Edwin D. Worcester

Edwin Dean Worcester was a classmate at Yale, fifty-five years ago, of Otto Bannard, of Henry W. De Forest, and of President Arthur T. Hadley; all destined, like himself, to shine in the constellation of the Century. He was a notable prize-winner in the old days at Yale, and delivered the salutatory at Commencement, in the period when the rank of each student in the class was meticulously marked out and when, for some mysterious reason, the highest “rank man” of the course used to talk English from the platform to the audience of condescending professors and admiring relatives while the second highest talked Latin. Worcester was a capable and useful lawyer in his subsequent professional life, and a loyal Centurion in his hours of leisure. He was chairman of the Club’s admission committee in the days when it was more difficult to harmonize the sometimes eccentric ideas of the committee’s personnel, as to what constituted fitness for Century membership, than it has seemed to be in later years.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook