Harvard Boys High School - Review Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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WHEN TARZAN WENT TO HARVARD . .. . . . by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Q Because I attended Harvard School sometime between the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras, Miss Schobinger has suggested that I write a little article for the School Annual and call it Before the Birth of Tarzan. I think Pre-Glacial Reminiscences would be an apter title. l888 must seem as far back in the dim and distant past to you boys as the last glacial period did to me when I was your age. It seems a long way back to me, toog and I am having a dickens of a time recalling much of anything about ity but, nevertheless, it was in 1888 that I entered the old Harvard School at 2lst Street and Indiana Avenue, where my brother, Coleman, had been a student for a year. I was never a student-I just went to H I school there. I lived over on the West Side where everybody made his Old money in those days and then moved to the South Side to Harvard School show off. I kept my pony in a livery stable on Madison Street west of Robey Street fthe name of which has since been changed, I understand, to that of some Polish politicianI: and in good weather I either drove or rode to school. In inclement weather, I took the Madison Street horsecars to Wabash, a cable-car to 18th Street, and another horse-car to school. Sometimes, returning from school, I used to run down Madison Street from State Street to Lincoln Street, a matter of some three miles, to see how many horse-cars I could beat in that direction. It tires me all out even to think of it now. I must have been long on energy, if a trifle short on brains. I cannot recall much about my classmates. Mancel Clark, Bennie Marshall, and I came over to Harvard together from Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls on the West Side-and were we glad to escape that blot on our escutcheons! There had been a diptheria epidemic in the public schools the previous year, and our fond parents had prevailed upon Miss Coolie to take us in. As I recall it, there was no other private school on the West Side at that time. If we were glad to get away from Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, it was probably nothing to Miss Coolie's elation at being rid of us. I'll bet the old girl turned handsprings. She got rid of William Carpenter Camp at the same time, but I can't recall that he came to Harvard School. The Dads of some of you will remember Billy Camp. Bennie Marshall and I used to sneak down to the breakwater and smoke cubeb cigarettes and feel real devilish. I imagine we even chewed gum, too, He became a very famous Chicago architect. I can see him now sitting at his desk drawing pictures and chewing his tongue when he should have been studying. Mancel Clark and I went to Andover after we left Harvard School. We looked so much alike that when I was late reporting my return from Boston, Mancel used to go to the Registrar's office and report it for me: then everyone was hC1pDY, including the Registrar. At Harvard School I studied Greek and Latin because someone Ilvliss Schobinger says it was Mr. Grantl believed that they should be taught before English grammar was taken upy then I went to Andover and studied Greek and Latin all over again: so, having never studied English, I conceived the brilliant idea of taking up writing as my profession. Perhaps, had I studied English grammar, I would have known better: but then there would have been no Tarzan, and I might still be selling leadpencil sharpeners. There should be a moral to this. Perhaps it is that you should not smoke cubeb cigarettes. at 15th St. PAGE 22 I

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THE SECOND GENERATION, PAST AND PRESENT, AT HARVARD SCHOOL 'k lames Boyle, nephew ot Wellington and Calvin Leavitt Bryson Burnham, son of Raymond Burnham DeWitt Buchanan, son of DeWitt Buchanan Dorothy Cudney, daughter ot Harold Cudney Raymond E. Daniels, son of Raymond E. Daniels Gordon Ellis, Leonard Ellis, nephews ot Edward and Arthur Leonard Edward Ferguson, nephew ot Russell Tuttle Elwell Edward Goodkind, nephew of Henry Steele lack Grant, son ot lohn Grant Harold Gordon, nephew ot Herbert and Ernest Rycroft Bentley Harriman, son ot Seelye Page Harriman Robert Hastey, Stanley Hastey, nephews of William W. Renshaw Lawrence Heyworth, lr., son ot Lawrence Heyworth Walter lohnson, son ot Walter lohnson Charles Klinetop, son of Charles Klinetop Frederick Kretschmar, nephew of Norman, George, lohn and Howard LeVally. lacob Loeb, son of Hamilton Loeb Eaton Mallers, son ot E. B. Mallers Edward Mallers, nephew ot E. B. Mallers Samuel Maxwell, Edward Maxwell, sons of Augustus Maxwell lames McKillip, nephew ot George McKillip Stuart Otis, Raymond Otis, George Webster Otis, sons of loseph E. Otis Frederick Renshaw, son ot William W. Renshaw Iunior Ross, nephew ot Walter Friend Fuller Rothschild, son of Iesse Rothschild Eugene Schobinger, Charles Schobinger, sons of Eugene Schobinger William M. Schuyler, Daniel M. Schuyler, sons of Daniel I. Schuyler Louis Seaverns, George A. Seaverns, HI, sons of George A. Seaverns Frank Selz, nephew ot Abraham Selz Alfred W. Stern, nephew of Albert B. Kuppenheimer Frederic Straus, S. I. T. Straus, sons of Samuel Iones Tilden Straus Albert H. Veeder, son of Albert Veeder Sears Wait, nephew of Wallace D. Kimball Robert Warfield, Donald Warfield, nephews of lohn D. Warfield, Ir. Iack Warton, nephew of Monroe and lack Heath Ralph Weary, Rollin Weary, nephews ot Harold Cudney Iohn Wineman, son of lacob Wineman Max Wurzburg, Hart Wurzburg, grandnephews of Milton Hart Bennett B. Young, son ot Caryl Young NOTE-This list is no doubt incomplete: it may contain errors. We shall appreciate your help in completing and correcting any portion of The Alumni Section. PAGE 21

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CHICAGO 1865-1885 May 1-May 2, 1865. Abraham Linco1n's body lay in state at the Court House while all Chicago passed by to do him honor . . . U. S. Grant nomin- ated . , . Colby and Co .... Carson Pirie . . . Pullman Car Co .... Armour and Co .... Michael Reese Hospital . . . Chicago White Stockings Baseball Club . . . La Salle Street Tunnel . . . Population 288,877 in 1870 . . . Chicago Fire with loss of S200,000,000 . . . Boston Store . . . Montgomery Ward . . . Apollo Club . . . Financial Panic . . . Chicago Woman's Club . . . Daily News with Victor F. Lawson . . . Bell-Edison Telephone Service . . . Union League Club . . . Standard Club . . . Swift CS Co .... Chicago Bicycle Club . . . Population 1880, 505,185 . . . Chicago Public Library started by donation of books from England . . . First electric lighting . . . Roller skating craze . . . Heaviest recorded rainfallf45.86 in. . . . Presbyterian Hospital organized, 1882 . . . Age of speed begins . . . Grip cars make Madison to 20th Street in 31 minutes. 1880 This class had only two graduates, and is still intact. Allison Armour tYa1e 18841, who has made many trips of exploration in Greece and Central America, has now retired to 840 Park Avenue, New York. The other half of the class is Robert Hamill tYale 18841, the first of the famous Hamill family to enter the school. He lives at Hinsdale and is president of the Lyon Com- pany, real estate, at 116 South Michigan Avenue. He has four children, all married. News of 1881 is lacking. 1882 Simeon B. Chapin, in school from 1878-1882, is a stockbroker at 111 Broad- way, New York. He lives at 444 Fifth Avenue, and has four children. William H. Cowles CYale 18871 publishes the Morning Spokesman Review in Spokane, Washington, and lives at 2602 West Second Avenue. Camillo von Klenze tHarvard 18861, was for several years past professor of American Literature and Cultural Relations at the University of Munich, but returned to the United States to live a few years ago. Mail will reach him cfo National City Bank, N. Y. George A. Seaverns, Ir., who attended the school from 1878-1881, has retired to Nokomis, Florida, for the winter, and lives at 370 Westminster Road, Lake Forest in the summer. His two sons attended the school. 1888 Arthur Meeker tYale '861 is actively engaged in business in Chicago at 233 W. lackson, as president of the Arcady Farms Milling Co. and chairman of the National Aluminate Company. His eyes have a twinkle that make his stories of Harvard pranks sound most natural and likely. We have no news of lohn E. Doane. 1884 The Yale Directory of 1940 gives the address of F rank W. Wentworth tYale 18871 at 1448 Lake Shore Drive. We have had no response from him. PAGE 23