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THE
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Published Fortnightly by the Students of
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD.'
Frank L. .Staples, '89, Managing Editor.
Oliver P. Watts, '89 Business Editor.
William M. P^merv, '89.
George T. Files, '89.
Fremont J. C. Little, '89.
Daniel E. Owen, '89.
Edward E. Stearns, '89.
George B. Chandler, '90.
John M. W. Moody, '90.
Thomas C. Spillane, '90.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
URUNSWIOK MAINE.
1888-9.
Index to Volume XVIII.
PROSE.
PAGE
Abstract of Baccalaureate Sermon President Hyde 1)6
Abstract of Rev. Mr. Howe's Sermon .188
Advantages of Whist T. C. Spillane 139
Alpha Delta Phi Convention B. C. Carroll 19
Annual Convention of Theta Delta Chi J. R. Clark 153
Arlo Bates W. M. Emery 223
Base-Ball G. B. Chandler 20, ;i;!, .16, 94, lOfi
Base-Ball V.V.Thompson 200
Boat-Races, The F. J. C. Little oO
Book Reviews D. E. Owen, Editor,
12, 24, 39, 61, 8.3, 100, 112, 123, 135, 147. 159, 171, 183, 195, 207, 21.s, 237
Bowdoin Alumni Association of Boston 201
Bowdoin Alumni Association of New York 165
Bowdoin Alumni Association of Portland 177
Bowdoin Alumni Association of Washington 202
Bowdoin College Observatory, The Prof. C. C. Hutchins 90
Chapel Bell, The F. J. Allen 212
Class Day F. L. Staples 67
Class Feeling F. J. Allen 22(i
Class History of '88 F. K. Linscott 67
Class-Day Oration M. P. Smithwick 68
CoLLKGii Tabula W. M. Emery, Editor,
7, 21, 34, 58, 80, 94, 107, 119, 131, 143, 154, 16f;, 179, 190, 203, 213, 232
College World F. J. C. Little, E. R. Stearns, Editors,
11, 24, 38, 61, 84, 99, 111, 122, 134, 146, 158, 171, 182, 194, 206, 217, 236
Commencement Day F. L. Staples 77
Communications :
Ccannients upon Comments J. M. W. Moody 138
George Evans George Woods, '37 18
Intercollegiate Athletics Prof. Joseph Torrey, '84 42
Lecture Revival, A W. R. Hunt 165
Nuisance, A W . R. Hunt 166
Reading Room, The J, L. Doherty 190
"Con" G. B. Chandler 118
Consultation after Recitation G. B. Chandler 91
Conversation A. V. Smith 224
Delta Kappa Epsilon Convention W. M. Emery 128
Editorial Notes F. L. Staples, Editor,
1, 15, 27, 41, 63, 87, 101, 113, 125, 137, 149, 161, 173, 185, 198, 209, 219
Elocution at Bowdoin W. R. Hunt 20
Emin Pasha H. W. Jarvis 225
Examinations F. J. Allen 187
Examinations W. R. Hunt 211
Examinations C. L. Hutchinson 227
Examinations F. J. Allen 227
Fast Set at Harvard, The G. B. Chandler 127
Field Day '. E. R. Stearns 49
George Eliot A. V. Smith 199
George Sand J. M. W. Moody 31
I N D E X .— ( Continued. )
PAOE
Gladstone as a Public Man T. C. Spillane 121)
Grinding F. J. Allen 178
Hampton Students at Bowdoin E. R. Stearns 152
Henry Winkley President Hyde 117
Historic Scraps (I. and II.) W. M. Emery 1 -40, 150
Ideas on Pranks and Faculties J. M. W. Moody 115
lu Memoriam 11, 24, 99, 111, 122, 131, 168, 170, 21(;
Ivy Day , W. M. Emery 52
Ivy Hop D. E. Owen oti
Ivy Oration J. M. Phelan 44
Journalism at Bovpdoin (I. and II.) F. L. Staples 17, 30
Massachusetts Trip, The F. L. Staples 6
Medical Graduation, The F. L. Staples 73
Medical Oration H. W. Page 73
Melville Weston Fuller J. L. Crosby, '53 18
Muse at Bowdoin, The G. T. Files 228
Needed Reform, A E. H. Newbegin 187
New Chapel Organ, The W. M. Emery 28
Nomination of Chief Justice Fuller, The , 229
Not More but Better Schools F. L. Staples 189
Old May Training, The C. S. F. Lincoln 5
Old Organ, The Josiah Crosby, '35 75
One Method of Exercise. . .*. W. R. Hunt 199
Our Distinguished Alumni G. B. Chandler 186
Our Political Clubs G. B. Chandler 105
Personal G. T. Files, Editor,
10. 23, 36, 60, 84, 97, 109, 121, 132, 145, 156, 169, 181, 192, 205, 215, 234
Peucinian and Athenasan Societies, The (I. and II.) . . .C. S. F. Lincoln lliS, 175
Phi Beta Kappa 75
Popularity F. J. Allen 151
Presentation of Field-Day Awards W. M. Emery 51
President Hyde's Sermon at Harvard 179
Pro E. H. Newbegin 103
Profusion of Modern Literature, The G. B. Chandler 141
Psi Upsilon Convention W. R. Goding 33
Reading , V. V. Thompson 201
Reminiscences (I. and II.) Edmund Flagg, '35 43, 64
Report of the Board of Overseers 74
Report of the Librarian Prof. Little 76
Reverie, A O. P. Watts 198
Samuel Adams F. L. Staples 91
Savonarola F. L. Staples 89
Self-conceit A. V. Smith 212
Seniors' Last Chapel W. M. Emery 55
Sophomore-Freshman Contests, The. F. L. Staples 93
Small Colleges G. B. Chandler 29
Teaching A. P. McDonald 104
Theta Delta Chi Convention J. R. Clark 153
Value of Mathematics, The G. B. Chandler 210
What We Need E. H. Newbegin 224
What Some Alumni Told Me W. M. Emery 5
What Should Determine the Choice of Electives ?. . G. B. Chandler 4
William Dean Howells W. M. Emery 105
I N D E X .— ( Continued. )
POETRY.
PAOB
Ballad of Diogenes, The G. T. Files 117
Bowdoin Creed, The Anon 130
Bowdoin Oak, The Mrs. Frances L. Mace 65
Chapel Organ, The G. B. Chandler 74
Chinner, The B. D. Ridlon 167
Class-Day Ode A. W. Tolman 68
Class-Day Poem W. W. Woodman 70
College Days G. T. Files 173
College Song .Rev. £. F. Davis, '71 204
Consequence, The G. T. Files 209
Coral Reef, A G. T. Files 186
Deadly Dead, The C. S. F. Lincoln 154
Dead in German, A W. R. Hunt 232
Election Returns G. T. Files 127
Exile, The W. E. Perkins 115
Expressive W. M. Emery 233
For a Friend's Album G. T. Files 87
Grant M. W. Fuller, 'o3 l(i
Grind, The T. S. Burr 107
Helen G. T. Files 161
Horace, Book I., Ode V B. D. Ridlon 104
In Durance C.L.Mitchell 188
In the Gym C. S. F. Lincoln 214
Ivv Ode C. L. Mitchell 55
Ivv Poem G. T. Files 47
Maine Hall C. S. F. Lincoln '. 128
Modern Instance, A B. D. Ridlon 228
More L. A. Burleigh 140
Moonrise G. T. Files 1
My Siders W. M. Emery ;)5
November Night, A T. S. Burr 125
Old Cob, The G. B. Chandler 108
Old Friend's Face, An G . T. Files 197
Old, Old Story, The C. S. F. Lincoln 191
Old Professor, The Indianapolis Journal 231
One-sided Game, A T. S. Burr 29
Our Annual Visitors C. S. F. Lincoln 204
Parody on Tit Willow : T. S. Burr 21
I'hantom Convent, The G. B. Chandler ;i
Psi Upsilon C. S. F. Lincoln U!)
Question in Physics, A C. S. F. Lincoln 179
Satiety G. T. Files 15-
Scenes of College Days Isaac McLellan, '26 222
Smoke Rings G. B. Chandler 212
Stiff Upper Lip, A W. M. Emery 21
Storm Maiden W. E. Perkins 149
That Cape Ulster G. T. Files 219
Thorndike Oak, The C. S. F. Lincoln 225
Thought G. T. Files 137
To an Indian Relic G. T. Files 27
To Lizzie 131
To the Rain . .C. S. F. Lincoln 32
To the Sea The Dartmouth 101
To Water Fowl Flying South G. T. Files 11. ">
Two of a Kind W E. Perkins 1;U
Vale W. E. Perkins 164
Why ? Harvard Advocate 93
Young Men of Rank J. L. Doolittle 7
You Have Heard of Bowdoin College D. E. Owen ,1(1
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Vol. XVIII.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 2, 1888.
No. 1.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 1.-May2, 1888.
Moonrise, 1
Editorial Notes, 1
The Pliantom Convent 3
What Should Determine the Clioice o£ Electives? . . 4
The Old May Training .5
What Some Alumni Told Me, 5
The Massachusetts Trip, (i
Collegii Tabula 7
Personal 10
In Memoriam, 11
College World, 11
Book Reviews, 12
MOONRISE.
Canst see it slowly rising there.
Its radiant orb so silvery fair ?
Thou, beautiful Diana's face,
Doth well light up this darkened place.
Didst ever sit beside the strand.
And watch it rise to meet the land ?
A glistening path along to thee
Comes dancing o'er the glassy sea.
Fair goddess of the evening, rise !
On thee alone the earth relies.
Thy guidance is the only stay
For many a mortal's lonely way.
With the present number a new vol-
ume of the Orient begins. It has become
a custom for the new Board to indicate
briefly the line of policy it intends to pur-
sue. It is, like a man's introduction of him-
self, an awkward piece of business.
In taking up the editorial pen we fully
realize that we are unskilled in its use. A
poor workman, though provided with the
finest tools, can do but a bungling piece of
work. By persistent labor and unlimited
patience he may hope to do better. He must
expect tliat his work will oftentimes be un-
favorably criticised, that he will be the re-
cipient of attentions not calculated to culti-
vate an amiable temper or a spirit of meek-
ness. We expect nothing different, but
permit us to say that we have no expectation
of pleasing the " chronic kicker." The fiery
darts of his sarcasm or the shafts of his rid-
icule cannot injure. But honest, sincere
criticism, favorable or unfavorable, we shall
be glad to receive. The retiring Board has
raised the standard of excellence to a high
point. We may not be able to attain to it.
But whether we do or not we shall expend
our best efforts in making the Orient the
best paper of which we are capable, and when
we have done that we can do no more.
But the Board alone cannot make the
Orient a successful paper. We need the
support of the student-body and the alumni,
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and it is not going too far to assert that it is
our due. The Orient, however it may be
conducted, is one of the college interests
which every student ought to support. It is
Bowdoin's representative in the field of col-
lege journalism, and as such it should be
worthy of the college. If it is not up to your
ideal of a college journal, try by practical
effort to bring it there. Your articles will
be received gladly, and we promise you that
they shall have the most careful attention.
To the alumni we will say that your com-
munications are read with pleasure bj' the
boys, and we hope you will use our columns to
strengthen your connection with Alma Mater.
Our readers will see that a new depart-
ment has been added to the Orient, that of
book reviews. It is hoped that this may be
the means of bringing books to the notice of
the students which otherwise might be over-
looked. The department is under excellent
management and we hope that it will prove
interesting and useful to our readers.
In college affairs the Orient will strive
to maintain the same independent position
that it has in the past. We shall not hesi-
tate to discuss college matters with freedom.
We shall not condemn old customs because
they are old, nor advocate new ones from au
intemperate love of the new. ' We hope to
aid in promoting harmony a,nd good-fellow-
ship among the students, not casting our in-
fluence with any clique or faction, but rather
attempting to do away with unfriendly rival-
ries. We ask in this matter the help of all
the students, and hope that all will feel at
liberty to make use of the Orient columns
in discussing those affairs which are of gen-
eral interest.
Finally, we ask for your forbearance.
Doubtless there will be much that will not
suit you, but if you will give us the benefit
of your aid we will endeavor to make the
Orient a success and an honor to Bowdoin.
It is a source of pleasure to every friend
of the college to note the success which has
attended our Glee Club. Concerts have
been given in several cities and towns
throughout the State, which have received
highly complimentary notice from the local
press.
The Glee Club fills a long-felt want in
our college life. Probably no one questions
the fact that boating and base-ball have con-
siderable influence in filling up our classes.
The Glee Club ought to have an influence in
this direction even more powerful. There
are a great many people for whom sports
have no immediate attraction, and in choos-
ing a college for their sons they do not take
sports into consideration at all. But the Glee
Club shows them another phase of college
life equally pleasant and eminently more re-
fining. The impression received is a pleas-
ant one, and we expect that some will be
induced to enter Bowdoin through the influ-
ence of the Glee Club.
The influence of the Club on the social
life of the college cannot be otherwise than
salutary. Nothing adds more to a gath-
ering of the students than music. Some of
tlie pleasantest hours of our college life have
beeu spent in an hour of social song in some
fellow's room, or when a company has gath-
ered on the campus in the long spring even-
ings to sing the songs of " Old Bowdoin."
A body of trained singers adds zest and
spirit to these occasions. The Orient con-
gratulates the club on its success, and that
it may live long and prosper is its earnest
desire.
After the customary " two weeks," the
Bugle has made its appearance. The matter
had been in the printers' hands for some
time, but inevitable delays, together with
the leisurely habits of the printers, com-
bined to make its appearance later than was
expected.
The literary matter is excellent through-
out and reflects credit on the editors.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
The sketch of the late Prof. Avery's life and
work bears the signature of Prof. Chapman,
a guarantee of its excellence. Those of us
who were so fortunate as to be pupils of
Prof. Avery can testify to his interest iu his
department and in us. Ever ready to aid
those who, by the quality of their work,
showed a live interest in it, he was none the
less ready to help those who found the road
more difficult. His unfailing courtesy and
genial manner won the regard of the stu-
dents iu a marked degree. In him we see a
splendid example of devotion to work. The
field of labor he loved best is shared but by
a few. Yet almost alone he worked on until
in that department his statements of things
pertaining to it were unqestioned. He re-
ceived marked attention from co-laborers in
all parts of the world, and the tangible re-
sults of his life's work in the book he hoped
to publish were waited for with eager inter-
est. Though cut down in the prime of life
when his intellectual powers were at their
best and success was crowning his efforts,
we may well believe that he never in the
slightest degree rebelled against the Divine
Will. He was ready to follow his Master
whithersoever he might lead. Prof. Avery
has left behind an influence which will live
and bear fruit testifying to the earnestness
and purity of his life as a scholar and a Chris-
tian gentleman.
The article on Massachusetts Hall is an
admirable history of that venerable building,
and brings before us facts in regard to it
with which, we doubt not, many of the Bow-
doin undergraduates of to-day were unfa-
miliar. The two poems speak for themselves
and need no praise from us.
We are glad to notice that the amount of
" slugging " matter is much less than in pre-
vious numbers. It is a step in the right
direction .
The artistic work is excellent, and the
Junior class is fortunate in having among its
members an artist of the ability of Mr.
Files.
But why need we mention all these things
in detail? We expected a good Bugle aud
were not surprised when our expectations
were fulfilled. The editors have the thanks of
every man in the Junior class for the able and
interesting publication they have given us.
THE PHANTOM CONVENT.
In those superstitious legends
Of the haunted Eastern land
Dwells a visionary credence
Whisp'ring dread from strand to strand.
O'er the Bedouin's fierce spirit
It e'er sheds a solemn gloom ;
To the traveler's strange query
It e'er whispers of the tomb.
In that vast untrodden desert,
In the wilderness of Zin,
Where the souls of spectral chieftains
Roam about with warlike din ;
Where fantastic shapes unhuraan
Range the wild and pathless way
To beguile the erring wanderer
From his caravan astray ;
Stands a lone and phantom convent,
That no mortal e'er hath seen,
That no Moslem e'er invaded
To pollute or to demean.
Yet the caravan is silent.
With a still and death-like calm.
When the vesper bells at even
Ring with weird and lonely charm.
And those matins and those vespers
From the days of the crusade
Have, resounding, broke the morning,
Ushered in the evening shade.
As the weary Western wanderer
On that desert vast of Zin,
So our souls are blindly groping
On the trackless wild of Sin ;
As he hears those sonant spectres
Ringing out their phantom tone.
So, anon, the voice of Conscience
Softly whispers, when alone.
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WHAT SHOULD DETERMINE THE
CHOICE OF ELECTIVES?
If the intellectual development of every
student, at the time vs^hen electives are first
offered, were a fixed quantity, the answer to
the question considered would be very
simple. All educators agree that a large
araoirnt of preliminary discipline is necessary
to every mind and that such discipline is best
attained by a prescribed course of study
from which there can be no appeal. The
minds of some students, from inherent nature,
superior advantages, age, and environments,
have become so far disciplined at the end of
Freshman year, as to warrant a large
degree of technicality in future study.
Others, from similar reasons, have but half
finished the disciplinary process. Hence, to
prescribe any general rule for the choice of
electives is inconsistent with the nature of
the subject. By dividing students into
two classes, however, those in whom the
previous training is sufficient and those in
whom it is insufficient, the question may
be treated in a manner, in some degree, prac-
tical.
The majority of students, probably, by
three or four years in a fitting school and
one year in college, have minds so symmetri-
cally developed as to be partially free from
that narrow gauged process which would
have been the inevitable result of their own
inclinations. Such being the case, the sub-
sequent discipline (for discipline never
ceases) can be carried on in conjunction with
studies of a more technical nature. Every
student has his special line of thought — the
line for which nature intended him. By this
time that ought to have been discovered, and
a purpose formed accordingly. Every subse-
quent act of his life is to be shaped in con-
formity with that purpose. In our present
curriculum a well-trained mind can follow
its own inclination with no fear of becoming
"rutted." Hence, the majority of students
should be governed, in their choice of elec-
tives, by that branch of human thought
which it is their intention to make a life-work.
There is, however, a minority of greater
or less extent, who, at this stage, have not
received enough disciplinary training to
warrant the abolishment of its process ;
and fortunate is the student who appreciates
the fact. A certain member of the present
Junior class elected mathematics which were
positively repulsive to him, simply for in-
tellectual development.
The policy, or results, of this particular
case it is not our sphere to discuss, but it
serves to illustrate how, by a judicious choice
of electives, one can round out intellectual
depressions. No stable superstructure can be
reared without a broad foundation — not only
firm but broad. In the building of a charac-
ter the structure itself may be special but
the foundation must be general. Our present
curriculum is so arranged as to give oppor-
tunity for the widest generalization. Hence
those students who feel that they cannot pur-
sue a special line of study without becoming,
to some degree, hobbyists, should be gov-
erned in their choice of electives, not so
much by their future attainments as by
their pi'esent deficiencies.
With a student thrown almost entirely
upon his own judgment, the question natur-
ally arises. How he is to form an accurate
estimate of himself? With some organisms
this is impossible. There are, however, cer-
tain conditions which should indicate, al-
most intuitively, to a candid mind, its de-
gree of intellectual development. If one is
unable to read a review article compre-
hensively, if he cannot form a moderately
clear conception of a political platform or
outlook, if he cannot formulate the different
relations of a text-book, if he cannot read a
fairly lucid volume with a due apprehension
of the bearings of part upon part, as well as
its general drift, and if, in short, he cannot
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grasp the scope and aim of those general
principles which are the common heritage
of all intellectual humanity, he cannot be-
come a successful specialist. The keen,
narrow man may cleave a very smooth and
clearly defined passage through the world,
but it is the broad man who constructs the
mighty thoroughfare of thought.
THE OLD MAY TRAINING.
' In nearly every college there are words
and phrases in use among the students full
of meaning and significance to themselves,
but which are so local in their application as
to be unintelligible to a stranger or even to a
student of another college ; in the same way
they have an unwritten code of etiquette
and customs which are observed with Phari-
saical strictness. But these are continually
changing, and are sometimes lost sight of
completely until recalled by the reminis-
cences of some old alumnus, or often fall
into that well-known state of quiescence and
oblivion, which the nominal head of our
government has so facetiously named " innoc-
uous desuetude."
Among the latter class of obsolete cus-
toms at old Bowdoin, none was more illus-
trious in its day than the May training,
which has had its parallel in later years only
in the burial of Analytics, which, in its turn,
died out about ten years ago. Maj' training
owes its existence to the passage of a bill,
introduced by Governor Dunlap, requiring
that every citizen able to bear arms should,
on an appointed day once a year, be equipped
and ready for inspection and drill. Tliis law
for some reason seems to have been very dis-
tasteful to both faculty and students, and so
from the beginning the students resolved to
have as much fun out of it as possible.
When the day came, which, by the way, was
in May, they obtained two old cannon, and
taking them down town in front of Gov-
ernor Dunlap's, fired a salute which shat-
tered most of the windows in the house by
the concussion. After that I believe the
students were not required to train. How-
ever, with that true spirit of fun "which
characterized the Bowdoin student in the
good (?) old days, they decided to have a May
training of their own. They organized a
burlesque militia company, in which diversity
of costume was a prominent feature, and the
aifair was nothing more or less than a parade
of fantastics. Impersonations of the faculty
were not uncommon, and one of the princi-
pal characters in the last May training, held
about 1848, was a fellow dressed as Presi-
dent Woods, with a rope around his neck, at
the other end of which was a fellow in
character of the devil, leading the venerable
doctor in advance of the procession. Headed
by the famous old Pandean Band they would
march through the streets, and then to the
campus, where the commanding officer would
address the company, and the assembled
multitude, in a speech chiefly remarkable
for its verbosity, and for the variety of ex-
pressions, with which he tortured his audi-
tors. I doubt not, though the subject is
seldom referred to, that, as these observances
occurred in the days of free rum, so to
speak, many of the boys of old finished up
the celebration by getting pretty well set up.
However, let us draw the curtain. May
training is dead, and undoubtedly it is for
the best. Peace to its ashes.
WHAT SOME ALUMNI TOLD ME.
During the recent vacation I was talking
with some of the older alumni about Cilley's
and Chandler's feats of climbing the spire
last fall. Said one : " Those foolhardy tricks
remind me of the stories I used to hear of how
Rev. Elijah Kellogg climbed the chapel
tower once when he was in college. It was
not one of the present graceful, lofty mina-
rets of stone, but a much lower steeple sur-
mounting the little wooden chapel, which, in
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those old days, stood facing west, near the
broad walk leading from the present chapel
to the road. Frequent attempts had been
made to spirit away the chapel bell, and, in
consequence, a watch was set in the belfry.
The night that Mr. Kellogg pluckily as-
cended he was seized at the top by this man
who had been hiding there patiently for
some hours. Mr. Kellogg's hair was grabbed
with an iron grasp which lie could not shake
off, and he was easily taken into custody.
Deponent saith not what was the conclusion
of the matter, but it is to be surmised there
was a heavier penalty than would be in-
flicted nowadays."
" When I entered college in 1873, " said
another man, " it was rumored that a fellow
had climbed one of the stone spires the year
before. But as nobody had seen him do so,
the affair was regarded as mere tradition, or
perhaps a 'gag 'to spring on the unwary
Freshman."
I told this gentleman that a recent Bow-
doin graduate, noted for his athletic abilities
said, on hearing of Cilley's exploit, " Why, I
was often up there during my course ! " It
was suggested that he must have gone up
for the express purpose of " plugging," se-
cure from intrusion, as he left no class flags
nor trophies behind him.
" One of the Ring brothers of Portland
was the most intrepid fellow I ever knew,"
began a third alumnus. " Ou a wager, he
got up on the tall chimney at the southwest
corner of Maine, one bright day, and stand-
ing atop with his arms folded, was quietly
photographed. I wish I had his nerves."
" That fellow might have fallen and yet
not fared any worse than Ben Hewes, of '75,"
was the next man's remark. "But I doubt
it; his was one case in a thousand. In going
over the roof from North to South Maine one
spring morning, when the shingles were wet
and slippeiy from a rain, he felt himself
sliding towards the eaves. He threw away
his books and tried to regain his footing, but
to no purpose. He fell, rolled over two or
three times and dropped from that high
gutter to the turf below. I shall — "
" That was ' coming off the roof ' with a
vengeance," interpolated a slangy punster.
" I shall never forget the reportorial 'dull,
sickening thud ' with which I heard him
strike," continued the interrupted speaker,
" while sitting in the recitation room in that
end. We hurried out, picked up the poor
fellow, and called the doctors. Strange to
sa}^ Hewes was not seriously injured, and
after careful nursing for a few weeks, there
at college, completely recovered from the
effects of his shock. Falling flat on his
back to the springy, damp turf could have
been the only thing that saved him. He
graduated, and the last I heard of him
was practicing law down in Washington
County."
THE MASSACHUSETTS TRIP.
The first game in the series was played
with the Phillips Andover team, on the 23d
ult. The Andover diamond was new and in
poor condition, but nevertheless the boys
played a good game. The work of the whole
team was excellent, but the playing of Fogg,
F. Freeman, and Thompson, was especially
fine.
The Phillips Andover boys gave our team
a cordial welcome, and made their stay in
Andover very pleasant. Following is the
detailed score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. S.E. P.O. A. E.
Williamson, c.f. ... 4 3 3 0 2 2 1
Paclsard, lb 3 2 2 08 0 2
Fogg, l.f 5 0 2 0 3 1 0
F. Freeman, 2b. ... 5 3 0 2 5 3 1
Fish, 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 0
Thompson, p 5 0 2 1 0 3 4
Pendleton, s.s. ... 4 3 1 3 1 3 4
G. Freeman, 3b. ... 4 2 0 1 5 5 3
Burleigh, r.f 5 1 0 2 0 0 0
Totals 40 14 10 1) 27 18 12
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
ANDOVER.
A.B. R. B.H. S.E. P.O.
Dickermati, c.f. ... 4 1 1 2 1
White, 3b 4 0 1 3 1
Stearns, p 3 0 0 0 0
Brainard, lb 4 0 0 0 12
Upton, c 4 0 1
Bliss, 2b 4 0 1
Bremner, l.f 3 1 0
Merrill, r.f
1
0 0
1
3
Lakeman, s.s
Totals 31 3 5 9 27 18 18
Earned runs — Bowdoin, 2. First base on called balls —
Bowdoiu, 3. Double play — Bowdoin, 3. Time of game —
1 hour 47 minutes.
Owing to a pressure of other matter, and
inasmuch as they have been printed in the
daily papers we omit the detailed scores of
the games with Holy Cross and Harvard.
Bowdoin, 9; M. S. C, 8.
The boys were treated to a genuine sur-
prise in the game with the Maine State Col-
lege team last Saturday forenoon. They
looked for defeat but got a victory. It was
all the more welcome on account of the
crippled condition of our team. Our captain
was gone and his place was ably filled by
Russell, who has received nothing but praise
from the boys for the magnificent work he did
behind the bat. Gary and Williamson were
lame, Fish had no hands to speak of, Larra-
bee was just off a sick bed, and our pros-
pects for victory were by no means flattering.
Fogg led off with a hit and brought in
the first score. Every man followed his ex-
ample. They pounded both the M. S. C.
pitchers freely, ran bases in fine style, and in
short " played ball."
The batting of G. Freeman and Pack-
ard's base running were the special features
of the game, but every man played well.
Following is the tabulated score :
BOWDOIN.
;.H. S.B. P.O.
Eogg, r.f 5
Russell, c 4
Packard, lb 4
Larrabee, 2b 5
Fish, l.f 5
Williamson, c.f. ... 5
G. Freeman, .3b. ... 5
Pendleton, s.s 4
Gary, p 3
Totals 40
14 11 27 15
M. S. C.
A.B. R. B.H. S.E. P.O. A. E.
Rogers, r. f. and c. . . 5 2 3 2 1 0 0
Keith, c. and 3b. ... 5 2 1 1 8 3 0
Small, p. and 3b. ... 5 1 2 0 0 3 1
Elwell, s.s 5 0 1 2 1 2 0
Babb, lb 4 0 0 0 6 0 2
Philbrook, 2b 4 1 1 1 2 0 1
Bird, c.f 4 0 0 0 1 0 0
Andrews, p. and r.f. .400041 0
Haggett, l.f 4 2 1 1 4 3 3
Totals 40 S 9 7 27 12 7
SCORE BY INNINGS.
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Bowdoin 20140000 2—9
M. S. C 10 3 110 10 1—8
Two-base hits — Russell, Packard, Larrabee, G. Freeman
(2), Philbrook. Three-base hits— Small, 2. Struck out —
By Gary, 8; Andrews, 4; Small, 2. Time of game — 2
hours 10 minutes. Umpire — Thompson, Bowdoin, '90.
The games in the inter-collegiate series
occur as follows :
May 5— M. S. C. vs. Colby .
May 9 — Colby vs. Bowdoin .
May 12— M. S. G. vs. Colby .
May 15— Bowdoin vs. M. S. C.
May IG— Colby vs. M. S. C. .
May 19 — Bowdoin vs. Colby .
May 25— M. S. C. vs. Bowdoin
May 26 — Golby vs. Bowdoin .
May 30— M. S. C. vs. Colby .
June 2 — Bowdoin vs. Colby .
June 8 — Bowdoiu vs. M. S. C.
June 9— Colby vs. M. S. C. .
June 11 — M. S. C. vs. Bowdoin
June 12 — M. S. C. vs. Bowdoin
June 16 — Bowdoin vs. Colby .
At Orono.
At Waterville.
. At Bangor.
At Brunswick.
At Waterville.
At Brunswick.
At Orono.
At Waterville.
. At Bangor.
At Brunswick.
At Brunswick.
At Waterville.
At Orono.
. At Bangor.
At Brunswick.
A plenty-of-money young man,
A champagne-supper young man.
He's one that elects
To taffy the Prex,
He's a " scholarship " young man.
A go-on-the-pave young man,
A never-could-study young man.
Without any morals.
He gets all the laurels.
He's a, first division young man,
A very moral young man,
A Thursday-night meeting young man,
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
He has no ability,
But supes with facility,
He's a second diTision young man.
A working-his-way young man,
A really-high-standing young man.
When it comes to his rank
His stars he can thank,
If he's a third division young man.
Owing to church repairs, the Congregationalists
have worshiped iu Upper Memorial the last two
Sabbaths, through the kindness of President Hyde.
Some of the boys grumbled because they could not
so easily engage in literary pursuits during service
as in the transept galleries, and also because the
monitors were alert, even if classes did not sit to-
gether. Mr. Ernest Crawford's cornet music fur-
nished an acceptable accompaniment to the singing.
'Eighty-nine's Ivy Day will occur Friday, June
8th. Field Day is one day earlier.
Samuel Hodgraan Erskine, of Alna, is the latest
accession to the Freshman class.
The familiar whiskers and baskets of Levi Wash-
burn, the veteran bookseller, were recently seen on
the campus, on the occasion of his regular spring
visit to Bowdoin. Levi is the man who used to
" give you the profit on the second book, gentlemen,"
but doesn't this year owing to a cul-down in his
original rates. He reported trade good, and wished
that all of his customers were college boys, who, he
says, patronize him more generously than do others.
Dennett, '90, was recently tendered a complimen-
tary angling party at the residence of Dr. Briry, in
Bath.
Mr. Percy F. Marston, '88, the first of his class to
enter into conjugal relations, was married in Gor-
ham, Wednesday 11th ult., to Miss Mabel Haines
of that town. The boys all wish the newly-wedded
pair the best of success and liappiness. April 23d
they took charge of the Free High School at Cornish,
Mr. Marston as principal, and Mrs. Marston as as-
sistant.
Alumni recently seen about town : Rev. Ebenezer
Bean, '.57; Attorney-General Baker, '68 ; A.H.Brown
and Wm. PL Cothren, '84; A. W. Rogers, '85; H. R.
Fling and E. E. Hideout, '80; and S. B. Fowler, '87.
L. Barton, principal of Bridgton Academy, and for-
merly personal editor of the Orient, has also been
visiting at the college.
Messrs. Bradford, Brown, '88, Furbish and Man-
son, together witli quite a number of Brunswick ladies
and gentlemen, attended the Leap- Year Ball in Bath,
Wednesday, April 1 1th.
During the spring recess, Field, '91, took the
school census of Belfast.
The term opened with rather a small attendance
the 17th. Most of the boys are now back, however.
Prayers are again held in the chapel, and are quite
respectably attended.
Gymnasium work is not compulsory this term,
and it is gratifying to recall that last June the
Boards voted there should be no gymnasium charges
in the spring.
Dr. Hyde's chapel discourse the first Sunday of
the term was on "Matthew Arnold and His Writings."
The great critic's pessimistic, gloomy side was
brought out and many of his characteristics shown
by his poems, several of which were read as illustra-
tions.
The provisional Commencement appointees are:
T. H. Ayer, Litchfield Corner; E. S. Bartlett, Paris;
H. S. Card, Gorham ; G. F. Cary, East Machias ; A.
C. Dresser, Standish ; R. W. Coding, Alfred; W. T.
Hall, Jr., Richmond ; G. H. Larrabee, Bridgton ; F. K.
Linscott, Boston, Mass; A. W. Tolman, Portland;
J. Williamson, Jr., Belfast; W. W. Woodman, Au-
burn. Of these, eight will be appointed on a basis
of rank ; two others will also be selected for writing.
Parts must be handed in by May 15th.
Cary, '88, cut his leg with an axe during vaca-
tion, and was too lame to accompany the nine on the
Massachusetts trip. Larrabee, also, was unable to
go, having just recovered from sickness.
Clark, '89, who lias been dangerously ill with t}'-
phoid fever, is recovering, and we are glad to stale
that he will be with us again in a few weeks.
Sophomore theme subjects due May 2d : I. —
" Spring Flowers "; IL — " Causes of the War with
Mexico." Junior themes due May Cth: L— "A New
England Town Meeting " ; H.— " Is Too Much of the
Spring Term Devoted to Athletic Sports?"
We are pleased to learn that the chapel bell will
be rung every morning at 7 o'clock. Chapel this
term at 7.50.
F. L. Smithwick, '88, will teach this spring at
Damariscotta. E. L. Adams, '89, succeeds E. E.
Briggs, '90, as professor of Latin at the Family
School across the river. H. C. Jackson, '89, has be-
come principal of the High School at Oakland. He
will have an assistant. W. L. Foss, '91, is out
canvassing. E. M. Leary, '91, is teaching the Dres-
den Mills High School.
The Lewislon Saturday Journal for March 31st
contained a well-written article on old Phi Chi. The
song was published entire. This may be a useful
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
hint to such Freshmen as are planning to become
Sophs at no distant date.
Bradford, Carroll, and Libby will represent Bow-
doin Chapter at the fifty-sixth annual convention of
Alpha Delta Phi, held in New York City, May 3d and
4th.
Reader, you can't afford to be without a copy of
'89's Bugle. It is a valuable souvenir of your college
life. The catalogue of all general college interests,
the views, the statistics, the portrait and sketch of
Prof. Avery, and the choice literai-y matter all make
it worthy of your patronage. The fact that the slugs
are few, and do not have the bitterness which has
characterized those of other Bugles, is no small rea-
son why you should purchase half a dozen copies to
mail to the folks and "best girls" at home. You
help advertise the college and give pleasure to your
friends by every Bugle you send away. Copies may
be obtained of Carroll, Crocker, Doherty, and Files.
Prof. Little returned to Brunswick, Saturday, be-
fore the terra opened. He is much improved in
health and looks as if southern climes had had a sal-
utary elfect upon him. Work is now progressing
rapidly on the new classification under his personal
supervision. Briggs, '90, succeeds Woodman as li-
brary assistant, and takes the charging and loan de-
partment. The library will be open every day from
8 to 6 during the term, including the noon hour,
which will be a great accommodation to out of town
visitors.
The Orient is appreciated. The Boston Public
Library recently sent for back numbers to complete
its files. Bowdoin men at the Hub can now consult
our college journal at the building on Boylston
Street.
Owing to the illness of Instructor Moody, Math-
ematical recitations were suspended towards the
last part of the winter term. Instructor Hutcliins
conducted the Sophomore examination, and Tutor
Cary, the Freshman. Mr. Moody's ranks are kept in
cipher only known to himself, so the mathematicians
got no rank bills last term. Mr. Moody has fully
recovered and resumed his classes on the 23d.
Rev. E. C. Guild's course of lectures on "Re-
ligious Poetry" at the Unitarian Church is as fol-
lows: April 15th — "Characteristics of Devotional
Poetry " ; April 22d— " John Keble and John Henry
Newman"; April 29th — " F. W. Faber and Aubrey
DeVere"; May 6th— " Matthew Arnold and A. H.
Clough." Those already given have been well at-
tended by the students and greatly enjoyed. Mr.
Guild's presentation of these poets were, as usual.
scholarly, and the selections read from their works
were some best suited to show the abilities of the
men.
The Freshmen last week hired two organ grinders
to entertain them while in Latin one morning. The
combined strains of " Fifteen Dollars " and " Rock-
a-bye Baby," rhythmically rose and fell with the
accents of the scansion.
For the tirst time in several years, in the year of
the twentieth anniversary of the class offering the
prize, the '68 exhibition was held Thursday evening,
April 5th. The money has not been available for
some time, but it is expected that it always will be
in the future. The programme :
MUSIC.
The Spirit of English Literature.
A. W. Tolman, Portland.
Mohammedanism. H. C. Hill, Cape Elizabeth.
The President's Message. G. P. Gary, East Machias.
MUSIC.
ludependeuce and Partizanship. R. W. Goding, Alfred.
The Dividing Line iu Industry.
W. T. Hall, Jr., Eichmond.
Our Country's Dangers and Destiny.
E. S. Bartlett, Paris.
MUSIC.
The committee were Hill, Cary, Bartlett. Collins
furnished the music. The judges were Attorney-
General Orville Dewey Baker, '68, Barrett Potter,
'78, and Rev. E. C. Guild. They awarded the prize
to R. W. Goding. His spirited and caustic arraign-
ment of the Mugwumps proved very taking with the
audience, and his Ingallsian epithets and raciness
were loudly applauded. A good innovation was the
announcement of the prize winner by President Hyde
after the final music.
Gates has severed his connection with the Lewis-
ton Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium and returned to college.
Monday evening, April 16th, he concluded with a
fine exhibition, in which E. T. Little, '87, was a par-
ticipant. Mr. Gates has been very successful, and
has had advantageous offers from the Lewiston
people for another season.
A prominent Sophomore, who returned late this
spring, found his room iu rather a chaotic condition.
To begin with, the door was so securely fastened that
it had to be broken in before an entrance was effected.
From the center of the ceiling hung a startling effigy,
who guarded the scattered furniture. On a rope
between the two windows were suspended pails,
jugs, and pitchers, most of which had been broken
by stone or bullet long before the Sophomore arrived.
Such work was too much like Freshman year to suit
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
his tastes, and he wrathfully breathes vengeance on
the unknown despoilers of his parlor and boudoir.
Of the Sophomore class seven elected Greek,
twenty Latin, twenty-six Physiology, thirty-three
English Literature, four Mathematics, and twenty-
four take Physics.
Prof. Pease is giving the Sophomores and Juniors
lectures on Latin Syntax, etc., and Prof. Woodruff,
the Fi-eshraen on the Greek Testament.
While waiting for the necessary books for English
Literature, Prof. Chapman has given the Sophomores
a course of lectures on the causes that led Milton to
write his " Areopagitica," and also an analysis of
the work.
Tutor Gary will give the Sophomores some labo-
ratory work in connection with Physiology.
'21. — The two surviv-
members of this class
are Dr. Rufus K. Gushing of Au-
gusta, and Isaac W. Wheelwright of
Byfiekl, Mass. Doctor Gushing is a native
of Brunswick, and during his course in the
Medical School was under the instruction of James
McKeen, M.D., class of '17.
'36. — An Auburn man remarks : " Did j'ou know
that ex-Governor Garcelon is the smartest man of
his age in New England ? He is about 76 years of
age, and yet flies about the country in the severest
weatlier, caring for his extensive practice as well as
a young man. The other day he went to Sabatis to
attend a patient, and when he left his patient, on
whom he had made several calls, gave him six silver
dollars. The doctor put them into his overcoat outside
pocket and jumped into his sleigh. In driving home
the sleigh slewed and tipped him out. The doctor
held on to the reins — he always drives a smart, spirit-
ed horse — and was dragged a little way bruising his
face. But the doctor hauled up safe and sound other-
wise and drove home, and continued his business as
before. ' The fun of it was,' said the doctor, ' be-
sides the skin on my face I lost tiiose six cart wheels
out of my pocket.' "
'43.— Pvev. Jolin March Mitchell, S.T.D., died at
his residence in Portland, Wednesday morning.
A2oril 18th. He was born in Norway, Oct. 2, 1820, and
during his early years lived in North Yarmouth.
His preparatory course was taken at the academy in
this place, entering Bo wdoin in 1839. Here he became
one of the founders of the Psi Upsilon Society in 1842
in Bowdoin. He afterwards received the degree of
S.T.D. at William and Mary College, Virginia, and
was rector of churclies in Montgomery, Ala., and
Savannah, Ga. He traveled in Europe, and in 1867
came to Portland, in which place he has since resided.
'50. — Prof. J. S. Sewall and wife, of Bangor, will
leave for a European trip about May 21st.
'50. — Hon. William S. Gardner, ex-Judge of tiie
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, died at
his residence in Nev/ton, April 4th. About a year ago
he was, on account of ill health, obliged to retire from
the bench and for some time traveled in Europe, but
received little help. Boi-n in Hallowell, October 1,
1827, he entered Bowdoin in 1840 with sucli men as
Gen. O. O. Howard, Hon. Wm. P. Frye, and Prof-
C. C. Everett, as his classmates; studied law in
Lowell, and in 1852 was admitted to the bar. After
a short time he opened a law office in partnership
with Theodore H. Sweetser, and in 1861 the firm re-
moved to Boston. Mr. Gardner was appointed to
the bench in 1876, which position was sustained by him
with great honor. In September, 1887, he was obliged
to resign his position because of failing health, and
received from Governor Ames the expression of most
sincere regret on the part of the people. He was a
Mason of high rank, and esijecially a historian of
this order. Mr. (rardner was a man of peculiarly
lovable nature, and a man in whom one might find a
friend. His death is a source of great grief to the
older alumni, and in him our college loses one of
its staunchest supporters.
'53. — Hon. T. R. Simonton has accepted the in-
vitation of the Grand Army Post at Bethel to deliver
the address on Memorial Day at that place.
'60.— Hon. F. N. Dow of Portland, Hon. L. G.
Downes of Calais, and Hon. W. W. Thoma.s, '61, of
Portland, are mentioned as probable delegates at
large to the Republican Convention at Chicago.
'73. — Dr. D. A. Robinson of Bangor has accepted
the invitation from the Harris Post, G. A. R., of
Plymouth, to deliver the address on Memorial Day.
'73. — Albert F. Richardson of Fryeburg Academy
has engaged to remain in his present position for
five years from the close of this academic year.
There are now in attendance about one hundred
scholars.
'81. — Dr. H. L. Staples has resigned his position
as .assistant surgeon at the National Soldiers' Home
at Togus, and will soon leave for New York, where
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11
he will attend lectures in special branches, after
which lie will take up his residence in Minneapolis.
'83.— Fred M. Fling, principal of Biddeford High
School, will resign his position, and in August sail
for Germany, where he will pursue the study of His-
tory in the different universities.
'85. — Webb Donnell has resigned the principal-
ship of Wasliington Academy.
'86. — Levi Turner will deliver tlie memorial
address in North Whitefield.
'86. — Fred L. Smith has resigned liis position in
Shapleigh to occupy the seat of principal in the High
School at Newmarket, N. H.
'87. — E. B. Burpee is located at Santa Barbara,
California.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of the Kappa, *. y., >
April 23, 1888. $
Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to
remove from us, by death, our Brother, (lie Rev.
John March Mitcliell of tlie class of '43 ; be it
Eesolved, That we, while humbly bowing to the
will of an All-wise Providence, deeply regret our
brother's death ;
That we tender to the relatives and friends of the
deceased our heartfelt sympathy ;
That copies of these resolutions be sent to the
family of our departed brother, to the several chap-
teisofthe Psi Upsilon Fraternity, and to the Bow-
DOiN Orient.
G. T. Fii.ES, '89,
F. n. Freeman, '89,
W. R. Hunt, '90
The conditions for admission at Harvard in 1675
were as follows : "Whoever shall be able to read
Cicero or any other such like classical author at sight,
and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose,
and decline perfectly the paradigms of names and
verbs in the Greek tongue, let him then and not be-
fore .be capable of admission into the college." — Ex.
If a student at Lehigh obtains eighty-five per-
cent as his average term rank he is excused from
examinations
About half the colleges in the United States pub-
lish papers. The Noire Dame Scholastic has a
larger circulation than any other college paper, 1260
each issue. The Darlmoulh comes next with a circu-
lation oiWb'i.— Unwersilij News.
Syracuse has a new flre-proof library with ac-
commodations for 160,000 volumes. — Ex.
Tufts College owns property to the value of
$1,100,000.
One hundred and seventy-five of the three hun-
dred and sixty-five colleges in the United States
publish papers.
Harvard is first, De Pauvv second, and Syracuse
third, in the list of colleges receiving large gifts for
the years 1887-8.
Columbia will admit women to all her higher
courses.
Harvard distributes to students $67,000 annually.
Since 1869 Yale Freshmen have won twenty-three
and lost nine games pla3'ed with Harvard Freshmen.
Dr. Leuf, of the University of Pennsylvania, has
written a book for the instruction of ball players.
The average life of the Presidents and Professors
at Yale, who died in office, or have ended their active
careers with their retirement from office is sixty-four
years.
Harvard has graduated three Presidents, two Vice-
Presidents, eighteen cabinet officers, three Speakers
of the House, and four Supreme Court Judges.
President Fairchild, of Oberlin, is ninety years
of age.
When my winks in vain are wunk,
And my last stray thoughts are thunk,
Who saves me from a shameful fiuuk?
My pony.
The jockey's horse has feet of sjieed,
Maud S. has feet of fame;
The student's horse has none at all,
But it gets there just the same.
The commissary chanced to see
Jones rise, with saddest air.
And place a well-filled cup of tea
Upon the nearest chair.
" Wliy are you doing thus " ? he cried,
To Jones, with lijis compressed.
" It was so weak," poor Jones replied,
" I thouglit I'd let it rest." — Lafayette.
The Hopkins Tramp Club is an organization
lately formed at Johns Hopkins, to encourage
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pedestrianism. No one is admitted to membership
until he has walked thirty miles in one day accom-
panied by some member of the club.
It is stated upon President Seelye's authority that
one-seventh of the students admitted to Amherst in
the last four years have come from other colleges.
Tlie standard for passing has been raised at Cor-
nell from 60 to 70 per cent. Harvard recently raised
the passing mark from 40 to 50. — Cynic.
TO !
He comes along with a jaunty air,
And slaps your back in a friendly way;
But his eye has a dark sinister look,
That fills your heart with black dismay.
He takes your arm as a brotlier would.
And you murmur low an epithet,
As you hear those oft-repeated words,
" Old man have you got a cigarette? "
— Lehigh Ban'.
Two members of tlie same family are rivals for
class honors in the college at Hillsdale, Mich. They
are C. H. Jackson and Geo. A. Jackson. The former
is fifty-three years old and the father of the latter,
who is twenty-two years old. Both are members of
the class of '88. — Ex.
" Hark ! 1 think I heard the piston ring," said the
valve, moving nervously in its seat. " No, that was
the door bell," replied the steam, putting on his
jacket and fastening it with a crank pin. " The indi-
cator has come and is sending up his card. And
before the caller could make a turn, he heard a fa-
miliar voice exclaim, " Criticisms on the Indicator's
diagram." — W. P. I.
Let mathematicians and geometricians
Talk of circles' and triangles' charms.
The figure I prize is a girl with bright eyes.
And a circle, — that made by her arras. — Ex.
crib! crib! crib!
Crib, crib, crib,
'Neath thy cold gray eye, O Prof.;
I would that my pen could fashion
.The words that are on my cuff.
O well for thee slender roll,
Concealed in the palm of my hand;
0 well for me thou art with me.
Held tight by thy rubber band.
The exam, goes ou apace.
The scratching of pens is lieard.
But O for the crilj on my cuff.
For the pointer so long deferred!
Crib, crib, crib,
'Keath tliy watchful gaze, O Prof.,
Oh wliat would I not give to steal
A glance at the crib on my cuff.
— Yale Record
BOOK REVIEWS.
Schiller's Ballads. Edited, with introduction and
notes, by Henry Johnson. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co.,
1888; pp. xvil. + 165; 75 cents; 12mo.
To the student who wishes to obtain a comprehen-
sive view of Schiller's genius no portion of his works
can be of greater value than the ballads. Written
during the latter part of the great German's life, when
he was enjoying tlie highest development of his in-
tellectual powers, and when he had already become
experienced in dramatic art, these little poems mirror
tlieir author at his best in style and method. Up to
the present time, although editions of Schiller's more
extensive works have repeatedly appeared in the
interests of the English-speaking public, no carefully
annotated text of the ballads has ever been offered.
Professor Johnson has successfully attempted to
supply the deficiency in the little book before us.
In the annoimoement of the publishei's it is stated
that the series of volumes, of which the "Ballads''
constitute one, will be issued in a form "suitable for
the class-room or for private reading." In the pres-
ent instance, at least, the undertaking of making such
a combination has met with eminent success. Cer-
tainly no book could be a more model text-book.
The varied subject matter of the thirteen selections
included in the volume is a most important point of
advantage in this connection. An extended work
cannot, in so short a space, present to the student
such an epitome of its author's characteristics as can
a collection of shorter productions. This is particu-
hrrly true in the case of Schiller, whose ballads are
among the most popular and representative of his
writings. In the words of Carlyle, " Some of them
are to be classed among the most finished efforts of
his genius."
The book is made unusually entertaining to the
genei'al reader, as well as helpful to the scholar, by
the excellent quality of its notes. The arrangement
of these is one of the best possible. At the beginning
of the chapter of notes devoted to each ballad there
are given, first, the date of composition; second,
source from which the subject matter of the poem was
obtained ; third, the title as it appeared when first
published, together with subsequent changes, if any.
Following all these come the comments upon the
text.
We have thus before us everything necessary for
a critical study of the author. We see for ourselves
the materials with which he worked, as they were
presented to him in their crude state, and from this
we can estimate his skill as a poet. The date of
composition is of course interesting from a biograph-
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cial point of view. In addition to tlie original title
of the ballad, and its alterations, there are given in
the notes every variant in the text as it appeared
during Schiller's life-time, an important point to
those who care to pursue the study of the author's
style. Every classical allusion is explained, fre-
quently with a quotation from some ancient writer.
Aside from the notes, the introduction deserves
notice. It deals mainly with Schiller's life, and is
admirably adapted to its purpose.
The typographical appearance of the book is
good. The German text of the ballads especially is
remarkably clear. Taken altogether, the book is one
of merit in plan and execution. We trust that it will
meet with the cordial welcome that we hope for it
and feel that it deserves.
History of Methodism in Maine, 17ij;}-188G. By Rev.
Stephen Allen, D.D., of Maine Conference, and Rev.
"VV. H. Pilsbury of East Maine Conference. Augusta;
Press of Charles E. Nash, 1887. O. pp. (J50 + 282.
The first and far the larger portion of this bulky
volume is from the pen of an honored graduate of
the college, whose service of over a quarter of a
century on one of the boards of government has
caused him to be known and respected by many
undergraduates of other religious denominations. A
hundred years have not yet elapsed since the first
Methodist sermon was preached in Maine. To-day
the denomination is said to outnumber every other
within the borders of the State, and in religious
influence and activity can surely be considered second
to none. Of this rapid but substantial gi'owth, Dr.
Allen might truthfully say, vidi et quorum magna
parsfui. Born in Industry in 1810, lie has, with the
exception of a few years after his graduation, spent
tlie whole of a long life in its service. As preacher
and presiding elder, as the agent and trustee of its
most important and now most prosperous seminai'y,
he has ever labored, not only with the diligence
happily foreshadowed by the name of his birthplace,
but also with the success that sooner or later comes
to every true and faithful worker. In this volume.
Dr. Allen gives a sketch of the social condition of
the people of Maine towards the close of the last
century, describes the founding of the denomination
within the state, traces its progress down to the
present time, and includes a large number of valuable
though brief biographies of its leading preachers.
Among the score or more of Bowdoin men who have
entered the ministry of this church may be mentioned
Rev. Charles Adams, '33, D.D., for some time Presi-
dent of Illinois College and the author of several pop-
ular volumes; Rev. Stephen M. Vail, D.D., '38, for
twenty years Professor of Oriental Literature in the
General Biblical Institute of the Church ; Rev. C. F.
Allen, D.D., '39, for several years President of Maine
State College; and Rev. Cyrus Stone, D.D., recently
at Kent's Hill, now at Hallowell in this State.
A MiDSOMMEE Night's Dkeame. Facsimile Reprint of
the Text of the First Folio, 1G23; with Footnotes giving
every Variant in Spelling and Punctuation occurring
in the two Quartos of 1600, according to tlie perfect
Copies of the Original Texts in tlie Barton Collection,
Boston Public Library. With Introduction and Notes,
by Henry Johnson. Boston and New York: Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Company. The Riverside Press. 1888.
This tasteful little volume contains the results of
the patient and careful collation of the three earliest
texts of the play, together with the emendations and
stage directions that have generally been adopted in
later editions. " It has been prepared," says Profes-
sor Johnson in the preface, "with a view to assist in
putting the study of the Shakespearean text on a more
permanent basis than is commonly laid." It aims to
exhibit in a compact and convenient form the text of
the First Folio, — published some years after the
poet's death, and the earliest edition of his collected
plays, — with all the variations found therein from the
texts of the two Quartos published during Shake-
speare's life. It is appropriately named the "Variant
Edition," and the use of that name on the title-page
seems to promise a similar treatment of other plays
in the future. The task which the editor set himself
has been performed with conscientious thoroughness
and accuracy ; and although we cannot be sure, after
all is done, that we have before us what Shakespeare
actually wrote in all eases, yet we have all the mate-
rial there is, from which to form a judgment as to
what he wrote. Some ingenuity was needed to pre-
sent this material in such a way as to inform the
reader without confusing him, and Professor Johnson
seems to have had the requisite ingenuity at com-
mand. As a result the student who desires to ac-
quaint himself with the agreements and differences
of these earliest and most authoritative texts, has them
substantially furnished to his hand within the brief
compass of this single and attractive volume. There
is a certain freedom, not to say capriciousness, in the
orthography of a period which permits a man to ex-
hibit his name as Thoinas Fisher on the title-page of
a book and as Thomas Ffyssher on the Register where
it is entered for publication ; we should naturally
expect, therefore, that a good many of the variations
in these three texts would be variations of spelling,
and such is the case. Such variations, of course, are
not profoundly significant, but they avs facts, and must
be hospitably entertained by students of the >Shakes-
pearean text. There are not a few such students, we
believe, who ought to feel grateful, and will feel grate-
ful, to Professor Johnson for putting them in easy
possession of the material which this book contains.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Columbia College,
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SCHOOIi OF MINES.— The system of instruction includes seven parallel courses of study, each leading to a degree,
viz. : mining engineering, civil engineering, sanitary engineering, metallurgy, geology, and palseontology, analytical and applied
chemistry, architecture.
The plan of instruction includes lectures and recitations in the several departments of study; practice in the chemical, min-
eralogical, hlowi^ipe, metallurgical, and architectural laboratories; field and tmderground surveying; geodetic surveying; practice
and study in mines, mills, machine shops, and foundries; projects, estimates, and drawings for the working of mines and for the
construction of metallurgical, chemical, and other works; reports on mines, industrial establishments, and field geology.
During the summer vacation there are Summer Schools in Mechanical Engineering, for practical work in foundries and ma-
chine shops; in Surveying, for practical work in the field ; in Practical Mining; in Practical Geodesy; in Chemistry— all under
the immediate superintendence of professors. Special students are admitted to the Summer School in Chemistry.
SCHOOL OF IjAW.— The course of study occupies two years, and is so arranged that a complete view is given during
each year of the subjects pursued. The plan of study comprises the various branches of common law, equity, commercial, inter-
national, and constitutional law, and medical jurisprudence. The first year is devoted to the study of general commentaries upon
municipal law, and contracts, and real estate. The second year includes equity jurisprudence, commercial law, the law of torts,
criminal law, evidence, pleading, and practice. Lectures upon constitutional law and history, political science, and international
law are delivei'ed through both the senior and jurior years. Those on medical jurisprudence are delivered to the senior class.
All graduates of literaiy colleges are admitted without examination; other candidates must be examined. Applicants who are
not candidates for a degree are admitted without a preliminary examination.
SCHOOIi OF POIjITICAIi SCIENCE.— The prime aim of this school is the development of all branches of the
political sciences. It oflers eight courses in political and constitutional history, nine in political economy, five in constitutional
and administrative law, four in diplomacy aud international law, four in Roman law and comparative jurisprudence, two in
political philosophy, and one in bibliography— in all, forty -four hours per week through the academic year. The full coiu-se of
study covers three years. For admission as candidate for a degree, the applicant must have satisfactorily completed the regular
course of study in this college, or in some other maintaining an equivalent curriculum, to the end of the junior year. Special
students admitted to any course without examination upon payment of XM'oportional fee.
In addition to the above special schools for graduates and others, there is, in connection with the School of Arts, a Graduate
Department in which instruction is given to graduates of this and other colleges in a wide range of subjects, embracing advanced
courses in languages and literatures (ancient and modern) , mathematics and the mathematical sciences, philosophy, law, history,
the natural sciences, methods of research in chemistry and physics, practical work in the astronomical observatory, etc A stu-
dent in this department may attend a single course, or any number of courses; he may also, at his option, enter as candidate for
the degree of Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Science, or Doctor of Philosophy.
Circulars of Information, giving details as to courses of instruction, requirements for admission, fees, remission of fees,
wholly or in part, etc., etc., of any of the schools may be had by addressing the Registrar of the College, Madison Avenue and
49th Street, New York City.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 2.-May16, 1888.
Satiety 15
Editorial Notes, 15
Grant, 16
Journalism in Bowdoin, 17
Melville Weston Fuller, 18
Communication 18
The Alpha Delta Phi Convention 19
Elocution at Bowdoin, 20
Base-Ball, 20
Collhgii Tabula 21
Personal, 23
In Memoriam, 24
College World 24
Book Reviews, 24
SATIETY.
[From the German.]
And willst thou from distress be freed.
And all the woe that joys impede?
Then seek from those whence favors rise.
May fortune, some ill luck comprise.
For ne'er did man give up life kindly.
To whom, it seems, the gods so blindly
Bestow, with overflowing hands,
Since Fate relentless e'er demands
Some recompense, however small,
Of him on whom her favors fall.
P In the Index of Vol. XVII. were two
mistakes which we are glad to rectify. The
article " Reminiscences," credited to W. T.
Hall, Jr., should have been credited to W. I.
Weeks, and " Man's Obligation to Supersti-
tion," which, according to the Index, was
\yritten by G. B. Chandler, was written by
Mr. Hall.
We publish elsewhere in this issue an
article entitled " Elocution at Bowdoin."
We deplore, with the writer, the fact that
we are so far behind the times in this im-
portant branch of education. There cer-
tainly can be nothing learned in the whole
course of more practical value than the art,
for it is an art, of expressing one's self well.
To have something to say is a great thing.
To know how to say it is of almost equal
importance. That neither of them is of any
value without the other is evident.
Owing to the impoverished condition of
the college purse we have no special in-
structor in elocution, but the Faculty do all
in their power to remedy this defect in the
course. We have excellent instruction in
the writing of themes, and we might have
excellent instruction in declamation had it
not been for the extremely foolish course
persistently and untiringly pursued by the
students themselves.
When we had rhetoricals the sole object,
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apparently, of those who attended was to
embarrass the man whose unfortunate duty
it was to dechxim, and then to applaud him
in proportion to his embarrassment. It was
a " grind " and any means to make that hour
more pleasant were unhesitatingly employed.
As a result the exercise was given up and
since then, as the writer says, only those who
have received appointments to the exhibi-
tions have received instruction in this direc-
tion.
At the present time, however, much of
the disturbing element of two years ago is
no longer with us and we think if rhetoricals
were resumed they would be better appre-
ciated than then. At least an opportunity
might be given those who desire instruction
in elocution to take it as an elective, and we
hope to see some steps taken in this direction
before long.
The Ivy number of the Orient will be
issued June 13th, and will contain a full ac-
count of the Field and Ivj' Day exercises.
It will be valuable as a souvenir, and your
friends will be glad to receive a copy. Those
who desire extra copies will leave their names
and the number of copies desired with the
Business Editor prior to June 9th, as we
shall not print a larger edition than is called
for.
We desire thus early to impress upon
those of our subscribers who have not yet
paid their Orient subscription that an early
payment of the same will be regarded as a
great favor. The price is two dollars per year
whether paid early or late, and if one thinks
so it can be early just as well as late. The
only source of income at present is from the
subscriptions, and that income we must have
in order to meet our running expenses. We
trust that this will be sufficient to cause a
great influx of cash to the Orient coffers.
It will be doing a dishonorable thing if
we do not attempt to correct a mistake which
many papers have made of late. It has been
stated repeatedly that a classmate of Mr. M.
W. Fuller, the newly nominated chief justice,
was Mr. Phelps, the present minister at the
Court of St. James. As a matter of fact
Mr. Phelps was never a member of Bowdoin
College, being, we believe, a graduate of
Middlebury College.
While Bowdoin would feel proud to num-
ber Minister Phelps among her alumni, we
have no desire to appropriate what is not our
own, and we wish that this correction might
have as wide a circulation as the error.
GRANT.
BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE APPARENT, MELVILLE W. FULLER.
[Head at the Grant memorial meeting heldin Chicago, August 10,
1885.]
Let drum to trumpet speak —
The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannon to the heavens from each redoubt,
Each lowly valley and each lofty peak,
As to his rest the great commander goes
Into the pleasant land of earned repose.
The great commander, when
Is heard no more the sound of war's alarms,
The bugle's stirrhig note, the clang of arms.
Depreciation's tongue would whisper then —
Only good fortune gave to him success.
When was there greatness fortune did not bless?
Not in his battles won.
Though long the well fought fields may keep
their name,
But in the wild world's sense of duty done
The gallant soldier finds the meed of fame ;
His life no struggle for ambition's prize.
Simply tlie duty done that next him lies.
And as with him of old.
Immortal Captain of triumphant Rome,
Whose eagles made the rounded globe tlieir
home.
How the grand soul of true heroic mold
Despised resentment and such meaner things,
That peace might gather all beneath her wings.
No lamentations here,
The weary hero lays him down to rest
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As tired infant at the mother's breast
Without a care, without a thouglit or fear,
Waking to greet upon the other shore
The glorious host of comrades gone before.
Earth to its kindred earth ;
The spirit to tlie fellowship of souls !
As slowly time the mighty scroll unrolls
Of waiting ages yet to have their birth.
Fame, faithful to the faithful, writes on high.
His name as one that was not born to die.
JOURNALISM AT BOWDOIN.
It may not be generally known that the
students of Bowdoin published their first
college paper more than sixt}^ years ago ; but
such is the case. The first attempt at col-
lege journalism here resulted in the publish-
ing of a small bi-weekly of sixteen octavo
pages. It was named the Escritoir.
The first number appeared October 30,
1826. It was printed by Joseph Grilfin, one
of the earliest printers of Maine. The first
article is entitled " Value of Revolutionary
Incidents." It is well written and bears
evidence of study.
There is an article on " Spanish Poets,"
and an account of a voyage from Bath to
Boston in the early days of steamboating.
A wearisome article on " Education " is con-
tinued in three numbers and that is about
all you can say about it. The poetry is of
a good order, more serious than most of the
college verse of to-day and indicative of a
more rigid training.
The succeeding numbers are much the
same in the general style of the articles.
There is not, so far as we can find, a single
joke or witty sentence in the whole series.
One writer champions the cause of " the
weed," and another describes in a semi-hu-
morous way a trip from Brunswick to Tops-
bam.
The Escritoir continued to be published
until May 4, 1827. It was given up for the
want of patronage. The names of the editors
were kept secret. It is with us only a mat-
ter of conjecture who they were. Evidently
one was Ephraim Peabody. From the sketch
of his life in the " History of Bowdoin Col-
lege " we take the following : " My class, or
some six or seven members of it, published
in the Senior year a periodical called the
Escritoir. It was strictly anonymous and all
concerned in it were at the time unknown.
. ... It is more noticeable perhaps, from its
being, so far as I know, the only periodical
of the kind which had ever been published
by the Bowdoin students, than for its special
merits as a literary work."
It was twelve years before another publi-
cation was issued by the students. In April,
1839, appeared the Port-Folio. Here again
the names of the editors are in doubt. Rev.
Elijah Kellogg, in speaking of this publica-
tion, says: "I think John B. Soule, who is
President of a college out West, was one of
the editors in my class, Benjamin Fuller who
is dead, and, I think, Edward Weston." Rev.
Mr. Kellogg was a frequent contributor of
short stories, and thinks that sometimes he
wrote a good part of the paper.
The Port-Folio while containing a great
many "solid" articles, also contains some
lighter contributions. A college news de-
partment was inserted under the name of
" Collegii Tabula," which heading is still
retained by the Orient. There is also a
personal column. Professor Cleaveland fur-
nished meteorological observations, and in
July, 1839, Professor Longfellow contrib-
uted " Leaves from Hyperion," an unpub-
lished romance.
There are some beautiful poems in the
Port-Folio ; especially noticeable is "Extract
from Revisited," written by an alumnus.
"Farewell of Summer" and "Paul at Ath-
ens " claim more than a passing notice.
The publication, as a whole, is much more
readable than the Escritoir, and shows a long
step forward in Bowdoin journalism.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
MELVILLE WESTON FULLER.
The nomination of Melville Weston Ful-
ler as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States, meets with delighted ap-
proval by the sons of Bowdoin, and is espe-
cially gratifying to those who were his fellow-
students in 1849-53. Although the press has
commented upon his professional and social
position, it will not be without interest to
the readers of the Orient, undergraduates
or alumni, to know something of the college
life of one through whom so great honor is
reflected on his Alma Mater.
Entering at the age of sixteen, Mr. Fuller
at once took a leading position in scholarship,
pre-eminently in Rhetoric, Oratory, and Lit-
erature. At the Sophomore Prize Declama-
tion he divided the honors with the brilliant
and lamented John Barrett Southgate, and
won the first prize at the corresponding ex-
ercise of the Junior year. He delivered the
Latin salutatory at graduation, and was
among those chosen from his class to the Phi
Beta Kappa. His standing among his fellows
is indicated by his election as President of
the Atheneean Society. He was also a mem-
ber of the Chi Psi Secret Society, and in 1852
was prominent in the Granite Club, an asso-
ciation formed to promote the election of the
Democratic candidate for President. Since
Mr. Fuller's graduation he has, preserved his
interest in the college to an uncommon de-
gree, and, although for more than thirty years
a resident of Chicago, has hardly missed one
of the class reunions, not infrequently at-
tending Commencement in intervening years.
Recent allusions to his poetical produc-
tions have not surprised his classmates, who
have often been charmed with his verses,
models of style as well as instinct with fra-
ternal sentiment. The following ode was
wi'itten for the reunion in 1883:
Deal gently, O relentless Time !
The Hying years,
With all tlieir joy and all their tears.
Teach us to ask, whatever heights we climb,
For gentle dealing at the hands of time.
Sweet college days so free from care.
And therefore sweet.
How closely crowd fond memories as we meet,
Of merry hours that had no weight to bear.
Nor vexed by thoughts which friendship could
not share.
The circle narrows, as we go,
But only here —
Comrades of youth to every heart most dear.
In the Eternal realm we still shall know.
With a diviner knowledge than below.
Much has been done, but much remains.
The poet sings ;
A true ambition never molls its wings,
But strives the more, the more that it attains.
And finds new goals with every goal it gains.
So bring the old Falernian in.
Of 'Fifty-three.
Its thirty years' bouquet will be
Proof, through the precious ripening of the bin,
Of the rich fruit that age alone can win.
J. L. C, '53.
COMMUNICATION.
Some statements in a recent number of
the Orient recalled a circumstance which
may interest some of your readers. In the
summer of 1841, forty-seven years ago, I
spent some time in Washington. I was on
my way to Maine from Tennessee, where, as
Professor in Jackson College, I had well
known ex-President Andrew Jackson and
Hon. James K. Polk, afterwards President.
The former, contrary to my expectations, I
found genial and affable. The latter was
courtly in manner, and at that time rapidly
rising in popularity. Congress was then
holding a remarkable extra session, and com-
ing from the presence of great men I could
look on greater men. John Quincy Adams,
John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Thomas H.
Benton, Silas Wright, John McP. Berrien,
Wm. C. Preston, James Buchanan, and
George Evans were among the great men
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then in Congress. It was an exciting ses-
sion. Modifications of the tariff were under
discussion. Post-office changes were before
them. Slavery agitation had begun. Jolrn
Quincy Adams, " the old man eloquent,"
gathered around him an interested and ex-
cited crowd, when earnestly claiming the
right to offer a petition, erroneously sup-
posed by pro-slavery men to relate to slavery.
Clay and Calhoun locked horns. Buchanan
was made to feel the withering sarcasm of
Clay. Thomas H. Benton, ponderous in
body, and stately in manner, moved about in
his blue coat with brass buttons. Clay was,
I think, chairman of the committee on the
tariff, which often brought him to his feet.
Hon. George Evans was chairman of the
committee on the Post-Office Department.
His bill was fiercely attacked by Calhoun.
Mr. Evans rose in its defense. His appear-
ance I can never forget. He was from my
native State, and with pride I noticed his
pleasant countenance and courtly bearing.
An hour and a half, I should think, he spoke
without a note before him, giving facts and
figures which astonished me. Numbers rolled
from his smooth tongue as easily as the most
common words. There was eloquence in
figures. There was no reply. Ever since I
have carried vividly in my mind that scene.
Henry Clay's seat was near Mr. Evans's, and
John Quincy Adams, a member of the House,
was sitting a short distance behind him.
Afterwards I had the pleasure of meeting
Mr. Evans occasionally in Portland, and a
closer acquaintance only increased my admi-
ration for this son of Bowdoin.
George Woods.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
ALPHA DELTA PHI CONVENTION.
The fifty-sixth annual convention of the
Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity was held in New
York City, May 3 and 4, 1888, under the
auspices of the executive council. All but
one of the eighteen chapters of the society
were represented by three delegates each, and
many of the alumni residing in New York
and vicinity were interested participants in
the meetings.
The business sessions of the fraternity
were held in the Grand Commandery Hall of
the Masonic Temple. Joseph H. Choate
presided.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale was elected
President for the ensuing year.
In the afternoon of each day receptions
were tendered the delegates at the house of
the New York Graduate Association, 427
Fourth Avenue. Here the old college songs
were enjoyed, and refreshments partaken of,
and an opportunity of meeting many prom-
inent alumni was afforded the younger mem-
bers.
The public literary meeting was held in
the Metropolitan Opera House. All the seats
in the lower part of the house were filled
and there were few places left vacant any-
where except in the uppermost of the gal-
leries. Cappas Seventh Regiment Band
filled the orchestra chairs, and throughout
the exercises gave pleasing selections. Flow-
ers and tropical plants were massed in front
of the lowered curtain, and when the four
gentlemen appeared who were to address the
house it rang with applause.
President Joseph H. Choate made the
opening address. He was followed by Geo.
Wm. Curtis, who spoke to the fraternity
upon the " Ideals of Alpha Delta Phi."
Everett P. Wheeler delivered an address on
the " Fraternity of Alpha Delta Phi." The
Rev. Edward Everett Hale was the last
speaker whom Mr. Choate inti'oduced as
" the man who has traveled farther, said
more, and worked harder for the good of the
fraternity than any member of it." His
subject was " How to Serve the Common-
wealth."
The annual banquet was held at Delmon-
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ico's and the prandial and post-prandial
efforts of those present made it a very enjoy-
able occasion.
Taken as a whole it was a most success-
ful convention, and the members separated
with the feeling that the star of Alpha Delta
Phi was certainly in the ascendant.
ELOCUTION AT BOWDOIN.
A few weeks ago one of the subjects for
Sophomore themes was, " Can More Work
be Demanded of the College Student with
Profit than is Now Required by the Curric-
ulum ? "
In writing up this subject and looking at
the catalogue it was found that among the
numerous requirements was " Exercises in
Elocution."
Now whether this is inserted to " catch "
students or not, does not immediately appear,
but it is pretty evident to one who has been
here two years that it has no practical mean-
ing. With the exception of those who are
so fortunate (?) as to take part in the Prize
Exhibitions, the students have not the least
practice in public speaking.
Society requires, and justly too, something
more from the average college graduate than
mere book learning. It has the right to demand
of him that he be able to express himself pass-
ably well; yet how many high schools there
are which present far more advantages in this
respect than Bowdoin. An Amherst under-
graduate said he valued his training in elocu-
tion more than the rest of his college work. It
seems strange that we give as good Ivy exer-
cises as we do, when we have so little training.
Tire catalogue is supposed to give the
studies, and those only which may be pur-
sued by the undergraduate. But when a
friend, in looking over the curriculum,
chances to ask how often the Rhetoricals
occur, he may well be astonished at the
answer which he must receive from the
present student of Bowdoin.
BASE-BALL.
Bowdoin, 5; M. S. C.,3.
Oilr nine opened the league contest at
Orono on Thursday, the 10th inst., in a driv-
ing rain. The result bodes most auspi-
ciously, however. They played a steady,
winning game against their strongest oppo-
nent. Tiie features of the game were the
work of both batteries, and the small num-
ber of errors. The score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. IB. S.E. P.O. A. E.
Williamson, r.f 4 1 0 1 3 0 0
Larrabee, l.f 4 1 1 2 2 0 0
F. Freeman, 2b. ... 4 1 1 1 1 0 0
Fogg, c.f 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Packard, lb 4 0 0 Oil 0 1
Fish, c 4 0 2 2 7 7 0
G. Freeman, ,Sb. . . . 4 1 1 0 2 1 1
Pendleton, s.s 3 0 0 0 0 4 2
Gary, p 3 1 2 2 115 1
Total 34 5 7 8 27 27 5
M. S. C.
A.B. R. lE. S.E. P.O. A. E.
Rogers, o 4 1 0 0 8 7 0
Keith, 3b 4 1 2 1 0 2 0
Small, p 4 1 2 1 0 14 0
Elwell, s.s 4 0 2 1 1 1 0
Babb, lb 4 0 0 0 11 0 1
Pbilbrook, 2b 4 0 0 0 3 1 2
Bird, c.f 4 0 1 1 2 0 0
Andrews, r.f 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Haggatt, l.f 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
Total 35 3 7 4 26 25 3
Time— 2h. Earned Runs— Bowdoin, 3; M. S. C., 0.
Two-Base Hit.s— Bowdoin, 1; M. S. C., 3. Stolen Bases —
Bowdoin, 8; M. S. G., 4. Struclv out— by Gary, 14; by
Small, 12. Double plays — Fish, Philbrook. Umpire —
Watkins.
The following is the revised schedule of
the league games :
S. May 5, Bowdoin vs. Bates, at Brunswick.
S. " 5, M. S. G. " Colby, " Orono.
W. " y, Colby " Bates, " Waterville.
Th. " 10, M. S. C. " Bowdoin, " Orono.
S. " 12, Bates " Bowdoin, " Lewiston.
S. " 12, Colby " M. S. C, " Waterville.
F. " 18, Bowdoin " M. S. C, " Waterville.
S. " 10, Bates " M. S. G., " Lewiston.
W. " 23, Bowdoin " Colby, " Waterville.
S. " 2fi, Bowdoin " Bates, " Waterville.
W. " 30, M. S. G. " Colby, " Bangor.
S. June 2, Bowdoin " Colby, " Brunswick.
S. " 2, M. S. C. " Bates, " Orono.
S. " 9, Bates " Colby, " Lewiston.
W. " 13, M. S. C. " Bowdoin, " Bangor.
W. " 13, Colby " Biites, " Brunswick.
S. " 16, Bowdoin " Colby, " Lewiston.
S. " 10, M. S. C. " Bates, " Waterville.
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"I don't dare," said young Jack Borrow,
" To attend exam, to-morrow,
For I fear, much to my sorrow.
Prof, will have me on the hip."
But upspake his cheery chum,
' Jack, don't look so blankish glum,
This advice may help you some:
Keep a stiffened upper lip."
After chapel on the morrow,
With no more a trace of sorrow
On his handsome face, Jack Borrow
To examination marched.
Marched ? nay, he lightly tripped.
Or perhaps we might say skipped.
He had sure become stiff-lipped.
For his moustache he had starched.
The newly-elected Y. M. C. A. officers are as fol-
lows : President, C. F. Hersey, '89 ; Vice-President,
F. E. Dennett, '90 ; Treasurer, J. P. Cilley, Jr., '91 ;
Corresponding Secretary, G. B. Sears, '90 ; Record-
^S Secretary, J. R. Home, Jr., '91.
The Boston Journal, speaking of Justice Fuller's
appointment, called Bovvdoin "the favorite college
of Maine." Right you are, Journal. Colonel Smith,
editor of the paper, is a Colby man.
Chandler, '90, has returned from Marlowe, N. H.,
where he has been teaching.
Arbor Day coincided with May Day this year. We
had it, but damp weather prevented advertised ball
games and other out-door sports.
The Juniors had an adjourn in Mineralogy, April
26th, as Prof. Robinson was attending thg Republi-
can State Convention at Bangor.
Ex-President Hill, of Harvard, visited the col-
lege, April 26th.
Rideout and White, '89, Scales, '91, and Moulton,
Smith, and Vaughan, Medical School, attended the
annual May reception at Westbrools Seminary, on
the 4th.
Born, at Oakland, Cal., March 9th, to the wife of
Prof. L. A. Lee, a daughter.
The student without one of Job's comforters on
his neck is quite out of the fashion at present.
President Hyde will deliver the baccalaureate
address to the graduating class of Fryeburg Acad-
emy on the evening of June 3d.
The sale of the reading-room papers for this term
was thinly attended. The total receipts were $4.41.
The Scientific American went for the most, forty
cents, and the Brunswick Telegraph for the least, one
penny. Some merriment ensued when a prominent
Y. M. C. A. man started the bid for the Christian
Weekly at two cents.
E. A. Chase, who shot Mrs. Stevens in Portland,
Fast-Day, was in Brunswick the Tuesday previous.
He inspected the college buildings, and left his cor-
rect signature in the art gallery register, although
he had written it " C. W. Johnson" at the Tontine.
The autograph is in a firm, legible hand. He was a
rather fine looking man, of medium height, with
dark hair and moustache. He seemed to take the
greatest interest in what he saw on the campus.
Mr. Bartlett, of Boston, President of New En-
gland Association of Theta Delta Chi, was enter-
tained by the Bowdoin Charge, Friday evening, the
4th.
A member of the Mineralogy division, who is in-
terested in State politics, perpetrates, "What is the
Cleav-age of Marble ? " Such dia-Burleigh-cal at-
tempts ouglit to be frowned down.
Judge Fuller, that is to be, seems to give general
satisfaction. He is a Maine man, and that is in his
favor to begin with. — Boston Globe. And it is not
the least to his credit that he is a Bowdoin man,
either.
On a fence near the campus a Sophomore " tuff "
Sang " Water ! cold water I cold water ! "
Said I to him, " Sophomore, why sling this ' guff '
Of water, cold water, and slaughter ? "
The Sophomore grinned and the Sophomore swore
That every " brash " Fresh should go over the door,
And that aqua upon his fair form he would pour.
As he oughter, he oughter, he oughter.
H. M. Nickerson, Medical School, was a soloist
at the recent Haydn concert in Portland.
On Sunday, April 22d, the Y. M. C. A. were ad-
dressed by Mr. F. K. Sanders, of Yale, who recently
returned from a trip around the world. Prof. Robin-
son spoke on the afternoon of the 29th. May 6th,
Prof. Smith delivered a fitting eulogy on Mr. Benson
Sewall, '83, and drew many valuable lessons from
his exemplary life. Rev. C. H. Wheeler, D.D., '47,
President of Euphrates College, Harpoot, Turkey,
will not be able to address the association this spring,
as announced.
Recent entertainments in Brunswick : Luce's
"Boarding School" Company, April 18th; Mrs.
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Livermore's Ificture, "The Boy of To-daj-," April
19th ; Scott's " Thrown Upon the World," May 7th ;
Brunswick Base-Ball Association athletic exhibition,
May lOtli ; May Alice Vars Opera Company, May
14th.
President Hyde's chapel discourse, the 6th, was on
"Loan and Building Associations," with applications
to the scholarly and religious life.
J. H. Maxwell, '88, has been elected to represent
the town of Wales in the State Democratic Conven-
tion, which meets in Augusta the 22d.
George Seco (alias "Whisker"), aged 14, re-
ceived honorable mention for small hay-rack at the
school industrial exhibition in April.
Professor George L. Vose, formerly professor of
Civil Engineering in Bowdoin College, is engaged
in delivering a series of six lectures at Chauncey
Hall School, Boston.
So Minister Phelps will not be chief justice, after
all. Never mind, it is a New England man, and
New England furnishes the brains for the nation now
as heretofore. — Boston Olobe. Yes, New England
and Bowdoin always "bob up serenely " at the de-
mand for brains.
Rev. J. E. Adams, '53, H. E. Cole, '83, C. W.
Longren, '84, and E. C. Plummer, '87, recently vis-
ited the college.
The body of Mr. Benson Sewall, who was drowned
in the Penobscot, last December, was recovered Sat-
urday, April 28th. It was found floating opposite
Mill Creek, and was taken to Hampden by Capt. Otis
C. Eaton. The body was in a good state of preser-
vation, with the skates still on the feet, and the watch
and money all right. The remains were brought to
Brunswick, Monday forenoon, and interred in Pine
Grove Cemetery, the Faculty and many of the stu-
dents following them to the last resting place. Rev.
Mr. Fisher offered prayer.
The Bowdoin press correspondents are as follows :
Boston Gfo&e,. Littleiicld, '90; Journal, Black, '88;
Portland Argus, Hill, '88; Press, Weeks, '90; Ban-
gor Commercial, Doherty, '89 ; Whig and Courier,
C. H. Fogg, '89 ; Lewiston Journal, Shorey, '88 ;
Kennebec Journal, Black, '88 ; UniversUy, Emery, '89.
Twenty-eight Juniors have elected History and
twenty-eiglit. Astronomy. Seventeen chose Physiol-
ogy. Elden, Manson, Files, Stacey, and Stearns
take Latin, the last three also electing Greek. Mer-
rill and Owen are pursuing a special course in
Pliysics. The favorite combination this term is As-
tronomy and History, eighteen taking these two.
R. W. Goding, '88, represented Bowdoin at the
56th annual convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity
held in Columbus, O., May 10th and 11th.
Wm. Condon broke a finger, one day last week,
while scuffling. — Balh Sentinel. Bill must have
been vivified with unwonted animation at the time.
Hon. VVm. L. Putnam, '55, of the Fisheries Com-
mission, has sent a handsome photograph of the
Commission to the college library.
In the nomination of Chief Justice Fuller, Bow-
doin has scored one more. Make a good blue pencil
mai'k in your books, gentlemen.
A german to close the series of assemblies was
given at the Town Hall, May-Day evening. Thirty
couples participated. Ryser, of Portland, furnished
the music, and Rideout, of Brunswick, refreshments
in the hall. Supper at Mace's. The favors were
elegant. Parties were present from away, and all
passed an enjoyable evening. Messrs. R. Manson,
F. Lynam, and B. C. Carroll, responsible.
A fire in Prof. Little's yard, two weeks ago Mon-
day afternoon, caused a sensation, and many students
hastened over as firemen. One man singed off his
eyebrows and moustache, much to the merriment of
an elderly lady who watched the operation. She de-
clared of a student who still wore the jerseys in
which he had been playing tennis, " That naked fel-
low is no earthly good."
Mr. Watts has been elected fighting as well as
business editor, and to him all challenges should be
sent.
Several of the boys participated in the farces,
"Apples "and "The Sleeping Car," given for the
benefit of the Art Association, two weeks ago.
The members of '90, who were chosen as editors
of the next Bugle are: Moody, A. A. $. ; Littlefield,
+. T. ; Turner, A. K. E. ; Spillane, 'A.ir. ; and Chand-
ler, e. A. X.
The Sophomore crew will be composed of Gates,
Hastings, Sears, and Turner. AUard, Cilley, C. H.
Hastings, and Parker will constitute the Freshman
crew.
The New York Sun facetiously declares that
Judge Mclvillius Fuller, in his college days, wrote
sonnets to the red-headed girls of Topsham, and then
goes on to remark : " It has been generally but erro-
neously stated that Edvardus Johannes Phelps was
likewise a Bowdoin poet, and a classmale of Mel-
villius. 'I'hat is not the fact. Edvardus first wooed
the Muses in tlie classic shades of«i\liddlebury, Ver-
mont; and he was in politics before Mclvillius was
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out of Paley." Edvardus graduated from Middle-
bury when Mr. Fuller was but seven years of age.
Mr. Fuller's best-known classmate is Wm. A.Wheeler,
the famous lexicographer.
Mr. Jordan Snow is fitting up a hall for the Zeta
Psi Society in his new block on Main Street.
An excellent entertainment for the benefit of the
base-ball nine was given in Memorial Hall, May 3d.
Mrs. Winslow read the "Merchant of Venice" in a
fine miinner, and the Glee Club gave selections dur-
ing the entertainment.
May 2d the Glee Club sang in Lisbon. Within a
short time they will also sing in Lewiston, Bangoi-,
Rockland, Wiscasset, and Damariscotta. On the
22d the quartette will sing in Farmington.
'23. — From all accounts
it appears that Rev. Jonas
Burnham of Farmington is the oldest
living graduate of Bowdoin College. He
was ninety years old the 11th of this month.
A short time ago the following article was
published in the Boston Journal: " Tlie oldest living
graduate of Bowdoin College is Rev. Thomas T.
Stone of the class of 1820. He was born in Waterford,
Me., in 1801, and hence is 87 years of age. He was
a prominent Congregational minister till 1852, when
he accepted the pastorate of the Unitarian church at
Bolton, Mass., over which he has continued to preside
ever since.'' The Farmington Journal disputes this
honor and gives us the facts given above.
'dO. — Rev. Elijah Kellogg has been engaged to
preach the memorial sermon at the Congregational
church in Lewiston, May 27th.
'50. — It is said of Senator William P. Frye that he
has lately purchased hi,s first pair of spectacles.
Although 57 years of age he has never until lately
felt the need of glasses. Senator Frye, although the
grandfather of nine stout chikh-en, is among the
youngest looking men in the Senate, and even to a
careful observer appears to be not more than thirty-
five years of age.
'53. — Although ft may be needless to elaborate up-
■ on the many accounts of the life of Melville W. Fuller,
the Orient will surely be justified in publishing a
few lines concerning this illustrious son of Bowdoin.
Meville Weston Fuller, the son of Frederick A.
Fuller, was born in Augusta, Me. .February 11, 1833.
His mother was Catherine M., daughter of Nathan
Weston, Chief Justice of Maine. Mr. Fuller fitted
for college in Augusta, and entered Bowdoin in 1849.
He was a member of the Chi Psi Fraternity. While
in college Mr. Fuller showed marked literary taste,
and some of his boyish productions are still extant.
In 1856 after studying law at Harvard University he
began the practice of law in Augusta. Meanwhile
he acted as editor of the Age and found great suc-
cess in the journalistic line. Feeling that his native
State was not his destined home, Mr. Fuller, in 1857,
moved West and settled in Chicago. His ability
was soon recognized, and for thirty years he has en-
joyed an extensive practice. In 1862 he was chosen
to the Illinois Legislature, and since that time he
has held many positions of trust. Mr. Fuller is a
man of most excellent judgment and is familiar with
all the decisions of the Supreme Court , as well as the
history of our country, especially on constitutional
questions. When notified of his nomination, Mr.
Fuller was greatly surprised and requested that he
be not pressed for any extended interviews. The
congratulatory letters received by him were very
numerous. The enthusiasm of the men of his State
and college knows no bounds. A large meeting of
Maine men was held at Young's Hotel, Boston, at
which meeting the Rev. Egbert C. Smyth was one of
the first speakers. May all this honor be but the be-
o-inning of his good fortune is the wish of all Bowdoin
men.
'54-. — Henry Dunlap died in Washington, D. C,
Friday, April 27, 1888. Mr. Dunlap was born in
Brunswick, and has for many years held positions in
the Treasury Department.
'56. — Mr. George C. Yeaton has been chosen Pres-
ident of the South Berwick National Bank.
'58. — Col. Franklin M. Drew of Lewiston has
accepted the invitation to deliver the Memorial Day
address at Winthrop, Maine.
'69. — Mr. T. H. Eaton has recently been appointed
cashier of the Iowa National Bank of Ottumwa. Mr.
Eaton has been for some time in the service of the
bank, and thus his promotion comes from a test of
his worth and capacity; a most intelligent and gen-
tlemanly man as we can testify. Mr. Eaton is a son
of the late Mr. Thomas Eaton of this town. — Bruns-
wick Telegraph.
'69. — The Lewiston Journal remarks: "How
Maine is indenting herself on the country nowa-
days ! " True ! but may we not add to the name of
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Maine that of " old Bovvdoin " and be justified ? Dr.
M. E. Wadsvvorth has lately been appointed State
Geologist of Michigan. After graduation from col-
lege, Mr. Wadsworth was connected with the Agassiz
Museum at Harvard, and in 1id79 was made Ph.D. by
that University. Mr. Wadsworth has made a careful
research of all the mineral resources of Michigan, and
is very well equipped for his work.
'80. — Henry A. Wing of late connected with the
Umbagog House, Erroll, N. H., has severed his con-
nection with that house and connected himself with
the new journal soon to be published in Lewiston.
For some time Mr. Wing was night editor on the
Portland Daily Press and also held a similar position
on the Pittsburg Dispatch.
'83. — The body of Benson Sewall, of Bangor, was
brought to Brunswick, May 2d, for burial. It will be
remembered that the sad drowning accident occurred
December 28th, in the Penobscot River. The body
was found by Capt. Otis Eaton of Winterport, onlj' a
few miles below the place whore Mr. Sewall was
drowned, and despite the fact that the body had been
so long in the water, it was perfectly preserved.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Theta, ^. K. E., ?
May 4, 1888. \
Whereas, It has been the will of our Heavenly
Father to take from us our brother, Henry Dunlap
of the class of '54 ;
Resolved, That while we bow in submission to
the Divine Will, we deeply regret our brother's death ;
Resolved, That the relatives of the deceased have
the heartfelt sympathy of this chajiter in their great
bereavement ;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
printed in the Bowdoin Orient.
G. F. Cart,
J. L. DOHERTY,
W. E. CUMMINGS.
COLLEGE WORLD.
The Western Reserve University, which includes
Adclbert College, has declared against co-education.
Fifteen young women now enrolled will be permit-
ted to conclude their course, but no more girl stu-
dents will be received. Adelbert's trustees say
officially that they believe in " higher education" for
women, but they think their young men may get
along better alone. A separate college for girls un-
der Adelbert patronage is proposed. — The Lehigh
Burr.
F. G. Cross, an amateur runner of Oxford, Eng.,
has broken the record by running a half mile in 1
minute 54 2-5 seconds. — College Rambler.
From an exchange we clip the following appro-
priate sentiment: " There i$ a little matter $ome of
our Subscribers have feemingly forgotten. We are
$0 mode$t that we do not like to Speak about
it.
A SERENADE.
Soft be thy slumbers, fair Leonore.
Sweet be thy dreams forevermore.
Like the bright jewels in golden bed,
So on thy pillow rests thy fair head.
Peacefully sleeping wliom I adore,
Soft be thy slumbers, dear Leonore.
— Harvard Advocate.
BOOK REVIEWS.
[Books reviewed in these columns may be seen at the
College Library.]
A History of Political Economy. By John Kells
Ingram, LL.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.
With Preface by Professor E. J. James, Ph.D., Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. New York : Macmillan & Co.
18S8 ; pp. XV. + 246.
In this work the author adopts the conventional
three-fold division of his subject into ancient, medi-
teval, and modern ; but he devotes only twenty-five
pages to the first two periods in which he finds merely
the rudiments of economic science. Among the
Greek thinkers there was "no systematic or ade-
quate handling of economic questions — only some
happy ideas and striking partial anticipations of later
research." Among the Romans "there is little evi-
dence of serious theoretic inquiry on economic sub-
jects." During the medieval period " no large or
varied economic activity was possible under the fall
ascendancy of feudalism." Thus summarily (and
we believe wisely from his point of view) does the
author dismiss the many centuries from the annals of
which Blanqui has gathered so many interesting and
instructive facts.
Passing to modern times, he recognizes three suc-
cessive phases of economic development between
the close of the crusades and the rise of the Histori-
cal School in the present century. The first phase,
to which he briefly alludes within the compass of
two pages, occujjied the fourteenth and fitteonth
centuries, during which the feudal system was break-
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ing up, and new industrial forces wei-e gaining
strength, aided by the mariner's compass, the print"
ing press, and public credit.
The second phase, occupying the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, was characterized by the
ascendancy of the mercantile System, and is treated
at somewhat greater length. Concerning this much-
berated system of economic doctrine, we believe that
the author expresses a just view when he says that
it " was essentially the theoretic counterpart of the
practical activities of the time, and that nations and
governments were led to it not by any form of scien-
tific thought, but by the force of outward circum-
stance, and the observation of facts which lay on the
surface."
The third modern phase, which he calls the
" System of Natural Liberty," is the one to which he
devotes the bulk of his work. In point of time it
coincides approximately with the eighteenth century.
In a few well-chosen words the author sketches the
distinguishing features of this period as (1) "The
more complete separation of banking from general
commerce ;" (2) " The great development of the use
of machinery in production " in the latter part of the
century; and (3) "A remarkable inversion in the
political relations of industry," wherelDy, while in
earlier times governments had patronizsd industry
as an instrument for military aggrandizement, now
on the contrary, the industrial spirit gained the mas-
tery, and governments did its bidding. Hence the
commercial wars of the latter part of the eigliteenth
century. The antlior believes tlial"this change of
attitude marked a real and important progress by
pointing to industrial activity as the one permanent,
practical destination of modern societies."
Then follow one hundred and forty pages which
the autlior devotes to a careful analysis of the works
of economic writers during the period under consid-
eration. These are grouped, according to their na-
tionality, around Ad un Smith as the central figure.
Here the author's work is exceedingly well done.
His estimate of the scientific value of the results
reached by the various investigators whom lie names
is eminently fair and free from distortion. As a
specimen may be cited his treatment of Malthus,
whose famous doctrine has been the target of such
extravagant praise and blame. He says, "It re-
mains a matter of some difficulty to discover what
solid contribution he has made to our knowledge,
nor is it easy to ascertain precisely what practical
precepts, not already familiar, he founded on his theo-
retic principles." " It would seem then, that what
has been ambitiously called Malthus's theory of pop-
ulation, instead of being a great discovery as some
have represented it, or a poisonous novelty as others
have considered it, is no more than a formal enun-
ciation of obvious, though sometimes neglected,
facts." Finally he gives him the precise measure of
praise which is his due by saying, " Malthus had un-
doubtedly the great merit of having called public
attention in a striking and impressive way to a sub-
ject vvhich had neither theoretically nor practically
been sufficiently considered."
The latter part of the book is devoted to the
"Historical School" of the present time, the distin-
guishing marks of which are that it insists (1) upon
the historical method in studying economic phenom-
ena, refusing to consider a people as " merely the
mass of individuals now living," (2) upon the " ne-
cessity of accentuating the moral element in eco-
nomic study," and (3) upon " the close relationship
which necessarily exists between economics and
jurisprudence."
In his list of eminent American writers are many
familiar names. One of these, those of us who have
been studying political economy this winter will be
pleased to see mentioned in terms of such cordial
appreciation. Dr. Ingram says, " The name of
no American economist stands higher than that of
General Francis A. Walker."
This history is worthy of high praise. It is a
true history of economic theory as is pointed out in
Dr. James's preface. It is positive, yet not dogmatic,
and is entirely free from partisan bias. The author's
own position on some of the vital issues of our day
is sufficiently shown in the following extracts from
tlie conclusion of his work. " The mere conflict of
private interests will never produce a well-ordered
commonwealth of labor." " The institutions of the
future must be founded on sentiments and habits,
and these must be the slow growth of thought and
experience. The solution indeed must at all times
be largely a moral one ; it is the spiritual rather than
the temporal power that is the natural agency for
redressing or mitigating most of the evils associated
with industrial life." " What is now most urgent
is not legislative interference, on any large scale,
with the industrial relations, but the formation, in
both the higher and lower regions of the industrial
world, of profound convictions as to social duties,
and some more eff'eetive mode of diffusing, maintain-
ing and applying those convictions." It would be hard
to express in words a truer apprehension of the nat-
ure of the forces to which we must look for a satis-
factory adjustment of our present industrial troubles.
Booics Received.
"History of Elizabethan Literature." Saintsbury.
Macmillan & Co.
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chemistry, architecture.
The plan of instruction includes lectures and recitations in the several departments of study; practice In the chemical, min-
eralogical, blo^vl)ipe, metallurgical, and architectural laboratories; field and underground surveying; geodetic surveying; practice
and study in mines, mills, machine shops, and foundries; projects, estimates, and drawings for the working of mines and for the
construction of metallurgical, chemical, and other works; reports on mines, industrial establishments, and field geology.
During the summer vacation there are Summer Schools in Mechanical Engineering, for practical work in foundries aud ma-
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In addition to the above special schools for graduates and others, there is, in connection with the School of Arts, a Graduate
Department in which instruction is given to graduates of this aud other colleges in a wide range of subjects, embracing advanced
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 3.-MAY30, 1888.
To an Indian Relic 27
Editorial Notes 27
The New Chapel Organ 28
A One-Sided Game 29
Small Colleges 29
Journalism at Bowdoin 30
George Sand 31
To the Rain 32
Psi Upsilon Convention, 33
Base-Ball, 33
CoLLEGii Tabula 31
Personal, .30
College World, 38
Book Reviews, 39
TO AN INDIAN RELIC.
Is this, of thee, all that remains
To show that here thou once hast dwelt?
Whole lands were once thine own domain ;
Thy sceptre's power have many felt.
And this is all ? No other trace
To show that this was once thy home?
Ah no ! no longer does thy race
O'er these fair strands and meadows roam.
Yet, little stone, the sights thou'st seen
I'd gladly gaze upon with thee.
Some warrior brave and Ijold — I ween —
Hath made and left thee here for me.
The action of the Harvard Board of
Overseers ill regard to athletics has provoked
wide and spirited discussion, both in college
papers and in the leading newspapers of the
country. The college press, as a whole, con-
demn the action of the Board, and many of
the newspapers find little to say in its favor.
We do not intend to discuss the question of
college athletics in detail, but there are some
general facts which lead us to think that the
course taken by the Board was injudicious.
In the first place, while it cannot be de-
nied that the interest in athletics has greatly
increased in the past ten or fifteen years, it
is a matter of doubt wliether it has increased
any faster than the number of students. We
do not believe that it has.
Again. It is by no means a settled thing
that this increased interest is productive of
the evil results which some claim for it.
Those hostile to athletics tell us that athletic
contests are detrimental both to a student's
health and scholarship, and in the attempt to
prove their statement they bring up isolated
cases where the result is in accordance with
their belief. But this method of proof will
not stand the test. A man may injure his
health in any business he undertakes, and we
should not condemn the business because the
man has been imprudent, neither should we
condemn it because now and then one or two
out of hundreds has carried it to excess. In
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scholarship, too, it is fully as easy to cite
cases where proficiency in athletics and high
scholarship combine, as to attempt to prove
the reverse.
We are met on every hand vrith the posi-
tive statement that the men of to-morrow
should be men physically, as well as mentally,
and we are told that the only way to bring
about this happy result is by constant athletic
training. Granting this, what is the interest
evinced in athletics but the direct outcome
of constant, sj'stematic, gymnasium train-
ing. Every college and school of to-day has
its gymnasium, and is there anything any
more natural than that those who work in
that gymnasium should wish to meet and, as
it were, compare results ? In doing this we
are but following the tendencies of the age.
These tendencies carry us forward to logical
and business-like conclusions in everything.
They tend to make a man excel in some-
thing, and it is better to be a good athlete
than not to excel in anything.
There is still another argument in favor
of college athletics. It is generally recog-
nized that students, confined as the}' must
be to books and study, must sometime, some-
how, somewhere, give vent to the repressed
life which every sound, vigorous young man
has. Athletics play the part of the escape-
valve in college life, and would be worth
fostering for this reason, if for no other.
Ask any man who has lived in a college town
many years if he don't sleep better and have
more turkeys now than he did twenty years
ago. He will answer a good hearty " Yes,"
and bless the athletics that turn the physical
energies of the student from the turkey roost
to base-ball. Midnight orgies cease, and the
" fine hand " of the student is seldom seen
when somebody's gate walks down the street,
and less often is the town "painted red."
In view of these things we think that
the athletic sentiment ouglit to be fostered
in every college instead of repressed, as it is
in some. And we are proud to say that in
this, as in other things, Bowdoin stands in
the front rank of those colleges that believe
in the progressive idea.
It looks as though Yale's historic " fence "
would soon be with the things that were.
While we bow in submissive obedience to
the inscrutable decrees of an all-wise Fac-
ulty we are extremely sorry for Yale students
that the result is as it is.
From the first we have been interested
to know how the contest would end, always
hoping that the boys would come oi¥ victo-
rious, even at the expense of a new building,
for that might have come later, but the
fence — ah, that is gone forever. There may
be other combinations of boards and posts
and nails and they may be called fences, but
(lie fence will have passed away.
Of course some will say " It is all senti-
ment, this love for a fence." Fact ; but there
is something of sentiment in every man's
life, and especially, perhaps, in every college
man's life. Every college has something
that it loves as devotedly as Yale does her
fence and which it would feel equally sorry
to part with, and for this reason every col-
lege student will feel sorry that this fence —
the scene of so many joyous experiences —
must go.
THE NEW CHAPEL ORGAN.
In describing our new organ so that this
article may be of value to the Bowdoin his-
torian decades hence, as well as to the pres-
ent undergraduates, it is necessary to repeat
what was said in a recent Orient. Perhaps
this is worth while, for our college history is
always interesting, and we would be glad
to-day to know something definite about the
old organ which the new instrument replaces.
But tradition and archive are silent concern-
ing it. An old alumnus states that it occu-
pied the present gallery away back in the
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'fifties, but who gave it, and when, are un-
known. To-day it rests in Memorial Hall,
where there is some talk of setting it up for
use at winter prayers.
The handsome and sweet toned new organ
is the gift of Oliver Crocker Stevens, '76, and
wife, of Boston. The stipulation was made
that it be played regularly by some student
who shall receive all or a portion of his tui-
tion therefor, and that students be allowed to
practice on it under certain conditions.
Profs. Chapman and Hutchins selected the
instrument, which was made by Cole & Wood-
berry, Boston, builders of fine church organs.
Twelve hundred dollars was the price. Six
weeks were required to build the instrument,
and four days to set it up. It is 8 feet wide,
5 feet 6 inches deep, and 15 feet high. The
ease is nicely finished in walnut, and the
front pipes, all speaking ones, are richly dec-
orated in gold and colors. There are two
manuals, compass 61 notes, and the pedals
have a compass of 27 notes. The 14 registers
contain 381 pipes, as follows: Great organ,
with open diapason, dulciana, and octave
stops, 183 pipes ; swell organ, with viola, dia-
pason treble and bass, and flute stops, 171
pipes ; and pedals, 16 foot bourdon, 27 pipes.
There is no doubt but that the instrument is
the finest organ of its size in the State.
On the front a bronze panel is lettered :
"In Memoriam Oliveri et Georgii-Oliveii
Crocker, Dederunt O. C. S. et Uxor, A. D.,
MDCCCLXXXVIII." The Crockers were
two wealthy merchants of New Bedford, Mass.,
father and son, now deceased. Oliver Crocker
was Mr. Stevens' grandfather and namesake.
Thwing has been appointed organist, and
some Freshman is to preside at the bellows
handle. It is not unlikely that the Glee
Club, or at any rate a deputation therefrom,
will lead the singing every morning. With
these attractions, the fifteen rule can soon be
abolished, as each man in college will un-
doubtedly hereafter attend chapel regularly.
A ONE-SIDED GAME.
They stood beside the tennis court
And saw the players play.
She was a maid of ancient date,
And he a student gay.
And as they watched the game proceed
And heard the players count,
He saw upon her fair young (?) cheek
A warm blush quickly mount.
" I think I like that game," said she.
Said he, " Why so, my dove ? "
" Why, you ' love forty,' don't you see ?
And I am ' fort}', love.' "
SMALL COLLEGES.
Goethe says : " A character is perfected in
the stream of the world." Bacon says : " A
crowd is not company, and faces are but a
gallery of pictures." Here are two great
truths from two great minds. The one ut-
ters one of the grand principles of society ;
the other does not contradict, but supple-
ments it by limiting its practicability. The
one says : Go forth into the world ; rub
against your fellows; let them polish you,
and, if necessary, knock off your peculiari-
ties; extend the hand of fellowship; and
finally come back a full man. The other says :
Wander not aimlessly about in the hurrying
crowd, but make men " company "; link your
fortune with them; divine the emotions of
their hearts ; fathom the depths of their souls ;
move among faces you can call your own.
These words are practical. Let us see how
we can apply them.
The paramount benefit of a college course
is development of character ; the production
of men who present a strong and clearly de-
fined individuality, and yet retain those subtle
relations to the mass which enable them to
move with uniformity and ease. It does this
because of the peculiar relations which exist
between students. Some time in the four
years, nearly every emotion and characteristic
comes to the surface. None of our little
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crotchets escape notice, and reciprocal criti-
cism is not wanting. The " crank " is
"ground": the popular man is courted; the
stable man is respected ; congenial spirits affil-
iate ; hostile spirits clash — a miniature world,
the best preparation for that larger world
outside. It is Goethe's "stream of the world."
However great the other advantages of
Harvard and Yale, this character-building
process finds its highest perfection in smaller
institutions — in Amherst, in Dartmouth, and
in our own Bowdoin. It may exist to some
extent in large colleges in the form of sets
and cliques ; but it is based upon caste more
than upon personal characteristics. It is
like entering a large city. A student is per-
sonally acquainted with but a small percent-
age of his own classmates, and knows scarcely
more than half of them by sight. The class
ties are drawn less closely. He is literally
among strangers. It is Bacon's "sea of
faces." The large college possesses superior
facilities, the small college possesses superior
men ; the large college possesses better in-
structors, the small college possesses better
material to instruct. The typical Harvard
man will develop more dash, more social
polish, and will be the more genial in conver-
sation. He will also possess much external
tact. But the small college man will analyze
character, he will read human nature, he
will divine the thoughts of his fellows and
utilize them to the best advantage, and, in
four cases out of five, he will "get there."
And why ? Because he has not only followed
the suggestion of the German poet ; but he
has also heeded the admonition of the En-
glish sage. He has not only perfected his
character in the " stream of the world " ;
but he has also remembered that "a crowd
is not company, and faces are but a gallery
of pictures."
There are thirty college graduates on the
staff of the New York Sun — Ex.
JOURNALISM AT BOWDOIN.
(Concluded.)
The next step in Bowdoin journalism was
the publication of tlie Bowdoin Bugle in July,
1858. It consisted of four pages, about the
size of the Brunswick Telegraph. The editors
were Isaac Adams, Jr., Stephen J. Young,
Edward B. Neally, J. H. Thompson, Samuel
Fessenden. It is little more than lists of
members of the various college organizations
of that day. There were then five Greek
Letter Fraternities in college, viz.: Alpha
Delta Phi, Psi Upsilon, Chi Psi, Delta Kappa
Epsilon, and Theta Delta Chi. The Peu-
cinian and Athentean societies still kept up
a feeble existence. Tliere were also three
debating clubs: the Bowdoin Debating Club,
of which John F. Appleton was president;
the Freshman Lyceum, Charles O. Hunt,
president; and the United Debaters, A. F.
Bucknam, president.
It is interesting to compare this first
Bugle with those of a later day and note the
great change which has taken place.
In 1867 the Bugle was published in mag-
azine form, considerable literary matter was
added, and an attempt made to place it on
a level with other college publications of
like nature. It was decided to publish it
only once a year instead of twice, as for-
merly. The editors to whom we are in-
debted for this great reformation were George
T. Sewall, Charles H. Cushman, and W.
Frank Shepard.
The Bugle has been published with vary-
ing success for thirty years, but on the whole
has maintained a high position among college
annuals. Its appearance is always warmly
greeted by Bowdoin students. Its vigorous
manhood gives no sign of premature decay,
and every student wishes for it a long and
prosperous career.
In 1874 was published Bowdoinensia, as a
rival to the Bugle of that year. Its most
prominent editor was Arlo Bates. It is in
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no sense the equal of the Bugle of 1874, and
a second number never appeared.
In 1870 the first number of the Bowdoin
Scientific Review made its appearance. It
contained sixteen pages, and was issued fort-
nightly. The editors were Professors C. F.
Brackett and G. L. Goodale. The Review
was devoted to contemporary science, and we
should judge that it might have been highly
prized by its scientific readers. For the gen-
eral reader, however, it has but little interest.
The last number appeared February 13, 1872.
Meanwhile the Bowdoin Orient had en-
tered on its existence. In April, 1871, Mar-
cellus Coggan, George M. Whittaker, J. G.
Abbott, O. W. Rogers, and H. M. Heath, all
members of the class of '72, published the
first number. Since then the Orient has
appeared regularly, and has become one of
the prominent features of our college life.
Such has been the history of journalism
at Bowdoin. Not all the papers have been
successful ; but two certainly, the Bugle and
the Orient, have not been failures, and from
present appearances they will live long and
prosper.
GEORGE SAND.
Bowdoin Sophomores are this term read-
ing " Marianne," one of the rural romances
of George Sand. Perhaps, therefore, a short
article upon this author's life and writings
may not be ill-timed.
George Sand was the pen name of Aman-
tine Lusile Amore Dupin, born in Paris in
1804. Her father, a French military officer,
was descended from the royal line of Poland.
Her mother was the daughter of a Paris bird-
seller. There was thus combined in her
veins both plebeian and patrician blood.
Upon the death of her father, Amore
passed under the care of her grandmother,
by whom she was brought up. She was from
the first a remarkable child. At twelve she
amused herself in reading the classics and in
writing short stories. Her temper, however,
was so bad and her mind so peculiar that her
grandmother found it impossible to control
her, and forthwith dispatched her to a con-
vent. Here she remained two or three years,
passed through a most singular religious ex-
perience, and had determined to take the
veil, when her grandmother, who was more
addicted to philosophy than to piety, hearing
of it, withdrew her. The young girl quickly
recovered from disappointment, and entered
with all the zest of an exuberant nature into
the enjoyment of her country life at Nohaut
Castle, the mansion of Madame Dupin . She
indulged to the utmost her passion for horse-
back riding and hunting, but the country
itself and the study of nature's life in every
form, afforded her her chief delight. Still
her books were not neglected. To each of
her studies she devoted an allotted hour per
day. For reading, her mind was most drawn
to religious and philosophical works. She
eagerly went through with Chateaubriand
and Thomas-a-Kempis, Locke, Aristotle, and
finally Rousseau. As a result of this reading,
her faith in Catholicism, and, in fact, in every
established religion, was forever overthrown.
She formulated from her own mind a sort
of private faith — a faith for herself and no
other. It was now that Amore's grand
mother died, and shortly after, at the age of
eighteen, she married M. Dudevant. The
union proved most unhappy. It is to this
fact that many ascribe George Sand's literary
career. Up to twenty-seven she had written
nothing, but now, unspeakably wretched in
her home, she became possessed of the idea
that she could and must obtain solace in
writing. Accordingly she determined to
leave Nohaut and her husband and go to
Paris.
Her first efforts were upon editorial work,
in which she met with poor success. She
tried romance, and after one or two fail-
ures published her first volume, " Rose et
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Blanche," under the nom de plume of J. Sand,
an abbreviation of the name of Jules San-
deau, the reviser of the work, and at that
time her nearest friend. In a few months
followed "Indiana," which was signed George
Sand — the J. having been changed at San-
deau's request to George, after the patron
saint of the day. " Indiana " at once made
George Sand famous. It sliould be noted
that these were the dark days of the author's
life. Her present toil and poverty, added to
the troubles that had for years worn upon
her sensitive nature, drove her nearly to
despair. " Indiana " and the works that fol-
lowed during this period bring out cleai'ly
the intensity of George Sand's mental suffer-
ings, and show us what mighty problems her
mind revolved. " Indiana," " Valentine,"
"Lelia" (pronounced by some critics the
most remarkable prose work ever written)
and " Jacques," coming in quick succession^
well-nigh incomprehensible in imaginative
stretch, wonderfully fascinating, and calcu.
lated to inspire the reader's mind with full
sympathy, sentimentally, at least, with the
author's, formed a startling, passionate pro-
test against the debasing marriage laws of
France. This protest is, perhaps, the living
principle of all George Sand's writings, for,
though those of her later years came from a
mind softened by time, a characteristic under_
current still pervades them. This is noticea.
ble even in " Marianne," published as late as
1875, but a year before her death.
George Sand wrote not only romances,
but also dramas and social essays. By some
she has been accused of socialistic tendencies.
Others have denied this. Her ideas of mar-
riage, like Milton's of divorce, were the out-
growth of her own unhappy experience. Her
theories may sometimes startle or perplex
English readers, yet few cognizant of the cir-
cumstances of her life and of French social
customs, have condemned her for them.
From first to last she championed the cause
of downtrodden woman. Justin McCarthy
ascribes to George Sand alone the origin
of the woman's rights agitation, to-day so
widely spread, and believes that it is she
whom the women of every civilized nation
have to thank for their improving social con-
dition.
Criticism, however it may pronounce upon
George Sand's private life, unanimously de-
clares her the greatest French writer of the
century, Hugg, perhaps, excepted. She is
judged not inferior to Geoi'ge Eliot or Char-
lotte Bronte. Her works, like Byron's, are
in a sense autobiographical, since they so
plainly reflect the condition of their author's
mind during the various periods in which
they were produced. For this reason it is
feared that many of them will in time be for-
gotten, but there will ever live as beautiful
and undying memorials of this poet of Nature
and of Passion — her descriptions.
Have we dropped the record of George
Sand's life after she began writing — her sixty
novels and twenty dramas and numberless
essays are that record.
TO THE RAIN.
Out of the lowering clouds softly thou ftillest,
O'er hill and fertile valley, wood and plain,
Heedless alike of greatest or of smallest,
Cold, gentle, silent, penetrating rain.
Thou foldest eartli within thy fond embrace,
The grasses come rejoicing in thy train,
The leaves and flowers hasten on apace.
Responding gladly to thy voice again.
Thy coming to the farmer is with gladness,
To help him in his work for daily bread.
To some tliy coming is with naught but sadness.
Bringing to them thoughts of loved ones, dead.
For good or ill, thy course is understood
By One, the All-Supreme, in whom we trust,
Whose sun shines on the evil and the good,
His rain falls on the just and the unjust.
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PSI UPSILON CONVENTION.
The fifty-fifth annual convention of the
Psi Upsilon Fraternity was held iu Columbus,
Ohio, May 10th and 11th, under the auspices
of the Iota Chapter of Kenyon College. The
chapters of the fraternity were represented
by delegations of various sizes, and, consider-
ing the locality, the convention was largely
attended. The business meetings were held
in the assembly room of the Niel House — a
large hotel situated immediately opposite the
State Capitol. They were presided over by
Benjamin H. Bailess, of New York City, a
member of the Grand Council. The public
exercises, reception, and ball took place at
the Wells Post rooms on the evening of the
10th, and were a pronounced success. The
oration, " The Young Men of America, and
Their Opportunities," by A. H. Ricks, a
Kenyon graduate, and the poem, " The Origin
of Psi Upsilon," by Chas. D. McGuffey of
the same college, were finely rendered and
highly entertaining. The reception and ball
were marked by the same elaborate display
and elegance which has characterized the
social assemblies of Greek-letter fraternities
for the past few years. The banquet was
held at the Niel House on the evening of the
11th, and was the occasion of many happy
toasts by the older members. The conven-
tion was throughout an unqualified success,
and was genuinely enjoyed by all present.
BASE-BALL.
Bowdoin,ll; M. S. C, 6.
On Friday, the 18th instant, our nine, for
the second time in the league series, met
and defeated their opponents from Orono.
They rapped Small, Portland's most effective
pitcher of last season, for fourteen hits, with
a total of nineteen, of which Fogg contrib-
uted two single, a double, and a triple. Cary
was a puzzler at critical points, and Fish's
throwing to second was " simply immense."
Captain Freeman did some judicious and
effective coaching, and kept his men cool at
the crises.
Of the M. S. C.'s, Rogers did some hard
and steady batting, and his work behind the
bat was most creditable. Elwell played a
strong and active short-stop, while Babb
gathered in everything at first-base. Pitcher
Small and his men are a fine, gentlemanly
set of fellows, and have the respect and best
wishes of the nine and students. The fol-
lowing is the correct score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. S.E. P.O. A. E.
Williamson, r.f. ... 5 2 3 2 0 0 0
Larrabee, l.f 5 2 1 2 1 0 0
F. Freeman, 2b. ... 5 1 0 2 6 0 2
Fogg, c.f 5 3 4 0 3 0 0
Packard, lb 5 0 2 1 i 0 1
Fish, c 5 1 0 1 12 4 2
G. Freeman, 3b. ... 5 1 1 0 1 1 2
Pendleton, s.s 5 1 2 0 0 2 1
Cary, p 5 0 1 1 0 10 2
Totals 45 11 14 9 27 17 10
M. S. C.
A.B. R. B.H. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Rogers, c 5 2 2 2 11 5 3
Kelts, 3b 4 1 0 2 1 0 1
Small, p 4 1 1 1 1 18 2
Elwell, s.s 4 0 1 0 1 0 1
Blackington, r.f. ... 4 1 1 1 0 0 1
Bird, c.f 4 0 1 0 1 0 1
Babb, lb 4 1 1 2 10 0 0
Philbrook, 2b 4 0 0 0 1 1 2
Haggatt, l.f 4 0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals, 37 6 8 9 27 24 11
Earned Runs— Bowdoins, 2. Struck out — by Cary, 12;
by Small, 10. Three-base Hit— Fogg. Two-Base Hits— G.
Freeman, Fogg, Pendleton. Wild Pitches— Small, 1;
Cary, 1. Umpire— P. E. Lindsey of Maine Medical School.
Colby, 5; Bowdoin, 1.
The Bowdoins were defeated at Water-
ville, Wednesday afternoon, on account of
their inability to hit Parson's underhand rise
safely, and through an accident to Fish, which
necessitated a change in position of five of
their team. The accident happened in the
sixth inning, at which time the score was
standing 1 to 0 in favor of Bowdoin, with no
reasonable prospect of Colbys scoring. The
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home team subsequently scored five runs.
The " chinning " was typical and abundant-
COLBY.
A.B. R. B.H. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Pulsifer, c 3 1 1 0 11 1 1
ParsoDS, p. . • . . . 4 1 0 1 .3 7 2
"Wagg, 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 0
Gilmore, lb 4 1 2 1 4 1 0
Gibbs, I.f i 1 2 2 0 0 0
King, s.s 4 0 2 0 0 0 0
Koberts, c.f 3 0 1 1 2 0 0
Maguire, r.f 4 0 0 1 5 0 0
Bangs, 3b 4 1 2 2 2 2 1
Totals 34 5 10 8 27 12 4
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Williamson, r.f., c.f. ..4102200
Larrabee, I.f., 2b. ... 4 0 0 0 2 1 2
F. Freeman, 2b., c. .. 3 0 0 0 .5 0 3
Fogg, c.f., I.f 3 0 0 0 1 0 1
Packard, lb 3 0 0 0 7 0 0
Fish, c, I.f 3 0 0 1 3 1 0
G. Freeman, .3b. ... 3 0 0 0 1 1 0
Pendleton, s.s 3 0 0 1 1 2 1
Gary, p 3 0 1 1 1 8 0
Totals, 29 1 1 6 27 13 7
Time— 2h. 10m. Earned Euns— Colby, 1. First Base
on Balls — Colby, 2. Left on Bases — Colby 1; Bowdoin, 6.
Struck Out — by Gary, 8; by Parsons, 7. Double Plays—
G. Freeman, Gilmore. Umpire — P. E. Lindsey.
Boivdoin, 11; Bates, 4.
On Saturday, May 26th, our team won
from Bates, at Waterville. The following is
the score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Williamson, r.f 4 1 0 0 2 0 0
Larrabee, I.f 3 3 2 2 2 0 0
F. Freeman, 2d. ... 4 3 24 1 1 0
Fogg, c.f 5 2 1 1 1 0 0
Packard, s.s 5 0 2 2 8 0 2
Pish, c 4 1 1 1 9 4 5
G. Freeman, 3b. ... 5 0 1 1 1 1 0
Pendleton, s.s 4 0 0 0 1 1 1
Gary, p 4 1 1 1 2 15 1
Totals 38 11 10 12 27 22 9
BATES.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Graves, 3b 6 0 1 1 2 1 0
Tinker, lb 5 0 1 1 0 0 1
Gilmore, c.f B 1 1 2 1 0 1
Daggett, p 4 0 0 0 2 13 0
Call, 0 4 0 0 0 10 2 4
Cutts, 2b 4 1 1 1 3 0 1
Newman, r.f 4 1 1 1 0 0 0
Pierce, I.f 4 0 1 2 1 0 4
Day, s.s 4 1 0 0 2 4 0
Totals, 39 4 G 8 27 20 17
SCORE BT INNINGS.
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Bowdoin 20302100 3—11
Bates, 00100210 0—4
Time — 2h. 15m. EarnedRuns — Bowdoin, 2. FirstBase
on Errors — Bowdoius, 5; Bates, 5. First Base on Called
Balls — Bowdoin, 4. Struck out — by Gary, 13; by Daggett,
10. Left on Bases — Bowdoin, 7 ; Bates, 6. Two-base Hits
— Gilmore, Pierce. Three-base Hit — F. Freeman. Double
Play— Day and Cutts. Passed Balls— Fish, 4; Call, 3.
Stolen Bases— Bowdoin, 14; Bate.s, 3. Hit by Pitched
Ball— Larrabee, 2; Williamsop,l; Gilmore, 1. Umpire —
Lindsey.
Prof. Woodruflf occnjjied the Baptist
pulpit the 13th.
Hill, '89, is teaching at Knighlville.
Foss, '91, has returned to college.
Ivy-Day invitations are out. They are of tlie hand-
somest design, printed from steel in green, brown,
and gold. '89's Ivy music will be the Salem Cadet.
Prof. Little recently resurrected an old picture of
some of Bowdoin's earlier Faculty, which has been
hung in the library. Two pictures of the class of
'o?) have also been found, One taken at graduation,
and the other twenty years later. The new Chief
Justice figures prominently in them.
The Seniors have at last elected Class-Day offi-
cers : President, F. L. Smithwick ; Vice-President,
Brown; IMarshal, Doolittle ; Committee on Arrange-
ments, Larrabee, Ingalls, and Maxwell ; Committee
on Pictures, Carruthers ; Odists, Tolman, M. P.
Smithwick, and Woodman. For the exercises in the
hall: Chaplain, Carruthers; Orator, i\I. P. Smith-
wick; Poet, Woodman. Under the Oak: Opening
Address, Ayer; Historian, Linscott; Prophet, Hill ;
Parting Address, Bartlett. Reed is to make the class
photographs as for ten years past.
The Sophs, recently seized a premature consign-
ment of Freshman "plug" hats. It is stated that a
legal process will be put on the '90 men, Thursday.
June 21st.
Friday the 11th, Prof. Hutchins substituted astere-
opticon exhibition for the Junior astronomy. The
pictures were rapturously received.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
35
Alumni recently in Brunswicli : Dr. H. S. B.
Smith, '61, Middleboro, Mass. ; Eugene Thomas, W> ;
Levi Turner, Jr., '86 ; C. B. Burleigh, '87.
The plastering of the walls of the Congregational
church is finished, and much more repairing was
found necessary upon examination from the staging
than was supposed to he the case. Several panels
have had to be renewed, besides a good deal of
patching done. Unless a Are is kept to dry the plas-
tering the building cannot be ready for occupancy at
Commencement time. Worship therefore still con-
tinues in Memorial Hall.
The other eve I entered the room
Of the hirsute Freshman Grant.
He sat in early twilight's gloom,
Chanting this mournful chant:
" Last night as I lay on my XJillow,
Last night as I lay on my bed ,
Last night as I dreamed of the Soph'mores,
I dreamed that my siders had Hed.
" Bring hack, bring back.
Oh, bring back my siders to me.
Bring back, bring back
Those dear whiskerettes now to me."
(In parenthesis:
Since tliis
Grant's siders have disappeared.
Probably asked to shave them off
By some ferocious bloody Soph,
Just as he feared.)
Among the Brunswick delegates to the Republican
State Convention are Professors Chapman and Smith
and Geo. L. Thompson, '77. They are said to be for
Mr. Burleigh. Superintendent of Grounds and Build-
ings Booker and \V. R. Field, the popular fruiterer,
participated in the nomination of Mr. Putnam. Her-
sey, '89, was a delegate to the Prohibitionists' State
Convention.
Junior theme subjects, due May 23d: 1. — "The
Best Reading"; 2. — "What has Retarded the De-
velopment of the Natural Resources of Maine ? ''
Sophomore subjects, due May 16th: 1. — " Jev^fish
Customs in the Time of Christ " ; 2. — " What Public
Improvement is Most Needed in Brunswick?" The
last Sophomore themes are due May 30th. Subjects :
1. — "International Copyright" ; 2. — "Compare Some
American Essayist with Bacon."
At the May meeting of the Congregational Club
in Portland, the 7th, the subject for discussion was :
" National Reforms ; were you now Dictator, which
would you Enforce?" President Daniels read let-
ters in response from novelist George W. Cable,
President Pepper, of Colby, and from the following
Bowdoinmen: Senator Frye, Judge Goddard, Hon.
Wm. L. Putnam, Editor Dingley of the Lewiston
Journal, and President Hyde. The latter elaborates
his dictatorial policy thus : "Great as are the evils
of intemperance, of Mormonism and licentiousness,
of unrestricted immigration, of trusts, I think I
should begin with none of these. I should insist first
on the complete separation of civil service from
party politics. The immediate evil of the spoils sys-
tem is less than the evils of intemperance, but until
patronage ceases to be the principal factor in politics,
we cannot expect to have any political question de-
cided on its merits. The spoils system is a net-work
of intrigue, favoritism, injustice and corruption.
Until we have enough sense, honesty and courage to
clear this away, we are morally unfit to grapple with
any other problem successfully. Not as relatively
greatest, but as logically first, I would begin with
civil service reform, thus clearing away the chief
obstacle from the path of the temperance reformer,
whom I should hope to have as my successor in the
dictatorship."
Henry P. Godfrey, ex-'9l, addressed a temper-
ance meeting in Bangor, a week ago Friday night.
The Whig spoke highly of it. The other speakers
were Rev. Dr. Field and Hon. Volney B. Gushing.
An alumnus writes: "The last Orient reminds
me of a little story about Rev. Mr. Jay, the eminent
non-conformist divine of Bath, England. He was
once walking with his friend Mr. Fuller. An owl
crossed their path ; whereupon Mr. Fuller said ' Pray,
sir, is that bird a jay?' 'No, sir,' was the prompt
reply : ' It's fuller in the eyes, and fuller in the head,
and fuller all over ! ' The Orient was Fuller all
over."
The Brunswick Library Association recently
elected officers, among whom are: Prof. Robinson,
President; Profs. Lee and Chapman, and Barrett
Potter, '78, library committee.
Hersey, '89, had an article not long since in the
Bridgton Academy Stranger, on the summer school
for Bible study at Northfield, which he and the late
Herbert Merrill attended last season. The Stranger
also contains a fitting obituary tribute to Mr. Merrill.
A list of '89's Ivy-Day officers will be found in the
Hon. Volney B. Cushing's temperance lecture a
week ago Sunday evening was largely attended.
The State Committee has recently decided to ac-
cept Bowdoin's invitation, and will hold the Y. M.
C. A. Convention of Maine here, October 25-28
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
(Thursday to Sunday), 1888. President C. F. Hersey
has been appointed cliairnian of the committee of
arrangements.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, '40, has preached in several
churches in the vicinity of late. On the 13th and 20th
he filled his old pulpit in Topshara. The choir con-
tained several men from the Glee Club. On the af-
ternoon of the 20th, Mr. Kellogg preached at the
Baptist church, and the previous week addressed a
large audience in the Y. M. C. A. room. His remarks
were forcible and eloquent. Prof. Woodruff spoke
before the Y. M. C. A. on the 20Lh.
You have heard of Bowdoln College,
Down 'mougst the pines in Maine?
She has no Small,
Oh, no, not at all,
But — she gets there, just the same!
Friday, the 18th, Henry Adonis Dixey's troupe was
in transitu between Bangor and Salem. Many of the
boys, mindful of Duncan Clark's minstrels last year,
assembled at the depot, ostensibly to meet the Oronos,
but really to see the blondes. With characteristic
enterprise, the Orient sent a representative to inter-
view the famous comedian. Henry was found hud-
dled up in the smoker, deep at his favorite poker for
the beers. On the table before him were two glasses
of iced — water. A checked hammock hat was
pulled over his marble brow, and his make-up was
more suggestive of Henry Irving or Bacchus than
Adonis. He greeted the scribe warmly and loqua-
ciously: "Yes, this is my first visit to Maine, and
I've fallen in love with the old temperance state. My
company, owing to forethought, got on all right,
though one of them, afflicted with St. Vitus in the optic
nerve, discovered that we needn't have gone dry had
supplies been forgotten. I'd rather sample wet
goods in Maine than to dwell in the tents of the
wicked. Yes, the Maine people are bright, quick,
and appreciative, and my Amazons were greatly
struck on the boys they met. No, lam out of politics,
thank you. You may say, that with Bill Nye, my
name won't be considered at either Chicago or St.
Louis, and my health is fine. Please renew my free
copy of the Orient for another year; I like it, I do.
Ta, ta, see you later," and Dixey turned again to his
cards, and scooped the jack po(. Outside, the troupe
were getting hilarious and dinner; Miss Ida Bell
pleasing the crowd especially by having her shapely
shoes shined. Miss Lilla Kavenagh came near get-
ting left when the train started, much to the students'
regret. Several went to Portland, the Saturday pre-
vious, to see Adonis. It was amusing to watch the
struggles of that city's papers in reporting it.
The Junior prize speakers for Monday evening,
June 25th, are Carroll, Crocker, Eklen, Files, S. L.
Fogg, Hayes, Owen, Prentiss, F. C. Russell, Stacy,
Staples, and Thwing. The prizes are $20 and $10.
It goes without saying that every student supports
all general college interests. The Bugle, advertising
Bowdoin considerably each year, is a general college
interest. Hence every student buys a Bugle. But a
general college interest always has a chosen few to
manage it and be immediately responsible. This
year, '89 issues the Bugle, and on the principle of the
Golden Rule, each member of the other classes pur-
chases a copy ; '88, because they do as they have
been done by; '90, because next Christmas they will
sell at least 42 Bugles to '89ers; and '91, because of
the kind treatment they have I'eceived from the
Juniors in numerous ways. All who have been
unable to procure copies, can now get them of Car-
roll, Crocker, Doherty, and Files.
It was real comical, it was. The students filled
the post-office as usual after the evening meal. Many
were smoking. When a certain popular professor
entered, the cigars and cigarettes went down behind
the coat tails in a twinkling. Amusing. The pro-
fessor had occasion to remove his handkerchief, when
lo ! a long twist of choice tobacco was flirted to the
marble floor. More amusing. The member of the
Faculty did not notice to pick it up, and the plug now
ornaments a room in North Winthrop.
President Hyde's chapel talk, the 20th, was on
what training in Christian work will accomplish.
He illustrated it by reference to what training has
done for students in scholarship and athletics.
'37. — Dr. Fordyce Bar-
.er, the physician who at-
tended Mr. Conkling, is one of the best
lown men in New York. His patients are
all among the wealthiest people. He was
Mrs. John Jacob Aster's physician in her
last illness. He is a pleasant companion, and keeps
young, notwithstanding he is much older than was Mr.
Conkling. Dr. Barker is the beau ideal of an aris-
tocrat in appearance- — while hair and side whiskers.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
37
He occupies a handsome house of Queen Anne ai-chi-
tecture, and drives about in a handsome English
brougham. He is considered a very skillful phy-
sician, yet a walking admission of the inability of the
best medical skill to successfully cure disease, for
Dr. Barker has a bronchial difficulty which neither
he nor the most skilled in his profession have been
able to cure, and which has caused him to speak in a
whisper for many years. Dr. Barker lives well, in
the enjoyment of a large income, and owes his
otherwise good health and ruddy appearance to his
yearly trip to Europe. He is the most fashionable
physician in the city. It is said that Dr. Barker's
practice yields a larger income than that of any other
physician in this country.
'55. — Hon. Wm. L. Putnam, of Portland, was nom-
inated for Governor, by the Democrats, at the State
Convention in Augusta, May 22d. We clip the fol-
lowing notice irom Ihe Leiuiston Journal: "William
L. Putnam was born in Bath, in 1835. His father
was Dr. Israel Putnam, one of the most noted physi-
cians of his time. William L. was graduated from
Bowdoin College in 1855 and studied law. He was
elected Mayor of Portland in 1869, which is the only
public office of consequence which he ever held till
that of fishery-commissioner. Mr. Putnam was
mentioned as candidate for nomination to the Supreme
bench. He is highly regarded by President Cleve-
land. As a lawyer, Mr. Putnam has few peers in
Maine. lie has an extensive and lucrative prac-
tice, being distinguished more for his judicial and
legal ability than lor talent as an advocate, though
here his ability is by no means mediocre."
'58. — General Ellis Spear, of Washington, D. C,
will deliver the memorial oration at Warren, Me.
'59. — Rev. E. H. Pomeroy, formerly of this class,
has resigned the pastorate of the Union Congrega-
tional Church, at Taunton, Mass., on account of ill-
health, and will take up his residence at Wellesley.
'59. — Professor Young and son sailed from Bre-
men the 16th, and are expected to arrive in Bruns-
wick the first of June. The rest of his family are to
remain in Germany for the present.
'61. — Charles G. Atkins, for a long time superin-
tendent of the Fish Commission station at Wood's
Holl, has resigned that position and accepted the
superintendency of the salmon station at Bucksport,
Me.
'61. — Sarah P. E. Hawthorne pays a tribute to
Moses Owen in a late Portland Transcript.
"When I was a child," she says, "I looked upon
him as one of Fortune's favorites — fair faced, fair
haired, son of wealthy and indulgent parents. A
graduate of Bowdoin, a mother's pride, and a sister's
joy, life looked for him a bed of flowers. While at
Bowdoin, he, on a visit home, brought a poem which
he showed his father, a genial sea captain. He read
it and then dryly remarked, 'Is that what I have been
paying two thousand dollars a year for, Mose?'" In
writing his poem, " Lost," he seems to have had
a presentiment of his last days.
" 'Tis a dismal sound — yet more sad each day
Are the wrecks in this life we see;
For passion's waves have a fiercer sway,
For they whelm the aoul with the mouldering clay —
'Tis lost for eternity! "
'62. — General I. W. Slarbird has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver the oration before the John A. An-
drew Post of Boston, Memorial Day. General Star-
bird entered the army as a captain in the nineteenth
Maine regiment, and subsequently was promoted to
the ranks of Major, Colonel, and Brigadier-General.
He still carries in his body a bullet received at the
battle of High Bridge. He is now a practicing phy-
sician in Boston.
'63. — Rev. C. C. Watson lias closed his labors with
the Congregational Church at Wareham, Mass.
'71. — The Bath Independent of May 5th contains
a highly interesting letter from Rome, written by
Rev. E. S. Stackpole, describing the city, and its art
collections, the Pope's gifts, and many localities of
interest.
'75. — Rev. George C. Cressy, pastor of the Unita-
rian Church, Bangor, was married recently to Miss
Lilian Maling at his church in that city.
'77. — Lieut. Peary, U. S. N., who has charge of the
survey for the Nicaragua Canal, is pushing the work
rapidly. The larger part of the preliminary survey,
"extending from Greyton on the east coast to Brito
on the west, is nearly completed.
'77. — Philip G. Brown is a member of the Standing
Committee of the Merchants Exchange in the Port-
land Board of Trade.
'77. — Samuel A. Melcher, a native of Brupswick,
has been elected supervisor of the public schools in
Northbridge, Mass. Mr. Melcher has been principal
of the Northbridge High School for several years,
and the Journal of Education, in a recent issue, pays
a high tribute to him as a successful school olficer.
'85. — A recent Boston Herald had an extended
interview with Mr. A. H. Brown, Bowdoin, '85, wlio
was one of the members of the college crew of that
year, and prominently identified with athletics dur-
ing and after his college course, in regard to pliysi-
cal culture. It begins the article with the following :
"The popular examiner of the physical condition of
38
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
applicants for positions upon tlie police force and
fire department, Mr. A. H. Brown, who has just been
engaged by the New York police department to in-
troduce the Boston system into New York, gave a
Herald reporter some valuable hints on the preser-
vation of health and the danger of over-exertion in
gymnastics, that are novel and timely. Mr. Brown
is the medical director of the Y. M. C. U. of Boston,
and is considered an authority on matters relating to
physical culture. Mr. Brown has made a deep study
of the development of the human physique, and
has had before him more men for examination
than perhaps any other expert in this line. He has
a complete record of all the men he has examined,
and these records furnish valuable data for tlie dem-
onstration of his theory." Mr. Brown believes in
light exercise and thinks that there is altogether too
much over-development.
'85. — H. B. Lunt is teacher of Latin and Greek,
and joint principal in the Harvard School, a flour-
ishing private educational institution in Los Angeles,
Cal.
'85. — William P. Nealley, of Bath, has gone into
business with his brother, Hon. E. B. Nealley, on
Broad Street in that city.
'86. — Geo. S. Berry, Jr., is teaching the high school
at Mattapoisett, Mass.
The University of Bologna, the oldest university
now in existence, will celebrate its 800th anniversary
on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of June.— i^x.
Before Vassar College was opened America used
only .$200,000 worth of chewing gum annually;
now .$1,000,000 worth is masticated every year. — Ex.
Chief Justice Fuller will be the fourth member of
the present Supreme Court who wears a moustache,
the others being Justices Field, Matthews, and La-
mar. Mr. Fuller has a " lovely " white moustaclie,
and if President Cleveland's next appointee to the
Supreme bench should have an ornamented upper
lip a majority of the court would defy the ancient
tradition that no man with a moustache can be a Su-
preme Justice. Here is an " issue " which the ladies
would soon settle if they could vote. — Boston Olobe.
Austria has more public libraries than any other
European country. These number 573, with a total
of 73,475,000 volumes, not counting maps and manu-
scripts.— Ex.
Leyden University, in Holland, is the richest in
the world. Its real estate is valued at $4,000,000 —
Ex.
Longfellow, Hawthorne, President Franklin Pierce,
Geo. B. Cheever, and J. S. C. Abbott, — all in one
class at Bowdoin so far back in the early part of this
century, show that the small college, enthusiastically
organized, administered, and instructed, gives ample
scope to the highest talents in all departments, and
need not have that disheartening and deadening in-
fluence often charged upon it. What has been said
of Bowdoin can be said, in a greater or less degree,
of almost every small college in the land — our own
not excepted. In any walk of life you will notice
men at the top of the ladder, whose Alma Mater
sheds a tender and profound but by no means exten-
sive influence — Whitelavv Reid of Miami ; Secretary
State Frelinghuysen of Rutgers. — Universil>j Mirror.
What is the diiference between a maiden and an
apple ? An apple you squeeze to gel cider ; a maiden
— you get 'side her to squeeze. — Ex.
" Non paratus," dixit scholar
Cum a sad, a doleful look;
" Omne rectu " prof. resiJondit,
Et "nihil," scripsit iu his book. — Ex.
Williams College holds the world's amateur rec-
ord in throwing the base-ball with a distance of 127
yards, 3 1-2 inches.
The following is the college yell of Illinois State
University: " 'Rah — Hoo — 'Rah, Zip Boom Ah, Hip
— Zoo, 'Rah — Zoo, Jimmy Blow Your Bazoo, Ipsidi
Iki, U. of I., Champaign!!"— £:»;.
Professor Turner, of Edinburgh, gets $12,000 a
year. No other professor in the world gets so large
a salary. — Ex.
Vassar is endeavoring to raise money to send
two of her students to the American school at Ath-
ens.— Ex.
The trustees of Princeton have voted a pension
of $2,500 a year to Dr. McCosh, whether he teaches
or not. — Ex.
Sliding down hill with the girls is a cause of sus-
pension at Hiram College.
Gordon T. Hughes, son of the American Consul
at Birmingham, England, won a Cambridge scholar-
ship valued at $2,000.— £'s.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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BOOK REVIEWS.
[Books reviewed in these columns may be seen at the
College Library.]
A History of Elizabethan Litekatuke, by George
Saintsbury. Macmillan & Co., London and New
York, 1887; 12mo.; pp. xiv. + 471.
Many writers upon English Literature, and par-
ticularly those who affect the earlier stages of its
development, are apt to render themselves unen-
durable to the ordinary reader by the dogmatisms
and quibblings with which they crowd the pages of
their books. One, with bull-dog tenacity, adheres to
this or that date, in preference to the one generally
accepted as the occasion of a certain rather common-
place and unimportant event. Another, with exas-
perating suavity, devotes a page or more to the
presentation of the pros and cons of an endless
argument upon the likelihood that Sir Philip Some-
body wrote a certain letter, rather than that the
man whose name was signed to the document
wrote it himself. Still a third rescues some luck-
less scribbler of verses from the depths of obliv.
ion, where he ought to be allowed a quiet rest,
and endeavors, by dint of much printer's ink and
liberal quotation, to prove his pz-o^cf/t: a Marlowe
or a Jonson.
In view of these facts it is indeed refreshing to
meet with a book characterized by such originality
and freedom from bias as Professor Saintsbury's
"Elizabethan Literature." Our author is evidently
aware of the shortcomings of his predecessors. At
the very outset he states his determination to present
a concise view of the literature of the period with
which he deals, rather than to confuse his readers
by the useless discussion of unimportant details.
"These things," says Professor Saintsbury, referring
to particulars of the class mentioned, "These things,
interesting, perhaps, and sometimes valuable in their
own way, are but Ancillary, if even that, to the
history of literature in the proper and strict sense ;
and it is the history of literature in the proper and
strict sense with which I have to deal."
In carrying out the purpose of the book, thus dis-
tinctly stated, the author adopts a style that is very
taking, from its originality and occasionally semi-
humorous patches. Upon a cursory perusal of the
book it appears to have been written "off-hand."
Sentence follows sentence very smoothly, the lan-
guage is generally familiar in tone, and one cannot
at first resist the impression that whenever the writer
was at loss for a word he did not trouble himself to
search for one in a vocabulary, but chose instead to
coin a term suited to his taste. Second thought
rather shakes this conclusion, and on more careful
consideration such an expression as " sentence-and-
paragrapli-heap " applied to the prose of Sidney,
appears well fitted to characterize the involved style
of that worthy and others of his time.
Professor Saintsbury's criticisms are avowedly
original. His unique style is fully as prominent and
effective in his comments as elsewhere. Nothing
could be more vivid than his remarks upon the style
of John Lyly, who, he says, "had a fancy which
amounts to a mania for similes strung together in
endless lists. It is impossible to open a page of
" Eicphues^\w\thout finding an example of this
eccentric and tasteless trick." We can almost imagine
the mind masticating Lyly's " tasteless " offerings as
one would munch dry crackers.
But Professor Saintsbury is not perfect. His fond-
ness for uncommon words and unusual forms of
expression amounts sometimes almost to a man-
nerism. His grammar is occasionally at fault, as for
example when he speaks of the "four first Tudors."
Several times he commits the impropriety of intro-
ducing quotations in foreign languages without trans-
lating them. On the whole, however, the points of
excellence very greatly overbalance the defects.
The present volume forms the second of a series
devoted to a history of English Literature, the
entire extent of which has been divided into four
periods. Each of these periods will be treated by a
writer who has made that portion his special study.
If the following volumes prove as praiseworthy as
the one already issued, the combined result will fur-
nish one of the best works, if not the best, on its sub-
ject in the language.
Alden's Manifold Cyclop/hdia of Knowledge and
Language, with illnstrations. Vol. 1, A to America.
New York, John B. Alden, 1887; 12mo.; pp. 030; 65c.
The qualities most to be desired in a work of
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clear tvpe, and convenience in form. These features
the first volume of Alden's Cyclopa;dia possesses in a
high degree. The book is small, and much more
handy to consult than the unwieldy volumes of most
works of its class. The type is clear, and large
enough for comfortable reading. Careful comparison
with cycloposdias of acknowledged worth convinces
us that its information is accurate and sufficiently
extended for ordinary purposes. It is particularly
good upon American topics, which have been very
much neglected by foreign publications.
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No. 4.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 4.— Jone 13, 1888.
Editorial Notes, 41
Coraniunication, 42
Reminiscences, 43
Ivy Oration 44
Ivy Poem, -47
Field Day:
Field-Day Tournament, 49
The Boat Races, 50
Awarding of Field-Day Prizes, .... 51
Ivv Day :
In Memorial, 52
Planting the Ivy, 55
Seniors' Last Chapel 55
Ivy Hop, 56
Base-Ball, 56
CoLLEGii Tabula, 58
Personal 60
College World, 61
Book Reviews 61
We publish in this number a com-
plete account of the Field and Ivy-Day
exercises. It is impossible to point our
readers to any feature of special interest, for
the reason that all of the exercises were of a
high order. It was Bowdoin's most success-
ful Field Day. Two Bowdoin records were
broken and the best college record, in one
event, was tied.
All unite in declaring 'eighty-nine's Ivy
Day the best yet. The oration and poem
were excellent and richly merited the hearty
applause they received.
The address of President Bodge speaks
for itself, and we are glad to give every
reader of the Orient the pleasure of reading
it entire, only regretting that they did not
have the additional pleasure of hearing it.
The Salem Cadet Band fully sustained its
excellent reputation in the music rendered.
Old Prob., too, deserves hearty thanks for
the superb weather furnished. He is evi-
dently partial to '89, for similar exercises in
the past few years have been robbed of much
interest by his heartless conduct.
Every man in the Junior Class may well
feel proud of this Ivy Day, for it reflects
credit alike on the class and college.
Bowdoin's campus is considered one of the
finest in New England, but its unkempt ap-
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pearance detracts much from its beauty.
Visitors here wonder why, with the beautiful
shade trees and carefully trimmed walks, the
grass is allowed to grow so long. The jani-
tor's bovines do their best in the vacation to
remedy this defect and succeed admirably,
but through the spring term no effort is made
to increase the beauty of the campus in this
direction. When a very small outlay of
money and labor would bring forth such
splendid results, it seems a pity that it is
withheld.
The race for the pennant in the Inter-
collegiate League is a neck-and-neck contest,
though, at this writing, the championship
seems to be between M. S. C. and Bowdoin.
Colby is retired to third place by the unex-
pected victory of Bates, and M. S. C. has
only a slight lead over us. The utmost good
feeling prevails between these colleges, and
it is safe to say that whichever team wins
the pennant, will at the same time win the
respect of the other for the gentlemanly and
friendly manner in which the contest has
been waged.
Whether we win or not we feel a justifi-
able pride in our team. During the winter
and early spring there was a far from confi-
dent feeling among the students in general,
but the hard work done by the nine, coupled
with excellent management and firm disci-
pline, has reversed the feeling of the early
part of the year. Perhaps in one or two
places the team might be strengthened, but
we shall not venture to ojjpose our opinion
to that of the management, for we dislike, in
anything, to see a man whose opinion is
worth nothing, attempt to impress his ideas
of things on those whom we may assume know
what tliey are doing.
We sliall be glad to see the pennant wave
over Bowdoin's diamond, and our chances of
success are by no means slight, but practice
and discipline must not be superseded by
overweening confidence if we are to win.
The Commencement number will make
its appearance as soon as possible after Com-
mencement. Those who desire to have this
number sent to their homes will please notify
the business editor.
COMMUNICATION.
Grinnell, Iowa, June 4,
Editors of the Orient :
I notice in your last number an editorial
on athletics to which I can most heartily
subscribe. With your permission I will add
a few words on the question of intercollegiate
athletics.
There seems to be a machinery tendency
in everything nowadays. As soon as any
industry begins to loom up we straightway
see an association of some kind formed to
reduce the thing to the same systematic
basis on which everything successful has to
run.
Witness the various scientific, mining,
metallurgical, historical, and religious asso-
ciations, meeting constantly in all parts of
the country. The spirit that prompts this is
a natural and right one — namely, that men
need each other's views and each other's
methods to help them. It is in the present
state of things impossible to keep electrical,
mechanical, mining, and civil engineers en-
tirely separate and independent, and the
same remark applies in many other cases.
But the point is here. I doubt in any
case, if the principal benefit arises from
professional interchange of opinions. I
think it comes from the divinely appointed
contact. The consciousness that there are
others in the world beside ourselves ; that
others do not always think as we do, and
that others have different ways of acting
from what we think orthodox. I have had
this experience so many times that I believe
I can't be alone in it.
Now I think every one will agree that a
man can get more bigoted, narrow, and con-
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ceited in college than anywhere in the world
if he will. In fact if you should pen up a
crowd of students without letting them ovit-
side town for the college year they would
certainly turn out cranks in the majority.
Perhaps I am extreme in this, but I have
had opportunities for observing that may
perhaps have made me so. I think, then,
that the very best thing about intercollegi-
ate athletics is that they bring different col-
leges into contact with each other. No one,
so far as I know, questions the great aid
and impulse of emulation. Very few col-
leges know enough about each other to " em-
ulate." Athletics give colleges clear insight
into each other's strength or weakness in one
way, and I believe it generally leads to
closer acquaintance in other ways. I can
add nothing to the excellent remarks of the
Orient on the subject of local athletics, but
I believe that intercollegiate contests logic-
ally follow, just as associations, guilds, etc.,
follow from the old truth of " the followsliip
of kindred minds."
J. TOEREY, '84.
REMINISCENCES.
" Silence that dreadful helU"— Othello.
In a late issue of the Orient reference is
made to "the little wooden chapel which in
the old days stood facing west near the broad
walk leading from the present chapel to the
road;" and a hair-brained experience of Kev.
Elijah Kellogg in attempting to " spirit away
the chapel bell " is related. This has recalled
the somewhat similar experience of a Bow-
doin alumnus previous to Mr. Kellogg by
some years. There seems always to have
been a special grudge against that unhappy
bell. As far back as 1832, when the class of
'35 were Sophomores, there existed a tradi-
tion that this bell was, one December night,
upturned and filled with water, so as effectu-
ally to silence its voice for one day's morning
prayers and recitations, at least. At any
rate, wicked Sophomores were probably not
then more zealous to promptly attend said
prayers and recitations of dark winter morn-
ings than they are now, although of Juniors
and Seniors, to say nothing of unsophisticated
Freshmen, better things were then, and are
now, of course, expected. The Sophomores
in 1832, albeit of more than usual sedateness
of demeanor, were by no means an entire
exception to the proverbial wickedness of
that grade ; and three of the most wicked,
therefore, in order to maintain the record of
their class in the ancient feud, conspired to
" silence that dreadful bell " in manner as
follows: There was a window on the west
side of the chapel-tower some thirty to forty
feet from the ground. Entering this window,
at your feet lays a trap-door padlocked below,
while in the belfry over your head hangs the
" dreadful bell," with its rope passing by you
down into the porch. Now, pull up that
rope and securely nail down that trap-door,
and how is the bell to be rung for morning
prayers? But how to reach that window
and gain access to that rope and trap-door ?
Well, there was in those days an apology
for a gymnasium off towards the pines, with
a few parallel bars and the like ; but more
to the present purpose, there was also a long
and strong, yet very light ladder. This lad-
der, these three enterprising youths one
chill and misty autumnal night, or rather
morning, conveyed to the chapel, and with
toil and skill worthy of a better cause reared
it against the aforesaid window. Then one
of the conspirators, the boldest of the three
(one of the best scholars and the poet of
the class ; alas, poor B. ! he died a few years
later of consumption) mounted the ladder,
entered the window, pulled up the rope,
nailed down the door, and descended to the
ground ; then the ladder was boi'ne away
and hidden among the pines, and the tired
boys crept to their couches, though not to
sleep ; and that morning, to the amazement
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of everybody, for the first time in years,
no hated cliapel bell bade anybody awake
and arise. Strange to tell, the perpetrators
of this "outrage" were never detected,
despite most searching inquisition, nor even
suspected ; nor are they even to this day,
unless, perchance, one or another of that
precious trio has " given himself away,"
even as this one has done now.
IVY ORATION.
CHAEITY OEGANIZATION.
John M. Pelan.
I have chosen a subject which, perhaps,
may seem strange for an occasion such as
this, but yet one which is every day growing
in imjjortauce and is receiving the careful
consideration of our leading men and women,
namely, charity organization, and some of
the methods employed by it.
The charity organization now generally
known in New England as the Associated
Charities is of comparatively recent origin.
First formed in Buffalo in December, 1877,
it to-day is in operation in nearly all the
large cities of our land.
I will only speak briefly of the machinery
of this vast organization. There is an agent
whose business it is to attend to all aj^pli-
cants for help, to hear their story, and then
to investigate for himself. Th&n there is the
district committee, who assign cases to the
visitors. Of the visitors I will speak later.
The following are some of the chief ob-
jects aimed at by the Associated Charities:
To elevate the poor above the need of assist-
ance, to prevent imposture, and to diminish
pauperism.
One of the greatest, if not the greatest,
evils that the charity organization has to
contend with, is pauperism. It is a thing of
gigantic size, and more widely extended than
one could imagine. It is a growing evil, and
requires strenuous efforts to uproot it.
It is estimated that eighty per cent, of
our paupers are the children of paupers,
and as a remedy for this terrible state of
affairs there has been passed, through the
efforts mainly of the Associated Charities,
a law by which the children of paupers can
be taken from their foul, degrading surround-
ings and from the influences under which
they would be otherwise nurtured, and placed
in the care of some Asylum or Home until
suitable provision can be made for them.
The Eastern States in particular are be-
ginning to see and realize that pauperism is
an expensive luxury, and can in time be
almost eradicated if proper measures are
taken for its suppression. New York is
especially alert in this respect. She has had
one Margaret the Mother of Criminals, whose
lineal descendants have cost her over a mil-
lion dollars already. In this notorious family
of Jukes, in six generations there was found
a total of 540 persons, of whom 148 were
paupers, 49 were criminals, and 73 were pros-
titutes.
There is in every community, and large
cities in particular, a class of people who by
sickness, failure in business, or accident, are
brought into a state of dependence on others.
Among such as these the great work of the
Associated Charities is performed. Here is
where the grand feature of the Board of Vis-
itors finds its best field for action. A visitor
is given charge of a certain case within her
district. (I say her, because here is where
woman finds a duty especially and wonder-
fully adapted to herself.) She comes to the
family, if such it be, fully aware of this con-
dition, gathered from the agent's investiga-
tions. She does not approach them with any
insignia of office, but with kind words and
sympathetic encouragement. She busies her-
self to raise them from their unfortunate
position. If there ai'e children old enough
to work, places are found for them, perchance
in the store of the Visitor's husband. The
father, if unemployed, is temporarily supplied
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with work at the Provident Wood Yard,
while the younger members of the household
are sent to school.
Perhaps our Visitor may have to go far-
ther than mere advice. Their impoverished
condition may be caused from a want of
Yankee thrift and economy. If so, the right
spirited Visitor will hesitate at nothing. She
will act as well as suggest. I remember
reading, a short time since, the following in-
cident : a lady had been advised by a friend
to recommend to the people she visited in
her charity work, " that beans were a very
good article of diet — cheap, nutritious, and
wholesome." She acted upon her friend's
advice, and expatiated on the merits of this
dish wherever she went. In a few weeks
she met her friend and told her what she
had done. " But," said her friend, " did you
tell them how to cook them ? " " Why, no ;
I supposed everybody would know that."
" Well, the next time you go among them,
you ask how they liked your beajis and how
they cooked them." At her next visit she
asked a family how they liked their beans.
" Well, they did not like them very well,
though they tried them a few times."
" How did you prepare them ? " " Why, we
soaked them a little while in water and
then we ate them."
It is not one visit to a case that is needed
but dozens of visits. Visit them until they
know how to help themselves from your act-
ive example. Teach them ways of cleanli-
ness and habits of neatness. These are the
precepts which the Visitors should ever bear
in mind. We cannot blame them much.
Would any of us be superior to them, if
placed in a similar situation ? It is our asso-
ciations, the environments in which we have
been nurtured and reared that raises us so
high above them. If, by continual visiting,
we can elevate them to where they no
longer require our watchful eye, we are ac-
complishing a great work. We are not only
saving the father and mother their self-
respect, but snatching the children from the
vortex of pauperism.
But in the case supposed, and in every
case, no money is given. The motto of the
society is : " Not alms, but a friend." Aid
is extended only until the persons arrive at
a stage where they can help themselves.
There are some who, by force or a chain
of circumstances, are unavoidably poor, and
can never rise into prosperity. For such as
these, measures for their permanent sup2:>ort
are taken.
The difficulties encountered in a work of
this kind are infinite. I will only speak of
one, and that is blind giving to the mendi-
cant who knocks at our door. One should
make it a rule never to give at the door.
You may say this is cruel. Yes, I know it
seems so at first thought, but stop a
moment and consider. Do you know to
whom you are giving, or what use will be
made of what you give ?
A pathetic story is told of suffering and
hunger that makes your heart ache. You
draw your pocket-book and give them some
money. The recipient rains blessings upon
you, and wishes you a long life. You are
satisfied in your mind ; you go to bed think-
ing of the hungry brood of children devour-
ing the food your money has procured, and
inwardly congratulate yourself on your be-
nevolence ; but if you only knew what
knavery, nine times out of ten, was beneath
those woeful looks, or if you heard the clink
of your money upon the counter of the bar
tender, your sympathies would not be so
warm next time. There is as much art and
make-up to a professional beggar as to a
Booth or a Salvini. Their parts are studied
with diligence and assiduity.
The following illustrates well the case in
hand : First Beggar — " Why didn't you
tackle that lady? She might have given
you something." Second Beggar — " I let her
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go because I understand my business better
than you do. I never ask a woman for any-
thing when she is alone, but when two
women are together you can get money from
both, because each one is afraid the other
will think her stingy if she refuses. This
profession has to be studied just like any
other, if you expect to make it a success."
People who thus give indiscriminately
are putting a premium upon fraud and im-
posture. They are committing a grievous
sin against society. They may not witness
it in immediate results, but nevertheless the
germs are sown which give birth and contin-
ually replenish the army of beggars. For
this reason we should cease giving blindly
and turn such as apply to us over to the
Associated Charities, who are Avilling and
glad to investigate for us. At their rooms
records are kept of each and ever}'- case ex-
amined into, and also descriptions of many of
the traveling army of beggars. Thus here is
the place to turn your applicants, or go your-
self for enlightenment. In the agents of the
Associated Charities you have those skilled
in detecting imposture and deception, and
if there are any worthy ones who thus apply
they, too, will be found as surely as the
worthless will be exposed.
As long as people will give at the door,
so long will there be beggars, for they can
by their tricks make far more than at honest
toil. Expose them ; they will then be driven
to work. There is no danger of their starv-
ing, as beggars are too particular about their
diet. Set a beggar down to some good
bread and butter and his hunger vanishes
in a moment. Pie alone is good enough for
them.
If people can live without work, they
will. We are all lazy, there is no dodging
it ; and if we behold the honest poor de-
scending into the beggar lines, can we blame
them? They see their neighbor living in
ease, as it were, by means of his well-woven
pathetic appeal, and say if he can live with-
out work, why can't we? And with the
well-to-do classes, with you and with me, lies
in great measure the fault, as well as the
remedy of this evil.
In every city or town where the Associ-
ated Charities are in operation the great cry
is for more Visitors to carry on this noble
woi'k. Boston has over seven hundred Visit-
ors, still she could advantageously keep busy
many more. Here is a chance for men and
women alike to make themselves of some
use to the world.
There is too much lukewarmness in the
Christian church of to-day. It is all well
enough for us to go to church on Sunday
and bow our heads in devotion and offer up
thanks to our Heavenly Father for the bless-
ings and joys of this world, and supplications
for the relief of suffering and degradation,
yet how many of us practice what we preach?
We are Dr. Jekylls on Sunday and Mr.
Hydes on Monday. There is something
more to religion than the mere attendance
upon divine worship. A bowed head and
the semblance of devotion is by no means
the passport to a life eternal. If a man says
he loves Jesus, let him give evidence of the
same by his daily life ; for he who is devout
on Sunday, and cruel, hard, and grinding
with his neighbor on week days, has, to my
mind, no fear in the future of living in a New
England climate.
In this work there is ample opportunity
for us all, even the youngest. Many and
many of us, who are pining for something to
do, have the very chance at our feet. Search
out the destitute, the poor, and the sick.
You may not have money to give, but you
have yourselves, which is far better. As that
high-souled woman, Octavia Hill, has said,
" The gift you have to make to the poor,
depend upon it, is the greatest of all gifts
you can make — the gift of yourself."
The question, " Does it pay ? " is con-
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stantly coming up to those engaged in this
work. Most assuredly it does. Consult the
records of the Associated Charities, and
from the standpoint of mere dollars and
cents I think you will find that the Associ-
ated Charities is saving every city in which
it is located thousands annually in keeping
people from becoming dependent on the
public. But far more important than the
dollars and cents saved is the brightening
of the lives of the unfortunate. Little we
know what immeasurable good some self-
sacrifice on our part may accomi^lish.
But we should not be discouraged.
Would that all had the heart and talent for
work of this kind as a lady in a city not far
distant. She is a lady of education and
wealth, and one who is ever busy doing the
work of the Master. She has associated to-
gether some little girls in a Sunday-school,
with which she is connected, into a society
known as the Helping Hands, whose aim is,
in a small way, to contribute to the relief of
suffering humanity. On one occasion she
invited a lady friend down to one of her
meetings to assist her by playing on the
piano. The young lady who thus came
asked our friend : " Does this work pay ? Do
you feel that it really makes any difference
in their lives ? " Her reply was as follows :
" I know it makes some difference in the
lives of a few of the children. If I can in-
terest and hold the children for repeated
meetings I am sure that good will come of
the work. At all events it is work in the
right direction, and I am glad to offer them
the opportunity to be a power for good if
they choose. I am more than repaid for my
labor in the thought that those little lives
have had good influences about them, and
have not lacked at least one friend to jjoint
out to them the path that leads to ways of
pleasantness and peace."
Perhaps the most hopeful feature of this
work is the interesting of the rich and in-
fluential in the poor and unfortunate. The
uniting of the high with the low by the
bonds of brotherly sympathy and friendli-
ness. It is not the bank notes of the rich
which elevate and give courage to the poor ;
it is the friendly visit and the hearty and
noble interest in their welfare.
This is the great social movement of the
age. It is the filling up of the deep and
wide chasm between the rich and poor. The
dawn of that looked-for day, when
"There shall come from out this noise of strife and
groaning
A broader and juster brotherhood,
A deep equality of aim, postponing
All selfish seeking to the general good ;
Then shall come a time when each shall to another
Be as Christ would have him — brother unto brother."
IVY POEM.
George T. Files.
I.
Where find a land so rich in rhymes
In tales of old and modern times.
Of homes, of love, of war, of peace,
As is the land of ancient Greece ?
She saw the deeds of Hercules,
And in her arms was reared a throng
Of gods and mortals like to these.
Yet, still untold, remains this song.
In this fair land, so often sung before.
Lie two small islands near Boeotia's shore, —
Between the two, a form there stands alone
Exceeding like a woman, — yet of stone.
Now, long ago, these isles were one — some say.
But they by earthquake shock were rent in twain.
This maid alone— on that disastrous day
Was left, of all who dwelt in that fair plain.
HI.
Long, long ago, before the war cry rang
For that prolonged fight which Homer sang.
Before the Heracleidce made descent
And terror through the land of Atreus, sent.
There lived upon this island in the seas —
Called Thera, spot most beauteous to-day
Of all that cluster named the Cyolades —
The Alcmseonedre, and scepter sway.
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Callimacbus the island then controlled,
Fifth in the race of sons — we're told —
But now foot-prints of age had marked his face,
And words of wisdom, deeds of war replace.
But in declining years to him was born
A daughter — as it seemed — to soothe his age.
To cheer his heart and pleasant home adorn,
Perhaps lend hope or lonely tears assuage.
V.
And thus Kallia grew, and with each year
Some fresh charms on her graceful form appear.
Sought for by many a good prince was the maid,
Yet all the while at home she staid.
Her pleasures few, for hours she was content
To stroll beside the neighboring stream awhile
And watch the waves that seemed by magic sent
To bring upon her face a flickering smile.
VI.
Yes, often thus she wandered 'side the stream
'Till dear and dearer do its waters seem
The sweet companion of her lonely hours.
Those shady rills and pleasant bowers.
Euretos, too, who o'er the stream held sway.
Had seen the maiden oft and loved her well
Nor unrequited for — as passed the day —
They fonder grew, 'neath Cupid's spell.
VII.
Thus many a happy hour beside the stream
They sat, and all went happy as a dream.
Reclining there in peace upon his breast
She asked no other joy no other rest.
And— lover like — they made their solemn vow.
That each no other one would wed.
Nay, much preferred than this, that they allow
A destiny how'er severe instead.
vin.
Meanwhile all others share a different fate,
For couriers from the main-land all relate.
Barbarian hordes descending on the land
Of fair Boeotia and the neighboring strand.
For miles around the populace arise.
To ward from off their homes this common foe
To guard the land wherein the border lies.
In battle now they join for weal or woe.
IX.
Alas, how fruitless 'lis a war to wage
'Gainst those, who with desire for plunder rage,
A fruitless figlit — for now tlie field
Is strewn with valiant men witli sword and shield.
The barbarous hosts, victorious press on
And one by one the towns yield to their sway.
Down to the very coast for victories won.
Their war cry sends its terror and dismay.
X.
Nor cease they here, but on in boats they press
To conquer isles beyond, urged by success.
And, one by one, as sure, the islands fall,
O'ercome by brutal force, both great and small,
Until at last, on Thera's banks they burst
Where all who from the wretched fight were left^
Had sought to make a stand and meet the worst, —
Of homes, of wives, of sons bereft.
XI.
This is not all. The barbarous host prevail,
And o'er the very housetops scale
Down in the streets, a motley mass of forms.
As if the land were swept by raging storms.
Here greaves and shields and broken javelin
Piled high upon the bodies heaped below.
And higher than the battle's awful din,
Sound shrieks of women hurrying to and fro.
xu.
At last into the palace all are pressed
Where fought Callimachus vv'ith youthful zest.
The door is broke and in that hapless fight
The old man falls, a prey to brutal might.
All other inmates flee to save their lives —
To escape the fallen home, with plunderers fraught
While each and every one there, vainly strives
To seek some rest from strife, some sheltered spot.
xin.
Left all alone, Kallia fled away.
Bowed down by grief and sore dismay.
She knew not where yet something seemed to lend
Unwonted strength to reach tlie river bend.
For there Euretos, by immortal strength
Alone, could save his love this awful fate.
In flight the maid is seen by some at length,
But hasten, haste ! lest now it be too late,
XIV.
Almost within their grasp, but — Hark ! the sounds
Of thunder o'er the level jjlain rebounds.
The waters of the quiet stream arise
In darkened masses of enormous size.
And lo ! upon the surging flood appears
Poseidon, master of tlie wave.
And from the chariot's side Euretos peers
His love to find, his love to save.
XV.
The whole isle, trembling as an affrighted beast.
Is rent throughout its midst from west to oast.
The unfortunate city with its conquering band
Sinks down from view as if by magic hand.
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Alone of all that vast and motley throng
Kallia stands, untouched by surging waves.
She knows full well, whose arms so brave and
strong.
From ruthless seas her gentle person saves.
Thei'e stands Kallia to this day ;
Still 'round her form the waters play.
Lest wasting time should ehange her face.
Her graceful form's by stone encased.
The rippling waters kiss her feet
And twice each day, as comes the light,
Euretos, comes with footsteps ileet.
And hides his love from mortal sight.
FIELD DAY.
THE FIELD-DAY TOURNAMENT.
The Field-day contests were held, as
usual, at the Topsham Fair Grounds, on the
afternoon of Thursdaj'', June 7th. The cus-
tomary shower came at one o'clock, but did
no damage, save to delay the commencement
of the exercises a half-hour. Although the
clouds hung threateningly all the afternoon,
there was no rain after 2.30. The track was
in an unusually good condition, having been
carefully rolled several times in the forenoon.
The attendance was not so large as the excel-
lence of the exercises merited.
The first contest of the day was the 100-
yards dash, which was easily won by Free-
man, '89, in 10 3-5 seconds, with Rice, '89,
2d, and Files, '89, 3d. The time was one-
tenth of a second slower than last year, owing
to the slight heaviness of the track caused
by the rain. Next came throwing the ham-
mer. Gates threw it 56 feet, winning the
first prize; Hastings, '90, was 2d; Russell,
3d. This was followed by putting the shot,
also won by Gates, whose record was 31 feet
9 3-5 inches, with Russell 2d, and Hastings,
'90, 3d. The fourth contest was the 220-
yards dash, won by Freeman '89, in 22 4-5
seconds, breaking Bowdoin's record, which
has been 23 1-2, and coming within a fraction
of a second of the best world record. Rice
took 2d prize, and Freeman, '90, 3d.
Throwing base-ball was won by Gary,
with Burleigh 2d, and Spillane 3d. The mile
run, usually a dull, uninteresting contest, was
one of the most exciting exercises of the day.
Four men started in the race. At the end of
the first heat Sears had the lead, closely fol-
lowed by Lynam. During the last quarter
of a mile Lynam gained rapidly on Sears, ■
and crossed the line only one-fifth of a sec-
ond behind him; Gary came in 3d. Although
the track had been carefully looked over,
Lynam picked up a chip on the spike of his
shoe, which necessitated his stopping. By
this he lost many yards. Sears' time was 4
minutes 56 seconds, which is 9 1-2 seconds
less than Bowdoin's record.
Fish, '91, took the 1st prize in the stand-
ing high-jump ; Ridley, 2d ; Harriman, 3d.
Record, 5 feet. The 440-yards dash was won
by Freeman, '89, in 52 2-3 seconds. Rice
came in 2d, and Freeman, '90, 3d. The pole
vault was easily won by Prentiss, who vaulted
8 1-2 feet. Freeman was 2d ; Hastings, '90, 3d.
The two-mile run was won by McCuUough ;
2d, Webb; 3d, Royal. These were the only
contestants. The time was 12 minutes 56
1-2 seconds. Freeman, '89, took first in the
running broad jump ; Ridley, 2d; Harriman,
3d. Distance, 16 feet 10 inches. The
knapsack race was one of the most interest-
ing features of the tournament. Prentiss
and Rice ran it in 19 3-5 seconds, Dennett
and Gummings came next, and Doherty and
Rogers were third. 39 feet 4 4-5 inches
was made by Ridley in the running liop-skip-
and-jump ; Freeman fell a few inches behind
him, and Dudley took 3d.
There were so many contestants in the
hurdle race that it had to be run in two
heats and was decided by the time. Free-
man, '90, took first prize ; Fish took second,
and Harriman and Gates stood even for the
third. The three-legged race was won
by Prentiss and Rice in 13 3-5 seconds;
Simpson and Sears were 2d; and Dennett
and Gummings, 3d.
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The last contest of the clay was a half-
mile run, which was won by Freeman, '90, in
the remarkable good time of 2 minutes 11
3-5 seconds. Lynam came in 2d, and Sears,
3d. The Bowdoin record was beaten in this
also. It was 2 minutes 18 seconds, made
by Payson, '81.
Best class record was made by '90, who
had forty-eight points. '89 had forty-six.
Best individual record. Freeman, '89, who
had sixteen points.
The officers of the day were as follows:
Master of Ceremonies, Sanford Fogg, '89 ;
Referee, Prof. Robinsou; Judges, Mr. F. W.
Whittier and Mr. Austin Gary; Time-keep-
ers, the judges and Mr. W. A. Moody; Di-
rectors, Rice and Thwing, '89, Gates and
Dunn, '90, and Hastings, '91. The prizes
were all medals of unique design, silver for
first prize and bronze for second. Besides
the medals for each contest, there was one for
every record broken, and for the best indi-
vidual record. All the exercises of the day
passed off very smoothly, and the Field-Day
as a whole will be long remembered, both
for its records and general interest.
THE BOAT EACBS.
June 8th dawned beautifully for the con-
tests of the day, and a refreshing breeze
sprang up from the north, not enough to in-
terfere with the smooth surface of the water,
and just enough to inspire vigor and anima-
tion. The sky was cloudless when the long
stream of eager watchers began to crowd the
boat-house, and the banks on either side of
the river. As one leaned over the railing of
the band-stand on the boat-house roof, all the
vehicles in town, from the light buggy to
the bai'ouche, could be seen drawn up in
long columns, and then came barge loads,
followed by scores on foot. It was just 10.30
A.M., when the 'ninety-one men came down
the platform with their new boat lightly sus-
pended over their heads. They wore pretty
new suits, with "'91" worked on the breast.
and were a muscular set of boys. Then sud-
denly burst forth the stirring shout : " 'Rah !
'rah ! — 'Rah ! 'rah ! — Second-to-none ! — Eta !
Thetal — Kappa! Lambda! — Bowdoin !
'Ninety-One ! " which was repeated till the
crew was quite out of hearing.
Then came the 'ninety crew, with gay
garnet uniforms, and appeared very confi-
dent, as they set their shell into the water,
under the wild Sophomoric yell which was
encored by the applause of the 'ninety -one
men and the whole assembly.
Gow Island was soon reached, and the
crews turned preparatory for the race. Op-
posite the old barn, which is the one mile
point from the bridge straight away as re-
cently measured, the starter was stationed.
At the word "go," Mr. Gary fired the gun
to signal at the other end of the course, and
the two crews caught the water, the Sopho-
mores a little the sooner, and taking a thirty-
two stroke per minute, led the Freshmen,
who were pulling a good thirty-four stroke,
for about half the course; when the 'ninety-
one shell came up even. Then both crews
spurted to a forty stroke, but the long steady
stroke of the Sophomores began to give them
the lead, and they kept it up, spurting again
at the end of the course. There was much
excitement as the two boats pulled under the
bridge, the 'ninety men with a good lead,
and putting in every pound of "beef " they
possessed, and also the Freshmen not giving
up, though they saw their defeat. The Soph-
omores easily won the race, though having
some advantage in the course, the Freshmen
rowing farther out in the current towards
the Topsham side.
These are the names, height, and weight
of the winning crew:
Height. Weight.
F. M. Gates, Strolce, Captain, . 5 feet 11 inches. 167 Ihs.
G. B. Sears, No. 3, 5 feet 7 inclies. 150 lbs.
O. \T. Turner, No. 2, .... 5 feet 9 inches. 168 Ihs.
H. H. Hastings, Bow, .... 5 feet 10 inches. 181 Ihs.
Time, 6 minutes 45 2-5 seconds.
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The time was longer than last year, the
reason being that the course is longer and
the current swifter. After long and hearty
applause, class yells, and hand-shaking, the
shells were set in the boat-house, and two
"scrub" crews, only a day old in experience,
and well representing the names they had
donned, viz., "Saudpeeps," and "MudguUs,"
came out with the old boats of 'eighty-seven
and 'eighty-eight, welcomed with much
laughter and merriment. Their course was
only a few rods with a turn. They floated
down between the piers, breathless, waiting
for the word " Go," and when it was given
such scrabbling and bracing one rarely sees,
for every man watched his oar rather than
the stroke, and consquently some never got
their oars out of the water ; others took two
strokes while his neighbor was taking
one, and others, expecting to get "spilled,"
as they termed it, simply exerted themselves
to keep the boat from tipping over. Suffice
it to say that after much vigorous coaching
from the shore, and serious errors by the
other boat, the " Saudpeeps " won the race ;
they were the lighter crew.
The sky had suddenly become cloudy,
and it appeared as though the water was be-
coming very rough for the single-scull race,
but the wind blew across the river so that
not much of a chop was raised. F. M. Gates
and H. H. Hastings were the only contest-
ants. The course was less than half a mile
with turn. Mr. Gates had had some experi-
ence in single sculls before, and showed
much ease as he lightly pushed off from the
floating platform, and directed his course
towards the starting point. Mr. Hastings,
who is a trifle heavier, rowed a very pretty
race, and showed the least excitement
throughout the course. Both rowed a steady
stroke, quickening a little as the flag was
rounded. Mr. Gates neared the bridge con-
siderably in advance of his rival, although
he had the disadvantage of the current.
The day had its usual marks of interest
for boating, there being a good attendance
on shore, and many in boats plying along the
race-course of the shells.
Mr. Moody was referee, Mr. Car}^ starter,
Whittier and Tolman, time-keepers. Much
credit is due to Mr. Lynam, of '89, for coach-
ing the 'ninety-one crew, and to Mr. F. N.
Whittier for zealous oversight of all the
crews this year. It is to be hoped that boat-
ing will be ever as well represented as in
this year's races, and that more crews will
participate next year.
PEESENTATION OP FIELD-DAY AAVARDS.
" The very thought of this fair company
clapped wings to me," said a first prize win-
ner, with beaming face, Friday afternoon.
And well he might, for a large and enthusi-
astically generous crowd filled the black
walnut fonns of King Chapel, to witness the
awarding of the prizes won Field Day.
President Hyde, as usual, made the presenta-
tions, which ceremony he prefaced with a
few timely remarks. He called attention to
the fact that while in other colleges athletics
were carried to such an absurd excess as to
cause the Faculties to place just restrictions
on them, nothing of the kind had been nec-
essary at Bowdoin. The work here had
never proved detrimental to the studies^ but
on the contrary of such a nature as to elicit
emphatic approval. After a witty reference
to the scrub race, which caused the conse-
crated dust to rise and settle not till the lofty
window sills were reached, up the aisle came
the victorious Sophomore crew of Field Day
morning. Capt. Gates led them, bearing the
inevitable oar which was decked with '90's
ribbons. Four handsome cups, all alike,
were presented to the brawny wielders of the
ash, who bowed and modestly retired. Then
the thirty-six winners of the previous after-
noon, one after another, went forward to
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receive their trophies. A good innovation
had been made this year in substituting
medals for the hackneyed inkstands, paper
weights, match-safes, and other utensils which
on former occasions served as prizes.
The first prizes were of silver and the
second, bronze. They bore a college mono-
gram in raised work, and were engraved
with date and name of event. A Boston
firm supplied them. They were universally
voted handsome, and were presented amidst
vociferous "wooding" and rattling of the
steam pipes.
IVY DAY.
IN IMEMOEIAL.
Long before the hour appointed for the
commencement of the Ivy exercises, Upper
Memorial was filled with a gay and expect-
ant company. Precisely at ten minutes of
three, handsome Jean Missud raised his
baton, and the lively strains of the Salem
Cadet Band floated forth. Ten minutes
later, '89, forty strong, and headed by Mar-
shal H. C. Jackson, marched slowly up to
the platform. Each was garbed in "inky
coat and customary suit of solemn black,"
but, unlike Hamlet, these were not "the
trappings and the suits of woe," for each face
wore a jovial expression, and to each lapel
was pinned, not the sombre badge of mourn-
ing, but bright peacock blue and pink
ribbons, held in place by an ivy leaf pin.
After the class had been seated, Chaplain C.
H. Fogg offered a feeling and eloquent
prayer, in which touching allusion was made
to the late Mr. Herbert Merrill. The or-
chestra then rendered another selection. Just
here it may be appropriate to mention that
the music of the day, from first to last, was
a constant source of delight to all in attend-
ance upon tlie exorcises. Too much 2:iraise
cannot be accorded to the artistic manner in
whicli everything was executed. Each listener
could say with Orsino in " Twelfth Night " :
" That strain again !
Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets.
Stealing and giving odor."
The oration was pronounced by Mr. John
M. Phelau, and Mr. George T. Files read the
poem. Both grace ouv literary columns and
their perusal will set forth their many excel-
lences far better than words of ours. Both
gentlemen possess musical, well-modulated
voices, and the delivery in each case greatly
enhanced the charm of the productions.
Hearty and gratifying applause followed at
their close.
Then President L. J. Bodge spoke as fol-
lows :
Ladies and Qentlemen :
The jjleasant custom which we celebrate to-day is
comparatively new in the annals of the college.
Long ere the first class ivy was planted, Long-
fellow " had, 'neath whispering pines, begun to lisp
in numbers"; Ilawtliorne had here imbibed his
wonderful powers of mental analysis and graphic
description. This custom was first inaugurated
by the cl.iss of eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
but unfortunately it was not continued by suc-
ceeding classes, with tlie exception of '74, un-
til '76, by introducing several new features, made it
the most pleasant of all class exercises. The various
class recitations and lectures, may, in a measure, be
forgotten ; not so any living memorial which the
class can call its own.
Three notable events mark the autumn of 1885 as
memorable in the history of Bowdoin College. First
a new President came, bringing with him a youthful
temperament in hearty unison with collegians, and
above all, a manly and healthy Christianity, the
fruitage of which has already increased many fold.
Secondly, a new gymnasium was added, which
supplemented the mental culture with the physical.
Last, but I will not say least, the class of '89 entered
Bovvdoin . Born under such auspicious circumstances,
it is no wonder that '8D's lucky star has ever been in
the ascendancy.
During our first term came that insatiable desire
to tempt fate; that spirit of inflexible resolution so
characteristic of the Yankee. We gratified that de-
sire ; we exemplified that spirit by what is known in
college phraseology as a pea-nut drunk. Permit me
to say that tliis is a merely technical exjaression
and signifies something totally harmless. It is need-
less for me to mention that the barometer fell ; that
this indication of moisture was subsequently verified.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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From tempestuous weather; from the hundred
and one indignities heaped on Freshmen, yet all so
conducive to the highest type of collegian, we
emerged, a strong and united class. Happily at the
beginning of Sophomore year, " consideration like an
angel came," and iii our censorship we exercised a
mild, paternal oversight.
That indefinable something required of a genuine
Sophomore was more than satisfied when in execu-
tive conclave over the Faculty table we discussed
the flavor of that prince of the feathered tribe.
With the opening of mythical Junior ease we be-
came one of the powers that be ; but with tlie power
came cares and sorrow. To-day we miss the genial
countenance of one, who by the sincerity and con-
stancy of his life had endeared himself to us all. He
was of that happy and ingenuous temperament that
irresistibly commands the admiration. Though
quickly the azure gates closed on him, his was a life
crowded with good deeds done in the light that guides
aright. We know not what hopes closed over his
grave ; wliat other toil this higli-iutentioned mind
could have accomplished. Unshrinkingly he passed
beyond our horizon, leaving us to cherish the memory
of his self-sacrificing life. And while we to-day
crown our few short collegiate years with the emblem-
atic ivy, let us hope that he for years eternal may
be adorned with tlie ivy crown divine.
Three happy years have gone by, and it is with
feelings almost akin to sorrow that we realize those
years are no longer ours. Memories crowd thick and
fast on the bewildered brain ; memories of sports
when the tide of youthful vigor runs high ; memories
of the grand old game of Rugby, "With foot and
eye opposed in dubious strife"; memories of the
great national game with its innumerable chances
and its intensity of excitement ; memories of walking
and talking under the majestic and inspiring pines of
old Bowdoin ; memories of chapel exercises on Sab-
bath afternoon, with the rich, western sunlight
streaming in through the stained glass, lending to
the paintings on the wall a richer tint, and to the
whole interior something hallowed and almost divine.
Never can these memories fade. With one more
span our cycle will be complete. Our college course
has been uuraarred by internal strife, the bane of
class life. It has suffered from no eccentricity or
peculiarity, but has been as steady as the full-orbed
and imperial sun.
No class is more devoted to the college. Its de-
votion is not the ephemeral and conventional, aroused
by the enthusiasm of the moment, but the constant
and sincere. Class and college are equally dear.
'Eighty-nine and Bowdoin are the talismantic words
mutually entwined in the memory of each one of our
class.
This graceful gem, constantly interrupted
by laughter and applause, was greeted with
renewed hand-clai)])iiig at the finish. Then
Mr. Bodge, in witty and telling speeches,
presented the several Ivy honors. He sjioke
of the particitlar fitness of the bestowal of
each. He told how '89's gymnast constantly
expostulated with his fellows for cutting the
gym, and stated that the gentleman now
leading his class in all his physical measure-
ments, would undoubtedly next year be the
first exponent of the Sargent system in col-
lege. " Mr. Staples, in token of your marked
athletic abilities, allow me to present you
this four hundred pound dumb-bell."
Mr. Bodge and the orator staggered
under the weight of that dumb-bell, but Mr.
Staples, of course, lifted it on high many
times with ease. He said: "Ye call me
gymnast and ye do well to call him gymnast,
who in three long years never entered the
gym, and always succeeded in eluding the
divine Whittier. Ye call me Apollo by rea-
son of my contour. The classic author re-
marked : *■ Poeta nascitur non Jit,' but I say:
' Athleta fit non nascitur.'' " With a few
other happy hits, Mr. Staples thanked the
president for the honor.
Mr. D. E. Owen, as funny man, was pre-
sented with a nice razor. Some of the audi-
ence couldn't see the point in this, but they
all saw the edge. Mr. Owen's response was
a keen one : " Well calculated to razor
laugh." He said some men were born great ;
some achieved it; and some had it thrust
upon them : but he had come prominently
before the public Owen to a happy concatena-
tion of circumstances. After a pun or two
more he made application (intellectual) of
the razor. " It denotes a smooth, beard-
less countenance, so in this connection it
may imply that my jokes are destitute of
those too common appendages — whiskers."
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President Bodge, introducing the Fac-
ulty favorite, told how Mr. E. R. Stearns
always attained the golden ten strike, and
ever bobbed up serenely when called to re-
cite, even if he had been monkeying with a
neighbor. Mr. Stearns took the wooden
menton (which a Brunswick girl was heard
to saj' beforehand she hoped would be an
honorable mention) and remarked that he pre-
ferred addressing professors to audiences.
He knew the professors were thinking a
great deal of him during recitations, and
outside too, for he often visited their homes
by special and urgent invitation. They even
called on him at his room sometimes, so much
did they enjoy his society. He thought all his
classmates knew he scorned to obtain rank
by chinning, or by plugging, either, for that
matter.
The class epicure was alluded to as a
disciple of fastidious gastronomy, and one
much sought for as a judge of good eating.
Mr. F. M. Russell smilingly received his
canvas-back, and stated that this matter had
ever been humanity's aim. He made several
quotations to give weight to his asseveration,
and ended his concourses of testimony with
Owen Meredith's :
" We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without consoience, and live without
heart ;
We may lire without friends ; we may live without
books ;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books, — what is knowledge but
grieving?
He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiv-
ing?
He may live without love, — what is passion but pin-
ing?
But where is the man tliat can live without dining? "
Other men in the class were in the same
box with him. In his case he had resolved
that a longing for truth and a liankering for
food should Ije inextricably mingled.
A lich-toneil Cremona drum awaited the
musical man, whom Mr. Bodge declared to be
very versatile. He was good either as an
instrumentalist or singer, and could imitate
anything from one of Mozart's finest to a
feline concert. This brought Mr. O. P.
Watts to his feet, and he acknowledged that
he had delighted his classmates for three
years with his melodies. He was proud and
grateful. He related an incident of a cer-
tain person discovering the attic floor in
North Maine well sjDlintered, and being
asked who was responsible therefor, Mr.
Watts replied : " I cannot tell a lie any more
than Washington, I did it with my little
hatchet." This was perhaps the best music
the speaker had ever produced. His appear-
ance on the Ivy stage was to be his last in
public, private or any where else, as a musical
man.
These presentations had all been re-
garded as good-humored jokes, but in the
case of the popular man of '89 the tribute
was sincere. The president very prettily
enumerated all of his good qualities, and took
the utmost pleasure in handing the wooden
spoon to that frank, generous, and thor-
oughly good fellow, Bernard Carroll. A roll
of applause from every person in the hall
greeted Mr. Carroll as he stepped out. He
jokingly remarked that he had been a favor-
ite with his gymnasium instructor, judging by
that gentleman's invitations to him to fre-
quent the gymnasium oftener, and also to Glee
Club audiences, who always singled him out
when the club were remembered with bouquets
of a rather negative character. He thanked
the class feelingly, and said he should regard
the spoon as the joint property of forty
classmates entrusted to his keeping, a sym-
bol of the fraternity and good-will which al-
ways had marked, and always would, the
class of '89.
The appreciation of the audience all the
afternoon was made evident by many a gen-
erous outburst.
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PLANTING THE IVY.
The class marched down to the south end
of Memorial Hall, and gathered in a semi-
circle before tlie veiled marble leaf east of
the door. They sang the following beautiful
IVY ODE.
By Clarence L. Mitchell.
Air — " Danube River."
We're gathered now, in friendship's bond,
To celebrate together
A festive day on Bowdoin's shrine.
In pleasant summer weather;
Then let us raise our song to-day.
The motive ne'er concealing.
Till all our hearts shall stronger be.
Deep sympathy revealing.
The ivy green with tendrils strong.
Endears us, hero united;
We'll plant it then with tender care,
In the friendship we have pliglited ;
For roaming through these classic grounds,
In after years a token,
'Twill serve for us in searching them.
When class-ties have been broken.
We'll number friends in other scenes,
And have a world of pleasure.
But few more true and loyal too.
Than seeking wisdom's treasure ;
As time rolls fast the years away.
And fleeting moments shine.
Oh may our hearts anon return
To our noble 'eighty-nine.
The president then taking the ivy, a gen-
uine English one sent to the class by a
friend in Liverpool, confided it to the keep-
ing of the curator, Mr. W. S. Elden in a
neat speech. Mr. Elden happily responded,
promising that the vine should ever be espe-
cially the object of his solicitude and care.
He closed with this beautiful figure : " We
have read in the tales of ancient mythology
that the ivy which crowned the brow of
sportive Bacchus possessed a certain mystic
power which could drive away all care. May
our own ivy possess anew this power and
serve as a glorious monument forever to the
memory of our dear '89."
The ivy was planted, each of the class
throwing a trowelf ul of earth about its roots,
and the marble leaf was uncovered. The
members then grouped themselves for a pict-
ure by Reed. A good precedent was thereby
established. The audience meanwhile had
gone to King's Chapel to witness '88 attend
prayers for the last time.
seniors' LAST CHAPEL.
The mellow sun of the dying afternoon
picturesquely streamed in and lit up the
beautiful room. The bell was tolling sol-
emnly. The large assembly was hushed,
while the organ played a soft voluntary.
At the ceasing of the bell the Seniors
marched gravely into their accustomed seats.
It was the last time. " Some must have been
thinking of old days — -the many such services
they had attended, in cold weather, in warm
weather, sometimes coming early and orderly
with the decorum of their Freshman days,
sometimes lingering so long that only a des-
perate rush would admit them — and now
this one particular service was to be the con-
summation of the whole series ! But there
was no haste that night ; everybody took
plenty of time." Ah ! they would never
again attend prayers at Bowdoin as a class.
Mr. J. L. Doolittle marshaled '88 to their
seats, and President Hyde read Psalms xc,
and xci. A delegation from the Glee Club
sang Chwatal's " Lovely Night " ; then the
Seniors arose while the President offered a
most solemn and fervent prayer. There
was a silence of death. The impressions of
the hour will never be forgotten ; they can
never be.
Formed in fours, locked arm in arm,
swaying slowly back and forth, and singing
Robbie Burns's good " Auld Lang Syne,"
the Seniors went slowly down and out. It
was the last time. " Old jealousies must
have been ended ; old friendships more
friendly. The bitter things, if any there had
been, began to grow pleasant or be forgot-
ten. Already the things of college days
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
were the things of memory, and memory soft-
ens the hard places always."
The whole college collected in two lines
outside the door, and cheers were given for
old Bowdoin, for the Faculty, for the ladies,
and for the lower classes. Nearly all the
Freshmen cheered for themselves, much to
the general amusement.
The daylight proceedings of '89's Ivy
Day had become a delightful memory.
THE IVY HOP.
As the weather during Ivy Day had
been perfect, so that of the evening was all
that could be desired. Toward sunset the
light breeze, which had been blowing all day,
increased in strength, and by eight o'clock
the temperature had fallen to a point at
which dancing was comparatively comfort-
able. By the time the clock in the tower
of the town-building had struck the above-
mentioned hour, the hall below had begun to
present an animated appearance. Arrivals
of prospective dancers had already been
numerous and the balcony was filled with
spectators patiently awaiting the inaugura-
tion of the festivities.
The hour from eight to nine was very
pleasantly filled with a concert by the Salem
Cadet Band, which had furnished such accep-
table music for the exercises of the afternoon.
The programme was well arranged and the
various selections were warmly applauded
by the listeners. At the conclusion of the
concert dancing was instituted with the con-
ventional " March and Circle." About sixty
couples participated in the initiatory prome-
nade, which was led by Floor Director B. C.
Carroll. The oi'ders, distributed immediately
before the dancing of the circle, were very
tasty specimens of the printer's art. Thir-
teen numbers were "on the list" making,
with the circle and tlie five extras, a total of
nineteen dances.
It is hardly necessary to say that, under
the happy influence of inspiring music
and skillful management, the hop proved a
perfect success. It is safe to say that the
ladies present were never more entertaining
or more becomingly attired. It would be
useless for one of the opposite sex, attended
by the additional disadvantage of being a
mere tyro in the nomenclatare of the ma-
terials of feminine apparel, to attempt a
description of the elegant costumes. It
must be sufficient to say that all were of a
most charming character. An unusually
large proportion of the ladies present were
from out of town, nearly every prominent
city in the state being represented. Bruns-
wick was not behind but furnished its quota,
the members of which added largely to the
enjoyment of the occasion.
At the conclusion of " Portland Fancy,"
the seventh dance in order on the programme,
the company adjourned to the court room
below where suitable refreshments were
served. After a short time, occupied in con-
versation, and in the discussion of the tempt-
ing viands, dancing was again resumed, and
continued until an early hour. As many a
weary reveler retired to his couch the rays
of the rising sun were beginning to lighten
the eastern sky.
BASE-BALL.
Colby, 11; Bowdoin, 8.
On Saturday, June 2d, our team sustained
a defeat that has important bearings upon
the fate of the intercollegiate pennant. Of
course it is useless and tedious to repeat the
stale old excuse of "hard luck;" but certain
it is that our nine outbatted their oppo-
nents, and any candid person will admit
that had Fish been able to catch, the game
would have been ours. Russell was put be-
hind the bat with no practice, and as a
result he made errors. Up to the eighth
inning the game was interesting and the ex-
citement intense ; but unfortunate errors at
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
57
that time allowed our old rivals to secure the
regulation lead.
Fred Freeman played ball in a manner
that merits the admiration of the college,
accepting every chance at second base, bat-
ting terrifically, and winning bases with his
characteristic dash and speed. Gary pitched
a steady game, and his running foul catch,
in the third, elicited rounds of applause.
Larrabee's territory was as unsafe for his
opponents, as usual.
For Colby, Gilmore covered first-base in
great style ; Pulsifer caught well ; and Wagg
played a good game at second. Gibb's run-
ning foul catch was also a marked feature.
Far be it from our purpose to offer any
word of criticism upon the captaincy or man-
agement of the nine for never before has
there existed that unison of feeling and firm-
ness of discipline which now characterize the
team. We would suggest, however, that
preparation for emergencies should always
be made. No man can catch, or do anything
else, without practice ; and it is exceedingly
embarrassing to be sent into the field, before
a large audience without it. The score :
COLBY.
A.B. R. B.H. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Pulsifer, c 4 3 2 3 7 0 1
Parsons, p 5 2 2 2 2 4 1
"Wagg, 2b 5 1 1 1 3 2 0
Gilmore, lb 4 0 0 1 0 0 0
Gibbs, l.f 4 0 1 1 2 0 1
King, s.s 4 1 0 0 3 0 2
Eoberts, o. f. . . . "^ . 4 2 2 0 1 0 0
Meguire, r. f 4 1 1 0 1 0 0
Bangs, 3b 4 1 0 0 3 I 2
Totals 38 11 9 8 27 7 7
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Williamson, r.f. ... 4 1 1 2 0 0 0
Larrabee, l.f 5 0 0 0 3 0 0
F. Freeman, 2b. ... 5 2 4 2 1 6 0
Fogg, c. f 5 1 0 2 1 0 0
Packard, lb 5 2 2 1 11 0 1
Russell, c 5 1 1 0 5 3 5
G. Freeman, 3b. ... 4 0 1 0 0 2 2
Pendleton, s.s 5 0 0 0 1 1 1
Gary, p 3 1 2 2 2 7 1
Totals 41 8 11 9 24 18 10
SCORE BY INNINGS.
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Colby 20111114 z— 11
Bowdoin, 200030012—8
Struck out — by Cary, 5; by Parsons, 2. Earned Runs
— BoTvdoin, 2; Colby, 2. Two-Base Hits— Fred Freeman,
(2), G Freeman 1. Passed Balls— Russell, 5; Pulsifer, 1.
First-Base on Errors— Bowdoin, 4; Colby, 5. Left on
Bases— Bowdoin, 9; Colby, 5. Umpire — P. E. Lindsey.
Bowdoiiis, 17; Presumpscots, 11.
On the forenoon of Ivy Day our team
administered to the Presumpscots their first
amateur defeat of the season. The game
was characterized by heavy batting, in which
the college boys led. Our nine was re-
arranged, and contained one new man, Mun-
cie of '91, whose work deserves his retention
as a regular man. Fish made a phenomenal
running catch of a high-liner at center field.
G. Freeman played an errorless game at
third, and Pendleton gave a good exhibition
of batting. For the visitors, Campbell made
a fine pickup of a hot grounder at short, and
Elkins played well behind the bat. In the
ninth, Webb injured his finger attempting
to stop F. Freeman's hot liner, in such a
manner as to interfere somewhat with his
pitching. The Presumpscots are a very
gentlemanly team. Score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Gary, p 0 2 2 2 0 9 2
Larrabee, l.f. . . . • G 2 1 2 2 0 0
F. Freeman, c 5 4 2 2 9 1 4
Fogg, 2b -6 0 2 0 1 3 3
Fish, c.f G 2 2 3 3 0 0
Muncie, lb G 3 1 5 10 0 2
Eussell, r.f G 2 2 2 1 0 0
G. Freeman, 3b. ... G 0 2 1 0 3 0
Pendleton, s.s 4 2 3 3 1 2 1
Totals 53 17 17 20 27 18 12
PRESUMPSCOTS.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Files, 2b G 3, 2 6 1 3 1
Clark, 3b G 1 2 3 3 0 2
Smith, c.f -5 0 1 1 0 0 0
Morton, lb G 1 3 3 7 0 1
Webb, p 5 1 1 0 0 15 1
Burnell, l.f 4 1 2 2 0 0 2
Campbell, s.s 5 2 3 2 0 5 2
Elkins, c 5 1 1 1 15 1 1
Graffam, r.f 5 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 47 11 15 18 27 24 10
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
SCORE BY INNINGS.
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....10050403 4—17
....11030103 2—11
Bowdoins, . . .
Presumpsoot, . .
Time— 2h. 20m. Earned Runs — Bowdoins, 8; Presump-
scots, 2. Base on Balls— by Webb, 3; by Gary, 4. Struck
ou1^-by Gary, 7; by Webb, 12. Left on Bases — Bowdoins,
10; Presumpscots, 13. Two Base Hits — Gary, Freeman,
Foggl; Fish, 1; Pendleton. Three Base Hits— Smith,
Eussell. Umpire— Wiloomb, o£ Maine Medical School.
Jackson has been appointed bell-
ringer, with Doherty as substitute.
Clark, '89, returned to college June
2d. He was given a rousing round of
cheers at the depot by his classmates.
Miss Charlotte G. Lane, C. J. Goodwin, '89, and
Emery, '89, are to work on the library classification
this summer. Probably 16,000 volumes have yet to
be changed to the new system.
The eight-year-oider who assists the South Maine
end woman wearies a certain Freshman by address-
ing him as " father."
A delegation of pretty co-eds accompanied the
Colby nine on their last Bowdoiu visit.
Adjourns have been plentiful recently.
Memorial Day was a perfect holiday as far as
weather was concerned. The students devoted it
mostly to base-ball.
German is playing a great game with the Juniors
this spring. But few hits are made from its delivery,
and strike-outs are of daily occurrence.
The perennial mosquito has arrived, and is now
ooming Herr Booker's fall tricks on the boys.
Watts has been appointed on the Junior prize dec-
lamation, vice Carroll, excused.
President Hyde's baccalaureate at Fryeburg, June
3d, was a fine effort, and has been quoted by all the
papers of the State as good advice for the young.
Eight of the Okient Board are Blaine republi-
cans. Perhaps the man of plumes may now recon-
sider his refusal.
It is not generally known that '76 buried beside
their ivy a bottle containing copies of the invitation,
programme, and current Orient. Arlo Bates, the
novelist, was both president and poet on the occasion,
the only time the two offices have been combined in
one.
From present indications the class of '92 is to be
larger than the present Freshman class. Every pre-
caution is taken by the Faculty to make room for them.
No student, except those now rooming alone, can
hold his room in the college buildings alone for next
year, nor can he draw for a room except with his
intended room-mate.
Manson, Elden, and White were judges at the
recent prize speaking of the Topsham High School.
Now that the west end of the chapel is beautified
by the new organ, there should be a new pulpit or
reading desk to correspond at the east end. The
present old-fashioned aftair, with its dingy and faded
red draperies, is sadly out of place. If one of mod-
ern pattern cannot be substituted, the old pulpit cer-
tainly should be upholstered anew before the begin-
ning of another term.
It is understood that I'cunions will be held at
Brunswick this year by the classes of '38, '48, '53,
'63, '68, '78, and '85.
Stearns is singing second tenor on the Glee Club,
in absence of Hill.
Prof. Chapman has been re-elected President of
the Board of Trustees of Bangor Theological Semi-
nary. J. L. Crosby, '53, is Secretary.
The reception of the Senior class of the Bruns-
wick High School occurs Friday evening, the 15th.
Dancing from nine to twelve.
The alumni are authorized by tlie Overseers to
nominate candidates for one-half the vacancies ex-
isting in the lower board, and this nomination is
equivalent to an election. The association has ap-
pointed a committee, consisting of Prof. Jotham B.
Sewall, of South Braintree, Mass., Professor Chap-
man, and Mr. Frank C. Ujiton, of Orange, N. J., to
present two names for each vacancy in the Board of
Overseers which the alumni are entitled to fill at the
annual meeting this Commencement.
Glee Club calendar since May 1st: May 17th, at
Freeport; 24th, Auburn ; 26th, Organ Recital, Bruns-
wick; June 4th, Rockland. The quartette sang at
Farmington, May 22d, and at Skowhegan the 30th.
There are few student organizations that advertise
Bowdoin better than does her Glee Club.
A lady was observed viewing a recent ball game
through opera glasses.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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The eighty-third Commencement of Bowdoin
College will occur the week of June 24-30, 1888.
Programme :
Sunday, 4 p.m. Baccalaureate Sermon by President
Hyde.
Monday, 8 p.m. Junior Prize Declamation.
Tuesday. Class Day Exercises. Illumination and
Dance on the Green in tlie evening. Annual meeting of
the Maine Historical Society at i) a.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. Graduating Exercises of tlie Med-
ical School of Maine, in Memorial Hall. Address by Hon.
William Henry Clifford, Dartmouth, '58, of Portland, Me.
11 A.M. Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Adams
Hall. 3 P.M. Oration before the Alumni in Memorial
Hall, by Hon. Orville Dewey Baker, 'G8, of Augusta, Me.
8 P.M. Commencement Concert at Town Hall. 9.30 p.m.
Fraternit3' Reunions.
Thursday, 8.30 a.m. Prayer-meeting of Alumni and
friends in Y. M. C. A. Room. 9 a.m. Meeting of the
Alumni in Adams Hall. 10.30 A.m. Commencement Ex-
ercises followed by Dinner in Memorial Hall. 8 p.m. Re-
ception by the President in Memorial Hall.
Friday, 8.30 a.m. Examination of candidates for ad-
mission to College at Cleaveland Lecture Room.
Saturday, 8.30 a.m. Examination for admission con-
tinued
The Salem Cadet Band will furnish the music.
A Junior was heard inquiring, just before Ivy
Hop, the price of " key roses." Did any one sug-
gest he meant tea roses ?
Professor S. J. Young arrived from Dresden,
Germany, Monday, May 28th. He was accompanied
by his eldest son, Ernest, who will enter Bowdoin
next fall. Professor Young will return to Germany
in about two months.
Only a few Juniors competed for a prize oflfered
by Mr. Garrett of Philadelphia, through Rev. R. B.
Howard, for the best essay on international arbitra-
tion. Hon. Josiah Crosby, '35, and Rev. B. P. Snow,
'55, were judges.
Fifteen couples enjoyed an informal hop in the
Court Room, Monday evening, 28th. Manson was
director.
" Two Longfellows," quoth a lady Friday after-
noon, gazing admiringly at the Westminster replica
and then on '89's worthy president.
Senior examinations occurred Monday and Tues-
day, June 4th and 5th. The examining committee
was represented by Hon. Josiah Crosby, '35, of the
overseers. Rev. Samuel F. Dike, D.D., and Rev.
Benj. P. Snow, '55. President Hyde tendered '88 a
reception at his home, Tuesday evening.
Typographical errors will creep into even as good
a paper as the Lewiston Journal. In speaking of the
Fryeburg Academy graduating exercises it is guilty
of: "Seven of the gentlemen were examined by
Prof. Woodruff, B. Call, of Bowdoin, and admitted
without conditions."
The chapel was nearly filled at the organ recital
Saturday afternoon. May 26th. The new instrument
was played for the first time in public by Mr. Kotz-
schmar, who expi-essed himself as much pleased
with it. The whole concert was most enjoyable.
Programme :
Organ.
The Water Mill.
In Native Worth (Haydn).
Organ.
Comrades in Arms.
Organ.
Total Eclipse (Handel).
Softly Now the Light of Day.
Organ.
Mr. Kotzschmar.
College Glee Club.
Mr. Stockbridge.
Mr. Kotzschmar.
Glee Club.
Mr. Kotzschmar.
Mr. Stockbridge.
Glee Club.
Mr. Kotzschmar.
Hersey, '89, is preaching for the Maine Missionary
Society at Moose River.
Home, '91, is jiassing the spring at home.
Noyes, '91, is teaching at Freeport.
Reader : No, hugging is not in the Colby curric-
ulum, but some of the students practice it in public
just the same. Yes, they did it after each of the
Maine State games, when they heard something drop.
Commencement speakers were appointed June
6th, as follows: Tolman, Salutatorlan, Bartlett,
Cary, Dresser, Goding, Hall, Hill, Liuscott, Shorey,
Williamson, Woodman.
Cole returned from his long trip, during which
he traveled about 25,000 miles, two weeks ago Mon-
day. He is looking and feeling well. He states
that Professor Lee is in San Francisco, and may go
to Alaska this summer.
The competition for the Brown extemporaneous
prize occurred Thursday, May 31st. The following
Seniors wrote : Bartlett, Black, Cary, Cole, Doolittle,
Dresser, Goding, Hall, Hill, Shorey, M. P. Smith-
wick, Tolman, Williamson, and Woodman. The
subject was " Restricted Immigration."
Mr. A. J. Booker and wife celebrated the 40th
anniversary of their nuptials on Thursday, June 7th.
M. P. Smithwick will attend the Medical School
next winter.
W. R. Tenney, ex-'89, who rowed on our famous
'varsity of '86, passed Ivy week in Brunswick. He
is with the Bowditch Civil Engineering Company
of Boston, and has just finished a successful season
at Bar Harbor.
McCullough, '90, and Mahoney, '91, are to be
hotel clerks at Old Orchard during the summer.
The two lower classes marched all over the
campus and the village, Saturday morning, after Ivy
Day, headed by two bagpipers. Many of the Faculty
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
were serenaded. A committee was appointed for
the observance of a similar celebration each year.
There were thirty-five signers in the Art Gallery
register in three days of Ivy week.
The following '87 men were in attendance at the
Ivy-Day exercises : C. M. Austin, J. V. Lane, E. T.
Little, A. W. Merrill, C. F. and H. M. Moulton, O.
U. Sewall, and H. B. Skolfleld.
Manager Crawford has secured the following tal-
ent for Commencement concert: Salem Cadet Band,
Temple Quartette, Mrs. Fellows, of New York, so-
prano ; and Mr. Kotzschmar, pianist.
A raw-boned steed and dilapidated farm wagon
at the fair grounds created much merriment, espe-
cially when the two Sophs in charge tipped it over
and spilled a member of the Faculty.
All of '89's Ivy printing has been called the finest
ever seen in Brunswick.
'60.— Professor C. C. Ev-
erett of Harvard College,
son of the late Ebenezer Everett of
Brunswick, has accepted an invitation to de-
liver the oration at the celebration of the
150th anniversary of the settlement of
Brunswick.
'59. — Stephen J. Young of Brunswick, who, with
his family, has spent nearly two years in Europe,
his headquarters being in Dresden, Saxony, arrived
home Monday evening with his son Ernest, who is to
enter college. Mr. Young will remain at home two
months and then return to Dresden.
'70. — Luqien Howe is at present in Strasburg,
Germany. Mr. Howe has made an extended foreign
tour, visiting Cairo, Damascus, and Jerusalem, and
many European cities. Mr. Howe is the celebrated
occulist and aurist of Buffalo, N. Y. He studied in
Germany and England, and in 1873 was elected a
member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng-
land. He is surgeon-in-charge of the Buffalo Eye
and Ear Infirmary, lecturer on ophthalmology in the
medical department of the University of Bufi"alo, and
editor of the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal.
'77. — On June Gth, at the residence of the parents
of the bride, William Chute Greene married Miss
Sarah Eliza Ripley, of Paris, Maine.
NECROLOGY, 1887— '88.
]8;35— Cullen Sawtelle, b. 24 Sept., 1805, N"orridgewook ;
d. 11 N"ov., 1887, Englewood, N. J.
1827— Abraham Chittenden Baldwin, b. 26 April, 1804,
North Guilford, Conn.; d. 6 July, 1887, Yon-
ker.s, N. Y.
1S30— Bion Bradbury, b. 6 Dec, 1811, Biddeford; d. 1
July, 1887, Portland.
1831— John Patch, b. 23 Aug., 1807, Ipswich, Mass.; M. 9
Sept., 1887, Ispwich, Mass.
1832— Ariel Parish Chute, b. 16 May, 1809, Byfield, Mass.;
d. 18 Dec, 1887, Sharon, Mass.
1835— Joseph Blake, b. 21 Jan., 1814, Otisfield ; d. 26
May, 1888, Audover, Mass.
1839— Samuel BlHot Benjamin, b. 29 Dec, 1818, Win-
throp ; d. 20 Jan., 1888, Patten.
1842— Charles Emery Soule, b. July, 1823, Exeter, N. H. ;
d. 12 Dec, 1887, New York City.
1843— John March Mitchell, b. 2 Oct., 1820, Norway; d.
18 April, 1888, Portland.
1844— Samuel Martin "Weston, b. 21 July, 1819, Bristol;
d. 9 July, 1887, Roxbury, Mass.
1844— Horatio Quincy Wheeler, b. 8 March, 1819, Nor-
ridgewock; d. 20 Jan., 1888, Cal.
1845— Edward Mann Field, b. 27 July, 1822, Belfast; d.
29 July, 1887, Bangor.
1850— William Sewall Gardiner, b. 1 Oct., 1827 (?),
Lowell, Mass.; d. 4 April, 1888, Newton, Mass.
1854 — Henry Daulap, b. 16 Nov., 1834, Brunswick; d.
27 April, 1888, Washington, D. C.
1862— George Adams Mark,b. 23 Oct., 1837, Portland; d.
1 Dec, 1887, "Washington, D. C.
1872 — John Sumner Frost, b. 7 April, 1851, Springvale ;
d. 2 Oct., 1887, Springvale.
1878 -"Willis Walton French, b. 27 April, 1857, Ports-
mouth ; d. 1 1 March, 1888, New York City.
1878— Thomas Moses Pray, b. 21 March, 1857, Dover, N.
H. ; d. 7 Sept., 1887, Dover, N. H.
1880— Roswell Chase Gilbert, b. 1 Nov., 1856, Turner;
d.2G Oct., 1887, Tarner.
1881 — Horace Burleigh Hathaway, b. 18 June, 1858, Hal-
lowell; d. 2 April, 1888, Hallowell.
1883— Benson Sewall, b. 2 July, 1862, Weuham, Mass. ;
d. 28 Dec, 1887, Bangor.
1885— Charles Henry Tarr, b. 20 April, 1861, Brunswick;
d. 28 Nov., 1887, Brunswick.
MEDICAL GRADUATES.
1825— Horace Bacon, d.24 April, 1888, Biddeford, aged 84.
1833— William Cochran, d. 31 Dec, 1887, Litchfield.
1837— John Taylor Aohorn, d. 8 Jan., 1888, Roslindale,
Mass., aged 81.
1837— Seargent Smith Freeman, d. 8 Feb., 1888, Newfiekl,
aged 82.
1839— Alexander Parsons, d. 31 Aug., 1887, Portland.
1840 — Lemuel Richards, d. 7 Nov., 1887, Kennebuuk,
aged 78.
1840— Timothy Wilson, d. 18 July 1887, Orleans, Mass.-
aged 76.
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1847— John Bayley Walker, d. 20 April, 1888, aged 62.
1848— John Ladd, d. 3 April, 1888, Livermore.
1854— Luther Clinton Gilson, d. 6 Feb., 1888, Portland,
aged 59.
J856— Albert Gallatin French, b. 3 May, 1829, Fayette ;
d. 23 Jan., 1888, Lewiston.
1868— George Bond Crane, b. 4 July, 1845, Chesterville ;
d. April, 1888, Milo.
HONORARY GRADUATRS.
J837— Levi Jefferson Ham, b. 16 Nov., 1805; d. II June,
1887, South Bend, lud.
1855— Cazneau Palfrey, b. 11 Aug., 1805, Boston; d. 12
March, 1888, Cambridge, Mass.
1855— Eoswell Dwight Hitchcock, b. 15 Aug., 1817, East
Machias ; d. 16 June, 1887, Somerset, Mass.
DRIl'TING.
Lazily, slowly drifting
Down with tlie quiet stream.
It seemed to me in my gladness
That it all must be a dream.
For Mabel — my darling Mabel,
Was trying to steer the canoe,
And as I lay there watchmg,
I fell in love with the crew.
I thought how pleasant it would be
To — Thunder! Where are we now ?
The canoe had gone down to the bottom.
With a hole a foot long in the bow.
— Yale Record.
Cambridge easily vyou in the last boat race with
Oxford. Of the fifty-five races, Oxford has won
twenty-three ; Cambridge twenty-one. There has
been one dead heat. — Ex.
Yale University is in need of $2,000,000 to carry
on its work ; Columbia College wants $4,000,000 to
establish new departments and develop old ones.
The work of Harvard University is restrained by lack
of money ; and Princeton College, notwithstanding
the liberality of its friends, could find ready use for
a greatly increased income. — Ex.
At gay Bar Harbor by the sea,
Last season you were quite the belle ,
We flirted some, the foolish things
We said, I'd hardly like to tell.
Perchance you're married or engaged;
I'm the same fellow now as then.
And to your health, sweet summer girl,
I'll drink until we meet again.
— Yale Record.
Literature in one hundred and fifty languages can
be printed at Oxford, England.
BOOK REVIEWS.
[Books reviewed in these columns may be seen at the
College Library.]
Sea-Side and WAY-Sros. — Kature Readers, No. 2. By
Julia McNair Wright. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co.,
1888. 12mo.; pp. viii-l-175.
This little volume, although intended for the in-
struction of children, contains many facts that are
unknown — it is safe to say — to ninety-nine per cent,
of the adults in the country. It deals with observa-
tions, which can readily be made by any one, upon
the development and habits of the common living
objects to be found al "Sea-side and Way-side."
Apart from the value of the book as an incentive to
observation, it seems to us that its principal worth
resides in the corrections which it makes of the many
mistakes of children in regard to the nature of the
small animals with which they are constantly meet-
ing. Erroneous impressions received during child-
hood are apt to remain by a person through life, and
a book like the present, which aims to instill true
ideas, should be hailed with thanksgiving by all ed-
ucators.
NOTES.
D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, will publish at once
Compayre's "Lectures on Pedagogy: Theoretical
and Practical," a companion volume to their Com-
payre's "History of Pedagogy." It is translated and
annotated by Professor Payne of the University of
Michigan.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
"Composition and Rhetoric."
Heath & Co.
Williams. D. C.
"Fifty Years of English Song." Randolph.
Wanted. — A young man for a beach paper.
Duties editorial and reportorial. Address
Biddeford Times,
Biddeford, Maine.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Columbia College,
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SCHOOXi OF MINES.— The system of instruction includes seven parallel conrses of study, each leading to a degree,
viz. : mining engiueering, civil engineering, sanitary engineering, metallurgy, geology, and palieontology, analytical and applied
chemistry, architecture.
The plan of insti'uction includes lectures and recitations in the several departments of study; practice in the chemical, min.
eralogical, blowpipe, metallurgical, and architectural laboratories; field and underground surveying; geodetic surveying; pi-actice
and study in mines, mills, machine shops, and foundries; projects, estimates, and drawings for the working of mines and for the
construction of metallurgical, chemical, and other works; reports on mines, industrial establishments, and field geology.
During the snmmer vacation there are Summer Schools in Mechanical Engineering, for practical work in foundries and aia-
chine shops; in Surveying, for practical work in the field ; in Practical Mining; in Practical Geodesy; in Chemistry— all under
the immediate superintendence of professors. Special students are admitted to the Summer School in Chemistiy.
SCHOOXi OF liA'W.— The coui'se of study occupies two years, and is so arranged that a complete view is given during
each year of the subjects pursued. The plan of study comprises the various branches of common law, equity, commercial, inter-
national, and constitutional law, and medical jurisprudence. The first year is devoted to the study of general commentaries upon
municipal law, and contracts, and real estate. The second year includes equity jurisprudence, commercial law, the law of torts,
criminal law, evidence, pleading, and practice. Lectures upon constitutional law and history, political science, and international
law are delivered through both the senior and jurior years. Those on medical jurisprudence are delivered to the senior class.
All graduates of literary colleges are admitted without examination; other candidates must be examined. Applicants who are
not candidates for a degi'ee are admitted without a preliminary examination.
SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.— The prime aim of this school is the development of all branches of the
political sciences. It offers eight courses in political and constitutional history, nine in political economy, five in constitutional
and administrative law, four in diplomacy and international law, four in Roman law and comparative jurisprudence, two in
political x^bilosophy, and one in bibliography — in all, forty-four hours per M''eek through the academic year. The full course of
study covers three years. For admission as candidate for a degree, the applicant must have satisfactorily completed the regular
course of study in this college, or in some other maintaining an equivalent curi-iculum, to the end of the junior year. Special
students admitted to any course without examination upon payment of proportional fee.
In addition to the above special schools for graduates and others, there is, in connection with the School of Arts, a Graduate
Departmeiit in which instruction is given to graduates of this and other colleges in a wide range of subjects, embracing advanced
courses in languages and literatures (ancient and modern), mathematics and the mathematical sciences, philosophy, law, history,
the natural sciences, methods of research in chemistry and physics, practical work in the astronomical observatory, etc A stu-
dent in this department may attend a single course, or any number of courses; he may also, at his option, enter as candidate for
the degree of Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Science, or Doctor of Philosophy.
Circulars of Information, giving details as to courses of instruction, requirements for admission, fees, remission of fees, .
wholly or in part, etc., etc., of any of the schools may be had by addressing the Registrar of the College, Madison Avenue and
iOth Street, New York City.
F. A. P. BARNARD, LL.D., D.C.L., PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA College.
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COMMENCEMENT NUMBER.
Vol. XVIII.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JUNE 27, 1888.
No. 5.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 5.-June 27, 1888.
Editorial Notes 63
Reminiscences— Part II., fi4
Tlie Bowdoin Oak, (J5
Abstract of Baccalaureate Sermon, 06
Class Day 67
Class-Day Oration 68
Class-Day Poem, 70
The Medical Graduation, 73
The Chapel Organ, 74
The Board of Overseers, 74
Phi Beta Kappa, 75
The Old Organ 75
Abstract of Librarian's Report, 76
Commencement Day, 76
Base-Ball, 79
CoLLEGii Tabula, 80
Personal, 84
College World, 84
Book Reviews, 85
this number will be found a more
extended and detailed account of Class-Day
and Commencement exercises than any pre-
vious issue of the Orient has published.
Those who were fortunate enough to hear
the various articles will delight in reading
them at their leisure, and those who were
not here will realize what they lost.
Owing to the large amount of other mat-
ter we have omitted several articles of more
general interest, but perhaps they will not
be missed in consideration of the other good
things which we lay before our readers this
week.
A few extra numbers can be obtained of
the Business Manager upon application.
We regret that the Senior class this year
saw fit to hold the Class-Day Dance in the
Town Hall. The dance on the green is per-
haps the most enjoyable event of the week
to the devotees of Terjjsichore, and a source
of no small amount of pleasure to specta-
tors. Visitors here during Commencement
speak only words of praise in its favor.
There is no more beautiful scene during
Commencement week than the dance on the
green, with its decorations and illuminations.
Then the society spreads in the different
ends are a pleasant feature of the evening,
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and in the matter of cost cannot much ex-
ceed a banquet at the haU.
Of course the weather may interfere, but
then is time enough to go into the hall. The
additional expense of having the dance on
the green is small when divided among a
class, and for the sake of this beautiful cus-
tom, for its additional beauty, pleasure, and
effect we hope to see the dance on the green
re-established by succeeding classes.
There is a tendency among our Faculty
which seems to call for some attention. We
refer to the manner in which reviews are
conducted by some of our- Professors. A
term's reviews are crowded into a space of
three or four recitations, making it impossi-
ble for the student to give them the work
they demand, and which he is generally will-
ing to bestow on them.
This has been especially noticeable in
one class during the past year. Frequently
a term's work is reviewed in two or three
recitations. This might do if one only had
one study to review, but when a limited
amount of time has to be divided up among
four it often becomes only a question of
which one he can shirk best.
Such methods of reviewing lead to hasty
work on the part of the student, work which
must be devoid of thoroughness, and which
if carried on for any length of time leads to
deplorable results.
In view of the fact that the college aims
to give the best instruction, and to obtain
from it the best results, the system of review-
ing now practiced by some of our Professors
ought to be stopped.
It is with pleasure that we welcome our
new Professor of French Language and Lit-
erature, Mr. B. L. Bowen.
Mr. Bowen is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Rochester, and comes very highly
recommended by the President of that in-
stitution. He graduated in the class of '81,
having sustained a very high rank through-
out his course. Mr. Bowen has studied and
taught French continuously since graduation,
and has done a large amount of extra read-
ing, both during his course and since grad-
uation. He comes to us in the strength and
vigor of young manhood, and we have no
doubt but that he will prove an able mem-
ber of a remarkably able Faculty.
We are glad, too, that Professor Johnson
will have his arduous duties lightened, and
that he will have a co-worker, enthusiastic
and willing, in his department.
REMINISCENCES.— PART II.
There is a slight incident of this affair
most vividly impressed on his mind, even
after the lapse of more than half a century.
The position assigned to him was the foot of
the ladder to hold it firm, and to "watch out
for all cowards and eavesdroppers." The
brave B. was up the ladder and in the tower,
and the third conspirator was at the top of
the ladder as his assistant and to pass any
alarm from below. The most undesirable
office of the three was, perhaps, that of the
outside guard, who had nothing to do but to
stand still and shiver, and watch and wait, in
the chill, damp air of the approaching dawn.
Suddenly a light flashed out from the study
window of President Allen. He was an early
riser, and was then deep in the mysteries of his
famous " Biographical Dictionary." Here
and there, too, in the long line of windows of
Maine Hall and New College the lamp of
some hard student began to glimmer, and
the watcher became nervous. Inevitable
exijulsion awaited detection ; and again and
again a hoarse growl of warning went up the
ladder. But all in vain. Bold B. in the
tower was redoubling blow on blow to make
sure work. His worthy assistant was slow of
speech and still slower of apprehension — in
after years, though he did not graduate with
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the class, he became a slow but useful
preacher, and perhaps yet lives — and from
time to time came down his drawling re-
sponse, " Don't hurry, F , don't hurry ! "
And during all the residue of the college
course, these two words, " Don't hurry," were
a secret shibboleth of these three conspira-
tors.
Many of the pranks of ne'er-do-wells of
fifty years ago at Bowdoin were innocent
enough, and some even evinced considerable
ingenuity and humor. One morning, for ex-
ample, when the students emerged from
their quarters for chapel, they found every
corner and door of every edifice placarded
with a flaming hand-bill, announcing a con-
cert that night, in which all the Faculty
were to participate as performers. Professor
Longfellow, who was always the best dressed
man in Brunswick, and perhaps the hand-
somest, was to " favor the audience with that
beautiful solo : ' I'd be a butterfly, born in a
bower.' " The bland and beloved Professor
of Rhetoric was to sing, " Behold in His soft
expressive face ! " — whilst another worthy
Professor was to contribute the lament, "Oh,
I shall die childless ! " Each of the other
members of the Faculty were also to sing
in chorus or otherwise, not even excepting
"old girl, " as the amiable and learned Pres-
ident, Gulielimus, Allen was, by the repro-
bates of those days, profanely designated.
THE BOWDOIN OAK.
[ Planted in 1802 by George Thornclike, a member of the first
Class of Boivdoln. He died at the age oi: twenty-one ; the only
one of that claBS remembered by the Bowdoin students of to-day.]
Ye breezy boughs of Bowdoin's Oak,
Sing low your summer rune!
In murmuring, rhythmic tones respond
To every breath of June.
And memories of the jovous youth,
Through all your songs repeat,
Who pluclied the acorn from the twig,
Blown lightly at his feet.
And gayly to his fellows cried :
"My destiny behold!
This seed shall keep my memory green
In ages yet untold.
' I trust it to the sheltering sod ;
I hail the promised tree!
Sing, unborn oak, through long decades.
And ever sing of nie."
By cloud and sunbeam nourished well.
The tender sapling grew,
Less stalwart than the rose which drank
From the same cup of dew ;
But royal blood was in its veins,
Of true Hellenic line.
And sunward reached its longing arms
With impulses divine.
The rushing river as it passed.
Caught whispers from the tree.
And each returning tide brought back
The answer from the sea.
Till to the listening groves a voice
New and harmonious, spoke.
And from a throne of foliage looked,
The spirit of the Oak !
Then birds of happiest omen built.
High in its denser shade.
And grand responses to the storms
The sounding branches made.
Beneath its bower the Bard beloved
His budding chaplet wove.
The wizard king of romance dreamed
His wild, enchanting love ;
And scholars, musing in its shade.
Have heard their country's cry ;
Their lips gave back, " O sweet it is
For native land to die ! "
With heart's that burned, they cast aside
These peaceful oaken bays ;
The hero's blood-red path they trod.
Be theirs the hero's praise.
O though Dodona's voice be hushed,
A new, intenser flame
Stirs the proud oak to whisper still
Some dear, illustrious name.
And what of him whose happy mood
Foretold this sylvan birth ?
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In boyhoods' prime he sank to rest;
His worli was clone on earth.
Brief was his race, and light his task
For immortality.
His only tribute to the years,
The planting of a tree.
Sing low, green oak, thy summer rune,
Sing valor, love, and truth ;
Thyself a fair, embodied thought,
A living dream of youth.
ABSTRACT OF BACCALAUREATE
SERMON BY PRESIDENT HYDE.
And Agrippa said unto Paul, with but little persuasion tliou
woulc-lst fain make me a Cliristian. And Paul said, I would to
God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but
also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except
these bonds.— Acts xxvi : 28, 29.
The old version of this passage is entirely astray.
Instead of being "almost persuaded" by Paul's ar-
gument, Agrippa utterly despised it. Whereupon
Paul turned from external arguments to the imme-
diate and obvious fact that at any rate he is the sort
of man that Agrippa and all the rest oi them ought to
become.
We have considered together the evidences of
Christianity which philosophy and history afford.
Whether you thought them " little or much," I do
not know. The time for such external evidences has
passed, and to-day I shall try to tell you plainly what
there is in the Christian character wliich makes it in-
herently desirable for every one of you.
First. — The Christian is independent. The world-
ly man has his price ; if not in money, yet in fame,
power, pleasure, ofiice, or some one or other of the
many things the world holds dear.
The true follower of Christ cannot be bought by
any or all of these things. He values wealth, posi-
tion, reputation, for their uses only, and regarding
them as means not ends, lie can be as contented with-
out them as with them, when they cease to be instru-
mental to his Christian aim, or when they conflict
with it. Because I wisli you to be free men rather
than slaves, I would lo God you all might be true
Christians.
The second attractive element in Cliristian life is
the boundless career of activity in work which it
affords. To the Christian all men are the children
of his Father, the brethren of his Lord ; and conse-
quently liis own Iji'others. To ligliten tlieir burdens,
to relieve their wants, to sh.are tlieir sorrows, to
guide them in tlieir perplexities, to shield them from
injustice, to reclaim them from vice, to rescue them
from folly, to lead them in ways of pleasantness and
paths of peace ; — this is a work that gives ample
scope for the full exercise of all one's powers in the
only work that, for its own sake, is worth the doing.
A third charm of Christian life is its restfulness.
Rest apart from work, mere indolence, is of all
things base, degrading, un-Christian. Rest is work.
"Toil unsevered from tranquility, labor accom-
plished in repose, too greal for haste, too high for
rivalry " is the crying need of life, if it is to be worth
living. Never was this precious quality of repose
more rare than in the life of the United States in this
restless nineteenth century. The Christian life, with
its reposeful faith in one mightier than we who is
working with us ; with its faithful doing of each day's
work unto the Lord as a thing sufficient in itself;
asking and expecting nothing better than the power
and privilege to do the like to-day, to-morrow, and the
day after, until God shall say, — "enough; well
done"— the simple Christian life of childlike obedi-
ence and trust in God, is the only life that has this
blessed restfulness.
Fourthly. — The Christian life is sure of victory.
The Christian will make mistakes and suffer for
them. He will commit sins and pay the penalty in
sorrow and in shame. But if he be a true Christian,
his heart, his purpose, the deliberate, permanent trend
of his life will be one with God, and in line with the
great work of Christ. God never gets beaten. Christ
is never overcome. And the Christian whose life is
united to the life of God and the work of Christ is
invincible; and "what he most doth care for must
be won."
These four qualities, independence, activity in
work worth doing, restfulness and victory, are the
most essential features of the life that is intrinsically
desirable. Types of life other than the Christian
gives something like ene or more of these separate
qualities. Stoicism gives independence ; but it spoils
it by its pride. The Epicurean gets a seeming rest-
fulness, but it ends in ennui and disgust. Materialism
and worldliness will keep a man forever on the rack
of exertion ; but nervous prostration, premature old
age, loveless hearts and joyless lives are the best it
has to give you in return.
The Christian life is the only one which can give
you these four qualities, each in its genuineness, and
all in combination ; independence without pride ; ac-
tivity, that is not mere rushing to and fro ; rest that
has no taint ofidolence or self-indulgence about it;
and victory that is not marred by hardness and
cruelty. It is the only life that can lift you up above
the world's humblest work : the only life that will en-
able you to lie down after each day's strife and tur-
moil to rest as sweet and peaceful as a child's ; in the
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67
assurance that the triumph of all that you are working
and living for is as certain as the rising of the mor-
row's sun.
Members of the graduating class: Your Alma
Mater is a Christian college ; not merely in name and
ecclesiastical affiliation, but in the spirit in which she
lives and works.
She is independent, seeking money, honor, men,
only for the good that she can do. The college is a
working college ; doing, spending, caring nothing for
show, but devoting all her powers and resources to
the training in sound learning of those committed to
her charge.
The college is contented in her work; entering
into no servile imitation of larger institutions, and
no ungenerous rivalry with her equals.
The permanent success and prosperity of the col-
lege is assured, because it rests not on special eflferts
to work up the appearance of prosperity, on artificial
devices to attract numbers and attention, but on the
broad and solid foundation of a determination to do
the work God gives her as well as it can be done.
I can wish you nothing better than that in these
respects your lives may bear her impress. Be inde-
pendent, scorning to be determined in your cour-^e
by anything lower than the will of iieaven. Find
work worth doing and put your whole souls into it.
" Whatsoever you do, carry into it that restfulness
which comes from knowing that your work is sup-
ported and yourselves upheld by the everlasting
arms. And be so constant in your loyalty to God
that you may have the confidence of his promise to
all obedient souls, " whatsoever you do shall pros-
per."
So shall you be true sons of a Christian college,
and enter into the liberty and power of the sons of
God, into the peace and the triumph of the Kingdom
of his Christ.
CLASS DAY.
'Eighty-eight's Class Day began, as far as
the exercises were concerned, under the most
favorable auspices. A large and cultured
audience filled Memorial prepared to listen
to an oration and poem of which the authors
may be justly proud.
Nothing but words of commendation has
been heard of Mr. Smithwick's oration ; and
the applause, generous and hearty, which
greeted the poet at the close of his effort,
spoke plainer than words of the genuine
appreciation of the audience.
As usual, rain prevented the exercises
under the Thorndike Oak. Elaborate prep-
arations had been made, but the elements
were unfriendly, and so at 3 o'clock, headed
by Marshal Doolittle, the Senior class
marched into the hall, determined that the
audience should miss nothing except the
sunshine they hoped to have under the old
oak. The following programme was carried
out :
Opening Address. T. H. Ayer.
MUSIC.
History. F. K. Linscott.
MUSIC.
Prophecy. H. C. Hill.
MUSIC.
Farting Address. E. S. Bartlett.
MUSIC.
SMOKING THE PIPE OF PEACE.
SINGING THE ODE.
CHEERING THE HALLS.
FAREWELL.
The opening address, a very scholarly
one, was delivered by T. H. Ayer. The class
history, by F. K. Linscott, was highly racy and
interesting. H. C. Hill's prophecy was one
of the great treats of Commencement week.
The parting address was ably written and
delivered by E. S. Bartlett. From the class
history we give the following abstract :
Our class numbered thirty-one at its entrance.
One of our number, whom we had learned to respect
for his ability, to honor for his Christian piety, and
to love for his gentle disposition, began slowly to
slip from the bonds which class associations had for
three years knit about him. On the 8th of February,
1888, Edgar Stanley Barrett died. The tallest man,
youngest, and second heaviest, is Williamson, six feet
in height, 187 pounds in weight. He is but 19 years
4 months and 12 days old, a prodigy of the Belfast
atmosphere. The only man who surpasses him in
weight is Card, who tips the scales at 303, unless he
tips tliem over.
The oldest man, and at the same time one of the
two shortest, is Carruthers, in age 29 yeai-s 1 month
25 days, and in height 5 feet 3 inches. Ingalls is a
rival for the honor of being the shortest. He is also
the lightest, weighing but 113 pounds. Tolman is
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the average height, 5 feet 7i inches ; and F. L.
Smithwick is the average in weight, 134i pounds.
Out of the 28, 10 indulge in smoking the weed, while
4 put it to the other use sometimes made of it. But
the same four frankly said that they were engaged in
the matrimonial sense. There are 15 republicans, 7
democrats, and 2 independents. Five go into busi-
ness, five into law, three into medicine, five teaching,
one the ministry, while two are still undecided in what
line they intend to inflict themselves on society.
At the conclusion of these highly enter-
taining literary exercises, the class of '88
smoked the pipe of peace, gave Bowdoin
halls rousing cheers, and a farewell.
Following is the class ode, written by
A. W. Tolman :
Air — Annie Laurie.
The western sun is sinking,
The shadows lengthen slow,
And thronging memories gather
Around us as we go.
Around us as we go.
They weave their subtle chain.
And with sadness soft and tender
Fill the hours that yet remain.
One glance at spire and campus
So dear to every heart.
One cheer for each old building,
One farewell ere we part.
One farewell ere we part.
On busy cares intent,
But from out our minds shall never
Fade the years we here have spent.
The Seniors had decided to give up the
dance on the green, and instead have a hop in
the Town Hall. The Salem Cadet Band gave
one of its most enjoyable concerts, and at nine
o'clock the dancing began with the custom-
ary "march and circle." About forty couples
were on the march. The dance was an elab-
orate affair, the costumes of the ladies ele-
gant, and the banquet recalled those for
which Olympus was famous a few years
ago.
Much of the success of 'eighty-eight's
class day is due to the untiring energy and
perseverance of Mr. G. H. Larrabee, chair-
man of the executive committee.
CLASS-DAY ORATION.
By M. p. Smithwick.
THE TKUE ATTITUDE.
The advance of civilization has been at-
tended by a corresponding decline of hero-
worship. Gradually the light of reason has
penetrated the mystic realm of Fate and
revealed the secret of power. Yet in no age
has eminence been more truly appreciated,
for we are fast learning that man's greatness
is but the reflection of attributes which are
eternal.
This emancipation of thought is not con-
fined to one phase of the world's advance-
ment, but revealed in a spirit of universal
liberality. The shadows of superstition
which have enveloped the realms of science
and religion are passing away. Our pro-
foundest thinkers are characterized by a
marked spirit of tolerance, while an unques-
tioning assent to accepted dogmas is no
longer a proof of wisdom.
This growth of liberality ; this triumph
of individuality over centralization surges
on, a grand tide of progress, beneath whose
irresistible power the trembling foundations
of monarchies are giving way. The hearts
of men have responded to its magnetic in-
fluence and popular governments have sprung
into life over the ruins of despotism.
Responsive to this march of mind stand
our great political parties. Beneath their
standards are marshaled the flower of Ameri-
can intelligence and patriotism ; divided in
policy, but united in aim. Their very oppo-
sition is a guarantee of security.
But why are men of thought and convic-
tion arrayed in opposition? The answer to
that question is neither chance nor perverse-
ness, but involves an important truth. Men
cannot think alike. The mental structure
of each decides upon which of these great
roads he should travel.
Found this troublesome party theory
upon whatever basis we like, and still through
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it all runs a thread of fidelity. It is not
mugwumpery or any galvanized self-suffi-
ciency. It is not cynicism or Pharisaism,
offspring of pride, but an honest devotion to
principle, which, like a clear stream that cor-
ruptions cannot choke, gushes up from the
bed-rock of truth.
If, then, the nation's intelligence and
honesty is not crystallized in any one partj^
what should be a young man's attitude.
He beholds one party, which has fenced
in the grandest portion of the earth with a
tariff which is a commercial greased pole to
the world.
Another party, in its great heartedness,
is ever stretching a helping hand to the
world's laborers, but it can't quite reach, and
refuses to be comforted because they are not.
He cannot be a mugwump, because they
are no more. Like the roses, they bloOmed
and faded away. They were born for a pur-
pose. We will not judge. It was accom-
plished and they are gone.
The republican points to the prosperity
which stretches from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ; from the lakes to the Rio Grande,
and cries : " Behold my talents increased
tenfold." " Thou shothful servant," cries
the democrat, "I could have increased them
twenty fold."
The young man will do one of two
things. Either he will join the coat-tail
drill, hereditary politics, and receive impetus
and direction by clinging to his father, as
he to the shadowy mantles of his ancestors,
or, realizing that this is merely the smoke,
and that beneath this war of epithets the
real forces are at work. He will scorn to
become a bow to any political kite-tail. He
will realize that he has enlisted, not in a
strife of personalities, but in a war of princi-
ples. He must stand alone. He must de-
cide which is most truly a party of progress
and reform and be true to his convictions or
his life is one great lie.
Should not an intelligent man blush at
submission to a party of which he knows
nothing? To be legislated for as the de-
mented and the pauper. The honor of every
American citizen should rebel against a slav-
ery that is all the more shameful and demor-
alizing for existing in a free land. Posterity
demands the exercise of his wisdom. It de-
mands that his ballot should be the verdict
of a conscientious judgment.
Has any man a warrant for prescribing a
law of universal action ? Is any man endowed
with wisdom that places him so far above
his fellows ? Unity of opinion would ruin
a popular government, but without such unity
individual responsibility can never cease.
Granting that success demands leader-
ship, why is a certain one our choice and not
another? Truly because he i-epresents our
views. Thank Heaven, then, we have views.
Having looked forward with eager ex-
pectancy to the time when we should enjoy
the rights and responsibilities of citizenship,
and take part in molding the destiny of our
nation, shall our freedom find us less manly
and scarce more useful than before ? Shall
we, like worms, nurtured in an atmosphere
of independence and intelligence, break our
bonds to find ourselves only butterflies?
Shall we throw all responsibility upon our
political self, so constituted before we
thought by proxy ? Shall we blindly follow
our leader, like pack-mules, when a false step
may hurl us to a gulf of shame ? That is
excusable in an imbecile, but when an intel-
ligent man begins to think by proxy it is
high time for him to live by proxy.
The representatives of civilization are
yielding to the power of independence or
falling behind in the onward march of na-
tions. Their stars are setting. They can
read their doom in the ruin of their prede-
cessors. Let ignorance and blind partisan-
ship belong to the dead past.
All men recognize in unity the secret of
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strength. It is the foundation of true party-
spirit, for what should a party be than men
united in conviction and purpose? When
partisanship clashes with independence in
thought and action it is not only unworthy
the participation of an honest man but an
insult to his moral nature and a curse to
humanity at large.
The road to distinction is open alike to
cottage and mansion. The mystic words
which open the door of pubhc trust are abil-
ity and integrity. Can men then desert
their posts ? Shall they plead in excuse that
they cannot understand politics? When
mind, relying upon an universal reason, can
ferret out the secrets of creation, must it
stop at politics ? Such an admission is too
humiliating.
Instructed by the world's history and
blest with the labors of men who have left
and who are leaving examples of fidelity
that will not die, shall we be free from re-
sponsibility ? No man, who casts aside the
cloak of obscurity and stands before a free
people, can avoid criticism. Nearly four
years have passed since our last political
contest. The acts of these years have passed
in judgment before the tribunal of popular
opinion. They add another page to our na-
tional history and sentence will be passed
upon them through the popular ballot.
Shall a man adhere to his party's policy
if his conscience disapprove? He must, if
he follows his party leaders, but to do so is to
commit moral suicide or become a mere au-
tomaton. The only alternative is independ-
ence— not of the ascetic, but that which
follows the path of duty.
It is said that we need not more, but
better men. How better, I would ask, —
more loyal ? Can that be true when we re-
call the record of our soldiers who fought,
not for fame or plunder, but for liberty ; when
we recall the record of that gallant soldier
who must soon join our honored dead ; when
this hall commemorates the gift which old
Bowdoin offered up on the altar of national
honor? That was years ago, but should the
war-cloud settle again over our fair land,
would not Bowdoin boys hear our country's
call and respond as before?
It was loyalty to duty then ; it is ever
loyalty to duty that characterizes wise men.
What we need is men, who not only can die
for their convictions on the battle field and
on the scaffold, but men who can live up to
their convictions ; who can face the deadliest
of foes — criticism and slander. We need
men to whom duty is dearer than popularity ;
men, who, if need be, will suffer torment
now and wait for justification hereafter.
As one would brush from his trusty
shield the dust that dims its lustre, so have
we striven to dispel the errors that cloud the
brightness of independence — our nation's
shield. In the light of an exalted principle
whose fire burns in every manly breast, we
have sought man's true attitude.
The record of the world's heroes gives it
sanction. They followed the dictates of
conscience though they led to the dungeon
and the scaffold. They looked to future
generations for vindication. They are vindi-
cated. In the hearts and lives of enlight-
ened people is reared to thein a monument
that defies the ravages of time.
All history proclaims the power of inde-
pendence. Civilization reveals its grandeur.
Independence in thought and action man
owes to himself, to the world, and to his
God.
CLASS POEM.
Br WiLLARD W. Woodman.
I.
Upon an arid, desert land,
With dismal wastes on every hand.
Where changing scenes are never new,
Where groves and fields ne'er charm the view,
A wondrous well appears.
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II.
What first delights, but soon dejects,
This oft-frequented well so lone,
A tablet, with but few defects
For magic powers only known ;
Of age of any kind.
This isolated plot of ground,
XI.
Where travelers their fates have found.
The precious stone he tries to seize ;
■A pilgrim slowly nears.
With each attempt the object flees.
III.
Yet leaves reflection of its own,
A wanderer once this fountain sought.
A phantom from the depths unknown.
And won, as his propitious lot.
Which consciousness belies.
The gift of memory, then possessed
Alone by minds divinely blest.
XII.
By those of spirit spheres.
But in that pla()id, artless pool,
IV.
This pilgrim does not seek such power,
And barely hopes for equal dower ;
Beneath its liquid depths so cool.
While gentle ripples yet remain
That give the slab a wavy vein,
A seeming tablet lies.
He humbly asks, from place to place.
The secret charms that will efface
XIU.
His sins and all his fears.
A vision real, or occult myth.
V.
The marble shows to him forthwith
That there exists a magic stone,
A written face which takes his hope,
Which by mere touch will thus dethrone
And leaves him, baffled misanthrope.
All guilt and sin from out the heart.
Because his search is vain.
And clothe with virtue every part,
XIV.
Is his implicit trust.
This inscribed slab addresses him.
VI.
And like some necromancer grim.
His mind by holy thoughts inspired.
Now bids him cease his vian pursuit
And by enchanting stories fired,
For amulets of dark repute,
Now brings him to this sterile place.
And wisdom try to gain.
Where comes no loathsome, foul disgrace.
XV.
With fates, ill-starred, but just.
" A fairy hand has sought the prize
VII.
Which fell with Adam from the skies ;
With reverent step, he nears the spring.
Has borne it to celestial nook,
And like a serf that fears his king.
Where safe from stranger's prying look.
Stands with grewsome awe and dread.
It rests in hallowed ease.
Before that blameless fountain head.
XVI.
With waters still and calm.
"According to divine decree.
VIII.
This sacred stone, no man shall see ;
Against the omens of tradition.
Nor shall it mortal minds elate.
So long sustained by superstition,
Or throes of man's own guilty state.
His stoic spirit strong contends,
At any time, appease.
As o'er those boding depths he bends,
And feels their mystic charm.
XVII.
IX.
" Like to a halo round the face.
Two large and hearty draughts he drinks
There came with our primeval race
From out that sacred pool, and thinks
A light prophetic and divine.
The fatal magic power has flown.
Which there by airy sprites was sown
For man an emblematic sign
Of pristine holiness.
To daze the drinker's mind.
xvin.
X.
" This light, when sin had found the heart,
He takes one careful searching glance.
And made it incomplete in part.
And sees within that fount perchance
Began, its radiance, to lose,
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But still had left the power to choose
XXVII.
The springs of righteousness.
" Despotic laws where'e'er disclosed
XIV.
Are found to be by man imposed ;
Those checks upon the course of sin.
" 'Twas then that minds of men began
Which rouse the innate springs within,
To conjure up some mystic plan
Exist to be obeyed.
For their deliverance from sin,
Without the aid of self within.
XXVIII.
Or nature's least alloy.
" Have moral laws and wants of man
Between their posts a widening span ?
XX.
Does every cause and its result
" But, pilgrim, cease your futile toil ;
Act like some aimless force occult,
Expect no earthly means to foil
As if no laws were made ?
The plans divine, which from above
XXIX.
Sent forth those sacred laws of love,
" Although the good is hard to see,
Which no man can destroy.
Yet is not each divine decree.
XXI.
A blessing which the soul desires.
" The breast that shields the burning coal,
The prescript which the self requires
The sin that penetrates the soul.
For its development?
Must yield to fast and stable laws,
XXX.
The statutes of that final cause
" Because forbidden by commands.
Which makes no false decrees.
An act does not contract the bands.
XXII.
Which fasten certain penal ends
" The body needs for healthy growth
To every act where e'er it tends,
A proper treatment, diet, both ;
Commands withheld or sent.
Likewise the soul demands great care.
XXXI.
And should receive its rightful share.
" All moral laws are found, not made ;
To guard it from disease.
They bring dire harm when disobeyed.
XXIII.
But still have operative force
" If blind neglect brings us to woe.
E'en when their action, end, and source.
If likewise follies drag us low,
Are things to men unknown.
We find that 'midst this worldly throng.
XXXII.
Subjective right, objective wrong.
" The savage, groping toward the light.
Have ends quite close allied.
With many acts subjective right.
XXIV.
Still undergoes the pangs of sin.
" The laws that act upon mankind.
Though blind to laws and grounds wherein
Both those of body and of mind.
He should his deeds bemoan.
All emanate from one great source,
xxxni.
All flow in one straight narrow course,
" The spirit law has truly saith
And from no mortal hide.
The soul's neglect is moral death ;
XXV.
The reason of God's interdicts
" If men transgress in anything,
Lies in tiio fact that sin afflicts
They feel compunction's bitter sting,
The soul by evils rent.
Which brings no precious amulet.
XXXIV.
But fills the soul with vain regret.
" The natural end of every deed
And moral senses daunts.
Afflicts or charms with man's great need ;
XXVI.
The lash that whips his tortured soul.
" Disaster is the issue just
Is stayed or plied at his control.
Of violating nature's trust;
Is his dumb instrument.
Our conduct, moral law controls.
XXXV.
And acts as transcript of the soul's
" Does law and truth not correlate
Inherent needs and wants.
Life's fruits with life's own aggi-egate
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Of motives, acts, which first began
To form the character of man.
And shape his destiny ?
XXXVI.
" To-day's neglect prostrates, and sears
To-morrow's hopes, and adds new fears ;
For life and destiny are one,
Not ever swayed, or once outrun
By strange phylactery.
XXXVII.
" Wait, pilgrim, not a single day,
For all your sins to roll away
By just one touch of magic power.
Which renders perfect, from that hour,
A heart depraved and sear.
xxxvni.
" Expect no cabalistic power
To call to life the withered flower ;
And think no arbitrary force
Can take the place of nature's course,
In God's true atmosphere.
XXXIX.
" Persistent toil in doing well
Must be the eftbrts that will tell,
In blotting out unseemly scars,
And keeping back all that mars
A soul's perfected state.
XI,.
" If to the wind the seed be sown.
One reaps the whirlwind as his own ;
He must his weary steps retrace.
And all those germs of sin efi"ace.
Which weaken and prostrate."
XLI.
The desert, well, and tablet flown,
Yet leaves the pilgrim not alone;
There lingers still within his view.
One thought to men not wholly new,
Nor even plainly rife :
XLII.
No somber talismanic charm
Can blot or rub out evil's harm ;
The web of life, though soiled with sin,
Has some bright thread where to begin
A better, nobler life.
THE MEDICAL GRADUATION.
A large audience assembled in Memorial
Hall, Wednesday morning, to witness the
graduation of the class of '88 of the Maine
Medical School. Promptly at nine o'clock
the Senior class, followed by the Medical
Faculty, took their seats on the platform.
The following programme was then carried
out, to the great pleasure of the audience.
MUSIC.
PRAYEK.
Address. Hon. Wm. H. Clifford.
MUSIC.
Oration — Parting Address. Hartstein W. Page.
MUSIC.
Presentation of Diplomas. President Hyde.
MUSIC
Following are the names of those on
whom the degree of M.D. was conferred:
D. J. Bell, Bristol, N. B.; E. E. Brown, Clin-
ton; F. L. Davis, Portland: C. A. Den-
nett, Portland; F. H. Files, A.M., West
Gorham; G. H. Guptill, Berwick; C. W.
Harlow, A.B., Auburn ; J. K. Hooper,
Franklin ; H. A. King, West Hampden ;
C. E. Lancaster, Richmond ; P. S. Lind-
say, A.B., Norridgewock ; W. G. Martin,
Lovell; A. R. Meader, Waterville ; W. H.
Merrill, Etna ; G. P. Morgan, New Glouces-
ter; H. W. Page, A.M., Rockport; J. G.
Quimby, Sandwich, N. H. ; J. A. Randall,
Limington ; F. E. Sweetsir, Saco ; G. W.
Weeks, Cornish ; W. W. Wilcomb, Chester,
N. II. The class officers were : President,
William W. Wilcomb; Vice-President,
George W. Weeks ; Secretary and Treasurer,
Wilbur G. Martin; Marshal, Henry A. King;
Orator, Hartstein W. Page ; Committee,
Corydon W. Harlow, J. Grant Quimby,
Charles A. Dennett.
The oration by Mr. Page was an espe-
cially able and well delivered address. It
evinced careful work and a thorough knowl-
edge of the subject. We are glad to lay be-
fore our readers the following abstract, lack
of space alone forbidding the publication of
the whole. Mr. Page took for his subject:
" The Physician and the Public Schools,"
and spoke as follows :
The public school is the Alma Mater of us all.
The school-boy period furnishes, in respect to time,
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the physician's first relation to the public school, a
relation which he sustains in common with repre-
sentatives of every other calling. Not a few acquire
another relation in the capacity of teacher. After
becoming a recognized member of the profession he
shares, with all citizens, the relations of indebtedness
and responsibility to that great national institution,
and as one of the more intelligent members of society,
he ought to be one of the foremost to recognize its
importance. Too many looli upon the public schools
as a magnanimous charity, while the best thinkers
estimate them a national necessity, indispensable to
the well-being and safety of society.
Positions as school directors and superintendents
afford opportunity for men of intelligence and general
fitness to render valuable service to their community.
With the same intelligence and general fitness in
other respects the physician may become more useful
than others, especially in matters of hygiene and san-
itation. With all their excellences, our schools have
some grave defects, and none more flagrant than
defects in hygiene.
The speaker dwelt particularly upon the matters
of ventilation and light.
The contagious diseases of children occur so often
epidemically among school children that some authors
have given them the name of school diseases. In
respect to these the physician has an obvious respon-
sibility ; not simply in treating individual cases, but
in acting promptly in securing isolation and disinfec-
tion, and in impressing upon the community the
necessity of such precaution. Many ills are doubtless
contracted or aggravated in school chiefly from these
defective conditions, but school is made the scapegoat
for many others for which habits and conditions of
home life, hours not spent in school, are respon-
sible.
We have assumed throughout that the physician's
mission includes the prevention as truly as the cure
of disease. The idea that any reputable physician
entertains any other sentiment is too silly to need
contradiction. If any were called for it would be
abundantly found in the history and origin and growth
of the Boards of Health, national, state, and local,
and in individual eftbrts of physicians, the world
over, to prevent the causes which call for their serv-
ices.
The lirst four in rank were Files, Hooper,
Wilcomb, and Merrill.
Cornell supports nineteen Greek Letter Soci-
eties, three of which are composed entirely of
ladies. — Ex.
THE CHAPEL ORGAN.
Forth from its hundred tongueless throats
Came, with its hundred swelling notes.
Wordless and grand, the sacred song.
Softening the wild and youthful throng.
Like to the choral notes unknown.
Chanted in some seraphic tone.
Ancient, that once for thee unfurled
Banners of life, oh, infant world ;
Swelled on that summer's afternoon
Richly and grand the virgin tune.
Bearing a strange and sweet accord.
Unto the pictured child of God ;
Unto the nude and primal pair;
Unto the Virgin Mary fair, —
Painted upon the hallowed wall —
Swelled its rich strain in stirring call
Filling, throughout, the gilded hall.
Speak on, oh voice, in accents choice !
Open new veins of human thought ;
Inspire the youth to realms of truth,
Limitless strand of golden thought.
BOARD OF OVERSEERS.
The annual meeting of the Board was
held in the chapel, Wednesday morning.
The following business was transacted :
Voted, To appropriate $150 for the gymnasium,
to be expended under the direction of the director of
the gymnasium.
Voted, That Commons Hall be turned over to the
janitor for use as a store-room and joiner shop.
Voted, That one of the two portraits of George
Boyd, bequeathed to the college by Col. George Boyd
in 1859, be given to his descendant, Mrs. W. Board-
man Smith of Cortland, N. Y.
Voted, Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Crocker
Stevens for the gift of an organ to the college chapel.
Voted, To pay the Director of the Gymnasium
$1,000 per annum.
Voted, To appropriate $100 to assist in the cele-
bration of the 150th anniversary of the incorporation
of the town of Brunswick, which occurs June 13,
1889.
Voted, That the visiting committee inquire into
the matter of enlarged accommodations for the
college library, and that they present plans and esti-
mates next year.
Voted, Thanks of the college to John J. Taylor,
Esq., of Fairbury, Illinois, for his offer of $1,000
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toward the erection of an astronomical observatory
and tlie President was autliorized to solicit contribu-
tions in furtherance of the same object.
Voted, Thanks to Mrs. Sarah D. Lockwood for
the gift of $1,000 to found the Amos D. Lockwood
scholarship.
The following Professorships were filled : Henry
Johnson was elected Longfellow Professor of Mod-
ern Languages for three years. William A. Moody
was elected Professor of Mathematics for three years.
Charles C. Hutchins was elected Professor of Physics
for three years. B. L. Bowen was elected Professor
of French for one year.
Mr. D. M. Cole was elected tutor of Zoology
until Prof. Lee's return, when he will be Prof. Rob-
inson's assistant in Chemistry.
Voted, To pay Austin Cary $200 as additional
compensation for extra services in Professor Lee's
department.
Voted, To extend Professor Lee's leave of absence
to November 30, 1888.
The usual reports were read and accepted.
PHI BETA KAPPA.
At the annual meeting of Phi Beta
Kappa the following officers were elected :
President, Rev. E. C Cummings ; Vice-
President, D. C. Linscott ; Secretary, F. C.
Robinson ; Literary Committee, J. W. Sy-
monds, H. L. Cliapman, M. C. Fernald,
Newman Smith, Frank A. Hill.
The following from the class of '88
were elected to membership : A. W. Tol-
man, G. F. Cary, E. S. Bartlett, A. C. Dresser,
Joseph Williamson, Jr., H. S. Card, G. H.
Larrabee, F. K. Linscott, R. W. Coding, W.
T. Hall, Jr.
A vote of thanks to Rev. Geo. Gannett,
Geo. T. Little, and Henry L. Chapman for
the new catalogue was passed.
THE OLD ORGAN.
It is with pleasure that we present this
letter from an old and respected alumnus in
response to a request that he would tell the
Orient readers what he knew about the
service for so many
organ that did
years.
Editor Bowdoin Orient :
Dear Sir, — I cannot tell you much of the history
of Bowdoin's old chapel organ. Had I been a musi-
cal man myself I could probably give you many de-
tails that might have come within my cognizance.
But I remember very well when and how it was pro-
cured. Charles C. Taylor, of the class of '33, a
man of much musical talent, was the leading spirit
in the enterprise, and undoubtedly, without his zeal,
we never should have seen or heard it. He went
through all the classes in the spring term of 1832,
soliciting subscriptions, principally, I think, of about
two dollars each. At least I distinctly remember
that two dollars was my modest investment. He
found no difficulty in getting the necessary funds, so
that it is safe to say that the organ was purchased
with funds contributed by members of the classes of
'32, '33, '34, and '35. The College Corporation had
nothing to do with it. It was placed in the old
wooden chapel, at the south-west corner, on the left
hand of the professor who ofliciated in the pulpit.
I say " professor" : this was during what was called
the interregnum, the official life of President Allen
being then in a state of suspended animation, in con-
sequence of certain legislation by the State of
Maine, and a lawsuit thence arising, involving the
question of Mr Allen's legal title to the oifice of
President. After the organ was placed in the chapel,
in the summer of 1832 (we had a summer term then),
a choir was organized and we frequently had singing
accompanied by the organ, especially at Sunday even-
ing prayers, but more especially after Mr. Allen's
return to his duties as President, on the termination
of his lawsuit. Then his family and the families of
some of the professors were accustomed to be pres-
ent on Sunday evenings, when the President would
deliver a short and interesting discourse. It was at
such times that the choir, aided by the organ, added
much interest to the occasion.
Upon the whole, I think that the old wooden
chapel organ was a decided success, and that no one
regretted his small contribution to its purchase.
JosiAH Crosby, '35.
In the United States, one man in every two hun-
dred takes a college course ; in Germany, one in
every two hundred and thirteen, and in England
one in every five hundred. — Ex.
The students of Hobart College have adopted the
practiceof wearing the academic cap and gown. — Ex.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
ABSTRACT OF THE ANNUAL RE-
PORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
To the Visiting Committee :
Gentlemen, — The number of volumes now in the
library is 38,986, exclusive of pamphlets, which
exceed 8,500, and of books belonging to the Medical
School which are estimated at 4,000. The accessions
for the last twelve months have been 1,608 volumes
and upwards of 200 pamphlets. With a single
exception they exceed those of any other year since
my appointment, and are larger than can be expected
with the present endowment of the librai-y. As in
previous years, a generous gift from the Revi Ellas
Bond, a member of the class of '37, has made it
possible to purchase several hundred books sorely
needed, but otherwise beyond our means.
Of these accessions 544 volumes were purchased
by the librarian at an average cost of $1.11, 35 were
obtained by binding periodicals and pamphlets, 131
were bought by Professor Smith from the library
fund in his charge, and 798 were presented by various
donors.
The total number of volumes loaned during the
year has been 6,026, a daily average, including vaca-
tions, of nineteen. The largest number issued in
any one day was ninety-two, on April 3d; the small-
est number, one, on May 25th. The large increase
in circulation, 1335, is due mainly to the increased
number of students. All but six of the undergrad-
uates are borrowers of books. It must be remem-
bered, however, that it is unfair to judge of the use-
fulness of a reference library like ours by the circu-
lation, the usual criterion in case of ordinary public
libraries. The library has been open, on the average,
eight hours a day including vacations. The advan-
tages resulting from the new classihcatibn are more
and more apparent as the work advances, and when
finished it is confidently believed the practical
efficiency of the library will be more than doubled.
George T. Little, Librarian.
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
'Eighty-eight had a beautiful day for its
graduation exercises, sunny and cool.
A meeting of the alumni was held at 9
o'clock in Adams Hall. The following
officers were elected : President — Frederick
H. Gerrish, '66 ; Vice-President — Charles F.
Libby, '64 ; Secretary and Treasurer — George
T. Little, '77 ; Executive Committee — Alfred
Mitchell, '59; Arthur T. Parker, '76; Wil-
liam H. Parker, '76; William H. Moul-
ton, '74.
John L. Crosby, '53, of Bangor, and Charles
U. Bell, '63, of Lawrence, Mass., were nomi-
nated for vacancies in the Board of Overseers,
such nomination being equivalent to an
election.
A committee was appointed to arrange a
new method of electing candidates for va-
cancies on the Board of Overseers. This
committee consists of F. H. Gerrish, '66,
T. J. Emery, '68, and James McKeen, '64.
At eleven o'clock the procession of the
alumni formed at King Chapel, and headed
by the Salem Cadet Band, marched to the
church on the hill. The long procession con-
tained men known widely and well, and in-
cluded graduates as far back as the class of
'25, which was represented by Hon. James
W. Bradbury. Among the other prominent
alumni were Hon. Melville W. Fuller, Judge
Appleton, Rev. Egbert C. Smyth, and Judge
Goodenow.
At 11.30 the graduating exercises oc-
curred at the Congregational church. The
following was the programme :
EXERCISES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS.
The Spirit of English Literature, with Latin
Salutatory.
Albert Walter Tolman, Portland.
Specialization.
Frank Knox Linscott, Boston, Mass.
Socialistic Tendencies.
Richard William Goding, Alfred.
Inspiration. George Foster Gary, East Machias.
Our Race Question.
Alvin Cram Dresser, Standish ,
The Rights of Labor.
Albert Currier Shorey, Bridgton.
Mohammedanism. Henry Clinton Hill, Knightville.
The Dividing Line in Industry.
William Toothaker Hall, Jr., Richmond.
Prejudice and Reason in Intellectual Progress.
Willard Woodbury Woodman, Auburn.
Some National Perils.
Ernest Seymour Bartlett, Paris.
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EXERCISES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS.
Men and Methods in Education.
* Mr. Bo3'd Bartlett, Cincinnati, Oliio.
Valedictory in Latin.
* Mr. Webb Donnell, Sheepscot.
»Excu.sed.
The following are the honorary appoint-
ments in the graduating class :
Salutatory — Albert Walter Tolman, Portland.
English Orations — Ernest Seymour Bartlett,
Paris ; George Foster Cary, East Machias ; Alvin
Cram Dresser, Standish ; Joseph Williamson, Jr.,
Belfast.
Philosophical Disquisitions — Horatio Smith Card,
Gorham; Richard William Goding, Alfred ; William
Toothaker Hall, Jr., Richmond; George Howard
Larrabee, Bridgton ; Frank Knnx Linscott, Boston,
Mass. ; Willard Woodbury Woodman, Auburn.
Literary Disquisitions — Thomas Herbert Ayer,
Litchfield Corner; William Lincoln Black, Hammon-
ton, N. J. ; Henry Clinton Hill, Knightville ; Marsena
Parker Sniithwick, Newcastle.
Disquisition^ — William Herbert Bradford, Lewis-
ton ; George Patten Brown^ Denver, Col. ; Charles
Thomas Carruthers, Freeport; John Herbert Max-
well, Wales; Albert Wesley Meserve, Naples;
Howard Lester Shaw, West Cumberland ; Albert
Currier Shorey, Bridgton ; Frank Louis Smithwiek,
Newcastle.
Discussions — Lincoln Hall Chapman, Damaris-
cotta ; James Lee Doolittle, New York ; George
Ansel Ingalls, South Bridgton.
Honorary degrees were conferred as fol-
lows, at the close of graduation exercises :
The degree of LL.D. on Melville Weston
Fuller, '53, and Gen. Oliver Otis Howard,
'50; D.D. on Rev. J. E. Adams, '53, Bangor,
Rev. E. S. Stackpole, '71, Bath, Rev. W. C.
Pond, '48, San Francisco. The honorary
degree of A.M. was conferred on Mr. Frank-
lin Simmons. A.B. out of course was given
to W. R. Butler and L. B. Folsom, '85, and
C. A. Byram, '86. The following '85 men
received A.M. in course: Frank West Alex-
ander, Boyd Bartlett, Frank Irving Brown,
Oliver Richmond Cook, Webb Donnell, Her-
man Nelson Dunham, William Morse Fames,
Lucius Bion Folsom, Nehemiah Butler Ford,
Eben Winthrop Freeman, Edwin Ruthven
Harding, John Fuller Libby, James Safford
Norton, John Andrew Peters, Jr., Alfred
Wilson Rogers, Eugene Thomas, Charles
Henry Wardwell, and Frank Nathaniel Whit-
tier.
At half-past two about three hundred and
fifty of the Bowdoin alumni and a few in-
vited friends marched into Memorial Hall,
prepared to do ample justice to the bountiful
repast spread before them. Among the
alumni were men famous in every walk of
life and of national reputation. On the plat-
form to the right of President Hyde sat
Chief Justice Fuller and Judge Enoch Fos-
ter, and on the left was Rev. C. F. Allen.
General John M. Brown, Rev. Egbert C.
Smyth, Hon. John B. Redman, ex-Senator
James W. Bradbury, Hon. T. J. Emery had
seats near the platform.
After a satisfactory discussion of the
menu, President Hyde made a short address.
He welcomed with pleasure so goodly a num-
ber of the loyal sons of old Bowdoin. He
.spoke of the intellectual progress made dur-
ing the year, of the lessening rivalry between
classes and societies, and of the friendly rela-
tions existing between the undergraduates
and the Faculty. He said that it had always
been the boast of Bowdoin that she did not
have to go outside her own sous to find great
men, and so to-day he would ask no one to
make post-prandial remarks who did notfjall
Bowdoin his Alma Mater. He then fittingly
introduced Hon. Melville W. Fuller, the
Chief Justice elect, who was greeted with
prolonged and hearty applause. He spoke
as follows :
Mr. President and Brethren, — I thank you sin-
cerely for your kindly welcome and the terms in
which it has been expressed by the President. I
know of nothing more pleasant in re-visiting these
familiar scenes, than the feeling which, as has been
well said "comes unaided o'er one stealing," w.arm-
ing the cockles of his heart, and sending a thrill
through every fibre of his frame. But while it is
pleasant, that pleasure is not unmixed with sadness.
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Perhaps every earthly pleasure has a strain of that,
for it is impossible for me to separate the memory
of those who have gone from the meeting of those
who are here. I cannot escape if I would, and I
would not if I could, the touch of vanished hands
and the sound of still voices. I see again the forms
of Woods and Cleaveland, of Packard and Smyth,
of Stowe, Hitchcock, and Upham, and although, in
the careless gayety of youth, I count myself not
sufficient to have comprehended it, I have since ap-
preciated, and I profoundly appi'eciate and value the
works that follow them now that they rest from their
labors. It was not simply learning, it was not
simply mental discipline, it was not simply accom-
plishments that they sought to impart, but in addition
and beyond this they labored to ground the student
in the faith in the eternal Being, which would enable
him when the rain descended, and the winds blew,
and the floods came, to withstand the storm as he
only finally can whose feet are planted on the solid
rock. And as it was with them so with their asso-
ciates, one of whom, dear to me for his own and his
father's sake, I was glad to see here to-day, who
has rendered the name of Andover a household
word. And so with their successors, for the file ever
has remained the same, the continuity has been pre-
served. Men may come and men may go, but the
soul of the institution — the soul goes marching on.
I think that it is true that wherever the sons of Bow-
doin have achieved distinction it will be found
that that success is largely due to that integrity of
character which was developed by the teaching of
their Alma Mater.
Mr. President, I call to mind as I speak, by the
way of illustration, the name of one of the most dis-
tinguished of our alumni; one who for more than
thirty years adorned the Federal bench in the dis-
trict and even the circuit of which the city of my
residence forms the metropolis, and who is now
spared, in retirement, to the loving veneration of a
vast circle of friends. More than to his profound
learning in tlie law, moi-e than to his display of all
the attributes which make a great jurist, I think
Thomas Drummond owes his eminence to that
unswerving rectitude which was inspired by the
pious training of that little college he calls his Alma
Maler. For my own part, brethren, my aff'eclion for
old Bowdoin has not diminished in the lapse of years.
My college associations have never ceased to be
pleasant. I fully agree with Mr. Briglit in his appli-
cation of the story of the woman of Samaria, when,
having expected office, he was obliged, according to
usage, to appear before his constituents for re-elec-
tion. He said, "The prophet said 'Shall I speak
for thee to the king, shall I speak for thee to the
captain of the guard?' and she answered 'No I will
dwell with mine own people.' " Dear New England,
dear native State, dear Alma Maler, if the penalty of
the acceptance of office were the severance of the
ties which bind me to this college and its associations,
I should unhesitatingly answer, " No, I will dwell
with mine own people."
The following gentlemen responded for
their respective classes :
General John Marshall Brown, of Port-
land, for the class of '60, and Overseers.
The Glee Club sang " Comrades in
Arms."
Rev. S. H. Hayes, of Boston, spoke for
the class of '38. His class numbered thirty-
one, eleven of whom survive, most of them
in active life. Seven were present at the
reunion the previous evening.
Professor Egbert C. Smyth spoke for the
class of '48. He made one of the brightest
and wittiest speeches of the afternoon. He
introduced two members of his class who
beat the famous jump of '49.
Hon. W. B. Drew, of Philadelphia, spoke
for the class of '53. It was his second visit
to Bowdoin since his graduation. His ad-
dress was replete with happy hits and witty
expressions, and the dignified Chief Justice
laughed heartily at the jokes of his old class-
mate.
Hon. Chas. U. Bell spoke for the class of
'63. Hon. T. J. Emery spoke for the class
of '68. Hon. C. F. Moulton for '73. He
said that the high position occupied by
Maine men, and especially Bowdoin men,
was noticeable in a trip across the continent.
Bowdoin was as well known in the West as
any college in the land.
Mr. Geo. C. Purington spoke for the
class of '78. He paid a glowing tribute to
the late Professor Avery.
President Hyde announced that Hon.
Wm. L. Putnam and General Hubbard are
engaged in preparing tablets for Memorial
Hall commemorating its character. Not
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only the names of those who died in the
service, but also those who were in the war
will be inscribed on them. The tablets will
be of brass.
PRESIDENT S RECEPTION.
At 8 o'clock the president gave a recep-
tion in Memorial Hall. A large number of
alumni and students and their friends were
present. It was one of the most enjoyable
events of the week.
BASE-BALL.
Boicdoin, 17 ; Colby, 11.
On Saturday, the 16th inst., a si)ecial
train conveyed a large number of students
to Lewiston to see our boys administer a
crushing defeat to the Colby nine. Parsons,
the " auburn-haired " phenomenon of the
Kennebec, was batted for eighteen hits, with
a total of thirty-four. Fish was behind the
bat for the Bowdoins. The ex-champions
manifested no desire to run bases or bat.
Neither side distinguished themselves for
brilliant fielding.
Fogg's batting was terrific and timely,
knocking a home run out of the grounds, with
three men on bases. Out of six times at bat
he netted five hits, with a total of eleven.
Thompson and Larrabee also did brilliant
stick work. Although uneven, the game
was interesting throughout. Following is
the score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. S.E. P.O. A. E.
Thompson, r.f. ..55371000
Larrabee, l.f. ...53251112
F. Freeman, 2b. ..6 1 3 i 0 2 1 2
Fogg, c.f 6 2 5 11 1 1 0 1
Packard, lb. ...4 1 0 0 2 7 0 1
Gary, p 5 1 2 2 1 1 9 1
Fish, 0 6 2 2 3 2 14 1 0
G. Freeman, 3b. ..5 1 0 0 2 1 2 0
Pendleton, s.s. ..61121034
Total ... 47 17 18 34 11 27 19 11
COLBY.
A.B. B. B.H. T.B. S.B. P.O. A. E
Pulsifer, c 4 2 1 2 2 11 0 4
Parsons, p 4 2 1 1 1 2 11 4
Wagg, 2b 5 2 2 2 1 1 1 3
Gilmore, lb. ...5 1 2 2 0 10 0 1
Roberts, c.f. ...52222100
Gibbs, l.f 5 1 3 3 1 0 0 0
King, s.s 5 1 0 0 1 0 3 0
Foster, r.f 50 110200
Bangs, 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals ... 42 11 12 13 8 27 16 13
Time of game — 2 hours 45 minutes. Earned runs —
Bowdoin, 7; Colby, 2. First base on errors — ISowdoin, 6;
Colby, 5. Base on balls — by Cary, 1; by Parsons, 4.
Struck out — by Cary, 6; by Parsons, 5. Left on bases —
Bo\vdoin,ll; Colby, 7. Two-base hits — Bowdoin,5; Colby,
I. Three-base hits — Bowdoin, 1. Home runs — Bowdoin,
3. Passed balls— Pulsifer, 3. Wild pitches — Cary, 1;
Parsons, 1. Umpire — Lindsey.
Bowdoin, 22; Bates, 11.
On Monday, June 18th, the Bowdoin
delta was the scene of the last game of the
intercollegiate league between the Bates
and home team. Both nines played loosely,
the Bowdoins from confidence of victory,
and the visitors from the heavy hitting with
which they had to contend.
In the seventh inning Daggett was batted
out of the box. He was succeeded by
Graves, who pitched quite well. Cary
pitched his usual steady game, no runs being
earned off him. The score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Thompson, r.f. ..61350002
Larrabee, l.f. ...64352000
F. Freeman, c. ..62112774
Fogg, c.f 6 4 3 S 1 0 1 0
Packard, lb. ... 6 2 2 2 2 16 0 0
Cary, p 6 2 3 3 1 0 11 2
Fish, 2b 6 3 3 3 1 3 1 3
G. Freeman, 3b. ..5 2 1 3 2 0 2 0
Pendleton, s.s. ..52110144
Totals ... 52 22 20 28 11 27 26 15
BATES.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. S.B. P.O. A. E.
Graves, 3b 4 3 2 2 1 2 4 2
Tinker, lb 4 3 1 1 1 12 0 2
Gilmore, c.f. ...44230301
Daggett, p 5 0 2 2 0 1 5 6
Call, c 5 0 0 0 0 5 2 3
Newman, l.f. ...5 1 2 2 3 1 2 1
Knox, r.f 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pierce, 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 4 1
Day, s.s 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 1
Totals ... 40 11 9 10 5 27 19 17
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Earned rnus — Bowdoin, 6. Base on balls — by Daggett,
1; by Gary, 3. Struck out— by Gary, 6; by Daggett, 2; by
Graves, 1. Double plays — Bowdoin (2), Freeman and
Packard, Gary and Fish. Umpire — Wilcomb.
THE LEAGUE STANDING.
Percent-
Won. Lo3t. Played, age won.
Maine State College 7 2 9 .777
Bowdoin, 5 3 S .625
Colby 3 6 9 .333
Bates 2 6 8 .250
As may be seen above, the Maine State
College nine leads the league. The contest
has been fairly fought and fairly won, and
the champions have our sincere congratula-
tions on having demonstrated themselves the
peers of any club in the league. Their
games have been won upon merit alone, and
through no violation of fairness or intercol-
legiate courtesy.
As to Colby, it is evident that minus
" Forrest " she is minus base-ball.
Bates has labored under the difficulties
of not having had a team in the field last
season, and having to contend with a half-
smothered Faculty opposition. They have
made a much better showing than was ex-
pected, however, and it is evident that who-
ever wins from them next year will have to
I)lay ball.
The work of our own nine has been emi-
nently satisfactory. Last Commencement
took away many of its prominent members,
and, like all new material, it was to a great
extent experimental. But, thanks to Cap-
tain Freeman, assiduous gym practice has
made it the heaviest batting nine in the
league, aiid a steady, though not brilliant,
fielding club. Individual reference seems
hardly necessary. If some jjlayers have failed
to play as well as others, it has certainly not
been through any lack of interest or en-
deavor; for tlie utmost good will has pre-
vailed, and it is exceedingly gratifying to see
our old enemy, society jealousies, so nearly
overcome. At least four of our team deserve
mention, however. Gary has borne the brunt
of the battle, and by an ingenious combina-
tion of head and hand, has puzzled his most
skillful opponents. Fred Freeman's ball play-
ing has been sure and timely. Regarding
Fish's catching, it is a significant fact that
no game has been lost in which he caught
throughout. Fogg not only leads in percent-
age of singles in batting, but his hits have
been hard, long, and opportune.
Eighty-five students attended the
Colby game at Lewiston, the 16th.
Watts recently photographed the
members of the Alpha Delta Phi Fra-
ternity, seated on the gymnasium stejis.
Somebody tore down and tore up the reading-
room signs during Commencement week. This
benevolent individual intended we should have some
new, clean ones next year, instead of the disgrace-
fully dirty, patched, and torn placards that have just
served us. By the way, a case for the old papers,
instead of that insufficient desk, would be about tlie
correct thing for Mr. Booker to build in the reading-
room this summer.
Mr. W. E. Richardson, representing King, Rich-
ardson & Co., Springfield, Mass., has been here for
a few weeks, obtaining students to canvass for books
during the summer. He got twenty-four Bowdoin
boys.
Hon. Josiah (Crosby, '35, and Dr. Frederic H.
Gerrish, '06, of the Overseers, and Rev. Samuel F.
Dike, D.D., represented the examining committee,
June 19-21. They examined the three lower classes.
Apatites vs. Hematites on the Delta, June 20th —
12 to 11.
One of the most enjoyable social events of the
season was a reception tendered the Junior class by
Professor Robinson at his home on the evening of
their examinations, June 19th. A large and well
pleased company was present.
There was a dramatic and almost tragic scene at
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the depot, Wednesday, the 20th. Two Irishnien, a
German, and an Englishman, none naturalized Amer-
ican citizens, were discussing the merits of various
countries and races. Argument waxed so hot that
blows at length ensued, and there was a lively scrap-
ing raatcli for a few minutes, finally stopped by the
vigilant authorities. It was afterwards learned that
one of the combatants was a Colby student.
Fewer undergraduates than usual were present
Commencement week.
Stearns, '89, attended his sister's graduation at Mt.
Holyoke Seminary, and will go to Norlhfield during
the summer for study at Mr. Moody's school.
Messrs. Newman and Day of the Bates nine are
coming to Bowdoin next year. So is Wagg of Colby,
and rumor sailh likewise of pitcher Parsons.
Professor Johnson and wife have presented the
Glee Club with four beautiful German song books in
the original tongue.
Tolman, '88, who secured two of the prizes for
writing, treated his classmates at Giveen's, Friday
morning after Commencement.
A North Maine Freshman recently incarcerated
the end woman in his room by locking it while he
went to breakfast. On his return she was found
calmly smoking his piiJe and reading "Leaves of
Grass" with apparent relish.
Of the many measures adopted by the Boards that
are pleasing to the undergraduates, nothing was
more gratifying than the promotion of instructors
Moody and Hutchins to full professorships. It was a
well merited tribute to faithful and efficient teachers.
Professor Alpheus S. Packard, '01, and family,
arrived Friday, June 22d, from Providence, and will
pass the summer at their cottage at JNIere Point.
At the late Congregationalist conference in Rock-
land, Rev. W. P. Fisher was elected vice-president,
Dr. Alfred Mitchell, auditor, and Professor H. L.
Chainnan, treasurer of the Educational Society.
Of course nobody thought that " concourses " was
actually meant, two lines above the poetry, on page
54 of our Ivy issue, when " concursus " was intended.
That magnate, the "intelligent compositor," also
marred our last number by other errors, which,
though trifling, have the effect of tiny rust specks on
polished steel.
Crocker, '89, attended the Bath High School recep-
tion the 22d.
Professor Hutchins will remain in Brunswick
this summer and work on the reflecting telescope he
is constructing. He intends to observe the total
eclipse of the moon, July 22-23, and will then
measure its heat by the radiometer he invented. The
process is a simple one. A long, narrow box, painted
black inside, with one end open, contains a silvered
mirror, which collects the moon's rays and heat.
The mirror is slightly inclined to one side, and the
collected rays are thus thrown back to the radiometer,
which is placed at one side in the open end of the
box. Even the most delicate deflections are easily
read by means of a galvanometer indicator.
The well-known William Seco, aged 18, broke
his leg while playing ball about three weeks ago. It
was a hip fracture.
The college album of William Sewall Gardner,
'50, bought at auction by Cyrus Woodman, '35, and
presented by him to Geo. E. B. Jackson, has been
given to the college library for preservation. It con-
tains the autographs of delegations from '48 to '53,
among which are the signatures of Chief Justice
Fuller, Hon. Dexter A. Hawkins, Judge S. F. Hum-
phrey, of Bangor, Professor J. B. Sewall, and Gen-
eral Chamberlain. William S. Gardner was a justice
of the supreme and superior courts, Massachusetts.
He died April 4, 1888.
The prizes of the year have been awarded as
follows: English composition — first, $10 each, Tol-
man and Woodman ; second, $5 each. Dresser and
Hill. Junior declamation — first, $20, Staples; sec-
ond, $10, Thwing. Sewall Sophomore declama-
tion— first, $6, Gates ; second, $4, Brooks. Brown
extemporaneous composition — first, $30, Coding ;
second, $20, Cary. Sewall Greek— $25, Greeley;
honorable mention. Hunt and Spillane. Sewall
Latin — $25, Hunt; honorable mention, Briggs.
Smyth mathematical — $300, W. R. Smith ; honora-
ble mention, Briggs. Goodwin Commencement —
$60, Tolman. Class of '68 Senior speaking — $60,
Coding. Stackpole Latin — $25, H. DeF. Smith.
Junior German — $25, Elden. Sophomore French —
$25, W. R. Smith. Freshman French, $25, II. DeF.
Smith. Garrett essay on " Arbitration a Substitute
for War"— $10, Emery.
In 1860, when Congressman Tom Reed graduated
from Bowdoin, Mr. H. Kotzshmar was a performer
at the Commencement concert, and executed a "Bow-
doin March," composed bj' him expressly for the
occasion.
The newspaper portraits of Hon. Melville W.
Fuller did not do him justice. He is a much finer
looking man than the unusually good cuts repre-
sented.
The quartette sang, Friday, June 22d, at the
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Topshatn High School prize declamations. One
week later they sang at the Gorham High School.
A quantity of female visitors inspected the col-
lege buildings, Friday morning after Commencement
day.
The Junior prize declamation in Memorial Hall,
Monday evening, the 2.')th, was attended by a large
gathering. Many were unable to gain entrance, and
were obliged to go away without hearing the speak-
ers. The declamations and the music were both of
high order. Programme :
Mnsic.
Nihilism.— Pbillips. Thomas S. Crocker, Paris.
Execution of Montrose. — Aytoun.
Oliver P. Watts, Thomaston.
Political Mission of the United States.— Depew.
Sanford L. Fogg, South Paris.
Speech on " Forefathers' Day." — Long.
* Lory Prentiss, Saco.
MUSIC.
Cleveland Speech of 1879.— Garfield.
Wallace S. Elden, Waterville.
The Battle Flags.— Schurz.
Fred C. Eussell, Lovell Center.
Tecumseh Before the Battle of Tippecanoe.— Anon.
George Thwing, Farmingtou.
Eulogy on Conkling. — lugersoll.
Frank L. Staples, Benton.
MUSIC.
Adams and Jefferson. — Webster.
George W. Hayes, Lewiston.
Speech on the American War.— Pitt.
Clarence L. Mitchell, Freeport.
A Brother's Eulogy. — IngersoU.
James L. Doherty, Houlton.
Speech on the Tariff. — Reed.
Erasmus Manson, Oakland.
MUSIC.
* Excused.
The first prize was awarded to Staples, and second
to Thwing. The committee on arrangements were
W. S. Elden, G. Thwing, and G. W. Hayes.
The Salem Cadet Band, wliieh furnished all the
music of Commencement week, again covered itself
with glory, as on Ivy Day. The members are bright,
intelligent, and gentlemanly, and became popular in
Brunswick as men, as well as musicians.
The classes of '38, '48, '53, '60, '63, '68, '73, '78,
'85, and '87 had reunions at the Tontine, and in Port-
land during Commencement week.
The Freshman exit of '91 was made on the even-
ing of Thursday, June 21st. They rode to Portland
in a specially decorated car, and marched (o the Fal-
mouth. At 10 o'clock supper was served, rounded
oS with toasts and this iirogramme :
Opening Address.
I. C. Jordan.
Oration-" After Life." P. W. Dudley.
Ode— Air — " Co-ca-che-lunk."
Poem. T. S. Burr.
Ode— Air — " Vive L' Amour."
Class History. W. G. Mallett.
Ode — Air — " There is a Tavern in the Town."
Prophecy. A. T. Brown.
Ode— Air— " Michael Roy."
A. S. Dyer was toast-master and the following re-
sponded: "Our Class," J. P. Cilley, Jr.; "City of
Portland," D. B. Ridlon ; "'91 in Athletics," G. H.
Packard ; " Our Girls," L. A. Burleigh ; " Our Rela-
tions with '92," E. N. Goding; " Bowdoin College,"
H.T. Field; "The Faculty." A. P. McDonald; "The
Future of '91," E. H. Newbegin. The officers were :
J. P. Cilley, Jr., President; E. C. Drew, C. S.
Wright, and F. O. Fish, Committee on Arrange-
ments; H. S. Chapman, W. T. Kempton, and E. G.
Loring, Committee on Odes.
Wednesday evening of Commencement week the
various Greek Letter fratei-nities gave their annual
reunions. Many prominent alumni were present, and
all report a most enjoyable time.
From 30,000 to 85,000 gallons of water are used
in sprinkling Main Street on the average warm sum-
mer day, which keeps Mr. Amos Nickerson quite
busy. He has to fill the sprinkler seventeen times
to go over the street once, and during the day he
makes from fifty to fifty-five trips. The cart has a
capacity of six hundred gallons.
Messrs. Gummer and Merriman, of the graduating
class, Brunswick High School, contemplate entering
college this fall.
" When they expect to get ahead of Colby,
they've got to play ball." How about it now, Gil-
more ?
Hall, Tolman, and F. C. Russell were judges at
the prize speaking in Topsham, Friday, June 22d.
Professor F. C. Robinson is to move the Dunning
house, on the corner of Noble and Main Streets, and
erect a large residence this summer.
President Hyde preached an eloquent sermon
from Isaiah 58 : 1-12, at the anniversary of the Maine
Missionary Society in Rockland, two weeks ago.
The Glee Club were photographed Commence-
ment week.
The Congregational church was re-opened on the
17th. Professor Tucker of Andover occupied the
pulpit, and preached tlie annual sermon to the college
y. M.C. A.
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The following was the programme of Commence-
ment concert in Town Hall, Wednesday evening,
June 27th :
Overture — " Le Keveil au Printemps." — Hilgers.
Salem Cadet Band.
Solo for Cornet— Selected. Mr. B. B. Keyes.
Vocal March— "Now Forward." — Storcli.
Temple Quartette.
Song — " Sombre Faret." — Rossini. Mrs. A. M. Fellows.
Duet — " The Fishermen." — Gabussi.
Mr. Webber and Mr. Cook.
Chilian Dance — " Manana." — Missud.
Salem Cadet Band.
Quintette — " Whence." — Abt.
Mrs. Fellows and Temple Quartette.
Solo for Piccolo—" L'Oiseau Bleu." — Damare.
English Glee — " Jack Horner." — Caldicott.
Temple Quartette.
Song — " The Sea-Bird's Message." — Geibel.
Mrs. A. M. Fellows.
Song — " My Heart is Thy Home."
Mr. E. F. Webber.
Extravagan za — ' 'Operatic." — Genee.
Temple Quartette.
Descriirtive — "A Hunting Scene." — Bucoalossi.
Salem Cadet Band.
There was a large and fashionable audience
present, and the different selections were enthusiasti-
cally encored. The concert was managed by E. A.
Crawford.
The first cla.ss day was held August 22, 18551.
Dr. Mitchell read the history, and Professor Young
the poem.
Sunday afternoon, the 17th, forty ladies were
counted in King Chapel.
A ghastly skeleton was seen hanging among the
branches of the Thorndike oak one evening during
examination week.
Black is to go into business at his home, Ham-
monton, N. J., during the summer. Cary enters a
bank in East Machias. H. C. Hill is to be clerk at
the Waldo House, Little Chebeague. Williamson
succeeds Lane, '87, as city editor of the Kennebec
Journal. Woodman becomes Professor of Latin at
Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass., in the ftill.
Wright, '91, goes to the Glen House, White
Mountains, this vacation.
The alumni received the Glee Club with enthu-
siasm, both in a financial way and otherwise. The
alumni know a good thing when they hear it.
Alas, how soon om- knowledge leaves us ! One
who has just "crossed the Rubicon" into the realms
of " Senior dignity," while seated at table at Mace's
the other day, desired a little of the savory article
with which we season our food, and, in the firm and
confident tone in which he is wont to slay " Rob," he
called out, " Please pass the HCl." How about that,
George ?
Tutor Gary's prize for the best batting average
materialized in the form of a handsome gold medal
instead of a cup. It now adorns the breast of S. L.
Fogg, '89. Following is the
PERCENTAGE OF BATTING:
A.E. B.H. PER CENT.
Fogg, 36 15 .417
Cary 32 13 .406
F. Freeman, 37 12 .324
Fish, 30 9 .300
Larrabee 36 9 .250
Packard 35 8 .229
Williamson 34 7 .163
G. Freeman 33 5 .153
Pendleton 33 5 .153
The new Chief Justice is a loyal Bowdoiu boy,
too, eh ?
None of the Bowdoin Faculty wear " plug" hats.
Few of them are ever seen sporting canes. Six of
them wear full beards, one a moustache and goatee,
five a moustache alone, and two are sans facial
hirsute adornment.
It was the Mineralogy examination, and one of
the fossils was perpetrating rather irrelevant ques-
tions. Said another of the examining Board to him :
" What is the difference between Lot's wife being
turned into a pillar of salt, and Brigham Young's
being the pillar of Salt Lake City?" Fossil No. 1
was at a loss, and No. 2 began to hint that there was
as much connection between the two parts of this
conundrum as there was between No. I's question
and the Mineralogy examination. No. 2 concluded
with the pun: " I believe Brigham Young's idea of
wives was ioi's.'" The class wooded, and No. 1
subsided.
A very pleasant donkey party was held at Prof.
Little's, last Friday evening.
An unsophisticated Freshman left the following
tacked on his door. We expect he will certainly
find everything done as ordered on his return. " Mr.
Booker: I want the room papered and painted. I
am willing to pay extra for the p;iper if you cannot
get as good paper as I would want for the price the
college alows. I want it to be light collored, also
some new moulding is needed. Take up the carpet
and beat it, you will find some tabacco on the
mantel-shelf to put in it. There are also several
places in the room that need to be plastered. Put
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the stove in the coal closet." The original of this
exquisite literary production ought to be secured for
the library show case.
On Commencement morning a notable group was
conversing with President Hyde near the cliapel.
There was a sliort, slim man dressed in a black
Prince Albert and spring trousei'S, whose silvery
locks were crowned with a Cleveland hat. His
heavy moustache was also silvery, and eye-glasses
gave dignity to his handsome face. Beside him was
a much larger man, of medium build, who wore a
neat summer suit of blue, and who likewise sported
the Cleveland plug. He was destitute of beard, and
brains shone forth from every line and furrow in his
countenance. A third man, tall and portly, was in
ministerial garb, which well become his sober dig-
nity'. Sharp eyes peered through his spectacles, and
his beard was while. This trio consisted of no less
than the man who will swear in Brave Ben of In-
diana on the fourth of next March, the New England
member of the Fisheries Commission and Democratic
nominee for Governor of Maine, and the brave and
fearless exponent of future probation, from Andover.
And they were all Bowdoin alumni, too.
Monday evening, July 2d, at the residence of the
bride's parents, Mr. James Lee Doolittle was united
in marriage to Miss Helen, daughter of A. V. Met-
calf. Kev. E. C. Guild lied the knot. The liappy
couple left on the Pullman for Boston, and on the 7th
sail from that port for a European trip. The Orient
and the students wish the newly married pair all
happiness.
62. — Professor Sylves-
ter Burnham, D.D., of Ham-
ilton Theological Seminary, is to be
in Lhaige of the department of Hebrew, and
a piofessoi in the School of the English
Bible, at Chautauqua University, this sum-
mer. The session is July 5th to August 16tli.
75.— Edwin Herbert Hall, Ph.D., has been re-
elected Assistant Professor of Physics, at Harvard, for
five years from Sei)tember, 1888.
79. — H. A. Huston is State Chemist, and Chemist
of the United States Experiment Station, located at
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.
'83.— F. H. Files (Medical School, '88,) has ac-
cepted a position at the Maine General Hospital.
'83. — Pettingill recently graduated from the Bos-
ton University Law School.
'83.— Fred M. Fling, a Portland boy, and a grad-
uate of Bowdoin, who has been sub-master of the
Biddeford High School for the last four years, and is
soon to leave for a course of study abroad, recently
severed his connection with that institution. In ap-
preciation of his earnest labors in their behalf, the
scholars of the fourth class drew up a paper expres-
sive of their feelings toward him and their wishes
for his future success. Other of his pupils and
friends presented him with a piece of handsome
bronze statuary.
'84. — Mr. Oliver W. Means of Augusta has just
completed a post-graduate course of study at the
Hartford Theological Seminary, and has accepted a
call to the Congiegational church of Enfield, Conn.
Mr. Means will begin his work there about Septem-
ber 1st. He will shortly visit his old home in Au-
gusta.
'85. — E. W. Freeman has graduated from the
Boston University Law School.
One thousand three hundred and sixty members
of the University of Cambridge are opposed to
co-education.
A grand reception in honor of the abolition of
Sophomore societies at Yale was held recently by all
the students. — The Chronicle.
There is an attempt being made to collect the
published writings of Williams men, and file them
as the basis of a future history of the college. — Michi-
gan Argonaut.
The undergraduates of Princeton University have
undertaken the expense of sending one of their num-
ber as a missionary to India. The fund subscribed
reaches $1,000.— .S^a;.
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BOOK REVIEWS.
Fifty Years of English Song. ^ Selections from
THE Poets of the Keign of Victoria. — Edited and
Arranged by Henry F. Randolph. New York, Anson
D. F. Randolph & Co. 12 mo.; 4 vols., S^o.OO.
Mr. Randolph, in this series of volumes, presents
such selections, as, in his judgment, " give a general
knowledge of the tendency and scope of English
poetry during the past fifty years." He claims no
unusual infallibility for his judgment, and thus, by
his very modesty, secures the compilation from very
serious assault. It seems hardly fair to criticise a
collection of poems introduced by such a precau-
tionarj' remark. The estimation of merit in poetrj'
depends so much upon individual training, and inborn
tastes, that two persons can scarcely be found whose
judgments exactly correspond. This is particularlj'
the case with contemporary poetry, which has not
yet undergone the crucial test of time, whereby the
worthy in literature is preserved and the worthless
cast aside.
The author need not have feared, however, for the
" Fifty Years " appears to us to be the most acceptable
anthology of modern poetry that has yet appeared.
The classification of the selections is a good one, and
the notes, while sufficient in quantity, do not occupy
a too conspicuous place in the make-up of the several
volumes. The indexes are ample; the typographi-
cal execution admirable. As to the quality of the
selections, that remains for each reader to decide, as
has already been intimated. All will doubtless
find something that will please, and little to dislike.
Composition and Rhetoric bt Practice. By William
Williams, B.A. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co., 1888.
12 mo. pp. 23S, 85c.
The value of practical methods in the teaching of
the sciences has become fully recognized, but the
universality of their application has not, until
recently, been thoroughly appreciated. In no branch
of education is the method of " little theory and much
practice" more a necessity than in composition. If
we are to learn to write correctly, nothing is of
greater importance than exercise in writing. Nearly
every text-book of Composition and Rhetoric, if not
every one, has scattered through its pages so-called
" practical exercises, " but a book, like the present,
which professes upon its title-page to teach "by
practice," is a novelty and a very desirable novelty
as well.
The excellence of the present work will not per-
mit us to impart a fragmentary conception of its
character and scope by quotation. It must be
sufficient to say that it appears a worthy exponent of
the method of teaching which it adopts. The greater
portion of the book is occupied by examples, illus-
trating the principles set forth. Small space is
allotted to the formulating of rules, but such as are
given are enunciated in clear and taking language.
Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and
LANGnAGE, With iLLnsTRATioNS. Vol. 2. America
(British) to Artemds. jSIew York, John B. Alden,
1887. 12 mo. pp. 632.
The second volume of this handy work of refer-
ence sustains all that we said in regard to the first.
Thus far, at least, the series succeeds admirably in
carrying out the purpose of its publisher, — " to pre-
sent a survey of the entire circle of knowledge,
whether of words or of things, thus combining the
characteristics of a C3'clopedia and a Dictionary."
NOTES.
The New Arithmetic, recently published by Heath
& Co., is something a little out of the ordinary line
in text-books. Instead of being the work of a single
individual, the book represents the experience of
three hundred prominent teachers. Such a volume
ought to be worth looking over.
Professor Johnson's variant edition of " The Mid-
summer Night's Dream," which was recently
reviewed in these columns, is meeting with a flatter-
ing reception, from students of Shakespeare, all over
the country. The following will serve as examples
of the many favorable press notices which the book
has received :
The " Variant," though it will be highly prized by
advanced students, would be most useful for the very
beginners in the serious study of Shakespeare, in leading
them to a critical discussion of what Shakespeare really
wrote. For such use it is perhaps as good as anything
could well be, and its judicious freedom from notes, which
would partly defeat this purpose, is a good feature. — ifero
Enf/lander and Tale Keview.
Said a prominent Shakespearean scholar recently, of
this book; "Professor Johnson's reputation for accuracy
is so well established, that I shall be greatly astouished if
a single error is found in the book. " — Boston Advertiser.
The amount of minute and conscientious labor repre-
sented by these pages is immense. If followed up, an
edition on Mr. Johnson's plan must command large atten-
tion and patronage. — Shakespeariana.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
Exercises in English. By H. I. Strange, B.A. Bos-
ton, D. C. Heath & Co. 1888. 35o.
Chemical Problems. By J. P. Crabfield, Ph.D., and
P. S. Burns, B.S. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co. 1888.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Columbia College,
OiTE'sXT- -2-OI^IS: CIT-2-.
SCHOOL OF MINES.— The system of insti-uctiou includes seven parallel courses of study, each leading to a degi-ee,
viz. : mining engineering, civil engineering, sanitary engineering, metallurgy, geology, and palseontology, analytical and applied
chemistry, architecture.
The plan of instruction includes lectures and recitations in the several departments of study; practice in the chemical, min-
eralogical, blowpipe, metallurgical, and architectural laboratories; field and underground surveying; geodetic surveying; practice
and study in mines, mills, machine shops, and foundries; projects, estimates, and drawings for the working of mines and for the
construction of metallurgical, chemical, and other works; reports on mines, industrial establishments, and field geology.
During the summer vacation there are Summer Schools in Mechanical Engineering, for practical work in foundries and ma-
chine shops; in Surveying, for practical work in the field ; in Practical Mining; in Practical Geodesy; in Chemistry— all under
the immediate superintendence of professors. Special students are admitted to the Summer School in Chemistry.
SCHOOL Of LAW ,— The course of study occupies two years, and is so arranged that a complete view is given during
each year of the subjects pursued. The plan of study comprises the various branches of common law, equity, commercial, inter-
national, and constitutional law, and medical jurisprudence. The first year is devoted to the study of general commentaries upon
municipal law, and contracts, aud real estate. The second year includes equity jurisprudence, commercial law, the law of torts,
criminal law, evidence, pleading, and practice. Lectures upon constitutional law and history, political science, and international
law are delivered through both the senior and jurior years. Those on medical jurisprudence are delivered to the senior class.
All graduates of literary colleges are admitted without examination; other candidates must be examined. Applicants who are
not candidates for a degi-ee are admitted without a preliminary examination.
SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.— The prime aim of this school is the development of all branches of the
political sciences. It offers eight courses in political and constitutional history, nine in political economy, five in constitutional
and administrative law, four in diplomacy and international law, four in Roiuan law and comparative jurisprudence, two in
political philosophy, and one in bibliography— in all, forty-four hours per week through the academic year. The full course of
study covers three years. For admission as candidate for a degree, the apiJlicant must have satisfactoi-ily completed the regular
course of study in this college, or in some other maintaining an equivalent curriculum, to the end of the junior year. Special
students admitted to any course without examination upon payment of proportional fee.
In addition to the above special schools for graduates and others, there is, in connection with the Scliool of Arts, a Graduate
Department in which instruction is given to graduates of this aud other colleges in a wide range of subjects, embracing advanced
courses in languages and literatures (ancient and modern), mathematics and the mathematical sciences, philosophy, law, history,
the natural sciences, methods of research in chemistry and physics, practical work in the asti'onomicai observatory, etc A stu-
dent in this department may attend a single course, or any number of courses; he may also, at his option, enter as candidate for
the degree of Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Science, or Doctor of Philosophy.
Circulars of Information, giving details as to courses of instruction, requirements for admission, fees, remission of fees,
wholly or in part, etc., etc., of any of the schools may be had by addressing the Registrar of the College, Madison Avenue and
49th Sti-eet, New York City.
F. A. P, BARNARD, LL.D,, D.C.L,, PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA College.
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BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 3, 1888.
No. 6.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
POBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DDRING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
F. L. Staples, '80, Managing Editor.
O. P. Watts, 'S'.K Business Editor.
W. M. Emery, '8S
G. T. Files, '89.
F. J. C. Little, '8
D. E. Owen, '80.
E. R. Stearns, '89.
tr. B. Chandler, '90.
J. M. "W. Moody, '90.
T. C. Spillane, '90.
Per annum, in advance $2.00.
Single Copies, 15 cents.
Extra copies cau W, obtained at the boolistores or on applica-
tion to tlie Business Editor.
Remittances sliould be made to tlie Business Editor. Com-
munications in regard to all other matters should be directed to
the IManaging Editor.
Students, Professors, and A.lumni are invited to contribute
literary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must be
accompanied bj- writer's name, as well as the signature which
he wishes to have appended.
Eatered at the Post-0£&ce at Brunswick as Secoad-Class Mail Matter.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 6.- October 3, 1888.
For a Friend's Album 87
Editorial Notes, 87
Savonarola, 88
The Bowdoiu College Observatory, 90
Consultation After Recitation, 91
Samuel Adams, 91
Why? 93
The Sophomore-Freshman Contests, 93
Collegii Tabula, 94
Personal, 97
In Memoriam 99
College World 99
Book Reviews, 100
FOR A FRIEND'S ALBUM.
A simple verse may ill suffice
T' acknovpledge all to friendship owed,
'Tis not the size that rules the price
Of earthly gifts on friends bestowed.
Much rather ponder on the thought
Of all the pleasant things we'd tell.
If fate would but on us allot
Some Uod-like power, or Muse's spell.
Another college year has begun
under the most favorable auspices. Nearly
all the students have returned. We miss
the familiar faces of 'eighty-eight, but the
loss is compensated by the entrance of a large
Freshman class.
Undoubtedly there are some who have
not entered Bowdoin this year from one
cause or another, but it is gratifying to know
that most of those who intended to enter
this college have not allowed matters, en-
tirely outside of it, to carry them elsewhere.
The college is grateful to him, who,
though never a member of it, has, in the dis-
tribution of his earthly goods, remembered
it in so marked a degree.
The new observatory which we have
needed for so long a time bids fair to mate-
rialize in the early future.
Some of us have nearly completed our
college course. Three years, pleasant and
profitable, have passed away and the fourth
will soon join them. We have not always
made the most of them and we are glad that
another remains in which we may strive to
retrieve the errors of the past.
Another class stands at the threshold of
the mythical realms of Junior ease. Like
the fabled Fountain of Youth, many have
sought for it but lione, so far as we know,
have found it. If the work of Juuior year
is honestly done, if all the opportunities pre-
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sented are faithfully improved, no Junior
will have a surplus of ease.
The blasts of the sleep-defying horn and
the oft-repeated strains of old Phi Chi ad-
monish us that another class has emerged
into the vs'ild freedom of Sophomore year.
On this class as on no other rests responsi-
bility for the maintenance of good order.
We do not expect that every Freshman will
always wear dry clothing ; on the contrary,
we believe in the efficacy of cold water.
When judiciously applied, it will wash away
a multitude of sins. But there is no occa-
sion for those disgraceful scenes which have
occurred in past years and which have done
so much injury to the college. There is no
occasion which makes it right for the Soph-
omore to jeopardize the life or limb of any
Freshman. Judging the future by the im-
mediate past we do not expect to see during
the year any such exhibition of barbarism.
The Freshmen have not been here long
enough for us to get much acquainted with
them. Apparently the class does not con-
tain a great amount of athletic material, but
perhaps it has ability enough in other direc-
tions to make up for its lack in this respect.
The curriculum has been enlarged and im-
proved, and in this direction '92 has an ad-
vantage over any other class that ever entered
Bowdoin.
A copy of this number of the Orient
has been sent to every member of the Fresh-
man class, and each succeeding number will
be sent unless otherwise ordered.
You will find many college interests which
ask for and .should have your support, but
none of these make more urgent demands
upon you than the Okient. We give you
all the college news and late information
from other colleges. It is, or at least en-
deavors to be, the exponent of college senti-
ment. It represents our college in the field
of college journalism, and we may say with
justifiable pride that it maintains a good
position among other college journals.
You are requested to contribute to its
columns. Your articles will receive careful
consideration, and publication if they are of
sufficient merit.
We ask those who hope to secure posi-
tions on the next Board of Editors to pass
in during the next two terras contributions
to the columns of the Ombnt. Your elec-
tion will depend largely upon the amount
and quality of the work done during the
next two terms. It is the only way we can
judge of your fitness for election. The prac-
tice in composition will be beneficial to you
and the aid rendered to us will be appreciated.
Do not put the matter off till the latter
part of the winter term and then do the work
in a hurry. The work passed in must' show
painstaking care. Must be bright, readable,
and condensed, and must in every case bear
the name of the writer. Do not rely for
election upon the merits of one article. You
must show that j'^ou are capable of doing
and willing to do a fair amount of Orient
work.
Probably the most interesting part of the
Orient to our alumni is the Personal col-
umn. It has been an aim of the present
Board to make this department as complete
as possible. Any news for the Personal
column will be gratefully received, and we
ask all of our alumni, secretaries of classes
and alumni associations to send us such
items of interest as they may be able to
sjather.
SAVONAROLA.
One of the grandest and most prominent
figures in Italian history is the Dominican
monk, Girolamo Savonarola.
Born in 1452, in Ferrara, he was admitted
to the priesthood in 1481 or 1482. His
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parents, who were in comfortable circum-
stances and of good descent, wished him to
follow the profession of medicine, in which
his paternal grandfather had been quite suc-
cessful.
But he was averse to this and he entered
upon hisnovitiate at the Conventof Domenico
in Bologna. From what we can learn this step
was taken against the wishes of his parents.
He studied in this convent six years and then
was sent to Ferrara to preach. Here he was
not very successful. Later he was sent to Plor-
ence to the church of St. Mark, the scene of his
future labors and triumphs. At this time the
great preacher of Florence was Fra Mariano
who, by his pulpit oratory, replete with
classic learning and smoothly-flowing sen-
tences, charmed the luxurious citizens of
this fashionable and wealthy city. The fame
and influence of this man must be overcome
by Savonarola before he could hope to gain
the ear of Florence. Could he do it?
Beginning with small audiences his name
and fame began to spread throughout the
city. His audiences increased, and, as the
room began to be crowded, begged of him
to pi'each in the cathedral. Finally he ac-
ceded to their wishes, and on March 1, 1490,
he delivered his first sermon in the Cathe-
dral of St. Mark.
The great church was crowded almost to
suffocation, and the audience listened eagerly
to every sentence of what Savonarola him-
self tells us was a " a terrible sermon." The
people of Florence went mad with admira-
tion, and the wonderful priest was discussed
everywhere.
Savonarola was now a power in Florence,
and Lorenzo De Medici attested this fact
by his efforts to silence him. A ray of
hope shot into the hearts of the Florentines.
For many years they had been overtaxed,
oppressed, and downtrodden. Here was a
man whose influence Lorenzo feared. Why
not make him ruler of Florence !
But now happens one of the most re-
markable incidents in Savonarola's life, and
if we dwell on it longer than we ought, it
is because it so commands our admiration.
Lorenzo De Medici lay dying. Walking
" in the valley of the shadow of death," his
past crimes rising before like so many spec-
tres, harrassed by a thousand doubts and
fears, the soul of Lorenzo was a stranger to
peace. More than all else he desired abso-
lution, but how could he be certain of it
granted by a confessor too obsequious to
contradict his slightest wish? Suddenly he
thought of Savonarola, a priest whom the
threats of kings could not silence, whom the
flattery of princes could not seduce, who
acknowledged no master but God. Absolved
by him he could go in peace.
Savonarola was speedily summoned to
the palace. Surprised beyond measure, he
hastened to the bedside of the dying ruler.
Lorenzo answered all the questions quickly
until the priest demanded the liberty of
Florence. The boon was refused. The
monk refused to grant absolution till Lo-
renzo comjjlied. Neither would yield, and
Lorenzo passed beyond to reap the re-
ward of his iniquity.
Savonarola continued preaching, and
though several attempts at assassination
were made, he escaped unharmed.
During this time events of the greatest
importance to Florence had happened.
Charles VHL had entered Florence, made
arrogant claims on the Florentines, had been
refused, and had withdrawn from the city.
Meanwhile Savonarola had been made
law giver of Florence. For three years he
ruled Florence in wisdom, and though
threatened by Rome he "kept the noiseless
tenor of his way." At this time Savonarola
was at the zenith of his power.
But there were "breakers ahead." Pope
Alexander summoned him to Rome. No
attention was paid to it by Savonarola. A
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second summons, sterner than the first, was
received. Still Savonarola kept on preach-
ing. The attention of all Italy was now
riveted on the monk who, single-handed
and alone, dared to oppose the power of
Rome. But at last, when he had been sum-
moned three times, and after being excom-
municated, he yielded to the solicitations of
his friends, and for a time ceased preaching.
But the Signory would not send him to
Rome for punishment. Rome's will must be
done, but it should be done in Florence. He
was tortured and persecuted, but he never
wavered. False charges were made out
against him and a mock trial began — a
mocTc trial because his death was determined
upon before the trial commenced. He was
sentenced to death, and on the twenty-
second of Maj^ 1498, he was hung and his
body burned. Two faithful companions,
also monks, perished with him.
Such is an outline of the career of a
most remarkable man. Literally almost was
he prophet, priest, and king to the people
of Florence and of Italy. As a preacher he
has had few equals, and if some of the
rulers of the present day had his firmness
and sagacity their people would be better
governed.
He was a reformer of morals rather
than of the church, but had the church of
Rome accepted his teaching, had she list-
ened to his warning, her power and prestige
would be greater than they now are.
The fickle Florentines worshiped him
one day and the next he perished by their
hands. But in later years, when his predic-
tions became realities, and Florence was
again weak and miserably governed, she
may have remembered the name of one who
was greater than herself — Girolamo Savon-
arola.
At Yale there are eight scholarships, amounting
to $2,000, oflfered to deserving students.
THE BOWDOIN COLLEGE OBSERV-
ATORY.
Some months ago a project for building
an observatory at Bowdoin was set on foot,
and it will be remembered that at the last
Commencement it was announced that a
gentleman in the West had given a generous
sum toward that object. It was thought
that but little difficulty would be encoun-
tered in securing the needed additional
amount. During the past vacation plans for
a building were made, and estimates upon
the building and instruments secured. It is
found that for the sum of three thousand
dollars a suitable building can be erected,
and provided with such needed instruments
as we do not already possess. This seems a
very small sum, and many will think at once
that nothing can be done with so little,
which would be true if the design were to
build an observatory for scientific research,
and equip it with the costly apparatus that
would be required in original investigation.
Btit we are trying for an observatory for
purposes of instruction only. The costly
and elaborate instruments would be of no
use to us, being too valuable to risk in the
hands of students.
We already have an excellent equatorial
telescope and a good spectroscopic outfit —
the most costly parts of the instrumental
equipment — besides several smaller instru-
ments, but we must await the erection of a
suitable building before they can be made
available.
The plan is for a building of brick, with
a revolving dome twenty feet in diameter, a
transit room, a photographic room, and a
large room for general purposes. The col-
lege campus affords a reasonably good site
by removing a few of the pine trees east of
Appleton.
The treasurer has authority to commence
the building as soon as the necessary amount
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has been subscribed, of wldch we now have
about one-half.
The facilities for the study of Astronomy
in the college are much inferior to those pre-
sented by any other branch of Natural Sci-
ence, although at one time we were as well
equipped for the study as any college in the
country. It is much hoped that we may
recover something of our former standing in
this matter, and that the present plan for
doing so will commend itself to all who have
the welfare of the college at heart.
CONSULTATION AFTER RECITA-
TION.
A doubtful custom ought to be either
vindicated or abandoned. Truth is arrived
at by open discussion, not by cavil and dis-
pute. Our college publication is the medium
of such discussion. Tliere exists a strong
prejudice against that custom of post-
recitational consultation which is usually
denominated " chinning." Whether or not
this odium is just is an open question, and it
seems not inappropriate that the arguments,
fro and con, be fairly stated.
Probably the present article will be ac-
cused of no ambiguity, when it enters the
lists in behalf of the statement, that the
custom, as generally pursued, has no justifi-
cation on the principles of equity or con-
sistency. At the outset, however, let us
except those isolated cases, where a student
has personal work to do, is making a study a
specialty, or where the class has been invited
to remain for individual assistance.
It is unjust because it is an unfair ad-
vantage over less aggressive classmates. In
an institution of this character each stu-
dent pays a stipulated tuition. That tuition
employs instructors who devote a definite
period of time to class instruction. Who-
ever appropriates private tutorage, takes
what obviously does not belong to him. The
time for questions is not after, but during,
recitation, when all can derive equal benefits
from the explanation, and when the in-
structor can explain in a manner much more
agreeable to himself, and much more lucid
to the class.
It is an absurd custom because it is in-
compatible with the college system of in-
struction. The time when we stood beside
a feminine knee, and in frock and apron
lisped the primal " a, b, c " has passed. The
time when, attached to a female " apron
string," we wended our way through the
intricate labyrinth of the multiplication ta-
ble has passed. The time when we might,
with some reason perhajjs, ask personal as-
sistance in the rudiments of Latin and Greek
has passed. Though differing from either, the
function of a college professor is much more
akin to that of a public speaker than that of
a governess. We enter college on a footing
of intellectual equality ; and if, as must fol-
low from the very nature of things, an
inferior mind fails to reap superior benefits,
it is not that he has been unfairly taught,
but that nature did not make him a genius.
The privilege of asking questions during
recitation is as much conformity to differ-
ence of ability as can be expected.
It has often been said that criticism upon
this custom is due to envy and personal
spite. Suppose we admit it ; it is no justi-
fication of the thing itself. There is also a
counter accusation which, to avoid the im-
putation prejudice, we will not mention.
In this article an attempt has been made to
treat the question fairly ; to adduce argu-
ments, not satire.
SAMUEL ADAMS.
The name of Samuel Adams calls to mind
the stirring days and incidents of pre-revolu-
tiouary times and the no less stirring and
more important days of the war itself.
Born in 1722 in Boston, "that hot bed of
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sedition," as it was called in those days, he
not only witnessed but participated in most
of the public meetings and private confer-
ences that helped to turn public opinion into
the channels of independence. Through his
many articles published in the newspapers
and magazines of that day he exerted a
wider influence than any other man of the
times. He was, perhaps, the most volumi-
nous writer that America has produced, but
in his writings you see but very little of
Samuel Adams. The writer keeps himself
carefully in the background and presents his
subject to you with all the power and clear-
ness that characterizes the man of action
rather than the man of words.
But it was in the town meeting, the cradle
and fortress of American liberty, the cher-
ished protector of New England freedom
that Samuel Adams in his early life made
himself a power. He made great speeches
and did a vast amount of work in the Con-
tinental Congress, but after all it was in the
Boston town meeting, a less formal assem-
blage than the Congress, that the voice of
Samuel Adams, backed by a well-informed
mind and a sturdy arm, did its most effective
work for the overthrow of British supremacy
and tyranny.
Samuel Adams, was poor, so poor that his
friends presented him with a suit of clothes
when he was sent to Congress ; so poor that
he barely saved his home from the clutches
of men, who, not content with ruining his
business, would take even the roof which
sheltered his family. But though he had of
this world's goods almost nothing, he had
in his intellect abundant wealth. Probably
there was no man in the colonies at any time
before the Revolution with so much native
ability in the direction of politics, so much
of what Yankees have termed " longheaded-
ness," with such an intimate knowledge of
human nature as Samuel Adams. He read
men as some people read books, and at the
end of his reading he was 'seldom wrong in
his estimate.
Trained by years of patient work he was
well fitted to lead the people of the colonies
up to independence. It was upon him more
than any other man that the English govern-
ment rested the charge of inciting the colo-
nies to revolt. And it is true. Long before
the idea of independence had entered the
minds of most men, Samuel Adams had
clearly seen that it must be the outcome of
the contest then being waged ; while others
were temporizing and talking peace and re-
lying on the clemency of the mother country,
Adams was working incessantly to bring
public opinion to the point where it would
regard American independence as the one
end and object of the controversy. Jefferson
says of him, "if there was any Palinurus to
the Revolution, Samuel Adams was the man."
It was toward independence that he bent the
powers of his mind, his logic, his oratory,
his personal influence.
As a speaker he was not showy. He
could not be compared to John Adams. His
voice trembled when he spoke, not because
of fear but on account of physical infirmity.
His voice was sometimes low and indistinct
at the beginning of his remarks, but as he
warmed to his subject it increased in volume
and distinctness. " Samuel Adams, although
not of fluent elocution, was so rigorously
logical, so clear in his views, abundant in
good sense, and master always of his sub-
ject that he commanded the most profound
attention whenever he rose in an assembly
by which the froth of declamation was heard
with the most sovereign contempt."
During the Revolutionary war Samuel
Adams was one of the firmest supporters of
the colonial policy. When others doubted
of final success he never did. When, after
defeat, there were some who would fain give
up the contest in despair, it was the voice
and example of Samuel Adan:s that spurred
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them on to renewed efforts, and next to the
immortal Washington we know of no man
to whom more praise and honor should be
ascribed. He lived to see the republic es-
tablished on a firm basis and started on the
road to prosperity and power which it has
since followed.
Bancroft says of him : " Samuel Adams,
the helmsman of the Revolution at its origin,
the truest representative of the home rule of
Massachusetts in its town meetings and gen-
eral Court." And Fiske says of him: "A
man whom Plutarch, if he had only lived
long enough would have delighted to include
in his gallery of wortliies, — a man who in
the history of the American Revolution
is second only to Washington — Samuel
Adams."
After his funeral liis body was borne past
the Old State House. " Had no occult sym-
pathy established itself between the heart
that had grown so still and the pile that rose
so venerable in the twilight of the autumn
day ? " Its chambers had heard the voice of no
other statesman so often. They had received
him in the vigor of manhood and the in-
firmity of old age.
He was buried in the Granary Burying
Ground. His ashes lie almost under the
feet of the throngs of passers-by and no stone
marks the spot.
WHY?
Why does it haunt me, haunt me like this ?
Two or three freckles, the sauciest nose,
Lips like cherries and made to kiss.
Kissed by others since, I suppose.
Kissed by otliers since, I suppose.
What does it matter? I had my share.
Breezes and breezes fondle the rose.
Tell me, for that is the rose less fair?
Tell me, for that is the rose less fair ?
One wind comes as another goes, —
Ordo saedorum, why should I care ?
Breezes and breezes fondle the rose.
Lips like cherries and made to kiss.
Two or three freckles, the sauciest nose, —
Out on it ! why does it haunt me like this ?
Kissed by others since, I suppose.
— Harvard Advocate.
THE SOPHOMORE-FRESHMAN
CONTESTS.
The annual foot-ball rush took place Fri-
day morning, September 21st. Brown was the
first man to secure the ball, and he pluckily
kept it for ten minutes. Overcome by the
crowd he was compelled to let it go, and then
the real rush began. For fifteen or twenty min-
utes it was brisk and exciting. The ball
was twice captured by the upperclassmen,
but Foss finally secured the coveted prize,
and it is now in his room.
Rain in the afternoon prevented the foot-
ball game, and it was postponed to Saturday
morning.
Immediately after chapel, Saturday morn-
ing, came the rope-pull. Clark, '89, was the
referee. After breaking a couple of ropes
the first pull was won by the Freshmen.
The second was easily won by the Sopho-
mores. Both parties now prepared for the
third and last pull. Each was confident of
victory. After a pull of one minute and a half
the Freshmen succeeded in getting the Sophs
on the run, and the rope-pull was theirs.
THE FOOT-BALL GAME.
Preparations were immediately made for
the foot-ball game. Clark, '89, was referee,
W. R. Smith, '90, was the Freshman judge,
and Chandler, '90, the Sophomore judge.
At a quarter of ten the Sophomores marched
on to the field to the enlivening strains of
" Phi Chi." The fantastic garb in which
several of them were arrayed reminded one
of a procession of " horribles." After the
usual preliminary remarks to the Freshmen
the game began. It was marked by the
usual ebullition of class feeling, and the
Sophomores showed signs of losing their
temper once in a while, but on the whole it
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was a good game of foot-ball. From the
start the Sophomores steadily gained on the
Freshman territory. Only twice did the
Freshmen succeed in regaining any of their
lost ground. After about an hour and a half
the Sof)homores made a successful rush and
a lucky kick by Munsey sent the ball over
the Freshman goal. The enthusiastic Sopho-
mores bore Munsey and Chandler on their
shoulders to the front of the chapel, where
they were cheered to their hearts' content.
The class was then photographed by Reed.
THE BASE-BALL GAME.
Sophomores, 23; Freshmen, 0.
The annual Freshman-Sophomore base-
ball game resulted in a walk-over for the
latter. The game was played in a drizzling
rain which, together with the blood-curdling
yells of '91, seemed to have a rather depress-
ing effect upon the spirits of the Freshmen.
They waged a plucky up-hill fight, however,
and at no time lost heart.
The battery work of Burleigh and Fish was
of the first order; the game being practically
played by them. Packard made a phenom-
enal one-hand catch of a hot liner in the fifth.
For '92 Downes supplied the place of
Gateley in the box, and was very effective.
Young did well behind the bat, and Wilson
made some clean pick-ups at short.
Although defeated, '92, should by no
means get discouraged, for it must be re-
membered that they were playing at every
disadvantage and against a team that prob-
ably would hold the entire college a good
play. The score :
SOPHOMORES.
A.E. E. B.H. P.O. A. E.
Packard, lb 3 3 2 3 0 0
Newman, l.f i 2 1 0 0 0
Munsuy, c.f 3 2 1 0 0 0
Fish, c 5 3 1 !) 3 0
Bangs, 3b n 2 2 1 0 0
Hilton, 2Ii 4 3 2 0 0 0
Tukey, r.f 2 42 0 0 0
Jordan, s.s 4 2 2 1 0 0
Burleigh, p 4 2 1 1 9 0
Totals, 34 23 14 15 12 0
FRESHMEN.
A.B. K. B.H. P.O. A. E.
Shay, r.f 2 0 0 1 0 0
Wilson, s.s 2 0 0 0 2 2
Cole, 3b 1 0 0 1 0 5
Downes, p., lb 1 0 1 3 2 2
Gould, l.f 2 0 0 0 1 0
Durgin, c.f 2 0 0 0 0 0
Gateley, p., lb 1 0 0 3 3 0
Young, c 1 0 0 6 0 2
Bartlett, 2b 1 0 0 1 2 3
Totals 13 0 1 15 10 14
SCORE BY INNINGS.
12 3 4 5
Sophomores, 14 3 3 1 2—23
Freshmen, 0 0 0 0 0—0
Doherty, '89, has been secretary of
the Aroostook County Democratic Com-
mittee during the summer.
Freeman, '89, was captain of the
Augusta nine dnring vacation, and Burleigh, '91, was
pitcher on the same team.
Manson, '89, and Powers, '91, have left college
owing to trouble with their eyes.
Shirley, ex-'89, has entered '90 at Dartmouth.
Gates, '90, has left college to enter the coal and
grain business with his brother in Central City, Ne-
braska.
Field, '91, manipulates the tintinnabulum this
term, vice Jackson, who is principal of the high
school at Oakland.
The visitors to the College Library during the
jjast summer liave come from nearly every State and
every large city in the country. Among them may
be named Miss Sara Orne Jewett, Mrs. James T.
Fields, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon. A. VV. Tenney
of New York, Prof. Egbert C. Smyth of Andover,
Prof. A. S. Packard, the great naturalist. Rev. Dr.
Joseph Packard, '31, Dean of the Episcopal Theolog-
ical School of Virginia, Hon. Frederick H. Board-
man, '09, and family, Minneapolis, Geo. G. Evans of
the United States Mint, and daughter, Philadelphia,
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George T. Packard, '66, the Boslon journalist, Win.
W. Ranney, instructor in Physical Culture at Wil-
liams, and Arthur P. Dodge of Boston, proprietor of
the New England Magazine.
Marcellus Baker, the well known light weight
wlio drifts over more country in a given time than
any man in the business, is now in Houlton, where
he is teaching a class in sparring. — Ex.
The Glee Club gave a successful concert before
the Chautauqua assembly at Fryeburg the last of
July. President Hyde has appointed H. M. Nicker-
son, M.S., instructor and leader of the club, and G.
W. Hayes, '89, has been elected business agent.
Mr. Henry Winkley of Philadelphia, who en-
dowed the Latin chair, died about the middle of
August, leaving Bowdoin $20,000 more. Professor
Pease represented the college at his funeral. Mr.
Winkley is one of our greatest benefactors, having
given us $60,000 in all.
William Seco, the well-remembered spittoneur,
died August 19th. He had long been a scrofula suf-
ferer, and broke his hip some two months previous
to his death.
For the first time in several years, instruction in
all departments is now given by professors who have
had more or less experience in teaching. Professor
Lee has returned from his cruise and resumed the
chair of biology and geology. Professor B. L.
Bowen, late of Johns Hopkins, hears the French and
some Latin. Mr. D. M. Cole, '88, is assistant to
Professors Lee and Robinson.
Mr. Robert Scott Thomes, ex-'88, now of the firm
of Merrill, Thomes & Co., Portland, and Miss Viola
B. Drummond of Waterville, were united in mar-
riage at the residence of the bride's father, Everett
R. Drummond, August 1, 1888.
Professor Little, Miss Charlotte G. Lane, Good-
win, '87, and Emery, '89, were employed on the
library classification this summer. All the principal
works, except religion, are now changed, and this
department Weeks will finish during the winter.
Briggs, '90, has charge of the loan department this
year.
Li the Sunday Olobe for September 23d, an article
over the signature of Charles O. Stickney, dated at
Bridgton, and illustrated with a respectable cut of
Appleton Hall, tries to show that Mrs. Stowe wrote
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" in room 7 of that building.
We do not know who this Mr. Stickney may be, nor
■why he writes from Bridgton instead of Brunswick,
but he evidently has as mistaken an idea of where
the immortal tale was written as do many others. If
it first saw light in any of the dormitories it must
have been in South Maine, for an alumnus of the
period avers that Dr. Stowe had the tutor's room in
that end while Professor here. Others hold that the
story was written in the upper part of General Cham-
berlain's present residence. But the famous authoress
herself, when approached as to the matter, replied
as follows, and her original letter can be seen at the
Brunswick Public Library :
Aug. 30, 1887.
Deak Sir:
According to the memory oJ my children, which (as I
am 76 years of age) is better tliau mine, " Uncle Tom's
Cabin " was written in what was called the " Old Titcomb
House" [on Federal Street. — Ed.] in Brunswick, Maine.
Yours truly, H. B. Stowe.
This certainly ought to settle the matter.
Fifteen Sophs are rooming in South Appleton and
somebody has adorned that end with the appropriate
sign, " Hell." The north end of the building was of
old dubbed "Paradise."
Donworth, ex-'90, who went to West Point, stood
eighteenth in order of general merit in a class of
ninety-three at that institution last year.
Mr. Whittier, and Mr. C. E. Adams, '84, Colby's
gymnasium director, have been attending Dr. Sar-
gent's summer school for physical culture at Harvard
during vacation.
Two circulars from a German bookseller were
recently received at the Brunswick post-ofiSce, ad-
dressed to the Athenasan and Peucinian societies of
Bowdoin College !
The tennis courts have been the property of the
Brunswick damsels during the summer, and were
liberally patronized on fine days. The Crescent Club
held a picnic and progressive tennis party on the
campus the first of August.
Adams, '89, is teaching at Bean's Corner; Harri-
man, '89, at New Portland ; Hill, '89, at White Rock,
Gorham ; Moody, '90, at Dresden Mills ; Turner, '90,
at West Woolwich ; and Poor, '91, at Orrington.
A Brown Memorial Scholarship has been awarded
to Cutts, '91.
Leary, '91, was successful in the spring examina-
tions at West Point, and has entered '92 there.
The summer's canvassers generally found "Hid-
den Treasures " so deeply hidden that they failed to
realize much of a bonanza. Parker, '91, was the
boss canvasser, selling over 300 books.
Mr. Harold Fletcher, a pi'ominent portrait painter
of Boston, was busy for the two weeks just previous
to the opening of the term restoring and re-hanging
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many of the paintings up in the Walker Gallery.
He is the artist who was here two years ago on the
same business.
Bangs, of the Colby nine, and Newman, of the
Bates, have entered Bowdoin, '91.
While changing 10 North Maine into a student's
room, this summer, the workmen found a badly mil-
dewed copy of the Greek Historians, under one of
the old benches. It belonged to Mr. Edward Stan-
wood, '61, and must have been lost there when No.
19 was used as the classical room, thirty years ago.
When on your way to the post-offlce, drop into
J. S. Towne's new store, next to Bracliett's, and try
one of his delicious milk shakes. He is the only
man in town who keeps them.
Our list of the '86 men who received A.M. in
course was published incorrectly in the Commence-
ment OniENT. It should be : F. W. Alexander, F.
I. Brown, O. R. Cook, F. W. Davis, H. N. Dunham,
W. M. Fames, L. B. Folsora, N. B. Ford, E. W.
Freeman, E. E,. Harding, J. F. Libby, J. S. Norton,
J. A. Peters, Jr., A. W. Rogers, E. Thomas, F. N.
Whittler.
The courses of instruction this year must be very
satisfactory to all. The range of electives is more
liberal than ever, and several in addition to those in the
catalogue are provided for the upper classes. Profi
Johnson, who now devotes his whole time to Ger-
man, has Faust as a Senior elective, and Prof. Bowen,
with entire charge of the French, offers miscellane-
ous readings to the Juniors. Two new Senior elect-
ives are Practical Physiology and Practical Physics.
Political Economy is required this term in place of
Geology, which will come during the winter. A
Senior can now pursue a course of study in which
there are no sciences or languages.
The Sophs held a lively horn concert on the even-
ing of Thursday, September 20th. They met copious
showers at the various ends. Certain excited visit-
ors caused the Sophoric wrath to rise, but no blood
was spilled.
At a meeting of the Base-Ball Association the fol-
lowing officers were chosen : President, F. L. Sta-
ples ; Vice-President, F. J. Allen ; Secretary-Treas-
urer, W. L. Foss; Directors, M. A. Rice, G. F. Free
man, H. S. Chapman. The directors have elected
F. W. Freeman captain.
The Young Men's Christian Association tendered
an enjoyable reception at its rooms to the members
of the Freshman class, a week ago Thursday even-
ing. President Hyde and Professors Chapman and
Smith gave addresses, and a collation was served,
several new members have joined, and the Associa-
tion enters on its fall work with every favorable out-
look. The Maine Y. M. C. A. Convention is held
here in Ihree weeks (October 25-28).
A Republican Club has lately been formed, with
the following officers: President, L. J. Bodge;
Vice-President, F. L. Staples ; Secretary, C. H. Fogg;
Treasurer, F. M. Russell ; Executive Committee, S.
L. Fogg, G. T. Files, W. L. Foss. On the afternoon
of the 26th the club gave Mr. Blaine a rousing re-
ception at the depot. His name was .spelled out and
the college cheer given, and calls made for a speech.
From the vt-indow Mr. Blaine remarked that he was
glad that not all of Bowdoin was for free trade.
Being pressed for more than this, the " uncrowned
king" came out on the car platform and said:
" Young gentlemen, I have no speech to make fur-
ther than to congratulate you on Iiaving the true po-
litical belief, and on your enthusiasm in demonstrat-
ing it." As Mr. Blaine bowed his thanks the train
moved from the depot amid vociferous cheers.
Brother Tenney, of the Telegraph, bursts out as fol-
lows : "All Nonsense. The scheme started to hold
a Maine Central Fair at Augusta. Three fairs for
Maine will be quite as much of a dose as are three col-
leges, one a mongrel affair." Which can he mean ?
The Freshmen held a successful pea-nut drunk,
Thursday night, September 20th.
Topsham Fair, October 9-11. "Triangle" has
been entered for the I'aces.
During vacation more repairs than usual have
been made upon the college buildings. All have re-
ceived more or less painting, Massachusetts Hall
having been wholly repainted outside. Two new
student rooms have been built in North Winthrop,
one in South, and two in North Maine, one of the
latter being the old Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion quarters. This gives eighty-seven suites in the
dormitories, all of which are now occupied. In the
gymnasium forty new lockers have been added,
making in all one hundred and six. The duplicate
room of the library has been converted into a very
light place, and more light thus furnished the South
Wing, by changing the double doors on that side into
a large window. A commodious nevcspaper case
has also been built. The stairway to the chapel or.
gan loft has been greatly improved, and in accord-
ance with a suggestion made by the Okient last
spring, the pulpit platform has a new carpet and a
handsome black walnut pulpit.
The college begins its eighty-seventh year with
the following numbers : Seniors, 41 ; Juniors, 38 ;
Sophomores, 58; Freshmen, 46; Specials, 2; total,
185.
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';j5. — Rev. Stephen Allen,
D.D., dii'd suddenly at
Wintlirop. Rev. Mr. Allen was bom
in Industrj', March 20, 1810. He was
converted at Norridgewock in 1826. He
was a graduate of Bowdoin College, class
of '35, and taught the Bueksport High School be-
foi-e he was licensed to exhort, in 18:50. While pur-
suing theological studies in New York, he was
admitted, on trial, in the Maine Conference, and im-
mediately transferred to Black River Conference,
where he was engaged as teacher for two years. In
1839 he was transferred to Troy conference, and was
teacher in the Troy Conference Academy until 1841,
when he was elected principal of the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary. In 1844 Mr. Allen was appointed to the
Waterville mission, and thereafter was in active and
effective service in the Methodist church until 1883,
when he received supernumerary relation. He was ap-
pointed financial agent of the Maine Wesleyan board
of education in 1853, and held that office until 1866.
He was also superintendent of the Maine Industrial
School for Girls from 1876 to 1879, and presiding
elder of the Augusta district from 1879 to 1883. He
supplied at East Readfleld and at Auburn in 1883
and 1884. He was three times a delegate to the
General Conference, was a member of the book
committee for four years, and of the committee
on missions four years. For forty-six years he
served on the board of trustees of the Maine Wes-
leyan Seminary, and had been a member of the
Maine board of education since its organization.
Bowdoin College conferred upon him the degree of
D.D. in 1869.
'43. — Hon. George F. Choate of Salem, Mass., a
leading member of Essex County bar, and for
the last thirty years Judge of Probate of Essex
County, died at Sharon Springs, N. Y., on the 11th
inst., at the age of 66 years. Judge Choate was a
native of the town of Essex, and graduated at
Bowdoin College in the class of 1843, having among
his classmates Hon. William U. Northend of Salem,
Hon. Joseph Titcomb, the late Joseph Dane of
Kennebunk, and the late Hon. Francis Loring Talbot
of East Machias. He leaves a widow and several
children. The former is the daughter of Dr. George
Cogswell of Bradlbrd, and a sister of General Will-
iam Cogswell of Salem, now member of Congress
from the Essex district. Joseph II. Choate the emi-
nent New York lawyer is his brother.
'47. — The Rev. Charles H. Wheeler and wife, of
Winchondon, were instantly killed at State Line
Depot crossing, three miles from Winchendon, July
10th. The rear of their carriage was struck by the
locomotive of a heavy freight train. The Rev.
Charles Henry Wheeler was vs'ell known and highly
esteemed in Unitarian circles. He was a native of Sa-
lem, Mass., where he was born in June, 1831, and was
the son of the Rev. Dr. A. D. Wheeler. He graduated
from Bowdoin College in 1817, and for a time was
engaged in teaching at Westford Academy in this
State. He then pursued a theological course of three
years at the Harvard Divinity School, and perfected
his education at the University of Gottingen, Ger-
many. His first pastorate was at Peabody, Mass.,
but he soon accepted a call from the Winchendon
Unitarian Church, and has filled the pulpit there for
nearly a score of years. He married in 1854, Miss
Ellen Gage, and leaves one son who is engaged in
literary work. After years of hard labor in preaching
upon a moderate salary, and supporting a family, a
few months since Mr. Wheeler secured a bequest of
$20,000 by the will of a deceased parishioner, and
had reason to hope for greater comfort in his de-
clining years ; but this hope was blasted in the awful
accident which caused his death. The Lewision Jour-
nal says that Mr. Wheeler was the youngest man ever
graduated from Bowdoin. Rev. Charles Packard of
the class of 1817, was sixteen, and Mr. William
Widgery of the same class was fifteen years, at the
time of graduating.
'58. — Osceola Jackson of Brunswick, Me., died
June 27, 1888, at Barracoa, West Coast of Africa.
Osceola, the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Jackson, was
born at Worcester, Mass., December 16, 1836, so that
at the time of his death he was a little over 51 years
of age. The father removed to Topsham in 1850
where he resided for three years, and then removed
to Brunswick, where at present the family resides.
Osceola Jackson entered Bowdoin College, and
graduated with the class of 1858, Judge Nathan
Cleaves, F. M. Drew, E. B. Nealley, being among his
classmates. Subsequently Mr. Jackson married
Miss Emma Forsaith of this town by whom he had
one child, S. R. Jackson, 2d. The first Mrs. Jackson
died many years since. After some years Mr. Jack-
son married again and leaves a widow and a
daughter, a young lady grown. For several years
Mr. Jackson had been in the service of Messrs. Yates
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& Porterfield, of New York, merchants largely en-
gaged in African trade, and was in charge of large
interests.
'66. — A handsome memorial tablet has recently
been placed in position in the military chapel at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. It consists of two polished
brass shields engraved with the memoi'ial inscriptions
as given below, and placed against a background of
gray Champlain marble. On one shield the inscrip-
tion reads : "In memory of First Lieutenant George
E. Lord, Assistant Surgeon, killed in action with
Sioux Indians, Little Big Horn Kiver, Montana, June
25, 1876."
'70. — D. A. Alexander, candidate Harrison's pri-
vate secretary, is a graduate of Bowdoin College, and
originally from Erie, Penn. He went from Indiana
as a school teacher, and first taught in the public
schools of Fort Wayne. He afterwards became one
of the editors and ijroprietors of the Fori Wayne
Qazetle, and then went from journalism into law,
settling at Indiana^solis. He was under the Garfield
administration fifth comptroller of the treasury.
'77. — Rev. William F. Ayer is now rector of the
Chapel of the Holy Communion, Twenty-seventh and
Wharton Streets, Philadelphia. His residence and
postal address is 225 South 33d Street, Philadelphia.
'77.— In Washington, D. C, on August 11, 1888,
Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., married Miss
Josephine, daughter of Mrs. M. Diebitsch, of Wash-
ington.
'78. — A. E. Burton is professor of engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he
is a very successful and popular instructor. Mr.
Burton was formerly connected with the United
States coast survey, a position which he gained by
competitive examination. He is an exceptionally
fine draughtsman, and aman of most studious habits.
While in college he was a quiet, unobtrusive man
and a great student. Mr. Burton resides at Jamaica
Plain.
'80. — Superintendent A. M. Edwards, of the Lew-
iston public schools, is having excellent success in
selling his language chart. It has been introduced
into the schools of Portland, Biddeford, Saco, Lisbon,
and other places. It fills a long-felt need in primary,
intermediate, and country schools, and merits a wide
and extensive sale.
'81. — G. F. Manson is a successful young legal
light in the Ilemenway building, Boston. Imme-
diately after graduation he traveled extensively in
Europe, after which he graduated at the Boston Law
School, and immediately put out his shingle. Mr.
Manson was recently indentified with the Stain-
Cromwell case as counsel for the New York World,
and in fact may be considered the legal adviser in
Boston, for the World, on many subjects. He is also
counsel for several large ship-owners and builders of
Bath, Me. He has been assessor in Ward 10, and
may be considered one of the most successful of
Bowdoin's younger men in Boston.
'84. — One of the most fashionable weddings of
the season in Sagadahoc County, was celebrated,
Wednesday evening, at East Bowdoinham, at the res-
idence of William K. Maxwell, in the marriage of
their daughter, Frances, to Mr. Herbert P. Kendall
of Bowdoinham, cashier of the Village National
Bank. The wedding was at 9 o'clock in the evening,
and was attended by guests from New York, Boston,
Portland, Brunswick, Bath, Richmond, Gardiner, and
Lewiston. About one hundred were present. The
ceremony was performed by Professor Henry L.
Chapman of Bowdoin College.
'85. — L. B. Folsom was married July 11th, in
New York, to Miss M. Eva Bosserman of Chicago.
'85. — N. B. Ford received the degree of M.D. at
the Boston University Medical School, June 26,
1888.
'87.— Mr. M. H. Boutelle, formerly of Bangor,
has successful!}' passed his examination for admis-
sion to the bar in Minneapolis, Minn. Having read
a good deal of law during the latter portion of his
college course, he was enabled by hard work to take
his examination earlier than would otherwise have
been possible. A Minneapolis paper says : "The ex-
amination was very thorough, and the candidates
appeared to acquit themselves with ability. Mr.
Boutelle made an especially good record."
'88.
Bartlett has been appointed principal of the Free-
port High School.
Black is in business at his home in Hammonton,
N.J.
Bradford is studying medicine at the Portland
School for Medical Instruction.
Brown is in Brunswick at the present time, but
will shortly return to his home in the West.
Card is studying Law in Gorham, Maine.
Cary occupies a position in the National Bank at
Ellsworth.
Carruthers is teaching in Freeport.
Chapman and Shaw have accepted positions in a
bank in Kansas City.
Cole occupies the position of assistant in Chem-
istry in this college.
Doolittle is tutor in Fisk Institute, Worcester,
Mass.
. Dresser is principal of the Gould Academy,
Bethel, with Linscott as his assistant.
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Goding is principal of the Higli School in Alfred.
Hall is at his home in Richmond, studying law.
Hill is principal of the High School at Pembroke,
Maine.
Ingalls is at his home in Bridgton, Maine.
Larrabee has been engaged as principal of the
new High School at Buxton.
Marston is principal of the Standish High School.
Maxwell is in business in Boston.
Meserve is principal of the High Scliool at
Thoraaston.
Shorey is on the editorial staff of the Bridgton
News.
M. P. Smithwick is principal of the High School
in Vinalhaven, Me.
F. L. Smithwick is in the apothecary business in
Boston.
Tolman is pursuing post-graduates in English
Literature at Harvard.
Williamson is city editor of the Kennebec Journal.
Woodman is professor in Latin at Thayer Acad-
emy, Braintree, Mass.
IN MEMORY OF ROSWELL CHASE
GILBERT.
Again the class of 1880 are called to mourn. Our
classmate, Roswell Chase Gilbert, died October 26,
1887, in Turner, Me., the place of his birth, aged
thirty-one.
Therefore, Be it resolved, that by his death we
have lost a brother who, though he was with us dur-
ing only the last year of our college course, soon
found a place in our esteem, which, as we became
acquainted with his cheerful and happy disposition,
kindly nature, and upright character, deepened to
affection. We assure his parents and relatives of
our warmest sympathy, and leave the rest to the gen-
tle hands of time and love.
Feed. Odell Con ant,
Walter P. Perkins,
A. M. Edwards,
CommiUee of the Class of 1880.
Brunswick, June 28, 1888.
C. D. Todd of the University of Worcester, O.,
was awarded the highest prize — $250 — offered by the
Protective Tariff" League to Seniors of American col-
leges for best essay on the necessity of a protective
tariff; King, University of Kansas, 2d, $100; Sully,
Bucknell University, 3d, $.50. Almost all the col-
leges were represented in the competition. — Ex.
The Imperial University of Japan has the only
department of Sanitary Engineering in the world.
In Michigan University a course has been estab-
lished in the art of writing plays for the stage. — Ex.
Among the 559 women who have graduated from
the fourteen leading women's colleges and semina-
ries in this country, only 177 are married. — Aegis.
"Fain would I write a poem on the delights of
fishing ; but, ah, me ! I caunot find a word to rhyme
with ' angleworm,' " sighed Pisistratus, as he gazed
thoughtfully into the dark, sullen waters. " But why
must you put that word at the end of a line ? "
queried Eucalyptus. "Because an angleworm is
always at the end of a line," hissed Pisistratus be-
tween his set teeth; and for a long time it was so
still that one could distinctly hear a peach blow. — Ex.
Out of Yale's list of graduates, ninety-two have
become college presidents.
In olden times men studied hard,
For " trots " were then unknown.
And wlien examination came
They were but skin and hone.
But now for lessons rarely conned
The trembling " birds " atone,
And if they pass the Jane exams.
'Twill be mere skin and Bohn.
— Yale Record.
Prof. G. — "Mr. R., give me an example of induc-
tion." Mr. R. — " Suppose a man should die for five
successive Saturdays " Class smiles aloud, and
Prof. G. asks — "Do you mean that he would be
buried also each time he dies ? " Mr. R. afterwards
explains that a man might become intoxicated and
"dye" the town crimson for five successive Satur-
days.— Michigan Argonaut.
Last spring tlie students of Union College threat-
ened to withdraw en masse if the President's chair,
then vacant for four years, was not soon filled.
Union now has a president, Prof. Webster of Roch-
ester, whose election was joyfully ratified by the
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students. The}' voted to cut recitations for a
as an expression of their approval. — Ex.
A Tvitching, Tjlushing damsel she,
The fairest in a " tony " choir —
"Which chanted forth rich melody,
To heart and soul inspire.
In vain each dude used all his art§.
That one sweet smile might on him fall;
She beamed and smiled on one alone—
A youth scarce five feet tall.
And when remonstrance was applied —
Why smiles on him alone should rest,
She said, " A cute short metre him
Had always pleased her best."
— Yale Record.
Professor Patton, recently elected President of
Princeton, is a British subject who has never sought
naturalization in this country. — Harper^s Weekly.
The Yale reading-room subscribes for 190 period-
icals and papers. The greatest demand of the
readers is for the illustrated papers in this order —
Puck, Life, Harper's Weekly. — Ex.
BOOK REVIEWS.
Justice A Healing Power. By M. J. Barnett. Bos-
ton, H. H. Carter and Karrick, 1SS8. Pamphlet, 12
mo. pp. 27, 25c.
This essay was written by one of those who be-
lieve that a lapse in virtue induces an attacli of
disease. The spirit of the production is fanatic, and
it is scarcely worth reading, except as a matter of
curiosity.
Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and
Langdage, NVith Illustrations. Vol. 'i. Artemi-
sia TO Baptisia. New York, John B. Alden, 1887.
12 mo. pp. 031.
The third volumu of this popular cyclopedia lies
upon our desk. Previous occasion has been given
for mention of it in these columns, and the favorable
notice then accorded it has been largely duplicated
by the press and by private individuals. The present
volume continues the work already so well begun by
the two preceding i(. The Cyclopedia is in all re-
spects a good one, and if the series be completed
after the present style, the publication will certainly
be creditable to Alden's "literary revolution."
COLLOQUIA LATINA, ADAPTED TO THE BEGINNER'S BoOKS
OF Jones, Leiqhton and Collar, and Daniell. By
Benj. L. D'Ooge, M.D. Boston, D. C. Heath & Co.
1888. 12 mo. pp. 81. 30c.
As an aid in rendering the study of Latin interest-
ing to beginners, this book is very good. It is to be
used in connection with the " beginner's books of
Jones, Leighton and Collar, and Daniell." To the
first two of these it would doubtless pi'ove an advtin-
tageous supplement, but it would hardly be of serv-
ice, combined with the third, as Collar and Daniell's
text-book contains in itself virtually the same subject
matter.
NOTES.
Senator Sherman, in his recent speech on the iish-
ery treaty, quoting from Washington's Farewell Ad-
dress, said that this address " ought to be circulated,
like the Declaration of Independence, the Ordinance
of 1787, and the Constitution of the United States,"
among the American people. The directors of the
Old South Studies in History and Politics have incor-
porated all tliese documents in their new general series
of Old South Leaflets, published by D. C. Heath &
Co., of Boston, so that everybody can now have them
for a few cents. The Constitution of Ohio has also
just been added to this series of Old South Leaflets.
Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Mr. Beecher's succes-
sor in the Plymouth pulpit, editor of the Christian
Unio7i, formerly literary editor of Harper^s Monthly
and author of various books, amongst them a Life of
Christ and a Dictionary of Religious Knowledge, is
writing a commentary upon the New Testament for
Christian workers. He has completed ]\lalthew,
IVIark, and Luke, John and the Acts, in four volumes.
He has now finished the Romans, which is issued from
the press of A. S. Barnes & Co. It is a small octavo
volume of 240 pages, on excellent paper and with
a number of fine illustrations made for the book.
D. C. Heath & Co. will issue before October 1st,
"Goethe's Torquato Tasso," edited by Calvin Thomas,
Professor of Germanic Languages at the University
of iMiohigan. 2.50 pp. cloth. This is an edition of
one of the most important and charactei'istic works
of Germany's greatest jjoet. An introduction of
sixty pages discusses fully the growth of the drama
and its ethical importance. The full notes are meant
not for beginners but for those students who have
acquired an interest in the better German literature.
The work is scholarly and a valuable addition to the
list of (iernian texts for higher schools.
Lothrop & Co. are publishers of a beautiful
edition of Jowett's translation of Thucydides with
an introduction by A. P. Peabody, LL.D.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 17, 1888.
Vol. XVIII.
No. 7.
BOWDOTN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
F. L. Staples, 'S!), Managing Editor.
O. P. Watts, '8Ii, Business Editor.
W. M. Emery, '89. E. R. Stearns, '89.
G. T. Files, '89. G. B. Chandler, '90.
F. J. C. Little, '89. J. M. W. Moody, '90.
D. E. Owen, '89. T. 0. Spillane, '90.
Per annuni, in advance, $2.00.
Single Copies, 15 cents-
Extra copies cau be obtai iied at the bookstores or on applica-
tion to tlie Business Editor.
Remittances should be made to the Business Editor. Cora-
muDications in regard to all other matters should be directed to
the Managing Editor.
Students, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contribute
literary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must be
accompanied by writer's name, as well as the signature which
he wishes to have appended.
Entered at the Post-OIfics at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 7.-Octobek 17, 1888.
To the Sea, 101
Editorial Notes, 101
Pro, 103
Horace: Book I., Ode V,, 104
Teaching, lOi
Our Political Clubs 105
William D. Howells, 105
Base-Ball, 106
Collegii Tabula 107
Personal, 109
In Memoriam, Ill
College World, Ill
Book Reviews, 112
TO THE^^SEA.
Soft is thy rest, O silent sea.
To thy farthest moonlit rim
There comes no sign nor sound to me,
Save that eternal hymn
Which in the dim age of thy birth
God taught thee how to sing
O'er watching night and the sleeping earth,
As through their course they swing.
Sweet is thy light, O silver sea.
Under the cold cloud bars
The moon's broad glory seems to me
The pathway to the stars.
— The Dartmouth.
Tlie editor of the Rockland Opin-
ion seems to be in a very frantic and chaotic
state of mind, if we may judge from an
article which appeared recentlj^ in that paper.
The immediate cause of this state of the
editor's brain it is difficult to find. He seems
to labor under the delusion that President
Hyde has been terribly insulted by the Re-
publicans of this college. Without being
able, apparently, to separate facts from a
distorted imagination, he calls on the Demo-
crats of the college to organize, and advises
them " to stand no more bulldozing."
It might possibly be a profitable experi-
ence for the writer of the above to come to
Bowdoin and investigate some of these
alleged "insults," and find out how much
" bulldozing " is really carried on here.
" Intoxicated by the exuberance of his own
verbosity " he apparently takes Bowdoin Col-
lege for Mississippi, and we would respect-
fully suggest to our esteemed contemporary
that such a fanatical and incendiary article
would look much better in a Mississippi
newspaper than in the columns of a respect-
able Maine journal.
" The next man who tries it " (bulldoz-
ing), " whether Prof., student, or Brunswick
rough should be put under the pump. And
we believe the Democratic students there,
though in a minority, have got the muscle
and the nerve to do it, and to clean out the
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whole Federal-Whig-Black-Republican she-
bang, too." Such language as this, to quote
a Democratic student, "is an insult to the
intelligence of the college."
The practice of putting the Professors
under the pump has quite gone out of fashion
here, and when a student feels the exhila-
rating effects of precipitated humidity it is
always for some other cause than his politi-
cal opinions.
As a matter of fact the President has
been subjected to no insults by the Republi-
cans of the college. They may differ from
his political views but a difference of opinion
has yet to be recognized as an insult. And
among the students, too, there is the most
perfect harmony and the campaign clubs
have yet to stir up the slightest animosity
among those of different political views.
Each respects the opinions of the other, rec-
ognizing the fact that the Bowdoin student,
be he Democrat or Republican, is first of all
a gentleman.
And it may be a source of satisfaction to
our esteemed contemporary to know that
the Democrats of this college repudiate his
methods of reform. There is not one who
can honestly say that he is or has been "in-
sulted " or " bulldozed."
The Orient is not a political paper, and
it is very seldom that politics are mentioned
in its columns. We think we owe an apol-
ogy to our readers for taking cognizance of
this item from the Opinion, but giving as it
does an entirely false view of certain matters
connected with the college, we thought it
well to notice it thus briefly.
have no doubt that the general public will
find it not devoid of interest.
The New York Mail and Express has in-
augurated a new departure in giving to its
patrons every Wednesday a column of col-
lege news. The Mail and Express has cor-
respondents in all colleges of importance,
and matters of general college interest will
be discussed. This column cannot help being
especially interesting to college men, and we
Some papers in the State are circulating
the report that a certain student was induced
to leave Colby and come here by means of
liberal pecuniary rewards. According to this
story the President offered the man fifty dol-
lars, which by telegram he finally increased
to one hundred. For the benefit of those
who, having heard only one side of the story
may give credence to it, we will briefly notice
the facts.
The gentleman in question passed his
examinations for this college last June. He
brought letters of recommendation from the
pastor of a church in his city, and from the
principal of the school where he fitted. He
arrived here at the beginning, or shortly
after the beginning, of the present term.
Soon after he had the misfortune to lose,
as he said, a sum of money, thirty-five
dollars being the amount, we think. As
he was in rather straitened circumstances it
was a very serious loss, and he left for home,
having decided to give up his college course
altogether. This being brought to the atten-
tion of President Hyde he wrote to the
young man offering to make up his loss pro-
vided it did not exceed fifty dollars. The
college it will be noticed did not offer to
make it up, but the President personally. It
was simply an act of voluntary kindness on
the part of the President, by which a young
man was to get a college education, for he
had thought it necessary on account of his
loss to give up altogether his plan of educat-
ing himself. After leaving Brunswick he
visited Waterville, but for some reason or
other did not see fit to take the course at
Colby. While he was in Waterville he
showed a letter, according to the Waterville
Mail, which, he said he had received from
President Hyde, in which he was offered a
scholarship and fifty dollars in cash if he
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would come to Bowdoin. If he showed such
a letter it must have been . a forgery, for we
have the word of the President that he never
wrote such a letter.
Bowdoin is not so hard pressed for men
that she has to hire them to come here, and
if the young man in question has no higher
sense of honor than to take the course which
the Waterville Mail declares he did take, he
will find life at some other college far more
enjoyable than he would here.
It has been projiosed that a debating club
be organized this fall by the Senior class.
The idea seems to be gaining favor, and it is
very likely that such an organization may be
effected. It seems to us that it could not
help being productive of good results. There
are questions arising every day in the differ-
ent departments of study on which there is
wide diversity of opinion. The discussion
of these questions might clear up some of
the difBculties attending their solution, and
at any rate would result in a better under-
standing of the grounds on which these
opinions rest.
But it seems to us that a still better plan
would be to form a club out of the upper
classes and make the organization permanent
by electing to membership from year to year
such persons as may be deemed best quali-
fied.
And then it might profitably be made
more than a debating club by including in
the programme, essays, speeches, etc., the
results of our own independent thinking. It
is said, and we believe justly, that there has
been a decline in power of declamation and
in original thought in the American under-
graduate in the last generation. That this
condition of things, as far as this college is
concerned, might be remedied, we advocate
the formation of such a club.
With the Athenpeau and Peucinian socie-
ties went an interest in rhetorical exercises
and debating, which the Greek letter socie-
ties have never been able to fully recall.
Other colleges have such organizations
as the one proposed, and on the whole they
are attended with the best results, and if
Bowdoin hopes to retain the place she has
made for herself in the past she must see to
it that her students develop their powers of
original thought and composition. In what
better way can this be brought about than
by the plan proposed ?
PRO.
In an article entitled " Consultation After
Hecitation," which appeared in a recent
number of the Orient, the writer endeav-
ors to set forth the unfairness of the custom
of seeking information after the recitation
hour.
Let us examine into the merits of the
case. That a prejudice exists is no argu-
ment either in favor of or against it. The
time of recitation is, essentially, the common
property of the whole class, and as soon as
any individual attempts to monopolize it by
questions which are of no assistance to the
class in general, however important they
may be to himself, he is infringing upon the
rights of others and is appropriating time
which does not belong to him.
As the greater part of our professors
have expressed their willingness to render
individual assistance, it is obviously the ap-
propriate time for those students to obtain that
assistance, who, either by reason of insuffi-
cient preparation for college, or otherwise,
meet with difficulties in their work. The
most important function of a college profes-
sor is to impart knowledge and, so far as
possible, to supply the individual needs of
the student, and it is at the discretion of the
professor how they shall be supplied. Al-
though we have passed our nursery days
there are times when the best of us find that
we are not wholly self-sufficient.
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Let us not then invite comparison be-
tween ourselves and be like the dog in the
fable, who, not desiring to eat hay him-
self, stood in the manger frightening away
the hungry cattle.
HORACE : BOOK I., ODE V.
What graceful youth, with liquid scents perfumed,
By smouldering fires of youthful love consumed,
Woos thee, fair Pyrrha, in thy rosy bower,
'Mid leafy vines and many a fragrant flower ?
For whom thy golden locks dost thou confine
With simple grace and artless care divine ?
Alas, how oft will he his faith deplore ;
How many times the hostile gods adore,
And ingnorant of Fortune's thorny side,
Will view with awe the raging winds and swelling
tide :
Who now is happy in thy golden smile,
And, trusting, thinks thee always free from guile ?
Unhappy youth, for whom thy beauties shine,
I, with votive tablet on the sacred shrine.
Have placed my garments dripping with the sea,
A humble oftering, O Mighty God, to thee.
R.
TEACHING.
Many of the students avail themselves
of this means for financial aid to complete
their course. Also as graduates, many apply
themselves to teaching as a stepping stone
to some other profession. This is, then, a
subject that needs our careful consideration.
If a man wishes to became a lawyer he con-
nects himself with some law school or re-
ceives private guidance to that end; or if
a man wishes to study medicine he attends a
medical school and studies under persons
skilled in the profession of medicine. When
his studies are pursued to a sufficient degree
he is recognized as a professional man. Then
he is at liberty to begin his practice. How
is it with the man who teaches? There
seems to be a popular opinion handed down
from the past that any one who has been
through a course in some school and who
can in any way get a certificate is fit to teach.
There are many reasons why it is only
one in every ten of the 300,000 teachers in
our country that receive a professional train-
ing. First, there are no professorships of
pedagogy teaching in our country except in
a few colleges and universities. And there
are many men and women who have made
teaching their life work ; but they have
little or no legal recognition as professional
teachers.
Secondly, in almost every State in the
Union, law requires that teachers shall be ap-
pointed annually "for the term of one year."
But in no state does it require any profes-
sional training whatever, as a prerequisite for
teaching a common school one year.
It is not possible to dignify as a profes-
sion an occupation in which men and women
are subject to annual loss of place at the
caprice of ever-changing school boards.
Among other reasons are the short terms
of our common schools, the low rates of
teachers' salaries, and the almost total lack
of any discrimination in wages between
trained teachers and raw recruits.
In our own State much has been done in
the last few years to raise the standard of
teaching, by the earnest efforts and the
judicious care of our state superintendent
of schools. Many of our towns have done
away with the old " district system," and
have adopted the " town system."
As soon as the advantages of the town
system becomes apparent to all — which is
only a question of time — there will follow a
demand for trained teachers. This is shown
in some of our large cities, as Portland for
instance, where a greater care is being taken
in the supervision of the schools than ever be-
fore.
It is true that one cannot teach what he
does not know ; so a knowledge of the sub-
ject is the first requisite. But it is equally
true that the best teacher is not the one who
has devoured the most books, but the one
who can kindle young hearts into enthusiasm
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by a spark of electric fire from his own
soul.
As there is an art of school teaching,
there are also underlying principles — laws
based upon a scientific knowledge of the nat-
ure of the one instructed. Many books
are written on these principles ; as Gold-
smith says: "Few subjects have been more
frequently written upon than the education
of youth."
There are also advancements and im-
provements being made constantly in the
methods of teaching. The student who in-
tends to teach ought for these reasons to
keep up with the times. Several books
might be suggested as an aid in teaching.
For practical work perhaps the " Method of
Teaching," by John .Swett, is as good as any;
besides, " The Science and Art of Teaching,"
by Spencer, Bains, Currie, Russell, Page, and
others. Also access to educational news-
papers like the Educational Journal is of great
advantage. Goodridge says :
"O wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule ;
And Sun tbee in the light of happy faces ;
Love, truth, and patience, tliese must be thy graces ;
And in thine own heart must they first keep school.'
OUR POLITICAL CLUBS.
There is no more healthy indication of
national prosperity than that of educated
young men taking an active interest in poli-
tics. Many of us have already assumed the
responsibility of American citizenship, and
to the thoughtful and patriotic mind this is
a responsibility of no small weight. But,
whether voters or not, we are supposed as
college men to have opinions.
Perhaps there may be in the lives of
some a time when the scales of belief are
balanced, but this moment must be of short
duration. Practically there is no such thing
as being " on the fence." Now, since par-
ties, with all their attendant evils, are the
only safeguards of national purity, and have
been recommended as such by Washington
and all succeeding statesmen ; and since
every one has a balance of conviction in one
way or the other, it seems a logical conclu-
sion that each one should identify himself
with one of the three political parties. An
opportunity to do this is offered to nearly
all of us in the two college clubs, and those
who fail to embrace it at this time of politi-
cal enthusiasm are false to their own inter-
ests and to their duty as educated young
men.
These clubs possess still another advan-
tage, and one which is entirely outside the
sphere of politics. On account of the arti-
ficial barriers which are erected by secret socie-
ties, the mutual discussions of extra-college
questions is much restricted. The beliefs of
other society men are hardly known to us.
Many students of superior talent and inde-
pendence of thought have no opportunity
to measure one another's ability, or to asso-
ciate kindred ideas. In a properly-conducted
political club many of these disadvantages
can be obviated. It forms a new bond of
common interest and brings us in contact
with minds and characters from whom the
associations of class and society and the lo-
cality of rooms seems to exclude us.
There are, however, considerable portions
of both the Democratic and Republican
parties in college who have not joined either
club. It is to be hoped that every student
will unite with the organization of his re-
spective party, and that both will be thor-
oughly successful.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
Probably there is no writer of this or any
other age about whom even the best of crit-
ics hold such a diversity of opinions, as about
Mr. Howells, and in face of this it seems
presumptuous for a college student to dis-
cuss him at all. Since he proclaims himself
by his novels and in his critiques a follower
of the realistic school of fiction, discussion
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of his merits is really but arguing the fro et
contra of realism. For it is conceded by all
that Mr. Howells writes good realism ; barring
a few prosy, interminable conversations, his
realistic society novels are entertaining read-
ing. Yet their continual perusal palls. The
characters are all cleverlj' sketched true to
life without doubt, but their existence moves
on with the drear monotony that humdrum,
every-day life has, and we soon long for
something more exciting. Mr. H. Rider
Haggard recently obtained some hold on
popular approval by going to the farthest
extreme from Mr. Howells, but his sensation-
alism is not to be regarded as the only fit
style of story telling any more than the
latter's realism. One narrates the manifestly
impossible ; the other only the possible.
Would it not be much better to adopt the
"golden mean" as a standard for fiction?
Some of the best stories and novels ever
written are improbable, not impossible, and
yet have a slight artistic blending of realism.
Such are : Hale's " Man Without a Country,"
Aldrich's " Marjorie Daw " (called the best
two short stories by American writers), Stock-
ton's works, or at least some of them, and
many of Poe's tales. These authors' names
are some of the most illustrious in our liter-
ature, yet they are not realists. It is un-
likely that Mr. Howells will ultimately be
called the king of English writing novelists,
as one ardent enthusiast dubs him ; sober,
weighty judgment of the future will assign
him a high place, probably, but not the high-
est among writers of fiction.
William D. Howells's style of Avriting is
peculiar. He uses language in a singular
manner, quite inimitable and indescribable.
His words and phrases are " pat," as we say.
He presents old and common-place ideas in
such a changed garb as to appear new and
interesting. His novel, yet correct, use of
verbs, adjectives, and epithets is surprising.
He is a devout believer in the beauty of
periodic sentences, and studies to use them
in every instance ; they make his style lit-
erary. They also make it tiresome. He
should, occasionally, sprinkle in a few loose
sentences, tiresome, too, used exclusively,
here and there to vary periodicity's monot-
ony. Like many a literary man of the day
who writes to kill space and make money,
Mr. Howells has a faculty for investing
nothing and nothings with a charm, and this
because he so well knows how to use his
mother tongue. However we may differ
from this author on the question of realism,
we shall have to admit that he can hold our
attention in his writings, and express his
thoughts as gracefully as any of the greatest
masters of the Queen's English.
BASE-BALL.
Following are the scores of the Bowdoin-
Bates and Bowdoin- Colby games, played
October 6th and October 10th, respectively :
Bates, 9 ; Bowdoin, 4.
A.E. R. iB. T.B. S.B. P.O. A.
Pennell, 2b. ... 6
Graves, 3b 5
Gilmore, lb. ... 5
Wilson, p 5
Daggett, r. f . . . .4
Call, c 4
Putnam, 1. f. . . . 5
Little, c. f. . . " . 5
Day, s. s 4
0 0
0 0
0
0
0
0
■A
1
0
0
1
0
Totals,
43 9 12 15 i) 27 16 7
Packard, lb.
Freeman, c.
Fogg, 1. f. .
Fish, 2b. .
Hilton, 3b. .
Tukey, c. f.
Russell, r. f.
Bangs, s. s. .
Burleigh, p.
Totals, .
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. iB. T.B. S.B. P.O.
1 15 0 0
0 0
0
0 10
.38 4 7 8 6 27 20 8
SCORE BY INNINGS.
12 3 45 0 789
,...00102024 0—9
....02020000 0—4
Bowdoin
Earned runs — Bates, 4; Bowdoin, 2. Two-base bits
— Bangs; Daggett. Three-base hit— Pennell. Double
plays— Little, Pennell, and Graves; Fish and Packard.
Base on balls— Call. Hit by pitched ball— Daggett; Day.
Passed balls— Call, 2; Freeman, 2. Time of game— 2
hours 15 minutes. Umpire — Cole.
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Colby, 8; Boivdoin., 3.
A.B.
Wagg, 2b 4
Parsons, p 5
Gilmore, lb. ... 4
Boberts, c. f. . . . 5
Bonney, 3b. ... 5
Merrill, 1. f. ... 4
Purington, s. s. . . 3
Kalloch, r. 1. ... 4
Foster, c 4
T.B. s.B. P.O. A. E.
12 2 0 0
13 2 8 1
1
0 0
0 1
0 0
1 10
Totals, .... 38 8 6 6 9 *26
*W. Hilton out forrunaing out ot base line.
BOWDOIN.
Packard, lb.
Freeman, 2b.
Fish,c. . .
Tukey, r. f . .
Tbompson, p.
Hilton, W., 3b
Russell, 1. f.,
Spillane, s. s.
Hilton, E., c.f,
K. iB.
0 0
1 10
0 0 0 0
Totals,
Colby, .
Bowdoin,
SCOEB BT INNINGS.
12 3 4
6 7 8 9
0 0 0 3 2 X— 8
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0—3
Earned runs — Colby, 1. Double plays— Tbompson and
W. Hilton. Base on balls — Wagg; Packard; Hilton,
"W., (2); Spillane. Hit by pitched ball — Gilmore; Pur-
ington. Passed balls — Foster, 2. Wild pitches — Thomp-
son, 2. Time o£ game — 1 hour 55 minutes. Umpire — Lar-
rabee.
THE GRIND.
" O tell me truly. Sophomore,
Of all the studied college lore,
01 all the branches you pursue,
"What is the greatest grind for you '
Physics, or Rhetoric, or Greek,
Latin or Math ematix ? Speak."
The student turned with lazy grace,
A scornful smile upon his face.
He winked a wink from his wily eye,
And to me made this brief reply :
' Physics and Rhetoric," quoth he,
' Latin and Greek ne'er trouble me.
But since my greatest grind you ask,
I'll say 'tis not an easy task
" When I the last exams.
Have failed to pass.
To make the Pater think
I lead my class."
A foot-ball revival is in progress, and after a
lapse of two years, the south campus is alive every
afternoon with merry kickers. "Rugby" is being
attempted, and it is not unlikely an eleven may be
formed.
A Democratic club has been organized, with the
following officers : President, J. L. Doherty ; Vice-
President, G. B. Chandler; Secretary, G. A. Tol-
man ; Treasurer, J. M. Hastings ; Executive Com-
mittee, V. O. White, W. R. Hunt, F. P. Morse, V. V.
Thompson, E. H. Newbegin.
A handsome new desk has been placed in Profes-
sor Little's office in the library.
President Hyde has prepared a study of "The
Country College " for the December Atlantic, and not
a series of articles on Bowdoin for that magazine, as
stated.
The first dance of the season occurred in the
Court Room the 3d.
Rev. Mr. Folsom of Bath addressed the students
at Chapel, Sunday, October 7th.
The College Jury is constituted this year as fol-
lows : '89, Carroll ; '90, V. V. Thompson ; '91, Jor-
dan; '92, Gurney; A. A. *., W. R. Smith; t. T.,
C.H.Fogg; A.K. E.,Owen; Z. *., Staples ; 9. A. X.,
F. M. Russell. At the first meeting, October 2d, an
organization was efiected, with Carroll as foreman
and Jordan, secretary.
Ernest L. Bartlett, formerly of '87, has joined '90.
The class officers for this term are : Seniors,
Professor Chapman; Juniors, Professor Robinson;
Sophomores, Professor Woodruff; Freshmen, Pro-
fessor Moody.
Professor Lee has been elected collector of the
Universalist parish.
Rev. Mr. Fisher's notable sermon on " Christian
Independence," preached the first Sabbath of the
college year, was published in full in the Telegraph
of October 5th. It will appear in pamphlet form.
The Boating Association has elected the following
officers : Commodore, J. R. Clark ; Vice-Commo-
dore, G. B. Sears ; Secretary and Treasurer, Profes-
sor William A. Moody; Assistant, F. E. Parker;
Directors, E. L. Adams, E. E. Briggs, J. R.
Home, Jr.
Among the many fine accessions to the library
during the past month may be mentioned : David
Barker's poems, Max Miiller's " Science of Thought"
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and "Word Biographies," Herbert Spencer's "Data
of Ethics," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Sarah Orne
Jewett's works, Joe Howard's "Life of Beecher,"
Wallace's "Ben Harrison," Dr. Roswell D. Hitch-
cock's posthumous "Eternal Atonement," Blanche
Howard's "One Summer," Lowell's "Heartsease
and Rue," Morley's "English Writers" in three
volumes, MacMaster's " United States," and Isham's
"Fishery Question."
All the fraternities excepting Z. ir. held their
annual initiations last Friday night.
A Harvard Lampoon editoi- evolved nineteen new
jokes last summer for use this fall. Kow is the time
to subscribe. — Boston Olobe.
The Orient editors haven't evolved any new
jokes for use this fall. Now is the time to sub-
scribe !
The Lewiston Journal recently sent out circulars
to various prominent men asking their opinions on
the next great economic invention — what would be
its nature, what would be most needed, and to what
extent could it be revolutionary. Professors Smith,
Robinson, Moody, and Hntchins made interesting
answers, which lack of space forbids our quoting
here. All are recommended to a verbatim perusal
thereof in the Journal.
The first Sophomore themes are due October 17th,
and an essay descriptive of one of the college build-
ings is required. Junior theme subjects, due October
24th : I. A New England Fair. H. Should women
be allowed to vote at the election of school officers ?
Several Freshmen applied to Professor Pease for
free grand stand tickets to see Triangle show his
paces.
One of our Juniors, who left off smoking, tem-
porarily, attached his dingy "cob" to the wall,
draped in mourning, and to it fixed a card bearing
the following effusion :
Old cob, farewell, thy dreamy spell
With long-drawn sigh, I bid adieu;
Thy soothing calm, thy mazy charm,
Tliy gentle rest, lor me is through.
Upon my wall thy bier shalt fall
To whi.sper of the Past to me;
The sable fate sliall ne'er abate
The ancient love I bear for thee.
The sessions of tlie Y. M. C. A. State convention
will be held in Memorial Hall, October 25-28, begin-
ning at 2.30 Thursday afternoon. The address on
Thursday evening will be delivered by Rev. Alex-
ander McKenzie, D.D., of Cambridge, Mass. Among
the prominent speakers will be Mr. Walter C. Doug-
las, Secretary of the Boston Association ; Mr. H. F.
Williams, Railroad Secretary of the International
Committee, New York ; Mr. R. M. Armstrong, State
Secretary of Massachusetts and Rhode Island ; Mr.
J. R. Mott and Mr. R. P. Wilder of New York, and
Mr. E. C. Pfeiffer, ex-captain of the University crew,
Harvard College, and Rev. Frank T. Bailey of Port-
land. It is expected that the Glee Club will assist
at some of the exercises. W. S. Corey, C. F. Hersey,
President of the Bowdoin branch, and E. A. Law-
rence, State Secretary, have been appointed execu-
tive committee. We bespeak a good attendance of
the students.
J. M. Hastings, '91, has caught several games for
the Brunswick nine this fall.
Mr. A. C. Rich of Brunswick is taking Chemistry
with the Juniors.
The fall fishing has resulted as follows : F. V.
Gummer, H. W. Kimball, H. F. Linscott, and James
Merryman, all of '92, have joined A. A. *. ^. T. is
recruited by George Downos, H. C. Emery, L. M.
Fobes, W. B. Kenniston, T. S. Lazell, R. W. Mann,
S. L. Parcher, C. S. Rich, and E. B. Young, all of
'92. G. W. Blanchard, '90, E. P. Munsey and A. K.
Newman, '91, and P. Bartlett, R. F. Bartlett, F. H.
Cothren, C. A. Hodgkins, W. E. Perkins, F. G.
Swett, F. L. Thompson, and E. B. Wood, '92, have
joined A. K. E. D. M. Bangs, '91, H. R. Gurney,
L. K. Lee, D. Mclntyre, and H. R. Smith, '92, have
entered Z. -i. The following Freshmen have been
admitted to e. A. X. F. Durgin, W. O. Hersey,
J. F. Hodgdon, J. C. Hull, T. F. Nichols, H. Poore,
W. S. Randall, L. Stacy, E. Wilson.
A Freshman remarked last Wednesday morning
that he had never taken any stock in Triangle until
then, but the bill convinced him it couldn't be a joke.
This fellow, with several other classmates, waited
disappointedly all Thursday afternoon for the famous
steed to appear on the track, and then that night at
supper loudly claimed they were not at all sold.
The reading-room papers were sold at auction the
10th. The Oxford Democrat went cheapest at 4 cents,
and Judge the highest, at 67 cents. Puck brought 40
cents. Tlie total receipts were $5.24. H. H. Has-
tings is manager this term.
C. H. Hastings, '91, is teaching at Bethel.
Dr. Bowen is a graduate of Rochester University,
'81, and is a member of the A. -i. fraternity. His full
title here is College Professor of Frencli.
M. H., Brunswick: No, Miss Jewett's "Mere
Pochette" was not written after her late visit to this
town, and so was not inspired thereby, as you
suggest.
Colcliester, Roberts & Co., Journalists, of Tiffin,
Ohio, liave mailed the Seniors their annual circulars
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oflfering essays, orations, debates, panegyrics, and
invectives, for sale at prices ranging from $3 to $25
according to length. It is to be hoped that this Wild
Western circular is not a fair sample of their style
and diction. One of the most taking inducements is
the statement, "No money required in advance."
Dr. Hyde delivered a Eulogy on Bowdoin's bene-
factor, Mr. Winkley, in the Chapel last Sunday
afternoon. Immediately after prayers Professor
Smith spoke before the Y. M. C. A.
The Quartette sang at Lisbon Falls, Tuesday
evening, October 9th, at the dedication of the new
Y. M. C. A. hall in that place.
The following alumni attended their society initia-
tions : A. A. <J>. — Professors Smith, Chapman, Rob-
inson, and Moody ; E. T. Little, '87 ; and Barrows,
ex-'88. *. T.— E. M. Smith, 74 ; E. D. Freeman,
'75; and A. W. Brooks, '85, Amherst; Barrett Potter,
'78; E. W. Freeman, '85; John Gould and Thomas
Lee, ex-'85 ; H. R. Fling, '86 ; E. B. Burpee '87 ; and
A. W. Tolman, '88. A. K. E.— G. L. Thompson,
ex-'77 ; F. N. Whittier, '85 ; J. V. Lane, F. Pushor,
and A. W. Merrill, '87; and J* Williamson, Jr., '88.
e. A. X.— Rev. C. L. Nichols, '57 ; F. W. Alexander,
'85 ; M. L. Kimball, '87 ; and D. M. Cole and W. T.
Hall, Jr., '88.
'26. — The Lewislon Jour-
nal, sometime ago, contained the
following: "While chatting in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel the other day John P.
Sanborn, who was for many years collector
of Port Huron, Michigan, by the appointment of
General Grant, mentioned the fact that he was born
in Maine, near Augusta. His father was a physician
with a classical education, who from time to time
assisted a number of young students to prepare them-
selves for college, and had among his pupils Lot M.
Morrill, who became distinguished as a Senator of
Maine. ' I saw here the other day,' said Mr. San-
born, 'the venerable ex-Senator Bradbury of Maine,
who belongs to a generation of men almost extinct.
He told me that he is one of the three living men of his
class in Bowdoin College, I believe it was the class of
1825, of which the poet Longfellow was also a member.
Ex-Senator Bradbury, ex-Senator Hannibal Hamlin ,
of Maine, and ex-Governor Alpheus Fitch, of Michi-
gan, are the three surviving members of the class.
All of them must be nearing the nineties.' " To be
sure, the Hon. J. W. Bradbury is one of the two
remaining members of the class of '25, made famous
by such names as Longfellow, Hawthorne, and
Abbott, but in regard to the other two members men-
tioned we would differ. Neither ex-Senator Hamlin
nor ex-Governor Fitch are alumni of this college,
though we would gladly claim them were we at lib-
erty to do so.
'25. — "Honor to whom honor is due," and who
has been more justly honored than Henry W. Long-
fellow ? The city of Portland was lately beautified
by a bronze statue of our beloved alumnus. The
statue itself, of heroic size and cast in bronze, is said
to be an excellent likeness of the poet.
'32.— The Rev. H. G. Stover died September 19th.
Born in Biddeford, November, 1813, he pursued a
theological course in the Bangor Seminary, and after
his graduation, was ordained as pastor of St. Stephens
church in New Brunswick. Since then he has occu-
pied numerous pulpits until 18(53, when he retired
from active duties. The following serves as an illus-
tration of the numerous excellent ti'aits with which
he was endowed: " Whatever portion of his salary
remained after his private expenses were met, he in-
variably distributed among the worthy poor of his
charge. And when he had nothing left of his own
to give, he would sometimes go to the grocery kept
by his wealthiest deacon, and order perliaps a barrel
of tloLir sent to a certain family, and when it had
been delivered, he would say, in his inimitable and
unanswerable manner, ' Deacon, you just charge that
flour to the Lord.'"
'53. — Melville W. Fuller was inaugurated Chief
Justice of the United States at 12 o'clock, Monday,
October 7th. The ceremony was as impressive as it
was short. The entire session of the court occupied
only ten minutes. The court then adjourned to meet
Tuesday. The Supreme Court Chamber is so small
that only a limited number of persons could witness
the ceremony of making a Chief Justice. Neverthe-
less the corridors of the capitol leading to the room
were thronged an hour before tlie court was to open.
Zealous door-keepers guarded the entrances and ad-
mitted only well-known persons, members of Con-
gress, newspaper men, and members of the local bar.
'60. — The Hon. Thomas B. Reed starts soon for a
stumping tour in Connecticut. The Lewiston Journal
remarks that he is " as happy as a first district clam."
Well may he be.
'76. — The Brunswick Telegraph lately contained
the following : " W. H. Marrelt. On Monday last we
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received a brief but pleasant call from Mr. Marrett,
his first visit to Brunswick for the past four veai's, he
having during that period been engaged in work in
the Southern and Western Stales. Hereafter his la-
bors as soliciting agent for medical publishers will
be more widely in New England. Mr. Marrett is
doing a little business on his own account, in rais-
ing blooded horses from the best of stock, and
we infer with good success in a business point of
view."
77. — Albert Somes, who for several years has
been principal of Berwick Academy, has resigned
that position and accepted the prineipalship of the
Manchester (N. H.) High School.
'77. — Dr. William Stephenson, surgeon U. S. A.,
is now stationed at Fort Verde, Arizona Territory.
'80. — The names, occupations, and places of resi-
dence of all the graduate members of the class of
1880, with a few exceptions, are given in the follow-
ing list :
Bartlett, on the editorial staif of the Daily Dis-
patch, Pittsburg, Pa.
Burbank, reading law, Limerick, Me. Has fol-
lowed teaching principally.
Chapman, civil engineer.
Collins, whereabouts unknown.
Conant, of the firm Conant, Patrick & Co., whole-
sale grocers, Portland, Me.
Dane, lawyer, member of the next legislature,
Kennebunk, Me.
Edwards, superintendent of schools, Lewiston.Me.
Ferguson, farmer and teacher, Shapleigh, Me.
Giveen, county superintendent of schools and
editor of a local paper, Weaverville, Cal.
Gilbert, dead.
Goulding, business, Boston, Mass:
Grindal, lawyer. New York City.
Hall, lawyer, San Francisco, Cal.
Harding, lawyer, Bangor, Me.
Holmes, A. H., Brunswick, Me.
Holmes, A. D., physician, Hyde Park, Mass.
Jones, minister, M. E. Conference, Winthrop, Me.
Maxcy, in the boot and slioe business, Fargo, Dak.
Payson, of the firm H. M. Payson & Co., bankers,
Portland, Me.
Perkins, lawyer, Cornish, Me.
Purington, lawyer, member of the legislature,
Mechanic Falls, Me.
Scott, lawyer and farmer, Clifton, Me., ex-mem-
ber of the legislature.
Spring, business, Portland, Me.
Swett, dead.
Weil, lawyer, Lawrence, Mass.
Wilson, V. C, lawyer, Portland, Me.
Wilson, H. B., San Francisco, Cal.
Wing, on the Gazelle editorial staff, Lewiston, Me.
Winter, lawyer. La Crosse, Wis.
'81.. — Frederick C. Stevens, Esq., who read law
with Hon. A. W. Paine in Bangor, has been nom-
inated for the legislature of Blinnesota by the repub-
licans of the city of St. Paul. Mr. Stevens is twenty-
eight years of age.
'81. — Boston seems to possess remarkably attrac-
tive powers for this class, so much so that the Boston
Herald lately furnished us with this most honorable
account: "Mr. F. E. Smith has made an enviable
reputation for himself in the eyes of president Potter
of the Maverick Bank, where he has risen rapidly,
and is considered to be one of the most promising
clerks of the large force employed there. Mr. Smith
is an Augusta, Me., boy, and while in college took
the $300 mathematical prize during his Sophomore
year, mathematics being what may be called his
stronghold. His college life stamped him as being
a popular and social man."
'81.— Mr. E. O. Aehorn and Mr. W. W. Towle,
both of '81, may also be said to be coming rapidly to
the front in the legal profession. The former was
very successful in his handling of a number af the
Roslindale disaster suits.
'81. — Mr. O. M. Shaw is a shining light among Bow-
doin's recent graduates who have followed the law.
Mr. Shaw took his degree in '81, and coming to Bos-
ton, entered the office of Allen, Hemenway & Savage,
and afterwards graduated from the Boston Law
School. After his admission to the bar he was asso-
ciated in practice with Mr. J. A. Loring, but soon
determined to go with his father, Mr. C. A. Shaw,
with whom he now is under the firm name of C. A.
Shaw & Co., located on Court Street, where they
carry on an immense business.
'81. — Mr. Henry Goddard is a member of the firm
of Hazeltine & Goddard, the furniture dealers and
decorators, on Boylston Street. While in college he
displayed artistic tastes of the highest order, by rea-
son of which his chosen business has been one of
great success.
'82. — Also the following concerning the alumni of
'82: "Messrs. W. G. Reed and E. U. Curtis com-
pose the young law firm of Reed & Curtis, in the
Hemenway building. Both are '82 men, and both
have made their mark, both in their practice and also
in politics. Mr. Reed is a member of the common
council from Ward 21, and Mr. Curtis is the efficient
and popular secretary of the republican ward and
city committee. Mr. Curtis is also a director of the .
Roxbury Club. Both studied with Messrs. Gaston
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Ill
& Whitney, and both carry on a general practice
of wide extent.
'82. — M. L. Sanborn is a successful lawyer at 27
Tremont Row, Boston.
'83. — W. W. Curtis, recently teaching in Holbrnok,
Mass., has been elected to the principalship of the
High School in Pawtucket, R. I.
'8-t. — Rodney I. Thompson, candidate for county
attorney on the democratic ticket, is to close his office
at Waldoboro, soon, and go to Omaha, Neb., reports
the Damariscotla Herald.
'86. — A. R. Butler is taking a course in Latin lan-
guage and literature in Johns Hopkins University.
'86. — G. S. Berry is teaching at Mattapoisett,
Mass.
'87. — H. M. Moulton is to teach this winter at
Great Chebeague Island.
'87. — C. F. Moulton will teach at Jonesport.
'87. — C. C. Ohoate is in business in New York
City.
'87. — E. B. Burpee will pursue the study of law
at the Boston University Law School.
'87. — Pushor is studying law in Portland.
'87. — Gahan is connected with Jordan, Marsh &
Co., Boston.
'87. — Parsons is teaching an evening school in
Boston.
'87. — Skolfield is taking a post-graduate course
in Chemistry at Johns Hopkins.
'87. — Cary is taking a post-graduate coui'se in
Biology at Johns Hopkins.
'88. — Ayer is teaching at Barre, Vt.
'88. — F. L. Smithvvick has been admitted into the
firm of M. L. Leavitt & Co., Druggists, Boston, Mass.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall or Theta Delta Chi, )
October 5, 1888. \
Whereas, Our All-Wise Heavenly Father has seen
fit to call to himself our most esteemed brother,
Osceola Jackson, '58;
Resolved, That, while we acknowledge the wis-
dom of an overruling Providence, we feel that the
fraternity has lost a worthy brother and our charge
one of its first and most zealous members.
Resolved, That we extend our deepest sympathy
to the bereaved family, and that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to them, and to the Bowdoin
Orient.
J. R. Clakk, '89,
G. F. Freeman, '90,
J. R. HoRNE, Jr., '91,
Commitlee.
Thirteen American Colleges are without presi-
dents.— The Lafayelle.
Johns Hopkins is rather indifferent toward lady
students; it has but one.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that
college students of a legal age may vote in college
towns. — The Daily Crimson.
" Will she? " I asked my trembling heart —
(I doubted still) ;
It answered low: " Too faint thou art.
Doubt not; she will ! "
" Wilt thou? " I whispered, bending o'er
Her drooping head;
She turned, and in an instant more
" I will ! " she said !
— Williams Weekly.
Gladstone was once flogged at Eton for refusing
to give away a school fellow who had got into
trouble. — The Aegis.
The Freshman class at Yale is the largest which
has ever entered. It numbers three hundred and
thirty-seven, with two hundred and twelve in the
academic. — The DarlmouUi.
The oldest college periodical and the oldest
monthly of any kind in America is the Yale Literary
Magazine. Wm. M. Evarts was one of five students
who started it fifty years ago. — The Aegis.
The trustees of Brown University have voted not
to adopt co-education. — The Daily Crimson.
George Gabriel, who made his fortune in New
Haven by repairing umbrellas, died recently, leaving
$10,000 to Yale College and $15,000 to Yale Divinity
School.— £'a;.
Potz, dreimal einer Woche !
Rief der Senior nehen mir.
War' ioh nur iu einem Loche
Zwanzig Meilen weit von hier,
— Oberlin Review.
Princeton paid $3,260 for foot-ball last season.
Her gate receipts were $3,312. — Ex.
The University of Cambridge will confer the de-
gree of LL.D. on Prince Albert Victor, this week. —
Ex.
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WHAT COLLEGE DOES FOR A MAN.
It gives him some liuowledge of Latin and Greels,
Allows a minute's psychological peek,
And teaches him rightly to think and to speak ;
Yes, that's what it does for a man.
If he journeys to college all awkward and green,
With a black Sunday coat that's been worn into sheen,
It polishes him till he's fit to be seen;
Yes, that's what it does for a man.
Perchance he's been petted at home all his days.
And been led to suppose that he needs naught but praise;
College shows such a man the mistake of his ways;
Yes, that's what it does for a man.
It may give him hard looks; it may take him 'way down,
But a kindness that's true lies behind the dark frown;
At least that's the way that it is at old Brown,
And Brown's the best place for a man.
— Brunonian.
Amherst's Freshman class numbers ninety-six,
the largest in the history of the college. — Ex.
" What do you vpant to set such a tough chicken
before me for?" indignantly exclaimed a fair damsel
in a restaurant, the other day. " Age before beauty,
always, you know, ma'am!" replied the polite at-
tendant..— Colby Echo.
The class of '92 at Yale has adopted for the class
cry: " Bric-a-kex-kex, coax, coax, bric-a-kex-kex,
coax, coax, v?hu-op, whu-op, whu-op parabaloo,
'92.— .Ea;.
A curious bird that looks like an owl, but has the
face of a monkey, was caught near Richmond, Va.,
a few days ago. It will be sent to the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington. It is strange how many
monstrosities finally bring up at the capital. — The
Sunday Olobe.
Harvard professors are given a year's vacation
with full pay every seventh year.
Smith College opened with one hundred and fifty
Freshmen, fifty of which number, however, had to be
turned away for lack of room. — Williams Weekly.
Cornell has 1,200 students this year. The Faculty
now numbers eighty. The standard for jiassing ex-
amination has been raised from sixty to seventy per
cent. Three large buildings are now being erected on
the campus. — Ex.
The class of '92 numbers 11-i men at Lehigh; 75
at Wesleyan ; 85 at Williams ; 89 at Lafayette ; 100
at Amherst; 60 at Bowdoin ; 400 at Cornell ; 310 at
Yale.— fe.
The most exciting cane rush in the history of the
college took place at Cornell, Wednesday evening.
The rush lasted nearly an hour, more than five hun-
dred partici^jated, and the Freshmen were victorious.
—Ex.
BOOK REYIEWS.
[Books reviewed in these columns maybe seen at the
College Library.]
Selected Poems from Premieres et Nouveles
Meditations. Edited, with Biographical Sketch and
Notes, by George O. Curme, A.M. Boston, D. C.
Heath & Co., 1888. Imc; pp. xxxi + 179; 7.5c.
This volume of selections includes some of La-
martine's best work, and gives a good idea of the
author's power. The comparatively narrow range of
poetical subject and treatment followed by Lamar-
tine is not wearisome in the limits which the editor
has set for himself. The introductory biographical
sketch seems to have been inspired by long and
faithful study of the poet's works, but is too long.
We are always glad to have an editor tabulate the
main bibliographical facts connected with his author.
The notes, as Prof. Curme states in an " additional
preface," have been modified since they were first
written. The editor has diminished the purely
grammatical notes ^and, we think, wisely laid greater
stress on notes of a literary character. He miglit
have gone profitably still further in this direction
and cut out all those notes which contain only such
facts as are in any good dictionary. One of the best
features of the book is the appendix, written by Pro-
fessor A. Williams, of Brown University, giving a
good summary of the general character of French
verse. The little book is well printed.
NOTES.
An edition of Freytag's Die Journalisten, edited
by Walter D. Toy, Professor of Modern Languages
in the University of North Carolina, is to be issued
soon by D. C. Heath & Co., Boston.
This is one of the most suocessful German dramas
suitable for college classes ever brought out, and
coming from the hands of Professor Toy cannot fail
to reflect in its full introduction and copious notes
the best scholarship.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
" Practical Metaphysics." — Barnett.
"Translation of Odyssey." — Lang.
" Health for Teachers." — Barnett.
Dr. William A. Hammond, the world-famed
specialist in Mind Diseases, says: "I am familiar
with various systems for improving the memory, in-
cluding, among others, those of Feinaigle, Gouraud
and Dr. Pick, and I have recently become acquainted
with the system in all its details and applications
taught by Professor Loisette. I am therefore enabled
to state that his is, in all its essential features, en-
tirely original; that its principles and methods are
different from all others, and that it presents no ma-
teriiil analogies to that of any other system. I con-
sider Professor Loisette's system to be a new de-
parture in the education of the memory and attention,
and of very great value; that it being a systematic
body of principles and methods, it sliould be stud-
ied as an entirety to be understood and appreciated ;
that a correct view of it cannot be obtained by exam-
ining isolated passages of it.
William A. Hammond."
New York, July 10, 1888.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Vol. XVIII.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 31, 1888.
No. 8.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE TEAR BT THE STUDENTS Or
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 8.-October 31, 1888.
To Water-Fowl Flying South 113
Editorial Notes 113
Tlie Exile 115
Ideas on Pranks and Faculties, 115
The Ballad of Diogenes 117
Henry Winkley, 117
"Con," 118
Psi Upsilon, 119
Colleqii Tabula, 119
Personal 121
In Memoriam 122
College World, 122
Book Reviews, 123
TO WATER-FOWL FLYING SOUTH.
On feathery sails ye move along
To seek for climes far gentler still ;
A dotted line your forms prolong.
As vagrant thoughts our memories fill.
Fleet crafts ye are, and well indeed
Might Dasdalus thy skill essay,
Yet waxen wings could ill succeed
In traversing thy heavenly way.
I speak, and thou, meanwhile art gone,
Gone to those pleasant sun-lit lands ;
Where ye, e're comes the morning dawn,
May plume your backs on coral strands.
surprise to
visitors and students alike, that nothing but
its name marks the character of Memorial
Hall. The elegant building was erected as
a memorial to those who offered their lives
in defense of the union ; but for some rea-
son no steps were taken at the time of its
erection to denote its memorial character.
Through the generosity of General
Thomas H. Hubbard, of New York, a bronze
tablet, inscribed with the names and militaiy
rank of Bowdoin's sons who were in the war,
will be erected in the upper hall, possibly
before Commencement. It will probably be
placed on the wall to the right of the am-
phitheatre, and aside from its value as a
memorial it will be an elegant adornment to
that beautiful room.
There were about three hundred and
eighty Bowdoin alumni and undergraduates
in the war, and many of them held respon-
sible positions of the most honorable distinc-
tion. It is said that the names of the alumni
of the Medical School are not to be put on
the tablet. We hope that this report is not
true, for the alumni of the Medical School
are as much alumni of Bowdoin as those of
the academic department.
Perhaps a short sketch of the generous
donor will be of interest to our readers.
General Hubbard was born in Hallowell in
1838, and graduated in the class of 1857.
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He taught school for a short time after grad-
uation and then entered the profession of
law. He settled in New York City. In the
Rebellion he was Adjutant of the Twenty-
fifth Regiment Maine Volunteers and Colonel
of the Thirtieth. In 1865 he was breveted
Brigadier-General. After the war he again
resumed the practice of law in New York
City. He is now on the Board of Overseers
of the college.
Foot-ball has gained greatly in popularity
this term, and if we may judge from the
number of invalids and cripples among us
we should say that very satisfactory progress
has been made in the knowledge of the game.
Why can't we have a Maine Intercolle-
giate Foot-Ball League which shall embrace
the four colleges of the State? It seems to
us that if the colleges would enter into it
with spirit it could not be otherwise than
successful.
There is nothing in the way of sport
during the fall term except one or two ball
games. Foot-ball, scientifically played is a
new game to most people in this State ; for
these reasons we believe the necessary ex-
penses could be paid from the gate receipts,
and if there were a deficiency it could be
borne by the students more easily in the fall
term than in any other.
The weather is favorable for playing foot-
ball until Thanksgiving, usually, and some
years even later. In every college in Maine
there is enough material to form a strong
team. There is no better game to test men's
power of endurance, to develop muscle, cool
judgment, quickness of perception and ac-
tion. It is coming more and more into the
favor of college men, and that it will be the
great college sport of the future, is the firm
opinion of many.
Probably it is too late to do anything
definite in the matter this year, more than
to form an organization, but we hope by
another year to see foot-ball contests between
the Maine colleges.
It is to be regretted that the boating in-
terest of the college has so declined that we
have not had the usual races this fall. But
this lack of interest comes about naturally
enough when we examine the facts.
Practically racing in four-oared shells is
at an end. One college after another has
given it up, and several have put eight-oared
crews into boating contests. It seems plain
that Bowdoin must follow their example or
give up boating entirely. The question then
is, which course shall we take ?
Probably there is enough material in col-
lege to send out, in two years any way, an
eight-oared crew which would be an honor
to the college. But this cannot be done
without money. The prices of eight-oared
shells vary widely, but the lowest figure is
quite a high one. We have been told that
inside of three years we should need two
shells, and perhaps another inside of the
next two years. This means a large expen-
diture of money, and the thing to decide is.
Can we afford it ? It is certain that if Bow-
doin is to maintain her enviable record in
boating, an eight-oared crew is a necessity.
The Orient will gladly publish any com-
munications on this subject from students or
alumni, and we hope the boating men in the
college will use our columns as the best
means to arrive at a satisfactory solution of
this question.
We do not like to " dun " our subscribers,
but a paper, like many other things in this
world, cannot exist without money. Up to
the present time but five per cent, of our sub-
scribers have paid, and as a consequence we
are owing our publishers several hundred
dollars and are going deeper in debt every
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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issue. Though two dollars is a small matter
to each subscriber, it amounts to hundreds
of dollars to us, and delay in payment puts
us in serious difficulty. When the matter
is brought to your attention, as we intend it
shall be in this issue, we hope, and have the
right to expect, that our difficulties will be
relieved by immediate payment.
THE EXILE.
Alone,
And the moan
Of the rolling waves comes to his ears ;
A sad, sweet wail through the night he hears,
The hymn from the harp of the dark pine tree.
Which the wandering mind strikes full and free.
Alone,
Without home.
While his soul responds to the ocean's song.
And the plaint that the night wind sweeps along
For he listens to songs of long ago.
And his mother's voice croons soft and low.
Alone,
And unknown,
And from out the sea, where many a one
Has gazed at the glint of the setting sun
As into the deeps of future years.
Its ceaseless, ineffable chant he hears, —
Alone,
Without home.
Unknown.
IDEAS ON PRANKS AND FACULTIES,
WITH AN INCIDENT.
College pranks can generally be divided
into two classes, between which the line of
demarkation can be readily distinguished.
There are those that exhibit neither wit,
freshness, nor intellectual force, — nothing
but malice and stupidity; there are others
that, though they may produce temporary
inconvenience and make the Faculty grimace
like gorillas in abdominal distress, still savor
so thoroughly of rollicking fun, good hits,
and genuine college-boy blood, as to provoke
not only the delight but even the sympa-
thies of the onlooker. The former class of
pranks, when of lesser moment, are to be
contemptuously passed by, but if of more
flagrant nature deserve the most summary
handling; in the latter class the best and
most discriminating judgment can and should
be employed.
Many tricks of the first sort, whose wit
and applicableness is of a negative character,
if passed over by a magnanimous Faculty
as beneath the notice of men, will die of their
own nauseating feebleness and sink into ob-
livion, much to the happiness of their per-
petrators, who, on second thought, are gen-
erally as much disgusted with them as any
one. Such, for example, was the spoiling of
the chapel organ last year, the performers of
which are no doubt well ashamed of them-
selves. If, on the other hand, these weakly
and ephemeral outcroppings of lawlessness
be noticed, dug up, and pawed over by an
over curious, over watchful, and too arbi-
trary Faculty, whatever the result attained,
such proceedings will always be conducted
amidst the plaudits and to the encourage-
ment of malefactors, especially of that ubiq-
uitous class whose passion, like that of some
political candidates, is for notoriety, no mat-
ter of what sort. For them the college gos-
sip and newspaper notices are drops of pure
ambrosia seven times refined aiid condensed.
But it is our purpose to deal chiefly with
the second, or, we may say, comparatively
worthy class of pranks, and while it is not
our intent to meddle in other people's mat-
ters, we cannot help remembering how our
attention was drawn across the country last
summer to our little sister institution on the
big Kennebec, who was shivered from stem
to stern, Faculty, students, trustees, and all,
b}^ the apparently aerial thunderbolt of a
Sophomore joke that resulted in the destruc-
tion of 11.75 worth of C. skylights, a card of
matches for re-lighting gas jets, the interrup-
tion of a Fresh who was declaiming in an
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exhibition for a prize, and that caused
three co-eds to shriek awful! and one epilep-
tic towns-woman's spirit to evaporate in
what we learn was a " feinted faint."
This appalling destruction of corporated
property and spiritual life proceeded from
some one's (presumably a Sophomore's), by
means of an ingenious contrivance of ropes
and other tackle, precipitating through the
skylights and upon the stage in the midst of
the philippic of a hopeful Fresh a gigantic
representative of the rag-baby family marked
in the inspiring curves of '91. The declaim-
ing Fresh was knocked out in his prospects
for the prize ; the worthy and prolonged
Prexy of C, who was seated upon the plat-
form in close proximity to the arrival, was
rendered a temporary victim of mental pa-
ralysis and cramps ; then, oh ! " Most un-
kindest cut of all " ! the three co-eds shrieked
(if the sounds had issued from male larynxes
they would have been justly denominated
yells.'} so horribly that, if we are not mis-
quoting, the gas jets flared, flickered, and
then went out, and with them departed on a
furlough the spirit of another interesting
female of the town. A Prof, currebat ex
domibus, and in the pitchy darkness caught
a glimpse of two fiery eyeballs, which, from
their color, were presumed to belong to a
certain Sophomore member of the C. base-
ball club. The news of the wild, fiery eyes
spread like veritable Sampsonian wildfire
through the ranks of the C. Faculty. The
unfortunate Sophomore, who had thus be-
come involved in so inextricable a concate-
nation of circumstantial evidence, was sum-
moned before the assembled Khans and Mo-
guls and informed that he might chip in $50
to the next C. campaign fund or depart for
the realms of his grandsires, one of which
alternatives he of course accepted.
The above is in the main a truthful state-
ment of the facts as we understand them,
though in detail it may fluctuate a little from
the Hatchet standard.
Now was not this joke of the second and
better class mentioned, and was not the
judgnient upon the culprit circumstantially
implicated severe? The thing was hailed
with shaking sides by every fun-loving soul
in the State ; it was pronounced a capital,
roaring joke by all, — the best thing of its
kind ever known, — and nobody thought any
less of the institution for its having hap-
pened there. Fifty dollars fine or leaving
college seems to us a pretty severe penalty,
especially if the fellow was poor, and a pen-
alty worthy of a very grave offense. Could
not they who pronounced sentence have con-
trived some way to cast a sufScient stigma
upon the deed and its perpetrator that would
have better shown their appreciation of the
fact that the joke was neither malicious nor
in any great degree harmful to anybody or
anything ?
The severity of the one administered cer-
tainly created surprise in Bowdoin circles
where a Prof, has occasionally been known
to smile quite sunnily out of his window at
the spectacle of a lugubriously dripping
Fresh. It is always true that a Faculty that
shows its ability and intention to fairly dis-
criminate in such cases, not only wins the
respect, but in every instance the love and
good-will of the student-body — and when
that condition is established a college is prac-
tically self-regulating — while the farther a
Faculty departs from this appearance the
less confidence and co-operation will it re-
ceive from the undergraduates and the more
prevalent will be ill-will and lawlessness.
We have not intended to advise or espe-
cially criticise any one, but have simply
stated our ideas upon a few points in college
government that have been forced upon our
notice ; nor, be it known, have we intended
to make any actual misrepresentations as
should be readily seen.
The aggregate income of all colleges is esti-
mated at $4,500,000.— i'a;.
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THE BALLAD OF DIOGENES.
I.
In our own Alma Mater, just before the good days,
Of Sir Booker and son, and their wonderful ways,
Ruled a man named Diogenes, called " Doggie " in
brief.
In that very same function of master-in-chief
Of window glass, locks, broken doors, and such
things,
As a mishap or practical joke often brings.
II.
A man of much action and mighty few words
Was Diogenes, now, as may soon be infen-ed :
A friend of the students, though oftentimes crossed
By the pranks perpetrated at his private cost ;
Not of money, however, for as in our own day.
Cost multiplied greatly when it came in his way.
III.
Now 'tis said that the leopard cannot change his
spots.
Much less can the student be kept from his plots ;
So it entered the heads of some brilliant young chaps
That it might cause some fun, though perhaps some
mishaps,
To borrow some kind neighbor's cow for a night —
A thing which, to-day, is no uncommon sight —
And, enticing her secretly oyer the stairs,
To participate there in devout chapel prayers.
IV.
In the belfry, next morning, found "Doggie" the
critter.
Tied fast to the bell rope, then 'mid many a titter.
He proceeds to depose the poor beast from her throne.
With sighs and with coughs, and with many a groan,
Taking pains that his work be sufficiently long
To warrant a bill for his labors, full strong.
V.
And true to himself, when the proper time came,
For collecting his honorable bill for the same,
The sum of five dollars demands he at sight,
With such an addendum to furnish some light :
" Koind surrs, I'd be afthur collecting so much
For a gitt'n the creatur do-an outer the church."
HENRY WINKLEY.
Chapbi, Address of Pres. Hyde, Sunday, Oct. 14, 1888.
Henry Winkley was born in Barrington,
N. H., in 1803. It was his ardent desire to
obtain a liberal education ; but lack of means,
and trouble with his eyes compelled him to
give up his cherished plans. Until he was
twenty-one he worked on the farm in Barring-
ton. Then he went into business, first in
Boston ; afterward in New York and Phila-
delphia. His business took him to foreign
countries ; and he took every opportunity
to acquire a knowledge of the history, in-
stitutions, and character of the people with
whom he thus came in contact. The more
he saw of the world, the more strong be-
came his conviction of the superiority of
New England ; the more he came to re-
spect her plain, homely virtues ; the more he
grew to admire the influence she was exert-
ing on the Nation and on the World. And
the more he compared the institutions of
other lands with ours, the stronger became
the conviction that the secret of the intel-
lectual and moral greatness of New England
is to be found in the religious character of
her educational institutions. His generous
gifts were the expression of these profound
convictions. They were not given in re-
sponse to ajjpeals and solicitations; and hence
due in large measure to the influence of other
wills. They came from him, and from him
alone ; out of the deeply-rooted convictions
of a life-time of thought and reflection. So
unostentatious and quiet was he in his way
of giving ; so thoroughly animated by the
spirit of our Lord's precept, "let not thy
left hand know what thy right hand doeth,"
that when his checks came, more than one
recipient regarded the matter at first as a
joke. He gave enough to have founded out-
right one institution which should bear his
name. But he showed his wisdom and his
modesty in choosing rather to aid a number
of existing institutions, whose work was
already satisfactory, and whose future was
assured. He cared for the good he could do
rather than for the name and fame that
might attend it.
Three lessons we may learn from this
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strong, modest, noble man. First the su-
periority of a resolute will over the most
discouraging circumstances. Apparently cut
off from the liberal education on which his
heart was set, he did not give up his object ;
but became one of the best informed of men
himself; and also one of the foremost bene-
factors of education.
Second: Modesty. To gain wealth is
easy; to spend it wisely, and generously,
and unostentatiously is much more diificult
and far more rare. Strong and shrewd in
the acquisition of wealth, Mr. Winkley is a
shining example of a wise, generous, modest
use of it.
Third : Reverence. Mr. Winkley be-
lieved that reverence for God is the secret
of effective service for man. He agreed
with the ancients who represented the way
to the Temple of Honor as leading through
the Temple of Virtue. He was convinced
of the truth of what the Chief Justice of
the United States said to us here last Com-
mencement, that if a man is to stand up
against the tremendous forces of materialism
and corruption that beset any man who
enters the currents of active life to-day he
must be rooted and grounded in reverent
obedience to the righteous will of God.
Not the monument of granite, sur-
rounded by evergreens, in Mount Auburn ;
nor yet his printed name upon the cata-
logues of grateful institutions ; but the last-
ing memorial of lives increased in usefulness,
in wisdom, in virtue, as the result of his ben-
efactions-j— this was the monument which he
desired to leave behind him, and in the
building of which each one of us is privi-
leged to share.
"CON."
The last number of the Orient contained
a pithy and courteous rejoinder, entitled
"Pro," in which the writer maintained that
it was better to ask questions after than
during recitations. Let us notice its most
salient features and see if they can be con-
troverted.
" That a prejudice exists is no argument
in favor of or against it." Certainly not;
neither was it used as such.
" The recitation is, essentially, the com-
mon property of the whole class, and as
soon as any individual attempts to monopo-
lize it by questions which are of no assist-
ance to the class in general, however
important to himself, he appropriates time
which does not belong to him." The fal-
lacy of the above lies in a misconception of
the character of a recitation, and in the
assumption that individual questions are of
no assistance to the class in general. A
recitation consists of questions and answers,
and the custom of making the question-
ing reciprocal between professor and class
has always been invited and approved. In
taking the advantage of this the student does
not appropriate individual tutorage, because
it is one of the essential features of class work,
and because the question, being in the line
of the topic, can be explained in a very few
extra words, and in a manner mucli clearer
and an order much more logical. After rec-
itation it is detached from its connection
and often involves a tedious and unsatisfac-
tory recapitulation. The assumption that
personal questions are of no assistance to
the rest of the class, so far from being in
harmony with the facts, is in direct opposi-
tion to them. We claim that it is hardly
possible to conceive of a question, asked by
a student possessing common sense, which
would not be of some assistance to others.
It often happens that an apt question clears
up a vital point of the topic. There is
hardly enough such questioning done.
To economize space, the second point,
" Pro," may be summed up as follows :
The function of the professor is to impart
knowledge, and most of them have ex-
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pressed their willingness to render individ-
ual assistance. Some students do not know
as much as others, therefore they may ask
questions after the regular recitation work.
Even if we admit the premises and conclu-
sions of the above, it only proves the point
made in our former article, namely, that it
is appropriating individual tutorage. It
is none the less tutorage because the
professor agrees to it. But we doubt
whether that " willingness " very often de-
velops into anxietJ^ Considering the disa-
greeableuess of unpopularity, very few pro-
fessors would express their unwillingness.
It is doubtful courtesy, this boring an
instructor with questions after he has dis-
missed the class. We forget that the in-
structors always invite and expect questions
on any point of the lesson before dismissal,
and that the relaxation of the few moments
between hours is, in courtesy, due them.
PSI UPSILON.
Pallas, Mother of all learning,
Suppliants now before thy shrine
Invoke we here thy aid divine.
Unto thy instruction heeding,
Plead we for thy wisdom rare.
Save us now from folly's snare.
In the spirit of devotion
Let our love forever burn
On Psi U.'s beloved altar
Never to depart therefrom.
The Zeta Psi initiation occurred Fri-
day evening, October 19th. The fol-
lowing Freshmen made the acquaint-
ance of the goat : H. R. Gurney, L. K.
Lee, D. R. Mclntire, and H. R. Smith. Brothers
Hilton, '84, Austin, and C. F. Moulton, '87, and Chap-
man, '88, were present; also a delegation from the
Chi Chapter, consisting of King, '89, Gilmore, '90,
Coyne and Kalloch, '92.
The Bowdoin Quartette sang in Dresden, October
23d, and in Waldoboro, October 24th. Both concerts
were very successful.
A large number of the students saw Leland Pow-
ers in David Oarrick, at Town Hall, Tuesday even-
ing, October 23d. It was an excellent entertainment,
and it is hoped that manager Crawford will secure
more companies of recognized ability during the
winter.
Please Pay your Subscription at once,
Nickerson (Medical School, '89,) has entirely re-
covered from his late illness and will soon begin the
instruction of the Glee Club, coming to the college
once a week for that purpose.
Emery represents the Theta Chapter at the an-
nual Convention of Delta Kappa Epsilon, in Cincin-
nati this week.
Prof. Robinson addressed the Y. M. C. A., Sun-
day afternoon, October 21st.
Is your Subscription paid?
The attendance at chapel this term is larger than
for any term during the past four years.
The Seniors in American History are using John-
ston's American Politics.
There are now about twenty-five non-society men
in college, a fact significant of one of two things.
Either that Bowdoin societies are changing and are
destined to become as several years ago, not wholly
and exclusively Greek, or else another fraternity will
soon establish a chapter here, there now being mate-
rial enough. That fraternity is not unlikely to be
Chi Psi. They are a wealthy and active fraternity,
with chapters at nearly all the leading colleges.
They were established at Bowdoin early in 1844, and
after twenty years' existence entered on a decline, so
that in 1869 the chapter died out. The last delega-
tion consisted of John C. Coombs, '69, now a Boston
lawyer.
Among the noted Bowdoin alumni of Chi Psi are
Chief Justice Fuller, Hon. Wm. L. Putnam, Judge
C. W. Goddard, Rev. E. B. Webb of Boston, Hon.
Jos. Williamson, Hon. L. G. Downes, and Dr. Alfred
Mitchell.
" Money makes the world go round," and
the Orient is sadly in need of its benign in-
fluence.
A certain Sophomore was seen wildly rushing
around the Campus the other day. His distress was
pitiful to see. Finally a dignified Senior, observing
him, made bold to ask the cause of his mental aber-
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ration. Imagine the surprise of the D. S. when the
Soph wildly implored to be told the place of the
next '91 ducking-meet.
Moody, '91, has just finished a successful term of
school in Dresden.
Freeman, '90, and Downes, '91, are suffering from
injuries received in playing foot-ball.
The Sophomore supper (?) so anxiously waited
for by the Juniors, came off in the Gym, Monday
evening, October 22d ; 7.42 to 7.45. "Mul" was
there.
Fencing will be a new form of exercise required
in the Gymnasium this winter.
Candidates for the ball team will begin gym-
nasium practice next week probably. We under-
stand that they will be put through a severe and
thorough course of training.
The Democratic club holds its meetings every
Tuesday, at seven o'clock. The Republican Club
holds its meetings Wednesday evening, at half-past
seven.
$2.00?— Yes.
Mitchell, '90, has returned to college.
The programme of the Y. M. C. A. for the fall
term has been made out, and promises to be of
unusual interest. The subject for November 4th, is
" Confessing Christ"; leader, E. H. Newbegin.
'Ninety's dancing school began October 24th, in
Town Hall, under the able instruction of the popular
dancing master, Gilbert. There are about twenty-
five couples in attendance.
A few days since, when some Juniors were dis-
cussing the merits of Biology, a Freshman innocently
inquired if that meant the study of the Bible. He
was politely informed that the study of Biology
meant the " systematic disintegration and exam-
ination of the essentially necessary constituencies of
the animalculse in bodies, placed in ju.xtaposition to
the microscope, and then successfully portrayed upon
the human intellect."
The Sophs allowed their emulation of Phi Chi to
run away with them to the extent of $75 a few nights
since.
Probably no end in college possesses more musical
talent worthy of water than North Maine. There is
a cornetist who is a coming rival to Levy ; also a
Freshman whose time is equally divided between
cutting recitations and playing Phi Chi in such a
doleful way as to give his hearers the impression
that the end of the world is coming. Unless there
is a reduction of music soon the crazed auditors
will know the reason why. Sapientibus est satis
verbuni.
The following students expect to teach during the
winter term: Freeman, Doherty, Rogers, Munsey,
Dyer, Field, Mohoney, Kelley, and Goding. Doherty
will teach in Woolwich, and Rogers in Wells.
Can't you favor us with $2. 00 ?
Hill, '89, has returned to college.
Several of the boys visited Boston during the
recess.
THE STATE CONVENTION OF THE Y. M. C. A.
The State Convention of the Y. M. C. A. closed
its session Sunday evening. About one hundred
delegates have been in attendance and many visitors
from this and other states. Lack of room prevents
us giving a detailed account of the meetings.
Thursday afternoon Professor Chapman gave an
address, taking for his subject: " Christian Doctrine
the Basis of Organized Christian Effort."
In the evening the Rev. Alexander McKenzie of
Cambridge, Mass., addressed the convention. He
paid a glowing tribute to the memory of Dr. Leonard
Woods, a former President of Bowdoin. His dis-
course received the closest attention of the audience
and was in every way worthy of it.
Friday evening Professor Woodruff and President
Hyde addressed the Convention, The subject of
Professor Woodruff's address was, "Bible Study;'
the President took for his theme, "Christian Work
a ministry to Body, Mind, and Soul."
The Sunday exercises included a sermon by Mr.
Douglass, Secretary of the Boston Association, and
meetings in the various churches.
The following officers were elected : President,
V. R. Foss, Portland. Vice-Presidents, G. B. Files,
Augusta; Professor H. L. Chapman, Bowdoin Col-
lege; C. M. Bailey, Winthrop ; G. J. Blake, Bangor.
Recording Secretaries — C. Y. Pearl, Bangor ; S. T.
Betts, Portland ; H. T. Burbank, Colby University.
Committee on Credentials— E. A. Pierce, Waterville ;
J. R. Boardman, Augusta; H. D. Dodge, Bucksport
Seminary. Committee on Business — A. H. Whitford,
Rockland ; C. T. Hersey, Bowdoin College ; George
H. Babb, Maine State College. Devotional Com-
mittee— R.A.Jordan, Bangor; W.T.Corey, Port-
land; C. A. Nichols, Foxcroft. State Executive Com-
mitte — J. O. Whitney, Lewiston ; A. B. Merrill, Port-
land; A. K. P. Jordan, Auburn. Committee on Res-
olutions—S. T. Betts, Portland ; N. S. Burbank, Colby
University; J. M. Bates, Gorham.
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'2o. — Since the last issue
of tlie Orient, there has
been received from Horatio Bridge,
Retired Paymaster-General of the U. S.
Navj', and member of the class of '25, the
following information, which was more than
gladly received, settling, as it does, all doubt as to
the members of this class still living: "In your
quotation from the Lewision Journal, Mr. John P.
Sanborn is reported as saying that ex-Senator Brad-
bury told him that he (Mr. Bradbury) was 'one of
three remaining members of the class of 1826,' and
that Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, ex-Governor Alpheus
Fitch of Michigan, and Mr. Bradbury, were the
three. The Orient adds that Hon. I. W. Bradbury is
one of the too remaining members of the class of '26.
Now, if I am not mistaken, there are six of the class
of '25 still living, viz. : Hon. I. W. Bradbury, Rev.
Dr. G. B. Cheever, H. Bridge, Prof. N. Dunn.
Hon. William Hale, and J. J. Bveleth, Esq. By
ex-Governor ' Fitch,' Mr. Sanborn probably meant
ex-Governor Alpheus Felch of Michigan, a Bowdoin
graduate of 1827."
'47.— Col. Charles B. Merrill, of Portland, has
resigned as trustee of the Bath Military and Naval
Asylum.
'62. — General J. L. Chamberlain will be the orator
for the Lynn, Mass., Post, G. A. R., on next Memo-
rial Day.
'63. — Chief Justice Fuller addressed the Chicago
Bar at a banquet given in his honor by that associa-
tion, September 24th. He closed his eloquent dis-
course as follows: "And now, gentlemen, wishing
you and invoking for myself that blessing without
which nothing can prosper, I trust as you accompany
me to the ship, we need not sorrow as those who
shall see each othei-'s faces no more, but that we part
in reasonable expectation that there will be many
returns to the home port from the haven for which
the bidding of public duty compels me to embark."
'60. — Thomas Reed, Representative-elect, is speak-
ing in the West.
'63. — The Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth is said to be
one of the competitors in the Fall tournament of the
New Haven Lawn-Tennis Club, now in progress.
'70. — Dr. Lucian Howe has just i-eturned from a
pleasure trip in Europe.
'72. — H. M. Heath is spoken of as the probable
President of the Senate for the coming year.
70. — The engagement is announced of J. A. Mor-
rill to Miss Littlefield of Medford, Mass.
'78.— Dr. C. A. Barker of Portland, since his
return from abroad, has been made a Fellow of the
British Gynaecological Society.
'79. — Walter G. Davis is in Europe, in the interest
of the Portland Packing Company of Portland.
'80. — The Boston Herald lately contained : " Two
young physicians whom Bowdoin has sent out are
N. W. Emerson and A. E. Austin. Dr. Emerson
graduated in '80, and is now located in Dorchester,
where he has built up around him a good practice,
and the same may be truly said of Dr. Austin, who
left Brunswick in '83. The latter is also practicing
in Dorchester."
'81. — Frederick C. Stevens, Esq., who read law
with Hon. A. W. Paine in Bangor, has been nomi-
nated for the Legislature of Minnesota, by the Repub-
licans of the city of St. Paul. He is but twenty-eight
years of age. He was born in Boston in 1860, receiv-
ing his early education at Rockland Academy, and
graduated at Bowdoin College. After reading law
with Mr. Paine, he went West and took a course at
the Law University of Iowa, where he graduated in
1884.
'81. — Clinton L. Baxter is in Newfoundland upon
business.
'83. — John E. Dinsmore, formerly of the Hallowell
Classical Institute, is at home for this year in Au-
burn, Me.
'84. — Charles E. Saywood is teacher of Mathe-
matics at Bryant and Stratton Commercial College,
Boston, Mass. Residence in Waltham, Mass.
'84.— John A. Waterman, Jr. (son of Judge
Waterman), was admitted to the Cumberland Bar,
October 22, 1888.
'84. — Albert F. Sweetsir, lawyer at Winterport,
Me., is the County Attorney-elect for Waldo County.
'85. — The following is a partial list of the mem-
bers of this class, with their residences at the present
time :
Eugene Thomas, lawyer, Hemenway Building,
Boston, Mass.
W. M. Fames, pharmacist, in Manchester, N. H.
O. R. Cook is principal of the Warren High
School, R. I.
Edwin R. Harding is principal of high school at
Winthrop, Me.
Ralph S. French, lawyer, Thomaston, Me.
David P. Howard, lawyer, Denver, Col.
John A. Peters, lawyer. Bar Harbor, Me.
N. B. Ford is practicing medicine in Boston.
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Wqi. p. Nealey is in the hardware business in
Bangor with his brother.
Alfred W. Rogers is studying law at Bath.
Chas. H. Wardwell, teaching the Bath High
School.
John F. Libby is teaching in the Bridgton Acad-
emy, and law student with Symonds, '60, and Libby,
'64.
Jessie F. Waterman was admitted to the Suffolk
Bar, Boston, June, 1887, and is now practicing law
in Los Angeles, Cal.
James S. Norton attended lectures at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, in Boston, during last
winter.
William C. Kendall, residence, Freeport, Me.
Eben W. Freeman, last August opened a law
oflSce in the Union Mutual Building, Portland, Me.
Frank N. Whittier is Professor of Gymnastics in
this college.
Marshall H. Purington is teaching at Kennebunk,
Maine.
Boyd Bartlett, Castine, Me.
REMARKS.
The following Bowdoin graduates are students
at law with Nathan Cleaves, class of '58, in Portland :
Fermer Pushor, '87 ; Arthur W. Merrill, '87 ; Jos.
Keed, '83; and Llewellyn Barton, '84.
At the dedication of the Longfellow ('25) Statue,
in Portland, Bowdoin talent, as usual, performed the
most conspicuous part of the ceremonies. Among
the speakers were the following representatives from
our college : prelude by Hon. G. E. B. Jackson, '49 ;
oration by Hon. Chas. F. Libby, '64; and the re-
sponse by Chas. J. Chapman, '68, and Mayor of Port-
land.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of the Kappa, ^. Y., }
October 19, 1888. S
Whereas, It has pleased Our Pleavenly Father to
remove from us by death Brother George F. Choate,
of the class of 1843, a true friend and member of
the fraternity ; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the members of the Kappa
Chapter, while humbly bowing to the will of an
all-wise Providence, deeply regret our brother's
death ;
That we tender to the relatives and friends of the
deceased our heartfelt sympathy ;
That copies of these resolutions be sent to the
family of our departed brother, to the several chap-
ters, and to the Bowdoin Orient for publication.
Chas. H. Fogg, '89,
G. B. Littlepield, '90,
Edwin C. Drew, '91.
For the Chapter.
The old University of Virginia, founded by
Thomas Jefferson, has since the War of the Rebel-
lion received over $700,000 in legacies and gifts,
exclusive of its fixed endowments. It has no presi-
dent, but its affairs are administered by the chairman
of the faculty, who is selected each year from among
the professors by the Board of Visitors.
It is rumored that old William and Mary College,
in the South — the oldest college in the country, the
mother of presidents and statesmen — is to be re-
opened after many years of inactivity.
George Washington was the first person to re-
ceive the degree of LL.D. from Harvard. — Ex.
At Amherst, applause in class-room is mani-
fested by snapping the fingers ; at Cornell, by tap-
ping pencils on arm-rests. — Ex.
The Vassar girls want to wear the Oxford cap
and gown. — Ex.
Amherst College has had a summer school of lan-
guages.— Ex.
The new gymnasium at Trinity has a theatre
attached to it.
Question: Why is wind blind? Answer; Wind
is a zephyr; zephyr is yarn ; a yarn is a tale ; a tail
is a jsendent ; a pendent is an attachment ; an at-
tachment is love ; but love is blind. — Q. E. D.
Plon. Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candi-
date for President, is a member of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity.— .Ba;.
A Sophomore stuffing for examinations, has de-
veloped the ethics of Sunday work in a way to render
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the future elucidation of tlie subject unnecessary.
He reasons that if a. man is justified for trj'ing to
help the ass from the pit on the Sabbath da}', much
more would the ass be justified in trying to get out
himself — Ex.
Mrs. Garfield, widow of the President, has given
$10,000 to Garfield University, at Wichita.— £x.
Out of 162 college base-ball games played, Yale
has won 117 and lost 4:5. In foot-ball, out of 86
games played, Yale has won 81. — Ex.
Columbia intends to expend $15,000 in new
books for the coming year. — Ex.
President Patten, of Princeton, is much opposed
to the elective system. — Ex.
The class of '92, Princeton, will number in its
ranks the sons of three United States Senators : Gray
of Delaware, Dolph of Oregon, and Spooner of Wis-
consin.— Ex.
Crom, of Oxford University, England, recently
beat the English amateur record by running six
hundred yards in one minute twelve and four-fifths
seconds. — Ex.
At Ann Arbor University there is to be a base-
ball nine of deaf mutes.
A Western college has a father and son in the
graduating class, the father being 6.3 years old and
the son 24. — Ex.
Harvard has forty tennis-courts in Holme's field.
The College of the City of New York is to have a
new gymnasium.
The Freshman class yell at the University of
Pennsylvania is: " M-D-C-C-C-X-C-I-I, 'Rah! 'Rah!
'Rah ! "
The Stanford University is erecting a new observ-
atory which is to have the largest lens in the world,
being forty inches in diameter.
The Beacon appears upon our table this week,
and is a very attractive number. It contains in full
the address of Prof. Dorchester at the beginning of
the college year; it is a very instructive article and
worthy of much praise.
A new college for women has been established in
New York under the name of Rutgers Female Col-
lege, with a corps of eighteen professors. — Ex.
Harvard men claim that the i-eason their Fresh-
man class is smaller than usual, is the result of the
action of the overseers last year in abolishing inter-
collegiate contests. — Ex.
Harvard was founded 250 years ago ; William and
Mary, in Virginia, 196 ; Yale, 188; Princeton, 142;
University of Pennsylvania, 139 ; Columbia, 134 ;
Brown, 124; Dartmouth, 119; and Rutgers, 118.
— Mgis.
Yale's '88 men bore away the far-famed fence in
pieces as mementoes. — The Beacon.
Some daring '92 man won himself glory both for
the bravery of the act and the originality of the idea,
by being lowered from the top of the water tower
and there painting in orange, over 150 feet from the
ground, a large '92, seven feet in length. — Prince-
Ionian.
The Students of Williams are made to practice on
the fire-escapes attached to the dormitories. — Uni-
versity News.
Across the street my vision strays,
To where the fading sunlight plays.
Upon the pane, and wliere by chance
Fair Alice, reading a romance,
Is sitting in the golden rays.
Alas! no heed to me she pays,
And all my tricks to lure her gaze
Are vain. She will not even glance
Across the street.
But while the day, fast closing, stays,
And twiliglit tinges all with haze,
I'll wait and watch her countenance.
Ah I she has seen me ; even once
Has " tossed a kiss " (in Cnpid's phrase)
Across the street.
— Yule Coiirant.
Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for
the Presidency, is a '52 man of Miami University, at
Oxford, Ohio. — The College Journal.
There are twenty-five Smiths in college. But we
must remember that the technical element here
largely predominates. — Cornell Era.
The oldest college periodical and the oldest
monthly of any kind in America is the Yale Literary
Magazine. Wm. M. Evarts was one of five students
who started it fifty years ago. — Ex.
Princeton has a chapel choir of thirty-three voices.
—Ex.
BOOK REVIEWS.
Practical Metaphysics. By M. J. Baruett. Boston,
Carter & Karrick, 1887.
This is the pretentious title of a book on the mind
cure. It is a compound of common sense and un-
common nonsense. The gist of the former is simply
the well-known fact that the mind has power to
affect bodily conditions. A specimen of the latter is
the assertion that "Thought is a substance sent forth
into the invisible atmosphere. It is visible to clair-
voyant vision, and is seen to have form and color."
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Hypochondriacs and nervous prostrationists possibly
migiit do worse than to read the book, and people of
average sanity certainly can do better.
Health fok Teachers. By M. J. Barnett. Boston,
H. H. Carter & Karrick, 1888. 12mo. pp. 23 (pam-
phlet).
The fanaticism, which confronts us in other writ-
ings of this author, is somewhat subdued in tliis
effort, yet there is a peculiar tone pervading the lan-
guage and thought of the essay, which causes us to
regard it with distrust. While a few statements of
truth may be found scattered among the chaff, on
the whole we cannot recommend the essay as valu-
able reading.
Aluen's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and
Language — with Illustrations . Vol. 4. Baptism
to Bilberry. New York, John B. Alden, 1888. 12mo.
Same— Vol. 5.
The tasty binding, excellent typographical exe-
cution, and complete information of tiiis cyclopedia,
volumes of which are once more on our desk, lead
us to wish that we could add more to what has already
been said in favor of this latest venture of the " Lit-
erary Revolution." The work, if we mistake not, is
the most extended as yet attempted by Mr. Alden.
We certainly hope that he will be able to continue
in the way that he has begun, and thus to complete
what will fill a long-felt need, i. e., a work of uni-
versal reference, handy in form and American in
character and aim.
NOTES.
D. C. Heath & Co., of Boston, will soon add to
their series of French texts for schools and colleges,
" La Belle Nivernaise ^^ ; Histoire d'un vienx bateau
et de son equipage, by Alphonse Daudet, with six
illustrations; and " Bug JargaW'' by Victor Hugo,
both edited by James Boielle, Senior French Master
at Dulwich College, England; also Scribe's " ie
Verre D^Eau" and Lamartine's " Jeaune D'Arc.''''
These last are to be edited by A. Barrere, Professor
of Modern Languages in the Royal Military Acad-
emy, Woolwich, England. These texts will each
have a literary introduction and such notes as will
best adapt them to school use.
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BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 14, 1888.
Vol. XVIII.
No. 9.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED HVEKT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE TEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
F. L. Staples, '89, Managing Editor.
O. P. Watts, '89, Business Editor.
W. M. Emery, '89. E. E. Stearns, '89.
G. T. Files, '89. G. B. Chandler, '90.
P. J. C. Little, '89. J. M. W. Moody, '90.
D. E. Owen, '89. T. C. Spillane, '90.
Per annum, in advance, $2.00.
Single Copies, 15 cents.
Extra copies can be obtained at the bookstores or on applica-
tion to the Business Editor.
Remittances should be made to the Business Editor. Com-
munications in regard to all other matters should be directed to
the Managing Editor.
Students, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contribute
literary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must be
accompanied by writer's name, as well as the signature which
he wishes to have appended.
Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 9.- November 14, 1888.
A November Night; A Sonnet, 125
Editorial Notes, 125
Election Returns, 127
"The Fast Set at Harvard," 127
Maine Hall, 128
Delta Kappa Epsilon Convention, 128
Gladstone as a Public Man, 129
The Bowdoin Creed 130
CoLLEGii Tabula 131
Personal 132
In Memoriam, 1,34
College "World 134
Book Reviews, 135
A NOVEMBER NIGHT: A SONNET.
The cold, drear winds through leafless branches sigh ;
The twilight draws its deepening shades around ;
The withered leaves go rustling o'er the ground.
Or, caught by boist'rous breeze, go whirling by,
Like spectres outlined 'gainst the d.arkening sky.
All nature shudders at the doleful sound,
Valley and stream, and forest depths profound,
And rugged hills and mountains steep and high.
And now deep gloom has settled over all ;
The dying wind moans fitfully and low ;
Night closer wraps around her sable pall.
And all is dark, save where the moon's faint glow
Reveals upon some ruined, moss-grown wall.
Fantastic shadows flitting to and fro.
We publish in this issue an article
criticising a paper which appeared in the last
number of the North American Review. We
fully agree with the ideas expressed by the
writer of the Orient article. Perhaps a
condition of things exists in Harvard Uui-
versity which approximates to that described
by Mr. Aleck Quest, but if he sought to
remedy the faults therein set forth, his suc-
cess would have been more apparent if he
had taken some other course.
One cannot read Mr. Quest's article with-
out a feeling of satisfaction that our college
is not in a situation to be thus berated. By
reason of its somewhat isolated location and
high college sentiment the moral tone of this
college is eminently pure ; indeed we doubt
if a college can be found, of equal numbers,
which has so pure a moral atmosphere as
Bowdoin. We do not mean to say that
Bowdoin is absolutely perfect or that there
is nothing here to call for criticism, but we
do mean to say that an aroused college sen-
timent has in the past twenty years swept
away much that was objectionable and has
made Bowdoin College, in its morals and
habits, as pure as any similar institution in
the country.
From present appearances the attendance
upon gymnasium exercises will be increased
this winter. The Faculty have passed a rule
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by which students will be ranked in this
exercise as in recitations, hoping by this
means to increase the attendance. Probably
the attempt will be successful, though the
blow falls with undiminished force upon the
backs of some of the lazy ones. But, seriously,
we hope the boys will go in regularly. The
training is of untold benefit to the physical
system, and as a training in elocution it is
beneficial. Probably there is no exercise in
the whole course that will so fully develop a
man's ability to express himself in positive,
clear-cut English as fifteen minutes with the
clubs and dumb-bells.
For these and sundry other reasons it is
not difficult to see the benefits of gymna-
sium training, and now that we must attend
let us do so with all the grace possible.
Too many are apt to think when they
enter college that the end and aim of their
college existence is the knowledge derived
from close application to their text-books.
This idea of a college education comes about
naturally enough, but we incline to the
opinion that it is an erroneous one. We do
not wish to be understood as condeming
close application to prescribed studies nor
the student who holds patiently and persist-
ently to the fixed curriculum. But we do
mean to say that the student who does this
to the exclusion of other means of acquiring
an education loses, in the end.
In a certain sense the most important
part of' his education the student derives
from his text-books, but this education will
be. narrow and one-sided if it is not supple-
mented by outside study and observation.
" There is an education aside from that of
the recitation room, which is a j^reparation
for the exigencies of actual life." This edu-
cation if rightly acquired and used will
make him more of a man and a scholar and
less of a book-worm. There are several
sources from which we can obtain it but we
shall speak of only two.
The first is the reading-room. There
have been students who never made use of
the reading-room. The excuse they offered
was, " I can't afford the time." There is not
a man in college who cannot spare twenty
minutes or half an hour every day for peru-
sal of the papers and magazines. The
busiest student squanders more time than
that every day. A practical knowledge of men
and things and current events is indispensa-
ble to any man who lays claim to being edu-
cated, and there is no better source of obtain-
ing this knowledge than from the papers.
A second source, even more valuable
than the first, is the library. A knowledge
of great writers and thinkers and of their
works a man must have to be educated. To
this end the library must be utilized. It is
a tremendous mistake to think of the library
as a mere collection of books, without any
particular value in acquiring a thorough ed-
ucation, yet some students apparently have
this idea, if we may judge from the number
of books charged to them on the record,
which in some cases is painfully small.
A course of reading in some study or
line of thought, marked out with a view to
practical knowledge is one of the best edu-
cational influences that a student can avail
himself of.
It is gratifying to know that students are
availing themselves more and more of these
influences, and we believe that those who
have given this plan the most thorough trial
will bear the highest testimony to its prac-
tical worth.
A recent number of the New York Mail
and Express has an article on " Student Co-
operation in College Government and Disci-
pline." It says :
" A recent resignation of a body of the students'
conference oouiinittee at Princeton and the vacillation
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and weakness of the college senate at Amherst must
indicate to the authorities the embarrassments which
attend the policy of allowing the undergraduates to
participate in their own government Expe-
rience does not demonstrate its usefulness or expe-
diency, and we look for the abolition of all student
advisory committees in the near future It is
hardly consistent with the dignity or authority of a
college faculty to call in the assistance of under-
graduates in the conducting of college affairs, or
submit its decision for undergraduate approval.
We believe in a strong centralized faculty gov-
ernment."
Williams, Harvard, Princeton, and Bow-
doin have had some form of student repre-
sentation for several years and the plan has
been tried with considerable success in some
of the Western colleges.
We do not know how much experience
the writer quoted has had in the matter of
student discipline, but we know that as far
as this college is concerned that undergrad-
uate participation in college government
has been a gratifying success. In the cases
brought before it the jury has in the main
ruled wisely and well, and we believe that it
has played an important part in bringing
about the good feeling that exists between
faculty and students.
We see nothing "inconsistent with the
dignity or authority of a college faculty " in
delegating to the students a part of its gov-
ernmental authority. From the nature of
things students often know more about the
matter in question, the motives that led to
its origin and its palliating circumstances, if
there be any, than the faculty possibly can.
The judgment of the latter, even when ex-
ercised as fairly and discriminately as pos-
sible, is apt to be somewhat unreasoning and
arbitrary. It is when the judgment of one
is combined with the sympathetic knowl-
edge of the other that the best results are
obtained. And we see nothing in this col-
lege, at least, that leads us to suppose that
the system will be abolished until the privi-
lege is abused.
ELECTION RETURNS.
Filled with hope, with joy resplendent,
Lists the crowd, with eager ear bent
Towards the reader of returns ;
Then the saddened audience learns
Hopes all blasted.
Flames contrasted
With the
Smouldering
Spark.
Hark!
Advancing
With the
Long awaited
Message, fated
To bring words of joy or pain.
Silence ! then, for once again.
Break the rapturous bursts of feeling —
Shouts, unto the very stars appealing.
"THE FAST SET AT HARVARD,"
IN THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
The article in the last issue of the North
American Review, entitled " The Fast Set at
Harvard," has excited universal comment
and criticism. It is an old saying that " A
cat can look upon a king ; " and as the peri-
odical above mentioned did not hesitate to
publish the views of the student who wrote
the article, it seems not over-presumptuous
that another student, in a college publication
like the Orient, should, at least, offer a
word of criticism. Our criticism is not upon
the substance of the article, but upon its
style and the magazine in which it appeared.
The North American Review has long en-
joyed a most enviable reputation. Its bound
volumes do now, and will for centuries, grace
the alcoves of all our important libraries.
There is hardly a respectable reading-room
in the land where it is not to be found. It
claims to be, and generally has been, a lib-
eral, non-partisan and highly-respectable pub-
lication. It numbers among its contributors
the first men of the land, and it has been
honored within the past year by contribu-
tions from the pen of that great English
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statesman, critic, and scholar whom we esteem
as the most superb intellect of the world.
The article by the Harvard student pos-
sesses many literary merits. It is happy in
its choice of words, racy and elastic in its
style, and readable even to a degree of fasci-
nation. Bat, unfortunately, its merits are
more than neutralized by many expressions
and allusions which would find a more fitting
lodgment in the columns of the National
Police Grazette, and any one of which ought
to exclude it from the Review in which it
appeared. It savors of the very "set " which
it exposes. It is "fast" itself. Moreover,
it shows distinctive traces of an undercurrent
of pique and spite, and casts reflections upon
the integrity of the Faculty of a venerable
institution. It is a smart article but hardly
an able one, for ability should include judg-
ment, and " Aleck Quest " has certainly
shown himself as injudicious as he is brill-
iant.
There you have our estimate of the Re-
view and the expose which it published. If
you admit these estimates, even in a partial
degree, are you able to reconcile the two ?
Perhaps Allan Thorndike Rice has " caught
the spirit of the times " and is endeavoring
to adapt his publication to the popular taste.
From a pecuniary point of view, his course
may be a politic one, but it seems a thing for
regret to intelligent Americans that a na-
tional and representative Review should be
allowed to degenerate. The literary world
would be much surprised to find in the Edin-
burgh Review an article of similar tone, writ-
ten by an Oxford or Cambridge student on
the analogous condition which there exists.
MAINE HALL.
Dear to every son of Bowdoin
Who has lived within thy walls,
In thy rooms has worked or reveled,
Walked thy time-worn, battered halls.
Venerable, yet unpretentious.
Walls o'ertopped by ehimneys tall.
Still unchanged 'mid changed surroundings,
Stands to-day our old Maine Hall.
On thy sills and doors and windows
Many a son has left his name.
Whom the busy years that followed
Have brought honor, wealth, or fame.
May the dear associations
Of the past to us recall
All the scenes so fondly clustered
Round thy name, dear old Maine Hall.
DELTA KAPPA EPSILON CONVEN-
TION.
The forty-second convention of Delta
Kappa Epsilon was held with the Central
Club at the Burnet House, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Wednesday and Thursday, October 24, 25,
1888. Twenty-six chapters and several
alumni associations sent delegates. Theta
was represented by Emery of Bowdoin, and
Xi, by Lincoln Owen, '89, of Colby.
Tuesday evening an informal reception
was tendered the delegates in Parlor A
of the Burnet. The secret business sessions
were held in the same room, on Wednesday
and Thursday mornings. At one of these
meetings Boston was unanimously chosen as
the next convention seat.
Wednesday afternoon the delegates were
treated to an elegant lunch at the Queen
City Club House, where the convention pho-
tograph was taken. That evening a formal
visit was paid to the Centennial Exposition.
The members marched through the buildings
to Music Hall, where an address of welcome
and informal speeches were listened to, in-
terspersed with college songs.
Thursday afternoon Mr. Gamble, of the
firm Proctor & Gamble, took the boys in a
special car out to Ivorydale. A visit was
made to the works and lunch served.
Souvenirs in the shape of cakes of the J. K. E.
brand of purest Ivory Soap were presented.
The banquet was held Thursday evening
in the Burnet's spacious dining-hall. Covers
for one hundred were laid. For the post-
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prandium Lieut.-Gov. Samuel F. Hunt was
President, and Dr. Andrew C. Kemper,
Toast-Master. Among the toasters were Prof.
John S. Long of the University of North
Carolina, Fred Perry Powers of the Chicago
Times, Hon. Charles P. Taft, and Senator
James W. Owens. Letters of regret were
read from ex-President Hayes, Rt. Rev.
Thos. U. Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky, Gen.
Francis A. Walker, and others.
It was far into the night when the dele-
gates separated with cheers for the generous
hospitality of the Cincinnati club, all firmly
resolved to meet again at the Hub in 1889.
GLADSTONE AS A PUBLIC MAN.
To write the memoirs of a man, who is
not only living, but in active public life, is
a most difficult task; and we can imagine no
life which presents a more varied one than
that of Mr. Gladstone. Although seventy-
eight years of age, and although he has nom-
inally retired from the leadership of a party,
his intellectual and political activity is
greater to-day than that of any man in the
United Kingdom. His character and career
still divide the judgments, and stir up the
passions of his contemporaries to an almost
unparalleled degree ; and it will be many
years before they can be discussed in England
with that coolness and moderation essential
to an impartial and just consideration of
them.
As a public speaker and Parliamentary
debater, he has had no equal since the days
of Fox and Pitt ; and we may justly say that,
in the pages of English History, the name of
Gladstone outshines them all as a reasoner.
As an orator he has been sometimes com-
pared to Burke, and in a few respects he re-
sembles the " great impeacher." But it is
doubtful if Mr. Gladstone's speeches will be
read in future years as are Burke's to-day.
Of all the positions for which he seems emi-
nently fitted, that of a political leader seems
to be the greatest. As a party leader he has
been often surpassed, but as a leader of the
people, one who can arouse the popular con-
science and guide popular opinion, he stands
without a peer.
From his first speech in the House of
Commons in defense of the West India in-
terest, when the bill abolishing slavery was
introduced, we find in him that power and
eloquence which have since marked his
course through life. The earnestness of that
appeal drove out everything save the great
cause at hand. Of all his speeches none
attracted such great attention and were read
with such universal comment as his speech
in the House of Commons a few years since,
on giving to Ireland the freedom of her soil.
He voluntarily abandons his position as
leader of his party to aid those whom he
once despised, and to advocate the principles
he long felt had been abused. To describe
the wrongs of the country whose freedom
he has advocated, would be to dramatize the
history of that country, during and since
the reign of Henry the VIII., the pictures of
ruined homes, of separated families, — some
gone to the scaffold and others exiled for-
ever. Throughout the period that gave to
English literature the works of Spenser,
Shakespeare, and Milton, of Pope, Dryden,
and Addison, the period through which it
may be said the intellect of the modern En-
glish nation was being formed and cultivated
and its civilization refined, Ireland was hav-
ing the eyes of the mind darkened, and in-
tellectual blindness and habits and tastes of
barbarism forced upon it by British law.
Despite all disadvantages, Ireland makes
a goodly showing upon the r61e of the schol-
ars, soldiers, and statesmen. Swift, Gold-
smith, Sheridan, Moore, and Carlton in
literature; Burke, Curran, Plunkett, Shirl,
and O'Connell in oratory, statesmanship,
and politics- In the early struggle of Amer-
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ica for independence we find her aided by
those high in social and political power,
those whose eloquence had vibrated through
the legislative halls of Westminster, and
resounded across the deep waters of the
Atlantic to the ears of Washington and
Patrick Henry. We see the Hungarian
chief, whose life had been spent that he
might see the flag of peace float as an en-
sign of freedom over an unquestioned re-
public, encouraged, and the arms of a new
world opened to receive him. But never
before have the wrongs of any country been
advocated by a guardian of the oppressor.
Educated to be ever faithful and to promul-
gate only those teachings which would be
beneficial to England, we find William Ewart
Gladstone, in the fall of 1885, emerging, as
it were, into a new sphere of life.
That venerable statesman, whom the
student of literature in future years will
study with admiration, and whose speeches
will resound through the halls of Christen-
dom, arises from his seat in Parliament to
make the crowning effort of his life, — the
liberation of the Irish people from the Brit-
ish yoke. Although at present his attempts
have been foiled by Lord Salisbury and his
colleagues, the manly power and argumen-
tative force of that appeal have as yet re-
mained unanswered ; and we may yet expect
to see the fulfillment of his desires, and we
can hope of no attainment that would add
magnitude to the crowning effort of his
eventful life.
THE BOWDOIN CREED.
[The class of '61, wlien in college, had the following song,
preserved verbally before and since, printed. An alumnus has
kindly permitted us to publish a literal copy.]
Air — " MalbrooJc."
It is the " Bowdoin Creed,'''' sir,
Never to run to seed, sir,
But to take especial heed, sir,
To drive dull care away.
To drive dull care away.
To drive dull care avfay ;
It's a way we have at Old Bowdoin,
It's a way we have at Old Bowdoin,
It's a way we have at Old Bowdoin,
To drive dull care away.
We think it no great sin, sir.
To suck the Freshmen in, .sir.
And ease them of their tin, sir,
To drive dull care away, etc.
You never should look blue, sir,
If you chance to take a " screw," *'sir.
To us it's nothing new, sir,
To drive dull care away, etc.
When creditors vex with bills, sir,
A dose of sole leather pills, sir.
Will rid us of these ills, sir.
And drive dull care away, etc.
We like to take our ease, sir,
With a damsel on our knees, sir.
And give her a hearty squeeze, sir,
To drive dull care away, etc.
We think it no great hurt, sir.
With foolish girls to flirt, sir,
And then to give 'em " the shirt," sir,
To drive dull care away, etc.
Our meerschaums oft we stuff, sir.
With good tobacco, enough, sir.
And take many a hearty puff, sir.
To drive dull care away, etc.
Good brandy gives a gist, sir.
In playing a rubber of whist, sir,
Which no one can resist, sir.
Who'd drive dull care away, etc.
When nothing better is near, sir.
We take a noggin of beer, sir.
To keep our hearts in cheer, sir.
And drive dull care away, etc.
But sugar, and nutmeg, and gin, sir.
Made into a nipper of sling, sir.
We find the very best thing, sir.
To drive dull care away, etc.
Thus ends the '' Bowdoin Creed,'''' sir,
Which may you ever read, sir.
And take especial heed, sir,
To drive dull care away, etc.
Bowdoin College, June, 1860.
* "Screw."— Close questioning of a student who very appar-
ently had not mastered bis subject.
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TWO OF A KIND.
Tell me what gens is the Freshman rash.
Who shoots off his mouth with all sorts of
trash.
And receives aquapura for being so brash ?
Gens asinorum.
Tell me what gens is the wild Sophomore,
Who puts every poor Freshie over the door,
And talks all the time about wallowing in gore ?
GENS ASIMOKVM !
By the carelessness of the proof-reader. Moody,
'SO, and Downes, '92, were incorrectly reported as
being members of '91, in the last issue of the Orient.
Dudley, '91, will teach in Milan, N. H., this
winter.
The appointments for the Sophomore Prize Dec-
lamation are as follows : Bangs, Burleigh, Burr,
Cilley, Foss, Emerson Hilton, Jarvis, Jordan,
Parker, Porter, Smith, Wright.
Jackson, '89, has left college. He will teach in
Oakland this winter.
Several of the students are competing for the
position of organist, to succeed ThwiYig at the end of
this year. It is said that Gurney or Gummer will be
the successful candidate.
The A. K. E. club are boarding at Mrs. Odiorne's,
on Noble Street.
An elfigy, placarded with the numerals '92, was
found suspended in the chapel one morning recently.
It showed the handiwork of some aspiring Freshie.
Since our last issue the Juniors have had a week's
adjourn in German and the Seniors one of three days
in Psychology, Professor Johnson and President
Hyde being out of town.
The number of book dealers in college is increas-
ing, C. H. Fogg being the last man to enter the
business.
The Bowdoin Quartette gave a very successful
concert at Woolwich, October 31st. The Glee Club
has accepted no engagements as yet.
A meeting of the students was called in Lower
Memorial, October 31st, to listen to proposals for
lighting the dormitories by electricity. The prices
proposed by the company were as follows :
One light, per month, $ .80
Two lights, per month 1.40
Three lights, per month, 2.20
An extra light, if wanted, will be paid for according
to the number of hours used. Probably they will
not be put in, most of the boys feeling that the price
is too high.
Several of the Seniors have joined teachers-
agencies, and many more will before the end of the
year. A good agency is advertised in the Orient,
and the Business Editor will be glad to receive the
registry fee of any members of the college, an
arrangement having been made with the agency that
a certain number of fees be taken in payment for
advertising.
Manson, ex-'89, was in town a few days ago. He
is employed in the oiSce of the Somerset Railway at
Oakland.
Rice and Neal went on a gunning trip to Harps-
well a few days since with excellent success.
Some few nights since the furniture was taken out
of the reading-room and placed in a more elevated
position on the campus. Such pranks make some
extra work for the janitor, but show no great amount
of brains or power of ingenuity on the part of the
perpetrators.
TO LIZZIE,
ON RECEIPT OP HER PHOTOGRAFH.
(Rondeau.)
My dearest friend, I cannot feigu
That for your face I entertain
No admiration, and if you
Would give your modest self its due
You'd think as I do, I maintain.
No flattery my words contain,
For that my Muse feels but disdain ;
My tribute is sincere and true.
My dearest friend.
From writing this I can't refrain.
I trust that I may still retain
Your friendship and your favor, too.
If you are vexed — what shall I do ?
I hope, though, that you'll still remain
My dearest friend! *
The next Junior themes are due November 21st.
Subjects as follows :
I. The influence of Sir Walter Scott's writings.
II. In what way should the national government
encourage scientific investigation ?
The Seniors had an examination in Political
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Economy November 3d, and in Psychology Novem-
ber 9th.
M. A. Tenney has advertised on the bulletin
board some excellent bargains in bicycles.
Mr. Whittier is at home sick. The gymnasium
instruction will be deferred until his return.
The next convention of Theta Delta Chi will be
held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City,
November 19-21. F. M. Russell will be one of the
delegates.
Twenty-one members of tlie Senior class went
home to vote.
Last Sunday afternoon President Hyde pre-
sented in chapel some thoughts natural!)' sug-
gested by the recent election and campaign. He said
that in the campaign there were some things to re-
joice over and some to be regretted. It was a clean
campaign. Not a personal one, but one fought on
issues, issues which were living and not dead. These
issues have caused the breaking up of party lines
somewhat, and threaten the destruction of sectional-
ism. In the near future there is likely not to be a
solid South against an almost solid North. The
amount of self-interest brought out in the fight is such
as to give pain. Not for many years has so much
money been given, nor have men voted so strongly,
to secure their own interests. The moral enthusiasm
of the war has died out. The moral enthusiasm over
the great economic questions is yet to be evoked.
But the time is coming when people will see beyond
their own self-interests and look to the common weal.
The campaign now closed is one to give great satis-
faction, and especially to young men. The war
questions are settled, new questions are coming up,
and with these, new men must rise to meet them.
The leadership must fall on men who will study,
master, and solve the great economic problems. All
things becoming new opens up a good field to am-
bitious educated men. There is no higher service
for God than application to these questions with in-
tent to help remedy them, and if the American peo-
ple do this faithfully we shall indeed become that
happy nation whose God is the Lord.
Dr. Arthur R. Header, M. S., '88, of Waterville,
goes to New York City to pursue a graduate course
in medicine. The Balh Sentinel refers to him as a
D.D. !
The quinquennial supplement to Poole's Periodi-
cal Index has just been placed in the library. It cov-
ers the time from January, 1882, to January, 1887.
From that date to this there are the co-operative
quarterly indexes, and also an author index for 1887.
These indexes include all the leading English and
American magazines, with which the library is nota-
bly well supplied. Three good periodicals not on
the shelves are LippincoWs, Scribner's, and the Amer-
ican Magaziiie, back and current numbers of which
it is some day hoped to add.
Tibbets, '91, is teaching at Woolwich.
A prominent athlete of '90 was recently overheard
thus seriously soliloquizing : " Thanksgiving comes
November 25th. Let me see, that brings it on Sun-
day this year ! "
The boys are paying off their election bets. Some
novel ones, of course, were made. A Soph was no-
ticed, the other day, calmly smiling while a class-
mate poured aqua frigida over his manly form.
'Staches and siders are disappearing all around, and,
conversely, virgin lips and cheeks are in many cases
donning most curious garbs of hair. Two prominent
college men will, Friday noon, make a novel trip to
the post-office and back. One is to ride the other,
both wearing Phi Chi hats and having their faces
striped with red and yellow paint. It is proposed to
have a college band accompany them.
November ll-18th is the week of prayer for the
Y. M. C. A.'s of the country.
There were no adjourns on election day.
Thursday evening, the 8th, the ubiquitous small
boys of Brunswick, to the number of thirty, invaded
the campus with torch and drum, cheering for the
Republican victory and the Bowdoin votes which
helped it.
Since the communication
from Mr. Bridge, concern-
the living members of the class
of '25, was published, much interest
has been manifested in regard to the sur-
viving members of the earlier classes of
Bowdoin College. The first class, graduated in the
year 1806, contained six members, and from that
time until 1820 one hundred and eighteen students
received their degrees. Now it will be of interest
to all to learn that of this number not one is alive
to-day. Gradually the number has diminished until
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the class of 1820 claims the honor of being the earli-
est class having a graduate remaining among us.
The following account contains the names of the liv-
ing graduates of the classes between 1820 and 1830 :
'20.— Rev. Dr. Thos. T. Stone, born in Waterford,
and after finishing college course studied Theology
in Augusta. Has filled a number of pastorates, and
now resides in Newton, Mass.
'21. — Dr. Kufus Gushing was born in Brunswick,
and studied medicine under such men as Dr. James
McKeen and Dr. John Wells. His present residence
is in Brewer, Me.
'21. — Isaac W. Wheelwright first began preach-
ing, but afterwards turned his attention to teaching.
Of him it may be said that he is a descendant of the
Eev. John Wheelwright, brother of Ann Hutchinson,
and a man who so thoroughly clung to the doctrines
held by this family that he was banished from Bos-
ton. Isaac Wheelwright now resides in South By-
field, Mass.
'22. — Hon. John Appleton, born in New Ipswich,
N. H., in 180i; studied law. Of the life of this
most respected man nothing need be said. Suffice it
to say that in 1860 the degree of LL.D. was con-
ferred upon him by this college.
'22. — Chas. E. Barrett has lived for many years in
Portland, and held many positions of trust.
'22.— Dr. D. H. Storer was born in 1804; studied
medicine, and settled in Boston. He was the origi-
nator of the Tremont Street Medical School. Dr.
Stevens is widely known, both as a scholar and as an
easy and effective speaker.
'22.— Rev. D. D. Tappan, a professor in Cam-
bridge, and afterwards preacher; now lives in Tops-
field, Mass.
'23. — Rev. Jonas Burnham has spent most of his
life in teaching. The Orient lately contained a
sketch of his later years ; now resides in Farming-
ton, Me.
'23.— Richard W. Dummer ; present residence is
in Big Springs, Kan.
'24. — Frederick W. Burke ; residence, New York
City, N. Y., is the sole survivor of this class.
'25. — The six members remaining in this class
ai'e spoken of in the last number of the Orient.
'27. — Hon. Alpheus Felch, LL.D., spoken of in
last Orient, now residing in Ann Harbor, Mich.
'27. — Wm. M. Vaughn, of Cambridge, Mass.
'28.— Rev. Silas Baker, of Standish, Me.
'28. — Hon. Henry Weld Fuller, a lawyer of much
note, now i-esiding in Roxbury, Mass.
'28. — Rev. Sanford A. Kingsbury, Upper Alton,
Illinois.
'28. — Rev. Joseph Loring, of East Otisfield, Me.
'29. — Hon. Richard L. Evans, of Washington,
D. C.
'29. — Alexander R. Green, of Terry, Miss.
'29.— John F. Hartley, LL.D., of Saco, Me.
'29.— Rev. Joseph W. Session, of Chaplin, Conn.
'29. — Professor Moses Soule, of Lyons, Iowa.
'29.— Dr. Wm. Wood, of Portland, Me.
'30. — Rev. D. Q. Cushman, Warren, Me.
'30.— Hon. Thos. Drummond, LL.D., of Winfield,
Illinois.
'30. — Samuel D. Hubbard, of Montgomery, Ala.
'30. — General Wm. S. Lincoln, of Worcester,
Mass.
'30. — Rev. Joseph Stockbridge, D.D., of Plains-
field, N. J.
'55. — Hon. Wm. L. Putnam has been stumping in
the State of Michigan.
'63. — Many of the students who noticed the kindly
face of Charles U. Bell, last Commencement, will be
glad to hear that he is one of the fourteen Republi-
can electors of Massachusetts.
'60. — Hon. William W. Thomas, Jr., made a ily-
ing trip home this week, and then started back for
more work in the field political. For a man who
has had his chronic bad luck he shows remarkable
willingness to do his best to help the party out. If
General Harrison is elected president it is probable
that he will apply for the mission to Sweden once
more, having a decided liking for that country. Mr.
Thomas is a delightful talker, and if you only think
as he does he will talk you into the belief that defeat
is out of the question. Still he admits that he has
talked only with Republicans, and doesn't think his
opinions of special value. Mr. Thomas will bear
the defeat of his presidential candidate well, and
will have, it is to be hoped, plenty of time for the
next four years to devote to literary matters. He
has a history of Sweden on hand, besides various
sketches and random studies, worthy of being worked
up when he has the time to do it. — Herald, Oct. 21,
1888.
'64. — Hon. Charles F. Libby returned home from
a three weeks' tour through Colorado the past week,
highly elated with the country. He speaks in
glowing terms of the city of Denver, and says that it
possesses one of the finest high-school buildings that
he has ever seen, a magnificent court house, and one
of the best opera houses in the world, while its
private residences will rival the costly villas of New-
port.— Press.
'72. — Hon. Herbert M. Heath is mentioned as the
probable President of the Maine Senate.
'74. — E. Dudley Freeman, ex-'74, and graduate
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of Amherst, is Senator elect from Cumberland
County.
'84. — Albert F. Sweetsir, ex-'84, lawyer in Win-
terport, Me., is County Attorney elect from Waklo
County, and ran ahead of his ticket.
'85. — Boyd Bartlett is now traveling for Ginn &
Co., of Boston.
Ex-'85.
Daniel Goodnow, a graduate of Dartmouth, is
completing a course in the Dartmouth Medical
School.
Richards Webb is a lawyer in Portland, Me.
John R. Gould is cashier of First National Bank
of Augusta.
Thomas Leigh, Jr., a graduate of Dartmouth,
was lately admitted to the Kennebec Bar.
'88. — Wm. R. Coding has resigned the principal-
ship of the Alfred High School and will pursue the
study of law at the Boston University Law School.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Theta, a. k. b., >
Nov. 2, 1888. S
Whereas, It has been pleasing to our Heavenly
Father to take from us by death, brothers Charles
Henry Wheeler of the class of '47, and E. L. Keyes
of the class of '65 who have always been true and hon-
orable members of the Fraternity ; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the members of Theta of A. K.
E., bowing in submission to the Divine Will, deeply
regret the death of our brotliers ;
Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy
to the friends and relatives of the deceased ;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent
to each chapter of the Fraternity ; also a copy printed
in the Bowdoin Orient.
James L. Doherty, '89,
Algernon S. Dyer, '91,
Roy F. Bartlett, '92.
Among the scholars of all nations who were hon-
ored recently by the doctor's degree from the Univer-
sity of Bologna were the following Americans : James
Russell Lowell, David Dudley Field, Prof Adams,
and Prof. Agassiz. — Tuf Ionian.
Over one hundred students were suspended from
the University of Berlin during the last semester for
insufficient attention to study. — Hx.
I told her that I loved her,
And had never loved another.
And I asked her if from picking up a husband she would
shrink.
Slie turned her head so neatly,
And she said so very sweetly,
" [ really couldn't tell you. Ask my papa what I think."
— Yale Courant.
Lehigh has adopted the cap and grown as college
garb. — Cornell Era.
The Amherst branch of the college Y. M. C. A.
has been disbanded for lack of funds. — Yale Record.
Yale is the first American College to have lectures
in Volapiik. — Ex.
When cool the nights of summer are,
How sweet to while the hours away,
With dancing in a measure gay.
To music of the low guitar
And Castanet.
And of it all my sweetest part,
To lead Zelinda in the dance;
For (let me whisper) with one glance
The dark-eyed girl around my heart,
Has cast a net. — Williams Weekly.
The following is the college yell at Bucknell Uni-
versity : Yah ! Yah ! ! Yoo ! ! ! Bucknell B. U. Wah
hoo ! Hoo wah ! ! Bang ! ! ! !
Miami University has the youngest college pres-
ident on record, Ethel bert D. Warfield, being an '82
man at Princeton. — The Lafayette.
Behind the close-drawn portiere,
She was seated in languid repose.
And looked so bewitchingly fair.
Behind the close-drawn portiere.
That I— well, I would tell, if I dare,
How at last up in arms she arose
From behind the close-drawn portiSre,
Where she rested in languid repose.
Alone and despondent to-night,
I sit by the same portiSre;
I have tied from the music and light.
Alone and unhappy to-night,
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In a truly deplorable plight,
I gaze at the now vacant chair,
As alone and unhappy to-night
I sit by the drawn portiere.
— Dartmouth Literary Monthly.
Yale has graduated 13,444 students, of whom
about half are living. — Ex.
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) has received
the degree of Master of Arts from Yale University.
—Ex.
According to the New York Herald of October 14tli,
the yells adopted by the class of '92 at the various
American institutions are as follows :
Yale. — " Bric-a-kex-kex, coax, coax, bric-a-kex-
kex, coax, coax, whuop, whuop, parabaloo — '92."
Harvard. — "John's gun is up the flue, rushed up
by '92!" (91's cry is "Johnny get your gun, '91.")
Cornell. — " Nine-ty-two, OU! Nine-ty-two : We
are the stuff; We ARE the stuff !— Scat !
Columbia.— " Rah-rah-rah ! C-0-L-U-M-B-I-A !
—'92."
Amherst. — " Hal-lab-aloo, hal-lab-aloo, Am-herst,
'92."
Dartmouth. — " Wah-hoo-wah ! Wah-hoo-wah!
Da-da-a-da-Darlraouth ! Ninety-tvvo ! T-i-g-e-r-r-r-r ! "
Lafayette.— ^lia.\i\ 'Rah! 'Rah! Duoetnon-a-ginta!
Laf-ay-ette !"
Syracuse. — "What, who— ninety-two — ne plus
ultra, ninety-two."
Union. — "Ra! ra! ra! Ru ! ru ! ru ! Boom-a-
ling, booni-a-ling. Ninety-two."
Brown. — " Hicky-lIickj'-How-Ri-Ninety-two !
Williams . — " Hi-0-Ki-O-Ya-Ya-Ya-Duo-Kai-eu-
enaonta !"
Trinity. — " Trin-I-tee ! Trin-I-tee ! How are you ?
We're all right. We're '92."
Rutgers.— "Wish-hi-hal Wish-Ia-hoo ! Eight-
een-hundred-and-Ninety-two."
Bowdoin. — "'Rail! 'Rail! 'Rah! Hallabaloo,
Bowdoin, Bowdoin, ninety-two."
Dickinson. — " Hoo-ra-roi)-1892-'92-rali-rali-roo-
'92, Dick-in-son !"
Stevens. — "'Rah, 'Rah, Gray! 'Rah, 'Rah, Blue !
Boom, Rah, Stevens! Ninety-tvvo!"
Wesleyan. — "Kola, Kata, Wesleiana, '92, '92.
'Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah!"
The University of Pennsylvania has built a $1,100
green house for the cultivation of iilants for botanical
work. — Ex.
At Amherst the examination system has been
entirely abolished, and a series of written recitations
at intervals throughout the term have been substi-
tuted.— Ex.
There are forty-two college graduates employed
on Boston newspapers, seventeen of whom are from
Harvard. — Ex.
The Faculty of Boston College has prohibited the
publication of the Stylus, the organ of that school.
— Ex.
Over tvvo thousand University students were in
line at the funeral procession of the Emperor Wil-
liam.— Ex.
At the last Commencement of Columbia College
the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon a
young woman. The first one to receive such a de-
gree from that college. — Ex.
The four leading female colleges in America are
Wellesley with 020 students. Smith with 367, Vassar
with 283, and Bryn Mawr with 79.—Ex.
BOOK REVIEWS.
Among the Theologies. — Hiram Orcutt, LL.D. Boston :
W. B. Clarke & Co., 1888.
"During the past winter the author has spent his
leisure hours among the theologies, that he might,
by careful and prayerful study, more fully determine
his own position, and this little volume presents the
result of his investigation."
The book is no more and no less valuable than
one would expect from so superficial an approach to
so profound a theme. It is simply a plea for Univer-
salisra, and differs from other attempts to establish
the doctrine of universal salvation only in the more
frank and unhesitating manner in which he sets forth
the good-natured fatalism which all advocates of
Universalism rest their argument upon, but which
more guarded writers generallj' endeavor to conceal.
"God's goodness is almighty," and man's free-will
ultimately comes to nothing, ever have been the
foundation stones of the Universalist creed. But
never have we seen so frank a statement of it as is
given here.
Alden's Manftold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and
Language, with Illustrations. 'Vol. 6. Bkavo —
Calvjlle. New York: John B. Alden, 1888.
It has been customary to say of a man whose
knowledge is of an unusually minute or exact char-
acter, that " he must study the dictionary." The
expression was heard more frequently a few years
ago than it is in this day of specialists, when knowl-
edge upon any subject is supposed to be much more
cyclopedic than was thought needful in earlier
times. The remark was commonly made in a semi-
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humorous, half-sarcastic manner, which implied that
the speaker deemed such study of the dictionary
rather foolish and unworthy ; but that careful and
intelligent study of the much-abused word book may
be made of great value and interest no one, upon
a little consideration, can deny.
For illustration, take the word "candidate." This
word has been ringing in our ears for the past six
months, and yet who ever paused to think what the
word re?Jly means ? A few moments' perusal of the
dictionary would solve the question something after
this style : "Candidate" is derived from the Latin
candidus. Candidas means " white." But why is a
candidate something white? Simply because in
Rome it was the custom for all those who wished to
be elected to some office b}' a popular vote, to pre-
sent themselves beforehand to the people attired in
white togas, and so such applicants for suffrage came
to be known as " candidates. ^^
Again, whj' are certain books known as " clas-
sics ? " Once more referring to the dictionary we find
that in Rome men were assigned, according to
wealth, to the fourth, third, or second class, as the
case might be, and their rank was designated by
corresponding numerical terms. The man of the
first class was " classicus,^^ of the class, no further
definition being necessary. From this the best au-
thors came to be known as " elassici''\ and so to-day
we have "classic" authors and "classic" works,
meaning thereby first-class authors and first-class
books.
After the same manner we learn that calico is so
named because first imported from Calicut in the
East Indies. Indeed, the French word is " Calicot."
Cambric came first from Cambrai in France, and so
on. It is not necessary to multiply examples.
Enough has been said, already, to make manifest the
good to be derived from dictionary study.
Alden's Cyclopedia, aside from its value as a more
extended work of reference, is useful for just such
study as this. The work combines definition with
description. It is both a dictionary and a cyclopedia,
and he who consults its pages, with a view to its first
named function, will find it reliable and complete.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. IO.-November 28, 1888.
Thought 137
Editorial Notes * 137
Comments Upon Comments, 138
Advantages of Whist, 139
More ! 140
Historic Scraps, 140
The Profusion of Modern Literature 141
CoLLEGii Tabula, 143
Personal, 145
College World 146
Book Reviews 147
THOUGHT.
A thought, — and can it really be
That this belongs alone to trie?
I, — what ara I that I should claim
This thing of earth in mental frame ?
My soul makes bold itself to free
From fetters drear, and seeks to claim
The objects 'round, — the brook, the tree, —
As were itself and they the same.
Dispute this power ? Ah me, 'twere vain
To proffer to your God, disdain ;
He is the One and He alone
Through whom such things as thoughts are
known.
lerican undergraduate of
to-day do less thinking than his college an-
cestor of three generations ago ? There is
considerable diversity of opinion on this sub-
ject and there has been considerable discus-
sion of it. Those who hold to the affirma-
tive side of the question assert confidently
that the mental powers of the American stu-
dent are on the wane. They say this is
chargeable to the increase of the curriculum,
the result of the tendency towards speciali-
zation which is a distinctive feature of the
present educational system. In defense of
their position they cite a long list of men,
famous in various directions, trained under
the old meager curriculum, and with over-
weening confidence demand like results of
the new system. Without disparaging the
ability or attempting to detract from the
fame of those in past generations, who, con-
quering all difficulties, attained to enviable
distinction, we do desire to free the under-
graduate of to-day from the charge of de-
generacy, as far as we are able.
In a prominent American magazine of a
recent date a list of men was given, who, at
the beginning of the present century were
either undergraduates or had but just com-
pleted the college course. It included names
famous in law, statesmanship, and literature,
and it was a magnificent tribute to the use-
fulness and practical worth of " the old mea-
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ger curriculum." Yet these men did not
compose more than two per cent, of the un-
dergraduates of that time. What, then, are
we to tliink of the abilities of the other ninety-
eight per cent. ? Applying to them the same
criterion which their defenders apply to stu- .
dents of a later day, we cannot fairly esti-
mate them as more than mediocre.
Again. The defenders of the old cur-
riculum would, apparently, have us believe
that Bowdoin, the Adamses, Hamilton, Jay,
Madison, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and others
whom they mention had reached the meas-
ure of their fame the day they left the halls
of Alma Mater. They place all the renown
of their later years to the credit of their col-
lege studies. But no one will admit that
this is fair or just to the men themselves.
The general course of instruction now in
vogue has not been in operation more than
two decades, and yet it is expected to furnish
men who have attained as great renown in
twenty years as men trained under the old
system did in fifty or sixty. In short, one
system is judged in its completion, the other
in its inception. Can anything be more un-
fair or illogical?
We have said that the distinctive feature
of the modern educational system is special-
ization. It is too much to expect that a man
can excel in everything ; he may in one, and
it is just this that the present system hopes
to bring about. It lays before the student
many branches of learning, aids him in select-
ing some one and helps him to become mas-
ter of it. It offers as splendid inducements
to original investigation as any system of
education ever taught; if rightfully eraploj'ed
it will develop the art of serious, sober, log-
ical thinking, and we believe that the Amer-
ican student of to-day recognizes its benefits
and appreciates his advantages.
When this system has been in operation
long enough to bear fruit, wlien we can judge
It in its maturity, wlien those who are pur-
suing it have reached the end of their labors,
we doubt not that it will show results as
gratifying and as splendid as the other.
Until then let us suspend our criticism and
give the new method the benefit of untram-
meled operation.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas the
various class elections will probably be held.
In the past few years the elections on the
whole have not been accompanied by a spirit
of Unfriendly, inter-fraternity rivalry, as they
formerly were. This, in one of the classes
now in college, has been prevented by an
agreement entered into by representatives of
the various fraternities which has been rig-
idly adhered to. Its beneficent results are
apparent in the good feeling which has
always existed in the class. College societies
show themselves at their worst when they
mingle in college politics, and they certainly
will unless a check is imposed in the shape
of a constitution or some similar agreement.
We think the plan has demonstrated its use-
fulness sufficiently to be adopted by all the
classes.
COMMENTS UPON COMMENTS.
Having read Aleck Quest's " Fast Set at
Harvard " in the November North American
Review, not at all do we agree with the com-
ments broached upon it by a contributor to
the last Oeient. No more does our opinion
coincide with the same Orient's editorial
which stated that were Quest seeking to in-
stitute reform at Harvard he had better
applj'' some other remedy than he did, but
which, instead of specifying the cure, left all
in shadow and passed on to enlarge upon
the purity of Bowdoin.
Whatever Quest's motive in writing as
he did, matters not. Whether he was look-
ing to a correction of abuses, or merely to
raise a scandal with them, is all the same,
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since either result is of necessity accompa-
nied by the other. Supposing, then, his
object to have been correction, what better
way of procedure was there under the cir-
cumstances than by exposure ? We cannot
suggest. Quest could not gain personal
access to this fast set and work among them.
He could not approach the unapproachable.
He could not influence nor inform a self-
blinded Faculty. If, then, we are to have
exposure there must be no half-way business ;
it must be whole-hearted and made with un-
gloved hands. Otherwise it will fail of pop-
ular attention — do neither harm nor good.
We conclude, therefore, that Quest's un-
doubtedly truthful statements were not too
plain.
Occasional such exposes as this are the
salvation of exclusive things like Harvard.
It is better that these little washings-out
take place than that corruption thrive undis-
turbed in intestinal darkness till the whole
community be social rottenness and incapa-
ble of purification. Nor are Quest's insinu-
ations against the Harvard Faculty more
than can be made against all human nature.
If they be true, a charitable mind can almost
excuse the Faculty on this ground alone,
that they, like other human clay, dread to
see their flowers broken by self-instigated
winds.
The allusions in the Review article are
not more expressive than the case in hand
demands. To produce the living result,
plainness and something more than plainness
was a necessity, and therefore, neither the
North American Revieiv nov any other worthy
publication could comj)romise itself in print-
ing what it did. Sometimes even the pure
must speak the truth and have no right to
withhold. We are, then, persuaded that in
accepting this article Mr. A. T. Rice came
far from " catching the spirit of the times "
in the sense indicated, or from attempting to
cater to the "popular taste."
In fact, there is no true analogy between
Aleck Quest's paper and the productions in-
dustriously sought for and paraded by the
Boston Globe and other sensational journals
which offer daily disgrace and menace to
American character.
ADVANTAGES OF WHIST.
Of all the games that have a peculiarly
fascinating grasp upon the time and heart
of a student, undoubtedly that of the famil-
iar game, whist, is greatest.
It is not our intention to state here the
principles or rules of the game, as those can
easily be found in Hoyle ; but it is our pur-
pose to show how beneficial and instructive
that game is to the human mind; how it
leads one to grasp unknown things and al-
most makes an experienced player seem pos-
sessed of that fabled power, " second sight."
Whist has long been noted for its influ-
ence upon what is termed the calculating
power, and the greatest intellects of the age
are known to take an apparently unaccounta-
ble delight in it. Certainly there is some-
thing in the game so greatly tasking the
faculty of analysis, of studying your own as
well as the other hands, that proficiency in
whist implies capacity for success in all the
more important undertakings of the mind.
By proficiencjr we mean that perfection,
that thorough knowledge of the game which
includes a comprehension of all the sources
whence legitimate advantage can be derived.
It is beyond matters of mere rules that the
skill of the whist player is evinced. He
makes in silence a host of observations and
inferences, and the difference in the extent
of the information obtained lies not so much
in the validity of the inference as in the
quality of the observation. The true and
necessary knowledge is that of what to ob-
serve. The observant player considers the
mode of assorting the cards in each hand,
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often the counting trump by trumpand suit by
suit, by the glances of interest and pleasure
bestowed upon them by each player. He
notes every variation of face as the play
progresses, gathering a fund of thought from
the differences in the expression — of cer-
tainty, of surprise, of pleasure, of chagrin.
After closely studying the first three or
four rounds, he has the key to the vs^hole
situation, and is then able to play v^ith as
absolute precision as though the faces of all
the cards vs^ere turned towards him. As the
strong man exults in his physical ability, de-
lighting in such exercises as call his muscles
into action, so glories the whist player in
that which disentangles; which brings about
inferences caused by the very soul and es-
sence of method. It is a well-known fact
that the constitutions of many students in
colleges have often been irretrievably im-
paired, on account of their too close con-
finement to their studies. Their bodies de-
mand both mental relaxation and physical
exercise. We will leave our worthy gym-
nasts to state what specifics will rectify their
bodily deformities. As a mental remedy we
can certainly say that whist far excels any
other except sleep.
No time is lost or squandered which in-
structs us ; so the whist player, in the ob-
servation of the facts I have mentioned,
instead of idling, is in reality bringing all his
faculties into play and drawing conclusions
upon which he himself has to rely.
MORE.
Oh ! wondrously fair was witching Rose,
And many her charms and graces.
Such a pretty, coquettish, enravishing air,
And her clustering ringlets of golden brown hair
Her deep blue eyes with their gaze cUbonnaire,
Made the sweetest and loveliest of faces.
What wonder that Cupid, with furtive design.
Shot with cunning his sweet-venomed dartP
As on old ocean's shore I was walking with Rose,
What wonder I ardently longed to disclose
The love that lay hid 'neath this mask of repose
And the passion that swelled in my heart?
" If there's anything, Harry, I perfectly hate.
It's this Latin," said school-going Rose.
"I doubt not that Virgil's intentions were good.
And with beauty, quite likely, his verse is imbued,
But his language is something I ne'er understood.
And I much prefer Cicero's prose."
" Perhaps I can aid you a little," said I,
With a glance at the book in her hand.
The lesson, I found, was those twenty-five lines.
Where sweet Cylherea to Cupid assigns
The task of invading fair Dido's pure shrines.
With his love-wiles her heart to expand.
In reading the Latin I came to the words :
" Cum dabit am2}lexus.^' Yet more !
" Atque oscula clulcia figet" it read.
"Do you wish, Rose, to have this translated," I said.
" Be kind enough, Harry." With courage inbi'ed
I kissed the sweet lips I adore.
An ominous silence succeeded the deed.
And dreading sharp words even worse,
I turned away sadly to shun their attack ;
The waves of old ocean seemed gloomy and black.
And I — what is this ? " Dear Harry, come back
And finish translating that verse."
HISTORIC SCRAPS.
Congressman Tom Reed, when in col-
lege, despite all statements to the contrary,
was a non-fraternity man. In common with
many others of that day he did not believe
in the efficacy of the Greeks, and persist-
ently held aloof, though as persistently
fished to join them. He even Avould not
join the Delta Upsilou Fraternity, a chapter
of which existed at Bowdoin for a short
time, containing numerous anti-secret men.
There is still a certain college autograph
album in which Mr. Reed wrote the follow-
ing undoubted proof as to his views on the
Greek fraternity question :
Dear :
If you knew the anxiety with which I watched
your escape from the wariest "Fishermen" of col-
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141
lege, and my pleasure when I found you were not
one of those who
" Just for a handful of silver had left us,
Just for a riband to stick in their coats,"
you would feel assured that I have an interest in
your future welfare.
Your friend,
Thomas B. Reed.
Abram Newell Rowe is a name with
which our college world of to-da}^ is not
acquainted ; yet he was one of the ablest
mea who has graduated from Bowdoin ; and
had not his career been prematurely closed he
would undoubtedly have reflected the high-
est honor on himself and his Alma Mater.
He was Mr. Reed's classmate. In college
he was a member of Psi Upsilon and re-
ceived Phi Beta Kappa standing. After
graduation he taught for awhile, and then
entered the arm3\ He rose to be a first
lieutenant. Typhoid fever ended, at the
age of twenty-six, his course so well begun.
It is not unlikely that in literary paths he
would have gained laurels, if his ode for
'60's class-day, the only one of Mr. Rowe's
writings extant, was a criterion of his abil-
ity. As being one of the finest original odes
ever sung here, the Orient ventures to con-
sign it to perpetuity in its columns. The air
is " Bruce' s Address '" ;
Brothers, ere Time's rolling tide
Shall our noble band divide.
And its waters far and wide
Bear our scattered throng,
Let us wake the lay again.
Raise on high our parting strain,
Every voice with loud refrain
Join the choral song.
Still, as long we linger here.
Sadly falls the gathering tear.
Mournful shades of grief appear
Mingling in the strain ;
To the far-off silent shore
Comrades loved have gone before.
And their voices nevermore
Greet us here again.
Time on golden wings has flown,
While the star of Bowdoin shone
Brightly from its sacred throne,
Round our joyous feet;
But its last, its farewell ray
Lingers round our path to-day ;
Soon we wander far away
From this dear retreat.
Alma Mater, ere we go
Where life's raging tempests blow.
On thy children bending low
Pour thy benison ;
Thus shall we with courage high.
Heeding Duty's earnest cry.
Firm when dangers hover nigh
Gird our armor on.
Then, while fading day declines.
And the rosy sunlight shines
Dimly through yon waving pines.
Draped in shadows long.
Wake the sounding lay again.
Loudly swell our closing strain.
Every voice with full refrain
Join the choral song.
It is not generally known that the late
gallant Phil Sheridan visited Bowdoin in
the fall of 1867, while on his way to Au-
gusta. He was welcomed in front of the
chapel by the boys and President Harris,
who delivered a short and pithy address.
The General alighted from his carriage and
passed into the chapel, where he remained
for a few moments in conversation with the
President and Faculty. He expressed him-
self much gratified at the " neat reception "
he had met with, and departed as he came,
amid the lusty cheers of the students. Gen-
eral Chamberlain accompanied him.
THE PROFUSION OF MODERN
LITERATURE.
One of the most distinctive characteris-
tics of modern civilization is the abundance
and variety of its literature. This charac-
teristic becomes more prominent when
viewed in the light of historical perspective.
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In ancient times the productions of a few
master minds absorbed the attention of the
entire people. For centuries the great
Homeric poems formed the chief intellectual
food of Greece, while later on the consum-
mate masteriDieces of iEschylus, Sophocles,
and Euripides were fountain heads of Grecian
thought. As time rolls on and civilization
crosses the Adriatic, we observe the same
essential characteristics, though less in de-
gree. From the obscurity and gloom of the
Middle Ages emerged the printing press and
a new civilization. They brought with them
a more extensive diiTusion of knowledge,
■which has been continually widening and
intensifying until the inventions of the nine-
teenth century have removed every restric-
tion and literature runs riot. It is now over-
done, or rather done wrongly. Let us study
the cause, tendencies, and remedy of this
condition.
As in all things, its chief cause is its
demand. When the production of necessi-
ties was transferred from human hands to
the province of machinery, leisure time was
the natural result. The mind is never idle,
and unless it is directed into higher channels
it will seek gratification rather than attain-
ment. The average intelligence is not suf-
ficiently high to find such gratification in a
high order of productions, and the pen of
the apt writer is not slow to discover in what
sphere it finds the readiest market. As a
result, we have a system of literature as pro-
fuse and diverse as are the demands of un-
employed intellect.
Its tendencies are in some respects prom-
ising, and in other respects deplorable. They
are promising because poor culture is better
than none, and because, in it, we see indica-
tions of intellectual awakening and the in-
ception of an era of mental development un-
paralleled in the annals of time. They are
deplorable because our two richest gifts, time
and mind, are falling so far short of their
immediate possibilities. Very few of the
myriads of new publications are worthy of
attention, and many of them are positively
degrading. These are flooded upon the pub-
lic, and, concerning their effects, the old
simile of the sieve and the sponge is as apt
as ever. The mind that pursues a definite
line of study, reads standard works and
digests them is like a sponge — it absorbs.
The mind that reads only for pleasure and
detests anything solid is like a sieve — it holds
nothing. There is nothing better calculated
to encourage this sieve-process than such lit-
erature as may be found in the hands of most
of our summer tourists. These novels pict-
ure a life which exists only in a distorted
imagination ; they hold up no inspiring
ideals ; they develop no robust thoughts.
Many of them are read in a single season and
never the second time — the most ruinous
mental process imaginable.
The remedy for the evil tendencies of this
condition lies in a college education, or its
equivalent. It is seldom that a college grad-
uate has a taste for such reading. Four years
of study have raised him above its plane.
He takes pleasure in something higher. We
have said that the cause of such literature
was in its demand, that the demand was in
the pleasure of the masses; hence, if a col-
lege education raises the standard of taste
it must also raise the standard of new publi-
cations. The only way to reform anything
is to begin at the roots. We may preach
until doomsday against this literature, but,
just as long as there is a demand for it, it
will be published. It is education to which
we must look, and since women, who are the
greatest readers of such literature, are hav-
ing educational institutions of high grades,
it seems not improbable that a few decades
will witness a great advancement along these
lines.
The Cornell Daily Sun has direct telegraph com-
munications to New Yorli City. — Ex.
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$OME SERIOUS SUGGEIiTlONS.
There i$ a nece$$ary theme
Of which we hate to
Because, aS Some wiSe Sage haS Said,
It doeS involve Some cheek.
TVe wi^h that all Subscribers pauSe
To graSp this Subtle thought;
And Soon reSolve that they will do
The Self-Same deed they ought.
Our buSineS$ principles compel
The Settling of all bilM ;
And how Shall we perform that talk
Unless the fountain flllS "
The editors of the '89 Salmagundi, Madison Uni-
versity, felt it necessary to make the above dolorous,
yet withal, sensible appeal to their patrons. The
Orient apologetically likewise greets its subscribers.
One of the best things in the Senior curriculum
is the Advanced Course in Political Economy. One
subject a week is studied, and passages from half a
dozen of the leading economists — such as Mill,
Cairnes, Senior, Adam Smith, Devas, Perry, Carey,
Fawoett, Bowen, and Walker — are assigned to be
read thereon. Essays containing a digest of this
material, together with such questions as may be
suggested, are handed in Saturdays. Monday morn-
ings the division meets and discusses the topics, with
many valuable explanations by Prof. Smith. A
thorough understanding of this science and ability
to "boil down" easily a large amount of material
into an essay of moderate length, are two of the ad-
vantages offered by the economic seminary.
The last Junior themes of the term are due De-
cember 5th. Subjects : I. A College Training for
a Man of Business. II. Daniel Defoe and Robert
Louis Stevenson. The last Sophomore themes are
due to-day on the following topics: I. The Spanish
Armada. II. Thanksgiving Day.
Prof. Woodruff preached at the Baptist Church,
Topsham, Sunday, the 18th.
Isn't it about time for class elections ?
The weather is almost cold enough to have
prayers in Memorial.
President Hyde preached before the students of
Wellesley College, Sunday, the 18th.
W. T. Hall, Jr., and H. C. Hill, '88, with J. R.
Clark and F. M. Russell, '89, went as delegates to
the Theta Delta Chi Convention in New York, last
week.
F. J. Libby, '89, has left college and is reported
to be reading law.
Adams, '89, and Turner, '90, who have been
teaching, have returned to college.
Library hours are from 8.30 to 4, but don't, on
any account, for such a simple reason as that, ever
come around in the early part of the day. Always
wait until the very last moment, when it begins to
grow dark and you can find books so easily. Then,
too, the professor and assistants love nothing better
than to be kept wailing fifteen or twenty minutes
after the four o'clock bell has rung.
Professor Chapman occupied the chapel pulpit
Sunday afternoon, the 18th, and spoke on our stand-
ards of estimation of men as in contrast with the
Christian and Bible standards. Rev. F. W. San-
ford, of Topsham, addressed the Y. M. C. A. imme-
diately after prayers.
A. W. Rogers and L. H. Wardwell, '85, Wm.
T. Hall, Jr., H. C. Hill, and G. H. Larrabee, '88,
have visited the college since our last issue.
The Freshman who knocked wildly on the chapel
doors after the scripture reading had begun, a week
ago Monday morning, is said to have been seeking
refuge from a drunken man with a loaded weapon.
The Seniors have been writing an abstract of
Descartes' first two Meditations in connection with
their work in Psychology.
Freshman mathematical examination, Wednes-
day afternoon, November 21st.
Drs. Hyde and Johnson represented Bowdoin at
the meeting of New England college presidents in
Hartford, November lst-3d.
A New (?) Disease.
Why does the Freshman look so pale ?
"Why does he look so very meek ?
Instead of making brash remarks
He now subdues his brazen cheek.
Ah, list ! and I will tell you why;
The reason it is very plain.
Last night he had a bad attack
Of water on the brain.
Commodore Horatio Bridge, '25, has presented
the library, for the alumni alcove, a full morocco edi-
tion of his book, " The Journal of an African
Cruiser," edited by his classmate, Nathaniel Haw-
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thoi-ne. In tbe letter accompanying the gift, he
says: " Written by an amateur autlior and edited by
a writer of superlative fame — botii Bovvdoin boys of
1825 — I trust tliat tlie little volume may be accept-
able."
Chaucerian dialect is the popular tongue in which
the '89 man nowadays addresses you .
Forrest Goodwin, the famous Colby ball-player,
represents Skowhegan in the legislature this winter.
Wonder if Forrest will be any quieter in legislative
halls than on the diamond?
The loyalty of Bowdoin men to their Alma Mater
is well proved this year by the large number who
have sent sons to college. Eleven per cent, of the
undergraduates are sons of alumni. The complete
list:
FATHER.
-Hon. Frederick Robie.
-Dr. John D. Lincoln.
-Hon. S. F. Humphrey.
-Eliplialet F. Packard.
-Hon. Nath'l Cotliren.
-Samuel Freeman.
-Hon. A. S. Rice.
-Edward W. Thompson.
'54.
'56.
'56.
'57. — Hon. Henry Newbegin.
'57.— Rev. C. L. Nichols.
'58. — Gen. Jonathan P. Cill»y.
(Hon. Jonathan Cilley, '25, was
'59. — Hon. Stephen J. Young.
'60.— Hon. L. G. Downes.
'61. — Edwin Emery.
'61.— Hon. L. A. Emery.
'61. — Geo. P.. Kenniston.
'61. -Dr. H. S. B. Smith.
'62. — Augustus N. Lincott.
'63.— Hon. A. R. G. Smith.
'65.— Charles Fish.
'66. — Prof. Henry L. Chapman
SOH.
'89.— W. P. F. Robie.
'91.— C. S. F. Lincoln.
'90.— O. B. Humphrey.
'91.— G. H. Packard.
'92.— F. H. Cothren.
'90.— G. F. Freeman.
'89.— M. A. Rice.
'91.— E. A. Thompson.
'91.— E. H. Newbegin.
'91.— P. C. Newbegin.
'92.— T. F. Nichols.
'91.— J. P. Cilley, Jr.
father of General Cilley.)
'92.— E. B. Young.
'92. — Geo. Downes.
'89.— W. M. Emery.
'92.— H. C. Emery.
'92.— "W. B. Kenniston.
'89.-0. R. Smith.
'90.— A. V. Smith.
'92.— H. F. Lincott.
'92.— H. R. Smith.
'91.— F. O. Fish.
'91.— H. S. Chapman.
Following is a partial list of tliose who number
brothers among our alumni, while many others have
uncles and cousins who graduated here: Merrill and
Rideout, '89 ; Thompson, '90; Burleigh, Goding, and
Home, '91 ; and P. Bartlett, Cole, Hodgkins, and
Thompson, '92.
Nickerson, M. S., '89, has recovered from his
recent illness, and began to conduct Glee Club re-
hearsals on the 16th.
A theme subject not long ago was, " What Public
Improvement is Most Needed in Brunswick ? " We
wish the town fathers miglit have looked over those
essays, and have seen, by iterations and reiterations,
the urgent necessity for a better line of foot travel
from the campus to the railroad crossing. Bruns-
wick's perennial mud renders that part of the route
down town exceedingly distasteful. In the rear of
tlie church, and from Woodard's store to the head of
the Mall, good street crossings should be made, and
a plank sidewalk, at least, placed on the west side of
the Ujjper Mall. No equal amount of territory in
town is more traveled than this, and a slight outlay
would be greatly appreciated by numerous towns-
people and all the students.
The college Republican Club, to the number of
seventy-five, helped paint Bath a lively hue at the
Republican celebration, Tuesday evening, November
13th. Their handsome uniforms, perfect drill, and
admirable discipline were everywhere favorably com-
mented upon. The officers were : C. H. Fogg, Cap-
tain, and F. E, Dennett and J. P. Cilley, Jr., Lieu-
tenants. The next night the Club, with somevrhat
thinner I'anks, marched in Brunswick. Among their
transparencies, they carried: "Bowdoin for Ben";
"Tom Reed represents Bowdoin" ;
" Quay runs the engine,
Blaine rings the bell,
Harrison goes to the White House,
And Cleveland goes to Buffalo."
A representation of Cleveland sailing up Salt River.
A picture of a rooster blown into minute pieces, with
the legend, "Argus Rooster." Brunswick never
looked prettier, and fairly outdid herself in every di-
rection. The procession and illuminations were very
fine, and the generous collation was heartily en-
joyed. Many Democratic students were seen to par-
take of it ! Among the illuminators may be men-
tioned, Professor Chapman, Professor Lee, Professor
Robinson (both old and new residences). Dr.
Mitchell, Hon. Henry Carvill, and A. K. E. Frater-
nity.
A_ South Appleton Sophomore, who has been
looking over the Tabula proof, says a Fre'shman
in his end has a newer disease yet — liquor on the
brain !
A prize of $150 will be awarded by the American
Economic Association for the best essay on the " The
Evil Effects of Unrestricted Immigration." This
prize is offered by America, the new Chicago weekly,
and the essay will be known as the " America Prize
Essay." The competition is open to any writer
whose article does not exceed 25,000 words, and is
received by the secretary of the association before
April 30, 1889. Each essay must be type-written,
signed by a fictitious name, and accompanied by a
sealed envelope containing the name assumed as well
as the address of the author. — Ex.
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'20. — Isaac McClellan
is the only suvvivor of this
class. I[e is living at Greenport, L. I.
A volume of his poems was published
not long since.
'30. — Samuel U. Hubbard, Esq., formerly
a prominent merchant in Montgomery, Ala., was in-
advertent!}' referred to in our last issue as one of the
survivors of the Class of 1R30. Mr. Hubbard died
January 26, 1883.
'34. — At Arlington Heights, on the 23d ult.,
Charles Henry Pierce died, aged seventy years and
six months. He was a native of Frankfort, Me.,
and a son of the late Waldo Pierce, long a prominent
cilizen of that town. Graduating at Bowdoin Col-
lege in 183-1, he studied law at the Cambridge Law
School, was admitted to the Boston Bar, and opened
an office in that part of Frankfort which is now Win-
terport, where he continued his practice until some
time ago, when he retired on account of failing health.
In 1837 he married Miss Ellen Kelley, daughter of
Judge Kelley of Concord, N. H., who was a brother-
in-law of Daniel Webster. During the administra-
tions of Presidents Taylor and Fillmore, Mr. Pierce
was deputy collector of customs in the Bangor dis-
trict. Under President Lincoln he held a position in
the Infernal Revenue. Upon the death of his wife in
1883, he removed to Massachusetts, where his two
surviving children now reside. — Belfast Journal.
'16.
Edwin L. Brown, Esq., is a manufacturer. Resi-
dence, Corner Clinton and Jackson Streets, Chicago,
111.
C. R. P. Dunlap, M.D., now resides in St. Paul,
Minn.
Rev. C. H. Emerson, Creighton, Neb.
J. S. H. Fogg, M.D., now resides at 487 Broad-
way, N. Y.
Rev. J. Haskell, Billerica, Mass.
L. A. Holt studied Theology, and later entered
business; now resides in Winchester, Mass.
Henry Orr, Lawyer, Brunswick, Me. Deceased.
William Osgood, M.D. ; residence. North Yar-
mouth, Me.
Professor Joseph C. Pickard, Urbana, 111.
Sir Josiah Pierce, now residing in London, Eng.
Hon. W. W. Rice, of whom mention was made in
the last issue of the Orient.
Gen. Frederic D. Sewall, now in the Treasury
Department in Washington, D. C.
Hon. C. A. Spoft'ord, now residing in Castine, Me.
Col. T. H. Talbot, now residing in Brookline,
Mass.
Geo. B. Upham, M.D., of Yonkers, N. Y.
Hon. J. A. Waterman, of Gorham, Me.
Rev. E. B. Webb, D.D., of Wellesley, Mass.
70. — Burdus Redford Melcher, who died at Cam-
bridgeport, October 17th, was the principal of the Saco
High School for ten years, and was one year Super-
visor of Schools of Saco. He was born in Brunswick
and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. After
graduating from college he studied two years at Ber-
lin, Germany. On returning from abroad he was
made instructor of Greek in this college. He soon
resigned this position to accept the principalship of
the Saco High School. Here he remained nine years,
and in 1883 resigned to accept a similar position in
Maiden, Mass. He was two years secretary of the
York Institute, Saco. In 1875 he married Miss Mag-
gie Richards, daughter of Dr. L. Richards of Kenne-
burik. At the time of his graduation from college
Mr. Melcher is said to have attained the highest rank
ever held up to his time of graduation. He was a
man of marked ability and beloved by all who came
under his instruction.
'70. — It is believed by well-informed politicians
that General Harrison's private secretary will be
D. S. Alexander, at present a resident of Buffalo,
N.Y. Mr.Alexander is about forty-two years of age.
He possesses all of Colonel Dan Lament's caution and
shrewdness, but is less austere and reserved. He is
rather a genial man, but he will be quite as success-
ful as Col. Lament has been in guarding the Presi-
dent from bores who, if permitted, would occupy his
time to the exclusion of more important matters.
Mr. Alexander is both a lawyer and a journalist
by profession. He is a native of Maine and a grad-
uate of the Lewiston Seminary and Bowdoin College.
He served as a soldier in the late war and sub-
sequently removed to Indiana. He was for some
years the Indianapolis correspondent of the old Cin-
cinnali Oazelte, which position he filled in connection
with his legal duties. Through the influence of
General Harrison and other of his Indiana friends,
Mr. Alexander received the appointment of Fifth
Auditor of the Treasury Department under President
Garfield. He found the bureau a veritable circumlo-
cution office and he made many improvements in its
work. During his stay in Washington, Mr Alex-
ander became actively interested in the affairs of the
_;'
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Grand Army of the Republic and was subsequently-
elected Commander of the Department of the Po-
tomac. When the Democrats obtained control of the
governmeut, Mr. Alexander tendered his resig-nation
as Fifth Auditor. He removed from Washington to
Buffalo about three years ago, where he engaged in
the practice of law. Upon the nomination of Gen-
eral Harrison for the Presidency, Mr. Ale.xander was
asked to go to Indianapolis and assist the General in
a confidential capacity until the close of the campaign.
He rendered General Harrison splendid service,
and it is said there is no position within the latter's
gift which Mr. Alexander could not have if he de-
sired. The office of private secretary of the Pres-
ident, should Mr. Alexander accept it, will be dig-
nified to an importance little inferior to that of a
Cabinet Minister.
'76. — It will be a pleasure to many old Bowdoin
College friends of Mr. Arlo Bates, to find his novel,
" The Pagans," re-published in Ticknor's paper cover
series. To say nothing of the honor of being grouped
with Howells and other great writers, there must be
considerable pecuniary advantage in it. Mr. Bates
has risen to an enviable place among the literateurs
of Boston. — Lewislon Journal.
'80. — Albert H. Holmes, who won the Smyth
Mathematical Prize, has located himself in Brunswick,
where he is devoted to literary pursuits. Two very
fine poems of his were re-printed in the recent
"Poets of Maine."
'85. — Ralph L. French removes this month to
Denver, Col.
'87. — O. D. Sewall has been elected President of
the Cumberland County Teachers' Association, of
which association Professor Smith, of this college, is
a member of the Executive Committee.
There are four Bowdoin men now quite promi-
nently connected with the U. S. Government: Chief
Justice Fuller, '53, Senator Frye, '50, Congressman
Reed, '60, and Superintendent of the Life Saving
Bureau, Sumner I. Kimball, '55. Since election the
newspapers have insisted on naming Mr. Reed as
the Speaker of the next House, and Mr. Frye for
some cabinet portfolio. Two other sons of Bowdoin
are also mentioned for responsible positions under
President Harrison. These are Hon. Wm. W.
Thomas, Jr., 'GO, perhaps our next minister to Swe-
den, which office he held several years ago, and De-
Alva S. Alexander, '70, whose life and prospects are
given at length in the columns of this issue.
^^:M
At Lehigh the student who secures an average of
85 per cent, is excused from examinatioo. — Ex. I
De Pauw has received a gift of $2,000,000.— £a:.
Abbe Casgrain, of Quebec, succeeds Prof. Law-
son, of Dalhousie Universit}', as President of the
Royal Society of Canada. — Dalhousie Oazelte.
The Senior class at Rutgers has elected Kuma
Oishi, one of the Japanese students, orator for class
day.
The Princeton Athletic Association, founded in
1871, is the oldest college association of the kind in
the country. — Williams Weekly.
She seems to blush, when in the dance
I touch her finger tips;
Her voice so modest, — she so shy —
I long to touch her lips.
'Tis o'er; I to the garden slip;
There, seated near a tree,
I muse what angels women are,
'Mongst sinners such as we.
It seems — but, from the arbor comes
A tone I surely know !
It is that self-same modest voice:
" Don't, Jack, you tickle so ! "
— Record.
A Miss Farrar, who was a member of the Fresh-
man class at Smith College, committed suicide re-
cently, by jumping ofi' the Massachusetts Central
railroad bridge into the Connecticut r'wuv.—Ex.
German universities are well attended by Amer-
icans. Berlin has had 600; Leipzig over 200. — The
Owl.
President Robinson, of Brown, believes that in
co-educational institutions ladies and gentlemen
should not recite in the same classes until the Senior
year. — The Chronicle.
Amherst has sent out two hundred college profes-
sors and presidents, and twenty judges of the Su-
preme Court. — University News.
The latest Latin conjugation of the verb to flunk
is, flunko, bustin, conditure, expulsum. — The Mcfis.
It is the college custom at Williams for the Fresh-
men, in leaving chapel, to wait for the upper classes
to pass out before them. — The Beacon.
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147
William and Mary College has re-opened after a
long season of inactivity. It is one of the oldest
colleges in the United States. The war crippled
this institution sadly.
Haverford is almost universally adopting the cap
and gown.
The Freshmen and Sophomores of Rutgers en-
gaged this fall in a rush in the chapel. The trouble
grew from the fact that both classes had a prayer-
meeting at the same time and place. — Ex.
The Faculty at Wesle3-an have decided to practi-
cally do away with preliminary examinations. — The
Dartmouth.
Thirteen hun(h'ed and sixty members of the Uni-
versity of Cambridge are opposed to co-education. —
University Cynic.
At Harvard, Coinell, Ami Arbor, and Johns
Hopkins, attendance at recitation is optional. — Ex.
A student at Columbia is taking thirty hours a
week. — The Chronicle.
Over 100 students were suspended from the Uni-
versity of Berlin during the last semester for insuffi-
cient attention to study. — Ex.
Amherst has sent out two hundred college pro-
fessors and presidents, and twenty judges of the
supreme court. — Ex.
More than 1,.300 members of the University of
Cambridge are opposed to the admission of women.
— Ex.
In the United States one man in every 200 takes a
college course, in England one in every 600, in Scot-
land one in every 600, in Germany one in every 213.
— -Woosler Collegian.
The London school board proposes to drop the
study of Latin and substitute modern languages.
The following are among the largest sums given
by individuals in the United States for educational
purposes: Leland Stanford, $20,000,000; Stephen
Girard, .$8,000,000; Jolms Hopkins, $3,148,000; Asa
Packer, $3,000,000, to Lehigh University; Ezra Cor-
nell, $1,000,000 ; Jonas G. Clark, $1,000,000.— i^x.
BOOK REVIEWS.
Preparatory French Reader. By O. B. Super, Ph.D.
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1888. r2mo.. pp. vin., 224.
Prof. Super, of Dickinson College, adds a new
book to the list of French Readers already before the
public. He offers it to those teachers who believe in
"early and copious reading" for their pupils. Those
who want a "Classical French Reader" need not
stop to examine this one. That is, it is designed to
furnish easy and interesting reading for beginners,
or even, in the first few selections, for young begin-
ners.
In pursuance of his plan of making his book
meet the wants of those who have but just entered
on the study of French, and of offering them some-
thing whereby they may avoid being obliged lo " per-
spire for weeks and months over grammatical dry
bones " before being allowed to get at the language
en masse. The :mthor commences by adapting five
contes faciles from the tales of H. C. Andersen, and
one from those of the Grimm brothers. The transla-
tion is apparently his own, but he believes that no
constructions have been admitted which are not gen-
uinely French. He sees no reason why Andersen's
tales should not do as appropriate service in French
as in German readers. Then, to meel further the
ends in view. Prof. Super has, in cases where selec-
tions from such standard authors as Dumas and Dau-
det are introduced, taken the liberty of making over
the original text to suit himself. From the stand-
point of French literature this would seem a ques-
tionable proceeding, but as we are given to under-
stand in the preface that we are to be furnished with
French language rather tlian lileralure, criticism
would be out of place.
The notes are very succinct and brief, sometimes
even painfully brief. Prof. Super wished to steer
clear of those French Readers "in which the notes to
the earlier selections take up far more space than the
selections themselves." So he has omitted, among
other things, any reference to the authors concerned,
or to the works borrowed from. The vocabulary
follows the spirit of the notes in succinctness. This
is an advantage in almost any vocabulary. The
greatest disadvantage of the present one, however,
is that it is not, in any true sense, etymological. The
author has indicated, by a similarity of type, English
words which are derived dii-ectly from the French.
This is good as far as it goes, and is helpful for the
English. But for those French words which are not
at the same time English, we are left out in the cold.
A vocabulary that is to be put into the hands of Fresh-
men classes in college, should not, at the present
day, no matter how elementary are the extracts
themselves, stop short of being entirely etymolog-
ical. Where students have already some knowledge
of Latin, such woi'ds as haul, niinuit, roi, or even
eau,froid, etc., words which in the author's vocabu-
lary are left untouched, would be much more securely
gotten hold of if accompanied by their Latin origi-
nal.
On the other hand the general conception of the
book is excellent, and typical of the mature scholar-
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ship of its author. The poetical extracts are espe-
cially well chosen. While not diiiicult they are at
the same time representative. Beranger's charming'
chanson, the " Adieux de Marie Stuart,''^ numbers
among them. The press-work is attractive and neat,
and offers few errors (note "ime chamois," p. 62),
and the whole forms a pleasing volume.
De Molai ; The Last of the Military Grand Masters
or The Order of Templar Knights. A Romance
OF History. By Edmund Flagg. Philadelphia:
Peterson & Bros.
Tliis novel takes for its theme the suppression of
De Molai and the Order of Templar Knights. The
scene is laid principally in Paris, at the Court of
Philip IV., and throughout the book there is a close
adherence to historical facts. The story of De Molai,
interesting in itself, is rendered doubly entertaining
by the zest of fiction added by Mr. Flagg. The
novel is worth reading and should especially com-
mand the attention of Bowdoin students, inasmuch
as the author is an honored alumnus of this college.
An Introduction to German at Sight. By Eugene
H. Babbitt. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1888. Pam-
phlet, 12mo., pp. 29.
This little pamphlet contains some good advice as
to learning to read German at sight, but, be it noted,
after a good deal of hai'd work. It has, we think,
too msny statements like the following to commend
itself to any genuine student: " 0 umlaut is a quite
different sound from English short ii, which, however.
will do to begimvith." The italics are ours. "Spare
yourself as much dictionary work as j'ou can. Never
look up a word if analogy or context will give you a
meaning that seems to make sense." The pamphlet
is instructive as showing in what athletic undress, so
to speak, the conceptions of an instructor in Harvard
University ca)i appear before the public; as, for in-
stance, on page 10 : " Perhaps you do not know that
you never pronounce r at the end of syllables in
English as a distinct letter, but such is the fact."
RECEIVED.
Goethe's "Torquato Tasso." — Thomas
Heath.
D. C.
iuU/a. /Sii
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Vol. XVIII.
No. 11.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 11. -December 12, 1888.
Storm Maiden, 149
Editorial Notes 149
Historic Scraps, 150
Popularity 151
Hampton Students at Bowdoin 152
Annual Convention of Tlieta Delta Chi, 153
CoLLEGii Tabula, 154
Personal, 156
In Memoriam 158
College World, 158
■ Book Reviews 159
STORM MAIDEN.
A tale the mountain peasants told ,
That in the darksome days of old,
As harbinger of sudden storm
Appeared a maiden's snow-white form
That wailed a low, uncanny lay.
And like a snow-wreath whirled away.
And then all night the cold winds blew,
The driving sheets of white snow flew,
And, like the winds, the maiden's song,
While oft there broke forth clear and strong
The cry of phantom hounds in chase,
Upon an ill-foreboding race.
For fell disaster followed fast
Whene'er the storm maid's icy blast
Swept down from out the cold, far north,
And when the Gabriel hounds C£|,me forth,
issue 01 tiie ueient
reaches our subscribers most of them will
have partaken of the Christmas goose and
made their new resolutions to go into effect
January 1, 1889. There is no holiday more
pleasant than Christmas, there is but one
thing better than making good resolutions,
that is, — keeping them. We hope that our
derelict patrons in making their good resolu-
tions will not forget the Okient. It needs
several Christmas gifts of two dollars each ;
that it will receive such practical expressions
of regard with an overflowing heart, goes
without saying.
The coming vacation is short but we
have no doubt that the boys will extract
pleasure enough from it to compensate for
its brevity. Hoping that each one may en-
joy it to the full, the Orient wishes its
patrons a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
We publish, by request, a report of the
visit of the Hampton students. We are glad
to say a good word for these students and
the noble work of the school. We hope that
they may have a successful trip in every
way, and permanent benefit to the school
may result. It is doing a splendid work for
the Negro and Indian races, and it is to be
regretted that its means are so limited.
In education lies the solution of the
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Indian and Southern questions, and General
Armstrong and his assistants should have
the material aid of every friend of progress
and education.
We desire to again call the attention of
the members of the Junior and Sophomore
classes to the fact that the elections to the
Orient Board occur at the close of the next
term, and those who aspire to the posi-
tion of quill-drivers must "brace up."
The amount of work done by students
other than the editors, thus far, is very in-
finitesimal, and unless a radical change takes
place, an election based on the known merits
of the candidates will be well-nigh impossi-
ble. We hope during the next term to be
deluged with an influx of matter that will
bring tears of joy to the eyes of the ema-
ciated and toil-worn editors.
We were surprised to learn, a few days
since, that an attempt was made some years
ago to start a Law School in connection with
the college. A committee was appointed to
raise funds but apparently met with poor
success.
It would be an excellent thing to have a
Law School here, provided it could be started
on a level with the best schools in the coun-
try. It is far better to have none than to
have an inferior one. It would be a boon to
many young men in this State who desire to
take a course in a law school but can not
afford the expense necessary to pursue the
course at Boston, Columbia, or Albany.
Graduates of Bowdoin, in the main, who
take up the study of law would be glad to
do so in the Bowdoin Law School, and the
college itself would enter on a new era of
prosperity.
It may not be in the immediate future
that we shall see our hopes realized, but we
do expect to see, sometime, the Bowdoin
Law School an established fact.
We have been asked by some of the
alumni to publish some information concern-
ing the last years of the Athenfean and Peu-
cinian societies, and we hope to be able to
comply with the request at an early date.
HISTORIC SCRAPS.
(Concluded.)
" Quid in nomine est ? " This audacious
moss-back forced itself on the mind one day
during a casual walk from North Winthrop
to the library. And concerning what?
Why, our buildings, to be sure. Whence
and why came these familiar names by which
we daily referto the dormitories, the chapel,
and the rest? Such inquiry set investigation
on foot, and the results are herewith presented.
Bowdoin at the first copied Harvard, and
went that institution one better in calling
two of her buildings after two New England
States. Memorial Hall, although nothing
within or about it shows the fact, is, like the
magnificent dining-hall at Cambridge, a
memorial to the sons of the college who
fought in the rebellion. Winthrop Hall, at
first North College, took its appellation from
the Massachusetts Winthrops in general, and
the Governor in particular, while the corre-
lative South College was changed to Apple-
ton Hall, in honor of the second President,
Rev. Dr. Jesse Appleton. In 1855 the new
stone chapel was dedicated and named King
Chapel, in recognition of the public services
of Hon. William King, first Governor of
this State. A Mr. Seth Adams, of Boston,
left a bequest to Bowdoin which built
Adams Hall, and in 1859 gave the Medical
College roomier quarters than old Massa-
chusetts.
What is now known as the Old Laboi'a-
tory has before borne the designations Com-
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mons Hall (1835-1860), and the Old Gym-
nasium (1860-73), owing to the uses to which
it was then put. The new gymnasium has
as yet no official title. Dr. Sargent was the
means of our getting it, and he has done
more in the gymnastic line than any other
Bowdoin man. Wouldn't it be the proper
caper to call it after him ?
In 1871 Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, of
Boston, had the upper portion of Massachu-
setts Hall made into a cabinet, which was
fittingly named in honor of Prof. Parker
Cleaveland, the Father of American Miner-
alogy, and the most eminent man ever on the
Bowdoin Faculty. The main library room
is known as Banister Hall, thus perpetuat-
ing the memory of a family related to Pres-
ident Woods — the Banisters of Newbury-
port, Mass. Another of the same President's
relatives, Mrs. Sophia Walker, wife of The-
ophilus W. Walker, of Boston, is often
thought of when we enter the Walker Pict-
ure Gallery, over Banister Hall.
While digging into musty archives for
these names, some interesting data about
the endowed professorships was discovered.
There are six such at Bowdoin, and at present
all but one of them are filled. This is the Col-
lins Professorship of Natural and Revealed
Religion. Mrs. Susan Collins, of Boston,
established it in 1850, and the endowment
has since been somewhat increased by sub-
scriptions. One stipulation concerning it is
that it must be held by some one not con-
nected with the government of the college.
It is doubtful if any chair in any college in
this country has- been filled throughout by
as remarkable a succession of instructors as
this one. From 1850 to 1883 the Collins
Professors were the Rev. Doctors Calvin E.
Stowe, Roswell D wight Hitchcock, Egbert
C. Smyth, and Alpheus S. Packard. The
endowment of the Edward Little chair of
Rhetoric, Oratory, and English Literature
was applied for two different purposes, be-
fore being put to its present use. Mr. Lit-
tle, of Auburn, originally gave it for the
High School bearing his name, but when the
city took control thereof, the money was
transferred to the department of philosophy
at Bowdoin. In 1882 Mrs. Valeria G. Stone,
of Maiden, Mass., who furnished the funds
for Memorial Hall's completion, founded the
Stone Professorship of Mental and Moral
Philosophy, so the Little bequest was given
up to Prof. Chapman's branches. The Jo-
siah Little Professorship of Natural Science
is named after a graduate of 1811, and
founded by him. The people's subscriptions
gave Bowdoin an endowed cliair of Modern
Languages, called in honor of the people's
poet, renowned alumnus of this college and
earliest instructor here in French, German,
Spanish, and Italian. The story of the gen-
erous establishment of the Winkley Latin
Professorship need not be related in these
columns. All Bowdoin men know it by
heart, and while blessing the giver, earnestly
hope his example may, ere long, be followed
by alumni and friends.
POPULARITY.
Says a modern writer in discussing this
subject : " There is no time when the press-
ure of opinion is so strong as in early life.
There is something fearful in its power in col-
lege." What this writer says is only a state-
ment of what we see about us every day.
There are probably not half a dozen of stu-
dents in college who would not like to be
popular, although few are frank enough to
admit it. Many may be found who condemn
it, but their condemnation is generally due
to a condition of chronic acerbity engendered
by their own failure in that direction.
To assert that this craving for popularity
is all right or all wrong would be absurd ;
but to assert that it deserves more exonera-
tion than is usually accorded it by these dis-
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appointed carpers certainly seems in harmony
with the facts.
We assert boldly that it is not only a
man's privilege but his duty to become pop-
ular with his fellows. Man is a social being ;
he is placed among others of his genus;
and since such are his nature and condition
it becomes incumbent upon him to adapt
himself, as harmoniously,, as possible to this
state. This adaptation involves a desire to
please others. A man cannot withdraw him-
self from the mass and say I am here and
here will I remain, any more than can the
drop of water desert the flowing stream.
When he does this he contradicts his
very nature. Some fellows seem to think
because great characters have occasionally
been eccentric and unpopular, eccentricity
and unpopularity are attributes of great-
ness.
It is often charged against popularity that
it involves a surrender of individuality and
a certain affability of character. Not so.
So well ordered is the condition of man that
every distinct personality has its appropriate
sphere. There may exist the warmest friend-
ship between two persons whose views on
certain subjects are utterly antagonistic;
and there may exist the profoundest respect
between two very uncongenial characters.
It is not surrender of character that makes a
man popular; it is the genial smile, the
pleasant word, the warm grasp, and, above
all, charity for those little faults and views
common to all.
In college is found the widest opportu-
nity for their cultivation, and he who fails to
accept it loses one of the prime benefits of
his course. He who buckles on his armor,
like Don Quixote, and sallies forth to assail
every little foible not in harmony with his
ideal, will probably meet with as many re-
verses and discomfitures as did that redoubt-
able old knight himself.
HAMPTON STUDENTS AT BOWDOIN.
On Saturday afternoon, November 24th,
the students and people of Brunswick were
entertained in Memorial Hall by a delega-
tion from Hampton Institute, Virginia.
The Faculty of that institution was rep-
resented by General S. C. Armstrong, and
the students byja group of six, — four colored
men, and two Indians. These gentlemen are
marking a tour of the New England cities
and towns in the interests of their college.
They aim by bringing living illustrations of
the work of the Institute before the people
of the North to arouse a greater interest in
it, which will result in substantial contribu-
tions. For Hampton, although it lias been
an independent institution for many years,
having no permanent endowment, necessarily
looks to the liberality and beneficence of in-
dividuals for a large part of its support.
The exercises of the afternoon consisted
mainly of singing by the colored quartette,
and short addresses by General Armstrong
and four of his students. The quartette
sang several times slave songs and planta-
tion melodies, as only negroes can sing them.
They delighted the audience and at every
appearance were greeted with hearty ap-
plause. General Armstrong made his ac-
count of the founding, work, and present
condition of Hampton very interesting. He
said: "We aim, by training the hand, the
head, and the heart, to fit selected youth of
the Negro and Indian races to be examples
to, and teachers of, their own people.
Already several Hampton graduates have
gone out and established schools similar in
design and system to the parent institu-
tion.
Mr. John Trokasin, a Sioux student from
Dakota, spoke briefly on the Sioux bill from
an Indian's standpoint, showhig the injustice
of our government in attempting to take
their land from them by force, when they
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only asked the moderate sum of a dollar and
a quarter per acre.
Mr. Peny, a Shawnee, gave a bright,
stirring address, the theme of which was
"Give us Indians a chance." He said that
any people supported in idleness from the
bounty of government, so far from progress-
ing in civilization, would become more and
more degraded. The Indians need to be
taught how to work, how to build their own
houses, and support themselves ; they need
to be educated and to be taught the advan-
tages of civilization ; then they will become
good, industrious, citizens.
The words and bearing of these two In-
dians would have put to shame any one who
claims that the Indian can not be civilized.
Mr. Daggs, of Hampton, '78, gave a finely
written and delivered address on " The To-
day and To-morrow of the Negro Race in the
United States." Space forbids our saying
more than that it would have done credit to
a graduate of any of our New England
Mr. Geo. Scott, '89, interested the au-
dience greatly with his account of "How he
worked his way in the night school." Three
years ago, at the age of eighteen, he entered
the night department of Hampton without
a cent. He worked ten hours every day in
the machine shop and studied two hours
every evening. Now he is a member of the
Junior class of the Institute proper, and is
master of the machinist's trade. He said that
the night school was prominent among the
many good features at Hampton, for it enabled
men in just his condition, who were willing
to work and anxious to learn, to make some-
thing of themselves.
It was wonderful to see what these young
men had attained under so great difficulties,
through the direct influence of Hampton In-
stitute. Truly in the training and education
of such men as these, is the hope of their
respective races.
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THETA
DELTA CHI.
The Forty -second Annual Convention of
the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity assembled
in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on
Wednesday, November 2lst, and was called
to order by President pro tern Arthur L.
Bartlett. Nearly all of the seventeen charges
sent delegates. Bowdoin was represented
by H. C. Hill, '88, Secretary of the Grand
Lodge ; W. T. Hall, '88, Graduate Delegate ;
F. M. Russell and J. R. Clark, both of '89.
Soon after the opening of the session,
the colleges in the city created a pleasant
sensation by presenting to the Convention a
fine large flag, made in the colors of the
Fraternity and bearing the three Greek let-
ters symbolic of its name. The President,
in appropriate words, accepted the gift, and
soon it was floating in the breeze above the
hotel, where it remained during the three
days' session, — a source of joy and inspira-
tion to those of the brotherhood who gazed
on the beautiful emblem.
The resignation, during the year, of Rev.
Calbraith B. Perry, President of the Grand
Lodge, was deeply regretted by the Frater-
nity, not only because it was thereby de-
prived of an able and enthusiastic leader, —
but also because of Brother Perry's illness,
which necessitated such action.
The most important business transacted
was the adoption of the revised form of the
constitution, as reported by the commission-
ers, Bros. Bartlett, Smith, and Tower. It is
substantially the same as before, but is
greatly improved by its new arrangement
and classification.
Bro. 0. S. Davis was elected to continue
the preparation of the new catalogue. It is
expected that, under his energetic manage-
ment, the work will soon be issued.
The management of the Shield was placed
in the hands of a single editor, to be selected
by the Grand Lodge. This body promptly
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selected Bro. F. L. Jones, who was chief
editor of the publication last year, and is,
thereby excellently qualified for the duty.
At the conclusion of the routine busi-
ness, the following officers were elected :
Hon. Arthur L. Bartlett of Boston, Presi-
dent; A. L. Coville, of Columbia, Secretary ;
F. S. Carter, of Yale, Treasurer.
In the evening of the 23d the exercises
were pleasantly concluded by the banquet at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at which about
seventy-five were present; the tables being
so arranged as to form a cross. The Rev.
Ebenezer Thompson, of Pomfret, Conn., was
toast-master ; Rev. Lewis Halsey Hobart, of
New York City, poet; Colonel Jacob Spahn,
of Rochester, N. Y., orator ; and Seth P.
Smith, of Boston, biographer.
Among those present were Hon. Willis
S. Paine, New York State Superintendent
of Banking; J. H. Tower, Providence; Hon.
Franklin Burdge, New York City ; Rev. M.
M. Gilbert, Bishop of Minnesota; E. O.
Graves, Washington; and William H. Cor-
bin, Jersey City.
THE DEADLY DEAD.
I can't explain quite how it was,
I did not catcli all that was said,
And when Professor called on me.
My stock of knowledge all had fled.
Professor smiled a ghastly smile,
"Will Mr. Jones recite instead ? ' '
I dropped Into my seat and sighed ;
I took a dead.
The most read periodicals in the library at pres-
ent are those containing " The Fast Set at Harvard "
papers, and the Atlantic with President Hyde's
article.
Doolittle, '88, was in town during the Thanks-
giving recess.
Prof. Robinson is reported to be preparing a new
work on Chemistry, and C. W. Tuttle, '86, is assist-
ing him.
Rev. E. C. Guild is giving a course of three Ad-
vent lectures at the Unitarian church as follows :
December 9th, Christ's Authoritj' — Spiritual ; Decem-
ber 16th, Christ's Method — Personal ; December 23d,
Christ's Work— Universal.
A book-case in the Senior room contains, perhaps,
a hundred volumes on philosophical, political, and
literary topics. With the exception of a few books
of the latter class, they are rarely, if ever, used.
Wouldn't it be a good plan to put them into the
library and turn them over to general circulation ?
Thanksgiving passed oflf quietly in Brunswick.
About thirty fellows staid through the recess — rather
more than last year. Several of the Faculty very
kindly entertained students at their homes. Thanks-
giving evening there were offered for patronage a
concert in the M. E. church; a poverty ball in the
Town Hall : and a French dance in Lemont Hall.
A cross-eyed compositor omitted the necessary
sibilant twice from the name of Linscott in our last,
and somehow, in No. 9, the name of Burr crept into
the Sophomore Declamation appointees instead of
that of Newman.
Prof. Lee has returned from Washington, where
he was for two weeks engaged in arranging the
specimens collected on his South American expedi-
tion. Specialists are to report on the collections, ten or
fifteen men each to write a monograph on one group.
Some of the scientists selected to do this are
Alexander Agassiz ; Dr. Bean of the National Mu-
seum; W. H. Dall of tlie U. S. Geological Survey;
and Dr. W. K. Brooks of Johns Hopkins University.
On his way to Washington, Prof. Lee slopped at
New Haven to read a paper before the National
Academy of Sciences, a very high honor for a non-
member. His subject was " Some Scientific Results
of the Albatross Expedition from Washington to
San Francisco."
Chandler and Webb, '90, are absent canvassing.
Sophomore examination in private readings in
Juvenal, December .5th.
Some of the recent additions to the library are :
Prof. C. C. Everett's "Poetry, Comedy, and Duty";
Sir John Lubbock's "Representation"; Hugo's
" Les Contemplations," two vols. ; Charles Knight's
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"London," three vols., and Hawthorne's first work,
"Fanshawe." This opens with a description of a
country college, supposed by many to be Bowdoin.
Among the biographical sketches in the last part of
the book is a lengthy one on Hon. Jonathan Cilley,
'25. The library has also received the report of '48's
reunion here last June, prepared by Prof. J. B.
Sewall, class secretary.
The boys departed for the Thanksgiving recess by
several different trains, rather than altogether Wednes-
day noon as formerly, so the singing and cheering
at the depot were reduced to a sad minimum. Too
bad to let this jolly practice go out. Let's have a
"rattler" next week Friday, boys !
During Prof. Lee's absence the Juniors were busy
with an essay on Abiogenesis.
It is rumored that Jackson and Libby, '89, will
return to college.
E. L. Adams, '89, is now bell ringer.
'90's Bugle is be printed by a Massachusetts firm_
It will not "be out in two weeks."
Cole, '92, has gone home with an affection of the
eyes.
Tlie Orient's hints are always adopted ! In our
last we called for prayers in Memorial ; ever since
they have been held there. In this connection we
are i-equested to print :
Students, and in especial, Freshmen, will con-
fer a jeu d'esprit (joy of spirit. — Horse.) on the
Faculty, by refraining from, entering Lower Memo-
rial after prayers has begun.
Adam Job Booker.
The following students are out teaching for the
winter, twenty-four in all : '89 — Doherty, at Wool-
wich; Freeman, at Saco ; Rogers, at Wells. '90 —
Brooks, at Augusta ; Pendleton, at Brunswick, Dis-
trict 16; Royal, at Brunswick, District 11; Thomp-
son, at Friendship. '91 — Bragdon, at Goodwin's
Mills ; Dudley, at West Milan ; Dyer, at Buxton ;
Field, at Belfast ; Hardy, at Farmington Falls ; Kemp-
ton, at Saco ; A. M. McDonald, at Tennant's Harbor ;
A. P. McDonald, at Outer Long Island; Mahoney,
at Sheepscot Bridge ; Munsey at Wiscasset; Tibbotts,
at Woolwich. '92 — Bean, at Brunswick, District 12 ;
Gummer, at Brunswick, District u ; Lee, at Harrison ;
Osborne, atGorham ; Poore, at Bolster's Mills ; Ran-
dall, at Freeport; Shay, at Brunswick, District 4.
C. H. Fogg, '89, is clerking, at home, through
the holidays.
The lecture course at Fryebiirg Academy, this
winter, includes the following : March 4th, Prof.
L. A. Lee, on "Glimpses of South America." March
18th, Prof. C. C. Hutchins, on "The Sun." Rev. H.
Bernard Carpenter, of Boston, and Rev. Dr. Thomas
Hill, of Portland, are also among the lecturers.
Prof. Robinson is writing a series of sketches of
Western travel, for the Lewiston Journal.
A Leitz microscope has been recently added to
the biological laboratory.
Palmer, '92, is, during the holiday rush, clerking
at Hovey's, Boston.
Two Freshmen sat in chapel, the first morning
after the recess, and they looked afraid of a shower
when they came out.
'92 has elected the following class officers for
their Freshman exit on the 20th of next June : Presi-
dent, C. L. Palmer; Vice-President, Daniel Mcln-
tyre ; Secretary-Treasurer, A. M. Merriman; Toast-
master, F. L. Thompson ; Poet, W. E. Perkins ;
Orator, Frank Durgin; Historian, H. R. Gurney;
Prophet, T. H. Gately, Jr. ; Opening Address, H. F.
Linscott; Committee of Arrangements, C. S. Rich,
G. W. Shay, E. D. Osborne ; Committee on Odes,
H. W. Kimball, W. O. Hersey, R. F. Bartlett.
Little, '89, shot a fox measuring fifty inches from
tip to tip, during the recess.
The Miami Student, among "Things we would
like to see," mentions "A college which can show a
larger proportion of distinguished graduates than
Miami." Student, cast thine optics toward Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine.
In the "Canterbury Prologue," Chaucer speaks
thus of one of the pilgrims :
" With many a tempest hadde his herd be shake."
In the recent examination of '89 one of the boys ren-
dered this: "The wind whistled through his whis-
kers," and the heavens fell.
Prof. Robinson lectures in the course at New-
castle, December 28th, on " Explosives," with exper-
iments. Prof. Woodruff follows him, January 21st,
on "Ancient and Modern Athens," illustrated by
stereopticon views.
A tall, slim man was hurrying out of the eating-
room in the Brunswick station the other da3', when
his valise flew open, and a tooth-brush, a night-shirt,
and a lady's bustle were strewn along the ijlatform.
The young man gathei'cd in the first two articles, but
the deep red blushes chased each other to his ear tips
as he groped about after the "bird cage," as a
bystander sympathetically called it. He was fast
getting nervous when a Bowdoin Soph, came to his
rescue with the loud remark: "That's the new col-
lege catcher." The interest of the public lagged.
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and the jaws of the valise closed over the cage
without further comment. — Kennebec Journal.
Average repairs will be 62 cents this term.
The Quartette sang at Damariscotta December
6th, and at Gorham, December 7lh.
A Senior was heard to express great surprise
recently that "George Eliot" was the nom de phnne
of an English woman ! A Freshman distinguished
himself by inquiring at the library desk for "Lees
Mizeraybles." Several men, in registering " Thirty
Years Out of the Senate," have credited Mark Twain
with being its author.
Prof. Johnson addressed the Y. M. C. A. on
"Inner Life," last Sunday afternoon.
Saturday evening whist parties seem to be a great
fad in the ends at present. How is it there's no
attention paid to chess in college?
'Ninety-one has elected Bugle editors, but keeps
their names a profound secret.
Prof. Little has several copies of Arlo Bates'
" Songs of Bovvdoin " for sale. This is a rare book.
The Catalogue. — The eighty-seventh annual
catalogue came out the Wednesday morning before
Thanksgiving, and great was the rush thereof to the
Treasurer's ofiice, to procure copies to take home to
the folks and the best girl. The rumored revisions,
additions, and improvements do not appear, and with
one exception it is about the same old catalogue that
came in with our Freshman garments, and lasts un-
changed until our race has run its course. The excep-
tion noted is the names of the "IMedics"; they are
printed in full this year, much to the relief of future
compilers of Triennials. The catalogue has the sins
of omission and commission common to all printed
matter, and ils ways of spelling are so at variance
where a name occurs twice, that we are at a loss to
know which may be correct. But the catalogue is
out. It contains two hundred and seventy names,
those of eighty-six "Medics", and the academic
classes in their relative numerical strength : '91, tifty-
eight; '92, forty-four ; '89, thirty-uine ; '90, thirty-
uine. There are four specials. The students' names
are the most interesting part of the catalogue, and
provide palatable pabulum for the student of nomen-
clature. The longest name in college is that of Mc-
CuUough, liiirty-one letters, and the two shortest are
those of Fred Drew and Joel Bean, Jr. There are
six Smiths, one of whom is Orrin R., and another
Warren R. No surnames begin with the letters I, Q,
U, V, X, and Z. S is the favorite cognoniinal initial.
Four men with surnames commencing "Hu," are of the
same Psi U. delegation. The boys named after
le pere number, in '90, one ; '91, four ; '92, two ; which
reminds us that last year the Junior class contained
no Juniors ! Of Christian names the most common
are George and Charles, each occurring thii-teen
times; Henry (or the modification Harry), and Fred-
erick (or Fred), each a dozen times; Frank, ten
times; William (or Will,) and John, nine times,
anil Thomas and Edward, seven times each. Cases
where the three initials are alike occur in the names
of Hastings, '90, and Wingate, special. Then tlrere is
William Wingate, and William Wingate Hubbard.
The five names of the two Hilton brothers all have the
termination "on." There are five pairs of brothers.
Sixteen surnames occur twice, and three, thrice each.
The only man with first two initials E. E., (Briggs,
'90,) was not named for the gallant colonel who was
the namesake of so many bearing those initials.
Some of the peculiar names are Verdeil Oberon,
Mervyn Ap, Lory, Aretas, Aloysius, Willian, Sias,
Angus, and Veranus. Two of the boys are called
after localities, in the names Houlton and Kansas.
P. C. Newbegin was named after Bowdoin's most
famous professor. Bowdoin men were apparently
namesakes of the following: Emery and Robie, '89;
Mitchell, '90; Cilley and Lincoln, '91, and A. M.
Merriraan, '92. Eight of the boys are from Massa-
chusetts, five from New Hampshire, two from Ohio,
and one each from New York, Florida, and Illinois.
The remainder hail from the Pine Tree State.
. — Rev. Silas Baker,
who died in Standish, Me.,
October 31st, was a native of Edge-
comb, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1828,
and of Andover in 1831, being ordained
March 7, 1832. He preached at Truro, Mass.,
Hampden, Kennebunkport, and Standish, from which
pastorate he retired in 1813, and has since been with-
out charge. He was 81 years of age.
'33. — William Thomas Savage, D.D., died at
Quincy, III., October 10th, aged seventy-six years.
He was born in Bangor, November 14th, 1812, the
son of Alexander Savage. His father was for many
years Register of Probate for Penobscot County. Dr.
Savage was educated in the schools of Bangor, and
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at the Classical Institute connected with the Theolog-
ical Seminary, graduated at Bowdoin College in
1833. He taught the Alfred Academy a year after
graduating, studied two years at the Bangor Seminary,
and later at the Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was assistant teacher in Hebrew in Lane Semi-
nary, in 1837-8 ; acting pastor of the Congregational
churches in Robbinston and Pembrolje, Me., 1838-40,
and since then has held the pastorate in the fol-
lowing places: Amherst, N. H. ; Houlton, Maine;
Franklin, N. H., from 1849 to 1874; Godfrey, 111.,
from 187.5 to 1877, and from that time until his death
had resided at Quincy, 111. For many years he was
connected with the educational boards of the places
in which he lived, and at different times held high
positions, such as President of the New Hampshire
Teachers' Institute. During his residence in Frank-
lin, N. IL, he made a trip abroad. In 1841 he mar-
ried Miss Mary Langdon Bradbury, of Alfred, Maine,
a sister of Hon. Bion Bradbury ('30), who founded
the Mary Langdon scholarship in this college. ■ Dr.
Savage received the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth
College in 1868. Throughout his life he has been a
correspondent to various periodicals.
'33. — The following is a notice of the life of a
man, who, though he did not graduate from Bowdoin
College, yet honors us by his two-years' association
with this institution. Hugh McCulloch was born in
Kennebunk, and entered Bowdoin College, but did
not complete the course of study there. He began to
read law in Boston in 1831, with Joseph Dane, and
in 1833 left New England for the West. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in Indiana, and seUled at Fort
Wayne to practice his profession. In 183.5 he was
appointed cashier and manager of the Fort Wayne
branch of the State bank of Indiana, and retained
this position until 1857, when the charter of the bank
expired. The bank of the State of Indiana succeeded
the expiring State bank of Indiana, and Mr. McCul-
loch became president of the new institution. He
was still at the head of the bank of the State in 1863,
when he was invited by Secretary Chase to take
charge of the national currency bureau at Washing-
ton, and accepted the office of comptroller. In 1865,
President Lincoln appointed him Secretary of the
Treasury, and he was retained in this place by Presi-
dent Johnson for the full term of four years. His
devotion to his chief cost him the confidence of the
Republican majority in Congress, and his efforts
to withdraw the paper currency were summarily
stopped. After his retirement from office, he went
abroad for a time, and since his return has lived near
Washington. In 1884, he was again appointed Sec-
retary of the Treasury by President Arthur, holding
the office until after the inauguration of President
Cleveland in 1885. His leisure since March, 1885,
has been employed in writing a portly volume of
recollections of the men he has met and the nieasui-es
with which he has had to do, during his half century
of public life. The book was intended, in the outset,
for his family, and personal friends, and is written
with a frankness and ease which are very attractive.
The author does not pose as an historian, but talks of
thino-s which he has seen and known, with delightful
freedom. He thinks McClellan was unfairly hamp-
ered by the authorities at Washington ; Grant is
probably overrated just at present, great as he was;
Andy Johnson was a thoroughly honest and patriotic
President, but his stump speeches were unworthy of
him ; Chase's administration of the treasury depart-
ment was a financial miracle ; but the legal tender
act he considers needless, and the decision of the su-
preme court acknowledging the authority of Con-
gress to repeat the act at discretion, lamentable.
Beginning life a Whig and a protectionist, Mr.
McCulloch has become a free trader through study
and observation. Our great danger he finds in the
extension of the suffrage to ignorant and corruptible
voters, whose ballots represent money instead of
thought.
'46. — Henry Orr died Sunday, November 20, 1888.
He was born in Brunswick. Read law in Alfred,
and settled later in his native town. For many
years he was judge of the municipal court.
'46. — By mistake we reported in a late issue that
John S. H. Fogg, M.D., was a resident of New York
City. He resides at 481 Broadway, Boston, Mass.
'gl. — Gustavus L. Palmer died in Waterville,
Me., October 16, 1888. Dr. Palmer was born in
North Anson, Me., 1841, and prepared for college at
Anson Academy. Since studying in Boston he has
practiced dentistry in Waterville. He was a much
esteemed citizen and his loss is sincerely mourned.
'66. — George T. Packard is engaged at New
Haven on English work connected with the thorough
revision Webster's Dictionai-y is now undergoing.
The book is in type as far as P, and will be issued
inside of a year or two.
'73. — At Thursday's meeting of the trustees of the
State Normal School, Prof. Albert F. Richardson,
principal of Fryeburg Academy, was unanimously
elected principal of the State Normal School at
Castine. Mr. Richardson is an experienced and suc-
cessful teacher, and the trustees have made a wise
choice. He was formerly principal of Bridgton
Academy, and is one of the trustees of the Normal
School.
'79. — Mr. Walter G. Davis, of the Portland Pack-
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ing Company, arrived home from Europe yesterday.
He landed at Boston in tlie Scytliia and liad a very
rough passage. — Press, Nov. 27.
'80. — At a special meeting of the school board,
Tuesday evening. Superintendent Edwards offered
his resignation as superintendent of schools, to take
effect January 1st. After remarks by different mem-
bers of the board expressing regret at Mr. Edwards
leaving, his resignation was accepted, and a com-
mittee consisting of Messrs. Geo. A. Callahan, D. J.
Callahan, and J. G-. Elder was appointed to prepare
suitable resolutions of their appreciation of the
superintendent's work for the past two years. Mr.
Edwards has been superintendent of our schools a
little over two years, and by his peculiar fitness for
the work and by vigilant attention to the wants of
the schools has been instrumental in a large measure
in bringing Lewiston's schools up to a high standard,
and his resignation will be regretted by parents and
citizens as well as by the school board. We are glad
to learn that Mr. Edwards is to continue to reside in
Lewiston, he having associated himself with the
Lakeside Press Company, where he will have the
management of the educational and sales depart-
ment.— Lewiston Journal.
'88. — Lincoln H. Chapman occupies a position in
the Newcastle Bank, Newcastle, Me.
■i
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Theta, a. k. e.
December 7, 1888.
Whereas, It has pleased an all-wise and merciful
Father to i-emove from our midst our brother, Burdus
Redford Melcher, of the class of 1870 ;
Besolved, That in his loss his brothers of Theta
recognize that the fraternity has been deprived of an
earnest and faithful friend and member ;
Resolved, That this chapter tenders to the frienils
and relatives of the deceased its heartfelt sym-
pathy ;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent
to the family of our lamented brother, and that they
be inserled in the Bowdoin Orient.
D. E. Owen,
T. S. Burr,
W. E. Perkins,
For the Chapter.
AT THE PLAT.
The Freshie, wondering what mamma would say,
Sneaks slyly down to see the play
By the back way.
It surely is naughty, but then it's so nice
E'en from a seat in the Paradise.
The Sophomore loud with air blase.
Stalks boldly down to see the play
And sits in "A";
Whence he eyes the priestess of .song,
Through lorgnette large or field-glass long.
The Junior so elegant, free and gay,
In dress suit goes to see the play
In a coupe.
She nestling closely to his side
Who hopes some day to be his bride.
The Senior, prematurely gray.
With dignity walks to the play
Without display.
He marks the acts with eye and ear.
While he thumbs the notes in Rolfe's Shakespeare.
— The Bninonian.
The estimation that the townsfolk place upon
Colby students may be faintly illustrated by the fol-
lowing incident of a few days ago. A couple of
donkeys strayed on to the campus and contentedly
commenced to graze. Their owner, as soon as he
learned that they were trespassing, came after them.
As he was hurrying through the gate, an old fellow
who was going by piped out: "Better let 'em stay,
George, they've got home." — Colby Echo.
The Colby library has 21,734 volumes. But 4,716
books were drawn during the past year by the stu-
dents.— Ex.
Cornell opens its course of journalism this year
with Hon. C. E. Fitch, editor of the Rochestei' Demo-
crat and Chronicle, as instructor. The course is
very popular ; scores of pupils are taught the begin-
ner's manual, and its college paper is flourishing.
Yale, Harvard, and Cornell, each support their daily,
and Princeton, a tri-weekly. — Ex.
A ballot was taken on election day among tlie
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girls at Smith College, with the following result :
Harrison, 317 ; Cleveland, 58; Fisk, 17. On election
night the Harrison girls held a noisy celebration and
hanged Cleveland in efflgy, therebj' evoking an ad-
monitory lecture from President Seelye the following
morning. — Wellesley Couranl.
At a recent meeting, the Harvard overseers voted
to request the committee on government "to con-
sider, and report promptly to the board, upon the ad-
visability of making attendance at daily prayers, or at
roll-call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers,
compulsory; also upon the advisability of making
attendance upon recitations and lectures compul-
sory, and to report whether in their opinion any fur-
ther action is necessary in regard to the general rules
affecting discipline and studies in the university;
and it was also voted to request the dean of the fac-
ulty to aid them with reports of attendance at college
exercises." — Cornell Sun.
Eleven Princeton men who have graduated in the
last three years have been called to college profes-
sorships.— Ex.
More than thirteen hundred members of the Uni-
versity of Cambridge are opposed to the admission of
women. — Ex.
TIT FOB TAT.
He timidly climbed up the brown stone steps, -
He timidly rang the Ijell,
He felt that this visit might be his last.
But why so he could not tell.
As he stood at the door the winter wind
Whirled in the streets about,
But above its roaring he heard her say,
"John, tell him that I am out."
As the door was opened with stately mion,
He said to the butler tall,
" Pray, go to Miss Jones with my compliments.
And tell her I did not call."
— Williams Weekly.
Brown University has decided recently against
co-education.
Of the 1,494 convicts in Joliet penitentiary, 1-J9
are college graduates.
The students of Columbia college are now obliged
to wear caps and gowns.
Swarthmore College, controlled in the interest of
the Society of Friends, has recently received an ad-
ditional $160,000 to her endowment fund.
The Northwestern University has offered lots to
the Greek letter fraternities that will put up chapter
houses, and several are preparing to build.
Princeton is considering the advisability of adopt-
ing a new "yell," consisting of the word "Prince-
ton," repeated three Wm&s.— Pennsylvanian.
The new hall of science of the University of
Wisconsin, lately completed and occupied, cost
$270,000.
A volume entitled "Dartmouth Lyrics," contain-
ing selections from the verse in the college periodi-
cals since their beginning, is announced to be in
press. The compilers are two students of the col-
lege.
When a Freshman doesn't hear plainly the Prof.'s
question, he says in a subdued voice, "Pardon me,
professor, but I did not understand you." The Soph-
omore says, " Will you please repeat your question ?"
The Junior says, "What, sir?" The Senior says,
"Huh ? " — Collegian.
Stagg, of Yale, has written a series of four pa-
pers on base-ball, for Harper^s Young People, and
Hall, of Columbia, will contribute two articles on
lawn tennis to the same periodical.
A press and engine have been purchased for
printing the Northwestern at the Northwestern
University.
The University of Cambridge has just conferred
upon Prince Albert Victor the degree of LL.D.
You ask why I knelt at her leet last night.
In a shadowy nook of the dim-lighted hall,
And why for so long in that attitude bowed ?
'Twas to fasten the tie of her slipper, — that's all.
And why should I blush when you question me now ?
Don't you think you could guess, if you really tried ?
For why should I blush, unless it's because
'Twas a love knot that last night I tied ?
— Vassar Miscellany.
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John Calvin is the first title in Vol. VII. of Alden's
Manifold Cyclopedia, and Cevennes, the name of the
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Between these there are over 600 pages, including
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Of Professor Thomas' edition of Goethe's "Tor-
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Goethe in its connection witli this play, and analyzes
in detail the characters, plot, and actiou of the play
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The valuable Appendix I., with its thirty-six titles,
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The sources of the text, which are given in Appendix
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 12.-jANnARY 16, 1889.
Helen 161
Editorial Notes, 161
The Peucinian and Athenaean Societies, 163
Vale 164
Bowdoin Alnmni Association of New York, .... 165
Communications :
A Lecture Revival, 165
A Nuisance 166
CoLLEGii Tabula, 166
Personal 169
In Memoriam 170
College World 171
Book Reviews, 171
HELEN.
Fairest of fair;
Of earth's daughters, level}'.
Sweeter b}' far
Than the heavens above thee.
Daughter of Greece !
Thy fair face has descended.
Dearer than peace,
On all lands, thus befriended.
Blessings to thee
For the gift of thy beauty.
Thy fair daughters to see
May it e'er be our duty.
We iinblish in this number a commu-
nication in regard to liaving a course of lect-
ures delivered before the students this winter.
We have no doubt that every student would
be glad to attend such a course. Certainly,
we may suppose so from the marked favor
with which the lectures were received three
years ago.
Such a course would fill a long-felt want,
and we hope that the Faculty will take steps
to arrange for its delivery.
Mr. C. L. Brownson will fill the position
of tutor in Greek this term. Mr. Brownson
is a graduate of Yale, class of '87, and is at
present a Fellow of that University. He
comes highly recommended, bringing to his
work a thorough knowledge of the Greek
language and literature.
A tutor was provided to lighten the duties
of Prof. Woodruff, who will have the Sen-
iors in Bible Study. Mr. Brownson will find
Bowdoin students a gentlemanly and en-
thusiastic set of fellows, disposed to do the
square thing every time, and the Orient
trusts and believes that the relations between
the new member of the Faculty and the
student-body will be mutually pleasant and
satisfactory.
A long step forward has been taken in
educational matters by the formation of the
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Commission on Admission Examinations.
Fourteen New England colleges are now-
represented on this commission by some
member of their respective Faculties.
It has two ends in view, — the elevation
of the standard of college entrance examina-
tions, and the introduction of a system which
will render the requirements more uniform.
It seems to us that the standard of ad-
mission is already as high as can be main-
tained with profit until a new system of
study is introduced into our fitting schools.
The boy who intends to enter college, in
order to meet the present requirements, is
obliged to begin his fitting course at so early
an age, that what we term common school
studies are in a great many cases left in a
crude and imperfect condition. It is this
neglect of early studies that is in most cases
responsible for the surprising deficiency
which many college graduates exhibit in the
simplest branches of learning.
As to the second end of the commission
we do not see how it can be anything else
than beneficial. It often happens that a stu-
dent is compelled by force of circumstances
to fit at a school which prepares for a college
other than that which he intends to enter.
He is obliged to do an extra amount of work,
large in any ease, or enter college conditioned
on the studies which he has not taken up.
The commission has an excellent field to
work in, and we hope that it will accomplish
its purpose.
In some colleges the Seniors are excused
from gymnasium drill. This is as it should
be. The studies of Senior year require a
large aiuount of hard work. Time must be
economized, and when a man does "plug"
he must give his undivided attention to it.
It is somewhat unpleasant to remember, just
as you are getting ready to meditate on some
profound principle of philosophy, or are pre-
paring to spring on an unsuspecting world
the discovery of a new chemical product,
that you must run into the gymnasium and
pull a two-pound chest-weight or brandish a
fencing foil, half an hour.
By the time a man reaches Senior year
he ought to know how much exercise he can
take without detriment to his system. Prob-
ably for the Freshman half an hour a day is
none too much, but for the Senior it is misery
" long drawn out."
Soon we shall go forth from the classic
halls of our beloved Alma Mater. In a few
short months the places that know us now
will know us no more. For three years we
have cultivated our muscle and beautified
our physique. Is it too much to ask that
our last months be spent in peace ; that this
dread spectre, which for three long years has
haunted us, shall be driven away, and that
we may go forth from Bowdoin's halls with
the feeling that our Senior year was made
beautiful by the absence of gymnasium re-
quirements?
The ball team has begun its winter prac-
tice in the gymnasium, and the boys begin
to wonder what position our team will hold
in the base-ball procession this j'ear.
It seems to us that we may refer the de-
feats of past years, in great part, to two
causes. One of these is that we have had
no organized second nine. Such a nine is
valuable help in practice, besides furnishing
skilled players in time of need.
The other cause is, that too frequently
the men on the nine have not known until
just before the game what position they were
to occupy. Last year men were practiced
in every position on the team, and the result
was in some cases that they played none of
them too well. It is to be hoped that this
year's management will eliminate these two
causes of defeat and give those who support
the team a chance to see the pennant wave
over our diamond.
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THE PEUCINIAN AND ATHENiEAN
SOCIETIES.
I. — THE PEUCIlSriAN.
In one of the last numbers of the Ori-
ent there is an editorial expressing a desire,
on the part of some alumni, for informa-
tion in regard to the last j^ears of the Peu-
cinian and Athenaean Societies. Having
consulted several of the young alumni in
whose day and generation the end came, the
information has been so meager that it is
hoped the vrriter w^ill be pardoned if he at-
tempts a historical sketch of those two well
known organizations, which may be of in-
terest to the alumni and other readers of the
Orient.
In nearly every prominent college in the
country, in the early part of this century,
there were open debating societies conducted
by the student-body, secret societies then
being in disfavor with both faculty and pub-
lic. Those societies were strictly local, hav-
ing no branches at other colleges. The two
societies which will be forever associated
with the early history of Bowdoin, and which
exercised such a healthful influence upon the
mind of the Bowdoin student in the good
old days were the Peucinian and Athensean.
The mention of those two societies, which
existed side by side in our college for so
many years, will probably touch a chord of
interest in the heart of every old alumnus
of Bowdoin, many of whom still regret, and
not without reason, that two old organi-
zations, which formed such an important
factor of the college life in their time, should
have become extinct.
The Peucinian, the older of the two, was
in reality the reorganization, in 1807, of
the Philoinatliean Society wliich was founded
in 1805, at which time the constitution was
revised and the name Peucinian adopted
after much discussion. The motto, '•'• Pinos
loquentes semper habemus," was probably
chosen at the same time, the letters of which
P. L. S. H. only were written. Mr. A. G.
Tenney, '35, for many years President of
the General Society, says : " The motto was
the only secret in connection with the so-
ciety. All through my college course, and
for many years after, as far as I know, no
one except the members of the society knew
the meaning of it." However, it was printed
in full on the title-page of the Peucinian
catalogue of 1858.
In 1808 the first anniversary was held, at
which C. S. Davies, '07, delivered an oration
which was printed in one of the Boston
papers of that time, and very favorably com-
mented upon. The society continued in a
moderately prosperous condition until 1813,
when, the control of the constitution having
been given into the hands of the General
Society, the organization took a new lease of
life.
A glimpse at the condition of the society
in 1815 is given in an address written at that
time, in which the writer states that the so-
ciety had no room of its own, but met in
alphabetical order in the rooms of its mem-
bers. The exercises opened with a written
argument, by two members, on both sides of
a given question, and a general debate fol-
lowed, each member being called upon in
turn to speak. The library in that year is
said to have contained five hundred volumes,
which had been collected gradually by the
gifts of the undergraduate members. At
the anniversary exercises of 1824, Longfel-
low delivered the poem, every trace of which
has unfortunately been lost. In 1827 the
constitution was amended so as to allow
Freshmen to be admitted. This change was
made on account of the rapid growth of the
Athensean which was becoming quite as
powerful as its predecessor, both in numbers
and influence. The rivalry of the earlier
years seems to have diminished, for in 1886
the Peucinian very kindly offered the use of
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its library to the Athensean, whose library-
had been destroyed by the burning of Maine
Hall, February 17th, of that year.
About 1840 the society adopted a badge pin,
previous to that a silver medal having been
worn. It consisted of a slab of black enamel,
at the top of which was the word Peucinian
in gold letters, below a pine tree with the
letters P. L. S. H., two on each side, and at
the bottom the date 1805 ; on the back were
the initials or name of the member, Bowd.
Coll., and the date of his initiation. The
records of 1844 state that a history of the
society was written by Hon. W. D. North-
end, '43, but it can not be found. The Peu-
cinian published a series of triennial cata-
logues, the first in 1843 and the last in 1858.
Among the prominent names on its list are
Hon. C. S. Davies, ex-Gov. Dunlap, Prof. A.
S. Packard, Prof. William Smith, John S. C.
Abbott, Henry W. Longfellow, Dr. Geo. B.
Cheever, Rev. Dr. Bartol, and Prof. E. C.
Smyth of Andover.
Even after the secret societies were es-
tablished, the Peucinian and Athensean con-
tinued to exert a powerful influence in col-
lege affairs. Their decline was gradual but
sure, and from 1870 until their final dissolu-
tion their existence was only nominal. In
the Okient of May 6, 1874, the following
appears in tlie locals : " At a special meet-
ing of the Peucinian Society, held at the
close of last term, the following gentlemen
were unanimously elected disputants for the
St. Croix prize: Ferguson and Hunter, '74,
and Hill, '75. The books of the Peucinian
have been re-arranged and classified, and the
library is now in fine running order." Mr.
A. G. Tenney says : " For some )'ears before
its final removal to the college library, I kept
the Peucinian library closed, by order of the
General Society, because so many books were
stolen. Some were afterward returned, but
a good many valuable sets were broken up."
The Orient of March 10, 1875, says : " The
Peucinian Society is defunct as far forth as
the purposes for which it was established are
concerned, and Henry W. Longfellow is
coming here next Commencement, too."
A young alumnus says: "I was initiated
into the Peucinian and that is all there was
to it. We stood up in a row and at a signal
we were hit on the head with pine branches
held in the hands of the members of the
society, the motto, ' Pinos loquentes semper
habemus," being quoted. I never attended
any meetings and I don't think any were
held." Another alumnus says : " I received
a notice that I had been elected to the Peu-
cinian, but I don't think any initiation was
ever held, and I never heard of any meetings
being held. While I was in college there
was a prize offered for the best debaters in
the Peucinian and Athenfean, but no debate
ever took place."
At Commencement, in 1875, the Peucin-
ian voted to give its library to the college,
and as no members were taken in after the
class of '78. in that year the Peucinian ceased
to exist.
Perhaps it is as well that the good old society
should be given^up, rather than that it should
continue neglected and useless. While the
memory of the good that it accomplished
sliall endure as long as the " Pinos Loquen-
tes" from which it took its name, watch over
the halls of old Bowdoin.
VALE.
Vale, Old, the glass is turning,
Tlie glistening sands are nearly run.
Thy life's bright glow has left its burning,
Its work is done.
Its embers show a mazy tracing, —
A netted p.ath of shade and light, —
Now sin, now truth, thy beams are chasing
Throughout thy night.
And in tlie rosy flush of morning
Sometimes thy day begins in wrong, —
Sometimes a new day seems just dawning
Thy paths among.
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165
Vale, Old, we leave thee sadly.
As thy requiem we toll.
Though we hail the New Year gladly,
Rest thy soul.
SAI.VE.
Salve, New, we give thee greeting.
Thy life's scroll is yet unrolled.
But thy moments will be fleeting,
Thou'lt soon be old, — thy scroll we'll fold.
Still, we ring thy birth with gladness
For the joy thy course may bring.
Cease tolling, bells,— lose all thy sadness, —
The New Year ring, — thy anthems sing.
With the dying of the Old Year
May the shadows in thy memory
Fly away, and leave no sorrow.
With the coming of the New Year
May thy courage, brightly shining,
Illume the way for each to-morrow.
BOWDOIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF NEW YORK.
We are indebted for the following to the
New York Mail and Express :
On the evening of January 9th, at the Hoffman
House, the songs and the praises of Bowdoin were
sung till the morning hours. About thirty-five of
her sons, gathered from New York City and adjoining
States, took their seats around a single large table at
about 7. At the head of the table sat James McKeen,
the President of the Associalion, having on his right
Gen. O. O. Howard, commander of the Department
of the Atlantic, and on his left Prof. Leslie A. Lee,
of the college, who has just returned from the gov-
ernment scientific expedition to the South Seas. Near
the head of the table were Gen. Joshua L. Chamber-
lain, ex-Governor of Maine and ex-President of Bow-
doin; Gen. ThoniiiS H. Hubbard, Rev. Dr. Newman
Smyth of New Haven; William P. Drew of Phila-
delphia; Almon Goodwin, Dr. George F. Jackson,
and William A. Abbott. Among others present were
Dr. F. H. Dillingham, Secretary of the Association ;
Augustus F. Libby and Col. Walter S. Poor of New
York ; Prof. Augustine Jones, President of the Boston
Bowdoin Alumni Association ; Charlton Lewis, rep-
resenting the Yale Alumni Association, and Robert
C. Alexander, secretai-y of the Union College Alumni
Association of New York City.
Following are the officers of the Association
elected for the ensuing year : President, Almon
Goodwin ; Vice-Presidents, Benjamin B. Foster, Wil-
liam A. Abbott, Augustus F. Libby, William J.
Curtis; Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. F. H. Dilling-
ham ; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. W. S. Dennett.
In response to the toast, "Alma Mater," Prof.
Leslie A. Lee said that, although not a graduate of
Bowdoin, his fourteen years there had made him feel
like one. He reported the college to be in excellent
condition, with full classes and a complete Faculty.
Gen. O. O. Howard was at his happiest, and
indulged in pleasant reminiscences of his college
days until he called himself down and Gov. Cham-
berlain up. The latter is evidently a favorite with
Bowdoin men, as was evidenced by their hearty
reception of him as he rose to speak. He spoke with
excusable pride of the brilliant achievements of Bow-
doin men in literature, statesmanship, generalship,
in science, in the professions, and in Wall Street.
Chief Justice Fuller was prevented from being
present, but his place was taken by a classmate,
William P. Drew, of Philadelphia, who entertained
the company with a speech both humorous and elo-
queut. The Chief Justiceship, he said, had been
oftered to every member of the class of '53, in succes-
sion, but " Mel Fuller " was the only one of the class
who had made money enough to afford to take it.
Col. Walter S. Poor spoke in acknowledgment of
the generosity of Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, who has
provided tablets of brass, to be attached to the walls
of Memorial Hall, commemorating the names and
deeds of the heroes of Bowdoin who imperiled or
lost their lives in the defense of their country.
Other speeches were made by Prof. Augustine
Jones, President of the Boston Alumni Association ;
William J. Curtis of Brunswick, who spoke for the
" y-'go^rs " or natives of the college town ; William
A. Abbott, Dr. F. H. Dillingham, the secretary, and
Robert C. Alexander, on behalf of the Union College
Alumni Association. The assembly broke up soon
after midnight with songs and cheers for " Old
Bowdoin."
COMMUNICATIONS.
A LECTURE REVIVAL.
In years past it has been the custom for
tire Faculty to arrange a course of lectures
for the students and such towns-people as
miglit choose to attend. Last year this course
was omitted, but not through any such de-
sire on the part of the students, as the lect-
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ures during the preceding winter were very
well attended.
I noticed in the last Orient that two of
our professors have already made arrange-
ments to lecture at one of the academies
during the winter. Why wouldn't it be a
good plan to utilize some of our home ma-
terial here? In nearly all the colleges in the
country a course of lectures is given em-
bracing, in some cases, the leading speakers
of the country, and there seems to be no
reason why Bowdoin should be lacking in
this popular method of instruction.
We are perhaps too far from the center
of attraction to secure any leading lights,
but there is not the least reason why we
need to go outside our own Faculty for men
to instruct us on the leading topics of the
day. To be sure this would necessitate ex-
tra work on the part of the Faculty, but I
think they would be quite willing to devote
one evening a winter to such a purpose. At
least let us invite them, and assure them that
we would appreciate such a course.
A NUISANCE.
With the first snow-storm came the usual
raid on windows, and this time it fell to the
lot of Winthrop to suffer the greatest dam-
age. In the northern end nearly every pane
of glass was broken simply for the amuse-
ment (?) of a few.
At first thought it seems strange that a
Sophomore should stoop so low as to do such
a thing, but when we see him surrounded by
an admiring group of Freshmen laughing at
the boldness of the aforesaid Sopliomore, we
can easily understand his position. Last
year he could not snow-ball and looked with
unbounded admiration On the man who could
stand up and deliberately break out every
pane of glass in an End, so this year he
naturally supposes that he creates the same
amount of admiration in the present Fresh-
man class.
It may be fine sport to break windows,
but it seems only fair that those who do the
damage should foot the bills. It is hardly
right, for instance, to expect a man who
rooms in Appleton, and cannot even hear the
crash, to pay as much for glass broken in
Winthrop as one who rooms in the latter
building and has to wade through broken
glass and snow to get to his room.
It is not well to become too sedate and
sober, and in this respect Bowdoin needs
little reform, but it does seem as if this de-
liberate breaking of glass ought to be stopped.
I recall but one instance during the past two
years where the damage to college property
was assessed on the perpetrators of the deed,
but perhaps it would be well to do this
oftener.
Let each one think of this, and see if he
cannot employ his time to better advantage
than the wanton destruction of property.
Calendar, Winter Term, 1889.
Jan. 8. — Tuesday. Term began.
Jan. 24.— Thursday. Twentieth Annual
Reunion of Portland Bowdoin Alumni.
Jan. 31. — Thursday. Day of Prayer for
Colleges.
Feb. 7.— Tliursday. Openingof Medical School. Lecture
by Dr. Frederic Henry Gerrish.
Feb. 22.— Friday. Washington's Birthday.
March 20 (about). Gymnastic Exhibition.
April 4.— Thursday. '68 Prize Speaking by the Seniors.
April 2-5. — Tuesday-Friday. Examinations.
April 5. — Friday. Term closes, with the loth week.
Prof. Bowen spent the holidays at his home in
western New York.
Prof. Lee has; been in Washington on business
connected with the United States Fish Commission.
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Merrill, '89, spent a part of the vacation in New
. York.
The Seniors will take up the History of Philos-
ophy this winter under President Hyde. The text-
book used is Seelye's translation of Schwegler's work
on the subject.
Watts has some very fine views of the college
buildings for sale, taken by himself.
They say we are to have a piano in the gym. this
winter.
White, '89, and McCuUough, "JO, spent the vaca-
tion in Boston.
•Mr. Stephen A. Holt of Winchester, Mass., of the
class of '46, has given a liberal sum to the library,
by means of which a large number of new books on
the Bible have been purchased to be used in the new
course.
F. M. Russell, '89, spent the vacation in Massa-
chusetts. He expects to go into the banking business
next year.
Field, '91, has returned to college. His school
was closed on account of scarlet fever among the
scholars.
Pendleton is doing a rushing business in books
and stationery. It will pay you to patronize him.
The Bowdoin library ranks tenth among the col-
lege libraries of the country.
We clip the following from the Bangor Whig of
a recent date :
To Prof. C. H. Smith is largely due the credit of the
present system of self-government at Bowdoin College.
The college never had a truer friend than he. Methodical,
industrious, frank, and fair, he has won a warm place in
the hearts of those who have enjoyed the advantages of
his instruction.
THE CHINNER.
Listen to the chinner's song,
As for rank he wrangles;
'Round his tutors all day long
Glib, his tongue he angles.
Never goes he to the gym.,
Time he cannot squander.
What are health and strength to him ?
For of rank he's fonder.
But the Fates in accents grim
Now have sternly said,
Every absence from the gym.
Means an awful dead.
So, henceforth, in tights you'll see,
Picturesquely grouped,
Literary sliapes of whom
Love of rank has scooped.
A course of lectures will be delivered at the Con-
gregational Church, Harpswell, for the benefit of the
society, the first to take place January 8th, and
to be delivered by Prof. F. E. Woodruff; subject,
"Ancient and Modern Athens," illustrated by the ster-
eopticon. Prof. Lee will speak later on "Glimpses
of South America" caught during his recent trip,
and Rev. Elijah Kellogg will close the course.
The twentieth annual meeting of the Bowdoin
alumni of Portland and vicinity will be held at the
Falmouth Hotel, January 2J:th. The anniversary
oration will be given by Hon. John Anderson Water-
man of the class of '46, and the poem by Mr. Freder-
ick Odell Conant of the class of '80. Mr. Eliphalet
Greely Spring of the class of '80 will act as toast-
master.
At the last meeting of the Maine Pedagogues
Prof. Johnson read a paper, in which he described
his method of teaching German. The Juniors and
Seniors are taking up the study under the new plan,
and are greatly pleased with it.
Some one removed the schedule of recitations
from the bulletin-board Monday afternoon. Such
deeds show great ingenuity and a profound respect
for the convenience of others. It may also postpone
recitations a short time and give the boys a short
rest, but it seems to us as though this might be dis-
pensed.
Arthur E. Hatch, Bates, '89, was canvassing Bow-
doin with his book, the " Progressive Annual," the
latter part of last term, and met with good success.
Dancing master Gilbert has composed a waltz,
called "The Bowdoin," named in honor of our stu-
dents.
Three hundred copies of Attornej'-General Baker's
address here, last Commencement, have been printed,
one of which can be read at the library.
Frank A. Wilson, ex-'89, obtained honorable
mention in French at Williams College, at Com-
mencement, 1888.
The Wellesley girls so enjoyed President Hyde's
sermon, preached there November 18th, that the
Senior class have voted to print it, and appointed a
committee for that purjoose.
Hodgkins, '92, has left college.
"Gourmand's Spectacled Minstrels," quoth a yao--
ger, Friday, December 21st, as a group of students,
distinguished by an abundance of plug hats and eye-
glasses, followed a wagon load of trunks, piled
seven high, dovvn to the railroad station.
Parker, '91, has received from King, Richardson
& Co., a handsome gold watch, suitably inscribed, in
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token of his sale of over 300 of their books during
the summer. This was second among the prizes
open to their canvassers all over the country.
Dr. Hyde preaches in Appleton Chapel, Harvard,
January 20th.
Carleton Lewis Brownson, Yale, '87, and recently
a post-graduate student there, has been appointed
tutor, with charge of Sophomore Latin and Fresh-
man Greek.
Burleigh, '91, and Perkins, '92, stenographers,
are out reporting legislative proceedings this winter.
Prof. Chapman preached in the Second Parish
Church, Portland, morning and afternoon of Sunday,
December 30th.
The Bugle editors remained in town through va-
cation to complete their work. The volume may be
looked for ere many moons.
Lazell, '92, has been appointed to fill the vacancy
in the bass on the glee club. No new tenor has been
selected as yet. Gately, '92, will probably be col-
lege yodler. The guitar and banjo club has been
reorganized for this season. The personnel: Files,
Freeman ('90), Simpson, and Rich, banjos; and
Niekerson, Carroll, Gilpatrie, and Lazell, guitars.
At the meeting of the Pejepscot Historical Society
of Brunswick, the first of the new year. Prof. John-
son was elected Vice-President, and Prof. Chapman
and A. G. Tenney, '35, on the executive committee.
"The Bridglon News says that in our rural towns
' the kissing party and the husking bee are no longer
the most popular gatherings, but the Chautauqnan
circle and literary clubs receive the public patron-
age.' The News calls that a social improvement,
which of course it is. Still we fancy that we detect
in our contemporary's remark an undertone of regret
for the days that are no more," says the Porlland Ex-
press, and we guess the ^'xpress has just touched
brother Shorey's weakness, who always wears the
air of a man who does not countenance earthly pleas-
ures.— Brunswick Telegraph.
A. C. Shorey, '88, is editor of the News.
Ex-Professor Carmichael has just been granted a
patent for treating fibre ware.
A. W. Preston, of Amherst, ex-'89, visited his
friends at Bovvdoin just previous to vacation.
An '87 man, speaking of the recent mild weather,
asserts that it is nothing remarkable for even this
season of the year. He declares that when in col-
lege he once played tennis on the loth of January.
Rev. E. C. Guild is to give a course of lectures
on Wordsworth, before the college, this winter.
Gymnasium hours this term: Seniors, 11.45 to
12.15; Juniors, 4.15 to 4.46; Sophomores, 4.45 to,
5.15; Freshmen, 5.15 to 5.45. Work began last
Monday.
The Freshman yell rang out for the first time
December 21st. It goes: '"Rah! 'Rah! Hoo ! 'Rah!
Bowdoin ! 'Rah! 'Rah! Duo kai enenakonia!
Rev. F. W. Sanford, of Tojisham, addressed the
Y. M. C. A. after prayers last Sunday.
The first themes of the term are due from both
classes the 30th. Junior subjects : I. — Robert Els-
mere. H. — Influence of the Federalist. Sophomore ;
I. — The North American Indian in the works of
Cooper. II. — Methods of travel in the United States
at the beginning of the Century.
The Boston Evening Record of the 12th, gave a
set of hazing stories from Wesleyan, Harvard, Yale,
Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, Tufls, Brown, and
Bowdoin. The part relating to us is interesting,
with some new anecdotes, though Phi Chi initiation
is told of for the thousandth time with the usual for-
mula. The name of the author of the famous war
song, however, is first given publicity. It is Edward
P. Mitchell, '71, now of the Neio Tork Sun. The
Record article contains a picture of Janitor Booker
busy with an axe, chopping out of the inverted chapel
bell, ice which some naughty Sophs had frozen into
it. In this connection we quote one iteiii : " '72 once
filled the bell with snow, in which six quarts of coal
ashes and clinkers had been ' dissolved.' Tradition
is here divided as to whether Booker used up a dozen
axes, or thawed the bell out with hot water ! "
The Bath Sentinel tells of three Freshmen who
recently took a buggy ride, during which they were
thrown out, then lost off the hind wheel, and finally
took an overturn. Who were they?
Prof. Robinson has moved into his new residence.
The pious Senior now elects Bible study on the
partial ground that he can plug it Sunday without
injuring his conscience.
A Bowdoin man in the Kennebec Journal had an
interesting article about the college, and of the Bruns-
wick society says: "Sjieaking of Brunswick girls,
quite a number of them have married college boys in
the year past, and despite the generally accepted idea
that they often got the class harum scarums, I must
confess my belief that these matches have often been
happy ones. Perhaps the girls learned to know the
true manhood of boys ahead of their classmates. At
any rate most of the old time harum scarums who
have found life partners in the good old town of
Biunswick have settled down into pretty substantial
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men, and this is largely due, T think, to the influence
of those same Brunswick girls. The advantages were
mutual, the choice mutual, and hence the happiness
was mutual. By the way, isn't this always the case
when the young people arrange such matters for
themselves ? "
It is announced that the Faculty agreed not to
p/ace the number of prayers and church cuts on last
term's rank bills. This, together with the fifteen
rule, apparently means the utmost latitude in this
direction, and also suggests that prayers should be
made either optional or absolutely required, fairly
and squarely.
Mr. Geo. L. Thompson of Brunswick, ex-'77, and
brother of Thompson, '92, has been appointed on
Gov. Burleigh's staff.
Prof. Little has sent out a preliminary listof Bow-
doin men in the war, which, when revised and cor-
rected, will be placed on the new bronze tablets for
Memorial Hall. There are three hundred names.
It is hoped to have the list complete by February 1st.
Rev. E. C. Guild is giving at his church a series
of Sunday evening lectures on the Christian Graces
in Social Life. Topics: January 13th — Cheerfulness;
20th — Courtesy ; 27th — Hospitality ; February 3d —
Conversation, I. ; 10th — Conversation, II.
"Who were the six men who went out of the Senior
gallery, just before the benediction, last Sunday?
'40. — Rev. James Parte-
low Weston, D.D., died in
3ring, after a very severe attack of
rheumatic gout. Dr. Weston was
born in Bremen, in July, 1815, and was
therefore in his seventy-fourth year. He
graduated from Bowdoin College in the
class of 1840, and among his classmates were Ezra
Abbott, Alex. H. Abbott, Professor W. S. Blanchard,
Isaiah Dole, Rev. Elijah Kellogg, William Pitt Preble,
Rev. Dr. Edward Robie, Professor J. B. Soule, John
K. True— who was principal of Westbrook Seminary
at one time— and Dr. A. G. Upham. After gradua-
tion he taught a select school in Readfield for a time,
and then became principal of the Liberal Institute, a
Universalist institution in Waterville. Meanwhile,
having directed his studies with reference to the min-
istrj', he began to preach in the Institute, and in 1842
was ordained at the session of the Maine convention
of Uuiversalists held in Augusta. In 1843 he ac-
cepted a call from the society of that faith in Gorham,
where he remained until 1850. He then resumed
the position that he had held in Waterville until the
winter of 1853, when he accepted the charge of the
Westbrook Seminai-y, which, by his energetic and
personal effort, was raised from a depressed condition
to one of comparative prosperity. In 1859 Dr. Wes-
ton was invited to the presidency of Lombard Uni-
versity, Galesburg, 111. Here, again, he exhibited,
as is reported, " marked executive and financial abil-
ities," and was successful during twelve years of
service in securing for the institution patronage and
relief. In 1872, having retired from the presidency,
he became principal of Dean Academ}', Franklin,
Mass., and remained there until 1877, when he re-
tired for needed rest. In 1878 he accepted the presi-
dency of Westbrook Seminary and Female College,
which, under his successful management, took upon
itself renewed strength and growth, and. now stands
on a firm footing and holds a high place among the
educational institutions of New England. Dr. Wes-
ton received from Tufts College the degree of D.D.
in 1864. His death leaves a gap in the Universalist
denomination that it will not be easj' to fill. He was
a man of marked ability, of aft'ectionate disposition,
and great strength of character. He gained not
only the respect but also the love of his pupils
and teachers, and his success in building up the
institutions with which he was connected bears testi-
mony to the fact. — Portland Press.
The success of Dr. Weston as a teacher and man-
ager in our denominational schools, especially at
Westbrook Seminary, constitutes a noble and lasting
monument to his memory. Thousands have been
under his instruction, and by him the love of study
has been awakened or quickened in hundreds of
minds. From all over the land would come warm
tributes of respect and gratitude to their former
teacher and friend could the many he has benefited
openly express their feelings toward him. — Oospel
Banner.
'44.— Dr. Thomas J W. Pray, of Dover, N. H.,
died Sunday, December 11, 1888, leaving a wife and
two children. He was born in l^ebanon, Maine,
September 2, 1819. He was graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1844 and began the study of medicine with
Dr. J. W. Jewett of South Berwick, but afterwards
went to New York, were he completed his education
under Prof. E. R. Peaslee. The degree of M.D. was
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conferred upon him at Harvard in 1848. He then
located in Dover, in which place he has practiced
ever since. In 1850 he was chosen President of the
New Hampshire Medical Society, and gave a noted
address upon diphtheria, which attracted the atten-
tion of professional men all over the country. He
was President of the Dover Medical Association, and
also of the Strafford District Medical Society many
years. He was for twenty years connected with the
public schools of Dover, and was State Commissioner
of Education in 1858 and 1859. He was a member
of the City Government four years just after the war,
and for three years President of the City Council.
Dr. Pray has sent two sons to Bowdoin College ; one,
James, graduated in 74, and Thomas M. graduated
in 78.
'49. — Hon. Joseph Williamson, A.M., of Belfast,
has been elected a Vice-President of the New Eng-
land Historic-Genealogical Society.
'87. — E. T. Little has entered the Boston Univer-
sity Law School.
'87. — M. H. Boutelle has been admitted into the
law firm of Boardman, Lancaster & Boutelle, Min-
neapolis, Minn.
'87. — It is reported that Chas. J. Goodwin is do-
ing excellent work at Johns Hopkins. He lately
read a paper before the Philological Society upon an
Indian manuscript.
'88. — All Bowdoin students should read the last
December number of the Youtli's Companion, since
it contains an excellent story written by Albert W.
Tolman of '88. Both the style and narrative are
peculiarly easy, and we are confident that the Port-
land Press is true to the letter in remarking that Mr.
Tolman is " a young man of unmistakable talent."
BOWDOIN IN POLITICS. — CONGRESS.
'60. — The Washington correspondent of the Phil-
adelphia Times says: "The friends of Mr. Reed
have held several consultations during the recess
and have organized for an agressive contest for the
speakership, now that Congress has reassembled.
The attempt of the Western candidates to divide his
strength by inducing other Eastern candidates to
present themselves has been abandoned. The Massa-
chusetts delegation sat down so hard on Cabot Lodge
that he now disclaims having authorized the use of
his name. The only person whom the Western
candidates tried to induce to enter the race who had
any substantial backing was Colonel Tom Bayne."
STATE LEGISLATURE.
'77. — Rockland has a happy way of putting for-
ward her young men, probably because she has some
very bright young men to put forward. Mr. William
T. Cobb, whom she sends into the council for Knox
county this year is thirty-two years old, and looks
even younger. He was born in Rockland, and edu-
cated in the city schools, graduating from the High
school in 1873. He graduated from Bowdoin in '77,
and later studied law in Europe and at the Harvard
Law School. He then read law with Rice & Hall of
Rockland, and was admitted to the bar. He has never
practiced law, however. His father, Francis Cobb,
Esq., of Rockland, is one of the most prominent bus-
iness men of Maine; and as soon as the son finished
his education he at once entered into a share of the
management of the business. He is now a member
of the firm of Francis Cobb & Co., lime manufactur-
ers, and President of the Rockland Limerock Rail-
road Company, also a director of the Camden and
Rockland Water Company.
'79.— Hon. A. L. Lumbert, of Houlton, will be the
only lawyer around the boai'd of the new council, and
will be looked to for the legal advice. He was born
in Ripley, in Somerset County. He fitted for college
at Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, and graduated
at Bowdoin in the class of '79. After reading law
he was admitted to the Somerset bar. Removing to
Aroostook he at once began the practice of his pro-
fession. Mr. Lumbert is now the junior member of
the firm of Wilson & Lumbert, one of the leading
iirms of the county. Mr. Lumbert entered polities
first in the election of 1884 and was chosen at once
to the State Senate, rather an unusual promotion, as
Senators are quite often graduates from the House.
Mr. Lumbert was re-elected in 1886, and in the Sen-
ate of 1887 was a leading debater. He was also a
member of the judiciary committee. — Press.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall op Theta, a. k. E., ?
January 8, 1889. I
Whereas, It has been pleasing to an all-wise and
merciful Father to remove from our midst brother
Thomas J. W. Pray, of the class of 1844, a charter
member of Theta, and a fLUthful friend to the Fra-
ternity ;
Resolved, That the members of Theta, while
bowing in submission to the Divine Will, recognize
that in the death of their brother the \. K. E. Frater-
nity has met with a severe loss ;
Resolved, That this chapter extends to the friends
and relatives of the deceased its heartfelt sympathy;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent
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to the family of our lamented brother, and that they
be inserted in the Bowdoin Orient.
D. E. Owen,
T. S. B0RR,
W. E. Perkins,
For the Chapter.
The VVesleyan University has extended a call to
Dr. P. B. Raymond, of Lawrence University, to be-
come her pi'Bsident. He has accepted.
Harvard establishes a good custom in opening
the library four hours on Sundays.
Isaiah V. Williamson, of Philadelphia, has given
$3,000,000 to establish an industrial college in that
city. — Ex.
There's a metre dactylic, a metre spondaic,
There's a metre (or a laugh or a groan ;
There's still yet a metre, by no means prosaic,
'Tis to meet her — by moonlight alone. — Ex.
Sweet little maid, thou'rt fair to me
As morning light. Thy winsome lace
Would charm a cynic. But what grace,
What sweet simplicity I see
In thy deep courtesy.
My stiff and ceremonious bow
Is put to shame at what thou'st done.
Ah, I confess, my little one.
Too well my heart could tell thee how
I love thy courtesy. — Courani.
Somebody has been looking over Princeton's list
of graduates who have become prominent in public
life, and finds that it includes two signers of the De-
claration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates
to the Continental Congress, one President (Madi-
son), tvyo Vice-Presidents and five nominated as can-
didates, seventeen cabinet officers, one chief justice,
five associate justices, seventeen foreign ministers,
fifty-one senators, and one hundred and fifteen rep-
I'Bsentatives, besides two speakers of the House. — Ex.
The students of the Wisconsin University who
use tobacco, " have oi'ganized a tobacco society for
the sake of mutual protection." — Ex.
Princeton has a student seventy-two years of age.
He is studying for the ministry, and expects to grad-
uate next year. — Lehigh Burr.
At Amherst, the examination system has been en-
tirely abolished, and a series of written recitations
given at intervals throughout the year has been sub-
stituted.— The Beacon.
BOOK REVIEWS.
Traumereien, by Alphonse N. Van Daell. Deutsche
NovELLETTEN-BiBLiOTHEK, von Dr. Wilhelm Bern-
hardt. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co.; 1888.
These are two interesting collections of short
stories such as cannot fail to contribute toward making
the study of modern German attractive. They fur-
nish excellent material for private study. We are
gliid to note that there is a demand in America for
such a series of first-rate, annotated texts as Messrs.
D. C. Heath & Co. are issuing in rapid succession.
Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and
Language. With illustrations. Vol. 9; Club-Reed—
Cosmogony. New York: J. B. Alden; 1888. 12 mo..
Pp. Ho2. Same— Vol. 10. Cosm.— Debry. Pp. (125.
The issue of the tenth volume of this excellent
cyclopedia calls attention to the rapid progress which
the work is making. The publisher promised the
volumes at intervals of about one nionlh. He is of
late more than keeping his word. This recent in-
crease in the rate of publication is not at the expense
of the subject matter of the cyclopedia. The present
volumes are as satisfactory as those previously put
forth. Open at random at any page or look for
almost any subject, and concise, accurate information
meets the eye.
RECEIVED.
Testa — A Book for Boys. By Paolo Mantegazza.
D. C. Heath ; 188l».
Notes on the Early Training of Children. By
Mrs. Frank Malleson. D. C. Heath ; 1887.
NOTES.
Teachers of English Literature will be glad to
learn that Mr. A. J. George, who edited WordsworUi's
Prelude so acceptably, has in preparation to be pub-
lished early in 1889, "Selected Poems of Words-
worth," comprising Lyrics, Sonnets, Odes, and Nar-
rative Poems, such as are requisite for a tliorough
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understanding of the genius of the great poet. They
■will be found especially helpful in connection with
the study of "The Prelude," while of themselves
representative of the poet's best work. With the
exception of the Sonnets, which are grouped accord-
ing to subjects, they will be arranged in chronolog-
ical order. In the matter of annotation only such
material will be furnished as the pupil would not be
likely to find elsewhere.
The "Fundamental Orders" of Connecticut,
adopted at Hartford in 1638 by a general convention
of the planters of the three towns of Hartford, Wind-
sor, and Wethersfield, form the first written constitu-
tion, in the modern sense of the term, known in
history, " and certainly," says Johnston, in his new
volume on Connecticut, " the first American constitu-
tion of government to embody the democratic idea."
"It is on tbe banks of the Connecticut," says John-
ston, "under the mighty preaching of Thomas
Hooker and in the constitution to which he gave life
if not form, that we draw the first breath of that
atmosphere which is now so familiar to us." The
Directors of the Old South Studies in History and
Politics have just added this famous old Connecticut
constitution to their new general series of Old South
Leaflets, which are published by D. C. Heath & Co.
These Old South Leaflets, which are sold for only
five cents a copy, are the means of bringing a great
number of important original documents into the
service of historical students and of the general
public, which is happily more interested in history,
and especially in our own American history, than it
has ever been before. This general series of Old
South Leaflets now includes the following subjects:
The Constitution of the United States, the Articles
of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence,
Washington's Farewell Address, Magna Charta,
Vane's "Healing Question," Charter of Massachus-
etts Bay, 1629, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,
1638, Franklin's Plan of Union, 17.54, Washington's
Inaugurals, Lincoln's Inaugurals and Emancipation
Proclamation, The Federalist, Nos. 1 and 2, The
Ordinance of 1787, The Constitution of Ohio. The
new Leaflet, like the preceding numbers, is accom-
panied by useful historical and bibliographical notes.
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BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 30, 1889.
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No. 13.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 13.- January 30, 1889.
College Days, 173
Editorial Notes, 173
The Peucinian and Athensean Societies 175
Bowdoin Alumni of Portland, 177
Grinding, 178
President Hyde's Sermon at Harvard 179
CoLLEGii Tabula, 179
Personal, 181
College World 182
Book Reviews, 183
COLLEGE DAYS.
As when the fleecy cloud, upon a morn.
Brings, dove like, to our view its silvery breast.
And borne through azure paths, from out the west.
Sinks soft and silent in the home of dawn.
So, in life's path where cares, dire and forlorn.
Besiege the lives of all, yea, e'en the best;
Glide on our student days, so richly blest
With joy, while troublous care is put to scorn.
Yes, in the morning of our life their birth
Tliey take, and joyously move on their way;
And thoughtless of the common cares of earth
Pass quickly by and end their fleeting stay : —
Nor sink fore'er, but soon, witli goodlier worth.
Find sunlit day, though busier in array.
A man who has spent four jeavs in
Bowdoin College, if he is at all observing,
cannot but be amazed at the singular and
harmful barrenness of certain phases of our
college life. His own experience will con-
firm the fact that Bowdoin students have
got into an extremely lethargic state as re-
gards some matters. For instance, there is
nut a single organization in college, 'outside
of the various Greek letter fraternities, of a
literary character. There is not a single
organization in college of a scientific char-
acter. So far as we know there is not a
body of men in college who are trying by
organized effort to supplement the regular
college work by personal investigation. In
a place supposed to be devoted to literary
work this is an astonishing condition of
things.
Of course the various chapters of the
Greek letter fraternities fill this need to a
certain extent, but we have reason to believe
that they do not do the work as thoroughly
as they are supposed to.
In looking over our exchanges we see
notices of societies formed for literary, sci-
entific, economic, and philosophical study.
College weeklies and monthlies are supported
by the college as a whole, evincing an in-
terest in them beyond the mere payment of
subscriptions. Compare this state of things
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with that existing here and you must be
struck by the immense difference.
Of course there are men in college who,
as separate individuals, are pursuing some
course of study outside of, or supplementary
to, that marked out by the curriculum. But
it must be acknowledged that a body of men
working together towards a common end can
accomplish more than one ; that they can be
helpful to each other ; that an interchange
of thought and methods of working are ben-
eficial. A man can enter into a discussion
of points brought out by his work to better
advantage, in many cases, with his classmates
than with his instructors, simply because the
feeling of restraint and inferiority which
always exists in the latter case is eliminated
in the former.
Some one may ask, what is the cause of
this deadened condition of things? If we
were to answer the question according to
our best knowledge and belief we should say
that it was to be found in the social life of
the students, in the way in which the spare
hours are passed. The amount of time that
is wasted, and often worse than wasted, would
be astonishing to one who was not acquainted
with it. Hours are spent in conversation
that does not rise above the level of pure
gossip. To this source alone may be traced
much of the inactivity which exists in col-
lege.
Now we do not inveigh against sociabil-
ity. We would not for a moment declare
that all the social evenings which we spend
in pleasant converse with our friends are
harmful. We would not take away the
social element from our college life. But it
should be subordinated to the end for which
we are here. It should not be the end
itself.
We do not admit that the students of
this college are unusually lazy. We do not
believe it. But they have got into a habit of
letting things go, of drifting with the stream,
of relying too much on the name of Bowdoin
to do what only personal work can accom-
plish.
We look with pride on the long list of
Bowdoin's eminent alumni. We read with
admiration the proud record of her past.
But we must not forget that we live in the
-present, and that if Bowdoin's future is to
be as honored and brilliant as her past some
tithe of the responsibility rests on us indi-
vidually. If we would have the Bowdoin
of the future reap the full measure of success
we must change and reform in certain direc-
tions the Bowdoin of to-day. The time has
passed, if indeed it ever existed, when a col-
lege can make progress or even hold its own
without effort; and when its Faculty has
done all that it can there is a vast amount
that its students can do.
If we have spoken strongly and at con-
siderable length, it is because, in our opinion,
the subject demands it. It is in the hope,
but hardly the expectation, that we may
rouse Bowdoin men to a clearer realization
of the obligations resting upon them, and
that they will not allow their love for the
college to degenerate into a blind idolatry
that sees no defects and therefore no oppor-
tunities for improvement.
Why can't we have some more chairs in
the reading-room? At present the seating
capacity of the room is miserably insufficient.
That aged and infirm settee ought to be
placed on the retired list and enough chairs
put in to accommodate those who patronize
the reading-room. An extra light would
not be amiss, and if the stove could be pol-
ished once in awhile it might help out the
light of the room.
The first number of the Oollegian has
been received. It is published by the Inter-
collegiate Press Association, edited by Sam-
uel Abbott. It is a monthly magazine of
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one hundred pages, devoted to college inter-
ests, and will be found interesting and ably
conducted in all its departments.
It has been placed on file in the library
with the other magazines, and we can rec-
ommend it to those who are in search of
good reading.
THE PEUCINIAN AND ATHENiEAN
SOCIETIES.
II. — THE ATHENiEAN.
The record of the Athensean at Bowdoin
is, in many respects, quite as remarkable as
that of the Peucinian, considering the fact
that the Peucinian enjoyed a continuous ex-
istence from the foundation to the time of its
death, while the Athentean suffered from
two dissolutions, internal dissensions, and
two fires which nearly destroyed its library,
at both times, besides having a powerful
lival to contend with in the Peucinian.
The Athenaean society dates back to
June, 1808, and was founded, if the Peucin-
ian report is to be believed, by a dissatisfied
member of that society and one or two asso-
ciates who united their forces, with men from
the three upper classes, and formed a society
in direct opposition to the Peucinian. This
was the Athensean.
The founders were energetic, to say the
least, and knew how to make the most of an
opportunity, for they immediately gained a
point on the Peucinian by admitting Fresh-
men. By this move they secured all but one
man in the first Freshman class to which they
offered elections, so that the society soon
had a larger membership than the Peucinian.
But the latter was older and more powerful,
and after the excitement of organization
there was a relapse, a decline in interest, and
the Athensean died a natural death in 1811;
the library which had been collected being
distributed among the members.
For the next two years the Peuciniaa
was alone in its glory, but, in 1813, a small
number of students reorganized the society,
the old seal and records were obtained, and
the Athensean was again in existence. The,
collection of another library was immediately
commenced, and the society soon appeared
to be in a better condition than ever. But
the Peucinian was too strong a rival, and,
from a complication of troubles, the Athe-
nsean was again broken up in 1816 ; the
library, which at that time contained some
two hundred volumes, being distributed as
before.
For another year the Peucinian was alone
in the field. But in December, 1817, the
Athensean was again resuscitated, and started
on its long and useful career.
The records of August 29, 1818, first
mention the organization of a General So-
ciety, which was to have control of the
society property. Its first meeting was held
September 2d of that year, when officers
were elected ; Levi Stowell, '15, being the
first President, and it was voted that the
library should not be distributed without
the consent of three-fourths of the honorary
members.
About this time, through a desire to in-
crease its membership, which was probably
less than the Peucinian, the society adopted
the novel custom, after requiring a promise
of secrecy, of reading parts of the constitu-
tion to those whom they invited to join.
This scheme, not being very successful, was
not continued long.
In 1820 the society was in a very flour-
ishing condition. The constitution was re-
vised, and the custom of electing honorary
members established. The library at this
time is said to have contained five hundred
volumes.
On March 4, 1822, the library was much
damaged by the burning of Maine Hall.
This was undoubtedly a great misfortune to
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the society. We infer as much, from the
simple but touching entry in the records of
that time, by the Secretary of the College
Society, "Bowdoin College was consumed
by fire."
In 1828 the society obtained from the
Legislature an act of incorporation, and at
the annual meeting, on September 28th, the
constitution was revised and a diploma and
seal adopted. The diploma was nothing but
a certificate of membership with the seal of
the society upon it. On the seal was the
head of Athene with the words Athengean
Society, B. C, Cul. Su. Sci. Cor., the last
being the abbreviation of its motto, CuUores
Suos Scientia Coronal.
The rivalry between the Peucinian and
Athengean had by this time increased to such
an extent, that, in 1831, the college author-
ities began to fear that it would seiiously
affect the harmony of the student body ;
and a committee was appointed from the
Trustees and Overseers to investigate the
state of affairs, and report to those Boards.
The committee reported in substance that
they had visited the college, interviewed the
four classes in a body, and committees from
both societies ; that they had tried to per-
suade them to lay aside their party feeling,
and to unite their societies or libraries, or to
allow their oi'gaiiizations to become extinct;
and they reported in addition that these sug-
gestions had been rejected by the students
and societies. The matter was soon dropped,
and the societies continued to flourish in
their own way.
On February 17, 1836, the library of the
Athenaean was almost entirely destroyed by
the second burning of Maine Hall, and out
of three thousand two hundred and twenty-
one volumes, only two hundred and twenty
were saved.
Immediately after the fire, which also
destroyed the constitution and records as
well as the library, the society began to take
active measures for reorganizing, and obtain-
ing a new library. Both the alumni and
active members responded generously, and
the Peucinian extended the use of its library,
as was mentioned. A catalogue of the
library, in 1838, showed over two thousand
volumes on its shelves.
In 1840 the anniversary exercises were
changed from November to February, and
later they were held in the spring. The
year after the society started a reading-room,
but it was only continued about a year. In
1846 a cameo cut with the head of Athene
was adopted as a badge pin.
The good feeling between the two socie-
ties was so far restored, that, in 1850, they
agreed to unite in the celebration of their
anniversaries. Each society having the Ora-
tor or Poet on alternate years. In 1852 the
constitution was thoroughly revised, the date
of the foundation of the society was changed
from 1817, to that of the first organization,
1808, and the affirmation of secrecy was
abolished.
In 1858 internal dissension arose in the
society over some amendment to the consti-
tution, which, for a time, threatened the
society with dissolution. The society was
divided into two factions, each being sup-
ported by prominent members of the Gen.
eral Society, and for a year both parties held
their meetings separately ; however they
soon united and peace was restored.
The society published a series of triennial
catalogues from 1844 to 1858. In the front
of the catalogue of 1844, there is a wood cut
representing a shield, on which is a front
view of the Parthenon, with the letters, C. S.
S. C, above, and the date, 1817, below. In the
catalogues of 1856 and 1858 there is a brief his-
tory of the society, to which the writer is in-
debted for much of his information. Among
the illustrious Athenseans can be mentioned
William Pitt Fessenden, Franklin Pierce,
Jonathan P. Cilley, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
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ex-Governor Garcelon, Professor Goodwin,
ex-Governor Robie, and Bishop Spaulding.
The writer has been able to obtain but
little information in regard to the last years
of the Athensean. In fact little can be said
of them except that they were, like those of
the Peucinian, a steady decline. Perhaps a
few items from the local columns of the Ori-
ent will show its condition during that crit-
ical period, as well as anything.
The Orient of November 11, 1874, con-
tains the following: "The Athensean Society
had their initiation last week with the usual
ceremony. The delegation, consisting of
one man, was not large, but is said to con-
tain good stock, and it is thought that great
unanimity will prevail throughout it." From
the Orient of November 3, 1875 : " Alum-
nus— ' Has the Athentean Society taken in
any Freshmen yet?' Student — 'No, the
Freshmen are too bright to be taken in by
any such means.' " The Orient of May 10,
1876, says: "The Athensean Society has re-
newed the insurance upon its library until
July next. It is only a fire insurance policy,
however." This last probably refers to the
stealing of books from the library, from
which the Athensean, as well as the Peucin-
ian, suffered. In the Bugle of 1879 the lone
initiate of the Athentean, referred to above,
who by that time was a Senior, being the
only member of the societj^, was mentioned
under the Athensean, in the capacity of
every officer of the society. At the next
Commencement the library was given to the
college, and the Athensean ceased to be.
BOWDOIN ALUMNI OF PORTLAND
HAD THEIR TWENTIETH ANNUAL DINNER AT THE
FALMOUTH, THURSDAY NIGHT.
At the Falmouth, on the evening of Jan-
uary 24th, there was a pleasant gatliering
of the Bowdoin alumni. A lai'ge number of
old college boys were present, and laughed
and chatted over the pranks of their boy-
hood days. The following officers were
elected: President, Charles B. Merrill; Vice-
Presidents, Nathan Cleaves, George F.
Emery, A. F. Moulton, J. W. Symonds;
Secretary, Philip G. Brown; Treasurer, F.
S. Waterhouse ; Poet, A. W. Tolman ; Ora-
tor, A. F. Moulton; Toast-Master, O. M.
Lord.
After the business meeting the guests
marched to the private banquet hall,' where
they found everything in readiness, and
where a fine menu was prepared.
Hon. George F. Emery, who presided in
the absence of Col. Charles B. Merrill, pres-
ident of the association, opened the after
dinner remarks with a fine speech. He was
followed by Judge Waterman, who delivered
a fine oration on " College Friendships."
Mr. F. O. Conant then read a humorous
poem.
Mr. E. G. Spring officiated as toast-master,
and the toasts were responded to in the order
given below :
Bowdoin College— Response by President 'Wm. DeWitt
Hyde.
The Faculty — Response by Prof. F. C. Robinson.
The United States — Response by Hon. Wm. L. Putnam.
The State of Maine — Response by A. L. Lumbert.
The Ci(?/— Hesponse by V. C. Wilson.
The C'teriy!/— Response by Rev. Dr. E. C. Cnmmings.
The Medical Profession— Response by Dr. C. A. Baker.
The Legal Pro/ession— Response by Frank S. Water-
house.
Mr. George A. Thomas then sang " Here's
a Health to Thee, Tom Bree," in a pleasing
manner.
Votes of thanks were passed to the speak-
ers of the evening, to the executive commit-
tee, and to the dinner committee, and at
about midnight the pleasant gathering broke
up.
Among those present were the follow-
ing : President Wm. DeWitt Hyde, of Bow-
doin, Prof. F. C. Robinson, Hon. Wm. L.
Putnam, S. Clifford Belcher, Philip Henry
Brown, Joseph A. Locke, George F. Holmes,
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Rev. E. C. Cuitimings, Thomas Tash, Clar-
ence Hale, Dr.C. A. Ring, Dr. Geo. H. Cara-
mings, F. H. Little, Dr. C. O. Hunt, A. F.
Moulton, D. W. Snow, A. W. Merrill, E. C.
Evans, A. L. Lumbert, Dr. C. A. Baker,
George T. McQuillan, Seth L. Larrabee, R.
D. Woodman, Charles W. Pickard, Bion Wil-
son, George A. Thomas, Dr. C. A. Webster,
F. S. Waterhouse, Ira S. Locke, E. G. Spring,
Fred 0. Conant, V. C. Wilson, E. S. Osgood,
George S. Payson, H. P. Kendall, J. A. Wa-
terman, A. W. Tolman, Dr. C. E. Webster,
J. A. Waterman, Jr;, Dr. H. H. Hunt, Philip
G. Brown, George F. Emery, A. W. Perkins,
E. A. Thomas.
GRINDING.
Every one has probably observed upon
the bottom of some rapid stream a bed of
pebbles all rounded and polished, and bear-
ing in size and form a close resemblance
to each other. Those pebbles have been
"ground"; not upon the wheel of the lapi-
dary, but by contact with one another. If,
by chance, the passer-by tosses in a handful
of others with ugly projections, they are
forthwith "ground" in their turn. If some
one of them happens to possess a spot of par-
ticularly hard, flinty material it is subjected
to a good deal of bounding and rolling, and
is perhaps never wholly polished; and if on
the other hand, some others are of particu-
larly soft, brittle, or unstable consistency,
they immediately find that it would be much
better for them not to clash with their re-
lentless fellows. In some instances this
process is unsatisfactory and detrimental, for
general rules are always apt to bear hard
upon specific cases; but the result is gener-
ally a very uniform, attractive, and har-
monious layer. There is, however, one im-
portant thing to be noticed about this
"grinding" process, namely, that while ex-
ternally the pebbles became similar, their
material is not changed ; in other words, it
does not destroy their individuality.
The above illustration is, in its general
details, a representation of college life; char-
acters of every conceivable variety are
thrown into intimate relations with one
another and any inconsistencies or disagree-
able characteristics that one may possess are
sure to be either eradicated or, at least, ren-
dered less objectionable.
The ease with which the college gradu-
ate adapts himself to social relations, and
gets around in the world is largely due to
the personal contact of his college course.
If he is a physician he knows how to take
people ; if he is a clergyman he can judge
human nature and conform to the various
idiosyncrasies of his parishioners ; if he is a
business man he learns to submit to the
tedious questions of patrons and the incon-
veniences of his station. The college grad-
uate is a symmetrica] character. He may
have been conceited but the boys " got on to
him "; he may have been surly, but he found
that he inspired no fear ; he may have been a
bigot, but he discovered that among educated
and alert men bigots were below par. His
college fellows were quick to observe his
peculiarities, and by no means modest in
mentioning them. After he has completed
his college course and has rolled his sheep-
skin under his arm, he looks back upon this
embarrassment and upon that indignity, upon
this struggle and upon that joke, sees how
his views have been modified and broadened,
says they were the happiest and most profit-
able days of his life, and thanks the good
fortune that ever sent him there. For our
own good, then, let us "grind" and be
"ground."
President Capen of Tufts recommends tliat tuition
be made free. He adds that to make .such a policy
safe, however, would require $100,000, or at least
$50,000 of additional scholarship funds.
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PRESIDENT HYDE'S SERMON AT
HARVARD.
We cliiD the following from the Crimson
of January 21st :
Last evening a very large number of people
attended the service at Appleton Chapel. Presi-
dent Hyde of Bowdoin College was the preacher.
He based his discourse upon the text, "Except a man
be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God"
(St. John iii : 3). ]\Ian cannot experience more than
he is. We cannot feel the blessings of God and the
joy of His presence in our lives unless we, iu what-
ever walks of life we be, lay aside selfish aims and
devote ourselves to His glorification by making every
work a deed of love to Him. A man of good moi-ality
alone, and a man who follovvs the course of some
ethical institution, which perhaps jars against his
nature, and stirs no religious feeling in his heart —
these men are far from regeneration ; man must have
the religious feeling of the Almighty Omnipotence,
and if he truly gives himself up to the Almighty, he
will ultimately, though not without eftbrt, see the
kingdom of God.
Editorially the Crimson says :
We wish that every student in the university
might have heard President Hyde's sermon in Ap-
pleton Chapel last evening, not so much for the point
of view taken by the speaker, as for the nobility and
earnestness of his thought. It was a grand sermon,
benefiting all who listened to it.
A QUESTION IN PHYSICS.
They were seated in the moonlight,
By the sea upou the sand;
Under variable pressure
He was holding her soft hand.
As in her bright eyes reflected
Sees he Cupid's fatal signs,
On the sand in contemplation
He draws isothermal lines.
On his lips the question trembles:
" Can you tell me, little dove,
What's the value of this couple? "
And she answers promptly, "Love."
Oiiicers of the Athletic Association for the ensuing
year were elected January 17th. President, W. R.
Smith; first Vice-President, F. E. Parker; second
Vice-President, E. B. Young; Secretary-Treasurer,
T. R. Croswell ; Master of Ceremonies, Field Day,
O. W. Turner; Directors, H. H. Hastings, F. E.
Dennett, W. M. Hilton, F. M. Tukey, Geo. Downes.
Dr. Gerrish of the medical Faculty is passing the
vyinter in California, recuperating his health. His
chair will be filled by Lyman Bartlett How, M.D.,
Professor of Anatomy in the Dartmouth Medical Col-
lege. The opening lecture of the course, which was
to have been by Dr. Gerrish, will be delivered by Dr.
Mitchell.
Thirty-five members of '89 are now in college,
and all except Watts elect English Literature.
Twenty-one have chosen Bible study, and twelve
take Chemistry. Elden, Files, and Stacey are read-
ing Heine, and Merrill is working on Practical
Physics.
An upright piano has been placed in the gymna-
sium. Certain ones find it hard work to keep time to
the music.
It was three Fi-enchmen and not Freshmen, who
went on that racket three weeks ago, the Bath Sen-
tinel rises to explain.
Harriman, '89, has left college owing to a trouble
with his eyes.
An organization of Knight Templars was formed
last week at Bowdoin.
Mr. Raz IManson, ex-'89, has gone into a new
departure at Oakland. His " ad " apjsears elsewhere
in this issue. He has unusual facilities for prose-
cuting the work, and we bespeak for him the gen-
erous patronage of his Bowdoin friends.
To-morrow the Rev. Geo. M. Howe of Lewiston
will address the students in Memorial Hall, it being
the Day of Prayer for Colleges.
Sporting event. Wednesday, January 15th, George
Xenophanes Seco attempted to walk twenty miles in
five hours on a wager of one dollar. Mr. Whittier
sent him from the running track after he had covered
six miles in one hour and fifteen minutes. "Whisker"
was rewarded by a treat at Bilfield's. It is reported
that "Whisker" said if he got "near-sighted" he
should walk half the course during the first hour.
An Associated Press dispatch from Brunswick relates
that a Bowdoin Freshman says there is more or less hazing
practiced at the college. The favorite sport, he states, is
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ducking. The young man himself has not been troubled
as yet, but, having taken legal advice, says he carries a
revolver in his hip pocket, and should any of the boys
attempt to duck him they will get a substantial taste of
lead. — Bath Times.
It is surprising that some of the State papers,
perhaps Lo "feed fat an ancient grudge" they bear,
continue to publish such poppj-cock nbout the college.
Hazing at Bowdoin died out with old Phi Chi years
ago, and the student jury has a most salutary effect
on the boys' behavior. It would be interesting to
know what lawyer has given any Freshman advice to
carry concealed weapons. This is an offense ex-
pressly forbidden by the Revised Statutes of Maine,
1883, Chap. 130, Sec. 10.
A Freshman stepped up to Mr. Whittier at the
closa.of the gymnastic exercises the other day, and
innocently asked, " Do you wish us to go and take a
bath now, sir ? "
The Seniors taking Bible study are each required
to prei^are an essay on some topic connected with the
historical setting of the Life of Christ. These are
read before the class. At the end of the term each
man is to hand in a somewhat elaborate thesis cover-
ing his investigations in Gospel study.
Ever since the gymnasium has been built the
Orient has clamored for better protection to users
of the running track. As it is now, the one rail is
insufficient to prevent a man, in case of a stumble,
from rolling off twenty feet to the floor below. No
other gymnasium that we have seen has a track
which so exposes one to danger. When a neck or
some limbs are broken there will probably be a
great rush to nail on a few extra rails. There is an
old story of a man who very sensibly locked the
stable door every night — after his horse had been
stolen.
Thomas Joseph Ward of Lewiston is taking a
special course here. He is to go on the Glee Club.
The Seniors are being taught fencing by Mr.
Whittier.
The regular sale of the reading-room papers
occurred Saturday, January 19th. One fellow caused
some amusement by buying half a dozen country
weeklies " for his chum." The lowest bid was
4 cents, for the Union Signal, and the highest 40 for
the Scienlific American. The total proceeds were
$4.79.
Two Juniors were into Brackett's buying a pair of
suspenders. Some friends stopped lo look in through
the window and guy them. Others joined the guyers,
and a throng of townspeople and students finally
collected on (he sidewalk. The excitement was
intense. Suddenly the crowd found itself sold, and
with a " whoop !" separated while two tired '90 men
emerged from the store.
The gymnasium director was expostulating with
a man who had not complied with the rule in regard
to flannel shirt, belt, and slippers. " You'd better
change your clothes I think, sir." " O, I do. Twice
a year."
Jarvis, '91, and Nickerson, M. S., took part in a
Howells farce given in aid of the Town Library,
January 21st.
Gahan, '87, is in town on a vacation.
The Balh Sentinel has a lengthy description of
Prof. Robinson's new residence, which it terms "A
House of Eight Gables."
The Freshman gymnasium ofiicers : Captain,
F. G. Swett; lirst Squad Leader, R. W. Mann;
second, E. H. Wilson.
First-class theatrical attractions are being given
in Lewiston, Portland, and Bath just at present. Of
the students who went to Lewiston to see Johnson
and Slavin's minstrels the Oazette said "they were
chiefly remarkable for their cape overcoats." Wonder
if that reporter just came out of the woods?
Coding, '91, is canvassing in South Carolina.
A preliminary programme of the celebration of
Brunswick's centennial, to occur Thursday, June
13th, has been published. Rev. Prof. Charles Car-
roll Everett, D.D., '60, will deliver the oration, and
Prof. Chapman the poem. A procession will em-
brace, in its second division, the Faculty and students
of Bowdoin College. It is suggested on the campus
that the boys make special exertions to have this an
interesting feature.
The following inquiries have been handed us :
WHO
Ever heard of counting twos from the left of a military
line?
Of '89 dropped his hat when bowing to a lady acquaints
ance a week ago Monday evening?
Of '92 wore his hat for a whole hour in the library one
day?
Of '90 searched for Scott's novels under American Lit-
erature ?
Phi Delta Theta is trying to establish a chapter
here.
The Boston Herald not long since contained an
interview with H. A. Johnson of Boston, an expert
steeple climber who had been painting the Old South
spire. Mr. Johnson has a secret arrangement for
attaching ropes to the top of a tower, and can ascend
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even the highest without the aid of a scaffolding. He
does all his climbing aftei- dark. He stated he had
had jobs in Rhode Island, New York Citj', and Maine.
Some one calls this signiticant in view of certain
events occuiTing here a year ago last fall.
Elden, '89, recently gave an enjoyable whist party
at his home iu Waterville to some Bowdoin and
Colby friends.
Thompson, '91, took part in a drama at Freeport
last Thursday night.
Prof. Pease has issued an announcement of " The
Students' Series of Latin Classics" which has been
under his editorial supervision for the past year.
The books are to be published by Leach, Shewell,
and Sanborn, Boston and New York. Prof. Pease
was in Boston during the vacation making arrange-
ments concerning publication. The names of the
series follow. Other volumes are likely to be issued.
Mr. Hiram Tuell is a graduate of Bowdoin, '69.
Catullus, Selections. By Thomas B. Lindsay, Ph.D.,
Professor in Boston University.
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, Books I. and II. By
Harry T. Peck, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor in Columbia
University.
Cicero, De Orators, Book I. By W. B. Owen, Ph.D.,
Professor in Lafayette College.
Cicero, Select Letters. By Professor Pease.
Horace, Odes and Epodes. By Paul Shorey, Ph.D.,
Professor iu Bryn Mawr College.
Horace, Satires and Epistles. By James H. Kirkland,
Ph.D., Professor in Vanderbilt University.
Livy, Books XXI. and XXII. By John K. Lord,
A.M., Professor iu Dartmouth College.
Petronius, Cena Trimalcliionis. By W. E. Waters,
Ph.D., Classical Instructor, Cincinnati.
Plautus, Menaechmi. By Harold N. Fowler, Ph.D.,
Professor in Phillips Exeter Academy.
Sallust, Catiline. By Charles G. Herbermann, Ph.D.,
LL.D., Professor iu the College of the City of New York.
Seneca, Select Letters. By E. C. Winslow, A.M., Pro-
fessor in Wabash College.
Tacitus, Germania and Agricola. By A. G. Hopkins,
Ph.D., Professor in Hamilton College.
Tacitus, Histories. By Edward H. Spieker, Ph.D.,
Professor in the Johns Hopkins University.
Tibullus and Propertius, Selections. By Henry F.
Burton, A.M., Professor in the University of Rochester.
A First Book in Latin. By Hiram Tuell, A.M., Prin-
cipal of the Milton High School, Mass.
Exercises in Latin Composition, for Schools. By M.
Grant Daniell, A.M., principal of Chauncy-Hall School,
Boston.
Through inadvertence the programme of the
Sophomore Prize Declamati(m of December 20th was
omitted from our last. Given furnished the music.
Jordan, Burleigh, and Parker were the committee.
The judges, Professors Robinson and Little and Mr.
Barrett Potter, '78, awarded the first prize to Hilton,
the second to Bangs. Following is the order of
exercises :
MUSIC.
Character of Bacon. — Macaulay.
Charles S. Wright, Portland.
The Unknown Speaker.— Anon.
Harry DeF. Smith, Gardiner.
The Black Horse and his Rider. — Sheppard.
Lewis A. Burleigh, Augusta.
MUSIC
Washington.— Daniel. Gould A. Porter, Strong.
The Soldier of the Empire. — Payne.
Albert K. Newman, East Wilton.
An Hour witli Victory.— Ostrander.
Dennis M. Bangs, Waterville.
MUSIC
The Martyred President. — Beecher.
Emerson Hilton, Damariscotta.
The Volunteer Soldier. — Ingersoll.
Warren L. Foss, North Leeds.
Toussaint L'Ouverture.— Phillips.
Ivory C. Jordan, Auburn.
MUSIC
Forefathers' Day. — Long. Jon. P. Cilley, Jr., Rockland.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei.— Lovejoy.
Fred E. Parker, Deering.
The Chariot Race.— Lew Wallace.
Henry W. Jar vis, Auburn.
MUSIC
Awarding of Prizes.
'50.— Hon. Wm. P. Frye
has again been elected Sen-
ator from Maine. In the House the
vote stood 121 for Frye (rep.) to 25
for Harris M. Plaisted (dem). In the Senate
the vote was unanitiious. Bowdoin Colleo'e,
as well as the entire State of Maine, is proud of this
distinguished son. And well may that be said, since
in point of statesmanship and diplomatic skill, Hon.
Wm. P. Frye finds his equal in few men.
'66. — Much regret is felt at the illness of Dr.
Henry Gerrish of Portland, and his temporary loss
will be severely felt by the students and faculty of the
Medical School. Dr. Gerrish will spend a few months
in Southern California and, during his absence, his
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position will be filled by Prof. Howe of the Dart-
mouth Medical School.
'76. — Rev. Geo. T. Pratt, formerly pastor of the
Episcopal church in Clinton, Mass., has withdrawn
from the preaching of that creed and been ordained
as a Unitarian minister.
'76. — The following changes in the occupation
and address of the members of this class have been
liindly forwarded by the class secretary :
"Wm. Alden, Physician, Tower, St. Louis Co., Minn.
D. W. Brookhouse, Shoe Manufacturer,
Fitzroy, Australia.
C. H. Clark, Principal High School, Andover, Mass.
R. Hemenway, Jr., Business, Davenport, Iowa.
C. D. Jameson, Professor State University,
Iowa City, Iowa.
F. R. Kimball, Salem, Mass.
J. G. Libby; Auburndale, Mass.
M. McNulty, Business, Kansas City, Mo.
G. B. Merrill, Mechanical Engineer, Hezelton, Ohio.
J. Millay, Arizona.
Geo. Parsons, Jr., Business, Cairo, 111., P. O. Box 10.5.
J. H. Payne, Physician,
Hotel Bristol, cor. Berkeley and Boylstou Sts.,
Boston, Mass.
C. Sai'gent, Business,
M. J. Palmer, Congress Street, Portland, Me.
W. Souther, Agent, Lusk, Wyoming Territory.
F. M. Stimson, Business, Cincinnati, Ohio.
C. G. Wheeler, Priucipal High School,
Winchendon, Mass.
C. W. Whitcomb, Fire Marshal, Boston, Mass.
J. H. White, Teaching, Brooklyn, Conn.
E. Yates, Daily Globe, Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
'79. — H. B. Fifield and wife were in Brunswick
during the holidays.
'81. — On December 28, 1888, occurred the mar-
riage of John Dike, M.D., to Miss Mae White. The
ceremony was performed at the home of the bride in
Gardiner, Me.
'87. — C. J. Goodwin is the happy recipient of the
University Scholarship in Sanskrit at Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore.
'88. — H. L. Shaw will canvass during the winter
in North Carolina.
IN POLITICS.
Although the diflferent members of the State Leg-
islature, who are Bowdoin alumni, have been men-
tioned at times, it may not be amiss to name them
collectively :
Senate.— Ch-AS. F. Libby, '64; Herbert M. Heath,
'72.
House of Uepresenlalives. — Walter L. Dane, '80 :
Francis O. Purrington, '80; Levi Turner, Jr., '86.
aovernor's Cowracii.— William T. Cobb, '77; A.
L. Lumbert, '79; and Daniel A. Robinson, '73, is
Surgeon-General of Governor Burleigh's staff.
IN GENERAL.
Bowdoin College might have resigned her charter
and gone out of business after graduating that phe-
nomenal class of '25 and still have been sure of im-
mortality, and have left the world her lasting debtor.
On the roll of that class were such names as Henry
W. and Stephen Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
John S. C. Abbott, Franklin Pierce, Jonathan Cilley,
and others whose names are familiar in literature,
statesmanship, and theology. That she has also sent
out giants since 1825 was evident at the Bowdoin
reunion at the Hoffman House, Wednesday night.
It is gratifying that the future of the college is as
promising as its past has been brilliant. — New York
Mail and Express.
Harvard has obtained permission from the Com-
mittee to play with professional teams.
The United States is to build an observatory in
the District of Columbia, and has ordered a lens
sixty inches in diameter, the largest in the world.
The Harvard crew will practice twice a week in
the harbor at the Shawmut boat house. South Boston,
this winter.
Long, long ago, In ages past,
So runs the story old.
King Midas' touch, with magic art,
Turued anything to gold.
But of our day, in present time,
A miracle I sing.
Now, men, when they are touched with gold,
Will turn to anything.
— Yale Record.
The East Boston High School girls have obtained
wooden guns, and will hereafter participate in mil-
itary drills in connection with their calisthenic exer-
cises.— The Couraiit.
James Russell Lowell, of Harvard, has been
elected President of the Modern Language Associa-
tion of America." — Pennsylvanian.
Of the 1,400 students in Michigan University,
President Angell states that the parents of 602 were
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farmers, 271 merchants, 93 lawyers, 83 physicians,
52 manufacturers or mechanics, 61 clergymen; that
45 per cent, belong to the class who gain their living
by manual labor.
If Pi-esident Hyde of Bowdoin, Warfield of Mi-
ami, and Candler of Emory College will send us a
certified copy of the record in their respective family
Bibles, says the New York Mail and Express, we
will judicially determine and officially announce to
which of the three gentlemen belongs the distinction
of being the youngest college president in the country.
The frequency of the opposing claims set forth by
college journals, grows wearying to the reader.
The trustees of Trinity College will soon hold a
meeting, at which steps will be taken toward the
erection of a new dormitory and a new liljrary build-
ing.— Williams Weekly.
Out of the four United States Senators elected on
Tuesday, January 15th, two were graduates of Yale,
one of Harvard, and the other of Bowdoin.
It is estimated that Cornell University loaves in
the city of Ithaca $3,000 per day, or $1,065,000 in
the course of the year. — Ex.
Wlio is it takes away the joys
Of college life from all tlie boys,
And all their fun and sport destroys ?
Tlie Co-eds.
Who is it stands in class so tall,
A foot and a half above them all,
And makes them feel so awful small ?
The Co-eds.
Who bears such scorn, contempt, and woe.
As did the martyrs long ago ?
O, " heaven is their home," we know,
The Co-eds.
— Vnh-eraily Cynic.
College journalism originated at Dartmouth in
1800, with Daniel Webster as one of the editors. In
1809 the Literary Cabinet was established at Yale,
followed shortly after by the Florida at Union and
the Harvard Lyceum at Harvard. — The Chronicle.
After laying their Psychology papers at the ap-
pointed place, at the appointed moment, the Waban
girls cremated their original manuscripts with the
following dirge : " Chant slowly ! "
Dewey, now we lay thee low,
For thou oft hast made us so ;
Oft hast filled our hearts with woe —
Psychi-oli-ogi-o !
Chorus : — Groans.
First stanza repeated ad infinitum. —The Courant.
Brown University has raised $80,000 for a new
gymnasium.
William and Mary College, Virginia, having
been closed for six years, was re-opened the tirst
week in October as a State Normal School. — Ex.
The Amherst Student has entered upon its twenty-
second year.
Ground has been broken for the new .$100,000
building at Wells College. — Ex.
The University of Pennsylvania will celebrate its
centennial in 1891. — Ex.
BOOK REVIEWS.
The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English prose by
S. H. Butcher, M.A., and A. Lang, M.A. Boston: D.
Lothrop & Co., 1882. 12mo., pp. 462.
New translations of literary masterpieces are not
useless but necessary. There is now general assent
to the proposition that, to be understood they must
be translated afresh in every generation. This prin-
ciple has been followed in the treatment of Homer
in modern limes ; for after Chapman made his version
in 1615, a new translation of the Odyssey was issued
every thirty years down to 1860, and since that dale
the rale of issue has marvolously increased — a result
bi'ought about, in part at least, by Matthew Arnold's
masterly discussion of the subject. The reason why
no translation can be final is well stated in the pref-
ace of the present edition, where it is said, with
special reference to Chapman and Pope: "These
great translations must always live as English
poems. As transcripts of Homer they are like pict-
ures drawn from a lost point of view." The fact is,
the point of view is always changing, and until the
race comes to a standstill the demand for fresh ren-
derings of great literary works will not cease.
Most translations of Homer are in meter, the one
to which attention is now called is in prose. There
is partial justification for this in Arnold's dictum :
" In a verse translation no original work is any longer
recognizable. But on the other hand it is equally
true that Homer's thought is essentially poetic and
requires rhythmic expression. The present translat-
oi's clearly recognize their self-imposed limitations.
They have tried, they say, 'to transfer, not all
the truth about the poem, but the historical truth,
into English.' In this process Homer must lose
at least half his charm, his bright and equable
speed, the musical current of that narrative, which,
like the river of Egypt, flows from an indiscoverable
source, and mirrors the temples and the palaces of
unforgotteu gods and kings. Without this music of
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verse, only a half truth about Homer can be told,
but then it is that half of the truth, which, at this
moment, it seems most necessary to tell." This is
not an attempt, then, to reproduce the poeti-y, but
simply the historic truth, of Homer, and it must be
judged accordingly.
In one respect the rendering has been needlessly
hampered. It has been given an antique coloring by
the choice of archaic words on the plea that "Homer
has no ideas which cannot be expressed by words
that are 'old and plain,'" and that "the Biblical
English is as nearly analogous to the Epic Greek, as
anything that our tongue has to offer." We cannot
but regard this as an unfortunate error of judgment,
for it hinders in a measure the realization of the
translator's purpose, which is to make Homer speak
to us with the force and freshness which he had for
his first hearei's. This cannot be done without using
the words which have most force and life to-day.
In one other parlicular the rendering might have
been bettered. If "the translator, who uses verse
rmist add to Homer," as all the metrical renderings
yet made have done, so that Bentley's remark that
Pope's version is a very pretty poem but not Homer,
has general applicability, it is also true that the
absence of rhythmic movement, which detracts im-
measurably from the charm of the original poems, is
not inevitable even in a prose rendering. In fact, the
best parts of this translation are those in which it has
involuntarily assumed a rhythmic character. Would
that this stamp had been given to the whole work,
for this is the only way in which it is possible to
combine an exact rendering of the thought with some-
what of poetic beauty of form. This has been done
for the first twelve books of the Odyssey by Profes-
sor Palmer of Harvard. A comparison of these two
versions shows that the transfer of the historic truth
of Homer is hindered rather than facilitated by the
use of antiquated words and unrhythmical arrange-
ment.
In spite of these defects, which it is not our purpose
to exaggerate, there is, for those who want the story
of the Odyssey without the song, no better rendering
of the whole poem than that of Butcher and Lang.
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Not a week passes when we do not have calls for teachers.
Soon the late autumn and winter supply will be called for.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Vol. XVIII.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 13, 1889.
No. 14.
B O W J:) O 1 X (J R [ E N T.
PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
F. L. Staples, 'Sll, Managing Editor.
O. P. Watts, '8!i, Business Editor.
W. M. Emery, '89. E. R. Stearns, '89.
G. T. Files, '89. G. B. Chandler, '90.
F. J. C. Little, '89. J. M. W. Moody, '90.
D. E. Owen, '89. T. C. Spillane, '90.
Per annum, in advance, $2.00.
Single Copies, 15 cents.
Rxtra copies (;:iii Ikc nbtiiineil :iL the bookstores or on applica.
tion to the Business Erlitor.
Keniittances sliould be ma<le to the Business Editor. Coni-
inunioations in i-e.sranl to all other matters should be directed to
the Managing Editor.
Stuilents, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contribute
literary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must be
accompanied by writer's name, as well as the signature which
he wishes to have appended.
Entevei at the Pjst-OScs at Branswick as Secoad-Class Mail Matter.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIIL, No. 14.-February 13, 1889.
A Coral Reef 185
Editorial Notes 18.5
Our Distinguished Alumni 186
A Needed Reform 187
Examinations, 187
In Durance 188
Abstract of Rev. Mr. Howe's Sermon, 188
Not More but Better Schools, 189
Communication 190
CoLLEGii Tabula, 190
Personal 192
College World 194
Book Reviews, 195
A CORAL REEF.
Is this a spot by earthquake made ?
Or forced by wave-strength froiu the sear
From distant mountain peak decayed,
And left a verdant spot to be ?
Ah no ! not by such mighty force
Comes to our view this verdant strand;
'Twas formed by far a simpler course,
Where tiny Insects build a land.
Thou busy little polyp, fain
Might man thy industry assay ;
Thy deeds examples fair contain,
And tasks of countless years portray.
A bill has been introduced into the
Maine Legislature to amend the statute re-
lating to the exemption of literary institu-
tions from taxation. The bill provides not
only for the taxation of real estate which the
institution ma}^ own, but also imposes a tax
on tlie cash endowment of such institution.
It is a significant fact that the three men
who most earnestly advocate the passage of
the bill are all residents of one town, which,
according to their statement, is a heavy loser
under the present law.
"The principle of taxation is the imposi-
tion of a tax upon an individual for a public
purpose," said ex-Senator Bradbury before
the judiciary committee recently, at a hear-
ing on the proposed bill. Continuing he said,
in substance, this bill violates the principle
in that it taxes literary institutions which
are themselves objects of laublic utility.
Bowdoin College owns but one piece of real
estate outside of its campus, that is in the
city of Portland, which does not object to
its exemption from taxation. This real
estate is a part of the endowment of the
Winkley Professorship of Latin, the income
of wliich would be severely crippled by the
passage of the bill.
There probably has never been a law pro-
posed in the Legislature of this State so
directly aimed at the prosperity of literary
institutions as this one. Schools and col-
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leges have always been the objects of special
care in New England, and when the Consti-
tution of Maine was drawn up the framers
did not forget the schools and colleges of the
new State. In Article Eighth of the Con-
stitution of Maine we find the following:
"And it shall further be their duty to en-
courage and suitably endow, from time to
time, as the circumstances of the people may
authorize, all academies, colleges and semi-
naries of learning within the State." The
bill is subversive of this constitutional prin-
ciple. Private generosity has relieved the
State of this duty to a great degree, but the
principle exists, nevertheless. The bill is
contrary to the policy which has always been
pursued in New England, and we trust that
the Legislature of this State will not be so
short-sighted and exhibit that degree of in-
gratitude which will compel Maine to impose
a tax on her institutions of learning.
(As our subscribers may not know the fact
that each board of editors bears the en-
tire financial risk for their volume, many
have doubtless thought it would make no
difference if they delayed pajanent until
next year. To such we would say that we
need the money at once. There are but
three more issues in our volume and ninety
per cent, of the subscriptions outside of the
college are still unpaid. As a result we are
deeply in debt to our publishers and each
issue only makes matters worse. It is not
only a matter of justice that our subscribers
pay us at once, but of honesty. We have
labored, and we hope successfully, to give
you a good paper. We now justly ask the
pay for our labors; not to put in our pockets
but to pay our bills with. If the money is
not forthcoming we must pay from our own
pockets for the privilege of furnishing the
Orient to our subscribers. Do not delay.
It is now that we need the money, and not
when we ourselves are alumni. Send two
dollars at once, receiving in exchange a large
slice of our gratitude and a clear title to the
Orients you have been receiving for the
past year, in the form of a receipt. These
favors of ours are, like a calendar, no
good if kept over until the next year, so
please respond at once.
)
OUR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI—
WHAT HAS PRODUCED THEM?
When we consider the remarkable pro-
portion of prominent men which Bowdoin
has produced, we, as students, with the
thoughtlessness of a living enthusiasm, are
disposed to credit Alma Mater with their
entire development. When, however, our
warm affection shall have enjoyed a few
years' contact with the frigid world, we shall,
perhaps, look back upon this, as upon many
of our other college conceptions, with some-
thing akin to a smile.
Longfellow would have been Longfellow
all the same had he been a graduate of Colby
or Bates (if our liberal sisters will pardon
the prehistoric extension of their tender
youth). It is neither the natural ability,
nor the home, nor the education, that makes
the man — it is the harmonious and symmet-
rical combihation of them all. How these
three factors have been combined in Bow-
doin graduates we will attempt, as briefly as
possible, to indicate.
Natural ability is a subjective and indi-
vidual thing; and upon it, as something in-
herent in the mind at birth, Bowdoin has no
claims other than those which she possesses
in common with all New England colleges.
Whatever superiority she may have mani-
fested, as in the case of our two distinguished
literati, is largely due to the kind dispensa-
tion of the goddess Fortuna.
It has frequently been stated that ninety
per cent, of the successful men have been
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country boys. It is from this class that
Bowdoin's halls have generally been filled.
Her graduates have been Maine boys. Maine
is a " country " State ; she possesses a hardy
climate and a comparatively unproductive
soil. Financial success, money enough to
"send the boy to college," means work and
economy in the State of Maine ; conse-
quently Bowdoin students have entered col-
lege grounded in those two important fun-
damentals, appreciation of the value of
things and the power of application.
As the mind at the student age is in a state
of plasticity, the importance of the college
as a character-builder is great. It is highly
essential that, during this mobile and recep-
tive state, it should be in the hands of masters.
Bowdoin, from her foundation, has been
singularly fortunate in the strength of her
faculties. The silent and potent influence
of personal contact with men like Professor
Longfellow, Dr. Stowe, Egbert C. Smyth, and
the inspiring personalities of Cleaveland and
Packard, is incalculable, and the part which
they must have played in the shaping of the
many intellects entrusted to their care can
never be estimated or appreciated.
Bowdoin is indebted, then, for her emi-
nent alumni to her good fortune in securing
students of innate natural ability, to the rig-
orous training of the Maine climate and its
country homes, and to the silent personal in-
fluence of the strong men who have consti-
tuted her faculties.
A NEEDED REFORM.
There is one tendency among our Greek-
letter fraternities which calls forth a great
deal of adverse criticism from the "barba-
rian " world, and justly, too, we shall see if
we give the matter a fair consideration, —
this is the tendency to draw ourselves up
into narrow spheres of our own, each frater-
nity rooming in one end, so far as possible,
and having boarding-clubs composed exclu-
sively of their own men, thus forming little
cliques which gradually become so selfish
and narrow-minded that the general interests
of the college often fail to arouse in them
any enthusiasm whatever, and in some in-
stances are seriously endangered. To this
we may trace many a failure in our college
athletics and in other directions ; also to a
great extent the bitter enmity which has at
times arisen between the rival factions. The
absence of any general literary societies,
where the different fraternities can meet
together in the discussion of matters of com-
mon interest, is to a considerable extent
productive of this condition of affairs.
The highest and truest ideal of a frater-
nity is not to bring together a little band of
men and then isolate them from the rest of
the college world, narrowing their horizon
down to the little circle thus formed. If a
man must room in the same dormitory with
them, take his meals with them three times
each day, and have no other associates but
them in order to keep up his interest in
his fraternity, something must be lacking
either in himself or the fraternity. It is an
evidence of improvement that a man can
now room outside of the particular " end "
occupied by his fraternity without being
deemed guilty of a grave heresy. In view
of this, the recent formation of class board-
ing-clubs will be hailed, by those who h^ve
given the matter any attention, as a step in
the right direction.
EXAMINATIONS.
We notice that in Amherst examinations
at the end of the term have been abolished,
and a series of occasional written recitations
substituted. This seems to us a move, which,
if generally introduced, will do much toward
raising the standard of true scholarship.
The only knowledge of any actual worth
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is that which is fixed in the mind by contin-
ual association and study. It matters not
how thoroughly a lesson be once learned, if
it is afterwards neglected, it speedily slips
from the memory.
A system in which final examinations
play so important a part as they do here,
creates a natural tendency to rely strongly
on them for pulling through; and as a result
we keep slighting this point and that point
with the intention of " plugging up for
exams." When the momentous week arrives,
then come the proverbial " midnight oil "
and the well-known "cramming process";
and facts and principles which ought to have
grown gradually into the mind through the
course of the term's work are merely stuck
on for immediate use. We go to examina-
tion like the little girl sent on an errand ; if
we chance to fall down it is forgotten.
Now by a system of occasional written
recitations, each of which shall embrace all
the ground covered to date, this evil may be
largely obviated ; for however great the tend-
ency to "craiu," it is certain that the ground
must all be retraced on each occasion. Of
course this will not make sluggards, plug-
gers, nor fools, geniuses, but it will approxi-
mate more nearly to that gradual mental
growth and incorporation of ideas which we
have mentioned above. It will induce a
more systematic method of study, and tend
somewhat to discourage " cutting." In order
to effect this no notice should be given as to
the time, of writing. For the thorough
and methodical student, it seems to us that
this would be equally as well, while for the
superficial and desultory student it would
seem a most desirable innovation. It is at
least worthy of a trial.
At the University of Vermont they recently de-
cided to keep the library open on Snnday aftei'noon.
The privilege is made u.se of by a large number of
students. — Chronicle.
IN DURANCE.
Why this suspense ? Is your love a plant
Of sickly, long-stalked leaves pent within the win-
dow,
Straining upward to the sun of higher, warmer glow ?
Is there a wrong to right, a boon to grant?
Still have mj' thoughts for you been vigilant
(As wonld my deeds had been) with kind regard,
Of weary waiting that life's joys retard
For naught but what happiness could implant.
Speak, lest this soft warm heart, once free to hold
A thousand joyous feelings to refine.
Be left more desolate, more drear and cold
Than the forsaken hut covered with snow
In Winter's gloomy realms of cheerless sunshine ;
Speak, that my torturing thoughts their way may
know !
ABSTRACT OF REV. MR. HOWE'S
SERMON.
Rev. Geo. M. Howe, of Lewiston, ad-
dressed the students on the day of prayer for
colleges. His subject was, " True Manhood ;
its Ideals, and its Inspiration." Below is a
brief abstract:
The crown of creation is man. The greatest of
modern warriors, as he lay dying at Mt. McGregor,
said to his son: "Be true, be pure, be a man."
Every one should strive to attain true manhood as the
end of his creation. Manhood in its completion is
not to be reached at one stride. The pattern, the
power, the inspiration, is given to us, but we must
grow to manhood by a gradual development of our
capabilities. There is no building without founda-
tion, no growth without a basis. There are a few
principles of growth which we must take as founda-
tion stones.
The realization of one's own personality is one
stone. We are more than mere forms of animal life;
we are centers of independent thought and action,
as free and self-determinate in our finiteness as God
in His intinity. Until a man recognizes his individ-
uality he is no more than the child before the birth
of his self-consciousness. He stands bewildered
before the wonders of nature. Having once realized
his independence there is no limit to his growth.
Self-control is a second stone. A famous Roman
emperor wrote: " I have been fighting against my
worst enemy, myself, and have conquered.
Self-control is wrongly conceived as a subju-
gation, an elimination of one's own peculiar de-
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sires and tendencies. It is not suppression, but
expression. It is "I" acting througli tlie will as
a governor of the powers, passions, and emotions.
Plato conceived of man as a chariot drawn by
two horses; one white, the other black, with Con-
science and Reason at the reins. Whether he as-
cends or descends the azure slope is determined by
which horse is given free rein. A carnal man is
fit company for beasts; a spiritual man is at home
with angels.
The third stone is a lofty, unselfish purpose.
Ideals are the world's masteis. A purposeless man
is a pulpy man with no backbone, who is shaped and
moulded by circumstances. But let that man have a
purpose, an aim in life, and all things are changed.
He is no longer run into the mould of circumstances,
but makes circumstances subserve his own ends. A
man never transcends his ideal. Choose then a lofty
ideal. Your choice becomes a motive and your
conduct conforms to your purpose. In other words
you come to have convictions.
One thing more is necessary for the foundation,
namely, courage. Not mere brute courage, but that
firmness vv^hich has a moral basis. Convictions are
of no avail without courage to maintain them and to
speak and do the I'ight though the heavens fall.
Never compromise your principles. The world waits
for a man who will not 4iiibble. If you are on the
side of Christ, never fear the consequences.
How are we to lay this foundation in our own
lives? The man who honestly asks himself: Who
am I? Whence am I? Whither am I going? will in-
evitably turn to God as tlie source and end of his
being. Without God he has little faith in himself;
less faith in his fellow-men, and no faith in the future.
Few new forces come into a man's life past the me-
ridian. He is impelled by the momentum of his
earlier days. If you would have your lives glori-
ous in the future, you must make to-day glorious
while it is to-day. You are now plastic, and easily
moulded; in later life your characters will become
fixed, immovable. You are now at the source of the
stream which -may be turned this way or that by a
slight effort; soon it will become a mighty river,
working its own way toward its own level.
You are in the line of your own true manhood
only when you have given your heart-faith and heart-
confidence to Christ, and are saved by him. Go forth
into the strength and largeness of this manhood in
faith.
England has only one college paper edited by
undergraduates, the Review, which is published at
0 xford . — Atlantis.
NOT MORE BUT BETTER SCHOOLS.
The founding of several new universities
recently, with endowments of from one to
fifteen millions of dollars each, shows that
America is bound to keep in the front rank
in educational matters. But the question
has been raised, and we think justly, whether
the founding of so many educational institu-
tions is the best way to keep to the fore in
such matters. In other words, whether it
would not be better for the cause of educa-
tion if a few of the millions which are so
lavishly used in endowing new institutions
were applied to building up older schools
with established reputations. Of course
money applied in this direction would not
give the donor such prominent notice as if
it were given to the founding of a school
bearing his own name. But we believe that
the cause of education, which every man
who founds a new institution professes to
advance, would be benefited more by in-
creasing the efficiency of established schools
than by founding new ones.
The fact is that we have enough so-called
universities. What we need is not more but
better ones. In the matter of education the
United States needs more schools of a lower
grade and better schools of a higher grade.
It needs more schools for the majority of
people; better schools for the minority.
The late Henry Winkley, whose gener-
osity so many colleges have reason to remem-
ber with gratitude, took this view of the
matter. The money which he gave to many
established institutions would have endowed
one, magnificentl3\ But his judgment so far
outweighed a laudable ambition that he be-
stowed his charity where it would do the
most good.
When we see so many colleges, which
with slender means, have done so much for
mankind, obliged to pinch and save to meet,
their necessary expenses ; to work in a nar-
rower sphere than they ought to, simply be-
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cause they have not the funds to meet
greater expenses, we cannot but wish that
some of the money might be given to them,
which is so hxvishly spent in founding new
institutions which have nothing to recom-
mend them but a large endowment and fine
buildings.
COMMUNICATION.
A few remarks in the Orient some time
ago in regard to the reading-room material-
ized in the addition of several chairs to the
furniture of the room and a promised coat
of blacking for the stove. These improve-
ments should be, and no doubt are, duly ap-
preciated by all who visit the room, either
for pleasure or information.
There is one other matter relating to the
reading-room which should be spoken of.
It is an abuse of the privileges of the room
that has crept in almost imperceptibly. I
refer to the mysterious way in which papers
and periodicals disappear from their places
on the walls and from the room, remaining
away from one to several days until the news
have become stale and the articles have lost
interest to most of the students. It is hardly
necessary to say that such disappearances
are annoying and unprofitable to the college
as a whole, and public opinion demands that
they should cease. Any on« who is guilty
of taking jDapers from the room before being
generally read transgresses the rules of com-
mon courtesy and gentlemanly conduct which
should govern the actions of a Bowdoin stu-
dent.
If this matter of allowing the papers to
remain in the reading-room until read, should
be acted upon as promptly as that mentioned
above, it would be a great satisfaction and
accommodation to the majority of the stu-
dents.
Among the graduates of Yale are the two great
lexicographers, Webster and Worcester. — Ex.
l^^
&^''|>#>
Mr. A. L. Bartlett of Boston, Pres-
ident of the Grand Lodge of Theta
Delta Chi, and Mr. Frederic Carter,
Yale, '90, the Treasurer, were guests
of Eta Charge, Friday evening, January 2.5th. M. L.
Kimball, '87, E. S. Bartlett and D. M. Cole, '88, were
also present. G. A. Porter, '91, was on that evening
initiated into the Fratemitj.
The Glee Club leave for their annual Maine tour
before long. Berwick, Portland, Lewiston, Bath,
Bar Harbor, Bangor, Houlton, Watervillc, and Gardi-
ner will be visited.
President Hj'de preached in Augusta Sunday,
the 3d.
Miss Lane of the libi'ary staff goes down town to
type-write some 5,000 catalogue cards for the Bruns-
wick Library, and Emery and Weeks are taking her
place on the General Catalogue work.
A dozen fellows went down to Bath on the even-
ing of the Da}' of Prayer to witness "Little Lord
Fauntleroy." Four of them — including a prominent
German scholar, a well-known musician, and an
Orient man — perched on the back of their settee to
avoid the sea of bonnets. An incautious back move-
ment overturned the seat and added a new comedy
element to the play. Those men now nurse sore
heads.
George B. Kenniston, '61, J. C. Hall, '8.5, Wm. C.
Kendall, '85, Raz Manson, ex-'89, and H. P. Godfrey,
ex-'91, have been on the campus since our last.
The Senior chemists have each chosen a subject
for special investigation, which will be made the
basis of their laboratory work and quizzes this term.
Themes are due from both classes to-day on these
subjects: Juniors. 1 — The place of examinations in
education ; 2 — Was the execution of Charles I. jus-
tifiable? Sophomores. 1 — Winter Sports; 2 — The
Battle of Marathon.
C. J. Jordan, Bowdoin, '87, recently read a paper
at Johns Hopkins University on Lawscrit, which was
highly spoked of. — Auburn Gazette.
Rev. E. C. Guild's course of lectures on Words-
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I
woi'th will be given in Lower Memorial on Tuesday
evenings at 8 o'clock. The synopsis :
Feb. 19— Functions of Poetry.
Feb. 26 — Lite and Ciiaracter of Wordsworth.
Mar. 5 — Nature, Man, and God in Wordsworth's Poetry.
Mar. I'i — Wordsworth as a Critic.
Mar. 19 — History of Criticisms on Wordsworth.
We hope every man in college will attend this
course. It will be worth your while, and a good
audience can but partially repay the lecturer for his
trouble. The lectures are free.
It stormed as usual on the Day of Prayer.
A Freshman staggers out from Maine,
We see his careworn face afar.
What means this picture of despair '?
Only a dead in Algebra.
A Sophomore goes along the path,
Wliat means his surly loolc and frown ?
He's merely got to go and plug
Demosthenes upon the Crown.
And then a Junior comes our way,
Traditional ease in him we'll find.
Ah, no! It is the same complaint,
" Our German this year is a grind."
The Senior's eye looks rather Dewey,
(For this we owe him an apology).
We hope that he may make a sail
His next recitation in Psychology.
Training for the gymnastic exhibition in March is
well under way. The leading feature will be a
prize drill for the silver cup. It will be contested for
as follows : Class of '89, Fencing, G. T. Files, leader.
Class of '90, Wands, G. F. Freeman, leader. Class
of '91, Dumb-bells, B. D. Ridlon, leader. Class of
'92, Indian Clubs, F. G. Swett, leader. It is not
unlikely that Dr. Sargent, the Father of Bowdoin
gymnastics, will be present and act as a judge. Other
events will be : Special Trapeze, Slack Wire Walk-
ing, Special Indian Clubs, Wrestling, Boxing, Broad-
sword Contest, Horizontal Bar, F. O. Fish leading.
High Jumping, G. T. Files leading. Parallel Bars,
F. E. Simpson leading. Tumbling, M. A. Rice lead-
ing, and Pyramids, F. Lynam leading.
The twenty-first annual reunion of the Boston
Bowdoin Alumni occurs this evening. Gen. Cham-
berlain, President Hyde, and Chief Justice Fuller are
expected to be present.
Professors Smith and Chapman lately addressed
the Y. M. C. A.
The Glee Club has had an offer from the like
organization of Tufts College to give a joint concert
in Portland during the month.
Prof. Woodruff conducted prayers a week ago
Sunday and Monday.
One of the most remarkable of the many intercol-
legiate movements of the present day is that of the
Student Volunteers for Foreign Missions. It was
originated two years ago by one hundred young men,
at Moody's Summer School for Bible Study, volun-
teering to go as foreign missionaries. Wishing to
bring the matter directly before their fellow-students
they chose Messrs. Foreman and Wilder (graduates
of Princeton) to visit the colleges and obtain more
volunteers. These young men visited 162 colleges
and seminaries and obtained 2,300 pledges. Since
that time the work has quietly gone forward until
there have been over 3,200 names enrolled. Forty-
seven of these are in the State of Maine. Representa-
tives of these recently met at Bates College and
formed "The Foreign Mission Volunteer Associa-
tion of Maine." The following oflB.cers were chosen :
Rev. F. W. Sandford of Topsham, Chief Executive;
C. F. Hersey of Bowdoin College, Executive Secre-
tary— these, with A. B. Patten of Colby University,
and T. M. Singer of Bates, to form the executive
board. The objects of this association are to get
more volunteers, money to send them, and to awaken
a deeper interest in foreign missions among the
schools and churches of Maine by holding meetings
in the interest of missions. Many churches have
already been visited and dates have been arranged
with others. The volunteers in Bowdoin are Stearns
and Hersey, '89 ; Webb, '90, and Lee, '92.
Doherty, '89, Thompson, Pendleton, and Royal,
'90, Hardy, Kempton, and Dudley, '91, have recently
returned from teaching.
Among those at the Governor's Reception in Au-
gusta, the 4th, were: Thwing, '89; Brooks, Humph-
rey, Hunt, Turner, Wingate, '90 ; Burr, Burleigh,
'91 ; and Thompson, '92.
February 28th, President Hyde will attend the
meeting of the Phillips Exeter alumni in New York.
Thence he will proceed to Washington, where he
will be inauguration week. March 6-8 he will attend
the convention of the National Education Association,
Superintendent's Department, at the capital, reading,
the last day of the session, a paper on "Examina-
tions for Promotion in Public Schools."
Recent additions to the library : McCullough's
"Men and Measures of Half a Century"; Borrow's
" Romany Rye " ; James Freeman Clarke's " Ideas of
the Apostle Paul " ; Tenth General Catalogue of Psi
Upsilon, 1888; Hawthorne's " Septimius Felton";
Shoemaker's "Best Things from the Best Authors,"
5 vols. ; Haggard's "Mr. Meeson's Will"; Farrar's
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"Solomon"; Langley's and Young's Astronomies;
Deland's "John Ward, Preacher," and the following
by Arlo Bates (Bowdoin, 76): "A Lad's Love,"
"Berries of the Briar," "Sonnets in Shadow," and
" Prince Vance " (jointly with Eleanor Putnam).
Prof. Lee met the original "Little Lord Faunt-
leroy " when in Washington.
Prof. Robinson has been appointed a member of
the State Board of Health.
'90's dancing school closed January 30th. Special
efforts were made to have the occasion rather more
elaborate than nsual. Some of the costumes were
very fine.
The Sophomores have elected officers as follows :
President, H. T. Field ; Vice-President, C. V. Minott,
Jr. ; Secretary-Treasurer, D. M. Bangs ; Toastmaster,
E. A. Thompson ; Poet, H. H. Noyes ; Orator, W. M.
Hilton; Historian, ; Prophet, R. H. Hunt;
Opening Address, F. O. Fish ; Committee of Arrange-
ments, L. A. Burleigh, F. E. Bragdon, ; Com-
mittee on Odes, C. S. F. Lincoln, H. E. Cutts, C. E.
Riley.
We are requested to say a few words about the
class of '68 Prize. The class established a fund of
$1,150 soon after graduation, and the prize of $60
was offered for excellence in writing and speaking.
Appointments have annually been made with refer-
ence to those two qualifications. The first competi-
tion was in 1869 and was won by Charles A. Stephens,
now of the YoulVs Companion. In those days the
exhibition was held in June In 1870 the prize, for
some reason, was not awarded. The winners from
1871 to 1881, inclusive: '71, E. P. Mitchell; '72,
J. G. Abbott and Herbert Harris, equal division ;
'73, W. A. Blalie ; '74, Rev. S. V. Cole ; '75, Dr. D. A.
Sargent; '76, J. A. Morrill; '77, J. E. Chapman;
'78, Prof G. C. Purrington; '79, S. S. Stearns;
'80, Frank Winter; '81, Rev. C. H. Cutler. For six
years the fund was not available and the next class
to compete for the prize was '88, R. W. Goding being
the winner. The appointments from '89, made
January 28th, are : Emery, Files, Owen, Rice,
Staples, Watts. Egotism prevents us from remind-
ing our readers that five of the six are Orient editors.
They say W.-ilter Hunt did get a ticket to the Med-
ical Lecture this year.
A new society has been formed in college, called
Mu Iota Chi, or "Micks." It starts under most
favorable auspices. The badges worn are very
costly.
Hon. William Blaikie, author of the well-known
"How to Get Strong and How to Stay So," and
other works on physical training, will lecture at Me-
morial Hall, Saturday evening, March 2d. An admis-
sion fee will be charged. The following afternoon
he will give a talk in Memorial on " Social Purity,"
to men only.
One week from to-night a series of assemblies
will begin at the Town Hall. They are to be held
on Wednesday evenings. Mr. George Thwing is
manager.
A Medic was filling out one of the blanks pre-
pared for new-comers, when the following conversa-
tion with Mr. Booker ensued :
Mr. B. — Are you a college man, sir?
Medic — Yes, sir, a graduate of Colby University,
sir. (After writing a minute) : O, how do you spell
University, s-a-t-y, isn't it.'
Mr. B. — Well, it used to be s-i-t-y when I was
in college.
Briggs, '90, has gone home sick.
The opening lecture of the Medical School was
given Thursday afternoon, February 7th, by Rev.
E. C. Guild. His subject was " The Ethical Side of
the Physician's Life," and was most ably and inter-
estingly handled. His remark that one " couldn't
buy cheer and comfort at a drug store," elicited
knowing smiles from the initiated. " Mul" created
a ripple of amusement by bringing in a stool to place
his hat on while he calmly took a seat upon the
floor!
'48. — Hon. Charles Ames
Washburn, one of the fa-
mous Washburn family, so prominent
in political life, died on Saturday at
St. Vincent's hospital, New York, having
gone to that city from his home at Morris-
town, N. J., to take a course of medical treatment.
Mr. Washburn was born in South Liverraore, March
16, 1822, and was graduated at Bowdoin College
in 1848. The next year he began the practice of
law at Mineral Point, Wis., but in 1850 removed
to California, and shortly afterward became editor
of the Alia California in San Francisco. He was
made Commissioner to Paraguay in 1801, and was
afterward Minister during the war between that
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country and Brazil, Uruguaj', and the Argentine Re-
public. He and his wife were in great danger there
for nearly six months, and were rescued just in time
to save their lives. After his return to the United
States, in 1868, Mr. Washburn devoted himself to lit-
erary work, and, besides contributing largely to the
prominent periodicals, wrote "A History of Para-
guay," "Robert Thaxter," "Gomery of Montgom-
ery," and "Political Evolution."
'60.— Prof. J. S. Sewall, D.D., of the Bangor
Theological Seminary, delivered his lecture, "Our
Saxon Fathers a Thousand Years Ago," at the Spring
Street Congregational Church, VVoodfords, Monday
evening, February 4th. This is the same lecture
delivered by Prof. Sewall before the teachers of the
Cumberland County Educational Association at their
last annual meeting atBridgton, and is highly spoken
of by all who heard it at that time. The lecture
gives a perfect picture of the life of our ancestors in
a way to afford a great deal of quiet pleasure and
pleasant information.
'54. — Minnesota has chosen as her representative in
the United States Senate an able man and good Re-
publican, who is, moreover, American to the back-
bone. To say that a man is a Maine Washburn is
to imply that he comes from a long line of the sort of
men and women who make a nation great. John
Washburn, first secretary of the Council of Ply-
mouth, was a paternal ancestor of the new Senator,
and his mother, the daughter of Samuel Benjamin,
boasts a lineage as long and pure as her husband's.
William Drew Washburn was born in Livermore,
Maine, in 1831, and in his youth lived the rugged life
of a New England farmer's son. He labored in the
fields from dawn in summer, and wrestled with the
three R's in the district school in winter. His litera-
ture was the Bible and the county paper. So he
grew to sturdy manhood without mental, moral, or
physical dyspepsia, and after gi'aduating at Bowdoin
in 1854, became a lawyer. His later experience was
rather political and mercantile than legal. His first
office was the Surveyor-Generalship of Minnesota,
from 1861 to 1865, by President Lmcoln's appoint-
ment. Then his residence was at St. Paul, but now
he hails from Minneapolis. The calibre of his busi-
ness enterprises can be gauged from his presidency
of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, and from
his prominence among the owners and directors of
the Minneapolis Water-power Company. Mr. Wash-
burn was a member of the Minnesota Legislature in
1858 and 1871, and he served in the Forty-sixth,
Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses from 1879
to 1885. He is in favor of the admission to the Union
of the new claimants for Statehood, especiallj'
Dakota, and of course he was "mentioned" for Pres-
ident Harrison's cabinet — but that was before his
election. Altogether his colleagues have cause to
welcome him to their select company. — Earper^s
Weekly.
'60. — A large audience assembled at the Central
Church last evening, prepared to be instructed and
entertained by Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr., of Portland,
who was to lecture upon "The Swedes in America,"
a favorite topic. The pleasant anticipations of the
members of the audience were certainly fully realized,
and for over an hour the speaker held the close at-
tention of all. Mr. Thomas is thoroughly informed
upon his subject, which he presented most hap-
pily.— Bangor Whig.
'67. — John Norris McClintock is the author of the
handsome large History of New Hampshire, just out.
'69. — Charles Asbury Stephens, of the YouWs
Conipaiiion, has just issued a book of some one hun-
dred pages, "Living Matter: Its Cycle of Growth,
and Decline in Animal Organisms."
'76. — Arlo Bates has published a new novel, "The
Philistines," over which the critics seem to be divided.
'85. — Mr. W. S. Kendall has received from the
Government the appointment of Naturalist for the
Fish Commission steamer" Fish Hawk," now located
in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Kendall has left for the
South, where he will be occupied during the winter
and spring months in investigation.
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
In the list of Bowdoin graduates given in the last
issue of the Ouient, the following members of the
House were omitted. The sketches of their careers
are taken from the manual published in Augusta.
'39. — John C. Talbot, of East Machias. Born in
East Machias; educated at Washington Academy
and at Bowdoin College. Was deputy collector of
customs from 1843 to 1848 ; State delegate to national
democratic convention in 1856 ; district delegate to
national convention at Philadelphia in 1867 ; district
delegate to national democratic convention in 1868 ;
democratic candidate for governor in 1876. Mem-
ber of the legislature in 1849-50-51-52-53-56-57-
62-74-75-76-80-81-82-88-84, and 87, serving in both
branches. Speaker of the House of Representatives
two sessions ; with the present term will fill out
twenty years of service in the legislature.
'41. — Frederick Robie, of Gorham. Born in
Gorham ; was a student in the academy in that town
for many years, and graduated at Bowdoin College
in the class of '41. Received the diploma of M.D.,
at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in
1844, and practiced medicine in Biddeford and Wal-
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doboro for the next twelve years. In 1857 in returned
to his native town and was elected representative to
the legislature for the years 1858-59 ; was a member
of the executive council of the State during a part of
the year 1861, which position he resigned in ordei' to
accept the appointment of paymaster in the United
States army, in virtue of a commission issued in
June, 1861 ; was honorably mustered out of service
July 16, 1866, with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel by
Brevet. He was elected to the Senate of Maine for
the years 1867-68, and was retui'ned a member of
the House of Representatives from Gorham for 1871-
72-76-77-78, and elected Speaker of the House in
1876 ; delegate to the Republican National Conven-
tion ; Governor of the State from 1883 to 1887.
'49. — Robert W. Lord, of Kennebunk. Born in
Kennebunk, and educated at Yarmouth Academy.
Entered Bowdoin College but did not graduate.
Member of the House in 1877-78-81 . Resided in
California and Oregon from 1850 to 1855. Since
then has been engaged in manufacturing at Kenne-
bunk. Is a director of the Ocean National Bank, and
president of the Kennebunk Savings Bank.
'73. — Andrew P. Wiswell, of Ellsworth. Born in
Ellsworth, and educated at Bowdoin College, gradu-
ating in the class of 1873. Judge of the Ellsworth
municipal court from 1878 to 1881. National Bank
Examiner for Maine from 1883 until he resigned in
September, 1886. Delegate to National Republican
Convention in 1884. Member of the last House.
Stenography and telegraphy are soon to be placed
on the curriculum at Bncknell University.
The percentage of Henry Ward Beecher during
his college course was 68. George Bancroft received
the degree of A.B. before attaining the age of 17.
Holmes was gi-aduated from college at 20, Emerson
at 18, Lowell and Longfellow at 19, and Hawthorne
at 21 years of age. — Madisonensis.
According to the Librarian's report, Harvard
Library now numbers 313,318 bound volumes and
276,682 pamphlets, having increased 16,468 bound
volumes the past year. The loans amounted to 65,-
639 books.
The Dartmouth Faculty, having considered some
of the "grinds" in the last Aegis objectionable, have
suspended the nine editors and deprived the scholar-
ship holders of those benefits for the remainder of
the year. Is that the " Dartmouth System ? "
— Amherst Student.
A NEW FASHIONED GIRL.
She'd a great and varied knowledge, picked up at female
college, of quadratics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics,
very fast.
She was stuffed with erudition as you stuff a leather cush-
ion, all the 'ologies of the colleges and the knowl-
edges of the past.
She had studied the old lexicons of Peruvians and Mexi-
cans, their theology, antliropology, and geology o'er
and o'er.
She knew all the forms and features of the prehistoric
creatures — icthyosaurus, plesiosaurus, megalosaurus,
and many more.
She'd describe the ancient Tuscans, and the Basques, and
Etruscans, their griddles and their kettles, and the
victuals that they knawed.
She'd discuss, the learned charmer, the theology of
Brahma, and the scandals of the Vandals, and the
sandals that they trod.
She knew all the mighty giants and the master minds of
science, all the learning that was turning in the
burning mind of man.
But she couldn't prepare a dinner for a gaunt and hungry
sinner, for she never was constructed on the old
domestic plan. — Lynn Union.
The Woman's College at Baltimore, similar in
scope and standard to the Johns Hopkins University,
was formally opened on November 13th.
THE QUESTION.
"Now a kiss, dear," quoth he,
" Is a noun we'll admit ;
But common or proper.
Canst thou tell that of it ? "
" Well, I think," replied she,
" To speak nothing loth; "
While she smiled and grew red,
" Well, I think it is both."
(And so did he.) — Ex.
Kettleman, of Yale, recently broke the record for
the hundred-yard dash, making it 9? seconds.
The University of Mexico is said to have been
founded fifty years before Harvard. — Ex.
Sixty men are members of the Hare and Hounds
Club at Princeton. Runs are held twice a week.
— Coup U'Etat.
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Berlin University has an attendance at its winter
term of 5,790, wiiicii is 1,177 more tlian last sum-
mer, and 322 more than last winter. The students
from America attending the universitj' number 171.
— Fordham Monthly.
In jest, I called her egotist,
The veriest of elves,
" Because," I said, " these egotists
Love none beside tliemselves."
She looljed at me lull earnestly,
As oft when she would chide me.
And then she said so haughtily,
" I don't like you beside mie."
— \VUliams Weekhj.
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) has received
the degree of Master of Arts from Yale Univer-
sity.— Ex.
The Fordham Monthly has the prettiest exterior of
any college journal on our table.
The average expenses for one year at Oxford
University, England, is %im.—Ex.
Around her waist my fond arm slips,
" 1 love you dearly, I confess;
Will you be mine ? Oh, from those lips
Let me, I pray, hear yes.
Say, my dear ! "
She said not yes, but kissed me thrice,
- And answered, cheeks with red aflare :
" A word were never half so nice ;
Besides these kisses bear
The — same idea." — Bninonian.
The Episcopalians have twelve colleges in this
country, the Methodists 62, Baptists 4(5, Presbyte-
rians 41, and the Congregationalists 26. — Ex.
At the annu;il meeting of the Bowdoin Alumni
Association of Washington, Chief Justice Fuller was
elected president. — Portland Advertiser.
Protection is taught in the University of Penn-
sylvania.
The Harvard College base-ball team cleared
$2,500 last year.
The plan of having Monday for a holiday has
proved a success at Cornell.
The first foot-ball match in the United States
was played at Yale College in 1840.
The student at Buoknell who has his room most
tastefully decorated receives a prize.
Washington and Lee University has a new mu-
seum in process of completion, and a new chair of
Biology has been established, in charge of Professor
H. D. Campbell, Ph.D., which promises to be a val-
uable addition to the course of instruction.
The Middletown Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has
presented the college library with $300, to be used
in the purchase of a complete set of books for some
department, not yet determined, and which shall be
known as the Phi Beta Kappa collection.
The rule regarding Commencement orators at
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., has been
changed. Hereafterthe Commencement orators will
be the ten students having the highest marks in the
rhetorical exercises in the Junior and Senior years.
William and Mary College can boast of being the
Alma Mater of three Presidents of the United States,
Harvard two, and each of the following one : Prince-
ton, Hampden-Sidney, University of North Carolina,
Bowdoin, Dickinson, West Point, Kenyon, Williams,
and Union.
Of the world's refracting telescopes nine have
apertures exceeding twenty inches, viz. : Lick Ob-
servatory, California, 3G inches; Pulkova, Russia,
30; Yale College, 28; Littrow, Vienna, 27; Univer-
sity of Virginia, 2ii ; Washington Naval Observatory,
26; Gateshead, England, 25; Princeton, N. J., 23,
and Buckingham, London, England, 21. Six of
these instruments are the work of the American firm
of Alvan Clark & Sons. — Ex.
BOOK REVIEWS.
The Collegian. Vol. I., No. 2. Boston, Mass. Feb-
ruary, 1889. 100 pp.
The second number of the Collegian maintains
the high standard of excellence manifested in its first
issue. The special paper is written this month by
Prof. Leverett W. Spring, who succeeds in making
his article "On the Teaching of English Literature
in the College Curriculum" very interesting. The
contributions and selections are all worthy of notice,
A perusal of the copy to be found at the library will
repay any one.
A Guide to The Study of Nineteenth Century
Authors. By Louise Manning Hodgkins. Series of
Pamphlets. Heath & Co.
Miss Hodgkins, Professor of English Literature
in Wellesley College, has done a work of great serv-
ice to students in her manual for the study of Nine-
teenth Century Authors. She gives a select biblio-
graphy, bothijof biographical and of critical writ-
ings, on the author illustrated, together with the
main facts of his life and a reference to his most sig-
nificant writings. Her list includes sixteen English
and eight American poets, essayists, and novelists ;
it is comprehensive, yet judiciously selected. Her
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method is clearly the right one, whether for private
work or for class work. Thei'e are numerous inac-
curacies in names and titles cited, which will no
doubt be set right in a future edition.
The Harvard UNrvERSiTT Catalogue for 1888-89.
Cambridge, Mass. For sale by Chas. "W. Serle; 1888:
12mo. pp. 381.
The Harvard University Catalogue appears in iis
customary coat of crimson and black. Its 881 pages
are as interesting as the subject matter of the vol-
ume permits. A valuable feature of the book is the
map of Cambridge, which, with accompanying direc-
tions, is attached to the first cover.
HiSTORiETTES MoDERNES. Eecueillies et Annotees, par
C. Fontaine, B.L., L.D. Tome I. Boston: D .C. Heath
& Co.; 1888. pp. 160.
Under the above title the author presents the first
volume of a series of Modern French Texts. The
series is to be continued in the near future. In this
first venture the author's two objucts : first, to give
students interesting reading matter, and second, to
familiarize them with modern French Literature, are
well carried out, or at least, the reading matter pi-e-
sented is very interesting in its ehitraoter. The
stories given are bright, lively, and entertaining, and
are all intensely modern. The French the author
gives us is decidedly that of to-day. The notes are
quite above the ordinary; this especially of the ex-
planation of idioms and figurative expressions. The
etymological suggestions, when they appear, are
well in place. More of the same would have been
welcome.
NOTES.
The idea of publishing the compiled poetry of
Bowdoin has several times within the past few years
been suggested by undergraduate members of the
college. The task has been successfully accomplished
at Harvard, Williams, and Columbia, and the same
labor of love has recently been undertaken for their
Alma Mater by Davis, '89, and Baker, '89, of Dart-
mouth. The resultant volume, Darlmoulh Lyrics,
has just appeared from the Riverside Press, Cam-
bridge.
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No. 15.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 15.- February 27, 1889.
Au Old Friend's Face 197
Editorial Notes • 197
A Reverie 198
One Method of Exercise, 199
George Eliot, 199
Base-Ball 200
Reading 201
Bowdoin Alumni Association of Boston 201
Bowdoin Alumni Association of Washington, . . . 202
Collegii Tabula 203
Personal, 205
College World 206
Book Reviews, 207
AN OLD FRIEND'S FACE.
I sat by the fire and mused awhile.
And the smouldefing embers burst into flame;
The past and present, in turn, beguile
My thoughts, e'er the future its own may claim.
The future, ahead seems dark indeed ;
The past is a tale of what might have been ;
For the present we care not, but thoughts gently lead
To a picture which hangs from my heart within.
'Tis the face of a friend dear to memory old —
Like a spark 'mongst the embers it flashes anon.
No wealth whatso'er, be it silver or gold.
Can compare with the love of a friend whom you've
won.
There has been a good deal of com-
plaint this terra about the insufficient heating
of the gymnasium. The greater part of the
time the room has not been comfortably
warm in the forenoon. The water in the
bath-rooms is almost always cold, and in-
stances are numerous where students after
bathing in the cold water have taken cold
and been obliged to go home sick.
Each man pays two dollars a term for the
use of the gymnasium, and it is only fair
that some of this money should be applied
to warming the building. We don't know
whose business it is to look after the fires,
but judging from circumstances we should
say that they looked after themselves. All
the boys want is what is due them. If we
pay our gymnasium dues and are compelled
to strip in there every day, we want the
rooms warm. It is not fair to compel men
to take colds and lose their recitations to
save a little coal that we pay for.
We desire once more to call attention to
what we fear has become a hackneyed theme.
There is only one more issue of the Orient
before the election of editors occurs, and it
is the last chance for those who hope for an
election to the Board to make a brace.
An article handed in during the next two
weeks will count as much as one passed in
earlier in the year. Indeed, for the larger
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part of the students it will count for every-
thing, since the larger part have clone
nothing.
The Glee Club gave its first concert this
winter in Augusta, February 15th. It was
a fine entertainment and thoroughly appre-
ciated by the audience.
Several changes have been made in the
club since last year, which have strength-
ened it. Especially is this true of the banjo
and guitar contingent, which has been in-
creased by the addition of Messrs. G. F.
Freeman, Rich, and Mann, all excellent mu-
sicians.
The club will present a new programme
in each place visited and there will be no
repetition. The great need of the club at
present is more songs of Bowdoin. It would
be difficult to tell from the songs whether
the club hails from Bowdoin or somewhere
else. Here is a fine chance for some aspiring
poet to make his name more or less immortal
by writing a few songs in which Boivdohi
shall be the sentiment, first, last, and all the
time.
The friends of the nine will be glad to
know that the Massachusetts trip will be
omitted this year, and in its place will be a
trainer from one of the teams in the National
League. This is certainly a change for the
better and will be hailed with delight by the
friends of athletics in the collcR-e.
A REVERIE.
Happy is the man who has a hobby. He
has a source of pleasure all his own, that the
world cannot enjoy and perhaps not even
understand.
Stamp and coin collecting, roller skating,
snow shoeing, tobogganing, photography, and
bicycle riding, all these have now or have
had in the j'^st many enthusiasts. Yet my
hobby is none of these — a craze followed by
half the world to-day and to-morrow neg-
lected for some newer rival.
My hobby has been all my own, unknown
and unshared by any one until now. It is a
fondness for old graveyards. I find a quiet
pleasure on a warm, still Sunday afternoon,
in wandering about in some old, quaint
graveyard of a century ago, brushing the
grass away from the dark, moss-covered
stones and deciphering the almost illegible
verses, those tokens of affection or mourning
for the ashes that have lain so long below,
where they have perhaps been joined by
those who wrote the scanty lines above them
that alone remain to say they lived. The
dark stones, carved with the weeping willow
and grim, winged skulls — intended for angels,
perhaps — possess a charm greater than the
spotless marble or polished granite of more
recent date.
The lifeless marble, from its faintly chis-
eled lines, speaks a solemn warning and the
lesson of the clay beneath :
" Stranger, pause and cast an eye ;
As you are now, so once was I :
As I am now, so you must be ;
Prepare for death and follow me."
Or perhaps in lighter tone tells the brief story
of the dead :
" Of all the sorrows that attend mankind.
With patience bore he the lot to him assigned.
At fourscore years he bid the world adieu.
And paid the debt to nature due."
Into this quiet spot from out the years
ago, there breaks no rush of life from the
busy, hurrying world. Without, life throbs
and beats ; men live and love, and strive and
suffer. Within is death and rest. The very
trees and grasses seem as if they never
changed. It is a place set apart for one to
wander in alone or with some chosen friend,
and question why he lives, and who shall
think of him when he, too, like these, shall lie
beneath the turf.
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Then there come vague, half-formed
thoughts ; sad, yet bearing with their sad-
ness a sense of unutterable peace and rest.
It is a state of mind, rather than active
thought. It is as if the soul attuned itself
to its surroundings and the silent voices of
the dead gave to its panting, throbbing life
something of their own calm rest.
When winter's snows have melted and
summer once more clothes the world in
verdure, then try my hobby and enjoy for
a brief hour its dreamy rest.
ONE METHOD OF EXERCISE.
Among the many ways in which Bowdoin
students obtain recreation is that of snow-
shoeing. This sport seems to have taken a
new start during the present term. It is a
very pleasant" exercise, and one which, be-
sides developing the physical frame, refreshes
and invigorates the mind far more than any
other mode of exercise. As yet no regular
club has been formed in college, but certain
cliques have banded together and enjoyed
many long runs, so that a club is one of the
probabilities in the near future.
One great advantage which all out-of-
door exercises have over a gymnasium is in
the matter of ventilation. Our fields and
forests are ventilated as no gymnasium can
be and this pure fresh air is the best and
cheapest of medicines. A student's life is
necessarily more or less confined in a little
room fifteen by sixteen, so that he is very
liable to forget that there is something else
in this wide world besides his little coop.
In this way he may become cramped in his
ideas of life, and may lack that broad com-
prehensive view so necessary to a man of true
liberal education.
While the beauties of nature may not be
so plain when partially covered with snow,
they exist just the same, and can only be ap-
preciated by becoming personally acquainted
with them. When placed in the midst of
nature's abode one's thoughts fly faster, the
conversation flows more easily, and turns
more naturallj^ to interesting and pertinent
subjects. We can imagine nothing more in-
spiring than to be placed where everything,
whether animate or inanimate, obeys the same
strict laws with regard to life and death as
this frail, weak body of ours ; to feel that
nature's laws are fulfilled in us as well as in
a tree, bird, or plant, and that we are only a
link in this grand chain.
There is much more to be obtained from
exercise than a mere enlargement of the
muscles. It matters little whether this or
that man's biceps is the larger. The mind
must have recreation as well as the body, and
in no way can this be better brought about
than by placing one's self as far as possible
from the ordinary daily pursuits, and giving
free scope to his imagination and his fancy.
At present I think the average student
wastes about one-quarter of his time in
senseless chats in his room. It would be
much better for him, both now and in years
to come, if he would put the time thus
spent into walks in the open air.
GEORGE ELIOT.
Literary taste is subject to change, and
the writer who seeks to win the public and
acquire financial and literary success must
keep up with this change.
The literary world has gone wild over the
first two or three novels of a writer, but
owing to their desire to follow in the same
ruts of their successful novels, they have
ceased to be regarded by the reading public,
and have fallen into the great mass of for-
gotten novelists.
Although this can be said of the great
majority of writers, yet there are a few,
who, by great versatility of genius, human-
ity, wit, and polished style, can almost
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entirely neglect to observe the tastes of the
public and even then secure the attention
and admiration of the world. It is from this
class that the majority of distinguished writ-
ers have arisen whose names we now cherish
and praise.
The name of George Eliot stands among
the foremost of this class. Her first work,
" Scenes of Clerical Life," appeared in
Blackwood's Magazine in 1857, and was fol-
lowed by " Adam Bede " in 1859, which at
once secured for its author a place among
the first of English novelists. " Middle-
march," published in 1871, is the most re-
markable of her prose works.
One of the characteristics of George
Eliot as a writer of fiction is her remarkable
power in the delineation of character, not so
much of one already formed as of its devel-
opment, preferring to follow her characters
through the hard and even cruel processes
by which circumstances impress them with
their own unimportance, knock the selfish-
ness out of them, or punish them for it. It
is partly owing to this that the reader finds
himself unconsciously following the line of
growth of those strong individual types with
which her novels are filled, and comprehends
the logical influence of every circumstance
and event brought to bear upon their lives.
On account of the comparatively slow
production of her novels, she has acquired
the reputation of grasping and appreciating
thoroughly types of mind and thought, so
that each of her characters becomes a living
representative of some peculiar traits which
every reader readily perceives. This shows
her to be possessed of the power of drawing
from study and meditation characters true
to nature and the time, and it must be con-
ceded to her that she possessed almost super-
human power in observing human nature
when we look at the occasions that have
offered her the opportunities to study care-
fully the peculiarities of man.
BASE-BALL.
As the winter passes away and we antici-
pate with pleasure the approach of spring,
in almost every student's mind the base-
ball interest returns with undiminished
vigor.
The present outlook is that the season
will be one of unusual rivalry in the Maine
State Intercollegiate League.
The four colleges will enter heartily into
the contest, and Bowdoin and Colby, if not
Bates and Maine State College, will have
professional trainers.
Just how our neighbors are equipped for
the contest we do not exactly know, but
judging from the excellent material we know
them to have, and the hard training we hear
they are doing, they will each present a strong
nine. Now that the great Small is not
to favor us with his presence on the dia-
mond, the superiority of the Maine State
College team is thereby doubtless rendered
more uncertain — how uncertain this may be
we will not venture to say, but we think it
will be safe to assert that they will play a
stiff game, as usual.
Bates is remarkably strong in its battery,
and, judging from the exhibition given here
last fall, a team of sluggers ; at all events it
will be a good plan to keep an eye on
them.
Colby, who has usually in years past been
our most formidable rival in base-ball, is not
behind this year in material and training.
At present, during vacation. Madden of the
Boston League team is training their battery,
and we can only wait for the result of the
games before we can form any estimate of
their entire strength, though we are well
aware that they have some of the best men
in the league and a first-class battery.
As for Bowdoin, there is no reason why
she cannot hold up her end in the coming
contest. It seems from the present outlook
that the vacancies of '88's strong trio will be
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ably filled, and that in the box, Gary, '88, will
be ably succeeded by Hilton, '91.
It is impossible now to tell who will be
chosen to fill the other vacancies, as there
are several promising candidates.
It is reasonable to suppose that our col-
lege will come out with a strong nine in the
spring, after a good winter's training under
a professional trainer who will soon be se-
cured, and under the efficient management
of Captain Freeman, a good showing may be
expected.
Under these circumstances it cannot fail
to be one of the most exciting contests seen
for years on our Maine college diamonds.
READING.
It is generally said by college graduates
that their chief neglect in college and the
thing they most lament is failure to employ
their time more in reading.
There is evidentlj' the same lack among
the students of to-day to improve the op-
portunity which is furnished by our large
library.
While having a due regard for times of
study, rest, and recreation, it seems as though
our students pay too little attention to, and
underestimate the importance of useful read-
ing. If, instead of wasting time in reading
cheap novels for recreation, we would spend
more time in the library, it would be of far
greater value to us, and if we read in the
right spirit, would serve equally well for
recreation. But if this were not the case,
pleasure should be sacrificed to profit.
When we say that a man is well read we
think highly of his accomplishment, though
his actual education may be very limited.
But such a person certainly exerts more in-
fluence on society than he otherwise could,
and is far better prepared to mingle with its
more refined elements.
The standard of education to-day de-
mands a range of knowledge which can only
be acquired by extensive reading. If we go
through college only to learn the lessons as-
signed, we shall utilize only a small part of
the advantages which college life presents
to us. If we fail to appreciate the value of
a general education, and neglect the impor-
tant part, reading, we shall not be prepared
to fill the positions to which our education
may call us, especially in its practical appli-
cation to professional life.
BOWDOIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF BOSTON.
The twenty-first annual meeting and din-
ner of the Bowdoin Alumni Association of
Boston and vicinity was held at the Boston
Tavern, February 13th. Previous to the
dinner an informal reception was held in an
adjoining parlor, at which there was a pleas-
ant interchange of greetings and congratula-
tions. At the business meeting the following
ofiicers were elected for the ensuing year :
President, Hon. W. W. Rice, '46; Vice-Pres-
ident, Hon. C. U. Bell, '63 ; Secretar}^ Ar-
thur T. Parker, '76 ; Assistant Secretary,
E. U. Curtis, '82; Executive Committee, A.
M. Jones, '60, F. A. Hill, '62 ; Henry Stone,
'52, G. M. Whittaker, '72, W. E. Spear, '70,
F. V. Wright, '76, W. W. Northend, '80, and
W. G. Reed, '82.
The meeting having adjourned, the com-
pany, preceded by the retiring president, Au-
gustine Jones, of Providence, and Gen. J. L.
Chamberlain, a former president of the col-
lege, and Prof. F. C. Robinson, who were the
guests of the evening, marched to the dining-
room and took seats at the table.
President Jones, at the conclusion of the
singing of the college hymn, called upon
Professor Robinson to tell something about
the college. Professor Robinson said the
■past year had been a prosperous one. There
is a good feeling among the students. Im
provements have been made which will
keep the college abreast of the times. Prof.
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Robinson said he believed Bowdoin College
is giving to-day a course w^hich will compare
favorably vrith that given in colleges v?ith
which it would like to be compared, and
excels that in colleges with which it comes
in competition. More work in teaching is
now being done than ever before. In closing
he said : " Possibly if we did not have to
spread what we have over so much we would
not spread it quite so thin. I am glad I
can go home and say there was never such
a large and enthusiastic meeting as this."
For the ministry, Dr. E. B. Webb spoke.
He said he felt the State is really under great
obligation to the college. It has reached an
age when it should be better off than it now
is. It is ninety-iive years old, and it is, as
in the past, doing a noble work. In a retro-
spective look. Dr. Webb awakened great en-
thusiasm by speaking of Gov. Andrew, Pe-
leg W. Chandler, who is ill at home, William
L. Putnam, Joshua Chamberlain, Gen. O. O.
Howard, and Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, who estab-
lished Roberts College at Constantinople.
Bowdoin has done well in the line of supply-
ing to the country and the world Christian
ministers. Dr. Webb said he wanted to
see the spirit pervade the college which
was there when he was a student. The
college should send out seventy-five per
cent, of its graduates for the next twenty,
five years, if possible, for the ministry. The
objection is raised that there is no pay in it;
Dr. Webb said he thanked God for it ;
the best work in this world has never been
done for. pay and never will be. Harvard
College, at the beginning, supplied fifty-five
per cent, of its graduates to the ministry;
to-day she supplies seven per cent. Yale,
at the beginning, supplied seventy-five per
cent. ; to-day but fifteen per cent. Unless
there were too many at the beginning there
are too few to-day.
Speeches were also made by Rev. Cyrus
Hamlin, '34, Eugene T. McCarthy, '82," ex-
Gov. Henry J. Gardner, '38, Rev. Egbert C.
Smythe, '48, Cassius C. Powers, '52, Oliver
C. Stevens, '76, ex-President Joshua L.
Chamberlain, '62, Chas. U. Bell, '63, Rev.
Jotham Sewall, '48, Hon. W. W. Rice, '46.
The meeting broke up with the singing
of " Auld Lang Syne."
BOWDOIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OF WASHINGTON.
Thirty-three graduates,with several guests,
sat down to dinner in the Arlington Hotel,
Washington, February 19th.
A large picture of Longfellow, who grad-
uated from Bowdoin in 1825, occupied a
conspicuous position upon the mantel, sur-
rounded on each side by banners of blue
and white, the college colors. Chief Justice
Fuller, the president of the association, pre-
sided, and after a bountiful repast had been
discussed, rose and felicitously expressed his
thanks to the Alumni Association of Wash-
ington for the honor they have bestowed
upon him in choosing him president of such
a distinguished bod}^ of men, and that he
had particular cause to be grateful because
a president is never supposed to be called
upon to make a speech. Then, again, a chief
justice is not looked for to say anything. So
in view of these facts he would refer the
further conduct of the proceedings to their
worthy Brother Deane.
Mr. Deane, who officiated as heretofore
as an admirable toast-master, called for a col-
lege song, so the old graduates rose and sung
with as much fervor as though thej^ were
college boys again. Professor Chickering
read several letters of regret from members
of the association out of town ; also a letter
from President Hyde, which showed the col-
lege to be in a very prosperous condition.
The course of instruction has been length-
ened, until now Bowdoin ranks favorably
with any college of its size in the United
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States. During the last three years the
number of students has increased sixty-
seven per cent., and it was safe to say that
such an increase would continue.
Prof. H. L. Chapman, being called upon,
spoke of the pleasure it gave him to meet
with his Washington brethren, and then
went on at some length to speak of the col-
lege as it is now, of its satisfactory advance-
ment and its further needs. He spoke feel-
ingly of the old teachers at Bowdoin and
their peculiar characteristics — of Professors
Smyth, Upham, and others — and he was often
broken in upon by some one of those present
who remembered vividly some of the old
teachers' ways.
Another stirring college song, entitled
" The Whispering Pines," followed.
Speeches were made by Hon. W. W.
Thomas, ex-Minister to Sweden, Hon. Will-
iam P. Drew, and Gen. Ellis Spear.
Hon. L. D. M. Sweat spoke next in regard
to the distinguished law graduates of Bow-
doin, and after a happy reference to Chief Jus-
tice Fuller, proceeded to make a most graphic
word-picture of that wonder of human forma-
tion, that prodigy of genius, eloquence, wit,
pathos, imagination, and logical power. Ser-
geant S. Prentiss.
Following upon the speech-making, Mr.
J. N. Whitney paid a feeling tribute to the
memory of one of their members, Henry
Dunlap, recently deceased.
The evening's entertainment closed, as
usual, with singing "Auld Lang Syne."
Among those present were : Rev. T. K.
Noble, Rev. Dr. S. M.Noble, L. Deane, Chief
Justice Fuller, Crosby S. Noyes, Hon. Hugh
McCuUoch, Senator Frye, WiUiam P. Drew,
Dr. G. S. Palmer, Rev. Dr. J. K. Mason, B. W.
Pond, Winthrop Tappan, Israel Kimball,
Richard Evans, Rev. Dr. W. S. Southgate,
J. W. Butterfield, J.- N. Whitney, Rev. Dr.
E. Whittlesey, W. H. Owen, Prof. J. W.
Chickering, Hon. L. D. M. Sweat, Horace
Piper, J. C. Strout, Charles Chesley, Judge
W. B. Snell, Hon. W. W. Thomas, N. A.
Bobbins, Gen. E. Spear, Charles H. Verrill,
George G. Kimball, Col. J. H. Gilman, U.
S. A., Israel Kimball, Stephen D. Fessenden.
President Hyde's sermon at Welles-
ley was printed in tlie Christian Union
of February 7th.
'91's Bugle Board is constituted as
follows: A. T. Brown, Peabody, Mass. ; T.
S. Burr, Bangor; H. S. Chapman, U. S. F. Lincoln,
E. G. Loring, Brunswick; and W. W. Poor, Sebago.
'90's Bugle has just gone to press.
Mr. Blaikie's lecture in Upper Memorial, Satur-
day evening, "How to Get Strong," is on a subject
in which every Bowdoin man is interested, and every-
body will be sure to attend. The nominal admission
fee is merely to pay expenses. Sunday, under the
auspices of the Y. M. C. A., Mr. Blaikie will give a
valuable talk to men only, on Social Purity.
Subjects for themes due to-day : Junior : 1. — The
Monroe Doctrine. 2. — What Loss of Strength is en-
tailed by a High Degree of Culture? Sophomore:
1. — Shakespeare's Delineation of Brutus. 2. — To
what Moral Fault is a College Student most Liable ?
Professor Little made a flying trip to Massachu-
setts last Saturday.
'92 has purchased '89's boat, and will put a crew
on the river in the spring. Possible candidates there-
for are R. F. Bartlett, Lee, J. D. Merryman, Nichols,
Osborne, Poore, Shay, Thompson, and Young.
President Hyde's last Sunday chapel talk was a
practical one, on the employment of time. He con-
demned the practice of incessant visiting among
college students, or, more plainly, of loafing in con-
venient rooms. He cautioned against putting otf any
kind of work until the time had nearly elapsed, and
closed with a warning against the dangei'ous delay
of accepting Christ.
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The Bowdoin delegates to the New England Col-
lege Y. M. C. A. Convention at Worcester, 15th to
17th, were C. F. Hersey, Neal, E. R. Stearns, Hub-
bard, W. B. Mitchell, Sears, Cilley, Kiley, W. 0.
Hersey, Kimball, J. D. Merryraan. President Her-
sey reported for our College Y. M. C. A., addressed
the Foreign Missions Volunteer Department, and
helped conduct a meeting at West Boylston, Sunday
morning. Bates sent eight delegates to the Conven-
tion, and Colby, one.
COLLEGE SONG.
Air — "jTAe Owl and the Pussy-Cat.'*
I went to my garden one summery morn.
When the catnip and ghinko were green,
And the leathery lark was a-tooting his horn.
And the blue bat quizzing the queen;
I sat me down on a cucumber vine.
And wept for a week and a day,
For the corkscrew came to that garden of mine,
And rustled my turnips away.
Chorus:
Then row, my brothers, and feather your blades.
No blast from the billowy sea.
No gibbering ghost from the shadowy shades
Shall make sole-leather of we.
Good-bye, farewell, each dingle and dell.
We're bound for the Isle of Skye,
Adown the river that floweth forever,
Good-bye, my lassie, good-bye !
I woke one night when the ilive was sour.
And the clothes-pins darkened the air;
I lay and I listened for many an hour.
To the song of the buUikin bear.
She came in a basket from Blankety land.
She fiddled, and fluted, and crew;
When she fed me with salad all sugared with
sand,
I didn't know what to do.
Choeus;
My garden is dead and the leaves are all red,
And yellow, and brown, and sere;
I wish the turf it was over my head.
And my pen-stock over my ear.
I hear no more the katydid roar,
Or the whistling woolly baboon,
I long to soar to the emerald shore
And live with the luminous loon.
Choeus.
Booker doesn't think public office a public trust,
O, no, but rather a private snap. Meanwhile we're
all catcliing colds in the cold buildings.
White, '89, attended the Governor's ball in Lew-
iston, the 15th.
While President Hyde is away the Seniors are to
read and write an abstract of the first four chapters
of Mills's " Utilitarianism."
Freeman and Rogers, '89, Bartlett and Brooks,
'90, Bragdon and Dyer, '91, Bean, Gummer, and
Shay, have returned from teaching since our last
issue.
We are paying S2.00 a term for gymnasium ac-
commodations, and are forced to avail ourselves of
them. Yet when we go in we find the temperature
in the vicinity of zero, the water no hotter, and the
bath-rooms afloat in a dirty ooze. If there is any
sickness in college this winter it will not be from
germs in drinking water, but from the negligently
managed gymna«ium. The authorities should spur
up laziness in others besides the students.
The Glee Club opened the season at Augusta, the
15th. Mann and Ward are the two new men. The
club sing in Portland, the 28th.
Many of the Faculty are connected with the new
Brunswick Snow Shoe Club.
It is gratifying to note that Mr. Guild's lectures
are being so well attended. They are delightfully
instructive and are arousing the greatest interest in
Wordsworth among the students. They begin at
eight o'clock sharp, so a prompt attendance would be
highly acceptable.
The nine trains vigorously every day just before
dinner.
Libby has rejoined '89.
The assemblies have opened successfully.
Among the alumni recently on the campus were
D. H. Knowlton, '69, Merrill, Plummer and Pushor,
'87, and M. P. Smithwick and Williamson, '88.
Not of honor, rank or station.
Not of battle, blood, or slaughter —
But the subjects of my story
Shall be mud, and slush, and water.
Every year they came among us
Our morality to test;
How we come off in the contest
Each one in his heart knows best.
Many are the scenes they picture,
But unto my mind they bring
That of our own college campus
In the near approaching spring.
F. B. H. Heald is the Sophomore historian, and
S. H. Erskine third on Committee of Arrangements.
Snow-shoes are quite common on the campus.
Professor Woodruff addressed the Y. M. C. A., a
week ago Sunday.
It is reported that Buffington, of the Philadelphias
will coach the Bowdoin nine this winter. — Lewiston
Journal.
Moody, '90, is going out teaching again, at West
Dresden, where he was last fall.
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'89's prize drill squad : Files, Captain ; Clark, ]^y-
nam, Merrill, Neal, Rice, F. M. Russell, Stacey, and
White.
Merrill, '89, represented the Bowdoin chapter at
the New England Delta Kappa Epsilon Alumni re-
union in Boston, February 12th, and was one of the
after-dinner speakers.
Professor Chapman assigned some written work
for the Seniors in English Literature, and the Juniors
in Logic, during his recent absence.
The Trustees should confer on Booker the G. B.
degree, or an Emeritus title next Commencement,
and then book a new man for the janitorship.
Our editor-in-chief was chosen a member of the
executive board of the New England Intercollegiate
Press Association, at Boston on the 22d.
The birthday of the revered G. W. was quietly
celebrated on Bowdoin's campus. No demon-
strations were heard, not even the familiar yell
of "Who was George Washington?" Many of
the boys ran home to remain over the Sabbath. In
the evening many attended the Ruggles Street
Church Quartette concert in the Town Hall, which '
was managed by Kelly, '91.
Professor Charles F. Richardson in the Dartmouth
Lit. for February, under the title, " The Haunts of
the Book Lover," writes : " A library, of course, does
not need to be Gothic, or huge, or dimly lit, or
damp, in order to impress. Wisdom is the principal
thing, and the books are the sanctifiei'S ; the shape
and size of their abode, and its immediate surround-
ings, may vary. Wherever books are gathered,
there the book lover will be, — in the rambling al-
coves hedging two sides of the Bowdoin chapel,"
and then goes on to put us in good company, by
mentioning the Boston, Redwood, Astor, Lenox, Con-
gressional, and other well known libraries of the
country. Professor Richardson's two volumes on
" American Literature" are to be found in the ram-
bling alcoves of the Bowdoin library.
The Senior examination in philosophy, on the
12th, was rather a unique one, as will be seen from
the following questions: 1. — Which of the pre-So-
cratio philosophers represented the greatest truth ?
2. — Was the Sophist teaching a help or a hindrance
to the moral life of Greece ? 3. — State the argu-
ments for the prosecution and defense in the case of
Socrates. 4. — State the fundamental distinction be-
tween the Platonic and American republics. 5. —
Compare the teachings of Aristotle with those of
Christianity on these points: Chief end of man.
Importance of external goods. Essence of virtue
or righteousness. The sphere of life in which
happiness can best be realized. 6.— Give advice re-
garding liquor drinking to a modern American on
the basis of these schools of philosophy : Cynic, Cy-
renaic. Stoic, and Epicurean.
Somebody had cheek enough to send the Orient
one of the circulars begging specimens for the Colby
mineralogical cabinet.
'43. — Mondaj', February
1st, the new annex to the
Essex County Court House was dedi-
cated with simple but impressive cere-
monies. In speaking of the addition, the
Boston Globe remarked that it was chiefly
through the energy of Hon. Wm. D. Northend, of
Salem, that the work was accomplished. Among the
numerous remarks which in no wise fail of being com-
plimentary to this son of Bowdoin, the Olobe speaks
thus :
It is a trite saying that success treads on the heels of
every right effort, and particularly is this true of the per-
severance of Hon. William D. Northend, who has accom-
plished his aim in securing for Essex County a court house,
of which the people feel proud. He was the leading spirit
iu the scheme at the outset, and his advice was sought for
until the structure was completed, in order that the build-
ing might be in every respect a model of convenience and
an ornament as well. Mr. Northend, who is without
question one of the ablest lawyers in the Commonwealth,
was born in By tiekl , February 18, 1823. He was educated at
Dummer Academy and Bowdoin College and was gradu-
ated in 1843. He studied law with the late Ashael Hunt-
ington of Salem, and was admitted to the Essex bar in
1845. In 1861 and 18(i2 he was a member of the Massachu-
sett's Senate, and at present is an overseer of Bowdoin
College and a trustee of Dummer Academy. He is a very
genial man, and held in high esteem by all classes.
'66. — Isaac D. Balch died in Orange, N. J., Sat-
urday, February 16th. He was born in Newbury-
port, Mass., in April, 1834, and graduated at Bow-
doin in 1856. He taught after graduation in Lim-
ington Academy, the following year in Kennebunk-
port, and in 1869 in Plaquemine, La. He then
studied law in Newburyport, Mass., and two
years later was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati,
Ohio. During the war he served in the army in
a Massachusetts regiment. He practiced law in
Jersey City, N. J., and later entered into mercantile
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business in New York. For three years, Mr.
Balch was first Deputy Collector of New York,
having previously had an extended connection with
the custom house.
'57. — Rev. Cyrus Stone, D.D., died Friday, Febru-
ary 15th. Dr. Stone was born in Jay, April, 1837,
and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1857. After
graduation he taught for two years in the Bridgton
Academy, and the two following years was tutor in
this college. He pursued theological study in the
Bangor Seminary, completing his course in 1863.
He was ordained into the Methodist Episcopal church,
and since that time has filled several of the leading
positions in the East Maine Conference, and was
somewhat later transferred to the Maine Conference.
In 1874, Wesleyan University conferred upon him the
degree of D.D.
'75. — Horace True, a gradnate of the Cony High
School, Augusta, and of Bowdoin College, has been
elected to fill the position of assistant principal in
the Augusta High School, the position lately filled
by Mr. C. A. Brick.
'84. — Mr. Knight, who has for some years been
residing in Brunswick, is now teaching the Alfred
High School.
'88. — M. P. Smithwick will soon lecture in Vinal-
haven upon the subject of Science, as illustrated by
Physics, Chemistry, and the like.
'88. — H. L. Shaw is canvassing in New York, not
in South Carolina as reported.
'88.— Mr. H. C. Hill, of Cape Elizabeth, who has
been principal of the high school at Pembroke, dui'-
ing the past winter, has completed his engagement
there. After a week's rest, Mr. Hill will assume the
duties of principal of Patten Academy, until the
close of the spring term in May.
IN GENERAL.
The following corrections to the alumni list have
been lately sent us :
'33. — Rev. Geo. F. Tewksbury has moved to Ox-
ford, Maine.
'40.— S. L; Young, M.D., moved to South Port-
land, Me.
'43.— W. W. Caldwell, Central Street, Somer-
vilie, Mass.
'60. — Rev. Chas. S. Perkins, Lyndon, Vt.
'63. — Chas. W. H. Hussey, Marbleliead, Mass.
'63.— Rev. Chas. C. Watson, 187 Salem Street,
Maiden, Mass.
'65.— Rev. J. E. FuUerton, Brighton, Mass.
'75. — J. P. Virgin, M.D., Weymoutli, Mass.
'84. — Henry M. Wright, Hingham, Mass.
'87. — Lewis Gahan, Brunswick, Me.
Columbia is still looking for a suitable mftn to
fill her presidency.
Harvard is soon to erect a new dormitory, which
will cost $200,000.
Yale has fourteen candidates in daily training for
the 'Varsity crew.
At Cornell, attendence at recitations has recently
been made optional.
Haverford and Lehigh have adopted the cap and
gown.
Clark University, now in rapid process of con-
struction, will open next October. It will be an
institution for a post-graduate course in Physical and
Mental Science.
The new Catholic University of Washington has
already got subscriptions amounting to $8,000,000.
It will open its halls to students October 6, 1889.
The Board of Overseers at Harvard are consider-
ing the subject of making chapel attendance compul-
sory again.
The Madisonensis publishes a fine article on
" Some Harvard Innovations," setting forth the in-
fluence Harvard has established in fixing precedents
and giving greater freedom to students.
TO A COLLEGE ORGANIST.
He plays upon the college nine;
He hears the eager crowd
Applaud his tlirows and catches tine,
Witli cheering long and loud.
He runs— half mad with joy we meet
In vehement embrace;
"When once we see his nimble feet
Have safely touched the base.
Again he plays — but no applause
Is heard among the throng;
Both reverence and college laws
Declare such acting wrong.
Each quiet in his chapel seat,
We keep a solemn face,
And wonder if his nimble feet
Will safely touch the bass.
— Williams GuL, '90.
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Amherst is preparing a very elaborate display of
catalogues, publications, photographic views, and
other things of intei-est for the Paris Exposition.
— Williams Weekly.
During the past year' Princeton has had more
men appointed to college professorships than any
other American institution. — Undergraduate.
Seven magazines are published under the au-
spices of Johns Hopkins. — Ex.
The Alleghany Institute of Virginia has been
sold to a syndicate for §35,000. — Princetoniaii.
MAJORIE.
Her hand in mine I gently pressed,
With mingled hopes and fears unguesaed,
And dread despair.
She did not speak, or blush betray;
She did not draw her hand away
Or seem to care.
My wayward heart cried " Haste! make haste! "
My awkward arm stole round her waist, —
Could fate be false ?
The music's measures were forgot.
And then I asked her, — yoii know what, —
" Is this a waltz? "
— Harvard Lampoon.
The Senior class at Williams has twice elected
class officers, and both times they have declined to
serve, and consequently the class has decided to
have no class-day. — Amherst Student.
We clip the following from the Tale Record :
A loafer — a haker.
A caucus — a crow.
Has a Grecian bend — /?.
A watchman — a jeweler.
A poetical bird — the raven.
A sharper — a knife grinder.
A regular clipper — a barber.
A bad man for a tailor — Dunne.
Gaiters — a spoony young couple.
Ground his teeth— the saw maker.
A boy-cot — the Freshman's couch.
A strong stare -the State House steps.
Forty-four Freshmen were dropped at Cornell
during the last examinations.
There are ninety- five graduates of other colleges
studying at Harvard.
The University of Illinois is soon to have a gym-
nasium expressly for ladies.
Brown is to spend $2,000 for base-ball, of which
$1,300 was raised at the first meeting.
There were fifty-seven candidates for Yale's
Freshman crew, and forty for Harvard's.
Fifty men are training at Harvard for places
on the Mott Haven team.
At the Boston Tech. each man, after his first year,
is put under the care of some one of the professors,
who acts as his adviser during the rest of his course.
One of the New Haven police force has a club
made from a post of the old Yale fence.
The University of Vermont has a library of
36,500 volumes.
During the past year the number of instructors
at the University of Minnesota has been increased
from thirty-two to one hundred and four.
BOOK REVIEWS.
The New Biology, or the Trde Science of Life.
By M. J. Barnett. Boston: H. H. Carter and Karrick,
1888. 12mo., pp. 145.
Whatever may be said against the doctrines set
forth in this book, or in favor of them, the fact re-
mains that the items of truth to be found between
its covers are numerous. The first chapter, on " The
Old and the New," arraigns in a very pithy manner
the statement so often made, that the world was
better in the past than it is at pi'esent. " Throwing
a false glamour upon the past," says our author, " is
a stumbling block in the way of progress. It deters
one from fully appreciating and utilizing the pres-
ent. Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar
of salt. Turning away from the new and looking
back uf)on the old is a petrifying process, and its
effect upon us is well symbolized by a pillar of salt.
The expression often uttered with a sigh, ' the good
old days,' casts a reflection Upon the present. It
implies that yesterdays are better than to-days, which
is a great mistake. To-day is belter than yesterday,
and to-morrow will be better than to-day. The
world and its inhabitants are further advanced to-day
than ever they have been before within historic ages.
There are always certain individuals who are remark-
ably in advance of their race. There have also been
ages in the past in which certain races have been
remarkably developed in some one direction. They
have perhaps been far beyond us in certain arts and
sciences, but as a whole they have not been so
developed One, as a child of ten years,
may be able to spin a top or fly a kite more dexter-
ously than as a man of forty, but would we consider
that the individual had therefore retrograded instead
of advanced ? "
Leaving out of account the style, which might be
improved, and considering the sentiment alone, this
passage is good. It impresses upon the reader in a
simple and taking way what can never be too
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persistently enjoined — tlie fact that the conception of
" good old times " is a chimera.
In the chapter on ' ' Th& Present and Ihe Future " are
a few sentences worthy of attention : " There is much
cantin the various religious sects of the day to the mis-
taken purport that the sooner we are taken out of this
life the better it is for us, as though God had made a
mistake in placing us here. Thousands among the
ignorant are encouraged in this morbid sentimental-
ity by the fervid liymus that extol the bye and bye,
as though it were a blessed escape from the miseries
of the present life. It seems a grave error in any
system of philosophy or religion, to lament this mor-
tal life, which is now ours, to regard it only as an
affliction to be endured with resignation, and to feel
that all happiness lies in the future It is a
curious fact that it is principally among devout
Christians that we find this mistaken view of life.
It is they who seem to think that the sooner God
repairs his blunder in placing us here, the better it
will be for us. We fail to discover any such view in
the teachings of their professed Master and Christ."
Here is something for the i-eligious croakers who
far from committing the error of entertaining the
illusion of "good old times" go to the opposite
extreme and concentrate themselves lugubriously
upon the remote future. It is well enough to bear in
mind that we are given residence upon this earth for
other purposes than ^to occupy ourselves entirely with
longing for an exit.
The bulk of the book before us is taken up with
explanations and examples of mental healing. It
would be out of place to discuss the nature of this
"new science," as its adherents call it. There is a
true principle underlying "mind cure," but whether
it is as comprehensive and far reaching as its advo-
cates would have us believe, is open to doubt.
The essay as a whole impresses us more favorably
than previous effusions of this author have done.
The typographical execution is fair, and the bind-
ing good.
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with various topics of nursery economy. The book
has already passed through two editions and is well
worthy of the popularity it has achieved.
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No. 16.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 16.-March 13, 1889.
The Consequence, 209
Editorial Notes • 209
The Value ot Mathematics 210
Examinations, 211
Smoke Rings 212
The Chapel Bell 212
Self-Conceit 212
CoLLEGii Tabula, 213
Personal 215
In Memoriam 216
College World, 217
Book Reviews, 218
THE CONSEQUENCE.
Night after night those wailings came
Without a sign of ceasing.
We thought they'd stop, but then alas !
They seemed to be increasing.
Now what could be the cause of this ?
No one of us could guess it —
It dawned at last. The Spring had come,-
The poet must address it.
Next night we lay beside his door
There, no one else could know it.
Burst in upon the suffering man
And slew that blamed Spring Poet.
We are glad to publish another article
on the subject of examinations. There is cer-
tainly a chance for reform in this direction.
Under the present arrangement they amount
to nothing.
The Orient will be glad to hear from
any one on the subject.
If there is any place where a man ought
to show himself a gentleman it is in chapel.
Noisy demonstrations are entirely out of place,
and a sense of decencj'' ought to restrain a
man from indulging in such proceedings.
Of late several students have won unenvi-
able distinction for themselves by disturbing
chapel exercises by childish demonstrations
that would be out of place anywhere. If
such men have no regard for the character
of the exercise, they could at least remember
that others have, and gain something of com-
mon decency by behaving themselves.
College poetry has a place of its own in
our literature. Usually it is bright and witty.
Sometimes serious and very often possessed
of marked excellences. It can claim for
itself originality and beauty of expression,
and it strikes a responsive chord in the hearts
of those who appreciate verse.
In the quantity and quality of its poetry
Bowdoin does not hold an inferior place. In
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the files of the Orient and Bugle, and even
before the birth "bi these publications, will
be found " Many a gem of purest ray, serene,"
which is worthy of perpetuation in a volume
of Bowdoin Lyrics.
In several colleges undergraduates have
done good work in this direction. It would
be an excellent thing if some lover of the
Muse would collect the poems and songs of
Bowdoin, scattered through nearly a century
of eventful history, and bind them into a
volume, a copy of which every son of Bow-
doin would be glad to possess.
THE VALUE OF MATHEMATICS.
There is probably no student in college
to whom the study of mathematics is more
distasteful than to the writer ; and, paradox-
ical as it may seem, there are, perhaps, few
who more keenly appreciate its worth, or
would more ardently advocate its pursuit.
To the full thinker there are three essentials :
First, he must be an accurate thinker,
one who thinks along logical lines. He
must not infer; he must not trust to the
oftentimes ambiguous trend of events ; he
must not drift into those gauzy generalities
which are continually floating before the
active mind, like the ever-changing vistas in
a fairy-land of thought.
Secondly, he must be a consecutive
thinker, one who considers clearly and com-
pletely but one topic or one phase at a time.
This method of division may limp, in that
accurate thinking implies consecutive think-
ing ; but it seems to us that there is a dis-
tinction between the two, which we have not
the space, and perhaps not the art, to indi-
cate. John Stuart Mill says of Hobbes, that
he was one of the most " consecutive think-
ers" of his time. England's greatest states-
man is such an one. In his study are three
desks. The first is devoted to duties of
State, the second to literary work, and the
third to private correspondence ; and he pos-
sesses the rare faculty of changing from one
to the other and concentrating his whole
mind on the subject in hand. The " grand
old man " does not allow the outposts of one
line of thought to confiiot with those of an-
other. In short, he is a consecutive thinker.
Thirdly, he must be a broad thinker, one
who can raise himself above stifling details
and command a bird's-eye-view of his subject.
He must be able to drop his chisel and mal-
let, and step back and contemplate the whole
poise and contour of the statue. He must-
be able to mount into the realm of far-reach-
ing ideas.
Great characters there may have been,
who did possess all of these characteristics;
but a great mind that did not possess them,
the world has yet to produce. Omit the first
two, and you have an idealist, a dreamer.
Omit the third, and you have that abomina-
ble wart on the face of humanity, a bigot.
That study of our college course, which
is peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of
the first and second essentials, is mathemat-
ics. It teaches accuracy; it teaches atten-
tion; it teaches method. Its principles,
though often so subtly masked that we do
not discover them, enter into every branch
of study. It strengthens the cords and ten-
dons of our intellectual being, and gives us
a firmer grip upon ideas; it imparts sym-
metry and strength to whole systems of
thought, and clinches facts and principles.
Aristotle, the greatest mind of antiquity, was
a mathematician. The same may be said of
Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy,
and of Napoleon, the most unique and mys-
tic genius of history. By far the greatest
intellect of the present, and in some respects,
of all generations, is that of Gladstone,
already mentioned. While at Oxford he
achieved the remarkable distinction of ex-
celling in both classics and mathematics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been about
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our only American philosopher, but he was
not a great one. His mind wandered in mid-
air ; he saw things which he could not prove.
He could not materialize ; if he could have,
he would have stood shoulder to shoulder
with the world's greatest philosophers. Some
of his lectures are characterized by Lowell
as " a chaos full of shooting stars, a jumble
of creative forces." This noble and inspir-
ing man fell just a little short of greatness
because he knew practically nothing of math-
ematics. He could not think accurately
and consecutively, like Descartes, Bacon,
and Locke.
How the third, and most important, es-
sential may be developed falls without the
range of our article. Suffice it to say that
it is not developed by mathematics nor by
any kindred study.
EXAMINATIONS.
In dealing with a necessary evil, it is
very difficult to tell just what place to give
to it. That in the present arrangement of
the curriculums of colleges and academies,
examinations are necessary, I think no one
will den jr. It is also an acknowledged fact
that they do not serve the purpose for which
they were designed. Indeed, so far as they
urge on the student to a mere superficial
knowledge, sufficient only to pass the re-
quired test, whether by fair means or foul,
they are decidedly an evil.
The real object of an examination is to
find out just how much the student knows
of the work which he has been over. For
this reason they are made as broad and com-
prehensive as possible. Now it is obvious
that in so making out the examinations the
professor is in the right, and so far there is
no harm in them. It is in the student that
the fault seems to lie. Instead of complying
with the wishes of his instructor, and telling
just what he knows, very often one examina-
tion paper represents the combined efforts
of ten or a dozen students.
It is a verj' little matter if one lacks just
one point in a mathematical demonstration
to ask one's neighbor for assistance, but in
so doing he insures the defeat of the very
object for which the examination was given.
Men will do this who would scorn to do any
other dishonest act, and yet I fail to see any
justification for it. It is of course impossi-
ble for a professor to fathom all modes of
deception, and we could hardly justify him
for looking over a man's shoulder during a
whole exercise. For a competitive exami-
nation this fault is rectified, but it is not ex-
pedient to have every examination competi-
tive.
One solution of the difficulty occurs to
me which seems worth trying, at least. After
a whole term's work a professor ought to
know, with quite a degree of certainty, what
standing a man has earned, and how thor-
ough his efforts have been, from daily recita-
tions. Instead, therefore, of having a test
at the end of the term, in which a little su-
perficial knowledge may count doubly more
than hard, honest work, why not let the pro-
fessor consider the whole term's work an
examination, and decide from that? To be
sure this is done now to a certain extent in
the keeping of daily rank, but it seems to
me that examinations as now conducted are
only an evil, and it would be better to do
the way suggested above.
Possibly, as a student, I see only the neg-
ative side of this question, and never having
presided over such examinations am not
competent to judge. But, on the other hand,
so a professor sees only their good side, if
there be one, and as it is only by a thorough
comprehension of both sides that any lasting
good can come, it may not be time lost for a
student to set forth the idea of examinations
as seen by one who is behind the scenes.
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SMOKE RINGS.
I'm sitting to-night by the fire-light,
In the glad old college hall ;
The Iragrant jet from the cigarette
Doth dreamily rise and fall.
The dear old house mid the leafy dome,
And the hamlet down below.
Come floating back on the bounding track
Of mem'ries ebb and flow.
The happy gleams of faded scenes ;
The school-room carved and dun,
The little girl with the golden curl,
Soft eye and rippling fun.
Ah, pure old scene, from memory's sheen.
You shame this dizzy strife.
To-night I'm sad. on the morrow glad ;
Ha, ha ! 'tis college life !
THE CHAPEL BELL.
There is, perhaps, no one of the college
appurtenances which leads a more precarious
existence than the bell. In almost all institu-
tions there are legends clinging about these
brazen-tongued heralds, which we accept or
not, according to the measure of probability
contained in their narration.
Although for the past twenty years our
present bell has chimed on in peace, it has
not always been free from Sophomoric as-
sault, and Freshman escapades. It Avas placed
in the tower of the chapel two or three years
after that structure was reared, its venerable
predecessor having been thrown into the
Androscoggin two miles below the present
site of the boat-house. The first molestation
which it sustained was a few years after it
was hung, when it was thrown into 'very
deep water off Mason's rock. It was speedily
recovered, however, and remained untouched
in its old position until about the year 1862.
It was then that occurred the oft-told tale,
in which it was inverted, filled with a com-
pound of coal-ashes and water, and entrusted
to the severity of one of our Maine winter
nights. It is needless to remark that on the
morrow it was dumb, and that its usually
ready tongue was only set free after a liberal
gargle of Dr. Condon's Cast-Steel Tonic.
About two years later it was treated to
its second bath in the waters of the Andros-
coggin. It was taken down on the outside
of the chapel, and carried out through the
Longfellow pines and across the Delta to a
point near the President's house, no partic-
ular care being taken to erase the traces of
the course taken. At this point it was placed
upon a pair of confiscated wagon-wheels,
which happened to be nearby, and conveyed
in a nearly opposite direction by the way of
McKeen Street to a point just above the
Lewiston railroad bridge, and cast into the
river. Whether or not this course was pur-
sued as a ruse, or whether the participants
belonged to that still-surviving class of sub-
lunary ambulators who are wont to direct
their steps thitherward, we know not ; but
one thing is certain, that their course was
either traced or divined, and by midnight
the bell was safely deposited upon the chapel
steps. It is said to have required five myr-
midons of the janitor to extract it from the
river and escort it back. It is also stated
that the object of leaving it in that position
was to convey to the student-body the im-
pression that the vandals, conscience-stricken,
had brought it back themselves. Happy de-
lusion !
The old bell has been rung and re-rung;
it has told of victory and it has tolled for de-
feat; it has been re-tongued and re-roped;
but never since has its lofty resting-place
been invaded by any predatory Spirit. May
it ring on unmolested; only we are fondly
looking forward to the morn when it will
ring for optional chapel.
SELF-CONCEIT.
The majority of students have, with more
or less consciousness, formed a notion of
their own worth, if not to the outside world,
at least to themselves. And this idea, how-
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ever little foundation it may have, is adhered
to with remarkable firmness. The greater
part of mankind appear never to have con-
sidered the question whether.they really pos-
sess points of excellence. They adopt it as
a matter truly self-evident, and seem to be-
lieve in their vs'orth on the same grounds on
which they assure themselves of their own
existence. Self-esteem, like gymnasium work,
is of great value when taken properly, but
when participated in violently and to a great
degree very often proves injurious. 'Self-
esteem is to be admired when it goes no
farther than self-esteem, but when it becomes
so magnified and perverted as to make one
believe that he is an object of admiration and
influence, it ceases to be a virtue and easily
becomes an imperfection in one's character
which we all recognize as self-conceit.
When one is highly favored with such an
abundance of self-sufficiency it does not take
long for a person to recognize it. We meet
him in almost every place and he is easily
recognized as he generall}'^ carries his head
tipped well back, an artificial smile on his
face, in short, with a sort of self-satisfied air
about him. In company he persists in talk-
ing continually on the false supposition that
be is conferring upon his fellows the siftings
of profound wisdom. Of course he talks
mainly about himself and lengthens his ex-
periences with glowing words and praises for
his own talents. He seems to think that he
is made of more than common clay and that
there is certainly something about him that
is divine. In his own estimation he thinks
that no one is more talented, and that all
those who have not the honor of his ac-
quaintance are deprived of the great pleas-
ure of life. He would be a deserving object
of pity if he did not appear so happy in his
conceit, but as it is we despise him.
This self-conceit is, to a great degree,
brought about by our eagerness to excel in
some line of sport or some other pursuit.
After we have participated in these things
we compare ourselves generally with our sup-
posed inferiors and necessarily reach a con-
clusion in our favor ; but if we were to ask
ourselves, " Have we made a just compari-
son ? " " On what grounds are we rightly
superior ? " we would at once find our con-
clusion groundless, and also that we are no
better than our fellows.
Editor Tenney of the Telegraph vis-
ited the gj'mnasium recently and ed-
itorially speaks highly of the boys'
gymnastic abilities.
Harriman, ex-'89, is teaching school at New Port-
land.
Fish, '91, has been elected captain of the Pejepscot
Canoe Club lately formed in Brunswick.
E. A. Thompson, '91, took part in "Enlisted for
the War," given by the Franklin Family School two
weeks ago.
Briggs is contined at home by illness for the
remainder of the term. Thompson, '91, takes his
place at the loan desk in the library.
There has been a rich crop of adjourns lately.
The gymnastic exhibition will occur March 27th.
The participants are training steadily.
Alumni recently in town : Hon. A. F. Moulton,
'73, Wm. T. Cobb, '77, and Hon. A. L. Lumbert, '79.
Recent accessions to the library : Max O'Rell's
"John Bull, Jr."; Bryce's "American Common-
wealth"; the final volume of " Encycloptedia Brit-
tanica"; Maine's " International Law" ; John Fiske's
"Critical Period of American History"; Nicolas's
"History of the Royal Navy"; " Robert Elsmere " ;
Karl Kron's " 10,000 Miles on a Bicycle," and the
Boston Directory for 1840. This latter consists
of 450 l^mo pages with nearly 18,000 names.
Among them it is curious to read, "Hawthorne,
Nathaniel, measurer, Custom House"; "Holmes,
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Oliver W.. physician, 35 Tremont row " ; " Sumner,
Charles, counsellor, 4 Court, h. 20 Hancock": and
" Winthrop, Robert C, counsellor, 11 Court, h. 21
Summer."
The last themes of the term are due to-day. Sub-
jects : Junior — 1. Wordsworth ; 2. Should the State
capital be located at Portland ? Sophomore — 1. Inter-
oceanic Canals ; 2. The Development of the Body.
The '68 Prize has dwindled down to $40.
Up to March 6th tliere were 72 names registered
at the Medical School. The following college men
are among them : Bowdoin, C. E. Adams, '84, F. N.
Whittier, '85, C. F. and H. M. Moulton, '87, and
W. H. Bradford, '88. Amherst, N. C. Haskell, '87.
Bates, B. G. W. Cushman, '85, J. H. Manson, '87,
J. K. P. Rogers, '88, and W. J. Pennell and F. E.
Strout, '90. Colby, C. A. Whitney, '82, A. B. Towns-
end, '85, and C. P. Small and H. A. Smith, '86.
Yale, F. H. Dodge, '84. Nicolet College and Laval
University, Quebec, Canada, P. C. Beaumier. Total
17, against 20 college men in a class of 82 last year.
Hon. William Blaikie of New York gave two
interesting lectures in Memorial Hall, March 2d and
3d. He is somewhat of an orator and excels as a
story teller and jDunster. There has been some desire
for the story of his life, so we subjoin a biography in
place of an abstract. Mr. Blaikie was born in York,
N. Y., 24 May, 1843. He graduated at Harvard in
1866 and at the Harvard Law School in 1868. In the
following year he accompanied the Harvard crew to
England as their secretary and treasurer. After a
year as pardon clerk in the Attorney-General's office
at Washington, and two years as assistant in the
U. S. attorney's office at New York, he entered into
active practice in the latter city in January, 1873.
For eight years he was commissioner of the U. S.
court of claims. He has written two poijular works
on physical training, one of which may be found in
the library.
The ice and water on the campus last week made
walking rather hazardous. A prominent Orient
man distinguished himself by an undignified descent
into a pool anything but clean. He consoled himself
with the thought that the Bible says the wicked
stand in slippery places, but it doesn't say anything
about their failing in them. The righteous do that.
F. J. C. Little, '89, has gone to take the place of
H. C. Hill, '88, as principal of Patten Academy. Mr.
Hill had to retire owing to trouble with the eyes.
Young, '92, is having a fine steam launch built in
Brunswick.
The candidates for the battery are Thompson,
'90, Burleigh, W. M. Hilton, Downes and Gately,
pitchers, and Freeman, '89, F. M. Russell, and Fish,
catchers. A professional is expected to coach the
team. Buffington was unable to come, as reported.
The Glee Club sang to good houses in Portland,
February 28th, and Berwick, March 1st. They give
a concert in Brunswick March 19th.
IN THE GYM.
Pulling on the chest weights.
Running on the track.
Fooling on the parallels.
Just to get the knack.
Now his shapely form he twists,
While all gaze from afar,
In graceful evolutions
Round the horizontal bar.
Then he tries the tumbling,
And strives in vain to get
That quite deceptive little trick,
The backward somerset.
At last the dressing-room he seeks,
Convinced that he will see
Himself a famous athlete.
And he possibly may be.
Prof. Robinson served very acceptably as moder-
ator for the Brunswick town meeting, March 4th.
Young, '92, attended the inauguration at Wash-
ington.
Lynam, '89, is giving lessons in boxing.
Saturday evening, February 23d, an enjoyable
musicale was given by Prof, and Mrs. Pease.
Thursday evening, February 28th, the college was
pretty well out. It was the regular Y. M. C. A.
night, and the Glee Club concert in Portland, a
drama at the Franklin Family School, and a minstrel
company in the Town Hall all claimed the boys'
attendance.
Stories of Tom Reed are always in order. An
alumnus tells us that one noon at the club table while
in college Mr. Reed became angry at certain remarks
that were made. " Say that again and I'll dash this
glass of water over you," he said. The challenge
was promptly accepted, but no sooner were the
words out of the offender's mouth than the water was
thrown into his face, wetting of course both his
clothing and the table linen. The doughty Thomas
resumed his meal in peace.
The Cornell Era some time ago published a poem
on "The Naughty Greek Girl," which was credited
as original to the Rochester Gamims. The poem was
written by Prof. J. B. L. Soule, Bowdoin, '40, and first
saw print in the Chicago Advance, March 15, 1877.
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Prof. Lee lectured at Fryeburg Academy on South
America, a week ago Monday evening, Prof. Chap-
man before the Central Club, Bangor, on Macbeth,
and Prof. Woodruff at Vassalboro, on Greece.
The Lewiston Journal says: "The Bowdoin
Orient bewails the lacli of a real soulful poet in its
classic halls — a complaint that is simply incompre-
hensible in view of the fact that within the covers of
the same issue of this publication are found truly
poetic lines which must touch a sympathetic chord in
the breast of evei-y lover of Nature." The " College
Song" of our last is quoted in illustration. Journal,
that song wasn't written by a poet in these classical
halls — it came from the pen of a jovial alumnus.
Another alumnus sends us the following song of old
college days set to a popular tune of the present :
" Here's to good old Prex (Leonard Woods)
Drink him down, drink him down,
Here's to good old Prex,
Drink him down, drink him down,
Here's to good old Prex,
How he hates the female sex.
Drink him down, drink him down.
Drink him down, down, down.
"Here's to good old Cleave (Parker Cleaveland), etc.,
May he never take his leave, etc.
" Here's to good old Ferox (William Smyth) etc..
For he gives us the dry knocks," etc.
Prof. Chapman is now reading some of Shaks-
pere's plays to the Seniors in connection with the
course in English Literature. Prof. Chapman has
carefully studied the great dramatist and renders
him in an appreciative manner. He is in no way
inferior to the celebrated Cliurchill of Andover.
Perkins, '92, has left college.
A Fryeburg Academy Alumni Association of
Bowdoin, similar to the Exeter and Andover Clubs at
Harvard, was formed on the 6th instant. It was
voted to hold a supper at the Toritine in the near
future. The following officers were elected : Mr.
D.M.Cole, '84, President; C. E. Riley, '87, Vice-
President; J. Z. Sliedd, '86 (M. S.) Secretar}'-Treas-
urer; Committee of Arrangements, F. M. Stiles, '87
(M. S.), R. F. Chase, Jr., and F. Durgin, '88. There
are some eleven Fryeburg men in college and five in
the Medical Schox)l.
It vyas at the dinner table, and " Mul " was de-
fending the unknown persons who recently smashed
the door in North Maine. "You see, they were
locked in and were compelled to break the door
down." " Why not go out the windows?" " No '90
man could ever humble himself to go through a
window." A wan ghost of a smile came over the
face of a Senior as he thought of the scene enacted at
the Mathematical Room one winter's night, and of
the dignity of '90 on that occasion.
We have received the Freeport annual Town
Reports, which include a carefully prepared and well
written report of the Supervisor of Schools. This
position has been filled during the past year by C. L.
Mitchell, '89.
March 7th, '89 elected the officers who will serve
on Class Daj', June 25th. It is a pleasure to add
that the utmost good feeling characterized the elec-
tion : President, G. L. Rogers, Wells ; Vice-President,
F. J. Libby, Auburn ; Marshal, F. Lynam, Bar Har-
bor ; Chaplain, C. F. Hersey, North Waterford ;
Orator, G. W. Hayes, Lewiston ; Poet, F. H. Hill,
Cape Elizabeth ; Opening Address, T. S. Crocker,
Paris ; Historian, W. M. Emery, New Bedford, Mass. ;
Prophet, F. J. C. Little, Jefferson ; Parting Address,
L.Prentiss, Saco ; Odist, W. S. Elden, Waterville ;
Committee on Arrangements, T. R. Clark, New Port-
land, G. Thwing, Farmington, E. B. Smith, Gardi-
ner; Committee on Pictures, J. L. Dohertj', Houlton.
Hon. A. F. Moulton, '73, of Portland, delivered
his lecture, "A Trip Across the Continent," before
the A. K. E. Chapter last Thursday evening.
'42. — Franklin Wood-
side, a well-known attor-
ney of Roxbuiy, Mass., died at Carney
Hospital, Febiuary 8th. He was a
well-educated man, having graduated at
Bowdoin and studied his profession with the
late John J. Clark. He never was especially devoted
to legal studies and hence never became a learned
jurist, but he was a well-read and useful lawyer.
Outside of law he was a man of clear and profound
thought. In religious views, he was a firm believer
and profound student of the doctrines of the Catholic
church. As a party manager he occupied a unique
position. Never a wire-puller or an office-holder, he
was among the higher class of politicians a recog-
nized force. Never a speaker among the crowd, he
yet had influence with the few, and was known
among his friends to be a man whose views on party
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politics could be safely followed. He was a delight-
ful conversationalist, a little prolix, and at times
prosy, but always pointed, sound and logical, giving
good reasons for the faith that was in him. He was
what may be called an eccentric man. He had no
law office, but practiced his profession and held his
councils on the street corners, in hotel lobbies and in
the offices of friends, and in a small way lived much
such a life as Socrates of old. Those who had the
opportunity of drawing him out found in him a
perennial source of rich thought and a companion
well worth cultivating.
'49. — The following extract was clipped from the
Kennebec Journal, and although Mr. Wasson did not
graduate, he is claimed as an honored son of Bow-
doin : Mr. Arlo Bates, himself a Maine man and
Bowdoin graduate, in his regular Boston letter to
the Book Buyer, gives a high meed of praise to the
personality of the late David At wood Wasson, a vol-
ume of whose posthumous essays is soon to be pub-
lished. Mr. Wasson was born in Brooksville in this
State, and was a brother to Hon. Samuel Wasson,
who was quite prominent in agricultural affairs in
this State a score of years ago. Mr. Wasson was
one of the clearest thinkers, most able writers and
true philanthropists who ever lived. He was one of
the original transcendentalists, the friend of Emer-
son and Garrison, and by many regarded as the
former's superior. A volume of his poems was pub-
lished last year, which must surely grow in favor as
the beauties of "Orpheus," "The Babes of God,"
and "A Confession " become better known. Indeed
a Wassonian Society for studying this poet's works
would seem to be quite as useful as a Browning
Society, and the depth, subtlety, and force of his
style are certainly deserving this honor.
'68. — Among the members of the Boston School
Board for the year 1889 was a Bowdoin man, of
whom the Boston Eerald thus speaks : " Mr. Thomas
J. Emery was born at Poland, Me., December 26,
184.5, and received his early training in the public
schools and Westbrook Academy. He entered Bow-
doin College, graduating with honors in the class of
1868. After teaching school in his native State a few
years he came to Boston, subsequently being ap-
pointed a master in the English high school, where
he was very popular during his service of five years,
till 1876, when he turned his attention to the study of
the law. He took the course at the Boston University
law school, and was admitted to the bar. He imme-
diately commenced practice, with an office on Con-
gress Street, and at present has an office at 82
Devonshire Street. He has won a high place at the
bar, and is highly respected by the legal profession.
He was elected to the common council from ward 18
in 1881, and was re-elected in 1882 and 1883, serv-
ing on important committees. He is a member of
the English High School Association and St. John's
Lodge, F. A. M. His residence is No. 20 Claremont
Park."
'70. — A member of the class of 1870 writes that
six members of it were duly selected to compete for
the '68 prize, as follows : Frost, Roberts, Keene,
Alexander, Collins, and Whitman, but that owing to
the enforced absence of one of the number it was
thought advisable to adandon the contest. This ex-
plains why the prize was awarded to no one in that
year.
'80. — Virgil C. Wilson, a Bowdoin graduate, was
the Democratic candidate for mayor of Portland in
the late election.
Ex-'85. — Richard Webb was elected a member of
the school board in Portland.
'88. — -It was reported in the last number of the
Orient that Hany Hill would accept the position of
principal of Patten Academy. We are son-y to learn
that on account of his eyes Mr. Hill has been
obliged to give up his school. F. J. C. Little of '89
will fill this position.
IN GENERAL.
At the dedication of the new and beautiful pub-
lic library building lately presented to the city of
Portland by Mr. Baxter, the sons of Bowdoin played
their usual part of prominence. After the presenta-
tion. Mayor C. J. Chapman ('68) arose and made a
very able speech accepting the deed of gift in behalf
of the city. Following Mayor Chapman, Judge J.
W. Symonds ('60) spoke in the name of the public
library. Paul Aker's great work, " The Dead Pearl
Diver," was at the same time presented by certain
citizens to adorn the building inbehalf of the donors.
Hon. W. L. Putnam ('55) made the concluding
address.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Eta, e. ^. x., Brunswick, Me., }
February 23, 1889. \
Whereas, Divine Providence Imis removed by
death Brother Cyrus Stone, D.D., class of '57 ;
Resolved, That, while we valued his friendship,
we humbly submit to the decree of " Him who
doeth all things well ";
Resolved, That we tender our sincere sympathy to
his family shrouded in mourning;
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Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent
to the friends of our deceased brother and to the
press for publication.
F. C. Russell, '89,
H. H. Hastings, '90,
J. R. HORNE, '91,
Com. for Fraternity.
Dr. E. D. Robinson, for seventeen years President
of Brown University, will withdraw from the presi-
dency at the end of the present college year. Prof.
Andrews, of Cornell, is one of the most prominent
candidates for the position.
Luce, Harvard's most promising pitcher, has with-
drawn from practice ; the ten ijitchers are now re-
duced to two.
The early numbers of Pulse, of Iowa College,
give promise of a valuable contribution to college
journalism.
A French scientist has calculated that Adam was
125 feet tall and Eve 118. No wonder they fell. — Ex.
Juniors are eligible to the Yale Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa Society if they attain a standing of 3.15
on a scale of four in scholarship for the first two and
a half years of their course.
The Chinaman describes the toboggan slide as a
"whiz* * * * lualk a mile ! ! " — Ex.
Some Harvard men have offered a cup which is to
be played for by the winner of the E.^eter-Andover
game and a nine picked from the schools around
Boston.
For particip.ation in the recent Washington's
Birthday scrape at Wesleyan, six students were sus-
pended for the rest of the year, and eleven until May
1st. No action was taken in Hubbard's case.
The University of California now has .some six
hundred students in all its various departments.
Professor — " What does galon mean in Vola-
piik!" Pupil — "It means to rejoice." Punster pupil
to his seatmate — "That is what a young man does
when he has a gal-on his knee." — Ex.
President Dwight, of Yale, asks for $150,000 for
a new gymnasium. More than half this amount has
been already raised.
Princeton and Cornell have Graduate Advisory
Committees through which all contributions from
alumni to college athletics are made.
The young lady students of University of Cali-
fornia have petitioned for compulsory gymnasium.
They know not what they ask.
The Faculty of Lafayette have squelched the win-
ter cane-rush.
A Sophomore bold and careless and gay '
One afternoon of a winter's day,
Fixed himself up and went to the play.
It was Richard III. and a matinee.
The Sophomore sat in the front parquet,
And all was as serene as a day in May,
Until King Richard began to pray,
" A horse! a horse! " in a pitiful way,
When the Sophomore sprang from his seat, they say,
And cried, tlie poor king's fears to allay,
" I'll get you a horse without delay,
I know how it is, I have felt that way." — Ex.
Says the Princefonian : "It is not claiming too
much to say that in three professions — the min-
istry, teaching, and politics — Princeton, in her gradr
uates, ranks easily first among the colleges and
universities of the country."
The following beautiful little poem is from the
Wesleya7i Argus :
MATER DOLOROSA.
A face divine, with upturned eyes,
"Where love with sorrow sweetly vies; —
As dew-drops, or as jewels rare,
Those eyes, tho' filled with grief, are fair.
In me their influence never dies.
As Alpine lake night-veiled lies,
Reflecting clear the sun-lit skies —
Heaven's face an image mirrored there,
A face divine!—
So shining from the mother's eyes,
With radiant light that glorifies —
I see the hearer of my prayer.
The Christ, her Son, reflected there.
That face, it is — my soul outcries —
A face divine!
The photograph of the Cornell students is the
largest group ever taken, containing over 1,100
faces. — Ex.
At Princeton's winter atliletic meeting one record
was broken — McCord making Sft. 7in., in the spring-
board jump, the previous record being Sft. Gin.
In a lecture before the students of Dartmouth Col-
lege, last week, Eli Perkins said that Hanover might
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be described as Albany was in 1800; that " the town
has 1,500 beautiful houses and 2,500 cultured people,
mostly with their gable ends to the street."
Hereafter all the members of the Senior class of
he State University of Indiana are required to talse
part in the Commencement exercises. — Ex.
Iowa Colleo;e is making a move in the opposite
direction. 'Eighty-nine's Commencement will be the
first to have a limited number of speakers. The
proposed number is nine.
Obei'lin has just received $55,000 from the estate
of a Chicago alumnus.
At a recent meeting of the Trustees of Harvard,
President Elliot voted against compulsory chapel.
—Ex.
The Wesleyan Argus, referring to the aifair of the
22d, says: "Manifestly it was by a series of fatal
blunders and misunderstandings that a college
prank, seriously disorderly, but manifestly not mali-
cious, resulted in what at first sight seemed to have
been a fiendish crime."
BOOK REVIEWS.
Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and
Language— WITH Illustrations. Vol. XI. Debt —
Dominie. New York, John B. Alden, 1888. 12mo..
pp. 641. 50c.
Like its predecessors, this volume of Alden's
Cyclopedia is truly manifold in character. The com"
bination of an unabridged dictionarj' with a cyclope-
dia of information is made in this work with great
success. Neither the dictionary nor the cyclopedia
is hampered in its function by the coalition. Volume
XI. carries the vvork well into the fourth letter of the
alphabet. We hope to see the series speedily con-
cluded.
Testa: A Book for Boys. By Paolo Mantegazza.
Tran.slated by the Italian class in Bangor, Me. Bos-
ton, D. U. Heath & Co., 1889. 12mo., pp. XXIV. -|- 256.
This book might have been better, and it might
easily have been worse. It would have been better
if it had been translated by other than a class of
beginners. The style is good enough, generally
speaking, but the stilted character of some of the
sentences could be improved upon. On the whole,
the book is an interesting one, and it will doubtless
be read with profit by maiiy American boys. The
story is of an Italian boy, whose education, both
bodily and mental, is described in detail. The
author, Paolo Mantegazza, has won some distinction
in the field of mental science.
Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Edited, with introduc-
tion and notes, by Benj. "W". "Wells, Ph.D. Boston,
D. C. Heath & Co., 1889. 12mo., pp. 224.
This volume is the latest addition to Heath's Ger-
man series. The play itself is one of the most enjoya-
ble works in German literature, and has been treated
by the present editor in the spirit it deserves. We
have rarely seen a modern classic so judiciously and
attractively presented.
NOTES.
On March 1st, a new eclectic French monthly,
La Revue Francaise was published. The prov-
ince of the Revue will be to furnish readers and stu-
dents of French with the select works of the best
French authors, annotated where necessary, and with
essays on the study of the French language and lit-
erature by competent teachers and writers. The
selections will mostly be drawn from contemporary
French periodical literature, though every period in
the life of literary France will be represented. The
departments will embrace a chronique parisienne,
and a revue bibliographique. The magazine is
issued in becoming style from the Columbia press.
Future numbers will be illustrated. The subscrip-
tion is $4.00 a year.
D. C. Heath & Co., will publish this week, in
their series of Guides for Science Teaching, " Hints
for Teachers of Physiology," by Dr. Henry P. Bow-
ditch, of the Harvard Medical School. It will show
how a teacher may supplement his text-book instruc-
tion by simple 'observations, and by experiments on
living bodies or on organic material.
A contest has long been waged among educators
as to which is of greater practical value in education,
the Classics or the Sciences. For many years the
friends of the Classics had it pretty much their own
way, but of late the Scientists have been putting in
some strong pleas in behalf of their side of the case.
The latest of these, issued in book form by S. C.
Griggs & Co., Chicago, is by the well-known author
and scientist. Dr. Alexander Winchell, University of
Michigan, and is entitled, " Shall we teach Geol-
ogy?" Few, if any, American writers are better
qualified for discussing this question than Dr. Winch-
ell. While his treatise is a special plea for teaching
Geology in the public schools, it is intended to cover
the whole ground of contest between the Sciences
and the Classics, and hence promises to be of great
interest, not only to teachers, but to all who are
interested in observing the tendencies of modern
education.
RECEIVED.
" Shall We Teach Geology ? "—Winchell. Griggs
& Co., Chicago. $1.00.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Vol. XVIII.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 27, 1889.
No. 17.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE OOLLEQIATE TEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
F. L. Staples, '89, Managing Editor.
O. P. "Watts, '89, Business Editor.
W. M. Emery, '89. E. R. Stearns, '89.
G. T. Files, '89. G. B. Chandler, '90.
F. J. C. Little, '89. J. M. ^Y. Moody, '90.
D. B. Owen, '89. T. G. Spillane, '90.
Per annum, in advance $2.00.
Single Copies, 15 cents.
Extra copies can be obtained at the bookstores or on applica-
tion to the Business Editor.
Remittances should be made to the Business Editor. Com-
munications in regard to all other matters should be directed to
the Managing Editor.
Students, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contribute
literary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must be
accompanied by writer's name, as well as the signature which
he Avishes to have appended.
Entered at the Post-Otfice at Brunswick as Second-Class Mall Matter.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XVIII., No. 17.-March 27, 1889.
That Cape Ulster 219
Editorial Notes 219
Scenes of College Daj'S, 222
Arlo Bates, 223
Conversation, 224
What We Need, 224
The Thorndike Oak 225
Emin Pasha 225
Class E'eeling, 226
Examinations 227
Examinations, 227
A Modern Instance 228
The Muse at Bowdoin 228
The Nomination o£ Chief Justice Fuller, 229
The Old Professor 231
CoLLEGii Tabula 2.32
Personal, 234
College World, 2.36
Book Reviews, 237
THAT CAPE ULSTER.
She walked along and looked and smiled,
He smiled in turn — and not too blame ;
' A college man he, 'sooth, must be,"
Quod she, " that ulster shows the same."
Scene second finds a grocery store,
A youth pursues his daily work, —
Aghast, that pretty maid there stands, —
Smiles that cape-ulster youth — the clerk.
The editorial board chosen to conduct
Vol. XIX. is composed of the following gen-
tlemen :
Fred J. Allen,
George W. Blanchard,
George B. Chandler,
John M. W. Moody,
A. Vincent Smith,
Thomas C. Spillane,
of '90;
Thomas S. Burr,
Henry W. Jarvis,
Charles S. F. Lincoln,
Edward H. Newbegin,
of '91.
The course of lectures on the poet
Wordsworth, given by Rev. Mr. Guild, has
been greatly enjoyed by the students. The
lecturer has brought to our notice a poet who
is not read so much as he deserves to be.
We hope that this series of lectures is
but a forerunner of others that will follow
in succeeding years, and that lecturers of
equal ability will be secured.
The gymnasium exercises of this term
are over, and the majority of the students
will breathe freer. The new rule regarding
gymnasium attendance has demonstrated its
efficacy if not its justice. The attendance
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has been very satisfactory, we understand,
and the work, on the whole, has been well
done.
Mr. Whittier has labored to make the
work interesting and profitable, and however
much we may have disliked the grind, we
have heard nothing but praise for the assist-
ance and courtesy which the Director has
always shown.
Nothing can be urged in extenuation of
the spirit of lawlessness and barbarism which
incites or permits a body of students to de-
face a room in the manner that a recitation
room in Memorial Hall was disfigured on
the night of the ushering in of spring.
When this annual overflow of animal
spirits takes place we expect to see a decrease
in the number of doors; we expect to see
the whole college inconvenienced by the de-
struction of reading-room furniture; but
always until this time some measure of self-
respect, some regard for the most beautiful
building on the campus, has saved Memorial
Hall from such visitations.
It may cost two hundred dollars to repair
the damage of this last escapade, but this is
nothing. Financial considerations fade into
insignificance when we contemplate the spirit
of a man or a set of men who will delib-
erately daub up one of our finest recitation
rooms with paint.
Years ago a similar offense would have
been followed by the expulsion of the per-
petrators.. To-day a more lenient policy pre-
vails, but is that a reason why it should be
abused ?
Again, the matter of expense presents
itself. Who will pay the bills ? Is there any
reason why the whole college should pay for
the deviltry of a few? We know of none.
It is to be hoped that the full expense will
be placed where it belongs. Justice to the
rest of the college demands that the sense-
less custom of taxing the whole college to
pay for the fun of a few be stopped.
This is the last time, we hope, that Memo-
rial Hall will be so defaced, and we trust
that future classes, however much they
may disfigure the other buildings, will have
enough regard for Memorial to let it alone.
The replies to the " dun " recently sent
to our delinquent subscribers have been so
varied, and some of them so spicy, that we
publish a few, thinking this glimpse at
the interior workings of one of the depart-
ments of the Orient may be of some inter-
est to our readers.
The letters will be given without any
clue to their writers, so no one can feel
offended at seeing their words in print, un-
less in some cases the conscience should
prick them for undue harshness to the inno-
cent.
Some letters are from those within whose
hearts love of their Alma Mater and its in-
stitutions is still warm, and they send us
words of kindly encouragement and cheer.
We can only hope that, by recalling some of
the pleasures of the days they spent here in
Bowdoin's halls, the Orient may have brought
to them as much pleasure as their hearty
good wishes give to us.
Dear Sir, — Your circular of tlie 14th inst. I have
just received, and hasten to replj', enclosing check
for the amount of my subscription. My delay in
paying my subscription is wholly due to carelessness.
I must confess that I belong to that large majority of
subscribers to the Orient, who, though they read
your paper with pleasure, yet never think that money
is required to run it till they get a " dun." I trust
that all who receive your cii'cular will " give it their
immediate attention," and that the Orient for the
past year will be as great a success financially as it
has been in literary merit.
Very truly yours,
Some give us a bit of advice, which we
will tttrn over to the new board of editors
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221
with the hope that they may be successful
iu its application. We crave pardon for any
impatience at " hope long deferred," that our
" duu " may have expressed, yet editors are
but mortal, and after some half-dozen no-
tices in the columns of the Okient, which
we thought it impossible for any one to
entirely overlook, a little of our crude human
nature may have crept into our recent
" dun."
Dear Sir, — I have the annual wail of the Orient
that time is nearly up, and my subscription unpaid.
The bill never having been sent me before, of course
I never knew to whom to send it. If you can im-
press the incoming managers, and through them
" generations yet unborn," with the fact that in most
cases they might just as well have their pay in ad-
vance, you would confer a boon alike on them and
on suffering subscribers. I enclose $2 for Vol. 18.
Yours truly,
In some cases we " reap the whirlwind "
sown by the negligence of our predecessors.
We receive the subscription list from the
last year's board, send the Orient through-
out the year, and at its close, in all good
faith, send our bill, to receive a reply that
for its pointed brevity would do credit to
any Spartan statesman :
Over two years ago I notified the publishers of
the Orient I Vvuuld not pay another subscription, so
you can take the same answer. .
We are not surprised to receive such a
letter from one who evidently believes that
we are trying to cheat him out of his money.
Indeed we rather wonder he did not send us
a more powerful explosive even than the
above, but should this meet the eye of any
one who finds himself in the same position,
we hope that he will remember that we are
guiltless, and that he will therefore endeavor
to infuse a little more of the milk of human
kindness into his reply.
Here is another :
" Your subscription ! "
I never subscribed for the Orient.
I do not wish it sent to me.
This I have said in writing twice before.
The proper way is to drop my name from your
list. .
Poor man ! It is needless to say that we
" dropped " him.
Still another evil that is inflicted upon us
by the sins of our Oriental ancestors is the re-
turn of our letters bearing the pathetic legend
" Not been here for five years." Such a case
is beyond words on our part.
Hoping this brief glance at one of our
editorial trials may fill the hearts of sub-
scribers with charity towards our shortcom-
ings, and their letters to us with two-dollar
bills, we close this, our last editorial "dun."
With this number the present board of
editors makes its final bow and retires from
the field of journalism. Before we go we
wish to express to the college our sincere
thanks for the support and encouragement
we have received. If we have merited your
commendation we are glad. If not, it is too
late to mend.
We have no desire to exaggerate or claim
for this volume of the Orient any excel-
lences it may not possess, but we may truly
say that in several respects it has been the
best volume of the Orient ever published.
Mr. Emery, who has had charge of the
" Collegii Tabula," has been the right man
in the right place. He has given to our
readers more locals than any of his pred-
ecessors and the quality speaks for itself.
We have had many compliments from our
alumni on the success which our " Personal "
columns have attained. Mr. Files has been
untiring in his efforts to give all the infor-
mation concerning our alumni that he could
secure.
The " College World " we think has been
one of the bright spots in this volume.
From a large and carefully selected list of
exchanges, Mr. Little and his successor, Mr.
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Stearns, have attempted to cull such items
as would interest Bowdoin readers. From
the enthusiastic manner in which we have
heard this department praised on several occa-
sions, we may infer that thej' have succeeded.
The department of " Book Reviews " is an
innovation which was devised iu the fertile
brain of Mr. Owen, who has edited the col-
umn with conspicuous ability. The place
is not an easy one to fill, and it is a compli-
ment to the ability of Mr. Owen that he has
so well filled the duties of a peculiarly ardu-
ous position.
The position of business editor has been
exceptionally well filled. The place is a
hard one to fill, but Mr. Watts has dis-
charged its duties with credit to himself
and to the satisfaction to all.
The editorial columns have not been filled
so well as we could wish, nor has the quality
of the matter been so good as others might
have made it. No one has realized this more
than the writer. In the beginning we asked
for your forbeai'ance, and we are fully con-
scious that it has often been exercised. How-
ever, we have done the best we could, and
when a man has done that no more need be
said.
To our printers we extend the customary
thanks. We are under deep obligations to
them for the work they have done for us.
We can give them no higher praise than to
say that, typographically, the Orient will
compare favorably with any college publi-
cation.
Finall}', we wish to bespeak for the new
board the same measure of hearty encourage-
ment which we have enjoyed. It is in every
respect worthy of it, and under its new man-
agement we trust that the Orient may win
fresh laurels and be a greater honor to Bow-
doin than ever before.
Efforts are being made at Trinity College to put
a crew on the water next spring.
SCENES OF COLLEGE DAYS.
Scenes of my youth ! with lingering step once more,
Your verdant walks and classic halls I tread ;
Once more by lovely Androscoggin's shore
My rambling feet to ancient scenes are led.
On the gray rock that crowns thy rolling tide
Again I pause to see thy billows play,
To trace thy forests waving far and wide,
Thy wooded isles with sylvan voices gay.
And the bright, yellow sands that skirt thy curv-
ing bay.
Long in the depths of thy deep woods I stand.
To hear the wind its fitful roar prolong.
Thro' the tall pines that darken all the land ;
Yet oft at times, sweet as the reedy song
Hymned by some vast cathedral's tuneful choir.
It sighs in lute-like music thro' the shades.
And lulls the drooping forests with its lyre;
Then thrill the leaves in all the murmuring glades,
And Nature lists eutranc'd within her dim arcades.
A moment turn we from the white road-side.
To yon green grot, with branching trees o'erhead ;
Down its smooth slope, a rivulet's bubbling tide
O'er mossy stone and golden sand is led ;
Long hath it pour'd its cool translucent wave
In the stone urn by Nature hollow'd out,
The white birch loves its tresses there to lave.
And larch and willow o'er it gayly float
And cast their willful leaves in playfulness about.
There sings the redbird at day's glimmering close.
And blue wood-doves their gentle mates have
wooed,
The rabbit comes at eve to seek repose
Secure in that lone haunt from harmful foes;
The robin builds his dwelling without fear.
And the shrill quail-flock wakes the sleeping wood.
For Nature keeps an endless Sabbath here
Profan'd by no rude clang of harsh machinery near.
The student call'd thee Paradise of old.
And still that blissful title marks the spot ;
Sweet was thy fount, pellucid, clear and cold.
And dense the shades of thy secluded grot.
Oft had I sought thy fountain's mossy brim.
And the deep screen when blaz'd the noontide fire,
Nor left the spot till sunset lights grew dim.
What time the glow-worm lit its twinkling pyre
And silence spread her hush o'er all the wood-
land choir.
Dear scenes of youth mine eyes almost o'erflow
To view thee all around me rise again.
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This path I tread I traversed long ago,
The same green wood, the same far-spreading
plain ;
Yonder the pines still heave their mom-nful sigh
O'er the high grass vehere classmates lie at rest,
Yonder old walks I once again descry.
Still rise to greet each young scholastic guest.
And crown with Learning's wreath the student's
toilful quest.
Old Seats of Learning ! thoughtfully I pass
From room to room the haunts I knew of yore,
For memory all around me holds her glass.
Reflecting scenes I once so lov'd before ;
As in its shadow'd face I gaze once more
I trace out forms to recollection dear.
And chief, dear Longfellow, my college friend.
Whose earthly pilgrimage, whose bright career
Have clos'd in Auburn's shades in vanish'd year !
— Isaac McLellaii, '26, in Wildwood's Magazine.
ARLO BATES.
It has been well said that the measure of
a college's success is in the number of good
men she sends forth to do the world's work.
Bowdoin has proved her success by graduat-
ing many such, and there is always interest
to read of one of her sons who is honoring
the college by honoring himself. It will not
be out of place, then, to rehearse the biog-
raphy of the rising author, Arlo Bates.
He was born in East Machias, December
16, 1850, fitted there for Bowdoin, whence
he graduated in 1876. He took many col-
lege honors. Sophomore year he was elected
a member of the Athensean Society, of which
Senior year he was poet. Junior year he
joined A.A.ip. He was class president, and
poet. Ivy Day. He was treasurer of the
Bowdoin Chess Club, and sang tenor on the
college, class, and fraternity musical organiza-
tions. His college rooms were 28 W. H.,
and 29 and 30 M. H. At the spring exhibi-
tion in 1875, he had a Junior part, and a
Senior part at the fall exhibition the same
year. He was on the '68 prize speaking.
Mr. Bates was elected an editor of Bowdoin-
ensia, the Bugle's rival in 1875, and Senior
year was editor-in-chief of volume five of the
Orient. This year, too, he headed a com-
mittee which issued the brochure, "Songs of
Bowdoin." The prizes awarded Mr. Bates
were for English composition and extem-
poraneous writing. Commencement day he
delivered, as one of the first six in his class,
an English oration on " Art in America,"
about which he says: "A subject of which
my ignorance at that time must have been
beautifully complete." Mr. Bates received
<f . B. K. standing. His degrees were S. B.
and A. M.
After graduation Mr. Bates went to Bos-
ton to enter upon a literary career. In
1878-9 he edited the Broadside., a political
sheet. In 1880 he was appointed editor of
the Boston Sunday Courier., which position
he still holds. For this paper he has written
the serials, "Mona and Hilo," and "Ties of
Blood." He has also been a contributor to
the Boston Advertiser., Providence Journal',
Literary World., Century, Scrihuer's, Atlantic,
Lippincott's, Cosmopolitan, Outing, Wide
Awake, and St. Nicholas. In September, 1882,
he married Miss Harriet L. Vose, daughter
of Professor Geo. L. Vose, formerly at the
head of the Scientific Department. She died ■
in March, 1886, leaving one son. Mrs. Bates
was known to the literary world as "Eleanor
Putnam."
Mr. Bates has published the following
books : " Patty's Perversities," 1881 ; " F.
Seymour Hayden and Engraving," 1882 ; " Mr.
Jacobs " (a parody of " Mr. Isaacs "), 1883 ;
"The Pagans," 1884; " A Wheel of Fire,"
1885 ; edited Eleanor Putnam's posthumous
" Old Salem," 1886 ; " Berries of the Brier "
(poems), 1886; "Sonnets in Shadow" (po-
ems), 1887 ; "A Lad's Love," 1887 ; " Prince
Vance" (jointly with Eleanor Putnam),
1888 ; and " The Philistines," 1889. He has
received much favorable criticism on his
work, bits of which we are pleased to quote:
" The author of ' A Lad's Love ' is capa-
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ble of work of a very high grade in fiction,
and that we shall have such from Mr. Bates,
as his powers mature, we cannot question."
"He gleans an unpretentious harvest of
Heinesque songs which touch the palate with
a wild-growth flavor, and incite the appetite
to azestful pleasure." "Mr. Bates's career is
representative, and shows how talent, indus-
try, and patience will tell. His ideals are
obviously high, and it cannot be said he has
ever aimed at mere popularity. Conscien-
tious, independent, strengthened by disci-
pline, loving his work more for its own sake
than for its reward, he is destined to do
well ; and should he follow the lines laid
down in his best work for ten or twenty
years, it may be predicted with confidence
that he will rise to a high place among Amer-
ican writers."
To an ambitious biographer who wrote
him an inquisitive letter about himself, Mr.
Bates responded : " As for religious and
political preferences, I am liberal and try to
be logical in both. For personal appearance
— I have never seen myself."
CONVERSATION.
To possess the ability to converse intelli-
gently on any subject is one of 'the greatest
accomplishments that we can seek, yet there
are very few of us who can be called excellent
conversationalists. The great part of us ap-
pear to consider that we are to gain success
and happiness only from books, giving no
heed as to whether we can communicate it
to others.
Books teach by one way, and conversa-
tion by another; and if these means were
trained in relation to their own separate ad-
vantages, they might become necessary to
each other. A poor selection of books may
be improved by the comparison of experi-
ences which take place in a mixed discourse.
But greater advantages are derived from
conversation by the promotion of intellectual
culture. Social discussion often supplies the
imperfections of private study, for by merely
expressing in words amongst our associates,
our intellectual difficulties, is often the way
to clear them up. Each individual in a
party probably looks at any prgblem in a
different way, and each may have some dif-
ference of views to set forth, which were de-
rived either from a different course of read-
ing or from different experiences.
The advantages of conversation may not
be equal to those of study, but they distin-
guish themselves by being in a different line,
and it is most important that so great means
for improving the mental faculties should
not be neglected, as it often is. At present
the evil is that conversation is often depend-
ent on the accidents of the moment, some
word or name is mentioned in the course of
an illustration, and that is allowed to sug-
gest a topic which at once becomes uninter-
esting.
To be able to converse well one must
have good, sound, common sense, as well as
the power to use it, and this in a marked de-
gree is essential to success. For what good
is it, if we have common sense views, if we
lack the ability to express them in an intelli-
gent manner. We must be thoroughly con-
versant with what we read, and make it a
part of ourselves, for a few ideas obtained
from a small number of books well learned,
are far more valuable than a conglomeration
of ideas from a large number of books hastily
skimmed over.
WHAT WE NEED.
That there are no general societies here
at Bowdoin is a hard, unpleasant fact, at
which almost every one has expressed sur-
prise or regret, but, as yet, no one has advo-
cated the expediency, or discussed the possi-
bility of reviving the defunct societies. In
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our sister institutions we do not find this
same state of affairs. Almost all of the col-
leges and universities of equal grade with
ours have general literary societies in a more
or less flourishing condition, which are en-
couraged and assisted by their respective
faculties.
Nearly every one will acknowledge that
the need of them here is evident and imper-
ative. A few persons may assert that our
fraternities supply their place, but this is
clearly false, for, however excellent the lit-
erary work may be, thej' do not and never
can fill the place once occupied by the old
Peucinian and Athenffian societies ; at whose
meetings there were debates and discussions
on matters of interest, not only before the
members, but before any of the student-body
who might care to attend. This gave a prac-
tice and self-confidence which could not be
acquired in speaking before an audience com-
posed merely of a few friends, as would be
the case in our fraternities.
That this practice has proved almost in-
valuable is shown by the statements of some
of our alumni, who have said that they be-
lieved a great part of their success in after
life was due directly to this phase of their
college work. Another advantage was the
address before the two societies, usually by
some man of national reputation, which took
place at the end of the year and greatly
added to the interest of Commencement.
The question of the possibility of such a
revival now arises, but it is easily disposed
of, as most of the students are awake to the
need of something of this sort, especially
since all rhetoricals have been left out of the
curriculum. Any movement in this direc-
tion would undoubtedly gain the approval
and aid of the alumni, and the support of
the faculty, and with earnest and deter-
mined effort on our part could be made of
lasting advantage to ourselves and the insti-
tution.
THE THORNDIKE OAK.
The old oak's dj'iiig.
Through its branches bare
The winter wind in mournful gusts is sighing.
Its creaking boughs saying in their despair,
"The old oak's dying."
For fourscore years
Thou hast been watching o'er
The college's growth and its prosperity.
Hast seen her sons go forth to come no more,
For fourscore years.
Beneath thy shade,
The classes, year by year.
Gather to bid farewell to the old scenes.
And sing the praises of Old Bowdoin, here
Beneath thy shade.
Old Thorndike Oak,
We greet thee once again.
As we depart and others take our place,
Thy picture on our memory shall remain.
Old Thorndike Oak.
EMIN PASHA.
Since the death of Gordon, Africa has
known no more faithful friend and earnest
worker for her civilization than Emin Pasha,
yet it is surprising how few, even of the best
educated people, are acquainted with his
great work and noble character.
Emin Pasha is not an Arab, as his name
would seem to indicate, but a German, whose
true name is Edward Schnitzer. He was
born at Oppelu, in Prussian Silesia, March
28, 1840, but when he was quite young his
parents removed to Niesse, where he received
his common school education. At the age
of eighteen, Schnitzer entered the University
of Breslau, and after graduating from there
he studied medicine in the University of
Berlin. After having received the degree of
M. D., being determined to do the greatest
possible good in the world, he went to
Arabia, and there, realizing the prejudice
that there was against a German, he gave
up his name and nationalitj'-, and assumed
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the title by which he will ever be known,
Emin Pasha.
In 1876 he entered the service of Gen.
Gordon, and two years later, when Gordon
was appointed governor-general of Soudan,
he appointed him governor of the equatorial
provinces. Here, we may say, he began his
great work of destroying the slave trade,
and of civilizing Africa, for here he made
his first great fight against the slave trade,
and won the esteem and love of the na-
tives.
When Gordon died Emin Pasha took up
the work which the former had laid down,
and April 17, 1887, he wrote his famous let-
ter in which he said: "The work that Gor-
don paid for with his blood I will strive to
carry on. I remain here the last and only
representative of Gordon's staff. It therefore
falls on me and is my bounden duty to follow
up the road he showed us. Sooner or later
these people will be drawn into the circle of
the ever-advancing civilized world. For
twelve long years I have striven and toiled,
and sowed the seeds of a splendid future civ-
ilization. It is out of the question to ask
me to leave. Shall I now give up the work
when a way may soon be open to the coast ?
Never!"
Who can help admiring the noble purpose
and character of this man, who has devoted
his life to the enlightenment of a continent.
Even though he fails, the world will honor
him for his perseverance, philanthropy, and
Christian spirit. If he is successful he will
receive his proper reward.
CLASS FEELING.
How strongly this enters into the life of
a country college numbering anywhere from
one hundred to five hundred students, can
only be conceived by those to whom it has
been an actual experience. Nor is this
strange. Beneath one standard and to the
sound of one magic number, does the student
rally throughout four eventful years. He
grows into his class, and its other mem-
bers become a part of himself. They are
bound together by invisible bonds stronger
than iron, and any touch of the electric
chord sends a shock through the whole
body.
The member of any class who does not
respond with sensitive alacrity to a legitimate
call from the common body, does not possess
enough patriotic emotion to be a true and
successful man in the world. He is cold;
something is lacking in his make-up.
It will be noticed, however, that special
care was taken to make use of the term
"legitimate call." The very use of that
word " legitimate " seems to imply the sus-
picion that some " calls " are illegitimate.
True. There exists in every class a certain
clique of blatant extremists who are always
bemoaning some fancied insult, and always
proposing some extravagant means of retri-
bution. They are like the ass in the fable,
braying before the battle. They are always
talking, but never acting. It is to such as
these that most class disturbances can be
traced ; and it is to these also that we owe
much of the adverse criticism of the outside
world.
Between these two extremes, that of the
phlegmatic non-combatant, and that of the
quarrelsome braggart there is a golden mean.
Class spirit is a valuable educator; it de-
velops fidelity to principles, organization, ex-
ecutive capacity, and sociability. To it can
be traced many of those ties which bind
alumni and college together. It forms the
ground work and imparts the zest to what is
familiarly termed " College life." The very
evils which attend it are such as give a mau
snap and vigor. If some students had a little
more of it in its true foriu, and others a little
less in its false form, there would be less
friction between classes.
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EXAMINATIONS.
I observe in the last number of the
Oeient another article on " Examinations,"
and an editorial invitation to the further
discussion of the same.
The remedy which the author of the afore-
said article recommends as " worthy of try-
ing,' amounts, if I understand him rightly,
to a practical abolition of the examination
system, that is to " let the professor consider
the whole term's work as an examination,
and decide from that." This seems to me to
be open to two objections.
First, there are many students possessing
not only a glib tongue and a ready mind,
but also a liberal supply of that element
which in college parlance is usually termed
" gall." By a judicious application of these
faculties they are unabled to make a superior
recitation, while others, possessing an equally
thorough knowledge of the subject, are un-
able to do themselves justice. Again, as is
well known, in some studies, the students
are called but a comparatively few times
during the term ; and even though possess-
ing a comprehensive view of the subject and
a tolerably accurate knowledge of its details,
they may have been unfortunate in the
places and times upon which they were
called. Hence, if the professor were to "con-
sider the whole term's work as an examina-
tion," and if at the same time the object of
the so-called examination is "to find out just
how much the student knows of the work
which he has been over," it seems to me that
the scheme proposed drifts into an obvious
inconsistency.
Secondly, in order that the student shall
" know the work which he has been over,"
he should be able to do two things ; (a) to
give an explanation or description of any
particular phase or detail, and (5) to take
the various details or phases which belongs
to a topic or series of topics, and formu-
late them about some particular question.
As a rule, the limited time of the recitation
allows only the first of these, and thus the
scheme proposed, again fails to accomplish
its end.
The just and effective method is to sand-
wich in three or four unexpected written
examinations during the term, to insure thor-
oughness, and at the end a more extended
one to summarize, with the understanding
that in rank it is to count no more than the
preceding one.
A word as to cheating; relying upon
daily recitations will not obviate this diffi-
culty, for I think we will all admit that it is
largely carried on in them also. If a profes-
sor doesn't go to sleep, he can render an ex-
amination as free from this evil as is the
average recitation, and if a student is
bound to cheat, he can do it in either case
and that in spite of the professor.
EXAMINATIONS.
After the attack on examinations, which
appeared in the last issue of the Orient,
would it not be well to consider the subject
from a different standpoint?
The arguments advanced against exami-
nations were that cheating could be carried
on, and that superficial work might count
more than honest labor. But is the solution
proposed a panacea for these things, free from
the very faults by which an examination is
condemned? No student can be unaware
that many an otherwise " dead " becomes a
"sail" on account of some assistance re-
ceived from a neighbor, or that many fluent
translations are "read between the lines."
Then in many instances most of the work is
done on days when the pupil expects to be
called upon to recite.
It was stated in the former article that
the object of an examination was to discover
what the student knows of his work, and
from his " solution " we conclude he would
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And gave her bead a little twist
Which just brought round her pearly <
He kissed ; but what, he did not know ;
Yet one thing to his mind was clear,
That ne'er it maiden's hair could grow
Around her lips so very near.
And back into the night he went
Denouncing such coquettish maids ;
Chagrined to think his kiss had spent
Its force among her tangled braids.
THE MUSE AT BOWDOIN.
Much has ah-eady been said in the col-
umns of the Orient upon the " spirit," or,
better said, the lack of " spirit," in regard
to the matter of poetry in our college. This
has all aimed, not so much at the lack of
poetry itself, but at such works as were
once called the chief feature which distin-
guished Bowdoin from all the other Maine
colleges; namely, the abundance of its own
college songs.
From the beginning of student-life, the
college song has been acknowledged to be
the very embodiment of all that is jovial and
hearty, and whoever visits such an institu-
tion for the first time, listens anxiously for
the strains of some of these famous college
songs. Should he fail to hear these, he nat-
urally concludes that this reputation for
song is not a reality here, and consequently,
goes away convinced that " old Bowdoin" is
sadly deficient in this one most essential qual-
ification.
We are told by some of the alumni that
the one thing which strikes them as most
unnatural on returning to their Alma Mater
is the decided absence of class and college
songs. " Why," said one lately, " when I
was here, each class had its song, and more-
over, the boy with some inventive genius
was continually at work upon some new
combination in the way of rhyme." To be
sure, these songs were mostly versions of
also apply the same definition to a recitation.
But is not the primary object of a recitation
to enable the pupil to correct any mistakes
into which he may have fallen, and to secure
a better knowledge of the subject under dis-
cussion than he could obtain by merely study-
ing the assigned work by himself? Does
not the custom of ranking daily recitations
tend to restrict the very thing for which the
recitation is held, and also give rise to that
abomination, the " chinner " ? The objection
that superficial knowledge may accomplish
more in an examination than hard work, is
rather vague. For certainly one has to learn
a lesson better if he has to keep it in mind
for some time before he is examined, than if
he could dismiss the entire subject after he
has left the recitation room.
If examinations have not filled the place
which it was expected they would hold in this
college, it would seem to be on account of the
small influence which they now have on the
student's standing.
A MODERN INSTANCE.
Beneath the shining stars they walked
And slowly homeward went their way.
As softly, arm in arm, they talked
Such nonsense as young lovers may.
He felt the pressure of her arm
iSTew rapture into his soul infuse;
And, slowly, from his finger tips '
He felt his manly courage ooze.
And as they neared her father's gate.
The flood within his veins boiled high ;
For he had vowed, in spite of fate,
To "kiss the little minx, or die."
So, fumbling with the hasp until
She kindly offered to assist,
When, lo! a little scream, a thrill.
But not of joy, for he had missed.
For she could not the chance resist,
On feeling him so very near;
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old Phi Chi, but it must have been an im-
mense relief to be able to hear some other
words than the threadbare remains of our
present so-called hazing song.
Another alumnus has felt interest
enough to send us copies of some of the old
refrains which were so commonly heard a few
years ago. Some are remarkably beautiful,
and many others are perfect examples of
college wit.
The old Phi Chi soug to '69 is said to have
been among the most noted of its day, the
first stanza of which runs as follows:
Air: "Vive L' Amour."
"Phi Chi comes forth in regal stale,
Vive le Shakery boo.
To bid farewell to 'Sixty-Eight,
Vive le Shakei'y boo.
The laurel wreath we now entwine.
Her regal step is all divine.
She gives a welcome to '(39,
Vive le Shakery boo.
Chords. — Vive le boo. Vive le boo.
Her deeds are many, her words are few.
Her sons are jolly and staunch and true,
Vive le Shakery boo."
Some songs — strange to say — often
turned upon the name of some of the Fac-
ulty, and although the day of such deeds is
past, it may not be amiss to give a stanza of
one of the most famous :
" He came to Bowdoin a tutor to be
E— E— I diddle dee.
He came to Bowdoin a tutor to be,
E— E— I diddle dee,
Colisse, Cole, Coli Colore,
This Wellington Cross was a comical one,
(Whistle one line'.)
This Wellington Cross was a comical one."
More often, however, the songs confined
themselves strictly to class affairs, and we
find words to suit the measures of nearly
every popular air. Some were indeed
beautiful, and many showed the unmistak-
able marks of genius which have character-
ized so many of the sons of Bowdoin.
The song of '72 will bear repeating:
Air ; " Landlord Fill Our Flowing Botols."
" Once more in glee, the brotherhood of Phi Chi is
assembled
To clasp the hands of 'Seventy-Two, who at her name
have trembled.
You remember then the glorious throng
Of Phi Chi's loyal sons and strong.
Whose names will be remembered long
'Round the walls of good old Bowdoin."
With these as examples, must we not
confess that there is a lack of such a spirit-
to-day? We need not, necessarily, have Phi
Chi songs, for that name means little to us
now, but the old spirit of jovial good-fellow-
ship is evidently diminished.
It has been said — and rightly, too, —
that the " College Glee Club " should sing
more " Bowdoin songs," but each one of us
would be obliged to admit that there is
hardly a typical Bowdoin song to be had.
Hence but one thing is to be done and
that is — write them some. The club is doing
an excellent work, but would gladly receive
any such contributions. Is it not possible
for the old spirit to be revived ? Surely it
is, and it is the sincere hoj^e of each and
every one of us that the day is not far in
advance when each class shall have its own
song, and old Bowdoin may again be said to
teem with its former spirit of music.
THE NOMINATION OF CHIEF JUS-
TICE FULLER.
Washington, D. C, March 1,5, 1889.
Editors Orient:
Perhaps your readers may like to glance
over an imaginary history of the circum-
stances leading to the nomination of Chief-
Justice Fuller, as set out in the accomjDanying
copy of a paper read at our last Bowdoin
alumni dinner in this city.
Alumnus.
Brethren of the Bowdoin alumni associ-
ation, the documents which I am now about
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to present to you, if genuine are very valu-
able, and ought to be deposited in the ar-
chives of the college with its most sacred
treasures.
The first purports to be the original note
from President Cleveland explaining to his
Cabinet why he had concluded to nominate
Mr. Fuller for Chief-Justice. The second
purports to be from a distinguished senator
relating the facts about the confirmation of
Mr. Fuller's nomination.
Washington, D. C, ?
Executive Mansion, April 15, 1888. ^
Oenllemen and Members of my Cabinet :
In presenting tlie name of the gentleman I wish
to nominate to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court
bench, caused by the sad death of tlie ever to be la-
mented Morrison R. Waite, late Chief-Justice, I
have concluded, under all the circumstances, to state
to you fully the reasons why I have decided to name
Hon. Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, for this most
important and honorable position.
After the death of the late Chief-Justice, inlooiiing
over the matter of selecting his successor, I could
not hel}) noting that some of the ablest men in pub-
lic affairs were graduates of Bowdoin College. In
the Senate the most popular member, the leading de-
bater, the best constitutional lawyer, the most influ-
ential individual, the most graceful speaker, the most
powerful orator was the Hon. W. P. Frye. And
when I turned to the House of Representatives I
could but observe that Hon. Thomas B. Reed was
easily the head man in debate, in logic and in the
power to guide and control, as well as being the best
general scholar and also able to speak and write
French. Then again in the army, the same fact is
noticeable ; our most gallant soldier, our noblest
Major-General, the oflBcer who has the proudest
record for feats of arras, personal courage, moral
bravery and for his successful doings for the despised
and rejected colored man, is Oliver O. Howard.
These facts forced me to the conclusion that I
could nowhere look for a new Chief-Justice except
among the alumni of Bowdoin College, if I desired
to find a strong man thoroughly well qualified for
the place.
Impressed with these views my mind first fixed
on Colonel L. D. M. Sweat, who, you all know very
well, has been exceedingly prominent and exceed-
ingly popular here in social and public affairs ever
ince I have been President. I had determined in
my own mind not to appoint a man to the place who
vras over fifty -five years of age. I was certain that
g.allant Colonel could not be over fifty, though I re-
membered, as you all must, what a distinguished
place he held as long ago as 1863, as the ablest con-
stitutional lawyer in the House of Representatives.
I thought however I would be sure on this age mat-
ter, so I consulted my copy of the last Bowdoin Tri-
ennial and found to my amazement that the Colonel
had graduated so long ago that he must be over
sixty ! Very reluctantly I was obliged to turn the
Colonel down.
The next man my thoughts fell on was the Hon. W.
L. Putnam, who did so well on tlie Fishery questions
and who gave such sumptuous orchid dinners and
otherwise astonished the proud minions of Queen
Victoria. But when I asked Mr. Secretary Bayard's
opinion on the matter he hinted that such a nomina-
tion would make the Fish question even more unsav-
ory than it had been and urged me to let Putnam
alone.
I then thought it might be best to select Hon.
Melville W. Fuller of Chicago. So I sent out Col-
onel Lamont to prospect a little. He went to Colum-
bus, Ohio ; Indianapolis, St. Louis, St. Paul, Madi-
son, Wisconsin ; Lincoln, Nebraska, and Topeka and
finally swung round home by way of Chicago.
He assured me that there was a growing impression
in the sections visited, that Mr. Fuller ought to be
nominated. All Illinois was for him and Colonel
Lamont feared a riot in Chicago if any other name
was sent in. " Men, women, and children without
regard to race, sect, previous condition, or politics,"
said Colonel Lamont, " want Mr. Fuller."
As it was evident that the nomination must go to
the great heart of our nation, the populous and strong
Northwest, I saw I was on the right track. But to
make assurance sure I spoke to Isham, the great
railroad and patent lawyer of Chicago, on the sub-
ject. He frankly said that Mr. Fuller was the
soundest corporation, real estate, and railroad law-
yer in Chicago, and he was in favor of his appoint-,
ment. But when I asked him as to Mr. Fuller's ac-
quaintance with the civil law, mor.al law, common
law, constitutional law, patent law, maritime law,
international law, higher law, the law of divorces,
Maine law, the law of necessity and the great code of
unwritten law, Isham said I can only reply in the
words President Woods uttered when he called on
Mr. Fuller to speak at a Commencement dinner soon
after his graduation ; words that have since become
celebrated the world over as the best modern clas-
sical phrase. His remarks were about as follows :
I now have the pleasure, honor I may say, of
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calling on Mr. Melville W. Fuller of Chicago. I
have long regarded him of all our graduates ^'facilis
princeps, nihil letigit quod non ornavit." Therefore,
gentlemen, I shall send Mr. Fuller's name to the
Senate.
U. S. Senate, Judiciary Com. Room, >
January 23, 1889. I
My Bear Mr. .•
You have done quite right to ask me in behalf
of the Bowdoin Alumni, about the doings last sum-
mer inside our Committee on Judiciary over the
nomination of Mr. Fuller as Chief-Justice. I really
don't think there was any serious objection to him
personally on the part of any member of the Com-
mittee. Some outside parties attacked him covertly
and out of spite. Some were jealous of him. Some
of the Senators had an idea that we could wear out
the nomination and carry over the business till the
new administration was settled. After a great deal
of dilly dally one day at a full Committee meeting
the matter of report on the nomination came up and
it was unanimously agreed to ask Senator Frye's
views. So we sent over and asked him to visit our
room for conference on an important matter.
So soon as he was comfortably seated Edmunds
remarked: "Senator Frye if you have no objections
our Committee would be very glad to have you ex-
press candidly, and in entire confidence, your honest
opinion of the qualifications of Mr. Fuller for the
position of Chief-Justice of the United States."
Frye replied very categorically, "Senators and
members of the Judiciary Committee : In reply to
your chairman's request I have to say but three
things ; first, Mr. Fuller was born in Maine ; second,
Mr. Fuller graduated at Bowdoin College, and,
finally, I wish it distinctly understood that Mr. Fuller
is my friend. Good morning Senators," and thus
saying he withdrew.
Edmunds was a good deal stuck up but I saw the
chance and remarked, "Gentlemen you see how it is,
Mr. Fuller has all the advantage that birth, education,
and the confidence of our most distinguished public
men can give him. I move that we report favorably
on the nomination, and the vote was passed unani-
mously."
I trust your Bowdoin Banquet will be as success-
ful as usual. It was a mistake of my life that I did
not graduate at Bowdoin.
I am, my Dear
Faithfully yours.
Senator .
Yale issues five periodical publications, Harvard
and Princeton four, and Cornell three.
[The foUowin
alumnus.]
THE OLD PROFESSOR.
poem was sent to us for publication by an
He's out-dated, like his books.
And he has old-fashioned hooks
To his specs.
In the alphabet of years
He knows all the characters
Down to X.
You can read them in his face,
In the wrinkles you can trace
A, B, C;
And upon the marble brow
Age is chiseling even now
Y and Z.
His long locks are white and thin.
And his temples sunken in
Like his cheeks ;
And his once sonorous voice
Makes a hesitating noise
When he speaks.
Of the village and its chat
He was once the autocrat
In his prime ;
Now the gossips nod and beck
At the melancholy wreck
Of his time.
His has been a lonely life.
Without children, home, or wife —
Boarding round —
For the rose and lilies blow
Where his darling lietli low
In the ground.
And it seems a little queer
He should wear a bouttonniei'e
When they bloom,
Yet he blushes like a girl
When the dainty buds unfurl
Their perfume.
And he looks across the rim
Of his specs into a dim
Paradise,
For the tears in spite of him.
Overflow the wrinkled brim
Of his eyes.
For he has an odd conceit
That sometime, somewhere they'll meet,
Youth and maid :
And his dreams are always young.
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And the hopes he lives among
Never fade.
And I've often heard him say
In his sad, old-fashioned way,
With a smile :
■' I shall not have long to wait,
God will make the crooked straight —
Afterwhile."
— E. S. Hopkins, in Indianapolis Journal.
^-^^'^
As so many of the Freshman class
are personally unknown to the Business
Editor, they will confer a favor upon him
by paying their subscriptions at once,
without waiting for him to " dun " them. His office
hours are from 7 to 12 p.m. at 9 W. H., where he
makes out receipts, for Freshmen only, for the small
sum of $1.50.
The Argus of March 20th said : " Humphrey, '90,
is taking a vacation."
The gymnasium directors of Bates, Bovvdoin, and
Colby are attending lectures at the Medical School.
Grimmer will furnish the music for the '68 Prize
speaking, April 4th.
Dudley, '91, is suffering from a bad ankle sprain.
Bragdon, '91, has been confined at Mr. E. N.
Smith's house with a light attack of scarlet fever.
A week ago Tuesday evening the Glee and Banjo
and Guitar Clubs gave their first concert in Bruns-
wick this season. A most pleasing programme,
embracing many new pieces, was rendered. The
Glee Club sings better than it did last winter, show-
ing the results of careful and persistent training,
while the Banjo and Guitar Club has been materially
strengthened. The musicians are very generous in
responding to encores. At the beginning of a con-
cert their long waits are a trifle dull, but they show
a pleasing inclination to promptness towards the
close. On the evening of the 19th the pedal ajj-
plause between the numbers was open to criticism,
and certainly such interruption or accompaniment of
the music in one or two instances must have been
disgusting both to those on the stage and in the fore
part of the auditorium.
President Hyde filled the Congregational pulpit
Sunday morning, 17th.
Orient election occurred March l(3th. Those
samples of good-looking men, the seven Seniors,
gave up with good grace our journal into the keeping
of ten still greater criterions of manly beauty.
About sixty students enjoyed the Portland Turn-
verein gymnastic exhibition, Monday evening, the
11th.
Much good their Physics does them : Sophomore
B. — "Who is that gentleman going by?" Sopho-
more S. — " That is Mr. Storer, Superintendent of the
Brunswick electric light." Sophomore B. — "Is he
the man who invented the Storer's battery?"
Prof. Chapman preached in the Second Parish
Church, Portland, a week ago Sunday morning. It
is reported that he has received a call to become its
pastor.
Jefferson Davis once remarked in conversa-
tion that he thought of all the Northern people he
had ever met those of Maine most resembled true
Southrons. Perhaps his impression of Maine people
was formed on his visit to Brunswick in 1858, when
he came here to receive an LL.D. from Bowdoin.
Prof. Lee has a fine collection of autographs and
autograph letters. The signatures of j^oets Holmes
and Whittier, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward
Beecher, Jas. Freeman Clarke, Charles Sumner, and
Mark Twain are to be found among them.
A DEAD IN GERSIAN.
The Juniors in German were sitting one day
When tlie Prof, pulled Brown in the usual way;
The victim jumped with a curse and a look,
He could not find his German hook.
A move, a titter, and then a grin
As the class saw the scrape poor Brown was in;
He heard the laugh and lost bis head.
He sat plumb down and tooli; a dead.
The reason for his decease you'd see
If you knew how that book was cribbed by B. :
He bad lost his very dearest friend,
His epitaph " zero," sad his end.
Now for a little philosophical disquisition anent
the library. The functions of a library are to place
desired volumes or information in a reader's posses-
sion as quickly as possible, and to inculcate a love
of books and reading:. To attain the latter end our
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shelves are free to all with hardly any restrictions.
To subserve the interests of readers, however, rules
have to be made. It is of no essential consequence
to the librarians pei'sonally whether they are obeyed
or not. Financial exigencies pi-eclude the attendance
of an assistant at the loan desk all the time during
library hours ; but there are a few in college mean
enough to tal^e advantage of this and other consider-
ations, and flagrantly transgress. Shame on such
selfishness. There is hardly a library in this country
where the privileges are so unlimited as in ours, and
it is doubtful if there is a library where they are
more universally abused. It is a marked fact that
the abusers are generally those who come from
where libraries larger than the Sunday-school book-
shelf are a curiosity; men used to libraries respect
regulations. It is to be hoped that these nuisances
to book users in college will be located later where
the volumes are imprisoned behind iron bars, and
where each man is absolutely and positively allowed
but one book to be kept only two weeks.
Prof. Robinson addressed the Y. M. C. A. after
prayers on the 17lh.
The Seniors have been offered the use of Memorial
Hall for the Class-Day hop. The Salem Cadet Band,
which furnished such fine music last year will prob-
ably be secured fur Commencement week.
The Faculty figure largely on the committees for
Brunswick's sesqui-centennial in June. Gummer,
'92, is on the Committee on Antiquities.
A handsome cup, worth $40, purchased in part
by Faculty subscriptions, has been secured as the prize
for class contests at gymnastic exhibitions. Ills made
of silver, in which gold and oxidized silver work are
used to good advantage. The lining is gold, dumb-
bells support the base, wands and foils the cup
proper, and a huge Indian club caps the cover.
Merrill, '89, has a badly sprained right wrist.
He has previously sprained it six times, and this
last, the worst of all, will prevent its use for several
months.
Mr. H. J. L. Stanwood, the bookbinder, shows us
an interesting autograph letter which he received from
the poet Longfellow in 1878. Mr. Stanwood is a
son of David Stanwood, '08, and tells of seeing, in
his boyhood, Prof. Longfellow about the streets of
Brunswick, and at his father's house. The poet was
then a very erectandfinelookingyoungman. Mr. Stan-
wood has an interesting fund of reminiscences of
early Bowdoin.
Subjects for the first themes next term : Juniors —
1. The prevention of bribery at elections. 2. Char-
acteristics of American humor. Sophomores— 1.
Easter Sunday. 2. A New England town meeting.
Spring was ushered in with due ceremony at
midnight, March 19th. President Hyde and a Bruns-
wick watchman were guests. The latter became so
exhilarated that he fired his revolver several times.
Somebody ought to look after these night-watchmen.
The Sophs have been in terror of the jury for the
past week.
EXPRESSIVE.
A Junior, a June night, a parlor,
A maiden fairer than May,
A Latin grammar between them.
And, in a tutorial way
He instructs lier in tliat dead language,
Which her peace so much disturbs.
Now with more than conjugal interest
He hears her conjugate verbs.
" The passive parts, Liz, of premo? "
She sits for a moment quite dumb.
Then, " premor," and " preini," and — cautious,
She finally says "pressus sum."
From those rich ruby lips so enchanting.
Comes the generous invitation.
He first presses them, next their owner, some.
And ends up with more osculation.
A writer in our last fondly hoped that the chapel
bell might eventually ring for optional prayers. We
fail to see why it doesn't at present. As long as the
fifteen rule is so loosely adhered to, and never en-
forced, "compulsory prayers" is a misnomer.
Chapel is theoretically required, but practically
elective. Harsh as it sounds to say it, the fifteen rule
just now merely puts a premium upon falsehood.
"Collections of the Pejepscot Historical Society,
Vol. I., Part I.," has appeared. It contains a lengthy
article by Professor Chapman. A list of members is
given which includes most of the Faculty and Lin-
coln, '91.
The Glee and Banjo and Guitar Clubs entertained
at Dover, N. H., last evening, and are at Lewiston
to-morrow night with a lady soloist. Last Thursday
evening, with eight or ten picked gymnasts, they
went to Rockland and gave a mixed concert and
exhibition.
The '91 Bugle board has organized with Lincoln,
editor-in-chief, and Loring, business manager.
The Fryeburg Academy Club held a supper at the
Tontine, on the evening of the 18th. Thirteen
alumni and Mr. John E. Dinsniore, Bowdoin, '83,
the principal, were present. W. P. F. Robie was
toast-master. There were some half dozen responses
to the toasts, and festivities were prolonged with
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the usual singing and accomjianiraents till one in the
morning.
Prof. Ropes, of Bangor, spoke on the " Christian
Athlete" in the chapel last Sunday.
Tutor Brownson has been recently confined to his
rooms by illness.
Well, the end has come. When the local scribe
iinishes this paragraph he will throw aside his quill
with a sigh of mingled regret and relief, and pre-
pare the belongings of his sanctum for his successor's
use. No more will he assiduously plug the Maine
dailies for items to eke out a scanty Tabula ; no
more will he in despair resort to " fake" writing as
a last expedient; no more will he devote all his arts
to explaining satisfactorily away certain personal
paragraphs ; no more will he experience the multi-
farious joys and sorrow of a local reporter's life. He
hopes his successor will have a good berth, and ac-
complish the difficult feat of making the intelligent
compositor up under the shadow of Bates print copy
just as written. He might say a lot more things and
quote some nice poetry, but as art is long, time is
fleeting, and space is precious, he will simply utter
" So long." Vive alque vale!
'23. — It becomes our
duty in this last issue of
the year to announce the death of the
one who has for a long time held the
honor of being the oldest living graduate of
Bowdoin College : Rev. Jonas Burnliam of
Farmington died March 9th, of pneuunonia, aged
nearly ninety-one years. He was a graduate of Bow-
doin, class of '23, and a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa, of Maine. He was principal of Farmington
Academy for ten years, and was ordained a Congre-
gational pastor and jjreached for a number of years in
Strong, Farmington, Wilton, and other places. Later
in life he taught Greek in Wendell Institute at Farm-
ington for some years. He retained all his faculties
up to the time of his death, and the last years of his
life he has spent in fitting young men for college.
He heard recitations for the last time, Tuesday morn-
ing. His career has been a very remarkable one.
He leaves a wife and three children^
'37.— Dr. Thomas Fitch Perley died in Portland
at the residence oX Mrs. Rensellaer Cram on Danforth
Street, from a complication of troubles from which
he had been a sufferer for a long time. Dr. Perley
was born in Bridgton, February, 1816, and was,
therefore, in his 74th year at the time of his death.
His family was descended from Allan Perley, who
came to Massachusetts from Flintshire, Wales, in
1G30, and his ancestors had resided in Bridgton for
many years. He graduated from Bowdoin College
in the class of 1837, and among his classmates were
John A. Andrew, Massachusetts' famed war gov-
ernor; Dr. Fordyce Barker, the eminent New York
surgeon ; Professor John Jay Butler, of Hillsdale
College, Mich.; John Lewis Cutler; Rev. Geo. W.
Field, D.D., of Bangor; Rev. Dr. Fiske, of Bath ;
Hon. A. R. Hatch, of New Hampshire; C. E. Pike,
of Calais: William Wilberforce Rand, of the Amer-
ican Tract Society ; Charles Alexander Savage, of
Quincj', HI.; Ruf'us King Sewall, Of Wiscasset;
Hon. John R. Shepley, of St. Louis; Hon. L. D. M.
Sweat, of Portland ; Hon. George F. Talbot, of Port-
land, and George Woods, LL.D., of the Western
University of Pennsylvania. He was one of the two
leading scholars of his class, Mr. Rand being the
other ; and these two gentlemen were respectively
president of the Peucinian and Athensean Societies.
After graduation Dr. Perley studied medicine with
Dr. Timothy Little in Portland, took his medical
degree in the Portland Medical School in 18il, and
settled in Bridgton to practice his profession. In
1843 he married Sarah F. Barrows, daughter of
William and Mary P. (Fessenden) Barrows, who
died February 15, 1865 without children. In 1853
Dr. Perley moved to Florida and settled at Hazard's
Bluff, near Jacksonville. In 1861, at the breaking
out of the Rebellion, he entered the army, and was
appointed Brigade Surgeon under Grant in the Army
of the Tennessee. When Secretary Stanton revised
the medical service he asked Secretary Fessenden to
suggest an able and honest surgeon for its head.
Mr. Fessenden recommended Dr. Perley, and he
was appointed Medical Inspector General. He did
much to rectify the abuses of the hospital Service,
and remained at his post till the close of the war.
'39. — Rev. Calvin Chapman died in Kennebunk-
port, March 19th, at the age of 70 years and 4 months.
He was born in Bethel, Me., and graduated from
Bowdoin in 1839, and from Andover Theological
Seminary in 1842. He has been settled over Con-
gregational churches in Ejoping, N. H., Saccarappa,
Foxcroft, and Lakeville, 111., and acting pastor in
Manersville, N. Y., Windham, Vt., Eliot, Andover
and Standish. His first wife was Lucy B. Emerson
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of Parsonsfield, who died in 1868, leaving two sons
and one daughter. He again married in 1874 Miss
Sarah A. Ward, of Kennebunkport, where he has
since resided, engaged in agriculture, but loving to
read and study his favorite authors in their Greek
and Latin originals.
'44. — Judge Charles W. Goddard died at the Maine
General Hospital in Portland, March 8th. Charles
William Goddard was the son of Henry and EHza
Goddard, and was born in December, 1825, in
Portland. Among his classmates were Collector
S. J. Anderson, Postmaster J. S. Palmer, Judge
W. W. Virgin, D. R. Hastings of Fryeburg, Sheriff
H. G. Herrick of Saugus, Mass., J. L. Pickard,
LL.D., of Auburn, Dr. C. E. Swan of Calais,
Rev. Arthur Swasey, D.D., Horatio Q. Wheeler of
Westbrook, Henry K. Bradbury and Dr. A. K. P.
Bradbury' of Hollis. On leaving college he studied
law in the office of Howard & Shepley of Portland,
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted
to the bar, November, 1846. After three years'
practice in Portland he moved to Lewiston Falls,
where he was in active practice for sixteen years, ex-
cept from 1861 to 1864, when he was appointed by
Lincoln, Consul-General to Constantinople. On his
return from Constantinople, Judge Goddard was for
a short time engaged in professional business in An-
droscoggin County. In 1866 he formed a copartner-
ship with Hon. T. H. Haskell, and rem')ved to Port-
land. He was attorney for Androscoggin County one
year, a member of the State Senate in 1858 and 1859
and president of the Senate the latter year. Upon
the establishment of the Superior Court for Cumber-
land County in 1867, he was made its first .judge.
He applied himself with characteristic zeal and
energy to the inauguration of this court, drafting tlie
rules himself to govern its practice, and by his per-
sonal effort contributing largely to its usefulness and
success. The prompt administration of justice he
made the motto of the court, and the motive of his
own action. While he presided, the delays of the
law were reduced to a minimum. The rules he
adopted and the spirit he infused have conspicuously
influenced the business of this court under all his
able successors. In 1867 General Chamberlain placed
him on the commission for the equalization of muni-
cipal war debts of this State. President (Jrant ap-
pointed him postmaster of Portland in 1871, and he
held that office for three terms. Later he was ap-
pointed to revise the State Statutes, a task demand-
ing great labor, sound judgment, and critical accu-
racy. The difficulty of this work was greatly in-
creased by the limite<l time allowed for its execution.
But Judge Goddard proved himself equal to the bur-
den he assumed. He performed much work not
strictly within the scope of his contract, but of great
value to the people of the State, as, for instance, the
careful abstract of the sources of land titles in Maine,
printed with the revision. Of the whole he made a
full and convenient index, making reference to the
statute law of the State easy. Experience and the
trial of six years afford most honorable testimony to
the thorough, exact, and judicious performance of
this great work, for which less than two years' time
was allowed. In 1872 Judge Goddard was appointed
by the President and Faculty of the Medical School
of Bowdoin College to the lectureship on Medical
Jurisprudence, and he was subsequently chosen pro-
fessor. For some years he had been a director of
the American Peace Society, and was a member of
the Association for the Reform and Codification of
the Law of Nations, the Bowdoin Club, and Harvard
Club in Maine. Judge Goddard was twice married ;
in 1852 to Caroline K. Little, daughter of Hon. T. B.
Little of Auburn, who died in 1853, leaving one in-
ftmt son who survived her a few weeks ; and in 1857,
Rowena C. Morrill, daughter of ex-Governor Ansou
P. Morrill of Readfield, by whom he has had three
sons, Anson M., Henry, and Morrill, two of whom
are graduates of Bowdoin — Anson and Morrill— and
three daughters, the youngest dying in infancy,
Rowena and Eliza surviving. Judge Goddard al-
wajs took deep and intelligent intei'est in public
affairs, and by his frequent communications in the
papers of the State, he contributed largely to secure
a careful consideration of many measures touching
the welfare of the State.
'46. — Rev. Charles H. Emerson is now at Blue
Lake, Humboldt County, California.
'49. — Hon. Joseph Williamson, who administered
the oath last Monday to tlie Mayor and City Council,
performed the same duty at the organization of the
first city government of Belfast in 1883. — Belfast Age.
'57. — General Charles Hamlin, of Bangor, has
been engaged to deliver the Memorial Day address
for Sedgwick Post of Bath.
'58. — In January, Hon. Franklin M. Drew was
appointed Judge of Probate Court in Androscoggin
County, and at the annual encampment of the Maine
Grand Army of the Republic was elected Com'
mander.
'60. — Hon. W. W. Thomas has been appointed
Minister to Sweden and Norway, a position which
was formerly held by him.
'79. — Horace E. Henderson was admitted to the
Plymouth Bar, February 25th.
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79. — J. W. Acliorn was graduated IVoin the Bel-
levue Hospital Medical School, Monday, j\lai-eh
llth. Mr. Achorn also graduated from the Bowdoin
Medical School in '87.
'81. — William I. Cole is preaching teniporarily in
the Congregationalist church, Houlton, Me.
'84. — C. C. Torrey, formerly a tutor in thii col-
lege, has taken the Seminary Scholarship at Andover
Theological Seminary. The scholarship comprises
the sum of $000 for two years, and it is generally
understood that the recipient will spend his time
abroad.
'87. — Mr. Merton L. Kimball, who has been
elected Supervisor of Schools of Norway, is a grad-
uate of Bowdoin College, class of '87, and has many-
friends in this city. — Portland Press.
The Williams Glee and Banjo Clubs will make
their Western trip in a special parlor and sleeping
car.
At the Harvard winter meeting '89 and '91 won
the tug-of-war.
At the annual convention of the New England
Intercollegiate Press Association, Samuel Abbott,
of the Collegian, was elected Pi-esident for the en-
suing year, and George H. Hamlin, of the Bales Stu-
dent, one of the Vice-Presidents.
The students of the Wisconsin University who use
tobacco "have organized a tobacco society for the
sake of mutual protection." — Ex.
At the Cornell winter meeting Tarbell, '90, low-
ered the world's record of 7 seconds, on the 17-foot
rope climb made at Yale in 1884, to 5 seconds.
Professor — "Now, in cujusdam, what is the force
of dam?" Prep — " Adds emphasis, sir."— Sx.
Dartmouth has sent out two hundred and ninety
college professors, and forty-seven college presi-
dents.— Ex.
W. T. Becker of the class of '89 at Wittenberg
College, O., has been expelled for plagiarism. His
oration on "Moral Government," delivered at Akron,
February 21st, at the State Oratorical contest, was
found to have been taken almost verbatim from an
article in the Princeton Review for January, 1879, by
Professor Crocker of Ann Arbor. — Ex.
Two students at Amherst have started a co-opera-
tive laundry. They will contract to do all the stu-
dents' washing for fifteen dollars per year.
The Journal and Messenger is authority for the
statement that Mr. Rockefeller is to give a million
dollars to rebuild Chicago University on the old site,
and that the eyes of those interested are turned
toward Dr. Harper, of Yale, for President.
Dr. Warren, of Boston University, proposes to
limit the membership of the college to two hundred
and fifty, and in later years to organize a second Col-
lege of Liberal Arts with a distinct name and faculty
and life. Certainly a small college in which students
have a direct communication and personal acquain-
tance with the professors, is far preferable to the sys-
tem of tutors and instructors employed in many of
the larger American Colleges. — Beacon.
3/arch is here with fickle weather ;
.411 the seasons come together :
ifaining, hailing, sleeting, snowing;
Calm and tempest, coming, going,
flarken to the March winds blowing {—Ex.
The curriculums of the two Argentine Universi-
ties, which are under the patronage of the govern-
ment, rank with those of Yale and Harvard.
A new eating club is to be established at Harvard
for students who cannot affoid to pay the rates charged
at Memorial Ilall. Besides the lunch room a library
will also be provided. The rooms of the club are
to be situated in a wing of the Lawrence Scientific
School building.
The Spring Meet of the Intercollegiate Athletic
Association, will be held at Worcester, Alay 23d.
There will be twenty-four events in all.
AN OLD STORY.
'Tis the usual rotation,
I begin with dissipation,
Then comes expostulation.
I try an explanation,
She talks of detestation.
And resorts to laohrymation;
Then I promise reformation,
And we end with osculation. — Kx.
From the Amherst Student we clip the following:
The $1200 which it was decided by the Senate
that the base-ball management should raise by sub-
scription before the nine should go into the field, has
not yet been raised in college.
At Harvard no one is allowed to compete in the
athletic meetings unless he has been examined by
Dr. Sargent for his event. No member of the Uni-
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237
versity is permitted to witness any sports unless he
is a member of the association.
A new club has been started in Harvard which
has for its pui'poses the promotion of the study of
electricity and of other topics which are closely al-
lied with this science.
Desiring to be true to the last, we will close our
labors with the following words from the Beacon:
We have closed the last exchange and our fire burns
more brightly. Our table is orderly. We close the
ink bottle, pass our shears and waste-basket to our
successor and with the cry to the new comer, of "All
Hail," shuffle off the stage.
BOOK REVIEWS.
Lectures on Pedagogy. By Gabriel Compayre. Trans-
lated by W. H. Payne, A.M. Boston, D. C. Heath &
Co., 1887.
Those who have had five or ten years of instruc-
tion under good teachers cannot help having an im-
plicit knowledge of nearly every subject treated in
this book. To such, a book on Pedagogy will resem-
ble in many respects, M. Jourdain's lessons in Prose.
Still, although the bulk of these five hundred pages
is occupied with matters which every well-taught
student knows already, there are enough principles
of sound theory and precepts of judicious practice
scattered through the book to make it worth while
for one who intends to teach to read in the theoreti-
cal portion, the chapters on Attention, Memory,
Imagination, Judgment, and Feeling; and in the
practical parts, the chapters dealing with the sub-
jects which he proposes to teach. The book is
founded on psychological principles. It is progres-
sive in spirit. It is practical in its suggestions. It
is comparatively free from those subtle divisions and
pedantic terms, which are the bane of so much peda-
gogical literature.
An illustration of the extent to which Manuals of
Pedagogy have gone in this direction is given on
pages 270 and 275. In these manuals it says : "You
will see crowded tables which contain eight forms of
instruction ; the aoromatic, the erotematic which con-
tains seven other distinct forms, the catgchetic, socra-
tic, heuristic, repetitive, examinative, analytic and
synthetic, and the paralogia, and as if this were not
enough, there follows a subdivision of processes, as
the intuitive, comparative, by opposition, etymologi-
cal, by reasoning, descriptive, by internal observa-
tion, repetitive, synoptic, by reproductive, and eleven
processes besides."
To have lifted the subject out of this barren schol-
astic formalism into which it had fallen, and to have
presented the theory and practice of education in
plain and straight forward language, is a work for
which every one who is compelled to read pedagog-
ical treatises will be thankful to the author of these
Lectures.
Shall We Teach Geology? By Alexander Winohell,
A.M. Chicago, S. C. Griggs & Co., 1889. 12mo. $1.00.
Professor Winchell wishes to promote Geology
from its present inferior position in the scale of
studies, and give it greater prominence in the gen-
eral scheme of education. The Professor argues his
case in the present little book after an interesting
fashion. He enters into the consideration of educa-
tion in the abstract, and having disposed of the mat-
ter with the final decision that true education should
combine the acquirement of knowledge with train-
ing of the faculties, he next proceeds to disparage
the study of Latin and Greek, as well as other lan-
guages in a lesser degree. The ground here fought
over has been considerably plowed up by previous
contention. Professor Winchell is perhaps a little
more than the average on this point. His apprecia-
tion of the value of language and literature seems
to be even less than that of most physical scientists,
and very few give those branches of education due
regard. Professor Winchell also seems forgetful of
the fact that there are other sciences in existence
beside Geology. He would have the study of Geol-
ogy introduced into primary schools and continued
through every year of a student's education. It
would be a good thing to have more science taught
in the lower grades of our public schools than is now
permitted, but whether Geology should be the sole
scientific pabulum to be provided is open to question.
What we want is not the more thorough teaching of
Geology alone, or of Biology alone, or of Physics
alone, but earlier and better instruction in -all the
sciences. Professor Winchell's work is worthy of
careful examination at the hands of educators as a
special plea. If every man would do as much for his
favorite branch of science as has been done here for
Geology, science as a whole would soon find its
true place in the scheme of education.
GcroES FOR Science Teaching. No. XIV.— Hints for
Teachers or Physiology. By H. P. Bowditch, M.D.
Boston, D. C. Heath & Co., 1889. Pamphlet, pp. 58.
Illustrated.
The series of which this pamphlet is the latest is
well and favorably known among teachers of science.
The author of the present number has had long ex-
perience in teaching as professor at the Harvard
Medical School, and the practical hints which he pre-
sents cannot fail to be of immense assistance to
instructors in Physiology.
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