Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-26
THE LOWELL SCHOOL BANQUET.

The Procession and Escort To the |
 Venerable PreceptOf-The Proceed. |
 sngs At the Banquet-A Highly In-
 teresting occasion. |
 The old school boys of MT. Lovell's cele- | brated Lancasterian school assembled again at abous o'clock, and. headed by the American band, marched across the old Green, past the old State House, thence to the New Haven House, where they received MT. Lowell, who was then escorted to the banquet hall, AS Orange street, ex- x-Governors English and Harrison and Mr. J. 0. Bradley seated in the carriage with him. It was formidable procession and excited great public attention and interest. There were three hundred in line. They filed into the banquet hall, which was in Mir. H. W. Foster's building at No. 48 The hoaored instructor, Mir. John E. Lowell, was of course the great center of interest, 8 man who had sent forth from his school boys who have made their mark in the world, and very few of whom but have made sound and sturdy citizens. The boys, most of them grey with years, are jolly youngsters, true blue Lancasterian boys and if the enthusiasm last night and the anecdotes told of school life are any criterion of the days in the old Lancasterian under Mir. Lowell they must have been days freighted with bene6t for the l boys fortunate to go there in the school work and of joy and jolly boyhood sports when the day's work was done. It was 8 glorious sight, that assembly last evening, for what men that school of MT. Lovells has sent out l into the world and what power for good it 1 has been, as the character of the men at the reunion last evening illustrated. The letter which indicated the classes and their posi- | tions in the school were placed on the wall. I The 'tboys'' were brimful of enthusiasm and before they parted they contributed literally \ to purse to be presented to MT. Lowell as a token from his former pupils. Members of \ the school who did not contribute last even- l ing or were not present, and wish to contrib ute to the gift, are requested to forward their | contributions to Mir. John o. Bradley, cashier | of the Merchants bank. The big room was ! filled with tables on which Steward Bradley 1 served a liberal repast. When the hungry youths had done full justice to the viands, the l Rev. MT. Merwin having invoked Gods
 blessing, the genuine fun of the evening began. Chairman John 0. Bradley 1 of the committee of arrangements nominated ex-Governor Henry B. Harrison | as the presiding officer of the evening. In
 making this nomination MT. Bradley said in part: I nominate as president of the ocea-
 sion 8 gentleman known to many as aschool-
 mate and assistant to our beloved instructor, John E. Lowell; gentleman who has occu- pied the highest office in the State, ex-Gov- ernor Harrison.
 ! In taking Gho cha1K the GOVernOr 6Hl0 ID substance as follows:
 I accept with pleasure, and with more
 pride than have ever felt in accepting any other position, the honor of presiding over
 this remarkable assembly. I repudiate the title of president or chairman. I shall
 claim a title well known in the school.
 shall claim the title of monitor general (great applause) in the Lancasterian school. Take
 notice that order is to be preserved (appiause, | and if it is violated the offender will be ask
 ed to walk up to the little room at the head
 of the stairs (eheers) until MT. Lowell can at-
 tend to him Qaughter). It almost brings the
 tears into our eyes to think that VIC are all
 boys again and at school here with our be-
 loved principal. Boys again, how much that
 signiiesl Some of us forty years, many fifty
 years and more than one sixty years since we
 were in Lancasterian school. Now we re
 member how the school boy in the winter
 tumbled ont of bed fearful of getting late,
 and felt as his feet strucK the floor how those
 chilblains ached that burned so the day be.
 fore. How carefully his mother prepared
 him, how he went to school, how when the
 school had assembled and the chapter in the Bible had been read, how the study hours past, we went into the basement for the din- ner pails and the basement was turned into 8
 provision exchange. Then came the after
 noon exercises after, which we adjourned to
 the canal, or perhaps went up to Hillhouse
 basin, or if the snow was on the ground the | battallons were organized and the hght be-
 tween the up towners and the down towners
 (great applause), and don't you remember
 how George Graham was bit one night
 in bed by a. rat Qaughter): Nc
 shed. And after all came the shout of vic.
 tory, not your rah! rahi rah! such stuff
 as that, but the grand old hurrah descended from our ancestors. I often think that the
 virility of the American people is dying out
 when think of this rahl rah! rah In spring
 came marbles and the exelamations "fen inchings over, {" "knuckles down." Bremen.
 dous applause) then came button time, one
 old cat, two old cat, etc. And so we boys
 were the happiest of boys, notwithstanding
 some little annoyances as we went along. The Lancasterian school made it's mark; it has
 left it's influence, and in recurring
 celebrations of this day the school
 will be spoken of as a mighty influence in New Haven. It was the public school, to it
 the people sent their boys when they received
 the education of the day. The education was | in a certain sense inferior to that of the present day, but it was up to the day. What ! ever may be said of that education which we l got under Mr. Lowell it is that which has ! made the great men who in times past have illustrated the history of the English speak