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 YALE COLLEGE. 
 
 SECRETARY'S REPORT, 
 
STATISTICS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE CLASS OF 1857, 
 
 yj^le college. 
 
 COLLECTED BY 
 
 DANIEL 0. EATON, 
 
 Class Secretary. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDEK OF THE CLASS. 
 
 NEW-YORK: 
 JOHN A. GRAY, PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND BINDER, 
 
 FIRE-PKOOP BUILDINGS, 
 CORNER OF FRANKFORT AND JACOB STREETS. 
 
 1861. 
 
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 PREFACE 
 
 My Classmates : — I believe it is everywhere acknowledged, that 
 in demands upon one's time and thoughts, business should take 
 precedence of pleasure. The pursuit which I have chosen is one 
 that makes constant and untiring devotion the only path to suc- 
 cess. This is the only apology I offer you for the somewhat tardy 
 appearance of this Report. 
 
 I have used the word pleasure^ because the compiling of this 
 little book has been to me a source of much pleasure. It has 
 brought me into more intimate relations of friendship with many 
 of you than I had enjoyed in College. It has given me oppor- 
 tunities — for which I am thankful — to be happy in the joys of my 
 classmates, as well as to sympathize with them in the adverse 
 strokes of fortune, which at times fall upon us all. It has revealed 
 to me a kindness of heart and a brotherly confidence on the part 
 of many of those to whom I write, of which I may now confess that 
 I was not formerly so fully aware. It has given me a pleasant em- 
 ployment for my few hours of leisure; it has initiated nie into 
 some of the mysteries of book-making; and it has been the means 
 of teaching me more and more deeply to reverence our Alma 
 Mater, and to value more and more highly the blessings that she 
 lavishes upon her children. 
 
 You will all regret to find that of some of those w^ho graduated 
 with us my statistics are imperfect. This is not through any lack 
 of attention on my part, but is partly due to the unsettled life and 
 unknown resting-places of some of our number, or in a very few 
 instances, to what seems to be a carelessness of that duty which, as 
 classmates, we owe to one another. In respect to those who for any 
 reason did not graduate with the rest of us, the same reasons, true 
 in a much greater degree, must account for a still more imperfect 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 record. Indeed, there are those whom we once greeted as class- 
 mates, who have declined to furnish any record of themselves, and 
 have requested that their names should have no place in this Re- 
 port. While we regret the course they have taken, let us give 
 them our good wishes for their prosperity. 
 
 The number of speeches reported in the account of our Tri- 
 ennial Meeting is, I believe, unprecedented. I have therefore 
 thought fit to abridge one or two of them, for which I hope I may 
 be pardoned. I desire to urge upon the Class the fact that it will 
 make my labors much lighter if they will, without any applica- 
 tion for information from me, promptly notify me of any changes 
 in their relations to the community. I wish to be informed 
 of all ordinations, admissions to practice law or medicine, forma- 
 tions of business copartnerships, academical or university degrees, 
 travels to foreign lands, returns home again, marriages, births, 
 deaths, appointments to offices in the gift of the people or of the 
 people's servants — in short, tell me of any personal news that the 
 man who sat next you in chapel would like to hear, or ought to 
 hear, whether he like it or not. Lastly, let no one of you fail to be 
 in New-Haven to attend our next Class-meeting in July, 1863. 
 
 And so, with my best wishes, and my sincerest regard for every 
 one of you, my classmates, farewell ! 
 
 Daniel C. Eaton. 
 
 New-Yoek, February 7, 1861. 
 
§lu^ ^uiinp. 
 
 Immediately after tlie speaking for the De Forest 
 Gold Medal, on Friday, June 19th, 1857, the Class met 
 for the last time before Commencement in the Presi- 
 dent's lecture-room, and, beside other business, passed a 
 resolution to have a portrait " painted, of Professor 
 Thacher by Elliott of Kew-York, and appointed A. M. 
 Wheeler a committee to collect the necessary money of 
 the Class, and to otherwise take the whole matter in 
 charge ; the portrait to be placed in the Trumbull Gal- 
 lery. At this meeting, also, E. W. Blake was elected 
 Class Secretary, and D. C. Eaton substitute. The for- 
 mer declining the office, the daties have fallen upon the 
 present incumbent. 
 
 In glad compliance with the invitations of our class- 
 mates Cone and Bay, ten of the Class were entertained 
 with a sumptuous banquet given at his father's house by 
 the former, October 28th, 1857, and the same evening 
 we attended a very pleasant and elegant party at the 
 home of the latter, where the fair maidens of Hartford 
 made the deepest impression upon the susceptibilities of 
 some members of the Class, one of the fairest of them 
 all even now holding undisputed sway in the heart of 
 her conquest, and reigning among the wives of '57. 
 
6 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 Twenty-five members of tlie Class met in the Presi- 
 dent's lecture-room at noon and in tlie evening of Wed- 
 nesday, July 28tli, 1858. Scoville, and afterwards 
 Jackson, were called to the chair. "Letters were read 
 from many of the Class ; the roll was read, and eagerly 
 was any news of each one received, or sorrowfully was 
 it confessed that no one knew what had become of him. 
 We went in the course of the day to look at our pic- 
 ture of the revered Professor of Latin. We thought it 
 was rather dark, and did not look as much like him as 
 we thought it might, but were afraid to say much about 
 it, not being judges of the fine arts. In the evening 
 we had a good time, talking together, singing our old 
 songs, and unanimously accepting the report of the 
 Committee on Peanuts and Peaches. 
 
 About twenty of the Class met in the usual place on 
 Wednesday, July 27th, 1859, and appointed a commit- 
 tee, consisting of the Secretary, Gray, PI. C. Pratt, Wil- 
 der Smith, and Woodruff, to arrange the Triennial 
 Meeting in 1860. 
 
 We sat together at the Commencement lunch in 
 Alumni Hall, and ate our sandwiches and ice-cream in 
 peaceful happiness. When lunch was over, and Presi- 
 dent Woolsey had returned thanks, (may he long live to 
 do so !) the other four hundred Alumni went back to the 
 Commencement exercises, but %oe gathered together in 
 the shade of an old elm in front of North Middle. 
 Being graduates, we did not have before our eyes the 
 fear of newly invented anti-vocal regulations ; but in 
 singing, laughing, smoking and chatting, we contrived 
 to make a good deal of noise, and to have a very good 
 time. 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 CLASS OF 1851 
 
 WILL MEET ON 
 
 IN THE PRESIDENT'S LECTURE-ROOM, 
 AT 12 M. ; 
 
 IN TME NE"W-HAVEN MOTEIi, 
 AT 10 P.M. 
 
 CLASS COMMITTEE-ROOM, 165 D. C. 
 
 On tlie day named, posters like the above, but very 
 much larger, on the elms and at the hotels, at Pease's 
 bookstore and on Heermance's door, (165 D. C.,) met 
 the eyes of the citizens of New-Haven, and the stran- 
 gers sojourning therein, as well as those of more than half 
 the Class of 1857, who could easily be distinguished from 
 all other persons by their extravagant joy at meeting 
 each other, shown especially by their energetic w^ay of 
 shaking hands, and by their noisy and hearty words of 
 mutual welcome. 
 
 Next to the Class, the happiest man in the city was 
 Professor Langdon ; delighted to see again a Class who 
 were peculiarly his friends, and in whose marvelous 
 physical development he doubtless rejoiced to see the 
 best of testimony to the excellence of his system of 
 hygienic exercises. 
 
 Fifty-four graduate members of the Class were pre- 
 sent at some time in the day, namely : Allen, Barrows, 
 Beard, Blackman, Blake, Bradish, Bradner, Bucldancl, 
 Butler, Case, Chamberlin, Colles, Cone, De Forest, But- 
 ton, Dye, Eaton, Edwards, Forrest, Freeland, Frost, 
 Gray, Hitchcock, Hodge, Holbrook, Holden, Holmes, 
 Hubbell, Hulbert, Huntington, Jackson, Jones, Learned, 
 Marshall, Matson, Merwin, Nolen, Northrop, Palmer, 
 Perkins, G. Pratt, H. C. Pratt, Roberts, Savary, Seely, 
 Seymour, J. J. Smith, Wilder Smith, Strong, Thomas, 
 
8 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 Thompson, K D. Wells, Wheeler, Woodruff; and of 
 those members of the Class who did not graduate with 
 us, there were present four more — E. L. Heermance, D. 
 G, Porter, H. Powers, and G. B. St. John,— fifty-eight 
 in all. 
 
 At noon of Wednesday, July 25th, 1860, we met 
 in the President's lecture-room to attend to business. 
 Northrop was placed in the chair. Marshall and 
 Woodruff were appointed a committee to collect a tax 
 of five dollars from each of their classmates, to pro- 
 vide for the various expenses of the meeting. 
 
 The editors of the Yale Lit, announced that, unlike 
 other Classes, we were not to be taxed for any old debt 
 on Maga, which announcement was gladly received. 
 Seymour was elected President of the evening meeting, 
 and after other less important business, the Class ad- 
 journed till evening. All through the day the mem- 
 bers of the Class were revisitinsr their old haunts, hunt- 
 ing up old friends, passing pleasant hours in telling their 
 three years' story to each other, and in paying their re- 
 spects to five ladies, representing " The Wives of '5Y," 
 who honored and graced the Class-meeting with their 
 inspiring presence. A special Committee on Music, who 
 were forbidden to spoil their voices by cheering, met in 
 the afternoon at Heermance's room, and practiced the 
 songs to be sung in the evening. The Secretary desires 
 also to make honorable mention of Levi Holbeook, 
 who was of the greatest assistance in attending to vari- 
 ous items of business, and in revising the proof-sheets of 
 the songs for the evening meeting. 
 
 At half-past nine in the evening the Class met again 
 in the President's lecture-room, and at ten marched 
 over to the New-Haven Hotel, where the worthy land- 
 lord, Mr. Allis, had arranged the tables in the form of 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 9 
 
 the Greek letter n, symbolical of the good things set 
 before us, as well as of the high scholarly character of 
 those that were to sit at the table. The Rev. Chaeles 
 B. Dye asked for the blessing of God on the Class, after 
 which for an hour or more we did our conjoined and 
 individual utmost to relieve the tables of the feast 
 spread upon them. But as fast as we made one course 
 to vanish, another array of tempting dainties appeared 
 before us, until the approaching limit of our capacity 
 warned us that it was time to stop. 
 
 Havino: finished the first entertainment, we inauo'u- 
 rated the second by rising to receive a party of fair 
 ladies, wives, sisters, and friends of the Class. These 
 were conducted to honorable seats on the right of the 
 President. 
 
 The Class then sung 
 
 GAUDEAMUS. 
 
 Gaudeamus igitur, 
 
 Juvenes dum sumus ; 
 Post jucundam juventutem, 
 Post molestam senectatem, 
 Nos habebit humus. 
 
 Ubi sunt, qui ante nos 
 
 In mundo fuere? 
 Transeas ad superos, 
 Abeas ad inferos, 
 
 Qaos si vis videre. 
 
 Vita nostra brevis est, 
 
 Brevi finietur ; 
 Venit mors velociter, 
 Rapit nos atrociter, 
 
 Nemini parcetur. 
 
 Vivat academia, 
 
 Vivant professores, 
 Vivat membrum quodlibet, 
 Vivant membra quaelibet, 
 Semper sint in flore. 
 
 Vivant omnes virgines 
 Faciles, formosae ; 
 
 Vivant et mulieres, 
 
 Tenerse, amabiles, 
 Bonge, laboriosse. 
 
 Pereat tristitia, 
 
 Pereant osores, 
 Pereat diabolus, 
 Quivis antiburschius, 
 
 Atque irrisores. 
 
 Quis confluxus hodie 
 
 Academicorum ? 
 E longinquo convenerunt 
 Protinusque successerunt 
 
 In commune forum. 
 
 Alma mater floreat, 
 
 Qua3 nos educavit, 
 Caros et commilitones, 
 Dissitas in regiones 
 Sparsos, congregavit. 
 
10 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 As the echoes of our song died away in the distant 
 valleys of East and West Kocks, the President of the 
 evening, Stoees Ozias Seymoue, of Litchfield, address- 
 ed the Class in a few words as follows : 
 
 My Brothee Classmates : — Once more has Father Time 
 "brought around the high festival of the Yalensian year. Once 
 again have the tribes come up hither from all parts of the world, 
 to lay their offering of loving affection at the feet of their Ahna 
 Mater. But of all who have thus assembled, I am sure that none 
 have come with brighter anticipations than the members of the 
 Class of 1857; and upon me has devolved the pleasant duty of 
 extending to them all a cordial welcome to this joyful meeting, 
 and I do it with a heart full of thanksgiving that I am permitted 
 to be here to-night, and once more to meet so many loved faces. 
 
 It is not love for Alma Mater alone, however, which has brought 
 so many of us together at this time ; for the affections can not 
 wreathe themselves round an abstract idea. It is not love for 
 Alma Mater alone; it is love for each other — Class-love, Class- 
 spirit ; that spirit which manifested itself in every Class action ; 
 that spirit which carried us in an unbroken phalanx over the Class 
 of '58 on the foot-ball ground ; that spirit which, showing itself in 
 the individual, drove the Sophomores headlong down the stairs 
 when they came to smoke out one of our number ; that spirit 
 which made us renowned for our singing and cheering ; the spirit 
 which is stirring in the hearts of us all to-night, filling them too 
 full for words, and which beams so brightly forth from all the faces 
 around me. This it is which has brought us together, and which 
 will make this a night long to be remembered. 
 
 A cause for congratulation, as it seems to me, may be found in 
 the fact that there has been so little change in the personal appear- 
 ance of the Class. We have not to study the countenances of one 
 and another, and then discover only a dim resemblance to the 
 friends of College days, but there he stands, looking so like the 
 good fellow he used to be, that it seems as if we had been separat- 
 ed for only a short vacation. Time has been content with improv- 
 ing you in other respects, and happily has left your good looks 
 alone. 
 
 But I will detain you no longer from the festivities of the even- 
 ing. Permit mc once more to extend to you a hearty welcome ; 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 11 
 
 and, thanking you from a full heart for asking me to preside over 
 this our first Class-meeting, let me express the hope that, being 
 spared to enjoy many such meetings as this, we may at last be all 
 gathered to a perennial meeting in heaven. 
 
 The doors were then thrown open, and with nine re- 
 verberating cheers, we received 
 
 THE CLASS-BOY, 
 
 Edmond Ducre Estilette, Jr., son of Edmond Ducre 
 EsTiLETTE of Louisiana. The Boy entered at the upper 
 end of the hall, accompanied by his mother and a large 
 party of admiring lady friends. At the same time a 
 great number of geutlemeu, members of classes who 
 had no Class-Boy, and others, entered at the lower end 
 of the hall. Master Estilette at the time had made our 
 planet his residence for only twenty-two months, and, 
 for a minute or two after bis entrance into the hall, gave 
 tearful testimony to his surprise at suddenly finding 
 himself in a large room, full of noisy people and be- 
 wildering gas-light, but soon regained his habitual tran- 
 quillity, and enjoyed to the utmost the succeeding 
 ceremonies. A Silver Cup, appropriately inscribed, 
 which, had been passed around the room, causing the 
 bachelors of the Class to envy their married brethren, 
 especially the happy father of this first-born boy, was 
 then presented to him, on behalf of the Class, by 
 Heney Cleveland Peatt of New- York, in the follow- 
 ing words : 
 
 My Classmates : — Three years ago our venerated Mother Yale, 
 having led the hundred sons of her adoption to varying elevations 
 up the steep of science, distributed among them her classic apron- 
 strings, with which their diplomas were adorned, and bade them 
 God-speed on the journey of life. How many an anxious appre- 
 hension thronged our thoughts as we were then made to reahze 
 that our energies must henceforth act through individual channels, 
 
12 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 that the strength of Class-cohesion could no longer be ours ! Still 
 lingering at the cloister-doors, we stood on the verge of active 
 life, like some bather dreading to wet his feet in the flood, and 
 yet, when finally the plunge is made, bravely battling the breakers. 
 
 To-day, experience-laden, we have returned to the mother- 
 shrine, or sent from far-off homes the glad tidings of om* welfare. 
 All save two, on whom the death-angel early breathed his chilling 
 breath, and froze into indifference to the call of their classmates. 
 Embalmed is their memory in every classmate's heart. We have 
 come, eager to exchange experiences, and to renew allegiance to 
 the dear old University, whose hopes, and not whose fears, went 
 with us. We have come, moreover, to commemorate a custom 
 which is the birth right of all Yalensians— to recognize the infusion 
 of a new life into the Class in the birth of its first foster-child. 
 
 The Class of Fifty-Seven may well boast an unblemished record. 
 Its fellowship with all that was noble, its abhorrence of all that 
 was mean, made it a mediator between classes, an accepted arbiter 
 of College friends. Although individual interests conflicted, and 
 jealousies crept in, as they do in every arena where the best man 
 wins, yet were they never suffered to interrupt that harmony 
 which has always characterized our Class career. 
 
 "As adversaries do at law, 
 Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends ;" 
 
 so^ strove we mightily in the friendly contest of mind, not forget- 
 ting that we were all brothers at heart. 
 
 The Class of Fifty-Seven may be proud of its consequents, as 
 well as of its antecedents. While the grateful incense of CoUoge 
 praise and appreciation arises at every mention of its College 
 course, its after-career has been illuminated by successes no less 
 bright than those which elicited the admiration of its fellow-col- 
 legians. In these days of discord, how gloriously has it attested 
 its love of the Union, the first-fruits of which are this night sub- 
 mitted for the proud inspection of us all. And here, at this high 
 feast of good fellowship, where mirth and memory clap hands, 
 it becomes us to afford a fitting tribute to the graces and worth 
 which have been grafted upon us, and to welcome those who, as 
 the Wives of the Class, the chosen companions of its earthly pil- 
 grimage, lend us the inspiration of their presence. 
 
 And now, the pleasing duty devolves upon me of presenting to 
 this noble boy, Edmdnd Ducro Estilctte, Jr., this silver goblet, in 
 the name and with the blessing of his father's classmates. May 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 13 
 
 the child be early taught its significance, and while he quaffs many 
 a deep draught therefrom, may each be sweetened, if not with the 
 recollection, yet with the recognition of tbe cause of its presejita- 
 tion. He will ever carry with him the heartiest hopes of the 
 Class, that his character-composition may be without the alloy of 
 base passions, and that, like this cup, he may be of sterling worth. 
 The result of the union of a Southern father and a Northern 
 mother, the boy may fittingly represent that unity of feeling 
 which we desire ever to cherish between the extremes of our 
 common country. Let him but inherit the sturdy mental strength 
 of the one and the rare virtues of the other, and we have sufficient 
 guarantee that our wish will ripen into the fruition of fulfillment. 
 Let me enjoin upon the proud father, whose presence with us 
 to-night circumstances have denied, and upon the fond mother, 
 whose 
 
 — " Maiden life is rounded 
 
 With a golden wedding-ring," 
 
 to teach their son a proper apprehension of the love of the Class 
 under whose peculiar guardianship he will henceforth be. And 
 
 " When we all come up to College, 
 Vigintennial to pass," 
 
 may he be found matriculated in our Alma Mater. To the boy 
 himself I can bequeath no more precious legacy of advice than that 
 given to me by my honored and venerable pastor,* when first a 
 Freshman's heart beat beneath my waistcoat. In his ever-to-be- 
 reraembered words, as he laid his hand upon my head, I too would 
 say: "My sois", be thou an hoj^^oe to Yale College, and let 
 Yale College be an honoe to thee." 
 
 The cup was placed in tlie hands of the young gen- 
 tleman, who eyed it curiously, and then tasted its con- 
 tents, to show his appreciation of the gift, and his 
 good-will to the givers. Not having many words at 
 command to express his thanks for it, and his father 
 being absent, he delegated Cyeus Northeop of Xor- 
 
 * Rev. Dr. Hawes, of Hartford, Ct. 
 
14 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 walk, Ct., to reply for him, whicli that gentleman did in 
 these words : 
 
 My Classmates : — For this gift, so beautiful and appropriate, 
 which you have presented to the Class-boy, I return you sincere 
 thanks — in behalf of the hoy himself^ whose emotions are alto- 
 gether of too overpowering a nature to permit him adequately to 
 express them ; in behalf of the father, ^Yho is necessarily absent 
 from us to-night, but whose heart is with us, for high authority 
 has said, that " where the treasure is, there will the heart be also ;" 
 and in behalf of the mother, w^ho, though custom denies her the 
 privilege of speaking, I doubt not, silent thanks you with a more 
 telling eloquence than any words of mine. And you, sir, [to H. 
 C. Pratt,] I thank for the very felicitous and complimentary lan- 
 guage with which you have presented the gift, and conveyed to us 
 the sentiments of the Class. 
 
 This is an hour of thrilling interest. We are living fast to- 
 night ; for years gone and years to come are all condensed in 
 these few hours we spend together. And this boy, the represent- 
 ative of a coming generation, tells us how fast we are drifting on- 
 ward and outward into life, and how close the coming men press 
 upon our footsteps. 
 
 On this most interesting occasion, when we have met to take 
 up, if it may be, the broken links in the chain of friendship and of 
 brotherhood which we formed under such memorable circumstances 
 three years ago, on yonder green, when in that parting hour, with 
 the blissful recollections of four joyous years thronging upon us. 
 and the dim, misty future waiting to receive us, not as classmates, 
 but as isolated men, the streaming eye spoke the language the 
 tongue failed to utter, I can but regret that he, whose heart would 
 have glowed with paternal pride in presenting his boy to the 
 Class, is not here to express, in his own eloquent language, the full 
 outgushings of a father's gratitude and joy. I can but regret that 
 this boy is yet too young to understand the relations he sustains 
 to the Class, or to appreciate the priceless worth of the love of 
 these warm hearts which are beating around me to-night, which, 
 unasked and as yet unreciprocated, is all for hinn. 
 
 Could he do so, he would tell you in simple and unaffected lan- 
 guage how much he thanks you for your gift, how tenaciously he 
 will cling to it through life, and how closely he will bind to his 
 heart the affections of his father's Class. 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 15 
 
 I give you these assurances of gratitude and love for him, and 
 his heart in after-years, as he reads the record of my imperfect 
 and faltering sentences, shall ratify these assurances, and confirm 
 the contract of mutual love between him and the Class, which you 
 ratify to-night, and to bind which, you give this cup. 
 
 It is true this gift is a customary one, and careless tongues may 
 say it is therefore void of honor ; that there is no credit in being 
 horn to a position, in being merely the legal heir of a man. I 
 think it depends very much upon who the man is, whose heir you 
 are by birth. To be the heir of some men is indeed no honor. 
 To have their blood flow in your veins is a disgrace. But to be 
 the heir of other men is a life-long glory, which needs but the 
 crowning act of an honorable life to be full and consummated. 
 And so there may be classes whose boy should feel no pride as he 
 displays the treasured token of their offered guardianship, just as 
 there may be classes that should feel no pride in showing their 
 l3oy, especially those that are so unfortunate as not to have any. 
 
 But to be the Class-boy of '57 is an honor ; for the Class of '57 
 is an earnest Class. It never does a meaningless act. When it 
 takes the Class-boy and puts into his hand the silver cup, it sends 
 with it its richest blessings, its heartiest good-will, its earnest love, 
 its own great heart. And he who is born to such a heritage, to go 
 through life bearing with him the benedictions and the blessings 
 of the Class of '57, is born to no ignoble estate, but one which 
 kings might be proud o£ 
 
 And in your gift, as well as in the recipient, there is an eminent 
 fitness and propriety. 
 
 You have given this boy a cup^ the token in all ages of that into 
 which are gathered the joys and the sorrows of life — a silver cup, 
 to denote your wish that his rich experiences may ever be em- 
 braced in outward purity and beauty. You have given it to the 
 first boy, that, if life is a responsibility, you may reward the little 
 fellow for being the first of his generation to show a readiness to 
 take upon himself the burdens of humanity — the first to lift his 
 little hand on the ocean of life ; or if life is a joy, that you may 
 console him — ^because coming first to it, he must, in the order of 
 nature, first leave it, and for him the "Golden Bowl" be first 
 broken. You have given it to the first hoy because, I suppose, 
 you thought the little girls could take care of themselves, and 
 that, however closely you might bind this cup to the boy, and 
 however strongly entail it in your conveyance, in due season the 
 
16 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 girls would be sure to get cup and boy both. Wonderful, indeed, 
 are the dispensations of life, and even and exact justice meets us 
 on every hand; so that here, what seemed at first an unnatural 
 and invidious distinction between the first boy and his suc- 
 cessors, between the boy and the girls, closely viewed, appears 
 but simple justice to the brave little man before us. 
 
 It was a subject of congratulation to the sainted Paul, that his 
 youthful charge, Timothy, had been placed under the influence of 
 the "earnest faith which dwelt first in his grandmother Lois, and 
 his mother Eunice." I think the Class of '57 has equal occasion 
 for congratulation; and that our young friend here will experience 
 in his mother's ministrations of love, nothing inferior to the coun- 
 sel of the excellent Eunice ; while listening, as he must have done 
 from his earliest infancy, to the voice of his father's Alma Mater, 
 summoning her sons to prayer and study, though {with unspeak- 
 able gratitude he it spoken I) at less unseasonable hours than when 
 we were under her nurturing care, will experience, in his future 
 life, influences from this excellent grandmother quite as good and 
 as potent as those which emanated from the biblical Lois. So 
 that, as Timothy was a model of every virtue, of faith and hope 
 and earnest action, and as faithful training never fails to show its 
 proper fruits in the life of the child, I unhesitatingly promise you 
 that this boy shall, by his manliness and virtues, prove himself 
 worthy alike of the Class and of its gift. And I know that he is 
 too much of a gentleman to falsify my words by any neglect on 
 his part. 
 
 My young friend, [to the boy,] I have expressed, as well as I 
 know how, the language which, methinks, your heart would utter 
 could you look beyond this gift and appreciate the spirit of these 
 givers. I have bat one word more, a closing benediction on your 
 young head. May this cup, presented with so many good wishes, 
 never be drained to the dregs ; may it always be full ; and so 
 abundant may the blessings of heaven be to you, that all through 
 life you may be able to take up the triumphant and grateful ex- 
 clamation of the Psalmist : " My cup runneth overP 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 17 
 
 The Class then sung the following 
 
 SONG OF THE SILVER CUR 
 
 Have sped along on rapid wing, 
 And now we come The Boy to bring : 
 
 Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 
 
 Our fellows haven't done so bad, 
 For one's a Tute, and one's a Shad, 
 And one's a proud and a happy Dad : 
 
 Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 
 
 We give with joy the Silver boon 
 To the tiny hands of the "Jolly June," 
 The boy that was dorn with the Silver Spoon : 
 Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 
 
 The blessed boy's of wondrous size. 
 
 He has two feet and his father's eyes, 
 
 And a mouth of his own, but he never cries ; 
 
 ' ' Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. ' ' 
 
 And he's going to hurry to be a man, 
 And come to College as soon as he can, 
 And sing a song on this same plan : 
 
 Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 
 
 Old Herc'les sailed in a golden bowl, 
 But our little Cupid, the jolly soul, 
 In the Silver Cup shall reach the goal : 
 
 Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel, 
 
 This cup shall be as a Holy Grail, 
 
 A talisman when foes assail, 
 
 A pledge of love that shall never fail : 
 
 Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 
 
 And here's a health to the lucky lad, 
 And a hearty health to the lucky Dad, 
 And a closing health to all who are glad : 
 
 Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel, 
 
 After listening to more cheers, three for the Boy, and 
 three for John Milton Holmes, who wrote the song, 
 the greater part of the company of visitors withdrew, 
 
 2 
 
18 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 The first regular toast was tlieii announced, " Alma 
 Mater," to whicli Augustus Hopkins Strong of Ko- 
 ch ester, N. Y., replied as follows : 
 
 My Classmates : — I can scarcely imagine why I am called upon 
 to respond to a toast like this ; there are many whose scholarly 
 tastes and literary attainments qualify them to represent far better 
 the kind mother of us all. Our venerable classmates who have 
 already assumed the Tutorial purple might well have answered 
 for our Alma Mater. Yet, on one account, at least, I congratulate 
 you on your selection, for I can say, with regard to my speech, as 
 the brilliant writer of Eothen assures his readers in the preface, 
 that from all valuable statistics, all learned dissertations, all useful 
 information, and all moral and religious reflections, the work will 
 be thoroughly free. 
 
 Perhaps, after all, I have a semblance of right to answer to this 
 first toast, because, of us all, I have come furthest to attend our 
 Class-meeting. Since we last shook hands and said our sad fare- 
 wells, we have wandered on both sides of the globe, and inter- 
 vening oceans have rolled between us ; but you can go no where 
 without meeting men from Yale. I remember well a gloomy day 
 in London, when I walked after dinner in the Strand ; the dingy, 
 smoky piles of brick frowned through the fog upon the rush and 
 roar of the great thoroughfare, as if indignant that their century- 
 sleep was thus disturbed. I walked disconsolate and oppressed 
 with the loneliness a stranger feels in London, till out of the fog- 
 rose upon the horizon the round and jolly face of Gus. Baied. 
 The gloom was gone — for an hour London was a terrestrial 
 paradise. 
 
 In the ^gean sea, and at the port of Syra, I rested for a day 
 before I turned my face finally towards home and the west, when 
 through the clearness of a Gr dan air I saw the boat from Con- 
 stantinople steaming in from the isles of the Archipelago. I 
 boarded the steamer to search for friends, and lo ! there stood 
 before me one whose absence we all regret to-night, John Day, 
 fresh from the Golden Horn, and bound for Athens. 
 
 At my hotel in Paris I found one day a card for me, inscribed, 
 " De. S. D. DoAK ;" and only by unpardonable ignorance of his 
 whereabouts did I miss a sight of the magnificent moustache of 
 our United States Vice-Consul, James B. Cone. ^ 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 19 
 
 And last of all, by the misty moonlight that streamed through 
 the broken arches of the Coliseum, I saw the stalwart form and 
 manly face of Sam. Scoville, and many a night we sang m our 
 rooms on the third floor of an old Roman palace, the song : 
 
 "Alma Mater! Alma Mater I Heaven's blessing attend her!" 
 
 until y/e interpreted every knock on the door as the summons of a 
 Papal gendarme to preserve proper order. The British drum-beat 
 is heard all round the world, hut the song "Alma Mater! Alma 
 Mater I" has been sung where British soldiers never set foot ; yes, 
 Avider than the rule of Britain or of Rome is the dominion of our 
 Mother Yale ! 
 
 I (had an objection to coming up to this gathering. I scarcely 
 felt that I had a right to return as an alumnus of the College with- 
 out having done something in the world, without bringing from 
 life some trophy to show for all that she has given us. The an- 
 cients brought back the spoils of victory from hard-contested fights 
 and bloody wars, and laid them on the altar of their tutelar divin- 
 ity. When I looked upon the white heads of the alumni this 
 morning, and saw them thronging in to the temple of their old 
 foster-mother, to lay on her altar the spoils of hard-fought lives, 
 trophies gained in every department of human activity, many of 
 them glorious monuments of patient labor and endurance, I asked 
 myself what right I had to appear among such an array. We 
 have nothing yet to bring ! Let me make my apologies to those 
 who do bring wives and babies. Venerable men ! you seem to 
 have come down from a former generation. Most of us have no 
 trophies like yours, and can only console ourselves with the senti- 
 ment which a certain theological professor uttered to his class : 
 " Gentlemen, it is far better for a young clergyman to accumulate a 
 stack of books than a stack of babies." No ! most of us have no- 
 thing to bring as an offering. There is but one consolation for 
 us : we are still undergraduates ; w^e have only reached the end of 
 the second stage of our preparatory course. The first was the 
 monastic life of the college ; we ended it three years ago. The 
 second, that is just past, has been a wider, broader life ; while it 
 has given us wider sw^eep of thought, and initiated us into the 
 mysteries of the work to which life is to be devoted, it has given 
 us also freer range of sympathy, larger acquaintance with men. 
 To-night is our real Commencement ; it is the last of past pre- 
 paration, the end of wandering in the desert; it is the first day of 
 
20 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 the future, the day on which we cross the boundary river and 
 enter the promised land, the good land and large which is to be 
 hereafter our possession and our home. Henceforth we belong to 
 society. Three years ago we reached the steps of the temple ; to- 
 night are thrown wide open the great bronze doors through which 
 we pass into the illimitable future. 
 
 We stand in a position to-night from which we are able to see, 
 better than ever before, all that was good in the past. We never 
 realized the richness of the gifts our Alma Mater put into our 
 bands while we were here. It is with all the real happiness of life 
 as it is with the delights of travel — they exist in full 23erfection 
 only in anticipation and retrospection. A golden halo encircles 
 all our dreams of the future, like the ring of light about the heads 
 of the Madonnas. Our hopes are realized, but the halo has van- 
 ished. Life is indeed a series of disenchantments ; but there is 
 this comfort, when the delight is once past^ the halo comes back 
 again. Our college life seemed sometimes a thin and shallow 
 stream w^hile we were passing through it. How like a smooth, 
 broad-flowing river, fringed with forests and flowers, does it seem 
 to us to-night ! 
 
 Separation, too, is a good thing. We never know the happiness 
 of association, or the depth and reality of our friendships, till we 
 part and live for a time alone. Timothy Titcomb advises all young- 
 married people to separate for a month during the first year, that 
 they may learn to realize the happiness or sorrow of their situation 
 by the contrast which separation for a time brings with it. I do 
 not presume to lay down the law on this subject to any of the 
 twenty-two husbands and fathers of families whom I see sitting 
 mournfully about the table at this late hour. I only refer to this 
 eminent authority to establish the fact that love grows by absence. 
 We know friends thoroughly, we know the strength of our own 
 love for them, only after we have separated. This has been one 
 of the uses of separation to us. Who does not remember the feel- 
 ing of isolation that came over us many times during that first year 
 after graduation, when we seemed out at sea, where all ordinary 
 landmarks had sunk beneath the waves ? The solid earth was 
 gone, on which we used to tread ; the very stars had changed, and 
 RQW constellations rose before us. From wandering over the face 
 of the whole earth, we come again at last together. We have 
 been gazing earnestly for a long time toward the horizon, eagerly 
 longing to catch a glimpse of tlie well-known shore. What a thrill 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 21 
 
 goes through one as the cry comes from the mast-head, "Land 
 ho!" How grand seem the low hills across the waves, and how 
 beautiful the waving grass of the pleasant fields ! more grand and 
 more beautiful because the hills and the fields are your country 
 and your home. So we come back to I^ew-Haven and to Yale. 
 I do not envy him who does not love them both to-day better 
 than on any day of all his life before. What good and scholarly 
 men our Professors were ! How reverend those who have passed 
 away ! Upon the past of our College life the halo has come back, 
 and settled down once more and forever. 
 
 There were two good things the College did for us, aside from 
 the ordinary benefits of study and discipline. One w^as that it 
 widened our sympathies. It is one of the great characteristics of 
 true manhood, that its sympathies are wide and growing. We 
 gathered together from every part of the Confederacy ; w^e united 
 the whole broad country by the bond of class-fellowship. I am 
 thankful that I ever was a member of a College and a Class that 
 from its composition could not cherish local or sectional prejudices, 
 whose sympathies went abroad over the whole land. I can say to 
 myself: Ohio is mine, and Louisiana is mine, Georgia, and Cali- 
 fornia, and Massachusetts, all are mine, because I have a friend 
 in every one, and thereby become a citizen of the whole country, 
 and not only of a single State. The three years of our absence 
 from one another have widened yet more our sympathies. He is a 
 poor specimen of humanity who is not drawn out of himself, and 
 made less selfish and more sympathizing by his contact with life 
 from year to year. Avoid the man who has traveled, yet has 
 found nothing to admire, who has taken every thing he has learned 
 only as a stone to build into the enormous edifice of his own self- 
 conceit. Avoid that man, if you avoid any body, for he has no 
 true manliness — the manliness that consists in broad, and human, 
 and growing sympathies. I was sure, w^hen I felt the warm grasp 
 of the hands of my classmates this morning, that we had not for- 
 gotten in these last years the lesson we learned when we were 
 Freshmen of our Alma Mater. 
 
 One other thing we learned here : the sentiment of class dignity 
 and responsibility. If there was any thing in our Class which dis- 
 tinguished it from every other we have known — and I have thought 
 frequently about it — it was this: the common feeling of responsi- 
 bility in sustaining the dignity and respectability of the Class. 
 Thus, while our class spirit was deep and strong, it had always a 
 
22 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 good and not a bad influence upon ns. The Class was above 
 meanness, above foolish acting, above the common tricks and 
 deceptions and dissipations of college life ; and this, I am proud to 
 say, is the estimate at which we are held by those w^ho, though 
 they judge officially, can yet judge fairly. And when I come back 
 to Yale again, there 'is something perceptible in the faces of my 
 fellows which tells me that this sense of manly responsibility has 
 only grown with the passing of the years, that we are more strong 
 and determined and manly for our extended acquaintance with 
 the world. 
 
 With all the good, we can remember, also, the bad things in 
 our college course. If there were jealousies or ill feelings, w^e are 
 ready to renounce them all to-night — they have been renounced 
 long since. And with regard to the wrongs and mistakes we 
 committed — and who of us w^as free from these ? — they are past. 
 l!^ever a time like this to say : such things as these shall be all 
 past. A truer life shall be ours for the sad things as well as the 
 glad things which the past has hidden in its bosom. 
 
 Life seems to us to-night far more colossal and far more inex- 
 orable than when we stood here three years ago. " The thoughts 
 of men are widened with the process of the suns." To-morrow 
 we go forth into an untried future. Life comes to each one of us 
 as the grim Sphynx came to (Edipus, and she proposes her riddle 
 to every one. She is remorseless, pitiless. Answer rightly, or she 
 tramples you under foot and tears you with her iron claws. Who 
 can answer the riddle of Life ? There is but one word that solves 
 it, and that is "Faith !" ISTot only the unwavering courage, the 
 dauntless self-reliance, the resolute, irresistible will, but above all, 
 and penetrating all, that of which a mightier one than we has 
 spoken : " This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our 
 Faith?'' 
 
 But I have been led to moralizing more than I intended. Par- 
 don it, if for no other reason, that it is so intimately connected 
 with what we owe our Alma Mater. We are glad to come once 
 more to her sacred shrine. We are glad to meet each other 
 again. We can say of this meeting nearly what the New-England 
 poet said on another, though not a similar, occasion : 
 
 " But we are here, and having a good time 
 With our dull wit, poor speeches and bad rhyme ; 
 And when we get to our respective fprospectivej houses, 
 We 11 call the lad that wears the longest 'trowsers,' 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 23 
 
 And say : ' My son, the class have met to-daj', 
 And shaken hands in the old-fashioned way ; 
 But at the table your respected dad 
 Enjoyed the tallest time he ever had.' " 
 
 We next sung the following song by Levi Holbeook : 
 
 ■• 
 
 Y A L E N S I A. 
 
 Air—" Marseillaise."' 
 
 Yalensise ad laudem, fratres, 
 
 Nos congregati hodie. 
 Annorum umbrae sepultorum 
 Nos vocant se revisere, 
 Quae quatuor elysiae. 
 
 Adducti aurearum ramo 
 Memoriarum venimus, 
 Lsetorum pedum gradibus 
 Ut olim cantu modulato. 
 lo ! Yalensia ! esto perpetua ! 
 Pro alm^ matre vivemus ; pro te, Yalensia ! 
 
 Salvete ! atria antiqua, 
 
 Dierum fons felicium ! 
 Tu, hortus puellarum ridens. 
 In urbe rus umbriferum, 
 Ulmorum urbs undantium ! 
 
 Undseque, qua nos, cymbas passi 
 Nereidum amplexibus 
 Dormire, suis vocibus 
 ^ternis cantum modulati. 
 lo ! Yalensia ! esto perpetua ! 
 Pro alma matre vivemus ; pro te, Yalensia ! 
 
 His aris, quibus multi prius, 
 
 Nos et excelsum studium 
 Accendimus ; ardentes deinde 
 Egrediemur iterum, 
 Ausuri vitae praelium. 
 
 Nunc, academiam laudantes. 
 Ad astra melos resonum 
 Fundamus, pulsu cordium 
 Gratorum cantum modulantes. 
 lo ! Yalensia ! esto perpetua ! | 
 
 Pro alma matre vivemus ; pro te, Yalensia ! 
 
24 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 After Alma Mater and Holbrook had been saluted 
 with enthusiastic cheers, the President gave out the sec- 
 ond toast, "The CLass of '57." Hitherto the Musical 
 Committee had obeyed the injunction to save their 
 voices for the singing, but when the name of their own 
 Class .was called, even they forgot themselves, and join- 
 ed in the shouts that seemed to shake the very founda- 
 tions of the building. 
 
 John Milton Holmes replied in his usual fascinating 
 and entertaining style. 
 
 The following report of his speech is imperfect, 
 though, thanks to the recent improvements in parachre- 
 matic and metachronal electric reporting, the distin- 
 guished speaker admits that his speech was, " with 
 many gaps and changes, in substance as follows :" 
 
 THE CLASS OF '57. 
 
 My Classmates : — You may be aware that, by a wise ordinance 
 of the powers that be at Andover, a text is a luxury far above the 
 reach of any Junior or Middler. If any such unHcensed person 
 desires to " wag his pow in a pulpit," his sermon must resemble 
 the barrel which the ingenious cooper was requested to fabricate 
 out of an old bung-hole. To-night, however, I am not only per- 
 mitted to take a text, but one is furnished ready to my hand ; a 
 text glowing with glad meaning ; a text concerning which no doc- 
 tors will disagree ; by the side of which may lie down the old 
 Adam of Princeton with the young America of Harvard divinity ; 
 the textus receptus of all the great and good men of every age and 
 race who have helped to compose the Class of '57. 
 
 Leaving out of the question that profound theory of Mr. Rory 
 O'More, by which all the luck belongs to the odd numbers, it 
 follows c^jl9r^o^^, from the natural, inevitable progress of the human 
 race, that the Class of '57 must have surpassed all its predeces- 
 sors in every element of physical, moral, and intellectual greatness, 
 just as it did in mere numerical superiority. Especially could we 
 look down from the hights of our glory upon that pitiful jumble 
 of newly hatched Sophomores, whom we flogged vi et armis^pug- 
 nis et calcihus^ terra raarique^ from one equinox to the other, but 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 25 
 
 who never possessed inductive faculty enough to know when they 
 were beaten. 
 
 At an agricultural fair down East a shrewd farmer was ques- 
 tioned by a Yankee as to the way in which he had raised a certain 
 crop of cranberries — a very large one, some hundred bushels to 
 the acre. " Oh ! brains !" replies the other. " N'othing but 
 brains." " Brains !" exclaims the Yankee. " Whew ! Where in 
 time d' ye git brains enough to kiver a cranberry marsh?" 
 
 And so, gentlemen, when I think of this great Class of '57, 
 reaping honors and victories from foot-ball and boat-race — never 
 rushed out and never smoked out — flagellating and excoriating all 
 the other Classes in College, and then carrying confusion and terror 
 into the Engineering department, I ask in profound astonishment? 
 where in time they could get brains enough to do it ? I remember 
 that one distinguished member of the Class — whom I now see before 
 me — made the curious discovery thsit phosphorus produces brain ; 
 that the animal commonly called the oyster secretes phosphorus ; and 
 thirdly, that the human epigastrium may become a connecting me- 
 dium between the two. " This, then," he would say, "is the meat 
 on which we grew so strong." But there is another theory pro- 
 founder than this bivalvular hypothesis, and which I shall designate 
 as the tubercular. A philosopher was, not long since, trying to 
 sell an Andover Professor a load of potatoes. He asked more than 
 was expected. " How is this ?" said the Prof. To which the phi- 
 losopher gave the keen and conclusive answer : " There's a differ- 
 ence in Haters .-'" And so, when we sing, 
 
 " Around the walls Yalensian, the fleeting years shall flow, 
 But never bring the equal here of Fifty-seven !" 
 
 if any envious skeptic should ask me whether that is scientific 
 truth, or only poetic license — in the first place, I would look at 
 him ; in the second place, I would theologically " counter his nob ;" 
 and finally, I would reply : " There'^s a difference in Haters .^" 
 
 Why did Barrows stand at the head of the stairs, like Codes at 
 the Bridge, and demolish the caitifls who came to fumigate him ? 
 " There's a difference in Haters !^'> 
 
 Why on yonder green did we sweep away the Sophomores with 
 the besom of destruction, and send them home to rub their shins 
 in desolation ? " There'' s a difference in Haters .^" 
 
 Why, when the Juniors tried to rush us from the chapel, did 
 they fizzle nine pews from the door ? " Therms a differeyice in 
 Haters /" 
 
26 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 Why, in the literary contests in which our men had the privilege 
 of encountering the upper Classes, did '57 beat the best of them? 
 " There' 8 a difference in Haters /" 
 
 Why is '57 here to-night in such unprecedented numbers, with 
 such irrepressible enthusiasm, bringing here promptly and fitly, 
 instead of a Sophomoric specimen of feminine insignificance, a 
 chubby, rosy Boy to bear the banner of the Class into futurity? 
 All we can say is : " There'' s a dfferenee in Haters /" We can no 
 more explain it than we can explain the superiority of oysters over 
 clams. " There's a difference in Haters .'" 
 
 The Class of '57 ! There is music in that. There is magic in it. 
 As great volumes of hei^t and light are compressed into a bit of 
 carbon — as a whole orchard of roses maybe concentrated into one 
 little bottle of odor — even so is the record of the four most event- 
 ful years of our lives, its joys and its sorrows ; its anxieties and its 
 aspirations ; its studies and amusements ; its warnings, its excuses, 
 its scrapes, its jokes, its songs, its suppers ; its skinning and fiz- 
 zling and flunking ; its initiations and pow-wows and jubilees ; its 
 elections and electioneerings ; its exhibitions and commencements 
 and vacations ; its presentations, its option als, its biennials ; its 
 sermons, its lectures, its prayer-meetings ; its Berkleians and Ban- 
 ners and Bangers ; its Langdonics, its wicket and cricket ; its Beet- 
 hoven and Tyrolea ; its Alida and Rowena and IsTautilus ; its 
 Shanghai and its Woodcock ; its Atheneum and Lyceum ; its 
 Beothees and its Lixonia; the first gathering in that strange 
 recitation-room, with an unknown teacher and an unknown lesson 
 in the preface of Livy ; the last sad circle sobbing behind ISTorth 
 College ; a hundred brothers, present and absent, living and dead, 
 but all linked together, heart to heart, by love and sympathy and 
 everlasting memories — all this and more than this is clasped within 
 the rim of those five golden words — " The Class of Fifty-seven !" 
 
 It is a liost of associations such as these, treasured up in our 
 most priceless thoughts, which draws us together to-night as by a 
 great magnet from the four corners of the land. It is not for the 
 pleasant landscape alone, glorious though it be, by moonlight and 
 starlight, with Gaudeamus echoing through the listening elms ; it 
 is not for the old buildings, venerable though they are, and quick- 
 ened as they are by the sacred presence of generations of noble 
 men who studied here, and who still live here by their inspiration ; 
 it is not even for the Professors alone — much as we esteem them 
 and revere them — that wg have gathered around this festal board 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 27 
 
 after an absence of three years. Oh ! no. We are here to-night 
 to see one another. We have come to greet one man who was m 
 our Division and another man that was in our Society. This man 
 boarded with us, and that man always sat by our side in chapel. 
 This is the man that took such good care of«us when we were sick. 
 That is the man with whom we studied and took such pleasant 
 v/alks to East Rock and Judges' Cave. Here is one that we ad- 
 mired for his great talents, and one whom we revered for his pure 
 Christian character. This one, with his contagious fun, always had 
 a mortgage on our laughing apparatus. ISTot far away is the bosom 
 friend to whom we confided all our loves and hopes and disappoint- 
 ments, and with whom in lofty chat we built up pantisocracies and 
 millenniums and castles in the air. 
 
 We have come here to plunge once again into the fountain of 
 youth ; to live over again in a few hours the life of as many years ; 
 to relate our fortunes since we separated ; to rejoice with those 
 who have rejoiced, and weep with those who have wept ; to heal 
 old jealousies and estrangements as we draw the Class bands 
 tighter around our silver cup ; to gain from our meeting strength 
 and encouragement, as you have seen a bird — a scarlet tanager— - 
 dip its wings into the shady, rippling brook, not only, for present 
 fun and refreshment, but that in the morning it may be plumed 
 for an earlier and a higher flight. 
 
 E"ew friends may come, but they shall not drive out the old ones. 
 We will sit closer together. We will make a place for all the new 
 kindred that God may grant us. Our hearts shall be like heaven— 
 tlie more angels, the more room. Therefore, 
 
 " Happy are we to-night, boys, 
 Happy, happy are we !" 
 
 W^hen I say boys, I mean boys, with full hearts inspired by those 
 good old times, which, be they what they may, 
 
 " Are yet the master-light of all our seeing, 
 The fountain-light of all our day." 
 
 To-morrow morning will come, and our bodies will be weary, 
 but our spirits strong. When this evening shall have faded into 
 the light of common day, then, boys, you may become Shad-eater 
 or Tutor or Saw-bones or Theologaster. But as for this Hall of 
 the Silver Cup, I say of it as one of our number said of the Eng- 
 lishman's castle : " The winds of heaven may whistle around it, 
 but the King can not — he dare not." 
 
28 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 After the enjoyment of the Class-meeting, and another day to- 
 gether, we will go away, not grieving over the parting, not expect- 
 ing that all of us will meet again on earth, but thanking God that 
 we have lived to see this day. Let us go gladdened by a new-born 
 love ; stimulated by tke experience of those here present who have 
 won any honorable success ; nerved by the thought that as we 
 work our work, and say our say, and " give the world a jog heaven- 
 ward," a hundred tongues will be eloquent to praise us, a hundred 
 right hands will be strong to strike for us, that all these Avarm 
 hearts will be beating pulse and pulse with ours, as steady as the 
 stars. 
 
 So shall we fulfill the kind words of President Woolsey at the 
 collation on our Commencement Day — words half a wish and half 
 a prophecy: "The Class of '57 : Our hopes and not our fears go 
 with them." 
 
 We then sung a song by George Pkatt : 
 
 FIFTY-SEVBN 0! 
 
 Air — " Benny Havens P^ 
 
 Three years have passed, my brothers, and we together meet ; 
 With welcome warm and hearty cheer our leaping pulses beat ; 
 For time can only deepen the fresh and fervent glow 
 That warms our hearts to hear the name of Fifty-seven ! 
 Chorus. — Of Fifty-seven 0, etc. 
 
 Then welcome all, thrice welcome, and here's the hearty hand, 
 Renewing with its friendly clasp the union of our band ; 
 The busy years have vanished, with all their fitful flow, 
 And here we stand the mighty band of Fifty-seven ! 
 Chorus. — Of Fifty-seven 0, etc. 
 
 And let us pledge the absent : right happy may they be, 
 Where'er they stray this festive day on land or on the sea ; 
 Nor let those be forgotten whose still lips lying low, 
 No more can frame the well-loved name of Fifty-seven ! 
 Chorus. — Of Fifty-seven 0, etc. 
 
 Now, brothers, make confession, and tell your three years' talc : 
 llow goes the voyage of your life? with slack or flowing sail ? 
 And does the wishcd-for haven, still near and nearer grow, 
 While floats in light the banner bright of Fifty-seven ? 
 Chorus. — Of Fifty-seven 0., etc. 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 29 
 
 From all our tongues the answer is evermore the same : 
 The flag of Fifty-sev'n leads on to fortune and to fame. 
 We've sweethearts, wives, and children, the best the world can show, 
 And hearts that hope and heads that work in Fifty-seven ! 
 Chorus. — In Fifty-seven 0, etc. 
 
 Let all the world take warning, we're coming on the stage ; 
 Our doctors, lawyers, ministers, are bound to stir the age ; 
 Hard times will quickly vanish, the far millennium glow, 
 And all be right beneath the reign of Fifty-seven ! 
 Chorus. — Of Fifty -seven 0, etc. 
 
 Then here's three cheers, my brothers, for good old Mother Yale ; 
 The cruse of lore she gave to us we hope may never fail, 
 But three tim.es three for knowledge, all College could not show, 
 Of loyal, royal fellowship in Fifty-seven ! 
 Chorus. — In Fifty- seven 0, etc. 
 
 After three clieers " for the author of that soDg," the 
 President announced the third regular toast, '' The 
 Wives of '5Y ;" which was replied to by Rev. Augustus 
 Field Beard, of Portland, Maine, as follows : 
 
 Me. Peesident : — [N'ever did the first husband, when he heard 
 the fatal trespass done by Eve, stand more 
 
 " Astonished and amazed, while horror chill 
 Ran through his veins, and all his joints relaxed," 
 
 than did I when it was first demonstrated to me that the fond an- 
 ticipations with which I had looked forward to this meeting were 
 to be so suddenly nipped in the bud. 
 
 Being a bachelor, unfettered and free, it was my religious pur- 
 pose, in this delightful and untrammeled position, to guard myself 
 as becometh the cloth, and above all things not to be found talking 
 about the wives of other men. Behold, then, the vanity of human 
 resolutions ! That m-an on whom this duty should have fallen, the 
 favorite of the beauty of this city of the beautiful — who would 
 have been able to have given us some knowledge of so important 
 a subject, by virtue of a vivid imagination and no slight number of 
 experiences in what " might have been," has by another broken 
 engagement caused this duty to devolve on one who, innocently 
 
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 ignorant of this peculiar institution, must discourse on a subject at 
 once strange and mysterious. 
 
 In all the frenzy consequent upon this sudden notification, and 
 in despair of being able to even contemplate this to me unknown 
 phase of human existence, I turned with an energetic howl upon 
 the man who had brought upon me the performance of a duty, 
 riot unlovely in itself, but to an inexperienced man very difficult in 
 all its ramifications. I demanded- the fulfillment of his obligation 
 npon penalty of a castigation that would probably tell fearfully in 
 its immediate results, I hinted darkly of several broken limbs and 
 of an unsightly countenance. He met me more in sorrow than in 
 anger. Trouble was in his eye and grief upon his tongue as he 
 told me how it was that once, in the fire of youth and romance, 
 hope had whispered to him 
 
 It was the old story. There was no reasoning with a man in his 
 condition, I advised him to go and hang himself; and thus, in 
 his much-regretted absence, I come before you in behalf of the 
 Class of 1857, to give cordial welcome to some twenty new acces- 
 sions to our numbers, and to " omnia Jura, Privilegia, Dignitates, 
 Honores, Insignia, quae hie aut uspiam gentium ad eundem Gradum 
 Matrimonialem evectis concedi solent." We have indeed been 
 fortunate. The Class of '57 was ever good and true. All hail the 
 day when it was wedded to the beautiful ! 
 
 But the " Wives of '57 " enter our Class not as we entered it. 
 As we stand upon the shores of Memory to-night, thoughts come 
 back to us of by-gone days and trials which they have not expe- 
 rienced, and shall never know ; for 
 
 ''- We are not to tell our wives 
 HoiD wc spent our College lives." 
 
 But there's many a memory of long tasks and short days ; reminis- 
 cences not a few of those times when an hundred men in disgust and 
 dishahiUe turned out from yonder barracks in the middle of their 
 rest — if not of the night— at the imperative warning of that bell, 
 which, if unheeded, brought warnings that v^ere. Memories come 
 back to us of times when examinations were plenty and knowledge 
 scarce, and Tutors fierce and inflexible. Wc shall never forget 
 that uncompromising lead-pencil of far-seeing and conscientious 
 Monitors, nor fail to remember how we were half-regretful and not 
 wholly unamused when we saw the effect of those unmeaning let- 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 31 
 
 ters to our sorrowful ancestors. And after we had climbed the 
 hill and crowed from its summit, reflecting that, steep as it was, 
 we had made a merry time of it, we shall never forget how we saw 
 Pond in the far distance, fast after us, with bills in his hands and 
 hopes and fears on his countenance, all of which had a tendency to 
 mar our enjoyment. 
 
 But not so with the " Wives of '57." They do nothing as we. 
 Thinking, speaking, acting differently, they have their own w^ay to 
 secure their ends and achievements. Whether it be true that their 
 blood is more refined, their fibers more delicate; or whether, as 
 some declare, there is a sex in the soul, it is not for a bachelor to 
 affirm ; but this we know — they have a strange and taking way 
 with them. For while we have toiled and climbed to attain that 
 w^e might enjoy, they, without care or effort in the rough ways of 
 College life, share all with us, sit side by side with us, and move 
 with us to one goal. And they come not unwelcomed nor un- 
 sought ; for when they set themselves to men of '57, " like perfect 
 music unto noble words," we a.re bound to cherish them as be- 
 cometh honest lovers of the Union. 
 
 Think of it, my Classmates — twenty married men in all the joy 
 and bliss of a doubled-and-twisted existence! The imagination 
 staggers to realize this stupendous fact, that when but three short 
 years have passed away, twenty men — no older, no better, no 
 handsomer, no more deserving than the rest of us, but much wiser 
 and far happier — have 
 
 " Followed, flattered, courted, addressed. 
 Wooed, cooed, and wheedled and pressed," 
 
 until they have not only doubled their existence, but some of them 
 in the most remarkable manner have had one to carry. 
 
 Three years is not a long time. But a man can do a great deal 
 in three years. Only three years have passed since we all started 
 together from this quiet harbor to make our trial-trips upon life's 
 great ocean. We have all learned somewhat from this three years' 
 voyage. It is hard and difficult and dull to plow through the buf- 
 feting waves of this life without a mate. We need one who shall 
 look out for white-caps and squalls ; who will attend to our rigging, 
 trim our sails, spread our canvas, and look out for buoys and gales, 
 that life's voyage may be successful and joyous. Three years 
 have taught us this, and some have acted upon it. The purses 
 that were wont to empty for double-joints and double X ale, 
 
82 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 are now expended for thin-soled gaiters and very beautiful ribbons. 
 Three years will change a man's tastes. From elegantly bound 
 volumes he turns to furniture warehouses, and his chief desire now 
 is to get that " love of a bonnet," and that " duck of a cradle," for 
 the two greatest people that ever inhabited this planet. 
 
 Three years have already started in this boisterous pastime of 
 life another incipent Freshman Class, who will long years from 
 now be proving to generations yet unborn (whose bills you will 
 have to pay) that John C. Calhoun was a Linonian. 
 
 Strange metamorphoses occur in three years. They will take 
 a class-mate from South College, a youthful, joyous man, where he 
 shall hear small but imperative and piercing cries for an immediate 
 breakfast — cries that shall remind him most forcibly that he is not 
 a single man. Strange metamorphoses occur in three years ! 
 
 It will not do, my Classmates, to deceive ourselves in respect to 
 this great question. Those who have been there tell us that in 
 the State of Matrimony the joys of double-blessedness exceed 
 those of a single and isolated life as far as Olympus is above 
 gloomy Tartarus. They say, that where the magic of love is pre- 
 sent, that every cloudy day is bright, that every deformity in ]^a- 
 ture is beauteous, that every fog is clear, that every equinoctial 
 storm is pleasant, and every thunder-clap of Jove is music, pro- 
 vided the bolt don't strike the baby. They say that it is sugar 
 in their tea, as well as buttons on their shirt. They say : 
 
 " It makes earth's commonest scenes appear 
 All poetic, romantic, and tender ; 
 Hanging with jewels a cabbage-stump, 
 And investing a common post, or a pump, 
 A currant-bush, or a gooseberry clump, 
 With a halo of dream-like splendor." 
 
 And they ought to know ; while we knew them as truthful men, 
 who, like Washington and Mungo Park, w^ere never detected in 
 telling a lie. I, for one, believe them. If my condition contra- 
 dicts my words, it is because there are many other truths in this 
 world beside the one specified. With fathers of large families it 
 is generally easier to find appetites than dinners. A hridal often 
 tends to saddle a man with debts ; and a minister especially will 
 make a poor drive of it if he make a bridal without a hit in the 
 mouth. And yet I have the most profound respect for those who 
 have taken the fatal leap. And I appeal to " those who have gone 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 83 
 
 before," if a sunbeam in a cottage, diminutive pledges of affection, . 
 a cat dozing upon the rug, while the dog dreams upon the porch, 
 are not within the reach and reasonable ambition of the ugliest 
 surviving brother of the Class. 
 
 Let us all, then, repent and do likewise. It is true we may do 
 that we shall be sorry for, since a wise man may do foolishly what 
 a foolish man may do wisely. But let me exhort you to run the 
 chances. Imitate the bravery of your brethren. You can cer- 
 tainly be no more than sorry if you do : you will certainly be 
 sorry if you don't. 
 
 I shall enter upon no eulogium of the Wives of '57. In the 
 ■words of a greater man than myself, (I allude, of course, to the 
 immortal Daniel Webster,) " they need none." We are glad to 
 see them ; may they come fast. We admire their taste in choos- 
 ing a Class whose benediction was : " Our hopes and not our fears 
 go with them." 
 
 But for these miserable " half lives " that are trying to go it 
 alone, with whom I train, I have at once the utmost sympathy and 
 commiseration. It is too late for us to get the Cup, but we may 
 all get coupled. May the bachelors of the Class have no peace, 
 but may they be troubled with a continual itching about the heart, 
 until, three years from this time, two hundred strong and more, we 
 shall again pledge the " Wives of '57," and find no bachelor to 
 make response. When each man shall have exchanged his discon- 
 tented twang, "I wish I was a married man !".for that more de- 
 liojhtful tune : 
 
 " I have a little, pleasant wife, 
 Who nothing, nothing lacks ; 
 She keeps herself and things about 
 
 The house as neat as wax ; 
 And every thing, with woman's taste, 
 
 Seems placed expressly for 
 The pleasure of a man who long 
 Has lived a bachelor ! 
 
 " Her handkerchiefs are white as milk, 
 Her skirts as white as snow ; 
 Her slippered feet are small and neat, 
 
 And alw^ays ' on the go.* 
 She floats about as if upborne 
 
 On gum-elastic springs, 
 Or some unseen, mysterious power 
 With undiscovered wings, 
 3 
 
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 "My linen has a glossy white 
 
 More pure than ever shone 
 On Parian marble, and, what's more, 
 
 There^s ne^er a button gone. 
 She knits me stockings, makes me shirts, 
 
 And darns up all my rents ; 
 And saves me half of what was once 
 
 My bachelor expense." 
 
 The Class then sung, as well as they could after so 
 much cheering, the familiar little ode of 
 
 LAURIGER. 
 
 Lauriger Horatius ! 
 
 Quam dixisti verum, 
 Fugit Euro citius 
 
 Tempus edax rerum. 
 
 Chorus. — Ubi sunt o pocula, 
 Dulciora melle ; 
 Rixae, pax, et oscula, 
 Ridentis puellse. 
 
 Crescit uva molliter, 
 
 Et puella crescit ; 
 Sed poeta turpiter 
 
 Sitiens canescit. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Quid juvat seternitas 
 
 Nominis ; amare 
 Nisi terrse filias 
 
 Licet, et potare ? 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 The fourth toast, " The memory of our Classmates 
 who have died," was responded to by Francis Eugene 
 Butler, who said : 
 
 Had this meeting been held twelve months ago, the sentiment 
 to which I speak had been unnecessary. A year ago, and our 
 ranks were yet unbroken. Up to that time death had not invaded 
 
CL\SS MEETINGS. - 35 
 
 our number. Out of all the one hundred and eighty men that 
 first and last have been members of our Class since 1854, with a 
 single exception, we had not been called to mourn the loss of one 
 till more than two years after our graduation. Then, in a few 
 weeks, two of our Class and the newly wedded wife of another 
 were called away by death. 
 
 Church and Fuller are dead. Both entered in Freshman year ; 
 both graduated ; both were members of the first division ; both 
 had .devoted themselves to the Gospel ministry, and begun a pre- 
 paration for it ; and in one short month both w^ere called home to 
 heaven. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their 
 death they were not, long divided. 
 
 Frederick N". Church was born in Philadelphia, July 14, 1838, 
 and died in Salisbury, Ct., October 4, 1859. 
 
 Hardly was his College course ended before he discovered that 
 the disease which terminated his life was already at work. And 
 not long afterward he was forced to relinquish all hopes of prose- 
 cuting his theological studies. But his physicians thought, that 
 by proper care he might, in some other profession than the minis- 
 try, live many years. He embraced this hope, and for more than 
 a year his disease (consumption) seemed under control ; and with 
 reviving health his hopes of preaching again revived. But the 
 spring of 1859 put an end to all such fond anticipations — his grow- 
 ing weakness told him he could never live to preach ; but even 
 then he hoped to do good in some way, and turned his thoughts 
 to the study of medicine. He bought some medical books, but 
 was too ill to study. He gave up the attempt, and sought health 
 in a Southern trip. After a few weeks' absence he returned home 
 worse than he went. As summer advanced, he removed with the 
 family to Salisbury, in Connecticut, where he gradually sunk and 
 gently passed away. 
 
 In Junior year, I think it was, that Church's thoughts were 
 turned to religious subjects, and he soon trusted that he was a 
 Christian. He determined to study for the ministry. With cha- 
 racteristic resolution he attempted to crowd the first year of the 
 seminary course into the last year of his academic study. This 
 close confinement and neglect of exercise, without a doubt, de- 
 veloped, if it did not originate, the disease that ended so fatally. 
 
 Young Church was no ordinary character, though exceedingly 
 youthful in appearance, and, in fiict, he wore the manners of a man 
 of sixty. With a genial heart, full of kindness and afiection, he 
 
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 walked tlie College-yard with a gravity surpassing tlie President's; 
 bnt it was natural to him, it was all his own. He eschewed the 
 wicket-ground and the roystering song, to pore over the pages of 
 Hamilton and Madison. He preferred the Federolist to Bleak 
 House^ and, in his Senior year, Gesenius to Irving, His mind was 
 logical rather imaginative ; he looked upon amusements as frivo- 
 lous, but he delighted in a theological discussion. There was a 
 dignity in his manner and a maturity in his mind that seemed 
 almost ludicrous in one so young. He spoke little, but alvvays 
 sensibly, and sometimes with a spice of wit or a trace of humor, 
 but never with malice, never with unkindness. He was self-pos- 
 sessed and resolute, he was amiable and cheerful, he was buoyant 
 and hopeful. He has not an enemy now : I doubt if in College 
 he ever had one. 
 
 He has gone. Among the youngest of the Class, he was the 
 first to die. But though summoned early, he was ready to go. 
 With characteristic reserve he spoke but little of his feelings, but 
 it was plain to his friends that his trust was in Christ, and that his 
 soul was at peace. 
 
 Edward ThuestojS" Fuller was born at Stamford, Ct., May 1, 
 1835. Before entering College, he had decided upon the pro- 
 fession of the Gospel ministry; and a year subsequent to his 
 graduation was matriculated at the Theological Seminary at 
 Princeton, ]!^. J. 
 
 At the beginning of his second year at Princeton, he presented 
 himself before the Presbytery of Long-Island. After a severe ex- 
 amination by that body, he returned home to his father's house at 
 Huntington, L. I., to pass the night. The exposure of travel and 
 the exhaustion of his examination brought on an attack of illness, 
 which rapidly developed into a severe case of dysentery. His 
 disease at first yielded to treatment, but finally returned with 
 greater violence ; and for nearly eight weeks he sufi'ered great 
 pain, but at length breathed his last about noon, November 7, 
 1859. 
 
 Fuller's was a guileless character. There was a girlish loveli- 
 ness about hira, and a simplicity that amounted almost to naivete. 
 The grace of God had worked long and eifectively upon a heart 
 naturally ardent and afi(3Ctionate. He had a poetic temperament. 
 He was enthusiastic and self-forgetful, a warm and devoted friend, 
 a young man of pure mind and noble purposes. 
 
 His skill at composition and grace of elocution, both greatly de- 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 37 
 
 veloped since his graduation, gave promise of more than common- 
 success as a preacher ; while his love to Christ and to the souls ot 
 men, reminded rae not a httle of Samraerfield and .McCheyne. 
 Through all his painful illness, he bore himself with cheerful re- 
 signation. He clung to life, not from a fear of death, but, like 
 Church, from a strong desire to do good. When his physicians 
 gave him up, he still expected to live. Hopefully and bravely he 
 battled with disease, but when death came, he met it with the 
 same sweet, submissive smile he always wore. 
 
 Among the very last prayers he offered, was one earnest petition 
 for his unconverted friends, and those souls especially whose sal- 
 vation he might have brought about by his own labors had he 
 lived. Solicitous about nothing so much as his Master's honor, he 
 hoped his death would do more good than the labors of the life 
 which was denied him. 
 
 Thus early did these classmates, at their Master's bidding, lay 
 down their work ere it was begun, and enter into rest. 
 
 It was a sad disappointment to both, that they could not live to 
 preach. Their hearts were in the work. But who shall say that 
 it is not better as it is to their friends and to us ? It was painful 
 to part with them, but to them their departure can not but be joy- 
 ous and full of glory. They first have heard the voice that has 
 called them up higher. Their earthly life is ended, but we 
 do not mourn for them as those that have no hope. The fond 
 wish of their lives was disappointed : this is our judgment, stand- 
 ing in the valley and looking at the mountain-top. Could we 
 stand upon the summit, what a different verdict would we render ! 
 
 Their lives could not be too short, for theirs were true lives, 
 even the life of Christ in God. Let us thank God for these class- 
 mates, for their lives, their happy death, and for the hopes ^ve 
 cherish for them. Let us thank God that he has taken only two, 
 and these so ready to go, that he has spared the rest, and that we 
 are more than an hundred strong to-day. And let us, in affection- 
 ate gratitude, devote, each in his several calling, these lives to the 
 service of the Blessed One, who has given, and who has redeemed, 
 and has so mercifully spared them. 
 
 His remarks were followed by tlie singing of the fol- 
 lowing beautiful hymn, by Feancis M. Finch, of the 
 Class of '49 : 
 
38 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 ALUMNI HYMN. 
 
 Air — '•'• Lencx^"* 
 
 Beneath these sacred shades 
 P Long-severed hearts unite : 
 The tempting Future fades, 
 The Past alone seems bright. 
 O'er sultry clime 
 And stormy zone 
 Rings clear the tone 
 Of MemVy's chime, 
 
 "We come to tread once more 
 The paths of earlier days, 
 To count our blessings o'er, 
 And mingle prayer and praise : 
 For mercy's hand 
 From skies of blue^ 
 Hath linked anew 
 Each broken band. 
 
 We come, ere life departs, 
 
 Ere winged Death appears, 
 To throng our joyous hearts, 
 With dreams of sunnier years i 
 To meet once more 
 
 Where pleasure sprang^ 
 And arches rang 
 With songs of Yore. 
 
 Not all, not all are here : 
 
 Some sleep 'neath funeral flowers, 
 Where falls the mourner's tear. 
 And weep the evening shov^^ers. 
 Yet thankfully 
 Let every heart 
 Its love impart 
 To Him on high. 
 
 The fifth regular toast, " Theologians of the Class," 
 brought out Rev. Edwakd W. Hitciicock, of Tomp- 
 kinsville, Staten Island, who addressed us in nearly 
 the following words : 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 39 
 
 I must beg your indulgence, Mr. Chairman and Classmates, while 
 I speak briefly, and in a very informal manner, in behalf of the 
 Theologians of our Class. I had hoped, until I came into the hall 
 to-night, to listen^ not to speak. But our Patriarch Moses is 
 not here ; word comes that the Lawgiver is busy devising a third 
 table of Laws for the guidance of the little heiress of all womanly 
 graces and manly virtues ; and so, while his heart is happy and his 
 hands are full, we are left to regret his absence. 
 
 But to speak a word in the name of twenty-se^en classmates, 
 of course the wisest and best of the hundred who have chosen the 
 Gospel ministry as their life-work, is a privilege I am not disposed 
 to decline. 
 
 You must indulge us to night. Classmates, while as Theologues 
 we congratulate ourselves upon having entered the most ennobling., 
 as it is the most beneficent^ work to which our country and genera- 
 tion summon us. My brother here (most worthy representative 
 of the Bar) does so '' magnify his office," that it has actually 
 assumed proportions, (to the eye of faith.) But does he not know 
 that when, under the benign influence of the truth which we 
 preach, men " learn righteousness and hate iniquity," red tape and 
 legal lore, yes, and lawyers, who, alas ! " load us with burdens 
 grievous to be borne," and then ride themselves, will find an ap- 
 propriate niche in some barbaric museum ? What I mean is this : — 
 with the future and certain conquests of truth and love, men will 
 become truthful and loving; iniquity, intemperance and crimes 
 cease, and with them brawls, and lawsuits and lawyers. Li this 
 doing-away process, and Christian reform, we, as Theologues, are 
 zealously and hopefully engaged. We go forth to the " Holy 
 War," bearing the highest commission, and with the firm convic- 
 tion that the Pulpit is Heaven's chosen instrumentality in spread- 
 ing abroad a knowledge of the truth that is to restore to earth its 
 lost peace, and purity, and happiness. We believe that to-day it 
 has no rival in power to bless the world. We believe that it 
 stands majestic by God's own appointment, towering above all 
 other sources of good influence. Yes, we believe that any one who 
 will weigh the power of the pulpit, and trace out, if only so far a^ 
 human vision can penetrate, its noiseless yet mighty influence in 
 supplying the wants of man's religions nature, dispensing abroad 
 light and divine knowledge, creating and sustaining a righteous 
 public sentiment, and above all, as an agent in winning souls to 
 Christ, must, if frankly honest, say with Cowper ; 
 
40 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 " The Pulpit, in the sober use 
 Of its legitimate, peculiar power, 
 Must stand acknowledged, 
 While the w^orld shall stand, 
 The most important and effectual guard, 
 Support and ornament of Virtue's cause." 
 
 I confess that the Pulpit has not always been valiant for the right. 
 It has, alas ! been guilty of forging the chains of darkness ; it has 
 been loud in commendation of wrong. Even God's sacred temple 
 the Master once found perverted into a den of thieves — but He 
 did not leave it so. Let it be ours to maintain the integrity of the 
 Pulpit. From the consecrated altars at which we minister let us 
 offer incense, not to Baal, but to God. In the spirit of love, but 
 with fearless hearts and faithful tongues, let us plead for the right, 
 the true, and the ^ooc?. 
 
 Indulge me, Classmates, in another word. I can hardly be true 
 to myself, my theme, or those in whose name I speak, without 
 adding it. By nature ^YQ are religious beings — I do not say holy, 
 but religious beings. Our religious nature is our noblest part ; it 
 was once a stately edifice, and though now the prostrate column 
 and the shattered wall tell of a mind in ruins, yet the gold, and 
 gems, and ivory, that shine amid the fragments, suggest what w^as 
 once the imperial mansion — what it may again be when restored 
 to its more than primeval beauty. This restoration can only be 
 effected through a reunion of the soul with God — a vital union, 
 consummated by faith, and hope, and love. And just here is the 
 highest, holiest mission of the Pulpit — to stimulate the religious 
 aspirations, to point heavenward the soul-thoughts that cling to 
 earth, to elevate the Cross, the world's only hope, and to win souls 
 to Him who was once our suffering Saviour, but now risen and 
 glorified Lord. In this blessed work, which an angel might covet, 
 God grant we may be faithful. 
 
 The sixth regular toast was, "The Lawyers of the 
 Class," to which Joseph Cooke Jackson, of New-York 
 City, made the following response : 
 
 My Classmates : — Most of the forty-one Lawyers of the Class, 
 representing fourteen States of the Union, have ghxdly postponed 
 all arguments, and deserted their clients and the Courts, that they 
 might be here to-night. 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 41 
 
 As reflections have just been cast upon the single men present, 
 I feel called upon, Mr. Chairman, by the toast to which I respond, 
 to inform the married rnQn^ professionally^ that Indiana is the best 
 State in which to procure divorces ; and if that State seems to be 
 far away, those who wish can avail themselves of the referee system 
 in New- York, which has almost made Hoboken a second Gretna 
 Green. And if any in celibacy are contemplating matrimony, let 
 me, on the contrary, loarn them of the laws of [ISTew-York, for 
 latterly the laws of Domestic Relations there have followed the 
 French philosophy, and allow the wife control over her own pro- 
 perty, and most of the privileges of the feme sole. This false 
 system tends to the isolation of the individual, and fosters selfish- 
 ness and excessive self-reliance in persons of strong traits of cha- 
 racter ; while it renders others too indifferent, unfeeling and 
 cynical. Let us, then, cling to the grand old English Common 
 Law, w^hich makes home the source and center of our tenderest 
 affections and most refined joys. The theory of Lord Kenyon is 
 true, that he who breaks the wedding-ring breaks not only a civil 
 contract and the public peace, but sunders what God has joined 
 together. And although I am myself a member of the unfortu- 
 nate class of bachelors in this gathering, I am almost ready to ex- 
 claim with them, in the language of St. Pierre : "What Avould a 
 poor, isolated soul do even in Heaven ?" 
 
 We have heard, Mr. Chairman, what the clergy of the Class are 
 doing, and the physicians, merchants, farmers, and the rest, in 
 their several ways, are doubtless doing just as much. It would 
 seem that young lawyers are expected to keep pace with the 
 growing intelligence of all the various industrial callings. To 
 those, therefore, who are not in our professional ranks, who are not 
 linked together like us by a chain of judicial j^recedents, and are 
 not expected to test the movements of the times by the touchstone 
 of legal decisions and legal principles, we shall gladly come for 
 instruction and aid in applying the principles of law to the other 
 pursuits of life. 
 
 It is well know^n that in some States the Courts of Chancery, or 
 Equity, are merged into the Courts of Common Law, that such is 
 the tendency of American jurisprudence. The lawyer, therefore, 
 of the broadest grasp of mind, best disciplined, and in full sym- 
 pathy with nature and with truth, who is content only in the 
 possession of accurate historical and scientific knowledge, attains 
 to a keener perception of the deUcate shades of right and wrong. 
 
42 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 more readily masters new complications in mechanics, and is best 
 qualified to adjust the numerous troubles of domestic life. How 
 thankful, then, Brethren of the Bar, should we, especially, be for 
 the rich experience of University life and discipline ; not only for 
 what our beloved instructors and favorite authors have done for 
 us, but for what our classmates and ourselves have taught each 
 other. I rejoice in the fellowship of our students of theology, 
 believing that their cherished studies are the noblest preparation 
 for the profoundest study of the law. I rejoice that I am to share 
 life's feast with classmate scholars, and in the probabihties of occa- 
 sionally meeting in the walks of business, merchants, manufac- 
 turers, lawyers, endeared to me by their companionship in college 
 studies and college recreations. And what lawyer of us would not 
 take a double pride and pleasure in procuring a patent for some 
 mechanician or inventor, or in drawing up the deeds, while he 
 partakes of the rich fruits, of some agricultural brother of the 
 Class ? I am sure that I am speaking for all of our fraternity, 
 when in turn I ask the rest of you to come and see us, not merely 
 on business, but at our homes — for lawyers, you have heard, live 
 well, if they db die poor. Most of all, Mr. Chairman, do I abide 
 in the hope that, as time rolls on, the members of the Class of 1857 
 — so singularly united in their college course — may continue their 
 mutual sympathies in all the labors and pleasures of the future. 
 
 I will not embarrass myself, nOr encumber my professional 
 brethren, with any promises or contracts to be executed infuturo. 
 We desire simply to understand well our profession and ourselves, 
 that we may manfully meet the work we find around us. Expe- 
 rience has already reassured us that we are but children groping 
 in the dark vestibule of the temple of Justice. We promise only 
 to follow faithfully professional duty, and trust that, when in after 
 years we meet again, we can report that we have kept our promise. 
 
 Happily the law is not simply a profession or a science — it is a 
 Ufe. The exceptions to Blackstone's "Farewell to his Muse," so 
 fittingly taken by Judge Thomas* last night, will be allowed as 
 well by every experienced counselor as by every inexperienced 
 attorney. The law is too broad to admit of routine. If in the 
 morning we plow through real estate, and at noon collect debts 
 or incur them, wc claim in the evening a seat by the fire, and to 
 sip ambrosial pleasures from the fountains of friendship, of poetry, 
 
 * Address of Hon. Bcnj. F. Thomas of Massacliusetts, before the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, at the Yale CoLLEaE Commencement, July, 18G0. 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 43 
 
 and of love. So large is his intercourse, the lawyer can not be too 
 versatile, he can not be too natural or too true ; and even amid 
 the hardest toils by day or night he is ready to pause with his 
 friend, and sing : 
 
 " No ; law is no waste of impertinent reading, 
 
 Which seldom produces but quibbles and broils ; 
 Still, the lawyer who thinks he's the nicest in pleading 
 Is 'likelier far to be caught in its toils. 
 
 " But, Brother Attorneys, how happy are we ! 
 
 May we never meet worse in the practice of law 
 Than the flaw a demurrer can gild with a fee. 
 And the fee that a conscience can earn from the law." 
 
 The seven til regular toast, " Absent Classmates," was 
 not responded to, as it somewhat curiously happened 
 that none of the gentlemen in question were with us to 
 speak for the rest of them. But- those who were ab- 
 sent were not forgotten ; we knew they would have 
 come if they could, and we missed them only the more 
 for that reason. 
 
 The eighth toast, " JSTon -graduate Members of the 
 Class," was replied to by Edgae L. Heermance of 
 Kinderhook, N. Y., who had been favored with abun- 
 dant opportunity to compare The Class both with 
 another Class and with other bodies of young men. 
 He said he was thankful for having been a member of 
 '57 for so long a time, and thankful also to the Class 
 for their kind and manly conduct toward himself. His 
 remarks were appropriate, and were heartily applauded 
 by all that heard them. 
 
 Geoege Peatt, of Norwich, Connecticut, in reply to 
 the ninth regular toast, " Class Publications," gave us an 
 account of all the miscellaneous publications of .the 
 Class, from The Battle of the Ball to the Yale Lit. 
 Bringing up the literary reminiscences of the Class, he 
 called to mind many of the pleasantest incidents of our 
 College life, but seemed to be of the opinion that the 
 
44 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 post-graduate publications of the Class, of wliicli tlie 
 Class-Boy is the first edition, will be better appreciated 
 and more widely circulated than even the brilliant effa- 
 sions of our former years. 
 
 When he had ended, we sung our old Class chorus, 
 which Joe Jacksox introduced in Sophomore year, and 
 which in the days of our student-life was often heard 
 ringing out clear and loud in the solemn forest, over 
 the glassy surface of the frozen lake, as well in the 
 rooms of the College, as on the dancing waves of the 
 harbor on moonlit evenings, and which, with us, did not 
 refer to the sorrows of Admetus, but rather to the 
 happiness of '57 : 
 
 10! 10! (Euripides.) 
 
 Ig) Ig). OTvyval rrpoaodoi^ 
 OTvyvdl d' oipetg xr}p(x)V fieXadpcdv . 
 16) fioL [loi, alal alal. 
 Tcol (3gj ; TTjt GTG) ; Ti /iejo) ; tl 6e jit] ; 
 TCGJg dv oXotjiav. 
 
 Heney STEONa HuNTiisraTON, of the And over Theo- 
 logical Seminary, in response to " College Improve- 
 ments projected by our Class," spoke as follows : 
 
 Me. President and Classmates : — Our good deeds must be 
 proclaimed to the world, and such an opportunity as this to do it, 
 where all are so perfectly agreed, is very rare and should be im- 
 proved. In truth, it is appropriate that we should recall to-day 
 those acts and that influence of our Class upon which we can look 
 with satisfaction. After three years we can estimate them more 
 correctly than before. And we do it, not from pride, but for that 
 enjoyment and satisfaction which every man has a right to feel in 
 the tiseful acts of his life, and above all, that we may be encour- 
 aged by the thought of some past good, in the elFort to accom- 
 plish much more in future. 
 
 The first grand improYeiaent projected by our Class consisted in 
 whipping the Sophs in the Foot-ball Game. The mere fact of our 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 45 
 
 SO doing may not have been iinprecedented in College history, but 
 I remember hearing our revered Tutor, Tim. D wight, once say 
 that his Class by doing it were made so vain that they never 
 amounted to any thing afterwards ; whereas w^e were only con- 
 firmed (if possible) in modesty and good works — a result which I 
 am aware that some evil-minded persons might attribute to the 
 fact that perhaps we didn't whip after all. 
 
 I suppose that next in order of time would come the introduc- 
 tion of the custom of rolling stones at the door of Moses Welch's 
 recitation-room, rushing violently through the entry while the 
 recitation was progressing, and volunteering remarks through the 
 keyhole — all of which was designed by the Class to give variety 
 to the otherwise monotonous exercises within. 
 
 When our worthy* Class Secretary requested me to speak upon 
 this subject, he suggested Morning Prayers as one field in which 
 improvement was effected by us ; but upon mature reflection and 
 consultation I can not conjure up any thing in this line to add to 
 our renown — unless some of our number, by their noble persever- 
 ance in sleeping-over, may be considered to have ushered in the 
 present reign of peace and tranquillity in the small hours of the 
 morning. But upon this whole subject I would refer to JBeard^ 
 Holmes, Southwick, etc. 
 
 I next find, by reference to the Lit.^ that w^e greatly elevated 
 the ideas of College upon the subject of lohishers^ more than 
 double the number of pairs having been raised by '57 than by most 
 of its predecessors. 
 
 I can not stay to speak of Wicket Clubs, so vigorously sustained 
 by '57 ; nor of Graham Clubs, in which Moses Tyler, Sam. Sco- 
 ville, Volney Hickox and others took such delight, and in which 
 they gained such freedom from all the ills which flesh is heir to ; 
 nor of the Voyage round the World projected by the Class; nor 
 of the election of Mr. Buchanan, which occurred under our imme- 
 diate auspices. 
 
 Neither can I do more than allude to the fact that wx effected 
 the change — for which every lover of comfort will be thankful — 
 of Junior Exhibition from Chapel to the College-street Church ; 
 that for Class pictures we introduced steel-engravings, which bore 
 at least a more general resemblance to humanity, and to some 
 body in particular, than those wdth which the books of our prede- 
 
 * " Dulce est ab amicis laudari." 
 
46 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 cessors had been adorned; and that we did our full part in intro- 
 ducing new tunes and songs, and still more in increasing that spirit 
 of song which so enlivens and gives tone to College life. 
 
 We may look with just pride upon the efforts made by some 
 members of '57 to improve t\\Q physical condition of College. So 
 far as I can ascertain, no Class previous to ours ever added three 
 boats to the Yale Navy in Freshman year — one of them, at least, 
 long admired, and perhaps the first positive change from the old 
 Atalanta style to the more light and rapid boats of the present. 
 
 I do not intend the presumption of claiming for '57 the honor of 
 the Langdonic system, but somehow the good Professor became 
 so identified with our Class, that when it left he felt that the glory 
 of his system was ended, and that it was time for him to graduate. 
 
 Still more have we a right to rejoice that the noble Gymnasium, 
 which now does credit to Alma Mater, is a lasting honor to some 
 members of our Class. Of course we do not deny that Hercules 
 and Samson were strong men, that the Greeks were good gym- 
 nasts, or that multitudes of penetrating minds had discovered the 
 fact that Yale College was sadly in need of a Gymnasium. But 
 honor to the man of '57 who first formed a definite and reasona- 
 ble plan for supplying the want, and (with the aid of a few others 
 of kindred spirit) by devising liberal things himself, and urging 
 them upon both students and Faculty, was the real author of the 
 present Gymnasium. 
 
 We have come to be glad, in remembering the intellectual cha- 
 racter and influence of our Class, that there was a disposition to 
 honor every hind of mental excellence. Scholarship was neither 
 despised in the effort for literary and oratorical superiority, nor 
 did it when merely dead and mechanical command any admiration. 
 Some of our number gave a decided impulse to the neglected 
 cause of Natural Science in College. Witness the noble army of 
 botanists, to whom tin cans became objects of adoration, and the 
 enthusiastic attendants upon the meetings of the Yale Natural 
 History Society. 
 
 It is in no arrogant or boastful spirit that I say that the moral 
 influence of '57 was for the improvement of College. President 
 Woolsey (in his Historical Discourse) says that College manners 
 fluctuate perceptibly from year to year. A good standard of man- 
 ners, then, in one Class, is a benefit to all. And such a standard 
 (I speak of manners and morals as almost synonymous) it was our 
 good fortune to possess in '57. The Class was free from that nar- 
 row and false religionism which makes a man unnatural in his con- 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 47 
 
 duct ; which says, " Stand by thyself, for I am holier than thou ;" 
 while there was among us much of that real honesty and manli- 
 ness which is in its nature genial, yet no where and never ashamed 
 of its principles. Th.e general spirit of the Class was firm against 
 a vulgar, cowardly, or small-minded joke, while it was in strong 
 sympathy with true humor, with all in social life which is honest 
 and of good report. 
 
 I need not tell you that I could go on ad libitum to speak of the 
 improvements efiected by '57, but perhaps we have already arrived 
 at a due appreciation of our own exalted virtues. That which, 
 even on this occasion, comes most earnestly to all our hearts, is not 
 the question what we have been, but what we are to be. And it 
 seems to me, my Classmates, that this very subject of which I have 
 been speaking, suggests an important consideration for our future 
 course. Among honest and good men there are two widely dif- 
 ferent classes. One consists of those who simply receive elevating 
 influences, who fall in with the genei-al current of good, but advo- 
 cate nothing unless it is familiar to the public mind and fully estab- 
 lished in public confidence. The other embraces Improvers, Pub- 
 lic-spirited men. Reformers, all who desire not merely to do no 
 harm in society, but to make positive contribution to its enjoy- 
 ment or welfare. 
 
 The superiority of the latter class is obvious. They are the 
 life and tone of social intercourse, of education, of religion. It is 
 not true that the other class are equally useful as conservers of 
 good which already exists, for no man can really appreciate good 
 without desiring to widen its influence ; he can not be a true man 
 without something of that enthusiasm which is in its nature pro- 
 gressive ; nor, if he makes no advance, can he fail to retrograde. 
 
 Yet men are rare who possess much of this life-giving spirit of 
 improvement, for indolence and selfishness are always at work to 
 crush it out. Shall we not take with us, then, not merely the gen- 
 eral purpose to be useful, but the positive purpose to alter those 
 things which are wrong, and to originate those things which the 
 wants of society demand ? It is true, that not only in religion and 
 morals, but to a great extent in philosophy and law, our great 
 principles are given us at the outset. But old truths are to receive 
 new forms and new applications. We need that love of truth 
 itself which shall prevent us from thinking that its power lies in 
 old forms of phraseology, and shall give us confidence to express 
 it according to the language and spirit of the present, living world. 
 
48 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 We need such a conviction that truth is practical^ not a mere ab- 
 straction to be viewed separately from life ; that we shall not fear 
 to say that somethings which were once duties are not so now^, and 
 that some are duties to us which were not tg other times ; nor fear 
 to apply righteous principles to all actions, however trifling or 
 however " secular." And let us remember, too, that there is 
 much practical work to be done by all. E'o one denies this in 
 theory, but the actual labor is handed over to a very few. Every 
 cultivated man, who has also a warm-hearted sympathy with his 
 fellow- men, can make his influence tell for the improvement of the 
 manners and every day habits of the peoj)le, the cultivation of 
 taste, and the elevation of the standard of Christian education. 
 And then, every man's profession aflTords abundant field for im- 
 provement to him who, with the spirit which Bacon cherished to- 
 ward Philosophy, is dissatisfied with his profession unless it pro- 
 duces its appropriate good fruits. 
 
 The men who labor for progress, who have always plans for the 
 improvement of themselves or others, are not the ones who grow 
 oldm. feeling or sympathy. Youth is a time of progress, of insa- 
 tiable desire after new truth and new experiences, of that keen 
 interest in others, which prepares the way for a strong regard for 
 their welfare. May it be that the spirit of progress, the spirit 
 which is always seeking some new and higher good for others or 
 itself, shall be one talisman, among many, which keeps the Class 
 of '57 from ever growing old ! 
 
 The following song, by a classmate in a distant State, 
 was selected from a large collection of poems, some of 
 them a little erratic, sent to the Secretary a few days 
 before the Class-meeting. The collection was named 
 Peristera^ and bore this dedication : 
 
 "Ad fratres convenientes almam matrem in triennio, kal. sext. viii. 
 
 MDCCCLX. 
 
 *' Fratres, rite pio regressu conyenienteSy 
 
 Almum vcro velim quoque redire domum • 
 Sed prohibet Deus. Inde Peristera dulcis, 
 Quae vice pervolitat, studia nostra ferat. 
 
 "Springfield, Illinois." 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 49 
 
 [VoLNEY HicKox's manuscript is still in the keepiog 
 of the Class Secretary.] 
 
 ALMA MATER. 
 
 Air — '■'■Beautiful Venice.'''' 
 
 Dear Alma Mater J Beautifal Home ! 
 The fairer forever the farther we roam ! 
 Long will our hearts with the love of thee burn, 
 And often the foot of affection return ; 
 For, darling old home, thou art hoary with years, 
 And holy with prayers and affectionate tears. 
 And the shrines of the world have no other goal 
 Like dear Alma Mater, the Home of the Soul ! 
 Like dear Alma Mater, the Home of the Soul ! 
 Dear Alma Mater, dear Alma Mater, 
 Dear Alma Mater, the Home of the Soul, 
 
 Dear Alma Mater ! Light of the Land ! 
 
 Where the noblest are knit in a brotherly band ; 
 
 Where study and song, like the tree and the vine, 
 
 Forever together in sympathy twine ! 
 
 bountiful home ! in thy century-youth, 
 
 Still blossoming beauty and ripening truth ! 
 
 The shrines of the world have no other goal 
 
 Like dear Alma Mater, the Home of the Soul ! 
 
 Like dear Alma Mater, the Home of the Soul ! 
 Dear Alma Mater, dear Alma Mater, 
 Dear Alma Mater, the Home of the Soul ! 
 
 Volunteer toasts were now in order, while the tax- 
 gatherers were going about bleediug their yictims mer- 
 cilessly. 
 
 The name of " Chicago " aroused J^ormatt Carolan 
 Perkhn-s of that city, who held the attention of the 
 Class undivided, while he told about the Great West. 
 
 In reply to " Class-Pedagogues," James Marshall 
 
 told us of the discomforts attending the development 
 
 of ideas in the youthful understanding. George W. 
 
 KoBERTS explained how he had to come on by the 
 
 4 
 
50 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 freight-trains, and pay by tbe ton, as the strengtli of 
 the passenger-cars is proportioned to the ordinary 
 weight of humanity. He seemed to be very proud of 
 his Class, as well he might be, and, large as he was, , 
 he enlarged on the subject of the eloquent speeches 
 he had heard this night, and upon the general success 
 of the Class-meeting. 
 
 James B. Cone said he had come four thousand miles 
 to attend this meeting, and should go back four thou- 
 sand miles after it was over. This fact alone was 
 enough to show his love for the Class. 
 
 The presence of Isaac E. Claek being discovered, 
 the Class of '55 was toasted and cheered. Mr. Clark 
 rose blushingly and said that it gave him pleasure 
 to speak for his Class. He had enjoyed to the 
 utmost his ow^n Class-meeting, and "was very happy to 
 be present at ours also. The Classes of '55 and '57 were 
 always good friends to each other, and he had many 
 personal friends in our number. He went on to say, 
 that " this night is the culminating time of life for 
 the Class here met together ; here the past of College- 
 life, hallowed by the three years that have removed it, 
 meets the anticipated future, and the two combine to 
 give an hour of intense enjoyment that will be remem- 
 bered through your whole lives. You will enjoy it for- 
 ever. When you camo here as Freshmen seven years 
 ago, we of '55 had a great anxiety to know what kind 
 of a Class you would be. You soon won our admira- 
 tion by your manly conduct on the football-ground and 
 elsewhere, and you have continued to hold it ever since. 
 Thanking you again for kindly remembering my Class 
 and myself, and for keeping me here to-night, I give 
 you the united good wishes of '55 for this life and for 
 the life beyond. May God bless you and yours." 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 51 
 
 Holmes then called for Levi Holbrook, tlie nian who 
 had been eating roast dog on the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 Holbrook in reply, premising that the present occasion 
 was an out-and-out Class-meeting, and one which ought 
 to be the jolliest of them all, said that nothing, it ap- 
 peared, could be more pleasing than for a few moments 
 to recall some of the every-day scenes and incidents of 
 our college life. He then proceeded to contrast our pre- 
 sent and former surroundings on the same spot. The 
 ecstatic aspirations of our Oochleaureati were being ful- 
 filled — " Fond eyes were beaming on us to-night ;" for 
 did we not all rightfully appropriate, each man to him- 
 self, the one hundred and fifth part of the affections of 
 the numerous wives of the Class, by whose presence we 
 had been cheered ? Whereas, when we sang that song, 
 having before our eyes the Faculty's terrible Ordinance 
 upon Matrimony, our hopes were largely blent with 
 fears — the fear not only of losing our sheep-skins, but 
 of even losing ourselves out of College ; so that we 
 were ready to join in Admetus' cry of anguish : 
 
 Olfiot. n6iiLL,e rrpbg decjv aTt' diMj-idroyv 
 yvvdlna T7Jv6s, jirj fi' eX^fg i^prjfisvov ! 
 
 That is, according to the elegantly literal version of our 
 Classmate Willey : '' For God's sake, take the woman 
 out of our eyes !" 
 
 Launching out from this well-remembered translation, 
 Holbrook went on, keeping the table in a recurring 
 series of smiles, as he piled up one on another those 
 mirthful incidents which were in College the life of the 
 Class, and familiar as household words in their mouths, 
 but which your Secretary would no sooner attempt to 
 report than a speech of Dr. Cox, the polyglottic. 
 
52 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 In conclusion, turning upon Holmes with a verse of 
 his Foot-Ball Song, he declared that wherever he had 
 been, from where 
 
 " Our dragons, the fire-eaters, 
 
 Were chewing Yankees whole, 
 To where the chewing Yankee 
 
 Whittles the Arctic pole ; 
 Where'er among the Blackfeet 
 
 He yokes his buffaloes, 
 Or for their hair-grease trieth bears 
 
 Among Katahdin's snows ;" 
 
 the result of all his observation was the conviction that 
 no where else is there, over and above all rivaliy and 
 contest, so much genuine good feeling and fellowship as 
 within college-walls, and in no College so much hearti- 
 ness and sociality as in our own Alma Mater. He re- 
 joiced that the old mustering cry of '' Yale," reaching 
 our ears wherever we were through the land, had 
 brought us together once more, to live over again for a, 
 few hours our student-life ; for that freshness and earn- 
 estness which is so called for in the world, and which a 
 man ought to carry through manhood into age, is only 
 kept by keeping up the heart of youth. From this 
 fresh clasp of Classmates' hands, this sight of old, fa- 
 miliar faces, these sounds of old-remembered tunes, we 
 would go out feeling stouter for the work of life — feel- 
 ing the truthfulness, and cherishing the spirit of the 
 apjDeal in the German Burschen Song : 
 
 " Think oft, ye brethren. 
 Think of the gladness of our youthful prime ; 
 It cometh not again — that golden time." 
 
 The Secretary then called the roll of the Class, each 
 one rising to tell where he had been for three years, 
 what he had been doing, how he liked it, and what 
 
CLASS MEETINGS. 53 
 
 were his expectations. Of those of the Class who were 
 not at the meeting, the best account that any one could 
 give was presented. Not a few letters from absent 
 Classmates were read, but as the first gray feathers of 
 Aurora's wings were already seen through the window- 
 blinds, we had to hasten the concluding exercises. The 
 usual votes of thanks were passed — to '' Mine Host," to 
 those who responded to toasts, to the Class Committee, 
 to the Class Secretary, etc. 
 
 It was voted unanimously, that we could not wait 
 seven years for our next meeting, and that the Class 
 meet again in July, 1863. 
 
 The Class then sung 
 
 QUANDO ITERUM? 
 
 When shall we meet again ? 
 
 Meet ne'er to sever ? 
 When shall peace wreathe her chain 
 
 Round us forever ? 
 Our hearts will ne'er repose 
 Safe from each blast that blows 
 In this dark vale of woes, 
 Never, no never ! 
 
 When shall love freely flow, 
 
 Pure as life's river ? 
 When shall sweet friendship glow 
 
 Changeless forever? 
 Where joys celestial thrill, 
 Where bliss each heart shall fill^ 
 And fears of parting chill 
 Never, no never ! 
 
 Soon shall we meet again, 
 
 Meet ne'er to sever ; 
 Soon will peace wreathe her chain 
 
 Round us forever ; 
 Our hearts will then repose 
 Safe from all worldly woes ; 
 Our songs of praise shall close 
 Never, no never ! 
 
54 CLASS MEETINGS. 
 
 A huge cake was cut up, eacli uian taking a slice 
 away with him, and after nine cheers, we marched over 
 to the grounds in front of South Middle, where, stand- 
 ing in a circle, we sung rather huskily a verse from 
 George Pratt's Presentation-Day Class Ode : 
 
 FAREWELL, 
 
 Farewell ! Farewell ! the parting word 
 
 To-day we sadlj sing, 
 Though round our hearts the hopes of life 
 
 Like summer blossoms spring ; 
 But Fet the years bring joy or tears^ 
 
 As youth and life decline, 
 " We'll take a cup of kindness yet " 
 
 For Yale and Auld Lang Syne I 
 
 We went round the circle shakino^ hands, we ao^ain 
 nine times cheered the College and the Class^ and the 
 Triennial Meeting was ended. 
 
STATISTICS 
 
 GRADUATED MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1857. 
 
 WHITTLESEY ADAMS. 
 
 Born at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, ISTov. 26, 1832. 
 
 Entered Senior, from Warren, Sept. 1856. 
 Has been at Warren, studying Law, and partly 
 
 editing a paper. 
 
 Appointed Notary Public, Jan. 18, 1858. 
 
 Clerk of Probate, Oct. 25, 1858. 
 
 County School Examiner, Feb. 16, 1859. 
 
 Admitted to practise Law, ^ 1860. 
 Address : Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. 
 
 EDMUIS-D THOMPSON ALLEN". 
 
 Born at Fair Haven, Mass., Aug. 10, 1836, 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studied Law in New-Bedford, Mass. ; and was 
 
 admitted to practise Law in all the Courts of 
 
 the Commonwealth, on motion of Ex-Go v.. 
 
 John H. Clifford, Nov. 17, 1859. 
 
 Is now in Gov. Clifford's office, at New-Bedford. 
 
 OERIN FEINK AVEEY. 
 
 Born in Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania, May 1, 1831. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Has been teaching, and studying Law. 
 
 Admitted to practise Law, Oct. 1, 1859. 
 
 Address : Waverley, Bremer Co., Iowa. 
 
56 STATISTICS. 
 
 DAVID DWIGHT BALDWIN. 
 
 Born at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, Nov. 26, 1831. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Bridgeport, Conn., Julj 26, 1853. 
 
 Sailed for Sandwich Islands, Oct. 30, 1857. 
 
 Is Superintendent of Government Schools in the 
 
 First District of Maui; 600 pupils, and 16 
 
 assistant teachers. 
 Married to Miss Louisa G. Morris, daughter of 
 
 Elliott Morris, Esq., of Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 7, 1857. 
 
 A daughter, Lilian Charlotte Baldwin, born, Oct. 25, 1858. 
 
 A son, Erdman D wight Baldwin, born, Dec. 7, 1859, 
 
 Address : Lahaina, Maui, Sandwich Islands. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BAKGE. 
 
 Born in Pennsylvania, 1832. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Has been teaching ; is at present in the vicinity 
 of Natchez, Mississippi. 
 
 EDWIN BAEEOWS. 
 
 Born at Norton, Mass., Jan. 24, 1834. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Taught school two terms, and has since been 
 Clerk for the Wheaton Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, at Norton. 
 
 AUGUSTUS FIELD BEAED. 
 
 Born at Nor walk. Conn. May 11, 1833. 
 
 Entered Freshman, having been in the Class of 
 
 1856, Sept. 15, 1853. 
 
 Studied Theology at Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 1857-May, 1858. 
 
 Studied Theology at Union Theol. Sem., N. Y. 
 
 City, 1858-59. 
 
 Traveled six months in Europe, and returned 
 
 to Union Theol. Sem. in autumn of 1859. 
 
 Ordained to preach the Gospel, May, 1860. 
 
 Address : Portland, Maine. 
 
 MILES BEAEDSLEY. 
 
 Born in North-Branford, Conn. (?) 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
 lias not been heard from, but is supposed to be 
 teaching in one of the Western States. 
 
STATISTICS. 
 
 57 
 
 JAMES PRESTON BECK. 
 
 Born in Missouri. (?) 1835 or '36. 
 
 Entered Junior, from Lexington, Missouri, Sept. 18, 1855. 
 
 Has been in St. Louis, New-Orleans, and in 
 
 JSTew-Mexico, looking after his interests in a 
 
 silver-mine. 
 Married to Miss Fanny Reid, of Stanton, Va., Feb. 1860. 
 
 THEODORE WILLIAM ELY BELDEN. 
 
 Born at West- Springfield, Mass. June 6, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman ; having been for some time 
 
 at Williams College, Feb. 6, 1854. 
 
 Studied Law in ISTew-York, and admitted to 
 
 the Bar, May, 1859. 
 
 In partnership with Judge Jas. R. Whiting, 130 
 
 N"assau street, X. Y. 
 
 CHARLES SEYMOUR BLACKMAIST. 
 
 Born at Seymour, Conn., April 7, 1837. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 In the wholesale paint, glass, etc., business, with 
 
 E. Atwater & Co., Montreal, Canada. 
 Married to Miss Sarah J. Atwater, daughter of 
 
 Elihu Atwater, Esq., of Montreal, April 4, 1860. 
 
 ELI V^HITj^EY BLAKE. 
 
 Born at New-Haven, Conn., April 20, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, ^ July 25, 1853. 
 
 Studied Chemistry in Yale Scientific School, 1858-1860. 
 
 At Peacedale, R. I., for six months, 1860. 
 
 Married Miss Helen Mary Rood, of New-Haven, March 8, 1860. 
 Address : New Haven, Connecticut. 
 
 JOHN QUINCY BRADISH. 
 
 Born at Floyd, Oneida Co., N. Y. March 29, 1832. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
 Engaged in teaching ; is Principal of the Meri- 
 
 den Institute, Meriden, Conn. 
 Married to Miss S. Jennie Mather, of Sufiield, 
 
 Conn., Dec. 3, 1858. 
 
 Mrs. Bradish died at Meriden, Nov. 1, 1859. 
 
5S 
 
 STATISTICS. 
 
 LESTEE BRADNER. 
 
 Born at Dansville, jfsT. Y., 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 In the Freight Office of Illinois Central R. R. 
 Co., Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 EGBERT BEOWI^". 
 
 Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 In New-Haven till 
 
 Since then in a Pork house in Cincinnati, as 
 
 Book-keeper. 
 Married to Miss Caroline P. Root, daughter of 
 
 Joel Root, Esq., of N"ew-IIaven, 
 
 JOSEPH PAYS ON BUCKLAND. 
 
 Born at Springfield, Mass., 
 Entered Freshman, 
 Taught school in Holyoke, Mass., 
 Studied Law in New- York City, 
 Address: Chicopee, Mass. 
 
 JACOB STAATS BUENET. 
 
 Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Studied Lav/ at the Cincinnati Law School, 
 
 Admitted to the Bar, 
 
 Is now in Europe, expecting to study a year or 
 two, and then return to practise Law in Cin- 
 cinnati. 
 
 Address : ISTo. 7 Schadow Strasse, Berlin, Prussia. 
 
 FRANCIS EUGENE BUTLER. 
 
 Born at Suffield, Conn., 
 
 Entered Sophomore, from N'ew-York City, 
 
 Studied Theology at Princeton, 
 
 Preached at Bedford Springs, Penn., three 
 
 months in the summer of 
 Preaching at Cleveland, Ohio, in the spring 
 
 and summer of 
 Address : Paterson, New- Jersey. 
 
 Nov. 1, 1836. 
 Sept. 13, 1853. 
 
 March 8, 1836, 
 
 May 3, 1854. 
 
 May, 1858. 
 
 Oct. 2, 1860. 
 
 Oct. 7, 1835. 
 July 26, 1853. 
 
 1857-58. 
 1858-59. 
 
 April 18, 1837. 
 
 July 25, 1853. 
 
 1857-59. 
 
 1859. 
 
 Feb. 7, 1825. 
 
 Sept. 13, 1854. 
 
 1857-1860. 
 
 1859. 
 
 1860. 
 
STATISTICS. 
 
 59 
 
 WILLIAM CULLEN^ CASE. 
 
 Born at Granby, Conn., Feb. n, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 Studied Law at New-Haven, and admitted to 
 
 the Bar, March 1, 1860. 
 
 Address : Granby, Conn. 
 
 MYEOI^ NEWTON CHAMBERLIX. 
 
 Born at [N'ew-Haven, Conn. Sept 6, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 Teaching at Sandlake, N. Y., six months, 1857-58. 
 
 Teaching at Greenfield Hill, Conn., summer of 1858. 
 N"ow at Binghamton, Broome Co., N". Y. 
 
 JOSEPH ALONZO CHRISTMAX. 
 
 Born at Evansbury, Montgomery Co., Pa., Sept. 1, 1836. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, Oct. 25, 1854. 
 
 Has been studying Law, and teaching in the 
 
 Southern States. Is at present running Alamo 
 
 College, San Antonio, Texas. 
 
 FEEDEEICK NATHANIEL CHUKCH. 
 
 Born in Philadelphia, July 14, 1838. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 13, 1853. 
 
 After graduation, he went home to Philadelphia, 
 and, as his health permitted, studied Theo- 
 logy. In the summer of 1 859 he went with his 
 family to Salisbury, Conn., and remained there 
 in declining health until he died, Oct. 4, 1859. 
 
 For a fuller account of him, see Butler's Speech at the 
 Triennial Meeting. 
 
 GEOKGE WETMOEE COLLES. 
 
 Born in N"ew-OrlGans, March 13, 1837. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from New- York, Sept. 20, 1853. 
 
 Went to Europe for some months, and returned 
 
 to study Law at Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 1859. 
 
 Is now at home, at Ko. 35 University Place, 
 
 Kew-York. 
 
 JAMES BREWSTEK CONE. 
 
 Born at Hartford, Conn., Jan. 6, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
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 STATISTICS. 
 
 Remained at Hartford nearly a year, when he 
 
 went to Europe, 
 In various parts of France, and other countries, 
 
 traveling, studying the Art of Designing, and 
 
 holding the office of Yice-Consul of the United 
 
 States at Lyons, 
 Returned, to be present at Class-meeting, after 
 
 which he went back to France, 
 Address : ISTo. 30, Rue du Faubourg de Basle, 
 
 Mulhouse, Haut Rhin, France. 
 
 1858. 
 
 1858-June, 1860. 
 Aug. 1860. 
 
 JOHJSr THOMAS CROXTON. 
 
 Born near Paris, Bourbon Co., Kentucky, E"ov. 20, 1836. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, Sept. 13, 1854. 
 Has been teaching, traveling, and studying Law. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar of Kentucky, Sept. 1858. 
 
 Married to Miss Carrie A. Rogers, of Kentucky, April 10, 1860. 
 
 A son, Henry Rogers Croxton, born, Jan. 31, 1861. 
 
 JOHN CALVIN DAY. 
 
 Born at Hartford, Conn., Nov. 3, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
 At home, in Hartford, for a year. 
 
 Sailed for Europe, July 24, 1858. 
 
 After visiting most of the States of Western 
 
 Europe, he returned to Hartford, Oct. 18, 1859. 
 
 Sailed for Southern Europe, March 3, 1860. 
 
 Is now at Milan; return uncertain. 
 Address: Care of Day, Owen & Co., Hartford. 
 
 HENRY SWIFT DEFOREST. 
 
 Born at South-Edmeston, 1^. Y., March 17, 1833. 
 
 Entered Freshman, " Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 At Yale Theological Seminary a year, until July, 1858. 
 
 Tutor of Mathematics in Beloit College, Sept. 1858-July, 1860. 
 At Union Theol. Sem., K Y., since Sept. 1860. 
 
 STEPHEN DECATUR DOAR. 
 
 Born at St. James, near Charleston, S. C, 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Jan. 1838. 
 July 14, 1854, 
 
STATISTICS. ' 61 
 
 At the Medical College of the State of South- 
 Carolina, , " 1857-1860. 
 
 Graduated thereat, 1860. 
 
 At present in Paris, pursuing his studies ; ex- 
 pects to return in 1862, and practise in 
 Charleston. 
 
 Address : ISTo. 66 Rue de la Seine, Paris, France. 
 
 DAVID STTJAKT DODGE. 
 
 Born in Kew-York City, Sept. 22, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studied Theology in New- York ; licensed to preach, April 3, 1860. 
 Married Miss Ellen S. Phelps, daughter of John 
 
 J. Phelps, Esq., of Kew-York, June 20, 1860. 
 
 Sailed for Europe, July, 1860. 
 
 At present in Egypt ; will probably be abroad 
 
 two years. Address : care of Phelps, Dodge 
 
 & Co., 19 and 21 Cliff Street, New- York. 
 
 WILLIAM EMIL DOSTEE. 
 
 Born at Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 8, 1837. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, Sept. 13, 1854. 
 
 Studied Law at Yale Law School, 1857-58. 
 
 At Harvard Law School, 1858-59. 
 
 Li Germany pursuing his studies, several months, 1860. 
 
 Returned about Jan. 1861. 
 Address : Bethlehem, Pa. 
 
 SOLOMOi^ JOH]fsrSON DOUaLASS. 
 
 Born at New-Hartford, Conn., Oct. 3, 1834. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
 At Yale Theological Seminary, 1857-June, 1860. 
 
 Teaching in Iowa, 1860-61. 
 
 ALBERT WALDO DRAKE. 
 
 Born at South-Windsor, Conn., Feb. 21, 1835. 
 Entered Junior, from Williams College, Sept. 18, 1855. 
 Studied Law in Hartford and in New-Haven, 1857-59. 
 Admitted to practise Law in the spring of 1859. 
 Elected to Connecticut House of Representa- 
 tives by 12 majority, 1859. 
 Ran again, and was defeated by 8 votes, 1860. 
 Has traveled several months in the North-West. 
 Is in Hartford, Conn., practising Law. 
 
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 STATISTICS. 
 
 EDWARD LOUIS DUER. 
 
 Born at Crosswicks, N. J., Jan. 19, 1836. 
 
 Entered Junior, from the Engineering Depart- 
 ment of Yale College, Oct. 1855. 
 
 Studied Medicine, and graduated at the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, March 18, 1860. 
 
 Is now Resident Physician at Blockley Hospital 
 in Philadelphia. 
 
 HENRY MELZAR DUTTON. 
 
 Born at Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 9, 1838. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 Studied Law in New-Haven, 1858-59. 
 
 LL.B. Yale, July 28, 1860. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar at New-Haven, Oct. 1859. 
 Is practising Law at Litchfield, Conn. 
 
 CHARLES BROCKAVAY DYE. 
 
 Born at Broadalbin, Fulton Co., N. Y., Nov. T, 1828. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
 Studied Theology in Union Theol. Sem., N. Y., 1857-59. 
 
 Ordained Pastor of a church in Torrington, Conn., Oct. 26, 1859. 
 
 Left Torrington and came to New-Haven, 
 Conn., to which place letters may be di- 
 rected. Autumn of 1860. 
 
 Married Miss Annie R. Winchester, of New- 
 Haven, Aug. 30, 1859. 
 
 A son, Oliver Winchester' Dye, born, May 26, 1860. 
 
 DANIEL CADY EATON. 
 
 Born at Fort Gratiot, Mich., 
 Entered Freshman, from New-Haven, Conn., 
 Resided at New-Haven nearly three years, until 
 During the greater part of which time he was 
 
 a student of Botany, with Prof Asa Gray, in 
 
 the Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge, 
 
 Mass. 
 Sci. B. Harv., 
 Since May, 1860, has been in New-York City, 
 
 at 291 Second Avenue. Expects to continue 
 
 the study of Natural History. 
 
 Sept. 12, 1834. 
 
 July 25, 1853. 
 
 May 1, 1860. 
 
 July 18, 1860. 
 
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 ALFEED LEWIS EDWARDS. 
 
 Born in New-York City, Dec. 2, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Brooklyn, N. Y., July 25, 1853. 
 
 In New- York, after graduation, until 1859. 
 Studied Law in the office of Daniel Lord, Esq., 
 
 N. Y., Jan.-July, 1859. 
 
 At Harvard Law School since Sept. 1859. 
 Expects to practise Law in New-York. 
 
 EDMOITD DUCEE ESTILETTE. 
 
 Born in Louisiana, 1833. (?) 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 Remained in New- Haven for some months after 
 
 graduating. 
 Studied Law in Louisiana, and was admitted to 
 
 the Bar, Aug. 1861. 
 
 Married Miss Fanny Thompson Bacon, daughter 
 
 of Daniel Bacon, Esq., New-Haven, Conn., Nov. 11, 1857. 
 
 A son, Edmond Ducre Estilette, born Sept. 30, 1858. 
 
 A daughter, Julia Bacon Estilette, born May 12, 1860, 
 
 EDWAED JOHN EVANS. 
 
 Born at York, Pa., June 3, 1837. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 At leisure until Feb. 1858. 
 
 Since then in business as a nurseryman ; firm, 
 Edward J. Evans & Co., York, Pa. 
 
 DOUGLAS FEENCH FOEEEST. 
 
 Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Aug. 17, 1837. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, from Alexandria, Va., Sept. 13, 1854. 
 
 Studied I^aw at home, 1857-58. 
 
 Studied Law at University of Virginia, 1858-60, 
 Will probably practise Law in Virginia. 
 Address : Clermont, near Alexandria, Va. 
 
 HENEY LUSE FOWLES. 
 
 Born at Kingston, Miss., April 8, 1837. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, Sept. 18, 1854. 
 
 Engaged in teaching, 1857-61. 
 
 Married to Miss Mary E. Bojd, Sept. 20, 1859. 
 Address : Kingston, Adams Co., Miss. 
 
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 SAMUEL MARTUS" FREELAND. 
 
 Bom in Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1831. 
 
 Entered Junior, Sept. 20, 1855. 
 
 Principal of the High School at ISTashua, IST. H., Nov. 1858-60. 
 Is now studying Theology at Yale Theol. Sem. 
 
 SIMEON TAYLOR EROST. 
 
 Born at Pleasant Yalley, Dutchess Co., N. Y., April 22, 1831. 
 
 Entered Junior, Sept. 20, 1855. 
 Principal of Lewis Academy, Southington, 
 
 Conn., since April, 1858. 
 Married to Miss Phebe R. Wheeler, at Yer- 
 
 bank, IST. Y., Aug. 19, 1858. 
 
 A son, Edward Wheeler Frost, born May 28, 1859. 
 
 EDWARD THURSTON FULLER. 
 
 Born at Stamford, Conn., May 1, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 At Princeton Theological Seminary, Sept. 1858-July, 1859. 
 
 He died at his father's house, at Huntington, 
 
 Long-Island, Nov. 7, 1859. 
 
 (See Butler's speech at the Class-meeting.) 
 
 AZARIAH THOMAS GALT. 
 
 Born in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, Sept. 21, 1833. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Jan. 9, 1854. 
 
 Studied Law, and admitted to practise Law in 
 
 the Courts of Illinois, and in the Circuit 
 
 Court of the United States, July 6, 1859. 
 
 Firm, Hervey, Anthony & Gait, 77 Dearborn 
 
 Street, Chicago. 
 
 JAMES HENDERSON GRANT. 
 
 Born in New- York City, Jan. 8, 1838. 
 
 Entered Junior, being a graduate of New-York 
 
 Free Academy, Sept. 18, 1855. 
 
 Business, Note Broker & Banker. 
 
 Grant & Son, 62 Wall Street, New-York. 
 Was in Europe, June-Aug. 1860. 
 
 GEORGE SEAMAN GRAY. 
 
 Born in New-York City, July 10, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Feb. 14, 1854. 
 
STATISTICS. 
 
 65 
 
 Studied Theology at Auburn, and at Union 
 Theological Seminary, N. Y., where he gra- 
 duated, May, 1860. 
 
 Licensed to preach by Presbytery of Cayuga, May 4, 1859. 
 
 Expectations are ' marig eXntg ayotTr?/.' 
 
 JAMES PAYNE GREE?^.- 
 
 Born in Jefferson County, Miss., Jan. 7, 1837. 
 Entered Sophomore, -^"g- 9? 1854. 
 Professor of Greek and Mathematics in Jeffer- 
 son College, Adams Co., Miss., Oct. 1857-59. 
 Opened a school, Oct. 1859. 
 Married Miss F. S. Wailes, of Adams Co., Dec. 20, 1859. 
 Address : Church Hill, Jefferson Co., Miss. 
 
 RICPIAED HENRY GREEN. 
 
 Born at New-Haven, Conn., Nov. 14, 1833.. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Is teaching at Bennington Seminary, Benning- 
 ton, Vermont. 
 
 JOHN GRISW^OLD. 
 
 Born at Old Lyme, Conn., April 24, 1837. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14!, 1853. 
 
 At home until the spring of 1858. 
 
 Surveying in Kansas until Dec. 1858. 
 
 At home a year and a few days, 1859. 
 
 Sailed from IsTew-London in the steam schooner 
 
 Kilauea for Honolulu, J^an,. 3,. 1.860, . 
 
 Address: Care of James Griswold, Esq., Old 
 
 Lyme, Conn. ; or, Care of C. A. Williams & 
 
 Co., Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. 
 
 JOSEPH NEWTON HALLOCK. 
 
 Born at Franklinville, L. L, July 4, 1832.. 
 
 Was three years in the Class of '56 at Yale. 
 
 Entered '57 a Senior, Sept. 1856. 
 
 At Yale Theological Seminary, 1857-59: 
 
 Has been teaching at Franklinville. 
 
 ALFREI> HAND. 
 
 Born at Hones dale, Pa., 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
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 March 26, 1835. 
 July 25, 1853. 
 
6o STATISTICS. 
 
 Studied Law in the office of W. & W. H. Jes- 
 sup, Montrose, Pa. ; also for a time was Prin- 
 cipal of Susquehanna Academy, 1 857-59. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar, Xov. 21, 1859. 
 
 Address: Montrose, Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
 
 VOLNEY HICKOX. 
 
 Born at Kutland, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Nov. 1, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Jan. 7, 1854. 
 
 " Taught school in Springfield, 111., six months ; 
 
 then read Law in St. Louis nine months ; was 
 
 admitted to the Bar after three months ; in 
 
 the Mayor's Office, Chicago, four months, and 
 
 finally, July, 1859, anchored myself at home 
 
 here to Blackstone." 
 Address : Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 EDWARD WILLIAM HITCHCOCK. 
 
 Born at Homer, Cortlandt Co., Is^. Y., May 1, 1833. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studied Theology at Auburn, N". Y., 185'7-May, 1860. 
 
 Ordained Pastor of the Reformed Protestant 
 
 Dutch Church at Tompkins ville, Richmond 
 
 Co., (Staten Island,) IST. Y., Aug. 8, 1860. 
 
 Married Miss Eva Hawley, daughter of Isaac 
 
 Hawley, Esq., of Homer, N. Y., July 19, 1860. 
 
 LYMAN DAVIS HODGE. 
 
 Born at Bufialo, N". Y., Nov. 1, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studied in Law-office of Hon. S. G. Haven, at 
 
 Buffalo, Sept. 1857-Dec. 1859. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar, Dec. 1, 1859. 
 
 Is practising Law in Buffalo. 
 
 LEVI HOLBKOOK. 
 
 Born at Westborougb, Mass., March 7, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Was at Boston about a year, 1857-58. 
 
 Traveled, with the desire of improving the con- 
 dition of his eyes, aci'oss the continent to the 
 
 Columbia and back, May-Nov. 1858. 
 
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 Was at Dansville, Virginia, several months, 1858-59. 
 
 A " resident graduate " at Harvard University 
 
 since v Nov. 1859. 
 
 Address, for the present : Cambridge, Mass. 
 Letters to Northboroiigh, Mass., will always be 
 
 forwarded to him. 
 
 STEPHEN^ HOLDEK". 
 
 Born at South-Hart wick, Otsego Co., N". Y., April 26, 1832. 
 
 Entered Junior, Sept. 1855. 
 
 Had charge of the Academy at Truman sburg, 
 
 Tompkins Co., N. Y., for a year from Sept. 1859. 
 
 Was teacher of Latin and Mathematics in Dela- 
 ware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y., 1658-60. 
 
 Expects to study Law. 
 
 JOHN MILTON HOLMES. 
 
 Born on the Isle of Sheppy, near the mouth of 
 
 the Thames, England, May 20, 1832, 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Teaching at Oak Ridge, Illinois, Sept. 1857-ApriI, 1859. 
 
 Studying Theology at Andover, Mass., since May, 1859. 
 
 JAMES WAKEMAN HUBBELL. 
 
 Born at Wilton, Conn., March 29, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1863, 
 
 Teaching at Stamford, and then at Norwalk, 
 
 Conn., 1857-50. 
 
 Studying Theology at Union Theological Semi- 
 nary, Xew-York, 1859-60. 
 
 Is now at Andove!", Mass. 
 
 WILLIAM EDWAED HULBERT. 
 
 Born at Middletown, Conn., May 19, 1834. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, having been in the Class 
 
 of 1856, May, 1855. 
 
 Is teaching in the school of William IL Russell, 
 
 Esq., E"ew-Haven, Conn. 
 
 HENRY STRONG HUNTINGTON. 
 
 Born in E"ew-York City, July 15, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from IsTorwich, Conn., July 25, 1853. 
 
 Teaching in the High-School at ISTorwalk, Conn., 1857-68. 
 
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 STATISTICS. 
 
 Teaching in Lawrence Academy, Groton, 
 
 Mass., Nov. 185 8- June, 1859. 
 
 At An clover Theological Seminary since Sept. 1859. 
 
 SMITH HARRIS HYDE. 
 
 Born at Yomigstown, K. Y., Sept. 28, 1834. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853, 
 
 At Auburn, N. Y., studying Theology, 1857-1860. 
 
 Is stated supply of a Presbyterian Church at 
 Rock Hill, St. Louis Co., Missouri. 
 
 JOSEPH COOKE JACKSON. 
 
 Born at N"ewark, ^N". J., Aug. 5, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 At Newark, studying Law, and teaching, Sept. 1857-Sept. 1858. 
 At the University Law School of New- York, Sept. 1858-1859. 
 At Harvard Law Schq,ol, March, 1859-Feb. 1860. 
 
 Admitted to Bar of New-York, May 21, 1860. 
 
 LL.B. Univ. Nov. Ebor. March, 1859. 
 
 LL.B. Harv. July 18, 1860. 
 
 Practising Law. Office, 48 Wall street, New- 
 York ; but resides at Newark, N. J. 
 
 FRANKLIN CHAPPELL JONES. 
 
 Born at New-London, Conn., 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Southington, Conn., 
 
 Tutor at Beloit College a year, 
 
 At Princeton Theological Seminary, 
 
 Since then at Andover, Mass. 
 
 BELA PECK LEARNED. 
 
 Born at Norwich, Conn., 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Engaged a while in studying Law, but is now in 
 
 an Insurance Office, 
 Address : Norwich, Conn. 
 
 JOSEPH TAPLIN LOVEWELL. 
 
 Born at Corinth, Vermont, 
 
 Entered Junior, 
 
 Has been teaching at various places in Con- 
 necticut, Pennsylvania, and since April, 1859, 
 in Wisconsin. 
 
 March 20, 1837. 
 
 July 25, 1853. 
 
 1857-58. 
 
 1858-59. 
 
 March 9, 1837. 
 July 25, 1853. 
 
 1857-61. 
 
 May 1, 1833, 
 Sept. 18, 1855. 
 
STATISTICS. 
 
 Reads Law when he can, and expects to practise 
 
 it eventually. 
 ISTow at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. 
 
 HENRY PORTER 
 
 Born at North-Haven, Conn., May 7, 1830. 
 
 At the age of nine years he removed with his parents to Franklin, Dela- 
 ware county, N. Y. During the next year his mother died. He lived with 
 his father, being mostly engaged upon a farm, till 1849, when he returned 
 to his native town, and was engaged in a lock-factory, and in teaching, for 
 about two years. 
 
 During this time, under the preaching of Rev. Mr. Underwood, he united 
 with the Congregational Church of North-Haven. 
 
 He again went to Franklin in 1851, and entered upon his preparation for 
 College. Of slender frame, without means, and with but little sympathy 
 from friends, he completed his preparatory course, and in September of 1854 
 entered the Sophomore Class of Yale. After graduating he was engaged as 
 teacher of Natural Science in Delaware Literary Institute, which office he 
 filled with marked success till his last illness. 
 
 He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss C. A. Hobie, of Plymouth, N. H. 
 
 He had bled slightly at the lungs in the spring of 1857, but during his 
 first year of teaching his health seemed to improve. In the summer of 1859 
 the bleeding was renewed with great severity. In March, 1860, he was 
 obliged to give up his classes, and from that time he gradually sank till 
 Wednesday, July 25, when he " fell asleep." 
 
 As a man, McCoy was cheerful, generous, and willing to perform his full 
 share of labor and of public burdens. As a scholar, he was an enthusiastic 
 student in the wide and varied fields of Physical Science, and as a teacher 
 he was successful. 
 
 In all his early struggles- his aim had been to rise to the honor of pro- 
 claiming the Gospel ; but the failure of his health turned him aside to an- 
 other sphere of activity. He longed to live that he might serve his genera- 
 tion, but he submitted without murmuring to the will of God. As he 
 neared his end, the promises of Christ rose up before him w^ith such vivid- 
 ness and glory that he was lifted above all fear of death. " I can not doubt 
 his promises," he said, and in this happy confidence he died. (E. Rogers.) 
 
 JAMES MARSHALL. 
 
 Born at Grove, Alleghany Co., 1^. Y., Oct. 4, 1831. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 21, 1853. 
 
 At Syracuse, NT. Y., teaching the greater part 
 
 of the time, and studying Theology, 1857-61. 
 
 Expects soon to go to Edinburgh to complete 
 
 his Theological studies. 
 
70 STATISTICS. 
 
 LEWIS EMMOKS MATSON. 
 
 Born at Simsbury, Coni}., Sept. 24, 1838- 
 
 Entered Sophomore, from Otsego, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1854. 
 
 Teaching at Waverley, N. Y., Sept. 1857-sprmg of 1858. 
 
 At Andover Theological Seminary, since Sept. 1858. 
 
 ALMON BAXTEK MERWIN. 
 
 Born in Brooklyn, ]^. Y., Jmie 27, 1835. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, having been in the Class 
 
 of '56, Sept. 14, 1854. 
 
 Teaching, and at Union Theol. Sem., N. Y., 1857-60. 
 
 Is now at Princeton Theological Seminary. 
 
 JOSEPH LYMAN MOKTON. 
 
 Born at Hatfield, Mass., Nov. 15, 1834. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 13, 1853. 
 
 Has studied Law in Massachusetts, and was ad- 
 mitted to the Bar, June 14, 1860. 
 Admitted to the New-York Bar, Nov. 1860. 
 Practising Law at No. 12 Wall street, New-York. 
 
 GEOe'gE AUGUSTUS NOLEN. 
 
 Born at Sutton, Mass., Jan. 9, 1831. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studying in the Scientific Department of Yale 
 
 College, and teaching, 1857-July, 1860. 
 
 Tutor at Yale College since Sept. 1860. 
 
 CYEUS JfOETHEOP. 
 
 Born at Ridgefield, Conn., Sept. 30, 1836. 
 
 Entered third term Freshman year, having been 
 
 in the preceding Class a few months. May 3, 1854. 
 
 Studied Law in New-Haven, teaching in Hon. 
 
 A. N. Skinner's school for some time, 1857-59. 
 
 LL.B. Yale, July 28, 1859. 
 
 Practises Law at Nor walk. Conn. 
 
 JONATHAN EUGENE PALMEE. 
 
 Born at Bloomfield, Conn., Oct. 2, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 Studied Law at Hartford and New-Haven, 1857-59. 
 
 Admitted to the Hartford County Bar, July, 1859. 
 Is now in Hartford, Conn. 
 
STATISTICS. 
 
 71 
 
 NORMAN CAROL AN PERKINS. 
 
 Born at Pomfret, Yt., April 17, 1832. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, ]853. 
 
 Studied Law in Chicago, and was there admit- 
 ted to the Bar, March 26, 1858. 
 Address: Chicago, 111. 
 
 EDMUND LEIGHTON PORTER. 
 
 Born at New-London, Conn., June 17, 1837. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 13, 1853. 
 
 Teaching in Virginia six months. 1857-58. 
 
 Was one year at Yale Law School, 1858-59. 
 Admitted to the Bar of New-London Co., Conn., 
 
 HENRY POWERS. 
 
 Born at Hadley, Mass., 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Left College in bad health, and went home, 
 
 Received the degree of B.A. from Yale, by 
 
 special vote of the Corporation, 
 Sailed for Europe, about 
 In Germany, mostly at Dresden, until 
 Travelling in Turkey and Asia Minor several 
 
 months, and returned to the United States in 
 
 the fall of 
 Studied Theology at East- Windsor, Conn., until 
 Present address : Mittineague, Hampden Co., Mass. 
 
 Aug. 1860. 
 
 Dec. 28, 1833. 
 
 Sept. 13, 1853. 
 
 June, 1855. 
 
 July 26, 1860. 
 
 Sept. 1855. 
 
 Spring, 1857. 
 
 1857. 
 July, 1860. 
 
 GEORGE PRATT. 
 
 Born at East Weymouth, Mass., Oct. 12, 1832. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 13, 1853. 
 
 Teaching at Blooming Grove, N. Y., 1857-58. 
 
 Studied Law with John T. Wait, Esq., at Nor- 
 wich, Conn., 1858-59. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar at Norwich, April, 1859. 
 
 Member of Connecticut House of Representatives, 1860. 
 
 Married by Rev. Joseph Brewster to Miss Sarah 
 
 Y. Whittlesey, at Salem, Conn., July 31, 1858. 
 
 A daughter, Alice M. Pratt, born, Sept. 29, 1860. 
 
 Address: Norwich, Conn. 
 
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 STATISTICS. 
 
 HENHY CLEVELAND* PRATT. 
 
 Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Hartford, Conn., 
 
 Studied Law in the office of Hon. T. C. Perkins, 
 at Hartford, Sept. 
 
 Traveled at the West, 
 
 At the Law School in Cambridge, Mass., Sept, 
 
 Admitted to the Bar at Boston, 
 
 Admitted to the Bar of ]N"ew-York, 
 ' Formed a Law partnership with F. E. Mather, 
 Esq., of the Class of 1833, 
 
 LL.B. Harv. 
 
 Married at Hartford, by the Rev. Joel Hawes, 
 D.D., to Miss Kate B. Cowen, daughter of the 
 late Sidney J. Cowen, Esq., of Albany, N". Y., 
 
 A daughter, Kate Cleveland Pratt, born 
 
 Address: Care of Mather & Pratt, 74 Broad- 
 way, ISTew-York. 
 
 LOUIS EMILE PEOFILET, 
 
 Born at Natchez, Miss., 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Has been studying Medicine since 
 
 Elected a Resident Student in Charity Hospital, 
 
 I^ew-Orleans, 
 Will remain there a few months longer, and 
 
 expects then to practise his profession, but 
 
 has not yet decided where. 
 
 GEOEGE WASHINGTON KOBEETS. 
 
 Born in Chester Co., Pa., 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Admitted to the Bar in West-Chester, Pa., 
 
 Practised Law there until 
 
 Since then he has been in Chicago, in E. S. 
 Smith & Co.'s Collecting Agency, 108 and 
 110 Adams street. P. O. box 1793. 
 
 Sept. 8, 
 July 26, 
 
 185 7- June, 
 June-Sept. 
 
 . 1858-Jan. 
 March, 
 
 May, 
 
 June 1, 
 July ] 8, 
 
 June 20, 
 Feb. 24, 
 
 Oct. 13, 
 
 Aug. 3, 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1836. 
 1853. 
 
 1858. 
 1858. 
 1860. 
 1859. 
 1860. 
 
 1860. 
 1860. 
 
 1860. 
 1861. 
 
 1834. 
 1853. 
 
 1857. 
 
 April, 1859. 
 
 Oct. 2, 1833. 
 
 June 1, 1854. 
 
 Dec. 1857. 
 
 March 1, 1860. 
 
 MICHAEL WALLER ROBINSON. 
 
 Born in Callaway Co., Missouri, Oct. 13, 1837. 
 
 Entered Junior, from Georgetown College, Ky., Sept. 12, 1855. 
 Adjunct Professor of Greek and Latin in the 
 
 Baptist State College at Liberty, Mo., 1857-60. 
 
STATISTICS. 
 
 Since then studying Law at the Law School in 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 A letter sent to Fulton, Missouri, will always 
 
 reach him. 
 
 EDSOjS" eogeks. 
 
 Born at Whitney's Point, Broome, Co., N. Y., 
 Entered Junior, 
 
 Teaching in Delaware Lit. Inst, at Franklin, N. Y. 
 Has been for two years or more at Union Theol. 
 
 Sem., N". Y., 
 Married to Miss Mary E. Hyer, daughter of 
 
 George P. Hyer, Esq., of Ravenswood, L. I., 
 A daughter, Edith Kogers, born 
 A daughter, Florence Rogers, born 
 
 EDWIIS" FRANCIS SANDYS. 
 
 Born at Lebanon Springs, N. Y., 
 Entered Freshman, from Pittsfield, Mass., 
 Entered Law-office of Rockwell & Colt, Pittsfield, 
 Has also been teaching in Pittsfield, and since 
 is Principal of the High School at that place. 
 Expects to practise Law. 
 
 WILLIAM HENEY SAYARY. 
 
 Born at Gi'OYeland, Essex Co., Mass., 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Entered the Unitarian Theological Seminary, 
 
 at Cambridge Mass., 
 Completed the course of study there. 
 Is now a Resident Licentiate at Cambridge. 
 
 SAMUEL SCOYILLE. 
 
 Born at West-Cornwall, Conn., 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 At home. 
 
 At Auburn Theological Seminary, 
 
 At Andover Theological Seminary, 
 
 Sailed for Liverpool, 
 
 Spent most of his time in Italy, Germany, and 
 
 England. Came home. 
 At Union Theological Seminary, [Rew-York, 
 
 since 
 Letters may be sent to West- Cornwall, Conn. 
 
 May 22, 1833. 
 
 Sept. 18, 1855. 
 
 , 1857-58. 
 
 1858-61. 
 
 Aug. 12, 1857. 
 
 March 12, 1858. 
 
 Dec. 5, 1859. 
 
 March, 1832. 
 
 Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 May 1, 1858. 
 
 Sept. 1860 
 
 April 18, 1835. 
 Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Sept. 1857. 
 July 18, 1860. 
 
 Dec. 21, 1834. 
 
 July 26, 1853. 
 
 Aug.-Dec. 1857. 
 
 Jan.-May, 1858. 
 
 Sept. 1858-Aug. 1859. 
 
 Aug. 5, 1859. 
 
 Aug. 1860. 
 Sept. 1860. 
 
74 STATISTICS. 
 
 HENEY MAUEICE SEELY. 
 
 Born at Honesclale, Pa., Sept. 18, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept 13, 1853. 
 
 Occupations various, principal one reading Law, 1857-59. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar in N'ew-York, May 9, 1859. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar in Pennsylvania, Sept. 13, 1859. 
 Practises Law in New- York City. Office, 112 
 Broadway. 
 
 STOERS OZIAS SEYMOUE. 
 
 Born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 24, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 After graduation he spent fourteen months in 
 
 Europe, and smce then has been studying 
 
 Theology at the Berkeley Divinity School at 
 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 
 JAMES JUDSON SMITH. 
 
 Born in Louisiana in 1837. (?) 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 Appeared at Class-meeting looking in fine health, July 25, 1860. 
 
 Has not given the compiler of this book any ac- 
 count of himself, but is supposed to be en- 
 gaged at the Law, in Clinton, East-Feliciana 
 Parish, La. 
 
 JOSEPH LEDYAED SMITH. 
 
 Born at ^NTew-London, Conn , March 4, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 " Has been to the Arctic Ocean among the Es- 
 quimaux ; has traveled all over the West ; has 
 been a Military Engineer in Mexico, and may 
 return there again." 
 
 Has studied Law in the office of A. Converse, 
 Esq., of IsTew-London, and was there admit- 
 ted to the Bar, April, 1860. 
 
 WILDEE SMITH. 
 
 Born in Boston, Mass., July 17, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Albany, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studied Theology at Yale Theological Seminary, 1857-60. 
 
 Licensed to preach. Spring of 1860. 
 Is now a Tutor in Yale College. 
 
STATISTICS. ' 75 
 
 WAEREN KELLOGG SOUTHWICK. 
 
 Born at Troy, I^. Y., June 15, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853, 
 
 Has been " looking for the Philosopher's Stone." 
 Expects to pursue a mercantile life. 
 Address : Troy, 1^. Y. 
 
 ISRAEL SELDEN SPENCEE. 
 
 Born at Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss., March 23, 1837, 
 
 Entered Sophomore, having been for a time in 
 
 the preceding Class, Sept. 14, 1854, 
 
 Is engaged in Planting, near Skipwith's Land- 
 ing, Issaqueena Co., Miss. 
 
 AUGTJSTtrS HOPKINS STRONG. 
 
 Born at Rochester, I^. Y., Aug. 3, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studied Theology in Rochester, 1857-59. 
 
 Traveled in Europe, May, 185 9- June, 1860. 
 
 Returned to Rochester in summer of 1860. 
 
 GEORGE BRINTON THOMAS. 
 
 Born at West-Chester, Pa., July 5, 1836, 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
 At home until April, 1858. 
 
 In Europe until Aug. 1859. 
 Since then, traveling in the United States, and 
 at home at West-Chester. 
 
 WILLIAM ARAD THOMPSON. 
 
 Born at Middleboro', Mass., 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 Studied Law in l^ew-Haven and Cambridge, 
 
 Admitted to the Bar at Boston, 
 
 LL.B. Harv. 
 
 Practises Law at 35 Court street, Boston. 
 
 GEORGE TUCKER. 
 
 Born in Bermuda, 
 
 Entered Freshman, 
 
 After visiting his home for six months, he pass- 
 ed two years in Newfoundland, studying The- 
 ology with the Rt. Rev. Bishop Field, 
 
 Returned to Bermuda, 
 
 June 21, 
 
 1835. 
 
 July 25, 
 
 1853. 
 
 1857-60. 
 
 April, 
 
 1860. 
 
 July 18, 
 
 1860. 
 
 1837. (?) 
 
 July 26, 
 
 1853. 
 
 1858-60. 
 
 
 1800. 
 
76 STATISTICS. 
 
 Married Miss Theodosia Trott, of Bermuda, Jan. 31, 1861. 
 
 Will probably be a clergyman in some of the 
 British Colonies. 
 
 MOSES TYLER. 
 
 Born at Griswold, Conn., Aug. 2, 1835. 
 
 Entered Fresbman, from Detroit, Mich., Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Has been engaged in studying Theology at New- 
 Haven, and teaching, and preaching. 
 
 Ordained Pastor of a Church at Owego, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1859. 
 
 Went to Poughkeepsie as Pastor of the First 
 
 Congregational Church, Aug. 1, 1860. 
 
 Married Miss Jennie H. Gilbert, at New-Haven, Oct. 26, 1859. 
 
 A daughter, Jessie Gilbert Tyler, born Aug. 9, 1860. 
 
 MA:N'NI]SrG CASE WELLS. 
 
 Born at Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1837. 
 
 Entered Junior, from the Class of 1857 at Am- 
 herst, Sept. 1855. 
 
 Teaching school and studying Law, 1857-60. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar at Mount Sterling, Ky., Feb. 1 860. 
 
 Expects to practise Law in St. Louis, or at 
 Mount Sterling, Montgomery Co., Ky., to 
 which place letters may be directed. 
 
 ]S"ATHA]Sr DANA WELLS. 
 
 Born at Northfield, ISTew-Hampshire, July 17, 1831. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Lawrence, Mass., Nov. 22, 1853. 
 
 In New-Haven and New- York until spring of 1858. 
 
 Teaching in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 
 
 and studying Law, until Aug. 1859. 
 
 Since then in New- York City, studying and 
 practising Law in the office of Judge Emer- 
 son. 
 
 Admitted to Bar of New- York, May, 1860. 
 
 Address : 8 Wall street. New- York. 
 
 ARTHUR MARTIN WHEELER. 
 
 Born at Weston, Conn., Jan. 21, 1835. 
 
 Entered Freshman, a resident of Easton, Conn., Sept. 14, 1853. 
 Teaching and studying, 1857-1861. 
 
 Expects to study Theology. 
 Address : Easton, Conn. 
 
STATISTICS. 7/ 
 
 XATHAN WILLEY. 
 
 Born at South-Windsor, Conn., Aug. 24, 1831. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Has studied Law. Admitted to the Bar at St. 
 
 Paul, Minnesota, Oct. 1858, 
 
 Was at St. Paul about two years, but his health 
 
 failing him, he returned to Connecticut, and 
 
 is now a reporter for the J*ost, at Hartford. 
 
 WILLIAM BOYD WILSON-. 
 
 Born at Lewiston, Mifflin Co., Pa., Apiil 3, 1834. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. 
 
 W^as connected with Eli Thayer in founding 
 
 Ceredo, in Wayne Co., Ya. 
 Started the Ceredo Orescent., a weekly paper, Oct. 1857. 
 
 Was editor and proprietor until Dec. 1869. 
 
 Since then he has leased the press, and has been 
 
 engaged in Agriculture on the Ohio River 
 
 near Ceredo. 
 Married Miss Sallie L. Waring, of Greenup Co., 
 
 Kentucky, Jan. 10, 1860. 
 
 Address : Ceredo, Wayne Co., Va, 
 
 EPHEAIM MORGAN W^OOD. 
 
 Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 24, 1838, 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 
 Studied Law in Cincinnati, and was admitted to 
 
 the Bar in the spring of 1860, 
 
 Address : Care of Worthington & Matthews, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 GEOEGE MOERIS WOODEUFF. 
 
 Born at Litchfield, Conn., March 3, 1836. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 Studied Law at Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Admitted to the Bar at Litchfield, Sept. 14, 1859. 
 
 Married Miss Elizabeth F. Parsons, daughter of 
 James B. Parsons, Esq., of Flushing, Long- 
 Island, June 13, 1860. 
 
 Address : Litchfield, Connecticut. 
 
SUMMARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 STATISTICS OF GRADUATES. 
 
 I. PLACE OF BIRTH. 
 
 Connecticut. — Beard, Beardsleyf, Blackman, Blake, Butler, Case, Chamberlin, 
 Cone, Day, Douglass, Drake, Dutton, Fuller, R. H. Green, Grisvvold, Hallock, 
 Hubbell, Hulbert, Jones, Learned, McCoy, Matson, Northrop, Palmer, Porter, 
 Scoville, Seymour, J. L. Smith, Tyler, Wheeler, Willey, Woodruff.— 32. 
 
 New- York. — Bradish, Bradner, DeForest, Dodge, Dye, Edwards, Frost, Grant, 
 Gray, Hickox, Hitchcock, Hodge, Holden, Huntington, Hyde, Marshall, Merwin, 
 H. C. Pratt, Rogers, Sandys, Southwick, Strong, M. C. Wells.— 23. 
 
 Pennsylvania. — Avery, Barge, Christman, Church, Doster, Evans, Freeland, 
 Gait, Hand, Roberts, Seely, Thomas, Wilson — 13. 
 
 Massachusetts. — Allen, Barrows, Belden, Buckland, Holbrook, Morton, Nolen, 
 Powers, G. Pratt, Savary, W. Smith, Thompson. — 12. 
 
 Ohio. — ^Adams, Brown, Burnet, Wood. — 4. 
 
 Mississippi. — Foules, J. P. Green, Pro filet, Spencer. — 4, 
 
 Louisiana. — Colles, Estilettef, J. J. Smith. — 3. 
 
 Vermont. — Lovewell, Perkins. — 2. 
 
 New- Jersey. — Duer, Jackson. — 2. 
 
 Missouri. — ^Beckf, Robinson. — 2. 
 
 New-Hampshire. — N. D. Wells. — 1. 
 
 Michigan. — Eaton. — 1 . 
 
 Maryland. — Forrest. — ] . 
 
 Kentucky. — Croxton. — 1. 
 
 South Carolina. — Doar. — 1. 
 
 England. — Holmes. — 1 . 
 
 Befmuda. — Tucker. — 1. 
 
 Sandwich Islands. — Bald w in. — 1. 
 
 • 
 * t Not known with certainty. 
 
STATISTICS. 79 
 
 11. TIME OF BIRTH. 
 
 1825.— Butler.— 1. 
 
 1828.— Dye.— 1. 
 
 1830.— McCoy.— 1. 
 
 1831. — Avery, Baldwin, Freeland, Frost, MaistalJ, Nolen, N. D. Wellg, 
 Willey.— 8. 
 
 1832. — Adams, Barge, Bradish, Hallock, Holden, Holmes, Perkins, PoM^ere, 
 G. Pratt, Sandys.— 10. 
 
 1833. — Beard, DeForest, R. H. GTreen, Hitchcock, J. T. Lovewell, Roberts, 
 Rogers. — T. 
 
 1834. — Barrows, Douglass, Eaton, Hulbert, Hyde, Morton, Profilet, Scoville, 
 Wilson.— 9. 
 
 1835. — Beckf, Buckland, Day, Drake, Edwards, Fuller, Gray, Hand, Hodge, 
 Hubbell, Jackson, Merwin, Palmer, Savary, Seely, W. Smith, Souihwick, Thomp- 
 son, Tyler, Wheeler.— 20. 
 
 1836. — Allen, Beardsleyf, Belden, Blake, Bradner, Brown, Case, Chamberlin, 
 Christman, Cone, Croxton, Dodge, Duer, Hickox, Holbrook, Huntington, Nor- 
 throp, H. 0. Pratt, Seymour, J. L. Smith, Strong, Thomas, Woodruff. — 23. 
 
 1831. — Blackman, Buruet, Colles, Doster, Evans, Forrest, Foules, J. P. Green, 
 Griswold, Jones, Learned, Porter, Robinson, J. J. Smithf, Spencer, Tuckerf, M. 
 C. Wells.— 17. 
 
 1838.— Church, Doar, Button, Grant, Matson, Wood.— 6. 
 
 Unknown. — Bstilette. 
 
 The aggregate age of the Class at graduation, was about 2360 years. 
 
 The average age of the Class at graduation, was 22 years, 5 months, and 20 
 days, almost exactly the age of Drake, who vfas born the 21st day of February, 
 1835. 
 
 The youngest graduate member was Matson, born Sept. 24. 1838, Fowler, who 
 died, was eight months younger than be. 
 
 III. PROFESSIONS. 
 
 Theology. — Beard, Butler, DeForest, Dodge, Douglass, Dye, Freeland, Gray, 
 Hallock, Hitcftcoclc, Holmes, Hubbell, Huntington, Hyde, Jones, Marshall, Matson, 
 Merwin, Powers, Rogers, Savary, Scoville, Seymour, W. Smith, Strong, Tucker, 
 Tijler, Wheeler.— 28. 
 
 Ordained Clergymen, {in italics?) — 4. 
 
 Law. — Adams, Allen, Avery, Belden, Buckland Burnet, Case, Colles, Croxton, 
 Day, Doster, Drake, Dutton, Edwards, Estilette, Forest, Gait, Hand, Hickox, 
 Hodge, Holden, Jackson, Lovewell, Morton, Northrop, Palmer, Perkins, Porter, 
 G. Pratt, H. C. Pratt, Roberts, Robinson, Sandys, Seely, J, J. Smith, J. L. Smith, 
 Thomas, Thompson, M. C. Wells, N. D. Wells, Willey, Wood, Woodruff.— 43, 
 
 Medicine. — Duer, Doar, Profilet. — 3. 
 
 Teaching. — Baldwin, Barge, Bradish, Chamberlin, Christman, Foules, Frost, 
 J. P. Green, R. H. Green, Hulbert, Nolen.— 11. 
 
 History and Literature. — Holbrook. — 1, 
 
 Natural History. — Eaton. — 1. 
 
 Art. — Cone. — 1. 
 
 Agriculture. — Evans, Spencer, Wilson.^ — 3, 
 
80 STATISTICS. 
 
 Manufactures.— Barrows, Blake. — 2. 
 
 Mining. — Beck, — 1, 
 
 Mercantile Pursuits. — Blackman, Brown, Giiswold, Learned, Southwlck. — 5. 
 
 Banking. — G-rant. — 1. 
 
 Railways. — B radner. — 1 . 
 
 UnJmoivn. — Beardsley. — 1. 
 
 lY. MARRIED. 
 
 In 1857. — Rogers, Estilette, Baldwin. 
 In 1858.— G-. Pratt, McCoy, Erost, Bradish. 
 In 1859.— Tyler, Dye, Eoules, J. P. Green. 
 
 In I860.— Wilson, Beck, Blake, Blackman, Croxton, Woodruff; Dodge, PI. C. 
 Pratt, Hitchcock, Brown. 
 
 In 1861.— Tucker.— 22. 
 
 Y. DECEASED. 
 
 Church, Fuller, McCoj^— 3. 
 
 Mrs. S. J. Bradish died at Meriden, Nov. 1, 1859. 
 
 YI. CHILDREN. 
 
 {In Order of ^^e.)— Edith Rogers, EDMOND D. ESTILETTE, Lihan C. Baldwin , 
 Edward W. Erost, Erdman D. Baldwin, EJorence Rogers, Julia B. Estilette, Oliver 
 W. Dye, Jessie G. Tyler, Alice M. Pratt, Henry R. Croxton, Kate C. Pratt.— 12. 
 
 YII. MASTERS OP ARTS. 
 
 At Yale in 1860. — Adams, Allen, Barrows, Beard, Bradish, Brown, Butler, Cone, 
 DeForest, Doar, Dye, Eaton, Edwards, Evans, Forest, Freeland, Frost, Gait, 
 Hallock, Hickox, Hitchcock, Holbrook, Hubbell, Hulbert, Huntington, Jackson, 
 Jones, Marshall, Merwin, Nolen, Perkins, H. C. Pratt, Roberts, Rogers, Seymour, 
 J. J. Smith, W. Smith, Thomas, M. C. Wells, Woodruff.— 40. 
 
 YIII. TOTAL. 
 
 Graduated at Yale in 1851, 104 
 
 Afterward received his Degree, and is numbered with the Class, 1 
 
 Graduated at Yale in 1858, 12 
 
 " " " "1859, 1 
 
 " '« '• ''• 1860, 1 
 
 Graduated in Arts elsewhere, 14 
 
 Others not graduated in Arts, 49 
 
 Names omitted by request, 3 
 
 Grand total, 18 
 
RECORD 
 
 WHO LEFT THE CLASS WITHOUT GRADUATmG. 
 
 LUCIEN HARPER ADAMS. 
 
 Born at Londonderry, N. H., in 1829. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 13, 1853. Left, Oct. 6, 1853. Graduated at Dartmouth, 1858. 
 Is at Andover, Mass., studying Theology. 
 
 JAMES HESSE J. ANDREWS. 
 
 Entered Freshman from Orangeburgh, S. C, Sept. 14, 1853. 
 Left, Dec. 20, 1853. 
 
 FRANK RUSSELL AVERY. 
 
 Entered Freshman from Cincinnati, Sept. 14, 1853. Left, April, 
 1854. Married Miss Louisa Stanbury, of Columbus, Ohio, 185 i 
 or '55. Has resided in Cincinnati, but is at present in Europe. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BAKER. 
 
 Entered Freshman May, 1854. Left, Oct. 1854. Was for a time 
 in business with Bliss, Wheelock & Kelly, 390 Broadway, N'ew- 
 York. Is now a broker in N^ew-York. Firm : Bruce, Hunting- 
 ton & Baker, 21 IRassau street. 
 
 EDWARD HUNTTING BEDFORD. 
 
 Born at Glenham, Dutchess Co., I^. Y., July 14, 1835. Left 
 June 1, 1854. Married Miss Anna, daughter of Rev. John H. 
 Bavier, Oct. 13, 1859. Is engaged in farming at his native village. 
 
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82 STATISTICS. 
 
 WILLIAM COMSTOCK BENNETT. 
 
 Born at Bethel, Conn., 1836. Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. 
 Left, Dec. 20, 1853. Graduated with the Class of 1858. Is now 
 practising Medicine at Danbuiy, Conn. 
 
 JAMES BAILEY BEVERIDGE. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from ]Srewburgh, IST. Y., July 25, 1853. Left, 
 July, 1855. Went to Union College, but did not graduate. Is 
 now practising Law in Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 WILLIAM HARRISON BISHOP. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Kingswood, Preston Co., Va., Sept. 
 20, 1853. Left, Sept. or Oct. 1854. 
 
 WARFIELD TURNER BROWNING. 
 
 Born at Washington, D. C, Feb. 4, 1837. Entered Freshman, 
 Jan. 9, 1854. Left in the spring of 1855, and was two years at 
 Princeton. Studied Law, and was admitted to the Bar at Balti- 
 more in April, 1859. Married Miss Lina Cinnamond, of Baltimore, 
 April 1, 1859. Address : Care of Cinnamond & Browning, Attor- 
 neys-at-Law, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 BENJAMIN PLATT CARPENTER. 
 
 Born at Stanford, Dutchess Co., 'N. Y., May 14, 1837. Entered 
 Freshman, from Poughkeepsie, Sept. 14, 1853. Left, June 21, 1854. 
 Graduated at Union College, July, 1857. Studied Law, and was 
 admitted to I^ew-York State Bar, May 14, 1858. Appointed Dis- 
 trict-Attorney, for three years, l^ov. 2, 1858. Address: Pough- 
 keepsie, Dutchess Co., ^. Y. 
 
 EDWARD MARTIN CHAMBERLIN. 
 
 Born at Cambridge, Mass., l^ov. 7, 1835. Entered Freshman, 
 May 3, 1854. Left in the summer of 1855. Has studied Law, and 
 was admitted to the Bar at Chicago, Nov. 1856. Expects to 
 practise Law at Boston, Mass., where he now is. 
 
 WALTER COLTON. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1853. Left, 
 in the summer of 1854. 
 
 THOMAS TAYLOR CROMMELIN. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 18, 1853. 
 Left, Dec. 5, 1853. 
 
STATISTICS. . 88 
 
 EUGENE CRUGEE. 
 
 Born in Westchester Co., N". Y., June 1, 1836. Entered Fresh- 
 man, July 26, 1853. Left, Dec. 6, 1853. Has since been engaged 
 in mercantile pursuits. Married Miss Caroline M. Sheppard, Feb. 
 14, 1857. A son, Bertram Cruger, born March 30, 1858 ; a sec- 
 ond son, Eugene Cruger, born Nov. 19, 1860. Address : Crugers, 
 Westchester Co., ¥. Y. 
 
 TEMPLE CUTLER. 
 
 Born at Lynn, Mass., May 4, 1829. Entered Freshman, July 
 25, 1853. Left, July, 1854. Graduated at Marietta College in 
 1857. Is now at Andover, studying Theology. 
 
 JONAH DURWARD DECKER. 
 
 Born in Orange Co., IST. Y., June 21, 1836. Entered Freshman, 
 July 25, 1853. Left, Nov. 4, 1854. Admitted to the New- York 
 State Bar, June, 1859. Married Miss Emily Palmer, of Brock- 
 port, N. Y., July, 1860. Is practising Law at Brockport, Monroe 
 County, N. Y. 
 
 JOHN HENDERSON DORRISS. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Platte City, Mo., having been in the 
 Class of 1856, Sept. 15, 1853. Left, March, 1854. Is supposed to 
 have died in Missouri in 1855 or ^56. 
 
 JOHN JACOB DOUGHTY. 
 
 Born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., July 16, 1837. Entered Sopho- 
 more, Sept. 13, 1854. Left, Feb. 20, 1855. Entered WiUiams Col- 
 lege May 23, 1855, and graduated there in 1857. Has studied 
 Law. Was admitted to the Bar at Newburgh, N. Y., SejDt. 15, 
 1858; in Illinois, Jan. 1859. Practised Law in Chicago nearly a 
 year, but his health being poor he returned to Poughkeepsie. 
 
 PIAMILTON SCOTT EASTER. 
 
 Born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 12, 1836. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 13, 1853. Left, April 3, 1854. Died of congestion of the 
 lungs, at Baltimore, Dec. 22, 1858. 
 
 A letter from his father says : "After leaving College he entered the Dry 
 Goods house of Hamilton, Easter & Co. as clerk, and on the first of Febru- 
 ary preceding his death, he was admitted as a partner in said firm. Had it 
 pleased God to spare his life, I have no doubt he would have made his mark 
 
84 STATISTICS. 
 
 in the community as an active, energetic business man. Nearly a year pre- 
 vious to his death he became a member of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 this city, under the pastoral care of Rev. John 0. Backus, D.D." A schol- 
 arship bearing his name has been founded with the profits in business accru- 
 ing to him, in the Western Theological Seminary, at Alleghany City, Pa. 
 
 BENJAMIN LAW FOESTEE. 
 
 Born at Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 29, 1834. Entered Freshman, 
 July 26, 1853. Left, Dec. 16, 1853. Studied Law, and was admit- 
 ted to the Bar, Jan. 21, 1858. Is practising Law at his native 
 place. 
 
 SEYMOUE FOWLEE. 
 
 Born at Newburgh, N". Y., May 24, 1839. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 14, 1853. 
 
 His health became poor while in College, and his parents removed him in 
 July, 1854. He went to a Water-Cure in Massachusetts, and stayed there 
 several months, when his health was apparently restored, and he entered a 
 Bank in the City of New- York, where he remained over three years, giving 
 satisfaction to the officers of the institution, and winning their confidence 
 and friendship. In the summer of 1857 he w^as seized with cerebral typhoid 
 fever, brought on, it is supposed, by excessive application to his duties in 
 the hot weather, and after six days of delirium he passed aw^ay, July 24, 
 1857. His last resting-place, in the cemetery at Newburgh, is marked by a 
 broken column bearing his name and age. Fowler showed a love of study 
 from a very early age. Even before he understood the relations of Property 
 he would help himself from the village bookstore. In the later years of his 
 life he employed all his leisure hours in useful reading. The articles on 
 Lord Clive and Warren Hastings in Macaulay's Essays were the last things 
 he read before his final illness. His memory was remarkable, seldom re- 
 linquishing what he read or saw, and his mind became a wonderful repos- 
 itory of facts, anecdotes, etc., that always enlivened his conversation. He 
 was amiable and cheerful, industrious and faithful, the admiration of his 
 friends, and greatly beloved by his parents. He was the youngest of all 
 who were numbered in our Class, and of those who continued with us any 
 time he was the first to die. 
 
 CHARLES PHINEAS FEEELAND. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from ISTew-York City, July 25, 1853. Left, 
 Dec. 20, 1853. Was in business in New- York several years, but 
 is now pursuing his studies on Long Island. 
 
STATISTICS. 85 
 
 WILLIAM HENEY GIBBS. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Ohio, Sept. 14, 1853. Left, Nov. 27, 
 1854. 
 
 EDWARD DEOMGOOLE GRANT. 
 
 Born in Virginia, Feb. 12, 1836. Entered Freshman, July 26, 
 1853. Left, ISTov. 27. 1854. Graduated with the Class of 1858. Is 
 practising Law in Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 GEORGE NELSON GREENE. 
 
 Born at Plainfield, (?) Conn., about the year 1829. Entered 
 Freshman, July 25, 1853. Left, Jan. 1854. Graduated in the Class 
 of 1860. Expects to preach. 
 
 EDGAR LAING HEERMANCE. 
 
 Born in New- York City, April 30, 1833. Entered Sophomore, 
 Sept. 13, 1854. Left College to travel abroad, June 15, 1856. 
 Was in various parts of Europe a year, 1856-57. Returned to 
 enter the next Class, and graduated at Yale in 1858. Studied at 
 Yale Theological Seminary two years, 1858-60. Is now at Ando- 
 ver. Licensed to preach the Gospel, New-Haven, May or June, 
 1860. Address : Kind erhook, N. Y. 
 
 WILLIAM DODGE HERRICK. 
 
 Born at Methuen, Mass., March 26, 1831. Entered Freshman, 
 July 25, 1853. Left, June 16, 1854. Graduated at Amherst in 
 1857. Studied Theology at Andover two years and a half. Or- 
 dained and settled in charge of the Congregational Church at Red- 
 ding, Conn., Jan. 18, 1860. Married Miss Josephine H. Burton, 
 of Orange, Mass., July 30, 1859. 
 
 EDWARD HAYES. 
 
 Born in Vermont in 1836-37. Entered Freshman, Oct. 13, 
 1853. Left, Feb. 20, 1855. Is believed to be living at Benning- 
 ton, Vt. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY HUBBARD. 
 
 Born at Bloomfield, Conn., July 31, 1836. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 14, 1853. Left, Feb. 1854. Graduated in the Medical De- 
 partment of Yale,^Jan. 1860. Is practising Medicine in Essex, 
 Conn. 
 
86 STATISTICS. 
 
 HORACE WHITE HUBBAED. 
 
 Born at Hatfield, Mass., March 22, 1835. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 14, 1853. Left, May or June, 1855. Was in I^ew-Haven two 
 years ; at Hatfield two years ; and since Aug. 1859, is in the Dry 
 Goods Importing House of Bliss, Wheelock & Kelly, 390 Broad- 
 
 way, New- York. 
 
 EDWAED JANII^. 
 
 Born at Nashville, Tenn., July 16, 1836. Entered Sophomore, 
 from the University of Louisiana, Sept. 13, 1854. Left, April, 1856. 
 Traveled a year in Europe, and returned to study Law in New- 
 Orleans, where he graduated at the Law School, and was admitted 
 to the Bar. In the autumn of 1859 he went to San Francisco, 
 Cal., where he now practises his profession. 
 
 CHARLES NAPOLEON JOHNSON. 
 
 Born in Connecticut about the year 1830. Entered Freshman, 
 July 25, 1853. Left, Oct. 24, 1853. Graduated with the Class of 
 1858. Studied Law at the Yale Law School, and will probably 
 practise in Connecticut. 
 
 CHAUNCEY SEYMOUR KELLOGG. 
 
 Born at Woodville, Miss., Sept. 12, 1837. Entered Freshman, 
 July 25, 1853. Left, Dec. 1853. Graduated with the Class of 1858. 
 Engaged in planting near Woodville, Miss. 
 
 JOHN LOVEWELL. 
 
 Born at Corinth, Vt., Sept. 1, 1829. Entered Sophomore, Sept. 
 18, 1854. Left, Jan. 26, 1855. Graduated with the Class of 1858. 
 Engaged in teaching in Wisconsin. Is now at Prairie du Lao, 
 
 Wis. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY LUZENBERG. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. Left, March 29, 1854. Wont 
 to Princeton, and graduated in 1857. Has studied Theology. 
 {(licitiir.) 
 
 DENNIS BRUCE LYLES. 
 
 lOiitercd Sophomore, from Prince George's Co., jMaryland. Loft, 
 in Junior year. 
 
 .lOn.N I-KONIDAS .M«'MII,I,AN. 
 
 Kntcrcd Freshman, from Elizabethtown, N. C., So[)t. 11, 1853. 
 Left, Nov. 21, 1853. 
 
STATISTICS. 87 
 
 THOMAS CKAWFOED MCNEILL. 
 
 Born at Hico, Comal Co., Tenn., 1832 "or 1833. Entered Fresh- 
 man, Sept. 14, 1853. Left in the third term of Freshman year. 
 Graduated at the University of Michigan in 1857. At University 
 of Michigan, attending Medical lectures and studying Chemistry 
 and Natural History until Sept. 1858. Appointed Professor of 
 Chemistry and Natural History in Andrew College, Trenton, 
 Tenn., but after a few months resigned, and went in Sept. 1859 to 
 attend Medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, where 
 he graduated in March, 'I860. Is practising medicine at Paris, 
 Tenn. 
 
 DANIEL WEBSTER MANCHESTER. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. Left, Dec. 16, 1853. Is 
 practising Law in Chicago. 
 
 MILTON SHELDON MANCHESTER. 
 
 Born in New- York City, Sept. 26, 1835. Entered Freshman, 
 from Cincinnati, July 25, 1853. Left, Sept. 1855. Studied Law at 
 Yale Law School a year, 1855-56. Admitted to practise Law in 
 the Supreme Court of Illinois, Feb. 1, 1858. Address : Chicago, 
 Illinois. 
 
 FRANCIS LE BARON MONROE. 
 
 EnteredFreshman, Sept 14, 1853. Left, July, 1855. Graduated 
 at Williams College in 1857. Studied Medicine near Boston, and 
 is now practising in that vicinity. 
 
 WILLIAM STUART MOORE. 
 
 Born at Weston, Conn., Aug. 17, 1829. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 14, 1853. Left, March, 1855. Studied Law in New-Haven a 
 year or more. Is practising Law at Sauk Rapids, Minn. 
 
 CORNELIUS EDWARDS MOSS, 
 
 Entered Sophomore, from Marion Co., Missouri, Oct. 18, 1854., 
 Left March 20, 1855. 
 
 SIDNEY ASH MOULTHROP. 
 
 Born at Orange, Conn., Jan. 10, 1833. Entered Freshman, 
 having been in the Class of 1856, Sept. 14, 1853. Left, May 5., 
 1854. Has been in the office of the Town Clerk at New-Haven ; 
 has been teaching Music, and has since then studied Law, and 
 expects to practise in Connecticut. 
 
88 STATISTICS. 
 
 GABEIEL ALFKED MUELLEE. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Erie Co., N". Y., Sept. 13, 1853. Left, 
 second term Junior year. Has charge of a school at Williamsville, 
 Erie Co., K Y. 
 
 WILLIAM HOSKINS MULLINS. 
 
 Born in Garrard Co., Ky., Sept. 5, 1835. Entered Freshman, 
 Oct. 18, 1853. Left, at some time in Sophomore year. Graduated 
 in the Medical Department of the University at LouisYille, Ky., 
 in the spring of 1858. Has never been married, although he is a 
 strong Union man. Is practising Medicine, with good prospects of 
 success, at Richmond, Madison Co., Ky. 
 
 CHAELES CLINTON- NICHOLS. 
 
 Born at Buffalo, IST. Y., May 11, 1836. Entered Freshman, 
 July 25, 1853. Left, June 24, 1854. Is in a Hardware store at 
 Buffalo. 
 
 JAMES MOSES NICHOLS. 
 
 Born at Haverhill, Mass., July 23, 1835. Entered Freshman, 
 Jan. 5, 1854. Left, July, 1854. Graduated at Williams College in 
 
 1857. In business in Xew-Yorli and Boston. Address: Haver- 
 hill, Mass. 
 
 HOWAED JONAS PL ATT. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 25, 1853. Left, ISTov. 3, 1853. 
 
 DAVID GUSTAVtJS POETEE. 
 
 Born at Waterbury, Conn., March 8, 1833. Entered Fresh- 
 man, July 26, 1853. Left, in poor health, March, 1856. His 
 health has not been good. He is living quietly at Waterbury, 
 reading and studying when he can do so. 
 
 DANIEL TEETIUS POTTEE. 
 
 Born at Plymouth, Conn., in 1829 or 1830. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 13, 1853. Left, Dec. 6, 1853. Graduated with the Class of 
 
 1858. Is teaching near Hartford, Conn. 
 
 EZEA POST PEATT. 
 
 Born at Durham, N". Y., Oct. 29, 1831. Entered Freshman, 
 July 26, 1853. Left, Jan. 9, 1854. Engaged in farming at Oak 
 Hills, Green Co., N. Y. Married Miss Lucina E. Penfield at Oak 
 Hills, Sept. 16, 1857. A son, Abijah Penfield Pratt, born Nov. 
 29, 1859. 
 
STATISTICS. 89 
 
 CHARLES FREDEEICK PUMPELLY. 
 
 Entered Freshman, July 26, 1853. Left, Sophomore year, and 
 graduated with the Class of 1858. Engaged in farming at Owe- 
 go,N.Y. 
 
 JULIEN TERRELL RA]S"SONE. 
 
 Entered Freshman, having "been in the preceding Class, Sept. 
 15, 1853. Left in Junior year. Besides in Blakely, Early Co., Ga., 
 and goes to N"ew-York every summer, stopping at the St. Nicholas. 
 
 JAMES BAILEY RICHARDSON. 
 
 Born at Orford, IsT. H., Dec. 9, 1832. Entered Freshman, Sept. 
 14, 1853. Left, Dec. 1, 1853. Went to Dartmouth in the spring of 
 1854, and there graduated in 1857. Bead Law a year at Concord, 
 Mass.' Went to Boston in 1858, and after eight months he was 
 admitted to the Suffolk Bar. Practises Law in Boston : office at 
 20 Court Street. 
 
 EBEJS" GREENOUGH SCOIT. 
 
 Born at Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 15, 1836. Entered Freshman, 
 July 25, 1853. Left, March 29, 1854. Graduated with the Class of 
 1858. Is studying Law. Address : Sunbury, Pa. 
 
 JOHN ORTH SCHCENER. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Beading, Pa., Sept. 13, 1853. Left, 
 Dec. 1853. 
 
 JOHN SCHULTES SEIBOLD. 
 
 Born at Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1835. Entered Freshman, 
 July 29, 1853. Left at the end of Sophomore year. Engaged for 
 a while in farming, and then studied Law in Indiana. Is now in 
 business (tanning) in Buffalo. Married Miss Adele Graves, 
 daughter of John S. Graves, Esq., of New-Haven, July 13, 1859. 
 A daughter, Julia Adele Seibold, born May 3, 1860. 
 
 ROBERT GILL SIMS. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Woodville, Mississippi, June 5, 1854. 
 Left, July 20, 1858. Entered the Class of 1858, but did not gradu- 
 ate. Is now at Stigo, Miss., in a New-Orleans Commission House. 
 
00 STATISTICS. 
 
 CHARLES HENKY SLATE. 
 
 Born in ]^ew-York City, Aug. 12, 1837. Entered Freshman, 
 July 26, 1853. Left, March 22, 1854. Has been for five years in 
 the Shipping business, at 115 South street, ISTevv-York, 
 
 BEINLEY DERING SLEIGHT, 
 
 Born at Sag Harbor, Long Island, March, 1835. Entered 
 Freshman, Nov. 12, 1853. Left, March 22, 1854. Graduated with 
 the Class of 1858. Was a delegate to the American State Con- 
 vention at Syracuse, Sept. 21, 1859. Ran for JST. Y. Assemblyman 
 in 1860, but was not elected. Is Editor of the Suffolk County 
 Gazette. Address : Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., K. Y. 
 
 JEWETT GUERNSEY SMITH. 
 
 Entered Freshman, Sept. 13, 1853. Left, Oct. 18, 1853. flas 
 studied Theology at Yale Theological Seminary. Is now in 
 !N"ew- Haven. 
 
 WILLIAM MCCRACKEN SMITH. 
 
 Born at i^Tew-Haven, Conn., Dec. 22, 1836. Entered Freshman, 
 July 29, 1853. Left at the end of first term Senior year. Has since 
 divided his time between traveling and the study of Law. Ex- 
 pects to practise Law in N'ew-York City. Present address : Care 
 of Chatfield & Hadley, Times Building, N. Y. 
 
 WILLIS CAREY SMITH. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Clinton, La., July 25, 1853. Left, N'ov. 
 17, 1853. Is supposed to be at home at Clinton. He is a brother 
 of J. J. Smith of '57, and w^as one of the youngest members of the 
 
 Class. 
 
 ELIZUR LEROY SPERRY. 
 
 Entered at the end of Freshman year, from Woodbridge, Conn., 
 July 24, 1854. Left, during Sophomore year. 
 
 WALTER SCOTT STALLINGS. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Raleigh, K C, Sept. 13,*1853. Left, 
 in the summer of 1855. 
 
 GEORGE BUCKINGHAM ST. JOHN. 
 
 15orn at Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 14, 1832. Entered Junior, from 
 the Class of 1856, Sept. 1855. Left soon afterward, and has since 
 then resided at Norwalk. 
 
STATISTICS. 
 
 91 
 
 JOSEPH TABOK TATUM. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from St. Louis, Sept. 15, 1853. Left, April, 
 1854. Graduated with the Class of 1859. Is engaged in reading 
 Law in St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 LUTHER STEPHEN TROWBRIDGE. 
 
 Born at Troy, Oakland Co., Michigan, July 28, 1836. Entered 
 Freshman, Oct. 8, 1853. Left, his eyes not being strong, Feb. 
 1856. Spent the summer of 1856 on his father's farm. Com- 
 menced the study of Law in the office of S. D. Miller, Esq., De- 
 troit, Dec. 3, 1853. After a year he removed to the office of 
 Lockwood & Clarke. Admitted to the Bar, Oct. 1858. In Au- 
 gust, 1859, he formed a Law partnership with Hon. A. A. Buel, 
 of Detroit. Firm : Buel & Trowbridge, Attorneys & Counselors 
 at Law, 141 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Michigan. 
 
 HENRY HOLMES TURNER. 
 
 Born at Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, Oct. 31, 1838. Entered 
 Sophomore, Sept. 13, 1854. Left, and entered the next Class, N"ov. 
 13, 1854. Graduated in 1858. Is at Denmark, Iowa. 
 
 JOHN EMMETT VINSON. 
 
 Entered Sophomore, from Elkton, Tennessee, Sept. 22, 1854„ 
 Left, March, 1855. 
 
 JOHN WILLETT WADSWORTH. 
 
 Entered Freshman, from Washington, D. C, July 29, 1853. 
 Left, some time in 1854. 
 
 WILLIAM WHITE. 
 
 Born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 28, 1837. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 14, 1853. Left, April 12, 1854. Graduated at Williams Col- 
 lege in 1858. Has been at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, since 
 Dec. 20, 1858. Expects to study and practise Medicine, " as he is 
 fond of it, having taken a great deal in his life." Married Miss 
 Sophie Hall, of Oahu, April 19, 1860. 
 
 ALBERT BYRON WILBUR. 
 
 Born at Sharon, Conn., Oct. 10, 1834. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 15, 1853. Left early in Junior year. Graduated with the 
 Class of 1858. Is teaching at Sunbury, Gates Co., North-Carolina. 
 
92 STATISTICS. 
 
 JOHN WILKES WILKES 03Sr. 
 
 Born at Buffalo, N". Y., Aug. 29, 1836. Entered Freshman, 
 Sept. 14, 1853. Left, May, 1854. Graduated at Union College in 
 1857. Remained there several months, studying in the Higher 
 Course. Studied Law in Buffalo, and at the Harvard Law School. 
 Is now practising Law in Kew-York; office at No. 5 Beekman 
 street. 
 
 HENKY WILLIAMS. 
 
 Born at Frederick, Maryland, Oct. 26, 1837. Entered Fresh- 
 man, Sept. 18, 1853. Left, Dec. 20, 1853. Studied for some time 
 at the University of Virginia. Is now engaged in farming at his 
 native place. 
 
 HOWAED CORNELIUS WILLIAMS. 
 
 Born Jan. 28, 1836. Entered Freshman, from Ithaca, IsT. Y., 
 having been in the preceding Class, Sept. 14, 1853. Left, April 10, 
 1854. Went to Hamilton College, and is supposed to have gradu- 
 ated in 1857. Is in the Flour business, at Ithaca. 
 
SUiMARY OF STATISTICS OF NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Number of Non- graduates enumerated, It. 
 
 Left during Senior Year. — ^W, McO. Smith. — 1. 
 
 Left during Junior Year. — Heermance, Janin, M. S. JSklanchester, Mueller, D. G. 
 Porter, Ransone, Trowbridge, St. John, Wilbur. — 9. 
 
 Left during Sophomore Year. — Baker, Beveridge, Bishop, Browning, E. M. 
 Ohamberlin, Decker, Doughty, Gibbs, E. D. Grant, Hayes, H. "W. Hubbard, J. 
 Lovewell, Lyles, Monroe, Moore, Moss, Pumpelly, Seibold, Sims, Turner, Vinson, 
 —21. 
 
 Left during Freshman Year. — L. H. Adams, Andrews, F. R, Avery, Bedford, 
 Bennett, Carpenter, Colton, Cruger, Crommelin, Cutler, Easter, Forster, Fowler, 
 C. P. Freeland, Greene, Herrick, C. H. Hubbard, Johnson, Kellogg, Luzenberg, 
 McMillan, McNeill, D. "W. Manchester, Moulthrop, Mullins, 0. C. Nichols, J. M. 
 Nichols, Piatt, Potter, E. P. Pratt, Richardson, Scott, Schoener, Slate, Sleight, J. 
 G. Smith, W. C. Smith, Sperry, Stallings, Tatum, Wads worth. White, Wilkesou, 
 H. Williams, H. C. Williams.— 45. 
 
 Graduated at Yale in 1858. — ^Bennett, E. D, Grant, B. L. Heermance, Johnson, 
 Kellogg, J. Lovewell, Potter, Pumpelly, Scott, Sleight, Turner, Wilbur.— 12. 
 
 Graduated at Yale in 1859.— Tatum. In 1860. — Greene. 
 
 Graduated in Arts at other Colleges. — L. H. Adams, Browning, (?) Carpenter, 
 Cutler, Doughty, Herrick, Luzenberg, McNeill, Monroe, J. M. Nichols, Richardson, 
 White, Wilkeson, H. C. Williams.— 14. 
 
 Married. — ^F. R. Avery, Bedford, Browning, Cruger, Decker, Herrick, E. P, 
 Pratt, Seibold, White.— 9. 
 
 Deceased. — Dorriss, Easter, Fowler. — 3. 
 
 Engaged in Theology. — ^L. H. Adams, Cutler, Greene, Heermance, Herrick, 
 Luzenberg, — 6. 
 
 Law. — Beveridge, Browning, Carpenter^ Chamberlin, Decker, Doughty, Forster, 
 E. D. Grant, Janin, Johnson, D. W. Manchester, M. S. Manchester, Moore, Richard- 
 son, Scott, W. McC. Smith, Tatum, Trowbridge, Wilkeson. — 19. 
 
 Medicine. — Bennett, C. H. Hubbard, McNeill, Monroe, Mullins, White. — 6. 
 - Teaching. — J. Lovewell, Mueller, Potter, Wilbur.— 4, 
 
 Politics. — Sleight. — 1 . 
 
 Literature. — D. G. Porter. — 1. 
 
 Agriculture. — Bedford, Kellogg, E. P. Pratt, Pumpelly, H. Williams.— -5, 
 
 Mercantile Pursuits. — Avery, Baker, Cruger, 0. P. Freeland, H. W. Hubbard. 
 C. C. Nichols, J. M. Nichols, Seibold, Sims, Slate, H. C. Williams.— 11. 
 
 Unknown to the Secretary. — Andrews, Bishop, Colton, Crommelin, Gibbs, Eaves, 
 Lyles, McMillan, Moss, Piatt, Ransone, Schoener, J. G. Smith, W. C Smith, 
 Sperry, Stallings, Turner, Vinson, Wadsworth. — 19'.