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Entered as second class matter February 23, 1909 at the post office at Williamstown, M ass., under the act of March 3 1879. All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, 61 Main St., Williamstown.

VOL. 4 APRIL, 1912 NO. 2

We are glad to call attention to the college student of his day. What a con­ reproduction in our advertising pages of trast between the motives and circum­ the etched portrait of Dr. John Bascom stances of a boy of sixty years ago, willing which has lately been issued by a New to endure privation to obtain the learn­ York publisher. It well represents the ing leading to a chosen calling, and those etching itself, which is a faithful and ad­ of an easy-going youngster of today, mirable likeness of one of the most emi­ drifting to college because his friends do, nent of Williams men. “making” a fraternity or a college letter, falling before the requirements of a serious The Williams class of 1885 is doubtless course of study, and drifting off again responsible for the growing custom of without knowing what is coming next! classes with a large membership in and While it would be pretty rough to say about New York holding annual re­ —as some one did a while ago—that our union dinners in that city. This year, colleges nowadays are less a charity to beside the annual ’85 dinner—which has the poor than a gratuity to the rich, been a fixture these thirteen years—the there is no denying that in this age of Review is able to chronicle dinners of American life the college of liberal culture three other classes held at the same place holds a different relation to the community and in the same month of the year; and than it held at its beginnings, and that it still better is the plan for next year, which recognizes the fact. provides for holding the whole group of dinners at the same place and on the Significant of our times is the influence same night. of the so-called “college activities” in Success to the class dinner! apparently turning aside the college fra­ ternities —or at least many of them— Dr. Norman Seaver’s latest instalment from the cultivation of the finer graces of of Williams reminiscences, though all too friendship and literature to the more brief, gives a vivid picture of the average worldly pursuit of power in undergradu- 2 The Williams Alumni Review ate politics and on athletic fields. For in the curriculum that was not required, instance, we read in a magazine represent­ and we are as thankful for some of those ing a well-known fraternity: required courses as for anything we ever “Brother Jones possesses a magnificent learned. With the passing of time, how­ physique. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and ever, and the increase of subjects avail­ he weighs 175 pounds when in training. able, the number of elective courses in­ His weight and exceptional speed make creased together with the- number of him a dangerous opponent.” instructors required to teach them. In This is admirable (though we confess a good many branches courses which were we should not altogether like to meet originally introduced by others were later Brother Jones on a dark night), but it is thrown open without preliminary re­ a long way from the ideals of those quirements, this tending, in the opinion groups of young men, founders of the of many, toward implanting in the minds “Union Triad,” who rekindled the torch of our students a mere smattering of of Phi Beta Kappa at Schenectady, New numerous unrelated subjects, instead of a York, nearly a century ago! clear and comprehensive knowledge of any one. It was the observation of this The New Curriculum condition that led President Garfield, The inquiries which have come to the whose favorite text is thoroughness, to Review relative to the changes in the consider a radical readjustment of the course of study at Williams, as well as Williams curriculum.* the somewhat sensational reports of the The new plan is not something hastily “insurging” conditions prevailing at our thought out. Having approved the prin­ College which were printed in certain ciples of continuity and concentration newspapers, make it expedient to offer that should govern any proposed changes, in these columns some connected account the President and Faculty proceeded to of the inception and introduction of the a careful consideration of a practicable New Curriculum, and - of the episodes arrangement of studies, which extended which grew out of it in the last college over several months of the last college term. year. The plan put forward was a com­ More than one American college, in plicated one, involving the alignment of the last few years, has set itself to repair the courses in each department in their the damage wrought by the abuse of the logical order of progression—or at any rate unrestricted elective System, and in more in some order—and the grouping of allied than one the watchwords for the much- subjects in different departments to per­ needed rearrangement of curricula have mit of concentration in thfe so-called been “continuity” and “concentration.” “major courses”. Under the circumstan­ Couple with these the word “prerequisite” ces it was not strange that marked diver­ and you have the theory and practice of sity of opinion characterized the debate the reformation in a nutshell. (and this diversity, by the way, still At Williams College the elective sys­ exists), but after every side of the subject tem has never run wild. Many of us can had been thoroughly discussed the New remember when there was precious little Curriculum, in its present form, was The Williams Alumni Review 3 adopted by the Faculty by a majority quite usual at the midyear season, but vote, and was put into operation at the this year the petitioners were largely men opening of the present college year. who had entered Williams under the old An explanation of the principles involved curriculum, and who now found them­ in the new arrangement and of their selves unable, under the new requirement working throughout the various under­ of “prerequisites” to take courses which, graduate years, together with a full ex­ according to the exhibits of the catalogue hibit of the divisions and groups of stud­ at their entrance, they had expected to ies obtaining after the freshman year, enjoy. While these petitions were sent (which itself was left unchanged), was through the usual channels, a large num­ printed in the catalogue published in ber (owing to a misunderstanding in their November, 1911. handling) were refused. This led to a The changed conditions necessarily series of editorials in the College news­ affected the registration in the various paper, criticising at length the new pro­ departments at the opening of the year, gramme. These editorials, while touched as members of all classes but the one just with the fire of youth, were not without entering were obliged to plan ahead with dignity and reason; they were accom­ reference to the line of study, both “ma­ panied, however, by a flood of “com­ jor” and “minor” courses, which they ex­ munications” from students and in some pected to pursue. The most noticeable cases from alumni, numbers of which were shifting of students was toward History ill-judged and misleading. The same and English, as these courses, under the may be said of sundry newspaper re­ New Curriculum, are the gateway ports published about this time, whose not only to literary study, but to facts were colored as only a newspaper Economics, Political Science and similar man can color them. “up-to-date” subjects most boys want The student unrest prompted by these to investigate—and away from Latin and manifestations finally took shape in a Greek, as one, in order to pursue these respectful petition addressed to the Fac­ studies beyond freshman year, would have ulty, asking that, while “major” courses by the nature of the prerequisite scheme be left undisturbed, a greater degree of and the exigencies of “hours” to lose his liberty be permitted in the matter of chance at Economics and its affiliated “minor” courses. This petition, the text subjects. The number of students elect­ of which is given elsewhere in the Review, ing courses in the Ancient Languages is signed by practically every student in less than last year by 40 per cent. Phil­ College, was presented to the Faculty osophy, also, found itself “stymied”— and by them referred to the Committee to use a golfing phrase—to a considerable on Curriculum,by whom at this writing it extent. has not yet been reported back. Meanwhile At the close of the first half of the col­ President Garfield, at a College meet­ lege year in February,many of the students ing, gave a clear and effective statement handed in “petitions” to the Faculty for of the reasons for the New Curriculum, permission to change their courses, take its origin, and the purposes which it aimed extra hours, etc. This proceeding is to accomplish. The substance of his 4 The Williams Alumni Review remarks will be found on another page For Fraternities to Think About of the Review. Many of the petitions The property of the thirteen fraternity handed in by students have been since chapters at Williams College is assessed reconsidered and granted, and it is hoped at $355,000, and it is probably worth that other hardships worked upon stu­ that amount. About 60 per cent of dents who entered under the old curricu­ living Williams men are members of fra­ lum may be removed, at least in part, ternities, and are as a whole devoted to by the beginning of the next college year. their interests, sacrificing time and money Such is the outline of the New Curricu­ in their behalf. It is to this audience lum matter to date. The guiding princi­ that the following observations are ad­ ples behind the plan are admirable and dressed. have the hearty support of all concerned— Men would not support their frater­ there are few of our Eastern college cur­ nities so strongly did they not think ricula that would not benefit by more them worth while. Every loyal fraterni­ required work, more “continuity” and ty man, while he regards his College as a “concentration”. As Dr. Garfield has larger factor than his fraternity, believes said, the Williams plan doubtless has its that his fraternity, by reason of its family faults—some of them have been pointed character, can exert upon the lives of its out by the boys themselves—’and these members an influence more intimate and we can hope to see remedied, particular­ forming than even that of the college. ly in the direction of removing the dis­ Every fraternity, has its ideals, of one abilities from those cornerstones of liberal sort or another, toward which its members culture, the Ancient Languages. Wheth­ in college are expected to strive, and which er it has, in its present shape, or even its members outside are supposed to ex­ with the contemplated introduction of emplify. Whether the particular ideal “honor courses” for high-stand men, suf­ be spiritual, social or political in its na­ ficient flexibility to permit the serious ture, it sets its stamp upon the men, and student of average intelligence such molds their lives for the future. range as a college of liberal culture should But with all its ideals, the fraternity offer, may be considered an open question, system in American colleges evidently which time will surely solve—and the needs one more, for it is today, in no same deliberate arbiter will doubtless de­ vague sense, on trial, and the main in­ cide whether or not the rather limited dictment against it is—poor scholarship. courses in a small college like ours are One has but to dip into the pages of any capable of being linked in a hard-and- of the magazines published by the larger, fast scheme, be it never so symmetrical so-called “national” fraternities, to run on paper; but the New Curriculum is a into this question at once. And the reason courageous move forward and its con­ for the trouble—does it lie with the fra­ sequences will be watched with the keen­ ternities or with the times? Let us ex­ est interest by educators all over the amine the situation at Williams. country; while perhaps the most heart­ Nearly 50 per cent, of the men who enter ening sign of the whole episode thus far Williams nowadays fail to obtain their has been the exhibition of intelligent in­ degrees, and about 60 per cent, of this 50 terest in their opportunities for study per cent, are fraternity men. In almost displayed by the students of Williams. every case, the cause of the failure is The Williams Alumni Review 5 lack of either brains or ambition. One other means available. But, even then, can find it in his heart to excuse the first they will now and then discover that some class of failures—those luckless “bone- of these fellows never intended to “stay heads” whom no amount of conscientious through”, but are satisfied to “make a study will ever enable to meet our steadily crowd” and straightway bid goodbye rising standards of scholarship — but to their “college education”! It is a mat­ for the man without ambition there is ter of record that, in the classes of 1907 less to be said. College life offers a score to 191.1 inclusive, the fraternities lost 80 of of lures to rouse a boy to activity. If their members before the sophomore year. the studies per se do not appear attrac­ Should our fraternity chapters be called tive, he may “go out” for football, or upon to carry such difficult timber? baseball, or track or anything else—and While they often save good men to the before long he finds that the “eligibility College and to themselves by their efforts, rule” makes it necessary for him to keep do they not open too readily their doors up his studies too, or off the squad he of privilege without a proper proof of the goes!—but of course he wants to stay on candidate’s fitness to strive and to en­ the squad if he has any “stuff” in him. dure? Proposed remedies for the situa­ Williams is a poor place for a man with­ tion have been tried, and are being tried, out an ambition of some kind. at many of our colleges. At one, the Now it must be confessed that the fra­ “rushing season” has been postponed ternities get rather more than their share until after the midyear examinations, of these types of young men, that con­ with the result that the entire fraternity stitute the “failures” from the Faculty’s body has been thrown into a frenzy of point of view, This is of course due in nervousness, suspicion and torture lasting large measure to the fashion of the time, four months instead of two weeks; at which sends to college every year shoals another, freshmen are allowed to be pledg­ of boys with slight intellectual bent ed at the opening of college, but are not (though often of good native capacity), allowed to be initiated until after they but endowed with good manners and at­ have passed say eleven hours of their tractive social qualities. These fresh­ first semester’s work; at another, early men—many of them known to the fra­ initiation of freshmen is allowed, but the ternities before entering college—are president publishes each year compara­ pledged to one “crowd” or another in the tive statistics of the average marks of excitement of the “rushing season”, and each fraternity chapter, as well as of the then comes the tug to keep them in col­ “flunk outs” from the various “crowds”. lege at all! At Williams the old system of fall That the fraternities at Williams recog­ “rushing” has remained in vogue, and nize their obligations toward men of this perhaps, considering all things, works sort there is happily not a shadow of better than any other plan that could be doubt. Every chapter can point to men devised. With regard to initiations, one who were pulled through their freshman chapter has for the last two years tried year by main force of tutoring, solitary the experiment of deferring the full ad­ confinement with a textbook, and all mission of its freshmen until after the 6 The Williams Alumni Review

midyear examinations, not wishing to ion—men who would never be heard from be represented in the college world by in the same class with their really able men who have never matriculated. This classmates who loafed through college is a proper feeling, and why anyway, say and made a howling success afterwards. others, should a man be fully admitted Now, however, we have statistics in into a fraternity until he has been fully plenty to show that it is in fact the vale­ accepted by the college ? While this ar­ dictorians and other honor men in our gument may be met by the assertion colleges who come off with a larger share that a freshman needs the influence of of life’s prizes than their companionable his fraternity as early as possible in his if less industrious fellows. “Knowledge nollege course, the question is worthy of is power” (an old saying but a true one!) debate, and is even now under discussion and if knowledge has been shown to pay among Williams men, with a view to some dividends in dollars and cents, why then possible concerted action in the future. get after it, young America, for all there Let the graduate members of our various is in you! chapters give thought to the matter be­ Once convince college boys that it fore the Commencement reunions. pays to master their studies and you will But before leaving the subject of frater­ have them “going out” for Phi Beta Kap­ nities and their ideals, let it be said that pa as they do for baseball or a manager­ there is one fraternity chapter at Williams ship. Is the Review too optimistic, or which has an ideal of scholarship and real­ can we actually begin to see signs of this izes it. This chapter takes none of its at Williams? men before the second half of freshman It may be granted that one of the great­ year, and it has not lost a man from est drawbacks to Phi Beta Kappa as an poor scholarship in the nine years of its undergraduate goal is its remoteness. existence. Under the present rules of the Society,, no undergraduate members at all are ad­ For A New Undergraduate Activity mitted until the last half of senior year, At the recent annual dinner of the Wil­ and then only the lesser part of the dele­ liams Phi Betia Kappa a serious suggestion gation to be chosen from the class. was put forward looking toward the ad­ Fancy the attitude of the collegian were dition to the already long list of “Wil­ “W’s” to be awarded only on the Com­ liams activities” of one more incitement mencement stage! But suppose the re­ to undergraduate ambition in the shape ward of a key could be brought nearer— of the Phi Beta Kappa itself. set, for instance, at the end of the junior And why should it not be so considered ? year, or even earlier, as it is at some col­ For years people have labored under the leges—so that we should have always at impression that scholarship honors were Williams an active chapter of under­ won only, or at any rate largely, by the graduates, wearing the Society’s vener­ “greasy grinds”, the men whose minds able badge and exemplifying and perpetu­ possessed no originality or constructive ating among us her honorable traditions, force, but wére mere machines for mem­ would it not make of Phi Beta Kappa, and orizing and repeating in parrotlike fash­ so of scholarly attainment and liberal The Williams Alumni Review 7 culture, a more potent influence and more year sees among our Phi Beta Kappa in­ present reality? itiates representative Williams men in Perhaps it may be possible, some time, increasing numbers. With our generous for events to move in this direction. allowance of interests that keep us awake, Scholarship is even now rising in regard there will surely be room for another that with our undergraduate body, and every is really worth while!

WILLIAMS COLLEGE SIXTY YEARS AGO IV The Students The students of Williams, numbering precious of prizes. Some of them had in 1850 two hundred more or less, were a “bought their time from their fathers.” unique body of young men. We shall Perhaps this phrase means nothing to us never look upon their like again, for the today, but two generations ago it was spirit of the age and the environment very significant. which produced them can never come again. In the early days of New England, be­ Between them and the men who found­ fore the advent of the mower, the reaper ed on the shores of Massachusetts Bay a and the threshing-machine, the wealth of Church without a bishop and a State the farmer was largely in the strong arms without a king, were only six generations and willing hands of his stalwart sons and of forefathers. Something of the Puri­ daughters. Till the age of twenty-one tanic brain, nerve, conscience, will was for the boys and eighteen for the girls in in shem all. They inherited the spirit the first five generations of New England and the flesh of heroic souls who, tossed life, children were expected and required in winter days upon the waves of the At­ to recompense their parents with their as­ lantic, sailing West to an unknown land, sistance in the daily toil of household and wrote and signed in the cabin of the farm for the earlier days of sustenance “Mayflower” that immortal compact with during the period of helpless infancy and its initial sentence: “All great enterprises youth. Grim justice of Puritan times, are attended with great perils and must you say, but it taught those generations be met with corresponding courages.” the most important truth that the world Many of them in their boyish days had owes no man a living and that one must been in sight and touch of some soldiers pay for all he gets. of the Revolution. The writer of these Some of the students of that day “had pages has sat in childhood in the lap of bought their time.” Others had their Mrs. Hamilton, the widow of Alexander time given to them by their fathers. Hamilton, the friend of Washington, the Daniel Webster leaned his head upon his writer of the Federalist, and, as some say, father’s breast and shed tears of apprecia­ the author of the Constitution. tive gratitude when his father told him Rich in this blood and these memories, that he, the father, would release him yet the Williams boys of Sixty Years Ago from further toil upon that sterile New were, the majority of them, the inheritors Hampshire farm, that he, the son, might of honest poverty. Few were in those go to Dartmouth College. days “gilded youths.” Their material Others were helped to an education by wealth could be noted as zero with no loans from older and wealthier friends, digits before it. Earnest seekers after for which they gave the notes which were an education, they were willing to pay the to them sacred obligations, hens upon price for this, in their esteem, the most their success in after life. 8 The Williams Alumni Review

Many, perhaps most of them, were earth, the. standing place and the lever self-supporting during their college days, with which they might uplift a world. teaching in the long winter vacation in Grand and beautiful the mountains and the district schools to pay their tuition scenery about Williams College, noble its and the expenses of their frugal living. ancestry, the child of the far-sighted in­ Board in those days was two dollars to tellect, the warm heart, the earnest soul one dollar and a quarter a week. The of the heroic founder whose name it latter rate was paid by the members of bears, great in its century of presidents what was then known as the “Starvation from Griffin to Garfield. Great, su­ Club.” The writer himself once boarded premely great in the long line of earnest for two weeks at the expense of one dollar seekers after truth, who finding it among and six cents, no meat, but eggs at nine, these hills have gone forth to lead and cents a dozen. inspire the thought and action of this To young men like these, of such stock, great Commonwealth of Man, “Time’s with such memories and traditions at noblest offspring and her last.” such a time, the closing of the old era and Such were the students of Williams Col­ the opening of a new, graduates of the lege Sixty Years Ago. “Their line is preparatory school of industry and self- gone out through all the earth and their denial, college education was a thing most words to the end of the world.” costly and most precious, a veritable From her halls for a hundred years have peak of Darien from whose summit they gone forth the Sons of Williams to do looked out and saw beneath the arching good work in every spot and place from heavens the broad ocean of enterprise, village teacher to Presidents of this inviting them to life-long effort. great nation. Ever may their tribe That education was the key with which increase! they might unlock the treasures of the Norman Seaver

Sk Sk NEWS OF THE COLLEGE J*. Jk

Preliminary Commencement Appoint­ A change from the arrangement of form­ ments er years has been made in appointing the The preliminary Commencement ap­ dramatic entertainment by Cap and pointments from the class of 1912 are Bells for Saturday evening, and the Graves announced as follows: Charles J. Bauerle, Prize Speaking for Monday morning. Jr., Gerald H. Beard, Charles B. Cook, The annual meeting of the Class Secre­ Jr., Thomas W. Doan, Manning C. taries’ Association is scheduled for Mon­ Field, Donald L. Greenleaf, Charles F. day noon, June 24, and a return to an old Hawkins, Charles L. Hedden, Clyde C. custom is proposed in holding the McDuffie, Perry R. F. Marshall, Ernest “Moonlights” out-of-doors Monday even­ B. Patten, Sidney L. Pressey, Frank P. ing if the weather shall permit. Rand, Leonard Swain, Theodore K. The programme follows: Thurston, George L. Trumbull, Ernest Saturday, June 22— L. Wakefield, Ronald F. Webster and 8 p. m., Dramatics Francis C. Wickes. Sunday, June 23— 10.30 a. m., Baccalaureate Sermon 4.30 p. m., Mission Park Prayer Meet­ Preliminary Commencement Programme ing The preliminary programme for the Monday, June 24— Commencement of 1912 is given below. 10.30 a. m., Graves Prize Speaking The Williams Alumni Review 9 he went on to explain the situation ten 12.00 noon, Class Secretaries’ Asso­ years ago, and the principles underlying ciation the present change. In 1902, he said, 2.30 p. m., Baseball-Williams vs. Ver­ the system of prerequisites was cast aside, mont . and men could ‘ ‘range at large among the 7.30 p. m., “Moonlight” Oratoncals advanced courses, with the result that 9.15 p. m., Glee Club Concert such courses were composed of students Tuesday, June 25— whose requisite knowledge was of widely 10.00 a. m., Meeting of Society of varying degrees. Necessarily such cours­ Alumni es were given on an elementary basis. 2.00 p. m., Class Day Exercises This condition led to a mere smattering 4.30 p. m., President’s Reception of learning among the majority of stu­ 9.00 p. m., Senior Promenade dents. Under the present ^ system _ of uS6C[H6tic6 of courses and corrcla/tion Wednesday, June 26— of subjects”, it is desired to so enrich 11.00 a. m., Commencement Exercises and strengthen the advanced courses 1.00 p. m., Alumni Luncheon that seniors taking them may find them 10.00 p. m., Senior Banquet as advanced as the name implies. Se­ quence in courses is a matter to be de­ President Discusses New Curriculum cided by the individual departments; President Garfield addressed practical­ correlation of subjects demands consul­ ly the entire undergraduate body at tation between these departments. It a meeting held in Jesup Hall on the even­ has been attempted to bring this about, ing of March 22 on the subject of the and though mistakes have undoubtedly New Curriculum. been made, such mistakes will be recti­ In his opening remarks the President fied when they are discovered. formally acknowledged receipt of the In concluding, the President said that petition recently submitted by the under­ it was his desire that Williams, although graduates, and stated that it had been re­ numerically a small college, should not ferred to the Curriculum Committee of the be small as regards quality. He earnestly Faculty and would receive careful con­ hoped, he said, that the advanced courses sideration. In expressing the attitude here would rise so far above the dead of the Faculty in regard to the present level of mediocrity”, and would be so en­ situation he said that they firmly believ­ riched and strengthened that this, as a ed that the principles on which the New small college, could still be proud of ac­ Curriculum was founded were essentially complishing that which the large univer­ sound, but that they clearly recognized sity is usually unable to accomplish, the fact that the arrangement of so develop men with more than a mere smat­ many important details is attended by a tering of knowledge, men able to do a real possibility for numerous errors of judg­ man’s work. ment. Individual hardships have been encountered which were heretofore un­ Addresses by President Garfield foreseen. In order to remedy these dif­ President Garfield has been much in ficulties he urged that at the period of the demand as a speaker during the last few June registration all men thus affected months. Besides his speeches before should confer with him and with other various Williams Alumni Associations members of the Advisory Committee, this winter and his Founder’s Day ad­ which would hold daily sessions in Hop­ dress at Cornell in January, his other en­ kins Hall for that particular purpose. ? gagements have included the meeting of In view of a possible misunderstanding the Association of Classical and Hig among the undergraduate body regarding School Teachers of Connecticut, where the ultimate aim of the New Curriculum ÍO The Williams Alumni Review

he spoke on “The Practical Use of Latin Club House for Faculty and Greek in Colleges”, the annual din­ ner of the alumni of Phillips Andover The College authorities are planning Academy at Boston, and addresses before to use the house on Main St. formerly the board of trade and the high school of owned by the Chi Psi Fraternity and Holyoke, Mass., the Massachusetts Ag­ later occupied under lease from the Col­ ricultural College, the Brooklyn Pres­ lege by the Alpha Zeta Alpha Fraternity, byterian Union and the Brooklyn Poly­ as a club house for the Faculty. The old technic Institute. Mark Hopkins house, which was last year moved to a point near the Williams Inn, was to be partly devoted to this pur­ Award of Greek Fellowship pose, but its convenience as an annex to the inn created a need for other Faculty The College Fellowship in Greek for quarters. 1912 has been awarded to Emerson H. The former Infirmary building will Swift of New York City, a member of probably be fitted up at some future time the senior class. This fellowship, amount­ for Faculty tenancy. ing to $700, may be awarded annually to a member of the graduating class who Announcement by College Librarian has distinguished himself in the Latin and Greek classics, for the purpose of enabling The Williams College Library possess­ the holder to pursue a year of study at es a'large collection of bound volumes of the American School of Classical Studies magazines and periodicals of a general in Athens. literary nature. These volumes form a valuable asset to the reference work of the Faculty and students and are con­ College to Improve Spring St. Property stantly consulted. The articles in those The College is to improve a part of its magazines which are indexed in Poole's property on the east side of Spring St. and other indices are most accessible, but by the removal of the old frame building a large number of these magazines are not until lately occupied as a tailor shop, and in the collection. Recently several alum­ the erecting on its site of a one-story ni have contributed materially to the wooden structure, which will be occupied library’s reference resources by present­ as a store by Perry A. Smedley. ing files of newspapers and magazines, “long stored away in the attic and of no use to any one”. These gifts are deemed Work on New Road— Other Improve­ valuable and are sincerely appreciated. ments The evident pleasure of these gentlemen in finding a place where their magazines The work of building the new road­ could be put to a large service prompts way from Mission Park to Cole Field and a belief that other alumni would be glad the Station drive, with funds provided to help in the same way. The following by Francis L. Stetson, ’67, is now under list shows magazines which are not in way. The roadway is to be 20 feet in the library and which are earnestly de­ width and of the best construction. A sired. Repeated calls for these volumes, concrete bridge will be built over the both the current and former ones, display marsh at the southern end of Cole Field. a weakness of the collection and their Mr. Stetson has also cared for the absence seriously hinders satisfactory planting of ornamental shrubbery in the work. If any readers of the Review have Berkshire Quadrangle, and the work, copies of the magazines noted in the list which has been laid out by an expert below they will confer a favor upon the from New York, will be begun as soon as College by communicating with the Li­ the weather permits. brarian, John A. Lowe. The Williams Alumni Review U

American Catholic Quarterly Review; speakers for the affirmative were Durand American Conservation; American For­ H. VanDoren, ’14, of East Orange, N. J., estry, American Homes and Gardens', Arthur J. Daly, T3, of New York City, American Journal of Theology, vols. 1-12; and Dwight C. Pitcher, ’13, of Utica, N. American Magazine', Americana', Ap­ Y., with Oliver W. Toll,’13, as alternate. palachia, vols. 8-date; Architectural Re­ cord, vols. 1-5; Arena, vols. 1-5; andl5- Underclass Debate 41; Canadian Magazine-, Gassier’s Maga­ On the evening of March 28 the soph­ zine ; Charities Review, vols. 1-5; Chau- omore and freshman debating teams ar­ tauquan Connoisseur', Country Life in Amer­ gued the question: “Resolved, That a ica', Craftsman-, Critic, Current Literature; system providing for free election of Dial, vols 1-17; Education, vols. 16-date; courses by the three upper classes is pre­ Engineering Magazine', Etude; Graphic, ferable to the one recently adopted at Harper’s Magazine; House Beautiful', Il­ Williams”. The sophomore speakers, up­ lustrated London News; Journal of Amer­ holding the negative, showed that the ican History; Journal of History; Lamp; principle involved in the New Curriculum Life; Literary Digest; Masters in Art; was a good one, and the freshmen, for Musical Courier; Musician; National the affirmative, contended that the sys­ Geographic Magazine; New _ England tem broke down in practice. After some Magazine; New Musical Review; Out­ interesting argument, the decision of the ing Magazine; Oxford and Cambridge judges went to 1914. G. E. Haynes, R. Review; Pacific Monthly; Poet Lore; R. Newton and H. S. Hendricks, with W. Printing Art; Putnam’s Magazine, first M. Hinkle as alternate, spoke for the series; Reader Magazine; Saturday Re­ sophomores, and R. W. .Campbell, B. L. view; School Review; Sunset Magazine; Morgan and R. H. Hodge, with B. M. Technical World; World Today; World’s Smith as alternate, for the freshmen. Work, vols. 5-date. Trials in Van Vechten Contest Brown Wins Debate The trials for the Van Vechten prize The seventh annual debating contest in' extemporaneous speaking, which are between Dartmouth, Brown and Wil­ now several in number, are being partici­ liams, held on March 21, resulted in a pated in by seven members of the senior victory for Brown, which won against class. Among the subjects addressed by both of her opponents. Williams won the speakers at a recent trial were from Dartmouth at Williamstown, but “Should Fraternities at Williams Defer lost to Brown at Providence. The ques­ their Elections until after the First Sem­ tion debated was: “Resolved, That in ester”, and “The Influence of Athletics on dealing with such industrial combina­ College Democracy”. tions as the Standard Oil Company and the American Tobacco Company a policy Christian Association Matters of governmental control without dis­ solution is preferable to dissolution de­ The work of the Williams Christian signed to enforce competition”. Association has been well maintained this At Williamstown, the Williams team, year. Student contributions of money upholding the negative side of the ques­ have amounted to nearly $1500 half as tion, consisted of Arthur L. Swift, Jr., much again as last year—while the active T3, of New York City, Daniel S. Keller, interest in the various branches of the T5, of Lancaster, Pa., and Allen M. association’s life has been stimulated Schauffler, T3, of Highland Park, 111., with and sustained by more efficient organiza­ George G. Ernst, ’15, of New York City, tion throughout. as alternate; at Providence the Williams The invitation extended by the Alumni 12 The Williams Aíumní Review

Committee to graduates of Williams to Good Government Club Doings contribute to the support of the General Secretary has brought a gratifying re­ “The Minimum Wage Bill” and “Equal sponse, the number of contributors to Suffrage for Men and Women” were dis­ the fund being almost double that of last cussed before the members of the Williams year. Good Government Club and their guests The officers of the association for the by Mrs. Elizabeth H. Tilton and Miss coming year are: President, Allen M. Alice Carpenter of Boston at a meeting Schauffler, T3; vice-president, Harold of the club held Feb. 23. V. V. Fay, T3; recording secretary, John The club sent delegates to the annual D. Stevens, T4; corresponding secretary, convention of the Intercollegiate Civic Joseph P. Cochran, T4; treasurer, Ernest League held in New York and Washington M. Hedden, T5. April 11 and 12, and plans are now on Delegates from the Williams Christian foot for mock political conventions of Association were present at conferences both the Republican and Democratic held the latter part of March in Hartford parties, to be held with all the appropriate and New Haven, Ct., for the considera­ “trimmings”, some time in May. tion of association matters and of the claims The officers of the Good Government of the Christian ministry. Club for the ensuing year are: President, R. MacLeod, T3; vice-president, H. V. V.

College after the midyear examinations the society entertained the new members in February. Eleven of these were mem­ at dinner at the Williams Inn. Thirty bers of fraternities.. members were in attendance, who listened to an address by Emeritus Professor John H. Hewitt, a response by Theodore K. College Petitions the Faculty Thurston of 1912, and remarks by Presi­ At a meeting of the undergraduate dent Garfield,who is an honorary member body held in Jesup Hall on Feb. 27, a of the Williams chapter. Talcott M. petition to the Facility, asking for a modi­ Banks, ’90, vice-president of the chapter, fication in the system of minor courses presided at the dinner. prescribed by the New Curriculum, was presented and signed by nearly all present. Mendelssohn Choir Concert The petition, which was eventually signed by all but one of the men in College, was The Mendelssohn Choir gave its second considered by the Faculty and by them concert of this year in the Thompson referred to the Committee on Curriculum. Chapel on the evening of March 27. The The language of the petition was as fol­ works presented, Stainer’s “Crucifixion” lows: and Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” were chos­ “To the Faculty of Williams College en as appropriate to theLenten season,and Gentlemen:— were sung with dignity and feeling. A Being convinced that certain of the large audience was present. The soloists requirements of the New Curriculum were Mrs. Brainerd Mears, soprano, Mrs. result in unwarranted restriction of the George E. Howes, mezzo-soprano, Ed­ students’ choice of courses, we under­ ward Strong, tenor, and Royal F. Dad- graduate members of the College do re­ mun, bass. spectfully petition that, although the major study and group requirements re­ Lectures Before English Club main unchanged, the students be allowed Bliss Perry, ’81, Professor of English to take their elective courses subject only Literature at Harvard University, lec­ to such prerequisites as the departments tured in the Common Room on the even­ in which those courses are elected shall ing of March 30 before the members of the impose.” English Club and their guests. His sub­ ject was “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Phi Beta Kappa Elections—Dinner of the The English Club also announces a lecture by Professor George H. Palmer Society of Harvard, on April 27, on the subject The first elections to Phi Beta Kappa “George Herbert.” from the class of 1912 were held after the February examinations in accordance Textbook by Prof. Milham with the new regulations adopted by the society, which make eligible for the first A comprehensive treatise on “Meteor­ drawing only such men as shall have at­ ology” by Prof. Willis I. Milham, ’94, tained an “A” grade in two-fifths of their of the Williams Department of Astron­ total hours of work, and a “C” grade in omy, has lately been published by the three-fourths of their hours. The men Macmillan Co. It is designed as a text­ chosen were Charles F. Hawkins of War­ book in the subject, and has already at­ wick, N. Y., Charles L. Hedden of New­ tracted wide and favorable notice among ark, N. J., Leonard Swain of Pomfret, educational institutions. Ct., Theodore K. Thurston of Portland, Me., and Ernest L. Wakefield of Shef­ Art Lectures for College field, Mass. Huger Elliott, a director of the Rhode On the evening of Monday, April 1st, Island School of Design, lectured before 14 The Williams Alumni Review the College on “Some Aspects of Modem The 1913 Gulielmensian Art” on the evening of March 18. The series of lectures by Prof. Frank Jewett Volume LVI of the Gulielmensian, is­ Mather, ’89, of Princeton, was begun on sued by the class of 1913, will make its April 11 and ended April 16. appearance about the first of Mp,y. The vacancy caused by the retirement The book, which is dedicated to Professor of Prof. Richard Austin Rice, Professor Carroll L. Maxcy of the English Depart­ of the History of Art and Civilization, ment, contains the usual lists of Faculty, has not yet been filled. students and undergraduate, activities, with numerous drawings and “snap­ Williams Record a Tri-Weekly shot’’ photographs; also an article on With No. 1 of volume XXVI, issued “Rowing at Williams” by Charles B. March 18,1912, the Williams Record, after Hubbell, ’74, and an appreciation of Dr. eight years as a bi-weekly, has changed John Bascom, ’49, by John A. Lowe, ’06, to a tri-weekly newspaper. Though hav­ Librarian of the College. The board of ing also adopted a change of form in favor editors from 1913 are A. W. Dickinson of a larger page, the Record editors ex­ (chairman), F. P. Abbott, J. B. Gibson, C. pect to find news enough to interest their M. Jones, and F. S. Mygatt. The art subscribers on Monday, Thursday and editors are W. H. Field and C. P. Vary, Saturday of each week. So far the ex­ and the business managers H. W. Banks, periment promises well. 3d, and E. J. Nathan, Jr. The present editor-in-chief of the Wil­ liams Record is Huntington Gilchrist, ’13, of Auburn, N. Y.; JohnB. Gibson, ’13, of Senior Class Book Waterloo, N. Y., is managing editor, and Norman Duffield, ’13, of Troy, N. Y., is The 1912 Class Book will be issued business manager. about June 1st. As usual it will con­ The Record was founded in 1904 as a tain pictures and biographies of all pres­ successor to the Williams Weekly, which in ent members of the class, with briefer 1887 followed the Williams Fortnight, a pa­ mention of those who have fallen by the per combining literary with news features. way. As far as possible the sketches of individuals will be made of equal Editors of Literary Monthly length, thus avoiding discussion as to Oliver W. Toll, ’13, of Denver, Colo., whose achievements in undergraduate has been elected chairman of the board activities have entitled him to the of editors of the Williams Literary Month­ most “space”. Ronald F. Webster is the ly for the coming year. New men elected editor. to the board are George W. Trevor, ’13, The 99 men who are enrolled in the William P. Mason, Jr., ’14, Donald S. class have stated their intended vocations Mackay, ’14, John C. Mosher, ’14, and in the book, so far as they are able. The Durand H. VanDoren, T4. distribution of choices is wide and inter­ esting, only about one-fifth of the class New Guardians of the Cow being listed as “undecided”. Business, Ashley W. Dickinson, ’13, of Duluth, as usual, leads with 30 candidates, and Minn., has been chosen editor-in-chief law comes next with 15. There are to be of the Purple Cow. Calvin P. Vary, T4, 9 teachers, 7 doctors, 5 engineers (civil, is to be chief art editor, and Robert E. railroad and mining), 5 clergymen (in­ Naumburg, ’14, a member of the editorial cluding two who have volunteered for board. Foreign Missions), 3 journalists, 2 farm­ The February number of the Cow was ers, one medical missionary, one architect, devoted to consideration of various aspects one ranchman, and one candidate for of the New Curriculum. the consular service. The Willliams Alumni Review 15

The Cane Campaign Alumni Athletic Association which in­ cludes the privilege of receiving the The annual cane diversion for 1912 Alumni Review for one year. came to an end on the evening of Satur­ day, March 16, in the defeat of the fresh­ men for the second successive year. Af­ The Senior “ Smoker” ter weeks of industrious planning on the The first College “smoker” of the sea­ part of both classes the freshman strate­ son was given by 1912 in Jesup Hall on gy failed at the last moment to work, the evening of March 7. Students and and three out of five of their cane commit­ Faculty attended in force, and were en­ tee were captured in a dash for the line tertained by a varied and ingenious across the links of the Taconic Golf Club. programme of startling specialties ar­ The effectiveness with which the sopho­ ranged by the committee in charge. mores patrolled the limits of the “cane Prof. George E. Howes of the Greek De­ district” had much to do with their suc­ partment and Prof. Garrett Droppers of cess. A picturesque incident of the cam­ the Department of Economics made paign prior to the closing scenes was the short addresses. raiding of the freshman class president’s room by a daring sophomore, and the Cap and Bells Performances stealing of his plans for the committee. This and all other episodes of the occa­ Cap and Bells has continued to present sion—the escape of the committee from its successful play, “The Duke of Killie- town, their midnight wanderings in the crankie”, during the present season. Its woods and fields, the evolutions of scout­ sixth performance of the play took place ing parties hither and yon, and the for­ at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on March 23, midable defensive measures of the sopho­ and in the Easter recess four more per­ more vigilance committee, are fully set formances were given at Glens Falls, N. forth in the columns of the Williams Y., Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Flushing, Record for March 18, 1912. The names of N. Y., and Brooklyn, N. Y. The mem­ the freshman committee are John M. bers of the cast have had the benefit of Deely, Ira M. Dempsey, Charles R. Mac- the expert coaching of Frank L. Short of pherson, Bruce M. Smith and John C. New York City. Tyler. • The club has chosen Marlowe’s “Faus- On the evening of Tuesday, March 19, tus” for its Memorial Day presentation. occurred the customary- “Night Shirt This play was produced at Williamstown Parade”, the bonfire and speeches, and under the auspices of the English De­ the burial of the hatchet. partment of the College in 1908, and made a deep impression. The performance at Senior Class Tax the Memorial Day festival will be also given in connection with the English De­ Members of the class of 1912 will be partment, and those who take part may taxed $30 apiece to provide for the ex­ have the privilege of coaching from George penses (aside from those connected with Sargent, who assisted at the first produc­ the requirements of the College) incident tion of the play in Williamstown four to a safe and sane graduation. Each years ago. It is also planned to repeat man paying this tax will be entitled, it “Faustus” at the dedication of Grace is stated, to two copies of the classbook, Hall and at Commencement time. two Class Day programmes, one banquet programme, two dance orders, one class Musical Club Concerts pipe, one admission to the Senior * Prom , one admission to the Senior banquet, The Williams Musical Club 3 appeared eight invitations to Commencement, and in Pittsfield, Mass., on the evening of a membership in the Williams College March 17, entertaining an audience of *6 The Williams Alumni Review over 600 people. Another concert is Nineteen freshmen have entered the planned for May 18 at Springfield, Mass., spring competition for places on the edi­ on the occasion of the annual field meet torial board of the Record. of the New England Intercollegiate Alexander H. Neagle, of Elmira, N. Y., Athletic Association. has been chosen Library Orator for the Class Day of 1912, in place of E. O. Per­ Sophomore “ Prom” Committee rin, who has left college. James F. Townsend, T2, has been elect­ The committee elected by the class of ed president of the Philologian-Philo- 1914 to manage the Sophomore “Prom” technian Society for the present half year. to be held on May 29, consists of E. H. Freeman Clarkson, Jr., T4, and Charles Adriance, B. P. Anderson, R. W. Cham­ F. Ely, T4, have been added to the edi­ berlain, C. F. Ely, and F. S. Smith, Jr. torial staff of the Williams Record. The series of organ recitals which Sum­ Programme for “ Prom” Week ner Salter, the College organist, has been The programme of festivities for giving during the winter in the Thomp­ “Prom Week”, extending from Tuesday, son Chapel came to an end March 20. May 28, to Friday, May 31, is announced Henry J. Hadfield of New York City as follows: gave a Tennyson reading in Jesup Hall on Tuesday evening—Musical Club Con­ March 21, as ope of the Thompson course cert in Jesup Hall followed by the pre­ of entertainments. liminary dance at the Greylock ; Wednes­ Prof. Asa H. Morton of the Department day afternoon—Cap and Bells presenta­ of Religion represented Williams at the tion of “Faustus” in Grace Hall; Wed­ 125th anniversary of the founding of the nesday evening—Sophomore Promenade University of Pittsburgh held on Feb.27. in the Lasell Gymnasium ; Thursday Prof. Morton delivered an address on afternoon — Amherst-Williams baseball “The Ideals of Culture”. game on Weston Field, Interclass Singing A memorial window after designs by Contest, and Gargoyle elections on the Durr Friedley, ex-10, in honor of Mrs. L. Laboratory campus; Thursday evening W. Spring, wife of Emeritus Professor —House Dances. Leverett W. Spring of the College, has By special grace of the Faculty, peti­ been placed in St. John’s Episcopal church tions from various bodies of students for of Williamstown. as long a “houseparty” season as possible Professor Wilhelm Paszkowski of the have been respected by allowing the University of Berlin lectured before the houseparties to extend for 72 consecutive student body, under the auspices of the hours including Memorial Day. German Department, on April 17. The second College “smoker” of the Socialists Start a Club year, to be given by the class of 1913, is scheduled for Friday evening, April 26. A “Williams Society for the Study of A series of enjoyable receptions, under Socialism” has lately been organized with the auspices of the Williams Christian the consent of the proper authorities. Association, was given in the Common Its officers are Walter M. Hinkle, T4, Room during the winter term. Mrs. president, and Schuyler Pratt, ’13, secre­ Garfield and the ladies of the Faculty have tary and treasurer. acted as hostesses on the various after­ noons. Items The College Library has received 395 Prof. Edward P. Morris, head of the new books from January 18 to March 30, Latin Department of Yale, and formerly 1912, bringing its total number of cata­ a member of the Williams Faculty, ad­ logued publications up to 71,744. dressed the Classical Society on March 6 The College chess team this year con­ on “The Force of Tradition in Latin sists of R. V. Lewis, Jr., T3, O. W. Toll Poetry”. ’13, and S. S. Berger, ’13. The Williams Aitarmi Review 17

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SCHEDULES OF ATHLETICS Sat., May 18—Dartmouth at Williams­ town Baseball Sat., May 25—Cornell at Ithaca Fri., Apr. 26—M. A. C. at Williams- Mon., May 27—New England Intercol- town legiates at Brookline Wed., May 1—Wesleyan at Middle- Thurs., May 30—Wesleyan at Wil­ town liamstown Sat., May 11—Dartmouth at Wil- Sat., June 1—Trinity at Williamstown liamstown Sat., June 8—Amherst at Amherst Wed., May 15—Princeton -at Prince­ ton Sat., May 18—Syracuse at Williams- Golf town Sat., May 4—open Tues., May 21—Yale at New Haven Fri., May 10—Cornell at Albany Thurs., May 23—Amherst at Amherst Thurs., May 16—-Columbia at New Sat., May 25—Dartmouth at Han­ York City. over Fri., May 17—Nassau Country Club Thurs., May 30—Amherst at Williams- at Glen Cove, L. I. town Sat., May 18—Yale at Wykagyl Club, Wed., June 5—Harvard at Cambridge New Rochelle, L. I. Sat., June 8—Holy Cross at Worces­ Sat., May 25—Harvard at Springfield ter Sat., June 1—open Thurs., June 13—Cornell atWilliams- town Football Sat., June 15—Wesleyan at Williams- • Sept. 28—R. P. I. at Williamstown town Oct. 5—Springfield T. S. at Williams­ Mon., June 24—Vermont at Williams- town town. Oct. 12—Harvard at Cambridge Oct. 19—Dartmouth at Williamstown Track Oct. 26—N. Y. U. at New York City Sat., April 27—Dual meet with Wesley­ Nov. 2—Cornell at Ithaca an at Williamstown Nov. 9—Wesleyan at Williamstown Sat., May 4—Dual meet with Amherst Nov. 16—Amherst at Amherst at Amherst Fri.-Sat., May 17-18—N. E. I. A. A. Track meet at Springfield At the annual athletic carnival held at Sat., June 8—Williams Interscholastic the State Armory in Troy on the evening Athletic Association meet at Williamstown of Feb. 22, Williams defeated Hamilton in the mile relay race, and won one first Tennis place, three seconds and two thirds in the Sat., Apr. 27—Faculty at Williams­ other contests. The runners represent­ town ing Williams in the relay were G. F. Sim- Sat., May 4—Brown at Williamstown son, ’12, R. H. Rogers, T3, T. Flanders, Thurs., May 9—M. A. C. at Williams­ ’13, and G. W. Brodie, Jr., T5. town About 35 men reported at the first Sat., May 11—Columbia at Williams­ meeting of candidates for the track team town held on March 17. Regular cross-coun- 18 The Williams Alumni Review try runs have been held to get the men in Field Club of Albany by 1 to 0. The condition for the work on the Weston game was played at Fort William Henry, Field track ’which has begun with the Lake George. A contest scheduled for opening of the present term. A well-bal­ Feb. 22 with West Point had to be can­ anced team should be turned out at Wil­ celled owing to lack of ice. liams this season. Sidney M. Michael, 13, of Buffalo, N. Y., has been re-elected captain for the Finish of Basketball Season coming year. Others who represented the College in hockey this year are E. R. In addition to the basketball games re­ Bartlett, 12, M. C. Field, 12, E. R. de ported in the February Review, four con­ Bronkart, 13, G. T. Curtis, 14, J. W. tests were played, three of which result­ Gillette, 14, C. F. Cutler, 15, F. A. ed in defeats and one in a victory for Wil­ MacNamee, 15, R. B. Swain, 15, and liams. At Middletown on Feb. 21, Wil­ H. C. Cole, 15. liams was swept off her feet by Wesleyan by the score of 31 to 4, being unable to Baseball assume the offensive at any point of the Continued wet and cold weather in game in the face of her opponents’ ac­ Williamstown made outdoor baseball curate throwing. On February 24 at practice impossible prior to the Easter Williamstown, Dartmouth was met in a recess beginning April 3. Work in the close and exciting contest which was not cage, however, began shortly after the decided until the last minute of play, midyear examinations, about 20 fresh­ when with the score even at 20-20, a men, with some good material among clever goal by Dartmouth won the game, them, showing up. 22-20. On March 2 the return game with A squad of 19 men, in charge of Coach Wesleyan was played at Williamstown, Coakley,spent the Easter vacation in New resulting in a victory for the visitors by a York, obtaining good opportunities for score of 21 to 14. The contest was hard outdoor work by the kindness of Ford- fought throughout, the Wesleyan men ham, N. Y. U., and the New York League winning by their excellence in shooting. in allowing the use of their grounds. A This victory gives Wesleyan, for the sec­ few practice games were also engaged in. ond successive year, the championship of As noted in the schedule printed above the New England Basketball League com­ the first game of the season will be played posed of Brown, Wesleyan and Williams. at Williamstown on April 26, against M. The Williams team closed its 1912 sea­ son with a victory at New York over the A. C. team of New York University, the score being 17 to 7. Swimming Edward L. Freeman, T3, of Central Williams beat Cornell in a swimming Falls, R. I., has been elected captain of match held at the Pittsfield Y. M. C. A. the team for the coming year. Others by a score of 29 to 24. The match was who have played in the intercollegiate held away from Williamstown owing to basketball contests this year are K. B. lack of water in the gymnasium tank. Wallace, ’12 (captain), S. Brown, T2, The meet with Columbia, held in New A. P. R. Nagle, T2, B. D. Wetherell,’12, York March 1st, resulted in an over­ J. F. Page, 13, F. A. Vietor, 13, K. H. whelming victory for the metropolitan Hodge, 15, J. M. Deely, 1 5 ,1. M. Demp­ team, Williams being completely “swum sey, 15,'and E. M. Hay, 15. under” to the tune of 46 to 7. The last contest of the season, with End of Hockey Season Amherst and Brown at Amherst, also The Williams hockey season of 1912 resulted in a disappointment for Williams, ended with a victory over the Loudon the team finishing in last place. The The Williams Alumni Review 19 score was: Brown 40 Amherst 23, follows: “W” to G. F. Simson, ’12, T. Williams 12^ points. Flanders, ’13, R. H. Rogers, ’13, and G. W. Lack of practice caused by the shortage Brodie, Jr., ’15, members of the relay of water in the gymnasium tank was large­ team; “B W B” to C. H. Ayres, ’12 ly responsible this season for the poor (manager), S. Brown, ’12, K. B. Wallace, showing of the Williams swimmers. T2, B. D. Wetherell, T2, H. T. Dana, T3, The contest for the cups offered an­ (asst, manager), E. L. Freeman, ’13, J. F. nually by F. E. Bowker, Jr., ’08, which Page, T3, F. A. Vietor, ’13, K. H. Hodge, was held the latter part of March, was ’15, of the basketball team; “S W T” to won by B. M. Eyre, T5, with T. W. Doan, T. W. Doan, ’12, T. K. Thurston, ’12, ’12, second. (manager), B. S. Dake, T3, H. T. Dana, ’13, J. P. Hubbell, ’13, L. S. Prince, ’14, Lehman Cup Contest B. M. Eyre, ’15, G. L. Hubbell, Jr., ’15, of the swimming team. Numerals were The open competition in all-around also granted to the 1912 class basketball athletics for the cups annually offered by team, winners of the class championship H. H. Lehman, ’99, held early last month this season. in the gymnasium and on the board track, was won by R. H. Rogers, T3, with a total of 50 points. G. F. Simson, T2, Managers of Sports Elected was second. Charles F. Ely, ’14, of Westfield, Mass., has been elected second assistant football Aeronautics manager to become assistant manager Williams balloonists expect to enter next year and manager the year after the second semi-annual intercollegiate next. balloon race, which is to be flown from Charles W. Lester, T4, of Saratoga Kansas City on or about July 1st. H. P. Springs, N. Y., has been elected a second Shearman, ’ll, the most experienced assistant manager of hockey ; Allston Williams aeronaut, is to pilot the Wil­ Headley, ’14, of Albany, N. Y., second liams balloon. Other colleges booked assistant manager of swimming. to compete are Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and University of Virginia. Items A Fencing Match Williams has 14 baseball games on her The team of the Williams Fencing list this year, compared with 29 for Uni­ Club, consisting of E. H. Swift, T2, H. versity of Pennsylvania, 28 for Princeton, G. Hotchkiss, T3, and A. L. Swift, Jr., 25 for Yale, and 17 for Dartmouth. In T 3, defeated the team of the Springfield the year 1888 Williams had 26 baseball. Training School in a match at Williams- games on her schedule, but many fewer town on March 9 by 8 bouts to 1. varieties of athletic sports. Twelve games are scheduled in the in­ terclass baseball series to be held as usual College Insignia Awarded this term. It is expected that all the At a meeting of the Athletic Council games in the series will be played on Wes­ held March 22 insignia were awarded as ton Field. 20 The Williams Alumni Review

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Notice to Alumni Philadelphia For the maintenance and improve­ W. Marriott Canby, Land Title Bldg., ment of this department of the Review, Philadelphia, Pa. regular correspondents have been ap­ Seattle pointed in the principal Williams centers. W. Philip Smith, 703 White Bldg., In addition all readers are urged to lend Seattle, Wash. their support by sending to the Editor all items of interest concerning Williams men Springfield which may meet their observation. Leopold L. Wilder, 10 Revere St., Springfield, Mass. List of Alumni Correspondents Albany and Troy Candidates for Alumni Trustee William C. Hart, ’94, Secretary of the Isaac H. Vrooman, Jr., 282 Hamilton Society of Alumni, has mailed to each St., Albany, N. Y. graduate of thé College, under date of Boston March 15, 1912, an announcement of the James F. Bacon, 45 Milk St., Boston, names of the candidates for Alumni Mass. Trustee to serve from 1912 to 1917, to­ Buffalo gether with the newly adopted form of official ballot and the blank for the sug­ Loran L. Lewis, Jr., Erie Co. Bank gestion of candidates for next year. Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. The candidates this year are Robert Chicago Ramsey, ’84, lawyer, of Cincinnati, 0.; Harold S. Osborne, 155 N. Clark St., Loran L, Lewis, Jr., ’87, lawyer, of Buffalo, Chicago, 111. N. Y.; Charles T. Terry, ’89, lawyer and Cincinnati professor, of New York City; and John S. Sheppard, Jr., ’91, lawyer, of New York W. Lytle Foster, Oak and May Sts., City. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Terry were West Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O. also candidates in 1910 and 1911, and Cleveland Mr. Sheppard in 1911. Leon Brooks Bacon, 566 Rockefeller Frederic B. Jennings, ’72, was last year Bldg., Cleveland, O. selected as a candidate for this year’s election, but his election as a permanent Columbus Trustee of the College, which occurred James G. Durfee, 1365 East Long St., in January, 1912, removes his name from Columbus, O. the ballot. Detroit The five Alumni Trustees now in service Dr. Ray Connor, 91 Lafayette Boule­ are Howard J. Rogers, ’84, of Albany, N. vard, Detroit, Mich. Y., whose term expires in June, 1912; Charles S. Holt, ’74, of Chicago, 111., Minneapolis whose term expires in June, 1913; Henry Monroe B. Keith, 220 First Ave., Lefavour, ’83, of Boston, Mass., whose Minneapolis, Minn. term expires in June, 1914; Solomon B. New York Griffin, ’72, of Springfield, Mass., whose James A. Hatch, Appellate Division term expires in June, 1915; and Bliss Court House, 25th St. and Madison Ave., Perry, ’81, of Cambridge, Mass., whose New York, N. Y. term expires in June, 1916. The Williams Alumni Review 21

A Rousing ’66 Reunion The class of ’85 has been getting to­ gether in New York annually for the last Twelve members of the class of ’66— 13 years, and next year it is hoped that that class renowned in the annals of Wil­ several classes of the ’80’s and about that liams baseball—held a reunion and ban­ time will be able to arrange their annual quet at the University Club in New York dinners for the same time and place. on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12, 1912. Those present at the ’85 dinner were: The hosts of the occason were Eugene Charles B. Ames, Henry W. Banks, Ed­ Delano of New York, Virgil P. Kline of ward P. Freeman, Very Rev. William M. Cleveland, and Rev. William W. Clark of Grosvenor, Albert Halsey, H. Donnell Brooklyn, and the others present were Rockwell, Clarence C. Sibley, B. Herbert Thomas W. Davis of Boston, Orrin Day Smith, Clarence H. Galt of New York; of Catskill, N. Y., Townsend MacCoun Herbert D. Bailey of Troy, N. Y.; Ells­ of Essex Fells, N. J., Rev. Dr. William C. worth Bonfils of Jamaica, N. Y.; Herbert P. Rhoades of Brooklyn, Rev. Rufus S. J. Brown of Portland, Me.; A. Dudley Underwood of New York, Charles B. Dowd and Bentley W. Warren of Boston, Jennings of New London, Ct., Rev. Al­ President Harry A. Garfield of Williams- fred E. Myers of New York, J. Hixson town, James R. Garfield of Cleveland, 0.; Van Etten of Milford, Pa., and Rev. Dana Arthur D. Hawley of Bristol, Ct.; Sam­ M. Walcott of Rutherford, N. J. uel E. Smith of Menosha, Wis.; William Luncheon was served at one o’clock, W. Wilcox of Middletown, Ct.; George and afterward there was enjoyed a feast W. Yates, Jr., of Saratoga Springs, N. Y .; of letters and greetings from absent mem­ bers of the class, as well as from graduates and Rev. Rowland S. Nichols of Newark, of other years who had been honored N. J. with a notice of the meeting. Then a photograph of the company was taken, ’88’s Annual Meeting the life-history of each man present was Members of the class of 1888 met for heard in turn, a class president was elect­ their annual dinner at the University ed in the person of Mr. Delano, and the Club in New York on the evening of meeting adjourned. March 1st. The happy coincidence of All this, and a great deal more, may their choice of the same night and place be gathered from the accurate and en­ as ’85 was matched by another coinci­ tertaining account of the proceedings, dence, just 21 men being present at each sent with the photograph to -all the absent dinner. Those present were Edward D. ones by the class secretary, Rev. William Beach of Bridgeport, Ct.; William S. W. Clark. Edgar of New York, Lewis W. Francis of New York, Dr. E. J. Gillette of Phoenix, ’85’s Class Dinner Arizona, George L. Hubbell of Garden The class of 1885 held its annual dinner City, N. Y., Matthew H. Hoover of at the University Club in New York City Lockport, N. Y., Rev. Thomas H. Mack­ on the evening of March 1st. The meet­ enzie of Flushing, N. Y., W. S. S. Newton ing was one of the pleasantest ever held of New York, Rev. Ellsworth W. Phillips by the class, as well as one of the best at­ of Whitman, Mass., Rev. John S. Porter tended, 21 men being present. A feature of Prague, Bohemia (just returning to his of the occasion was the visit received from mission field after a year’s furlough), Al­ the class of ’88, who were holding their bert Rathbone of New York, Storrs H. dinner on another floor of the club build­ Seeley of New York, Dr. George Sherrill ing. The combined classes rendered of Stamford, Ct., Walter H. Tappan of “The Mountains” under the leadership New York, Sewell T. Tyng of New York, of “Jock” Hubbell’s tenor, and gave a Harrison J. Uhl of New York, Rev. David few good Williams cheers. E. VanGieson of Brooklyn, W. Gerard 22 The Williams Alumni Review

Vermilye of Closter, N. J., Rev. William Alumni Dine at Buffalo S. Walker of Newington, Ct., and J. The Williams Alumni Association of Addison Yoüng of New Rochelle, N. Y. Western New York held its annual dinner on the evening of Feb. 19 at the Universi­ Two More Class Dinners ty Club in Buffalo. President Garfield of the College was the guest of honor and Members of two other Williams classes gave the principal address, illustrated by held dinners' at the University Club in lantern slides showing the Williams Col­ March, and each class expects to repeat lege buildings of long ago and those of to­ the experiment next year. day. Among other things, the President The dinner of ’89 took place on the said: evening of March 22, and eleven were present as follows: Edwin C. Andrews, “I believe in athletics in the colleges, William G. Bosworth, J. Danforth Bush, but I do not believe in letting the training Chester C. Hayes, William A. Kissam, idea get the better of our good sense. David S. Johnston, Edwin S. Merrill, Too many young men are overdeveloped Dr. Matthias Nicoll, Jr., Charles T. physically through severe training in Terry, Dr. C. Howard Travell, and Dr. their college days, and as a result their William R. Williams. health is broken. One young man, a fine The class of ’93 held their dinner on fellow too, who pitched on our college March 9, and those present were Rev. baseball team, trained too fine, and in Lynn P. Armstrong, Henry H. Eddy, later years found his health so impaired William H. L. Edwards, Charles T. as a result of the trainer’s work that he Ennis, John N. Huyck, Robert G. Mead, was forced to abandon the practice of Franklin H. Mills, Merle F. Murphy, law.” Acosta Nichols, Bertram L. Smith, Louis “College men owe a duty to the com­ M. Starr, and Dr. Ernest N. Wilcox. munities in which they live that is not to be lightly put aside. They have been trained to think and should discharge First Call for 1902’s Decennial their obligation to the people and to their The committee in charge of the decen­ college by taking an active part in public nial reunion of the class of 1902, consist­ affairs.” ing of Max B. Berking, S. Arthur Graves, “Just now, we are on the eve of a great and Royal E. T. Riggs, have issued a blast presidential election when momentous commanding the attention of their class­ questions are being discussed. We can­ mates to the approaching festival. Among not see others perform their part and not the promises and prospects held forth to feel that we, too, have duties and obliga­ allure the wanderer back to Williamstown tions. Politics is a serious business. in June are a “fireproof, soundproof cot­ Do not go into it with the idea that it is a tage on Hoxsey St.,” a costume which is game.” “novel, cool and gorgeous,” and a sight Other speakers were Elbert B. Mann, of all the new buildings and landscape 78, Joseph D. Allen and Rev. Dr. S. V. gardening effects. To add a practical touch every member of the class has been V. Holmes, ’83. presented with a bank, wherein to drop At the close of the meeting the follow­ a coin whenever thoughts of Williams­ ing officers of the association were elected town arise—thus providing against the for the coming year: President, Marc day of reunion. A class book is coming W. Comstock, ’88; vice-president, George out too, with the life-story and philosophy G. Davidson, Jr., ’95; treasurer, Dana L. of every living graduate (or sometime Spring, ’99; secretary, Thomas R. Wheel­ member) of 1902. er, ’07. The Williams Alumni Review 23

Dinner of Northern New York Alumni Successful Meeting of Pennsylvania Alumni The annual meeting and dinner of the Williams Alumni Association of Northern The 28th annual meeting of the Penn­ New York was held at the Ten Eyck in sylvania Alumni Association of Williams Albany on Saturday evening, Feb. 24, College was held in Philadelphia, Thurs­ being the 197th anniversary of the birth day, February 15, 1912, at the Bellevue- of Colonel Ephraim Williams. Edgar C. Stratford Hotel, at which the following Leonard, ’86, president of the association, officers for the ensuing year were elected: presided at the dinner, and the principal President, Felton Bent, ’95; vice-presi­ speakers were Prof. Lewis Perry, ’98, dents, Rev. Winthrop B. Greene, ’92, representing the College, and Dr. C. Ed­ William M. Canby,. ’91; secretary and ward Jones of Albany, deputy superin­ treasurer, J. Randall Williams, Jr., ’00; tendent of schools. Ronald F. Webster, executive committee, Lewis C. Lillie, ’59, ’12, of the undergraduate body at Wil­ Dr. James F. Stone, ’61, Dr. Joseph Tom­ liams gave the students’ view of the new linson, ’75, Rev. George L. Richardson, arrangement of studies at the College, ’88, J. D. Bush, ’89, Henry D. Riley, ’95, and Barclay J. Savage, ’03, gave the ideas and Wilson S. Boice, ’04. of the younger alumni on the subject. Resolutions were read in regard to the Music was furnished by the College oc­ late Dr. Stephen W. Dana, ’61. Reso­ tet, under the leadership of R. W. Seeley, lutions were also passed expressing the T2. sorrow at the deaths of Edward L. Per­ At the business meeting of the associa­ kins, ’63, and Francis William Rawle, ’95. tion the following officers were elected for The meeting was followed by the usual the ensuing year: President, Herbert F. banquet, at which the retiring president Roy, ’97; first vice-president, John W. of the association, Dr. T. J. Smith, ’62, Gillette, ’82; second vice-president, Rob­ presided, and the College was represented ert Cluett, Jr., ’92; secretary, Frank S. by Prof. Lewis Perry, ’98. Lantern slides Parmenter, ’95; treasurer, Edward M. of College buildings were shown. Kennedy, ’04; executive committee, H. The 28th annual banquet was one of the S. Ide, ’92, C. B. MacEwan, ex-’06, W. most enthusiastic and successful ones in G. Van Loon, ’96, D. W. Marvin, ’01. the history of the association. Among others present were Dr. R. H. The following men were present: Lewis Ward, ’58, H. F. Boardman, ’75, Danforth C. Lillie, ’59, Dr. James F. Stone, ’61, Geer, ’79, F. S. Pratt, ’82, W. F. Gurley, Dr. T. J. Smith, ’62, H. P. Blackinton, ’82, Dr. Samuel Smith, ’83, W. J. Foster, ’87, Rev. Geo. L. Richardson, ’88, Geo. ’84, J. H. Burke, ’84, Frederick Tilling- N. Makely, ’83, J. D. Bush, ’89, C. L. hast, ’86, A. H. Bacon, ’86, E. C. Leonard, Ward, ’90, Felton Bent, ’95, H. D. Riley, ’86, G. C. Leonard, ’87, M. H-. Hoover, ’95, J. Randall Williams, Jr., ’00, Dr. B. ’88, M. T. Reynolds, ’90, Edwin Van B. Vincent Lyon, ’03, Wilson Boice, ’04, Wormer, ’92, N. B. Vanderzee, ’92, Rev. Harold Peckham, ’05, Richard Bumap, C. G. Sewall, ’93, J. N. Huyck, ’93, Dr. ’06, Alexander McK. Swain,’09,1 Lewis C. J. A. Sampson, ’95, A. H. Ide, ’95,1. V. H. Jamieson, ex-’ 12, Paul Dana, ’ll, Lyndon Gill, ’96, L. A. Hawkins, ’97, H. F. Roy, B. Hardwick, ex-’11, and A. E. Moore, ’07. ’97, F. C. Huyck, ’98, S. T. Jones, ’99, President Garfield and Mrs. Garfield I. H. Vrooman, Jr., ’99, N. B. Sherry, ’99, lunched informally at the Bellevue- D. W. Marvin, ’01, G. J. Hatt, 2d., ’02, Stratford with some of the officers of the B. J. Savage, ’03, T. F. Woods, ’03, E. C. association on February 5th. Groesbeck, ’04, W. S. Egerton, ’05, R. N. Barrett, ’06, S. C. Wooster, Jr., ’06, De- Detroit Alumni Dinner lancey Palmer, ’07, and W. S. Wooster, The Detroit Alumni had their annual ’07. dinner at the Detroit Club on Monday 24 The Williams Alumni Review evening, Feb. 12th. Between twenty- While the attendance was not as large as five and thirty responded to the call of the in former years, lack of numbers was president, John R. Searles, ’94. After more than made up in enthusiasm. the dinner, a silent toast was drunk stand­ Prof. Lewis Perry, ’98, of the College, ing to the health of the late Dr. Leartus was the speaker of the evening, He re­ Connor, ’65, a devoted friend of the Col­ viewed the last college year at Williams lege and a constant attendant at these and sought to correct the wide spread be­ dinners. lief that Williams is rapidly becoming a President Garfield, in the only set college for the rich alone. The man of speech of the evening, presented some of moderate or meager means, said Prof. the ideals aimed at and attained in the Perry, has the same chances to help him­ physical features of the College, in the self now as in former years, and he stands Faculty and in the student body. He call­ as well as ever in the college community. ed attention to the large gifts bestowed Several instances were cited to prove this on the College in recent years and pointed assertion, and all doubting alumni were out the debt to humanity which these urged to come to Williamstown and in­ benefactions imposed upon the great body vestigate conditions for themselves. Prof. of alumni. Perry related a number of amusing anec­ Rev. John F. Fitschen, ’89, responded dotes and closed his address with a warm for the alumni, thanking President Gar­ tribute to President Garfield. field for his presence and words of inspira­ A silent toast was drunk to the memory tion. E. Crosby Doughty, ’99, presided of Frank T. Cole, ’77, long secretary of at the piano and Dr. R. M. Woodward of the association and one of the most loyal the Marine Hospital Service mystified and beloved of Williams alumni. and delighted the audience with numer­ Officers for the ensuing year were elect­ ous sleight of hand tricks. ed as follows: President, Robert H. Jef­ Among those present were Dr. Justin frey, ’95; vice-president, F. Max Butler, E. Emerson, ’65, Dr. Albert B. Lyons, ’01; secretary-treasurer, James G. Dur- ’65, Rev. Henry Tatlock, D.D., ’71, of fee, ’04. The alumni present at the din­ Ann Arbor, Hon. Francis King, ’84, of ner were F. C. Eaton, ’72, Dr. J. B. Mc- Alma, Frederick T. Ranney, ’84, Rev. Comb, ’96, G. W. Gillette, ’97, C. P. John F. Fitschen, ’89, Harry E. Avery, Parkhurst, ’98, L. P. Hoster, ’99, F. M. ’92, Frederick E. Searle, ’93, Dr. Benja­ Butler, ’01, J. W. Jeffrey, ’02, A. R. min R. Schenck, ’94, Frederic T. Harward, Leonard, ’02, A. M. Miller, ’04, and J. G. ’94, John R. Searles, ’94, Dr. Guy L. Durfee, ’04, all of Columbus; also, P. R. Connor, ’97, Dr. Ray Connor, ’97, E. Peters of Lancaster. Crosby Doughty, ’99, Edward Gay Was- ey, ex-’02, John S. Cole, ex-’02, Richard Chicago Alumni Dinner H. Doughty, ’03, William S. Pettit, ’05, William R. Stocking, ’05, and Charles The annual banquet of the Chicago A. Kanter, ’07. Alumni Association was held Wednesday Dr. Ray Connor, ’97, was elected presi­ evening, February 14th, in College Hall dent for the ensuing year. Frederic T. at the University Club. Numerous Wil­ Harward, ’94, vice-president, and E. liams banners had been hung about the Crosby Doughty, ’99, secretary-treasurer. room and there were other decorations to match. The diners quickly entered into the spirit of the occasion and, to Meeting of Alumni of Central Ohio the music of an orchestra well drilled in The annual dinner of the Williams the Williams songs, scarcely let a moment Alumni Association of Central Ohio was pass without a song or cheer for good held at the Hotel Chittenden, Columbus, Old Williams. There were about seven­ on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 17. ty men present, including many from The Williams- AÍtonni Review 25

other cities who had come to Chicago es­ James M. Hawley, ’57; vice-presidents, pecially for the banquet. Rev. Evan H. Martin, 72, and Myron The principal speaker of the evening W. Greene, ’90; secretary, Rochester H. was President Garfield, who described Rogers, ’02; treasurer, Atkinson Allen,’08; some of the physical improvements upon executive committee, George F. Johnston, and about the campus and forcefully told ’89, chairman, Myron W. Greene, ’90, and of the college graduate’s opportunity in Rochester H. Rogers, ’02. The club will the world and what his training should do hold three meetings a year, one in Octo­ for him. Other speakers were Robert ber, one in January, and one during the Ramsey, ’84, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who in Easter holidays. a most pleasing address told of his ex­ perience among college men and their Young Alumni Meet in Boston place in modem society; Professor Percy H. Boynton, Amherst, ’97, and Henry W. On March 5 the young Williams men Austin, class of ’88. The vice-president of Boston held a most successful dinner at of the association, Scott S. Durand, ’90, “Louis,” ’ with about 40 in attendance. presided at the dinner. Macgregor Jenkins, ’90, of the Atlantic Monthly, gave a talk on “The Making of a Alumni Organize at Pittsburgh Magazine,” and current conditions at Wil­ liams came in for general discussion. The Williams Alumni Association of Officers for the ensuing year were elect­ Pittsburgh was organized on February ed as follows: President, F. E. Bowker, 27th, 1912, and the following officers elect­ Jr., ’08; vice-president, J. A. Hall, ’99; ed: President, Orland W. Mason, ’99; secretary-treasurer D. E. S. Mead, ex-’10; vice-president, E. Trumbull Lee, ’79; executive committee, the above officers secretary and treasurer, Franklin T. Nev- and S. F. Johnson, ’10, K. S. Domett, ’07, in, ’90. The opportunity for effecting J. F. Steele, ’07. the organization was an informal dinner in honor of Prof. Morton, who was the NOTES Williams representative at the 125th an­ niversary of the founding of the Universi­ ’50. William D. Porter, one of the ty of Pittsburgh. This gathering is oldest and most devoted graduates of probably the first attempt to get together Williams, died at his home in Summit, the Williams alumni of the Pittsburgh N. J., Feb. 26, 1912, in the 81st year of district. Out of the dozen and a half his age. Mr. Porter came of a distin­ graduates located in and about Pitts­ guished family, being a direct descendant burgh nine attended the dinner, among of Rev. William Williams of the Harvard whom was Frank S. Bissell of the class of class of 1665, who was an ancestor of 1854. By a fortunate coincidence two Colonel Ephraim Williams, the founder of Ohio alumni were able to be present ; Dr. Williams College. He was also related Alfred T. Perry ’80, President of Marietta to former President Cleveland, to Wil­ College, and James M. Bailey, ’96. The liam E. Dodge of New York and to the dinner promises to become an annual af­ poet Edmund C. Stedman. fair and a strong effort will be made to Mr. Porter was bom at Hartford, Ct., get a full attendance on the next occasion. April 15, 1831, entered Williams at the age of 15, and was graduated with the Rochester Alumni Organize class of 1850. At graduation he was elect­ ed class secretary, and held the position At a dinner held at the University continuously for 61 years, keeping in con­ Club, Rochester. N. Y., on April 9, the stant touch with the living members of Williams College Alumni Association of his class as well as with his Alma Mater. Rochester was organized, and the follow­ At the Commencement of 1910 he was ing officers were elected: President, the sole representative of the class gradu- 26 The Williams Alumni Review ated 60 years before and marched at the dent Mark Hopkins, died at his Boston head of the alumni procession. In col­ home on April 4. He was graduated at lege he was a member of the Anti-Secret Williams in 1863, and immediately after­ Confederation, afterward the parent ward entered the army as lieutenant in chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, the First Massachusetts cavalry. He and throughout his life took an active was promoted to major at the age of 20. and never-failing interest in the fraterni­ After the war Major Hopkins entered ty’s affairs. the railroad business, being at first .super- For many years Mr. Porter was engag­ intendent of the Housatonic Railroad ed in business in New York City, long in and afterwards serving as vice-president connection with the firm of Phelps, of the Illinois Central and Missouri Pa­ Dodge & Co., of which his uncle, William cific railroads and president of the Sus­ E. Dodge, was a member. He was after­ quehanna and Western. He retired ward elected treasurer of the National from active business in later life. Temperance Society, and occupied the Major Hopkins was a prominent and position for 20 years. Most notable in public-spirited citizen of Williamstown, his life, however, was his devotion to re­ where he had his voting residence. He ligious interests, particularly in the field owned an estate of some 1800 acres in of the Sunday school. His work as a the northwest part of the town, including Sunday school teacher extended oyer much mountain land through which he had more than 50 years, and the celebration laid out beautiful drives,andtowhichhe was of his completion of a half-century as a planning other improvements at the time teacher of the primary grade, which was of his last illness. He served as Alumni observed March 16, 1911, was widely Trustee of Williams from 1879 to 1884, noted. He was also an extensive writer and belonged to well known clubs in on religious subjects, and completed, Boston, New York and Washington. some years before his death, an entire He is survived by his widow, who was Life of Christ, written in story form, and Miss Teresa B. Dodge of Boston, two revealing not only the author’s knowledge brothers, Colonel Archibald Hopkins of of the facts involved, but of their bearing Washington and Mark Hopkins of Paris, on Christian theology and experience. and three sisters, Mrs. John H. Denison Mr. Porter was a man of energy, loyal­ and Miss Susan Hopkins of Williamstown ty, and singular purity of character. and Mrs. Charles C. Nott of Princeton, Throughout his long life he kept a youth­ N. J. ful heart and an active sympathy for The funeral service was held at St. every good cause. His full and accurate John’s church in Williamstown on Easter memory made him invaluable as a source Day, and the burial was in the College of information regarding past happenings, cemetery. and his reminiscences of life at Williams ’72. William H. H. Tuttle died at his in his undergraduate days are a vivid por­ home in Arlington, Mass., on April 3, trayal. He is survived by a son and daugh­ in his 67th year. He was bom in 1845, ter, the latter of whom has been appointed was graduated from Williams in 1872 honorary secretary of the class of 1850 and from Harvard Law School in 1877. by its remaining members. He practiced his profession in Boston and ’62. Professor George L. Raymond is Arlington, also engaging for a time in the author of a novel entitled “Modem teaching. He was active in the local Fishers of Men” recently issued by the affairs of the town of Arlington, serving publishing firm of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. as chairman of its school committee and The novel depicts phases of life in an as town counsel. He was a member of imaginary community called “Chartville”. the Massachusetts Legislature in 1890 ’63. Major Amos Lawrence Hopkins and 1891. He served as trustee for sev­ of Boston and Williamstown, son of Presi­ eral large estates, among which was the The Williams Alumni Review 27 trusteeship which resulted in the estab­ time superintendent of the company’s lishment of the Symmes Hospital at Ar­ agencies in the United States and Canada. lington, an undertaking in which Mr. In 1899 his health gave way, and being Tuttle was deeply interested. He is unable thereafter to undertake any con­ survived by a widow and two children. tinued work he occupied himself with ’83, ’89. Williams men are taking an travel and study in this country and in active part in the programme of the Men Europe. He had been living in Italy and Religion Forward Movement in the several months prior to his death. city of Buffalo. The Social Service Com­ Mr. Thomas was an influential and en­ mittee of the movement, of which Rev. thusiastic member of the Delta Upsilon Dr. S. V. V. Holmes, ’83, is a member, is Fraternity, and served as president of its now conducting a social study of the city executive council from 1892 to 1898. at weekly public meetings, with the aid Ex-’90. Rev. Dr. Frank DeWitt Tal- of a number of citizens as group leaders. mage, pastor of the Chambers-Wylie Me­ H. Shumway Lee, ’89, is chairman of the morial Presbyterian church of Philadel­ group considering “Hours and Condi­ phia, died at his home in that city on Feb. tions of Labor,” while Irving S. Under­ 9, at the age of 44 years. He was the son hill, ’89, is a group leader on “Health of Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage, a noted and Housing.” lecturer and preacher, and entered Wil­ ’84. William S. Cooper, secretary of liams with the class of 1890, afterwards the class of 1884, has issued the twenty- graduating from New York University. fifth annual report of the class in an at­ He studied for the ministry at Union tractive pamphlet full of information for Theological Seminary in New York, ’84 men. Letters from almost all of the served as assistant at Olivet Presbyter­ living members of the class are included ian church in that city, and later held im­ in the report, and interesting news about portant pastorates in Pittsburgh, Pa., them is also gathered from other sources. Chicago, 111., and Los Angeles, Cal. The class numbers among its “honor Upon resigning his charge in the latter men” one former Secretary of the In­ city he traveled abroad, engaging some­ terior, one member of Congress, two what in evangelistic work, and in 1909, Williams Trustees, three mayors of cities, returning to this country, he was called one district judge, and numerous mem­ to the church in Philadelphia. His wife bers of state legislatures. Only one of and four children survive him. the class is still unmarried. ’91. The marriage of W. Marriott Eighty-four, by the way,stands second on Canby and Miss Leila Kurtz, daughter the list of contributors to the Williams Pro­ of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keller Kurtz of fessorship Fund, with $5000 to its credit Germantown, Pa., took place in German­ at last accounts. town on Feb. 10. ’88. Ellis J. Thomas died suddenly ’94. Dr. Benjamin R. Schenck is at­ from brain trouble at Rome, Italy, on Nov. tending gynaecologist at Harper Hospital, 24, 1911. He was a member of the class Detroit, Mich. of 1888 at Williams, and was throughout ’95. J. P. Congdon has removed to his course prominent in scholarship and Boise, Idaho, where he is engaged in busi­ in literary activities. He officiated as ness as a consulting engineer. His ad­ Class Day President at graduation. dress is 1622 Washington St., Boise. After leaving college Mr. Thomas en­ ’96. Rev. Arthur W. Bailey has re­ gaged in tutoring in New York City for signed the pastorate of the First Congre­ several years, also studying philosophy gational church, Keene, N. H., to become and law, and was admitted to the bar in Superintendent of the Congregational 1892. About this time he entered the Sunday School and Publishing Society employ of the Metropolitan Life Insur­ of Northern New England, with head­ ance Company, becoming in seven years’ quarters at South Hadley, Mass. 28 The Williams Alumni Review ’97. Dr. .Guy L. Connor has been ’08. John Woodcock has been ad­ elected vice-president of the Michigan mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the State Medical Society. ’99, ’03. E. Crosby Doughty and firm of Woodcock & Woodcock, attorneys, Richard H. Doughty have removed to Hollidaysburg, Pa. Detroit, Mich., where they are engaged ’08. The engagement is announced in the manufacture of the K-R-I-T au­ of Harry Miner Ives and Miss Jeannette Baffin Atwater, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. tomobile. .. ^ , ’99. Richard A. Rice, Jr., contributed James B. Atwater of Westfield, Mass. a humorous article entitled The Wild­ Dr. Atwater is a graduate of Williams in cat Trail” to the March number of the the class of 1879. Atlantic Monthly. He is Assistant Pro­ ’09. James W. Van Wiltsie has lately fessor of English at the University of published a “Progressive Map of the Life of Christ,” whose object is to present in Indiana. ’01. Stanley Washburn recently is­ chronological order and connected form sued a novel entitled “The Cable Game all the events of the Gospel story so graph­ through the Boston publishing firm of ically and simply as to enable the reader Sherman, French and Company. In the to form a complete mental picture of the book the author relates his experiences as whole. ' , a journalist during the Russo-Japanese Ex-’09. The engagement is announced of Donald M. Forgan and Miss Margaret war. _ ■ . ’03. Professor Stuart P. Sherman, ot Herrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John the University of Illinois, has recently J. Herrick of Chicago, 111. It is expected issued through the publishing firm of that the wedding will take place in Macmillan and Company an edition ot May. ,. Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus”. ’09. A daughter, Helen, was bom to ’04 Claire C. Barton, of Dalton, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Fisher of Wee- Mass., has removed to Flint, Michigan, hawken, N. J., on April 5. . r to engage in the retail shoe business. ’10. The engagement is announced of ’05. William S. Pettit is with the E- Franklin C. Buck and Miss Bamekah M-F Automobile Co. at Detroit, Mich. His VanNess Angell, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. address is 122 Forest Ave., East, Detroit. Augustus Angell of Hartford, Ct. ’07. Charles A. Kanter and Miss TO. The wedding of Stanley P. Ben­ Margaret E. Langley were married at ton and Miss Margaret Jones, daughter Detroit, Mich., on Jan. 3, 1912. of Mrs. Harley E. Jones, of Pittsfield, ’07 A son, William Herbert, was bom took place in that city April 9th. Mr. to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Redick of Oma­ Benton is engaged in the marble business ha, Neb., on Feb. 21. at Proctor, Vt.