■ HOBART COLLEGE BULLETINS Vol. IV OCTOBER, 1905 No. 1 Abi*r?00 in X\\t Almtmt, witty Attttfltmrewents Published by Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. Issued quarterly. Entered October 28, 1902, at Geneva, N. Y., as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. APPEAL FOR COPIES OF THE CATALOGUE, THE " ECHO " AND THE " HERALD" In order properly to fill out its riles, the College is in need of the following issues of Hobart publications : Catalogue: — 1837-38, 1838-39, 1839-40, 1840-41, 1843-44, 1844-45, 1848-49, 1850-51, 1851-52, 1860-61, 1864-65, 1868-69, 1880-81, 1886-87, 1891-92. Proceedings of the Associate Alumni : 1865 and 1866. Echo : — Vols. I--XI inclusive ; Vols. XXI (Class of 1882), XXII (Class of 1883), XXXIII (Class of 1895), XXXV (Class of 1897), XL (Class of 1902,) XLI (Class of 1903). Herald : — Vols. I-XI inclusive, any numbers ; Vol. VII O885-86), Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7 ; Vol. VIII (1886-87), Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ; Vol. IX (1887-88), Nos. 1, 2, 3,4, 5 ; Vol. X (1888-89). Nos. 3, 5, 7, 8, 9; Vol. XI (1889-90), Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; Vol. XII (1890-91), Nos. 1, 4; Vol. XVI (1894-95), Nos. 1, 6, 9, 10; Vol. XVII (1895-96), No. 1: Vol. XVII] (1896-97), No. 8 ; Vol. XXII (1900-01), No. 3. The deficiencies in Vols. XVI and XX11 are espe- cially important. It is earnestly desired that anyone who is in a position to do so will send the above mentioned issues (any numbers, however scattering, will be useful), to the Librarian of the College, Dr. Charles D. Vail. ADDRESS TO THE ALUMNI To the Alumni of Hobart College : Gentlemen : With the opening of the new College year and the publi- cation of the autumn bulletin, the President wishes to bring certain encouraging facts to the attention of the Alumni. To begin with, it is gratifying to announce that fifty-five new men entered Hobart in September. Of these forty-four were Freshmen, four were Sophomores, five were Juniors, and two were Seniors. These, with the fifty-two students who returned to Geneva after the summer vacation, consti- tuted a total enrollment of one hundred and seven. This is the largest enrollment in the history of the College. Worth noticing also in this connection is the fact that the number of non-scholarship students has been so much augmented, that the receipts from tuition and contingents for the present year will aggregate the sum of five thousand dollars. No such amount has previously been realized from the fees of under- graduates. Through this item alone, our income for 1905-06 has been increased at least fifteen hundred dollars. This fact, together with, the statement in the Treasurer's report of last June that the deficit had been decreased from seven thousand dollars in 1904 to about one thousand in 1905, should give the Alumni the substantial assurance of a greatly improved financial condition. Such results have not, of course, been brought about with- out adequate causes : and the most potent cause, in the opinion of the President, is the fine spirit of increasing loy- alty to the College which is being everywhere displayed both by undergraduates and Alumni. At the Alumni smoker of 4 Hobart College the last Commencement more than one speaker from the graduating class gave earnest and emphatic expression to the strong good feeling which united the members of the student body, while all throughout the year the generous responses of the Alumni to the appeals of the Treasurer have brought us proofs of the lively interest which the sons of Hobart are taking in her affairs. This interest was also in evidence at the Commencement dinner where the attendance was larger than on any previous occasion and where the confidence in Hobart 's future and the enthusiasm for her welfare exceeded anything which the President has as yet observed. The Alumni are, in truth, closing up their ranks and rallying as never before to the support of their Alma Mater. In Geneva, Buffalo and Rochester they have formed themselves into local associations and there are already signs that at one or two other points the movement toward organization is on foot. All this, together with the fact that wherever the President has been he has received a hearty and helpful welcome, leads him to believe that a new era of aggressive work is at hand. The grounds for this belief seem to be sure and sound. An improved financial condition, the largest enrollment in the history of the College, a united and enthusiastic student body, and, among the Alumni, a widely diffused and deeply rooted affection for Alma Mater — such are the grounds on which the hope of the President securely rests. It is there- fore with unfeigned thankfulness that he gives these data to Hobart men wherever they may be found. Travelling as he does from place to place and being also in residence at Geneva, the President is in a position to judge of general conditions and also to bring into a focus the separate rays of bright and warm devotion which are scattered about all over the land. from his central position, therefore, he is glad to report progress and to point out some of the more impor- tant factors of which this progress is composed. Address to thk Alumni 5 Hopeful as the outlook is, however, and reliable as are the grounds on which this hopefulness reposes, the work which confronts the present administration is likely to be neither easy of execution nor brief in duration. No less a task con- fronts it than the development of Hobart into a thoroughly fit and well equipped modern College. Such is the goal on which its eye is set. Our gymnasium is yet to be built and a Physical Instructor provided. A Biological laboratory also must soon be added if we are to efficiently fulfil our academic mission. The lack of this laboratory and of a Chair of Economics loses us students all the time, while the steady growth of the undergraduate body, which is now a certainty, will render another dormitory imperatively necessary within a year or two. All of these things are needed and all of them will surely come if the forces which are now in motion are fur- thered and strengthened. The time has arrived for a steady and determined advance all along the line. What is to be done must be done at once or, at the least, must be begun at once. Let then every Hobart Alumnus be up and doing. Some men can send us students, others can augment our funds, others again can influence their friends to give us help, and others still can secure for the President opportunities to represent the College on the platform or in the schools : opportunities, by the way, of which he would gladly avail himself. Each man can do something : and if each man does do something, the waters of the Seneca will soon give back the reflection of a statelier Hobart which shall both rejoice the hearts of her faithful sons of today and bless the lives of their children's children in the days that are to come. With heartfelt devotion to Hobart, I am, Faithfully yours, Langdon C. Stewardson. REV. HENRY ROSWELL LOCKWOOD, A.M..S.T.D. At a joint meeting of the resident Trustees and the Faculty of Hobart College held this 21st day of September, 1905, the following minute relative to the death of the Rev. Henry R. Lockwood was adopted : " In the death of Dr. Lockwood, which occurred at Syra- cuse on the 20th instant, Hobart College has sustained a loss most appreciated, it may be, by those of us who knew him first as an undergraduate in Hobart, then as a tutor, for thirty years one of its Trustees and for the last two years Chairman of the Board. In all these relations perhaps the one word that expresses best his distinguishing trait was character. He was a man among men in all the affairs of life. He was cultured ; he was lovable ; he was devout. He was a lover of nature and of men. As a student in Hobart his scholarship was of the best, as evidenced by the fact that in spite of his being a leader in athletics, he grad- uated with the second honor in his class. It is doubted by those who knew him then if, in the last forty years, there has arisen another whose influence did more to tone the student body to right living and right thinking than did that of Henry R. Lockwood as an undergraduate. In the city which for more than a quarter of a century he made his home ))r. Lockwood was foremost in every movement that tended to the bettering of civic life. His personal friends were limited to no class or condition in life. His connection with both the Faculty and Trustees of Hobart makes it peculiarly fitting that they should join at this time in recording the use of their loss, and in expressing the deep sympathy felt for his family, and for the community in which he lived.' • Resolved : That a copy of the foregoing be sent to the family of Dr. Lockwood, that it be laid before the Faculty and the Hoard of Trustees at their next meeting for record, and thai both the Faculty and Trustees send representatives to the funeral services in Syracuse to-morrow." The President of the College and Dr. Charles 1). Vail attended the funeral of Dr. Lockwood, and the President took pari in the services. ANNOUNCEMENTS Two changes are to be reported in the per- FACULTY sonnel of the Faculty. In the place of Dr. Herbert R. Moody, who resigned from the Professorship of Chemistry last June to accept a position in the College of the City of New York, Mr. John E. Lansing of Phillips Academy, Andover, has been appointed head of the Department with the official title of Assistant Professor. Professor Lansing is an A. B. and A.M., of Harvard Univer- sity. Mr. Cecil T. Derry, instructor in Latin and Greek, having resigned in September to go to the Cambridge Latin School, Mr. Alfred R. Wightman, A. B., A. M. (Brown), A. M. (Harvard), has been tendered the vacant position and has accepted. Mr. Wightman has already entered upon his duties. By the will of Miss Annie E. Beck with, late GIFTS AND of New London, Conn., the sum of $5000 BEQUESTS was bequeathed to Hobart College, ''the income thereof to be used, according to the laws and rules of said college in founding scholarships at said college to be called the Benjamin F. Beckwith scholarships.' The oil portrait of the Mr. Benjamin F. Beckwith, who was the father of the testatrix, was also given to the College. The portrait has already been received and hung in Coxe Hall. The oil portrait of the Rev. Jasper Adams, the first Presi- dent of Hobart, has also been bequeathed to the college by his daughter, the late Miss C. C. Adams. The existence of this portrait was discovered a short time ago by Prof. Charles D. Vail and he secured from Miss Adams the promise that at her death it should become the property of Hobart. The portrait now adorns Coxe Llall and has been placed above the platform and to the right of the portrait of Bishop Hobart. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 3 0112 110190011 8 Hobart College By the will of Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, widow of Washington Hunt, sometime Trustee of Hobart, a legacy of $1000.00 has been left to the College. This sum will be added to the per- manent endowment fund. Upon their return from the long vacation the eyes of all Hobart men were gladdened by the sight of a new and hand- some concrete walk running along the front of Medbery Hall and extending past the Library and as far as Geneva. This walk, which adds so much to the looks of grounds and build- ings, is but another kindness for which the College is indebted to Miss Catherine M. Tuttie, of Columbus, Ohio, the generous giver of Medbery Hall. Mr. Van Auken superintended the construction of the walk, and its excellence gives evidence of his careful oversight. Another new adornment of the Campus is the gift of a handsome flag pole and of two flags from Mrs. Charles I). Vail. There is a small flag for stormy weather and a large one for fair weather. The gifts were bestowed on condition that one flag or the other should be flying every day as long as college was in session.