Barnard School for Boys - Bric Yearbook (Fieldston, NY)

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Tl-lEl936BARNARDl3RlC -LIQXKQ, afternoons in the grocery business, At the end of the four years he was ranked among the first of ltis class entitling him to the Phi Beta Kappa Key. In the trunk we nnd the original manuscript in his own hand of The Development of the Monroe Doctrine, the subject assigned to the Senior Class in 1883 in the competition for the Chanler Historical Prize. We also find in the trunk a faded envelope which had been pre- sented to him at the Columbia Commencement in 1883 from the hands of Dr. Ii. A, P, Barnard, containing the prize in the form of a check for 360, on which was written I gave the money to my father to lielp along the grocery business, It needed it badly. In 1885 he entered the Columbia Law School attending the afternoon session. Before graduating in 1885 he had been admitted to the New York State Bar, having served his clerkship in tlie law offices of Judge liullerton, 18 Exchange Place, New York City. The next five years in the life of Wm. I.. Hazen must have been busy ones as evidenced by the programs, medals, badges and newspaper clippings that we find in this old trunk we have spoken aliout. He had joined the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta while in college and during this period of five years he had bcccme lfdifor-in-Chief of the fraternity paper, the Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, and also National President of the Iiraternity. For fifty years he has kept in close touch with the E Columbia Chapter and as a result in close touch with Columbia affairs. In connection with his law studies and with the expectation of prac- ticing law he had become interested in politics in Newark. We find in the old trunk a badge marked President of the Iiirst Presidential Voters, 1884.8 From a newspaper clipping we find that Wm. I.. Hazen as President of the club had escorted Theodore Roosevelt from New York and had introduced him as the principal speaker in one of the mass meetings the Ifirst Presi- dential Voters gave in the Blaine Campaign. We also find a badge marked 1'Secretary of the New jersey Republican League, 1888. Wm. L. Hazen as Secrctary had been instrumental in forming tlte league covering the whole state and in arranging for a bis! Convention at Asbury Park in the I-Iarrison Campaign of 1888. In 1884 he joined the Seventh Regiment of New York and after serving his time of enlistment re- ceived a commission as second lieutenant in Company B of the

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Tl-lEl936BARNARDl3RIC excellent schools of the city, at the same time doing his chores mornf ing and afternoon in the grocery store. His whole life has been changed and from this time on school enters largely into it. lior Zyj years he attended the Burnett St. Grammar School and was graduated in 1875. To be ad- mitted to the Newark High School one had to take entrance examina- tions in the High School building. Applicants came from the I5 ward Grammar Schools of the city and there was great rivalry among the fifteen in getting the highest marks. These marks were published in the daily paper and they were anxiously waited for each year. Wfho would head the list? ln 1875 Samuel Basten of the Sth Wrircl stood No. l and Will Hazen of the lst Waircl stood No. 2 out of the whole city, showing that he had successfully entered High School. There was but one High School in Newark at this time, attended by both boys and girls. The building was located in about the center of the city at Wfashington and Linden Streets and was three stories high. The lirst floor was devoted to separate courts and play grounds for the boys and girls. The class rooms of the girls were on the second Hoor, those of the boys on the third floor. There were separate en- trances. Now and then the whole school would be brought together in Assembly and now and then the boys would look at the girls. lt was ever thus. On this particular occasion it was recess. The boys were playing ball in the street. The girls were sitting in the windows of the second story. Will Hazen happened to glance up, caught the smile of Olive Starr, tipped his hat, hardly realizing at the moment and still perfectly conscious, perhaps I should say subconscious, that they would mean so much to each other in the coming years as Mr. and Mrs. The interview I was having- with Mr. Hazen you will see was becoming a little personal, very interesting and I suggested that there might be a collection of souvenirs that had been saved during the years that would bring to mind other interesting things. I was taken to an old trunk in the attic and it proved to be a regular store house of things that had happened. Sure enough there was the year book of the Newark High School for 1879 called the Annual, in which were enrolled Wiui. L. Hazen as a senior and Olive Starr as a member of the Second Year Class. Wiii. I.. Hazen was Editor-in-Chief and the book was a very commendable production. There was a copy of the Hesperian Record, a monthly magazine, and Wm. I.. Hazen was one of the Editors. There was a copy of The Polish Boy in his own hand writing with side notes regarding delivery, and in delivering this declamation in the contest open to the seniors he had won hrst prize in Declamation for the year 1879. He entered Columbia College in the liall of 1879, making the trip back and forth each day from Newark, still keeping up his interest mornings and the late

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14151936 BARNARD BgRggIC 71st Regiment. He afterwards be- came First Lieutenant, and then later as Captain he led his Com- pany through the Santiago Cam- paign of the Spanish American War in 1898. Upon his return he was presented with a testimonial sword at a gathering of friends and patrons of the school. In his pre- sentation speech, Hon. Seth Low, President of Columbia University, reminded Captain Hazen that in volunteering in the service of his country as he did, he could not have taught American youth a finer lesson in good citizenship. During his course at Columbia College and Columbia Iaw School, lie spent the long summer vacations with the Central Railroad of New jersey, one summer as ticket agent at the Broad Street Station in Newark, the second summer in handling baggage at the foot of Liberty St., New York, and the other summers in the offices of the General Passenger Agent. The job seemed to be waiting for him each summer and all the time he was learning the railroad business. After graduating from College in 1883, he had become interested in a small school for boys in Harlem, the Harlem Collegiate Institute, and had devoted the morning hours to teaching for three years. As of 1886 your correspondent, after examining the contents of the old trunk and after peering deeply into the crystal, would have found it rather difficult to determine just what William Livingston Hazen was going to do as a life work. The grocery business he had definitely put aside. Was it to be Railroad Business, Teaching or the Law? While he was making final arrangements to begin the practice of law the question was actually settled by the parents of the boys whom he had been teaching for the past three years. They felt that his real held was Education. They urged him to continue and he consented. So in 1886 the Barnard School was established by him at 117 and 119 West 125th St., New York. It started off with the blessing of Dr. Fredk. A. P. Barnard at that time President of Columbia College by genercusly allowing the use of his name as the name of the school. Since then he has devoted all this thought and energy to the enterprise along with its affiliates, the Girls School and the two summer camps. The story of Barnard is in part tl'e loyalty, zeal and friendship of alumni patrons and students, along with teachers and associates. But chiefly is it the figure, boy and man, of William Livingston Hazen and his humane contribution to the gentlemanly, virile training cf those wlio have sat at his feet these fifty years. At the Columbia Commencement in 1933 he was honored by his Alma Mater with the award of its Service Medal, his citation reading William Livingston