The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-03
ALUMNI OF OLD CHESHIRE
BANQUBTAT THE HOTEL WALDORF
IN NEW YORK.

Addresses by Principal Woodbury., Rev.
II. S. Lines and Others BANQUET Hall
beautifully Decorated in Honor of the
| Occasion.
New York, Feb. 1.-The Cheshire
Alumni association gave banquet at
the Waldorf tonight. About seventy
five former students of the Episcopal
academy of Connecticut, better known
at the Cheshire academy, were present.
| The horseshoe table in the banquet hall
was profusely and tastefully decorated
with flowers. At the curved end was
an immense floral piece bearing the
dates 'I794-1S9z"
Among the distinguished alumni
present We're Professor Andrew w.
Phillips of Yale university, c. Larue
J Munson, president Of the association;
Herbert &. Barnes, Rev. John Williams
of the Church of the Heavenly Rest,
Fred n. Bassett Harold G. Cortis, DR..
ii. Holbrook Curtis James B. Dill, DR..
| w. K. Simpson, DR.. Allen M. Thomas,
tRowland a. Robbins and A. B. Aber-
nethby of New York, Colonel James b.
Coryelli of Williamsport,. Pa, Rev. Ed
win S. Lines of ST. Paups New Haven,
Gustav Preston of Colorado, P. H. Corr
of Providence and Charles l.. McNeil
of Torrington, Conn.
| During the post-prandial exercises
Principal =. D. Woodbury. was intro
duced and spoke as follows:
Prof. e. d. Woodbury., principal OF
the academy, said:
| Mr. President and Gentlemen Of the
! Alumni-You know how eagerly we all
return to friends and home after a
| long absence, and how fondly we re-
call to mind the many little Incidents
of earlier home days. 1t Is with much
the same feeling that / have come to
attend this meeting Of old friends The
difference Is that from most of you the
i separation has been Of several years
duation, and from some more than 30
years. 1t is a source of great satisfac-
tion to greet SO many Of you, almost all
of whom knew first as young school
boys.
| 1t is an added pleasure, looking about
me and recognizing in your mature
| faces the boys of a generation ago, to
know that you have already achieved
such a good measure of success in life,
! whether we consider success as being
| the acquisition of fortune or the reach
/ ing of q, high position in your several
/ professions To meet a friend and be-
assured OF his good fortune In life is
| indeed pleasure. I find myself actu-
/ ally wondering how you have attained
4 SO much in so brief a time-it seems
i but q, little while ago that you were
| studying in school and session room,
| or possibly playing and wasting time,
| the value Of which you have now learn
ed to appreciate; or you were on the
| ball field, or trarnpfng off to Honey
/ Pot" Roaring Brook or Hanging
| Hills" In recollection I see you as You
were-I look more closely at your faces.
| upon those locks that are becoming
whitened like my own, and 1 bow to
the fact that many year has passed
since I knew you in the e. A. c..
/ do not wish, however, to he entirely
reminiscent in my remarks. None of
you have forgotten the academy; each
| recalls it as it was in his own day.
| Some changes have been made stnce
then. Our arrangements for the com-
| fort of boys have been improved in
many ways. The former system Of
washing and bathing in a large wash
| room and at one common sink is q.
thing of the past. Those wash rooms
| have been divided up into bathrooms,
| giving four upon each dorInitory floor,
| with hot and cold water All now have
have conveniences for washing in their
own rooms The half hour of session
before breakfast, which you used to en-
oIp xJ,oye
| ago. The large room in front of Hor-
ton hall, where DR.. Horton was accus-
toned to have his class in "Gray's Ell
egy" and in composition and declama.-
| ton, is now thrown open for the use
| of the boys as a social music room.
Changes in the course of study have
kept pace with those of the more ma
terial equipment
You should notice the expansion Of
the course in English. 1t was once
thought that boy would better not
waste time in studying English authors
sufficient acquaintance would come
about naturally and without effort.
This course is now arranged to be in
accord with the scheme approved by
the Commission of Colleges in New
England. You can easily picture to
yourselves the immense satisfaction
spreading all over boys countenance
| as ne holds his book q little out OF
range and the teacher steps quietly
around to see what contraband article
he is reading and finds him innocently
preparing the next lesson in 'Ivanhoe.s =
'The Spy or "The Last Of the Mohd-
| cans" oh, yes, undoubtedly these
modern improvemen are duly appre-
ciated by boy. AS to the future,
think we have reason to feel encoar-
agement So far as the boys them
selves are concerned, all appear to be
| happy, contented, and with a warm and
growing attachment to the school.
This is as it should be, and is certainly
most hopeful feature. 1 suppose 1t
| will continue to be as 1t is and has
been, that quite large portion of our
| students come through the kind rec
concentrations of former students.
We to-day have in attendance seven
pupils whose fathers were boys in the
academy within the time of my con-
nection with it. Six others are either
brothers or nephews of old boys. How
many more are enrolled among us
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