The Newtown bee., 1899-07-14

ulleu Iof tHelF HIee eWofk. Amherst Coll ! Iege is an institution where young menl are fl ted, by 8 long process of uninter- rupi ed study, to be lawyers, doctors and D. D's. Smith College is seven miles away from AmhersE College; so what do ! you suppose happens? We'll. if you are so stupid that you cannot guess, cer- tainly shall not give you any light on l the subj ct. In my day the boysU want | you to understand that am speaking in l the third person)- boys, say, had l to pay $3 for team and drive over i; 1 now they go by the Massachusetts Gen. tral R R. The Boston and Maine, which l towns the Massachusetts Central R. R., pays big dividends on it's stock. The direc- tors knew what they were up to when they built that road.
 Amherst College has now new pres ident, Dr Edward Harris, former presi- dent of Andover Theological seminary. The general feeling is that the college has now started out on 6 new career of prosperity, that the Golden Age is yet
 ahead. Well, the college deserves some rest and quiet now; for the past few
 years it has been upheaval. WheI4 I
 was there in 1894, st my 10 h. year reun-
 ion, things looked rather shaky. Merrill
 E Gates, who was then president, pos
 sessed plenty of the admirable quality
 which the boys call "sand," to sit at the
 Commencement Dinner, to all outward
 appearance, as calm as June day
 while the atmosphere all about felt
 quite uncomfortable. In going into the reminiscent vein, college mate told how 3 Dr Harris as a student might often have , been seen, the centre of group of three E or four, interesting them by his handling r of the questions of the day. He knew what he came to college for; he then had
 & purpose in view. Even at that time r. he was aiming at something higb, and he 6 has hit it. His critics speak of him BE cold and unapproachable; but Dr Lam- l. son well character zed him when he said 2 II like man who, instead of having the front door of his being always open, is p ever ready to admit you when you ring n the bell" Hail! Dr Harris, we alumni e who for many years have been cut loose is from our Alma Matters leading strings = and those who are about to put forth with
 their canoe on life's rough ses, greet you.
 Hail to the Chief we place you as chief
 we dictate no policy to you; we call nc
 halt to your progressive bent; we pass
 no harsh word of criticism, on the contra.
 ry we bespeak you all success. Harris, .~ of Amherst, and Hadley, of Yale, ioir
 hands. The two colleges stand in rival
 rY on the diamond and the football field ~ but not in that nobler strife to find ths ideal educational methods that shal
 mould ideal men. We want educators al
 college presidents to-day, not stump ora =. tors, not money rasers, not pyrotechnl'
 geniuses and such men Yale and Am , herst both have.
 0' What was the most noticeable thint N that struck ne in going back to ''old An e herst"? The fact that almost every thlnl 01 was new. The old College Hall is, to b o sure, there, which Henry Ward Beeche ,,s speaks of in his ''Norwood;" you see n was there in Beecher's day, and he grad '" uated in the class of 1889. But, thoug you had never seen the barnlike struct no ure, you ought to be interested to knov ~, that the prG ject ran like wild fire thi ,- n Commencement to tear the old landmar down and put on it's site an Administra
 tion Building, to serve general purposes 'o which should cost at least $l00,00( My contribution was so modes that I can speak of it withou 0" boastipg, our class started th '0' $100, 900 ball a-rolling by subscribin
 $8 ,000; and the ball rapidly increases il
 rotundity as iG rolls. The old Collee
 Chapel, to be sure. is there, with it's toy
 CT and big clock, with it's French recit'
 tion room somewhere up under the ZOO
 with it's associations that hallow eyer
 rafter and emblazon with lustre ever ing nail. You cannot tear the College Chal liV el down. If you laid the ruthless han m Of destruction upon it, mighty chorr on of dissent would roll up from Buzzard no Bay to Puget Sound, and even son nd echoes would reach us from the island to of the sea. But all else, how changed NNe Nc Pratt Gymnasium, there is no better al ete poin ed building for physical training ell this country. Then the grounds are lai ,er out in the most approved style Of lan' be scape gardening. I tread upon the nev .ch l see the new in every walk and buildin , ne and shrub; but yet it is the old that ect all about me. I did not come back { :ge Amherst to see the new; these are splel ,ae m, did things for the boys who are now 1 lat enjoy them, but did not live anon to to these things in my college days. can L. to see the old, and have seen 1t; so g ms satisfied away. I have seen "Old Ty 'rk looking at me over his spectaeles ar m m. placidly smiling as he revels in h
 Greek. I have seen Elwell chewing tt h Greek roots as contentedly as co
 chews her cud. I have seen 'S3 playin !. upon us 8 full stream with the villae
 hose as we untamed Freshmen dance
 about our fire, and I have seen we boy
 paying $l00 for the same hose which W
 got away from 'S3 and cut up for mem'
 rabilis. have seen Billings again tah
 of his coat and swing it around in tt
 air as he yelled like mad when Gardins
 made that hit that gave us the two TUT he in the 11th inning in the game wit 4o Brown. have seen dear old Hensha
 In the Physics experiment room turnin D. his machine to generate the electricit B. that wouldn't come; and again I hay