Harvard Spirit, A Tribute to Richard Hayter

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English

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The Marsman Magazine Volume II (No. 6) December 1937

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1937

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HARV ARD SPIRIT By REGINALD FITZ, '06. The following tribute to Mr. Richard Hayter, former secretary of Marsman & Company, and one of the first men to recognize the potentialities of the Mineral resources of the Philippines was sent to the Marsman Magazine by Mr. Kenneth B. Day, of the Philippine Refining Company. Mr. Hayter attended the Harvard Tercentenary as the representative of the Harvard Club of Manila, and the fine tribute which follou's is from the October 22 issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. I have often wondered what is meant by "Harvard Spirit". To me it is largely indefinable, a thing never obviously apparent, for instance, at football games, the boat race, or Class Day, where one is apt to encounter either a spurious kind of organized Harvard exuberance or an equally spurious Harvard indifference. Even at Commencement Day I have never be.en sure, though at times, at luncheon in the Yard, with the alumni of all ages amicably picknicking together, I have felt that Harvard spirit must be present-an elusive elf just outside my grasp. Recently, however, I think I have shaken hands with it. A little over a year ago I first encountered Richard Hayter, '96. Being in Boston he happened to come to see me quietly and unpretentiously, because he had found out that I was a Harvard man and a graduate of the Harvard Medical School. I never knew him very well ; that is, I never knew anything of his past, of the school he came from, of his College life, of his clubs, of his friends, of what his life had been during all the years he had been away from Cambridge. But I came to know a great deal of what he felt about Harvard. · It appeared that he had been a wanderer since his graduation. I never knew in any detail what his profession actually was except that he had travelled extensively. It seemed that he had been almost everywhere and that he knew a good deal about many things. He was familiar with the Far East and had lived for a time in the tropics; he told me about London and how interesting it usually was to live there; he seemed to he familiar with all the places in France that I thought I had made friends with during the War; he had 14· read everything worthwhile that I had ever read and infinitely more; even in my own field he was knowledgeable and a stimulating companion with whom to swap ideas. But always as we talked, and we spent a number of hours together, the subject of our conversation would end with Harvard. He liked to think about Harvard; of the Yard; of his classmates and what they had accomplished; of President Eliot; of what might happen to Harvard under President Conant; of what it meant all over the world and under all sorts of conditions to be a Harvard man. Finally, one day, he admitted that he had travelled several thousand miles in order to attend the Tercentenary. As a boy he had liked Bar Harbor and Newport. He thought it might be pleasant to revisit these places, though :ne said that if he did it mightn't be much fun because the scenes that he remembered would have changed and many of the people, whom he knew would have disappeared. At Harvard it would be different. He would see his classmates; to be sure they might look different, but, as Dr. Holmes had once remarked of his classmates, "boys they'll be as long as three, as two, are creeping". Perhaps Cambridge might look different, too, but that wouldn't count, for there would be plenty of unchanged landmar~ to see again, and the memory of these beacons had helped him more than once safely to pick up his bearings in the storms of his life--the memory of beacons like University Hall and Holden Chapel, Memorial Hall, and the Yard with its old dormitories that had been in place for years and were likely to remain anchored. Most important of all, he wanted~ to revisit Harvard because to THE MARS MAN MAGAZINE for December, .1937 his way of thinking Harvard by necessity must remain young and changeless, always filled with young men, with young ideas and aspirations, with young brains, with young gaiety, and he wanted to saturate himself once more with the feeling of the untrammeled vigor of youth that he believed to be Harvard's essence. And so he had come. I saw him at the Tercentenary. At the meeting of the. Associated Harvard Clubs he carried the banner of the Harvard Club of Manila. He sat out all of the rainy morning of September 18. He dined with his class. It was hard work for him to do all this, yet, when later I reproached him for having done more than was good for his health, he reminded me that the occasion was Harvard's Tercentenary and that he was a Harvard alumnus. There seemed nothing more to be said. He left this country shortly afterwards, as quietly and unpretentiously as he came. He went to Barbados in search of a gentle climate. His death there has just been reported. I am sure that until the end he continued to think happily of Harvard, of Harvard's future, of his classmates, of the Yard, of the Tercentenary, of Harvard's vigor, of all the beacons of Harvard that on occasion had helped him to find his bearings. He was a valuable graduate. For he had Harvard Spirit. VIBRO PILE... 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