Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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4 tTHE NION COLLEGE, despite the somber prophecies ||j1 iounded upon the late unhappy cuuti uvcrsy, 13, so far as the students and their interests are concerned, in a progressive state. The new class, although not so numerous as the Freshman classes of a few years since, is larger than that of last year ; while the Senior class p rom¬ ises to graduate more men than its immediate predeces¬ sors. The students in general seem, in both intellectual and athletic matters, to have become inspired with a new spirit of enterprise. The old literary societies are well sustained, and their exercises are conducted with great zeal and marked suc¬ cess. Our monthly, The Concordiensis , has become a Univer¬ sity publication ; and under a corps of editors selected, not, as formerly, on partisan grounds, but according to compe¬ tency, has been improved in many respects : being better printed, better contributed, and, in most departments, bet¬ ter edited, than for several years past. Tn athletic matters we have taken a new departure. An organization known as the Union College Athletic Associa¬ tion, already numbering over 125 members, has been founded. Under the direction of this association a very successful field-day was celebrated, whose records compare

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5 — f itzeize gabitet: well with similar ones in other colleges. The object of the association is, however, to afford its members those com- v plete facilities for physical culture which the College in a v measure fails to supply ; and, to this end, it has applied itself to the work of more thoroughly equipping the gym- nasium. In our Faculty we have to note, if neither so much prog¬ ress, nor so many reforms, still several changes. The place of our beloved Prof. Price, who has been compelled to re¬ sign on account of ill-health, is ably filled by Prof. W. S. Chaplin, an Alumnus of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and formerly Prof essor in the Imperial College of Japan. The new professor has already become quite popular, by reason of his liberal and progressive spirit, and his kind and courteous manner. To his suggestion is due theorgan- ization, and to his aid, much of the success of the Athletic Association. Lieutenant H. W. Hubbell has been appointed by the United States Government, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, in place of Major MacMurray. The Rev. W. E. Griffis, occupying the chair of Metaphy- sics, has rendered himself agreeable to the Seniors by his extremely liberal views with regard to the marking system, and his occasional lectures on Japan. Since the last issue of The Garnet, the chair of Natural History, by the dismissal, on the part of the board of trus¬ tees, of Prof. H. E. Webster, has become vacant. If our ’ humility forbids us to censure, our feelings can but compel us to deplore, the act of politic partisanship which has re¬ moved from us one of our most able and popular instructors. We doubt whether his place can be filled. A man of learn¬ ing, versatile as profound, he performed, besides his legiti- ... mate work, a variety of functions, which could scarcely with ... strictness be brought within the limits of his professorship .