The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-30

Miscellaneous or without active Occu
patton, II.
1t is commonly said that Harvard
graduates tend more and more to &c
into business in preference to the pro-
fessions of theology, medicine and the
law. The class of 80 to a considerable
degree has exemplified this tendency
Among the men prominent in financial
or industrial enterprises, some of whom
We're educated as lawyers, are Robert
Bacon, formerly partner of j. P. Nor
gan & Co.: Charles G. Washburn, of
Worcester. lawyer and manufacturer;
Robert Windsor, of the Boston banking
house of Kidder. Peabody & Co.; Van
derlynn Stow and Fairfax H Whelan,
two of the most prominent business
men of San Francisco; William Hooper,
treasurer of the Boston Elevated Rail-
way company; Arthur ". Moors, of j.
B. Moors & Co, Boston bankers; Ar
thur Perry, of Perry, Coffin & Burr, a
Boston banking house; Richard Trim
BILE, secretary and treasurer of the
United States Steel company; c. Minot
Weld, president of the New England
Cotton Yarn company; Arthur Hale,
son of Rev. Edward Everett Hale, now
an official in the employ of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad; Edwin NJ. Dodd,
of Providence, r. l., prominent in the
wool business; Henry B. Chaplin, gen.
eral traffic manager of the Boston &
Albany division of the New York Cen
trail railroad: and Eben D. Jordan, a
temporary member of the class who is
the managing head of great Boston
department store, the Jordan-Marsh
company.
The publishing business, into which
so many college graduates go nova
DAYS, has called Arthur H. Lea, who
is with Lea Brothers & Co., the medl-
cal publishing house of Philadelphia;
Andrew Miller, one of the publishers of
Life which is an outgrowth of comic
at Harvard; James s. Pen
nypacker, of the Christopher Sewer
company. of Philadelphia; and Fred E.
Whiting. who is one of the owners of
the Boston Herald. One member of the
class has come into national promi-
nence as an impresario, Henry w.
Savage.
There is a common impression that a
majority of the brightest graduates OF
our Eastern colleges now become law
vers. whereas formerly they were
draf fled into the ministry. Certainly,
a considerable number of the lawyers
of 30 have attained professional promi-
hence. Among them are such men as
Charles 6. Davis of Plymouth, Mass,
a. leading jurist Of the old school;
William A CASTOR of the firm of Gas
ton SNOW & Saltonstall who was twice
democratic candidate for the COVER
norship of Massachusetts,; Hugh ;.
Rond of Baltimore, general counsel of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad; L. ID.
Kenneson. professor of law in the New
Work. University Law School; Josiah
Quincy lawyer and some time mayor
IF BOSTON: William K. Richardson OF
,b. famous firm of Fish, Richardson &
Storrow, patent lawyers OF Boston,
whose head. F. p. Fish, has since be-
come president of the Bell telephone
system: Richard NJ. Saltonstall, an
,ther eminent Massachusetts, attorney;
Albert r. Weimer, one of the best
known CORPORATION lawyers in Philadel-
mia. Harvey N. Collision, Boston
"a wyer whose work as a member of the
sewer commission was or
marked service to the public; Judge
william s. Andrews Of the New YORK
supreme court; and several others. one
LAWYER Of the class. Leonard E. OPP
1vcke of Philadelphia. has also gained
,. reputation among literary men as
translator from the romance languages
md has been decorated for his achieve
nents by the king of Italy.
In view of the supposedly Unitarian
tendency of the college, it is interest
ing to note that only one member OF
his class has attained prominence in
the Unitarian ministry. This is Rev.
Bradley Gilman, who first made his
-eputation as minister of the Church
IF the Messiah. Springfield, Mass. and
mas lately taken the pastorate Of the
zIrSt Unitarian church at Canton,