University of Rochester - Interpres Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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FOREWORD In making up this record of the past year, the aim of the editors has been to catch, as nearly as possible, the spirit of progress which is growing up in the college. The events of the year have abundantly demonstrated this spirit and, at the same time, increased it. They speak best for themselves, in the memories of the students, and the following pages are an attempt to recall these memories as fully as possible. We are glad that our readers have not the dream with which we started, to compare with this modified outcome of it and must ask for an indul- gence of the imperfections and inadequacies which abound. We wish to thank those friends who have given freely of their time and resources to assist in the production of the book.

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Vol. XLIX INTERPRES 1908 GENERAL OTIS General Otis was born in Maryland. Before he was old enough to remember, his father had moved to Rochester and located on the Lyell road. In those days, all of the district about what is now Otis station, was a part of the' Otis farm. The homestead is still standingg but the farm lands have mostly been absorbed by the growing city. When Otis attended college, the classes were held in that building on West Main Street of which only the oldest Alumni tell. He was a member of the class of 1858, one of the first few the college turned out. Anderson was then ' president, and it must have been more than a coin- cidence that the subsequent life of the student so faithfully carried out the precepts of the venerable teacher. Otis was a live man in college and his name is connected with one or two practical jokes that are not yet out of date. He graduated high in his class and a year afterward was admitted to the bar. Then he entered Harvard Law School and received his degree in 1861. V In 1862, Otis was off to the war as captain of a A Senior in College ' company of volunteers under Colonel O'Rorke. O,Rorke died at Gettysburg, and the hard lighting which followed car- ried away the officers in large numbers and finally left Otis in command. Throughout all the severe fighting of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania, it had seemed as if Otis were invulnerable. Finally his turn came at Chapelhouse. He was so severely wounded in the head that the doctors considered his injury fatal. In 1866, however, he was sufficiently recovered to accept an appointment as Lieutenant Colonel in the regular army. From 1866 to 1898 Colonel Otis served upon the Western plains. His life was an active and varied one. The most important active service which he saw during this period was during the Indian troubles at the time of the Custer massacre. While not fighting the Indians he founded 8