New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-21
PROF. EDWARD W. BEMIS.

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song was hardly appropriate as the smoke Of scores
Of cigars had Just begun TO curl toward the cel"s'
'bu. with college everything goes
THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Previous TO the opening OF the dinner. the nomi-
mating COMMITTEES had selected men to be elected as
officers for the next year The POSTMASTER read the
names and without any formality pronounced them
unanimously elected. They were C"one Mason w
Tyler s. president; Winston H. Hagen 49, wee
president and Curtis r. Hathaway 81 secfe'ar!
and treasurer The Executive Committee consists OF
the above. and. In addition, Arthur = '"'e'' o.
and william c. Breed. '93.
At the table OF honor were seated Herbert H.
Bridgman Professor John NJ. Tyler or Amherst the
Rev Dr. Charles II. Parkhurst, Hamilton W. Maoie'
of THE Outlook; Lieutenant Robert t. fear!'
Professor F. W Bemis. formerly OF Chicago Uni
versty; Colonel Mason W. Tyler, the Rev Chares
II Lanson and William H. Lewis
Among the others present were John II. Wash
burn 20: A. b. Crane "a; Il. Edwards Lewis Dr.
Rufus T. Lincoln. Isaac II. Maynard 81 >. NaAey
Brown Samuel II. Valentine So Joseph beard
william r. Mead. 'G7; william A. Brown = H.
WyckofY +. W. Tyler. A. b. Smith, Charles +.
Wells IS; William r. Brown. Stephen H. Larned
90: Charles L. Harrington 20; +. N. Bliss. g. X
Cutting +. h Martin Dr. Arthur X PANE AZ
Professor John b. Clark ~; Isaac " NILS Arthur
T. Muzzy -: A. L. Chapman, 10; Frank L. BAD
bott Dr. J. A. Sanders. ]. J. Chickering IS; Charles
NJ. Pratt. 70; J. Il. Bsbee. Noah C. Rogers 80 Lau-
renee F. Abbott 3D. c. H. Baker. Walter II. CRIT
,enden 81 l.. 5. Judd jr. 80; A. r Cushman, j.
Greenleaf, 49, Curtis 4. Hathaway j. H. Spanord
"a; Walter C. Low, IS; f. II. Falows. r o. WAi'
the Rev James S. Young SO; Andrew i. Alvord
f. b. Pratt, 81: A. s. Bard S. Arthur {. James
A. Truslow II. Nilsson. SO; r. i. Luddlngton. 81 H.
II. Abbott W. c. Breed. A. d. Ncyes, sS; > T.
Cushman and A. Il. Haskell, o.
REGRETS OF THE PRESIDENT.
Irl grra N
read a telegram from President Merrill E. Gates,
who although expected. was unable 10 be present.
The telegram follows:
Cordial greeting from Alma Mater 10 her loyal
should forego the pleasure OF dining with you to-
night. May The true Amherst idea continue 10 m
spre and 10 bless her sons, and through theii the
world
Professor John NJ. Tyler was then introduced to
speak on tie Amherst Idea at Home" Professor
Tyler said in part:
Everything which OF any In this world.
whether Church or State society or any Institution,
law, medicine or gospel, PRAYER or preachins is
vse1 mainly It enables to TO
healthy body; intelligent conformity, common
and intellec; fitted equally. az Professor
Huxley has said TO forge the anchors or spin the
gossamers Of thought" The highest conformity Is
college is worth anything IT must enable man to
attain sucn a conformity. And to do this the man
the college curriculum
But our teacher must have in him more than
times are rightly demanding of colleges heroic
men and leaders And II our college is to graduate
great hearts and souls as lofty lofty and rugged as our
lese log and Garfield at the other. But have
had a Seelye and Parkhurst
Armenia wrote TO mis- son bldiing him goodbye,
he would probably have fallen at his post. For such
defenceless save by Invisible legions and unmoved
bloody SDOttSVlyalia
Gettysburg there is and could be but source.
And yet this is the spirit wrlch mus, animate the
graduates Of colleges II they are not to be
swept away in the onward march Of humanity, as
men cumberers of the ground.
What then is the Amherst idea Of college at
home? II Is body Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. one hun
traditions of the past. by vitality OF big men as
their teachers. ana SIN more By the example Of
action, and all of them. students and teachers and
alumni, playing tie man" as Agamemnon says
This is the Amherst idea.
THE WILLIAMS IDEA
Hamilton W. Mabe, OF Williams OF THE Out
look" responded to the toast The Williams Idea"
He said in part:
The idea of Williams has always been the idea
upon 1t. for 1t has been a good one. The essential
Ideas Upheld at Williams College founded upon
Puritan conception. which teaches that there il in
man power Tar superior to his environments
which makes him the master OF MS surroundings
1t is the sanctty and the soyeregnty Of man that
taught al NlIIlams ana al Amherst IN your
day and mine. and / believe IL Is taught just
correctly to-day.
The college man Of to-day is becoming more and
more a OF realities and less Of distractions.
man rooted in the common ground OF common hu-
mainly and not man whose supreme power lies
In this one talent in that The relation OF any
man to his fellows is indicated by the power he has
TO inspire them. The great men are not Isolated.
they are at unity with the rest Of humanity. The
great man must have these primary and funda-
blossomed into any OF the higher arts. yet have the
power to sway the masses.
Man must realize the kinship that ndissoluby
binds him to his fellows. No man ever created
the moral sentiment In the whom he eX-
erted his power for good. Such men have discerned
the germs OF greatness In those about them. simply
because they have been in profound sense the
sharers of the thought OF the masses.
UNITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION
Another thing that colleges teach is the unity
OF thought and action. Thought and action can ac-
complish great things only they stand together.
The main difference between the college man and
the man who has not received the benefit OF a
higher education is that the former understands
men and has the power OF expression. which the
latter often has not There just two classes OF
men who have the power 10 resist evil. The first
are stern and pure and resist temptation rs piece
OF rubber which when struck bounds back again
silently into It's former shape. uninjured The second
class not only resist but, like a bell. when assailed
they give forth clear. resonan! sound that pro-