Class of 1895
Osmun Skinner '28, in the March issue of Down In The Valley, describes a Dartmouth afternoon at his home in Easton, Pa., in February. The feature of the afternoon was a forty-five-minute showing of winter sports movies at Hanover. In naming the Dartmouth men present he says:
"We had a very nice note from NattEmery '95, expressing his regret at not being able to be with us. Natt Emery '95is one of the best known and most popularmen at Lehigh, and is vice-president ofthe University."
Natt is not only vice-president but is also comptroller of Lehigh. I wish I felt at liberty to tell what I know about Comptroller Emery's accomplishment for his University. But his modesty restains me.
Natt has two children, Natt Jr. and Martha. Natt Jr. graduated at Phillips Andover in '23, at Haverford College in '27, received a B. S. in Business Administration at Lehigh in '28, an LL. B. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in '31, and is now practicing law in Bethlehem, Pa. Martha is a junior at Vassar.
A. G. Bugbee and Mrs. Bugbee are planning a three months' sojourn in California, sailing for Los Angeles from New York on the Dollar Line April 12. They will visit their daughter and their friends on the Pacific Coast.
"Bug" was born within five miles of Dartmouth College at Hartford, Vt., and that was his home till after he graduated.
If he had anything to do with the hand organ and monkey shines, the grasshoppers and other "critters" which "made the scholars laugh and play" in the late Prof-Edward Lucas White's Latin classes, he has since made amends.
Speaking of the recent death of Prof-White, "Bug" says he "had hoped that theclass of '95 had come to a sense of shame forits barbarous treatment of that scholar. Forhe was a scholar beyond any man our classsat under, unless it be Thos. SherburneHardy." (Very likely he means Arthur Sherburne Hardy, mathematician, author, and diplomat.) About go years ago "Bug called on Prof. White in Baltimore and, as he says "made my abject apology."
Amplifying his admiration of Prof. White's ability, "Bug" continues:
"Perchance his fame has not yet reachedthe wilderness of Hartford" ("Bug's" birthplace), |in which case you will perhaps beinterested to learn that he is recognized asan author throughout the English-speakingworld. His novels, 'Andivius Hedulio' and'The Vestal Virgin' are so much the resultof painstaking and accurate scholarshipthat they are both used as texts in collegecourses in Roman history. In the field ofhistorical romances his 'EI Supremo' ranksas one of the world's masterpieces. In theeyes of students from Uruguay and Paraguay who were in our classes in foreigntrade, my stature was increased a full inchfrom the fact that I had once had E. L. W.as a teacher in Latin."
'95 is indebted to "Bug" for this interesting panegyric.
Ernest Gile is an authority on the leather and shoe business. Anything he says along this line is therefore worth noting. Here is a statement from him:
"With reference to the shoe and leatherbusiness, the future is likely to be influenced by so many things that there is lesslooking ahead than usually is the case. Notmany years ago the United States was doing a large export business in leather andshoes. Today, with the exception of goatskins, which are practically all imported,we are doing little export business. We aremaking shoes and leather for our own people; and it is a noticeable fact that with allthe activity to increase the prosperity ofthat part of our population that has asmall income there is at the same time amore insistent demand for shoes to retailat $1.95 to $2.00 per pair. That is usually apretty good index of the condition of theless prosperous class."
Dr. Horace Newhart has been for a long time, and still is, practicing medicine in Minneapolis. His address is 527 Medical Building. As a correspondent he easily ranks with "Shorty" Pillsbury, "Sheppy," J. K. Lord, "General" Davis, Spencer, Hannah Carleton, at al.
Morrison is supposed to be functioning as usual in Chicago. With that splendid brain of his he may yet invent a lid to be clamped onto the underworld portion of the Century of Progress city that will stay clamped on until "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary be at rest."
Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Marden entertained a cosmopolitan group of friends at their weekly "At Home" on March 16, in Athens. English, American, Greek, Armenian, etc., friends "just dropped in." According to the conversation on this occasion about the Balkan countries, moral conditions there are deplorable. Society in Rumania seems to be rotten from king to peasant. The number of Rumanian girls who commit suicide is said to be very large.
"Bunker" Bishop entered Dartmouth as Joseph Warren Bishop and is so catalogued as an alumnus. But whoever heard him called Joe Bishop at Dartmouth? "Joseph Warren" suggested Bunker Hill and "Bunker" Bishop resulted. "Bunker" resides in Washington and is managing editor of The Nation's Business.
Here is the first reproduction of a bunch of snapshots taken by Walt Lane in 1892. Every '95 man who sees the picture will instantly exclaim,—Phil Marden! He stands by the "house on Davy's Corner," the old Balch Mansion which F. W. Davidson bought. It stood where College Hall now stands. When Mr. Davidson bought this property it was known as the "Golden Corner." He used the first floor for his general store. The Dekes occupied the top floor and students roomed on the intermediate floors.
The '95 delegation of Dekes will recall the song:
"Oh the house on Davy's Corner Is the nicest place in town To hang out when you're blue When you don't know what to do."
A Slender Youth!
Editor, White River Jet., Vt.
