T HE ST OR Y OF

Am m i B radfo rd Hyde

D T ENRY A RR P h . A R HU R H O P . E , ,

n iver sit o D ver P rofessor of Latin i the Un y f en .

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Y T H E 1 . OU U O AND D CATI N ,

I T I. C AREER AS EACHER

Z S 1 . CA ENOVIA EMINARY

2 M E! P C . ILITARY ERIEN ES , L O 3 . C IFE AT ALLEGHENY LLEGE ,

F7 L B O U O D 7 : A RS IN THE NIVERSITY F ENVER ,

III P 3 . S O O D C O O 9 ELECTI NS FR M IARY AND RRES NDENCE ,

I V . L I ITERARY ACT VITIES ,

V . W IT HU O AND M R ,

VI. B R A D F OR D H MA N AMMI YDE , THE LI T IL T T S OF LU S RA IONS .

FA C I N G P AG E O H O E - 6 AMMI BRADF RD YDE , AT THE AGE F IGHTY FIVE ,

E W H F E O C O D ARD YDE , IRST ARL F LAREND N

P O H BIRTH LACE F AMMI BRADFORD YDE ,

O H O TW AMMI BRADF RD YDE , AT THE AGE F ENTY ,

H E H S AMMI BRADFORD YD AND IS ISTER ,

G I W C O 1875 ENERAL V E ALLEGHENY LLEGE , ,

ALLEGHENY C OLLE GE SCENES OF T O-DAY

U H L B D P M NIVERSITY ALL , I ERAL ARTS E ART ENT , U O D NIVERSITY F ENVER ,

OLD D U ORMITORY AT WESLEYAN NIVERSITY ,

GENERAL VIEW OF GROU ND S AND B U ILDINGS AT WES U I LEYAN N VERSITY ,

K O O S P L 150 BREA ING GR U ND F R THE CIENCE ANT ,

T H E I S OO L O T O O LIFF CH F HE L GY , - MMI B T HE A GE OF I I . A RADFORD HYDE, AT E GHTY F VE

FOREWORD

r er t o m nkin d m n T he p op s udy f a is a . — P OP E .

” T H E St o r y of Am mi Bradford Hyde is not intended t o be an exhaustive biography . The title chosen gi ves the writer a bit o f lee I all o him n way . t ws to eglect some de ta ils and invi te the re ader t o give s ome rein to m A m i a a . t a i gin tion the s e t me , the title m a m It u presents cer tain e b arr ss e nts . s g gests some a ttempt at a readable account that sh all seek to keep the reader in a State of anticip ation a s the p ages Of the book ar e turned. If it b e o bjected that the book carri es some m atter n o t specifically connected with ’ mm a a A i Br dford Hyde , the uthor s excuse an d a a s the defense must be , th t , story of the o ak m ay well include the mention o f the sunshine an d the rain an d the soil that con ’ t o o S O tribute the tree s successful gr wth , the story o f Ammi Bradford Hyde may ap FOREWORD pr opr iat ely refer t o all those circumstances which have surrounded him an d those people ha la with whom he s bored . Dr . Hyde is still enj oying vigorous health . Only recently he gave striking evidence Of his youthful spirit and a gi li ty by walking from his home in Uni versity P a rk down t o the a o f and a a a a a he rt Denver b ck g in the s me d y , a a a di st nce Of fourteen miles . Th t night he

a a wa s - e a ttended reception , bright ey d , lert , an d an d th da was a s e cheery, e next y fr sh h - a a e . s June ros This book, t erefore , seeks to bestow flowers on the living rather than on a the de d .

T h niv er sit o Denv er e U y f ,

Mr 1 1 9 1 a ch 3 2 . , ’ A BIRD S - EYE VIEW

YDE MMI RA DFORD . a a H , A B , prof l ngu ges , d env er . a o . Univ . Of D ; b Oxfor , Chen ngo C , 2 Mr 13 1 5 . n 8 a . a ar Y a . d N . . , , ; S As hel J M y H ’n x Y . ed C . (Hinckley) ; prep . O ford , N . . ; a a nn gr d . Wesley n Univ . , Middletown , Co . , 1 4 m D 8 6 . . a . . . a . ( M A s e ; S T , Syr cuse Univ ; i n Y . D . . env er . a . Litt . , U v of D ) ; m Utic , N , 2 0 18 m 50 a a . July , , Mir S ith (now dece sed) ’ i mm n n Wa s . an a o e in service U S . S t ry C , t er ed m 1 4 h . 8 8 a s a M E . inistry , ; t ught in I m m . several colls . ; ndependent in politics ; e A m . a hi o c . A m . . o c . a Orient l S , P lol S , N ti n al e o G . c . . R S o . a a a og , S A , Phi Bet K pp , l ’ hi . . o a en er C olo Sch o m sters Club , D v P los

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Author : S ong o f Solomon an d Ecclesi ’ h edon s m a 1875 ES astes (W C om ent ry) , ; S a s 1884 Of y , ; Story Methodism , ’ ’ t e 58 . u n b r Me h R v . ont . r s C to y , weekly S day School Notes to P it ts bu r g h C hr istian A d o ca t e fo r and v consecutive weeks , to other j ours . t : a . Address Universi y P rk , Colo ’ — ho ho in A m r ic W s W e a . 9

A m m i B radfo rd Hyde

YOUTH AND E DUCATION

NEST L ING am ong the hills of south central

n Of a New York, in the cou ty Chen ngo , lies the little villag e of Oxfo r df Over a century Old Wa s un d a 1 793 it is , for it fo de in the ye r ; but while other villages established the s am e ye a r went ahead by leaps a n d bounds an d

ha all ear - m f m now ve the arks o the etropolis , d Oxford contentedly plo ded on , living the a a a a th unostent tious life , p tiently w iting e day when the world Should wake up to the fact tha t gre at m en m ay be born in Obscure am h lets . It w a s dur ing the first ye ars of the in fant n ation tha t a little b and Of New Eng a am m a all l nders , ong the Elij h Hovey, of m e the stout of s oul , with nerves of Ste l , pushed westwa rd from the Old B ay State to escape the distractions of a busy common a m un at a we lth . Fortune guided the til l st they pitched camp amidst be auti ful hills c ov 11 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE ered with magnificent forests Of pine and a a r an a a h rd m ple , through which , like thre d o f am m gle ing Silver, the cha r ing and r o m a t a o n ic Chen ng River . Here they deter

a o m f r mined to est blish new h es ; o , with abunda nce Of fi sh in the stre am and game on a h s m n score Of ill , with ti ber a d soil rich in m h h pro ise , they could not but feel that t ey a d found a spot t o which their hea rts might fondly cling . Their earliest business wa s cutting the splendid pine t rees and sending the timber do wn the Chenango into the Susquehann a an on a a B a and d into Ches pe ke y , thus to m the city Of B alti ore . Later they worked up the forest into pota sh and black s alts . These s ons o f New England brought along with them some of the best Of the a m a colonial tr ditions , pro inent mong which wa s a wholesome regard fo r education ; and so a e o r a a , ft r three four ye rs , in the ye r 1 9 an 7 7, they built a cademy in their young an a a village . This institution continued c d a 1850 was emy till bout , when it Shifted into a d a high school, which to y gives the youth Of the vicinity a very res pectable preparation fo r e coll ge . 12 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

T O- da a a o f a y , fter the l pse ne rly a cen

an d a a d a i a Of a tury qu rter, Oxfor is v ll ge h a a a an d a a t ous nd inh bit nts ; , until the r ilro d a ui a inv ded the q et retre t, the Silence Of the forest- covered hills wa s broken only by rush o f water o r cry Of wild anim al or shout of m an an d Of ; even now, despite the thunder the a x d iron steed over the steel r ils , O for a n m i l ret i s uch of virgin s mp icity, content to le ad a happy life devoted to the concerns of a n the d iryi g business . ar e n But men fou d everywhere . The Old inh abitants Of Oxford point with p ardonable p ri de to the fact that their little a cade my sent forth some whom men have delighted t a i o honor . They cite you to Hor t o Seymour , governor of their State during the days Of the Civil War ; and with no little s atisfa ction a a t tim they refer to John Tr cy, one e lieu

- r an e ten ant gove nor, d to Ch ster Cole , who afterwards moved to Iowa and enj oyed an envi able reputation a s a lawyer in the city of an d e a m Des Moines , inde d , occupied for ti e the Office Of attorney- general in the H awkeye

No r a the a a n St a te . h ve vill ge folk forgot

h a ha s s ecta c ot er, whose c reer been of less p a r t o be ha s ul r so t , sure , but who enshrined 13 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE himself in the a ffections Of a multitude wi dely scattered ; and his name i s Ammi Bradford

Hyde . a Of o n Here , in the vill ge Oxford, the a an d thirteenth of M rch , eighteen hundred

- fiv e wa s the o f twenty , born subject our a a a a a ha story . His p tern l gr ndf ther , N t n

wa s a man the Hyde , very energetic , strong

m an so a d hi s m n est , people s i , in ho e cou ty ,

a f a a C onn ecti th t o New H ven , in the St te of d u a a d an d cut . He coul pick p b rrel Of ci er

o a a a n d he d a a t s s it into w gon , coul le p over Six - rail worm fence witho ut putting his hands was a d m a upon it . He sol ier in the A eric n m the a r 1812 wa s a t d an d Ar y in W Of , c p ure , spent so me time as priso ner a mo ng the

hant eau a n C g y Indians . He used to tell a incident connected with the b attle Of Pl atts a ham a t o ha burg, on L ke C pl in , the effect t t , the second serge ant Of his comp any seeing the captain an d first lieutenant killed by a ’ a - a m m Single c nnon b ll fro the ene y s fleet , “ shouted : Hurrah ! One more Shot like that ” and I comm and this company ! ’ A mmi Bradford Hyde s m atern al grand m h w ot er, Hopestill Brewster Hinckley, a s d m a Sixth in irect line fro Willi m Brewster, 14

YOUTH AND EDUCATION who came a cross the Atlantic in the hi stori c M r t a o we h w a yfl S e a s born Colchester , the am a a a Connecticut , s e ye r N poleon B on m a a wa a p ar te wa s born . In ny w ys she s m a e o f rem arkable wo an . At the g seventy fi e d a all v she coul sing, in excellent f shion ,

— a a a an d a . four p rts sopr no , lto , tenor, b ss a Of k a s a c a And so , bec use her S ill vo list , it c ame about th at She s ang m err y tun es for a a a on o p rty to d nce by the F urth Of July, 1776 h a m a , t us celebr ting the co pletion Of fine bedspre a d upon which She had been fo r

m . o n . a a some ti e w rki g Miss M ri Hyde , the onl y surviving child o f A mmi B r adford

H d ha a - z y e , still s in her possession good si ed fa on e piece of this interesting bric , now hun

n - dred a d thirty three years Old . ’ mm a d a A i Br dford Hy e s f ther, fifth in d m a of a escent fro the E rl Cl rendon , went from C onnecticut to m ake a new home for

hi m I a self in Oxford , New York , n the ye r an d a eighteen hundred seventeen , eight ye rs m wa . a before Am i s born The Hyde f mily, was o f o it will be Observed , n ble stock ; but, Of a a a a though ristocr tic line ge , the p rents o f Amm i Bra dford Hyde had but li ttle Of ’ i had a th s world s goods . They , however , wh t 15 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

wa s o f infinitely more importance -virile

cha ra cter and worthy ambitions . These priceless gifts they beque athed in generous son m me a sure to their illustrious , A mi

Bra dford Hyde . h d r o When the fat er went to Oxfor , he p c eeded a long a certain ro a d by which stood h n he a at a bla cksmith S op ; a d when p ssed , the hour Of nine on the morning o f a certain m a a m was Nove ber d y , the honest bl cks ith h Observed standing in t e doorway . Just fifty a a to the da ye rs l ter, very hour of the very y f h m a a a a o t e very onth , he g in p ssed th t a h ShO an d saw a a a bl cksmit p g in , fter the a a a am a m lapse Of h lf century, th t s e bl cks ith standing in the door o f that s ame bla cksmith h m the d s op . I pressed by inci ent, he told mm a u a nd t he son A i bo t it, never forgot it . h m a h ri a m Suc circu st nces , thoug Of t vi l i port h m a in t e selves , illustr te the alertness of the family mentality ; an d those who have been so fortunate as to have a cquaintance with the subject Of our Sket ch kn ow full well how that mental alertness o n the p a rt o f Ammi Brad ford Hyde ha S rendered him ever a fa scin at ing comp anion -a cons tant surprise t o those ho m he h d with w ol s converse . 16 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

’ Ammi s first school experience wa s when wa s h n f a he between t ree a d four ye ars O g e . In comp any with a Sister he one day visited n a f the u gr ded school O the neighborhood . He always ret ained vivid recollection Of how the girls were allowed to go out for fifteen ’ minutes play and how the boys were per mitt ed to have their out- Of- door turn a fter h wa s the girls ad been called in . It in the a Of an d a and a de d winter, h nds feet bec me ff . in O chilled On coming , the girls pulled a at their Shoes to w rm their feet the fire , and l a was A m a t a , ittle fellow th t he , m i n ur lly am k copied their ex ple ; but, thin ing to outdo m a the , he removed not only Shoes , but lso an d v a exer stockings , then , in igor ted by his and cise overflowing with childish spirits , he

a his l ar t a t r a p tted ittle feet on the he h , t cting m n a a . a a a gener l ttention The schoolm ster, whose Irish blood gave him at once a ruddy a and a ri d m a a f ce tor te per , bec me irrit ted at the amusement thus a fforded by the all

- a an d a a but b by, , seizing stout str p which our Am mi him self had presented him previously “ ’ wi the m a ll hi th re rk , Mister, this do to w p ” a i a the boys with , he g ve the t ny ch p sev a m ar a t o er l s t blows , c using the girls weep 17 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a and a a s o f c onfu hysteric lly, cre ting cene sion that would t o - day rouse indignation on the p art of educators who know better and s aner ways o f h andling boys . But Ammi faced more serious dangers ’ than a schoolma ster s flogging . Once while In still an infant his life was desp aired Of .

it h d a . deed , ung by the Slen erest thre d All the family thought that the child had p a ssed a a and a h wa s ad a w y, the buri l s roud m e re dy ; h h i but t e family p ysician would n o t g ve up . He worked away in Spite o f the incredulous a a d a hi s ttitude Of friends , who s i th t per d a - h hi sistence in ic ted tha t e was in s dotage . h the a a d When he broug t b by roun , however , he wa s hailed a s a miracle work er and his

wa s a far an Skill her lded d wi de .

a a h k a lad mm Ag in , when good c un Of , A i mm m m ventured in s wi ing with so e co ra des . and hi o f m By by, losing s grip hi self , he a d an d fo a m m st rte to sink, r brief o ent he had that peculia r sens ation that one exper i ences h on the e w en verg Of drowning . At this criti cal juncture he wa s pulled o u t by a i an . O a a comp on S , twice in e rly ye rs the life that wa s t o bless hundreds and thous ands Of and m wa s a . l men wo en ne rly lost Tru y, 18 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

’ God s mercies ar e gre at an d Hi s ways p ast a hum n ken . Before Am mi wa s four ye ars Of ag e he c a an d a S O a ould re d could re d well, th t he a a o presently re d b ok . Th at book w a s eu i “ ” I m f t tled Romulus . t was s o e accoun t o the f m reputed founder Of the city o Ro e . ri a b k wa s an a O gin lly the oo in Germ an , d l ter o n e s turned by some into English . It is till a an a n i e es in the Hyde f mily, d is nt r ting k curiosity . Whether the b oo augured the ’ hi o r n o t ca n ! ha c ld s future , who tell Be t t a s ma it i s a t an a a it y , y r te true th t the little boy grew into a m an who became saturated

a as a a with the ch rm Of cl sic liter ture , Rom n O a has a s well a s Greek . N wonder th t he i n a be mm stored up memory, re dy to su oned ’ m a at a mo ent s notice , m ny Of the choicest s entim ents Of the greatest cla ss ical wri ters ! NO wonder tha t in him classical phi losophy an d literat ure and a r t fin d an intense ad mi rer and a generous p atron ! In the fall o f 1909 a convers ation with

the writer caused Dr . Hyde to revert to the l a ‘ Of an d re a ding of this ittle ccount Romulus , it oc curred to him that it woul d be o f interest t o hi s friends t o send them as a Christma s 19 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE greeting a poem connected with the circum a d the st nce . Accor ingly he wrote following

A TA LE OF A IE T R ME E TITLED NC N O , N R ML ” O U US .

- 18 30 19 10 .

O o u m e m ewo r n fr a e er e , v l ti , gil , s ,

So Is t he han d ha h d hee n w t t o l s t o ,

A nd dim t he e e ha een a nd c ear y s , t t , k l , ’ Di r h h n d o e t y Witc i g p a ges b o w .

No w n her e t he c ene find livi g , s s I ,

Tha did m o w n hear en r a nc e t y gl i g t t ,

he her d fa r m a den c ham o n nd S p s , i i s , pi s ki ,

T he c a h f r m t h f n o a e e a da c e . l s s , st l

A S Tiber fr o m t he m o u ntain r ills

a her it s fu m a e c flo w G t s ll j sti , Fr o m Simple dw eller s o f the s e hills

am e m h C Ro e t r ee tho u s and year s a go .

Her e fa n bea m ed her ear dawn i tly ly ,

hen o r T s ve eign no o nday Splendo r s shine .

o o n a s w h u r e e n dr awn S , it p pl v ili g , H er n er n u m n o u dec n e . li g i g , l i s li

As a shes gr ay t he emb er s keep

Ni ht - o n in n r m a o w g l g livi g , p i l gl , ’ The s o u l s em o tio n s s afely Sleep

T o wa e fr m r r k o du st yea s noiseless st ew . 2 0

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a al gener l most the entire time . He endured o o f a im the horr rs V lley Forge with h . With him a ' c a a m he f ced the Red o ts t Mon outh . Wha t a m arvelo us opportunity to le arn about “ ” The F ather o f hi s Country ! And so the youthful Ammi wa s o ften magnificently r e galed with the exciting reminiscences m ade relative to o u r struggle fo r recognition am a a ong the n tions Of the e rth . a m Indeed , in a very import nt sense , Am i Br adford Hyde kno ws from persona l exper i ence almost the entire national history Of Ame ri ca He c arri es it in hi s mind and a a nd i hi he rt, thus s more fa scinating in s talk about what ha s occurred in America than most men ar e likely t o be when they write about America He decla res that his grandfather was s o elated when Wa shington wa s a a m fin lly elected President, th t he ju ped up and cracked his heels together and ex ’ a m ow o S cl i ed , N , by George , the c untry ” Sa fe ! A s a m was a child , Am i full Of buoy nt

a a . wa s Spirits , thorough young Americ n He

a an a a a . ctive d lert, with physic l vigor to sp re Physical vigor wa s supplemented by mental f ix . at a e o s a vigor Indeed, the g o he ston 2 2 YOUTH AND EDUCATION i shed p arents an d friends by the manifesta tio n o f an rm u su al ma thematical precocity . It so happened that his father was interested k and n a m in sheep , illing selli g l rge nu bers m on e o a a w a s of the . On cc sion the f ther m n Of conte pl ating a lengthy colum figures , desirous Of being abs olutely cert ain of wh at hi ’ x d . t s a s a it foote up No icing f ther n iety , m i a a at m wi h Am i , g ving gl nce the colu n , t o u t being conscious o f any steps in his c al a i d hi s a h and cul t on , tol f t er others present h wha t t e column totaled . Struck with won der m ent a d mn , they d ed the colu very Slowly an d a an h c refully d discovered , to t eir lively ri a had a sum surp se , th t the boy st ted the a ex ctly . The story of the occurrence could a an d not but spre d over the neighborhood , m any were e ager to see for themselves what la the d could do in figures . It followed that he w a s Often tested for the entertainment

an a six of friends d acqu intances . For

th a a a all months , or ere bouts , he f scin ted with the lightni ng- like rapidi ty Of his operations m a dd a a in si ple ition , subtr ction , multiplic an d i i an d a t an tion , div s on , in fr c ions d de termi nation Of interest ; an d he never made a blunder . But not more strange wa s his 2 3 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE wiz ard - like control Of mathematical proc esses than the suddenness wi th which he lost n it . A d his later work in m athema tics ne c es sit a t ed a s much struggle Of brain an d travail o f soul a s a r e experienced by the boy Of m id but ediocre ability . Nor d he ever ha a h h m a a ve not er suc ent l revel tion , though am a an a h a he bec e profound d brilli nt sc ol r , a m an o f wide an d varied knowledge— one possessed Of philosophic attitude Of mind an d

- even seer like vision .

the. a e lad t wa s At g of seven , hough he , d o u t h a a m hi he worke wit f r er . At eight s a d him a a a subst an f ther offere Silver doll r, ti al inducement for a small boy in a poor am a a f ily in those d ys , if he would le rn O m a and French . S he undertook the tter a d a h a a a le rne to re ch Frenc pr ctic lly un ided , except fo r some suggestions rega rding p r o nuncia tio n from o n e who had some fa cility n m a in French . Presently a e inent physici n d a him Of Oxfor went to P ris , bringing with on his return a French waif by the name o f Jo e and h a b a ad ; t is Joe , l eit un ble to re o r h h write French , talked Frenc wit young Hyde and - wa s o f materi al a ssistance in

‘ ’ adapting the American boy s tongue to the 2 4 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

idi osyncra sies of the French pronunciation . The Hyde fami ly still retains a sm all United a in a t St tes History in French , the front p r hi “ Ammi m : . Of w ch is written B Hyde , fro hi h 2 O s a . . . S f t er, A J Hyde , Oct , , at th e ag e Of ten the la d g o t his Fre nch an d hi s Am e ri can history at the s ame tim e ! An d yet we thi nk tha t boys of t o day ar e S O much ahe a d of boys Of seventy—fiv e ye ar s ag o ! At nine Ammi ha d his first form al school m hi d a a d m g . T s he enj oye in the c e y of wa s am hi s n ative village . It the first fr e il an d w a s r a bu ding erected there , the fi st ch r t er ed education al in stituti on west of the

H a the Of a i Hudson River . e beg n study L t n in a a an d the first ye ar the c demy, when he wa s eleven ye ars Old the princip al Of the t aca demy selected hi m o te ach a L atin class .

i i a w as am h . In th s L at n cl ss , ong ot ers , Mr i l n at Herbert Clark , st l livi g in New York l e m at a venerable O d ag . The re uner ion for a hi a wa s i hi te c ng the cl ss tu tion for mself , hi an d a an d m m a s sister, brother ; so e s ll a ar perqui sites . The La tin gr mm in the hands Of our youn g student was edi ted dam a amm a a a a by A s , gr r th t is now d ys stranger to Latin Students . 2 5 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

At the ag e Of ten Ammi began the study o f amm h Greek . The gr ar he used in t is con necti on was c ha ra cte ri zed by him later in life as a very poor working tool for a boy setting o u t t o cultivate an a cquaintance with the ex a a lted liter ture Of the Hellenic ra ce . Some

a a an a m fo r ye rs l ter, when ppeal was ade m books to send to foreign ission fields , this ’ s am e Greek gr amma r ( Kingley s ) wa s sent perhaps without se ri ous regret— to Monrovia ad a h it h . a a Ac emy, in Liberi W t s influence s been on the African Negro its donor never sa a a ventured to y , except th t it could h rdly have been responsible for thickening the veil o f a at t he m of e ignor nce which , ti e its j ourn y a a the the cross the oce n , obscured vision Of f people o the D ark Continent . At the ag e of twelve t o fourteen Ammi on a m at once more worked the f r , but kept hi s books by night and during any other a a a h a a b an v il ble hours . He a s lw ys een a h hi a e e rly ris er . T roughout s entire c re r he h a h a s been a tower Of strength . A r t er d m an fi e c Slen er , v feet nine in hes in height , a n n ha s weighing hu dred a d fifty pounds , he s a e d nevertheles . been blessed with gre t n ur

A a m n fift - e wa ance . s young a a y mil lk per 2 6

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o o an d a cluded in the s t re , he went h me ag in on a a worked the f rm , receiving eight doll rs m per month . Fro the fa rm he rep aired once m f t o a r a . more the a c de y , working o his bo rd a a ax hi On S turd ys he wielded the , keeping s a e i f ther suppli d w th firewo od . Thus he on hi n hi toiled , getting a t once s mental a d s a f r f physic l b asis o the work o future ye a rs . Let n o youth despise the necessity Of physical a a a o f toil g inst gre t Odds . The whole story Ammi Bradford Hyde should be an immense a t o b a inspir tion seek sturdiness Of ody, tr in f f o a and o a . ing br in , culture he rt And now came a notable crisis in the ’ a had a a e young m n s life . He re ched the g ha o t ll x Of eighteen . He d g a bout a that C a i him an d ford Ac demy could g ve , the ques “ t was a ! ion , Wh t next At this point, his m uncle , Am i H . Hyde , then resident in e New Jersey, being d eply interested in his r t o a an f r nephew, p oposed b ck him fin ci ally o a o nd a st rt in college . And s the young a l a a r o hopeful fe low, cl d in b own h mespun a and t o ma a a co t trousers tch , with bl ck suit fo r a nd a a a Sund ys a speci l occ s ions , modest and a et ou t trunk, fifty doll rs in his pocket, s fo r a at wn Wesley n University, Middleto , 2 8 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

had Conn ecticut . Never before he been s o far from ho me ; an d hence the j ourney down t the Hudson , through New York Ci y, on Long an d Island S ound, up the Connecticut River , him was a cea seless enter tainment to . The depth of the impression on the youthful i a a m nd is attested by the f ct th t , up to the a e of t a ri a g eigh y, he m de frequent pilg m ges a i ul a an d a b ck to th s , his youthf Mecc , lmost invaria bly went by b o at from New York to i a hi had Middl etown . In th s f s on he gone ri a and a a o gin lly, thus his f ncy suggested th t he should n ow an d again return to pay hi s l m tribute Of gratitude to hi s a ma ater . When he presented hi mself fo r entrance a mi at h w a ex n ion , e a s sked by the Greek professor what Greek authors he had studi ed an a n a d wh t he k ew about them . His nswer “ w a s cha racteri stic I pretend to k now i . a a o u un Greek Ex m ne me s y like . I will der t ak e to do something with any Greek book ” y ou place in my h ands ! The you ng student was six ye a rs Older th an the institution t o which he submi tted him a self for testing . Wesley n University wa s founded Six ye a rs after Ammi Bra dford was a sa a Hyde born ; th t is to y , in the ye r 2 9 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

1831 “ ” , while Old Hicko r y Jackson wa s d of Presi ent the United States . a The d ys , too , when young Hyde entered a W e s l e y n were extremely interesting . Ha rdly had he been a yea r in college when the world wa s startled by the invention o f m a a and a the gnetic telegr ph , bout the time Of his graduatio n the Mexican War broke m an th o u t . Those were exciting ti es ; d in e and midst Of storm stress , when some Of the most herculean political giants America ever gave birth t o were occupyi ng the center of a ou r was d the st ge , young friend in ustri ou sly prepa ring himself fo r a life of useful ness . Wes leyan wa s at tha t time a sma ll ins ti tu ti on a a and , with a h ndful Of te chers only n about a hundred a d twenty students . She had t o and o r n o en but w buildings , little a a Of an r o dowment . The s l ries president d p f esso r s wa s exceedingly modest . The presi

‘ dent g o t probably n o t more than two thou a an n o t a a s nd , d the professors over thous nd

r is a o twelve hundred . All this gr tifyingly different to day . Full professors receive from twenty- fiv e hundred to thirty- fiv e hun and a i s i dred, Wesley n strongly equ pped 30 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

i a a a s an m di d . with bu l ngs , pp r tu , endow ent Her F a culty to - day is noted for its scholar and a a an fo r a and ship c p city d rese rch , from her halls have gone some Of the most influ ’ ential Of America s citizens . At the he ad of the college when Ammi Bradf ord Hyde entered it a s a student wa s was ri President Olin . He in the p me of life and a m n f a o most un usual physique . He stood six feet three an d w as splendidly pr o In f portioned . a pile of hats his wa s o size sufficient to di scount the rest in pitiable man was a a an d in ner . He spe ker of sweep sw g, and with gestures not numerous , but rugged impressive ; and hi s oratorical efi o r t s were somewhat Ni ag ar ean in their ponde rou s on hi did n o a wa s al rus ngs . Olin te ching, but ways busily engaged s eeking money and ’ bro adening the circle o f the school s sup wa e porters . His home s Often open d to the Mr l was students ; and s . O in a decided help in culti va ting the acquaintance o f the stu a a m an d dents . She lw ys remembered the , never failed to greet them when she m et had a them on the street . She consider ble a and s o a a e me ns , the fin nci l pressur upon the college di d n o t seriously interfere with 31 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE the priva te concer ns and comf ort o f the Olin f family . The work of President Olin was o far - a a a and o a r e re ching ch r cter, he is t d y garded as worthy o f sincere veneration by all ’ a Wesley n s children . wa s m who a Besides Olin, there S ith , t ught a a and a m m them tics strono y ; Johnson , who d t the a a a hel for h in chemic l l bor tory ; Lane , e o d who who delighted in Gr ek ro ts ; Ho l ich , an a n a who as a revelled in logic ; d B g ll , w

e a . devote Of L tin But, though few in num

a and a . bers , both F culty students were live The daily program would have wo n the ad mir ati on of any present - day champion o f the l i h t s x . . t e e strenuous ife . At A M stud n s a a o at went t o pr yers . Even to d y they g eight at Old Wesleya n ! At six- fift een they had their first recitation— an ho ur ea rly at a enough , surely, the se son Of the winter solstice ! Aft er the first recitation they par took o f bre akfa st . At nine the first study e e bell rang . From nine till el ven th y were m h had in their roo s . At eleven t ey their second recitation . At twelve they lunched . At two they were s uppos ed t o begin their studying again and so continue till fo ur when their third daily recitation occurred . 32 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

h a h h had At five they ad pr yers . T us t ey devoti ons just before the first recitation an d i t a i mmedi a ely following the l st recitat on . a a m w a n Verily, New Engl nd Purit nis s not e ti rely dead and gone in those ye ars ! At six ha they d supper . At seven the study bell a ou t a a nd at once more r ng its w rning , nine the students were expected t o retire for the night . a a was The boys bo rded in club , which managed by a gentleman who wa s somewhat p ar ticular as to the manners the boys ex hibit e a n e a d when at the t ble . On o o cc sion he felt called upon to visi t the dormitory in a ar where Hyde roomed , order to give p ticular ly active ch ap a p ri vate lesson in table etiquette Whi le the conf e r ence wa s in t o o f hi s progress , Hyde stepped the door

and saw n a . G. room two you g collegi ns , A

a an d . . a a e Brigh m J W Be ch , l ter presid nt of a e s a h a Wesley n , cre ping up te lthily wit and a of thev stick piece rope , with which secured the door Of the ro om where the bo arding-house keeper was laboring with the young gentlem an of free and e a sy dining

m m a avi . roo nners , le ng the two imprisoned S o the young fellows of the fo r ties in Wes 33 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a m a a ley n University were do in ted , s their

o a a . o f lively successors t d y in h st o colleges , by a spirit o f mischief which is just about a s likely t o run riot in the brain of the future f m ri bishop a s in the brain O the future hu o st . Ammi Bradford Hyde wa s fortunate in his college fr iendshipsm thos e e arly friend ships that stamp themselves S O indelibly o n ’ wa an tim at as a ma n s character . He s in e ri man s ociate Of that p ncely , splendid Chris a an d m a a a ti n , noted church n , Edw rd G yer d a a An rews , but recently p ssed cross the n border line between time an d eter ity . He

ha m a a a a t o o . . d inti te cqu int nce , , with B T ts un o f e o and Rober , fo der the Free M th dists a a a n d ma l ter bishop in th t Church , a with ny others whose brai n w a s cap acious enough t o direct a nation and whose soul wa s gre at enough t o undertake the em ancipation of the m a fi tin l a race . Mention y t g y be m de Of o f o who Judge George Reynolds , Br oklyn , n ot long since gave Wesleyan fifty thous and

- m r a . a o doll rs ; F ales H Newh ll , long ti e p fesso r a a e who a in Wesley n ; Or ng Judd , l ter built O r a ng e Judd Scientific Ha ll a t Wes a a and ley n ; Dr . Joseph E . King, educ tor a n for ea fin ncier, fo under a d over fifty y rs 34

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ten matters where I dis agreed in one ; but there were vari ous theologi cal questions on u r a and which o differences were Sh rp , his delightfully incis ive and perfectly good na tured way o f defining those differences m wa s extre ely service able . ’ Such were Ammi Bra dfo rd Hyde s choice h m o f comp anions in Wesleyan . Wit so e them he was a s s ociated in the Eclectic Fr a t er nit m fo r a a y , grown fa ous the st lw rt men h it a s produced . Going through college wa s n-o t financially m ea . a s a sy Here , in Oxford Ac de y, he needed t o u se va catio n periods to store up a hum ble sum which would permit further d a d a the Stu y . Hence it tr nspire th t, during wi h r an h h long nter recess , which t en t roug December an d J anuary an d even into Feb r u ar a y , he t ught school in C onnecticut in the i n was an u n v cinity where a uncle lived . It a d and had a gr ed country school , he to te ch everything from the alphabet to L atin an d a French and Algebra . The ped gogic tiro

even aided a . certain young man t o prep are fo r a ed entr nce into Yale College . He receiv “ Si xteen dolla rs per month an d bo a rded ’ ” and a a round ; , spe king Of this fe ture Of his 36 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

ri h a m a a a expe ence , e f cetiously re rked th t p par ently the poorer the people the longer h him o n e m O t ey wished to stay . At ti e he S j o u r n ed in a house which was shared by two m mm a . fa ilies . The two used co on fire C on a a sequently, for se son our young school m a ster bo arded with one fami ly whose table wa s a o n e d spre d on si e of the fire , presently ch angi ng to the table of the other fami ly that refreshed the physical m an at a table h An d l o cated on t e other Side of the fire . s o he had some experiences Of a comm unistic or socia listic sort that h ave an echo here an d there at the b egi nni ng of the twentieth cen tury . In 1846 he wa s gr aduated by Wesleyan

hi r t - a in a cla ss numbering t y six , the l rg est cla ss u p to th at time sent out by the wa f ins tit ution . He s one o seven to win honors an d w a s therefore elected to m em hi m b er s p in Phi Beta Kapp a . The Com ence ment occ asion was a noteworthy event in

Wesleyan history . No less distinguished person age than R alph Waldo Emerson wa s present to a ddress the cla ss . His speech wa s Of far - re aching import an d philosophical a a r m in ch r cte , duly i pressing the young 37 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a a f gr du tes , some o whom doubtless won dered about t he significanc e o f some Of Em ’ er son s Observa tions as did the person who “ ” boldly a sked the S age of Concord wha t a a h he intended by cert in allusion , t o whic “ query Emerson replied When I ma de a ma t o th t re rk, only w persons knew its me an — Go d an d . a an d ing myself I h ve forgotten, ’ ” Go d won t tell ! The music fo r the gra duating exercises was furnished by a fine band brought from B It s ad wa s a a a oston . le er Edw rd Kend ll , m a had fa ous bugler . Kend ll previously been a nd a a in Engl nd , a , convers tion occurring wi th a bugler who wa s the director Of the ’ a d a e a a a queen s b n , the l tt r rem rked bout “ ffi l o f e on the piece di c u t ex cution bugle , I never c ould play that piece through There a fo r upon , Kendall a sked the musici n his bugle an d himself played the selection with f O elegant e fect . S interested in the circum a wa a a she st nce s Queen Victori , th t pre sented Kendall a solid silver bugle which he had with him at the Wesleyan Commence 1 4 ment Of 8 6 . h e d wa s t o W ile at coll ge , Hy e s surpri ed be presented with license t o preach . This 38 YOUTH AND EDUCATION

m l n a a h am en ca e un so icited ; y , r t er , it c e a ti rely un anticip ated . The responsible p rty wa s the Methodist Episcop al Church Of h a t e a . Middletown , se t of Wesley n The

un m n m a yo g a wa s te por rily nonplussed but, concludi ng that the thought of others about him wa s perhaps a hi nt with reference to hi s

a n d hi s d a ac possibilities uty, he br vely c ept ed the situation an d not long afterward m ade hi s initi al attempt at pre aching in a country schoolh ouse some t wo miles south Of th m ha a e c ollege t own . Fro t t d y on he ser m o niz ed i d a effect vely, e ifying liter lly hun dreds an d thous ands whose rare privilege it ha s a been to he r him . d d The Hy es were not Metho ists , but Epis h h c o pali an s by tradi tion . T ey were broug t up in the faith of the Church of England ; an d ri a a a their first Ame c n represent tive , fter buildi ng an Episcop al church at his home in

d n h m a Oxfor , Con ecticut, broug t fro Engl nd n i h a Episcop al an rector to ser ve t e p ari sh . In the buri al ground near this church rest the a shes of this first Am erican Hyde - an d three descendants who held the estate after

’ E arly in Ammi s life there c ame to the 39 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

New York home Of hi s branch of the Hyde fami ly a youn g and struggling Metho dist a nam who a pre cher, by e George Peck , fter ward became editor o f the New York Chr is tian A dv o cat and had a di stinc e, the unusu l tion Of bein g twelve times member Of the i h Mr a h s . Gener l Co nference Of s C urch . t o a a and Hyde went he r young Peck pre ch ; , ina smuch a s he wa s penniless and had no a t o o fo r d an d r a pl ce g foo shelter, She g ci ou l him t h s y invited o t e Hyde home . The result wa s tha t the m other and the Sister o f Ammi Bradford Hyde were converted and d h h h t e o c . a j oine Met dist C ur h The f ther , t o o n a , coming under conviction a d l ter ex er i ncin a sin p e g conscious p rdon Of , sought hi s rector and told him his state of mind and “ a soul, whereupon the rector, gre tly puzzled, “ s aid : I never had such an exp erience in ll m o u a wa o u had a y life . If y feel th t y , y better withdraw from the Episcop al Church ” did an d an d j oin the Metho dis t s . This he ; so it came about tha t Ammi Bradford Hyde Shifted his religi ous allegiance and became a hi Methodist even in s boyhood, loving the sect fo r it s heroic struggles an d friendship fo r a and all hi s the m sses , serving it with 40 MMI B R E THE A GE OF W E . A RADFO D HYD , AT T NTY

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d o profes sor . However, he could not deci e t a bandon the a ctive work of te aching ; and so thro ughout hi s illustrio us life he ha s taught and preached in the cla ss room an d preached

n i n the t a t e a a d taught pulpi , being onc n a schola rly pre a cher a d pious scholar .

B R EW S T E R

E s s r x . or S UFFOL K s. M T HE BREWSTER COAT OF AR S . CA REER AS TEACHER

1 A ZE N IA E NA . OV MI R Y C S .

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VEN a at . r E before Hyde s gr du ion , Dr Hen y B a n Of a a a a n ister , C zenovi Semin ry , in Centr l

' a a at l o oln n New York, ppe red Middletown g fo r a te a cher of langua ges fo r C azenovi a . mi Being a dvised to try Am Bra dford Hyde , he presente d the matter to the pros p ective a a a a r t o o t o a gr du te , who gl dly g eed g C ze novi a the following ye a r . At C az enovia he served un der tw o di f fer en t a a ni and Ed princip ls , Henry B n ster a a ou r w rd G . Andrews . Some time fter i a a . a n young te cher beg n his work , Dr B n ster resigned to a ccept a place a s professor o f ni at a Greek in Northwestern U versity , Ev ns l a as a was ton , I linois . His pl ce princip l a An who had a ea e in t ken by drews , been t ch r mi a f r was the se n ry o several years . He Of a hi s be good stock . The f mily Of mother longed to the religious sect Of the F ri ends . Hi s father was a pious and liberal -h ear ted 43 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE m n m a . a wa s a a a Edw rd one of l rge f ily, there being five brothers and as m any sisters .

a d fo r at a a and He prep re college C zenovi , 4 wa s gra duated by Wesleyan in 18 7. He then began pre a ching in New York State in h m 1854 wa s a d a u ble places . In he ppointe a a a and 1856 d d te cher in C zenovi , in succee e h 1864 he wa a mem t o t e princip alship . In s ber Of the General Conference o f the Meth a h h and wa s at ha m odist Episcop l C urc , t t ti e trans ferred to the New York Ea s t Confer hi s a a a ence . Here c p bilities r pidly showed h m ha a a a t e selves . He d brilli nt c reer , which culminated in hi s service a s bishop o f his h Fo r a he wa s Churc . over thirty ye rs the only man elected from the p a storate t o the

a d all- d episcop acy . He w s a splen id roun m an fo r a and , conspicuous his geni l temper m his sound judg ent . a a mm a At C zenovi , A i Br dford Hyde a a a t o f a a — t ught quite v rie y l ngu ges Greek ,

a a an . L tin , Germ n, d French Those were days when te achers must have bre adth Of vision an d capa city fo r a goodly number Of f o f o u r hours o work per day . The subj ect ’ story taught from eight o clock to twelve and one t o had a of one o f from four, ch rge 44 CAREER AS TEACHER the ri m a d li dormito es , so etimes pl ye po ce m an the m a Of the ht and fo r aj or p rt nig , his varied an d vigorous services received the first ye ar the m agnificent su m o f three hun d an d d a ! d d a red fifty oll rs In ee , he t ught for fifteen ye ars at C azenovi a before hi s s alar y r m a an up to six hun dred . This see s low

a s b e w a s figure , , to sure , it ; but the pur cha sing power Of money w as considerably h h a a . d a gre ter t en t n now He secure bo rd , m an d a i a d a an d a roo , fuel , w sh ng for oll r qu a rter a week ! At tha t time an excellent a beefsteak cost but eight cents pound . It will therefore be seen that the s al ar y wa s the equivalent of two or three times th at am ount a to d y . Before going fa rther with the exper i enc es at a a i C zenovi , it w ll be of interest to a a a a at a note th t , fter gr du ting Wesley n , Professor Hyde w a s for m any ye ars a m em ber of the Examining Committee which a t Commencement time a ppe a red in the cl a s ses at Wesleyan and proceeded to discover for themselves what the young students ha d been m d . a d an d oing The ex iners quizze , quizze d freely ; an d our youthful te acher thus came into e arly contact with three excellent an d 45 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE a t — and a spiring studen s Foss , Ninde , W rren — all o f m a a who , by re son Of their exception l a n bility a d exalted Christian character, were la ter s ought by the M ethodis t Episcopa l fo r the one o f Church bishopric . Of them , a he ha s fo r Henry White W rren , been more tha n twenty-fiv e years a most intim ate fri end and e b a n igh or in University P rk, Colora do , and in whos e hono r he a few ye a rs ag o c om posed a fine poem on the occa sion o f the ’ s bi hop s birthday . m a a But, though ore gener lly known th n o f a their examiner college d ys , none Of the three wa s more devout an d none more versa tile Of mind o r unique in personality ; and it may be doubted if any on e Of them ever more strongly gripped the affections o f his

- a n ot one h fellow man . Unquestion bly of t em was superior t o Ammi Bradfo rd Hyde in princely gifts Of charac ter and thorough af f ili f an l and ab t . d o d y o spirit Young , rich and a and poor, learned ignor nt, the honored s d s and he s a — all the de pise , the inner t int, men everywhere an d always found in him a symp athetic friend and a true advocate ; and i f him h s love fo r men won love o r . t o e e a a But, nter into some d t il reg rding CAREER AS TEACHER hi s lengthy expe ri ence at C azenovi a S em ina r y : Our young p r ofess or wa s versatile a a enough . He even org nized glee club , the

m - fi me bers p aying a fee of twenty v e cents . a d ba V ha s He pl ye the ss iol in c pel ervice , and once in a while a mused himself at the m an o f organ . This linguis tic bent would not allow himself to b ec om e na rrow in his e mi hi a inter sts or li ted in s ctivities . He wished to touch human life in a variety o f ways ; a n d so he laid a bro a d founda tion by ea r m o f h l ning s o ething everything . T us he wa s prepa red later to endeavor to k now o f s i an d so am everything ometh ng, it c e a a h an d s a bout th t, in the ighest nest sense , Amm i Bra dford Hyde ha s been to a ver y m a s respectabl e degree a sp eci alist . He s o

t er ed his ea o f all lan gr test hobbies , Greek a an a a can a b e gu ge d liter ture , th t he h rdly a a d an m a a ma ppro che on y tter, gre t or s ll , wi a Of of connected th th t fertile field study, i i which he is ent rely ignorant . His m nd is h o f m a an d a perfec t t es aurus infor tion ; , a a a h e e a a onc e he gr sps f ct, is entir ly c p ble Of setting th at fact fort h in la nguage a s lucid

as a bea m Of pure sun light . There were in C azenovia some influenti al 47 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

am and wa s f ilies Of culture , Professor Hyde fo rtunate enough to be introduced into their select circle soon after he took up his duties m No in the se inary . t long after going to C a a h e me t a a the am zenovi , young l dy by n e o f m o m was Miss Mira S ith . Her h e in f h a and wa s o . Utic , She Scotc descent She ’ wa s a d a h a stu ent in the young te c er s cl sses , and he soon grew interested t o a greater ex tent than a tea cher i s re ally obliged t o be e f un The in the welfar o a yo g lady pupil . ’ a ri as her young l dy s f ends slyly te ed , but this Simply a dded fuel t o the fire and m a de it r ri and an wa he wa s bu n more b ghtly ; , y y, s Scotch and n o t t o be e a sily diverted from

w a Old o ld . her purpose . It s the , story a d h a a an d Te sing frien s foug t losing b ttle , Ammi Bra dford Hyde an d Mira Smith de i ’ t er m ned to fa ce life s struggles together . Fo r fifty ye ars they lived in blessed c om “ ani on shi a h fo r p p, e ch for the other , bot ”

Go d.

a s had At C a zenovi , Profes or Hyde in his classes a number Of students the fame of some o f whom later girded the globe . Refer ence to a few o f them m ay interest the re ader . 48

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a America . Another pupil, Riley T . T ylor, afterwards wa s the fo under and fo r fifty ye a rs princip al o f wha t is n o w Beaver Col a o f P enn s l lege , in the southwestern p rt y a h was a War vani . Anot er Ch rles Dudley ’ M n a ne m Ha r er s a azi e . ner, t o ti e editor Of p g Still another wa s Charles Stebbins F air ’ d wa s a chil , who President Clevel nd s Secre f a hi tary o the Tre sur y . After s distin ui shed e the a t g serv ic s in C binet, he re ired t ri e e ma his m a o p vat lif , king ho e in C ze i a and the a 1906 a nov ; in ye r , upon the occ b t a o a . a . o sion Of visit y Dr Hyde C zen vi , Mr F airchild tendered him a magnificent recep tion . Another interesting youth came t o C aze ’ hi a m m a s a a a . novi from f ther s f r , ten iles w y His independent and resolute nature chafed , i i at a r . a O a h utho ty In f ct, he S irrit ted s i tea che r s that there was se ri ous d spos ition to dismiss him ; but o u r professor interceded fo r him an d and h a with vigor skill , e w s a m m a . a a a d llowed to re in He ulti tely gr du te , and t o h went Off the t en Fa r West . In C ali fo r nia he grew interested in the handling o f a h me ts . Then e returned eas twa rd t o Chi cago and became the father of the mighty 50 CAREER ! AS TEACHER me at industry which has a ssisted in making wa s Chicago comm erci ally famous . Such l m n a a . a a t Phi ip D Armour, who his de th wa a a s worth fifty million doll rs . A h lf cen ’ tury after Armour s school days at C a ze a of novi , Dr . Hyde , then professor Greek in the Of on e o f hi s University Denver , on trips

E ast; stopped in Chi cago t o see his pupil Of a w a an d e other ye rs , now gro n we lthy pow r m ful in the business world . Mr . Ar our cor di ally received hi m and wa s much grati fied t o a a i h ve V sit from his Old te acher . He a e di an showed him m rked court sy, sen ng ex per t with him to pilo t him through the a an monster pl nt over which he presided, d h o on e o f then ad Dr . Hyde g to the finest wa s a a fo r hotels , where he m gnificently c red ’ at . o . . Mr Arm ur s expense Indeed , Mr Ar ’ a ui i mour w s q te m nded to endow Dr . Hyde s chair Of Greek in the University o f Denver but at th at time he wa s so pledged to the n ee ds of Armour Instit ute th at he di d n ot act at fo r hi s e a and fin al once b loved te cher, he ly pa ssed away without ca rrying to completion his a - m a a h lf for ul ted pl n . Known the length an d bre adth Of the land wa a s . a nother pupil , Joseph H H wley, gen 51 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

ar eral Of the Union army in the Civil W , of and fo r a governor Connecticut, thirty ye rs B e United Sta tes sena tor from that State . ’ war a a fore the , H wley s f ther lived in North C arolina and wa s an a rdent defender o f a ri a o f ni Sl very ; but, suffe ng Shift opi on , he o t o a o f m ved the St te New York , where he was outspoken in hi s oppo sition t o slavery ; and hence it wa s by n o me ans surp ri sing that the son gave hi s efforts toward freeing the

Negro .

r a a fin e - ki Ano the pupil w s lo o ng fellow, m f an a who a a so ething o Apollo in f ct, m de Stri king appearance a s he strode along the street a rrayed in hi s best a ttire ; but in those days he wa s n o t particularly noted fo r hi s a e an d a a r e intellectu l ke nness , w s perh ps a garded a s Of only verage intelligence . But a a hi ma an hi o he w s fortun te in s rri age , d s s tim able wife wa s largely responsible fo r hi s m and enta l awakening . By by the couple t o a a be went New Orle ns , where the husb nd came imm ens ely popular by re a son o f hi s en gagi ng personality ; an d subsequently he wa s successfully supported in the Methodist General Conference as a candida te fo r the b r c a t o be a as a ishop ic . He me reg rded 52 CAREER AS TEACHER

m an an hi am n r powerful , d s n e a d work a e

- da m wa s to y justly estee ed . And this Bishop hn h . a . a an d Jo P Newm n S o , le ders in Churc State have got s ome o f their p ri mal inspira i m t on fro the subject of our story . C azenovi a Lake is an a ttra ctive sheet o f water some four miles long an d a mile an d a ha i n lf wide . It is fed by spr ngs a d is a favorite r esort in summer for bo ating an d in

a . a a ni winter for sk ting One d y Dr . B n ster, a o f m a a m ani the princip l the se in ry, cco p ed

a d . n a a by Edw r G A drews , then te cher in the m a a o u t on se in ry, l ter Bishop Andrews , went t he a a - ri o f l ke in b o at to fish . Ti ng their m a a . e sport , they st rted ho ew rd They tugg d an d a a a an d d tugge w y, blistering their h nds a an d a a t exh usting themselves , m rveling

- i dis a . a their sn il like progress After t me , c o u r a ed they ca st their eyes towa rd the g , M h r a a aw . s ore of the l ke , where they s a F ir a o f the a a o f child , f ther l ter Secret ry the a a an a hi a Tre sury, st nding d w tc ng them , hi a t o grim smi le upon s counten ance . C lling m a f in him , they co pl ined of their di ficulty sending their s kiff along an d a sked whether h h e coul d discover t e hindering cause . Burst “ a a a a ing into he rty l ugh , he rem rked, I 53 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

’ ” think you d better weigh a nchor ! There o an 10 ! had a upon they l oked , d they been dr g gi ng the anchor fo r a goodly distance as they perspired and possibly thought imprecations which the character o f their positions as edu cat o r s would hardly permit them t o utter aloud . a Another incident involving Edw rd G . Andrews : After some time he succeeded t o ri f m the p ncipalship o the se ina ry . One night a c and r aw and in November, night old gusty, he wa s es cor t ing a lady a long the lake sho re l n the neighborhood o f the village of Skane a e and a o a V1 01 0 11‘ S a of tel s . Eve r n n bl st o and all of a wind swooped d wn upon them , ’ sudden the young man s hat wa s da shed from hi s he a d an d swept o u t into the inky black f a ness o the lake . It w s never recovered ; and it s luckless owner had t o return bare wa he aded t o the seminary . Then it s that the muse prompted Pr ofes s or Hyde t o per pet r at e the following on his superi or

O e e n Skaneat l s , Ska eateles , Ho w fair tho u ar t u po n t he atla s ! Mu st I r etu r n fo r lo r n and hatless Am o ng my s c ho lar s ! I c an no t make go o d my lo ss at less ” n n r Tha seve do lla s . MLII B A R A DFOR D HYDE A ND HI I T M . S S S ER , R S LIAR IA HYDE

HIB B A R D - , NOW NINET Y FOU R YEA R S O LD .

i C l t S Ne w Y 1 9 08 Th s picture was taken at if on p rings , ork, in .

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“ ” and the b ear er who went !o u t ; a nd his th eory a bo ut the las t kind of hea rer was tha t ’ he got s aturated and could n t sta nd any fo r m a s a more . As lecturers , Hol es s erted th t ’ it did n t require a ny s pecial effort t o secure n a a a a man a audience once . He m int ined th t might get a he a ring once by merely ann o u nc ing tha t he had jump ed o ver Nia ga ra Fa lls ; but that such announ cement would n o t secure f im m o r h so large a n audi ence the s econd ti e . After Holmes had closed his deliciously e a and c o s he ntert ining instructive dis ur e , wa s given a reception and proved hims elf h ss so ar refreshingly informa l . The os te ranged it that Professor Hyde wa s a t the ’ hum ori st s elbow the gre ater p art o f the time and concei ved a deep admiration fo r the i h benevolent d spo sition of t e no ted gues t . Thus the yea rs at Ca zenov ia were su ffi ci ently relieved by incident t o make them n o t refreshing, though they could be other a than rduous . A visit t o C azenovia in 1905 prompted Doctor Hyde t o write the fo llowing poem :

56 CAREER AS TEACHER

A NO A 1 6 - 1 0 Z V 8 4 9 5 . C E I ,

T he am e fa r a e et ! I n o w it u r e ! s i vill g y k , s

Wher e thr ees c o r e y e ar s a go n e I set my feet .

T he wa o u n e en c ar ed c o n o u r vy tli , g tly v t , White ho m es and shaded lawns that m ar ge

h r t e st eet .

’ T he l ake s c a lm mir r o r br ightens in t he su n ; ’ T he o u tlet p r attles t o t he m o r nin g s ear ; T he bir ds sing fr ee ; t he s u m m er blo o ms ar e o n ;

T he b r ea h o f Ju n e t he er ho w er a r e t , silv y s s ,

h r e e .

Ho me o f my he ar t ! While at e ac h step I gr eet

Fa r fo r m t he m en a nd wo m en o f t o - da i s , y ;

Vo c e o n hu hed hand u n een r e t o r e e i s l g s , s s , is g t

T he pilgr im o f t he ho u r fr o m far aw ay .

Her e n er n et affec o n fr e h e , li g i g y , ti s s ly liv ; Sw eet fr iends ! Yo u r lo ve defies t he w astin g

year s .

A m e t o all o u r u h n m e I i e s il y fl s i g s il s g v , ’ A r ainb o w b endin g o er my str u gglin g tear s !

c ho o a e u ar ded b t he lo w r een h S l , vill g , g y g ills ’ (Tent - cir c lin g c am els ! u p at no dr iver s c all) Fo r ay e abiding b e t he glo w that fills

h w de fu h t o -da o u r Fe a ! Wit i , ll lig t y y stiv l

57 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

2 MIL T A R ! P RI N I Y E C E . E E S .

The demands o f chronological order would suggest that the narrative of the events of the ca reer a s te acher be broken in a m upon , while ha sty gli pse is given to the wa r experiences o f o u r subject ; fo r they c c curred between the date of hi s departure from C azenovi a and his a ssumption o f duties in Allegheny College . In the summer o f 1864 the war spirit was wa s ablaze the country over . The North d all it s e i a s t o ben ing nerg es , never before , bring the des perate struggle t o a close . Everywhere the draft wa s in evidence ; and m en wh d es o , un er less pressing contingenci , would have be en refused a s soldiers in the

Union a rmy were now sought o u t . Thus it a d ha ch nce t t Professor Hyde , though well a a m d e a a long tow rd id le life , old r th n the gre t ma o f the j ority men in service , presented him self a t the recruiting station but the ex aminin a o a r e g surgeon , fter due c nsider tion , d t o a a s a a fuse pprove him priv te soldier, ’ because he questioned the applicant s ability t o endure the multiplied rigors to which the a n priv te must inevitably submit . Refused e 58 CAREER AS TEACHER li stment t he k o t o of in ran s , he th ught be some positive use to his country in another H h am way . e t erefore bec e connected with the a ani a mm United St tes S t ry Co ission , which ende avored t o contribute to the com i fo r t of s old ers on the b attlefield a nd in the h m f - m os pital . Me bers o the Com ission wrote d of and to frien s wounded dying soldiers , an d in general performed the work which in the Sp ani sh - American War was in the hands o f the Red Cross Society . Professor Hyde wa s sent first o f all to a W shington City t o await orders . Some slight inte r val ela ps ing befo re orders were s t o him he a i i sued , e gerly seized th s , his first a t o a a a i a ch nce , get cqu inted with the n t on l a had o f a di c pital . He glimpses the le ng a m an d mi a t and st tes en lit ry celebri ies , le a r n ed something of doings at the Whi te saw o f House , though he but little President

. see Lincoln Subsequently , however, he did an m . d a Mr Lincoln , the most immedi te i pres sion he g o t o f him wa s tha t he did n o t look like a ny of the pictures of him tha t were ever put before the world . a he was t o After time ordered the front , a i s th t , into the Union Army which wa s op 59 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE er a ting in the vicinity o f Richm ond an d a r Petersburg . There , with the gig ntic wa am-a o i m a dr bef re his eyes , he stud ed ilit ry ma and a a and hi tters hum n n ture , did s best t o comp a ss the situation a s the c ommander h m m a a t i self ight h ve done . He w s often a the he adquarters o f Genera l Grant an d was profoun dly impressed with the wonderful control tha t Grant had o f himself an d o f the aw him at situation . Sometimes he s riding breakneck speed with two o r three orderlies flying along in the re ar in frantic ende avor e a m m saw to k ep ne r their chief . So eti es he him m h hi writing orders at idnig t in s tent , all hi s resources o f mind an d powers of b ody m m bent to the hercule an tas k . So eti es he “ ” saw the silent man hovering sympathet ic ll h f d a y over t e cot o a dying sol ier , thus testifying t o his tender spirit an d his rea dy om can h a a c pa ssion . Who wit ppropri te viv idn ess port ray the kaleidoscopic s cenes o f ’ ! o u r friend s daily experiences ! He lo oked f a upon men o every race . All n tions under the sun were represented in the Federal army an d all were striving for the preserva ti on o f the Union and the emancipa tion o f e r He saw l i and the N g o . co ored reg ments 60 CAREER AS TEACHER v iewed with un disguised admiration those stalwa rt specimens o f physical strength now arrayed against their ma sters o f a ye ar o r a a two before . In his l ter ye rs he recalled a a a b ttery m anned by Negroes . This b ttery w as at on e time shi fted to a position whence it ha d a good vi ew o f the town clock in the of city of Petersburg , then in possession the a s a Confederates . As soon the colored rtil ler m en d a h y sighte th t town clock , t ey opened fire an d sent a cannon - b all right through the face of the innocent clock an d it wa s forever an d a silenced . Jolly br ve were these Negro n troops ; but , when they were wou ded , they l d a an d m quick y yiel ed to desp ir, their com on “ ’ ” a was s e m a ! w il , I got y c ll Thus they exhibit ed n aturally enough th e overwhelm ing desp air th at long ye ars o f servitude ha d ! instilled into their souls . And no wonder m o How could they be opti istic , born of th se ’ who never owned a dolla r s worth of this ’ mi a world s goods , never were per tted to le rn a o an d on e a a nything of bo ks , toiled y r fter ye a r— never a holiday— with the drea dful ’ c at - o - nine - tails an d bloodthirsty bulldogs in ! constant proximity ! The m arvel of m arvels a is tha t e v en on e Boo ker T . W shington 61 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE could have spru ng up in the h alf century tha t has e lapsed since the frightful conflict that d the d f en ed ire curse o human slavery . The d a t o o an In i n troops , , were inter f h esting contingent o t e Northern army . Among them was a Chippewa chief from the a o f a a a St te Wisconsin , m gnificent physic l m a fan specimen , who Professor Hyde gre tly i a a f a m c ed. He w s type o th t incisive ind that t o - day looms la rge in the b est o f the a of a e remn nts the Red R c . In the vicinity o f Richmond there were a hun dred and fifty thous and Federal s ol

a a a . diers . The fighting w s often pp lling It scarcely ce a sed The we ar ied soldier wa s soothed to his une as y slumb er by the m on‘ ot c of a a r and a on us boom he vy rtille y, perch nce rudely awakened by the sha rp rattle of mu s e r hi m o f k t y in s very e ars . Me bers the a a o s a d S nit ry C mmi sion, therefore , never l cke f r a m o s omething t o do . From e rly orning till late at night they moved over the field o f a a c rn ge , giving thirsty soldiers refresh f n a n ow and ing draughts o coffee a d w ter , again pausing t o he ar the piteous plaint of the dying and pledg i ng them that they would 62

AMMI BRADFORD HYDE only to be stricken instantly by a ball from ’ m s ed an the ene y s guns . Once he toop d h a a s . w o dr nk from pring Another, right after him stooped at the s ame spot had hi s hi life snuffed out while quenching s thirst . On another occa sion a cross a de ath - swept valley went a rider on horse at m ad speed

!

a a a on a . he d , body, t il m king e str ight line A a a air and all shell c me scre ming through the , who saw it held their breath ; fo r it appe ared n ri 10 ! likely t o blot o u t horse a d der . But ’ en d o f se a it clipped off the the hor s t il, the a m a d d a an d on ni l kicke esper tely, then sped ’ A t o f toward its go al . sight the horse s frantic remonstrance the m en laughed loud and long and thought o f the incident a s a bit o f ri m e m g fun . Thus do s co edy ever hover a a a and ne r tr gedy upon the b ttlefield , the cry o f p ain yields ea sily t o the pe al of l aughter . What a sublime and awful thing i s war ! And Professor Hyde took in all this spectacle with a an m keen d appreciative ind. One day he wa s walking along when a him on a . soldier horse pa ssed Reining up , “ a ou i the soldier s id , Will y g ve me five dol ” lars fo r this h orse ! Inst antly it o ccurred to him th at the soldier had come by the ani 64 CAREER AS TEACHER

d mal in a questionable manner . He replie ha n o t am u a t t he could give the o nt sked , h “ i w ereupon the other rej oined, Well , g ve ’ ” m e a bottle o f wine an d he s yours ! But o f wa and no bottle wine s forthcoming , the n soldier rode o his way . Once he he a rd some drummer boys te a s la a b o r e ing a Negro d. Presently white y “ ’ m arked reprovingly : I would n t te a se a a r nigger . I might w nt him to give me a d ink ” of water when I am dying ! Thus charity gle amed forth from tim e to m ul an ti e , though b lets spit spitefully d shells ri m sh eked defiance and en ever bit the dust . Wa s it William Tecumseh Sherm an who “ ” a Wa r ! i a s id , is hell Virg ni felt it in the ’ ye ar 64 . But the day c ame when ou r fri end ceased his labors with the a rmy and made hi s way a ha r e b ck to his New York home . He d d hi s at a a and for two signe position C zenovi , v ear s prior to going t o war he had held a m a a at ost delightful p stor te Rushville , New m York . Closing his work there , he oved to e at a P enn s l Allegheny Colleg , Me dville , y vani a ; and of his activities there we will n ow

spe ak . 3 65 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

3 . IF A T H NY L E ALLEG E COLLEGE .

A llegheny College ha s t o - day not over four hundred students per yea r and a Fac u lt ‘o f t i a a y thirty, hough it s s ub st nti lly h ha a m equipped wit buildings , s a h lf illion d a o f and a a o f oll rs endowment, is m ker men an o f n d w men o chara cter a d strength . But at the time when Professor Hyde ca st in his lo t with the college there were fewer students and a c ma a mu h s ller tea ching force , lbeit l Allegheny wa s even then fifty ye ars o d. In tho s e days Mea dville s eemed quite a We stern Mr h a an o t town , d s . Hyde lo ked wi reluct nce n f he had o the prospect o a soj ourn there . S a a a and m ny strong tt chments in Rushville , would have been entirely willing fo r her hu s b and t o remain permanently in the work o f he wa s a t the Christian ministry . But c p i v at ed wi th the genuine aristocra cy o f the ’ te a cher s calling and hence could n ot think i o f g ving it up perm anent ly . The first president under whom Professor Hyde ser ved in Allegheny wa s Ge orge di d no eac Loomis . He t hing, but devoted hi s energies t o widening the circle of the in ’ r i Hi a stitution s f ends . s fort e w s in social 66

CA REER AS TEACHER an d a a wa s a a person l m tters , but he lso good mi wh o u c pre acher . It wa s President Loo s s c eeded in securing the interested attention o f i a f a . o Mr Culver, the m llion ire , whom word h a ac fart er o n . Loomis lso became clos ely i u a nt ed a . q with Mr Lewis Miller, whose wa hi un of home s in Akron , O o , fo der the a a a origin l Ch ut uqua in New York State . i Loom s wa s succeeded by Lucius M . Bug had a a k and bee . He previously been b n er had a lso had charge o f the Cincinn a ti ( Ohio) n n o o f Female College . A s o is w a preacher nfl i uence in M a ss achusett s . President Bug bee wa s a good organi zer and gave valuable r v a t an r a d se ice to Allegheny . impo t nt perio

' he was c om in her history . After a time

ll a f - a p e ed to resign bec us e o ill he lth . His i mi f ri wa a o . w fe , E ly, s poetess me t

F o l l o w i n g Bugb ee came D avid H . had i t o a and Wheeler . He been m nister It ly, w a m n a w so a s a of s ome note in public ay . He ha d a very resp ecta ble ma ste r y of the a a a a n t a It li n l ngu ge , a d some imes pre ched in a a wa a e o f an It li n . He s consider bl English a and e a i speci list, he publish d book ent tled ‘ Byways in English Literature . This book 1 0 was extensively used along about 88 . 67 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

The life at Meadville was a busy o ne for fo r m the Hydes . Here the first ti e in his life Professor Hyde had a rea sonable number f a a e t o o cla sses per d y . Alw ys befor going an o f a a Allegheny, d much the time fter le v a r a a o f ing Allegheny, he t ught a g e t v riety work and he ard a large number o f cla sses a da at a at e ch y . But Me dville he first de voted himself exclusively t o the Gre ek lan a e a nd r a an ha d gu g lite ture , d but three h a s s a da . ad c cl s e y However , he be ome so a ccus tomed t o tea ching extensively that it is no t s urpris ing tha t he so on as so at m m e ci ed hi self with Jere iah Tingley, th n e s C n ow en prof s or in Allegheny olleg e ,

a a. s a g g ed in Pittsburgh high chool , in st rt ing simi la r college work fo r y oun g women t he a c as a t a in town , in s mu h th t time Alle e e he r o gh ny open d d o rs t o men only . He a rranged his college cla sses t o come in the an hi forenoon , d s work with the young ladies h in the afternoon . T is work inaugurated with the young women was lat er taken over C she a e a by Allegheny ollege , when fin lly b g n t o e d f r rec ive stu ents o both s exes . S o P o fessor Hyde wa s a pioneer in the work of c c 68

AMMI BRADFORD HYDE o f r T o Denve . the Hyde Alcove Fund scores o f money contr ibutions were made by fri ends and former students who reside in vari ous a t of p r s America . ’ d a . s a t During Dr Hy e st y Allegheny, the college found a staunch benefactor in the per f son o . a . Mr Ch rles A Culver , still living, who

’ was deeply engrossed with the p o ssibilities o f a il f the gre t o fields o Pennsylvania . Alle h n ha t g e y d but wo buildings when Dr . Hyde t o a a n a r e went Me dville , d they were b rely ec bl M h h n s t a e . s e ad o e p oreover , ndowment a a wa s worth mentioning, s ve wh t termed the a a Centen ry Fund , mounting to some a ari r o The s l es were modest . The full p fess o r g o t a bout a nd the payme nts

T o - da were likely t o be rather irregular . y Allegheny p ays her full pr ofessor ’ i a and Mr . Culver s attent on w s secured he presented the institution a valuable min i er alogical c ollect on worth t en thous and dol a H t o o fo r a . e w s l rs a solicitous , , the person l comfor t and security of the te a chers ; and accordingly had their lives insured fo r two hi s a wa s thous and dollars apiece . T ide was surely in a dva nce of the times . But it an e ar nest of what i s likely t o be done fo r 70 CAREER AS TEACHER

- m a a an d . f ithful , long service te chers more ore ’ a fo r a m Mr . Culver ls o built the college en s r i hi wa s a a d i t do m tory, w ch distinct d ion to m a a a wa s the equi p ent . It ppe red th t he strongly inclined to endow the college an d tha t in liberal fa shi on ; but just a t the tim e ’ when the expecta tion of the institution s friends w a s raised to a hi gh pitch an d there wa s extravagant dre ams of future gre a tness l . u was for the college , Mr C ver suddenly n n d hi s over t aken by fi ancial reverses . He a brother together failed fo r s omething like m l a an d a four il ions of doll rs ; , lthough he met the dis a ster bravely an d has m ade vali ant ef

r e - a h h e has r e forts to est blis himself , never covered the prin cely fortune that he once pos w a m n f n sessed . He s rega rded a s a a o di sti ct mm a an d at w a o f co erci l genius , one time s fer ed i t a a a , but declined , th r y thous nd doll rs a a t ad an d ye r to go to Centr l Ci y, Color o , m a a m m wa s n ge so e ining enterprises . He

a s a m an an d looked upon noble unselfish , on e truly devoted to the questi on of the proper fitting o f the youn g fo r far - reachi ng a in an d Al l h ende vor life , legheny C ol ege ad

him ll - in a sincere we wisher . at a vi a so at Al e l As C zeno , legh ny Col ege , 71 AMMI B RA DFORD HYDE

ha Dr . Hyde d some students who in follow m e a a ing ye ars attained pro inence . Her g in it wa s his province to stir the thought and

sh ape the convictions of future bis hops . One f m a r no w o a a . them w s Merri n C H r is , bishop f as a m an o f o Kore a . He w young cheerful and open tu rn of mi nd and genuinely reli i g on s . The-r e c ame t o Mea dville one fall a young man o f slight bui ld and da rk complexio n and m as r d a an d vers atile ind. He w bo n in In i h t o m ad never seen snow fly . Previous co ing t o Am had ma hi s erica he rried , but he left wife in the Orient while he should be secu r

r m ri t ing college t aining in A e ca . He a once became a cquainMted with the subj ect of o u r n r a story a d with s . Hyde . The l tter urged that he bring hi s wife from India an d give her the s ame opportunity fo r a college edu i a a had a i t o him ha wa s c t on th t he , s y ng t t it manifestly unfair t o deny her an equal chance and that such a denial would make a gulf t o between them in the ye ars come . Accord ingly the wife wa s brought over to this coun the f r try, funds o her maintenance being r ai s a n e Mr o t s . e . ed l rgely, if ntirely, by Hyd ’ i f Mr o c a This incident s typical s . Hyde s 72 CAREER AS TEACHER

pacity for bringing things to p a ss . Remem sh w as ! n ber, e Scotch The you g couple proved to be o f un usual caliber ; an d in r e cent ye a rs the Methodi st Episcop al Church ha s acted wisely in electing the husb and to

an - da a the bishopric , d to y Bishop Oldh m is familiarly k nown in both the O ri ent and the in as Occident . His fitt g for his work bishop

wa fo r as a un m an hi s s peculi ar, even yo g kn owledge of conditions in India wa s amaz

a a . ing . Nothing esc ped his e gle eye He t m a m t o an knew every hing, fro osquito ele a a i a a o f ph nt . Bishop Oldh m s m ster simple a a a a n but eleg nt English , most f scin ti g pul a i a pit spe ker, w thout a peer in his underst nd of a o f a an d ing the religious st tus Indi , pos

sessed of deep piety . The work he is doing in

a - a n the E st is ep oc h making d statesmanlike . Wayn e Whi pple wa s another o f o u r pr o ’ f r a a esso s Allegheny pupils . Ag inst gre t odds he has successfully b attled and has w on fo r a a a a a r himself a subst nti l n me s w iter, havin g already produced an exceedingly pop “ a a nd a mi ul r ch r ng Story Life of Lincoln , and having now under way a simi lar life of T Wa shi ngton . o these two gre at Am e ri cans a a his books will give incre sed f me . 73 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a a t o a a a a i s Ida F mili r m g zine re ders , lso , “ f am . a o a M T rbell , whose History Abr h Lin ” a o f a a a coln , ccount the St nd rd Oil situ tion , “ ” a The m a ma nd her rticles on A eric n Wo n , a va ri ous other interesting an d illuminating discussions have a ttracted wide a nd favor

‘ ’ a wa s s ble notice . She under Professor Hyde e a a s wa s a s a ma n he tut l ge , l o young by t ame who a wa s n of Lownds , l ter elected the only Republican governor the State o f Ma ry a ha ha l nd s yet d. m n t o a . o C den M Cober , , remembers with gratitude the intellectual impetus received ’ in his ill ust rio us te acher s cla sses ; an d through all the yea rs o f his expe ri ence as m r r m s as iniste in p o inent pulpits , uch T ri ni ty M etho di s t Epis copal Church in e and a s at D nver, s profes or Allegheny C e ha s e o a olleg , he profit d by his c nt ct with

' he his inspiring precept or . Only recently succeeded him as writer o f Sun da y school f r P t r r ti an A d t e notes o the it s bu g h Ch is v o ca . ’ h f d - On t e occa sion o Dr . Hy e s eighty fourth a an aff a birthd y he wrote him ection te letter, “ in which he s aid : I count it a s one o f the best things in my life that I had y o u a s my teacher at the time I needed most t o get high 74 CAREER AS TEACHER

had an o ne scho la stic ide als . I never seen y who e s a s o u and I before impr s ed me y did ,

a o ne . r h ve never seen but since Much , ve y m owe fo r and k uch , I to you your kind s ill ful work in developing in the r aw coun try f b oy a better method o living an d thinking . If I shall amount to anythi ng worth whi le in an a o f o u and y dep rtment thought, y Presi 1 dent Wa rren will h ave to divide up the r e ” sponsibility for th at . The inform al chara cter o f o u r story m ay m f f per it an item o totally di ferent sort . There is t o - day in the museum at Allegheny C ollege the skin of a huge b o a constricto r a a i ri a a th t w s k lled in Af ca . It ch nced th t some natives were one day in the forest when they came upon the s e r pent and had t o battle l e a a for their iv s . H ving killed the cre ture , a a s they supposed, they concluded th t it m a a fo r would ke good present their friend, i the m ssion a ry from Am er ica . They there s a nd a fore houldered it c rried it into to wn . ’ ri at a a e one o f Ar ving the mission ry s bod , the n atives went into the house t o tell the ’ hi wa s news ; but w le he inside , the boa s

1 Fo r i - a P B U i D th rty seven ye rs resident of oston n versity, more recently ean of the School of Theology in that institution ; a man of precise scholarship and

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a a and a tail bec me suddenly ctive , wr pping o ne o f the ri a s round Af c n , crushed every ! t a bone in his body The o her , seizing stone , ’ hammered the bo a s hea d until it wa s de ad fo r o and all an d wa s g od , it then hung up h and the skin stripped from t e body . The wa s a nd a skin then dried , the mission ry t o ri a a a brought it Ame c , where it fin lly c me f o . into the possession Dr Hyde , who pre t o the m m o f sented it useu Allegheny College ,

m - whe re it ay be seen to day . Though this “ ” i s a a i s sn ke story , its truth solemnly fo r v ouched . ’ Our educator s labors at Mea dv ille were a an m ce seless d diversified . Being in the pri e of and a t o a life e ger ccomplish things , he did n o t content himself even with te aching in two a s at a t hi s a r pl ce the s me ime , but liter y tastes prompte d writing fo r p apers and a ea a otherwise . And thus beg n in r l e rnest thos e litera ry a ctivities that con ti nued wi th o u u h a - t interr ptio n till e wa s p s t eighty four . Hi s literary doings wi ll receive m ore ex m a tended tre at ent elsewhere . Writing w s h n supplemented by preac ing a d lecturing . He wa s welc omed t o the best pulpits o f the and a surrounding vicinity, he would h ve been 76

CAREER AS TEACHER received with cordiality a s p astor by a num m m ber of pro inent Churches . Further ore , he wa s always a delightful speaker on any a n d secul r subject which he chose to discuss , a was inva ri ably listened to with pronounced a e gerness . Af ter twenty ye ars of faithful and hi ghly at a at wa s s isf ctory service Allegheny, he urged to go t o Denver and accept a chair in w a e the University of Denver . He as ssist d in m aking hi s decision t o a ccept thi s invi ta f hi ’ tion by the condition o s wife s he alth . a ec mm d ha The physici ns r o en ed the c nge , confidently expressing the feeling that such hi A nd s ft woul d materi ally lengt he nher life . s a wa s m a an d a a o the tr nsfer de , it is ple s nt to record that they never regretted their ac wa s a tion . Mrs . Hyde notice bly benefited lim n i ha a a d . s by the c te , Dr Hyde h mself pos sibly added ye ars to his Nestori an career un der the turquoise sky of the Centennial

State .

4 A B R IN T E N R T Y r N R H IV I o V . . L O S U E S DE E h m d At t e ti e when Dr . Hy e went West hi a a to his t rd field of education l ctivity , D avid Ha stin gs Moore wa s chancell or of AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

o f a a d the University Denver . H ving tr ine

o u r a bishops , excellent scholar wa s cert inly fitted t o a ssociate with two chancellors o f the University of Denver who forged ahe ad till they reached the hi ghest distinction that m Methodism could confer upon the . These a an d am men were D vid H . Moore Willi F McDo ll we .

a e o f Besides , h ving nj oyed the privilege te aching those who afterwa rd became sta te s m en o f a a a was a n tion l reput tion , he worthy c o - a o f l borer Henry Augustus Buchtel , who , after being chancellor o f the University o f fo r s m was Denver ome ti e , elected governor o f o ad r v one c on s icu Col r o , se ing term with p o u s at a m a success ; the s me ti e , upon the e rn est s a o f a olicit tion the Trustees , ret ining the a f No o n e wa s ch ncellorship o the university . h e a t a appi r than wa s Dr . Hyde the politic l o co f a l c fo r hon r n erred upon Ch ncel or Bu htel , whom he ha s intense admiration an d whose phenomena l work fo r t he university receives hi e s unstinted prais . am t o 1884 a a Dr . Hyde c e Denver in , qu r f a e a ter o a century a g o . The pl c he ccepted

had e a . a been h ld by Ch rles W Super, l ter 78 CAREER AS TEACHER the well- known professor of Greek in Ohi o h University, Athens , O io . w hi At th at tim e D avid H . Moore a s at s a a a n d m a best, surch rged with physic l ent l and m a r vigor ; , though he still does yeo n se v a a o f ice for the Church , with perh ps ye rs a a a a wa s ctiv ity he d , yet in those d ys he in m f m r any res p ects little short o a velous . He was a a in a an d splendid mixer, swing g or tor, wa s a a born le ader . He colonel in the Civil War and has na , he never lost the k ck of put ting the fighting spirit into people with who m

a n - i he labors . He w s a d still is pre em nently m influential with the a sses . Dr . Hyde thor o hl a mi e a n d ug y d r d Ch ncellor Moore , a in the ’ wri ter s hearing ha s pa id glowing tri bute to his strength and resourcefulness . He de cla res that Moore could ea sily have held high t a o fli c a had o u t poli ic l e in C olor do , he set to win it . In the yea r 1889 Ch ancellor Moore wa s suddenly surp ri sed to receive a telegram from those in authority a sking him to go to a an d a m d Cincinn ti , Ohio , ssu e the e itorship o f e t r n hr is tian A dv o c at e the W s e C . He a w wired a declin ation . Ag in he a s urged 79 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE t o accept and was emphatically informed that a nega tive answer would not be considered . He therefore yielded and had a most brilliant a s d m term e itor, being pro oted from the edi hi t o r s p t o the bishopric . ’ At Chancellor Moore s retirement from f wa a o . s the University Denver , Dr Hyde m de

- a and o f a vice ch ncellor, the brunt the he v y f r hi burden rested o a ye a r upon s shoulders . In those da ys -the university had n o home a a t University P ark, where the Liber l Arts i n a depa rtment s ow housed . All the ctivities the a o f e centered in he rt Denver, in the n igh bo r ho o d o f and a ah Fourteenth Ar p o e Streets , where ar e still located the professional of a h schools the institution . Dr . Hyde t ug t a an d m a an d o ccu Greek , L tin , French , Ger n , pied hims elf th e re st o f hi s working hours wi a n a m o f no t a o f th ssort ent duties , the le st which was the re gulati on o f affairs in gen eral . m MD l Presently Willia Fra ser c owe l was selected a s chancellor to take the place o f ’ a D vid Ha stings Moore . The new chancellor wa s a man o f a who a a splendid p rts , g ve deca de an d more o f servic e t o the un iversity at the m i io be ost try ng per d of her history , 80 CAREER AS TEACHER ing compelled to face those dark d ays when ’ fortun es went skyrocketing and the she ri ff s mm h a er threatened constantly . In Septem 1908 a ber, , former Ch ncellor, then Bishop M ll m cDowe a a a st u , in sterly ddress to the dents of the un iversity at the opening o f the a a t a f ll qu r er, vividly sketched th t gloomy o f a all period the e rly nineties when , busi a a the t a a ness p r lyzed , universi y pp rently a on e da t hopelessly b nkrupt, he y went o his study in utter desp air an d comf orted himself by taking o u t his coll ege di plom a an d gri mly

e a o and r a refl cting th t, though n tes mo tg ges were but so much useless p aper an d bank ac n a a r cou ts but little more th n hollow mocke y, he had in his mind an d soul that discipline a a which , coupled with dmir ble physique , could be pitted with confidence a gainst all o f He a c r u the hosts Opposition . w s in the cible then ; but t he severe testing he under went contri buted towa rd m aking hi m the commanding figure tha t he is to —da y in the episcopa cy . Between the new chancell or and our good a t r a a hm a friend Dr . Hyde s ong tt c ent spr ng h . as up But Dr . Hyde always been eminently a t hi ri No hi loy l o s supe ors . one element in s 81 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE make - up is mo re notable tha n his whole a him ha he rted fidelity to those over . He s

‘ always ha d la rge hopes fo r the University of and ha e r t o see Denver, s be n pe mitted the a f i m r Hi d wn o what s a truly re a rkable e a . s faith in Chancellor Buchtel and in the insti ’ t u ti on s prosp ects under hi s vigorous le ader ship i s sublime— the faith tha t laughs a t im i “ ” possibilities and cr es It shall be done ! , M In the ye ar 1891 Chancellor cDowell thought t o gi ve the venerable professor a rare i f him r trea t by arrang ng o r a t ip abro ad . ’ a o f Accordingly he wrote t o m ny Dr . Hyde s friends an d a dmire r s scattered up and down a d t o a be the l n , inviting contributions fund “ d e hi s ing raised t o enable Dr . Hy e t o s e ” native country — Greece ! And so the night after the C ommencement o f 1891 he set o u t

hi wa s - six a o f upon s j ourney . He sixty ye rs a e and had a e fo r - fiv e a g , t ught Gre k forty ye rs without ever having sufficient va cation o r f m money t o get beyond the borders o A erica . ha t a e one His career d been ill then , s inde d ma s a a a ca o f a ac y ay lw ys , reer stonishing tivity and crowded with a multiplicity of ex a o f a cting duties . With wh t feelings restless 82

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The Isles o f Gr eec e ! The Isle s o f Gr eec e !

h r r h ed and u n W e e bu ning S app o lo v s g ,

her r r a nd eac e W e g ew t he ar ts o f wa p , Wher e D elo s r o s e a nd Pho eb u s Spr u ng !

er na u mmer d hem et Et l s gil s t y , ” B u t all except their su n is set !

A nd again

A king sat o n t he r o c ky br o w ’ That lo o ks o er sea-bo r n S alamis ;

A nd ships by tho u s ands lay b elo w ,

— A nd m en in na o n all wer e his . ti s ,

He u n ed h t r a o f da c o t t em a b e k y , A nd when t he su n set wher e wer e they !

m f hi o . At the ti e o s visit t Athens , Dr Hyde saw the famo us pal-ace erected by that i hlie a and r a a . c we lthy b lli nt investig tor, Dr S a a b e m nn , whose excavations a t Troy h ve come known throughout the world . This mansion was built t o represent the Homeri c a a and t he o a d t o p l ce ; n ted Germ n , in or er testify as fully as possible t o his devotion t o f n had the mighty p as t o Greece a d Troy, n amed a son Agamemnon and a daughter Androm ache ! In t he presence o f these and countless f u r a other objects o interest, o tr veller spent 84 CAREER AS TEACHER a all t o o a fo r two summer Short , ye rning ye ars rather than two months in which to contemplate those w o ndr o u slv suggestive tra ces o f that le ader among na tions twenty a five centuries g o . But he must turn his steps toward the ak West again . T ing Ship from Greece , he a at ri i r un di o f a l nded B nd si , the B sium cl s si ca l o m a times , from which the R ns of the days o f Cicero an d Cae s a r and Hora ce were wont to emb ark fo r Athens to study phi los h n The a o p y a d finish o ff their education . d ys wa s ca a were precious . Time s rcely t ken for h o u t o f t e requisite Sleep . Eighteen hours every twenty- four he bent all hi s energies to a c i o the delightful t sk . Pro eed ng up thr ugh a had a of a saw n It ly, he glimpse N ples , Mou t an d o f a Vesuvius , thought the gre t eruption D f 9 . n H r o 7 . a d e cu A , which buried Pompeii laneum an d proved the fatal venture fo r

Pliny the Elder . Arrivin g at Rome he again ende avored t o s ee everythi ng o f attra ction t o the cla ssical was f scholar . It no violent stretch o the imagi n ation t o feel himself in the Roman senate listening t o Cicero a s he hurled appal ling interrogatories an d bitter invective at 85 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a ho a ma at ba C tiline , w , like wounded ni l y , Showed in his crafty countenance mingled hate and fe a r and defiance . He recalled Augustus and his fr iendship n fo r Vergil and Horace a d the rest . He

h n r f a ori a c mb a n ow o f t ought o “ o gla di t l o ts , a a n ow o f ri a ch riot r ces , Ch sti ns thrown to and h an the lions . These ten t ous d other re minders o f the life that had been there filled all hi s waking mom ents an d even crept into his dreams ; and he left Rome as he had de a m e a p rted fro Athens , r gretting th t he could “ ” n o t ha d a a linger . But he been born g in a in cl ssic lore . With a Sigh at the fleeting ch aracter o f his a ha had experience , but intensely gr teful t t he had at all it , he pushed north through the of a and gorgeous scenery Switzerl nd , then , a a a a fter brief st y in Paris , he p ssed over t o ri s w a the B tish Isles , a the le ding points of and and wa s interest in London Edinburgh , o ff a a hi s a a A g in , retra cing p th cross the t a l ntic . B a ck again on American soil and Speeding e a d t o o f hi s a he W stw r the field l bors , could ha rdly re alize tha t his sojo urn abroa d had been other than a vision ; but in the strength 86

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Ammi Bra dford Hyde i s unsurp a ssed fo r his sincere and skillful compliment o f others a nd fo r the conspicuous brevity and down ri ght humility of his statements regard

a nv ing himself . Forced to call ttention to a hi s o r w a m t in a r i thing in life ork, he l os v

‘ “ afbl fa a a P a r y pre ces the llusion by s ying, ” n do me for referring t o myself . He never im n h . s ounds his o w praises . Others seek He do es n o t a dvertise himself in che ap o r regrettable fa shion ; an d so he ha s lost some m h n handso e positions . But e never lear ed to pla y the politician in s eeking a dvance

e i at ha s. ha d a ment . The r sult s th he career at once humble and glorious— humble a s e a a m men r g rd e rthly prefer ent ; glorious , Since in his declining years he does n ot have

f - n t o face the uncanny gho st o self exploitatio . A rare m an ! Rega rded with love unfeigned

hi a a a a in s l tter d ys , when m ny men grow fret n a ar ful a d cynical and unlovely . Wh t m vel o u s e agerness the young men and women manifest t o ca tch ever y sylla ble of these a hi a e . s l test ch p l talks Verily, in closing days he i s a mo st impres sive exponent of “ the f e a no t see true values o lif . We Sh ll ” hi s a a like g in . 88

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finds . a s he begins hi s work hi s intellectual e Th a ctivity developed with new en rgy . e de a f r i m n t m m nd o it s enor ous . It is o erely that even the Simplest branch o f every course o f d i s n ow a d a stu y r pidly unfol ing, li ble to change it s a spect and call for methods som e a bu t hi s o f hi s i s t o wh t new, study pupils be hi a a n a . s e rnest, c reful , u ce sing If h i te a c ing does n o t touch them it s wa sted . These !the pupils ! a r e liv ing v ol ’ m s and t o a i s a u e , m ster thes e the te cher s a h h- lr m t o t sk w en sc o o o o work is done , even remember them on hi s bed and canva ss them hi h in s night watc es . Another lively call upon the te acher i s fo r e a d hi s that rev rence tow r pupils . a d d m a but Awkw r , hee less , willful they y be , ar e m a and I a t o e they hu n , there S duty ven n the Stupid a d the bad. Still another grave dem and upon the te a cher I S this— t o crea te the a tmosphere of

h wa s a. s o f t e schoo lroom . It in rude di trict u a an a e had u t r r l C onnecticut, where thlet t er l a ed h a am t o . a y f il , t t it c e clear this ped gogue that three- quart ers o f hi s work wa s a ea a t o be done with the he rt . Y rs h ve h o e strengthened t e conviction . L v your pupils A fo fina ncl al n the a i one S r retur s , c lling s f o f a n n o t o . e r ings , profits In view o f o f a a ea e i the cos t prep r tion , the t ch r s the most scantily pa id o f all the intellectual la 90 CAREER AS TEACHER

h mi borers except t ose in the gospel nistry . r t ma own a Vi ue y be its rew rd , yet

‘ ha m i it s some need of arg n . A pro ’ fessor s wife 111 o n e of o u r richest universi ties wa s a sked how the F a culty coul d live so “ a d m ri m h n so ely on s ala es s o ea ger . By ” h l n a e a . m rrying rich wifes , s , smi i g , nswered h al On the whole , t ose c led to the ’ teacher S ca lling ar e n o t likely soon to put on an purple d fine linen . a a ea h AS to soci l st nding, the t cher a s small cause of di scontent T ea chers a r e at h m I nobly o e n convers a tion . F or this da s er v1 ce I a their ily S training . a a fo r h Stormy ppl use is not the te a c er . The bre ath of fame does n o t blow hi s way ; the ai r o f good consc ience he hi mself m ay a and r a a a n inh le , it is f gr nt d s aluta ry, but breezes spiced with eul ogy wing their w ay a in i long l es of more sta rtling ach evement . Our ca lling has sm all space on the am h scroll of f e , its workings being be ind n o u t of th a a screen a d e gl re . One re ds of hi ll a n d h the prowess of Ac es , t inks little of a a a Ch ron , the cent ur, who tr ined him ; of a ui e a a a s Alex nder, q t p rt from Aristotle his f ae a Gni ho tutor ; o Julius C s r, oblivious of p , hi m ! a . who t ught Ah , well The work needs ’ m n ot the label o f the worker s n a e .

Emi nently pertinent and comprehensive these sta tements ; and the writer ha s been no 91 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

ri a ea w mere theo st . Thous nds will b r itness tha t the t ruths uttered ar e woven into the warp an d woof of hi s very being and ar e c on h hi e st antly emp a sized in s daily lif . He practices what he prea ches .

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F r ida the 2 4 th — wa s a y, . This morning lso r i the was ve y cold . I tr ed ice , but it so we ak ( fo r a small snow had fallen during the wa s r night) that it would n o t bea r me . It ve y ll a a . cold d y At night I went t o Mr . North ’ ’ S o f rup to get one Peter S Shoes mended . n o t o a My boots were big enough , s Mr . W lker had t o m a a he ke me nother, t third p air . When I came home I rea d some very good

’ ‘ e th a ' stori s in e l dy s book .

S atu r da the 2 5 th — r Was y, . The mo ning n cold a d snowy . In the forenoon in school 1 e the clock Stopped . At noon I w nt on the an d an o f ice broke in d g t both o my feet wet . After drying them I went over the river and stayed with Henry a spell . It grew colder m every moment . When co ing home I looked ’ t l a an a into Dr . Bu er s y rd d sa w f ther with ’ a B a lc m a i h H rry o s te m gett ng ay . I went and tr o d down hay in the wagon and drove ha a d o home . After we d unlo de , I drove ver t ’ m a t a a . o Mr . B lcom S house o le ve the te I t o a a a like drive horses , but f ther lw ys likes n m n r i a excuse fro touching o e . At da k t wa s very cold .

n th 6 th — It wa ll S u da e 2 . s y, very cold a a a r day ; but t night it w s wa mer .

M — n t It wa t o o da the 7 h. s y, 2 very cold da a o n o a fo r y lso . This n o I t ok my sk tes

1 Note that school was keeping on Saturday . SELE CTIONS FROM DIARY the first time this ye ar and went down on the ’

n d . ice to skate . I fou Mr Thurber s boys busily engaged in b r e aking up t he ice be ’ M h m a r ad ca use . Hunt s boys hurt so ewh t i - a o o f their Slid ng pl ce , s out revenge they were determined to destroy it altogether . tt a F ather talked some of ge ing nother pig, fo r he thought he could keep one i n additi on mi a a he n o t t o to ne , but t l st concluded get i n e . o . In the evening I wrote my composit on

T u es da th 2 8 t — It wa s a e h. y , somewh t - a h had colder to day . When the cl ss in sc ool

a . a a e o . re d , Dr Cl rk c m p sting over to Mr Mc Ko on with the news th at the ice on the cove wa s un a ha had a o f s fe , t t he seen sever l boys a m at t o o a it s e an d a the Ac de y Sk e ne r dge , th t M n cK o o he (being a T r u ste e ) wished Mr . to spe ak to the foreign scholars a gainst going a id at upon it : which he f ithfully d , but noon there were more boys o n it than there ha d a an m been t y ti e before . In the evening I t o m a b the i n s h went eeting out Sing g c ool , but ’ at a i a am om l ttle p st eight o clock I c e h e ,

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an d . o cold , cross , discontented At n on there ’ ! wa s a m ha u dson d ru or t t Mr . J S buil ing over ha d o n the river got fire , but I believe it only r m a in bu nt a s all pl ce the floor .

Wedn e d t e t — m s a h 2 9 h. y, This orning it a a sun am o u t an r ined little , but the c e d ll h shone ne arly a the forenoon . Our cow a s g ot a notion o f pulling me o ff in the mud 95 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE towards the place where some cabb ages grew

a . last summer, t o pick up the le v es We feed her about half of a bushel of rutab aga s a day n a ha she eat and e fat a d wh t y will , She k eps and gi ves about s even o r eight quar t s o f milk a i s n ow a o t o old d ily . Our pig b ut w months n T o - da u t o f a d grows rapidly . y he jumped o hi a the s pen twice . In the fternoon girls a e s t a a a c m up irs t o he r the compositions re d , fo r la st Wednesday all spoke an d t o - day all s i s b fa r th e i rea d . Mr . Sturge y e b st wr ter in school at pr es ent . In the evening I went t o ni a i o do the U vers list Sing ng sch ol , but I a e i n o t think tha t Mr . C rpent r s as good a tea cher as Mr . B owers .

Thu r sda the 3 0th — wa s da y, . This the y a a f r ppointed by Gove r no r William L . M rcy o a i v and m e Th nksg ing, co pleted the second we k omm e f from the c encem nt o this j ournal . In the forenoon I piled up wo od a n d helped a a h o 2 94 l s f ther cut up g which weighed b , an n d wa s the fa ttest o e we have ever had. In the afternoon I took Pe ter and went over h e r a o . t iver . I too k s ome b g s d wn t o Mr ’ f h m o r . . o a e Dudley s Mr A F . Lee ( w g ve S of fo r d e ixpence worth quills oing it) , wh re I had an opportunity of seeing the pigs and ’ “ ” e ho i s a r aun cher nd hogs . Mr . L e s g a l b . will probably weigh 400 b s . efore he kills f ’ I could n o t get a fair view o Mr . Dudley s h a i o e e s a . . g , but I pr sum th t he l rger Mr 96

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M — ond t 4 t o D e emb r a he h c e . y , f This m r orning wa s somewhat colder . Afte the h f r d o . . a first bell a rung school , C I H yes a f r m e o h a c lled o to go t sc ool . Dwight Cl rk h M il h m a f r e a cN . t e e rd so e cl sses o Mr . In a fternoon there wa s a very little snow . In the evening illustra tions on a stronomy were h a - given a t t e B ptist meeting house by R . MK ee n ot a t . . . c , but I did t end I lent C I 3 a t a hi a H yes a Shilling o p y s p s sage . The f ri T Academy scholars went in o r half p ce . o day there w as a man afflicted with that horrid ’ a i a dise ase St . Vitus s d nce begg ng round n fo r a Hi s tow money t o g o t o Utic . nerves a and were c lmed only by music, he intended t o go t o Uti ca t o turn the crank fo r an organ

in the museum .

T u es da the 5 th o D ec ember — It wa s y, f n m T o - da a cloudy a d cold this orning . y Eth n a who ha on a a a t o Cl rke , s been the c n l , c me h nd . da a s a school The y been very cold , r o b ab at night it wa s very cle ar . It will p y o t o -m e was a sn w orrow, for ther ring round the moon and n o sta rs in it .

Wedn e da t h 6 th — s e . a was y , The we ther fo r a a very fine the se son . In the fternoon I stayed at home to write a letter t o grand m h a e ot er t C amden . In the evening I w nt i a to the sing ng school . Mr . B owers tr ined ’ u t n a r s e w s . till o clock, when I ve y tired

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T h r d th t h — - da w a u s a e 7 . s a y, To y it r ther h a a c illy, but no snow . In the fternoon f ther h worked on t e ro a d . In the evening I went to the fort- hi ll - house to see the boys wh o b h 7 d o ard t ere . About we went own to ’ De acon Gile s to see s ome boys who bo ard h a t ere . Now, Mr . Gile will not llow them to i m on e br ng boys to their roo . But of them “ ” am a i a i n ed Rogers , c lled Ch ck , c me suct on im t o h . a a on He m de key to fit the front door ,

an d a a . the De con being bsent , Mrs Gile let h h C ick take t wo of us through the kitc en , ' an d while they were clambe ri n g u p - stairs he n Slipped to the door a d unlocked it . Our retre at was ma de in the s ame m anne r but m a i a w a s with ore c ut on , for the De con now hi s an d hi wa in Shop , t s is the only y they c an get boys into their room .

Fr ida the 8 th — T o - da wa s y, . y very cold n m th a d it snowed so e . In e evening I went over the river to see Henry .

a t r d t t — w a S u a he 9 h . da as y , This y lso n a o f very cold. I fi ished seven or tions Cicero 4 - a a hi m to day . I sh ll re d no more t s ter . Clark Hayes a sked m e to day to go to Guil him n n ford with ext Thursday . This eveni g n a I got a nswer to the letter I wrote to W .

at wa s a . G. Wheeler , which I very gl d I passed the evening very comf ortably by the fi reside .

4 At the age of twelve ! 99 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

th l t o D ec ember 1 8 3 7 S unda e o h . y , f , This mo rning the s now wa s very nea rly an 1 a me a t inch deep . ttended eting the Meth o a m s all odist Church as usual . It sn wed l o t da y an d was so me warmer than yesterda y i butMvery Sl ppery . t r 1 8 3 onda he 1 1 th o D ec embe 7 . y , f , This morning I saw several sleighs an d cut wa s d ters , but the snow not eep enough to h i did n o t a ave the Sle ghing very good. I h ve

- much t o do t o day at school . In the evening ’ I went over t o Dudley s Shop .

T hu r sda the 1 4 th — I did do m h y, . not uc a h o f The t o d y wort y notice . snow went off was some t o day . In the evening there ’ h a a at . t e don tion p rty Mr Burk s , Church minister .

We ha ve lived with the b oy o f twelve fo r and a e a three weeks , h ve obs rved th t his life had enough o f entertainment t o a wa s i m ke it intere sting . He g ven work at home to tea ch himthe dignity of m an ’ u al a he wa s ea dl n S a l bor, r g Cicero or tions the c a m and wa s a t o e a in A de y, ble writ a m d t wa s f ir co position . Evi en ly he inter est ed in the sports and entertainments of a m d a en the vill ge . Let us now a dd so e i ry ri a ar e o f n o t a c on t es th t interest, but t ken secutiv ely 100

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SOFT Do y o u find the bump o f generosity ” there ! s aid a silly fellow whose he a d wa s “ d - a m un ergoing phrenologic l exa ination . I ” m t h a a the find so e ing here r ther giving, s id man o f ad hi on he s , pressing s fingers the

skull .

’ WOMAN S SE C RE C Y

’ he s ec r e a s he r a e — a w S s t t g v , llo do c an n o t do u b it I , I t B u t e a r a e w h o mb o n e , lik g v it t st s Tha t tell y o u all a b o u t it !

A judge in Kentucky ha s decided that a dandy is a nuis ance an d may be kicked into

the gutter the s ame a s any other puppy .

REA S ONING

If w ne is o i o n so is t ea i p s , ,

Only in an o ther shap e . Wha t m atter s whether o n e is killed By c anister o r gr ap e

Such a r e the inter esting items tha t crowd f us this diary kept by a b oy o twelve . Let n ow make the contra st a s w1 de and m arked a s possible by contemplating some o f the en tries found in the diary sixty ye a rs later

B — i r thd M 1 3 1 8 8 6 ea r s o a e . a ah 8 2 y, . , y f g a o f th a d A bright, w rm day e true Color o 102 SELE CTIONS FROM DIAR Y type Wh o thinks he grows old! I m n a m e a a . ca use gl sses so , but not gr y I r u n an d a i as as , jump , do nyth ng vigorously r i a un all ever in my life . Du ng the ye r I fo d my w ay watered an d green with the Divine a an an c a mercy . I h ve not lost hour or oc a hi in sion by illness . I h ve lived wit n my m a m a mi a come . I have de ny st kes , but here

m t 62 h a a d . I a a , blest wit thous n blessings m how a How uch I need , e rnestly do I desire a to be in no bond ge to the world , to serve l m Christ faithfu ly , to put y chief concern upon the spiritual world th at I am s oon to ! m e be enter Mercifully help , O Christ, to an d a s m a humble , pure , true , such y through Thee fin d a cceptance with my Judge !

B ir thd Mc 1 3 1 8 — a a h 9 0 A d y, . , . busy y it i wa s . My place in school gave me little t me i o f hi f u to th nk anyt ng outside o reg lar duty . But what a blessing t o be able a t sixty- four t o r un eat and a a , to work, to , to feel ste dy flow o f cheerful emoti ons ! My dear wife and daughter di d their utmost to make the day a r a nd rf g ee ble a they pe ectly succeeded .

B i r t M hda eh 1 3 6 9 r ld . ea s o . y, , y da a nd d u A y stormy col , but in o r house ri an r a i h b ght d chee y . Our f m ly life as events “ s o as t o a the a a few illustr te s ying, H ppy ” the people th at have no history ! My de ar a m an d a m a o wife , c l comfort ble ; y d ughter , a 103 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

and ou r o tive loving ; Alice , h usekeeper, quiet , a an a m symp thetic , d f ithful ; yself flush with a at a n m m a a vigor s y ti e in y life , with bund nt I n a a work and ability t o do it . s o t th t “ ” ! a ha m a record My est te s ostly v nished , n f h a r e a a d the prospects o the sc ool d rk , but h i s th Go d and Him t ere e living , in I e m a ar e str ngthen ys elf . My eng gements , I F r - fi e a a a . o v believe , f irly m int ined twenty a e e ye rs I have written S . S . Not s every w ek , f a and the demand o r them do es n o t f il . I “ ha ve in ha nd as a cas h t as k the Art m s a n d am the Gli pse , writing Whedon m ' f u o m t . a as o o r C m en ary I p tor Church , n 4 l ! a d I have t o 5 c a ss es in school . Enough Ho s h a a nd o a r e w trengt , ctiv ity , j y “ e s and given me ! Bl s s the Lord , O my oul , ” fo rget no t all His benefits !

M r — r 3 o ld A a ch 7 y ea s . busy

am so a a . day . I little ffected by ye rs a i s a h no t a and My be rd gr yis , but my he d, m t o m I a flush with vigor . O , be ore like Chri st a s the yea rs incre a se ! Judge ha ea e as a s o m a Belden s this y r gon , h ve ny a m w ! th t I a but a survivor . As God ill Yet , “ ” h r k o I have n o fault t o find wit life . Ge a s 6 “ a ci didask omen o s ( I grow old but ever ’ le a rning !

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AMMI BRADFORD HYDE warmth of my a ffection for y ou does by no a m h me ns di inis . Whe n I p arted from you in Genesee m d a . Street, y feelings were in escrib ble The a o f a o u had fo r ye rs nxiety y endured me , a a d an u n your const nt ffection , your devote d tiring ca re in sick ness and he alth all p a ssed a f m e nd the in r pid review be ore , a then with ering thought that I ha d taken le ave perhaps forever o f those who were ordained o f he aven to be my best e a rthly fri ends and h h h w o a d s o well fulfilled t e s acred office . an an r m Such event is e a in y life . The sunny hours o f the child at home were p a ssed w a s n ow e i d t o forever . I nter ng the worl i f m h Th i s m a ri a o r a o . e a s ke t l n o d tr l , v ci situ des an d a o f a e n o t fo r , c res life I c r d , d a a t o they were ust in the b l nce ; but , O , of a m ea wa s a r e think the w r h rts I le ving, lati on s fo r which na ture affords no sub sti tu te ( fo r where can we again find p arents !) the agony o f that thought wa s more than any can conceive who has never felt ! He aven grant that I may be sp ared ano ther heart rending tri al like tha t ! But the fiercest a a a storm will p ss . Re son resumed her se t and the he aving ocean o f feeling da shed in vain a gainst the rugged granite of re s olu

d o f m a d t o . tion . The uties life ust be tten ed f c an a Times o natural sorrow none void, but we may shun that more poignant gri ef which ri neglect o f duty will surely b ng upon u s . 106

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p acket was full o f a. motley and diversified c m a um h a n a an d o p ny, n bers o f Dutc d Y nkees o n a a a d f e Jew . This l st w s won er ully inter fo r on e o f a and esting fellow his r ce , lively a a d a agreea ble . I soon g o t cqu inte with ol m an e m hearty d Dutch an , d enj oy d yself, i a e o f th e forgett ng for while , in the nov lties n m Th a an d a . e j our ey, y p st future nxiety a i s h m the country below Utic fine , wit uch m fea The a a s a e tures we saw above . c n l is a a all the wa h a d enl rged ne rly y to Sc enect y,

n hr v n h The a d wa s constantly t o g ed wit b o ats . a o f i s m a a first pl ce interest Ger n Fl tts , where ’ I saw the site o f Brant s house and o f the o ld d the e ar stone fort, note in R volution y i r a a a ac . Wa . Little F lls s str nge pl e For a and a a th b ed o f the mile h lf e the river, a n d h the a h a r e on e fl ts , a everyt ing but towp t a a i d d on solid rock . A l rge vill ge s foun e

' h I saw a n o r an t is . believe I no g rdens y f h a a thing o t e kind . A short dist nce b ck on ea ch side of the stream rise pe r pendicular o a r a m a a r cks to g e t height , for ing singul r an a d r ther romantic scene . Nea r the village t he Mo hawk falls ir r eg u la r l fo r a a d y short dist nce , better eserving m f the na e o ca scades than fa lls . A very good wa s fo r u s o n t he a t o dinner got bo t , which i o f m m we d d good justice . Nothing o ent o c a a a hari curred until we re ched C n j o e . Here 7 a had a an d hickory pole been r ised,

7 K 1844 J . P P U The fall of , when ames olk was elected resident of the nited States . 108 SELE CTIONS FROM DIA RY

h had fin a s people a ssisted . T ey just ished am an d ha a a a we c e up , d r ised b lloon which m o t o n so ared fin ely up . A grea t nu ber g o a d h m an d the w a h h b r to go o e , y t ey c eered h in f was d. o goo T ey were the best spirits , a an d all and o f a all l dies , were sure c rrying before t hem . ni on a o As eve ng drew , I beg n t retire m e m m a a or to y own thoughts , gloo g in crept m e an d m d a on over , I use continu lly the home f ha h o a ffection I d left . S ould I ever see it again ! Would it ever seem home a gain ! Would she whose image fancy refused t o w d a m ith r w from y sight , but presented in m an the colors still ore bright d vivid, mother i m Go d had m e aff a w th who , blessed , ection te an d p atient m other— would sh e be there to m her h d t o her a m o r the welco e c il r s , will damp clods o f the graveyard hide her from the embr ace of an orphan child ! But enough ! my . writing grows dim an d my thro at fills an a od h m e ! d ches . G elp ha h w a s m a and u n r e My rest t t nig t s ll , h 4 . a d d at fres ing . At A . M we were l n e Schenectady an d set off on t he railro ad im m l d a w a ediate y . The ist nce to Troy s thir m n i n a d a r a a . teen iles , we r ved in bout hour On the way I sa w hundreds o f acres of good dry land covered with a second growth of d m a a a brush . Woo ust be v lu ble to p y on The a d a a a . such l nd. I islike r ilro d noise 109 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a is tedious , the scenery is lost ; in f ct, their 8 only recommend is speed . A t Troy I strolled around the dock and at h looked the s ipping , etc . There were a few sloo ps and scho oners an d one o r t wo m stea bo ats . The gre at business seemed to be a n in co l a d lumber . f . a r At eight P M . I st rted o Albany in a ll the hourly st ge . It is a the way like a a d splendid vill ge , being line with superb - a n country se ts . In less than a hour I wa s whirled over a ma cadamized ro a d t o the 9 a C rlton House . Henry wa s in bed at eight . I ha stened t o hi s room and forgot my ca res th em f in e warm bra ce o a loving brother . Y u ma m a m H o y i gine y feelings . e wa s well n f an a d a h a d at . We looked d t lke to e ch ot er a s a as d m m o f h rd we coul , until eeting ti e , a a i d things t home . His e ger nquiries I coul a a a sc rcely s tisfy . We attended the C tholic h h o f ma s-s w as C urc . The service in itself led m m a m interesting, but it y ind b ck in ti e t o the ages when mailed knights an d crested spe armen bowed a round the holy symbol and a credulous people were by it led to perish o n the plains o f Palestine The serm on wa s a i o f dorned w th the flowers rhetoric , but h the la cked in spirituality . It did not touc

8 Thirteen miles an hour ! Things have changed .

9 - A . A brother two years older t that time, though but twenty one, he was L Assistant Attorney General of the State . ater he became a prominent lawyer

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AMMI BRADFORD HYDE n ri B at o t desc be it now . I then went to the r he t e y, a be autiful walk shaded by t trees The and fanned by the cool sea breezes . i fin e a m a Pa rk s , in circul r for , cont ining deer , w o a amma et c . sa I the B wery, City H ll , T ny ,

et c . an . . Book C oncern , , d in the P M visited m as r h m the museu . Here w eve yt ing fro the o a the mm d t o mouse t the eleph nt , hu ing bir a the h t o the ha — in a the e gle , s iner w le , f ct , a specimen o f every thing that exists in n a r r ture o a t . th ’ M 4 . a d e At P . M I st rte up river to I ha d no ide a before o f the extent of the city a d ea o f be but a s we s ile n rly the length it , I k it wa m h s g an t o thin s quite a s ettle ent . S ip n m ha d d fo r m s an a d erc n ise exten ed ile , d no th had spa ce between e buildings . We a fine view o f L Island o n one s ide a nd Bla ck ’ h h h on t e o w t e a . well s ther, it Penitenti ry , etc L Is land ri ses fa st fr om the wa ter an d is H r l t e o d d. u a a a well wo e g is n rrow, rocky o h s a channel , but presented n t ing tr nge when h f e we pa s sed. The next t ing o inter st was a am e ld no t a point whose n I cou le rn , where h r an mm t ey a e building i ense fort . We soon ha a sea Vi o ne o h d fine ew in direction . J n h c n wa nts to kno w ow it lo oks . All I a say is at ri the a ar e a o u t th ght here w ves l rge , d ma and fa h an yon er s ller bluer, rt er still we c d m an d b d i a not istinguish the , eyon s deep

1 0 Of the Methodist Episcopal C hurch . 112 SELE CTIONS FROM DIARY blue line broken perhaps by a s ail no longer n than a fi ger . I could not pay 50c fo r a berth t o li e a a la o n m w ke in , so when tired I y down so e a h trunks an d rested well . At d ylig t we were the t at . a ea M It pp rs well , ci y on the slope hi h o f a t e at . ll , U the top I went to the hotel an d after breakfa st to the U 1 1

wa s at . . Dr . Olin not home I found Prof i h a m a m 64 e o . . Sm t , who g ve r o It is No , ac o f the 4th South Section , the b k corner i . wa s a ad r a story It lre y fu n shed, p rtly by m h a an a y c um . I h ve bought a bed d bl nket a m m ( O , if I could h ve so e fro the h T o a a . ar e . w s eets , etc , included ch irs ,

a . a r e a e . bookc se , etc , bsolutely n eded Pil lows I got new for the best I could do . i m m Wedn esday wa s spent in fitt ng y ro o . di d a m d w a s a d Others the s e , the buil ing cle ne m a a i a a busy ti e it w s . On Thursday ex m n i mm wa s a h an d t on co enced . It se rc ing thor h a ough beyond anyt ing I ever s w . It showed n m did every o e in his re al erit . I not enter In a i w as d o m a s I expected. L t n I excuse fr am at ex in ion , the course in Greek I review the a a a an d junior ye r, in n tur l science belles n m a m a lettres I enter the Ju ior , in the tics I hm n m review Fres an a d enter Sopho ore . To gra dua te in two ye ars will require great ex m a er t ion and the whole time . My in trouble m ri an d a is for fun ds . You ust w te encour ge

1 1 The President of Wesleyan Univer sity at that time . 1 13 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

. at can a me I think, if not unfortun e , I gr du at e in a m ri i two yea rs . I pr ctice the ost g d m c b can n o t . e ono y, yet ooks I do without The F a culty ar e a straight- haired Meth o dist e et o f and a lik s men , criticise closely imp r i ll m m t a y . I ay at so e future time describe m a a the a the to you p rticul rly . I bo ard in h ll a The a i s a t per week . f re pl in but and o t the a a plentiful well g up , . h ll keeper

a a a a a a . pl in , gree ble , super nnu ted pr e cher M ll The scenery about is fine beyond a a d the saw . a a n I ever The w ter, the fl ts , well- wo oded hills rec all the View yo u have s outh ; but here it is in every direction alike . Since I ha ve been here I have had hours f a h a a o nguis , but fter pr yerful inquiry I think I am in the p ath o f duty and that here e s o I sh all be blessed . I never befor felt deeply the priceles s value of a religi on which ri ha t o susta ins the soul in bitter t als . T nks Him who gave Hi s Spirit to bless your a and a a a pr yers counsels , I feel th t I h ve sure su ppo 1 t 111 the tri als o f life and a Guide through the da rk valley o f de ath wh o will m a on da keep me fro evil . I sh ll Mon y unite i i s a with the Church . Relig on here high , s m The ar all men yo u ay suppose . students e e n a a a t o in y ars a d ch racter . I sh ll ende vour be on e among them A n n m ea a e d ow, y d rest p rents , believ me a so n a s ever your e rnestly loving , YD A . B . H E . 1 14

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a and m a a a a f ncy y ingr titude in dv ncing ye rs , and who I trust still regards with a ffection a n a her bsent s o . My p rents , my brothers , and my de ares t sister ar e firmly enshri ned in m a b d f o r y he rt, eyon the influence o time a and n o a dist nce ; if w while I write bitter, r a m a n o t bu ning te r oistens my p per, it is ha o a o r a t t res lution f lters religion f ils , but n tha t affection must a d will be hea rd . Yet can n o t a e o m I regret my bs nce from h e . I know the tri al wa s severe an d the expe ri ment doubtful ; but n ow the clouds tha t hung a round the dispens ations of Provi dence a r e a m a m d m o f in e sure re ove , the stor feeling ha m d d an can o s in so e degree subsi e , d I l ok w m alm s a h m ith ore c nes , perh ps wit ore truth , o n the me r its and tendencies o f the steps I h a -o f a ave t ken . N pe rio d o my life ffo rds me i mo re s atisfa ct on than that in which I set f r o a t o i t my face o Middlet own . I l ok b ck i am t o w th rea l thankfulne s s . I c e the right ri m da place in j us t the ght ti e . Every y i m mo an d ea o f h s conv nces e re more cl rly t i , and should my stay be n o longer th an this m can ma n o wa d ter , I i gine y in which I coul have spent time a nd money t o b etter adva n m ma e f m a . a o t ge I sensible , if I y judg y s a at n o m a m a elf, th t time in y life I h ve de m m m a n ot a d ore re al i prove ent . I h ve llowe a day n o r knowi ngly an hour t o pa ss without o f contributing t o the acquisition knowledge , f h h o r a of the cultivation o t oug t, the form tion 1 16 SELE CTIONS FROM DIARY

a a ch r cter . My circumstances have been pe culi r l e w a a y favorable . My former lif as d mi r abl f r m a y planned o y real good . It g ve m e o f a t o o we iron powers endur nce , it I whatever bodily o r ment al vigor an d inde en en m d c . a p e I possess True , I conscious of m ore improvement now than when I wa s on a farm ; but the power to put un der contri bu ti o n d a a m my present a v nt ges , the ele ents of sound ch ara cter an d the resolution and fortitude necess a ry to confront the trials an d a i an disch rge the dut es of life , if y such a ca ha a r e n Go d qu lifi tions I ve , they , u der , owing to the indi rect but legitimate effects of those habits o f life which the judi cio us care of my pa rents se lected and which a for t u nat e n ecessity confirmed . The cor al insect m ay operate unseen and unfelt in the depths t he a a n d l o ! s an d w on of oce n , we di cover der a t the bro ad and firm foun datio n o f n m a island in the bo s o o f the deep . Be m a m a am y future course wh t it y , if I not a man it will not be because under i your direction my t me wa s wa sted . I never forget fo r a moment the cost o f my t present privileges. I reckon it li tle less ri f can no t a s th an the p ce o blood . I b ni h the ide a th at to support me a father may be dep r iving himself of the comforts which his ag e requires or a sister ta sking the powers an o f her slender fram e . If it be y con s ola i m a a t on or return , they y be sure th t the 117 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

unworthy o bject o f t heir rega rd is not con scious o f ingratitude to them nor knowingly o f m m m f h guilty isi prove ent o t eir bounty . s a s ma m am a But , inconsi tent I y see , I th nk fo r fo r t o e a ful poverty, o it I w bo th wh t I have a ttained an d a disposition to a dva nce h m m a . a a d f rt er E ul tion y turn to isgust, h o f m m a m an d o pe future e inence y beco e i le , n — o u t a i s a m a who wor t le , but necessity ster m - a a d s . never slu bers , spur th t never ull It the a o f e a a o f is p rent ex rtion , living c use m m a de i prove ent . If stu nt enters college i he n o t ak a with r ght views , need t e step th r efine . a e a e without benefit S v , perh ps , m o f a ents soci l life , I know of no branch of elegance o r utility which m ay n ot be culti h i o f v at ed here . T ere s a constant collision m h m a ind wit ind . We h ve societies for ex m a fo r a an d a m a te pore deb te , liter ry rgu ent f r h a an d o sa . a r e tive ess ys , conver tion T ere those here wh o will one da y fill high pla ces h c a e m in society, t eir ont ct eng nders co peti o and m h ti n , co petition elicits powers to whic h m Y u f e a . o o they were t selves str ngers , t o how a amo course , desire know I r nk ng h m Fo r m e a i a i t ose a round e . to s y s d s a -a m a ou a gree ble tter ; but y , my p rents , if o u m a a d n o t y doubt y c p city to ju ge , will a ccuse my motive n o r lay t o my charge a h m A f r m dispos ition to de ceive t e . s a a s I ay d m a d i s all a deci e , y st n ing my most s nguine ri a a t o m n t f ends h ve right expect . I a o the 118

AMMI BRADFORD HYDE li io n a Ha the g which s v es the soul here . d I o f an a a the tongue ngel , I could not p int “ gratitude tha t glows within my ravished ” h a f f ho e rt, for the gi t o p arents w pointed me a t o had e rly the only goo d. If I not the a h m support of gr ce , I s ould shrink fro the duties o f life ; but I know that Go d is my and m rock my present help . In y religious experience my coming t o Middlet own w a s an er i n ri r a . But relig ous j oys a d t als a e every h the a can w ere s me . You recollect or con ceiv e wh at mine have been better tha n I can m m r a tell the . My i pressio ns a e neither f int n o r a s t o m d and m feeble y estiny in life , y friends here a r e fir m in their opinions o n the a m n n m tter . But e ca not tell . Providence it s o wn and sa works designs , I only y , if “ ” a m m a e . necess ry , Here I , send On S aturday eveni ngs I g o ba ck three miles into the country t o meet a cla ss an d have formed a ple a s ant acquaintance with and the farmers there . College life duties ar e a a e a d h o u , s I h ve once d t ile t em to y . n m regula r a d unva rying . In so e respects I a a a fin d them unple a s nt . The princip l fe ture f e a a i s at se o life her , s it reg rds me , once an a a i s a m vere d benefici l , th t , bsence fro a a m a d me a home . M ny ti e , exh uste by nt l r o r d h a exe tion oppresse wit bodily p in , do ’ f r h a a I long o the comforts of ome , for f ther s ’ n h m a a n d advice a d a mot er s sy p thy, before I think I am unmann e d by the re collection 12 0 SELE CTIONS FROM DIARY

h am far all t at I from their rea ch . But for a a a and this , consciousness of sust ining gr ce m r m a sense o f duty perfor ed a e a ple return . e d a t o o d My h alth is goo , I fe r goo ; for I shall presume on it an d at la st it will fail h t w en it will be too late to re c over . I ea very m m o derately for e and do not fa il to exercise . had a d a o a an d I your vice to get into b t row , an h a shal a ar d I ve done so . You l h ve the p i l r w a a da n t cu a s . s a d It one fine S tur y, three of us ha d m ade up our mi nds to go down mi m the ri ver six or seven les to Hadda . We ro amed along the river an hour before we a a an a found bo t , old thing, but with good h - a an d a t a a . s il, in t is h lf p st ten we put out “ ” wa s wa s Of course , I perfectly fresh , nor either of my comp anions much o f a s ailor ; but the best on e took cha rge an d we st ar ted hi wa s in gh spirits . The breeze fresh but fitful an d almost at right angles with the river We would ca tc h the wind an d run for a few minutes a s ne a r t o o u r course as and a ll t a an d possible , then a once h lt still ! h o fl lie there . But look t ere is wind there on a m a r a n ea the w ter, it co es ne er d n rer ; sa ! m e look out for the il Now co es the br eze , striking the bro adside of the s ail and tipping the little bo at till the water almost pours over her side— throw the s ail round an d e ase ar e a an d a a it or we c psized , w y the bo at an a am an d a flies like rrow, fo ing spl shing h a a mi t rough the w ter . But in few nutes we 12 1 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE ar e reminded again that we have no power d n d over the elements . The wind dies own , a h mm ll u r t ere we lie . We su oned a o philos o phy and with the help of a Greek Testament onb o a rd we wore o u t the intervals very well ad i m re ing, cr ticising , etc . Three iles below M h a a a we entered the n rrows . Here for lf mile the river bends ra pidly an d is hemmed m a the a a di f in by lofty rocks , king n vig tion fi lt cu a a . , but we got through fter while fit s and a o t on and By st rts we g , o n e d H about e P . M . r ache We looked a t o a - a h h round , went rope w lk w ere t ey were m aking a ship rope ten inches in circumfer h n an d a d a a t . ence , st rte b ck t ree Our retur a w s a j ewel of na utical experience . At first t wa s a w e o u t a e here fine breeze , put br v ly “ m d o f a m a nd a d into the i dle the stre , t cke n ll m n h a a . o a wa s a a d b ck d forth S on c l , t ere we lay at work with o a rs to ke ep from going down stream . Then the wind would come an had ha a a again . In hour we rdly g ined e wa s h mil . I sitting t ere quietly in the m d o f the a h f ! am d id le bo t, w en pu f c e the win h a the and rig t over hill . Round went sa il awa y went the valued memento o f a de ar h — m hat da a o f brot er , y , ncing like thing life the a o f and over blue w ters the Connecticut, m h a t a a m y dkf , a s if rej oicing rele s e fro d a a o ff a s a a s at ur nce , h stened f st possible a ri wa s n o ght angle from it . But there m f o a was a ti e t o think o these . The b t bout 12 2

AMMI BRADFORD HYDE ments ! I will n o t attempt t o gi ve y ou an a o f the a a a ide living m jesty, the iry, gr ceful f a sublimity o a ship under full sail . To c ll “ ” a o f d h d h it thing life is ownrig t is onor , it no t i does beg n to express it . 1 3 i n u . Dr . Olin s ow with s He is seldom e s six seen , but everywhere f lt . He i feet, three inches high and ve r y large in propor i n o t — a f t on , corpulent , but bony, per ect c a a a can a olossus , pl in s pl in be in pers on l a a He m o f ppea r nce . never see s conscious a effort , but in every motion there is wful n e h i a a dig ity, in very word t ere s fe rful ma a t o d power . I hope I y never h ve en ure him d a s o m a reproof from . I woul s o n eet Jove wi th hi s thunderbolts ! A boulder of granite with a hard finish o f flint would not a a i d be h lf so unyielding s he s . The wor ” compromis e I believe never occurs to him a s applicable t o the most trifling college hi r an duties . And yet s feelings a e tender d hi f n s a fect ions strong a d deep a s the Amazon . a a a ma n an d ou can In word, he is gre t , y n b o t e ne ar him without fe eling the fa ct . a him e a I he rd pr ach once . He beg n slowly and hi s n o t feebly, eyes were shut, but seemed t o sink into hi s he ad until they were scarcely and hi s e at a a visible voic f int tenor key , just like Bishop Hedding , but fuller . At first I could perceive n o order o r arrangement in hi s thoughts ; he roved over the whole em

1 3 President of Wesleyan at that time . 12 4 SELE CTIONS FROMDIARY

m s aw a pire of hu an rea son . I the v st force he a m a o f w s collecting, but could for no ide d r a its applica tio n . By eg ees he beg n to con v an d erge , the velocity power of his thoughts a wa s a incre sed , there no resist nce , he swept us along with irresistible force ; we he ard the muttered ro ar o f the ca t a ract to which we as were h tening, but we felt we were entirely o we r wa s a t er r ifick a in his p there , de fening d a ar an d lo ! all was thun er, fe ful plunge , ‘h ha hi h a . o o s c lm The enc a nter d l sened old , f r h i r an d we ga sped o r a b ea t of a a ga in . I taxed to the utm o st my power s of memo r y an t wo - s hi s o ai n ow d third of serm n I ret n , but the re st— I mi ght a s well have tho ught o f t f a bl o tting up the hunders o h eaven . Such m a n is Dr . Olin . I have endeavored t o get a school this o ne a winter . By teaching ye r I sha ll a m a have me ans to p ss y l st ye ar with ea se . With this view I ma ke a ll my a cquirements i I a n o thin hi h I can n o t pract c al . p ss g w c 1 4 ex lain t o t h r ll a p o e s fu y . If I p ss the year a s a mm d a a a I h ve co ence , I sh ll be ble to te ch ll u k n a the previo s c ourse . My whole o wledge a u a a is here in const nt se . I h ve pupil in on e an d am a a Hebrew , in French , st nding oracle which all students consult on alm ost ll a questio ns . I find life here plea s a n an a k a h m t . C we s nyt ing ore than a sense

4 1 Ho w few college students nowadays study as if they were getting ready to teach the less on ! AMMI BRADFORD HYDE o f favor of Go d an d o f daily improvement ! f o . m I never lose sight of the object y course , — a a f r e m 4 . . prep r tion o lif . Fro A M till 10 am o n the h fo r m P . M . I stretc i prove i m a a an d . ent s oci l , intellectu l , relig ous I can m and b the r ac e o know I be so ebody, y g f Go d I will n o t be a ci her in t he wo r ld p , let l t am m my o be ca st where it will . I s o ebody i n . a a a here There s ristocr cy in college , not o f a of a an d e a we lth , but t lent ; though I w r six days in t he week the clothes in which I m an d n o t o a d left ho e , spend money g in goo w a o an d a da en ill, I h ve found g od bun nt

r i n : I t oo a a t s a . a t nce into r ks feel , , th t I h ve n f m m them atick s o a o a . a l ck ent l power In , h ha o find can a w ere I d f und trouble , I I gr sp the m ost difficult re a s oning with compa ra tive a d a bu t one e se . In eed , in the cl ss there is m e an a m a before d he is ere recit tionist, knowing little but the na rrow round he dailv d fo r a in traverses . My fon ness this br nch a no t a t o f m cre ses , but the expense y love f a o l nguages . Yo u will see at once that some p a rts o f ar e fo r n ot a this letter your eye only, th t I have given a nything but truth ; yet t o o thers it would appea r vanity an d future failure would therefore be a ttended with t he gr ea ter h m t o e h s a e . Trusting your discr tion in t is a e a son m tter, I r m in Your , YD A . B . H E . 12 6

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The thi rd letter here presented wa s wri t t en during a s oj our n in the rural distri ct o f Conn ecti cut where he taught sch o ol for s ome s hi m o in mo nths . It hows c nfront g s ome problems which ha d s o much to do with hi s ca reer for life ; and the contents o f this letter will be o f interest an d value in a n estimate o f hi s li fe

2 1 4 d 8 5 . Feb . ,

a a - My De r F ther, Your excellent letter has a m e ha s re ched , but the reply to it been am delayed a lready beyond yo ur patience . I n o t e h n , howev r, deficient wit out a excuse ma a a a d one . a s perh ps v li My school , you y m f tim o . suppose , engrosses the ost my e My studi es occupy the effe ctive pa rt of the r e ai er A n h h a m n d . d w en t ese h ve received their m a h a m full a ount of ttention , I ve seldo vigor o f mind an d body left enough t o write even a a hi to the de rest . My cour ge t s winter is undergoing a peculi ar tri al ; an d I m ade up my mind to inflict none o f my experience on you until the experiment should have been ma o a i m fairly de , s th t I might g ve you so e light a s to the probability o f my success o r am on the a a m failure . I now l st h lf of y m a ar a a . e time . I live My re soning powers a a at unimp aired . And when the l st schol r 12 7 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

m a and an d night beco es in udible invisible , “ the school-ho use is left to books an d shucks ” and me I u s u all su cc eed in es t a blishin , y g m o wn iden tit y y . I ha rdly know what to think o f the busi o ar e ness . S me things connected with it very l h a a a r a s . t p e s nt, others e very unple ant On e i s a an e . whole , it bout like y oth r The m n f i s sch o ol nu bers o t ar from thirty . It a s far advanced a s any district school tha t I n m ar a s m ever k ew . So e e in L tin , o e in and a a n d who ar e un French Algebr , none t f a able o get some kind o lesson . can no t a a a had I s y wh t success I h ve , n m r a s I ca co pa re it with no fo mer effort . all a a s o But my p trons appe r s atisfied, fully , an a r f n d e making proposa ls o r a other winter . ar e d a ! If they contented , why shoul I compl in am de a t o a fo r I un r oblig tions ple se them , e ri they l ave nothing unt ed t o ple a se me . If t o a a; a a t to h ve fl ming rur l reputa ion , be wel e at t o be an com d with smiles every house , a o l an d the and or cle to both the d young, t o be in the go od gr a ces o f every o ld la dy and nea rly every young o n e in the distri ct m a m a . a s a d could ke t y desir ble , ine woul surely be so . If I could surrender myself t o forgetful

s be a . do n nes , I would gl d But I not k ow, a presentiment o f being here after called t o fill s a d a a o f e ome r uous st tion , sense my ne d of a a fo r a one e as qu lific tion such , childlik 12 8

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” ture never fails t o fatten ; but in my ca se m i a . it does . I beyond fatten ng The worst p a rt o f my stay is that I have n o e f o r a o r m ans o religious liter ry society ; , an ar e a a a a r e if y , they sc nty . My S bb ths divi ded among my Episcop alian and Congre ati onal an a a t g constituents , with occ sion l visi a m a t o the Methodists in Derby . I l ost f int fo r a o f a r - v w nt some good, he t revi ing meet a m i ha s ings . Perh ps y relig ous enjoyment been allowed t o depend t o o much o n the favor f m n t fo r a m o a s . a circu st ce Isol ion , then , ti e , ha a a will awaken me t o the fa ct . It s lre dy f r m h a b een good o e . It as led t o sea rching o f a a he rt , pr yerfully, I trust , thoroughly a e ha s n m de . The qu stion often bee revolved by me whether I would wholly o r p a rti ally i m a g ve yself to the Christi n ser vice . And at m a a a a a ti es , when I h ve m de r tion l de ci si on a a sa o f , I llow the s ults worldly pros t f pect o sh atter the bulwark o my faith . Shall I j oin the votaries o f human le a rning an d sha re the delights of their enchanting a a o r i e i p thw y, unite w th thos whose route s a a a am i up rugged C lv ry, whose f e s the sne-er s o f m en o i s a f , whose gl ry cross o a ! nguish He aven help me ! I have chosen . What could I do without the cons ola ti ons of religion ! Exhausted by the cares an d a o f e e perplexed by the tri ls life , wh r else could I turn fo r strength and r efreshment ! 130 SELECTIONS FROM DIARY

I need n-o t recount the circumstances which combine to m ake my situa tion more a th n I thought I could ever be a r . It is ha - a s i s a enough , t t, soul trying it , gr ce is ffi h f m still su cient . The a rdest o y ta sk is “ t o m a k o a yet co e , but I will s nly for d ily ” A n m bre ad. d though y bodily vigor is n ot w a wa s at mm an d h t it the co encement , my 1 7 d w r fli progress in stu y ill be but t i ng, I will n o t m a fo r m n co pl in ; the ti e is short , a d, if m a at m t I live through , it y so e future ime be ple a s ant to think o f the events o f the i s a a winter . It possible th t I sh ll be the me ans of s ome permanent go o d t o those a m e an d of a round , the thought such possi “ ” bili a a ty is a strong comfort . I h ve he rd “ o f those who walk the world a n d strew their ” a an d a o p th with friendships , h ve ften thought that it wa s my fo r tune t o follow f cl o se in the footsteps o such a one . Every place in which I h ave been has furni shed m ri m and m e all e f ends , s o e more so e l ss , but m h a places to so e extent . And ere I h ve some a e a whose comp any is a v lu d fe st, whose sym a an d a a p thy revives , whose pprov l strength

en s . D o not expect me t o stay at home o r a ny t o o r where else , be idle doing but little , o a mis after I graduate . I will s oner go

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i r a a a at an s ona y t o Afric . Perh ps I sh ll y ri a a rate . I will w te g in if I ever M m get b ack to but it is i possible fo r me t o do s o while here . m e a s Believe ever yours ,

. YDE A B . H .

AMMI BRADFORD HYDE be omnipresent in the thoughts o f the person who ventures t o . c all attentio n t o the fa ct a ha s had a th t he college tr ining . But o u r young fri end o f the fo rties at

a ha d a ' f Wesley n loftier ideal . Some o his literary endea vors o f th o se earlier ye ars can n o t fail t o be of mo re than p a ssing sign ifi a t o th e t o f d a u nf c nce you h to y, when , o r a in m a a tun tely, ny colleg es thletic contests ’ ar e a m ha of a i cl i ing the lion s s re ttent on .

' But the su bj ect of o u r st o r y did n o t m ake a a m a of the am a h i the f t l ist ke f ous t lete , M lo o f C r o t ona who at m , , often victor the Oly pic an d a a his a a a d Pythi n g mes , in l st d ys bew ile ‘ hi s waning physical strength and is pi tied hi s esa on ld h e by Cicero in y O Age , w er he mentions the folly o f gi ving first thought t o h f o u r t e training o the body . While young c ollegi a n rej oiced in the ability t o run and a far a m a le p , he took gre ter delight in ent l i gymna st cs . It i s of perennial interest t o observe the ch a rac ter o f ea rly m anifestations t o see whether they were a reliable foreca st o f the a m f chieve ents o succeeding years . And in v iew o f the splendid litera ry work done by Am mi Bra dford Hyde in the perio d o f hi s 134 LITERAR Y ACTIVITIES m a a a ture m nhood , the re der will no doubt be gl ad to see wha t hi s youthful intellect could a pr o duce . The following or tion , written by him and delivered in Wesleya n University h M 45 at u a 18 the J nior Ex ibition , y 7, , shows a mi nd a roused to correct procedure of thought an d notewor thi ly appreciative of ff m en in o u r e ective verbi age . Few young

l - a ul hi ff col eges to d y co d surp a ss t s e ort . The title of the oration indi cates a mi nd a lert il h ri to the ph osophy of uma n expe ence . The “ i s o f In stitu title , The Influence Obsolete ” a s : tions . It is follows

Diss olution awaits all hum an structures . di t an a Splen d ci ies have flourished d f llen , an u d their r ins now strew the earth . Broken column s and fa llen a rches defa ce the spot where no t lo ng a g o a sta tely p ala ce pr o a a o t m cl imed the pride , or l f y te ple bore wit t o f i ness to the pie y, men . The k ngs who e the a i a d an d order d , rt sts who pl nne , the h m l ab orers w o erected the h ave p a ssed away . A n d a h m the world now reg rds t e only when , ri d a e the m o n with cu ous won er , it investig t s u m ent s o f k l d an d their s i l, their splen or, their a toil . But when the eye rests on these sc t t er ed a ar e n d r rem ins , whether they fou bu ied a f a o f o r bene th the dri ting s nds the desert , shut in by the dark luxuri ance of Western 135 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

m n e a . forests , the ind ck owledges their pow r a h f m They le a d it back long t e cours e o ti e . They introduce it t o the society o f those who o n a who first intruded the stillness of n ture, trod in haughty tri umph along the halls o f t a a nd d hese prostr te edifices , who cowere a mong the tottering monuments o f their ea rly u o f he o f ma glory . They tell s t brevity hu n n a f power a d the fa ll cy o e arthly splendor . r f f r Such a e the ru ins o the works o a t . It i s n o t s o with the cre a tions o f the re a son and f i s o . a s . the philo ophy men They f ll , it true The world is everywhere encumbered with m r e their scattered fra gments . Their for s a unkn own where they once re ared themselves l m in a l their ajesty . But there lingers

e a a i a . around thes fr gments liv ng, cting spirit There gle ams from them a light whi ch lends it s aid to revea l the p ath which s ociety t o da a h e e y s hould tr vel , w il they contribute th ir m i influence t o for t s present cha racter . h h a a W ether they were in t eir n ture politic l , i a o r e a m an im soc l , r ligious , if they g ve ind m h n u o a a ca . p lse r odific tion , neit er be lost The elegant fab ri c “ o f Grec ian s ociety has long been dissolved ; but the spiri t o f r efine ment by which it wa s ma rked transferred itself t o Rome and softened her iron rigor . m d the da If it slu bere through reign of rkness , it wa s first to greet the return of civiliz ation ; an d n o w the mem ory o f Greece i s cherished in of a r t an d a o f the love letters , in the l ws 136

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o f ar and : severities w , embellish the enj oy f A nd o m a is ments o pe ace . where w n ele v at ed t o t he rank whi ch hea ven designed her a d a a t o occupy, where we kness is shielde g inst n n a a s o force a d i nocence g inst oppre si n , there f r i s felt the liv ing; a cting power o chival y . i a m a e At t s dec line Purit nis ros . When o n e ha d pa s sed to the wea kne ss o f a g e and had become a clo ak fo r the crimes which it

s a . once reproved, the other u urp ed its pl ce f The chara cters o the two were different . m wa a and a . One s light, iry, gr ceful It co es down t o u s in all the e ncha nting ga rb o f fic It s er a wa a e o f tion . s the golden g honor, f a n f a d o . wa s o g ll ntry , a love The other

and . was stern , rugged, unyielding It robed m f in the gloo y attire o despotic discipline . It s a e was a o f o f u nc om g th t enterprise , m e a n d o f an pro ising d votion , severe d rigid a a h f liberty . Purit nism sh red t e fate o chiv lr m a y . The inds of men ma rched on and m an i left it behind the , d it lifts t s imposing fa r o f a t o m a form in the horizon the p st, rk, it s d m o f hu by growing i ness , the progress a m m nity . The i press which it left on the world was n o t so transient ; it. i s visible n ow a u i mong s . It s s een in the liberty wrested m a a an r from on rchy in Engl nd, d in the a ti a m f on l freedo o America . It is felt in the e of an d struggl s the Old World , the pros er it o f m a p y the New . In a time Of or l laxity it taught s elf- denial ; in an ag e o f tyrants 138 LITERARY ACTIVITIES

a the ea of t o it t ught men , in f r God , govern t m an d he selves ; d now, where indepen ence is m a a the in enj oyed , we y re d honors of the tit u on a l a and s ti th t nursed its feeb e inf ncy, where virtue now m akes a stand against na ti o n al and im a vice , she is cheered st ul ted by the example o f those who da red rebuk e a licenti ous c ourt an d turn b ack the tide o f ni r fli u vers al p o g acy . The superiority of s oc iety in ou r day over all ha ha o u r a an d t t s preceded it, is bo st ri m a a p de . We co p re these l tter days with t he a e o f nd ri an on g Augustus a Pe cles , d c a a n a gr tul te ourselves o the contr st . The h n i world as never seen a ag e l ke ours . The um a a m d s u h n intellect , no longer tr m ele by per stiti on nor limited by a bli nd belief in a t i a a a t s . f t li y, is s o ring upw rd to home It i a i s ssert ng its conn e ction with the Infinite . It i s lifting the veil from the mysteries of t ri n cre a ion . It is explo ng the wonders a d s n hu olving the design of the u iverse . The m an s oul is b a ski ng in the be ams of a di s pen sati on before which the darkness of my thol o gy an d the mi sts o f bigotry a r e fleeing away . Freedom visits the ea rth an d set s up n f e a her throne o the ruins o d spotism . V st ness of design and energy o f pe r formance a r e f a the chara cteri stics o the day . But h ve we elevated ourselves to the position which we sustain ! Have the labored institutions o f a o d of an other d ys , the pr uctions the toil d 139 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE wisdom of other men perished with their short- lived authors and conferred no la sting benefit on their race ! It would be interest ing t o se a rch o u t the causes whos e effects a r e he m m and n o w visible upon t com on ind , to inqui re whence came the elements now c om h bin ed t o form t e general cha ra cter . We shall find them scattered through the histo r y f a m and o the world, r ising the selves here th a o f a ere in the dim vist ye rs , confined neither t o a. p ar ticular ag e nor t o a par ticu l r o f ms a a country . The frostwork circu t nces ha d a a o f d an d s melte w y, the clouds preju ice the o f a a a e an d rubbish error h ve dis ppe r d , i their lofty summ ts reflect upon us , uns ullied , f the effulgence o truth . And sha ll we s ay we o we nothing t o them fo r ou r incre a s e of light ! We have culled from the ru ins tha t crowd the pl ains of time all that i s valuable and given it a sh a re an d place in the fab ri c which we have erec ted f e m t o r ours elves . And if we o w s o uch o a a i o f m n a a the p st , if gener t ons e h ve l bored an d the of i s o can fruit their toil urs , it be tha t we a r e putting forth n o influence which sh all live beyond o u r own time! We may accelerate o r divert the stre am o f human a c an o u r a a tion , d effort sh ll be felt long its f r ni course a s a a s to the shore of eter ty . And when o u r country shall have sha red the a o f a a f te others th t h ve gone before it, when u nsightly relics sh all m ark the place o f ou r 140

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dence of hi s superior powers of thought and

utterance.

e a a From a n e arly ag , bout nine ye rs , he on a ea a wrote poetry . He wrote gr t v riety o f m ari o f subj ects , e ploying v ous styles versi fi i n n v o o f cat o , a d in many ways gi ing pr of the fa ct that the Muse was his ready an d willing e ff o s r e s rvant . His poetic e usi n were p ompt d by circumstances— the result o f some a ctual n o t i a s inspiration . He did wr te , even the Engli sh poet laurea te ma y sometimes do

under s tress o f duty t o generous p atron . The poems he composed were often pri nted in vari ous papers an d magazines ; but n o t till pa st eighty yea rs o f ag e did he allo w a c ol f m t o m lection o poe s be published in book for . t o c a m Finally, yielding soli it tion , he per itted s ome o f his choicest efforts t o be put into b a small volume . The oo k was g o t o u t pri v at ely in a limited number of copies t o be a a t a m used s gifts to p r icul rly inti ate friends . ar e a nni Thes e poems short, r rely ru ng over half a dozen stanz a s ; but they aboun d in a e and be utiful sentim nts choice expressio n . a a a o f The subjects indic te wide r nge thought , “ ” “ a s o : i cklif foll ws John W , The Winter ” “ ” - a u of a Sun Gle m, The Mo nt Tempt tion, 142 LITERARY ACTIVITIES

l 46th a George Wa shingt on , His Birthd y , ” “ a John Ruskin , Lucy , An Idyl of Re l ” “ ” “ wfl a a — Life , The Sno ke , P nsies Pen ” “ ” “ — sees Thoughts , The Afterglow , A ” “ a Wa s lin m Pe ak in Color do , She B d fro “ ” The a Birth New Pl net Eros , T o My and a on Brother Neighbor, Bishop W rren, ” “ ” t a n of His Bir hd y, U iversity Denver, “ ” “ a a a a a The Bugler of B l kl v , C azenovi , “ “ 46 - 190 1 8 6 di a mm . . , In n Su er, H A o f a n a a Buchtel, Governor Color do , I ugur l , “ ” “ a a J nu ry , A June Diurn al, An ” “ i T o o f October Noont de , Our Conductor “ ”

et a . Athl ics ( September, K iros Though the titles just presented ar e n ot all tha a ea e t pp r in the mod st volume, they indi ’ cate th at the wri ter s range o f th ought wa s

a i n a lim nyth ng but narrow . I smuch a s the it ed number o f copies of thi s book o f poems ’ ha s prevente d the author s numerous fri ends from having the p ri vilege o f possessing the ma a i e e a book, it y not be m ss to pres ent s v r l o f the poems here : AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

' THE MOUNT OF TEMPTA T ION

O u ar a nt ania w d and o n e , Q , il l ,

No o wer is b u h n o n t h ee fl l s i g y st p , No e o f er du r e r o u n d hee hr o wn v il v t t , No springs l n Si lver y mu sic leap ; All b ar e a nd dr y in sto ny death ’ A h a em n r h s bla sted wit d o s b eat .

Why do I mu sin g linger her e With eye s m o r e set in ten der ga ze Than o n s o ft Ger iz zim o r wher e

The o c o n o o d Her m o n r az e fl ks g ly g , Or wher e t he glo wing lilies gem T he tender gr een o f B ethlehem !

The d m ne o f t he a e e i ss g s fli s ,

The em er a s o f o ld see T pt , , I ,

i a nd r o n befo r e m e r e W ly st g is , F u hed w h his w de o n c o r l s it i , l g vi t y ,

Fa r - o en mu r der o u dar w h n i sp k , s , k it i ,

n n n m r n A d bu t o e c o qu est o e t o wi .

Who is t o fr o nt him ! Who is He

h e- ed w h fa n fa n and wo r n ! W it lipp it sti g , i t

He t he c ham o n ah m e ! Is pi , ’ By who m this day s events is b o r n e !

her e a e er a e -fiel 0 , w w s v b ttl d Wher e such as these m u st win o r yield! 144

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o n was his d c ne and er n L g is ipli , st , T o str u ggle a nd abstain ;

o r e wear o me t he ar t t o ear n S is , l

T br ea he t o e o r a o t n . t , o p is , st i

Yet felt he fr esh r eso lve u pspring

h r f r r With c ee o eve y day . In air he hear d ad o c e n gl v i s si g ,

Sa br h - n e h e a t a w ig t wi g d o p s pl y .

Her e he is no w ! The gate swings wide ; The Stadiu m o pens fr ee Alr eady in his glo w o f pride He fe t he r els vic to y .

Fo r Kair o s r eady ! No t fo r vain n High lo ve t hy gifts has give . Fail ! No ! T he br ave shall a lways gain ; ’ T is no ble t o have striven !

Wha t if Life be Olympic drill A nd D eath it s Kair o s shrine !

We bo w and en a n o n , sil t , p ssi g , j i

A n n en ine u s e Stadiu m l . LITERARY ACTIVITIES

THE BUGLER OF BALAKLAVA i

O B u gler b r ave who se c all r an g c lear Up o n t he c r isp au tu m na l air

h ar d an whi e o n t he r ear Wit C ig , l

D a shed t he Six Hu ndr ed c har gin g ther e .

The mo e t he c r a h t he a n a r e o n e s k , s , st i g ,

Tha t bu gle fifty y ear s u nblo wn .

” ” ” Mo ve ! Tr o t ! Char ge ! swept t he c o l

u mm o n ,

her e hi r ho u an d w a n o o d. W t ty t s , iti g , st

hi e o e t he u n in hr ea enin o ne W l sp k g s t t g t , ’ r A n d shr ieked all ho r r o r s fr antic b o o d. ” ’ Retir e ! r an g o u t ! The fr ay wa s o er ; Ho w m any hear d t he c all n o m o r e !

’ T he w n er no w t he r n o f r a n i t s s , sp i g s s t i , ’ T he s u mm er s ver du r e heal t he gr o u nd. The w ar -va le wear s no s c ar o r stain ; The s o n gs o f bir ds ar e hear d ar o u nd;

T he b u er far awa l dr eam gl , y , stil s ’ Of sto r m and sm o ke and wa r s r ed gleams .

Then t o his lips his b u gle lays : “ ” “ ” ” Mo ve ! Tr o t ! Char ge ! ring u p o n t he air !

B u t wher e ar e they o f far go ne days !

No h r r her e Lig t B iga de sweeps fo rw a d t .

D o ho r e and m an a ho r a n s , g stly t i , Ru sh Viewless do wn t he vale a gain ! 147 AMMI B RA DFORD HYDE

Her o o f ear at fr o n no m o r e y s , t , With C ar digan t o s o u nd his c all ; The i h B r ade has o ne befo r e L g t ig g ,

Thy br eath sings r equiem fo r all .

Re o d er b o r n t h au r e wo n st , s l i , y l ls , ’ A war r io r s ser vic e b r avely do ne !

ON THE ZEGB AN

The sea-mu r mu r is w h E sc h lu s au h er it y , l g t ;

w h o ho c e wee n . it S p l s , pi g

A r t au h n er r Sea ! l g i g , M y ’ Athen a s dawn ha s r eddened in t he E a st A n m n n n d day is blo o i g o ver la d a d sky .

n r in r r Jo ho e a d o e fr e h o u hea . y , p , l v sti s ly ts

au h o n O a dden n Sea ! L g , gl i g

We t o o w au h w h hee . , , ill l g it t

A r t wee n o u r nfu Sea ! pi g , M l ’ Light has go ne o u t b ehind Ar c adia s hills A nd dar ne hr o u d o ld m o n in heir r a e k ss s s illi s t g v s , l n B ut a l their p a gs c hafe in o u r living hear ts .

ee o n O addenin ea W p , s g S !

We t o o w wee w h hee . , , ill p it t

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AN OCTOBER NOON -TIDE

I sit half sinking in t he yello w wave ’ D r i ed fr o m t he a nu b end n o er m hea d pp w l t i g y .

i h m an a n t he o o d an o o r is br a e W t y ti t w l d fl v , ’ A n r r d whisper s mer r y t o t he r a mble s t ead.

See t he far hillside ! Ho w t he au tu m nal beam Has c lo thed all fo liage fo r a r evel gay ; E ac h b u sh afla m e in ever y war mth o f gleam ! Ho w sweet this ear ly per fu me o f dec ay !

Oc o ber ! No w in ar e m a e c r o u nd t l g , j sti The c hangeful year has m ar c hed alo n g t he land!

fe r r ed u n b azed and dar en n em e Li sti , s s l k i g t p sts fr o wned

I r r m n n o de e fa c na n r a d. si pl , s i ti g , g

A n d h is o n u mm n ha r n e t is C s atio . W t Sp i g giv s ’ Of r ic h n ew fe t he u mm er un and r a n , li , s s s s i s , ’ Septemb er s r i p eni ng mid t he fr uits an d sheave s Ha e wr o u h and o n e an d h he r wo r v g t g , t is , t i k ,

r em ain s .

Fu we no w o o n c o me a c h n br ea h ll ll I k s s illi g t ,

A nd all the se br ight things c r u mble into mo ld. Then o ver all t he br o wn and silent death ’ r ea d in er hr o u d n m an e wh e and Sp s W t s s i g tl , it

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Then fr o m o u r a er n and o u r o c e y p tt y v i ,

Yo u r a m o her e o f m an ne t sp li ss ,

Ou r m en a r n ha r e o c e spi i g , s ll j i

T r in e er r o ival y o u v y g ac e .

A nd m o r e ; eac h in his tim e shall lo ng ’ Fo r t he w o r d he t o en a n ar m l s lp l d ,

h mu c e r a n ed e c r o n Wit s l t i , lasti , st g , ’ ’ ’

h ho no r r u h c o m a o n s c har m . Wit s , t t s , p ssi

One o f the latest poems written came o u t in the P it ts bu r g h Chr is tian A dv o cat e o f June 3 1909 i s a s f w , . It ollo s

LIFE ’ S EVENING MIRAGE

The o er e n su n T he m o r n o f Ju ne is o n . s v ig To u ches an d war ms t he u pper Skywar d a ir ; ’ N h n er in b r e a h ho u h all it s ho u r ig t s li g g t , t g s

do ne ,

C o o ls t he lo w r eac hes o f o u r atmo spher e .

Magic o f b eau ty ! Mar k t he b endin g r ays Lift a b right wo r ld beyo nd t he ho riz o n line !

o n h n r n e he o n der n aze Its gl w a d s ade e t a c t w i g g ,

While n ear a nd far in wide p er spec tive jo in .

Su ch spell o f r adianc e wo r ks t he wester in g su n B efo r e t he inw ar d ey e o f m em o r y ; ’ n beam o er r i n o n r u n Its livi g s si g visi s ,

- r f A nd fr esh t he lo ng tr o d landsc ape glo i y . 152 LITERARY ACTIVITIES

The far -o fi lighter br eath o f ear ly year s C atc hes t he r o se and s affr o n o f t he m o r n ;

d ife c ar e - a den e en ho wer ed w h ear Mi l l , v s it t s ,

- r n Tinges o f r ainb o w weavin g n o w a do .

All at o ne View ! 0 Mir age p a ssing str an ge ! Wher e is t he r u deness ! Was ther e never glo o m ! Far spr eads t he sc en e ; then with a gentle c han ge ’ A ll f N h u n h n dew ar e s o tly melts . ig t s q e c i g s m c o e .

The first literary contri bution to a j ournal wa s a ri o n a h was c tique D nte , w ich published a 1848 an i a a in the ye r , d d splayed rem rk ble at wa s a a penetr ion for one so young . It r ther m hi a a m a su b ventureso e t ng, perh ps , to tte pt j ect tha t ha s always been wor t hy of the steel o f a well - trained k night of the pen ; but the r di d isk not prove to have been u nwarranted . T hi ri t h a . s c ique C ncellor Henry A Buchtel , i a of the Un versity of Denver, once re d to the students in their chape l service an d de clar ed that but few young m en of the s ame ag e could equal it in keen power o f analysis and a m A nd c m droitness of state ent . the o lim ent wa s a p not in ppropri ate . In the ye a r 1875 he wrote a commenta ry on the Song o f S olomon an d Ecc lesia stes fo r 153 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

’ h m Fo r r W edon s Com enta ry . over fo ty a a e a e ye rs , never missing w ek , he prep r d Sunday school notes fo r the P it ts bu r g h C hr is ti n A dv o t a a a d a ca e . The l st notes ppe re in th f 1909 and the e issue o June seventeenth , ; e ditor spoke of his extended services in the following manner

In this issue o f the A dv o ca t e the final installment o f notes o n t he Sunda y school b Am e s . e D l s ons y the Rev mi B . Hyd , S . T . . , o f i s Denver University, printed Fo r two thous and cons ecutive weeks he ha s furnished his lucid an d suggestive comments u pon the lessons chosen by the International C ommitwt ee The uniform an d superior qual ity o f the notes i s well known t o the thou sa o f A dv o ca t e ade nds the re rs . They have furnished insight and illustra tion t o both n f te a chers a d students o the Word . Into them the Do ctor has put the we alth o f hi s s a the o f n chol rship , freshness his thought, a d h h f t e wa rmt o a Christi an hea rt .

App ended t o the same editori al i s a fare m hi s well word fro D octor Hyde . If words emb o dy on e fea ture tha t i s o f pa ramo unt sig nific an ce - ri d at , it is his sweet spi te ness the moment o f di s continuance o f the work o f He sa more than twoscore ye ars . ys 154

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Fo r many ye ars he produced ess ays o n a ri f T v a ety o topics o f general interest . hese e ri a a a a nd wer histo c l , biogr phic l, philosoph ical ; but everywhere the philosophical bent of m i i a his ind s n evidence . The ess ys were fo r f a az and a written dif erent m g ines p pers , and 1885 a um o f a ix in vol e ess ys , s in num a wa a e ber, w s published . It s dedic t d to “ a ha t o Mir Smith Hyde , seeing t t her pure ta ste an d patient cri ticism and t o her sym p athetic appreciation i s chiefly du e a ny me ri t ” b o m a a h o f this ok y h ve . Somet ing the ’ “ a uthor s habits o f mind i s shown in the In ” t r o du ct o r y Note He observes

The rea son which this m odest volume offers fo r it s existence i s dire ct a nd int elligi h f — ble . Above the orizon o history which is never a plane like that o f ocean o r prairi e

’ ari a s a in o u r m a a o f se , the pe ks ount in w lls ad s a m Color o , eminent per on ges , seen fro h a a . s a an f r T ese per on ges , men d women , e n ot o r had a a w re trees stones ; they p rent ge ,

and d . friendships , surroun ings They illus trate o u r human nature ; an d an inquiry into ha a a and e i a r e their c r cter, c reer, influ nce s freshing and a remunerative exercise It i s good also fo r the mind t o make foray into the doma in o f abstract idea s . Sentiments in the form o f proverbs and 156 LITERAR Y ACTIVITIES axi oms ar e afloa t ( an d long ye ars h ave been s o) which it is well to ch allenge . Thus the Ess ays ar e the recre a tions of a a a a a busy life, fter f shion congeni l with the ’ w lli h a a riter s ca ng . S ould they for p ssing hour bri ng cheerful comp any an d animating h s — e a d t oughts to other mind speci lly, shoul they awaken somethin g better than they ri h-a e a b ng, they will v done their err nd .

In thi s choice little book o f 159 p ages the author treats the followi ng subjects ” “ an d o a Knowledge P wer, A Thous nd “ a o the d Ye rs Ago , Phil sophy of Unuttere , ” “ ” a u an d Gust v s Adolphus , Miss Burney , a ar e Gambetta . These ess ys virile in

a — a a o f thought, clever in phr se thes urus suggestion . But the m ost ambitious book undertaken “ during his life wa s the Story o f Meth a a odism . It cont ins bout five hundred

- w a ri good sized p ages . It s w tten when the author wa s s ixty-fiv e ye ars of ag e At this tim e in life he wa s magnificently i n r a a . e fitted to w te s uch ccount Of cours , the m ere m atter of compositi on hardl y held hi ll wa s a a an m a s attention at a . He r pid d s ful ri i was and t er w ter . His Engl sh cha ste 157 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a a a and as fo r th a a nd of bro d c p city ; , e f cts a a ri a geogr phic l ter tory th t must be covered , the author had fo r two and a half score ye a rs ri m His a a in been prep a ng hi self . n tur l clina ti o n to canva ss thoroughly any subject that claimed hi s attention ha d ma de him familia r with spiri t and detail o f that p ow er fu l religi ous sect which to - day cl aim s va st attention and is engrossed wi th plans for the f m s alvation o the entire human fa ily . S o the writer did n ot need to pause in the midst o f hi s writing t o consume time an d

ll trn m ri T c o ec a a . o strength in g te l be sure , he might have gone much m ore extensively into the minutiae o f hi s subject ; but hi s pur

wa s t o a r . pose write a story , not histo y

wa s t e a an a a It o ent rt in d inspire , r ther th n a t o provide cyclopaedic info rm tion . In hi s prefatory statement the autho r r e m arks

A story i s a little different from a hi s Th i . e a s a ab d tory l tter properly full, l ore , an d careful prese nta tio n o f a gi ven line o f fa a o f a an d f cts in their rel tions c use e fect, o f m a an o d has ti e , pl ce , d r er . A story less

o f d a . l f ignity, perh ps ess o precision . It purposes t o entertain while it instructs ; t o 158

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This monumental work was c ompos ed in m o f an d a the onths July August , fter Doctor Hyde had finished a ye ar o f exa cting work i t ea a and r . ching, writing, pre ching, lectu ng When a sked how he fo und such a fe at physic “ al a m wa s ly possible , he excl i ed , O , I just full o f physical vigor a nd felt like throwing ” it away ! A nd tha t at the ag e o f sixty- fiv e ! Wh at an incentive t o lofty a ttainment i s such an ol a e an d how o o d g , it sh uld fire the y ung wit h consuming desire to emula te it ! Hi s widespre ad interests ar e evidenced by his memb ership in educat ional a nd p atrio tic b e i a o rganiz ations . He longs to the Amer c n a the m a a Orient l Society, A eric n Philosophic l

a a e a a Society, the N tion l G ogr phic l Society o f wa s one o f u d ( which he the fo n ers ) , Sons o f m a the A erican Revolution , Phi Beta Kapp ’ a ma and Society, Color do School sters Club , the a F o r a Denver Philosophic l Society . numb er o f ye a rs he ha s b een honored by being placed first on the annual program o f a am a a n d he a a the l st n ed org niz tion , a lw ys presents a study at once distinctive a nd fresh an h h - d t oug t provoking . ’ m a df d id o d A mi Br or Hyde s w e kn wle ge , at a t eachi and i ar inspir ion l ng, br llia nt liter y 160 LITERARY ACTIVITIES work ea rned fo r him the degrees of Ma ster t o f o f Arts (Wesleyan Universi y) , D octor a e and S acred Theology ( Syr cuse Univ rsity) ,

Doctor of Literature (University o f Denver) . As a closing word in conne ction with this i d sketch of his litera ry career , noth ng coul be more appropriate than that truly wonder ful a nd eminently truthful tri bute p aid Doctor Hyde at the Commencement o f the f M 19 r t o a 09 Unive s i y Denver , in y , , when he received at the h ands of the university the f f degree o D octor o Literature . In present him ha fo r ing to the c ncellor the degree , i M cDo well s a : B shop William F . id I present fo r the de gree o f D octor of a a a a Liter ture Ammi Br dford Hyde , gr du te o f old a in the a of n Wesley n d ys Fisk a d Olin , w a o f a a orthy comp nion long line of schol rs , a m a the a o f all a a conte por ry of gre t ges , it o f all e o f c izen centuries ; t acher literature , o f a a interpreter liter ture , m ker of literature ; living definition o f the historic Christian scholar ; lover and te acher o f youth ; loyal and o le o f the a nd bedient discip truth , firm a and f ithful believer in Christ, true friend o f God— worthy o f all honor from this uni ” he ha s and versity which long nobly served . 6 161 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

B udbt el a a r T o this Chancellor , lw ys an a a o f r a e a dent dmirer Docto Hyde , m d be uti ful a response , s ying, among other things “

Yo u o ar e a . yourself, D ctor Hyde , classic ” M u e h k ay y o r turn late t o t e s y ! a ar e a i The prob bilities th t, in giv ng this de ee e o f e e hon g r , the Univ rsity Denver n v r o red herself more and never bestowed honor Th f u p on a worthier subject . e ceremony o conferri ng this degree was a mo st touching n f an im a d elevating incident , fit climax o r i p ess ve and memo rable occasion .

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am him an d They c e to expect it of , they were m m e seldo left long in suspens e . His ind do s no m a t creep . But the te pt tion to employ the unusual does n ot proce ed t o the point o f ab fu n a a o f a surdity . His is lw ys high qu lity and has its own distinctive hue a nd refresh m ing char . hi e o i o f Again , s j est s nev r g w de the a — na r a he a e a t o m rk y , t r , they r r ly f il hit the ’ - A n d on e a a s bull s eye . import nt re on why his s allies ar e p erfectly pat i s that he se es the end from t he begi nning and has a mind intent upon the proper application of all de

' A n d o h lau h a hi s hu tails . s t e g th t greets mo r ou s effor t s is sincere a n d hearty— n o t tinged with hint of the pa r tia l awkwa rdness o f t he j oke . Unlike many who indulge in funny r e a he n o t a a t m rks , does llow his love for f ce ious utterance t o le ad him towa rd sterility of f- e u n s a . thought, wher become in nity At b t hi far - ea o tom , not ng but vig orous , r ching him Th ea nd thought satisfies . e ch p a tire some j est o f the s treet ha s fo r him n o attr ac t i c an a mmo on . If he not s urp ss the co n fun , h ‘ f e prefers t o rema in s ober o utterance . e e a ri and sub Furthermor , ther is ch tle 164 WIT AND HUMOR

m a . flavor about his j ocos e re rks Here , per

a r of hi s h ps , is the crowning vi tue fun m k o f ul and a ing . The philosophy successf enduring fun entails a di stin ct and peculiar delica cy This quality rendered B ob Bur h f ri l dette so long t e idol o the Am e can peop e . But our Doct or Hyde coul d ha ve readily du ’ plicated Burdette s freshe st a n d bri ghtest ef a t r a e a forts . He , too , could h ve en e t in d v st audiences as a hum or ous lecturer o f fine a a t a fiber . He could h ve been migh y te cher in this field ; for his fun would have sur p ri sed and entranced and would cer tam have struck at the ba sic principles o f life n a d conduct .

- fin a o c o sen ess is ni a . And , lly, his j peren l But he does not render himself weari s ome to h ha a o e o f the fit ot ers . He s th rough s nse a ness of things . He r rely if ever overdoes

h-a a e a a his fun . He s commend bl b l nce in this field o f his menta l activities a s well as in s o a the weightier ma tters . And it h ppens

a ma o f an d m i s th t , in the do in wit hu or, he

un d n d a e and s m and well ro ed a s n whole o e , he never lets his tendency to humor degrade his schola stic dignity o r lower hi s self- respect o r cause hi m t o make culpa ble a tta cks upon 165 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE hi Hi and ar e a on s fellows . s wit humor str g as a r e r a t t o set, but kept duly subo din ed the loftier side o f a profo undly awakened m a a ent lity . But some ex mples will best a o hi an d - r show the cha r cter f s wit hum o , though it goes without s aying tha t the fun when tr ansferred t o cold type lacks some ’ thing tha t comes by way of Doc tor Hyde s i t a n i a inim ble look a d p ecul r a ttitude . Only who o a ee those kn w him intim tely will s , de the a ma n in ac spite printed p ge , the tion ; and all such will find it by no me ans a dif ficult a t o ee n ot so m tter s the word coming, m the d a e as much fro printe p g , from the o f e m e Let sensitive lips Doctor Hyd hi s lf . memory lend but tri fling aid and o ld fri ends will re adily see the D oct or Hyde o f former days o nce more scintillating t o the a stonish m a ent nd delight o f as sembled a cquaintances . Students who ye ars a n d ye ars ag o had the s atisfa ction of being in his cla sses wi ll again th a o o f r o it s feel e exhil rati n the cla ss o m , entire atmos phe re p erme ated by D octor ’ n Hyde s ow r ich personality . One day in hi s eighty- fifth year he wa s o u t a r w lking . As he moved along b is kly, wi f he a ene th every indication o vigor, h pp d 166

AMMI BRADFORD HYDE humilia tion an d regrets ; but without the a o f ri a D slightest tr ce ir t tion , the octor “ a su vely remarked, When I entered this ” h n i a at was ow s sat . pew th t felt, but it in A ha ppy faculty that o f displa cing anger wi th hum-o r ! And the lady wa s duly c om forted and resto red t o her wonted ea se .

on who ea o f Subsequently, e h rd the inci in e on an dent Grace Church , urg d by irre “ e No w s a t o . pressible curiosity, id Dr Hyd , , ” did y ou re ally say that ! To which b e r e “ ’ ” m the chr s anthe mum ! j oined, I like y He had power t o ma ke light of ser ious things when t hey pertained t o himself . a e a hi A fter s hort illness with rysipel s , in s

- e a a eighty s cond ye ar, he appe red in ch pel n a a fo r had a d wa s wa rmly ppl uded, there been general anxiety as t o the p o ssible ou t

f hi cltam o r ed come o s s ickness . The students f r a a n a a s o word, d the Doctor spoke bout “ follows : I tha nk y ou kindly fo r your ple as

s i ha d so f c on ant greet ng . I me di ficulty, I i e was n c s . fess , my re ent illne s I suppos I r a u a ui on eally pretty sick . I ct lly felt q te the b (bum wa s at that time a slang syn o ” r ym fo r be1 ng 1n dire stra its ) ragged edge ! Tho se who wer e students in hi s clas ses 168 WIT AND HUMOR had abundant oppor tun ity t o di scover the en

- i ti re gamut of hi s fun ma king pro cl vities . He co uld meet any situation with a delicious m bit of hum or o r a tinge o f s arca s . One da the y the boys , previous to going into a d t o h Greek cl ss , agree cross t eir legs in a an a nd a o the s me m ner ch nge position , cr ss m ing an d recrossing at the s a e instant . Like well - drilled soldiers they proceeded to carr y h a out their concoc ted scheme . After lf the had a s a hour p ssed , the profe sor, noting th t h wa s m r d t ere s o ething preconce te , ventured “ w i a m h a : m ith apprec tive e p sis Gentle en , ! ” 3 c u seem to be un - kn ees - y today A n d the j okers confessed themselves bested by their r h esourceful te ac er . He ha d u nli mi ted cap acity fo r proddi ng the a o f derelictions on p rt students , but his method precluded perm anent dislike on the a he m had am p rt of t victi . Once he ong his students a young chap of persis tent an d ex a h speratin g ca relessness . He never ad his a e an d ri s lesson prep r d , he exhibited surp ing fer ti lity in the m atter of excuses for his u n

he m n prep aredness . One day s ole nly a n o un ced that he ‘had ha d the misfortune t o hi s a lose book, whereupon the re dy pr ofess o r 169 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

i “ ’ a r e . a o u imp ssively que d, Mr Bl nk, y do n t av t r anslat ed do suppose it could h e been , ” yo u ! At another time it became incumbent upon him t o g o t o the rescue o f a sensitive lady

a n f hi -la te cher, o e o s cc borers . She besought i him t o rebuke a fr sky fellow who a nnoyed e t her by chewing gum in her cla ss s . Af er duly impressing upo n the young man the lar ri of g ing improp ety such conduct in cla ss , “ Doctor Hyde s aid t o him : Jo b e schewed Now ou o evil . , will y promise me up n your

‘ word of honor tha t y o u will eschew gum as ” o b e e ! The J esch w d evil penitent student, looking at the severe face that concea led an

a a e a e o o . inw rd mus ment, humbly gre d s o t d His aler tness t o student habits i s shown in refres hing style by the following incident a n n one A m nly fellow, ow in middle life a d ’ o f Doctor Hyde s staunchest fr iends and a a e o ne da a he rtiest dmir rs , y , with typic l t aba r t o a a s udent ndon, rema ked young l dy a s they were abo ut t o step inside the Greek “ r at e oom, 0 , I never look my Gr ek lesson ” till I st art from home ! App arently the r e ma r a he o nl ear o f la rk e c d y the the young dy, f r e m o whom alone it was intend d . Ti e 170

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e e e a s ott d room exp rienc . Thes rem rk were j e down by a young lady on the ma rgin o f her b a s e a th in Greek ook, they wer m de by e tr u t r i n s c o . a s e ot Their reli bility , th refore , open t o question

Char act er izati ons of c er t ain facts a bou t “ the Gr eek lang u ag e : Kind o f a r ag -bag ” tha t s econd a orist . Did y ou ever try t o pull a cat b ackward on the carpet ! Ev erything works a gainst ’ you ; but try it the other way and it s all i h r ght . S o with t e verb : work right with ” it . l m 14 1 99 A a s e o n 8 . C ss dis i s d April , p plau se at announcement tha t the cla ss would n ot ta f e a o be de ined o r r cit tion . The Doct r “ s aid : Ther e i s only o ne thing ple a s anter than t o recite in Greek ; and that i s not t o recite !”

‘ C oncer nrng tense o f a ve rb It must ” “ ” a a s e r be imperfect, s id M m ell M Ve y, “ r e i s remarked Doctor Hyde . Her pe pl xity ” ’ f in ten se ! (Did n t kn ow t ense o verb . ) Your Greek i s like ou r green pea s— g ot ” a chill ! ” He swe ars as de acons do ( regar ding 172 WIT AND HUMOR

of i o f Dr . Howe , the Un versity Denver, whose “ strongest o ath used to be k ai “ That is one of the ch a rms o f Greek ’ it s like the ri sing o f t he sun — always the

a a a . s me , yet lw ys new “ Greek on the blackboard like imm ortal m ” gleam s of t ruth across the dark botto less . Hint s r eg ar ding ina t t en ti on on t he p ar t “ of s tu den ts : Yo u notice Mamselle T I h t ought it wa s the window ra ttling . (A thrust at the young l ady fo r constant whi s h n ering t o er neighbor . ) “ ’ s am ha s a Now, here M selle who very ’ ” good p air o f e ars and di d n t he ar a thing . a — e r in c es T o M mselle C , who whispe s “ santly M amselle keeps the caldron boil

’ I m a a ou a a fr id y were dre ming, flo ting ” i n ir a a a . the , s iling on cloud “ ’ am v e a o n Now, M selle , you got your he d h ’ ” d ar e n t . your s oul ers , though you using it “ I am talking with this estimable person h m ” w o I a ddressed . “ Gen er all su es tiv e : a y g g Mild dvice , like rnilk - and- water poultice— s oft— prepa res the ” wa y for something h arder . T o a st udent un able to pr ocee d with 173 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE translation Time goes on even if y ou ’ do n t .

’ T o the cla ss on a day when the re citation “ was pa rticularly pros aic A s brillia nt t o ” da a s h y le ad buttons o a gray co at . “ Let the bucket down int o the well o f — h l a memory t e o d o ken bucket . “ a man hi s a e hi s If lost left h nd, th n right h ” and would be left . “ Who stole my m aple suga r ! Some on e

ha c ff - i i l s arried it o syrup t t ou s y . “ With reference to a difficult le sson : You ’ did n t put it on the fire e arly eno ugh : when anyt hing is t ough the wis e housekeeper puts ” i n t o ea rly . Assigning a lesson T ake down a s far ” a s your emotions and feelings will allo w . M2 9 h a 6 18 9 o ad a r On y , , D ctor Hyde ve y “ ’ n m bad cold , a d he rema rked I getting re ady t o sing double b a ss at the c onc ert t o ou a a r e night . Did y ever he r singing th t quired more effort on the pa r t o f the listener ” th an o f the perfo r mer ! With reference to a recitation period in “ a e t he afternoon My vener ble colleagu s , n d e off the Professor Russell a the r st, skim 174

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n ma e o u a dairy : o e y b quite dry, the ther q ite ” watered ! “ o o a s ha s s s na Y ur b ok, M m elle , ome pi l ” h compla int ( the boo k a d a broken back) . “ What wa s it that caused all o u r eyes t o be directed at Mamselle and o ur ea rs here

- ward ! It was a little t r ansla ti on when v we a e a a s a ms nl be ch ng d pl ces , if M elle sudde y ” l n am e n om e came ba d a d I bec ha ds . “ Before I was fo ur years old I g o t such a whipping I made the walls ring with my interj ection s “ ” Fighting i s a form of a ssociation ! ’ a ou r e - da M mselle , y running light to y , ’ i r a a l ke Mr . P itch rd s express w gon when ’ ’ there s n o trunk in it ; but t o -morrow y o u 11 ’ run like hi s wagon when there s a trunk ’ ” a n d o u a in it, y won t r ttle s o ! “ ’ Your engagements did n t allow lea rn hi B a a . ing little t ng like th t , Mr “ ’ Of course it s an augment ! Ho w could ” ou y doubt it, young skepti c ! “ ’ a t ad as if ou d Look it quite ste ily, y ” burn a hole in it ! “ ’ There s somethi ng in your elocution ’ tha t indicates that there s something absurd e B in my qu stion , Mr . 176 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE , THE MAN

AMMI BRA DF ORD HYDE is even yet a man o f a h a a a gre t p ysic l vigor . While of only ver ge he e the an d a size , poss sses energy endur nce f a m f o m ny a an o m o re st alwa rt bui ld . He h r k hi is as been ve y free from sic ness . T s du e a m a a Hi s l rgely to te per te h bits . thor ough self- control m anifests itself on his i hi m bod ly side a s well a s on s enta l side . He i s mo st judicious in the quantity an d variety f h He n d t a d the o foods e e ats . well u ers n s importance o f reg ularity and moderation ; an d so he ha s been notably immune from m any ailments that occa sionally annoy even

m an - the o st sturdy d long lived . In his eighty - fifth ye a r he rem arked that he wa s a uma i st ranger to rhe t sm . His five senses remained almost a s good

- un a s . as new til he w eighty three Then , hi s a a much to his regret, eyesight beg n to f il and has a him ; , though it gre tly interfered 177 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

a at e and with his ctivities , yet he is by n ur cu ltiva tion so optimistic that hi s closest as socia tes a r e ha rdly awa re that he ke enly feels m m a e the e barra ss ent . But he w s bl ssed with tr uly wonderful eyes ; fo r up t o the ag e of eighty-three he wa s ceas elessly busy with hi s an him a ni e l eyes d they served m g fic nt y . But failure o f sight interferes but little i i D- ub l e w th h s thoughts . o t ess it even int nsi fies the c n s o f hi s m a s and ri h e s edit tion ; , r r e hi a s a r e fu the mor , s ment l proce ses s o o and i a a well o rdered, s precise log c l, th t they rea dily t ake in and retain wha t i s rea d t o

e e e one r Aside from di mm d y sight, ma vels a hi He wa and c t s virility . lks erect with qui k step and climbs . long flights o f stairs unaided n a d with confidence . It seems little less than ac a t o hi s a mir ulous that , in ddition he vy work a r and a fo r e a in the cl ss oom, th t s venty ye rs , he should have found time fo r a mult it ude o f He t e and ac and o ther labors . wro pre hed e lectur d extensively . His i s a demo c ratic spirit of the noblest a ha s sort . Elsewhere ttention been directed t o hi s a ristocratic lineage ; but his immediate i H family were n humble circumstances . o w 178

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Among hi s recent services wa s the tea ch ’ o f a as a t the o m ing Bible cl s Children s H e , three - qua rters o f a mile from his residence a a a in University P rk, Color do . Regul rly ea ch Sunday afte r noon he walked t o the and a a a and a ll h a Home b ck g in , g ve a t e we lth o f his love t o the unfortunate wa ifs who e l t o hi s l t h n f l o for instruction . W o ca tell what seed he ha s sown in their yo ung heart s and wha t it means t o them fo r time and fo r eternity ! Small b o ys never ma ke hi m the s ubj ect o f n ridicule . No o e ever thinks of him as unappro achable o r a s desiro us o f seeking t o make those less lea rned feel their 1nferi o r He ity . a lways rega rds with ma rked t ol er anc e the opinions of others ; but such t ol er anc e i s never cha rged t o ba rrenness o f views o r la ck o f cour age in defen se o f his own He ll m “ convictions . be a rs with a en and a ccords them full opportunity t o s et fo rth their idea s . He i s excepti ona lly free from censori o u sn ess— a fault so c ommon pa rticula rly t o a who di f the ged, find it ficult t o view with pa tience the impulsiveness o f the young and of the imperfections the untrained. The 180

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experience o f extended p edagogic s er vice and fortified with discrimina ting insight into hu man h r a na ture , e never sh o ws i rit tion o r con o r s a t an e tempt disgu t y suggestion , how ver e r Fo r a def ctive o unfortunate . the most p rt he e e n li sits in dignifi d sil nce , a ab s orb ed s “ m n e a a a a . tener, lw ys welcom When he does s a i s t o a o a i r pe k, it s y s mething th t s wo th o one -e he a while . N ever wish s that would st y a a ca a he H w y be us e he is thorn in t flesh . e

- i s a s staunch a friend of the young and in 1 experi enced tea cher a s of the olde r tea cher of r n An o all a re a d reliable judgment . d s love him with unrestrained and sincere and

hearty affec tion . An other notewor thy cha r a cteristi c i s hi s - ho a e e aw s elf pois e . W th t knows him v r s him overwhelmed by the un expected ! No r i Hi ar s it mere bodily control . s wits e n the o quick a d p erfectly regul ated. On c ca sion of hi s eighty- four th birt hda y he and hi a ri s d ughter were dining with f ends , when a o lof e a r and a a cr wd n ighbors , dmire s , cqu int an oes inva ded the ho me where the dinner was i a a in progres s. The v sit was tot l surprise t o and a e o wa s a a of him, , lmos t b f re he w re a a n as nd wh t w s going o , he w surrounded a 182 THE MAN a speec h of congra tul ation wa s being m a de felicita ting him on hi s ripe old ag e and hi s To hi mo hon o rable ca reer . t s speech he st ha a ppily resp onded. His utter nces were hin a nd m e . odest , brief, p rtinent He t ks speaks so consta ntly in cla ssic phra se that he never needs t o m ake speci al efi o r t to spe ak ha s a plea sin gly an d even charmi ngly . He reverence fo r words an d select s them m ost

a a a . a a carefull y . He is lw ys re dy He lw ys foreca sts the possibili ty and therefore a c him qui ts self bec omingly . ha He is a ma rvel in conversation . He s tirelessly cul tivated the noble a r t . In college he belonged to a societ y tha t ha d regul ar me etings to pra ctice c onvers ation The kn owledge he p o ssess es is extensive an d

a Nor i s m . v ried . it erely bookish He loves m en has li a at . He intel gent ppreci ion of an d has a ea e hum an n ature , it been ever t ch r him ha s to instruct an d inspire . He never got out of touch with the lowly ; and so he c an talk with such delightful s implicity that the day laborer welcomes no other ma n more a a a a gladl y than him . He lw ys m n ges , with t o al ab o u t belittling himself, t k out those themes that ar e uppermos t in the tho ught of 183 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE

h h the ma n into whose company e a s fallen . Hi s choice o f phras e is thoroughly in keep ’ ing with the degree o f his hea rer s enlighten ha a e an d a a ment . He s th t nobl ex lted t ste th at induces one t o u se such language as will render the lis tener comfo rtable an d at the s ame time cha rm him and stir up his better

feelings and hi s worthier impulses . He converses readily an d to almost any a an hi a extent wh tever . He c both suit s he r ’ er s mo o ds and at the s ame time shift them a o f a e at will . With the h nd the ccomplish d musician he swee ps the stri ngs o f the hea r ’ er l r c s sou with O phic effe t . In a crowd he moves with enviable ea se one t o a a t a o fo r s from nother, never l ss ome r r humo ous o comfo rting observation . Often has the wri ter seen hi s ama zing ca p ability fo r engaging the a t tenti on o f o t hers in a well filled o e all t o o t ro m, wh re frequen ly even the f a n s best feel a p ainful paucity o ide s a d word , o r lessen their dignity by indulging in cheap ’

a . ea and rem rk Indeed, one s r l culture kind liness ar e often mos t sorely tes ted under such circumstances ; but seldom ha s o u r friend failed t o com e ou t o f the o cca sion with the i genuine admir at on o f tho se present ; an d 184

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a a a . a o p nion s Fr nklin In like m nner, th se who know Ammi Bradford Hyde will doubt less agree tha t tempora ry isola tion from the res t o f the world would prove a choice pri vi lege , if the time could be occupied in conver sation with such a con summate ma ster o f the excellent ar t of lofty convers ation . No r s hould hi s courtly manners be pa ssed u nm n i- n i a e e t o ed. He s perfect Lord Ch ster He i a a a t o a fo r field . s lw ys re dy step side a i i a nother . He s w lling to w it till others a e i h v uttered the r opinions . He knows s omething of wha t it i s to let the o c ca sion seek the man and n o t the man the occa sio n . He ha s the fin e and unaffected manners of His o e s the thorough gentlema n . p lit ne s never engenders in others a feeling of un a r s n o t a e siness o lo at hing . But this doe me n tha t he is altogether repos eful and e asy

” in f r i ear o s n ot . in h g , he He often seems iff an a o a s o st d physic lly c nscious , not bly in hi s public deliver ances ; bu t he has the far more desirable ea se— that o f ma ster y o f the

! intellectual side o f the situation . And it surely i s more desirable t o be a ble t o say something w ith cert ainty and effectiveness and composure of mi nd tha n t o be “an adept 186 THE MAN in the polished manners of the dancing mas

t . ter , coupled with emp iness of thought And so his courtli ness o f be ari ng is a courtliness based upon ca pacity fo r uttera nce pregnant with thought an d a lively rega rd fo r f o f c the feelings o o thers . A pupil Do tor Hyde once did him the honor to say of him a a an a a a and o f th t, fter cqu int nce in out the cla ss room extendi ng over a period o f twenty a n o t a a ye rs , she could rec ll single inst ance where he had spoken rudely o r in any wi se disrespectfully t o anybody o r o f a nybody in her An presence . d this testimony embodies the e n f h art a d soul o his cour tesy . n of a c on se Nothi g, however, is gre ter qu en ce in his life tha n his o verwhelming de hi s c o r sire t o be useful . It shows itself in respondence with his fami ly whil e he was ui a purs ng his college course . The re der need but revert to the letters that a pp ear earlier and a i a in this story . Ever non he ind c tes that his domina ting thought is Ich dienf ( I r se ve ) . His life is not a sto r y o f seeking a dvance ha s a a a a ment . He not ppe red nxious bout ear a ning a l rge s ala ry, though such desire m i He has a a ay b e per fectly legit mate. lw ys 187 AMMI BRADFORD HYDE la bo red fo r exceedingly modest remunera tion an d could doubtless have don e much bett er ; bu t hi s prime thought ha s al ways b een t o give his best effort t o the educational insti t u ti on wa s a ed where he eng g . With him the di scovery o f truth and the rescue of less trained minds from the bonds o f 1 gn o r an ce an d the gall o f iniquity have been the direct in an d a a r a h l g nim ting conside tion . He a s a a ha d o m ha a w ys the pen ind , he s lways been a e ha s a a ccessibl , he lw ys given himself freely t o m hi lo t w H h those with who s as cas t . e a s always enterta ined a vivid conception of ’ i a t o a c — Chr st s l rge lesson the r e SERVICE .

ha s ade - He never m honor seeking first . What honor he ha s received ha s c ome t o him in the of hi s ser v 1 ce an d o ha s n course , s come u d and h s . sullie shining wit its proper. lu ter In him the Thirte enth Chapter o f First a n d a Corinthi ns fi s fit abiding place . Tho ugh “ he a t the of m en an d of spe ks wi h tongue , ” a s he i s n o t o un r ngel , s di ng bra ss o tink ling mb a fo r he ha s c a do cy l ; h rity . En wed with se er- like vision an d richly bles sed with faith

a ha s he i n o th t brought results , s zero thro ugh a o f a ri His is the l ck ch ty . s pirit tha t would hi s to ee the oo -r n h give goods f d p , a d he as 188

AMMI BRADFORD HYDE is fitting devoti on t o manifes t t o o u r loved ri ones . And I urge thy f ends so t o cherish thy memor y tha t the-y may clea ve r ather t o the fo r m an d figure o f thy s oul tha n t o the — form !and figure o f t hy body n o t t ha t I think that we ought n ot t o rega rd the likene ss a e o f ma e o r r a th ma m d rbl b onze ; but, s e hu n i un nd countena nce s enduring a peris ha ble , so t he likene ss there of i s unenduring and t he a o f s i s peris hable . But f shion the oul las ting— which thou cans t n ot shado w fo r th and decla re through fo reign substances and ’ s o own a by culptor s skill , but thr ugh thy ch r acter .

And all these qualities of b ody an d mind so unite as t o produce in Ammi Bra dford

- ri Hi s Hyde well rounded Ch stia n cha racter . i s a tia k a work ble Chris nity, prompting indly utterances about hi s fellow-man and ena bling a he him t o rema in in unbroken calm . D ily i a lives a s if t were his la st . Daily he w lks ll f a ha s a o r . with Go d. De th lost terrors him “ ’ Once he said t o t he wri ter : Do n t be t o o f r l anxious abo ut a la rger ho us e o a whi e . One fine day I shall j ourney ou t t o Fa ir ” 1 n mount, and then y o u ca take my ho us e . When hi s eighty-fourth bir thday anni

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was c o f v er sar y came round , he the re ipient i ne arly a hundred letters o f congratulat on . The se letters came from every s ecti on o f

Am er ica and from many notable people . The letters a r e rich in tri butes that ar e most appropr iate in an a ttempted ana lysis o f ’ A mmi Bra dford Hyde s character . The reader will do ubtless welc ome some o f these letter s

e a ar Dr w Theologic l Semin y,

a di s . M on , New Jersey

- ea . I a a a D r Dr Hyde , h ve just le rned th t t o - o r h a a nd a dd morrow is y u birt d y, I beg to my congr at ulations and felicitations t o the a o u a m ny whi ch y will receive . I h ve known o f ou fo r a ea an d a had fo r y m ny y rs , h ve you n fi i n the highest esteem a d a ect o . Bishop A ndrews frequently spoke to me o f yo u an d of the no table work which y o u have been a ea a doing these m ny y rs . Your pr ise is lit ll ll er a a a . o u y in l nds The Church h nors y o , b n o sa ou a o u . M th u nds less y d love y ay Go d give you yet ma ny o ther ye ars ! o af ti a Y urs fec on tely, Z B A R IP P E SQU IE T LE .

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1 3 0 . o a . Eliot St , Milt n , M ss 1 9 a 9 90 . M rch ,

a d . . . Ammi Br dfor Hyde , S T D a — I a a e ou on My de r brother, congr tul t y a 84 ha e a re ching your th birthda y . I v ple s ant me mo ri es o f yo u in Wes leyan University in the a 1844 - 1845 b t o ye rs . We were ound g ether by a threefold b ond— the s ame Public o c the s a - t n S iety, me Greek le ter Frater ity , n the d a d same Church . We ha ve surv ive i a l f m ny nob e comp an ons o thos e da ys . I rea ched my 84th birthday o n the 5th o f las t ou ma o a s October . I hope y y enj y the ye r a o s ea a much as I do . I find j y un p k ble in i Chr st Je sus . e a a et Yours with th Abiding P r cl e , A NI T D EL S EELE .

C en t r al Chr is tian A dv o cat e M, a as o . K ns City, e — I a a a . a s t t De r Dr Hyd , h ve your feet fo r so many yea rs ; I have be en n otingMyour work in the P it ts bu r g h A dv o ca t e a nd eth o dis t R ev i ew fo r s o long ; I ha ve be en forced t o see that perenn ial youth a nd keen wit and r n d a c a e - fo r ipe wi sdom , a ex lted , be us self g etfu l character— fo rced t o s ee them because there wa s - n othing else t o be seen ; tha t it is a pleas ure th at stirs my deepest life t o wri te o f a o u fo r y u o r your birthday . I th nk y your on and fo r ha an d influence myself , t t long maj estic influence y o u have had on the 192

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What jo y must s uch tri butes bring t o a in hi s latter days ! Ammi B r adford n and on an o n and a Hyde will live o d ; , s force once exerted in the physical world is n o hi s ever lo st, s work will be reflected in the f a t t o lives o thous nds ye be . THE MAN

The following poem is fresh from the f a and ea o . n hand nd head h rt Dr Hyde , a d was called out by the appro ach of the i 3th of

1912 - a M arch , , his eighty seventh birthd y

A MORNIN G ALL THE W Y .

I sit b eneath t he w est ering su n While lengthening sha do ws e astwar d fall ' h m ife has r u n I tr a c e t he p at y l ,

- n ll A nd c lear ey ed m em o r y sc a s it a .

The st ar tha t led fr o m p rim al ni ght - ff b o r n That far o day when I w a s ,

a s m ed er enni a c a m an b ri h H o v p l , l d g t , n T o her ald a c o nti u o u s m o r n .

Fr e h-b r ea h n dew a nd erfu me r s t i g s p s ise, ’ D awn ee o er dawn c o m n o n p ps , still i g , St ar s fa de o u t fr o m t he war min g skies

B efo r e a n ever c o min g su n .

The Pl ans Divine n ew s c o p e u nfo ld; Man a n n w a h em n e w e c e e dar , ki g , i v t s ;

h b ac war d b ea min ld t h l Lig t , k g , gi s e O d. ’ n h n Na u r e b u w er ea far e . U it i g , t s ty s

We wa r d r n a n a z e No N h ! st I tu d g . ig t

D awn fa r a nd fa n w h r o r a i t , it sy y B eto kens still t he gr o wing light Tha ea d t h w de D e er na a . t l s i , Et l y

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