The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-09
HE PLAYED FOOTBALL 73 YEARS AGO

ford. These numbered. in my case.
some fifty volumes.
THE strain Of preparing for this
/ examination and the examination it.
self nearly killed me, and for year
I following graduation was In such
/ poor health that my father finally de-
cidcd to send me abroad. Arrange
ments were made for the VOYAGE. and
on December 10. 1874, | sailed from
New York In clipper ship bound for
Havre. There were about A dozen
passengers on board. among them my
eldest brother, anothcr being the
father Of Samuel Parsons. the well
known landscape architect OF to-day.
When We reached the Scilly Islands we
found there u fleet OF $50 vessels
waiting FOR chance to get up the
/ English Channel Owing to long con-
/ tlnued head winds some of them had
/ been there forty days.
Finally, after being out from New
! York twenty-five days, those on our
clipper landed at Havre. At the end
of year came home much improved
IN health and went to farming on the
shore Of Cayuga Lake. here in New
| YORK state. There | remained from
3 lN4' until 1886, and 10 this outdoor
{ occupation during early manhood
o"e very largely the foundation OF nv
! hcalth and strength. My father died
| IN lN'2, leaving what was then con-
s!dorod considerable fortune"
! with his mother and an aunt Mr.
| Rowland went abroad the second time
IN lA'o, but came home in less than
a year to Cayuga Lake, and in lSs3
| rounded the Rowland Institute, one ~
! tne earnest Efforts in the Unite I
! states Tor aiding women to obtain the
higher education. For fifteen wears
MI Rowland carried on his work at
the institute with unflaggins enthusi-
assn, students who could nav THOR
expenses, in whole or In part. were eX
p"cted To do so, but II is said that NJ
young woman really longing for SIN
u'h' 'pp"rtunity was ever turned
away from the Rowland Institute.
Ana no expense was considered too
great If 1t were of importance to the
! undergraduates.
In 1875 he FUND II necessary to
have another rest from incessart toll.
ana he went abroad for the third time.
residing until 1873 principally in Paris.
although he made many side trims here
and there. one Of his fellow travellers
AT this time was Andrew - White.
with whom he journeycd in Swit2or-
| land, and tho two saw much of each
other in Paris
When Mr.. Rowland returned to tho
| United States in 1878 he resided for a
time n tayuga, and then removed to
Niagara county, where he once more
| took up the life II a farmcr-this in
1891, when he was sixty-iiye years old
II" continued the familiar occupation
until 1907, when at the age of seventy
SIX. he removed 10 Pleasantvillo, West
chester county, with his wife. who did
not live long afterward Meanwhile,
in 1893, hc had 'mmenccd translat-
ing Edmond Dehoult de rrcsscnse' {
work Tho History Of the Frs, Thraa
Centuries Of the Christian Church.
originally published in tive octave vol
umcs OF $50 pages each.
IT'S great and glorious w1rld.
Mr. Rowland declared on tho day he
entered his n,neticth year. SIT Is
growing better every day. and the peo-
pie in It arc moro kindly, moro SYM
pathetic, moro generous than ever ha-
fore. It's dlnlcult to believe that even
China can have "A higher civilization
than ours, hu, soruc dav I'm go,nl
over there to find out II can"
What Of the European war. rs n
commentary on civilization" he was
asked,
"Thc Lord must think those nations
are very slc't, to need such an amount
Of blood letting" he replied.