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8 aa enInnnnnInnIEEREEEEEEIREEEEREEEEEEEEEE THE CLASS OF 66 And Names and Memories of Some Other Classes. (Charles T. Catlin in the Brooklyn Citizen.] In complying with the courteous so- licitation of “The Citizen” asking me to give to its readers some personal recollections touching the College ca- reer and subsequent busy and con- spicuous life of the Class to which I had the» honor to belong, I wish cor- dially to testify at the outset that Yale has many classes whose Univer- sity achievements and whose after-life are brilliant with a history reflecting the highest honor alike upon them- selves and their Alma Mater. It is the happiness and loyal privi- lege of the Class of ’56 to join most heartily in the tribute of admiration and pride with which alumni point to 720 which gave to the College and the country Leonard Bacon, preeminent in theology, and father of a noble and gifted line of Yalensian sons; Profes- sor Charles Hooker, M. D., long a sturdy pillar of the Medical School of Yale; Professor A. C. Twining, . for many years a distinguished instructor and ofticer of Middlebury College, Ver- mont; Bishop Rutledge, of the Prot- estant Episcopal Diocese of Florida, and Theodore D. Woolsey, whose fame as Yale’s great President in the years 1845 to 1871, has reached around the world. And there was ’22, Edward Beecher, its valedictorian, and John Todd, the distinguished scholar and _ author; Thomas Vermilye, the eminent preach- er of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York City; Judge William Rock- well, for years an honor and ornament of the Supreme Court in our own city; Harvey P. Peet, the founder and faith- ful promoter of the New York Institu- tion for the Deaf and Dumb; Isaac H. Townsend, of the Yale Law-~- School, and a score of other noble scholars among its famous men. There, too, was ’24, bearing upon its roll such names as E. W. Leavenworth, the distinguished Secretary of State of New York; Chief Justice O. S. Sey- mour, of the Connecticut Supreme Court; Professor George Griswold, of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons; Professor W. M. Hol- land, of Trinity College, and Benjamin Douglas Silliman, our honored and revered fellow Brooklynite, and to- day the oldest surviving and best be- loved of the sons of Yale. So, in.’26 we note the names of Professor E. P. Barrows, of Andover; Professor H. Cowles, of Oberlin; Professor W. A. Larned, of Yale; Dr. Jared Linoly, of New York City; Professor J. M. Stur- tevant, of Illinois, and Wyllys Warner, the well-remembered Treasurer of Yale. HONOR ROLL IN OTHER COLLEGES. And all along the years, before and after our time, the stars of honor glit- ter, Professor Elias Loomis, Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., Professor A. D. Stan- ley, Judge L. B. Woodruff, in ’30; Bish- op T. M. Clark, Bishop William I. Kipp, two eminent Protestant Episco- pal prelates of the diocese, respective- ly, of Rhode Island and California; Ncah Porter, the loved and honored President upon whose worthy should- ers the mantle of the noble Woolsey fell, and others such as these in °31; James Dwight Dana, George Edward Day, both world-famous, the one in science, the other in theology; Al- phonso Taft, scholar and statesman, conspicuous in ’33; Walter T. Hatch, Edwards Pierrepont, Professor Ben- jamin Silliman, Jr., William M. Ev- arts, Chief Justice M. R. Waite, of the Supreme Court, brilliant in ’37; Rev. Joseph Brewster (father of our Brook- lyn rector, Chauncey B.), Rev. A. H. Clapp, D. D., Professor James Hadley, the illustrious scholar and educator; Rev. Charles H. Hall, D. D., long a distinguished Brooklyn rector and con- spicuous citizen; Chief Justice Peters, of Maine; Professor John A. Porter, of Yale; Chancellor Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, and numerous others famed in good old ’42; Judge Francis M. Finch, scholar, jurist and far-famed leader of the bards of Yale; Professor YALE ALUMNI Franklin W. Fiske, of Chicago; Col- onel John Oakey, Brooklyn’s perennial primate in the realm of after-dinner wit, Yale’s lusty champion, sturdy to the core, and Dwight, our Timothy, nay, “Tutor Tim,” as ’56 will call him even now, the enterprising and suc- cessful executive who fills to-day the Presidential office; these and yet oth- ers make all glorious the names of 49. The Class of ’52 has long since made its mark with men like President D. ~ C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins; Profes- sor Homer B. Sprague, Hon. Will:am W. Crapo, Dr. Ephraim Cutter and Professor Jacob Cooper, of Rutgers. A RADIANT NAME. The name of ’63 is radiant with its Theodore Bacon, the late Judge E. C. Billings, Isaac H. Bromley, prince of satire: Bishop Thomas F. Davis, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Mich- igan; Hon. John C. Douglas, of Kan- sas; the late Senatcr R. L. Gibson, of Louisiana; United States Minister Wayne McVeagh, the late New York District Attorney, B. K. Phelps; E. C. Stedman, the poet; Justice George Shiras, of the United States Supreme Court; Dr. H. P. Stearns, the eminent medical authority on insanity; Hon. Henry C. Robinson, of Hartford; Hon, Lynde A. Catlin, Judge of Probate at Woodstock, Conn.; Rev. Dr. Kinsley Twining, of the New York ‘Independ- ent,” and the widely known and uni- versally respected scholar and states- man, Andrew D. White. Since my time in College, 59 has won honors for Alma Mater with her Eu- gene Schuyler, of foreign diplomatic fame (I remember him coming as @ Freshman into my Senior room, a rosy- faced little fellow, still wearing a round-about jacket; he grew to pon- derous proportions in the after years of public life); Bishop Robertson, the eminent Protestant Episcopal prelate of Missouri; Dr. W. T. Lusk, of Belle- vue Medical College; the Rev. J. H. Twichell (known universally to the alumni as ‘‘Joe’’?) and Professor Ar- thur W. Wright. Sixty had its Professor O. C. Marsh, George Cate - lin, the well-known humorist editor of William Walter Phelps, the New York “Commercial,” and la- ter the accomplished and popular Uni- ted States Consul at Stuttgardt and Zurich; Dr. William H. Hale, the emi- nent Brooklyn scientific writer, and Mason Young, of the Yale Corporation, 61, °67, ’71, ’°76 and ’80 are classes with which, if alumni talk be true, fame is rapidly growing. Classes still later will doubtless ‘‘get there’ at the prop- er time; and ’56 rejoices in it all. FIFTY-SIX ITSELF. Old ’56 set forth at Yale a body 120 strong; we left the College four years later. “That day when Alma cried us quit, Said ‘bounce,’ and gave her nunc dim- it— ‘My darling boys, git up and git! ” - with ranks reduced to 97. Some acces- sions had come to us during the Col- lege course, but the vicissitudes of fortune, inadequate physical health and faltering scholarship had thinned our column year by year and brought us hopelessly below the hundred mark, It is a tradition, treasured among the ineffably delicious memories of the that President Woolsey, in his quaint and dainty way, summed up our undergraduate career, in the re- mark made to one of our number when bidding him farewell: ‘I must con- fess that your class has proved the hardest and the brightest that ever passed through my hands!” We went through all the College usages with en- thusiasm and vigwvr; football with ’55 and ’57 (I vividly remember that I was nearly crushed to death in the former, and bleeding and rag-enshrouded fought in the latter, side by side with our sturdy little Biockway—who later proved himself a still braver hero in class, the days of border ruffiian raids on Kansas). Sophomore pow-wow on the State House steps (who will believe there ever was a State House who sees the grass now covering the spot?) The burial of Euclid, too, I smile and won- der if it all comes back to the grave and dignified gentleman who now so honorably is filling-Her Britannic Maj- esty’s Gubernatorial Commissioner- ship at Turks Islap4, and to the good —————————— WwW Eee Toy brother who for years in the Meth- Oodist ministry has been doing noble work as pastor and presiding elder up there in Onondaga. The former as “family physician,’ in garb grotesque, : a THOMPSON, ADAMS & McNEILL, and the latter (he was a superb six- | footer), as grand marshal, imposing habiliments, headed the pro- | cession that bore lamented Euclid to his solemn incineration in the woods of “Tutor’s Lane,’ that bleak Novem- ber night. 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