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Shortly before the end of the war he became secretary of the Citizens' Union, a non-partisan, civic, and political organization. He published each year a voters' directory for New York City, while continuing to contribute articles to the encyclopaedias with which he was associated and to write stories, articles, reviews, and editorials for various periodicals. He wrote many pamphlets on political science and a book on municipal government, The Eman- cipation of the American City. He was, as well, a frequent lecturer. He helped to organize the National Short Ballot Asso- ciation and served on its executive board, was a founder of the County Government Association and the Voters' Legislative Association, held charter membership in the New York Young Republican Club, was chairman of the Committee on State Affairs, and served on the executive committee of the Honest Ballot Association, the advisory board of the New York State Association, the Coalition Conference, and the New York County Republican Committee. One may well wonder how he found time to accomplish all he did. His was a life of great usefulness and achievement.
Arndt was married three times - to Ethel Howard in 1904, to Wilhelmina Helene Friedlander in 1915, and to Lolita Clark three
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years before his death. He was survived by his wife, a son, How- ard Wilcox, born February 22, 1906, and a grandson, Richard.
+ WILLIAM HARKNESS ARNOLD
W ILLIAM HARKNESS ARNOLD was born August 6, 1860, at Paw- tucket, Rhode Island, the son of David Anthony and Eliza Ann Francis (Carpenter) Arnold. He attended the English and Classical School at Providence, and spent one year with our Class as a special student. He then went abroad to study music. In Berlin he studied organ and piano; in Paris, singing and piano; and in London, singing.
After he had returned to the United States and made his home here, he often re-visited Europe for recreation and study. For nearly thirty years he was organist and choir master at St. Ste- phen's Church in Providence. He was a Fellow of the Church Choir Guild in London, a frequent lecturer on musical subjects, the author of an operetta called The Prince of Moorland, and of French Diction for Singers and Speakers.
He died July 21, 1913, at Providence, and was survived by his wife, the former Jeannie Oliver Fish, whom he married January 18, 1888, at Pawtucket.
BENJAMIN CUTTER AUTEN
UTEN, the son of Edward Auten, Union College, '62, and Maria A Louisa (Cutter) Auten, was born April 20, 1870, at Prince- ville, Illinois. He prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover. He spent three years with our Class, but took his senior year in 1897- 1898, receiving his Bachelor's degree in the latter year.
"My years in college were all inspiring and delightful," he writes. "My only desire for vacation was to get home to see the folks. I was a member of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Associa- tion. I remember some words spoken by a professor at the time of my first appointment: 'We are not here to teach you things; we are here to teach you how to find out. No one's say-so is authority for anything except as to matters of material fact. The authority for anything is, and is in, the thing itself.' I remember Professor
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Palmer's saying: 'There is one sin - unkindness.' Professor James: 'The delight of the tiger when it feels the hot blood ( of its victim) squizzle down its gullet.' Professor Ashley: 'A bundle of brush with a stick in it.'"
Auten has four Harvard brothers: Peter Auten, '99; Edward Auten, Jr., '04; Charles Howe Auten, '07; and Hanford Louis Auten, '11.
Since graduation Auten has been an orchardist engaged in the growing of tulips, narcissi, and peonies. He has also been a teacher of music.
"The accomplishment of which I am most proud, and life's 'durable satisfaction,' has been a day's work well done," he writes. "As Professor Peabody said of happy marriages and peaceful na- tions, 'They have no history.' So it is with my life's story. I've not even married.
"I do not know what God is, but of one thing I am convinced. It, or He, is not just another human being. I was not born damned, nor were you, nor was anyone else. Statements by two theologians of Cambridge were startling to me at the time they were made: 'I do not believe in a God man has created in His own image,' and 'I do not believe in any God sitting up in the sky, forever fretting about His own glory.'
"Church people are queer. They will tell you that God is un- knowable, but they spend their lives telling all about Him. They will tell you that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-wise, and all-good, yet spend a definite proportion of their lives trying to manage His business for Him. Still more, they hire especially trained experts to keep tabs on Him, to make sure He does not get negligent or go out of bounds. Do church people trust their God? They do not. Do they believe in Him? Some of them do, a very small some. A man's saying that he believes, or even believing that he believes, does not of itself constitute him a believer. Men have accepted the doctrines as matters of course, of convenience, or of childhood teaching.
"The action of Mr. Bryan in the Tennessee incident is interest- ing. He thought: 'The almighty and all-powerful God is in trouble and needs my help. I shall go to His aid.' I appreciate Mr. Bryan's
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attitude, childlike though it was, more than that of the Chicago lawyer who came to the aid of the other side.
"Are you one of those who believes it was the repeal of the Prohibition Amendment that broke the crime wave following World War I? If so, think a little further. How about the F.B.I., which came at about that time, and these items which followed: highway patrol, motorization of police, and the police radio?
"To every man his father is the greatest man of all time, for there is no man for whom he would trade his father.
"Why oaths of office or allegiance? If the candidate be worthy, his oath is superfluous; if unworthy, worthless."
CHARLES HOLTON BABBITT
L IFE's 'durable satisfactions,'" writes Babbitt, "are our children and those we have helped to help themselves. Nothing excit- ing has happened to me, my life has been more or less routine. I have had a small practice in the same location for twenty-five years and good health.
"My daughter, Ethel Jean, A.B., McGill, '43, S.B., Columbia, '45, is at the Dartmouth Eye Institute in Hanover, New Hampshire. My second daughter, Carol, A.B., McGill, '45, married Herbert Sidney Morrison, A.B., Dartmouth, '41, M.D., McGill, '45, who is now located at 1801 Beacon Street, Waban, in the general practice of medicine.
"My wife has given considerable time to Red Cross nursing, charitable and church work. I can always use the telephone when the car is out and I can sometimes use the car when the telephone is busy. Now that the war is over, we may get back to normal sometime. Here's looking forward to the Seventy-fifth Reunion!"
Babbitt, the son of Carlos Caldwell and Martha Jane ( Holton) Babbitt, was born May 25, 1869, at Stoddard, New Hampshire. He prepared at the Manchester High School, Manchester, New Hampshire. He was with our Class one year as a special student and received his M.D. from the University of the South in 1902.
He married Ada Eliza Bumpus, May 25, 1903, at Nashua, New Hampshire. She died November 16, 1920. His marriage to Ethel
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Mae Burnes took place January 1, 1922, at New York City. Their children are: Ethel Jean, born December 15, 1922; and Carol Millis, born June 27, 1924.
Babbitt was secretary of the New Hampshire Board of Examin- ers from 1918 to 1945. He wrote several short articles while work- ing to raise the educational and ethical standards of the profession of optometry. He is a Mason, having attained various degrees including the 32nd and Shrine. He is a former member of the Harvard Club of Boston and Fortnightly Club of Nashua (now discontinued), and was president of the Y.M.C.A. for two years and served on its Board for many years.
FRANCIS MORRILL BABSON
B ABSON, the son of Edwin and Annette French ( Morrill) Babson, was born September 1, 1874, at Newburyport, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Newburyport High School. He received his A.B. with distinction with our Class. On June 23, 1906, he married Eleanor Nelson at Boston. She died November 24, 1944, at Boston.
During the first World War, Babson was a captain in the Massa- chusetts State Guard. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the Revolution, and Society for the Preserva- tion of New England Antiquities. He is a member of the Episcopal Church.
"On February 1, 1946," he writes, "I retired from active business after thirty-four years with the Aetna Casualty and Surety Com- pany as manager of the Fidelity and Surety Department. Shortly thereafter, I took a three months' trip across this great country of ours, stopping at Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, and Detroit. I spent a month at Berkeley, the seat of the University of Cali- fornia, and visited Carmel, historic Monterey, and the amazing Huntington Library and Museum at Pasadena. On my return I was disposed to agree with the poet Whittier:
I dream of lands where summer smiles And soft winds blow o'er spicy isles, But scarce would Ceylon's breath of flowers be sweet, Had I not thy soil, New England, 'neath my feet."
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HAROLD COLBURN BAILEY
M AIL sent to Bailey at 80 Federal Street, Boston, was returned by the Post Office in 1932, and the Secretary has been unable to reach him since. At the time of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report he was thought to be living in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was at one time engaged in literary work and was also inter- ested in various mining ventures.
He was born in Somerville on October 6, 1876, the son of Albon Honestus and Alcinda (Wason) Bailey. He came to Harvard in 1893, remaining in the College for three years, in the Law School for two years, and in the Graduate School for three years, and earning the degrees of A.B. and A.M., in 1897 and 1899, respec- tively.
* BENJAMIN STANDISH BAKER
B ENJAMIN STANDISH BAKER died July 4, 1933, at Hartsdale, New York. The son of Lucas and Georgianna Washington ( Nash) Baker, he was born May 18, 1872, at Melrose, Massachusetts, and prepared for college at the Cambridge Latin School. For two years following his graduation from Harvard, he attended the Law School. He began his journalistic career on the Boston Transcript, to which he contributed many articles, many of a medical nature. In 1906 he went to Washington to become editor of The Navy, a magazine covering naval and governmental affairs. During his two years in this position, he investigated and exposed many un- satisfactory conditions existing at that time. He then returned to Boston, remaining until 1916, when he moved to New York and became editor of Russia, a periodical aimed at promoting closer economic relations between that country and the United States. After the Bolshevik revolution, the magazine ceased publication, and Baker turned to free-lance writing. His interests were now primarily in business and economics, and led to his becoming assistant editor of the Weekly Review and Independent (later merged with the Outlook). In this capacity he had charge of in- dustrial affairs and labor relations. He was also associated with the New York Evening Post and the Journal of Commerce.
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In 1922 he became associated with The Annalist and rose to its editorship in 1925. Under him it became a more practical and comprehensive business magazine. He became noted for his fear- less and honest expression of opinion, and his comments on busi- ness conditions were termed by his readers "invaluable as a guide to American economic conditions" and "undoubtedly among the best this country produces." His penetration gave his predictions reliability, as, for example, his warning in April, 1929, that a re- cession was imminent. Aside from his professional activities, his chief interest was music.
On March 19, 1901, at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, he married Margaret Germaine Utter, who predeceased him. He was survived by two daughters and a son - Lydia Cazneau (Mrs. Hubert W. Lamb), born March 8, 1907; Frances Palfrey, born October 7, 1909; and David, born October 31, 1912.
LEWIS BALCH
B ALCH, the son of Lewis and Jane (Swann) Balch, was born May 3, 1872, at Kingston, Rhode Island. He prepared at Albany Academy in Albany, New York. He was in college during our freshman year only, as a special student. His marriage to Sally Rodman Thompson took place November 2, 1894, at Wakefield, Rhode Island. She died at Wakefield, March 19, 1944. Their son, Robert, was born December 31, 1912. There is one grandchild.
After leaving college, Balch was a farmer and later became a librarian. He has served as a vestryman and is the author of articles which were published in the local press. During World War II, his son was a carpenter's mate, first class, U.S. Navy. He saw service in Africa.
* WILLIAM ALPHEUS BALDWIN
W ILLIAM ALPHEUS BALDWIN died April 5, 1936, at Ridgewood, New Jersey. The son of Reuben Camp and Josephine Re- becca (Green) Baldwin, he was born August 16, 1859, at Volney, New York. He attended Falley Seminary, Fulton, New York, and
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the Oswego, New York, Normal School, and was school commis- sioner for the first district of Oswego County and superintendent of schools at Andover, Belmont, and Danvers, Massachusetts, be- fore coming to Harvard. He was with the Class from 1895 to 1897, and in the latter year was elected principal of the Hyannis ( Massa- chusetts ) State Normal School, where he remained until his retire- ment in 1924.
His work in introducing new educational methods received wide recognition. In 1904 he was sent by the governor of Massachusetts as a delegate to the International Congress of Art and Industry, held at Berne, Switzerland, to explain an exhibit of his school. This exhibit, after having been sent to England and Scotland, be- came a part of the permanent exhibit at Berne. During 1907-08 he was granted a leave of absence and travelled in Europe, giving many lectures on education. A report of his observations was pub- lished by the Department of Education in Washington, D. C. Exhibitions of the school's industrial social work were shown at St. Louis and Portland, Oregon, in each case receiving a gold medal award. For a number of years before his death, Baldwin lectured on ethics at the Rhode Island College of Education at Providence. He contributed largely to educational literature. He published a monograph on Physical Education in the Massachu- setts Normal Schools for the Paris Exposition and Industrial Social Education.
He was survived by his wife, the former Jennie Marguerite Skinner, whom he married at Springfield, Massachusetts, on Sep- tember 5, 1893, and two sons - Henry Skinner, born January 24, 1897, and William Reuben, born July 17, 1898.
MELVIN SPAULDING BARBER
B ARBER, the son of Leander Barber, Jr., and Emma Jane (Spauld- ing) Barber, was born September 30, 1874, at West Newton, Massachusetts. He prepared for college at the Winchester High School. After four years in college with our Class, he was gradu- ated with distinction.
He married Alice Reeves Flagg, February 1, 1911, at Woburn,
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Massachusetts. Their daughter, Elisabeth Spaulding Barber, was born April 25, 1912.
Barber is a Master Mason in the William Parkman Lodge in Winchester. Of his occupation since 1897, he writes:
"Since graduation I have been in practically the same line of business and have been associated with only two firms during that time, engaged in the manufacture and installation of fine wood- work and furniture.
"It has been my good fortune to have been interested, in a mod- est way, with some of the finest church and cathedral interiors as well as business offices and private homes. My work has been varied and interesting to me, but so far as world affairs or general interest are concerned, it has been prosaic, as I think much busi- ness is.
"I have enjoyed good health for the most part, and at this writing am still 'on deck.'"
+ HAROLD BARCLAY
H AROLD BARCLAY, at the time of his death on July 25, 1922, at Biarritz, France, was one of the leading New York specialists in gastro-enteric diseases. He was with the Class only during the freshman year, going then to the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Columbia University, where he took an M.D. degree in 1899. He took a two-year internship at the Bellevue Hospital, where he was later assistant attending physician. During the Spanish-American War he served with General Miles's Army in Puerto Rico, and in the first World War, in spite of a great risk to a weak heart, he served in France with the Medical Corps, reach- ing the rank of lieutenant colonel. In this service, as in everything he undertook, he was intensely active, performing his work in a spirit of adventure. He belonged to the Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association and had a wide circle of friends in his profession and in society. He was survived by his wife, the former Helen Fuller Potter, whom he married on April 14, 1906, at New York.
Barclay was born August 14, 1872, at New York City, the son of
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Sackett Moore and Cornelia (Barclay ) Barclay, and was prepared for college by a private tutor.
ROBERT COCHRANE BARCLAY
I WAS first a cowboy in Texas," writes Robert Barclay, "and was then associated with a copper mine in Ontario for five years. Later I prospected in Nevada and farmed in Madison County, New York, and, after my marriage, in Fauquier County, Virginia.
"Since my daughter's marriage to an Englishman in 1933, we have been living in Jersey, Channel Islands, where I have bought a home."
Barclay, the son of Sackett Moore and Cornelia (Barclay ) Bar- clay, was born March 26, 1874, at New York City. He was privately prepared for college. After spending his freshman year with our Class, he attended the Lawrence Scientific School during the fol- lowing year. His marriage to Anita Caldwell Goldsborough took place January 25, 1906, at New York City. Their children: Frances Constable, born December 12, 1908 (died December 12, 1908); Frances Moore, born May 12, 1910; and Henry deLancy, born January 23, 1915 (died April 5, 1915). There are four grand- children.
During the Spanish War, Barclay served as a private in the United States Volunteer Cavalry with Troop A of New York. In World War I he was a captain in the Remount Service in command of Field Remount Squadron No. 352. Barclay's brother, Harold Barclay, was also a member of '97.
+ CHARLES LESTER BARNARD
C HARLES LESTER BARNARD was born at Brooklyn on July 29, 1874. His parents were Charles Nathan and Lavinia Luddington (Peters) Barnard. He came to Harvard from the Boston Latin School and took an A.B. with the Class of 1897. He then received an appointment as instructor in German at the University of Cin- cinnati, a position in which he remained until his death on April 30, 1899, at Cincinnati. He was unmarried.
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E. GATES BARNARD
B ARNARD did not return a questionnaire. The son of Henry Har- ris and Lucy (Gates) Barnard, he was born April 8, 1873, at Calais, Maine. He was at Harvard as a special student during 1893-94. On November 24, 1898, he married Elizabeth Eaton at Calais. A son, Henry Harris, 2d, was born July 8, 1904. In the Seventh Report, Barnard reported his son's marriage to Josephine -
Goodyear on June 7, 1924, and the birth of their daughter, Jose- phine Sicard Barnard.
Barnard studied abroad after leaving Harvard and travelled widely. He was associated in business with a family firm, Church E. Gates & Company, dealers in lumber and timber.
Your Secretary understands that Barnard is not well and that his failure to send in his questionnaire is unavoidable.
* HECTOR GALLOWAY BARNES
H ECTOR GALLOWAY BARNES died on March 10, 1943, at Fargo, North Dakota. He was born in Glyndon, Minnesota, May 6, 1875, the son of George Samuel and Marie Leila (Paige) Barnes. He prepared for college at the Minneapolis Central High School and spent three years with our Class. He left college before our senior year and engaged in real estate and farming in Minnesota and North Dakota. In later years he had held a post in the sales tax division of the State of North Dakota.
Barnes rarely returned to New England and your Secretary has no record that he ever attended a reunion. His first wife, Eleanor Freeman, whom he married on June 19, 1902, died many years ago. He was survived by his second wife, Mrs. Louise Marr Barnes.
MICHAEL FRANCIS BARRETT
I HAVE practised general surgery and orthopedics in Brockton, Massachusetts, since 1904 and am still going strong," reports Barrett. "I was on the surgical service of the Brockton Hospital from 1904 to 1938, when age retirement became effective.
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"Since 1938 I have been an active surgical consultant at the Brockton Hospital and chairman of the Medical Committee of the governing board of the same hospital. I am also consulting surgeon at the Phaneuf Hospital in Brockton and chairman of the Execu- tive Committee there.
"I have had the greatest satisfaction from my occupation, which has been, on the whole, productive of restoration of physical well- being to my patients and, consequently, mental comfort. I also derive satisfaction from the fact that the greater part of my work has been done free of charge to those who could not afford to pay. Great comfort has come from the opportunity that I have had to raise my family properly and to feel that I have fulfilled my obligations."
Barrett was born October 10, 1875, at West Hingham, Massa- chusetts, the son of Michael and Maria ( Dunn) Barrett. He pre- pared at the Hingham High School and was with our Class four years. He received his M.D. degree from the Medical School in 1901, and was surgical house officer at the Boston City Hospital from 1900 to 1903, and at the Boston Children's Hospital for the following year.
He married Louise Grant, October 24, 1906, at Hingham. She died September 26, 1944. He was married to Merriom Agnes Newcomb, September 4, 1946, at North Abington, Massachusetts. His children are Richard Francis, born December 2, 1907; and David Grant, '35, born February 9, 1913. There are five grandchil- dren.
Barrett has been a member of the School Committee in Brock- ton, the Commercial Club of Brockton, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, American College of Sur- geons, Boylston Medical Society, and several local clubs.
+ FREDERICK BARRY
F REDERICK BARRY died at New York City on April 6, 1943. His death was the result of a coronary thrombosis. He had just returned home, after delivering his final lecture on the History of Science to his class in chemistry at Columbia University. "I have
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never had a better lecture in my life," he had remarked. "It has been such a good evening!"
Devoted to his classes and to his students, he had, none the less, decided upon his retirement that coming June. On the very after- noon of his death, the Trustees of the University had conferred upon him the honorary title of "Professor of History Emeritus." Unfortunately, he did not know of it.
Born at Lynn, Massachusetts, on February 13, 1876, the son of Eugene and Lucy (Wyman) Barry, he was prepared for college at the Classical High School in his native city. He was graduated with us in 1897, and received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. in the years 1909 and 1911, respectively.
While he was at Harvard, Barry's major interests were twofold: chemistry, in which he was to excel in later years, and music, his love for which never flagged during his entire lifetime, although his labors in the field of chemistry, both as student and professor, prevented the fulfillment of his hopes and ambitions in this di- rection.
In college he was a member of the Boylston Chemical Club, was the leader of our Mandolin Club and a member of the Pi Eta Society. It was for this last-named organization that he composed his opera, The Alcayde, which was given professional production in Chicago in 1906.
Upon graduation Barry started upon his life career in the labora- tories of the American Color and Chemical Company at Albany, New York. Because of a severe attack of chemical poisoning, he was forced to go for recovery and convalescence to the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake, not far from Detroit, where his returning health permitted him to take up the teaching of chemistry, and, after two years, he continued and extended this work at the Detroit University School.
He returned to Harvard in 1907 and took a doctorate in chem- istry in 1911. He was assistant in the college and later, under the Carnegie Institution, became assistant in research to his former teacher, Professor Richards. In 1912 he went to Columbia Uni- versity, where he taught chemistry and the history of science until 1918. In that year he accepted an assistant professorship at New
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