New-York tribune., 1886-07-18

President Marx HOpkhSs SeHt-csueanld dddTSS
When | entered college there WAS not il min-
eralOgcal geoogca botanical or natural history coec
tion. Mineraiogy aud geooEy were indeed bnt Just
beginning Do known as sciences The same was true
of cL emi~ty and the apparatus Tor tnat consisted OF
little more than bOwpipe and few reiorts The
apparatus for PHYSICS including optics ana astronomy
easily contained III slnge room OF the co'anon
size Ia east college rhe chapel WAS in west college.
That divided luto Two equal parts, Dy has running
east west and tue chapel occupied the second aud
third stories of the south end. Tne library occupied
singh room iu the fohth story OF west college. Ihe
rooms OF the students were plainly and scany fur
nsbcd there carpet Ia either building. Parity
perhaps uocaiss tle rooms conltluei Ilto tuts was
valu ble aud partly because OF the great honesty Ot
thos times nobody thought OF locking his door when he
out. Prayers AID recltations were before preak-
last In he morning, i In the winter ny candle Sht
Commencement in September ana 80 the town Was
resort FOR the student IN the Suminer ana lot or
visitors species OF the human genus not then
developed The long vacation OF i've weeks was IN
winter nat the students VINO were mostly needy, might
aid themselves by tea hing. comaS after tue sumner
WORK of the farmers WAS hnisned.
commencement great day for tue whole vicinity.
The procession win band OF music TO ned at cast
coll legr To the church on the MIL lt was long. Inc
struggle eneI the clurch after the procession was n
lierce. Aud the church was crowded Back oi tho
church a multitude, with numerous peders and there
were all SORTS shons TIC grounds about the build
only wood, and during tho autumn aud winter there
were won't pies III the college yards These
the students generally sawed and carried M for them-
In tho 81 ring they ad cnp day 70 clear AWAY
the cips and rubbish. The walk between tue COLLEGES
and bet the west college and ne church were
innocent Of lravel. aud ss the mud was fearful tue
students each year. IN the autumn. had gravel day
10 procure teams rhe soil clay, and IN the spring
would I'M ulae as you walked. Year by year the gravel
would disappear, and II Is only within years That
the walks have become thoroughly compact There
about tue buildings, these were sci
out Dy the students, for while that day OFT
eurI than AT present outbreak OF the spr or van
dalisn there yet large element OF Loyalty 10 tue
colleges and desire for its Improvement Ott OF TINS
Landscape gardening association founded by thc
students among themselves, my brother Albert ana
tutor Calhoun being members ana working with them
This association Kept alive Tor several genera lOns or
students and had regular meetings aud addresses
Through its agencies occasional tree day was asked,
and became too numerous rather than 100
this way much done to bcautlty the grOupd-,
but the work not completed till Governor Knight
gave OF $4,000 for that purpose and to keep
them ordet II was eatue OF trat day that water
students brought III pals rom tue spring al
the foot the hill. sDuth ot east coere; they genee-
ally bringing 1t themselves rhe nrst mitigation OF TINS
up Co the east college, the evil wholly ree-
died I'LL the cold spring water was introduced. eucl
thing as gymnasium ha not then been Thought or Inc
nrst the country was la tho Rod hill school ht
by Messrs. Caswell and Bancroft,
George Bancrotihe nstOrtt aud tue hrst col
lege 10 in regard to it, sent when tutor to
Northampton to IL. and the result spPar
atus la open ALI south OF east college. remember
swing aud some Iaralel baIs. From that SWING ana
the present gymnasium, with lts cock, hte
developed through several intermediate forms inuch
suppose the higher animals developed from tue
owor There then secret societies. the only one
known In any of tho colleges tho Phi Beta kApl IA
Tners we're no college IuDoatons and there was no
baseball ithat II now known form of baseball wai
sometimes played, but the common games were wicket
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