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Dr. Shepard Gives Address The Undergraduate Publication of ~rtnttp <ltoUtgt Volume XIX HARTFORD, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 Number 7 <ulu towered, became at last an es DR. SHEPARD tablished certainty. We had beaten BUELL ACCEPTS McCOOl\.., '02., FORDHAM WINS GIVES ADDRESS England in two wars, but our guns CHAIRMANSHIP RECEIVES CLOSE CONTEST and war-ships had not convinced her Head of English Department that we were worthy of consideration Heads Executive Committee for APPOINTMENT as possible equals. We had worked Basketball Team Defeated 23 to Speaks Before Grade Teachers' Hartford Campaign. 17 in First Home Game. Club of Hartford. out a new scheme of government which was drawing t he eyes of the Trinity Man Honored by Gover­ world, but t his did not seem to prove CHAIRMEN DESIRED FOR nor-Elect Templeton. The t hird game of the season r·e­ THIRD OF A SERIES that we were civilized. In business CONNECTICUT CAMPAIGN. OF LECTURES sulted in a second failure for' t he and commerce we were giving Brit­ TO BE GOVERNOR'S Blue and Gold quintet last week when ish merchants much to thing about, Judge Philip J . McCook in Charge EXECUTIVE SECRETARY. the powerful Fordham University Subject is " Irving and Cooper: but this did not h elp. Such men as of Campaign to be Held in loopsters invaded Connecticut and Literary Ambassadors and Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, New York City. took a 23 to 17 victory away from Pioneers." Jefferson, h ad produced a body of Son of Dr. John J. McCook Has Trinity in her first home game play­ political writing which has had no Greatly cheered by the Hoadley be­ Had Excellent Record. ed on the Hopkins Street gymnasium Professor Odell Shepard, head of parallel for cogency, clarity, and vig­ quest, which brings the total sum floor. The second period of the the English Department, gave a lec­ or since the days of ancient Rome­ raised for the Centennial Fund to game saw some very fine playing by ture in the Public Speaking Room but little of this was read abroad, $600,000, the committee is pushing Captain Anson T. McCook, '02, has the Trinity team, but during the first last Thursday evening, before the and it would have helped us very lit­ plans for the Hartford campaign to been appointed by Charles A. Tem­ half, the Blue and Gold tossers Grade Teachers' Club of Hartford, on tle if it had been. But the work th at be held January 15-20. pleton, Governor-elect of Connecti­ seemed unable to get into the stride "Irving and Cooper: Literary Ambas­ guns and ships, political genius and Preliminary organization work has cut, to be his executive secretary. and exhibit the usual type of ball. sadors and Pioneers." This was the business acumen could not do in win­ been largely completed, and several An article contained in "The Hart- The game opened with prospects third of a series of lectures given by ning for us the respect of the outer meetings already have been held at ford Courant" of December 16, re­ for an even contest for the honors Dr. Shepard for this club. world was done for us by these two which the ground has been gone garding Captain McCook's appoint­ but soon the fast New York team Extracts from the lecture follow: men, mere writers, an essayist and over. Robert C. Buell, of Hartford, ment, follows in part: got under way and piled up a lead a novelist, our literary ambassadors. who has long been familiar with the "The governor-elect offered the ap­ which their opponents were unable IRVING AND COOPER. It is another case, and one of the college, has consented to act as chair­ pointment to Captain McCook in a to overtake at any time during the (Ambassadors and Pioneers.) clearest of th~ pen being mightier man of the executive committee. conference which he had with him game. The guards did fajr work, during the afternoon at republican Puritans-17th Century-Boston­ than the sword. Mr. Buell is not a Trinity man but but the Trinity forwards found it state headquarters in the Allyn Increasingly provincial. English Criticism of Amer ica. believes in Trinity as a Hal'tford in- impossible to penetrate the strong House. The offer came as a complete l!'ranklin-18th Century-Escaped It is almost impossible in fact, to stitution. five-man defense which the univer­ surprise to Captain McCook, and he Puritan. Left Boston for Philadel­ exaggerate the bigotry and the self- "When you consider that Hartford sity team t hrew up and, as a result, asked time to consider it, notifying phia. Cosmopolite. satisfaction, the spite and ignorance is Trinity's home city, that only once most of the shots at the Trinity the governor-elect of his acceptance Irving and Cooper-19th Century­ of English criticism of America in in a hundred years has Trinity ap­ basket were long and forced. The at 8 o'clock that night. Anti-Puritans- New York and Eu­ the years in which our two authors pealed to Hartford for assistance and sensational shot of the game came "Captain McCook is 41 years old rope. were growing to manhood. British that the continuance of the college early in the first half when Keating, and lives at 396 Main Street. He is I call these two men our literary travelers were streaming across the will be of great benefit to the city, held in the middle of the floor by a son of Rev. Dr. John J . McCook, ambassadors and pioneers. They are ocean then as now, bringing their you will see that Trinity is justified two opponents, ma.de a one-handed professor in Trinity College and rec­ pioneers in our literature because, in opinions about America with them in asking liberal support", Mr. Buell toss at the hoop which resulted in a tor of St. John's Church in East a sense, they began it. The writings and going back with precisely the said in a recent interview. perfect basket. Hartford. His ancestors on h'is moth­ of the Puritans were hardly litera­ same opinions, always seeing what "I think all Hartford citizens At the end of the first half the er's side were among the settlers of ture at all in the strict and high they wanted to see so that they might should regard this campaign as a outlook was extremely dismal with H artford. sense. The same is true of Frank­ be able to say what they wanted to civic enterprise, appealing to civic the visiting team leading by an 18 to Scholarly Record. lin's writing except for the immortal say, never learning anything, never pride and public spirit, and all should 8 score. autobiography, which was not pub­ grazed by the shadow of a doubt that support it just as liberally as they "After attending the public schools When the Blue and Gold team lished until 1817. Irving's first im­ that particular layer .of British so- can." of Hartford, including the old Char- took the floor for the second period, portant publication, the Sketch Book, ciety was the last word of God's crea- Preliminary organization meetings ter Oak School near Colt's factory a decided change was noticed in the appeared in 1819. Cooper's Spy ap­ tion in morality, refinement, com- have been held at the University and the South School, he was gradu­ whole team which then exhibited a peared two years later. These two mon-sense. Club, and among those present have ated from the Hartford Public High brand of real basketball. books were the first of our American They found fault with our thea- been Robert S. Morris, the Rev. E. School in 1898 and from Trinity Col­ From then on it was a question of writing to give clear notice to our­ ters, our churche<>, and our houses; C. Thomas, E . S. Allen, Karl P. Mor- lege in 1902. He was valedictorian time, but the start had come too selves and to the world that America they spoke contemptuously of our ba, Fred P . Woolley, Russell G. Johns- of his college class, said to be the late and the whistle alone stopped was not to be content with politics government, our religion, and our ton, Roger B. Ladd, James L. Cole, most brilliant class that had to that the impending defeat for the New and business-that she was also to art; they discovered with horror that Irving E. Partridge, Jr., Ralph Wolfe year been graduated and containing York team. have an art. Our literature, then, we had no landed gentry, no servant and Harvey Pond. J. H. Kelso Davis five "optimi", or men who attained a As this spurt in the second half may be correctly thought of as just class, and they strongly suspected us and Arthur V. R. Tilton, chairman rank of over 90 in every branch for was immediately noticed, the Ford­ about a century old. Since the found­ of having no bath-tubs. Their con- and executive secretary, respectively, every term in their college course. ham captain instigated a waiting ing of Jamestown and Plymouth we tempt for our dollar-chasing men of the general committee, have at- "For a year after graduation Mr. game, and attempted to keep t he have had three centuries of history was equalled only by their disgust tenderl and addressed t hese meetings McCook taught in Cloyne School in ball in a safe position at the same on this continent. We have had at our giggling and squeamish worn- and President Ogilby has taken an Newport, R.
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