Colgate University - Salmagundi Yearbook (Hamilton, NY)

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THE CCLGATE SALMAGUNDI VGLUME XXIX PUBLISHED BY THE JUNIOR CLASS OF COLGATE UNIVERSITY

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- -..V ,-- .ITUOQ l ,. 4. ' 0 i fl 7X1 fl ft 6 fi me ! Q f Q Q x L ' i px XJ Ji -i- X ik ,Civ F - -e -- Y -- --V 7- ----- A- - 77 7.7, Wiifgfi 32,1 nf Xu X Q Colgate Unifverszfy ' 6173! F ' G .. Y...-i---F -A--1 -Y - .- -M.. W-Y. . 'l'o'A11s'1'11N Co1.oA'1'111 '1'1tUs'r1a11 AND 1wr1toN o1f'.eo1,oA'1'm UNIVl+lliSI'l'Y '1'111s nook IS Dl'lDICA'l'l'1D BY Tl-Ilfl COl.l1lCGlC if e1.Ass 011 1912 Austen Colgate AUSTICN UOLflA'l'lC, fourtl1 S011 of Samuel Colgate, was born at Orange, New Jersey, August 12th, 1863. His father was l,l'CSill0lll1 of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York from 1865 to 1897. At about the age ol' thirteen, he united with bill? North Orange Baptist Cl11ll'Cll, of which he is a Trustee. He prepared for college at Norwich, Uonn., l rce Acadenlyf' ol' wl1ich Prof. William Hutchison was l'1'incipal, a lllitll known far and wide for l1is great ability asa teacl1er, and especially for his personal influence in inspiring habits of study. From there he went to Yale University, and was graduated in the class of 1886. While ill college, he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and tl1e Scroll and Key Society. Reliable tradition states that he suggested tl1e famous Yale Yell, l3peKeKeKE-E, Kofif, K0lig, etc. After graduation, he t1'avelled abroad with one of l1is brothers, Mr. Sidney M. Colgate. The following November l1e entered business with Col- gate LY Co., wl1icl1 co1'poratio11 today is composed of all the sons of Mr. Samuel Colgate. His part of tl1e work is the ll'l2l.Illll-ll.Ul3lll'lHlI department. It is interesting to l'QHlCl1llJCl' that not o11ly he but his lmrotliers en- te1'ed into business at the time when tl1ere was a general prejudice against tl1e college man in business. Some one 1'e1narked that colleges were the places where bric-a-bracs were polisl1ed and lll11lll0I1flS1llll'llll0ll.,' Horace Greeley said that ten thousand men witl1 diplomas in their pockets walked the streets of New York who could not, with all thei1' learning, earn a dinne1'. The success attending tl1e co11duct of the business of Colgate it Co., is a striking 1'ef1Et1gticin of this fallacy, as all the 111CIl'llJCl'S of tl1e corporation ZLl'C gram uates 0 a e. ln 1898, he became connected witl1 Colgate University, being elected a member of the Board of Trustees. This is all the 1110113 complilnentary to us, because of his well known and coinmendable attachment to l1is own Univer- sity. About 1905, the State af New Jersey witnessed fill!! beginning of a very