Lanterna Rally

Author: George Lansing Raymond

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780267589807

Excerpt from Fiftieth Anniversary Report of the Williams College Class of '62 According to the Williams Quarterly for November 1858, the Class of '62 began its career with seventy-two members. Ac cording to the College Catalogue, issued several months later, the number was seventy. But, even at this, it was larger, by half a score, than any class in Williams that had preceded it; and it was not till twenty-two years later that any subsequent class contained as many. Then seventy-two Freshmen were assigned in the catalogue to the Class of '84. Of prominent scholars in '62, two died in Freshman year, - Brigham and Stickney; and two, Morley and Spring, left the class. Friends of either of the four would have said, when we lost them, that they were promi nent candidates for our highest honor in scholarship. Sub sequently, indeed, both the latter stood very high in '63, Spring taking the Latin Oration on its Junior Exhibition. At the be ginning of our Sophomore year, the numerical losses of '62 had been made good, seventy-two being attributed to us in the Cata logue. Among those who had joined us, including some who entered not very late in our Freshman year, were Stewart and Ball, the latter of whom had taken a first. Prize for speaking in the Freshman Class at Yale; Titus, who had been his Class Orator at Phillips Academy, Andover, and had taken some oratorical honor at Harvard; and Spalding and Mills, the first of whom had taken the Valedictory at Williston Seminary, East hampden; and who together were credited with being the first two scholars in '61. They had been also two of its three Fresh man Moonlighters, Mills taking the prize. Last, but not least, had joined us, too, from; '61, Denison, who subsequently became our Class Day Orator. At the beginning of our Junior year, a number more had left us; but we had received, at least, two very important additions, -armstrong and Carter, - the latter of whom had delivered the Valedictory at Phillips Academy, And over, and had led his class at Yale, a fact proved by his having taken the Woolsey Scholarship. He had come to Williams on account of weak lungs, which, three years before, had obliged him to leave Yale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.