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sonal charm, now in business in San Francisco; Caleb Dexter 

 Page, from the lumber woods of Michigan, — a dehghtful 

 singer, — who also went into business; and Milton Campbell 

 Johnston, before and since a sturdy farmer of Otsego County. 



In the fraternity group of my day we counted also a couple 

 of boys from overseas. One was a young Russian engineer of 

 unusual ability by the name of DobrolubofF, familiarly known 

 as "Double up and roll off," which then seemed a picturesque 

 transliteration! In 1876, after his first return home, he came 

 back to America in connection with the Russian exhibit at the 

 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Later he fell into politi- 

 cal disfavor, and the Cornell Ten Year Book prints after his 

 name the grim phrase, "Executed for Nihilism in 1880." 



The other alien, a delight to us all, was Riokichi Yatabe, a 

 brilliant Japanese who became professor in the Imperial Uni- 

 versity of Tokyo, and later head of the first Japanese Normal 

 School. Some years afterwards he was drowned in the surf 

 at Kamakura. 



Outside the fraternity my most intimate friend was Melville Anderson 

 Best Anderson, an enthusiastic and brilliant student of serious and 

 literature. We had first met as companions in misery, bal- Braxton 

 ancing plates at Cascadilla, and as fellow members of "the 

 Strug" with its idealistic outgrowth, "the Grove Literary 

 Society." We later established an affectionate association, 

 still unbroken for half a century. In witness of this fact, on 

 my seventieth birthday — January 19, 1920 — Anderson read 

 before an intimate group of friends, a noble poem in my honor, 

 lauding beyond their merits certain qualities which I happen 

 to possess. 



With Alembert W. Brayton, a scientific student who at- 

 tracted my special interest because of his originality and versatil- 

 ity, I came to have afterward, in Indiana, many close relations, 

 forming a tie not weakened by thirty years of separation. 



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As already indicated, membership in Delta Upsilon 

 was to me and my comrades a wholesome and help- 

 ful experience. But one who has been intimately 



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