University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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I1 A'P1. ':u.L:-AZ! 'I' dawn, ere Phoebus' wstin rolls past the eastern I ' bounclnry, 'Phe glory oi' his presence shines before, And wukes the earth, hnslied 'neuth its covcrlid of nig'ht. A single tliriish mounts high the stately elm, And pipes his patssioned gn-eeting: to the sun. i 'I he sheep, knee-deep in flew-wet clover, misc their heads. And gaze expectant toward the bi-ig.:htening East: And 4-'en the farmer lml puts down his jingling puils And hushes low his jolly song, to watch 'Phe sun break splendid from behind the t1-ees. For one supremest moment ol' suspense All Nitture thrills with glad expectancy: Wen as the whole creation breathless stztncls Before the opening pages ol' this wonder book. JI. RALEIGH NELSON..

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Joshua Whitney Waterman. + OSHUA WHITNEY WATERMAN was born at Binghamton, New York, December 31, 1824. His father was a lawyer of that place and a man well-known and of influence in the state. During the early years of the son's life, when traveling was done mostly by stage-coach and private carriage, the Waterman home was frequently the abiding place for many dis- tinguished meng for tavcrns were poor and scarce and it was customary to entertain one's friends who were traveling, more than is now the case. Joshua was not only brought up in the company of enlightened and refined parents, but was thus more or less familiar with the prominent public characters from his early boyhood. At the age of fourteen years he was sent away from home to a private school, where he was prepared for college. He entered Yale College in 1840, graduating in 1844. That he was a favorite while in college is apparent from the following, which I quote from a. letter I received a short time since from his class secretary. In college his classmates were drawn to him by his manly frankness, his kindly good nature, his intelligence, strong common sense and irrepressible good humor. He was the humorist of the class. He was honored by the college at our commence- ment exercises and spoke onthe topic 'American System of Female Educa- tionlf' Then again from the report of his class reunion of 1874: Waterman was here---the inevitable, the irrepressible Josh-'grey about the head, but green about the heart,' carrying with him the hearty, jovial, good fellowship of olden time. He was on the rampage, when here, for a game of football on the green, and ordered the secretary to provide a ball for the occasion. But when Josh looked out upon the green and saw it thickly studded with maples and elms of thirty years' growth, and considered how poor a chance he would have to make a high strike of the ball among the limbs, he shed a tear, sat down on the state-house steps, smoked a cigar and was comforted. Waterman, when here, was on his way to Europe with his family, expecting to make a tour of some fourteen months. We learn that he is a man of wealth, but of no political ambition. He writes that he has no honorary de- grees, not even a D. D. He did once run for a school committee and was -11..