Evening star., 1909-07-01

feeders of Auburn and Union theological
seminaries. and when its century of iife
shall close, three years hence. Hamilton
can render her. account with honest PRIDE.
that considering her limitations in size
and endowments no institution on either
has had a wider influence. and
none other has had higher standard or
scholarship or more severe test to main
tain it.
Hamilton is willing to rest upon her
claims to public confidence as a college
only. and does not aspire to be a univer-
sity. There is fixed course. with no eiec-
tive studies. except few in the
senior year; its students do not specialize.
They receive an old-fashioned. acompre-
hensive. liberal educa tion. which the
faculty believe is the best way to develop
intellectual strength and high ideals and
TO round out the character.
They believe that 1t promotes moral and
mental candor and rejecting sophistry
and intellectual experiments. develops
both the morals and the mind.
Graduates Never Criminals.
So far as ! can learn. no graduate OF
Hamilton has ever been in the peniten-
tiary and none has ever been indicted for
crime while. on the contrary. the list of
alumni includes the names of an unu-
sually large proportion of distinguished
men.
More than one-fourth of them have be-
come clergymen. another fourth nave be-
come teachers, professors in other colleges
and theological Seminaries: large num-
her have been missionaries. and when the
latest enumeration was made AS were
bankers and manufacturers.
and 100 We're editors: 11S fought in the
war for the Union, and many died upon
the field of honor.
In looking through the register of the
alumni, which has been brought down to
include the class of 1902. | find that
there have been 1907 graduates since the
first class of two were handed their dlpio-
mas in 1914. and OF these 1,.t43 were alive
at the time the list was published.
The first graduates We're George A. Cal
hound, doctor of divinity. and trustee
Of Yale College. who lived at North Cow
entry. Conn. and William Groves of Alex
q ndria. La, who was a teaCher. BOth OF
them died in 1867.
The oldest living graduate OF Hamilton
is Augustus Loring Rhodes, class of lS41
who recently resigned the honorable of
flee OF justice of the supreme court Of
California.
Famous Graduates of Hamilton.
/ find among the alumni the names Of
many famous men. Among them are the
David Jewett Baker, Alton. H., class OF
10 United States senator from Illinois,
1929
Sydney Breeze, is. United States sena-
tor from Illinois. and chief justice su-
preme court of Illinois.
Abijah Gilbert. %, United States sena-
tor from Florida.
Ward Hunt. %. justice United States
supreme court.
Daniel Darwin Pratt, 81. United States
senator from Indiana.
John Cochran, 81, candidate for Vice
hn
Fremont and member of the House of
for many years.
Stephen William Taylor. II, president
Madison University.
mouth College.
Hiram Huntingdon kellogg, 90. presi
dent of Knox College.
Phillip Barton Key, %, OF Georgetown,
D. c.
George William Clinton, %, son Of
Gov. Dewitt Clinton. regent and vice
chancellor of New York.
Asa Mahan, "a. president of Oberlin
College.
Joel Smith Bacon. '26, president of Col
gate College.
Augustus William Smith, %, president
Of Wesleyan University
Roswell Park, 20, president Racine Col
ege.
Nelson Rounds, %. president University
IF Oregon.
Jonathan Aflen W picSiuehl
Wayne College.
Benjamin ". Dwight, SO, the famous
iurist
Daniel Huntingdon. SO. the distinguish
ed painter and president National Acad-
emy of Design.
Theodore Benedict Lyman. 81, Ep1Sco-
pal bishop of North Carolina.
Henry w. Shaw cJosh Billingso, 81.
Theodore w Dwight. 40. president Co
umbia Law School, New York.
Glenni w. Scoffield. 40, justice United
States Court of Claims.
Anson Judd Upson, '43, chancellor Uni
versity of New York.
Joseph r. Hawley, United States sena-
tor from Connecticut.
Thomas Samuel Hastings, '4s, president
Union Theological Seminary.
Alvan Dighton Williams. 40 president
College. Cal
James Mills Woolworth. 40, president
American Bar Association.
Horatio c. Burchard. 80, of Illinois, for
many years member of Congress and
afterWard director United States mint.
George Roberts Perkins. 52, president
Iowa University.
william Writ. Howe. 80. chief justice
supreme court of Louisiana.
Herrick Johnson, 81, president McCor-
mick Theological Seminary.
William Henry Harrison Miller. 81. At
.orney General in President Harrison's
ca binet.
Charles Van NOrten, 6', president Eli
mira College.
Elihu Root, "a, senator from New York
and former Secretary of State.
Charles H. Truax. 81, justice New York
supreme bench
S. =. D. North 90, United States di-
rector census:
Charles H. Duel, II, United States COM
missioner of patents and justice United
States district court.
George Frederick Lyon, 10, New York
supreme court.
Malancthon Woolsey Stryker. 10. pres
dent Hamilton College
Henry Wade Rogers, 73. dean Yale Law
School.
Charles c. Henenway, ~. president
Pritchett College.
George Hodges, II, dean Harvard Di-
vinity School.
James Schoolcraft Sherman. IS, Vice
President of the United States.
Theodore C. Burgess, 'S3, director of
Bradley Institute Peoria.
William Arnold Shanklin, 'S3, president
Upper Iowa University.
William Miller Collier, 50. United
States minister to Spain.
And | might add long list of other
men who have been and are still famous
and influential in various walks of life.
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