aMMst. Class Record and Book of Decennial. Class Record AND Book of the Decennial. Amherst College, Class of 1555. •:• Published by the Class, 1599. In accordance with the desire expressed by many pORpWORD of the classmates present at the Decennial reunion this little book has been prepared. It aims to supplement the Class Record published in 1893, and to preserve for the benefit of the whole class a formal report of the enthusiastic gathering in June last. The labor of compilation has fallen in the midst of a busy year, while the inevitable delays incident to the gathering of statistics have been aggravated by unex- pected though unavoidable delays in printing. Thus the record reaches the class somewhat later than was at first hoped, but not too late, I trust, to fulfill its mission in stirring anew the college spirit and loyalty of each member of Eighty-Eight. For the mistakes that have doubtless been made in weaving together the information gathered from many sources only the compiler can be blamed. His thanks are due to the many classmates who have assisted him in securing the data from which the Record, as it stands, has been completed. S. O. Hartwell. My dear Boys of Eighty-Eight: GREETING. The last commencement was one of such unusual petty cares and responsibilities that I stood on my head a great part of the time and so could not even shake hands with but a moiety of the boys who came back, and whom I wanted more than a hand shake from. But from the general racket which you made I guess that on the whole you called it a good time, and that did us all good. It is a pleasure to me to follow as many of you as I can, and I rejoice at the many successes of some of the class and my cordial sympathy goes to the few who have known affliction, adversity and imperfect success. To the latter a brighter day will come, and the former I beg to hold fast to what belongs to them and they have already acquired. My special attachment to '88 is apparent from the assistant whom the trustees have given me, who fills the bill and is giving growth and development to the department. The spirit of College is beautiful. All feel, and act accordingly, that while there is no head here now, every man will do his best and take good care of the mother till she marries again. But all the same, and all the while, come and see the old lady, remember her on her birthdays, think of her, say a good word, and pray the Good Father to be nearer and nearer to us. Most affectionately, E. Hitchcock. ,^^%,S the secretary was prevented from attending the T-Hp B/]^\€ Decennial he will not attempt to describe it, tat/tixtxtt x t y» u .- .• r 1 ,, r DECENNIAL. ^^^ save by presentmg portions of letters from several of the boys who were there. All accounts agree that it was the best reunion the class has held and one of the best Decennials that Amherst has seen. The programme of festivities as previously arranged was enthusiastically carried through. Forty-two men were at the banquet Monday evening, and the following forty-six were present in Amherst during some part of the week: Baker, Bard, Bartlett, Bispham, Bliss, Child, S. A. Clark, Dickerman, Edwards, Esty, Ewing, Gage, Gar- field, Gleason, Goodrich, A. P. Goodwin, W. D. Good- win, Greenough, Hastings, Heard, Huntington, F. S. Hyde, Jackson, Jacobs, Jewett, Kebbe, Leonard, Mar- shall, Merritt, Miller, Noyes, Oldham, Ferine, Phillips, Pierce, Prest, Ramsdell, Riggs, W. P. Smith, Stearns, Steele, Tenney, Waldo, W. F. White, Whiting, Woodin. John Miller writes: "I am at home again after a splendid time at Amherst- joHN MILLER. I shall forward you in a few days the full financial details. Up to the present time the thing has just about paid for itself. I was there Friday night and found Bill Smith, Ferine, and all the faculty and town men on hand of course. Saturday I moved my quarters to Hitchcock Hall as I perceived that this would be the storm-center. Here I stayed till Thursday noon when Bill Greenough and I were the last in town and felt too sorrowful to give each other the class yell (as we had done for each previous one) so parted in sorrow and agreed it was a Reunion to be proud of, and in reality it was — forty-two men to sit down to dinner after ten years shows that we have the 7 proper spirit; and it was a delightful dinner, Rammy presided with ministerial unction, and the usual gags, and grinds and interruptions filled the atmosphere. The choragus fell down badly in trying to get the quar- tet and octet numbers safely by the land batteries, so we gave it up and everybody joined in the melee. Sunday evening we did ourselves proud by giving a whole sacred concert by ourselves in quite a creditable way. At least that is what we thought and many said as much. The church was filled with admirers and critics though the weather was hot as could be. Babbum sang as of yore (perhaps even more yorely.) Charlie Bliss and Leonard developed remarkable improvement in ten years, and Charlie Edwards and I were about as ten years before. Monday afternoon Mrs. Todd gave us a nice reception which we all attended, and got better acquainted with our wives than we had hitherto had the opportunity to be. There was a goodly number there too. * * * I have covered our doings up to Tuesday night which had the usual society doings not important to class mat- ter. Most of the gang left town Wednesday afternoon after Alumni dinner and Bill Greenough, Jackson and I occupied the house alone that night. The private functions of meeting and discoursing together in a joyful fashion that occupied the days and nights cannot be recited in a letter of course, and as you missed it your imagination alone must be your rescuer. It was most enjoyable. All agreed that we were no older than in '88 and that all these wives, babies, bald heads and whiskers were a sense delusion or — if not exactly that — at least a hitherto undiscovered form of being, real enough in themselves but not powerful enough reality to weigh against the noumenal fact that we were not a bit older than ten years ago." 8 Phillips, also of the committee, says: "In response to your request for reports of the P- C. PHILLIPS. Decennial I send a word, but you must not forget that as a member of the committee of arrangements I am likely to be prejudiced. My sermon has three heads. Firstly, for nu?nbers our reunion has scarcely if ever been excelled. And a finer looking, solider class it has never been my lot to see back at a reunion. I under- stand '88 in numbers showed up in marked contrast to her other reunions. Secondly, in unity our class evinced the character- istic shown years ago in cane rushes and rushes without canes. The boys acted as a unit when it came to any- thing of importance and stood together for what they thought right and what was good for the college. Thirdly, the spirit of '88 was admirable. It was manifested in the humble, tedious work of putting up the bunting which graces the pillars in the cut, and again in '88's interest in all pertaining to the college weal; but most of all at the banquet where, while criticism was not absent, nor deserved to be, it made loyalty, helpful, hearty loyalty to the old college the key note of the occasion. Your humble servant is aware that other classes have been larger in numbers than '88, that others have had brighter lights in the world of business and letters than she has yet shown, that still others have maintained a higher average mark in college than did she; but when forty-six of the old boys flocked into town and made themselves felt everywhere and especially at Alumni dinner he felt proud that of all the classes which • Amherst has graduated he belonged to the class of '88." 9 A. H. Pierce had charge of the arrangements for Sunday evening's concert, which was most successful. He writes as follows: A. H. PIERCE. "Commencement seems now about a year ago, but I fancy the forty-six men of '88 that got back here at that time will cherish a warm memory of the few days here for a longer time than a single year. You have doubt- less heard many accounts of the reunion and of the more general doings of this particularly joyful commencement. I am not going to burden you with any details. There were few things to be regretted, but one was that you were unable to be here with us, and this was deep- ened when we learned that your contribution to the supper had by some oversight been allowed to remain in the postoffice. Every detail of the Decennial seems to have happened as it should. The spirit shown was excellent. There was nothing to mar the entire event. All were quietly happy to be here. Thfe little event of Sunday evening resulted in a crowded church and many expres- sions of gratification. The toasts at the supper were capital and the toastmaster beyond reproach. Of course you have seen the neat menus. Miller was the lordly youth of former days — somewhat over stout, perhaps, as was then his wont — but still able to move about at a lively rate and collect dues." Child says: \V. B. CHILD. "How the old days came back to me as I sat last June with the boys on the piazza of old Hitchcock! * * * If I could only think of what studies I am in, and to whom I am due to recite to-morrow — but I can't, somehow. Here are the college buildings, surrounded by the same lovely landscape — there is no doubt we are in Amherst. And here are the boys, and there is Old Doc coming across the common, why, surely we are still studying and will rush up to chapel to-morrow morning with our breakfasts sticking in our crops. Hello! When did Bliss acquire all that hirsute wealth? Am I still dreaming? There is Noyes looking strangely bald! It begins to look as if the dream were the reality. And what's come over Babbum? "Good even to my ghostly confessor." And Rammy — what a mag- nificent vocabulary! Yes, yes, and Oldham — "Acquitted by a true substantial form." Did I overhear some one asking Leonard how many children he had? He replies — I caught that straight — "Why, several." Then it is all up. We are here only to renew our long past college days for a few brief hours and then to part once more." Hastings' report is as follows: "I enclose the blank filled out as you requested on K. W. HASTINGS, "special order." I had a first-rate time at the meeting in June. My only regret was the absence of some of my good friends like yourself. Yet among the forty-six present were many who are more than mere acquaint- ances. There was not a great deal of reminiscence how- ever, but the fellows were filled with a high desire to help the college of the present. The speeches at the dinner were on a high level while not lacking in fun and jollity. The men of '88 have met the problems of the world and they are not shirking their responsibility in the answers which must be given. Of course there was an abundance of good-fellowship and cordiality on all sides. It was said that one underclassman asked another what that class of '88 did when they were in college that II they were greeted so cordially and made so much show in numbers and in cheers. The other replied "Oh, that is the class that took all the athletic prizes that were going during the whole four years they were in college." Even if we did not do quite that, we were greeted cor- dially by professors and townspeople, many of whom still remember us both as a class and as individuals." Stearns writes: A. F. STEARNS. "You wish to hear all about the reunion. It was a grand success — at least from nearly every standpoint. Only those who were present can know what a pleasure it was to meet the dear familiar faces again. But our pleasures were marred by a touch of sadness, for many were absent. The Rev. Mr. Kebbe looked very sad without his old friend Judson; "Babbum," uninspired by the presence of "Chappie's" critical ear, was not at his best in rendering "The Bull Dog on the Bank", and Bard unaccompanied by Jack Smith was truly an object of pity. However, the absence of so many dear old faces could not long check the feeling of gladness caused by the presence of so many more, and so the boys soon settled down for a jolly good time. The climax of enthusiasm was reached, I think, at the banquet, where the boys — realizing that they were again evening up old scores — put no check upon either their appetites or their voices. This part of the program was, according to John Oldham, "a howling success." Well, like school boys who have come to the end of some vaca- tion, there is nothing left to do but settle down and look forward to the next one. Let us hope that the next time the roll is called we shall not have to record a single absence." 12 There were no stenographers at the banquet and it has not been possible to secure the ''notes" from which all the boys spoke — particularly as many were called upon unexpectedly. So many of the speeches as could be secured, however, are here given in the order of the toast list. The "Leaf from History" which Hartwell sent was delayed in the mails but is here given in its allotted connection. Classmates of Eighty- Eight: *' \ LEAF FROM When I promised our toastmaster that I would HISTORY." attempt this Sibylline task of reading from the leaves, I fully expected to be with you to-night and to be able to ^ ^ HARTWELL. speak face to face these few words concerning our. class record. For your sake as well as my own I regret deeply that circumstances prevent my presence. I am sorry on the one hand to inflict a written report at such a gather- ing; on the other hand I am more disappointed than I can say that I cannot join you in the Decennial festivi- ties. But, whatever the circumstances, one cannot fail to respond cheerfully and triumphantly when asked for a "Leaf from History" — the History of Eighty-Eight. The annals of the class are by no means complete. Glad as I am to recall the virtues of my classmates there are very few whom I could conscientiously commend as correspondents or reporters. The majority seem to emulate the modest compression of Bishop Brook's famous autobiography, which put, you remember, the story of a remarkable life into a half dozen commonplace lines. The statements of not a few remind one of the small boy's diary in which the most frequent item was "Forgot what did." 13 But if we remember any of the teachings of a dozen years ago we know that annals are the lesser part of history. ''The spirit which giveth life" often manifests itself most clearly in the simple forms and deeds that men stop not to speak of and enlarge by word. From the records of Eighty-Eight as they have come to me I think it can fairly be said that the same vigor, the same steadfastness, the same success that characterized the class in its salad days have impelled and attended its members through this first graduate decade. Our membership is well distributed in the various branches of business and professional activity. Of those who were together until the end of the course, twenty- three are now in business, sixteen are teaching in one capacity or another; fifteen are lawyers, eighteen, clergy- men (two in foreign lands), ten are physicians, two are editors. This includes some duplication of titles, as, e. g. — Dr. Professor Phillips. In addition we have a mine superintendent, a consulting chemist, an actor, a librarian, a literary critic and two students. In each line there have been notable successes; in none do I hear of failure. Our lawyers and doctors seem to be enjoying good practice. Most of them are too busy to write. Some are already engaged in teaching their fledgling brethern of the 'go's the intricacies of the human body or the legal fallacies of the human brain. Among our preachers Ramsdell is eloquent as of yore. Bispham still leans to music and has been giving "Hints to the Younger Clergy" on that topic. F. S. Hyde is blest with twins and, with Caesar, cries "Beware the Ides of March." Of our teachers "Lengthy" Peirce has elongated into the Reverend President William F. Peirce of Kenyon College, while "Little" Pierce, as 14 "Kellogg Fellow" has concentrated in his brain the psychological lore of Europe. We have other worthy representation in the home faculty. The athletic skill and prowess of Eighty-Eight has crystallized in Dr. Phillips and is again a factor at Amherst. He is "Shorty" to-night, but do not mention it on the campus, lest the dignity that has been so long the glory of that department be dimmed! Davidson is practising law in one of the tallest buildings of Chicago. Little Dave controls the aluminum output of the country. Chapman is still blowing the "Ram's Horn" outside the gates of Jericho (at least he is in Chicago too), and Wilkinson adorns the financial centers. So it goes. George Hyde is making a name in literary work, Votaw in Biblical scholarship, while Billy Marsh — married, by the way — has, to use his own words, "given himself to direct evangelization," which takes him a notch above the other clergymen of the class and quite out of sight of the laymen. The spirit of our busi- ness men is epitomized in Charlie Raymond's answer to the request for personal history since 1893: "Still striving to show the world that the best rubber goods in the world are made by the Goodrich Hard Rubber Co., at Akron, Ohio." All are working, all are in earnest, the most are married. The marital record has already been put in your hands and shows for itself that we are serving well our day and generation. Let the bachelors remember, however, "They also serve who only stand and wait." Truly the years have been good to us. In worldly ways the trying times of the last few years have not overpowered us. Death has not left us unvisited, but since 1893 no member has fallen from the ranks. 15 Could I look into your faces tonight I am sure that I should find there the spirit which I have interpreted in your letters. Our gristle has hardened, our sinews are tense, our purposes are fixed. As men we are fulfilling the teach- ings of Alma Mater and the promises of Amherst years. With joy in the comradery of the past, with strength from its renewal, we shall go on to meet the future. The path is still upward, the years of greatest oppor- tunity are before us. Like Paracelsus, "We go to prove our souls." AMTiFRST ^^' Toastmaster and Classmates: CCW I FTF ^ ^^^® \i^^n wondering what kind of picture Hart- well's notice called up in the mind of each of you, as, with baby on knee, memory carried you back over ten P. C. PHILLIPS. ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ,gg ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ college. Was it a land- scape wherein lay purple mountains, green meadow and winding river? Or did college hill with its spires rise before you. Walker Hall in its grandeur, the famil- iar dormitories, the church and its ivies, or perhaps the old "gym" and inseparable from it the white beard, genial face and red fez of him who was, and is, the head, and better, the heart of the department and the college? Perchance the faces of college friends and classmates came first into your picture, friends with whom you walked and trusted, studied and flunked in that happy period. Or possibly the vision might have contained the countenances of those whose teaching so influenced your life, "Old Ty" with face shining over Demosthenes, Morse illuminating a page of history, or Garman as with that rare smile he led you suddenly out of the dark forest into the clear light of truth. 16 Not one but many, perhaps all of these images, entered into your picture. While the college suffered an irreparable loss when we left it, yet the mountains and buildings and faculty are still here and the spirit of the past still lives. We are at present without an executive head, but under our worthy dean and with the faculty more united and loyal than ever you may still expect great things of your Alma Mater and plan confidently to send your sons to her halls. Her grounds have never been so beautiful nor her equipment so good nor her faculty so adequate as to-day. To be sure our athletic victories for the past few years have not been numerous but with the hearty cooperation of the young alumni, for which plans, are now forming, we expect great improvement in the near future. The relations between students and faculty are amicable and while the senate of our day is for a time defunct I believe that with sufficient back-bone behind it much good may be acomplished by its resuscitation. Fraternity life, it is admitted on all hands, has become too prominent in Amherst College. It has been detrimental to her athletic interests and blighting to proper college spirit. Steps are being taken by the students themselves to keep fraternity life in its proper sphere and to emphasize zeal and spirit for the college. Classmates, let loyalty to the college be the motto of '88 at this time and let us pledge it now in a toast "To the College we left but the College we love." 17 THF CI ASS OF "Many of us have been walking in new paths. We have been wearing new shoes. We have been trying to ElVJlll Y'EiUllK jjj^jjg new places for ourselves. After the hunt King James used to order his old shoes because they were W» Fl^ PKEST. easiest. Old friends are best. And our best friends ought to be found in the class of '88, and the men of '88 ought to be the best friends of Amherst College. For to-night, at least, let us wear our hearts on our sleeves. Let us not think it unmanly to show our deepest feel- ings for one another and for our Alma Mater. The class of '88 is back again in Amherst. Back again in harmony. Old, familiar faces smile on us round the banquet. Some, indeed, are gone. Parsons, Brooks, Tracy. Parsons, beaten down by an incurable disease, discovered a sweet and fine nobility. Sam Brooks because of the faith that was in him freely gave up his life, and old "Pat" Tracy died like a hero, down where the Mississippi flows, trying to save the lives of others. Thick as the leaves of the ivy that cling to and beautify the College walls are the deeds and memories that bind us to Amherst College. Amherst is not famous for the beauty of her hills alone, the Genius Loci invests them with their charm. Lakes are not famous merely for depth, the residing dragon imparts to them a spell not their own. These Amherst hills and streams are ours again. We feel their charm and spell. Glad is their renewal of college life in due season. Let us enjoy the bright hours, as they pass, among our friends, or on the hills, or beside the brook. But before leaving one another again, before the vision has faded quite away, let us resolve to do homage to the College from which we have inherited so much. Epictetus, though a slave, valued his soul more highly than his ears. He had been brought up on Socrates and Plato and Zeno and felt that he had inher- ited great wealth from them. He called them his spiritual ancestors and rejoiced that they had transmitted to him their higher characteristics. Amherst is our spiritual ancestor. We ought to take pride in her. The man who has no pride in his high lineage and looks back to no inspiring source from which his being flowed will never see God who is our home. The Amherst man that takes no pride in Amherst is like the citizen that does not love his country. The Amherst man that does not love the purple and white is like the American that does not love the red, white and blue. The crying need of Amherst to-day is loyalty from her sons. Who will re-enlist for old Amherst? Will you? Will you? Not for four years. Not for any short and vain-glorious war. But for a period of service that shall last as long as any member of the class of '88 is able to render service to his Alma Mater. Hail to the Class of '88! Hail to Amherst College! And again. Hail to the Class of '88!" An appeal to Huntington for an abstract of the SNAP SHOTS. remarks made by those whom Ramsdell called on for "snap shots" has brought the following: "I have been vainly waiting a few days to see if I E. C. HUNTINGTON. could recall any of the words from the "snap shooters," but I cannot. There was such a genial air of good comradeship prevailing that I paid little attention to anything that was said beyond the fact that it all seemed happily put and pat for the occasion. Bard said some things worthy of record and I suggest you write to him. As to myself — I did not expect to be there and did not 19 at all expect to say anything, so what little I said was in the way of killing time. The place of the small college; the place of Amherst among those colleges; the preparedness of the Amherst man for the broadest fields of usefulness to his fellow men and to himself — these things are what I attempted to say. Bliss had his usual fund of good stories with which he entertained us. I suggest you write Greenough also. He had some good things. The spirit of the class was one of hopefulness for the weal of the college and a confirmation of the old-time belief that '88 was the best class that ever graduated, gradually settled over those who assembled." W B GREENOUGH "Ever since your first letter and notice came to me I have at long intervals set my memory to work to give you an "abstract of my remarks" at the class banquet. As the toastmaster did not intimate that he would call on me until we sat down to dinner, my brief remarks were so wholly extemporaneous that, while I remember much that others said, I have forgotten the few things I spoke of. Unfortunately there are no '88 men here in Providence whose memories I can set to work for my advantage, and I have been quite discouraged since Bill Prest, who lunched with me the other day and to whom, as a member of the Decennial committee, I applied for information, declared he didn't remember a thing except that it was the best class dinner he ever attended. I remember that I emphasized the influence that '88 might and should bring to bear on the trustees in the choice of a president, perhaps more individually than as a class, and the feeling that we should do more for Amherst in this critical time to revive some of the good old influences which have become but traditions and to help the college 20 forward to a fuller, broader and more useful life in the future. I remember that with words which were but a scanty expression of my feelings I proposed a toast to the memory of that loving, true and manly friend who repre- sented so fully the things which we love in a teacher and a friend, Professor Frink." Bard's treatment of practical college issues will be appreciated by all, as it was by those present. He said in substance: "The times and the college have changed much since A. S. BARD. Pindar Field and Ebenezer Snell hoisted a new bucket in the newly dug college well just over there on the hill. But whatever changes there may have been and may be, there seems to me to be one thing you can count on here in Amherst College, and that is an honesty of judgment of our own college, i. e. in a certain sense of our own selves — and this whether the judgment turns out favorable or unfavorable. Now that is not so every- where. Only a few weeks ago at a Yale dinner, a Yale alumnus was rash enough to criticise the English depart- ment of the university, and immediately a howl went up from the alumni at the disloyalty shown by public criti- cism. Perhaps there has been at times too much criti- cism here. I do not praise indiscriminate fault-finding, but if the candid admission of a defect bids fair to start an improvement, or prevent a second mistake, such an uproar over such a cause is impossible in Amherst. Therefore I shall say frankly some of the things that have come into my head while we have been talking over old life here and the present days. The enthusi- asm, generosity and loyalty of alumni are among the most important elements out of which any college builds its growth, and do not these elements gather about the 21 beauties of the college? In our own case, is there any- thing that we all unite upon so enthusiastically as the loveliness of our own college and college town? What a costly mistake, then, the new laboratory is! It was said of President Stearns, grandfather of our classmate here, that "he found the college of brick and left it of granite," there, simple as you please — the library, with its abmirable proportions and color, shows what can be done — but more uniformity is essential to the beauty of the college, and the power to appreciate beauty will follow the thing itself. To my mind, "Dicky" Mather did more for Amherst College when he put his collec- tion of plaster ghosts in Williston Hall, than many other professors of whom we were more afraid. In the second place, I want to speak of a topic which came up at an Amherst dinner in New York last winter. One of the younger Alumni had just made a ringing speech against cribbing, winning the enthusias- tic assent of all, as I supposed, until one of the older alumni seated at the head table, the father of a boy in college, had the amazing effrontery to get up and say that "he did not consider cribbing a very bad thing after all." Now I claim the right to speak freely on this point. I cribbed in college myself. And if there is anything mean, dishonest, and contemptible among the temptations of a college boy, that is it. Let there be whatever effort there may to rid colleges of idleness, dissipation, and worse, cribbing is the one thing that should not be tolerated for a moment. I believe that much of it is done carelessly, thoughtlessly, because it is in the air, and I believe that an atmosphere can be created in which this college curse cannot breathe. Athletics is a topic I should like to say a word about, because we have one of the pilots of Amherst athletics 22 here. I take it that the aim of wise college athletics is to effect the greatest good to the greatest number, that its real business, therefore, is not so much the winning of games and making of records in intercollegiate sports by the few, as the improvement of the health of the many. Hence the importance of getting the many into the gymnasium and making them work when they get there. Those collars and boiled shirts ought to come off at class drills, Dr. Phillips! The last thing about which I have a word to say is the fraternity spirit. While the particular members of one fraternity are on friendly terms with particular members of another fraternity — there are always such cases — I am told that fraternity rivalry runs higher than when we were at college. Now it is no easy task to say how far fraternity spirit may properly go or not go, but it is perfectly clear that too much fraternity rivalry injures the college spirit and saps the spirit out of the whole. So we older members of our fraternities, occu- pying positions to advise, should carefully consider this question and do what we can to encourage what shall be for the good of the whole." Ramsdell's brief note is in point here; "Speeches all good. Excellent tone through the F. E. RAHSDELL. whole banquet. Did not know of your report until next day. The reunion was, in my judgment a most suc- cessful affair and my one regret is that all could not have been there. I am strongly in favor of a tremendous push for the fifteenth year. We are growing older, some are passing away, but '88 can be kept going. Why not do it?" 23 MEETING. THE BUSINESS I^igg's report of the business transacted should properly become a part of the record and is given here: "At the memorable banquet of the class of '88 at its Decennial reunion, June 27, i8g8, it was moved that a secretary pro tem be appointed. Ramsdell, master of the feast, named Riggs for secretary of the meeting, to transmit to Hartwell, the absent secretary, brief notes of the business transacted. On motion, a committee was appointed by the toastmaster-chairman, consisting of Bard, Greenough and Goodrich, for the purpose of drafting resolutions to be presented to the Alumni Association of Amherst Col- lege, expressing the good will, the sympathy and the earnest desire of the class of '88 to cooperate in all good measures for the advancement of the college and all its interests. A vote of thanks was given to Mr. Hayes and to Mr. Lamson for their kind services in playing the organ at the song recital of '88. It was added that an operatic score be presented to Mr. Lamson as a souvenir of the occasion. The duty was assigned to A. H. Pierce to purchase and present the same. On motion to proceed to the election of officers the following were unanimously elected — succeeding them- selves: President, Wm. M. Prest. Secretary-Treasurer Shattuck O. Hartwell. A motion that a committee of three be appointed to express in suitable manner the thanks of the class to Secretary Hartwell was passed. The chair named Phillips, Oldham and Waldo as the committee. James G. Riggs, Secretary pro tem." 24 The resolutions mentioned were to take the place of THE RESOLUTIONS, the toast generally given at commencement dinner by a member of the Decennial class. Their fate is thus described by Bard: "The resolutions or toast were given to Doctor Hitchcock and not read by the chairman at the dinner because the other things took all the time and more too. But the Doctor said he was going to print the toast among the things done at the dinner — on the principle of the congressional record — if it may be said to have any." With the program of the service of sacred music and the menu and toast list of the banquet the formal record of our reunion closes. May these gleanings not alone show why the Decennial roused the old-time enthusiasm of all who were there but also serve to renew the college loyalty and college memories of each mem- ber of the Class of Eighty- Eight. 25 SERVICE OF SACRED MUSIC BY THE CLASS OF 1888 ASSISTED BY Messrs. S. P. Hayes '96 and C. E. Lamson 'gg. Organ, Maestoso George Calkin. Mr. Child. Anthem, Selected. Messrs. Leonard, Edwards, Miller and Bisfham, 3. Organ, Pastorale Arthur Foote. Mr. Child. 4. Solo, "O God Have Mercy." . , St. Paul. Mr. Bispham. 5. Hymn No. 96. Congregation. 6. Solo, Selected Mr. Leonard. Organ, Vorspiel to Lohengrin Wagner. Mr. Lamson. Anthem, Selected. Quartette. Solo, "Cantique de Noel," Adolphe Adam. Mr. Bispham. Organ, Piece Symphonique Grieg. Mr. Lamson. Hymn No. 566. Congregation. Organ, Russian Romance Hoffman. Mr. Lamson. 13. Solo, "It is Enough," The Elijah. Mr. Bliss. 14. Organ, Marche Pontificale Tombelle. Mr. Lamson. College Church, June 2b, i8g8. JJ6 DECENNIAL BANQUET OF THE CLASS OF EIGHTY-EIGHT, OF AMHERST COLLEGE, Monday, June 27th, 1898. F. E. Ramsdell, Toastmaster. A. H. Pierce, Choragus. MENU. Bisque of Lobster and Clear Consomme. Small Bread Sticks. Boiled Salmon and Peas. Cucumbers, French Dressing. Potato Croquettes. Whole Sweetbreads Larded. Stuffed Spanish Peppers. Salted Nuts. Tom and Jerry. Stall-fed Pigeons, Potato Delmonico. Sardine Salad. Baba au Rum. Opera Pudding Naples. Sultana Roll, Claret Sauce. Olives. Tortoni. Coflfee. Roquefort and Camembert. Water Thin Crackers. Strawberries. 27 POST PRANDIAL. Glendower— "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." Hotspur — "Why so can I; or so can any man: But will they come when you do call for them?" — King Henry IV. Welcome Toastmaster. WoLSEY — "A good digestion to you all; and, once more I shower a welcome on you: welcome all." — King Henry VHI. Songs — We meet again to-night. Octette. The Festal Day has come. A Leaf From History . (Shattuck O. Hartwell.) Rosalind— "Prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings." — As You Like It. The Class of Eighty-Eight . William M. Prest. King Edward — "Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course. And we are graced with wreathes of victory." — King Henry VI. Song — Amici Class. C J. E. Oldham, ^ T-. ) S. A. Clark, College Days .... ■< a. F. Stearns, [ J. H. Miller. Leonato — "A Skirmish of wit between them." Muck Ado About Nothing. Few Days, Songs— The Pope, Class. Sunday School Scholar. In Memoriam .... The Toastmaster. Amherst College . . Paul C. Phillips. Salisbury — "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." — King John. Songs — Here's to Amherst College. Class. My father sent me to old Amherst, r C. L. Bliss, Snap Shots J E. C. Huntington, SNAP bHOTS . . . • -^ w. B. Greenough, ( A. S. Bard. Coriolanus— "Well, mildly be it then, mildly." — Coriola nus. A Prophecy . . . (Frederick L. Chapman.) Ophelia — "Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be." — Hamlet. Song — Selected Quartette. Good Night . . . Lincoln B. Goodrich. Ghost — "But soft, methinks I scent the morning air." Song — Old Mountain Tree . . . Octette. 28 CLASS RECORD. IN SO FAR AS POSSIBLE THE SECRETARY HAS TRIED TO GIVE THE RECORDS OF THE CLASS IN THE WORDS OF EACH MEMBER. BUT AS SOME HAVE SENT NOTHING AND OTHERS HAVE WRITTEN PERSONAL LETTERS, MUCH HAS HAD TO BE SUPPLIED AND SOME PORTIONS OF LETTERS OMITTED. IT HAS SEEMED BEST NOT TO ATTEMPT, AFTER THE PRESENT SCRU- PULOUS HISTORICAL METHOD, TO SHOW ALL OMIS- SIONS AND PARAPHRASES BUT TO GIVE THE SUB- STANCE IN PARAGRAPHS AS CONCISE AS POSSIBLE. WHILE EXERCISING HIS JUDGMENT, UNDER THIS PLAN, IN OMISSION AND CONDENSATION, THE SECRE- TARY HAS NOT INTENTIONALLY CHANGED THE PHRAS- ING OR MEANING OF ANY OF THE LETTERS. GEORGE MERRIAM HYDE. George M. Hyde, of New York City, disappeared April II, 1899. On June 3rd his body was found float- ing in the Hudson River. The following statement appeared in the New York Times, of June 5: "On the Friday previous to Mr. Hyde's disappearance his father- in-law, Oliver P. Buel, died. The funeral was on Monday, April 10, and Mr. Hyde accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law, attended the burial, which took place at Troy, N. Y. He appeared to be greatly upset by the death of Mr. Buel and talked of it constantly. About I o'clock Tuesday afternoon he left the house to mail a letter to his sister, and did not return. He is supposed to have drowned himself while temporarily deranged, as his gold watch and $5 in money were found upon him. ' 'Mr. Hyde was a literary critic and a contributor to The Book Buyer and other similar periodicals. He was married on Jan. 11, 1899, to Miss Violet Buel, daughter of Oliver P. Buel, who was a member of the law firm of Buel, Toucey & Whiting." §INCE our last class book was issued I have been HERMAN V. AMES, something of a "rolling stone," and I may add, in the words of the old proverb, slightly changed, that I "have gathered" few shekels, but I have had a varied and on the whole an enjoyable experience. The year 1893-94 ^ continued at the University of Michigan, having charge of the work of the Professor of American History, during his temporary absence in Europe. Upon his return I determined to carry out a long cherished plan to spend a year or more in study and travel in Europe. Accordingly, the following year, 1894-95, was passed in the Universities of Leipsic and Heidelberg, and the vacations in traveling over most of the "beaten paths" and some of the "by-ways" of Europe. On one of these journeys I ran across two of our classmates, Pierce and Coombs. The former was ransacking Europe in search of a "Philosopher," and when finally he thought he had one located in Italy, the wise man took his departure for another world and left Pierce to continue the "chase" or become a Philosopher himself. Coombs was encountered in charge of a "personally conducted party" of "his sisters, his cousins and his aunts," and judging from his tale of woe the expe- riences of the trip with fair sex may account for his not having followed the example of the majority of the class. An Amherst man was by no means a rara avis in Europe. The two that I saw the most of were Gates '90, and Brainerd '92. The few months after my return were passed in private research work, as a result of which I secured the prize offered by the American Historical Association for research work in American History. In the fall of 1897 I came to the University of Pennsylvania, to accept my present position. Here Waldo and myself are doing 31 • what we can to hold up the honor of '88, while our classmates and fellow-townsmen are doing the same in the city. Your humble servant is still to be numbered with the so-called "selfish" element of the class, who have found it about all they could do "in the pursuit of knowledge" to look after themselves, the munificence of our University not encouraging them to provide for more." WILLIAM H. H. "I still remain at the old stand engaged in the sale ANDREWS, of groceries, dry goods, etc. Our store is of moderate proportions, but we manage to keep quite a variety of articles — from a package of needles to a bag of grain. I still retain the postmastership, the postoffice occupying one corner of the store. I am also justice of the peace. I am a regular attendant at the village church, which is Congregational, am superintendent of the Sunday school and treasurer of the church society. We have one daughter, Susie Evelyn." LEONARD F. "I regret very much that I am unable to make my APTHORP. letter very entertaining. The life of a collector is not a wildly exciting one and the work is sadly lacking in variety. Such literary power of description as could invest it with charm or interest I must confess does not reside in me. However, it is a most healthful occupa- tion and vastly better than loafing. If only I had a wife and three or four children I should have ample material for an intensely exciting letter, but I am not a married man and consequently I am seriously handicapped. I can only send a hearty greeting to '88 and express a hope that later on I may be able to do better." 32 From indirect reports and from the duly filled HARMON AUSTIN, "statistics" there is every evidence of Austin's prosperity and steady progress as a business man and influential citizen in Warren, Ohio. Baker is still in Springfield, with the Merriam ASA G. BAKER. Company. Since the Reunion, at which he was present and of which he sent an appreciative letter, death has entered his home. Lucy Baker, the baby daughter, died in July last. "If you conscientiously conduct your business like ALBERT S. BARD, the recording angels that the books we no longer read used to keep in stock, you will pause over the entry of my "family history and wife's maiden name" to drop a tear upon the blank. All the bad bachelors who attended the reunion were no doubt inspired by the successes of their married mates; but let the others who missed these happy examples, take warning from your significant sorrow at such a record — and send, before another class book, grist to your mill." "Your second effort is at hand and I hasten to fill RALPH W. BARTLETT. blanks and return same to you. I have nothing in par- ticular to add. Am busy, more or less prosperous, occasionally see an Amherst man on the street, and have been known to attend one of the monthly lunches which are held here in Boston during the winter." "My life in New Haven is a busy one. Besides the CLARENCE WYATT pastoral work and numerous services, I have the musical BISPHAM. direction of a boy choir and special work among students of Yale, over 150 of whom are regular attend- ants of the church. I have delivered and published a lecture on church music, which was given at the Gen- eral Theological Seminary and the New Haven County 33 Convocation. Enjoyed to the utmost the Decennial. Shall look forward with great pleasure to reunions of the future. May the Class of '88 come in large numbers and with the same warm spirit of enthusiasm exhibited last summer." CHARLES L. BLISS. "My last letter was sent to you from Beirut, Syria, where for four years I had a most interesting work in the medical college and hospital. The severe illness of my wife compelled me to leave, and in the summer of '95 I transferred my domicile from the Syrian sun and dominion of the wily Turk to the humid atmosphere of Washington, D. C. Here I am practicing medicine. Whatever else this change accomplished, it enabled me to attend the class reunion last June and that was worth a four thousand mile journey. Amherst never looked more beautiful." JOHN S. BRAYTON, Jr. "Your letter received with pleasure as usual, although you always ask for that almighty dollar. I am Jack Brayton." WILLIAM L. BREWSTER. "In response to your request for personal notes, I have gone over my past record searching for sensational items, but really there is nothing of interest. My domestic record is one marriage. I have built me a house containing suggestions of New England in its architecture. I have practiced law for over seven years. When I started in it was with the idea of doing my work regardless of financial profit to myself. And the public took me seriously! There is no country like this for beauty, climate, friends, or fortune. I have been in the militia, the Rowing Club, Law Library, Bar Asso- ciation, political clubs, etc., holding some sort of office in each of them. You doubtless know the sort of office. 34 You try to be useful but never ornamental. Write up my biography to suit yourself and I will affirm it to be true, so long as you don't contradict the above." "I am a country minister, satisfied with my choice CHARLES A. BRECK. of a life work, and enthusiastic in its prosecution. My life is poor in outward circumstance or achievement, but rich in contentment. I am trying to be of some use in my corner of the world, and am very happy. I rarely see an '88 man and shall be eager to see the class book." "I occupy same position as at last letter; no news. WALTER E. BUNTEN. At the outbreak of the war I joined the New York State Guard and have risen to the rank of corporal. We were not called out, although we expected to be. But the war was too easy. The only thing to brag about is the good score I made at rifle practice. I got 21 out of a possible 25 at the 100 yds.; 37 out of a possible 50 at the 200 and 300 yds.; 21 out of a possible 25 at the 500 yds.; and 20 out of a possible 25 at the 600 yds. : and this without any previous practice. In short, had never shot a Spring- field rifle in my life." At the time of the publication of the last class book IRVING A. BURNAP. Burnap was preaching at Monterey, Mass. Since that time he has been called to South Natick, where he still is. His congregation and his family are growing. "Please convey my warm greeting to all the men of FREDERICK L. Eighty-Eight. There is nothing new in my life work CHAPPIAN. worthy of report. It is made up of a great deal of 35 happiness and, as I trust, a little of usefulness. My greatest disappointment since leaving Amherst was occasioned by my inability to return for the Decennial. All plans were made for that long looked for event and were broken at the last hour by exacting business demands." WILLIAM B. CHILD. "The librarian has stayed a librarian most of the time these ten years. I have found the society of books more and more congenial as I have got to know them better. Familiarity truly hath not bred contempt. It was still among books that I went when I took the position of cataloguer with Macmillan & Co. in 1893. I was glad, however, to get back into a library again in 1895, when I came here to take charge of the fine collec- tion in the Union League Club. In October, 1897, I was married to Miss Sykes, of Elkhart, Ind., and lived happily ever after." SIDNEY A. CLARK. "^ ^^ sorry I haven't anything new and interesting to add. No more babies (in my own family), only the same old humdrum life of hustle from morning to night, and sometimes from night to morning. On the whole, I can find no fault with existence so far. Enjoyed the reunion more than I can tell. It did seem like old times to see so many of the fellows again, the only thing to mar the occasion being the fact that a// the fellows were not there." WILLIAM P. CLARKE. "I am glad there is to be another class book, for I want to hear about each of the boys. Waldo and Hastings have given me a glimpse of our Decennial, with photograph also. In my life there have been no special changes of interest to the class. I have begun my eighth year in 36 the service of the American Board and am still located here in Samakov, engaged largely, as heretofore, in teaching, though changes in the personnel of the station have made some change in my work. I have not yet had the pleasure of a visit from any of my classmates. Am not married." "From the publication of the class book of 1893 I ZELOTES W. COOMBS, continued to serve as Instructor in Modern Languages and Registrar at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. In 1894 I obtained a leave of absence for one year and in July of that year went to Hanover, Germany, where I spent two months. I entered the University of Berlin in October, and spent two semesters there. Returning in September, 1895, I was rnade Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the Wor- cester Polytechnic Institute, and have been busy there since. The degree of Master of Arts was obtained from Amherst in 1895, my thesis having been written while I was in Berlin. Life in Worcester offers plenty to do but it is hardly what can be called exciting. Still it is a strong Amherst town. In regard to marriage and family ties I cannot even report progress." Nothing has been heard directly from Corey for GEORGE H. COREY, some time. He has been since 1891 with the Ledoux Chemical Company in New York City. No word has come directly from Cornwell for some GEORGE H. CORNWELL. years, but through R. R. White, '89, we learn that he has been, as we should expect, an active and successful worker in the missionary field. He has not been back to this country since his departure in 1892. 37 J. ROFIEYN DANFORTH. "A report of five years is not easy to give but our secretary is inexorable and the sooner our autobiog- raphies drop into the letter box of '88 the less troubled will be our existence. With me the past five years have been quiet, happy, prosperous. In '93 I finished the first year of my first pastorate and my "solitary hearth" was in a hotel. But '98 sees the close of the first year of my second pastor- ate — a promotion — and I am like St. Paul in Rome in one respect (and only one) in that I now live "in mine own hired house" and am well guarded. I have wife and little daughter. I yield implicit obedience and we all three are subject to a good, faithful daughter of Hiber- nia, who is greatest among us though being our servant. Long life to Eighty-Eight!" WILLIAM E. DAVIDSON. "Here is "Big Dave" way up in the pine woods. If anyone were to look for Rudyard on the map, he would find it — or rather I should first say he probably would not find it, but if it was there at all, it would be way up in the eastern end of the north peninsula of Michigan. "What in thunder are you doing there Davy" did I here some one ask? Well, in the sum- mer time we sell land and fish for trout. As it does not take long to sell all the land that anybody wants to buy, we have plenty of time left for trout fishing. In the winter we lumber and shoot deer. As the state will only allow us to shoot deer for about three weeks, we are obliged to confine ourselves somewhat to business. If any '88 man should drift into any of the summer resorts around here and not let me know — well, you know what." ARTHUR V. DAVIS. "A description of my life for the last ten minutes or for any other ten minutes during the last ten years 38 would be all that the members of our class would require, for I have been doing the same thing right straight along ever since I left college. I varied the monotony of existence about four years ago by getting married, but that is the only marked change that has taken place in my condition. Your request for one dollar comes to me like a cold blast, but my enthusiasm for our Alma Mater is too great to be completely dampened by a request for one bone, and I herewith enclose the required amount." "There is nothing of interest in my life which needs HORACE W. a word of comment. Am living in Montclair, N. J., at I^ICKERMAN. No. 40 Harrison Ave., trying to attend to my business down here most of the time. I should like to write a long letter on general principles but I cannot at this time." Edwards sends the requested statistics — in his case CHARLES H. EDWARDS. quite brief, as he is still unmarried — but has written no letter. He still continues to "shine for all," however as one of the local representatives of the class in Amherst, with his office in the Town Hall. "At the reunion I was chiefly impressed by the JAMES EWING. pleasure of meeting my old friends, and discouraged by the clean cut evidence of decay in the College spirit. The boys don't seem to feel any responsibility. I thought the matter of raising a small fund for a class scholarship, among recent classes as proposed, ought to have been taken rather more seriously by our '88 men. Yale has an extensive system of that sort long in working order and many classes found scholarships as a result of it." 39 JAMES A. FAIRLEY. "Nothing much new since last report. Still unmar- ried, although I helped to get Woodin into the married state a year ago. We got into a fine new church building last Febru- ary, Lyman Abbott preaching the dedication sermon. With best wishes for '88, James A. Fairley." EDWARD F. GAGE. "I can add my name to the list of the members of '88 who thoroughly enjoyed the Decennial, or rather the portion my business permitted me to attend. The cordial good fellowship always so manifest among the members of '88 did much to make pleasant and enjoy- able a return which I had felt could have in it little but sadness. For in Amherst I had met and married my beloved wife, and in Amherst, too, in August, '97, had I in sorrow taken her to her last resting place. The class girl, my daughter Marion, is doing nicely and makes her home with my sister in North Andover, Mass. My boys are, I think, the first sons of '88 to become students at Amherst. They are boarding at Amherst and attending the public schools." FRANK L. GARFIELD. "The preacher's battle is half won, when he gets hold of a text that gets hold of him. To evolve a "crisp letter" with no more inspiring theme than information concerning myself — and before the next mail — requires, I fear, a degree of literary skill that I do not possess. I am five years older than when the last class book appeared; richer in the experience of life: better, I hope. I have more sermons in my barrel, my boy is learning to read and I have taken to the bicycle. I remain the pastor of my first flock — a kind, patient and long-suffering people. 40 My convenient location and the presence of a brother at Amherst during the past four years have kept me in touch with college life. The Decennial Reunion, with its hearty fellowship and fine, manly spirit, will always remain a delightful memory." After a pastorate of about three years in Bound LINCOLN B. Brook, N. J., Goodrich removed to Marlboro', Mass., GOODRICH. where he has been since 1896. He is the successful pastor of a large and important church and those who saw and heard him at Amherst last June speak of him with the same affection and respect as of old. "The fall of 1898 finds me still in the delightful little WILLIAM D. GOODWIN, city of the Berkshire Hills, and engaged in the sdme occupation as ten years ago— that of Assistant Principal and Classical Teacher in the High School. We are living in a comfortable cottage of our own, located in the suburbs on the line of an electric railway, and with our three children take great pleasure in our quiet home. Mrs. Goodwin and I attended the Reunion in June — our first visit to Amherst since my graduation. The familiar buildings and campus scenes, the college well, the clang of the same old chimes, the smile of "Prof. Charlie" unchanged by the years, above all the greetings by the well-remembered voices of classmates, and the words of friendly welcome from members of the faculty — all reminded one vividly of the Amherst of ten years ago. Indeed it might have seemed like returning to college after a summer's vacation had it not been for the scat- tering of bald heads in the group of "boys" who were there, and the added air of dignity and experience with which their opinions were expressed. 41 Altogether it was an occasion long to be remem- bered; most of all for the hopeful views and high ideals for Amherst College voiced by the speakers at the '88 Banquet." WILLIAM B. "I have no event to record of interest to the class GBEENOUGH. since the last class book. I am practicing law, winning and losing cases, my principal client — but fortunately not my only one — still being the city of Providence. I see little of Amherst men, except Delabarre, '86, and Stearns, '89, with whom I spend leisure moments almost daily and recall the past glories and defects of old Amherst and wish her well for the future." SHATTUCK O. In the intervals between writing class letters HARTWELL. Hartwell has managed to keep up his work in the Kala- mazoo High School, of which he has been principal since September, 1889. The work was without special incident until the burning of the High School building, February i, 1897. After a year in cramped quarters at the Y. M. C. A. the school returned to a new and well equipped building on the old site. July 5, 1894, Miss Kate W. Hitchcock, of Kala- mazoo, became Mrs. Hartwell. One son and one daughter are the other members of the family. ROBERT W. HASTINGS. "Following my medical service in the Boston City Hospital, I was invited by Supt. Rowe to remain as his Executive Assistant, which place I filled till the time of my marriage. Since then we have been living quietly here in Brookline. Business rarely comes with a rush to a young physician and I have been no exception. Grad- ually we are coming to know people and to be recog- nized as of some use in the community. My spare moments have been pretty well filled, however, largely in 42 helping to start new enterprises. The duties of clerk and trustee of Leyden Church, visiting physician to the Boston Floating Hospital, and senior medical director of the Tremont Dispensary have not been light but at the same time they are pleasant and reveal some permanent results of work done in the last few years. As an editor of the Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry, too, I have been able to make for myself a trifle of reputation in my chosen line of children's diseases. Taken all in all the prospect is fair and I trust that for five years to come I may at least refrain from bringing discredit upon old '88, We very much wish that classmates who come to Boston will brave the mysteries of the Subway, take a reservoir car, and come out and call on us." Heard's record as Bank Examiner, banker and ARTHUR M. HEARD, family man is given in the Class Catalogue. He has added nothing to it for publication, but according to all accounts is working and prospering steadily in the city of Manchester. No recent message has come from Hopkins. Save E- OSBORN HOPKINS, for one or two serious interruptions by illness he has been teaching steadily since graduation and has been for the last five years principal of the High School at Hol- brook, Mass. The last word from Gus was of regret that he could AUGUSTUS S. not attend the Decennial. Legal work in New York, as HOUGHTON, a partner with Clarence, has filled his time since 1892, although, like most of the class, he has found time to get married, becoming a Benedict in 1896. "I believe in my advice of a few years past I told of CLARENCE S. my marriage to Miss Suzanne Clark, of Louisville, Ky., HOUGHTON, which occurred December 19, 1895, ^"^^ that on Novem- 43 ber i6, i8g6, a daughter was born to us, Evelyn Clare Houghton. She is now getting to be quite a young lady. The year following my marriage was spent in Europe, traveling and settling up the estate of my wife's father, who, before his death in London, was largely interested in South Africa in connection with Dr. Jameson and Cecil Rhodes. 'Gus' and I are still striving for money and fame at the old stand, now removed to 50 Broadway. To assist in the push up that much talked of ladder of fame we have lately added to our number the Hon. Thomas Fitch, of California, who now heads our firm. In addition to the above, on the first of last April (1898) I received the appointment of Assistant U. S. District Attorney' for the Southern District of New York, and consequently this section of the country is safe for a time. Of the missing members mentioned in your circular, I occasionally see Judson; he is with a law firm in this city, and as his arm is now said to be well, he is reported to be getting along very successfully. I also see Harry Wilkinson quite often. He is the same handsome boy as of old, and I hear that the government depends upon him whenever it wishes to dispose of a new bond issue. He is with Harvey Fisk & Son, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City." ELLERY C. Ellery appends to his letter in regard to the ban- HUNTINGTON. quet: "My class record stands as before; no more children." He is still instructor in Greek in the Univer- sity of Nashville, and occasionally, as last summer, gets north for vacation. FREDERICK S. HYDE. "Your letter reached me some time since and found me in good health and spirits. I make it a point, however, to cause letters to wait answering at least a month, to allow their contents to become thoroughly assimilated before attempting an answer; especially 44 when such a letter contains, as so many of them do, a request for what has been felicitously called "that which cheers but does not inebriate." I enclose order as per statement rendered. Your letter reminds me of that picture of Du Maurier, where a sentimentalizing girl exclaims to the poet: "tell me more about yourself." I have filled out so many life-insurance blanks, savings- bank applications — thelatter for a cousin of mine — that I have the answer on my tongue's end: Nose, long; eyes, keen; hair, thin; etc. I can also recall without recourse to pencil and paper the date of my birth: it was in 1866, the same year, you will recall at once, that gave to us Rudyard Kipling and Richard Le Gallienne, in fact, several of us were born that year. My parents were humble, though poor, and I am trying to carry on the good work. No great honors have come to me, largely on account of my not having the gall to shape the times in which I live: in fact my greatness has not been recognized outside of my immediate family. Here, hov/ever, I make up for it by advertising myself to my fullest capacity." "After post-graduate study at Yale my experiences in GEORGE M. HYDE. the Northwest were far too crisp, as Brother Hartwell hath it, for compression into a single page. Suffice it that I taught and lectured and scribbled; that I froze my ears, which were already sufficiently large for every practical purpose; and that I narrowly escaped extinc- tion in the folding-bed that I subsequently left in part payment of rent with the gentleman who had shrewdly induced me to purchase it. In New York, since June, 1896, I have fared some- what better, being in a position of arduous industry from which I cannot wriggle out. I have to write for my living — mostly for the newspapers." 45 Since the above was written last fall Hyde has been married to Miss Violet MacDougall Buel, of New York City. HAROLD H. JACOBS. "The Jacobs family is still a quartette, the males being in a hopeless minority; hope to improve statistics by next time to report. "The best time in my life" is a mild way to express my good time at our Decennial. I felt like a tired traveler come home to rest, and actually it was a hard- ship for me to make up my mind to leave that good old town and had any of the other fellows remained I should probably have still been there. When I say "I" of course I mean "we" — you understand all ye Benedicts." ALBERT H. JACKSON. "Your numerous letters asking for impressions of the Reunion have all been received. I would have responded long ago, but have been sick for two months. I can only say that every minute of my stay in Amherst was delightful. There have been so few changes in the appearance of the college buildings and grounds that it requires very little effort to forget the interval of ten years and imagine myself a student again, although I had no desire to repeat my college experience. Looking back upon the past has more of solemnity than pleasure for me. Yet it was genuine pleasure to meet the boys and feel that they had left that past behind, and that we were still traveling side by side, if not in actual juxtapo- sition, yet in experience and mental growth. I presume we were all anxious to compare notes and see what we had made of our talents and how we had increased them. The opportunity for this was not as good as might have been desired. But perhaps each one indulged, as I did, in a few casual thoughts about the changes that had 46 taken place within himself and the consequent change in his attitude toward the college." "I was in private practice for about four years and P^^ED B. JEVETT. then went back to hospital work again. I am now at the State Hospital for Insane as Deputy Superintendent. My family relations have not changed any except that my boy has arrived at that animated question mark age and every little while gives me a twinge of that old col- lege feeling, wonder as to the next question and whether I shall have to "flunk" it or not. I like the work here very well. My love for athletics I have revived some- what by establishing "Field Day" for the patients, besides a game of base ball now and then. You may remember that music was a favorite pastime with me, and that I have indulged by organizing a band and orchestra. My impressions of the Reunion were most favorable. I enjoyed all — the initial flutter of curious anticipation as one of the huckleberry trains of the Massachusetts Cen- tral pulled into its station, through the hand shake of classmates and professors to the indescribably lonesome feeling as we watched one after another depart. There seems to be abundant class spirit as yet and aside from more hair here, or less there, or increase of adipose tissue, the change was not marked. One thing that was really amusing was to compare the responsibility of men at present with the schemes to "get out" of things and the pranks of college days." Five years ago Judson was in practice in Minneap- LUCIUS E. JUDSON. olis, but finding that driving young city too slow he migrated a few years ago to New York where he is prospering in the same profession and, apparently, like many of his coworkers, finds no time to write letters 47 save for his clients. The Secretary has heard nothing from him these many moons though several classmates report seeing him within the year. DAVID L. KEBBE. "I have not much that is crisp to tell you. For eight years since senior year in Yale Divinity School, I. have been trying to do the varied work that falls to the pastor of a small church. Five of those years at Southwick, Mass., and three here in this delightful city of Spring- field. Nothing but hard work will tell nowadays in the work of a pastor. He really has to be the business manager of the Church, I mean a small church of course. Financial, social, and above all spiritual lines demand his attention and inspiration. He has to try to lead those who are in the wrong into the right, to persuade those who love and enjoy the things of the world to give them up because there are higher things to love and enjoy, and that alone can give true satisfaction. The pastor cannot drive, he can only lead and persuade and when one has started on the good way, encourage and help. This has been my work for eight years; a grand work it is. Emmanuel Church before this reaches you is ten years old and those ten years have been years of struggle and the years to come will be like them; but more hopeful times are coming. The city is growing out to us and the new people are coming in to help us. The work has never been so hopeful as now. I hope you all are meeting with suc- cess in your various callings. Patient, hard work, I am sure will bring to us all success. I wish you all joy, not only in your work but in your homes. It was very pleasant to see so many of the fellows at Amherst last June. I wish you all could have been there. I missed those who could not come. I think we have improved since '88 and hope we all shall go right on improving." 48 ''The five years past have been of progress rather WALLACE H. LEONARD, than change. Commercially I have advanced from stool and table to arm-chair and roll-top. The growth of my retinue has necessitated removal from a house which was little to one which is only small. Of honors I have acquired none and of tangible possessions few, my chief asset at date being a growing fund of domestic contentment. The ambitions which mock my useful toil are not dangerous. I hope on business trips not to be too hurried to call on the '88 men in towns I visit, and that they when in Philadelphia will look me up. I hope to publish to a waiting world for "Shorty," or Jim Ewing, or other medic pedagogue of our number, some noble work which shall make us famous. I hope to send at least one scion to Amherst, and, more fre- quently than once in ten years, to visit the old town myself." McLennan is another of the silent bankers. He LOUIS W. McLENNAN. has been in Afton, Iowa, in the banking business for the last five years. "Ten years seem a long time, but despite them, I EDWARD L. MARSH, could imagine myself packing up to return to Amherst for another term. Those four years seem "red letter" days indeed. There is seldom a day I do not think of them. I was not able to attend the Reunion last June and the disappointment is still keen. I think it is fortu- nate that in these ten years so few have been taken from us. I remember how rudely and terribly Sam Brooks' death impressed me coming so soon after we had grad- uated. Parsons has gone since. Besides these I know of no others and hope our remaining number may be 49 intact for many a year. If you are interested in the facts of my life during these ten years, they are these: I entered Yale Divinity School the Fall of '88 and spent three delightful years there. After that I went to Andover Theological School for a graduate year. During that year I was called to the pastorate of the Congrega- tional Church in Yarmouth, Mass., and began work there July, '92. I continued the pastor of that church until December, '96, when I was called to Waterviile, Me., where I now reside. November 28, '93, I married Miss Mary E. Jenkins, of West Barnstable, Mass,, and July 28, '98 a daughter, Elizabeth White, was born to us." WILLIAM D. HARSH. "You have written to me several times. Tonight I received a letter from you, asking for a few facts about my life. After I left the seminary in Chicago, I came up here into the Adirondacks, and in obedience to our Lord's command — "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature," have spent the past four or five years in evangelistic work, twenty miles from a railroad. For two years I was pastor of a Congrega- tional church. Since then I have preached in school houses in outside districts as opportunity has oSered. I have no salary but live on a little of my own, with what the people offer from time to time. In October, 1897, I was married to Lillian Sawyer, a member of our church. She has proved an active worker in this field. Our union was blessed last summer by a baby boy, now four months old, whose name is John — he is over two feet long and weighs twenty pounds. Adirondack air is good for the human race. These mountains sweep up from their foot hills near Saratoga past Schroon Lake to the majestic mountains of the Marcy group a mile high. 50 * Here lie millions of acres of forest land, broken by 2000 lakes — it is the Switzerland of America. We have deer, bears and many other wild animals only a little way from our homes. The people are poor — raise enough to exist on and earn a little more from the summer tourists, who mainly support this region." "Since the publication of last Class Book, I have CHARLES W. been in New Britain as assistant principal and science MARSHALL, teacher in the High School. There is not much to record as a result of these five years' efforts. I have gained more in experience than in any other way, but have little fault to find. On April i8th, 1894, my boy, Donald Earle, was born. My home life has been happy; we have been free from sickness, and we manage to extract considerable pleasure from life." Those who were at the Reunion know that John is jOHN H. MILLER, just the same as of old. After writing a full account of the Decennial he forgot to say anything about himself. Almost all the time for the last ten years he has been in business in Cincinnati — for a long time with the Inland Oil Company and for the last two years as one of the partners and officers in the Iridian Paint Company. He is still a member of his father's household. Montague is a rising business man of LaCrosse, Wis. WALLACE R. He writes: "I was very sorry that I could not go down MONTAGUE, to the Reunion last June, but June is a very busy month, the worst month of the year to be away, in the line of business with which I am at present connected." "After graduating from Yale Divinity School in WARREN J. MOULTON. 1893 I remained for a year and a half as resident fellow. In the spring of '95 I went to Germany and for 51 three and a half years had headquarters in Gottingen. Having spent a semester or so on the language and things in general I decided to undertake work looking toward the doctor's degree and completed this with the final examination June 29, 1898. There is always a goodly number of Amherst men in Gottingen whose presence helps to reconcile one to the gloomy days which prevail now just as in the age of Tacitus. Thayer, '86, was my room-mate. At present I am assistant in the Semitic and Biblical department here at Yale with an appointment as instructor for next year. And still after all these years you must enroll me among the few unfortunates who can only read the "family history" of their classmates, but write none for them to read." WILLIAM B. NOYES. < ^M.*^-^ [A. B., 1889, B. D., 1891, (Yale); Ph. D., (Leipzig), 1892.] Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Takoma Park, D. C, ±892-1895; of Presbyterian Church, LaGrange 111., since 1895. Married, June 2, 1891, to Marion Percival Keene, of Washing- ton; Children: — Edward Norton, b. Nov. 26, 1893; Mildred Prince, b. Nov. 26, 1895; Dwight Prince, b. July 13, 1898. George A. Merritt, Amherst, Mass. In PostofiSce, Amherst, since 1885 ; Assistant Postmaster since 1889. Married, Aug. 19, 1890, to Cora B. Merritt, of Hinsdale, N. H. Rev. George H. Newman, Ritzville, Wash. Pastor First Baptist Church, Bois6, Idaho, 1885-88; at North Elmira, N. Y., 1888-91; at Colfax, Wash., 1891-96; pastor of Con- gregational Church, Ritzville, since Oct. 1896. Married, Feb. 2, 1887, to Frances A. Clark, of Monticello, la.; \ Children:— George Clark, b. March i, 1888; Roberta Lee, b. July I *» • 16, 1891; John Hillier, b. Jan. 20, 1894; Marie Antoinette, b. Oct. 28, 1897. Charles Benjamin Niblock, 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. No information, Frederick Holmes Paine, 45 W. 8ist St., New York City. [A. B., 1888, A. M., 1894, (Yale).] Head Instructor in Hamilton Institute, New York City. Albert Hale Plumb, Jr. [A. B. (Amherst), 1891.] Student of Theology, 1891-94; ordained; Acting Pastor Congre- gational Church, Peru, Mass.; expects to enter foreign missionary work. Married in 1898. 87 *Pierrepont Isham Prentice. Left College, 1886; Surgeon of Minnesota Iron Co., Soudan, Minn., at the time of his death, Jan. 4, i8go. George Harris Rogers, 13-15 Board of Trade Building, Chicago, 111. [A. B. (Amherst), 1890.] No information. *Arthur Byron Russell [A. B., (Hiram College).] Pastor of Christian Churches at North Jackson, Millersburg, Lisbon and Alliance, O., until his death, Sept. 28, 1896. Married to Minnie Sheldon, of Aurora, O. ; twin daughters, May and Maud, born in 1889. Charles T. Sempers. No information. Rev. Harry Elmer Small, Goshen, Conn. [A. B., (Amherst), 1890; B. D. (Yale), 1893.] Pastor Congregational Church, N. Guilford, Conn., 1893-96; at Goshen, Conn., since 1896. Malcolm Joseph Sullivan. No information. Albert Duff Tillery, Esq., Perry, Oklahoma. Practiced law at Plattsburg, Mo., until 1893; in practice at Perry since 1893. *Porter Tracy. Lost his life in attempting rescue, of victims of the Mississippi floods, in 1894. Franke Abijah Warfield No information. Rev. William F. White, T«mTbul47-G©RH. n.^f»m04JA-fm il- -i [B. D., (Hartford), 1890.] Pastor of Congregational Church, Trumbull, since 18 Married, June 3, 1885, to Bessie Eaton, of Ware, Mass.; Chil- "> dren:— Eloise Hamilton, b. Apr. 22, 1886; Emmons Eaton, ' '* Apr. 4, 1891 ; Harold Watson, b. May 11, 1894. 88 TWO OF THE BOYS. ^,^l"/, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 019 629 446 6 '*i.'?5 ^*^ ^vM mim si^-: m 'it. m §» !<;^'l M'i ^H^'.-'J ''i^M V^Ji'0!^^i ■;>.*tV S^ik m ^'^.A m- m>'.