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FORTY-FIFTHE
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ANNIVERSARY .
CLASS
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HARVARD
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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
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HARVARD COLLEGE Class of Ninety-Seven Forty-Fifth Anniversary Report [Number IX]
HARVARD COLLEGE Class of Ninety-Seven Forty-Fifth Anniversary Report
FORTY-FIFTH
ANNIVERSARY
CLASS
OF
97
HARVARD
CAMBRIDGE Printed for the Class 1942
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRINTING OFFICE CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS · U . S . A
Contents
Class Committee · vii,
Preface · ix
Treasurer's Report . xi Statistics · xiii
Retrospect and Prospect
'97 Families in War Work . 3
Poem - Percy Mackaye · 5 Obituaries .
7
Poem - H. T. Nichols . 73
Present Members of the Class
. 75
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Class Committee
Norwood Penrose Hallowell Treasurer
Charles Jenney
Edgar N. Wrightington (Acting)
Class Secretary Roger Livingston Scaife 34 Beacon Street, Boston
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Preface
TOUR Class Committee this year of all years felt that an elaborate Class Report giving the Class biographies for the last few years was an economic waste of time, effort and chiefly of expense. Accord- ingly this briefer report is mainly a record of obituaries of those who have passed on since the last report.
The secretary wishes to express his thanks to all who have paid tribute to the memory of our illustrious dead by providing many of these obituary records and to Percy MacKaye for his tender quatrain.
In addition there has been provided an address list, cheerfully prefaced by a Humphrey Nichols couplet. The list is as accurate as your secretary and the Alumni Directory have been able to make it. Unfortunately there are sixteen men missing, who are listed on a separate page. If any of the Class know of the whereabouts of these men, the secretary would appreciate the information.
There is also a brief mention of the war work in which the '97 families are engaged, but the information is not complete as many of the men have not replied to the brief questionnaire sent out and your secretary knows that many are contributing their utmost in every way to the cause which is closest to our hearts.
In a few weeks we shall have an opportunity of once more joining hands in Cambridge. These are thrilling times and times for the display of teamwork, cooperation, and loyalty. Let us, then, all make a point of coming back in June. There is much to talk about and much to hear and not all of it is war and wages, strikes and taxes. There still remain other and pleasanter prospects in our world - and one of these is the perennial spirit of Harvard at Commencement.
April, 1942
ROGER L. SCAIFE Secretary
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Treasurer's Report For fiscal year ending March 31, 1942
RECEIPTS
Cash balance at State Street Trust Co. March 31, 1941 $ 259.09
Income from Invested Funds
535.71
$ 794.80
From sale of $2,000 Montana Power Co. 32s, 1966
2,123.44
Total Receipts
$2,918.24
DISBURSEMENTS
Secretarial Expenses
$ 387.99
Other Expenses:
Rent of safe deposit box
$ II.IO
Bank service charges
1.31
Luncheon: June 18
162.70
Luncheon: Commencement
95.53
Luncheon: Class Committee
15.73
Massachusetts income tax 194I
11.56
297.93
Total Expenses
685.92
Purchase of $2,000 Philadelphia Co. 4}s, 1961
2,093.88
Total Disbursements
$2,779.80
1 38.44
Cash balance at State Street Trust Co. March 31, 1942 Total
$2,918.24
Some years ago the Class deposited the sum of $16,000 with the College, the income from which was to be awarded by the Class Committee to assist male descendents of '97 men in Harvard.
During this period seven sons and one grandson have received awards totalling $6,480.00. All of these boys graduated except the grandson who is now in college.
The original fund of $16,000 has been increased by the accumula- tion of income in the years when there were no applicants, to $19,616.27 as of June 30, 1941. The income for the present fiscal year (at 4.01%, the college rate) amounts to $804.27, enough for two awards of $400. each, but any amount above $16,000 may be used by the Class Committee in their discretion in making awards to male descendents of '97 men.
N. PENROSE HALLOWELL Treasurer
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HARVARD CLASS OF 1897 INVESTED FUNDS
Date Bought
Cost
Value 3/20/42
Price
Amount
Price
Amount
Annual Income
Mo. Yr.
3/37 $1000 Armour & Co. (Del.) 45/55
98.15
$ 981.53
104}
$1042.50
$40.00
4/40
1000 New England Power Assn. 5s, 1948
98.
980.00
72}
725.00
50.00
9/35
3000 Pennsylvania R. Co. 45, 1963
100.
3000.00
1032
3105.00
120.00
3/37
1000 Philadelphia Electric Co. 32s, 1967
101.38
1013.75
1102.50
35.00
7/41
2000 Philadelphia Co. 4łs, 1961
104.38
2087.50
93.
1860.00
85.00
/37 2000 Southern Pacific R. 45, 1955
98.27
1965.42
68.
I360.00
80.00
9/37
2500 U. S. Treasury 2s, due Sept. 15, 1942
101.13
2528.13
1014
2531.25
50.00
10/41
2000 U. S. Treasury 22s, 1967/72
IOo.
2000.00
100.
2000.00
50.00
1/37
1000 U. S. Treasury 2ªs, 1959/56
103.
1030.00
109.
1090.00
27.50
$15,586.33
$14,816.25
$537.50
Cash at State Street Trust Co. $138.44
March 20, 1942.
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Statistics
Total number receiving degree of A.B. 40I Total number now living 243
Total number receiving degree of S.B. 30
Total number now living 17
Total number temporary members 234
Total number now living
108
Honorary members I
Now living I
Lost Men not reported in above count
16
Harold Colburn Bailey
Robert Cochrane Barclay
Lorul Maskell Bates
Henry Irving Bowles
Edward Parrish Carr
Stephen Douglas Demmon
Robert Fred Dyer
William Peter Engelman
Earl Warren Fort
Francis Farmer Fox
Albert Montgomery Fulton
George Henry Galpin Albert James Lonney John Francis Rogers
William Lawrence Tower
William Wood
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Retrospect and Prospect
March 18, 1942
Mr. Arthur W. Bell
72 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts
My dear Arthur:
As I look back at undergraduate days in Cambridge, the air seemed impregnated with an undying hatred for the Eli. We were not com- pletely successful in our sports in those days and our disappointments were vocalized in no uncertain tones. What vituperations were banded across the then long miles between Cambridge and New Haven!
The wise and cheerful changes which have taken place have been gradual, but the very real friendship and respect which has come to the two universities has come to stay.
In these great days and in this great world now in its struggle for life we are firm allies, not only under the blue and the crimson but under the Stars and Stripes, and in this our 45th year of graduation the Harvard Class of '97 sends its affectionate and loyal greetings to its brethren of the Class of '97 at Yale.
May our 50th find us hale and hearty in a world at peace, where youth may strive in friendly competition, both on the field and in the cultural cloisters of our institutions, and where their elders may find a just reward for all the toil, sweat, and tears which have gone into the making of these days of promise.
Always sincerely,
ROGER L. SCAIFE Secretary Harvard Class '97
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Harvard Class of Ninety-Seven
March 26th, 1942
Mr. Roger L. Scaife 34 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts
My dear Roger:
The Class of Yale '97 deeply appreciates your kind message of friendship and good will and wishes the Class of Harvard '97 to realize that our members heartily concur in your sentiments. I can well remember the feeling of hostility which prevailed in our time; my good friend and angling companion, G. R. Fearing, President of Harvard '93, once expressed it thus. "You can scarcely appreciate the antipathy for Yale that existed when I was in college; I had a cousin there and none of my friends ever mentioned his name in my presence, out of regard for my feelings."
For the last fifteen years I have resided in Harvard territory, and in all that time have invariably met with the utmost kindness and consideration, behind which there seemed to lurk no hint of Yale contamination.
It is quite true that in the late '90's Yale was much more gen- erally successful in the intercollegiate athletic contests; indeed it seems to me that since my address was changed to the Hub my wagers have represented an unbroken succession of financial re- verses which anticipated the Depression by some five years.
In closing may I express the satisfaction that I have experi- enced in the personal friendship which has grown up between us, each the Class Secretary of '97 in our respective Universities.
We extend to you our felicitations on this Anniversary and wish you many happy returns of the day when happier days return.
Very sincerely yours, ARTHUR W. BELL Secretary Yale Class '97
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'97 Families in War Work
Your secretary had hoped to receive a larger number of replies to his questionnaire to the Class requesting information as to the number of individuals in each family who are engaged in war work of one sort and another. Unfortunately, information of this charac- ter has been received from less than half the Class. Therefore, the following information is necessarily incomplete and for that reason it has not seemed wise to list the names of any except the sons of '97 who are reported as actually in active service.
It should be reported, however, that many wives and daughters are known to be engaged in Red Cross work, that at least one '97 wife has given her blood for transfusion, and in defense work cer- tain classmates and their wives are on the rolls.
The following sons of '97 are already in active service:
Charles E. Batchelder, War Dept., Quartermaster's Dept.
Emery P. Bayley, Lt., U. S. Navy
Frank S. Bayley, Lt. (jg), U. S. Navy
A. Oakley Brooks, Ens., U. S. Navy
John W. Brooks, Corp. Tech., U. S. Army
Francis Sargent Cheever, Lt., U. S. Navy, M.C.
George S. Coffin, First Lt., U. S. Army Air Corps Sherman Page Cotton, Corp., U. S. Army William D. Cotton, Jr., Pvt., U. S. Army
James B. Cresap, Lt., U. S. Navy (with S. W. Pacific fleet) Lawrence A. Davenport, Pvt., U. S. Army
A. E. Douglass, Quartermaster's Dept. F. M. Douglass, Lt., U. S. Navy
E. Allen Drew, Aviation Cadet
William S. Drew, Ambulance Driver, American Field Service, Egypt
David L. Garrison, Corp., 102nd F. A.
John L. Grandin, Jr., Lt. (jg), U. S. Navy
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Richard McC. Grandin, Corp., U. S. Army N. P. Hallowell, Jr., Lt. (jg), U. S. Navy Edward M. Harris, Capt., U. S. Infantry Edwin A. Hills II, Lt. (jg), U. S. Navy Arthur W. Hodges, Jr., Lt., U. S. Infantry James L. Little, Jr., Lt., U. S. Navy George Donald Meserve, Major, Signal Corps
Henry F. Rand, C.R.M., U. S. Navy
Walter S. Robbins, Midshipman, U. S. Navy Roger M. Scaife, Pvt., U. S. Army Joseph W. Sharts III, Pvt., F. A. J. Hobson Taylor, Ens., U. S. Navy Reverdy Wadsworth, 2nd Lt., U. S. Army
William P. Wadsworth, Capt. U. S. Cavalry Howland Shaw Warren, Pvt. (First Class), U. S. Army Joseph Warren, Jr., Ens., U. S. Navy
Richard Warren, Capt., U. S. Army (Medical)
David Weld, 2nd Lt., U. S. Army Air Corps
Charles F. Whiting, Jr., Pvt., Signal Corps. Replacement Training Center
D. C. Wrightington, Lt. (jg), U. S. Navy
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Obituaries
To 'Ninety-seven, Ahead So long, dear lads! - So long as Harvard hearts, Joined in remembrance, to their 'jubilee throng,' And friendship grows as friend from friend departs To the Great Reunion - dear old lads, so long! PERCY MACKAYE
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TOHN STONE ALLEN died on January 14, 1938, at Schenec- tady, New York, after a prolonged illness. He was born on October 5, 1875, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of the late Alexander Viets Griswold and Elizabeth Kent (Stone) Allen. His father (S.T.D., hon., '86) was for many years a professor at the Episcopal Theological School, and his mother a granddaughter of Chancellor James Kent of New York. He was prepared for college at the Cambridge Latin and Browne and Nichols Schools and, after graduation from Harvard, began at once his journalistic career as a cub reporter on the old Philadelphia Press. In the decade that followed he worked on the Philadelphia Evening Telegram, Pitts- burgh Gazette, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Providence Journal, and Provi- dence Tribune. For the next five years he was associated with the Youth's Companion, "and after that a year or two was spent in spreading propaganda for a beautiful system of national highways," as he wrote in our 25th Class Report. It was during this period, also, that he became one of the board of directors - and, subsequently, President - of the short-lived publication, Boston Common - "an experiment in cooperative journalism which proposed to be fearless and unfettered. It was. . .. It was not a success." In the fall of 1915 the lure of the fourth estate drew him back once again to his chosen profession, and he joined the staff of the Boston Herald, serv- ing as its managing editor from 1916 to 1920. He writes: "The Herald of November 11, 1918, by the way, was on the street with the news of the signing of the Armistice thirty-five minutes before any of its competitors, an achievement which, though of small in- terest to the general public, is worth recording as an instance of unusual mechanical speed."
Never robust, Allen found after the War that the responsibilities and demands of so strenuous a daily task began to take its toll - so much so, that his failing health required that he forsake journalism, temporarily at least, and seek seclusion and rest on the little island of Nantucket. There, in 1922, he spent a quiet winter "studying
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the social side of the Quahaug, preparatory to writing the Great American Novel." But idleness was foreign to his nature and, so soon as he thought himself sufficiently recovered, and a longing for the editorial desk reasserted itself, he bade farewell to his little island sanctuary and departed for Schenectady, New York, there to assume the duties of managing-editor on the Union-Star.
For a time, all went well, but the effort proved a costly one. Ill- ness once again struck him down - an illness from which he never fully recovered, and which in the end proved fatal.
To those of us who recall Jack in his undergraduate days, there will ever remain the picture of a fair-haired, slender, rather delicate- looking boy, of scholarly mein and expression of speech - although little of the student in his ways and pursuits -of great personal charm and sweetness of disposition, and a little too frail of body to take any active part in the athletic life of the college. The profes- sion of journalism is an exacting and exhausting one, and calls for physical as well as mental stamina and endurance - and Jack's en- thusiasms and ambitions demanded for their accomplishments far greater reserves than were his to summon. The spirit was all too willing, but the flesh, alas, too weak.
He was married, on December 6, 1906, at Fall River, Massachu- setts, to Lillian Chase Remington, who, with a daughter, Elizabeth Kent, born on March 8, 1920, and a brother, Henry Van Dyke Allen, '95, survives him.
H. T. N.
INGERSOLL BOWDITCH died at Jamaica Plain on February 11, 1938, in his sixty-third year. In the business world, he will be re- membered as a trustee of high character, wide experience and large affairs. Few realize that he was also an engineer and held an S.B. from Technology as well as his Harvard degree. But the family tradition ran in other lines than engineering, and after a few years he abandoned that profession for the care and management of prop- erty in which his father and grandfather before him had engaged. He was the fourth Bowditch in direct succession to be an officer of
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the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and he held other important directorships.
But he had many interests outside of business. Nature had given him a big and sympathetic heart, and throughout his life he gave freely of his time and money to a great variety of charitable ob- jects. His special concern was hospitals. He was president of the Sharon Sanatorium and vice president of the Boston Hospital Coun- cil, and as treasurer of the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain gave many years of valuable and devoted service. In hospital manage- ment he was an authority.
Ingersoll Bowditch was an esteemed and trusted citizen, whom the community can ill afford to lose. To his friends, he was al- ways "Inky" or "Ink" Bowditch, a nickname which attached to him from his school days, and they will remember him as a big-hearted, generous thoroughbred - independent in his thoughts and actions, but modest, retiring and unassertive.
His home on Bowditch Hill and the country and out-of-doors life in and about Chocorua were very dear to him.
He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Scudder Bowditch, and his children, Samuel Ingersoll Bowditch, Sylvia Church Bowditch, and Charles Pickering Bowditch.
W. D. C.
DANIEL H. BRADLEY died at Somerville, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1940. He had entered Harvard in 1893 from the Somer- ville High School, graduating in 1897 and receiving his degree of LL.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1901.
He was born in Cambridge, the son of Daniel and Eunice (Lafferty) Bradley, but lived all his life in Somerville, where he practised law until his appointment in 1912 as Clerk of the Somer- ville District Court. In addition to his work in the Court, he took an active part in civic affairs and for twenty years served on the Somerville School Committee. In 1920 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
His wife and three sisters survive him.
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BURTIS BURR BREESE, who died in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 31, 1939, of a heart attack, was only connected with '97 during his sophomore year, having secured an A.B. degree from the University of Kansas in '96. He received, after the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from Harvard in '98, a Ph.D. from Columbia in '99. He was the son of Corydon B. and Ann Elizabeth (Tanner) Breese. Although born in New York, he attended the Southern Kansas Academy at Eureka, Kansas.
After a year abroad he returned and was appointed head of the Department of Psychology and Ethics at the University of Tennessee, later in 1904 taking the chair of Psychology in the University of Cincinnati, which position he occupied until the time of his death. In 1903 he married Lillian Burnett of Hartford, Conn., who survives him, with a daughter, and a son, Dr. Burtis B. Breese, Jr. He was a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Association.
WILLIAM ALBERT BULLIVANT died in Boston, September 28, 1941, in his sixty-eighth year. The son of John Thomas and Mary Alice (Freeland) Bullivant, he was born in Newark, New Jersey, but in his early youth the family moved to Brockton, Massachusetts, where he spent most of his life. He attended the Brockton High School and Phillips Exeter Academy and spent the year 1893-94 at Harvard, having been associated with the Class of '97.
In his younger days he was employed by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company and later by the Crawford Shoe Makers. For a time he was connected with the Simpson Spring Company. His predilec- tions, however, were for politics and newspaper work. In Brockton from 1904 to 1925 he held various public offices, first as a member of the Common Council, then as an alderman. Later he was chosen president of the Council and finally served two terms as mayor. During this period he carried on his newspaper work, both on the Enterprise and the Times.
In 1914 he married Evelyn Hayward Mckay. She died in 1930. In 1937 he married Mrs. Leora M. Gage, who survives him.
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Bert Bullivant always took an active interest in Brockton social and musical life in addition to his civic duties. He was a member of the old Algonquin Club, which produced many popular operas and plays, and of the Pythian Glee Club and he took part in the various entertainments sponsored by these organizations. At his death the flags on all public buildings in Brockton were at half staff. Mayor Rowe spoke of Bullivant as a man of high character who in his personal and political life had always insisted upon honesty and regard for others. R. L. S.
FREDERIC ANSON BURLINGAME was born on Staten Island on November 14, 1873, and died in New York after a short illness on December 28, 1939. He came of distinguished forbears. His grandfather was Anson Burlingame (b. 1820, d. 1870, LL.B. Har- vard 1846, member of Congress 1857-1861, United States Minister to China 1861-1867, Chinese minister plenipotentiary to the United States and European nations 1867-1870). His father was Edward Livermore Burlingame (b. 1848, d. 1922, Ph.D. Heidelberg 1869, honorary A.M. Harvard 1901, Litt.D. Columbia 1914, editor of Scribner's Magazine 1886-1922).
After preparing at Cutler's School in New York and the Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Fred entered Harvard with the Class of 1897. He was successively secretary, managing editor and president of the Harvard Crimson. He was a leader in the famous struggle with the Harvard Daily News founded in September, 1894. When the News gave up on October 22, 1895, he joined heartily in the celebration of that event by the graduate and undergraduate editors of the Crimson under the banner "No News Is Good News." In the autumn of 1897 he entered the Columbia Law School. He took his LL.B. in June, 1900. As was possible in those days he passed his examination and was admitted to the New York Bar before his graduation from the Law School. After serving two years as managing clerk with Peckham, Miller & King he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Robert C. Beatty. This partner- ship having been dissolved in 1911, he practised alone for the next
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nine years. In May, 1920, he became a member of the firm of Ver Planck & Prince at 149 Broadway, and continued at that address as a member of the same firm or its successors until his death. In 1931 the firm name was changed to Burlingame, Nourse & Pettit.
Fred took a deep interest in the work of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Serving for three years on the im- portant Committee on Unlawful Practice of the Law, he became its chairman in 1935-1936.
On April 26, 1905, Fred married Charlotte Sanger Gannett, a sister of our classmate Tom Gannett. Their home life always radiated happiness. Soon after the birth of their son Anson the young couple moved to Short Hills in Millburn Township, New Jersey. There they lived for the next eighteen years. Fred put his hand and heart in every kind of good work. Vestryman of Christ Church from 1918 to 1928, clerk of the Vestry and member of the Social Service Board of the Diocese of New Jersey from 1920 to 1928, private in the United States Army at the Field Artillery School at Camp Zachary Taylor October to December, 1918, hard fighter for the right as he saw it in all local political campaigns, he earned a foremost place in the community.
In 1928 the Burlingames returned to New York. Fred kept up his interest in social service. He was elected to the Social Service Commission of the Diocese of New York for the term 1928-1932 and again for the term 1934-1938. He was a member of the Cen- tury, University and Harvard Clubs, Downtown Association and Squadron A Ex-Members' Association.
In 1930 the Burlingames bought an old stone farmhouse and forty acres of land at West Redding in Fairfield County, Connecticut. There they spent all the time that Fred could spare from his busy professional life.
Like many of his classmates Fred was disturbed by the increas- ing international tension and by some of the changes wrought in recent years in the pattern of our national government. "But," in his own brave words, "even though I am confused by all that is going on and distressed by the bad temper so general in the world
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today, I have not yet lost my faith in the underlying good sense of our people as a whole and I am ready to believe that out of the present confusion and conflict some good may eventually come."
Mrs. Burlingame, two sons, Anson, A.B. 1930, and Richard Gannett, and two grandchildren, Edward Livermore, born Jan- uary 21, 1935, and Susan Harlow, born September 21, 1939, survive. W. B.
WINSLOW WARE CHURCHILL died suddenly November 8, 1937, in Arlington, Massachusetts, of complications following an operation for sinus trouble earlier in the month. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, July 5, 1873, son of Asaph and Mary Ann Churchill. He prepared for college at Milton Academy and entered Harvard in the fall of 1893 with the Class of 1897. After two years in college he decided the routine of classes was too confining and irksome for one of his energetic nature, and, in the belief that travel and observation would be of more lasting value than a degree, he left college upon becoming his own master after his twenty-first birthday.
It does not appear that it was ever Churchill's intention to enter either business or a profession and, consequently, most of his next fifteen years were spent in hunting big game in this country and in sightseeing and travel in many of the countries of Europe and South America. He was in San Francisco at the time of the great earth- quake and in the Samoan Islands at the outbreak of the war.
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