Published monthly by The Agassiz Association, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Connecticut, 



Subscription, $1.00 a year Single copy, 10 cents 



Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12. 1909, at Sound Beach Post Office, under Act of March 3, 1897. 



Vol 



VIII 



JANUARY, 1916 



Number 8 



An Adjoining Institution of Outdoor Interests. 



By EDWARD F. BIGELOW, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Connecticut. 



THE Agassiz Association's ArcAdiA 

 and the Sound Beach Golf Links lie 

 side by side. The history of the locat- 

 ing of both organizations in this pictur- 

 esque spot and as next door neighbors 

 has much in common. The reasons for 

 the removal of the organizations to this 

 part of the town are likewise similar. The 

 purpose of each is to afford healthful 

 occupation and to incite an interest in "all 

 out of doors." The real intent of a ram- 

 ble in the fields and the woods with cam- 

 era or collecting case, with eyes wide open 

 and mind alert is, in the end, precisely 

 the same as that of knocking a ball across 

 similar fields and artificial obstacles. 

 When we consider prime purposes, we 

 discover that we differ only in methods 

 and not in fundamental principles. Both 

 occupations seek similar results, both de- 

 mand muscular exercise, and require 

 considerable skill. The joy of photo- 

 graphing a bird or of finding a rare speci- 

 men of plant is about the same, I judge, 

 as that of making a certain number of 

 strokes carry a ball to a certain point on 

 the links. 



The Sound Beach Golf Links and The 

 Agassiz Association's ArcAdiA are ex- 

 changing contributors in that each fur- 



nishes the other with reciprocal pictur- 

 esqueness. We recently published in this 

 magazine an account of a land owner in 

 New York that possesses the right of 

 view across the fields in front of his prop- 

 erty. In his deed is the restriction that 

 the view from his territory shall never be 

 disturbed, and a pecuniary value is, for 

 perhaps the first time, placed upon a land- 

 scape. The Sound Beach Golf Club is 

 contributing definite pleasure to the AA, 

 and is increasing ArcAdiA's value. We 

 are trying to reciprocate by improving 

 the appearance of our territory, so as to 

 increase the Golf Club's pleasure in the 

 landscape. 



Do these golfers know how really beau- 

 tiful they are ? I am not referring to their 

 personal pulchritude, but to the charm 

 and grace that they add to the landscape. 

 If they were engaged by the day to pose 

 in picturesque attitudes on the rolling 

 green for our satisfaction, they could do 

 no better than they now do without money 

 and without price. Every visitor at 

 ArcAdiA, especially those who visit 

 Nymphalia, admires the strong, healthful 

 strides, the graceful poses, the alluring 

 aspect of the golfers as they march over 

 the links, following a ball that leaps in 



Copyright 1915 by The Agassiz Association, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Conn. 



