New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-25

of the elegant young lover Of Verona ior he was
littlc round man Of presence by 10 means roman
tic. lie special friend, and had been Il Glass;
mate Of Mr.. JDb Durfee. who wrote moderate
epic called "Whatcheer." which celebrated, ! ne
hcvc, the foundation Of the state Of Rhode lNahn
and which the bard dedicated to bis " Tear rI"''
No great Ovid was lost 10 tie Rhode Island h"iTV
CuUously enough, in looking over TIE "'h'r "dy'
the Life of John Foster the great English Baptist
| encountered Professor Elton Judge Dnrice ara
Watcher" Foster attention had been called
Ia The, poem by Professor Elton, "ho wanted ms
friends book handsomely noticed IN some English
review to which Eos err contributed. believe tAat
he did write n good-uatured criuque OF II, but
have not been able TO find il. 1t Is impossible now
to say by what coGcatenatOn II happened, hu' III"
imevcrent undergraduates OF Dy@ona pTnou had
bestowed upon the sc,quipedalian professor
tie name of "Bnmp," and though he
was exceedingly popular. lie was seldom
called anything else. Whether he was
strong classical scholar not We never c"nld ma
out for lie was absurdly COOL natn;od and 30
pnctiliouSly polite and of such confirmed m""-
RINSE monte withal, that did very mnch as we
pleased in his classroom Il was upon the ground
floor and when the exc, cises became dull. and TIE
windows were Omen. the students occasionally
jumped through them after oil call ard went away
They were not missed by the good doctor, WHO
would probably bo engaged at the time OF iho cNits
in bland illustration of the Tier BruHdas'am OF
some other part of Horace. drawn from his per
soual observation when abroad. II WAS avciTcd and
generally believed that he had told every Sophie
more class since 1925 how, when he was at Got
! tingen, he slept between two feather beds. Tins
was an adventure the recital Of hch always caused
him to cross his legs rapidly in token of satisfac-
! ton and successive classes waited for the narra-
" Il
! lece professor, sometimes are not-he was per
! fcctv wen bred man. and II he was ready
/ 70 take the word of tie boys without question
or cross-questIon the CraceleSs was 1t IN thca
! 10 tell him fasehoods. Whom ne did duty 1t even
! ing PRAYERS. he always remembered the solder,
/ the sailor. and the slave" This appeared TO bc
| formula which he had fixed upon rs both compre-
hersivc and euphonious. So he adhered 10 1t, and
| | Go moi know that lac could have done better.
Ours was not a class particularly remarkable for
| scholarship or indeed. for anything. We have
! given to the Republic two United States Senators
! Governor Arnold # Rhode Island and General john
I Milton Ihayer, OF Nebraska. We gave Kalamazoo
College a president DIR. Brooks. and the UniVef-
siy OF Michigan Professor OF Latin Dr. tT'ezr.
This with several able lawyers and preachers IS all
believe we have TO brag of. hear OF the other
men now and then, but not with any accompanying
schemes Of approximation prizes, and perhaps the
! class of 1871 may he permitted to boast oil Mr.
William CASTOR, who was the class above it, and
who has since been Governor OF Massachusetts,, and
! what is more remarkable, Democratic Governor
| Of that Repub state ] remember him family
for dd not know him very well. as a sweet tenn
pored, courteous aud sufficiently studIouS youth
who was never IN scrapes. but Of comfortably even
tenor. | anticipated that be would make as good a
Governor as "a Democrat could possibly be- nor have
! been disappointed In the class Of 1888 was Mir.
Justice Bradley. of Rhode Island. the first scholar,
! think of his year, Of whom we did anticipate
great things. There Is something pleasant III the
/ loyal way IN which lads in college recognize an as
sOcate of superior ability and special promise.
How proud they are of him. and how fond they are
/ of talking Of him the greatest genius IN the
world, so wc all tailed of Bradley. When he WAS
! TO speak in tic chapel after evening prayers how
irreverentiy eager we were for the devOtons TO be
over that we might listen to our fayorite! There
! were other clever fellows OF course. but none SO
clever as he. lie handled all topics. philosophical,
political aud literary. with such force and ease that
| we held the matter hardly second to the manner.
! though the manner was as nearly perfect AS any
! elocniion could lie yet there were doubters who
! thought that George Van Ness Lathrop. now an
! eminent lawyer OF Michigan, was, II possible, tao
! greater man. OF the comparative merits OF these
Two the discussions sometimes ran hlgh but there
was 10 discussion of the rival claims OF anybody
! else Sometimos-it is merely whim-l wish
/ that | could hear those evening speeches over
again. and permit myself to wonder whether they
were really admirable as We thOHght them TO be-.
1t was 50 long ago that cannot make up my mind.
| have spoken Of several Of my old companions
! who have won merited distinction. Shall / lot
give word to those who have faltered and fallen
by the wayside the journey hardly half accom-
plishcd the work less than half done Surely IN
! TINS corner which fOf the time - my own, may
paw my tribute to the memory of one OF whom the
| world never heard but who was once all tho world
10 ne; who for twO years my daily and
| nightly companion with whom | read and
talked, aud shared the pleasures and the
pains Of those carly days. How should
anticipate thai this. my laughing roommate. would
fall into dire religious distractions and seek safety
in the ascetcisms Of the rule Of the 1rappisS But
those were times of IIactaTaulsm. Of Puscylsn, OF
strange reaction from the negatives OF Protestant
ism and when Bishops shot from their great
| spheres bow was this poor boy to keep in his own
| IL was LITTLE TO me when DR.. Newman and d.. Or
estes A. Brownson passed definitely 10 Rome but II
was much when my old college friend went away
| from me and knew that should soc his face no
| more forever.
When man Is writing or talking about his col
lege life. he is expected. j hardly know for what
reason to dwell upon the least reputable paris OF It,
Almost everybody seems to hear with relish OF the
Presidents horse shaved Of the chapel bell deprived
Of it's tongue OF the introduced into the pulpit.
of assafGtds placed upon the tutors stove OF inso
lent Jokes cracked at the expense of men renowned
for learning and pety. Of windows broken. and OF
homesick freshmen made needlesely miserable by
coarse intrusion upon their privacy, by cruel pro-
fanaton of their persons. We had enough and more
- thcan scn.clcsa di.nrainns and emf