The M. A. C. RECORD. 

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE. 

V O L.  8. 

L A N S I N G,  M I C H I G A N,  T U E S D A Y,  J U LY  14,  1903. 

N o.  39 

C O M M E N C E M E NT 
EXERCISES. 

year,  1903,  he  was a  second 
time 
placed  in  the  position  he  had so 
long  adorned. 

T he  commencement  exercises  of 
1903  were  of  special  significance be 
cause  of  the fourteenth  triennial  re 
union  of  M. A. C. alumni,  many of 
whom  succeeded  in returning  to  the 
old  College  for  the  occasion.  O w 
ing  to  the  desirability  of  getting  a 
full  and accurate  account  of  the pro 
ceedings  of  alumni  day, the  report 
of  the alumni  exercises  has been de 
layed. 

T he  orators  representing  the  dif 
ferent  courses  did  not wish  their  ora 
tions  to  be  published  and  conse 
quently  these  are not at  hand. 

T he  commencement  program  held 
in  the armory  J u ne  18th  was  as  fol 
lows: 

Selection,  College  Cornet  Band. 
Invocation,  R e v.  Morton  D.  Car 

rel. 

Violin  solo,  Souvenir  de  H a y d n, 

Leonarde,  Miss  Florence  Birdsall. 

Address,  W o m an  and the  Social 
Settlement,  Miss  Bessie  Buskirk, 
(  Women's 

Course). 

Address,  Evolution  and  Agricul 
(Agricul 

ture,  James  G.  Moore, 
Course). 
tural 

Address,  T he  Evolution  of  the 
Small  Motor,  Burr  Wheeler,  ( M e 
chanical  Course). 

Vocal  Solo,  Madrigal,  Victor 

Harris,  M r.  David  D u g g a n. 

Address,  W hy  We  Use  Machin 
(Editor 

ery,  Mr.  Fred  J.  Miller, 
American 

Machinist). 

PRESENTATION  OF  THE  WELLS1 
PORTRAIT. 

At 

this  point  in  the  program  a 
large oil  portrait  of the H o n.  F r a n k 
lin  Wells,  president  of  the  State 
Board  of  Agriculture  was  brought 
to  the front  of  the stage  and  placed 
on  an  easel.  D r.  Edwards,  chair 
man  of  the Wells  portrait  commit 
tee,  then  presented  the  portrait  to 
the  College  in the following  words: 
"  T he  hour  is  now  late,  an3  I  do 
not  desire  to tax the patience  of  this 
audience,  yet it  seems  necessary  to 
say  a few words  in  explanation  of 
the  circumstances  under  which  this 
portrait  has  come  into  existence. 

" In 

that 

the  year  1873,  Governor 
Bagley  appointed  to  the  Michigan 
State  Board  of  Agriculture 
the 
H o n.  Franklin  Wells,  of  Constan-
time  until  the 
tine.  F r om 
present  day, a stretch  of  over  thirty 
years,  Mr.  Wells  has  been  a  mem 
ber  of the  controlling  board  of  this 
this  all.  T he 
College.  N or  is 
Board  of  Agriculture  was  organized 
in  1861.  Curiously  enough,  almost 
from 
its  very  birth  the  name  of 
Wells  has been  that  of the President 
of  this board  throughout  some thirty-
three  years.  On the organization of 
the  board  in  1861 J u d ge  Hezekiah 
G.  Wells,  of  Kalamazoo,  was  ap 
pointed  on  the  board, and  in 1866 
became  its  president,  holding  the 
office  until  his death  in  1883.  At 
that 
time,  in  recognition  of  the 
zeal, earnestness,  and  far-sightedness 
that  he had  displayed  in the  affairs 
of  the College,  M r.  Franklin  Wells 
was  elected  president  of  the  board. 
He  remained  president  until  1899, 
and  at the beginning  of  the present 

to  give 

D u r i ng  all these  years  of  service, 
Mr.  Wells  has  displayed  a  degree 
of  devotion  to  the  best  interests  of 
the  College,  a  purity  of  purpose, 
time  and 
a  willingness 
anxious 
thought  to  its  business,  a 
keen  business  sense  in the  financial 
affairs  of  the  College,  a  broad 
ness  and  clearness  of  conception 
and  a  firmness  and steadfastness of 
purpose  in regard  to the design  and 
policy  of the  College,  that  has  met 
with  general  and hearty  recognition. 
Especially  have  these  qualities  ap 
pealed 
throughout 
these  years  have  been  brought  most 
closely  into  contact  with  the man and 
have  most 
intimately  k n o wn  his 
work.  His  is not a character  which 
trumpets  itself  to the world,  but  it is 
that  by its  modesty,  integrity, 
one 
forcefulness,  and  kindliness  attracts 
and  firmly  holds  the highest  respect 
and  esteem  of  his associates. 

to  those  w ho 

In  view  of  these  facts  friends  of 
Mr.  Wells  here  at  the  College  and 
--elsewhere  have  caused  to be  painted 
by  Prof.  W. S. Holdsworth,  of the 
College,  this  portrait,  and have  pur 
chased  it  with  the  view  of  placing 
it  at  the  College  as  a  permanent 
memorial  of thirty  years  of  unselfish 
and  fruitful  public  service.  More 
over,  as a memento  of  the  occasion, 
the  donors  have  caused  to  be  pre 
this  album  containing  auto 
pared 
graphs  of  the  contributors 
to  the 
Wells  portrait 
fund,  and  photo 
graphs  of  associates  on the Board of 
Agriculture  from 
the  earlier  days 
down  to  n o w.  In  behalf  of  the 
friends  w ho  have  planned  and  made 
possible  this  testimonial  of  esteem  I 
take  great  pleasure  in  presenting  to 
the  College 
this  portrait  of  the 
Hon.  Franklin  Wells,  of  Constan-
tine;  and to M r.  Wells  himself,  this 
album. 

P R E S T.  S N Y D E R 'S  A C C E P T A N C E. 

On  behalf  of the College, I  accept 
this  picture  of  M r.  Wells,  and 
promise  to the donors  that  it  will be 
given  a conspicuous  position  in  one 
of  our halls,  and be carefully  guard 
ed  from  harm. 

This  occasion  is unique  in the his 
tory  of  the College,  or  in  the  his 
tory  of an}' other  public  institution. 
It  is very  rarely  that  a good  man  is 
permitted  to serve  as a  member  of a 
board  of  control  for  thirty  years. 
T h e re  are not  many  men  endowed 
with  such  natural  ability  and with 
such  genius  for work  as  to  entitle 
continuous  service. 
them  to  such 
But  above  all,  men  are few  indeed, 
w h o,  endowed  with  the capacity for 
such  high  service,  are  willing  to 
give  the  time  and  make  the sacrifice 
compensation.  Do  you 
without 
realize  what 
thirty  years  of  such 
service  means?  Could  all his work 
for  the College  be grouped  into one 
period  it  would  mean  more 
than 
three  years  of  time.  H ad  all his 
trips  to and from  the College  been 
spent  in  one  continuous 
journey  it 
would  have  carried  him twice  around 
the  world.  But  the  labor  of  the 
days  spent  in actual  service  is  small 
in  comparison  with 
thought, 
worry,'  and  anxiety  for  the  institu 

the 

tion  carried  by him, day  and  night, 
for  these  many  years.  F or  every 
body  w ho  knows  Franklin  Wells 
knows  that  his own  personal  busi 
ness  was never  closer  to  his  heart 
than  the interests  of  this  institution 
have  been.  We  all  know  how 
faithful  he  has  been  to  the  trust 
committed  to his  charge,  and what 
valuable  service  he has rendered  this 
College.  W hy  not  tell  him so? 
We  all  admire  and love  him because 
he  is honest,  because  he is  courage 
ous,  kind-hearted  and  true.  W hy 
not  tell  him  so? 

Those  of us w ho  know  him  well 
understand  that  while  the  memory 
of  this  day  will  be very  pleasant  to 
him,  yet  he  does  not enjoy  hearing 
us  say  these  things.  But I  know 
no  one to blame  for  it  but  himself. 
Had  he  performed  his  tasks  in  an 
tired 
ordinary  way—had  he  gotten 
or  discouraged  or decided  to  use all 
his  time  in  his  private  business, we 
would  not  feel  it  our  duty  to say 
these  things  of him  now. 

But  we  wish  him to  know 

that 
we  do not praise  him  today  for his 
long  service  nor for his efficient  ser 
vice;  but we do admire  and  applaud 
him  today  because  of  those  qualities 
of  manhood  which  have  made  such 
service  possible.  We  congratulate 
today  and  sincerely  trust  that 
him 
he  may  serve 
this  college  as the 
honored  president  of  its  board  of 
control  for many  years  to come. 

"  Honor and reverence and the good repute 
That  follows faithful  service as its fruit. 
Be unto him whom living we salute." 
As  the last  word  was spoken  the 
audience  arose  enmasse  and a  sea  of 
white  handkerchiefs  fluttering  above 
the  heads  of  the  audience 
testified 
more  emphatically  than  words  can 
express  the  good  will  everybody 
felt  toward  M r. Wells. 

At  the conclusion  of the  presenta 
tion  the  graduating  class 
received 
their  diplomas  and the  benediction 
closed  the commencement  exercises. 
T he  portrait  of M r. Wells,  painted 
by  Prof.  Holdsworth 
is  a  half 
length  canvas,  29x36  inches.  M r. 
Wells, as represented  in the portrait, 
is  sitting  in  an  arm  chair,  holding 
his  spectacles  in  the  right  hand. 
T he  position  is  a  natural  and  easy 
one.  T he  drawing  is  very  good, 
and  the face  is well  modelled;  life-
likeness,  the chief  thing  sought  for 
by  Prof.  Holdsworth  being  attained. 

announcing 

On  Friday  morning,  the  third 
inst.,  t he  College  community  was 
much  surprised  on  the receipt  of  a 
the  sudden 
telegram 
death  of M r. Wells.  No intimation 
had  been  given  of his illness,  and  as 
he  was in the  best  of  health  when 
in  attendance  at  t he College  during 
commencement  week,  the sad news 
was  entirely  unexpected.  We have 
learned  later  that  he was  not well  a 
few  days  previous 
to  his  death. 
N o t h i ng  serious,  however,  was ap 
prehended.  His  troubles  seemed  to 
be  rheumatism,  for  which  he re 
ceived 
from  his  family 
physician.  He was about  the house 
during  the day, read  his  paper  in 
the  evening  and  retired  as  usual. 
About  1130 his daughter,  Mrs. R a d-
ley,  heard  him moving  about  in his 

treatment 

room.  Upon  inquiry  he stated  that 
he  had a severe  pain  in  his  chest. 
immediately  sent  her  son for 
She 
the  doctor.  S he  then  returned  to 
his  room.  He  looked  u p,  smiled 
and  passed  away  before  the  doctor 
arrived.  T he 
funeral  was  held 
afternoon.  T he  faculty 
Monday 
was  represented  by  the  following 
persons: 
President  Snyder,  D r. 
Beal,  Prof.  Taft,  Prof. Smith.  Prof. 
Kedzie  and M r, Gunson.  T he  ser 
vices  were  conducted  by the R e v. 
pastor. 
Mr.  Schmits,  a 
President  Snyder  and  D r. Beal  also 
spoke  briefly  of  his association  with 
the  College. 

former 

FACULTY  RESOLUTIONS. 

W H E R E A S,  the  news  comes  to  us 
that  the  H o n.  Franklin  Wells  of 
Constantine,  Michigan,  President of 
this 
the  Board  of  Agriculture  of 
College,  has passed  into  the life  that 
is  beyond,  therefore  be  it, 

Resolved, 

that  w e, the  Faculty  of 
the  Michigan  Agricultural  College, 
do  recognize  and deeply  deplore the 
great  loss  that  the College  and the 
State  have suffered  in his death;  that 
we  offer  the  tribute  of  sincere  ad 
miration  and  gratitude  for  a  life 
beautiful  in  its  simple  modesty, yet 
commanding  in  its  sturdy  wisdom 
and  forcefulness;  and that  we  would 
especially  emphasize  our 
strong 
appreciation  of  his  long-continued, 
unselfis-h  and  fruitful  service  on  the 
controlling  board  of  this  College, a 
service  continued 
thirty 
consecutive  years,  and one of  which 
it  may be  said 
that  no  man  ever 
gave  to a public  interest  more  earn 
est 
thought,  more  conscientious  de 
votion  or  more  absolute  singleness 
and  purity  of  purpose. 

through 

Resolved, 

further  that  we  extend 
to  the bereaved  family  our  heartfelt 
sympathy  in  their  great  affliction, 
while  we at the same  time  rejoice in 
the  legacy  the deceased  has  left  to 
them,  to the  young  men and  women 
of  the College,  to the  members  of 
his  home  community,  and  to  hosts 
of  warm  friends  all  over  the  state; 
viz.—the  memory  of  a  beautiful 
home  life,  of  beneficent  activity  in 
the  affairs  of  the  community  and 
commonwealth,  of  devoted  and in 
corruptible  public  service. 

FINANCIAL  STATEMENT OF 
THE  WELLS  PORTRAIT 
FUND. 

June 27,  1903. 

RKCKIPTS. 
Total subscriptions collected  .  .  .  $229.50 
DISBURSEMENTS. 

J1.50 
.  .  1.00 
7 25 
3.90 

Paper for album 
Lettering on album  .  . 
Making negatives from  photos 
Photographic plates 
Making prints from  negatives  14  10 
Binding album 
Postage 
Postage and car fare 
Expenses  of artist to Constan 

4.00 
2.70 
.50 

tine and return, with board .  8.55 
Artist's work in making portrait  150 00 
36.00 
Frame  for portrait 

Signed by the committee, 

$229 50 

HOWARD  EDWARDS, 
C.  D.  SMITH, 
W. J.  BEAL. 

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TUESDAY, 

JULY 

14,  1903. 

Mrs.  C.  J.  Monroe,  wire  of  H o n. 
C.  J.  Monroe  of  the  State  Board  of 
Agriculture,  died  of  heart  failure  at 
her  home,  South  Haven,  Monday 
morning,  J u ne  22nd. 
A l t h o u gh 
Mrs.  Monroe  had  previonsly  exper 
ienced  some  slight 
indications  of 
heart  trouble  her  sudden  death  came 
as  a  surprise  and 
to  her 
friends. 

shock 

Mrs.  Monroe  was  born  in  Albion, 
Mich., J u ne  15th,  1844,  her  maiden 
In 
name  being  Hattie  Morehouse. 
the  winter  of  1852  she  came 
to 
South  Haven,  and  at  the  time  of  her 
death  was  its  oldest  resident. 

On  December  18th,  1866, she  was 
married  to  M r.  Monroe,  five  chil 
dren  being  born  to  them,  Stephen 
B .,  George  C,  Cora  J .,  Lucy  E ., 
and  Charles  O.,  all  of  whom  survive 
her  with  the  exception  of  Cora,  w ho 
as  the  wife  of  William  Shakespeare, 
J r .,  died  in January,  1901. 

Mrs.  Monroe  obtained  her  educa 
tion  in  the  schools  of  South  Haven 
and  in  the  State  Normal  school  at 
Ypsilanti,  which  she attended  during 
She  was  a 
the  year  1864-65. 
woman  of 
ideals  and  was 
prominent  in  many  organizations  in 
her  home  city. 

large 

T he  funeral  service!  were  held 
from  the  home  and  from  the  Con 
gregational 
afternoon,  J u ne  22nd.  Hon.  F r a n k 
lin  Wells  of  Constantine,  Pres. J.  L. 
Snyder,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Gunson 
were  in  attendance. 

church  Wednesday 

ADDRESS  OF  PRESIDENT 
A.  G. GULLEY, '68,  TO 
THE  ALUMNI. 
Alumni  and  Friends  of  the  Michi 

gan  Agricultural  College:— 

We  have  assembled  for  this  our 
reunion  almost  exactly 
fourteenth 
one-third  of  a  century  later  than  this 
association  held  its  first  public  ex 
ercises.  To  those  familar  with  the 
situation  at  the  time  there  are  points 
of  resemblance  between  the  two  oc 
casions  that  are  of  peculiar  interest, 
and  are  an  assurance  of  continued 
prosperity  to  the  old  College. 

T h e re  are  those  present  who  can 
remember  when  it  seemed  doubtful 
if  it  would  be  deemed  an  honor,  in 

first  public  meeting  of 

the  future,  to  be  known  as  an  alum 
the  Agricultural  College. 
nus  of 
the 
T he 
just  at  what 
Alumni  was  held 
seemed  to  be  a  favorable 
turn  of 
the  College. 
public  sentiment  for 
T he  first  special  appropriation 
for 
more  buildings  since  the  opening  of 
the  College  had  been  made,  and  that 
too  only  two  years  after 
the  annual 
appropriation  for  running  expense 
had  passed  the  House  by  the  bare, 
necessary  51  votes. 

reach 

a  million  of 

T h at  same  year  also  the  first  sale 
the  land 
of  land  was  made  toward 
and 
grant  endowment.  Students 
graduates  were, 
comparatively, 
rapidly  increasing  and  the  success  of 
the  college  seemed  assured.  P r e 
vious  doubts  as  to  our  standing  were 
largely  removed, and  we felt  justified 
in  announcing  ourselves  as  represen 
tatives  of  the  College,  and  believers 
in  its  system  of  education.  Yet  the 
man  would  have  been  an  optimist 
indeed  who  would  have  ventured 
even  then,  to  assert  that  the  College 
would  ever  have  500  students  at 
once,  or  that  the  land  grant  would 
ever 
dollars, 
and  he  would  have  been  deemed  an 
imbecile  beyond  recovery,  to  have 
expressed  an  opinion  that  the  state 
would  ever  give  this 
institution  a 
regular  income  of  $100,000.00  per 
year.  Today  we  meet  with  all 
these  as  established  facts,  and 
the 
little  group  of  forty  increased  to  over 
900. 
the 
increase  of  students  has  also  been 
far  beyond  all  previous  figures,  and 
the  College 
graduating 
classes  exceeding  half  the  attendance 
of  thirty  years  since.  T he  problem 
of  the  College  finances  is  settled  for 
some 
time  to  come,  and  it  is  evi 
dently  taking  a  new  start  for  still 
that  recipient 
greater  success.  To 
of  doubtful  honors  of  years  ago  it  is 
particularly  pleasing 
that 
men  from  the  Michigan'Agricultural 
College  holding  these  same  honors 
are  now  to  be  found  in  nearly  half 
of  the  over  sixty  similar  institutions 
in  America,  and  through 
its 
influence  is spread  over  the  continent. 
One  has  to  reside  outside of  the  state 
the  standing  which 
to  fully  realize 
the  College  has  among  Others  in  the 

last  meeting 

Since  our 

to  note 

is  now 

them 

to 

the 

that 

in  the  agricultural  course  in  1885. 
agricultural 
Up 
time 
in 
course  was  the  only  one  offered 
the 
the  College.  Since  that 
time 
number  has  been 
less,  but  never 
greater  in  regular  course  students  in 
the  agricultural  department. 

Is  this  to  be  attributed  to the  popu 
larity  of  the  other  courses  or  to  the 
dislike  of  agricultural  lines of  work? 
This 
latter  . reason  probably  does 
account,  in  part,  for  the  decrease  of 
students  during 
the  agricultural  as 
well  as  financial  depression  of  '93  to 
'97;  but  that  is  passed  and  should 
have  no  effect  at  present. 

H a ve  the  short  courses  tended  to 
draw  from  what,  otherwise,  might 
have  been  regular  course  students ? 
T he  attendance  at  those  courses  has 
rapidly  increased  and  this  effect  has 
been  noticed  in  other  states.  Those 
•  courses  are  productive  of  much  ben 
is  necessary  to 
efit,  but  great  care 
prevent  them  from  drawing  or  de 
tracting  from 
the  prominent  work 
of  the  college. 

to 

fund 

Is  it  possible  that  the  standard  of 
admission  has  been  placed  so  high 
in  order  to  have  men  that  could  fit 
themselves  properly  for  the  degree 
in  the  four  years'  time,  that  the  re 
quirements  have  been  placed  above 
the  reach  of  students  who  naturally 
would  take  such  a  course? 
If  so, 
then  the  recent  addition  of  a  year  to 
the  time  given  to  some  to  graduate 
should  soon  produce  favorable 
re 
It  is  certain  that  in  this  Col 
sults. 
teach 
lege  which  was  founded 
science  and  practice, 
agricultural 
and  which 
is  so  munificently  en 
dowed  by  the  United  States  Land-
grant 
for  the  same  purpose, 
receiving 
the  number  of  students 
that  education  should  not  fall  below 
that  of  the  other  departments. 
Perhaps  the  young  men  of 

today 
do  not  realize  the  change  in  situation 
which  has 
recent 
years.  Many  of  the  older  graduates 
upon  leaving  'college  could  not  fol 
low  agriculture  from  lack  of  capital, 
and  were  forced  to  take  up  other 
branches  of  business  which  promised 
greater  immediate  financial  returns. 
Later  many  of  them  took  up 
the 
profession  which  the  Agricultural 
College  directed.  T h e re  is  now  no 
need  of  students  avoiding  the  agri 
cultural  course  through  fear  of  not 
being  able  to  obtain  profitable  em 
ployment  upon  leaving  college. 
In 
the  older  states  at  least  there  is  a 
from  being  supplied, 
demand,  far 
for  trained  young  men  to take  charge 
of  farms  fully  equipped  for  business, 
the  only  requirements  being 
that 
they  shall  be  intellectually  and  prac 
the  work.  This 
tically 
same  opening  has  probably  already 
been  developed  to  some  extent  in 

taken  place  in 

fitted 

for 

same  class  of  education,  and  the 
place  occupied  by  its  men  in  indus 
trial  educational  work. 

While  it  is  pleasing  to  know  that 
for  years  the  general  course  of  edu 
cation  at  the  College  has  been  such 
as  to  enable  a  man  to  train  himself 
to  succeed  in  almost  any  profession, 
there  is  a  special  satisfaction  to  the 
advocate  of  agricultural  education  in 
the  fact  that  those  w ho  have  selected 
their  life's  work  along  lines  of  agri 
culture  in  any  of  its  branches  have 
been  markedly  successful. 
I  refer 
now  not 
to  teachers,  but  practical 
men.  To  illustrate,  the  only  native 
citizen  of  Connecticut  w ho  ever 
is  one 
graduated  at  this  institution 
of  the  most  prominent  of  the  dairy 
men  of  that  state.  Other  examples 
are  numerous  much  nearer. 

W i th  men  from  the  College  tak 
ing  such  a  prominent  place  in  agri 
culture,  it  is  difficult  to  understand 
w hy  the  agricultural  course  in  this 
institution  does  not  seem  to  enjoy 
the  full  share  of  the  general  pros 
perity,  that  is  as  to  the  number  of 
students.  T he  records  show 
that 
from 
the  close  of  the  civil  war  in 
1865  to  1875,  a  period  of  ten  years, 
the 
the  students  was 
about  70  per  cent.  During  the  next 
decade  there  was  a  still  further  gain 
of  55  per  cent.,  making  240  students 

increase  of 

THE  D0NSEREAUX  CLOTHING  &  GROCERY  CO'S 

M. fl. G. SPECIAL 
*m 

Is  now  being 

distributed  for  the  Opening  Sale  of 

DRY  GOODS, 

CLOTHING  AND  GROCERIES. — A 

special  sale  exclusively  for  the  College  and  College-

ville.  Be  sure  and  get  one  of  our  circulars. 

A.  M.  D0NSEREAUX. 

THE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

3 

M.  A.  C.  ALUMNI  — FOURTEENTH 

TRIENNIAL 

REUNION. 

cently  closed  his  long  labors  for  the 
College  that  it  is  yet  impossible  to 
realize  that  he  has  gone  from  us, 
will  stand  for  all  that  is  represented 
by  just,  upright  and  noble  manhood. 
Probably  no  man  ever  connected 
with  the  College  was  better  known 
throughout  the  state  than  Dr.  Ked-
zie;-certainly,  none  has  rendered  it 
greater  service. 

the 

life. 

It  is  to  be  regretted 

Some  of  the  men  first  mentioned 
were  connected  with  the  institution 
but  a  short  time,  yet 
influence 
exerted  at  that  time  was  of  special 
importance.  Several  attained  greater 
prominence  in  other  institutions  later 
that 
in 
the  portraits  of  all  of  them  cannot 
in 
be  added 
the 
to 
possession  of 
In  this 
College,  however,  is  absorbed  and 
represented  the  life  work  of  Presi 
dent  Abbot  and  Dr.  Kedzie,  and  to 
some  extent  it  will  be  considered  as 
a  monument  to 
their  memory,  by 
all  who  have  passed  under  their  in 
struction  and  influence. 

those  already 
the  College. 

In  giving  credit  to  those  names  of 
early  College  history  we  cast  no  re 
flection  upon  the  ability  of  the  many 
strong  men  who  have  followed 
in 
their  stead,  and  in  several  instances 
have  served  much 
longer  periods. 
But  theirs  was  pioneer  work,  lead 
ers 
in  a  new  education  with  no 
models  to  follow,  and  as  such  are 
their 
entitled  to  special  praise  for 
labors.  Except  President  Williams 
all were  permitted  to  live  to  see  their 
efforts  carried  to  an  assured  success. 
rapid 
increase  of  our  ranks  many  more 
will  return  directly  to  the  producing 
class,  with  their  influence  exerted  in 
favor  of  agricultural  pursuits.  F r om 
them  will  be judged  the  value  of  the 
If 
education  taught  at  this  College. 
this  judgment 
it 
remains  only  for  this  body  to  con 
tinue  as  faithful  and  loyal  in  the  fu 
ture  as  in  the  past, for  old  Yale  her 
thoroughly  loyal 
self  has  no  more 
the  College  will  re 
children,  and 

Brother  Alumni,  with 

is  favorable,  then 

the 

main  the  leading  exponent  of  scien 
tific  and  practical  education. 

I M P R E S S I O NS  OF  T HE 
H I S T O R I A N. 

C H A R L ES  H.  H I L T O N, 

'oo. 

for 

To  write 

the  history 

this 
Alumni  meeting  would  fall  natur 
than 
ally  to  some  older  Alumnus 
myself.  A  paper  of  greater  value 
to you  would  have been  forthcoming 
had  one  prepared  it  w ho  could  have 
brought  to  bear  in  that  preparation  a 
more  comprehensive  view  of 
this 
College,  its  own  peculiar  work  and 
influence 
to 
higher  education. 
I  have,  however, 
tried  to  touch  upon  some  features  of 
the  work  here  which  may  profitably 
engage  our  attention  at  this  time. 

in  matters  pertaining 

speak. 

Of  the  Alumni  themselves  I  deem 
it  unnecessary 
F r om 
to 
time  to  time  we  hear  of  each  other's 
work  and  success;  and  we  know 
the  body  of  our  number  is  giving 
excellent  account  of 
itself  while 
adding  glory,  honor  and  prestige  to 
our  Alma  Mater. 
I  take  it  that  the 
College  is the  centre  of  affection  and 
interest  today.  We  gather  from  the 
various  highways  and  paths  of  life's 
duties  and  cares  to  renew  allegiance 
to  old  M.  A.  C.  and  her  traditions. 
to  learn  of  conditions 
We  are  here 
existing  now  in  our  beloved  College 
and 
trend  of  its 
activities.  We  are  here  too  to  voice 
our  approval  of  work  faithfully  per 
formed  in  the  directing  of  the  insti 
tution's  development.  A  great  edu 
cational  work  is  being  carried  on  in 
this place, and  we  owe  it,  as  grateful 
appreciative  sons  and  daughters,  to 
bring  tributes  of  praise  and 
thanks 
the 
those  w ho  nobly  guide 
to 
destinies  of  this  College  and  who 
are  weaving 
their 
lives  and  the  strength  of  their  days. 
Let  not  one  be  forgotten. 

to  ascertain 

its  fabric 

into 

the 

T he  Alumni  of  this  College  can 
and  do exert  strong influence  over  the 

institution's  policies.-  Expression  of 
our  views  is opportune  at  these  meet 
ings, when  more can  be  accomplished 
toward  desired  ends 
than  at  any 
other  time.  Our  number  is  consid 
erable—a  total  of  906  with  a  new 
class  of  58,  the  largest  in  M.  A.  C.'s 
history,  added  this  year.  We  have 
towards 
the  opportunity  of  turning 
this  College  an  increasing 
tide  of 
the  best  students  the  country  over  if 
in 
we  will.  W i th 
mind  as  a  basis  I  shall  try  briefly  to 
direct  attention 
to  new  conditions 
and  growth  of  recent  years. 

thoughts 

these 

We  are  looking  for  changes  on 
the  campus  when  we  first  enter,  and 
I  am  frank  to  say  that  much  credit 
is  due  those  w ho  are  now  in  charge 
of  the  campus  and  its  management. 
Changes  made  are  adding  materially 
to  the  beautifying  and  unifying  of 
the  landscape,  while  at  the  same  time 
leaving  it  as  informal  as  possible. 
T he  campus 
itself  will  never 
cease  to  be  an  important  as  well  as 
a  pleasing  feature  of  this  College. 
•No  student  can  avoid  being  largely 
influenced  in  his  tastes  surrounded 
as  he  is  here  by  so  much  of  beauty 
and  dignity. 

in 

to  measure 

T u r n i ng  now 

the 
growth  and  value  of 
the  College 
some  difficulties  confront  us.  We 
have  material 
they 
are  unsatisfactory  at  best,  still  we 
must  use  them. 

standards,  but 

During  the  past  three  years  im 
portant  additions  have  been  made. 
T he  State's  new 
financial  policy 
relative  to  the  College  is  of  great 
assistance  in  that  it  insures  a  contin 
uous,  fixed  income,  which  provides 
for  current  expenses  and  gradual 
improvement  in  equipment.  Since 
last  meeting  the  women's  de 
our 
the 
in 
partment  has  been  housed 
new,  commodious,  elegantly 
ap 
pointed  hall.  T wo  new  laboratories 
have  been  built  and  equipped.  T he 
laboratory,  costing 
bacteriological 
as  well-
$40,000, 
in 
appointed  and  provided  as  any 

probably 

is 

Michigan.  T he  Agricultural  Col 
this 
lege  can,  and  should 
demand. 

supply 

the 

the 

T h e re  is  also  no  occasion  for  the 
anfbitious  young  man  to  select  other 
branches  of  business  or  profession 
to  have  greater  opportunities,  or  to 
avoid 
farm. 
isolation  of 
Trolley  lines  and  rural  delivery  have 
almost  removed  the  latter  from  the 
older  sections, and  the  man  w ho  will 
devote  the  same  energy  and  give 
the  same  attention  to  any  branch  of 
agriculture  or  horticulture  that  he 
would  have  to  exercise  in  any  pro 
fession  or  trade  in  the  city  will  dis 
cover  that  the  probability  of  success 
is  more  certain.  Agriculture  as  a 
profession,  a  very  different 
thing 
from 
agriculture  as  an  existence, 
stands  to-day  on  a  level  with  all 
other  means  of  livelihood  covered  by 
that  term. 

laid 

last  session 

this  institution  have 

College  friends,  our  meeting  at 
this  time  with  all  the  visiting  of  old 
familiar  places  and  renewal  of  old 
is  not  one  of  unmixed 
friendships 
pleasure.  Sad 
thoughts  also  come 
to  us.  Aside  from  the  breaks  in  our 
own  ranks,  faces  prominent  in  the 
left 
history  of 
us.  Since  our 
there 
have  passed  away  three,  and  the  last 
of  that  able  body  of  men  w ho  di 
rected  the  course  of  this  College  in 
the 
its  earlier  days,  and  w ho 
foundation  of  its  ultimate  successful 
progress, and  w ho  indirectly  through 
the  College  gave  a  great  impetus  to 
agricultural  education  in  the  United 
States.  To 
the  earlier  graduates 
the  names  of  Williams,  Holmes, 
Thurber,  Clute,  Prentiss,  Miles  and 
Fairchild  will  always  be  held 
in 
great  veneration.  To  a much  larger 
circle,  the  pleasant  greetings  and 
kind  words  of  advice  and  admoni 
tion 
from  President  Abbot  will 
always  be among  the  happiest  mem 
ories  of  College  life.  But  to  the 
whole  roll  of  students  of  the  Michi 
gan  Agricultural  College,  the  name 
of  that  grand  old  man,  w ho  so  re 

4 

the  United  States.  These  improve 
ments  with  others  to  follow  as  the 
needed  money  is  ready  are  steadily 
making  the  equipment  at  M.  A.  C. 
in  every  department  equal  to  that  of 
the  very  best  technical  schools 
in 
the  country.  Another  step  recently 
taken  and  often  urged  by  Alumni  is 
the  raising  of  entrance  requirements. 
In  this  connection  may  1 not  suggest 
that  the  age  of  admission  should  be 
raised.  T he  required  age  is 
fifteen; 
it  should  be  higher.  A  new  course 
has  been  added — that  in  Forestry. 
Forestry  is  closely  connected  with 
other  lines  of  work  given  at  M.  A.. 
C .;  and  the  subject  has  a  proper 
place  in  the  college  course  of  study. 
I  for  one,  however,  hope  those  in 
authority  will  exercise  due  caution 
in  the  way  new  subjects  are  intro 
duced  into  the  courses  of  instruction. 
I  believe  I  voice  the  sentiment  of 
the  Alumni  in saying it is not  the  pur 
pose  of  this  college  to  grow  into  a 
It  is essentially  a  college 
university. 
and  no  one  single  subject, 
therefore, 
should  be  given  the  prominence  over 
others  in  making  that  subject  a  sep 
arate  undergraduate  course. 

And  by-the-way,  before  you  leave 
the  grounds,  just  drop  around  to  in 
spect  the  new  bath  house.  To  see 
it  is  to  make  all  the  old  boys  wish  to 
return  if  nothing  else  will. 

Tables  showing  entrance  in  each 
course  since  1890,  the  number  grad 
uated  in  the  same  time,  and  the  total 
attendance  by  courses  since  the  col 
lege  year  1894-95. 

N o.  S t u d e n ts  E n t e r e d. 

G r a d u a t ed 

0 
> 

1890 
91 
92 
93 
94 
95 
96 
97 
98 
99 
1900 
01 
02 

£ = 

0  0 

45 
60 
55 
53 
52 
34 
45 
101 
97 
88 
76 
67 
84 

64 
45 
56 
45 
36 
39 
49 
82 
83 
129 
100 
122 
171 

4 
3 
5 
3 
5 
3 
31 
34 
45 
45 
61 
92 
98 

•  6 

<8 
22 
24 
20 
31 
15 
26 
22 
20 
19 
19 
9 
23 
23 
28 

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|S 
1 
4 
1 
4 

i 
1 
4 
3 
4 
5 
11 
6 

S  3 
S6 

9 
6 
5 
7 
7 
6 
6 
7 
4 
7 
10 
11 
20 
24 

"3  03*'"^ 

« 3» 

45 
65 
65 
71 
71 
91 
94 

TOTAL  ATTENDANCE  BY  COURSES  SINCE 
1894-95. 

.
r
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Y

1894-95 
95-96 
96-97 
97-98 
98-99 
99-1900 
00-01 
01-02 
02-03 

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239 
234 
206 
179 
205 
288 
290 
199 
219 

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131 
128 
120 
140 
165 
157 
241 
249 
309 

28 
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43 
80 
93 
41 
131 
158 
187 

30 

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65 
71 
71 
91 
94 
148 

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398 
393 
425 
469 
528 
627 
652 
689 
854 

Another  feature  interesting  to  me 
is  the  analysis  of  the  attendance  of 
the 
recent  years.  Going  back 
to 
middle  nineties,  we  note  since 
then 
a  substantial 
increase  from  398  in 
1895  to  854  during  the  present  year 
—  an 
increase  of  115  per  cent,  in 
eight  years.  Marked  gains  are 
noted  in  the  mechanical  and  women's 
courses.  T he  short  winter  courses 
in  popular  favor. 
are  also  g r o w i ng 
T he 
totals  in  the  regular  agricul 
tural  course  are  somewhat  disap 
there 
pointing. 
appears 
T he 
number  entering  shows  decrease  be 
low  that  of  1897.  This  is  partially 
accounted 
the 
change  of  course,  but  not  wholly. 
This  ought  to  be  otherwise. 
I  am 
not  an  alarmist,  neither  am  I  antag 
onistic  to  any  established  part  of  the 
College.  But 
that  the 
interests  in  all  aspects 
agricultural 
and  connections 
the 
should  hold 
institution. 
largest 
Similar  schools  in  some  of  the  states 

attendance 
somewhat  erratic. 

this  year  by 

I  do  feel 

place 

T he 

this 

for 

in 

THE  M.  A. 

C.  RECORD. 

have  lost  practically  all  hold  on  ag 
students.  T he  decrease 
ricultural 
in  the  number  entering 
the  course 
and  the  practically  uniform  number 
graduated  from  it  in  the  last 
four 
teen  classes  points  in  the  same  direc 
tion  with  us. 

into 

N ow 

the  agricultural. 

to  pull 
it  is  not  necessary 
down  the  mechanical  course  to  build 
up 
Such  a  pro 
cedure  would  be  extreme  folly.  But 
renewed  efforts  ought  to  be  made  to 
draw  new  students  of  the  highest 
the  agricultural  course. 
type 
T he  rural  population  is  growing,  tho 
not  proportionately  as  fast  as 
the 
urban;  rural 
life  grows  each  year 
more  pleasant, its environment  is  be 
coming  less seclusive  and  its  prospect 
wider  and  brighter. 
It  is coming  to 
be  recognized  that  no  lower  order 
of 
the 
business  and  art  of  farming  than  in 
those  of  law,  medicine,  teaching  and 
preaching.  And  along  side  by  side 
with  its  mechanics  and  engineers,  I 
want  to  see  our  M.  A.  C.  returning 
a  growing  tide  of  energetic,  hopeful, 
enthusiastic  young  men  and  women 
to brighten,  broaden, refine  rural  life 
and  its  occupations;  and  to  bring  to 
the  farm  home  the  same  uplifting 
culture  with  which  some  other  col 
lege  man  or  woman  blesses  and 

intelligence 

is  required 

in 

.  graces  the  city  home. 

N E C R O L O GY  —  F.  S.  K K D Z I E, 

'77* 

E d w a rd  M.  Preston,  of 

Gathered  as  we  are  here 

today, 
the  members  of  one  great  family,  in 
this  room  endeared  to us  by  so  many 
recollections,  peopled  by  our 
fancy 
with  faces  which  we  never  shall  see 
again,  it  is  my  duty  to  briefly  state 
before  you  something  of  the  lives 
and  works  of 
the  graduates,  who 
during  the  three  years  since  our  last 
reunion,  have  passed  to  their  reward. 
the  class 
of  1862,  died  in  California  April  24, 
1903.  He  came  to  this  " C o l l e ge  in 
the  clearing  " in  1858  from  Free 
dom,  Washtenaw  County. 
Com 
pleting  the  course  in  '62,  he  went  at 
once  to  California  by  the  way  of  the 
isthmus  and  established  himself 
in 
business  at  Nevada  City,  where  he 
lived 
forty  years,  becoming  a 
wealthy,  honored  and  influential  cit 
izen. 

for 

Being  elected  to  the  legislature  of 
his  state  in  the  '80's,  he 
introduced 
a  bill  for  the  establishment  of  a  re 
the 
form  school  for  boys.  Before 
institu 
final  passage  of  the  bill  the 
tion  thus  authorized  was  officially 
designated  "  T he  Preston  School  of 
Industry."  Up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  Mr.  Preston  served  continu 
ously  as  the  president  of  the  board 
of  managers  of  this  school. 
following 

taken 

fron 

City  Daily 

gives  us  a  glimpse  of 

the 
Morning 
the 

T he 
Nevada 
Miner 
man  as  he  was: 

for 

a  helping  hand. 

He  was  a  man  who  had  the  inter 
est  of  every  person  in  the  commu 
nity  at  heart,  whether  he  was  great 
or  small, rich  or  poor.  T he  lowliest 
man  that  walks  our  streets  could  not 
apply  to  this  charitable  man  without 
receiving 
No 
movement 
public  good,  no 
movement  for  public  advancement 
was  ever  mentioned  but  Mr.  Pres 
ton  was  one  of  the  first  of  our  citi 
time  and  energy 
zens  to  lend  his 
toward  insuring  the  success  of 
the 
same.  N ot  only  in  public  life,  but 
in  private 
the 
life,  as  well,  were 
In 
good  traits  of  the  man  shown. 
his  business  life  he  was  trusted  and 
respected  beyond  degree,  no  man 
ever  doubting,  but  his  word  was  as 
good  as  his  bond.  As  a  statesman 
and  promoter  his  voice  was  at  all 
times  lifted  in  behalf  of  the  interests 

of  the  poor,  the  needy  and  the  un 
fortunate. 

A nd  yet  another  from 
this  class. 
Oscar  Clute,  that  man  of  forceful 
character  and  persistant  energy  en 
tered  from  Ionia  county  as  a  Sopho 
more 
'62. 
While  still  a  student  in  college  he 
did  work  as  tutor  of  mathematics 
and  on  graduation  was  made 
In 
structor  and  later  Professor. 

graduated  with 

and 

W h en  I  first  saw  this  institution 
Professors  Clute and  Prentiss  roomed 
the 
up  stairs 
offices  now  occupied  by  Professors 
Babcock  and  K i n g. 

this  building 

in 

in 

Feeling  that  his  life's  work  lay  in 
other  lines, Professor  Clute  resigned 
his  Professorship  in  1S66  and  en 
t e r e d ' t he  Unitarian  ministry—re 
turning  again  to  the  College  in  '68 
to  be  wedded  to  M a ry  Merrylees, 
sister  of  Mrs.  President  Abbot. 
T he  first  wedding  on  the  campus. 
In  the  years following  he  was  en 
gaged  in  the  ministry  but  turned  his 
to  matters 
times 
attention  many 
this 
identified  with 
the  work  of 
the 
College.  He  helped  to  found 
famous  Farmers  Club  of  Vineland, 
N.  J.,  and  was 
first  President. 
its 
He  wrote  for  and  helped  edit  var 
ious  agricultural 
papers,  making 
something  of  a  specialty  of  apiacul-
ture.  Called  to  M.  A.  C.  in  '89  to 
be  its  President,  succeeding  Presi 
dent  Willetts,  he  gave  to  the  work 
time, 
of  his  office  an  amount  of 
thought  and  labor  that  showed 
its 
after  effects  by  breaking  down  his 
strong  constitution. 

now 

Without  going  into  the  details  of 
matters  which  are 
resting 
quietly  as  College  history,  I  may 
say  here  that  President  Clute  met 
squarely  and  solved  difficulties  as 
great  and  perhaps  greater  than  those 
which  had  confronted  any  preced 
difficulties  which 
ing  president, 
life  and  hampered 
threatened 
the 
the  success  of 
to  a 
this  College 
marked  degree. 

the 

T he  College  grew  in  attendance 
during  President  Clute's  administra 
tion  and  when  he  left  it  in  1893  the 
number  of  students 
then  in  attend 
ance  and  the  size  of  the  graduating 
class  was 
largest  the  College 
had  ever  known,  and  this  record  for 
graduates  held  good  for  ten  succeed 
ing  years.  T a k i ng  up  a  similar  line 
of  work  at  the  Florida  Agricultural 
and  Mechanical  College  he  met  with 
like  success.  His  health  became 
broken  in  1897.  He 
to 
Michigan  for  a  rest  and  later  to  his 
church 
California, 
Pomona, 
which  he  had  left  ten  years  before. 
Continued  ill  health 
followed,  he 
entered  a sanitarium  at  Los  Angeles, 
and 
passing 
away  January  27,  1902. 

gradually  declined, 

returned 

at 

President  Clute  was 

first 
President  of  M.  A.  C.  elected  from 
the  Alumni. 

the 

James  E.  Miller  entered  college 
in  1874,  coming  from  his 
father's 
farm  south  of  the  College.  After 
graduation  in  '78  he  looked  after  the 
later 
farm 
studied  medicine, 
and 
from  Detroit  Medical 
graduating 
College 
for  a 
in  1889;  practiced 
time  in  Jackson  but  on  the  death  of 
his father  returned  to  the  farm  home. 
Last  December  while  doing  re 
pairs  upon 
the  roof  of  one  of  his 
buildings  he  missed  his  footing  and 
fell  to  the  ground,  causing 
injuries 
of  so  severe  a  nature  that  he  died 
January  1,  1903. 

F r ed  J.  Hodges  came  to  M.  A.  C. 
from  Grand  Rapids,  being  but  just 
i 5  years  of  age.  W ho  of 
the  stu 
dents  of  '80  to '84 doesn't  remember 
in 
fat,  jolly  Fred  H o d g e s;  always 
for  fun  and  ready  to  take  an  active 

part  in  all  things  for  the  good  of  his 
last  special 
class  or  society.  His 
job  was  assisting  and  directing 
the 
tall,  slim  Fred  Chappell  in  papering 
the  walls  of 
the  Eclectic  Society 
room. 

After  graduation  he  entered  Chi 
cago  Medical  College,  and  by  his 
good  work  won  the  place  as  interne 
in  Cook  County  Hospital  on  gradu 
ation.  Settling  at  Anderson,  Ind., 
he  was  soon  -busily  engaged  as  a 
practitioner,  he  helped  edit  the  F o rt 
W a y ne  Medical  Journal,  and  was 
actively  connected  with  the  Ander 
son  Hospital. 
Later  he 

to  Ashland, 
removed 
Wis.,  where,  entering  into  partner 
the 
ship,  he  became  part  owner  of 
Rinehart  Hospital,  founding  also  a 
new  medical 
journal,  the  Western 
Clinical  Recorder.  Here  he  worked 
night  and  day,  success  crowning  his 
efforts.  But  one  day  while  operat 
ing  in  the  hospital  a  slight  scratch 
caused  infection  and  blood  poisoning, 
dread  of  all  surgeons, was  upon  him. 
This  accident  occurred  Jan.  13, 1901. 
He  rallied  somewhat  from  the  first 
onslaught  of 
to 
Chicago 
there  was  no 
hope.  Death  came  F e b.  iSth,  1901-
Coming  to  College  at  the  age  of 
25  Luke  C.  Colburn  found  himself 
to  be  the  old  man  of  the  class  of 
'88.  We  found  him  to  be  one  of 
the  good  men  of  that  notable  class. 
After  graduation  and  some  teach 
ing  of  school,  he  took  an  instructor-
ship  in  the  Mechanical  Department, 
from  whence  he  was  called  to  take 
charge  of  the  Engineering  Depart 
ment  at  the  newly  opened  Univer 
sity  of  W y o m i n g.  Here  he did  most 
excellent  work  as  a  teacher.  To 
gether  with  Prof.  Slosson  he  carried 
out  a  thorough  investigation  of 
the 
heating  values  of  W y o m i ng  coals. 
It  was  a  large  undertaking  but  was 
well  done  and  we  find  frequent  ref 
erence  to  it. 

the  poison,  went 

to  be 

told 

to  P aw  P a w,  Mich., 

Falling  under  the  displeasure  of 
schemers 
one  of 
those  political 
in 
which  so  frequently  are  placed 
control  of  some  of  our  schools  in 
the  far  west  he  lost  his  position  and 
returned 
to 
practice  his  profession  as  a  civil  en 
gineer.  H e re  he  engaged  in  steam 
construction, 
railway 
and  electric 
working  with 
tireless  energy 
that 
which  was  so  characteristic  of  him. 
His  fondness  for  scientific  study  and 
reading  made  him  recognized  in  the 
community. 

In  the  early  autumn  of  last  year, 
death  laid  his  hand  upon  our  friend. 
He  died  September  11, 1902.  T wo 
classmates, J o hn  C.  Stafford  and  L. 
A.  Bregger  helped  to  lay  our  com 
rade 
Van  Buren  county. 

in  his  final  resting  place 

in 

D r a wn  to  the  College  by  the  fact 
that  an  elder  brother  was  a  graduate, 
H u gh  E.  W a rd 
the 
course  in  1895, 

completed 

T he 

quiet 

studious  gentleman 
would  best  describe  him.  During 
the  last  year  in  College  he  suffered 
greatly  from 
inflammatory  rheuma 
tism  and  was  never  free  from  it. 

After  graduation  and 

additional 
study  at  the  University  in  lines  re 
lating  to  biology  and  bacteriology, 
he  was  employed  with  P a r k,  Davis 
&  Co.  and  also  returned  here  and 
assisted  in  both  botanical  and  chem 
ical  laboratories. 

T h r ee  years  ago  Prof.  Davenport 
called  him  to  assist  him  in  the  large 
field  of  work  just  being  organized. 
H e re  he  was  made  instructor  in  bac 
teriology  of  soils. 

I  now  quote  from  a  letter 

from 

Prof.  Davenport. 

" It  was  his  ambition  before  he 

B M f l i n n OT 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

5 

undertook  this  new  work  to  have  a 
year  abroad  and  to  have  the  advan 
tage  of 
European 
study  with 
specialists.  Accordingly  he  left  us 
in  A u g u s t,  last,  and  returned  only 
to  die  at  his  Michigan  home.  He 
had  been  fairly  free  from  serious  at 
tacks  of  rheumatism  during  his  so 
journ  here  until  nearly  the  last.  He 
was  suffering 
he 
sailed. 

severely  when 

" M r.  W a rd  commended  himself  to 
his  associates  here  not  only  by  his 
quiet  and  delightful  personal  quali 
ties,  but  by  his  accurate  and  pains 
taking  methods  of  work." 

Last  fall,  suffering  as  he  was  with 
a  fatal 
illness,  he  still  persisted  in 
going  abroad,  but  was  soon  obliged 
to  return  and  died  at  his  home  Dec. 
29,  1902. 

E n t e r i ng  College 

from  Union 
Pier,  Berrien  Co.,  William  R. 
Goodwin  surmounted  the  difficulties 
of  the  Mechanical  Course  and 
re 
ceived  his  well  deserved  diploma. 

the 

ourselves 

names  of 

W h en  we  of  the  faculty  told  over 
the 
to 
'97  much  as  a  monk  his 
class  of 
treasures, 
beads  or  a  miser  his 
among 
the  good  men  of  the  class 
there  was  always  the  name  of  Good 
win.  Soon  after  graduation  he  en 
the  Chicago  & 
tered  the  employ  of 
N.  W.  and  remained  with  them  in 
positions  of  responsibility  and  im 
portance  until  his  fatal  illness  made 
further  work  impossible. 

He  died  at  his  father's  home  De 
cember  1,  1902.  We  at  College, 
loved  and  respected  him  for  his  ear 
fidelity. 
nestness,  purity  of  life  and 

the 

F r om 

sorrowing  home  his 
father  writes,  "  We  his  parents  have 
lost  our  only  son  who  was  a  noble 
and  generous  boy.  He  fulfilled  all 
the  claims  of  a  good  and  dutiful 
child  w ho  never  forgot  his  father  or 
the  time  he  was  12 
mother.  F r om 
years  old  to  the  end  of  his  life  he 
wrote  his  mother  two 
letters  each 
week  ". 

W h at  sweeter  tribute  to  y o u ng 

It 

manhood  than  those  words. 
seems  but  yesterday 
that  I 
looked  into  the  bright,  happy  young 
face  of  David  A.  Keeler  as  he 
mounted  the rostrum  a year  ago  and, 
his  degree  along  with 
received 
some  good  presidential  advice  given 
out  as  usual  on  that  occasion. 

His  was  a busy  college  life,  for  he 
was  one  of  those  w ho  helped  him 
If  your  bicycle  need 
self  through. 
ed  surgical  and  expert  attention,  it 
was  Keeler  who  could  fix  it.  T h e re 
were  few  idle  moments  in  this  boy's 
college  life. 

Completing  the Mechanical  Course 
with  credit  last  year,  he  entered 
the 
employ  of  the  Covert  Motorette  Co., 
of  Lockport,  N.  Y .,  as  draughts 
man  early  in  J u l y.  H e re  he  re 
typhoid 
mained  until  stricken  with 
fever  which  caused  his  death  Sept. 
12,  1 9 0 2. 

this 

to  close 
list 
I  feel  unable 
without  calling 
to  your  attention 
the  death  of  Mary  Abbot  Moore, 
daughter  of  the  formative  president, 
President  Abbot,  w ho  died  March 
20th  of  this  year.  While  she  never 
completed 
the  entire  course,  her 
early  life  was  so  inwrought  in  that 
of  the  social  life  here  and  she  was 
so  well  known  to  so  many  of  us  of 
the  alumni,  that  I  deem  it  proper 
that  she  should  be  noticed. 

Mary  Abbot  was  the  first  child  of 
the  Faculty  born  on 
this  campus. 
Endowed  with  the  cheerful  disposi 
tion  which  so  endeared  her 
father 
to  us  all,  she  g r ew 
to  a  charming 
womanhood.  W h en  disease  had  so 
enfeebled  President  Abbot  that  fur 
ther  effort  on  his  part  was  impossi 

ble,  Mary  was  appointed  College 
librarian  and  became  the  help  and 
head  of  the  family. 

She  soon  was  married,  and  after  a 
short  stay  in  E u r o p e,  returned  home 
to  help  her  mother  in  the  burden  of 
Pres. Abbot's  last illness.  R e m o v i ng 
with  her  family 
to  San.  Gabriel, 
Cal., she  became  interested  in  library 
the  past  five  years 
work,  and  for 
was  secretary  and  librarian  to  the 
Los  Angeles  Woman's  Club. 

She  went  alone  to  the  hospital  at 
Los  Angeles  for  a  slight  surgical 
the  administra 
operation.  During 
the  necessary  anesthetic  an 
tion  of 
unexpected  weakness  of 
the  heart 
appeared  and  she  never  awakened 
from  the  effects  of  the  chloroform. 

THE  KEDZIE  MEMORIAL 
FUND. 

At 

the  business  meeting  of  the 
the  servtiment 
Alumni  Association 
regarding  Doctor  Kedzie  crystalized 
in 
the  following  expression  which 
was  unanimously  adopted: 

"  Resolved,  T h at  a committee  con 
sisting  of  A.  C.  Bird,  W.  S.  Holds-
worth  and  C.  B.  Collingwood,  be 
appointed  to  have  in  charge  the  pre 
paring  of  a  suitable  memorial  to  Dr. 
Kedzie." 

T he  committee  appointed  by  the 
Alumni  Association  have  at  once 
entered  upon 
the  work  of  raising 
funds  and  are  meeting  with  the  most 
generous  reception.  T he  plan  con 
templates  raising  ten  thousand  dol 
lars  with  which  to  erect  a  bronze 
statue,  of  heroic  size,  to  be  placed 
upon  the  campus. 
mous  sentiment  of  the  meeting  that 
nothing  less  would  adequately  ex 
press  our  feelings  as  friends  and 
admirers  of  the  Doctor.  Many  of 
the  Alumni  expressed  themselves  in 
these  words,  " L et  him 
in 
bronze  as  he  stood  before  his  stu 
dents  in  the  class  room,  an  inspira 
tion  to  all  future  students." 

It  was  the  unani 

stand 

this 

T he  alumni  -of 

institution 
number  nearly  a  thousand,  the  non-
graduates number  five  times as many. 
T h ey  are  scattered  over  the  whole 
country  in  every  vocation  of  life;  all 
have  vivid  memories  of  this  "  grand 
old  man."  T he  committee  believe 
that  this  amount  will  be  cheerfully 
subscribed,  and  that  the  testimonial 
will  have  a  value  far  in  excess  of 
any  monument  that  might  be  given 
by  the  state. 

It  is  proposed 

twenty-five 
men  give  one  hundred  dollars  each, 
that  twenty  men  give  fifty  dollars 

that 

total  of 

each,  that  one  hundred  men  give 
twenty-five  dollars  each,  that 
two 
hundred  men  give  ten  dollars  each, 
that  four  hundred  men  give  five  dol 
ten 
lars  each,  making  a 
thousand  dollars.  Already  a  thous 
and  dollars  has  been  offered,  and  it 
is  confidently  expected  that  within 
the  year  the  artist  will  be  selected 
and  the  work  commenced  so  that  at 
the  next  reunion, the  semi-centennial 
this  College,  the  statue  will  be 
of 
unveiled. 
It  will  beautify  the  cam 
pus,  it  will  mark  an  epoch  in  scien 
tific  education,  it  will  fitly  commem 
orate  to  our  children  and  to  our  chil 
dren's  children 
this 
splendid  man. 

the  work  of 

C.  B.  C O L L I N G W O O D, 

'85. 

THE  ALUMNI  BANQUET. 

that 

seems 

T he  one  event 

to 
secure  the  almost  unanimous  vote  of 
the  old  students  is  the  Alumni  Ban 
quet.  Class  ties  may  not  be  bind 
to  spend 
ing,  many  fellows  prefer 
the 
the 
time  wandering  around 
grounds  to  attending  business  meet 
ings,  and  even  the  literary  exercises, 
no  matter  how  attractive  their  feat 
ures, 
leak  badly  as  to  attendance, 
especially  toward  the  last. 

it 

But  you  may  safely  count  on  a 
full  and  tolerably  brisk  response  to 
the  ringing  of  the  old  college  bell 
when 
s a y s — " b a n q u e t ."  Yes, 
the  old  boy,  and  the  old  girl  too,  for 
that  matter,  will  be  at  the  banquet 
if  he  knows  when  and  where  it  is 
to  be  spread,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  he 
gets  these  points  in  mind  early  in 
the  day. 

T he  banquet  of  1903  proved  no 
exception  to  the  rule.  T he  college 
had  invited  her  sons  and  daughters 
to  meet  around  the  festal  board  once 
more  and  promptly  at  the  ringing 
of  the  bell  they  trooped  to  the  arm 
ory,  where  the  Department  of  Do 
mestic  Science,  under  the  direction 
of  Miss  Carrie  A.  Lyford  and  Miss 
Jennette  Carpenter,  had  arranged  an 
attractive and satisfying  menu.  T he 
results  of  the  masterly  management 
and  untiring  activity  of  Messrs.  C. 
B.  ColKngwood  and  O.  H.  Skinner, 
committee  on  banquet,  were  every 
the  guests 
where  evident. 
were  seated  as nearly  as  possible  by 
classes,  and  numerous  young 
lady 
students  were  deftly  waiting  upon 
them.  T he  viands  seemed  to  be  ap 
tho 
preciated. 
typical,  former  students  of  the  M. 
A.  C.  retain  a  normal  appetite  and 

it  briefly, 

To  put 

Soon 

are  not  conspicuous  for  peaking  and 
pining  away. 
W h en  the  edge  of  appetite  had  been 
somewhat  dulled  the  toastmaster,  W. 
K.  Prudden  of  '78,  in  speech  replete 
with  delightful  humor  and  keen 
touches  of  wit  proposed  the  follow 
ing  toasts  which  met  with  happy  re 
(not) 
sponses: 
passed  in the  Legislature,"  Ex-Sena 
tor  C.  B.  Collingwood,  in  absence 
of  Senator  Tason  W o o d m a n; 
" O ld 
Davs  of  M.  A.  C ,"  C.  E.  Sumner, 
'79;  "  Our  A l u m n i ,"  * H.  F.  Bus-
kirk,  78;  " F u t u re  Days  of  M.  A. 
C ,"  President  Snyder;  "  P r a n ks  and 
Pastimes  after  H o u r s ,"  N.  A.  Mc 
Cune,  ' 0 1. 

bills  are 

" H ow 

Dr.  W.  J.  Beal  by  acclamation 
was  called  upon  for  a  speech  and 
responded  characteristically. 

*  Mr.  Buskirk's  daughter  was  in 
the  graduating  class  and  represented 
the  W o m e n 's  Course  by  an  address 
at  the  Commencement  exercises. 

SOCIETY  REUNIONS. 

find  enthusiasm 

A m o ng  the  most  enjoyable  events 
of  the  triennial  meets  are  the  society 
reunions.  H e re  is  more  undisguised, 
genuine  hilarity  per  man  than  you 
will  find  anywhere  else.  H e re  you 
will 
three-ply,  all 
wool,  a  yard  wide,  fast  colors  and 
warranted 
It  is  the  wear 
ing  quality  that  brings  back  many 
of  these  old,  bald-headed  gray  be 
spattered  boys,  and  often  their  chil 
dren. 

to  wear. 

L o ng  live  the  Old  Society!! 

PHI  DELTA  T H E T A. 

( N ow  known  as  the  Phi  Delta  So 

ciety.) 

T he  reunion  of  the  P hi  Delta  So 

ciety  was  especially  pleasant 
this 
year,  because  of  the  presence  of  an 
extra  number  of  alumni,  brought 
back  by  its  being  " t r i e n n i a l"  year. 
the  alumni  present  were 
A m o ng 
J o hn  E.  Taylor, 
' 7 6;  I.  B.  Bates, 
'87;  Roy  C  Bristol,  ' 9 3;  C.  H.  Al-
vord,  ' 9 5;  Chas.  F.  Herrmann,  '97, 
and  H.  Eugene  Price,  with  '00. 

in 

for 

those 

renewing 

T he  time  till  about  9  o'clock  was 
acquaintances 
spent 
recalling  events,  which  had 
and 
to  every 
rooms  dear 
made 
man.  T he  banquet  according 
to 
custom  was  served  in  the  assembly 
room,  which  had  been  especially 
the  occasion,  and 
decorated 
passed  off  with  many  anecdotes  and 
stories  of  the  old  days. 
Homer  M.  Eaton,  of 

the  gradu 
ating  class,  acted  as  toastmaster  and 
called  for  the  following:  Welcome, 
responded  to  by  Robert  N.  Fergu 
son;  Looking  Backward,  by  Chas. 
A.  Blake;  Our  F u t u r e,  by  Earl 
Maynard,  and  Parting,  by  J.  H. 
for  go 
Prost.  T he  time  specified 
ing 
already 
the  A r m o ry  had 
arrived,  but  Mr.  C.  H.  Alvord,  '95, 
was  called  on  and  none  were  sorry 
to  wait  and  hear  him.  At  about  12 
o'clock  the  whole  company  repaired 
to  the  A r m o r y,  where  Tics,  Phies, 
and  Hesperians,  with  light  feet  and 
happy  hearts  made  merry  till 
the 
m o r n i n g. 

O.  H.  S K I N N E R. 

to 

UNION  LITERARY  SOCIETY. 

T he  27th  annual  reunion  of 

the 
Union  Literary  Society  was  a  time 
long  to  be  remembered  by  some  40 
old  graduates,  w ho  returned  to  live 
society  days  anew. 
their  college 
T he  society  rooms  were  filled 
to 
their  utmost  capacity  with  old  mem 
bers,  w ho  had  not  seen  each  other 
the 
for  many  years,  exchanging 
heartiest  of  welcomes.  After  an  ex 
cellent  literary  program  the  meeting 

6 

THE  M. A. C.  RECORD. 

to^Jje^banquet  hall, 
was  adjourned 
where 
jests  and  stories  of  college 
life,  as  it  used  to  be,  predominated. 
T he  following  toasts  were  given: 
Good  Old  Times,  Clay  Tallman, 

'94-

Our  Old  College  Home,  R.  L. 

Yates, '03. 

T he  Class  of  1903, C.  G.  Wood 

bury,  '04. 

Our  Inspiration,  "  T he  Ladies," 

G.  M.  Richmond,  '98. 

T he  Union  Lit.  at  H o me  and 

Abroad,  N.  A.  M c C u n e, ' 0 1. 

On  behalf  of  12 of  the  16  charter 
members  present  M r. J a s.  Brassing-
ton, the society's  first  president  spoke 
in  most  glowing  terms  of  the  unity, 
loyalty  and  sincerity  of  the  LT. L. 
S.  members  when  upon  such  an 
occasion  as  we  now  celebrate  we 
look  into  the  smiling  faces  of  some 
who  have  traveled  hundreds  of  miles 
to  again  pay  a  visit  to  our  dear  old 
college  home. 

J OE  H A F T E N K A M P. 

E C L E C T IC  SOCIETY. 

their 

On  Tuesday  evening  of  com 
mencement  week  the  Eclectics,  old 
and  new—the  old  with  those  whom 
they  had  once  called 
lady 
friends,  the  new  with  those  whom 
lady  friends,— 
they  yet  call  their 
met  in  the  society  rooms 
to  renew 
old  friendships  and  form  new  ac 
quaintances.  T he 
rooms  proved 
too  small  to  accommodate  the  large 
number  present. 

At  9  o'clock  the  scene  of  festivi 
ties  was  transferred  to  Abbot  Hall 
where  a  banquet  was spread  for  one 
hundred  guests.  S.  W.  McClure 
'03  filled  the  position  of  toast-master 
fittingly.  Many  of  the  oid 
most 
members  were  present. 
A m o ng 
these,  no  one  was  received  with 
more enthusiasm  than  C. E.  Sumner, 
'79,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  for  it  was  he 
w ho  drew  the  mortar  up  to the  attic 
of  Williams  Hall  that  the bats  might 
be  compelled  to  make  way  for  the 
" T i c s ."  A.  B.  T u r n e r ' 81  and his 
college  room  mate,  W.  T.  Langley, 
'82,  entertained  the  boys  with 
tales 
of  college  pranks  in  by-gone  days. 
Lack  of  space  forbids  the  mention 
ing  of  many  others  w ho  won  the 
confidence  of  the  present  members 
and  inspired  them  with  college  spirit 
loyalty.  T he  time  from  mid 
and 
night  until  the  quickly 
returning 
sun  called  the jolly  dancers  to  other 
pleasures  and  duties  passed  most 
pleasantly  in  the  A r m o r y. 

W.  P.  S N Y D E R. 

OLYMPIC  SOCIETY. 
In  the  Society  rooms,  which  were 
artistically  decorated  with  bunting 
and  plants,  the  Olympics  held  their 
annual  commencement  hop and  ban 
quet.  After  a  general  reception,  a 
good  literary  program  was  rendered, 
consisting  of  an  oration 
entitled 
" W a t e r l o o ,"  by  D.  A.  G u r n e y;  the 
"Society  History,"  by  L.  F.  Bird; 
a  poem,  "A  Prophecy,"  by  S.  B. 
H a r t m a n;  and  J,  L.  T h o me  con 
the  "Society  P a p e r ," 
cluded  with 
in  which 
supposed  and  unknown 
facts  were  made  public.  C.  P. 
the  duty  of  critic, 
Close  fulfilled 
About 
and 
eleven  o'clock  a  grand  march  led 
us  to  Club  A,  where  a  banquet  was 
in  waiting. 

then  dancing  began. 

W h en  all  had  seemingly  satisfied 
their  hunger,  L.  W.  Watkins,  as 
toastmaster,  called  on  various  mem 
bers  of  the  society,  both  active  and 
graduate,  to  enlarge  upon  his  enter 
taining 
responses 
were  enjoyed  by  all.  Adjournment 
to 
rooms  followed,  and  until 
after  the  morning  sunrise  the  ladies 

remarks. 

T he 

the 

close 

attention. 

received 
T he 
alumni  present  at  the  reunion  were 
P.  G.  Holden,  W.  Curtis  and  D. 
Anderson,  of  '8y;  L.  W.  Watkins, 
' 9 3;  C.  P.  Close,  ' 9 5; E.  Shaw,  ' 9 7; 
George  Campbell, 
' 9 8;  W.  K. 
Brainard, 
' 9 9;  H.  J.  Eustace,  ' 0 1, 
and  H.  K.  Patriarche,  '02.  Other 
former  members  present  were  J.  F. 
Nellist,  with  ' 9 4;  A.  F.  De  F r e n n, 
with  '99,  and  D.  C.  Pierson,  with 
'02.  T he  writer  failed  to  get  the 
names  of  one  or  two  others  w ho 
were  present. 

H.  K.  P A T R I A R C H E,  '02. 

HESPERIAN  SOCIETY. 

T he  Hesperian  Society  opened 
the  celebration  of  their  anniversary 
with  an  informal  reception  in  their 
rooms,  where  old  acquaintanceships 
were  renewed  and new Ones  formed. 
This  was  followed  by  a  banquet 
in  Club.-E.  After  enjoying  a  dainty 
five  course  menu,  a  pleasing  pro 
gram  of  toasts  and  roasts  was  given 
under  the excellent  leadership  of  the 
president, J. H.  Hedges.  W . P . W i l 
son  spoke  gallantly  of " O ur Guests" 
and  M.  W.  Tabor  rather  sarcastical 
ly  of  " O ur  Seniors".  M r.  E.  D. 
Allis  and  G.  F.  Talladay  spoke  of 
"  Our  A l u m n i"  and  "  College  Par 
ties "  respectively,  and  C.  A.  Lilly 
voiced  our 
" . H e s p e r u s ". 
love  of 
C.  E.  Swales  was  very  much  en 
joyed  in  his response  to "  Campus  ". 
After  the  banquet,  the  company 
joined  in  the  union  hop  in  the  Ar 
mory,  where  the  " w ee small  hours" 
were  delightfully  passed.  Fourteen 
old  members  of  the  society  were  in 
attendance,  ranging  from  the  class 
last  year. 
of 
Prof,  and  Mrs. Shaw  were  the  very 
much  appreciated  chaperones  of  the 
occasion. 

'92  to  graduates  of 

Old  members  of  the  society  pres 
ent  were  G.  E.  E w i n g,  ' 9 2;  H.  M. 
G o s s , ' 9 3;  W.  K.  Sagendorph,  ' 9 4; 
H.  E.  Van  N o r m a n, 
' 9 7;  W.  J. 
Glasgow,  '96-'97;  J.  A.  Elliott, ' 9 7; 
J.  R.  McCallum,  with  Jg9;  W.  W. 
W e l l s , ' 0 1;  G.  C.  H u m p h r e y,  ' 0 1; 
H.  G. Driskel,'02;  G . D . F r a n c i s c o, 
'02;  Glenn  K n a p p, 
' 0 5;  B.  W. 
Skinner,  '04;  J.  R.  Thompson,  '00. 

H.  M.  G o s s, '93. 

FERONIAN  SOCIETY. 

Former  members  of 

its 
T he  Feronian  Society  held 
annual  commencement  reunion  Sat 
urday  evening,  J u ne  13th.  T he 
A r m o ry  was  prettily  decorated  in 
the  society  colors, yellow  and  white, 
and  music  was furnished  by  Prost's 
orchestra.  T he  following  Monday 
evening  the  society  met in  its  rooms 
where  the members  listened  to  many 
enjoyable  talks  given  by  old  Feron-
ians. 
the 
society  visiting  the  college  were,— 
Tressie  Bristol  Ranney  '99,  Fleta 
Paddock,  ' o t,  Celia  Harrison,  ' 0 1, 
Vesta  Woodbury,  ' 0 1, Grace  Melton 
Green  with  ' 0 1, Lucy  Clute  Wood-
worth,  '93,  Mary  Smith  with  '03, 
Martha  Rich  Stephenson  with  '02, 
Dorothy  Swift  with  '05, Marguerite 
Linn  with  '05, Louise  Taylor  with 
'05,  Tie  Bowerman  with  '04, Mable 
McCormick  with  '03, Mable  Bristol 
with  '03, Mary  Ross  Reynolds  with 
'03,  Martha  V an  Orden  with 
'04. 
Grace  Lovely  with  '02, Mary  Green 
'95-'96,  Mable  Bohn  with  '01,  Pearl 
Kedzie  Plant,  '99. 

• 

A L I CE  G U N N,  ' 0 1. 

C O L U M B I AN  S O C I E T Y. 

Remembering  the  crowded  con 
dition  of  their  rooms  at  the  last  re 
union,  and  anticipating  greater  num 
bers  this  year,  the  Columbian  soci 
ety  departed  from  the  usual  custom, 
secured  the Assembly  rooms in  Lan 

sing  and  held  their  reunion  down 
town.  T h e re  they  entertained  their 
friends 
in  true  M.  A.  C.  society 
style,  and  few  if  any  regretted  the 
new  departure.  With  plenty  of 
room,  with  the  banquet  in  the  same 
building,  and  without  four  flights of 
narrow  stairs  to  climb  twice  during 
the  evening,  any  fondness  for  the 
old  rooms  was  forgotten. 

T he 

faculty  members  present 
were:  M r.  and  Mrs. Gunson,  M r. 
and  Mrs.  Brown,  and  Prof,  and 
the  alumni 
Mrs.  Atkins.  A m o ng 
and 
former  members  welcomed 
back  to  the  reunion  and  commence 
ment  were  M.  W.  Fulton,  F r a nk 
Johnson,  R.  E.  Morrow,  W.  T. 
P a r k s,  F.  E.  West,  H. A.  Williams, 
V.  M.  Shoesmith,  R.  A.  Whitney, 
A.  H.  Haves,  I.  Gingrich,  W.  M. 
Tread well",  R.  R.  Carr, J.  A.  Dun-
ford,  R.  L.  Clark,  and  Burt  W e r-
m u t h. 

F.  O.  F O S T E R,  '03. 

THEMIAN  SOCIETY. 

T he  Themian  Society  gave 

their 
annual  commencement  party  in  the 
Armory  J u ne  12.  T he  decorations 
were  carried  out in green  and  white, 
bunting  and  potted  plants  being 
used.  Refreshments  were  served  in 
an  attractive  corner, 
screened  off 
from  the rest  of  the room.  A m o ng 
the  old  members  w ho  attended  were 
l r ma  Thompson,  Marguerite  Nolan, 
Clara  W a t e r m a n,  Gertrude  V an 
Loo,  Clara  Dey, and  Clara  Morley. 
Prof,  and  Mrs.  Vedder  and  Prof, 
and  Mrs. Taft  acted  as  chaperones. 

G R A CE  T A F T, 

'04. 

THE  NEW EDUCATION. 

A L U M NI  O R A T I ON  BY  L I B E R TY 

H.  B A I L E Y, 

'82. 

(Abstract.) 

Time  has flown  since  last  we met. 
We  are  growing  old.  This  college 
that  we have  thought  of  as so  young 
It 
and  new,  also  is  growing  old. 
has  nearly  reached  its  half  century 
It  now  has  a  history  and 
mark. 
traditions. 
It  is  the  mother  of  the 
agricultural  colleges.  Strongly  are 
we  reminded  of  the  fact  that  it  has 
a  history  when  we  hear  the  record 
of  the  men  who, in  middle  life  and 
even  in  good  old  age, have  entered 
on  that  last  great  journey.  Noble 
men  have  now  gone  from  us.  T he 
in  vain  for 
older  ones  of  us  look 
many  of  the  dear  old  faces  in  the 
It  is  a  time  for  reminis 
faculty. 
cence.  Of  the  many  noble 
figures 
that  come  up  to me from  those  other 
years  there  are two of  whom  I  can 
not  refrain  from  speaking,  because 
they  expended  nearly  all  their  lives 
for  us.  One  is  President  Abbot. 
H ow  well  do  I  remember  how  he 
took  us, green  and  raw  farm  boys, 
into  all the  sweet  delights  of  litera 
ture,  rounding  out  our  sympathies 
whilst  we  were  acquiring  the  hard 
and  unpoetic  facts  of  science!  His 
absorbed  look  and  mellow  voice  are 
with  me  yet.  H ow  we  loved  to 
hear  him  read!  T he  musical  lines 
of  Lycidas  have 
like  a 
sweet  song  in  my ears  from  that  day 
to  this: 

sounded 

Yet once  more, O ye laurels, and once more 
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, 
I  come  to  pluck  your  berries  harsh and 

crude, 

And with forced fingers rude 
Shatter your  leaves  before  the  mellowing 

year. 
Dear  old  Dr.  A b b o t!  M ay  his 
memory  be  as  green  in our  hearts  as 
the  sweet  sod  is  green  above  his 
grave! 

the 

that  for  which 

T h en  there  is that  other  great  fig 
ure  w ho  has so  recently  gone  from 
amongst  us.  Stern  and  self-reliant 
was  this  man,  demanding  the  best 
from  every  man  and  getting  it, un 
compromising  with  superficiality,un-
dallying  with  evil,  standing 
like  a 
granite  rock  on  the  highway  of  life; 
and  yet  his heart  was  as  sweet  and 
tender  as a child's.  Grand  old  Doc 
tor  Kedzie!  We  cannot 
think  of 
this  institution  and  all  that  it  stands 
for  without 
thinking  of  him.  A 
tablet  to his memory has been  graved 
on  every  heart  that  has* beat  within 
these  walls  for  forty  blessed  years. 
This  institution  is  consecrated  to 
the  education  of  the  people.  We 
are  its children.  We  are  interested 
in 
institution 
stands.  Therefore  I  make  no  apol-" 
ogy  for  speaking  to  you  on  educa 
tion.  T he  particular  theme 
that  I 
wish  to  present  I  have  called  the 
"  new  education."  Of  course  there 
is  no  education  that  is  wholly  new 
in  kind;  and  it  is  equally  true  that 
education  is always  new, else it is dead 
and  meaningless.  But there are some, 
special  applications  and  points  of 
view  that  are so  singularly  vital  and 
important  and  so  recently  brought 
to  the  fore,  that  I  cannot  resist  the 
temptation  to  collect  them,  for  em 
the  title,  " the  new 
phasis,  under 
education." 
I  have in mind  the  type 
of  education  that  aims  to put the pu 
pil  into  sympathetic  contact  with  his 
daily  life.  This  kind  of  education 
is  fundamental  and 
is  applicable 
everywhere,  but  it  has  particular 
significance  for  those  persons  who 
live  in  the  country.  This  new and 
the 
quickened  outlook 
prime  agencies  that  is  to  hasten  the 
forward  movement  in  country 
life. 
In  order 
that  we  may  understand 
the  full  significance  of  this  point  of 
view,  I  shall  mention  several  of  the 
important  epochs  in  the  evolution of 
education.  These  epochs  will  sug 
gest  the  road  by  which  we  have 
come. 

is  . one  of 

T he  history  of  the world  has been 
a  history  of  castes  and  classes. 
Gradually  and  painfully  the  masses 
have  challenged 
the  classes,  and 
have  won  recognition  of  rights  that 
they  earn 
belong  to  all  men  when 
them.  Education  was  first  of  the 
classes. 
It  has  been  for  the  few. 
Chiefly  it  has  been  ecclesiastic  and 
aristocratic.  Church 
schools  and 
private  schools  were  for  centuries 
practically  the  only  schools.  T he 
university  and  the  college  grew  up 
in  response  to  the  demand  of 
these 
special  classes.  Their  doors  were 
to  no 
open  to  certain  men  and 
women.  These  men  were,  for  the 
most  part,  those  w ho  did  not  per 
form  the  world's  labor.  T he  world 
still  looked  to  Greece  for  its  ideals 
and  its inspiration.  T he  instruction 
in 
institutions,  therefore,  fol 
lowed  Greek  lines  and  it  necessarily 
little  relation  to  the  daily  life. 
had 
In  fact,  its  divorcement  from 
the 
daily  life  was  really  considered  to 
constitute  much  of 
its  merit,  for 
thereby  it  stood  for  " i d e a l s"  and 
for  culture.  This  type  of  education, 
which 
is  still  adhered  to  in  many 
places,  is at  best  only  a  supplement 
It  is  essentially 
to  the  daily  living. 
exotic;  it  is  an  engraftment  and  an 
acquirement.  T he  history  of  edu 
cation 
for  the  past  t wo  hundred 
years  has been  a  constant  encroach 
ment  of  those  subjects  that  have  re 
lation  to  the  daily  life,  and  a  contin 
uous  resistance  on  the  part  of  the 
Greek 
ideals.  Chemistry  and  nat 
ural  philosophy  fought  their  way in. 
L aw  and  medicine  were  amongst 
the  first  of  the  new subjects  to  gain 

the 

THE  M. A.  C.  RECORD. 

7 

a  foothold.  T he  mechanic 
indus 
tries  found  a  place;  and  finally  agri 
culture  forced  its  way  in.  One  by 
found 
one  the  affairs  of  life  have 
expression  in the  schools.  Little  by 
little,  the  schools  have  come  to  the 
people.  T he  history  of  these  ideas 
may  be  grouped  around  six or  seven 
emphatic  points.  These  may  be 
mentioned. 

idea  found 

( i)  T he  evolution  and  fulfillment 
of  the  idea  that  it  is  the  duty  of  the 
state  to  provide  for  education  for  all 
full 
the  people.  This 
expression  in the wise political  philo 
sophy  of  Jefferson  and  embodiment 
in  the  ordinance  of  1787, organizing 
the  Northwest  Territory. 
It  was 
Jefferson's  conception  that  the  state 
should  provide  for  a  public  school 
system 
that  should  culminate  in  a 
university;  but  it  is  a significant  fact 
that 
that  part  of  his  scheme  that 
reached  fulfillment  was  the  univer 
sity  and  not  the  elementary  schools. 
( 2)  T he  rise of  equal  opportunity 
for  women, 
the  public 
to  whom 
schools  shall  be  open  as freely  as  to 
men.  This  development  of  educa 
tional  ideals  is  not  to  be  confounded 
with  discussion  of  mere  co-educa 
tion, 
is  only  a 
means,  and  it  may  be  desirable  or 
to  circum 
undesirable,  according 
stances;  but  it  is  the  development 
of 
the  emancipation  of  woman,  al 
lowing  her  opportunity. 

for  co-education 

( 3)  T he  gradual  evolution  of  the 
idea  that  the  state,  in  order  to  pro 
tect  itself,  must  compel  its  children 
to  attend  school.  T he great  growth 
of  cities, with  their  hotbeds  of  crime 
and  the  inquisition  of  child 
labor, 
the  whole  subject  of 
has  brought 
compulsory  education 
fore 
with  additional  force. 

to  the 

( 4)  T he  enormous  development 
of  the  scientific  spirit  in  education. 
This  is  primarily  the  result  of  the 
g r o w th  of  scientific  inquiry,  where 
by  we  take  nothing  on  authority, 
but  everything  on  evidence.  T he 
g r o w th  of  the  spirit  of  science  has 
the  accustomed  means 
challenged 
It  has 
whereby  men  are  educated. 
almost  seemed  as  if 
the  scientific 
and  technical  subjects  were  to  drive 
out  the  ancient  language  and  litera 
ture  and  philosophy;  but  we  now 
know  that  whilst  the  new  has  come 
to  stay,  the  old  has  been  revitalized 
and  renewed  and  that  its  efficiency 
as an educational  means  is to  increase 
rather  than  diminish.  E v e ry  sub 
ject  now  is  studied  in  the  scientific 
the  wonderful 
method.  Witness 
transformation 
in  the  writing  and 
the  teaching  of  history,  whereby  the 
methods  of  a generation  ago  already 
are  outlived.  Associated  with  lan 
guage  now  is philology;  with  meta 
physics  is  experimental  psychology. 
E v e ry  educated  man  must  now  have 
some  scientific  training,  else  he  can 
not  think  the  thoughts  of  the  world 
he  lives  in. 
that  some 
I  am  afraid 
institutions  still  turn  out  men  with 
mediaeval  types  of  mind. 

result 

T he  two elements  in an  educational 
system  are,  first,  the 
to  be 
secured,  and,  second,  the  means  or 
the  process  whereby  that  result  is 
attained.  T he  result  is an  educated 
man  or  woman,  the  drawn  out  and 
developed  mind.  T he  means  may 
be  varied  according  to  the  circum 
stances.  Under  the power  of  a  good 
teacher,  a  mind  may  be  educated  by 
means  of  any  subject,  whether  that 
subject  be  Greek,  or  philosophy,  or 
plants,  or  machinery,  or  mathe 
matics,  or  cattle.  Language  and 
calculus  are  no  more  divine 
than 
mechanics  and  potatoes  are.  A ny 
subject  that  appeals  to  a  man's  mind 
is  capable  of  being  made  the  means 

of  drawing  out  and  training  a  man's 
mind;  and  is  there  any  subject  that 
does  not appeal  to some  man's  mind ? 
A ny  subject,  when  put  into  peda 
gogic  form,  may 
lead  to  what  we 
call  " c u l t u r e ."  T he  particular  sub 
ject  with  which  the  person  is  asso 
ciated  is  incidental,  for 

"  A man's a man for a' that 

. 

. 

.  and a' 

that." 

( 5)  Education  has  been  seized  of 
the  missionary  and  altruistic  spirit. 
We  would  not  confine  the  influence 
of  the  college  or  the  university  to 
those  persons  who  have  the  means 
and  desire  to  come  up  and  sit  in  its 
influence.  We  would  extend  its  in 
fluence;  and  thus  has been  born  the 
extension  movement  which 
is  so 
much  a  part  of  our time.  By  means 
of  itinerate  lectures,  publication,  cor 
respondence  courses,  we  are  spread 
ing  the  elevating  and 
fraternizing 
spirit  of  the  colleges  and  universi 
ties.  We  believe 
that  every  man 
and  woman  should  be  touched  with 
the  new  ambition,  and  with  the  new 
that  education  can  awake. 
ideals 
educational 
the 
We  must  carry 
movement  to  every  man's  door;  if 
he  shuts  the  door,  we  must  throw  it 
in  at  the  window. 

in  consonance  with 

( 6)  T he  full  development  of  the 
idea  that  education  should  be  related 
in  some  way  to  the  daily  life.  This 
is a necessary  corollary  of  the  g r o w th 
in  popular  education, 
of  the  belief 
their 
for  most  persons  must  earn 
living,  the  power  to  earn  a  living 
must  be  enhanced,  the  person  must 
feel  some  inspiration  and  some  sat 
isfaction  in  the  life  that  he  himself 
must 
live.  N o w,  to  relate  educa 
is  the 
to  the  person  himself 
tion 
meaning  of  the Land  Grant  of  1862, 
made 
the 
in  the  darkest  days  of 
nation,  born  of  trouble  and  misfor 
tune,  but  the  culmination  of 
long 
years  of  discussion,  whereby  it  was 
discovered  that  education  was  really 
not 
the  daily 
lives  of  the  common  people.  A nd 
what  do  the  common  people  do? 
T h ey  engage  in  farming  and  in  the 
mechanic  arts. 
T h en  we  must 
make  farming  and the  mechanic  arts 
— and 
industries—mean 
more  than  they  have  ever  meant  be 
fore,  to  the  end  that  the  millions  of 
persons  w ho  engage  in  them  may 
lives.  T he  education 
lead 
that  makes  a  people  great  is 
that 
which  enables  a  man  or  a  woman  to 
rise  to  a  higher  place,  whilst  still 
content  with  a  work-a-day  and  per 
haps  a  humble 
life.  We  have 
spoken  much  about  the  ideals  of  ed 
ucation,  but  the  true  philosophy  of 
is  to  idealize  everything  with 
life 
which  we  have  to  do. 

fuller 

the 

all 

cess  lies  not  so  much 
the 
unusual  things, as in  doing  the  usual 
things  unusually  well. 

in  doing 

It 

This  then,  is  the " new  education." 
It  begins  at  home. 
is  best  ex 
pressed  in  the  single  term  "  nature-
study,"  which  is  the  outgrowth  of 
an  effort  to  put  the  child  into  living 
relationship  with  his own  conditions. 
This  would  seem  to  be  the  natural, 
and  necessary  order;  it  is  the  mar 
vel  of  marvels  in  education  that  it  is 
not  so. 

If  all  subjects  have  educational 
value,  is  there,  then,  to  be  no  choice 
of  subjects?  T h e re  certainly  is. 
It 
is  the  end  of  education  that  it  pre 
pares  the  man  or  woman  better 
to 
live.  T he person  must  live  with  his 
environment.  He  must 
live  with 
common  things.  T he  most  import 
ant  means  of  education,  therefore, 
are  those  subjects 
that  are  nearest 
the  man.  Educating  by  means  of 
these  subjects  puts  the man  into  first 
hand  relation  with  his  own  life. 
It 
expands  the  child's  spontaneous  in 
terest  in  his  surroundings  into a  per 
manent  and  abiding  sympathy  and 
I  never  knew 
philosophy  of  life. 
an  exclusive  student  of  classics  or 
philosophy  who did  not  deplore  his 
lack  of 
touch  with  his  own  world. 
T h e se  common  subjects  are  the  nat 
ural,  primary,  fundamental,  neces 
sary  subjects.  Only  as  the  child 
mind  develops  should  it  be  taken  on 
long 
subjects, 
distant  lands,  to  things  far  beyond 
its  own  realm,  and  yet  does  not  our 
teaching  often  still  be 
geography 
gin  with  the  universe,  or  with 
the 
solar  system ? 

to  extrinsic 

flights 

In  the  good  time  coming,  geog 
raphy  will  not  begin  with  a  book  at 
all  (as, in  fact,  it  does  not  now  with 
many  teachers). 
It  may  end  with 
one. 
It  will  begin  with  physical 
features  in the  very  neighborhood  in 
which  the  child  lives,—with  brooks 
and  lakes  and  hills  and 
fields.  Edu 
cation 
should  always  begin  with 
objects  and  phenomena.  We  are 
in  a  text-book  and  museum 
living 
age.  First  of  all,  we  put  our  chil 
into  books  sometimes  even 
dren 
into  books 
the 
tell 
very  things  at  the  child's  door,  as if 
a  book  about  a  thing  were  better 
itself.  So  accus 
than 
tomed  are  we  to  the  book-route  that 
we  regard  any  other  route  as  unsys 
tematic,  unmethodical,  disconnected. 
Books  are  only  secondary  means  of 
education.  We  have  made  the  mis 
take  of  making 
This  mistake  we  are  rapidly  correct 
ing.  As  the  book  is relegated  to  its 
proper  sphere,  we  shall 
find  our 
selves  free  to begin  with  the  familiar 
end  of  familiar  things. 

the  thing 

primary. 

about 

them 

that 

I  break 

Do  I  raise  sugar  cane?  T h en  let 
me  know  how  sugar  cane  grows. 
Let  me  analyze  its  complex  struct 
ure,  see  its  cells,  unravel  its  fabric, 
follow  the juice  from  the  earth  un 
til,  kissed  by  the  sun  and  blessed  by 
the  rain,  they  are  full  of  their  magic 
sweetness.  L et  me  know  the  soil, 
it  is 
whence  it  came  and  of  what 
composed.  L et  me  understand 
the 
thousand  forces  that  I  set  at  work 
when 
the  plow. 
Let  me  study  its  chemical  and  its 
physical  changes.  L et  me  see  the 
myriads  of  micro-organisms 
that 
touch  it into  the breath  of  life.  A nd 
as  I  follow  the  furrow,  let  me  feel 
the  kindly  warmth  of  the  sun on  my 
cheek  and  catch  the  song  of  a  bird 
as  it  flies  over  my  head  and  is  gone. 
the 
Let  me  know  all 
sugar-cane,  and 
the 
sugar-cane.  A nd  I  will  so  improve 
my  methods  that  I  will  revolution 
ize  my  sugar-making.  One's  suc 

this  about 
love 

I  shall 

it  with 

the  children  at 

H ow  unrelated  much  of  our  teach 
ing  is  to  the daily  life  is  well  shown 
the 
by  inquiries  recently  made  of 
children  of  N ew  Jersey  by  Pro 
fessor  Earl  Barnes. 
Inquiries  were 
made  of  the  country  school  children 
of  the  state  as  to what  vocation  they 
intended  to  follow.  As  I  recall  the 
figures,  of 
seven 
years  of  age,  twenty-six  per  cent 
desired  to  follow  some  occupation 
life.  Of 
connected  with  country 
those  at  fourteen  years,  only 
t wo 
per  cent  desired  such  occupation. 
This 
remarkable  falling  off  P r o 
fessor  Barnes  ascribes  in  part  to  the 
influence  of  the  teacher  in  the  coun 
try  schools,  who  is  usually  a  town 
or  city  girl.  T he  teacher  measures 
everything 
terms  of  the  city. 
She  talks  of  the  city.  S he  returns 
to  the  city  at  the  end  of  the  week. 
In  the  meantime,  all  the  beauty  and 
attractiveness  and  opportunity  of  the 
country  are  unsuggested.  Uncon 

in 

sciously,  both  to  teacher  and  pupil, 
the  minds  of  the  children  are  turned 
towards  the  city.  T h e re  results  a 
constant  migration  to the city,  bring 
ing  about  serious  social  and  economic 
problems;  but  the  serious  part  of  it, 
from  the  educational  point  of  view, 
is  the  fact  that  the  school  training 
unfits  the  child  to  live  in  its  normal 
It  is  often 
and  natural  environment. 
said 
college 
the  agricultural 
trains  the  youth  from  the  farm;  the 
fact  is  that  the  mischief  usually 
is 
done  long  before  the  youth  enters 
college. 

that 

to  raise 

Let  me  give  another  illustration 
of  the  fact  that  dislike  of  country 
life  is  bred  very  early  in  the  life  of 
In  a  certain  rural  school 
the  child. 
in  N ew  Y o rk  State  of  say  forty.five 
pupils,  I  asked  all  those  children 
that 
lived  on  farms  to  raise  their 
hands;  all  hands  but  one  went  up. 
then  asked  all  those  who  wanted 
I 
to  live  on  the  farm 
their 
hands;  only  that  one  hand  went  up. 
N o w,  these  children  were  too  y o u ng 
to  feel  the  appeal  of  more  bushels 
of  potatoes  or  more  pounds  of  wool, 
yet  they  had  this  early  formed  their 
dislike  of  the  farm.  Some  of 
this 
dislike  is  probably  only an  ill-defined 
desire  for  a  mere  change,  such  as 
one  finds 
in  all  occupations,  but  I 
am  convinced  that  the  larger  part  of 
it  was  a  genuine  dissatisfaction  with 
farm  life.  These  children  felt  that 
their  lot  was  less attractive  than  that 
of  other  children;  I  concluded  that a 
flower  garden  and  a  pleasant  yard 
would  do  more  to content  them  with 
living  on  the  farm  than  ten  more 
bushels  of  wheat  to  the  acre.  Of 
course,  it  is  the  greater  and  better 
yield  that  will  enable  the  farmer  to 
supply  these  amenities;  but  at  the 
same 
time  it  must  be  remembered 
that  the  increased  yield  itself  does 
not  awaken  a  desire  for 
I 
interesting 
should  make  farm 
before  I  make  it  profitable. 

them. 

life 

T he  " n ew  education"  would  not 
depreciate 
the  value  of  Greek  and 
Latin  and  the "humanities;"  rather, 
it  would  enlarge  and  urge 
t h e m; 
but  it  would  begin  with  things  with 
in  the  child's  realm,  and  gradually 
lead  on  and  out. 
If  we  are to  inter 
est  persons  we  must  begin  by  touch 
ing  the  things  that  touch  their  lives. 
W h e re  there  is  one  person  that 
is 
in  philology,  there  are 
interested 
thousands 
in 
that 
wheat.  From  the educational  point 
of  view,  the  wheat  is  itself  of 
little 
consequence;  but  the men that  g r ow 
wheat  muft  be  reached.  T h e re  are 
five  millions  of  farms  in  the  United 
States  on  which  chickens  are  raised, 
lots 
and  millions  of  city  and  village 
also where  they  are raised. 
I  would 
teach  chickens. 
I  would  reach  Men 
by  means  of  the  Old  H e n. 

interested 

are 

is 

T he  role  of  the  College  of  Agri 
culture  of  the  future  is  to  be  much 
more  than  an affair  of  teaching  mere 
agriculture. 
It  must  be  concerned 
with  the  whole  question  of  the  rural 
larger 
schools,  and  this  question 
than  any  political  or  economic  ques 
tion  now  before  our  people.  Not  if 
I  had  the  power  would  I  force  agri 
culture  into  the  elementary  schools, 
any  more  than  I  would  force  in  law 
or  medicine  or  engineering;  but  I 
would  teach  the  child  in  terms  of  its 
the 
daily  life,  and 
country  child,  are  plants  and 
field 
and  animals  and  crops  and  woods 
and  weather.  .  It  is  especially  im 
posed  upon  us  w ho  are  connected 
with  the land-grant  colleges  to  teach 
in  this  spirit,  for  the  real  meaning 
of  that  munificent  grant  was  to  re 
late education  to living.  T h at  grant 
was  a  protest  against  the older  edu-

these  terms,  for 

8 

THE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

cation. 
college 
T he  agricultural 
must  not  only  teach  college  students; 
it  must  set  for  itself 
to 
reach  the  last  man,  last  child,  on  the 
last  farm. 

the  purpose 

ALUMNI  LIST. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Alumni  and 
old  students  who  attended  the  reunion  so 
far  as  the  names  can  be  ascertained. 

W h e re  are  those  who  will  ask  for 
this  new  education  ?  Better  ask 
where  are  they  not.  T h ey  are  mil 
In  this  one  fair  land  of  ours 
lions. 
the  farmers  are  more  numerous  than 
all 
the  population  of  many  king 
doms.  T h ey  are  as  the  sands of  the 
sea.  T h ey  are  as  the  trees  in 
the 
forest.  T h ey  are  as  the  corn  on  the 
prairie,  and  behold! 
is 
white  for 
the  harvest!  We  have 
developed  the  city.  T i me  is  come 
when  we  must  develop  the  country. 
T he  city  is  made  of  the  streams  that 
accumulate  from  a  thousand 
rills 
lying  far  back  on 
the  virgin  hills 
under  the  blue  sky.  As  the  sources 
are,  so  the  stream  will  be.  We 
must  save  the  country  because  it  is 
the  country  and  also  because  it  is 
the  mother  of  the  city. 

field 

the 

W h e re  are 

they  ?  On  hill,  in 
dale,  on  the  summits  close  under  the 
the 
sky,  on  the  long  low  reaches  of 
tide,  on  prairie  and  desert,  and 
in 
the  forest,from  lake to gulf  and  ocean 
to  ocean,  from  the  cloud-rift  of  the 
mountain  to  the  level  of  the  sea,— 
It  is  our  old  con 
there  are  they! 
ceit  that  the  planets  as  they  swing 
through  space  give  voice  to  a  sweet 
and  mighty  music  too  silent  and  too 
loud  for  human  ear  to  hear. 
It  is 
the  symphony  of  a  perfected  order 
I  like  to  think  of  this  great 
liness 
population,  scattered  near  and 
far 
under  the  mighty  heaven,  as  a  hu 
man  cosmos,  as  yet  untouched,  un 
ordered  and  unsymphonized.  Be  it 
ours  to  do  our  part  so  well  that  the 
the 
coming  generation  may  catch 
contented  hum  of  all  these 
toiling 
multitudes! 

Not  only  must  we  begin  with  the 
common  and  homely  subjects,  but 
we  must  begin  also  with  the 
low 
liest  and  homeliest  school. 
In  order 
to  increase  efficiency,  weak  districts 
must  be  consolidated;  but  wherever 
and  whatever  the  school  is, there  the 
things  of 
its  neighborhood  should 
be  taught.  There  are  plants  and 
birds  and  domestic  animals,  weather 
and  fields  and  brooks,  people  and 
societies  and  institutions.  T he  be 
ginnings  of  geography  and  natural 
history  and  economics  and  politics 
and  history  may  be  found 
in  every 
community.  Unlike  any  other  in 
stitution 
the  school  brings  all  the 
people  of  any  community  together. 
Let  this  school  discuss  the  common-
day  problems; 
then  every  school 
house  will  have  a  voice,  and  it  will  . 
say,  I  teach! 

I teach 
The  earth  and  soil 
To them that toil, 
The hill and fen 
To common men 

That live just here. 

The plants that grow, 
The winds that blow, 
The streams that  run 
In rain  and sun 

Throughout the year. 

And then I lead 
Through  wood and  mead, 
Through mold and sod, 
Out unto God 

With love and cheer, 
I teach! 

Prof.  W a h ey  Matsura, 

'96W, 
professor  of  mechanical  engineering 
in  the  T o k yo  College  of  Technol 
ogy,  T o k yo  K o g yo  Gakko,  J a p a n, 
wrote  to  the  College  recently  ex 
pressing  his  regret  that  he  would  be 
unable  to  attend  the  reunion. 

1860 

M.  D.  Chatterton,  Lansing 
A.  G.  Gunnison,  Gunnisonville 
A.  E.  Macomber,  Toledo,  O. 

H.  H.  Jenison,  Eagle 

1867 

1868 

A.  G.  Gulley,  Storrs,  Conn. 
G.  F.  Beasley,  Detroit 
D.  A.  Harrison,  Kalamazoo 

1869 

J.  Satterlee,  Greenville 
J.  S.  Strange,  Grand  Ledge 

1871 
Henry  P.  Halsted,  Perry 
John  J.  Kerr,  Glasgow,  Mon. 

W.  C.  H u m e,  Corunna 

1873 

1874 

Augustus  S.  H u m e,  Lansing 

W.  L.  Carpenter,  Lansing 

1875 

1876 

W.  W.  Bemis,  Ionia 
R.  A.  Clark,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
W.  Caldwell,  Commerce 
G.  L.  Stannard,  Clarksville 
J.  E.  Taylor,  Belding 
S.  P.  Tracy,  Walkerton,  Ind. 
J.  Brassington,  Hart 

E.  D.  Brooks,  Ann  Arbor 
C.  B.  F.  Bangs,  Charlotte 
W.  B.  Jakways,  South  Bend,  Ind. 

• 

1877 

L.  A.  Lilly,  Allegan 
C.T.  Goodwin,  Ionia 
J.  A.  Poucher,  Morenci 
W.  C.  Latta,  Lafayette,  Ind. 

F.  S.  Kedzie,  Lansing 

1878 

C.  J.  Strang,  Sherrard,  111. 
E.  D.  A.  True,  Hillsdale 
A.  A.  Robinson,  Detroit 
J.  Troop,  Lafayette,  Indiana 
W.  K.  Prudden,  Lansing 
H.  F.  Buskirk,  Wayland 
H.  E.  E m m o n s,  Detroit 
W.  S.  Holdsworth,  Agricultural  College 

E.  Davenport,  Urbana,  Illinois 
F.  E.  Skeels,  Harrietta 
H.  V.  Clark,  Reading 
Eugene  Gregory,  Battle  Creek 

1879 

Mrs.  E va  D. 

(Coryell)  McBain,  Grand 

Rapids 

C.  E.  Sumner,  Toledo,  O. 

1881 

A.  B.  Turner,  South  Bend,  Ind. 
C.  A.  Dockstader,  Centreville 
E.  C.  McKee,  Laingsburg 

1882 

L.  Avery,  Port  Huron 
W.  L.  Snyder,  Detroit 
J.  E.  Coulter,  Grand  Rapids 
Alice  W e ed  Coulter,  Grand  Rapids 
L.  B.  Hall,  Grand  Rapids 
W.  T.  Langley,  Lafayette,  Indiana 
L.  H.  Bailey,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
W.  H.  Coffron,  Grindstone  City 
E.  A.  Murphy,  Ionia 
W.  E.  Hale,  Eaton  Rapids 

1883 

C.  P.  Bush,  Louisville,  Ky. 
A.  C.  Bird,  Agricultural  College 
O.  C.  H o w e,  Lansing 
H.  W.  Collingwood,  N ew  York  City 
E.  P.  Clarke,  St.  Joseph 
A.  M.  Emery,  Lansing 
E.  F.  Law.  Port  Huron 
W.  A.  Bahlke,  Alma 
Mrs.  Frank  (Wheeler)  Benton,  Washington, 

D.  C. 

1884 

J.  I.  Breck,  Jackson 
J.  J.  Bush,  Lansing 
C.  C.  Lillie,  Coopersville 
M.  A.  Jones.  Lansing 

1885 

C.  B. Collingwood,  Agricultural  College 
H.  M.  Wells,  Howell 
P.  G.  Towar,  Lansing 
H.  E.  Thomas,  Lansing 
A.  F.  Miller,  Swartz  Creek 

1886 
J.  E.  Hammond,  Lansing 
W.  H.  d e m o n s,  Durand 
Jennie  Towar  Whitmore,  North  Lansing 
W.  K.  Clute,  Ionia 

1887 

W.  C.  Hall,  Grand  Rapids 
I.  B.  Bates,'Flint 
G.  J.  Hume,  Okemos 
W.  C.  Sanson,  Clifford 
E.  A.  Burnett,  Lincoln,  N e b. 

1888 

H.  B.  Cannon,  Washington,  Mich. 
L.  A.  Bregger,  Bangor 
A.  B.  Goodwin,  Carson  City 
G.  F.  Stow,  Fowler 

1889 

A.  G.  Wilson,  Mason 
A.  L.  Marhoff,  Battle  Creek 
A.  Moore,  Port  Huron 
D.  P.  Yerkes,  Milford 
E.  N.  Pagelsen,  Detroit 
D.  Anderson,  Paw  Paw 
P.  G.  Holden,,Ames,  l a. 
E.  A.  Holden,  Lansing,  Mich. 
W.  Curtis,  Kewanee,  111. 
R.  S.  Baker,  Agricultural  College 
W.  Lightbody,  Detroit 
R.  H.  Wilson,  Aurelius 
G.  L.  Chase,  Detroit 

1890 

Jessie  Beal  Baker,  Agricultural  College 
J.  R.  McColl,  Lafayette,  Ind. 
W.  Babcock,  Agricultural  College 
F.  G.  Clark,  Lansing 

1891 

Mrs.  Eugene  Davenport,  Urbana,  111. 
G.  A.  Waterman,  Agricultural  College 
H.  W.  Mumford,  Urbana,  111. 
E.  P.  Safford,  Hillsdale 
W.  O.  Hedrick,  Agricultural  College 
C.  F.  Wheeler,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Jessie  Foster  Sweeney,  Newark,  N.  J. 
A.  F.  Gordon,  Lansing 

1892 

G.  Elmer,  Ewing 
D.  N.  Stowell,  Woodland 
A.  N.  Bateman,  Dimondale 

1893 

A.  B.  Cook,  Owosso 
Kate  Cook  Briggs,  Washington,  D.  C. 
L.  Whitney  Watkins,  Manchester 
Daisy  Champion,  Lansing 
A.  B.  Chase,  Kalamazoo 
H.  M.  Goss,  Agricultural  College 
U.  P.  Hedrick,  Agricultural  College 
E.  C.  Peters,  Saginaw 
J.  Perrien,  Detroit 
E.  B.  Hale,  Caledonia 
R.  C.  Bristol,  Saginaw 
S.  J.  Blake,  Conneaut,  O. 
D.  S.  Cole,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Lucy  Clute  Woodworth,  Austin,  111. 
Mrs. Jennie  Cowley  Smith,  Agricultural  Col 

lege 

Mrs  L.  C.  Gibbs,  Lansing 

1894 

W.  K.  Sagendorph,  Jackson 
J.  D.  Nies,  Chicago 
R.  S.  Campbell,  Port  Huron 
L.  F.  Newell,  Agricultural  College 
M.  F.  Loomis,  Saginaw 
C.  Newman,  Agricultural  College 

E.  C.  Crawford,  Agricultural  College 

1895 

M.  W  Fulton,  Detroit 
C.  H  Robison,  Milan 
F.  Johnson,  Detroit 
C.  P.  Close,  Newark,  Del. 
T.  Smith,  Isabella,  T e n n. 
W.  C.  Stebbins,  Petoskey 
L.  H.  VanWormer,  Lansing 
C.  H.  Alvord,  Camden 
C.  Tallman,  Belding 

1896 

H.  E.  Smith,  Lansing 
R.  E  Doolittle,  Lansing 
J.  T.  Berry,  Belding 
J.  F.  Nellist,  Grand  Rapids 
Bertha  M.  Wellman,  Agricultural  College 

1897 

E.  Shaw,  Vassar 
A.  T.  Cartland,  Bath 
H.  E.  Van  Norman,  Lafayette,  Ind. 
J.  W.  Rigterink,  Freeport 
C.  F.  Herrmann,  Lansing 
W.  A  Quick,  Nashville 

1898 

R.  E.  Morrow,  Central  Lake 
R.  J  Robb,  Mason 
Jeannette  Carpenter,  Agricultural  College 
H  C.  Skeels,  Joliet,  111. 
W.  J.  Merkel,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
F.  W.  Robison,  Agricultural  College 
G..Campbell,  Maple  Rapids 
F.  V.  Warren,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
G.  F.  Richmond,  Ann  Arbor 

Pearl  Kedzie  Plant,  Peoria,  111. 
Charles  A.  Gower,  Lansing 

1899 

A.  T.  Swift,  Grand  Rapids 
S.  F.  Edwards,  Agricultural  College 
F.  E.  West,  Alma 
W.  K.  Brainerd,  Chesaning 
Mrs.  Tressie  Bristol  Ranney,  Belding 
G.  N.  Gould,  Saranac 
D.  E.  Hoag,  Detroit 

1900 

H.  A.  Williams,  Grand  Ledge 
C.  H.  Hilton,  Benton  Harbor 
A.  E.  Lyons,  Lansing 
W.  T.  Parks,  Grand  Rapids 
H.  E.  Price,  Lansing 
G.  B.  Wells,  Ithaca 
J.  R.  Thompson,  Grand  Rapids 
P.  Thayer,  Benton  Harbor 
Irma  G.  Thompson,  South  H a v en 
E.  W.  Ranney,  Belding 
W.  Ball,  Grand  Rapids 
H.  S.  Reed,  Lansing 
Clara  Stocoum,  Ionia 
Coral  Havens,  Lansing 
W.  J.  Glasgow,  Grand  Rapids 
D.  C.  Pierson,  Hadley 
Mrs.  Thorn  Smith,  Isabella,  T e n n. 

1901 

Vesta  Woodbury,  St.  Johns 
Alice  M.  Gunn,  Agricultural  College 
Celia  A.  Harrison,  Adrian 
H.  T.  Thomas,  Lansing 
C.  W.  H a v e n,  Painesville,  Ohio 
F.  L.  Radford,  Lansing 
J.  G.  Aldrich,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
N.  A.  McCune,  Berea,  Ky. 
V.  M.  Shoesmith,  Manhattan,  Kansas 
C.  P.  Reed,  Howell 
R.  M.  Norton,  Port  Huron 
A.  H.  Hayes,  Allegheny,  Pa. 
G.  C.  Humphrey,  Agricultural  College 
F.  A.  Bach,  Sebewaing 
D.  B.  Jewell,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Fleta  Paddock,  Saginaw 
W.  W.  Wells,  Agricultural  College 
M.  L.  Ireland,  Washington,  D.  C. 
R.  A.  Whitney,  Jamestown 
H.  P.  Baker,  Washington,  D.  C. 
H.  J.  Eustace,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 
A.  L.  Mc  Louth,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
D.  B.  Finch,  Tecumseh 
J.  L.  S.  Kendrick,  Saginaw 
C.  E  Havens,  Lansing 
W.  M.  Treadwell,  Ann  Arbor 
Deborah  Garfield,  Grand  Rapids 

1902 

E.  I.  Dail.  Detroit 
J.  A.  Dunford,  Detroit 
N.  B.  Horton,  Fruit  Ridge 
H.  E.  Young,  Huntington,  Ind. 
Clara  Waterman,  Grand  Rapids 
Burt  Wermuth,  Agricultural  College 
H.  K.  Patriarche,  Agricultural  College. 
G.  D.  Francisco,  Monessen,  Pa. 
Harriet  A.  Farrand,  Lansing 
Gertrude  L.  Van  Loo,  Zeeland 
H.  G.  Driskel,  Cleveland,  O. 
J.  F.  Baker,  Washington,  D.  C. 
E.  D.  Searing,  Fort  Collins,  Colo. 

D.  W.  Smith,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
M.  A.  Crosby,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Marguerite  A.  Nolan,  Mio 
L.  Carrier,  Agricultural  College 
0.  H,  Skinner,  Agricultural  College 
Mabel  C.  Severance,  Livingston,  Ala. 
E.  A.  Richmond,  Baldwin 
1.  Gingrich,  South  Bend,  Ind. 
W.  S.  Palmer,  Kalkaska 
A.  J.  Decker,  Cleveland,  O. 
Mrs.  R.  J.  Robb,  Mason 

O w i ng  to  the  difficulty  of  getting 
together  the  large  number  of  alum 
ni,  many  of 
the  alumni  were  not 
present  for  the  photograph. 

T he  mechanical  department 

re 
cently  received  a  very  cordial  letter 
from  Professor  E.  D.  P a r t r i d g e, 
'967W,  of  Proval,  Utah,  expressing 
his  regret  that  he  would  not  be  able 
to  be  on  the  campus  at  commence 
ment  time  and  extending  regards  of 
Mrs.  Partridge  and  himself 
to  M. 
A.  C.  friends. 

Messrs.  Matt.  Crosby  and  Fred 
Baker  of  1902  came  to  M.  A.  C, 
for  a  few  days.  M r.  Baker  will  re 
main  in  Lansing  this  week. 

T HE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

9 

what  God  and  nature 
evidently 
intend;  i.  e.  an  exactly  equal  and 
fair  opportunity  for  the  application 
of  labor  to  the  materials  of  nature 
for  the  production  of 
those  things 
which  men  need,  or  which, in  their 
right  minds,  they  consider  desirable. 
It  will  not  be  necessary  for  men 
these 
and  women  to  worry  about 
things  when  all 
the 
production  and  exchange  of  useful 
objects  has  been abolished,  and  when 
each  man's  full  and  complete  title  to 
that  which  he  by  his  labor  has  pro 
duced  is  fully  acknowledged  and, 
by  society,  supported. 

that  restricts 

"  T h ou  shaft  eat  thy  bread  by  the 
sweat  of  thy  brow  "  was  meant  for 
all  men,  not  for  some  men;  but  this 
curse  or  command,  call  it  what  you 
will,  was 
the  accompaniment  of  a 
gift  to  all  the  children  of  man  of  a 
place  in  which  to  work  and  materials 
fruitful 
with  which 
land  teeming with  productive  power 
and  stored  with  useful  minerals. 
It 
is  only  by  reason  of  man's  own  vio 
lation  of  divine  law  that  some  do  all 
the  sweating  and  have  little  bread, 
while  others  perspire  not,  yet  have 
bread  to  waste. 

to  w o r k;  the 

CONCERNING  SPECIAL 
COURSES. 

if  you 

the  money; 

If  you  want  to  travel  over  coun 
try  roads;  buy  an  automobile,  if  you 
cannot 
have 
afford  an  " a u t o ,"  buy  a  bicycle. 
the  end  of  your 
You  will  reach 
journey  quite  as  quickly  with 
the 
latter,  but  you  will  have 
to  work 
harder. 

If  you  want  to  succeed  in  life  on 
the  farm,  take  a  four  or  five  year 
course  in  agriculture  at  this  College. 
If  you  cannot  possibly  spare 
the 
long 
time  and  money 
courses  take  one  of  the  short  courses, 
beginning  J a n u a ry  5th,  1904,  for 
either  six  or  twelve  weeks,  as  your 
circumstances  will  permit. 

these 

for 

F or  the  course  in  live  stock  and 
general 
farming  no  examinations 
are  required,  but  you  will  get  train 
ing  in  soils  and  how  to  handle  them, 
crops  and  how  to  grow  them,  in 
cluding  the  treatment  of  fungus  and 
insect  diseases,  in  judging,  selecting, 
feeding,  breeding,  and  caring 
for 
flocks  and  herds,  treating  sick  ani 
mals,  building  siloes,  and  making 
butter.  You  will  learn  how  to  bud, 
graft,  prune,  and  care  for  orchards 
and  vineyards.  T he  business  side 
of  farm  life  will  receive  attention  in 
a  course  of  lectures  and  exercises  on 
the  "  L aw  as  Related  to  F a r m s ,"  on 
bookkeeping, on  birds, insects,  wood 
lots,  home  economy  and  home  deco 
rations. 

the  time  and  will 

T he  fees  are  low,  not  exceeding 
$5.00,  board  and  room  rent  will  not  ' 
exceed  $3.50  per  week. 
If  you  can 
stay  twelve  weeks  you  will  be  busy 
all 
learn  much 
that  will  be  helpful  to  you  in  your 
in  making 
business,  that  will  aid 
you  a  happier  man  and  a  better  citi 
zen.  No  matter  whether  you  own 
a  farm  or  work  by  the  month  on 
one, 
these 
special  courses  will  be  the  best  in 
vestment  you  will  make  during  the 
year. 

the  money 

spent 

in 

PREPARE 

FOR  HOUSE  CLEANING 
By getting Galvanized Pails, 
Mops, Scrub  Brushes,  Car 
pet  Beaters,  Step  Ladders, 
Floor  and  House  Paint. 
Come to us.  We can supply 
your  wants  and  want  your 
* 
trade. 

« 

NORTON'S 
HARDWARE 

1U  W a s h i n g t on  Ave.  S. 

Furniture... 
Headquarters 

COriPLETE  LINE  OF 

FURNITURE'FOR 

STUDENTS'  ROOMS 

Canvas  Cots  at  95c.  W o v en  W i re 
Cots  at  $1.50.  W o v en  Wire 
and 
Springs  at  $1.50,  $2.00, 
$2.50.  Mattresses  at  $2.00,  $2.50 
and  $3.00.  Tables  at  $1.50  and 
$1.35. 

Chairs  at  50c  up. 

All  goods  delivered 

to  your  room  free. 

M. J. & B.  M.  Buck. 

gig* Simons  Dry Goods Co.  £& 

GRAND  SHOWING  OF 

New  Carpets,  Rugs,  Curtains, 

Mattings  and  Fiber  Carpets. 

SPECIAL  LINE  OF  ORIENTAL  DRAPERY  STUFFS  FOR 

DENS  AND  COZY  CORNERS. 

Come in  and  See the  New  Room  Furnishings. 

S^  Simons  Dry  Goods Co.  £)£ 

Nothing  but the  Latest  Styles 

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find  place  in  our 

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Hat  and  Shirt  Stocks 

At  present  the  showing  is  the  best  as  the  stock 

is  complete  in 

every  detail,  and  we  would  be  pleased  to  have  you 

come 

in  and 
you  do  not  desire  to  purchase. 

look  them  over  even  though 

Students'  Patronage  Solicited. 

Elgin  Mifflin. 

Men's  Oxfords, 

s  We  have  all  the  n ew 

> s t y l e s,  in  patent  leather, 

i  vici  kid  or  box  calf.  Made 

S in 

light,  medium 

and 

h e a vy  soles  at  t he  uni= 

form  price, 

No  examinations  are  required  of 
the  person  w ho  desires  to  take  the 
creamery  course  but  he  will  not  be 
admitted  until  he  has  had  an  exper 
ience  of,  at  least,  one  season 
in  a 
creamery. 
In  this  course  the  time 
is  occupied  for  the  most  part  in  the 
butter  room  and  in  the  study  of  the 
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$3.50  a  Pair. 

<Z. ID.  DtftOObbur?, 

JtooUisterJSlocft. 

WHY  DO  WE  CONSTRUCT 
AND USE MACHINERY. 
BY  FRED  J.  MILLER. 

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Probably  no  one  thing  is  produc 
ing  so  profound  and  far  reaching  an 
effect  upon  the  lives  and  the  happi 
ness  of  human  beings  as  is  the  con 
stant 
invention  and  perfecting  of 
machinery  that  is  all  the  time  going 
on,  especially  here  in  America. 
It 
seems  to  me  natural,  therefore,  that 
one  who  is  in  any  way  concerned  in 
this  art  and  science  of  machine  con 
struction  should  be  led  to  consider 
w h at 
the 
it  all  means;  whether 
resultant  of  all  the  forces  thus  set  in 
motion 
is  really  upward  or  down 
w a r d;  i.  e.,  whether  or  not  it  is  for 
the  greatest  good 
to  the  greatest 
number  and  what  the  law  of  pro 
gress  may  be. 

Is  our  custom  of  granting  patents 
beneficent  or  pernicious?  A re 
its 
results  on  the  whole  good  or  bad? 
W h en 
large  numbers  of  men  and 
women,  especially  those  who  have 
been  trained  by  years  of  experience 
to  do  only  one  t h i n g;  to  form 
a 
single  link 
in  the  industrial  chain, 
are  displaced  by  the  introduction  of 
to 
a  new  machine,  is  the  benefit 
humanity  at  large  sufficient  to  offset 
the  harm  which 
is  undoubtedly 
done 
to  individuals  at  such  times? 
Is  machinery  a  curse  or  is it  a  bless 
ing?  T h e re  are  many  sincere  and 
thoughtful  persons  w ho  believe  that 
it  is  always  and  necessarily  a  curse; 
others  believe  that  it  is  so  only  under 
present  conditions  and  that  under 
other  conditions  it  would  prove  an 
unmixed  blessing. 

is  directly 

It  seems  quite  natural  that  one 
w ho 
responsible  for  a 
portion  of  the  work  of  developing 
machinery  should  be  led  to  consider 
its  effects  upon  his  fellow-men  and 
perhaps  it  is  equally  natural  that  he 
should  seek  to  rind  the  best  possible 
arguments  in  favor  of  the  doing  of 
finds 
that  which 
himself  impelled  to  do. 

in  any  event  he 

In 

relationships 

so  complex  as 
those  of  modern  life,  with  so  many 
forces  and  influences  acting  and  re 
acting  upon  each  other,  here  a  group 
combining  to  produce  a  cumulative 
•effect  and  there  a  force  seeming 
to 
oppose  or  offset  another,  it  is  diffi 
cult 
if  not  impossible  to  trace  the 
ultimate  effect  of  a  given  force  and 
is 
to  decide  whether  or  • not 
finally  to  be  placed  to  the  credit  of 
one  side  or  to  that  of  the  other. 

it 

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Especially  is  it  necessary  to  solve 
t he  great  problem  of  how  each  of 
God's  children  shall  have  vouch 
safed  to  him  by  society,  not  a  living 
but  the  equal  and  free  opportunity 
to  make  for  himself,  by  his  own 
effort  and  in  his  own  way  so  far  as 
is  consistent  with  the  equal  rights  of 
others,  such  a living  as  will  best  suit 
his  tastes  and  ambitions. 

the 

Perhaps  I  shall  shock  some  w h o, 
in  this  materialistic  age  give 
little 
thought  to such  things,  but  neverthe 
fully 
less  I  believe^actually  and 
believe —  that  when 
great 
Teacher  said  " T a ke  no  thought  for 
the  morrow,  what  ye  shall  eat  or 
wherewithal ye  shall  be  clothed"  he 
uttered  not  a  parable,  nor  a  trans 
to  be 
cendental 
this  so-called 
practical^'  applied 
hard,  cold,  cruel  world,  but  that  He 
t a u g ht 
that  which  can  be  and  some 
day  will  be  the  universal  rule  of 
conduct.  T h at  will  be  when  our 
minds  have  been  effectively  directed 
to  the  solution  of  the  problem  of 
•how  to  secure  for  each  human  being 

impossible 

idea 

in 

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T HE  M.  A.  C.  RECORD. 

CONCERNING  SPECIAL 
COURSES. 
(Continued from page nine.) 

Babcock 
test,  engine  and  boiler, 
bacteriology,  business  methods  and 
the  care  of  the  cow.  This  course, 
also, lasts  either  six  or  twelve  weeks 
as  the  student  may  elect. 

T he  Cheese  Course  comes 

later 

and  lasts  four  weeks  only. 

F or  circulars  or  information  write 
to  Clinton  D.  Smith,  Dean  of  Special 
Courses,  A g r i c u l t u r al  College, 
Michigan. 

PROCEEDINGS  OF  STATE 
BOARD. 

T he  State  Board  of  Agriculture 
during  its  meeting  at  the  College, 
commencement  week,  attended 
to 
several  matters  of  general  interest. 

the 

U p on 

recommendation  of 
Pres.  Snyder  two  special  courses  of 
six  weeks'  length  will  be  given  next 
winter  at  the  conclusion  of  the  reg 
ular  short  courses.  T he  additional 
courses  will  be  in  reality  a  continua 
tion  of 
the  first  six 
weeks. 

the  w o rk  of 

T he  experiment  station  commit 
tee  was  authorized  to visit  the  U p p er 
Peninsula  station.  Secretary  Brown 
was  authorized 
install  electric 
to 
light  meters  and  to  call  for  bids  for 
the  construction  of 
tunnels  for  the 
new  heating  system.  M r.  Floyd 
W.  Robison  was  made  a  member  of 
the  station  council. 

instructor 

Mr.  Richard  Hopkins,  a  graduate 
of 
the  Iowa  Agricultural  College 
was  made  instructor  in  mathematics 
and  civil  engineering.  Mr.  William 
J.  Carrell  was  made 
in 
mathematics.  Prof.  E.  S.  Brewer, 
of  Albion,  was  elected  director  of 
physical  training.  By  action  of  the 
Board  Mrs.  Mae  M.  Gingles  will 
take  charge  of  Mrs.  Haner's  work 
next  year.  Miss  Helen  St.  J o h n, 
of  Toledo,  was  elected  additional 
instructor 
in  sewing.  T he  Board 
made  an  arrangement  whereby  Prof. 
Weil  will  remain  head  of  the  me 
chanical  department. 

COLLEGE  Y.  M.  C. 

SECRETARY. 

student 
ranked  high 

After  due  deliberation,  the  com 
mittee  having  in  charge  the  securing 
of  a  college  secretary  for  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  has  selected  Mr.  Burt  W e r-
muth,  '02.  Mr.  W e r m u th  has  been 
at  the  College  a  part  of  the  year  as 
in  horti 
a  post-graduate 
culture.  He 
in  his 
classes  while  an  undergraduate,  and 
represented  the  College  in  the  State 
Oratorical  Contest  in 
i c p ^ ^ - He  is 
popular  with  all  and  should  prove  a 
good  secretary.  Mr.  W e r m u th  will 
the  fund 
be  paid  his  salary  out  of 
raised  by  subscription  by  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  committee  having  in  hand  this 
matter.  $450  was  subscribed  by 
professors  and  instructors  and  over 
$200  by  students.  W i th  the  regular 
dues  from  members,  $900  and  per 
haps  $1000  will  be  available  for  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  work  next  year. 

Mr.  W e r m u th  together  with  Mr. 
O.  B.  Burrell, J.  W.  Decker,  A.  B. 
Rogers,  H.  R ay  Kingsley  and  L. 
M c W r t hy  are  attending  the  meet 
ings 
for  Y.  M.  C.  A.  workers  at 
Lakeside,  Ohio. 

B  <rn,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  W. 
Robison,  on  June  19'h,  a  daughter. 

Prof. Jeffery's  father  and  mother 
left  yesterday  morning  for  the  West 
after  an  extended  visit  with  Prof. 
Jeffery. 

THE  JEWETT  &  KNAPP  STORE 

unsino's  LOW Priced  Reliable store 

E v e ry  Department  full  of  New  S p r i ng  Goods. 

N ew  Dress  Goods,  Silks,  Laces,  Gloves,  Hosiery,  Underwear,  Silk 
and  Cotton  Shirt  Waists,  Muslin  Underwear,  Dress  and  W a l k i ng  Skirts, 
Tailor  Made  Suits,  and  Jackets. 

We  also  carry  a  Complete  Stock  of  Lace  C u r t a i ns  a nd  Draperies. 

v\l 

222,  224  W a s h i n g t on  A v e.  S. 

L a n s i n g,  Mich. 

Jewett  &  Knapp, 

When In need "* 

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FINE STATIONERY,  INVITATIONS 

or  C A R D S 

CALL  ON 

Lawrence  & Yan Buren  Printing Co. 

122  Ottawa  St.  E. 

Lansing  Mich. 

ALL  MEATS 

May  look  alike  to  you,  but  there  is  a 
very great difference  in the quality we han 
dle  and  that sold  by some other  markets. 
We handle none  but  the  very best.  Like 
the pudding, the proof  of good  meats  is  in 
the eating.  A trial  will  convince  you  that 
you ought to trade  with us. 

We  make  daily  trips  to  the  College. 
BOTH  P H O N E S.  Careful  attention  given  to 

'phone  orders. 

A.  C.  ROLLER, 

Successor 
Washington  Ave.  South, 

to  GOTTLIEB  REUTTER. 

DIRECTORY 

LANSING BUSINESS and 
PROFESSIONAL  M E N _^ 

The  names  in  this  Directory, as well  as 
those of all our other advertisers, are of reli 
able parties.  We hope that the  faculty  and 
students will take  pains  to  patronize those 
who patronize us. 

FURNISHING  GOODS. 

ELGIN  M I F F L I N .-

Furnishing  Goods. 

-Ladies'  and  Gentlemen's 
. 
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FURNITURE  DEALERS. 

M L  &  B.  M.  BUCK.—Furniture.  Cor.  Wash 

ington  Avenue and Ionia  Street.  See ad. 

HACK  AND  BAGGAGE  LINES. 

BARBERS. 

A.  C.  BARBER  SHOP,  Room  44 Williams 

Hall.  E.  E.  Reynolds,  Propr. 

M 

BOOKS  AND  STATIONERY. 

A M.  E M E R Y.  116  Wash.  Ave.  N.  Books, 

Fine  Stationery,  Engraved  Calling  Cards, 
Fountain  Pens.  Pictures,  Frames.  Fine  Framing 
a  Specialty.  New  store.  New  Stock. 

CITY  BOOK  STORE.  Fountain  Pens,  Drafting 

Tools,  Stationery,  Cards  Engraved,  Pictures 
and  Picture  Framing.  Tennis, Football  and  Base-
hall goods.  Crotty  Bros.. 206 Wash.  Ave.  N. 

O RDER  your  hacks  for  parties  at  Carr's  Hack 

Line.  Livery  in connection.  410  Washington 

Ave.  N. 

HARDWARE.  STOVES  AND  TINWARE. 

NORTON'S HARDWARE—General  Hardware, 

Stoves,  Tinware,  Graniteware,  Cutlery,  etc. 

Ill  Washington  Ave. South.  See  ad. 

INSURANCE. 

THE  DYER-JENISON-BARRY  CO.,  LTD., 

Incorporated)  Hollister  Block.  All  kinds of  the 

best  insurance.  Strongest  agency in  city. 

BOOK  BINDERS 

JEWELERS. 

Capt.  Bandholz,  formerly  at  M. 
the  Philippines 

A.  C.  but  now 
has  been  made  colonel. 

in 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Reynolds,  of 
Chicago;  Alta  Lawson,  of  Detroit, 
and  Mabel  Bristol,  of  Alma,  came 
to  M.  A.  C.  commencement 
back 
to 
week  to  see  1903  graduate  and 
attend  the  reunion. 

Angell  &  Chase  have  offered  for 
sale  a  plat  of  lots  opposite  the  Col 
lege  grounds. 
It  will  be  convenient 
for  future  students  if  this  section  is 
occupied  with  buildings,  and  at  the 
same  time  it  offers  a  good  oppor 
tunity  for  prospective  investors. 

T he  list  of  names  in  the  graduat 
ing  class  was  published  in  a  previous 
issue.  T he  degree  of  Master  of 
Science  was  conferred  upon  Instruc 
tor  S.  F.  E d w a r ds  and  Mr.  W.  P. 
Snyder, A.  B., University  of  Nebras 
ka,  ' 0 1. 

Someone  exchanged  overcoats  by 
mistake  with  Mr.  Charles  A.  Blake 
during  commencement  week.  Will 
the  person  who  made  the  mistake 
please  correspond  with  Mr.  Charles 
A.  Blake,  care  Blake  &  K i n g,  Kal 
amazoo,  Mich.? 

All  the  machines  in  the  machine 
shop  will  be  overhauled  as  will  -also 
the  small  7x10  engine.  T he  crane 
has  been  erected  in  the  foundry  and 
the  various  machines  in  course  of 
manufacture  will  be  worked  on. 
All  tools  worn  out  will  be  replaced. 

an 
have  been  received 
Cards 
nouncing 
of  Miss 
the  marriage 
Alice  Beattie  to  Mr.  H a r ry  R u p e r t, 
with  'oom.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R u p e rt 
will  be  at  home  after  August  1st,  at 
N o.  114  Harding  St.,  Elgin,  111. 

T he 

sophomores 

elected  next 
year's  officers  as  follows:  President, 
H.  S.  H u n t;  vice  president,  Miss 
May  Butterfield; 
treasurer,  C.  D. 
Sterling;  secretary,  J.  W.  Bolte; 
athletic  manager,  G.  W.  Nichols. 

Manual  training  will  be  reckoned 
to 

as  a  qualification  for  admission 
Northwestern  next  year. 

facturers.  Book-binding  of  every  description 

dune  r,e.itlv  and  promptly.  109 Wash.  Ave.  N. 

GEO.  G.  BLUDEAU  & CO —Blank  book  manu 
WAGENVOORD  &  CO.—Bookbinders,  Blank-

book  Makers, Library  and  Art  Bindings,  Al 
bums,  Pocketbooks,  Map  Mountings,  etc.  Back 
numbers  of  magazines  and  periodicals  supplied. 
Bell  phone 378.  109 Washington  Ave.  South. 

Spaulding's  Jerseys  c D.  WOODBURY.—  Boots  and  Shoes.  We 

shoe the  students.  See ad. 

BOOTS  AND  SHOES. 

We  have  Spaulding's  $2.50  and 
$2.00  Jerseys in  stock  in  black 
and  maroon  solid colors. 
Should  anyone at  any  time  find 
anything  defective  about  goods 
they  would 
purchased  here, 
confer  a favor  on  us  by  letting 
us know  all about  it. 

J.  H.  L A R R A B EE 
225  Washington  Ave.  So. 

CONFECTIONERY. 

0 NLY  the  best  candies  at  the  "  Sugar  Bowl." 

Cor,  Washington  Ave. and  Allegan. 

CLOTMNG. 

BUY  vour  Dry  Goods  and  Clothing,  Hats,  Caps 

and  Furnishing  Goods  at  H.  KOSITCHEK 
&  BRO'S,  113  Washington  Ave.  N.,  and  210 
Washington  Ave,  S. 

LOUIS  BECK.—Clothier.  Gents'  Furnishings, 

Hats  and Caps.; 112 Washington  Ave.  North. 

CHAS.  A.  P I E L L A. 

121 Washington  Ave.  N.,  Lansing,  Mich. 

Jeweler  and  Optician. 

MANICURE  AND  HAIRDRESSING. 

M RS.  O.  T.  CASE—Manicure  and  Hairdressing 

Parlors.  Masquerade  wigs for  rent.  Switches 
made  of  cut  hair  or  combings.  New  'phone  118. 
222%  Washington  Avenue S.,  up  stairs. 

MERCHANT  TAILORS. 

OODBURY  *  SAVAGE.—Tailors.  Student 
trade solicited.  Opposite Hotel Downey,  North, 

w 
JOHN  H E R R M A N N 'S  SONS. 

218  Washington  Avenue  N. 

MUSIC,  PIANOS,  ETC. 

THE  POST  MUSIC  CO.  Pianos,  Organs  and 

everything  in  the  line  of  music.  219  Wash 

ington  Ave.  N, 

College  Grocery 

HIGGS  &  BURTON, 
Proprietors. 

Jt  FULL  LINE  OF J* 

Lunch  Goods, 

Confectioneries 

and  Fruits. 

Special  attention  given  to  parties. 

Lunches  served  at  all  hours. 

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

OCULISTS. 

H.  LARNKD.-China,  Glass  and  Lamps. 
105 Washington  Ave. S. 

H 

DENTISTS. 

D 

E.  PARMELEE—Dentist.  218  Washington 
Ave.  S.  Phones, Bell  520 office,  residence 732. 

E.  STOFFER,  A.  B.,  D.  D.  S.  Office  109 
Washington  Ave. S.  Former  M. A.  C.  student. 

R W.  MORSE,  D. D.  S. 

Hollister  Block, Room 517. 

DRUGGISTS. 

date.  Corner  store.  Opposite Hollister  Block. 

ROUSER'S  CAPITAL  DRUG  STORE.  Up  to 
R OBINSON  DRUG  CO., successors to  Alsdorf 

&  Son,  Drugs  and  Druggists*  Sundries.  102 

Washington  Ave.  N. 

DRY  GOODS. 

Goods and  Carpets.  See ad. 

SIMONS  DRY  GOODS  COMPANY.  — Dry 
DONSEREAUX'S  D E P A R T M E NT  STORE 
THE  J E W E TT  &  K N A PP  STORE.  Dry 

is  the  place  to  trade.  You  can  get  a  warm 

Goods.  222-224  Washington  Ave.  S. 

lunch  in  our  cafe  for  10c.  See  ad. 

Throat.  Hours 9  to 12 A.  M., 2 to 4 p. m.  Cor 
ner Allegan  St. and  Capitol Ave. 

JOSEPH  FOSTER,  M. D.—Eye,  Ear, Nose and 
CHAS.  G. J E N K I N S,  M. D. — Diseases of  Eye, 

Ear,  Nose and  Throat.  Hours, 9  to  12  a.  m., 
and  2  to  5  p.  m.  Citizens  Phone  No.  1030.  224 
Washington  Ave. South. 

PHOTOGRAPHS. 

C E.  W A L T E R,  M. A.  C.  I  make  Photographs; 

Landscapes,  Buildings,  Interiors,  Flash-lights, 
Lantern  Slides,  Transparencies,  Medallions  and 
Stereoscopic  Views.  Developing  and  Printing  for 
Amateurs.  Views  for  sale. 

PHYSICIANS. 

12 A.  M„  2 to 4  and  7 to 8 P. M.  Office  at  212 

Washington  Avenue  S.;  home 419 Seymour  St. 

A D.  HAGADORN,  M.  D.—Office  hours,  l l-to 
J  W.  HAGADORN.  M. D.—Office  hours,  11  to 

12 A. K„  2 to  4  and 7 to  8  P.  M.  Office  at  213 
Washington  Avenue S.;  home 219 Capitol  Ave, 

PLUMBERS. 

SHIELDS  &  L E A D L E Y.  Plumbing  and  Heat 

ing.  300  Wash.  Ave.  N.,  Lansing.  Both 

Phones. 

ELECTRICAL 

SUPPLIES. 

SPORTING  GOODS. 

CAPITOL  ELECTRIC  CO.  Electrical  Supplies, 

Telegraph  Instruments  and  Telephones.  323 

Wash.  Ave.,  S. 

J  H.  L A R R A B E E.  Base  Ball  Goods,  Foot 

Ball  Goods,  Tennis,  Golf,  Guns,  Ammunition 
and  Fishing  Tackle.  326 Wash.  Ave.  S.