ALUMNI REVIEW Published by the Williams College Alumni Athletic Association

TALCOTT MINER BANKS, Editor and Manager

Issued in February, April, July, October and December of Each Year Annual Subscription $1.00; Single Copies 2 0 Cents Bntered a, "condclas, master February 23, 1909 «< the poet office at Williamstown, Alaee., under the act of March 3 i879. All correspondence should be addressed lo the Editor, 61 Main St., Williams town.

VOL- 5 OCTOBER, 1913 NO. 4

Williams College opened on September ment of the Pattison will case brings to seventeenth with a total enrolment of 493 Williams income-bearing real estate val­ students, which is 19 less than that of 1912, ued at about $150,000, and the $100,000 and 42 below that of 1911. The new offered by the General Education Board ■ students number 137, the smallest entering 'will be available when the College has class since 1905, but they are a likely- raised $500,000 and has paid its debts. looking lot of boys, and 60 per cent of So much for the beginning. The hard them came without entrance conditions, work comes next, and those who have the which is a cause for congratulation. endowment campaign in charge are pre­ While the College, with its present paring for a thorough canvass of the equipment, can handle a larger body of alumni and friends of Williams. To as­ undergraduates than is now within its sist in the effort, the College has engaged walls, there are advantages connected the services of Mr. Francis B. Sayre of with limited numbers which Williams the class of 1909, one of the most widely men have ever been free to recognize. known of our younger alumni, as Assist­ A college of five hundred men is about ant to the President. Mr. Sayre will right, according to the views of a good bring to his task abundant energy and many. enthusiasm, and in his visits to the vari­ ous associations of Williams alumni in behalf of the endowment cause he should The Endowment Fund has scored a meet with a hearty reception. Such notable advance since Commencement, undertakings as that upon which the the sum of $100,000 having been contrib­ governing forces of Williams are embark­ uted by a friend of the College. This, ed often gather momentum as they grow, with the gifts of $16,000 made in June, and the progress of our “snowball” will brings the total of “cash and good be our “big interest” in this academic pledges” up to $366,000. The. settle­ year. 2 The Williams Alumni Review

At the recent inauguration of a presi­ as a distinct shock to many worthy people. dent in one of our Eastern colleges, the That our Williams Library needs more students gave a performance of “Much books is a fact that should not call for re­ peating, and, as Mr. Brown well says, no Ado About Nothing.” This may have fairly expressed their one should .be deterred from giving them sentiments, but was it quite polite of by the apparent lack of room in our present quarters. Such gifts, as that of them to rub it in? the historical collection of Professor ■ Gross of the class of 1878, or that gener­ The editor of the Williams Record is on ous money legacy of John Savary of the the right track when he calls on the under­ class of 1855, to buy books for the Library, graduates to do their part toward keep­ are alike welcome. They bring nearer ing down the cost of living at Williams. the vision of a new and adequate library We understand that he proposes to follow building on our campus, befitting a col­ up his suggestion later by a detailed in­ lege where the things of the mind are vestigation of the conditions involved; ever of foremost concern to those who if so, he will render a distinguished ser­ vice not only to Williams but to colleges serve her best. in general. Just how much of a boy’s college allowance goes for education and Williams College now has all the “pam- how much for a good time is what thous­ philia” (to quote one of our ancient ands of American parents would be glad, worthies) of a regular fire-department. to know. If our undergraduates, of their A visit to the little old brick building own accord, come to a realizing sense of back of the Gymnasium will reveal an the unnecessary elaborateness of modern orderly and complete assortment of fire student life in our Eastern colleges, so apparatus—chemical engine, hose-cart, net, collapsible buckets, hats and coats much the better. for the firemen. What is more, the boys know how to use it all, and have their One of our subscribers is very desirous organization well under way. There of obtaining a copy of the Alumni Review is an undergraduate fire-chief, there are for July, 1910, in order to complete his captains, lieutenants and sublieutenants, . file of the magazine. Any one who cares and every College building has its special to dispose of a copy of the issue named guardians assigned. The brigade will can obtain a liberal price for it by com­ be able to help, too, in town fires, and municating with the Editor of the A lum ni you may trust its members, whatever Review. the hour of day or night, to jump when the whistle blows. Mr. Brown’s letter regarding the libra­ ry question at Williams contains some The metamorphosis of the long-familiar valuable constructive suggestions. The idea that a college library—or any other “Congo” church building, which is now library for that matter must have in progress, will do much to change the books in it to make it worth while is not aspect of our main thoroughfare, and will a new one, but it nevertheless might come surely give our Commencement visitors The Williams Alumni Review 3 of 1914 occasion to sit up and mb their Perhaps it is as a result of the Chinese eyes. In place of the massive red brick Student Conference held last summer in stmcture of years gone by, with its lofty Williamstown that Mr. Tse-Ki Chow of “toothpick” spires, they will behold a Peking comes to us this year as a member New England meeting-house of the nob­ of the freshman class. Mr. Chow was a lest type—white clapboarded walls, white student for three years at the Canton steeple, and white columned portico. Christian College, has been for the last year and a half attached to the Chinese The old brick walls will be still there, to Legation at Washington, and now enters give strength and solidity beneath the Williams under appointment from his white clapboarding, but the outward government as a specially selected candi­ fashion of the “Congo” will no longer date for an American collegiate course. puzzle architects as to its classification. We welcome Mr. Chow (who wears his Those who love the style of the Colonial freshman cap as gracefully as any man period will welcome one more insistence in his class) as a worthy successor to his on the note which somehow seems to compatriot Yung Mung Chum Akum of echo clearest in this New England valley the class of 1843 (whose story was told of ours. in the Alumni Review for April, 1911), and are quite willing to approve the judgment of the Faculty in accepting his The action of the Board of Trustees in eleven years’ study of the Chinese classics putting the 'scholarship payments on a as a fair substitute for our usual Latin yearly instead of a half-yearly basis will requirements. meet with a general approval from all who desire to see Williams College attract A Lover’s Tribute and hold its proper proportion of men of Few men have known the mountains limited means. Hitherto, a man who round about Williamstown as did John failed to “get through” one of his courses Bascom of the class of 1849, and none has at mid-years, from whatever reason, lost left behind him a tribute to their spell his scholarship^ money for the rest of the more marked by eloquence and sincerity college year, and this factor may well than that to be found in the pages of the have deterred men who had to depend book, “Things Learned by Living”, pub­ upon scholarship aid from “chancing it” lished since his death. While the au­ at Williams. Now a man who obtains a tumn foliage on our hills is in its glory, scholarship will hold it through the year, and the heart of many a Williams man unless he is guilty of gross misconduct or goes back to the alpine climbs of under­ negligence. graduate days, we print this offering of The falling off in applications for schol­ that strong, upward-looking spirit among arships at Willis rr.s in recent years has our alumni, who was a poet as well as a caused concern to many friends of the philosopher. College, and such will welcome any plan “When I went to college, I met for which will tend to restore former condi­ the first time with mountain scenery, tions. and it has yielded to me the best relaxa- 4 The Williams Alumni Review tion and the most skillfully concocted world about us are like the cooings of a cup of physical and spiritual pleasures child in its cradle, a thing of sensations that I have anywhere found in life. I and unvoiced affections and an over­ have never been in the presence of moun­ shadowing presence. tains without a kindred uplift of feeling, There are three types of mountains. nor climbed to their summits without a The first and most familiar form, and sense of revelation that has widened the one which may well make up the staple spiritual horizon as well. of our sensuous pleasures, is that found at The poem of the mountains has been Williamstown—forest-clothed mountains, perused with incessant refreshment. The with few bare summits or ragged flanks. presence of others, with rare exceptions, Hills hardly have the force of mountains adds nothing to the influences that steal until they penetrate the region of clouds into the soul under the silent induction of and unite earth and air. It is not enough Nature, the spirit catching a kindred ex­ that the mist, in rising, trails along them, tension and tranquility. Starting out or that the storm descends upon them; for a mountain trip, the spontaneous they themselves must be of the heavens utterance has been, ‘Air day with thee, O and full partakers in its significant moods. God, all day with thee.’ One must look to them, as the laborer The ocean, in its magnitude and mobile looks to Greylock, to see the predictions strength, is perhaps the most impressive of the weather. If the day is brooding, object, to the senses and the mind alike, it must brood on these summits; if it is of any terrestrial thing. But there is a gathering storms, there must be their certain physical affinity which determines rallying points; if it is sweeping together the impression we receive from external the tenuous mists of a summer’s morning realities, as there is a spiritual sympathy to dismiss them, like a flock sent afield, which settles for us the connections of into the empty areas of the sky, the last thought. The ocean hq,s been to me an visible traces must lie along these slopes. image of desolation, restless and devour­ It is their interplay of earth and air that ing. The seasick body becomes the sea­ gives to the mountains half their fascina­ sick mind, and the hovering gulls and tion, and they are not mountains unless chafing waves and undying murmur along they rise with relish into this fellowship. the ship’s sides disturb and torment every Mountains become lines of measurement restful instinct in the soul. Ceaseless in cloud scenery. They help to define its and meaningless motion wears the spirit masses, make real its positions, and open away, as does the dull mechanical drop­ up its spaces. The mind is thus borne ping of water the rock. The refreshing definitely outward and upward from one activity, on the other hand, of climbing step to another. The stability of the the mountains brings out the joyous, mountains gives reality to all that is as­ conquering impulses, and places life in sociated with them. The features of the sympathetic play with life, as it clothes sky lose their dreaminess and remoteness the broad slopes, gathers under the shel­ and unrelieved form. The unfailing yet ter of rocks, or creeps lovingly over them. mercurial beauty of the heavens calls for The reciprocities of the mind with the this contact with the earth, or it floats The Williams Alumni Review 5

away from us and is lost. Our eyes are scarcely an intimation of their coming, not lifted to it, and do not penetrate it. envelop the summits and sweep along Sunsets, of which mountains so often rob the ridges. Ascending Pike’s Peak I have us, owe their power in large part to the been suddenly overtaken by a snowstorm, fact that so many tints of brilliant color seen it in a few minutes pass by me and are poured out along the horizon and sink below me, and shortly leave a long thence travel to the zenith. Spaces are stretch of upland glittering in the sun­ once more defined for us. The tent of light with the purest possible mantle. the sky rises high above us, yet droops There is much grandeur in these moun­ everywhere in gorgeous bands to the tains, but hardly the same sweet peace- earth. which belongs to lower ranges, nor the Forest-clad mountains have a nearness overpowering sublimity of higher ones. to, a fellowship with the forms and wants The third type, of which the Alps are of life, a clinging to the earthward side of an example, with somewhat greater things, which make them the most friend­ height penetrate to the very heart of ly expression of beauty, and give them, strife, and by their vexing, stubborn tops if not the strongest, the most constant create permanent centers of storm, and hold on the feelings. Beauty has in treasure houses of ice and snow. Along them a domesticity which is found only their slopes and through their tortuous here and there in nooks and sheltered re­ ravines the glaciers creep perpetually treats of higher ranges. down to the plains, and dissolve away The second form is illustrated in the amid the affluent life which climbs their Rocky Mountains. We have in this sides and crowds its way to the very edge type an elevation which passes beyond of desolation. The cold streams which the timber line, and enters the region of burst from beneath the glaciers, the gla­ perpetual snow and constantly returning ciers which forever weigh down the storms. Yet the summer months have streams, mark the overlap of the conflict­ a vital force everywhere. The snow near­ ing forces. Summer and winter, con­ ly disappears, and the spaces between the struction and destruction, the warring timber and the summits are covered lux­ elements that invade the open spaces and uriantly with grass and flowers. Though the flowers that spread into them wage there are fine forests and many plants an interminable warfare, retreating and along the slopes and watercourses, the advancing with ’the rhythm of the sea­ sense of barrenness predominates, and a sons. I know of no revivification of the feeling of desolation, as the ranges are entire life like a long tramp in the Alps, viewed from their lofty peaks, clings to whose changes lie so close upon one an­ the landscape. Grandeur and strength other, are so sublime, so tender, so in­ and beauty are on all sides, and yet there stinct with power. The shifting of is no predominant force, either of living scenes is so frequent that one with any things or of elemental energies, which fills fair measure of strength is glad t.o be left the mind. It is a region of conflict be­ to what becomes one’s own sweet will tween the two tendencies, with variable amid these perpetual enticements. The results here and there. The storms, with method of movement most in fellowship 6 The Williams Alumni Review

with the world is walking; next but quite bear it, but it leaves the temper of thought a way off, is riding, having taken to our­ much as it finds it—saving ever that selves fellowship with a life a little lower higher intercourse, which most of all than our own. things vocalizes for us the mind of God.” Mountains owe their first and simplest power to their magnitude, magnitude up­ The Williams Club ward, which most of all impresses us. A At a time when the need of a closer more important feature is their combina­ affiliation between Williams College and tion and grouping. Hills that hardly at­ her graduates and former students is be­ tain the elevation of mountains, as in the ing felt and expressed as never before, a Lake Country of England, may, by va­ most effective means toward the desired riety of outline, centers of strength, and result has been happily and unexpectedly lines of retreat produce all the minor im­ provided in the inauguration of a Wil­ pressions of bold scenery. A third source liams Club in New York. of power is the diversity of life which ac­ For several years the wish has been companies them, its uplift and large pre­ growing among Williams men living in sentation. The crowning force of the and near the city that they might have mountains is their fellowship with the there a rallying-point for the various ac­ air. Their summits are points of trans­ tivities of the local alumni association, as figuration. It is here that a sweet, well as a home where not only they, but dreamy feeling of victory over the world their fellow-alumni from whatever city, pervades us, a feeling that, without sep­ might find a welcome in the name of the arating us from it, puts it under our feet, College of the Berkshire Hills. One or and leaves it floating in softened form two* plans, made in co-operation with and color in that highest, remotest' sense, other New England colleges, having been vision; but carries it quite away from all discarded as impracticable, the oppor­ nearer senses and immediate uses. There tunity for an independent establishment are a liberty of feeling and a spiritual tone at last presented itself. A friend of the begotten at once of the freedom and of College—one of its best friends'—owning the purity of the place...... a house in a choice residential district of Fortunately more men find relief in the city, offered in July to lease the social relaxation than in rustication. I premises for the purposes of'a Williams " have owed my habitual preference for Club at a nominal rental, about sufficient the solitude of Nature in part to a weari­ to cover taxes. At an informal meeting ness that grew more weary among men. of Williams men held in New York on Men make a demand that it requires July 29 a plan for organizing and main­ some vivacity to meet, while Nature steals taining a club was presented and unani­ in restfully at every sense, giving all and mously referred to the general body of the asking nothing. Nature is the more di­ alumni for their consideration. Circulars vine, the more creative, the more recrea­ were sent out giving an outline of the tive. proposition, with blanks for membership Society brings ready refreshment to applications and for subscriptions to the those who love it, and have strength to installation fund. The response has been The Williams Alumni Review 7 most gratifying, and at the present writ­ tire, younger men in ever increasing num­ ing 317 resident and 372 non-resident ber must take their places, and the members have been enrolled, while a Alumni Review, for one, has no sort of generous sum has been contributed to­ doubt that they will, and that Williams, ward the installation fund. A further in this undertaking as in others, will show increase in the enrollment of resident herself able to set the pace among the members is being rapidly accomplished, smaller colleges. and it is expected that the opening of the club will take place early in December. The “Rushing Season” Williams men in New York, and others A stranger coming to Williamstown in who have occasion to make frequent visits the week before the opening of the Col­ to the city, have clubs already, but they lege in September might well be puzzled serve a different purpose. This estab­ at the extraordinary activity of the stu­ lishment is to be not so much a club as a dent population. To the old inhabitant, Williams club. Its main purpose will be however, “rushing season” is a sufficient to keep before all who enjoy its hospitable explanation. quarters the name and memory of Wil­ Perhaps the campaign of this particular liams College. The pictures on its walls, September may serve to illustrate, as well the trophies on its mantels, the books on as any, the characteristics of the pro­ its shelves, will be reminders of college ceedings incident to the selection of new days. Here will be held the annual class members by the Williams fraternity dinners that have been so pleasant a cus­ chapters, and to emphasize certain fea­ tom of recent years, here the Board of tures of them which may call for atten­ Trustees of the College will hold its winter tion on the part of those interested. meetings, and here—not least of all—ex­ Competition may be a good thing in it­ pectant alumni will receive reports of self, but regulated competition may be the Amherst games, “hot off the wire.’’ better. At any rate, there is no “com­ Such a place should become and continue bination in restraint of trade” about the a lasting attraction for Williams' men, present “rushing” arrangements at Wil­ whether from near or far. liams. It must be remembered, however, that As the class this year was smaller than while the club is to be put into operation usual, and the number of fraternity chap­ without delay, its successful maintenance, ters larger (there are now fourteen of with all that it should mean to our Col­ them), the rivalry between the compet­ lege and ourselves, will be entirely de­ ing forces was especially keen. Emis­ pendent upon the support it receives from saries of some fraternities boarded trains Williams men. Ours is a small college to at Albany or other points out of Williams­ commit itself to a project so considerable, town, to meet and escort men with whom though- especially auspicious in its be­ they were already acquainted, or to pick ginnings, and it is only the loyal efforts up acquaintance with any likely-looking of a few of our comparatively large body stranger lads who admitted they were of local alumni which have made possible bound for Williams. “Date-cards”, or its realization. As the older members re­ printed slips on which engagements to 8 The Williams Alumni Review

meet fraternities during “rushing week” may not appreciate the other factors en­ are entered, were presented and appoint­ tering into the situation—the forces of ments arranged for the newcomers, said inheritance, of school friendships, of home appointments naturally favoring, in no relationships—which in the majority of small degree, the particular fraternity cases influence choices on the side of both represented by the “advance agent” on the fraternities and the freshmen, but the train. In exceptional cases, freshmen even one who allows for all these factors were brought into town from distant may wish that some mode of procedure points by high-powered automobiles, to were possible by which the advantages of prevent their falling into the hands of a more deliberate choice might be open to the enemy. both parties concerned in the “rushing” The trains arriving at Williamstown question. That counsels to “take your were met by a dozen or more motor cars, time” have little effect even upon the manned by alert fraternity men in search most level-headed freshman when pitched of men they knew or didn’t know, and into the hurly-burly of “rushing week” is more “date-cards” were produced amid shown by the fact that seventy-five per scenes of hustle and confusion. Quick cent of the class entering Williams this fall as a wink, the incoming freshmen were were pledged to fraternities before the whisked away by friends or captors tQ first week of recitations was over; while one fraternity house or another, there to the errors of hasty judgment react upon be fully instructed .as to which was “the both freshman and fraternity. best crowd” and why. In such an argu­ The history of fraternities at Williams ment the unnecessary magnifying of the has been long and dignified. While ob­ merits of rival organizations was usually jections to certain of their tendencies, avoided. Then, for those not im­ both here and at other colleges, may be mediately pledged, followed the cus­ freely admitted, their influence with us tomary programme of entertainment, has been in the main beneficial. The consideration and invitation, until by “rushing” problem exists at every frater­ the opening of college exercises nearly all nity college in the country, and is being choices had been made, the students’ tackled in various ways with varying de­ automobiles ceased to roar up and down grees of success or failure. In several of the streets, the lights in the chapter- the Western institutions, faculty rulings houses were put out before midnight, and have settled the matter, for better or ✓ wearied “rushers” and bewildered fresh­ worse, but in our Eastern colleges inter- men had a chance to rest up and “take fraternity regulations have kept, or tried stock”. to keep the house in order. With the Of course, an outsider, seeing all this, admirable spirit of honor which has al­ might wonder how it is that any decent ways distinguished Williams undergrad­ order can come out of such confusion, uate life, and with the cordial relations that men coming to Williams can make maintained among our fraternity chap­ an intelligent decision with regard to the ters, it is to be hoped that some measure important matter of fraternity affilia­ of regulation, mutually entered into, and tions, or that fraternities can fairly es­ fair to all concerned, may put an end to timate the quality of the men presented the regrettable, not to say laughable for their consideration. Such a critic features of the existing “rushing” system. The Williams Alumni Review 9

COMMUNICATION To the Editor of the Williams Alumni As one who has been connected with Review : academic life in recent years both as stu­ Sir, dent and teacher, and realizes keenly the The Williams Record has rendered a importance of the library in modern ed­ valuable service in directing attention to ucational methods, I venture to offer a the pressing need of a new library. few suggestions as to how Williams men Modem methods of instruction in our or friends of Williams may individually colleges demand greatly increased library help in this connection, namely in adding facilities. Williams has already taken desirable books to the College Library. important steps in this direction by the First, book funds as memorials for in­ establishment of seminars in Government dividuals or as gifts of a class may be es­ and Literature. But for the convenience tablished for the purchase of books for of both Faculty and students who desire special departments in order that no de­ ready access to a wide range of books for partment be handicapped in its work. general use or special research, a large, Second, men who for professional reasons adequately equipped library is impera­ or for personal pleasure have gathered tively required. Williams must have a together collections on special topics such proper, central, intellectual-supply-plant. as jurisprudence, government, history, A beautiful chapel, splendid auditorium philosophy and literature, could do noth­ and dormitories sink into relative unim­ ing finer than to provide that such collec­ portance compared with this most urgent tions should eventually come to the Col­ need. lege. Williams is already fortunate in Unfortunately, books are as much having such valuable collections as those needed as «physical equipment. The Li­ of the late Professor Gross of Harvard brary is far from being well supplied with and of the late Honorable John B. Gale of those books required ordinarily by the Williamstown. Even in the absence of students alone. Instances have occurred an adequate building, no one need hesi­ where students have been compelled to tate to give such collections to the Col­ send to the public libraries of Boston and lege, as proper temporary storage can be elsewhere in order to secure books needed found, and as the larger the amount of in the preparation of theses. When this books requiring library space, the more is true of students it may easily be appre­ obvious and pressing will be the need of a ciated what hardships are occasioned new building. members of the Faculty who constantly Third, editors of newspapers or other require a large range of books in prepara­ periodicals, and book-reviewers are in tion for courses or for personal research. constant receipt of valuable new works At a gathering of Williams men last win­ which, once received and reviewed, are ter it was remarked by a distinguished likely to disappear hopelessly in a kind of graduate of the College that even if suffi­ literary morgue, or perhaps find their cient funds are available to hold and se­ way to the rapacious second-hand book­ cure teachers of brilliant attainments, it seller. It would be a particular service still would be difficult to keep them unless to the College if such books were forward­ they have better library facilities for their ed without delay to be placed in general work. It is obvious therefore that the circulation for the benefit of students and need of a new. well stocked library and Faculty. the need of a large endowment are so in­ Fourth, many men whose good custom timately related that emphasis should be it is to buy books of all kinds in order to laid on both needs in the hope that the keep abreast of the times would often College without any delay may be enabled do well to thin out their libraries from to rise to its magnificent opportunities. time to time, of such books as they no ÍO The Williams Alumni Review longer require and send them along to the inestimable service in helping to make it College Library. Second-hand book deal­ serenely independent, possessing such in­ ers certainly do not compensate ade­ tellectual resources as to offer overwhelm­ quately, while the College very often ing inducements for men to come to Wil­ would so keenly appreciate such gifts as liams, whether as students or leaders of to more than compensate the giver for his thought in the Faculty. With all its trouble. The College is of course best unrivalled endowments of Nature, tradi­ able to determine what books may be tions, and of men, there should be no especially desirable, so that one would do apprehensions as to the magnificent fu­ well to send along whatever he may no ture of the College, once this great need longer desire to keep for his own use. has been adequately supplied. In all these various ways Williams men Philip Marshall Brown, and friends of the College could render it Class of 1898.

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Student Enrolment for 1913-14 ander T. Burr, Chicago, 111.; Marion S. Williams begins the academic year with Cadwell, Jamestown, N. Y .; Van Henry a total enrolment of 493 students, as com­ Cartmell, New York City; Kenneth S. pared with 512 a year ago. Last year’s Chester, Bridgehampton, N. Y .; Charles total showed a falling off of 23 from the A. Choate, Winona, Minn.; William B. record of 1911. Clark, Litchfield, Conn.; Tracy A. Clute, The present undergraduate body is Garden City, L. I.; Reginald M. Cobbs, divided among the four classes as follows: Akron, 0 .: Andrew H. Cochran, Min­ seniors 128, juniors 115, sophomores 88, neapolis, Minn,; George J. Coffin, New freshmen 162. The last division in­ York City; Harold S. Conklin, New Ro­ cludes a number of men who have drop­ chelle, N. Y .; Reginald A. Cook, New ped back a year, the total number of new York City; Carlton W. Cox, Montclair, students being 137. The list follows: N. J . ; Robert D. Coye, Rochester, N. Y.; 1914—Joseph E. Worthington, East Edward F. Danaher, Williamstown, Orange, N. J .; 1915—Lewis C. Gil- Mass.; George H. Daniels, Williamstown, ger, Norwalk, O.; Lawrence S. Roberts, Mass.; John D. Davies,'Camden, N. Y.; Winter Park, Fla.; 1916—Albert L. Randolph F. Debevoise, So. Orange, N. Grindy, North Adams, Mass.; Walker J .; Leonard C. Dewing, Hartford, Conn.; F. Vance, Cincinnati, O.; 1917—James Thomas R. Dorr. Williamstown, Mass.; S. Alexander, Jr., Montclair, N. J.; Law­ Alden M. Drury, Northampton, Mass.; rence Sheppard Armstrong, Penn Yan, Thomas Earle, Jr., Steelton, Pa.; Samuel N. Y .; Charles Burgess Arthur, Jr., Eells, Cleveland, 0 .; Richard W. En­ Cleveland, O.; Charles A. Atwell, Jr., sign, Westfield, Mass.; Kingsley Erwin, Sewickley, Pa.; Winthrop P. Austin, St. Cloud, Minn.; E. Kirke H. Fessenden, Santa Barbara, Cal.; Leonard H. Bailey, West Newton, Mass.; Esty Foster, Plain- Buffalo. N. Y .; Charles A. Banks, Evans­ field, N. J .; Leonard C. Freeman, Mor­ ton, 111.; Henry O. Banks, Greenwich, ristown, N. J . ; Prentiss French, Chicago, Conn.; Donald DeV. Bartholomew, 111.; Harry E. Funk, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Orange, N. J.; Lester Y. Baylis, Hunt­ Stanton Garfield, Williamstown, Mass.; ington, N. Y .; Walter A. Bell, New York Bradley J. Gaylord, Buffalo, N. Y.; City; Thomas H. Benedict, Roselle, N. Alexander H. Godfrey. Philadelphia, Pa.; J . ; Hubert D. Bennett, Toledo, O.; Luther C. Goodrich, Chao Kung Fa, Pe­ Henry P. Blodgett, Toledo, O.; Robert king, China; Ernest C. F. Greef, New F. Blodgett, West Newton, Mass.; Alex­ York Citys Richard B. W. Hall, New The Williams Altmini Review n

York City; Woodman C. Hamilton, Oak Clarence B. Schaefer, Buffalo, N. Y .; Ben­ Park, 111.; Bryan Hamlin, New York nett F. Schauffler, Highland Park, 111.; City; Robert O. Handley, Hauppauge, Theodore C. Slosson, Mt. Kisco, N. Y .; N. Y .; Charles J. Hardy, Jr.; New York Grant D. Small, New York City; Har­ City; Henry S. Herendeen, Elmira, N. wood E. Smeeth, Oak Park, 111.; Ashley Y.; Joseph R. Hewitt, New York .City; B. Smith, Oak Park, UL; Carl D. Smith, Leonard B. Hotchkiss, Buffalo, N. Y .; Holyoke, Mass.; Irving Smith, Jr., New Frank H. Hutchinson, Columbus, O.; York City; Winthrop Smith. Dorchester, David E. Jeffery, Lockport, N. Y .; Alex­ Mass.; Raymond R. Stetson, Platts­ ander H. Johnston, Rochester, N. Y .; burgh, N. Y .; Harold C. Thompson, Horace S. Keifer, Springfield, O.; Lin­ Orange, N. J .; Charles F. Ulrich, Green­ coln L. Kellogg, Oneonta, N. Y .; William field, Mass.; Harold L. VanDoren, East H. Kelton, Pawlet, Vermont; Norman Orange, N. J.; Harold R. Van Gilder, F. Kennedy, East Cleveland, O.; Carl E. New Haven, Conn.; Carl W. Vietor, Kieser, Brooklyn, N. Y .; Albert A. La- New York City; James Ward, IV, Pitts­ plante, Williamstown, Mass.; John H. burgh, Pa.; Alan G. Warner, Brooklyn, Leeming, Buffalo, ,N. Y .; Arthur V. N. Y .; Francis D. Weeks, Dorchester, Lewis, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y .; Mass.; Norman U. White, Ridgewood, James L. Lohrke, E. Orange, N. J.; Al­ N. J . ; Charles L. Whittemore, Williams­ bert T. McAllister, Chestnut Hill, Pa.; town, Mass.; Allyn R. Wight, Montclair, Ezekiel McCleary, Amsterdam, N. Y .; N. J .; Henry D. Wild, Williamstown, Gilbert J. C. McCurdy, Rochester, N. Y .; Mass.; George B. Wilson, Wichita, Charles L. McKelvy, Pittsburg, Pa.; Kans.; Norman H. Wilson, Glen Ridge, Roger B. McMullen, Jr., Evanston, 111.; N. J.; Philip I. Worcester, Detroit, Donald S. Mann, Buffalo, N. Y .; Elias Mich.; .Harold B. Wright, Bellevue, O.; Marks, Cificinnati, O.; Charles J. Mas­ John A. Wright, Jr., Youngstown, O.; singer, Butler, N. J.; Randall W. Mat- Kendall Wyman, Fitchburg, Mass.; son, Rochester, N. Y .; William B. Mer- George S. Young, Cleveland, O.; Robert selis, Passaic, N. J.; George Middle- G. Young, Minneapolis, Minn.; Charles brook, New York City; Percival Miller, Zabriskie, Paterson, N. J. Providence, R. I.; Warner J. Montague, New York City; Sidney C. Moody, Evanston, 111.; Myron A. Moore, Gard­ Pres. Garfield’s Opening Sermon ner, Mass.; Duncan B. Murphy, Lee, Mass.; Nathaniel S. Norton, Buffalo, President Garfield occupied the chapel N. Y .; Dickson Nott, Honolulu, H. I.; pulpit on the first Sunday morning of the Wendell S. Nutting, Brooklyn, N. Y .; college year, and preached from the text: Richard J. O’Brien, Williamstown, Mass.; “Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into Lewis R. Owen, Port Henry, N. Y .; the wilderness.” Ulrich R. Palmedo, Montclair, N. J .; In the course of his address the Presi­ Lester A. Paterson, Buffalo, N. Y .; dent dwelt on the temptations of college Victor E. Pattou, Yonkers, N. Y .; James life, especially as appealing to young men B. Pearce, Jr., Cleveland, O.; Henry O. entering it for the first time. “In a very Philip, Tacoma, Wash.; Stanley Phillips, real sense,” said Dr. Garfield, “college is Upper Montclair, N. J.; Harold E. Rich, a place of temptation. It may prove to Bethel, Me.; George L. Richardson, Jr., be overwhelmingly so, or it may prove West Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert R. Rich­ to be a place from which a young man ardson, Glendale, O.; Roger W. Riis, comes forth with tested powers, confident, Barre, Mass.; Thomas F. Rochester, Buf­ strong—a man. In other words, he may falo, N. Y .; James T. Rodgers, Jr., Havana, come out a nobody or he may come out a Cuba; Truman H. Safford, Lowell, person. Which do you propose to be? Mass.; Philip S. Sayles, Adams, Mass.; It lies with you to choose. You can be 12 Xhe Williams Alumni Review

what you persistently w ill yourself to be,- out his purpose, and Christ’s mission was and to will yourself to be anything is to to lead men to make right choices, that is have a purpose. to have high rather than low purposes. Whether you succeed or not depends Christ does not tell you and me what largely upon your attitude toward college particular choice to make, but he does and college life. If you look upon college show us how to discover a purpose, as a place,- the place above all others namely, by giving heed to all the highest where you are free to do as you like, if and best influences of our lives. you consent deliberately or thoughtlessly But it is not sufficient merely to have - to throw off restraint, to have a good made a right choice of a purpose. The time, to do just enough to stay in, you choice of a right method of procedure is are beginning badly. You are cultivat­ vital to the accomplishment of a purpose. ing an entirely erroneous conception both This is illustrated in the scene in which of college and of life. You are making Christ is depicted as standing on the driftwood of yourself. On the other pinnacle of the Temple, and was urged to hand, if you regard college as a place of cast himself down, relying on God’s preparation for life—life with its comrade­ providence to save him. By his refusal, ships, its duties and pleasures, its oppor­ Christ made it forever plain to the under­ tunities and ideals, with its disappoint­ standing of man that his purpose, his ments and hardships also; if you take mission in the world, could not be accom­ the long look ahead and govern yourself plished merely by getting himself recog­ accordingly, you will inevitably discover nized as leader. His mission could be a purpose, and thereby arm yourself performed only by living among men, and against temptation. by his daily life as well as by his teaching Christ’s temptations were of three showing them how to form and live up to a kinds. First, the temptation to yield to life purpose. His mission was to pro­ bodily appetite. You know in what duce a change in them, not to convince . particular form that kind of temptation them of an external phenomenon. Christ comes to you. It is different with differ­ refused to be turned aside from the ent men. In some of its forms you will method he knew was necessary to the find college a harder place to live than accomplishment of his mission. school, in others not. Here, amid the I assume that you have come here with hills, removed from the distracting life a purpose to remain, that you do not of a large community, the grosser forms mean to disappoint those who are helping of appetite find little to feed upon. But you forward. Possibly some of you have appetite is within and we cannot hope to already decided upon your life work. avoid its craving merely by fleeing from In the midst of your new surroundings. that which unduly excites us. That is you will find temptation enough to post­ ^ the negative way. It has its value, but pone the beginning of your work. To­ the positive way is of far greater import­ morrow will do, and again tomorrow. A ance, namely, to discover a purpose in few experiences of slipping through a re­ life, in your life here, and to bend every citation unprepared lead you to rely on effort to the accomplishment of that pur­ chance. You become reckless, and be­ pose. To keep the body active, to em­ fore you are aware of it your good pur­ ploy it in hard work or hard play is well, pose has been all but forgotten. The but the body must have rest, and in the same thing may take place in your com­ hours of relaxation the mind, which is or panionships and the kinds of amusements ought to be the master of the body, may you allow yourself. Or you may devote become its tempter unless the mind is yourself so generously to some college possessed of a high purpose...... activity that failure stares you in the face. He is only a m an who having made a To do anything, however good in itself, choice employs body and brain to carry that draws you away from your purpose The Williams Alumni Review 13 is reckless. You are doing the thing of you strong enough to withstand the the moment, ordinarily at somebody temptations of the body? Are you pos­ else’s suggestion, rather than the thing sessed of strength of will to perform per­ which you believe to be necessary to the sistently and faithfully the duties which accomplishment of your chosen purpose. are set before you? Most important of You are failing to take account of the all, do you perceive the need of your cost both to yourself and to others.- Let spiritual nature, and that all high purpose me counsel you to take command of is bom of the spirit? If so, you will your time as well as of yourselves, to equip yourself to go forth from this place adopt a method of life as well as a purpose ‘ in the power of the spirit’—a man.” in life. But what now is to be said concerning Building Improvements the character of a life purpose? The answer is revealed in the greatest of the All the College dormitories have been temptations. Christ was conscious of his overhauled during the last summer, and power over men. From, the first, he walls and woodwork of the rooms re­ spoke as one having authority. To use touched and renovated. Repair work on that power to advance himself was easy. the chapel and Griffin Hall has been at­ He might have made himself leader tended to, and the old College carpenter among his people. But he knew that his shop (originally the gymnasium) has mission was to mankind, not to any single been converted into a home for the new nation, nor to all nations. It was not to College fire department apparatus. men in the aggregate, but to the individ­ The generosity of Francis L. Stetson, ual man. everywhere and in every age. ’67, is again evidenced by the construc­ Therefore, he put aside every suggestion tion of three new tennis courts near Wil­ that tended to thwart his purpose to come liams Hall (bringing the total in this lo­ into close,'vital touch with men, that he cality up to eight) and by the laying out might bring to each the inestimable bless­ of a new road, to be known as Lynde ing of the truth and the light. Lane, mnning west to Park St. from the Christ’s mission, his life purpose, trans­ new Stetson Road across Cole Field to the cend all others, but our purposes may be station. like his in character, indeed must be like A handsome addition to the costly and his if they are worthy of our choice. Not beautiful group of fraternity homes is what you do in Williams College—the ac­ furnished by the new Psi Omega house, a tivities you elect and the offices you fill— brick building costing about $27,000, lo­ but what you are determines your cated on the driveway in the rear of the character. Men’s vocations differ. Their houses of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Delta activities change from age to age, but Theta. A roomy addition has been the spiritual nature of man is the same made to the Alpha Delta Phi house. today as it was when Christ lived upon The Congregational church building, earth. He knew it would be so, and his long familiar to-visitors to Williamstown, words are as true for you and for me as is undergoing an entire reconstruction. for the men of Galilee and Judea. The exterior of the church is to be cased When at last the crisis of the tempta­ in white clapboards, a single central spire tion -was* over, when, in the quaint lan­ will replace the old pair, and a columned guage of the Gospels, ‘the Devil departed Colonial front will complete the trans­ from him for a season’, Jesus returned, formation; no longer merely led by the spirit, but ‘in the power of the spirit’. Fall Meeting of Trustees College is a place of temptation. It The regulär fall meeting of the Board is also a place of great opportunity. of Trustees was held in Williamstown on The one always includes the other. Are Oct. 2. All thè members of thè board 14 The Williams Alumni Review

were present with the exception of Dr. Jessie Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the Harry P. Dewey, ’84, Hamilton W. Ma- President of the United States and Mrs. bie, ’67, and ex-Senator W. Murray Wilson, was announced in July. Crane. As Assistant to the President (a new President Henry Lefavour, ’83, of office at Williams) Mr. Sayre’s first duties Simmons College, Boston, for several will be in connection with the campaign years an Alumni Trustee of Williams and for the new endowment fund. He will this year a candidate for re-election, was visit the different Williams centers, get made a Permanent Trustee at the meet­ in touch with the alumni associations, ing. Another important action was and demonstrate the need for an increase taken in changing the scholarship pay­ in the funds of the College. At the ments from a half-yearly to a yearly same time he expects to improve his op­ basis, thus removing the possibility of a portunities to investigate conditions of student’s losing his scholarship in the municipal government in the various middle of a college year, through failure cities he may visit, and collect material to maintain the required average stand­ for use in President Garfield’s courses in ing in .studies. municipal government.

Endowment Further Increased Phi Beta Kappa Men From 1914 In addition to the gifts for endowment The first drawing of undergraduate purposes announced at Commencement, members of Phi Beta Kappa from the the College has received a contnbution of class of 1914 was made Oct. 13, and the $100,000 from a friend of the institution. following were chosen: John Ure Ander­ This brings the total of cash and good son, Thomas Calvin Atchison, James pledges up to $366,000, consisting of three Phinney Baxter, 3d, William Leonard individual contributions of $100,000 each, Crum, Carl Edward Glock, Albert Wright $50,000 from Mrs. Russell Sage, $10,000 Roekwood, and Richmond Walker. from the class of 1888, $5000 from a friend The balance of the undergraduate and $1000 from Rudolph Matz, ’82. chapter will be elected in February, 1914, The resources of the College have been the total number of members beipg not further augmented by the income now more than one*-seventh of the class, ac­ being received from the Pattison estate, cording to the amended by-laws of the consisting of improved real estate in New Williams Chapter. York City valued at $150,000. News of the Faculty John P. Rice, Ph.D., formerly Instruc­ F. B. Sayre Assistant to President tor in the department of Romance Lan­ Francis B. Sayre, ’09, of Bethlehem, guages, has returned to Williams, after JPa., has been appointed Assistant to the an absence of a year, as Assistant Professor President, and will take up his duties in in the same department. W. C. Allee. February, 1914. Mr. Sayre was an ac­ Ph.D., comes as Instructor in Biology to tive member of the college community take the place of Prof. J. L. Kellogg, during his undergraduate years, serving absent on leave, and H. W. Moody, as president of the Good Government Ph.D., will act as Instructor in Physics Club and manager of football. He led during the sabbatical leave of Prof. W. E. his class in scholarship, being awarded McElfresh. New assistants are G. M. the valedictory honor at graduation. Ehlers in Geology, Harold Lyon in Bot­ After leaving Williams he studied law at any, John R. Miller, ’13, in History, and Harvard, and has lately been employed Emil R. Stein, Jr., T3, in Chemistry. in the District Attorney’s office in New Two changes have also been made in the York City. His engagement to Miss Library staff. The Williams Áítimni Review Í5

Prof. Karl E. Weston returns, after a Secretary in Jesup Hall was kept open for year’s absence, to take up his new work stated hours for the convenience of mem­ as Professor of the History of Art and bers of the entering class who desired Civilization (the chair formerly occupied guidance or information. In the course by Prof. R. A. Rice), and Prof. George of the summer, Mr. Gibson also got into E. Howes of the department of Ancient touch, through correspondence, with Languages has also returned after a year many members of the incoming class. of travel and study. Prof. James B. On the evening of Sept. 27, the usual Pratt of the department of Philosophy reception for the freshmen was held in will spend a large part of the coming year Jesup Hall, under the auspices of the in India collecting material for his Christian Association. The President courses. and Mrs. Garfield, assisted by Faculty members and their wives, welcomed the Relics of the Founder Exhibited new men, and after the greetings all ad­ In a glass case in the west wing of journed to the assembly room, where Lawrence Hall several interesting relics President Garfield gave a short address, of Colonel Ephraim Williams have been followed by representatives of all the placed oh exhibition. They have been undergraduate activities, who presented for years in the possession of the College, the claims of their respective avocations. but have been stored away until this fall. The closing address was given by Secre­ Chief among them is the sword of the tary Gibson of the association. Colonel which he carried at the battle of # The various committees of the asso­ Lake George, September 8, 1755, his last ciation are busily planning the programme fight. Here also is the watch he wore for the year, one of the first to start work when he fell, a silver card case engraved being the Boy Scout committee, which with his name, and a curious pair of pipe- has enlisted the services of a goodly tongs—all of these being gifts to the number of undergraduates as scout mas­ College from members of the Williams ters. The finance committee has also family. With them is shown the original been active, as the association plans to return of the killed, wounded and missing spend $1500 this year. after the battle of Lake George, in the President Garfield addressed the first handwriting of an aid to General Johnson, Sunday evening meeting of the associa­ commander of the provincial forces. tion on Sept. 28, and is also giving a series This was presented to the College at the of talks to freshmen on Sunday mornings time of its centennial celebration in 1893 on the life of Christ, with application to by Fisher Howe, ’72, of Boston. college problems. The usual series of A number of pottery specimens from talks before the members of the entering the Field collection are also exhibited in class by seniors has also been undertaken. the cabinet. Such subjects as “Williams Customs and Ideals”, “A Williams Freshman”, “The Williams Christian Association Curriculum and Campus Activities”, be­ John B. Gibson, ’13, General Secretary ing handled by men well qualified to of the Williams Christian Association, speak. attended in the vacation the summer school for student secretaries held at Estes Park, Colo., in preparation for his College Preachers duties this year. Plans are on foot for The appointments of preachers in the the holding of this school for secretaries College chapel this term include the fol­ at Williamstown next summer. lowing : During the week before the opening Oct. 12—Rev. John S. Zelie, D.D., of the fall term, the office of the General Plainfield, N. J. 16 The Williams Alumni Review

Oct. 19—Rev. H. S. Coffin, D.D., Mad­ versity Library. Prof. Smith’s book will ison Avenue Presbyterian church, New be used as a reference work in his history York City. eburses. Oct. 26—President W. Douglas Mac­ kenzie, D.D., Hartford Theological Semi­ Chemists Meet at Williamstown nary, Hartford, Conn. A conference of leading New England Nov. 2 •— President Albert Parker chemists, from the faculties of several Fitch, D.D., Andover Theological Semi­ colleges, was held in Williamstown on nary, Cambridge, Mass. Oct. 11. The meetings of the group are Nov. 9— Rev. W. A. R. Goodwin, held twice a year at different colleges, D.D., Rochester, N. Y. and this is their first visit to Williams. Nov. 16—Rev. Robert Davis, Engle­ The visitors, among whom were repre­ wood, N. J. sentatives of Massachusetts Institute of Nov. 23—Rev. H. E. Adriance, Nor­ Technology, Simmons College, Harvard folk, Conn. University, Holy Cross College, Amherst Nov. 30—Father Harvey Officer, West College, Smith College, Massachusetts Park, N. Y. Agricultural College, Dartmouth College Dec. 7—Father Harvey Officer, West and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Park, N. Y. were entertained at tea at the Faculty Dec. 14—Rev. F. Boyd Edwards, Or­ Club, and at a banquet and “smoker” ange, N. J. held at the Greylock Hotel. Class Presidents Elected Good Government Club The senior class has chosen as its presi­ The Williams Good Government Club dent James Phinney Baxter, 3d, of Port­ starts the year with prospects of contin­ land, Me. Baxter is also editor-in-chief ued success. Over 250 men have already of the W illia m s. Record. joined the organization, and the various George L. Hubbell, Jr._ of Garden City, committees are already at work. A num­ N. Y., has been elected president of the ber of well known men have been asked junior class, and Norman Brown of Port­ to address the club during the year. land, Me.,president of the sophomore class. Cap and Bells Choose Play Book in Preparation by Prof. Maxcy Cap and Bells has chosen for produc­ Prof. Carroll L. Maxcy, ’87, of the tion this fall the farcical comedy “Niobe”, English department, has in preparation by Harry and Edward Paulton. Frank a book entitled “Specimens of Narrative L. Short, who coached the Williams play­ Composition”, which will be published ers in 1912, will have charge of the prep­ by Houghton, Mifflin Co. It contains aration of the play this season. 25 specimens of narrative structure, ar­ The Freshman Parade ranged in separate groups to illustrate The customary pageant of the glories the principles of setting, character and of the entering class, with the assistance plot, and will serve as a supplement to of some reflected light from selected soph­ his former work on “Rhetorical Princi­ omores, dazzled the populace of Williams­ ples of Narration”. town on the afternoon of Oct. 4. The gay parade, in which were featured cur­ Prof. Smith’s New Book rent episodes of scandal and history, Prof. Theodore C. Smith of the depart­ beside a number of other things, passed ment of History has written a book en­ up Main St. to the Greylock Hotel, where titled “Wars Between England and the a few special numbers were presented to United States”, which is to appear in the an appreciative throng. On the whole, series of volumes on United States His­ it was a diverting and picturesque enter­ tory now being issued in the Home Uni­ tainment. The Williams Alumni Review 17

Items its active membership to 50 men. Only Thirty-two men from the classes of students of good standing in the German 1914, 1915 and 1910 failed to return to courses are eligible to membership. A college this fall. Of this number, 5 were series of meetings and entertainments, at from 1914, 9 from 1915, and 18 from 1916. which German will be spoken and sung, The English Club, an organization of is to.be planned for this year. students taking English courses, "has de­ Judge A. L. Kellogg of Oneonta, N. Y., cided to change its name to “Pipe and whose son is a member of the freshman Quill”. Meetings will be held every two class, has offered a prize of $50 in gold to or three weeks and several interesting that member of the class of 1914 who shall speakers will address the club during the submit, not later than May 15, 1914, the year. best essay on the subject of college edu­ Twenty-four per cent of the three upper cation. classes are entitled, by reason of scholar­ An elective course in elementary Greek ship standing, to enjoy ten per cent cuts has been started this term under Asst. this half-year. Freshmen are limited to Prof. Dickerman. cuts in five per cent of their college exer­ There are 26 candidates for the M. A. cises. degree registered at Williams this year. Additions to the College Library since Of these 5 are in residence, and 21 in April 4, 1913, amount to 949 books and absen tia. periodicals, raising the total of its cata­ So far, seven fraternity chapters have logued publications to 74,622. A large announced their intention to hold house- number of these recent acquisitions are parties at the time of the Amherst game. bound volumes of magazines, which have The Williams musical clubs will make been especially desired. their first appearance this season at the The Qeutscher Verein, the students’ Methodist church in North Adams on German organization, has voted to limit Oct. 28.

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Football first score registered against her this The football season is well on its way, season, a pretty field goal from the 40- and Williams bids fair to make a good yard line. Williams held the formidable showing. At the opening of the term Harvard team magnificently for three Coach Daly, whom the management periods out of the four, the score being 3 were fortunate in retaining for another to 3 until the last quarter, when Har­ year, found a number of the veteran vard’s strength and weight bore down players at his call, with a goodly squad of her plucky opponents, and three touch­ “second-string” men and some new ma­ downs were scored for the Crimson. terial from last year’s freshmen. Practice Final score, 23 to 3. The Dartmouth began promptly, and the first game, with game comes too late for comment in this R. P. I., went easily to Williams, whose issue. The schedule for the season, with men worked well together and individual­ the scores of the games played to date, is ly, by a score of 14 to O'. A week later given below—* the Vermont University team were de­ feated at Williamstown 20 to 0, in a game Sept. 27—At Williamstown, Williams 14, showing consistent progress for the home R. P. I. 0 team. On Oct. 11, Williams played Oct. 4—At Williamstown. Williams 20, Harvard at Cambridge, and tallied the University of Vermont 0 18 The Williams Alumni Review

Oct. 11—At Cambridge. Williams 3, of three from the sophomores. The en­ Harvard 23 tering class has some good baseball ma­ Oct. 18—At Hanover, Williams 6, Dart­ terial, especially in the “battery” depart­ mouth 48 ment. ' Oct. 25—At Williamstown, Williams vs. New York University Nov. 1—At Springfield, Williams vs. Cheer Leaders Elected Springfield Y . M. C. A. College The competition for College cheer Nov. 8—At Middletown, Williams vs. leaders having closed, the following sen­ Wesleyan iors were adjudged by the undergraduate Nov. 15—At Williamstown, Williams vs. body to possess the best qualifications for Amherst assisting Williams teams to victory by their magnetic effectiveness in conducting Golf the organized cheering: Rodman W. Williams golfers made a strong bid Chamberlain, Norman F. Hunnewell, for both team and individual honors at John A. MacGruer, Francis R. McCook, the annual intercollegiate golf tourna­ Robert R. Newton and Paul B. West. ment, held in September at the Hunting- In recognition of superior talent, John A. ton Valley Country Club, Philadelphia. MacGruer was elected head cheer leader The Williams team, composed of Paul H. for the year. Hyde, ’14, John Marshall, Jr., ’16, Ruth­ erford 0 . Ainslie, ’14, John W. Gillette, For “ Soccer” Football Jr., ’14, Randolph W. Gleason, ’15, and Delano de Windt, ’16, lost to Yale in the “Soccer” has been recognized as a final round by a close margin, while in sport at Williams. Cole Field is to be the singles finals Marshall of Williams was put into shape for. the game and Edward runner-up to Wheeler of Yale. Davies of Blackinton, an old-time English player, is going to show the boys how to play. It is probable that interclass Freshmen Win Over Sophomores games will be played this season. The freshmen won the underclass base­ Amherst is also reported to betaking up ball series this fall, taking two games out the game this year.

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Notice to Alumni Boston For the maintenance and improve­ James F. Bacon, 77 Franklin St., Bos­ ment of this department of the Review, ton, Mass. regular correspondents have been ap­ B u ffalo pointed in the principal Williams centers. In addition all readers are urged to lend Loran L. Lewis, Jr., Erie Co. Bank their support by sending to the Editor all Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. items of interest concerning Williams men Chicago which may meet their observation. Marcus D. Richards, li0 6 S. Canal List of Alumni Correspondents St., Chicago, 111. Albany and Troy C incinnati Isaac H. Vrooman, Jr., 294 Hamilton W. Lytle Foster, Oak and May Sts., St., Albany, N. Y. West Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, 0 . The Williams Alumni Review 19

Cleveland . • It is a twenty-five foot, brown stone Leon Brooks Bacon, 566 Rockefeller structure of five stories including the Bldg., Cleveland, 0 . basement. When arranged for use as a club, it will contain an office, pool and Columbus billiard-room and kitchen in the base­ James G. Durfee, 1365 East Long St., ment, a general club room, dining room Columbus, O. and café on the first floor, a general Denver lounging room, library, card and meeting Henry W. Toll, 508 Tramway Bldg., room on the second floor, and four single Denver, Colo. and two double bedrooms and baths be­ D etroit sides stewards’ quarters on the two upper Dr. Ray Connor, 91 Lafayette Boule­ floors. * ^ vard, Detroit, Mich. Anyone who has been associated with the College as student or teacher is eli­ Minneapolis gible for membership in the club. A Monroe B. Keith, 220 First Ave., fifty-mile limit will determine resident Minneapolis, Minn. and non-resident membership. The an­ New Y ork nual dues are as follows: for residents James A. Hatch, 49 Wall St., New whose classes have been graduated less York, N. Y. than five years, $20; for residents whose Philadelphia classes have been graduated more than five years, $30; for residents whose W. Marriott Canby, 1421 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. classes have been graduated more than twenty years, $40; for non-residents o í / Seattle all classes, $10. W. Philip Smith, 703 White Bldg., The subscribers to the installation fund Seattle, Wash. are given certificates of indebtedness, in Springfield the amount of their respective contribu­ Leopold L. Wilder, 10 Revere St., tions. The certificates will be a first lien Springfield, Mass. on the property of the club in liquidation after current indebtedness is paid and may be redeemed out of any surplus funds Williams Club for New York of the club as the Board of Governors may A plan for the establishment of a Wil­ determine. Those contributing to this liams Club in New York was brought be­ fund will be classed as “founders”. fore the alumni in the last summer, and Up to Oct. 15, subscriptions of $12,217 sufficient progress has already been made have been received toward the installa­ in securing members and funds for fur­ tion fund, while the enrolment stands at nishing to warrant the opening of the 317 resident and 372 non-resident club at the quarters offered for its oc­ members. Subscriptions and applications cupancy at No. 291 Madison Ave. for membership may be sent to Clark A friend of Williams College who owns Williams, 293 Madison Ave., New York. the house at the above address between At a meeting of the joint committed Fortieth and Forty-first Streets, within a on organization held Oct. 16, the follow­ block of the Forty-second Street subway ing were chosen Incorporators, to be station and cross-town street car lines, and governors of the club until the first annual two blocks from the Grand Central Termi­ meeting, which is fixed for the first Friday nal, is willing to lease this-property for in April, 1914: Eugene Delano,’66, Fran­ the purposes of a Williams Club at a nomi­ cis L. Stetson, ’67, Arthur H. Masten, nal rental to cover taxes, say $1,600. ’76, Thomas Nelson, Jr., ’83, Henry W. Besides the great advantages of location, Banks, Jr., ’85, Albert Rathbone, ex-’88, the house is well adapted for the purpose. J. Addison Young, ’88, Charles T. Terry, 20 The Williams Alumni Review

’89, John S. Sheppard; Jr., ’91, James C. The lines in celebration of these places Rogerson, ’92, Clark Williams, ’92. Louis well known and loved of Williams men M. Starr, ’93, Edwin N. Chapman, ’94, are illustrated by a series of exquisite Almon C. Barrell, ’97, E. Dimon Bird, photographs—as beautiful as any that ex-’97, William T. Quinn, ’98, Herbert H. have ever been taken of the region— Lehman, ’99, Ernest S. Suffem, ’01, Max many of which have been secured from B. Berking, ’02, Harold P. Erskine, ’02, spots sought out by the author of the Benno von Witzleben, ’09, and Fred E. book in his walks about Williamstown. ^ Linder, ’12. Notable among these pictures are the The following officers were also elected: views of Greylock from Heartwellville. President, Clark Williams. ’92; vice- Vt., of the entrance to Flora’s Glen, of president, J. Addison Young, ’85; secre­ the Greylock range from Berkshire Rock, tary, Max B. Berking, ’02; treasurer, Ford’s Glen, and the Inner Hopper. Ernest S. Suffem, ’01. Pictures of the buildings of Williams Col­ lege, and of Commencement outdoor fes­ Prof. Raymond’s Book Published tivities, are also presented. “The Mountains About Williams- Prof. Raymond’s book is one of the town,” the book by Prof. George L. best to bring before the memories of those Raymond, r62; of Los Angeles, Cal., an­ who love the Berkshire valley its match­ nounced in the July issue of the A lum ni less scenery and uplifting spirit. Those Review, was unexpectedly delayed in who wish to secure copies should address publication until this month, but is now John D. Stevens, ’14, Williamstown, ready for distribution. The volume, Mass. The price of the book is two which is issued by Messrs. G. P. Put­ dollars. nam’s Sons, is attractively bound in a cover of royal purple, embellished with a Chicago Alumni Activities photograph of Williamstown taken from The weekly Tuesday luncheons of the the slope of Stone Hill. The dedicatory Williams men of Chicago have been re­ verse, from Prof. Raymond’s “A Life In sumed for the season at Vogelsang’s. Song” is as follows: Williams news of the latest date is fur­ “But in the east there lie sky-drifting nished from the files of the Sunday hills. Springfield Republican. A new feature Their cliffs, cloud-coursed in heights of of these occasions is the registering of the mystery names of those present, which should Dim dreamy glens and flashed surprise prove an incentive to regular attendance. of rills, Williams and Amherst alumni of the Had trained in youth his faith and fan­ city will join in a “smoker” on the night tasy. after the Williams-Amherst foptball game, He loved them as a child may love his Nov. 15. ✓ mother Marcus D. Richards, secretary of the A simple child who cannot tell you why, Williams Alumni Association of Chicago, Yet something feels he feels not for an­ has been elected secretary and treasurer other, of the Alumni Secretaries’ Association of Too near the springs of life for question Chicago, an organization of all the college or reply.” alumni secretaries of the city. Then follows an introductory essay by Marion Mills Miller, Litt.D., a former pupil of Prof. Raymond’s at Princeton, NOTES and these poems: “Greylock”, “Berlin Ex-’50. Henry W. Bishop, of Pitts­ Mountain,” “West Mountain”, “Ford’s field and Chicago, died at Sea Bright, N. Glen,” “A Woodland Reverie”, and J., September 28, aged eighty-four years. “Amid The Mountains”. He was bom in Lenox June 2, 1829. In The Williams Alumni Review 2Í the fall of 1846 he entered Williams, of pages. Letters from most of the living which his father, Judge Henry W. Bishop, members of the class are included in the of the class of 1817, was then a Trustee. report, and they are delightful reading. At the beginning of his junior year he As in former reports of the class, the en­ entered Amherst College, from which he tire roll is called, and letters from the graduated in 1850. He studied law and families of those “atrest” have been print­ first settled in Detroit. In 1856 he was ed in many instances together with the admitted to the Illinois bar and estab­ others. There are thirty-two survivors lished himself in Chicago, where he en­ of this notably loyal and united class. joyed a large and important practice for ’63. Dr. Charles McAllister died sud­ many years. He maintained a summer denly of apoplexy July 20, at his summer home in Pittsfield, Mass., and took an home in South Lee, Mass. He was born active interest in local affairs. In 1889 he in the house in which he died. He stud­ presented to the House of Mercy Hospital ied medicine at the Berkshire Medical in that city a large brick building for a School in Pittsfield, and practised his nurses’ training school, in memory of his profession for thirty-five years in Spencer, son, Henry W. Bishop 3rd, of the class of la. He attended the fiftieth reunion of 1886, who died in 1885 while an under­ his college class at Williamstown in June. graduate at Williams. His son, Alexander, of the class of 1906, ’59. A beautiful window of stained died May 21, 1912. glass has been placed in the Old North ' ’66. Dr. John M. Bigelow, for many Congregational church of Springfield, years a well-known physician of Albany, Mass., as a tribute to Rev. Dr. Washing­ N. Y., died at his home in that city Aug. ton Gladden, now of Columbus, O., who 25, after a long illness. He was bom in was pastor of this church from 1875 to Albany Aug. 22, 1847, attended the Al­ 1882. The inscription on the window bany Academy and Williams College, and reads: “In Honor of Washington Glad­ after graduation from the latter institu­ den, D.D., LL.D., Pastor of the North tion took up the study of medicine, fol­ Church from 1875 to , 1882. Minister, lowing in the steps of his father, grand­ Author, Man of Universal Sympathies, father and great-grandfather, all of whom Leader in Social Reform, Honored and had been able practitioners in their day. Beloved by the People”. Dr. Bigelow soon became well known in ’61. Rev. Dr. George C. Raynolds his profession in Albany, serving as Pro­ has been appointed president of the new fessor of Materia Medica and Therapeu­ college established by the American tics at the Albany Medical College and Board of Foreign Missions in the city of president of the Albany County Medical Van, Eastern Turkey, succeeding the Society. He was a member of many so­ high school organized by Dr. Raynolds cieties, and received the degree of Ph.D. forty years ago and heretofore maintained from Rutgers College in 1892. He was by the board. The college starts off married in 1874 to Miss Sarah Crook of with an enrollment of five hundred stu­ Albany, who died in 1879. His son, Al­ dents. Dr. Raynolds received his medi­ bert S. Bigelow, died in 1876. cal degree from the University of - New In his will, Dr. Bigelow made a gift York and served as a surgeon in the Union of $550 to the Williams chapter of the Army during the Civil War. He has Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, of which he resided in Turkey since 1868. There was a member, and, after making other are now - ten American colleges in the bequests named Williams College as his Turkish Empire. residuary legatee. He left a considerable ’61. Rev. George Gardner Smith, of. •estate. Princeton, N. J., secretary of the class, ’67. Hamilton W. Mabie brought out has issued the fifty-first annual report of in September, through the publishing ’61, an illustrated pamphlet of over 50 house of Macmillan Co., a book, upon 22 The Williams Alumni Review

“American Ideals, Character and Life”, ’87. The engagement of Walter Perry a portrayal of present American life and and Miss Elizabeth Merrick Morgan, customs. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. ’68. Rev. Dr. Philip V. N. Myers has Morgan, of Germantown, Pa., was an­ brought out a book entitled “History as nounced July 29. Past Ethics”, being the final volume in his ’92. Willard E. Hoyt, College Treas­ well known series of historical text books. urer, sailed for Europe with members of The book, which is published by Ginn & his family on Oct. 2, for a six weeks’ tour. Co., is designed as a brief introduction to ’92. Charles L. Hibbard was appoint­ the history of morals. ed Justice of the Central Berkshire Dis­ ’70. Francis E. Leupp contributed an trict Court at Pittsfield by Governor article on “The Progressive Idea in School Foss on August 27, succeeding the late Management” to the September number Charles E. Burke, ’84. of Scribners. ’92. James C. Rogerson has become a partner in the firm of Rogerson & ’75. Professor J. Sterling Kingsley, Donnell, brokers in bonds, stocks, cotton after twenty-one years of service as head and grain, with offices at 15 Broad St., of the Biology department at Tufts Col­ New York City. Mr. Rogerson has late­ lege, has resigned that office to accept the ly been elected a member of the New professorship of Vertebral Geology at the York Stock Exchange. University of Illinois. ’94.' Popular Astronomy for October ’81. Rev. Elliott White, for the last contains an account of the semi-centennial seven years rector of Grace Episcopal of the Chicago Astronomical Society, at church, Newark, N. J.. has been called which a tablet in memory of Prof. Tru­ to the rectorship of St. Mark’s Episcopal man H. Safford, first director of the Dear­ church, Philadelphia. born Observatory in Chicago, was un­ Ex-’81. Justice Alfred R. Page of veiled with appropriate ceremonies. A the Supreme Court of New York was letter was read from Prof. Willis I. Mil- installed as Deputy Grand Master of the ham, Field Memorial Professor of Astron­ Fifth Masonic District in New York City omy at Williams, relating to Prof. Saf- on Oct. 6. ford’s work as his predecessor in the chair ’84. Charles E. Burke, Justice of the of Astronomy at the college. Central Berkshire District Court at Pitts­ ’96. Assistant Dean Edward M. Lewis field since December, 1907, died at his of the Massachusetts Agricultural College home in that city August 5, aged fifty- at Amherst, has been selected as perma­ nine years. He was admitted to the nent chairman of the coming State Demo­ Berkshire bar in November, 1886, and cratic convention. was a member of the Pittsfield law firm ’97. Frederic L. MattheWs of Chicago f i f Pingree, Dawes and Burke. He served has terminated his connection with the several years as referee in bankruptcy for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Berkshire County and was connected to assume the position of special agent with several local financial institutions. for Cook County, 111., of the Home Life He is survived by a widow and one son. Insurance Co., of New York, with offices ’86. George W. Anderson was ap­ in the Home Insurance Building, Chicago. pointed a member of the Massachusetts ’97. George W. Gillette of Columbus, Public Service Commission for a term of O., has been chosen secretary of the Col­ four years by Governor Foss, on June 25. umbus Chamber of Commerce. He has ’87. Henry K. Hyde, of Ware, is a previously been manager of the Retail candidate for the Republican nomination' Merchants Association and of the Kil- for Councillor from the eighth Massa­ boume & Jacobs Co. of the same city. chusetts district. He has been president' ’98. The marriage of Walter A. Carr of the Ware National Bank since 1898. and Miss Effie Leonora Gamble, of Fox The Williams Alumni Review 23

Lake, Wis., took place in that town Swift, of Fall River, Mass., and Miss April 8. Mr. Carr, for twelve years a Julia Beaumont Gilroy, of Lebanon, Pa., practising attorney in Concord, Mass., was announced in September. has removed to Hemet, Cal., and engaged ’02. The marriage of J. Walter Jef­ in farming. frey and Miss Margaret Clark, daughter ’98. Harry D. Nims contributed a of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Clark of Lancas­ legal article on .“Price Protection and the ter, O., took place at St. John’s Episcopal Consumer” to the Outlook of June 21. church, Lancaster, on Oct. 2. Mr. and ’98. A daughter, Kathleen, was bom Mrs. Jeffrey will live in Columbus, where to Mr. and Mrs. William F. Walsh, at Mr. Jeffrey is engaged in business. Scarsdale, N. Y .; July 28. ’03. At the last annual meeting of the ’99. The marriage of Walter C. Kel­ Society of Gargoyle Alumni the following logg and Miss Helen Edwards Hull, resolutions were adopted relative to the daughter of Mrs. James W. Hull, of death of Charles M. Turell: Pittsfield, took place at the First Congre­ W hereas, the Society of Gargoyle gational church, Pittsfield, on August Alumni of Williams College is deeply 23. Laurence A. Hawkins, ’97, was best sensible of the severe loss it has sustained man. Mr. Kellogg is a member of the in the untimely removal by death of law firm of Hawkins, Ryan and Kel­ Gargoyle Charles M. Turell of the class logg, of Pittsfield. of 1903, a gentleman and scholar, of broad interests and great enthusiasms, 1900. James J. Anderson, Recorder unsparing of himself in the pursuit of of the city of Auburn, N. Y., died at his whatever he deemed to be his duty, be­ home in that place on July 6, after an ill­ loved and honored by all who knew him, ness lasting nearly two years. He was Now therefore bom in Auburn March 24, 1879, attended Be It Resolved, that we do hereby re­ the Auburn High School and graduated cord our deep regret at the loss of his from Williams College at the age of 20. manly and inspiring comradeship and Entering upon the study of law he was our profound respect and admiration for admitted to the bar in 1902, and began his character: and practice in his native city, being also ac­ Be It Further Resolved, that a copy of tive in political life. In 1911 he was elect­ these resolutions be forwarded to his ed Recorder of the city, and made an ad­ family and the same published in the mirable record in the administration of Williams Record. the duties of his office. He was a man of Max B erking strong personality, genial and compan­ L ucian Guy B lackmer ionable, and possessed in a marked degree Samuel Houghton Cox those qualities which make and keep ’04. A son, George Raymond, was friends. born to Rev. and Mrs. Tyler Dennett, at Mr. Anderson was married in 1909 to Los Angeles, Cal., July 31. The child Miss Emm,a C. Flagler of Auburn. is a grandson of Professor George L. 1900. The William T. Comstock Co., Raymond, ’62. of New York City, announce for publica­ ’05. David L. Belding received the tion this month “The Hollow-Tile degree of M.D. from Boston University House,” by Frederick Squires, architect. June 4. Ex-’Ol. Rev. Albert R. Parker, for ’05. Harold G. Brown has resigned as the past four years rector of St. Paul’s Instructor in English at the University Episcopal church in Gardner, Mass., has of Missouri to accept a similar position accepted a call to St. John’s Episcopal at the University of Wisconsin. church, Fall River, Mass. He entered ’05. The marriage of Dr. John M. upon his new work September 16. Hanford and Miss Gwendolen Smith, Ex-’Ol. The engagement of John T. daughter of Mr. . and Mrs. Amos W. 24 The Williams Alumni Review

Smith, of New York City, took place at trick on May 12. He wins the class cup the Presbyterian church, University of 1909. Place, New York City, September 30. ’09. Everett L. Hazelton has been ap­ ’05. Rev. Clarence E. Wells, formerly pointed western representative of the settled over a church in Gardiner, N. Y., Outlook, in charge of their Chicago office. has become junior pastor of the First His predecessor in the position was Roger Reformed church of West Hoboken, N. C. Hoyt, ’06. J. His address is 534 Palisade ave., ’09. A daughter, Elizabeth, was bom Weehawken, N. J. to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Perkins'of Cleve­ ’06. Professor Homer P. Little, a land, O., on June 11. member of the faculty of Colby College ’09. Roger S. Loomis, for the past and connected with the United States three years Massachusetts Rhodes scholar Geological Survey, will deliver a series at New College, Oxford, received his de­ of lectures on geology at the Theological gree from the University in June. He has Seminary in Bangor, Maine, this year. accepted an appointment as an instmctor ’07. The marriage of Olin P. Geer at the University of Illinois. and Miss Charlotte Van Courtlandt Ni- Ex-’09. The marriage of Frederick coll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Gardiner and Miss Harriet Evelyn H. Nicoll, took place in the chapel of Foster, daughter of William H. Foster, the Good Shepherd, Granite Springs, N. rector, of St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. Y., on Sept. 5. H., took place in the chapel of SS. Peter ’07. James A. Linen, Jr., of Scranton, and Paul’s church in that city September Pa., was nominated for the city council 27. at an election held in September. Mr. ’10. Chapman Grant, grandson of Linen is vice-president of the Scranton General U. S. Grant, recently passed an Steam Pump Co., and holds other posi­ examination for appointment as second tions of responsibility in his home city. lieutenant in the U. S. Army. He has ’08. The marriage of Maynard T. been also appointed Assistant Curator Hazen and Miss Marjorie Howe, daugh­ of the Children’s Museum of the Brook­ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Howe of lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Hartford, Ct., took place at the home of ’10. Stuart J. Templeton has entered the bride on Oct. 2. Mr. and Mrs. the law office of Wilson, Moore & Mc- Hazen will take a wedding trip around Ilvaine of Chicago. the world, and on their return will make ’10. Edwin P. Lehman has been their home in Boston, where Mr. Hazen awarded the John Harvard prize for ex­ is engaged in the practice of law. cellence in standing at the Harvard Medi­ ’08. The marriage of Carl E. Parsons cal School. ^and Miss Helen L. Terry, daughter of Ex-’10. Julian Park has resigned his ^Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Terry, of Plymouth, position with the Buffalo Fine Arts took place at Hull, Mass., August 21. Academy to become Instmctor in French Mr. Parsons is principal of the Highland at the University of Buffalo. He is also Grammar School at Winthrop, Mass. a member of the faculty committee on ’08— ’10. George H. Kelley, who grad­ student activities. uated from Boston University Law School Ex-’IO. A son, John F. ¿Veis, Jr., was in June, and Stafford F. Johnson, who born to Mr. and Mrs. John F. Weis of graduated from' Harvard Law School in Rochester, N. Y., on July 13. June, passed the Massachusetts bar ex­ Ex-’10. Second lieutenant George aminations in July and were admitted to Krapf, who graduated from the U. S. the Massachusetts bar in September. Military Academy at West Point in June, ’09. A son, Souther Buttrick, was has been assigned to the Twenty-sixth born to Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop P. But­ U. S. Infantry at Texas City, Tex. The Williams Alumni Review 25

’ll. The engagement is announced of silk workers’ ' strike to the Outlook of James D. Lester and Miss Sarah Streeter, June 7. . daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milford B. M2. Charles J. Bauerle, Jr.. is in the Streeter of Brooklyn, N. Y. insurance office of G. F. Miller & Co., of Ml. Merrill N. Gates is studying at North Adams, Mass. the Columbia Law School. M2, M3. Charles A. Anderson and Ml, Edward L. Bacher, representa­ Arthur L. Swift, Jr., are studying at tive of the Standard Oil Company in Auburn Theological Seminary. Java, has been transferred from Soerabai- M2. Ronald F. Webster is with the ja to Samarang on that island. He ex­ Chicago Tribune. pects to return to this country on a leave M3. George A. Davis, Jr., formerly a of absence in the fall of 1915. member of the New York American ML Gregory Mason, of the editorial Baseball team, has become a member of staff of the New York Sun, contributed the New York National League baseball an article upon the celebrated Paterson team. B. Altman & Co. are prepared to offer exceptional opportunities for advancement to young college gra­ duates desirous of adopting a mercantile career. Application should be made by letter, addressed to B. Altman & Co., Fifth Avenue at 34th and 35th Streets, New York City.

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