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three years Captain in the 4th Missis-
sippi Cavalry, the last Confederate Regi-
ment disbanded east of the Mississippi
river. He passed through these four
years without being captured or seri-
ously wounded, and at the close of the
war returned to his old home to repair
his broken fortunes. Since that time he
has lived quietly on his plantation, .
“Valley Farm,’ near Holly Springs,
Miss. He was a gallant soldier, an
estimable citizen, and a refined, highly
educated, polished gentlemen.
JAMES THOMAS MATTHEWS, ’54.
James Thomas Matthews, ’54, died
at Evanston; Ill., July 20, 1808.
Mr. Matthews, the son of John and
Lydia Matthews, was born in Boston,
March 14, 1830. He entered Yale and
after graduation with the Class of Fifty-
Four, he was engaged in teaching in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey for two
years, and then studied at the Union
Theological Seminary, New York City,
where he graduated and was licensed
to preach in 1859. After preaching for
one year in the First Presbyterian
Church, at Port Jervis, N. Y., he be-
came pastor of the First Congregational
Church in Kenosha, Wis., and remained
so for three years. On December 20,
1864, he received a call from the Eighth
Presbyterian Church in Chicago, IIl.,
which he accepted, but in the Fall of
1868, before the close of four years’ ser-
vice, he was forced by ill-health to
resign. Since that time he has not
ventured to take charge of any church,
lest his health should again fail him,
hut has preached and exercised the
junctions of his profession upon occa-
sonal demands. As he wrote a friend,
‘So, first and last, I have done not a
little of what I prepared myself in
especial to do; yet not so much as I
had expected to accomplish.”
The year 1869, after his resignation,
he spent mainly in establishing the
Interior newspaper, as an organ of
liberal Presbyterianism in the North-
wet. In the Spring of 1871, he pur-
chased an interest in a fine art gallery
in Chicago, but the “great fire’ swept
it away. Since then he has been en-
gaged chiefly in travel and literary
work of a miscellaneous character. He
went to Europe in May, 1882, princi-
pally for his health, and remained a
year; and again in 1883, taking his wife
and daughter with him. In all, he has
spent three or four years traveling in
“Europe, Asia and Africa.”
He was married December 6, 1860, to
Mary F., daughter of Samuel Hale of
Kenosha, Wis., who survives him with.
one son and one daughter. The son,
Charles Hale Matthews, graduated at
Yale in 1886.
LEWIS WHITMARSH FORD, 754.
Lewis Whitmarsh Ford, ’54, died at
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 27.
Mr. Ford was born in Cummington,
Mass., Dec. 12, 1830, but moved with
his family to Cleveland in 1841. In
1850 he was admitted to Western Re-
serve College, Hudson, Ohio, and at
the close of his Sophomore year he
leit Western Reserve and entered Yale,
asa member of the Class of Fifty-Four,
at the beginning of Junior year. After
graduation he studied law for some
months in the office of the Hon. Hiram
Griswold, in Cleveland, Ohio, and sub-
sequently at the Harvard Law School.
n January 1, 1857, he opened a law
office in Cleveland, but soon after ac-
cepted a tutorship at Yale, and remained
in New Haven until the Summer of
1859. In October of the same year he
Tfesumed the practice of law in Cleve-
land, which he continued until his
death. For several years past he was a
Trustee and President of the Euclid
Avenue Church Society of that city.
A man of bright intellect, sterling char-
acter, sound health and sunny disposi-
tion, life with him proved a grand
success.
Fle was married November 21, 1860,
to Anna E., daughter of Sereno Fenn,
of Tallmadge, Ohio, who survives him
with two sons and two daughters.
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California Alumni.
The Yale alumni of Southern Cali-
fornia are planning to have a meeting
about April 1.
SATE ALT MON Ee WEE ees oe
HARVARD IN THE WAR.
Some Figures and Comments From
President Eliot.
President Eliot of Harvard in his
annual report, just issued, says that the
information received by the Harvard
authorities up to date is more or less ©
complete about the war service of 384
men, undergraduates, graduates, and
former students of the University.
Mr. Brown, the deputy keeper of the
University records, is sure that the total
number of Harvard men who served in
the war will not fall short of 400.
Of the 384 persons, 148 were Harvard
A.B.’s; 36 had the Harvard A.B. and
some other degree; 40 had the Harvard
professional degrees only; 21 had Har-
vard professional degrees and a Bache-
lor’s degree from another institution;
37 were former temporary College stu-
dents; 17 were former temporary pro-
fessional students; 47 were College
undergraduates and 38 undergraduates
of other schools of the University.
Among these were the following
officers: 3 major generals, 3 brigadier
generals, 2 colonels, 7 lieutenant colo-
nels, 8 majors, 28 captains,.28 first lieu-
tenants, 26 second lieutenants and 29
corporals. One hundred and twenty
were privates. The Navy list included
the Secretary of the Navy, the Assis-
tant Secretary of the Navy, until
the declaration of war, I commander,’
6 lieutenants, 2 lieutenants of the junior
grade, 14 ensigns.
Of the Harvard men in the Army, 47
were enlisted in the First United States
Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders).
In regard to the attitude of the Presi-
dent and the Deans towards the enlist-
ment of the men, President Eliot says:
“The effort of the President and the
Deans was to prevent hasty and incon-
siderate enlistment, but not to discour-
age the enlistment of able-bodied young
men of legal age whose family circum-
stances warranted them in offering their
lives to the country. So long.as there
are wars it will be expedient, especially
in democracies, that the best educated
young men bear their full share in war’s
hardships and dangers. The highly
educated class must show itself as
tough, brave and disinterested as any
other and as faithful to ideals. If its
education has been right, it will always
show itself superior in these respects to
every other class.”
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Remarkable Strength Test.
Every year the figures for the strong
man of the Freshman class are pushed
higher and higher, but the achievement
of E. H. Benner, 1901 S., who went be-
yond the best record of last year by
over 1800 pounds, is considered re-
markable. Benner, whose weight is 146
pounds, made the record as follows:
Push-up (on parallel bars) 35; pull-up
(on horizontal bar) 22%, which, figured
according to the formula for strength
tests, gives the total strength of 8,395
pounds. The competition, which is, an
annual one, was held at the Gymnasium
on Monday night, Jan. 30, under the
supervision of Drs. Anderson and
Seaver.
Many of the Class tried the tests,
but only the four named below entered
the competition. Here is the record of
the strongest Freshmen:
Push- Pull-
: We. : tip, up. Total.
E. H. Benner, 1901S., 146 35 22% 8,305
A. P. Wright, 1902, 143 3) oY 7,293
W.F. Burnham, 1902. 139 2 17 5,282
W. F. Roberts, rgo2, 136% 18 19 5,050%
Within a short time a competition,
which is open to all members of the
University, will be held, and from the
fifty strongest men will be taken ten,
who will compete for the University
championship. This champion will
represent Yale in the intercollegiate
strength tests to be held in the Spring.
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The Pundits.
A literary club known as “The Pun-
dits’” (from the Hindoo, meaning learned
men, or teachers), which was founded
in the Class of Eighty-Eight, has been
reorganized in the Class of Nineteen
Hundred and One, under the charter of
the original society. The club is simi-
lar in organization to the Robert Louis
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From one end of the land to the other,
wherever men who demand the best are
found, Fownes’ Gloves are the recognized
standard of merit and fashion.
They are
best for dress, for the street, for riding,
driving, or golfing — for all occasions and
all purposes.
To wear them is to be cor-
rectly gloved. All leading haberdashers
sell them.
Stevenson Club formed in the Class of
Ninety-Eight. Owing to the incom-
pleteness of the list of members, it has
been decided not to make any further
announcements as to the policy of the
club or its membership until after the.
next regular meeting, when a fuller
account will be given out for publica-
tion if the present members desire it.
a
“Lit. Medal Awarded.
The medal annually awarded by the
Yale Literary Magazine for the best es-
say, has been given to Guy Mortimer
Carleton, ’99, of Hartford Conn. The
title of the essay is, “George Meredith
and His Philosophical Novel.” The
Lit. board made its decision in con-
junction with Dr. E. B. Reed and Pro-
fessor C. M. Lewis.
The winner of the prize prepared for
College at the Hartford High School,
where he received the second prize in
the Chronicle Prize Story Competition,
which was offered by the school paper
in his Junior year. The essay will ap-
pear in the February number of the
Lit.
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In the Februarv Aflantic, Professor
James begins his “Talks to Teachers
on Psychology,” defining the relations
of the subject and the necessity of ap-
proaching it from the point of view of
the practical purpose for which man’s
mind was given him, namely, to adapt
him to his terrestrial environment.
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