The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-09
HARVARD MEN UNDER ARMS.
Patriotic LiniBg-Up of Rich Boys and
Poor Boys.

Cambridge. Mass. April 9.-"William X
Vanderbilt. jr., in the ranks''-these were
the words which one Harvard man pass
ed to another and brought crowd of
| curious sightseers to the gymnasium,
where Lieut.. Writ Robinson was drilling
his company.
There. side by side with all grades of
men. rich boys and poor boys. was the
| heir to New York millions vainly trying
| TO master the manual of arms. William
| X. ir.. was not the only young man of
| prospective wealth, for in the same ranks
were those whose fathers positions in
the country are on level with the
| Eanderbilts. Among those was Roger
| Walcott the son of his excellency the
| governor and commander of the State
militia
There was W. A NJ. Burden, son of L.
T. Burden. the New York millionaire; F.
L. Higginson. jr., son Of Francis L. Hig
ginson. the banker; Neal Fairchild, son
Of Col. Fairchild; NJ. Cheney. the son of
eN-Gov. Person I. Cheney, of New Hamp-
shire; W. II. Parton. son Of James Par
ton. the historian; L. J. Watson. son OF
Col. Watson; u. *. Catlin, son of Gen.
Isaac Catlin. of Brooklyn: L. l.. Logan,
son Of Col. Logan. of the Ninth Massa-
chusetts; Frank Alger, son of Secretary
of Mar Alger; Percy Dalton son of
Adjt. Gen. Dalton, of Boston, and many
others.
OF the men who are better known a
the country for what they have done
while in college than by their fathers
deeds or money, there were Capt. Good
of 10 TflD
Jim Perkins. president OF IS: Jaffray
T3oal OF football fame: Norton Shaw
,he stonewau guard; Bart Hayes, sec
retary Of 'ga: Fletcher Dobyns and
Charles erik, two Yale debaters; Jack
MoultOn, of the football eleven. and Ell
lot Wadsworth. Harry Adams. who is
well known both as a crew man and as
a descendant of the Massachusetts Pres
ideniai family, was also in the ranks.
Shoulder to shoulder with these men
were 32s others-all common soldiers
beginning at the bottom. to learn the
rudiments of drilling. ready if war
comes, TO do what Harvard men did in
OIL
A h-tle less than thirty-seven years
ago a similar body gathered on the
Cambridge Green, and when Abraham
Lincoln needed them there was gen
erous response. Today Harvard is as
ready she was in 61 despite the
pacific votes that have been cast in
college
Lieut. Writ Robinson. of the Fourth
Cni1ed States Artillery is the officer
assigned by the Government to teach
military science in the college. A few
days ago the gravity of the nations
position reused his soldier blood, and he
called for volunteers. Yesterday the re-
spOnse which he received testifes more
strongly than ballots and debates how
Harvard feels about Spain and her ac-
tions.
The gymnasium has become a verita-
bic armory. In the basement gun
racks have been built, and on the as
phalt back Of the building the drills
are held. Lieut.. Robinson expects to
divide his company into squads and in
struct them in the manual of arms
Yesterday the fundamental principles
of drilling were taken up-marching,
wheeling, saluting, etc. The Govern
ment could spare only sixty rifles hence |
the sCrad must be limited until more
are sent from Washington