Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . President E. Benjamin Andrews, 1870(Class picture) with the, let us hope, possible exception of the presidentshouse, there was not a bath-room in the lot. It was beforethe days of city water. Our water supply came from twowells, one of which was confessedly contaminated by aneighboring cesspool. The other, behind Hope College,on the back campus, was furnished with a wooden curb 250 Memories of Brown and a bucket. This curb used not infrequently to fur-nish an example of spontaneous combustion and waswont to go up, or
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . President E. Benjamin Andrews, 1870(Class picture) with the, let us hope, possible exception of the presidentshouse, there was not a bath-room in the lot. It was beforethe days of city water. Our water supply came from twowells, one of which was confessedly contaminated by aneighboring cesspool. The other, behind Hope College,on the back campus, was furnished with a wooden curb 250 Memories of Brown and a bucket. This curb used not infrequently to fur-nish an example of spontaneous combustion and waswont to go up, or rather down, in smoke. Hope Col-lege was the dormitory, but the rooms upon its lowestfloor had been made habitable only with the entrance ofour class. There were no closets in it. (There werenone in any of the old New England college buildings inthose days.) Not until the summer of 1866 were any. Hope College, 1870 sinks (so-called) placed in the halls, not rooms, of that year the students were accustomed to emptytheir wash-basins from the windows of their rooms, as didthose of the University of Paris in mediaeval days. Andso the early morning experience of Louis IX of France,Saint Louis, was not unusual to the sinners of such conditions it is not remarkable that typhoidfever claimed many victims. We lost a man a year forthree years, and the mortality in other classes was like Memories of Brown 251 ours. There has been a mighty change in the sanitaryarrangements of the university in forty years. The middle campus was our playground. The homebase was on a line drawn from the rear door of Manningto the laboratory, and once or twice in my baseball ex-perience the ball was knocked thence into George were always sure of a crowd of witnesses around
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