The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-29
GMREUSI'S HAPPY CLASS DAY
OR4TOR tVD POET HECKLRD
D. M THE aLB GRlDl ATES.

NNIfAueN IhI NiANil anu uFNhNNN Nueh iNA
the good 81 their souls Sentiment and
skylarking were crowded into the busy
hlurs
Il was not '0ng after the sun had struck
light TN, morning that parties OF alumni
were ranging the pleasant Connecticut
River Vallev eager 10 revisit Old scenes
No noud New Yorker was ever keener 20
poinl ont il.' wonders ~ his city than
the Amherst Ild boys were 10 expatiaie
on ne hisior'' associations and pictur-
esqRness 0f the countrywide They
caught YOU hy ne sleeve and hurried Won
from King Philip % jonathan Edwards.
twas My hoy. cast your eyes on that
old nm IN You know what that Is Cele-
hrated for Wen. the three regitides
who escaued 20 this country bid in the
cellar % that hou~e 10 keep Charles II.
from getting them Yes. this is Hadley.
the flnrous old Hadhy Look az that
church. no you know that Ming Philip
attackad that church when II Wis full Of
worshippar. and that the regicides rough
old Cromwelhans. led the defence and heat
the King M the main street Of the village.
Look 40 that street There isn't side
walk to-day 20 mar it, baauty. See that
hou-es IL the very Identical house where
jonathan Edwards lived in Northampton.
Why. ~ went to schsol rights quars in
tie midst of American history
II was pleasant thing. this enthusiasm
IT the Amherst grads VERY Old or
very Young they were equally animated
There were Gaylord and smith Of ~
the oldest 10 the visiting alumni. tho
former NJ. the latter ~ two Of the three
surviving members Of their class: there
were alumni vino hadn't hecn hack 90
Amherst Tor hl,y years and there wer'
many more who hadn't heen away quite
a wear. but all of item were just hovs
again az commencoment
The exercises cf the day hegan 90 $50.
when the senior class met 10 plant their ivy
William Evans clark Of New York de-
hvered the ivy GRAFTON and George Frisbie
Whicher Of Middle Haddam. Conn. read
the ivy poem II was a ceremony made
especially attractive by the sunlight
peeping aslant among the BRANCHES Of the
ancient oaks Afterward the graduating
class met in College Hall. where Max p
ShOop OF Rochester delivered the class
Grafton and Paul A. Pancher n Glen Cove,
y. Y. read the class poem.
The trustees met in the morning and
80 did ths general association Il tho
alumni Az the meeting Of the alumni
the much discussed plan for an Amherst
Union was brought NJ -Sherrod 'slo1lp.
Is. was elected president u the general
ASSOCIATION and these vice-pr residents
were named Prof Edwin A Grusve-
nor. ~; Collin Armstrong -; , y Look.
n: Henry p Field. ~. John ?. Cushing.
S2. and George B. Mailon. -
Prof Thomas Esty j. the new score
tary and treasurer. and the new exeCu-
tive committee consists u Dr. Edward
Hitchcock az. Henry p. Field ~. Prof
Joseph o Thompson. ~; Arthur Curtis-
James. ~. Oliver Il Merrill o., Herbert
l.. Pratt. &c. Robert - Metcalf. W. n. W.
Kidder. ". and DR. John \ Hitchcock.
10. j. d. Storrs, -. will no the alumni
representative On the athletic board
Until time for the grove Grafton and
poem the visiting alumni iuterchanged
visits and hustled FOR the silyes cup Of
fered FOR the hest average attendance.
ThsiregistEaiion upiO tonight Was nearly
5o. and 4 looks now a. Il District AttOr-
new Charles = Whtmans class 81 %
will win tho prize Il has fOrty-One men
already enrolled out o. total u seventy
one. The mrn u 1870 are putting up a
fight for the trophy with seventeen men
ouy Of twenty seven on the ground, while
Is and 90 are still IN the contest.
The class Of issO. Of which J. ? Nc
Gregory il the pre4dent and n ?. Field
fecretary. has been prominent in the com
niencemsnt festivities The class u ~
was a notable class Among il mem
hers here are Congressman George p
lawrence VI the First Massachusetts,
district. Prof McGregory Of Colgate
Prof W 4 Merrill Il the University
u California. Prof p T.. Richardson. |
librarian q Princeton; Noah 4. Rogers
- New York. Prof Henry w. ROlfe %
Leland stanford. DR.. George q sears
~ the Harvard Medical school the Very |
Esv Charles II Snedeker. Bishop 81 the /
EpiscOpal Church and dean u ~ Paul's |
Cathedral Cincinnati; Il \ Stephenson |
the New York architect: the Rev George |
A strong - New Work. President " Y /
stuart Il the board Of trustees II Purdue /
University Lafayette. Ind Prof r NJ |
" arren u Yale. Prof l.. d. WhittemoTe |
Of Topeka Nan A h Bemis Of Brook |
line, Mass Prof b. " Bemis Of New |
York the water supply expert; DR. r. J |
Bliss. the explorer in ASIA Minor: United /
States Circuit Judge Harrington Of Ne |
ada. Judge Henry p. Field Of North I
ampton. the Rev. DR.. A. L. Gillett u the ]
Hartford Theological Seminary. Henry I
W Goodrich the New York lawyer; Prof |
james l. Howe 81 Washington and Lee |
and the Rev DR. Charles 5. Lane u Mount |
Vernon. \ Y
A nuub.r " visitors have sons in the |
graduating class Prof Sehgman Of |
{ olumbia j. here n see his SIN, Eustare |
= Sshgman ger a sheepskin The Rev |
Dr nehemiah BOyntpn ~ Brooklyn. who /
b. a member II the class ~ 20. ~ visiting /
his son. Morrison Russell BOyntOn. one I
Of the graduates several 1t the young 4
men Of 1910 ars from families which have /
sent three Or fO0r generations o. Amherst .
College
From noon until nearly ? O'Clock /
lIucheons w-rr given in the fraternity
houses in honor n rho visitors. and then
al Amherst moved toward the grove
- ~" AID hear TIC Old boys josh ths
C.gss ~ 1910
The grove is o natural amnhithaatre
rounded out among magnificent old oaks
whose oYrvtug tops arch over the oval
of TERED seats Grafton and poem give
The alumni Chhnos . revenge them
selves on the graduates for what they
themselves endured at their own COM /
The orator.. whose sub ject
O. humIrOr5 review n the four years
with jaJs at the faculty. yenerated insti-
tIriong and hes own classmates, h always i
herLhl Iv The nh BOYS. whl InterrlDt