University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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1922 INDEX service as a patient, kindly friend of the student, knowing his interests and loving him; it is as an inspirer of students and faculty to generous fellowship and high aspirations; it is as an educator with vision, one who sees the path ahead but forgets not the dangers overcome; it is in this daily influence that Dean Lewis makes himself a force through all our college life. One cannot refrain from mentioning his crystal candor — that which is, per- haps, most striking to his friends — his poise and judgment, his white heat on any issue of righteousness, his simplicity, his noble talent as a reader and speaker, his inspiring power as a teacher, and his love of men, a love that wherever he goes attracts like a magnet the love of all to him. He is a born leader. It is a period of challenge to education. Every college requirement is called upon to prove its right to exist. A dean ' s special province in a college is to main- tain the standard of scholarship. Yet no attack is ever waged to raise the standard or to make it more difficult to enter the college or to graduate from it. Vision is needed. Dean Lewis has it. And he has courage and knowledge of the game. There will be no lowering by a single inch of the hill-top from which Aggie ' s banner flies. 11

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XtJimddtL INDEX W( t Bebelopmcnt of tijleticg at ggie III 1869, when M. A. C. first opened her doors to the world, she also opened them to athletics. In those early days football, although an old sport in the mother country, had been practiced only to a limited extent by the New England colleges, and did not find favor at Aggie until a much later date. Rowing and baseball formed the popular pastimes of the first classes. Prior to 1870, the sport of rowing and shell racing was wholly confined to the classical colleges, such as Harvard, Yale, and Brown. Amherst College entered the field in 1869 and suggested the following year that M. A. C. take up the sport and participate in a regatta between the two institutions. . rowing association was organized with Arthur D. Norcross of ' 71 as President, and Wil- liam R. Peabody of ' 72 as Commodore. A regatta was arranged to be held on the Connecticut River at Hatfield, and a crew consisting of the following men was chosen: Geo. Leonard and Gideon Allen of ' 71, Edward Hardy of ' 72, Henry B. Simpson and Fred C. Eldred of ' 73, and George A. Duncan of ' 74. The course was three miles, with a turnstake one and one-half miles down-stream. The race resulted in a victory for M. A. C. Encouraged by this successful beginning, in 1871 the college joined a newly organized Rowing Association of American Colleges. The first regatta was to be held at Ingleside the following July 21st, over a course three miles straight-away. Old Aggie was represented by the following men: Leonard and Allen, ' 71; Simp- son and Eldred, ' 73; A. D. Norcross, ' 71, and F. M. Somers, ' 72. 13