Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-24
HoroHs TO THE OLD MASTER.

H0NORs TO THE OLD MASTER. The old LaneasIerIan Boys Revive the
 Gay Memories of Youth i'm Celebrat-
 Ing the NinepY.Foureh Birthday of
 She Venerable Instructor, John E.
 Lovell-The Business, Banquet and
 Evening's Pleasantries.
 Frisky as young lambs were the old Lan- casterian boys at Loomis' yesterday evening, and over two hundred gathered to celebrate
 the ninsty-fourth birthday of the venerable
 instructor, whose sound training had aroused
 the germs which have developed and made
 them what they are in life.
 At seven o'clock a business meeting was
 held at which ex-Governor Henry B. Harri-
 son presided. The reports of the secretary
 and treasurer were read and accepted. The
 deaths during the year. They were Hon.
 Henry E. Pardee, Rev. s. J. M. Merwin John
 D. Gillette of Elcarte, Illinois. James Win
 ship of Buffalo, Frank 0. Smith, Abel B.
 Jacocks, Charles Bradley, William Franklin,
 George s. Arnold, H. Fl. Olds, Willis Bene-
 dict
 The officers of last year were reelected ,and
 Dr. B. L. Adams, who was former pupil of
 Mir. Lovells at Amherst, was elected an
 honorary member.
 Prof. Day, as the committee on by-laws, read 8 paper of which we give an extract. If there is any body of men which has right to
 feel special interest in the free public library of ton. Itself the inheritor of the pains taken by former generation to raise up an intelligent com
 munity it may justly bend it's efforts to continue the advantages which the members have received to those who come after us, and in still higher degrea
 free schools. Children and youths first taught to read and understand books are then to be encour-
 able limits, with the opportunity of reading them Doing what we can to meet the steadily increasing opportunities for mental improvement, we may
 hope to leave legacy the existance and efforts ofthe Lanca.terian School association which com-
 With this in view it has been incorporated into it's
 be presented by the in regard to the pros
 sRe ogeer with nTee
 enable this association to promote it's interests School association to contribute generously and
 steadily by the support and interest or US mem CTS
 the @ a1d ghe bs nae of Of ored instructor, John E. Lowell. will be crowned honored teacher whose influence. begiuning with his boys in 1920, will be remembered to the remotest times.
 Many statistics and needs of the library were given.
 After the business meeting the boys took their places around the banquet tables. At ! the head of the room was cross table, at which the honored instructor, MT. Lowell, ! sat with ex-Governor Henry B. Harrison, the president, by his side, and other officers who ' sat here were
 Vice President Prof. George E. Day, John 0. Bradley, Wooster A. Ensign, Henry w. \ Mansfield, Gen. E. E. Bradley, Samuel E. ! Barney, Johu G. Chapman, Augustus E. Lines, William W. White, Richard M. Ever \ it, Charles G. Merriman, Benjamin Jepson. Others at the tables were ex-Mayor Henry | G. Lewis, Edward 0. Beecher, T. Futile, Jeremiah F. Bishop, William A. Wright of | Newark, Oliver Bryan of New York, Dr. E. L. Bissell, John E. Lowell, jr., son of the venerable teacher, Jacob Strouse, William L.. Everit, Samuel Doskin of Nor walk, Frank C.. White, New York, ley, Fred Cooper, James G. Brown, John E. Bassett, James G. English, Superintendent Davidson of the Consolidated road, Joseph Milander, George Arnot, J. J. Atwater, Charles w. Arnet, Edward L. Fairchild.
 Henry o. Porter, Sheriff Higgins, George English, Colonel Webster of New York city, wm. J. Pratt, Walter W. Ives of West Haven, Samuel Lloyd, Lewis Mix, Samuel Burrell, B. R. Whiting, Buckley I Johnson, Ezra D. Dibble, Banty Naples, Elisha Duplex, Hen Birthstone, Kitty Clin- ton, Sidney Buck, John Lowell Smith, Eugene Beecher, Wm. A. Tomlinson Of Saybrook, | who was @ scholar of 1893, one year after the school was started.
 In beginning the speaking ex-Governor ! Harrison said he could not help congrst- ulating the gentlemen, not only on their numbers, but upon their handsome appear ance (applause.) We are here to celebrate \ the birthday of our dear old master, said he. Here are we his boys, and here he is him- ! self. We can only hope that most of us can be here to celebrate the centennial snniver- sary of his own birthday. This we leave in the hands of the great master above. His heart is still warm though he is feeble with | age and weak in sight and hearing. His ! mind is active and his repartee is sharp. ! The old bell which used to call the boys in at recess was there and the president took it up and rang it to the uproarious applause of the entire gathering.
 Prof. George E. Day, said it was fine looking set of men, and that they we'll repre- sent this community.
 The Lancasterian poet, Mir. Merriman then read @ poem, "Some "Reminiscences" So continued numberless cemical lists which all recognized and many were the hearty laughs which it aroused. It was also full of fine poetic passages.
 The ex-governor then called on "Harry" Lewis, for, said he, this gathering would be like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out without him.
 Ex- Mayor Lewis said that 1t was his proud- est wish that the venerable instructor could have the vigor of manhood again; that he could have eyes to see the changes in the city which were the results of his sound teaching | in the old Lancasterian school. Talk of | modern education as much as you please, \ said he, but tell you the old Lancssterian \ school was far at the head and front of any | modern school in the teaching of youth. | (Great applause)
 General E. E. Bradley made few pleas. | ant remarks.
 Dr. Adams, the honorary member of the association, said that he considered it great honor to be connected with the association. He told of his association with MT. Lowell as teacher. One of his classmates was Henry Ward Beecher. This great divine was a warm admirer of the honored benefactor and told Dr. Adams personally that if he ever achieved anything as 6 public speaker 1t was through Mir. Lovell's influence. A historical song by Prof. Jepson brought in many laughs and comical hits. Edward 0. Beecher recited civilian Pitt Chathams address before the House of
 Lords' and Wooster Ensign also amused the
 boys with an oration did Oliver Bryan of
 New York. One of the best speeches of the
 evening was made by Colonel Webster of
 New York city.
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