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

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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

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and Reminiscences of Their College Days Il Some of Our Most Prominent Alumni Nl-IWICLL IJXYIKQIIT llIl.l.lS, '84 For l.ake Forest to claim such a man as Ilr. Newell llwight Ilillis as an alumnus is a privilege that might rightly be envied by any college. llr. Hillis was a member of that class of '84 which has the distinction nf being the largest class up to its time. as well as containing such men as Theodore Starrett, Prof. Albert li. ,lack and Herbert II. Vlark. Ilr. Hillis' first pastoral charge was at lleoria. Ill.. later he became pastor of the Ven- tral Church. Chicago. and in 1891, took his present Charge of the l'lymouth Vhurch. llrook- lyn. N. Y. lfle has also been the author of several books some of which are: A Nlan's Value to Soci- ety 3 How the Inner I.ight lfailetlf' lforetokens of Immortality and The Quest of john than- man. Ilr. llillis has taken a deep interest in I.ake lforest since leaving it, evincing it by frequent lm. N,Qw,.iHA 1,w,.mT HM 1. visits. as well as being a charter and enthusiastic member ofthe New York .Xlumni Club. Pastor of I'lymoi1tli Church. Ili' 1:-klyn, N. X1 How IDR. Hn.1.is Acoi'AIN'1'Eiw Hurst-11.1-' XYITH 6.ooo Books Wnirrt .xr t'oi.i,EoR i'Of course the best education is that which one gives one's self. We must con- fess that great Ilr. Samuel Johnson was right when he said that nine-tenths of his culture came through reading. in solitude. after the day's work was done. Men are wiser teachers than books. but next to what we learn from men comes the knowl- edge we derive from the historians. the poets. the philosophers, the essayists, and the teachers of science. Iiooking backward, I cannot be too grateful that I grew up in the library, and the atmosphere of books. Not until I was seventeen. when I was suddenly thrown on my own resources. and went out into the world to make my fortune. did I realize how much I owed to the literary associations of my child- hood. I know what Cooper meant when he realized that death was near. and went slowly through his library. laying his hands on this book and that. and saying good- bye to his books. as he said farewell to old and dear friends. Later, when I was a freshman in I.ake Forest College. I became assistant librarian. for I worked my way through college. The hours in the library were from one to two in the afternoon. and seven to eight at night. There were some six thousand books ln the library. for the most part carefully selected. I determined that I would not read through the library. but look it through. I-leginning at the upper left hand corner, with Ilacon, 2 3