ALUMNIANA.

Μέγα νομίζομεν κέρδος, ἐὰν ἀλλήλοις φίλοι γιγνώμεθα.

—Richard F. Souter, '84, is a member of the Junior class in Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, O.

-Rev. JOHN E. BEECHER, '69, of Otisco, has accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church in Byron.

-The Presbyterian Church at Greenport, Long Island, has called to its pastorate Rev. CLEMENT G. MARTIN, '83.

-Prof. GARY M. JONES, '88, lectured before the Y. M. C. A. of Watertown, March 3, on "The Paris Exposition of 1889."

-Since January 1, 1890, JOHN C. MASON, '86, has been a member of the law firm of Carroll, Faser & Mason, Johnstown.

-As Professor of Mathematics in the State Normal School at New Paltz, Prof. GEORGE Griffith, '77, receives a salary of $1,800.

-Utica rejoices in the election of CHARLES H. SEARLE, '69, to its board of school commissioners, by a non-partisan majority of 2,010.

-The parishioners of Rev. Luther A. OstrANDER, '65, in Lyons, have made themselves happy in the right way by adding $200 to their pastor's salary. -Rev. CARROLL L. BATES, '83, has been graduated from the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown, Conn., and is rector of Emmanuel Church at Emporium, Pa.

-President JOHN H. PECK, '59, of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, addressed the students of St. Stephen's College, Armandale, on Tuesday, March 4th.

-Hon. JOHN JAY KNOX, '49, President of the National Bank of the Republic in New York City, has been appointed by President Harrison a member of the Government Assay Commission.

-Rev. GILBERT REID, '79, of Chi-nan-fu, China, reports that about 170 new native members were admitted to the churches in China during the year 1889, and that 1,000 were enrolled as actual inquirers.

-It is announced that Rev. WILLARD K. SPENCER, '75, of Adrian, Mich., will deliver a lecture, on April 8, on The Westminster Assembly," before the Tappan Presbyterian Association of Ann Arbor, Mich.

-The Memorial Hall is indebted to Rev. CHARLES E. ALLISON, '70, of the Dayspring Church in Yonkers, for twenty-five colored illustrations of the costumes worn on state occasions by the officers and students of Oxford University, England. It is a welcome donation.

-Among the prominent educators at the National Superintendents' Convention, held in New York last February, were Hon. DAVID L. KIEHLE, State Superintendent of Schools in Minnesota, and Hon. FRED DICK, '75, State Superintendent of Schools in Colorado.

-The Presbyterian pastor at Clyde, Rev. WILLIAM H. BATES, '65, who delights in Biblical studies, has recently published a clear and careful paper upon "Titus, the Man and the Book," in which he analyzes the character of the author, and the scope of his epistle.

-"The Wonderful Growth of Chicago" is the heading of a highly figurative article in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper by Hon. ANDREW SHUman, '54. lately of the Chicago Evening Journal, who, from the force of habit, keeps on writing, although he has put off the harness of a daily editor.

-The Homiletic Review for March contains the conclusion of "Rhetorical Training for the Pulpit," by Rev. Dr. ANSON J. UPSON, '43, of Glens Falls, and a sermon on "The Inspiration of the Bible," by Rev. Dr. ARTHUR T. PIERSON, '57, with Dr. PIERSON'S graphic sketch of Rev. John McNeill, the Scottish Spurgeon.

-At a meeting of the officers of the Central New York Association of Hamilton Alumni, held at the residence of its president, Hon. WILLIAM M. WHITE, '54, it was resolved that the first annual reunion of the Association be held Tuesday evening, June 3, on the evening preceding the Clark Prize Exhibition. The time is well chosen for securing a large attendance.

-Rev. Dr. RUFUS S. GREEN, '67, for eight years pastor of the Lafayette Street Church, has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, N. J. At a farewell dinner tendered to Dr. Green by ministers of his own and other denominations in Buffalo, words of the highest praise were spoken, and he was commended as a preacher and pastor, whose record would be an enviable chapter in the history of Buffalo.

-There is a renewed interest in New York in the character and career of HENRY W. SHAW, '37, alias "Josh Billings." He is worthy of higher honor than he has yet received as a picturesque and humorous lecturer.

With all his

eccentricities, he was a man of rare good sense and a decided gift for teaching wholesome truths by stratagem. He made the world better by his jokes, and made much money by harmless cacography.

-PAUL DAKIN, '84, belongs to the business firm of DAKIN & WALKER, Tacoma, Washington, where the wonderful improvements of the past season, the thousands of new and substantial buildings, the miles of streets opened and the numerous enterprises established, give promise of yet better things to come.' And in case of illness or accident Dr. IVAN P. BALABANOFF, '84, is there to respond to the call for physician or surgeon.

-The Central Steel Goods Company, of Utica, has been formed, with a capital of $1,000,000. Among its incorporators are BENJAMIN D. GILBERT, ''57, of Clayville; LYNOTT B. ROOT, '64, of Utica, transfer agent; CHARLES S. MILLARD, '66, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Hon. HENRY J. COOKINHAM, '67, of Utica, attorney for the corporation; WILLIAM J. MILLARD, '80, of Clayville, treasurer. The principal office of the company will be in Utica.

-Prof. SAMUEL G. Love, '46, author of a valuable school book on "Industrial Education," has resigned his office as Superintendent of Schools in Jamestown, and will henceforth act as librarian of the Prendergast Library. It is now twenty-five years since Professor Love began the work of organizing the public schools of Jamestown. He can look with satisfaction upon a longer and more honorable career than is vouchsafed to the majority of teachers.

-Miss NELLIE THEODORA DWIGHT, daughter of Hon. THEODORE W. DWIGHT, 40, died very suddenly, Sunday morning, February 23. Appropriate funeral services were conducted Wednesday P. M. by Rev. Dr. T. B. HUDSON,

'51, and Rev. Prof. A. C. HOPKINS, '66, with solo singing by Miss ALICE HUDSON. With words of tender sympathy Professor HOPKINS recalled the lessons so impressively taught by a life of constant suffering, of uncomplaining patience and Christian resignation to the loss of health and nearly all that makes life attractive to the young. The memory of such a life will be a priceless blessing.

-Not long ago DWIGHT H. OLMSTED, '46, of New York city, had occasion to call at the office of Davies & Rapallo, counsel for the Manhattan Railway Co., 32 Nassau street, and was pleasantly surprised to learn from CHARLES A. Gardiner, '80, a member of the firm, that they give constant employment to not less than thirty clerks, or assistants, all of whom have been admitted to the bar, and most of whom are college graduates. Among the Hamilton alumni are FRANK S. BABCOCK, '83, WILLIAM R. PAGE, '84, FRANK D. ALLEN, '85, HARRY B. TOLles, '86, Ward H. GOODENOUGH, '87, Henry J. HEMMENS, '87.

-By the sudden death, March 2, of Mrs. MAY ROSE BACHMAN, wife of Rev. Dr. ROBERT L. BACHMAN, '71, he loses a helpmate whose loving counsel strengthened all his generous purposes. She was devoted to her home. Her children had her tenderest care, and the loss which falls so heavily upon so many is doubly hard to them. In all the organizations of the church in which women take an especially active part, she was looked upon as a leader. The work of the Foreign Missionary Society, of which she was president, deeply interested her, and during the few days preceding her last illness she was busy preparing for the monthly meeting of the society, which she was to have conducted.

-MILTON H. Northrup, '60, of the Syracuse Morning Courier, welcomed the coming of the Hamilton College Glee and Banjo Clubs with this greeting: "A historic college is a magnet that draws to its classes young men of bright gifts and high promise, from far and near. Then comes a selection of the musically gifted, who are drawn together into a musical brotherhood, and are trained to a finished expression in harmony and song. These young men from Hamilton College, with all their passion for music as a recreation, are hardworking students. While lovers of harmless merriment, they are young men to whom life is a serious business, and one who hears them has the pleasure of studying the good influence of music on the character and culture of young men in college."

-Rev. JOSEPH W. HUBBARD, '50, is one of the Princetonian ministers "around whom hovered mirth and frolic," fifty years ago. He writes from Mechanicsville, Iowa: "Last February I was to preach for a friend at Clarence, eleven miles from here. During the recess after the Sunday school, the superintendent said to me, 'I want to introduce to you a friend of mine.' A gray-headed old boy took my hand, and began to say in a measured tone, I had a classmate once, named Hubbard, and he was a big man.' 'Yes,' I replied, and you were S. S. Camp, and I was Joe Hubbard.' Forty years were never bridged over more unexpectedly. I was completely taken aback. I could make no headway with my sermon, until I had lugged in my old classmate and disposed of him."

-Rev. Dr. CHARLES VAN NORDEN, '63, the new president of Elmira College-so runs the report-" takes hold with a vigorous hand, and is already

inspiring the friends of the college with new courage and hope. He has already gained the hearts of the young ladies and the confidence of the Executive Committee. A new and bold step forward has been taken in abolishing the preparatory department. No more new students are to be admitted to it after this year, and in 1893 it is to be entirely dispensed with. This has long been felt to be a clog on the reputation of the college, and a hindrance to its best work, and has been allowed only for pecuniary reasons. Dr. Van Norden shows his

fitness for the presidency by this act, and has faith to believe that by the time the change is completed, the numbers of the students of the college will demand all the room."

—Mr. ROBERT McCullough, '89, now acting-president of the Mission College at Ahmednagar, India, writes a letter, whose Christmas date suggests antipodal contrasts: "The city walls of Ahmednagar, which are about twenty feet high, encompass but very little more land than Clinton contains, and within these walls are packed in little mud houses about 33,000 human beings, and at night all the cattle of all the farmers round about. For here the farmer does not live on his farm, but in the city. Right here, amid this bustle and dirt, are precious souls for whom Christ died, and the missionaries who came before me have fought their way into the very centre, and brushed a clean place for themselves, and have set up the Master's banner. When I came here, a little more than a year ago, I found the missionary in charge of this work, Rev. James Smith, so thoroughly worn out that his voice was almost gone. Last July he was compelled to leave Bombay for his home in Toronto, Canada. other missionary connected with this institution, I have had to lead the workers. Perhaps no mission field furnishes more hindrances than India. But often these hindrances and difficulties are means of bringing blessings. We have at present thirty-five Christian boys in the school. The others are Hindoos, Mohammedans and Parsees. The Christian boys are active and earnest, and give great promise of usefulness hereafter."

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-All who have had the pleasure of sitting under the ministrations of Rev. Dr. JAMES H. ECOB, '69, of Albany, are well aware that in him the artistic instinct is very strongly developed. His sermons are filled with word pictures of natural scenes and phenomena painted with exquisite fidelity and deepest feeling. His love of nature is an absorbing passion, and he has the keenest sympathy with her various moods. But few, save his intimate friends, have been aware that his art instincts have found expression in any other form than word pictures. Dr. Ecob is, however, an artist of unusual gifts with brush and pigHe has painted many beautiful landscapes, which the public never have had the pleasure of seeing. A charming canvas from his easel now at Annesley's gallery, in Albany, has attracted a great deal of attention. It gives a sure indication that Dr. Ecob could have secured an enviable degree of fame had he chosen art as his profession. The picture is called "An October Morning at Kennebunkport,” and is a study of the coast scenery of Maine, which the artist loves so well. It represents a low, bleak bluff, jutting out into the ocean and washed by an angry sea, creaming into breakers and dashing high in spray over half-submerged rocks at its base. The tone of the picture is admirable. The sky is a cold October gray, completely shutting out the sun and thus sub

duing the colors into the most perfect harmony with the subject. The water is very clear and translucent and the cresting waves are painted with a wonderful freedom. The bluff, at the seaward side, is cracked and seamed by the storms of a thousand years, while toward the land it slopes away for a rod or two. This is covered with a thin, poor soil, bearing at the crest a scrubby bush, and elsewhere carpeted with a straggling furse that only emphasizes the desolation of the scene. A few artists of note have seen the picture and all unite in declaring that it is creditable to the highest degree.

NECROLOGY.

CLASS OF 1832.

PHILEMON BLISS, second son of ASAHEL and Lydia [Griswold] Bliss, was born in North Canton, Hartford county, Connecticut, July 28, 1813. The father, a teacher and farmer, was a descendant of the original Puritans from England, and the mother was an English woman whose ancestors were among the first settlers of this country. In 1831 the family moved to New York and here at Oneida Institute and Hamilton College, the subject of this sketch received his more advanced education. In the spring of 1833, he entered the law office of Theodore Sill, to prepare himself for the legal profession. But he was menaced with the bronchial affection that always troubled him, and after one year's study he was directed by his physician to seek some more favorable climate; at this time he spent a few years traveling. He occasionally taught school and for a while engaged in a land office at Elyria, Ohio. He resumed the practice of law in 1841 and continued to practice with fair success for several years.

In 1848 he was elected by the legislature of Ohio judge of the fourteenth judicial circuit of the state; this office he filled until elected to congress in 1854. from the fourteenth congressional district of Ohio, to which position he was again elected in 1856. For the purpose of seeking a dryer climate, in 1861 he accepted the position of chief justice of Dakota territory, and left his home at Elyria for the plains. His health gradually improved, but being dissatisfied with his new home he determined to seek a more lively field. In 1863 he went to St. Joseph and in 1868 was elected to the bench of the supreme court of Missouri, drawing a four years' term. Shortly before its termination the curators of the university established a department of law in this institution and elected him its professor and dean of the law faculty, which position he held at the time of his death. He died August 25, 1889, at St. Paul, Minn., where he was spending the summer. His interment was in the cemetery at Columbia, Mo. Judge Bliss was married in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 16, 1843, to Miss Martha W. Tharp. Three children survive him, William H. Bliss, Edwin W. Bliss and Mrs. Florence Bliss Lyon, who, since the death of her husband, has made her home in Columbia with her father.

CLASS OF 1841.

Rev. LUTHER CONKLIN was born in East Aurora, Erie county, N. Y., March 29, 1817. He was the sixth in descent from Ananias Conklin, who, with his brother John Conklin, came from England about 1640, and settled first in Massachusetts for ten years, and then at Easthampton, Long Island. In a burial