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

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FQBESTBR 1913 l1 PRATT. XV. E., '92. Football, 1. 2. 3. 4. Field Athletics. Business, Chicago BICNARY, WM. D., '93, Football and Baseball, through course. Physician, Milwaukee, XVis. KI.-XRCOTTE, HEXRX , '93. Football captain. second eleven. 3, 4. Clergyinan, Porlanil, Oregon. Has build up a strong church. SHARON, FREDERICK C.. '93. Baseball, l, 2. 3. 3. captain. Editor-in-chief of Stentor. Forester. Vol. 1, 3. Oratorical Prize. '91 Real Estate. Kansas City, Mo. BOURNSV, A. P., '94. Baseball, l, 2. Manager Red and Black, '92-'93: of Stentor, '93?94g of Football, 93: of Glee Club. '93-'94 Second Prize State Vlratorical contest. Clergymau, Ludington, Mich. HUNT, XVILLIAM B., '94.. Football. 1. 2, 3. 4. History prize. '93 Missionary, Pyeng Yang. Korea. RICE, XVILLIANI J., '9.t. Football. 2. 3. 4. President Y. M. C. .-X. Studied at Cornell, Died. 1901. CFI-IOM, H.4RRX', '94. Football. l. 2. 3, 4. Larned prize. '95, Lawyer, lllinonk, lll. H.4X'NER, FRED A., '95. Baseball and football, 4 years, and captain of both, Sporting Editor Daily News, Chicago. RHYS, JOHN H. Football. 2. 3, 4. Business and teaching. LEE, JOHN H. S., ,QSQ Harvard, '96. Football here and at Harvard. Lawyer. Chicago. Trustee. L. F. U. LEXVIS, DEAN D., '95, Baseball 4 years. Surgeon. Chicago. RHEINGANS, JOHN H., '95. Football. 2, 3, 4. Clergynian. Munising. W'is. THOM, CHARLES, '95, Football, 2. 3. 4. Larned prize. '94, Ph. D.. University of Missouri. Government Scientist. Storrs Experiment Station. Storrs. Conn. 22

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lmliygvgxfriirrri FGKESTDR 1913 Qi Our Athletes as Alumni The fifty alumni whose names are given below are those on the whole most prominent in athletics in the classes from 1892 to 1907. The criteria of selection are skill in one or more sports, leadership in athletic teams, and especially the sum of service on our various teamsg few are named who did not play for three seasons on one or more teams. ln a number of cases the data are not complete, as their own re- ports and other records are insudicient. It is noticeable that the student activities of these men were not confined to ath- letics. Klany of them were connected with the Stentor and the Forester, with the musical clubs, and the inter-society and inter-collegiate debates. ln the earlier days most of them were officers and active members of the literary societies. though this does not appear in the summaries. A fair proportion won college prizes, and a good number were class presidents in the senior year. The small college makes large def mands upon the most vigorous of its students. Do devotion to athletics and a certain diffusion of energy on various activities impair subsequent efficiency or serious work in life? VVe believe that of the 250 men graduated in the given period, no second 50 can match in success or in influence those in this list. 15 are now engaged in business, 8 are clergymen, o lawyers, 7 teachers, 4 physicians, 3 journalists, and 4 or 5 engaged in other occupations. Among the clergymen are men like Hunt of Korea and Harcotte of Portland, Oregong among lawyers, Lee and jackson: Lewis in surgery, Stoops and Betten in teaching, and VVoolsey in engineering. The world has plenty of use for men with bodily strength and force for its rough usages. There is, to be sure, some qualifications to be made of statements which may easily be too sweeping. Life in a small college like ours, especially in its still smaller days, calls into athletics and other activities the wide-awake men, the blooded men, some of whom in larger institutions would not qualify for athletics at all. YVith these men, nervous and intellectual force counts for about as much as brawn, and stands them in better stead afterwards. Nor should we forget that too much devotion to athletics often proves indirectly, if not directly, a stumbling block, and some men drop out of college who might otherwise have won through: yet among the non- graduates we might name athletes like Ellis, '93, Henry and BIcHatton, '95, Bruce Campbell and Dr. George Lee, '99, VV. N. Carter, '05, and Bethard, '07, whose active interest in athletics has certainly proved no bar to subsequent success. Ori the whole, we may hold Plato's dictum still true,- There is no better criterion of a man's worth than the record he makes in athletics. In the following list of fifty names, no effort is made to measure the present standing of individuals, but there is hardly a loafer or a failure among them all, and many of the men named are among our notable graduates. 21

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'-'Q FQRESTBR isisgligzj iii VANCE, lfuyntn li., US. lfiiutball. 2, 3. 4. llasclvall, 2, 3. Stentor lwaril, Manager lfnresteii Clergyinan. lliecl, 19112. CRAGIN. H. B., JR., '96. limitball, 2, 3. -1. Track. 1. 2. 3, 4. llelil wt-stt-rn inter-u'11lugiate rucsml 14.331 fur mile run. 1890-'02, lleclainatinn prize. '93 l'hysit'ian. llietl, 19118 CRIPPEN, FR,xNK A., Rn. llast-ball, 1. 2, 3. 4. .Xlso imlmir baseball. leaeher Ycatnian 11. S.. St. lainis. JAcKe.oN. ANnRt2w O., bo. Active in all athletics. Lawyer, Chicagti. VANCE. J. RIIifrtmN, UO. Football. 3. 4. Erlitnr Stentrir. 1 i'ufcsSur. lVcmster University. XxVf'll'JsIQf, Hliin. XVOOLSEY, M.-n11oN. 'Qtr Fmitball. 1. 2, 3. 4 tcaptainh. Engineer with XYalsh Cunstrnction Cer, Davcnpf,i1-t, Ia, with important assignments ull raver tht ennntry. C.-'1RVlfR, JOHN 597. lirmtball. 2, 3. 4. Clergyman. Og-tluii. Utah. JACKSON, IJ.-win H., 337. liontball, Baseball, Track. with brilliant recrirsl. Klaynr. Lake lfrlrest. two terms.. City attorney. Lawyer. Chicago anel Lake Forest. Srotws, IIIQHARD O.. 197. Fowtball. 2, 3. 4. illanager Glue Club. Eflitpr Stentor. Principal lligh Sclitml Jacksonville. 111. NV1L1.iAMsoN, JOHN B., 197. Baseball, 2, 3. 4. Ranchman, Greenwotmtl. S. D. JAEGER, XV11.L1.-ni VV., '98. Football and baseball through course: captain baseball, 4. Business. Champaign, 111 JACKSON, NVILLIAM T., '99, Baseball ancl Football tcaptainl. Department Manager for Swift X Co.. Union Stnclt Yards. Chicago. BETTEN, CORN ELIUS, 'oo. Baseball. 1, 2, 3. 4 tcaptain, 3. 41. lntlour baseball same. President Y. Xl. C. .-X., 'UU Wfinner prize debate. 'Ollz dcclamation contest, '97. Class President. '97-'Htl Ph, D., Cornell. Instructor and Professor L. F. C.. Since 19115. 23