The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-31
DEBT OF GRATITUDE. OF
COUNTRY TO ROBT. E. LEE

INK ScrlDDHnSS IN Latln, prOpaDly VIII
ten by student then in Yale. The au-
tograph Of the giver to this society APP
pears on the reverse of the title page
with date of the gift Charles e.
Briggs, July 20, 1889" Below this en-
try DR.. Haven has carefully written.
This had the name Of Fox written on
it with the date of 1889" The earliest
Fox mentioned in the Yale quinquen-
NAL is James Angel Fox of the class of
1916, afterward president of Jefferson
College, Mississippi who took his mast
er's degree in 1926. He may have been
the owner of this exceedingly rare
Eighteenth century imprint. More light
is desired upon the society, the COM
piler, the publisher and the date Of
publication.
81 also submit a poetic contribution
which is of a less serious character. 1t
Is from No 797-Monday, Nov. 1890
of our file of the Boston Evening Post,
and is entitled, AN Epitaph upon
Thomas Turny. late Sweeper of Yale
College in New Haven"
when life hath fail'd one, land LIES
but BubbleD
i Death laid his Limbs in the Cold
Dust tbs cry'd;
But here lies one who fain would save
Death Trouble,
ANA ldiu MS LANDS III LUST, OIl e re
he dy'd.
Yet dy'd in Hope, that he should rise
again,
And be delivered from his dusty pris-
on;
And to convince us that he bliev'd the
same,
AS often from the Dust he has
arisen.
Here let Tom lie, bereav'd of Punch and
Broom,
OF Vigil Grammar Flip and ten
Till he shall rise from Death, and his
Cold Tomb,
It's what he's done ten thousand
times before
John Noble of Boston and Benjamin
T. Hill of Worcester were appointed
members of committee to collect bal
lots for the election of president of
the society. Forty-two ballots, all for
the present holder of the office, Stephen
Salisbury of Worcester, were cast, ans
he was declared unanimously re-elect-
ed. President Salisbury briefly thanked
the members for the honor conferred.
! Samuel A. Green of Boston, James
w Brooks of Petersham and Ezra S.
Stearns of Ringe, N. H, were made
members of the nominating committee
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the exception of Vice President T. c.
Mendenhall, who was replaced by
Henry Stedman Nourse, A. M. of Lam
caster, and Auditor william A. Smith
of Worcester, who resigned after II
| years of faithful service, was declared
reelected the secretary casting yea
ballot for the list. Benjamin T. Hill
became an auditor in place of Mr..
Smith Following Is a complete list of
officers elected: President. Stephen
Salisbury, A. M. of Worcester; vice
presidents George Frisbie Hoar, LII. D.,
of Worcester. Edward Everett Hale,
| d. D., of Roxbury; council, Samuel
Abbott Green, LII. D., of Boston, Egg
bert Coffin Smyth, D. D., of Andover,
Samuel SWEET Green A. NJ. of Wor-
lcester Edward Livingston Davis A. M,
of Worcester, jeremiah Evarts Greene.
b. A., of Worcester, Granville Stanley
Hall, LII. D., of Worcester, William
Babcock Weeden, A. M, of Providence,
r. l., John Davis Washburn, A. b., of
Worcester, Henry Stedman Nourse,
A. M. of Lancaster, James Phinney
Baxter, A. M, of Portland, Me-; sec
| etary of foreign correspondence,
Franklin Bowditch Dexter, M. A.. of
New Haven, CT; secretary of domestic
correspondence, Charles Francis Adams,
LII. D., Of Lincoln; recording secretary.
Charles Augustus Chase, A. M, Of
Worcester; treasurer, Nathaniel Paine,
A. NJ. of Worcester; committee on
publication, Edward Everett Hale, D. D.,
, Of Roxbury, Nathaniel Paine A. NJ, of
Worcester Charles Augustus Chase,
A. NJ, of Worcester Charles Card
Smith, A NJ. of Boston; auditors, Au-
gustus George Bullock, A. M, of Wor-
cester, Benjamin Thomas Hill, A. B.,
of Worcester; finance committee,
Stephen Salisbury. A. NJ, of Worces-
ter, Edward Livingston Davis, A. NJ;
of Worcester. Charles Augustus Chase.
A. M. of Worcester: library commit
tee, stephen Salisbury, A. NJ. Of Wor-
cester. Nathaniel Paine, A. M of Wor-
cester; librarian. Edmund Mills Barton
of Worcester; assistants, Miss Mary
Robinson, Miss Mary G. Whitcomb
Leslie Stephen, NJ D., of London,
| England and Prof. Arthur II. Church,
Chelsley, Kew Garden. England, were
names presented for foreign member.
ship. They were declared elected
Resident members proposed were Ed
mund Arthur Engler, A. NJ. Phi. D.,
Worcester; Prof. George Lyman Kit
tredge, Cambridge; SamuelWalker Nc
call, A. b., Winchester; Rev. Thomas
Franklin Waters, A. B.. Ipswich; AL
| bert Matthews, Boston. Members of
the committee to collect ballots for vot-
| ing on the resident members were Will
Is. L. l.,
| William E. Foster, Providence, James
F. Hunnewell, Charlestown, Henry s.
Nourse, Lancaster, DIR. Charles L.
| Nichols, Worcester. The resident list
was declared elected.
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale of
Boston referred to the bi-centennlal
| celebration at Yale as admirable be-
yond praise. AS chairman of the COM
mittee on publication, DR.. Hale referred
! to John Elliott's Bible in the Algon-
| quin language. and of the dictionary
being prepared by DIR. Trumbull. The
Indian tribes of Massachusetts and
John Elliott were described in a paper
read by DR.. Hale.
IAN unfamiliar Chapter of History"
was the subject of the paper presented
by Charles Francis Adams of Lincoln,
Interest in the reading was intense and
Mr. Adams was frequently applauded.
Following is an extract from the paper:
"One OF the most unhappy, and, to
those concerned in 1t, disastrous wars
of the century, Is that now in South
Africa dragging itself out TO a con-
cIusion apparently still remote and, in
every way unsatisfactory. There Is
good reason to think that the conflict
was unnecessary in its inception; that,
by judicious action. it might long since
nave been brought to a close; and
hnally, that it is now continued sim
ply because the parties to IL cannot he
brought together to discuss and arrive
at sensible basis of Adjustments
basis upon which both are in reality
ready to agree. Nevertheless, as the
cable dispatches daily show, the con-
test drags YEARLY along, to the prob
able destruction of one of the COM
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