  year 
just  closing.  Rev.  Clarence  H.  Barber 
died  on  April  10,  at  his  home  in  Daniel- 
son,  Conn.,  after  a  period  of  ill  health 
extending  over  five  years.  He  was  sixty- 
seven  years  old. 

The  last  time  that  he  met  with  the 
class  was  at  their  fortieth  reunion  in 
1917,  when  he  was  able  to  be  with  us  for 
a  short  time.  His  life  was  passed  in  the 
ministry  of  the  Congregational  Church, 
in  which  he  held  several  pastorates,  all 
in  Connecticut.  He  was  a  man  of 
earnest  and  able  devotion  to  duty,  both 
in  civil  and  ecclesiastical  affairs.  For 
one  term  he  served  in  the  Connecticut 
legislature  and  was  Chaplain  of  the 
House,  and  later  of  the  Senate  in  that 
body.  He  was  greatly  beloved  by  the 
people  of  his  various  charges  and  his 
relation  to  and  influence  over  them  is 
well  summed  up  in  these  words,  occur- 
ring in  a  tribute  to  his  memory  adopted 
by  the  Church  at  Danielson,  Conn., 
which  was  his  last  charge : 

"As  minister  to  the  moral  and  spiritual 
needs  of  his  people  he  was  rarely  gifted. 
An  inspiration  and  an  example  to  the 
young,  he  was  also  a  reenforcement  and 
a  resource  to  those  of  riper  years.  His 
cheerful  habit  and  keen  sense  of  humor 
helped  others  as  well  as  himself  to  bear 
burdens.  Through  a  long  period  of  ill- 
ness and  infirmity  he  looked  death  in 
the  face  without  fear,  preserved  a  sunny 
spirit,  and  radiated  faith,  courage  and 
light." 

Low  writes  the  Secretary  that  he  has 
returned  to  Siloam  Springs,  Ark.,  and 
has  become  connected  with  a  new  edu- 
cational institution — the  John  E.  Brown 
College — recently  established  in  that 
place. 

A  Boston  newspaper  lately  reported 
that  "the  large  collection  of  law  books 
possessed  by  the  late  J.  Converse  Gray 
has  been  given  by  his  widow,  Mrs.  Helen 
L.  Gray,  to  the  law  library  of  Boston 


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University  Law  School.  The  law  col- 
lection was  given  with  other  personal 
property  to  Mrs.  Gray,  with  the  sug- 
gestion that  the  collection  of  legal  vol- 
umes be  presented  to  the  law  school. 
Mr.  Gray  was  graduated  from  Boston 
University  Law  School  in  the  class  of 
1881." 

Collin  Armstrong  has  been  chosen  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  Sphinx  Club  of  New  York.  As 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  news- 
papers of  the  American  Association  of 
Advertising  Agencies,  he  sent  out  this 
spring  a  letter  to  the  newspaper  pub- 
lishers of  the  United  States,  asking  their 
cooperation  in  bringing  about  certain 
reforms,  chief  of  which  is  the  elimination 
of  rebates  in  giving  net  rates  to  adver- 
tisers who  place  their  business  direct. 

After  a  service  of  nearly  ten  years 
President  Charles  Sumner  Nash  has 
resigned  the  presidency  of  the  Pacific 
School  of  Religion  at  Berkeley,  Cal.,  on 
account  of  ill  health.  Dr.  Nash  first 
went  to  the  Far  West  in  1891  as  profes- 
sor of  homiletics  in  Pacific  Theological 
Seminary,  succeeding  to  the  presidency 
he  has  just  resigned  in  1911. 

As  a  teacher  Dr.  Nash  held  a  high 
place  in  the  esteem  and  affection  of  his 
pupils,  who  witness  to  the  abiding 
inspiration  of  his  influence  upon  their 
lives.  As  president  of  Pacific  School  of 
Religion  Dr.  Nash  has  cherished  large 
visions  of  its  possibilities  and  has  been 
tireless  in  advancing  its  interests.  He 
has  been  elected  president-emeritus  and 
professor  of  church  polity  with  a  year's 
leave  of  absence,  and  has  been  chosen  to 
represent  the  School  at  the  Interna- 
tional Council.  At  the  recent  Com- 
mencement he  was  presented  a  volume 
of  appreciative  letters  from  the  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty,  alumni,  and  friends 
near  and  far. 


1878 

Prof.  H.  Norman  Gardiner,  Secretary. 

187  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Frank  L.  Babbott,  formerly  first 
vice-president  of  the  Brooklyn  Insti- 
ture  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  recently  suc- 
ceeded to  the  presidency  on  the  resig- 
nation of  A.  Augustus  Healy,  who  had 
held  the  oflBce  for  twenty-five  years. 

Andrew  Duff  Heffern,  S.T.D.,  ex-'78, 
died  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  on  May  2, 
1920.  He  graduated  at  Harvard, 
studied  for  the  ministry  at  the  Divinity 
School  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  Philadelphia,  became  rector 
of  St.  Mary's  Church,  Hillsborough,  O., 
in  1881,  and  the  year  following  rector 
of  Trinity  Church,  Southwark,  Pa. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  pro- 
fessor of  New  Testament  literature  and 
languages  at  the  Philadelphia  Divinity 
School,  having  been  a  member  of  the 
Faculty  of  the  school  since  1900.  He  is 
survived  by  a  wife  and  two  daughters. 

Dr.  H.  S.  Johnson  and  his  family  have 
moved  from  Maiden.  His  present  ad- 
dress is  4   Parkway,   Stoneham,  Mass. 

C.  H.  Moore  is  actively  engaged  in 
enlisting  the  interest  of  school  superin- 
tendents and  the  people  of  North  Caro- 
lina in  the  offer  of  Mr.  Rosenwald,  the 
Chicago  philanthropist,  to  aid  in  pro- 
viding better  schoolhouses  for  the 
colored  children  in  the  rural  districts  of 
the  state.  The  offer  is  conditioned  on 
the  raising  of  an  equal  or  larger  amount 
from  the  people  themselves  or  securing 
such  amount  from  the  school  funds. 
Mr.  Moore  reports  considerable  success 
in  his  undertaking. 

1879 

Prof.  J.  Franklin  Jameson,  Secretary, 

1140  Woodward  Bldg.. 

Washington,  D.  C. 

The    Rev.    Dr.    Nehemiah    Boyntoa 

sailed    for    Europe    during    the    latter 


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I 


part  of  July.  He  goes  as  chairman  of 
the  American  delegation  of  representa- 
tives to  an  important  conference  in 
Geneva,  Switzerland,  to  promote  co- 
operative relations  with  the  churches 
of  the  world.  He  will  also  attend  a 
conference  of  the  same  general  order 
near  Geneva  and  will  preach  in  a  num- 
ber of  the  leading  churches  in  England. 
Dr.  Boynton  preached  the  baccalaureate 
sermon  at  Amherst  in  June. 

William  J.  Seelye's  present  address  is 
3112  South  Dakota  Ave.,  Washington, 
D.  C.  He  has  been  for  some  time 
engaged  in  the  work  of  the  War  Risk 
Insurance  Bureau,  but  at  present  is 
temporarily  assisting  in  the  work  of 
the  Department  of  Labor. 

Professor  Arthur  D.  Bissell,  of 
Pomona  College  in  Southern  California, 
who  has  been  spending  a  sabbatical 
year  at  Milford,  Conn.,  near  Yale 
University,  has  just  received  from  that 
institution  the  degree  of  doctor  of 
philosophy,  with  a  thesis  on  the  psy- 
chology of  music.  From  September 
on,  his  address  will  once  more  be 
Claremont,  Cal. 

Dr.  John  Ellery  Tuttle  has,  during 
the  last  winter,  been  one  of  the  college 
speakers  sent  out  by  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement,  speaking  at  many 
colleges  and  universities  in  the  states 
of  New  York,  Pennsylvania,  and  West 
Virginia.  He  has  also  at  times  been 
college  preacher  at  various  colleges  and 
school  preacher  at  Tome  Institute, 
where  he  preached  the  baccalaureate 
sermon  on  June  13,  and  at  the  Mer- 
cer sbiu-g  and  Lawrenceville  schools. 
Franklin  and  Marshall  College,  where 
he  recently  delivered  the  Commence- 
ment address,  has  given  him  the  degree 
of  doctor  of  letters. 


1880 
Henry  P.  Field,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
86  Main  St.,  Northampton,  Mass. 
Prof.  J.  F.  McGregory,  head  of  the 
department  of  chemistry  at  Colgate 
University  and  president  of  the  class, 
was  injured  in  the  recent  railroad  ac- 
cident near  Schenectady,  N.  Y.  He 
was  en  route  to  Amherst  to  attend  the 
class  reunion.  It  is  reported  that  he 
was  in  a  sleeping  car  in  which  many 
passengers  were  killed.  He  had  several 
ribs  broken  and  other  injuries  besides 
a  severe  shock.  He  is  in  a  hospital  at 
Schenectady,  but  is  reported  to  be 
making  a  good  recovery. 

Rev.  Charles  H.  Snedeker  is  at  Bay 
St.  Louis,  Mississippi,  where  he  has 
been  since  last  winter  recovering  from 
the  effects  of  a  serious  attack  of  influ- 
enza. 

H.  P.  Field  has  been  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Hampshire  County  Bar 
Association. 

1881 

Frank   H.   Parsons,   Esq.,    Secretary, 
60  Wall  St.,  New  York  City. 
B.  Preston  Clark  of  Boston  has  been 
elected    a    Fellow    of    the    American 
Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

Walter  H.  Crittenden  was  in  May 
elected  first  vice-president  of  the 
Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 

The  Rev.  I.  Chipman  Smart  de- 
livered the  baccalaureate  sermon  at 
the  University  of  Vermont  on  June  27. 
Vermont  also  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorary  degree  of  doctor  of  divinity. 

The  class  of  1881  is  already  begin- 
ning its  preparation  for  its  fortieth 
reunion  next  June.  Its  headquarters 
will  be,  as  they  have  been  for  several 


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of  the  past  reunions,  at  the  Perry 
House. 

There  are  now  Uving  fifty-seven 
graduates  and  nineteen  non-graduates. 

Twenty  graduates  have  died  and 
ten  non-graduates.  Seven  graduates 
and  one  non-graduate  have  died  since 
the  last  reunion,  four  of  the  deaths, 
those  of  Scarborough,  Lyman,  Ladd 
and  Pond,  having  occurred  in  the  past 
year. 

The  latest  death  among  our  class- 
mates is  that  of  George  Gilbert  Pond, 
who  was  born  in  Holliston,  Mass., 
March  29,  1861,  and  prepared  for 
college  at  the  high  school  in  that  town. 
While  in  College  he  was  a  member  of 
Delta   Upsilon  and  Phi   Beta   Kappa. 

Dean  Pond  was  one  of  that  group 
of  scientists  graduating  from  a  college 
which  did  not  pretend  to  give  a  com- 
pleted scientific  training,  but  did  give 
an  inspiration  which  produced  dis- 
tinguished results.  He  specialized  in 
chemistry,  and  after  graduation  took 
courses  at  Gottingen  and  Berlin  in 
Germany.  He  then  accepted  a  position 
as  principal  of  the  high  school  which 
prepared  him  for  college,  and  in  1883 
was  appointed  instructor  in  chemistry 
at  Amherst  College,  which  position  he 
held  for  five  years,  leaving  it  to  become 
head  of  the  department  of  chemistry 
at  Pennsylvania  State  College. 

From  that  time  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  from  pneumonia  at 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  May  21,  1920, 
he  was  connected  with  that  college. 
He  was  appointed  dean  of  the  School 
of  Natural  Science  in  1896  and  was 
for  several  years  acting-president  of 
the  college.  He  was  distinguished  in 
his  profession.  He  was  a  member  of 
a  number  of  scientific  societies  in  this 
country  and  in  Europe  and  was  highly 
regarded  in  scientific  circles,  and  hon- 
ored by  his  Alma  Mater  from  whom 


in  1884  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A. 
and  in  1889  the  degree  of  Ph.D. 

It  is  fitting  that  he  should  rest  in 
the  town  in  which  he  received  the 
inspiration  of  his  life  work.  He  has 
found  that  resting  place  in  the  West 
Cemetery  at  Amherst. 

Pond  was  married  August  1,  1888, 
to  Helen,  daughter  of  Dwight  W. 
Palmer,  and  his  wife  with  three  daugh- 
ters and  a  son  survives  him. 

1882 
Prof.  Johx  P.  Cushing,  Secretary, 
Whitneyville,  Conn. 
An  account  of  the  late  Dr.  Howard 
S.  Bliss  appears  in  another  part  of  this 
magazine,  but  the  following  tribute 
by  the  secretary  of  1882  in  the  New 
York  Times  should  be  recorded  here: 

By  the  death  of  Rev.  Dr.  Howard 
Sweetser  Bliss,  America  has  lost  one 
of  its  strong  men  and  the  Church  one 
of  its  leading  missionaries.  Born  on 
Mount  Lebanon  of  distinguished  parent- 
age, educated  at  Amherst  and  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  after  brief  pas- 
torates in  Plymouth  Church,  Brooklyn 
(as  Dr.  Lyman  Abbot's  assistant) 
and  in  Montclair  he  returned  to  his 
beloved  Syria,  where  in  1902  he  suc- 
ceeded his  father  as  president  of  the 
Syrian  Protestant  College  in  Beirut. 
To  this  duty  he  gave  the  best  of  his 
brilliant  life.  Without  question  he 
was  the  great  man  of  the  Near  East. 

The  war  brought  him  many  addi- 
tional burdens.  Turks,  Germans,  En- 
glish, and  French  officials  from  time 
to  time  held  sway  over  his  Syrian 
home.  Refugees  by  the  thousand 
poured  down  from  Armenia  and  other 
countries.  But  the  college  was  held 
together,  and  never  during  the  war 
did  one  of  Dr.  Bliss's  hundreds  of 
students  suffer  from  hunger.  He  was 
the  man  for  every  emergency — to  care 
for  a  deserted  asylum,  to  succor  thou- 
sands, and  to  tell  them  to  hold  to  their 
faith  in  God.  For  seven  weeks  he 
labored  before  the  Peace  Council  in 
Paris  in  behalf  of  his  beloved  land. 
Now,  after  four  or  five  years  of  con- 


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stant,  vigorous  service,  worn  out  by 
the  trials  of  the  war.  he  has  passed 
away,  and  the  leadership  of  the  Eastern 
Mediterranean  passes  to  other  hands. 
At  the  coming  centenary  of  Amherst 
College  his  classmates  and  friends 
could  perform  no  better  service  than 
to  establish  a  Howard  Bliss  Memorial 
in  remembrance  of  the  past  and  as  a 
pledge  to  the  future. 

John  P.  Cushing. 

1883 

Walter  T.  Field,  Secretary, 
2301-2311  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Edward  A.  Cahoon  of  Roswell,  N. 
Mex.,  headed  the  New  Mexico  delega- 
tion to  the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention. He  is  president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Roswell,  chairman 
of  the  trustees  of  the  New  Mexico 
Military  Academy,  and  has  other  im- 
portant   interests    in    the    Southwest. 

Dr.  C.  A.  Dereby,  who  came  from 
Turkey  to  obtain  his  education  at 
Amherst,  and  who  has  been  for  many 
years  a  practising  physician  in  Chicago, 
has  recently  had  an  interesting  experi- 
ence in  trying  to  rescue  two  nieces  who 
were  left  orphans  in  Turkey  during 
the  late  war.  Dr.  Dereby's  brother, 
who  lived  about  sixty  miles  from  Con- 
stantinople, although  a  Greek  and 
opposed  to  the  Turkish  government, 
was  impressed  into  the  Turkish  army, 
and  was  killed  at  Gallipoli.  The 
brother's  wife  also  died,  and  their  two 
young  daughters  were  left  in  a  hostile 
environment  without  protection.  Dr. 
Dereby  tried  for  months  to  locate  them 
and  have  them  brought  to  this  country. 
He  has  finally  succeeded  and  the  two 
girls,  after  unheard  of  sufferings,  have 
arrived  at  his  home  in  Chicago,  where 
he  is  taking  care  of  them. 

Dr.   N.   H.   Kirby,   a  non-graduate, 
died  a  few  months  ago  at  his  home  in 


Burdett,  N.  Y.  He  was  a  practising 
physician  in  Burdett  for  many  years 
and  was  held  in  the  highest  esteem 
throughout  the  entire  neighborhood 
in  which  he  lived. 

George  E.  Hooker,  who  was  some 
time  ago  appointed  a  member  of  the 
government  commission  to  examine  the 
condition  of  commerce  on  the  Great 
Lakes,  is  now  connected  with  the 
bureau  of  foreign  and  domestic  com- 
merce with  headquarters  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  He  has  recently  been 
investigating  the  methods  by  which 
the  railroads  have  tried  to  control  lake 
shipping,  and  is  soon  to  go  to  Texas 
on  a  mission  in  connection  with  the 
Gulf  ports. 

William  Orr  gave  a  course  of  lectures 
to  the  students  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Southern  College  at  Nashville,  Tenn., 
early  in  March  on  the  "Educational 
Work  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association." 

1884 
WiLLARD  H.  Wheeler,  Secretary, 
2  Maiden  Lane,  New  York  City. 
A  very  comprehensive  article  by 
Edward  M.  Bassett  was  published 
as  a  supplement  to  the  May  issue  of 
the  National  Municipal  Review.  The 
subject  of  the  article  was  "Zoning." 
Mr.  Bassett  is  counsel  of  the  zoning 
commission  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

Willard  H.  Wheeler  is  in  Europe  on 
business.  His  address  until  October  1 
will  be  in  care  of  F.  J.  Jennings  Wood, 
The  Little  Close,  Farnham  Royal, 
Bucks,  England. 

A  son,  Samuel  Mountfort,  was 
born  in  Springfield  on  June  2  to  Prof, 
and  Mrs.  Joseph  Osgood  Thompson 
of  Amherst. 


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1885 
Frank  E.  Whitman,  Secretary, 
66  Leonard  St.,  New  York  City. 
The  name  of  Richard  Baldwin  was 
omitted  from  the  recent  issue  of  the 
Address  List.     This  error  was  due  to  a 
mistake  of  the  Post  Office  Department. 
Mr.   Baldwin  is  in  active  business  in 
connection  with  the  Sun  Shipbuilding 
Co.,   with   address  at   1710   N.   Fifty- 
second  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Charles  McK.  Nichols  now,  as  for- 
merly, active  in  the  real  estate  business 
in  Chicago,  has  his  oflBce  at  175  W. 
Jackson  Boulevard,  Chicago,  111. 

Benjamin  Brooks  is  now  living  at 
1711  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Boston, 
Mass. 

The  law  offices  of  Mr.  Walter  C.  Low 
which  have  been  for  many  years  in  the 
New  York  Life  Building,  346  Broadway, 
have  been  moved  to  353  Fifth  Avenue, 
which  is  on  the  corner  of  Thirty-fourth 
Street  and   Fifth  Avenue. 

News  has  been  received  that  the 
Board  of  Awards  has  conferred  on 
Lieutenant-Commander  Edward  Breck, 
the  Navy  Cross  "for  distinguished  and 
dangerous  service."  It  was  generally 
understood  that  Breck  was  in  the 
Intelligence  Service  as  he  was  during 
the  Spanish  War. 

On  June  12,  1920,  in  the  Congre- 
gational Church,  Stamford,  Conn., 
Miss  Barbara  Brooks,  only  child  of 
Albert  W.  Brooks,  '85,  of  Augusta,  Me., 
and  Kilborn  Bray  Coe  of  Akron,  Ohio, 
were  married;  the  Rev.  Sherrod  Soule, 
'85,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  performing 
the  ceremony. 

Phillips  Foster  Greene,  M.D.,  '15, 
and  Ruth  Peabody  Altman,  Wellesley, 
'18,  were  married  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 


June  17,  1920,  the  father  of  the  bride 
and  the  father  of  the  groom  both  as- 
sisting in  tying  the  knot.  Dr.  Greene 
will  complete  his  internship  at  St. 
Luke's  Hospital,  New  York,  December 
31.  He  is  preparing  for  medical  mis- 
sionary work,  probably  in  Turkey, 
where  his  father.  Rev.  Frederick  D. 
Greene,  '85,  and  his  grandfather.  Rev. 
Joseph  K.  Greene,  D.D.,  were  mis- 
sionaries of  the  American  Board.  The 
bride  is  the  daughter  of  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
D.  Lee  Altman. 

1886 

Charles  F.  Marble,  Secretary, 
4  Marble  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Former  Secretary  ef  State  Robert 
Lansing  has  formed  a  partnership  for 
the  practice  of  international  law  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  with  Lester  H.  I. 
Woolsey,  who  resigned  his  post  as 
solicitor  of  the  State  Department  to 
enter  the  new  firm. 

William  F.  Whiting  of  Holyoke 
served  as  a  delegate  to  the  Republican 
National  Convention,  representing  the 
first  Massachusetts  district.  Mr.  Whit- 
ing, who  is  treasurer  of  the  Whiting 
Paper  Company  of  Holyoke,  has  been 
elected  a  director  of  the  American 
Trust  Co. 

Walter  A.  Rugg,  '86,  and  Miss 
Linnie  R.  Spear  of  Massachusetts 
were  married  in  Berkeley  on  June  2 
and  spent  two  weeks  touring  down  the 
coast  of  California. 

Great  success  has  attended  the  eflForts 
of  James  C.  Clarke  in  his  introduction 
of  a  cooperative  industrial  course  at 
the  Hyde  Park  (Mass.)  High  School. 
This  last  year  the  boys  earned  approx- 
imately $25,000  or  an  average  of  $430 
for  each  boy.  The  training  itself, 
however,  is    the    prime   consideration. 


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1887 
Frederic  B.  Pratt,  Secretary, 
Pratt  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Among  the  articles  from  the  pen  of 
Alvan  F.  Sanborn  which  hav^e  recently 
appeared  in  the  Boston  Evening  Tran- 
script, one  entitled  ''Give  France  a 
Square  Deal"  has  attracted  unusual 
attention.  Mr.  Sanborn  writes :  "  From 
this  distance  it  is  difficult  to  determine 
the  precise  present  sentiments  of  the 
American  people  towards  the  French 
jjeople,  but  there  is  no  question  that 
they  are  far  less  cordial  than  they  were 
before  the  Armistice,  and  I  am  very 
much  afraid  that  America  just  now  b 
not  giving  France  a  square  deal. " 

Frederic  B.  Pratt  acted  as  chairman  of 
of  the  Hoover  committee  in  Brooklyn, 
formed  in  May  to  promote  Hoover's 
nomination  for  the  presidency.  Mr. 
Pratt  has  also  been  reelected  vice- 
president  of  the  Brooklyn  Bureau  of 
Charities.  He  has  also  been  appointed 
a  member  of  the  executive  committee 
to  raise  Brooklyn's  quota  of  $200,000 
for  the  Republican  National  campaign. 

Rev.  W.  B.  Thorp  of  San  Diego 
delivered  an  address  on  "The  Congre- 
gational Emergency  Fund"  at  the 
thirty-fourth  annual  meeting  of  the 
Southern  California  Conference  held 
in  May. 

1888 

WiLUAM  B.  Greenough,  Esq., 

Secretary, 

32  Westminster  St.,  Providence,  R,  I. 

Rev.  James  A.  Fairley  of  Jamaica 
Plain,  Mass.,  was  elected  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Ministerial  Union  at  the 
recent  anniversary  week  celebration 
of  the  Unitarians,  held  in  Boston. 

George  N.  Seymour  headed  the 
ticket  for  nomination  as  Regent  of  the 
University  of  Nebraska. 


Miss  Edith  Brayton,  daughter  of 
John  S.  Brayton  of  Fall  River,  Mass., 
was  one  of  those  who  were  badly  in- 
jured in  the  New  York  Central  wreck 
near  Schenectady  in  June.  She  is  a 
student  at  Wells  College  and  was  on 
her  way  home  for  her  vacation.  She 
was  at  first  reported  dead,  but  was 
afterwards  located  in  a  hospital. 

1889 
Henry  H.  Bosworth,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
387  Main  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 
Dr.  James  F.  Ackerman  of  Asbury 
Park,  N.  J.,  was  active  in  the  New 
Jersey  Hoover  organization,  formed  in 
May  to  further  the  nomination  of  the 
former  Food  Controller  at  the  Repub- 
lican National  Convention. 

Dean  Frederick  J.  E.  Woodbridge 
of  Columbia  University  delivered  the 
Commencement  address  at  Smith  Col- 
lege. Dean  Woodbridge  was  elected 
Alumni  Trustee  of  Amherst  College 
in  June. 

George  D.  Storrs  of  Ware,  Mass., 
has  been  elected  a  director  of  the 
Hampshire  County  Bar  Association. 

Rev.  Dr.  William  Horace  Day  has 
been  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Hartford  Theological  Semi- 
inary.  Dr.  Day's  church,  the  United 
Congregational  Church,  Bridgeport,  is 
known  as  one  of  the  most  progressive 
churches  in  the  state  of  Connecticut. 
He  writes  concerning  his  work: 

"Missed  my  thirtieth  class  reunion 
in  1919,  being  overseas  as  moderator 
of  the  Congregational  National  Council; 
attended  as  the  American  representa- 
tive the  meetings  of  the  Congregational 
Union  of  England  and  Wales;  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  speaker  in  France  through  the 
summer;  three  weeks  as  lecturer  for 
the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Emergency  Institute 
in  Paris. 

"Outstanding    work    of   my  Church 


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during  the  past  year:  Men's  Member- 
ship Committee  organized  January  1, 
1919,  with  a  two  years'  goal  of  500 
additions  to  Church  membership.  To 
date,  439  of  the  500  have  been  re- 
ceived. Sunday  Evening  Community 
Forum.  Speakers  on  civic  questions — 
Hamilton  Holt,  Charles  Zueblin,  Dr. 
Frank  Crane,  Charles  Stelzle,  John 
Fitch,  Margaret  Slattery,  etc.,  with 
the  exception  of  the  Lenten  Season, 
when  religious  questions  are  discussed 
from  different  viewpoints.  The  Forum 
has  made  an  important  contribution  to 
the  educational  life  of  a  very  cosmo- 
politan American  industrial  city.  Cele- 
brated the  two  hundred  and  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  the  founding  of 
the  Church. " 

William  Chambers  Dicken  died  of 
bronchial  pneumonia  at  his  home  in 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  on  March  6.  He  was 
the  son  of  J.  Charles  and  Mary  L. 
(Chambers)  Dicken  and  was  bom  in 
Pittsburgh  on  January  24,  1866.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Pittsburgh 
High  School. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in 
the  oflBce  of  his  father  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bap  in  1891.  He  married 
on  December  17,  1908,  Miss  Emma 
Beckert  of  Pittsburgh,  who,  with  one 
daughter,  Mary,  survives  him. 

1890 

George  C.  Coit,  Secretary, 
6  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Former  Governor  Charles  S.  Whit- 
man was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican 
National  Convention. 

The  Ronald  Press  has  recently  pub- 
lished as  a  part  of  their  business  library 
"Language  for  Men  of  Affairs,"  in  two 
volumes,  by  Professor  John  M.  Clapp 
and  James  Melvin  Lee.  These  two 
books  show  how  to  "talk  business" 
and  how  to  "put  it  into  writing." 

Frank    E.    Dunbar    of    Lowell    also 
attended  the  Republican  National  Con- 
5 


vention,  as  a   delegate  from    the  fifth 
Massachusetts  district. 

Edwin  B.  Child  has  been  selected 
to  paint  the '  portrait  of  John  Holley 
Clark,  who  has  served  for  many  years 
as  principal  of  the  Flushing  (N.  Y.) 
High  School.  In  his  career  as  por- 
trait painter,  Mr.  ChUd  has  had  a 
number  of  very  important  commis- 
sions, among  others  from  Amherst 
College,  Massachusetts  Agricultural 
College,  Michigan  State  College,  Bow- 
doin  College,  and  such  noted  picture 
collectors  as  Charles  Stewart  Smith, 
Robert  W.  Paterson,  and  C.  H.  Silva. 

W.  B.  Doyle  is  a  professor  in  the 
department  of  economics  at  Connecti- 
cut Women's  College,  at  New  London, 
Conn. 

Col.  W.  O.  Gilbert  is  still  in  the  serv- 
ice, having  recently  returned  from 
overseas  duty  with  the  U.  S.  Army  of 
Occupation  in  Germany,  and  is  now 
attached  to  the  oflSce  of  the  Judge 
Advocate  General,  Washington,  D.  C. 

E.  A.  Richardson's  daughter  grad- 
uated this  year  from  Mount  Holyoke. 

A.  B.  Ingalls,  now  of  Honolulu,, 
contemplates  returning  to  the  United 
States  to  live  in  California. 

H.  W.  Landfear  is  teaching  in  New 
York  City.  He  still  retains  his  resi- 
dence at  Morristown,  N.  J. 

A.  B.  MacNeill  has  recently  returned 
from  overseas  duty  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Before  returning  to  this  country  he 
spent  some  time  in  Great  Britain  in 
the  interests  of  the  organization  which 
he  represented. 

E.  T.  Pope  has  a  son  who  comes 
East  to  M.  L  T.  as  a  Senior  next  year, 
and  one  who  goes  as  a  member  of  the 
American  team  to  the  Olympic  games 
at  Antwerp. 


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W.  H.  Smith  is  spending  the  summer 
in  this  country.  He  is  one  of  6ve 
members  of  the  board  having  full 
charge  of  education  in  the  territory 
of  Hawaii  and  is  making  a  study  of 
teachers'  pension  systems  in  this  coun- 
try. He  was  chairman  of  the  local 
Draft  Board  in  the  Island  of  Hawaii. 

Trumbull  White  is  engaged  in  an 
endowment  drive  in  behalf  of  Grin- 
nell  College. 

E.  S.  Whitney  is  in  Japan. 

E.  S.  Boyd  is  a  member  of  the  Pardon 
Board  of  Connecticut. 

1891 

Nathan  P.  Avert,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
362  Dwight  St.,  Holyoke,  Mass. 
Oliver  B.  Merrill  is  mayor  of  Sum- 
mit, N.  J.  He  has  also  recently  been 
elected  treasiu-er  of  the  New  York 
Advertising  Club. 

1893 

Frederick  S.  Allis,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 
Professor  and  Mrs.  Herman  Babson 
of  Purdue  University  sailed  in  June 
for  France  and  Switzerland  to  spend 
the  next  fifteen  months  in  study.  They 
will  return  to  Purdue  in  September, 
1921. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jesse  H.  Allen  announce 
the  arrival  on  April  5  of  a  son,  George 
Pratt  Allen,  named  for  George  Dwight 
Pratt  of  Springfield,  Mass. 

Rev.  Dr.  Lewis  T.  Reed,  pastor  of 
the  Flatbush  Congregational  Church, 
Brooklyn,  who  has  been  acting  as 
executive  secretary  of  the  Pilgrim  Me- 
morial Fund  has  acceded  to  the  wishes 
of  the  members  of  his  church  and  will 
not  resign.  He  will  resume  his  church 
duties  early  this  fall. 


Frank  M.  Lay  has  been  elected  a 
Trustee  of  Yankton  College,  Yankton, 
South  Dakota.  Lay  has  also  assisted 
in  the  organization  of  an  Alumni 
Council  for  Knox  College  and  is  one 
of  the  charter  members.  Raub  is 
professor  of  philosophy  at  Knox,  and 
Lay  was  a  student  there  before  he 
came  to  Amherst. 

1894 

Henry  E.  Whitcomb,  Secretary, 
53  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Dr.  A.  S.  Baker  has  resigned  as 
Hawaiian  Board  Agent  for  the  Kona 
district  of  the  Island  of  Hawaii,  after 
putting  in  fifteen  years  of  splendid 
service  in  this  field.  He  will  now  make 
his  home  in  Honolulu.  His  new  ad- 
dress  is   2315    Maile   Way,    Honolulu. 

Congressman  Bertrand  H.  Snell  at- 
tended the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention, having  been  elected  a  dele- 
gate from  the  thirty-first  New  York 
district. 

As  the  Quarterly,  goes  to  press, 
much  is  being  heard  in  political  circles 
in  regard  to  Congressman  Bertrand 
H.  Snell  becoming  the  Republican 
candidate  for  governor  of  New  York 
State  this  fall. 

1895 
William    S.    Tyler,    Esq.,    Secretary, 

30  Church  Street,  New  York  City. 

Municipal  Court  Judge  Charles  B. 
Law  of  Brooklyn  has  announced  his 
candidacy  for  the  Republican  nomina- 
tion for  Supreme  Court  Justice  in  the 
Second  Judicial  District  comprising 
Brooklyn,  Richmond,  Queens,  and  Long 
Island  City. 

Dwight  W.  Morrow  received  an 
honorary  degree  at  Rochester  Uni- 
versity where  he  delivered  the  Com- 
Doencement  address.     Mr.  Morrow  was 


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also  the  principal  speaker  at  the  Groton 
School  Commencement.  At  the  Smith 
College  Commencement  it  was  an- 
nounced that  he  had  given  the  final 
$50,000  of  their  $4,000,000  endowment 
fund. 

Calvin  Coolidge,  governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts and  nominee  on  the  Republi- 
can ticket  for  vice-president  of  the 
United  States,  was  officially  notified 
of  his  nomination  on  July  27  in  North- 
ampton. Besides  attending  his  class 
reunion  at  the  Amherst  Commencement, 
the  governor  took  part  in  several  other 
New  England  College  Commencements 
in  June.  He  delivered  the  principal 
address  at  Williams,  Wesleyan,  Bates, 
and  Vermont  University,  and  was 
awarded  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D. 
by  the  last  three.  He  also  spoke  at  the 
Middlesex  School  Commencement. 

"The  Famous  Ham  Case,"  as  re- 
lated in  the  last  issue  of  the  Quarterly 
with  Robert  H.  Mainzer  as  the  hero, 
was  appealed,  resulting  in  still  more 
of  a  victory  for  Mr.  Mainzer.  The 
Appellate  Term  of  the  Supreme  Court 
handed  down  its  decision  late  in  June, 
aflBrming  the  judgment  of  the  lower 
court  and  assessing  the  cost  of  the 
action  on  the  plaintiff. 

1896 

Thomas  B.  Hitchcock,  Se^etary, 
10  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Harry  L.  Barker  is  under-sheriff  of 
Imperial  County,  Cal.,  "the  lowest 
down  sheriff's  office  in  the  world — fifty- 
seven  feet  below  sea  level. " 

Robert  B.  Metcalf  is  now  in  charge 
of  the  New  England  interests  of  the 
American  Book  Company. 

Rev.  J.  E.  Russell  has  recently  moved 
from  Lowville,  N.  Y.,  to  Binghamton 
where  he  is  now  pastor  of  the  North 
Presbyterian  Church. 


1897 

Dr.  B.  Kendall  Emerson,  Secretary, 
56  William  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

William  A.  Cowan  is  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Mining  and  Metallurgical 
Engineers  and  vice-chairman  of  the 
Institute  of  Metals  Division.  He  is 
also  vice-chairman  of  the  New  York 
section  of  the  American  Electro- 
Chemical  Society,  chairman  of  the 
committee  on  analysis  of  the  American 
Society  of  Testing  Materials,  member 
of  an  advisory  committee  from  technical 
societies  to  the  Bureau  of  Standards 
in  Washington,  and  a  member  of  the 
Alloys  Research  committee  of  the 
National  Research  Council. 

A  daughter,  Marion  Vail  Ingersoll, 
was  born  on  Sunday,  April  25,  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Raymond  V.  Ingersoll  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  This  is  their  fourth 
child. 

Rev.  Alexander  H.  Backus  returned 
to  Paris  in  May  to  engage  in  church 
work  there. 

Karl  V.  S.  Howland,  publisher  of  the 
Independent,  was  a  member  of  the 
"Fifth  Avenue  Week"  committee  last 
spring  which  arranged  for  the  celebra- 
tion of  Fifth  Avenue's  artistic  and  com- 
mercial supremacy  among  the  streets  of 
the  world. 

Robert  G.  Perry  has  removed  his 
law  offices  to  52  Broadway,  New  York 
City. 

Gilbert  H.  Grosvenor  had  an  article 
in  a  recent  issue  of  the  National  Geo- 
graphic Magazine,  entitled  "Peary's 
Explorations  in  the  Far  North." 

Dr.  Oliver  Thompson  Hyde  died  at 
his  home  in  Albuquerque,  N.  Mex.,  of 
tuberculosis,  on  February  2. 

Dr.  Hyde  was  the  son  of  Arthiu-  A. 


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and  Louisa  (Bird)  Hyde,  and  was  born 
in  Ellington,  Conn.,  on  August  4,  1875. 
His  preparation  for  college  was  secured 
at  the  Rockville  (Conn.)  High  School. 
He  graduated  from  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York 
in  1901.  He  practised  his  profession 
in  Des  Moines  until  he  went  to  New 
Mexico  in  1909.  He  became  a  special- 
ist in  tuberculosis,  devoting  the  last  ten 
years  of  his  life  to  this  work.  From 
1909  to  1914,  Dr.  Hyde  was  the  medical 
director  of  St.  Joseph's  Sanitarium  at 
Silver  City  and  since  1914  of  St.  Joseph's 
Sanitarium,  Albuquerque. 

Before  going  to  Des  Moines  in  1905 
he  served  for  two  years  as  house  physi- 
cian at  Bellevue  Hospital  in  New  York 
City  and  then  spent  two  years  in  post- 
graduate medical  and  surgical  work  in 
Vienna  and  Berlin. 

Dr.  Hyde  was  a  member  of  the  Chi 
Phi  fraternity.  He  married  Miss  Kate 
Guyton  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  in  September, 
1914.  She  died  December  31  of  the 
same  year. 

On  June  16  Gilbert  Grosvenor,  presi- 
dent of  the  National  Geographic  Society, 
presented  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Inte- 
rior a  deed  conveying  to  the  United 
States  Government  130  acres  of  gigantea 
sequoia  in  the  Sequoia  National  Park. 
The  gift  was  made  possible  by  a  member 
of  the  Society  who  was  so  interested  in 
the  Society's  work  for  the  preservation 
of  these  big  trees  that  he  sent  his  per- 
sonal check  for  $13,300  in  order  that  the 
above  tract  might  be  purchased. 

Gilbert  Grosvenor  has  recently  been 
elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Cor- 
porators of  the  Clarke  School  for  the 
Deaf  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  the  oldest 
school  for  the  oral  instruction  of  the 
deaf  in  America.  He  is  also  chairman 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
American  Association  to  Promote  the 


Teaching  of  Speech  to  the  Deaf  with, 
headquarters  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
He  and  Mrs.  Grosvenor  recently  gave  a 
fund  of  $5,000  to  this  association,  the 
income  to  be  used  for  the  distribution 
of  information  useful  for  the  education 
of  young  deaf  children  in  the  home. 

Grosvenor  has  been  recently  elected 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  George  Washington  University, 
which  has  4,800  students,  and  of  the 
American  University,  both  located  in 
the  District  of  Columbia.  A  plan  is 
now  on  foot  for  the  union  of  the  two 
institutions. 

He  is  spending  the  month  of  July  in 
Hawaii,  attending  a  Pan-Pacific  Scien- 
tific Congress  as  the  delegate  from  the 
National  Geographic  Society. 

1899 

Charles  H.  Cobb,  Secretary, 
224  Albany  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
The  engagement  is  announced  of 
Miss  Beatrice  AUard,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Frank  Ellsworth  Allard  of 
Wellesley,  Mass.,  and  Edwin  M. 
Brooks.  She  is  a  graduate  of  Mount 
Holyoke  College  and  took  a  doctor's 
degree  at  Bryn  Mawr. 

Assistant  Professor  Raymond  Smith 
Dugan  of  Princeton  University  has 
been  promoted  to  a  professorship  of 
astronomy. 

Professor  William  J.  Newlin  of  the 
Amherst  College  Faculty  has  been 
decorated  by  the  Prince  Regent  Alex- 
ander of  Serbia  with  the  fourth  order 
of  St.  Sava,  in  recognition  of  his  s«^rv- 
ices  in  the  reestablishment  of  an  educa- 
tional system  in  that  country. 

Rev.  F.  W.  Raymond  of  Glastonbury, 
Conn.,  has  been  serving  as  county  organ- 
izer for  Connecticut  of  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement  and  as  regional  organ- 


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'izer  in  the  Hartford  and  Hartford  East 
Association,  for  the  Congregational 
World  Movement. 

1900 

Walter  A.  Dyer,  Secretary, 
Amherst,  Mass. 

H.  W.  Burdon  has  moved  from  Seat- 
tle, Wash.,  to  2250  JeflFerson  Ave.  East, 
Detroit,  Mich. 

Rev.  George  H.  Driver  has  accepted 
a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  English 
Congregational  Church,  Lansford,  Pa. 
His  address  is  254  East  Patterson  Street. 

James  F.  Connor  has  left  the  Navy, 
retiring  with  the  rank  of  commander, 
and  is  now  labor  manager  for  the 
Clothing  Manufacturers'  Association, 
752  Broadway,  New  York  City.  He  is 
living  at  34  West  Forty-fourth  Street. 

Frederick  P.  Young  has  been  appoint- 
ed a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  National  Child  Welfare  Associa- 
tion. 

Ray  S.  Hubbard,  who  served  during 
the  war  with  the  War  Camp  Commu- 
nity Service,  is  now  eastern  director  of 
the  Community  Service,  Inc.,  with 
headquarters  in  Boston. 

E.  T.  Clark  has  left  Washington  and 
politics  and  is  now  in  the  department 
of  corporation  law  of  Stone  and  Web- 
ster, managers  of  public  utilities, 
Boston. 

A.  B.  Franklin,  Jr.,  has  left  the 
insurance  business  and  has  gone  into 
hardwood  lumber  with  Wallace  H. 
Partridge,  Inc.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Prof.  Harold  C.  Goddard  of  Swarth- 
more.  Pa.,  is  teaching  this  summer 
at  the  Columbia  University  summer 
school. 

Donald  W.  Brown  is  in  Europe  in 
charge  of  extensive  reconstruction 
work. 


James  D.  Regan  has  a  year's  absence 
from  Groton  School  and  is  engaged  in 
reconstruction  work  in  France. 

Hamilton  G.  Merrill  is  engaged  in 
almond  growing  at  Pasa  Robles,  Cal. 

Theodore  Ramsdell  is  in  Europe  on 
business. 

Joseph  DuVivier,  formerly  assistant 
district  attorney  of  New  York,  is  now 
in  Paris  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
Franco-American  law. 

Addresses  are  desired  of  Brooks, 
Crapo,  Davis,  E.  L.  Harris,  and  Larkin. 

Rev.  Philip  A.  Job,  pastor  of  the 
People's  Congregational  Church  of 
Providence,  R.  I.,  has  announced  his 
engagement  to  Miss  Sarah  C.  Campbell 
of  Providence. 

1901 

Harry  H.  Clutia,  Secretary, 

100  William  St.,  New  York  City. 

William  M.  Clark  was  married  on 
Monday,  April  12,  to  Miss  Marguerite 
Frances  Mitchell  of  New  York  City  at 
St.  James's  Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Clark  are  at  home  after  June  15 
at  119  Newark  Ave.,  Spring  Lake,  N.  J. 

Charles  E.  Robertson  is  secretary  of 
the  Atlanta  (Ga.)  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. 

William  S.  Hatch  is  vice-president  of 
the  Sheffield  National  Bank,  Sheffield, 
Ala. 

The  following  from  the  class  of  1901 
were  at  this  jear's  Commencement: 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  Goodell,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Baker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  K. 
Kretschmar,  and  Albert  H.  Watson. 

W.  W.  Everett  is  doing  effective  work 
as  Publicity  Manager  of  the  Cutler 
Publications,  publishers  of  the  Shoe  and 
Leather  Reporter,  The  Shoe  Retailer,  and 
other  publications  in  that  field. 


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A.  C.  Kretschmar,  who  has  been  in 
the  advertising  business  for  the  last 
three  years,  recently  moved  to  Brain- 
tree,  Mass.,  as  he  is  now  connected  with 
the  Textile  World  Journal  of  Boston. 

F.  K.  Kretschmar  was  recently 
elected  vice-president  of  the  Shoe  and 
Leather  Reporter  Company  of  Boston. 

Edwin  Cushman  (BufiFum),  who  signed 
up  with  the  A.  E.  F.  for  a  part  in  the 
world  drama  staged  by  William  Hohen- 
zollern,  is  back  again  behind  the  calcium 
barrage  in  plays  of  William  Shakespeare. 
"  Buff  "  or  "  Cush  "  has  also  been  playing 
in  "The  Better  "Ole." 

A  daughter,  Carolyn,  was  born  on 
January  13,  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  R. 
Couch,  of  Hartford,  Conn. 

Arthur  W.  Towne  is  the  author  of 
articles  in  recent  issues  of  the  Journal 
of  Criminal  Law  and  of  Social  Hygiene. 
Mr.  Towne  is  superintendent  of  the 
Brooklyn  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Children.  He  is  also  serving 
a  third  term  as  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  Child  Protection  of  the 
National  Conference  of  Social  Work. 

1902 

S.  Bowles,  King,  Secretary, 

672  Maple  Ave.,  Winnetka,  111. 

Russell  C.  Brown,  for  several  years 

teacher  of  chemistry  at   the   Holyoke 

High  School,  has  been  appointed  head 

of  the  history  department  of  that  school. 

Rev.  C.  Arthur  Lincoln  has  been 
elected  vice-president  of  the  Brooklyn 
Congregational  Club. 

Rev.  Jason  Noble  Pierce,  author  of 
"Cheer  for  Old  Amherst,"  has  resigned 
the  pastorate  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  to 
accept  a  call  from  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Washington,  D.  C. 


Harry  R.  Leonard's  permanent  ad- 
dress is  care  of  Tyler  and  Tyler,  30 
Church  St.,  New  York.  He  is  still 
engaged  in  the  farming  business  in 
Alberta. 

Stanley  Baker  is  at  314  West  Eighty- 
eighth  St.,  New  York  City. 

Robert  S.  Phillips  is  chief  engineer  and 
chemist  of  the  Tanners'  Products  Com- 
pany, 130  North  Wells  St..  Chicago. 
His  home  address  is  226  South  Scoville 
Ave.,  Oak  Park,  111. 

Ralph  T.  Whitelaw  and  Eugene  S. 
Wilson  were  elected  members  at  large 
of  the  Alumni  Council  at  the  annual 
meeting  at  Chicago  in  April. 

William  H.  Best  conducts  a  magazine 
agency  at  Oak  Park,  111. 

George  C.  Clancy  has  recently  re- 
turned to  Beloit  College  after  nine 
months'  absence  on  sabbatical  leave. 
Part  of  this  time  he  spent  at  Harvard 
University  under  the  appointment  as 
visiting  lecturer  in  English  from 
Beloit  College,  in  accordance  with  the 
Harvard-Beloit  exchange  professorship 
plan.  Mr.  Clancy  has  been  made 
chairman  of  the  English  department 
at  Beloit  College. 

Louis  R.  Herrick,  professor  of  Ro- 
mance languages  at  the  University  of 
Hamlin,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  is  giving  a 
course  at  Cornell  College,  Mt.  Vernon, 
Iowa,  this  summer.  Professor  Herrick 
is  well  known  in  the  Northwest  as  a 
lecturer  on  France,  Spain,  Italy,  and 
northern  Africa,  whither  he  has  con- 
ducted a  number  of  travel  parties. 

1903 

Cliffobd  p.  Warren,  Esq.,  Secretary, 
354   Congress   St.,    Boston,    Mass. 
Thomas  F.  Burke  visited  Europe  and 

Africa  this  spring  on  a  tour  of  recupera- 


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tion  and  observation.  He  had  an 
opportunity  to  study  the  Irish  problem 
at  first  hand,  and  had  some  interesting 
adventures  in  Ireland. 

Foster  W.  Stearns  attended  the 
Republican  Convention  at  Chicago  in 
company  with  the  Massachusetts  dele- 
gation, and  acted  with  his  father  as  able 
representative  of  Governor  Coolidge. 
The  results  of  the  Convention  testify  to 
their  loyalty  and  efficiency,  although 
the  outcome  was  not  wholly  what  they 
had  desired. 

1904 

Kakl  O.  Thompson,  Secretary, 

11306  Knowlton  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Dr.  Heman  B.  Chase  in  June  resigned 
his  position  as  surgeon  for  the  Cerro  de 
Pasco  Copper  Company  at  Goyllaris- 
quisga,  Peru,  to  accept  the  post  of 
assistant  surgeon  at  the  Westfield 
Sanitarium,    Westfield,    Mass. 

1905 
John  B.  O'Brien,  Secretary, 
309  Washington  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
John  J.  Raftery  has  accepted  a  posi- 
tion  as   sales-manager   of   the   S.    W. 
Farber  Brass  Goods  Company. 

Edward  A.  Baily  has  changed  his 
address  to  1357  Mansfield  Place  (East 
24th  Street),  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Emerson  G.  Gaylord  has  been  elected 
a  director  of  the  Century  Oil  Company. 

Louis  L.  Edmunds  is  receiving  the 
sympathy  of  the  men  of  1905  because  of 
the  death  of  his  wife  early  in  May  after 
an  illness  of  six  months.  He  is  with  the 
California  and  Hawaiian  Sugar  Refining 
Company,  at  Crockett,  Cal. 

Henry  Adams'  address  is  Palomas, 
Ariz. 

Leland  Hays  is  financial  editor  of  the 
San    Francisco    Journal   of   Commerce. 


He  is  living  at  237  Athol  Avenue,  Oak- 
land, Cal. 

The  Secretary  desires  information 
from  any  Amherst  man  regarding  the 
following  1905  men  whose  addresses 
are  unknown:  McPhee,  Cartier,  Derby- 
shire, V.  W.  Smith,  P.  A.  Smith,  G.  W. 
Richardson,  Wales,  Beers,  G.  Hayes, 
Judge,  Hewitt,  and  Ryan. 

The  address  of  E.  E.  Orrell  is  126 
Pleasant  St.,  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

Ralph  W.  Hemenway  is  the  law 
partner  of  Hon.  Calvin  Coolidge,  gov- 
ernor of  Massachusetts  and  the  nominee 
of  the  Republican  party  for  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  United  States. 

1906 

Robert  C.  Powell,  Secretary, 
Tracy-Parry      Advertising     Company, 

Lafayette  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Dr.  James  N.  Worcester  and  Mbs 
Gertrude  Fullerton,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Robert  Morton  Fullerton, 
were  married  on  Wednesday,  May  19, 
in  the  chapel  of  St.  George's  Church, 
New  York  City.  They  are  to  be  at 
home  after  the  first  of  October  at  784 
Park  Ave.,  New  York. 

Ernest  G.  Draper  has  resigned  as 
president  of  the  American  Creosoting 
Company  to  become  associated  with 
Mr.  Lucius  R.  Eastman,  '95,  president 
of  the  Hills  Brothers  Company  of 
New  York,  importers  and  manufactur- 
ers of  food  products. 

A  son,  William  Lees  Atwood,  was 
born  on  May  10  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roy 
L.  Atwood  of  Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y. 

1907 

Charles  P.  Slocom,  Secretary, 
109   Harvard  St.,   Newtonville,   Mass. 
The    secretary    is    anxious    to    have 
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the  last  issue  1907  was  not  mentioned. 
We  all  wish  to  know  what  is  happening 
to  our  classmates  and  if  you  will  send 
any  news  to  the  secretary  it  will  be 
appreciated. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Orrin  Wickersham 
announce  the  marriage  of  their  daugh- 
ter, Evangeline,  to  the  Rev.  Hugh  Hart- 
shome,  assistant  professor  in  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  on  Tuesday, 
June  15,  in  New  York  City. 

John  H.  Hubbard  was  in  May  chosen 
as  coach  of  the  M.  A.  C.  track  team. 

1908 

Harry  W.  Zinsmaster,  Secretary, 
Duluth,  Minn. 

A.  H.  Keese  is  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business  in  Pasadena,  Cal. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  PauJ  Welles  are  the 
proud  parents  of  a  boy  born  in  May, 
1920. 

Ned  Powley  has  recently  purchased 
a  bungalow  in  Pasadena,  Cal. 

1909 

Donald  D.  McKay,  Secretary, 
6  Aberdeen  St.,  Newton  Highlands, 
Mass. 
J.  S.  Davis  of  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa, 
recently  resigned  from  his  position  as 
district  manager  of  the  Royal  Union 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Co.,  and  is 
now  selling  stocks  and  bonds. 

Rev.  Stoddard  Lane  and  Miss  Stella 
Louise  Hitchcock  were  married  on 
June  22  at  West  Hartford,  Conn. 
They  will  make  their  home  in  Bogota, 
N.  J.,  where  Mr.  Lane  is  pastor  of  a 
church. 

1910 
George  B.  Burnett,    Secretary, 

Amherst,  Mass. 
The  Rev.  Morrison  Russell  Boynton 
and   Miss   Clara  Davis  of   Worcester, 


Mass.,  were  married  in  that  city  on 
Monday,  June  28.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nehe- 
miab  Boynton,  '79,  assisted  by  the 
groom's  brother,  the  Rev.  Edward 
C.  Boynton,  '07.  Rev.  Morrison  R. 
Boynton,  since  his  discharge  from 
service  some  weeks  ago,  has  been  acting- 
pastor  of  the  Lewis  Avenue  Congre- 
gational Church  in  Brooklyn  in  the 
absence  of  the  pastor  in  France. 

The  engagement  was  announced 
early  in  July  of  Bartow  H.  Hall  and 
Miss  Anita  Emmet,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Temple  Emmet  of  New  York  City. 

1911 

Dexter  Wheelock,  Secretary, 
79  Pine  St.,  New  York  City. 
T.  Leo  Kane  returned  to  the  Class 
Journals  Publishing  Co.,  New  York, 
on  being  released  from  active  duty  as 
a  lieutenant  (junior  grade)  in  the  Naval 
Reserve  Force,  and  became  head  of 
the  newly  instituted  research  depart- 
ment. He  was  married  in  June  to 
Miss  Florence  Mary  Ward  of  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Smith  College  in  the  class  of  1917. 
J.  F.  Kane,   '04,  acted  as  best  man. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  Prentice  Abbot 
have  moved  to  92  Fourth  St.,  Garden 
City,  N.  Y. 

Herbert  G.  Lord,  Jr.,  has  formed  a 
co-partnership  with  A.  Wallace  Chaun- 
cey  and  Wade  H.  Hayes  to  deal  in  in- 
vestment securities,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Chauncey,  Hayes  and  Lord, 
at  25  Broad  St.,  New  York  City. 

1912 

C.  Francis  Beatty,  Secretary, 
953    President   St.,    Brooklyn,    N.    Y. 
The    engagement    is    announced    of 
Wilbur  F.  Burt  and  Miss  Evelyn  M. 


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Peck  of  New  York  City.    Burt  is  with 
the  Standard  Oil  Company. 

William  Siegrist  has  been  elected 
vice-president  of  the  Poly  Prep  Alumni 
Association,  Brooklyn. 

The  New  York  World  for  May  14 
contained  a  two-column  article  by 
Spencer  Miller,  former  deputy  warden 
of  Sing  Sing  Prison,  entitled  "  Convicts 
Benefit  by  Honor  System."  He  ex- 
plains the  success  of  the  honor  system 
in  the  penal  institutions  of  New  York, 
Vermont,  and  Florida. 

1913 

Lewis  D.  Stilwell,  Secretary, 
8  School  St.,  Hanover,  N.  H. 
Robert  I.  Stout  of  Tekamah,  Neb., 
was  an  alternate  delegate  to  the  Re- 
publican National  Convention.  He 
is  vice-president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  at  Tekamah. 

Geoffrey  Atkinson,  who  is  to  be  a 
member  of  the  .\mherst  Faculty  this 
coming  year,  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Philosophy  from  Columbia 
University  in  June. 

Edward  C.  Knudson  is  with  the 
Automatic  Sprinkler  Co.  of  .America 
with  oflBces  in  the  Union  Building, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

The  marriage  of  W.  G.  Hamilton 
and  Miss  Esther  Daniels  took  place  on 
March  31  in  California.  Their  new 
home  is  at  4127  Montgomery  St., 
Oakland,  Cal. 

Samuel  H.  Cobb  is  now  with  the 
physical  education  department  of  Ohio 
State  University  at  Columbus,  Ohio, 
and  is  also  acting  as  Freshman  track 
coach. 

Arthur  J.  Mealand  is  now  manager 
for  Pearce  and  Pearce,  262  Washing- 
ton St.,  Boston. 


Ben  P.  Wallace  announces  the  arrival 
of  a  second  baby  girl  in  Iowa  City. 

A  daughter,  Janet,  was  born  to  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  R.  S.  Merrill  of  Longmeadow, 
Mass.,  on  June  4. 

John  Worthington  Steele  died  at  his 
home  in  Painesville,  Ohio,  on  May  14. 
Jack  had  been  fighting  for  health  for 
a  year,  in  Asheville,  N.  C,  and  in 
Montreal,  Canada.  The  class  will 
miss  Jack  badly,  and  extends  its  loyal 
sympathy  to  the  wife  and  baby  whom 
he  leaves  behind. 

1914 

RoswELL  P.  Young,  Secretary, 
140  Tremont  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elias  Mattison  Johnson 
of  Spuyten  Duyvil,  N.  Y.,  recently 
announced  the  engagement  of  their 
daughter.  Miss  Hope  Johnson,  to 
Charles  Wyatt  Williams. 

Louis  B.  DeVeau,  Jr.,  is  now  with 
the  .\eolian  Company,  New  York. 

.\rnold  C.  Pouch  has  the  sympathy 
of  his  classmates  in  the  death  of  his 
wife,  Edna  D.  Pouch,  on  April  8  at 
New  Brighton,  Staten  Island. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Huthsteiner  of 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  announce  the 
birth  of  a  son,  George. 

Carleton  H.  Brace  died  at  his  home 
in  Gloversville,  N.  Y.,  on  Saturday, 
June  5,  of  lockjaw.  He  was  the  only 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  E.  Brace 
of  Gloversville,  and  was  born  in  that 
city  on  April  9,  1891.  He  graduated 
from  the  Gloversville  High  School  in 
the  class  of  1910,  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent. On  leaving  .\mherst  at  the  end 
of  his  Sophomore  year,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  New  York  bankers, 
Spencer  Trask  and  Company,  with 
whom    he   remained    for    two     years. 


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He  went  to  Camp  Devens  in  October, 
1917,  and  was  later  transferred  to  the 
chemical  division  at  Washington.  On 
his  discharge  from  service,  he  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  A.  E. 
Brace  Construction  Company. 

While  at  Camp  Devens  he  married 
Miss   Anna  Kennedy  of  Gloversville. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced 
of  Miss  Dorothy  Celia  Grant,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Frederick 
Grant  of  New  York  City,  and  Frederick 
Dorflinger  Suydam  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 

1915 

Louis  F.  Eaton,  Secretary, 
210  Ash  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 
The  wedding  of  Samuel  Loomis  and 
Miss  Elizabeth  Grace  Snyder  of  Con- 
cord Junction,  Mass.,  occurred  on 
June  19.  They  will  make  their  home 
in  Otodo,  Maine. 

J.  Theodore  Cross  was  married  on 
June  17  to  Miss  Margaret  Huddleston, 
Smith  '17.  The  wedding  took  place 
in  Calvary  Church,  New  York,  and 
was  a  representative  Amherst  affair. 
Gorham  Cross,  '18,  brother  of  the 
groom,  officiated  as  best  man,  Gerald 
Keith,  David  Cutler,  John  Gaus,  Paul 
Weathers,  and  Gordon  Hall  were  wit- 
nesses. The  honeymoon  trip  was  by 
automobile  through  the  White  Moun- 
tains. 

Dr.  Phillip  Foster  Greene  was  mar- 
ried in  Avondale,  Cincinnati,  on  June 
17  to  Miss  Ruth  Peabody  Altman. 
"Phil"  is  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital  in 
New  York. 

Gardner  Eastman's  wedding  to  Miss 
Marjorie  Parks  Bell  of  New  York 
took  place  on  Jime  19. 

Kenneth  S.  Reed  was  married  at 
Portland,  Ore.,  on  April  5  to  Miss 
Martha  Shields  Whiting,  daughter  of 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Aaron  Skinner  Whiting 
of  Portland,  Ore. 

1916 

Douglas  D.  Milne,  Secretary, 
2454  Webb  Ave.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
C.  B.  Ames  is  now  with  the  Mutual 
Benefit  Life  Insurance  Co.,  135 
Broadway,  New  York  City,  serving 
in  capacity  of  supervisor.  Look  him 
up,  he  has  something  interesting'  to 
tell  you. 

J.  S.  Bixler,  who  for  the  past  year 
has  been  director  of  religious  activities 
at  Amherst  College,  left  in  June  for 
Beirut,  Syria,  where  he  will  take  up 
duties  at  the  Syrian  Protestant  College. 

F.  C.  Bonsack,  one  of  the  lost,  strayed, 
or  stolen,  has  been  located.  He  claims 
his  residence  as  5642  Kingsbury  St., 
St.  Louis,  Mo.  Further  information 
not  available. 

M.  H.  Boynton  and  Miss  Eleanor 
Patricia  Matthews  were  married  at 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  on  February  18, 1920. 
Mrs.  Boynton  is  the  sister  of  Mrs. 
Francis  R.  Otte.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boyn- 
ton are  making  their  home  at  138 
Highland  Ave.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

W.  G.  Chapman  is  accountant  for 
the  National  City  Bank  of  New  York 
at  Genoa,  Italy. 

H.  N.  Conant  is  with  the  First 
National  Corporation  in  New  York,  a 
branch  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Boston,  Mass.  He  is  living  at  102 
West  Eightieth  Street  with  W.  H. 
Smith. 

H.  L.  Gillies  is  a  broker  with  the  firm 
of  George  H.  Burr  and  Co.,  120  Broad- 
way, New  York  City.  Residence  ad- 
dress,  54    Storer  Ave.,  Pelham,  N.  Y. 

B.  G.  Leiper  is  reporter  for  the  Ashe- 
vUle  (N.  C.)  Times. 


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H.  G.  Johnson  is  accountant  for  the 
Western  Electric  Co.,  385  Summer  St., 
Boston,  Mass. 

D.  S.  McCrum  is  engineer  for  the 
Denver  Gas  and  Electric  Co.,  900 
Fifteenth  St.,  Denver,  Col. 

F.  R.  Otte  is  with  the  McLaughlin 
Co.  at  Brockport,  N.  Y. 

R.  H.  Park's  residence  address  is 
29  Prospect  St.,  Taunton,  Mass. 

C.  B.  Peck's  residence  address  is  147 
Barrington  St.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

S.  W.  Rider  is  bond  salesman  for 
Kalman,  Matteson  and  Wood,  Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

Homans  Robinson  graduated  with 
honors  from  the  Harvard  Law  School 
in  June. 

D.  C.  Steams  is  with  the  Westing- 
house  Electric  Co.,  165  Broadway, 
New  York  City. 

W.  P.  Stiles  is  salesman  for  the  Three 
Millers  Co.,  58  Chardon  St.,  Boston, 

Mass. 

Eugene  Stinson  is  singer  and  business 
manager  for  the  well-known  opera 
singer,  Leila  A.  Breed,  410  S.  Michigan 
Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

M.  H.  Talbot  is  salesman  for  Talbot 
and  Co.,  Boston,  Mass. 

G.  W.  Washburn  is  bond  salesman 
for  George  H.  Burr  and  Co.,  120  Broad- 
way, New  York  City. 

Arthur  P.  White  and  Miss  Mary 
Huber  of  Corning,  N.  Y.,  were  married 
in  the  First  M.  E.  Church  of  Corning 
on  Easter  Sunday  evening.  They 
are   to   make   their   home   in   Boston. 

Another  recent  1916  marriage  is  that 
of  Alan  D.  Marks  and  Miss  Rosalie 
Dannenbaum,  which  occurred  at  the 
Bellevue-Stratford  Hotel,  Philadelphia, 


on  April  12.  Eric  H.  Marks,  '17,  and 
Warren  Marks,  '19,  acted  as  ushers. 
Mrs.  Marks  was  educated  abroad  and 
is  a  talented  musician.  They  went 
to    California    for    their    honeymoon. 

B.  C.  Young  is  with  the  Fidelity 
Trust  Co.,  West  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Lee  B.  Wood  was  last  heard  from  in 
Paris,  where  he  is  manager  of  the  Euro- 
pean edition  of  the  Chicago  Tribune. 
Lee  says,  "Drinks  are  a  bit  upstage  in 
price  in  this  country." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Moses  of 
Tilton,  N.  H.,  have  announced  the 
engagement  of  their  daughter,  Marjorie, 
who  graduated  from  Wellesley  this 
June,  to  Robert  Bums  Chalmers  of 
Framingham.  He  is  engaged  in  the 
insurance  business  in  Boston. 

Announcement  was  made  in  June  of 
the  engagement  of  Dean  Blanchard 
and  Miss  Esther  Paishley,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederic  A.  Paishley  of 
Winchester,  Mass. 

Leo  L.  Shaw,  after  three  years  of 
strenuous  work  in  Russia,  has  returned 
to  this  country  for  a  three  months'  va- 
cation. He  went  out  as  a  representa- 
tive of  the  National  City  Bank  of  New 
York  in  its  Moscow  Branch.  Later  he 
was  borrowed  by  the  American  State 
Department  and  became  attached  to 
the  consul  general's  party.  He  expects 
to  return  to  Russia  as  soon  as  his  vaca- 
tion is  over.  He  was  in  Petrograd 
when  the  Kerensky  provisional  govern- 
ment was  overthrown,  and  it  was  with 
difficulty  that  he  reached  Moscow. 
Soon  after  his  arrival,  the  Bolshevik 
forces  advanced  against  the  city  and 
there  was  street  Bghting  until  the 
Soviet  Government  was  in  complete 
control. 

A  cablegram  received  recently  from 
Beirut,   Syria,   announced   that   Lieut. 


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Charles  F.  Weeden,  who  has  been  in 
charge  of  the  Near  East  relief  work  at 
Burfa,  Mesopotamia,  was  sailing  for 
America.  Lieutenant  Weeden  had 
just  passed  through  the  sixty-two-day 
siege  of  Burfa  by  the  Turks,  during 
which  those  in  the  city  were  reduced 
to  desperate  straits.  He  was  an  avia- 
tor during  the  war  with  a  record  of 
more  than  five  himdred  hours  in  the  air. 

1917 

Robert  M.  Fisher,  Secretary, 
14  Fairfax  Hall,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Kenneth  de  Forest  Carpenter  and 
Miss  Jean  Elphinstone  Schonberg, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Schon- 
berg, were  married  on  Monday,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  in  New  York  City. 

Francis  Louis  Moginot  and  Miss 
Aline  Emily  Murphy,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  James  Hunter  Murphy  of 
Boston,  were  married  on  Tuesday, 
June  1. 

Herbert  W.  Schmid,  in  company 
with  five  others,  sailed  on  April  24,  on 
the  La  Touraine,  to  become  associated 
with  the  Paris  oflBce  of  the  Equitable 
Trust  Co.  of  New  York. 

A  son,  Whitney  William,  Jr.,  was 
bom  May  22,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Stark,  Auld  Farm  Perkins  Hill,  Akron, 
Ohio. 

1918 
Robert  P.  Kelset,  Secreiary, 

122  S.  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Charles  S.  Matthews  and  Miss 
Theresa  Elizabeth  Carey,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  F.  Carey  of 
Baltimore,  were  married  in  that  city 
on  Wednesday,  May  19. 

A  daughter,  Elizabeth  Burgess  Ar- 
nold, was  bom  April  29,  1920,  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Philip  Rhodes  Arnold. 
Arnold  lives  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  is  in 


the  employ  of  the  United  States  Gutta 
Percha  Paint  Company. 

This  past  Commencement  has  been 
a  unique  one  for  the  class  of  1918. 
Returning  for  our  second  reunion,  we 
congratulated  six  former  members  of 
the  class  on  receiving  their  diplomas 
this  year.  The  men  who  succeeded 
in  taking  the  honoris  causa  out  of  their 
degrees  were:  C.  H.  Durham,  M.  P. 
Hall,  H.  Little,  Jr.,  A.  R.  Morehouse, 
W.  C.  Rogers,  and  C.  A.  Seamans. 

As  at  Chicago  '18  turned  out  one  of 
the  largest  returning  delegations  for  a 
non-reunion  class.  Twenty-one  men 
or  18  per  cent  were  registered,  return- 
ing from  as  far  west  as  Denver,  Col. 
At  the  class  supper  on  Sunday  evening 
fourteen  men  gathered  around  the 
table,  reminisced  and  made  plans  for  a 
live  and  large  gathering  next  year  at 
the  triennial. 

Lucius  E.  Thayer  has  returned  from 
eighteen  months'  service  in  Turkey. 
Soon  after  the  Armistice  was  signed, 
Lucius  sailed  with  a  party  of  the  Ameri- 
can Commission  for  the  Relief  of  the 
Near  East.  His  headquarters  were 
in  Konia,  the  ancient  capital  of  the 
Turkish  Empire.  With  this  point  as 
a  base  the  party  operated  in  the  sur- 
rounding country,  distributing  supplies, 
fighting  disease  and  Bolshevism,  and 
carrying  respect  for  America  wherever 
they  went.  Upon  completing  his  mis- 
sion, he  returned  through  India  and 
China,  and  reached  Vancouver,  B.  C, 
in  June.  W'e  anticipate  some  good 
stories  from  him. 

On  April  14  Richard  K.  Godwin 
married  Miss  Esther  Barrows  of  Ply- 
mouth, Mass.  They  will  live  in  Fall 
River  where  he  is  associated  with  the 
Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty 
to  Children. 


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1919 

Walter  K.  Belknap,  Secretary, 
Room  411.  425  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York 
City. 
Otto  E.  Freer  died  at  the  Henrotin 
Hospital  in  Chicago  on  May  24  after 
having  been  an  invalid  for  almost  four 
years  as  a  result  of  a  broken  back  sus- 
tained in  a  fall  from  a  tree  during 
the  summer  after  Freshman  year.  He 
was  employed  on  an  estate  just  north 
of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  at  the  time 
the  accident  occurred.  Following  his 
misfortune.  Freer  was  for  a  long  time 
in  a  hospital  in  New  York  where  he 
underwent  many  operations,  after 
which  he  lived  for  some  time  on  the 
estate  where  he  was  injured.  Some 
time  ago  he  was  moved  to  Chicago 
where  he  could  be  under  the  care  of 
his  uncle,  a  prominent  physician  con- 
nected with  the  Henrotin  Hospital. 
His  case  was  unique  in  medical  annals 
as  very  seldom  does  any  one  live  much 
more  than  six  months  with  similar 
injuries.  Freer  was  active  in  the  class 
during  Freshman  year.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  class  football  team 
and  gave  promise  of  making  the  'varsity 
later  on  in  his  course.  He  will  be  re- 
membered as  always  being  cheerful 
and  helpful.  During  his  long  illness, 
he  put  up  a  remarkable  fight  and, 
being  unable  to  do  other  things,  be- 
came an  expert  knitter.  He  was  the 
son  of  the  late  Frederick  W.  Freer,  a 
well-known  artist.  His  mother  is  the 
only  surviving  member  of  his  immediate 
family.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Delta 
Upsilon  fraternity. 

David  S.  Soliday  was  married  to 
Miss  Louise  Huntington  Kondolf  on 
May  8  in  the  chantry  of  St.  Thomas' 
Church,  New  York  City.  Robert  J. 
Davis  was  best  man  and  the  ushers 
included    Alex    McGregor,     Bradbury 


Morse,  Richard  Neiley,  Sidney  Norton, 
and  Halvor  Seward.  A  reception  fol- 
lowed at  the  bride's  home  on  West 
Fifty-ninth  Street.  Soliday  and  his 
wife  are  living  in  Philadelphia,  where 
he  is  in  business. 

,  The  following  members  of  the  class 
were  granted  diplomas  in  Amherst  at 
the  last  Commencement:  B.A.  cum 
laude,  Bradbury  B.  Morse  and  East- 
burn  R.  Smith;  B.A.  rite,  W.  Barton 
Cummings,  Joseph  F.  Donahue,  Robert 
W.  Fairbank,  Carl  H.  Patton,  and 
Henry  B.  Staples;  B.A.  honoris  causa, 
Philip  Y.  Eastman  and  Harold  B. 
Spencer;  Certificates  of  Honorable 
Distinction  (awarded  to  men  who  have 
been  unable  to  resume  their  studies 
after  their  interruption  because  of 
the  war),  Ingham  C.  Baker,  Arthur  F. 
Banfield,  John  B.  Bell,  George  T.  Boone, 
Nehemiah  Boynton,  Jr.,  Charles  R. 
Chase,  James  W.  Bracken,  Marcus  R. 
Burr,  John  R.  Cotton,  Paul  J.  Dumm. 
Rowland  C.  Evans,  Jr.,  Wilbur  E. 
Forbes,  Arthur  E.  Hazeldine,  Roger 
C.  Holden,  Harold  M.  Lay,  Joseph  M. 
Lyman,  Warren  T.  Mayers,  Hugh  A. 
MulhoUand,  Donald  G.  Mitchell,  Jr.. 
John  A.  G.  Savoy,  Oliver  H.  Schaaf, 
Stuart  P.  Snelling,  Benjamin  F.  Taber, 
Rufus  C.  VanSant,  Henry  D.  Whit- 
comb,  Robert  R.  White,  Jr.,  Barrett 
Whitman,  and  Frederic  L.  Yarrington. 

On  February  10,  Arthur  E.  Hazel- 
dine  was  married  to  Miss  Grace  King 
at  her  home  in  Toledo,  Ohio.  Ingham 
C.  Baker  was  the  best  man  and  Fred- 
eric L.  Yarrington  was  an  usher. 
Hazeldine  is  traveling  and  makes  his 
headquarters  in  the  Middle  West. 

Allen  B.  Edee,  Jr.,  is  in  Chicago  with 
Marshall  Field  and  Co. 

James  H.  Elwell  was  a  member  of 
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Roy  V.  A.  Sheldon  had  a  poem  in  a 
recent  issue  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly 
and  a  book  review  in  the  New  Republic. 
He  is  spending  this  summer  in  Europe. 

Arthur  F.  Brown  has  been  elected 
to  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Yale  Law 
School  Journal.  This  is  counted  the 
highest  honor  for  a  student  in  the  school. 

Willis  H.  McAllister  is  with  the  Solar 
Metal  Products  Comapny  in  Columbus, 
Ohio. 

Allyn  B.  Forbes  is  in  business  in 
Taunton,  Mass. 

Robert  W.  Fairbank  is  going  out  to 
India  for  three  years,  at  least,  as  a 
missionary.  Various  members  of  his 
family,  who  preceded  him  at  Amherst, 
have  been  in  missionary  work  for  many 
years. 


Theodore  Southworth  opened  the 
agency  for  the  Scripps-Booth  in  the 
Albany  district  on  July  1.  Yarrington 
is  associated  with  him. 

Oliver  H.  Schaaf  is  living  in  Santa 
Barbara,  Cal. 

Herman  M.  Wessel  has  accepted  the 
position  of  instructor  in  history  at  the 
high  school  in  Collingswood,  N.  J., 
near  Philadelphia. 

Eastburn  R.  Smith  is  at  the  summer 
camp  of  the  Yale  Forestry  School  near 
Milford,  Pa.  In  the  faU  he  will  begin 
a  two-year  course  in  New  Haven. 

Earle  P.  Charlton,  Jr.,  is  president 
of  a  company  in  the  cotton  business  in 
Fall  River. 

Henry  B.  Staples  is  in  the  bond  busi- 
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INDEX 

To  Volume  VII-IX  of  the  Amherst  Graduates'  Quarterly 

Compiled  by  Malcolm  O.  Young 

Agard,  Walter  R.     A  School  of  the  Soldier.     VII,  275. 

Alumni  Associations.  VII,  46,  122,  219,  308;  VIII,  93,  131;  IX,  34,  106,  183,  270. 
Alumni  Council,  The.  VII,  45,  120,  215,  306;  VIII,  89,  92,  128;  IX,  33,  105,  267. 
Ambulance  Unit,  Return  of.     VIII,  90. 

Story  of.     (S.  D.  Shipman.)     VIII,  81. 
Ames,  Sir  Herbert.     With  portrait.     IX,  19. 

Amherst,  Lord  Jeffrey,  a  new  Portrait  of.    With  portrait  facing  page  3.    IX,  15. 
Amherst  and  the  New  Education.     (A.  E.  Stearns.)     VII,  171. 
Amherst  and  the  War.     (G.  F.  Whicher.)     VII,  84. 
Amherst  Books,  The.     IX,  160. 

Amherst's  First  Sacrifice  to  War.     With  portrait  of  R.  C.  Perkins.     VII,  187. 
Amherst  Historical  Society.     (M.  L.  Todd.)     With  plates.     VII,  175. 
Amherst  in  Public  Service.     VIII,  48,  88. 
Amherst  in  Wartime.     (W.  J.  Newlin.)     VII,  182. 
Amherst  Memorial  Fellowship.     IX,  93. 

"  Award  of.     IX,  246. 

Amherst  Men  at  Second  Plattsburg  Camp.     Plate.     VII,  83. 
Amherst  Men  in  Finance.     (A.  W.  Atwood).     VIII,  37,  48. 
Amherst  Men  in  The  National  Service.    VII,  39,  93,  196,  362;  VIII,  9,  52,  151. 
Amherst  "Plattsburgers."     Plate.     VII,  261. 
Athletics.     VII,  277;  VIII,  46.  89,  127;  IX.  27;  IX,  91,  175,  244. 
Athletics,  Freshman.     IX,  26. 
Atwood,  Albert  W.     Amherst  Men  in  Finance.     VIII,  37. 

Barker,  Ernest.     The  Examination  System  in  England.     IX,  149. 

IX,  180. 
Bixler,  Julius  Seelye.    The  Year's  Work  of  the  Christian  Association.    IX,  229. 
Bliss,  Howard  Sweetser.     (C.  S.  Mills.)     With  portrait.     IX,  236. 
Book  Table,  The.     Reviews  arranged  by  authors: 

Atwood,  How  to  Get  Ahead.     VII,  32. 

Barton,  More  Power  to  You.     VII,  38. 

Bennet,  Across  the  Years.     VII,  36. 

Bryan,  "Sam  Houston."     VII,  195. 

Coolidge.     Have  Faith  in  Massachusetts.     IX,  97. 

Dyer,  Five  BabVjits  at  Bonnyacres.     VII,  33. 

Ellinwood,  Behind  the  German  Lines.     IX,  251. 

Farwell,  Village  Improvement.     VII,  271. 

Fuess,  An  old  New  England  School.     VII,  34. 

"       Phillips  Academy,  Andover  in  the  Great  War.     IX,  99. 


2  INDEX 

Goddard,  Transcendentalism,  a  chapter  in  The  Cambridge  History  of  American 
Literature.     VII,  193. 

Haller,  Early  Life  of  Kobert  Southey.     IX,  99. 

Holland,  To  the  River  Plate  and  Back.     VII,  269. 

Lovell,  The  Flower  and  the  Bee.     IX,  251. 

Morse,  Civilization  and  the  World  War.     IX,  95. 

Prentice,  Padre:  A  Red  Cross  Chaplain  in  France.     IX,  251. 

Ruckmick,  The  Brevity  Book  on  Psychology.     IX,  249. 

Sawyer,  History  of  Williston  Seminary.     VII,  34. 

Sharp,  Education  for  Character.     IX,  96. 

Swift,  Psychology  and  the  Day's  Work.     IX,  249. 

Thompson,  Shakespeare's  Macbeth.     VII,  32. 

Tyler,  The  Place  of  the  Church  in  Evolution.     VII,  269. 

\Miicher,  Early  Essayists,  a  chapter  in  The  Cambridge  History  of  American 
Literature.     VII,  193. 
Bridgman,  Howard  A.,  Thirty-five  Years  from  Alma  Mater.     VII,  271. 
British  Educational  Mission  Visits  Amherst.     VIII,  8. 
Bryan,  George  S.     Genung  and  Rhetoric.     With  portrait.     IX,  78. 
Bullock,  Harry  A.     Portrait.     VII,  295. 

Chapel  Address,  September  20,  1917.     (Alexander  Meiklejohn.)     VII,  8. 

Chapman,  Charles  W.     Portrait.     VII,  294. 

Chi  Phi  House.     VII,  189.     Plate  opposite  p.  163. 

Christian  Association.     IX,  27. 

«  The  Year's  Work  of.     (J.  S.  Bixler.)     IX,  229. 

Clark,  William  Bullock.     With  portrait.     VII,  26. 

Classes,  The.     VII,  49,  125,  224,  317;  VIIL  12,  52,  95,  135;  IX,  35,  109,  189,  275. 
College  Conceit  and  College  Spirit.     (K.  O.  Thompson.)     VII,  18. 
College  Window,  The.     Arranged  in  order  of  publication: 
Ideals  Overhead  and  Underground.     VII,  1. 
WTiat  is  in  that  Word  Scholarship.     VII,  163. 
An  Amherst  Dozen.     VII,  261. 
Our  Uncle  Sam  Spits  on  his  Hands.     IX,  3. 
College  Year,  The.     VII,  297;     VIII,  45,  87,  127. 
Commencement  of  1918.     VII,  300. 

«  1919.     (G.  F.  Whicher.)     VIH,  121. 

"  1920.     IX,  242. 

Converse,  Edmund  Cogswell.     Portrait.     VII,  82. 
Converse,  James  Blanchard.     Portrait.     VII,  82. 

Converse  Memorial  Library,  The.     (J.  F.  Genung.)     With  plates.     VII,  75. 
Coolidge,  Calvin.     (W.  R.  Stone.)     With  portrait.     IX,  84. 
Corbin,  William  L.     I  Heard  Him.     Poem.     IX,  83. 
"  To  Liberty.     Poem.     VII,  284. 

"  To  Robert  Lansing.     Poem..     IX,  159. 

Crowell,  Jane  C.     Tout  ce  que  Nous  Avons  est  a  Vous.     Poem.     VIII,  44. 
Curriculum  policy  discussed.     VIII,  87. 

"  proposed  for  a  liberal  College.     VII,  280. 

"  War  Emergency  Course.     VIII,  45. 

"  A  New  System  of  Majors.     IX,  174. 


INDEX 

Debating.     IX,  181. 

Dickinsons,  Two  Amherst.     (A.  B.  Keep.)     With  portraits.     IX,  164. 

Dramatics.     IX,  177. 

Dyer,  Walter  A.     WTiat  Are  We  Fighting  For?     VII,  184.. 

Editorial  Notes.     VII,  29,  90,  189,  291;  IX,  29,  101,  179,  253. 
Eighty-four  Expedition.     With  plates.     IX,  12. 
English  Impressions.     (Alexander  Meiklejohn.)     IX,  7. 
Enrollment,  September,  1918.     VIII,  7. 

«  September,  1919.     IX,  94. 

Erskine,  John.     The  Scholar  Whom  We  Knew — John  F.  Genung.     IX,  71. 
Examination  System  in  England,  The.     (Ernest  Barker.)     IX,  149. 

Faculty,  The.     VII,  283;  VIII,  47;  IX,  24,  273. 

Fancher,  Paul  A.     The  Teacher.     Poem.     VII,  274. 

Fitch  Room,  What  W^e  Memorialize  in  the.     (Virginia  Gerson.)     VII,  80. 

Fletcher,  William  Isaac,  M.  A.     With  portrait.     VII,  24. 

Fraternity  Initiations.     VIII,  7. 

Life  after  the  S.  A.  T.  C.     VIII,  45. 

Gaunt,  Merrill  S.     Portrait.     VII,  295. 

Genung,  George  Frederick.     To  J.  F.  G.,  a  Sonnet.     IX,  77. 

Genung,  John  F.     The  Converse  Memorial  Library.     VII,  75. 

"  The  Quarterly's  War  Front.     VIII,  1. 

«  (John  Erskine.)     IX,  71. 

«  (R.  W.  Neal.)     IX,  81. 

"  (J.  M.  Tyler.)     With  portrait.     IX,  65. 

**  Memories  and  Tributes.     With  portrait.     IX,  78. 

"  Poem.     (W.  L.  Corbin.)     IX,  83. 

*  Poem.     (G.  F.  Genung.) 

"  His  Death.     IX,  29. 

"  His  First  Class  at  Amherst.     (F.  L.  Palmer.)     IX,  82. 

Genung  and  Rhetoric.     With  portrait.     (G.  S.  Bryan.)     IX,  78. 
Gerson,  Virginia.     What  We  Memorialize  in  the  Clyde  Fitch  Room.     VII,  80 
Gifts  to  College.     VIII,  47,  129. 

Graduate  Manager  and  Undergraduate  Leisure.     IX,  101. 
Grover,  Harry  Greenwood.     Prayer  of  a  Violin.     Poem.     VII,  23. 

Hale,  William.     With  portrait.     VII,  87. 

Hosmer,  Frank  Alvan.     (E.  A.  Thompson.)     With  portrait.     VII,  289. 

Ideals  Overhead  and  Underground.     VII,  1. 

In  the  Book  the  Man;  a  tribute  to  J.  F.  Genung.     (R.  W.  Neal.)     IX,  81. 

Influenza  Epidemic.     VIII,  7. 

Keep,  Austin  Baxter.     Two  Amherst  Dickinsons.     With  portraits.     IX,  164. 

Lansing,  Robert,  Poem  to.     (W.  L.  Corbin.)     IX,  159. 

Lecture  Courses.     VII,  276. 

Liberty  Loan,  Fourth.     VIII,  8. 

Lincoln,  Rufus  Pratt.     (J.  M.  Tyler.)     With  portrait.     VII,  285. 


4  INDEX 

Mcintosh,  Kenneth  C,  Letter  from.     VIII,  9. 

Marriages.     VII,  48,  123,  222,  316;  IX,  35,  108,  189,  274. 

Marsh,  Stephen.     The  Poet  to  the  Reader.     Poem.     VII,  7. 

Mead,  William  Rutherford.     Portrait.     VII,  82. 

Meiklejohn,  Alexander.     Chapel  Address,  September  20,  1917.     VII,  8. 

"  English  Impressions.     IX,  7. 

Military  Honors.     VII,  83,  363;  VIII,  12,  51,  91,  152. 
Mills,  Charles  S.     Howard  Sweetser  Bliss.     With  portrait.     IX,  236. 

National  Collegiate  Athletic  Association  Trophy.     VIII,  127. 
Neal,  Robert  W.     Tribute  to  John  F.  Genung.     IX,  82. 
Necrology.     VII,  47,  123,  222,  316;  IX,  34,  107,  188,  273. 
Newlin,  William  J.     Amherst  in  Wartime.     VII,  182. 
'Nineteen  five  Reunion.     Plate.     IX,  263. 
'Ninety-four,  Reunion  of.     Plate.     IX,  49. 

Olds,  George  Daniels,  a  Portrait  of.     (J.  T.  Stocking.)     With  portrait.     IX,  225. 
Opening  of  the  College  Year  1918-19.     VIII,  4. 
Osgood,  Herbert  Levi.     With  portrait.     IX,  21. 

Palmer,  Francis  L.     Professor  Genung's  First  Class  at  Amherst.     IX,  82. 
Perkins,  Roger  Conant.     With  portrait.     VII,  187. 
Plattsburg,  Amherst  Men  at  Second  Camp.     Plate.     VII,  83. 
Poem.     I  Heard  Him— J.  F.  Genung.     (W.  L.  Corbin.)     IX,  83. 

"        Kaiser  Soliloquizes.     (Trumbull  White.)     VII,  170. 

"        The  Poet  to  the  Reader.     (Stephen  Marsh.)     VII,  7. 

«         Prayer  of  a  Violin.     (H.  G.  Grover.)     VII,  23. 

"        The  Teacher.     (P.  A.  Fancher.)     VII,  274. 

«        To  J.  F.  G.     (G.  F.  Genung.)     IX,  77. 

«        To  Liberty.     (W.  L.  Corbin.)     VII,  284. 

"        To  Robert  Lansing.     (W.  L.  Corbin.)     IX,  159. 

"        Tout  ce  que  Nous  Avons  est  a  Vous.     (Jane  C.  Crowell.)     VIII,  44. 

Quarterly's  War  Front,  The.     (J.  F.  Genung).     VIII,  1. 

Reunions,  1918.     VII,  309. 

«         1919.     Vm,  131. 

"  1920.     IX,  257. 

Roll  of  Honor.     VH,     187,  363;  VIII,  11,  44,  49,  91,  131,  151. 
(Alumni  with  Sons  in  1921.)     VII,  47. 

Sabrina  Irredenta.     With  plate.     IX,  172. 

Sage  Bequest.     VIII,  47. 

Scholar  Whom  We  Knew,  The.     (John  Erskinc.)     IX,  71. 

School  of  the  Soldier.     (W.  R.  Agard.)     VII,  275. 

Shipman,  Sherman  D.     Story  of  the  Amherst  Section.     VIII,  81. 

Spirit  of  the  Year,  The.     VII,  13. 

Sprenger,  James  A.,  Letter  from.     VIII,  10. 

Stearns,  Alfred  E.     Amherst  and  the  New  Education.     VII,  171. 

Stocking,  Jay  T.     Portrait  of  the  Dean.     With  portrait.     IX,  225. 


INDEX  O 

Stone,  Walter  R.     Calvin  Coolidge,  Administrator.     With  portrait.     IX,  84. 
S.  A.  T.  C,  Demobilization.     VIII,  45. 

"  Members.     VIII,  166. 

«  Officers.     VIII,  8. 

«  Plans  for.     VIII,  4. 

Student  Activities  in  the  S.  A.  T.  C.     VIII,  8. 

Thirty-five  Years  from  Alma  Mater.     (H.  A.  Bridgman.)     VII,  271. 

Thompson,  E.  A.     An  Episode  that  Made  Frank  Hosmer  Illustrious.  With  portrait' 

VII,  289. 
Thompson,  Karl  O.     College  Conceit  and  College  Spirit.     VII,  18. 
Todd,  Mabel  Loomis.     Amherst  Historical  Society.     With  plates.     VII,  175. 
Trustees,  The.     VII,  281;  VIII,  47. 

Tyler,  John  M.     John  Franklin  Genung.     With  portrait.     IX,  65. 
"  Rufus  Pratt  Lincoln.     With  portrait.     VII,  285. 

Utter,  R.  P.     The  College  Year.     VII,  297. 

War  Front  of  The  Quarterly.     (J.  F.  Genung.)     VIII,  1. 

War  Records.     VII,  84. 

What  are  We  Fighting  For?     (W.  A.  Dyer.)     VII,  184. 

What  We  Memorialize  in  the  Clyde  Fitch  Room.     (Virginia  Gerson.)     VII,  80. 

Whicher,  George  F.     Amherst  and  the  War.     VII,  84. 

«  The  Victory  Commencement.     VIII,  121. 

White,  Trumbull.     The  Kaiser  Soliloquizes.     Poem.     VII,  170. 


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