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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
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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,
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cession that bore lamented Euclid to
his solemn incineration in the woods of
“Tutor’s Lane,’ that bleak Novem-
ber night. It fell to the lot of the
writer of this article to officiate as
“Priest of Pluto’ on that mournful oc-
casion, and to repeat the impressive
words in Latin with which we con-
signed our Sophomore torment to the
avenging flames. I think I really en-
joyed it, for I detested mathematics.
“Tutor’s Lane” to-day is only dim tra-
dition, for it has long since given way
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