Newark post., 1915-02-17
Newark in the Long Ago
THE AWAKENING OF DELAWARE COLLEGE,
"reminiscences for The Post BY E: ~ VaNandgham
of Massachusetts

life in a collision with one of the
trees Of the linden avenue. In good
weather we walked in the country,
though there was regulation con-
tining us to the region within mile
OF the college, dead letter, of
course. | suppose we robbed or
chards, and | know we robbed the
Curtis grapevine. We played cards
when we should have been study
ing, and | fancy the regulation
requiring attendance at church was
not very strictly enforced. In
spring and early summer we
sprawled about upon the grass of
the campus, and teased one an
other with rough horseplay, like
the hardy young animals we were.
Between classes, morning and af-
ternoOns and on many evenings, we
clustered thick at the "Evanses. "
the delightful old brick house now
occupied by the library.
To enter INTO personalities would
lead me too far, and require too
much space. How should [ do JUS
tice to Tom Caulk, whose prefer
natural solemnity concealed a vast
deal of native force. 1t was my
task by means of a diabolical yell
to wake Tom for early prayers, and
incidentally to wake everybody else
IN his neighborhoOd. | wonder no
long suffering neighbor took a shot
at me from the bed room in the colo
dusk Of some winter morning. that
hour when ones bed is so wa,m
and sleep is so precious. Lew Bush
who left college, as he left life, al
too soon, was grave and wise at
nineteen, power for good durng
his short year among us. Sam
Black came to us at Is. weighing
265 pounds, and able 10 kick higher
than any man in college. His
weight and his sbortness Of wind
really made it impossible that he
should do fuP college work in the
warm weather and Sam finally re-
duced his recitations to one a day.
Morris Cloak, whose life was very
short, is probably remembered 10y
every man who was then in college.
He had the faculty of impressing
himself upon others, and was
charming companion Cloak had a
habit of singing a man out for his
special friendship, but without Civ
ing up mis- pleasant relations with
earlier favorites. He made George
Marshall a close friend about their
second year in College, when Mar
shall had begun to distinguish him
self as speaker and an actor in
amateur theatricals. Marshall's
room was one of the gathering
places. William R. Martin, now
dead, a nephew of DR.. Purnell,
lived with the Doctor, and felt a
little deprived by reason of the fact
though | recall having played
cards at night in Martin s room,
from which | gathered that the
/ censorship was not severe Nat
Motherall was required by the
Faculty to come into town from
his home nearly a mile and a half
out in order to attend early morn
ing prayers. Nat had acquired an
abnormally long stride from walk
ing in and out to school, so that he
made his journey in remarkably
quick time, but the requirement
was clearly unreasonable. Al,x
Williamson mitigated the cary
prayers by fetching aliment in tie
form of crackers and jelly from his
father's store. j. Newton Huston.
Pennsylvania, was older than
most of us, more in earnest, and
deeply religious, for all Of which
things he was made to suffer by tae
young barbarians among whom ne