1868 1869 / Chrono 12/19 1870 -C. Dorr buys "oldForm" of Pres Elist property - GBD first ames to B.H. in 868 (9/9/44 ) se Hadley - Travel to MDI Diotaphone - Sunday May 21, 1939. The summer of 1868 was the first that steamboat service reached Bar HArbor, and then 1t was only once a week. The 11ne wau that of Portland to Eastport, whose boats left Portland in the early ovening twice a week, stopping from Rookland on which It reached in the early morning, at various parts along the way where there was freight to get or leave on the way down or upo There was then no railroad reaching the eastern befond and there was oonsi derable freight a11 along the fine, the boats stopping half an hour or three quarters of an hour oven at a single port loading and unloading. Passenger service till that time was incidental ainly to freight which bore the steep expense of operation and paid the dividends. Searsport, where the Bangor and Aroostook railroad now terminates, I refall and Buoksport where the Penobsoot enters upon Ponbosoot Bay, and Castine I remember well, and no doubt there were others. Between Castine and Southwest Harbor, where the steamer from the first stopped on these trips, there was Deer Isle. T111 1868 to reach Bar Harbor one got off at Southwest Harbor and took stage, a two-horse, covered wagon, open at the side with seats across, and had a ride of 16 miles through Somesville, the horses toiling patiently over the rough roads and long, steep hills. And so one did if one came, as mymother At once did I remember in that summer of 1868, on the steamboat other than the one that put into/phone Bar Harbor on its b1-weekly trip. But the summer visitor business to Bar Harbor was growing, growing rapidly, and for the next year DO that of 1869 and from that time on unt11 the railroad line was built from Bangor to the Ferry at the head of Frenchmans Bay the Portland steamer Koox in regularly on both trips and it became one of the events of the season to go down and watch the summer visitors como off the boat and be weloomed by their friends And who had come earlier. Then the soene with the newoomers in their gay summer clothes, dressed for the occasion, and all their trunks and other baggage unloading on the pier and loading onto **/ baggage waggons sont down by the various hotels, growing bigger and bigger every year, made 1t a gay and entertaining scene. Then, though railroads ran nearer to Mt. Desert Island than Bangor, it was by that way that my father And/ who had heard of the beauty of the place from old friends and neighbors at Jamaica Plaind, the Minots and the Wells and others, started to bring us down, ooming to Bangor dusty Qido, but so heard such accounts_at the Bangor or the good and absence of accommodations at Bar ho took us off Instead to the White Mountains and on to Canada from Waloh trip I remember well rurining in toamboat the Tamousa Lachino Rapid whose name was given them Champlain (look up) because he thought on reaching them that the TRY up led by the mush sought northern route to China. Thenoo we went on m Bomo way that I do not now reoall to Burlington and up the lake by steamboat next day and into Adirondacks reaching first where all as yet and VOST wild and primitive. What I remember best of the Adirondaol the guides LD a wonderful canoo trip we made up the Raquetto Rivor, carrying our canoes over from a nearby lake to a forest trail and launching thom XP/16/16/ for a long battle upstream. The river was dark & full and narrow between wooded banks! We passed no buildings non any sign or man, The trees, deoiduous trees I remember, dark overgreens ovorhung the banks. Whither we went I do not now reoall nor IVEK had I ony knowledge oven then at the time allont where the dark, stream was flowing to. It stands out a pioture in may mind, Another momory that comes back to me is that of paddling out at dusk on some lake and hearing wild laughter of the loons and the occasional WH hooting of an owl. These, and Niagara, which we took in as we passed, are my recollections of the summer when wo aimed at Bar Harbor first but failed to reach it The summer when we did come, two years later, was the first people began to buy for summer residence, to secure themselves in the community against a growing future. A11 was then and the cost of land was low, no one dreaming of the height to which it presently would SOEE. It was in the later summer that my father bought, then but 6 or 7 sites in all had been taken, barring two or three in the field opposite the first hotel, the Agamont House, where people previous had pitched their tents and camped, getting their meals at the primitive 11ttl. hotel, as did later those who bought these lots and had but sleeping rooms and a sitting room in them, developing from the tent idea. Outside the village, purchasing the western, cultivated portion of the Henry Higgins tract, extending down to Compass Harbor, was among the first. Dict-list Dictaphone. 19- August 5th. C 2 - Travels That whole summer's journey, coming when it did at the end of boyhood and reading had made me ripe for new experience, widened my horizon and gave me of realism the background for much future reading. It sketched No in the background for much historic reading, partly mains 1868*77 chirden my own, partly with my father for whom the past held Earr always a great interest. His interest rather in the fact of history; mine rather as I grew older in its causes and its meaning. He read XXXX/ aloud admirably and delighted in reading to us, my brother and myself, such things as he enjoyed himself for their poetry or humor. So it was a great boon to me that we were together on our trip that summer, sharing in the interest of what we saw. What the summer did for me, brief vacation period though it was, was to start me on lines of reading and thinking and questioning which reached to the ever- man's widening limits of knowledge of himself and of his past and of the world he lives in. I was fifteen * 1568-69 at that time and had been a wide reader all my life, making others read to me type/before I could read myself.- fairy stories X, tales of imagination 2. and t ales of adventure, clean and wholesome stories all, ,according to my understanding of them. How truly, I began to ask myself did they interrupt life? And my answer after a long lifetime is that they interrupt man truly if not the world he lives in. That is, they interrupted as something other than Reference & give a mechanism dealing with a world of fact; they interrupt him as a being compact of imagination, rich in heroic possibilities not limited by our its present knowledge. On the other hand, they picture him as living in a world defined by laws we only dimly understand and controlled by necessities we cannot alter for they are part of oun existence and all existent. To discover these is the true goal of history, as it is of science. And all that is beautiful and good is as much a part of that existence as what worked to our unhappiness. There is a spiritual guide to life we cannot fathom and we cannot limit. And as it is infinite like all existence, no boundaries can be certain. 12/30/38. "The earliest gardens 4pp.or or English garden Remember Dickson Mount Desert Ferry. Ferry Running down by train to the Ferry and taking a fast and comfortable steamboat acros 8 the Bay, they made a slow trip by waiting for the freight the train had brought and passengers' baggage to be taken on board, was a beautiful in summer experience/and made a splendid approach to Bar Harbor, but at other seasons it was less pleasant. Then Sorrento was included in the trip, both coming and going, and there was delay there also over freight. In zero weather ice collected in the upper bay and the steamer at times had to butt its way slowly through it, and the only comfortable moment for the passenger was when, after a night of travel, as hot breakfast of coffee and fried eggs was served from the galley on the lower deck, with johnny cake at times. Maintaining this steamer service, was expensive to the rail- road, accidents barred, which was thankful when the opportunity came to substitute for it service by bus and truck over a good motor road and a good bridge across the Narrows, over which all tolls had been given up. Accidents, too, were possible and costly. The first was when the slip at the Ferry gave way and let the passengers of a local excursion train, crowded upon it, down into the sea with much loss of life. The second, though it might have been serious too, had its amusing side. A popular Captain on the run--his name was Dickson but familiarly and affectionately known as Captain Dick --put a new hand on to steer /Ferry -2 at the wheel. The man was nervous over the responsibility and annoyed Captain Dick by asking too frequent questions as to his course. The Captain told him, leaving the Ferry, the course laid out, to steer straight ahead and he would tell him when to change. The man did so, looking at the compass, not where he was going --of which indeed there should have been no need. But Captain Dick, occupied with other matters or engaged perhaps in friendly discourse, forgot to give him his new direction when the moment came to change, and at last he did look up and the die boat was steering straight as a dye for its first objective, which was the lighthouse. He had just time to slightly swerve her course toward the shore before she struck, which sheered her off to safe beaching, though not without injury to the vesselwhich was of new make, built expressly for the Bar Harbor summer season trip. Captain Dick was cashiered for six months but his popularity saved him, and presently he was restored to the service and remained upon it 80 long as boat service across the Bay continued. March 29. Dictaphone None of the mountain names on the Island were old when we came down in 1868. There was no need for them till summer folks came down and began to climb. For the Indians and the early settlers alike they were simply a hunting ground, roamed over by deer and bear. The names given them had no background in local usage or tradition nor interest in themselves and when the Government took over the lands, it was suggested to me that better might be found, relating the Government is new possessi on with the old French occupation of the coast and its early history. And the names given were consulted over and approved at Washington. The early settlers gave excellent descriptive names to all that entered into their life, the seacoast and the offshore harbored waters. Otter Creek; Egg Rock, the sea gulls' home; the Cranberry Island, settled earliest of all for their good boating opportunities; Duck Brook, whose food-bringing waters are the habitat of ducks in winter, where they come down and meet the sea when inland waters all are frozen over; or like Somes Slund they bear the name of early settlers. Hulls cove and Salisbury Cove are other instances. The whole life of the earl comers was connected with the water which gave them the opportunity for trade and connection with the eariler settled regions whence they came. And in none of these old names has any change been made or thought of. They tell their own story and are interesting. The whole Island formed originally a single township, the township of Mount Desert. The principal settlements in it were Somesville and Southwest Harbor but scattered groups were collected as new settlers came around the various harbors where coastal vessels could put in, bring goods and load with lumber. One such was Northeast Harbor, the sito of an early Indian settlement; others on the eastern side of the Island were Salisbury Cove, Hulls Cove and Bar Harbor. After the end of the French occupation in 1759, with the fall of Louisburg in Cape Breton and Quebec in the following year, settlers from the Province of Massachusetts Bay came gradually drifting down, approaching from the west and when deeds were drawn it was the western side of the Island facing toward Penobscot Bay that became, in legal description, the Island's front. As new settlers came, the towns were organized, the Town of Eden was laid out, defined by a line drawn from the head of Otter Creek straight by the compass aoross the lakes and mountains to include the Island's western side and the shore beyond it, nearly one half of the Island. 2. Town meetings then were held at Salisbury Cove, as central to the Town and this was the state of things when we first came in 1868-69, when Bar Harbor, growing rapidly, the Town offices were established there, not without opposition, and Town meetings held. From the remainder of the original township the fishing communities collected at Southwest Harbor, so named from the shelter it afforded from southwest winds, and Tremont were set off. And because of its prosperous fishing industries and extensive harbor Southwest Harbor became the chief settlement of the Island, at which, when steamboat lines were organized, the steamer touched, bringing freight and carrying away loads of salted fish. That, too, was the state of things until 1868 when, with the growing summer visitor business the Portland to Eastport coasting steamers first included Bar Herbor in their route. By land Mount Desert Island was then reached by stage from Bangor with stops upon the way at the tavern by Phillips Lake and at Ellsworth, the county seat, which at that time was a prosperous lumbering industry, the sea reaching it for coastal schooners, mill power provided by the falls above, and lumber available from the whole Union River Basin. Dictaphone March 29 The name, The Flying Squadron, bears the impress of the time when the Government received the tract, July 8, 1916. It tells of the volunteer group of flyers, the Lafayette Escadrille, who offered the ir lives to France, before the United S+ ates had entered on the World War; and of those who enlisted afterward for service in the Flying Squadron of the nation, all doing dangerous and splendid work in t hat new and untried field. And in my thought it was reminiscent, too, of the flight of the Valkyrie Maiden to the top of a mountain cliff in Wagner's magnificent opera. It was an addition of highest interest to our growing mountain chaim, uniting into a single mass its noblest group of mountains on the island, which were to form the nucleus for the future national park. Its acquisition shows in the first chapter in my story. 1. June 14. In the history of its land-titles, Oldfarm goes back to the first days of occupation of the Acadian ooast by settlers from the English colonies, sailing down from western ports to make new homes for themselves along the shores of the former French Province of Acadia. Mount Desert Island, situated on the constantly embattled coastal border between the French and English colonies, Aoadia and Massachusetts Bay, was thrice convoyed in gift, once by the Province of Quebec, so t of Government of the French Dominion in America, to Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a gentleman of anoient lineage from Gasoony in So thwestern France, who was then sorving as an officer in Acadia, the' grant of the Province boing con- firmed to him soon after, ona return to Paris, by Louis the Fourteenth; again, after the fall of the French dominion in America, to Sir Francis Bernard, last Colonial Governor of English birth of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose title was similarly confirmed to him by George the Third; and finally, after the Revolutionary War, by the State of Massachusetts, now acting in its own right as a sovereign state, to the heirs of these two previous grantees. To the granddaughterrof Cadillac 2 June 14. and her husband, M. and Mme. de Gregoire, refugees from France at the o commencement of the French Revolution, the General Court of Massachusetts gave the eastern half; to John Bernard, son of Sir Franois, the western half, sending down two surveyors -- Salem Towne and John Peters to make division and to except from the grant such tracts as they might find already taken up and hold by !squatters right'. This division was made up the deeply penetrating fiord of Somes Sound and thenoo northward to the Narrows. John Bernard mortgaged his portion and went to England, where bter he appears as receiving the Crown, in acknowledg- ment of his father's services, the Governorship of one of the lesser West Indies, where he thereafter lived and died, the de Gregoires came down to Mount Desert and lived upon their grant, building themselves a house at Hulls Cove on Frenchmans Bay and selling off their lands, tract by tract, as settlers came down and sought them and the good title which they carriod. 3. June 14 Among the first traots sold was that containing the of the present Oldfarm, valuable especially in those day of lumbering for its good harbor on the shore. Like all the grants and conveyances of. that time the tract, containing a roughly estimated one hundred acres, extended b ack a measured milo from the shore, bounded by two parallel lines and a third line drawn at right angles to them. 7. 10 -- By warranty deed dated September 1st, 1868 and recorded September 4th, 1868 in Vol. 131, page 314, Henry H. Clark conveyed to Charles H. Dorr and Thornton K. Lothrop a lot of land described as follows: "A certain lot or parcel of land situated in the town of Eden, County and State aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows, to wit; A lot of land lying in the neighborhood of Bar Harbor and known as the Zacheus Higgins lot and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake and stone at the shore, running South 150 West following the Conners line three hundred and forty-seven rods; thence South seventy five degrees East twenty-five rods; thence North fifteen degrees East to a stake and thence to the shore; thence following the shore to the first mentioned bounds, containing forty-six acres more or less. Said lot is to be twenty-five rods wide and no more, measuring Southeasterly from Conners line square across the lot; the stake and stone at which the boundary of the premises begins, is situated on the Northerly shore of the cove and the above boundaries include the Southern side and landing of the cove." 11 -- By special warranty deed dated July 19th, 1875 and recorded November 12th, 1875, in Vol. 153, Page 268, Thornton K. Lothrop conveyed his part of the same to Charles H. Dorr. [Note: See Old farm files] - IV - Detailed History of Dean Higgins lot. 1 -- As stated above the DeGregoires in 1792 conveyed to Henry Higgins a hundred acre lot marked on the old plans John Cousins lot. 3. The Narrows, separating Mount Desert Island from the mainland, first crossed on horseback only when the tido was out, were crossed, from the early eighteenth century on, by a rickety wooden bridge, with a draw for sailing vessels and a toll taken, and this was not replaced till after the World War when the state took it over and a free bridge, a memorial to those who fell in the World War, was built, at the expense of Town and County. The road over this, starting from the State capital at Augusta and passing along the Island's northern shore through Salisbury Covo and Hulls Cove to Bar Harbor where the Federal Government postoffice and oustoms house for the Island are established, contin- ues on thence as a state highway still through the Gorge to Otter Creek, Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor where it ends, is the most important road upon the Island, passing through its primcipal summer resident commun- ities, well built for motor traffic and much used. It has two sections of great beauty upon it -- the one where it crosses the Bluffs from Hulls Cove to Bar Harbor and the other where it turns, with a bold sweep into the gorge, at the outflow from the Tarn. Dict List Dictaphone. 19- August 5th. That whole summer's journey, coming when it did at the end of boyhood and reading had made me ripe SERVICE for new experience, widened my horizon and gave me the background for much future reading. It sketched No in the background for much historic reading, partly Cherdes 1868 my own, partly with my father for whom the past held Dorr always a great interest. His interest rather in the fact of history; mine rather as I grew older in its causes and its meaning. He read XXXX/ aloud admirably and delighted in reading to us, my brother and myself, such things as he enjoyed himself for their poetry or humor. So it was a great boon to me that we were together on our trip that summer, sharing in the interest of what we saw. What the summer did for me, brief vacation period though it was, was to start me on lines of reading and thinking and questioning which reached to the ever- man's widening limits of knowledge of himself and of his past and of the world he lives in. I was fifteen at that time and had been a wide reader all my life, making others read to me exem/before I could read myself.- fairy stories x, tales of imagination 2. and t ales of adventure, clean and wholesome stories all, according to my understanding of them. How truly, I began to ask myself did they interrupt life? And my answer after a long lifetime is that they interrupt man truly if not the world he lives in. 8 ONN That is, they interrupted as something other than a mechanism dealing with a world of fact; they interrupt him as a being compact of imagination, rich in heroic possibilities not limited by our its present knowledge. On the other hand, they picture him as living in a world defined by laws we only dimly understand and controlled by necessities we cannot alter for they are part of own existence and all existent. To discover these is the true goal of history, as it is of science. And all that is bea tiful and good is as much a part of that existence as what worked to our unhappiness. There is a spiritual guide to life we cannot fathom and we cannot limit. And as it is infinite like all existence, no boundaries can be certain. 12/30/38. "The earliest gardens 4pp.o or English garden ARA/CP/R6791 UNITED STATES CCF, 1933-49/Accident Box 794 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONA PARK SERVICE PARK c.2 CEP 11 1944 Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine 1868 MARSING FLES September 9, 1944 MEMORANDUM for the Director. I present the monthly report for Acadia for August 1944. Weather Conditions August was a hot dry month. Rainfall amounted to only 0.74 inches. The mean maximum tempe rature was 81.4 degrees, the highest of record since records have been kept in the park. For five con- secutive days, 11th to the 15th, the maximum temperature stood at 94, a most unusual record for these parts. Gardens and lawns suffered great drought damage. Serious forest fires raged on the mainland ad- jacent to Mt. Desert Island, Hancock County alone suffering the loss of nearly 10,000 acres of timberland. Fortunately the park escaped with but two very minor woods fires, the details of which will be found at the appropriate point in this report. The weather summary: Temperature Mean maximum 81.4 Mean minimum 56.4 Mean 68.9 Maximum 94 on the 11-12-13-14-15 Minimum 46 " is 9-27 Precipitation Rainfall 0.74 inches Number of days Clear 25; Partly Cloudy 3; Cloudy 3. IRE79/CCF, 1933-49/Roadec, Box 794. dislates SPECIAL 12 as "or ever the silver cord be loosed "1 On the morning of August 5, the immortal spirit of George Bucknam Dorr returned unto God, who gave it. So was closed the earthly pilgrimage of a really great man, the creator of Acadia National Park, its first, and at his death, its THAT only Superintendent. He labored intensely to bring the park into being, he nurtured it tenderly once it became real, he saw it increase in stature, and he left it a monument to his work of nearly a lifetime. He died as he lived, quietly and with great expectations for the future. Funeral services were held in St. Saviour's Episcopal Church on Monday, October 7, and were largely attended by friends and townsfolk. As a mark of respect business places in town were closed for an hour. In accordance with directions given during his lifetime, the remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered in a woodland glade on the Oldfarm property. George B. Dorr was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., December 29, 1853, the second son of Charles Hazen and Mary Gray (Ward) Dorr. His ancestors on both sides of the family were prominent in the civic and commercial life of the Massachusetts Bay region from the beginning of its settlement. He was seven years old at the outbreak of the War between the States, and eleven at its close. He was eighteen at the time of the Great Boston Fire in 1872, and told very interestingly of watching its progress and destruction of property. He was forty years old at the time of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, and visited Chicago to see its wonders. At fifty he was entering actively upon the establishment of Acadia National Park, although through reading and travel he had been, unconsciously perhaps, preparing himself for that work. At sixty-five he saw his park efforts crowned when Congress enacted legislation which established Lafayette National Park. Following his arrival at the seventy-second year of his age he was annually named in law as the Superintendent of the park. He first came to Bar Harbor with his parents in 1868, when the village was first becoming known as a summer resort. The family was accommodated at the only boarding house in the village which was crowded to the eaves with summer folk. Those not able to get into the house were quartered in tents in the adjacent field. From 1868 to 1879 the family spent their summers, when not abroad, in Bar Harbor, and in the latter years, having bought the land previously, began construction of Oldfarm, into which they moved in 1881. VARA/CP/RE79/CCF, 1933-49/Aealia Sex 794 V.T.HPY Oldfarm was a place of great hospitality. Beneath its rooftree have slept the great and near great of America and Europe: The "autocrat of the Breakfast Table", Oliver Wendell Holmes; Sir William and Lady Osler; James, Lord Bryce; writers, preachers, a veritable cross section of contemporary professional, political and social life of a day now gone. He travelled much. on his first trip to Europe he left Boston in a side-wheel steamer, which when the harbor was cleared, spread sails to wind to increase the speed beyond that capable of being made by steam alone. Egypt, the Nile Valley, Italy, Greece, Palestine, France, Germany and England became, over the years, familiar ground. In America he visited east, west and south, covering the ground leisurely on foot, bicycle and horseback, absorbing to the full the history, customs and products of the places visited, thereby gaining the back- ground for his later work in creating the national park on Mount Desert Island. He was a cultured gentleman, thoroughly versed in the classics, in history and in science. His formal education was gained at Harvard, from which he graduated in 1874. From time to time he did further work at the University, interesting himself particularly in philosophy. For Question bornshear 11 a time he was Chairman of the Visiting Committee on Philosophy, and was intimately associated with William James in committee work. But his real education was acquired from reading, travel and contact with the scientific and social life of his time. Here, apart from his park work, he found his greatest delight and took his greatest reward. He was impatient with pretense and shallowness, but full of admiration for soundness and real worth. His wide range of knowledge was readily deligit accessible to any who sincerely sought it but he gave short shift to those who sought from more politeness or sheer zuriosity. He was one of the few remaining members of the so-called "gas- light era" of society, as well as of the old "Boston aristocracy". Strong willed, arrogant, impatient with the little conventions, he was nevertheless a gentleman, a scholar, a kindly advisor and wholeheartedly generous. We who knew him so well miss the cheery twinkle of his eye and his unfailing courtesy on all occasions. Though he is gone, his works shall follow him. Status of Private Lands On August 1 a conference was held in Bangor, Maine, with Mr. Richard Bowditch of Boston concerning a further gift of land on Isle au Haut, Maine, to consolidate and extend the area already in park ownership on that Island. 3 ACADIA NATIONAL PARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY 37 Significant dates in the history of MDI and Acadia 1529 - Diego Ribero, a Portuguese mariner, February 26, 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson 1947 - About 8,700 acres of the park's east side named Somes Sound Rio de las Montanas. This is signed a bill making Sieur de Monts National and many summer cottages were wiped out by a the first known written mention of Mt. Desert Monument a national park. Called Lafayette disastrous fire. Island. National Park, the park was the first national park 1954 - One million visitors recorded. September 1604 - Samuel de Champlain, a car- east of the Mississippi, and it was the only park 1960 - John D. Rockefeller died. His gifts to tographer-recorder sent on an expedition by the made up entirely of private gifts. Dorr became the Acadia included 57 miles of carriage trails, 17 stone lieutenant general of New France, Sieur de Monts, first superintendent at a salary of $1 per month. bridges, two gatehouses and approximately 15,000 described and identified Mt. Desert as an island Fall 1929 - Congress changed the name to acres of land. and named it L'Isle des Monts-deserts. Acadia National Park, derived from the French 1966 - Two million visitors recorded. 1613 - A colony of French Jesuils attempt first name for much of northeastern North America. 1971 - The non-profit organization, the Maine permanent settlement at St. Sauveur located on 1929 - A 2,000-acre area on Schoodic Peninsula Coast Heritage Trust of Bar Harbor, was founded Fernald's Point at the mouth of Somes Sound. The was acquired for the park from a pro-British family to encourage long-term protection of Maine islands colonists were welcomed by the local Indians, but that had hoped the park's name would be changed and other properties. the colony was wiped out by the British. This began to Acadia, as it was. June 21, 1979 - Jordan Pond House was a long period of conflict between the French and 1931 - Cadillac Mountain road completed. destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt with local contri- British for control of northeastern North America. 1932 - With a donation from John D. Rockefeller butions within two years. 1759 - The British defeated the French forces at Jr., Jordan Pond and Northeast Harbor gatehouses 1980 Just under 4 million visitors recorded. Quebec, and Maine became British territory. were completed. 1986 - After years of local debate and negotia- 1761 - Abraham Somes of Gloucester, sailing up August 5, 1944 - George B. Dorr died at the age of tion, Congress passed legislation establishing lim- from Gloucester for a cargo of staves, so liked the 91. Dorr is remembered as the father of Acadia its on how much land Acadia can acquire in sur- area he moved here and settled Somesville, the old- National Park. rounding communities. est town on Mt. Desert Island. 1837 - First bridge was erected connecting Mt. Desert Island and the mainland. 1840s and 1850s First summer visitors, mostly scientists, artists and novelists, came to Mt. Desert Island. 1868 - Steamboat service started running between Boston and Mt. Desert Island. Island House, the first hotel, was built near the steamboat wharf in Southwest Harbor. Other hotels followed in Bar Harbor. 1880s - Land speculation boomed on Mt. Desert Island as Bar Harbor became a popular summer spot for wealthy summer "rusticators" from Eastern cities. 1895 - The Jordan Pond House, a tea house on Jordan Pond which is now in the park, was built by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McIntire. 1901 - Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations was organized by a few of the island's leading summer people to acquire and pre- serve the island's beautiful landscapes. George George B. Dorr rushed into Bar Harbor to buy the land around Sieur de Monts Spring minutes before his option Dorr was named the first executive officer. Other on the property was set to expire. A group of developers were standing by at the Village Green with cash in members included Harvard University President hand, ready to take over the option. This ceremony at the picturesque spring took place sometime around the Charles Eliot, George Stebbins and Lea Luquer. turn of the century. Today Sieur de Monts is the site of the Abbe Museum, which houses a collection of Native Jan. 1, Maine State Legislature granted the American artifacts from the area, and Wild Gardens of Acadia. ACADIA NATIONAL PARK COLLECTION trustees a charter making it a tax-exempt corpora- tion whose purpose was "to acquire, by device, gift or purchase, and to own, arrange, hold, maintain, or improve for public use lands in Hancock This group watches over Acadia County, Maine, which by reason of scenic beauty, ost parks and historical sites have the park administration. historical interest, sanitary advantage, or other like M groups that support their programs. This year the Friends helped persuade the federal reasons may become available for such purpose." Friends of Acadia has been doing this government to commit to raising half the money Land on the summit overlooking Jordan Pond and in Acadia National Park since the necessary to restore John D. Rockefeller's carriage a tract near Seal Harbor were the first two parcels group was founded in 1986. roads and create an endowment for their perpetual given to the Trustees. The group's mission is to help protect and pre- care. The group also has helped establish an Acadia 1908 - The Beehive and the Bowl marked the serve the park. That has meant working with the Youth Conservation Corps to work in the park. Trustees' first significant acquisitions. Cadillac Congressional delegation to boost the park's bud- For more information about the group, write: Mountain (then called Green Mountain) and Sieur get. organizing volunteer work crews to restore Friends of Acadia, P.O. Box 725, Bar Harbor, ME., de Monts Spring were added next. trails and roads, and monitoring actions taken by 04609, or call (207) 288-3340. January 1913 - Legislative lobbyists questioned the tax-exempt status of the Trustees. This sparked George Dorr's quest to establish a national reserve. The Trustees owned about 5,000 acres on Mt. Desert Island. Recycling in the park March 4, 1913 - George Dorr arrived in Washington, D.C. to start his fight to save the cadia National Park glass, 2,387 pounds of plastic the park again this summer in future park. A was one of five parks and 2,006 pounds of aluminum. almost all the frequently visited 1915 - Automobiles were allowed on all of Mt. nationwide chosen Coastal Disposal, a Southwest locations. Bins also have been Desert Island after a bitter battle between residents last year for a pilot Harbor company, collects the placed in island towns - in Bar who wanted to preserve peace and quiet on the recycling program sponsored by material from the bins and trans- Harbor they are on the pier, in island and those who favored automobiles. Cars Dow Chemical Co. and ports it to Augusta where it is front of the First National Bank; were allowed in Bar Harbor in 1913. Huntsman Chemical Co. separated and sold to manufac- in Mt. Desert, they are at the July 8, 1916 - Sieur de Monts National About 130 big plastic bins turers. Somesville fire Station and at the Monument was signed into law by President were placed throughout the park From July to December about Parkman Mountain Parking Woodrow Wilson. George Dorr was named first last summer and in several 11 percent of the total annual Area in Northeast Harbor. custodian of the monument. island communities. By the end waste from Acadia was recycled, Material does not need to be 1917-1940 - John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed the of August, more than 24,478 according to Dow officials, who separated when it is placed in design, construction and maintenance of the car- pounds of recyclables had been hope to reach 20 percent his year. the bins, but should not be heav- riage road system. collected - 20,085 pounds of The bins have been placed in ily contaminated by food. (December 26) 2. And, as for my parents it was a fulfilment of interests and desires whose origin went back to childhood, so with me, then just grown to manhood, it was the beginning of interests and studies that were never thenceforth to cease or lose their hold upon me. I became deeply in- terested in the period of the Reformation and the people who took part in it, in the things they believed and the ovils they sought to correct, an interest which led mo on the one hand into the realms of philosophy and on the other into those of religion and the foundation that it rested on. I became interested in nature, too, the development of 11fo and the development of landscape. In this my interest was first aroused to conscious life 1875 brother when and I made our first triptogether four years before, in 1871, to join our parents on the Rhine and travel at leisure through Switzerland, its high mountain passes and its lakes. In this Kr. Hugh Davids, my father's and mother's friend with whom and whose family we travelled, was a great help, for he was a real artist whose sketches were an inspiration. He left me with the desire which stayed with mo for years, to become myself a landscape painter. Such a desire was .in my mother's family, coming from what far-off ancestor I do not know but clearly marked and strong in two of my mother's brothers and equally in her. It is the one thing in life that takes one into pleasant places and makes one alive to Monday, February 12, 1940. It was my father's purchase of this old farm whi oh Henry Higgins had sailed Himself down with his family from Cape Cop to build a century before on the yet wild shore of Frenchmans Bay with its mountain lands and wood- lands, its safe little harbor facing north on Frenchmans Bay, its pleasant site for building on and good land for cultivation, that oddly enough became as the years went by the foundation stone from which, as a starting point, Acadia National Park has risen. And it is to tell of how this came about step by step that I am writing this today. All from the beginning flowed on consecutively through various channels but with the end undreamt of till the last to the establishment of a unique and striking monument to a chapter, great in its consequences, in world the history: the struggle and its issue between great colonizing powers of France and England for the control of North America. fateful The historian who has made that contest peculiarly his own, Francis Parkman, came down for years with President Eliot and his sons, sailing himself down with his boys aid, to camp on Calf Island in Frenchmans Bay and Parkman took the opportunity President Ellot offered to s al 1 down with them and gather material for his work. One of the lesser but boldest and most outstanding of the mountains in the Island chain was named by the Government on its Acceptance of the Impt.: Acadia N.P. origins rooted in Anglo-Frozel Contest for control of america On Eliot ps. 4 (Fobruary ES 1940) Siour de Monta National Monument which preceded Acadia National Park, in his honor at President Eliot's request. is Had the French after the death of Henry IV, Henry of Navarre, their great warrior king, hold on to what his early enterprise had won, Acadia and the river of Canada the St. Lawrence -- with the great lakes beyond and the vast, fortile central region, by the Mississippi. from the lakes southward to the Gulf of Mexico, be retained which by them,/ they might easily have done had they but devoted a fraction of the wealth to it which they wasted in fruitlers wars upon the continent of Europe, the whole course of history would have been altered and, barring a strip along its eastern coast east of the Appalachian chain, might have ruled and developed & land far greater than their own and made themselves by means of it the greatest of world powers. Such territory they did own in the time of Gadialao, first owner of Mount Desert Island, by the gift of Louis XIV, builder under Fontenac of the city that controlled the states, Detroit, as the name relates, and later yet, during his last years, governor of Louisiana, named for the king, which included then the whole great valley of the Mississippi So flow, checked and altored by what seemed to us afterward small causes, obstaoles that might with foresight have been roadily overoomo, the streams of history. In this struggle, whose issues were to be 80 great, neither side received but little help from their home government. It was the greater 3. energy of the English colonists strung along the Atlantic coast and derived from their greater independence in religion and self-government, which prevailed. A historic of great moment to the future is that of the causes which produce that greater energy, skown alike by the English Puritane and the French Huguenots who, XX had they come in greater numbers to these shores, fleeing from would France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, do have made themselves assuredly one of the greatest forces in America as what has been accomplished racially by those who did come and develop their initiative in freedom amply shows. And so too with the Dutch in constrast to to the Belgians. They were the same stock originally, the a virile race from the time of Caesar down, who had trouble in their conquest, never completely achieved. Freedom, religious and civil, giving scope to enterprise, made the difference at the time when the Notherlands were ruled by Spain, narrowest and most bigoted of mediaeval and later powers. That the Moors in their higher civiligation with failed to hold their own in their contest Paragon and Castille has ever seemed to me one of the tragedies of history. It also shows that other than racial causes lie at the root of the groat development men have made here and there throughout the course of history and that the capacity of man for development 11e8 far ahead evon at the best of his achievements. (February 112, 1940) with President Eliot, then at the beginning of his long career at Harvard, came besides Parkman the Presi- donts two sons, the older of whom, Charles Eliot, full of public spirit, was making himself what promised to be a great career in his chosen profession of landscape art when, still young, he died. And it was in memory of him who had conceived and brought about The Tunstees of Public Reservations for the State of Massachusetts that President Eliot proposed, ten years after his son's death, a similar organization for Mount Desert Island, widened afterward to Hancook County. And this in turn in which I had taken active interest brought us our first gift, the Bowl and Beehivo at the southern end of what was then known as Newport Mountain now Champlain, given us by Mrs. Charles D. Homans of Boston in memory of her son. And it was this gift, as I have elsewhere told, that made with me a starting point for gathering the land that presently, seizing the opportunity created by an attack in the Maino State Legislature, I made the foundation for Acadia National Park. That Mrs. Homans! came to Bar Harbor and purchased the land she built her home upon and with it the land she gave the Park was due to her brother's ooming earlier with my father at the time my father purchased Oldfarm, and it was there that President Eliot came to toll me of Mrs. Homans' gift. It all ties up togother wonderfully, even to the success I had in gathering lands for Kppp placing in (February 12, 1940) 5. reservation with our Corporation which caused the attack tipon it in the State Legislature which resuated in my con- ceiving the plan, opposed at first by President Eliot as surrendering our control, to the National Government which alone could in pointor fact hold them as it has done. 7/04 Init's Old Farm Land acquis Ann Ola June 1B In the history of its land-title, Oldfarm goes back to the first days of occupation of the Acadian coast by settlers from the English colonies, sailing down from western ports to make new homes for them- selves along the shores of the former French Province of Acadia, Mount Desert Island, situated on the constantly embattled coastal border between the French and English colonies, Acadia and Massachusetts Bay, was thrice con- veyed in gift, once by the Province of Quebec, seat of Government of the French Dominion in America, to Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a gentleman of ancient lineage of Gascony in Southwestern France, an officer then serving in Acadia, the grant from the Province being confirmed to him soon after, on a temporary return to Paris, by Louis the Fourteenth; again, after the fall of the Fronch dominion in Amorica, to Sir Franois Bernard, last Colonial Governor of English birth of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose title was similarly con- firmed by George the Third; and finally, after the Revolutionary War, by the State of Massachusetts, now acting in its own sovereign right, to the heirs of 2. these two former grantees: To the granddaughter of Cadillac and her husband, M. and Mme. de Gregoire, refugees from France at the commencement of the French Revolution, the General Court of Massachusetts gave the eastern half; to John Bernard, son of Sir Francis, the western half, sending down two surveyors -- Salem Towno and John Peters - to make the division and except from the grant such tracts as they might find already taken up and held by 'squatters rights'. This division was made up the deeply penetrating fiord of Somes Sound and thence northward to the Narrows. John Bernard mortgaged his portion and went to England, where later he appears as receiving from the Crown, in acknowledgment of his father's services, the Governorship of one of the lessor West Indies, where he thereafter lived and died; the do Grogoires came down to Mount Desert and lived upon their grant, build- ing themselves a house at Hulls Cove and selling off their lands, tract by tract, as settlers came down and sought them and the good title which they carried. 3. Among the first tbacts sold was that of the present Oldfarm and its continuation southward up the steep-forested side of Champlain Mountain, eastern- most member now of the National Park range, to one Henry Higgins, recorded as purchasing it in 1792. Henry Higgins was born at Eastham on Cape Cod, the son of Israel Higgins who had sailed down with his family from South Truro, on Cape Cod, in 1771 and established himself at Hulls Cove, as it soon after became known. But before its purchase by Henry Higgins, John Cousins, son of Elisha Cousins, who had sailed down yet earlier with his family, from Harpswell on Casoo Bay, casting about as he grew up to see what he best could turn his hand to, had sottled himself in true pioneering fashion, asking no leave of any where there was as yet no owner but the State, on this same tract, with its tall pines and spruces, fit for masts and building, and its good harbor for shipping them off to western markets. Into this work he throw himself with such energy and good result that for generations after, though he never had or claimed a legal title to it, the land remained known as the 'Cousins Lot'. 4. Henry Higgins died early and the tract acquired by him from the de Gregoires passed by inheritance to others, whose names and those of their successors it would be idle to recall; they are all on record. In the summer of 1868, our first at Bar Harbor and the first in which land was bought on Mount Desert Island for summer residence, the eastern portion of the Henry Higgins lot was purchased by my father, Charles Hazen Dorr, and his friend, Thornton K. Lothrop, who had come down with us from Boston to see the new ooastal landscape of whose beauty and pleasantness we all had heard so much. The western portion of the Henry Higgins lot, as it was then divided, had been purchased a few weeks previously by Professor Mahan of West Point, father of Captain A. T. Mahan, a boy then, who became famous a generation later for his writings on the influence of sea power upon history and the fate of nations. Three and a half years later, early in the winter of 1871-172, Professor Mahan died and his widow, on my father's writing her, sold him the land she and her husband had earlier planned to build upon. 1875 Impt. OldFarm builton land purchase from Professor Mohaa 5. This land my father bought from Mrs. Mahan contained in it the doop-soiled, cultivated land of the old farm and two splendid house sites between which, when we came to build, we hesitated, but finally chose -- wisely, I think -- the site the Oldfarm house stands built upon. Finally, in 1875 , when we were making plans to build at Oldfarm the following year, my father acquired from Mr. Lothrop his share in the joint earlier purchase, uniting once again the original one-hundred-aore Henry Higgins lot. The site we chose when we came to build in the autumn of 1878 was the broad, flat top of an ancient sea-cliff whose base had been raised by coastal eleva- tion some forty-odd feet above the present level of the sea, where the waves in their ceaseless activity are now at work on forming a new and lower coast-line. From it one looked out due north across the whole wide stretch of Upper Frenchmans Bay to the Gouldsboro Hills, forming a picture which in the long, slowly-deepening twilight of the northern summer is one of surpassing beauty. 6. The cliff we built on marks the western termination of a line of ancient rocks, hard and contorted and rising beyond Oldfarm into yet higher cliffs, which, continuing eastward to Schooner Head, is the oldest geologic formation on the Island. To the west the cliff we built on descends abruptly to the level of a former sea beach, marked by the surf-piled stones of a sea wall, behind which lay, as in many another spot along the present coast, a salt marsh, now become a fertile meadow-land, across which our Oldfarm house looks out, evening after evening, to the deep-red sunset glow; while to the south the area drops gently away to rise again into the deep-soiled, cultivated lands of the old farm, which extend away, with no house in sight, framed in the distance by the mountains of the National Park. VIA Component Page 1 of 1 Harvard University Library Visual Information Access Surrogate 4 of 42 Bookmark this item Previous I Next Work Title: Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Classification: KX449 (Loeb Library, Harvard Design School) Work Type: squares Production: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Date: n.d. 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New York Times (1857-Current file); Oct 20, 1869; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. 1 HARVARD COLLEGE. a college government in our day is to broaden, rienco seality, only one course is prude 1011, lu memory of the 80118 of Harvard who deepon an invigorate American teaching In all or justillable, whon such great Interests died for their country. The futuro of the Uni branches of learning. It will be generations are at Atalro-that of cautious and well- versity will not be unworthy of its past. before the boat of American Institutions of considered experiment. The practical problem As Mr. ELIOT resumed his annt the choir sang education will get growth enough to boar le to dovise a safe, promising and instructivo ox- Inaugaration of Charles W. Eliot as pruning. The descondents of the Pligrim periment. Such an experiment the corporation the chorus from the Antigone of Sophooles, and Fathers are still very thaukfu for the have meant to try in opening the newly-estil Rev. Dr. WALKER, an Ex-President of the Cot. parched corn of learning. Recent dis. liened University courses of instruction to com- lego, pronounced A beneditation. President. oussions have added pitifully little to the petent womon. In these courses the University world's stock of wision about the staple of edu- offers to young women who have been to PRESIDENT ELIOT'S RECEPTION. cation. Who blows to-day such 16 ringing good schools, ns many years as they Immediately after the close of the exercises in trumpot-en to the study of language as LUTHRK wish of liboral culture in studies which the church, Mr. ELIOT hold a reception at the blow Hardly a significant word line been add- have 110 direct professional value, to be sure, A Sketch of the Caremonies--The Procession ed In two conturies to MILTON'S description of but which onrich and enlarge both Intellect President's house on Quinoy-street. Nearly all the unprofitable way to study languages. Would and character. The University hopes thus to the invited guests and n large concourse of Mr. The Exercises in the Church---Add any young Amementi learn how to profit by trav- contribute to the intellectual emailcipation ot ELIOT'S friends and follow oilizous of Boston c), that foolish boginning but excellent seiguel to women, It hopes to prepare 801110 womon hot- of Judge Chifford and President education, he CAD find no apter ndvice than BA. ter than they would otherwise have been pro- and Cambridgo, crowded the parlors of who mall- CON'S, The practico of England and America pared for the profossion of teaching, the one sion, and warmly greeted its now occupant. The is literally conturies bobind the precent of the loarned profession to which women have already reception was quite brief, most of the Ruests the Ellot---The President's best thkikers upon education. A striking Illus- acquired a elear title. It hopes that the proffer tratlon way be found in the prevailing nogleot of this higher Instruction will have some reflex parting after extending their congratulations to of the systematic study of the English language. Influence upon schools for girls-to disconrage the now President of the venorable and beloved Reception. How lamontably true to-day AVO these words of superiolably, and to promote substantial educa. University. OAKHAM. LOCKE: If any one among 118 have n facility or tion. purity more than ordinary in his another tongue, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLLEGE it is owing to chance, or his genius, or anything From our Own Correspondent. rathor than to his education or any care of his Mr. ELIOT referred to the difficulty of find- teacher." ing competent Professors. Fow Americans BOSTON, Thoudy, Oct. 19, of ominont ability are attracted to the HOW TO TEACH, THE REAL QUESTION. CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT, the successor of profession, for tho pay is small and the The best result of the discussion which has drudgery sovere. When It coince to hiring learn- Rev. THOMAS HILL, as President of Harvard Col- raged 80 long about the relative adventional ing, and inspiration and personal weight, the lego, was formally inaugurated At Cambridge to. value of the main brauchea of learnhik is the law of supply and demand breaks down alto. conviction that there 18 room for them all in n gether. A university cannot be managed like a day. There has probably been no change in the sound soheme, provided that right methods of railroad or a cotton mill. After referring to the administration of the College, from the day of its teaching be employed. The actual problem to change in the method of electing the Board of foundation down to the present time, which has he solved, sald Mr. EMOT, is not what to toach, Overseors, he sald that it would be bard to over- but how to teach, and to this point he brought state the importance of the public supervision excited such general, serious and various com- full and foreible Illnatration. The nooded rof- exercised by the Board of Overseers. Experience mont as the last. The reforms which the now ornation in methods of Instruction were not proves that our main hope for the permanence President will Introduce into the government of confiried to the university, but applied to pre- and over-widening 1180fulness of the University the University AIC Indicated with more or loss paratory schools of every grade. What they must reat upon this double-hended organization. failed to Impart the college must supply and The corporation Mr. ELIOT designated the emphasis in the address which follows. They are under the now administration the facilities heart of the University,' This Board holds the such 118 the oldest and most conservativo friends for onlarging and enriching the propar- funds, makes appointmants, fixes salaries, and of the College CAN Ballation and support, for they atory Instruction will be greatly aug- has by right the Initiative in all changes of the mented. The university, said Mr. ELIOT, organic law of the University. Such an exocu- are bmt simple responses to the mitations of this bollovos in the thorough study of language. tivo board must be small to be efficient. It must and the requirements of the hour. The now ad. It contends for all langunges, Oriental, Greek, always contain mou of sound judgment In Latin, Romance, German and especially for the flunnico; and literature and the learned protes- ministration will enter upon its labors without mothor tonguet seeling In them all our matitu- sions should be adequately represented in it. protension, nnd with duo reverence for the tion, 0110 history, one means of discipline. ONE The corporation should also be but slowly ro- unages which have become honorable and dis. department of learning. The university recog- newed; for it is of the utmost COHRO- nizes the natural and physical sciences 118 India quence to the University that the govern- tinguishing characteristics of the venorable pensable brauches of education but it ment should have a steady aim, and a College. would have science taught In a rational provailing spirit which 18 Independent of in- The ceremonies to-day wore little more than way, objects and Instruments In hand dividuals and transmissible from generation to -not from books morely, not through generation. And what should title spirit he the formal commonoration of an event long BRO the memory chiefly, but by the scollik eye and First, It should be a catholic spirit. A univer- finished, for President KHOT was elected to his the Informing flugers. History, mental, moral sity must be Indigenous; it must be rich but, office more than six months ngo. But notwich. and polition philosophy cannot be taught from above all, It must be free. The winnowing books alone: but must be vivitled and Illustrated breezo of freedom must blow through all 11H standing this fuot, the attendance WHS very large, by tonchers of notivo, comprehensive, and chambere. It takes A hurricano to blow the position of the Collegeamong the Institutions Indicial mind. To learn by roto n list wheat away. Secondly, the actuating spirit of the State, and the high hopes entertained of 18 of dates in not to study history. Mr. of the corporation should he a ajurit EMDRSON that history is biography. In n of fidelity,- to the many and vari- Increasing usefulness under the now administra- doop HONSO thus Is true. Certainly, the twot way our trust repored in them by the hundreds of tion, more than compensating for the livek of Any to Impuri the fuels of history to the young 18 persons who out of their penny or their abun- special affraction which the Immuguration night through the quick interest they take In the lives dauce have givon money to the President and of the men and woman who mi grout Mintorian Follows of Harvard College in the beautiful hope have possessed at an enriler day. The wonther opitomize opouhs. Philosophical 8111). of doing somo perpetual good upon this earth. WAR far from favorable, the sky being overeast, jonts should never he trught- with authority. The corporation should also be filled with n Apirit and the air exceedingly cold and MI;; but be- They are not established HOTONCON they are full of enterprise. All Institution like Harvard Col- of disputer mutters and opon questions and but- lego getting decrepit when Bits down con- fore 2:30 o'clock P. M., a goodly company, com- tomaloss speculations. tentilly on its mortgages. On its Invested posed of the government of the University, their EXAMINATIONS AND ELECTIVE STUDIES. funds the corporation should be always meeking how safely to make n quarter of Invited guesta, which included the Governor and Mr. ELIOT referred with antisfaction to the In- a por cent. more. A quarter of one per cent. State and City officers, the Alumni and others, oreasing weight, range and thoroughness of the menne 11 HOW Profossorship. It should be al- had assembled at Goro Hall. The Chief Marahal, examination for admission to collage. He adve. waya pushing after luore Profersorships, better cated R system of examination for setentitio, Profossors, more land and buildings and better Mr. LEVERETT BALTONSTALL, nt once organized theological, medical and dental degrees, remark- apparatus. It should he enger, sleepless and IIII- the procession. and n little before 3 o'olock It ing that by this months the value of such degrees tiring, novor wasting a moment In counting marched to the church of the First Congregational would be greatly cubauced. Rigorous examina- Introle won, over proinpt to welcome and apply tion for admission, no and his one good effort the liberality of the community. and liking no Hociety. The galleries of the church were filled throughout the college course: It prevents 11 prospect RO woll 88 that of diffecttler to be over- with Indies. The members of the soverni faculties waste of Instruction upon Incompotent and labors in be done In the cause of learn- took their accustomed places on the lest of the porsona. A school with a low HINN- ing and public virtuo. dard for admission and a high standard pulpit, the Board of Overseers, the State officers of graduation, llke WoHt Polut, IN obligad to THE DUTIES OF THR PRESIDENT. and other distinguished guests Issing ranged on dismiss n largo proportion of its atultonte The President of the University JR primarily the right, while in the centre there was R titlie by the Way. Honro much individual distroks, an excentivo officer but, being a member of and 11 great wante of , both public and boaring the College son) and charter and the Col- both governing boards and of all the Faoultich, private. But, on the other hand, it mast not be ho hns also the Influence In their debater, to lege keve. The undergraduate CLARMCH occupied supposed that every et extent who entere Harvard which his more or loan perfect intunney with the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission the powa noarest the platform. and the rost of College necessarity graduates. BLUND annual University and greator or less personal weight examinations are to be passed. More than 16 the church WAR densely crowded with spoutators. may happon to entillo him. All administrative fourth of thoso who enter the College fall to take officer who undertakes to do everything himsolf, The government of the College extended special their dogreo. Under the old system, every stu- will do but little and that little iii. The Invitations to nearly three hundred prominent dont who graduated it Harvard passed through President's first. duty is that of super- one uniform curriculum, but by this conren vision. He should know what each ofli- gonflemon to attend the Inauguration exercison, the Individual with of different minds cor's and sorvant's work 18, and how it and among thoso who responded with their pres- were noglected. But now the Freshman year Is 18 dono. But the days are past in which the the only one In which there IH a fixed course pro- once were: President could be called on to decido everything morthed for all. In the other three youra, more from the purchase of n &oormat to the appoint- Hon. Charles Francis Adams. Hon. George 8. than half the time allotted to study IB filled with ment of 11 Professor. The principle of divided Hilliard, Bon. Marshall P. Wilder, Hon. (1. subjects chosen by each student from lists which and subordinate responsibilities, which rules In Twichell, Ex-Chief Justice Bigelow, Dr. compriso HIX Buildon in the Sophomore year, nino government bureaus, in manufactorics, and all Parker, formerly Mimator to China; Dr. George In the Junior your and oleven III the Henior B. Loring, Robert Trent Paine, Hon. F. W. lim. great companies, which makes a modern year, The liberty of chotoo of subject is coln, Edward Qulney, Rov. Dr. Nonic. Rev. Dr. army 11 possibility, must be applied in wide, but you his very rigit limits. There the University. The President should be Putnim, Rev. Dr. Clarke, Rev. Alexis Caswell, certain framework which must be able to discern the practical essence of President of Brown University: Rev. Steams, filled; and about half the material of the filling President of Amberth College: Professor Hilli- complicated and long-drawn discussions. 18 proscribed. The choice offered to the eludont man and Professor Fisher, of Yale College Pro. He must watch and look before,-watch to 10120 does not llo between liboral studies and profes- fessur Russoll Lowell and Professor Hon- opportunities get money, to secure ominont sional or militarian Hilldon. All the studies ry W. Longfollow, who walked arm In arm In teachers and scholars. and to Influence public which are open to hum are liberal and dissiplin- the procession Professor Oliver Wondell Holinda, opnion toward the advancement of learning,- ary, not narrow or special. Under this hystom Judga William (IMBY, Balph Waldo Emerson, and look beforo to anticipate the the college does not demand, It 18 true, one 111- Judge R. F. Thomas, and many others of almost University of the fluctuations of public opinion variable not of studies of every candidate for on educational problems: of the progress of the equal colobrity. the lirth degroo in arts: but 11H requisitions for Institutions which food the University; of the After muele by n band nnd Ringing by the this degree are novortheless high and inflexible, changing condition of the professions which the College choir, assisted by the (Ileo Club of the being nothing less than four years devoted to University supplies; of the riso of now profes- liberal culture. The controversy regarding the sions: of the gradual alteration of socini and re- Harvard Musical Association, Rev. ANDREW P. comparative morite of lectures and recitations ligious habits In the community, The Uni- PEARODY, preacher to the College and Plum- WHA illuded 10. A combination of the two WHH versity must necommodate Itself prompt- mor Professor of Christian Morals, offered an III indiceated, the number of reotations to be di- ly to significant changes in the chur. minished IIH the student advances III his course. troductory prayer. This WHA followed by a con- notor of the people for whom It exists. Text-books were Invaluable In apito of their III- In this mobile nation the notion and reaction be- gratulatory address in Latin by Mr. JOHN 811.A8 accuracles, and the main Improvement In med- twoon the University and society at large are WHITE, n member of the Benior Class, after loal education In this country during the last more sonsitive and rapid than in sliffer commu- which the ceremony of induction into office WHA twenty years hns been III the addition of - uttles. The President. therefore, must not need tematle recitations from text-books to the loos to 800 house built before he can comprehend performed, Hon. JOHN HENRY CLIFFORD, Proal- turox which were formerly the principal meant the plan of 11. Ho onn profit by a wide Inter- dont of the Board of Overseore, dolivering an of theorotical instruction. courso with all sorts of men, and by address, of which the following is all abstract: MANNERS, MORALS and DISCIPILINE. every real discussion on education, legisia- In regard to certain common minapprehensions tion and Boolology. The most important ADDRESS OF JUDGE CLIPPORD. function of the President Is that of nd. about colleges In general and Harvard College Mr. CLIFFORD began by including to the change In particular, Mr. Eliot Buld: security of the vising the corporation concerning appoint- which had taken place in the government of the college commonwealth Is largely due to its ox- month, particularly of young College HINCO the mauguration of Mr. ELIOT'S uborant activity. 118 public optuton, though OHSI- mon who have not and time and opportunity to Immediate predecossor, explaining how lie, In- by led natray Is BEIII high in the main. Its schol- thomsolves to the public, tt Is In dis. stend of the Ohiof Magistrato of the Com- arly water and habits, 118 enger friendships and charging this duty that the President holds the monwealth, R18 had been the invariable quick hatreds, 118 keon dobates, 118 frank futuro of the University In his hands. He CALL- oustom sluce the foundation of the Col- lege, performed the coremony of Indue- discussions of character and of deep, politi- not do it well unloss he have insight, unless he be ent and religious questions-nll are safe. able to recognize, 111 times boneath BODIO crusts, tion Into office. 110 then influded to the great importance of the office of President of the guards against sloth, vulgarity and depravity. the real géntloman and the natural tonohor. Its society and not less its solitudos are full of This 18 the one oppressive responsibility of the College, and to the marvolous personal Influence teaching. Shame. conceit and fictitions distinc- President all other cares are light boside it. which 11 WHA in the power of the head of the It is Imperative that the statutes which deflue tions get no morey. There 18 nothing but ridi- University to exercise. live aometimos the President's dutios should be recast, and thought, no Buid, that If this influence. cont. onle for bombast and sentimontality. Repres- bined with somo modo of personal examination, sion of genuino aentiment and emotion IH, the customs of the College be somewhat modi- Indeed, In this College, carried too far. fied, in order that lesser duties may not by which the Faculty might test the student's disposition to minko the boat of his opportunities Roservo is more respootable than any un- crowd out the greater. But, however Im- discorning communicntivenoss. But neither portant the functions of Wio President, It According to capacity, could take the placo of Yankee shamofacedness nor Euglish stalidity must not bo forgotten that he 18 omphatically a the present unrealisfactory and often unjust 18 admirable. This point especially touches constitutional executive. Ishis charactor and system of arbitrary marks, even when most critically and conselectiously enforced. our you, young men, who are still undergraduates. his judgment which are of Importance, not his When you feel n true admiration for n teacher, a opinions. He Is the executive officer of delibora- college culture would better accomplish 118 highest results. The Procrustes bed on which glow of enthusinsm for work, a thrill of pleusuro tivo bodies, in which decisions are reached after ist BOINO excellent saying, RIVO It expression. discussion by a majurity vote. Those Aucisions the poor viotim of mediocrity of talent is now Do not be inshamed of those emotions. Chorish bind him. He cannot force his own opinious laid, to be stretched out to the etaturo of the the natural sentiment of personal devotion to upon anybody. A university is the last place in more highly gifted child of genius by his side, the world for 16 dietator. Learning is always the teacher who calls out your better powers. It would no longer oxist, to work the injustico of is great delight to serve an intellecting mister. publican. It line idole, but not mastera which It has too often been the Instrument. May We Americane are but too asit to lose this It be the proud boast of this Institution, under THE UNIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC. your ausjilcious and conscientions administra- happiness. German and French students get it. If over in after years you como to What can the community do for the Universi- tion, that while the brightest gonius shall hore smile at the youthful revenue you paid, ty First, it can love, honor and chorish It. The flud fit purture for its highest powers, no well- believe inc, It will be with toars in your oyes." University is uphold by this public affection and intentioned effort for improvement, of even the And in conclusion The best way to put boy. respect. In the loyalty of her children she humblest capacity, shall of receiving nt your Ishuean to shame is to foster scholarship and fluds strength and courage. The carpora- handsal practicable encouragementand support. From these remarks upon the training the Col. manliness. The mauners of a community can- tion, the overscore and the several facul- not be improved by main forco any more than ties nood to feel that the lenders of pub- lego is to give, Mr. CLIFFORD procooded at SOHO its morals. The statutes of the University need lic opinion. and especially the sons of the Col- length to the consideration of what 16 to touch. somo amendment and reduction in the chaptors lego, are at their back, always ready to give It snocessary he held, that the great influence on urines and misdemeapore. But lot 118 render them n generous and Intelligent support. There. of Harvard should be on the side of religion and fore we wolcome the Chief Magistrate of the to our fathers the justice WO shall truth. III the progress of what la complacent- uoed from our RONS. What is too ml- Commonwer the Senators, Judges and other ly called the advanced thought of New-England, nuto or preciso for our uso was doubt- diguitaries of the State, who by their presence lie remarked that there doubtless will be waged conflict of opinion of the highest import to the loss wise and proper In its day. It waste Incul- at this ancient coremonial boar witness to the cause of truth And the welfare of the race. onto a reveront boaring and due consideration pride which Massachusetts feels In her eldest for things sacred that the regulations proscribed University. Therefore, we rejoice the prose1100 Whonevor It comos Harvard College CALL hold no n black dress on Sunday, Bluck is not the only of this throng of the Alumni, testifying their do. subordinate place among the Institutions of the decorous wear In those days; but we must not votion to the Colloko, which, through all changes, country, in whose armories must be forged the is still their home. Cherish It. This Unt- wonpons with which It will be fought. Her seem, in consing from this particular mode of friends can have no miagivings ns to the position good manuers, to think less of the gentle breed- veralty, though rich among American colleges, GIIIK of which only the outward signs, and not the is very poor in comparison with the great uni- also will occupy in such n nold. Mr. CLIPPORD substance, have been changed.' versition of Europe. The wants of the American then said that his only remaining duty WHIS to From some general remarks upon the alleged community have far outgrown the capacity of place In the charge of the new President thoso false charges that Harvard was exclusive and the University to supply them. We must try to keys, this uncient charter, and this seal of the suistocratic, he passed to satisfy the cravings of the select few as well as College, the symbols and the warrant of the the noods of the average many. We onnuot af- authority now conferred upon you as 118 afticial THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN. ford to noglect the flue arts. Wo need head. Tendering to you, therefore, the awaiting The attitude of the University in the provall- groves and meadows as well as bar- confidence, the cordial sympathies, and the Ing discussions touching the education and lit racks, and soon there will be no chance roudy cooperation of the Follows and Overseers, employments of womon domands brief explann- to them in this expanding city. But, above in their name, and on their behalf, I now greet tion. America is the natural arena for those do- all, wo need professorships, books and ap- and welcome you the President of Harvard bates, for hore the female BOX line better past paratus, that teaching and soliolarship may College.' and a better present thau cleawhoro. Americans, abound. And what will the University do for Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. At the conclusion of this nddress Mr. CHARIES 08 n rule, hate diabilities of all sorth, whether the community First, it will mako A rich re- religious, political or social. Equality between turn of learning, pootry, and piety. Secondly, it WILLIAM ELIOT took his Boat in the President's the BOXOS, without privilege or oppression will foster the 801180 of public duity,-that great chair and nssumed his cap while in the choir on either side, 18 the happy custom virtue which makes républica possible. The of American homes. While this great founding of Harvard College will An heroio act sang discussion 18 going on, It is the duty of public spirit. For more than a contury the "Domino, fac salvum Presidum nostrum." of the University to maintain a onutious and ex- breath of life WAS kept in It by the A1 Its conclusion the nowly-Inducted President pootant polley, The corporation will not receive public spirit of the Province and of its proceeded to deliver the following address women as students into the College proper, nor private benefactors. In the last City years into any school whose discipline requires resi- the public apirit of the frieuds of the Col- (ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ELIOT. donce noar the school. The difficultios Involved lego bas quadrupled its endowments. And how The endless controversios whother language, in a common residence of hundreds of young have the young inon nurtured here in suocessive philosophy, mathematica or solence supply the men and woman of iminature character and mar- generations repaid the founders for their plous best mental training, whether general education riageable age are very grave. The necessary po- caref Have they honored freedom and loved should be chiefly literary or childtly scientific, lice regulation are exceedingly burdensome. The their country For answer we appeal to the have no practical lesson for us to-day. This corporation are not influenced to this decision, records of the national service to the lists of University recognizes no real antagomem be- however, by any orudo notions about the innate the Sonate, the Cabluet, and the diplomatic ser- tweca literature and solonoe, and consonts to no capacities of women. The world knows noxt to vico, and to the rolls of the army and navy. such narrow altornative smothematics class- nothing about the natural montal capacities of Honored men, here present, illustrate before 100, solence or motaphysics. We would havether the female BOX. Only after generations of civil the world the public quality of the graduates of all, and at their best, To observe koonly, to roa- froodom and social equality will it bo possible to this College. Theirs is no merconary service. BOD Boundly, and to Imagine vividly are opora- obtain the data necessary for an adequate dis- Other fiolds of labor attract them more and tione as essential as that of clear and forcible ox- cussion of woman's natural tondencies, tastos would roward them better but they are filled pression; and to develop one of these faculties It and capabilities. Again, the corporation do not with the noble ambition to deserve well of the Is not necessary to repress and dwarf the others. find It uccessary to entertain a confident opinion Republic. There have been doubts, in times yet A university is not closely concerned with the upon the fitness or unfitness of womon for pro- recont, whother culture were notselfish; whether applications of knowledge, until Its general edu- fessional pursuits. It is not the business of the mon of retinod tastes and manners could really cation branches into professional. Poetry and University to decide this mooted point. In this love liberty and be ready to endure hardness for philosophy and selence do indood conspire to country the University doos not undertake to her sake whether, in short, goutlemen would in promote the material welfare of mankind; but protect the community against incompetent this coutury provo as loyal to noble ideas as In science no more than poetry finds its best war- lawyers, ministers or doctors. The community other times they had been to Kings. In yonder rant in its utility. Truth and right are above must protect itself by refusing to employ such. old playground, fit spot whereon to 0010meno- ntility in all realms of thought and action. It Practical, not thoorotical, considerations deter- rute the mauliness which there was nurtured, were bitter mockery to suggest that any subject mino the polley of the University. Upon shall soon riso a noble monument which for gou- whatever should be laught less than it now is in a matter Concorning which prejudicos are erations will give convincing answer to such American colleges. The only conscivable aim at deen, and opinion informable, and ANIA shallow double; for over 160 intos will be writ- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ges ADDRESS AT THE T Daying of the Corner Stone FREE OF THE MEMORIAL HALL, AT HARVARD COLLEGE OCTOBER 6, 1870. BY E. R. HOAR. TOLMAN & WHITE, PRINTERS, 221 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON. 1870. C. Pain 7 74 Page No. of } Inquiries numbered and 17 are not to be asked in respect to Infants. Inquiries numbered 11. 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, and 20 are to be answered merely by as affirmative mark, as 1. SCHEDULE of 1.-Inhabitants mass , enumerated in by me on the 2 day of only in the County 1870. of 1 regard , State , 226 Post Office: -auton Ass't Marshal, VALIE OF REAL Estate OWBED PARENTAGE RELATIONS The - of every preme whose Profination, Occupation Whether Place of Birth caming State place of abode - the the day of or Trade of each person, or Territory of U. a or the and 4 June, 1870, was is this family male or female. Country. if of foreign birth blind. income Idiotic. 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Dorr Class and Department, or Occupation, 74 Age, 17 yrs. ms. Birthplace, Nationality of father, mother, " his father, her father, " " his mother, her mother, Occupation of father, If father is dead, of what did he die ? If mother is dead, of what did she die? Which of your parents do you most resemble ? What hereditary disease, if any, is there in your family ? Is your general health good? Have you always had good health ? Mark (*) such of the following diseases as you may have had : Asthma, Bronchitis, Chronic Diarrhoea, Dizziness, Dyspepsia, Dysentery, Gout, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pleurisy, Shortness of Breath, Jaundice, Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles, Pneumonia, Varicose Veins, Liver Complaints, Habitual Constipation, Spitting of Blood, Paralysis. What injuries have you received? What surgical operation have you undergone ? No. 7 4 DATE, at 72 BREADTH, Head, AGE, 17-9 Neck, WEIGHT, 69.8 Shoulders, HEIGHT, 185.2 Waist, " Knee, Hips, Sitting, Nipples, Pubes, DEPTH, Chest, Navel, " Abdomen, Sternum, LENGTH, R, Should. Elb. GIRTH, Head, L. " " " Neck, R. Elbow Tip, " Chest, Repose, L. " " Full, 86.3 R. Foot, " Waist, L. " " Hips, Horizontal, " R.Thigh, STRETCH of Arms, " L. " CAPACITY of Lungs, R.Knee, STRENGTH of Lungs, L. " Back, R.Calf, " Chest, L. " " Legs, " R.Instep, " U. Arm, " L. " " Forearm, " R. Upper Arm, 34.4 " TOTAL, " L. DEVELOPMENT, " R. Elbow, PILOSITY, " L. COLOR of Hair, " R. Forearm, 29.2 " Eyes, " L. TEMPERAMENT, " R. Wrist, L. 8/16/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size = RE: Archive Images: George Bucknam Dorr From : Barbara Meloni Fri, Aug 14, 2015 05:36 PM 1 attachment Subject : RE: Archive Images: George Bucknam Dorr To : Ronald Epp Hi Ron, Attached is a scan of the anthropometric measurement card for G. Dorr, Harvard College Class of 1874, from the records of the department of physical education at Harvard (Archives call number UAV 689.270 Box 3). There is not a corresponding photograph for Dorr; the photographs don't begin until the Class of 1880. (I did check to be sure!) Please see the Permission to Publish from Collections section of our website for updated information on submitting requests. I hope this is useful, and that you had a successful trip north. I'm heading to Maine for vacation soon and definitely looking forward to it! Regards, Barbara Barbara S. Meloni Archivist for Research Services, Outreach, and Instruction Harvard University Archives / Pusey Library Harvard Yard / Cambridge MA 02138 barbara_meloni@harvard.edu/617-495-2461 Follow HUA on Twitter@HarvardArchives From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 9:14 PM To: Meloni, Barbara Subject: Archive Images: George Bucknam Dorr Dear Barbara, Below you will find our most recent email. After relocating to a retirement community in southeastern Pennsylvania, my wife was struck with squamous cell carcinoma which took her life. It is only in the last eighteen months that I have returned to the G.B. Dorr (Harvard, 1874) biography which is under contract and will be published in April 2016 as part of the National Park Service centennial celebrations. Today I was approached by an Acadia National Park Ranger who wanted specifics on Dorr's height. Other than being tall and lanky his entire life, I had no metrics. Then I consulted online the Harvard Department of Physical Education https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=313621&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/3 8/16/2015 XFINITY Connect anthropometric measurement of students inventory that you processed Can the restricted card index be consulted to pull the full information on Mr. Dorr? If there is Dorr's photograph, what is the procedure for securing it? As you did below, will you forward this request for digital copies to the photo archivist and I will make the request to publish these images to Ms. Robin McElheny, unless the persons or procedures have changed in the last five years. I hope you are well. I'll be traveling to Maine in two weeks and on my return I may be able to spend time in Boston and Cambridge. If so, I'll contact you if only to stop by and say hello. I hope you'll be pleased by my rather fulsome characterization in the manuscript of Charles William Eliot. Please note new email address. All the Best, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net From: "Barbara Meloni" To: eppster2@myfairpoint.net Cc: huaphoto@hulmail.harvard.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:22:12 PM Subject: Re: Archive Images: George Bucknam Dorr Dear Ron, That's exciting news about your book -- I look forward to reading it! I'm sending your request for digital copies on to our photo archivist, who will respond to you directly with a cost estimate and ordering instructions for the images. Your request to publish the images should be sent to Ms. Robin McElheny, Associate University Archivist, at robin mcelheny@harvard.edu. Regards, Barbara Barbara S. Meloni Public Services Archivist Harvard University Archives https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=313621&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/3 8/16/2015 XFINITY Connect Pusey Library Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2461 barbara meloni@harvard.edu At 11:40 AM 2/9/2010, you wrote: > Dear Barbara, > >You may recall that several years ago you provided me with superb >assistance in researching the Harvard career of Acadia National Park >founder George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944). I'm pleased to tell you >that I've finally completed the manuscript and the book will be >published by the Library of American Landscape History, an affiliate >of the University of Massachusetts Press. > >Presently I am gathering the images needed and I would like to >include the two photographs that appear in Harvard College. Class of >1874. Fiftieth Anniversary Report. 1924. Pg. 86. How might I secure >copies: digital or print? I'd appreciate any guidance you could >provide and instructions regarding permissions--and citation >preferences--for citing in the forthcoming publication the resources >that you so efficiently secured for me. > > All the Best, > > Ron Epp > >Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. >47 Pondview Drive >Merrimack, NH 03054 >(603) 424-6149 >eppster2@myfairpoint.net bsm_UAV689_270_Bx3_1874_Dorr_HarvardArchives.pdf PDF 518 KB https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=313621&tz=America/New_York&xim= 3/3 Alfred Runte. National Parks: The American Experience. Lincoln: U. Nebraska Press, 1979 The Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in late August and September 1870 aroused the imaginations of people nationwide and became the talk of the popular press. On October 14, 1870 the NYT carried a lengthy editorial praising Washburnb's skill in reporting the discoveries. (37-38) Yellowstone like Yosemite and the Sierras offered the U.S. "another opportunity to acquire a semblance of antiquity through landscape. "The protection of Yellowstone was a further outgrowth of America's cultural nationalism. Yellowstone by virtue of its size "was the first to anticipate the "ideal" national park." (47) Runte emphasizes the importance of economically "worthless lands" -or useless scenery--as a precondition for their acceptance as national parks. (Ch. 3) In 1853 the New York legislature purchased one square mile on the outskirts of NYC which became known as Central Park as the city evolved around it. Central Park "set a precedent for preservation in the common interest more than a decade before realization of the national park idea." (4) "Monumentalism, not environmentalism, was the driving force impetus behind the 1864 Yosemite Act." (29, see also chapter 2.) "Americans valued the natural wonders of the West almost exclusively for their scenic impact." (31) The Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in late August and September 1870 aroused the imaginations of people nationwide and became the talk of the popular press. On October 14, 1870 the NYT carried a lengthy editorial praising Washburnb's skill in reporting the discoveries. (37-38) Yellowstone like Yosemite and the Sierras offered the U.S. "another opportunity to acquire a semblance of antiquity through landscape. "The protection of Yellowstone was a further outgrowth of America's cultural nationalism. Yellowstone by virtue of its size "was the first to anticipate the "ideal" national park." (47) Runte emphasizes the importance of economically "worthless lands" -or useless scenery--as a precondition for their acceptance as national parks. (Ch. 3) Beginning in the late 19th-century there were perennial efforts by congressmen in the region to abolish large portions of Yosemite Park and return them to the public domain. Such efforts to delete landscape from the reserve for exploitation was successful in 1905 and showed that Congress was willing to reverse its prior "endorsements of scenic preservation where expedient Only where scenic nationalism did not conflict with materialism could the national park idea further expand." (64-65) In December 1913 President Wilson signed the bill that gave San Francisco the rights to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a part of Yosemite N.P.. "If the inner sanctum of Yosemite could not be protected in perpetuity, no national park, then or in the future, could be considered safe from exploitation." (79) The lesson learned by the preservationists was to "rely as much on economic rationales for protection as on the standard emotional ones." "The association of scenic protection with economic growth was the most innovative approach for defending the national park idea." (89) As New Englander Allen Chamberlain put it, "Switzerland regards its scenery as a money-producing asset to the extent of some two hundred million dollars annually." ["Scenery as a National Asset," Outlook 95 May 28, 1910, 169]. "The lasting significance of the Antiquities Act lay in its title and decree that new reserves be called 'national monuments.' The more impressive monuments would eventually be considered for national park status. if they were worthless economically. (73) 1868 Chap. XV of The Say year of the Saturday Cluds Club gatherings. Lingfullow's visit to England; followedly C.E. Norton Lowell's poems no new Club members. Chap. XVI 1869 Calfodeace of county based on "strength? hermonity of their great General Jodge Hour is new Lists members abroad adds J.T.Fields attorney Gsocral llotley Minista to Enford much commenting as foreyn twoll & u.s. unplications. Celebratia of Centennial of a von Hanbalt much on judge Hoor, though not confirmed for Nathay@elevation CWE to Presidency Marood Septem Count. W Itean Morris Hurt biographical profiles a young Ma who was resticated to stacebredge a no hardoly for have sence he was "too fond of Greesement. So did not retreen to Haward fouid left for Holy where WMH. studeed art in Rome before worry to Paris to staf sculpture. net Bartizon School Returned to us in 1855, merved + speat time in Newport c James family Established self in Roybury. Study in Boaton 869-cmt destroyed by great fine of 1872; then turned There to landscape printing An 1878 commissional to do a great public work -adou - c nurals the New Capitol assembly Hall at allang; a decade late paintings reined by teaching roof Deed in 1879, drowning indu in loved portant appledore. 1870 Chapter XVII of The Evily years of the Saturday Club. Then books : (a) Summer's Addresses; (b) Lowell's Aming my Books; (c) Emersons Socted Solitude Club activities; Louell Thorean "antipodal" OWH writes of new Hawaid Prendest: "King Stork.' See remains whech OWH does not "care much." Talk at teath @ Howard charges, write offer to RWE to teach a course on & - much detailifica Everson as will. Cornerston laid fa llemonal Hall Details of Service. President Greet + Out members Two new member : Charles France Adams to CWE. Charles 7. Adons see note in 1864 file, ch.XI, EYSC. From 1828-1843 recepied with "process the care of his father's affoirs." Edited favif Papers. Elected Why candidate to Massleg (1840), House Seast Eleven Ants -f lovery activity Why party. Minister to England 1860's Aver your you if diplomate service abroad Une and any Democrats to run CFA against Hent in 1872 Death on 11/21/1886.