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 PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION 
 
Thomas Simms Bettens, born March 6, 1851, at Vevay, 
 Indiana, was graduated from Woodward High School, 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, June, 1870, and from Harvard College, 
 June, 1874. From 1878 to 1906 he taught in a secondary 
 school in New York City. He died July 2, 1907, at Bar 
 Harbor, Maine. A book, entitled Thomas Simms Bet- 
 tens, A Memorial, published in 1908 by his mother and 
 his brother, states that pupils proposed to erect, as a 
 memorial to him, in the Entrance Hall of the Harvard 
 Union, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a drinking fountain, 
 bearing thereon an inscription. 
 
 After designs of Mr. Francke Huntington Bosworth, 
 Jr., of Bosworth and Holden, New York, a graduate of 
 Yale, '97, and a pupil of Thomas Simms Bettens, the 
 Memorial Fountain has been executed by the sculptor 
 Masaniello Piccirilli, of New York. 
 
 A few letters referring to the Memorial Book and the 
 Fountain are now published. All the illustrations are 
 photogravures by the Gubelman Company, of New York. 
 
 Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 New York, April, 1909. 
 
THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 AND 
 
 DON 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED IN I907 
 BY WALTER FLORIAN 
 
THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 NEW YORK 
 M C M 1 X 
 
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New York 
 May 12, 1909 
 
 Dear Mr. President: 
 
 Please accept from my mother, Mrs. Louise E. 
 Bettens, a copy of the book entitled 
 
 THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS. 
 
 It is published, primarily, for presentation 
 to his pupils who gave to The Harvard Union, 
 the Memorial Fountain, recently placed in the 
 Union. 
 
 A few extra copies have been printed, and 
 it is a source of satisfaction to us, that one of 
 these copies can be received by you, before you 
 cease * to be President of Harvard University. 
 The book is for you personally. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 President Charles W. Eliot, 
 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 *May 18, IQOC). 
 
Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 May 14, 1909 
 Dear Madam: 
 
 I beg to thank you for sending me a copy of 
 the book entitled 
 
 THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS. 
 
 It is a beautiful memorial, of a serviceable 
 and influential life, passed in quietness, sim- 
 plicity, and honor. 
 
 Sincerely and respectfully, 
 
 Charles W. Eliot. 
 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
New York 
 April 24, 1909 
 To THE Board of Trustees 
 OF THE Harvard Union, 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Gentlemen: 
 
 The General Committee of former pupils of 
 Thomas Simms Bettens, of the Class of 1874, 
 wish to notify you, that, in accordance with the 
 offer made by them to your Board, on March 
 14, 1908, through your chairman. Professor 
 HoUis, and informally accepted, on your behalf, 
 by him, on June 26, 1908, they have caused to 
 be placed, in the entrance hall of the Union, a 
 Drinking Fountain, bearing an inscription, 
 commemorative of their old friend and teacher, 
 Mr. Bettens. 
 
 Our Committee now present this Fountain, 
 to the Harvard Union, and hope that it may 
 serve a useful purpose, and that it may be main- 
 tained by your Board, and your successors, for 
 all time, as an inspiration to generations of 
 teachers yet to be. 
 
 For the Committee, 
 
 Eliot Tuckerman. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 May 15, 1909 
 Mr. Eliot Tuckerman, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 My dear Mr. Tuckerman: 
 
 The Trustees of the Harvard Union wish me 
 to thank your Committee for the Drinking 
 Fountain set up in the hall of the Union, in 
 memory of Thomas Simms Bettens. It is not 
 only a very useful addition to the Union, but its 
 handsome design increases the attractiveness 
 of the hallway. 
 
 We think that the pupils of Mr. Bettens have 
 done well to commemorate him in the Inscrip- 
 tion, and we are much gratified to have a 
 Memorial in the Union, given by graduates of 
 Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, as well as of 
 Harvard. 
 
 Please express our thanks to all the donors. 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Ira N. Hollis. 
 
TO 
 
 THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 OF THE 
 CLASS OF 1874 
 
 HE TAUGHT THE CLASSICS WITH 
 DISTINCTION FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS 
 IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NEW YORK 
 CITY, AND WON THE RESPECT AND AF- 
 FECTION OF HIS PUPILS BY HIS CHEER- 
 FUL PATIENCE, JUSTICE, AND HOPEFUL 
 SYMPATHY. 
 
 HE WAS SIMPLE IN HIS DESIRES, 
 SINCERE AND UNAFFECTED IN FRIEND- 
 SHIP, MODEST IN ALL RELATIONS. 
 
 THIS FOUNTAIN IS THE GIFT OF 
 HIS BOYS, INCLUDING GRADUATES OF 
 HARVARD, YALE, PRINCETON, AND CO- 
 LUMBIA UNIVERSITIES. 
 
THE FOUNTAIN 
 
 The location selected for the Fountain is in 
 the Entrance Hall of The Harvard Union, 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts, set into the wall, 
 facing the large living room, a place most con- 
 venient for those who use the club, and quite 
 prominent for a memorial, but not obtrusively 
 so. The Fountain is a stone tablet of pink 
 Tennessee marble, about six feet high and three 
 feet wide, with a shell-shaped basin at the bot- 
 tom and a circular piece of marble inlaid at the 
 top. 
 
 The water flows through a filter and cooling 
 tank, and is released from two bronze taps. 
 
 Set into the stone, in bronze letters, flush 
 with the surface of the stone, is the inscription. 
 
THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, MARCH, 1864 
 
 BY DEWEY, CINCINNATI, OHIO 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 23 
 
 II The Memorial of the Class of 
 
 1874, Harvard College 89 
 
 in The Teacher and his Pupils loi 
 
 IV The Religion of Service 133 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I Thomas Simms Bettens and Don - ^^,™'i^" 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED, I907, BY WALTER 
 FLORIAN 
 
 II The Memorial Fountain n 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, TAKEN IN NEW YORK, 
 MARCH 9, 1909, BY FLOYD E. BAKER 
 
 III Thomas Simms Bettens 15 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, MARCH, 1 864, BY DEWEY, 
 CINCINNATI, OHIO 
 
 IV Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 27 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED, DECEMBER, I9O7, 
 BY WALTER FLORIAN 
 
 V Mrs. Louise E. Bettens 35 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED, NOVEMBER, I905, 
 BY WALTER FLORIAN 
 
 VI Frank Bettens 39 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT BY WALTER FLORIAN FROM 
 A PHOTOGRAPH, MARCH II, 1864 
 
 '9 
 
PAGE 
 
 VII Edward Detraz Bettens 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED I905 - 43 
 
 FROM PHOTOGRAPHS, I9O9 - 50> 5 • 
 
 VIII Thomas Simms Bettens 55 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, JUNE, 1874, BY WILL- 
 IAM NOTMAN, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 
 FOR THE CLASS OF 1874, HARVARD COLLEGE 
 
 IX Kebo 63 
 
 X Don -71 
 
 XI Woodward High School 87 
 
 XII Thomas Simms Bettens - 99 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, OCTOBER I4, 1905, 
 BY ROCKWOOD, JR., NEW YORK 
 
 XIII The Harvard Union - - 122, 123 
 
 XIV Thomas Simms Bettens 137 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, AUGUST 1 5, I906, BY 
 VOSE, BAR HARBOR, MAINE 
 
 21 
 
MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS 
 
MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED DECEMBER, I907, 
 
 BY WALTER FLORIAN 
 
 (plate IV OF THE MEMORIAL BOOk) 
 
On a farm, near Ghent, Kentucky, there was 
 born, January 7, 1827, Louise E. Rochat, the 
 daughter of Jacob and Nancy Rochat. A 
 reader of books, this father usually had one 
 with him, even when at his work. When this 
 daughter was old enough, she became his com- 
 panion, and not infrequently he would un- 
 hitch the horses from the plow, or stop what- 
 ever work he was doing, and read aloud to his 
 daughter. 
 
 A strong desire for knowledge and wisdom 
 early came to this child, from such a father, but, 
 at the same time, the neglected farm work soon 
 ended in the loss of the farni. With his family, 
 Jacob Rochat moved to Vevay, Indiana, and 
 there on December 31, 1843, Louise E. Rochat, 
 not yet seventeen years of age, married Alex- 
 ander Bettens. From that marriage were born, 
 in Vevay, Frank, Rose, Edward Detraz, and 
 Thomas Simms Bettens, naming the children 
 in the order of their births. Rose died June 
 28, 1849. 
 
 At the expiration of about ten years of mar- 
 ried life, Alexander Bettens' health failed him, 
 and he never regained it. He died August 11, 
 1870. 
 
 That sickness, and financial embarrassments, 
 
 29 
 
brought Mrs. Bettens face to face with the prob- 
 lem of supporting and educating, from her own 
 earnings, her three young sons. 
 
 Teaching for a few years, in and about Vevay, 
 gave her but a small and precarious income, and 
 writing for the newspapers and magazines, none 
 at all. 
 
 With her three sons she went to Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, about 1857, entered them in the public 
 schools of that city, and for over ten years sup- 
 ported them, in Cincinnati, from her earnings, 
 as they each passed through the district and in- 
 termediate schools into Woodward High School 
 of that city. 
 
 Frank Bettens died March 10, 1864, a student 
 at Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Edward Detraz Bettens and Thomas Simms 
 Bettens each graduated-from that High School, 
 the former in June, 1868, and the latter in June, 
 1870. The two boys entered Harvard College, 
 and in June, 1873, their mother was present, in 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Commence- 
 ment exercises of the Class of 1873, when her 
 son Edward graduated. From that time to this 
 she and her son Edward have never separated. 
 
 Thomas Simms Bettens graduated from Har- 
 vard College June, 1874, and in June, 1875, 
 
 30 
 
that college awarded to him his degree of Mas- 
 ter of Arts, for his work in modern languages. 
 Then, for three years, he taught Greek and his- 
 tory at Lake Forest Academy, Illinois. In 
 1878 he joined his mother and brother in New 
 York City, and thereafter lived with them until 
 his death. He never married. 
 
 For twenty-eight years, down to July, 1906, 
 he was a teacher in New York City, in the school 
 of Mr. Arthur H. Cutler, teaching principally 
 Greek and advanced Latin. In June, 1906, he 
 resigned from Cutler's school. He died July 
 2, 1907, at Bar Harbor, Maine. 
 
 Thomas Simms Bettens was a teacher, a 
 friend, a classmate, a student of books, a man 
 keenly interested in all athletic sports. He 
 lived the simple life, and helped to make and 
 maintain a united and contented home. His 
 mother and brother were always in his thoughts 
 and plans, and to understand him, and his life's 
 work, a reference to them is, with portraits of 
 the members of his family, so far as obtainable, 
 included in this book, together with photo- 
 gravures of his faithful companions, Kebo and 
 Don. 
 
 Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 New York, March, 1909. 
 3' 
 
Worcester, Mass., June 2, 1908. 
 
 My Dear Bettens: 
 
 I was in your oifice a week ago yesterday, but 
 you were away for the day, and I did not leave 
 my name, as I expected to look you up again 
 the next day. I was only in New York a couple 
 of days, and did not get down town so far again. 
 The Memorial of your brother, which I received 
 to-day, is a beautiful tribute, which I am very 
 glad to have. Do you remember taking me 
 home to dinner with you one day some years 
 ago? Well, 1 have never forgotten that glimpse 
 of your happy home life, the devotion of you 
 and your brother to your mother, and her joy 
 in you both was something 1 shall always re- 
 member. The first break in such a circle which 
 had lasted so many years must have been a 
 great sorrow. I remember, even in Cambridge, 
 how devoted you and your brother were to one 
 another. 
 
 Thanking you for sending me the book, 1 
 
 remain. 
 
 Yours most cordially, 
 
 O. H. Everett, 
 Harvard '73. 
 
 Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 32 
 
MRS. LOUISE E. BETTENS 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED NOVEMBER, I9O5 
 BY WALTER FLORIAN 
 
FRANK BETTENS 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED NOVEMBER, I907 
 
 BY WALTER FLORIAN, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, MARCH II, 
 
 1864 
 
EDWARD D. BETTENS 
 
 FROM A PORTRAIT PAINTED DECEMBER, I905 
 BY WALTER FLORIAN 
 
Olivet, Mich., June 9, 1908. 
 
 My dear Madam: 
 
 I remember your son Thomas very well, for 
 Edward was one of my college friends, and I 
 have a distinct impression of his personality 
 and of the attractiveness of his character. 
 Edward 1 always admired for his frankness, 
 straightforwardness, simple manliness, and 
 friendliness. ... Of both of the boys it may 
 be said, with unusual emphasis, that they were 
 sons of whom a mother might be proud. I did 
 not know how much they owed to their mother, 
 or how you had been obliged to supply the 
 father's place to them, as well as your own; but 
 I must now be permitted to say that the double 
 duty had been done with wonderful success, 
 and that they had a mother of whom they did 
 well to be proud, as I know they were, for I 
 now remember certain expressions of Edward's 
 which reflected his filial reverence for you. 
 
 With renewed thanks I am. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Frank H. Foster, 
 
 Harvard, '73. 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 45 
 
Wevertown, N. Y., June 4, 1908. 
 
 My dear Edward: 
 
 I am much obliged to you for the copy of the 
 handsomely gotten up memorial to your brother 
 Tom. 
 
 The pictures of him at different ages, of your 
 mother and yourself are all interesting to me. 
 Tom and you always seemed to me to be very 
 good sons to your mother. But after reading 
 how your father died and how your mother 
 worked and planned for you I see that you owed 
 her all that you could possibly do for her. 
 
 The memorial comes from your mother, and 
 perhaps I should have written to her directly. 
 But I hope she will be kind enough to accept my 
 thanks sent to her through you. Time flies so 
 fast with me now that I am beginning to realize 
 the brevity of human life and to feel that only 
 the very highest things are worthy of much ex- 
 penditure of time and strength. 
 
 Your classmate and friend, 
 
 William J. Lloyd, 
 Harvard, '73. 
 
 Mr. Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 46 
 
EDWARD DETRAZ BETTENS 
 
 FROM PHOTOGRAPHS, MARCH 13, 1909 
 
 BY FLOYD E. BAKER 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, JUNE, 1874 
 
 BY WILLIAM NOTMAN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
 
 FOR THE CLASS OF 1 874 
 
 HARVARD COLLEGE 
 
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Boston, Massachusetts, June 3, '08. 
 My dear Bettens: 
 
 Thank you for remembering me with one of 
 the beautiful memorials of Tom. 
 
 Not only is it a work of art, but as a me- 
 morial of the love of the members of your 
 family for each other, and their loyalty in 
 every relation of life — never exceeded in any 
 other case of which I ever knew, and rarely 
 equalled — it is especially marked. 
 Besides all else it is but just to Tom. 
 Kindly present to your mother my kindest 
 regard and my gratitude at being thus re- 
 membered. 
 
 Yours most truly, 
 
 John F. Simmons, 
 Harvard, '73. 
 Mr. Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 57 
 
New York, 
 One West Eighty-first Street, 
 
 June 2, 1908. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 I thank you and Edward, from the bottom 
 of my heart, for the beautiful memorial of 
 Tom. I value it for two equal reasons : because 
 it preserves a record of his good influence in the 
 world, and because it illustrates the charming 
 relations which, so long as I have known you, 
 have always existed between you and him and 
 Edward. 
 
 For my innermost self I do not need any 
 memorial. I think of Tom in the way 1 do of 
 Sarah and my mother, not as dead, but sleep- 
 ing, and 1 love to believe that some time, and 
 somewhere, there will be an awakening, and we 
 shall all see and know and be fond of each other 
 again. 
 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 S. B. Clarke, 
 Harvard '74. 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 58 
 
Lowell, Massachusetts, June 7, 1908. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 I have just received the memorial to Tom 
 which you have sent to his friends. 
 
 It was a beautiful thought, beautifully ex- 
 ecuted. It is especially valuable to me, in pre- 
 serving Tom's early and student-days' photo- 
 graphs, as well as those we were more familiar 
 with. 1 am glad, too, that you put with them 
 the portraits of those who are only less dear to 
 us than Tom himself, the portraits of yourself 
 and Dode.* His mother and brother were so 
 essential a part of him that we cannot think of 
 him without thinking of them also, and the 
 memorial has an added completeness because 
 of them. His memory will not pass, would not 
 have passed away so long as I live, but this 
 memorial will keep it clear and distinct. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Frederick Lawton, 
 Harvard '74. 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 * Edward. 
 
 59 
 
Deer Isle, Maine, July 8, 1908. 
 
 Dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 I want to write a word of acknowledgment of 
 the copy of the Thomas S. Bettens' Memorial 
 which I received from you. I wrote my class- 
 mate, Edward D. Bettens, something of what 
 1 thought of Thomas S. Bettens when 1 re- 
 ceived the book. But 1 should like to send you 
 a word of personal thanks for the book. 
 
 It is a worthy memorial of a remarkable man. 
 No one can say too much of his strength and 
 sweetness of nature. No one can say better, 
 than another New York school, how much good 
 he did in his work day by day. I knew about 
 it, because 1 knew so many of his pupils. It 
 seems only yesterday that I knew both your 
 sons as boys in college. They are of the salt 
 of the earth. You ought to be proud of being 
 their mother, as I am myself ever proud of be- 
 ing their friend, ever so little. 
 
 Yours very faithfully, 
 
 James G. Crosswell, 
 Harvard '73. 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 60 
 
KEBO 
 
 1894, AUGUST 3— JANUARY 1 4, I906 
 
New York, June 2, 1908. 
 My dear Bettens: 
 
 Everything that you undertake to do, is 
 generally well done. And certainly that ap- 
 plies to your latest work — the labor of love — 
 the beautiful memorial of Tom, which 1 re- 
 ceived this forenoon. 
 
 Ever since it came 1 have been picking it up, 
 looking at the text and the plates. For my 
 thoughts have been turning back through the 
 years, and especially through the past year, 
 and towards 130 West 87th Street, and those 
 whom I have seen there. 
 
 In your note you say that I am "almost one 
 of the family." Yes, thanks to the continued 
 kindness and hospitality of those who have 
 lived there, it has always seemed like home to 
 me. And so I shall the more highly prize this 
 memorial book of dear Tom, with the story of 
 his honorable and useful career as a teacher of 
 boys and young men. 
 
 And I am glad that the book contains the 
 other pictures. To me they greatly enhance 
 
 65 
 
its value. They show Tom's mother, his 
 brother, and his dogs. No one knew him well 
 who did not know them also. 
 
 A stranger might ask, "Who was Kebo?" 
 But to me that question does not occur. A 
 memorial of Tom must include his dogs. How 
 fond he was of them, Kebo and Donny. 
 
 With warmest regards for your mother, and 
 with many thanks for the memorial, 1 am 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Wm. S. Beaman, 
 Harvard '72. 
 Mr. Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 66 
 
Lowell, Mass., June lo, 1908. 
 Dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 To but few men is it the rare privilege to 
 leave behind them a work so singularly clear of 
 blemish — or to call forth such spontaneous 
 tributes of affection from the hearts of those 
 who have known them most intimately. 
 
 It is our earnest hope that you, his mother, 
 to whom he was so tenderly devoted, may de- 
 rive great consolation in your bereavement 
 from these unusual expressions of appreciation 
 from so many different sources. 
 
 As 1 have ever highly valued his constant 
 friendship from the day when I first made his 
 acquaintance, so I shall cherish among my 
 chiefest treasures this summary of kind words, 
 most fittingly illustrated by striking likenesses 
 of those faithful pets which occupied so large 
 a place in his life. 
 
 Believe me, dear Mrs. Bettens, 
 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 Henry K. Spaulding, 
 Harvard '70. 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 67 
 
Grafton, Mass., June ii, 1908. 
 My dear Bettens: 
 
 I want to thank you for sending me the 
 beautiful memorial volume. 
 
 I have very pleasant recollections of your 
 brother and was very much interested in the 
 book which makes a record of which you have 
 a right to feel proud. It was a fine case of an 
 heroic mother, and her two sons, who proved to 
 be worthy of her devoted care and did what they 
 could to repay it. The book shows what you 
 have done, and I shall be glad to preserve it as 
 a book of Hving human interest. 
 I am, with kindest regards. 
 
 Your friend, 
 Edward P. Usher, 
 Harvard '73. 
 Mr. Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 68 
 
DON 
 
 MARCH 3, 1900 — NOVEMBER 9, I908 
 
Framingham, Mass., June 4, 1908. 
 
 My dear Bettens: 
 
 I have received the copy of your brother's 
 memorial which you so kindly sent me. Is it 
 out of place to express my admiration for the 
 form adopted by you? The whole thing ap- 
 peals to me: the letter-press, the portraits, 
 everything is beyond praise as a work of art. 
 
 But all that is secondary to the object in 
 view — and there 1 hesitate to intrude on the 
 sacredness of your sorrow. That life is an en- 
 viable one which can call forth, at its close, 
 such expressions of appreciation and affection 
 as 1 find embodied in the memorial. And what 
 more can we who survive ask? If our friend 
 has merited the "Well done" of his earthly 
 contemporaries, there is no doubt as to what 
 the verdict of the Ultimate Court will be. 
 
 As the volume is issued in the name of your 
 mother, 1 have ventured to write her in ac- 
 knowledgment. 1 enclose the note to her and 
 ask you to read it — and destroy it if it seems 
 to you untimely or in any way inappropriate. 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Arthur L. Ware, 
 
 Harvard '73. 
 Mr. Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 73 
 
Framingham, Mass., June 5, 1908. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 It is a pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of 
 your very beautiful memorial of your son: 
 beautiful alike as a work of art and in the trib- 
 utes to his worth and character which his 
 death has brought forth from friend and pupil. 
 To me the profession of the teacher has always 
 seemed among the noblest of callings, and the 
 lot of the successful teacher a most enviable 
 one. Such a career as was your son's must have 
 been full of happiness in the conviction, that he 
 had made no mistake in the choice of his life- 
 work, and that he was doing well that which his 
 hand found to do. Like the poet, 1 hold that 
 the teacher is born and not made — but birth 
 alone will not suffice without later training and 
 discipline. And may 1 venture to express my 
 belief that for much — perhaps most — of the 
 qualities which endeared your son to his friends 
 and to those who came under his control, he 
 was indebted to the teaching and influence of 
 his mother? 
 
 It is with no little hesitancy that 1 write this 
 
 74 
 
note to offer you my sympathy in your grief. 
 A stranger to you personally, 1 am not privileged 
 to assume the liberties of a friend — and so 1 
 beg you to read between the lines and to credit 
 me with a good intention which may, perhaps, 
 seem officious. 
 
 1 am yours sincerely, 
 
 Arthur L. Ware. 
 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 75 
 
New York, June 8, 1908. 
 Dear Ware: 
 
 I have read to my mother your two letters. 
 You have divined the real meaning of the 
 Memorial Book, and 1 am thankful that a copy 
 is in your possession. 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 Mr. Arthur L. Ware, 
 Class Secretary, Harvard '73, 
 Framingham, Mass. 
 
 76 
 
New York, June 2, 1908. 
 
 Dear Mr. President: 
 
 Partly through your recommendation given 
 about twenty-eight years ago, my brother, Mr. 
 Thomas Simms Bettens, Harvard '74, became 
 a teacher in The Cutler School, New York City. 
 
 His mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, begs you 
 individually to accept from her one of the two 
 accompanying memorial books, entitled 
 
 THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 A MEMORIAL 
 
 The other she offers to the College Library 
 (Gore Hall). 
 
 In the Memorial Book as Plate IV is a pho- 
 togravure from her portrait by Mr. Florian, 
 painted December, 1907, a few days before the 
 eighty-first anniversary of her birthday. The 
 portrait is a very fine likeness. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 President Charles W. Eliot, 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 77 
 
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS 
 
 OF 
 
 HARVARD COLLEGE 
 
 Cambridge, June 6, 1908. 
 Dear Mr. Bettens: 
 
 Will you please give Mrs. Bettens, your 
 mother, my heartiest thanks for the copy she 
 has sent me of the memorial to her son, Thomas 
 Simms Bettens. It is an appropriate and in- 
 teresting memorial of a faithful and successful 
 teacher, and of the family group to which he 
 belonged. To help build up such characters 
 and such lives as his is the chief work of the 
 college. 
 
 I congratulate you on possessing a fine like- 
 ness of your mother. The incidents of her life 
 reported in this memorial volume, and the por- 
 trait, are a worthy illustration of her life. I 
 have sent the second copy of the memorial to 
 the College Library, from which you should 
 also receive an acknowledgment. I am, with 
 great regard. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Charles W. Eliot. 
 
 Edward D. Bettens, Esq. 
 
 79 
 
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 27, 1908. 
 Dear Madam: 
 
 I was shocked at the announcement of the 
 death of your son, Thomas Simms Bettens, as 
 I had not received any intimation of his feeble 
 health. 
 
 You have the consolation that his life, though 
 too brief, was spent in a worthy calling, and 
 that his memory will be enshrined, not only in 
 the hearts of his immediate relatives and 
 friends, but also in the hearts of his pupils, who 
 will lead nobler lives because of his instructions 
 and patient labors in their behalf. 
 
 I thank you for sending me this memorial. 
 Remember me to your son Edward. 
 
 During my forty-seven years of service in 
 Woodward High School* over 15,000 pupils 
 received instruction from me, but no two boys 
 are remembered with kindlier feelings than 
 your two sons, who were pupils of mine so many 
 years ago. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Geo. W. Harper. 
 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 * Professor Harper was a teacher (1853 to 1865) in, and prin- 
 cipal (186; to 1900) of Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
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New York, June 4, 1908. 
 Dear Miss Walter: 
 
 By registered mail I am sending to you, 
 from my mother, Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, of 
 130 West 87th Street, New York City, a book 
 entitled 
 
 THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 A MEMORIAL 
 
 He and 1 are graduates of Woodward, '70 and 
 '68, respectively. He always remembered you, 
 and spoke of you with tenderness and admira- 
 tion. Please accept the book from Mrs. 
 
 Bettens. 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 Miss Henrietta Walter,* 
 
 College Hill, 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 * Miss Walter was a teacher (1865 to 1892) in Woodward High 
 School, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
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Cincinnati, Ohio, June 5, 1908. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 The volume [the Memorial Book] which is so 
 fitting a tribute to the memory of your son, 
 Thomas Simms Bettens, came to-day, and I 
 cannot really express my deep appreciation of 
 the kindness which has included me in the list 
 of his friends. And yet, in a sense, he had no 
 better friend than his old teacher, who followed 
 with delight the growth of the boy into the 
 man. All these years I have had a copy of the 
 photograph by Notman and have often looked 
 at it, but am glad to have the picture of the 
 boy, for so he looked, when he first came into 
 my class. The promise of the boy was well 
 fulfilled in the man, as I judge from reading 
 the beautiful tributes to his character. In 
 those days he was shy, reserved, with a strong 
 love for the beautiful, but with a keen appre- 
 ciation of fun, alert as to his work, and always 
 approachable through his afl'ection. He did all 
 his duty as a pupil, and more — and it is now a 
 great satisfaction to me that I was permitted 
 to lay the foundations of the classic knowledge, 
 which he so greatly developed for his own good 
 and that of his pupils. 
 
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Since June, 1870, I have worn a ring given 
 me by the boys of his special class — my only 
 ring. It has nine diamonds, one for each boy, 
 and is inscribed "College Class 1870." I al- 
 ways put it on in a certain way, so that I can 
 call the names in this order: Doughty, Bult- 
 man, Morris, Bettens, Pullan, Wright, Forch- 
 heimer, Cramer, Hoflfheimer. Only Morris and 
 Forchheimer now remain — and, of all the num- 
 ber, none has left a greater or more lasting im- 
 press for good on the world than your son. 
 
 I see that Mr. Bettens was a lover of dogs. 
 If, in general, "man is the God of the dog," 
 then how great a God must such a man have 
 been to his dog. 
 
 May the natural sorrow be tempered by the 
 joyful knowledge that Tom's life was a bene- 
 diction to all who knew him, and that its in- 
 fluence will go on forever. 
 
 With kindest regards to Mr. Edward D. 
 
 Bettens, 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Henrietta Walter. 
 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens, 
 
 130 West 87th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
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WOODWARD HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 CINCINNATI, OHIO 
 
 FROM A BLACK AND WHITE REPRODUCTION 
 
 BY RICHARD RUMMALL, OF NEW YORK, FROM 
 
 A STEEL ENGRAVING BY C. A. JEWETT & CO., 
 
 OWNED BY ARTHUR O. JONES 
 
 TEACHER OF DRAWING IN WOODWARD HIGH SCHOOL 
 
II 
 
 MEMORIAL OF THE CLASS OF 
 
 1874 
 
 HARVARD COLLEGE 
 
MEMORIAL 
 
 OF THE 
 CLASS OF 1874 
 
 Thomas Simms Bettens was born in Vevay, 
 Indiana, March 6, 185 1, and died at Bar Har- 
 bor, Maine, July 2, 1907. 
 
 He was the son of Alexander and Louise E. 
 Bettens. In 1858 he came to Cincinnati. He 
 graduated at the Woodward High School in 
 June, 1870. In the fall of that year he en- 
 tered Harvard. In college he was a member of 
 the Everett Athenaeum, Pi Eta, and Phi Beta 
 Kappa. He was on the Freshman baseball 
 team, and played against Yale in June, 1871. 
 He roomed in Hollis throughout his course, for 
 the first two years with Haven, the last two 
 years with Lull. While acutely interested in 
 everything that concerned the class, Bettens's 
 natural reserve, and his fondness for the life 
 with his friends, prevented him taking that 
 prominent part in class matters for which his 
 talents and character so well fitted. him. He 
 could easily, for instance, have played on the 
 'Varsity baseball team, if he had felt like sparing 
 the necessary time from his studies. He did 
 
 9' 
 
yield to an urgent request in Senior year, when 
 the nine needed strengthening. 
 
 The year after graduation he received the 
 Harris Fellowship, and in June, 1875, was 
 awarded his A. M. degree for his year's work in 
 Modern Languages. The next three years he 
 taught Greek and History at Lake Forest 
 Academy in Illinois. In 1878 he came to teach 
 Latin and Greek in the school of Mr. A. H. 
 Cutler in New York City. He was there with- 
 out interruption for twenty-eight years. Until 
 1906 his life was at school with his pupils and 
 at home with his mother and brother. He had 
 classes in Greek, Latin, History and Elementary 
 Science, but his class-room work soon became 
 confined almost exclusively to the Greek and 
 the advanced Latin of the college requirement. 
 His presence in the study room of the older 
 boys, of which he had charge, brought him 
 closely into touch with his pupils during the 
 last two years of their school course. Letters 
 to his mother from his colleagues and pupils 
 show the deep impression upon them of his 
 teaching and personality. Mr. Cutler writes: 
 "His enthusiasm and attractive personaHty 
 have left a deep impression upon the six or 
 seven hundred men who have attended his 
 
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classes. Both in the opinion of his fellow- 
 teachers and of his pupils, he was a really great 
 teacher and a charming man." A few selec- 
 tions from the many letters received from old 
 pupils will best show the extent and value of 
 his work: " 1 have lost one of my best friends." 
 — "His fairness and fine character have had an 
 influence on the boys he taught more than they 
 realize, and certainly he was the last to suspect 
 the power of his example, for no man was ever 
 less self-conscious." — "Like all his pupils, 1 had 
 the warmest esteem and affection for Mr. 
 Bettens, and 1 have never forgotten the live 
 interest which he put into things he taught." — 
 "Mr. Bettens was my teacher for nine years, 
 and there was no one at the school for whom I 
 had more affection and admiration. He was 
 always kind and considerate." — " 1 feel that 1 
 owe more than 1 realize to his training and care- 
 ful watch over me through those most important 
 years of my life." — "He was the dearest class- 
 mate of them all." — "Mr. Bettens was one of 
 my first teachers and one of whom 1 was the 
 most fond, and respected most." — " 1 always 
 felt that it was his personality which made 
 Greek one of my favorite studies." The fol- 
 lowing is from Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 
 
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also one of his pupils: "To my dying day I will 
 carry the memory of his face and figure, invari- 
 ably patient and wise, expecting the best of us, 
 putting hard things in the simplest fashion, and 
 warning a boy frankly when he thought him 
 over-confident on the eve of college examina- 
 tions, and putting heart into those who were 
 too timid. 1 never knew any one who pos- 
 sessed in greater measure the genius for teaching 
 boys. He always had good discipline, and that 
 without much effort, and even when he had to 
 be severe he never failed to keep the boys' af- 
 fection and entire respect." 
 
 He resigned his position at the Cutler School 
 in 1906. He was a member of the University 
 Club and Harvard Club of New York City, and 
 an annual subscriber to the Metropolitan Mu- 
 seum of Art. The last year of his life was spent 
 quietly at his home in New York. He was de- 
 voted to his mother, and much of his time was 
 passed in reading with her and accompanying 
 her to museums and art galleries. As had been 
 his custom for years, he went to Bar Harbor in 
 June, 1907. On the 25th of that month he 
 seemed to be in the best of health. He had in- 
 vited a few friends to dinner for the following 
 Thursday, to celebrate what he believed to be 
 
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a certain victory of Harvard over Yale in the 
 boat race. On Wednesday morning he was 
 suddenly seized with apoplexy as he was leav- 
 ing his sleeping-room to go to breakfast. The 
 doctor who was summoned, found his right 
 side paralyzed. Although he received the best 
 of care from trained nurses and skilled physi- 
 cians, pneumonia set in on the 30th, and on 
 July 2d he died. Two weeks later a circular 
 letter to his old associates of the Cutler School 
 was composed and sent out by Dr. A. W. H. 
 Eaton, who had been one of his colleagues in 
 the Cutler School for nearly twenty years. Mr. 
 Eaton says of him: "His character was sin- 
 gularly pure and fine, his judgment was ex- 
 cellent, his presence was magnetic, and there 
 is no one who knew him of his old pupils who 
 will not retain for him always a truly affection- 
 ate regard." 
 
 Tom Bettens was a great teacher, not simply 
 in his ability to impart knowledge and make 
 clear explanations, but especially because of 
 the stimulating power of his magnetic per- 
 sonality, which rarely failed to bring into action 
 a boy's best qualities. While he was positive 
 and forceful, he was at the same time unselfish 
 and considerate, ever ready to acknowledge 
 
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mistakes of judgment or action. He will be 
 remembered as a man who was absolutely sin- 
 cere, pure-minded, honest, and reliable. 
 
 J. C. B. 
 
 The above memorial notice is now sent to the 
 class and to the family of our deceased class- 
 mate, and will be entered on the class records 
 after formal action at the next meeting on 
 Commencement Day. 
 
 George P. Sanger, 
 Class Secretary. 
 
 Boston, November 13, 1907. 
 
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THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 AND 
 
 DON 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, OCTOBER I4, I9O5 
 BY ROCKWOOD, JR., NEW YORK 
 
Ill 
 
 THE TEACHER AND 
 HIS PUPILS 
 
A LETTER 
 
 FROM 
 
 THE REVEREND ARTHUR WENTWORTH H. EATON 
 
 TO 
 
 THE GRADUATES OF THE CUTLER SCHOOL 
 
 WHO WERE PUPILS OF 
 
 THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 1 6 East qth Street, New York, 
 July 15, 1907. 
 
 Dear Sirs: 
 
 Our dearly loved friend, Thomas S. Bettens, 
 died at Bar Harbor, Maine, July 2, 1907. At 
 this time of the year we are so scattered that 
 even the newspaper notices of his death have 
 perhaps not reached you. May I, therefore, 
 give you the following facts? 
 
 Mr. Bettens was born at Vevay, Indiana, 
 March 6, 1851. He was educated at the public 
 schools and the Woodward High School, of 
 Cincinnati, was graduated at Harvard Uni- 
 versity in 1874, and the following year from 
 Harvard received his Master's degree. For a 
 short time after this he taught at Lake Forest 
 Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois, and then en- 
 tered the Cutler School in New York. For 
 
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twenty-eight years he held one of the most re- 
 sponsible positions in Cutler's, and there is not 
 one of the many interesting men who have 
 graduated from the school who does not remem- 
 ber him as a singularly devoted teacher and 
 faithful friend. For a long time he has spent 
 his summer vacations with his mother and 
 brother at the Newport House, Bar Harbor, 
 and there with his favorite bulldog he had gone 
 this year. For a year he had not been teach- 
 ing, and the rest had done him so much good 
 that he seemed in perfect health. On the 25th 
 of June, 1907, he invited a few friends to dine 
 with him on the 27th, but the morning of the 
 26th, as he was going to breakfast, he was sud- 
 denly seized with apoplexy and his right side 
 was paralyzed. On the 27th he was speechless. 
 Sunday, the 30th, pneumonia set in, and on 
 Tuesday morning, July 2d, at about half-past 
 ten, he died. Funeral services were held at St. 
 Sauveur's Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor, 
 Maine, July 4th. For the present his body 
 rests in a vault at Bar Harbor, but in the 
 autumn it will be brought to Woodlawn, New 
 York City, to be buried. 
 
 Mr. Bettens lived with his mother, Mrs. 
 Louise E. Bettens, and his brother, Mr. Edward 
 
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D. Bettens, at No. 130 West 87th Street, New 
 York City, but his family are now at the New- 
 port House, Bar Harbor, where he died. For 
 nearly twenty years I have been one of his 
 colleagues in the Cutler School and 1 can truth- 
 fully say that I have never known a kinder or 
 wiser man. His character was singularly pure 
 and fine, his judgment was excellent, his 
 presence was magnetic, and there is no one 
 who knew him, of his old pupils or friends, who 
 will not retain for him always a truly affec- 
 tionate regard. 
 
 1 am, my dear sir. 
 With sincere sorrow. 
 Faithfully yours, 
 Arthur Wentworth H. Eaton. 
 
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Southampton, N. Y., July 22, 1907. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 The news of your son's death came as a sad 
 blow to me, and many of us, who feel for him 
 the deepest gratitude and affection as the one 
 who above all others was our teacher in school 
 days. 
 
 Personally, 1 can never be too thankful for 
 his many kindnesses to me, and to my dying 
 day I shall carry the memory of his face and 
 figure — invariably patient, wise, expecting the 
 best of us, putting hard things in the simplest 
 fashion for our memories, warning a boy frankly 
 when he thought him overconfident on the eve 
 of the college examinations, and putting heart 
 into those who were too timid. I never knew 
 anyone who possessed in greater measure the 
 genius for teaching boys. He always had good 
 discipline, and that without much effort, and 
 even when he had to be severe, he never 
 failed to keep the boy's affection and entire 
 respect. There never was a boy, so far as I 
 know, who went through Cutler's School with- 
 out carrying away with him all honor for Mr. 
 Bettens. 
 
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1 have often met him, in recent years, in the 
 streets, and talked with him of his approaching 
 and finally attained rest. He seemed to be so 
 glad to shake off the burden of daily toil and 
 responsibility. 1 thought, at the time, more 
 than once, that he had spent himself too gener- 
 ously. He had given us everything that was in 
 him, and when the rest came, 1 fear that he had 
 little vitality left. 
 
 He will live in many hearts who love his 
 memory, and in many lives, who, whether they 
 are always aware of it or not, have been moulded 
 and shaped by his training. 
 
 He had those qualities of sincerity, fairness 
 and devotion to his work, which, coupled with 
 a magnetism all his own, compelled the loyal 
 admiration of boys. He stood, and will ever 
 stand, on a high pedestal in our thoughts, and 
 we cannot be grateful enough for such a teacher. 
 
 May the affections of a host of boys, now 
 grown men, for your son, be the channel of our 
 sympathy with you in this sorrow, and may the 
 comfort of Another mingle with ours. 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Henry S. Coffin. 
 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
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22, Sussex Place, Regents Park, 
 London, N. W., England. 
 July, 1908. 
 
 Dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 It was very kind and thoughtful of you to 
 send me Tom's Memorial Book, which 1 will 
 cherish with the affectionate and loving memory 
 I have of your son, who, as you know, was 
 my very best friend. Both in the book and in 
 the inscription to be placed on the Memorial 
 Fountain erected in Tom's memory, in Harvard 
 Union, the sentiments expressed so simply yet 
 so eloquently of Tom's character and worth, 
 leaves nothing for me to say but that I thor- 
 oughly endorse them. 
 
 With loving regards and esteem, believe. me. 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Harry Dillon Ripley. 
 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
 io8 
 
MEMORIAL 
 
 OF THE 
 CUTLER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 
 
 At the Annual Meeting of the Cutler Alumni 
 Association, held Friday, March 27, 1908, the 
 President announced the death of Mr. Thomas 
 S. Bettens on July 2, 1907, and thereupon the 
 following memorial was unanimously adopted, 
 and the Secretary was directed to send an en- 
 grossed copy thereof to Mr. Bettens's family, 
 and a printed copy to each member of the 
 Association: 
 
 MEMORIAL 
 
 Thomas S. Bettens was associated with the 
 Cutler School for twenty-eight years. For 
 twenty years he presided over the Senior sec- 
 tion of the school, and instructed its classes in 
 the study of the classical languages required 
 for admission into the larger universities. His 
 ripe scholarship, his broad culture, his skilful 
 and inspiring teaching, his liberal and sympa- 
 thetic understanding of boys' nature, made his 
 services of incalculable value to the youths who 
 passed under him to their college careers. 
 
 His functions were not limited to the exer- 
 
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cises of the class-room: he concerned himself 
 with all that interested and touched the lives 
 of his scholars. The qualities that made him 
 a famous teacher endeared him as a friend. 
 His gentle and winning personality, his en- 
 thusiastic devotion to his duties, his singularly 
 pure character, presented in themselves an 
 achievement of those high ideals of manhood 
 upon which his teaching in the broader sense 
 insisted. His work was a great influence for 
 good, and the memory of his genius will always 
 be an inspiration to those whom he taught. 
 
 The graduates of the school, his former pu- 
 pils, desire in this minute of their Association 
 to express their keen personal sorrow at his 
 death, and to record their high appreciation of 
 his services to them as a devoted teacher, a wise 
 adviser, and a loyal friend. 
 
 Barent Lefferts, 
 Secretary. 
 
 New York, March 27, 1908. 
 
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New York, March 17, 1908. 
 Prof. I. N. Hollis, 
 Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 
 Harvard Union, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 I am instructed by a self-appointed and 
 growing committee, at present consisting of 
 thirteen former pupils of Thomas S. Bettens, 
 '74, graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and 
 Columbia, to write to you, as Chairman of the 
 Board of Trustees of the Harvard Union, to 
 ask if it would be acceptable to the Union to 
 receive from Mr. Bettens's former pupils the 
 gift of a drinking fountain, to be placed in the 
 Union in his memory, and as an inspiration to 
 those boys who are studying at Harvard to be 
 teachers in secondary schools. 
 
 Mr. Bettens was, for about thirty years, a 
 teacher in a day school in this city, which, I 
 believe, during that time sent one hundred and 
 thirty-four boys to Harvard, ninety-nine to 
 Yale, one hundred and seven to Columbia, 
 
 III 
 
forty-five to Princeton, and twenty-five to 
 various other colleges, besides a number into 
 business. He taught, principally, Greek and 
 Latin, but, during the last year or two of each 
 boy's course, he was more like a private tutor 
 in these and several other studies. 1 think Mr. 
 Bettens was the best teacher that I have ever 
 had anywhere, and that feeling is almost, if not 
 quite, universal among the boys whom he 
 taught, many of whom were never fond of study. 
 Moreover, he had, when we were schoolboys, 
 and his memory has to-day, the respect and af- 
 fection of all of us, because he was always just, 
 patient, encouraging and sympathetic, and 
 made every boy his friend. 
 
 Mr. Bettens was a modest and retiring man. 
 He lived very quietly with his mother and his 
 bachelor brother, Edward D. Bettens, '73, and 
 was devoted to them and to his few intimate 
 friends, and to his two prize bulldogs, and to 
 the boys, of whom, and of whose progress, he 
 was never tired of talking, and to whose 
 defense he was always ready to come. Mr. 
 Bettens was not an ascetic, but a very human 
 kind of man, fond of a good time and of seeing 
 a good game of baseball, and always encourag- 
 ing a love of fair play in all games. 
 
The idea of a memorial to Mr. Bettens started 
 soon after his death, last summer. A few of us 
 met and talked it over, and determined that 
 what we wanted to do was to show our affec- 
 tion for Mr. Bettens and, at the same time, to 
 try to make use of the lesson of his life by show- 
 ing the boys whose lives were to be spent teach- 
 ing in day schools that it lies largely in their 
 own hands whether or not they will leave a 
 memory like that of "Tommy Bettens." 
 
 Those of us who graduated from Harvard 
 have felt some hesitation in proposing a me- 
 morial at Cambridge, for, although Mr. Bettens 
 w,as a staunch Harvard man, he never showed 
 any college bias towards the boys. This hesi- 
 tation has not been shared by the graduates of 
 Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who are en- 
 thusiastic in their wish that the memorial may 
 be at Harvard. 
 
 We hope to give a drinking fountain, because 
 we think that an inscription, describing Mr. 
 Bettens, will be more apt to be read if placed 
 on a fountain than on a tablet or window. We 
 hope to put the fountain in the Union because, 
 after talking with President Eliot and with 
 Dean Briggs and with Mr. Jerome D. Greene, 
 we find that an outdoor fountain would be out 
 
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of use so large a part of each college year. We 
 hope to have the drawings made by Francke 
 Huntington Bosworth, Jr., Yale, '97, one of 
 Mr. Bettens's boys, who studied at the Beaux 
 Arts and with Messrs. Carrere & Hastings of 
 this city. 
 
 We understand that, if acceptable to you, 
 the plans of such a fountain would have to meet 
 the apjjroval of Mr. McKim. 
 
 If our idea meets with the approval of your 
 Board, we should "be very glad of suggestions 
 as to the form, material, and size of a fountain 
 which you think would best serve the uses of 
 the Union. We had in mind a bronze wall 
 fountain, handsome but simple in design, suit- 
 able for an inscription, which we hope President 
 Eliot may word for us, with one or two taps for 
 water. 
 
 We hope that this suggestion of a memorial 
 to a useful son of Harvard may be acceptable 
 to your Board. 
 
 For the Committee, 
 
 Eliot Tuckerman. 
 
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PUPILS 
 Eliot Tuckerman, Harvard 
 
 CHAIRMAN 
 
 John Harsen Rhoades 
 
 TREASURER 
 
 Henry Martyn Alexander, Princeton 
 Rogers Hammond Bacon, Columbia 
 George Blagden, Harvard 
 Robert Willets Carle, Yale 
 Bridgham Curtis, Harvard 
 Charles Prentice Howland, Yale 
 Rupert Cochrane King, Harvard 
 James Parrish Lee, Harvard 
 Charles Walton Ogden, Columbia 
 Norton Perkins, Harvard 
 Harry Dillon Ripley 
 Frederick Sturges, Jr., Princeton 
 Allen Wardwell, Yale 
 Chalmers Wood, Jr., Columbia 
 
New York, June 2, 1908. 
 
 Dear Mrs. Bettens: 
 
 Thank you very much for the beautiful 
 Memorial Book which came this morning. I 
 am delighted to own it, and shall always value 
 it because of my affection for your son Thomas, 
 and my gratitude to him for all he did for me. 
 
 I think you and Mr. Edward Bettens are to 
 be congratulated on the perfection of the finished 
 book. It could not have been done better in 
 any particular. It is very handsome, and per- 
 fectly simple, and every word in it is absolutely 
 true. 
 
 I shall also value the book as a reminder of 
 my friendship with you and Mr. Edward Bettens, 
 for which I also have to thank my old friend and 
 teacher. 
 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 Eliot Tuckerman, 
 Harvard, '94. 
 
 Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. 
 
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TWO VIEWS OF THE HARVARD UNION 
 
 FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY 
 LEON DADMUN, BOSTON, MASS. 
 
GENERAL COMMITTEE OF PUPILS 
 
 Thomas Safford Adams, Yale 
 Henry Martyn Alexander, Princeton 
 Charles Crook Auchincloss, Yale 
 Charles Russell Auchincloss, Yale 
 Edgar Stirling Auchincloss, Yale 
 Samuel Sloan Auchincloss, Yale 
 John Hone Auerbach, Princeton 
 Rogers Hammond Bacon, Columbia 
 James Dixon Roman Baldwin, Harvard 
 Charles Lowell Barlow, Harvard 
 Robert Shaw Barlow, Harvard 
 CouRTLANDT DixoN Barnes, Yale 
 Edward Bell, Harvard 
 Harrison Kerr Bird, Columbia 
 Courtlandt Field Bishop, Columbia 
 Dexter Blagden, Harvard 
 George Blagden, Harvard 
 LiNZEE Blagden, Harvard 
 Cornelius Newton Bliss, Jr., Harvard 
 Walter Phelps Bliss, Yale 
 
 125 
 
Francke Huntington Bosworth, Jr., Yale 
 
 George Tuttle Brokaw, Princeton 
 
 Howard Crosby Brokaw, Princeton 
 
 Frank Brookfield, Yale 
 
 John Wright Brown 
 
 Malcolm Emmons Turner Brown, Harvard 
 
 Arthur Scott Burden, Harvard 
 
 Charles Burlingham, Harvard 
 
 Abeel Canda 
 
 Edward Hicks Carle, University of Virginia 
 
 Robert Willets Carle, Yale 
 
 Lauren Carroll, Harvard 
 
 David Crawford Clark, Harvard 
 
 Hardin Lake Crawford, Princeton 
 
 Henry Sloane Coffin, Yale 
 
 William Sloane Coffin, Yale 
 
 Bridgham Curtis, Harvard 
 
 Alfred Loomis Curtiss, Yale 
 
 Sherman Day, Yale 
 
 Louis John de Grenon De Milhau, Harvard 
 
 Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis, Princeton 
 
 Edward Alexander Downey, Yale 
 
 Charles Dana Draper, Harvard 
 
 Floyd Reading Du Bois, Harvard 
 
 Dudley James Betts Dupignac, Columbia 
 
 George Jones Dyer, Harvard 
 
 Stephen Maurice Edgell, Harvard 
 
 126 
 
Douglas Ludlow Elliman 
 
 Francis Estover 
 
 William Henry Fearing, Jr., Columbia 
 
 Charles Maximilian Fleischmann, Yale 
 
 Udo Maximilian Fleischmann, New York 
 
 Law School 
 Nathan Chandler Foot, Jr., Harvard 
 Paulding Fosdick, Harvard 
 Amos Tuck French, Harvard 
 Pendleton Rogers Fuller, Princeton 
 GoELET Gallatin, Columbia 
 Merrill William Gallaway, Yale 
 Lawrence Lewis Gillespie, Harvard 
 Charles Sydney Haight, Columbia 
 Parmly Hanford, Harvard 
 Duncan Harris, Harvard 
 Fairfax Harrison, Yale 
 Francis Burton Harrison, Yale 
 Horace Havemeyer, Harvard 
 James Anderson Hawes, Yale 
 Harold Buckminster Hayden, Harvard 
 John Putnam Hayden, Harvard 
 Charles Rapallo Henderson, Harvard 
 Russell Hotchkiss Hoadley, Columbia 
 Henry Boley Hollins, Jr., Harvard 
 William Grace Holloway, Harvard 
 Howard Parmlee Homans, Princeton 
 
 127 
 
Charles Prentice Howland, Yale 
 
 Alfred William Hoyt, Harvard 
 
 Frederick Clark Inman, Yale 
 
 Ernest Iselin, Columbia 
 
 William Crane Ivison, Yale 
 
 Charles Frederick Havemeyer Jackson, 
 
 Columbia 
 Theodore Caldwell Janeway, Yale 
 Richard Mortimer Jesup, Princeton 
 Edwin Britton Katte, Cornell 
 Edward Kemp 
 
 George William Kemp, Harvard 
 Rupert Cochrane King, Harvard 
 Francis Harrison Kinnicutt, Harvard 
 Henry Charles Knoblauch, Harvard 
 Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr., Harvard 
 James Gore King Lee, Harvard 
 James Parrish Lee, Harvard 
 Barent Lefferts, Columbia 
 Robert Forsyth Little, Jr., Princeton 
 
 LOMAX LlTTLEJOHN, Jr. 
 
 Louis Livingston, Jr., Columbia 
 Philip Livingston Livingston, Harvard 
 Joseph Augustine MacAneeney, Columbia 
 James Clarence Hammond McLean, Princeton 
 John Alexander McCreery, Harvard 
 James McVickar 
 
 128 
 
Thomas Lincoln Manson, Jr., Harvard 
 
 Albert Goodsell Milbank, Princeton 
 
 DuNLEVY Milbank, Yale 
 
 George Austin Morrison, Jr., Harvard 
 
 Archibald Gordon Murray, Princeton 
 
 George Stevenson Nicholas, Jr., Columbia 
 
 George Nichols, Harvard 
 
 Floyd Clark Noble, Columbia 
 
 Norreys Jephson O'Conor, Harvard 
 
 Charles Walton Ogden, Columbia 
 
 William Church Osborn, Princeton 
 
 Henry Ivison Parsons, Yale 
 
 James Duane Pell, Columbia 
 
 Walden Pell, Columbia 
 
 Norton Perkins, Harvard 
 
 Oliver Hazard Perry, Jr., Princeton 
 
 Henry Varnum Poor, Harvard 
 
 Frank Brinley Porter, Yale 
 
 John Goldsmith Prall, Columbia 
 
 Henry Suydam Reynolds, Yale 
 
 John Harsen Rhoades, Harvard 
 
 Stacy Courtes Richmond, Harvard 
 
 Lewis Martin Richmond, Yale 
 
 Harry Dillon Ripley 
 
 Walcott Phelps Robbins, Yale 
 
 Beverly Randolph Robinson, Harvard 
 
 Joseph Wood Rutter, Princeton 
 
 129 
 
Philip Sands, Harvard 
 
 Anton Henry Schefer, Harvard 
 
 GusTAV H. Schwab, Jr., Yale 
 
 Philip Johnston Scudder, Yale 
 
 Newton Melman Shaffer, Jr., Yale 
 
 John Sloane, Jr., Yale 
 
 William Sloane, Yale 
 
 H. Alexander Smith, Princeton 
 
 W. Schuyler Smith, Princeton 
 
 Rowland Stebbins, Columbia 
 
 Harold Van Vredenburgh Story, Princeton 
 
 Albert Herman Francis Stursburg, Yale 
 
 Arthur Pemberton Sturges, Princeton 
 
 Frederick Sturges, Jr., Princeton 
 
 Harold Richmond Talbot, Harvard 
 
 Henry Richmond Taylor, Columbia 
 
 Phillips Blagden Thompson, Harvard 
 
 Samuel Thorne, Jr., Yale 
 
 Arthur Rodman Townsend, Yale 
 
 Charles Coe Townsend 
 
 John Bond Trevor, Harvard 
 
 Eliot Tuckerman, Harvard 
 
 Allen Wardwell, Yale 
 
 Gordon Wendell, Harvard 
 
 FoRSYTHE WiCKES, Yale 
 
 Harry Waldron Williams 
 
 GusTAVus Owen Winston, Harvard 
 
 130 
 
Henry Rogers Winthrop, Yale 
 Chalmers Wood, Jr., Columbia 
 William Runk Wright, Yale 
 Frederick Jacob Ziegler, Harvard 
 
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New York, June 3, 1908. 
 Dear Bettens: 
 
 I have received to-day the admirable memo- 
 rial of your brother, for which accept my thanks, 
 and have read it all, with renewed appreciation 
 of what he was, and I sympathize with your 
 mother and yourself in his loss. 
 
 I understand, too, better than ever before, 
 the strong bond that existed between you three 
 — the devotion "passing the love of women" 
 that enhances the sense of loss. 
 
 "Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus 
 Tarn cari capitis?" * 
 
 Remember me most kindly to your mother, 
 and assure her again of my sympathy in a 
 sorrow that, however it may soften, must en- 
 dure until the great mystery of pain and sorrow 
 is cleared away. 
 
 I am, my dear Bettens, 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 W. A. PURRINGTON, 
 
 Harvard, '73. 
 Mr. Edward D. Bettens. 
 
 * Horace, Carminum I. 24. 
 132 
 
IV 
 
 THE RELIGION OF SERVICE 
 
 WE ARE DEVELOPING IN THIS 
 COUNTRY A NEW RELIGION. I AM 
 SURE THAT IT IS NOT TOO MUCH TO 
 DESCRIBE IT IN THAT WAY. PERHAPS 
 IT IS MERELY AN OLD RELIGION, UNDER 
 A NEW NAME. IT IS A RELIGION OF 
 SERVICE, AND EDUCATION MUST BE 
 USED AS THE PREPARATION FOR SERV- 
 ICE, FOR THE GIVING OF PLEASURE TO 
 OTHERS. 
 
 THE RENDERING OF SERVICE — 
 THAT IS THE SUPREME REWARD. 
 
 FROM THE ADDRESS OF 
 
 PRESIDENT CHARLES W. ELIOT 
 
 JANUARY 27, 1909 
 
 AT THE RECEPTION TENDERED HIM 
 
 BY THE 
 
 HARVARD CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY 
 
 IN ITS CLUBHOUSE 
 
THOMAS SIMMS BETTENS 
 
 AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-FIVE 
 AND 
 
 DON 
 
 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, AUGUST 1 5, I906 
 BY VOSE, BAR HARBOR, MAINE 
 
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