New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-13
NEW xonn DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1880

mountain and You have tempted me powerfully.
think I must say. &c thee behind me. ! am poor,
and the salary would soon pay my debts and place
me in position Of independence but there are two
objections | could not accomplish my resolution
TO complete a college course and should be crippled
Intellectually for life. Then my roots are all hXed IN
Ohio where people know me and know them, and
this transplanting might not succeed as well In the
long run as to go back home and work for smaller
pay"
Study at williams was easy for Garfield. He had
been used to much harder work at Hiram. where
he had crowded six years course into three and
taught at the same time Now he had the stimulus
of large class an advantage he had never enjoyed
before His lessons were always perfectly learned
and he found good deal of time for courses OF read
ing that involved as much brainwork the college
textbooks
HIS VIEWS OF THE THEN EXISTING PARTIES.
During his last term nj Williams he made his first
political speech, an address before meeting
gathered in one of the class-rooms to support the
nomination Of John c. Fremont. Although he had
passed his majority nearly four years before. he had
never voted. The old parties did not interest MN
he believed them both corrupted with the SIN OF
slavery but when new party arose to combat. the
designs of the Slave Power it enlisted his earnest
sympathes. His mind was free from all bias con-
and could equally admire Clay or Jackson,
Webster or Benton. He Is the first man nominated
for the Presidency whose political convictions ana
activities began with the birth OF the Republican
party. -. -,
He graduated August 1896, with class honor
established by President Hopkins and highly
esteemed in the coegc-that OF Metaphy sics-read-
ing an essay " The Seen and the Unseen" 1t
is singular how at different times III the course OF
his education he thought to have special
aptitude for single line OF intellectual WORK,
and how at a later period his talents seemed TO lay
lust as strongly III some other line. Al one time IL
was mathematics, at another the classics at another
The truth was that he had remarkably vigorous
aud well-rounded brain, capable OF doing effective
work in any direction his will might dictate. Inc
class of lS56 contained among its ~ mem Ders NUM-
Der of men who have since won DISTINCTION lhree
became general officers in the volunteer army during
the rebellion-Garfold, Davies and Thompson.
Two BOter and Shattuck, were capt aims, and were
killed in battle Edridge, who now lives IN Chicago,
WAS colonel ; 80 was Ferris Jacobs, OF Delhi, n. I.
Rockwell is quatcrmaster IN the regular army
Gillian il Treasurer of the United states. HIll
was Assistant Attorney General and Is now lawyer
In Boston. Knox is leading lawyer i'll New York
Newcombe is professor III the NeW-l ork Uni,
yersity of NewYork. In the class ahead OF Garheid
was Hitchcock, lately Senator from Nebraska, ana
ingalls,. now Il Senator from Kansas. To FURNISH
two United States Senators from one class ana u
Senatorelect and Presidential nominee from the
next following class is an honor which has probably
never before fallen to any college ingalls, was
the poet of tho school in his day. and many OF MS
associates believed him destined to take rank Ill
the future close up to TennySOn. Many years
later, after he came to the Senate, Garheld met
HIM at a dinner party and brought the DlusheS 10
memory two OF three OF his College productions.
L. v. S.