Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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Ri l I l I I The Unlversity Club l . cimno Ii. II.yi:i,,yN, Il. D.. Ll.. D. . President PROP. jAMlfi tj. Ntii-.1iH.UI . . Vice President Miss Faxxirt lj. Przaiaixs . . . . Secretary NIR. filitllilili I'. Hiiiir . . . Treasurer IW:-ir. Licyvis S'i'r1yv.xa'r . . . . Chairman of Executive Committee Programme Octoller 26!l'aper hy Mr. NYalter V. Larneil on The Morlern School of Landscape Painting. Novemlier o-Paper hy Prof. Charles Stuart on A Poet Among the Painters. Novemlier 23-A Musical at Ferry Hall. lleeemher 7fI'aper hy Hr. Schuman of The Recortl-Herald on Hardy anil the Realistsf' january 15-l'aper hy j uclge Ilickinson on International Arbitration. February I5-l'rof. Charles l'ickett presented a paper on Dickens in Chancery. March 1-lllustraterl paper hy Mr. james Harlan on Experiences in Martinique. March I5 liLlPCl' hy Prof. Henry Stuart on BIysticism. March Zoflhtper by llrof. Bridgeman on the Olympic Games. illustrated. April I2-l'aper hy l'i-of. lfreir of Northwestern on The lfleal Element in Science. Mus H .xiii ,li sri- i- l'l.yni..xx l'ki4sA lx. ll. llaisigx tx Sluts. R lt. l'l.yi:i.xx ZO OF U. S. SUPREME COURT TO LAKE FOREST COLLEGE 1 I VISIT OF JUSTICE HARLAN , , Lake Forest College was honoretl last jane hy a visit from justice Harlan. of the Unitecl States Supreme Court. justice Harlan was visiting his son Richartl ll. Harlan. president ofthe College. Un Weilnesilay, june jth. justice Harlan began a series of Chapel talks on Government and the lfonstitution. These were continuetl Tliurstlay and lfritlay. The talks were not at all technical and were atlaptetl tu the ordinary stuilent. The univer- sality of the application nf the lairs to every citizen in thc lfnitetl States ivas contrasted with the contli- tions in continental liurope. In a very interesting manner the justice compare-l the American and liritisli constitutions. slioyring the advantages and workings of each. anrl emphasizing the check and lialance system. In the thirml talk. the judiciary as the highest power in the lanll was spoken of. The safety antl the surety of protection to every man on the liasis of the right of appeal was pronounced to he the greatest sateguartl to American liberty.

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H Our Alumni in General l.ake Forest College, in the 30 years of her history. has received within her doors about I,O5O students. Of all these. as far as we know, not one has been in jail, in high finance, or in the Senate. Some of the best have fallen Hwith wounds in front. the great majority are earning an honest living by hard work, a good proportion of these in fields where achievement is measured not so much by mate- rial gain as by influence. I.ake Forest is perhaps the first college to have made a systematic collection of information about non-graduates, though other institutions are now beginning to do this. A large proportion of these non-graduates have no other collegiate connections and look to Lake Forest with affection and loyalty. In none of her alumni does Lake Forest take more pride than in former students, not graduates. like Graham Lee, '89, who has done such noble work in Korea. 01' George I,ee, '99, whose recent record at Harvard is highly honourable. The facts given below about the Alumni hold in about the same proportions about the non-graduates. but cannot as yet be so accurately determined. lust 350. 110 uf them women. have received the bachelor's degree. But 20 have died, up to this time. The graduates are scattered through 55 states: a few are at work in China, India. South Africa and the Philippines, but curiously enough. none are in Europe. go live in the liastern States, II in New York City, IQ are in the three states on the llacilic Coast. only 6 south of the Ohio River. Of the 233 in the Middle-West. 14: are in Illinois, 446 in Chicagoil: Iowa comes next with 23. and Wisconsin with 21: there are ten in each of the three states of Minnesota, Nebraska and Indiana. Again, a rough classification by occupations shows that 80 are teachers, 68 clergymen, 48 in business, 30 lawyers, I3 journalists, I2 missionaries, I3 physicians. IO in graduate or professional study, 5 engineers. A few among those whose dis- tinction has been greatest, apart from those mentioned elsewhere in this volume, are President C. H. French i'88l of Huron College. by virtue of his patient and successful work in a pioneer college: Mrs. Josephine White Bates. Mrs. Hobart Chatlield-'l'aylor and Mrs. Anna Farwell delioven f'8o,l, quite the peers, in their own way, of their distinguished husbands: Anna F. Davies V89 5, the able head of a great college settlement in Philadelphia, the lamented .Alfred G. Welch V89 l. and Professors Vance and Nourse of I,ane and Hartford Seminaries. Of the IIO women graduated, but 40 have married, but the statistics really sig- nify only that I,ake Forest women take time for choosing among the candidates, for all of the first fifteen women graduated. in 1879-85, are married. To Elizabeth Gardner Halsey, '83, belongs the honor of first contributing a grandchild to Alma Mater. But many more are now on the Agnew student list, booked as far ahead as the class of 1921. 22