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 1915 
 

DE SENECTUTE 
 
 The boundless ambition of youth does not rec- 
 ognize the possibihty of failure, but we have 
 measured the depth and breadth of that delusion. 
 Fortunately with the flowing years comes a 
 beneficent benumbing semianaesthesia to soften 
 the disappointments of unsatisfied ambition and 
 to blur the sharpness of the outlines of the great 
 structure of unrealized hopes that those same 
 years have built for us, and so protect the soul 
 hardened by the "outrageous slings of adverse 
 fortune," that it no longer responds easily to new 
 insults but apparently braves every storm with 
 smiling lips. As we go deeper down the decline 
 nature kindly misinterprets to us the signs that 
 erstwhile we could read clearly. 
 
 The melancholy Jacques tells us that "All the 
 world's a stage," and narrates the sequence of the 
 distinguishing marks of each age. We have ex- 
 perienced most of these ages and now with "wise 
 saws and stately precedent" we discant on the 
 follies of the present and the virtues of the past. 
 I am not sure but that some of us do not every 
 morning measure our shanks to see if the lean 
 and shrunken pantaloons must come with our 
 next order to the tailor. 
 
MEMORIES OF PRINCETON 
 1871-1875 
 
 It was a very different Princeton in June 1871 
 when we took our first trip on the "Dummy" 
 from the "Junction." The real Campus was 
 bounded on the east by "Dad's" house, standing 
 between the chapel and Nassau Street just in 
 front of what is now called the "Old Library." 
 This building was wrecked in our first term of 
 Freshman year, and among my early Princeton 
 trophies was the great lock and key, the latter 
 about six inches long, rescued from the ruins of 
 the front door. Between this house and the 
 chapel was another building corresponding to 
 the "College office" building on the west of the 
 Campus. This building disappeared before we 
 actually entered College, having been used for 
 recitation rooms. Further east of the Chapel, 
 Dickinson Hall had been erected and the vacant 
 lot in front was being put in order for Campus 
 purposes. East of this plot of ground was Mrs. 
 Comfort's where many of the students roomed. 
 What is now William Street was a lane, lined by 
 small houses as far as Washington Street, which 
 
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 were used as dormitories and eating houses. To 
 the west the Campus was bordered by the Presi- 
 dent's house, now the Dean's, and by the Geo- 
 logical Hall, where the venerable "Stevie," the 
 Astronomer, and Guyot, the famous exploiter 
 of the "devil-up-ment of the rocks," held forth, 
 and where to our shame we allowed those great 
 men to pour their wisdom into deaf ears, we 
 mediating meanwhile only on superior methods 
 of jumping out of the windows without the poor 
 old professors catching us, and once, though 
 much later, some of us did jump out of those 
 same windows right into the arms of Dr. Mc- 
 Cosh who was fortuitously passing at the psycho- 
 logical moment ! Then came Reunion and West 
 College as they are now, and west of these the 
 old Gymnasium next to the Observatory. The 
 south side of the campus ended against a hedge 
 limiting the Potter estate, behind the Literary 
 Halls, and between in the middle distance was 
 the historic and highly sanitary "South Campus." 
 I have always thought that it was well for the 
 Israelites that Moses was not a Presbyterian 
 Minister such as made up the Board of Trustees 
 of those days. 
 
 Such was the physical appearance of Prince- 
 ton with old N^orth used as a dormitory, and the 
 present Faculty room containing the Library. 
 
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 Old North was an ideal college dormitory, carry- 
 ing with it all the characteristics that accord with 
 the traditions of a medieval seat of learning, 
 gloomy, cold, stone corridors which not even the 
 ingenuity of a boy could find any way to damage, 
 dark dismal rooms, where could be equally well 
 cultivated the sickly cast of countenance of the 
 midnight poler, and the rubicund swollen face of 
 the all night roisterer. Few tutors and fewer 
 proctors cared to venture into its caverns after 
 dark. It always brings to my mind musty odors 
 suggesting the images that the reading of old 
 manuscripts from monkish libraries develops in 
 one's brain. 
 
 Campus Life in the Seventies 
 
 Waterloo was won on the playgrounds of 
 Eaton and Rugby. The football victories of the 
 olden days were won on the Campus back of 
 historic "North." 
 
 There for two hours a day during the fall 
 term the interminable A. to M. game between 
 East and West Colleges kept two-thirds of the 
 boys in active exercise, dodging around among 
 the trees, and training eye and limb as no simi- 
 lar exercise in an open and clear field could have 
 done. There "Zach" and "Pebbles" and others 
 of similar nimble ilk outwitted the slower moving 
 
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 Bolton and "Turtle" ; and there these same heavy- 
 weights learned to bat the ball with the fist under 
 the old Association rules, straight and accurately 
 to the goal; practice which told in after times, 
 because it was just such a wallop with the fist 
 that won our famous goal with Yale in the fall 
 of 1873 after an hour and a half of uninterrupted 
 play, and we carried off the game by a score of 
 three to nothing. 
 
 There it was that with patience and assiduity 
 "Cow" Warren trained the "Whale" for the mile 
 race in the approaching Caledonians, posting 
 daily bulletins on the old oak that stood between 
 East College and the old Chapel, showing the 
 steady loss of weight by ounces from the original 
 225 pounds, giving full reports of his steady im- 
 provement in form and wind, and steadily lessen- 
 ing time, beginning with his first mile in sixty 
 minutes. 
 
 The old bulletin tree yearly bore a crop 
 of deriding posters directed against the Fresh- 
 men by their Superiors, and others breathing 
 equally truculent defiance against the Sophs by 
 the Freshmen. Here among the notices of lost 
 and foimd would appear the baseball challenges 
 of the "Invincible Pagodas" against the "Stilly 
 Nights" or the "Professionals," and notices of 
 sales of books or furniture or rooms. On its 
 
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 broad trunk appeared everything that any one 
 wished his fellow student to know. 
 
 Curiously I do not recall to have associated 
 any memory of studies with the Campus during 
 our first two years. Occasionally one would rush 
 off a few minutes before the hour announcing his 
 purpose to "pole"; of course Eddy and Hunt 
 probably spoke of their tasks as they passed hur- 
 riedly through, but as they never lingered on the 
 Campus their words would not reach the rest. 
 It has been maliciously hinted that this was a 
 personal matter and peculiar to the writer, but I 
 prefer to remember that it was not considered 
 good form to mention studies on the Campus 
 during our first two years. 
 
 After the beginning of Junior year, the com- 
 ing of Bracket into the faculty, his teaching of 
 science and our good old Prexy's teaching of 
 philosophy so reacted on our youthful minds that 
 it became quite usual for Campus discussions to 
 take place between "Smiley" and Cheeseman and 
 "Archie" upon various recondite theories regard- 
 ing the will and the emotions and the whirling 
 atoms in the molecule. I think the mass of us 
 looked upon this innovation with a great deal of 
 doubt as to their conformity to Princeton tradi- 
 tions, and I am quite sure that if Jackson, "Pop" 
 Reilley or Evans had taken it up and used the 
 
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 valuable time of the Campus with such discus- 
 sions they would have soon been hooted down. 
 
 There was a peculiar theory about moralities 
 common to the Campus that was noteworthy. 
 While the fact was well recognized that a state of 
 war existed between the faculty as a body and 
 the students as a body, yet between individuals 
 there might be allowed a certain amount of re- 
 spectful familiarity without infringing on the 
 susceptibilities and the suspicions of the others. 
 One might walk across the Campus with a pro- 
 fessor, or call on him at his study, but it was 
 mighty bad form to go up to him after lesson or 
 lecture except when ordered to do so, under pen- 
 alty of being suspected of "bootlicking," a hein- 
 ous offence which merited ostracism. Similarly 
 any device to circumvent the watchfulness of the 
 professor presiding over an examination was 
 permissible, even laudable if one cheated to pass, 
 but woe! to him who, studying for high grade 
 "shenanigaged" his way through his examination. 
 The feeling of contempt for such an individual 
 was so strong that I have known it to survive 
 forty years of graduate life. "Festive" always 
 held that it took as much brains to graduate last 
 in the class as to be the first honor-man, and he 
 gloried not a little in the fact that he had suc- 
 ceeded in graduating last but had never been 
 
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 conditioned in any examination during the four 
 3^ears. He claimed that it showed great judg- 
 ment and a very dehcate balancing of the chances 
 to accomplish such a feat. 
 
 There is no doubt that as much work and time 
 was often spent on schemes to refresh the mem- 
 ory at opportune moments as would have thor- 
 oughly prepared the lesson if properly directed. 
 Be that as it may, the chief excitement of exami- 
 nation week was the all-night poling, and even 
 the laziest took much unction to his soul for the 
 self-denying labor that he bestowed upon his 
 college work at such times, although it must be 
 confessed that brewing the coffee took up about 
 as much time as the actual grubbing. 
 
 The chief glory of the Campus was then as 
 now in the long twilights of the spring term. 
 While senior singing had not become the formal 
 affair and the social event that it has of recent 
 j^ears, still there was plenty of Campus singing 
 particularly during the "Senior vacation," that 
 last ten days of the college term that intervened 
 between the final examination and Commence- 
 ment when all the rest of the college worked and 
 the graduating class loafed; took a turn at top 
 spinning and marbles as a finis to their boyhood, 
 and gathered in the evenings and sang together 
 long into the night. Benches were few and far 
 
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 between in those days, the grass was good 
 enough, although even then the steps of Old 
 North was used, much to the disturbance of the 
 underclassmen resident in that venerable pile, 
 who were grinding out their work for the next 
 day. 
 
 The examinations of that olden time had some 
 features that made for trouble. The Biennials 
 in Soph year, covered the work for the first two 
 years and the finals at the end of Senior year 
 covered the work of the four years, even Fresh- 
 man Greek and Latin and mathematics. Today 
 all these inquisitions have disappeared, and a sub- 
 ject, having been finished, may be forgotten 
 "cum laude." 
 
 Soph Bueial 
 
 The Campus on Class Day night, brilliantly il- 
 luminated by lanterns, was as at present the 
 crowning event of the year. The visitors were 
 entertained by the music of the Seventh Regi- 
 ment Band, and at twelve o'clock the assemblage 
 would be invaded by the gloomy procession of 
 the "Soph Burial," a function that was held on 
 the back Campus and has now fallen into imde- 
 served desuetude. Our own was a wonderful 
 spectacle, the burial of Anatomy: Headed by 
 Governor Dennison as Mephistopheles and Blinn 
 
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 as a red devil, following the Princeton darkey 
 band playing a funeral march in all kinds of 
 time, the class, clothed in skull and cross-bones 
 decorated robes, sang lugubriously the Halsted 
 "Ode to Bones" to the tune of old Grymes. It 
 certainly was a sight for the gods. The funeral 
 pyre was lighted, the proper orations were de- 
 livered and Soph year ended in a blaze of glory. 
 
 The Cane Spree 
 
 After the proper interchange of posters de- 
 riding and defying each other had occupied the 
 attention of the lower classes during the first two 
 weeks of the fall term, suddenly the quiet of Nas- 
 sau Street at the Post Office would be disturbed 
 by a scramble, a struggle, the hasty formation of 
 a ring. The sounding of war cries of '74 '74, and 
 answering weaker cries of '75 '75, indicated that 
 some venturesome Freshman had come down the 
 street with a cane and that the challenge had 
 been accepted and the war was on. 
 
 You spend the next day in practicing with 
 your roommate or some friendly Junior who 
 tries to teach you the proper tricks of the game, 
 the importance of the outside grip, the necessity 
 of hanging on and avoiding the breaking of the 
 stick, incidentally filling you up with tales of 
 previous sprees to brace up your courage and to 
 
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 egg you on. You assemble at the appointed ren- 
 dezvous after supper, escorted thither by some 
 good natured Junior who carries the precious 
 banger; and then with well counterfeited glee 
 and inward qualms you are marshalled into ranks 
 by the upperclassmen and marched to the Post 
 Office. Outwardly you are howling "Seventy- 
 five! five! five!" inwardly you are wishing that 
 your forebears had not given you such square 
 shoulders, that give a false impression of 
 strength ; only too soon you are down on Nassau 
 Street and the Sophs have assaulted the line. 
 The leaders are at once the centers of circling, 
 howling rings of upper classmen; in a breath 
 your own time comes and you feel yourself 
 dragged, thrown down, trampled upon, amid en- 
 couraging shouts of friends and derisive howls 
 of foes, and over all the stimulating cry of 
 "Seventy-five! five! five!" to encourage you to 
 hold on ; and now you are down in the dust of the 
 street, someone steps on your face and you think 
 for a moment of home and mother, and then 
 "five! five! five!" rings in your ears and stiffens 
 up your muscles, your whole soul goes into the 
 ends of your fingers, and centuries pass away. 
 Suddenly a crack, the treacherous stick breaks, 
 one piece leaves your hand, the other you keep, 
 the rings break up, cries of triumph resound 
 
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 from all sides and you take your fragment and 
 tie a yellow ribbon on it and hang it on the wall, 
 and spend the evening narrating how they had 
 put a hundred and eighty pound Sophomore onto 
 you, and that you held on for one full half hour 
 before the cane broke. Five minutes was usually 
 a long time for an individual spree and later 
 when you find out whom your opponent was it is 
 wonderful how he has shrunk up. 
 
 The War with Rutgers and the Stealing 
 
 OF THE Cannon 
 
 - During our Spring vacation in Senior year 
 the New York papers published the account of 
 a raid by the students of Rutgers College upon 
 the Campus at Princeton, and the stealing of the 
 historic Revolutionary Cannon that stood in the 
 center of the Campus, the Hub of the life at 
 Princeton, around which were celebrated all ath- 
 letic victories, and whence it was believed pro- 
 ceeded the spirit that endued all its heroes with 
 the prowess that enabled them to conquer their 
 foes. Altogether it was a sad story that we read 
 in the public prints, and with chastened spirit we 
 returned from our vacation to find that the old, 
 the real Princeton Cannon, had not been touched 
 but that the small one which had originally stood 
 as a buffer at the corner of Witherspoon and 
 
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 Nassau streets, and had been planted in the Cam- 
 pus by some boisterous spirits in the past, around 
 which were wreathed no memories, and for which 
 no one cared, had been stolen during the absence 
 of the students at their homes. However, when 
 we arrived, awaiting for us was Karl Kase of '72 
 recently appointed reporter for the New York 
 Herald, eager for material for a sensation col- 
 umn in his paper, and calling for vengeance upon 
 Rutgers and promising to go down to New 
 Brunswick and deliver into our hands the Can- 
 non if we would organize an expedition for a 
 retaliatory raid. And so the Pagodas and the 
 Professionals and various volunteers from '76 
 and '77 were called in, and that night the expe- 
 dition started out after dark in two coaches and 
 a large stage toward New Brunswick, arriving 
 at the outskirts of the town about three o'clock 
 in the morning. The expedition was met by 
 Kase and a companion or two who had been sent 
 down by train to spy out the land, and they re- 
 ported that the Cannon lay in the New Bruns- 
 wick Police Station with two stalwart cops 
 sitting on it night and day, and the only thing 
 to do was to raid the college buildings, bum them 
 or in some efficient way punish the thieves for 
 their impudence. All but one team was left out- 
 side the town and the marauders proceeded 
 
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 stealthily down to the Campus, broke into the 
 armory and soon appeared carrying out the guns 
 with which the students were supposed to drill. 
 Quickly the expedition loaded up the stage and 
 soon were off to Princeton, Kase in the meantime 
 catching an early train for New York. He had 
 enough material for several columns, and the 
 press teemed with the threats of war and retali- 
 ation. It was supposed that the State would 
 take up the affair as the muskets were owned by 
 the State and loaned to Rutgers. 
 
 Formal committees of arbitration were ap- 
 pointed by the two Faculties and a treaty was 
 arranged by which two expeditions, one convey- 
 ing the Princeton Cannon and the other the Rut- 
 gers Muskets, should meet half way between the 
 two towns and under a flag of truce a fair ex- 
 change should be made. The affair was carried 
 out as proposed, under the supervision of "Mat" 
 Goldie the Cannon was brought back and buried 
 in cement, and in the bore there is a roll of the 
 participants in the raid upon New Brunswick 
 who thus found themselves greeted as heroes and 
 applauded for what usually would have ended in 
 suspension, evidencing the effect of a state of 
 war upon the scholastic mind. 
 
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 The Secret Society Fight 
 
 One of the memorable events of our college 
 life was the Secret Society Fight. After the 
 expulsion of the Greek-letter Fraternities in the 
 late fifties a few chapters had persisted, living a 
 subterranean existence supposedly without the 
 knowledge of the Faculty, yet well known of all 
 the students, and at our time three such societies 
 existed with a membership of fifty-five pos- 
 sibly, also there were many unattached Greek- 
 letter men who had come from other colleges, or 
 had been admitted to such societies in other col- 
 leges with the intention that they should be a 
 nucleus ready for that great day when Princeton 
 should open its door. 
 
 There were also a lot of men who sympathized 
 with and supported the Secret Society men with 
 the result that at least one third of the students 
 of the college were in favor of the Greek-letter 
 Fraternities. There were moreover, graduates 
 of such societies in the Faculty and on the Board 
 of Trustees, and continually it was rumored that 
 next year the bars would be lowered and such 
 societies admitted. 
 
 In one of the Literary Halls the numbers of 
 pros and antis were nearly equal, and when a 
 new treaty between the two Halls, bearing on the 
 
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 eligibility of Fraternity members came up for 
 consideration its adoption seemed quite un- 
 certain. 
 
 Then ensued a most active campaign, on the 
 Campus, at the Post Office, on the streets and in 
 the college rooms ; and those were great debates. 
 As it occurred in our Sophomore year we had 
 very little part in it, but we can all recall stand- 
 ing with our mouths and ears wide open taking 
 in the arguments of the great debators of '73, 
 McPherson, Van Dyke, Bryan, Adams, Ernst, 
 Garret, Pell, and others. The result was a com- 
 plete defeat of the Secret Society forces. Later 
 in 1876 the attempt was made to have the Greek- 
 letter Fraternities reorganized, and the members 
 appeared with their mystic symbols. This at- 
 tempt also failed and the societies were dis- 
 banded. 
 
 The Princeton Scientific Club 
 
 The coming of Professor Bracket and the es- 
 tablishment of the Scientific School was the cause 
 of great development of the scientific spirit, and 
 the "Princeton Scientific Club" was founded 
 with a membership drawn from the three upper 
 classes. Rooms were hired over Marsh's drug 
 store, a laboratory was established, scientific 
 subjects were discussed at the meetings and the 
 
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 Faculty were asked in to see what we had done, 
 but as the rooms were outside of the jurisdiction 
 of the college and as certain of the members of 
 the society were in the eyes of the Faculty rather 
 uncertain quantities, the support and consent of 
 the Faculty was withheld. In the meantime the 
 baseball season came on and the Yale team came 
 down to play, and as there was no other place 
 to entertain them, behold! the rooms of the 
 Princeton Scientific Club were borrowed and 
 there the team was entertained after the game. 
 Unfortunately, in conducting some chemical ex- 
 periments in the laboratory the water was al- 
 lowed to overflow and flooded the printing ofiice 
 below, and when the people came to investigate 
 they found evidences of a feast and a large and 
 perfectly good punch bowl on the library table 
 with orange peel and the odor of grape juice 
 about the room. This was pabulum for the re- 
 porters and the story soon reached the ears of the 
 Faculty, and the P.S.C. was ordered to be dis- 
 banded and the rooms closed. The worst of the 
 misfortune being that none of the members of 
 the society had had any of the contents of that 
 punch bowl. 
 
 It is interesting to rehearse the many things 
 that started during the four years that measured 
 our undergraduate life. With the exception of 
 
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 baseball most of the athletics of Princeton dates 
 from that period. The new gymnasium had been 
 built a couple of years ; one or two games of foot- 
 ball had been played with Rutgers and one or 
 two baseball tours had been made into New Eng- 
 land ; but from that time intercollegiate games in 
 football and baseball became and continued to 
 be annual events: The so-called Caledonian 
 games were established and intercollegiate games 
 were instituted, Princeton being represented at 
 the first one in Mott Haven. About this time 
 (1872) the first real Princeton crew was sent to 
 Philadelphia, and boating was regularly estab- 
 lished with two '75 men on the first Princeton 
 crew sent to an intercollegiate regatta. The 
 Glee Club first became a formal organization, 
 and started the habit of giving concerts outside 
 of Princeton in 1874. 
 
 The old "Lit" had existed as a quarterly for 
 many years giving little attention to College 
 News or Campus Gossip. The President would 
 not allow the class of '75 to establish a weekly 
 paper as we wished, so we took the old "Lit" and 
 published ten numbers a year instead of four, and 
 devoted half of each number to College news. 
 Our class lost one hundred dollars on the venture 
 but the next year it was a financial success, and 
 continued so until the Weekly and later the Daily 
 
22 CLASS OF '75 
 
 Princetonian became firmly established. So we 
 really started the ball rolling in the matter of 
 modern college journalism at Princeton. It is 
 only fair to say that just previous to our era a 
 weekly paper the College World had been started 
 but died almost in the horning. 
 
 The gymnasium was a great attraction to 
 many of the class and under the expert tutelage 
 of George Goldie, who is still living, they soon de- 
 veloped great muscles and expertness. One par- 
 ticular star, "Tete" Sheldon admittedly the finest 
 gymnast in the college world, was facile princeps 
 in the intercollegiate contests of that time. 
 
 It has not appeared that the gymnasium work 
 was particularly conducive to longevity for many 
 of our gymnasts died earlier than the average. 
 
 Rowing 
 
 As I remember there were some efforts at row- 
 ing before our day. But the enthusiasm for that 
 form of athletics reached high watermark in 1874 
 and 1875. In 1874 a freshman crew were booked 
 for the races at Saratoga with eight leading col- 
 leges. In the University crew, Richard Hall and 
 Cross were from our class. The difficulties were 
 great on the old canal, and the boatmen ran us 
 down whenever they could. The two crews had 
 pluck however, and went through the hard train- 
 
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 ing. The freshmen, with Ben. Nicol as captain, 
 were well organized and trained, and won the 
 race over Yale and Columbia. The University 
 crew was run by a committee, and while it had 
 good material, for want of more autocratic con- 
 trol it never developed the form and harmony 
 that the Freshmen did. By a mistake in the start 
 and getting off the course it succeeded in coming 
 in with the tailenders. , 
 
 The Freshmen won us great glory. And en- 
 couraged by this Princeton essayed to go to Sar- 
 atoga with a crew of heavy weights, under Ben. 
 Nicol, that promised well and made quite a sen- 
 sation. But the heaviest man had a felon on his 
 hand, and collapsed in the middle of the race and 
 that was the end of it. "A chain is not stronger 
 than its weakest link." This second failure put 
 a quietus on the rowing spirit. 
 
 C. B. Cross. 
 
 Our Secretary has asked me to give my per- 
 sonal recollections of baseball and football in our 
 time at college. As these are personal recollec- 
 tions I trust that I may be forgiven if the first 
 personal pronoun appears more frequently than 
 would otherwise be considered in good taste. 
 , Henry Moffat. 
 
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 Baseball 
 
 The career of our class on the baseball field 
 was far from being a brilliant one. We had no 
 great stars and though we started out in Fresh- 
 man year with the greatest enthusiasm the class 
 nine in later years died a natural death. In 
 Freshman year, as I remember, we had a wildly 
 enthusiastic meeting when the nine was organ- 
 ized, and provided ourselves with elaborate suits 
 of white knickerbockers and shirts and purple 
 stockings. I cannot think of that early organiza- 
 tion without bringing before myself the vivid 
 picture of those two militant brothers, "Ceasar" 
 and "Pompey" Latta, who were most enthusi- 
 astic and energetic in getting out the latent talent 
 of the class. "Pompey" was our first captain; 
 and as manager a bashful and timid youth of- 
 fered his services. Little did we think that from 
 this modest beginning there would develop that 
 great genius, who, through all these years has 
 managed all the affairs of our class, kept alive 
 the spirit of our young days and brought us to- 
 gether to so many enjoyable reunions. Need I 
 say that I allude to our genial Secretary — ^Dr. 
 T. W. Harvey, otherwise known as "Tam." 
 
 You must all remember the players on that 
 wonderful nine — ^there was George Hendrick- 
 
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 son, catcher; "Dasher" Wylly, pitcher; "Pomp" 
 Latta, first base; and the rest of us sprinkled 
 over the field. There were Eldridge, Scribner, 
 Sheldon, Bradford, Pete McGough, "Chippy" 
 Elder, "Time" Gallagher and myself. We 
 played our usual games with the upper classes 
 with varying success; but the only two games 
 that remain fixed in my mind are those with Rut- 
 gers' Freslimen, and with Lawrenceville. We 
 played Rutgers at New Brunswick under as- 
 sumed names, such as "Dasher," "Pomp," 
 "Pete," "Tete," "Doc." etc., as we were forbid- 
 den to leave town by the Faculty. In spite of 
 this somewhat questionable way of playing, we 
 defeated the Rutgers nine handily. Our game 
 with Lawrenceville was amusing, exciting, but 
 not successful. Those of us who plaj'^ed in that 
 game have vivid recollections of the constant tur- 
 moil, proceeding principally from the pitcher's 
 box on our side. This was probably the explana- 
 tion of our failure to win, and I am constrained 
 to say that Eldridge's explanation of a previous 
 visit of the nine to the cider mill, on the way to 
 Lawrenceville, cannot be substantiated. 
 
 In Sophomore year, in spite of the vigorous 
 efforts of "Gov." Dennison, who tried to make 
 something of us, the nine through numerous vicis- 
 situdes began to gradually disintegrate, and in 
 
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 Junior and Senior years, passed out of my rec- 
 ollection altogether. A few of us tried for the 
 Varsity nine and the baseball energy of the 
 class was shown in later years by the organiza- 
 tion of those two wonderful and unique nines 
 called the "Professionals" and "Pagodas"; but 
 even these two organizations paled in contrast to 
 the interest and excitement caused by Joe War- 
 ren trapping in front of Reunion Hall during 
 Senior year. So expert did Joe become in this 
 line of effort, that he wrote, in the spring of our 
 Senior year, to the President of the Intercollegiate 
 Athletic Association, which met in Saratoga, 
 challenging any member of any other college in 
 the country to meet him at trapping in front of 
 the Grand Union Hotel. It is needless to say 
 that Joe's challenge was not accepted. 
 
 The only members of our class who made the 
 Varsity nine were "Tete" Sheldon, Bradford 
 and myself. During the spring of our Senior 
 year "Tete" and Bradford fell by the wayside, 
 and in the final games with Harvard and Yale, 
 I was left as the only representative of the class 
 on the Varsity nine. This was the year in 
 which curved pitching was discovered and first 
 used by the pitcher on our nine — J. M. Mann, 
 '76, and we had many close and interesting 
 games that season. The last game with Yale has 
 
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 been famous ever since. We defeated Yale 3 to 
 0, and this was the first no hit, no run, game in 
 the history of baseball. 
 
 The record of all these games can be found in 
 Frank Presbrey's "History of Athletics at 
 Princeton" — and I can add nothing to what is 
 there given in description of them. 
 
 Football 
 
 Our class record in football was decidedly 
 more brilliant than that in baseball. We had 
 two or more representatives on the Varsity 
 football team from the Freshman year on. Our 
 class games were always well contested and we 
 frequently met with well deserved victories. In 
 fact these interclass games, as I remember them, 
 were the severest games we ever played, and I 
 have a vivid recollection of a close and interesting 
 contest with the class of '76 in the back campus, 
 when we both fought it out to a finish. The only 
 members of the Varsity team from our class in 
 the Freshman year were "Zac" Lionberger and 
 myself and the only game played that year was 
 with the "Seminoles" on the old field, which has 
 since become the Brokaw Field. We were suc- 
 cessful in this contest, but I fail to remember the 
 score. In Sophomore year the only game was 
 with Rutgers, at New Brunswick, whom we sue- 
 
28 CLASS OF '75 
 
 ceeded in defeating with a score of 4 to 1. 
 "Dave" Marvel, '73, was captain of that team 
 and "Zac," Wylly, Ten Eyck and I were the 
 only members from our class to play. In Junior 
 year several members of our class made the team; 
 these were Frank Biddle, Elder, Hutchinson, 
 Lionberger, Rodgers and myself. It was during 
 this year that we played our first game with Yale. 
 This game, played in New Haven on November 
 15, 1873, marked the beginning of that long 
 series of football contests with Yale which has 
 extended down to the present time. As I re- 
 member the game, and its somewhat primitive 
 methods, we played for over an hour when the 
 only football, owned by the Association was burst 
 and we had to wait until they sent into New 
 Haven for another one. This delay seemed to 
 rouse a new spirit in our team, and a short time 
 after resuming play, we made the first goal. Two 
 other goals were made in rapid succession and 
 the final score was 3 goals to in favor of 
 Princeton. 
 
 In Senior year "Zac" Lionberger was captain 
 of the team and our class supplied nearly half 
 the membership. There were Biddle, Elder, 
 Eddy, Dulles, B. Hall and R. Hall, Hutchinson, 
 Ten Eyck and myself. We had a triumphant 
 season, playing both Columbia and Rutgers and 
 
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 winning each game with a score of 6 goals to 
 in our favor. 
 
 When we see the elaborate preparation for the 
 Intercollegiate contests of today, the highly paid 
 coaches, trainers, rubbers, etc. and also the wild 
 enthusiasm with which the graduate and under- 
 graduate bodies attend these games, with the 
 organized singing and cheering and all that goes 
 with that, our primitive methods of training and 
 preparation are interesting and amusing to re- 
 member. In baseball, it is true, during the early 
 spring months, those of us who were on the Vars- 
 ity nine, did begin some preliminary training in 
 the "gym," by throwing a ball the length of the 
 bowling alley at a canvas target. When the 
 weather permitted, practice was begun on the 
 ball field but there were no coaches or profes- 
 sional trainers. We attended to all such things 
 ourselves. 
 
 In football our constant daily practice, in the 
 A-M games on the Campus, gave us all the train- 
 ing and preparation we needed. I can remember 
 that when we were planning to play that Yale 
 game at New Haven "Jake" Van Deventer 
 mildly suggested to me that it might be wise for 
 the team to take a run around the triangle every 
 evening in preparation; but this step in the line 
 of vigorous training did not meet with the ap- 
 
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 proval of all the members of the team and we 
 went up to that game just as we were. There 
 were never any regular football suits for the 
 team. Those who were members of the ball nine, 
 played in their baseball suits if they wished to, 
 and the others played in their ordinary clothes. 
 There was no organized singing and cheering for 
 the team. Comparatively little enthusiasm was 
 shown by the undergraduate body. I well re- 
 member that after winning that 3 to game in 
 baseball, at New Haven, we came home on the 
 "Owl train" from New York. No arrangements 
 had been made to convey us from the Junction; 
 no crowds of undergraduates greeted us and in- 
 stead of a triumphant entry we had to walk the 
 three miles over from the Junction at three 
 o'clock in the morning carrying our own baseball 
 bats. Doutbless there was enthusiasm among 
 the students at this time ; but it was not organized 
 and no one offered to lead in such matters. 
 
 Classmates, these memories may seem trifling 
 to some of you, grown old and so far removed 
 from those days in college; but to me they have 
 been an exhaustless fountain of youth. If we 
 dwell upon these tonight we will all be boys to- 
 gether again. Let us then get back into the old 
 days once more where no gray hairs obtrude and 
 no furrowed brows prevail. 
 
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 The Origin of the Princeton Glee Club 
 
 The Princeton Glee Club was organized in 
 the midwinter of the college year '73-'74. Pre- 
 vious to that year all of the singing done on be- 
 half of the students under any official name was 
 the volunteer work of what was known as the 
 University Quartette, or, for brevity "U. Q."; 
 all of whom happened to belong to the class of 
 '73, so that their graduation left the college with- 
 out a musical organization with an official name. 
 
 Early in the fall of '73, "Charlie" Fleming and 
 I, in his rooms in the house of Mrs. Higgins on 
 Nassau Street opposite Dickinson Hall, organ- 
 ized a volunteer quartette, composed of Alfred 
 K. Bates, '74, 2nd Bass; Edward M. Deems, '74, 
 1st Base; Charles M. Fleming, '75, 1st Tenor; 
 and Charles Claflin Allen, '75, 2nd Tenor. Af- 
 ter two or three weeks of practice we went out 
 to serenade the girls one night, and returning 
 about 10.30 o'clock stopped in the space between 
 old North College and Reimion Hall and sang 
 some songs. The next morning we found our- 
 selves known by reputation as the University 
 Quartette. 
 
 In the winter, "Andy" West, '74, now Ph.D., 
 LL.D., and Litt.D., and Dean of the Graduate 
 College, wrote an article for the Nassau Lit com- 
 
32 CLASS OF '75 
 
 plaining that Princeton had no Glee Club, and 
 calling on the "U.Q." to organize one such as 
 the other large colleges had. Inspired by this 
 article I got the consent of the other boys in the 
 quartette to attempt an organization which 
 should be backed by the students as a whole, and 
 thus make a Glee Club which should be recog- 
 nized as a college institution. "Eddie" Deems 
 came down to my room and with writing ink and 
 a piece of blotting paper rolled up for a brush 
 printed a notice on a sheet of yellow paper as 
 follows : 
 
 "All persons interested in the organiza- 
 tion of a Glee Club will meet at the Chapel 
 at noon today." 
 
 We also prepared a set of Resolutions and a 
 Constitution for the Glee Club, when organized. 
 This notice was posted on the old "Bulletin 
 Tree" which stood between the old chapel and the 
 north end of East College. At the meeting the 
 Resolutions were presented, at our request, by 
 Simon J. McPherson, '74, now D.D. LL.D., 
 and Head Master at Lawrenceville, who had 
 never been known to turn a tune, but whose high 
 character and personal influence were as great 
 then in our College World as they have ever 
 since been in the larger world, and were de- 
 
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 pended upon as a guaranty that the new institu- 
 tion planned should be the right thing done in 
 the right way. The meeting unanimously 
 adopted the Resolutions and the Constitution, 
 and there came into existence the "Princeton- 
 College Glee Club" which has continued in suc- 
 cession from year to year until this day. 
 
 From its organization until we graduated in 
 '75, "Tam" Harvey, sometimes known since as 
 Dr. Thomas W. Harvey, Secretary of the class 
 was Business Manager, and the writer of this 
 article was president of the club and director of 
 the music. 
 
 The original club consisted of thirteen mem- 
 bers, but in '75 we were unable to find more than 
 twelve and part of the time eleven students who 
 were qualified to be members of the Glee Club. 
 I can find no list of the members in '74, but in 
 '75, an old programme shows them to be as 
 follows : 
 
 First Tenors: Charles Claflin Allen, '75; C. M. 
 Fleming, '75; W. A. Gait, '78. Second Tenors, 
 A. M. Dulles, '75; W. Dulles, Jr., '78; J. G. 
 Miller, '76. First Bass, W. T. Kaufman, '76; 
 F. H. Markoe, '76; F. A. Marquand, '76. Sec- 
 ond Bass, Frank Dunning, '76; W. B. VanLen- 
 nep, '76; W. R. Yourt, '77. 
 
 The first public concert was given in the 
 
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 Second Presbyterian Church at Princeton, June 
 20, 1874, and several concerts were given the fol- 
 lowing year. In every concert "Old Nassau" 
 was put first on the programme as an act of loyal- 
 ty to the college. At that time it was unknown 
 to the students as well as the public, and but for 
 the determination of the first Glee Club to pro- 
 mote the Princeton Spirit, there might never 
 have been known what is admittedly today the 
 greatest University song in America, "Old 
 Nassau." 
 
 Chas. Claflin Allen. 
 
 The College Personnel 
 
 Of course a college had to have a Proctor, and 
 "Mat." Goldie was an ideal Proctor. Square 
 and honest, he accepted no graft, played no 
 favorites, hated cant and hypocrisy and was a 
 watch dog without being a spy. Many of us un- 
 doubtedly stayed in college because "Mat." knew 
 when to keep his eyes shut and his tongue silent, 
 and there is no doubt of his popularity among 
 the Princetonians of our day. His understudy 
 however, "Dennis," the Mercury of the Faculty, 
 with his "You are to see the Doctor in his study 
 tonight" and his "You are to wait after Chapel 
 this evening" was regarded as a bird of ill omen 
 whose very presence contaminated the atmo- 
 sphere. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 35 
 
 Then there was the long-legged lazy Alec, 
 who mowed the Campus once a year and Bartly, 
 that prince of college servants who would have 
 allowed his tongue to be cut out before he would 
 have revealed the secrets of the "sacred nine" to 
 which he had been formally initiated, or have re- 
 ported any of his special charges for any infrac- 
 tion of college discipline. 
 
 Then we recall with mingled feelings, the old 
 stuttering darky Jim Stink who bought our old 
 clothes, sold apples and had been known to loan 
 small sums of money at enormous interest. Jim 
 could make a wonderful political speech with- 
 out a stutter when properly full of his favorite 
 whiskey which was the only word Jim could ut- 
 ter without stuttering. 
 
 If there was any weak spot in the good old 
 lady's household in the seventies it certainly was 
 in the tutorial system ; a tutor was usually a mis- 
 fit. Occasionally real men like Turner or Rom- 
 mel would be appointed, and even more rarely a 
 scholar such as the present Professor Hunt. But 
 as a rule they were men who were earning a lit- 
 tle needed money to go on to some other work 
 and had no heart for their task or interest in their 
 pupils, or they were men who had failed in other 
 work, whose chief ambition was to keep a perfect 
 record of attendance and absences. These men 
 
36 CLASS OF '75 
 
 were unfortunately put in charge of the students 
 in their most important year, when they should 
 have had the stimulation and example of trained 
 men. The influence of such men was seen when 
 on reaching Junior year a very different show- 
 ing was made by men who lagged far behind in 
 the first two years. 
 
 I am sure that there are many men of the sev- 
 enties who would have made better showing as 
 students if they had been under the influence of 
 such men as Professor Bracket, Duffield or 
 Packard during their Freshman year. In those 
 days boys did not go to Princeton as a social 
 function, the boys who went there usually were 
 sent at much personal sacrifice, because they 
 were bright boys who had done well at school and 
 were regarded as particularly promising. Many 
 of these men failed to continue to do good work 
 because of the deadly influence of most of the 
 tutors. For most of the Freshmen the actual 
 required work was much less than they had 
 been accustomed to do as school boys, and 
 then came habits of laziness and dissipation and 
 the usual opportunities supplied by his satanic 
 majesty. 
 
 The Professorial Faculty, however, were a lot 
 of great men whom we were immensely proud of, 
 even though we reviled them familiarly by their 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 37 
 
 first names. But the more familiar we were the 
 greater our admiration for them, and Jimmie, the 
 old President, led them all in our love and 
 admiration. 
 
 Of all the men whom we knew it seemed as if 
 Bracket was most influential in stimulating our 
 minds to think. Instead of compelling us to 
 memorize a lot of dates and titles which seemed 
 to cover the entire course of English Literature, 
 instead of rules of Greek and Latin grammar 
 and the memorizing of the English meaning of 
 French or German words without the slightest 
 suggestion that one should learn to think in those 
 languages before one could know them. Profes- 
 sor Bracket taught us, so far as then understood, 
 the principles that underlie natural phenomena, 
 and we learned more of inductive reasoning from 
 him by doing it than we did from Dad by being 
 told about it. And then from him we learned 
 about the other side of the shield of truth, and 
 it was a great relief to turn from the pitiless logic 
 of Dr. Atwater to the sweet and soothing possi- 
 bilities of physics. Dad's "Such arguments 
 would lead to Materialism and Pantheism and 
 are monstrous and unthinkable," was convincing 
 for the time being but not satisfying to the mind 
 that had just been introduced to the infinitesimal 
 whirling atoms which by the diversities of their 
 
38 CLASS OF '75 
 
 gyrations made different molecules and different 
 forms possible. 
 
 And then there was our beloved Shields har- 
 monizing the warring elements and showing how 
 as you approach closer to the unsurmountable 
 and the uncompromising, the difficulties grow 
 less and the antagonism disappears, and so it has 
 come to pass that no longer do we hear of the 
 conflict of science and religion, and there is no 
 need for such a chair as Professor Shields filled 
 and yet there is, for dogmatism and rancor will 
 always live, and we have need of the sweetening 
 influence of such a soul that believed that the 
 whole is not yet fully known and that we can help 
 not by fighting but by pushing and investigating. 
 
 There are those, however, who aver that their 
 greatest gain in Princeton was from the teaching 
 of Atwater, and probably it was so because for- 
 tunately we are not all attuned alike, and do not 
 all respond to the same Hertzian vibration. 
 What man was there who was not quite con- 
 vinced as long as "Duff." was talking that he 
 understood quite clearly the most intricate prob- 
 lems, until he went home and tried them without 
 the encouraging smile of the genial Professor. 
 
 Packard impressed us differently, we learned 
 from him more than from any one when we were 
 minded so to do, but we never showed him any 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 39 
 
 disrespect. Far different was it with our old 
 enemies Schenck and "Cam." With Cameron, 
 of course, it was merely a matter of inheritance. 
 It was the proper thing to do, and tradition held 
 that every Freshman class should celebrate its in- 
 troduction to a real professor by hazing him. 
 
 I never could fathom the class aversion to 
 Schenck. His subject was very interesting to 
 many of us and was as well taught as was possible 
 in those days without laboratories; but then '75 
 stole his skeleton and his choice collection of soap, 
 and he never forgave them. When asked if he 
 could remember the library meetings of Dr. Mc- 
 Cosh, "C." sent the following: 
 
 Nodes Amhrosianae 
 
 Do I remember the conferences in Dr. Mc- 
 Cosh's library? To be sure, I do. Who that had 
 share in those veritable Nodes Amhrosianae can 
 ever forget them? Did not they stir and stimu- 
 late the process of finding oneself — leave an im- 
 perishable impress on mind and soul ? 
 
 How vividly the picture rises in my mind : the 
 fine old library with its bay window giving on 
 the campus ; the cheerful fire blazing on the 
 hearth ; the mellow lamplight ; the long table, cov- 
 ered with books and papers, about which the 
 eager students were grouped; and Dr. McCosh, 
 
40 CLASS OF '75 
 
 benignant and alert, seated in his favorite chair, 
 directing, suggesting, dominating all. One night 
 in particular, I recall. A paper on some phase 
 of Greek philosophy was read by a student. Then 
 followed inquiry, argument, discussion ; Dr. Mc- 
 Cosh asking now a penetrating question, now 
 making a shrewd observation, half in criticism, 
 half in amplification of the paper, and now, by 
 large and rapid generalizations, bringing the an- 
 cient wisdom into relation with modern thought 
 and seeking to make it throw light on "those 
 obstinate questionings" — always old, always new 
 — that vex every serious soul. And above all this 
 was done so kindly, so simply, so in the manner, 
 not of one set over us, but of a fellow seeker, 
 after truth — only of ampler experience and 
 larger attainment — ^that no savor of dogmatism 
 marred the impression. I came away, I know, 
 from that soul-stirring conference walking with 
 lighter step, breathing a purer air, and with vision 
 quickened, purified, enlarged. 
 
 Dr. McCosh was the last of the great college 
 presidents that were preeminent as teachers. He 
 was a great organizer, a great executive, a great 
 leader in educational improvement and advance, 
 a great upbuilder of Princeton's physical equip- 
 ment, a great and glowing persuader of men to 
 active and generous belief in his hopes and as- 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 41 
 
 pirations for the college; but, first of all and 
 above all, he was a great and inspiring teacher. 
 With him spiritual forces were always to be more 
 highly esteemed than those which were temporal. 
 He had clear vision of the Princeton that was to 
 be — a larger and greatr force in the life of the 
 country and of the world — and he wrought un- 
 tiringly and with ample success toward its reali- 
 zation. But all his large planning and activity 
 to this end was not permitted to interrupt or 
 interfere with his courses of instruction or to 
 impede his own pursuit of wisdom. No student, 
 I venture to say, of all the years while he guided 
 Princeton's destinies, but bore away with him 
 into life some ineffaceable influence from Dr. Mc- 
 Cosh's teaching — an influence for clearer think- 
 ing and for better living. We used to smile, 
 doubtless, at his whimsicalities of manner and 
 speech, at his irascibilities of temper; but no one 
 ever failed to recognize and respect the essential 
 greatness and noble high-mindedness of the man. 
 We loved him all the more for his foibles. 
 
 Ah, and best of all. Dr. McCosh was sanely 
 and serenely open-minded ; free from bigotry, de- 
 void of narrowness, ready to welcome new light, 
 new truth, whencesoever it came; never fearing 
 that any novel discovery in thought or science~so 
 it was real — could "push the Lord's right hand 
 
42 CLASS OF '75 
 
 from under," or undermine the foimdations of 
 our faith. At a time when a distinguished theolo- 
 gian of his own church was proclaiming in class- 
 room and printed word that Darwinism was 
 atheism, Dr. McCosh had no difficulty, philoso- 
 phical or religious, in accepting the doctrine of 
 evolution. In his own special field of inquiry he 
 was prompt to accept and adopt the new theories 
 and methods of research. It was this open-mind- 
 edness, this receptivity to new and revolutionary 
 views and modes of thought, this utter intellectual 
 aliveness and eagerness for attainment, that made 
 him so stimulating and inspiring a teacher. And 
 nowhere did he show these fine qualities to better 
 purpose, to more enduring effect than in those 
 intimate, informal conferences under the mellow 
 lamplight of his own study and surrounded by 
 the books that he most loved. 
 
 "O strong soul, by what shore 
 Tarriest thou now? For that force. 
 Surely, has not been left vain ! 
 Somewhere, surely, afar. 
 In the sounding labour-house vast 
 Of being, is practiced that strength. 
 Zealous, beneficent, firm!" 
 
 Chaeles R. Williams. 
 
PROF. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, Ph.D. 
 
 1 Avenue Gallatin, Geneva 
 
 Nov. 29, 1914. 
 
 Dear Doctor: 
 
 A failing memory prevents me from recalling 
 where I left off in the last record of my Hfe which 
 I sent to you. For the past seven or eight years, 
 I have been living and travelling over here. I 
 spent two years at Neuchatel where I lectured 
 on philosophy, at the new university there, taking 
 the place of one of the professors, who had been 
 called to Geneva. A year ago, I too, came to 
 Geneva, where it is possible that I may pass 
 what is commonly called the evening of life. The 
 Balkan war, and the present war took away a 
 great many students from the Swiss universities 
 which are largely attended by Russians and peo- 
 ple from Southeastern Europe. Most of the for- 
 eign students this year are mere women. 
 
 There are very few Americans here now. 
 Occasionally I meet in the street a man who 
 comes from the famous James Edward Burr belt 
 in Pennsylvania. He has, I beheve, invented a 
 theory of education which will enable a child to 
 read Aristotle, before leaving the cradle. 
 
 Up to this time, the war has not disturbed me 
 
44 CLASS OF '75 
 
 much for Geneva is remote from the conflict. In 
 case of a German bombardment, I have no anx- 
 iety, as I am Hving at a fairly safe distance from 
 the miiversity, the hospitals, the orphan asylum, 
 and the cathedral. In case the French cross the 
 frontier, I need not fear their heavy artillery 
 which bears the auspicious name of "75." 
 
 I hope that the members of the class will bear 
 in mind, that I have an extra room in my apart- 
 ment, which is kept ready for any of them who 
 may pass this way, as well as for their children 
 and grandchildren. Let them come before the 
 provisions fail, lest they should have to eat horse, 
 dog, cat, and everything that creepeth upon the 
 earth. 
 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 ARCHIBAI.D Alexander. 
 
 FRANK D. ALEXANDER 
 
 Hotel San Remo, New York 
 I apologize to the Class for never having any- 
 thing interesting to report about myself, 
 
 I still take life easily; worry little; spend much 
 time in the woods, fishing., etc., and still feel 
 young enough to enjoy a sharp game of tennis, a 
 long hike daily, and yell at a good game of ball. 
 Moderation in all things, I am convinced, is a 
 mighty good compass to steer by. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 45 
 
 HON. CHAS. CLAFLIN ALLEN, A.M., LL.D. 
 Boatmen's Bank Building, St. Louis 
 Residence: 2727 Westmoreland Place 
 Mydear"Tam": 
 
 There is very little news which I can give you 
 for purposes of record. I am sending you here- 
 with, as you requested, a sketch of the "Origin of 
 the Princeton Glee Club." 
 
 I wish that I could feel that I had done all of 
 my work in life as efficiently and happily as I did 
 in the organization and direction of the Glee 
 Club. 
 
 As you, and most of the boys of '75 know, I 
 have lived all my life in St. Louis, and have prac- 
 ticed law since 1877, excepting for six (6) years 
 between 1907 and 1913, when I was a judge of 
 the Circuit Court. I was married in 1890 and 
 have two children: a grown daughter named 
 Grace, who spent freshman year at Wellesley, 
 class of '13, and a son, who voluntarily named 
 himself for me as a "Jr," who is graduating in 
 the Class of '15 at Princeton. It is the hope of 
 his proud mother and his sister as well as his 
 father, to be present in Princeton and see him 
 get his degree of A.B. in June. It would not be 
 possible for me to express the keen, yet tender, 
 anticipation, I feel in meeting the boys of '75 at 
 our 40th anniversary. 
 
46 CLASS OF '75 
 
 With affectionate memories for the past and 
 imdimmed hopes for the futm-e, 
 
 Faithfully your classmate, 
 
 Chas. Claflin Allen. 
 
 "Stag" had the time of his life at the Reunion. 
 He saw the "boy" graduate, and deliver the 
 Latin Salutatory, and moreover, saw him take 
 the unusual grade of a Complete First Group. 
 
 WILLIAM S. ARCHER, M.D. 
 
 Bel Air, Md., July 21, 1915. 
 
 Dear Harvey: 
 
 I very much regret I was not at the Class meet- 
 ing. Bradford and I had fully decided to come 
 up, but as usual something happened. Put me 
 down for a reserved seat at the next meeting. 
 You may not know it but Bel Air is on the state 
 road between Baltimore and Philadelphia and if 
 you or any of the Class are passing I would es- 
 teem it an honor if you would stop in. I have not 
 joined the prohibition party and can assure you 
 a hearty welcome. I enclose you a check which 
 you can use for the Record or emergency fund as 
 you prefer. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 William S. Archer. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 47 
 
 CHARLES H. BOTSFORD 
 
 Charles H. Botsford, New York Athletic 
 Club, New York. Botsford has lived in Europe 
 for the last years. He has been a "Promoter of 
 various large enterprizes, a vocation which he has 
 followed with varying success since his college 
 days," according to Botsford '74. 
 
 In January, 1914, Botsford wrote as follows: 
 "I have globe-trotted a lot since I left New York 
 seven years ago, all kinds of things have happen- 
 ed. Lightning has struck the '70s hard. Dr. 
 Fine had a house next door to me in Munich when 
 I lived there. I think I was the first to congratu- 
 late him on his diplomatic appointment. I won- 
 der if he is back in Princeton. I have lived in 
 London since May; my boy and girl are sixteen 
 and twenty years old, but I am proud of them. I 
 tried some interesting experiments in education, 
 so far am well pleased." 
 
 "Bots" turned up at the reunion, favored us 
 with many remarks upon most of mundane af- 
 fairs, and confessed that it was an experience 
 that he was sorry to have missed so regularly in 
 the past. 
 
 He read a poem at the dinner, one verse of 
 which is appended: 
 
 "Call him not old who keeps the primal joys. 
 
48 CLASS OF '75 
 
 The open door, the smile, the heart of youth. 
 Loves Mother Earth and all her jewelled toys. 
 Yet seeks in man a finer jewel, worth. 
 
 S. W. BRADFORD 
 
 S. W. Bradford, Bel Air, Maryland. "Peh- 
 bles" is obdurate. His stony indifference to the 
 appeals of the Secretary for grist for the Class 
 Record is granitic. He is, so far as is known, in 
 the banking business in Bel Air. 
 
 ALFRED S. BROWN 
 
 62 William St., New York City 
 "Brownie" has practiced law in New York for 
 many years, but not all of the time. Out in New 
 Jersey there is a country-side who speak of Far- 
 mer Corntassel Brown as one of the institutions 
 of Somerset County. 
 
 He is still a bachelor, but attends all Princeton 
 affairs and is an active member of the Old Guard 
 of '75, who keep the sacred fire burning on the 
 Class altar. 
 
 JAMES EDWARD BURR 
 
 835 Webster Ave., Scranton, Pa. 
 Burr still deals out legal advice at the old 
 stand, and we are creditably informed very much 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 49 
 
 to the satisfaction of his dients. There comes a 
 time in the hves of most professional men where 
 the regular routine seems to go on without much 
 variation, the only comfort being that the mon- 
 otony holds good even over quarter-day. 
 There are four daughters and one son. 
 
 REV. JOHN P. CAMPBELL, D.D. 
 
 1728 N. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Pastor of the Faith Presbyterian Church 
 
 since 1886 
 
 Campbell promised me a letter but he did not 
 send it, consequently I can only say of him that 
 he has held down his present job longer than any 
 of the rest of our Dominies except Louderbough : 
 evidently it is simply a question of avoirdupois. 
 Twenty-nine years represents a long period of 
 uesfulness embracing numberless activities, and 
 the ability to satisfy successive generations of 
 parishioners with one's capacity as a shepherd is 
 an evidence of adaptability which could only have 
 been acquired by an apprenticeship in the Class 
 of '75. 
 
 Campbell has been employed in all kinds of 
 churchly activities both local and national, and 
 we find his name associated with administration 
 in many fields of usefulness. 
 
 He is married but there are no children. 
 
50 CLASS OF '75 
 
 REV. CRAIG BOYD CROSS 
 
 Oxford, Pennsylvania 
 
 Cross wrote a very pleasant little story for the 
 Record about boating in the seventies, but neg- 
 lected to tell us anything about himself except 
 that he is still preaching. He has had three Pas- 
 torates since graduation, and his letters show him 
 to be the same good fellow that he was as a boy» 
 He is married but has no children living. 
 
 REV. ALLEN M. DULLES, D.D. 
 
 Professor of Theism and Apologetics 
 Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 I have very httle to say about myself that can 
 be of much interest even to my well disposed 
 classmates. I am impressed with the length of 
 the forty years as my imagination presented these 
 to me when I was graduating; and the brevity 
 of this period as I look back upon it. It seems a 
 dream. How much have I forgotten, how little 
 of what, at the time, seemed important, very im- 
 portant, has for me now any significance what- 
 ever. I seem to have done very little. Yet I 
 am not inclined to that most useless of all expen- 
 ditures, to waste feeling or words in regrets. My 
 life has been devoted with some steadiness to re- 
 
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 flection. I have sought for the things which 
 might be called sure and worth while as a basis 
 for my own living and for the help of others 
 whom it has, I can hardly say, been my duty to 
 help by means of preaching and teaching during 
 these years. I do not know what I have accom- 
 plished. The fact is, I have never regarded re- 
 sults as the end and aim of doing. Somehow the 
 doing has seemed to be the duty and the high 
 privilege. Many convictions which I supposed 
 were strong in my youth, have decayed and do 
 not now enter into the solid structure of my life. 
 But profounder convictions and those more nec- 
 essary to hopeful living, to the conquest, the 
 transformation of the evil of the world, have 
 taken their place. That which ought to abide, I 
 think abides as permanent in my consciousness, 
 the faith and the hope and the charity which are 
 the pillars of blessedness here and forever. I do 
 not feel that these years have made me old, al- 
 though these reflections might seem to indicate 
 evening shadows. No, the world seems worth 
 living in and even our own times excite to mag- 
 nificent endeavor. 
 
 Dulles. 
 
52 CLASS OF '75 
 
 COL. GEORGE R. ELDER 
 
 Quincy Block, Leadville, Colorado 
 Residence: 310 West 8th St. 
 
 Elder is just as quiet as ever. Since 1905 I 
 have not succeeded in getting a word out of him 
 except that he is married and has a son who grad- 
 uated at Princeton, 1911, and who is evidently 
 doing his paternal ancestor exceeding proud, to 
 use an expressive colloquism. 
 
 "Chippy" is still practicing law in Leadville. 
 
 ARCH BISHOP ELDREDGE 
 
 President, Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic R. R. 
 Marquette, Mich. 
 Besides being a "Senator" of old, the "Arch- 
 bishop of Fond du Lac" has found time to be a 
 railroad president and a grandfather. This last 
 job is one that takes up a good deal of his time 
 and attention. He thinks nothing of coming half 
 way across the Continent to shake hands with a 
 new one as he lands from the ship. Moreover, 
 he has been President of the Bar Association of 
 Michigan. Incidentally he comes East to all 
 Princeton functions, and was so good a son of 
 Nassau as to send his only boy to graduate with 
 the Class of 1911. Besides the son there are two 
 daughters and two wonderful grandchildren. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 53 
 
 GUSTAV ADOLF ENDLICH, A.M., LL.D. 
 
 Reading, Pa. 
 Residence: 1537 Mineral Spring Road. 
 
 Endlich has been Judge in the twenty-third 
 Judicial District since 1889, and President Judge 
 since 1908. He was a candidate for Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a non-partizan 
 candidate; but those Pennsylvania Dutchmen 
 missed the chance of their life by not nominating 
 him. He has been spoken of as a "Judge whose 
 learning, rich experience and great judicial in- 
 dustry have borne such fruit in the illumination 
 of legal principles, and in clear expositions of the 
 law that the law everywhere is indebted to him." 
 He has written five very important books that are 
 accepted as authority of the highest character, 
 particularly his "Commentaries on the Interpre- 
 tation of Statutes." 
 
 He is married and has two daughters living. 
 
 OLIVER E. FLEMING 
 
 Fort Wayne, Indiana 
 
 "O." has not favored us with an account of 
 his doings for a long time. We hear, however, 
 that of late years, his health has not been of the 
 best and that he has to spend most of his time in 
 a sanitarium. 
 
54 CLASS OF '75 
 
 REV. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK 
 
 Highwood, N. J. 
 
 Frederick turned up at the last Reunion, and 
 told us of his experiences up to that time. Two 
 of his sons graduated from Princeton with honors, 
 and a very proud father introduced them to the 
 class. He has retired from the ministry and is 
 living in New Jersey. He is married and has 
 three children. 
 
 REV. CHARLES NOBLE FROST, D.D. 
 
 Avon, New York 
 
 "Jack Frost" was present at the "Dinner of 
 the Seventies" last winter in fine shape, only 
 some of us were a little puzzled that his head was 
 no longer of the raven hue — but then there are 
 others. Since 1879 he has been preaching con- 
 stantly. In 1905 he presided at a meeting of 
 the Commissioners of the Auburn Theological 
 Seminary when they inaugurated "Dulles" as 
 Professor. 
 
 He is married, and there are three daughters. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSI TY 55 
 
 REV. GEORGE WTASHINGTON GALLAGHER, 
 D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Bellevue Apartments, Madison, Wis. 
 
 March 24, 1915. 
 Dear Tarn: 
 
 Your kind letter of March 21, with blank form 
 to fill out, came yesterday. 
 
 On September 10 I had a stroke of paralysis 
 in the Presbyterian Manse in Hartington, Neb- 
 raska. My daughter Katherine was in the Uni- 
 versity here studying for her Doctor's Degree. 
 She brought me here and placed me in a sanita- 
 rium where I have been until our finances were 
 exhausted, which make a longer stay at the hos- 
 pital impossible. 
 
 My daughter then took me to a little apart- 
 ment where she nurses and tries to take care of 
 me while she continues her teaching and studies. 
 You can see that our lines have fallen in unpleas- 
 ant places, and the thought of your happy 
 reunion seems doubly delightful to one so unfor- 
 tunate as I am. I cannot stand or sit up, or 
 walk, nor can I write with pen and ink so must 
 use lead pencil. I am too ill to fill out the form 
 now. Last spring I received a similar one from 
 Mr. McAlpin and filled it out and sent it to him. 
 
 God bless you dear Tam and all the boys of '75. 
 Your affectionate classmate, 
 
 Geo. W. Gallagher. 
 
56 CLASS OF '75 
 
 Gallagher has been living in the Middle West 
 for several years practicing and lecturing in 
 many places. He has been a regular lecturer on 
 the Chautauqua Circuit and has written many 
 books, his lectures and essays have been on many 
 subjects, literary and political. 
 
 He has been married and has three children. 
 
 JOSEPH D. GALLAGHER 
 
 Glenridge, N. J. 
 
 American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company, 
 
 30 Church St., New York City 
 
 After practicing many years as a lawyer, 
 "Time" has drifted into business, and now is Vice 
 President and Counsel of the above mentioned 
 corporation. So occupied has he been with these 
 affairs that it is with great difficulty that he tears 
 himself away for the real important things of 
 life, so that he is unable to play golf more than 
 four months in the year. 
 
 Jonas explained to RoUo that the more im- 
 portant work you do the less time you have to 
 give to it and the more money you are paid for 
 doing it. 
 
 He is married. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 57 
 
 A. P. GARRABRANT 
 
 2074. Daly Ave., New York City 
 
 New York, May 12, 1915. 
 
 Thomas W. Harvey, 
 
 Orange, N. J., 
 My Dear Harvey; 
 
 Your notice of the reunion of our class to be 
 held this coming commencement is at hand. I 
 feel that the occasion will be an interesting one, 
 and perhaps the last of the kind. 
 
 During all the years I have been hindered 
 from attending the gatherings of our class and 
 find that, owing to my blindness I will be unable 
 to attend this one. 
 
 I have in my possession a picture of the class. 
 It is the large one and is in good order. I do 
 not know what disposition to make of it, as I 
 have no one who will care for it when I am gone. 
 If you have any suggestion to make in the matter 
 I would be glad to hear from you. 
 
 I would extend through you to the members 
 of our class my best wishes. 
 
 I remain sincerely, 
 
 A. P. Garrabkant. 
 
 PROF. GEORGE BRUCE HALSTED, Ph.D. 
 
 Greeley, Colorado 
 Halsted has not favored the Secretary with 
 any information for a long time. His many 
 
58 CLASS OF '75 
 
 mathematical books have been translated into 
 many foreign languages and have been well re- 
 ceived by mathematicians the world over. It 
 hardly seems credible that he should have allowed 
 such an opportunity as the Class Record to pass 
 unutilized. 
 
 The accompanying letter came to Bolton. 
 Dear Bolton: 
 
 I received and read with great interest your 
 article on the single tax. I always think the dis- 
 secting, the negative, the showing-up part of 
 your writings is admirable. Therein lies your 
 forte. 
 
 But people go on doing it even after you have 
 shown how untenable and absurd it is, just as 
 they go on believing in hell and the devil, and the 
 Kaiser, the supreme war-lord, and war babies. 
 
 Trying to get work in Oklahoma, I was taken 
 to a prayermeeting for rain. I am working as 
 an electrician, as there is nothing (for me) in 
 cultivating vacant lots. 
 
 Yours always, 
 
 George Bruce Halsted. 
 
 BOLTON HALL 
 
 29 Broadway, New York City 
 Residence: 33 E. 61st St., New York 
 Some "literary feller" has written that Bolton 
 is *'a sort of philosophical anarchist with a large 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 59 
 
 practical streak in him." He sums up his career 
 himself in three words "importer, lawyer, agi- 
 tator." 
 
 As an agitator he has spilled many oceans of 
 printers ink, and most of it is very entertaining 
 and much of it instructive. 
 
 He has written many books and delivered 
 many lectures ; the motive of all his work is altru- 
 ism, but some of his ways certainly are queer, 
 and more or less disturbing to those of us who 
 had made up our minds that we had solved all 
 the problems worth worrying over, and that 
 status quo was good enough for us and after us 
 the deluge. It would take a volume to tell the 
 whole story of Bolton. 
 
 He is married, there are no living children. 
 
 THOMAS W. HARVEY, M.D., F.A.C.S. 
 463 Main St., Orange, N. J. 
 
 It is curious how few things can happen to a 
 man in ten years. With years has come many 
 new duties, new pleasures, new sorrows and now 
 and then a tragedy. 
 
 At the end of forty years a doctor has exper- 
 ienced either personally or vicariously most of 
 human happenings and looks back with mingled 
 sensations of joy and sorrow; satisfied however, 
 that there have been many things in life that have 
 
60 CLASS OF '75 
 
 been entirely worth while. High up in this list 
 the Secretary puts Princeton and the Class of 
 Seventy-five. 
 
 The family record stands one good wife, one 
 daughter and two sons, Princeton graduates of 
 1905 and 1908. 
 
 REV. JAMES W. HAWKES 
 Hamadan, Persia 
 
 Hawkes lives so far away as mails go that the 
 answers that he sends to circulars for our Re- 
 unions come back in time for the succeeding one. 
 Two year ago he was at home, and several of us 
 saw him. He had grown with his work and had 
 many interesting tales to tell of the strenuous 
 work laid out for a missionary in the midst of 
 such a turbulent country of anarchy and chaos 
 as Persia. Since his return the turbulence has 
 greatly increased, and the present war has ex- 
 tended to Hamadan. Hamadan is a trading 
 post, two hundred miles southwest of Teheren, 
 celebrated in tradition as the burial place of 
 Esther and Mordecai and of Avicenna the great 
 physician. 
 
 Hawkes is married but has no children. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 61 
 
 REV. CHARLES HERR, S.T.D. 
 244 Riverside Drive, New York City 
 
 Dear Dr. Harvey: 
 
 I thank you for the program of Commence- 
 ment week, and I am more than sorry than I 
 can really express that I cannot come. 
 
 It may be desirable to say to you as Class news 
 that I retired on the first of May from my Pasto- 
 rate of twenty-nine years in Jersey City with the 
 title of Pastor Emeritus and a small stipend at- 
 tachment, and that I am now with some urgency 
 looking for a job. 
 
 I shall appreciate it if you will convey cordial 
 greetings from me to the '75 members present. 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Chaeles Herr. 
 
 V^ILLIAM CRAW^FORD JOHNSON, M.D. 
 Frederick, Md. 
 
 "Smike," as every good doctor should do, 
 settled early in his chosen field and stayed there. 
 The result has been the reward of plenty of 
 hard work, a comfortable living and a monument 
 of good repute to be left in the hearts and minds 
 of neighbors. He has served his fellow citizens 
 in many public medical positions, and his medical 
 colleagues in many honorary offices in their gift. 
 
62 CLASS OF '75 
 
 Incidentally I understand that he breeds the best 
 horses in Maryland, which is going some in these 
 auto days. 
 
 There are two daughters and a son. 
 
 ISAAC H. LIONBERGER 
 
 Security Building, St. Louis, Mo. 
 Residence: 37 Westmoreland Place 
 
 I sincerely regret that I have nothing to say 
 for the Fortieth Year Class Record and had 
 rather trust to your write-up in dehrium than to 
 my own tortured recollections. It must have oc- 
 curred to you that a man who has reached forty 
 has accomplished all that he is capable of doing. 
 What follows is fruition. I have been prosper- 
 ous and as happy as any man ought to be. I have 
 six children; none of them has given me trouble. 
 For five years I have been a widower. One can- 
 not make a brilliant narrative out of such meagre 
 facts. I do not mean to seem rude or indifferent : 
 I have nothing to say. Now and then I shrink 
 from the encounter with the graybeards whom I 
 knew as boys. Nevertheless, I shall venture. 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 I. H. LlONBERGER. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVER SITY 63 
 
 REV. W. V. LOUDERBOUGH 
 
 Presbyterian Manse 
 60 Market St., Salem, N. J. 
 My dear Tarn: 
 
 Taking warning from your letter of April the 
 tenth, in which you intimate that you may be 
 afflicted with "delirium" (tremens?) and get off 
 some "fool write up" at my expense, I now pro- 
 ceed to state my case for the Fortieth Year Class 
 Record. I have spent one year teaching in 
 Bloomfield, N. J. High School, three years in 
 Princeton Theological Seminary and thirty-six 
 years in the active ministry, thirty-one of them in 
 Salem, N. J., as pastor of the First Presby- 
 terian Church. I have had a most happy life 
 during those forty years, and fully as great suc- 
 cess as I could well have expected in attaining 
 unto the ends for which I have chiefly labored. 
 I have had no great honor from men, but I have 
 had much joy in life and the assurance that con- 
 scientious service for God and men brings satis- 
 fying returns even in this world. I was married 
 April 17, 1884 to Miss Lida McDonough Jan- 
 vier of Odessa, Del., and we have now rounded 
 out thirty-one years of sweet fellowship and 
 partnership together. We have one son. Rev. J. 
 Janvier Louderbough of Newark, N. J., who 
 was born in Salem, N. J. and in 1912 ordained 
 
64. CLASS OF '75 
 
 to the Gospel Ministry here, having graduated 
 from Princeton University in 1907 with the de- 
 gree of A.B. and having received a degree of 
 A.M. from the same institution after a post- 
 graduate course there. At sixty-four years of 
 age, I am happy to say that I enjoy my work 
 and am doing, as I think, more and better work 
 than I ever did, I am blessed with good health, 
 weigh over two hundred pounds, and still feel 
 young in spirits and ready to battle for God and 
 the right. I love old Princeton, our honored 
 Alma Mater and earnestly hope and pray, as in 
 our college days, she will ever stand for high and 
 holy thinking and living, and train young men 
 to fear God, love his holy word and work right- 
 eousness as well as to to be good scholars fitted 
 for the practical work of the world. I extend 
 my most cordial and affectionate greetings to all 
 the surviving members of dear old '75 and hope 
 to meet many of them in Princeton at our Reun- 
 ion next Jime. 
 
 W. V. LOUDEEBOUGH. 
 
 (Little Louder). 
 
 REV. HECTOR A. McLEAN 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Evil days have come to Hector. His son 
 writes that he has been in a sanitarium for over 
 
PRINCETON UN IVERSITY 65 
 
 two years. He was so well and vigorous at our 
 last Reunion that his classmates will all hear with 
 sorrow that there is no expectation of his ulti- 
 mate recovery. 
 
 REV. VS^ILLIAM SIDNEY MILLER, D.D. 
 440 Maple Ave., Edgewood Park, Pa. 
 
 My dear Tam: 
 
 I send you herewith a brief synopsis of the 
 years since graduation. 
 
 In September after our class graduated, I en- 
 tered the Western Theological Seminary, gradu- 
 ating in 1878. I was ordained and installed 
 Pastor of the Beulah Church, just a few miles 
 out of Pittsburgh. From there I went to Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and was in charge of the Gurley 
 Memorial Presbyterian Church. In 1893 I spent 
 some weeks in Denver filling a pulpit for a sick 
 minister and in February, 1894 was called to 
 Crafton, a suburb of Pittsburgh, leaving there 
 in 1902, then spending some months in evangel- 
 istical work in Montana and North Dakota. For 
 almost three years I was minister in charge of 
 Churches at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and 
 Homewood Avenue and McCandless Avenue, 
 Pittsburgh. I was then called to Holhdaysburg, 
 Pennsylvania, County seat, Blair County, from 
 
66 CLASS OF '75 
 
 which I retired in December, 1913, on account 
 of a breakdown, and since that time have been 
 living at Edgewood, a suburb of Pittsburgh, 
 preaching as the opportunity and my health 
 permit. I spent almost a year abroad in travel 
 and study and again on a three months' tour. I 
 received the degree of D.D. from Wooster Uni^ 
 versity, Wooster, Ohio. I am now a member of 
 the Board of Directors of the Western Theologi- 
 cal Seminary and Secretary of that Board. 
 I hope to be with you at the meeting in June. 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 William Sydney Miller. 
 
 HENRY MOFFAT, M.D., F.A.C.S. 
 129 Park Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 "Doc" ought to have been willing to write his 
 own biography, but he only volunteered to write 
 Tenny's. However, he has worked long and 
 hard at his profession, is noted as a surgeon and 
 fills various surgical appointments in the Hos- 
 pitals in his neighborhood. He has written well 
 and instructively about his work. 
 
 Moreover, he is the peerless leader of the Old 
 Guard of '75, never faltering in his duty in the 
 presence of all kinds of college dinners and 
 smokers, and blowing vigorously upon the spark 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 67 
 
 of life in the old class when it seemed about to 
 be extinguished. 
 
 He is a widower and has one son, Princeton 
 1913. 
 
 R. D. MORROW 
 211 Market St., Wilmington, Del. 
 
 "Bob" has not written this year, but he has 
 come back to Princeton quite regularly, and had 
 a son graduate in the class of 1909. 
 
 He is a prosperous merchant of Wilmington. 
 
 REV. ARTHUR NEWMAN 
 Bridgehampton, N. Y. 
 
 Newman has kept actively in the harness as a 
 clergyman since his ordination, being many 
 years in his present parish where he has been do- 
 ing much good work, greatly beloved by all his 
 people. He has also kept closely in touch with 
 class interests as the Secretary's letter file wit- 
 nesses, and has been of much assistance in many 
 matters. 
 
 He is President of the Long Island Bible So- 
 ciety, and his little book "Writing on the Clouds" 
 was an inspiration. 
 
 He is married and has three children, two 
 daughters and a son. 
 
68 CLASS OF '75 
 
 JAMES S. NICKERSON 
 Ivy Court, 210 W. 107th St., New York 
 
 "Nick" broke the silence of many years and 
 came to the Reunion, and enjoyed himself so 
 much that he wrote the following letter when he 
 went back. He has wandered far afield from the 
 quiet Quaker-town, and has spent many years 
 abroad. 
 Dear Tam: 
 
 I am afraid I may not get down to Princeton 
 tomorrow as I expected. If I don't, say good- 
 bye to the boys with the hope that we will all be 
 at our next meeting. Tell them my address, and 
 if they should forget it, to look for "Ivy Court" 
 in the Telephone book. We should be awfully 
 glad to see them whenever they come to New 
 York. I wish more of the boys had brought their 
 wives. Mrs. Nickerson had a glorious time and 
 wants to see you all again. 
 
 Yours for '75, 
 
 Jas. S. Nickerson. 
 
 FRANK HUSTON NORTON 
 
 Lexington, Ky. 
 
 Norton is married and has one child, a daugh- 
 ter. He retired from business in 1914. 
 My dear Harvey: 
 
 Your letter dated nearly two months ago, ask- 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 69 
 
 ing for personal information, and reminding me 
 to make arrangement to attend the Fortieth Re- 
 imion next Jmie, has been received. 
 
 I was glad to learn that at least one other 
 member of the old class of '75 was alive, and as 
 he suggests, neither of us will have the chance as 
 now to meet at another fortieth reunion. 
 
 I hope however, that the doctor and the drug- 
 gist will be the last to go. I am past sixty years 
 old, shghtly bald, hair and whiskers grey and in 
 good health. I regret that being in unfortunate 
 circumstances I will be prevented from attending 
 the Reunion. 
 
 Sending my best wishes to all the surviving 
 members, I remain. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Frank H. Norton. 
 
 HON. JAMES PENNEWILL 
 Dover, Delaware 
 Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware 
 "Pus" gives me permission to say "that after 
 leaving College he read law for three years, was 
 admitted to the Bar of the State of Delaware in 
 1878. He practiced for nineteen years and was 
 appointed Associate Judge of the Supreme 
 Court, Delaware in 1897. In 1909 he Was pro- 
 moted to the position of Chief Justice of said 
 
70 CLASS OF "75 
 
 Court which position he is still endeavoring to 
 hold down." He also came mighty near going 
 to the Senate of the United States from the same 
 little State. 
 He is married. 
 
 REV. JOHN S. PLUMER, D.D. 
 649 E. 24th St., Baltimore, Md. 
 
 My dear Harvey: 
 
 I do not expect to be at our Fortieth Reun- 
 ion. I have nothing worth while to write con- 
 cerning myself for the occasion. The "hypnotic 
 spell" you accused me of having exercised over 
 my former charge was at last broken, and after 
 an interim in Western Pennsylvania I turned 
 up in Baltimore. Had you asked for a program 
 and prospectus forty years ago I might have 
 furnished you a volume, and although most of 
 it would have been fiction it would have made 
 copy. But now with myself and my deeds as a 
 subject I feel I have nothing to write, and so will 
 fit my treatment to my theme and close, with best 
 wishes for your prosperity and a good time at 
 the reunion. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 71 
 
 J. EVERTON RAMSEY 
 500 N. Chester Road, Swarthmore, Penn. 
 
 My dear Harvey: 
 
 Yours received some little time since. It is 
 certainly good of you to keep up your old time 
 vigor in the pursuit of statistics of '75. 
 
 I have little to report that would interest my 
 classmates. Have tried to keep busy and am 
 now fully occupied with one thing and another. 
 Am President of a good sized Trust Company, 
 and active Vice-President of one National Bank 
 and Director of another Bank. 
 
 Have tried to keep three things prominent in 
 my interest, my family. Church and business. 
 Political honor has not sought me nor I it, 
 neither have I cared for club life. Am a Re- 
 publican, and not particularly rejoicing under 
 the present Administration, but still wiUing to 
 confess some admiration for the present Presi- 
 dent who is too good a Princeton man to get 
 very far astray. 
 
 Have been blessed with a wife "good beyond 
 compare" and three daughters, one of whom has 
 just been married, and the other two just coming 
 into womanhood. I live in a College town twelve 
 miles from Philadelphia, and enjoy association 
 with a splendid company, many of them profes- 
 sional and literary people. 
 
72 CLASS OF '75 
 
 I love, sympathize and enjoy the young life 
 about me. Have tried not to let the years dim 
 the forward look the sunny hope, and faith in the 
 ideals yet to be realized. I see some members 
 of '75 occasionally, but not as many as I would 
 like to. 
 
 With kind regards. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 J. E. Ramsey. 
 
 SAMUEL CULBERSTON REA 
 Luverne, Minn. 
 
 My dear Tam : 
 
 Your various little reminders and notices of 
 the Class reunion have all reached me and it is 
 with the deepest regret I am compelled to say I 
 cannot be with you. 
 
 Circumstances are such that a trip east at this 
 time is utterly out of the question, however great 
 the inducement. The programme you lay out is 
 a most tempting one and it is a great self-denial 
 to resist. 
 
 I will think of you all on Friday evening at 
 the reunion and on Saturday at Charlie Wil- 
 liams,' I will be with you in spirit and trust the 
 boys will give me a passing thought. Remember 
 me to all the class present and tell them that as 
 
PRINCETON UNIVER SITY 73 
 
 time passes the ties of 1875 grow stronger and 
 firmer. 
 
 If everything goes well I will certainly be with 
 you when we celebrate in 1920. 
 
 With best wishes and my warmest regards to 
 all, it is with much regret I am compelled to 
 sign, 
 
 The absent "Screech" Rea. 
 
 PATTERSON A. REECE 
 
 Reece & Reece 
 Fifth and Walnut Sts., Johnston Bldg., Cincin- 
 nati 
 
 Reece still holds forth as a lawyer having as- 
 sociated with him a son so that the firm stands 
 "Reece & Reece," his best hold however is as a 
 poet. He came down to the New York dinner 
 one winter with a poem and spoke it. He made 
 a "tare." Do you remember how "Tete" Shel- 
 don used to parse it "taro, rowlere, fizzili, flunk- 
 um,"? I have some other examples of his muse 
 on file. 
 
 "Pap" is a great Sunday School sharp, and 
 came on East some time ago sampling our New 
 York variety, but they were not to his taste. 
 
 He is married and there are two sons and a 
 daughter. 
 
74 CLASS OF '75 
 
 "It gives me much pleasure to say that every- 
 thing is reasonably prosperous with me and that 
 my health is good and that I have reason to be- 
 lieve that the Kind Landlord will extend my 
 lease on life so that I may hope to be with you 
 all at another meeting. 
 
 "Give my love to all the boys and ask them to 
 sing one or the other of the two little songs which 
 I enclose. 
 
 "You all have my blessing and the earnest 
 hope that we may all meet together on our 50th 
 Anniversary." 
 
 Fraternally yours, 
 
 P. A. Reece. 
 
 ROBERT C. RODGERS 
 Attorney at Law 
 Springfield, Ohio 
 Dear Tam : 
 
 Since receiving your letter I have been occu- 
 pied with so many things that I had almost for- 
 gotten it. You ask me to blow my own horn in 
 regard to the happenings of the past forty years, 
 and I find myself up against a very difficult situ- 
 ation, for with me it has been about the same old 
 thing year after year, and the present finds me 
 doing just what I have done during all this 
 period. Nothing very exciting has occurred to 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 75 
 
 which I can call special attention. All I can 
 say is : 
 
 The years have come, 
 
 The years have past. 
 
 But I do just the same 
 
 This year as I did the last. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 ROBT. C. RODGERS. 
 CHARLES SCRIBNER 
 597 Fifth Ave., New York City 
 
 No one has kept up his interest in the Class or 
 in Princeton more actively than has "Scrib" but 
 he has neglected to supply more than the barest 
 recital of details for his biography. From this 
 we learn that he is President of "Charles Scrib- 
 ner Sons, Publishers," and that he serves as Di- 
 rector on the Boards of several banks. We glory 
 in the honor of his trusteeship of Princeton Uni- 
 versity, and are proud of the University Press 
 Building which Princeton owes to him. 
 
 Other fields of activity have occupied his at- 
 tention however, such as the Morristown School 
 of which he was President for ten years; the 
 American Publishers Association of which he 
 has been President, and his name is seen in the 
 public prints associated with many of the philan- 
 thropies of New York. 
 
76 CLASS OF '75 
 
 He is married and has one daughter, a son, 
 Princeton '13 and a granddaughter. 
 
 FREDERICK A. SNOW 
 15 Wall St., New York City 
 "No skit that I could send you, in the form 
 of personal history since my graduation, would 
 be at all amusing. I can send you a bare state- 
 ment of facts if you care for that kind of infor- 
 mation." 
 
 Fred, is a lawyer, is married and has one son. 
 
 JOHN C. TEN EYCK 
 
 76 WiUiam St., New York City 
 Residence: 19 Belmont Terrace, Yonkers 
 
 My dear Tam: 
 
 I am in receipt of your letter of the 17th, in 
 which you twit me for abandoning the idea of 
 "purple pajamas" and "mortar boards" on Class 
 Day. You say, "I should be more steadfast in 
 my convictions," but you should remember that 
 during all of our lives, you and I have left the 
 clouds where we live to associate with our friends 
 on the low earth. This is no lack of steadfast- 
 ness to conviction on our part, for love is the ful- 
 fillment of all conviction and we must be stead- 
 fast to the claims of affection. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 77 
 
 I, however, propose this, that you and I, if 
 no one else, shall put on purple togas, and stand- 
 ing together, shall look up into the light, this 
 ceremony to take place on the evening of our 
 Class dinner. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 John C. Ten Eyck. 
 
 This letter is characteristic but not biographi- 
 cal. "Cupid" is a lawyer, but more than that he 
 has been a politician and is therefore chary of 
 such details; he is moreover, a philosopher and 
 has written on many public questions in a way 
 that makes us regret that he has not ventured 
 upon higher flights in the way of public service. 
 
 Halsted once said that a man could not be 
 both a mathematician and lover at one and the 
 same time. So with politics and philosophy, they 
 are mutually exclusive, and then comes golf, of 
 which ancient game "Tenny" is a devotee to the 
 nth power. This is another combination of ad- 
 verse conditions that prevented '75 from having 
 a U.S. Senator. 
 
 He is married and has two sons and a daugh- 
 ter, one son is a student in Princeton now. 
 
 "Tenny" left the reunion early and on arriv- 
 ing home wrote this letter which reflects very 
 happily the state of exaltation that was produced 
 in the minds of all who attended the fortieth : 
 
78 CLASS OF '75 
 
 June 14, 1915. 
 My dear Tarn: 
 
 My wife says that as time goes on she will 
 probably get fuller information, but that as far 
 as she knows the only things that I have left are 
 my new pajamas and my old black pants. If not 
 too much trouble, please send me these things, — 
 together with any stray suggestions from El- 
 dredge, — by parcels post, to 19 Belmont Terrace, 
 Yonkers. 
 
 Although I am writing mainly to snatch my 
 things from the void, I might as well make a few 
 remarks. Eldredge is a Chestnut. This is not 
 a joke. He is prickly without but sweet within. 
 Zach is a fiery icicle, — a loving denunciation, — 
 a highly explosive compound of the practical and 
 ideal. I mourn to know that I must wait until 
 worms destroy my body before again reaching 
 out my arms to him, for that which is mortal in 
 me protests against these forty years during 
 which none of us have met together and spoken 
 of the old times, without testifying to our love 
 for him who knew us not. 
 
 Botsford is our best illustration of the unalter- 
 ableness of individuality. He may have per- 
 suaded himself that he is a mixer, but we all 
 know that if we had to go over our four years, 
 starting next September, the charm of the Col- 
 
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 lege Library would soon wean him from our 
 breasts. I think I love Miller more than I ever 
 did. He looked at us all gently and held his 
 peace, and then he prayed. For myself I like 
 the way he prayed and it comforted me to think 
 that if by some chance he could see my soul he 
 would not laugh. Indeed, our ministers were all 
 to the good. It may be Dulles thinks too much 
 and may be not. Who knows? Perhaps some 
 day he may capture a positivist, by his own 
 weapons, and lay him bound hand and foot be- 
 fore the throne of grace. The rest are bully! 
 Bear with me while I repeat the old names: 
 Dock, and Tam, and Charlie, and Bob, and Bob, 
 and Nick, — to whom God has sent a wife for 
 his salvation. I think of you all and of all who 
 were with us, and all who wished to be with us 
 but could not come. 
 
 Yours ever, 
 
 Jno. C. Ten Eyck. 
 
 FREDERICK B. VAN VORST 
 
 25 Broad St., New York 
 Residence: Hackensack, N. J. 
 
 My dear Tam: 
 
 I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your let- 
 ter of October 16, 1914, sounding the bugle call 
 
80 CLASS OF '75 
 
 for the reunion next year. Let me see, that is 
 the Fortieth Anniversary; — I do not recall suf- 
 ficient of my Latin to apply to it the proper 
 term. In due course I will be pleased to transmit 
 such material for the Class Record touching my 
 own life as may seem to me to interest others. 
 As a matter of fact, however, my own life since 
 the publication of the last Record has been hard 
 work for seventeen years, and sickness, more or 
 less serious, for three years. 
 
 The sands in the upper compartment of the 
 hour-glass of '75 are running low, I will admit, 
 and I hope, — sincerely hope — on this anniver- 
 sary to be with you all once more. — He was. 
 
 CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS, Ph.D., L.H.D. 
 
 210 Mercer St., Princeton, N. J. 
 
 The pace that "C" set up when he left Prince- 
 ton as first honorman he has kept up all his life. 
 Sailing his ship over the sea of literature he has 
 weathered all the storms and has returned to the 
 port of his departure with an abundant cargo of 
 honors. He has taught, managed and edited. 
 He was a tutor at Princeton and a Professor at 
 Lake Forest. He has been an editor of the New 
 York World, general manager of the Associated 
 Press and Editor of the Indianapolis News for 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 81 
 
 nine years. He has now retired and devoted 
 himself to belles-lettres. His most recent work 
 being "The Life of ex-President Hayes. 
 He is married. 
 
 DUDLEY GOODALL WOOTEN, LL.D. 
 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash. 
 
 Wooten practiced law in Texas until 1903 
 when he removed to Seattle, Washington, and 
 has lived a most active life both professional and 
 political. He was Prosecuting Attorney in Aus- 
 tin, Texas, and District Judge at Dallas. He 
 served in the Texas Legislature and represented 
 his State in Congress from 1899 to 1903. He 
 has been a Special Judge in the Supreme Courts 
 of both Texas and Washington. He was a 
 Presidential Elector at large for Texas in 1892. 
 He has also represented his State in many Na- 
 tional Conventions and Congresses, and has been 
 active in and the Presiding Officer of many so- 
 cieties both civic and legal. He is the author of 
 "A comprehensive history of Texas"; "A com- 
 plete history of Texas for Schools and Colleges" ; 
 "The Texas Land System"; "The old Missions 
 of Texas, Mexico and California." He is mar- 
 ried and has one child. 
 
 Certainly Wooten's career illustrates what op- 
 
82 CLASS OF '75 
 
 portimities this great country offers to a strong 
 man who has been thoroughly trained. Trusted 
 by his fellow citizens we see him occupying im- 
 portant positions of trust, and chosen to repre- 
 sent his constituents in many important and 
 varied fields. 
 
 MARTIN DASHER WYLLY 
 
 30 Pine St., New York City 
 
 Residence: 81 Hillyer St., East Orange, N. J. 
 No one of the class has taken more interest in 
 arranging the preliminaries of the Fortieth An- 
 niversary than Dasher, but alas ! during this past 
 winter he was incapacitated by illness and has 
 been unable to take part in our reunion much to 
 the disappointment of all his fellow classmates. 
 Up to this event the years passed lightly over 
 the old fellow, just adding that touch of mellow- 
 ness that made his hand-shake just the one thing 
 that his friends wished for. And with it all 
 every one said that he was the youngest man of 
 the crowd. ^ . » ^ ^ * a% i 
 
PRINCETON UNIVER SITY 83 
 
 No responses have been received from the 
 following: 
 
 REV. M. L. BOCHER 
 515 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 
 GEO. C. HENDRICKSON 
 Huntington, N. Y. 
 
 E. T. KENNARD 
 525 E. 23rd St., Baltimore, Md. 
 
 GEO. M. LANNING 
 Afton, N. J. 
 
 REV. JOHN McELMOYLE 
 Elkton, Md. 
 
 REV. C. R. SHIELDS 
 3451 Arroyo Secor Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 W. H. UNDERWOOD 
 Union League Club, New York City 
 
 No Address 
 
 R. H. EVANS 
 
 S. M. MILLER, M.D. 
 
NECROLOGY 
 
 WILLIAM H. BLINN Feb. 6, 1877 
 ROBERT L. STEVENSON 
 
 CHARLES M. FLEMING 1883 
 
 FRANCIS BIDDLE 1886 
 
 ELSWORTH E. HUNT, M. D. Aug. 1886 
 
 WILLIAM H. REILLEY Jan. 17, 1888 
 
 WILLIAM H. GRUNDY, M. D. 1888 
 
 JOSEPH WARREN Dec. 19, 1889 
 
 CHARLES B. MURRAY, M. D. 1890 
 
 REV. O. P. STEWART Nov. 13, 1894 
 
 REV. JOHN P. COYLE, D. D. Feb. 2, 1895 
 
 W. POLK CUMMINS Mar. 17, 1895 
 
 R. J. HALL, M. D. Jan. 25, 1897 
 
 CHARLES M. CASS Aug. 11, 1897 
 
 FRANK M. DICKEY Apr. 20, 1899 
 
 D. G. WALKER July 19- 1900 
 S. B. HUTCHINSON Jan. 20, 1902 
 
 E. W. GREENOUGH Apr. 5, 1905 
 THEODORE SHELDON May 25, 1905 
 PETER McGOUGH, M. D. Jan. 24, 1906 
 LADISLAS KARGE 
 
 REV. W. K. EDDY Nov. 9, 1906 
 
 ASHTON LEMOINE Feb. 12. 1907 
 
 WILLARD HALL PORTER Apr. 25, 1907 
 
 H. W. ARCHER, JR. Jan- 15. 1910 
 
 W. S. CHEESMAN, M. D. May 7, 1912 
 
 JUDGE CALVIN RAYBURN May 16, 1912 
 
 HERMAN G. DENNINSON July 31, 1912 
 
 FRANK C. ROGERS Feb. 23, 1914 
 
 E. S. EICHELBERGER July 29, 1914 
 
 F. W. JACKSON Nov. 21, 1914 
 THOMAS BIDDLE, M. D. Feb. 19, 1915 
 WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS May 28, 1915 
 
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THE ADVANCE GUARD 
 
 Inevitably as the years glide by more and 
 more good fellows slip quietly out of the march- 
 ing and join those who have passed on. Since 
 our Record was printed we have lost from the 
 roll the following names. 
 
 Rev. W. K. Eddy Nov. 9, 1906 
 
 Ashton Lemoine Feb. 12, 1907 
 
 Willard Hall Porter Apr. 25, 1907 
 
 H. W. Archer, Jr Jan. 15, 1910 
 
 W. S. Cheesman, M.D May 7, 1912 
 
 Judge Calvin Rayburn May 16, 1912 
 
 Herman G. Dennison July 31, 1912 
 
 Frank C. Rogers Feb. 28, 1914 
 
 E. S. Eichelberger July 29, 1914 
 
 F. W. Jackson Nov. 21, 1914 
 
 Thomas Riddle, M.D Feb. 19, 1915 
 
 William H. Williams May 28, 1915 
 
 Karge disappeared during this period, and 
 we have not been able to hear any news of him. 
 He was living an invalid in San Francisco pre- 
 vious to the earthquake, but disappeared at that 
 time, and the people who cared for him then 
 know nothing about him. 
 
88 CLASS OF '75 
 
 REV. W. K. EDDY 
 
 We all remember our missionary to Syria 
 "Billy" Eddy. After graduating from the Sem- 
 inary he went immediately back to Sidon where 
 he had been born. He was very active in his 
 chosen field; speaking Arabic fluently he soon 
 became a most influential man in Syria. He 
 died suddenly while on a hunting trip November 
 9, 1906. A memorial pamphlet was mailed to 
 the members of the class at that time. 
 
 ASTON LEMOINE 
 
 Ashton Lemoine died suddenly Feb. 12, 1907. 
 Ash. had lived in New York ever since gradua- 
 tion. He was a yacht broker and never married. 
 He was a faithful attendant at our class meet- 
 ings and was sure to be present at most Prince- 
 ton gatherings. 
 
 WILLARD HALL PORTER 
 
 Willard Hall Porter died April 25, 1907. 
 None of us will leave the class leaving pleas- 
 anter memories behind us than did Porter. He 
 practiced law in Wilmington, Delaware, hving 
 the same honest life that one would have pre- 
 dicted knowing him at Princeton. He was mar- 
 ried and left a widow and two children. His 
 son graduated from Princeton. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 89 
 
 HENRY W. ARCHER, Jr. 
 
 Henry W. Archer, Jr., died at Bel Air, Md., 
 June 15, 1910, just after our last reunion. "Big 
 Sage" studied law after leaving Princeton, and 
 practiced in Bel Air, his native town, until his 
 death, much respected by all his fellow citizens. 
 He served one term in the House of Delegates, 
 but took little interest in politics. He was mar- 
 ried but left no children. 
 
 DR. WILLIAM S. CHEESMAN 
 
 Dr. William S. Cheesman died at his home in 
 Auburn, N. Y., May 7, 1912, at the age of fifty- 
 nine years. Dr. Cheesman was a prominent 
 physician of Central New York. He was a 
 graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 
 and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 of Columbia University, and he studied abroad 
 at Berlin and Vienna. Dr. Cheesman was a son- 
 in-law of the late Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler '41. 
 
 As a college boy, as a scholar, as an athlete, 
 as a medical student, as a practitioner of medi- 
 cine and as a citizen he fulfilled the highest ideals 
 of what a man should be. 
 
 We recall the pleasant companionship of the 
 four years at Princeton, the interest that he took 
 in the class and campus life, his enthusiasm for 
 
90 CLASS OF '75 
 
 the gymnasium, and the thoroughness that char- 
 acterized his classroom work. 
 
 We recall also his genial friendship at the 
 class reunions, which he attended as often as the 
 exacting duties of his profession permitted, and 
 the cheerful, inspiring letters that he wrote when 
 not able to be present." 
 
 "Billy" was always interested in class matters 
 and the last letter that he ever wrote was to the 
 secretary in reference to a call for the New York 
 dinner. 
 
 He attained many honors in his professional 
 work and his contributions to medical literature 
 were scientific and worthy. As a citizen in his 
 home town he took an active part in all altruistic 
 work, often the pioneer, and ever the staunch 
 supporter of every movement that had for its 
 object the welfare of his fellowman but he was 
 equally as stalwart a foe to hypocrisy and 
 quackery either in medicine or religion. 
 
 CHEESMAN'S LAST LETTER 
 
 February 1912 
 Dear Tam: 
 
 I wish I could go to the dinner but I am 
 knocked out by a multiple neuritis which has me 
 tied to a bed. I write with difficulty. So I am 
 down and out not as those that are without hope. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 91 
 
 but the light of hope is dull and weak. They all 
 try to jolly me so you needn't. 
 
 Tell the boys I'd love to see them. I'll think 
 of them the night of the dinner. '75 ought to 
 pass a vote of pride and thanks to Scribner who 
 has proved such a splendid alumnus and done 
 so much for our class and Princeton. 
 
 I go over and over the old days and have much 
 joy of them in memory. 
 
 My love to the boys and tell them I am sorry 
 not to be with them. W. S. C. 
 
 CALVIN RAYBURN 
 
 Calvin Rayburn died May 16, 1912. Dear 
 old "Johnnie" Rayburn died a judge so highly 
 respected and loved in his community that they 
 called him "The People's Friend." To us who 
 knew him as a boy it is easy to understand why 
 he should have developed into just such a man. 
 Just the kind of a Democrat to overcome a Re- 
 publican majority of fifteen hundred, just the 
 kind of a man to be loved by little children and 
 respected by his equals. 
 
 Said his Pastor at his funeral : 
 
 "If every person for whom the judge has done 
 a kindness would place but a single blossom on 
 his bier he would sleep under a bower of roses 
 tonight." 
 
92 CLASS OF '75 
 
 The judge left three children, two sons and a 
 daughter. 
 
 OBITUARY IN THE ALUMNI WEEKLY 
 Judge Calvin Rayburfn died, at 62, at his 
 home Kittanning, Pa., on May 16, 1912. Judge 
 Rayburn was bom in North Buffalo Township, 
 Pa., of Scottish descent. For ten years he served 
 as judge in the Armstrong County Court, and 
 was also a very active member of the Democratic 
 Party, serving as delegate to several National 
 Conventions. 
 
 As a man Judge Rayburn fulfilled the promise 
 of his boyhood, honest and faithful, a hard 
 worker, the same sunny disposition that made 
 him the warm friend of every classmate charac- 
 terized his work as a barrister and as a jurist, 
 and when he was laid to rest, after a long and 
 active life, his neighbors called him the People's 
 Friend. 
 
 HERMAN G. DENNISON 
 
 Herman G. Dennison died July 31, 1912. It 
 has been impossible to get any details of Den- 
 nison's life. 
 
 DR. F. W. ROGERS 
 
 Dr. F. W. Rogers died February 23, 1914. 
 we will remember Frank Rogers as one of our 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 93 
 
 Freshman Honormen. He left college in Sopho- 
 more year, studied dentistry and settled in his 
 native town, Huntington, Long Island. He left 
 a widow and two children. 
 
 EDWARD S. EICHELBERGER 
 
 Edward S. Eichelberger died July 29, 1914. 
 A constant attendant at all the Class Reunions, 
 we will all miss Eichelberger very much. He 
 died in the same house where he was born, Fred- 
 eric, Maryland. 
 
 He studied law after graduation and was ad- 
 mitted to the Maryland Bar in 1878. He rose 
 to distinction in his profession, having served two 
 terms as State Attorney, and at the time of his 
 death he was Referee in Bankruptcy. He was 
 an active citizen of his native town serving in 
 many business activities. He was an Elder in 
 the Presbyterian Church and for twenty-five 
 years Superintendent of the Sunday School. He 
 leaves a widow and two children, a son and 
 daughter. 
 
 We will always cherish his memory as that of 
 a happy fun-loving boy, and who carried through 
 life the same joyous spirit that animated his 
 youth. 
 
94 CLASS OF '75 
 
 F. W. JACKSON 
 
 F. W. Jackson died November 21, 1914, at 
 Montgomery, Alabama. His degree was grant- 
 ed him in 1905. I have been unable to obtain 
 any details of his life. 
 
 DR. THOMAS BIDDLE 
 
 Dr. Thomas Biddle died in Philadelphia, Feb- 
 ruary, 1915. After leaving Princeton he studied 
 medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and 
 practiced in Philadelphia all his life. 
 
 Those of us who have seen him occasionally can 
 testify to his being the same Tom Biddle that 
 graced our Freshman year. 
 
 WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS 
 
 William H. Wilhams died at his home. Pater- 
 son, IST. J., May 28, 1915. He was a lawyer and 
 had always practiced his profession in Paterson. 
 He was on the directorate of several institutions 
 in Paterson. 
 
 June 9, 1915. 
 My dear Dr. Harvey : 
 
 Mr. Robert Wilhams has just given me your 
 letter in which you express sorrow at the news of 
 my dear husband's death. 
 
 It is still all very unreal to me, although I 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 95 
 
 am thankful to have been able to minister to him 
 for eight weeks. They are precious to me, and 
 at one period of his illness he asked for your let- 
 ter to be read to him, the one with reference to 
 the coming Class reunion, and insisted that the 
 Princeton flag which always hvmg in his "den" 
 should be placed where he could see it. He had 
 expected to have attended the reunion this year. 
 
 Last simimer he was not very well so we start- 
 ed for Europe in July, expecting to go directly 
 to Carlsbad, but reached Cologne the day before 
 war was declared, and were obliged to remain 
 there until able to get a freight steamer down the 
 Rhine to Rotterdam. There Dr. VanDyke 
 strongly urged us to go to England as it was 
 impossible to secure any sailings from there. 
 
 After much difficulty we were able to return 
 comfortably in the autumn, but all this stress, 
 particularly in Germany, seemed later to tell 
 seriously upon my husband's health and on April 
 1 he suffered from a stroke of apoplexy from 
 which, as I have said, he never recovered, al- 
 though lying as he did eight weeks we had hopes 
 that he might. Dr. Allen Starr was called in 
 consultation early in his illness and seemed at 
 that time hopeful that he might. A telephone 
 message was sent to you the day after his death 
 but we could not get the message taken at your 
 residence. 
 
96 CLASS OF '75 
 
 I am sending you these particulars because I 
 know you are interested, and because in all the 
 world there never was such a tender, loving, 
 chivalrous husband as your old Classmate 
 "Billy." 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Helen B. Williams. 
 
THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 Headquarters at 39 University Place were^ 
 opened at 11.30 a. m., present Moffatt, Eldredge, 
 W. S. Miller, C. Williams and Harvey. ^ By six 
 o'clock seventeen had arrived, Ten Eyck, Allen/ 
 Lionberger,'' F. Alexander," RodgerSj'Scribner,"' 
 Louderbough, Nickerson,"'Botsford,'*Burrr J. D/ 
 Gallagher and Dulles. 
 
 Meeting was called to order at six o'clock with 
 the President in the chair. The minutes of the 
 meeting of 1910 were read and approved. The 
 Secretary's report was read, giving him the pres- 
 ent number of men on the roll as fifty-seven and 
 the men who had responded to this call as forty- 
 five. The necrology of the five year period was 
 read, the list being Cheeseman, Rayburn, Eichel- 
 berger and W. H. Williams of the active list, 
 Jackson, Tom Biddle, F. Rogers and Dennison 
 of the inactive list. The sickness of Geo. W. 
 Gallagher, Garrabrant and Wylly was noted. 
 A letter from Mrs. W. H. WilHams was read 
 telling of the death of her husband, who had died 
 on May 28, and a committee consisting of Ten 
 Eyck, Scribner and Harvey were appointed to 
 draft a memorial minute to be printed in the 
 Alumni Weekly and sent to Mrs. Williams. 
 
98 CLASS OF '75 
 
 The Treasurer reported that the subscriptions 
 to date amounted to $445.00 and interest $3.52, 
 making a total of $448.52. The expenses of the 
 Reunion to date amounted to $408.00. He re- 
 ported that more money would be needed, that 
 there were other expenses connected with the Re- 
 union, and also that one hundred and fifty dollars 
 would print the Record. 
 
 A motion was passed that the Secretary should 
 print the Record as soon as he should have suf- 
 ficient funds in the treasury. The Secretary re- 
 ported that the balance of the Karge fund, 
 consisting of $140.00 had been sent to one of 
 the members of the Class by the Executive Com- 
 mittee. It was moved and carried that this action 
 of the Executive Committee be confirmed. 
 
 The Secretary reported that George Washing- 
 ton Gallagher had had a paralytic stroke that had 
 compelled him to give up work and that he was 
 living with his daughter. Further that Hector 
 McLean had become insane and has been in a 
 sanitarium for the past two years. A resolution 
 was made and adopted that an emergency fund 
 be created consisting of voluntary contributions 
 from the members of the Class, to be held by the 
 Treasurer to be used by the officers of the Class 
 for the benefit of any member of the Class at 
 their discretion. 
 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 99 
 
 On motion of Scribner, seconded by Eldredge, 
 Ten Eyck was requested to cast a vote for the 
 election of the present officers for the succeeding 
 term of ten years. Ten Eyck reported the vote 
 as so cast. Meeting adjourned. 
 
 The Anniversary dinner was served at seven 
 o'clock. The principal decoration of the table 
 was a basket of roses from Mrs. John Grier Hib- 
 ben. The Secretary was requested to make the 
 proper acknowledgments. Toward the end of 
 the dinner President Hibben made a short call 
 and spoke to the Class, congratulating them on 
 the number present, and also upon the hearty ap- 
 pearance of the old boys. But he particularly 
 congratulated Stag Allen upon the phenomenal 
 achievements of his son, Charles C. Allen, Jr., 
 who had graduated a Complete First, that is first 
 group in every department. This was a grade 
 very rarely if ever attained. Young Allen was 
 the Latin Salutatorian. This was a complete 
 surprise to the boys and to Allen himself, and 
 was received with great applause. The evening 
 was spent in talks and songs. The President told 
 about the doings of the baseball and football 
 teams. Allen told of the beginning of the Glee 
 Club, and C. Williams spoke beautifully of the 
 "Noctes ambrosianae" the library meetings of 
 Dr. McCosh. Zach and Dulles were a little dis- 
 
100 CLASS OF '75 
 
 posed to turn on the blue light, but there was so 
 much red fire burned all along the line by the 
 rest of the bunch that their gloom was soon 
 dissipated. 
 
 On Saturday, Van Vorst, Brown, Ramsey and 
 Morrow appeared, and the Class after being pho- 
 tographed at the headquarters paraded with full 
 ranks, total 20, to the Yale Game. The youth- 
 ful appearance of the old veterans in dark coats, 
 white pants and straw hats with the new band 
 was a continual cause for satisfaction. 
 
 After the game the members of the Class with 
 their wives and families were given a reception 
 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams at their resi- 
 dence, 210 Mercer St., Princeton. President 
 Hibben and many residents were invited to meet 
 them. "C." has a beautiful home with broad 
 lawns and an extensive view, and the members 
 of the Class remained to supper with their hosts. 
 The late evening passed in the usual rapid fire 
 work that characterizes the conversation of the 
 boys upon such occasions "all through the night." 
 
 On Sunday evening at six o'clock a memorial 
 service was held at headquarters in charge of 
 Louderbough. The list of the departed was read 
 and short obituaries given of the men who had 
 died since 1910. Dulles, Miller, Louderbough 
 and Botsford spoke in memory of Cheeseman 
 
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 and Rayburn. Dulles and W. Miller lead in 
 prayer. A note of greeting was sent to Archie 
 Alexander after an eloquent apostrophe by 
 Allen. 
 
 Sunday evening the men began to drift away, 
 and by Tuesday morning there were but six to 
 represent the Class at the Alumni luncheon, after 
 which the Reunion was adjourned until 1920. 
 
 The Reunion was a great success, Nickerson 
 came back for the first time in thirty years, and 
 Botsford for the first time in forty years. Vari- 
 ous members of the VanVorst, Nickerson, Allen, 
 Rodgers, Moffat, Ten Eyck and Harvey families 
 were present at the headquarters, and were very 
 welcome contributors to the good times. 
 
CLASS OF '75 LIBRARY OF ENGLISH 
 POETRY AND DRAMA 
 
 The Library of Princeton University, 
 Princeton, N. J., 
 
 June 9, 1914. 
 Mr. Thomas W. Harvey, M.D., 
 
 463 Main St., Orange, N. J. 
 Dear Mr. Harvey: 
 
 We are sending you under separate enclosure 
 a hst of the books purchased for the Class of '75 
 Library of EngUsh Poetry and Drama, and I 
 take the occasion to say that this collection has 
 proved of the utmost value in the very serious 
 problem of providing necessary books for the rap- 
 idly increasing work of the University. The 
 problem of satisfying the insistent and reasonable 
 demands of the professors, is one which is baffling 
 and almost overwhelming to the library authori- 
 ties, but your collection and the few similar ones 
 have been, so to speak, real Hfe-rafts, keeping 
 heads above water until help arrives. Your col- 
 lection has been of the utmost concrete usefuhiess 
 in the direct problem of university instruction. 
 
 With the assurance of our appreciation, I am, 
 Yours very faithfully, 
 
 E. C. RiCHAEDSON, 
 
 Librarian.