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glexauher Qluhmm $131321: 1.. 00K, if you will, at the calm, clear, quiet, strong face of Alex. Soper of Rome and '67, of 1. Chicago and New York, of Lakewood and York Harbor! If you judge faces aright, you will like it: if you know the man, you will love it. It does not blaze or glow very much; it is radianic. The Soper forbears were business folk. The father, out of temporary reverse, came to great business success. The Chicago Fire singed the Sopers; but it left foundations for new machinery and there were eyes to see the value of the wide-shadowed acres of Michigan, Wiscon- sin, Georgia and Oregon; there were also business skill and steadfast energy to gather and direct results. Alex. Soper, as a boy, was level-headed and far-seeking. He realized the force of the plea toward what is called a liberal education just for ones individual self. In 1863 he was ready for college, and the Principal of Rome Academy - in these days known hereabouts as Square - turned him to Hamilton. He had no strong, prophetic impulse toward any profession. He knew what his work in College should be and he attended to it. He was earnest and steadfast, so the four years, to 1867, strength- ened, broadened, polished his Character and life. He was ready not merely for some immediate specific task; he was ready for life-with truth and sweetness in it. He has no fantasies or fads; he has never syndicated his soul or forgotten a daily energy for his heart. 8 A C 4V.
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.' 8 AU 1! , 3 tr. V l. , ,, r . ,i 1? , '14 1 t V ', ll 1 1' if! 8 II ,1 Q '1- ' , I a, M' 1 , ' I 11.: ll 7' .1 ,, 4 i r;, I r. ,l I l , 1 f y'vv ,4 E, 5 1f .1 .1 f ' Q? '8 i a '3 i ,1 L l , a i -. , l r , , . r; l 1' f :t t 11 i Never mind bulletined or trumpeted honors! Graduates of Hamilton, and others not a few, will be glad that 1908 dedicates its work to Alexander Coburn Soper of '67. Mr. Soper was born at Rome, New York, june 6th, 1846, and after an efficient preparation entered Hamilton College at the age of seventeen. In college he was an all- around man, being appointed to Prize Stage his Freshman year and graduating with High Honor. He was a member of the first Board of Editors of the Hamilton Literary Maga- zine and played three years on the College baseball nine. He graduated with the respect of his Classmates and the esteem of the faculty. Thrown out upon the world he went to Chicago where for six months he was employed in a bank leaving this posi- tion to enter the lumber business as shipping-clerk and book-keeper. After two years he formed the partnership of Pond 8L Soper, a tirm which prospered abundantly and when, in 1884, the Soper Lumber Company was incorpora- ted, its annual sales were over one million dollars. Of this company Mr. Soper was first Secretary, then Vice-Presi- dent. and finally President since 1893. The company owns saw-mills in Michigan and Wisconsin, propellers and barges on the lakes and docks in Chicago and has won an enviable reputation for fair dealing throughout the country. In Chicago he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and of the Union League Club. He was also President of the Chicago Lumber Exchange for one term. So much for what Alexander C . Soper stands for in the great world beyond the walls of our College; but what he is to his Alma Mater can be reckoned in no prosaic row of tigures. H is constant solicitude and anxiety for our welfare is not reducable to dollars and cents, although of these he has been prodigal in his gifts to us. Through the donations of himself and his brothers, we have the Gymnasium, con- 9
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