Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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lVn!lw' 01 .rlrzlclar in AhlfhL'Illllfl.L'J, and Sl'l'l'L'fdllj' :gf ARTHUR H. PIERCE, B. A. Mu Errnilj FRANK M. COLBY, M. A. lllsfrm'lor in ll1'.vlwj'. EDWARD L. SUMNER, ln.rlrurlur1'n Ifbrn! Alzrsir. EDWARD B. MARSH, M. A. ll,L1 l'.1'll'1ll'. WILLIAM I. FIQICTCHER, M. A. Oli: L1'hrn1'1'ful. EDWARD DICKINSON. A.v.vi.rmnl Ll'hl'llr I'tIll. IO

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CHARLES E. GARMAN, M. A. fv'Qf2'.YJ'llI' cy' flhllfrlf lWI'f0.Y1yWy. DAVID P. TODD, PH. D. .fI.v.rof1'alc I 0'4yl.'.v.va1' ry' .'l.YfI'0h'0l1L1', rum' .Din-f'lu1' zflhv O6.vcr1fala1j'. REV. JOHN F. GICNUNG, PH. D. P1'qf2'.v.wr fy' lMvIm'1'r. HENRY A. FRINK, PH. D. Pl'lff2'.f.FlJI' fy' LQQIII' mul 01'nlmj'. YVILTJAM I.. COXVLES, M. A. .4.v.vm'1'alr l7'qf2'.r.vw' fy' Laliu. REV. GEORGE BURROUGHS, Pu. D., D. D. Samuel Grrm 1,l'lw'.Y.Y0l' qf Biblllflll Ihklzvzjl' am! b1l1'1jw'rh1ll'nl1, ami lizxlw' fy fhz' Crlffzgn' CHIIHW. MARSHALL HENSHAW, D. D., LT.. D. Lz't'flll't'l' an Aalfllfllf lWl'fa.vfyvh,1'. HENRY GIBBONS, M. A. f l'1ffl'.TA'lU' Qf ll1'1't'A'. LEVI H. ELW1'II.T., M. A. , f1.v.v1'xln11! Pnyl-.v.vw' fy' Urn-k, mm' b1.vl1'1n'lu1'1'11 SNlI.Y1'7'I'f. E. LINCOLN WOOD, M. A. .fI.f.Y1'.S'f1lllf 1,I'Iff2'.Y.Vl1I'Qf Lafiu. HIRAM H. SEELYE, M. A., M. D. bl.ffl'Il!'f01' I'll l'hy.v1'ml lflf'Ilt'llfI'0ll. CI-IARLES A. TUTTLE, PH. D. flIJ'fI'1N'f0I' in l'u!1'!1'ruf l:'wlmf151' mm' l11hv'lmf1'01ml Law. EDWARD P. HARRIS, PH. D. hI.S'fl'lll'f!II' in Chr'lllI..ffl:l'. 9

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er-rill Edwards Gates. ERRILL EDWARDS GATES was born at Warsaw, in Western New York, April 6, 1848. The three names that he bears are each signiticant in some way of the sturdy, yet progressive spirit that is typical of the genuinely American character. The name Gates, through what his father, Hon. Seth M. Gates, did as member of Con- gress in the cause of anti-slavery and in the famous protest against the annexation of Texas, has, an honorable historic place by the side of such names as William Slade, joshua Gid- dings and john Quincy Adams. Of the Merrill family, which is old and well-known in western New York,onc of the members is prominent as an editor of the New York World. A direct descendant, on his mother's side, of the illustrious theologian jonathan Edwards, whom a speaker at the recent Missionary Association called the greatest man that ever walked the streets of Northampton, President Gates, in settling so near an ancestral home, comes to us no stranger to what is best in the New England traditions of piety and learning. After a brilliant course at the University of Rochester, where he came under the influence of that eminent educator, Presi- dent Martin B. Anderson, for whose sake indeed he abandoned an original intention of spending his junior and Senior years at Yale, and took his entire college course at Rochester. Mr. Gates was graduated in 1870, with the highest honors. His college life was thus contemporary with that of President Low of Columbia and President Andrews of Brown, and with the twenty years of fruitful experience intervening since his gradu- tion he enters upon his work at Amherst well equipped in vari- ous ways, and at just the age when mental and bodily vigor and ripened judgment are at their best. The years since, as a young graduate, he entered upon his chosen career of teaching have marked the steady and consist- II