History of the Yale Class of 1873 Academic)

THE GIFT OF ^ ^.....^^^-IftÂ^ A.,...(.5:2:i^2L ^Muli'^pi Library Cornell University LD6329 1873e Class of igacad^^^ Histoiv of the Yale 3 1924 030 632 552 olin IVith the Compliments of the Compiler. Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030632552 HISTORY OF THE Yale Class of 1873. (ACADEMIC.) Compiled by Frederick J. Shepard, Class Secretary. - ^.\r^<ô HATTHEWS -ÔRniRUP - WORKS BUFFALO PREFACE. This record is not so complete as it would have been had not the secretary felt constrained to omit the names of two or three non-graduates who were members of the Class for longer or shorter periods, and had he not been requested in a few instances to omit certain facts which have been recorded in previous similar issues. Regarding the incomplete- ness of the bibliography he can only plead that he did the best he could. To those members of the Class who did not ask him to cut anything out about themselves he offers his thanks, and also to those who responded to his first, second, or third appeal for information. At this point his gratitude gives out. He does not, however, fail to appreciate the kindly messages he has received from his classmates, to whom may all good things come ! F. J. S. Buffalo, N. Y., July, 1901. ; — ; 'AA,Xa ro fiiv rtXiu, to Sc koX /necrcTTyyii KoXovti. Iliad, XX, 369. JVec vixit male, qin naius moriensqite fefellit. Horace, Ef., I, 17, 10. Die Menschen sind nicht nur zusammen, ivenn sie beisammen sind auch der Entfernte, der Abgeschiedene lebt uns. Goethe, Egmont, V, 4. Oh then to Yale and Seventy-Three, The living and departed, While for a moment we surround The shrine from which we started — We raise again the song of praise Triumphantly and gaily And lift the cup and drink the toast Of "Salve atque Vale." — Lyman in 1883. THE CLASS OF 1873. The Class of '73, whose college course began September 15, 1869, and ended June 26, 1873, numbered, according to the college catalogue, 143 men in freshman year, 181 in sophomore, 134 in junior, and 118 in senior. Degrees were conferred, on commencement day, upon 112 men, to whom another was presently added, and in 1892 the name of a former member of the Class was enrolled upon the list by order of the university authorities, making 114 in all, of whom 98 survive at this writing. Charles Parker Bodfish of Wareham, Mass., died during the third term of freshman year, and Frank Ward Howard of Brooklyn, N. Y., during the second term of senior year. The most important events in the college world during the career of the Class were the erection of Farnam, Durfee, and East Divinity halls ; the demolition of old Divinity, which stood on the college square just north of North college ; the resignation of President Woolsey and inauguration of President Porter ; the death of Professor Hadley ; and the substitution in the corporation of six alumni for six state senators. Other incidents while it was in college were the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance on Sunday after- noons, the accession to the faculty of Professors Gibbs, Sumner, Carter, Arthur W. Wright, and Henry P. Wright ; the resignation of Professor Oilman of the Scientific school to become President of the University of California (and later of Johns Hopkins) ; the resignation of Dr. Dag- gett as college pastor ; the inauguration by Henry Ward Beecher of the Lyman Beecher lectureship on preaching ; the establishment of the Yale Record ; the organization of the first intercollegiate rowing association ; the inauguration of field athletics at Yale ; and the erection of Scroll and Key and Psi U. halls. The Class was the first to recite to Dean Wright, and has always held this popular instructor in especial affection. It was emphatically an athletic class, defeating as freshmen the Harvard freshmen in baseball and rowing, contributing three men to the six- oared crew which in 1873 turned the long tide of disaster in university aquatic contests, and furnishing the catcher of the first baseball team to defeat Harvard. But the most lasting influence of the Class on athletics was effected when as seniors a few of its members, inspired by David 5 Schaff, introduced football among American college sports by organizing a team which defeated Columbia. The Class witnessed the last Wooden Spoon Exhibition, and itfself revived the Class Cup presentation exercises, which had been dropped by all the preceding classes since '67. It was in at the death of the venerable Linonia and Brothers in Unity societies, participating in the last of their " Statements of Facts " and prize debates and in the union debates which for a single year followed the extinction of those ancient organizations. The secretary has been informed by an old-time member of the faculty that the Class was re- garded by the authorities as an unusually gentlemanly body. One of its characteristics was the remarkable small number of sons of distin- guished men in its ranks, in which it contrasted strongly with the class immediately preceding. Another curious circumstance was its singular freedom from mortality at annual examinations ; it passed through those at the end of sophomore and senior years without losing a man. What its members have accomplished since leaving college the following pages will attempt to show. : CLASS REUNIONS. 1876. Wednesday, June 28. A business meeting, presided over by Davenport, was held in the afternoon in the Athenaeum, at which Peters was elected class secretary, to succeed Bigelow, who had performed the duties of the office since Parker's departure for Europe. A committee, consisting of Peters, Browning, Gaylord, Lathe, and Souther, was appointed to take suitable action on the death of Chase. The supper was held in the evening in the Insurance building on Chapel street. Seventy-three members of the Class were ire town, and all but two or three were present, but no list of their names was made. Houghton presided, and the class cup was presented to Joseph Reginald Mclntire (whose name was afterwards changed to Joseph Phillips Mcln- tire), the presentation exercises consisting of a poem by Johnes, an address by Bowen, a few words of thanks by the father of the Class Boy, and a song by the entire company. The ladies who had been permitted to witness the presentation of the cup then withdrew, and the Class sat down to supper, at the close of which there were responses to toasts in the following order TRIENNIAL, . Houghton. ALMA MATER, . Johnes. THE FACULTY, . , . Denslow. THE LAW, . BOARDMAN. THE CLERGY, . Van Buren. THE ABSENT, . Prentice. JOURNALISM, Shepard. HONORARY MEMBERS, ... Bininger. THE CLASS BOY, . F. D. Allen. THE BENEDICTS, . Boyce. There were also speeches by Collins, Lehmer, and Harry Adee, a letter from Seth Williams, a verbal message from Tarbell, and an out- door celebration on the university grounds, on which occasion the Class inaugurated its custom, since generally observed at its reunions, of danc- ing about the statue of President Pierson. 7 " " " 1879. Wednesday, June 25. At a business meeting in the afternoon, Van Buren presiding, Peters resigned the class secretaryship, and Shepard was elected to succeed him. Elder, Lewis, and Davenport were appointed a committee to take action on the death of Buckingham. At the supper in the evening at the Tontine hotel there were pres- Bentley, ent : F. W. Adee, P. H. Adee, A. H. Allen, Aldan, Almy, Bigelow, Bowen, Bristow, Carter, Collins, Cowles, Denslow, Dewing, Lewis, Lyman, Dutton, Elder, Gaylord, Gott, J. C. Hubbard, Johnes, Miller, Merritt, Peters, Preutice, Shepard, S. T. Stewart, W. C. Stew- art, H. A. Strong, Van Buren, Wheelock, and White. Prentice presided, and the formal toast list was as follows ; ALMA MATER, . A. H. Allen. Song— "I Eel." '73, Dutton. ... Song — "Bingo." THE ABSENT, . Elder. Song — " Auld Lang Syne. Lewis. OUR WIVES, . ... .... — POEM "Divorce," ...... Johnes. THE INFANT CLASS Van Buren. Song — "B-A-Ba." THE LONELY . CowLES. THE RICH, .... Lyman. THE POOR, . W. C. Stewart. Song " Old Dog Tray." OUR STATESMEN . White. — ' Song ' Three Little Darkies. THE REST OF US, Shepard. Song — "Lauriger Horatius. Van Buren' s speech was in verse, and in addition to the formal responses there were brief remarks by P. H. Adee, Bristow, Almy, Dewing, Gaylord, and others. The evening was brought to a close by a visit from the class of '76, with which '73 joined forces and visited the class of '69 at the Elliott house. Rector Pierson was duly decorated with flowers from the '73 table, and a session on the fence wound up the reunion. 1883. Tuesday, June 26. Burnham presided over the business meeting early in the afternoon, at which Shepard was reelected class secretary, and Smith, in behalf of Bigelow, who had not yet arrived, presented a brief statement of the condition of the class treasury. White was chosen to speak for the Class at the alumni banquet the next day, but later, in view of his necessary absence, Van Buren was substituted for him. Later in the afternoon Dutton entertained the Class at his house in High street. At half past six the Class took a street car for Savin Rock, where the supper was appointed for the Hotel Sea View. There were forty- five present : A. H. Allen, F. D. Allen, Almy, Ashley, W. Beebe, Bige- low, Bowen, Boyce, Bristow, Burnham, Chamberlin, Collins, Crocker, Denslow, Dewing, Dutton, Elder, Frissell, Greene, Heald, Huntington, Jones, Lathe, Lewis, Lyman, McCook, Merritt, Palmer, Peters, Prentice, Robsori, Russell, Sanford, Shaw, Shepard, Smith, Souther, Sprague, W.

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