Evening star., 1907-07-05

these words spoken by Prot. owen of the
British Museum, and they are worth pre-
serving
Such are the dominating powers with
which We. and we alone, are gifted.
Il say gifted, for the surprising organi-
zation was no work of ours.
1T is He that hath made not we
ourselves This frame is a temporary trust
for the uses of which are responsible
to the Maker.
"Oh. You who possess it in the supple
vigor OF lusty youth. think well what it is
that He has committed to your keeping.
Waste not its energies; dull them not by
sloth: spoil them not by pleaSuresi The
supreme work OF creation has been accom-
,lished that you might possess body
the soul erect-of all animal bodies the
most free. and for what?-for the service
of the soul
Strive to realize the conditions of the
possession of this wonderful structure.
Think what 1t may become-the Temple of
the Holy Spirit! Defle it not. Seek,
rather to adorn it with meek aA1d becom-
Ing gifts. with that fair furniture. moral
and intellectual. which 1t is our inestima-
ings and examples and ministrations OF
this Seat of Sound Learning and Religious
Education"
Organized by Prof. Hitchcock.
Prof. Edward Hitchcock, familiarly
known as "Old Doc" organized the athletic
department. and Is still at its head. Forty
nine successive classes of students. num-
Derln& nearly O,ONb, nave Deen uHOeT his
instruction, and about 4.10O of them are
living today to call him blessed. He has
known every one of them by name; until
recent years he examined every one OF
them physically when he entered COL
lege, and has a record of each man
chest measurement. his weight and other
details of his physical condition. That
examination has been repeated annually
to note the effect of the system, and DR..
Hitchcock can show you record of the
physical development of every student who
has entered Amherst College for nearly
half a century. He has known all the
boys, he says, outside and In and old
grads will tell you that no member of the
faculty has ever been on more Intimate
terms with the students than he. His
sympathy has been comprehensive enough
to include them all, and he has mended
their souls as well as their bodies.
At the age OF seventy-nine years DR..
Hitchcock Is still in the active performance
OF his duties professor of hygiene and
physical culture and as dean of the faculty.
OF recent years he has been assisted by
Prof. Paul c. Phillips, '91; r. F. Nelligan
and II. c. Carpenter. Whenever "Old Doc
appears where students are. you vii hear
q spontaneous eruption of voices shouting:
''who is Old Doc Hitchcock?
First in
First In peace,
And first in the hearts of all Amherst mem"
Prof. Hitchcock's Career.
Dr. Hitchcock is son of former Pres-
dent Hitchcock OF Amherst and bears the
name OF his honored father. He was born
In Amherst May 23, 1898. prepared at an
academy In a neighboring village, graduated
with the class of 40, took a medical degree
at Harvard, went to England to complete
his course, studied anatomy with Sir Rich
ard owen of the British Museum returned
to Amherst in 1860. was elected to the pro-
fessorship he now holds. and has BEEN on
duty almost every day from that time to
this. serving the students of Amherst as a
personal friend and adviser as well as in
structor. DIR. Hitchcock has received MANY
honors from learned societies all over the
world. For many years he was the most
prominent figure In physical education in
America He founded the Association for
the Advancement OF Physical Education
and his influence has extended not ONLY ali
in promoting the Improvement of the bodies
as well the minds OF men No one has
done so much in that direction as he and
although the great wave of popular ath-
letics has swept by him and he remains at
his modest post, unknown to millions that
he has benefited. the rewards and the
qualification he has enjoyed have been ex-
ceeded by those of few humanitarians
Prof. Hitchcock is venerable figure His
hnir and beard white as snow, but
he has the spirit OF boy, and his own
physical training has given him q consti-
tuition that will endure many years yet
] have never seen man that answers so
closely TO the description of George Arm
cld's Jolly Old Pedagogue,"
Whose form bent and whose gait was slow
But "a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye;
And he sang every night he went TO bed
Let MS he happy down here below.
The living need charity more than the dead
Sang the jolly old pedagogue long ago
DIR. Hitchcock drives around IN a ''one hoss