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AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 THE CLASS 
 
 OF 
 
 Eighteen Hundred Eighty-Two 
 
 Record 1882-1907 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE CLASS 
 
 JOHN P. CUSHING, Secretary 
 JOHN ALBREE, Historian 
 
 COMMITTEE 
 
 NEW HAVEN 
 
 Press of The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. 
 
 1907 
 
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 EDITION OF I50 COPIES 
 
 Gift 
 Author 
 
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 New Haven, Conn. 
 
THIS RECORD 
 
 MAY PROPERLY BE INSCRIBED 
 
 TO THE CLASS; 
 
 FOR IT IS 
 
 OF US, FOR US, BY US, TO US. 
 
With proper modesty it may be stated that : 
 
 '82 was the first Sabrina class. 
 
 '82 was the first Amherst class to have a Class Yell. 
 
 '82 won the Gym prize twice. 
 
 '82 declared a substantial dividend at graduation. 
 
 '82 introduced tennis into Amherst College. 
 
 '82 has " more men in public life than any other Amherst 
 class." 
 
 '82 has "more men of unusual distinction than any other 
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 CHAPEL AND DORMITORIES. 
 
 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION 
 
 The Freshman Class that entered Amherst College in the fall 
 of 1878 is the subject of our story. This date was not so very 
 far removed from the Panic of '73 or the so-called Crime of '76; 
 yet our fathers evidently had passed through the trying days of 
 '73 with money enough left to give their sons a start at Amherst, 
 and had enough good sense to believe that the country was not 
 going downhill as the result of political dissensions. If we are 
 now permitted to pass judgment upon the Freshman group, we 
 are forced to admit that it was an ungainly-looking lot. But 
 appearances are often deceiving; and these same Freshmen have 
 in many ways shown their ability and proven their qualities of 
 leadership. 
 
 We were admitted without so much talk as one hears nowa- 
 days about "entrance conditions" ; our fathers each deposited 
 a $100 bond as a guarantee that our bills would be paid ; we 
 probably bought a lot of old furniture from Landsford Gates 
 
8 CLASS OF 1552. 
 
 and had it carted to a barrack-like room for which we paid a 
 dollar or two a week, and then hunted up a "club" where we paid 
 probably $3.50 a week for board. The swells paid as much as 
 five. The system of fraternity houses was then in its infancy. 
 Alpha Delta Phi was in its old house; Psi Upsilon was burned 
 out of its rooms in the block in 1879 and bought its present 
 house; Delta Kappa Epsilon had rooms in Phoenix Block over 
 Adam's Drug Store ; Delta Upsilon and Chi Phi members 
 occupied rooms- in blocks near the Amherst House ; and Chi Psi, 
 rooms in the bank building near the New London Railway 
 station. 
 
 But changes came as we were leaving Amherst. Chi Psi put 
 up its fine house by the side of Psi Upsilon ; Torch and Crown 
 had a house on Northampton Street; and Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 and Delta Upsilon bought houses somewhat more distant from 
 the College. The old dormitories were without many of the 
 conveniences or decencies of modern life ; yet we got along in 
 them very well and had a very good time. Later, when the "East 
 College Gang" had become famous in song, a landscape artist 
 deemed it best to remove the old building. There is probably 
 no cause and effect in this. 
 
 These were the rules under which we lived : 
 
 Administrative Rules in Amherst College. 
 
 The course of the College is arranged according to the best 
 judgment of the Trustees and the Faculty, to secure for each 
 student the best training for his subsequent life. To this end 
 the following rules need to be observed : — 
 
 1. The work assigned to the student should be suited to his 
 capacity and be neither more nor less than will exercise all his 
 powers. 
 
 2. The student should be studious, making the utmost 
 improvement of his time and talents in regularly and diligently 
 doing what the College assigns him. 
 
 3. As no student should be received as a member of a class, 
 whose character is not good, or whose attainments are insuffi- 
 cient for the work of the class, so no student should be 
 continued in a class for which, either in deportment or in 
 scholarship, he is unfitted. 
 
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 4. As tliis unfitness should only be determined by the actual 
 deficiencies of a student, a correct record should be kept of his 
 attendance and work. Such recitations and reviews should he 
 held during each term in the work assigned for the term, as 
 shall give every student the opportunity to show fairly whether 
 lie has sufficiently mastered the study to warrant his proceeding 
 in the prescribed course of the class. If he has been present at 
 nine-tenths of the exercises of his class in a given department 
 of study, and if his attainment therein shall be satisfactory to 
 his teacher, he shall be deemed qualified, without further exam- 
 ination, to proceed with the work of the next term. If, however, 
 he shall have failed of this attendance or attainment, he should 
 forfeit his standing - in his class, unless he shall pass a special 
 examination in the work of the term, the minuteness of which 
 should be proportioned to the degree of his failure. 
 
 5. These examinations, for which preparation should be 
 made under the direction of a competent teacher, should be held 
 at the beginning of the term following the failure. If a student 
 is not then prepared to sustain the examination due in any given 
 department of study, he is obviously unprepared to proceed with 
 profit in the advancing study of that department, and should 
 wait before attempting to do this until his examination therein 
 shall be completely sustained. 
 
 6. As religious worship is no less important than his study 
 to a student, and as regular physical exercise is indispensable 
 to sound health, any one absenting himself during any term 
 
 To Mr. ^S^^ji^^^^ Class of '8JZ^ 
 
 Your absences from Church to and including 
 
 y amount to one = tenth of those 
 
 , exercises for the current term 
 
 E. (P. CROW ELL, 
 
 (Dean of the. Faculty. 
 
 Amherst College, fi^£ ^&( 1882. 
 
 A REMINDER OF THE VACCINATION SCARE. 
 
IO CLASS OF l882. 
 
 from one-tenth of the daily religious services of the College, 
 or the sabbath services, or the stated exercises in the gymnasium, 
 unless specially excused therefor by the Dean or the Faculty, 
 should be excluded from the further privilege of the College. 
 
 7. The College is divided into six sections : — The section of 
 English; the section of Ancient Languages; the section of 
 Modern Languages; the section of Mathematics; the section 
 of Natural Science; and the section of Philosophy. Grade of 
 scholarship in each of these sections is marked on a scale of 5. 
 
 8. Every student who has completed his work in each section 
 may be admitted to the degree of B. A., and receive a diploma 
 in testimony of the same. If his average scholarship shall be 
 represented by the number 2, his diploma may be given rite; 
 if by 3, cum laude ; if by 4, magna cum laude; and if by 5, 
 summa cum laude. Special excellence in any department, or 
 section, also may be recognized in the diploma. No student 
 should be entitled to a diploma whose work in any section is 
 incomplete. Such student, however, may receive a certificate 
 of his actual attainments. 
 
 NOTICE. 
 
 1. The prayer-bills are regularly posted in the gymnasium, 
 and all mistakes in the marks upon them should be reported 
 within one week from the date of posting. 
 
 2. Students excused to attend other churches for the College 
 year should report respecting their church attendance at the 
 end of each month. If no report is made, absence-marks for 
 the month will be entered on the record. 
 
 3. Applications for occasional excuses to attend other 
 churches, in town or out of town, should be made beforehand; 
 and all excuses for church absences should be offered within one 
 week after such absences. 
 
 4. Absences from town for the Sunday next preceding or 
 
 following a holiday, or the last Sunday of the term, are not 
 
 excused. 
 
 E. P. Crowell, 
 
 Dean of the Faculty. 
 
 Amherst College, January 5, 1882. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. II 
 
 To Mr. -^^^^^C^^z Class of '8^ 
 
 • Your absences from Gymnasium to and including 
 ..^yl^C^ir^ .HHinrnmf t\onc = tenth of those 
 
 f 
 exercises for the current term. 
 
 E. (P. CROW ELL, 
 
 (Dean of the Faculty. 
 
 Amherst College )CL^<<°^i<st^3 1882. 
 
 MORE TROUBLE. 
 
 Chapel at 7.55, two services on Sunday, with fairly long- 
 sermons, too, Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, with Old Doc's 
 Lectures to Freshmen, filled up our "Official" program. The 
 electives were Hazing, Toying with Sahrina, Nocturnal Preda- 
 tory Expeditions, in which some of us showed signal aptitude. 
 
 We may have had our troubles in Latin and Greek, hippie or 
 otherwise ; we may have improvised in French or have been 
 fired into the dead-beat division in Chemistry, there was one man 
 and one place that always brought gladness to us ; and the man 
 was "Doc," and the place was the Gym. As we advanced in 
 later years in Science, Philology, History and Philosophy, and 
 were more or less attracted by the charms of some particular 
 study, we never quite forgot our first love and we will always 
 hold in memory a warm place for "Old Doc," our "guide, philoso- 
 pher, and friend." We have always stood together as a class. 
 The Gym. started us aright ; Sabrina helped us ; and the Cre- 
 mation made a class row impossible. In distress we have stood 
 together as well as in pleasure. Witness the "dead-beats" and 
 others filing by night to the home of the distinguished professor, 
 bearing as a votive offering a silver cup for the latest addition 
 to his family. The boys all passed their exams.; and many of 
 them have taken advanced standing (Ph.D.'s for instance) in 
 Chemistry. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
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 A FEW WORDS FROM "OLD DOC." 
 
 I am afraid we bothered the authorities 
 some with our "cuts" and other delinquencies. 
 When invited to call upon the President, he 
 met us singly and alone and began thus: 
 "John, I am deeply grieved — ." Our experi- 
 ments in physics and chemistry were as 
 interesting as those of the professors. We 
 remember the time when Professor H. mixed 
 up some H and O and to test our powers of 
 prof, harris observation, gave X a lighted stick and told 
 
 him to touch the soap-bubbly mass with it. After the explosion 
 came the question, "Wal, d'ye hear anything?" We also recall the 
 time when Professor H., to show an inverted image on the screen, 
 let the light come through the window-lens, requesting some 
 one of us to go outside and walk along the path that we might 
 see the image on the screen with heels in the air. An athlete 
 volunteered; judge the Professor's astonishment and dismay 
 when Chase walked across the field right side up. He had 
 walked on his hands ! 
 
 An experience in the French class deserves a place. How 
 many of us recall the time that Fletcher erased M.'s verbal 
 endings of the French verb he had written on the board for us 
 to copy? You remember M. insisted that the recitations should 
 be conducted in the language. After he had explained at length 
 in French with what care he had performed his work, and that, 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 13 
 
 too, for our sakes, he told Fletcher to go to the board. Now, 
 Fletcher's knowledge of French, like that of some of the rest 
 of ns, was phenomenal. Fletcher sat still and simply said, "Oui, 
 monsieur; oui, monsieur." M. again said, "Allez dans le 
 planche noir"(or something like that) — and Fletcher replied 
 with one of his blandest tones, "Oui, monsieur; oui, monsieur"; 
 when Wing came to the rescue, and whispered so that all could 
 hear, "Fie says for you to go to the blackboard." "Oh, yes, 
 yes," replied Fletcher; and pulling his long lankiness together, 
 to the board he went, and there awaited further instructions. 
 M. proceeded to repeat all he had said, adding, "Monsieur Proc- 
 tor will come to this end of the board so as not to endanger the 
 writing"; and Fletcher replied, "Oui, monsieur; oui, monsieur"; 
 and proceeded to erase about one third of M.'s painstaking work. 
 M. colored up and expressed his displeasure, and once more 
 repeated from the beginning, for Monsieur Proctor's benefit, all 
 that he had said, and then told him to proceed ; when faithful 
 Johnny whispered, "Rub out some more." Fletcher, true to his 
 prompter, proceeded to rub out about half of what was left, 
 when M., rising from his chair, said a few more things not as 
 complimentary as some other things he might have said, and 
 then in his disgruntlement very sharply (I wish I could remem- 
 ber the French of it) told him to go ahead. Again Fletcher 
 turned to his helper, and Johnny whispered, "Finish the job"; 
 and Fletcher, smiling sweetly at M., replied, "Oui, monsieur; 
 oui, monsieur," and finished the job. By this time M. was beside 
 himself with rage, and rushing down and shaking his index 
 finger in Fletcher's face, said, "Sit down, Monsieur Proctor, sit 
 down. You have no intelligence; you are one fool." He said 
 this in French, and poor Fletcher, realizing that something was 
 eating at M.'s vitals, with most beseeching look and in a whisper 
 of anguish, asked Johnny, "What is he saying?" Johnny replied, 
 "He says, sit down, you fool ; you have no intelligence" ; and 
 Fletcher once more meekly said, "Oui monsieur ; oui 
 monsieur." It was one of the funniest things that happened in 
 all our college course of which I have any remembrance. 
 
 During our first two years interest centered in the Kellogg 
 Prize Speaking Contest. In the Freshman year, our Fifteen 
 was made up as follows : Bliss, Cushman, Dyer, Fisher, Hall, 
 J. H. Hobbs, Hussey, Mills, Perry, Proctor, Savage, Thayer, 
 Washburn, Whitehead, Williams. The Five were Dyer, Hussey, 
 Proctor, Washburn and Whitehead. Hussey won the prize with 
 
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 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Howell's "The Pilot's Story." In Sophomore year the Fifteen 
 were : Blanchard, Bliss, Ely, Fisher, F. W. Greene, Hale, Hall, 
 Hobbs, Mills, Partridge, R. C. Smith, Thayer, Ufford and Wil- 
 liams. The Five were Fisher, Hall, Mills, Partridge and Wil- 
 liams. Williams won the prize with Robertson's "Honor." 
 
 We closed our Sophomore year and celebrated the half-way 
 mark in our college course with a banquet. The toast list 
 follows : 
 
 SOPHOMORE CLASS SUPPER. 
 At Crocker House, New London, June 25, '80. 
 H. A. Tucker, ..... Toast-master. 
 
 F. L. Nason, ..... Poet. 
 
 J. W. Bixler, ..... Class Historian. 
 
 COMMITTEE. 
 
 E. P. Draper, G. R. Fisher, 
 
 S. A. Howard, C. E. O. Nichols, 
 
 A. G. Rolfe, W. F. Stearns, 
 
 W. S. Ufford, J. C. Williams. 
 
 TOASTS. 
 
 "A toast ! A toast ! Stand up and three times three." 
 Amherst, . . . . . . J. P. Whitehead. 
 
 The Fiery Steed, 
 The Boarding House, 
 Sabrina, . 
 
 E. E. Aldrich. 
 
 F. Whiting. 
 R. C. Smith. 
 
 "Sabrina fair, listen and appear to us." 
 
 music. 
 R. C. Smith, G. A. Hall, 
 
 G. V. S. Camp, J. H. Hobbs. 
 
 "Rushes and Flunks," 
 "The Alchemists," 
 "Le Frangais," . 
 "Mute Tintinabula," 
 
 A. G. Rolfe. 
 W. L. Savage. 
 G. V. S. Camp. 
 J. H. Hobbs. 
 
 MUSIC : QUARTETTE. 
 
 'Walker Hall Deities," 
 'Rhetoricals," 
 'The Ladies," 
 Eighty-two," 
 
 H. S. Bliss. 
 
 F. D. Proctor. 
 
 G. A. Hall. 
 
 L. H. Thayer. 
 
 In musical affairs we made a brave showing ; and although we 
 did not have an '81 quartette, we had an Obelisk quartette; and 
 once we made an appearance in Pelham, where one of our fea- 
 tures was Draper's clog, accompanied by Camp upon a melodeon. 
 
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 An old program shows that the Glee Club on February 17, 
 1882, gave a performance in Three Rivers. Camp was the 
 leader; Hall was one of the second tenors. The program fol- 
 lows : , 
 
 1. "Hark, the Merry Drum" Kurgh. 
 
 2. College Songs, 
 
 "Nellie," 
 
 "Aggie Farm." 
 
 3. Tree in the Ground. 
 
 4. Quartette. 
 
 Messrs. Kendall, French, Spafford. Wadsworth. 
 
 5. "Cackle, Cackle." 
 
 Solo by Mr. Spafford. 
 
 6. Octette : "Britannia." 
 
 INTERMISSION. 
 
 1. "Tar's Song" Hatton. 
 
 2. College Songs, 
 
 "Lowlands," 
 "Few Days." 
 
 3. Octette : "Mary's Lamb" Zaclitinaiiu. 
 
 Solo by Mr. Hall. 
 
 4. "Spring Delights" Midler. 
 
 5. "Gee, Whoa, Dobbin." 
 
 Solo by Mr. Hall. 
 
 6. "Black Brigade." 
 
 Solo by Mr. French. 
 
 7. Medley. 
 
 Our musical tastes were given an uplift when '81 brought out 
 "Romeo and Juliet." For further cultivation we had the Spaul- 
 ding Bell Ringers: and in Holyoke we heard "Fatinitza" (with 
 H. E. Dixey in a minor part), Harrigan and Hart in their well- 
 known productions, "Billee Taylor," "Hiawatha," and "Patience" 
 (which led Judd to appear as Bunthorne in our Mock Gym.) ; 
 and for the theatre we had as local offerings, — "The Electrical 
 Doll," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Widow Bedott," "Our Boys," 
 "Hazel Kirke" : and in Holyoke we saw Kate Claxton in "The 
 Two Orphans," Aldrich and Parsloe in "My Partner," Willie 
 Edouin in "Dreams" (J. T. Powers had a minor part), Maude 
 Forrester in "Mazeppa," W- J. Florence in "The Mighty Dollar," 
 McKee Rankin in " '49," and Mary Anderson in "Ingomar." 
 Occasionally Georgie Cayvan favored us with readings. Our 
 own Mock Gym. Exhibition was not altogether musical or the- 
 atrical ; but the specialties gave a good evening's entertainment. 
 
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 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 In athletics '82 always took a prominent part. Probably our 
 best show was given during '81 's Commencement week, when 
 we went through our exercises with Ufford as Captain and Camp 
 as Pianist. This was followed by the Heavy Gymnastic Exer- 
 cises, in which the following took part : — Savage, Arnd, Burt, 
 Howland, Watters, and Whiting. But it was on February 12, 
 1 88 1, that we won the Gym. prize for the second time and had 
 our numerals embroidered again upon the Captain's sash. On 
 that same day in the old Gym. '82 captured six out of eight 
 events, our principal performers being noted as follows : — 
 
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 HEAVY GYMNASTS, '82. 
 
 Ten Pins i Stearns 2 Ufford 
 
 Horizontal Bar 1 Savage 
 
 Rack Bars 1 Howland 
 
 Parallel Bars 1 Howland 
 
 Swinging Rings 1 Savage 2 Watters 
 
 Tumbling 1 Savage 2 Watters 
 
 At the Field Meet, October 13, 1880, members of our class 
 took these honors : — 
 
 Potato Race 1 Savage Time, 2 min. 57 sec. 
 
 Hammer Throw 1 Nason Dist, 57 ft. 3 in. 
 
 (In the following year Nason threw 73 feet.) 
 
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 Go-as-you-plcase, 5 miles. 1 Howland 32 min. 06^ sec. 
 
 Kicking Football 1 Tucker 154 ft. 10 in. 
 
 Broad Jump 1 Watters 17 ft. 3 in. 
 
 Throwing Ball 2 Stoddard 207 ft. 
 
 Mile Run 1 Howland 5 min. 329^ sec. 
 
 Wheelbarrow Race 1 Mills, 2 Savage 12 sec. 
 
 Sack Race 1 Savage, 2 Watters .. 26^ sec. 
 
 100- Yard Dash 2 Mills 11 sec. 
 
 ( In the following year Mills won in 11 sec.) 
 
 Bicycle Race 1 Blatchford 2 min. 09 sec. 
 
 100- Yard Dash Backwards 2 Draper 16^4 sec. 
 
 Fat Man's Race 2 Nason 1 min. 7 sec. 
 
 100- Yard Hurdle 2 Mills 16 sec. 
 
 COLLEGE BICYCLE TEAM. 
 
 Among- our other entries were: — -Rolfe, Bush, and Loomis in 
 the Potato Race ; Hale in the Mile Walk ; Whitehead in the 
 Hammer Throw ; Rolfe, Loomis, and Cowan in the Five 
 Mile ; Arnd in the Football Kick ; Nason in the Broad Jump ; 
 Rouse in the Standing - Broad Jump ; Howland and Bush in the 
 Half Mile; Bush and Whiting in the Ball Throw; Howard and 
 Loomis in the Mile Run ; Stoddard and Reed, Harvey and 
 Cushing, Rouse and W. S. Greene, Washburn and Rolfe, Savage 
 
l8 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 and Whiting in the Three-legged Race ; Bush, Hayward, Allen, 
 Rouse, W. S. Greene, Rolfe, Burt, and Williams in the Sack 
 Race; Draper, R. C. Smith, and Hall in the 100-yards; Burt, 
 Mills, Loomis, Savage, and Nason in the 100-yards Backwards; 
 Mills, Burt, Rouse, and Rowland in the Quarter Mile; Nason 
 and R. C. Smith in the Hurdles. This list gives one a fair idea 
 of our athletic proclivities, taking in as it does nearly all the 
 class. A marked improvement has been made in athletic records 
 
 COLLEGE BASEBALL TEAM. 
 
 in twenty-five years, yet the point to be considered is that we 
 were actually engaged in these various events. We were busy 
 at the game, and had not degenerated into a lot of megaphonic 
 rooters. 
 
 In football we held our own among the smaller college's. 
 Even if Chase, Arnd, Mills, and Whiting and their colleagues 
 did their best, they could not win from Yale ; for Yale had at 
 that time, and has had ever since, a leader in college sports, 
 Walter Camp. 
 
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CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Sa.tizrd.a.y, JSTov. 5, 1881. 
 
 AMHERST 
 
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 YALE. 
 
 AMHERST. 
 
 RUSHERS. 
 
 CHASE,* ARND, SAWYER, 
 
 WHITING, SCARBOROUGH, 
 
 QUARTER-BACK. 
 
 HARRIS. 
 
 HALF BACKS. 
 
 PRATT, 
 MILLS. 
 
 KIMBALL. 
 
 HUNT. 
 
 BACK. 
 
 BARKER. 
 
 YALE. 
 
 RUSHERS. 
 
 KNAPP, FARWELL, TOMPKINS, HULL, 
 
 STORRS, HEBARD, BECK. 
 
 QUARTER-BACK. 
 
 BADGER. 
 
 HALF BACKS. 
 
 BENEDICT, RICHARDS. 
 
 BACK. 
 
 BACON. 
 
 SCORE: YALE 2 GOALS, <7 TOUCHDOWNS: AMHERST, 0. 
 
 * Substitutes : Cahoun for Chase, Camp for Benedict. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 In baseball we had many a famous victory; and Holyoke, 
 Hamp, and Amherst have tried in vain to sleep while we were 
 doing a little celebrating. 
 
 In the spring of 1881 the following games were played: 
 
 .May 4 Amherst-Harvard 0-15 
 
 7 Harvard-Dartmouth 13-II 
 
 7 Princeton- Yale 5- 6 
 
 9 Princeton-Dartmouth 20- 3 
 
 9 Harvard-Brown 10- 6 
 
 11 Brown-Amherst 11-13 
 
 12 Dartmouth-Harvard 4-10 
 14 Yale-Harvard 9-14 
 14 Dartmouth-Brown 9- 6 
 
 17 Brown-Harvard 9- 6 
 
 18 Amherst-Dartmouth 10-11 
 
 20 Harvard-Princeton 4- 1 
 
 21 Yale-Dartmouth 3- 6 
 23 Brown-Dartmouth 5- 2 
 25 Harvard-Amherst 2- 7 
 
 May 28 Brown-Princeton 5- 3 
 
 28 Harvard-Yale 5- 8 
 
 30 Brown-Yale 2- 5 
 
 31 Amherst-Princeton 6-13 
 June i Amherst-Brown 4-10 
 
 1 Yale-Princeton 6- 7 
 
 4 Princeton-Brown 8- 4 
 
 6 Princeton-Harvard 6- 5 
 
 7 Dartmouth-Amherst 6- 3 
 
 8 Princeton-Amherst 4- 9 
 8 Dartmouth- Yale 5-15 
 
 10 Dartmouth-Princeton 5- 6 
 
 10 Amherst- Yale 9-19 
 
 15 Yale-Brown 19- 4 
 
 in the spring of 1882 the following games were played 
 
 May 6 Brown-Harvard 
 
 8 Brown-Dartmouth 
 10 Brown-Yale 
 10 Amherst-Dartmouth 
 13 Yale-Harvard 
 13 Princeton-Amherst 
 15 Princeton-Dartmouth 
 
 17 Dartmouth-Harvard 
 
 18 Brown-Dartmouth 
 
 19 Princeton-Harvard 
 
 20 Brown- Yale 
 
 23 Dartmouth-Harvard 
 
 23 Princeton-Amherst 
 
 24 Amherst-Yale 
 
 27 Princeton-Brown 
 
 6-7 
 
 May 27 
 
 Yale-Harvard 
 
 7-10 
 
 12- 9 
 
 29 
 
 Amherst-Harvard 
 
 8-19 
 
 2- 4 
 
 30 
 
 Yale-Princeton 
 
 15-8 
 
 7-23 
 
 30 
 
 Amherst-Dartmouth 
 
 9- 7 
 
 11- 6 
 
 June 1 
 
 Princeton-Dartmouth 
 
 8- 2 
 
 7-8 
 
 3 
 
 Princeton-Harvard 
 
 9- 4 
 
 6-4 
 
 3 
 
 Brown-Amherst 
 
 3- 4 
 
 11- 8 
 
 3 
 
 Dartmouth-Yale 
 
 4- 5 
 
 22-13 
 
 6 
 
 Princeton-Brown 
 
 10- 8 
 
 9- 4 
 
 9 
 
 Amherst-Harvard 
 
 0-10 
 
 9-8 
 
 10 
 
 Dartmouth-Yale 
 
 3- 9 
 
 16- 8 
 
 10 
 
 Amherst-Brown 
 
 10- 9 
 
 16-4 
 
 12 
 
 Brown-Harvard 
 
 13-17 
 
 5-i3 
 
 17 
 
 Yale-Amherst 
 
 28- 8 
 
 9-15 
 
 24 
 
 Yale-Princeton 
 
 8-3 
 
CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 TWO FAMOUS VICTORIES 
 
 The Amherst-Harvard Game. 
 
 Amherst, May 25. — The Harvard 
 nine was defeated by the Amhersts, 
 yesterday, at Amherst. The Har- 
 vards were unable to hit Gould to 
 any advantage, while Amherst won 
 by hitting Folsom hard, and through 
 Harvard's damaging errors in the 
 fifth and sixth innings. The catching 
 of Woodward was fine, and the field- 
 ing of Arnd, Crittenden and Coolidge 
 excellent. The score : 
 
 AMHERSTS. 
 
 AB R IB TB PO A E 
 
 Chase, s.s 5 o o o 1 3 2 
 
 Woodward, c. . . 4 1 2 2 10 o 1 
 
 Savage, r.f 41 1 1000 
 
 Gould, p 4 1 o 1 10 1 
 
 Arnd, l.f 4 o o 2 1 
 
 Gardner, 2b. ... 4 1 2 2 3 1 o 
 
 Buffum, c.f. ... 4 1 1 1 o o 1 
 
 Pratt, ib 4 1 1 1 8 1 
 
 Crittenden, 3b. . 4 1 o o 2 5 5 
 
 Totals 37 7 7 7 27 20 \\ 
 
 HARVARDS. 
 
 AB R IB TB PO A E 
 
 Coolidge, 2b. ... 4 1 5 2 1 
 Olmstead, l.f. ..5000200 
 
 Nichols, c 5 o 1 1 7 2 1 
 
 Baker, s.s 5 1 1 I 1 1 
 
 Edwards, r.f. ..5000103 
 
 Folsom, p 4 o 1 1 o 7 1 
 
 Hall, c.f 4 o 2 2 4 o 1 
 
 Burt, ib 4 o o 8 1 1 
 
 Snow, 3b 4 o o o o 1 o 
 
 Totals 40 2 5 5 27 14 9 
 
 Innings 123456789 
 
 Amhersts 10004200 o — 7 
 
 Harvards o 1 000000 1 — 2 
 
 Umpire — Donovan. First base on 
 errors — Amhersts 6, Harvards 9 ; 
 left on bases — Amhersts 2, Harvards 
 4; passed balls — Nichols 2, Wood- 
 ward 1 ; bases on called balls — Har- 
 vards 1 ; struck out — Amhersts 4, 
 Harvards 7 ; double play — Coolidge 
 and Burt. Time of game — 1 h. 55 m. 
 
 Amhersts 9— Princetons 4. 
 
 (Special Despatch to the Boston Herald.) 
 
 Amherst, June 8, 1881. — The Prince- 
 tons came here to-day expecting a 
 "snap," but were easily beaten by the 
 Amhersts, who outplayed them in 
 every way and maintained their lead 
 
 from the start. Gould and Critten- 
 den alternated as pitchers, and both 
 proved effective and received splen- 
 did support. Amherst batted Archer 
 hard, but could only earn one run. 
 Loney, who injured Gardner at 
 Princeton, May 31, was badly "guyed" 
 by the audience, and he got rattled 
 and offered to fight the grand stand 
 a la Ferguson at Detroit. Donovan's 
 umpiring was very satisfactory, and 
 a great improvement on ,that of 
 yesterday. Woodward and Winton 
 played finely, while Chase led at the 
 bat. The score : 
 
 Chase, s.s. . . . 
 Woodward, c. 
 Gould, p.3b. . 
 Savage, r.f. .. 
 
 Arnd, l.f 
 
 Taylor, 2b. . . 
 
 Pratt, ib 
 
 Buffum, c.f. . 
 Crittenden, 3b. p 
 
 AMHERSTS. 
 
 AB R IB TB PO A E 
 5 I 2 3 I I 
 
 4 o 
 
 5 1 
 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 100 
 
 200 
 
 230 
 
 900 
 
 o o 1 
 o 1 1 3 4 o 
 
 Totals ..42 9 11 13 27 16 2 
 
 PRINCETONS. 
 
 AB R IB TB PO A E 
 
 Duffield, r.f. . . . 4 1 2 2 2 1 o 
 
 Harris, l.f 4 o o 2 o 
 
 Loney, 2b 3 o o o 1 2 3 
 
 McCune, c.f. ...40 2 2 1 o 2 
 
 Schenck, c 4 o o o 5 2 3 
 
 Harlan, 3b 4 o 1 1 2 1 1 
 
 Winton, ib. . . . 4 2 2 2 14 o 1 
 
 Archer, p 4 o o o o 9 o 
 
 Rafferty, s.s. ...41 1 1020 
 
 Totals 35 4 8 8 27 17 10 
 
 Innings 123456789 
 
 Amhersts 1 1 102200 2 — 9 
 
 Princetons .... 00102100 o — 4 
 
 Earned run — Amhersts 1 ; two- 
 base hits — Chase, Pratt ; first base on 
 balls — Arnd, Savage, Loney ; first 
 base on errors — Amhersts 5, Prince- 
 tons 2; struck out — Amhersts 6, 
 Princetons 6; balls called — Gould 56, 
 Crittenden 37, Archer 112; strikes 
 called — Gould 20, Crittenden 35, 
 Archer 21 ; left on bases — Amhersts 
 8, Princetons 5 ; passed balls — Wood- 
 ward 2, Schenck 1 ; wild pitch — 
 Crittenden 1. Time— 2 h. 45 min. 
 Umpire — Donovan of Boston. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 2 3 
 
 Perhaps our principal evening diversion was found in whist; 
 billiards was popular with a few. The climax of our gaming 
 was the 250-point whist game that ran through several evenings, 
 with the losers elected to put up a dinner at Frank's. This word 
 "Frank's" recalls many a pleasant evening. Frank Wood was 
 a born caterer and a good friend to the students. It may have 
 
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 been his geniality or the poor food at our clubs that made our 
 bills at his place reach astonishing figures. But we always got 
 our money's worth at these evening repasts, and we will retain 
 a warm feeling for a man who understood boys. 
 
 We were all more or less interested in the Anti-V, and gave 
 good support to old Alexandria and Athenae. Witness the 
 great Social Union debate on December 14, 1881, in College 
 Hall, when Allen, Bixler, and Thayer appeared for Alexandria, 
 and Partridge, Ufford, and Whitehead for Athenae. The ques- 
 tion was, "Resolved: — That the present condition of the public 
 mind, in the United States, is favorable to the cultivation of 
 Oratory." History records that Partridge took the first prize, 
 
24 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 and Bixler the second. Again witness the great debate of the 
 Hitchcock Society of Inquiry, October 22, 1880, when Hastings 
 and Watters took opposite sides of the question: "Resolved: — 
 That Monasticism has been a benefit to the world." 
 
 We all proclaimed our Olio to be the best ever published, 
 and judging from the supper the editors gave themselves at 
 Round Hill, June 9, 1881, they must have made money. The 
 menu included Green Turtle Soup, Kennebec Salmon, Tender- 
 loin of Beef with Mushrooms, Spring Chicken, Saute of Reed 
 
 THE '82 OLIO BOARD. 
 
 Birds, Blue Point Oysters Fried in Crumbs, Cream Fritters, 
 Lobster Salad, Chicken Salad, and a lot of things for dessert. 
 
 From the photographs printed in this book one may note 
 that the moustache and the "side-burns" were much affected ; 
 that we had no extravagant ideas about the trim of hair; that 
 the hats worn then were "dinky" ; that black-braided cutaways, 
 trousers full at the bottom, cloth-top button shoes, low turn- 
 down collars, flat ties, and walking sticks appear to be the 
 vogue. In baseball, the catcher's glove appears to be very 
 moderate in size ; and there are no other "mitts" shown. In 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 25 
 
 football, there are absolutely none of the pads, leather head- 
 gear, and rubber nose-guards so common to-day. The men 
 appear to be ready for the "soccer" or association game. We 
 note with a smile the old high-wheel bicycles ; and we mark 
 with interest the tennis racquet. For be it known that '82 
 introduced lawn tennis to Amherst, when Cotton Smith, in our 
 Sophomore year, brought a tennis racquet to College. 
 
 A comparison of class banquet menus shoj\ s that there has 
 not been much change in this regard in twenty-five years. It is 
 
 CLASS TENNIS GROUP. 
 
 a matter of evidence that well-known hotels in western Massa- 
 chusetts still serve the specialties that made them famous — 
 custard pie and waffles. 
 
 A glance at the Senior Promenade program shows that we 
 have to-day lost many of our best dances. The dance programs 
 now-a-days are made up simply of waltzes and two-steps, — to 
 my mind a degeneration from former standards. And it is 
 interesting to note that this tendency towards the waltz and two- 
 step began shortly after we left College. At our triennial '85 
 
26 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 had upon its promenade program fourteen waltzes out of twenty 
 dances; three years before we had but five out of twenty. 
 
 We were the first Amherst class to have a Class yell ; and 
 it is generally understood that Hall was the author. It's a simple 
 affair, as compared with modern yells : 
 
 Yah — ee — Yah. 
 Yah — e e — Yah . 
 Yah — ee — Yah. 
 Eighty-two ! 
 
 On the third page of our Commencement program appeared 
 the honor list of the Class. It is a pleasure to note that the 
 leaders of twenty-five years ago are the leaders to-day. But 
 
 OUR MONITORS. 
 
 if one were to study the class list carefully, he would find that 
 the whirligig of time has made many changes in the marks. A 
 man is not kept down in life for misspelling a word or for 
 neglecting one subject that he may give his heart and soul to 
 another. And it is interesting to note that some of the men who 
 were not mentioned for honors have overtaken their fellows 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
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 of a quarter century ago. They certainly hold their own with 
 their honored classmates in Business; they are not excelled in 
 Medicine; they lead in History, Literature, and Mining. The 
 honor men lead in Theology, Law, and Teaching. 
 
 PROF. CHARLIE. 
 
THE COLLEGE CHURCH. 
 
 OUR COMMENCEMENT 
 
 Along towards the close of our Senior year we were made 
 aware of the fact that Commencement was actually coming by 
 the following notice which appeared in the Student. 
 
 DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS. 
 
 The six departments into which the College curriculum is 
 divided, namely, Philosophy and History, Mathematics, English 
 Literature, Natural Sciences, Ancient Languages, and Modern 
 Languages, are each represented on the College stage at Com- 
 mencement by one speaker. At the close of the winter term 
 each of these departments regularly appoints several men, such 
 as have attained the highest proficiency in their respective 
 branches, who are thus permitted to compete, by writing theses, 
 for the final Commencement appointments. Following are the 
 names of those appointed this year by the several departments : — 
 
 Philosophy and History: J. W. Bixler, F. W. Greene. E. D. 
 Hale, F. D. Hastings, C. S. Mills, F. C. Partridge. 
 
3° CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 Mathematics: C. P. Hunt, F. C. Partridge, J. H. Perry, 
 
 F. T. Rouse, F. N. Wier. 
 
 English Literature: J. W. Bixler, H. G. Blake, L. H. 
 Thayer, W. S. Ufford, P. M. Watters. 
 
 Natural Sciences: S. A. Howard, J. H. Lovell, J. H. Perry, 
 W. S. Ufford, J. F. Wing. 
 
 Ancient Languages: H. G. Blake, H. S. Bliss, A. W. Hitch- 
 cock, Berwick Manning, A. G. Rolfe. 
 
 Modern Languages: E. H. Burt, H. W. Matthews, W. H. 
 Thompson, G. H. Washburn. 
 
 The sixty-first Commencement of Amherst College was 
 ushered in on Sunday, June 25, 1882. In the College Church 
 at 10:45 A - M - the Baccalaureate sermon was preached by the 
 President. In College Hall at 8 o'clock p. m., an address was 
 delivered by Rev. J. T. Duryea, D.D., of Boston, before the 
 Hitchcock Society of Religious Inquiry. Monday, Hyde Prize 
 Exhibition in College Hall at 3 130 o'clock p. m. 
 
 G. H. Washburn Was He a True Prophet? 
 
 J. W. Bixler Garfield's Legacy. 
 
 C S. Mills Ulrich Zwingle. 
 
 F. A. Bancroft The Fanatic in History. 
 
 H. S. Bliss Edmund Burke and the American Colonies. 
 
 W. S. Ufford Edmund Burke and the French Revolution. 
 
 The Hyde Prize was awarded to F. A. Bancroft. 
 
 On Alonday evening occurred the Kellogg Prize Speaking, 
 participated in by members of the Freshman and Sophomore 
 Classes. 
 
 On Tuesday morning at 8.30, in the Barrett Gymnasium, came 
 the Physical Exercises by the Junior Class. This was followed 
 at 9.30 o'clock in College Church by a Sacred Concert given 
 by the Amherst College Glee Club under the direction of Pro- 
 fessor Zuchtmann. At the Class Day Exercises the music was 
 furnished by the Cadet Band of Boston. L. H. Thayer was 
 orator. F. L. Nason, poet, and L. S. Judd, odist, at the Ivy 
 Exercises: J. W. Bixler was Class Orator and H. S. Blake, 
 Class Poet; A. G. Rolfe was Grove Orator, and Fred Whiting 
 was Grove Poet. In the evening the College Glee Club, assisted 
 by Miss Emma Dearborn, soprano, and the Bernhard Listemann 
 Concert Company, gave a concert in College Hall. 
 
 The program for Commencement is given : 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 3 1 
 
 SIXTY-FIRST 
 
 COMMENCEMENT 
 
 ■OF- 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE, 
 
 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1882. 
 
32 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Order of Exercises. 
 
 {Music. 
 PRAYER BY THE PRESIDENT. 
 
 1. ^PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 Frank C. Partridge, - - Bernard and Abelard. 
 
 2. MATHEMATICS. 
 
 Fred N. Wier, - - Ancient and Modern Astronomy. 
 
 3. ENGLISFI. 
 
 Roland C. Smith, - The Development of Wit and Humor. 
 
 {Music. 
 
 4. NATURAL SCIENCE. 
 
 Walter S. Ufford, - - - Darwin and Darwinism. 
 
 5. ANCIENT LANGUAGES. 
 
 Hosea G. Blake, - Classical Culture. 
 
 6. MODERN LANGUAGES. 
 
 George H. Washburn, - Voltaire and the French Revolution. 
 
 {Music. 
 CONFERRING OF DEGREES. 
 
 *The College is divided into six sections: — The section of English; the section 
 of Ancient Languages; the section of Modern Languages; the section of Mathema- 
 tics; the section of Natural Science; and the section of Philosophy. Each of these 
 sections selects from two to five of its best scholars to write orations. From among 
 these, each section chooses one to represent it, and the writers thus chosen appear 
 as speakers at Commencement. 
 
 The Bond Prize was awarded to R. C. Smith. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 33 
 
 Grades of Scholarship. 
 
 ENGLISH ORATION. 
 F. C. Partridge. 
 
 H. S. Bliss, 
 
 CLASSICAL ORATIONS. 
 J. H. Perry. 
 
 A. G. Rolfe. 
 
 PHILOSOPHICAL ORATION. 
 J. W. Bixler. 
 
 SCIENTIFIC ORATION. 
 E. D. Hale. 
 
 H. G. Blake, 
 F. D. Hastings, 
 J. H. Lovell, 
 
 FIRST CLASS ORATIONS. 
 
 C. S. Mills, 
 W. D. Smith, 
 A. W. Stanford, 
 
 W. H. Thompson, 
 L. W. Tuck, 
 P. M. Waiters. 
 
 SECOND CLASS ORATIONS. 
 
 E. H. Burt, 
 A. W. Hitchcock, 
 S. A. Howard, 
 C. P. Hunt, 
 
 E. H. Martin, 
 
 H. W. Matthews, 
 G. W. Reed, 
 
 F. T. Rouse, 
 
 E. W. Stoddard, 
 L. H. Thayer, 
 W. S. Ufford, 
 G. H. Washburn. 
 
 F. R. Allen, 
 A. N. Bush, 
 
 THIRD CLASS ORATIONS. 
 
 G. N. Cowan, 
 F. W. Greene, 
 F. N. Wier, 
 
 T. LI. Knapp, 
 B. Manning, 
 J. C. Williams. 
 
34 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF A.B. 
 
 Aldrich, Edward Emory Worcester. 
 
 Allen, Franklin Roswell Prescott. 
 
 Arnd, Fred, jr Bath, N. Y. 
 
 Bancroft, Frederic Austin Galesburg, III. 
 
 Bellows, George Elihu Galesburg, III. 
 
 Bixler, James Wilson Hanover, Pa. 
 
 Blake, Hosea Gordon Amherst. 
 
 Blatchford, Paul ' Chicago, III. 
 
 Bliss, Howard Sweetser Beyrout, Syria. 
 
 Burt, Enoch Hale Sunderland. 
 
 Bush, Asahel Nesmith Salem, Or. 
 
 Camp, George Van Santvoord Watertown, N . Y. 
 
 Cowan, George Nesbitt Stamford, N. Y. 
 
 Cushing, John Pearsons Boston. 
 
 Draper, Edward Parrish Canandaigua, N. Y. 
 
 Ely, Frederick William Lowell. 
 
 Greene, Frederic William Amherst. 
 
 Greene, William Storrs Lowell. 
 
 Hale, Edson Dwinell Stowe, Vt. 
 
 Hall, George Atwater Chicago, III. 
 
 Harvey, Donald Calais, Me. 
 
 Hastings, Frank Dickinson Northampton. 
 
 Hayward, John Quincy Boxboro'. 
 
 Hitchcock, Albert Wellman Kalamazoo, Mich. 
 
 Hobbs, John Howard Amherst. 
 
 Howard, Samuel Anton Warsaw, N. Y. 
 
 Howland, Henry Martyn Jaffna, Ceylon. 
 
 Hunt, Charles Phillips Worcester. 
 
 Knapp, James Herbert Franklin. 
 
 Lawrence, George Oliver Crocker Newton Centre. 
 
 Loomis, Charles W Charlestown, O. 
 
 Lovell, John Harvey Waldoboro' , Me. 
 
 Lyman, George William Amherst. 
 
 Manning, Berwick Boston. 
 
 Martin, Edward Homer Milton, Vt. 
 
 Matthews, Henry Winfield Chelsea. 
 
 Mills, Charles Smith Andover. 
 
 Nason, Frank Louis Sutherland Falls, Vt. 
 
 Partridge, Frank Charles East Middlebury, Vt. 
 
 Perry, Joseph Hartshorn Worcester. 
 
 Reed, George Waldo Springfield. 
 
 Richardson, Fred Brainard Hardwick. 
 
 Rolf e, Alfred Grosvenor Ayer. 
 
 Rouse, Frederick Thomas West Winsted, Ct. 
 
 Savage, Watson Lewis Cromwell, Ct. 
 
 Smith, Roland Cotton New York City. 
 
 Smith, William Day Amherst. 
 
 Stanford, Arthur Willis Lowell. 
 
 Stearns, William Foster Boston. 
 
 Stoddard, Eugene Warren Milford. 
 
 Thayer, Lucius Harrison West field. 
 
 Thompson, William Haven Sudbury. 
 
 Tuck, Lorenzo Wadsworth South Weymouth. 
 
 Tucker, Herbert Ames Boston. 
 
 Ufford, Walter Shepard Boston. 
 
 Washburn, George Hamlin Constantinople, Turkey. 
 
 Watters, Philip Melancthon New York City. 
 
 Whitehead, Jacob Paisley Hillsboro', III. 
 
 Whiting, Fred Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Wier, Fred Newton Lowell. 
 
 Williams, John Camp Utica, N. Y. 
 
 Wing, John Franklin Dartmouth. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 35 
 
 At the Promenade Concert in the evening the following- order 
 of dances was followed: 
 
 Overture, "Aurora" Schleppergrell 
 
 1. Waltz, "Ball Promesseu" Strauss. 
 
 2. Quadrille, "El Dorado" Rowell. 
 
 3. Galop, "Up and Away" Budik. 
 
 4. Lanciers, "Brunette" \ Rowell. 
 
 5. Waltz, "La Charmantc" U'aldteufel. 
 
 (>. Polka, "Beau Monde" Faust. 
 
 7. Waltz Quadrili.k, "Sara" Lamothe. 
 
 8. Waltz, "Carnevals" Strauss. 
 
 9. Quadrille, "Expectation" Rollinson. 
 
 10. Racquet, "The Club Galop" 
 
 1 1. Mazourka, "One Heart, One Soul" Strauss. 
 
 12. Galop, "Tally Ho" Markstein. 
 
 13. College Lanciers, "New England" Rollinson. 
 
 14. Waltz, "To Thee" Waldteufel. 
 
 15. Polka, "Embrocation" Budik. 
 
 16. Quadrille, "Burmeister" Wynkc. 
 
 17. Waltz, "Swinging Wheels" Strauss. 
 
 18. Racquet, "New" Rowell. 
 
 19. Galop, "On the Wing" Lcmoirc. 
 
 20. Virginia Reel. 
 
 On the following- evening, onr Senior Class Supper was served 
 in the Windsor Hotel, Holyoke. 
 
 MENU. 
 
 LITTLE NECK CLAMS. 
 
 POTAGE. 
 
 CONSOMME JULIENNE, AUX QUENELLS. 
 
 POISSON. 
 
 LAKE ERIE WHITE, A LA NORMANDI. 
 
 POMMES DUCHESS. CONCOMBRES. 
 
 RELEVE. 
 
 FILET D' BOEUF, PIQUE AUX CHAMPIGNONS. 
 
 POMMES DE TERRE EN CROQUETTES. 
 
 ENTREE. 
 
 PHILA. SQUAB, BROILED, ON TOAST A LA MAITRE d' HOTEL. 
 
 PETIT POIS. ASPERGES. 
 
 CIGARETTES. 
 
 ROTI. 
 
 ENGLISH SNIPE. 
 
 MAYONNAISE DE VOLAILLE. SALADE DE HOMARD. 
 
 ENTREMET ET DESSERT. 
 
 TUTTI FRUTTI. CHARLOTTE RUSSE. 
 
 ICE CREAM. STRAWBERRIES. 
 
 GATEAUX VARIES. FRUITS ASSORTIS. 
 
 FROMAGES, CAFE. LEMONADE. 
 
36 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 W. F. Stearns, E. E. Aldrich, G. V. S. Camp, John H. Hobbs, 
 Donald Harvey, Paul Blatchford, Fred T. Rouse and Watson 
 L. Savage constituted the Dinner Committee. 
 
 THE TOASTS. 
 
 Toastmaster, . . . . . F. R. Allen. 
 
 Prophet, . . . . . . E. W. Burt. 
 
 Prophet on the Prophet, . . . J. P. Cushing. 
 
 Historian, . . . . . J. H. Hobbs. 
 
 "So we sages sit, 
 Amid bumpers brightning 
 From the heaven of wit, 
 Draw down all its lightning." — Moore. 
 
 Our Alma Mater, . . . . . P. M. Watters. 
 
 "Our hearts with rapture beat high at thy name, 
 Thy health is our transport, our triumph, tlry fame." 
 Physics, . . . . . . . J. P. Whitehead. 
 
 "Throw physics to the dogs : I'll none of it." — Shakespeare. 
 Metaphysics, . . . . . . H. A. Tucker. 
 
 "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." 
 Class Debates, ...... Fred Arnd. 
 
 "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than 
 the staple of his arguments." — Sheridan. 
 Amherst, . . . . . . . W. L. Savage. 
 
 "Far from gay cities and the ways of men." 
 College Honors, . . . . . . E. E. Aldrich. 
 
 "How little do they see what is, who frame 
 Their hasty judgments upon that which seems." — Southey. 
 The New System, . . . . . . R. C. Smith. 
 
 "Weep not that the world changes ; — did it keep 
 A stable changeless course, 'twere cause to weep." — Bryant. 
 
 The Old "Gym.," W. S. Ufford. 
 
 "Here's to the health of our dear old 'Gym.' 
 The care destroyer, the body's vim." — Nason. 
 Those who have Left Us, . . . . F. D. Proctor. 
 
 "Though absent, present in desire they be."— Drayton. 
 The Afternoon Service, . . . . F. A. Bancroft. 
 
 "O peaceful sleep ! until from pain released 
 I breathe again uninterrupted breath." — Longfellow. 
 The Ladies, . . . . . . . F. T. Rouse. 
 
 "These be the stops that hinder study quite 
 And turn our intellects to vain delight." — Shakespeare. 
 Eighty-two, . . . . . . F. C. Partridge. 
 
 "A race of giants, learned and profound." 
 
 "One bumper at parting ! though many 
 Have circled the board since we met, 
 The fullest, the saddest of any, 
 Remains to be crowned by us yet." — Moore. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 37 
 
 IVY ODE. 
 
 BY L. S. JUDD. 
 
 Air. — "Soldier's Farewell." 
 
 Our armor brightly gleaming, 
 'Neath banners proudly streaming. 
 We stand, while joyous morning, 
 Each vale and hill adorning, 
 Beams glorious o'er our castle walls. 
 And sing farewell, ye long-loved halls. 
 
 The bugle's note wild ringing, 
 Afar its echoes flinging, 
 Shall soon to conflict call us, 
 To toil and strife before us. 
 But e'er we go, for mem'ry dear, 
 We plant our tender ivy here. 
 
 When wintry winds are sighing, 
 
 When joy and hope are dying, 
 
 When life anew is springing, 
 
 While summer birds are singing, 
 
 Year after year, fair ivy vine, 
 
 O'er arch and tower thy tendrils twine. 
 
 As living chains thou'rt winding 
 And stone to stone art binding, 
 So to each heart close clinging, 
 Fond mem'ries ever bringing, 
 May ivy tendrils young and fair 
 Bind joys of old forever there. 
 
THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL. 
 
 OUR FORMER REUNIONS 
 
 Shortly after graduation Draper and dishing went to live in 
 Holyoke, Draper in business, Cushing in the high school. This 
 proximity to Amherst made it necessary for them to act at 
 times in behalf of the class. When the class cup was to be 
 selected, inscribed, and forwarded to the winner, it was these 
 two who officiated as members of a class cup committee. Later, 
 when we began to hold reunions, these two did most of the work. 
 Draper's removal from Holyoke left the burden of the local work 
 upon Cushing ; and it was probably for this reason that he was 
 appointed Class Secretary. Our third and fifth reunions were 
 jovial affairs. In those days we contented ourselves with 
 "breakfasts." There was not much attempt made to get the men 
 back, the principal feature of our class life then being a calendar 
 with the addresses of the class, which the Secretary published for 
 a few years. 
 
 There were nine of our class back for Commencement in 1891 ; 
 and we resolved to make our tenth a success. These nine organ- 
 ized with Partridge, Rolfe, and Cushing as the committee; the 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 4 1 
 
 class was asked to approve, and the campaign was begun. We 
 held a notable reunion, large in numbers and enthusiasm. We 
 had the old Boltwood House (now Hitchcock Hall) for our 
 headquarters and we had a fine time generally. Savage, Wing, 
 Watters, and Mills took part in an Alumni ball game (which they 
 helped win) ; we were entertained by several of the professors 
 and their wives at afternoon functions ; Cotton Smith presided at 
 the alumni dinner, and Partridge made a stirring response for 
 the class. At that time we published the ten-year book of the 
 class. It was at this reunion that the class gave to the Secretary 
 and Mrs. dishing a silver sugar bowl and creamer, which fit- 
 tingly engraved is in daily use — a reminder to two at least of 
 good friends and good fellowship. 
 
 At the time of our fifteenth reunion the Secretary was living 
 in Illinois ; and the greatest part of the work fell upon Rolfe. 
 At that time, as well as at our twentieth reunion, we had head- 
 quarters at Frank Wood's and were royally entertained. 
 Rumored changes in the administration of the College caused 
 more than a flurry, but in spite of the disturbance, we had a fine 
 time with our lunch, and our banquet. 
 
 For our twentieth we had a large crowd, and had with us 
 several whom we had not seen since graduation. This is, after 
 all, one of the chief delights of a reunion — meeting the men of 
 the class. 
 
 We who have served on reunion committees naturally expect 
 twenty or twenty-five, men who live in the East and whom you 
 couldn't keep away. (A wedding did keep one or two away.) 
 But what we have striven for, is to get out the men whom we 
 haven't seen for years. And if they bring along wives and chil- 
 dren, so much the better. A glorious time we had, with Jerome 
 making a rattling speech at the alumni dinner. 
 
 As the years go by it is getting more and more difficult to 
 secure suitable accommodations in Amherst at Commencement 
 time. With six or seven hundred of the alumni back, together 
 with many of the wives and children, the town is pretty well 
 crowded. At our last reunion we had a good, large house : but 
 we had to hire twenty-six sleeping-rooms in the neighborhood. 
 The need for the Amherst alumni is a large central place ; 
 whether it be like the Harvard Union, or the Graduates Club of 
 New Haven, or the Princeton Inn, or the Inn at Hanover, it 
 should be some building whose size and appointments will make it 
 the center of alumni life, and to which we shall all turn upon 
 revisiting- the old town. 
 
SABRINA AND HER WANDERINGS 
 
 Sabrina, the fair daughter of Locrine, was drowned by his 
 divorced wife, Gwendolen ; and the stream wherein she met her 
 death was the present Severn. She has become famous in 
 literature and art. In Milton's "Comus" we read 
 
 "Sabrina fair, 
 
 Listen where thou art sitting 
 Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, 
 
 In twisted braids of lilies knitting 
 The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; 
 Listen for dear honour's sake, 
 Goddess of the silver lake, 
 Listen and save !" 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 43 
 
 The Amherst Sabrina, and a twin east, which is now in Wood- 
 stock, Conn., are copies of the famous Shrewsbury (Eng.) 
 statue. Our Sabrina is of zinc, bronzed and is three hundred and 
 fifty pounds in weight. She was presented to the College in 1857 
 by Hon. Joel Hayden of Haydenville, and reposed on her pedestal 
 undisturbed for several years. During the seventies she was at 
 times given clothes, paint, whitewash and tar. A rag baby 
 appeared in her arms one year. Sabrina was first taken from 
 her pedestal in the fall of 1879 by members of our D.K.E. dele- 
 gation and hidden in a barn on the way to Freshman river. To 
 show that we bore the College no ill-will and to assist the author- 
 ities in locating the stolen goddess, some of our men broke into 
 chapel one night and pasted on the bulletin board a notice telling 
 of her whereabouts. On the night of the gymnastic exhibition, 
 February 14, 1880, when the Class of '82 were Sophomores, she 
 was found by one of our class hidden away under the stone steps 
 of College Hall, where the authorities had put her to keep her 
 "safe." This classmate got her out that night, placed her on a 
 sled and pushed and rolled her under the Eastman barn, where 
 she lay covered with hay and straw until spring. Late one night 
 she was taken in an express wagon to Admiral Greene's barn, 
 where she was given two or three coats of white enamel paint. 
 A week before our Class Supper she was carefully boxed and 
 shipped by freight to the Crocker House, New London, Conn. 
 Only a few knew of this: but on the evening of June 25, 1880, 
 at the fourth toast, "Sabrina fair, listen and appear to us," she 
 appeared — her first appearance at an Amherst Class Banquet. 
 The response to the toast was given in eloquent fashion by R. 
 C. Smith. 
 
 The morning after the banquet, Sabrina was carried by the 
 Class to the station ; and upon our arrival in Amherst was placed 
 upon a small platform fastened to a couple of long poles, raised 
 to our shoulders and carried back and placed upon her pedestal. 
 She was subsequently dumped by the students into the college 
 well, and later stored in Professor Charlie's barn, presumably by 
 order of the authorities. She was brought to light in '88, when 
 the Class of '90 planned to take her to their Class Supper. '91 
 kidnapped her and she was hidden in Hatfield. '93 was the last 
 odd-number class to be called a Sabrina Class. She attended their 
 Sophomore banquet in Boston ; and was shipped back by express 
 from Boston to Springfield. A representative of '94 met her in 
 Springfield with a forged express receipt, and Sabrina was 
 shipped away under the guidance of '94. The Freshman fled to 
 
44 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Europe, and detectives failed to locate the goddess. '96 had her 
 at their banquet in Nashua, N. H., after she had reposed in a 
 sausage factory, a grape cellar and in western New York. She 
 appeared at 98's banquet in Bennington, Vt., and at 1900's 
 in New London, Conn. 1902 took her to the Hotel Worthy, 
 Springfield, the odd-number classmen heard of her presence 
 there, charged en masse, put up a stiff fight, but were beaten off. 
 1904 took her to New London, Conn. ; 1906 to the Murray Hill, 
 New York ; and 1908 worshipped in her presence at the Hotel 
 Astor, New York. The men of 1908 have not seen her since, 
 but she is being guarded for 19 10. 
 
 "All hail, Sabrina dear, 
 The widow of each passing year; 
 Long may she ever be 
 The widow of Posterity." 
 
\M IIKRST COLLEGE. 
 
 45 
 
 LETTERS FROM AMHERST 
 
 PRESIDENT'S OFFICE 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 AMHERST, MASS. 
 
 My dear Mr. Cushing: 
 
 The Class of 1882 will be greatly welcome 
 at Commencement. It has more men in public 
 life, men of unusual distinction, than any class 
 that has graduated at Amherst. 
 
 The gifts of more than $2,000 for the new- 
 laboratories helped materially in getting the 
 whole amount needed. 
 
 You will be boys again at your twenty-fifth 
 reunion. 
 
 I hope to see you all. 
 
 Most truly yours, 
 
 George Harris. 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF LATIN 
 
 AMHERST, MASS. 
 To the Class of 1882: 
 
 The courteous invitation extended to me 
 through your Class Secretary, to renew my 
 acquaintance with you in connection with the 
 celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 
 your graduation, I deeply appreciate, especially 
 because of my distinct recollection of the 
 decorum and friendliness as well as the excel- 
 lent scholarship uniformly exhibited in the 
 recitation room. 
 
 First of all I want to avail myself of the 
 opportunity thus afforded of congratulating you individually upon 
 what you have accomplished during a quarter of a century of 
 
46 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 graduate life. As far as it is indicated by the record, I am 
 impressed with the variety of the departments of professional 
 activity to which the different members of the class have devoted 
 themselves, and in which they have achieved distinction. 
 
 It is an interesting fact that almost one-third of your number 
 have entered the Christian ministry, a considerably larger propor- 
 tion than that of any subsequent class, and I think of any 
 preceding class for many years. But I note, also, that all other 
 professions are represented, and that in this class, which I had 
 the privilege of meeting from day to day for so long a period, 
 were those who are now eminent doctors of law, medicine, philos- 
 ophy, and science, college presidents and governors of states, as 
 well as business men and teachers. 
 
 It is a source of great satisfaction at this time, that the Class 
 of 1882, in common with the graduates generally, continue to 
 manifest so strong an interest in the welfare of their Alma Mater. 
 With all loyal sons of the college, they have reason to cherish an 
 honest pride in the fact that during this quarter of a century the 
 college has kept fully abreast of the times in its courses of study, 
 and in its methods of instruction, administration, and discipline. 
 This constant and intimate acquaintance of the alumni, however, 
 with the affairs of the college is also a matter of great importance, 
 because to their influence is largely due the creation and suprem- 
 acy of a correct public sentiment in the undergraduate body on all 
 matters pertaining to their relation to the College, and to their 
 conduct as individuals. 
 
 Allow me, finally, with most sincere and earnest wishes for 
 your welfare in the future, to say in the words of an old English 
 divine : "Brethren : may your Moon become more and more like 
 the Sun, and your Midday Sun become sevenfold brighter than 
 
 it is!" 
 
 E. P. Crowell. 
 Amherst College, May 7, 1907. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 47 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 OFFICE OF DEAN OF FACULTY 
 
 AMHERST, MASS. 
 
 March 26, 1907. 
 My Dear Boys of '82: 
 
 To be asked again to write something for 
 your class book, is one of the sweet things of 
 life which the old teacher is at some rare 
 intervals allowed to put among his precious 
 gatherings. 
 
 And I do thank you that you are now doing 
 this for your old Doctor. It is a joyous 
 episode in his life. 
 
 For when you were in college, '78-'82, it was 
 in the prime of my life, good feeling and love 
 for college boys, if ever I could count on such a thing, and you 
 may bet I did for you. 
 
 The Physical Education Department was then well upon its 
 feet and the students began to take much pride in it and feel it 
 was a good thing in a college course, yes, and even more, many 
 of you acted as if it were a necessity in a liberal education. 
 
 And you foreshadowed and prepared the way for an advanced 
 "Gym" building and appurtenances, in 1889, which for years 
 was the foremost and a model for other colleges and schools to 
 pattern after and try to grow up to. 
 
 And in your class we first began to catch on to the science of 
 anthropometry when we began to put the tape around your 
 heads, neck, chest and extremities, to help us find out what the 
 normal and average man was as exemplified in the students of 
 Amherst College. 
 
 And the series of marching movements, which have been a 
 feature of every class "Gym" Exhibition since your time, calls 
 no man author of it save your Ufford. 
 
 Well, all these things and more too which ought to be men- 
 tioned carry me along with great tenderness, affection and power 
 with the Class of '82. 
 
4 8 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 And you begin to feel so old when you talk of 25 years "out 
 of the hen coop." And so you may, and at the same time 
 rejoice that so few of you are on the starred list, tho' they were 
 the men whom you could ill afford to think of losing. 
 
 But most of you strong men are on the footstool, and, we hope 
 will put in a most generous showing at your 25th anniversary. 
 And don't you forget to energize, and work for the Trophy Cup, 
 which is such a stir-up for getting good attendance at Com- 
 mencement. The more we alumni can get together in large or 
 small gatherings the better men we are and the stronger the 
 
 College is. 
 
 The growth of the study of music in college is a feature you 
 must have in mind. Hitchcock Hall, the old Boltwood house, is 
 now the musical headquarters of college. Under Prof. Bigelow 
 we have now a regular Department of Music, ranking as one of 
 the studies of the college, and is as much in standing for a degree 
 as are the classics or mathematics. And as a visible and tangible 
 result to-night we are to give Mendelssohn's Oratorio of St. 
 Paul with an orchestra and chorus of 125 persons, male and 
 female, in College Hall and tickets all disposed of already. And 
 in the same line from now to the end of the year we are to aug- 
 ment chapel services about once a week with a 15 minutes 
 rehearsal of college songs, thus preparing the classes for the 
 Prize outdoor singing which is in place near Commencement 
 
 time. 
 
 Only one thing more — the Natatorium and Squash courts, the 
 gift of Mr. Harold S. Pratt and Mortimer Schiff. This means 
 that every man in college may have a daily swim in warm water 
 as often as his bathing suit can be dried, and that every man is 
 to be required to learn how to swim and to have the delightful 
 indoor game of handball. 
 
 Please add to all thus far said, that the Olio is now about as 
 much a part of college necessities for Faculty and students as 
 ever the simple, plain and old catalog has been. 
 
 But stop the garrulity of the old Professor Hygiene. 
 
 May the Peace of God rest sweetly on every one of your dear 
 good souls, and your wives and children, and all their relations. 
 3 And don't fail to remember the old college by your prayers and 
 some frequent gifts, not necessarily of money but good and 
 effective lives which may show where you came from. 
 
 Most heartily, 
 
 E. Hitchcock. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 49 
 
 Amherst, Mass., .March 21. [907. 
 My dear Mr. Cushing: 
 
 Please give my cordial greetings to the 
 Class of '82 and add my best wishes for 
 a successful and happy reunion at their 
 twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation next 
 Commencement. I retain the most kindly 
 remembrances of your class as they were- more 
 than a quarter of a century ago, and often 
 recall, in the case of those whom 1 then knew 
 best, the "boy" who was "the father of the 
 man" of to-day. 
 
 1 hope that your reunion of next Commencement will he the 
 hest yon have ever yet held, and that you will all find it a 
 veritable "Fountain of Youth." Happy is the man who can carry 
 his youth to the very end, and I know of no better aid to this 
 result than the cultivation of loyalty to one's class and college. 
 
 Most cordially yours, 
 
 \Y. C. Esty. 
 
 Amherst College, March 22, 1907. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Class of '82: 
 
 It gives me great pleasure to respond to the 
 exceedingly brief and business-like letter of 
 your Secretary in which "The Class of '82 
 presents its compliments and wishes from you 
 a letter which it could publish in its forth- 
 coming class book." 
 
 I look back over a vista of forty-five classes 
 in Amherst College so that I see your bright 
 and youthful faces somewhat in the middle 
 distance. Indeed I can recall those early 
 times when, returning to .Amherst, you spoke with some sense of 
 proprietorship of your Alma Mater, and informed the first 
 admiring professor you met that you had forgotten all you learned 
 in college. If you were a minister what you had really gotten 
 here was "culture" ; if a business man, the ability to turn the 
 great powers of your mind onto any subject. 
 
 Now, in the riper mesozoic stratum of your experience, you 
 are moving toward the time when much of the old learning will 
 come back to you, and you will like to talk to your old teachers 
 
50 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 reminiscently and in a somewhat antiquated vocabulary about the 
 old studies. 
 
 Now, also, you are sending boys to college yourselves, and if 
 you wish them to be able twenty-five years hence to point with 
 pride to the abundant store of college learning they have for- 
 gotten you may well throw the weight of your influence in favor 
 of old-fashioned hard work, or too many of your boys will never 
 be able to forget much of value acquired from their college 
 course. 
 
 A brilliant young Chinese student returning from the rally at 
 which the present freshmen were introduced into the College life 
 with addresses by the President, professors, and "managers" 
 wondered that the studies of the College were not mentioned. 
 
 I do not need to tell you how seriously the College has suffered 
 in its teaching force in the last year. You will share with me the 
 feeling that President Harris will face an important crisis for the 
 College on his return in April. The loss of Richardson brings 
 back to me the loss of Neill. I came here one of the first of the 
 Germans and Neill came soon, and quickly adopted and splendidly 
 built out the practical methods we had learned abroad. 
 
 Then Richardson came and my own long life in Germany made 
 me enjoy and value constantly, through many years, the German 
 Grandlichkeit and Gemiithlichkeit of that fine and true spirit. 
 The others whom we have lost were my pupils and became my 
 colleagues and firm friends. I remember Garman well in College. 
 He was a man of one book and pursued each study as if it was 
 to be his life-work and gained such masterful acquaintance with 
 each that he was able to use it permanently. 
 
 As that grand life-work grew here I have had many an 
 interesting conference and many a wordy battle with him, and 
 admired the dialectic skill, the splendid earnestness and intellectual 
 honesty of tHe clear and strong thinker. 
 
 I am sure that the finest illustration of his very exceptional suc- 
 cess as a teacher will be that one of his strong pupils will carry 
 forward the torch which he took from the hands of President 
 Seelye. 
 
 In every other way the College is moving on quietly and pros- 
 perously. Professor Olds has been an admirable presiding officer. 
 
 The rules, especially with regard to athletics, have been 
 enforced equably and without friction. A healthful agitation 
 against hazing has arisen among the students. 
 
 I am, of course, especially interested in the new building for 
 Geology and Zoology, for which plans are nearly completed. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 5 I 
 
 For this, $150,000 has been obtained, with the admirable pro- 
 viso that one-third shall be retained for maintenance. 
 
 It will be a building one hundred and sixty feet long, shaped 
 somewhat like the Physics-Chemistry laboratory, but perhaps more 
 attractive architecturally, and placed jnst south of the grove of 
 pines east of Appleton Cabinet. Short wings, with a broad plat- 
 form between, will extend south. Beneath this platform will be an 
 aquarium, and in the second story of the east wing the old octag- 
 onal lecture room will be reproduced, with a veranda. A more 
 extensive and varied panorama of Geology will be visible there 
 than from any similar lecture room in the country. 
 
 With the kindliest wishes for the continued welfare of you all, 
 Very cordially yours, 
 
 B. K. Emerson. 
 
 Amherst, Mass., May 31, 1907. 
 
 John P. Lushing, Ph.D., New Haven High School, New Haven, 
 Conn.: 
 
 Dear Dr. Cushing:---I gladly accept your 
 
 kind invitation to write a letter to be read at 
 
 the approaching reunion of '82. 
 
 First, I wish to tell the class that its old 
 
 teachers and the College are proud of its 
 
 record. Already your achievements have 
 
 advanced sensibly the highest public interests, 
 
 and you have only reached the beginnings of 
 
 your best work. 
 
 In the College, as in the world, much has 
 happened since your graduation. Many of the influences which 
 have changed the outside world so profoundly have been felt here 
 in their full force; and in the readjustments through which the 
 College has kept herself in touch with her changing environment, 
 it has been necessary to make some experiments. But on review- 
 ing the entire quarter century it is, I think, a fair conclusion that 
 Amherst has shown herself distinctly progressive without ceas- 
 ing to be reasonably conservative. You will find here much of 
 the best in the old order united with most of the best in the new. 
 Since your last reunion, three strong members of the faculty 
 have passed away. When we recall the names of Neill, Richard- 
 son and Garman, and realize what each did for his department, 
 and for the College, our sense of loss is overwhelming. But 
 there is comfort in the reflection that they will live on in the lives 
 of the graduates and in the life of the College. 
 
52 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 In its newer teachers, Amherst possesses a young faculty of 
 great talent and fine scholarship. And I venture to add that one 
 of the ways in which the members of the Class of '82 can do 
 much for the College, and at the same time deepen their own 
 interest in her welfare is through making the acquaintance of 
 these younger men, and giving to them the encouragement of 
 their appreciation. 
 
 Additional grounds for hope and courage are these : first, a 
 higher degree of cordial good-will and effective cooperation on 
 the part of the undergraduate body with the President and Fac- 
 ulty than we have ever known before; second, the rapidly 
 increasing usefulness of the Christian Association in promoting a 
 healthful and vigorous religious life among the undergraduates ; 
 third, a notable growth of interest in the College on the part of the 
 alumni, of confidence in her future, and of participation in her 
 affairs. 
 
 With heartiest greetings to each member of the class, I remain, 
 
 always sincerely yours, 
 
 Anson D. Morse. 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE OBSERVATORY 
 
 AMHERST, MASS. 
 
 Dear disking 
 
 April 21, 1907. 
 
 I've been "that druv" with preparations for 
 Peru and a season with Mars in the Andes 
 that your modest asking for a letter got laid 
 aside. My main objection to all this South 
 American business for this summer is that it 
 takes me away from the twenty-fifth reunion 
 of my pet class — bouncing pets some of them, 
 by now ; but just as welcome and dear to the 
 maiden astronomer, whom '82 had the first 
 chance to break in. Well, I'm sorry not to 
 be with you, but the President will give you a warm reception, 
 and the Commencement charivari will go on just the same. 
 
 I shall be with you in all memories — how they throng, a quarter 
 century back ! Many, many times have I recalled that old class 
 list, winding up with Partridge, Perry, Rouse, and Wier — all 
 noted astronomers. 
 
 Always faithfully and one of you, 
 
 David Todd. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 53 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF LATIN 
 
 AMHERST, MASS. 
 
 Class of '82: 
 
 Gentlemen : — The invitation to send to the 
 Secretary a letter, rehearsing any memories 
 % might have of the Class of '82 is so cordial, 
 that I can not decline, especially since it 
 includes the statement that if I do not have 
 any "memories" I may "draw on my imagina- 
 tion." But when I can recall vividly several 
 scenes such, for instance, as was presented 
 one Thursday morning, when as Professor 
 Elwell and I were coming down from our 
 rooms in the South Dormitory to conduct our recitations, we dis- 
 covered a member of the Class of '82 vigorously at work, splitting 
 on the stone steps some of Mr. Elwell's wood, kept for conve- 
 nience in the lower story of the building, I do not need to "draw on 
 my imagination," for I have facts. In referring to this experi- 
 ence, it is only fair to add, that the student immediately stated 
 that he had supposed this wood had been left by some of the 
 graduates of the year before, and he offered to make restitution 
 by carrying up to the fourth floor, where Mr. Elwell roomed, all 
 that he had not burned. Could you have seen the expression on 
 the face of your classmate, when informed in a "stentorian" voice 
 that this wood was private, not public property, you would have 
 been convinced that there was genuine ( ?) repentance exhibited 
 there. 
 
 And I can recall many scenes of a different nature, such as 
 the reception of some delicacy to be taken to the dearly beloved 
 Professor Root, who was during your junior year seriously ill 
 in his Belchertown home, remembrances sent from different men 
 in your class, and received by him and his family with the deepest 
 appreciation. 
 
 And I remember the many kindnesses that I experienced per- 
 sonally during those first two years of teaching at Amherst from 
 members of your class: and with especial gratitude do I call 
 to mind those '82 men. who roomed near me in South College, 
 who introduced the recent graduate into many of the current 
 College interests, from which he would have been otherwise shut 
 out, men whose friendship he has always valued. There are large 
 opportunities for loneliness for the graduate who returns to 
 Amherst after his friends and classmates have all gone. 
 
54 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 With the Class of '82 I always associate one of the noblest men 
 who was ever connected with the Amherst Faculty, Professor 
 Root, who was said by President Seelye to be facile princeps, 
 and whose untimely death was perhaps more keenly felt by your 
 class than by any other body of students. And since his depar- 
 ture we have lost other distinguished and beloved instructors, 
 including President Seelye, Professors Tyler, Mather, Frink, 
 Neill, Richardson, and Garman. And not only the College, but 
 also your class has met with sad losses, some of them recent, 
 and we, too, have sorrowed for them. But the smaller the circle, 
 the closer the tie that binds all together. And I hope that every 
 man will return to the twenty-fifth reunion, because, judging 
 from the experience of the Class of '78, the result will be the 
 reestablishment of friendships, the discovery and appreciation of 
 strong and excellent qualities in classmates, never before realized, 
 a strengthening of college spirit, a renewal of youth, and a devel- 
 opment of loyalty to the Alma Mater in a wonderful way, and to 
 a marvelous degree. And while in Amherst do not miss the 
 opportunity of getting acquainted with the new members of the 
 Faculty, that you may personally know the men, who are doing 
 good work in strengthening and building up the College ; and 
 if possible, visit all the buildings, that you may appreciate what 
 an advance has been made in the equipment of the old depart- 
 ments, and the equipment of the new. The losses of the last year 
 to the teaching force seem almost irretrievable. We had, how- 
 ever, almost the same feeling at the time of Professor Root's 
 death, and as a man was found at that time to very successfully 
 carry forward the work of that department, so have we faith 
 now to believe that men will be found to take up the work in 
 Philosophy, German, and History, temporarily interrupted by the 
 deaths of Professors Richardson and Garman, and the resigna- 
 tion of Professor Morse; though of course we can not hope to 
 discover men with the same personalities, which so endeared 
 those men to all their students. Even in the saddest hours of 
 this last year, we have always cherished those words of Horace, 
 Nil desperandum ; and now with the return of President Har- 
 ris from Europe, and a strong and united Faculty, the future is 
 again bright and promising. 
 
 With most cordial wishes for a satisfactory reunion, and for 
 
 the prosperity and happiness of every member of the Class of '82. 
 
 Most sincerely yours, 
 
 William Lyman Cowles. 
 Amherst College, May 6, 1907. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 55 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF GREEK 
 
 amherst, mass. 
 
 March 18, 1907. 
 
 My dear Mr. Cusiiing : — It gives me great 
 pleasure to be remembered by your class ; and 
 I am happy to send you my word of greeting 
 on occasion of your twenty-fifth anniversary. 
 For I have grateful and pleasant memories 
 of you all ; and now when I can not possibly 
 have an ax to grind, it can do you no harm 
 for me to say so. 
 
 I need not say that the college has grown 
 and improved with the passing years. The 
 catalogue of your senior year shows twenty-seven teachers, three 
 hundred and forty-three students ; the current catalogue shows 
 forty-two teachers, four hundred and seventy-five students. Of 
 your teachers, the names of twelve still appear. But of these, 
 three are no longer with us. Since the year began, the genial 
 and earnest Professor Richardson and the scholarly and inspiring 
 Professor Garman have been called to the higher life; two years 
 ago Professor Esty resigned and is now Professor Emeritus ; and 
 this year Professor Morse concludes his college work, to the 
 regret of us all. 
 
 Both the teachers of Latin, Professors Crowell and Cowles, 
 are continuing the excellent and efficient work which has always 
 characterized their department. But the Greek department has 
 sustained many changes : Professor Mather was succeeded by 
 Professor Gibbons who, two years later, was followed by Profes- 
 sor Sterrett; and six years ago, Professor Smith succeeded Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett. The year after the appointment of Professor 
 Sterrett, Professor Tyler resigned; and since then the depart- 
 ment has had but two teachers. In Latin the number of students 
 has increased with the growth of the college; but in Greek the 
 number of late has rapidly declined, since Greek is no longer 
 required for the B.A. degree. Of the one hundred and seventy- 
 seven freshmen, thirty-three take the regular freshman Greek. 
 
 The Class of '82 did its college work quietly and well ; and I 
 trust that its members are not less successful in their chosen life 
 work. You may be sure of a most hearty welcome on the occasion 
 of your approaching reunion. And with my best wishes for each 
 and all of you, both then and always, I remain. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 Levi H. Elwell. 
 
COLLEGE HALL. 
 
 THE TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION 
 
 The Class of '82 of Amherst College celebrated in June, 1907, 
 its twenty-fifth anniversary, and from all the reports it was a 
 pronounced success. Albree. Rolfe, Partridge, and the Secre- 
 tary worked at the proposition for a good many months. Whit- 
 ing gave us a stirring-up dinner in New York, and the Boston 
 men followed suit in that region. The preliminary work aimed 
 at getting as many as possible of the men back; and the com- 
 mittee and the class regret that some at the last moment found 
 it impossible to attend. Our men are widely scattered, and 
 distance alone kept a number from us. We had hopes that Bliss 
 might come on from Syria, Lawrence from the Argentine, and 
 some of the California contingent from the far West : but these 
 and others not so far away were deprived of a week of good 
 fellowship in Amherst. As to the long-distance prize, it should 
 be awarded to Draper, who made the trip from Cananea, 
 
 Mexico. 
 
 Amherst has changed in twenty-five years and in Commence- 
 ments as much as anything else. At our tenth reunion we had 
 
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 modest headquarters in Hitchcock Hall (the old Boltwood 
 House) ; at our fifteenth and twentieth we were at Frank 
 
 Wood's (at the head of the 
 street that runs between the 
 Psi U. and Alpha Delta Phi 
 Houses). There we swung 
 out a flag and hung out some 
 bunting. For this reunion 
 we secured Prospect House 
 on the north side of Amity 
 Street around the corner 
 from the Amherst House. 
 There we unfurled our banner and on Tuesday had some music. 
 But the younger classes are now coming back in gaudy and 
 fantastic uniforms, decorating their headquarters profusely, and 
 with brass bands, electric lights, and servitors are letting all know 
 that they are in town. 
 
 '47 came back, sixty years out of college, opened his head- 
 quarters, hung out his banner — all to let us know that one man 
 of the Class of '47 with proper devotion could enter into the 
 spirit of the week. 
 
 But a twenty-five-year-old class is supposed to be a staid and 
 sober aggregation, and we tried to make noise enough to comport 
 with our elderly station. One of our men said he wouldn't come 
 to the reunion unless we had a brass band; naturally, then, 
 we had the brass band. Amherst has improved greatly in her 
 singing; and we spent our spare time learning and singing 
 "Cheer for Old Amherst," and "Lord Geoffrey Amherst," two 
 recent productions, and rattling good ones, too. 
 
 There were present at this reunion : Rev. James W. Bixler and 
 Seelye Bixler, Mr. Paul Blatchford and John Blatchford 
 (Amherst 1910), Rev. E. H. Burt, Mr. Asahel Bush (Amherst 
 1909), Mr. and Mrs. Geo. V. Camp, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cush- 
 ing, Mr. E. P. Draper, Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Greene and 
 Theodore A. Greene, Rev. and Mrs. Geo. A. Hall, Miss Hall, 
 Gordon R. Hall, and Robert C. Hall, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Hobbs 
 and Harold Hobbs (Amherst 1909), Mr. L. S. Judd, Air. James 
 H. Knapp, Rev. and Mrs. Charles W. Loomis, Frederick C. 
 Loomis, George C. Loomis and Charles W. Loomis, Jr., Dr. and 
 Mrs. E. H. Martin, Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Mills, Miss Mills, 
 and Charles M. Mills, Mr. Frank C. Partridge, Hon. F. D. 
 Proctor, Mr. Waldo Burt Reed, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Richard- 
 son, Mr. A. G. Rolfe, Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Savage, Rev. Roland 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 59 
 
 Cotton Smith, Rev. A. W. Stanford, Rev. and Mrs. W. F. 
 Stearns and Douglas Stearns, Rev. and Mrs. Lucius H. 
 Thayer. Ellsworth and Dorothy Thayer, Mr. W. H. Thompson, 
 Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Tucker, Mr. W. S. Ufford, Dr. George H. 
 Washburn and George E. and Arthur A. Washburn, Rev. P. M. 
 Watters, Dr. and Mrs. Fred Whiting. Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Wier, 
 Mr. J. C. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. I". Win.-. Mr. John Albree, 
 Mr. Gurdon R. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Potter, Miss Potter, 
 Nathan Potter, Rev. Joseph Wheelwright. 
 
 The summary shows that there were thirty-six of the men, 
 seventeen of the wives, and twenty of the children present, — 
 seventy-three in all. This is by far our best showing as regards 
 the wives and children. As regards the men, three of our last 
 reunions have not varied much from thirty-five. Our figures 
 this year, thirty-six, are our best. At our tenth reunion we 
 had thirty-four men back, ten of the wives and two of the 
 children. At our fifteenth there were twenty men back and 
 seven wives. At our twentieth we had thirty-four men and 
 fifteen women. 
 
 NUMBERS AT REUNIONS. 
 
 Men. Women. Children. Total. 
 
 Tenth 34 10 2 48 
 
 Fifteenth 20 7 2 7 
 
 Twentieth 34 *5 49 
 
 Twenty-fifth 36 17 20 73 
 
 In the competition for the Reunion cup, '82 ranked second: 
 '97 took the cup. 
 
 The following have been present at all of these four reunions: 
 Mr. John Albree, Rev. J. W. Bixler, Mr. A. G. Rolfe, Mr. 
 F. B. Richardson. Dr. W. L. Savage, F. N. Wier, Esq., Dr. J. F. 
 Wing, Rev. F. W. Greene, Mr. L. S. Judd, Dr. Fred Whiting, 
 Rev. P. M. Watters, and Mr. J. P. Cushing, and Mrs. Savage 
 and Mrs. Cushing — twelve men and two women. 
 
 These people were accommodated at our headquarters and in 
 twenty-six nearby rooms. We took our meals together and 
 lounged about the parlors and the verandas as we pleased. 
 Stanford, especially, took the palm as a story teller, and he had 
 no difficulty in holding spellbound most of the twenty youngsters 
 with his tales of adventure; while Draper was not far behind 
 with his gun stories from the mines of Mexico. The thanks of 
 the class are due to Mrs. Perry, the proprietor of Prospect 
 
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 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 House, for her endeavors to make us have a good time, and to 
 Harold Hobbs, the Secretary's assistant, who proved himself 
 to be the right man in the right place. Not the least interesting- 
 person in the group at the 
 house was Mrs. Potter of 
 Enfield, the mother of our 
 E. C. Potter, who honored 
 us with her presence on the 
 last day of our reunion. 
 Our reunion photograph 
 will give some notion of 
 our numbers, although 
 several were unavoidably 
 absent at the time the 
 photograph was taken. 
 
 Those who came on 
 Saturday had the best time, 
 
 because they were there 
 longest; the others made 
 up in intensity what they 
 lacked in time. We had a 
 good house-warming Satur- 
 day night, and had many a 
 good guess at each new- 
 comer's identity. Sunday 
 we attended Baccalaureate 
 with President Harris' ser- 
 mon upon "The Newness 
 of Life." 
 
 The view from the hill 
 towards Pelham was just 
 as beautiful as it was twenty-five years ago ; and some of us 
 took a partial "cut." In the afternoon in the remodeled Col- 
 lege Hall (which now, by the way, is a gem) we heard the 
 Requiem Mass rendered in very effective fashion under the 
 direction of Professor Bigelow. 
 
 Monday was our outing day. There were fifty of us to 
 board the private car in front of the Amherst House at ten 
 o'clock ; and with cheers and yells and flags a-flying we were 
 off on a "'Jerusalem Revisited" trip. In these days of the 
 trolley, students may still drive their hired nags towards Hamp 
 and Holyoke ; but I imagine the principal concern is to catch the 
 last car back. 
 
AM HERST COLLEGE. 
 
 61 
 
 The road down past Trott's and the D. U. house has been 
 improved since our days; the Central Massachusetts Railroad 
 cuts under the road just below the D. U. house, and the station 
 is just off the road. 'There are occasional new houses along the 
 road; but the old landmarks are still there, even the orchards 
 and grapevines of a quarter century ago. The car line goes 
 through the Notch, and in general follows the highway. Mount 
 Holyoke College is an altogether different institution from the 
 Seminary of our day. The group of beautiful buildings created 
 a verv favorable impression. On we went across the bridge to 
 Holyoke, up through the principal streets, passing the site of 
 the old Windsor Hotel where we had our Senior Class Supper. 
 A stop for lunch was made at the Mount Tom House which was 
 reached after a most enjoyable ride through Mountain Park. 
 Most of this range is now a State reservation. The day was 
 warm, as Commencement days usually are, but on Mount Tom 
 we had a couple of hours of great delight. Resuming our car at 
 the foot of the incline railway, we returned to Amherst by way 
 of Northampton and Hadley just in time to witness the Amherst- 
 Williams game. We had a great day, and Amherst won. 
 What more could you expect in one day? Prize-speaking and 
 dramatics lured some away from the porch in the evening, and 
 at a profitable hour cptiet came upon the headquarters. 
 
 By Tuesday we had most of the crowd back, and our business 
 meeting in the parlors was well attended. The President, F. C. 
 Partridge, presided. The disposition of the class fund was 
 announced. This, with private gifts from class members, 
 amounted to more than two* thousand dollars, and was given to 
 the College to help along a new Biological Building. 
 
 At our reunion in 1892 it was decided to raise a class fund, 
 and pledges were made at that time, payable in five annual install- 
 ments. Rolfe, Cushing, and Partridge were appointed a com- 
 mittee to take charge of it. Between 1892 and 1897 the 
 committee collected on these pledges $1,090 and deposited the 
 same in a savings bank at interest. 
 
 The Secretary's letter to the class after the reunion in June, 
 1892, spoke of the decision to raise a class fund and of the 
 appointment of the committee, but did not state for what purpose 
 the fund was to be raised. The original talk, however, was that 
 it should be used for a scholarship ; but at the reunion in 1897— 
 and Cushing thinks again at the reunion in 1902— the class voted 
 to leave the disposition of the fund to the committee. After 
 such consultation with the fellows as was possible, and with the 
 
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 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 College authorities, the committee decided that it would be 
 generally satisfactory to the class and would do the College the 
 most good to contribute the fund to the new laboratory building, 
 and accordingly on the 3d of November, 1906, the entire fund 
 (which at that time with interest amounted to $1,707.51) was 
 sent to Mr. Howland, the Treasurer of the College, as a con- 
 tribution from the class to the new laboratory. This use of the 
 money was much desired, by the College authorities, and the 
 committee hopes will be satisfactory to the class generally. 
 Albree was appointed Class Historian and asked to assist the 
 Secretary in getting out the Class Book. Potter expressed his 
 desire to make for the College a bust of the late President 
 Seelye. The class heartily 
 endorsed the idea, and 
 agreed to pay for putting it 
 into bronze. A member of 
 the class, who modestly 
 requested that his name be 
 not mentioned, expressed 
 the desire to give a suitable 
 marble pedestal. Whiting, 
 Rolfe, and Bixler were 
 appointed a committee on 
 the Potter-Seelye memorial. 
 Plans for the Class Book 
 were discussed, and all 
 
 agreed to help the project. 
 It may be stated here 
 that no financial report 
 upon the reunion will be 
 submitted to the class. 
 Albree, Rolfe, and Part- 
 ridge have examined the 
 Secretary's report. Finan- 
 cial backing has been 
 secured for this present 
 volume. When you receive 
 this book there will probably 
 be no debts and no balance. 
 We spent at our fifteenth 
 reunion $302.50; and at our twentieth, $440.40. Our total 
 expenses for the twenty-fifth reunion will approximate $2,000. 
 The lunch at one o'clock brought nearly all the crowd together. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 63 
 
 The Stevens Arms Band gave us a choice line of music, and Hall 
 took the class picture. Then the desire seized us to appear in 
 public, and with Gym. Captain Ufford leading- the band, we 
 marched, men, women and children, across the common and up 
 to the old church, where twenty-five years ago we had planted 
 an ivy. This ivy is no more; "orders" had cut it down. 
 But with our old Ivy orator, Thayer, on hand, and with a 
 farmer preacher, Wheelwright, and with an ivy which Draper 
 had secured, we planted our ivy anew, and from the way Wheel- 
 wright planted it, it's bound to grow and prosper. This event, 
 carried out without any formality or any sign of pre-arrange- 
 ment, shared in alike by us all — men, women, and children, was 
 one of the most interesting of the reunion. Then the lines were 
 reformed, and we sailed right into the grove to the tune of 
 "Lord Geoffrey Amherst." Business in the grove was sus- 
 pended for a few minutes ; and then we tried to think of what 
 Rolfe and Whiting would have done had they been holding forth. 
 
 Fraternity receptions and the President's reception from five 
 to eight; and a right smart shower at the same time. 
 
 On Commencement Day we had the pleasure of seeing Mills 
 receive a "D.D.," and Potter an "M.A." 
 
 Potter was presented for his degree as follows: "Edward 
 Clark Potter, sometime member of the Class of 1882; sculptor. 
 His animal figures are notable for beauty, power and lifelike- 
 ness. His statues of distinguished men are famous for grace, 
 strength and repose. Originality of conception and painstaking- 
 conscientiousness of execution mark his work. He strikes the 
 note of sincerity in art." 
 
 Mills was introduced in these words: "Charles Smith Mills, of 
 the Class of 1882, minister of the Pilgrim Congregational 
 Church of St. Louis. An effective preacher, a pastor beloved, 
 a wise organizer, trustee of colleges, Director and President of 
 missionary societies, a leader in the Congregational Church." 
 
 The class feels honored at this distinction, 
 and the College surely honored herself by 
 these acts. The alumni dinner in the 
 new Gym. was the scene of great enthu- 
 siasm. The principal features were the 
 presentation of a large silver loving cup to 
 Professor John M. Tyler, to mark the com- 
 pletion of his twenty-five years of service 
 at the College, and the announcement of our 
 gift of the bust of the late President Seelye. Then came hurried 
 
64 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 good-byes ; and with the refrain of "Lord Geoffrey Amherst" 
 ringing' in our ears we separated. 
 
 "Oh Amherst, 
 Brave Amherst, 
 'Tis a name known to fame in days of yore. 
 
 May it ever 
 
 Be glorious 
 Till the sun shall climb the heavens no more." 
 
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THE CLASS BANQUET 
 
 The reunion banquet was served in the mathematical room of 
 Walker Hall at 9 o'clock Tuesday evening. Governor Proctor, 
 who had been with us, had left as he was obliged to be present 
 at the Commencement of the University of Vermont on the 
 following day. We missed him greatly at the banquet ; but there 
 were thirty-five of us gathered around the U-shaped table. T. D. 
 Cook & Sons of Boston, who have served us in former years, 
 provided the following menu : 
 
 MENU. 
 
 "To blow and swallow at the same moment is not 
 easy." — Plautus. 
 
 LITTLE NECK CLAM COCKTAIL. 
 
 MOCK TURTLE SOUP. 
 
 FILET OF HALIBUT. 
 
 ESCALLOPED POTATOES. SLICED CUCUMBERS. 
 
 SPRING LAMB CUTLETS. 
 
 BAKED STUFFED TOMATOES. 
 
 CHICKEN SALAD. SMALL ROLLS. 
 
 SALTED NUTS. OLIVES. 
 
 ASSORTED FANCY CAKES. 
 
 INDIVIDUAL ICE CREAMS AND FROZEN PUDDING, EN CASE. 
 
 COFFEE. 
 
 CRACKERS. CHEESE. 
 
 This, with the toast list, was elaborately displayed on hand- 
 painted menu cards, the work of Elliot of Philadelphia. ' The 
 toast list follows : 
 
 TOASTS. 
 
 "What voice is so sweet, and what greeting so dear, 
 As the simple, warm welcome that waits for us here? 
 The love of our boyhood still breathes in its tone, 
 And our hearts throb the answer — 'He's one of our own.' " 
 
 ■ — -Holmes. 
 
 Toastmaster, ..... Frank C. Partridge. 
 
 "Sweet Themmes : runne softly, till I end my song." 
 
 — Spencer. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 67 
 
 In Retrospect — A Quarter of a Century from Alma Mater, 
 
 Philip M. Watters. 
 "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance: .... 
 and there is pansies, that's for thots." — Shakespeare, 
 
 "I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, 
 old manners, old books, old wine." — 'Goldsmith. 
 America's New Possesions, .... Arthur F. Odlin. 
 
 "America ! half brother of the world." — Bailey. 
 
 "There is what I call the American idea 
 
 a government of the principles of eternal justice, the 
 unchanging laws of God. For shortness' sake I will call 
 it the idea of Freedom." — Parker. 
 '82 at the Noontide, ..... Lucius H. Thayer. 
 
 "We do not count a man's years until he has nothing 
 else to count." — Emerson. 
 
 "What's done we partly may compute." — Burns. 
 America's New Ideals, . . . William Travers Jerome. 
 
 First Player — -"We have reformed that indifferently 
 with us, sir." 
 
 Hamlet — "O, reform it altogether." — Shakespeare. 
 "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all 
 summer." — Grant. 
 In Prospect, . . . . . . Charles S. Mills. 
 
 "Forward, forward, let us range, 
 Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change, 
 Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day." 
 
 — Tennyson. 
 "The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are 
 more pleasing than those crowned with fruition." — Gold- 
 smith. 
 
 RESPONSE OF PHILIP M. WATTERS. 
 
 I must confess that with the joy of this reunion there comes 
 to me a touch of sadness to-night. As I look out over the bald 
 knobs and grizzled beards that are before me I am constrained to 
 ask in the words of the poet : — 
 
 "Where, O where, are the lilies and the roses 
 That in our youth did smile?" 
 
 Can it be that these grave and venerable gentlemen are the same 
 fellows who stood with me upon Commencement stage twenty- 
 five years ago, strong in the first flush of manhood? We shall 
 hardly pass for youth to-night, though some of us are still 
 young as husbands. As I look into the face of our chairman, who 
 has so recently joined the holy order of the Benedicts, and 
 "bears his blushing honors thick upon him," I am reminded of 
 
68 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 a joke which old Prof. Ty used to crack for the enlightenment 
 of successive classes : — "It is said that handsome women often 
 fall in love with homely men. — There is hope for some of the 
 gentlemen of this division." 
 
 And has he not an ancient and honorable look, our Fletcher, 
 who has climbed the dizzy heights of fame and sits to-night in 
 the Governor's chair? I have heard of a boy who was proud 
 in owning a bantam hen, but was greatly disappointed in the size 
 of her eggs. Finally he invented a saving device. He secured 
 the shell oi an ostrich egg, and hung it up in front of the 
 bantam's nest, with these words inscribed : "Keep your eye on 
 this, and do the best you can." — Young men of the Class of '82, 
 whatever may have been your discouragements to date, mark that 
 shining pate, and take courage ! 
 
 And yonder portly gentleman — he of the venerable beard — 
 the noted physician of Boston — can he be the black-haired 
 Adonis whom we used to know, the pride of the premier division, 
 who could make such cold rushes in "Voila le pouce" and 
 "Asseyez vous sur le f auteuil ?" — O tempora ! O mores ! 
 
 I am afraid the rushes which we made are very cold to-night. 
 The passing of the years has brushed clean out of memory much 
 which we learned here. We have lost the loci of the points we 
 used to trace for Esty. We have forgotten the reactions which 
 once we got for Derwald. Second aorists and second perfects 
 and datives of advantage and disadvantage are not the things 
 which we have been looking for — most of us — during these 
 twenty-five years. But some things I can recall. For instance : — 
 "Gentlemen, when you lie three in a bed you have to lie pretty 
 quiet!" And this, too, I must have learned at Amherst: — 
 
 "There is satisfactory evidence that many professing to have 
 been the original witnesses of the Christian miracles passed their 
 lives in labors, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone, 
 in attestation of the faith which they delivered." And yet we 
 used to call "Christian Evidences" a "soft snap" ! 
 
 I remember a certain morning when someone was reciting — ■ 
 was it Johnnie Wing? — and things were getting tangled and 
 looking like a flunk, when suddenly a hand went up : — "Has Mr. 
 Tucker a question?" — Mr. Tucker was not always so hot on the 
 scent of Christian Evidences, and it was pleasing to note his 
 growing interest. — "Mr. Wing may be seated." — And the rest 
 of the hour was spent in answering Mr. Tucker's question. It 
 is pleasant to recall this beautiful philanthropy. 
 
AM II ERST COLLEGE. 69 
 
 But the treasures which we stored up in those old days, and 
 which still enrich our lives, arc not to he measured in class-room 
 recollections or any definite facts and scenes which still recur 
 to us. There lives in the deepest roots of our character, and 
 sings in our hearts' best blood to-night the spirit of Old Amherst. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie tells how, coming one morning to visit 
 an aged Scotchman in his highland home, he found the old man 
 standing before his cottage with hat in hand, seemingly in prayer. 
 "I waited in reverence,'' says Mr. Mabie, "and said to him when 
 finally I spoke, T did not wish to disturb your prayer.' The old 
 man's eye kindled with enthusiasm as he answered, 'O mon, I 
 was not praying. But every morning I come out here and take 
 off my bonnet to the beauty of the world.' " And do not we 
 carry in our hearts to-night a love of nature, a reverence for God 
 as revealed in His works, born of those days of enthusiasm and 
 idealism which we spent in the glory of these hills ? 
 
 And how shall we measure the influence of those men — 
 Seelye, Garman, Tyler, Crowell, Neill, Emerson, Hitchcock — all 
 our instructors who, not only by their lips but by their lives, taught 
 us strong lessons here ; and who, even though dead, still live 
 to-night in much that is best in you and me ? How can I estimate 
 the value of a single conversation held with President Seelye 
 in this very building — or rather in that other building which 
 stood upon this site — from which conversation I date my first 
 definite turning to that ministry which has become my life and 
 my joy? 
 
 And the fellows — dear old fellows of the Class of '82 — class- 
 mates present or absent — who were drawn together by lives of 
 united purpose and effort here, and who, though our lives may 
 be divided, are ever drawing closer in love as our ranks are 
 thinning through the years ! How can we measure the value of 
 such friendships ? 
 
 In memory of the dead, in thoughts of the absent, in glad- 
 ness that so many of us are met again to-night, we turn our faces 
 backward to catch the glory which still shines for us in the days 
 of Auld Lang Syne. 
 
 Fellows of the Class of '82, let us rise and drink, in this good 
 water from her hills, to the health of dear Old Amherst — God 
 bless her ! 
 
70 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 RESPONSE OF LUCIUS H. THAYER. 
 
 (Thayer writes that he made no notes for his address, and that while 
 he did not speak without-meditation, yet the occasion itself largely deter- 
 mined -the sentiment and phrasing of what he said. With this explana- 
 tion of his inability to reproduce his address in just the original 
 form he furnishes the following copy.) 
 
 Mr. President and Classmates : — A Hindoo prince once 
 called upon Rossetti and gave him a commission to paint a picture 
 of the prince's father, who had died some time before. The 
 terms were acceptable to the artist, but when he asked for a 
 picture of the dead man the son replied that there was no like- 
 ness in existence, and for that very reason he had particularly 
 desired the painting- which he had ordered. He explained that 
 as Rossetti had produced pictures of Mary Magdalene and John 
 the Baptist there was no reason why the picture of his father 
 should not be made. No explanations or expostulations availing, 
 Rossetti painted the portrait. When the picture was unveiled 
 before the expectant son, he looked upon a beautiful work of 
 art, representing faithfully the conventional Indian rajah. The 
 youth gazed upon it with mingled awe and perplexity, and then 
 bursting into tears exclaimed, "Poor, dear father, how he has 
 changed !" 
 
 Not thus do we look upon '82 at this "Noontide." "Fortunate 
 and dear class, the familiar and cherished features remain as of 
 old !•" After twenty-five years we greet one another with the 
 assurance, "You have not changed at all." And this is true, 
 so generally is the earlier countenance disclosed in the one in 
 which we are glad to-day. Yet the face of '82 is something other 
 than it was twenty-five years ago. We thank God for this. It 
 is a more interesting face. It is a transfigured face, for it 
 reflects the refining experience of the inward man of intelligence, 
 feeling, and action, who has been wrought upon by time and the 
 compelling facts and forces of life. If the face has lost some- 
 thing of its youthful freshness and expectancy, it has also parted 
 with its arrogance and disdain. Though it be less willful, it is 
 more forceful. Though it be less assured, it is more determined. 
 Though it betray a chastened enthusiasm, it reveals a larger 
 wisdom. If it has not the complacency of success, or the peace 
 of inward wholeness, yet it speaks for men who have endeavored 
 to play their parts well, and who have not wholly despised their 
 visions, or altogether surrendered their ideals. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. • 71 
 
 It is a strong, friendly, compassionate face that shows itself, 
 one rarely darkened by jealousy, and often lighted up by the 
 glow of appreciation. It is a face to which one might turn with 
 confidence, if he have children to be educated, property to be 
 administered, rights to be guarded, physical pain to be relieved, 
 sins to be confessed, or sorrows to be comforted. 
 
 I speak of '82 as I see her to-night, and though my eyes are a 
 little misty, I verily believe that I describe things as they are, 
 in the face of '82, reading the heart as it is after twenty-five 
 years. 
 
 In one of the less populous hill towns of Vermont, just beyond 
 that fortunate region presided over by Governor Proctor and 
 yourself, Mr. President, two aged men, one fall afternoon, sat 
 upon the porch of the little country store, watching the sun go 
 down, as they had done on many a day before, comforted by 
 each other's presence, but rarely speaking. After a time they 
 observed another oldtime friend as he turned out of a by-path 
 and made his way down the road toward the setting sun. After 
 a while, one remarked to the other, "There goes Si Wilkins." 
 "Yes," slowly responded the other, and after a pause he added, 
 "Si ain't the man he used to be." "No," replied the first friend 
 after meditation, "No, and he never was." 
 
 I confess, my classmates, that I often tell myself this story, 
 and find it pertinent, and therefore illuminating, if not consoling. 
 It is not pertinent to '82 as a class, but it contains suggestions and 
 instruction for such an occasion as this. Eighty-two has its fair 
 share of competent men, and some whose achievements are 
 notable. We have a national reputation for political and civic 
 leadership. We enter the courts of justice with authority. We 
 preside over well-known institutions of learning. We grace 
 metropolitan pulpits. We lead denominational activities. We 
 create literature and write authoritative history. We work 
 important results in quiet laboratories. We investigate with new 
 skill the conditions of the unfortunate and reorganize charitable 
 effort. We do the work of the missionary with unconscious 
 heroism. We venture with astuteness into the business enter- 
 prises of our generations and return bringing golden fleeces 
 with us. We counsel and restore the sick, and handle the scalpel 
 with such precision that we are chief among the operators. 
 
 We are justly proud of our classmates, and their achieve- 
 ments would yield us much matter worthy of recital. But at 
 this time we are not anxious to inquire too nicely concerning our 
 
72 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 successes. There are other considerations of deeper import. 
 This is the occasion when men desire to step from under the 
 burden of honors which ability or chance has laid upon them. 
 This is the time when no fetters of regret or self-abasement 
 should hinder us. As free men, in a comradeship of the spirit, 
 we keep this festival. 
 
 As a class we were accustomed to think of ourselves soberly, as 
 we ought to think. On our own confession, we were not the 
 most wonderful class that ever came to Amherst College. We 
 were not a large heterogeneous group of men. We were a loyal 
 body, not torn by dissensions. We were wont to be comrades 
 and to esteem one another. To-night, having become appre- 
 ciative and considerate through experience, and holding in mem- 
 ory only the kind and brotherly things of the early days, it is 
 our wisdom, as it is our joy, to be but classmates together, every 
 man bestowing the best of himself. 
 
 We are able to understand and value one another, as we could 
 not a quarter of a century ago. We now recognize our need of 
 one another, and are no longer blind to the great contributions 
 which men in fellowship, simply as men, make to one another. 
 The simple and elemental qualities of manhood, joined in a com- 
 mon experience, are the ample and sufficient basis for that com- 
 radeship which makes the music of this time and which may 
 supply courage for the struggles to come. 
 
 Browning, in one of his poems, speaks of what a man is worth 
 to God, and ventures to put a valuation upon "all instinct 
 immature, all purposes unsure," "All I could never be." I have 
 been thinking of what we are worth to one another. What we 
 are in the manhood of us at this noontide is the principal item, 
 and all of that we cherish as a precious possession. But I am 
 sure that there where manhood is in the making, — in the hopes, 
 the aspirations, the purposes feebly held and struggled for, in 
 the temptations, the lapses, the defeats, in all the hidden struggle, 
 its heroic, pathetic, yes, sometimes tragic elements, — that there 
 I find that which draws out the heart, which binds us as man 
 to man with strong cords of sympathy, and which makes us of 
 worth one to another, as we have been irrevocably joined by the 
 common motherhood of Amherst, in the upward calling of the 
 life of the spirit. If at the noontide it be true that we are men 
 kindlier and wiser grown, glad in others success, but valuing 
 most their manhood, finding a strong tie and our worth to one 
 another, in the struggle for manhood, — if such be the case, then 
 we may turn our faces toward evening with a good heart, and 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 73 
 
 while hoping for a long afternoon of labor and heartening 
 fellowship, yet have no fear when the sun goes down. 
 
 "No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time 
 Greet the unseen with a cheer." 
 
 Something of what I have felt with you and tried to say to 
 you to-night I have introduced in some lines which I venture to 
 read in closing. 
 
 Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 
 
 We raise our song to thee, 
 Enthroned upon thy glorious seat 
 
 In light and liberty. 
 Behind, o'er hills that bastion truth, 
 
 Morn breaks with level rays, 
 In front a wide, unhindered view 
 
 Greets thy prophetic gaze. 
 
 Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 
 
 In dreams we often see 
 The features of thy face serene, 
 
 Dight all in greenery, 
 Or decked in glistering garments 
 
 Of winter, chaste and white, 
 Full glorious in thy children's eyes 
 
 When barred with purple light. 
 
 Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 
 
 Our tired hearts to thee turn. 
 Those stout with pride, those starved for praise, 
 
 Thy patience will not spurn. 
 How gracious was thy mothering, 
 
 O brow without a frown. 
 How deft the hand, how brave the prayer, 
 
 That will'd each son's renown. 
 
 Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 
 
 Our best to thee is brought, 
 Forgive the worst and soothe and cheer. 
 
 Bestow the courage sought. 
 The memory of thy motherhood, 
 
 The vision of thy face, 
 Shall guard and gird, shall make us bold 
 
 To bide in honor's place. 
 
 Alma Mater, Foster Mother, 
 
 We raise our song to thee, 
 Unnumbered sons shall serve thy truth, 
 
 Thou hast eternity. 
 In joyous awe we go our way, 
 
 Forgotten names, brief part 
 Of thy long scroll, yet not forgot 
 
 By thy great mother heart. 
 
74 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 RESPONSE OF CHARLES S. MILLS. 
 Mr. President and Fellow Classmates : — 
 
 It is often supposed that one of my profession covets the 
 opportunity to speak on any theme at any time; but I confess 
 that I feel no little embarrassment in attempting to say a word 
 to-night. I am reminded of the Irishman in a story that Lincoln 
 told a friend who called upon him when he was passing through 
 a period of great depression and who said to him : "This being 
 President is not half as much fun as it is cracked up to be, is it?" 
 "No," Lincoln replied, "I feel like the Irishman who said after 
 being ridden on a rail, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing 
 I'd rather walk.' " 
 
 We have been endeavoring to locate ourselves in these days 
 we have spent together with the result that each of us is as 
 thoroughly mixed as was another man from the Emerald Isle, 
 who had been reposing in a section of a sleeping car with a fellow 
 compatriot and, wakened in the night by a collision, hurried into 
 his clothes so precipitously that he put on his trousers "hind side 
 before," and when his friend asked him whether he was hurt 
 replied, "No, I'm not hurt, but," looking at his trousers, "I'm 
 fatally twisted." As we look into one another's faces the dim and 
 distant days of our college fellowships come back, but our nearer 
 tasks and heavier responsibilities loom up between us and them 
 so that we need to pinch ourselves to make sure whether we are 
 in the flesh or only dreaming. 
 
 There is one thing, however, which none of us has been able 
 to shake off, — that it is really twenty-five years since we took 
 our diplomas, and that we are at the outermost limit of the 
 younger years. I remember, when I returned for our tenth 
 reunion, that a college boy asked me what my class was and, 
 on being told, said, "Whew! but that's a long way back!" Yet, 
 now the ten years have stretched to twenty-five, and a young 
 alumnus actually went the limit to-day when he spoke to me as 
 a member of the Class of '62 ! 
 
 I am very glad, then, in the sobering thought of twenty-five 
 years, that our President has attached to this toast of mine these 
 fine, cheery words from Tennyson : — 
 
 "Forward, forward, let us range, 
 Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change, 
 Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the j^ounger day," 
 
 for therein is indicated the unconquerable optimism with which 
 we look forward and which I am glad to take as my theme. Life 
 
AM HERST COLLEGE. 75 
 
 seemed bright to us when, as verdant freshmen, we emerged from 
 the obscurity of our homes and entered these classic halls; 
 brighter yet when we came to the glory of our Commencement 
 Day and received our sheepskins ; still brighter when we returned 
 here three years, or five years, or ten years later; but we were 
 never so eager for it as now. 
 
 Back of us are the years of preparation and of our first 
 experiences in the professions or in business, of the beginnings 
 of mastery in the chosen tasks ; and yet we are still at work on 
 that greatest of all the lessons of our college life. For, while 
 the pages of our text-books are as forgotten dreams and their 
 rules have faded from the film of our memory, this one amid all 
 these transient elements abides in power perennial, like the gold 
 washed from the sands, that the educated man is he who has 
 learned how to learn and who, amid all his tasks in science or 
 the classics, has acquired the teachable spirit. We sought to 
 learn that lesson twenty-five years ago; we are still trying to 
 learn it; we propose to keep on trying. 
 
 As we look forward we think of the years as marked by this 
 characteristic of the open mind. We are not to spend our time 
 boasting of our lineage, our opportunities, or our learning. The 
 test of the worthiness of life, we know well, is not what we have 
 had of fortune, birth or education, but what we are producing. 
 Some of you may have heard of that American traveling in 
 Italy, who had a courier who was greatly infatuated with that 
 theory which Cotton Smith emphasizes so mightily, the Apos- 
 tolic Succession, and attached it to every possible object. Finally, 
 as they moved about the Vatican, it is said they saw a hen-coop, 
 when the guide said, "There, those fowls are all descended from 
 the cock that crew the night that Peter betrayed his Lord." Like 
 a flash the American turned on him, saying, "What do I care 
 where they came from. What I want to know is whether they 
 
 lay." 
 
 A college boy as he gets out into life finds a myriad problems 
 to which he must address himself, working out his salvation, 
 not by some previously acquired formulae, but by evolution of 
 the power within him. There was once a parrot kept at a circus, 
 which had been taught to perch by the entrance gate and, as the 
 crowd came up, to croak, "Step right up, gentlemen; one at a 
 time ; don't crush." One day he was lost and after long search 
 was found in a grove near by. surrounded by a flock of crows 
 which had plucked off nearly every feather ; but the poor bird 
 knew only one phrase and so kept reiterating it, even in his 
 
76 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 sorry plight, "Step right up, gentlemen ; one at a time ; don't 
 crush." We have learned much ; yet we are not to go on repeat- 
 ing some pet shibboleth, as if there were nothing more to acquire. 
 We should be as far wrong as were those men sent out from 
 Boston in the colonial days with instruction to build a road west 
 toward Albany, and who returned after extending it some twelve 
 miles to report that it had penetrated the wilderness as far as 
 it would ever be required. As that road changed, first from a 
 winding Indian trail to a well-defined path, and then to a cart- 
 road, then to a firmly built turnpike, and at length to an iron 
 roadway spanning the continent, so the path of truth is never 
 complete. Each of us is ever at work upon it, broadening it, 
 extending it, helping to open up the further for mankind the 
 wilderness of this life. 
 
 I have been endeavoring to-day to recall a word of Peabody in 
 his fine little book, "The Religion of an Educated Man," a word 
 defining the scholar. "If there is one mark of the scholar it is 
 his childlikeness. Self-importance and self-satisfaction drop 
 away from him like the disease of immaturity. He is humbled 
 by his tasks and chastened by his ideals. He leaves the conceit 
 of learning to those who have not learned the dimensions of 
 truth, and, as in the days of Jesus, the poor in spirit inherit 
 the kingdom." We welcome the years, for they mean, if we are 
 on the right path, more light, a larger outlook, a deeper grip on 
 the things that make life worth while. 
 
 Old, — -we are growing old; 
 Going up where the sunshine is clear ; 
 Watching grander horizons appear 
 Out of clouds that enveloped our youth; 
 Standing firm on the mountains of truth : 
 Because of the glory the years unfold, 
 We are joyfully growing old. 
 
 The years are to be marked, also, by devotion to the daily 
 task. That task has towered large on the horizon of our twenty- 
 five years. It has been the glory of our strength, and, as we have 
 companioned with it, more and more it has unfolded to us its 
 fascination until, as life has become blended with it and absorbed 
 in it, it has gained in its power to inspire us to loftiest aspiration. 
 The more thoroughly we have lost ourselves in it have we found 
 ourselves. 
 
 Some years ago an Alumni Association of Yale University 
 met in one of our New England cities, when one of the speakers 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 7 7 
 
 recalled a set of verses written years before by one of the alumni, 
 wonderfully expressive of the Yale "sand" in athletics and its 
 application to the larger problems of life: 
 
 "To make the fight, to win it if you can, 
 But, win or lose, to prove yourself a man ; 
 
 In college or in world, the rule's the same— 
 When once you're in it, always play the game. 
 
 The last unsuspected conquering reserve ; 
 The extra pound of muscle, tug of nerve, 
 
 Or grip of brain, 
 Has won full many a field 
 For men who know not how to yield ; 
 No brute triumph this, but rarest psychic force, 
 And he who has it always stays the course." 
 
 Again, the years will be marked by a deepening faith: faith 
 in life ; that it is worth while ; that the forces for righteousness 
 are mightier than the forces for evil : 
 
 "For, fierce though the fiends may fight, 
 And long though the angels hide, 
 We know that Truth and Right 
 Have the universe on their side." 
 
 We are to have such faith in life that we are willing to take it 
 as it comes, knowing that wherever our lot is cast it has rich 
 gifts to bestow. Henry Van Dyke has put the sentiment for us: 
 
 "Let me but live my life from year to year, 
 With forward face and unreluctant soul, 
 Not hastening to, nor turning from the goal; 
 
 Not mourning for the things that disappear 
 
 In the dim past, nor looking back in fear 
 
 From what the future veils : but with a whole 
 And happy heart, that pays its toll 
 
 To youth and age, and travels on with cheer: 
 
 So let the way wind up the hill or down, 
 O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy, 
 Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, 
 
 New friendships, high adventure, and a crown ; 
 
 I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, 
 
 Because the road's last turn will be the best." 
 
 We are to have faith in the future, that faith that lies deepest 
 in the heart and of which some of us cannot help speaking. It 
 is ever on the tongue and in the soul. It was in the first speech 
 to-night and in the second ; that faith that takes hold on the 
 
78 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 eternal, that recognizes the world as God's world and his power 
 as ruling- over all, and, because it is God's world and God is love, 
 believes that life is bound to grow better and better to the end; 
 that exclaims with Browning: 
 
 "Grow old along with me ; 
 
 The best is yet to be, 
 The last of life for which the first was made; 
 
 Our times are in His hand 
 
 Who saith, a whole I planned ; 
 Youth shows but half ; trust God ; 
 See all, nor be afraid." 
 
 It would take the diction of a Thayer or the eloquence of a 
 Watters or a Mills to rightly convey to our absent classmates the 
 spirit of our twenty-fifth reunion banquet. We have had other 
 banquets and enjoyed meeting again the friends of our youth, 
 but never have we had such an experience, and it is doubtful 
 if any class has had, where our very heart-strings were drawn 
 almost to breaking. Occasional bursts of old songs were welcome 
 if but to relieve the tension of the hour. Odlin and Jerome were, 
 to our great regret, unable to be present, but the toasts of Wat- 
 ters, Thayer, and Mills struck such a high tone and so carried 
 us along almost spell-bound at their vital power and manly 
 genuineness, that had the meeting stopped then and there we 
 should all have voted this the climax of a remarkable gathering. 
 It was then past midnight, but so greatly had the spirit of the 
 place come upon us in its quiet mastery that it was after three 
 before a move towards adjournment was made. 
 
 The keynote, perhaps, was interest, — the interest we felt in 
 each other, in the class, and in the college. After twenty-five 
 years of life, there is no doubt that many were surprised to see 
 what a sympathy they discovered for each of the others — men of 
 different temperaments and lines of work, but held together by 
 the memories of a quarter century ago. If we had been told 
 beforehand that we were to be expected to sit for three hours 
 and hear the men tell about themselves, we would have protested 
 inwardly. But when the fact happened and we can now look 
 back upon it, there is not one of us who will not treasure the 
 memory of it as one of the great events in his life, and especially 
 because, as all of us have found, we can not communicate to a 
 strangxr what the meeting: meant to us. 
 
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80 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 The letters from absent ones, including "Jake," "Howard," and 
 Nason, the class standing in reverent silence while the list of our 
 dead was pronounced by the faltering Secretary, and the reading 
 by Thayer of the Hitchcock memorial — all this made a picture 
 and left an impression that time cannot efface. 
 
 But this was not the climax. The third act followed — taken 
 from the varied drama of real life. From Albree to Wing each 
 in his turn told the story of his deeds ; no vainglorious boasting, 
 but plain talk of work, endeavor, aspiration. Often comedy came 
 to the front; more often tragedy, heart-rending pathos, back- 
 breaking and brain-splitting toil against heavy odds, the struggle 
 between life and death, — all simply told as men talk to intimate 
 friends; but through it all there ran the victory of convictions 
 over opportunism, the dominance of altruism, the triumph of 
 character. 
 
 When it was over, the morning sun was lighting up the 
 heavens. How we wished that the others might have been with 
 us to share in these uplifting hours of our twenty-fifth reunion 
 and to take courage as we look forward to another quarter 
 century. 
 
THE HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL 
 
 The Class of Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Two, of Amherst 
 College, assembled for its twenty-fifth reunion, desires to express 
 its sense of loss and incompleteness because of the absence in the 
 flesh of one who bad joyful expectations of sharing in our com- 
 mon greetings, but who, having fought the good fight and having 
 kept the faith, suddenly finished his earthly course, all too soon 
 for the hearts that loved him and the causes that leaned upon 
 him, yet not too soon to have won that crown of life which 
 rests upon true affection, self-forgetful service, and honorable 
 achievement. 
 
 We deeply mourn the death of Albert Wellman Hitchcock, 
 but we are profoundly thankful for the memory of his life and 
 death. His unsullied honor and cheerful courage disclose com- 
 pleteness of character if not fulness of years. 
 
 We recall at this time the diligent student, the interested 
 friend, the loyal classmate of college days. We have joy in 
 that full development of all his powers that came with the increas- 
 ing years. In spite of the distractions of busy pastorates he 
 became a true scholar. His heart was enlarged until he became 
 the unselfish and appreciative comrade of all ages and classes. 
 His executive ability and civic interest grew in an enlarged work 
 of public leadership and administration. 
 
 His name has an honorable place on the rolls of Eighty-Two 
 and of Amherst College. His name has been recorded for dis- 
 tinguished scholarship on the books of two great universities. 
 His name is enrolled among the names of those who have served 
 important churches and communities with distinction. His name 
 is indelibly inscribed in the great '"Book of Life," for it appears 
 upon the tablets of the hearts of strong men who rejoiced in his 
 leadership, and of little children who delighted to call him 
 friend. We esteem him fortunate in his life as few men have 
 been, because by his own faithfulness and loyalty to truth he 
 entered fully into the enjoyment of the things of character, of 
 service, and of love which were made possible to him. For him- 
 self we esteem him not unfortunate in his death, since when all 
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82 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 earthly possessions seemed to be slipping away he had his own 
 self for "a better possession, and an abiding one." 
 
 We have been deeply moved and instructed by our knowledge 
 of his home life, where from an equal companionship of mind and 
 heart truth and grace overflowed to inform and inspire the homes 
 built round about. 
 
 To those who knew and loved him beyond all others, we send 
 the sympathy of true-hearted men, who, awed by the mystery 
 of life and death, yet greet hope with hope, and in the world 
 with God rejoice with those who have courage to be thankful 
 and unafraid. 
 
 Lucius H. Thayer. 
 
 Walter S. Ufford. 
 
 William F. Stearns. 
 
 James W. Bixler. 
 
 Resolutions Adopted by the Central Church, Worcester, 
 
 Mass., upon the Death of the Pastor, Rev. Dr. 
 
 Albert Wellman Hitchcock. 
 
 We, the people of the Central church and society in Worcester, 
 do hereby record our deep sorrow and profound sense of loss in 
 the death of Albert Wellman Hitchcock, beloved pastor, teacher, 
 friend. To the people of this church he was "a living epistle, 
 known and read of all men." To him Christianity was not a 
 formula, but a life. He never ceased to be an earnest student. 
 Glad to hold fast that which is good in the teaching of the past, 
 his face was ever toward the future and his eye was keen in the 
 search for what the new day might reveal of God's way with men. 
 Loyalty to Christ and an uncompromising idealism were the 
 dominant notes of his preaching. 
 
 But his daily walk and conversation were his best sermon. 
 The hearts of little children opened wide to him. To young men 
 he was an ardent and inspiring comrade. In the lowly and 
 degraded he kindled hope and courage ; to those bearing the heat 
 and burden of the day he was a fellow-laborer in the vineyard, 
 heartening others by his own unflagging zeal. To the unfortu- 
 nate he came as a sympathetic friend. To suffering and to the 
 aged he brought consolation and cheer. He knew disappointment 
 
AMHERST ( OLLEGE. 83 
 
 and discouragement among us, yet he held himself to his task 
 with faith and with splendid fortitude. Perhaps from his own 
 burden-bearing he learned his rare touch in easing the burdens 
 of others. His glad ministry knew no trammels of race or of 
 creed. 
 
 His helpfulness was felt far beyond the bounds of our church. 
 He was a valiant fighter for civic righteousness in Worcester. 
 Clear of insight, responsive to all worthy appeals, he was eager 
 to cooperate in every good word and work for this city of his 
 pride. He was a lover of peace, and his simplicity and candor 
 taught men to forget their differences in common devotion* to 
 high ideals and noble purposes. 
 
 Our hearts go out in sympathy to his wife and children in their 
 deep affliction. His presence was a rich blessing, his memory 
 is a priceless heritage. The beauty of their life together has 
 endeared them to all this people, and in this hour of sorrow 
 they must feel themselves upborne by the love of this entire 
 community which mourns with them. 
 
 Length of days is no measure of the fulness or efficiency of 
 a life. In six brief years Albert Wellman Hitchcock gave of him- 
 self without stint in loving service of this church and city. The 
 alabaster box now is broken. The very precious ointment is 
 poured out. Who shall say: "To what purpose is this waste?" 
 Central church is filled with the odor of the ointment. Words 
 are no fitting memorial for such a service. It is for us to carry 
 forward the work for which he gave his very life. His true 
 memorial shall be read in the loyalty with which we rally to his 
 clarion call, which even Death could not silence : "Tell my church 
 to go on, and up, and out, in the way of Christ." 
 
84 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 FRANKLIN ROSWELL ALLEN. 
 
THE MEN OF '82 
 
 FRANKLIN ROSWELL ALLEN, ESQ., 
 
 Glencoe, 
 McLeod County, Minn. 
 
 Franklin Roswell Allen was born in Prescott, Mass., 
 August 16, i860; was fitted for college at Wesleyan Academy, 
 Wilbraham, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst College. 
 After graduation he went West, studied law, and was admitted 
 to the bar in the State of Minnesota in May, 1884. He has 
 resided for twenty years or more in Glencoe, and has there fol- 
 lowed his profession. On September 14, 1887, he married Anna 
 M. Johns of Glencoe. Mrs. Allen died December 10, 1907. Mr. 
 Allen often comes East on business and was present with us at 
 our fifteenth reunion. In college he was given many honors by 
 the class, largely on account of his genial nature and sparkling 
 wit. He was our toastmaster at our Senior Class Dinner in 
 Holyoke on June 29, 1882. 
 
86 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 FREDERICK ARND. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 87 
 
 FREDERICK ARND, ESQ., 
 
 Evanston, 740 The Rookery, 
 
 Illinois. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Frederick Arnd was born at Bath, Steuben County, New 
 York, December 7, 1861. He prepared for college at the Haver- 
 ling Free Academy, Bath, and was graduated from Amherst. 
 While in college he was a member of the College baseball and 
 football teams, and was captain of the football team during 
 senior year. 
 
 He was admitted to the bar of Illinois, October, 1884, and 
 associated himself with his brother, Charles Arnd, Esq. 
 (Amherst '75). He was engaged in general legal practice in 
 Chicago till April, 1906, when he gave up general practice to 
 become general counsel for the John M. Ewen Company of 
 Chicago. Mr. Arnd has been alderman of Evanston from 1901 
 to the present time. He was one of the organizers of the Glen 
 View Golf Club, and is a member of the Evanston Golf Club, 
 the Country Club, and the Evanston Club. 
 
 Mr. Arnd has married twice : to Anna Morgan of Sheffield, 
 Illinois, December 30, 1885, who died in February, 1887, and to 
 Blanche Bannister Bremond of Evanston on June 1, 1892. 
 
 Mr. Arnd was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Phot, by Harris & Ewing. 
 FREDERIC BANCROFT. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 FREDERIC BANCROFT, Ph.D., LL.D., 
 
 The Metropolitan Club, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Frederic- Bancroft was born October 30, i860, in Galesburg, 
 111. Having fitted for college at Knox Academy, in his native 
 town, he entered Knox College, where he passed three years of 
 his college course. Entering Amherst College as a Senior in 
 September, 1881, he was graduated the following June. Pursu- 
 ing his studies in the Columbia University School of Political 
 Science, he received from that institution in 1885 the degree of 
 Ph.D. He spent over two years studying history, diplomacy, 
 and political economy at Gottingen, Freiburg (Baden) and in 
 the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, Paris. He lectured on the 
 political history of the Civil War and Reconstruction at Amherst 
 in 1888. In the same year he was appointed Librarian of the 
 Department of State, and he also lectured on diplomatic and 
 political history at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Chicago Uni- 
 versities, serving in the latter institution in the place of Von 
 Hoist, who had a leave of absence on account of illness. He has 
 contributed to most of the leading reviews and magazines; was 
 a delegate to the Paris Congress of Historians in 1900; gave 
 several courses of lectures at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in 
 1902-3, on "Life in the South During the Civil War." He is 
 the author of "The Negro in Politics," "Life of William H. 
 Seward," and "A History of the Confederacy." Of late he has 
 been at work upon life in the South before the war, and has had 
 much to do upon the unfinished memoirs of Carl Schurz. In 
 college he took the Hyde Prize, and was a member of Alpha 
 Delta Phi. Knox College has given him the degree of LL.D. 
 Dr. Bancroft is unmarried. 
 
9° 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE E. BELLOWS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 9 1 
 
 GEORGE E. BELLOWS, M.D., 
 
 429 Rialto Building, 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 George E. Bellows was born in Galesburg, 111., October 30, 
 1 861. He prepared for college in Knox Academy, spent three 
 years in Knox College in his native city, entered Amherst in 
 the fall of 1 88 1, and was graduated in the following June. He 
 studied medicine, 1882-1885, m tne College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, New York City, and was graduated in 1885. Amherst 
 College gave him the degree of M.A. the same year. He spent 
 one year in post-graduate and hospital work and another year 
 in Berlin and Vienna. His practice is now limited to diseases 
 of the eye. He is a member of the Jackson County Medical 
 Society, the Kansas City Academy of Medicine, Missouri State 
 Medical Association, American Medical Society, and American 
 Association of Railway Surgeons. He is Clinical Professor of 
 the Diseases of the Eye in the University Medical College, 
 Oculist to St. Margaret's Hospital, the Union Pacific Railway, 
 the Chicago and Alton Railway, and the Rock Island Railway 
 Company. His papers have appeared in various medical 
 journals. 
 
 He was married on October 29, 1887, to Stella A. Ferris of 
 Riverside, Cal. There are two children : Warren S. Bellows, 
 born August 15, 1889. and Sabra Julia Bellows, born November 
 4, 1 901. 
 
9 2 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 JAMES W. BIXLER. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 93 
 
 REV. JAMES W. BIXLER, D.D., 
 
 11 Broad St., 
 New London, Conn. 
 
 James Wilson Bixler was born in Hanover, Penn., Febru- 
 ary 28, 1861, the oldest child of David D. and Almira (Wilson) 
 Bixler. He was fitted for college in Dickinson Seminary, Wil- 
 liamsport, Penn., and was graduated from Amherst with honors. 
 From 1882 to 1884 he was principal of the Glastonbury (Conn.) 
 Academy. From 1884 to 1888 he was a student of theology at 
 Yale, receiving the degree of B.D. in 1887. He was Hooker 
 Fellow at Yale in 1887-8. In the same year he was a member 
 of the editorial staff of the Sunday School Times. From 1888 to 
 1889 ne was pastor's assistant in the First Church of Christ, 
 Hartford; and from 1889 to 1891 he was pastor of the North 
 Church, Haverhill, Mass. Since 1891 he has been pastor of 
 the Second Congregational Church of New London, Conn. He 
 received the degree of A.M. from Amherst in 1887, and the 
 degree of D.D. from Roanoke in 1903. He is an overseer of 
 the Charity Fund of Amherst College, a trustee of the Smith 
 Memorial Home of New London, a trustee of Man waring 
 Memorial Hospital of New London, and a corporate member 
 A. B. C. F. M. 
 
 He married (1) Elizabeth J. Seelye, August 4, 1891, who 
 died April 10, 1894, leaving one son, Julius Seelye, born April 
 4, 1894; and (2) Mabel Seelye, September 7, 1898 (both 
 daughters of the late President Julius H. Seelye of Amherst Col- 
 lege), from which marriage there are two children: Elizabeth, 
 born October 29, 1899 ; and James Wilson, 2d, born October 6, 
 1902. 
 
 Mr. Bixler was a member of Psi Upsilon, and a class monitor. 
 
94 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 PAUL BLATCHFORD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 95 
 
 PAUL BLATCHFORD, 
 
 1524 Tribune Building, 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 Paul Blatchford was born in Chicago, July 18, 1859. He 
 was fitted for college in the "Boys' Higher School" of Chicago, 
 and received the degree of A.B. from Amherst College. After 
 leaving college he became secretary and assistant manager of the 
 E. W. Blatchford & Company, Inc., Chicago, 111. His father, 
 the president of the company, was long known for his active 
 work on behalf of missions. Since 1890 Mr. Blatchford has 
 been connected with organizations of manufacturers and 
 employers. He has had much to do in managing trade matters ; 
 and as far as local organizations are concerned, he has been busily 
 engaged on labor matters, having handled in the past four or five 
 years upwards of two hundred and fifty strikes and labor con- 
 troversies. He is a member of the University Club, the West- 
 ward Ho Golf Club, the Caxton Club, and the Illinois Society 
 of Mayflower Descendants, of which latter society he was 
 governor during 1907- 1908. He is a member of the Sons of 
 Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois, and also of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution in the State of Illinois. His home is in 
 Oak Park. 
 
 On May 24, 1886, he married Frances Veazie Lord of Bangor, 
 Me. They have four children : John, born April 20, 1888 
 (Amherst 1910) ; Dorothy Lord, born December 10, 1889; 
 Barbara, born September 14, 1894; Charles Lord, born Febru- 
 ary 12, 1897. 
 
 Mr. Blatchford was an enthusiastic wheelman, and a member 
 of Alpha Delta Phi. 
 
9 6 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 HOWARD SWEETSER BLISS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 97 
 
 PRESIDENT HOWARD SWEETSER BLISS, D.D., 
 
 Syrian Protestant College, 
 Beirut, Syria. 
 
 Howard Sweetser Bliss was born on Mount Lebanon, Syria, 
 December 6, i860, the second son of Rev. Daniel Bliss, D.D., 
 Amherst College '52. He prepared for college at Amherst High 
 School and with a private tutor. Upon leaving college he taught 
 for two years in Washburn College, Topeka, Kans. He entered 
 Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1884, graduat- 
 ing in 1887. He took the Prize Fellowship at the Seminary and 
 spent a year at Oxford University, studying especially at 
 Mansfield College ; later he spent a second year in Germany, 
 studying at Gottingen and Berlin Universities. In 1889 he 
 became assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 being ordained in 1890. 
 
 He married Amy Blatchford, sister of Blatchford '82. They 
 have five children: Mary Williams, born November 16, 1890; 
 Margaret Blatchford, born January 21, 1893; Alice Wood, born 
 November 16, 1894; Daniel, born March 15, 1898; Howard 
 Huntington, born April 12, 1903. He remained at Plymouth 
 Church five years. 
 
 He was pastor of the Christian Union Congregational Church, 
 Upper Montclair, N. J., 1894-1902. He became president of 
 the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria, in 1902, in succes- 
 sion to his father. He was trustee of Amherst College 1900- 
 1902, and received the degree of D.D. from New York Uni- 
 versity and from Amherst College in 1902. 
 
 The Syrian Protestant College is a Christian missionary, but 
 undenominational, unsectarian institution, founded in 1866. 
 In 1906-1907 nearly nine hundred students were enrolled in 
 its various departments : Preparatory, Collegiate, Commercial, 
 Pharmacy, Medical, Training School for Nurses. The campus 
 extends over forty acres, upon which there are fourteen build- 
 ings. The language of instruction is English and there are 
 nearly sixty professors, officers and teachers. 
 
 Dr. Bliss was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and a class 
 monitor. 
 
9 8 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 ENOCH HALE BURT. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 99 
 
 REV. E. H. BURT, 
 
 Ivoryton, Conn. 
 Enoch Hale Burt was born May 9, 1858, in Westhampton, 
 Mass. He was prepared for college in Williston Seminary, and 
 received the degree of A.B. from Amherst College in 1882. He 
 studied theology from 1882 to 1885 at Yale Theological Semi- 
 nary, and was graduated with the degree of B.D. He received 
 the degree of ALA. from Amherst in the same year. After 
 a post-graduate course of one year at Andover Theological 
 Seminary, he was called to the Congregational Church in 
 Armada, Mich., where he labored until 1889. He was pastor in 
 West Winfield, N. Y., from 1889 to 1898, and he has been in 
 Ivoryton since that time. 
 
 He was married on October 26, 1886, to Emily Meekins, 
 daughter of the Rev. William F. Arms of Sunderland, Mass. 
 There are three daughters: Emily Rose, born October 16, 1887; 
 Lilian Sarah, born October 7, 1888, both juniors in Mount 
 Holyoke College; and Katharine Isabel, born April 5, 1890, a 
 freshman in Mount Holyoke College. 
 
 Mr. Burt was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 ASAHEL NESMITH BUSH. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. IOI 
 
 A. N. BUSH, 
 Salem, Oregon. 
 
 Asahel Nesmith Bush was born in Salem, Oregon, Janu- 
 ary 25, 1858. He was fitted for college in his native city and in 
 Amherst, and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. 
 Since graduation he has resided in Salem, and has made frequent 
 trips to the East on business and pleasure. His father is still 
 living, hale and hearty at eighty-three, and still attends to his 
 daily business. Mr. Bush is a private banker and has been 
 instrumental in building up his city and state. A Democrat in 
 politics, living in a Republican section, he has not been officially 
 active in public affairs, although he has occupied public office 
 with credit. 
 
 On February 10, 1886, he married Lulu M. Hughes of Salem. 
 They have one son, Asahel, born January 18, 1887 (Amherst 
 1909). 
 
 Mr. Bush was a member of Psi Upsilou, manager of the base 
 ball team in '82, and largely interested in buying and developing 
 a new athletic field for the College. 
 
102 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE VAN SANTVOORD CAMP. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 03 
 
 GEORGE V. S. CAMP, 
 
 Jefferson County National Bank, 
 Watertown, N. Y. 
 
 George Van Santvoord Camp was born in Watertown, N. Y., 
 December 9, i860. He was fitted for college in Mt. Pleasant 
 Academy, Sing Sing, N. Y., and was graduated from Amherst. 
 Soon after leaving Amherst he began to work in the Jefferson 
 County National Bank; he served for a number of years as 
 assistant cashier, and in August, 1907, was made cashier. 
 
 On February 26, 1888, he married Elizabeth F. Knowlton of 
 Watertown. The children are Paul Van Santvoord, born Janu- 
 ary 24, 1890; Henry Sewall, born January 6, 1893, died August 
 22, 1902; Frances Knowlton, born August 17, 1898; and 
 Elizabeth, born June 3, 1900. 
 
 While in college Mr. Camp was college organist, class pianist, 
 and leader of the Glee Club. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 
 Mr. Camp still retains his love for the organ, officiating as 
 organist in his church. 
 
io4 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE NESBITT COWAN. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 05 
 
 GEORGE N. COWAN, ESQ., 
 Delevan, N. Y. 
 
 George Nesbitt Cowan was born in Stamford, N. Y., and was 
 fitted for college in the Delaware Academy and Stamford 
 Seminary. He received the degree of A.B. from Amherst in 
 1882, and M.A. in 1887. He studied law and was admitted to 
 the bar April 25, 1885. His specialty is corporation law and 
 water works construction. He has been engaged in organizing 
 water companies and constructing water works, in which busi- 
 ness he is attorney, engineer, and contractor, besides holding the 
 office of president, director, or secretary in the various com- 
 panies. Beginning in 1885, he has promoted the following com- 
 panies : The Cattaraugus Water Company, Cattaraugus, N. Y. ; 
 The Cadossa Water Company, Cadossa, N. Y. ; The Hancock 
 Water Company, Hancock, N. Y. ; The Yorkshire Water Com- 
 pany, Yorkshire Centre, N. Y. ; The Sinclairville Water Com- 
 pany, Sinclairville, N. Y. ; Hobart Water Company, Hobart, 
 N. Y. ; Worcester Water Company, Worcester, N. Y. ; Living- 
 stone Manor Water Company, N. Y. ; Liberty Water Company, 
 Liberty, X. Y. ; Bliss, Wyoming County, N. Y., Water Com- 
 pany ; Arcade Water Company, Arcade, N. Y. ; Sandusky Water 
 Company, N. Y. He has franchises in several other towns, 
 but is delaying construction on account of high prices of material 
 and labor. 
 
 On December 23, 1884, he married Jessie B. Gillespie of 
 Stamford, N. Y. They have had one child, Jesse Gillespie, born 
 January 26, 1886. 
 
 On May 8, 1894, Mr. Cowan was taken ill with diphtheria at 
 Binghamton, and spent six months in the hospital. He was 
 left with a slight paralysis of the feet and hands, from which 
 he recovered after several years. Two weeks after he was taken 
 ill his wife was stricken with the same disease, and died May 
 25, 1894. His son died January 29, 1901, two days after an 
 operation for appendicitis. He was prepared to enter Amherst 
 in the fall. 
 
 Mr. Cowan has recently organized The Record and Advertiser 
 at Delevan, N. Y., and is giving his attention to that publication 
 and to his legal and engineering practice while waiting for 
 favorable times for further construction. 
 
io6 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 JOHN PEARSONS CUSHING. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 107 
 
 JOHN P. CUSHING, 
 
 New Haven High School, 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 John Pearsons Cushing was born September 5, 1861, in 
 Lansing-burgh, N. Y. ; was fitted for college in the high school 
 of Lynn, Mass.; studied two years in Boston University; 
 entered the Junior Class of Amherst in September, 1880, and 
 was graduated in 1882. In 1885 he received from Amherst the 
 degree M.A. He taught for ten years in the Holyoke High 
 School, for the last three years as vice-principal. In 1892-1894 
 he was a student at the University of Leipzig, receiving the 
 degree of Ph.D. From 1894 to 1900 he was professor of 
 economics and history in Knox College, Galesburg, 111 ; and 
 since 1900 he has been in New Haven, at first as principal of the 
 Hillhouse High School, and later, upon the consolidation of that 
 school with the Boardman Manual Training High School, as 
 head master of the New Haven High School. 
 
 On June 25, 1890, he married Alice Blyth Bullions of Lan- 
 singburgh, N. Y. They have had one child, Lucy Eddy, born 
 November 26, died November 29, 1891. 
 
 In Boston University he became a member of Beta Theta Pi 
 and has been Secretarv of the Class since graduation. 
 
io8 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 EDWARD PARRISH DRAPER. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 09 
 
 E. P. DRAPER, 
 Cananea, Mexico. 
 
 Edward Parrish Draper was born in New York City, 
 December 2, i860. He was prepared for college in Canandaigua 
 Academy, and received the degree of A.B. from Amherst College 
 in 1882. After an engagement with the Holyoke Machine Com- 
 pany, he became junior partner of the firm of Dryland and 
 Draper, manufacturers of fire hydrants. The firm was changed 
 later to a corporation, of which Mr. Draper was treasurer. In 
 1889 he sold his interest in this corporation and devoted himself 
 to the sale of patented spinning machinery. He sold his Ameri- 
 can and Canadian rights, and for three years devoted himself to 
 this work in England and France. Later he took charge of the 
 Boston Car Wheel Company's business in Boston, and after a 
 year was transferred to Pittsburg to take charge of the Pittsburg 
 Car Wheel Company. After a year in this city and a few months 
 in Cleveland, he was obliged to give up work on account of poor 
 health, and spent several years at his old home in Canandaigua, 
 New York. Later he had charge of the water works at Green 
 Island, New York, but was obliged to give up on account of his 
 health. A bicycle trip in Europe gave him a fair return to 
 health, and he went to Cananea in the early days of the Camp. 
 But his old trouble returned, and he was obliged to leave. He 
 lived three years in Tombstone, Arizona, and was successful in 
 dropping money in mining. For a part of the time he served as 
 deputy sheriff. When his health was completely restored he 
 returned to Cananea. This was in 1904, and at present he is 
 superintendent of public service for the Greene-Cananea Copper 
 Company. This means that he is in charge of the rental of all 
 their buildings, the sale of lands, the management of the electric 
 light, water, and telephone systems in a camp of about 30,000 
 people. He is also interested in several mining properties. Mr. 
 Draper is unmarried. In college Mr. Draper was prominent in 
 athletics, and a member of Chi Phi. 
 
no 
 
 CLASS OF 1552. 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM ELY. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 F. W. ELY, 
 
 Columbian Mfg. Co., 
 Greenville, N. H. 
 
 Frederick William Ely was born in Lowell, Mass., Decem- 
 ber 3, i860. He was prepared for college in the Lowell High 
 School, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. After gradu- 
 ation he went into a cotton mill as day laborer. He was gradu- 
 ally advanced until he became assistant superintendent and later 
 superintendent of the Tremont and Suffolk Mills, Lowell, manu- 
 facturers of colored cotton goods. In 1890 he received the 
 appointment of agent of Falls Mills, Norwich, Conn. He held 
 that position for three years, and in 1893 was appointed to his 
 present position, agent of the Columbian Manufacturing Com- 
 pany. 
 
 On September 21, 1887, he married Bertha Comins Shattuck 
 of Lowell. They have two children: Joseph Shattuck, born 
 September 25, 1888; and Richard Sanford, born July 8, 1898. 
 Mr. Ely was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM GREENE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 113 
 
 REV. F. W. GREENE, 
 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 
 Frederick William Greene was born in Brattleboro, Vt., 
 November 29, 1859. He was fitted for college under the direc- 
 tion of a tutor and in the Brattleboro High School. He received 
 the degree of B.A. from Amherst College in 1882. From 1882 
 to 1885 he studied theology in the Hartford Theological Semi- 
 nary; and after receiving the degree B.D., entered the ministry 
 in September, 1885. For a number of years he was pastor of 
 the West Congregational Church, Andover, Mass. ; and for 
 the past thirteen years has been pastor in Middletown. 
 
 On June 4, 1885, he married Eliza Ferrar Walter of New 
 Britain, Conn. They have six children : Theodore Ainsworth, 
 born January 12, 1890 (ready for Amherst in 1908) ; Walter 
 Ferrar, born April 25, 1892 ; Anna Bancroft, born February 
 27, 1894; Dorothy Minot, born July 4, 1896; Frederick Stand- 
 ish, born May 2, 1898; William Ainsworth, born February 
 5, 1901. 
 
 Mr. Greene was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. 
 
 His summer home is in Jaffrey, N. H. 
 
U4 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 " 
 
 WILLIAM STORRS GREENE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 115 
 
 W. S. GREENE, M.A., 
 
 95 Westford Street, 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 
 William Storrs Greene was born in Hatfield, Mass., March 
 5, i860. He was fitted for college in the Lowell High School; 
 remained a year at Middlebury College, and received the degree 
 of B.A. from Amherst College in 1882. In 1885 he received from 
 the College the degree of M.A. He has been master of the 
 Moody Grammar School in Lowell since 1883. He has traveled 
 extensively in the western part of the United States, in Alaska, 
 and in the principal countries of Europe. 
 
 In 1895 he married Ruth Andrews Newcomb of Albany, N. Y. 
 They have two children: Ruth Newcomb, born December 15, 
 1896; and John Morton, Jr., born December 9, 1897. 
 
 Mr. Greene was a member of Chi Psi. 
 
n6 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 EDSON DWINELL HALE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 117 
 
 E. D. HALE, M.A., 
 Vacaville, Cal. 
 
 Edson Dwinell Hale was born in Lyndon, Vermont, Janu- 
 ary 10, 1859. He was prepared for college in the St. Johnsbury 
 Academy, and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. 
 He was teacher of Greek and English in Hopkins Academy, 
 Oakland, Cal. (1882-86), and teacher of English and Elocution 
 in Bellevue Academy, Lngonia, California (1886-7). He 
 studied theology in the Pacific Seminary, Oakland (1885-8) ; 
 received the degree of B.D., and was ordained October 22, 1888. 
 He received in 1888 from Amherst College the degree of M.A. 
 He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Clayton (1888- 
 1891).. Later he lived at Redlands, regaining his health. After 
 a pastorate in Niles, he became principal of the high school in 
 Vacaville, where he now resides. He is the author of "The 
 History of San Bernardina County" (72 pp.). 
 
 On February 21, 1888, he married Lucy Mooar of Oakland. 
 Their children are: Mary Gilman, born December 11, 1889; 
 Agnes Sarah, born January 6, 1891, died July I, 1891 ; Elizabeth 
 Comstock, born February 18, 1892, died June 6, 1893 > Helen 
 Norton, born May 21, 1894; Lucy Dwinell, born February 21, 
 1898. 
 
 Mr. Hale was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
 Theta Pi). 
 
n8 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE ATWATER HALL. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. TI 9 
 
 REV. GEORGE A. HALL, 
 
 15 Hedge Road, 
 Brookline, Mass. 
 
 George At water Hall was born in Northampton, Mass., 
 October 19, 1859. He was fitted for college in the Northampton 
 High School, and received the degree of B.A. from Amherst 
 College. He studied theology in the Hartford Theological Semi- 
 nary from 1882 to 1886 and entered the ministry in 1886. For 
 twenty years he was the honored and beloved pastor of the Old 
 South Congregational Church in Peabody, Mass. Much against 
 the wishes of his parish he resigned in 1906, and spent a year in 
 travel. His temporary address is given above, although he is 
 planning to take up active church work again in the near future. 
 He has been appointed a member of the Prudential Committee of 
 the American Board. 
 
 On May 2, 1888. he married Sarah Cooley of Hartford, 
 Conn. Their children are: Clarissa Merwin, born January 27, 
 1889; Francis Cooley, born March 15, 1890; Robert Gordon, 
 born March 20, 1891, died August 15, 189 1 ; Gordon Rexford, 
 born June 30, 1893 ; Merwin Porter, born April 5, 1895 ; George 
 Phillips, born February 16, 1899. 
 
 In College Mr. Hall was a member of Chi Psi, and a member 
 of the College choir and Glee Club. 
 
CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 JOHN QUINCY HAYWARD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 J. QUINCY HAYWARD, 
 
 367 Main Street, 
 Woburn, Mass. 
 
 John Quincy Hayward was born in Boxboro, Mass., Sep- 
 tember 25, 1855. He was fitted for college in Lawrence Acad- 
 emy, Groton, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. 
 He was principal of the high school in Bolton, Mass. (1883-4) ; 
 principal of Center School, Cheshire, Conn. (1884-5) > prin- 
 cipal of high school, Mendon, Mass. (1886-7) ; principal of high 
 school, Sutton, Mass. (1887-8) ; principal of Lawrence Acad- 
 emy, Groton, Mass. (1889) ; principal of high school, North 
 Chelmsford, Mass. (1891-2). He has been associate editor of 
 The Times, Bellows Falls, Vt., and of the Bunker Hill Times, 
 Boston, Mass. Since 1892 he has been in mercantile business in 
 Boston. In 1885 he received from Amherst College the degree 
 M.A. 
 
 On June 27, 1895, he married Ada Maria Sheldon of North 
 Chelmsford, Mass., a graduate of the Salem Normal School and 
 for several years teacher in Needham. Their children are : 
 Helen, born April 10, 1896; and Sheldon Conant, born July 17, 
 1899. Mrs. Hayward died November 25, 1902. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 ■•"' 
 
 JOHN HOWARD HOBBS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 23 
 
 REV. J. H. HOBBS, M.A. 
 
 25 Clinton Avenue, 
 Jamaica, N. Y. City. 
 
 John Howard Hobbs was born in Lenox, Choctaw Nation, 
 Indian Territory, April 2, 1858. He prepared for college at the 
 Amherst High School, and was graduated from Amherst Col- 
 lege in 1882. He studied theology in the Hartford Theological 
 Seminary, graduating in 1885 with the degree of B.D., and at 
 once became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Green- 
 wich, Conn., where he remained until December, 1889. He was 
 then called to the First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, N. Y., 
 one of the oldest churches in America, where he has remained 
 ever since. In 1902 he received the degree of M.A. from 
 Amherst College. He has been a contributor to various 
 religious periodicals and papers. In 1901 his church sent him 
 abroad, where he traveled extensively, and has since lectured 
 widely upon his travels and upon the Southern mountain whites. 
 He is now engaged in erecting a large church plant on modern 
 lines, and has just organized the fourth church as a colony 
 from the parent church. 
 
 On January 11, 1886, he was married to Clara M. Macfarland 
 of Greenwich, Conn., a graduate of Smith College in 1885. They 
 have two children: Harold Wade, a junior in Amherst College, 
 born January 9, 1887; and Helen Louise, born November 2$, 
 
 1893- 
 
 Mr. Hobbs was a member of Chi Phi. 
 
I 24 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 SAMUEL ANTON HOWARD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 125 
 
 S. A. HOWARD, 
 
 Vermont Marble Co., 
 Rutland, Vt. 
 
 Samuel Anton Howard was born in Perry Center, N. Y.. 
 March 13, 1858. He was prepared for college in the Warsaw 
 Union School, Warsaw, N. Y., and was graduated from Amherst 
 College in 1882. After a short trip West, he went to Rutland. 
 Vt., where he has since been employed by the Vermont Marble 
 Company. He is now one of the managers of the company, and 
 divides his time among the quarries and mills of Center Rut- 
 land, West Rutland, Proctor, and other places. 
 
 On May 20, 1890, he married Estelle Bartlett of Warsaw. 
 N. Y. Their children are : Myron Bartlett, born October 18, 
 1892 ; and Samuel Anton, Jr., born June 3, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Howard was a member of Chi Psi. 
 
126 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 CHARLES PHILLIPS HUNT. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 27 
 
 CHARLES P. HUNT, 
 
 21 Russell Street, 
 Worcester, Mass. 
 
 Charles Phillips Hunt was born in Worcester, Mass., 
 February 10, i860. He was prepared for college in the 
 Worcester High School, and was graduated from Amherst Col- 
 lege in 1882. Since then his home has been in Worcester, where 
 for several years he was engaged in banking business. For the 
 past year he has been in very poor health, and has been com- 
 pelled to relinquish his work. 
 
 Mr. Hunt is unmarried. 
 
128 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 LEWIS STRONG JUDD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 12Q 
 
 L. S. JUDD, 
 
 Astor Library, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Lewis Strong Judd, the son of Lewis Strong and Nancy 
 Jane (Tripp) Judd, was born in Fairhaven, March i, 1858. 
 He was prepared for college in Friends' Academy, New Bed- 
 ford, Mass., and was a member of the Class of '82 of Amherst 
 College. He was unable, through ill health, to complete the 
 course with the class, but by his successful work he received, in 
 1884, the degree of B.A. (extra ordinem). On November 1, 
 1884, he entered upon work in the Astor (New York Public) 
 Library, and has been there over twenty-three years. He has 
 written much in prose and verse, his most important production 
 being "The History of Fairhaven, Massachusetts," in "The 
 History of Bristol County." 
 
 Mr. Judd is unmarried. 
 
13° 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 JAMES H. KNAPP. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 131 
 
 JAMES H. KNAPP, 
 Franklin, Mass. 
 
 James H. Knapp was born June 7, 1857, in Worcester, Mass. 
 He was prepared for college in the Franklin High School, and 
 was graduated from Amherst in 1882. In 1882-3 he was prin- 
 cipal of the high school in Cabot, Vt. ; and in 1883-4 principal 
 of the high school in Petersham, Mass. He taught school for 
 two years after leaving Amherst in 1882, then served as confiden- 
 tial clerk for Edgar K. Ray of Franklin for eight years until 
 the incorporation of the Elm Farm Milk Company. This cor- 
 poration was formed for the purpose of contracting for milk 
 in Connecticut and Southeastern Massachusetts and disposing of 
 the same in the city of Boston. He has been treasurer and 
 manager for this company from its formation until the present 
 time. 
 
 On February 26, 1890, he married Lucy J. Brackett of Lan- 
 caster, N. H. They have three children: Gertrude Emerson, 
 born March 18, 1891 ; Elizabeth Goddard, born August 30, 
 1894; and Helen Brackett, born August 31, 1896. 
 
 Mr. Knapp was a member of Psi Upsilon. 
 
132 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 GEORGE OLIVER CROCKER LAWRENCE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 133 
 
 GEO. O. C. LAWRENCE, 
 
 Rio Chana, San Fernando, 
 Buenos Aires, S. A. 
 
 George Oliver Crocker Lawrence, the son of Rev. Amos 
 E. and Ann Crocker, was born in South Britain, Conn., May 
 10. i860. He was fitted for college in the high school, Newton, 
 Mass., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He was a 
 student in chemistry in the University of Gottingen, Germany 
 (1882-4), also at Berlin. He was instructor in chemistry in 
 Tufts College, 1884-5. Since 1885 he has traveled widely in 
 Europe and South America ; and has resided in Buenos Aires. 
 Mr. Lawrence is a capitalist of large means and ability, as is 
 shown by his liberal investments in the Argentine Republic. The 
 intervals between business and travel are still occupied by work 
 in his chemical laboratory ; and his interest in the science has 
 led him to establish a prize in Colgate University. For several 
 years he was at Tigre, near Buenos Aires, engaged in the fruit 
 canning business. He has since been ranching on an island up 
 the Parana river. He has also business interests in Buenos 
 Aires, including glass works. 
 
 On December 14, 1887, he married Ida Burn of Hamilton, 
 N. Y. He has a daughter, Gladys Crocker, born June 1, 1890. 
 Mrs. Lawrence died in Vienna, while traveling, May 18, 1900. 
 In December, 1906, Mr. Lawrence married Miss Englander, an 
 English lady. 
 
134 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 JOHN H. LOVELL. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 135 
 
 JOHN H. LOVELL, 
 
 Waldoboro, Me. 
 
 John H. Lovell was born October 21, i860, in Waldoboro, 
 Me. He was prepared for college under a private tutor, and was 
 graduated from Amherst in 1882. For a year and a half he 
 taught the natural sciences in the Classical Institute, Norridge- 
 wock, Me. His father's health failing, he returned to Waldo- 
 boro to assist in caring for his various investments. 
 
 His time is divided between the care of private business 
 interests and the study of the ecological relations of plants and 
 insects. The biological course of instruction and the days 
 devoted to field work in the region around Amherst are among 
 the pleasantest recollections of his college life. Subsequently, 
 while engaged in teaching he continued his observations and col- 
 lections, and a little later contributed many articles on Natural 
 History, intended for the general scientific reader, to Popular 
 Science News, Applctons Popular Science Monthly, the Port- 
 land Transcript, etc. It was not, however, until 1897 that he 
 began investigating the ecology of plants, a line of work he has 
 continued to the present time. His first strictly technical paper, 
 ''The Fertilization of Alnus incana and Salix discolor," was 
 published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and 
 attracted the favorable notice of Dr. S. Nawaschin of the Uni- 
 versity of Kiel, Russia. Since then he has made many original 
 observations upon the floroecology of northern plants, their man- 
 ner of pollination and the distribution of flower colors. Of those 
 who have expressed appreciation of his work he mentions 
 only Dr. Ernst Loew of Berlin, the most eminent of living 
 floroecologists. 
 
 A list of his papers up to 1903, essentially as published in the 
 bibliography of Knuth's "Handbook of Flower Pollination," 
 Vol. I, is as follows : 
 
 "Fertilization of Alnus incana and Salix discolor." Bull. Tor- 
 rey Bot. CI., New York, xxiv, 1897, pp. 264-5. 
 
136 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 "Petals and the visits of bees." (Pyrus communis.) Asa Gray 
 Bull. Takoma Park (D. C), vi, 1898, pp. 17-18.— Ab. : Justs 
 bot. Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvi (1898), 1900, p. 413. 
 
 "Three fluvial flowers and their visitors." (Nymphaea advena, 
 Sagittaria latifolia, Pontederia cor data.) Op. cit, vi, 1898, pp. 
 60-5. — Ab. : Justs bot. Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvi (1898), 1900, 
 pp. 412-3. 
 
 "The insect-visitors of flowers." {Gaultheria, Chelone, Impa- 
 tiens biflora, Cornus, Aralia.) Bull. Torrey Bot. CI., New York, 
 xxv, 1898, pp. 382-90. — Ab. : Justs bot. Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvi 
 (1898), 1900, p. 413. 
 
 "The visitors of the Caprifoliaceae." Amer. Nat., Boston, 
 xxxiv, 1900, pp. 37-51. 
 
 "The insect-visitors of Iris versicolor." Asa Gray Bull. 
 Takoma Park (D. C.), vii, 1899, PP- 47-5°- — Ab. : Justs bot. 
 Jahresber., Leipzig, xxvii (1899), 1901, pp. 455-6. 
 
 "The colors of northern monocotyledonous flowers." Amer. 
 Nat., Boston, xxxiii, 1899, pp. 493-504. — Ab. : Justs bot. Jahres- 
 ber., Leipzig, xxvii (1899), IO /Oi, PP- 455-6. 
 
 "The colors of Northern Apetalous flowers." Op. cit., xxxv, 
 1901, pp. 197-212. 
 
 "The colors of Northern polypetalous flowers." Op. cit., 
 xxxvi, 1902, pp. 203-40. 
 
 "The colors of Northern gamopetalous flowers." Op. cit., 
 xxxvii, 1903, pp. 365-84, 443-79.— Ab.: Bot. Centralbl., Cassel, 
 xciii, 1903, p. 581. 
 
 Several contributions have also been made to the American 
 Botanist. At the conclusion of his papers on the coloration of 
 flowers he found that for the satisfactory continuation of the 
 work an intimate knowledge of the wild bees (there are about 
 2,000 species described in North America) of southern Maine 
 was required. This group of insects had received very little 
 attention in North America, and except for the bumblebees was 
 practically unknown in New England. The procuring of the 
 widely scattered literature, the collection and preparation of the 
 specimens, their critical examination and comparison with typical 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 137 
 
 material, the determination of the synonomy, and the descrip- 
 tion of the new forms has required a great amount of time and 
 labor. The results of these studies are appearing in a series 
 of papers contributed to the three principal entomological 
 journals. Psyche, Entomological News and the Canadian Ento- 
 mologist. 
 
 "Four Species of Halictus," Canadian Entomologist, Feb., 
 
 1905. 
 
 "The Nomadine and Epeoline Bees of Southern Maine," 
 Psyche, April, 1905. 
 
 "Some Maine Species of Halictus," Can. Ent., Aug., 1905. 
 "Notes on the Bees of Southern Maine: Anthophoridae, 
 Halictoididae, Macropidae and Panurgidae," Psyche, Oct., 1906. 
 "The Megachiledae of Southern Maine," Psyche, Feb., 1907. 
 "The Bumblebees of Southern Maine," Ent. News, May, 1907. 
 "The Sphecodidae of Southern Maine," Psyche, Nov., 1907. 
 "The Colletidae of Southern Maine," Can. Ent., Nov., 1907. 
 He has just completed "The Halictidae of Southern Maine"; 
 two other papers on the Prosopidae and the Andredidae will 
 complete the series. He is also joint author of a bibliography of 
 the "Andredidae of North America," which will appear later. 
 
 He is a member of two entomological societies, but as a rule he 
 has not cared to avail himself of opportunities for membership in 
 scientific societies. 
 
 Some years ago he outlined a series of articles on the history 
 of American Science, only one of which he has had time to 
 complete. This was published in the New England Magazine 
 for August, 1904, and was entitled "The Beginnings of Ameri- 
 can Science." As the result of correspondence with a Boston 
 publisher, he has in preparation a popular work on the mutual 
 relations of insects and flowers. In 1899 he received the degree 
 of A.M. from Amherst College. 
 
 On October 24 1899, he married Lottie Evangeline Magune 
 of Waldoboro, Me. They have one child, Harvey Bulfinch, born 
 June 9, 1903. 
 
i3» 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 CHARLES W. LOOMIS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 39 
 
 REV. CHARLES W. LOOMIS, 
 
 Ashby, Mass. 
 
 Charles W. Loomis was born in Charlestown, Ohio, Novem- 
 ber 26, 1853. He was fitted for college in Oberlin, Ohio, and 
 was graduated from Amherst in 1882. From 1882 to 1885 he 
 was teacher of Latin in Cheltenham Academy, Ogontz, Pa. In 
 
 1884 he taught Latin in the Amherst Summer School, and in 
 
 1885 at Chautauqua. He studied theology in Yale Divinity 
 School (1885-1888), received the degree of B.D., and entered 
 the ministry in 1888. His first pastorate was at Eagle River, 
 Wis., among the lumbermen of the North. For four years he 
 was pastor at Stillman Valley, 111. The church grew, a new 
 edifice was erected, and an anti-saloon league for the county was 
 organized. After two pastorates in Massachusetts and New 
 Hampshire, and a brief interim in business, he became pastor of 
 the Congregational Church in Ashby. He is prominent in town 
 affairs, having served as auditor ; and he has the unusual dis- 
 tinction of belonging to the Chemical Engine Company. 
 
 On September 8, 1891, he married Julia M. Colt of Winsted, 
 Conn. Their children are : Frederic Colt, born June 3, 1892 ; 
 George Colt, born December 6, 1894; Frank W., born October 
 5, 1896, died June 27, 1903 ; and Charles W., Jr., born January 
 24, 1901. 
 
140 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 EDWARD HOMER MARTIN. 
 
AMHERST (OU.ECK. 
 
 141 
 
 E. H. MARTIN, M.D., 
 
 Middlebury, Vt. 
 
 Edward Homer Martin was born in Foo Chow, China, Feb- 
 ruary 9, 1861. He was fitted for college in Montpelier, Vt., 
 and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. From 1882 
 to 1884 ne studied medicine in the University of Vermont, 
 receiving the degree of M.D. in 1884. He practiced for a time 
 in Salisbury, and later moved to Middlebury, where he now 
 resides. For a number of years he was pension examiner, and 
 he is consulting surgeon to Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burling- 
 ton. He has been trustee of the village for five years and a 
 member of the school committee for ten years. 
 
 On October 12, 1882, he married Ida M. Hinkley of Georgia, 
 Vt. They have five children: Edward Homer, Jr. (The Class 
 Boy), born August 7, 1883; Carl, born August 13, 1884; 
 Harold, born January 10, 1887 ; Mabel, born September 16. 
 1888; and Marjorie, born May 12, 1891. 
 
 THE CLASS BOY. 
 
142 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Strauss photo. 
 
 CHARLES SMITH MILLS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 43 
 
 REV. CHARLES S. MILLS, D.D., 
 
 5139 Westminster Place, 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Charles Smith Mills was born in Brockton, Mass., Janu- 
 ary 17. 1861. He was fitted for college in the Roxbury Latin 
 School and in Phillips Academy, Andover. He received the 
 degree of B.A. from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology in 
 the Hartford Theological Seminary (1882-4), and in Andover 
 Theological Seminary (1884-5), receiving the degree of B.D. 
 In 1901 he received the degree D.D. from Oberlin, and in 1907 
 the same from Amherst. His pastorates have been : Congrega- 
 tional Church, Springfield, Vt. (1885-8) ; First Congregational 
 Church, North Brookfield, Mass. (1888-91) ; Pilgrim Congrega- 
 tional Church, Cleveland (1891-1905) ; Pilgrim Congregational 
 Church, St. Louis, since 1905. 
 
 Dr. Mills has published a number of articles in magazines, 
 together with sermons, addresses, and memorials, — perhaps the 
 most important being "The Fundamental Principles of the Insti- 
 tutional Church," Homiletic Rcviezv, 1897; "Memorial to Rev. 
 John Henry Barrows," Oberlin Review, 1902 ; "The Theology 
 of a Successful Evangelism," August, 1905. 
 
 He was president of the Congregational Association of Ohio, 
 and of the Ohio Home Missionary Society, 1897-8; director 
 (1893-1904), president (1897-8), and vice president Alumni 
 Association, Phillips Andover Academy (1902-3); vice presi- 
 dent New England Society of Cleveland (1903-5) ; trustee 
 Oberlin College since 1896 ; Congregational City Missionary 
 Society, Cleveland (1892-1905) ; School of Art, Cleveland 
 (1904-5); Drury College since 1905; Iberia Academy, since 
 1905 ; director Congregational City Missionary Society, St. 
 Louis, since 1905 ; secretary Brookfield Service Association 
 (1886-8), president since 1891, designing and publishing Sunday 
 evening responsive services, reaching a circulation of nearly a 
 million copies ; corporate member Amer. Board Commissioners for 
 Foreign Missions since 1897; chairman Committee of Reorgani- 
 zation of Congregational Home Missionary Society, 1905 ; presi- 
 dent Congregational Home Missionary Society, 1906; director 
 Hartford Theological Seminary ; Children's Home Society of 
 Missouri ; St. Louis School of Philanthropy : St. Louis Anti- 
 Tuberculosis Society ; Chicago Theological Seminary. He is 
 a member of Glen Echo Country, Chi Alpha, Town and Gown, 
 and Congregational Clubs. 
 
 He married, June 17, 1885, Alice Morris of Hartford, Conn. 
 Their children are: Margaret Morris, born March 22, 1886; 
 Charles Morris, born May 2. 1892. 
 
 Dr. Mills was prominent in many branches of athletics and 
 was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. 
 
144 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 V 
 
 FRANK LEWIS NASON. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 145 
 
 FRANK L. NASON, M.A., 
 West Haven, Conn. 
 
 Frank Lewis Nason, the son of Lewis Clarke and Maria 
 Stickles, was born in New London, Conn., December 5, 1856. 
 He was fitted for college in Middlebury, Vt, and was graduated 
 from Amherst in 1882. After a term in the Yale Divinity 
 School he was instructor in mathematics in the Rensselaer 
 Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. (1882-8) ; and from 1886 to 
 1888 instructor of geology in the Troy Female Seminary. He 
 received the degree M.A. from Amherst in 1885. He was 
 assistant state geologist, New Jersey (1888-90) ; Missouri 
 (1890-2). Since 1892 he has been mining engineer and con- 
 sulting engineer for a large number of enterprises, among them 
 being the Ringwood Company, Ringwood, N. J. ; Basic Iron 
 Ore Company, Oxford, N. J. His work has taken him into 
 nearly every State in the Union, to Newfoundland, the Mari- 
 time Provinces, British Columbia, Mexico, Central America, and 
 South America. He is the author of "Iron Ores in Missouri," 
 "Mineral Localities of New York State," and is a contributor to 
 the American Journal of Science, American Geologist and Min- 
 ing and Engineering Journal. He has proved the white lime- 
 stones of northern New York to be post archaean, and that sup- 
 posed gneisses were eruptive granites. He was the first to dis- 
 cover Geflecter Gabbro rocks (scapolite diorite) in the United 
 States. Mr. Nason is the author of three novels of Western 
 life:— "To the End of the Trail." "The Blue Goose," "The 
 Vision of Elijah Berl." 
 
 Mr. Nason is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, 
 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
 member of the New Jersey Microscopical Society. 
 
 He married Thalia Abigail Painter of West Haven, July 26, 
 
 1885. Mrs. Nason died in November, 1906. There are two 
 
 sons : Stanley Lamberton, born July 29, 1887 ; Alexis, born 
 
 July 12, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Nason was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 10 
 
146 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 CHARLES EDWARD OSGOOD NICHOLS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 147 
 
 REV. C. E. O. NICHOLS, 
 
 Amherst, Mass. 
 
 Charles Edward Osgood Nichols was born June n, 1859, 
 in South Hampton, N. H. He was fitted for college in the 
 Haverhill (Mass.) High School, and was graduated from 
 Amherst in 1882. During 1882-3 he was a tutor in New 
 Orleans, and during the next two years he taught Latin in a 
 preparatory school. He studied theology in the General Theo- 
 logical Seminary (Episcopal), New York (1885-8), and 
 received the degree S.T.B. in 1888. From 1888 to 1891 he was 
 rector of the Episcopal Church in Salmon Falls, N. H. This 
 was followed by rectorates in Brunswick, Me., Cornwall-on-the- 
 Delaware, Pa., and Burlington, N. J. Four years ago he 
 became master of Worrall Hall Military Academy, Peekskill, 
 N. Y. Two years later his father died and he removed to 
 Amherst to be near his mother. 
 
 On November 21, 1888, he married Carrie C. Webster of 
 Haverhill, Mass. They have two children : George Henry, born 
 August 31, 1889; Mary Webster, born November 23, 1890. A 
 third child, Gilbert, died in 1905. 
 
 Mr. Nichols was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
 Theta Pi). 
 
148 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 FRANK CHARLES PARTRIDGE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 149 
 
 HON. FRANK C. PARTRIDGE, 
 Proctor, Vt. 
 
 Frank Charles Partridge was born in East Middlebury, Vt., 
 May 7, 1861. He was fitted for college in the Middlebury High 
 School, and was graduated with honor from Amherst College 
 in 1882. In the fall of 1882 he entered the Columbia College 
 Law School, and took the degree of LL.B. there in 1884. 
 Immediately after graduating he became assistant manager of 
 the Producers Marble Company at Rutland, Vt., and in 1885 
 treasurer of the Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, Vt. In 
 April, 1889, ne became private secretary to the Secretary of 
 War. In May, 1890, he was appointed Solicitor of the Depart- 
 ment of State, and served in that position under Secretaries 
 Blaine and Foster until February, 1893. He was then appointed 
 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Venezuela, 
 which office he resigned in May, 1894. In 1896, by appoint- 
 ment of Secretary of State Olney, he rewrote the present Con- 
 sular Regulations of the United States, under a special 
 appropriation of Congress. From 1894 to February, 1897, he 
 had an office at Rutland, Vt., for the general practice of law. At 
 that time he was offered and expected to accept a position as one 
 of the Assistant Secretaries of State but was taken sick and 
 sent into exile in the Adirondacks, where he remained five 
 months and for the rest of the year undertook very little work. 
 In the fall of 1897, desiring a mild climate, he accepted an 
 appointment as Consul General at Tangier, Morocco, and 
 remained there until July, 1898. During the Spanish war he 
 was thus one of the nearest American consular officials in the 
 vicinity of Spain, a position of great responsibility. Returning 
 home in August, 1898, he was elected in September of that 
 year to the Vermont State Senate for the biennial term of 1898- 
 1900. Since 1899 ne nas resided continuously at Proctor and 
 devoted himself to the business of the Vermont Marble Com- 
 pany and its kindred interests. He is now the vice president 
 and general counsel of the Vermont Marble Company, and 
 counsel for the Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad Company and 
 the Proctor Trust Company. 
 
 By the treaties of 1903 between Great Britain and 
 Venezuela and between the Netherlands and Venezuela 
 it was provided that President Roosevelt should select the 
 Umpire of the British-Venezuelan Claims Commission and the 
 Netherlands- Venezuelan Claims Commission, both to sit in the 
 city of Caracas, Venezuela. He offered both appointments to 
 Mr. Partridge and he accepted the same, but was finally unable 
 to serve by reason of business duties at home. 
 
 On May 7, 1907, he married Sarah L. Sanborn. 
 
 Mr. Partridge was a member of Delta Upsilon, class monitor, 
 and president of the class. 
 
i5° 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 JOSEPH H. PERRY. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 151 
 
 JOSEPH H. PERRY, 
 
 276 Highland Street, 
 Worcester, Mass. 
 
 Joseph H. Perry was born in Dudley, Mass., March 23, 1858. 
 He was fitted for college partly in the Worcester High School 
 and partly under a private tutor. He received from Amherst 
 College in 1882 the degree B.A. He was teacher of geology and 
 chemistry in the Worcester High School 1882- 1892, and has 
 been teacher of geology and chemistry in the English High 
 School, Worcester, from 1892 to the present time. He was 
 assistant geologist of the United States Geological Survey under 
 Prof. B. K. Emerson, 1888-1902. Field work during this time 
 covered a large part of central Massachusetts, the crystalline 
 rocks west of the Carboniferous in Rhode Island, and small 
 areas in northern Connecticut and southern New Hampshire. 
 His publications are : — 
 
 "Note on Coal Plant found at the Graphite deposit in Mica 
 schist, at Worcester, Mass." American Journal of Science, III, 
 Vol. xxix, pp. 157-158. 1885. 
 
 This was the first fossil ever found at this locality ; and it 
 serves as the starting point in fixing the geologic age of the 
 rocks of central Massachusetts. 
 
 "The Physical Geography of Worcester, Massachusetts," 8 
 plates; pp. 40. Published by Worcester Natural History 
 Society, 1898. 
 
 "Physical Geography in the High School." Journal of 
 School Geography. Vol. Ill, pp. 130-138, 1899. 
 
 "Notes on the Geology of Mount Kearsarge, New Hamp- 
 shire." Journal of Geology. Vol. XI, pp. 403-412, 1903. 
 
 "The Geology of Worcester, Massachusetts." By Joseph H. 
 Perry and Benjamin K. Emerson. 2 maps, 40 plates, pp. 166. 
 Published by Worcester Natural History Society, 1903. 
 
 "Geology of Monadnock Mountain, New Hampshire." Jour- 
 nal of Geology, Vol. XII, pp. 1-14, 1904. 
 
 "Monadnock Mountain." Popular paper read before Worces- 
 ter Natural History Society and published in Worcester Tele- 
 gram, July 29, 1907. 
 
 "The Green Schists and Associated Granites and Porphyries 
 of Rhode Island." By Benjamin K. Emerson and Joseph H. 
 Perry. Bulletin No. 311, U. S. Geological Survey, 1 map, 1 
 plate, 74 pages. 
 
 He has also found time to serve as an expert on numerous 
 law cases ; the last but one, which he finished last August, fur- 
 nished him material for original research during a considerable 
 part of two years. These results will be published in due time. 
 
 He married Maria Phillips of Worcester, April 27, 1886. 
 Their children are: Joseph H., Jr., born October 17, 1890; 
 Lydia P., born September 22, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Perry was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. 
 
i5 2 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 FLETCHER D. PROCTOR. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 153 
 
 HON. FLETCHER D. PROCTOR, 
 
 Proctor, Vt. 
 
 Fletcher D. Proctor was born at Cavendish, Vt., November 
 7, i860; was educated at Middlebury High School, and entered 
 Amherst in the Class of '82. Through ill health he had to 
 abandon his college course in his junior year. In 1891 he 
 received the degree of B.A. (pro honore). On leaving college 
 he entered the Vermont Marble Company, becoming president 
 and manager in 1889. The company now employs three thou- 
 sand men in its works in Vermont alone, and its production of 
 marble far exceeds that of any other similar concern in the 
 world. His home has always been in the village of Proctor, 
 formerly a part of Rutland. He has been a member of the 
 school committee since 1883, selectman 1884-5 an d 1887-90, and 
 has been road commissioner for ten years. He is also president 
 of the Proctor Trust Company and of the Clarendon and Pitts- 
 ford Railway Company, which connects the quarries. He was 
 for four years a member of the Vermont National Guard, attain- 
 ing the rank of first lieutenant. In 1886 he was secretary of 
 civil and military affairs to the Governor of Vermont. In 1890 
 he became a member of the legislature, receiving every vote cast, 
 and was on the committee on ways and means and was chair- 
 man of the general committee. In 1892 he was a member of 
 the senate and served on the committee on finance, and was 
 chairman of the general committee. In 1900 he was again 
 chosen as representative to the legislature and again received 
 every vote cast, and he was elected speaker of the house. In 
 1902 he was a candidate for the nomination of Governor but 
 withdrew after the second ballot! In 1904 he was again sent to 
 the legislature, serving on the committee of ways and means, 
 standing committee on rules, and joint committee on health. In 
 November, 1906, he was elected Governor of Vermont. 
 
 He married Minnie E. Robinson of Westford, Vt., May 26, 
 1886. They have three children : Emily, born May 24, 1887, 
 Mortimer Robinson, born May 30, 1889, and Minnie, born 
 January 18, 1895. 
 
 Governor Proctor was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 
154 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE WALDO REED. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 155 
 
 REV. GEORGE W. REED, 
 Fort Yates, N. Dak. 
 
 George Waldo Reed was born in Hartford, Conn., April 17. 
 1855. He had been in business for five years before entering col- 
 lege, and was consequently older than most of his classmates. 
 He was prepared for college in the Springfield Collegiate Insti- 
 tute, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied 
 theology in the Hartford Theological Seminary (1884-7) ! an d 
 for twenty years has been missionary to the Indians living on 
 the Standing Rock Reservation. He has probably traveled more 
 miles in a wagon than any other man in the class, as his parish 
 for years was sixty-five miles wide and one hundred miles long, 
 and is not much smaller now. On December 10, 1889, he 
 organized the Standing Rock Church with twelve members. 
 From this church two others have been organized, with a total 
 membership of five hundred. For six church buildings he has 
 drawn the plans, estimated the cost in detail, selected the lum- 
 ber, carted it many miles overland, worked with the builders, 
 and built the churches within the appropriation. He has seen 
 the red man become brown, casting off paint and feathers and 
 becoming tanned in following the plow and in tending cattle and 
 crops. He went sixty-five miles to have the accompanying 
 photograph taken. 
 
 On October 3, 1882, he married Charlotte M. Burt of Spring- 
 field, Mass. Their children are as follows : Waldo Burt, born 
 June 27, 1888; Charlotte Thompson, born March 30, 1890, died 
 Tanuary 29, 1892 ; Harold Edward, born May 14, 1892, died 
 Tanuary 10, 1896; Raymond Vincent, born November 14, 1897. 
 He hopes that his boys will go to Amherst. 
 
 Mr. Reed was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
 Theta Pi). 
 
i56 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 FREDERICK BRA WARD RICHARDSON. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 157 
 
 F. B. RICHARDSON, M.A., 
 
 The Richardson School, 
 
 87 Centre Street, 
 
 New Rochelle, N. Y. 
 
 Frederick Brainard Richardson was born in 1859 in Doug- 
 las, Mass. He was fitted for college in Kimball Union Academy, 
 Meriden, N. H., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. In 
 1882-3 he was instructor in mathematics and natural sciences 
 in Kimball Union Academy ; and in 1883-4 instructor in the 
 high school, Wakefield, Mass. In 1885 he received from 
 Amherst College the degree of M.A. From 1885 to 1897 he was 
 teacher of Latin and English in Cutler's School, New York 
 City; and since 1897 he has been in New Rochelle, head of a 
 well-established school of from seventy to ninety boys and 
 girls, mostly day pupils. He has published "Notes on English 
 History," and a "Beginner's Latin Book." In 1891 he was a 
 member of the village committee of Mount Vernon, N. Y. 
 
 On April 9, 1887, he married Martha J. Hubbard of Adrian. 
 Mich. They have one child, Marguerite, born January 8, it 
 (Mount Holyoke College 191 1). 
 
i58 
 
 CLASS OF I 
 
 ALFRED GROSVENOR ROLFE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 159 
 
 ALFRED G. ROLFE, 
 
 The Hill School, 
 Pottstown, Pa. 
 
 Alfred Grosvenor Rolfe was born in Dorchester, Mass., 
 August 4, i860. He was fitted for college at the Ayer High 
 School and the Chauncey Hall School, Boston. He was gradu- 
 ated with honor from Amherst in 1882. He taught Greek in 
 Black Hall School, Lyme, Conn. (1882-4) ; in Gushing Academy, 
 Ashburnham, Mass. (1884-5) ; in Williston Seminary, East- 
 hampton, Mass. (1885-6) ; in Greylock Institute, Williamstown, 
 Mass. (1886-9). In 1889-90 he traveled and studied in Ger- 
 many, Italy, and Greece. Since 1890 he has been teacher of 
 Greek and one of the leading masters of the Hill School, Potts- 
 town, Pa. In 1885 he received from Amherst College the 
 degree M.A. 
 
 Mr. Rolfe is unmarried. 
 
 Mr. Rolfe was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, class 
 monitor, and prize winner. 
 
i6o 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 / 
 
 FREDERICK THOMAS ROUSE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. l6l 
 
 REV. F. T. ROUSE, 
 
 510 North Twenty-first Street, 
 Omaha, Neb. 
 
 Frederick Thomas Rouse was born in Jamestown, N. Y., 
 June 26, 1859. He was fitted for college in Williston Seminary, 
 and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology 
 in the Hartford Theological Seminary and in Yale Divinity 
 School. Leaving his studies, he spent a year among the Hawaiian 
 Islands, where he succeeded his father as preacher in the Ameri- 
 can Church at Makawaw, on the island of Maui ; and then 
 returned to this country, and while completing his theological 
 course preached two summers in Maine, one at Sanford, the 
 other at South Freeport. He was ordained in 1887, and became 
 pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, West Superior, 
 Wis. He organized the church and served it for five years. 
 In 1893 he was installed pastor of the Congregational Church 
 in Plantsville, Conn., and remained there six years. In 1899 he 
 was called to Appleton, Wis., and remained there eight years. 
 During this pastorate five hundred and fifty members were 
 added to the church ; and it is now the largest of the denomina- 
 tion in the state. He has recently (September, 1907) removed 
 to Omaha, Neb., and become pastor of the First Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 On September 26, 1888, he married Constance E. Waite of. 
 South Freeport, Me. They have three children : Hallock, born 
 November 8, 1891 ; Winifred, born October 11, 1895; Mary 
 Waite, born November 8, 1896. 
 
162 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 WATSON LEWIS SAVAGE. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 63 
 
 DR. WATSON L. SAVAGE, M.A., 
 
 308 West Fifty-ninth Street, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Watson Lewis Savage was born November 26, 1859, in 
 Cromwell, Conn. He was fitted for college at Middletown. 
 Conn., and under a tutor ; and was graduated from Amherst 
 in 1882. He was instructor in Shattuck School, Faribault, 
 Minn. (1882-3). He studied medicine in Long Island College 
 Hospital (1883-5), receiving the degree M.D. In the same 
 year he received from Amherst the degree M.A. He served 
 in St. Peter's Hospital (1885-6) ; and in 1886-7 was engaged 
 in private practice. From 1887 to 1890 he was medical director 
 of Berkeley School and Association, New York. For six years 
 (1897-1903) he served Columbia University, planning, organiz- 
 ing and directing its new gymnasium. He is now president and 
 manager of the Dr. Savage Physical Development Institute 
 (Limited) ; and president and consulting physician of The New 
 York Normal School of Physical Education. His specialty is 
 kinesepathy or kinesiology. He prescribes corrective exercises, 
 and lectures on physiology of exercise, physical diagnosis, gym- 
 nasium administration, anthropometry and athletics. He is a 
 member of the British Medical Society, member of the New 
 York County Medical Society, member of the American Acad- 
 emy of Medicine, president of the Society of College Gymnasium 
 Directors (1903) professor in the New York School of 
 Advanced Therapeutics, and president of the American Physical 
 Education Association (1901-3). 
 
 On October 26, 1887, he married Ella Whiting of Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. Their children are: Helen, born February 1, 1890, died 
 August 18, 1890; Dorothy Davis, born August 9, 1891 ; John 
 Whiting, born February 14, 1893; Richard Billings, born Janu- 
 ary 12, 1894; Watson Lewis, Jr., born February 6, 1898; Kirk- 
 wood Hallock, born May 22, 1903. 
 
 Dr. Savage was a member of Torch and Crown (later Beta 
 Theta Pi), and was the class and college leader in athletics. 
 
164 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 ROLAND COTTON SMITH. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 65 
 
 REV. ROLAND COTTON SMITH, D.D., 
 
 Rector, St. John's Church, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Roland Cotton Smith was born March 24, i860; was fitted 
 for college in New York City and was graduated from Amherst 
 College in 1882. Mr. Smith was a member of Psi Upsilon 
 and was prominent in athletics. He has the honor of having 
 introduced the game of lawn tennis into Amherst College dur- 
 ing the spring of 1880. He studied theology in the Episcopal 
 Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass., from 1882 to 1885, 
 receiving the degree B.D. He was rector of St. Peter's, Bev- 
 erly, Mass., from 1885 to 1889; assistant minister in Trinity 
 Church, Boston (under Rev. Phillips Brooks), from 1889 to 
 1892 ; rector of St. John's Church, Northampton, Mass., from 
 1892 to 1903 ; and since 1903 rector of St. John's Church, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 On October 13, 1886, he married Margaret Sigourney Otis 
 of Boston. Their children are: John Cotton, born July 16, 1887; 
 William Otis, born December 9, 1888 : Margaret Sigourney, 
 born May 16, 1902. He received the degree D.D. from Amherst 
 College in 1905. 
 
i66 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 WILLIAM DAY SMITH. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 67 
 
 W. D. SMITH, M.A., 
 
 Bon Air School, 
 Bon Air, Va. 
 
 William Day Smith was born in Pomfret, Conn.; was fitted 
 for college in the Amherst High School, and was graduated 
 from Amherst in 1882. He taught in a private school in Dover, 
 Del. (1882-3); in Charleston (1883-4); in the public schools 
 of Port Jervis, N. Y. (1884-8) ; and as principal of the schools 
 of Warwick, N. Y. (1888-93). He removed to the vicinity of 
 Richmond, Va., in 1893, where he is now located as head of a 
 flourishing private academy. 
 
 On August 29, 1888, he married Eunice King Hazen of Rich- 
 mond, Va. Their children are : Elizabeth Moulton, born June 
 10, 1889; Philip King, born November 3, 1892; Dorothy 
 Eunice, born September 9, 1895 ; Emily Hazen, born June 30, 
 1900. 
 
 Mr. Smith has received the degree M.A. from Amherst 
 College. 
 
i68 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 ARTHUR WILLIS STANFORD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 69 
 
 PROF. A. W. STANFORD, M.A., 
 
 59 Nakayamate dori, 6 Chome, 
 Kobe, Japan. 
 
 Arthur Willis Stanford was born January 10, 1857, in 
 Lowell, Mass. ; was fitted for college in the Lowell High School, 
 and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology 
 in Yale Divinity School (1882-4), received the degree B.D., and 
 entered the ministry September 15, 1886. During the summer 
 of 1883 he preached in Iroquois, S. D. ; and in the summer of 
 1884 in Sharon, Wis. During the summer of 1886 he received 
 appointment as missionary of the American Board to Japan ; 
 and on October 19, 1886, sailed from San Francisco. During 
 the next nine years he was professor in the theological depart- 
 ment of the Doshisha (founded by Dr. Nesima in 1875). He 
 returned in 1895 on a furlough, traveling via Suez. He spent 
 six months in study in Berlin. In 1897 he returned to Japan, 
 teaching in Kobe until he was obliged (1903) to return to this 
 country on account of poor health. Travel in Europe, an excur- 
 sion to Japan, rest, and study have restored Mr. Stanford's 
 health, and he is now back in Kobe at work again. His special 
 work will be among the great numbers of students and other 
 young men in commercial and mercantile pursuits. The out- 
 look is encouraging and the opportunity great. Mr. Stanford 
 has published: ''Introduction to the Psalms," 1891 ; a translation 
 into Japanese of Dana's "Creation" ; also, in 1898, "Register of 
 Descendants of Abner Stanford, the Revolutionary Soldier"; 
 and in 1906, "Stanford Genealogy, comprising the Descendants 
 of Abner Stanford, the Revolutionary Soldier." 
 
 On September 1, 1886, he married Jennie H. Pearson of 
 Lowell, Mass., a teacher in Abbott Female Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. Mrs. Stanford has led the active life of a missionary, 
 teaching in the Doshisha Girls' School and elsewhere, serving as 
 principal of the Kobe College for Girls, superintendent of the 
 Walker Missionary Home in Auburndale, Mass., and at present 
 instructor in the Bible Woman's School of Kobe. 
 
170 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 WILLIAM FOSTER STEARNS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 7 I 
 
 REV. WILLIAM F. STEARNS, M.A., 
 Norfolk, Conn. 
 
 William Foster Stearns was born in 1859 in Boston, Mass. ; 
 was fitted for college in the Roxbnry Latin School and Hopkin- 
 son's School, Boston ; and was graduated from Amherst Col- 
 lege in 1882. He received the degree M.A. from Amherst in 
 1885. He studied theology in the Hartford Theological Semi- 
 nary (1882-6), entering the ministry in 1889. From 1886 to 
 1889 he traveled widely in Europe, and was a student in Free 
 Church College and Edinburgh University Established College. 
 He investigated all forms of philanthropic, charitable, and relig- 
 ious work among the lower classes in East End, London. From 
 1889 to 1892 he was minister of the Congregational Church of 
 Hartford, Vt. In 1892-3 he was a graduate student at the 
 Andover Theological Seminary. From 1893 to 1895 he was 
 minister of the Union Congregational Church, Marlboro, Mass. ; 
 and in the following year resided in Andover. From 1897 he 
 has been minister of the Church of Christ (Congregational) in 
 Norfolk, Conn. 
 
 On May 19, 1886, he married Fanny Stearns Clark of Amherst, 
 daughter of the late president of the State Agricultural College. 
 Their children are : Douglas Clark, born March 23, 1893 ; Wil- 
 liam Foster, Jr., born July 18, 1900. 
 
 Mr. Stearns was a member of Chi Psi. 
 
172 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 EUGENE WARREN STODDARD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 73 
 
 E. W. STODDARD, 
 
 Martinez, Cal. 
 
 Eugene Warren Stoddard was born September 18, i860, in 
 Mil ford, Mass. He was fitted for college in his native town, 
 and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied theology 
 in Andover Theological Seminary (1883-6), and was pastor of the 
 Congregational Church in Haverhill, N. H. (1886-91). From 
 1 89 1 to 1903 he was pastor of the Congregational Church of 
 Martinez, Cal. In this latter year he resigned and accepted the 
 principalship of the Alhambra Union High School, which posi- 
 tion he still holds. His home is in Berkeley. 
 
 On September 15, 1886, he married Lillie A. Mitchell of West- 
 borough, Mass. They have two children : Walter Eugene, born 
 July 11, 1887; and Ethel Morrison, born August 20, 1888 (both 
 in University of California, Class of 1910). 
 
 Mr. Stoddard was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 
174 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 
 LUCIUS HARRISON THAYER. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. J 75 
 
 REV. L. H. THAYER, 
 
 Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Lucius Harrison Thayer was born in Westfield, Mass., 
 November 28, 1857. He was prepared for college at the West- 
 field High School. He was supercargo on the ship Lucy S. 
 Wills (1876-78). He was graduated from Amherst in 1882. 
 In 1882-84 he was in the machinery business, in Providence, 
 R. I.; in 1884 at home in Westfield. He studied theology in 
 Yale Divinity School (1885-90), receiving the degree of B.D. 
 in the Class of 1888, and continuing in the University as Dwight 
 Fellow, an appointment awarded at graduation. After some 
 months of travel in Europe Mr. Thayer was ordained and 
 installed, January 28, 1891, pastor of the North Congregational 
 Church, Portsmouth, N. H., and in this office he still serves. 
 
 On June. 29, 1892, he was married to Helen Chadwick Rand 
 (Smith '84) of Westfield, one of the founders of the College 
 Settlement in New York City, and since marriage sometime 
 trustee of Smith College and president of the College Settle- 
 ments Association. They have three children: Dorothy Gold- 
 thwait, born August 28, 1893 ; Lucius Ellsworth, born June 19, 
 1896; and Sherman Rand, born September 28, 1904. 
 Mr. Thayer was a member of Psi Upsilon. 
 
176 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 WILLIAM HAVEN THOMPSON. 
 
AM HERST COLLEGE. 177 
 
 WILLIAM H. THOMPSON, 
 
 Atkinson Academy, 
 Atkinson, N. H. 
 
 William Haven Thompson was born in Sudbury, Mass., 
 August 9, 1859. He was fitted for college in South Framing- 
 ham, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. 
 After two years of teaching in New England Schools, he went 
 to Newton, N. C, where for ten years he was professor of Latin 
 and English in Catawba College. In 1895 he accepted the prin- 
 cipalship of the Anne Arundel Academy, near Annapolis, in 
 Maryland. After a service of six years he returned to New 
 England. In the following year he was principal of Hartland 
 Academy, Hartland, Me. ; and for the next two years and a 
 half was head of the Scarboro High School. In November, 1905, 
 he became manager and proprietor of the Worcester Teachers' 
 Agency, Worcester, Mass. ; and in the fall of 1907 he became 
 principal of Atkinson Academy, Atkinson, N. H. 
 
 On May 18, 1892, he married Eunice Clapp, daughter of 
 the president of Catawba College. They have five children: 
 William Haven, Jr., born April 24, 1893 ; Charles Crawford, 
 born September 23, 1894; Ruth Frances, born September 21, 
 1896; Dorothy Lewis, born January 10, 1899; and Marjorie 
 Emma, born June 28, 1901. 
 
 Mr. Thompson was a member of Torch and Crown (later 
 Beta Theta Pi). 
 
i 7 8 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 HERBERT AMES TUCKER. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 79 
 
 H. A. TUCKER, 
 
 Tucker, Hayes & Co., 
 
 8 Congress Street, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Herbert Ames Tucker was horn January i, 1862, in Dor- 
 chester, Mass. He was fitted for college in the Dorchester High 
 School, and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882, the 
 youngest man in the class. After graduation he returned to 
 Boston, where he built up a large banking and brokerage busi- 
 ness. For several years he was employed by the Eastern Bank- 
 ing Company. From September, 1890, to July 1, 1906, he was 
 junior member of the firm of Emery & Tucker, bankers and 
 brokers, 28 State Street. On July r, 1906, he became senior 
 member of the firm of Tucker, Hayes & Co., bankers and 
 brokers. 
 
 On November 18, 1905, he married Mary Hamilton Chase. 
 
 Mr. Tucker was a member of Psi Upsilon, and prominent in 
 athletics. 
 
iSo 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 WALTER SHEPARD UFFORD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 WALTER S. UFFORD, Ph.D., 
 
 38 Beaumont Street, 
 Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 Walter Shepard Ufford was born February 26, 1859, in 
 Cambridge, Mass. He was fitted for college in the Dorchester 
 High School, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He 
 received from Amherst in 1885 the degree M.A. ; and from 
 Columbia in 1897 the degree Ph.D. He taught mathematics and 
 military drill in Cheltenham Academy, 1882-6; and was a 
 student in Yale Divinity School (1886-7). ^ n 1888-9 ne was 
 acting principal of Cheltenham Academy. He was graduated 
 from Andover Theological Seminary in 1890, and was a post- 
 graduate student in the following year. From 1891 to 1894 he 
 was pastor of Trinity Congregational Church, Tremont, N. Y. 
 He was sometime resident in Toynbee Hall, London, and in the 
 University Settlement, New York City. He was Fellow in 
 Sociology in Columbia University (1896), receiving the degree 
 Ph.D. the following year. He was manager of the press bureau 
 of the Citizen's Union in the first Seth Low campaign (1897) ; 
 and was secretary of the Citizen's Committee of One Hundred 
 for the 25th National Conference of Charities and Corrections 
 in New York (1898). He was special agent of the New York 
 State Charities Aid Association for the abolition of the contract 
 system for the care of the poor in Montgomery County; and 
 superintendent of inspection for the New York State Board of 
 Charities (1899-1902). From 1902 to 1907 he was general sec- 
 retary of the Baltimore Association for the Improvement of the 
 Condition of the Poor and Charity Organization Society, known 
 as The Federated Charities of Baltimore. By reason of ill 
 health he resigned in the spring of 1907. He is author of a mono- 
 graph entitled "Fresh Air Charity in the United States," pub- 
 lished in 1897 ; contributor of articles to the Charities Review, 
 Charities, The Quarterly Record and annual reports published 
 by the New York State Board of Charities (1899-1902) ; and 
 editor of the Charities Record, Baltimore (1902-7). 
 
 Dr. Ufford is unmarried. 
 
 Dr. Ufford was a member of Psi Upsilon, "gym" captain, and 
 a leader in the class. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE HAMLIN WASHBURN. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 83 
 
 GEORGE H. WASHBURN, M.D., 
 
 377 Marlborough Street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 George Hamlin Washburn, the son of Rev. George Wash- 
 burn (Amherst '55), until 1905 president of Robert College, 
 Constantinople, was born in Constantinople, May 22, i860. He 
 was prepared for college in the preparatory department of Robert 
 College, and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied 
 medicine in Harvard Medical School, receiving the degree M.D. 
 in 1886. During 1885-6 he was interne in the Boston City Hos- 
 pital. Since then he has practiced medicine in Boston, his 
 specialty being gynecology. During the summer months of the 
 past sixteen years he has been in general practice in Manchester- 
 by the Sea. He is the author of monographs on medical subjects. 
 He is visiting surgeon at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, assisting 
 gynecological surgeon at Free Hospital for Women, profes- 
 sor of obstetrics in Tufts College Medical School. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society and former censor and 
 also president of Gynecological Section, president of the Boston 
 Obstetrical Society, etc. He lived in Constantinople most of his 
 life until 1877, and has traveled widely. 
 
 He married. Anna M: Hoyt, of Auburn, New York, Septem- 
 ber, 1887. Their children are : Anna Loraine, born August 7, 
 1888 (now in Smith College) ; George Edward, born February 
 27, 1891 ; Arthur Hoyt, born March 18, 1893; Alfred Hamlin, 
 born March 14, 1895; Frances, born July 29, 1899; died March 
 9, 1900. 
 
 Dr. Washburn was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 PHILIP MELANCTHON WAITERS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 185 
 
 REV. PHILIP M. WATTERS, D.D., 
 
 176 War burton Avenue, 
 Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Philip Melancthon Watters was born September 3, i860, 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; was fitted for college in Trinity School, 
 New York City, and was graduated from Amherst College in 
 1882. In college Dr. Watters was prominent in gymnastic 
 work. He studied theology in Union Theological Seminary, New 
 York (1882-5), entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in 1885. He has served in the following charges: Cen- 
 tral Valley, N. Y. (1885-7) 5 Warwick, N. Y. (1887-9) ; Dobbs 
 Ferry, N. Y. (1889-92); Washington Street Church, Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y. ; Grace Church, New York City; St. James 
 Church, Kingston, N. Y. In April, 1905, he was appointed pre- 
 siding elder of the New York District, N. Y. Conference, which 
 office he still holds. There are seventy churches in the district. 
 On September 3, 1885, he married Hyla Ada Stowell of Peru, 
 Mass. Their children are : Florence Ada, born August 29, 1888 ; 
 Philip Sidney, born February 4, 1890 (Princeton 1910) ; Hyla 
 Stowell, born October 13, 1903- 
 
 In 1900 Wesleyan University conferred on him the degree D.D. 
 
i86 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 JACOB PAISLEY WHITEHEAD. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1^7 
 
 REV. J. P. WHITEHEAD, 
 Newport, Ky. 
 
 Jacob Paisley Whitehead was born in Woodboro, 111., 
 March 30, 1855; was fitted for college in Williston Seminary. 
 Easthampton, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst in 1882. 
 After graduation he studied law for a short time in Chicago. 
 From 1882 to 1887 he taught the Indians in Wealaka, Creek 
 Nation, Indian Territory, being principal teacher for two years 
 and superintendent for three. He studied theology in Lane 
 Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio (1887-90), received the 
 degree B.D., and was ordained May 20, 1890. For the past fif- 
 teen years he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church 
 of Newport, Ky., which office he still holds. He has pub- 
 lished occasional sermons and addresses. 
 
 On February 22, 1883, he married Amelia Lucinda Porter, of 
 Vandalia, Mo., who died September 23, 1900. There are two 
 children: Mary Elizabeth, born July 6, 1884 (University of Cin- 
 cinnati 1904) ; and Charles Edson, born November 6, 1886. 
 
 Mr. Whitehead was a member of Torch and Crown (later 
 Beta Theta Pi). 
 
i88 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 FRED WHITING. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 1 89 
 
 DR. FRED WHITING, M.A., 
 
 19 West Forty-seventh Street, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Fred Whiting was born in Brooklyn, February 4, 1861 ; was 
 fitted for college in Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, Conn., and 
 was graduated from Amherst in 1882. He studied medicine at 
 Long Island College Hospital, under the preceptorship of Dr. 
 Charles Corey, and was graduated with the degree M.D. in 
 June, 1885. He received from Amherst College the degree M.A. 
 in the same year. In 1885 he was appointed upon the house staff 
 of St. Peter's Hospital; and in 1886 he was appointed house 
 surgeon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. After two 
 years' service he spent two years in Germany, principally at 
 Heidelberg and Frankfort-on-the-Main. Upon his return he was 
 appointed assistant attending surgeon at the New York Eye and 
 Ear Infirmary, and began practice in his specialty in New York 
 City. In 1897 he was appointed attending surgeon at the New 
 York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and was made professor of otology 
 at the New York Polyclinic Medical School. About that time he 
 was made attending surgeon to several other hospitals ; and in 
 1904 received the professorship of otology in Cornell University 
 Medical School. He is a member of local, state and national 
 medical associations and of the International Ophthalmo logical 
 Society. He has contributed freely to medical literature, his 
 "Sarcoma of Iris" and "New Eustachian Electrode" being 
 among his minor works ; while his most important production is 
 entitled "The Modern Mastoid Operation." He has discovered 
 a new operation for the removal of enlarged and obstructing 
 bones of the nose, also a new device for the application of 
 electricity to the eustachian canal. 
 
 On November 4, 1891, he married Pauline Marion Loder of 
 New York. Their children are : Frederick Loder, born Janu- 
 ary 12, 1893; Margaret Murray, born June 25, 1896; Elizabeth, 
 born March 18, 1906. 
 
 Dr. Whiting was a member of Delta Upsilon, and prominent 
 in athletics. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 FRED NEWTON WIER. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. l 9 l 
 
 F. N. WIER, ESQ., 
 
 42 Eleventh Street, 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 
 Fred Newton Wier was born in Lowell, Mass., July 4, 1861. 
 He was fitted for college in the Lowell High School, and was 
 graduated from Amherst College in 1882. He assisted his 
 father in the hardware business for three years (1882-5), and 
 then studied law in the Boston University Law School (1885-7). 
 receiving the degree of LL.B. He practiced law in Boston for 
 fifteen months; and then opened an office in Lowell early in 
 1889. He was a member of the legislature for two years (1891- 
 2), serving on important committees. From 1892 to 1901 he 
 was district attorney for Middlesex County. Since that date 
 he has been engaged in private practice with offices in Boston 
 and Lowell. The firm name is Richardson, Trull & Wier; 
 Lowell offices at 103 Central Street ; Boston offices, 817 Barris- 
 ters Hall, Pemberton Square. 
 
 On December 9, 1896, he married Bertha E. Barker of Lowell, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 Mr. Wier was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
 
192 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 JOHN CAMP WILLIAMS. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. I 93 
 
 JOHN C. WILLIAMS, 
 
 Park Row Building, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 John Camp William s was born in Utica, N. Y., September 
 6, 1859. He was fitted for college in Utica Academy, and was 
 graduated from Amherst College in 1882. During 1882-3 he 
 traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin. For the next six 
 years he was superintendent of the brass department of the 
 Crane Company, Chicago, 111. In 1891 he became vice presi- 
 dent and general manager of the Western Tube Company at 
 Kewanee, 111. He developed this concern into a large manufac- 
 turing plant of wrought iron and steel pipe and brass, malleable 
 and cast iron fittings. In studying the problem of annealing 
 malleable iron, he succeeded after much study in solving the 
 annealing of cast iron by decrystallization. The universal 
 method up to that time had been by decarbonization. This new 
 method resulted in large saving commercially, and revolutionized 
 this branch of the business. He sold out to the National Tube 
 Company in 1900, and to the United States Steel Company in 
 1901. His home is now in Morristown, N. J., and he is devoting 
 himself to mining interests. In 1906 Charles Scribner's Sons 
 published his "Oneida County Printer," with allied history of 
 Central New York. He is a member of the University Club, 
 Grolier Club, New York Chapter of the Colonial Order, Colonial 
 Wars of New Jersey. 
 
 On June 23, 1891, he married Caroline Wheeler of Buffalo, 
 N. Y. Their children are : Carolyn Wheeler, born March 29, 
 1892; Lois Katherine, born April 10, 1901 ; John Camp, Jr., and 
 Abby Dorothy. The latter two died in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Williams was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and interested 
 in out-door athletics. 
 
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194 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 JOHN FRANKLIN WING. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. ,Q 5 
 
 JOHN F. WING, Ph.D., 
 
 Commercial Point, 
 Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 John Franklin Wing was born August 17, i860, in Dart- 
 mouth, Mass. He was prepared for college in New Bedford, 
 and was graduated from Amherst College in 1882. In 1882-4 he 
 traveled in Europe, studying chemistry in the University of 
 Gottingen, where he received the degree Ph.D. He was assist- 
 ant in the chemical laboratory of Tufts College for two years, 
 and instructor in Harvard University. Since June, 1887, he 
 has been chemist, superintendent, and engineer to various Boston 
 gas companies. He has his office at the Commercial Point Sta- 
 tion and the title of Engineer in Charge of Boston Consolidated 
 Gas Company. His home is at 29 Thornley Street, Dorchester, 
 Mass. He is author and joint-author of papers on chemical 
 subjects published by Deuerlich and in American Journal of 
 Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Deutsche Chemische 
 Gesellschaft and the Boylston Chemical Club. 
 
 On January 25, 1893, he married Mary Jane Christian. Their 
 children are : Kenneth, born November 24, 1893 ; Hester, born 
 December 18, 1894; Franklin, born July 1, 1899. 
 Dr. Wing was a member of Chi Phi. 
 
THE NON-GRADUATES 
 
 JOHN ALBREE, 
 
 31 State Street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 John Albree was born in Boston January 30, 1859; gradu- 
 ated at the English High School, Boston, receiving a Ben. Frank- 
 lin medal ; was fitted in the classics at the Boston Latin School 
 and Adams Academy, Quincy. He had to abandon his college 
 course in March, 1880, owing to what was later found to have 
 been eye strain, a trouble that was not then recognized and cor- 
 rected as now. From 1883 to 1885 he was in the shoe machinery 
 business in Boston, and from 1886 to 1897 he was in the depart- 
 ment of credits and collections of the Boston Merchants Asso- 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 197 
 
 ciation. Since then he has had the management of private trusts 
 with an office at 31 State Street, Boston. His home since 1891 
 has been at Swampscott, Mass. He is not married. Beyond 
 serving on some committees of the town of Swampscott he has 
 not been in public life. He has printed three illustrated mono- 
 graphs : 
 
 "The Tradition of the old Weaver's Clock" (1903), a study 
 of the methods of time-keeping in the colonial period and an 
 investigation of the conditions of life these reveal. 
 
 "A Blight on Boston; how shall it be removed?" (1906), 
 treating of the damage to the community resulting from keeping 
 idle and unproductive a large tract of land in the heart of 
 Boston, formerly used as a railroad terminal but abandoned 
 since 1899. 
 
 "Charles Brooks and his Work for Normal Schools" (1907), 
 relating how Brooks in 1835-8 advocated successfully the estab- 
 lishment of normal schools by the State for training teachers 
 because "as is the teacher, so is the school." 
 
 Mr. Albree was a member of Chi Psi. 
 
 E. F. CATE, ESQ., 
 Wolfeborough, N. H. 
 
 Edward F. Cate was born December 23, 1853, in Wolfe- 
 borough, N. H. ; was fitted for college in New Haven, Conn.; 
 passed one year at Amherst College, and finished the course at 
 Dartmouth College, receiving the degree B.A. in 1882. He 
 read law with Wm. C. Fox, Esq., of Wolfeborough, until 
 March, 1885. He went to Minneapolis, Minn., and entered the 
 office of Fairchild & Roberts, attorneys at law. He was admitted 
 to the bar in July, 1885, and practiced in Minneapolis until 1888, 
 when he returned to his native town. For the past three years he 
 has been a member of the Board of Education. He represented 
 his town in the New Hampshire legislature of 1905. From 1900 
 to 1904 he was trustee of the town library and also selectman 
 of the town. He has traveled widely in Europe, California, and 
 the Canadian Northwest. 
 
 Mr. Cate is unmarried. 
 
I9 8 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 PROF. RICHARD BURTON, 
 
 University of Minnesota, 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Richard E. Burton, the son of Rev. N. J. and Rachael Chase 
 Burton, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 14, 1859. After 
 studying in Amherst for a short time he entered Trinity College, 
 Hartford, and was graduated from that institution. After sev- 
 eral years of resident work he received the degree Ph.D. from 
 Johns Hopkins in 1887. After teaching for a year in Johns 
 Hopkins, he became managing editor of the Churchman (N. Y.). 
 He traveled in Europe in 1889-90, and was literary editor of 
 the Hartford Courant (1890-7). He was associate editor of 
 Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature (1897-9) > 
 professor of English Literature in the University of Minnesota 
 (1898-1902) ; editor of the Lothrop Publishing Company (1902- 
 1906), resuming in 1906 his position as head of the English 
 department in the University of Minnesota. 
 
 He is the author of "Dumb in June" (poems), 1895; 
 "Memorial Day" (poem), 1897; "Literary Likings" (essays), 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 199 
 
 1898; "Lyrics of Brotherhood" (poems), 1900; "Life of Whit- 
 tier" (in Beacon Biography Series), 1900; "Forces in Fiction," 
 1902; "Browning," in the Belles Lettres Series; "Message and 
 Melody — A Book of Verse," 1903. He will publish shortly "The 
 Modern Novel"; a volume of lyrics containing his latest work, 
 "From the Book of Life" ; and a piece of fiction, "Three of a 
 Kind." Professor Burton is favorably and widely known as a 
 lecturer. 
 
 He is a member of the Boston Authors Club, the New York 
 Authors Club, Players, Twentieth Century of Boston, Quad- 
 rangle of Chicago, and the University of Minneapolis. 
 
 He married in London, October 7, 1889. 
 
 A. F. CUSHMAN, ESQ., 
 
 79 Wall Street, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Avery Fayette Cushman was born in Amherst, August 28, 
 i860; was fitted for college in the Amherst High School, 
 entered the college with the Class of 1882, remaining one year. 
 He later joined the Class of 1883, graduating with it. He studied 
 law in Boston University Law School (1883-5), receiving the 
 degree of LL.B. Since then he has practiced law in New York, 
 until April, 1903, with Goodrich, Deady & Goodrich, and later 
 with Stephen P. Cushman, his father. His specialty is admiralty 
 law. He resides in Brooklyn. 
 
 On June 14, 1888, he married Mary Adelaide Hedden of East 
 Orange, N. J. Their children are: Dorothy, born January 18, 
 1890, died January 19, 1890; Caroline, born January 17, 1893. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 H. B. CHASE, ESQ., 
 
 Yountville, 
 Napa County, Cal. 
 
 Horace Blanchard Chase was born in Chicago, October 18, 
 1859; was fitted for college in Lake View (111.) High School; 
 and passed four years in Amherst College, pursuing a special 
 course. He studied law in the Chicago Law School (1882-5), 
 and was admitted to the bar. He was for a time attorney at 
 law and civil engineer in Phoenix, Ariz. For about twenty 
 years he has lived in Yountville, where he has a large estate, and 
 is engaged in raising fruit and making claret and white wines, 
 known as Stag's Leap Wines. 
 
 On July 18, 1888, he married Minnie Mizner of California. 
 
 Very little can be learned about Mr. Chase, for he has not 
 replied to any letters ; but it is known that in addition to his large 
 California interests he holds mining properties in Mexico, and 
 occasionally visits Mr. Draper in Cananea. 
 
 In College Mr. Chase was a leader in athletics, and a member 
 of Chi Psi. The above is an '82 photograph. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 HARRISON H. CHILD, 
 
 Westley Farm, 
 Medfield, Mass. 
 
 Harrison Hayford Child was born in Worcester, Mass., 
 December 30, 1858, and was fitted for college in a private school 
 in Marblehead. Mass. He entered Amherst College with the 
 Class of '82 but did not complete the course. He was with F. W. 
 Bird & Son, paper manufacturers, until 1894, after being in the 
 banking business a few years with Loring & Potter. He is 
 now a farmer in Medfield. Mass., Westley Farm being a large and 
 
 attractive estate. 
 
 On November 1, 1887, he married Rebecca Hill Bird of East 
 Walpole, Mass. In 1804 on account of his wife's health he 
 moved to Santa Barbara, Cal. Mrs. Child died in 1899. His 
 only son, Harrison Hayford, Jr.. born February 26, 1889, has 
 been a student at Milton Academy and enters Harvard this fall. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE W. CURRIER, 
 
 258 Washington Street, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 George W. Currier, of Brookline, was born in Lawrence, 
 Mass., July 19, 1859. He entered Amherst College with the 
 Class of '82, but left during- his junior year and entered the 
 Harvard Medical School. After completing a four years' 
 course in medicine he practiced his profession in Boston. When 
 a young man Mr. Currier was much gifted as an artist and 
 musician, and after three years' practice of medicine he 
 became a journalist and artist on the newspapers of Boston. He 
 is at the present time a designer, and is a well-known water-color 
 artist. He is very accomplished as a musician, having written 
 the music for an opera, "Valhalla," which was produced in 
 Boston in 1897. He has written many other musical com- 
 positions. 
 
 Mr. Currier married, in 1883, Addie Lyford of Lowell, Mass., 
 a school teacher in that city. They have one son, Earle L., a 
 senior in Harvard University. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 203 
 
 M. H. DAY, 
 
 Consumers Cordage Company, Ltd., 
 Montreal, Canada. 
 
 Moses Henry Day was born in Roxbury, Mass.. March 18, 
 i860; was fitted for college in the Roxbury Latin School, entered 
 Amherst College, and left at the end of his sophomore year. For 
 a time he was superintendent of the Sewell & Day Cordage Com- 
 pany and controlled valuable patents employed in his business. 
 He is now vice president and general manager of the Con- 
 sumers Cordage Company, Ltd., of Montreal and Halifax, and 
 president of the Colonial Cordage Company, Ltd., of Toronto. 
 
 On September 28, 1882, he married Adeline Louise Stock- 
 well of Roxbury. They have three children: Marjorie, born 
 December 29, 1886; Henry Stockwell, born November 8, 1889; 
 and Chester Sessions, born December 1, 189 1. 
 
204 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 E. ALDEN DYER, M.D., 
 
 Whitman, 
 Plymouth County, Mass. 
 
 Ebenezer Alden Dyer was born in South Abington, Mass., 
 July 17, 1857; was fitted for college in Phillips Academy, 
 Andover, Mass., and remained at Amherst for a few terms. 
 He studied medicine in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 
 York City (1879-82), and received the degree M.D. He is a 
 member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. With the excep- 
 tion of five years, when he was prospecting in North Alaska, 
 he has practiced medicine in Whitman. He is a member of the 
 Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health, and has rep- 
 resented his town in 1906-7 in the Massachusetts General Court, 
 serving as chairman of the Committee on Public Charitable Insti- 
 tutions. He is chairman of the Republican Town Committee. 
 
 Dr. Dyer is unmarried. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 205 
 
 GURDON R. FISHER, 
 
 263 Lake Avenue, 
 Newton Highlands, Mass. 
 
 Gurdon Russell Fisher was born January 29, 1861, in 
 Hartford, Conn.; was fitted for college in Hartford High 
 School, and remained in Amherst two years and a half. He then 
 took a- special course of two years in architecture in the Massa- 
 chusetts Institute of Technology. In 1888 he traveled in Eng- 
 land and Scotland. Mr. Fisher is an architect, and his home 
 and office address is given above. For several years he has not 
 been in robust health, although at our last reunion he appeared 
 to have recovered from recent severe illness. 
 
 ' On January 31, 1884, he married Ellen Stevens Kendall of 
 West Newton, Mass. They have two sons : Russell Warren, 
 born December 26. 1885; and Ernest Withington, born May 
 
 20, 1887. 
 
 Mr. Fisher was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 
206 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 HON. J. WIGHT GIDDINGS, 
 
 122 Walnut Street, 
 Lansing, Mich. 
 
 J. Wight Giddings was born in Romeo, Mich., September 
 27, 1858; was fitted for college in the Romeo High School, 
 and remained a year in Amherst College. He was editor of 
 the Cadillac News from 1882 to 1887. Later he studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar. Governor Giddings has been 
 prominent in the Republican party of his state. For four years 
 (1886-90) he served as State senator, and during the session of 
 1889 was temporary president of the senate. In 1892 he was 
 elected lieutenant governor, and served with distinction. 
 
 In 1 90 1 he went to Arizona to engage in mining, and was 
 superintendent of a mining camp for four years. He still 
 retains mining interests, although he has moved back to his 
 native state. For several years he has met with success as a 
 lecturer under the direction of the American Lyceum Union. 
 
 On January 31, 1883, he married Fidele E. Fitch of Fitchburg, 
 Mich., who died October 28, 1905. One son, Ferris Harold, 
 was born October 19, 1885, and died January 10, 1886. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 207 
 
 SETH K. HOWES, 
 
 17 Summit Avenue, 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Seth K. Howes was born in Hastings, Minn., January 19, 
 i860; was fitted for college in Colgate Academy, Hamilton, 
 N. Y., and remained three years in Amherst College. Very 
 little has been heard of Mr. Howes, but it is known that he 
 has prospered in dealing in gold and silver mining properties, 
 stocks and bonds. ' 
 
 On June 9, 1887, ne married Madge R. Brewster of Chicago, 
 111. They have one child, Byron C, born March 8, i< 
 
 FRANKLIN B. HUSSEY, ESQ., 
 
 902 Ashland Block, Highland Park, 
 
 Chicago, 111. Illinois. 
 
 Franklin B. Hussey was born in Northampton, Mass., 
 October 8, 1859, and was fitted for college in the Northampton 
 High School. After leaving college he was for a time secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the Hussey & Day Company, steam and 
 hot water heating engineers, and dealers in gas and electric 
 lighting chandeliers. Since 1895 he has been practicing law in 
 Chicago. His principal practice is railroad corporation work, 
 largely for the Chicago City Railway Company, Chicago Union 
 Traction Company, and Consolidated Traction Company. 
 
 On October 20, 1887, he married Jeanne T. Moore of Evans- 
 ton, 111. They have one son, Robert Franklin, eleven years old. 
 
 Mr. Hussey is a member of the Union League Club of Chicago 
 and the Exmoor Country Club. 
 
 In college he was a member of Chi Psi, and for some years 
 was president of the Chicago Alumni Association of this frater- 
 nity, and for five years a member of the national executive 
 council. » 
 
208 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 F. B. INGRAHAM, 
 Wellesley, Mass. 
 
 Franklin Benton Ingraham was born in Vergennes, Vt., 
 March 13, 1858, and was fitted for college in the Vergennes 
 High School. He was for a time member of the firm of The 
 Thorp and Adams Manufacturing Company, manufacturing 
 and wholesale stationers and importers, 14 Milk Street, Boston, 
 Mass. Since 1892 he has been engaged in the business of bank and 
 office fittings, with architectural plans of banks and other build- 
 ings. He is a director of the Wellesley National Bank. 
 
 On October 25, 1888, he married Elizabeth T. Webb of Bos- 
 ton and Wellesley, Mass. They have three children living: 
 Temple, aged 16: Paul, 13; and Ethel, 9. Two have died — 
 Edwin, the oldest, and Winthrop. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
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 Copyrighted by Pirie Macdonald. 
 
 WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME, ESQ., 
 
 District Attorney, 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Lakeville, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 William Travers Jerome was born April .8, .859. in New 
 York City, and was fitted for college under a tutor and at W.l- 
 liston Seminary. In 188, fie was obliged to leave college on 
 account of ill health. In .892 be was given the degree MA by 
 Amherst College. He studied law in Columbia Law School 
 (!88l- 4 ). receiving the degree LL.B. He first formed a part- 
 nership for the practice of law with Daniel Nason, Esq. 
 (Amherst '81), under the firm name of Jerome & Nason. He 
 has been active in legal work, and has held many important posi- 
 tions. He is a Democrat and has taken an active mterest m 
 New York politics. He was assistant district attorney of New 
 York County for three years (1888-90); justice of speaal 
 sessions (l8 95 -*9°2) I and district attorney of New York County 
 since then (elected in 1901). He is a member of the Bar Asso- 
 
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2IO CLASS OF l882. 
 
 ciation, and of the following clubs : Nineteenth Century, City, 
 Civic, Union, and Manhattan Chess. He has a country place in 
 Lakeville, Conn. 
 
 On May 9, 1888, he married Lavinia Howe of Elizabeth, N. J. 
 They have one son, William Travers, Jr., born July 15, 1890 
 (student in the Hotchkiss School). 
 
 Mr. Jerome was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 
 H. M. LINNELL, 
 Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 Herbert Montague Linnell, the son of Jonathan E. and 
 Fannie A. Linnell, was born at Worcester, Mass., April 12, 
 i860, and prepared for college at the Norwich (Conn.) Free 
 Academy. 
 
 He left '81 after one year, remained with '82 for a short time, 
 finally leaving Amherst and going into business in Boston in 
 connection with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. In 
 1884 ne became business manager of the Schuyler Electric 
 Company, removing to New York City in 1888. Since 1889 
 he has been in business on his own account as a contractor in 
 electric lighting. He has lived in Boston, London, and New 
 York since 1891, during which time he spent thirteen months 
 in Europe on account of ill health. 
 
 He was married September 21, 1891, to Jane, daughter of 
 Eben and S. E. Baldwin, of Yonkers, N. Y., and has two chil- 
 dren : Gertrude Baldwin, born .December 30, 1892 ; Elizabeth 
 Cochran, born October 1, 1897. 
 
 He is still living at Catskill, N. Y., and reports no change in 
 his affairs. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. J 
 
 S. H. LONGLEY, ESQ., 
 
 Worcester, Mass. 
 
 Samuel H. Longley was born January II, 1861, in Groton, 
 Mass and was fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton. 
 He studied law in Harvard Law School (1886-8), and was 
 admitted to the bar July 17, 1888. For a time his home was in 
 Shirley, Mass., and he practiced law in Boston and in Middlesex 
 County. He was chairman of the selectmen (1892), and special 
 justice (1890-2). For a number of years he has resided in 
 Worcester, where he has had a large practice. In 1894 he was 
 graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. 
 5 On May 23, 1883, he married Lizzie Edgarton of Shirley. 
 Their children are: Claire E., born November 11, 1888; Mary 
 E., born December 4, 1891 \ Samuel E., born August 27, 1893 I 
 Emily E., born February 26, 1898; Josephine E., born May 21, 
 1899. 
 
 JOHN W. LOW, 
 
 Evening Sun, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 John Watkins Low was born in Monticello, N. Y., Decem- 
 ber 28, 1861 ; was fitted for college under a tutor and in the 
 Amherst High School; entered Amherst with the Class of 1882, 
 and was graduated in 1883. He was editor of The Register, 
 Liberty, Sullivan County, N. Y. (1883-5); height agent of 
 the Morris County Railroad (1885-8) ; private secretary to his 
 father for a time; with the Ryder Engine Company, 37 Dey 
 Street, New York, and engaged in real estate business in Middle- 
 town, N. Y. He is a writer on the New York Evening Sun. 
 He is a member of the Holland Society of New York. 
 
 On December 20, 1889, he married Elizabeth R. Scott of 
 Middletown, N. Y. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 ARTHUR F. ODLIN, ESQ., 
 
 Tremont Building, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Arthur F. Odlin was born in Concord, N. H., April 25, 
 i860; was fitted for college in Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass., and remained in Amherst about three years. He studied 
 law in Boston University Law School (1884-5), receiving the 
 degree LL.B. cum laude. He was admitted to the bar of New 
 Hampshire, July 31, 1885. From December, 1885, till the fall 
 of 1898 he practiced law in Orlando, Fla. He removed to Porto 
 Rico, and when the new civil government came into existence, 
 was made the first Attorney General of Porto Rico (April 30, 
 1900), and held that position a year. In February, 1961, he 
 received an appointment as a judge of the new Court of First 
 
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 Instance, then being- organized in the Philippine Islands. He 
 served in the city of Manila until January I, 1903, and in the 
 Provinces until the close of 1904. Entering- a leading law firm 
 in the city of Manila, he engaged in practice until the summer of 
 1906, when he decided to give up his work in the Philippines, 
 largely owing to Mrs. Odlin's impaired health. He is now 
 a member of the firm of Noyes, Odlin & Wellman. 
 
 He has taken keen satisfaction in having his most important 
 decision sustained by the United States Supreme Court, after 
 he had been reversed by a majority of the judges of the Supreme 
 Court of the Philippine Islands (see 201 U. S. Sup. Ct., page 
 303). In addition to his legal work, he is appearing with 
 success upon the lecture platform. 
 
 On October 5, 1886, he married Mary Emma Allen of Lan- 
 caster, N. H. They have two children, Lawrence Allen (named 
 after "Scotchy" Lawrence), born September 7, 1889; and 
 Evelyn, born August 30, 1893. 
 
 F. W. LAWRENCE, 
 Saratoga, N. Y. 
 Franklin W. Lawrence was born in Pennsylvania, June 12, 
 i860. At last report he was proprietor of the Excelsior Spring 
 of Saratoga. 
 
 He married Emily C. Sylvester of Saratoga in January, 1884. 
 They have one child, Emelie S., born in January, 1886. 
 
214 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 EDWARD C. POTTER, 
 
 Greenwich, Conn. 
 
 Edward Clark Potter, sculptor, was born at New London, 
 Conn., November 26, 1857. At an early age he was taken to 
 Enfield, Mass., where his boyhood was passed until he was 
 seventeen years of age, when he began a four years' preparatory 
 course at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. In 1878 he entered 
 Amherst College. He began drawing at the Boston Art 
 Museum under Frederick Crowninshield and Otto Grundman, 
 and modelling with Truman H. Bartlett. In 1886 he studied 
 sculpture seriously with Daniel Chester French, and for two 
 years following worked under Mercier and Fremiet in Paris. 
 He exhibited at the Salon several small groups of rabbits, the 
 bust of a negro, and a sketch from an Indian group. A sleep- 
 ing infant faun, with rabbit, executed in Paris, was sold to the 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 215 
 
 Art Institute of Chicago, where it may now be seen. In col- 
 laboration with Mr. French, Mr. Potter made the famous groups 
 of horses and bulls for the Quadriga at the Columbian exposition, 
 Chicago, in 1893. The noble horses, two and two, were led 
 by maidens, whose flying draperies contributed movement and 
 color, while the decorative effect, as well as the originality of the 
 work, was accentuated by youthful standard-bearers, who served 
 as outriders. Said Mr. Taft in the "History of American 
 Sculpture" : "No more beautiful quadriga has been sculptured 
 in modern times. . . It is probable that no American sculptor 
 knows the horse quite so well as Mr. Potter. Several have 
 shown great aptitude for equestrian statuary, — Brown, Ward, 
 St. Gaudens, MacMonnies, and Niehaus, but most experienced 
 of all in this particular field is Mr. French's old-time pupil and 
 all-time colleague." They have produced conjointly equestrian 
 statues of Gen. Grant in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; Gen. 
 Washington in Paris and Chicago, and Gen. Hooker in Boston. 
 Mr. Potter has not restricted himself to animal sculpture, how- 
 ever, or to partnership enterprises. He has designed a statue 
 of Robert Fulton in the Congressional Library dome, Washing- 
 ton, and a statue of Gov. Austin Blair, which stands before the 
 state capitol at Lansing, Mich., — a model of sober portraiture, on 
 a pedestal no less deserving of mention. His equestrian statue 
 of Gen. Slocum on the battlefield of Gettysburg, appearing 
 coincidentally with Mr. MacMonnies's interpretation of the same 
 commander, serves to illustrate the different points of view of 
 two skillful artists. He has also executed two lions, finials 
 for the gate-posts at the entrance to Collis P. Huntington's resi- 
 dence in New York City; a bust of William A. Wheeler for 
 the senate chamber, Washington ; the statue of John Paul Jones 
 on the Dewey arch in New York; an equestrian statue of 
 De Soto, St. Louis Exposition ; again in collaboration with 
 Mr. French equestrian statue of Gen. Devens, Worcester, Mass. ; 
 July, 1906, lions for J. Pierpont Morgan Library and two figures 
 for the new Brooklyn Institute, of Indian Religion and Indian 
 Philosophy. Mr. Potter is a member of the National Sculpture 
 
2l6 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Society, the National Arts Club, the society of American Artists, 
 the Architectural League of New York, and was elected an 
 Academician, N. A. 1907. 
 
 On December 31, 1890, he married May Dumont of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. They have three children: Hazel Dumont, born 
 October 14, 1891 ; Nathan Dumont, born April 30, 1893 ; Ruth, 
 born February 1, 1896. 
 
 Mr. Potter was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
 
 VISCOUNT TADUBUMI TORII, 
 
 11 Kojimachi Naka Roku Bancho, 
 Tokyo, Japan. 
 
 Tadubumi Torii was a member of the Daimio, or ruling class 
 of feudal Japan. On the reorganization of that country ninety 
 per cent, of their property was taken from these lords, and many 
 of them went into business. After leaving Amherst Viscount 
 Torii was for a time in business in Boston. Upon his return to 
 Japan he entered the Foreign Office, serving as Vice Consul in 
 Hawaii and as chief of the Bureau of Telegraphs until his eleva- 
 tion to the House of Peers, which occurred eighteen years ago. 
 He still retains a lively interest in Amherst College, preserving 
 among his souvenirs his old Gymnasium uniform with "Amherst 
 '82" embroidered upon it. His promised photograph has evi- 
 dently been lost in transmission. 
 
 W. H. VAN BUREN. 
 
 Wilson H. Van Buren, after leaving Amherst College, 
 entered Union College, and was graduated from that institution 
 in 1882, taking the Third Allen Essay Prize at Commencement. 
 He was last reported to be in the real estate business in Tacoma. 
 
 A later address is given as : — 232 West Lincoln Avenue, Mount 
 Vernon, N. Y. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 217 
 
 F. D. VAN WAGENEN, 
 Fulton, N. Y. 
 
 Frederick D. Van Wagenen was born August 8, 1859 ; was 
 fitted for college in Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. Y. ; remained a 
 term in Amherst College, and was graduated from Union Col- 
 lege in 1882. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 
 July, 1884. He has for many years devoted himself to flori- 
 culture, and is now a prosperous seedsman. 
 
 On July 13, 1882, he married Eleanor V. Gilmour of Fulton. 
 They have three children: Mary E., born August 2, 1884; Char- 
 lotte L., born March 22, 1886; and Gilmour, born October 18, 
 1889. 
 
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 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 REV. JOSEPH WHEELWRIGHT, 
 Tamworth, N. H. 
 
 Joseph Wheelwright was born October 2, i860, in Byfield, 
 Mass., and was fitted for college in Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. He left Amherst in the spring term of his freshman year 
 owing to ill health. He was for a time a member of Amherst 
 '83, and later of Amherst '85. His health has at times been poor, 
 and his work has been much interrupted on this account. From 
 1891 to 1893 he was a student in Andover Theological Seminary. 
 He was pastor of the Congregational Church at Rochester, Mass. 
 (1893-5) > an d resided in Danvers and Byfield during 1896. 
 Then followed pastorates at Hebron, N. H. (1897-9); Green- 
 field, Mass. (1890-1) ; Prescott, Mass. (1902-3). He resided 
 at Byfield from 1903 to 1905, and in May, 1905, he began pastoral 
 work in Tamworth, which position he still holds. 
 
 On January 22, 1884, he married Alice R. Upton of Salem, 
 Mass. They have one child, Grace Adams, born April 3, 1885, 
 who is now married and the mother of the class's first grandchild. 
 
THE OBITUARY RECORD 
 
 FRANK DICKINSON HASTINGS, 
 
 The son of Ephraim Little and Julia (Dickinson) Hastings, 
 was born in Hatfield, Mass., November 24, 1856, and was fitted 
 for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. After 
 graduation he accepted the position of instructor of mathematics 
 in Park College, Parkville, Mo., where he died suddenly, 
 December 8, 1882. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 HENRY WINFIELD MATTHEWS, 
 
 The son of William Henry and Sarah Margaret (Shannon) 
 Matthews, was born in Chelsea, Mass., November 9, 1861, and 
 was prepared for college in his native city. After graduation 
 he began the study of theology in the Yale Divinity School, 
 completing but a single term. He died of diphtheria in Chelsea, 
 Mass., December 27, 1882. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 BERWICK MANNING, 
 
 The son of the Rev. Dr. Jacob Merrill and Anna (Berwick) 
 Manning, was born in Boston, January 21, 1859, and was pre- 
 pared for college in the Boston Latin School. After graduation 
 he spent one year in Newton (Mass.) Theological Institution, 
 and one in a course of post-graduate study in Harvard Uni- 
 versity, from which he received the degree M.A. in 1884. He 
 died after a brief illness at Littleton, N. H., July 28, 1884. Mr. 
 Manning was never married. 
 
CLASS OF l882. 
 
 HOSEA GORDON BLAKE, 
 
 The son of Joseph and Carrie (Abell) Blake, was born in Ash- 
 field, Mass., May 24, 1861, and was fitted for college at the 
 Vermont Methodist Seminary, Montpelier, Vt. Upon gradua- 
 tion he studied theology at the Hartford Theological Seminary 
 for one year, but was obliged to relinquish the ministry on 
 account of throat disease. In July, 1883, he became associate 
 editor of the Sunday School Times, at Philadelphia, Pa., where 
 he continued until his death from typhoid fever, August 13, 
 1885. He was a frequent contributor in prose and verse to 
 various magazines and other periodicals. Air. Blake was 
 unmarried. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 223 
 
 DONALD HARVEY, 
 
 The son of Enoch B. and Ann (Cameron) Harvey, was born 
 in Calais, Me., February 28, i860, and was fitted for college at 
 Calais Academy. He studied law with his father and was 
 admitted to the bar in September, 1885, at Minneapolis, Minn. 
 He practiced his profession in that city from that time until his 
 death from heart disease, January 8, 1888. Mr. Harvey was 
 unmarried. 
 
224 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 GEORGE WILLIAM LYMAN, 
 
 The son of William E. and Flavia (Walcott) Lyman, was born 
 in Amherst, March 3, 1855, and was prepared for college in the 
 Amherst High School. Upon graduation he became principal 
 of the high school at North Oxford, Mass. ; from January, 1883, 
 to April, 1886, he was principal of the high school in South 
 Hadley. The remainder of his life he was principal of the 
 high school in North Attleborough, Mass. He died of malarial 
 fever at North Attleborough, Mass., January 14, 1889. 
 
 "Mr. Lyman met the requirements of his position as principal 
 of the high school with skill and efficiency, and leaves a record of 
 successful administration in every way honorable to him as a 
 man and teacher. He was heartily in love with his chosen pro- 
 fession and sought with zealous care to perfect himself in the 
 knowledge and virtues demanded by his high calling. His 
 devotion to duty bore abundant fruitage in the hearts of his 
 pupils. Those who knew him best bear the strongest testimony 
 to his sterling character and his many virtues as a noble Christian 
 gentleman." 
 
 Mr. Lyman was married January 24, 1884, to Ella A., daugh- 
 ter of Augustine G. Gleason, of North Oxford, Mass., who 
 survives him. No children. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 225 
 
 LORENZO WADSWORTH TUCK, 
 
 The son of Lorenzo and Lucy (Wads worth) Tuck, was born 
 at South Weymouth, Mass., July 15, i860, and was fitted for 
 college at the high school of his native town. He studied medi- 
 cine at the Harvard Medical School and was graduated there in 
 1887. In July of that year he was appointed house physician 
 and surgeon in the City Hospital, Boston, and continued in that 
 position until his death from diphtheria, October 19, 1888. Dr. 
 Tuck was unmarried. 
 
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226 
 
 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 EDWARD EMORY ALDRICH 
 
 Was born in Worcester, Mass., a son of the distinguished 
 jurist, the late Judge Emory Aldrich. He was fitted for college 
 in his native town. For three years after graduation he was 
 with S. D. Warren & Company, paper manufacturers, at Cum- 
 berland Mills, Me. He began at the bottom of the ladder and 
 worked faithfully to learn the paper business. At the end of 
 that time, there being no opening in that branch of manufactur- 
 ing, he accepted a responsible position with the Leatherbee 
 Lumber Company, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and there he 
 remained, winning the kindly approbation of the firm, until the 
 winter of 1900, when his health broke down and he was brought 
 home to Worcester. From that time, although he often 
 attempted work, and for brief intervals with marked success, 
 he never regained his lost health, and steadily and surely failed, 
 both bodily and mentally, until July 18, 1905, when he passed 
 quietly away. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 227 
 
 HENRY MARTYN HOWLAND, 
 
 The son of Rev. William W. Howland, Class of 1841, and Susan 
 (Reed) Howland, and brother of Rev. S. W. Howland, D.D., 
 Class of 1870, and David B. Howland, Class of 1883, was born 
 in Conway, Mass., December 21, 1858, and was fitted for college 
 at Williston Seminary. 
 
 The first year after graduation he was principal of Hinsdale, 
 Mass., high school, and the next year teacher in a grammar 
 school in East Greenwich, R. I. He was a member of Andover 
 Theological Seminary, 1884-1887, and was licensed to preach, 
 May 18, 1886. He was a student in Jefferson Medical College, 
 Penn., one year. 
 
 He was physical director of the Y. M. C. A. at Philadelphia, 
 1887-1890, at Scranton, Penn., 1 890-1 893 ; general secretary 
 and physical director and teacher of physical culture at 
 Pasadena, Cal., 1896-1906. For several years he was also 
 assistant pastor of the Congregational Church at Long Beach, 
 in the same State. 
 
 He died of cancer of the liver at Los Angeles, Cal., Decem- 
 ber 31, 1906. He was married to Elizabeth Perry of Conway, 
 Mass., who with their eight children survives him. 
 
228 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 ALBERT WELLMAN HITCHCOCK. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. y 229 
 
 ALBERT WELLMAN HITCHCOCK 
 
 Was born January 19, 1861, at Kalamazoo, Mich., the son of a 
 New England physician who made his name known and honored 
 over the entire State. Fitting for college at the local high 
 school, I took the Freshman year in Kalamazoo Baptist College, 
 now affiliated with Chicago University. At Amherst I belonged 
 to Psi Upsilon and to a class group known as Beta Pi. I was 
 always grateful to the class for the way in which they adopted me 
 into their membership, — largely because Ufford chummed 
 with me. 
 
 After graduation teaching became my profession for four 
 years, as principal of schools in Frankfort and in Decatur, Mich., 
 and then as master of the high school in Kalamazoo. By that 
 time my life work was chosen, and I had saved enough money 
 for a professional course. I went to the Divinity School of 
 Yale University, where I was elected President of the Class of 
 1889, and the election was made permanent upon our gradua- 
 tion. The Hooker Fellowship was given me on completion of 
 the course, thus providing for two years of further study. 
 Thayer and Bixler had taken the Fellowships of the two years 
 preceding, so that it seemed to belong to '82. After a year 
 of post-graduate work at Yale, I spent a year abroad, studying 
 at Berlin and Oxford. Upon my return, I was called to' the 
 Belleville Congregational Church in Newburyport, Mass. Three 
 days after my ordination, I was married to Margarette M. 
 Osgood (Smith '83), of Salem, Mass., and during the pastorate 
 in Newburyport three daughters were born to us, — Harriet, Sep- 
 tember 18, 1892, Katharine, June 8, 1895, and Margaret Fiske, 
 April 17, 1898. 
 
 After nine happy years, I began my present pastorate Janu- 
 ary 1, 1 90 1, in the Central Congregational Church, Worcester, 
 Mass., where I have been fortunate not only in my church, but 
 in being able to renew some studies at Clark University, and to 
 take my Doctor's degree in June, 1906. I have made the venture 
 of preaching in Amherst College Chapel, and found it much less 
 dreadful as an experience than I had expected. 
 
 In 1898 I published a modest volume entitled "Questions and 
 Answers about the Bible," New York, Thos. Whittaker, pp. 
 154. In 1900, "A Christmas Catechism of One Hundred Ques- 
 tions," Boston, The Pilgrim Press, pp. 32. And my Doctor's 
 thesis will be printed soon, a study in the genetic growth of 
 
230 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Jesus, entitled "The Psychology of Jesus," making a book of 
 about 250 pages. I have printed the usual number of articles 
 in current papers and magazines ; sermons, etc. 
 
 In college I looked longingly toward my father's profession, 
 and had decided to enter it, but maturer reflection brought me 
 back to an earlier decision for the ministry. I believe I made 
 no mistake. The chance of the modern minister for high 
 service to society as a preacher, a pastor, and a teacher of public 
 and private morals, is unexcelled in any profession or in any 
 age of the world. I have found the old friendships of Amherst 
 enduring, especially those with Ufford, with whom there have 
 always been closest bonds ; and with Thayer. We three, with 
 Bixler, were together again at Yale. If I had a boy, I think 
 I would send him to Amherst for his college course, and then 
 to one of the great universities for his professional studies. 
 The Amherst men who influenced me most were President 
 Seelye, Tip Tyler, and Garman. It is a pleasure to meet '82 
 men always, and I feel a debt to our efficient Secretary for his 
 zeal in bringing, us together. 
 
 (This letter of Dr. Hitchcock's is given without alterations.) 
 
 Dr. Hitchcock's death occurred April 10, 1907, following an 
 operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Hitchcock has taken up her 
 residence in Salem, Mass. 
 
NON-GRADUATES 
 
 WALTER C. BLANCHARD 
 
 Was born January 22, 1859, in Maiden, Mass., was fitted for 
 college in Maiden High School, and remained in Amherst Col- 
 lege three years. ■ He then became associated with the firm of 
 Ward and Gay, Boston, Mass., and later was a member of the 
 firm of the Sam'l \Vard Company. Mr. Blanchard was twice 
 married. On January 13, 1886, he married Clara Etta Paige, of 
 Maiden, Mass. A daughter, Etta Paige, was born to them 
 December 15, 1886. Mrs. Blanchard died two weeks later. Mr. 
 Blanchard's second marriage was with Florence Maude Blanch- 
 ard, of Dorchester, April 17, 1889. Mr. Blanchard's health 
 failed, and his death occurred February 26, 1890. 
 
232 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 HUBERT M. HOWLAND 
 
 Died of consumption, July, 1885. He was born in 1861 in New 
 Bedford, and was fitted for college in the New Bedford High 
 School. He left college during Sophomore year. In 1880, he 
 married Miss Anna C. Pierce of New Bedford, and had one 
 daughter. 
 
 SCOTT SMITH SILLIMAN, 
 
 The son of Isaac H. Silliman, was born at Stamford, N. Y., 
 January 15, 1855, and was prepared for college at the high 
 school in his native town. He entered Amherst in the fall of 
 1878, left at the end of two years, reentered in September, 1882, 
 and was graduated one year later. Immediately after gradua- 
 tion he began a course of study in Columbia Law School and 
 had finished the first year when he was taken suddenly ill. 
 Growing better, he started for his father's home in Stamford, 
 N. Y., but died before reaching it, May 29, 1884. Mr. Silli- 
 man was never married. 
 
 GEORGE PEABODY ELLISON, 
 
 The son of George and Jane E. (Hildreth) Ellison, was born 
 in East Creek, N. Y., April 6, 1859, and was fitted for college 
 at Utica (N. Y.) Free Academy. After graduation he became 
 a bank clerk in Utica. In 1885 his health began to fail and he 
 died of consumption, at Utica, May 4, 1! 
 
 WILLIAM KITTREDGE STEARNS 
 
 Was born in Bombay, India, May 18, i860; was fitted for col- 
 lege in the Amherst High School, and entered Amherst with 
 the Class of 1882. His health soon began to fail and he went 
 to Colorado. He died of consumption, in Colorado Springs, 
 May 12, 1 88 1. 
 
 RICHARD WILKINS SAYLOR, 
 
 The son of Henry and Mary A. Saylor, was born at Schuylkill 
 Haven, Penn., December 28, 1859, an d was connected with '82 
 for a short time during Freshman year. After leaving Amherst 
 he studied medicine, graduating and receiving the degree M.D. 
 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 233 
 
 1882. He subsequently practiced medicine at Pottstown, 
 McEwensville, and Easton, Penn. He was married, February 
 11, 1885, to May, daughter of Dr. W. L. and Mary Grover Leaf, 
 of Pottstown, Penn., and had one child, Ruth Leigh, born May 
 2, 1886. He died at Pottstown, January 26, 1891, of rheumatism 
 of the heart. 
 
 EUGENE L. BURPEE 
 
 Was born in Salisbury, Mass., March 19, i860. He was the 
 son of Albert and Ann B. (Trussell) Burpee. Burpee was a 
 member of the class for the Freshman year only, and then 
 returned to his home in Haverhill, Mass. He married Georgie 
 A. Clark, May i, 1883. For a number of years he held clerical 
 positions and later was employed in shoe manufacturing. He 
 died of appendicitis, January 17, 1900. He left a widow and 
 four children, Edith C., Luther T., May E., and Blanche T. 
 While Burpee met but one of the class after he left college 
 and could not attend the reunions, it is a pleasure to record 
 that among those who did know him he has left the name of 
 being a good-hearted, honest man, who had to contend with hard 
 conditions for years. 
 
OUR OLIO: 1882-1907 
 
 THE CLASS. 
 
 Living Died Total 
 
 Graduates 55 10 65 
 
 Non-graduates 2J 7 34 
 
 Totals 82 17 99 
 
 Married. 
 
 Allen, Arnd, Bellows, Bixler, Blatchford, Bliss, Cowan, Cushing, Ely, 
 F. W. Greene, W. S. Greene, Hale, Hall, Hobbs, Howard, Hayward, 
 Knapp, Lawrence, Lovell, Loomis, Martin, Mills, Nason, Nichols, Partridge, 
 Perry, Proctor, Reed, Richardson, Rouse, Savage, R. C. Smith, W. D. 
 Smith, Stanford, Stearns, Stoddard, Thayer, Thompson, Tucker, Wash- 
 burn, Watters, Whitehead, Whiting, Wier, Williams, Wing (46), Lyman, 
 Howland, Hitchcock (3). (49) 
 
 Burton, Chase, Child, Currier, Cushman, Day, Fisher, Giddings, Howes, 
 Hussey, Ingraham, Jerome, Lawrence, Longley, Low, Linnell, Odin, 
 Potter, VanWagenen, Wheelwright (20), Blanchard, Howland,, Saylor, 
 Burpee (4). (24) 
 
 Living 
 
 Children of Graduates 139 127 
 
 Children of Non-Graduates 41 38 
 
 Total 180 165 
 
 Occupations, 1907. 
 
 Theology— Bixler, Bliss, Burt, F. W. Greene, Hall, Hobbs, Loomis, Mills, 
 
 Reed, Rouse, R. C. Smith, Stanford, Stearns, Thayer, Watters, 
 
 Whitehead. (16) 
 
 — Wheelwright. (1) 
 
 Business — Blatchford, Bush, Camp, Cowan, Draper, Ely, Howard, Hunt, 
 
 Hayward, Knapp, Lawrence, Proctor, Tucker, Williams, Wing. (15) 
 
 — Albree, Chase, Child, Currier, Day, Howes, Ingraham, Lawrence, 
 
 Linnell, VanBuren. (10) 
 
 Teaching — Cushing, W. S. Greene, Hale, Nichols, Perry, Richardson, 
 
 Rolfe, W. D. Smith, Stoddard, Thompson. (10) 
 
 — Burton. (1) 
 
 Medicine— Bellows, Martin, Savage, Washburn, Whiting. (5) 
 
 —Dyer. ( r ) 
 
 Law — Allen, Arnd, Partridge, Wier. (4) 
 
 — Cate, Cushman, Giddings, Hussey, Jerome, Longley, Odlin, Torii, 
 
 VanWagenen. ' (9) 
 
 Unclassified— Bancroft (History), Judd (Library), Lovell (Biology), 
 
 Nason (Mining), Ufford (Charities). (5) 
 
 —Fisher (Architecture), Low (Journalism), Potter (Sculpture). (3) 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 
 
 2 35 
 
 THE CHILDREN. 
 
 Warren S. Bellows 
 Sabra Julia Bellows 
 Julius Seelye Bixler 
 Elizabeth Bixler 
 James Wilson Bixler, 2D 
 John Blatchford 
 Dorothy Lord Blatchford 
 Barbara Blatchford 
 Charles Lord Blatchford 
 Mary William Bliss 
 Margaret Blatchford Bliss 
 Alice Wood Bliss 
 Daniel Bliss 
 
 Howard Huntington Bliss 
 Emily Rose Burt 
 Lilian Sarah Burt 
 Katharine Isabel Burt 
 Asahel Bush 
 Paul Van Santvoord Camp 
 *Henry Sewall Camp 
 Frances Knowlton Camp 
 *Jesse Gillespie Cowan 
 *Lucy Eddy Cushing 
 Joseph Shattuck Ely 
 Richard Sanford Ely 
 Theodore Ainsworth Greene 
 Walter Ferrar Greene 
 Anna Bancroft Greene 
 Dorothy Minot Greene 
 Frederick Standish Greene 
 William Ainsworth Greene 
 Ruth Newcomb Greene 
 John Morton Greene, Jr. 
 Mary Gilman Hale 
 *Agnes Sarah Hale 
 *Elizabeth Com stock Hale 
 Helen Morton Hale 
 Lucy Dwinell Hale 
 Clarissa Merwin Hall 
 Francis Cooley Hall 
 *Robert Gordon Hall 
 Gordon Rexford Hall 
 Merwin Porter Hall 
 George Phillips Hall 
 Helen Hayward 
 Sheldon Conant Hayward 
 Harold Wade Hobbs 
 Helen Louise Hobbs 
 
 Myron Bartlett Howard 
 Samuel Anton Howard, Jr. 
 Henry Perry Howland 
 David Dunbar Howland 
 Elizabeth Maria Howland 
 Harriet Irene Howland 
 Rose Howland 
 Harriet Hitchcock 
 Katherine Hitchcock 
 Margaret Fiske Hitchcock 
 Gertrude Emerson Knapp 
 Elizabeth Goddard Knapp 
 Helen Brackett Knapp 
 Gladys Crocker Lawrence 
 Frederic Colt Loomis 
 George Colt Loomis 
 *Frank W. Loomis 
 Charles W. Loomis, Jr. 
 Harvey Bulfinch Lovell 
 Edward Homer Martin, Jr. 
 Carl Martin 
 Harold Martin 
 Mabel Martin 
 Marjorie Martin 
 Margaret Morris Mills 
 Charles Morris Mills 
 Stanley Lamberton Nason 
 Alexis Nason 
 George Henry Nichols 
 Mary Webster Nichols 
 *Gilbert Nichols 
 Joseph H. Perry, Jr. 
 Lydia P. Perry 
 Emily Proctor 
 Mortimer Proctor 
 Minnie Proctor 
 Waldo Burt Reed 
 *Charlotte Thompson Reed 
 *Harold Edward Reed 
 Raymond Vincent Reed 
 Marguerite Richardson 
 Hallock Rouse 
 Winifred Rouse 
 Mary Waite Rouse 
 *Helen Savage 
 Dorothy Davis Savage 
 Richard Billings Savage 
 Watson Lewis Savage, Jr. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
236 
 
 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 Kirkwood Hallock Savage 
 John Cotton Smith 
 William Otis Smith 
 Margaret Sigourney Smith 
 Elizabeth Moulton Smith 
 Philip King Smith 
 Dorothy Eunice Smith 
 Emily Hazen Smith 
 Douglas Clark Stearns 
 William Foster Stearns, Jr. 
 Walter Eugene Stoddard 
 Ethel Morrison Stoddard 
 Dorothy Goldthwait Thayer 
 Lucius Ellsworth Thayer 
 Sherman Rand Thayer 
 William Haven Thompson, Jr. 
 Charles Crawford Thompson 
 Ruth Frances Thompson 
 Dorothy Lewis Thompson 
 Marjorie Emma Thompson 
 
 Anna Loraine Washburn 
 George Edward Washburn 
 Arthur Hoyt Washburn 
 Alfred Hamlin Washburn 
 
 ^Frances Washburn 
 Florence Ada Watters 
 Philip Sidney Watters 
 Hyla Stowell Watters 
 Mary Elizabeth Whitehead 
 Charles Edson Whitehead 
 Frederick Loder Whiting 
 Margaret Murray Whiting 
 Elizabeth Whiting 
 Carolyn Wheeler Williams 
 Lois Katherine Williams 
 
 *John Camp Williams, Jr. 
 
 *Abby Dorothy Williams 
 Kenneth Wing 
 Hester Wing 
 Franklin Wing 
 
 Harrison Hayford Child, Jr. 
 
 Earle L. Currier 
 *dorothy cushman 
 
 Caroline Cushman 
 
 Marjorie Day 
 
 Henry Stockwell Day 
 
 Chester Sessions Day 
 
 Russell Warren Fisher 
 
 Ernest Withington Fisher 
 *Ferris Harold Giddings 
 
 Byron C. Howes 
 
 Robert Franklin Hussey 
 *Edwin Ingraham 
 
 Temple Ingraham 
 
 Paul Ingraham 
 *Winthrop Ingraham 
 
 Ethel Ingraham 
 
 William Travers Jerome, Jr. 
 
 Emelie S. Lawrence 
 
 Gertrude Baldwin Linnell 
 
 Elizabeth Cochran Linnell 
 
 * Deceased 
 
 Clare E. Longley 
 Mary E. Longley 
 Samuel E. Longley 
 Emily E. Longley 
 Josephine E. Longley 
 Lawrence Allen Odlin 
 Evelyn Odlin 
 Hazel Dltmont Potter 
 Nathan Potter 
 Ruth Potter 
 Mary E. Van Wagenen 
 Charlotte L. Van Wagenen 
 Gilmour Van Wagenen 
 Grace Adams Wheelwright 
 Etta Paige Blanchard 
 Ruth Leigh Saylor 
 Edith C. Burpee 
 Luther T. Burpee 
 May E. Burpee 
 Blanche T. Burpee 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 237 
 
 Table showing number born in various states and countries, and 
 number at present living in various states and territories : 
 
 BORN IN PRESENT LOCATION IN 
 
 — Argentine 1 
 
 — Arizona 1 
 
 — Canada 2 
 
 — California 3 
 
 8 Connecticut 7 
 
 1 China o 
 
 — District of Columbia 2 
 
 5 Illinois 3 
 
 1 Indian Territory — ■ 
 
 — Kentucky 1 
 
 1 Japan 2 
 
 1 Maine 2 
 
 32 Massachusetts 21 
 
 — Mexico 1 
 
 1 Minnesota 3 
 
 — Missouri 2 
 
 2 Michigan 
 
 — Nebraska 1 
 
 3 New Hampshire 4 
 
 11 New York 14 
 
 — North Dakota 1 
 
 1 . . Ohio — 
 
 1 Oregon 1 
 
 2 Pennsylvania 1 
 
 1 Syria 1 
 
 1 Turkey — 
 
 5 Vermont 4 
 
 — Virginia 1 
 
 — Washington 1 
 
 From these figures it can be seen that there has been a decided 
 drift on the part of our Massachusetts-born boys towards the 
 West and South. The center of our population as regards places 
 of birth was in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts not 
 far from Pittsfield; at present it is at a point south of Albany, 
 New York. 
 
 From the records we find that two were born in 1853, five in 
 1855, two in 1856, five in 1857, eight in 1858, twenty-one in 
 1859, twenty-six in i860, sixteen in 1861, and one in 1862. Our 
 average age at graduation was twenty-two years and three 
 months. 
 
 The men of the class arranged according to age : — Loomis, 
 Cate, Silliman, Lyman, Whitehead, Reed, Hayward, Hastings, 
 Nason, Stanford, Knapp, Dyer, Potter, Thayer, Bush, Judd, 
 
238 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Howard, Ingraham, Perry, Burt, Giddings, Child, Hobbs, Hale, 
 Manning, Blanchard, Albree, Ufford, Ellison, Jerome, Nichols, 
 Rouse, Blatchford, Van Wagenen, Thompson, Williams, Hussey, 
 Chase, Hall, Savage, F. W. Greene, Saylor, Stearns, Richard- 
 son, Howes, Hunt, Harvey, W. S. Greene, Day, R. C. Smith, 
 Linnell, Odlin, Lawrence, W. K. Stearns, Washburn, F. W. 
 Lawrence, Tuck, Rolfe, Allen, Wing, Cushman, Watters, Stod- 
 dard, Lovell, Bancroft, Wheelwright, Proctor, Draper, Ely, 
 Bliss, Camp, Longley, Mills, Fisher, Whiting, Martin, Bixler, 
 Partridge, Blake, Wier, Cushing, Bellows, Matthews, Arnd, Low, 
 Tucker. 
 
 The men of the Class of '82, after graduation from Amherst, 
 have been associated with the following institutions as teachers, 
 students, trustees, presidents, or recipients of degrees: — 
 
 Amherst College. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 Andover Theological Seminary. nology. 
 
 Astor Library. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. 
 
 Bellevue Medical College. New York Polytechnic Medical 
 Boston University. School. 
 
 Berlin University. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 
 
 Clark University. University of Minnesota. 
 
 Chautauqua University. St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Boston. 
 Columbia University. -. St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 
 
 Catawba College. New York Hospital. 
 
 Cornell University. University of Missouri. 
 
 Chicago University. University of Oxford. 
 
 Doshisha. Oberlin College. 
 Free Hospital for Women, Boston. College of Physicians and Sur- 
 Gottingen University. geons. 
 
 General Theological Seminary. Pacific Seminary. 
 
 Harvard University. University of Paris. 
 
 Heidelberg University. Roanoke College. 
 
 Hartford Theological Seminary. St. Margaret's Hospital, Kansas City. 
 
 Johns Hopkins University. Syrian Protestant College. 
 International Y. M. C. A. Training Tufts College. 
 
 School. Union College. 
 
 Knox College. Union Theological Seminary. 
 
 University of Leipzig. University of Vermont. 
 
 Lane Theological Seminary. University of Vienna. 
 
 Long Island College Hospital. Wesleyan University. 
 Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington. Yale University. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 239 
 
 Our men are now more widely scattered than ever. Rev. A. 
 W. Stanford is still in Japan ; E. P. Draper is in Cananea, Mex- 
 ico ; G. O. C. Lawrence is in the Argentine Republic ; Rev. H. 
 S. Bliss is in Syria; Chase, Hale, and Stoddard are in California; 
 A. N. Bush is in Oregon; Dyer has been in the Klondike; Day 
 is in Canada ; Reed is in North Dakota ; Lovell is in Maine ; 
 Odlin has returned from the Philippines and is now in Boston ; 
 Nason resides in Connecticut, but has been all over this continent. 
 Fifteen of the class are sons of college graduates ; twenty-one 
 are sons of merchants, eleven of clergymen, seven of farmers, 
 four of bankers, three of mechanics. Fifty per cent, of the class 
 are engaged in work that they prophesied for themselves during 
 Senior year. Eighteen said they would be clergymen ; thirteen 
 kept their word, and ten others joined them. Nine would be 
 physicians ; six kept their word. Ten said they would be busi- 
 ness men; there are fifteen. It required $156,000 to take our 
 sixty-five men through college. 
 
 The presence of so many children at our last reunion was one 
 of its delightful features. They certainly reflected credit upon 
 the class, if their mothers will pardon this assumption. If it 
 had been generally known that the young people were coming 
 in such numbers it is fair to state that we would have been 
 swamped in providing accommodations. One of Fisher's sons was 
 graduated from Harvard at this time ; and one of Martin's took 
 part in a prize-speaking contest at Middlebury College. 
 
 A sense of oldness comes to us when we reflect that we have 
 a grandchild in our number ; Wheelwright has a granddaughter. 
 Watters' son is taking high rank at Princeton. Whitehead's 
 daughter was a high-stand student in the University of Cincinnati. 
 Reed's son, Waldo, who is preparing for Amherst at the Spring- 
 field High School, shared in our festivities. Burt's daughters 
 have taken high rank at Mount Holyoke College. A large num- 
 ber of the sons of our classmates are preparing for Amherst; 
 location and connections are inclining a few to Harvard, Yale, 
 and Princeton. Currier has a son in Harvard ; Proctor's son is 
 taking his last year at the Hill School ; Jerome's son is a student 
 at the Hotchkiss School ; F. W. Greene's son has taken high rank 
 in the Middletown High School, and will enter Amherst in 1908; 
 Stoddard has a son and daughter in the University of California. 
 
240 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Dr. F. A. Bancroft has been for a number of years collecting- 
 material for a work upon the South. The Times-Democrat of 
 New Orleans May 5, 1902, contained a long notice of him, begin- 
 ning as follows : 
 
 "Frederic Bancroft of Washington is in New Orleans. He has 
 been visiting the principal cities of the South for the purpose of 
 collecting material for a history of the Civil War upon which he 
 is now engaged. It is not, however, only data of record that 
 Mr. Bancroft is collecting. He is earnestly studying the South- 
 ern people, their institutions, and their traditions. He desires to 
 write, not only a history of events, but a history that shall show 
 the people, their customs, their trend of thought — in a word, the 
 nature of the great civilization that existed in the South before 
 the outbreak of the war." 
 
 A. F. Odlin has had a distinguished career in the Philippines, 
 where he served a number of years as Judge of the Court of 
 First Instance. In the edition of August 18, 1901, of Mian, 
 there is a long complimentary account, beginning: "Don Arturo 
 F. Odlin, es hombre de unos 40 afios proximamente." At a ban- 
 quet given in his honor in Manila, April 25, 1902, Judge Odlin 
 received an ovation. The Manila Times reported that he was at 
 his best, and kept the tables in a roar with his inexhaustible fund 
 of Lincoln-like stories. In expressing his appreciation of the 
 honor done him, Judge Odlin said it was the fourth happiest 
 event of his life. The first, he said, was when he married 
 (cheers) ; the second, when he was appointed Attorney-General 
 of Porto Rico ; the third, when he received his appointment as 
 Judge of one of the Courts of First Instance from "that great 
 and good man, Judge Taft. God bless him!" (Cheers.) The 
 company immediately rose to its feet and a toast was drunk to 
 the absent governor. "The fourth," continued Judge Odlin, "is 
 the honor done me to-night." 
 
 When Judge Odlin was in Manila he must have had a merry 
 time rendering a decision on a gambling case. The decision 
 fairly bubbles with humor. It seems that a man (the plaintiff) 
 brought replevin for a pony, native gig (or calesa) and harness, 
 which he alleged were his property and which the defendant 
 wrongfully took from him. The evidence showed that the plain- 
 tiff arranged for a raffle at which the holder of the ticket bearing 
 the number last drawn should be the winner of the property. 
 It was conceded that this raffle was illegal and void, having been 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 241 
 
 prohibited by an ordinance of the city. The defendant held the 
 number last drawn, and in good faith supposing himself to be 
 the winner, and therefore the owner, entered the calesa and pro- 
 ceeded to drive away. Just about the time this was taking place 
 it was discovered that one number was outside the box and had 
 never been drawn. Hence the suit. The Judge quoted authori- 
 ties and brought in supposed cases. After a reference to a 
 ladies' progressive euchre party, which threw light on the whole 
 question, the Judge said : 
 
 "Again let us assume (purely as an illustration) that in a poker 
 game the Major should exhibit four sevens and, exultingly con- 
 fident, gather in the reds, whites, and blues (by the way, we now 
 know why poker is called our national game), and while receiv- 
 ing the congratulations of the Colonel and the Lieutenant, the 
 Captain should, for the first time, discover that his three eight 
 spots absolutely destroyed his chance of winning because, for- 
 sooth, there were only fifty-one cards in the deck, the missing 
 card being the eight of clubs. Would a Court of Justice enter- 
 tain a suit for the restoration to the Captain of such a sum as he 
 has invested ? I am unable to answer this question in the affirma- 
 tive. Adopting the views of the distinguished Chief Justice of 
 North Carolina (115 H. C. 458), I believe public policy is best 
 subserved by leaving both parties where their illegal conduct has 
 placed them." 
 
 Most Americans in public life get a good many newspaper 
 knocks. Governor Proctor is no exception. His campaigns have 
 been fairly conducted; yet he has had to stand a great deal of 
 abuse. The State of Vermont has relegated to the dim distance 
 all this unfair prattle and has honored him with her highest 
 office. A former Governor of the State writes of Mr. Proctor: 
 "I do not know another private industry which has practically 
 displayed so great solicitude for the well-being of its employes. 
 In all that goes to make the conditions of life pleasant and 
 profitable — in their neat homes, their schools, their churches, their 
 free library, their free hospital and those many public enter- 
 prises which are unique to the village of Proctor — that com- 
 munity from every point of view is an ideal one. Though a 
 village of 2,000 people of many nationalities and clustered about 
 shops and quarries, I do not know another village in the State 
 of Vermont which is its equal in orderliness, observance of the 
 Sabbath, and high moral tone." A visitor to Proctor may readily 
 confirm this statement. 
 
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242 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 Among - our public men, Jerome has perhaps been most in the 
 lime-light. His fight for decency in the government of New 
 York City will long be remembered. Opposed by both political 
 parties, with no "machine" to rely upon he carried out his wonder- 
 ful campaign and New York was his. Contributions to his cam- 
 paign fund came from all levels in society; and among his 
 bushels of congratulatory letters were many from the leading 
 men not only of this country but of the world. 
 
 Concerning Rev. Dr. Mills : — His work in Cleveland included 
 the erection of an "institutional" church at a cost of $160,000. 
 In his fourteen years of ministry the church membership 
 increased from 300 to 1,050; there were 1,000 in the Sunday 
 School, and the many ministries of the church were crowned 
 with success. Ninety thousand dollars was added to the endow- 
 ment fund of the church. In St. Louis he is engaged in a similar 
 work, and it is interesting to note that the church has raised 
 more money than is necessary ($225,000) to complete their new 
 house of worship. 
 
 Nason's work as consulting mining engineer takes him away 
 from home a good part of every year. His leisure has been 
 occupied in scientific writings and also in the writing of novels 
 of western life — a subject in which he is quite at home. His 
 three novels, "To the End of the Trail," "The Blue Goose," "The 
 Vision of Elijah Berl," have all received very flattering press 
 notices. 
 
 In the death of his wife last year Nason experienced an over- 
 whelming loss. Mrs. Nason had had large responsibilities and 
 duties during her husband's periods of absence from home, and 
 at the same time had maintained a leadership in the work of her 
 church and town. On the day of the funeral from the old 
 church in West Haven, the town paid a deserving tribute to her 
 memory by half-masting the flag on the old green. As far as 
 is known, no other daughter of the old town has ever received 
 such honor. 
 
 Draper is evidently one of the leading men at the Cananea 
 mines. He had intended that his memoirs, like those of Tally- 
 rand, should not be published until one hundred years after his 
 death ; but the chance to go down to posterity in such dis- 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 243 
 
 tinguished company as the Class of '82 changed his mind. Per- 
 haps the fact that he quelled a race-riot last year, in which two 
 of his superiors were shot, assisted him in this determination. 
 At one time in his career he says that his stomach began to 
 trouble him and he was at his home in Canandaigua, N. Y., for 
 a number of years "doing nothing but preparing to meet my God, 
 which encounter was expected any day." The fact that he 
 pulled through at all the doctor attributed to the exemplary life 
 he had led in college. He is now completely restored and is in 
 the saddle every day. 
 
 A Class Secretary's life is not always a happy one. One mem- 
 ber wrote that — (mentioning a class) at its recent reunion had 
 imported a bartender, with all the accompanying paraphernalia, 
 and he prayed that we might be spared such disgrace. Another, 
 who likes an occasional high-ball, wrote that our class banquets 
 were the "slowest ever," and he suggested that we have our next 
 in the chapel or church. 
 
 In the report of the Dean of Yale College for 1907 it is stated 
 that no school equalled the record of the New Haven High 
 School in the results of the entrance examinations, as shown by 
 the awards of the Chamberlain and the Galpin Prizes, which are 
 for the best examinations in Greek and Latin, respectively. 
 During twenty years the candidates from the New Haven High 
 School have won either a prize or honorable mention eighteen 
 times. 
 
 Resolutions Adopted by the South Congregational Church 
 
 upon Acceptance of the Resignation of its 
 
 Pastor, Rev. George A. Hall. 
 
 Although we say that Mr. Hall's ministry among us is soon 
 to close, yet in another and very important sense his work in the 
 South Church and in the community is far from finished. His 
 earnest and sincere labors in helping the young people and the 
 children of the society in such a variety of ways will prove to be 
 seed sown, which will in the future continue to bear good fruit. 
 
 His sympathetic ministrations in times of trouble, sickness, and 
 death will live long in the memories of a great many people in 
 our town; and his good cheer, courage, uniform courtesy, and 
 
244 CLASS OF l882. 
 
 good will, surely will be a power for many years to come ; and 
 an inspiration and incentive to lives of high thinking and pure 
 living; the influence of which we cannot measure in years of 
 duration or extent of influence upon individuals, families, or 
 the community at large. 
 
 For twenty years, continually and cheerfully, and always will- 
 ingly, he has served all those who have called upon him in times 
 of joy or grief ; ever with a broad and honest charity, and with 
 a fine sense of the propriety of his word of sympathy or of good 
 cheer, to the time when, and the place where, they have been 
 offered. 
 
 We are devoutly thankful for this long pastorate ; for these 
 twenty years of uninterrupted labor among us. 
 
 It is a high tribute of personal fitness and worth that the 
 relations of pastor and people have been so harmonious and 
 delightful during all these years. Here he began his active 
 ministry; here he established a home, the tender associations of 
 which will always be linked with the life of this church and 
 community. Truly his life in many ways has become strongly 
 interwoven with ours and ours with his. 
 
 The same consecrated tact, that in his own parish carried com- 
 fort to the sorrowing and joy to the glad of heart, has made him 
 a quiet power in the community at large. Men of every creed, 
 of every nationality, have felt the sympathy and inspiration of 
 one who loves his brother man. 
 
 Mr. Hall has shirked no civic duty. In earlier years he was 
 a member of the school board, and at no time since has he lost 
 interest in the public schools or relaxed his efforts in their 
 behalf. He has always been active in the temperance work of the 
 town; as a member of the Board of Trade, he has spoken at 
 its meetings, and lent his influence to its schemes for local 
 improvement. Above all, his voice in the pulpit, fearless and 
 timely, has prompted much of the interest in public affairs. 
 
 Yet the work of church and community have not absorbed the 
 energies of our faithful pastor. In the Conference he has found 
 an honored place ; he has been an inspiration to the Essex Con- 
 gregational Club ; and during his long secretaryship he has ren- 
 dered valuable service, fully appreciated by his co-laborers, who, 
 alone, knew how much work the position entailed. 
 
 These fine Christian ministrations have served continually to 
 broaden and enrich his life through all the years he has been 
 with us ; and although twenty years is a large part of the time 
 allotted to most professional men for active service, yet it is 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 245 
 
 safe to say that there is not an individual in Peabody who has 
 known his life and work, who would not honestly and earnestly 
 wish that he might continue in his good work; or who does 
 not, now that the change has come, wish him the highest and best 
 in life, both for himself and his family, in whatever field of 
 effort his remaining years may be spent. 
 
 f Willard W. Woodman, 
 
 Committee of the Church ■{ Horace K. Foster, 
 
 ^ Marion Barrows Crehore. 
 
 Peabody, March 2, 1906. 
 
 The ecclesiastical council convened to review the action of 
 the church regarding the resignation of the pastor, voted to 
 approve the action of the church and adopted the following 
 resolution : — 
 
 In coming to this decision the council would record its 
 appreciation of this notable pastorate extending through a score 
 of years, in which our Brother has happily exemplified the ideal 
 ministry of these modern times. 
 
 Coming to his important charge in early manhood and giving 
 without stint of his increasing strength, wisdom and experience, 
 he has steadily grown in the confidence, esteem and affection of 
 both Church and Parish, who unwillingly now consent to this 
 separation. 
 
 As a clear, careful, thoughtful and inspiring preacher, he has 
 ably filled this pulpit. He has well and wisely developed the 
 benevolences of the church and secured needed and effective 
 improvements in its property. In the homes of his congregation 
 he has been a faithful, sympathetic and welcome visitor. Among 
 the youth he has been as one of their own number, and the aged 
 have rejoiced in his ministry, while all classes have delighted to 
 call him their Pastor, and his influence as a Christian citizen, 
 both in the town and in this whole region, has been positive and 
 valued. 
 
 To part with such a leader is cause for deep regret, not only 
 locally but among the whole sisterhood of our churches which 
 have come to depend upon his counsel and help. 
 
 We bespeak for him, after a much-needed season of rest and 
 recruiting, many years of effective labor somewhere in the wide 
 fields of our denominational activities. 
 
 For this church we implore the blessing of Heaven, in the 
 faith that having so much of grace, prosperity and harmony, to 
 them the more shall be given. 
 
246 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 In the Congregationalist of August 24, 1907, there is an appre- 
 ciative letter concerning- Rouse and his work at Appleton. The 
 writer says : 
 
 "We say in Wisconsin 'Rouse of Appleton.' It is the familiar 
 way we have with some of our ministers. With others who have 
 been longer in the State we are more formal, and do not associate 
 them so closely with any locality. But the Appleton Church is of 
 such a character that it makes its minister a man of mark from 
 the moment he assumes the reins of leadership; and its pastor 
 for the past eight years is the kind of man who both encourages 
 familiarity and commands respect. . . The church has steadily 
 gained in numbers under Mr. Rouse's administration, until it is 
 almost, if not quite, the largest in the State ; and it has been 
 growing all the time in substantial churchly character. . . We 
 shall be lonely in Wisconsin without Rouse of Appleton. He 
 seemed exactly to fit his place and to find his successor will be 
 no easy task. Omaha will be a challenge to resources not yet 
 called largely into action ; but we have confidence that he will 
 carry the new and heavier burden with such masterly ease that 
 he will always seem to possess 'a constant freshness for all 
 needed things.' " 
 
 Bliss writes : — "Give my love to all and tell them that it's high 
 time they made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visited Bey- 
 rout en route. In fact they can leave out the Holy Land but they 
 mustn't pass Beyrout by. Let 'em all come — with wives and 
 children and grandchildren ; lots of room and lots of welcome. 
 I promise not to bore them talking about the Syrian Protestant 
 College. We have compulsory service, but they needn't attend. 
 We have lots of Arabic courses, but they needn't study them. 
 We have delicious oranges and grapes and apricots, but they 
 needn't eat them. We have golf and tennis, but they needn't 
 play them. We have horses, but they needn't ride 'em. They can 
 just loaf and bask in the Syrian sun and invite their souls in 
 true Walt Whitmanesque fashion. Only let 'em come !" 
 
 One member of the class had the degree of D.D. offered him — 
 for $25. As he states in a letter, he kept the money and pro- 
 poses to use it in entertaining his classmates. His address will 
 be given upon application. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 247 
 
 "Dr. Hitchcock was a member of the executive committee of 
 the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, where his insight 
 and excellent judgment were highly prized. He was particularly 
 active in connection with the City Missionary Society of Worces- 
 ter, and during 1906 was president of the Congregational 
 Club. His interest in the foreign populations was keen, and he 
 made the Finns of Worcester at home in the chapel of Central 
 Church, where they held services regularly. Few men of his 
 years have given more convincing proof of their qualifications for 
 the modern Christian ministry ; and few have left the stamp of 
 their personal influence upon so many lives. Dr. Hitchcock 
 illustrated nobly, both in public and private life, that definition 
 of Grace which makes it consist in will going out spontaneously 
 to the common service." — The Con pre nationalist. 
 
 From the Rochelle (111.) Herald, November 12, 1891 : "The 
 organization of the Ogle County Temperance League is due to 
 the direct efforts of Rev. C. W. Loomis of Stillman Valley, more 
 than to any other man, for through his persevering labors the 
 people of the various towns of the county were first interested 
 and enlisted in the movement. Of course he had good home 
 backing, but he did the necessary pioneer work, and if this 
 organization does not accomplish all that is expected of it, it 
 will not be because he did not plan and labor wisely." 
 
 Hitchcock's thesis for his doctor's degree from Clark Uni- 
 versity is entitled "The Psychology of Jesus," and is to appear 
 from the Pilgrim Press about February first. President G. 
 Stanley Hall of Clark University is to write the introduction. 
 
 The work of Lovell is almost beyond the pale of a layman's 
 comprehension. Unsuccessful in getting the information he 
 desired from the Bureau of Entomology at Washington, he has 
 been obliged, in his study of Bees, to consult a widely scattered 
 literature, to make large and expensive collections of specimens, 
 to employ special collectors, and to devote many days to personal 
 work in the field. The completion of his series of monographs 
 has been delayed by the necessity of getting descriptions and 
 
248' CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 figures of types from the British Museum ; but the forthcoming 
 publication of the remaining numbers will place Mr. Lovell as 
 authority in this field of work. 
 
 Whiting's work in the field of otology has attracted wide atten- 
 tion in the medical world. His latest work on "The Modern 
 Mastoid Operation," while well received by specialists, is a very 
 expensive work, owing to the care given to the cuts, press-work, 
 and binding ; but it will probably not be one of the "six best sel- 
 lers" on this account. Perhaps his most remarkable feat was the 
 reading of a paper before the New York Academy of Medicine, 
 and the presentation of three living cases, upon whom he had 
 operated for sinus thrombosis. That was regarded by practi- 
 tioners as a wonderful display of surgical skill. 
 
 Several members of the class attended a missionary concert 
 last summer, given in Stearns' church in Norfolk, Conn. Now 
 a missionary concert does not overwhelmingly appeal to at least 
 one of the number. But this one was different. The old church 
 on the green was brilliant within and without with specially 
 arranged electric lights; there was a profusion of flowers of 
 rare sort; a dense throng of ladies and gentlemen in evening 
 dress waited upon the church steps half an hour for the doors 
 to open ; the church, even the space about the pulpit, was crowded. 
 And for the concert we heard Mme. Hissam De Moss, Mme. 
 Schumann-Heink, Dethier, probably the most skillful organist 
 in this country, and half a dozen men well known to the musical 
 world. This was given us for the nominal sum of fifty cents ; 
 but the expenses, all borne by a lady of the church, must have 
 run up to several thousand dollars. 
 
 A number of years ago an elderly lady of Hartford was wheel- 
 ing a youngster in a baby carriage. Chance took her past the 
 celebrated Charter Oak; at that moment the ancient tree fell, 
 burying the baby carriage and its occupant in a mass of branches 
 that nearly smothered the boy. He was at last extricated, safe 
 and sound; and even to-day George Reed relates the wonderful 
 experience that his grandmother and he had on that memorable 
 day. 
 
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 The Class of '82 has never had sufficient credit for its efforts, 
 successful at last, in bringing about the abolishing of fences 
 in Amherst. It is not too late to make a record. Early in June 
 of our Freshman year, it was determined that the fences must go 
 and that their exit could not be more appropriately hastened than 
 by a fire on the Campus. The aid of some '81 men was readily 
 obtained and shortly, just before midnight, there was accumulated 
 back of the Chapel a huge pile of garden gates. Kerosene was 
 at hand and the fire began. Faculty Street had been stripped 
 clean, and not a gate remained. It was inevitable that some of the 
 owners should have been attracted by the flames. But when the 
 old Doctor suddenly appeared and cried out, "Gentlemen!" with 
 the accent on the "men," the sight that followed was such that it 
 will never be effaced from those who were fortunate enough to 
 see it. There was a rapidly widening circle of coattails and boot- 
 heels, and "Old Doc" was left alone. When Faculty Street found 
 that the absence of gates was really an advantage, not only were 
 they not replaced but the fences went too. In short, when 
 anyone now comments favorably on the beautiful lawn effects, 
 the only reply is, '"82 did it." 
 
 The first recognition of the Class of '82 as being anything 
 more than Freshmen was on the day following election day in 
 November, 1878. After nearly thirty years, it matters little 
 what were the issues, it is to be presumed they were highly moral 
 and the results were satisfactory. There was among the candi- 
 dates one who lived near Freshman River and the sawmill. He 
 was so delighted at his success that he sent word to the College 
 that he would like to be congratulated, and we were only too glad 
 to accommodate him. A procession of four companies was 
 formed, torches and transparencies were obtained, and the line 
 of march was taken toward Freshman River. Doughnuts, 
 cheese, and coffee awaited us, and then we filed out, stopping to 
 shake hands with the successful candidate. For most of us it 
 was our first political experience, and on the mind of one at 
 least the expression on the official's face, when he realized the 
 damage to his house and furniture by this incursion of four 
 hundred men, made a lasting impression. The evening closed 
 with a meeting in College Hall at which President Seelye and 
 Rev. Dr. Hitchcock of New York made proper political speeches. 
 
25° CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 A BIG BLAZE AT AMHERST. 
 
 Phoenix Block Burned to the Ground this Morning. 
 Loss Heavy. 
 
 (Special Dispatch to the Union.) 
 Amherst, Tuesday, April 5, 1881. — A fire broke out at about 
 half-past twelve, this morning, in the upper story of Phoenix 
 Block at Amherst, which resulted in its total destruction. It was 
 a large, three-story, brick block, fronting on the common, and 
 extending from the corner opposite the new Amherst House 
 down Phoenix Row to Kellogg's block. The lower floor was 
 occupied by Henry Adams's drug store, Sloan's shoe store, E. A. 
 Thomas's dry goods store, and J. W. Waite and Sons' hat store. 
 The second floor contained the barber shop of J. J. Fry, the 
 office of Judge Thomas, M. L. Merritt's locksmith shop and 
 Cook's billiard hall. The third floor was occupied by the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon society, with the rooms of members and their 
 society hall. These rooms were fitted up by them about i860 
 and have been occupied by them ever since. The fire originated 
 in a student's room on the third floor, and soon gained such head- 
 way that it was impossible to stay it. The loss will be heavy, but 
 in most cases will be covered by insurance. 
 
 THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION 
 STATE OF VERMONT. 
 
 BY 
 
 Fletcher D. Proctor, Governor. 
 
 A Proclamation. 
 
 The early settlers of New England after the harvest had been 
 
 gathered, were moved to appoint a day on which to come together 
 
 and give united thanks to God for His protecting care and 
 
 beneficent providence. 
 
 Each succeeding generation has deemed it wise and good to 
 follow the reverent example of these noble colonists. 
 
 Heartily endorsing this custom and firmly believing in the 
 religious intent of this observance I name 
 
 Thursday, the Twenty-Eighth Day 
 
 of November current 
 
 A Day of Remembrances and Thanksgiving 
 
 for the people of this State. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 251 
 
 Let not the day be given over wholly to amusements and social 
 pleasures, but let us be mindful of the lofty purpose of its 
 institution. By public worship and private devotions let us on 
 this day express our especial recognition of our dependence upon 
 God, and our sincere gratitude for His Divine favor. 
 
 For the opportunity to labor and the products of field, mill, 
 and shop; for the love of education, and the diffusion of learn- 
 ing; for the growing respect for law, and demand for its faith- 
 ful administration ; and for that strong, sensitive religious spirit 
 which keeps us in pursuit of the ideals of the fathers, begets a 
 lively hope in men's hearts, and illumines and gives faith for 
 the future — let our thanksgiving be made. 
 
 But let us prove our gratitude and make it real before all 
 men by uniting with our rejoicing a spirit of meekness and a 
 live and active sympathy for them that be in want or misfortune. 
 In these and other fitting ways let us commend to others, 
 establish firmer in our own lives and justify and commit to our 
 children our patriotism, reverence, and high and noble purposes 
 of manhood. 
 
 Given under my hand and the seal of the 
 
 State this twelfth day of November, in the 
 
 [Seal] year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred 
 
 seven, and of the independence of the United 
 
 States the one hundred thirty-second. 
 
 Fletcher D. Proctor. 
 By the Governor ; 
 
 Benjamin Williams, Jr., 
 
 Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs. 
 
 Savage writes: — "I am proud of my Normal School of 
 Physical Education, and believe it is doing a great and valuable 
 work. We have over fifty students in the course at present and 
 the school is growing steadily and turning out the best teachers 
 in this business. I have enjoyed all the honors the physical 
 educators can offer me except retirement on the honorary list for 
 old age. I thoroughly enjoy my chosen life work and though not 
 as profitable as many other branches of medicine it is certainly 
 healthful, pleasing, and satisfactory in results obtained. I have 
 retired from the active firing line of general gymnastics and 
 am devoting my entire time to the medical and corrective aspects 
 of exercise. When the boys break down from hard work (?), 
 
252 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 high living, and following the pace that kills, tell them to advise 
 with the slower going Savage and take a little time out for 
 renewing their youthful vigor." 
 
 AN EXPERIMENT IN CORPORATION STORES. 
 By Frank C. Partridge in The Vcrmonter, May, 1905. 
 
 About two years ago Herr Krupp, the head of the great Krupp 
 Company in Germany, died, and at that time in one of the articles 
 descriptive of the industrial betterment features of the Krupp 
 business mention was made of the division of the profits of its 
 stores among its employes. This came to the attention of the 
 management of the Vermont Marble Company, and that com- 
 pany, upon lines which it devised to fit its own case, began May 
 1, 1903, the experiment in question. At that time the company 
 announced that it proposed to divide among its employes accord- 
 ing to their trade at each store the entire profits of that store. 
 The management of the store was continued in the hands of 
 the company. A representative committee, however, of five 
 employes was appointed for each of the stores to take a consulta- 
 tive part in its management and particularly to supervise and 
 audit the settlement of its business and the distribution of its 
 profits at the end of the year. These committees are from time 
 to time consulted and suggestions are sought from them as to 
 changes or improvements which would help the service but the 
 real responsibility for the management of the stores has con- 
 tinued as before in the company, which advances all of the 
 money required for their business and through its executive 
 officers directs their general policy. The purpose has been to 
 continue to keep the prices of the stores as low as possible and 
 assure a reasonable margin of profit. 
 
 The total sales for the first eight months, that is from May 1, 
 1903, to January 1, 1904, were $251,620.11, of which $179,716.38 
 were sales to employes of the company, and the balance, $71,- 
 903.73, were sales to non-employes. The profits from the busi- 
 ness of the three stores including both its sales to employes and 
 non-employes were for the same period $16,296, or 6.4 per cent, 
 on their entire sales. That gave the employes trading at the 
 Proctor store a dividend of ten per cent, upon their purchases, 
 those trading at the West Rutland store a dividend of nine per 
 cent., and those at the Center Rutland store a dividend of six per 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 2 53 
 
 cent., an average dividend to employes of over nine per cent. 
 These dividends were paid to the employes in January, 1904, by 
 bank check. 
 
 During the year 1904 the total sales at the three stores for 
 the whole year were $408,668.90, of which $300,292.37 was to 
 employes of the company, and the balance or $108,376.53 was to 
 non-employes. The profits of the stores were for the year 
 $27,331.44 or 6.7 per cent, upon their total sales, which gave a 
 dividend to the employes at the Proctor store of ten per cent, on 
 the amount of their purchases, to those at Center Rutland nine 
 per cent., and to those at West Rutland seven per cent., an 
 average of over nine per cent. ; and these dividends were paid 
 to the employes in cash in the month of January, 1905. With 
 the dividend there has been delivered both years to each trading 
 employe a printed statement, signed by the respective committees, 
 showing the details of the business done and the settlement of 
 the same, with the amount of his purchases and dividend filled in. 
 
 Under the present arrangement the employes receive their 
 goods at less than their original cost plus their proportion of the 
 expense of the stores, as they get back not only the profit on their 
 own goods but the profit on sales made to non-employes. 
 
 "Walter S. UfTord has resigned the general secretaryship of 
 the Federated Charities of Baltimore on account of his health and 
 the necessity of taking a considerable period for recuperation. 
 Mr. Ufford came to Baltimore to become the general secretary 
 in October, 1902. He had been on the staff of the State Board 
 of Charities of New York and had had much experience in 
 practical charity work. He took hold of the position just after 
 the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the 
 Poor and the Charity Organization Society had agreed upon a ten- 
 tative scheme of federation. The first step in this federation was 
 his employment as joint general secretary. Since then the federa- 
 tion has progressed by gradual steps and now the central office 
 force and the force in each district represent both societies. This 
 federation has resulted in economy of work and more thorough 
 treatment of beneficiaries. Among other things, a night applica- 
 tion bureau has been opened during the winter months. A year 
 after Mr. Ufford's arrival the Federated Charities occupied their 
 joint building, 101 W. Saratoga street, and since then several new 
 neighborhood centers have been established. During Mr. 
 
254 CLASS OF 1882. 
 
 Ufford's incumbency two exceptional emergencies occurred 
 requiring the administration of relief on an unusually large scale 
 for the benefit of those who were victims of sudden disaster. The 
 causes of these emergencies were the tornado which struck North- 
 east Baltimore in 1903 and the great fire in 1904. On both occa- 
 sions the Federated Charities exercised a leading influence in the 
 successful organization of relief work on sound principles. 
 During the same period the Federated Charities have also been 
 influential, together with other philanthropic agencies, in obtain- 
 ing important legislation, such as the school attendance law, the 
 child labor law and the non-support law. One of the most 
 important undertakings of the Federated Charities, to which Mr. 
 Ufford has contributed very largely by his experience and labor, 
 has been the preparation of the report on the housing conditions 
 of Baltimore referred to in Charities and The Commons for 
 May 4. It is expected that this report will result in important 
 amendments to the building code of Baltimore which will improve 
 general conditions throughout the city." — Charities and The 
 Commons, May 18, 1907. 
 
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 On his resignation Dr. Ufford received the following letter : — 
 Mr. Walter S. Ufford, Baltimore, Md. ' 
 
 Dear Mr. Ufford: — At a joint meeting of the Charity Organi- 
 zation Society and the Association for the Improvement of the 
 Condition of the Poor, held on the twelfth of November, 1906, 
 we were all saddened by the reading of your letter of resignation 
 as our Secretary, by the statement of the reason therefor, and by 
 the conviction that we had, under the circumstances, no choice 
 but to accept it. 
 
 All who were present realized that our work is about to suffer, 
 in your departure from us, a loss which it will be difficult, if not 
 impossible, to make good; and many of us felt that we were also 
 losing a friend of that true, sincere type, the possession of one 
 or two of whom makes life worth the living. 
 
 One after another arose and put into speech the tribute to 
 your character and services which all felt and which all would 
 have been glad individually to utter had time allowed. 1 
 
 Finally, by a unanimous vote, we, the President of the Charity 
 Organization Society, the President of the Association for the 
 Improvement of the Condition of the Poor, and the Chairman 
 of the Board of Managers of the Charity Organization Society, 
 were appointed a committee to convey to you, as well as we are 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE. 255 
 
 able, the sense of the meeting in regard to your resignation and 
 to yourself. 
 
 Much as we should like to have the power fully to express this 
 sentiment, we feel unable to do more than suggest by words the 
 attitude of the governing boards of these two societies towards 
 you. 
 
 Speaking for each member of each board, we appreciate that 
 few persons holding a similar position to yours have had to 
 face as difficult problems as have during the past years confronted 
 you. We are sure that no one ever brought to their solution more 
 unselfish zeal, or more untiring industry, combined with unfailing 
 tact, broad-minded sympathy, and executive ability. 
 
 We know that you have given a large part of yourself to the 
 poor of our city, and that your leaving us will be a loss to those 
 of our fellow-citizens who most need help, even greater than it 
 will be to us. 
 
 Your personality has a big place in our hearts, and wherever 
 you go, and in whatever environment you carry on your work, 
 or in whatever place you wait for reinforcement of physical 
 strength, our thoughts, our affection, our best wishes will be 
 with you. We shall sympathize with you in all that may come to 
 you in the way of disappointment. We shall rejoice with you 
 in all that you may add to your already large accomplishment. 
 
 And now, having as best we can discharged our duty in con- 
 veying to you the sense of the meeting, we sign ourselves, with 
 deep regret at the necessity of parting, and with warm personal 
 affection, 
 
 Your sincere friends, 
 
 (Signed) Ira Remsen, 
 
 President, Charity Organization 
 Society. 
 
 (Signed) Eugene Levering, 
 
 President, Association for the 
 Improvement of the Condition of 
 the Poor. 
 
 (Signed) Alfred S. Niles, 
 
 Chairman, Board of Managers, 
 Charity Organization Society. 
 Baltimore, December 17, 1906. 
 
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