Hamilton College - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

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To our fellow-students we trust we have in no way given offence, but only added to the spirit of unity and good-fellowship which should exist in a college of the size of Hamilton. But to the men of '98 we particularly address ourselves. This book is yours. Our chief desire is that our production may be one which represents the class g one which in future years will call up pleasant memories of those happy days when we were all on the hill togetherg one Which Will bring to mind not the petty jealousies and quarrels, but incidents in which we were united-united as a band of Workers, having at heart the advancement and prosperity of good old Hamilton. S 2,45 f xx 7

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Ecliterfiul HOULD the contents of the HAMILTONIAN be arranged in the order ' they will be read by the majority of readers, the Editorial would doubtless find a place just after the advertisements, but for fear we should be thought too original We hold to the old form. The experience of the '98 Board has doubtless been similar to that of its predecessors. We have made like searches for things original, have made like resolves and have met like disappointments. Yet We feel that in one particular We may justly bc proud. Starting in our work late and being prevented by unforeseen circumstances from organizing at once, We nevertheless made the resolve that the HAMILTONIAN should appear early. This resolve has been carried out. We hope that the HAMILTONIANS of the future will appear still earlier in the year. This change in the date of issuing has necessarily excluded some college organizations and some material. We have doubtless fallen into errors and We cannot expect to have pleased all, but We have worked faithfully, and we are but human. The 798 Board sends greeting to all. To our Alumni we would say that We hope that in these pages there may be found something to remind of the college days of old, something that will help to keep aflame the fires of love for our common mother and loyalty to her cause. Hamilton is alive, and we have many reasons to look for a future more bright even than our glorious past. 6

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Viet. iiliiiiam Pierce Slieeard, Pt. D. Nvnvnvfvv ILLIAM Pierce Shepard was born in the city of Utica, N. Y., onus the 9th of June, 1870. His primary education was received ine the public schools of that place. Being studiously inclined he made- good use of his opportunities, and graduated at the Utica Academy a 'dne student of the classics, but with so strong a bias toward the sciences that prophetic voices told of a coming scientist. In '87 he entered Hamilton College with the Glass of '91, and cast his lot with his best- friend from the Acad emy in the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. It was a. severe siege of typhoid fever in the winter of 'SS-9 that compelled him. to lose a year of work and to drop back with '92. If 391 had given Shepard a strong sentiment of loyalty to Class, '92s prompted him to greater exertion in the class-room. He graduated, recognized both by Faculty and by his thirty-eight classmates as superior in ability, in a group of ten high-honor men, with the department honor in French. He had taken fdrst prizes in French and in German, and second in Chemistry, all in exceptionally hard contests. Application, combined with brilliancy and a splendid memory, favored him. Not. given much to athletics, and little known among the social circles in Clinton, he was nevertheless popular with his college mates. He never- failed to take a hand where whist was the order 5 and to this day is sought for in the best whist circles. He took great delight in hunting and fishing, and his long tramps aiforded him sought for opportunities for enjoying nature. As a student he was always considerate of the rights of his fellows, and the fagging system, at the time so strong in Hamilton, found no supporter in him. 8