The Undergraduate Publication of ~rtnttp Volume XIX HARTFORD, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 Number 7 A11d so, having done our Le~:>t to .;·irl carried the future biographer in already won a style of delicacy and • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • cast gloom over the holiday period .o a shop where the great man was grace. These papers, like the early : ~ bJ calling attention to the necessity standing and saw that his namesake writing of Franklin, were obviously : GLOVES for the Men : ~bc~ripob of thinkmg about mid-yew;;, T.ITS was given a blessing. Youngest of imitations of Addison's Spectator- • TRINITY COLLEGE, TIUJ'OD wishes all Trinity men :t 11 ch1ldren. F'ather a Scotch Pres then nearly a hundred years old. In : He'll Be Well Pleased Hartford, Conn. m~o:n:r Christmas and the ha1,piest oyterian, hard and narrow in belief his very first literary venture, then, • with a pair of 1\Iocha • Member, Eastern Intercollegiate Newapaper ana most prosperous of New Years. and conduct, essentially a Puritan. irving showed his characteristic Jove : Glove , spear or plain backs, Aaaoeiation. Mother an English woman, delicate, of the past. : also in black em broidered • • back , at $2.98 and $3.98 a Published Weekly throu~rhout the Colleate Year. refined, gentle, an Episcopalian. At . the age of ten Washington rejected At 21, Irving seemed to have only • pair. his father's hated religion as em a short time to live. Consumption. : Grey Mocha Gloves, silk- : Subocribers are urged to report promptly Brothers sent him to Europe. Stayed : lined ones are specially fine any serious irregularity in the receipt ot DR. SHEPARD'S LECTURE. phatically as he could by slipping THE TRIPOD. All complaint> and business (Continued from page 1.) secretly into Trinity Church and be there two years, learning French, • £or $4.98 pair. • communications should be addressed to the Circulation Manager. ing confirmed. Thus he dodged Spanish, German, Italian easily and : Men's Cape Gloves, dark • The columns of THE TRIPOD are at all discernment. Cooper was never away from the first shadow of his not very well, seeing the best society : tan and brown, specially times open to alumni, undergraduates and others for the free discussion of matters of adept in the soft answer which life. He had an instinct for sun of the national capitals. It must • priced $2 and $2.98 pair. interest to Trinity men. No anonymous com turneth away wrath. He went to munications will be published, and THE shine. Even his mother seems to have been an easier thing to do then : Wool and Fleece Lined TRIPOD assumes no responsibility for senti England and wrote about that Is nave felt that a little religious gloom than now, but it would not have been • Cape and Sued e Gloves, ments expressed by correspondents. land just the saihe sort of book that would have been good for him. "0 easy then for any other man. Irving • good and warm, $1.29 to Captain Basil Hall, for one example Washington! if you were only good!" had only to be seen to be loved, f01 • $2.50 pair. EXECUTIVE BOARD out of a hundred, had written about l'heatre before and after family pray he carried a daily beauty in his life Fur Lined Gloves: h e r e· .~ William G. Brill, '23 ...... Editor-in-chief America. At once there rose up a ers. Finished school at sixteen. Did which shone in his face, and which where you'll suit him at Charles E. Cuningham, '24 .. . Managing Editor howl of rage from those very maga not attend Columbia, as his brothers was everywhere his sufficient letter $7.50 and $8.50 pair. Harris H. Thomas, '24 .... Circulation Manager zines which had been wondering so Luca Celentano, '23 ...... Advertising Manager had done, simply because he did not of. introduction. He returned to New B Th long at our American sensitiveness. York in 1804 and then wrote his part rOWll, OIDSOll AUXILIARY BOARD care to. Entered law office, which, Age of National Adolescence. Judging from the number of poets of the Salmagundi papers-a short- & C W. L. Beers, '25 A. L. Peiker, '25 Now that we have shown that lived journal of the town which had R. W. St. John, '25 and essayists who have come out of ompany America did not have a monopoly of it, must be about the best place in the declared purpose, very modestly all the coarseness in the world in the the world to learn the art of writing. _,hrased, considering that the editors Entered as second-class matter Sept. 24, ltoll, first half of the last century, we at the Post Office at Hartford, Conn. .l''or the next 20 years he was to be were about 23 years of age, "to in- admit that many of the things our struct the young, reform the old, cor- Subscription Price, $2.50 per Year. an idler in the Jand-a very grace i, English friends said about us were rect the town, and castigate the age." • Advertising Rates furnished on application. ful, cheerful, ornamental idler, but true. In the 1820s and 30s we were an idler nevertheless. He had a These essays were written in imita- <<>!.'. EVERY scrambling through our awkward large share of what Wordsworth tion of Addison and Goldsmith, they • age, our national adolescence. Our calls "that majestic indolence so dear were bright, impudent, fearless, irre- • COLLEGE MAN MID-YEARS. voice was changing-now it would be to native man." Dear, that is, not sponsible, just as they should have The average day, for the average the manly bass of the world's oldest only to the idler himself, but very been as coming fro·m very young men : KNOWS- student, seems to pass with decidedly democracy, and again the squeaking often to all his friends. All the not at all in awe of their elders, and • more than average speed. Just a boyish treble of the newcomer among world loves an idler-perhaps he were remarkably popular. These pa- • The important part that the little while ago football was the nations, dreadfully self-conscious and puts all the rest of us, whether we pers are readable eve!} today, though House Coat or Lounge Robe prime topic of conversation, then painfully boastful. This boastfulness be lazy ourselves or energetic, in chiefly interesting for the very vivid Thanksgiving hove in sight and seem was very like that of rapidly grow good conceit with ourselves. All the picture they give of social New York plays in his life at school-- ed to approach with astonishing ing boys, based much more on what world loved Cooper, not, at first, as over a century ago. In them Irving and as a Christmas Gift be- speed, and now Christmas is here, they are to do and be than on what a writer, but as a man. He became found out that he could write, when tween friends, nothing could bringing with it the first cessation they have been, are, and can do. We before he was 20 a darling of the he wanted to. Two years later he be more appropriate. of the academic year. Snow and col DR. SHEPARD'S LECTURE. patriotic American. For Irving was ciety at least as good as any he could leaving him no time for reading or Fidelity Trust Co. (Continued from page 2.) not one of those inverted patriots of find here today, and he had as natur thought or writing. Adventure, ac 49 PEARL ST., HARTFORD, CONN. whom I have spoken who think it a al an instinct for it as it had for him. tivity, something doing, was what ?e learned that laughter is one of the We do general Banking as well aa mark of intellectual superiority to Society trained him, gave him gifts lived for- and he had much of th1s. best and greatest things in life. We prefer almost any country to their which not even Columbia could have And then in 1811, he suddenly mar all kinds of Trust Business. We ao feel that what we call a worth-while licit accounts from Trindty College own. It was his love of the past that given if he had gone there. ried a certain Miss De Lancey, a girl book or man must be a serious book enabled him to reveal England to of Huguenot descent and belonging Organizations and Individuals. Cooper. or man, and laughter seems to us to English eyes as they could not so to a family of Tories, and everything LET US DO YOUR BANKING. The case of Cooper, now, is not be an indication of shallowness. well see it for themselves, just as it seemed over and done with for him so clear. He was born six years After writing the Knickerbocker was his love of the past ·that made for the rest of his life. He settled F. L. WILCOX, President (Trinity, '80) later than Irving and died seven history Irving lived for several years Knickerbocker and Sleepy Hollow and down very comfortably in W estches ROBERT B. NEWELL, Viee-Pres. and Treu years earlier. He also is called one the graceful and rather useless life all the Spanish books. Once more ter County, New York, the county in T. A. SHANNON, Seeretary. of the Knickerbocker group, although of the young man about town, doing in the Sketch Book we see Irving which Irving was later to set up he was born in New Jersey. When nothing of any importance, putting pleasing everybody, both America Sunnyside, and lived the life of a he was one year of age his father serenely aside all the things which and England, by one and the same cpuntry gentleman who had retired A REAL BOOK SHOP moved with all his large family to most Americans feel of supreme im- book. This was a hard thing to do. from active concernments at the ripe Lake Otsego, in western New York, portance, and simply living, enjoying Many people would say not worth age of 21. on the very edge of the howling wild himself. Hir;; apology may be that doing, and that it is no real man's "The Spy." erness, and there set up a sort of Edwin Valentine Mitchell his health was never robust. Furth business to try to please everybody Years before, John Jay had told feudal domain in what is now Coop ermore, there had died in 1806, at all the time. But it was W. I.'s busi Cooper at a dinner party about the BOOKSELLER, PUBLISHER AND erstown. The father was the great the age of 18, Matilda Hoffman, the ness, and one in which he was very exploits of an American spy during PRINT DEALER man of the town and country side, a only woman he ever loved with his skillful. He found out what the va the civil war. Cooper put together feudal lord in nearly all but name, whole heart, and this event made all rious elements of his expected au a few incidents in the life of an and this fact must never be forgotten the long remainder of his life a sort dience wanted to hear, and then he imaginary spy, wove in some shreds in any attempt to understand Coop 27 Lewis Street, Hartford. of wistful looking backward. He re said just those things, like the ac of history, and staged the whole in er's social and political opinions. mained a bachelor to the end of his complished veteran of ten thousand the country round about him, calling Neither must we ever forget in think days-a bachelor in the full rich tea parties t hat he was. He trod on the whole thing "The Spy", published ing of his passion for the wilderness sense of the word-sentimental, flir no man's ancestral toes. Hating late in 1821. He had no idea that he and his wonderful power of bringing mE W. G. SIMMONS CORP. tatious, conservative, a lover of com- Puritanism as much as it was in his was doing anything extraordinary. that wilderness almost visibly before fort and ease. The mark of the genial nature to hate anything, he Cooper had begun to write the Spy the mind's eye, that he lived in it, as bachelor type of mind is on all his concealed the fact that Ichabod only because his friends urged him a boy, and on rt also; and almost Exclusive Agents for work as it is upon all his life. It is Crane was intended as a burlesque of to do so. Now-a-days a man is to wholly for it. As a young boy as clear in the Sketch Book with its the Connecticut Puritan from nearly be deterred from writing novels only Cooper was sent to live with an Al STETSON and "J. & M" gentle charm, its rather anemic everybody but himself, realizing that by the tears and entreaties of his bany clergyman, an Englishman by yearning for the tender grace of a there would be thousands of people friends. Cooper wrote this first im birth, whose strongest characteristic SHOES FOR MEN day that was dead as it is in his whom he would like to have read his portant book of his with absolutely was his hatred of all things demo private life at Sunnyside, that bach book who were lineal descendants of .no notion that he had an audience. cratic. Then, at 13, to Yale, where elor's paradise, where he gathered that noble six thousand that came Scott knew that every pen-stroke he found himself somewhat too well .:.s p S H . tf d ·about him no less than five separate over in the Mayflower. And yet he would be read by tens of thousands, 48 to J ratt t., ar or . and distinct nieces and played the in- prepared, so that he took no interest has his own private chuckle at Icha and this is a great help to a man. in his studies. In his junior year he spired and heaven sent bachelor un bod that sadly dwindled Puritan Cooper had his audience still to make. J. FRED BITZER, JR. was expelled from Yale for some last cle to them all. Of all the interest religion has settled into his Well, this novel appearing in Decem Acent for the Celebrated Hamllt.. wh~se straw of mischief which had broken ing contrasts between Irving apd stomach and his pocket-gastronomy ber, 1821, went into three editions in and Gruen W atehea. the back of the professorial patience. Cooper this, I think, is one of the and greed. Also in this same America in three months, and was Dlamonda, Jewelry, Cloeka, SU•·II'W'M'e and his education in the formal sense most important, that Irving was an book he has his chuckle at the short dramatized in the fourth month, with Fine RepairiD&' was over. Nature or Fate or Prov ideal bachelor and that Cooper was comings of the English-at their ar O'reat success. Some copies leaked idence seems to have a very tender 11 Pearl Street, Hartford, Co.. very emphatically a husband-not an rogance, t heir blundering, their slow ~hrough to England. The American care of men of genius, providing in ideal one of course, for such a crea wits. For in that paper which I newspapers recorded by the middle the case of Irving, as we have seen, ture does not exist in nature, but still have mentioned, "John Bull" the of the summer with great joy that Social and Business that he should never go to college at very much a husband. rapier of his wit plays coruscating Cooper had been hailed in England all and in the case of Cooper that ENGRAVING lightning about their bewildered as "a distinguished American novel "The Sketch Book." hi~ college should not contaminate STATIONERS PRINTERS heads and they are too astonished to ist." It was not a case of America the pristine innocence of his youthful In 1815 Irving sailed for England feel offended, they cannot tell wheth waiting for the European verdict, for PLIMPTON'S mind. Think of Shakespeare, too, so on business, intending to be gone a er he is laughing at them or with America had' welcomed this book of 252 Pearl St., at Ann, Hartford Yast a genius that Fate never let him few months. He remained 17 years, them. Now when Cooper took up his its own volition, but the English get within a dozen years of college. first helping his brother Peter whose brutal bludgeon and waded into them, opinion when it came was a great re After acceding to the request of the F. Warfield & Co. business affairs finally wound up in they were left in no doubt as to just lief. The Spy was published early G. Yale authorities that he absent him bankruptcy, then roving about Eng what he meant. His kind of talk in 1822 in England and had a sale self permanently from that great Booksellers and land and Spain, and finally as Sec they could fully understand, because there as great as that in America. seat of learning, Cooper began his Stationers retary of the American Legation at it was just their kind of talk. Cooper This finally decided Cooper's future. London. In 1818 his brother failed education without further delay by He had to write, whether he wanted 77-71 Asylum Street, Hartfor•, Coaa. in business. Until this time, Irving tells no more home truths than Ir shipping before the mast on a mer to or not. He was 32 years of age ving, but he made a totally diff~rent chant vessel plying to England and had been supported by his family as effect. Cooper deliberately k1cked and had just 30 years to live. They INFORMATION FOR FRESHHBN: Bordeaux. Here he had one or two a sort of ornament or hot-house flow away from him a greater reputation were 30 years of mighty toil, of great It's the Style to co to voyages sufficiently tempestuous to er. Suddenly he was called upon than Irving ever gained, just by out fame and of great obloquy, of almost fit him out with fictional material MARCH'S BARBER SHOF to help support them. He began to spoken honesty. Irving attained and incessant fighting. Few men have Room 1, Conn. Mutual Builclinc. do so at once and in the next year for life, and after a year or so en lived a more heroic 30 years than maintained his reputation in spite of tered the Navy as Midshipman, see Vibration Shampoo. brought out the Sketch Book, first his honesty. Cooper, in Shaw's these of his in which he wrote 100 Manicure by Lady Attendant. in America and then in England. It ing service chiefly on Lakes George, volumes with one hand while fighting words, forced Englishmen to think a Champlain, and Ontario--vastly use had immediate success in both coun new thought-the thought, namely, Europe and America and all the news ful places for him to know about. CALHOUN SHOW PRINT tries. It contained in Rip Van Wink that they lived in a glass house and papers in Christendom with the DIGNAM & WALSH, Proprieton le and In Sleepy Hollow his two best would do well, therefore, to stop Adventure. other. POSTERS, PLACARDS- known and his two best pieces-both heaving bricks. Irving said the same So it went with him until he was Cooper meanwhile decided that the BIG TYPE PRINTBIUI. American in setting and both deal thing so gently that they took it for about 21-constant physical activity (Concluded on page 4.) Also CALHOUN PRESS- Quality Job Printers ing, as Knickerbocker had done, with flattery and loved him for it. He that serene and changeless legendary 356 Asylum Street, Hartford. kicked them downstairs with so sweet past in which his fancy was almost a grace that they thought he was most at home. These two pieces helping them up. THE SISSON DRUG CO. were received with joy in America because they seemed to give to us a Returning to America in 1832, CHEMICALS, DRUGS thing of which we had felt a con Irving bought the old Dutch farm AND MEDICINES, scious and often expressed need-a house on the banks of the Hudson, background of time, a ·sense of re a mile or two from the scene of The 72t Main Street. Hartford, Coaa. mote and shadowy antiquity, in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and made absence of which the romantic imag for himself a gentleman's country ination cannot breathe. We don't home now known to the world as THE CASE, LOCKWOOD Sunnyside. There were 27 years of and BRAINARD CO. feel today, as men did then, that American history is all of it in the quiet and happy work ahead of him, PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS raw crude blaze of modernity all lived in the full sunlight of un AND PAPER RULERS and there is no reason why we should waning popular favor. Corner Pearl and Trumbull Str.. ta feel it, for America may be as old It was in the closing years of his Hartford, Conn. to the imagination as any land. But life that Irving returned to that task if we do not feel it, that is largely which he had long dreamt of and because three men-Irving, Cooper, yearned to finish-the Life of Wash The T~inity and Hawthorne-have created for us ington. He thought of it as his most an American antiquity which we important work, and doubtless in should not have been able to create many ways it is. Sufficient scholar Refectory for ourselves. This is one of the ship and great charm are in it, and a H. A. STEVENS, Proprietor. greatest of their gifts to us. world of good reading for anyone The Sketch Book was calculated to who will blow away the dust which please English readers quite as much it has gathered on the shelf. It was Dining Room Open 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. as American. It describes English finished within a few weeks of his scenes and English life as English serene death on an Indian Summer 'Visit also the LUNCH ROOM at the Day at Sunnyside. would like to be able to de~cribe them UNION - Open till 11.30 p. m. - piercing below the surface to the Irving's pre-occupation with the spirit. No Englishman, indeed, has past, then, was due to the fact that REPAIRING ever written more lovingly, glowing in the place of his birth there was For all work on Roofs, ete., eall on ly, and truthfully withal, about his no past. So he had to make one. Repair Department - Ch~rter 8610. own land than this American W. I. His love of society, of refinement, of Competent workmen and htgb - grade does in a dozen papers of the sketch gayety, were due to a similar reac metals, tin, copper, ete. book. He is in a sense more English tion from his environment-from the Olds & Whipple than the English, without for an in dour Puritanism of his father. In the 1 6• -166-168 State Street. Hartfer•. stant ceasing to be a staunch and America of his time he found a so- THE TRIPOD DR. SHEPARD'S LECTURE. orous way which won for him the continued this interest in the college. address the conference. The sessions EXCLUSIVE AGENTS (Continued from page 3.) choice epithets-reptile, insect, grub, Captain McCook was formerly grad will be open to any Trinity students spiteful miscreant-which I have uate manager of athletics at Trinity who are interested. success of the Spy must be due to quoted. Then, in order that he might and he is now chairman of the Grad .. Florsheim the fact that in this book he was have flO friends at all, so it would uate Committee on Athletics. He is writing about something he knew seem, he began a series of books a member of the Psi Upsilon Frater HARTFORD'S about. Accordingly, he decided to about America, charging his country nity. Shoes weave a story about h~s boyhood men with those very same faults of CHRISTMAS home-Otsego Lake. The result of vulgarity and greed, selfishness, Bill Battey's Shoe Shop this was "The Pioneers", 1823, first provincialism, which he had refused CONFERENCE OF CHURCH HEADQUARTERS in order of time in the Leather Stock to let the English charge him with. STUDENTS AT TRINITY . Strand Theatre Building. ing Series. One of the most poetic From now 1 This turned the press of the coun Program Being Arranged by Rev. Ulltl 1023 MAIN STREET, HARTFORD. things he ever did, though not so try against him and lost him gooa a story as some of the others Malcolm Taylor. To Take hosts of friends, but he swerved Place from I•ebruary 9 to 11. Christmas this store THE JOSEPH in the series. It was our introduc not an inch to right or left. L. BESSE CO. From February 9 to 11, inclusive, ·n b h d . tion to Natty Bumpo, otherwise As the result of a five-year cam WI e t e esbna· CATERERS the Annual Conference of Church known as Hawk-eye, La Longue Car paign-during which five years, by French an,d American Ice Creams, Students in New England Colleges abine, Path-Finder, Leather Stock the way, he was doing some of his tion of seekers of French Pastry, Colllfectionery, etc. will be held at Trinity. In many of ing, etc., the friend, philosopher and best fiction-he succeeded in putting the New Colleges the Episcopal stu 701 MAIN STREET, HARTFORD. guide of all rightly brought up Amer the fear of God and the libel law into GIFTS for every dents have organized themselves in Telephone, Charter 2134. ican boys, and the most highly fin the hearts of American editors, teach to groups for religious study and send ished portrait in our literature if not ing them a lesson they have never member of the fam.. delegates to a conference once a year. in all the world's fiction. Cooper did forgotten. It is due to him, perhaps, Although there is no such group here not see him very clearly at first, did that we now have those blessed sav ily. at Trinity, the use of the college has not know the wonderful opportunities ing clauses such as "it is said", and been offered for the conference and there were in him-but here, at any "we are informed." By 1850, how We're not able to it is hoped that some interest in the rate, he had unconsciously struck out ever, he had won his fight. A ne, work may be awakened here. Ar TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. 0Fft. the red outlines of a great poetic generation of readers came along list every article in E.Z rangements are being made to have figure-nothing less than the Amer that knew nothing of the old bitter THE ORIGINAL WIDE • as many of the delegates as is pos ican pioneer, the frontiersman, the ness against him,- and his last two our vast stocks, so we sible live at the college during the man to whom we owe a great deal years were comparatively serene. conference. The first sessions of the of the best there is in us. He has Irving and Cooper were barely ac suggest t h a t you GARTER conference are on Friday, February the virtues of the pioneer-he is re quainted with each other. Cooper . You wouldn't wear a 9, and the last on Sunday, the 11th. tourniquet. Why bind sourceful, courageous enough when seems to have thought that Irving come In and look The program is in the hands of the veins and muscles with a there· is need but never foolhardy, a did not like him, and so avoided him garter that depends on ad Reverend Malcolm Taylor who is the lover of the wild. Furthermore, in as much as possible. Irving of course around. justed tightness? No adjustments executive secretary of the New Eng on the E. Z. this book Cooper first struck em disliked nobody. In many ways the land district. The full details have 35c to $1, everywhere, in sinole-qrip and th~ phatically into that type of fiction two men were very dissimilar. The E. Z. ~-Grip, and the E. Z. Sport Garte1·. Made not yet been announced, but several oolely by The Tboo. P. Taylor Co., Bridceport, Cooo. which he did better than any of his one was a conformist, the other a eminent churchmen are engaged to thousand imitators have been able fighter. The one was greatly loved, Featured by Leading Dealers. to do it-the novel of adventure. We the other was seldom more than re G.Fox&Co. tend now to think that this is a spected. Neither of them had any LE BAL TABARIN lower kind of fiction. Not necessar message, any great truth to teach. "Just Across the Bridge" on the "ly. At any rate his work is the best Ambassadors are not expected to do Boulevard." of its kind. In the treatment of that, and pioneers are too busy. frontier life of adventure ·he has Cooper's influence is far more alive The Most Delightful Place in since had many imitators. today than Irving's. He has had New England. It is always said in this connection thousands of imitators, Irving only Tasillo's Orchestra of Sixteen Macullar, that Cooper owed a great deal to a few, such as George William Cur Scott. He certainly did not owe his tis, William Dean Howells, Charles ( 16) Pieces, with woodcraft, his seamanship, for Scott Dudley Warner. Irving popularized Royal Marimba Players. had neither of these things, and the light essay, the tale, the short Admission 60c ~ including tax; these are what made Cooper what he story. Cooper the novel of adven -Parker Co. Saturdays and Holidays, $1.10. was. He owed to Scott chiefly the ture. But the two of them together preparation of an audience. gave the reading world to understand By the time the Pioneers appeared that America was t o be heard from. people were watching Cooper on both TRINITY TAILOR BOSTON, MASS. They were our two first representa S. FEGELMAN, Proprietor. sides of the Atlantic. 3500 copies tives-ambassadors and pioneers. were sold in New York City on the Suits ~ade to O~der; Steam Cleaning, Dyemg, Pressmg and Repairing day the book appeared. And the at Reasonable Prices. later popularity of the book was in 449 Zion St., cor. Hamilton, Hartford. proportion. Cooper had arrived. America had been put on the liter ANSON McCOOK APPOINTED. CLOTHES ary map, once and for all. (Concluded from page 1.) HENRY ANTZ Cooper then turned to his other Devens. July 8, 1918, he sailed for great storehouse of material-the France and was in the Seventy-sixth BARBER SHOP sea. In spite of the opinion of his Division. When that unit was bro 10 CHAIRS. FOR friends that the general public could ken up into replacements, etc., he was not understand the terminology sent to Chatillon-sur-Seine to attend H. FITCHNER G. CODRARO of seamanship, he turned out the tactical school. There he broke hi ~ Proprietors Pilot, published 1824. This was the arm in anti-machine gun practice. first novel dealing exclusively with Next he was in command in Com 27 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn. COLLEGE life on the ocean wav-e in the world. pany E, 320th Infantry, Eightieth It was not the last. To this innova Division. In March, 1919, he re Branch Shop: tion of Cooper's we owe a list of later ceived an appointment to the Sorbon 2 Grove St., Old Times' Bldg. novels almost as long and still more ne University, to attend the law class distinguished than that which followed es. Following his study in the Sor MEN his pioneer invention. He dealt with bonne he was liaison officer in Bel Trinity Barber Shop the sea in the same mixture of poetry gium. 996 Broad Street, corner Jefferson. with exact knowledge that we see in "Last March, the republican city Electric Massage and Hair Cutting. SPORT SUITS his novels of the wilderness. He was convention drafted Captain McCook Pre-war Prices. a master in both fields-and that is as its nominee for mayor. He made the reason why his stories flowed a whirlwind campaign of a week but OITO BRINK. Proprietor SACK SUITS from him so easily. In the novels of it was the democrats' turn to win and the Forest and Prairie and of the Richard J . Kinsella was elected. Great Lakes he gave us our American "Captain McCook has been a mem The Bryant & Chapman Co. FALL OVERCOATS landscape-a gift, pure and simple, ber of the State Reformatory Com Distributors of Properly for we should not have been able to mission and also local chairman for DRESS SUITS see the beauty of these if he and his the Belgian Relief Commission. When Pasteurized Milk and Cream fellows of letters had not shown. them Cardinal Mercier visited Connecticut, Hartford, Conn. to us. In his Pilot and the many he took charge of the reception ar TUXEDOS other ocean-life stories that followed rangements. He has been active in MAX PRESS he gave us the beauty of the open civic movements. He was secretary GOLF JACKETS unoared sea-a thing that only art of the American delegation at the TAILOR, CLOTHIER, can make seem beautiful to us. The convention of the International Cham HABERDASHER, SHOES Greeks had as fine a sense of the ber of Commerce in Paris in June, Showing every Monday at the Union. SWEATERS beautiful as we have, but to them 1920. He was appointed on the 201-5 Main St., Middletown, Ct. the sea was hateful. They had no Charity Board by Mayor Brainard GOLF HOSE Cooper. and has been deeply interested ,in the Since there is of course not time reorganization of the City Hospital. HE HARTFORD He has been active in Rau Locke to speak in any detail of the ninety CONNECTICUT SILK AND WOOL HOSE Post of the American Legion and is or more other books Cooper wrote, TRUST COMPANY a member of various military vete t will be well to say a word about Depositary for Trinity. his later life and then to turn to his ran bodies. DRESS VESTS Old State House Square general characteristics. Returning "His father is the last survivor of Cor. Main St. and Central Row from a seven-year stay in Europe in the 'Fighting McCooks' of the Civil I 1833, he began a series of books War." >Vhich seemed to the people of that Captain McCook has always been lF YOU GET IT AT ALDERMAN'~ time deliberately designed to insult interested in the welfare of both the IT'S RIGHT I Showing Every Month at the Union. all those who had grown to love his college and the city. As an under 111ork-particularly the English and graduate at Trinity he took an active the Americans. He talked back at part in college affairs, and at all The Alderman Drug Co. the British travelers in a very vig- times since his graduation he has Cor. Main and Pearl Streets. Hartford GEORGE L. GOODWIN., Representative..
Dr. Shepard Gives Address
