SCHOOLS: Phillips Academy, Andover, and private tutor, Assistant Professor George A. Hill DEGREES: A.B. 1872, LL.B. 1874 MARRIED: Alice Augusta Rogerson at Millbury, Mass., October 31, 1878 OCCUPATION: Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Mass. NO change under the statistics. His son is attached to the 45th Aero Squadron U.S.A. where he will soon finish his course and probably go abroad at once. ARTHUR BURGESS BORN at Boston, Mass., May 24, 1851 PARENTS: Benjamin Franklin, Cordelia Williams (Ellis) Burgess SCHOOL: Epes Sargent Dixwell's, Boston, Mass. DEGREE: A.B. 1872 No report has ever been received from him personally, and his address at present is unknown. WALTER BURGESS BORN at Boston, Mass., May 24, 1851 PARENTS: Benjamin Franklin, Cordelia Williams (Ellis) Burgess SCHOOL: Epes Sargent Dixwell's, Boston, Mass. DEGREE: A.B. 1872 MARRIED: Frances Elinor Whitney, Boston, Mass., May 18, 1876 OCCUPATION: Real Estate Broker, Trustee and Treasurer ADDRESS: (business) 15 Exchange St., Boston, Mass.; (home) 146 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass. MY Y life has been uneventful during the last five years. I have continued in the same business, real estate broker, treasurer and trustee; have enjoyed the same recreations, yachting and dogs. I have had no illness and, as far as I know, am no worse for the lapse of time. MEMBER: Boston Yacht Club, French Bulldog Club of New England, French Bulldog Club of America, and Real Estate Exchange, Boston. ARTHUR TRACY CABOT WHO of us thought when we were being so hospitably en tertained by our classmate at his beautiful home at Cherry Hill, Canton, the day before Commencement, 1912 that this was the last time we should meet him at our festival rites? How heroically and nobly he bore himself, and who will forget the smile with which he greeted us all as he came forward to join the group gathered at Gore Hall for the photograph which appeared in our last Class Report? Suffering from cancer at that time he fought bravely to the end in the November following. At our Commencement meeting in 1913 the following memorial was read: "Our classmate Arthur Tracy Cabot died November 4, 1912, in the sixty-first year of his age. "Measuring his life as we must, not by years alone, but by fitness for further accomplishment, he died a young man. 66 He was a strong man, firm of purpose. "On his graduation he experienced none of the doubt and uncertainty as to his future course which beset most of us, but entered at once upon his chosen career with the calm confidence of one whose choice of his life work had long been determined. "His progress in his profession was steadily upward and until his last illness his faculties were unimpaired, yet when he reached his sixtieth year with characteristic consistency, in pursuance of a well-considered scheme of life, he laid down the scalpel with the same serenity that marked his assumption of a career. "His course upon graduation indicated a maturity of mind unusual in one so young, and his fixedness of purpose gave promise of results that were fully realized in his after life. "It may be doubted whether anyone contributes more to the welfare of his fellow men than the trained and skillful surgeon whose head and heart are wholly devoted to his work and who gives up somewhat of his very life to every patient. 66 Such a one was Cabot but he was more than this. "Amid the cares and anxieties of an arduous and exacting professional life he found time without slighting any of the duties he owed to his patients to take a prominent part in the government of his College, and to aid in the furtherance of schemes for the stamping out of disease and for bettering the public health. "Throughout his whole life he retained an ever growing fondness for nature and for outdoor life which kept his body sound and wholesome and left him at sixty with a mind enriched by experience but fresh as the mind of a child. "Though he had laid aside the active practice of his profession, it was with no intention of becoming an idler, but rather with the intent to labor for the welfare of mankind in a somewhat broader field. Realizing this, his death seemed to us untimely, yet his accomplishment was great, and his allotted period of life gave abundant opportunity to afford relief to countless sufferers whose spirits he sustained in trying circumstances by his calm display of confidence and force. Death came to him toward the close of a well spent and well ordered life at a time when he could not but be conscious that he had not labored in vain and when the task which he had specially set himself to do had been accomplished and laid aside. 66 Could any one ask more than this? We cannot choose but grieve, but ought we to repine? "Ought we not rather to rejoice that the task he set himself to do he was permitted to fulfill in such overflowing measure, and that no great failure or disappointment marred his earthly life? "His life was simple, earnest, grand. Surely where achievement so marches with endeavor, 'Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.'' C. A. W. In the Harvard Graduates Magazine of March, 1913, the following appreciative memorial appeared and is reprinted here with the consent of the editor of the magazine. "Arthur Tracy Cabot was born in Boston, Jan. 5, 1852, the third son of Dr. Samuel Cabot and Hannah Jackson. The father was one of the leading medical practitioners of Boston, and a surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital a man of notable scientific attainments, high character, and great independence in thought and action. The mother was a member of a family which has given to this community men and women who in every station in life have illustrated all the virtues of our race. "He was graduated from Harvard College in 1872, entered the Harvard Medical School, and took the degree of M.D. in 1876. During 1876 and '77 he continued his studies in Vienna and Berlin, making a brief visit to London. His stay in the last-named city was significant in his career because he heard there from Lister's own lips the promise of a new hope in the practice of surgery. |