Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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DR. FRANK PARKER DAY. President of Union College and Chancellor of U niou University 25

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l i PO'I l'liR I. ., Q . N, i oratory, and Bailey Hall built for instruction in the languages and history. The college grew to over eight hundred students and the erection of a new Electrical Engineering building was provided for and begunL Courses in Chemistry, Physics, Art and Music were introduced. Dr. Richmond retired in 1928 and has only recently completed a series of world travels. Union College together with its graduate department, Albany Medical Col- lege Ql838j, Albany Law School Ql85lj, the Pharmacy School, and Dudley Observatory are now under the direction of Dr. Frank Parker Day who is president of Union College and chancellor of Union University. An inter- locking board of trustees of the college and governors of the University main- tains unity in the departments. Dr. Day's presidency has been a particularly difiicult one in view of the economic pressure of the times. Dr. Day holds three degrees, M.A., LL.D., and D.Litt, I-Ie is a Rhodes Scholar and graduate of Mount Allison University and Oxford University. In 1914 he recruited and commanded the 185th Cana- dian Infantry, Cape Breton Highlanders. He served in France with the l6lst Royal Scots and commanded the 25th Canadian Infantry. I-Ie was promoted on the held to Lieutenant Colonel and was made President of the Khaki College for the Canadian Forces While in France. f -' 21 3 Ei 1 . lf .P 5 ' 'Ti fijziis ,-f '1 Tis, '15, ' ,g N i W'5:,:giQfgf-:tx aria?-'?'faf'e:s5a?QS1f.wzi I Ai-5543191 2 v-.frfqff ri 12153:-Q1Efqf.4e.ff:g5.71ja.5nff:-iqinxggso 4 . f?'i fI'4,z::1Es , fi-'fly' ,',-FLa2:,2.1!5 'e' 'ri -ri- : I f. Kali' 4:1-'lv.S:,.,-5 v'.-:wr Q-ff-gb:-r'.1,3-viip-wf?'1?T?ig :rzew:+e',G.i-'fy-if :!1,:'-1' i iff'-f:'.53f- fri 1455- Mfi,fg1:.- fn . 'f 'jiiklfif 1 5i5q?:gi55-fffffi if ' - Q ni- .14-,vpfefvr q5!5,.f..v.-Q5 ..'n.p.f. .-A ww- 1-was ja, ff? ttlff ' ,.,,gff1 ,P-4 4'-Q52 lylLfi3i?f4?Li!:5 Ji if f 2LfL4'QE31-. '4 e,f '-.qi 5- 5: 412:03 ggi QQ l13'?2'2a EFL .lh':s1f'e f3 A f'1f. ?55fe'Wt'11fa13 'ff'3-raffiiffi'Puff: -Zr2 .f2 'Fil' may :re ye, 5 'mf'fifi'IQg. I fgmie, 1- -i is W -. I ' I - 1-ft i 'E,,:g:13.'cf lf'-reg-rf -, r , ,w vt i fir . V Q 5 gizig srz. 1 -rffe.i'it2.g mipgiui , i + .mv ,V 35 ., 3 , .Ar ra: N 'i -- ,: llllllllm ll A , Mm All nhlltrtgattllf-1 gi ,P i eg-lg ,Q 'P +l-:ii-v--'f 'C'--:fi-wlfiiifig' I LD ta fig-a ffiifin mfs - fsfft'-erii Eff- '23 -rf if-1-F: :L ' f . T535 - I, . . .i- ., d -3 .. ,fx H 1 'Ti-.Q 55151.16-1 ,a.j f?'T?f1 gig 1'-TE OLD BLUE GATE 24

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up X mv aff'T,..-32,7 -5- I WI' v'tIl,I12-4 I is axiomatic that we never fully value anything until we have lost it. So deeply have I been impressed, through their lack, of the value of health in general, and sleep in particular, that one night in a hospital my thoughts began to How in rhyme and rythm: Seven long nights my eyes stared wide. Time was no more a flooding tide, But a pool stagnant black and deep, Then first I knew the worth of sleep. P Curious, isn't it, that every literate man, yes and even the illiterate, strives to put his emotional life into verse. Why? Wotilcl be a good query to put to the professor of psychology, who would doubtless give you some kind of answer. And as I lie on a sandy couch in the Florida sunshine, watching young fellows brown as berries scamper laughing along the beach, to nip in and out of the breakers, I often think that I would give all I am and possess to have similar health and be twenty again. W'ell, if health is such a jewel of great price, I should try to apply that knowledge for the good of Union. And that I intend to do. I have been think- ing a great deal how year by year we might improve our health service, how we might get more adequate knowledge about our bodies, and instructions about their care. Next year I hope we shall have a small intirmary, so that when you are half sick or recuperating, it will not be necessary to lie around dormitories cr fraternity houses, but instead be looked after by a nurse in suitable sur- roundings. Games and sports were invented, I suppose, for two reasons, first, because people enjoyed them and second, because they helped to build up and maintain good health. Since a large part of this volume will consist of pictures of teams and contests perhaps it might not be amiss for me to say something briefly about sports and what we like to do in Union College. Curling, golf and football along with whiskey and Presbyterianism came out of Scotland' which we often think of as a dour country. It is introduced the bag-pipe into Scotland as a joke, the point of have never seen, and it is just possible that the Irish may also the Scotch the five items I have named above, for the Irish Tennis is an ancient sport played by the English and French are many references to it in literature. Lacrosse is an Indian early times, hundreds took part on a side over wide stretches of is a development of cricket and rounders under the American said that the Irish which the Scotch have unloaded on race is inventive. nobility, for there game in which, in country. Baseball genius for organ- ization. Basketball, a modern game, developed, I surmise, when football men .gg ll E2 I If N il lp x Z4 l i s f A 5EiEEE'Et?f'i5 :? h'ff'- E' 'x:::::5':!f 4 I 5.7-ji-.., , q ,,, 26 K f Vg ,, T A - 5--IS:.1 ::'1?35F -ei iiii' , E2 5 7.