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"Woven in between are, perhaps, some bright threads - sym-
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phonies, operas, an occasional play, Sunday afternoon radio pro- grams, and the ever-hopeful pursuit of a really good novel, while still rereading the old favorites. At times these highlight the dull background and make life quite worth living, even at seventy-one, an age we considered prodigious fifty years ago.
"I am fortunate in that my physical condition has not been too bad. On the mental side, however, I cannot be quite so optimistic. My memory certainly is not what it used to be. I find that I am inclined to forget things. I find that the only safe procedure is to write notes to myself and leave them in some conspicuous place about the house, hoping in this way to avert possible calamity. So far I have escaped any major disaster, but I still live in fear.
"Another failing of advancing years is a tendency to become garrulous. This is a sin that I try to avoid, and as a demonstration of this, I shall soon close this report before being accused of cacoethes scribendi. But I must add one more wise conclusion, and that is that garrulousness is not due to age. Garrulous old men were probably garrulous young men and were just as tire- some in youth as in old age."
Walker was born December 30, 1875, at Annapolis, Maryland, the son of Asa Walker, U. S. Naval Academy, '66, and Ruth Leavitt Brooks. He prepared at the Chauncy Hall School in Boston. After receiving his A.B. with our Class, he entered the Medical School, where he was granted an M.D. cum laude in 1901.
He married Lucy Underwood Sise, September 2, 1905, at Ports- mouth. During the first World War, he spent two years in the Army Medical Corps, with one year's duty overseas. He was dis- charged with the rank of major. In World War II, he served as chairman of the Medical Section of the civilian defense organiza- tion for Rye, New Hampshire.
+EDWARD DEWITT WALSH
DWARD DE WITT WALSH died July 17, 1917, at Roslyn, Long Island, New York. The son of Samuel Armstrong and Virginia (Ellison ) Walsh, he was born January 21, 1874, at New York City, and prepared at St. Mark's School. He entered Harvard with our
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Class but left after two years and went into business as a member of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1896 he went to Arizona, where he worked a mining claim, and the following year he began preparations for a trip to the Klondike. When news of the out- break of the Spanish-American War reached him in Alaska, he wired his father to get him a place in the Rough Riders, but the war was over before he reached New York. He re-entered the stock exchange and took up the life of a typical New York stock broker and club man. On May 11, 1901, he married Wano de Grier Arnold, who died November 11, 1903. Their child, Edward deWitt, Jr., was born May 6, 1902. On February 6, 1911, he mar- ried Agnes Garden at New York City.
Invariably cheerful and generous, Walsh was tremendously popular and was widely known through his countless friends and acquaintances.
CHARLES HENRY WARREN
T RUE to the prediction of our classmate, the late Dr. Rufus W. Sprague, in his class prophecy at Boston Latin School in 1893," writes Charles Warren, "I became a printer and have fol- lowed that line ever since. After two years with a Boston whole- sale house immediately after graduation, I settled down in the printing business, working with my brother, George A. Warren. We worked on the Brighton Item up to the time of his death in June, 1944, when his legatee closed the plant on two days' notice, and I was out on the street after over forty years on one job.
"I took a couple of weeks to look over the field and then tied up with the Walpole Press, a local paper and job-printing estab- lishment. I am still employed there as just a cog in a wheel, keep- ing one jump ahead of the sheriff.
"I was quite active in the political and civil life of the Brighton- Allston district while working on the Brighton Item. Since I moved to Sharon at the time of my second marriage, I have given up practically all activity in my old home district except my Masonry. In connection with this, I have the honor of having been the third member of my family to be Master of Bethesda
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Lodge and have the novel, though not quite unique, distinction of having had re-presented to me the identical Past Master's jewel which was presented to my father in 1900. That's the near- est I can come to 'accomplishments of which you are most proud.'
"My second marriage was to a school-day chum, who, by the way, was one of my guests at our Class Day in 1897. By this mar- riage I 'inherited' a stepson, a stepdaughter, and six step-grand- children, all of the grandchildren having been born since I came into the family.
"My one and only hobby is stamp collecting and I do get a big kick out of that."
Warren, the son of George Washington Warren, Harvard Med- ical School, 1865-1868, and Nancy Anna Monroe, was born Janu- ary 1, 1875, at Brighton, Massachusetts. He was with our Class four years and received his A.B. at our graduation. While an undergraduate he was a member of the Class Football Team in 1895.
He first married Nora May Phelps, December 18, 1900, at Brush- ton, New York. She died October 20, 1934, at Allston, Massachu- setts. He married Mrs. Annie L. Chickey Thayer, July 17, 1937, at Brookline, Massachusetts. His daughter, Edith Elvira (Mrs. Knibbs), was born August 24, 1901, and died March 27, 1944. Her son is Charles Warren Knibbs.
During World War I, Warren was in charge of the order of work at the Watertown Arsenal, and served on the Planning Divi- sion. In 1906 he was secretary of the centennial celebration of the Town of Brighton, and for the two following years served as a member of the Boston Common Council. He has been a member of the Allston Council No. 268, Royal Arcanium, past master of Bethesda Lodge, A.F. & A.M., charter member and past presi- dent of the Kiwanis Club of Allston-Brighton, charter member and first dictator of Allston Lodge No. 1252, Loyal Order of Moose, charter member and secretary of the Henry Cabot Lodge Club, Wards 21-22, Boston, John W. Weeks Club, Civic Club of Ward 21, Boston, Brighton Board of Trade, and member of the Allston Board of Trade. For over thirty-two years he was a mem- ber of Ward 21 Republican Committee and the Boston City Re-
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publican Committee. He is a member of the Board of Corporators of the Brighton Five Cents Savings Bank.
* JOSEPH WARREN
J OSEPH WARREN was born at Boston, on March 16, 1876, the son of John Collins and Amy (Shaw) Warren. At the time of his death on September 19, 1942, at Boston, he had taught in the Harvard Law School for thirty-three years. He came from a line distinguished in the history of the country, the Commonwealth, and Harvard. He prepared at Hopkinson's School in Boston.
He was graduated with an A.B. cum laude in 1897, and an LL.B. cum laude from the Law School in 1900. He was one of the editors of the Harvard Law Review from 1898 to 1900, and then became secretary to Mr. Justice Gray of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1901 he went into the office of Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter, and later practised with Richardson, Herrick & Neave. In 1907 he began teaching in Harvard College as a lec- turer in government. Two years later he became a lecturer in the Law School, and thereafter, successively, instructor (1910-13), Professor of law (1913-19), Bussey Professor (1919-29), and Weld Professor (1929-1942). He retired at the end of the school year in 1942. He was vice-dean during 1928-29, and acting dean in 1929.
He married Constance Martha Williams, June 19, 1905, at Brookline, Massachusetts. She died in 1935. He was survived by his four children: Joseph, Jr., born April 19, 1906; Richard, born May 12, 1907; Howland Shaw, born February 2, 1910; and Mary Eleanor (Mrs. Grayson M .- P. Murphy), born August 8, 1913.
Such in brief is an outline of the life of our classmate.
He was a most distinguished teacher of law. But he was so ex- tremely modest that even his most intimate friends were never fully aware of the fact. Not so his colleagues in the Harvard Law School. The Harvard Law Review for October, 1942, contains articles by Professors Landis, Morgan, Pound, Thurston, and Campbell which record their appreciation of Warren's high abili- ties and the affection in which he was held by his fellow-teachers
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and by the great number of students who passed through his classes. Thurston says: "Not since the days of Ames has the stu- dent body of the Law School had as great a regard for one of its teachers." .
Charles W. Eliot has said: "To be absolutely forgotten in a few years is the common fate of mankind." If we dare to challenge so high an authority, it will be because we believe that the qualities of the heart will be remembered when those of the mind are no longer clear to us.
High as were Warren's intellectual attainments, it will be be- cause of the beauty of his character that he will be remembered. To a keen sense of humor and great charm of manner he added a high feeling of duty and the most perfect unselfishness.
Whatever may be the judgment of future generations, we who knew him will always hold the character of Joseph Warren in admiration and his memory in deep affection.
T. L.
+ EVERETT MARSHALL WATERHOUSE
E VERETT MARSHALL WATERHOUSE died on May 11, 1946, at Saco, Maine. Born at Portland, Maine, on August 20, 1874, he was the son of Winfield Scott and Elizabeth Brooks (Cole) Water- house, and prepared for college at the Portland High School. After receiving his A.B. degree in 1899 as of our Class, he entered the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge where he took the degree of B.D. in 1901. He became assistant and choirmaster of Grace Church, Providence, where he remained for three years. He then transferred to a similar position in Christ Church in New York. Giving up work "in orders," he became assistant and tenor soloist of All Angels' Church in New York.
For our Twenty-fifth Report he wrote: "This took six years more, during which time I had an active social and musical life, and kept fit by a double enlistment in the First Company, Signal Corps, National Guard, New York. After another year or so, with the Arlington Company in New Jersey, I became so homesick for Maine that I returned to Saco and bought a farm adjoining my mother's."
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Since that time he had continued to live at Saco, where his farm was stocked with "Hampshires and Herefords, and some dairy cattle." He devoted much of his time to "investigating- bureau" work in Portland and eventually became treasurer of the Waterhouse Detective Agency, Incorporated, engaged principally in burglary prevention.
He was thrice married. His marriage to Viola Campbell, which took place at Lowell, Massachusetts, on July 8, 1895, ended in divorce. On November 25, 1911, he married Sarah Jacobs at Portland. His third wife was the former Mary Angelique Fin- neault. He had two children: Everett Cole and Elizabeth (de- ceased ).
Waterhouse was a member of the Sons of Veterans, Maine and Saco Granges, Portland Men's Singing Club, all Masonic lodges of York Rite and Scottish Rite, American Hampshire Breeders' Association, Farm Bureau, Farmers' Union, Knights of Pythias, and the Harvard Clubs of New York and Maine.
He was possessed of an unusually fine tenor voice and was a member of our Glee Club. As noted above, he devoted the early part of his life to music, singing, both as soloist and choirmaster, in Providence and New York churches. Whenever he returned to Cambridge for our Class Reunions, his sweet voice continued to charm us all, with the same purity and quality we had come to look forward to during our undergraduate days. It remained with him to the end, as a member of his Singing Club at Portland.
The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
H. T. N.
HOWARD WAYNE WATERMAN
H OWARD WAYNE WATERMAN died on December 22, 1942, at Los Angeles. He was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on Decem- ber 8, 1873, the son of Alfred Daniel and Eva Angelina (Wood- ruff ) Waterman. He entered Harvard from the University School
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of Chicago, and was graduated cum laude with our Class. He received an LL.B. at the Northwestern University Law School in 1900. On September 26, 1901, at Galesburg, Illinois, he married Evalyn M. Lanstrum who survived him. Their only child, Susan Elizabeth, was born March 6, 1907.
Throughout his college career Waterman was a keen student. He won a scholarship in '95 and secured a commencement part upon graduation. His self-supporting efforts in obtaining his de- gree gave him little time for the literary and social contacts in Cambridge.
Most of his life was spent on the West Coast, first in Seattle, Washington, where he practised law and joined the little group of '97 men, including Frank Bayley and Hervey Wilbur. Here he held the position of assistant attorney general for the state. Dur- ing the war he was a member of the County Council of Defense of Thurston County and was chairman of the Four-Minute Men. Later he moved to Los Angeles, where he became attorney for the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association. Throughout his life Waterman was a trusted, useful, modest citizen.
R. L. S.
+ JOHN SLATER WATERMAN
HN SLATER WATERMAN died on April 27, 1946, at Neptune Beach, Florida, where he had moved from Scarsdale, New York, in 1942. He was born at Providence on September 25, 1876, the son of Rufus and Helen Morris (Slater) Waterman, and pre- pared at St. Paul's School. He received an M.D. at Harvard in 1901 and then served as house surgeon at the Free Hospital for Women in Brookline for nine months. From 1901 to 1903 he was surgical intern at the Boston City Hospital. During the following year he was resident surgeon at the Boston City Hospital Relief Station. He practised for a year in Providence and then became associated with the medical department of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City, at the same time carrying on a private practice. In 1907 he had returned to Providence.
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At the time of our Twenty-fifth Report he was practising in Flushing, New York. He later became a medical director for the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
He was survived by his wife, Adele M. Waterman, and two daughters, Mrs. Anthony J. P. Farris, and Helen P. Waterman. D. C.
GEORGE HOLDREGE WATSON
N OT belonging to any union or 'bloc,' writes Watson, "I re- ceive no subsidy and hence am not as yet a ward of the government. However, I find it increasingly difficult to subsist on the legacy handed down to us by the late F.D.R., but hope to live long enough to see this country and others reward individual effort and the country supported by the people and not the people by the government, and above all, a realization that those respon- sible for all this chaos and suffering will be put where they can never repeat, to the end that our children and their children may be spared what we have seen and live a normal and peaceful life.
"I saw Charlie Paine," he recalls, "pitching against Princeton with men on the bases, stop and watch a flock of yellow-legged plovers fly over Holmes Field. Harvard won the game."
Watson, the son of Robert Clifford Watson, '69, and Susan Grinnell Holdrege, was born June 11, 1874, at Milton, Massachu- setts. He prepared at Hopkinson's School in Boston. He entered college as a member of '97, but remained an extra year, receiving his A.B. in '99 as of '98.
He married Margaret Schouler Williams, June 7, 1905, at Bellows Falls, Vermont. Their children are: Sylvia Hathaway, born March 9, 1906; Margaret, born December 17, 1907; Robert Stevenson, born March 22, 1910; and George Holdrege, Jr., born December 20, 1914. There are five grandchildren, of whom Watson writes, "none better." Robert Stevenson Watson is a member of the Harvard Class of 1932. Watson has three Harvard brothers: Henry Russell Watson, '09; Edward Bowditch Watson, '13; and the late Robert Clifford Watson, '15.
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CHARLES ALFRED WEATHERBY
I WAS born in Hartford, Connecticut, on Christmas day, 1875," writes Weatherby. "Except for three years in Colorado Springs (which I remember as a place where one fell into irrigating ditches and had nose-bleed), I was brought up in East Hartford, then a country village with a hundred-foot wide street shaded by old elms, without electric lights, gas, telephones, sewers, city water plumbing, or pasteurized milk, where one wore a bag of camphor hung about one's neck to fend off contagious disease, and where everybody was definitely more contented than now when they have all the above-mentioned blessings, no trees, a hundred feet of concrete pavement and rows of filling stations.
"I was educated at local private schools, the Hartford High School being then unable to fit for Harvard. I rather think I was the second boy to go to Harvard from Hartford since colonial times, speeded thither by the prediction of an old family friend that I should return a Unitarian and a free-trader. What I did learn was never to despise authority in intellectual matters and never to accept it unquestioned.
"I was an invalid for five years, twice given up by my physi- cian, and was never really rugged thereafter. From this experi- ence I learned that literature, my chief study in college, was for me a poor support in extremis and that science (I had botanized as a hobby ) offered a much firmer foothold.
"I took my first professional job as a botanist at the Gray Herbarium in 1908. I have worked there since, at first intermit- tently, and from 1917 to 1940 regularly, though more or less on part time. I worked in European herbaria in the summers of 1935, 1937, and 1939. I was in Paris with my wife when the sec- ond war began and witnessed the strangely impressive spectacle of a great city in which no one laughed. I retired as curator at the Gray Herbarium in 1940, but by the kindness of the University authorities, retain an honorary association with it. For the rest, I am exercising an old man's privilege of regarding with a jaundiced eye a world which is not behaving as I think it should.
"Life has not treated me too badly. I have a wife who has been
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willing to put up with me for thirty years, and I have had reason- able opportunity to attempt what I most wanted to do. Probably the most 'durable satisfaction' anyone can have is the knowledge that what he did was well done. I wish I could be sure of that, but, anyhow, I have tried. And I can contemplate with something like triumph all the premiums I have saved since 1917 when I was refused life insurance as an impossible risk."
Weatherby is the son of Charles Nathaniel and Grace Weld (Young) Weatherby. He was with our Class four years and was graduated in 1897, summa cum laude. He spent the year follow- ing graduation at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he received an A.M. in 1898. He married Una Lenora Foster, May 16, 1917, at Boston.
He is the author of a number of articles on botany, which have appeared in scientific periodicals. He is a member of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Botanical Society of America; American Society of Plant Taxonomists, of which he was president in 1945, and is now a member of the council; American Fern Society, of which he was secretary from 1914 to 1918, and president from 1943 to 1944; New England Botanical Club, of which he has been librarian since 1930; Society for the Bibliography of Natural His- tory, London; Connecticut Botanical Society, of which he was vice-president from 1910 to 1929; and Torrey Botanical Club.
He has been a member of the International Committee on Nomenclature of Vascular Plants since 1935, and served on the editorial boards of the American Fern Journal, from 1915 to 1940, Rhodora, since 1929, and Brittonia, since 1943.
+ WALTER COATES WEBSTER
W ALTER COATES WEBSTER was born September 24, 1872, at Coatesville, Pennsylvania, the son of Ezra and Gertrude (Coates ) Webster. He died at Larchmont, New York, on April 2, 1938. He came to Harvard after graduating from Haverford College, where he had been prominent in class affairs and in college athletics. He was associated with the Class only during
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1896-97, receiving an A.B. with the Class. He then went into business and until 1910 was manager of the Westinghouse Elec- tric and Manufacturing Company. He became president of the Northampton Portland Cement Company and also president of the Eureka Slate Corporation of California. From 1913 to 1918 he was general manager of the Nichols Copper Company. In 1918 he took charge of alien property confiscated by the govern- ment during the war. Later he became vice-president and direc- tor of the Pearson Syndicate in New York. He was also president of the Otto Coking Company, Incorporated, of New York, and of the Niagara Coke Corporation of Buffalo. At the time of our Fortieth Reunion, he wrote the Secretary that an accident had forced him to retire temporarily.
He married Eva Emma Foster on November 10, 1903, at Lan- caster, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Walter Foster, born May 15, 1905; Marriott Coates, born December 15, 1906; and Bayard, born September 19, 1917.
* EMANUEL LEOPOLD WEIL
E MANUEL LEOPOLD WEIL died on April 21, 1942, at New Orleans, where he was born on February 17, 1871, the son of Leopold and Biena (Mayer) Weil. His primary education was obtained in New Orleans and from there he entered Phillips Exeter Acad- emy. After studying at the Law School for one year as a special student, he entered the College and became a member of our Class. He remained in college only a year, leaving to devote his time to the law.
He returned to New Orleans and developed a very lucrative notarial practice and dealt extensively in real estate and mort- gages. On June 14, 1905, he married Clarice B. Romer at Indian- apolis. She died in May, 1940. There were no children.
Some years ago Weil wrote the Secretary: "I have several times refused nomination for public offices, preferring to remain in private life and practice." In 1911 he was elected one of the supreme officers of the Supreme Lodge, Loyal Order of the Moose of the World.
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* CHRISTOPHER MINOT WELD
C IHRISTOPHER MINOT WELD was born March 30, 1876, at New York City, where he died on January 9, 1936. The son of Francis Minot and Fanny Elizabeth (Bartholomew) Weld, he came to Harvard from the Roxbury Latin School. As an under- graduate he played halfback on the freshman football team and the following year captained the Class eleven. He was for three years a member of the varsity football team. He also belonged to D.K.E. and the Hasty Pudding Club. After graduating magna cum laude in 1897, he was in business in Boston for about a year. During 1899-1900 he was in the Lawrence Scientific School and spent the following year in the Graduate School, taking an S.M. in 1901. At that time Professor Smyth said of him: "One of the finest as to character, industry, competence, and general mental attainment of all the students whom I have had in the mining department."
Weld then began a career in mining engineering which lasted the rest of his life, taking him all over the United States, as well as to Alaska, Cuba, Brazil, Europe, China, Japan, and India. He was a recognized authority on soft coal, iron ore, and natural gas properties. At his death he was senior member of Weld & Liddell, consulting engineers in New York. He belonged to several scien- tific organizations and was at one time vice-president of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. During the first World War he served on the War Mineral Board in Washington, as a mining production expert on manganese.
On December 12, 1910, at New York City, he married Serena Gilman Marshall, who died in 1921. He was survived by his sec- ond wife, the former Grace Van Winkle, whom he married on May 24, 1924, and five children - Serena Marshall (Mrs. Howard A. Blyth), born November 10, 1911; Elizabeth Minot (Mrs. Philip M. Brett), born June 29, 1913; Christopher Minot, Jr., '36, born November 3, 1914; and Julia Winthrope and Penelope (twins), born August 12, 1916.
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FRANCIS MINOT WELD
O' N the day after graduation," writes Francis Weld, "I entered the office of Blodgett, Merritt & Company, investment bank- ers in Boston. In March, 1900, I was transferred to their New York office. On January 1, 1905, I became a partner in the investment banking firm of Moffat & White.
"In the spring of 1907 I travelled in the West. Two years later I went abroad on business. On May 1, 1910, Moffat & White turned into White Weld & Company, in which I am still a general partner. In the '20's I travelled on business in Europe and in South America."
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