THE
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Published Fortnightly by the Students of
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. MINOT, '96, Managing Editok.
G. T. OKDWAY, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
H. B. BLODGETT, '96, Business Manager.
J. B. ROBERTS, '95, . . . Personals. A. G. WILEY, '95, . . . Athletics.
H. W. THAYER, 95, . . College World. C. W. MARSTON, '96, . Collegii Tabula.
B. L. BRYANT, '95, I M- „ H. H. PIERCE, '96, | „„ . ■. „
J. T. SHAW, '95, j • • Miscellany. A L CHUKChILl] .95j j • Bowdom Verse.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE.
1894-95.
Index to Volume XXIV.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS.
Editorial Notes J. C. Minot, Editor.
17, 49, 71, 103, 119, 133, 149, 165, 181, 199, 215, 231, 247, 263, 275.
B. L. Bryant, 1, 33, 104.
Collegii Tabula C. W. Marston, Editor.
23, 39, 65, 100, 111, 124, 154, 172, 191, 207, 223, 242, 283.
Assisted by J. C. Minot, 7, 138, 154, 256, 270.
Personal J. B. Roberts, Editor.
13, 30, 46, 101, 116, 129, 145, 160, 177, 194, 210, 226, 244, 259, 272, 286.
Athletics A. G. Wiley, Editor.
10, 29, 41, 66, 114.
Assisted by J. C. Minot, 26, 44, 127, 144, 157, 176.
Assisted by J. T. Shaw, 140, 158, 174.
Assisted by H. H. Pierce, 158.
College World H. W. Thayer, Editor.
15, 81, 47, 102, 111, 118, 131, 147, 163, 178, 197, 213, 228, 245, 260, 273, 287.
Y. M. C. A E. R. Woodbury, President of Y. M. C. A.
45, 128, 144, 159, 177, 193, 210, 225, 244, 258, 272, 285.
Book Reviews J. C. Minot, Editor.
162, 196, 212, 245, 260.
MISCELLANE O US.
PROSE.
About Chi Psi L. Deane, '49 279
Address of the President (Ivy Day) J. B. Roberts 57
Alhambra, The C. C. Smith 280
Alpha Delta Phi Convention J. B. Roberts 37
Anniversary Dinner B. L. Bryant 97
Apple Story, An W. S. Bass 121
Athletic Exhibition, The A.G.Wiley 278
Athletic Field, The J. C. Minot 5
Author of " Thrawn Janet," The. C. C. Smith 240
Awards and frizes 96
Baccalaureate Sermon President William DeWitt Hyde 72
Bacon vs. Shakespeare P. P. Baxter 280
Bowdoin Alumni of Boston Compiled by J. C. Minot 234
Bowdoin Alumni of New York Compiled by J. C. Minot 203
Bowdoin in the Past P. P. Baxter 249
Bowdoin Men in Washington Lewiston Journal 220
Bowdoin Revisited J. L. Pickard, '44 107
Catalogue of Rooms and Roomers, A L. Deane, '49 236
Chess H. O. Clough 265
Centennial Exercises Compiled by B. L. Bryant 97
Class-Day Exercises Compiled by B. L. Bryant 77
Class-Day Oration G. A. Merrill 77
Class History (Class Day) T. C. Chapman, Jr 83
Class Prophecy (Class Day) R. H. Hinckley 87
Class Reunions J. C. Minot 99
College Republicans of Northern New England. . . J. B. Roberts 236
Commencement Exercises Compiled by B. L. Bryant 91
Correction, A ..An Alumnus 234
Country Auction, A J. C. Minot 252
Dedication of Searles Science Building Compiled by B. L. Bryant 107
Dedication of Walker Art Building Compiled by B. L. Bryant 50
Delta Kappa Epsilon Convention Preston Kyes 168
Delta Upsilon Convention R. O. Small 151
I N D E X .— ( Continued.')
De Witt Collection of Etchings and Engravings. ...Prof. Henry Johnson 37
Extracts From President's Report President William DeWitt Hyde 19
Few of the Winter Birds Around Brunswick, A. . .T. D. Bailey 266
Fireside Keverie, A Sterling Fessenden 136
Foot-Ball is Not Brutal J. C. Minot 204
Fraternity Reunions J. C. Minot 100
Hon. F. M. Hatch Prof. F. C. Robinson 235
Ideal Physician, The G. W. Greenlief 93
Influence of Great Universities on College Athletics Prof. F. C. Robinson 188
In Hoc Signo Vinces (Ivy Oration) G. B. Mayo 52
Incident, An J. T. Shaw.. 21
In Spite of Himself T. D. Bailey 168
Interscholastic Foot-Ball F. W. Pickard, '94 218
In Memoriam 101
In Memoriam , . - 117
In Memoriam 131
In Memoriam 147
In Memoriam 162
In Memoriam 196
In Memoriam 212
In Memoriam 227
Ivy-Day Exercises Compiled by J. C. Minot 52
Ivy Hop 64
Junior Prize Speaking 77
Kenilworth J. C. Minot 218
Meeting of Maine Historical Society 95
Meeting of Board of Trustees 96
Meeting of Alumni Association. ., 96
Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa 96
Method in Daily Life R. S. Hagar 220
Mystery of the Mine, The T. L. Marble 267
New England Funeral, A J. C. Minot 152
New England Town-Meeting, A J. C. Minot 238
'Ninety- Four's Senior Banquet Lewiston Journal. 64
Omicron.The J. C. Minot 122
One Night's Adventure : T. L. Marble 201
Opening Address (ClaS3 Day) F. W. Dana 82
Parting Address (Class Day) F. G. Farrington 89
President's Reception 95
Proposed Foot-Ball Constitution Drawn up by A. H. Stetson 184
Psi Upsilon Convention H. H. Pierce 35
Psi Upsilon Reception H.H.Pierce 233
Reply, A George B. Chandler, '90 5
Response of Class Dig (Ivy Day) P.D.Smith 61
Response of Class Schemer (Ivy Day) W. S. A. Kimball 60
Response of Handsome Man (Ivy Day) A. Quimby , 58
Response of Man with Best Moustache (Ivy Day) .J. W. Crawford 60
Response of Popular Man (Ivy Day) A. Mitchell, Jr 63
Response of Puny Man (Ivy Day) G. L. Kimball 62
Social Reform in Our Large Cities G. A. Merrill 3
Taste for Reading R. S. Hagar 203
Theta Delta Chi Convention. Philip Dana 181
Two Pictures R. S. Hagar 250
What Should be Done with the Bugle? R. O. Small 183
Wreck, A D. B. McMillan 185
Youth of Man, The F. J. Libby 91
POETRY.
Against the Current J. W. Condon 190
Atalanta T. L. Marble 242
Bath J. C. Minot 241
Boyhood Memories .J. W. Condon 241
Campus, The J. C. Minot 269
Candidate, The 254
Chemical Tragedy, A A. L. Churchill Ill
Class-Day Poem II. E. Andrews 81
Class Ode (Class Day) H. E. Bryant 90
INDEX .— ( Continued.)
Complex Dilemma, A A. L. Churchill 7
Consolation, A T. D. Bailey 171
Constant Contributors A. L. Churchill 137
December 31, 1894 .J. C. Minot 206
Drunkard and his Wife, The J.W.Condon 282
Experementia Docet A. L. Churchill. 124
Favored Swain, The J. C. Minot 223
Fin de Siecle Inventor, The F. W. Pickard, '94. 269
Fin de Siecle Simile, A A. L. Churchill 38
From the Rural Districts H. H. Pierce 171
Gardiner J. C. Minot 242
Good Ear, A A. L. Churchill 23
Gust, A R. E. Soule 241
Huntsman, The H. H. Pierce 269
In Dreams H. W. Thayer Ill
In Deutschland A. L. Churchill 123
Ivy Poem A.L.Churchill 55
King of the College H. H. Pierce 172
Love Tragedy, A J. C. Minot 255
Matter of Principle, A 190
Memories An Alumnus 23
Mists, The J. C. Minot 282
Modern Maid, The ..T. D. Bailey 154
My Darling A. L. Churchill 190
New Death King, The 255
No Monopoly A. L. Churchill 137
Oliver Wendell Holmes H. H. Pierce 123
On a Railroad Train H. H. Pierce 123
On and On 206
On Lying F. W. Pickard, '94 255
Poets' Corner, The H. H. Pierce.." 7
Political Economy A. L. Churchill 154
Present, The H. S. Webster, '67 137
Quartrain H. W. Thayer 110
Rashness 222
Reward of Duplicity, The H. H. Pierce 22
Reunion Verses Isaac McLellan, '26 205
Sad Story, A A. L. Churchill 7
Same Old Story H.H.Pierce Ill
Shady , 222
Slack .. , .« 241
Sonnet, A H. H. Pierce 38
Spring and the Lake, The J. C. Minot 255
Tale of a Hat, The H. H. Pierce 7
Tempora Mutanlur A. L. Churchill 7
Tempora, O A. L. Churchill 22
Three Students, The J. W. Condon 154
Those Fine Distinctions 206
Time Not a Factor A. L. Churchill 38
To the Androscoggin H. H. Pierce 190
Two Songs H. W. Thayer 110
Unwritten Scroll, The .J. C. Minot 206
Violets J. C. Minot 282
White Head H.H.Pierce 110
Who? H.H.Pierce 172
Ye Scholar in Love A. L- Churchill 123
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 1.— May 2, 1894.
Editorial Notes 1
Social Reform in Our Large Cities ('Sixty-Eight
Prize Oration) 3
A Reply, 5
The Athletic Field 5
Bowdoin Verse :
The Tale of a Hat, 7
The Poet's Corner, • . 7
A Complex Dilemma, 7
Tempora Mutantur 7
A Sad Story 7
Collegii Tabula, 7
Athletics, 10
Personal, 13
College World, 15
'he new board enters upon its duties
with this number. The last volume was from
every standpoint a success, and we shall
endeavor to keep the forthcoming issues up
to the standard. For the present, only such
changes will be made as are absolutely nec-
essary to adapt the different departments to
the requirements of the new editors. We
regret to announce that the Pessioptimist
will, for a time at least, be discontinued.
This column has, from the first, been one of
the most interesting features of the Orient
and we are reluctant to see it go, but trust,
in a short time, circumstances will favor its
renewal.
IN the last issue, by some oversight in the
announcement of the editors of the new
board, the name of H. W. Thayer, Exchange
Editor, was omitted.
TITHE publication of our intention of chang-
A ing the covers of the Orient, has brought
in such a storm of remonstrance from the
alumni that we have decided it to be best
to give up the idea. It was our desire to get
the opinions of all before taking such a step,
and the responses are so vigorous that they
take away all doubt as to the wishes of our
graduates. It is very pleasing to know that
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years have not lessened the love for the old
associations, and the ORIENT would ever
keep this spirit alive and would be the last
to do anything against the wishes of those
who have been so loyal in their support.
Elsewhere we publish, by permission, one of
the replies to our proposal.
JlfHE '68 Prize Speaking took place April
-■• 5th in Upper Memorial. The parts were
exceptionally well written and delivered.
The first prize was awarded to George A.
Merrill of Pownal, whose part, entitled
"Social Reform in Our Large Cities," we
print in full in another column.
JTJHE committee name the following as the
-*• successful competitors for the prizes
offered by the Orient: Best story, "Tat-
ters," by J. T. Shaw, '95; second best story,
"Told by a Fisherman," by T. C. Chapman,
'94. Best poem, "A Spring Sunset," by (.'..
E. Michels, '94. Greatest number of poems
contributed by H. B. Russ, '95.
TI7FIK course in Practical Rhetoric, under
■*■ Rev. E. C. Guild, promises to be very
interesting and instructive. We are glad
to welcome Mr. Guild to a nearer rela-
tionship, though his close connection and
interest in the college heretofore has made
him seem almost an indispensable part of
the institution. The students consider them-
selves fortunate in obtaining such an in-
structor, whose broad experience and culture
especially fits him for the position.
FROM the appearance of some of the
buildings at the first of the term the
OpaENT naturally concludes that there are
still some in our midst, or about us, who have
not, as yet, successfully passed those years
usually allotted to childhood. It is almost
incredible to believe that any one who has
come to the years of discretion could be so
simple as to find amusement in the wholesale
destruction of public property. Smashing
windows is bad enough in itself, but when it
comes to endangering hundreds of dollars'
worth of valuable apparatus, just for the fun
of the thing, it is carrying pleasure a little
too far.
TfFHE base-ball season is well begun, and
*■ the make-up and playing of the team
are now the chief topics which interest
all. Out of the four games played, we have
won one and lost three. In the first game
the men worked well and showed a good
prospect for a fine season. The Lewiston
game was lost by a narrow margin, as the
new men had not settled down to business,
and were not confident in what they were
able to do. Wednesday, the base-ball ther-
mometer suddenly fell, and at first sight it
seemed as if our budding hopes had been
nipped half grown. The defeat was due
partly to the changing of men to new posi-
tions and poor team work in general, and
partly to inexperienced pitchers. It appears
to be Bowdoin's fortune to start a favorable
season and use up her pitchers in the first
few games, with no men in reserve to fill
their places. The team is worse than useless
unless it can depend upon its battery to help
pull it out of the hard places, and it should be
the special care of the management to see
that those men are kept in extra good condi-
tion. The effect of a badly-played game
was seen in the small attendance on the
Delta Saturday, and in loss of enthusiasm
in general. But the results were not en-
tirely on the wrong side. It has brushed
away the thoughts of grand stand plays and
easy walk-overs, and has shown the men if
they are to do anything this year, they must
buckle down and play ball. The manage-
ment is right in maintaining that no man
shall stay upon the team unless he will train,
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and we trust the rule will be enforced in
every case without fear or favor. Even if
the team for a time is weakened, the princi-
ple is the only safe one to follow. The bat-
ting of the team promises to be heavy, and
as soon as the men get settled in their posi-
tions, with good management, we can see no
reason why we shall not have a team that
will do us credit in the coming collegiate
games.
Social Reform in Our Large Cities
'Sixty-Eight Prize Oration,
Won by G. A. Merrill.
CHANGE and progress are laws of the universe.
The world of a century ago was not the same as
the world of to-day. The contrast is marked not
only in the material surroundings of the individual,
but in his intellectual and moral conditions. Side by
side with great theoretical problems, alluring and
fascinating to genius, are practical problems, re-
quiring no less keen perception, and demanding
immediate solution. Each period of the world's
history has its separate and distinct questions to
answer, its special difficulties to overcome. The
present age is no exception to this rule. The great
changes that are going on, the complex and diverse
conditions of human life, have brought before the
public gaze problems, by no means easy of solution,
but imperative in their demands upon the thought
and energy of every conscientious individual.
A true citizen of our country rejoices in every-
thing that tends to perpetuate her fair name among
nations. He is equally shocked at whatever tends
to mar that name or degrade the character of his
fellow-men. Such realities, dangerous to all mor-
ality and truth, cannot long remain concealed from
the earnest, inquiring mind. From the recognition
of one of these realities there has come before us
as American citizens, as champions of reform, this
problem, what remedy shall be applied to improve
the social conditions of the poor in our large cities?
It is needless to enter into an elaborate and
detailed description of life as it exists among these
lower social orders. A brief survey of its most
prominent features will suffice. Each one knows
of the crowded tenements, unsanitary to the last
degree, the homes of a degraded population and
the breeding places of crime. Ignorance, vice, and
misery are stamped upon almost every face. The
city throws its walls around these creatures of cir-
cumstance, and compels them to live as they have
begun; the city fashions the molds of common life,
which largely make men what they are. Here, like
a deadly plant, slowly poisoning all who partake of
it, "the sweating system" works out its demoral-
izing effects, and bids its victims labor and starve.
On every corner, holding out its alluring sign, the
saloon plays its part in the general destruction of
humanity. Aside from the degrading influence of
the individual's material environment, he may con-
tinually saturate his mind with literature of the
vilest and most contemptible sort. It is impossible
for him to see anything within the narrow limits of
the home to which he has been doomed, to lead him
to seek higher and better things.
The conditions demanding reform are clearly
before us. Our fellow-men have fallen among
thieves, who would strip them of all purity and
nobility of character. Shall we pass by on the
other side? Shall we be accused of neglected duty
when the power to help lies within our reach? Let
no stone remain unturned, until the causes of vice
and crime have been removed from our large cities.
But how shall this be done ? is the eager inquiry.
In this wide land of ours is an immense number of
young, noble, strong men and women, ready to put
their hands to the plough. In seeking an answer
to this question, it is necessary to avoid the error of
placing confidence in some methods that have not
and never can attain the end desired; remedies
that have been weighed in the balance of public
trial and have been found wanting.
In every community the church stands, or ought
to stand, for reform, for everything that tends to
raise the standard of morals and of individual useful-
ness. It is a deplorable fact that this is not true in
many large cities at the present day. The church
is exclusive; the poor man does not attend the rich
man's house of worship because the atmosphere
there is not warm, but cold and unsatisfying. No
matter how much denunciation of evil; no matter
how many exhortations to repentance are uttered
in these places, they will not reach the poor man.
Just so long as this separation is maintained
between the church and its duty, just so long will it
continue to exercise no influence toward the up-
building of society.
A method that has been in vogue from time
immemorial, one that unthinking persons almost
invariably suggest, is what they call charity, though
it is certainly unworthy of that name. " Arouse
the city government,'' they say, " to a sense of the
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awful need of these poor creatures, and induce
tbem to acts of benevolence; urge the wealthy and
public-spirited to give of their abundance, and we
shall immediately see a change for the better."
But has such a result followed when this method
has been applied? No, there has already been too
much of this unwise charity. It does not inquire
whether the recipient is worthy or not, whether the
gift will be expended for good of the individual and
family, or the reverse. Such a method must be
abandoned, for in many cases it is certain to do
harm. If charity is employed, let it be a charity
tempered by a judicious Christian spirit. I say it
must be judicious; for, if not, it will increase the
very evil it aims to prevent. The large number of
unemployed, now in our cities, must be dealt with in
some way, and the problem for charity is, how to
help the deserving without increasing shiftlessness
and improvidence.
Some methods, advocated by English economists
and practiced, to a certain extent, in many large
cities, are entirely inadequate, and often result in
evil rather than good. The system of casual wards,
where the poor go for food and shelter, is a failure.
Prison reform may accomplish much, and is cer-
tainly worthy of support ; but it is better to begin
earlier, and economize both time and labor. Emi-
gration, the removal of the depraved classes with-
out the city limits, and the formation of rural
colonies, are commendable; and indeed, in some
cases, they are the only remedies that can be
applied to destroy the fatal influence of environ-
ment. Under present regulations, however, they
do not go far enough. Taking a person away from
old associates may be beneficial, but if no better
opportunities for reform are afforded in his new
home, he may be even worse off in the end.
But now the question comes still more forcibly —
what shall be done? Mr. William Booth, in that
wonderful book of his which throws so much light
upon the actual condition of the English poor,
strikes at the root of the matter when he says that
the first essential governing every scheme of reform
is that "It must change the man, when it is his
character and conduct which constitute the reason
for his failure in the battle of life."
President Andrews, of Brown University, iu one
of his recent lectures on Economics, says: " For
man's body, as for his soul; for time, as for eternity,
his only hope lies in spiritual elevation. The prob-
lem of human progress is the problem of improving
human character." Reform, in order to be reform
in the truest sense, must aim first at moral, religious
and educational development. From a sense of the
present needs, it should be made broad enough to
bring about the most far-reaching results. Above
all, it must be carried on, not from some distant
and higher social centre, but among the people
themselves.
With these principles iu view there have been
many attempts at the practical solution of this
most difficult problem. These attempts, although
as yet not carried far, have already yielded most
gratifying results. The larger number of reform
methods originated in England, and there, in the
great city of London, one can see them in actual
operation.
The organization of working men into clubs for
mutual benefit, the socialistic movements, in so far
as they are carried on with a Christian spirit, are
of more or less benefit to the uneducated and
unprotected laborer. The new Trade Unionism,
which is rapidly gaining the support of all classes,
comprehends unskilled laborers and women ; a
result not deemed possible by the conservative sup-
porters of the older organization. The principle,
however, upon which these movements are founded,
is not broad enough to bring about the truest
reform. It is simply the proper adjustment of rela-
tions between labor and capital. Although this is
a desirable end, it should always go hand in hand
with nobler purposes.
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have
taken an active part iu these revolutionary meas-
ures. About eight years ago a few students of
Oxford, influenced, no doubt, by the work of John
Ruskiu, started the first University Settlement at
Whitechapel, London. This was called Toynbee
Hall from its director, Arnold Toynbee, who, with
his adviser, Canon Barnett, will always be remem-
bered as the originators and champions of a method
which, one may confidently say, is destined to have
a most brilliant and successful future.
The scope of the University Settlement idea is
very broad. It aims at the noblest kind of educa-
tional development. There are many branches of
activity, comprising the formation of working men's
clubs, of day and evening classes for public instruc-
tion, and distinctively religious and social work.
The great progressive movement, started in
London, has spread to our own country. Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago each has an
active settlement engaged in its labor of love.
The theological seminaries and universities of
our land are turning from the exclusive and ener-
vating study of mere theory and dogma, to examine
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the practical, e very-day needs of the people. They
are beginning to see the truths of Christianity, not
as matters of creed and controversy, but in the
light of their practical utility. The strongest and
most energetic in both mind and body, seeing the
great need and opportunity for work, find here
employment for their highest and noblest faculties-
The church is awaking to its duty, and is direct-
ing its energy into organized channels. As Pro-
fessor Graham Taylor says, " The churches will
become, as some of them already are, social settle-
ments themselves, doing week-day service for
humanity, sanctifying the secularities of life, being
of, by, and for the people. When they do, the city
problem will be solved."
Here, in the University Settlement and the Organ-
ized Church, may be found the true principles that
should underlie all social reform in our large cities.
Other methods may assist, but are not, in them-
selves, adequate to meet the pressing demands of
present needs, and also to do what, perhaps, is fully
as important, to prevent such conditions from
arising in the future. In whatever way this great
work is undertaken, one principle must be recog-
nized, the principle underlying the fruitful activity
of the Salvation Army, the principle that all men
are brothers, and that only in so far as the two
unnaturally separated elements, the rich and the
poor, the educated and the ignorant, are brought
into harmonious union, can there be a soil in which
the germs of reform will grow and develop into a
beautiful and permanent social order.
A Reply.
To the Editors of the Orient :
T NOTE in the issue of April 5th that a
-*■ change in the cover is contemplated. As
an alumnus and ex-editor I wish to protest
against such a move. I would like to have
the same covers come to me twenty years
from now. There is something distinctive
about them. For many years they have stood.
They seem a part of the paper. Bowdoin
is an old, conservative institution, an institu-
tion that stands for tradition. Improve the
inside as much as you will, introduce novel-
ties and catchy features ; but I am sure I
voice the sentiment of many another when
I say, spare the old covers. If there is any-
thing Americans can learn from Englishmen,
or the West from the East, it is respect for
old associations. The rebuilding of the
historic Yale fence (which I think I read has
been accomplished) represented a spirit
which ought to call forth a thrill and a cheer
from every graduate of an old-line New Eng-
land college. Let the covers stand. Let
Thorndike Oak stand. Let Massachusetts
Hall stand. They are ours; let them be
our children's. That's the true Bowdoin
spirit, the spirit that has begotten the
intense loyalty of her sons. There's a dif-
ference between progress and iconoclasm.-
Very truly yours,
Geo. B. Chandler, '90.
The Athletic Field.
BOWDOIN'S steady progress and increas-
ing prominence in all lines of true
college work, which has made her such a
source of pride to her sons and admirers and
such an object of envy to her rivals, has
ever been closely followed by her athletic
activity and achievements. This in itself is
only a legitimate line of modern college
work, and Bowdoin may well be proud of
her record and prospects in it. The present
time, which marks so important an epoch
in the history of the college, promises to
mark also the beginning of a new era in its
athletic life, since there is every ground for
hope that by another spring the athletic
field, recently surveyed on the Delta, will be
a substantial reality.
For some time the idea of a model ath-
letic field has been active in the minds of
those interested in Bowdoin athletics, but
now, thanks to the energy and enthusiasm of
Dr. Whittier, the idea has taken a definite
shape, the field is surveyed, the plans are
all drawn, and a decidedly progressive step
has been taken. The survey has been made
and the plans drawn by Mr. Austin Cary, '87,
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
the result of whose labors are most encourag-
ing and will be of much interest to all having
the prosperity of Bowdoin at heart.
The site of the proposed field is the
Delta, where the present base-ball and foot-
ball fields are located. There will be the
regulation oval-shaped quarter-mile track,
twenty feet wide, with two straight-away
stretches of three hundred and twenty-two
feet each. One of these stretches will be
parallel to, and twenty feet distant from the
Harpswell Street fence of the Delta. The
present home plate of the diamond will be
in the centre of the track at the turn, and
the other stretch will be just inside the big
pine in left field. Thus to make room for
the oval a small space of the pines back of
center and right field will have to be cleared
away. This, however, will have to be done
any way, athletic field or no athletic field, as
the present outfield is too small, and the foot-
ball field is crowded into too small space,
part of which is dangerous for playing pur-
poses.
Inside the track will be ample room for
the base-ball and foot-ball fields. The dia-
mond will be at the other end of the field
from where it is now, being located beyond
the present center field, and facing in an
opposite direction. This change would be a
good one, according to the base-ball men.
Only the first baseman would be at all
bothered by the sun, and he but little. The
outfield would be much better, as the track
and the whole space inside it will be graded
level. The foot-ball field will no longer be
cramped or dangerous. One end will be
between the present pitcher's box and the
home plate, and the other will be a little
beyond the second base of the new diamond.
The Delta is so level that there will be
but little leveling or grading to be done, the
present greatest difference between any two
points being two feet. A layer of loam will
have to be spread over the whole field, as
the present sandy soil is not especially pro-
ductive of grass. It is probable that the
new diamond will be of loam also, as base-ball
men like this better than clay. This change
has been already planned for the present
diamond even if no athletic field were built.
The present grand stand and fence, which
are not things of beauty by any means, will
be removed, and this part of the field will be
a level, grassy lawn, as indeed the whole
field will be. There will probably be two
new grand stands, tasty and convenient,
though not large — one to command the foot-
ball field it is proposed to have just beyond
the big pine in left field, and another for
base-ball and track events will be near the
home plate of the new diamond.
Such is a general idea of the proposed
athletic field which Mr. Cary has surveyed.
Whether the field becomes a reality or not
depends in a great measure upon the action
of the alumni, before whom the matter will
be brought at Commencement. The expense
in comparison to the importance of the field,
will be small, since there is so little grading
to be done. As yet, however, no accurate
estimates can be made. As to the need of an
athletic field there can be no dispute. The
base-ball and foot-ball interests demand it,
but greater still is the need in view of the
important step Bowdoin is taking in field
and track athletics. Our own Field Day is
becoming a more important occasion each
year, and if the college wins any place for
itself in the New England Intercollegiate
Association its athletes must have such a
field and track to work upon. The prospect
of a Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Associa-
tion makes the need of the field all the more
pressing. It would also give the Maine
Interscholastic Association, to which the col-
leges are much indebted, a suitable place for
its annual field day.
Such a field would certainly be both use-
ful and ornamental, a decided addition to
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the treasures of the college which are making
this centennial such an occasion of rejoicing.
A most auspicious beginning has been made,
and no effort should be spared that will
contribute toward building the track and
field this summer. It is the great oppor-
tunity for Bowdoin's sons to show their
loyalty to the athletic interests of their Alma
Mater.
Bowdoir? ^Oev%e.
The Tale of a Hat.
Mrs. Wilkins bought a hat
To suit her cheeks so rosy;
Wheu Mr. Wilkins saw the thing
He said it was a posy.
A month passed by, the bill came in,
He cast a glance that froze her,
While murmuring between his teeth :
" That bonnet was a poser ! "
The Poet's Corner.
A poem on the Spring I wrote
For our village weekly paper ;
I wrote of grass and trees and leaves,
'Twas quite the proper caper.
" I'll put it in the Poets' Corner,"
The editor said, " since you ask it,
But the corner for spring-poets is
Within our new waste-basket."
A Complex Dilemma.
I know a maid as fair and sweet
As any half-blown rose.
Her cheek would put a peach to shame
(Or any fruit that grows).
Her lips are perfumed coral beads,
Her teeth are carved from pearl,
Her eyes reflect the light of stars,
She is a gracious girl.
Her papa's purse is loug and fat,
Her papa's heart is cold.
One jealous eye his daughter keeps,
The other guards his gold.
Now to obtain those treasures twain
I apprehend some bother,
But one I will not, one I can not
Have without the other.
Tempora Mutantur.
In olden times, when poets' wares
Were held at dearer cost,
Their rhymes were in the temple hung,
And to the rabble lost.
Now times have changed, and he who in
The temple his has sung,
Should have his scrawl sent after him,
And he himself be hung.
A Sad Story.
Poor Charles Augustus James Fitz-Jagge.
He has gone quite astray,
For he was jilted by a maid.
'Twas "Ethel," so they say.
But we, who know Charles' little faults,
The truth will most appall.
The maiden with whom Charles was gay
Was Ethyl alcohol.
The Coxey craze, which has
made so much sensation in many parts
of the country, has been felt in Bruns-
wick and Bowdoin. At least so strang-
ers thought who were in town one of the
first days of the term when they saw over two hun-
dred students parading the town to the music of a
band, and repeatedly giving yells and cheers for
Coxey and his army. It was all due to a guileless
and exceedingly musical aggregation of Germans
who took their stand on the Delta and proceeded
to give a concert. Soon the audience of Medical
students in the grand stand was reinforced un-
til nearly the whole college was present. The
hat went around often and the musicians were so
pleased with the results that their smiles almost
prevented them from blowing their instruments.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
But now the natural leaders got in tbeir work. A
procession was suggested and the plan was at once
carried out. Around the Delta and then around
the campus the line of march was taken, a rest
being made at the Art Building, where another con-
cert was given. Again the line was formed and,
over two hundred strong and marching in good
order, four abreast, the procession moved down
Main Street and back. College banners, red flags,
and base-ball announcements waved over the crowd;
songs and yells enlivened the march, mingled with
cheers for prominent townsmen along the street.
The return was made via Cleaveland and Federal
streets, a stop being made at President Hyde's
house. After other instructors had been enthusi-
astically cheered, the whole company marched to
the station, where the noon trains were given a
rousiug welcome in the name of Coxey's army.
The soldiers were footsore and dusty and glad for
the dinner hour, but, nevertheless, everybody felt
better for having had a chance to make a noise and
use up surplus energy. In the evening the band
appeared again, and another procession was formed
which went over once more the whole line of march.
The crowd and enthusiasm were both smaller, how-
ever, than in the morning, and the true Coxey spirit
seemed to have flown. Many compliments were
heard on the morning marching and it was probably
the largest procession of students the college ever
turned out.
Ackley, '96, is out teaching for the term.
Bean, '97, is back after a month's illness.
Robinson, '96, is riding a new Singer bicycle.
R. W. Maun, '92, visited old Bowdoin last week.
This is the last term of Bowdoin's first century-
Moore, '95, has returned from a long term of
school.
F. 0. Small, '95, is teaching the High School in
Norridgewock.
'96's victorious dumb-bell squad have had their
pictures taken.
C. A. Brown, formerly of '96, ran in the recent
B. A. A. meet.
Clarence Burleigh, '87, was present at Wednes-
day's ball game.
The Freshmen are all reading the New Testa-
ment this spring.
April's sunshine and showers have come with
the opening term.
Oakes, '96, enjoyed his vacation on the campus,
sick with the measles.
It is almost time for the Seniors and Juniors to
commence marching practice.
Small, '96, who left at the end of last term, will
not come back until next year.
Webber, '95, has been seriously sick with
typhoid pneumonia at his home.
Many of the students delayed their return to the
campus for the sake of Fast-Day.
Pratt, '97, has rejoined his class. He has been
out since the Thanksgiving recess.
Doherty, '95, spent his vacation on the campus,
waiting for the tennis courts to dry up.
The non-society tennis court has had a new
layer of clay put on and is in first-class shape now.
The College Bookstore has again changed hauds,
or rather, lost one, and is now conducted by Hicks,
'95.
It is a pleasing fact that the Athletic Assoeia-
ciation cleared above $200 by last term's exhibi-
tions.
Ralph T. Parker, '95, who has been studying at
Leland Stanford University, has joined his class
again.
The library is in summer costume. The storm
porch has been removed and the windows are open
once more.
The Columbian Lady Minstrels were staged in
Town Hall last week. A goodly number of the
students attended.
Bates, '96, has gone to Saco, where he will train
the Thornton Academy boys for the coming
M. I. S. A. A. meet.
Many of the students now direct their after-
supper walks to the lower railroad bridge, now in
process of rebuilding.
The pennant won by Bowdoin in last spring's
base-ball season, now flies during every game from
a lofty flag-pole on the Delta.
The Juniors are obtaining much pleasure and
profit from Rev. Dr. Guild's course in Practical
Rhetoric, also a little hard work.
A tennis court is soon to be laid out for the
A T. It will probably be placed end to end with the
■* T court, back of the gymnasium.
Students interested in field and track athletics
met in Memorial last Thursday and listened to a
talk on training by Trainer McLean.
McKinnon, '94, who came here from the Bangor
Theological School, has accepted a call to the Con-
gregational church in St. John, Nebraska.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Speaking of chapel attendance, it is a fact that
for several days last week the only member of the
Faculty present was the one conducting the service.
Professor Woodruff has been in Boston as Bow-
doin's delegate to the convention of New England
colleges for the consideration of admission require-
ments.
The Sophomore French division are reading
Souvestre's "Philosophic sous les Toits" in class,
and for outside reading are perusing " La Fontaine's
Fables."
Among belated Easter notices we wish to men-
tion the triumph of the hatter's art worn by three
promiuent 'Varsity base-ball men the latter portion
of last term.
There were various Maying parties Fast-Day,
In some the attraction was the dewy arbutus, but
in others it was the Brunswick maiden and her
lunch basket.
Rehearsals for the coming Minstrel Show are of
daily occurrence just now. The colored gentlemen
have all been chosen and they do say that every
one is an artist.
Professor Woodruff, Professor Houghton, and
Eastman and Ordway, '96, were present at the
Latin play, "Phormio," given by the Harvard stu-
dents week before last.
The Freshman Class is negotiating for the '95
shell, and has several candidates rowing in the
barge. Gribben is manager. Everything points
towards an interesting race.
The ashes and accumulated remains of many
feeds have been taken away from the "ends" at
this early date, and everything is ready for a new
crop of tin cans and old paper.
The Sophomore Mathematical division is some-
what reduced in numbers this term. The tennis
court and the base-ball diamond have triumphed
over the attractions that Calculus offers.
The agents have been round for canvassers
lately, and many of the students have determined
to tramp it this summer with a book or a package
of clothes-pins, or something of that sort for sale.
'Ninety-five had its picture for the Bugle taken
on the Art Buildiug steps lately. This is a new
place for class pictures and bids fair to usurp the
place formerly held by the ivy-covered chapel front.
The Junior Class elected the following members
for the prize speaking which takes place in June:
Bryant, Churchill, Doherty, French, Holmes, Ingra-
ham, Kimball G. L., Mayo, Moore, Parker, Stetson,
Webber.
The following subject has been announced for
the Pray English prize: "The Opening Scene of
Shakespeare's Tragedies as Indicating the Key-
Note of the Entire Plot." The competition is open
to Seniors.
The bronzes in front of the Art Building have
been raised about a foot on stone pedestals, and the
projecting bases have been cut away an equal dis-
tance, thus relieving them of a somewhat too great
prominency.
The first game of the M. I. base-ball league was
played on the Delta Fast-Day morning, between
the Brunswick High School and the Latin School
of Lewiston. The score was 18 to 5 in favor of the
Brunswicks.
Tennis is attracting its share of attention just
now. The crack players are practicing every day,
while the tyros are banging away at the nets all the
time. Two hardy players commenced at five the
other morning.
Students who visit the Art Building semi-occa-
sionally have noticed some new additions to the
curios. In the Boyd Galley the Virginia Dox col-
lection of Indian and Mexican relics have been
arranged. One piece of Mexican onyx is very
beautiful.
At a recent meeting of the College Republican
Club, for the election of officers, the following were
chosen: President, J. B. Roberts, '95 ; Vice-Presi-
dents, G. B. Mayo and P. D. Stubbs, '95; Secretary
and Treasurer, J. T. Shaw, '95; Corresponding
Secretary, J. C. Minot, '96.
The first themes of the term fall due on Tues-
day, the first day of May. Juniors, in all the luxury
of Junior Ease, have no writing this term. The
subjects for the Sophomores are as follows: What
Effect have Protective Duties on Wages? The
Advantages of the Elective System in College
Work. Scott's "Ivanhoe."
Two of our Seniors who remaiued on the campus
this vacation, spent their time in roaming around
on the Brunswick flats. They were rather sur-
prised at the interesting places they found, for this
was the first time they had been more than a mile
from the college on a tramp. It is queer how close
a college boy will stick to his campus.
"Improvement is the order of the age" here as
well as in the wide, wide world; for we now drink
our split from a tin dish, and one that, although
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it was battered and brown with rust when Booker
resurrected it from the ash-heap, was once a dipper.
Hitherto the water of "paradise" has been dis-
pensed from an old condensed-milk can.
For the officers of the Maine Interscholastic
Athletic Association Field Day, the following Bow-
doin men have been appointed: Professor F. W.
Whittier, judge of fixed events; Doherty, '95, judge
at finish; L. S. Dewey, '95, starter; J. C. Minot,
!96, scorer. The meet is held in Waterville, June
9th, and promises to be more interesting even than
in former years.
The provisional list of appointments for Com-
mencement are as follows: Alfred Veazie Bliss,
Bangor; Frank Ellsworth Briggs, Mechanic Falls;
Trelawney Clarendale Chapman, Springfield, Mass.;
Frank George Farrington, Augusta; Charles Allcott
Flagg, Sandwich, Mass.; Frank Herbert Knight,
Deering Center; Fred Joseph Libby, Richmond;
George Anthony Merrill, Pownal; Frederick Will-
iam Pickard, Portland; Edgar Myrick Simpson,
North Newcastle.
'Ninety-four held its '68 Prize Speaking in
Memorial Hall, Thursday evening. April 5th.
Brunswick people were out in large numbers, and
with the college boys, made an appreciative audi-
ence. The exercises were of more than usual
interest. The first prize was awarded to G. A.
Merrill. Rev. Mr. Dale, of Topsham, Barrett Pot-
ter, and Herbert Cole were the judges. The pro-
gramme was as follows :
The United States and America.
E. M. Simpson, North Newcastle.
Ordinary Men. T. C. Chapman, Jr., Springfield, Mass.
The Course of the World. F. J. Libby, Richmond.
Social Reform in Our Large Cities.
G. A. Merrill, Pownal.
Resignation of Washington from Command of the Army.
F. W. Pickard, Portland.
An American Answer. H. E. Andrews, Kennehunk.
Keyes, '96, is taking Bates's place in the Art
Building.
Mitchell, '96, was called home last week by the
sudden death of his father.
/fftleties.
The recent quarterly report of President Harper
shows a total of 923 students at Chicago University.
The University of Michigan is the first to enroll
Chinese women among her students.
The Pennsylvania library now contains about
230,000 volumes, one-half of which are bound.
This is an increase in bound volumes of 5,000 dur-
ing the past year.
BASE-BALL.
Portland, 8; Bowdoin, 5.
The season of '94 was opened Fast-Day, in
Portland. A crowd of 2,500 persons were present
and fully enjoyed themselves. Portland people
were anxious to size up the team who are to rep-
resent the city in the New England League and, as
a consequence, manifested considerable interest by
turning out in large numbers. The grounds were
in excellent condition; in fact, much better than
could have been expected so early in the season.
The crowd filled the grand stand and many were
obliged to stand. The game was quite interesting,
as the score would indicate. The batting of Fair-
banks was the best feature, and a great deal of
enthusiasm was shown by the Bowdoin team gen-
erally. Carey pitched in his old-time form for the
Portlands in the first four innings. Casey, Schum-
way, Mackey, and Flavin did the best work for
Portland. Mackey caught two men off third base
in the last inning, when Bowdoin was trying to add
another score to its credit. Allen and Sykes put up
the best game for Bowdoin. The former's backstop
playing was very fine, and he made two difficult
catches of foul flies. No scoring was done by
either side until the third inning, when Carey
scored on Casey's two-bagger. Sawyer succeeded
Plaisted in the fourth, and the league team scored
four runs. Williams succeeded Sawyer, and, with
the exception of two wild pitches, did very well.
The Bowdoin men accomplished the triple play
in the first inning and a double play afterward.
Plaisted's work in the box was of a high order, and
he displayed his usual coolness and good judgment.
The good fielding and lively batting of the team,
displayed in the first game of the season, is certainly
encouraging to the students who are anxious to see
Bowdoin stand well in base-ball. Flaherty umpired
a fair game. The score :
PORTLAND.
A.B. R. B.H. S.H. P.O. A. E.
Slater, lb 2 0 1 0 9 1 0
Casey, c. & 2b., .... 5 0 1 0 7 0 1
Mackey, 2b. & c, ... 5 2 1 0 24 0
Hill, c.f 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
Schumway, 3b., .... 3 1 1 0 2 4 2
Cook, l.f 4 1 0 0 3 0 0
Flavin, s.s 4210241
Winckler, r.f. & p., . . 3 0 1 1 1 1 0
Kelley, p. & r.f 10 0 0 0 0 0
Carey, p., 1 X _? J| J> _f _?
Totals, 29 8 6 2 27 15 4
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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BOWDOINS.
A.B. R. B.H. S.H. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b., .... 4 2 2 0 1 1 2
Hull, l.f 4 1 2 0 1 0 0
Plaisted, p 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sawyer, p., 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
Haines, c, 1 0 0 0 4 0 0
Williams, r.f. &p 4 0 0 0 0 3 1
Chapman, c.f., .... 4 0 1 0 1 0 0
Sykes, 2b., 3 0 1 0 2 2 0
Allen, c. & r.f 3 0 0 0 5 1 0
Bodge, lb., 2 0 1 1 90 0
Soule, ss 4 2 1 0 1 3 2
Totals, 32 5 8 1 24 12 5
SCORE BY INNINGS.
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Portlands, ....00141110 x-8
Bowdoins 00000320 0—5
Earned runs — Bowdoins, 2. Two-base hits — Slater,
Casey, Flavin, Schumway, Hull (2), Fairbanks. Three-
base hit — Fairbanks. Stolen bases — Casey, Cary, Hill,
Schumway, Cook, Flavin, Slater, Allen, Sykes (3), Soule,
Hull, Chapman, Bodge (2). Left on bases— Portlands 7,
Bowdoins 4. First base on errors — Portlands 3, Bowdoins
3. Double plays— Soule and Bodge. Triple plays — Sykes
and Fairbanks. Bases on balls — by Winkler 2, by Plaisted
3, by Sawyer 2, by Williams 2. Hit by pitched ball —
Slater, Bodge. Struck out — by Kelley 3, by Winkler 1, by
Plaisted 3, by Sawyer 1, by Williams 3. Passed balls-
Allen, Haines. Wild pitches — Sawyer 2, Williams 2. Time
of game, 2h. 10m. Umpire, Flaherty.
T. M. O. A., 17; Bowdoin, '97, 11.
The first game of the season- in Portland came
off on the forenoon of Fast-Day between the
Y. M. C. A. and the Bowdoin Freshmen. As some
of the Freshman team are on the 'Varsity, they
were obliged to play three '96 men, Coburn, Warren,
and Willard. Willard held down the first bag in
good shape, while Warren covered center field well.
The game was characterized by considerable batting,
but on the whole was quite well played, although
the Bowdoin team showed need of more practice.
The score :
Y. M. C. A.
A.E. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Soule, 2b. & c 5 2 3 3 5 0 1
J. Libby, c.f 0 2 4 4 0 0 1
F. Libby, c. & 2b 5 1 3 4 9 2 1
Files, lb., 5 3 2 2 7 0 0
Allen, p., 3 0 1 1 0 1 0
Hooper, p 3 1 2 2 0 0 0
Webster, s.s. 5 1 0 0 0 3 1
Greenlaw, 3b 4 3 2 2 2 2 1
Chase, r.f 3 1 1 1 0 0 0
Norton, r.f., 2 1 1 1 1 0 0
Hatch, l.f., 4 2 1 1 3 1 1
Totals, 46 17 20 21 27 9 6
BOWDOIN, '97.
A.B. B. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Coburn, p 2 4 1 1 1 4 0
Randall, r.f 5 1 1 1 2 0 0
White, l.f 4 1 1 1 2 0 0
Warren, c.f., -....5 2 0 0 1 2 0
McMillan, c, 5 2 2 2 8 4 0
Eastman, 3b 2 0 0 0 2 0 0
Willard, lb., 5 1 1 1 6 0 1
Hanlon, s.s., 5 0 1 1 3 1 2
Pratt, 2b., 5 0 0 0 2 0 2
Totals 38 11 7 7 27 11 5
Earned runs— Y.M.C.A., 1. Two-base hits— F. Libby.
Sacrifice hits — F. Libby, Eastman. Stolen bases — Soule 2,
J. Libby 2, F. Libby 1, Allen 1, Webster 2, Greenlaw 3,
Coburn 3, White 2, McMillan 2, Eastman 1. First base on
balls — by Allen 4, by Hooper 6, by Coburn 6. First base
on errors— Y. M. C. A. 3, Bowdoin, '97, 4. Hit by pitched
ball— Files, Greenlaw. Passed balls— Soule 1, F. Libby 1,
McMillan 3. Wild pitches— Allen 1, Hooper 1. Struck
out— by Allen 4, by Hooper 2, by Coburn 6. Umpire
Perry.
Bowdoin, 8; B. H. S., 0.
Saturday afternoon, April 21st, the Brunswick
High School nine played a picked nine of Bowdoiu
men. The game was a very good one, and well
worth sitting out in the cold to watch, for the day
was far from pleasant. Coburn pitched a great
game and made a magnificent stop of a hot grounder
from Toothaker's bat. He was ably supported by
Quimby, while Dane, at second base, put up the
star game of the day. He also did great work
with the stick. Forsyth, at short stop, played his
usual good game for the High School team. Tooth-
aker was batted quite freely, especially in the eighth
inning. Gould umpired for Brunswick, and Shaw,
'95, for Bowdoin. The score :
BOWDOIN NINE.
A.B. R. B.H. P.O. A. E.
Coburn, p 5 1 1 0 4 0
Willard, lb 4 2 113 1 1
Sawyer, c.f 4 0 2 1 0 0
Dane, 2b 4 2 3 6 4 0
Bailey, r.f 4 1 2 0 0 0
Dana, s.s., 4 0 1 2 2 1
White, l.f 4 1 1 1 0 0
Quimby, c, 3 1 1 4 0 0
Warren, 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 35 8 12 27 12 2
BB.UNSWICK HIGH SCHOOL.
A.B. R. B.H. P.O. A. E.
Forsyth, s.s 4 0 0 3 3 0
Perkins, 3b., 4 0 0 1 0 0
Toothaker, p., 4 0 1 0 0 0
Bryant H., l.f 4 0 1 1 1 0
Varney, r.f., 4 0 0 0 0 0
Bryant W., 2b 3 0 1 6 3 3
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Hubbard, c.f 3 0 0 1 1 o
Wheeler, c. 3 0 0 5 0 0
Edwards, lb., 3 0 1 7 1 1
Totals 32 0 424 9 4
Time of game, 1 hour 40 minutes.
Lewiston, 12; Bowdoin, 11.
The first game that the team has played on the
Delta this season came off Monday afternoon, April
23d. It was an exciting game, characterized by
much heavy hitting on both sides. The Lewiston
team played a fine fielding game, but were not as
strong at the bat as their opponents. Bowdoin's
costly errors, especially in the last inning, really
lost the game for them. When Lewiston came
to the bat in the ninth the score was 11 to 9
against them. Fairbanks made a fine stop of a
ground hit, which won much applause from the
crowd. Williams did the best batting, getting
a home run and a three-bagger. The Bowdoin
team batted Stafford all over the field in the seventh
inning, and ran in seven scores. The score :
LEWISTON.
A.B. K. E.H. T.E. P.O. A. E.
Coughlin, l.f 4 2 1 1 0 1 0
Leighton, c.f 4 1 2 3 3 0 0
Spill, s.s., 5 1 1 1 0 7 1
Shea, 2b 5 0 1 1 8 1 1
Lezotte, lb 4 1 1 113 0 1
Bergen, c 5 1 1 1 1 3 1
MeCormack, 3b 5 2 1113 0
Wheeler, r.f., 4 3 2 2 1 0 0
Lynch, p 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stafford, p 3 1 0 0 0 3 2
Totals 41 12 10 11 27 18 6
BOWDOIN.
A.B. B. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E-
Fairbanks, 3b 3 1 0 0 1 2 0
Sykes, 2b 5 0 1 1 2 2 0
Hull, l.f., 4 1 0 0 1 1 2
Williams, r.f., p., ... 5 3 2 7 3 3 0
Plaisted, p., r.f 5 2 2 2 0 6 0
Chapman, c.f., .... 3 1 1 1 0 0 0
Anderson, lb., .... 4 1 1 1 10 0 1
Soule, s.s 3 1 1 1 0 3 3
Haines, c 4 1 1 2 7 0 1
Totals, 36 11 9 15 24 16 7
SCORE BY INNINGS.
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Lewiston, 11042010 3—12
Bowdoin 01001070 2—11
Home run — Williams. Three-base hit — Williams. Two-
base hits — Haines and Leighton. Struck out — by Plaisted
4, by Williams 1, by Stafford 1. Bases on balls — by Plais-
ted 3, by Williams 3, by Lynch 1, by Stafford 4. Double
plays — by Lezotte unassisted, by Stafford and Lezotte,
and by Shea and Lezotte. Passed ball — by Haines, 1.
Umpire, Kelley of Lewiston. Time of game, 2h. 15m.
Portland, 21; Bowdoin, 11.
The Portlands came to Brunswick April 25th to
do up the Bowdoin team, and did it with a vengeance,
too. The crowd who gathered on the Delta to
watch the game went away in disgust. The college
team was weakened by the loss of the regular
battery and did the poorest work in the field that
has been done on the college grounds for several
years. It was a very comedy of errors and charac-
terized by poor playing generally. The Portlands
started in well and played good ball, but grew care-
less as the game progressed and did some loose
fielding. Only seven innings were played. Coburn
and Sawyer both took a turn in the box, but were
batted all over the field, and finally Kelley, a Port-
land pitcher, finished the game for the college team.
He was batted quite freely by his own team and the
scoring kept on until the end of the game. Casey
caught a good game for Portland and did good work
in batting and base running. Umpire, Kelly. The
score :
PORTLANDS.
A.B. K. B. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Cook, l.f., 4 2 2 2 1 1 2
Slater, lb. & 2b 4 4 3 6 7 1 0
Casey, c, 5 5 4 9 5 3 0
Fennelly, s.s., .... 2 0 2 3 1 6 1
Mackey, r.f 5 1 1 1 1 0 1
Hill, c.f 5 4 3 4 0 0 0
Schumway, 3b., .... 5 2 2 4 2 2 1
Flavin, 2b. & s.s 5 0 0 0 4 2 2
Carey, p. & lb 3 2 1 4 0 0 2
Winkler, p., 2 1 1 1 0 0 0
Totals 40 21 19 34 21 15 9
BOWDOIN.
A.B. K. B. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b 5 0 0 0 6 3 1
Hull, s.s 2 1 1 1 1 3 2
Hinkley, l.f., 4 1 1 1 0 2 2
Williams, lb., .... 4 1 2 2 3 0 2
Coburn, p 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Chapman, c.f 3 1 1 1 2 1 1
Sykes, 2b 4 4 2 3 3 1 3
Bodge, r.f., 4 2 2 2 1 1 0
Haines, c. 3 0 1 2 2 1 3
Sawyer, p., 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kelley, p 1 1 1 2 J) 0 0
Totals 32 11 11 14 18 13 14
Bowdoin, 29 ; Boston University, 1.
The Boston University team, who have been
making their annual trip through the state, came to
Brunswick Saturday, April 28th, and played a game
with Bowdoin. The spectators did not get highly
interested in the game because it proved to be too
one-sided. The home team did not put as much
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
13
life into their playing as they would have done
probably if their opponents had proved stronger,
still they did very well in the field and the battiug
was heavy, as the score would indicate. Bowdoin
accomplished two double plays and Boston Uni-
versity one. Williams pitched a good game and
did not have to exert himself at all, only throwing
two balls with any speed during the whole game.
Chapman made the star catch of the day in deep
center field. Fairbanks, Hull, Sykes, and Bodge
did the best battiug for Bowdoin. Gove played a
good game behind the bat for Boston University.
Haines had two passed balls and Gove three.
Chapman, Williams, and Crawford struck out.
Time of game, two hours. Umpires, Allen for
Bowdoin, Rogers for Boston University. The
score :
BOWDOIN.
A.E. R. E. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b 6 3 2 H 5 1 3
Hull, s.s., 6 4 3 3 0 3 1
Hinckley, l.f 4 3 1 1 3 1 0
Williams, p., 6 2 1 3 0 7 1
Sykes (Capt.) 2b., ... 5 3 2 4 3 1 1
Chapman, c.f 5 4 2 2 1 0 0
Bodge, r.f. 5 3 3 4 0 0 1
Anderson, lb 6 3 2 2 6 0 2
Haines, c, 6 4 3 3 3 0 0
Coburn, r.f 1 0 1 1 0 1 0
Totals 50 29 20 29 21 14 9
BOSTON UNIVERSITY.
A.B. R. B. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Roddy, l.f 3 0 1 1 1 1 3
Gove (Capt.) c, .... 5 0 1 1 3 1 2
Harding, 2b,, i 0 2 2 3 2 1
King, 3b 4 0 2 2 1 2 1
Crawford, lb., .... 4 0 1 1 6 0 3
Hinckley, r.f., .... 4 0 0 0 2 0 1
Perkins, c.f., 3 0 1 1 4 0 0
Wight, s.s., 3 0 0 0 1 0 5
Sanborn, p., 3 1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 33 1 8 8 21 7 10
Thirty-five Amherst students belonging to the
glee and banjo clubs will take a trip to Europe
this summer.
The will of a late Californian provides for a
legacy of $400,000 to be devoted to the establish-
ment of a School of Industrial Arts at the Univer-
sity of California.
The next Harvard-Yale debate will be on the
question: "Resolved, that the members of the
President's Cabinet should have a seat in the House
of Representatives." Harvard will take the nega-
tive.
'32.— Rt. Rev. Bishop Horatio South-
gate died at Astoria, L. I., April 2d, in his
eighty-second year. He was born in Port-
land, Me., July 5, 1812. After graduating
from Bowdoin he entered on the theological course
at Andover, graduating there in 1835. Two
years later he applied for orders in the Episcopal
church, and was confirmed in October, 1834.
He was ordained deacon in Trinity Church, Boston,
July 12, 1835, by Bishop Griswold and, soon
after, was appointed, by the foreign committee of
the Board of Missions, to make an investigation
of the state of Mohammedanism in Turkey and
Persia. On his return to the United States he was
ordained priest by Bishop Underdonk, of New
York. Appointed missionary to Constantinople in
1840, he served for four years in that capacity,
during which time he mado a tour through Meso-
potamia. The Episcopal church having resolved,
henceforth, to send bishops into the foreign mis-
sionary field, Dr. Southgate was consecrated bishop
and sent to Constantinople, where he was occupied
until 1849. Dr. Southgate was also elected bishop
of California, in 1850, and of Hayti, in 1870, but
declined both. He went to Portland, Me., in 1841
and organized St. Luke parish, now the Cathedral
Church of the diocese. Since then he has filled the
pulpits in the Church of the Advent, Boston, and
Zion Church, New York. From the latter he re-
signed in 1872, and has since lived in retirement.
He received the degree of LL.D. from both Colum-
bia and Trinity colleges. He was the author of
many works on travel in the Orient, and also
contributed freely to church and other literature in
magazines and reviews.
Med., '34. — News has been received of the death
of Rev. Leander S. Tripp, at Rockland, Me., at the
age of eighty-nine. Graduated from Colby in 1829
and from the Bowdoin Medical School in 1834. He
practiced medicine until 1843, and was then or-
dained into the Baptist church. He was married
February 27, 1835, to Miss Louisa Allen, of Parm-
ington, who survives him at the age of eighty-five.
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'53.— Hon. W. L. PutDam responded to the
toast of the city at the recent banquet given in
honor of Judge Strout, lately appointed to State
Supreme Court by Governor Cleaves. Judge Put-
nam was one of the speakers at the banquet of the
Episcopal Club in Boston, Mass., April 23, 1894.
'56.— It is rumored that Galen C. Moses, who is
the owner of several trotting horses, is negotiating
for the Bath Driving Park for training purposes.
'58.— The Army and Navy Journal has the fol-
lowing: Gen. Henry G. Thomas, U. S. A. (retired),
has lately been made president of the Oklahoma
National Bank, Oklahoma, 0. T. He is also treas-
urer and secretary of the water works there and
president of its Building and Loan Association.
Med. ,'59. —Dr. D. E. Marston, of Monmouth, well
known as one of the leading physicians and sur-
geons of the state, and also as a successful business
man, died at his residence in that town April 14,
1894, from the effects of an attack of the grippe over
a year ago. The deceased was born in West Gar-
diner, May 13, 1836. He fitted for college at Litch-
field Academy, and graduated from Medical School
in 1859.
'60. — Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed expects to
make a speech-making visit to Minneapolis early in
June.
'68. — Hon. 0. D. Baker, of Augusta, Me., has
made public announcement that he is a candidate
for the Republican nomination of Congressman in
the third district.
'68.— Ex-Mayor Charles J. Chapman, of Port-
land, has been confined to his house the last week
with a slight attack of bronchitis, but recovered
sufficiently to leave for New York with Mrs. Chap-
man, who is to attend a convention at Philadelphia.
71.— Rev. Edgar P. Davis, lately editor of the
Boston Courier, is rector of All Saints Church at
Littleton, N. H.
71. -Rev. E. S. Stackpole, D.D., has just pub-
lished a book, "The Direct Evidence of the Spirit,"
which is being favorably criticised by the eminent
divines all over the country.
73.— Hon. A. F. Moulton acted as toast-master
in the recent dinner to Judge Strout. Other Bow-
doiu men present were Hon. Frederick Robie, '41,
George A. Thomas, '41, Hon. W. L. Putnam, '53,
T. M. Giveen, '63, Hon. J. A. Locke, '65, F. C. Pay-
son, 76, Llewellyn Barton, '84, and Richard Webb,
ex-'85.
77.— John A. Roberts has been elected Presi-
dent of the Oxford County Agricultural Society.
78. — The Baxter Brothers Company, of Bruns-
wick, capitalized at $10,000, has been formed for a
general canning business. The names of the pro-
moters are Hartley C. Baxter, 78, James P. Baxter,
Hon. '81, of Portland, Edward S. Keunard and Bar-
rett Potter, 78, of Brunswick.
'85.— The U. S. Fish Commission has just pub-
lished " Notes on the Fresh- water Fishes of Wash-
ington County, Maine," by W. C. Kendall, as an
article in its bulletin for 1894. Another article,
"Extension of the Recorded Range of Certain
Marine and Fresh-water Fishes of the Atlantic
Coast of the United States," by the same author, in
connection with Hugh M. Smith, also appears in its
bulletin.
'88. — The funeral services of the wife of Prof.
George Howard Larrabee occurred Sunday, April
1, 1894, at North Bridgton, Maine.
'91.— It is rumored that Principal T. R. Cros-
well, of Wilton Academy, will tender his resigna-
tion at the close of the term and will enter upon a
post-graduate course at Columbia College, New
York City.
'92. — Fred V. Gummer had an article in a recent
issue of the Letviston Journal on the Importance of
Preserving the New England Town Government.
Med.— The sad death of Ralph Purington, who
has been attending the Medical School for over a
year, occurred Tuesday, April 10, 1894, at his home
in Bowdoinham. His death caused much sadness
in the community where he lived, for he was a
manly young fellow and liked by all. His class
attended the funeral in a body.
Dr. Sargent, of the Harvard gymnasium, has
devised a new game called " battle ball," which
combines some of the features of bowling, base-ball,
cricket, tennis, and foot-ball.
In England one man in 5,000 attends college;
in Scotland, one in 650; in Germany, one in 213;
in the United States, one in 2,000.— Ex.
In response to request, the U. S. Government
has detailed an officer to give instruction in the
theory and history of military tactics and science,
in Harvard University.
In Yale College 235 students have elected Amer-
ican constitutional history; 195, social science ; 184,
political economy; 180, European history; 179,
jurisprudence and law; 168, mediaeval history. These
are the six most popular studies. Mathematics is
near the bottom of 149 elections.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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Pound on fly leaf of Anabasis: —
" If there should be another flood,
For refuge hither fly ;
Though all the world should be submerged,
This book would still be dry."— Ex.
Professor Williams, of Johns Hopkins University,
says that the practice of hazing at college is an
ancient one. At Heidelberg University, where he
studied, he came across an old rule printed in 1430,
forbidding the practice, by the older students, of
shaving the heads of the new students and filling
their ears with wax. — Ex.
Prince Besolow, the young African prince, who
is in the Freshman Class at Williams, has been
called back to Africa to take charge of his king-
dom.
A Freshman sat iu the chapel dim,
Stiff and erect and still,
And faithfully sang the opening hymn,
And read the Psalms with a will.
The Sophomore sat with a languid care
With his arm on the forward seat ;
The latest French novel was on his knees
And a newspaper at his feet.
"With back to the front the Junior sat ;
His seat was the middle aisle,
And cautiously now he'd wave his hat
As he caught the maiden's smile.
Fervently then the preacher spoke,
With his eyes on the Senior's chair ;
But in that aisle no disturbance broke,
For there was no Senior there.
— Rutger's Targum.
The Faculty of Colorado College have decided
to give the editors of their college paper credit for
editorial work. The editor-in-chief receives a
credit of two hours a week, the Senior and Junior
editors one hour a week, and the work of the
Sophomore and Freshmen editors is taken as an
equivalent of one essay. The above credit, as well
as position on the staff, depends upon the quality
of work done. — Unit.
The annual intercollegiate shooting match be-
tween the clubs at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
will be held this month.
Two hundred and forty-nine post-graduate
courses are offered at Yale. This is an increase of
thirty-eight over last year.
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During the past year Yale University has re-
ceived by gift $291,595.43, together with the sum
which will have been given for Vanderbilt Hall
when completed; and by bequest $154,000, and
also the residue of the estate of the late Martin S.
Eichelberger, '58.
The calendar of the University of Michigan
shows a total enrollment of 2,659 students. The
Faculty numbers 72.
The gifts of Henry W. Sage to Cornell have
alone amounted to considerably over a million dol-
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BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 16, 1894.
No. 2.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 2.— May 16, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 17
Extracts from President's Report, 19
An Incident 21
Bowdoin Verse :
O Tempora ! 22
The Reward of Duplicity, 22
Memories, 22
A Good Ear 23
Collegii Tabula 23
Athletics, 26
Personal, 30
College World, 31
Friends of Bowdoin have never been
lacking in a time of need, and our college is
again to be congratulated as the recipient of
a handsome gift. Last week the announce-
ment was made by General Hubbard, of New
York, who, from the first, has acted as the
representative of Mr. Searles, the donor of
the Science Building, stating that, in addition
to the gift of the building as first proposed,
money will be furnished to completely equip
it with modern apparatus. This is in answer
to the statement in President Hyde's annual
report, just issued, saying that at least 17,000
in new apparatus was needed to make the
instruction of the college in science commen-
surate with the splendid facilities which the
Searles Science Building offers. Thus this
generous addition to the great gift already
made insures the adqeuate equipment of the
physical, chemical, and biological depart-
ments, and removes the need of the bulk of
increase of appropriations . to be made in
June, the anticipation of which has been
causing the government of the college no
little anxiety. This gift of between $7,000
and $10,000 is an important addition to the
many reasons that make this centennial year
a season of happy thanksgiving to all the
friends of Bowdoin.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
TT7HE Orient, in the name of the college,
-*■ extends a cordial greeting to the repre-
sentatives of the Psi Upsilon fraternity who
are meeting here in national convention this
week. May they long have pleasant memo-
ries of their visit to the home of their
fraternity's most eastern chapter.
IF there is any place where Freshman
*■ b rashness may properly be displayed —
and the Orient is far from admitting the
existence of any such locality — that place is
certainly not in chapel during religious
exercises. Kicking on the steam pipes, con-
versing, or otherwise acting out the rowdy
during chapel exercises, is unworthy any
Bowdoiii student, and when these unmanly
acts of disturbance are carried so far as they
were on a recent Sunday during an address
by an honored guest of the college, it is time
a halt was called. Of course it is no more
right for a member of one class than for a
member of another to act ungentlemanly in
chapel, but certain Freshmen have been
showing in this an unwholesome desire to
excel which should be quenched.
FTN old graduate of the Medical School,
/ *■ who visited the campus recently, ex-
pressed himself as much delighted and some-
what surprised at the extremely friendly
relations existing between the medical stu-
dents and those in the college proper. In
his time, not many years ago, there was not
only generally decided colduess between these
two bodies, but often open hostility. He men-
tioned the case when the medics, in payment
for some act of the students, plowed up the
diamond one night to prevent a proposed
ball game. Now, happily, tempora mutantur.
All are Bowdoin boys together in spirit and
fellowship as well as in truth, and only the
best feeling prevails. This is only as it
should be, and it is not easy to understand
how it ever came to be any different. Both
college and Medical School are of one insti-
tution, under one head, and with common
interests, though as to recitations the stu-
dents are little in contact. Many causes
have brought about this era of closer rela-
tions, prominent among them being the at-
tendance of Bowdoin alumni in the Medical
School and the union of athletic interests.
The recent spectacle of all the college boys
and medical students parading the streets in
one body, with common songs and cheers,
has not been frequent in past years, but it
shows well the present good feeling of perfect
unity. Every alumnus and friend of college
or medical department will hope earnestly
that the present condition of things may be
lasting.
'7JLL who have been accustomed to frequent
/ *■ the Bowdoin Delta are glad to notice that
the old grand stand which has graced, or
rather disgraced, this spot so long has given
way to a more prepossessing and modern
structure. It is an improvement all will
appreciate highly. Especially noticeable
are its resonant qualities. Long and loud
and often may it echo the Bowdoin yell of
victory.
TITHE college has been notified that by the
■*■ will of the late Ann E. Lambert, of
Jamaica Plains, Mass., one thousand dollars
has been left as a legacy to Bowdoin. Edgar
O. Achorn, Esq., '81, is the executor.
PRESIDENT HYDE'S annual report to
the governing boards of the college,
from which a few extracts are given in this
number, is unusually interesting and full,
and should be carefully read by every Bow-
doin man, past or present. We cannot keep
too well informed upon all subjects relating
to the welfare of the institution of which
we are a part.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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TIN unusually successful and exciting ten-
f* nis tournament has just closed, and the
men who will represent Bowdoin in the
annual Maine intercollegiate tournament
and in the Massachusetts trip, have won their
right to this distinction. The entries were
more numerous than usual, and so closely
matched were many of the best players that
interest has been unusually high in the tour-
nament. The winners have had to work
hard for their honors and we feel that Bow-
doin will be strongly represented at Portland
and against the Massachusetts colleges.
The silver cup won last year must be retained,
and we feel confident our representatives
are the men for the duty. While the trip
out of the state will be something of an
experiment there is little to lose by it and
much to gain. May the Bowdoin men prove
the best men, and may the best men win!
Though tennis has long been popular it is
still a coming sport, and the increased num-
bers who play it in college are very marked
over a few years ago. It is a sport of many
advantages, and while nearly all can play it,
yet to play well is the accomplishment of but
few. Bowdoin has good courts, good play-
ers, and much increasing interest in the sport.
Elsewhere in this issue is the score of each
set of the recent college tournament.
Extracts from President's Report.
yiTHE Searles Science Building gives us
-*■ better facilities for teaching the sciences
than any college of our size possesses. Yet
the possession of such a building imposes
great responsibilities. It makes it possible,
so far as accommodations are concerned, to
give an ideal course in science. The profes-
sors can adjust laboratory work to lecture
instruction without having to consider the
question of space; and can do for whole
classes what hitherto they have been obliged
to confine to small divisions. We are in a
position to test the value of natural science
for training.
The Walker Art Building will be dedi-
cated on the 7th of June. Hon. William
D. Northend will present the building in
behalf of the Misses Walker; Hon. William
L. Putnam will receive it on behalf of the
college; Hon. Martin Brimmer, of Boston,
will deliver the address.
The Walker Art Building has been com-
pleted, and passed into the control of the
college about December 1st. Unforeseen
changes and certain necessary details of
arrangement delayed the regular opening of
the building to the public till February 19th,
since which date the collections have been
accessible three and three-fourths hours
daily. The attendance has been unexpect-
edly large. Visiting graduates and the pres-
ent under-graduates, public school pupils
and classes of this and other towns and cities
have taken advantage of the privilege.
The new buildings, in conferring an ines-
timable permanent benefit, render necessary
several temporary readjustments involving
an expense small in comparison to the bene-
fits which will accrue to the college, yet too
large to be met out of the limited funds
from which our annual appropriation must
be made. The largest item is the equipment
of the science departments with adequate
apparatus. Another element of expense is
the cost of moving and setting up such
apparatus as we have. The rooms left vacant
by the removal of the art collections from
the former Sophia Walker gallery in the
chapel, and by the removal of the science
departments from their present quarters,
need to be fitted up for library and recitation
purposes. The presence of these beautiful
buildings upon our campus requires the
grading of the campus ; and when this is
done a competent landscape gardener should
be employed, to lay out walks, determine the
site of future buildings, and give to the
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
campus the form it is to bear in the centuries
to come.
Thus to place the college on an educa-
tional footing commensurate with the utility
and beauty of the two buildings whose pos-
session is the crowning joy of the close of
the first century of the life of the college,
and to enter the new century with accom-
modations on all sides adequate to the work
a modern college is called upon to under-
take, we need to expend, in addition to our
regular appropriation, the sum of $10,000.
Is it too much to hope that this centennial
year may bring us gifts to this amount,
making the centenary at the same time an
occasion of rejoicing over the achievements
of the past, and a starting point for the
progress of the future?
Two other expenditures are needed,
which, however, may be met without either
gift or appropriation. Appleton Hall should
be renovated, substantially as Maine Hall
has been, omitting a large amount of the
plumbing, and making more adequate pro-
vision for ventilation. The expense can be
met by increased rent of rooms ; and a
petition to this effect has been signed by
every occupant of the building.
A dining-hall would save nearly a dollar
a week in the cost of board to the students.
A dining-hall, with students' rooms above,
would not only pay the regular interest on
the sum invested, but enough more to allow
•$1,000 or more of the principal to be paid
each year, thus enabling the college to
acquire the property after a period of years.
At the close of the first century the
college has buildings and grounds valued at
$450,000. The Art and Science Buildings
are unsurpassed by corresponding buildings
in any college in the country. We have a
productive fund of $400,000 in addition from
the Garcelon bequest, to be divided equally
between the College and Medical School.
We have 219 students, the largest number in
the historj' of the college, all of whom, with
five exceptions, have passed the examination
for admission to the regular classical course.
We shall begin our second century with
fifteen well-equipped departments, all in
charge of men either in the enthusiastic vigor
of youth, or the steady strength of mature
manhood; who give promise of increasing
power and usefulness for twenty years to
come. The college is governed by fifty-four
Trustees and Overseers, of whom fifty-one
are graduates of Bowdoin ; one is a graduate
of Amherst, one of Harvard, and one of Yale.
The course of studj' offered, while not so
much spread out or so minutely subdivided
as that offered in man}' institutions, in solidity
of subjects presented, in concentration of
attention demanded, in individuality of work
encouraged, and in extent of choice per-
mitted, compares favorably with the opportu-
nities offered in the foremost colleges and
universities. To accomplish these results we
have been obliged to stretch our limited
resources to the utmost.
To carry out the plans already adopted
for the coming year will compel the most
rigid economy in every non-essential. The
beautiful Art Building requires better appoint-
ments everywhere. The perfect appoint-
ments of the Science Building require greater
outlay for apparatus, and a more thorough,
and therefore more expensive, method of
instruction. And to balance this improve-
ment upon the artistic and scientific sides, an
enlargement on the practical side of the
political and economic life of man becomes
necessary. The college hopes to enter its
second century prepared to meet these high
demands. To take this position and maintain
it, however, calls for a larger income than
that which has been sufficient under the more
primitive conditions, and with the less exact-
ing standards of the past. Our prosperity
and the larger work to which it calls us,
makes us poorer than before. It will be more
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difficult than it has been for j'ears to make
the necessary appropriations at the coining
Commencement. These plans for enlarge-
ment have been deliberately adopted in full
view of this fact; in the faith that the friends
of the college who have stood by it so faith-
fully in its days of discouragement and hard-
ship, will not prove wanting now that the full
power of a well equipped and fully manned
institution is, by the unexampled generosity
of unexpected benefactors, placed almost
within our grasp; and in the hope that the
centenary of the college will mark that in-
crease both in immediate special equipment
and permanent general funds which is needed
to enable us to enter the century to come
with a confidence and courage worthy of the
splendid record of the century now drawing
to a close.
An Incident.
T HAD been working hard for a year with-
-*■ out any rest and when the time for my
customary vacation was drawing near I was
in doubt where to spend it, feeling that I
needed undisturbed rest, until my friend
X — invited me to pass it with him, promis-
ing me quiet such as I desired. And after
I had accepted and accompanied him to his
home I concluded that he had made his
promise in good faith, for with exception of
teams passing at rare intervals and the
occasional yelping of a dog in a neighboring
yard, there seemed to be nothing to disturb
the Sabbath stillness of the place from one
week's end to another.
I had been there several days gaining
greatly in strength from the much-needed
rest, and had voted the town to be unequaled
as a resort to one desiring complete quiet,
until one day my hopes were all shattered.
At the time of which I speak my friend and
I were walking across the fields, returning
from a successful day's fishing, and were
engaged in earnest conversation, when sud-
denly we were interrupted by a succession
of the most unearthly shrieks and cries that
it has ever been my misfortune to hear. I
am naturally a nervous man and I confess
my blood seemed to freeze with those horri-
ble sounds surging in my ears. I had almost
obeyed the natural instinct to run when my
friend laid his hand on my arm as if to
restrain me and laughingly explained that
the town was blessed with an asylum for the
insane, a fact that he had forgotten to men-
tion. But this explanation did not in the
least serve to remove my apprehensions, for
if there is one thing above another for which
I have a distinct horror and dread it is a
crazy man. The only thing that restrained
me from actually running was the thought
that the inmates of the asylum must of
course be kept in close confinement.
I resolved, for the future, to keep away
from that region if possible, and a few days'
quiet served to drive from my mind nearly
all thoughts in regard to the asylum in such
close proximity, although at night I was
often troubled by visions of crazy men in
various attitudes meditating destruction to
me. Toward the end of my stay, however,
an adventure happened to me which very
nearly undid all the benefit I had received
during the long period of quiet.
I had been out on a long tramp by
myself and late in the afternoon I approached
the village by a street that I had never been
on before. I was walking briskly along the
dusty road, my thoughts engrossed in my
return to work and the business I would
soon take up again, when a large building at
my right attracted my attention. Amazed
to see a building of such a size in that region
I studied it intently. It seemed to be a
sort of dormitory or apartment house with
regular rows of windows unrelieved by
blinds or shades. But what seemed very
peculiar to me was a high board fence which
apparently enclosed the whole building at a
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few yards distant on every side. As I went
farther and could look around the corner of
the house I saw a number of men sitting on
the top of the fence and acting as if
exhausted with hard work. Some were
indolently kicking their heels against the
boards, while others fanned themselves with
their broad-brimmed straw hats. They
looked harmless enough until it suddenly
occurred to me that they were the inmates
of the lunatic asylum which my friend had
told me about.
Then my presence of mind forsook me
and I underwent those spasms of fear which
came to me on the day that I had heard the
cries. I stood stock still in the middle of
the road unable to move a foot, and staring
at the men who had become quiet and were
returning my gaze with interest.
All at once one of those insane desires
which often force a man to self-destruction
when placed in a position of possible danger,
came upon me and urged me to make a hor-
rible grimace at the row of lunatics staring
at me. The effect was magical. The one
nearest, a tall, powerful man as I noticed,
jumped from his seat on the fence and started
toward me at the the top of his speed, while
the rest set up a shriek of derision, as it
seemed to my excited fancy. But I did not
stop to await the outcome, but instead turned
and ran up the road with the maniac at my
heels. Impelled by fear I fairly flew over the
ground, while horrible thoughts coursed
through my brain causing my hair to rise
and a cold perspiration to creep over my
body. I hoped at first to leave him behind
for I was a fairly good runner, but I could
hear his footsteps behind me gradually com-
ing nearer and nearer.
My nerves, wrought up to the highest
pitch, urged me on till my head seemed
bursting and my breath came in wild gasps.
My legs seemed to lose all their strength and
I felt I could not go far without falling.
How many thoughts, repenting and regretful,
surged through my mind as I heard those
steps coming relentlessly nearer and nearer
until I felt the hot breath of the maniac on
my very neck. Then his hand touched my
shoulder with a push that sent me headlong,
and he shouted at me, "You're it!" Then
turning around he scampered back to his
fellows as fast as he had come, evidently
expecting pursuit.
Sowdoii? ^)ep§e.
O Temporal
Time was, that to correctly train
And formulate our youth,
Our fathers bade us, soberly,
To study life and truth.
But now, alack (how morals change!)
We note with painful ruth,
The careless only, study Life,
The wicked, study Truth.
The Reward of Duplicity.
I promised Chloe I would never use tobacco more,
And I felt myself a hero and a martyr as I swore;
Of course I didn't mean it, but, then, she would
never know,
And she'd think herself quite happy just to save a
soul or so.
And, when next I called on Chloe, I thought her
very hard
Because she would not see me when I'd sent up
my card.
Next week I learned a vile mistake had snarled
those auburn locks.
For I'd sent her up a picture from my last Sweet
Caporal box.
Memories.
Brooding alone in my study
Over a ponderous tome,
Oft from the pages before me,
Unwilled, does my fancy roam,
Sometimes to picture a haunting face,
Sometimes to think of home.
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But from the visions so conjured,
Fairest of all arise
Dreams of those days at Bowdoin, —
Mem'ries I always shall prize
Of that class which no more can assemble,
Till we meet at the^ Great Assize.
So enjoy ye these ideal moments,
For after your Class Day comes life,
Meaning a true "Commencement"
Of sorrows and endless strife;
While 'mid your loved classmates stands,
pruning,
Death with his pitiless knife.
A Good Ear.
" A night ago, my gentle love,"
Said Algernon to Clara,
" Unknown to you, my fond heart fears,
I passed your lovely bowah."
" Oh, no," quoth Clara, tearful eyed,
"You really do me wrong,
I knew at once your looked-for step
Among the hurrying throng."
Now this gave Algie quite a shock.
In fact, quite set him back,
For if the truth were only known
He went by in a hack.
An exchange gives us the
following recent adventure of
Herbert J. Dudley, '95, and his brother
Willie. "While out gunning for wild
geese and ducks, April 27th, they met
with something of an exciting expe-
rience. They were up at the 'ox bow' in the
broad stretch of water just below the Little Falls,
and had succeeded in winging a goose and several
ducks, which, while securing, they unconsciously
allowed their canoe to come too near the foot of the
falls, when, in an instant, their frail craft was over-
turned, and they were thrown into the icy water.
They swam to the overturned craft, to which they
clung for some time before they could make their
perilous predicament known to people living near
the scene of their mishap, when a boat put off and
rescued them, pretty badly chilled by their long
immersion, but otherwise not much the worse for
it. It is safe to say they both knew what they
were at when their craft upset, for when rescued
they each had a brace of birds in their hands, that
they had tenaciously clung to through it all, though
their guns went to the bottom of the river."
Webber, '95, has returned to college.
The '96 Bugle editors are to be elected at once.
Small, '96, is teaching in the Berlin (N. H.)
High School.
Clough, '96, was called home recently by the
death of his grandfather.
Ogilvie, '94, and Axtell, '95, are back from a
week or more of sickness.
Burbank, '96, and Harriman, '97, have recently
been made members of Delta Upsilon.
The Junior and Sophomore German Divisions
have been enjoying a holiday the past week or more.
Several students have been busy in the Library
the past week, directing Commencement invitations.
Reed has a beautiful photograph of the Art
Building, with the lions, displayed in Shaw's window.
Garcelon, the crack Harvard hurdler and
sprinter, was here last week coaching the track
men.
Professor Robinson addressed the Y. M. C. A.,
Sunday before last. He spoke very interestingly
on temperance.
More than a hundred students were in Lewiston
the day of the Bates game, and did noble work in
the cheering line.
The grading that is just being finished around
the Art Building adds a good deal to the attractive-
ness of the campus.
South Appleton has been pillaged by thieves the
past week or two. Several of its inmates have lost
considerable amounts.
At the annual meeting of the Reading-Room
Association, Dennison, '95, was chosen president
and Ward, '96, manager.
The essays for competition in the English Compo-
sition Prize are due before Friday, May 25th. The
prize is open to Seniors.
Have you noticed how the holidays come on our
easy days — Arbor Day, Memorial Day, etc., on a
Wednesday or a Saturday.
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Arbor Day was a holiday here as elsewhere, but
nothing more. Some went off tramping, some went
home, but more went to Lewiston.
Gilpatrick and Marston, '96, and Hagar, '97, are
the members of the committee on hand-book re-
cently appointed by the T. M. C. A.
Bryant, '95, has been absent for a week, and
Minot, '96, officiated as monarch of the sanctum in
getting out this nunber of the Orient.
President Hyde's annual report to the trustees
and overseers of the college is ready for distribu-
tion, and can be obtained at the library.
Moore, '94, has accepted a call to the Congre-
gationalist church in Saco. He will commence his
duties immediately after Commencement.
At a recent class meeting, '96 elected Bates
manager of the boat crew. The men who will row
are Newbegin, Baker, Brown, and Libby.
' The old 'Varsity eight has been rejuvenated.
Several of our old-time, last year or so, oarsmen
are planning to follow the Sophomore-Freshman
race in her.
Sargent, 78, now principal of Hebron Academy,
was here Saturday to witness the ball game. His
school will send quite a number of young men to
Bowdoin next fall.
The following words have been carved over the
main entrance of the Science Building: "The Mary
Frances Searles Science Building. 1894. Nature's
Laws are God's Thoughts."
A plan of the Delta, as it now is, and a drawing
of the proposed running track and base-ball and
foot-ball field is displayed in the library. They
were drawn by Austin Cary, '87.
Fifteen Seniors wrote for the Brown Extempora-
neous Composition Prize. The subject was " The
Reciprocal Duties of a College and its Students."
The award will be made public later.
A new Medical School pin has appeared and is
seen on the coat-lapel of nearly every "Medic." It
is a shield-shaped emblem of gold, bearing the skull
and cross-bones and the letters M.M.S.
As one Senior said, it seems as though the trees
had sprung their leaves upon us like a "Jack-in-the-
box." The maples are almost full-leaved, and the
campus walks are shady walks once more.
The second themes of the term are due. The
subjects are as follows : Is it a Man's Duty to Belong
to a Political Party? What Should Determine a
Student's Choice of a College ? Miss Muloch's Char-
acter of John Halifax.
The May Hop and German, given by the Juniors
in Town Hall a week ago Tuesday, was a very
enjoyable affair. Many were present from out of
town. Wilson, of Lewiston, furnished the music
for the twenty couples. .
The big float which broke away some time during
the going out of the ice has been found, quietly
resting on the banks of the Androscoggin, about
a mile and a half from where it can do any good.
'97's crew is expected to tow it back.
Professor Swain, one of America's most famous
phrenologists, has been lecturing to the students
lately. In personal examinations he showed a won-
derful shrewdness. He reports several unusual
heads and bumps, but says we have no very intel-
lectual men.
A very close and sharply played game on the
Delta, Saturday afternoon, between the Hebron
Academy and Brunswick High School nines was
witnessed by many. The Hebrons were finally
victorious, 9 to 8. Both have strong teams, for
fitting schools.
A picked nine from the college, under the com-
mand of Capt. Willard, went to Lisbon Falls last
Saturday, where they were beaten by the local team
by a score of 24 to 10. They report the grounds
built on a unique plan. They will try to have the
Lisbon Falls nine play a return game.
'Ninety-six has two crews on the river just now.
One will row the Freshmen ; the other stands ready
to challenge the winner. The second crew is as
follows: Haskell, stroke; Ordway, two; Warren,
three; Ward, bow. They have renovated the old
'91 shell and are practicing faithfully.
The Students' Hand-book, issued by the Y. M.
C. A. at the beginning of each year, will appear at
this Commencement. The book is for the use of
entering students. This year it will contain the
new constitution, a good description of the new
buildings, several cuts, and, if possible, a map of
the campus.
Bowdoin's new grand stand is finished. It is
sixty feet long by twenty-two in width, and will
hold four hundred base-ball cranks and crankesses.
It occupies the same old place. The sides and back
are sheathed, and underneath are rooms for storage
and general purposes. It is roofed, and for a grand
stand is a beauty.
Two weeks ago Sunday the Bowdoin Fire Com-
pany responded to an alarm of fire in the Con-
gregational church. Through the windows of the
pastor's study the flames could be seen, and in mortal
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haste a way was forced into the church. After the
arrival of several professors in commaud of the
bucket brigade, the cause was discovered— an open
stove.
The interior of the Science Building is nearing
completion. The maze of wires and pipes is being
covered up. Up stairs the plastering is nearly
finished, the steam heat has been on for several
weeks, and down cellar they are almost ready to
concrete. The external scaffolding is all down and
they are beginning to clear away the ground around.
The reception tendered the Junior Class by
Professor and Mrs. Johnson, Thursday evening,
May 3d, was made a very enjoyable occasion.
Nearly all the class was present and a very happy
evening was passed in conversation and listening
to the excellent music. The sweet singing of Mrs.
Lee was a special attraction, and her gracious
courtesy in responding to the wishes of the party
was well appreciated. At the close the class gath-
ered around the piano and sang the old college
songs, and then the party broke up with many
thanks to the host and hostess for the happy even-
ing.
The two big lions for the Art Building arrived
from New York the first of May, and have been put
in position on the enormous blocks of stone that
flank the main steps. They are magnificent works
of the sculptor's art, and add much to the com-
pleteness of the building. They are very nearly
alike and weigh about four tons apiece. They stand
about five feet high and each of the monsters, with
his oval-shaped base, is cut from one piece of stone.
The position is standing, with one fore-paw resting
upon a small globe. Their heads are turned out-
ward, as if on guard, and the expression of the
face, with gaping mouth and exposed fangs, is any-
thing but pleasant. The manes are luxuriant, and
the form and bearing are of typical kings of the
beasts.
The Y. M. C. A. Concert was a great success.
Such music has not been heard on the campus for
many years. The company sang two nights instead
of the intended one, and was listened to by very
enthusiastic audiences. It was noticed that almost
everybody who had gone Thursday evening was
there Friday, too. Miss Torbett owned the audi-
ence, and indeed her beauty and grace, and the
exquisite tones she drew from her violin, were
enough* to captivate the chilliest of assemblies.
The playing of Mr. Moquiste was brilliant, and
fully sustained his reputation as a great pianist.
But the singing of the sextette was the attraction.
Their voices were musical and the harmony of the
six was perfect. Every number of theirs received a
double encore. Friday morning the members of the
company were shown the college, and in the after-
noon they were interested spectators of the Bow-
doin-Haverbill game.
Among the many class reunions to be held at the
Centennial Anniversary of Bowdoin College'duriug
the last week in June, that of the Class of 1844
will doubtless possess the most general interest,
inasmuch as the graduation of that class marked
the completion of the first half century of the
college. It is said that all the classes whose
numeral ends in the figure 4 are making special
efforts for large and enthusiastic reunions. Bow-
doin men will be interested to learn that the class
of 1874, of which Professor Henry Johnson of Bow-
doin is president, will celebrate its vigintennial by
a dinner at the Falmouth Hotel in Portland, Me.,
ou the night of Thursday, June 28th. The execu-
tive committee, Mr. W. H. Moulton of Portland,
Me., Rev. S. V. Cole of Taunton, Mass., and Mr. F.
W. Hawthorne of Jacksonville, Fla., has just issued
a circular letter in which all the members of the
class are urged to attend the dinner. Rev. Charles
J. Palmer, the class secretary, will read a history
of the class; President Johnson will deliver an
address; a poem is expected from Rev. S. V. Cole;
and every classmate will probably contribute some-
thing to the programme. The class will breakfast
with Prof. Johnson at his home in Brunswick, Me.,
at 8.45 on the morning of Thursday, June 28th.
The committee hopes that the "class baby" of 74,
Mr. William Payne Kimball, son of Dr. L. Hough-
ton Kimball, of Boston Highlands (Roxbury), will
be present at this vigintennial dinner. He is now
18 years of age and is about to enter college him-
self. The class of '74, which numbered thirty-
nine at graduation, has lost only two members by
death, and those living are scattered throughout
nineteen states of the Union, with two or three in
foreign countries.
The sixty-first annual convention of the Psi
Upsilon Fraternity will be held with the Kappa
Chapter of Bowdoin College, on the 16th, 17th and
18th of this month. This fraternity, founded at
Union College in 1833, has now nineteen active
chapters, two inactive chapters, and about 9,000
members. The Bowdoin Chapter was founded in
1843. On the evening of Wednesday, the 16th, an
informal reception will be tendered the alumni and
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delegates to the convention in the chapter rooms in
Brunswick. The forenoon and a portion of the
afternoon of the following day will be devoted
to private business sessions, but, at 3 p.m.,
public literary exercises will be held in Mem-
orial Hall. Hon. Wm. Dummer Northend, Bow-
doin, '43, of Salem, Mass., will preside at these.
Rev. J. E. Adams, '53, of Bangor, will offer
prayer. Hon. Joseph W. Symonds, '60, of Port-
land, formerly of the Maine Supreme Court, will
deliver the oratioD, and Rev. Edward A. Rand,
'57, of Watertown, Mass., a writer of considerable
note, will be the poet. In the evening a reception
and dance will be given to the Fraternity by the
Bowdoin Chapter in Memorial Hall. On Friday
forenoon another business session will be held in the
Court Room, which will adjourn in time to permit
the delegates to take the 11.30 train for Boston,
where the dinner will be held at the Hotel Vendome
in the evening. Wm. E. Spear, Esq., Bowdoin, 70,
of Boston, will act as toast-master, and the other
speakers will be ex-Gov. Alexander H. Rice, Uuion,
'44; Hon. M. F. Dickinson, Jr., Amherst, '62, of
Boston ; R. L. Bridgeman, Esq., Amherst, '71 ;
Prof. Wm. A. Houghton, Yale, '73, of Bowdoin Col-
lege; G. R. Swasey, Esq., Bowdoin, '75; Oliver
Crocker Stevens, Esq., Bowdoin, '76, and Hon. W.
E. Barrett, Dartmouth, '80, ex-Speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Bowdoin, 27; Lewiston Local, 3.
On Wednesday afternoon, May 2d, Bowdoin
played a game ou the Delta with a picked nine of
experienced Lewiston players. The result was an
easy victory for the home team, 27 to 3. The game
was a repetition of Saturday's game when Bowdoin
beat Boston University 29 to 1. The fielding of the
visitors was very unsteady, and at the bat they
could do nothing agaiust either Plaisted or Williams,
making but four hits for the game. All were glad
to see Plaisted in the box again. Rumors of typhoid
fever caused by a few days' illness had spread the
idea that Bowdoin's crack twirler would be on the
sick list for the season, but he showed most con-
vincingly that he was never in better form to pitch
for business. Allen was put behind the bat again,
and played a star game. Coburn was tried in
left field for the first time. Hinckley, who has so
finely guarded this territory for three seasons, is
unable to play the rest of the season, and his loss
will be keenly felt. Sykes, Williams, and Bodge,
did especially good work in the field. The Bowdoin
men all batted bard as usual. The team seems to
be unusually strong in this respect, in spite of the
losses it has met since last year. The detailed
score of the one-sided contest follows:
BOWDOIN.
A.B. K. E.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b., .... 5 3 4 8 1 1 2
Hull, s.s 3 3 0 0 0 2 1
Williams, lb., p 3 2 3 4 7 5 0
Plaisted, p., r.f.,. ... 6 2 1 1 1 8 0
Sykes, 2b 5 3 3 54 3 1
Chapman, c.f 5 4 3 4 0 0 0
Coburn, l.f 4 5 4 5 0 0 0
Bodge, r.f., lb 5 2 2 2 4 0 1
Allen, c 4 3 2 3 10 4 2
Totals 40 27 22 32 27 23 7
LEWISTON LOCAL.
A.B. K. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
McManus, c., 4 0 0 0 6 1 0
Kearnes, 3b., p 4 1 2 4 4 2 1
Roy, 2b 4 0 0 0 2 1 1
Casey, p., 3b., .... 4 0 1 1 1 4 2
Haley, l.f., 3 0 1 1 0 0 1
Kearnes, lb., 4 1 0 0 9 1 2
Sullivan, c.f 3 1 0 0 0 2 0
McDonough, s.s 3 0 0 0 2 2 4
Ward, r.f., 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 32 3 4 6 24 13 12
Bowdoin, 8; Exeter, 4.
The Bowdoin nine and the Exeter Academy
team crossed bats on the Delta, Saturday, May 5th.
It was a finely played game from start to finish, and
when it was over Bowdoin had won her third con-
secutive victory. The Exeter boys were defeated
8 to 4, but their conquerors had no walk-over. On
the third inning the Bowdoins bunched their hits,
and, aided by a bad error or two, brought in five
runs, winning the game then and there. Plaisted
pitched a great game, and his opponents could not
find him. Allen supported him well behind the bat,
though two short passed balls cost two runs. Sykes
played a brilliant game ou second, and Haines
caught two difficult flies, and Chapman in center
field did the same thing. Maroney pitched a good
game, but the Bowdoins found him when they
wanted runs. The base running of the home team
was a feature. Exeter has beaten both Colby and
Bates this season. The Bowdoins will play a return
game May 30th. The detailed score follows:
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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BOWDOIN.
A.B. K. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b 5 0 0 0 0 3 1
Hull, s.s., 4 2 1 1 0 2' 1
Williams, lb., r.f., ... 5 2 ' 2 3 5 0 1
Plaiated, p., 5 1 2 2 1 7 2
Sykes, 2b 5 1 0 0 4 6 0
Chapman, c.f 4 0 1 1 2 0 0
Coburn, r.f 3 0 1 1 1 0 0
Haines, l.f., 3 2 1 1 2 0 1
Allen, c 4 0 0 0 8 1 0
Bodge, lb 1 0 0 0 4 1^0
Totals 39 8 8 9 27 20 6
EXETER.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Green, 2b 4 0 0 0 4 2 0
Smith, l.f 4 0 0 0 3 0 1
Locke, 3b., 4 0 0 0 0 6 2
Richards, lb., .... 2 1 1 1 10 0 1
Holmes, c.f., 4 0 0 0 1 0 0
McCall, r.f 4 0 0 0 1 0 1
Scanuel, c 4 2 2 2 5 2 0
Haskell, s.s 4 1 1 1 1 2 3
Maroney, p., 4 0 1 1 1 6 0
Totals, 34 4 5 5 26* 18 8
^Fairbanks out for interference.
SCORE BY INNINGS.
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Bowdoin, 00500110 1—8
Exeter 00012010 0—4
Struck out — By Plalsted, 7; by Maroney, 3. Bases on
balls— By Plaisted, 2; by Maroney, 2. Double plays— By
Sykes and Williams, and Hull, Sykes and Bodge. Hit by
pitched ball— Richards. Two-base hit — Williams.
Time — 2h. Umpire — Kelly of Lewiston.
Bates, 14; Bowdoin, 6.
Nearly one hundred students went to Lewiston,
May 9th, to cheer on the Bowdoin team in its first
game against the Bates nine. For five innings they
had a chance to yell all they wanted to; then some-
thing dropped and the cheering of the Bowdoin
crowd was over. At the beginning of the sixth
inning Bowdoin had the game 5 to 3 ; then began
such a series of rank errors that the game slipped
out of our grasp and Bates was an easy winner,
14 to 6.
The game was intensely exciting throughout.
Its feature was the phenomenal pitching of Plaisted,
who struck out 18 men. With half-decent support
he would have won the game for Bowdoin. Most
of the runs and hits by Bates were made after errors
had prevented them from being retired. Allen did
not play his usual star game behind the bat, and
his passed balls and errors were responsible for
quite a number of runs, while the errors of Haines,
Hull, Bodge, and Chapman, though not numerous,
were very costly ones. Burrill did good work in
the box for Bates, and kept the Bowdoin hits well
scattered. Williams played a good first for Bowdoin,
and his home run was a feature.
Last year, if the Orient remembers correctly,
we lost a game to Bates in very much this same
razzle-dazzle manner, and yet won two games out of
three, and it is not at all improbable that the same
thing will be repeated this season. Bates plays here
May 19th. The detailed score follows :
BATES.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Wakefield, lb 4 2 1 2 9 1 0
Douglass, 2b., .... 6 0 0 0 3 2 0
Burrill, p 5 2 0 0 0 9 0
Pulsifer, 3b., 4 5 3 5 0 2 2
Campbell, l.f., .... 4 2 0 0 5 0 0
Gerrish, c, 5 2 2 2 6 0 1
Brackett, s.s., .... 5 1 1 4 3 2 2
Slattery, r.f 4 0 1 1 1 1 0
Cutts, c.f., 3 0 0 0 0 1 1
Field, c.f 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals, 42 14 8 14 27 18 7
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, r.f., .... 5 0 1 3 0 0 0
Hull, s.s., 3 0 1 1 2 2 1
Williams, lb., .... 5 2 1 4 10 0 1
Plaisted, p 4 0 0 0 121 0
Sykes, 2b., 4 2 0 0 0 3.1
Chapman, c.f., .... 4 2 1 1 0 1 1
Bodge, 3b 4 0 1 1 1 1 1
Haynes, l.f 4 0 0 0 0 0 2
Allen, c, 4 0 0 0 13 4 2
Totals, 36 6 5 10 27 32 9
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Bates, 20010353 0—14
Bowdoin, 122000010—6
Earned runs— Bates 2, Bowdoin 1. Two-base hit —
Wakefield. Three-base hits— Fairbanks, Pulsifer. Home
runs — Williams, Brackett. Stolen bases — Bowdoin 5,
Bates 5. Sacrifice hits— Douglass, Haines. Hit by pitched
ball — Pulsifer. Bases on balls — by Plaisted 6, by Burrill 3.
Struck out — by Plaisted IS, by Burrill 6. Bases on balls —
Hull 2, Sykes, Wakefield 2, Douglass, Burrill, Campbell,
Slattery. Struck out— Hull, Chapman 2, Bodge 3, Haines,
Wakefield, Douglass 3, Burrill 3, Campbell 2, Brackett 4,
Slattery 2, Cutts 3. Time— 2h. 45m. Umpire— Kelly.
Haverhill, 7 ; Boiudoin, 5.
On Friday afternoon, May 11th, the Haverhill
league team and Bowdoin played a very close and
exciting game on the Delta. It was rainy at times
and the afternoon was cold and bleak, but never-
theless it was one of the prettiest games seen here
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for a long time. The playing of Bowdoin was sharp
and steady, a very refreshing contrast to the exhi-
bition put up against Bates on Wednesday. They
made the league men put on their fastest gait, and
the final score was 7 to 5 in favor of the visitors.
Williams pitched his first full game of the season,
and though a little wild, held his opponents down
well. Haines played a star game behind the bat,
and Leigbtou, who was put at short for the first
time, satisfied everybody. Chapman covered lots
of ground in center field. Bowdoin had two or
three men left on bases nearly every inning. They
bunched their hits in the sixth and run in four
scores. Fairbanks led the batting. McGillip was
hit hard by the home team, but was supported by
snappy fielding. The new covered grand stand was
appreciated by the crowd. The detailed score
follows:
HAVERHILL.
A.B. B. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Mclndoe, l.f 4 0 0 0 3 0 1
Freeman, r.f., ....4 2 2 2 0 0 1
Anderson, lb 4 2 2 2 7 1 0
Regan, 3b 3 0 2 2 3 0 0
Murphy, s.s., 4 0 0 0 2 3 1
Shinnick, 2b. 3 2 11 3 1 2
Hoffman, c.f 4 0 0 0 3 0 0
Quinlan, c 4 0 i 1 6 1 1
McGillip, p 3 1 0 0 0 7 0
Totals 33 7 8 8 27 13 6
BOWDOIN.
A.B. E. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b 5 1 3 3 2 2 1
Hull, l.f 3 0 1 1 1 0 0
Williams, p., 5 0 1 1 0 4 0
Plaisted 5 1 1 1 2 0 1
Sykes, 2b 4 0 0 0 4 2 1
Chapman, c.f 5 12 2 2 0 0
Bodge, lb 300 08 0 1
Leighton, s.s 3 1 0 0 2 2 1
Haines, c, 4 1 1 1 3 0 1
Totals 37 5 9 9 24 10 G
SCOEE BY INNINGS.
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Haverhill, 10100131 x— 7
Bowdoin 00000400 1—5
Struck out— by McGillip 4, by Williams 1. Bases on
balls— by McGillip 4, by Williams 3. Wild pitches— by
Williams 4.- Passed ball — Haines, 1. Double play — by
Murphy, Shinnick, and Anderson. Umpire — Kelly of
Lewiston. Time— lh. 50m.
The enrollment of Leland Stanford University
is 860. Its endowment, including all its estates,
will probably reach $200,000,000.— Carletonia.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
The annual spring tournament in tennis has
been in progress for the last week and a half, and
has gone off much more rapidly than in previous
years. In singles Dana, '96, has won and will play
Dana, '94, the present college champion, for the
championship. In doubles Pickard and Dana, '94,
have been picked out as the probable winners.
Following is the record of the tournament up to
Saturday night :
SINGLES.
Preliminary Round.
Winner.
Loser.
Score.
Foster, '96.
Coburn.
7-5, 3-6, 6-4
Randlette.
Frost, '94.
6-1, 6-0
Ordway.
W. W. Thomas, 2d.
Forfeited.
Pickard.
Kyes.
6-2, 6-4
Leighton, '95.
McKinnon.
3-6, 6-1, 6-3
Fitz.
Eastman, '96.
First RoiCnd.
6-0, 1-6, 8-6
Dane.
Moore, '94.
Forfeited.
Dana, '96.
Moore, '95.
Forfeited.
Fogg.
F. H. Haskell.
6-0, 6-1
W. F. Haskell.
Roberts.
6-1, 6-3
Lord, '94.
Whitcomb.
6-2, 4-6, 6-3
Cook.
Libby, '94.
6-4, 8-6
Buck.
Badger.
6-2, 6-3
Randlette.
Foster, '96.
6-2, 6-1
Pickard.
Ordway.
6-2, 6-3
Leighton, '95.
Fitz.
7-5, 6-2
Littlefield.
Warren, '96.
Forfeited.
Ward.
Allen.
Forfeited.
W. S. A. Kimball.
Hicks.
6-1, 6-1
Frost, '96.
Bryant, '94.
3-6, 6-3, 6-2
Shaw.
Buss.
6-3, 3-6, 6-1
Williams.
Blair.
Second Round.
6-3, 2-6, 6-1
Dana, '96.
Dane.
6-2, 6-4
Fogg.
W. F. Haskell.
6-3, 6-1
Lord, '94.
Cook.
6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Randlette.
Buck.
Forfeited.
Pickard.
Leighton, '95.
6-4, 6-2
Littlefield.
Ward.
6-1, 6-0
W. S. A. Kimball.
Frost, '96.
6-4, 6-0
Shaw.
Williams.
Third Round.
Forfeited.
Dana, '96.
Fogg.
6-4, 6-2
Randlette.
Lord, '94.
6-1, 8-6
Pickard.
Littlefield.
10-8, 9-7,
W. S. A. Kimball.
Shaw.
Serni-Finals.
6-2, 6-8, 6-2
Dana, '96.
Randlette.
6-1, 7-5
Pickard.
W. S. A. Kimball.
6-1, 6-0
Tournament Finals.
Pickard. 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, 7-9, 7-5
Championship Finals.
Dana, '96, to play Dana, '94, this week.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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DOUBLES.
First Round.
Winners. Losers. Score.
Libby, '94, and Randlette. Ward and Warren, '96. 6-0, 6-0
LittlefieldandBryant,'94. Allen and Buck. 6-1,6-3
Dana, '96, and Fogg. Ordway and Williams. 6-1, 6-3
Pickard and Dana, '94. W. S. A. Kimball and
Lord, '95. 6-3, 7-5
Cook and Dane. Buss and Frost, '96. 6-3, 6-3
Foster, '96, and Coburn.
Second Round.
Littlefield and Bryant, '94. Libby, '94, and Kaudlette.
6-8, 6-4, 6-4
Pickard and Dana, '94. Dana, '96, and Fogg.
1-6, 6-1, 7-5
Cook and Dane.
Coburn and Foster, '96.
Semi-Finals.
Cook and Dane. Coburn and Foster, '96. 6-0, 6-4
Pickard and Dana, '94. Littlefield and Bryant, '94.
6-2, 7-5
Finals.
Pickard and Dana, '94, to play Cook and Dane this week.
TRACK ATHLETICS.
Track athletics are booming in Bowdoiu. If
you do not believe it, go out on the Delta every
afternoon and see the crowd which gathers there
day after day, all deeply interested in watching the
men practicing for the coming Worcester meet. It
is to be regretted that the boating spirit has so
nearly died out, for our crews have always
brought us honor wherever they have been. But
if the preseut interest in track athletics continues,
and we can see no reason why it should not, our
team will soon be able to rival the honors of the old
crews. In many ways the field sports are in
advance of boating for college athletics. In the
crew, eight of the strongest men did the work for
the whole college. In track athletics, the number
entering into the work is limited by ability alone.
The small man has an equal chance with the mus-
cular to win a place for himself and college. The
game is young yet, and there are fine prospects of
near success.
Last year this branch was almost an experiment
with us. We sent our team to Worcester with no
expectation of winning a place. The men went to
get points which would be of use to us in future
events. That we got what we went for can be seen
in the development of our present team. Under
the management of Captain Kimball and our trainer,
Mr. McLean, we have some twenty-five men work-
ing to make the coming team. Most of the men
are doing good, conscientious work, and almost
every night some one improves upon their previous
record. With the present rate of improvement we
can have very good hopes of winning places in the
coming meet. At any rate, our own field day will
be a record-breaking and memorable one.
The men, this year, will go to Worcester with
the idea that they are going to get something
substantial with their experience. The men are
somewhat hampered in their work by the lack of
an athletic field, being especially in need of a track.
It is rather discouraging to the runners to be obliged
to walk to the Topsham fair grounds for their prac-
tice, and we cannot be surprised that there are no
more volunteers. The men should have a cinder
track, with the gymnasium near, where they could
take a good bath and rub down after a long run.
Too much energy has to be expended in the long
walk and too little remains for actual work. In
the two-mile run, Soule is working hard and, ac-
cording to last year's records, although they were
much higher than the average, promises to come in
well up among the first. In the hurdles, Lord, '95,
Doherty, and Home are making a creditable show-
ing. In the half-mile run, Knowlton, Andrews, Chris-
tie, and Brett are putting in some steady practice.
Smith, '9(5, Haskell, McMillan, and Home are trying
the pole-vault, and Shaw, White, and Goodspeed,
the quarter-mile run. In the mile run, Mitchell,
'95, Leighton, '95, and Burbauk will try for place,
and Thomas, Bradbury, and Purnell in the mile
walk. French and Lord, '95, are closely matched
in the running broad jump and have a chance for
points; Dole is also doing well. Borden, in the
running high jump, has already cleared five feet
seven. McMillan and Smith also make a good show-
ing, and Stearns gives some promise.
One of the most interesting features of the prac-
tice is the throwing of the hammer and putting the
shot by Kimball and Bates. Inch by inch the heavy
spheres are being put further away from the ring
each night. Bates has already put the shot nearly
thirty-seven feet, about two feet over the heaviest
throw last year. White is starting in very well,
and it is evident that he will be heard from later.
In throwing the hammer the men are evenly
matched. Kimball holds the college record of
eighty-nine feet, and both he and Bates have gone
beyond this, the latter reaching eight feet six inches
last Saturday.
Taking all this into consideration, the number
and enthusiasm of the men in training, the advance-
ment they are making over their present records,
we can safely say that in the near future there is
honor for the college in track athletics.
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'35. — Editor Tenney bas
beeu critically ill with heart
trouble, but at last accounts was
much better.
'36. — Ex-Governor Garcelou celebrated
his eighty-first birthday, May 6th. The
doctor is still very hearty and hale and attends to
his practice much better than many a younger man.
'50.— Senator Prye will be the chief speaker at
the dedication of the new auditorium at East North-
field, Mass., July 4th. This is the building in which
the Moody conferences for the summer will be held.
'50.— Gen. 0. 0. Howard will act as orator at the
North Yarmouth Academy, June 26, 1894. Gen.
Howard graduated from there in 1846. This Com-
mencement will commemorate the eightieth anni-
versary of the school.
'53.— An elegantly bound copy of Rev. Dr. Jenks's
Eulogy on Hon. James Bowdoin, has beeu pre-
sented to the library by John L. Crosby of the class
of '53.
'54.— Senator W. D. Washburn, of Minnesota, is
one of those whose term in the U. S. Senate expires
this year.
'60. — Thomas B. Reed spoke at the banquet of
the Americus Club of Pittsburg, Penn., April 27
1894.
'60.— The Grand Commandery of the Knights
Templar for Maine met May 3d, at Portland.
Horace H. Burbauk, of Saco, was the presiding
officer. Mr. Burbank is one of the lawyers for the
defense in the celebrated Rumery will case being
tried at Cambridge, Mass.
'61.— Hon. F. M. Ray will be the poet at the
Commencement exercises of the North Yarmouth
Academy, June 26th.
'61.— Edward Stanwood, editor of the YouWs
Companion, has' contributed to the Eleventh Census
an article on the "Cotton Manufacturing Industry."
74. — Samuel V. Cole will deliver the poem at
the sixty-second annual convention of the Alpha
Delta Phi Fraternity, held in Cleveland, Ohio, May
16th and 17th.
'74. — The Lewiston Journal of April 28, 1894, in
one of its series of articles on prominent Maine men,
contained a sketch of Mr. Charles F. Kimball, Bow-
doin, '74, and of his father, Hon. Charles P. Kimball.
Mr. Charles F. Kimball was born in Portland,
Maine, July 31, 1854. He graduated from Portland
High School in 1870. After leaving college, he
studied law for a number of years with Hon. W. L.
Putnam, aud through the influence of Hon. Sunset
Cox, he became a student in the great law firm of
Vanderpoel, Green, and Cummin. Finally he left
the law to become a partner in his father's carriage
business, in Chicago, 111., which is one of the largest
and most prosperous carriage manufactories in the
world. The manufactory, situated on Michigan
Avenue, a few blocks south of the Auditorium, is
one of the largest and most noticeable buildings
among the hundreds of maguificent buildings in
Chicago. Mr. Charles F. Kimball is regarded, in
Chicago, as one of the most competent, energetic,
and reliable business young men in the city.
76.— 0. C. Evans, of Cape Elizabeth, Me., has
been chosen superintendent of the Belfast city
schools at a salary of $1,000 a year. For the past
three years he has been superintendent of schools
at Cape Elizabeth.
78. — Steam yacht Nectar, owned and sailed by
H. C. Baxter, of Brunswick, made the inside run
from Norfolk, Va., to Jacksonville, Fla., in a little
less than six days, anchoring or making some port
every night. Her run from Charleston to Bruns-
wick, Ga., broke the record, the time being a little
short of 21 running hours. Mr. Baxter returned
from his Southern trip May 6th.
'89. — At the residence of Hon. William G. Davis,
on Pearl Street, Portland, May 9th, his daughter,
Miss Edith Davis, was united in marriage to Mr.
George Taylor Files, the popular and genial in-
structor in German at Bowdoin College, son of Mr.
A. H. Files, principal of the North School in this
city. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. B.
Spiers of the New Jerusalem Church. The wedding
was very pretty but quiet, only the families of the
bride and groom being present. Mr. and Mrs.
Files have the kindest wishes of many Portland
friends as well as those of a host of Mr. Files's
Bowdoin friends.
'89. — Erastus T. Manson, of Bowdoin '89, is the
editor of a bright Sunday paper, the Spectator, in
Duluth, Minn.
'90.— Edgar F. Conant, of Lewiston, Me., was
one of the graduates from the Medical Department
of Columbia College, May 3d, and received a prize
for the best essay.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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'92.— Principal Hull, of Fryeburg Academy, read
a paper at the teachers' meeting held recently in
South Paris.
'93.— The trustees of Dartmouth College, at a
meeting held there May 5th, elected Elmer Howard
Carleton medical-physical instructor for next year.
Mr. Carleton was graduated from Bowdoin in the
class of '93, and has devoted much attention to Dr.
Sargent's methods of physical culture and played
full-back last year on Dartmouth's champion foot-
ball team, and also full-back on the Bowdoin team,
fall of '92. He was captain of the foot-ball team
here his Senior year.
'93. — Wilder, who has been taking a special
course in electricity at Maine State College since
graduating from Bowdoin last year, has left there.
He intends to go to Germany this fall to pursue
further his electrical studies.
A Freshman once to Hades went,
Some things he wished to learn ;
But back to earth lie soon was sent,
He was too green to burn.
The subscription for the Phillips Brooks House
at Harvard is rapidly nearing the hundred thousand
mark. The house will be a great undergraduate
club, where students and professors may meet on a
common level.
Every northern state west of the Alleghanies
has a State University. The University of Michi-
gan has the largest attendance of any of the State
Universities and is a part of the public school
system of the state. — Ex.
Colorado College has a new library building,
which is said to be the first building erected alone
for that purpose in the state. Cost, $45,000.
Five trustees of Columbia have given enough
money to pay all the expenses of hiring the gymna-
sium belonging to the Manhattan Athletic Club.
The donors have withheld their names.
Of the three thousand students enrolled at the
University of Berlin eight hundred are Americans.
At a recent meeting of the Dartmouth Faculty
it was voted to make all the studies of the Senior
year elective.
" They tell how fast the arrow sped
When William shot the apple;
But who can calculate the speed
Of him who's late at chapel ?" — Ex.
The most noted intercollegiate debates this year
are those between the University of Pennsylvania
and Cornell, Harvard and Yale, Princeton and Yale,
and Harvard and Princeton. In these and other
institutions where public joint debates are con-
ducted, hundreds of students compete for the
honor of representing their institutions, and the
most lively interest is manifested by all concerned.
In college circles, oratorical contests are the order of
the day. They are not confined to separate insti-
tutions, nor to intercollegiate meetings, but often
extend to contests between states. Often medals
are offered as inducements. Where are our con-
tests? Have we any such talents to cultivate?— Ex.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 3.— May 30, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 33
The Psi Upsilon Convention, 35
Alpha Delta Phi Convention, 37
The J. E. DeWitt Collection of Etchings and
Engravings, including Mezzotints, 37
Bowdoin Verse :
Time Not a Factor 38
A Fin de Siecle Simile, 38
A Sonnet, 38
Collegii Tabula, 39
Athletics, 41
Y. M. C A., 45
Personal, 46
College "World, , , . 47
Iii the last two volumes but little was
said about the finances of the Okient. Our
voice was not choked by the abundance of
money received, but absolute weariness of
the subject kept us silent. If our creditors
would adopt the same policy, we would be
content to let the matter rest for a greater
period. But we do not feel able longer to
occupy the position of a dead wall, as the
molecules in our make-up are beginning to
be shaken apart by the one-sided buffeting,
and we are forced to let some of the sound
pass through and be heard on the other
side. The friends of the Okient are by this
time aware of the fact that the country has
been having some pretty hard times. The
news reached our sanctum some time before
it was officially announced by the great
dailies. We saw no way iii which we could
help matters, except do what we could and
whistle for better times. We are still doing
the former, but our whistle is about worn
out. Everybody knows that it is a paper
like this which first feels the effects of a tight
money market. It has been almost impossible
to get advertisements, for business men have
cut down their expenses to the least possible
limit. As a result our receipts in that direc-
tion have fallen far below the average. Only
one avenue remains through which our funds
come, and that is the subscription depart-
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inent. Although but few of the old sub-
scribers have dropped from the lists, it has
been a hard task to collect the bills. For
example, we have spent about fifteen dollars
in postage on " duns," and have received less
than one hundred and fifty favorable replies.
In college, collecting is still worse. A man
will cheerfully pay five dollars for athletics,
as every one who is able ought, but ask him
how about that Orient subscription which
has not been paid for the last two or three
volumes, and the "I haven't a cent now;
I'll pay you some other time," is the inevit-
able. Such men have the idea that it must
be great sport to run a paper, and that every
editor is eager to put in his time and foot the
bills at the end of the year for the privilege.
There also has been a great falling off in sub-
scriptions from the incoming classes. Every
student ought to make the Orient one of
the necessary college expenses, a thing to be
supported just as much as foot-ball and base-
ball. We do not write this article because
we delight in nagging everybod}', but we
think we have just cause to complaiu. The
position of business manager is no pleasant
task, neither are those making up the edito-
rial board, a lot of " bloated bondholders,"
who are getting rich out of their work. If
you are not a subscriber you ought to become
one at once. If you are back in your dues,
you can help us out by paying them. We
have to depend upon you for the money to
pay our bills.
be a great disappointment to our men, who
have been looking forward to the trip the
whole season.
TpiTE tennis tournament arranged with Am-
■*■ herst and Tufts has been given up. Now
it is doubtful if we meet any of the colleges
outside the state this year. Our management
has been very desirous to secure dates with
these Massachusetts colleges, but have met
with but half-hearted response. Tufts abso-
lutely refused us the use of her courts to
play Amherst the 19th, and Amherst is
unwilling to meet any part of the expense
of our team to their home ground. This will
TITHE next issue of the Orient will appear
*■ June 20th, one week later than usual.
This delay is caused by the late date of Ivy
Day this year.
WE print in this number a circular by
Prof. Johnson concerning the DeWitt
collection of etchings and engravings. It
would be of great advantage to the college
to have this collection for the Walker Art
Building, for at present we have nothing of
this kind. Mrs. DeWitt has made us a very
generous offer, and it is an opportunity too
rare to let pass without making a great effort.
The Misses Walker have been unsparing of
time and money in the erection and furnish-
ing of the building, and this would be one of
the best ways of showing our appreciation of
their kindness. If any graduate or class
wishes to leave at the college this centennial
year a testimony of their love and gratitude
to their Alma Mater, they can find no better
or more useful gift than this valuable col-
lection.
MISS VIRGINIA DOX, of the Edu-
cational Mission, visited the college
recently and made several additions to her
very interesting collection in the Art Build-
ing. The pieces of Toltec pottery taken by
her own hand from the buried city of San
Mateo, New Mexico, are especially valuable
because known to be genuine. It is to be
regretted that the collection cannot be given
greater space. The large Navajo blanket
should be spread out where its beautiful
workmanship can be better seen, and many
other pieces would show to better advantage,
if less crowded. Miss Dox has taken a great
interest in the college. The Orient wishes
for her the best of success in her work, which
is so closely connected with our own.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
35
The Psi Upsilon Convention.
TITHE sixty-iirst annual convention of the
A Psi Upsilon Fraternity was held this
year with the Kappa Chapter of this college,
on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of May. Three
previous Psi Upsilon conventions have been
held at Bowdoin— in 1852, 1863, and 1875.
Delegates began to arrive the day before the
convention, but the real opening took place
on the evening of Wednesday, the 16th, with
a very pleasant informal reception in the
chapter hall of the Bowdoin Chapter. Almost
all the delegates had arrived in time for this,
and many alumni were also present. The
order of proceedings was as follows :
Wednesday, May 16 — 8 p.m., informal recep-
tion to delegates and alumni in hall of the Kappa
Chapter.
Thursday, May 17 — 9.30 a.m., private business
session in court room; 11.45 a.m., convention pho-
tograph taken on Art Building steps; 1.00 p.m.,
private business session in court room; 3.00 p.m.,
public library exercises in Memorial Hall; 7.00 p.m.,
reception and dance iu Memorial Hall.
Friday, May 18—9.00 a.m., private business
session iu Court Room; 11.30 a.m., departure for
Boston ; 8.00 p.m., dinner at the Veudome.
Many Psi Upsilon men arrived on the
midnight train, so that next morning every
chapter, except that at Kenyon, was repre-
sented, and, considering the geographical
position of Bowdoin, the convention was by
no means a small one. About eighty men
were taken in the picture of Thursday
morning.
At 3 p.m. Memorial Hall was very well
filled for the literary exercises. Rev. Jona-
than Edwards Adams, '53, of Bangor, opened
in a very beautiful prayer. He was followed
by Hon. William Dummer Northern!, '43, of
Salem, the only surviving founder of the
Kappa Chapter, who made a graceful open-
ing address, speaking of the strength, growth,
and worth of the Psi Upsilon. Hon. Joseph
W. Symonds's oration was marked by those
same qualities of scholarly culture, refined
taste, and pure English style of which he is
so completely master. The principal subject
of his oration was the relation of liberty to
law, and he held the deep attention of the
audience throughout. It was one of the most
scholarly and truly eloquent addresses ever
delivered in Brunswick, which has heard so
very many. Applause was frequent through-
out and, at the completion of the oration,
lasted for some moments. Rev. Edward A.
Rand, '57, of Watertown, Mass., the author
of so many well-known books, the poet of
the occasion, was warmly welcomed. His
poem, under the title of " Winds Across the
Sea," was extremely spirited and delightful,
and was received with marked attention and
applause. His manner was graceful and his
delivery animated and charming. He paid a
well-turned tribute of praise to Longfellow
and Hawthorne, and mother Bowdoin seated
beneath the whispering pines. The poem
was lighted up by many little clashes of true
wit, which caught the audience at once. Mr.
Rand's poem was the last thing on the pro-
gramme, which was relieved by music by
Gilbert's orchestra of Portland. The hall
was very beautifully and tastefully decorated
with flowers and potted plants.
The reception and dance was held at the
early hour of seven, in order that people
from out of town might leave on the midnight
trains. It was one of the prettiest and most
enjoyable dances ever given in Brunswick.
The following was the order :
1 . Waltz. Toreador.
2. Polka. Flocking Birds.
3. Schottische. Darkies' Pastime.
4. Waltz. Isle of Champagne.
5. Two-Step. Paul Jones.
6. Waltz. Espaiia.
INTERMISSION.
7. Waltz. Reign of Venus.
8. Two-Step. Salute to Boston.
9. Schottische. Little Cushie.
10. Waltz. Nick of the Woods.
11. Two-Step. High School Cadets.
12. Waltz- Sweet Smiles.
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Gilbert furnished the music in his usual
good style. The hall was decorated as
before. The two rooms on right and left of
the stage were tastefully fitted up and
furnished. Chairs for the patronesses were
placed on the left of the hall. The follow-
ing ladies received: Mrs. William DeWitt
Hyde, Mrs. Leslie A. Lee, Mrs. Alfred
Mitchell, Mrs. Franklin C. Robinson, Mrs.
William Addison Houghton, Mrs. Henry
Johnson. Murray, of Waterville, made, as
always, a very satisfactory caterer. The
dance was attended by many Brunswick
people. The following were among those
present from out of town: Dr. and Mrs.
S. H. Weeks and Miss Weeks, Mrs. William
L. Putnam, Miss Cram, Miss Edith Anderson,
Miss Fletcher, Miss Julia Noyes, Miss Ver-
rill, Miss Twitchell, Miss Weston, Miss
Davis, Miss Anna Knight, and Miss McDow-
ell, of Portland; Mrs. Octavia Thompson,
Mrs. G. E. R. Patten, Miss Ethel Hyde, Miss
Blanche Sewall, Miss Johnson, Miss Gibbons,
Miss Weeks, Miss Moses, Miss Higgins, Miss
Katherine Patten, and the Misses Worth of
Bath ; Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Walker of Thom-
aston, and Misses Gay and Fogler of Rock-
land.
After a business session on Friday morn-
ing the delegates left town on the train for
Boston, where a most successful dinner was
held at the Vendome in the evening. W. E.
Spear, Esq., Bowdoin, '70, of Boston, served
as toast-master, and the other speakers were
ex-Governor Alexander H. Rice, Union, '44;
L. M. Child, Yale, '55; Hon. M. F. Dickin-
son, Jr., Amherst, '62; Frank A. Hill, Bow-
doin, '62; Dr. G. H. Fox, Rochester, '67,
president of the Psi Upsilon Club of New
York; R. L. Bridgeman, Amherst, '71; G. R.
Swasey, Bowdoin, '75; Oliver Crocker Ste-
vens, Bowdoin, '76; ex-Speaker W. E. Bar-
rett, Dartmouth, '80, and J. W. Saxe, Wes-
leyan, '85. The dinner, which was kept up
until early Saturday morning, completed the
convention.
The following is a partial list of delegates
and men from other colleges who were in
attendance in Brunswick :
Union— G. H. Miller, O. C. Richards.
New York University— P. C. Pentz.
Yale — Theodore Eaton, Leroy Denison, W. H.
Hone.
Brown — G. R. Hacard.
Amherst— F. A. Plitchtner, R. Bridgman, H. R.
Brigeman.
Dartmouth— F. D. Field, J. H. Bishop, J. E.
Wadsworth, W. H. Merrill.
Columbia— G. W. Carryl, Paul Armitage.
Hamilton— H. R. Bates, D. F. Pickard.
Wesleyan— F. W. Frost, V. J. Smith, B. J.
Lynch, W. B. Dukeshire.
Rochester — C. E. Morse, H. B. Gross.
Syracuse — H. H. Reynolds.
University of Michigan— W. H. Morley, A. P.
Jacobs.
Cornell— G. S. Curtis.
Trinity— R. L. Paddock, W. H. McCook.
University of Pennsylvania — I. A. Spaeth, H.
B. Coulston.
University of Minnesota — A. E. May.
Lehigh— W. J. Hiss, Jr.
The following were among the Bowdoin
men present: Hon. William Dummer North-
end, '43 ; Lewis Pierce, '52 ; Rev. J. E. Adams,
'53 ; Rev. Edward A. Rand, '57 ; Hon. Joseph
W. Symonds, '60; Frank A. Hill, '62;
Thomas M. Giveen, '63; Hon. Joseph E.
Moore, '65; William E. Spear, 70; E. Dud-
ley Freeman, '74; William Henry Moulton,
'74; George R. Swasey, '75; Oliver Crocker
Stevens, '76; Barrett Potter, '78; D. C.
Clark, '84; E. W. Freeman, '85; John R.
Gould, '85; Richard W. Goding, '88 ; G. T.
Files, '89; Mervyn Ap Rice, '89; Percy W.
Brooks, '90; Charles L. Hutchinson, '90;
R. H. Hunt, '91; John F. Kelly, '91; Ernest
B. Young, '92; Roland W. Mann, '92; G. M.
Machan, '93; George Wood MacArthur, '93;
Augustus A. Hussey, '93; and Clarence W.
Peabody, '93.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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Alpha Delta Phi Convention.
TITHE Sixty-second Annual Convention of
J- the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity was
held in Cleveland, Ohio, May 16th and 17th,
with the Hudson Chapter.
The first business session was on Wednes-
day morning in the Masonic Temple. In
the afternoon a coaching party through beau-
tiful Euclid Avenue and Wade Park out to
the County Club, the swell organization of
the city, was tendered the visiting delegates.
Here luncheon was served and a convention
picture taken. The return drive was then
made, following the shore of Lake Erie back
to the Stillman, the convention headquarters.
At 7.30 p.m. the public exercises in Asso-
ciation Hall occurred. Hamilton W. Mabie,
Williams, '67, delivered an oration on " Soci-
ety and Literature in America." The poem,
entitled "Ad Astra," was delivered by
Samuel V. Cole, Bowdoin, '74. Both ora-
tion and poem were highly interesting and
held the attention of the audience very
closely for two hours. In addition, the
Detroit Philharmonic Club rendered several
very pleasing selections, and the exercises
terminated with the singing of the fraternity
song, " Ji'aTps." Immediately after the exer-
cises a reception and hop were given to the
delegates at the Stillman by the Cleveland
Graduate Association.
Thursday morning and afternoon the
business of the fraternity occupied the
attention of the delegates. Five applica-
tions for charters were received, but none of
them were acted upon. A telegram of con-
gratulation was sent to the Psi Upsilon in
convention at Bowdoin. Besides this, there
was much of importance transacted.
In the evening the customary banquet
was held, at which a large number of grad-
uates from Cleveland and vicinity were
present. H. P. Eells, Hamilton, '76, one of
the descendants of the founder of the frater-
nity, presided very gracefully as toast-master.
Others present and who spoke were D. P.
Eells, H. A. Garfield, William E. Cushing,
E. P. Williams, G. M. Roe, and S. V. Cole.
The Bowdoin Chapter was represented
by Fred J. Libby, '94, and Joseph B. Rob-
erts, '95.
The J. E. DeWitt Collection of
Etchings and Engravings,
Including Mezzotints.
rIS collection, consisting of about seven
hundred choice original specimens of
art in the respective classes and supplemented
by a set of the Amand-Durand reproduc-
tions (450) after Diirer, Rembrandt, and
other masters, represents the labor of an
ardent connoisseur for the period of twenty-
seven years, 1866-1893, and an expenditure
of at least $22,000, for which vouchers exist.
The late John E. DeWitt, Esq., of Portland,
widely known as possessing uncommon
business ability, devoted constant care to
procuring works of art of a high grade only.
Good specimens acquired by him in his
early days of collecting were replaced later
by those which were choice, as such came
upon the market. He had for many years
standing orders with English and Continental
dealers who assisted him in securing rarities
at the disposal of various famous collections.
A careful examination has revealed but one
instance in which he was deceived by a
fraudulent print.
As Mr. De Witt's collection is well known,
various offers of negotiation for its purchase
have been received from collectors and
dealers in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere.
It has occurred to several friends of art and
of Bowdoin College that, aside from the loss
involved in the sale and consequent scatter-
ing of this symmetrical and comprehensive
result of the labor of years, the educational
value of these works is so great as to render
them specially desirable for the perpetual
use of the college. It has become, happily,
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needless to define the use of objects of the
best art in enhancing the value of life. The
Walker Art Building and its contents are
certain to exert an immeasurable influence
on Bowdoin students of the future. The
DeWitt collection has been brought together
in Maine and should remain a permanent
addition to the intellectual and artistic
resources of the state. If Bowdoin should
have the collection confided to its trust, a
noteworthy extension of its means of useful-
ness would be made, and the prints would
be absolutely protected from destruction by
fire in the Walker Art Building, which'
furnishes perfect facilities for their proper
care and display.
The college possesses no collection of
etchings or engravings, yet these are pecul-
iarly adapted to awaken the interest of
beginners in the study of art, and to lead to
appreciation of other forms. The Bowdoin
paintings and drawings represent many great
names, from Titian to Corot. It is not too
much to say that the DeWitt collection is
worthy of such companionship.
The above works have been valued con-
servatively at $15,000. Of this amount
Mrs. DeWitt and her family will contribute
$2,500, if the collection goes to Bowdoin
College, leaving |12,500 to be raised. With-
out assuming any responsibility, Professor
Henry Johnson, the curator of the college
art collections, has examined the entire
collection with some care and obtained the
refusal of it till July 1, 1894, on the above
terms. A full, descriptive, type-written cat-
alogue has been made, which, with any infor-
mation in his power, Mr. Johnson would
gladly submit to any one interested.
The college earnestly desires that the
present rare opportunity may be improved,
and makes the above statement in the hope
that some friend or friends of education and
art in Maine will secure to the college this
valuable collection.
Your co-operation is respectfully solicited.
Contributions may be sent to the Hon. S. J.
Young, Treasurer of Bowdoin College, Bruns-
wick, Maine. Unless otherwise specified,
subscriptions will be due upon notification that
the total sum required has been subscribed.
Kindly address any communications in regard
to the matter to Professor Henry Johnson,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Bowdoir? ^ep§e.
Time Not a Factor.
With rare contempt, with godlike scorn
And unreserved disdain,
The Junior speaks of " Freshman year "
As if it caused him pain.
Deluded youth ! doth he forget
That age may spoil the " man,"
But that his "freshness" will remain
In spite of Time's short span ?
A Fin de Siecle Simile.
My Mary she's the dearest queen !
Not like those gay, coquettish things
Whose glances bright, as candle light
Draws moths, draws men to singe their wings !
My Mary's glance is mine alone ;
'Tis brighter than the candle bright !
Men go unsinged ; in love for me
'Tis cased— an incandescent light.
A Sonnet.
I sit within my college room at night,
The lamp upon the table burning dim,
The walls grown dusky with the dying glim,
My book unstudied in the flickering light.
Above, the rain-drops' roof- patter's constant spite ;
Without, the rain sighs round the eaves-beam's rim ;
The roof is scratched by swaying elm tree's limb ;
The night hour stamps the spirit with its might.
The thoughts of other days at Arthur's court,
Of gallant knights and noble ladies fair,
And boys of hope and maidens debonnair,
Of Merlin's magic moving ill report.
The lamp burns low and flickers and goes out ;
The rain drops fall ; the night winds moan about.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
39
Rhines, Sewall, Shute, and
Thompson have been selected
for the Freshman crew. Their shell
has been repaired and put in good
trim, and the men are doing faithful
practice.
The lawn-mower has been busy lately.
Parker, '97, has left for a summer's canvassing.
May, '93, witnessed Bowdoin's victory over Colby.
Our tennis players go to Portland next Wednes-
day.
The Sophomores are now reciting German in
one division.
Entertainments in Town Hall have been numer-
ous the past week.
The bills for Scribner's circus have been posted.
Everybody is going.
Bates, '96, has been visiting friends in New
Haven the past week.
Asign, "closed," has decorated the main entrance
of the Art Building lately.
The Juniors are practicing marching four times
a week under Marshal French.
The Electric Light Company has been stringing
new wires round the campus lately.
All the classes were favored with adjourns the
afternoon of the * T convention day.
The grand stand has been treated to a coat of
filling, and stands ready for painting.
The Sophomore botanists were the lucky recip-
ients of an adjourn or two last week.
Various portions of the dam that gave way up-
river, have been going over the falls lately.
The South Appleton Improvement Company
has been operating with good results lately.
Professor and Mrs. Houghton have filled two new
cases of Japanese curios in the Art Building.
W. W. Thomas, '94, and Stetson, '95, were in
Worcester at the recent intercollegiate games.
Dana, Haskell, Minot, and Soule, all of '96, were
in Waterville the day of the game with Colby.
The dedication of the Art Building, a week from
to-day, will bring many strangers upon the campus.
Have you tried to walk over the railroad bridge
lately f They say it's rather hard on a short-legged
man.
Professor MacDonald has been in East Machias
lately fulfilling his duties as examiner of Washington
Academy.
The campus flower garden is being set out.
The pansies are already blooming beside Massachu-
setts Hall.
Rev. Mr. Dike, of Bath, who has always taken a
great interest in the college, was on the campus
last week.
Professor Moody is initiating quite a number of
Freshmen into the mysteries of surveying and
mensuration.
The Brunswick High School defeated the Auburn
High School, last Wednesday, on the Delta. The
score was 18 to 0.
S. J. Young, treasurer of the college, and his
wife and daughter returned from an extended tour
in Europe last week.
The Humpty-Dumpty street parade was fetch-
ing. The entertainment in the eveuing was largely
patronized by students.
Wednesday, Memorial Day, being a holiday,
there were no recitations. Several students went
out of town to celebrate.
President Hyde made a short trip to Aroostook
recently, preaching before the graduating class of
the Caribou High School.
Everybody is laying plans for the summer vaca-
tion. The summer hotel and the subscription book
will claim their usual number.
Half a dozen or more of the college boys walked
down to Gurnet's one day last week and enjoyed
one of his famous sea-shore dinners.
'Ninety-six's crew is fast getting into condition.
The men are all showing up finely in their positions
and will worthily represent their class.
The Freshmen are reading extra Latin instead
of the usual essay. Parts of Cicero's Senectute and
Amicitia are the required outside work.
The college indulged in a jubilee the evening of
Bowdoin's victory over Dartmouth, with as big a
bonfire as has illuminated the campus for many a
year.
The Juniors who are taking mineralogy have
made several collecting trips, in the past two
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weeks, to the feldspar quarry in Topsham, and to
innumerable places.
Miss Virginia Dox, through whose liberality the
college has received a valuable collection of Indian
and Mexican relics, spoke in the Congregational
church Sunday, the 20th.
The young ladies of the Class of 1894, Bath
High School, gave an entertainment in Town Hall
last week. As the Bath Independent prophesied,
"The college boys were there."
Professor Chapman talked very interestingly in
the chapel a week ago Sunday. His theme, "The
devil attacks a man upon his highest level," was
somewhat novel, but nevertheless apt.
The upper halls of the Science Building are
beauties. The ceiling is sheathed with oiled hard
wood, and this, with the naked rafters and the dull
red of the walls, gives a very handsome effect.
The last themes of the term are due to-day,
May 31st. The subjects are as follows : Are Denom-
inations a Hindrance to the Protestant Religion ?
A Short Story of College Life. Mr. Ward's "Marcella."
The students turned out in force at the second
Bates game, and with their dismantled organ kept
up a howling noise. Bates had a good delegation
present and one that was not averse to making a
noise.
Professor Little reports that rooms for Com-
mencement are very scarce. Many of the students
have been unsuccessful in their search so far, and
are planning to care for their friends in Lewiston
and Portland.
Professors Lee and Hinckley and Ross, '94, spent
a pleasant day or two on the coast down by Great
Island last week. They were in search of Indian
curios among the clam heaps, and found some very
valuable relics.
One of our Junior ease-laden students, went
fishing with a Freshman the other day. The Fresh-
man brought home two trout about as long as your
finger, but the Junior— his efforts kept him in his
room two days.
Booker and his assistants have been putting in
some good work trimming the trees on the campus.
Several trees that were already dead or were dying
have been cut down. The campus is undergoing a
real improvement this spring.
At a recent class meeting, '96 received through
Rob Soule, a kind invitation from Hon. E. B. Mallet,
of Freeport, asking the class to be his guests for. a
day's yachting in Casco Bay. The invitation was
promptly accepted and the class is preparing for a
most delightful time.
Contractors who were in Brunswick last week,
preparatory to making bids on sewers, included
E. R. Cheney, 0. A. Trumbull, Luciau A. Taylor,
George F. Greenlaw, J. J. Cronin, and James D.
Fallom, of Boston, and A. W. Bryne, of Medford.
They say that the chief difficulty to be encountered
will be the quicksands and water that underlies the
town. The sewer will enter the river at least a
mile below the town.
Last Thursday morning, in chapel, President
Hyde gave notice of a proposed change in the
articles of agreement, and, in accordance with the
old agreement, the new articles will be voted upon
this week. President Hyde said that only one
change had been made, but that the old document
of nine or ten pages had been condensed to three
or four, with a gain in clearness and explicitness.
The following is the article which has been altered :
ARTICLE VII.
JURISDICTION.
The Jury shall have absolute and final jurisdiction over
all cases of public disorder and all offenses committed by-
students against each other.
The Faculty shall have jurisdiction over conduct dur-
ing college exercises, conduct toward college officers,
damage to college buildings, and all matters of personal
morality which affect primarily the character and reputa-
tion of individual students.
Questions of disputed jurisdiction shall be referred to
a committee of three Alumni, of whom the Faculty shall
choose one, the Jury shall choose one, and the two thus
chosen shall choose the third.
Two of the four pictures that are to fill the
tympana under the big dome of the Art Building
are in position and are receiving the finishing
touches at the bauds of their painters. The one on
the left, as you enter from the loggia, was painted
by Abbott Thayer and is a very impressive creation
in somewhat sober colors. The city of Florence,
most beautifully reflected in the water of the Arno,
is shown in the background, while in the foreground
stands an angel figure with outspread wings.
Nestled in its drapery are two children, the one
holding a palette, while before the other lies a
mallet. On the right and left are the kneeling
figures of a man and woman, with hands outstretched
toward the central figure. Directly opposite, over
the entrance to the Bowdoin Gallery, is Kenyon
Cox's painting. This is symbolic of the artistic
achievements of Venice, the palace of the doge
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and other famous buildings forming the background.
In the foreground are three figures; in the center,
a woman enthroned ; on the right, the reclining
figure of a woman; on the left, reclining Mercury.
The other two paintings, it is hoped, will be in
position by Commencement.
/?tf?Jejies.
BASE-BALL.
Bowdoin, 8; Dartmouth, 7.
The ball team played Dartmouth at Hanover on
the afternoon of May 15th, and by bunching their
hits in the seventh inning won the game. Neither
side scored until the fifth inning. Plaisted pitched
a great game and had fine control at critical times.
The individual work of both teams was excellent.
The score:
BOWDOIN.
A.B. B.H. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b., 5 0 1 4 0
Hull, l.f., 4 0 2 1 2
Williams, r.f., 3 1 1 0 0
Plaisted, p., 4 1 0 0 0
Chapman, c.f 4 2 4 0 1
Sykes, 2b., 4 1 5 1 1
Bodge, lb., 4 1 7 0 1
Leighton, s.s 4 1 0 1 0
Haines, c 4 0 7 1 0
Totals 31 7 27 8 5
DARTMOUTH.
A.B. B.H. P.O. A. E.
McCornack, s.s 5 0 2 2 0
Folsom, 3b„ 5 2 2 0 0
Huff, lb 4 1 11 1 0
Dinsmore, p 5 2 1 6 0
Abbot, c, 5 2 10 2 0
Dodge, l.f., 4 1 1 0 0
Adams, r.f. 4 1 0 0 0
Smalley, c.f., 3 1 0 0 0
Smart, 2b., 3 1 0 1 3
Totals, 38 11 27 12 3
Innings, 123456789
Bowdoin, 00000053 0—8
Dartmouth 00004021 0—7
Runs— Plaisted 2, Chapman 2, Sykes 2, Williams, Dodge,
Folsom 2, Smalley 2, McCornack, Huff, Dinsmore. Earned
runs— Bowdoin 3, Dartmouth 2. Home run— Sykes.
Three-base hit — Williams. Two-base hits— Bodge, Dins-
more, Huff. Stolen bases — Folsom, Dinsmore, Abbot 2,
Dodge, Adams, Smalley 3. First base on balls— by Plais-
ted, Huff, Smalley; by Dinsmore, Williams. Passed ball —
Haines. Wild pitch — Dinsmore. Struck out — by Plaisted,
McCornack, Dodge 2, Adams, Smalley 2; by Dinsmore,
Fairbanks 3, Hull, Williams, Haines 4, Leighton. Double
plays— Fairbanks, Sykes. Umpire— Claggett. Time— 2h.
Dartmouth, 14; Bowdoin, 1.
The second Dartmouth-Bowdoin game, played
on May 16th, was very one-sided and uninteresting.
The home team did some great batting and this,
coupled with Bowdoin's disastrous errors, enabled
them to send fourteen men across the plate. Will-
iams was wild at times, and the team did not give
him very good support. Tabor pitched a strong
game for Dartmouth; Bowdoin batted hard as
usual, but the sharp fielding of the home team _
made the number of hits a nominal one. Dins-
more's hitting was the feature of the game; Sykes,
Fairbanks, and Chapman did the best work for
Bowdoin. The score :
DARTMOUTH.
A.B. B.H. P.O. A. K.
McCornack, s.s 3 0 0 2 1
Folsom, 3b 3 1 1 3 0
Huff, lb., 4 1 9 0 0
Dinsmore, c.f., 4 2 0 1 0
Abbot, c 3 1 8 0 0
Dodge, l.f., 5 1 5 0 0
Adams, r.f., 3 0 2 1 0
Tabor, p 4 0 0 1 0
Smart, 2b., 5 1 2 3 0
Smalley, c.f 0 0 0 0 1
Totals,
34 7 27 11 2
BOWDOIN.
Fairbanks, 3b., . . . .
Hull, l.f 4
Williams, p 3
Chapman, c.f 3
Sykes, 2b., 4
Bodge, lb., . . 4
Leighton, s.s 3
Anderson, r.f., 4
Haines, c, 4
Totals 33
A.B. B.H. P.O.
GOO
24 10
Innings, 123456789
Dartmouth, 50414000 0—14
Bowdoin 001000000—1
Runs made— by McCornack 2, Folsom 2, Huff, Dins-
more 3, Abbot, Dodge, Adams 2, Tabor, Smart, Williams.
Earned runs — Dartmouth 2, Bowdoin. Two-base hit —
Sykes. Three-base hits — Dinsmore, Smart. Home run —
Dinsmore. Stolen bases — McCornack 3, Folsom 2, Abbot,
Dodge 2, Adams 2, Tabor, Fairbanks, Chapman. Base on
balls — by Williams, McCornack 2, Folsom, Abbot, Smal-
ley, Adams 2, Tabor; by Tabor, Chapman. Struck out —
by Tabor, Hull 4, Chapman , Haines ; by Williams, Folsom,
Abbot, Dodge, Smart. Hit by pitched ball— by Tabor,
Leighton. Wild pitches — Williams 3. Passed balls —
Haines 6. Time — 2h. Umpire— Claggett of Washington.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Bowdoin Second Nine, 11; P. A. C, 0.
The Bowdoin second nine had no difficulty in
defeating the Portland Athletic Club on the after-
noon of May 16th. The game was rather uninter-
esting. Both batteries did good work. Coburn
pitched a good game, allowing the visitors to get
only five hits off his delivery. Elwell, at third
base, played the best game for Portland. Allen,
'94, and Boyle, of Portland, were the umpires.
The score:
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Coburn, p 5 2 1 1 2 4 0
Dame, 2b 4 2 2 2 3 3 1
Soule, 3b., 3 1 2 5 1 1 0
Willard, lb 4 1 0 0 13 0 0
Warren, r.f., 3 1 0 0 0 0 2
M. Warren, c.f 3 2 110 0 0
Quimby, c 3 1 1 1 7 0 0
Dana, s.s 4 0 1 1 1 4 0
White, l.f 4 1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals, 33 11 8 11 27 12 4
ATHLETIC CLUB.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Perry, 2b., 4 0 1 1 5 4 1
Merrill, c., 3 0 0 0 3 1 1
Rounds, p 4 0 2 2 0 3 0
Elwell, 3b 4 0 1 1 4 4 2
Plummer, r.f. 4 0 1 1 0 0 0
F. King, s.s., 4 0 0 0 0 1 0
Douglass, l.f., .... 2 0 0 0 2 0 1
Fryatt, c.f 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Warren, lb., 3 0 0 0 10 2 1
Totals, 31 0 5 5 24 15 6
Innings 123456789
Bowdoin, 30010115 x— 11
Athletic Club, 00000000 0—0
Earned runs— Bowdoin 3. Two-base hit — Soule. Three-
base hit— Soule. Stolen bases— Bowdoin 10, Athletic
club 4. Bases on balls — by Coburn 2, by Rounds 6. Wild
pitches — Rounds 2. Struck out — by Coburn 7, by Rounds
3. Double play — King, Perry, and Warren. Time— 1
hour 45 minutes.
Bmvdoin, 26; Bates, S.
The second Bowdoin-Bates game, postponed
from Saturday on account of rain, came off Monday,
May 22d. The game excited much interest in the
town and among the students because Bowdoin
suffered a defeat at the hands of Bates in Lewiston
recently, and, consequently, the grand stand was
filled, and the side lines were used for the purpose
of doing some good chinning by the Bowdoin
students. About sixty came down from Lewiston
to cheer on the Bates team, but after the fifth
inning the yells on the side of the Delta, occupied
by the Bates contingent, grew fainter and fainter.
Although Berryman was wild at times, he pitched
a plucky game in spite of the fact that the support
given him was enough to discourage any pitcher.
Bowdoin made seven errors in the first four innings,
some of them rank ones, too, but this did not seem
to disconcert Plaisted in any marked degree, and
he pitched a great game throughout. He struck
out twelve men and the six hits made off his
delivery were well scattered. In the fifth inning
Bowdoin steadied down and only one more error
was made. Sykes made a wild throw to first in the
sixth, letting in two runs. The fun commenced in
the sixth when Bowdoin came to the bat, for every-
body smashed the ball, and the Bates fielders got
rattled. The score was 6 to 5 in favor of Bates at the
end of the fifth, but after that the game was rather
uninteresting and one-sided. Wakefield played the
steadiest game for Bates at first base, and Pulsifer
and Gerrish did good work in the field. The third
game will be played in Portland June 2d, probably,
and will undoubtedly be an exciting one, as both
clubs have won a game and will play ball to win.
The score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Sykes, 2b., 7 4 4 5 1 2 2
Hull, l.f., 7 2 2 2 1 0 0
Williams, r.f 7 23 5 3 0 0
Chapman, c.f 4 1 2 2 1 0 1
Plaisted, p 7 4 5 5 0 14 0
Fairbanks, 3b., .... 6 5 4 5 1 0 2
Anderson, lb 7 4 2 3 6 0 1
Leighton, s.s 5 3 1 1 2 1 0
Haines, c, 5 1 2 2 12 2 2
Totals, 55 26 24 29 27 19 8
BATES.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Wakefield, lb 4 1 1 1 13 0 0
Douglass, 2b 5 2 1 2 4 2 3
Pulsifer, 3b., 4 1 0 0 1 5 0
Campbell, l.f 4 2 0 0 1 0 2
Gerrish, c, 5 0 1 1 6 2 1
Field, r.f., 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brackett, c.f., . . . • 3 0 0 0 2 0 2
Slattery, s.s 4 0 2 2 0 5 0
Berryman, p., .... 4 2 1 1 0 6 2
Totals 38 8 6 7 27 20 10
Innings 123 35 6 789
Bowdoin 10400667 2—26
Bates 20220200 0—8
Struck out — Plaisted 12, Berryman 4. Bases on balls —
Plaisted 3, Berryman 10. Passed balls — Haines 1, Ger-
rish 2. Three-base hit— Williams. Two-base hits— Sykes,
Fairbanks, Anderson, Douglass. Earned runs — Bowdoin 6,
Bates 0. Bases on balls— Sykes, Hull, Chapman 3, Fair-
banks, Leighton 2, Haines 2, Wakefield, Pulsifer, Camp-
bell. Umpire— Kelley of Lewiston. Time— 2 hours 20
minutes. Attendance, about 500.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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Bowdoin, 13 ; Colby, 7.
There was a large attendance at the ball game
between Colby and Bowdoin on the campus at
Waterville. The home team made some costly
errors but none of them threw the game away, for
Bowdoin won the game by heavy batting. Our
boys played far from an errorless game, but their
errors were not costly.
The Colby team could not seem to fathom Plais-
ted's left-hand delivery, and the nine hits made off
him were scattered through the nine innings. Bow-
doin batted Whitman hard and bunched their hits.
The game was practically won in the first inning,
when five men crossed the plate after two hands
were out. Whitman was somewhat discouraged by
the hard hitting and by the shaky support the home
team gave him throughout the whole game.
The game commenced with Bowdoin at the bat.
Sykes went out on a fly to left field, Hull got his
first, stole second and got around to third, but was
forced out at home plate. The fun commenced
right here, everybody hitting the ball, and before
Leighton went out five scores went down to Bow-
doin's credit. Colby came up to the bat and ran in
three scores. After the first inning, however, she
failed to bunch her hits, while Bowdoin continued
to bat Whitman all over the field. Osborne played
the best game for Colby. Williams and Fairbanks
did the best batting for Bowdoin. The score in
detail :
COLBY.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
PuriDgton, 3b 4 1 0 0 0 0 0
Hoxie, 2b 4 1 1 1 2 4 1
Coffin, c 5 2 0 0 2 2 1
"Whitman, p 5 0 1 1 0 5 1
Totman, c.f 5 1 2 2 1 0 2
Patterson, Li, .... 5 1 3 3 2 0 0
Latlip, s.s. 3 0 0 0 1 3 2
Osborne, lb 4 0 1 115 1 0
Osgood, r.f., 3 1 0 0 1 0 0
Totals, 38 7 8 8 24 18 8
BOWDOIN.
A.B. K. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Sykes, 2b., 4 1 2 3 1 0 2
Hull, l.f 3 2 1 1 0 0 0
Williams, r.f., .... 5 3 4 4 2 0 1
Plaisted, p., 3 1 1 1 0 0 1
Chapman, c.f., .... 3 1 0 0 2 0 0
Fairbanks, 3b., .... 4 2 3 3 2 6 2
Bodge, lb., 4 1 1 110 0 1
Leighton, s.s 5 1 2 2 0 3 1
Haines, c, 4 1 2 3 10 2 2
Totals 35 13 16 18 27 11 10
Innings 12 3 450789
Colby, 31120000 0—7
Bowdoin 50210320 x— 13
Earned runs— Colby 1, Bowdoin 3. Two-base hits —
Williams, Leighton, Sykes, Fairbanks, Haines. Struck
out — by Whitman, 2; by Plaisted, 9. Base on balls— by
Whitman, 4; by Plaisted, 3. Passed ball— Coffin. Time
of game — 2 hours. Umpire— Kelley.
Colby, 11; Bowdoin, 10.
The Colby ball team defeated Bowdoin on the
Delta Saturday, May 26th, in a close and exciting
game. The grand stand was well filled and the
cheering was the best heard here this season. Colby
bunched her hits, thereby winning the game. Bow-
doin outfielded her opponents but could not seem
to bunch her hits after the third inning. Fairbanks
made two costly errors at third, but with the excep-
tion of that the team played a strong game in the
field. Chapman made a wonderful catch of a diffi-
cult fly in the second inning. When Williams came
up to the bat in the third, with three men on bases,
he was greeted with an ovation. He responded to
the cheers of the students by sending the ball far
out into the left field for a two-bagger, took third
on errors, and sent three scores across the plate.
Patterson succeeded in keeping the hits made by
the home team well scattered after the third inning.
Plaisted went into the box in the eighth and
pitched in his usual good form. If he had gone in
and pitched in the seventh, probably the inning
would not have resulted as it did. Bowdoin's indi-
vidual work in the field was very good. The score :
COLBY.
A.B. K. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Purington, 3b 4 1 3 4 8 0 2
Hoxie, 2b., 5 1 1 1 2 0 1
Coffin, c 4 2 1 1 10 3 2
Whitman, Li, .... 5 0 1 1 0 0 0
Totman, c.f., .... 5 1 1 1 1 0 0
Patterson, p 5 2 2 2 0 2 2
Latlip, s.s 4 2 3 3 2 7 2
Osborne, lb., 5 1 1 1 4 2 0
Osgood, r.f., 4 1 2 3 0 0 1
Totals 41 11 15 17 27 14 10
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b., .... 5 1 1 2 4 1 0
Hull, Li, 6 2 2 3 1 1 0
Williams, p 5 1 2 3 2 5 1
Chapman, c.f i 1 2 2 4 0 0
Sykes, 2b., 3 1 1 1 2 1 2
Bodge, lb 4 1 2 2 2 0 0
Anderson, r.f., .... 5 1 0 0 8 0 0
Leighton, s.s 4 1 0 0 1 2 0
Haines, c 5 1 1 1 3 1 1
Plaisted, p., 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 10 11 14 27 11 4
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
SCOEE BY INNINGS.
123456789
Colby 40000250 0—11
Bowdoin 42400000 0—10
Umpire — Kelly. Earned runs — Colby G, Bowdoin. Two-
base bits — Purington, Osgood, Williams, Hull, Sykes.
Base on balls — off Patterson 6, off Williams 2. Struck
out — by Patterson 9, by Plaisted 1, by Williams 1. Double
plays — by Latlip, Osborne and Purington; by Sykes unas-
sisted. Wild pitch — Patterson. Passed ball — Haines.
Time of game — 2 hours 20 minutes.
TENNIS.
The annual tournament has been more than
usually successful this year. Dana, '94, the champion
of last year, won again this spring. Pickard and
Dana, '94, are champions in doubles, and Fogg and
Dana, '96, are second. The Tennis Association were
presented with racquets to be used as prizes in
the tournament by Owen, Moore & Co., Horace
Partridge, Horsman, and Wright & Ditson. Fol-
lowing is the record in the finals :
SINGLES.
Finals.
Winner.
Loser.
Score.
Dana, '94.
Dana, 96.
6-2, 6-3, 6-2
DOUBLES.
Pickard and Dana, '94. Dane and Cook.
6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 11-9
Matches for Second Place in Doubles.
Cook and Dane. Lord and Kimball. 7-5, 6-1
Fogg and Dana, '96. Bryant and Littleaeld. 6-2, 6-4
Fogg and Dana, '96. Cook and Dane. 7-5, 1-6, 6-2
THE WORCESTER MEET.
The eighth annual field day of the New England
Intercollegiate Athletic Association was held at
Worcester oval last Wednesday, May 23d. Ten col-
leges contested for points. It was a day of surprises.
Dartmouth, the winner last year, was looked upon
as a winner this year, but instead dropped to fourth
place, while Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
which joined the association this year, proved an
easy first. Bowdoin came at the end of the list
last year, and was not looked upon as the probable
winner of any points this year, but an easy first
prize in the two-mile run, a third in the high jump,
and a fine showing in several events gave us sixth
place and six points, and won respect for our
team. G. K. Kimball, '95, was captain, and J. L.
Crawford, manager, of the Bowdoin team, and they
took these men to the meet : E. Thomas, '94, Doherty,
French, W. S. A. Kimball, Knowlton, Lord, and
Soule, '95, Bates and Smith, '96, Home and Mc-
Millan, '97, and Borden of the Medical School.
Dr. Whittier and Trainer McLean accompanied the
team, and also several Bowdoin men. among them
W. W. Thomas, '94, who was assistant marshal of
the meet. The results are very satisfactory. Bow-
doin won a good name for herself, and the prospects
are very bright for a higher place next year.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology made 38
points. Brown came next with 25£ points, closely
followed by Williams with 24 points. Then came
the favorite, Dartmouth, with 18J points to its
credit, and Amherst had 15J points. Rowdoin
made 6, Wesleyan 5, and Trinity 3 points. The
University of Vermont and Worcester Polytechnic
Institute did not make a point.
Soule, in the two-mile run, and Borden, in
the high jump, by magnificent work won our six
points. A Boston paper thus spoke of Soule's per-
formance : " There was a breath from breezy Maine
when the two-mile run was started. Several likely
ones were anxiously watched, but one chap, that
nobody except a small knot of Bowdoin students
knew, took the lead and opened up a gap of 200
yards before he stopped his sprinting. His number
was doubled out of sight, and the race was half over
before some down-easters considerately informed
the crowd that he was Soule of Bowdoin. They
added modestly that he could run like that all day,
and no one questioned it, least of all his opponents
in the race. They let him have it and fought for
second honors. He won by an eighth of a mile after
running a beautiful race. If he had been pushed
he could easily have broken the record. As it was
his time was 10 minutes 28 3-5 seconds.
The following tables give all the facts and
figures of the day in concise form :
100-yard dash— First, H. S. Patterson, Wil.; second,
W. S.Deyo, Wil.; third, R. W. Carr, M.I.T. Time 10 3-5s.
220-yard dash— First, W. S. Deyo, Wil.; second, R. W.
Carr, M. I. T.; third, H. L. Twitchell, Am. Time 231-5s.
440-yard dash— First, J. A. Rockwell, Jr., M.I. T.; sec-
ond, F. P. Claggett, D. ; third, F. W. Marvel, Br. Time
51 l-5s.
Half-mile run — First, G. O. Jarvis, Wesleyan; second,
J. A. Rockwell, Jr., M. I. T.; third, C. O. Seymore, Am.
Time 2m 1 3-5s.
One-mile run— First, G. Clapp, M. I. T.; second, A. G.
Bugbee, Dartmouth; third, G. W. Parker, Dart. Time
4m 39 l-5s.
Two-mile run— First, L. F. Soule, Bowd. ; second, G.
Clapp, M. I. T.; third, D. Hall, Dart. Time 10m 28 3-5s.
One-mile walk— First, H. F. Houghton, Am.; second,
W. B. Bliss, Williams; third, A. F. Post, Am. Time 7m
15 3-5s*.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
45
120-yard hurdle— First, S. Chase, Dart.; second, B.
Hurd, Jr., M. I. T. ; third, F. W. Lord, M. I. T. Time 16s*.
220-yard hurdle— First, B. Hurd, Jr., M. I. T.; second,
A. M. Lyon, Dart.; third, E. Pictney, Wil. Time 26 3-5s.
Two-mile hicycle— First, W. C. Marmon, M. I. T.; sec-
ond, J. T. Burns, M. I. T.; third, J. W. Angell, Brown.
Time 5m 50 2-5s*.
Pole vault— H. L. Towne, "Wil., and M. D. Dunning,
Am., tied for first place at a height of 10 ft., 2^ in. Towne
won first medal on a tossup. G. G. Russell, Br., E. L.
Morgan, Am., A. P. Smith, Dart., tied for third place at
9 ft. 5 in. Points divided.
Running high jump— First, S. A. McComber, Brown,
height 5 ft., 1\ in.; second, H. M. Tyler, Am., 5 ft., 6 in.;
third, C. Borden, Bowd., 5 ft., 4 in.
Running broad jump— First, F. W. Marvel, Brown,
distance 22 ft. 2| in.*; second, J. R. Allen, "Wil., 21 ft., 10
in.*; third, S. Chase, Dart., 21 ft., 2J in*.
Throwing 16-pound hammer— First, F. E. Smith, Br.,
distance 109 ft., 10 in.*; second, G. S. Ellis, Br., 104 ft., 10
in.*; third, G. H. Parker, M. I. T., 96 ft., 4 in.
Putting 16-pound shot— First, F. E. Smith, Brown, dis-
tance 37 ft., 3£ in.; second, S. Carter, Trinity, 36 ft., 3 in.;
third, F. E. Mason, Dart., 35 ft., 7| in.
*Record broken .
w w w y ^
o 2. 3 s §
H 5' ; d s
100-yard dash, 1 8
Half-mile run 1 3
120-yard hurdle, 4 .... 5
440-yard dash, 5 .. 1 3
Mile run, 5 . . . . 4
Two-mile bicycle, 8 . . 1
220-yard hurdle 5 .. .. 3 1
220-yard dash, 1 3 5
Mile walk, 6 3
Two-mile run, 3 5 . . 1
Pole vault 45 . . . . 0J 0J 4
Putting 16-lb. shot 5 1
Running high jump, ... 3 .. 1 5
Throwing 16-lb. hammer, ... 1 . . 8
Running broad jump, 5 1 3
Totals, 15j 38 6 25J 1SJ 24
Trinity's only score was three points on putting the
16-pound shot; "Wesleyan's only score was five points on
the half-mile run, while University of Vermont and
"Worcester Polytechnic did not score a point.
IJ.fl?.©./?.
The new constitution of the association has been
printed aud is now ready for distribution. Especial
attention is called to the following section of Article
II.: "The membership of this association shall
consist of men, either students or members of the
Faculty of this college, who believe in one God,
the Father Almighty, aud in one Lord Jesus Christ,
and in the Boly Spirit, the Lord and giver of life,
and shall be elected by a two-thirds vote of the
members present at any meeting."
Many students in college, who are not members,
believe that the association in aiming to "promote
Christian fellowship among its members, and to fur-
ther the spiritual interests of the college," is honestly
striviug to accomplish a worthy object. Yet they
are not numbered among its members. They are
willing to enjoy the privileges and accept the bene-
fits which are derived from it, but they do not seem
willing to become actively connected with the
society and to share in its responsibilities. Thus
the association is hampered in its work. For, to
accomplish satisfactory results, it must have the
assistance of every student in college who is in
sympathy with the work and who can comply with
its requirements for membership. Let every such
man look upon activity in religious work as a privi-
lege as well as a duty. Let him identify himself
immediately with the religious movement.
The attendance upon the meetiugs this term is
small. During the spring many outside attractions
call the student away. One should, however, be
sure that the attraction is of sufficient importance
to justify him in remaining away. Students find
time for social and athletic engagements; they may
also find time for religious engagements. The ser-
vices are so arranged as to require the sacrifice of
a very small amount of time, and the moments
spent in these meetiugs are certainly not wasted.
Remember in these crowded weeks that the asso-
ciation has a demand, the first demand, upon our
time.
The Ninth Annual World's Student Conference
at Northfield will be held from June 30th to July
10th. "These conferences have been the most,
potent factor of recent years in the promotion of
Christian life and work among college men. They
have developed the Christian associations of the
colleges. They have deepened the spiritual life of
thousands of students." Platform meetings, Bible
classes, association and missionary conferences,
informal discussions, aud persoual interviews, indi-
cate the varied character of the privileges which
the gathering affords. The sessions of the confer-
ence proper are held morning and evening. The
afternoons are given to recreation. Facilities are
afforded for tennis, base-ball, foot-ball, basket-ball,
track athletics, and swimming. The conference
affords " unparalleled opportunity for considering
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
the various methods and agencies for promoting the
cause of Christ among students." It is hoped that
this college will recognize its opportunity and be
represented at Northfleld this summer. The follow-
ing committees have beeu appointed :
Committee on Work for New Students— Haines,
Clough, Thayer.
Committee ou Religious Meetings — Bryant,
Clough, Harriman.
Finance Committee— Russell, Gilpatrick, Chur-
chill.
Committee on Intercollegiate Relations — Cook,
Marston, Badger.
Committee on Missions — Axtell, Gilpatrick, Par-
ker.
Committee on Hand-book— Gilpatrick, Marston,
Hagar.
The following statistics
' are from the forthcoming-
general catalogue and history of Bow-
' doiu, prepared by Professor Little. Total
number of graduates of the college, 2,457;
average age at entrance in 1810, 15.87
years; in 1890, 18.55 years; number entering minis-
try, 372; law, 766; medicine, 278; literature, 31;
journalism, 66; teaching, 412; engineering, 41;
business, 250; President of the United States, 1;
Chief Justice of United States, 1 ; ministers to for-
eign countries, 6; member of United States Senate,
9; members of United States House of Representa-
tives, 25; governors of states, 7; state senators,
87; officers in army or navy, 146; presidents of col-
leges, 31; professors in colleges and higher institu-
tions of learning, 113. There is no profession, no
department of public service, no scientific interest,
no social problem, no religious movement, no national
crisis which has not felt the beneficent influence and
steady support of men who have received their
training here.
An excellent oil portrait of President Leonard
Woods has just been presented to the University
Club in New York. The Bowdoin members of the
club, all participants in the gift, are: John H.
Goodenow, '52; Henry Stone, '52; Edward B. Mer-
rill, '57; Almon Goodwin, '62; B. D. Greene, '63;
James McKeen, '64; Edward P. Mitchell, 71 ; Will-
iam J. Curtis, '75; Francis R. Upton, '75.
'54.— Franklin A. Wilson, of Bangor, a graduate
of Bowdoiu. class of '54, has beeu elected president
of the Maine Central Railroad.
'56.— Rev. Edwin P. Parker, of Hartford, Conn.,
is preparing to make an extended tour abroad.
'60.— The President, on May 22d, sent to the
Senate the nomination of Albert W. Bradbury, of
Portland, Me., to be the attorney of the United
States for the district of Maine. Mr. Bradbury is a
son of Hon. Bion Bradbury, and a graduate of the
class of '60, Bowdoin College. Mr. Bradbury was
bom in Eastport in 1840, and entered upon the
practice of law in Portland in 1865.
'70.— Erie County, N. Y., is bringing forward
Comptroller James A. Roberts as a candidate for
the next Governor of New York.
Med.— Dr. I. E. Hobart, one of the leading
surgeons of Milford, Mass., died Tuesday, May 22d,
of blood poisoning, contracted from an autopsy on
May 7th. He was a native of Maine, a member of
the class of '79 in the Medical School, a member of
the Thurber Medical Association of Milford and of
the Maine Medical Association. He leaves a widow,
a mother, and two brothers.
'89.— George L. Rogers, Esq., of Farmington,
the present efficient and popular county attorney
of Franklin County, will not be a candidate for
re-nomination. Mr. Rogers has important business
relations that will not permit of his longer continu-
ing in office.
'89.— The annual convention of the York County
Teachers' Association was held in Thornton Acad-
emy, Saco, last week, with an attendance of 200,
representing nearly every town in the county.
Daniel E. Owen, of Saco, sub-principal of Thornton
Academy, presided.
'90. — Brooks, now of Boston, was called suddenly
to his old home in Augusta, last week, by the death
of his father.
A bill appropriating $50,000 for a college of
veterinary science at Cornell has been reported
favorably to the New York Senate.
It is reported that arrangements for the Yale-
Oxford international boat race will be suspended
until the outcome of the New London race is known.
A casino is to be erected at Princeton, which
will provide accommodations for the annual dances,
Glee Club concerts, dramatic entertainments, be-
sides having two covered tennis courts.
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They met an old, old Arab,
He was toothless, wrinkled, gray,
They stopped him on the desert,
And they asked of him the way.
He tried to tell them plainly
In a voice almost a croak,
But they couldn't understand him,
For gum Arabic he spoke. — Ex.
Nearly 30(1 young women are enrolled at Leland
Stanford.
Lehigh is endeavoring to establish a course in
Spanish.
The Harvard library contains pictures of its
classes since 1752.
Professor Henry Drummond has been called to
the Presidency of McGill University, Montreal,
Canada.
A Pakadox.
Though the college man may,
Iu his own specious way,
Tell a story whose fictions appall,
But be certain that when
You enter his den,
You will surely find Truth on his wall.
— Lehigh Burr.
President Harper, of Chicago, iu a recent address
before the Alumni Association of that University,
made the following statements: Of the 800 stu-
dents, 397 are under-graduates. At present there
are 287 graduate students. Thirteen buildings
have been erected at a cost of nearly $2,000,000.
A summer quarter will be held, beginning July 1st.
There is one instructor for every six students.
Man wants but little here below,
Is a sentiment we love;
And judging by his conduct here
He won't have much above. — Campus.
Experiments at Yale show that in color discrim-
ination men surpass women; iu weight discrimina-
tion, vice versa ; in quickness of motor ability the
men surpass women, though the latter are stronger
in endurance.
At the University of Indiana class distinctions
have been abolished, and hereafter all students will
be known by the number of credits, thirty-six of
which will entitle him to a diploma.
" I should have been in Shakespeare's play,"
A Freshman said in Trig, one day,
" Like Hamlet, I am all at sea
Between '2b or not 2b.' " — Ex.
Joseph Jefferson has been invited by the Har-
vard union to deliver an address upon matters
concerning the stage, and will probably accept.
Of Harvard's twenty-three honor men this year
eleven are distinguished athletes.
A Land of Bliss.
A pair in a hammock
Attempted to kiss,
But in less than a jiffy
XROA1 renpop \i\z iqis. — Ex.
The Chicago Athletic Association is endeavor-
ing to arrange an athletic meet at Chicago in
June, similar to the Mott Haven games. Favorable
answers have been received from several colleges.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 4.— June 20, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 49
Dedication of Walker Art Building, 50
'95's Class Day :
Oration, 52
Poem 55
Presentations and Responses, 57
Ivy Hop, 64
'94 Senior Banquet 64
Collegii Tabula 65
Athletics 66
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'95 may well take pride in its success-
ful Ivy Day. The Orient presents in this
number the full text of the literary parts,
and a report of all the events of the day.
TITHE Walker Art Building is now the prop-
-*■ erty of the college. By the dedication
rites this magnificent gift has been formally
turned over to our use. It stands a fitting
monument to him whose generous heart first
formed the idea, and to those who have so
munificently fulfilled his desire. Somewhat
removed from the larger cities, heretofore
we have been deprived of the advantages
which this new building now affords us. We
had a fine collection, but no place where it
could be displayed or used for the purpose
of study. Now, in this beautiful and well
equipped building where everything appears
at its best, a new course of study is presented
to us, that of the beautiful and ideal. Every
student should take advantage of this
exceptional chance to become thoroughly
acquainted with the best in art, and fit him-
self to enjoy through life that broad field of
pleasure which so many pass unnoticed.
The Misses Walker in preparing this gift
have been unsparing of time and money ;
they have given us the best of everything,
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and in choosing have shown the faultlessness
of a highly cultivated taste. We cannot
estimate the value of the possession because
its store of wealth is almost unlimited for
those who are seeking superior advantages
for the highest education.
T17HIS issue comes one week late that it
*■ may contain the Ivy exercises. These
we report in full, also the dedicatory ser-
vices, excepting the oration of the day by
Hon. Martin Brimmer, which is to appear
later through the publishing house of Hough-
ton & Mifflin. In order to print all this
matter we are obliged to cut short some
of the regular departments, and leave out
entirely others.
EVERY Bowdoin man ought to feel proud
of our tennis record. During the three
years of intercollegiate tournaments we have
made exceptional showing. The first year
our team won first in doubles and second in
singles. Last year they secured every point
for us, shutting out entirely the other three
colleges. This time our Senior men made a
very brilliant record for the college, as if
determined to do their best, at their last
meet. As a result, the cup for the doubles
has become the property of the college, hav-
ing been won three years in succession, and
for the second time the name of Dana, '94,
is placed upon the large cup as champion of
the State in singles. Neither will our suc-
cess end with this year. Our other men did
some very exceptional work, and show great
possibilities of keeping up the glorious name
we have so far held. Tennis is growing
more into the popular favor each year, and
as our men are doing us such credit they
ought to be supported by every college man.
The University of Missouri has received from
the state legislature since February, 1891, by direct
appropriation and interest on its endowments,
$1,525,000.
Dedication of Walker Art Building.
TJ LARGE number of the friends and
/■*• alumni were present at the dedicatory
services of the Walker Art Building. All
the seats were taken at an early hour. The
students gathered together in the north ter-
race, and respectfully saluted the donors and
distinguished guests as they passed into the
building. The opening prayer was made by
Prof. Henry L. Chapman, D.D. Then Pres-
ident Hyde offered these congratulations:
In relation to art Bowdoin College has been
thrice fortunate.
First, the college was fortunate in that, although
a Puritan institution in the midst of a Puritan com-
munity, it had as its patron one in whose veius
flowed the fine artistic sense of France ; from whom
it received as his chief gift the paintings and draw-
ings in the Bowdoin Gallery.
Second, the college was fortunate that, in the
central period of its history, it was presided over by
one whose broad culture and refiued taste kept the
little college in living contact with the art and
letters of the world, and who left our twin-spired
chapel as his monument. In this building, by the
liberality of his kinsmau, Mr. Theophilus Wheeler
Walker, was provided a home for the art collection
in the Sophia Walker Gallery.
Again the college is fortunate in the generous
and intelligent devotion with which the nieces of
Mr. Walker have carried out the larger purpose
cherished in his later years, and have added to the
collection these works of art which adorn the room
in which we are assembled, and have given us as its
permanent home and crowning consummation this
beautiful building which we dedicate to-day.
On behalf of the donors, the Misses
Walker, Hon. William D. Northend made
the presentation address:
To the Gentlemen of the Boards of Trustees and of
Overseers of Boivdoin College :
I am appointed by Mary Sophia Walker and
Harriet Sarah Walker to deliver to you a title deed
of this building with its appurtenances, which they
have caused to be constructed in accordance with
the expressed intention of their uncle, Theophilus
Wheeler Walker, whose sudden death prevented
him from carrying it into execution ; to be held by
you and your successors in office forever, upon
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the trusts and subject to tbe limitations therein
declared.
I trust I shall not be deemed as transcending the
authority confided in me, by placing upon record a
brief memorial of him who inspired this gift. Is it
not a duty to perpetuate not only the works but the
names and virtues of great public benefactors, to
embalm their memories, not only as a grateful
tribute, but as furnishing incentives to others to
invest from their abundance in public institutions,
with which their names will be remembered through
all coming time?
Mr. Walker was born in Peabody, in the County
of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
which at the time of his birth was the South Parish
of Danvers, January 23, 1813, and died in Wal-
tham, April 15, 1890. His father, the Rev. Samuel
Walker, was born in Haverhill, June 27, 1779, and
was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1802.
He studied theology with the Rev. Jonathan French
of Andover and with the Rev. Samuel Spring, D.D.,
of Newburyport, and was ordained minister of the
Second Congregational Church in the parish of
South Danvers, August 14, 1805, and continued as
pastor of that church until his death, July 7, 1826.
The maiden name of his mother was Sophia Wheeler.
She was born in Worcester, June 20, 1782, and died
in South Danvers, October 8, 1831. She was sister
of the mother of our President Woods of revered
memory. She was the daughter of the Rev. Joseph
Wheeler of Worcester, who was graduated from
Harvard College in 1757. Mr. Walker's mother was
a woman of noble character and marked personal
attractions, and his love and respect for her and for
her memory was very great.
At an early age young Walker obtained employ-
ment as clerk in the hardware house of Charles
Brooks & Company, in Boston ; and when but
eighteen years of age he personally examined the
stock of a bankrupt firm in the same business, which
was offered for sale as a whole, at a stated price,
and was satisfied that the purchase of it would be
a very advantageous one. He purchased it, his
uncle and a friend of his father's having confidence
in him, becoming surety for the purchase money.
He started in the business with a younger brother,
Nathaniel, as clerk, who was afterwards his partner.
The stock was paid for within fifteen months; and
in a few years the firm, Walker & Brother, was
regarded as one of the strongest houses in the
business in Boston. He added to his work the
agency of the Essex Glue Company, and with that
company, in which he purchased one-half interest,
he built the Danvers Bleachery.
But not content with this, he decided to test his
fortune in navigation. He built a barque, named
the Sophia Walker. Her voyages were successful.
He built others, and at the commencement of the
war was owner or partial owner of several fine
clipper ships. In the meantime he turned his
attention to manufactures, and at the time of his
death was largely interested in the manufacture of
cottons and woolens in Massachusetts and Maine.
In the transaction of all these business affairs,
through so many years, he was the soul of honor.
No one ever accused him of wrong doing in his
dealings. He was endowed by nature with the
capacity and qualities necessary for success in large
business transactions. There was little that was
accidental in his success. Before entering upon any
untried business he studied and thoroughly informed
himself upon the subject, and at the beginning was
able to cope with those of long experience.
We honor the few who through extraordinary
natural endowments achieve distinction in the arts,
in literature and in science ; and why should we
neglect to honor those who, through as extraordi-
nary endowments by nature, have beeu enabled to
comprehend, almost intuitively, the correct princi-
ples upon which the great business affairs of the
world should be conducted, and by a strict observ-
ance of them in practice, have added largely to the
employments of mankind, and earned for themselves
princely fortunes.
In 1850, Mr. Walker contributed for the comple-
tion of the Bowdoin Chapel ; and the room in it
appropriated for works of art was designated the
Walker Gallery, " in commemoration of the name
and virtues of the departed mother of the donor."
This inspired in him a permanent interest in the
college, and upon information of the need of a safe
and suitable building for the protection and display
of its valuable art collections, he considered the
subject fully, and at the time of his death contem-
plated making the offer which has been since made
and carried into execution.
It is not for me, representing those who have so
loyally and lovingly performed this work, to give
expression to my emotions or to what, I know, are
the emotions of every son and friend of Bowdoin as
he gazes upon this magnificent "Temple of Art."
Owing to the absence of Judge Putnam,
who was called away by the sudden death of
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a relative, President Hyde accepted the
building for the college in the following
words :
In behalf of the Trustees and Overseers of Bow-
doin College and in accordance with their vote, I
have the honor to accept the Walker Art Building,
and to promise that it shall be used exclusively for
purposes of art. In doing so I wish to express at
the same time our gratitude for this beautiful build-
ing ; our recognition of the beautiful character of
him to whom its substantial structure and harmo-
nious proportions are the fitting monument; and
our appreciation of the beautiful fidelity which has
translated an unwritten wish of a revered uncle
into this immortal form.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and bealtb and quiet breathing.
"When old age shall this generation waste
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man to whom thou say'st,
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know."
Every right involves a corresponding obligation ;
every possession imposes a related responsibility.
In accepting this building the college accepts a
larger and more symmetrical conception of educa-
tion ; and iu dedicating it to purposes of art we
dedicate ourselves to a larger and more enlightened
service of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
A selection was then given by the College
Choir, followed by an address by the Hon.
Martin Brimmer. This oration is too long
to be reproduced here, and we are glad to
learn that it is soon to appear in printed
form. The pleasant exercises were closed
with the benediction by the Rev. Canon C.
Morton Sills, D.D.
§§'§ Ivy ©ay.
FRIDAY, June 15th, was observed as Ivy
Day, aud it was in all respects one of
the pleasantest and most successful for years.
The weather was perfect, the campus was
never more beautiful, crowds were present
from away, the morning class race at the river
was exciting, the afternoon exercises were of
an unusually high order, and the Ivy Hop
was the social event of the season. The
Class of '95 may well be proud of its Ivy
Day. Upper Memorial was filled to over-
flowing at 3 p.m., when the literary exercises
began. The Juniors, in cap and gown, led
by Marshal French, marched well. The
Salem Cadet Band furnished its usual inspir-
ing music. The following programme, occu-
pying about two hours, was then carried out.
The parts, without exception, were well
delivered and won many compliments.
MUSIC.
Prayer. E. R. Woodbury, Castiue.
MUSIC.
Oration. G. B. Mayo, Smethport, Penn.
MUSIC
Poem. A. L. Churchill, Houlton.
MUSIC
Address by President. J. B. Roberts, Buffalo, N. Y.
Presentations by President:
Handsome Man, Mirror.
Class Schemer, Globe.
Best Moustache, . . . Moustache Cup.
Class Dig, . . . Spade (ace of spades).
Puny Man Indian-Clubs.
Popular Man, .... Wooden Spoon.
IVY-DAY ORATION.
"IN HOC SIGNO VINCES."
By G. B. Mayo.
Mr. President, Classmates, Ladies and Gentlemen :
A good title is half the book, and sometimes more
than half. The words I have chosen and the his-
toric events connected with them will doubtless
arouse in the minds of my hearers thoughts which
will constitute a better oration than will be uttered.
You remember that Constantine the Great, as he
stood iu the door of his tent just before the battle of
the Milvian Bridge, saw in the heavens a flaming
cross with this inscription : "In Hoc Signo Vinces,"
the cross and its message outshining the noonday
sun. Just what train of thoughts this started in the
mind of the conqueror will never be known ; but
when explained to him in a dream, we are assured
that it caused his conversion. "In this sign thou
shalt conquer" was the promise which came to him,
and who can say whether from his own fancy, or
from a Higher Power ? It is certain that after this
battle, which made him ruler of the Western Empire,
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he gave absolute freedom of worship to all, influenced
probably by the knowledge that many of his sub-
jects as well as many of his soldiers were Christians
at heart. Instead of the Roman eagles that had
been borne by victorious legions for so many centu-
ries, he caused to be substituted as the standard of
his army a new banner, the Christian Cross. Under
this banner, he overcame all his rivals, and in 323
A.D. conquered Lucinnias at Adrianople, thus
uniting under himself as emperor the East and the
West.
The army of Constantiue was no exception to
the rule. All armies must have a banner borne aloft
to symbolize the objects and purposes of the contest;
to keep these objects and purposes before its sol-
diers; and to become a rallying point in times of
great emergency. As armies al way s have a banner,
so individuals, if they are to be of any account in
the world, must have a purpose in view, an ideal to
strive for. Each must lift up the sign of his life,
and in the daily routine of every man, we read with
unfailing truth the characteristics inscribed upon
the banner borne aloft in his mind as the ideal
guide of his actions.
Good character is the banner that each individual
should carry, and youth is the time to raise it aloft.
Let us consider briefly some of the symbols to be
inscribed thereon in order that we may expect for
ourselves the fulfillment of that promise, " In this
sign thou shalt conquer. "
There is no other quality of the human being
that excites just admiration so soon as courage. We
are accustomed to regard as courageous the soldier
who does not quail before the enemy, who heeds not
the missiles of death falling thickly about him.
Perhaps he is the first to seize the flag upon the
enemy's redoubt ; perhaps he guards the rear in a
necessary retreat. Such a man is indeed worthy
of admiration. More worthy, however, is the soldier
who feels that his cause is lost and yet does not
betray his fear to his comrades, but struggles on in
the courage of desperation. Of this type was Fred-
erick the Great of Prussia, and success ultimately
crowned his efforts. Such was Washington, with
reverses on almost every side, deserted and even
betrayed by his most trusted generals, yet in the
righteousness of his cause, he did not give up. No
one looking into that calm, determined face could
discover the feelings working within. Courage was
there and our country is the result. More worthy
still is he who, when no danger is at hand, rightly
chooses between two courses, the one offering per-
haps some temporary advantage to self, but never-
theless wrong; the other with no apparent personal
gain, and often bringing unjust condemnation, but
right. Courage to stand by our own convictions
is what we need ; courage to acknowledge a mistake
and to accept the right; courage to act in sincerity
and truth.
The study of the earth itself teaches a lesson of
patience. The world was not made in a day.
Everything in nature shows that its Creator allowed
time for the forces which He brought into being to
do their work well. What ages have passed, what
changes have occurred in the transformation of a
sphere of meteoric matter into the present beautiful
home of man! That which grows rapidly soon
withers ; that which takes time to reach its perfec-
tion endures for a corresponding period. One short
season sees the blades of grass grow to maturity and
die ; but the lofty pine takes its years to grow, and
stands a century in its strength. This principle also
holds good in the results of human endeavors. A
fortune won in a day is rarely kept; that acquired
by years of patient labor aud study, gets from the
winner's hand the property of endurance. Notwith-
standing these lessons of patience, we Americans
are always in a hurry. The spirit of rush seems to
be innate. The little boy longs for his first panta-
loons; he wishes for the time to hasten when he
shall be a man. The youth longs for success and
honors without devoting to their attainment the
years of patient and necessary toil. "Work and
wait" is the lesson of the creation; and in life it
should be obeyed.
Closely connected with patience are perseverance
and endurance. " Hammers and anvils" they have
been truly called, aud two very necessary qualities
of the successful man. No matter what sphere of
life we enter, these are of the greatest value.
" When you are an anvil, bear ; when you are a ham-
mer, strike." Martiu Luther, the figure-head of the
Reformation, was an excellent example of these two
forces. In his attack against the church abuses of
his day, he had to endure blows of no mean force,
but he dealt blows that have not yet ceased to echo.
In this age there may be no great need of religious
reform, but there is great need of reform in politics
and in affairs of state. Those who advocate munici-
pal reform to-day meet with strenuous opposition.
Even the fatal bullet has lately been employed
against those who believe in an honest use of the
ballot; and that, too, in the enlightened state of
New York.
Perseverance and endurance, the "hammer"
and the " anvil," will triumph in the end. Most
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good things for the human family have been shaped
between these two ; and the process will go on to
the end. The " anvil " won at Waterloo ; and there
are those here to-day who remember that in a
nobler cause it won at Gettysburg. But it is not
always direet opposition which the leader has to
encounter. Many a leader, many a reformer, gives
up in despair because he has not the sympathy and
support of those whom he would benefit. It is in
such positions that we see the true value of perse-
verance and endurance. A patient, persistent man
is an honor to the world. Time alone can set the
bounds to his influence. If his efforts be guided by
virtue and intelligence, his greatest success and
grandest victory may come long after his mortal
body has mouldered back to dust.
Patriotism is another of the qualities we should
seek to cultivate. This country of ours is a worthy
master. We should acquire that love of ber institu-
tions which places national above personal welfare ;
which is eager to exalt her virtues and to mend
her faults. It was this noble sentiment that called
the honored Roman from his plow in time of public
peril ; but it was loyalty to this same noble sentiment
which caused him to refuse the proffered purple,
and go back to his plow when the danger was
passed. It was the patriotism of Savonarola that
saved Florence ; and his loyalty caused him to offer
himself a martyr to her cause. Loyalty to country
is indeed a grand thing. We want iu addition,
loyalty to truth and honor; to justice and equity;
to interests of the poor as well as of the rich.
But virtue without intelligence is, like zeal with-
out knowledge, liable to be misdirected and wasted
in blunders (and blunders are said to be worse than
crimes) . " Education and that the highest attain-
able for all " must be upon our banner. The sums
invested in the public schools are never spent iu
vain. "The school-tax is the best tax"; and the
dollar given toward educating the street arabs of
our American cities is better used than if sent to
the savage in the wilds of Africa. Garfield charac-
terized the strength of our country in saying: " The
Republic is Opportunity." He did not mean that
every poor boy can become a President or a million-
aire. He meant that our national institutions
offer to every one the chance to reach the highest
degree of excellence iu things to which he is best
adapted. But when we speak of education, let us
realize its true meaning. Education is more than
learning. Learning may consist in a head filled
with authors read, or problems demonstrated, while
education consists in a mind well stored with learn-
ing, and besides this, trained to think. Learning
may be admired and reverenced, but " Thought
moves the world." Not only does success for self
depend upon education, but also the success of gov-
ernments. The advancement of learning and inde-
pendent thought during the reign of Elizabeth
brought to a speedy end the royal prerogative and
the tyranny of the Stuarts. Our own government
was established by educated men. It has been kept
intact by men of profound reason and judgment;
and its continuity depends upon men of this same
stamp, and not upon demagogues and party bosses.
It has been said that the secret of success lies in
the power to rise again after defeat. I should rather
say that it lies in the character which controls that
power. Recall to your minds the names of those
who have become prominent in the world's history
— soldiers, statesmen, and those who have labored
iu other walks of life. You will find that, as a rule,
they had the traits of character which I have men-
tioned. Upon the banner of Constantiue is written
every virtue necessary for success, and also that
divine command to "Get wisdom, and with all thy
getting, get understanding." Under the Christian
cross many triumphs which shall endure forever
have been won. Surely we can do nothing better
than adopt this banner as the controlling element
of our lives.
Our Alma Slater will soon complete the cycle of
a hundred years. A century ago, upon the joint
petition of the Association of Ministers and the
Court of Sessions of Cumberland County, exponents
of Christianity and justice, she began her corporate
life. Her avowed purpose was then and has been
ever since to disseminate abroad in the land a
higher education, imbued with the principles of
justice and the Christian religion. This is indeed
the banner of Constantine ; aud our college has
held it aloft for a century of successful warfare
against ignorance and vice. She has no distinct
motto. Could she not justly adopt the motto, " In
Hoc Signo Vinces " in the beginning of this new
century which opens so auspiciously ? What con-
tests has she undertaken, what victories has she
won that she merits such a choice ! No other col-
lege in the land hath greater names on her roll. In
every field of the world's work, in science and liter-
ature, in the professions, in the forum and on the
bench, her sons stand first among the foremost.
This hall in which we are assembled this afternoon
will perpetuate the memory of her brave soldiers.
The portraits on these walls, the names inscribed
upon these tablets, constitute a record that cannot
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be excelled, and of which every Bowdoin student
may well be proud.
Classmates, we whose fortune it is to be the first
graduates of the new century, have a duty to per-
form in upholding her good name. Let us well
consider the value of our college life. We owe her
more than we can over repay. A few years within
these halls have given to us friendships and associa-
tions which shall remain fresh in memory " Till
the silver cord he loosed and the golden howl he
broken." Under her fostering care we have formed
those traits of character of which we shall never be
ashamed, and guided by which, we can do our duty
in the world. We plant our ivy to-day. May it
grow and flourish year by year. May it climb
without apparent change in leaf, and without flower
or fruit, till the topmost height be reached, when
the stem will bend, the leaf change and the flowers
appear. So may the reputation of this class be
ever upward, twining about our Alma Slater a man-
tle of beauty, till the crowning height be attained,
then to burst into bloom and add another flower
to the chaplet of her glory.
IVY-DAY POEM.
By A. L. Churchill.
Set down in some old chronicle of yore
There is a legend of a Turkish king,
Of mighty Haroun's line, who ruled in Bagdad,
Whose great fame for worthy deeds so spread
And was magnified throughout all lands,
That all the potent rulers of the earth
Sent gifts of price and samples of their wares,
To show to whom respect and love were due.
But now, low bent beneath a load of years,
The deeply longed-for peace and quietness
In which to pass his few remaining days.
In contemplating Allah's gracious love
To those who faithfully perform his will.
The aged Caliph had three goodly sons,
So like in manly virtue and in strength,
That even with deep thought and stress of soul
He could not choose his heir among the three ;
But deeply pondering in his inmost thoughts
Which would be fittest to preserve his rule,
Would now name one as best in all respects,
And then another, and again the third.
So he, perplexed, unable to decide,
At last took thought of Hassan, his faithful Vizier,
His "good right hand," as he was wont to call him.
To him did he unfold his weighty doubts,
And asked for counsel, which he knew would come.
Good Hassan bowed himself and kissed the earth,
And thus made answer : " Commander of the Faithful,
I too, like thee, have pondered deep and long
To settle this perplexing thing aright,
And, lo, I have devised a subtle plan,
By which the worthiest ruler may be shown.
Send now thy sons to divers foreign lands,
And there commission each to do some deed
Of whatsoever kind he deemeth best.
When two long years have dragged themselves
around,
Adjudge by whom the noblest deed was done ;
And make bim ruler of thy vast domain.
For he, by Allah, will be worthiest king."
This counsel pleased, and straightway sending forth,
The Caliph called him his royal sons,
And thus with love addressed them : " Sous, go forth
To whatsoever lands ye will, with speed,
And there perform what ye account a deed
Worthy of one who rules this mighty land.
When two short years have sped, ye shall return;
And he whose tasks I shall adjudge the best
Shall have my sceptre and crown to bear ;
For I am weary with the weight of years."
Then, bowing to the earth, the princely three
To this decree gave their assent with joy.
And on the morrow, decked with such array
As well befits the prince of royal strain,
Each set upon his solitary way,
To do with strength what Allah might command.
For two long years they labored at their tasks,
Each doing well what thing he thought was best.
And now behold the moment fully sped
When they shall come again before their sire,
And be adjudged who wrought the noblest work.
With pride and fear commingled, yet with joy,
The aged Caliph bore himself erect,
And thus addressed them : " Sons, obedient, here
I see ye come like men of royal blood
To hear the judgment that I have pronounced
Upon the several tasks that you have done.
By old decree I shall renounce this crown,
Grown heavy with its weight of care and years,
To him who has performed the noblest task."
Then at his sire's command, with royal mien,
The first born, as fair as ever wore a crown,
Come forth, and with obeisance low and meek,
Prostrates himself before his father's feet.
"Most royal noble and benignant sire,
I bring thee here as token of my love
The trophies of a hundred victories,
Wrought in thy name, and for thy glory won.
This was the noblest task that I could do —
To spread abroad thy fearful name afar."
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" Well done, my first-born son," the Caliph cried.
Thou hast wrought well to win my crown and love."
The second now drew near with princely step,
And thus with confidence addressed the king :
" Sire, and king, I bring thee here with love
What heavy labor, wrought through two long years,
Has now accomplished what I thought was best.
The riches of a thousand petty kings,
With gems and jewels, costly beyond price,
All these I lay most gladly at thy feet,
Thinking I best obeyed thy royal will
If I should make thee richer twenty times
Than all the other rulers of the earth!"
" Well done," the Caliph cried, "thou hast wrought
well,
For gold is strong when arms and armies fail."
And now the youngest came with downcast eyes,
And empty-handed to his father's throne ;
His countenance bore trace of bitter tears,
And dark despair, and anguish unexpressed.
He could not meet his father's loving eyes,
Now bent with fear upon his youthful face,
For he was best beloved of all the three,
His father's hope, the jewel of his pride.
" Father," he said," behold in me a son
Unworthy of thy dear esteem and love ;
Unworthy evermore to speak thy name ;
Unworthy ere to look upon thy face ;
Unworthy, too, to call himself thy son.
I bring no trophies here of mighty deeds,
I bring no gems of uutold price or gold,
I bring alone my most unworthy self
To hear thy just reproof and kingly scorn.
Now hear my wretched tale. As I went forth
To seek some mighty task of strength and love
By which I might, with Allah's gracious aid,
Acquit myself as well becomes thy son,
I wandered in thy royal city here
To parts wherein I never yet had gazed.
I there beheld such scenes of woe and pain,
Such wretchedness, and grief and dark despair,
Such poverty, and want, and deep distress,
As well might melt a heart of very steel.
Forgetful of my princely rank and blood,
Forgetful of my mission and my vow,
I turned aside, and labored with my hands
To help the fallen, succor the distressed.
For two short years I wrought with toil and pain
With such success that wretched far and near.
Throughout that fearful hell of pain and woe,
Rose up and called me blessed, and their saviour.
But now, with bitter grief and pain, I thought
Of thy commands, still unfulfilled, forgot,
And hastened here to ask for thy reproof;
For thy forgiveness now I could not hope.
Call me no more thy son, and let me go
Back to the wretched whom I learned to love.
There best I can fulfill my heart's desire,
There best I can escape thy royal scorn."
He ended, and with streaming eyes, and face
Illumined with a heavenly light of pride,
And joy, and love, the Caliph quick uprose
And clasped his humble offspring to his heart,
And, choked with tears and sobs of joy, cried out,
"My youngest son, the jewel of my pride,
My staff, my hope, the succor of my years,
Thou shalt be king, the worthiest of the three ! "
The lesson of this simple tale is plain,
As old as life itself, yet always new.
True service is the noblest end of man ;
By that alone can he fulfill that life
Which God has granted him, a sacred trust.
Another lesson, not less old or true,
Is hidden in the ancient legend here :
He best serves God who serves his fellow-man,
And, likewise, he who serves himself the least,
Does truest service to his fellow-man.
But let us turn from story centuries old,
From lesson drawn from parable and tale,
To those our own eyes read, and which we see
Engraved in living letters all around.
A hundred years ago where we now stand,
Eucompassed round by all that wealth can give,
And care can cherish, and fond love bestow,
The soughing pines held undisturbed domain.
They kept the secret close of future years,
And in their whispered sighs and mournful plaints
Spoke only of the present and the past.
But there were those, and there are always some,
Who, thinking less of self, and more of those
Who were their neighbors in the deepest sense,
Sowed seeds of service for their fellow-men.
Enriched by tender nurture and by tears,
By noble deeds of sacrifice and faith,
These seeds took root, put forlh their tender shoots,
Grew strong, and in the harvest time bore fruit —
This fruit we see around us here to-day.
Theirs was the toil to foster and enrich the
Planted seeds, the tender shoots and leaves ;
Our labor is the harvest, the ripe fruit.
What tender memories have they left to us
Who long ago toiled here and joyed and prayed !
What inspirations have their labors left,
Inciting us to ever greater tasks.
The gentle singer, whose life was gentler than
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His song and more serene. He ever urged
Us forward, on, and up with steadfast tread.
The sweet magician of a peerless pen,
Whose lofty thoughts were ever pure and true —
These, too, are greatest in the world's esteem ;
But not less great, nor less the honor theirs
Who silently have toiled and wrought and prayed
To bear the toil and heal the wounds of earth.
The humble thousands, the key-note of whose lives
Has been the service of their fellow-men,
These, too, are great, and on that awful day
When all shall be rewarded for their deeds,
The good with good, the evil with their like,
These humble ones shall stand abreast of those
Who won the plaudits of a grateful world.
So tender are the memories of the past,
To us now living in these later years,
That, like a precious gem or jewel rare,
We hold them locked in some secure retreat
Within the sacred chambers of our hearts.
But memories, tho' sweet, will not avail
For arms and armor in the strife of life,
Our struggle is the present, not the past.
Let those who went before point out the way,
With humble footsteps we can follow on,
And faithfully perform what they have left,
Or what they were not able then to do.
Such opportunity for laboring well
As we now have, and take with little thought,
They never had ; but spite of all they strove
And wrought their work with care and manly zeal.
How much should we, then, do who have these gifts,
These means for working well and searching deep!
What we now see around all glorified
By memories of those who went before,
Perhaps in their fond hearts was but a dream
Of what might be if all should happen well.
And all indeed has happened well at last.
No more the painful striving for the least
That went to build and beautify the place ;
No more the haunting fear that all might fail,
And all the care and labor be in vain.
With proud and thankful hearts we look around,
And see accomplished what they hoped might be.
So we look forward with prophetic eyes
To what another hundred years may bring ;
Yet not to prophesy, for that were vain.
Enough for us to glory in the past,
To labor in the present, and to hope
That for the future all will be as well
As is and has been in the past and now.
Enough for us to keep as loyal hearts
For her whose fostering care we have enjoyed
As she is loyal to her humblest sons,
As true to her as she is true to us.
Our Alma Mater now so strong and great,
We honor thee as well becomes thy sons.
Come up from childhood into sturdy youth,
To stalwart manhood and to strong old age.
We see grown, through human doubts and fears,
Triumphant in a glorious Hundred Years !
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT, JOSEPH B.
ROBERTS.
The cycle of a year has passed around and once
more a Junior class comes to the front. Like our
predecessors we are here to emphasize to every one
that never before has such a brilliant lot of ambitious
young men assembled on a public platform.
To-day, we play the part of hosts, and cordially
receive our guests who have thus graciously come
from far and near to attend our Ivy Exercises.
It is my proud privilege to welcome you to old
Bowdoin, nay, rather to new Bowdoin. I welcome
you to old BowdoiD, from whose historic campus, a
mighty legion of men have gone before, — from
whose deeds we all have worthy examples to follow.
I bid you enter the new Bowdoin over which an
era of prosperity is but beginning to dawn and a
new growth of whispering pines is even now spring-
ing up to inspire future bards and render this loved
campus aud ivy-covered buildings still dearer to us.
In nature, all beginnings are small. A seed is
planted. Long after, a mammoth tree has sprung
up out of that tiny speck.
Our own career as a class has been like that of
the tree. We did not burst out upon the world as
Athene did from the head of Zeus, full-armed, but
rather our growth into manhood has been brought
about slowly and gradually, till now we can almost
pause and picture ourselves standing hesitating
upon the brink before taking our final leap into
humanity's busy and ever-changing stream.
Fickle fortune smiled approvingly on old Bow-
doin when '95 was dropped iuto her lap. Our
entrance here has marked the beginning of a new
and bright epoch. It is our good fortune to open a
new century, while our predecessor, '94, brings the
old to a glorious close.
It is true that we are the first class to step into
the new century of Bowdoin's history, yet linked
closely with that fact is the more important one
that we are constantly striving to make ourselves
worthy of so great an honor. The successful open-
ing of our Alma Mater's second century devolves
upon us.
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Our class is far from being egotistical or boast-
ful, but it is without question the all-round class of
the college. Modest at first, as all those who are
Freshmen should be, we daily gained confidence
and early became aware of our strength and the
mighty influence we were to exert on all those who
have been so fortunate as to be associated with us.
As I said before, we were modest and only claimed
those athletic victories which properly belonged to
an incoming class.
Base-ball we cast aside as being an old-fogy
game and turned our energies to that more noble
and modern pastime, foot-ball. As Freshmen, with
an inexperienced team, we were never beaten by
our deadly rivals, the Sophomores, and a year
later we inflicted the most crushing defeat that
ever fell to the lot of a class. Victory after victory
followed in our wake until the tale became fairly
wearisome to us. It was the brawn and sinew of
'95 which made our 'varsity eleven almost invincible.
In track athletics, too, the supremacy has twice
fallen to us, and if it had not been for '95, Bowdoin
would never have scored a first in the intercollegiate
games at Worcester.
So step by step, we have slowly but surely
forged ahead, till Junior year finds us in undisputed
possession of the top round of the ladder. A glance
backward shows much of which we are proud.
Prizes innumerable are our trophies.
The many reforms which this college has made
in the last three years have been, in most cases,
proposed and carried out by us. The class has
ever been imbued with the spirit of progress and
unity.
Classmates, our work here is nearly done. We
shall soon pass away — an example for those behind
us to follow, and we can only hope that they will
succeed as well as we have done.
Finally, when our life's career is run and the
trumpet on high shall sound, there shall we be
found, cheering for Bowdoin and the class of '95.
To pick out the handsomest man in a class of so
many striking beauties, if one can apply such a
phrase to men, is indeed a difficult undertaking, and
very likely the choice made on this occasion will
create as much discord as did that famous decision
which Paris made in favor of Venus long ages ago.
To speak frankly, we are all handsome, as a
glance at us will show, and if one is to play the
part of Paris in a class like ours, his task is indeed
an onerous one.
But a choice has to be made, and the apple has
fallen to one whom I am sure you will all think is
at least not undeserving of it.
Philosophers tell us that those of pleasing ap-
pearance study rather for external behavior than for
inward grace, but '95 can waive aside long accepted
theories and proclaim far and wide that in her
ranks can be found one who is an exception to the
philosophic teaching.
Our Adonis is both comely and of a high and
noble nature. The fact that he is inwardly devel-
oped as much as he is outwardly has tended to bring
him into especial prominence.
Mr. Quimby, fate has picked you out as the
handsome man of '95, and I rejoice that mine is the
good fortune to be able to give you this costly
mirror. May there never be anything less noble than
your own countenance reflected upon it, and in its
resplendent rays may you ever bask, contented
with your own self-esteem.
RESPONSE OF HANDSOME MAN.
By Allen Quimby.
It would be the nature of some men to be over-
whelmed with the honor which you now bestow
upon me. But I realize that it is so fully deserved
by me that it does not at all disturb my composure.
I have long felt myself to be an extremely hand-
some man, and I was sure that if justice should
be done, this proud honor of being the handsomest
man in the class would fall to me. I have had for
some time a good deal of respect for the judgment
of this class, but since it has awarded me this
most fitting and well-merited honor, I am convinced
that its judgment, agreeing entirely with my own,
is the very best of any class in this or any other
college.
I have felt the throbbing impulses of greatness
in my heart even from the earliest days of my child-
hood. I have known that I was born to accomplish
great things. But I have so many talents and so
many natural gifts that it has been very difficult
for me to determine what sphere of life I should
brighten. As a child, fond parents, brothers and
sisters, uncles and aunts considered me the most
beautiful child in the world. How well, classmates,
to-day your own good judgment agrees with theirs,
and also with the judgment of history! Aristotle
affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters
of recommendation in the world. Domitian said,
"nothing was more grateful"; Homer, "that 'twas
a glorious gift of nature." The ancients always
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regarded beauty and greatness as inseparable.
Augustus Caesar, Titus Vespasianus, aud Aleibiades
of Athens were all high and great spirits, and yet
the most beautiful men of their times. To-day I am
the most beautiful man, therefore I must be a great
man ! Aud I feel profoundly grateful to you as a
class in thus early calling me to a life of fame.
But it would be base presumption on my part to
think I was aloue in this contest of beauty. Harvey
Thayer was one of my severest rivals for this proud
honor, but his complexion was bleached by burning
the midnight oil, and he was thus readily out-
shown by the ruddy glow of ray cheeks. Dewey's
dazzling beauty pressed me hard for the first place,
but his vast and cloud-reaching conceit, compared
with my unassuming modesty, was like unto a thun-
der cloud in the blue heavens. John Greenleaf
Whittier Knowlton, my third and last rival, had the
misfortune to have a color of hair more popular on
the planet Mars than in this artistic circle of the earth.
However, as I was chosen to act as judge of the
four, I felt that a question of such importance could
not be settled without the most weighty precedents,
and traveling back some years ago I found an exact
precedence for this important case. In revised
statutes of the Greek Commonwealth, Book II,
page 149, line 16 of the Iliad, I find the story of
how the beautiful Paris, the son of. Priam, was
chosen to act as judge in the contest of beauty
between the three goddesses, and how he awarded
the golden apple to Aphrodite because she promised
him the most beautiful woman in the world.
Thayer promised me that I should receive a com-
mencement part and become a wise philosopher if
I would award him the honor. Knowlton said I
should have the swiftness of Mercury and be able to
win the two-mile race from Soule. Dewey, hardest
to resist, offered me ease and grace and vocal accom-
plishments. But I, unlike the handsome Paris,
spurned the bribes offered to me by the disputants,
and decided according to the usual judicial pro-
cedure,to deal perfectlyjust with the contestants and
take the honorentirely to myself.
But I am still undecided as to in just what way I
will confer my distinguished gifts upon mankind.
Whether I shall give myself up to perfecting a lan-
guage between man and lower animals so that the
next Junior class taking Biology may better under-
stand the anatomy of vertebrates by holding a
personal conversation with the Bufo-Sentiginosus ;
or to building an air-ship with which we may estab-
lish communication between the earth and the
heavenly bodies.
It seems now that the best scheme would be for
us to go to Africa and strive to make a little
beautiful history all of our own. Of course we
could not make the history so beautiful and attract-
ive as our beloved and most highly esteemed pro-
fessor has the history of Europe, and of American
Politics, unless we cau induce him to go with us.
This we can do if we will give him a promise true
not to "wood "and that we will dress in native
costume and surely go naked as to our feet.
But I feel that this class, which is by all odds the
mast handsome class in the college, supporting my
own special beauty, might do much to elevate the
pigmies of Africa by allowing them to gaze upon
our beauty. Since receiving this mirror it seems
all the more likely that this should be my mission,
and I would suggest to the very sound aud impar-
tial judgment of this class a joint expedition to
Zululand. We will teach the Zululanders to gaze
in this mirror and to see their own homeliness and
lack of beauty, and then to look upon our own
noble and handsome forms aud faces, aud perad-
venture they shall become as one of us.
The President :
What would the world come to if it were not for
the busy man?
The indolent lay back at their ease and take
events as they come, caring not which way the chaff
may be blown before the wind. But a schemer
with the busy bee of ambition and progress buzz-
ing in his brain, heeds not the tempting voice of
the charmer and is for all time planning some-
thing either good or else diabolical.
Now our schemer has been planning something
and racking his brains day and night. Long have
been the midnight vigils which he has kept, but at
last a gleam of triumph can be seen in his eye.
We look again. Surely his eye betokens that
he has found that talismanic jewel, success.
Once more we gaze at this prodigy, our class
schemer, and his lips seem to move, but the only
words I can catch are, " Bugle Assessment." Ah —
now the secret is out and you all know to whom I
am referring.
Mr. Walter Scott Abbott Kimball, one could tell
by your name that you were destined to be greater
than a literary genius, and certainly your deeds on
the Bugle have made you world-renowned. I give
this globe to you as a reminder of worlds still uncon-
quered, and hope that you may aspire to things yet
loftier.
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RESPONSE OF CLASS SCHEMER.
Bt¥. S. A. Kimball.
Mr. President and Classmates :
It is said that Marc Antony once offered Julius
Csesar the imperial crown, which Csesar refused,
though it was the ambition of his life. Well, I'm sorry
for Julius ! It must have been hard for him to give
up his most cherished hope at the very moment of
success. I can actually imagine his disappointment
as he majestically waved back the crown before that
vast audience ; for am I not placed in a similar posi-
tion ? My efforts for the last three years are successful.
I am offered the symbol and title of Class Schemer
for which I have struggled so long, and which
I gratefully accept. Yes, classmates, I will not use
the time-worn phrase, and say that this is the greatest
surprise of my life. Quite otherwise. I have had
this moment in mind ever since I first arrived on the
campus, the proverbial Freshman. For what title
can be more desirous than that of Chief Schemer in
a class composed entirely, as Professor Lawton said,
of " natural leaders" ?
One of the greatest satisfactions, after a success
like mine, is to look back and review the course
which led to it. From my lofty pinnacle, the path
appears to stretch away in a long line of steps, each
of which signifies a scheme successfully accomplished.
Here and there, however, I can see a projecting stair
which shows a longer stride than usual, and which
hurried me onward to the goal. Well do I remember
my first scheme of importance, the very first during
Freshman year. I had been singing "Phi Chi"
with several classmates, when suddenly we were
troubled with the presence of many intruding upper-
classmen. It took me but a moment to get rid of our
unwelcome visitors. We all promptly retired within
two minutes, and our troublesome visitors dispersed.
Astronomy tells us that this seemingly big earth
of ours is in reality but a very small affair. Undoubt-
edly astronomy is right. For look here! See how
ridiculously small the whole globe appears in my
hand. I turn it over to look at China. I sweep my
eyes through Asia. Africa is taken in with one com-
prehensive glance. Australia is completely under
my thumb ! I can easily turn the United States
topsy-turvy in a moment. Ah, truly, mind is triumph-
ant over matter.
Crafty, scheming, inventing men always stand
out prominent in the age in which they live. Take,
for example, old Ulysses. Classmates, during your
course in reading Homer, you have always admired
the crafty Ulysses, and rightly too. He alone of that
vast army of men could "translate Troy into Greek,"
and he did it in a manner which has served you as a
precedent on many occasions. Classmates, even the
wise Ulysses, when in difficulty, used a horse. Mr.
President, with this little globe you raise me to a
height to which few can ever climb. Many are they
who are said to "want the earth," but failure is
generally the end of these wishes. Only the greatest
of schemers can ever hope to increase their share of
it. Napoleon was a shrewd schemer, and at one
time he could upheave all Europe. Alexander the
Great was a still greater schemer, and he succeeded
in bringing under his hand nearly all the known
world. But with this present, classmates, you raise
me even above their level, for actually I can say
with Monte Crista, "The World is Mine!"
The President:
The custom of giving a moustache cup to the
man with the best moustache is an old oue. For
the last two years uo such presentation has been
made, for lack of a suitable person to bestow the
honor on, but this year the conditious have been
so exceedingly favorable that I could not do other-
wise than repeat it once more.
Not many moons ago, some of my observing class-
mates noticed perturbations of an unusual order
arising on the upper lip of one of our number.
Many were the exclamations forthwith. Proud was
the discoverer and great was his exultation over the
remarkable find.
From that time on, all of us have been watching
with jealous pride its growth, as it blossomed fairer
and larger day by day.
At last, however, that moustache has assumed
proportions so truly gigantic that it can no longer
be ignored and must hereafter receive due consid-
eration, especially from those who turn up their
noses at the efforts of a well-meaning youth who
is cultivating assiduously what every young man
desires above all other things.
Mr. Crawford, allow me to present you with this
cup, and may it be serviceable to you on more than
oue occasion.
The days you experienced of doubt and uncer-
tainty are past. No longer are you in need of a
hair invigorater. I wish you all joy with this mous-
tache cup and trust that it will remind you often
of the proudest moment in your life.
RESPONSE OF MAN WITH BEST MOUS-
TACHE.
By J. W. Crawford.
Mr. President and Fellow-Classmates:
I extend to you my heartfelt thanks for this
little gift, which in itself means so much.
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I feel highly honored that after so many years
of oblivion this presentation has been revived to fit
my case.
I have watched with much trepidation the birth,
growth, and, in most cases, timely death of attempts
at coercion, and have watched with jealous eye
attempts which have proved successful to a certain
degree, yet the promising crop of down on my
upper lip kept me from being down iu the mouth.
While mine may be said to be a hair-breadth victory
yet it cannot be called a close shave. Like all
seekers after a class cup I have trained hard, who
shall say not as hard, in a way, as the victorious
crew of this morning? Yet the contest has been
to a certain degree a handicap. Great was my
chagrin when I felt that an auburn color had come
to stay; in other words that it was here (hair).
I vainly hoped that it might fade, run, not stand
washing, but I found it fast. In desperation I even
thought of dyeiug, but found that I lacked the
courage. To add to my misery hints were thrown
out by many of my less favored classmates to the
effect that this color had never won the prize, in
other words had failed to score a point, in fact had
always proved a hoodo rather than a mascot to its
wearer. I diligently searched the records and found
this, alas, to be only too true.
But now all this is past. The prize is won.
Classmates, again I thank you for this cup. It shall
be retained by me as the worthy reward of a worthy
object, and shall be handed down to my posterity
as a hairloom for all coming time.
The President :
The term class dig is a misnomer. Literally
speaking, a dig is one who plods from day to day
with a spade in his hand accumulating wealth by
the sweat of his brow.
What we mean by a class dig, however, does not
belong to that type. When one starts on a four
years' collegiate course, agricultural tools are neces-
sarily laid aside and instead those of another order
are taken up.
'95 is proud of the fact that it has one bright
specimen in its ranks and one who far surpasses
the rest of us in all walks of our college life. If we
were all stars of the first magnitude, there would
be but little spice in this world, but as we are not,
so can we learn from those who are wiser and
stronger than ourselves.
Mr. Smith, you alone of all the sons of '95 have
shown yourself worthy of being called the class dig.
Tour deeds in athletics alone, without mentioning
your many other successes, have made you famous
far beyond Bowdoin's walls. Therefore, in behalf
of my classmates, I am pleased to present this
spade to you.
RESPONSE OF CLASS DIG.
By Peklet D. Smith.
Mr. President and Fellow-Classmates :
This is the happiest moment of my life. For
three long weary years I have plodded and strug-
gled onward, supported only by the faint gleam of
hope shining with intermittent light before niejike
that of the will-o'-the-wisp, that some day, in the
far future, the reward of my faithful hard work
might meet me and soothe me after my herculean
labors.
As the old soldier, the veteran of a hundred
hard-fought campaigns, loves to recount his experi-
ences after the war is done and he has received the
reward of his honorable scars, so would I enjoy
inflicting upon you my hair-raising tale, a tale that
would curdle the very blood in your veins. I could
tell you how I have sat with my books before me as
the clock struck midnight, wondering is it a dead
or a ten-strike which will fall to my lot in
to-morrow's recitation, for I have always held it a
sacred tenet of my faith that one must plug for
rank, and that a man should be judged according
as he gets first-class standing or not. Many more
such truths I could tell you, but I am afraid lest in
impressing a multitude of hitherto unsuspected
facts upon you, you might from suspecting the
whole, deny every particular.
You will not be surprised, however, when I
remind you of the hard work I have done in the
Gym. As sure as the very revolution of the sea-
sons was my presence in that pleasant place of
recreation and enjoyment. I was never known to
be absent when the hour came for the class of '95
to line up in the Gym. You have often admired
the graceful way in which I circled the vertical bar
and did the giants' swing on the horizontal parallels ;
and you have stood watching with open-mouthed
wonder as I recklessly tumbled on the rings. My
love for hard exercise has been so consuming that
I have even been willing to take the position of
class monitor during the Gym. hour and have stood
firmly braced against a pillar marking the present
and the absent.
I could go on indefinitely detailing at length my
exploits of hard labor, both mental and physical,
but you all know the facts. And now as I approach
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the end, as I see before me the goal for which I
have striven for three long weary years, I ask
myself, what reward would be adequate for my
exertions'? Do I not deserve the highest honors
which the Faculty can confer upon me? But so
fleeting are the hopes of mortals, so unsatisfactory
are the rewards of toil, that I can expect but little.
There is but one thing that I hope for, and without
that all the rest of earthly prizes would be but
empty titles, that is, the respect and affection of my
classmates of '95.
The President :
It has been with the idea of showing to the world
for the first time, one of those men who hide their
light under a bushel that I have induced one of our
closest students to appear before you to-day.
I have always pitied the poor, careworn, wan-
cheeked plugger as he sat up late every evening
in the week and long after the midnight trains had
gone out, poring over some abstruse or metaphys-
ical problem.
On the other hand, I cannot but admire the pluck
displayed by these poor benighted beings.
It*is not often that one of this rare species can
spare the time or be induced to appear before a
crowd, and before introducing this shy creature, I
trust that my hearers will be patient if his voice is
a little weak and high-pitched. Then, too, he is
very sensitive about his short stature and pale and
sunken cheeks, so I further request all will be par-
ticularly silent and attentive and reserve your
pitying remarks until after the exercises are over.
Mr. Kimball, your classmates have regarded with
the greatest concern, the obstinate way which you
have defied the laws of health. If it is not too late,
we would like to make you a gift which we know
will be of inestimable benefit to you. A sound
mind in a sound body is a maxim which you have
undoubtedly read many times in the course of your
literary investigations, and it is with the expectance
that you will put so good a proverb into practice,
that I present you with this pair of Indian-clubs.
Furthermore we all entertain the hope that you
will soon be restored to perfect health.
RESPONSE OF PUNY MAN.
By G. L. Kimball.
It is with the deepest gratitude that I receive from
you these tokens of your esteem. The careful obser-
vation of my requirements which suggested this gift
to you as a means of turning my mind from its
menacing tendency to over-exertion is proof of the
interest '95 has in her members.
Fortunate, indeed, is that class which has but one
puny man. While classes that have gone before us
have pointed with pride to some member whose name
was a synonym of prowess and strength, '95 has
come to regard such members as commonplace, and
a puny man as something of a freak in her make-up.
It would involve a great expenditure of time and
energy, which I can illy afford, to explain fully to
you how I came thus early in my career to the
decimated figure you now behold. No fault of nature
can be held accountable, but the constant hammering
of environment, which molds everything after its
fashion, has left of the once promising youth but
a fragmentary outline of humanity.
When, as a Freshman, I first entered these halls,
teeming with verdancy, and cherishing the delusive
folly that hard study was the only key which could
unlock to me the gateway to fame, our worthy in-
structor in physical culture, moved by my fading
cheek and flagging pace, gave me a toy hammer
with which to amuse myself. This he thought would
divert my mind from its insatiable cravings to other
channels conducive to my suffering health. Though
it could not restore to me my wonted strength and
vigor, yet it did stem the wasting current which was
fast bearing me to destruction and an untimely end.
Since that time the toy hammer has been my constant
companion.
Recently I attended a conference of the New
England colleges, which is held annually to ascertain
the physical condition of students. While reclining
on my seat in a car, with the little hammer by my
side, I was addressed by an elderly gentleman sitting
in front of me, who wished to know what kind of a
game I played with that thing. I explained to him
that I was from Bowdoin and was going to Worcester
for my health, and intended to use that to demonstrate
to my fellow-sufferers the effect of three pounds of
beefsteak per day on a feeble constitution. " Well,'
says he, "I never have seen anything like that before.
When I was in college, back in the 'forties, we had
no use for such an instrument as that. If a man was
sick we bled him till he got well." " The progress of
science," I replied, "has wrought some wonderful
changes in college life. Now it is the custom, if a
man is well, to bleed him till he is sick." "But," he
rejoined, "what has that junk of lead with a stick in
it got to do with the progress of science ? " "Why,
sir," I replied with surprise, " that is the latest insti-
tution of learning at Bowdoin College."
But I must not weary myself longer. I shall
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endeavor to follow faithfully the instructions you
have given me, that I may be present at the great
reunion of our class in 1950, and able to do justice to
an ample repast, thus proving to you that I have
profited by the experience as '95's Puny Man.
The President :
The one remaining presentation is the only one
in which there is a genuine ring of sincerity, and
now that the baser metals have been tried, we
seek at last and disdain not the precious metal.
The honor of being the popular man of a class is
more than a mere surface indication, for it is the
outburst of our feelings for one individual who has
endeared himself to us in ways we hardly know
bow to define, so gradually has it come about.
It is inspiring to think that of so many young
men there is one among us who is truly beloved by
all and who stands for qualities held dearest to the
human soul. It is not the loud and bantering who
rank first in our estimation, but rather the quiet
and modest.
It is the man who is gracious and courteous to
all, compassionate and even-tempered, that wins
our heart's best affections.
In '95's popular man, all these praiseworthy
attributes and many more besides are blended
together in a harmonious whole. His quiet and
unassuming ways have won for him a host of loyal
friends.
Mr. Mitchell, I esteem myself fortunate that I
have the honor of presenting you with this humble
but significant gift, and I predict that your circle of
friends iu the outer world will be even greater than
your many true ones at Bowdoin.
RESPONSE OF POPULAR MAN.
By Alfred Mitchell, Jr.
Mr. President and Classmates :
It is extremely pleasant for one to know that he
is congenial to his classmates ; for without the
sympathies of your fellow-students college life is
robbed of its greatest charm.
By the presentation of this spoon I am led to
believe that I am included among those who enjoy
your good-will. And in thanking you I find myself
very much at loss to express my gratitude in an
appropriate manner. I can tell you with the
greatest sincerity that your feelings toward me are
reciprocated. I can re-echo the responses of
previous popular men and tell you how I prize this
token of your esteem and of the pleasant memories
it will bring to my mind when we leave the old
college.
But, classmates, in justice to yourselves I think it
necessary that I make a few remarks. From the
time we entered college our relations in both class
and individual affairs have been of the pleasantest.
We have been remarkably free from the dissensions
which so often mar the pleasure of a college
course. Such harmony as this is in itself an out-
ward sign of universal popularity. In a class of
our size and especially in a class of our make-up the
idea that one can be popular above his mates is
wholly erroneous. I look upon myself as having no
right to accept this spoon, with the meaning which
it conveys, as my personal property, but I think
every member of 'Ninety-Five has an interest in it.
I consider myself a representative appointed by
you to receive it and hold it in trust. And I regard
it as a great honor to represent such a class. Class-
mates, I thank you again for the pleasure you have
given me to-day; it will not be only for to-day, for
I shall always look back upon this event. And
although we may not all have a spoon in our pos-
session, I think such an article will hardly be
necessary to bring to our minds the pleasant recol-
lections of our college life, and may the harmony
and good feeling which has so far marked our
course be continuous.
Immediately after the literary exercises
the class marched to Massachusetts Hall,
where the ivy was planted, H. B. Russ acting
as curator. The ivy ode, written by J. T.
Shaw, was sung, and the '95 cheer given.
Then came the pretty and impressive cere-
mony of Seniors' last chapel. The chapel
was packed full of visitors. After some
excellent music, President Hyde read from
the scriptures and offered prayer. Then the
Seniors, with locked arms and locked step,
marched slowly the length of the long chapel
and between the ranks of the classes drawn
up outside to receive them. "Auld Lang
Syne " was sung as they marched, with all
the power and feeling of two-score manly
young voices. They cheered the college and
lower classes, and the latter united in the
'94 yell.
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Ivy Hop.
TITHE annual Ivy Hop was held in Town
*■ Hall, and as a social event has been
unsurpassed by but few occasions in Bruns-
wick. An unusually large number of young
ladies were present from out of town. Salem
Cadet Band furnished music, and to its inspir-
ing time the manly and the fair danced away
the happiest evening of the college year.
Following was the order of dances :
Waltz Mellon.
Lanciers . Wang.
Two-step. ^ . . . High School Cadets.
Waltz. Espaua.
Polka. Vogelhandler.
Schottische. Marie.
Waltz. Torreador.
Portland Fancy. .... Operatic.
Two-Step. .... Paul Jones.
Waltz. Utopia.
INTERMISSION.
Waltz Obispah.
Quadrille Popular Melodies.
Two-Step. Tobasco.
Waltz Robin Hood.
Schottische Jollity.
Polka. Le Carnaval.
Waltz. Sphinx.
Two-Step. 2d Conn.
Schottische. .... Beautilul June.
Waltz. Casino.
The patronesses were Mrs. Hyde, Mrs.
Young, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Robin-
son, Mrs. Houghton, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs.
Woodruff, Mrs. Moody, Mrs. Hutchins, and
Mrs. MacDonald. W. S. A. Kimball was floor
manager and his aids were A. Mitchell, Jr.,
P. D. Stubbs, J. B. Roberts, and J. G. W.
Knowlton.
'94 Senior Banquet.
POTEL ATWOOD, Lewiston, was the
scene of '94's Senior banquet on the
evening of June 14th. It was a merry occa-
sion and they made a night of it. The
following members of the class participated :
W. W. Thomas, Elias Thomas, Jr., Ru-
pert A. Baxter, F. W. Dana, A. V. Bliss,
Charles Flagg, B. B. Whitcomb, H. C. Wil-
bur, H. L. Bagley, F. G. Farrington, J. W.
Anderson, R. H. Hinckley, Jr., R. P. Plaisted,
Geo. C. DeMott, Francis A. Frost, C. M.
Leigh ton, A. Chapman, C. E. Merritt, F. W.
Pickard, F. H. Knight, E. H. Sykes, W. P.
Thompson.
The spread was elaborate. H. C. Wilbur
was toast-master and the toasts were : " 94,"
"McDougalism," "Faculty," "Our Centen-
nial," "Y. M. C. A.," "Our Future," "Our
Alma Mater." ■
Eloquence was ripe and repartee fast and
furious. The menu was:
Somerset Oysters on Half Shell.
Consomme Clear.
Boiled Penobscot Salmon with French Peas.
Potato Croquettes. French Rolls.
Sliced Cucumbers. Tomatoes. Lettuce. Radishes.
Young Turkey with Cranberry Sauce.
Fillet of Beef with Mushrooms.
Mashed Potatoes. Asparagus.
Breast of Mallard Duck with Green Olives.
French Fried Potatoes. Sweet Corn. Orange
Fritters.
Roman Punch.
Lobster Mayonaise. Dutch Salad. Ox Tongue.
Philadelphia Capon.
Cincinnati Sugar-Cured Ham.
Coffee Jelly. Angel Cake. Chocolate Cake.
Ribbon Cake. Lady Fingers. Nut Cake.
Strawberries with Cream. Charlotte Russe.
Almond Ice-Cream.
Oranges. Bananas. English Raisins. Assorted
Nuts.
Soda Wafers. New Cheese.
French Coffee. Oolong Tea.
Tale and Brown have each two tennis players
ranked in the first ten in the country, while Harvard
has one.
Paris University has the greatest enrollment of
any institution of learning in the world. It has
9,215 students, Vienna has 6,220, aud Berlin 5,527.
At the University of Illinois, the Senior class
has challenged the Faculty to a game of base-ball,
the proceeds of which are to go into the treasury of
the track athletic team.
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The annual Senior ball
game took place on the Delta
one morning a week or so ago, and
was the occasion of an unlimited
amount of fun. It was the tall men,
under Captain Bagley, versus the short
men, under Captain Leighton, each nine boasting
an unpronouncable biological appellation. All
good players of the class, except iu one case, the
catchers, were ruled out, and the variety of the
costumes was taking. Kicking was the order of
the day, and reached its height when at the close
of the fifth inning part of the men, otherwise
known as " chinners," wanted to stop the game and
go into recitation. Several star players were
brought to light, but the short men proved easy
winners, running iu thirteen scores the first inning.
The final score was: Short men 18, tall men 8.
Howard, '93, was on the campus last week.
Haggett, '93, was one of our Ivy Day visitors.
Wood, formerly of '95, was iu Bruuswick Field-
Day.
The examination for the Sewall Greek Prize was
held Wednesday afternoon.
The Senior supper was held at Hotel Atwood in
Lewiston the evening before Ivy Day.
The merry-go-round has come and gone, and
with many a chance for an evening promenade.
Bates, '96, was in Saco coaching the Thornton
Academy boys just before the M. I. S. A. A. meet.
Libby, '94, and Roberts, '95, were delegates to
the recent Alpha Delta Phi convention at Cleveland, ,
Ohio.
Wilbur and Bagley, '94, and Peaks and Haskell,
'96, were in Waterville at the recent Zeta Psi
reception.
Professor Chapman read a very interesting paper
before the Pejepscot Historical Society, Thursday,
the 29th of May.
President Hyde delivered the Baccalaureate
Sermon before the students of Gould Academy three
weeks ago Sunday.
The names of the donors of the Art Building
have been set in brass letters in the central stone
of Sculpture Hall floor.
The Minstrel Show has been given up, chiefly
for lack of interest on the student's part. This
takes away one of the attractions of Ivy week.
'96's second crew and the Presbmen had a
smashup a little while ago. In consequence they
all got a ducking, and the Sophs have gone out of
training.
Professor Chapman's attendance at the annual
meeting of the trustees of Bangor Theological
Seminary, gave his classes several adjourns week
before last.
The proposed change in regulations applying
chiefly to the jurisdiction of the jury and the Fac-
ulty, was accepted at a recent well-attended meet-
ing of the college.
A large number of the students were in Water-
ville at the Interscholastic Field-Day. Professor
Whittier, Fairbanks, Doherty, and Dewey, '95,
Bates and Minot, '96, and Plaisted, Hinkley, and
Bagley, '94, were among the officials.
Professor Robinson gave the Juniors a very
interesting talk during the last lecture hour of
mineralogy, bringing up some very pleasant reminis-
cences in connection with the scientific department.
These were brought out by the fact that it was
the last, lecture in mineralogy which would be held
in the old building. When Adams Hall was erected
it was the first building of its kind which provided
to any extent laboratories for the use of the stu-
dents. Before that time the sciences were taught
almost entirely by lectures. For a long time the
college, through its able professors and superior
equipments, was recognized as one of the most
advanced centers for scientific work. But, owino-
to the vast strides these branches have taken these
late years, the building has become inadequate for
the purpose and so next year we move into new
quarters which are as far in advance of those of
other colleges as Adams Hall was at the time of its
dedication.
Adelbert is soon to build a $50,000 physical
laboratory.
Colgate University has for nearly three years
been without a president.
In the Yale-Princeton base-ball series, which
commenced in 1868, Yale has won 44 games and
Princeton 16.
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BASE-BALL.
Boiudoin, 10; Tufts, 5.
Quite a crowd assembled to see Bowdoin defeat
Tufts od the Delta, Monday, May 29th. The game
was very interesting. Bowdoin played with a snap
and were steady iu the field. The chief feature of
the game was the "kicking" of Foss. Both pitchers
did great work. Tufts was defeated at foot-ball
last fall and again at base-ball this spring. They
will discover that the "farmers," as they choose to
call us, are pretty good iu athletics after all. The
score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b., .... 3 2 1 1 5 3 2
Hull, l.f., 5 0 1 1 1 0 0
Williams, 2b., .... 5 1 0 0 3 3 0
Plaisted, p., ..... 3 1 2 2 0 3 0
Chapman, c.f 4 0 1 1 2 2 0
Bodge, r.f., 5 1 1 1 1 1 2
Anderson, lb., .... 4 2 2 4 9 2 0
Leighton, s.s., ... 4 2 3 3 2 1 2
Quimby, c 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Haines, c, 4 0 0 0 4 2 0
Totals 38 10 11 13 27 17 6
TUFTS.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Foss, 2b., 5 2 1 1 3 4 1
Clayton, l.f 4 0 0 0 2 1 0
Smith, r.f., 3 1 1 1 0 0 1
Mallett, c 1 0 1 1 7 2 0
Maguire, lb., 4 0 1 2 12 1 0
Bichardson, 3b 3 1 o 0 0 4 2
Bothburn, s.s., .... 3 0 0 0 2 5 3
Crolins, p 4 1 1 2 0 0 0
Armstrong, c.f 3 0 2 2 1 0 0
Totals 30 5 7 9 27 17 7
Earned runs— Tufts 2, Bowdoin 4. Stolen bases —
Tufts 7, Bowdoin 7. Three-base hit — Anderson. Double
plays — Bowdoin 3. Base on balls — off Plaisted 5, off
Crolins 3. Struck out — Crolins 5, Plaisted 4. Passed
balls— Quimby 2. Wild pitch— Crolins 1. Umpire—
Kelley. Time of game— 2h. 15m.
Bowdoin, 4; Exeler, 3.
For the second time during the present season,
the Exeter team has been defeated by Bowdoin.
The game was an exciting one, the score standing
3 to 3 until the niuth inning. The home team
started in with Longfellow at short, but in the
fourth inning Haskell was substituted. For Bow-
doin, the battery work was very good. The leading
feature of the game was the batting of Fairbanks.
For Exeter, the base running of Scannel and the
battiug of Green were the best features. The home
team's weak place was at shortstop. The score :
BOWDOIN.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Fairbanks, 3b 4 1 3 4 3 2 1
Hull, l.f., 3 0 0 0 1 0 2
Williams, 2b., .... 4 1 0 0 3 1 0
Chapman, c.f 3 0 0 0 3 0 0
Plaisted, p., 2 2 1 1 0 1 0
Bodge, r.f 4 0 0 0 0 0 1
Anderson, lb., .... 4 0 0 0 7 1 0
Leighton, s.s., .... 4 0 1 1 0 4 1
Haines, c, 3 0 0 0 10 2 1
Totals, ..... 31 4 5 6 27 11 6
EXETER.
A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Smith, l.f., 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
Green, 2b., 5 0 3 4 1 3 2
Locke, 3b 5 0 0 0 3 0 2
Richards, lb 5 0 1 1 1 4 1
Scannel, c, 5 1 1 1 9 1 0
McCall, c.f 5 0 0 0 1 0 0
Casey, r.f., 5 1 1 1 0 0 0
Maroney, p 4 0 1 1 0 5 0
Longfellow, s.s., ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Haskell, s.s. 2 1 1 1 0 1 2
Totals 40 3 8 9 27 14 8
Earned runs — Exeter 2. Two-base hits — Fairbanks,
Green. Stolen bases — Fairbanks 2, Plaisted, Bodge,
Green, Scannell 2, McCall. Base on balls— Smith, Has-
kell, Hull, Plaisted 2. Struck out— Hull 3, Williams 2,
Chapman, Smith, Locke 2, Richards, Casey, Longfellow,
Haskell. Double plays — Richards, Haskell, Scannel.
Wild pitches — Maroney, Plaisted. Passed balls — Scannel,
Haines. Time — lh. 5m. Umpire — Creamer.
Lewiston Blue Store, 9 ; Boivdoin Second Nine, 4.
The Lewiston Blue Store ball team easily de-
feated the second nine on the Delta, Memorial Day.
Coburn was batted quite freely, and the home team
could not seem to bat Casey with auy effect. Mead,
Bailey, and French played iu the outfield and did
very well, although they showed want of practice
with the stick. The score:
Innings 1234567S9
Blue Stores, ' 220 2 0002 1—9
Bowdoin 10210000 0—4
Bales, 13 ; Bowdoin, 10.
The third of the Bowdoin-Bates games came off
in Portland, June 2d. Bates played good ball and
Bowdoin didn't. Many students went in to watch
the game and cheer on the team, but their presence
did not seem to effect the desired result in the
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playing. Pulsifer made a home run in the fourth
inning. The score:
BATES.
A.E. B. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Wakefield, lb 6 0 1 2 12 0 0
Douglass, 2b., .... 5 2 1 1 3 2 1
Pulsifer, 3b., 6 3 1 4 0 4 0
Campbell, l.f., .... 5 2 2 2 2 0 0
Field, r.f 4 1 1 1 0 0 0
Gerrish, c, 3 1 1 1 5 0 1
Brackett, s.s., . . ' . . 5 2 1 1 2 1 2
Files, c.f., 2 1 0 0 0 0 1
Slattery, p 4 1 1 1 3 7 0
Totals, 30 13 9 13 27 14 5
BOWDOIN.
A.B. E. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E. '
Fairbanks, 3b 5 0 1 1 4 1 3
Hull, l.f 4 0 0 0 1 0 0
Williams, r.f 4 1 0 0 1 0 1
Cbapman, c.f 2 1 0 0 1 1 0
Plaisted, p 5 2 1 1 0 2 0
Sykes, 3b., 2 2 1 1 1 2 0
Anderson, lb 4 1 0 0 8 0 2
Leighton, s.s 3 2 1 1 1 1 1
Haines, c 3 1 1 1 10 0 1
Totals 32 10 5 5 27 7 8
Earned runs— Bates 3, Bowdoin 1. Two-base hit —
Wakefield. Home run — Pulsifer. Double plays — Bow-
doin 1, Bates 2. Base on balls — off Plaisted 6, off Slattery
9. Hit by pitched ball— off Slattery 2, off Plaisted 1.
Struck out— by Plaisted 6, by Slattery 5. Wild pitches—
Plaisted 2, Slattery 2. Passed balls— Haines 1. Time —
2h. 30m. Umpire— Kelley.
Andover, 9; Bowdoin, 1.
Bowdoin met the strongest team she has played
this season at Andover, June 6th. Bowdoin fielded
as well as her opponents, but were unable to bat
Paige with any effect, while Plaisted was hit quite
hard. The score :
ANDOVER.
A.B. B. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Barnes, s.s 4 2 0 0 1 0 2
Burgess, r.f., 4 0 2 2 0 0 0
Hazen, 2b 4 1.2 2 5 1 1
Greenway, l.f., .... 5 1 1 3 4 0 0
Drew, c 4 2 2 2 8 2 1
Bement, 3b., 4 0 0 0 1 10
Letton, lb 4 0 2 3 7 1 0
Paige, p., 4 2 2 3 1 2 1
Simmons, c.f., .... 4 1 1 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 9 12 16 27 7 5
BOWDOIN.
A.B. B. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Sykes, 2b., 4 0 1 1 6 2 1
Hull, l.f., 4 0 0 0 2 2 0
Williams, 3b 4 0 0 0 1 0 0
Chapman, c.f 3 0 0 0 3 0 0
Plaisted, p., 4 0 1 1 0 1 1
Bodge, r.f 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
Anderson, lb., .... 4 0 1 1 6 1 0
Leighton, s.s 3 0 1 1 0 3 1
Haines, c, 2 1 0 0 8 3 2
Totals, 31 1 4 4 27 12 5
Earned runs — Andover 2. Two-base hits — Letton,
Paige. Three-base hit — Greenway. Double play— Paige,
Letton, Bement. Base on balls— off Plaisted 3, off Paige
2. Struck out— by Plaisted 7, by Paige 6. Passed balls—
Haines 3, Drew 1. Time of game— lh. 55m. Umpire—
Glynn, of Andover.
Batting Aveeages of the Base-Ball Team.
Fairbanks 366
Plaisted, 333
Sykes, 323
Chapman, 317
Williams, 307
Leighton 288
Bodge, 272
Haines 224
Hull, 220
Anderson, 214
Soule, 125
Allen 066
Coburn, 416
The medal for best batter on the second nine
was secured by Dane, '96.
SOPHOMORE-FRESHMAN RACE.
There was the usual large crowd along the river
to witness the class boat race on Ivy Day morning.
It proved an easy victory for the Sophomore crew,
though '97 rowed a plucky race and finished in good
form. The '96 crew won by about three lengths in
just 7 minutes 25 seconds better than the time of
the last year's winner. The Sophomores were happy
over their second victory of the week over the
Freshmen. The crowd was entertained before the
race by some lively class rushes, and the usual
cheers and yells. The crews were made up as
follows :
'96 Ckew.
Weight. Position.
C. E. Baker. 172 Bow.
J. H. Libby. 161 No. 3.
C. M. Brown. 168 No. 2.
Robert Newbegin. 172 Stroke.
'97 Crew.
C. S. Sewall. 165 Bow.
H. B. Rhines. 185 No. 3.
F. A. Thompson. 160 No. 2.
J. M. Shute. 169 Stroke.
Referee, Dr. Whittier. Judges, Prof. Robinson
and Prof. Woodruff. Starter, A. L. Dennison, '95.
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TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
The Intercollegiate Tenuis Tournament, held in
Portland, beginning June 6th, resulted in Bowdoin's
taking first place in singles and first in doubles,
while the Southard cup for second place went to
Heywood, of Maine State College, after a hard-
fought contest with Pettigrew, of Bates. Frank
Dana, last year's champion, again proved to be too
much for his opponents, while he and Pickard won
first place in doubles, giving Bowdoin final posses-
sion of the beautiful silver trophy, her representa-
tives having won it for three successive years.
Dana, '96, made a hard fight for second place in
singles, and played some fine tennis. The first
match in which Bowdoin figured, between Dana, '94,
and Heywood, resulted in the former winning two
sets, 6-4, 9-7. The next match was between Dana
and Hilton. The score was 5-8, 6-2, 6-1. Dana,
'94, beat Dana, '96, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. Dana and Fogg
beat Foss and Beuy, of Colby, 6-4, 6-4. Dana, '94,
and Pickard, '94, beat Dana, '96, and Fogg, '96, in
the most interesting match of the whole tourna-
ment. The score was 6-4, 2-6, 9-7. Dana, '94,
played steadily in the finals in singles against Petti-
grew, of Bates, and won the match, 6-1, 6-1, 7-5.
The first match for the Southard cup, offered for
second place in singles, was played by Dana, '96,
and Heywood. The latter won, 6-0, 6-4. In the
finals for second place, Heywood defeated Pettigrew,
and the cup went to Maine State College.
The finals in doubles, between Pickard and
Dana and Heywood and Gibbs, were very interest-
ing. The score was 6-1,5-7,6-4. The work of
Dana was the feature of this match. The players
to a man were delighted with the Portland Athletic
Club and the hospitality of its members. It is to
be hoped that the tournament can be held there
annually, and it is possible that some such arrange-
ment may be made.
ANNUAL FIELD MEET OF THE ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION.
The Field Meet of the Athletic Association was
held at the Topsham Fair Grounds on the afternoon
of June 14th. '95 won the cup with 54 points, '96
won 40 points, '97 30 points, 94 6 points, and the
Medics received 13. The contest was a very suc-
cessful one. Seven records were broken and much
excitement was manifested among the classes.
The officers of the day were as follows : Referee,
Prof. F. E. Woodruff; Judges at Finish, Prof. L. A.
Lee, Prof. G. T. Files, W. B. Mitchell, A.B. ; Timers,
H. J. Given, W. W. Thomas, Howard Stackpole ;
Starter, Prof. F. N. Whittier; Judge of Walking,
H. A. Ross; Clerk of the Course, H. L. Fairbanks;
Scorer for Track Events, J. C. Minot ; Field Judges,
Fogg, '96, Hoyt Moore ; Measurers, B. L. Bryant,
W. F. Haskell; Scorer for Field Events, F. W.
Pickard ; Manager Athletic Association, J. W.
Crawford.
TRACK EVENTS.
440- Yards Dash.
Record held by F. L. Talbot, '87—52 seconds.
Won by Wiley, '95; second, Remick, '97; third,
Mitchell, '96. Record, 57 seconds.
Half-Mile Bun.
Record held by G. F. Freeman, '90—2 minutes
11 seconds. Won by Lord, '95; second, Andrews,
'96 ; third, Brett, '97. Record, 2.20.
Two-Mile Safety Bicycle Bace.
Won by Colby, Med. ; Second, Lyford, '96; third,
Littlefield, '94. Record— 6.55.
100-Yards Dash.
Won by MacMillan, '97; second, Borden, Med.;
third, Doherty, '95. Record, 10£.
Mile Bun.
Record held by G. B. Sears, '90—4.56. Won by
Soule, '95; second, Purnell, '97; third, Remick,
'97. Record, 4.524.
120- Yards Hurdle.
Won by Home, '97 ; second, Lord, '95; third,
Ordway, '96. Record, 174 seconds.
Mile Walk.
Record held by H. E. Henderson, '79 — 8.25,
Won by Thomas, '94; second, Warren, '96; third,
Purnell, '97. Record, 7.56.
220- Yards Hurdle.
Won by Home, '97 ; second, Doherty, '95; third.
Shaw, '95. Record, 28i seconds.
Two-Mile Bun.
Record held by L. F. Soule, '95— 10.55J. Won
by Soule, '95; second, Clough, '96; third, Brett,
'97. Record, 10.51.
220- Yards Dash.
Won by Andrews ; second, Doherty ; third,
Shaw. Record, 244 seconds.
FIELD EVENTS.
Pole-Vault.
Record held by L. Prentiss, '89 — 9 feet 3 inches.
Won by Bates, '96 ; second, MacMillan, '97 ; thirdj
Smith and Haskell, '96, tied. Record, 8 feet 6 inches.
Putting 16-Pound Shot.
Record held by G. L. Kimball, '95—33 feet 3
inches. Won by Bates ; second, Kimball ; third,
White. Record, 35 feet 6^ inches.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Running High Jump.
Kecord held by J. H. Bates— 5 feet 3 inches.
Won by Borden, Med ; second, Bates, '96 ; third,
Smith, '96. Record, 5 feet 7£ inches.
Throwing IB-Pound Hammer.
Record held by G. L. Kimball— 89 feet. Won
by Kimball, '95 ; second, Bates, '96 ; third, French,
'95. Record, 95 feet 2 inches.
Running Broad Jump.
Record held by A. M. Jones, '93—19 feet 94
inches. Won by French, '95 ; second, Lord, '95 ;
third, Stearns, '97. Record, 20 feet 4 inches.
One Mile Class Team Relay Race.
Won by '95; second, '96. Record, 3.38J.
Kuowlton, Stubbs, Mitchell, Shaw, and French
ran on the victorious team. The Freshman team
dropped out at the half.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 5.-July i, 1894.
Editorial Notes 71
Commencement Exercises:
Baccalaureate Sermon by President Hyde 72
Junior Prize Speaking 77
Class Day 77
Oration 77
Poem 80
Under the Thorudike Oak 82
Opening Address 82
Class History 83
Class Prophecy 87
Parting Address 89
Smoking the Pipe ot Peace 90
Class Ode 90
Cheering the Halls 91
Dance on the Green 91
Commencement Exercises 91
The Youth of Man (Goodwin Commencement Prize)... 91
The Ideal Physician (Medical Class Oration) 93
Honorary Appointments 95
President's Keeeption 95
Maine Historical Society 95
Meeting of the Board of Trustees 96
The Alumni Association 96
Awards and Prizes 96
Phi Beta Kappa 96
Centennial Exercises 97
Anniversary Dinner 97
Class Reunions 99
Fraternity Reunions 100
Coi.legii Tabula 100
Personal 101
In Memoriam 101
College World .102
Bowdoin's great week has come and
gone. Its first century, whose grand record
can never perish, is in the past, and now it
stands at the opening of a new era, not only
of time but of more important and more sig-
nificant things. Its present is rich in progress
and prosperity, and its future teems with the
brightest prospects. How loyal are the sons
of old Bowdoin, as is shown by the immense
gathering of last week, and the enthusiasm
with which the centennial celebration was
carried to a successful close ! What an inspi-
ration it was to be on the campus through
the scenes of last week, and to hear those
eloquent eulogies of old Bowdoin in the
church and tent! Our love for our Alma
Mater can but be deepened as we resolve to
do our share toward making the new century
worthy the past one. Since the college is to
publish an account of the centennial celebra-
tion, including the oration, poem, and other
exercises, the Orient does not attempt the
impossible, namely, to do justice to this great
occasion. It gives, as usual in the commence-
ment number, a full account of Class Day,
the graduation exercises and other events of
the closing week of the year, but does not
attempt to give more than an outline and
summary of the elaborate exercises which
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celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of
the incorporation of the college. Another
year, and that the greatest in Bowdoin's his-
tory, has closed, and as we separate for the
summer the Orient wishes a happy vacation
to all. May our loved brothers of '94, who
have severed forever active connection with
Bowdoin, have smooth seas and prospering
winds as they start on the voyage of life, and
may those of the other classes all return in
I September to begin the work of another year
and to welcome the large class of '98.
OLL desiring extra numbers of this issue
/-'•of the Orient can obtain them by
addressing Byron Stevens, Brunswick, Me.
"OOWDOIN owes a deep debt of gratitude
•'-' to the Leiviston Journal for its magnifi-
cent centennial number, with its twenty pages
of Bowdoin matter and its one hundred illus-
trations. Such newspaper enterprise helps
the college, the state, and the paper.
Baccalaureate Sermon by Presi-
dent Hyde.
Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and
many be they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the
gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and
few be they that find it.— Matthew vii., 13-14.
The world to-day boasts its emancipation from
the doctrines of arbitrary predestination, limited
atonement, exclusive election of a favored few to
everlasting joy, and the wholesale condemnation of
the great majority to eternal punishment. Justice
in God, though grander in its sweep, must be essen-
tially akin to what is just in man. God's mercy, too,
though deeper, cannot be less tender than mercy as
we know it in gentle human hearts. God's reason,
though it bind all the forces of the universe together
in indissoluble bonds, cannot be less reasonable and
fair than the rationality of human science and
philosophy. God's reason and justice and mercy
may infinitely transcend the comprehension of our
finite minds. Yet in no respect can these qualities
in God be contradictory to these same qualities
in man. Absurdity, injustice, hard-heartedness,
caprice are incredible attributes of God. And the
system of theology which attributes such qualities
to Him, is discredited in the minds of all just and
merciful and reasonable men.
To free theology from these intolerable burdens
has been the latest triumph of progressive religious
thought. It has carried the almost unanimous con-
viction of the rising generation of candid and
inquiring minds; and has even won for itself at last
rightful recognition in quarters where the harsh
dogmas of an absurd and irrational tradition were
supposed to be intrenched beyond the power of
rational argument to disturb, or righteous indigna-
tion to dislodge. Have we, then, banished law from
the universe? Shall license reign supreme? May
we then live as loosely as we please, trusting that
in the sweet by and by a sentimental amnesty will
scoop us up in all our worthlessness and sin and
shame, and bear us to a ready-made blessedness
and a freely bestowed beatitude provided for all
who have been false and faithless in this present
world? Not so. The only enactments that have
been repealed are the unwarranted promulgations
of comparatively recent theologians. Back of all
that men may say or unsay, behind all the doctrines
they may promulgate or retract, abide the everlast-
ing laws of God. "When half gods go, the gods
arrive." When you have rejected harsh and
unreasonable dogmas, then for the first time you
find the profound truth which in trying to reveal,
they have concealed. Some of these laws we are
just beginning to comprehend. Darwinism has
shown us that the law of all life is, not the preser-
vation of the ill-adapted many, but the survival of
the fittest few.
The outcome of the Darwinian doctrine of the
survival of the fittest has been well summed up by
a leading interpreter in the following sentence:
"Existence is an apalling tragedy, with the universe
for its scene, and for time the duration of geological
ages; its characters are made up of that infinitude
of individuals which constitute the organic world;
but so full of horrors is the drama that most of the
actors are cut down at their first entrance upon the
stage, while those who escape are doomed to a
never-ending struggle for life, in which only the
strongest and best favored have any chance of
reaching the second scene, that opens like the first,
with mutual conflict, and all but mutual extermina-
tion. All over Biology you find written these words
of Jesus : Narrow is the gate and straitened is the
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way that leadeth unto life, aud few be they that
find it. This law that dooms to destruction millions
of plant and animal forms, for every one victo-
rious type that establishes its right to live, does not
abruptly cease when you come to man, and enter
the moral and spiritual sphere. Heaven is to be
had on no easier terms than earth. It is not an
orthodox theologian, but the most lucid and critical
of modern literary men, Matthew Arnold, who says:
"And will not then the immortal armies scorn
The world's poor routed leavings ? or will they
Who failed under the heat of this life's day-
Support the fervors of the heavenly morn ?
No, no. The energy of life may he
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagged not in the earthly strife,
From strength to strength advancing — only he,
His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,
Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
The severest conflict after all is not against
competing organisms for physical existence. It is
against self, and the cosmic process as a whole, as
Professor Huxley has so plainly pointed out in his
recent Romanes Lecture. So tremendous are the
forces arrayed against man in this combat against
the cosmic process on which he tells us that all
ethical process depends, that, as he says, " By the
Tiber, as by the Ganges, ethical man admits that
the cosmos is too strong for him ; and the attempts
to escape from evil, whether by Buddhistic Nirvana
or Stoic Apatheia, whether Indian or Greek, have
ended in flight from the battle-field."
I do not wish to impose on you an ignoble fear
of what an arbitrary and tyrannical World Ruler
may inflict on you in the hereafter. It is rather
with a desire to have you realize the searching and
severe condition of right living, here and now,
always and everywhere, which a beneficent Provi-
dence has ordained as the test of a man's worthi-
ness to live, that I commed to your attention the
words of our Lord : Enter ye in by the narrow
gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction, and many be they that
enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and
straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few
be they that find it.
The Pythagoreans first stated the truth in phil-
osophical form when, in the mathematical termin-
ology peculiar to their school, they said, " virtue is
finite, vice is infinite." They meant to indicate by
this that in any given case there is only one precise,
definite way to do right, while there are a thousand
ways of doing wrong. Aristotle took up this insight
and made it the basis of his doctrine that virtue is
the mean between extremes. In every relation of
life there is one course of conduct which best realizes
the ideal of our well-being with reference to that
relation. For example, there is a certain amount of
food and drink that is best adapted to best maintain
the vigor and vitality of the body. On either side
of that happy mean lie the extremes of asceticism
and of self-indulgence. "On this account," he says,
"it is a hard thing to be good. Thus any one can
give money away or speud it : but to do these things
to the right person, to the right extent, at the right
time, with the right object, and in the right manner
is not what everybody can do, and is by no means
easy ; and that is the reason why right doing is rare
and praiseworthy and noble." The same thought
is wrapped up in the New Testament word for sin.
Hamartia means literally, a missing of the mark.
Now the mark is a single point in space. All the
rest of the universe is not the mark. Therefore
there is only one adjustment of eye and arm aud
hand that will enable the marksman to hit the
mark. But there are ten thousand ways of missing
it. Any fool can do that. And when a man boasts
of his vices, and is proud of his immorality, he is like
a man who should go out upon the ball-ground, and
glory in showing off how wildly he could throw, and
how far he could come from throwing the ball to
the precise point where it was wanted.
Or to come directly to the figure used in our
text. The road to life is narrow because there is
after all only one line that represents the shortest
distance between two points, only one direction
which will lead from one point to another. And
the road to destruction is broad, because the ways
that do not lead to the desired point are innumer-
able.
In order to attain true spiritual life, each one of
a host of appetites and passions must be taken in
hand, regulated, guided and controlled, and made
subservient to the main end of life. The path to
life is like a road from which at every point other
roads are leading oft'. At the starting point, there
are the physical appetites of hunger and thirst.
You resist the temptation to turn aside into the
broad ways of drunkenness and gluttony, and push
forward on the strait way of self-control in food
and drink. A little farther on the reproductive
instincts develop. The roads of licentiousness are
exceeding broad, and the destruction to which they
lead is swift and terrible. And the path that leads
to life is the strait and narrow way of chastity. By
inability to control these fundamental animal appe-
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tites the coarser and baser types of men are weeded
out and banished from the ranks of decency and
self-respect. The necessity to work opens up broad
ways of indolence by which it may be shirked, and
poverty and want are the end in which these roads
of laziness converge. The way to life lies along the
rugged heights of honest industry. The possession
of money again points out broad ways in which the
spendthrift may waste his substance on the one
hand, or the miser may shrivel up his soul upon the
other. The way to life leads through the narrow
gate of a wise and generous economy.
The necessity to buy and sell is a junction from
which branch off innumerable roads of fraud and
misrepresentation. Through the narrow gate of
strict honesty our wayfarer must press.
One does not travel far without meeting enmity,
misrepresentation, jealousy, treachery. These prov-
ocations all point to revenge, retaliation, bitterness,
and hate as the easiest and most natural roads to
take in opposition to these antagonistic forces.
He who will press on to life, however, must pass by
all these ways of angry self-assertion, and take the
straitened way of forbearance, long-suffering and
charity. Seventy times seven may be the provoca-
tions. As often must he resolutely confine his
footsteps to the strait path of love, which under all
circumstances seeks the highest good of every fellow-
man with whom he has to deal. Where rebuke and
correction are needed, these must be given without
malice or wrath. Where suffering caused by
another's sin must be borne, it must be endured
without repining and without resentment. At this
point you see the way of life becomes exceeding
strait. Frequent are the falls even of the most
faithful, at this stage.
Along this way of life lie many a wounded and
suffering brother. To pass by on the other side,
like the Priest and the Levite, is to depart altogether
from the narrow way. For this way is not broad
enough to permit one to evade close contact and
helpful sympathy with our unfortunate and waylaid
brothers. Not until in pure compassion, you have
bound up the wounds of your stripped and beaten
brother, and poured in the oil and wine of sym-
pathy and encouragement ; not until you have set
him upon his own beast of self-supporting, self-
respecting industry, and provided a future to which
he can look forward with hope, and on which you
can think with satisfaction; — not until then may
you pass this poor brother, without thereby being
yourself thrust out of this road which is so narrow
that unless love draw them close together no two
can meet or pass each other on it.
Then comes marriage and the creation of the
new family life. This indeed should be the brightest
and sweetest part of life's whole journey; and here
the pathway widens so that another may share its
joys and sorrows, its temptations and its triumphs.
And yet though wider, the pathway is not so wide
but that two who will walk thus united in the way
of life must be very closely bound together in bonds
of mutual esteem and love. Selfishness, censorious-
ness, self-indulgence, self-will are more fatal here
than elsewhere, and thorny, treacherous and troubled
are the paths which branch out into alienation,
antagonism, separation and divorce, from this point
where first our way of life widens just enough to
suffer two loving hearts to walk in it abreast. There
is room enough for two in the pathway, but only on
one condition. These two must be so closely bound
together in mutual fidelity and helpfulness and love,
that the two, in purpose, iuterest, and aim, are
really one.
Society and the state seem at first sight to mark
a broadening in the narrow way. The true citizen,
the man of genuine public spirit, is called upon con-
stantly to go out of his little, petty, private life; to
live for others and for all; to undertake tasks and
to assume responsibilities, not for his own private
interests, but for the public good. And the man who
does not open hand and heart freely ; who does not
give of time and money generously to his public and
political duties; — that man, no matter how excellent
his personal character, or how numerous his private
virtues; that man, in turning his back upon his
social duties, turns his back at the same time on
life, on heaven, on God. Into this public life every
true, brave man must enter, according to his capacity
and opportunity ; but having entered it, he will not
find it so broad a way as it at first appears. Under
the form of public service it is so easy to hide the
meanest and basest forms of self-seeking; under the
guise of public spirit it is so easy to cloak a selfish
ambition, that probably there is no sphere of life
that tries men's souls so searchingly; no place where
the gate of righteousness is so exceeding narrow,
and the way of duty so very straitened, and the
number of those who walk in it uprightly and con-
sistently, so extremely few, as in this path of public
service.
Suppose, however, all these stages safely past.
You are not yet at the goal. When you have almost
reached heaven it is still possible at one fatal point
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to plunge down into hell. You have passed the
mauy turning points successfully, where others have
gone astray. You have conquered obstacles to
which your weaker fellow-travellers have yielded.
You are still in the strait way; though multitudes
have turned aside to destruction at every point. Is
not this a good point at which to stop and look back ?
Shall we not rejoice that we have escaped what has
befallen so many of our fellows ? Shall we not now
thank God that we are not as other men?
This is the most critical point in the whole jour-
ney. This is where Scribe and Pharisee fall out.
" Whea the soul, growing clearer,
Sees God no nearer;
When the soul, mounting higher,
To God comes no nigher;
But the arch-fiend pride
Mounts at her side,
Foiling her high emprise,
Sealing her eagle eyes,
And, when she fain would soar,
Makes idols to adore,
Chaugiug the pure emotion
Of her high devotion,
To a skin-deep sense
Of her own eloquence;
Strong to deceive, strong to enslave."
Nowhere is the gate more narrow and the way
more strait than at this last point; No swelling
pride, no bloated conceit, no complacent satisfac-
tion at one's own superior virtue can enter here.
Only meekness, and lowliness, and self-forgetful-
ness and true humility can pass through this nar-
rowest of gates, and on up the most straitened
portion of the way as it winds up the heights to the
divine and the eternal life.
Thus in thought have we traversed this strait
and narrow way. We have stopped only at the
principal stations. At each of these we have seen
broad roads leading off to destruction on either
hand. If time had permitted us to stop at each
way-station we should have found at each one of
them little by-paths of mean self-indulgencies,petty
vices, secret sins, nameless abuses, by which one by
one in secrecy and solitude souls may sneak off
unobserved to corruption, decay and death. The
number of these ways is absolutely infinite, as the
Pythagoreans rightly said. There is only one way
of life ; and that leads straight through all these
multitudinous temptations. A single one of these
ten thousand sins will lead to destruction. Ten
thousand victories are necessary to bring a soui
to life. Like the warrior famous for fight, you
must win every battle or you are defeated in the
end. So searching and severe are the conditions of
the moral and spiritual life of man. Such in plain
terms are the facts of the ethical lifo, which find fit
expression in the figurative declaration of our Lord ;
" Wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth
to destruction, and many be they that enter in
thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitend the
way, that leadeth unto life, and few be they that
find it."
In so arduous and perilous a journey one needs a
strength, a steadiness, an inspiration greater than
his own. A mere individualistic ethics, whether of
the Stoic or Epicureau type, is utterly inadequate.
A bloodless ascetic may escape the grosser tempta-
tions of the flesh by the cold light of pure reason.
An impulsive, genial spirit will often fulfill his social
obligations by the mere instinct of good-nature and
good-fellowship. But the ascetic is a poor member
of society : and the good fellow of society is in dan-
ger of being betrayed by appetite and passion into
acts which in their results to others are most cruel
and uukind, and to his own character most shame-
ful and degrading.
And so the profounder ethical systems have
sought to impart an added strength to the individual
by taking him up into a larger whole. To this end
Plato draws up the outlines of his ideal Republic ;
and proposes to force upon the suppressed and
downtrodden individual an artificial and arbitrary
conformity to the requirements of the state. Plato
was right in affirming that the realization of the
individual can be found only in his organic relation-
ship to the larger life of which he is to be an
obedient member. Plato failed in so far as he
attempted to construct out of his own brain the
principles of the ideal social order, and proposed to
enforce the laws of this society upon the individual,
at the expense of those rights and relationships in
which the whole worth of the individual, and ulti-
mately the whole strength of society, must consist.
Aristotle declares the same great truth that the
righteousness of the individual must be found in
the relationship which he maintains to a larger and
higher order; when he declares that man is by
nature a social or political animal. Yet though he
appeals to history rather than to speculation as the
source of that ideal order ; and founds his system
upon existing facts rather than upon ideal fancies ;
for that very reason the Aristotelian ideal is limited
by the narrow and imperfect condition of human
society which prevailed in his day.
In the Aristotelian state there is no redress for
the slave ; no sanctity for woman ; no provision for
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the adequate relief of the unfortunate; no redemp-
tion for the outcast and the lost.
The principle of Aristotle, the same essentially as
the principle of Plato, is the absolute and the eternal
truth, that the individual can walk the narrow way
of righteousness only in so far as he accepts not pri-
vate, but public good as his standard, and makes
not selfish satisfaction but social service the prin-
ciple of conduct. Aristotle failed because, although
he widened the range of relationship and duty, he
did not make it universal and world-wide. There
remained human interests which his scheme did not
embrace; forms of social service for which it did
not call; heights of aspiration, depths of sacrifice,
for which it offered no motive and made no appeal.
Christ saw the infinite difficulty of the righteous
life not less but more clearly than Stoic or Epicu-
rean, Plato or Aristotle. He did not seek to evade
the problem as the Stoics did by withdrawing into
the narrow citadel of self, and maintaining there a
stolid indifference to the attacks of evil from with-
out. It was not to save himself, but to save others,
that he came. He did not smother the problem as
the Epicureans did in selfish indulgence, and the
determination to win for himself and his few friends
a tranquil and comfortable existence, at any cost.
Not to be ministered unto, but to minister : not to
enjoy himself in the select circle of a favored few,
but to give his life a ransom for many, was his aim.
In principle, Christ was one with Plato and Aristotle
in the profounder doctrine that he who will save
his life shall lose it, and that only he that will
lose the life of selfish individuality can find the
true life of organic union with the social and spir-
itual whole. Though oue with them in principle,
however, he transcended them both in the applica-
tion he made of it. The objective social order to
which he called the individual to surrender was not
a constitution drawn up by the insight of a philos-
opher, to be enforced by the sword of the soldier
upon the helpless mass of artisans: it was not any
one of the existing kingdoms of this world, with
its inheritance of caste, and privilege, and exclu-
siveness : it was nothing less than the universal
kingdom of God, of which the one law is love; into
which every child capable of receiving the love of
God and giving that same love out again in service
to others, might enter freely and on equal terms.
So multitudiuous are man's temptations, so
easily besetting are our sins, that the mere interest
a man takes in his own soul is not strong enough to
conquer them. He must get out of himself, or he
goes to destruction. He must find something higher,
larger, nobler than himself to love and serve, to
live and die for, or he is lost. It is the glory of the
great Greeks that they saw that truth ; and stated
the problem of personal morality in the larger terms
of the republic, and the essentially social nature of
man.
Christianity takes their conclusion as its start-
ing point; faces the larger problem as they stated
it ; and gives it not another abstract and partial
answer in additiou to the answers they had given,
but once for all the final and universal answer:
that man can find his salvation and his life in noth-
ing short of absolute surrender, supreme devotion
to the universal will of God, broadly conceived
as including the progressively unfolding righteous-
ness and blessedness of man. Receive this love of
God, this devotion to all good, into your hearts and
lives ; take upon you the yoke of service of every
divine principle and the burden of support to every
just and generous human cause, and iu that way
aud that way alone you will find the yoke of virtue
easy and the burden of duty light.
Members of the Graduating Class: We have
been studying together these past weeks the prob-
lem of the moral life; and we found that in order to
solve the problem of personal morality we had to
look beyond ourselves, and consider the claims and
interests of society of which we are inseparable
members. So ethics led to social philosophy. And
here again we found that social institutions are not
fixed and final facts, from which we can deduce
ultimate and unchanging laws; but that these are
in process of evolution; and what is right to-day
may expand into higher demands and loftier duties
to-morrow. Here we find the need of a higher will,
the same yesterday, to-day and forever, presiding
over all the changing phases of human evolution
and impelling man onward to ever fresh conquests
over nature, ever new forms of social organization,
ever higher ideals of individual culture and char-
acter.
To the good guidance of that higher Will the
college commends you all to-day. If you try to
walk through life alone, you are sure to go astray
into these broad ways that lead to destruction. If
you seek guidance simply in philosophy and make
social service your ultimate aim, you will be confused
and distracted by the conflicting theories and rival
causes that will claim your allegiance. Deeper than
yourselves, higher than your social environment,
you need the divine guidance, the Christlike exam-
ple, the Spirit's inspiration. Let me repeat now,
what in varying form we have been coming to all
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these past weeks. The only way to be morally
sound is to be socially serviceable ; and the only
way to be socially serviceable and reliable when
strains and crises come, is to put yourself once for
all into frank, reverent, obedient relation to the
absolute and perfect will of God, revealed in Jesus
Christ, and interpreted and perpetuated by the
Holy Spirit dwelling in regenerated human hearts,
and animating all beneficent human institutions.
The only practical way to be good is to try to make
the world better; and the only sure and steady way
to make the world better, is to hold communion
with the Best, with the Supreme Good, with God.
That you may be rooted and grounded iu loyalty
and love to the Absolute and the Eternal ; and thus
may be kept steadfast in the strait and narrow
way ; and so may enter into the noble and the
blessed life ; — this is for you all the College's part-
ing desire and prayer.
Junior Prize Speaking.
MEMORIAL HALL was crowded on the
evening of June 25th at the Junior
Prize Speaking. The parts were all well
rendered. Following is the programme :
The Puritans. — Macaulay.
Guy B. Mayo, Smethport, Pa.
Valley Forge. — Brown. John S. French, Norway.
Laska. — Desprez. Allen L. Churchill, Houlton.
The New South. — Grady.
Ralph T. Parker, Lebanon.
First Predicted Eclipse of the Sun. — Mitchell.
Arthur H. Stetson, Bath.
The South and Her Problems. — Grady.
George L. Kimball, Waterford.
Claudius and Cynthia. — Thompson.
Bert L. Bryant, Lowell, Mass.
The American Flag. — Beecher.
William M. Ingraham, Portland.
Ride Through the Valley of Death.— King.
George C. Webber, Auburn.
Tribute to Conkling. — Ingersoll.
Thomas V. Doherty, Houlton.
The Unknown Speaker. — Anon.
Hoyt A. Moore, Ellsworth.
The first prize was awarded to George C.
Webber of Auburn, and the second prize to
Ralph T. Parker of Lebanon. The judges
were Messrs. Foss, Mosher and Melcher, class
of '76.
Committee : B. L. Bryant, T. V. Doherty,
W. M. Ingraham.
Class Day.
Officeks of 1894.
President, E. H. Sykes.
Marshal, H. A. Ross.
The morning exercises were held in Me-
morial Hall. The Seniors marched in, led
by their marshal. Music was furnished by the
Salem Cadet Band. After the opening prayer
by Norman McKinnon, President Sykes intro-
duced George A. Merrill, who delivered the
following oration.
Class-Day Oration.
By Gr. A. Merrill.
In the history of Europe, no events stand out
more clearly from its dim background of petty trials
and triumphs than the crusades. Whenever they
are mentioned they awaken in every mind thoughts
of romance and chivalry. In imagination one can
see those long lines of knights, clad in the armor of
the middle ages — their burnished shields reflecting
the noon-day sun — their long plumes waving in the
breeze, while here and there, mounted on armed
chargers, are the leaders of these hostsj by noble
example inspiring confidence in their men, and
giving them courage to meet the difficulties before
them. They knew not the perils that awaited them,
of the privations they would suffer from heat and
hunger and disease ; yet some, to a slight degree at
least, realized the risk and danger of their journey.
They might not see their native land again ; they
might die before accomplishing their end. What,
then, was the force that impelled them to make such
a sacrifice? One thing explained all. That red cross
upon the breast of each crusader was Ihe sign of a
vow he had taken to wrest from the hands of infidels
the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. For this, he was
willing to renounce his wealth, his home, his life if
need be. Some there were, no doubt, who were
influenced by less worthy motives — ambitious thoughts
of gain and personal honor; but the great spirit that
moved them as one grand whole was reverent cour-
age and devotion to a holy cause.
The first crusade is one long story of successes
and defeats, of plunder and cruel bloodshed, and of
the final capture of Jerusalem. The crusaders'
triumph was signalized by one of the most wanton
massacres ever known to history. Their dealings
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with the Turks, who had so often harrassed and
betrayed them, taught them to have no mercy when
once their enemies were within their power. But the
privations of their journey had reduced the magnifi-
cent army of half a million to only a few thousand
men. For ninety years Jerusalem was governed by
Christian rulers. The fierce Turk and the Egyptian,
however, were not so easily subdued. The next
century was the scene of many attempts to win again
the Holy Sepulchre and of as many ignominious
failures.
A wild and fanatical superstition, a foolish delu-
sion— some will say. Yes, but consider the time
when these people lived. It was an age of mental
darkness, when physical warfare was about all that
absorbed the attention of men. The spirit and con-
ditions of society demanded an active, practical life,
giving no time for intellectual and spiritual growth.
Religion was not much more in the minds of those
war-scarred veterans than a superstitious devotion.
The Pope at Rome was looked upon as the highest
spiritual authority upon earth, and when he spoke,
all the world listened. It is no wonder, then, that
when the call to action came from such a source, and
no checks of reason arose, such as would invariably
be suggested to the most ordinary minds in a more
enlightened period, kings and princes, knights of
the noblest rank, responded with the highest loyalty,
and with implicit faith in the success of their enter-
prise.
Such devotion, such sacrifice of personal interests
to a remote object, demands respect and admiration
in whatever age or by whatever persons exhibited.
The crusades called forth all classes, and aroused the
attention of the most radically differing characters.
On the one hand we see Tancred, Richard the Lion-
Hearted, and Godfrey of Bouillon, men of the most
warlike and chivalrous natures, while on the other
we see Peter the hermit, and St. Bernard, poor
monks schooled by the cloister and the severest rites
of the Romish church. Here, too, we find enrolled
as the leader of a fierce, warlike band, that king,
beloved by his followers, and remembered by all for
his life of piety — the sainted Louis IX of France.
Observe, too, what wonderful results were brought
about by these holy wai-s. All nations were interested
in them. They bound together in common purpose
England, Germany, France and Italy. They brought
the West into touch with the East, leading gradually
to an interchange of thought and awakening of the
human intellect, to which we owe all that distin-
guishes our modern civilization from the religious
and political systems of the middle ages.
The days of chivalry are passed. Free from war
and surrounded by all that contributes to the ease
and refinement of an enlightened civilization, we
are apt to forget the fierce earnestness and intense
zeal of these old crusaders. But examine the history
of the world since the beginning of the Christian
era; inquire into the demands of the present age,
and see if there have not been and are not now calls for
loyal men and women to don the cross of consecra-
tion and to enter the ranks of crusading armies. At
all times there are worthy objects to strive for, and
as they appeal to and call into service the noblest
hearts, there are crusades now as truly and even
more truly than those fierce wars of the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries.
True, the nature of the conflict has changed from
age to age. Our Holy Sepulchre to-day is not the
same as that which aroused the enthusiasm of those
old warriors, seven centuries ago. With the excep-
tion of a few isolated individuals, who have failed to
catch the spirit of modern times, men are not now
struggling for authority. They are not striving to
subjugate the world. This spirit has long passed.
Once the cry was for freedom — emancipation. It
began far back in the past when the Rennaissance
swept over Europe. Its culmination may be said to
have been our own strike for liberty from the
oppressions of England, and that mighty protest
against tyranny — the French Revolution. A new
spirit is beginning to dawn upon the world of
religion, of politics, and of speculative thought —
the spirit of reconstruction.
Peace has come, but peace has its conflicts, even
though this may seem a paradox. Just in so far as
modern life is able to dispense with the rude methods
of the past, to substitute machinery for hand labor,
to maintain a system of arbitration instead of a
system of war, just in so far are the opportunities
for evil to creep into society becoming increased.
The individual, in many of his relations, is fast
becoming a slave to material things. The breach
between the higher and lower classes tends to widen
as the laborer is coming to recognize and assert his
personal rights. Character is a rarer thing to find
now among the masses of our citizens than it was a
hundred years ago. To prevent these evils from
spreading further and to avoid all like conditions in
the future, there is need of strong, efficient service.
Our Holy Sepulchre, then, the object for which all
are striving, who see the tendency of the times and
realize man's high calling, is to build up the charac-
ter of the people — to implant in them the principle of
true and noble living.
Our crusades to-day are both individual and
general. Every person has battles to fight with his
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own nature. Happier and wiser is he who is able to
rule his own spirit than he who can take a city.
They who join the general movement against the
foes of society must carry on these private crusades,
or they will not have the requisite spirit and strength
to meet the difficulties of the larger warfare.
A sin that has for thousands of years made sad
havoc in society and is still working out its demoral-
izing effects upon the individual, is intemperance.
Against this, as against a mighty fortress, modern
crusaders must hurl their implements of war. The
siege will necessarily be a long one, for the walls of
this stronghold are thick and high. Organized force
in the shape of the various temperance societies
throughout the world, have been and are assailing
with the mighty battering-ram of education, the
weakest point in its long line of intrencbments. Only
by a gradual process of educating public sentiment
until it recognizes the inherent hostility between
intemperance and public morals — until it realizes
the inconsistency of Christian principles with the
results of an African rum-trade, can this evil be
rooted out from the social soil.
Take away the saloon and what a transformation !
Many vices follow in its train. They are the effects
of which it is the efficient cause. It is so inseparably
connected with all forms of social evil, that one can
scarcely imagine the result of its removal.
But aside from social ills, there are defects in our
system of government, especially in the large cities,
which our crusaders must remove. Bribery and cor-
ruption in all their varied forms are inconsistent
with the character of a Christian nation. Such
methods of action must fall sooner or later because
they are not in accordance with that noble principle
laid down by Kant, the truth of which has often been
demonstrated — viz., that humanity should be treated
always as an end and never as a means for some
selfish purpose. More leaders like Dr. Parkhurst
are needed to awaken public sentiment to a more
active and effectual antagonism. Men, if they are
true to themselves, will not, as in the days of
Walpole, be regarded as mere machines, but rather
as members in the organic whole of human society.
Then, too, the superstitions and wrong ideas, so
long imbedded in religious thought, constitute strong
barriers that hold back our crusaders from the Holy
Sepulchre. They must be overthrown by improved
methods of warfare.
In order to bring about these varied results much
strategem must be resorted to. In the first place it
is folly to attack some isolated point, with all the
force at our command, and then, after it has been
won, leaving it unguarded, to attack the next. Work
must be carried on all along the line. It must be
slow, but sure. Reform of any kind cannot be im-
posed upon people by an outside force. It must
grow out of existing conditions. So the good general
is not discouraged if he does not see immediate
results following his efforts, but is content to labor on,
slowly and painfully, if need be, but faithful and
confident of ultimate success. He may be called
away before he can see light ahead ; but his labor is
not lost. His brother general takes up the work
where he has laid it down, and goes on to victory.
It must be remembered, also, that, as no one but
a foolish general would arrange his artillery far
away from the fortress he wished to capture and
discharge his shots into empty air, our armies to-da}'
must draw near to their enemies and their struggle
must be hand to hand. Words uttered from the
pulpit of an exclusive church are of no avail as
oifensive weapons. The University Settlement cru-
sade has taught us that reform must be carried on,
not from some distant and higher social centre, but
among the people themselves.
When one wishes to pour water into a glass, he is
not obliged to first remove the air with a pump ; but,
instead, he pours in the water, which, of itself,
forces out the air. In like manner it is impossible to
remove bodily any one of the social evils without
putting something in its place. Take away a man's
bad habits and furnish him with nothing to occupy
his thoughts, and you have injured rather than helped
him. "The last state of that man will be worse
than the first." A truth brought out very clearly by
Edward Everett Hale, in one of his temperance
works, is, that if a person is to be reformed from
an evil life, he must be given something to do for
others in like circumstances with himself.
The water that must be poured iuto the glass of
society to drive out the air of wickedness is Chris-
tianity— Christian education. This is what our cru-
saders must furnish to their fellow-men in bondage.
Filled with this "water of life," and free from the
foul air of death, they, too, will assume the cross
and fight manfully with us for the Holy Sepulchre.
If we examine the qualities in those old crusaders,
which are worthy of our imitation in carrying on
these mightier modern wars, we find first among
them that greatest of all traits of human character,
physical and moral courage. Another quality, hardly
less important, which, in all our conflicts with sin,
must show itself in thought and action, is sacrifice of
personal interests, or self-denial. Then, too, we
must have, as they had, in a remarkable degree,
inspiration and enthusiasm in our work — an exalted
faith and belief in the final success of our enterprise.
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Such qualities, guided by an enlightened insight into
the ways and means of accomplishing our ends, can-
not fail to finally win for us the Holy Sepulchre.
But these were qualities, also, in those champions
of the cross, which we must be careful to avoid.
They were the qualities that, to a considerable degree,
caused their overthrow. The greed and personal
ambition, the recklessness and cruelty that charac-
terized their career from beginning to end, are incon-
sistent with the true purposes of modern life. The
true man should feel that human society, in its
broadest signification, has claims upon him personally
and that the true end of his life should be to advance
the interests of all his fellow-men.
The closing years of this nineteenth century may
well be characterized as the period of discontent and
unrest. Proud as we may be of the high degree of
civilization we have reached, confident as we may
be of a brilliant future for humanity, we should
nevertheless recognize that the world is yet very far
from perfection. Perhaps the need of strong, positive
natures to turn public thought and activity into the
right channels was never more keenly felt than
to-day. Men are becoming dissatisfied with old
conditions and are longing for a new regime where
the individual will have his rights more freely
accorded to him and where society, as a whole, shall
realize more clearly the duty it owes to its members.
Classmates: We should realize, as young men
who have been accorded the high privilege of four
years' training here, that the responsibility for the
rise or fall of the social life in the communities which
we shall make our homes, will rest very largely with
us. In every line of business there will be an
opportunity to manifest that broad spirit of love
toward all men which Christ came to inaugurate. In
all our attempts at reform, we should be neither
radical nor extremely conservative; remembering
that no seheme for social betterment can be applied
until the people are, to a certain extent, ready for it;
and, on the other hand, that opposition is always one
of the conditions of progress. It is by means of
crusading armies composed entirely of men and
women, consecrated to the beneficent purpose of
uplifting humanity, that the results we desire are to
be brought about. Our weapons are body, mind,
and soul, the strength and health of youth. When
these are all employed in such a noble cause, the
help of God may always be relied upon; for it is
His divine will, working through men, that is
slowly but surely transforming the whole structure
of society.
After a selection by the band Mr. Andrews
read the Class Poem.
Class-Day Poem.
By H. E. Andrews.
'Tis said somewhere that nature's rule
Will not bear out the estimates
Of Fourier, who, grouping men
In phalansteries — aggregates
Each of a thousand souls — for each
A poet planned ; 'twere wiser done
To know her rule would hardly give
A thousand phalansteries one ;
And yet ('tis said) in countenance
Of fortunate youth's prerogative,
The college classes' laureate
Kind nature never fails to give.
They hail these marvellous laureates !
Who knows — so rarely they're indulged —
But nature breaks another rule.
And something new to them's divulged?
Old waiting world ! You world on which
A Plato's clapped the copyright !
Amongst these quoting laureates
Is one original in sight ?
Originality is rare.
And probably you've little hope
In all the numerous 'Ninety-fours
To find again Platonic scope.
You wait not for the something new ;
You smile to see this A. B'ed youth
Come strutting out of colleges
As having apprehended truth ;
And truth is mostly very old
(Although new spirits fill each age) ;
Then truth is long and puzzling, too ;
Alas for the youth who feels so sage !
You bantering, skeptical old world,
Jest on of youth's prerogative !
Even in his days of generous fire
He learns how hard it is to live,
Or, certainly, begins to learn ;
Begins to mingle with conceit
A doubt of you and of himself,
A questioning that chills his heat.
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Less tried in life, more agile he
To leap in dreams to large success ;
More tried, less hopeful he to find
One slow path up the ruggedness.
And, Bowdoin, this we thank you for
First of the wisdom you have taught ;
You've bidden us to cease to dream,
To quell conceit with honest thought.
We came to you — as Freshmen come —
We came to you untried indeed ;
You send us forth, — not wholly tried —
But told at least the trial's need.
With you we've journeyed pleasantly
But swiftly, Bowdoin, — you our guide
Could point to only mightier facts
That lay along on either side.
So broad, so many are the realms
We've passed with you, that, now the end
Is come, we may not tell the world
There's much of Truth we apprehend.
Not puffed with idle pride are we,
Not for our smattering elate ;
A complex, deepened universe
Confronts us as we graduate.
The voices that have charmed the centuries
Are sweet for thee. They pour their melodies
Upon thy restless heart, and soothe it well ;
They take thee from thy mood of pain to dwell
Amid divinest things ; thy soul's release
They bring and make it still with peace.
Their songs are thine, oh Youth, thy heritage!
And more has thou. For strength on many a page
Awaits thee, written there by strongest souls
Whom ages lean on, who have passed the goals
The blinder life seeks ; from the far, clear height
They see what meets not thy mist-shrouded sight ;
Down to thee wandering in the cloud they call,
Who toiled and wandered more than all
Thou hast, and tell thee of sublimity.
This call for thee. And even more for thee, —
The world in which thou art, — all nature's gift
The heavens above thee, and the hills that lift
Their heads to them, — the sunset, and the light
Of quiet stars to shine through all thy night, —
The vistas of the woods, the majesty
Of mountains, and the ceaseless murmuring sea.
The still-returning miracle of spring
Is thine; the winning, careless Aprils bring
Arbutus sweet and fair anemones
Into thy life ; the hills and fields and trees
Grow glorious for thee by a spell still strange
As if it were not old. Thy heart may change
With earth, — thy weariness will be
Transmuted by the wondrous alchemy
Of apple-blossoms to so full content
That thou will question what the dull word meant.
Nature and song are thine, and wisdom's strength
Awaits thee. Shall they through thy life's whole
length
Be wanting in the power to turn thy days
To good — to put and keep thee in the ways
Of reverence and service ? When they come
To thee, who see'st not where truth is — art dumb
With doubts, and blind, and, lifting thee
To insight, show thee that which thou shouldst be,
ls't not as if thy doubt had never been
And thou henceforth must leave the god within?
So strong is inspiration and the zeal
Nobility arouses! Ah. youth, feel
And greet the beauties of the universe
Confronting thee, perhaps they will disperse
Thy clouding doubts, now and again, but not
Forever. Loving beauty, to thy lot
Go forth, but know eternal zest
For reverence and service, for the best —
What thou shouldst seek — will not spring out of
such, —
That inspiration will not help thee much
Which comes from these thy shallow insights. Truth,
Thou hast not rightly apprehended youth !
'Tis thee the voices of the great and wise
Are calling, thee the world is bidding rise,
But not thee for thyself. Originality
Thou cravest — for thyself; 'tis not for thee.
Be thou content to be for truth a groove,
Aud seek old truth that error may not move
From past to future down thy life. But seek
It never for thyself — a thing so weak
Will not sustain thee ! On thy waters fling
The planks of others' interests and cling
To them. Nay, widely go through thy life's air
Thy wings thy neighbor's smile, thy neighbor's care,
Thy neighbor's smile — not for thyself — suppress
That self! His smile for his own happiness.
Go from these gates, and, in thy last farewell
To pleasant places where thy young lot fell,
Speak from the heart the love and gratitude
Thou owest her, thy mother, so imbued
With truth and patience to impart it. Say :
I love thee, Bowdoin, mother, and the way
Thou lov'st! Tell still thy sons this way ! Still bless
Thy centuries with this unselfishness.
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Under the Thorndike Oak.
The programme for the afternoon exer-
cises :
Opening Address. F. W. Dana.
MUSIC.
Class History. T. C. Chapman, Jr.
MUSIC.
Class Prophecy. R. H. Hinkley, Jr.
MUSIC.
Parting Address. F. G. Farrington.
MUSIC.
The Seniors, in cap and gown, marched
over to the oak, led by the band. When
seated, the Opening Address was delivered
by F. W. Dana.
Opening Address.
By Francis W. Dana.
It is with feelings that we cannot express that
we, as a class, draw now to the close of our college
career. Rare, indeed, are the centennial occasions
with which one is permitted to identify himself.
When, therefore, my classmates, this Class Day
shall live only in memory and maDy years have
rolled by, we may point, with justifiable pride, to
our connection with this centennial occasion, made
sacred to-day by hallowed memories of the past
and golden hopes for the future. As we stand
beneath this old oak and gaze upon surroundings
that have endeared themselves to us, thoughts rush
in upon our minds that no words can express or
even feebly embody. The illumined past rises
before us and we dwell with lingering earnestness
upon our noble past history. As we commune in
memory with such men as Longfellow, Hawthorne,
Cheever, and Pierce who, by the display of rare
genius, have bestowed fame upon Bowdoin, and
then pause to dwell upon the many who, in less
public pursuits and quieter walks, have added
dignity and worth to her name, we feel an inspi-
ration which is like the gentle breathing in— not of
promiscuous matter — but of some ever-living sub-
stance. It will be impossible to carry with us
through life any more helpful memories than these.
May a single glance at this noble retrospect serve
ever to strengthen them, encourage, inspire.
With the thought that the class of '94 completes
a glorious epoch in the history of Bowdoin, comes
also the thought that it is the first class to step out
into life upon a new epoch, whose infant form and
character is entrusted to us. Let us, therefore, be
careful, my classmates, what ideals we cherish. It
is probably true that the ideals of early manhood
are shrouded in mist, that they exist only in the
deep undercurrents of consciousness. Tet let us
take care that the ideal we have chosen does not
float vaguely before us in the dim haze of abstrac-
tion, that it be not a dream. Rather let us give it
at once some external form, make it clear-cut and
personal, and then, in its gradual development,
give it character and dignity. Moreover, let us not
hide it under a bushel, away from the world, but
take it with us into life and draw from our fellow-
ship with men that inspiration and support which
we need.
One further point I wish to emphasize, viz. : The
college man's power of influence. Let us recognize,
at the outset, the infinity of influence. Every phase
of this world in which we live is encircled about
with the magic halo of influence. A study of the
operations of nature now in progress upon the
earth's surface involves the geologist in nothing
more than a study of the laws of iufluence relative
to the formation of the earth's crust. The science
of biology is engaged in the unraveling of these
same laws of influence in their relation to life. The
theory of evolution lacks completeness because of
man's utter inability to trace back the laws of
influence to their ultimate source. In short, every
known science is engaged in the detection and con-
firmation of these subtle, infallible laws which
govern the universe and which are embodied in the
single word— influence. But the finite cannot com-
prehend the Infinite. We stand to-day amid a
world of influences that are unseen, unknown,
though felt. Grand and noble as has been our
insight into many of the great secrets about us, we,
nevertheless, see how the study of both natural and
scientific phenomena leads us into realms of thought
which baffle the intellect and invite only the most
abstruse speculations. And since, according to
Hugo, "abstruse speculations are full of head-
aches," let us turn a bit aside and consider those
laws of influence which are at work in a different
realm — the great world of humanity.
Both individual and national life and character
are mere composites of influence. In regard to the
former, Henry Drummond says : " If events change
men, much more persons. Men are all mosaics of
other men. There was a savor of David about
Jonathan and a savor of Jonathan about David.
Jean Valjean, in the masterpiece of Victor Hugo, is
Bishop Bienvenu risen from the dead." Thus the
sum total of character is but a bundle of influences.
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Every phase of work and life with which we identify
ourselves leaves its mark, however imperceptible,
upon us, although the effect of influence upon the
object or person that is influenced is never precisely
the same. " Upon the doctrine of influence, in
short," says one, "the whole vast pyramid of
humanity is built."
The college man's special power of influence may
be attributed to two things: his increased wisdom
and his broadened sympathies, for a man must not
only think clearly but he must feel deeply. Let
any man start out upon life with wisdom and sym-
pathy harmoniously blended and that man's power
of influence cannot be estimated. The cultivated
man, to whose mind has been opened the fountains
of knowledge, finds sources of inexhaustible interest
in all that surrounds him. Not only is he interested
in nature, art, poetry, and history, but also, unless
he be lacking in all moral and human interests,
particularly interested in mankind, among whom he
must live and act, and exert his power of influence.
To-day, fellow-classmates, we meet together for
the last time as members of this college ; to-morrow
we step out upon the broad plain of society. We
must identify ourselves immediately with the objects
about us. We shall find ourselves face to face with
the social problems which we have studied in the
abstract but must then deal with in the concrete.
To our surprise, perhaps, we shall find ourselves
looked up to by the community in which we dwell.
Our wisdom in destroying ill-regulated desires, in
correcting all bad or imperfect social institutions,
in establishing laws of equity and righteousness,
will be constantly weighed in the balance. But we
should not be surprised. The world expects and
rightly expects its highest service from its men
of college education. Who are the men to-day who
are looked up to in every community and called
upon to administer almost every high office or
trust ? Who are the men who have greatest power
in our national legislature? And who are the men
who are directing and moulding the thought and
sentiment of the world? In a vast majority of
cases the answer comes back : " The men of college
education." If this be true the college man's power
of influence is of the highest conceivable type, and
whether or not his life shall prove the realization of
the highest possible self depends largely upon his
regulation and use of his powers of influence.
The rotation of history's kaleidoscope brings to
view a great series of problems which at one time
or another have confronted the world. Gaze if you
will on all sides of you, and, as though incorporated
into the very life of to-day, there appears before
you in large indelible letters the great problems of
social welfare. A problem more complex or more
difficult has never existed. Yet I think we should
remember that human problems are always capable
of solution, and therefore should face the present
one with courage and hope. It is mere idleness,
beyond question, to search for some powerful reagent
to suddenly dissipate this problem of social welfare.
No sudden solution of a problem so vast in compass
and significance could ever be permanent. Its solu-
tion must be gradual. Let us direct our influence,
fellow-classmates, toward this end.
In hastening this end, probably no greater weapon
of influence does the college man wield, than that of
public speech. It is the means to action, and in
order to be effective must reflect not ouly the power
of wisdom but the contagion of sympatbjr. Sym-
pathy is the grand interpreter not only of literature
but of human life. Yet what a dearth of it is man-
ifest ! How many failures can we attribute to its
lack ! How much easier would the wheels of society
turn if a larger and broader sympathy were every-
where manifest, and how much nearer solution
would move this problem of social welfare. Whether
in art, literature or life, wisdom and sympathy must
go together. The one is as essential as the other.
So in closing, my fellow-classmates, I would urge
that we carry with us into life, first, a high ideal ;
and second, au abiding sense of the power of influ-
ence. Let us build upon the foundation stones of
character which here have been laid. But let us
remember one thing, that " character is not cut in
marble, it is something living and changing, and
may become diseased as our bodies do."
To you our friends, who have honored us with
your presence, we extend our cordial greetings, and
bid you share with us our honest pride in the pros-
perity of Bowdoin, and her noble record. To the
self-sacrifice of parents and the patient devotion of
teachers and friends, we owe a debt of gratitude
which we can never repay. May our future loyalty
to Bowdoin attest our belief in this beloved institu-
tion, which will be forever to us our Alma Mater.
The History of the class was given by
T. C. Chapman, Jr.
Class History.
By T. C. Chapman, Jr.
The mighty Cicero at the beginning of the most
elaborate of all his orations, congratulated himself
that there was so great a mass of material to choose
from, that he could not possibly fail to say some-
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thing. The historian of this day also has a subject
so replete with anecdote and with stories of human
struggle and success, that, like Cicero, his difficulty
is not in finding a place to begin his discourse, but
a chance to bring it to an end.
The plain record of any life is full of deepest
interest. Every heart has its points of contact
with the heart of all humanity. To touch one
life, sets in vibration the whole bundle of cords by
which that life is bound to others ; and the interest
in any story is in direct proportion to the number
of hearts that those vibrations move. A life that
is isolated, is uninteresting because incomprehen-
sible. The ties and associations of society, of
church, of school, comprise not rarely the best that
there is in life. The influence of a common cause
or a common allegiance to any institution gives to
the heart a fuller, freer motion, than it could attain
alone. It is under the influence of four years of
constant association with his college and class, that
every class-day historian must write. The feeling
of the helpful interest of forty, fifty, or a hundred
fellows has been a constant inspiration to high
endeavor. The purpose of loyalty to his college
and to his comrades has all the time been growiug
and developing, till the idea that his college is
somehow the best of all colleges, and that his class
is easily the first of all classes, has taken full
possession of his mind. If he has witnessed vic-
tories he rejoices. If he has noticed failures he is
still hopeful and undaunted, and when he speaks
well of his class it is not mere boasting. So when
any member of this class glories in old Bowdoin
and '94, you may know that he speaks from a loyal
conviction of the worth of his theme that will out-
last life itself.
Successful men do not need to boast. Neither
do eminent classes, and '94, if it has not always
been victorious, has at least attained a position
where it can well afford to be modest. Indeed,
any one who had been present at the last three Ivy-
Day exercises could Dot help thinking that modesty
is one of our chief characteristics. The class that
began our training soon found itself outdone
and fell to boasting to keep up appearances. The
class that followed us has enviously set up a claim
for the second century of our college before the
first has closed gloriously with the class of '94.
However, they were in great need of powder with
which to celebrate their cause, and so we pardon
them for taking it.
It may be that a few members of this class are
open to the charge of being conceited, but in every
case there is good reason, for overlooking it. One
has a " crust " that he developed during a two years'
stay at Colby, for which he was not responsible.
Another gets his conceit direct from mother nature,
while two or three are such artists in " crust" that it
is a real pleasure to have them with us. However,
as a class we prefer to leave our fame in the care of
our friends, confident in our proven merit. Not
a few have already congratulated the college on the
special appropriateness of celebrating the year of
graduation of a class like ours.
Recently two old graduates were overheard
speaking of their Alma Mater. Said one, "The
place has changed a great deal since we left."
"Yes," replied the other, "since '94 entered, the
college has improved immensely."
I do not mean to insinuate that all the advances
made are due to this class. I have merely quoted.
I have heard also that the Science Building was
made so large on the advice of our Senior chemistry
division, who claimed that, according to their expe-
rience with certain of their number, there are some
fellows who must have a whole roomful of apparatus
all their own, before the others could get undisputed
possession of anything larger than a glass tube or
blow pipe. The Observatory, the Art Building, the
improved courses of study, the increased endow-
ments, the additions to the Faculty are not claimed
as wholly due to our genius or enterprise. We
only rejoice in the fact that Bowdoin has prospered
in every way while we have been in her care.
It was on the J6th of September, 1890, that the
class, which was to see all these changes, began to
muster on the campus. In the course of a few days
about fifty had appeared. Most of these were
wholly unacquainted with one another, though a few
had been classmates in fitting schools and came
prepared to show one another's fitness for the new
order of things. Portland sent a delegation of
twelve men, every one a star of the first magnitude.
Of these, Butler and Burnham soon ceased to shine
on us, and Ingraham was obliged to leave on
account of ill health. Horsman and Bagley, who
later became the famous proprietors of the Jew-
store, were among the first arrivals from the East.
All soon came to an earnest acquaintance with one
another and incidentally with themselves. From
confidence in the class it was but a step to aggress-
ive, manly self-respect, and the class has still a
reputation for independence and originality.
Some incidents of this time of getting acquainted
are well worth chronicling.
One day a timorous Freshman was waiting in
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Professor Lee's corner of chaos to learn the result
of examinations he had been taking, when a young
man entered with a stately and dignified bearing
that proclaimed him at least a Senior if not a mem-
ber of the Faculty. He walked straight toward the
frightened Freshman and, with a polite bow, inquired
if he were Professor Woodruff. He received in reply
a smile that meant ''You're only another one after
all," and then Francis Dana turned to take up else-
where his career of conquest of the Faculty.
That class meeting down across the railroad was
the first great event. There we voted to cut recita-
tions for the week, and immediately felt ourselves
heroes with nothing to do through the rainy days
that followed except to dream of victory and keep
an eye out for Sophs.
We did not neglect our social duties, however,
but kept our rooms at the disposal of our friends.
We came upon the stage of college life with such
calm assurance of our right to full possession, that
we might have forgotten the other classes but for
their humbly expressed desires to share our hospi-
tality. We treated our guests with consideration
always, and with fruit or cigars by special request.
In the opening games we won the foot-ball and
rope-pull. In base-ball we played a game that
brought 'varsity honors to seven of our men, and
two of those who did not make the 'varsity later,
were so evidently out-classed that they gave up the
sport; Stevens reappearing only in the Senior game
and Nichols falling back into '95, where no ball-
playing is allowed. During that first fall term a
few became acquainted with the streets and roads
of Brunswick in the course of long walks. To
others, the gymnasium was a never-failing source
of delight until our presence there was required by
Professor Whittier. Then the monitor began to
receive suggestions of favors he might win, if he
would only mark them present without looking too
closely to see if they were. But " Doc " always does
his duty, and bribes had no effect on him. "Doc,"
you will remember, was the object of that famous
exhortation to "try again, Currier. You'll do it
next time." Sykes, also, owes something to the
kindly ministrations of the gymnasium instructor
which were rendered necessary by his great ambi-
tion for bar work.
At the exhibition we did not get the cup, though,
like all Freshmen, we thought we deserved it. Our
compensation came from the superior work of A. J.
Lord, who performed his difficult tricks with such a
complacent, look-at-me air that the class cynic was
led to say that he had no doubt that A. J. was a
good Y. M. C. A. man. He certainly gave evidence
of loving one Lord.
With the Faculty we early established relations
of mutual regard and helpfulness, and were con-
gratulated thereon by Mr. Files.
To be sure, we learned a great deal from our
instructors. In fact we did not find any one to
whom we could give points in everything, until we
came to those famous discussions of Adam Smith
and kindred subjects in Senior year. But we cer-
tainly prompted Professor Moody on the value of
three times two. We gave Professor Pease some
points in discipline. Hinkley and Plaisted gave
them all a course in scientific bluffing that is still
unsurpassed and was unrivaled until McKinnon
came.
Rupie showed a talent for politics that would
rouse the shade of Machiavelli to envious wrath,
and Archie showed a meekness of spirit that we all
appreciated, though it must have fallen into innocu-
ous desuetude in the class of '95 which he has since
joined.
At the ushering in of spring several showed
their precocity by taking part at $7 each. The
year passed quickly and pleasantly on the whole,
and at last the time of our entrance upon Sopho-
moric duties arrived, and was finely celebrated by a
banquet at the Falmouth in Portland. As Sopho-
mores, we had a great deal to do. The entering
class, were perfectly willing to run things, though
they necessarily lacked both wisdom and experience.
While President Hyde was giving them the knowl-
edge, we were imparting the experience. Still our
efforts were not appreciated and were finally
stopped by the labors of '95's "natural leaders,"
who got a pull on the jury. That, you know, was
before Butch Leighton became chairman, else there
would never have gone from the executive mansion
those letters that caused such perturbations in the
hearts of fond parents. The guileless Farrington
would not then have received that peremptory sum-
mons to come home to explain, nor would Bagley's
mamma have felt obliged to come to Brunswick to
intercede for her dear son. But we had shown such
a decided superiority in all the opening games that
our position was assured, and no one really suffered
except those who needed the discipline we were not
allowed to give.
In the recitation room Professor Lawton was
this year the cynosure of all eyes, including his own
and Mrs. Lawton's. We enjoyed the story of his
courtship, his foreign travels, his position as a favored
contributor to the Atlantic Monthly. Yet he was a
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thorough scholar and always ready to ohlige a
student. The only trouble was that Bowdoin is
neither Bates nor Vassar. His reception to '95 was
the occasion of a famous lockout in which all took
part, though '94 was particularly interested in the
antics of certain belligerent Freshmen.
In the spring, the illness of the popular Professor
of Biology brought to naught our expectations of a
course in botauy with him. Still we had so much the
more time for tennis and for the enjoymeut of the
particularly fine courses iu French and English.
The class boat race vindicated Captain Buck, and
the excellent time made was a partial atonemeut
for the defeat of the year before.
At the beginning of Junior year we took up
astronomy, and the whole class shone in renewed
splendor with the meteors of wit and wisdom which
Merritt and J. E. Lombard flashed across our sky.
The gentleman from Jay also won renown for
original work in physics, but we promised not to
tell how he boiled that brick pending an applica-
tion for a patent on the process. In history we
met, for the first time, with Professor Wells, an
instructor whose learning is surpassed only by his
great natural endowments of heart and brain. His
call to another field meant to us more than the loss
of any other man who could have gone from us.
Our recitations to him were enlivened by the advent
on the scene of Father McKinnon and Papa Sheaf
and their four friends from the seminary on the
Penobscot. Mac, in particular, had reason to remem-
ber the slaughter of the Bangor Monks at the battle
of Chester, a slaughter which was renewed at
various times throughout the year. From his join-
ing us at the same time, and for other reasons,
Francis Frost will always be associated with the
monks in our minds. This year a new society, the
B's, was established. This society was beneficent
iu its aim and successful in its execution. Our Ivy
exercises and our Junior speaking are still unex-
celled.
At last came Senior year with its pleasaut mem-
ories and its anticipations of future conquests in the
wide, wide world. Windleband was our great
stumbling-stone, but we all took heart when Presi-
dent Hyde told us that in ten or twelve years we
might understand that author's exposition of the
history of human thought. Our lectures in English
Literature were delightful dreams. That word
"dream" might be used literally of one or two of
the fellows, but I will mention no names. The
courses under one instructor were a long, hard cam-
paign in which the most frequent question by the
council fire was: "What is your judgment, Mr.
Ross?" or " What do you say to that, Mr. Simpson?"
and the most memorable marching order was
"Gentlemen, you may leave the room." Honors
were easy at the close of the last battle, though the
instructor kept his own record of the dead.
The class statistics are as follows:
Our tallest man is Elias Thomas, Jr., who towers
6 feet 1£ inches above the track. Tom Thumb is
F. Knight, 5 feet 3 inches. Oldest and second tall-
est is Smiley, 34 years. Farrington has the honor
of being the class heavy-weight ; 186 pounds of good
nature are his portion. Three men contest for the
honor of lightest man ; they are Merrill, Michels,
and Knight — 130 pounds. Youngest roau, Libby,
19 3Tears 7 months.
Average age of class, 22 years, 8 mouths ; aver-
age height, 5 feet 64 inches; average weight, 145
pounds.
There are 26 Republicans, 15 Democrats, 1
Independent, 4 unaffiliated.
As near as can be found out there are 14 engaged
men among us, and by a strange coincidence there
are 14 who believe in Women's Rights. The four-
teen fortunate individuals may be easily discovered.
19 use tobacco, 24 do not, 3 would if they could.
10 will enter the ministry; 6 will study law; 6 will
undertake to decrease the population ; 5 will teach ;
7 will go into business of some kind; 3 journalists;
9 undecided.
There are 23 Congregationalists, 4 Methodists,
2 Unitarians, 2 Free Baptists, 2 Episcopalians,
and 13, although all Christians, have no religious
preference.
Looking back from to-day the years at Bowdoin
seem short but full of pleasure. We leave here a
good name as a class, and can point to good men
that we have sent into every department of college
life. In base-ball and tennis we have reason for
pride. Pickard and Dana have had their full share
of honors in state and college tournaments, and
Hinkley is still part owner of the state champion-
ship in doubles.
On the diamond, our seven men have done
honest, faithful service for the honor of old Bow-
doin. In foot-ball, we have in Sykes the best quar-
ter and acting captain that ever played in Maine,
while Stevens, Chapman, Ross and Thomas make a
company of players whose places certainly cannot
be filled by any four men now in college. Thomas
also holds a college record in track athletics. In
scholarship it is harder to make comparisons. The
scholar's career is less brilliant than the athlete's,
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yet we have a few names that we shall always recall
with pride. Simpson, Flagg, Farrington, Andrews,
and youngest and most versatile of all, Fred Libby,
are but a few of the many who have done conscien-
tious and successful work. We realize that the
time and energy spent here cannot bring their full
reward. Yet we take pride in the record we have
made, and we trust that hereafter the lessons we
have here learned may always be devoted to good
purposes, that the name of God may be the more
revered, that the fame of our state and nation may
be clearer, and the whole world be better for our
having spent these four years at old Bowdoin.
It is our wish that the magic numbers of '94
may yet win the applause of as wide a circle of
friends, as has ever been reached by any body of
alumni that the college has sent out.
Mr. Hinkley's witty and well-delivered
Prophecy was well received.
Class Prophecy.
By E. H. Hinkley.
In these days of advance, when the march of
progress has made itself felt in every seeince, and
has opened up so many roads to knowledge, you
may reasonably expect a prophet, of all others, to
do away with bare imagination, and summoning to
his aid the new-born knowledge of physics, write
a prophecy that would comply strictly with the
truth.
With this in mind I began my work. After
several days of contemplation it dawned upon me
one evening, that the deeds and glories of this
illustrious class would be revealed to me in a dream.
Doubtless I was impelled toward dreams, owing to
the fact that twice each day, under the spell cast
upon us by the honied words of our beloved Pro-
fessor MacDonald, it had been my custom, and that
of the class, to take a morning nap. Here was my
opportunity !
For several mornings I entered the recitation
room, took my seat, and, resting my head on a
classmate's shoulder, was soon dead to the world
and the Professor. But it availed me nothing, for
no sooner had my dreams taken definite form than I
would be awakened by a mighty uproar, and would
hear the sweet voice of our instructor exclaim,
" Gentlemen, you may leave the room."
Thwarted in my dreams, I grew desperate. On
the night of the Athletic Exhibition, hearing that
dark spirits were abroad, I hied myself to the cam-
pus, hoping that they might give me aid. Again I
was disappointed, for, although spirits were abun-
dant, their only theme was " Theophilus Walker."
As a result of these disappointments I offer you
to-day a prophecy written without the aid of dreams,
dark spirits, or split, and I shall ask you to look
forward ten years, ten years from this week, if you
will, and view Bowdoin College in 1904, and take a
hurried glance at the men who have gathered here
to celebrate their decennial.
Many changes have taken place in the college,
its grounds, and its methods. Thanks to our alumni,
we possess an athletic field, and through the kind-
ness of friends of the college, a new dormitory has
been erected, and with the completion of our new
library building, the campus of old Bowdoin will
compare favorably with any in this country. With
all these changes I am proud to say that Bowdoin
still remains a college in every sense of the word.
While constantly raising and extending her courses,
it keeps the class united, resulting in a healthy class
spirit, and it has firmly refused to part with its
customs, its college spirit, and in a way, its useful-
ness, by the admission of women.
But even better than this, the College is still
under the guidance of a man who, in spite of attrac-
tive offers from other noted colleges and universi-
ties, remains here to instruct and to send forth to
take their place among the leaders of men, the boys
from the Pine Tree State.
And now I will endeavor to show you what
President Hyde and Bowdoin College have done for
the Class of '94.
Bright and early one morning, in the last of
June, 1904, 1 walked upon this campus, and, glancing
around, my eye struck an enormous poster announc-
ing the Commencement Concert, to be given by the
sweet singers of Maine, Miss Dora Wiley and Mr.
Albert J. Lord. Our dear Albert had kindly con-
sented to leave his pulpit in Ellsworth to favor us
once more with his angelic .voice.
As I neared Memorial Hall I discovered Farring-
ton and Flagg, seated in the shade, and knowing
that it was there I'd find my knowledge, I joined
them. After finishing their discussion on the rela-
tivity of the moral standard, they returned to
earthy subjects once more, and to them I am greatly
indebted for what is to follow.
Farrington was a professor in one of the Western
colleges, but had returned to the East some weeks
before Commencement, and had seen and visited
many of his old classmates. Bagley, he told me,
had taken Whit's advice and tried " honesty," but
found there was no money in it, and, naturally
enough, became sheriff of Cumberland County.
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Simpson had become a smart country lawyer, and
what is rather a rare occurrence, was elected to the
Maine Legislature by the Democrats.
Wilbur was also a member of the same house.
Having met with great success as a teacher, the
Republican voters of his district sent him to Augusta,
and it was a happy move, for it seems that in a
heated discussion, Simpson accused the Speaker of
arsruing around a circle, whereupon Wilbur, from
the Republican side of the house, taking advantage
of the momentary stillness that followed such a
crushing blow, shouted, "Sit down, Simpson, you've
got wheels in your head." It is needless to say that
Wilbur carried the day.
At this point my attention was drawn to a group
of young men standing near Massachusetts. Far-
rington explained that they were the Doctors of our
class. On close inspection I found them to be Hors-
man, who had settled at Princeton ; Leighton, who
enjoyed a large practice in Portland ; Stevens, whose
fame as a journalist had preceded him, and had helped
to make him a prominent man in medical discussion ;
Chapman, who practiced in San Francisco; Leven-
saler, who was comfortably settled at Thomaston ;
and Buck (better known as little Jimmy Dugan) who,
in addition to his practice, pitches the Bath team to
victory in many a base-ball contest.
Flagg, superintendent of the Boston schools, had
a peculiar experience on arriving in Brunswick. He
came down from Boston several days before Com-
mencement week to confer with Prof. Little in regard
to the arrangement of books in the new library
building. It seems that on entering the campus a
familiar sound struck his ears, and it is whispered
that a smile appeared on his face, growing broader
and broader, as he realized that Bowdoin's good old
custom of "wooding" was not a thing of the past.
Upon hearing that the Professor wooded was none
other than Professor MacDonald, he fell in a fit.
Charles, as usual, had kept his eyes and ears open
and gave me these points.
Frost, after graduation, settled in Lowell, and is
now one of the editors of its brightest papers.
Andrews followed up the study of literature, and
fills perfectly his position as Assistant Professor of
English Literature at Harvard.
Allen, it seems, spent three years at one of the
English Universities striving to discover the exact
date of the landing of the Jutes.
Bliss studied for the ministry and is settled over
one of the largest and most influential churches in
Boston. Short sermons and beautiful music charac-
terize his services.
Baxter turned his efforts in a literary direction,
and .has just published a book, the title of which is
the essence of the book, — "Why I Didn't Buy Any
Text-Books Senior Year, or How to Get Through Your
Last Year on $600 and Save Enough to Get Married
Immediately After Graduation." Incidentally I will
mention that he is secretary and treasurer of
twenty-seven different organizations.
Briggs, Currier, Flood and Spinney, all are prin-
cipals of schools in New England.
Michels has stuck to the soil and is dubbed
" Brunswick's Gentleman Farmer."
While busy with my notes the slender form of
William Put. Thompson appeared. I asked him
several questions about his occupation, but his only
answer was the bright saying of one of Brunswick's
fair maidens, " Oh, drifting, simply drifting."
At this juncture I noticed three real sports coming
up the path, dressed in the latest style. They proved
to be the three merchant princes of this class, Whit-
comb of Ellsworth, Glover of Rockland, and Ander-
son, who had made his fortune in the manufacture of
chewing-gum in New York.
Closely following our merchant princes were the
Damon and Pythias of '94, Bryant and Littlefield.
After graduation they separated — luckily, and are
now in business, Bryant in Saco, Littlefield in Phila-
delphia.
Libby is one of the shining lights of this class.
Five years ago he was called to Chicago University
as an assistant Professor of Philosophy, and there are
those who whisper that his future is very promising.
In Bowdoin the name of Chapman carries with it
a literary flavor. Trelawney Clarendale has not
been found wanting, and his published books now
number more than a score. Can it be possible that
another Hawthorne is in our midst?
Dana is in business in Boston. He is here,
however, unmarried, but not without hope, for here
is a little verse he sent to Rupie :
" Oh Rupie dear, come back, come back,
Come back again with me,
And then we will fly on the wings of the morn
To that little spot by the sea."
DeMott has a large church in Chicago, and he is
to that city what Dr. Park hurst was to the city of New
York at the time of our graduation.
The name of Little Frankie Knight resounds in
and about Old Orchard since he gave up his law
practice and became captain and second base of the
Old Orchard base-ball team.
Some little time after leaving college Merritt was
left a considerable sum of money by a relative. It
went to his head and resulted in his going to New
York, where he soon became a member of the swag-
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ger set. At his cottage at Newport, however, he
remembers his classmates and often invites them to
dinner (hot or cold as desired).
Ross, after two years spent in instructing the
young " How to get strong and how to stay so," set-
tled into business, and with his wife, his pipe, and
his rocker is a picture of contentment.
Pickard entered journalism, and by hard work
and perseverance climbed the ladder rapidly. He
is now the editor of the New York Tribune, and his
editorial columns are brimful of encouragement to
New York Republicans as to the result of the fall
election for President. It is needless to say that the
Republican nominee is a man who, having served
with marked ability for two terms, has been unani-
mously re-nominated to be the party's standard-bearer
for the third time. Bowdoin alumni will cast a
solid vote for Thomas B. Reed.
Sykes is a smart young lawyer in Auburn.
Plaisted is a pension lawyer, and were he not on
the wrong side, great things might be expected of
him politically.
Moore, Ogilvie, Smiley, and McKinnon all fill
important positions in church work.
W. W. Thomas, 3d, spent several years after his
graduation in travel, and now resides in Portland.
He is truly a gentleman of leisure, and at every
opportunity he visits Bowdoin to see the athletic
contests and to give advice to the youthful managers
of the base-ball team.
Far different with his brother Elias, who went
into the lumber business. Hard work and level-
headedness has had its effect, and he is now classed
as one of Maine's richest men. I had the pleasure
of visiting him at his home in Portland several
months ago, and it did my heart good to see Elias
sitting before the fire with his two boys (they were
twins) on his knees. It may interest you to know
that their names were Elias 3d and William Widgery
the 4th.
Sheaf did not put in an appearance, but the class
secretary informs me that he has a comfortable parish
at McAdam's Junction and is very busy gathering in
the sheaves. I understand also that Sheaf has rather
taken a backward step since graduation, and still
preaches hell and damnation sermons. In fact I am
told that he always ends his sermons with this little
verse.
"Bach grain of sand on Sahara's plain
Stands for a million years of toil and pain,
And when these countless grains have run
God's vengeance then has just begun."
Classmates of '94, Ladies and Gentlemen : Many
of you have, no doubt, wondered why it is that none
of the members of this noble class have brought
glory and honor to old Bowdoin and to themselves
by becoming Governors, members of Congress, Chief
Justices and Presidents. This instantly explains
itself when you recall the fact that this prophecy
touches only the first ten years of our real life.
Beyond that, who knows ?
A light rain began to fall and a large part
of the audience hastened to cover and thus
missed the fine Parting Address.
Parting Address.
By F. G. Farrinqton.
Another year has passed, and old Time in his
flight has called our class in its turn to bid farewell
to its college home. It is not an easy thing to
say the word, that means the breaking of chains that
four years of pleasant associations and friendships
have forged about us. We have often looked over
this beautiful home of ours, and have loved it, but
never before has it seemed to us what it does to-day ;
never before have we realized the strength of our
affection for our Alma Mater.
As we assemble on this spot, so sacred in the
hearts of Bowdoin's sons, the very ground seems to
give "tongues unto the silent dead." The voices of
Longfellow and Hawthorne speak to us from the dim
past. Here amid the same scenes, that have inspired
so many true students in the past, we have played
our part, and now are about to be enrolled as actors
in a sterner play. Every heart is hushed as the
thought of the. great untried future beyond comes
stealing over it. We stand in the great To-day
of our lives, and the still greater To-morrow waits to
receive us.
There is no time so good for one to see where he
stands in his relations to life and men as when the
heart is in the hush of unselfish thoughts, and now
while we, young men with life before us, are about
to leave this institution, may it not be with the sole
purpose of advancing our own selfish ends, but may
we remember that we are members of a great broth-
erhood with common interests. Freely we have
received and now may we freely give. Life with its
duties and responsibilities, is real and earnest in its
significance. No man can live for himself alone.
Ready and willing service in all good causes is what
the world needs, what the world demands from every
true man, and he who serves best the present age
serves best coming generations.
This year witnesses the close of one long chapter
in the history of our college, and on its pages can be
read many fair names. May the chapter begun be
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as prosperous as the one just closed, and it is a part
of the duty of each one of us that he do nothing to
mar or blacken the whiteness of its pages. For four
years we have together reaped the benefits that those
who represent our college have made possible. We
have partaken freely of all that wise and generous
minds could put before us. To them we owe grati-
tude unspeakable. To the college as a whole we
owe the best that is in us. Every worthy deed and
noble purpose adds a new lustre to the already
bright name of Bowdoin. Every ignoble purpose
and unworthy act dims the lustre thereof, and our
duty to Bowdoin is but our duty to the world at
large.
We stand to-day on the line that divides our col-
lege life from the life of reality beyond. From this
place, hallowed by so many tender memories, we are
about to step out into the grander school of life.
Will this step sunder forever the ties of love and
friendship that bind heart to heart? God forbid!
May they never be destroyed, and may each of us
long remember the dear old class of '94 with a swell-
ing heart.
As we look back over the four years that we have
spent here together there may be sighs for the things
done, regret for the things undone, but let the past
serve as a stepping-stone to the vantage ground of
the future. What is lost is lost ; what we have won
is ours forever. With a sigh for the past, a tear for
the present, and a heart courageous for the future, it
is ours to become an active part in the moving and
changing world about us.
Classmates, may this parting be parting in name
alone, and may future years find us true brothers
and students in that class which is mankind. To-day
we stand a unit, and the roll-call shows every man
present. God grant that it may long be so ; but the
future no man knows.
For the last time we stand together as a class,
and whatever petty feeling may have existed lies
buried deep beneath tender thoughts. Farewell it
must be, and may the God who has followed and
united us keep us forever united.
Thoughts come to us of the many happy and
prosperous hours spent in this spot of rare loveliness,
but they come to say that it can be no more forever.
But as the dying rose still gives forth its odor, so
shall the flower of memory, though ever fading,
yet preserve much of its original charm. O college
days, how quickly ye have fled, and now ye are
numbered in the past, which no man can recall.
Yes, ye are gone forever.
Old Bowdoin, thy name we love; thee we thank
for thy fostering care. Thou hast made us heirs to
the grandest heritages of learning. Thou hast to-day
unlocked for us the gate of the future, and we stand
at the threshold and look down the broad ways of
life, not knowing whither we go, but trusting in the
God in whose name thou hast reared us. To thy
walls we bid farewell ; thy name we take with us,
and on our hearts be it engraved forever.
Farewell, dear old Bowdoin and '94.
Smoking the Pipe of Peace.
The class, seated in a circle, each took his
turn at pulling the pipe. A few seemed
unaccustomed to handling the implement,
but the majority took hold of it as if it were
a long familiar friend.
Singing the Class Ode.
Standing in a close body, the Class Ode
was then sung.
CLASS ODE.
By H. E. Bryant.
Air — "Spanish Cavalier."
Four years in union strong
Have quickly come and gone ;
Too soon the parting hour will arrive.
But still, till life is o'er,
We'll cherish 'Ninety-four :
In memory shall that dear old class survive.
Adieu, boys, adieu,
We'll ever be true
To Bowdoin and the Class of 'Ninety-four,
Upholding with our might
Their banners for the right,
Extolling them for now and evermore.
As time with rapid pace
Has changed each form and face,
Our hearts have only been the firmer bound ;
Till at this parting hour
"Farewell" with sad'ning power
O'erwhelms us with its most unwelcome sound.
Adieu, boys, adieu,
We'll ever be true
To the centennial class and each other ;
So now, while gathered here,
Let's give a hearty cheer
For the class and our dear foster-mother.
(Cheer.)
'Et7] ixarov Bowdoin, Eah ! Eah ! !
Tiaarjpeq y.ai ivEvijxovra.
B-O-W-D-O-I-N Rah ! Rah ! ! Rah ! ! !
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Cheeking the Halls.
With band in front, the tour of the build-
ings was made and a good lusty cheer given
for each. In front of Memorial Hall "Auld
Lang Syne " was sung, and with a final hand-
shake the class separated.
Dance on the Gkeen.
The evening was splendid for the danc-
ing, though perhaps a trifle cool. The floor
was rather crowded, but all had a good time.
Supper served by Robinson.
Concert.
1. March — "Tabasco." Chadwick.
2. Selection — " Isle of Champagne." . . . Furst.
3. Selection — " Fanchon." Lachner.
Dance Programme.
1. Waltz. 9. Waltz.
2. Lanciers. 10. Two-Step.
3. Schottische. 11. Polka.
4. Portland Fancy. 12. Waltz.
5. Waltz. 13. Schottische.
6. Schottische. 14. Two-Step.
7. Two-Step. 15. Waltz.
8. Waltz.
Patronesses, Mrs. Hyde, Mrs. Mitchell,
Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Young, Mrs.
Houghton, Mrs. Johnson.
Commencement Exercises.
0WING to the Centennial exercises, which
came on Thursday, the Commencement
exercises, both medical and academical, were
held together. The long line of alumni
extended from the chapel to the church.
The crowd were not able to find seats and
many had to go away. The programme:
MUSIC
Prayer by Samuel Adams, D.D.
MUSIC
The United States and America.
Edgar Myrick Simpson, North Newcastle.
The Social Unrest.
* Frank George FarringtOD, Augusta.
Latent Powers of the Mind.
George Anthony Merrill, Pownal.
From Liberation to Organization.
* Alfred Veazie Bliss, Bangor.
Washington's Resignation from the Army.
Frederic William Pickard, Portland.
Natural Science in College.
Frank Ellsworth Briggs, Mechanic Falls.
MUSIC
An American Answer.
Henry Edwin Andrews, Kennebunk.
Political Applications of Hypnotism.
* William Eugene Currier, Leicester, Mass.
Ordinary Men.
* Trelawney Clarendale Chapman, Jr., Spring-
field, Mass.
The Youth of Man,
Frederic Joseph Libby, Richmond.
The Elective System in American Colleges.
* Charles Allcott Flagg, Sandwich, Mass.
The Ideal Physician.
George Walter Greenleaf, Stoneham, Mass.
MUSIC
CONFERRING DEGREES.
Prayer by Rev. John Pike.
BENEDICTION.
* Excused.
The Goodwin Commencement Prize for
the best written and spoken part was awarded
to F. J. Libby, whose part follows.
THE YOUTH OF MAN-
By F. J. Libby.
There has been made prominent within this
century a thought so high, so vast, so magnifi-
cent in its comprehensiveness, yet so entrancing
in its minutest details, that the labor of a generation
of profound scholars has served scarcely to suggest
the deep meaning, the limitless possibilities wrapped
within it. It is broader than space, for it governs the
spiritual as it does the whole material sphere. Like
a great search-light, it shines up the long avenue of
Time almost to its beginning. Before its powerful
rays epochs melt into moments, millions of years
into long, eventful days. And we see by the flood
of light the whole broad stretch, the tumultuous
past, the prophetic present, the transcendent future.
The principle of growth ! of Evolution ! This
little phrase has been used in its brief career to lay
prostrate the whole structure of the ancient thought
and to rear about itself a world-embracing pile. To
history, it has been the magic, "Open, sesame!"
for the enchanted treasure-houses of the mysterious
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past. To the sciences it has become the connecting
link that joins all in one universal science. To the
religious world it has come as a thunderbolt of Go
to arouse it from its dormant reliance on tradition,
thus forcing it to shuffle off the old, dead skin
that was burdening it beyond endurance. Through
almost the whole realm of knowledge it has swept,
gathering under its protection with magnetic accu-
racy the scattered and unorganized fragments of
divine truth, and pointing out to the Destroyer many
of the false ideas, the "idols" that had crept, all
unperceived, and hitherto unchallenged, into common
acceptance. Grandly universal is its scope. It may
be used to explain under God the whole created
world.
Look as far oft" toward the beginning as finite
mind can comprehend ! A chaos of meteoric dust
stretches to the farthest planet. There is no earth
nor moon. One huge, rotating sun with a diameter
of five thousand million miles, fills the vast space
that the solar system is to occupy. Hither and
thither in this great mass dash its meteoric parls-
They clash together and a lurid gleam lights up the
darkness as the colliding stones are dissipated in
thin vapor. By the mighty force of gravitation the
stupendous thing begins to contract. And as it con-
denses, rings of the nebulous matter are left behind.
From these grow, one by one, the planetary worlds
with their satellites ; and among them the earth
emerges with the moon as its attendant. It, in its
turn, condenses and cools. The light gases envelop
it to form its atmosphere ; the heavier gases form
its oceans ; and the densest materials make its solid
nucleus. A world of waters first appears. Then,
the convulsions caused by the hot interior heave up
the surface in giant folds, and land rises from the
universal sea.
Now, suddenly, the simplest forms of life are
seen. Whether these frail beings received their
force directly from the Creator or whether they were
born of the rare conditions of the globe when every
possible union of the elements was taking place in
Nature's crucible, is a subject of controversy in scien-
tific circles. It involves a whole philosophy. Did
God create the original star-dust empty and void,
and then slowly act upon it from without, drawing it
together in the force of gravitation, building it into
spheres, making it unwillingly take form under His
hands until at this point He saw fit to give it life?
Or did he wrap within it, as in a seed, the embryo
of the coming world, which then had merely to
unfold itself as He gave it opportunity? Is history
the imposition upon man from a God outside him of
those qualities that he needs from time to time? Or
is it the unfolding of that which is within him as
gradually God draws it out ? Is God above us or
within us, that is the question. And with it put thus,
we can but answer, undoubtedly he is within us. Do
not our Reasons tell us so? Did not Christ say,
"The kingdom of God is within you"? Are not
our wisest thinkers teaching the same thought
to-day ? Then for us history is merely the develop-
ment of what man has within him, — nothing else.
And, by applying the same law to the theme of our
first contention, we see that the original world mat-
ter must have contained within it the possibility of
life, a possibility to which the peculiar conditions of
the time gave actuality. Just as the clear water of a
limpid stream becomes a solid road when the oppor-
tunity is presented by the obliqueness of the sun's
rays, just as hard crystals suddenly appear in a
prepared liquid, so when the circumstances were
favorable, nay, rather when they forced it to occur,
matter became endowed with the quality of motion ;
it became possessed of life, as we say.
This does not imply by any means that beings
to-day burst spontaneously into life as a lark bursts
into song. Only the unique mixture of the elements
in that strange time of commotion and upheaval
could permit this wondrous transformation. Nor
does it signify that man can at his will combine the
chemical elements that make up the simple, amoeba-
like organisms and then shout, live ! and be obeyed.
Doubtless if he could reproduce exactly all the cir-
cumstances of that first birth, the sure result would
follow. But his ignorance is boundless ; his proud
knowledge sinks into nothingness beside it. Conse-
quently, he hitherto has been unable to bridge over
the broad, unfathomable gulf that separates the dead
from the living in our day. Sometime, Godlike, he
may perform this last and highest miracle. Who
dares prophesy that he will not ?
But the unfolding of this simple life is merely
the beginning. From it a new world is to be drawn
forth, a thousand times more marvellous than the
last. Let us see now by what principle this growth
is brought about.
Do you never wonder that there is not more dis-
cord and disease in Nature? Or do you accept its
harmony as capricious and unavoidable and say
unthinkingly those words of Browning, " God's in
His heaven, all's well with the world? " Such blind
faith as this is neither wise nor necessary. God acts
according to ends. And the Reason is possessed by
man that he may comprehend those ends and, getting
within the influence of the Divine Mind, be borne up
to that lofty plane whence God looks upon His earth.
From that high point, although our eyesight is too
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finite to see much, we see a little and are satisfied
then of the perfection of the rest. Now, for Nature's
harmony the reason is so plain that the merest child
could comprehend it. Why are all things so well
adapted to their ends P Because there is an inex-
orable law that all things that cannot become adapted
to their ends must perish ! Of the countless mill-
ions of weak creatures that are born hourly into
the unsympathizing world, only a few that can cope
best with its vicissitudes are permitted to prolong
their generations. The rest give place to make
room for useful comers in the future. The fittest
survive ; the remainder are cut off. This law, so
wondrously simple yet so marvelously profound,
explains the present harmony and it shows to you as
in a mirror the whole process of development.
You can see plainly how it operated through the
ages. When those tiny microscopic forms thatushered
in existence began to multiply, and some of them were
forced to leave their common birthplace, these wan-
derers came soon into an environment much different
from that in which they were brought forth. Here
they too multiplied and their offspring adapted itself
to its new surroundings. Thus between the two col-
onies minute variations grew up, that became, as
the competition for life grew sharper, marked
generic differences. The strongest, the most ad-
vanced, or, as scientists say, the " fittest" everywhere
crowded out their less fortunate competitors. These
either died or went out to found new races in the
unknown areas about them.
Thus slowly, century by century, the earth was
occupied. And thus, more slowly still, by bitter
pushing, the progress from the lower to the higher,
from the simpler to the more and more complex con-
tinued. It took endless lengths of time, but God
builds for eternity and his days are not as ours.
He is patient. And at last, after fishes and rep-
tiles and birds and the lower mammals have been
successively lords of creation with curious interme-
diate, composite forms to introduce them all, there is
evolved an organism, the complexity and consequent
adaptation of which approaches the highest possible.
And just as the tiny rose-bush develops first only
leaves and shoots, and one watching would suppose
that it aimed no higher ; yet when these have reached
the point where they adequately will set off its dar-
-ling's beauties, the ambitious plant throws its whole
soul into unfolding that which proves its crowning
passion and the very end for which it lives, the glori-
ous rose. This could not come until the green
leaves enshrouding it were unwrapped and the sun
and rain and earth gave it permission. But when
the time was ripe, the sap that had been stopping in
the leaves and stalks flowed on into the bud and
brought it gradually into radiance. Thus came man.
The world had been produced and was equipped to
receive him. His body was fitted to support its new
burden. So when the conditions were propitious,
the animal awoke. It knew itself. It became a
man. The current of development that had been
flowing on in the material world now changed its
mighty channel to the spiritual. Fitness, not of
body, but of mind, henceforth determined who
should live. Universal history had begun.
And still the evolution went on, as these primi-
tive men slowly threw off their brute inheritance
and strove to master themselves. As on the morning
when first the sun rose on a race of conscious beings, so
to-day, progress is the law, and man must go for-
ward or fall behind. Through many states has he
passed in his long journey up from supreme and
utter selfishness. First alone and then in families
against the world. Then by communities and nations
men stand opposed. Until Christ comes at length,
formulating in one principle for all time the law that
will perfect the evolution, that a man should love not
merely his family, not merely his friends, not merely
his country, but the world and God who compre-
hends the world. When that ideal is attained, the
long development from the star-dust will be finished.
Man will be perfect. His will will be identical with
the divine will. He can say then, as did the one
Forerunner of that happy time, "I and my Father
are one." And the purpose of Creation will be ful-
filled. Our youth will have ended at last ; our
manhood will begin.
George W. Greenlief of the Medical class
delivered the following oration:
THE IDEAL PHYSICIAN.
By G. W. Greenlief.
There is a series of pictures by the painter,
Thomas Cole, called the Voyage of Life. In one of
them a youth is seen sailing down the stream of time.
The youth sails on (unheeding of the beauty that
from either shore would tempt him to delay his
course) . For just before the boat there flies an angel,
and on the angel's head a star. The star forever leads
the way, leading life's voyager onward. It is a true
picture of man led onward by his ideal. For it is the
ideal we follow, which determines the direction of
our lives. And if we who, by these exercises of
graduation, step forth into the ranks of the medical
profession, would be of service to medical science
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and to our fellow-men, it behooves us that we set our
standard high by cherishing and seeking to follow
the highest ideal of professional life.
Over the past with its fidelity or remissness we
have no control. But before us are the possibilities
of the future ; and we should look well to it, that we
make the most of every possibility that invites our
efforts. In the halls of learning the plans and pro-
cesses of construction have been studied, and at length
comes the laying of the corner-stone, and the material
is at the disposal of the student for the building of
his temple of the future. The time has come when
the theoretical must be made practical ; when instruc-
tions must be put into execution.
The Ideal Physician will never cease to be a
student, and will hold the advancement of medical
science as one of the duties to which he is called.
He will ever be on the alert to add to his store of
knowledge ; and if by careful study and investigation
he is able to enlighten the medical world on some
obscurity, and by so doing render its work more
efficient — even in slight degree — he will feel that
his labor has been well spent.
Never before in the annals of medicine has the
outlook been brighter for the faithful student. With
the literature of our profession, giving us the latest
medical knowledge ; with well-equipped hospitals ;
and medical associations bringing the profession in
conference, and with the more general advancement
resulting thereby, we can truly say that greater facil-
ities for medical investigation have never existed.
In this age when such wonderful progress is being
made in our science, we should be determined to
leave nothing undone which would add to our useful-
ness and make us proficient in modern and progressive
practice. Such rapid advances are being made, that
marvelous results are achieved to-day by measures
unknown to the profession until within a compara-
tively recent date. Anaesthesia and antiseptics have
marked epochs in surgery which have brought with
them such protection to life and such usefulness, that
too much cannot be attributed to their credit, and so
generally are they accepted and practiced, that it is
a matter of wonderment what would be accomplished
without them.
According to the physician's faithfulness to a high
ideal, shown in his devotion to his professional
duties, and his bearing in the sick-room, will be the
degree of confidence placed in him by the community
he would serve. He should be a man whose intel-
lectual and moral attainments will prevent his bein°-
too easily swayed by circumstances and one upon
whom the rich and poor, and those of humble or
exalted station, have equal claims. With what
respect the tried and proved family physician is
received into the household, and what weight his
words convey. How helpful is his counsel in times
of health and happiness, and how welcome are the
words of hope and comfort which may pass his lips
in the dark hour of sickness and sorrow.
The faithful physician has an important part
through his professional work, in doing something
for that moral improvement of the world in which so
many agencies are involved. Salvation — using the
word in its broadest sense — has its physical as well
as spiritual basis. As has been said, "To do the
best in those noble activities which are so promotive
of noble thinking and feeling, we need to be physi-
cally sound, and there are some temptations more
successfully resisted by the help of a healthy body.
The low physical condition of multitudes of the poor
is one of the great obstacles in the way of moral and
mental progress." But the physician may influence
the moral life of men more directly. His influence
is not based on his healing powers alone, for with
the degree of confidence which he is bound to receive
from his patrons and with the knowledge which he
possesses of their mental habits, he is enabled to
instil moral principles which will tend to strengthen
their spiritual as well as their physical life. The
faithful physician will not only attempt the healing
of those already stricken with disease, but warn and
teach others, that they, too, may not come within its
toils. " More wisdom regarding the laws of life, of
health, and of heredity is needed in the interest of the
world's well-being," and the true physician, loving
his fellow-men, will work for prevention as well as
cure. The true physician will regard the confidences
reposed in him by his patients as a sacred trust; out-
side the members of his profession whom he may
call in consultation, or acquaint with some interesting
case, his practice will never serve as a topic for con-
versation.
Without this trait a physician can never gain the
implicit faith of his patrons, which is so essential to
his success. Picture to yourself for the moment the
light in which the Ideal Physician is regarded by
the community : As a young man just entering upon
his life's work ; energetic and industrious ; ever
striving to be governed by careful observation ;
endeavoring to raise his standard of proficiency at
each and every step ; of good morals and a model for
his generation to profit by ; endowed with that finer
sense of goodness by which he is able to extend not
only the benefit of his medical learning but kindness
and sympathy to all who may come in his way. In
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later years we see him moving onward and upward,
in his course so carefully chosen, and as time shows
its markings his roll of honor is becoming more
deeply engraved with that inscription which tells the
story of his faithful life. At the final stage of his
professional career we will now direct our gaze : We
see a man for whom the love and respect of his
fellow-men has increased day by day and year by
year until they have become a reverence of which we
may well be envious. Older members of the profes-
sion look upon his achievements with admiration,
. and the younger generation is ever ready to seek his
counsels, while his achievement in character and
professional success becomes a moulding power in
their own lives. It is in the realization of this ideal,
that gives propriety for calling the practice of medicine
" The Noblest of the Professions" ; and that which in
all time will make it of highest service to the world.
And as we separate and begin our professional
careers, we can depart with no better sentiment
than that inscription in a German church, which gave
new courage to Paul Fleming — "Look not mournfully
into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely
improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet
the shadowy future without fear and with a manly
heart."
The five leading men of the class are : R. H.
Hunt, A. S. Gilson, B. D. Ridlon, A. W. Plummet-,
and J. M. Bodwell.
The members of the graduating class : E. H.
Andrews, P. H. Badger, J. M. Bodwell, T. W.
BrimijMon, G. R. Cate, E. C. Cook, J. E. Cook, W. H.
Dyer, 0. R. Emerson, E. I. Folsoin, A. S. Gilson,
G. W. Greenlief, W. L. Haskell, R. H. Hunt, R. J.
Kincaid, C. J. Lincoln, G. C. Mahoney, J. L. Pepper,
A. W. Plummer, W. N. Price, H. L. Raymond, B. D.
Ridlon, P. C. Russell, J. W. Sanborn, J. W. Sawyer,
A. W. Shurtleff, A. E. Small, E. L. F. Staples, A.
J. Stimpson, A. D. Variell, W. L. Watson, F. S.
Weeks.
Class officers: President, H. L. Raymond ; Vice-
Presidents, W. L. Haskell, E. H. Andrews, E. C.
Cook; Secretary, R. J. Kincaid; Orator, G. W.
Greenlief; Marshal, J. W. Sanborn. Committee:
0. R. Emerson, A. J. Stimpson, A. E. Small, W. N.
Price, T. W. Brimijion.
Honorary Appointments.
Class or 1894.
Edgar Myrick Simpson, North Newcastle; Alfred
Veazie Bliss, Bangor; Frank Ellsworth Briggs,
Mechanic Falls ; William Eugene Currier, Leicester,
Mass.; Frank George Farrington, Augusta; Charles
Allcott Flagg, Sandwich, Mass.; Frank Herbert
Knight, Deering; Frederic Joseph Libby, Rich-
mond; George Anthony Merrill, Pownal; Clarence
Edward Michels, Brunswick ; Frederic William
Pickard, Portland.
Henry Edwin Andrews, Kennebunk ; Trelawney
Clarendale Chapman, Jr., Springfield, Mass.; Fran-
cis William Dana, Portland ; Fred Whitney Flood,
Ellsworth Falls; Charles Milton Leightou, Port-
land; James Atwood Levensaler, Thomaston ; Nor-
man McKinnou, Stoughton, Mass.; Philip Henry
Moore, Champlain, N. Y.; Andrew Urquhart Ogilvie,
Ludlow, Mass.; Emery Howe Sykes, Auburn ; Ben-
jamin Bradford Whitcomb, Ellsworth.
Other members : John Wendall Anderson, Harry
Lee Bagley, Rupert Henry Baxter, Harry Edgar
Bryant, Samuel Preble Buck, Jr., Arthur Chapman,
George Colby DeMott, Francis Alvin Frost, Fred
Weston Glover, Rufus Henry Hinkley, Hiram Lionel
Horsman, George Curtis Littlefield, Albert Jones
Lord, Charlie Edward Merritt, Ralph Parker
Plaisted, Howard Andrew Ross, Robert Lester
Sheaff, Samuel Richard Smiley, Leon Leslie Spin-
ney, Pliny Fenimore Stevens, Elias Thomas, Jr.,
William Widgery Thomas, 2d, William Putnam
Thompson, Harry Cooley Wilbur.
President's Reception.
The reception of President and Mrs. Hyde
was held in Memorial Hall as usual on
Wednesday evening. Never before has
there been such a large number present.
The hall was crowded. Everything passed
off smoothly, and everybody had a very
pleasant evening. Robinson served refresh-
ments to nearly a thousand guests. Memo-
rial was very elaborately decorated and illu-
minated. During the evening the Salem
Cadet Band gave an open-air concert under
the oak, but a heavy shower prevented for
the most part the proposed campus illumina-
tion.
Maine Historical Society.
The annual meeting of the Maine Histor-
ical Society was held in the Cleveland reci-
tation room. The regular routine business
was disposed of. The new by-laws, which
were presented by the committee, were read
and adopted. The admission of women to
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membership was considered, but do final
action taken. The time and place of the next
field-day was left in the hands of a committee.
Nearly all of the board of officers were
re-elected. Two vacancies on the standing
committee, occasioned by the death of W. B.
Lapham and the resignation of ex-Senator
James W. Bradbury, were filled by Mr.
Ingalls, of Newcastle, and Mr. Charles E.
Nash, of Augusta.
Meeting op the Boaed oe Trustees.
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees,
Tuesday, Col. F. M. Drew resigned as secre-
tary of the Board after serving twenty-nine
years without missing a meeting. G. T.
Files, Ph.D., was elected professor of German
for three years, and H. C. Emery instructor
in Political Economy and Sociology for one
year. Melville W. Fuller was elected a
member of the Board.
Honorary degrees were conferred on the
following :
Master of Arts— Samuel Thomas Pickard, Sew-
all C. Strout, Thomas Hawes Haskell, Albion Gus-
tavus Young, William Wood, Charles Fuller McKim,
Henry Vaughan.
Doctor of Science— Charles Jewett, Charles Otis
Whitman, Dudley Allen Sargent, Robert Edwin
Peary, Abram Winegardner Harris.
Doctor of Literature— Jonathan Young Stanton,
Edward Stanwood, Frank Alpine Hill, Arlo Bates,
George Thomas Little.
Doctor of Laivs— George Foster Talbot, William
Dummer Northend, Josiah Little Pickard, John
Nelson Jewett, Charles Carroll Everett, Thomas
Hamlin Hubbard, Cyrus Fogg Brackett, Stephen
Jewett Young, Joseph White Symonds, George
Lincoln Goodale, Charles Henry Smith.
Doctor of Divinity — Edward Robie, William
Alfred Packard, John Franklin Spaulding, William
Packard Tucker, Charles Joseph Hardy Ropes,
Benaiah Longley Whitman, George Lewis.
Vote of Thanks.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees
Wednesday a formal vote of thanks to the
Walker heirs for the new Art Building was
The Alumni Association.
At a meeting of the Alumni Association
on Thursday, these officers were elected:
James McKeen, '64, President; S. B. Carter,
'66, Vice-President; Professor George T.
Little, Secretary and Treasurer. Executive
Committee: Alfred Mitchell, '59; William H.
Moulton, '74; A. T. Parker, '76. Committee
on the Pray Prize in English Literature:
Edward Stanwood, '61; Arlo Bates, '76; John
E. Chapman, '77.
Awards and Prizes.
Goodwin Prize — Fred Joseph Libby.
Class of '68 Prize — George Anthony Merrill.
English Composition — Harry Edwin Andrews,
Fred Joseph Libby, first prizes; Trelawny Claren-
dale Chapman, Frederick William Pickard, second
prizes.
Pray English Prize — Frederick William Pickard.
Broion Extemporaneous Composition Prize —
Frederick William Pickard, first prize ; Charles
Allcot Flagg, second prize.
Junior Declamation Prize — George Curtis Web-
ber, first prize ; Ralph Taylor Parker, second prize.
Sophomore Declamation Prizes — Robert Orange
Small, first prize; Herbert Otis Clough, second
prize.
Sewall Latin Prize— Chase Eastman.
Sewall Greek Prize — Chase Eastman.
Smyth Matliematical Prize — Willard Streeter
Bass.
Brown Memorial Scholarship— Frederick Will-
iam Pickard, Class of 1894; George Henry Dunton
Foster, Class of 1895; Henry Hill Pierce, Class of
1896; Alfred Page Cook, Class of 1897.
Phi Beta Kappa.
The annual meeting of * b k was held in
Adams Hall, on Wednesday, at 3 p.m., and
was well attended. The following men were
elected from the Class of '94: Messrs. Bliss,
Briggs, Currier, Farrington, Flagg, Knight,
Libby, Merrill, Michels, Pickard, and Simp-
son. Hon. Henry Ingalls, '41, was re-elected
president, and Professor F. C. Robinson, '73,
secretary and treasurer, and the usual liter-
ary committee was appointed.
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Centennial Exercises.
At four p.m. Wednesday, in the church,
an address on the Religious History of the
College was delivered by Egbert Coffin
Smyth, D.D., Class of 1878, Professor in
Andover Theological Seminary, and formerly
Collins Professor in the College of Natural
and Revealed Religion.
Thursday, 10 A.M., in the church. The
order of exercises :
Prayer.
Professor John Smith Sewall, D.D., Class of 1850.
Music— Overture, " The Pearl of Savoy." — Lachner.
Salem Cadet Band.
Anniversary Oration.
Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller, LL.D.,
Class of 1853.
Music— Selection from "Faust." — Gounod.
Salem Cadet Band.
Anniversary Poem.
Professor Arlo Bates, A.M., Class of 1876.
Music — "Musical Scenes from Scotland." — Langey.
Salem Cadet Band.
Conferring of Honorary Degrees.
By the President of the College.
BENEDICTION.
Anniversary Dinner.
At the close of the public exercises on
Thursday, a dinner given by the Trustees
and Overseers of the college to the alumni,
under-graduates, and invited guests, was
served in a tent on the campus. About
twelve hundred were present. James Mc-
Keen, Esq., Class of '64, President of the
Alumni Association, presided. After due
attention had been given to the excel-
lent dinner, Mr. McKeen arose and, in a
pleasing manner, proposed "health and long
life" to Rev. T. T. Stone, of the Class of
1820. The oldest living graduate, Mr. Stone,
responded in a few words, saying that it
had always been a great pleasure to him to
come back to the college, but because of his
extreme age he felt that the time had now
come when he must say farewell.
The "Commencement Hymn" was sung,
the college choir leading. This was followed
by happy remarks and reminiscenses by Mr.
McKeen. How " President McKeen, in the
early days of the college, when the country
was thinly settled, during the occultation of
a star by the moon, set up his telescope to
find out where Brunswick was. But now
times have so changed that instead of seeking
to find where Bowdoin College is, one has to
search a long time to find where it is not.
When the science expedition reached the
Grand Falls in Labrador it was discovered
that Bowdoin had been there. Go to Green-
land and you will find Bowdoin Bay and the
dauntless Peary.
President Hyde responded to the first toast,
" Our Alma Mater." After paying tribute
to the former presidents and giving a hearty
welcome to all, he defined the present posi-
tion and policy of the college. " It was not
formed by the men of the present time, but
received its shape from those of the past.
Its situation is such that it never can be
large in numbers. It is not wealthy and has
been hampered thereby, but now with its new
buildings, a successful system is secured."
For the State of Maine Governor Cleaves
brought greetings to the alumni and friends
of the college. "The institution is an honor
to the commonwealth; her graduates hold
the highest places of honor and trust and
have done a great work in making her what
she now is."
Mr. McKeen said: "It is to be regretted
that our men in congress, William P. Frye
and Thomas B. Reed, are unable to be with
us to-day. While their presence would add
much to the enjoyment of this occasion, it is
a pleasure to us to know that during this
time, when the nation is passing through an
important crisis, they cannot be spared. But
we are fortunate in having senators in
reserve, and so I will call on ex-Senator
Bradbury, of the Class of 1825,"
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Mr. Bradbury's remarks were filled with
reminiscenses of his college days. He spoke
of his classmates Longfellow, Hawthorne,
and Abbott as he knew them during their
intimacy in college. " The Faculty, at that
time, consisted of two professors and two
instructors. Three courses were open to us,
one in the classics, one in mathematics, and
one in the natural sciences. There were
two professors, one Packard and the other
Cleaveland, and when Symth and Upham
were added, shortly after, we thought we had
all for which we could ask." He paid a high
tribute to his own class, and closed by showing
the advantage of our present appointments
over those of his own time.
Chief Justice of Maine, John A. Peters,
was next introduced. We wish that we
were able to reproduce his witty remarks
entire. "I am not a son of Bowdoin, but I
married into her family and she is now my
mother-in-law. Last night I had a dream; I
thought that I was trying to pass the exami-
nations for Bowdoin. I saw President Hyde
come in, and he told me that I was all right
in the revised statutes, but was conditioned in
the Greek Testament. If any woman should
embrace me I am not yet so old but what I
would embrace her back again. Bowdoin
has embraced me, and I am going to return
the caress. In the large institutions like
Harvard and Yale a man goes through more
college, but in the smaller institutions more
college goes through him. President Hyde,
my prayers are always for you and the
college, but as you are of a different creed
I don't know as your prayers would do me
any good." Amid great applause General
O. O. Howard came forward. The gist of
his remarks was that we needed more reserve
military force and that it would be of advan-
tage to the college if we had a good corps of
cadets.
The song " Beati " was sung by the choir.
Judge Symonds was called upon to answer
to the toast, " The Profession of Law." His
speech was one of the most eloquent of the
day. He paid high tribute to his class, that
of 1860. It is the largest class ever gradu-
ated from the college, numbering fifty -five.
Of the prominent graduates in law, the names
of Reed, Fuller, and Bradbury were among
those receiving high praise. The progress of
the profession of law was traced out in a highly
interesting manner. President Gilman of
Johns Hopkins, spoke of the college in high
terms : " I have noticed everywhere that your
graduates are masters of the English language.
I looked about for the reason, and I found
that you taught few things, but those
thoroughly. The college and university
stand in the closest relation. The university
can exist only through the college, and the
improvement of the former is through the
development of the latter. It is my firm
belief that soon we shall see the larger
colleges dividing their numbers into small
departments, that they may follow more
closely the mode of work given in the small
college, because they begin to recognize that
it is in the small institutions that the best
work is done."
Professor Samuel Harris, of the Class of
'33, now professor in Yale, was next called
upon. He said that there were five living
men in his class, and that they were all
present. He expressed sorrow at the growing
tendency towards the suppression of religious
instruction in the different schools, and
gratification that in Bowdoin religious influ-
ence is so strong.
President McKeen — " I am glad that the
chariot has not yet come to take away our
Elijah."
When Elijah Kellogg arose, every one in
the audience sprang to their feet and deafen-
ing shouts and cheers greeted him. With his
usual polish and eloquence, he held the atten-
tion of all throughout his speech. With
respectful modesty he told how closely he
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and his ancestors had been connected with
the college ; of his college days when he
could go out before chapel and shoot pigeons
enough for a pigeon pie. "While I was in
Andover, some one asked ine : 'Is it true that
you promised the people of Harpswell, that if
they would build a church you would come
there and work with them?' Yes, I did
promise that. 'Well, the lumber is on the
spot, and they are at work on the building.'
I, too, will be on the spot when I get through
here." Mr. Kellogg gave a short account of
the rise of religious influences in the college
and gave a fitting tribute to the much be-
loved Professor Wood.
The name of Gen. Joshua Chamberlain
brought forth prolonged applause. "Like
Joshua of old," he said, "I will cause the sun
to stand still for the next ten minutes."
Through him the men who gave up their
college hopes and aspirations for their
country's cause receive a fitting remem-
brance.
President Whitman, of Colby, brought
the greetings and congratulations of the
other Maine colleges, and spoke of the close
connection and sympathy which there had
always been between them.
Professor C. H. Smyth replied for Yale:
"I feel that I am still a delegate to Yale
from Bowdoin rather than the representative
to Bowdoin from Yale." In a few words he
presented the greeting of his college, and
the best wishes for our future success.
President Barbour, of the Congregation-
alist College of Montreal, spoke for the clergy.
In the last toast, " Bowdoin in Athletics,"
Dr. Dudley Sargent, of Harvard, showed that
he was on familiar ground. "I don't know
just what to say to-day, because, from the
recent discussion in athletics, many seem to
question on which side I stand; and I don't
know which side you wish me to take here. I
believe that athletics are of the highest serv-
ice in education. One evil we have inherited
from the academical department, that is the
offering of prizes to contestants. The result
has been, that but few men, and most of these
those who do not especially need the training,
have gone into this branch. What is most
needed is a physical development, which, like
the mental, will be of service in after life.
I believe that you have that system here in
making the gymnasium course compulsory
to all."
The choir then sang a Bowdoin song
written by J. Clare Minott, '96, and the
exercises were adjourned for one hundred
years.
Class Reunions.
0F the thousand or more alumni of Bowdoin
who came to help celebrate its centen-
nial week, it is impossible to say how many
class reunions were held. They were held
everywhere and at all times, and formed a
very important part of the great occasion.
It was most interesting to watch the meetings
of graduates, especially the older ones.
General alumni headquarters were at the
library, and here they all registered. Rev.
T. T. Stone, D.D., of the Class of '20, the
oldest living graduate, was a prominent guest
of the week; and Hon. J. W. Bradbury, the
next oldest, and the sole survivor of the
immortal Class of '25, was one of those who
enjoyed the week most. All six of the
surviving members of '33 were present.
Following are some of the classes that held
well attended and happy reunions during the
week:
'44, at Noble Street, Wednesday at 6 p.m.
'54, headquarters at 28 A. H. ; dinner Wednesday
night at Portland.
'67, at Odd Fellows Hall, 2 p.m., Wednesday.
'69, headquarters on Cleaveland Street.
73, at Science Building.
'74, at Prof. Johnson's.
'75 had a finely attended reunion at Odd Fellows
Hall.
'76, headquarters at 17 A. H.
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'77, at Col. Gr. L. Thompson's, 9 a.m., Thursday.
'79, at 18 A. H.
'84 had a banquet in Portland at the Preble.
'88, at No. 2 Centre Street, 7 p.m., Wednesday.
'89, at Prof. Files', and at the tent, 5 p.m.,
Wednesday.
'90, Thursday evening.
'91, Thursday evening.
'92, Thursday evening at Prof. Young's.
'93, Thursday evening.
Fraternity Reunions.
WITH most alumni one of the most pleas-
ant parts of the week, and an occasion
that does much to draw them back, is the
reunion of their old fraternity. Of course this
year the reunions were much better attended
than usually. Each society decorated its men
with its colors upon their arrival on the
campus. In many ways the fraternities
contributed largely to the success of the
great week. Several decorated their ends
quite elaborately with flags, designs, bunting
in their colors, etc. The reunions were held
in the respective halls on Wednesday even-
ing, after the President's reception. In
nearly every case the halls were crowded
and the "boys," old and young, had a merry
time together, and it was broad daylight
before the different crowds came singing and
cheering back to the campus. Since it was
the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment
of A K E at Bowdoin, this fraternity had the
most formal reunion and had the most
alumni back. Seven other chapters of a k e
were represented", and over one hundred and
sixty members of Theta Chapter sat down at
the banquet, served in the court room, by
Robinson of Portland. Among other liter-
ary exercises were an oration by Hon. O. D.
Baker, '68, a poem by Judge H. S. Webster,
'67, and a historical sketch of the chapter by
J. C. Minot, '96.
'33 carries off the palm for attendance, for, out of
five living members, five were present. '92 had
thirty-one men here out of forty living.
The college team played
the team chosen from those who
won large reputations for themselves
in college in the past on the Delta, the
afternoon of June 27th. The college
nine had no difficulty in defeating their
opponents by a score of 12 to 4. The individual
work of the alumni was somewhat ragged, and
showed want of practice. Moulton and Carey
started in as battery, but soon changed places, and in
the fourth inning Hutchinson came in from short-stop
and finished the game behind the bat. "Joe" William-
son in right field did some great work chasing the
ball. Torrey played a good game at second base and
Talbot in left field. The following alumni tried to
show their skill in the field and at the bat : Moulton,
'87; Carey, '88; Dearth, '87 ; Tukey, '91 ; Torrey,
'84; Thompson, '91 ; Savage, '93; Hutchinson, '93 ;
Williamson, '88; Fogg, '89, and Talbot, '87. The
grand stand and side lines were crowded with inter-
ested and highly entertained spectators.
Among the happy class reunions were those of
'75 and '89.
Zeta Psi was photoed on the Art Building steps
Commencement week.
Dewey, '95, will ring the chapel bell for early
chapel the coming year.
The organ will be played by Clough, '96, when
the college again assembles.
The finest of Commencement weather has graced
Bowdoin's grand centennial.
The down-town dealers made heavy sales of col-
lege views this Commencement.
Willard, '96, has been appointed chorister of the
college choir for the year of 1895.
Many of the students were in attendance at the
reception given by the Class of '94, Bath High
School.
Over a thousand names were registered in the
library. Many of the men had not been back for
thirty years.
The Walker Art Building has been open all day
the past week and has received unlimited praise from
visiting alumni,
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Christie, Quiniby and Stubbs, '95, were camping
on the Cobbossecontee between Ivy Day and Com-
mencement week.
As a sign of the growth of the town in the last
forty years, notice the remark of one of the mem-
bers of '44, that when he was here, there were not
more than two or three buildings on the west side of
Main Street.
The interior of the Science Building is a happy
surprise. The effect of the dark finished wood and
the brick wall, with polished floors and gleaming
tiles, is very pleasing. Except a few tinishing
touches, the building is ready for its furnishings.
The Freshman Class banquet, held in the Preble
House, Portland, Friday evening, the 22d of June,
was a most enjoyable affair. Over thirty-five of the
class, fresh from their examinations, sat down to one
of the best of the landlord's dinners. After the inner
man was filled and satisfied, the following pro-
gramme was presented : Opening Address, G. S.
Bean; Ode, E. B. Remiek ; History, T. C. Keohan ;
Oration, M. S. Coggan ; Ode, D. D. Spear ; Poem, H
M. Varrell ; Prophecy, J. E. Rhodes; Toast-master,
E. G. Pratt. The toasts responded to were Bowdoin.
Athletics, Professor Moody, Hazing, The Ladies,
'Ninety-Seven. As usual, the banquet closed with
the singing of " Phi Chi."
'25. — Ex-Senator James
W. Bradbury of Augusta,
who spoke at the Centennial dinner,
was 92 years old June 10th. He was
in that famous class which turned out so
many great men renowned in literary circles
and on the battle field. Mr. Bradbury is in good
health and may be found nearly every day at the
Granite Bank of Augusta, of which he is a director,
doing his share of the work.
'50. — Gen. O. O. Howard succeeds John Wana-
maker as president of the National Temperance
Society. The election took place at the annual meet-
ing in the Broadway Tabernacle, when the society
celebrated its twenty-ninth anniversary. Gen. Howard
addressed a recent gathering of the local Prohibition
Society at Niagara Falls. Gen. Howard also had
an article appearing in the Congregationalist, May
24th, titled "Christianity in the Army," and one in
the June number of the North American Review on
the "Menace of Coxeyism and the Significance and
Aims of the Movement."
'60. — The Maine and New Brunswick Granite
Company, organized a year ago and of which L. G.
Downes is secretary and treasurer, reports a very
flourishing business in these hard times. A large
contract just completed was the finishing of the
interior of the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
Another large contract on hand is the Museum of
Natural History for Central Park, New York.
'60. — Hon. Joseph W. Symonds has been elected
vice-president of the National Unitarian Association.
'61. — An article by Edward Stanwood, " How to
Relieve Congress," appeared in the June North
American Review.
'66. — Dr. Gerrish attended the recent Triennial
Medical Congress held in Washington.
'74. — O. C. Evans of Cape Elizabeth has been
chosen superintendent of the Belfast city schools at
a salary of $1,000 a year. For the past three years
he has held a similar position at Cape Elizabeth.
'81. — A. D. Gray, master of the Mathematical
Department of the Penn Charter School of Philadel-
phia, sailed for Germany with Mrs. Gray, June 16th.
'86. — J. C. Parker, M.D., formerly of Lebanon,
Maine, has entered upon a promising practice in
Farmington, N. H.
'91. — Parker, who has been gymnasium instructor
since graduation at Phillips Exeter Academy, has
resigned to accept the position of instructor in gym-
nastics at Colby.
'91. — Foss has resigned the principalship of the
Stockton (Cal.) High School and leaves soon for
Germany to study medicine.
IN MEMORIAM.
Whereas, Our Heavenly Father has, in his infinite
wisdom, removed from us our beloved classmate,
Roy Fairfield Bartlett,
Resolved, That we, the Class of '92, deeply mourn-
ing him whom we truly loved, offer this tribute to
his generous and noble manhood which helped us
while he was with us, and now remains as a price-
less memory ;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be pub-
lished in the Bowdoin Orient, entered in the class
records, and forwarded to his parents.
Adopted at reunion of Class of '92, held at Bruns-
wick, June 28, 1894.
Fred V. Gdmmer, Secretary.
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Princeton has 1,092 students.
There are about 12,000 students in the scientific
schools of this country.
It is said that Vassar girls are so modest that they
will not work on improper fractions.
John D. Rockefeller has sent the University of
Chicago $50,000 to be immediaiely expended in
books.
The University of Michigan recently received a
bequest of $5,000 for the endowment of the Bible
chairs.
No college in all England publishes a college
paper. This is another illustration of the superior
energy of America, where about 200 colleges publish
periodic journals.
Vassar College is about to collect, on a large
scale, the nests and eggs of birds native to that
section. A collector has been engaged who will
devote his attention exclusively to this work. The
collection of birds of North America at the college
is said to be the largest and to contain the finest
stuffed specimens in the world. It is valued at
$30,000.
The University of Pennsylvania has an attendance
of 2,223, thus ranking third in the size of the Amer-
ican universities, Harvard and Michigan surpassing it.
The first record we have of tennis is found in the
Bible in these words: "Joseph served in Paroah's
court and Israel returned out of Egypt."
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Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 3, 1894.
No. 6.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OP
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
B. L. Bryant, '95, Managing Editor.
J. C. Minot, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
G. T. Ordway, '96, Business Manager.
H. W. Thayer, '95. A. L. Churchill, '95.
A. G. Wiley, '95. J. T. Shaw, '95.
J. B. Roberts, '95. H. H. Pierce, '96.
C. W. Marston, '96.
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 Manager.
Remittances should be made to the Business Manager. 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.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
Personal items should be sent to Box 138, Brunswick, Me.
Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 6.— October 3, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 103
Bowdoin Revisited, 105
Dedication of the Searles Science Building, .... 107
Bowdoin Verse:
Quartrain, 110
Two Songs 110
White Head 110
A Chemical Tragedy, Ill
Same Old Story, . . . Ill
In Dreams, Ill
Collegii Tabula, Ill
Athletics, 114
Personal, 116
In Memoriam, 117
College World, 118
summer vacation with
its work and pleasure, its rest and change,
has passed, and again the happy college
boys throng back to Bowdoin's halls. The
opening of the fall term is ever a joyous
season and few indeed are the students who
are not glad to get back again, to exchange
the fraternal grip with chums, to participate
in the first week's festivities, and to settle
down to the work and enjoyment of another
college year. After the grand blaze of glory
with which the centennial celebration closed
the last college year, even sophomoric war
paint and Freshman greenness may have
seemed a trifle tame this term, but there is
every indication of an unusually successful
and prosperous year. We deeply miss '94,
ever so active a class in the college, but are
happy to record that over half of its mem-
bers have shown their loyalty and love for
Bowdoin by returning for a visit during
these opening weeks. The Orient, in com-
mon with the rest of the college, has a hearty
greeting for the Class of '98, for which the
changes of time have now made a place in
our midst. It is an exceptionally large and
fine class of young men, and promises to fall
readily into harmony with the spirit and
principles of the old college which we love,
and which it will soon learn to love as well.
It is the golden age of Bowdoin's prosperity,
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and we should be proud and thankful to be
among its students at such a time. Bowdoin
stands on the threshold of its second century
with the vast and priceless treasures of the
past secure, with a present, rich in prosperity
and progress, and with a future full of the
brightest prospects.
ELSEWHERE in this number is an account
of the dedication of the Searles Science
Building. The building was at once opened
for work and is regularly occupied by the
students in the biological, physical, and chem-
ical departments. This noble structure, so
grand in conception and so complete in exe-
cution, is indeed an addition to the far-famed
beautiful campus of Bowdoin and will be an
immortal monument to the generosity of its
loyal friends. Its dedication marks the begin-
ning of a new era for the college. With such
a building, completely fitted with modern
apparatus, the scientific courses will be im-
measurably improved, and the general scope
and efficiency of the college work greatly
enlarged. No educational institution in the
country has a better science building than
Bowdoin now possesses. It waited long and
waited well. It has been faithful over a few
things and now it is ruler over many.
IT was sincerely hoped that the Class of
'97 would have the courage to give up the
Horn Concert this year. This custom, how-
ever useful it might have been in former
years as a Freshman discipline, has now de-
generated into a positive disgrace. No mem-
ber of a Sophomore class from the bottom of
his heart favors the custom, but none seem
to have the moral courage of his convictions
to stand up in a class meeting and say so,
for fear it will be said that he is afraid to go
into it; so the affair has dragged on year after
year. On the first Thursday night of the
opening term, the usual number of brave
men from the Sophomore Class assemble at
the gym, and the rest of the college wait for
them to form, with baskets filled with various
defunct organisms for their first course and
plenty of river water to wash it down. After
teasing their mouse for a while the upper-
classmen pitch in and break up the body
through overpowering numbers; a free fight
generally follows, some bruises are received,
and the honor of the class is satisfied. Noth-
ing can be more senseless and childlike,
unless it is the so-called original and brilliant
idea of putting molasses upon the Freshmen
benches at first chapel. It seems that " The
custom must be kept," " It won't do for these
old customs to die out," "The class that does
away with them will be laughed at." Poor
sensitive children, afraid to attract attention
to themselves for doing a praiseworthy thing,
but willing to furnish sport for the whole
college b}T making themselves a target for
everything putrid under heaven. The cir-
cumstances were such that the Class of
'Ninety-four did not " open up spring " with
the usual desecrations. Almost nothing was
said at the time, and the custom has become
a thing of the past. So with Horn Concert;
drop it once and it will be gone forever, a
fit sacrifice to the memory of Anna and Phi
Chi.
BY glancing at the schedule in the Athletic
column it is seen that we have an
unusual number of good games this season,
and what is more, out of the nine games
secured, five will be played on the home
grounds. This is in answer to the demand
of the students who complain that they are
obliged to support the team but see few of
the games. But this arrangement has been
secured only through sacrifice by the man-
agement. More games in Brunswick is
synonymous with greater expenses, to meet
which the subscriptions must be larger this
year than ever before. The Association is
also in debt and it must be cleared off this
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year. The contributions heretofore in behalf
of foot-ball have been small; while every
other college of our rank, and even some
fitting schools, find no difficulty in raising
from five hundred to three thousand dollars,
our annual offering scarcely reaches two hun-
dred. We have the making of a good team
this year, a team that will do us credit
among the other colleges. Our history in
this sport has been an evolution from a
rough " nobody knows how to play " affair
to a team that will hold its own with any
college of its size and resources..
Two hundred dollars, just think of it; why
that's less than a dollar a man, which means
that hardly a third of the men in college
give anything to this association. Every
man can give a dollar in some way, and the
peculiar thing about it is that in looking
.over the lists one finds the names of many
who are working their way through, coming
up with their dollar or two dollars, and those
perfectly able to pay trying to get in with
the management and sneaking under the
canvas. Every one should make an allow-
ance in his accounts for these popular sports;
make his subscription to them one of the
necessaries of life, and when he stands up
to the ropes and sees the team pulling out
victory after victory he will enjoy the game
a great deal better if he has allowed his
college sentiment to go so far as to reach
the bottom of his pocket.
JP HERE are but few changes in the Faculty
*■ this year. The Orient voices the col-
lege in welcoming Mr. H. C. Emery, '92, to
the department of Political Science. Mr.
Emery is well remembered by many of the
under-graduates as a fellow-student, and so
he comes as an old friend as well as a new
instructor. The college has ever been par-
tial to her own graduates, and in so doing
has chosen a Faculty deeply in sympathy
with Bowdoin; young, energetic, and pro-
gressive. W. R. Smith, '90, takes the place of
Mr. Merriman, '92, as assistant in Chemistry.
TITHE Hand-book issued by the Young Men's
■*• Christian Association is ready for distri-
bution. Many copies have already been given
to members by the incoming class. This
useful little book, full of things all should
know, has been greatly improved by the
addition of cuts and a map of the campus.
A copy can be obtained at the rooms or from
the President of the Association.
TITHE Orient will be sent to each member
■*• of the Freshman Class. The college
paper is as deserving of support as base-ball
and foot-ball, and it is expected that the
name of every man in '98 will go to swell
the subscription list. We shall continue to
send the Orient to you unless otherwise
requested.
Bowdoin Revisited.
TITHE campus must first be seen — but what
A has become of the stretch of lawn upon
Main Street? Where is the old hotel once
standing at the corner? The latter, for more
than a year my shelter from the weather,
but not always from intrusive guests at
hours of night, is gone and not a trace re-
mains. Memorial Hall, Science Hall, and
the Art Gallery furnish obstruction to the
view of the dormitories yclept in the days
of my study — "Sodom, Gomorrah, Zion, and
Paradise ends," but the obstruction is not
all unpleasant when the purpose of its being
is well understood.
Once inside the quadrangle, the heart
mourns over the departure of the " old
chapel," the stain upon whose glass one
morning surprised the entering line of rush-
ing students whose cloaks concealed defect-
ive toilets. The memory of exciting scenes
inside and outside its narrow portal pre-
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vented at first the view of its more stately
successor. Why were the seats in the new
chapel so arranged as to compel students to
cast sidelong glances at the leader of their
worship? No. 24, Maine Hall, the scene of
some study in the use of but little "midnight
oil," surprised its one-time occupant in its
newness of garb taken on since the Presi-
dent of the college no longer occupies No.
22 adjacent.
" Ichabod " was found written over the
doors which once opened into the Peucinian
and Athensean Libraries, and their cabinets.
Their special glory has departed by absorp-
tion into the greater glory. But blame me
not if I regret the absorption. It is not easy
to forget the old days. It is doubtful whether
the Greek initials mean more to those who
wear them so conspicuously than did the
Latin initials to us older boys.
The cheapness of watches of these later
days will perhaps explain the removal of the
dial from the pedestal in front of old " Massa-
chusetts Hall." '■'•Old Massachusetts!'''' Per-
haps no change has come over thee, and one
will feel at home within thy walls! How
natural the old fire-place in the Cleaveland
Lecture Room ! The cabinet is still attract-
ive, but we miss the odors from below and
above. As we attempt to look across the
delta toward the "Commons Hall," our view
is obstructed by a building to which has
been transferred the source of some of the
odors. The Medical Building fitlj- occupies
a corner of the Athletic Field. The grand
stand is certainly an improvement upon the
individual stands around the solid frame
from which hung a single rope — the gymna-
sium of '44. Past the well-appointed gym-
nasium, with its running track, its bowling
alley, its horizontal and its parallel bars, its
rower's seats, its ladders, its rings, its baths,
its long horse and its short horse, the eye
roves till it reaches the spot once occupied
by the woodshed, where the horses were of
about equal length and height and the exer-
cises thereover were a source of revenue.
Change is written upon all within the
campus, but unchanged stands the dark
background of "whispering pines." Old
friends — we greet you, and you answer back
as of old, but your murmurings are a dirge
constantly sung over the resting-place of
those who were our teachers and whose glad
greeting we so miss to-day. Lured from the
campus, upon which not a familiar face is
seen, we are less lonely in the city of the
dead. Once more do we stand in the pres-
ence of Cleaveland of rough exterior, but of
tender heart; of Smyth, with chalk-covered
lapel, to whose clear thought the most ab-
struce problems were "evident;" of the
saintly Upham, whose eyes were opened
upward more frequently than upon the stu-
dents before him in class or whom he avoided
meeting in the street by reason of timidity;
of Goodwin, acute as a critic and, as we some-
times thought, merciless in discipline; of
Packard, whose loving spirit grew tenderer
with the years till "he was not, for God took
him" into closer companionship; of the
polished Woods, refined and courtly in his
manners, and who needed not a companion
to round out his life already complete in
manly strength and womanly beauty. These
were our teachers, not after the patterns of
to-day, for they were instructors rather than
teachers, builders of character. Their per-
sonal influence we recall with gratitude and
would lay upon their graves the flowers of
memory. Fifty years of struggle with the
world have prove,d to us the need of the
sturdy virtues they commended to us by
example and by precept. A night's sleep
after communing with the past and we
awake to present realities.
Nine old men march near the head of a
procession, the like of which was escorted
fifty years before by forty-nine youths, reso-
lute and eager for the fray. Thirty-five have
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107
fallen by the way. Four have laid aside
their weapons and are waiting patiently the
end. One of the four has since fallen ; one
was "too busy to spare the time" — all pres-
ent and accounted for. The class meeting,
filled to overflowing with joy and sadness as
our secretary gave us glimpses of the dead
and of the living — of successes and of fail-
ures— is of the past and its record is locked
in the hearts of participants.
The Class of '44 greets the Class of '94,
rejoicing in their manly bearing, believing in
their fuller equipment for times that are to
try men's souls as they have never been tried
before, hoping for them the fullest realiza-
tion of their dreams, and praying for their
success in winning honors for their Alma
Mater and in making the next half century
tell upon Bowdoin's prosperity.
This is the era for young men in college
administration, in commerce, in politics and
in philanthropy; young men largely special-
ists and of course most thoroughly qualified
as teachers. The times demand the changes.
Alertness is the end sought in body and in
mind. Will it be at the expense of moral
stability? We may see. Many of the Class
of '94 will answer the question. We boys
of '44 rejoice that it was our privilege to sit
under the instruction of men who had helped
to fashion the lives of such men as Dr. T. T.
Stone (1820), Hon. J. W. Bradbury (1825),
without a well-appointed gymnasium or sci-
entific instruction in athletics; of such as
Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Cheever when
many of the modern sciences were awaiting
discovery; of such as John P. Hale and
Franklin Pierce before political science had
recognition. We of '44 were equipped for
our day as the boys of '94 are for their time.
A comparison of ' Commencement pro-
grammes fifty years apart shows a narrower
range of topics in the latter than in the for-
mer. The trend of modern thought is shown
in that of '94, politics and science taking the
larger share.
Salvete iteramque salvete, '94. May Bow-
doin's second century add to her strength as
the past century has developed her "right
to be." J. L. P., '44.
Dedication of the Searles Science
Building.
TTTHE beautiful and well-equipped chemistry
■*■ lecture-room was filled to overflowing by
the friends and students of the college, who
came to listen to the dedicatory services of
the new Science Buildiug. Prayer was offered
by Prof. Henry L. Chapman. Then General
Hubbard, to whose timely intercession we
owe much in obtaining this magnificent gift,
presented the building to the college in the
following well-chosen words :
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Trus-
tees and Overseers ;
No presentation of this building is needed to
make it yours. It already belongs to the college.
In his report of 1892, the President set forth at
length the need of suitable laboratories for the
departments of chemistry, physics, and biology.
For many years before, the heads of these depart-
ments had urged attention to this subject. They
supplemented the President's report by renewed
representations to the Visiting Committee that met
a few weeks after the report was issued. To sooth-
ing assurances of the committee that the require-
ments of the departments would, no doubt, be met
in due time, one of the professors replied that he
had made the same application and received the
same assurance for nearly twenty years. Perhaps
this visiting committee was more tender-hearted
than those that had preceded it. Perhaps its
members reasoned with themselves like the unjust
judge of the scripture. The time had come for
importunities to prevail and the committee found the
way to satisfy them. The result was that a build-
ing such as the President had requested was
offered to the Boards at their meeting in June, 1892.
The heads of the departments at once began to
prepare plans for construction. Their efforts were
aided by a building committee and guided by the
architect chosen to direct the work. Early in the
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spring of 1893, the plans were settled in detail and
finally adopted. In the same spring foundations
were laid and the work of construction was begun.
We stand to-day in the completed building. 'Its
development has surpassed the modest proposals
first made by the President and Professors, and its
cost has kept pace with its development. But,
happily, it has been paid for and is subject to no
incumbrance.
Thus conceived in the hopes of Bowdoin officers;
built upon plans devised by her professors; reared
on foundations laid in her soil ; rising day by day,
and course upon course, in Bowdoiu's air and in the
sight of her teachers and her students, the Science
Building has grown naturally into the family group.
But, up to this time, it has been only a structure of
brick and iron and stone. Now it is to become an
active educational agent. Up to this time it has
been a lifeless body. Now it is to be made animate,
as the working home of students and instructors.
At this transition moment its presentation is
made, not for the purpose of conveying its title to
the college, already its owner; but to commit it to
the new career that henceforth claims it. It is
presented not merely as a finished combination of
building material, but as an instrument of educa-
tion prepared for special uses and fit for great
efforts if used by men who know how to use it. It
is committed to the special charge of the heads of
the departments of chemistry, physics, and biology.
They know its uses. Their past labors attest their
skill. They have been faithful over few things.
They are fit to rule over more things. Every part
of the building's interior has been planned and
perfected to fulfill some use their long experience
has approved. Their ideas have been faithfully
formulated by the skillful architect who has worked
with them and has made this structure the transla-
tion and the child of their thought. They will
treat their own child lovingly. They will make it
work according to its ability, in the best directions
and for the most needed results. Parents know
that such work is good for their children.
The building is confided to the students also,
in confidence that, in its use, they will follow the
worthy example of their teachers. Without that
example the swiftly-changing classes may not see
how every feature of the building is part of a com-
plex and valuable implement. Without that exam-
ple they may not understand that the building is the
body whose mind is supplied by intelligent work.
They may treat it carelessly or rudely, as a thing
of earth, made only to be trodden on and soiled.
Let them learn to respect it and to be its friend.
Let them remember that they are its mind, and
while they are working in it, the building is their
body. A right-thinking mind respects the body it
dwells in. If the instructors and the students do
these things in 1894, their successors will do them
in later years, far, let us hope, beyond this waning
century and the limit of our own brief lives.
There is a maxim of Seneca : " He is more noble
that deserves, than he who confers, benefits." The
college will enforce the truth of this maxim, if its
instructors and its students make this building a
worthy laborer for useful education.
Two chief purposes inspire this gift to the col-
lege and are commended to its remembrance. One
purpose is to commemorate a life. The other pur-
pose is to aid the work of scientific education.
The life commemorated is that of Mrs. Mary
Frances Sherwood Searles. In offering this tribute
to her memory and worth, her husband, Mr. Edward
F. Searles, should be regarded as the donor. Of
his wife he has recently written that, having passed
from this life by a brief illness, she left it as her
last wish that her husband should bestow all her
special gifts according to his taste and judgment,
known, as she said, to be in harmony with her own.
He deems this building a fitting memorial to a
noble woman, who, herself the daughter of a
teacher, was always interested in the cause of edu-
cation; who, to the end of her life, was a diligent
student ; who understood the worth of a well-
trained mind and the worthlessness of life's tinsel
and display.
Mr. Searles sends to the college, its officers and
its Boards, his congratulations upon the completion
of this work and his hope that it will prove to be all
that has been desired as a home for the study of
science.
In her later years Mrs. Searles was in the cate-
gory of those persecuted people whom the public
accuses of being rich. She patiently endured her
share of criticism from those who assume to know
best how the possessions of others should be be-
stowed. It well commemorates her life that she is
now giviug to an institution which transmutes each
gift received into stores of knowledge, to be given
out again. And it would be grateful to her to know
that she is adding somethiug to the possessions of a
college that deserves increased possessions by wisely
employing its own for the advancement of liberal
education, under the rule that "science and lit-
erature are not to be separated from morals and
religion."
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The broader purpose of this gift ia to advance
the work of education. In the execution of this
purpose Mr. Searles desires that his wife should be
deemed the donor. Could she express her wish it
would not be to perpetuate her own name, but to
continue her usefulness by effective work for the
benefit of others.
Such indeed should be the ambition of all intel-
ligent and disinterested givers. And such ambition
is best expressed by contributions to the sound
education that develops common sense and arms it
with knowledge. It is true that contributions for
the poor, for the sick, and for various forms of active
or aggressive philanthropy, appeal more strongly
to sympathetic natures. Such gifts alleviate the
urgent sufferings that are visible to the eye. But
they make small inroads upon the sum of human
misery. To alleviate suffering of the present gen-
eration does not check or diminish its growth in the
next generation. Each gathered harvest of unfort-
unates makes place for a new harvest. Recruits
raised by ignorance and idleness, keep filling the
armies of the helpless. The only efficient way to
deplete those armies is to exhaust their source.
And the surest, if not the only way to do this, is to
give equal and sufficient training to youth. Though
men are not born with the same mental, and moral
gifts, yet, education, equally distributed, minimizes
natural differences. Those who receive it are made
more nearly equal in the power to acquire and in
the power to maintain what has been acquired.
Thus each member of the new generation is better
equipped for his own defense; needs less help from
others and is nearer the equal of his contemporaries
and competitors. An approach to such equality
diminishes the disorders that attend unequal knowl-
edge, unequal virtue, and unequal atttainment.
Whoever, then, would give to best effect, should
give to education.
May this building, vitalized by the intelligence
of the instructors and students who use it, long con-
tinue to add its contributions to this good work.
And now, as a merited encouragement to the
devoted instructors who here work out the problem
of their chosen calling; as a memorial to one who
would gladly aid in that work ; as a contribution to
better education and a help towards the more equal
conditions of life that follow it, the Searles Science
Building is formally committed to the permanent
guardianship of its most worthy possessors.
President Hyde accepted the gift in
behalf of the college in these words :
In accepting this building in behalf of the Trus-
tees and Overseers of Bowdoin College, I wish to
express first of all our profound and heartfelt grati-
tude to the generous donor, both for the munificence
and completeness of the gift and for the gracious
and judicious manner in which it was bestowed.
The building is to serve a double purpose, as a
monument to the memory of her whose name it
will forever bear, and as a source of inspiration
and instruction to the generations of students who
will come and go.
We are thankful that the architecture, the mate-
rial, the color and proportions of the building were
determined by the donor, and that in its external
aspect we have an expression of his taste and per-
sonality. We are also thankful that in its internal
arrangement, and in its liberal equipment, he has
allowed those who are to use it to fit it for their
work.
Never was an institution more in nee.d of such a
building, and never was a building more perfectly
adapted to meet that need. Twice Bowdoin Col-
lege has been in the fore-front of scientific instruc-
tion : once when Parker Cleaveland in Massachu-
setts Hall drove all the sciences abreast, and again
when Professor Brackett and Professor Goodale in
Adams Hall divided the empire of science between
them. In recent years our facilities have not kept
pace with the rapid advance of scientific instruc-
tion. Our laboratories had become antiquated,
inconvenient and inadequate. This splendid build-
ing gives our three professors the facilities which
modern conditions demand, and places us in this
respect in the front rank of American colleges.
The possession of this building imposes new
obligations upon the college. The rapid advance
of science gives it a right to a larger representation
in the course of study leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. Everywhere this right is receiv-
ing recognition. In 1883, 65 per cent, of the gradu-
ates of twenty leading colleges had received training
in both Greek and Latin. In 1893, in the same
twenty institutions, only 45 per cent, had been
compelled to study both of these languages. The
three Maine colleges, Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby,
are the only institutions in New England which
still refuse to offer a four years' course of study
leading to a degree, in which science or modern
languages may be substituted for one of the ancient
languages. The possession of this building will
enable us, without lowering our requirements for
admission, or introducing technical courses of study,
to offer to those who desire it, a liberal education
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in which science shall take a more prominent place
than heretofore.
Neither the experiment of easy conditions of
admission nor the experiment of technical and
utilitarian courses of instruction will be repeated
here. This building is not for the amusement of
idlers on the one hand, nor for the training of
engineers on the other. It is intended for those
who are willing to undergo a thorough course of
preparatory training to fit themselves to study here,
and who intend to use the results of their study as
educated physicians, lawyers, journalists, clergy-
men, and business men. To all such, the doors of
this building, and of the college of which it is
henceforth to constitute an important and attractive
feature, should be open on equal terms.
No words that I can speak can adequately ex-
press our grateful appreciation of this building.
Only as we devote it to the large usefulness for
which it is adapted can the improved and enlarged
work we do bear adequate witness to our lasting
gratitude. In the confident assurance that the
Trustees and Overseers of Bowdoin College will
devote it to the largest uses consistent with sound
training and broad scholarship, I thankfully accept
this building on their behalf.
The exercises in the building closed with
the benediction by Rev. E. B. Mason, then
all adjourned to Memorial, where the address
of the day was given by Prof. George L.
Goodale of Harvard, formerly professor in
Bowdoin.
Bowdoit? ^)ep§e.
Quartrain.
The blackest pool may love the light,
And gazing in the heavens afar
May hold within its slimy breast
The image of a shining star.
Two Songs.
When mild October's sober days are nigh,
And warriors gird themselves with strength anew,
The clarion of the old war-song strikes the sky, —
The stirring, martial notes of "Old Phi Chi."
Gay June upon her throne beneath the pine
Makes light the pain of parting, and the past
Shows of her grief the only outward sign,
The sweet, undying strains of "Auld Lang Syne."
White Head.
When summer breezes softly blow,
And sunshine bathes the world below,
The lazy tide sways sluggish slow
At base of old White Head ;
And, glass-like, mirrors in its blue
The rock and fishing vessels too,
With white sails flapping to and fro,
With tack and tack and yo heave ho,
That ever creeping come and go
Upon the summer sea.
And when at last warm afternoon
Has reached its ending, all too soon
The smiling sun goes down,
And, furling now its banners red,
A golden crown leaves on White Head,
And regal purple round.
Now fades the daylight on the sight,
And gloaming changes into night,
And myriad stars look down.
Secure from fear of storm or shock,
While burns the light on Half- Way Rock,
The voyaging vessels sink to rest,
At home upon old Ocean's breast,
And Ocean too sleeps sound.
But winter knows another way
When sea fogs damp the short, chill day,
Or sleet sweeps in o'er Ocean gray
While storm breaks on the shore.
White Head then proudly rears its crest
O'er muttering Ocean's dark unrest,
And, through the whirling, cutting blast,
Though ice-spray half its height be cast,
Immutable it stands,
Like border keep or feudal hold
Besieged in stormy days of old
By surging warrior bands.
So let it stand forevermore,
Firm-founded landmark on our shore,
In summer sun and winter snow,
While unborn centuries come and go ;
A cheery sight when east winds blow
On tall ships homeward bound.
And, though o'er other seas we roam,
Still constant, first, on turning home,
We look for thee, White Head.
And still, whate'er the time or place,
We bear an image of thy face
Within our hearts, deep down.
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A Chemical Tragedy.
Our Willie passed away to-day,
His face we'll see no more,
What Willie thought was H20
Proved H2 SO...
Same Old Story.
Says 'Ninety-eight, in new-made togs,
"We college men are jolly dogs."
Says 'Ninety-five, iconoclast,
" These fresh are fresher than the last."
In Dreams.
In dreams I roam with one I see no more,
I hear that voice which stills my pain,
I clasp that hand which brings the joy of yore,
And lip grows sudden sweet again.
In dreams I look in tender lovelit eyes,
Fair wells of truth which once were mine,
And see reflected only cloudless skies
Where stars of love forever shine.
At break of dawn the vision sweet hath flown,
Beside the long-dead fire I stand,
And waking, only feel within mine own
The pressure of a shadow's hand.
So oftentimes, I hate the morning sun
And wish the sea would quench its light,
And that my life-days somehow joined in one
Would be one endless, dreaming night.
The "gathering of the clans"
for a new year of study is nearly
done, and on the whole each of the
old classes has held its own.
'94 seems loath to leave its Alma
Mater, and has sent almost half its numbers back
for a glimpse of Bowdoin. The following is the
roll of honor : Anderson, Andrews, Bagley, Baxter,
Bliss, Buck, Arthur Chapman, Dana, Flood, Glover,
Hinckley, Levensaler, Lord, Pickard, Plaisted,
Ross, Sykes, Elias Thomas, W. W. Thomas, and
Thompson.
Doherty, '95, is teaching in Monticello.
Clark, '84, was in town a few days ago.
Russell, '97, is teaching at South Thomaston.
Professor Robinson has been out of town for a
week past.
Rich, '92, revisited the college at the beginning
of the terra.
Alexander, '90, made the campus a flying visit
the past week.
Merriman and French, former members of '96,
have joined '97.
Lincoln and Simonton, '91, revisited their Alma
Mater this term.
Pulsifer, of Bates, has become a member of the
Sophomore Class.
President Hyde addressed the Y. M. C. A. last
Sunday afternoon.
Young, '92, was one of the campus's welcome
visitors last week.
Chapman and Fish, '91, were among the visiting
alumni of last week.
Baker, '96, who is teaching at Newcastle, was in
town a day or so ago.
May, '93, has gone to Philadelphia to attend a
Medical School there.
Lord, Bliss, and Merrill, all of '94, are studying
at Andover Theological School.
The chapel choir is in charge of Willard, '96,
with Clough, '96, at the organ.
Manager Stetson and aids are busy at odd hours
marking out the foot-ball gridiron.
Sykes, '94, has been coaching the Hebron
Academy boys in the foot-ball line.
There seem to be an unusual number of students
rooming outside of the dormitories this year.
The Medical School is to begin in January, this
year, thus lengthening the term to six months.
'96 has received but One new member this year,
C. G-. Fogg, from Bangor Theological Seminary.
The A t fraternity are making arrangements for
a tennis court, to be laid out this fall if possible.
Several of the students took in the Farmington
excursion two weeks ago, and report a good time.
Lots of Bowdoin boys have been studying at
the Portland School for Medical Instruction, this
summer.
Haggett, '93, and Linscott, '92, passed through
Brunswick last Thursday, en route for Johns Hop-
kins University.
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The Misses Walker were here last Friday,
inspecting Vedder's picture which has just been
put up.
The Freshmen indulged in the usual resolution
to cut the first day or so of the term, but seemingly
got no farther.
G. F. Stetson has been elected foot-ball captain
by the Freshmen, and practice in earnest will com-
mence at once.
Fairbanks, '95, is at home sick with typhoid
fever. Late reports are somewhat encouraging as
to an early recovery.
Professor Whittier has rooms in the new Science
Building, where he has been measuring the Fresh-
men the past few days.
Professor Little has been in New York attending
the session of the American Library Association,
returning last Saturday.
Baldwin, Barker, Bucknam, Chamberlain, Mc-
Arthur and ,May, of '93, have been on the campus
at various times this term.
The new-comers to our campus are being victim-
ized in the usual way by the wily upper-classmen in
the line of old furniture, etc.
Topsham Fair is coming soon with all its usual
attractions and some additional ones, a balloon
and aeronaut among the rest.
Hayden of Auburn, Murphy of Lewiston, and
Williamson of North Gorham, N. H., are three
special students who enter this term.
Professor Johnson has been trying the electric
lights in the Art Building. The rooms look very
brilliant under the glare of the electric bulb.
The horn concert this year was somewhat of a
farcical affair, the Sophs getting only about half
round the circuit before getting broken up.
Quimby, '95, has been coaching the Thornton
Academy boys. His good work is shown in the tie
game played with the Portland High School lately.
The old Walker Gallery, above the chapel,
has been fitted up with book-cases this summer,
thus making quite an addition to the capacity of
the library.
The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is holding a
tennis tournament, a precedent for some other
society, and a reminder that a fall college tourna-
ment would do no harm.
Everybody seems to have been successful in fish-
ing this year, and star delegations in the various
societies are the rule. The season was short, being
nearly over by this time.
Warren R. Smith, '90, recently of Chicago Uni-
versity, is the assistant to Professor Robinson in the
chemistry department. He is also coaching the
foot-ball team with great success.
Professor Little has in mind an examination for
the purpose of deciding who of the Class of '98
shall work in the library. This is something new,
but will doubtless result in good to the library
service.
"Robin Hood" was played to a fair audience,
Wednesday, September 26th. The company was a
large one and gave some splendid chorus singing.
The artists were greatly taken with the campus
and volunteer student guides.
A stranger to our campus seemed surprised, the
other day, that the college boys do not know more
of Bowdoin's famous alumni. The gentleman was
looking for Hawthorne's old room, and could find
no one who knew anything about it.
The various eating clubs are running smoothly
now. The A K E's are at Mrs. Hill's ; the A A *'s
at Mrs. Eaton's ; the A T's have moved across the
street, but with no change of landlady ; * T, z ■¥,
and e A x are in the same old places.
Our new departure in our athletics is the com-
ing batch of foot-ball enthusiasts among the young
alumni to coach our team. Chapman and Sykes, of
last year's team, are doing invaluable work in that
line, and are setting an example that will surely be
followed in coming years.
The annual reception of the Y. M. C. A. to the
incoming class was held in the room of the associ-
ciation the first Thursday evening of the term.
Nearly all the students in college were there, and
with refreshments and speech-making, the evening
was very pleasantly passed.
Monday evening last, Miss Ollie Torbett, with
Mr. Moquiste and the Sutteman Sextette, played at
the Town Hall for the benefit of the foot-ball asso-
ciation. Miss Torbett has been a favorite here since
last year, and the large audience was more than
pleased with this year's concert.
The '96 Bugle board has organized as follows :
Preston Kyes, managing editor; Angus G-. Hebb,
business manager; Charles A. Knight, second busi-
ness manager. The members of the board are R.
M. Andrews, J. N. Haskell, z *; A. G. Hebb, e A X;
C. A. Knight, A A *; Preston Kyes, A K E; H. H.
Pierce, * T ; R. 0. Small, A r.
The first themes of the term are due October
2d, and the subjects are as follows: Junior— For
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which should we vote, the man or the platform?
How caD the College Y. M. C. A. do more efficient
work? Describe your favorite character in fiction.
Sophomore — Should the President be elected by
popular vote? A Summer Experience. Scott's
" Ivanhoe."
Wednesday evening, September 26th, Charles
T. Copeland, a Harvard lecturer on English Litera-
ture, addressed a goodly number of the students
and townspeople on the "Old English Comedies."
Mr. Copeland very entertainingly described the
authors and famous actors who have given these
comedies to us, and in closing read some interesting
extracts from several plays.
There are now in the office of State Librarian
Carver, at Augusta, two oil portraits of Hon. James
W. Bradbury, painted by Willard, the Massachusetts
artist. One will probably be given to Bowdoin
College and the other to the Lithgow library at
Augusta. Although in his ninety-third year, Mr.
Bradbury came almost daily to the capitol for the
sittings during the summer. — Kennebec Journal.
"All out, '97! Into 'em, into 'em!" was the cry
of some '97 men on a recent evening, and out of the
chapel poured their comrades, thinking for a scrap
with the rash '98 men. The scrap was there, but
'97 didn't do the scrapping. They had run up
against a crowd of Juniors and Seniors. "D— n
it, what a sell," was all they said, and fled. 'Twas
a huge joke from all but the sophomoric standpoint,
and later in the night '98 held its peanut drunk.
The changes and improvements made on the
campus and buildings during the summer are vari-
ous. Adams Hall has been renovated and changed
into a building for recitation purposes only, the
mathematical room now being in South Adams.
The old biological room in Massachusetts has
been refitted and is now occupied by Professor
Chapman. At the first Junior recitation in'English
Literature the Professor gave a very interesting
history of the room, really the oldest in college.
Cellar windows have been placed in Appleton, and
the hall painted throughout. Not the least of the
changes is the fine grading around the Science
Building.
Elihu Vedder has been in Brunswick the past
two weeks overseeing the placing of his painting in
the west tympana of Sculpture Hall. The picture
is a group of symbolic figures representing learning,
thought, the soul, life, nature, music, love, painting,
and sculpture, with a background of circular panels
in somewhat sober colors. The whole effect is
strong; one can but realize the feelings that the
figures symbolize. The central figure is a woman
leaning upon the tree of life, and holding in her
right hand a fruit-laden branch plucked from the
tree; on the right and loft, respectively, sit Cupid
writing with his arrow on a tablet, and Psyche with
an unrolled book in her hands. On the extreme
right is a woman with palette and brush, and beyond
a group of half-veiled statues. On the left is one
of the most striking figures, Thought, a woman
with earnest face and dream-fixed eyes, while at
her knees, as it were, is Wisdom, a dried-up old
man in the midst of charts and globes. Underneath
the picture is this inscription, "Sapienza, Pensiero,
Anima, Vita, Natura, Armonia, Amore, Colore,
Fauna."
The number of young men who passed the
entrance examinations this year was rather smaller
than usual in proportion to those that tried the
examinations. Of the seventy-two who passed,
fifty-seven are now here, with good prospects of
several more. The men pledged to the various fra-
ternities are indicated in the list :
Alexander.
P. P. Baxter, A^K E,
H. M. Bisbee, A K E,
A. W. Blake, a r,
R. S. Cleaves, e A X,
J. F. Dana, -i T,
G. L. Dillaway,
F. E. Drake, * r,
A. C. Eanies, e a x,
C. E. Eaton, A T,
E. C. Edwards,
H. N. Gardner, A K E,
Theodore Gould, e A X,
E. L. Hall,
H. H. Hamilton, z *,
H. H. Hamlen, Z *,
F. H. Hamlin,
M. A. Hills, ARE,
Arthur Hunt, A A $,
Edward Hutchins, A K E,
H. B. Ives, * Y,
C. O. Jordan,
L. E. Kaler,
C. F. Kendall, A T,
Harry Knight, A A *,
E. D. Lane,
W. W. Lawrence, ¥ T,
J. M. Loring,
Curtis T. Lynch, z *,
Portland.
West Sumner.
Portland.
Bridgton.
Portland.
Bath.
Bath.
. Bethel.
Jay.
South Windham.
Patten.
Portland.
North Bridgton.
Lubec.
Augusta.
Brunswick.
Walch, La.
Lewiston.
Brewer.
Portland.
Brunswick.
Brunswick.
Biddeford.
Gardiner.
Yarmouth.
Portland.
Yarmouth ville.
Machias.
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T. L. Marble, A K E,
H. R. Mdntyre, A T,
E. T. MiDOtt, A K B,
McKown,
M. D. Morrill, * T,
C. D. Moulton, A A $,
J. E. Odiorue,
D. R. Pennell, A A 4>,
E. G. Perkins,
C. S. Pettengill, A K E,
T. L. Pierce, * T,
W. E. Preble,
Walter Sargent, A A $,
J. A. Scott,
C. C. Smith, z *,
0. D. Smith, A A *,
E. E. Spear, e A X,
W. W. Spear, * T,
Edward Stanwood, Jr., .
G. F. Stetson, A K E,
R. H. Stubbs, A K E,
E. F. Studley,
G. H. Sturgis, A T,
G. B. Verrill,
Benj. Webster, Jr., i T,
E. R. Welch,
A. B. White, A A *,
Ralph Wiggin, 9 A X,
E. G. Wilson, z *,
Gorham, N. H.
Saco.
Phippsburg.
Boothbay.
Conway, N. H.
Bath.
Richmond.
Lewiston.
Brunswick.
Augusta.
Portland.
Litchfield.
Brewer.
Ellsworth.
Waterbury, Ct.
West Buxton.
Washington, D. C.
Rockland.
A $, Boston.
Bangor.
Strong.
Gardiner.
New Gloucester.
Portland.
Portland.
Temple.
Lewiston.
Rockland.
Harpswell.
FOOT-BALL RUSH.
The Sophomore foot-ball rush came off Friday
morning of the first week as is customary. After
the Seniors and Juniors had passed out, one of the
Freshmen, who has condescended to sing in the
college choir, threw the ball down upon the heads
of the Sophs. A mad rush ensued, and it was only
after a severe struggle that the ball was carried out
of the chapel. Then the " scrap " began, the upper-
classmen mingling promiscuously in the fray, and
for almost two hours the yelling crowd rushed the
ball from one end to another, uutil suddenly it dis-
appeared. A sturdy Junior had quietly tucked it
under his coat and carried the trophy to his room.
At the time of this writing the ball is in the College
Bookstore on exhibition. Very few long runs were
made, but the lively scrimmages made the rush an
interesting one to watch.
SOPHOMORE-FRESHMAN FOOT-BALL.
The foot-ball game Friday afternoon came off on
the delta and was marked by the usual amount of
interference by the upper-classmen and delays on
the part of the Sophs. The Sophomores appeared
in their war paint and feathers, and under the
efficient leadership of the tall and shapely Johnny
Morse, who hails from Bath, they marched around
the delta singing " Phi Chi." The Freshmen had
taken possession of a small plot of ground near the
pines, and after a hard struggle they were induced
to rise.
Soon referee Knowlton called the game, and the
Freshmen rushed the ball steadily toward the grand
stand, only to have it kicked back again into the
middle of the field. They rallied again, however,
and after a desperate struggle got it up near the
fence and Perkins knocked it over, scoring a goal
for the Freshmen. Freshie Wilson "swiped" the
ball and took it into his room in Maine Hall, after
a long run, but consented to bring it back and finish
out the game after a little gentle persuasion on the
part of the Sophs. The Freshmen had evidently
weakened and lost their courage, for the Sopho-
mores succeeded in winning the game by kicking
the ball over the line twice. The Freshmen turned
out in force and the game was highly interesting
for the large crowd of spectators.
ROPE-PULL.
The tug-of-war between the two classes Satur-
day morning was not very interesting, and was
easily won by the Freshmen after the Juniors and
Seniors had decided to stop interfering. During
the first of the contest the Freshies made several
futile attempts to pull up the hydrant and two or
three trees, but finally Umpire Crawford, '95, suc-
ceeded in getting three fair pulls, and the Fresh-
men easily won.
BASE-BALL.
Sophomores, 24; Freshmen, 17.
The only event of that week so full of sports
and games, the first of the fall term, which is a fair
contest in every sense, is the base-ball game. This
came off Saturday afternoon as usual, and attracted
a large crowd. The game was a good one, charac-
terized by heavy hitting on both sides. There is
evidently some base-ball talent in the incoming
class. Gould on first base, and Perkins on third,
put up the best game for the Freshmen. Sawyer
started in to pitch for the Sophs, but was batted
all over the field, '98 gaining ten runs to their credit
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in the first inning. Bodge pitched well and was
ably supported by Haines, while Hull put up a great
game on first base. Stetson and Wilson were in
the points for the Freshmen. John Morse, minus
his coat, led the cheeriug, which was rather feeble,
especially during the first few innings. The score :
SOPHOMORES, '97.
A.E. E. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Hull, lb., 5 4 1 2 10 2 1
Bodge, 3b., p., .... 6 1 1 1 3 1 1
Warren, s.s 5 3 5 7 2 2 1
Haines, c, 5 3 3 5 4 4 1
Randall, c.f., 4 4 2 2 0 0 0
White, 1.1, 5 3 2 2 0 0 2
Eastman, 3b., r.f., ... 5 4 3 3 0 0 1
Pratt, 2b 6 2 4 5 3 1 0
Sawyer, p., r.l, ....6 0 1-1 2 4 1
Totals 47 24 22 28 24 14 8
FRESHMEN, '98.
A.E. K. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.
Perkins, 3b., 6 2 2 3 2 0 1
Melntire, r.f., .... 6 1 1 1 1 1 0
Moulton, l.f 5 1 2 3 2 0 3
Gould, lb 3 2 0 0 7 4 0
Cleaves, s.s., 5 1 0 0 1 2 1
Wiggin,2b., 4 2 1 1 6 3 3
Stetson, p., i 2 1 1 1 6 0
Kendall, c.f., 4 3 1 1 1 0 1
Wilson, c, 4 3 11 6 2 2
Totals, 41 17 9 11 26 18 11
Struck out — by Sawyer, 1; by Bodge, 12. Base on balls
—Sawyer, 1 ; Bodge, 4. Passed balls— Haines, 1 ; Wilson, 2.
Struck out— by Stetson, 5. Base on balls— by Stetson, 6.
Wild pitches — Sawyer, 1. Time of game— 1 hour 55 min-
utes. Umpire, Leigh ton, '95.
TENNIS.
The tennis courts are all occupied during these
pleasant fall afternoons, and some very good tennis
may be seen by those who have the disposition to
watch. The incoming class has some very fair
players, and with a little practice on our hard clay
courts will probably develop some first-class talent.
P. H. Dana, '96, who won first prize in the state
tournament, and Frank Dana, '94, who held the
intercollegiate champiouship, have been playing
some during these first two weeks. Dana, '96, is in
good form, and will probably be our best man in
the tournament next spring.
FOOT-BALL.
SCHEDULE OF GAMES.
October 6, Exeters at Brunswick.
October 10, Boston University at Brunswick.
October 13, Boston Athletics at Boston.
October 17, Colby at Brunswick.
October 20, Dartmouth at Hanover.
October 24, Dartmouth at Brunswick.
October 27, Andover at Artdover.
October 31, Bates at Brunswick.
November 3, Open.
November 7, Mass. Inst, of Technology at Boston.
November 10, Open.
November 14, Open.
November 17, Brown at Providence.
Arrangements are being made for games with
Harvard, Amherst, Tufts, and a return game with
Brown. A fair number of men have presented
themselves as candidates on the field, but not
enough ; the more there are to choose from the bet-
ter will be the team. The probable make-up of the
team will be as follows: Right End— Libby, '96;
Right Tackle— Kimball, '95; Right Guard— Dewey,
'95; Center— Dennison, '95; Left Guard— Stone, '96;
Left Tackle— Newbegin, '96; Left End— Hicks, '95.
Quarter is undecided, but Knowlton is doing good
work. Halfbacks— Mitchell and Stubbs, '95; Full-
back—Quimby, '95. Candidates for Ends— Stearns,
'97, Wilson, '98, Foster, '95; Tackles— French,
'97, Spear, '98, Eastman, '96; Guards— Rines, '97,
Thompson, '97; Quarter— Leighton, '95, Knowlton,
'95; Halfs— Murphy, Stetson, '98, Home, '97, Meade,
'95; Fullback— Warren, '96. There will be eight
old players on the 'varsity, most of them having
seen from two to three years of team work. Of the
candidates, French, Warren, '96, and Knowlton are
doing especially good work. It will be seen by
glancing over the list of available men that there
is a good candidate for almost every position, so if
a 'varsity man gets used up, there will be no serious
setback to the team. We have been fortunate in
securing for a coach, W. R. Smith, Bowdoin, '90,
who has played two years under Stagg in Chicago.
Another pleasing thing is the interest of the gradu-
ates who have come back to help coach up the
men. Chapman, Sykes, and Stevens, have been a
great help to the team in this way.
The University of Michigan sent out a class of
seven hundred and thirty-one this year, the largest
ever graduated from an American college.
Two hundred enthusiastic students of Stanford
University have each given $2.50 toward the con-
struction of a "noise-making machine," to be used
at the next athletic contest between Leland Stan-
ford and the University of California. It is to be a
monster horn worked by a steam blower, and made
of galvanized iron. It is to be fifty feet in length,
with a diameter of ten feet, and will have a thirty-
two horse- power boiler. — Ex.
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'53. — A grand reception
'and ball was given in Au-
gusta, on the evening of September
: 24th, in honor of Melville W. Fuller,
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, before his return to Washington.
Many guests were present from all over the state
and from other states.
'57. — Charles J. Little is manager and one of
the principal stockholders of the Worcester Woolen
Company, of Worcester, Mass.
'58. — One of Chicago's best-known members of
the legal profession is Lysander Hill, who came to
Chicago in 1880. He is a patent lawyer of great
ability, and has been connected with many of the
most important cases of that character in the
United States Circuit and Supreme Courts during
the last twenty-five years. He was a Judge of the
Circuit Court in Virginia, also Register of Bank-
ruptcy. He enlisted and was an officer in the 20th
Maine Volunteers, and served in the Army of the
Potomac. He is a Republican, and a member of
the Calumet Club. Mr. Hill was born at Union,
Knox County, Maine, July 4, 1834. His parents
were of old Puritan stock, and the family were
strong patriots during the Revolutionary war, and
helped throw the tea overboard in Boston Harbor.
The male members of the family were officers and
soldiers in the Continental army. The first ances-
tors came to America about 1640 and settled near
Boston. Mr. Hill was educated at Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Maine, where he took a full law course.
'62. — Dr. Henry H. Hunt is reported critically
ill at his home in Portland, Me.
'62. — William Ellingwood Donnell, who had been
financial editor of the New York Tribune for several
years, died suddenly of apoplexy at the Plaza Hotel,
New York City, September 19th. Mr. Donnell was
born in Portland, in 1841. Soon after graduation
he was commissioned an adjutant of the staff of
Major-Gen. Chamberlain, during the late war. He
went to the front and made so creditable a record
that at the age of twenty-five he had won the bre-
vets of captain and major, and at the close of the
war declined a colonelcy. He was commissioned in
the 20th Maine Regiment and served as aid-de-
camp, provost-marshal, and chief of ordnance, in
the First Division, Fifth Corps, from 1863 to 1865.
After the war he returned to Portland, and for a
time read law in the office of Shepley & Dana, and
then engaged in the wholesale grocery business.
In 1877 he moved to New York, and a year later
joined the Tribune staff, and was promoted to the
position of financial editor in 1891. He was a
member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and the
Loyal Legion.
'64. — James McKeen was elected Vice-President
of the New York State Municipal Reform League,
July last.
'70. — State Comptroller James A. Roberts, of
New York, has been dangerously ill at his summer
home in Saratoga.
'76. — Professor Arlo Bates, of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, has returned to Boston
from his trip abroad.
'77. — Lieut. Robert E. Peary's second expedition
in quest of the North Pole, has returned from the
Arctic regions, and the members of the party report
many thrilling experiences and narrow escapes.
The expedition failed to arrive within three degrees
of latitude reached in the former expedition. The
trip, on the whole, brought forth some good results,
and Lieut. Peary, nothing daunted, says that he is
going to organize a third expedition.
'81. — Dr. John W. Nichols, who has been physi-
cian at the Vermont Institute at Montpelier for the
last two years, has started in as a practitioner at
Farmington, Me., his old home.
'82.— H. H. Chase is a member of the law firm
of Chase & Bixby, Brockton, Mass.
'84. — F. P. Knight is principal of the Springvale
High School.
'89.— Dr. Lynam, of Duluth, noted while in col-
lege for his athletic abilities and sterling qualities,
has been distinguishing himself in the recent terri-
ble Minnesota forest fires by his bravery and hard
work to relieve the sufferers.
'90. — Allen, who is practicing law at Alfred, won
recently quite a renown for himself in a successful
law suit with a fake circus and bunco-steering
show.
'90. — Warren R. Smith, for the last two years at
Chicago University, where he graduated with a
Ph.D., will be Professor Robinson's assistant in
chemistry for the ensuing year.
'91.— Jonathan P. Cilley, Jr., after a severe
attack of appendicitis, is now stricken with typhoid
fever of a dangerous type.
'92.— Mr. Roland W. Mann of Bangor and Miss
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Mary Young, daughter of Professor Stephen J.
Young (Bowdoin, '59), were united in marriage at
the Unitarian church, Brunswick, Tuesday evening,
September 25th. Mr. and Mrs. Mann after the
bridal trip will reside in Lougwood, near Boston.
'92. — Emery returns to Bowdoin to Tjccupy the
chair of Political Economy.
'92. — J. D. Merriman will continue his studies in
Political Science at Columbia College, N. Y.
'92.— Durgiu is studying law at Boston Uni-
versity.
'93. — Savage is teaching school in Vermont.
'93. — Baldwin, Barker, Emery, and May expect
to enter the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
Peun., this fall.
'94. — Andrews is taking a post-graduate course
at Harvard.
'94. — Bagley and Wilbur are to study law in
Portland the coming year.
'94. — Baxter, during the past summer, has been
engaged in the canning business with his brothers.
'94. — Bliss, Lord, and Merrill enter the Andover
Theological Seminary this fall.
'94. — Buck expects to enter into business in
Boston.
'94.— T. C. Chapman is principal of the Winthrop
High School.
'94. — Currier enters the Harvard Medical School.
'94. — DeMott has had a call to the Sanford, Me.,
Congregational church.
'94.— Farrington was married during the sum-
mer and this fall will take charge of a school in
Macuias, Me.
'94. — Flagg is teaching school at Hopedale, Mass.
'94.— Flood is an assistant teacher at the Frye-
burg Academy.
'94.— Frost is going into the newspaper business
and will be on the staff of the Lowell, Mass.,
Morning Mail.
'94.— Glover is in the office of the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Company.
'94.— Hinkley has been in the employ of the
U. S. Fish Commission on Lake Ontario and Niagara
River during July and August.
'94. — Horsman is teaching school at Jonesport.
'94. — Knight enters the Boston School of Phar-
macy.
'94. — Leigbton and Littlefield will study medi-
cine at the Portland School for Medical Instruction.
'94. — McKinnon has charge of a parish at St.
John, N. B.
'94. — Libby is teaching school at Boothbay
Harbor, Me.
'94. — Levensaler is in the lime business at Thom-
aston with his father-.
'94. — Moore has also married and has moved to
Saco, where he fills the pulpit of the Congregational
church there.
'94. — Plaisted is studying law at Bangor.
'94. —Ross fills the position of instructor in a
gymnasium at Manchester, N. H. During the past
summer he has been connected with the U. S. Fish
Commission ou the Fish Hawk, which took obser-
vations in Maine and Massachusetts waters.
'94. — Simpson is teaching school at Bethel, Me.
'94. — Sheaff occupies the pulpit at Falmouth.
'94.— Sykes is studying law in Auburn.
'94.— E. Thomas is in business with his father,
who is at the head of the firm of Elias Thomas &
Co., wholesale grocers.
'94. — Thompson is engaged in the pursuit of law
at Bath.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall or Alpha Delta Phi, )
Bowdoin Chapter. $
Whereas, It has pleased the Ruler of the Uni-
verse to take from the scenes and activities of this
life our much esteemed brother, William Ellingwood
Donnell, of the Class of '62.
Resolved, That our Chapter has met with a great
loss in one who was a true Alpha Delt, always
devoted to the highest interests of our fraternity;
Resolved, That our fraternity badge be draped in
mourning, that our sincere sympathy be extended
to the bereaved family, and that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to them, and also be printed in
the Bowdoin Orient. "
Feed 0. Small,
Ralph W. Leighton,
George M. Brett,
For the Chapter.
The Yale Glee Club gives a part of its proceeds
to poor students.
A professorship of piano and organ playing has
been established at Yale.
At the Chicago University there is one instructor
for every six students.
The sons of Harvard have recently dedicated a
a new home in New York Citv.
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Sweet Marie.
I've a question for thine ear,
Sweet Marie :
How much longer shall we hear,
Love, of thee ?
Every band upon the street
Knows how much I love thee, sweet,
I must breathe and drink and eat,
Sweet Marie.
When I hold your hand in mine,
Sweet Marie,
A feeling not divine
Shall steal me.
Then shall I wish for a gun—
I'm in earnest, not in fun,
Annie Rooney's quite outdone,
HullyGee!
Sweet Marie, come to me,
Sweet Marie, I hate thee;
'Tis because you are not fair, love, to me.
You will drive me mad, my own,
And in this I'm not alone —
Everywhere the suffering groan,
Sweet Marie! — Lehigh Burr.
The following-named universities publish daily
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Who thought " swear words " so shocking,
That she'd not even pass the dam,
Nor even darn a stocking. — Andover Union.
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Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 17, 1894.
No. 7.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OP
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. Minot, '96, Managing Editor.
G. T. Ordway, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
H. R. Blodgett,
B. L. Bryant, '95.
H. W. Thayer, '95.
A. G. Wiley, '95.
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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.
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sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
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Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 7.— October 17, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 119
An Apple Story, 121
The Omicron, 122
Bowdoin Verse:
Ye Scholar in Love, 123
Oliver Wendell Holmes 123
In Deutschland, 123
On a Railroad Train 123
Experientia Docet, 124
Collegii Tabula 124
Athletics, 127
Y. M. C. A., 128
Personal, 129
In Memoriam, 131
College World, . 131
With this number of the Orient sev-
eral important changes are made in the man-
agement of the paper. On account of the
pressure of other duties Bryant, '95, has been
obliged to resign the managing editorship,
and Minot, '96, has been elected to his place.
Ordway, '96, has been elected to succeed
Minot as assistant managing editor, and
Blodgett, '96, a new man to the board, suc-
ceeds Ordway as business manager. Thus
the leading positions on the board are filled
with new, and for the most part inexperi-
enced men, and the hearty co-operation of
all is necessary to make our college paper a
success and to keep it up to the standard of
the immediate past.
TT7I1E initiations are over, and the usual
*■ number of Freshmen have survived the
operation of being made members of the
various Greek-letter fraternities represented
at Bowdoin. That the operation was a pleas-
ant one goes without. saying, and it is safe to
say that none will ever forget the beginning
of the fraternity life that will hereafter mean
so much to them. Fraternity life is a very
important part of a college course, and espe-
cially so here at Bowdoin, where the strongest
college societies of the country are repre-
sented by strong and active chapters. The
ties binding the members together are sev-
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ered only with life itself, and have an influ-
ence that can never be appreciated or cor-
rectly estimated by those outside. Loyalty
and love in the active service of the fra-
ternity of which one has been made a
member are indeed high virtues, since it
can be safely assumed that at least in the
six fraternities represented here the customs
and practices are manly and honorable, the
ideals and purposes high and noble, the asso-
ciations and influences uplifting and bene-
ficial. Let each man be an enthusiast always
for his own loved fraternity; let him form
those sacred friendships, enjoy those happy
social hours, and receive that inexpressible
benefit and training that will be felt and
remembered much longer than Greek conju-
gations or algebraic formulas. But there are
words of a negative nature that the new
initiates should heed. Do not be narrow or
selfish, or partisan to an offensive degree.
Society feeling should never come into class
or college politics or into athletics. Here
the fraternity should in a sense be forgotten,
and only the best interests of the college and
the highest good of all should be considered.
Bowdoin has suffered far too much from the
effects of intense society feeling manifested
in the wrong way, and it would be a grand
thing if the opening of the new century,
which means so much to the college in many
ways, could see the dawn of a new era in this
respect. Let the initiates of '98 consider
this.
TTTHE Orient wishes to say to the members
-^ of the incoming class, who may not be
informed on such matters, that contributions
to its columns are solicited from any and all
members of the college. It aims to be the
college paper, but it cannot be made truly
representative of the whole college by the
few writers upon the editorial board. They
must have the co-operation of their fellow-
students, who, unfortunately, are often more
willing to criticise than to help. Do not
be bashful about sending in contributions.
Poems, sketches, stories, articles, personal
and news items, and points for editorial
matter are all wanted, and are wanted often.
The standard of the paper is not so high but
any college man ought to attain it. The
Orient hopes to find in '98 a large number
of constant contributors. It is a fact painful
to state that out of nearly seventy members
of a certain other class in college, many of
whom manifest vital interest in the Orient,
not one has yet sent anything to the paper
suitable for publication, and only one has
sent anything at all. Lack of interest, not
lack of ability, is to blame for this, and a
class can scarcely be proud of such a record.
0UR sister colleges in Maine are each unus-
ually prosperous this fall, and are enter-
ing upon the new year under especially
auspicious circumstances. The Orient, in
behalf of the college, extends greeting and
congratulations. Colby is fortunate that Pres-
ident Whitman has resisted the extremely
flattering .offer from Columbian University,
and Bates has the brightest prospects under
its new and progressive administration. At
both these institutions and at Maine State
the entering classes are larger than usual.
TT is now the height of the foot-ball season,
-^ and Bowdoin has started out with the
brightest prospects of keeping up the proud
record made by the college since this branch
of athletics became popular here. Our first
game was with Exeter and was a hard-fought
battle, but for the third year in succession
Bowdoin won. Last Saturday our tie game
with the strong Boston Athletic eleven was
equivalent to a victory, and only the unfair-
ness of the umpire allowed our opponents to
do so well as to make it a tie. Such a game
makes our team respected in Massachusetts
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and helps the name of the college. The
Boston University team, which we defeated
36 to 0 last year, had to cancel their game
here, but it is probable a game will be
arranged later. By the time this number of
the Orient is issued it is probable that a
game will have been played with Colby, in
which case another victory will have been
added to our unbroken series over this insti-
tution. Next come the Dartmouth games,
and then our boys will have a chance to
show what stuff they are made of. The
eleven is putting up a steady, plucky game,
and is gaining strength right along. Every
student should take a strong personal inter-
est in the team ; encourage it in its practice ;
cheer it on to victory in its home games;
and give it his financial support to the best
of his ability. The team and management
are working hard to make this foot-ball sea-
son the most successful one yet, and they
must have the united and enthusiastic sup-
port of the student body.
TITHE college Y. M. C. A. is an institution
j ■ u
not properly appreciated by the student
bod}'. It deserves a much larger member-
ship and more active support by the mass of
the students, for the benefits of membership
are greater and more numerous than out-
siders can realize. Elsewhere in this issue
are Y. M. C. A. notes, and the Orient in-
tends to maintain this as a regular depart-
ment in each number.
An Apple Story.
T fAST summer I had the good fortune to be
*-* present at a chance meeting of two of
Bowdoin's alumni of the early fifties. It had
been years since they had seen each other,
never, in fact, since one beautiful July morn-
ing after their graduation, when one took the
stage for Portland, and the other walked
down to Maquoit to the boat that was to
carry him to his home on the Maine coast.
They were overjoyed at seeing each other
and sat clown beneath the shade of two old
maples to renew their friendship and talk of
the days of " auld lang syne." Gradually
they threw aside formalities and lapsed into
the easy, familiar terms which they had used
in the days spent beneath the "whispering
pines." At length there came a slight lull
in their conversation. One of them, looking
down through the sunny slope of an orchard
where the first Red Astrachans were begin-
ning to drop off and nestle in the grass wait-
ing to be eaten, inquired: "Jack, do you
remember how scarce apples used to be in
Brunswick ? The trees did not seem to thrive
in that soil, and if by some good fortune a
man did succeed in having a good early
orchard,* he always kept a big dog chained
there nights."
" Yes," replied Jack, " I distinctly recol-
lect one night when I climbed over the fence
into a back-yard at the foot of Federal Street.
I had barely got my hands on an apple when
a dog began to bark, a window went up, and
a voice yelled out : " Get out of there, you
thieving, sneaking blackguard, before I put
this charge of salt through your pants!"
I lost no time in obeying this injunction, and
escaped with my apple, but my pants wore
forever after traces of my hasty exit through
the fence."
" I had better luck than that once," was
the reply. " I was walking in Topsham one
afternoon with some other students, when
I discovered a tree of beautiful High-Top
Sweets. I was always especially fond of that
apple, and could hardly resist the tempta-
tion of going, at once and shaking the tree.
I managed to restrain myself for the time,
but that evening, as I started for bed, I felt
very hungry. The picture of that tree came
into my mind ; my mouth watered and my
nostrils seemed to smell the appetizing odor
of those High-Tops. I could not stand it.
I put on some old clothes, turned my collar
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up, pulled a slouch hat down over my eyes,
took a small sack and started. I sneaked
along the dark side of the streets, across the
bridge and up the hill to the orchard. Imag-
ine my surprise and chagrin when I found
about half a dozen of my afternoon's com-
panions nearly ready to carry off the same
apples that I had walked a mile and a half to
get. But my Homer came to my rescue, and
the crafty Odysseus put wisdom in my heart.
I went quickly around to the other side of
the orchard, came quietly up to the fel-
lows, and changing my voice as best I could,
I said:
' Boys, I have caught you this time ! Don't
you call it a mean trick, to come in the night
to steal a man's apples, that he will give you
in the day time? And you too, "Brown;
I did not expect that you would steal my
apples ! "
" You should have seen how sheepish
those fellows looked. They had not a word
to say for themselves. 'Well,' I continued,
'since this is the first time and you are sorry,
you just empty those apples into this sack
of mine, and promise never to steal apples
again, and we will call it all right.'
"The fellows poured the apples into my
sack and started towards the bridge as if
they were thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
Once safely out of that orchard I had a hearty
laugh at the expense of my classmates, but
did not tarry long until the apples were
safely deposited in my room in South Maine."
The Omicron.
TTN interesting story of college life has
/ *■ just been told me by a well-known
alumnus of our college, and I think it will
stand publication. It may be of especial
interest at this season of fraternity initiations,
and in view of approaching class elections.
The rise and fall of the Omicron forms
a chapter as yet unwritten in the history of
Greek-letter fraternities at old Peucinia. Its
mission was not an especially high one, its
life was short, and its downfall ignoble.
In a certain spring about a quarter of a
century ago there was unusual rivalry over
the election of class-day officers, and class
politicians were busy forming and breaking
"combines." One evening several of the
Seniors, prominent leaders in their respective
societies, met in a room in South Mon-
mouth— then known as Gomorrah — to talk
over the situation. The one who tells the
story says that it was a caucus with more
"cuss" than anything else, and that "water
flowed like wine."
The only decision they could unanimously
reach was that all the offices should be given
to themselves. To bring about this result
they formed a "ring" to be known as the
Omicron, whose existence they meant
should be profoundly secret. Each man
was to use all "his influence to have Omicron
men and no others elected to office. Thus
their plans were formed with interludes of
drinking and singing, and they seemed to
forget that they were making much noise
and that the windows were wide open.
Now it happened that late in the evening a
certain Senior named Smith passed by. He
heard the sound of revelry in Gomorrah
and a few moments of listening gave him
all the plans and secrets of the Omicron.
The revelation filled his soul with anger.
He hastened away, and in spite of the late-
ness of the hour he soon had collected a
dozen of his classmates under the open
window. "Well, what shall we do?" was
the question passed around in a whisper
after they had listened to the voices around
the festive board of the Omicron, and had
become angry at the low selfishness and
treachery of those whom they had thought
their friends. They did not stop to reason
that the plot of the Omicron, since it had
become known to the rest of the class, must
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now of necessity fail, but in the heat of
youth they argued that the only course
open was immediate action, and that, too,
violent.
A chance remark that "to be ducked
like Freshmen was too good for such fellows,"
suggested a plan. A score of pails were
brought and filled at the pump, and armed
with these a dozen irate Seniors filed silently
into the hall and up to the Omicrou's room
of meeting. Smith was stationed outside
to give the signal for the attack by throwing
through the window several empty bottles
tossed out by the revellers. A rehearsal
would not have made everything go more
as desired. Directed by Smith's strong
right arm the bottles were hurled through
the window in quick succession, and, as
luck had it, the last one knocked the lamp
from the table. The table with its contents
was overturned ; flames from the broken
lamp burst up from the ruins, and pandemo-
nium reigned supreme. Just at this moment
the door was broken in and twenty well-
directed pails of water — although extin-
guishing the flames — added not a little to
the confusion and discomfiture of the Omi-
crons. As quickly as possible the intruders
withdrew, leaving the members of the new
organization very damp and in darkness,
and in a state of dazed wonderment as to
what had happened.
Thus the Omicron rose, or tried to, and
thus it ingloriously fell, for it never recov-
ered from the shock received then. And
thus, for once at least in college history,
grave and reverend Seniors were treated to
the indignity that in these more enlightened
days is reserved entirely for verdant Fresh-
men.
Cornell University now has more fellowships to
offer than any other university except Columbia.
Two of these, the President White traveling fellow-
ships, are worth $600 each ; the other twenty, $500
each.
Sowdoir-) ^)ep§e.
Ye Scholar in Love.
Ye light, Lucilly, of your sweet blue eyes
Quite dims the feeble rays of midnight oil,
Ye memory of what within them lies
Assuageth grief aud maketh light my toil.
I sit and try to fill my eyes with bookes,
Alack, alas! the trying is most vain.
My vision seeth only your good lookes;
My heart at thy far absence cries with paiu.
With wisdom old and new I toil and strive,
And on my page with earnestness I stare,—
Whatever I can see or dead or live
Is tangled in the meshes of your hair.
Yet vain are all my sighs and moans for thee,
Thy thoughts to rae-ward, belike, never turn ;
But with one single look or word from thee
My foolish heart would never cease to burn !
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Peacefully at a long life's close he passed,
Our dear-loved poet, not as one who falls
In youth or early manhood when Death calls
From work half done with hard commanding blast;
Nor yet as one whose lot in life, is cast
In places that seem fruitless, barren stalls
That hide what is within, whose boundary walls
Shut out the world without, so, when at last
The laborer leaves his seat and passes on,
He counts his life as wasted or misspent.
Our poet lived as one on mission sent
'Mongst fellow-men, and, white-haired honors won,
Passed on apart from outward dark and gloom,
Within his. Father's house from room to room.
In Deutschland.
" Ik liber dik," das Jungling cried
(He'd lately taken Deutsch).
" Ich spreche nicht als English, Herr,"
Die scuone Madchen sighed.
On a Railroad Train.
A stranger asked two college youths their class
(He'd heard them boast of college life and fun),
And one belonged to Bowdoin, 'Ninety-nine,
And one was booked in Bowdoin, Niueteeu-one.
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Experientia Docet.
Said Marguerite,
With a sweet
Distracted air,
" I wonder, do you know,
If it is really so,
That the bliss
Par excellence,
Beyond compare,
Is a kiss."
Quoth I with fear
(Yet drawing near),
"Experiment will show."
She's so demure,
I'm not quite sure,
But think she said, " It's so !"
The course of lectures at the
Augusta Congregational church has
been fully arranged for. They will be
given by Professor H. L. Chapman,
D.D.,of Bowdoin College. The sub-
jects will come as follows: November 5th, "Chau-
cer;" November 12th, "Spenser;" November 19th,
"Milton;" November 26th, Shakespeare's "Mac-
beth;" December 3d, " Emerson;" December 10th,
Tennyson's "Princess." — Kennebec Journal.
French, '97, went home sick last week.
Clark, '84, is on the campus frequently.
Little, '89, was on the campus last week..
Holway, '82, visited the campus last week.
Plummer, '87, is a frequent visitor to the college.
Stevens, '89, called on friends at the college
recently.
Poor, '92, spent several days with friends here
last week.
Harriman, '97, was on the campus for a few days
last week.
Crocker, '73, was at the college last week on
business.
Baxter, '98, is presiding at the chapel organ for
the present.
Whitcomb, '94, is in attendance at the Harvard
Law School.
There were the usual adjourns on the day after
the initiations.
Sewall, '97, was called home last week by the
death of his sister.
Sargent, '78, now principal of Hebron Academy,
was here last week.
Doherty, '95, will come back very soon from a
long term of teaching in Monticello.
The Sophomores hope to have another chance
to play the Bangor High School team.
Clough, '96, has lately been selected to correct
the mathematical papers of the Freshman Class.
The reading-room is getting along this year in
excellent shape, under the managenient of Ward,
'96.
Rain prevented the '97 eleven from playing the
Portland High School boys October 10th, as they
had planned.
The Bates and Hebron elevens were among the
large crowd of enthusiastic spectators at the
Exeter game.
"Davy Jones" was presented to a fair audience
two weeks ago Tuesday. The company took with
the studeuts.
The A A $ tennis tournament has not been com-
pleted as yet, for the rainy days have interfered
with the games.
The A K B fraternity has sold A T one of its
unused teunis courts, which is now being fixed up
for active service.
The merry-go-round has again been for some
time located on the depot lot, and crowds are pres-
ent there each evening.
Strickland, ex-'97, was here recently on his way
from his home in Houlton to Colorado, where he is
going for the benefit of his health.
Oh, where did that Sophomore banner go which
was used in the opera of "Davy Jones," Tuesday
evening? It is said to be still in town.
The Sophomore French division, which is rather
large in numbers, is reading "Le Cid," besides
some outside reading.
But four '97 men elected Sophomore Greek, the
new electives in Physics, etc., drawing away the
majority. Last year there were seventeen in the
class.
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The Freshmen are getting to work on a yell to
spring at the Thanksgiving recess. They are
taking time by the forelock, but intend to get a
rattler.
Saturday evening, October 6th, a delightful
dance was given in the Court Room in honor of
Miss Grace Williams, who has lately gone to
Chicago for the winter.
The Telegraph of last week contained the
announcement of the engagement of a Bowdoin
student and a charming young lady prominent iu
Brunswick musical circles.
Several of the students have lost money from
their clothing while in the gym. Last year many
were the losers, but this fall some attempt should
be made to discover the thief.
Nine members ofiKE attended the Deke initi-
ation at Colby: W. W. Thomas, '94; Bass. Kyes,
and Minot, '96; Holmes and Varrell, '97; and Gard-
ner, Baxter, and Hutchings, '98.
Colby was well represented here on initiation
night. Bryant, Gray, and Riggs, '95, Getchell and
Philbrook, '96, Dunton and Philbrick, '97, all lend-
ing a helping hand to the Bowdoin goat.
This term sees increased facilities in the library
for the use of that room as a literary workshop,
new tables, extra chairs, and ink and paper, which
last two have been conspicuously absent in the past.
Wright & Ditson have offered a pennant for the
foot-ball championship of the Maine Interscholastic
Athletic Association, and the contest is lively
among the various fitting schools. Some have fine
elevens.
The foot- ball subscription list has been circu-
lated the past few days and very gratifying results
are announced. Not only have the number of
givers increased, but the size of the amounts have
also risen.
Boston University was scheduled to play the
Bowdoin eleven here last Wednesday, October 10th,
but telegraphed Tuesday that the game must be
canceled. A game will be arranged with them
here later on.
The colored glass window in what used to be
the Walker Gallery in King's Chapel was repaired
this summer by Redding, Baird & Co , of Boston,
and was recently replaced, much more attractive
for its trip abroad.
Professor Whittier began the physical measure-
ment of the Freshmen last Monday night at his
new rooms in the Science Building. The class is
expected to make a fine showing in this line, so
many of them having taken an active part in fitting-
school athletics.
The Sunday opening of the Art Building has
been quite as successful as expected, the average
attendance for the past three Sundays having been
about twenty-four. The opening of the building
also increases considerably the number of strangers
at chapel service.
Some waggish students are responsible for a
recent disturbance of the Freshman Greek recita-
tion, for, after getting him to grind away under the
window they basely bribed the hand-organ artist to
send his penny collector into the Greek Profes-
sor's room after cash.
On the campus and on the Topsham hills the
leaves are turning and present a "symphony in
colors." This is the time for strolls and also for
hunting in a small way. One party boasts of having
killed eighteen squirrels in fifteen minutes, and con-
fidently expect to make it two a minute on the
next trip.
The Z ■* chapters of Colby and Bowdoin held a
union banquet at Hotel North, Augusta, Wednes-
day evening, October 10th. The fraternity report
a most enjoyable time. The banquet was of the
best, and the " feast of reason and flow of wit " that
followed still more enjoyable. Zeta Psi owned Au-
gusta for that night.
Last Sunday afternoon, at chapel, Professor
Chapman spoke of Dr. 0. W. Holmes in words of
warmest eulogy, and then read one of his anni-
versary poems and the concluding stanza of the
"Chambered Nautilus." Professor Chapman in
closing said that Dr. Holmes's life had been pat-
terned on this verse.
The college is enjoying a rare treat this week in
the Shakespeare readings given in Memorial Hall,
under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., by Edgar C.
Abbott of Boston, one of the best readers in New
England. Mr. Abbott will read three plays, "Julius
Caesar," "As You Like It," and " Hamlet," one on
Monday and the others on Wednesday and Thurs-
day evenings.
The second themes of the term are due Tues-
day, October 16th, on the following subjects:
Juniors— Are the aims and methods of the Ameri-
can Protective Association commendable? A coun-
try auction. George Eliot's " Mill on the Floss."
Sopliomores — Should the President's term of office
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be lengthened » A description of your native town.
Shakespeare's character of Brutus.
The competitive examination for positions in the
library, open to '97 and '98, resulted in the following
selection: Varrell, '97, and Loring, '98. About
eighteen students took the examination, and Prof.
Little says that the papers were very good indeed,
eleven getting more than 80 out of a possible 100.
The questions were on general information, position
of books in the library, and various themes of spe-
cial importance to a library attendant.
President Hyde has been speaking in various
places throughout New England lately. At the
convention of Baptists in Portland he gave an
address on the work of the Interdenominational
Committee in Maine. Last Friday he addressed the
New England Association of Preparatory Schools
and Colleges at their annual meeting in Boston.
The two Sundays preceding this issue he has
preached before the students of Dartmouth.
Initiation night brought a fair number of gradu-
ates back to their Alma Hater. The following is a
nearly complete list: Dr. J. M. Eveleth, '49; Ed-
ward Stanwood, '61 ; Rev. S. W. Pearson, '62; S. C.
Purington, '78; J. C. Cummings, '84; D.C.Clark,
'84; W. R. Smith, '90; Gummer, 92; Hunt, '91;
Spring, ex-'93; Baxter, Chapman, Hinkley, Leigh-
ton, Littlefield, Libby, Pickard, Stevens, Sykes, E.
Thomas, W. W. Thomas, and Wilbur, all of '94.
Topsham Fair has come and gone again in the
midst of the usual " Fair weather." As in years
past the students went in crowds and made lots of
fun for themselves. Triangle, whose twenty-fifth
annual trial against his record was broadly adver-
tised, failed to appear on the appoiuted day, much
to the sorrow of the Freshmen who had unwarily
invested in a special grand stand check. The side-
shows furnished a good deal of sport, particularly
the one with the wiggle-waggle dance features, and
the one where a dozen or so students were engaged
as a drawing card. The excitement of the Fail-
centered around the track, where the racing was
good, Haley going a mile in 2.18J.
Professor Little received a large number o
books, nearly three hundred, from Mrs. Anne L.
Pierce of Portland, early this term. Mrs. Pierce is
a sister of Henry W. and Stephen L. Longfellow,
and the books are from their libraries. They are
chiefly text-books used by the poet and his brother,
many of them containing Henry Longfellow's signa-
ture. Among them are some books of statistics,
chiefly valuable as filling breaks in present sets,
and also some school-boy manuscripts. Oue of
these papers is a rule, called "Pres. McKeen's Rule
for Gauging Barrels," copied out in full. Bowdoin
and its librarian rejoice to have received these
memorials of Bowdoin's great son.
A writer in the Bath Independent thus writes
after a visit to the college: "After her hundredth
anniversary last June — when gathered that illustri-
ous body of Bowdoin alumni to the campus of their
youth— a credit to any college and to the world —
the scorching rays of the summer sun beat upon
the walls of her buildings, old and new alike, and
seemed to hold full sway for ten weeks. Presto !
Once more her halls are alive with the activity of
youth in the beginning of another terra of pleasure
and study. As one walks through the old paths,
once troddeu by the honored living and the dead,
one feels the hopes of youth, as the old trees seem
to speak and hold out a friendly hand. Nothing
seems strange; the memory of Longfellow makes
you well acquainted. Voiceless nature is to one
who can feel its silent workings, a mighty inspira-
tion to the soul. The air seems buoyant with the
mirth of the 'Sophs' and 'Freshies,' toned to a
soft, delightful, refreshing strain by the wholesome
ambitions of the Juniors and Seniors, and made rare
and genuine by the calm dignity and intellectual
serenity of the professors. Brunswick and the state
should feel proud that in their midst should be such
an enlightened and moral atmosphere. Welcome
it, Maine! Embrace it, Brunswick ! Your good- will
can add much to its success."
The society initiations were held last week,
some on Wednesday night and the rest on Friday
night, aud the Freshmen are now deep in the
mysteries of Greek life. The goat was active this
year and left his impression on most of the initiates.
Each society secured good men, and all may well
be satisfied with their '98 delegations. The fishing
season was short, as usual— a fact that has often
been lamented but for which no remedy is likely
to be found. About fifteen of the Freshmen are
members of no fraternity. Following is a list of
those initiated by the six fraternities :
A A <J>. — Arthur L. Hunt, Lewistou; Harry
Knight, Gardiner; CD. Moulton, Bath; D. R.
Pennell, Lewiston; Walter J. Sargent, Brewer;
Edward Stanwood, Jr., Boston; A. B. White,
Lewiston; 0. D. Smith, West Buxton; all of '98.
* T.— F. E. Drake, Bath; J. F. Dana, Portland;
H. R. Ives, Portland ; W. W. Lawrence, Portland ;
T. L. Pierce, Portland; Benjamin Webster, Jr.,
Portland; W. W. Spear, Rockland; M. D. Morrill,
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Conway, N. H., all of '98, and Chase Pulsifer,
Auburn, of '97.
A K E.— Percy P. Baxter, Portland ; Harlan M.
Bisbee, West Sumner ; Herbert N. Gardner, Patten ;
Moulton A. Hills, Waleb, La. ; Edward Hutcbiugs,
Brewer; Thomas L. Marble, G-orham, N. H. ;
Eugene T. Minott, Phippsburg; Charles S. Petten-
gill, Augusta; George P. Stetson, Bangor; Richard
H. Stubbs, Strong; all of '98.
z ¥.— H. H. Hamilton, Lubec; H. H. Hamlen,
Augusta; C. T. Lynch, Machias; C. C. Smith,
Waterbury, Ct. ; E. G. Wilson, Harpswell ; all of '98,
and T. J. Murphy, Lewiston, special.
6 A X. — R. S. Cleaves, Bridgton ; A. E. Eames,
Bethel; Theodore Gould, Portland; E. E. Spear,
Washington; Ralph Wiggiu, Rockland; E. C. Hall,
North Bridgton; E. F. Studly, Gardiner; all of '98.
A T.— A. W. Blake, Portland; C. E. Eaton, Jay;
C. P. Kendall, Biddeford; H. R. Mclntyre, Saco;
Guy H. Sturgis, New Gloucester; J. E. Odiorne,
Richmond; J. A. Scott, Ellsworth; W. E. Preble,
Litchfield, all of '98, and George C. Webber,
Auburn, of '95.
Bangor High School, 12; Bowdoin,1 97, 4.
A picked team of Sophomores, without any
practice and minus several of the best players in
the class, went to Bangor, October 6th, where they
were beaten 12 to 4 by the strong High School team
of that city. It was a hard game, and the '97 boys
complain of unfair decisions. But off the field
they were entertained like princes and had a
pleasant trip and good experience.
It was cold and rainy, but three hundred people
saw the game at Maplewood Park. Bangor won
the toss and Hicksou made their first touchdown
in twenty minutes. Hunt kicked a goal. For the
rest of the half the teams surged up and down the
field, but neither could score. In the second half
the Sophomores made a brace and after good end
runs by White and Howe, Bodge made a touchdown
in eight minutes. Coggan failed at goal. Again
'97 got the ball near the Bangor line, but made
several bad fumbles in succession, which cost much
ground and the ball. Bangor could do nothing
with the '97 center, but made long end runs, and
Sawyer made their second touchdown, from which
Hunt kicked a goal five minutes before the end.
At the call of time '97 had the ball well into Ban-
gor territory. Time, two 25-minute halves. The
teams lined up as follows:
Bangor. Bowdoin.
Veazie. Left End. Stearns.
Hunt. Left Tackle. Bean.
Conners. Left Guard. Remick.
Gilman. Center. Shute.
Jordan. Bight Guard. Thompson.
Hiucks. Eight Tackle. Webber.
Snowe. Right End. Coggan.
McCann. Quarterback. McMillan.
Sawyer. J Halfbacks I "Home.
Murray. / iiaitoacks. j white
Hickson. Fullback. Bodge.
Bowdoin, 14; Exeter, 10.
Bowdoin lined up against Exeter Saturday,
October 6th, for her first game of the season.
Exeter won the toss and chose the upper goal with
the wind in their favor. Quimby started the play
at 3.30 with a place kick from the center of the
field to Exeter's fifteen-yard line. But Exeter
fumbled and Knowlton secured the ball for Bow-
doin. Then, through wretched fumbling on both
sides, the ball changed hands several times until
Bowdoin braced and by sharp rushes through right
guard and tackle and around the ends secured
their first touchdown eight minutes from the time
play begun. Quimby kicked an easy goal. Score,
Bowdoin, 6; Exeter, 0.
On the line-up Richards kicked to Bowdoin's
five-yard line, where Knowlton caught the ball and
by good dodging gained fifteen yards before he was
downed. Exeter got the ball on downs, and after
a good gain by Casey through Bowdoin's left guard
and tackle, Jack went through the same hole for a
run of thirty yards and a touchdown. On bringing
the ball out for a try for goal Jack placed it on the
ground and Hicks promptly fell on it, whereby
Exeter lost her chance for goal. Score, Bowdoin,
6; Exeter, 4.
Quimby kicked in touch and the ball went to
Exeter for a free kick within her twenty-five yard
line. Knowlton caught Richards's kick and ran to
Exeter's thirty-yard line. From here, Bowdoin
advanced within two yards of the goal line, but
were unable to force it over, and Exeter got the
ball on downs. In attempting to go round the end
Simonds was injured and Gibbons was substituted.
Exeter punted and Bowdoin advanced the ball to
the five-yard line, when time was called. Score,
Bowdoin, 6; Exeter, 4. Time, 20 minutes.
In the second half Richards tried to kick twice
out of bounds, butLibby stopped the second attempt
and Exeter soon regained tjie ball on downs. With
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good interference Gibbons went through guard and
tackle and, passing Quimby, who made a poor
attempt to stop him, scored a touchdown. Rich-
ards kicked a goal. Score, Bowdoin, 6; Exeter, 10.
Exeter fumbled Quimby's kick and a Bowdoin
man fell on the ball. Bowdoin lost the ball on
downs but soon regained it and scored another
touchdown. No goal. Score, Bowdoin, 10; Exe-
ter, 10.
Kimball caught Richards'skick and made a good
gain. Quimby ran thirty yards through tackle
and Bowdoin soon had the ball over the line. No
goal. Score, Bowdoin, 14; Exeter, 10.
Time was called with Exeter in possession of
the ball on Bowdoin's fifteen-yard line. Time, 15
minutes.
Dewey and Kimball played the best game in the
line for Bowdoin, while Richards and Gillipsie did
good work for Exeter. Quimby's line-breaking
was very good but he was weak in tackling. The
game was characterized by poor interference and
bad fumbling on both sides. Exeter scored both
their touchdowns by the good dodging of the backs.
The manner in which the crowd surged upon the
field at times was a noticeable feature in connection
with the game and ought never to be repeated.
The teams lined up as follows:
Bowdoin. Exeter.
Hicks. Left End. Stack.
Newbegin. Left Tackle. Casey.
Stone. Left Guard. Breen.
Dennison. Center. Kasson.
Dewey. Bight Guard. Richards.
Kimball. Bight Tackle. Scannell.
Libby. Bight End. - Gillipsie.
Knowlton. Quarterback. Bichardson.
Stubbs. Left Halfback. Jack.
Mitchell. Bight Halfbacks. [ goons'.'
Quimby. Fullback. Farr.
Score— Bowdoin, 14; Exeter, 10. Touchdowns— Mitch-
ell (2), Stubbs, Jack, Gibbons. Goals — Quimby and
Bichards. Beferee— E. H. Sykes. Umpire— W. B. Smith.
Linesman — Dr. Whittier. Time — 35 minutes.
Bowdoin, 4; B. A. A., 4.
Bowdoin played the second game of the season,
in a heavy rain, against the Boston Athletic Asso-
ciation, at Boston, October 13th. Bowdoin greatly
outclassed her opponents in team work and was
very effective in breaking the line, in fact making
all her gains through the center.
Bowdoin made her only touchdown near the end
of the first half by steady hammering at the center.
It was a hard chance and no goal was kicked.
In the second" half, Burns, of B. A. A., made a
long run and brought the ball to Bowdoin's 5-yard
line, but Bowdoin held her opponents for three
downs, and would have gained possession of the
ball, but the umpire, Whitman, of B. A. A., claimed
offside play, aud in consequence B. A. A. had the
ball two aud one-half yards from the goal line on
the first down. In the next rush they scored a
touchdown through Bowdoin's line, but missed the
goal, thus tieing the score. The decision was man-
ifestly unfair, and, as it was the only decision made
by the umpire during the entire game, it created
some remark.
The supporters of Bowdoin who witnessed the
game were very much satisfied with the work of the
team, and were confident that she would have won
if it were not for the unfairness of the umpire.
Owing to the condition of the grounds, there
was no chance for brilliant work, and it would be
difficult to decide who exceled for Bowdoin. A
great improvement was noticed in her team work.
Waters did the best work for B. A. A. in the line.
Following is the score:
B. A. A. Bowdoin.
Hortonj Left End. Hicks.
Ware. Left Tackle. Newbegin.
Meikleham. | T ... c , v,.
Waters. j Left Guard. * Stone.
Carpenter. Center. Denison.
J. Fay. Bight Guard. Dewey.
S^glnt. } Right Tackle- Kimball.
Son.} .Bight End. Libby.
Atherton. Quarterback. Knowlton.
Dearborn. )
Clarkson. > Halfbacks.
Crolins. 1
Bufni \ Fullback. Quimby.
Score— B. A. A., 4; Bowdoin, 4. Touchdowns— Stubbs,
Burns. Umpire — Whitman, B. A. A. Beferee — Sykes,
Bowdoin. Linesman, C. M. Lincoln, B. A. A. Time —
40 minutes.
( Mitchell,
j Stubbs.
A systematic study of the Bible is essential to a
well-rounded education. It is said that in the
Bible are to be found the basis of the best systems
of law and political economy that have endured;
that it contains the history of a race which has
influenced the world more than the history of the
Greeks and Romans; that in it is to be found
poetry which will compare favorably with anything
which Shakespeare or Goethe ever wrote; that it
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contains a biography that has influenced civiliza-
tion more than all other biographies combined ;
that its system of ethics and philosophy is abso-
lutely unsurpassed. Can any college man consider
himself a scholar if he is not devoting some time
to a regular study of this book?
Systematic Bible study is absolutely necessary
in order to promote spiritual life. The college
Association will fail in its efforts to keep up the
interest and enthusiasm of its members in the
different departments of its work, to improve their
spiritual life and to elevate the moral tone of the
wholecollege, if itneglects the Bible. Studentsspend
many hours each day upon other studies, but devote
no time to the Bible. No wonder that interest in
Christian work is slight, that the desire to do such
work, knowledge of how to do it, and power with
which to do it, are lacking. No wonder that respect
for the Bible is lost, that the fellows sneer at it,
that, in many quarters, the Association is not
respected when students have no clear conception
of this greatest of all books.
This year an opportunity for systematic Bible
study will be given to all. A class or classes will be
organized. The methods of study to be pursued is
not yet decided upon, but will be left for the mem-
bers themselves to settle. It is hoped that many,
especially those belonging to the Association, will
improve this opportunity to acquire the habit of
systematic Bible study.
The attendance upon the meetings of the Asso-
ciation is not as large as was hoped for and expected.
Many of the fellows are very busy at this season of
the year. But every one can, if he plans for it,
find time to attend the services of the Association.
The hour spent at the Thursday evening meeting
and at the Sunday afternoon address is, by no
means, time lost. . The student who desires it,
receives help himself at these services, and by his
presence, if in no other way, helps the others. He
is able after the few moments thus spent to take up
his work with increased vigor.
The Association is as much a part of the college
interest as is foot-ball and the other athletic sports
to which so much time is given. It is the impulse
which should guide all other interests, and as such
is worthy of loyal support.
President Whitman, of Colby University, will
deliver the annual sermon before the Association
Sunday, October 28th, at the hour of the regular
morning service. President Whitman needs no
introduction to Bowdoin students. He is an inter-
esting and forcible speaker, and it is hoped that he
will be greeted by a large audience of college
fellows.
'39.— The fiftieth anni-
versary of the marriage of
Charles P. Allen, D.D., and
wife was celebrated at the West End
Methodist Church recently, an informal
reception being held from three to seven
o'clock. The chancel was handsomely trimmed
with flowers, and it was here that the venerable
Doctor and his wife received the congratulations of
his many parishioners and friends. Rev. Mr. Allen
was born in 1816 in the town of Norridgowock.
After his graduation from Bowdoin he taught in the
Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill two years,
after which he entered the ministry. Prom 1880 to
1890 he was president of the Maine State College
at Orono.
'43. — Major Abernethy Grover, a native of
Bethel, Me., born there February 16, 1821, died
September 21st at Miles City, Mont. Maj. Grover
fitted for college and graduated from Bowdoin in
1843. Among his classmates were his brother
Talleyrand, Joseph Dane, Moses Ingalls, Dr. John
D. Lincoln, and Joseph Titcomb. For several
years Major G-rover was principal of Gould's Acad-
emy and later was engaged in trade. In 1850 he
represented the district of Bethel in the Legisla-
ture and in 1856 was chosen a member of Governor
Wells' council. During the war he was captain of
Company H, 13th Maine Infantry. He was com-
missioned Major April 28, 1862. After the war he
returned to Bethel, where he was engaged in busi-
ness, and early in the eighties went West. Under
the administration of Cleveland he had charge of
the land office at Miles City, Montana. One
brother, Lafayette, who entered Bowdoin in the
class of '46 but did not graduate, -has been elected
Governor of Oregon.
'44.— Horace Williams, who died in Augusta
August 14, 1894, was born there February 20, 1824,
the son of Hon. Daniel Williams, one of the oldest
and most respected families in Augusta. Mr.
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Horace Williams was a judge of probate at Augusta
in 1864 aud shortly afterwards moved West and for
many years was a resident of Clinton, Iowa. He
was largely concerned in the business of Western
railroads, was president of the Chicago, Iowa and
Nebraska Railroad and the Cedar Rapids and Mis-
souri River Railroad until a few years ago. Besides
these he was connected with many large corpora-
tions. He was a man who did great good with his
wealth, being of a very charitable disposition.
Two half-sisters survive him, one the wife of Hon.
Manton Marble of New York and the other Mrs.
Edwards of Augusta. He was a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.
'45. — Charles M. Freeman, of Baldwin, died
Sunday, June 3d, aged sixty-nine years. Mr. Free-
man was born iu Limerick, March 26, 1825. After
graduating from Bowdoin at the age of twenty, he
studied law from 1845 to 1850 with Howard &
Shepley of Portland, and from 1850 to 1853 prac-
ticed at Cherryfleld, Me. Soon after being admit-
ted to the bar he had the misfortune to lose his
hearing to such an extent that it incapacitated him
for his chosen profession. Mr. Freeman was a
gentleman of rare conversational power, a great
reader, and was well posted in the history of this
country and Europe. He was a member of the Psi
Upsilon.
'53.— Dr. William H. Todd, of St. Stephen, N.
B., one of the ablest physicians of St. Croix River,
died October 7th after a painful illness. He was
prominent in charitable, religious, aud financial
circles, and at the time of his death was president
of the St. Stephen Bank, succeeding the late F. H.
Todd. He was a graduate of Bowdoin and Ediu-
burg College of Physicians. In 1862 he moved to
St. Stephens, N. B.,and since then has been practic-
ing medicine there. In 1867 he was elected to the
Board of Overseers of the College. He was one of
the prime movers, the last of the seventies, iu the
attempt to revive undergraduate interest iu the
Peucinian and Athenian Societies. He leaves a
wife and daughter. Dr. Todd belonged to the Psi
Upsilon Society.
'57. — Francis A. Waterhouse, head master of
the Boston English High School, died in Paris, June
30, 1894. Mr. Waterhouse was born in Scarboro,
Cumberland County, Me., 1835. He fitted for col-
lege at the Hallowell Academy. While in college
he was appointed college librarian for proficiency
iu modern languages, was elected a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa aud was one of the best sparrers
in college. Shortly after graduation Mr. Water-
house went South to teach at Natchez, Miss. In
1859 he returned to Hallowell aud took charge of
the Academy there. Iu the spring of 1861 he was
elected principal of the Augusta High School,
which office he held for seven years. This position
he resigned in 1868 to take the princpalship of
the Newton High School, and continued in charge
of this school until December, 1880, when he was
elected head master of the English High School,
Boston, the position which he held at his death.
As a teacher his influence was very marked, and his
strong personal character was impressed upon all
those around him. He was a member of the Psi
Upsilon Fraternity.
'76. —Mr. Walter A. Robinson has been elected
to the position of junior master in the Boson Latin
School.
'78.— At the annual meeting of the Brunswick
Club, Barrett Potter was elected president and one
of the executive committee.
Med., '86. — A very brilliant wedding at Dor-
chester, Mass., October 3d, was that of Miss Mary
G. Little to Dr. John F. Thompson of Portland
and of the Bowdoin Medical Faculty. The church
in which the ceremony was performed was elabo-
rately decorated with flowers, every pew being
ornamented with white ribbon aud roses. Many
notable guests were present, among them Gover-
nor and Mrs. Greenhalge, Lieutenaut-Governor and
Mrs. Wolcott of Massachusetts, Senator and Mrs.
Chandler of New Hampshire, President and Mrs.
Tucker of Dartmouth College, President and Mrs.
Gates of Amherst College, ex-Governor Taft of
Rhode Island, ex-Governor Smythe of New Hamp-
shire, ex-Governor Pillsbury of Minnesota, Gover-
nor and Mrs. Smith of New Hampshire, President
Meade of Mount Holyoke Seminary, ex-President
Bartlett of Dartmouth College, President and Mrs.
Hyde and Prof, and Mrs. F. C. Robinson of Bowdoin
College. President Tucker of Dartmouth performed
the ceremony. A reception was held at the home
of the bride, at which 2,000 people were present.
'90. — Mr. Walter Hunt, who recently graduated
from the Harvard Divinity School, has received and
accepted a call to the Unitarian church at Dux-
bury, Mass.
'91. — Mr. T. S. Burr of Bangor has gone to Ann
Arbor, Mich., where he will enter the University of
Michigan, taking the full course in medicine.
'91. — Jackson will occupy the position of gymna-
sium instructor at Colby instead of Parker, as was
erroneously stated iu the Commencement Orient.
'92. — Percy Bartlett has been appointed priuci-
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pal of the Thomaston High School, having been
chosen out of twenty-nine applicants.
'92. — Gummer is teaching at the Bridge Acad-
emy, Dresden.
'92. — Lyman Lee, formerly principal of the Guil-
ford High School, has been elected principal of the
high school at Oakland.
'92. — Poore will be engaged in private tutoring
at Arlington Heights, Mass., the coming year.
'94. — Briggs has charge of the Mattanawcook
Normal Academy at Lincoln, Me.
Ex-'95. — Jackson is teaching at an intermediate
school in Bath.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Alpha Delta Phi, ?
October 12, 1894. $
Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father in
His infinite wisdom to call from our midst our
esteemed and beloved brother, Horace Williams,
Class of '44, be it
Resolved, That while bowing to the Divine Will,
we mourn the loss of a devoted brother, and extend
our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family;
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family of the deceased and to the
Bowdoin Orient.
Joseph T. Shaw,
George T. Ordway,
Eugene C. Vining,
Committee for Chapter.
Ellis F. Ward, who coached the University crews
for so many years, has had charge of a crew called
the Bohemians. These men were all foreigners, and
could barely speak English. Ward's coaching by
words and pantomime was so successful that his
crew has not lost a race this summer. Ward has
been offered the position of coach at both the Uni-
versity of California and at Harvard.
She frowned on him and called him Mr.,
Because in fun he only Kr.,
And so in spite
The very next night
This naughty Mr. Kr. Sr. — Ex.
Three American girls have entered the Univer-
sity of Gottingen by special permission of the Ger-
man government.
Chicago University has discarded the name of
"Prof." The members of the faculty are addressed
as "Mr."
If Mary's snowy little lamb
Back to the earth would hie,
The jokes he'd see about himself
Would make him glad to die. — Ex.
The Intercollegiate Foot-ball Association met
Saturday, October 6th, in New York. Only Yale
and Princeton are members, as Pennsylvania with-
drew last year.
A Sophomore bold and careless and gay,
One afternoon of a winter day,
Fixed himself up and went to a play.
It was Richard III. and a matinee.
The Sophomore sat in the front parquet,
All was serene as a day iu May,
Outil King Richard began to pray,
" A horse! a horse! " in a faithful way.
When the Sophomore sprang from his seat, they say,
And cried, the poor king's fears to allay,
"I'll get you a horse without delay,
I know how it is— I have felt that way."— Wabash.
Bowdoin looks forward to the spring meet with
considerable anticipation. L. F. Soule, who won
the two-mile run in 10 minutes 28 3-5 seconds, is
back in college, as is also C. Borden, who took third
place in the running high jump. These men are
expected to win points next year, and the whole
team will go into training early. —Amherst Student.
Law of Love.
No formal contract is required,
No attention is desired,
No witty lawyer need be hired
To plead in equity.
If only love their hearts has stirred
And each that love has felt or heard,
They may without a single word
Commit embracery. —Ex.
James Mitchell, the holder of the world's record
for hammer throwing, is now a student at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania.
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A central heating plant heats all the buildings
of the University of Michigan. It was recently
erected at a cost of $50,000.
A little iron,
A cunning curl ;
A box of powder,
A pretty girl.
A little rain,
Away it goes;
A homely girl
With a freckled nose. — Ex.
In regard to the intercollegiate records for the
thirteen principal track and field events, it is inter-
esting to note that Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and
University of Pennsylvania each hold three, while
the thirteenth was made by a Washington man by
a jump of 23 feet and 6 inches.'
Twenty-eight foreign countries and every
American state and territory except three are
represented at the University of Pennsylvania.
About sixty per cent, of the college men of this
country belong to Greek-letter fraternities.
There are about 12,000 students in the scientific
schools of this country.
Scarlet has been adopted as the college color of
the University of Chicago.
A new magazine will shortly appear as the
official organ of the American Republican College
League. It is to be published monthly in New York
City, and will bo edited by a board of editors
selected Irom the loading colleges of the country.
At New Haven a "Graduate Club" has been
formed, to membership of which the alumni of any
American university are eligible.
The two literary societies of the University of
North Carolina have donated their joint libraries of
30,000 volumes to the university library.
Prizes amounting to fifty dollars have just been
given at the University of Wisconsin for the three
best university songs composed during the year.
Of the 195 professors, instructors, and tutors of
Yale University, 164 are Yale graduates.
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Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 31, 1894.
No. 8.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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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.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
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Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 8.— October 31, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 133
A Fireside Eeverie 136
Bowdoin Verse:
Constant Contributers, . 137
No Monopoly, 137
The Present, 137
Collegii Tabula 138
Athletics, 140
Y. M. C. A., 144
Personal, 145
In Memoriam, 147
College World, 147
Each year about this time the Orient
has felt obliged to come out with an editorial
concerning the lamentable condition of things
in the college reading-room and scolding the
students for their behavior there, but this
year things are happily much different than
usual, and we can only congratulate and
commend the management and students.
Since the improvements of last year the
room has been truly a credit and benefit to
the college. The rights of others have been
respected, property has not been destroyed,
and there has been the gentlemanly conduct
there is every reason to expect of those
using the room. The good record of the
past year should be kept up in the future.
VT'EAR by year in Bowdoin, as well as in
I
other colleges throughout the country,
the old practices of hazing that have been
such a disgrace to American college life have
been gradually dying out. Once in a while
a dying ember of the old barbarous spirit
would blaze up, and the story of some new
Sophomoric outrage would be spread broad-
cast in the papers to the discredit and injury
of some good college. But the change,
though gradual, has been very marked.
Better sentiments and nobler impulses seem
to rule in young men's hearts when they
attain to Sophomoric dignity than in the old
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times, and one by one the foolish college
customs of former days have been dropped
and more friendly relations established be-
tween classes. Many colleges have been
seriously injured in material prosperity
through the hazing of students, and the
reduced numbers in the entering classes of
Princeton and Cornell this fall are due, no
doubt, in large measure, to their unenviable
records in this line last year. At Princeton
the students have shown their appreciation
of this by voluntarily pledging themselves
to abolish all hazing practices. At other
institutions the better spirit seems to prevail,
and at this and the other Maine colleges
there has not been the trouble between
faculty and students on account of hazing
which there has been nearly every year in
the past. Bowdoin, as well as every college,
has had its history stained by numerous
hazing outrages. Strange and almost unbe-
lievable are the stories told by alumni of
the persecution of Freshmen in the days of
our fathers. But a decade or more ago a
new era began. Vigorous action by college
authorities and the growth of a manly spirit
has brought about the more satisfactory con-
dition of things that exists to-day. The old-
time hazing is dead here forever, but the sods
on the grave of Phi Chi are generally seen
to move a little at the opening of each col-
lege year, and the ghost occasionally peeps
forth. The recent overflow of animal spirits
on the part of certain Sophomores, upon
which the jury has taken prompt and sharp
action, was an occasion to be extremely
regretted, and one which is not likely to be
repeated. Hazing, in however light forms,
has little support here now in any class, and
offenders deserve and receive very little
sympathy. That hazing should entirely dis-
appear in Bowdoin is but natural in view of
the grand new era opening for the college
in every line. It must be a part of the
progress which has given and is giving Bow-
doin a prouder name than ever.
TT7HE exasperatingly false and incomplete
-*- story of Bowdoin's recent game at Ando-
ver, which appeared in the papers of October
28th through the industry of their Andover
correspondents, has aroused much indigna-
tion here and called forth many expressions
of emphatic protest. The blind partisanship
and lack of respect of truth in the newspaper
representatives at Andover must be indeed
pronounced to lead them to impose such a
bare-faced misrepresentation of facts upon
the press and public. Though Bowdoin won
the game 14 to 12 the press reports an-
nounced, without qualification or explana-
tion, that the score was 18 to 14 in favor of
Andover. They neglected to state that the
extra six points credited to Andover were
not allowed by the umpire on account of
repeated and manifest holding which made
it possible for an Andover back to run eighty
yards unmolested, and that this decision was
afterward admitted to be just by the Andover
men, though at the time they refused to play
and left the field three minutes before the
expiration of the half, with Bowdoin in posses-
sion of the ball near the Andover goal line.
All this and the fact that the officials declared
it Bowdoin's game by a score of 14 to 12,
was unmentioned in the papers. As a result
our eleven received no credit for a victory
honestly won, and had the humiliation of
reading in the Sunday papers the false story
of its defeat. Such utter and unheard of
unfairness would have been amusing had
it not been so exasperating. Andover can
scarcely be proud of the notoriety won for
her by the contemptible misrepresentations
of her press representatives in this game.
The prompt action of our foot-ball manage-
ment and newspaper correspondents has done
much to set the matter straight before those
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135
interested in Bowdoin athletics, but this does
not make less contemptible and unsports-
manlike the original offense of the Andover
press writers.
0NE apt criticism which is made upon
Bowdoin students, in comparison with
those of other colleges, is that our life is too
much confined to the campus and the dormi-
tories. By this it is not meant that we are
all chronic bookworms and scholarly her-
mits, nor is it intended that we should mingle
more than we do in the mazy whirl of Bruns-
wick society, however desirable this might
be. The criticism means that we do not
make explorations enough into the beautiful
region surrounding our college town, that
we too often spend a holiday in, unprofitable
loafing when we might derive pleasure and
benefit from getting better acquainted with
the neighboring roads and streams, the fields
and forests, and the sea-coast near by that is
so famed in song and romance. How few of
us know anything of our surroundings be-
yond a radius of half a mile from the chapel,
and yet what beautiful and interesting places
there are near by for a tramp or drive. How
few of us have been tempted on the glorious
autumnal afternoons of this term to wander
off for an hour or two into the woods, rich
in their frost-painted foliage of purple and
gold, and drink in the inspiration of Nature's
grand solitudes. Communion with Nature
is often better than communion with books,
and it is always better than idling away the
time in your room or in the room of some
friend who is anxious to work. Do not think
that the greatest works of art are those
masterpieces of human skill in the Walker
Art Building, nor that the leaves containing
the most wisdom are the bound ones in the
library. These sometimes tire us, and for
rest and change what can be better than an
hour with Nature, the greatest artist and
author of all ? So do not laugh at the stu-
dent who steals away on a holiday or on a
Sunday afternoon for a long tramp through
the woods or a ramble over the Topsham
hills or down the river. He is drinking in
a happiness freely proffered to all, but too
often spurned. He is listening to the tongues
that speak in the trees; he is reading the
books in the running brooks, and he is profit-
ing by the sermons that are in the stones.
As children at play, how near we were to
Nature, how intent^ we listened to her
wonderful songs and her marvelous tales,
but now, as young men, we seem to think
we are getting all there is to be gotten out
of a four years' course in a college situated
as Bowdoin is, if we stud}' well our lessons,
take more or less interest in athletics, and
pass our spare time close within the brick
walls of the dormitories. It is a serious mis-
take on the part of many, and one we should
quickly try to remedy.
FOOT-BALL is booming and the college
eleven is winning laurels in spite of the
strength of its opponents and the efforts of
the Boston papers to credit victory to the
wrong team. Four 'Varsity games are re-
ported in this issue, besides several games
by the class teams. Colby was a victim, 30
to 0, and the score could easily have been
made larger had not the realization of an
easy victory made our team play slowly and
carelessly in the first half. The first Dart-
mouth game, with its score of 42 to 0 against
us, was decidedly in the nature of a disap-
pointment, and there was a suspicion the
team did not play a very creditable game.
There was also a suspicion entertained by
many that the team had not had proper
coaching. The vigorous work of Carleton, '93,
made a very noticeable improvement in the
work of the team, and in the second Dart-
mouth game the visitors had difficulty in scor-
ing fourteen points in fifty minutes. Every
Bowdoin player covered himself with glory,
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and it was the best exhibition of foot-ball
ever seen in Maine. Last Saturday Andover
was defeated 14 to 12, and Bowdoin's victory
was honest and well earned. By the time
this Orient appears another scalp from Bates
will be hanging at our belt. There are three
or four games yet to be played, none of them
easy ones, and both the team and its sup-
porters must do their utmost to make this
foot-ball season the most successful on our
record. The enterprise of the lower classes in
supporting class elevens is to be highly com-
mended. Their games with fitting school
teams are productive of much good, and
good material is trained up for the 'Varsity.
Much interest centres in the class games to
come later on.
PRESIDENT HYDE has recently spoken
•*• in strong terms against chapel rushes
and the practice of "wooding" men as they
come in, just before the opening of the morn-
ing exercises. The lower classes have car-
ried chapel rushes to a decidedly tiresome
extreme, but the upper-classmen who urge
them on, are in a great measure to blame
for this. Such rushes mean nothing, are in
no sense a test of class strength, and are
decidedly inappropriate at such a time and
place. As to " wooding " in chapel, it is
certainly a strong temptation to students to
express their appreciation of the presence of
some young alumnus, popular athlete, or
classmate returning from an absence, but
such a greeting is not in keeping with the
character of the place, and should be less
frequently given.
A Fireside Reverie.
IT is a dark and rainy night toward the
close of October. Within a well-furnished
room in a great and busy city sits a man
whose gray hair and wrinkled face shows a
life of care and disappointment. The em-
bers of a dying fire still glow in the grate
over which hangs a picture of a college boat
crew, surmounted by a pair of cavalry sabers.
The silence is unbroken, save by the monot-
onous ticking of a clock upon the wall or
the faint echoing footsteps of some belated
passer-by upon the slippery pavement below.
The man sits staring steadily at the fire,
seeming entirely oblivious of his surround-
ings, starting uneasily when a burning coal
flames up for an instant and then is extin-
guished. In the ever-changing forms of that
dying fire he beholds again the scenes of his
youth passing before him, one by one, like a
panorama turned by the hand of fate. Aga.in
he wanders, as a child, among the sweet
wild flowers or chases gay-colored butterflies
through the grassy lanes of his father's farm.
He is again upon the streets of the little
country village where he was born, familiar
faces look in his, familiar voices ring in his
ears, a smile of pleasure steals over his grim
visage and he heeds not the clanging bell of
a passing fire engine nor the deep tones of a
neighboring clock as it strikes the hour.
The fire sinks lower and still he does not
stir. Now he is a youth again upon the old
campus about whieh cluster the tenderest
recollections. He hears the glad shouts of
victory as the old crew, of which he is cap-
tain, sweeps by the goal a length ahead of
its rival. He feels the hearty handshake
and hears the words of praise from many an
old and long-forgotten associate. There
stands the college just as it was long years
ago ; the chapel hung with ivy, the plain and
homely old dormitories, picturesque in their
simplicity; the shady walks, whose leafy
oaks and maples seem to beckon to him and
the murmuring of whose branches seems to
be the whispering voices of friends long
gone beyond.
Now the moon seems to be rising from
behind the chapel towers and shedding the
same silvery light upon campus and tower
as it did on a certain night long years ago
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137
when he stood before the gate of a loved
professor's house and, in obedience to his
country's call for aid, bid farewell to a charm-
ing girl to whose keeping his heart had long
since been given, at the same time placing
upon her finger a ring as a token that should
he return unscathed when the war was over
he should find a bride awaiting him.
His eye wanders from the fire to the
sabers crossed above the open grate. As his
gaze rests upon them his eyes kindle with
the ardor and fire of youth. He is again at
the front of the long- line of blue as it
clashes with the gray; now on the march
through mud and rain, cold, discouraged, and
weary ; now on picket duty during a long
and dismal night, or wrapped in his blanket
before the camp-fire, listening to the music
of some old familiar hymn sung by a distant
group of soldiers. But, whether sleeping or
awake, whether marching or -in camp, one
face which he has often seen far above him
surrounded by a halo of the smoke of battle,
seems constantly before him; one voice
seems again to whisper in his ear the fond
words of farewell, and the thought of one
awaiting him in the old New England college
town spurs him on to deeds of bravery and
hardship.
He remembers how anxiously he waited
for her letters, reading them over again and
again b}' the dim light of the camp-fire long
after his comrades were wrapped in slumber.
There came a time when no letters came for
many a weary day. At last a much-delayed
mail brought him a soiled envelope bordered
with black. With trembling hands and sink-
ing heart he tears it open and reads its brief
contents.
The war has long been over and our hero
has become an old and successful man, but
on long and dreary nights when alone in his
room, which lacks the cheer and comfort
which only home with loved ones can give,
his thought turns toward a grave in a distant
town and it seems to him in his loneliness
that a man is but a grain of sand hurled
about by the winds of destiny and fate.
Bowdoir-) ^)ep§e.
Constant Contributors.
When poets' brains are dry of meat,
And rhymes and rhythms vex,
What would the "Poets' Corner" be
Without "Anon " and " Ex." ?
No Monopoly.
We leaned across the friendly stile,
The gentle moonbeams lit her face,
The sweet influence of her smile
Annihilated time and space.
Quoth I : " The breezes kiss your cheek,
Oh, happy, happy breezes they ! "
Sighed she, this maiden so petite :
' Who gave them a monopoly ? "
The Present.
[Written by Hehev Sewall Webster, '67, for the twenty,
seventh reunion of his class.]
A babe, a boy, a lad whose cheek
Shows signs of something downy,
A Freshman droning over Greek,
A Sophomore brash and clowny,
A Junior studious — of his ease,
A Senior wise — and knows it —
Then lawyer eager for his fe.es,
Or doctor skilled to dose it,
Or else a parson laboring hard
To ease poor burdened sinners —
Of something useful in regard
Of fuel, clothes, and dinners, —
Like dew beneath the sun's hot ray
How swift our lifetime passes ;
We're wearing pinafores to-day,
To-morrow wearing glasses.
Yet he who guides his thoughts aright
Sighs not for time's delaying,
But welcomes with the same delight
Octobering and Maying.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
The one has flowers sweet and fair,
The other's fruits are precious,
And something meets us everywhere
To comfort and refresh us.
And when we feel our sinews strong
For life's tremendous battle,
For youth's delights why should we long
More than the baby's rattle ?
Think you, when academic hall
Was ringing with our laughter,
A ghost was summoned to appal
The years which cycle after?
The past had raptures of its own,
The future may be pleasant,
But perfect bliss exists alone
Here, in the living present:
Not in the memory of deeds
Whose stalks are dry or rotten,
Nor in the undeveloped seeds
Of the to-be-begotten.
So, as we reach another stage
Of life's ascending stages,
Huzza to glorious middle-age,
The best of all the ages !
Yet when October's golden leaves
Are buried by December,
And we amid our garnered sheaves
These harvest-days remember,
Perchance another glow shall light
The heavens o'er us bending,
And life appear more glad and bright
As it shall near its ending.
The Freshmen have elected
some of their class officers, but the
honors seem to go begging. They are
said to be seriously considering the
subjects of colors, a yell, etc.
The campus leaves are leaving now.
Marston, '96, has been at home for a week.
Dana, '94, has been back to college recently.
Sykes, '94, has been coaching Hebron Academy.
Doherty, '89, was iu town last week as a guest
of his brother.
Dr. Whittier accompanied the team on the
Dartmouth trip.
Prof. Lee and his classes have been on several
excursions lately.
New and comfortable seats have been put in the
Cleaveland room.
Doherty, '95, has returned to college from teach-
ing in Monticello.
'Ninety-eight has elected Mclntyre as its repre-
sentative on the jury.
Knight and Lyford, '96, passed Sunday recently
with Leighton, '96, in Augusta.
November is here, and already the boys are
planning on the Thanksgiving recess.
The annual college catalogue is now being pre-
pared and will be issued in a few weeks.
Several enthusiasts have been to Bath recently
to coach the high school boys in foot-ball.
The A T fraternity has completed a fine new
tennis court, and it is now occupied each day.
President Whitman, of Colby, preached the an-
nual sermon before the Y. M. C. A. last Sunday.
French, '97, who has been at home sick, has
returned to college. He is soon going out to teach.
Minot, '96, umpired the game between Hebron
Academy and Cony High School at Lewiston, Octo-
ber 20th.
Fall tennis was never so popular here as this
year. Our crack players were never in better form
than now.
Quite a party of Dartmouth students accompa-
nied their team here and used their novel yell with
good effect.
Small, '96, was in Schenectady, N. Y., last week
as a delegate of the Bowdoin chapter to the national
A T convention.
Baxter, '94, has gone into business with his
brother, H. C. Baxter, 78, and will make his home
here in Brunswick.
The time for compulsory "gym" work is rapidly
approaching, and those who will assist Dr. Whittier
are getting into form.
All were glad to welcome Carleton, '93, to the
college. The presence of such a coach had been
sadly needed by the foot-ball men.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
139
Chapman, DeMott, Plaisted, Pickard, Sykes,
W. W. Thomas, and Elias Thomas, all of '94, were
among the young alumni who came to see the Dart-
mouth game.
Two or three times the Freshmen eleven has
arranged a game of foot-ball with the Portland
High School, but each time something has happened
to prevent the game.
That this is an off year and that the tendencies
of the times are decidedly anti-Democratic do not
kill the courage of the members of the Democratic
Club of the college, and at a recent meeting in
Memorial the following officers were elected:
G. L. Kimball, '95, President ; A. G. Heff, '96, and
H. H. Pierce, '96, Vice-Presidents ; Chase Eastman,
'96, Secretary; A. L. Dennison, '95, Treasurer;
G. L. Kimball, '95, Chase Eastman, '96, W. M.
Ingraham, '95, Howard Gilpatrick, '96, and C. B.
Eastman, '97, Executive Committee.
Mr. Edgar C. Abbott, of Boston, presented a
pleasing interpretation of three of Shakespeare's
plays before a cultured audience at Memorial Hall,
Monday, Wednesday, aud Thursday evenings, Octo-
ber 15th, 17th, and 18th. Mr. Abbott has a pleas-
ing stage appearance and has evidently given much
study to the plays. He was handicapped by the
unfavorable acoustic properties of the hall, but in
spite of the disadvantage rendered each part in a
pleasing and discriminating manner. "Julius
Cassar" was the play chosen to open the trio, and it
is undoubtedly one of his strong plays. He was
best in the quarrel scene of Brutus and Cassius, his
Brutus being particularly strong. In the funeral
orations he rose to the eloquence of the text in a
masterly manner. Mr. Abbott is not strictly an
impersonator but makes the entertainment what it
is advertised, a Shakesperian recital, thoroughly
explaining and delineating each character. "As
You Like It" and "Hamlet" were the other two
plays, and each pleased well the large audience.
The course was under the auspices of the Bowdoin
T. M. C. A., and was a decided financial success.
Many town people attended.
A recent issue of the Lewiston Journal had an
article on Maine foot-ball with cuts of the college
captains and sketches of their career, also statistics
of the weight, age, height, etc., of the meu compos-
ing the various teams. Bowdoin's average age this
year is about 22 years, its height 5 feet 9 inches,
and its weight a little over 161 pounds. The aver-
age weight of the Colby team is 160 pounds, and of
the Bates team over 164 pounds. The following
table concerning the Bowdoin players is taken from
the article. The positions of one or two men have
been changed, and there are several more who
should be reckoned as regular players and substi-
tutes :
Name anil Class. Position. Age. Height. Weight.
Libby, '96 r. e. 18-10 5-6 151
Kimball, '95 r. t. 26 5-11 1714
Stone, '96, r. g. 20-1 5-10 175|
Dennison, '95, c. 27-6 5-9 166
Dewey, '95, 1. g. 25-9 5-11 174
Newbegin, '96, 1. t. 20-2 5-7 160
Hicks, '95 1. e. 24-1 5-104 1454
Knowlton, '95 q. b. 20-8 5-64 1494
Stubbs, '95, . .- , . . 1. h. b. 21-6 5-11 1614
Mitchell, '95 r. h. b. 21-10 5-74 1514
Quimby, '95 f. b. 21-3 5-94 160
SUBSTITUTES.
Warren, '96, f. b. 20-10 6 1544
Rhines, '97, g. 22-6 6 168
Spear, '98, g. or c. 19-2 5-94 1754
Stetson, '98, . . . h. b. or q. b. 19 5-9 145
Murphy, '98 h.~"b. or t. 19 5-10 165|
A disgusted individual who signs himself "A
Victim " thus breaks forth in a communication
which he sends to the Orient. Many can appre-
ciate his situation: "An exceedingly unique and
original form of practical joke has been perpetrated
recently by a man of undoubted brilliancy and parts
upon great numbers of unsuspecting and less highly-
endowed fellow-men. The modus operandi is as fol-
lows: The man above mentioned casually accosts the
to-be victim of the joke with the request for ' two
quarters for a half,' implying by tone and manner
that such exchange will be considered in the light
of a favor. Aud now behold the gullibility of the
average man ! It is as plain as the face of a clock
that there is some deep-laid plot in this seemingly
innocent request for ' two quarters for a half.' The
only operation necessary to see this is to send the
thought around the 'loop-line.' By this method it
is an exceedingly easy matter to detect the joke.
But, alas, the 'loop-line' of the average man is too
often closed for repairs, or permanently discontinued
from lack of patronage. The thought travels by
the usual 'short-line'; there is a vicious and alto-
gether to-be-discouraged desire to oblige, and the
two quarters are produced and delivered. What is
the chagrin of the depraved benefactor to receive
in exchange a penny, bisected ! This, in itself, the
most ardent discourager of practical joking must
admit, is excruciatingly funny, and worthy the mind
of its sharp-witted inventor, but the most ludicrous
partis not yet — the exchange is considered permanent.
Now what more subtle and complicated joke than this
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can the brightest jesterimagine. The writer has some
compunctions about making public the details of this
marvelously witty transaction for fear its operation
may be seriously retarded, and that not all will
have the opportunity of being gulled by this inter-
esting and instructive process. It is surely worth a
paltry half-dollar to see the ease and sangfroid with
which it is accomplished."
pieties.
FOOT-BALL.
Bowdoin, 30 ; Colby, 0.
The day for which the game with Colby was
scheduled proved to be an ideal one for the spec-
tators but a trifle too warm for the players at the
first. There was a light breeze, not strong enough
to give a decided choice for goal.
Colby won the toss and took the upper goal,
giving Bowdoin the ball. The players were quickly
in their respective positions, and at three o'clock
Referee Malone called time.
Quimby kicked to Colby's 25-yard line, where
Dyer caught the ball and ran 10 yards before he
was stopped. But Colby's backs were unable to
make any gain through the strong opposing line,
and Bowdoin got the ball on downs. By a 10-yard
run by Stubbs and rushes through the line Bowdoin
quickly forced the ball to the 5-yard line, but on the
next rush it was fumbled and secured by a Colby
man. Bowdoin broke through and stopped Colby's
attempt at a kick and Kimball fell on the ball,
scoring a touchdown; no goal. Score: Bowdoin,
4; Colby, 0.
Colby kicked to Bowdoin's 10-yard line, and
Mitchell, securing the ball, carried it 10 yards.
Then, after a 5-yard gain by Dewey and another
10-yard run by Mitchell, Colby held and obtained
the ball on dowus, but immediately lost it on a
fumble. But Colby regained it on downs and then
lost it again when Knowlton broke through and fell
on it. Then, by 10-yard runs by both Mitchell and
Stubbs, Stubbs scored the second touchdown from
which Quimby kicked the goal. Score: Bowdoin,
10; Colby, 0. At this point Referee Malone called
time, five minutes before the twenty minutes agreed
upon had elapsed.
In the second half Colby kicked to Bowdoin's
10-yard line, and Mitchell, securing the ball, ran 5
yards, when he was downed. Then came a series
of long runs, Mitchell starting it by a 10-yard rush,
followed by 20-yard gains by both Stubbs and
Kimball, and Mitchell added 15 yards more to this.
But the backs could make no further progress and
gave up the ball on downs. Colby was unable to
gain and the ball went to Bowdoin. The ball
changed hands twice after a 10-yard gain by
Mitchell, and on again coming into Bowdoin's pos-
session, Stubbs made a good rush through the line,
but was tackled hard near the goal line and dropped
the ball, and a Colby man fell on it across the line,
scoring a safety. Score: Bowdoin, 12; Colby, 0.
Bowdoin quickly got the ball from a free kick
from Colby within her 25-yard line and after a few
sharp rushes Dewey went over the line for a touch-
down, from which Quimby kicked the goal. Score :
Bowdoin, 18; Colby, 0.
Dewey caught Colby's kick aud rau 15 yards.
Then Stubbs made a 25-yard run, but the referee
claimed a foul and gave the ball to Colby. But
they were unable to retain possession of it, for
Kimball broke through and got the ball on the next
play. Stubbs took the ball for a good gain, and
Knowlton called on Kimball who responded with a
30-yard run and a touchdown, the prettiest run of
the game. Quimby kicked the goal. Score: Bow-
doin, 24.
Dewey again caught the ball from the kick-off
and made a good gain. Stubbs made a pretty run
of 25 yards, and after sharp work through the
center- was sent over the line for a touchdown.
Goal. Score: Bowdoin, 30.
Quimby caught the ball from the kick-off and
made a good run of 15 yards. Time was called
soon after this with the ball in Bowdoin's possession
on Colby's 45-yard line.
Bowdoin's team work was very excellent, and
the backs, though slow in starting, ran in splendid
form. Jordan did excellent work for the Colby
eleven, which lacked team play. It could not gain
at all against the home eleven, and played with the
evident intention of killing time. The line-up was
as follows:
Bowdoin. Colby.
Libby. Right End. Snare.
Kimball. Right Tackle. Chapman.
Spear. Right Guard. Brookes.
Dennison. Center. Gray.
Stone. Left Guard. Ford.
Dewey. Left Tackle. Long.
Hicks. Left End. Jordan.
Knowlton. Quarterback. Dyer.
Stubbs. I Halfbacks (Holmes.
Mitchell, j ttaitDaeus. j Patterson.
Quimby. Fullback. McFadden.
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Umpire— W.R. Smith. Referee— Malone. Linesman—
Dr. Whittier. Score— Bowdoin 30, Colby 0. Touchdowns—
Kimball 2, Stubbs 2, Dewey. Goals from touchdowns—
Quimby 4. Time— 35 minutes.
Boivdoin, '98, 62; Bath H. S., 0.
'Ninety-eight played with the Bath High School
Wednesday, October 17th, and defeated them 62-0.
The play of both elevens was loose and with very
poor interference. Most of '98's gains were made
around Bath's left end. Bath did not once make
the required 5-yards gain during the game. The
best work for '98 was done by Stetson, Stanwood,
Kendall, and Gould. Stanwood kicked ten out of
twelve tries for goals. The line-up :
Bowdoin, '98. Bath High School.
Spear. Left End. Campbell.
Gould. Left Tackle. Moulton.
Eames. Left Guard. Turner.
Melville. Center. Douglass.
Stetson, Ives. Right Guard. Black.
Wilson. Right Tackle. Higgins.
Blake. Right End. Hitchcock.
Moulton. Quarterback. Murphy.
Tves, Stetson. I Halfbacks (Gould.
Kendall. J Halfbacks, j Klippell.
Stanwood. Fullback. Gilmore.
Score— Bowdoin, '98, 62; B. H. S., 0. Referee— Jack-
son. Umpire— 0. D. Smith, Bowdoin, '98. Time — 35 min.
Boivdoin, O; Dartmouth, 42~
Bowdoin played her fourth game of the season
with Dartmouth, at Hanover, October 20th, and was
fairly outclassed by her opponents, being defeated
by a score of 42-0.
Bowdoin started in as if she would score, in spite
of Dartmouth's strength. The team used a mass
play in which the ends were brought back with the
backs. This proved quite effective, as long as the
Bowdoin men could hold out. Bowdoin put up a
good team game, but was simply outclassed from
the start. Dartmouth averaged 20 pounds per man
heavier than Bowdoin.
Bowdoin won the toss and punted out 20 yards.
Abbott got the ball and made 15 yards, but on a
fumble by McCormack, Bowdoin got the ball and
was forced to kick. Dartmouth kicked back and
secured the ball, then lost it by fumbling. Bowdoin
lost it on four downs, but regained it on a fumble.
Dartmouth soon secured the ball, and Lakeman
darted through the line, but was tackled hard and
lost the ball, only to have it picked up by McCor-
mack, who made a beautiful run around the right
end of 60 yards for a touchdown. Huff kicked goal.
After the pigskin changed bauds a few times,
Eckstorm made 30 yards. Then came a series of
short rushes, and Abbott made 10 yards and a
touchdown. Huff kicked goal.
Bowdoin punted 30 yards, but McCormack and
Eckstorm made five long gains, and the latter was
sent over the line for a touchdown in just one minute
after the kick off. Only one minute remained in
the first half and the ball was left on Dartmouth's
40-yard line. Score, 18 to 0.
In the second half, McCormack began by punt-
ing out 15 yards, where Abbott got the ball and
made a phenomenal gain of 25 yards through the
Bowdoin eleven. Eckstorm was given the ball, and
circled the left end for a touchdown. Huff failed
goal.
Bowdoin kicked off 20 yards. Dartmouth rushed
the ball steadily down the field to the two-yard line.
Here Bowdoin got the pigskin on Dartmouth hold-
ing. Warren kicked, but Eckstorm took the ball
and made another touchdown. Huff kicked goal.
McCormack returned Warren's kick for about 40
yards. Bandall dropped on the ball and Dodge
was sent across the line for a touchdown. Huff
kicked the ball.
Warren punted 20 yards, but Kelly gained it all
back. McCormack then kicked 35 yards. Warren
punted back for 20 yards. After a few good gains
by Eckstorm and Dodge, the latter made a touch-
down. Huff hit the goal post.
After punting back and forth, McCormack sent
the pigskin 60 yards. Huff made a 12-yard gain,
and Eckstorm again made a touchdown. Huff failed
on goal.
Little time remained when the teams lined up
this time. Warren kicked and Bowdoin got the
ball. Bowdoin used its mass play, and time was
called, with the ball on Dartmouth's 30-yard line.
Score, 42 to 0.
Dartmouth. Bowdoin.
Lakeman. Left End. Hicks.
Left Tackle. Dewey.
Abbott. I
Mason, j
Bowles, i
Wilson. J
Coverly.
Huff.
Randall.
Left Guard.
Center.
Right Guard.
Right Tackle.
Right End.
Quarterback.
Halfbacks.
Stone.
Dennison.
Speare.
Kimball.
Kelley. Right End. { g^
Folsom. Quarterback. Knowlton.
McCormack.) Halfbacks (Mitchell.
Eckstorm. j Halfbacks. j Stubbs.
Dodge. Fullback. Warren.
Score — Dartmouth 42, Bowdoin 0. Touchdowns —
Abbott, McCormack 2, Eckstorm 4, Dodge. Goals from
touchdowns— Huff 5. Umpire— Mr. Thornburg, '97, med-
ical. Referee— Mr. Carleton, '93, Bowdoin. Time — 40
minutes. Attendance — 400.
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Home.
White.
Bowdoin, '97, 40; Bangor H. S., 0.
The Bowdoin Sophomores had sweet revenge
October 20th on the strong Bangor High School
team for its victory over them a week before. The
Sophomores had had a little practice and put up a
game superior at all points ' to the visitors. The
backs did line work, making some brilliant indi-
vidual plays, and the line was far too strong for
Bangor to make any gains through. The visitors
played a plucky game but were far outclassed, and
at no time had any show of scoring. The summary :
Bowdoin, '97. Bangor H. S.
Stearns. Left End. Veazie.
Bean. Left Tackle. Hunt.
Sewall. Left Guard. Connors.
Shute. Center. Gilman.
Bhines. Bight Guard. Jordan.
Merrill. I RiSht Tackle. Hinks.
Hull. Eight End. Snow.
McMillan. Quarterback. McCann.
( Sawyer.
Halfbacks. < Kanade.
( Murray.
Bodge. Fullback. Durgin.
Score — Bowdoin, '97, 40. Touchdowns — White 3,
Home 3, Bodge 2. Goals from touchdowns— Home 4.
Umpire — W. K. Smith. Beferee — H. L. Fairbanks.
Time — 40 minutes.
Bowdoin, 0; Dartmouth, 14.
The strong Dartmouth eleven came to Bruns-
wick Wednesday, October 24th. to play the second
game with the Bowdoins, after having defeated her
at Hanover, 42-0. An easy victory was expected
by the Dartmouth men and it was quite a surprise
to them when Dartmouth scored fourteen points
with difficulty in the fifty minutes of the game.
Play began at 2.45 with Bowdoin in possession
of the ball and the western goal. Quimby kicked
to the Dartmouth's 10-yard line, and the Bowdoin
forwards raced down the field and stopped the
Dartmouth man who caught the ball after he had
advanced 10 yards.
The ball was passed to McCormack for a punt
and he sent it a good 40 yards, somewhat over
Stubbs' head, who fumbled it but fell on it. Quimby
kicked back to the center of the field and Hicks
was right on hand, downing the man before he got
started. Dartmouth was unable to gain the
requisite 5 yards twice in succession and the ball
went to Bowdoin on downs. Quimby kicked to
Dartmouth's 30-yard line and McCormack returned
it to the center of the field.
Bowdoin was obliged to give up the ball after a
few trials at the center and McCormack, aided by
splendid interference, was sent through tackle and
eud for a touchdown. Time, (i minutes. Huff
kicked an easy goal. Score: Dartmouth, 6; Bow-
doin, 0.
Quimby kicked to the 5-yard line and a Dart-
mouth man returned it 5 yards before he was
downed. Stubbs fumbled McCormack's punt to
Bowdoin's 40-yard line, but Knowlton secured the
ball. Quimby returned the ball 25 yards.
In the next play Dewey broke through and got
the ball. Dartmouth blocked Quimby's attempt to
punt and secured the ball, but was unable to gain
and Bowdoin took it on downs. Kimball gained
15 yards by a pretty run, but Dartmouth soon had
the ball and McCormack punted to Bowdoin's
25-yard line. Quimby kicked back 20 yards and
Kelly, catching the ball, ran 15 yards. Then by
short, hard rushes Dartmouth forced it over for a
touchdown. No goal. Score: Dartmouth, 10.
Quimby kicked to the 15-yard line and Dart-
mouth carried it back 5 yards. McCormack kicked
out of bounds at the center and Dartmouth soon
regained the ball on downs. Bowdoin held for
three downs and McCormack punted. Knowlton
got the ball. The Bowdoin backs didn't gain the
5 yards and Dartmouth had the ball but lost it on
a fumble, Dewey falling on it. Kimball was sent
through the line for 5 yards and Quimby kicked 20
yards. Abbott, who caught the ball, was downed
by Spear before be could gain. With good interfer-
ence Kelly weut round right end for 30 yards and
Dartmouth forced the ball to the 5-yard line.
Dartmouth fumbled the ball in the next rush
and Stubbs fell on it across the line, getting a
touchback. Quimby punted 30 yards and time was
called with the ball in Dartmouth's possession on
Bowdoin's 35-yard line. Time, 25 minutes.
Second half. Huff kicked to the 2-yard line
and Knowlton brought it back 10 yards. Bowdoin
lost the ball on downs and Dartmouth forced it
down to the goal, but fumbled it on a rush and
Dewey fell on it, thereby getting a touchback. At
this point Stone hurt his knee and Ehines was
substituted.
Bowdoin lined up on the 25-yard line and
Quimby punted 25 yards. By quick playing Dart-
mouth forced the ball ahead 30 yards, and McCor-
mack stepped back for a try for a goal from the
field. He missed it, however, and Quimby punted
30 yards from the 15-yard line. Bowdoin broke
through and stopped McCormack's kick, Foster
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falliug on the ball. Bowdoiu lost the ball on downs
and on a fumble by Dartmouth Poster again
secured the ball. Quimby punted 25 yards. Dart-
mouth made gains by hard rushes at the tackles
and then Kelly was sent over for a touchdown.
On punting out for a place kick Huff made a foul
kick and lost the chance for a try for goal. Score:
Dartmouth, 14.
Abbott caught Quimby's kick to the 20-yard
line, and after forcing it forward 35 yards, Dart-
mouth lost it on a foul. Quimby was obliged to
punt. McConnack punted again and the Dart-
mouth ends, getting down the field rapidly, secured
the ball when the Bowdoin men fumbled the kick.
At the next line-up time was called with the ball
in Dartmouth's possession onBowdoin's 25-yard line.
The game showed a great improvement in Bow-
doin's team work and interference. The defensive
play of the team Is much stronger than its offensive
work. Although slow in starting, all the backs did
excellent work. The forwards played a very strong
game, Poster and Denuison showing up in great
form. The tackling of Poster and Hicks was a
feature of the game. It would be difficult to say
who excelled for Dartmouth. McCormack and
Kelley did the best work of the backs.
Bowdoin. Dartmouth.
Hicks. Left End. - Lakeman.
Dewey. Left Tackle. Abbott.
£e',} Left Guard. Wilson.
Dennison. Center. Caverly.
Spear. Right Guard. Huff.
Kimball. Eight Tackle. Randall.
Foster. - Right End. McAndrews.
Knowlton. Quarterback. Folsom.
a,j Halfbacks. | Krmaok.
Quimby. Fullback. Dodge.
Score — Dartmouth, 14; Bowdoin, 0. Touchdowns-
Kelly 2, McCormack. Goals from touchdowns— Huff.
Referee— Sykes. Umpire— Moyles. Lineman — W. R.
Smith. Time — 50 minutes.
Bowdoin, 14; Andover, 12.
Three Bowdoiu teams played Saturday after-
noon and each won its game. The 'Varsity beat
Andover, 14-12; '97, Portland High School, 22-0,
and '98 beat Thornton Academy, 6-4.
Bowdoin's offensive work at Andover was very
good, in fact the backs went through the line at
will and the interference and tackling were excel-
lent. Durand and Elliott made the largest gains
for Audover, while Dewey and Hicks tackled well
for Bowdoin, and Mitchell, Stubbs, and Dewey made
the best gains.
In the first half Andover kicked off. Soon after
she again got the ball ou Bowdoin's fumble and
forced it down to Bowdoin's three-yard line, when it
was fumbled and Bowdoin got it. Andover got it
again on Bowdoin's kick, and after a few short
gains Elliott made a gain around the right end of
25 yards. Holt carried the ball over the line
through Bowdoin's centre. Elliott kicked a goal.
Score, 6-0.
Bowdoin then kicked off and, after a few short
gains by Andover, again got the ball on four
downs. Mitchell gained through the centre. Bow-
doiu fumbled the ball but Fairbanks got it and ran
25 yards for a touchdown. No goal. Score, 6-4 in
Audover's favor. Again the ball was put in play
and Bowdoin forced it down the field. Stubbs
made a gain of 15 yards around left end for a touch-
down. Fairbanks again failed to kick a goal. Score,
6-8, Bowdoin's favor. Soon after this, time was
called with the ball on Audover's 25-yard line.
In the second half Bowdoin kicked off to Au-
dover. In the second rush Durand went around
the right end for 20 yards. Elliott followed with
10 yards around the left end. Bowdoin then held
Andover for 4 downs and forced the ball down the
field. Stubbs went through the centre and made a
touchdown. Quimby kicked a goal. Score, 6-14,
Bowdoin's favor.
Andover failed twice to kick the ball inside the
side lines and it went to Bowdoin. Bowdoin kicked
off. Andover made gains through the centre and
around the ends. Durand went around the right
end for 45 yards. Elliott followed with 20 yards
around left end. Andover kicked on the fourth
down, but the ball struck the rash line and bounded
back. Bowdoin fell on it and forced it down the
field to Andover's 25-yard line, but the umpire
claimed that the quarter ran ahead with the ball
and gave it to Andover. Gains were made by
Branch, Holt, aud Durand through the centre and
around the ends. Durand made a touchdown
around the right end. Elliott kicked a goal. Score,
12-14.
Bowdoin kicked off. Branch gained 10 yards
through the centre.
Near the end of the last half Elliott made a run
around the end, and when Stubbs attempted to
tackle him two of the Andover players held him
from behind. The referee, therefore, gave the ball
to Bowdoin from where it started, Andover's 25-
yard line. But Andover refused to play and after
waiting three minutes for them to resume playing,
Bowdoin left the field.
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Andover.
Heilman (Fortesque).
Left End.
BOWDOIN.
Hicks.
Porter. Left Tackle.
Highley. Left Guard. Stone.
Pierson. Center. Dennison.
Holt. Right Guard. Rhines.
Harvey. Right Tackle. Kimball.
Young. Right End. Foster.
Barnes. Quarterback. Knowlton.
L. Branch. Halfback. R. H. Mitchell.
R. H. Durand. Halfback. L. H. Stubbs.
Elliott. Fullback. Fairbanks (Quimby).
Score — Andover 12, Bowdoin 14. Touchdowns — Ando-
ver, Holt, Durand ; Bowdoin, Fairbanks, Stubbs 2. Goals
from touchdowns — Andover, Elliott 2; Bowdoin, Quimby.
Umpire — Manning. Referee— Carleton. Linesman — Lin-
denberg. Time— 35 minutes.
Bowdoin "97, 22 ; Portland H. S.,0.
The Sophomore team easily defeated the Port-
land High School team on the latter's grounds
October 27th. The college boys were heavier and
played well together. The backs all did star work,
and the line had its own way. Portland put up a
good game, but was outclassed. The summary :
Bowdoin, '97. Portland H. S.
Stearns. Left End. Chapman.
Bean. Left Tackle. Allen.
Sewell. Left Guard. Hussey.
Shute. Center. Foster.
Thompson. Right Guard. Dyer.
Merrill. Right Tackle. Hadlock.
Hull. Right End. Devine.
McMillan. Quarterback. Dunbar.
White. ) „„,.„, „ f Griffith.
Home. I Halfbacks. j Sanborn.
Bodge. Fullback. Sinkinson.
Score— Bowdoin, 22; Portland H. S.,0. Touchdowns—
Home, White 2, Bodge 2. Goal from touchdown — Bodge.
Umpire— Chapman. Referee — Kelley. Time— 40 minutes.
Bowdoin, "98, 6 ; Thornton Academy, 4.
'Ninety-eight played Thornton Academy on the
delta and won, 6-4. Considering that this is the
first time they have lined up since the Bath game,
a week previous, and that the line was composed
largely of new men, 'Ninety-eight made a very
creditable showing. The Academy boys played a
plucky game throughout and had good interference,
but were weak iu their defensive play. The Acad-
emy made their first touchdown in the first half
after seventeen minutes of play, but failed to kick
the goal.
In the second half 'Ninety-eight scored a touch-
down by two long runs by Stanwood, and gains by
Stetson and Kendall. Stanwood kicked the goal,
making the score 6-4 in favor of '98.
Bowdoin, '98.
Ives. Left End.
Gould. Left Tackle.
Petteugill. Left Guard.
Hills. Center.
Wiggin. Right Guard.
Wilson. Right Tackle.
Moulton.i WEnd.
Mclntire. Quarterback.
Kendall. )
Stanwood. > Halfbacks.
Stetson. )
Stanwood. j ^Itaota.
Score — Bowdoin, '98, 6; Thornton Academy, 4. Touch-
downs— Stanwood, Wakefield. Goals from touchdowns —
Stanwood. Referee — Libby, Bowdoin, '96. Umpire — T.
A. Foss. Linesman — Ward, Bowdoin, '96. Time— 40
minutes.
Thornton Academy.
Boyker.
( Goldthwaite.
i Fogg-
Hatch .
Preble.
Googins.
Goodwin.
Hodgden.
Shannon.
J Berry.
j Wakefield.
Fairfield.
Following are some interesting facts concerning
the Young Men's Christian Association's work
among the colleges, taken from reports by John K.
Mott and Luther D. Wishard:
It is still a disputed question where the first
College Association was formed. It is certain, how-
ever, that the first two were organized in the Uni-
versity of Virginia and the University of Michigan,
in the year 1858. During the next twenty years
about twenty-five associations were formed in the
colleges of the United States and Canada. These
early associations were not bound together by any
tie whatever, in fact they did not know of the exist-
ence of each other.
The beginning of the intercollegiate movement
was in this wise : The greatest spiritual uprising in
the history of Princeton College began on the Day
of Prayer in 1876. The revival overflowed to
several other institutions visited by the students.
In response to a letter sent out by the Association
at Princeton College, students representing twenty-
one colleges met at the International Convention of
the Young Men's Christian Association, held in
Louisville, Ky., to consider the practicability of
forming an intercollegiate movement. As a result
of the discussion of the students at Louisville the
intercollegiate department of the international work
was organized. The aim of the movement is to
lead students to discharge their threefold Christian
obligation: first, to their fellow-students ; second,
to their country ; and third, to the world.
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The progress of the movement among the insti-
tutions of North America has been remarkable. It
now includes, practically, every leading college and
university in the United States and Canada. In
this country there are about five hundred associa-
tions with a membership of not far from thirty
thousand. College associations are now found not
only in the United States and Canada, but also in
Japan, China, India, Syria, Persia, Hindostan,
Asia Minor, European Turkey, Bulgaria, Chili, and
Africa.
To stimulate the associations of this country in
their activities, there is an intercollegiate organiza-
tion which maintains a system of supervision and
co-operation consisting of publications, correspond-
ence, conventions, and visitation. The remarkable
development of the work among students is largely
traceable to the increase in the agencies of super-
vision. To ensure a wise and progressive leader-
ship of the association, two agencies are employed:
(1) Publications and (2) Training Conferences. The
oldest and most important of all these conferences
are the Student Summer Schools held for the pur-
pose of training leaders for the various departments
of the association work. The best known of these
schools is the one held at Northfield, Mass.
The truest test of the utility of the association
movement is its results. During the last seven-
teen years over twenty-five thousand students have
been influenced to become followers of Christ. Not
less than sixty thousand men have been members
of the American College Associations during these
years and are to-day filling positions of leadership
among the laity of the churches, for which they
were prepared by their experience in the associa-
tions. Three thousand men have been led to enter
the Christian ministry; an enthusiastic interest in
genuine Bible study has been awakened; not far
from ten thousand students are now in association
classes; Christian life and activity have been inten-
sified throughout the student world; the scope of
Christian work in all colleges has been greatly
broadened ; in some institutions it has been neces-
sary to erect buildings for the sole use of the asso-
ciations ; seven years ago there were four college
association buildings, now there are fifteen and at
least thirty other associations are conducting can-
vasses for buildings to cost from $10,000 to $100,000.
Surely God is in this movement. He has great
things in store for it, for its opportunities and pos-
sibilities are far greater than its achievements.
The services of the Bowdoin Association during
the past two weeks were as follows:
Oct. 18 — Leader, Badger, '95; subject, "Be ye
doers of the word and not hearers only."
Oct. 21. — Address by Prof. Chapman.
Oct. 25. — Leader, Bisbee, '98; subject, Prayer.
Oct. 28. — a.m., sermon before the Association
by President Whitman of Colby University; p.m.,
address by Prof. Eobinson.
f'31.— Judge Peter Thacher
died October 21st at his home, New-
ton ville, Mass. He had been an in-
valid and a great sufferer for about two
years, and for the past few weeks had
been gradually failing in strength. He was born in
Kenuebunk, Me., October 14, 1810. He was the
fifth in the direct descent from Rev. Thomas
Thacher. the first pastor of the Old South Church,
Boston. Judge Thacher took a collegiate course at
Bowdoin College, graduating with the class of 1831.
Among his classmates was Dr. Samuel Harris, the
prominent Orthodox divine, and subsequently presi-
dent of Bowdoin College and connected more recently
with the Bangor Theological Seminary and Yale
College. After graduating Judge Thacher studied
law for several years in the office of his uncle, Judge
William Pitt Preble, United States Court, Portland.
He was married in 1841 to Miss Margaret L. Potter,
daughter of Judge Barrett Potter. About 1837 he
began the practice of law in Machias, remaining in
that place until 1854, when he removed to Rockland,
where he practiced seventeen years. While there
he became commissioner of the United States Circuit
Court and in 1867 was appointed register in bank-
ruptcy. In the summer of 1871 he removed, with
his family, to West Newton, Mass. He opened a
law office with his son Stephen at Pemberton
Square, later removing to 87 Milk Street, Boston,
and practiced until the spring of 1892, when he
retired, relinquishing his business to his son. Judge
Thacher was a member and a constant attendant of
the Unitarian church, West Newton, until his health
became impaired. He removed to Newtouville
about a year ago. He was, for a number of years
past, a member of the New England Historical So-
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ciety. He leaves a widow, five daughters, and four
sons.
'41, '63, Med. 75.— Henry Ingalls, A. R. G.
Smith, and A. M. Card have been elected as direct-
ors of the new Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad.
'60.— Thomas B. Reed has been on a speech-
making tour throughout the Middle and Western
States.
'60.— Gen. John M. Brown has been in Washing-
ton attending the annual meeting of the Loyal
Legion.
'60.— Hon. W. W. Thomas, ex-United States
Minister to Sweden, has returned to his home in
Portland, Me., after an absence of five years. At
Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. Thomas was tendered a ban-
quet by the Swedish merchants of New York City
and Brooklyn. Mr. Thomas was appointed during
President Harrison's term and has been in Sweden
six years. Minister Thomas made an euviable
record as a diplomat and is very popular with the
Swedes of this country and Sweden.
'78. — Prof. G. C. Purington took an active part
in the recent North Aroostook Teachers' Convention
held at Caribou.
'91. — The house of Hon. S. S. Brown of Waterville
was the scene of the social event of the season on
the evening of October 18th. His daughter, Miss
Caddie H. Brown, was at 7 o'clock united in mar-
riage to Lewis A. Burleigh, son of ex-Governor
Burleigh of Augusta. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Mr. J. W. Sparks of Waterville, only
the immediate relatives of the contracting parties
being present. The parlors were very prettily dec-
orated with brilliaut-hued autumn leaves, ferns, and
potted plauts. A brilliant reception followed the
ceremony, and from 8 to 9.30 o'clock the house was
thronged with friends of the young married couple.
They poured in and out in a steady stream, con-
gratulating the newly-wedded pair and admiring
the extremely large and beautiful display of wedding
presents. Among them was a very handsome gift
from his Excellency, Governor Henry B. Cleaves,
which was delivered in person by his private secre-
tary, Col. E. C. Stevens. Mr. L. A. Burleigh, the
groom, was educated in the city schools of Bangor
and Augusta. He fitted for college at the Cony
High School of Augusta and the Hallawell Classical
School. He graduated from Bowdoin in the class
of 1891 and from the Harvard Law School in June of
this year. He was admitted to the Kennebec bar last
Tuesday and will form a co-partnership with his
brother-in-law, Mr. Joseph Williamson, Jr. (Bow-
doin, '88), at Augusta. The young couple left on
the 10 o'clock train for Boston, New York, and
Washington for a week or ten days' wedding trip.
Upon their return they will take up their residence
in Augusta. They have the hearty good wishes of
a large circle of friends, who will join in the hope
that the married life so auspiciously begun may be
a long and a happy one.
'91.— The sad news of the death of Jonathan P.
Cilley, Jr., reached this college last week. Mr.
Cilley was bom in Rockland, Me., in November,
1868, the sou of Gen. J. P. Cilley. He fitted for
college in the public schools here and entered
Bowdoin College in 1887, graduating in 1891. He
was very popular in college both with the professors
and with his fellow-students. He was a wonderfully
brilliant and versatile scholar, and excelled in all
studies. He also took great interest in all athletic
sports, and excelled in many of them. He was
commodore of the Bowdoin navy, and rowed on the
college eight in the Harvard race and the celebrated
race with Cornell. He was very fond of yachting, and
knew all about boats of all kinds. One of his achieve-
ments at Bowdoin will long be remembered. Soon
after entering college he climbed the lightning-rod of
the chapel steeple and displayed the Preshman
colors, which were greeted with astonishment in
the morning. He was president of his class that
year. His education was supplemented by travel
and acute observation. He was the leading spirit
of the Bowdoin expedition to Labrador, and he
subsequently made the tour of several European
countries. Cilley always took an active interest in
religious matters and was president of the college
Y. M. C. A. in his Senior year. He was one of the
commencement speakers at his graduation. In the
autumn of 1891 he entered Harvard Law School,
where he took a two years' course. He then entered
the office of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, a leading
law firm of New York City, to finish his law studies,
and was to have been admitted to the bar last June.
Early in May he was stricken with appendicitis
while in Brunswick, Ga., looking up some important
legal matters for the firm. He came on to Brooklyn
and was there for nearly three months, where he
underwent a surgical operation. He recovered
sufficiently to return to his home in Rockland in
July. He remained here two months and seemed
to gain rapidly. In September, though far from
being well and strong, he decided to return to his
duties in New York. He was taken suddenly ill
with typhoid fever on reaching Boston and was
carried to the home of his cousin, George Cilley,
Back Bay, where he was tenderly cared for and
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147
was under the hands of the most skillful physicians
in the city through his long weeks of suffering
until the end came like a peaceful sleep at 10.30
p.m., Friday night, October 19th. He was a mem-
ber of the Baptist church, and ever a zealous,
Christian young man. He was consistent in every
act of his life, and his life should serve as a shining
example to all. His funeral Monday afternoon,
October 22d, was largely attended by mourning
friends and relatives.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of the Kappa, )
October 26, 1894. $
Whereas, It has seemed best to our Heavenly
Father in His infinite wisdom to call from among
us our beloved brother, Dr. William Todd, Class of
'53, be it
Resolved, That while we acknowledge the wisdom
of the Divine Will we mourn the loss of a devoted
brother and extend our heartfelt sympathy to the
bereaved family; and be it
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family of the deceased and to the
Bowdoin Orient.
Allen Leon Churchill,
Jerre Hacker Libby,
Henry Stanley Warren,
Committee for the Chapter.
Hall of the Kappa, f
October 23, 1894. {
Whereas, It has pleased God Almighty in His
all-wise and infinite mercy to remove from earth
our brother, Francis Asbury Waterhouse, of the
Class of '57, a loyal and devoted member of our
Fraternity, be it
Resolved, That, bowing revereutly to the decree
of Providence, the Kappa Chapter of Psi Upsilon
sustains a real and severe loss in the death of this
brother; and be it
Resolved, That the Chapter extends its earnest
and genuine sympathy to those who are bowed down
with grief by this bereavement; and be it
Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be
published in the Bowdoin Orient and be sent to
the relatives of the deceased.
Allen Leon Churchill,
Jerre Hacker Libby,
Henry Stanley Warren,
Committee for the Chapter.
Hall of the Kappa, >
October 23, 1894. \
Whereas, It hath pleased our all-wise aud mer-
ciful Heavenly Father to remove from us our beloved
brother, Jonathan Prince Cilley, of the Class of '91,
be it
Resolved, That by his death the Kappa Chapter
of Psi Upsilon loses a faithful, noble, and conscien-
tious member, and suffers a loss which comes to it
as a great and irreparable personal bereavement ;
and be it
Resolved, That the sincere and heartfelt sym-
pathy of the Chapter is extended to the grief-
stricken parents and friends of our departed brother ;
and be it
Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be
printed in the Bowdoin Orient and sent to the
parents of the deceased.
Allen Leon Churchill,
Jerre Hacker Libby,
Henry Stanley Warren,
Committee for the Chapter.
Ellis F. Ward, who coached the university crews
for so many years, has had charge of a crew called
the Bohemians. These men were all foreigners,
and could barely speak English. Ward's coaching
by words and pantomime was so successful that his
crew has not lost a race this summer. Ward has
been offered the position of coach at both the Uni-
versity of California and at Harvard.
The largest' university in the world is at Cairo.
It has 10,000 students. It was founded A.D. 964.
At Boston University the faculty has voted to
permit work on the college paper to count as work
in the course, allowing seven hours per week to the
managing editor and two hours to each of his
assistants.
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The Princeton Art Museum has been presented
with the boss of an ancient Hittite shield recently
dug up at the ruins of Tyre.
The Junior promenade committee at Yale report
expenditures to the amount of $5,489.45.
It cost Yale $45,208.84 last year for athletics
of which $16,652.43 was expended for the foot-ball
association.
Money donated to Chicago University by John
D. Rockefeller amounts to $3,209,000.
A Descending Scale.
I wish I had a billion;
I'd even take a million;
How happy with a thousand I would be!
I would howl if I had twenty;
I'd consider ten as plenty;
" Say, partner, can't you let me have a V ? " —Ex
Trinity is planning to erect on the campus a
flagstaff where the American flag shall fly daily.
The flag will be raised on alumui day of commence-
ment week. Senator Hawley will deliver the
oration of the occasion, i
Oberlin has twenty-nine tennis courts, covering
more than four acres, which are said to be the
finest college tennis courts in the country.
"I simply dote on Horace,"
Said a Boston maid, " dont you ? "
And the maidens from Chicago
Wondering, queried, " Horace who? " — Ex.
The University of Pennsylvania has an atteud-
auce of 2,223, thus ranking third in size of the
American universities, Harvard and Michigan
surpassing it.
The maiden wanders forth in June
O'er moor and mountain range,
Her health is poor, and so she says
She does it for the change.
A court to take cognizance of fraud in exami-
nations at Cornell will be made up of four Seniors,
three Juniors, two Sophomores, and one Freshman.
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Vol. XXIV.
No. 9.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 9.— November 14, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 149
Delta Upsilon Convention 151
A New England Funeral, 152
Bowdoin Verse:
The Modern Maid, 154
The Three Students 154
Political Economy, 154
Collegii Tabula, 154
Athletics 157
Y. M. C.A., 159
Personal, 160
In Memoriam, 162
College World 163
The next number of the Orient
will appear a day or two earlier in the week
than usual on account of the Thanksgiv-
ing recess. Our contributors, who are too
numerous for us to reach in any other way,
should note this in sending in copy.
OERHAPS the most novel form of higher
-1 education is one which has recently been
revived at Bowdoin, and which has made
no little • sensation throughout the state.
Reference is made to climbing to the dizzy
apex of the spire of King's Chapel for indi-
vidual fame and class glory. At one time
the epidemic promised to be general, but
now it seems to have abated, and there
seems no need, as one paper has suggested, of
keeping a special policeman at the foot of the
tower to prevent ambitious students from
rising so high in the world. But, seriously,
now that honors are even between the lower
classes, it is to be sincerely hoped the matter
will drop where it is; and that steeple-
climbing, unless for a more worthy object
than raising a class flag, will hereafter be
only a tradition in the college. It is a cus-
tom that cannot be safely perpetuated.
While all admire the nerve and pluck
possessed by the young athlete who can
perform the difficult feat in question, yet
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none can approve of the utter recklessness
that will expose human life to so terrible a
risk to accomplish so trifling an object.
TT PRIVILEGE of which many Bowdoin
/ ■*• students seem slow in availing them-
selves, is that of calling upon the members
of the Faculty. Every Professor is glad
and anxious to become personally acquainted
with the young men in his classes, and often
extends invitations to them to call upon him
either on certain evenings or at their con-
venience. But far too few of us receive the
pleasure and benefit which the acceptance of
such an invitation would give. It is one of
the many advantages of a small college that
the instructors and students are brought
much into contact, but there is a possibility
of much closer relations than exist here.
Scores of us go through college without
meeting a professor outside his class-room.
This is our own fault and our own serious
loss. No student need fear that familiarity
with such able and genial gentlemen as con-
stitute the Bowdoin Faculty, will breed con-
tempt for them. What the effect will be
upon, them, if they come to know us better,
is another matter. So, let more of us, all of
us, call occasionally upon our instructors,
and receive the help, the inspiration, and
pleasure that better acquaintance with them
is sure to give.
TITHE Junior Class has taken the right step
-*• in thus early electing a committee to
have in charge the proposed assemblies of
the coming winter. It is to be hoped the
interest will not abate and that the social
season will be made a pleasant success. It
is certain that one advantage of Bowdoin's
location is that very little time and attention
of the student is demanded by social duties,
and, on the other hand, it is also certain that
none of us are above the pleasure and profit
which mingling in good society gives. It is
true that, in many respects, Brunswick is
not the most desirable place in existence for
student residence; it has not some of the
charms possessed by Bath and Portland, but
even Brunswick and Brunswick society have
many good points which most of us fail to
appreciate.
TT STRANGER, who was obliged to wait '
[*■ over for trains here at Brunswick last
week, visited the college and passed a very
pleasant hour in looking around the campus.
A student who met him kindly acted as his
guide and showed him some of the points of
interest. But soon the gentleman began to
ask questions of the young man, and the
inability of the latter to answer them readiky
was a source of no little embarrassment.
"Why was this noble building called King's
Chapel?" casually inquired the stranger, and
the student confessed he had never thought
of this before. " You call that the Thorn-
dike oak? Has it any special history?"
And again the student's knowledge was ex-
tremely fragmentary. " Where was it that
Longfellow and Hawthorne roomed?" was
soon asked, and the situation became more
awkward as the guide could not inform him.
The stranger soon had the mercy to cease
questioning the young man concerning the
past, and, coming down to the present, wished
to know something about the donors of the
Art and Science buildings and how it hap-
pened they gave such magnificent edifices to
the college, but again the student's answers
were far from full or satisfactory to the
information hunter. The stranger went away
wondering if the knowledge of local history
possessed by this young man was that of the
average student in the old Maine college
whose fame is so widespread and whose name
is so well respected throughout the country.
Such experiences as this student passed
through are not without profit ; and as a
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result of this chance visit of a traveller, at
least one Bowdoin upper-classman will at
once get possession of all the information
possible concerning the history and traditions
of his college. It would indeed be well for
all of us to follow his example, not only as a
precaution against emergencies such as met
him, but also for our own pleasure and profit.
Of course many students are well informed
upon these things, but the majority of us
know far less than we should about them.
We cannot know too much about our col-
lege. The more we know of its history and
traditions the more loyal we shall be as stu-
dents, the more we shall appreciate our
course here, and the longer and stronger a
love for it will live in our hearts. Every
student here ought to know well about the
founding of Bowdoin in the pine wilderness
a century ago, the fascinating story of those
early days, the main facts of its grand century
of life, the history of its campus and build-
ings, and the development and progress of
its fraternities, its organizations, and its
athletic interests. Every student ought to
be well informed on Bowdoin's long roll of
immortal alumni, its noble presidents, and
its famous professors. Every student should
be familiar with the traditions of life at Bow-
doin in the time of our fathers and grand-
fathers, and with the origin and significance
of the dead and surviving customs and prac-
tices peculiar to the college. And all this
not only that we may be better guides to
friends and strangers who come here, but
that we may be, in every sense of the word,
Bowdoin men, thoroughly in harmony with
the spirit of our loved college, loyal to her
high ideals, and inspired to make her future
worthy of her glorious past.
Two Chinese women are numbered among the
students of the University of Michigan.
It is said that one-fourth of the students of the
University of Berlin are from this country.
Delta Upsilon Convention.
THE sixtieth annual convention of the
Delta Upsilon Fraternity was held in
Schenectady, N. Y., October 25th and 26th,
with the Union Chapter.
At the first business session held in the
County Court House, Thursday morning,
about one hundred delegates were present
and much business of importance was trans-
acted. Immediately following the afternoon
session there was tendered the visiting del-
egates, at the home of Hon. and Mrs. J. S.
Langdon, an afternoon tea and reception.
Their spacious residence was thrown open
in honor of the delegates, and many of the
fair sex of Schenectady graced the occasion
with their presence.
On the evening of the 25th, at 8 p.m.,
the public literary exercises were held in the
First Reformed Church. The delegates as-
sembled in the vestry and entered the church
in a body. Edwin H. Cassels, Wisconsin,
'95, delivered the history of the fraternity
and Professor John F. Genung, Union, '70,
delivered the oration. Both the history and
oration were interesting and finely presented.
In addition, there were several selections by
the orchestra and the fraternity songs were
sung. After these exercises a spread was
given the' delegates at the Union Chapter's
rooms.
Friday forenoon, and the best part of the
afternoon, was occupied in transacting busi-
ness, three applications for charters, from
Miami, University of California, and Leland
Stanford being considered and acted upon ;
other business was finished. President Ray-
mond, of Union College, gave a reception
from 4 to 6 p.m.
On the evening of the 26th a theatre
party was formed and the delegates attended
the Van Curler Opera House, where a very
enjoyable evening was spent. After the
opera the members of the convention left
for Albany by special train where, at Hotel
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Delavan, the banquet was held. Covers
for over one hundred were laid. Louis
Openheim, Union, '75, presided as toast-mas-
ter, and among the many who spoke were
Geo. F. Andrews, Brown, '92; Ralph W.
Thomas, Colgate, '83; Emerson E. Schneff,
DePauw, '95, and W. S. Youngman, Har-
vard, '95. The conventioners arose from the
tables about five Saturday morning, and
many left on the morning trains for their
various destinations. This completed the
convention which, to all concerned, will ever
be remembered as a most successful and en-
joyable event. The Bowdoin Chapter was
represented by Robert O. Small, '96.
A New England Funeral.
IT is an old-fashioned farm-house, long,
low, rambling, with only a memory of
paint upon its walls. A shed of uncertain
stability connects it with a large stable of
more modern appearance. Before the stable
is a loosely thrown-up pile of wood fitted
for the stove. The large yard between the
house and road is unshaded and bare except
for an apple tree or two near the front door,
and some scraggy lilac bushes, around whose
roots the industrious hens have made numer-
ous dusting places. Back of the house is
an old orchard, and beyond it stretches a
Maine landscape of pasture, field, and forest,
with rugged hills in the hazy distance.
Across the road, opposite the house, are
barns, three in number, connected by sheds.
Large and roughly made are they, and even
more innocent of paint than the house.
Through the great open doorways comes the
sweet perfume of new hay from the lately
filled mows, and the floors are seen to be
filled with carts, racks, mowing-machines,
and numberless smaller farming utensils. No
sound breaks the drowsy silence of the
August afternoon except the discordant clan-
gor of the geese from their little pond below
the barn. Around the house no sign of liv-
ing thing is seen except the dog which is
lying upon the step, snapping occasionally at
the flies that disturb his attempts at repose.
But hush, what sound is that which
comes through the open window behind the
lilac bushes? It is a human voice and the
words are those of prayer. Let us look
within. The room is the front corner one,
large and low, and plainly but neatly fur-
nished. Though the windows are open that
close and musty odor, so common to the
little-used parlors of country homes, per-
vades the air. In the center of the room,
with ends resting in chairs, is a coffin. At
its head stands the country minister with
the Bible in his hand. Around the room sit
a dozen or so persons, old and young, evi-
dently the near relatives of the dead one in
their midst.
Just across in the hallway and sitting-
room are two-score of the neighborhood
folk who have come to the funeral, some
out of curiosity, some because occasions of
public interest are rare and they want to
attend them all, but most, be it said truly,
because they wished to show their deep love
for her who had lived and labored so long in
their midst. Let us glance reverently inside
the coffin and see whom its white walls en-
close. It is a woman, slight in form, and
perhaps sixty or sixty-five years of age. Her
hair is streaked with gray; her face, deeply
wrinkled, shows that her nature was a patient
and gentle one, and now in death wears an
expression of unutterable sweetness and re-
pose.
What was her life story? It is simple,
short, and sad; the common tale of woman's
love and sacrifice. A well-born village
maiden, she had been mated over two-score
years ago with a young farmer, and her life
had been the hard one of a farmer's wife with
its ceaseless round of toilsome duties. Her
early ambitious dreams of her own future
having been rudely shattered, she became
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doubly ambitious for her children. Two
died in prattling childhood.- The third grew
up to young manhood, and through her un-
ceasing, loving efforts his desires to be sent
away to school were gratified. Double work
she did and many privations she suffered for
his sake, but love bore her up and made it
all a pleasure.
At last he came home from school, and
now she fondly dreamed that he would take
a wife and settle down on the home farm
and become the solace and protection of her
old age. But her husband was a stern, hard-
working, hard-fisted man, who never half
appreciated home, wife or son, and soon he
and the young man had a quarrel. The boy,
in anger, left his home and went away to the
far West. This was nearly a score of years
ago, and through all these long years, these
weary and lonely years, her love for her boy
and her hope for his return had been her
only comfort and support.
She heard from him occasionally and
wrote often in return. He was very rich
now and this summer was coming back to
see her. But a month ago came a letter in
a strange handwriting. Her son was dead,
had been shot in cold blood by a villain who
wanted to rob him. The body was sent back
to the old home in Maine, and over it her
husband shed his first tears for forty years.
As for her, she wept, too; wept as only a
mother weeps over her only son, her love,
her hope, her life. She wept, but that was
not all. The blow had reached far deeper
than the source of tears. It had given her
heart its death thrust, and now, a month
after her son's funeral, her coffin is occupying
the same place his had occupied, and the
same modest funeral rites are being per-
formed.
Simply and directly the good, gray-haired
minister is speaking. His talk is no care-
fully prepared theological discussion, but the
off-hand expression of common thoughts of
consolation. Homely and familiar are the
figures he uses; he talks of the labor and
love of life, the true glory of death, and the
rewards and reunions in the realms of im-
mortality. Tears are in every eye, even of
those who came out of curiosity, and sobs in
every throat. "Nearer, My God, to Thee," is
softly sung by a quartette in the front hall,
unaccompanied b}r musical instrument. A
short, simple prayer is breathed by the min-
ister over the silent sleeper in the coffin.
Then, one by one, the members of the gath-
ering, the mourners coming last, pass by the
coffin for a last look at the white, peaceful
face within. What a world of pathos in the
scene, as the old farmer stoops awkwardly
to kiss those lips, so little kissed in life, and
then sinks into a chair, burying his face in
his hard, rough hands !
The lid is lowered and the screws put in
place. Strong hands tenderly lift the coffin
and bear it out through the door to the little
black hearse which is waiting. Half a dozen
teams, bearing mourners, bearers, and friends
fall in behind the hearse, and the little pro-
cession winds slowly along the dusty road to
the sunny hillside cemetery, a mile away,
where the mother is placed beside her son.
In the house a few women of the neigh-
borhood are preparing supper. In low voices
they speak, as they move softly about, of
the virtues of the dead and of the features
of the funeral, and' wonder how the husband
will get along now. The dog, disturbed
from his nap on the step, seeks the sunny
side of the woodpile, and the geese keep up
their clamor at the little pond below the
barn.
Yale is said to have lost about $1,000 on her
Oxford trip.
The University of Michigan has fifty of its own
graduates members of its faculty.
The Yale Glee Club has offered two prizes of
twenty-five dollars each for the best music and the
best words of a new song.
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Bowdoir? ^)ep§e.
The Modern Maid,
Whene'er a man in days gone by
Wished much to win a maiden fair,
He sized her up with careful eye,
Then ventured to her father's lair.
And when he'd won there full consent
He wooed the maiden for his bride,
Until in happiness they went
Along life's pathway, side by side.
Now, when you see a modern belle,
Her beauties soon your heart enthrall ;
A talk, a walk, you know her well,
And at her feet in worship fall.
Then she is willing to be kissed,
And takes caresses as her due,
With foolish prudery dismissed.
She knows her charms, and shows them, too.
But when, at last, you ask her hand,
And wish to wed your fairy pet,
She smiles, and says, "Nay, nay," and— and-
And asks you for a cigarette.
The Three Students.
Three students went strolling down into the town —
Down into the town by the moon's ascent;
Each thought on the girl he called his own,
And the "coppers" stood watching them as they
went —
For students will walk when they should be asleep,
And the " coppers" must still their vigil keep,
Though the winds be lightly moaning.
Three maidens stood on the street-corner wide,
As the students came by in the pale moonlight,
Each man tipped his hat; and then, side by side,
All six walked and talked till far into the night:
For students will walk when they should be asleep,
And maidens will ever their company keep,
Though the winds through the tree-tops be moaning.
Three O's stand out on the book of a Prof.
On the following day when the lessons are o'er,
As elegant " deads" as were ever struck off;
And how could those students expect any more ?
For if students will walk when they should be
Political Economy.
Upon the doctrine of "Rent"
What energy I would expend
If, from a block of brown-stone "Fronts"
I drew substantial sums to spend.
What zeal I would with joy bestow
On "Capital," despite the toil,
If I could sit at ease and count
My reapings from the fields of spoil.
How interested I could be
In "Interest "and "Stocks" and" Bonds,"
If all my earthly labor was
The clipping of my month's coupons.
" Whatever a man sows he also must reap " ;
And now those three students are groaning.
The college was thrown into
excitement recently by the remarkable
feats of two of the lower-classmen in
placing their respective class flags on the
dizzy apex of the North chapel tower,
fully 130 feet from the ground. It was in the fall
of 1887 that this feat was first accomplished by
Jonathan P. Cilley, whose sad death was noticed
in the last Orient. He was then a Freshman, and
one October morning the students were amazed to
see a '91 banner fluttering at the lightning rod tip-
ping the spire. Such a thing had never been known
before, and when it was kuown that Cilley had
made the exceedingly difficult and perilous ascent
solely by means of the uncertain lightning rod, he
was made a hero by all. His arms and hands had
been fearfully bruised and torn, and even the
Sophomores held him in awe and respect. But
they could not endure the taunts of the upper-class-
men, and after the Freshman flag had waved there
four days, a '90 man was found who had the nerve
and muscle to remove it and wipe out the insult to
Sophomoric dignity. George B. Chandler performed
the same feat Cilley had done, removed the '91 flag,
put up a '90 flag in its place, and fastened a tall hat
and cane to the tip of the spire. All this was seven
years ago and made much sensation in the college
and throughout the state. Since that time both
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Sophomores and Freshrneu have very properly left
the lofty towers of King's Chapel out of consideration
when seeking to win fame for themselves or glory
for their class. But this fall a Freshman and later
a Sophomore have climbed to the top of the North
tower and fastened their class banners there, and
the story of the fall of '87 has been almost exactly
repeated The plucky Freshman who so coolly
took his life in his hand was Charles D. Moultou,
whose life in the Shipping City has made him per-
fectly at home in high and dangerous places. The
feat that he performed in the pitch darkness of three
o'clock Friday morning, November 2d, with only
one classmate to cheer him on, has been his ambi-
tion for some time. He did not even blister his
hands, and treated his remarkable and extremely
dangerous performance in a very matter-of-fact way.
The '98 flag became entangled in the lightning rod
and the light wind of the next morning failed to
blow it out so the numerals could be distinguished.
It was not discovered till well into the forenoon,
and then there was excitement everywhere on the
campus. Students and Faculty alike gazed at it and
wondered what class it belonged to. Opera-glasses
and telescopes were used in vain. As there seemed
no way to prove them wrong, the Sophomores
claimed it was their flag, yet one of their number
began to blaze away at it with a shot-gun, just to
shake it out, he said. By noon the breeze had
straightened it out so that the numerals '"98 " were
plainly seen, and then all began to wonder who had
put it there. Only a few close friends of Moulton
knew who really did it, and many thought it was
an upper-classman, until the next day, when the
secret came out after Moulton had gone to Augusta
with his class team. All day there were rumors
that a Sophomore was ready to take the flag down
that night, and the next morning proved that '97
was not to be outdone in steeple-scaling. A large
white banner with blood-red numerals of '97 floated
gracefully where the '98 flag had been, and a plug
hat rested jauntily on the apex of the spire. They
laughed best who laughed last, as was the case seven
years ago, and the Freshmen and their friends had
to admit that '97 was decidedly on top as far as the
chapel spire was concerned. Chapel time showed
who was the hero of the occasion when Donald B.
McMillan was carried in on the shoulders of his
classmates. Late Friday night he had climbed the
insecure lightning rod, hand over hand, to the very
top, torn down the '98 flag, put in place the Sopho-
more symbols and returned in safety to the group
of his classmates who had realized more keenly thau
he the terrific risk he had run. The high wind of
Saturday afternoon blew down the Sophomore ban-
ner, which lodged in a high maple, where it was
secured by a Junior. Both the Sophomore and
Freshman classes are to be congratulated on pos-
sessing such plucky and determined members, and
still more that their hazardous exploits have re-
sulted in no accidents to life or limb.
Winter came last week.
Three inches of snow on the 5th.
Rubber boots are in great demand.
Bass, '96, has been at home for a week.
Coney, '81, wason the campus this week.
Compulsory gymnasium work is almost here.
This week will probably end the foot-ball season.
Now is the time to pay your foot-ball subscrip-
tion.
Thompson, '94, spent a recent Sunday on the
campus.
Bailey, '96, was in Boston in attendance on the
M. I. T. game.
Parker, '95, and Foster, '96, went home to vote
Tuesday, the 6th.
Minot, '96, refereed the Portland-Cony game at
Augusta, Saturday.
Prof. Houghton addressed the Y. M. C. A. last
Sunday afternoon.
When is the Sophomore-Freshman foot-ball
game to be played ?
Davis, '79* was at the college last week, enjoy-
ing a look at old scenes.
Shute, '97, has left for a term of teaching in
Hancock, near Ellsworth. .
Dennison, '95, was in Hebron a day or two before
the Hebron-Thornton game.
Rain prevented the Independents from playing
at Rockland last Saturday.
Hill and Bartlett, '88, made a short visit to their
Alma Mater two weeks ago.
Hebb, '96, made a business trip to Boston in the
interests of the Bugle, last week.
The election returns were received with a great
deal of interest by the students.
The Freshmen have nearly all been physically
examined by Dr. Whittier and his assistants.
Peaks, '96, and Warren, '97, are to take part in
"Mikado" to be produced in Bath next week.
The Orient board have lately presented the
library with a number of quite valuable books.
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Hawes, 76, was on the campus lately, being also
an interested' spectator of the Dartmouth game.
Two Sundays ago saw quite a large pilgrimage
to Harpswell to hear Rev. Elijah Kellogg preach.
Baxter, '98, was in Boston a week ago Wednes-
day, reporting the M. I, T. game for the Portland
Press.
Fairbanks and Stubbs, '95, acted as referee and
umpire in the Bates-Colby game at Waterville, Sat-
urday.
Fairbanks. '95, was in Bangor coaching the High
School foot-ball team for several days of week be-
fore last.
" Hands Across the Sea" was staged in Town
Hall Wednesday evening, the 7th, and drew a good
audience.
Moore, '95, has been called home by the illness
of his brother, and will not be back till the end of
the term.
Quitnby, '95, has been in Saco again for the past
fortnight, putting the Thornton Academy team in
good trim.
The Junior division in Chemistry have been
analyzing unknown mixtures the past week, a sort
of a mid-term examination.
Professor Mitchell addressed the Y. M. C. A.
Sunday afternoon, November 4th. His address was
interesting and earnest.
The Telegraph of last week suggested that the
college boys present one of Shakespeare's plays this
spring, instead of the customary minstrel show.
The rain that interfered with the Bates game on
the delta was rather unwelcome to the students,
who were looking for a treat in the foot-ball line.
Tuesday, the Senior and Junior divisions in
Political Economy wrote articles on "Production
and Exchange" during the regular recitation hour.
An addition has been made to the card catalogue
in the library, increasing its capacity by a fourth.
The new part contains the last letters of the
alphabet.
The annual raid on the leaves has been com-
menced by Mr. Booker and his henchmen, but the
early fall of snow stopped them, mid way in their
proceedings.
Thursday, November the first, was All Saints
Day, and the Italians, who are working on the
sewer, held holiday, almost entirely stopping work
on the digging.
Doherty, '95, and Kyes, '96, started Tuesday for
New York, the representation of Theta Chapter of
A K E at the Fraternity's fiftieth annual convention
held there the last of this week.
College and Out-of-Town Night at the Kirmess
in Lewiston, was well patronized by Bowdoiu men,
and compared well with that Kirmess of Kirmesses,
the Bath Kirmess of two winters ago.
President Hyde's talk a Sunday or so ago on
"Specialization in Studies" touched a theme on
which many of the college boys have been think-
ing, and contained some most timely advice.
The townspeople are rehearsing Sullivan and
Gilbert's " Mikado" for presentation in December.
Several of the students are in the cast and the play
promises to be one of the events of the year.
Bath and its social gayety have agaiu begun to
attract the students, and the first hops of the season,
card parties, and social calls in the city of ships are
furnishing plenty of pleasure for our society men.
The story is abroad that Brunswick is to have a
new railroad station this coming spring. But, then,
this isn't the first time we've heard of such a thing,
and the chances are that 'tis only fickle rumor
after all.
Thanksgiving is in view; it comes on the 29th
this year, and the plans for a good time during the
season of hospitality and good cheer are multiply-
ing. The end of the holidays will bring back many
of our numbers who have been teaching.
Ata recent meeting of the musical men in col-
lege, a Glee Club and a Banjo and Guitar Club were
formed, with Willard, '96, leader of the former and
Coburn, '96. leader of the latter. Ordway, '96,
was elected manager of both, and regular rehears-
ing will begin at once.
President Hyde, in chapel, and Prof. MacDonald,
before his history class, spoke at length on the
importance and significance of last week's political
avalanche which was so disastrous to Democracy,
dwelling especially on the highly pleasing overthrow
of Tammany in New York City.
The lecture on "Chaucer," by Prof. Henry L.
Chapman, D.D., of Bowdoin College, last evening,
was received by all with appreciation, and the audi-
ence left with many new thoughts on the renowned
English writer. Prof. Chapman is a very fascinat-
ing speaker. —Kennebec Journal.
Axtell and Russ, '95, Blodgett and Ward, '96,
Condon and Tapley, '97, and Mclntyre and Sturgis,
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'98, all members of Delta Upsilon here, attended
the initiation ceremonies of the Colby Chapter,
Tuesday, October 30th. Axtel and Condon took
part in the post-prandial exercises.
The following members of the Class of '97 have
been elected to take part in the Sophomore Prize
Declamations: G-. S. Bean, M. S. Coggan, J. W.
Condon, A. P. Cook, P. W. Davis, R. S. Hagar, J.
G. Haines, J. H. Home, D. B. McMillan, E. G.
Pratt, H. M. Varrell, and W. P. White.
At a recent class meeting of '96, the following
committee was appointed to arrange for a series of
assemblies the coming winter : Smith, Pierce, Peaks,
Warren, and Ward. The class is enthusiastically in
favor of these assemblies and will support them
well. Libby was elected the second Junior member
of the general athletic committee.
The college has published a neatly-bound pam-
phlet which will be a highly-valued souvenir to
students and alumni, of the centennial celebration
last June. It contains the address on the religious
history of the college by Rev. Egbert C. Smyth;
the centennial address by Chief Justice Fuller, and
the poem by Arlo Bates.
Two weeks ago Monday, Professor Lee took the
Senior division in Geology on an all-day trip to
Orr's Island to examine some curious geological
formations. As usual in such trips, but a small
part of the time was devoted to arduous examina-
tions of the geological phenomena, the boys man-
aging to get in a good deal of a good time in the
spare moments.
College night at the Kirmess will be Saturday. The
boys and lasses, too, from Colby, Bowdoin, and Bates are
coming in good force ! — Lewiston Journal, Nov. 1.
0, this is the unkindest cut of all ! To think
that the leading paper in Maine, with two sons of
Bowdoin in the most important positions on its
editorial staff, should speak of the Bowdoin
" lasses." Not yet, thank the Lord, not yet !
The fourth and last themes of the term are due
Thursday, November 15th, on the following sub-
jects: Juniors — Why are Wages Higher in the
United States than in Europe? Some Practicable
Ways of Bettering the Schodls of Maine; Compare
Tennyson's "Locksley Hall" with his " Locksley
Hall Sixty Years After." Sophomores — -Power of
the Pulpit in Municipal Reform; Should a Nat-
ural Science be Substituted for Greek in Bowdoin's
Requirements for Admission? The Theatre of To-
day, has it any Value as an Educator?
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Bowdoin, '98, 10; Colby, '98, 0.
The Freshman teams of Bowdoin and Colby
met at Augusta Saturday forenoon, November 3d,
and after a finely played game, in spite of rain and
mud, the Bowdoin boys were victorious by a score
of 10 to 0.
The result was a very agreeable surprise to
Bowdoin men, as '98 has not been credited with
being a very strong foot- ball class, and two of its
best players were not taken to Augusta. The
Colby Freshmen eleven on the other hand had been
boasted about not a little, and contained seven
members of the regular college eleven. They were
confident of victory, aud seventy Colby men, armed
with horns, came to Augusta on a special car to
cheer them on. But all in vain, they could do noth-
ing against the lighter Bowdoin line and made but
very few gains around it or through it. They did
not hold the ball within 35 yards of the Bowdoin
goal. The result shows how ridiculous has been
the talk of those Colby men who have been
claiming that if their first eleven could have
another game with the Bowdoin 'Varsity it would
do much better than the last time, when we beat
them 30 to 0.
Kendall did the star work for '98 in this game,
and bis 90-yard run at the opening of the second
half was the feature. Every man on the team put
up a steady, plucky game, and the team work was
excellent. Gould and Stetson made the two touch-
downs and Stahwood kicked the goal. Considering
the wet ball and grounds there was very little
fumbling. The Bowdoin Freshmen made long
gains around the ends, and played with a snap and
determination noticeably lacking in their opponents
from the Colby 'Varsity. Brooks, Long, aud
Holmes did the best work for Colby. A good-sized
crowd of Augusta people witnessed the game, and
the large Colby contingent returned to Waterville
in the afternoon sadder and wiser young men.
The teams were lined up as follows :
Bowdoin, '98. Colby, '98.
Spear. Right End. Austin.
Wilson. Right Tackle. Nelson.
Baxter. Right Guard. Brooks.
Hills. Center. Cushing.
Eames. Left Guard. Hall.
Gould. Left Tackle. Long.
Perkins. Left End. Dyer.
Mclntyre. Quarterback. Soule.
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Stetson. Right Halfback. McFadden.
Kendall. Left Halfback. Patterson.
Stanwood. Fullback. Holmes.
Umpire — Watkins, Colby, '96. Referee — Stetson, Bow-
doin, '95. Lineman— Alden, Colby, '98. Time— 40 min-
utes.
Independents of Boivdoin, 8; Lincoln Academy. 0.
This game was played on Ross Field, Newcastle,
Saturday, November 3, 1894.
The game was called at 3.15 in the midst of a
heavy wind and rain. Lincoln won the toss and
chose the goal with the wind favoring them. Smith
kicked for 25 yards. Hilton got the ball, but was
at once tackled without any gain. Bowdoin got the
ball on downs. Good gains by the backs through
center and around both ends brought the ball to
Lincoln's 15-yard line, where the ball was lost on
four downs, and Hilton punted to the Independent's
15-yard line, Ordway securing the ball. Until the
end of the first half the ball was rushed back and
forth in the middle of the field, mostly in the pos-
session of Bowdoin.
When the secoud half began the rain and wind
had ceased. Hilton kicked for 10 yards, Thompson
getting the ball. Ordway punted for 30 yards and
Lincoln lost the ball on a fumble. Good gains
were made by Ordway and Pratt, and then Haskell
made a 15-yard run for a touchdown. Smith failed
to kick the goal. Score: Independents, 4; Lincoln
Academy, 0.
With four minutes to play Hilton kicked for 20
yards and Smith got the ball, bringing it back to
the center of the field. Bowdoin by good gains got
the ball to Lincoln's 25-yard line, where it was lost
by fumbling. Hilton bucked the center for no gain
and lost the ball in the scrimmage, from which
Oakes emerged with it and scored a second touch-
down one minute after the first by a long run round
Lincoln's right end. Ordway failed in a try for a
goal. Score : Independents, 8; Lincoln Academy, 0.
In the few minutes remaining for play the ball
was kept in the middle of the field, and when time
was called was in Lincoln's possession.
The Independents put up a good game, consid-
ering how little they have played together, but the
team work and blocking off were poor and the ball
was often passed too slowly. The best work was
done by Thompson, Simpson, and Ordway. Hilton,
halfback on Bowdoin's 'Varsity team for two years,
put up a brilliant game for Lincoln Academy, and
was well seconded by Glidden and Clark. The
line-up was as follows:
Lincoln Academy.
Independents.
Bryant.
Left End.
Oakes.
Loud.
Left Tackle.
Smith, '96.
Stetson.
Left Guard.
Simpson.
Merrill.
Center.
Pierce, '96.
Snow.
Right Guard.
Thompson, '97.
Curtis.
Right Tackle.
Mitchell, '96.
Guiles.
Right End.
Ward, captain.
Glidden.
Quarterback.
Fessenden, '96.
Hilton.
Left Halfback.
Haskell, 'S6.
Dunbar.
Right Halfback.
E. T. Pratt.
Clark, captain.
Fullback.
Ordway.
Time-
—20 minutes and 15 minutes.
Referee — Coggan.
Umpire-
-Randall.
Touchdowns— Haskell, Oakes. Score —
Independents of Bowdoin, 8; Lincoln
Academy, 0.
Bowdoin, 6; M. I. T., 6.
The Institute of Technology and Bowdoin teams
played to a tie, at Boston, Wednesday, November
7th. The ground was in very bad shape, about two
inches of snow covering most of it. The play was
not so loose as would naturally have been expected.
The teams were well matched, but Bowdoiu played
the best all-round game.
For Bowdoiu, Fairbanks and Knowlton played
the best games. Fairbanks made good gains and
punted well. Knowlton cost Tech a good many
yards by breaking through the line and tackling
finely. Rockwell and Underwood played in good
shape for Tech, though both made some poor plays.
The teams lined up at 3.30, Bowdoin having the
ball. Fairbanks kicked 25 yards to Rockwell, who
gained five yards. Rockwell took the ball around
left end for 20 yards before Fairbanks stopped him.
Then short, but constant gains through the line,
took the ball to Bowdoin's goal without being once
lost, and Rockwell went through the line for the
touchdown. Underwood kicked the goal. Time, 5
minutes.
Fairbanks kicked 35 yards to Rockwell, who
brought the ball back 10 yards, Hicks tackling.
Thomas failed to gain at center, and Bowdoin was
given the ball for off-side play by Ames. Fair-
banks made 3 yards through left guard and Mitchell
got three more by Aultman. Rawson ran Fair-
banks out of bounds with no gain. Mitchell made
3 yards between Washburn and McCormick. Ames
got off-side again and Bowdoin was given 10 yards.
Bowdoin fumbled and Rawson got the ball on Tech's
10-yard line, just as Bowdoin's many supporters in
the crowd felt sure of a score. Rawson failed to gain
at left end. Underwood made a yard between right
guard tackle. Thomas just failed to gain the dis-
tance, and the ball went to Bowdoin on four downs.
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Stubbs and Mitchell made short gains, but sonu the
ball went back to Tech on her 10-yard line on four
downs.
Rockwell made 12 yards between left tackle and
end before Foster stopped him. Ames gained 8
yards around right end. Underwood made 4 yards
through Kimball. Knowlton broke through and
stopped Rockwell with a one-yard loss. Thomas
made two yards around right end. Mansfield made
a poor pass, but dropped on the ball with 4 yards
loss. Time was called with the ball on Tech's
30-yard line. Score: M. I. T., 6; Bowdoin, 0.
In the second half, Rockwell began by kicking
20 yards to Foster, who made 10 yards before Raw-
son stopped him. Fairbanks made 2 yards through
Le Moyne. Stubbs made 3 yards through Wash-
burn. Fairbanks gained seven yards by Aultman
before Thomas stopped him. Stubbs failed to
gain by Washburn, and Mitchell only got a yard in
the same place. Knowlton was slow in passing to
Fairbanks for a punt, and Rawson got the ball and
made 20 yards before he was stopped. Knowlton
stopped Rockwell with no gain. Underwood, Raw-
sou, and Thomas, by short gains, forced the ball
close to Bowdoin's goal.
Bowdoin, in some way, broke Mansfield's pass,
on Bowdoin's 7-yard line, and the ball rolled out of
the bunch. Fairbanks got it, and was off down the
field before Tech knew it. By magnificent sprinting
he outran the field, and made a clear run for 103
yards and a touchdown. Then he kicked the goal,
tying the score. Score: Tech, 6; Bowdoin, 6.
Rockwell kicked 30 yards to Mitchell, who
brought the ball back 10 yards, Mansfield tackling.
Mitchell made two yards between Washburn and
McCormick. Bowdoin was given 10 yards for
holding in the line. Fairbanks, Mitchell, and
Stubbs each made short gains with a total of seven
yards, and Dewey broke out of the bunch in a play
at left tackle and gained 15 yards, but here the ball
went to Tech on four downs.
Hicks stopped Rockwell with no gain. Under-
wood went around right end for 20 yards before
Hicks caught him. Mansfield fumbled and Bow-
doin got the ball. Fairbanks punted 35 yards to
Underwood, who was downed with no gain
by Foster. Tech lost ground and Underwood
punted 15 yards to Dennison, Ames getting the
ball, but as he was off-side the ball was given to
Bowdoin. After two short gains by Stubbs and
Kimball the ball went to Tech on downs. After a
7-yard gain by Thomas, Tech lost ground on fum-
bles. Mansfield made a poor pass to Underwood
for a punt, and Bowdoin got the ball on Tech's 30-
yard line, when time was called.
Bowdoin. Technology.
Hicks. Left End. Rawson.
Dewey. Left, Tackle. Washburn.
Stone. Left Guard. McCormick.
Dennison. Center. Manahan.
Bates. Right Guard. Le Moyne.
Kimball. Right Tackle. Aultman.
Foster. Right End. Ames.
Knowlton. Quarterback. Mansfield.
Mitchell. J Halfbacks 1 Tll0mas-
Stubbs. j UaltDackS. j Rockwell.
Fairbanks. Fullback. Underwood.
Score — M. I. T.,6; Bowdoin, 6. Touchdowns — Rockwell,
Fairbanks. Goals from touchdowns — Underwood, Fair-
banks. Umpire— E. L. Andrews, C. A. A. Referee — Dr.
Whittier, Bowdoin. Linesman— T. P. Lothrop, M. I. T.
Time — 15 minute halves.
A man cannot be so much of a Christian Sunday
that he can afford to be a worldling all the rest of
the week. If a steamer put out for Southampton,
and go one day in that direction and the other six
days in another direction, how long before the
steamer will get to Southampton ? It will never
get there. And though a man may seem to be
voyaging heavenward during the holy Sabbath day,
if, during the following six days of the week, he is
going towards the world, the flesh, and the devil,
he will never ride up into the peaceful harbor of
Heaven. You cannot eat so much at the Sabbath
banquet that you can afford religious abstinence the
other six days. Heroism and princely behavior on
great occasions are no apology for lack of right
demeanor in circumstances insignificant and incon-
spicuous. The genuine Christian life is not spas-
modic, does not go by fits and starts, is not an
attack of chills and fever.
— T. DeWitt Talmage.
Some men think that religion lies in great things.
It does not, it lies in little things. Our life is made
up of little things ; and if we are not careful of little
things, the great ones must go wrong.
— T. DeWitt Talmage.
Duty is measured by chance, and yet the essen-
tial idea of duty is never weakened. I am bound
to do less than you, but I am just as surely bound
to do my little as you are to do your much.
—Phillips Brooks.
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The whole creation is following my life, is in-
volved in my triumph. . . . Every little calumny
or temptation I overcome, every weakness I uproot,
brightens the future of the world.
— Frederick Brooks.
Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity ; know,
yesterday cannot be recalled, to-morrow cannot be
assured; to-day only is thine; one to-day is worth
two to-morrows. " — Enchiridion.
Honor the soul. Truth is the beginuing of all
good ; and the greatest of all evils is self-love, and
the worst penalty of evil-doing is to grow into like-
ness with the bad; for each man's soul changes,
according to the nature of his deeds, for better or
for worse. —Plato.
At the organization of the
Society for the Advancement of Hed-
1 ieal Scieuce, held iu Portland, the
following Bowdoin men were elected offi-
cers: President, Dr. S. C.Gordon, Med., '55;
Vice-Presidents, Drs. S. H. Weeks, Hon., '89; F. C.
Thayer, Med., '67; A. K. P. Meserve, Med., '59;
Wallace K. Oakes, 70; C. A. Ring, '68; E. M. Fuller,
Med., 73; E. E. Holt, Med., 74; S. J. Bassford,
Med., '81; Corresponding and Statistical Secretary,
Dr. A. S. Thayer, Med., '86; Secretary, Dr. H. M.
Nickerson, Med., '89; Treasurer, Dr. H. F. Twitchell,
Med., '83; Assistant Secretary, Dr. E. J. McDonough,
Med., '92 ; Board of Trustees, Drs. E. E. Holt, Med.,
74; G. H. Cummings, 72; B. B. Foster, Med., 70;
I. E. Kimball, 76.
'49.— Dr. John M. Eveleth of Hallowell, one of the
most prominent physicians in that city, while attend--
ing a meeting of the Trinity Commaudery, Knights
Templar, at Augusta, October 26th, was very sud-
denly taken ill. Physicians were immediately sum-
moned and everything was done to relieve his
sufferings, but he expired almost instantly. The
cause, of his death was the bursting of a blood-vessel
near the brain. His body was taken to Hallowell the
same evening. He leaves a widow, two daughters,
and one son. Dr. John M. Eveleth was born in
Windham, Me., February 24, 1828, and was a son of
John and Rebecca Eveleth, and grandson of Na-
thaniel Eveleth. He graduated from Bowdoin Col-
lege in 1849, and from the Maine Medical School in
1854. The year following he began private practice
at Poland, Me., where he remained four years. In
February, 1861, he began practice at Mechanic
Falls, Me., where he remained till January, 1880,
when he came to Hallowell, where he has since
resided. Dr. Eveleth was twice married, his first
wife being Lucy E. Douglass of Waterford, Me.
She died in February, 1881, leaving three children,
Abby Lyle, John A., and Lucy M. His second
marriage, in 1883, was with Clara A. Douglass, sister
of his first wife. He was a member of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
'50.— The annual report by Gen. O. O. Howard
to the adjutant-general of the army shows on the
whole very peaceful conditions. Only one regiment
of General Howard's command, the ninth infantry,
which was sent to Chicago during the Debs insur-
rection, had any active duty. The National Guard
of all States east of the Mississippi, the General
says, is well organized. The General strongly rec-
ommends an increase of the army to at least
double the size of the present force. He expresses
the opinion that our coast defences are in fairly
good condition, and that owing to these and our
ever-increasing naval armament there would be
little to fear from outside aggression. General
Howard, often called the " Christian Hero," having
reached the statutory age limit, retired from the
United States Army, November 8th, to private life.
The withdrawal of General Howard from active
duty is the most important event that has happened
in army circles this year. He outranks all officers
except Major-General John M. Schofleld, and his
only equal is Major-Genera] Nelson A. Miles of the
Department of the Missouri, who is spoken of as his
probable successor. The winter, General Howard ex-
pects to spend in California with his wife, son, and
daughter, and in the spring he will return to Burling-
ton, Vt., where he will make his home. On the evening
of October 31st, General Howard and Col. Loomis
L. Langdon were the guests of honor at a banquet
given at the Oxford Club, Brooklyn, in commemo-
ration of their retirement from the United States
Army. About one hundred guests sat at the board,
and letters of regret were received from ex-Presi-
dent Harrison, Gen. B. F. Tracy, Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, Major-General Schofleld, and others. Gen-
eral Harrison wrote that he had served under Gen-
eral Howard, who was a just soldier, and for whom
he had the highest esteem. At the table with the
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president of the club, William Berri, and General
Howard and Colonel Langdon, were Rear Admiral
Erbeu, U. S. N., retired ; Charles A. Dana, Justice
E. M. Cullen of Brooklyn, Gen. Stuart L. Woodford,
Gen. Wagner Swayne, and Murat Halstead. After
the dinner President Berri paid a brief tribute to
the patriotism and bravery of the chief guests, and
introduced General Howard, who was greeted with
cheers and the waving of small American flags
which had been distributed as souvenirs of the
feast, and with the singing by the company of
"America." General Howard, whose wine glasses
as usual were turned down, began by saying that
he had heard some one ask what was the matter
with Howard. What ailed him, then, he said was
that he was between drinks. After putting his
audience in an easy humor by this sally, General
Howard then entertained the company with war
reminiscences.
'58. — The family of the late Hon. Nathan Cleaves
are having made a very handsome white granite
sarcophagus, of impressive design, to be erected
over the family lot at Evergreen Cemetery, which
is said will excel any similar production in Maine.
It is ten feet high and 7x7 feet square. Two gar-
lands of oak leaves cut on the solid face of the stone
are among the most noticeable features.
'60. — Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr., delivered his
lecture on "Sweden and the Swedes," at St. Johns-
bury, Vt., Friday, November 9th.
'61. — We print below notices of two members of
this class who, by a strange coincidence, died within
a few hours of each other. Prior to this double loss no
death has occurred since September, 1891. Each of
these men had, in his own way, filled a large place in
the community, — a place won by no power of family,
or of money, but among strangers and by merit only.
The one was struck down in what seemed full
health ; four hours later the other was taken, after
an illness of nineteen years. Col. Edward Payson
Loring, one of the most distinguished members of
the class, died very suddenly of apoplexy, in Boston,
on the evening of October 30th. He was born in
Norridgewock, March 2, 1837. He entered Water-
ville College, now Colby University, in 1857; but in
the following year came to Bowdoin. In college he
was conspicuous for the strong qualities which
made him a marked man in after life. Soon after
graduating he eutered the army as a lieutenant in
Col. Neal Dow's 13th Maine Regiment. Subse-
quently he was major in a United States regiment
of heavy artillery (colored), and was brevetted lieu-
tenant-colonel. At the close of the war he studied
law at the Albany Law School, and settled in Pitch-
burg, Mass. He was elected a member of the
House of Representatives, and afterward was a
senator in the General Court of that state ; and as
chairman of the legislative committee having the
matter in charge, conducted the famous Tewksbury
investigation, instituted and carried on in person
by Governor Benjamin F. Butler. When the Legis-
lature established the office of Controller of County
Accounts, the incumbent of which was to prescribe
the manner in which the accounts of county officers
should be kept, with a view to correct a multitude
of abuses that had grown up in the lack of super-
vision, Colonel Loring was appointed to the office.
So thoroughly did he perform the service that he
drew upon himself the wrath of officers whose op-
portunities for irregular gains had been cut off by
him ; and a conspiracy was formed to supplant him
on the expiration of his term. But so conspicuous
had been his service in the cause of reform that his
friends rallied strongly to his support, and in the
end he was vindicated most strikingly by a reap-
pointment by Governor Russell, a political opponent.
Colonel Loring was a most loyal and enthusiastic
son of Bowdoin. At the time of his death he was
in the third and last year of his term of service as
president of the Boston Association of Bowdoin
Alumni. He was a ready and witty speaker, and
had frequently' responded for his class at Com-
mencement Diuner. What better can be said of a
man, whose ability is unquestioned, than that his
most distinguishing traits were spotless integrity
and absolutely unyielding devotion to what he
deemed right? This was true of Colonel Loring.
Died in Middleborough, Mass., October 31, 1894,
Henry Sutton Burgess Smith, M.D. Dr. Smith was
born in Bridgton, July 12, 1833. He was the second
of four brothers, all of whom their widowed mother
sent through Bowdoin College. Three of the four
have sent sons to Bowdoin. Dr. Smith served as
assistant surgeon of the 32d Maine Regiment, and
afterwards settled in Bowdoinham. In 1878 he
removed to Middleborough, and almost immediately
became the leading physician of that town, — a posi-
tion which he maintained until his death. Before
he removed to Massachusetts he was already
affected with pulmonary disease, but although he •
knew that he was doomed he continued to practice
his profession as if in perfect health, sparing him-
self not in the least, night or day, nor heeding the
weather. Until within a year the weakness which
marks the approach of the end did not become
noticeable, and then all the weakness was in his
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body, nnt in his undaunted soul. To the very last
day of his life he kept on the professional harness,
and drove out to visit a patient afflicted with the
same fatal malady as his own. When he died the
whole town did him honor. All the stores were
closed during the hours of the funeral, and a weep-
ing throng of friends filled the church. Not only
was he the trusted and skillful physician, but one
of the most highly esteemed citizens of the town.
Both Mr. Loring and Mr. Smith were members of
the former Bowdoin chapter of Delta Upsilon.
78.— Mr. Hartley C. Baxter recently had an
operation performed upon him for appendicitis, and
at last accounts was recovering very nicely from
the operation.
78. — Professor George C. Purington took part
in the recent West Somerset teachers' convention
at Fairfield.
'81. — W. W. Towle was elected as a representa-
tive to the House, in Massachusetts State Legisla-
ture, from ward eighteen in Boston.
'94. — Dana has secured a fine position with
Silver, Burdett & Co., of Boston.
'94.— DeMott has accepted a call to Ticonderoga,
N. Y.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, ?
November 9, 1894. $
Whereas, It has seemed best to our all-merciful
Father to remove from scenes of earth, our brother,
John Marshall Eveleth, of the Class of '49, whose
ever-active interest in the fraternity has won him
a tender place in our hearts; be it
Besolved, That Theta, of Delta Kappa Epsilon,
has lost a loved and loyal ' member, whose noble
life has reflected luster on its name; and be it
Besolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the bereaved family, and published in the
Bowdoin Orient.
Leeoy Sunderland Dewey,
John Clair Minot,
John George Haines,
Committee for the Chapter.
Hall of Delta Upsilon, \
November 2, 1894. \
Whereas, An all-wise and merciful Father has
in divine wisdom seen fit to remove from us, in the
person of Col. E. P. Loring, of the Class of '61, a
worthy and beloved member of the former Chapter
of Delta Upsilon at Bowdoin,
Besolved, That the present Chapter has lost
thereby a true and noble friend, one brave in his
country's defense and true as a legal executive ;
Resolved, That the Chapter's sympathy be ex-
tended to the family bereaved and that a copy of
these resolutions be inserted in the Bowdoin
Orient.
George C. Webber,
Robert 0. Small,
James H. Horne,
Committee for the Chapter.
Hall of Delta Upsilon, >
November 2, 1894. \
Whereas, Our Heavenly Father m his infinite
wisdom and mercy, has seen fit to call away from
us our brother, Dr. Henry S. B. Smith, Class of '61,
a man beloved and respected by all who knew him,
be it
Besolved, That while bowing to the decree of
Divine Providence, we mourn the loss of so loyal
and devoted a member of our fraternity; and be it
Besolved, That the heartfelt sympathy of the
Chapter be extended to the family of the deceased,
and that a copy of these resolutions be printed in
the Bowdoin Orient.
George C. Webber,
Eobert 0. Small,
James H. Horne,
Committee for the Chapter.
Book I^eviewg.
(An Introduction to French Authors, by Alphonse
N. Van Daell, Professor in the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology. Published by Ginn & Co.,
Boston.) This is a book of short and easy stories
and poems suitable for class-room work. It coutains
a good variety of graded material from French
writers of high standing, and is well adapted to
prepare the beginner for more advanced and diffi-
cult work. An original and most valuable feature
of the book is a second part comprising a summary
of the geography of France, a short history of that
country, and a chapter giving an idea of its consti-
tution and form of government, all in easy French
and designed to be taken up at the same time as
the first part. This is an admirable scheme,
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because too often very little knowledge of France
and its bistory is possessed by the student of its
language in American class-rooms. The volume
contains two hundred and fifty pages, of which
seventy-five are devoted to a vocabulary.
(The Gate to the Anabasis, by Clarence W.
Grleason, A.M., Master in the Roxbury Latin School.
Published by Ginn & Co., Boston.) This neat
little volume in the School Classics series is intended
to make easier aud more pleasant the first steps of
the student in Greek. The first book of the
Anabasis is taken up in attractive form with Eng-
lish headliues to each section, and Latin synonyms
for many important words. The Colloquia, to
which fifteen pages are devoted, are easy and
admirably adapted to giving practice in speaking
Greek. There are good notes, a vocabulary, and a
most convenient table of word-groups. With such
a book the first work in reading Greek can be only
pleasant to the most indifferent student.
(Citizenship, by Julius H. Steeple, D.D., LL.D.,
late President of Amherst College. Published by
Ginn & Co., Boston.) This is an elementary text-
book of eighty pages for the study of government
and law, and coming from such a source will com-
mand wide attention. The author does not confine
himself to the rights and duties of citizens, as
defined by the statutes, though the larger part of
the book is given up to these; but he has sought
for a broader view of citizenship, as shown by the
fundamental principles of society and the deep
groundwork of human life itself. It docs not aim
to be an exhaustive treatise, but it is clear, com-
prehensive, and compact, and worthy the closest
attention of any teacher or student of international
aud national law.
(The Philosophy of Teaching, by Arnold Tomp-
kins. Published by Ginn & Co., Boston.) Unlike
the books mentioned above this is not a text-book.
It is an exceedingly profound and intricate discus-
sion of the essential nature and laws of the teaching
process. It is mostly universal and theoretical, to
be sure, but the practical teacher is not always con-
scious of, and thankful for, the great service ren-
dered by the speculative philosopher. Universal
truth seems so remote from the immediate, coucrete
details of school work that we often do not suspect
its presence and controlling power. And yet,
although this book is designed for all teachers, it is
probable the common teacher will get little help
and inspiration from its pages. It is the college
president and the learned professors who will appre-
ciate it most, and understand best the apparently
remote philosophy which Mr. Tompkins applies to
the every-day teaching processes of the school-
room.
There are chapters of twenty-seven fraternities
at Cornell.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is making arrangements
to carry out the provisions of the will of her late
husband, Senator Stanford, bequeathing $3,000,000
to the Stanford University. Some of the buildings
to be erected are a library building, a building for
the natural history museum and laboratory, a
memorial chapel, a girls' dormitory, and a chemical
building. Accommodation will be provided for
2,500 students.
Professor Hadley, of Yale, is to introduce a
system of instruction in his classes in Political
Economy. He will substitute debates for recita-
tions. A division of thirty members of the class is
to choose a subject for debate. The negative side
then draws up a complaint similar to a legal paper.
This in turn is met with a reply by the affirmative.
The arguments are then made by the "lawyers" on
each side, aud finally the debate is thrown open to
the house. — Yale News.
Cornell has abandoned examinations at the end
of the term, and will continue recitations until the
closing day. Students will stand or fall on the
grades maintained throughout the term in recita-
tions.— Ex.
There are 340 men in the physical development
class at Harvard.
The University of Paris has over 7,000 students,
and in this, as in other universities in France, there
are no classes, no athletics, no commencement day,
no college periodicals, no glee clubs, and no fra-
ternities.
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Twenty-eight men presented themselves as
candidates for the Harvard Mandolin Club.
Cornell offers more fellowships than any other
college except Columbia.
A catalogue of 1,750,000> books in the library of
the British Museum will be completed some time
this year. The work of cataloguing has been
actively carried on since 1881. Twenty-three
volumes are filled by the titles beginning with the
letter A, and thirty-five with those beginning with
the letter B. The entire catalogue will consist of
600 volumes.
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BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 28, 1894.
Vol. XXIV.
No. 10.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
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CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 10.— November 28, 1894.
Editorial Notes, 165
Delta Kappa Epsilon Convention 168
In Spite of Himself, 168
Bowdoin Verse:
A Consolation, . . . . • 171
From the Rural Districts, 171
"Who? 172
King of the College, 172
Collegii Tabula, r 172
Athletics, 174
Y. M. C. A 177
Personal, 177
College World, 178
This number of the Orient is brought
out -several days earlier than usual so that it
may be distributed before the Thanksgiving
recess. We hope our readers will pardon
whatever omissions or mistakes may have
resulted from the necessarily hurried prepa-
ration of the issue.
TPHE catalogue of the college for the aca-
•*■ demic year 1894-5, is now out and ready
for distribution. With its sixty pages of
information concerning Bowdoin it should-
be carefully read by every student and friend
of the college. It shows an enrollment of
345 students, the largest in the history of
the institution. Of these, 52 are Seniors, 48
Juniors, 64 Sophomores, 59 Freshmen, 6
special students, and 116 medical students.
In the requirements for admission notice is
given of several important changes to take
effect in the near future. There is a state-
ment of the more definite course of study
required in the English language and litera-
ture, to be in force in 1896, and a mention
of the addition of the French language and
literature to the requirements, beginning in
1897. The recent notable increase in the
number of elective studies is explained in
full. There is the usual full information
concerning the courses of study, the admin-
istration of the college, the prizes, scholar-
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ships, etc. The catalogue may be had on
application at the library.
THE close of November brings with it
another Thanksgiving Day, and for the
rest of this week the old Bowdoin campus
will be deserted, as the boys scatter to vari-
ous reunions and home firesides. It is a day
dear to the true American heart and worthy
of its national celebration. It had its origin
in the hearts of that same sturdy band of our
ancestry who gave to us our social, civil,
educational, and religious institutions, and
should be known and celebrated as widely
as these institutions extend. To all Bowdoin
men, old and young, the Orient extends the
hope that this Thanksgiving may be a day of
happiness, and that the scattered members
of their families may be brought together
to renew the sacred bonds of kinship, to
eat of the fruits of the season, and to bless
the Giver of it all.
TTTHIS does not seem much like the base-
•*■ ball season, but the recent election of
the manager and other officers of the Baae-
Ball Association reminds us that another
season of this sport is coming and that it is
none too early to begin to make preparations
for it. For those having in charge the ath-
letic interests of a college, as well as for
those having in charge its higher and more
important interests, every season must be
one of activity, of watchfulness, and of care-
ful deliberation. The work of the manage-
ment must begin at once, though the active
work of the players cannot be done until
the snow has come and gone. The outlook
for next year's team need not be discussed
yet. There is plenty of good material and
we have a captain who is perfectly qualified
to look after this part of the work. But
what is to be the base-ball policy of the col-
lege next season ? Are we to be in the State
League or shall we follow our independent
course of last season? Certainly our record
of last season is a highly satisfactory one in
many respects, and so is our record of the
year before when we were in the league and
won the State championship. No action on
this point was taken at the meeting and the
matter is yet to be settled by the manage-
ment or the association. Being in the league
has its advantages and its disadvantages.
Some favor it, and some oppose it. Both
have good reasons and present good argu-
ments. It is probable that our Alumni and
Faculty would prefer to see us a member of
the league; it is also urged that we ought
not to stay out of the State Base-Ball League
until we have clearly shown that we are
superior to our sister Maine colleges in this
sport as we are in all other branches of ath-
letics. There is little doubt that the other
colleges would prefer to have us in the
league, as this is to their financial interest,
but it seemed to be the spirit of the meeting
and of the college that, since we are getting
along well and are perfectly satisfied with
our freedom outside the league, the other
colleges must make the advances and con-
cessions if we are to return to it again. The
association voted unanimously and enthusi-
astically to stand by the position taken last
year in admitting the medical students to
the athletic privileges of the college, includ-
ing base-ball as well as other branches of
athletics. It was this step which gave the
other colleges such a fright last year and
kept us out of the league, though no medical
student played on the nine or had any idea
of doing so. But the principle involved is
one which we are bound to maintain, league
or no league. The base-ball interests of the
college hold a very important place among
our athletics, and specially good judgment is
needed to settle the problems arising con-
cerning the coming season. But we feel
sure the college has confidence in the new
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management it has elected to straighten out
all these matters, and to give the college an-
other as successful base-ball season as the
past few have been. The financial report of
our last manager, which is mentioned else-
where, is most satisfactory reading and Mr.
Thomas has earned the gratitude of the col-
lege by his faithful and able management.
In a note to the Orient, Mr. Thomas makes
a suggestion which it would be well for the
base-ball association to carry out at once. A
new constitution should be framed which
should settle several important points over
which there has been much dispute and diffi-
culty in the past. If there is any constitu-
tion in existence now it is far from fulfilling
the requirements of such a document, and
the need of a new and carefully prepared
one is apparent to all who have considered
the matter. The association should appoint
a committee on this matter before any more
difficulties arise due to the lack of a suitable
constitution.
TITHE campaign of the pigskins has ceased
-*• for another season. The long hair ha,s
been cut, and the men have "broken train-
ing," and now we can look back over the
season's work in this all-important branch of
athletics, and sum up the results. It has been
a season of surprises, some pleasant and some
otherwise, and on the whole will go on record
as a fairly successful season. The summary
of the games played, given elsewhere in this
issue, shows that of the nine games played
by the 'Varsity four have been won, two tied,
and three lost. Andover, Exeter, Colby, and
Bates were defeated, and the large score and
the circumstances of the last two mentioned
games show that our sister Maine colleges
are as far as ever below our class in this
branch of athletics. The tie games with the
Boston Athletic Association and Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology elevens were
pleasant surprises, as these teams were com-
monly regarded as stronger than Bowdoin.
The three games lost were two with Dart-
mouth and one with Brown. That we should
lose these games was expected, as they are
the two strongest teams in New England
outside of Harvard and Yale, but the large
scare against us in two of them was rather-
more than was looked for. The second Dart-
mouth game, which we lost by the small
score of 14 to 0 in 25-miriute halves, was a
most creditable exhibition and shows what
the team could do when it really settled down
to business. In our game with Brown, that
strong team had ample revenge for the defeat
given it by Bowdoin two years ago. Though
the season has been a very satisfactory one
there is no doubt that much better work
would have been done if the team had had
more systematic and energetic coaching. It
cannot be denied that the lack of this has
done much to prevent our magnificent mate-
rial from doing itself justice. Games with
Tufts, Amherst, and Trinity would have
been interesting this year, and could they
have been arranged they would probably
have resulted in Bowdoin victories. But
we did not meet these teams, and it does but
little good to talk over what might have hap-
pened. It is to be sincerely regretted that
the plan for a Thanksgiving game with
Syracuse University could not have been
carried out. Bowdoin was willing and anx-
ious to play, but financial matters in New
York caused the game to be given up. Un-
der the able management of Manager Stetson
the season has been a financial success, and
it is likely a part of the debt left by last
year's management can be wiped out. The
team for next year will, of necessity, contain
many new men, as '95 has furnished the bulk
of the eleven this year as it has before. But
there is an abundance of fine material which
the second eleven and the class teams have
trained, and there is no reason why we can-
not have next year, with proper coaching,
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as strong a team as the college has ever had,
if not the strongest. The question of the
captaincy must be settled soon, and upon
the justice and good judgment with which it
is settled depends much of next year's suc-
cess. The matter should be carefully and
fairly considered on all sides, and in their
deliberations the members must consider
only the best interests of the team and the
college. If mistakes have been made in the
past the dearly-bought experience should be
a warning now.
Delta Kappa Epsilon Convention.
HFHE forty-eighth annual convention, to-
-*■ gether with the semi-centennial celebra-
tion of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity,
was held in New York City, November 14th,
15th, and 16th, and in New Haven, Conn.,
November 17th. The number of delegates
exceeded that of any previous convention,
and matters of particular importance to the
Fraternity were acted upon.
Wednesday, the first day of the conven-
tion, was devoted to the general reception of
the delegates, and to the transaction of busi-
ness pertaining to the individual chapters.
In the evening, the J A' E Club of New York
tendered a reception to the delegates, at their
Fifth Avenue club-house.
The first regular business session occu-
pied Thursday forenoon and was followed by
a lunch at the ^ A' E Club. Business was
resumed at 3 o'clock and occupied the remain-
der of the afternoon. Thursday evening oc-
curred the public literary exercises celebrating
the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the
Fraternity. They were held at Sherry's and
were attended by about six hundred. Hon.
Charlton T. Lewis, * '53, as presiding officer,
presented Hon. John DeWitt Warner, A X
'72, as historian, and Hon. Samuel F. Hunt,
A '64, as orator.
Two business sessions were held Friday ;
one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon.
Friday evening was occupied by the banquet
celebrating the semi-centennial of the Fra-
ternity. Four hundred and fifty members
were present, and among the speakers were:
Henry N. Hyde, <P '95; Isaac Newton Mills,
I"74; Charles F. Mathewson, // '82; F. D.
Pavey, <t> '84; H. R. Garden, J '60; A. W.
Gleason, & X '60, and D. H. Clare, M '95.
During the evening the Fraternity pre-
sented an elaborate loving cup to its only
surviving founder, William Boyd Jacobs,
4> '46.
On both Wednesday and Thursday even-
ings the club-houses of the two local chap-
ters, l1 If and N, were thrown open to the
visiting delegates.
Saturday a special train left New York
for New Haven, carrying a large number of
delegates to attend the reception tendered
them by the Mother Chapter. The Dekes
at Yale kept '"open house " Saturday after-
noon and evening, and fittingly celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of the Fraternity, at
its honored birthplace.
Theta was represented by Doherty, '95,
and Kyes, '96.
In Spite of Himself.
TTRTHUR CAVERLY was twenty-eight
/•*■ years old. He had graduated from Har-
vard, traveled a year abroad, attended a law
school two years, then been taken into his
uncle's law firm in Boston.
He was very observing and had seen
much of the world in all its strata of society.
He was not a handsome man, but had clear-
cut features, well balanced by his dark e3res
and dark moustache. His broad shoulders,
deep chest, and erect carriage were due to
his foot-ball and rowing training in college.
He had not squandered his time at college,
so had a good understanding of many subjects.
He had a good knowledge of human nature
and by observing and applying what he saw
pleased the ladies, he was a prime favorite
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with them. He prided himself that of all
the beautiful, fascinating women he had seen,
not one had made an impression on him. He
deemed himself impregnable.
One evening in November, after deliber-
ating over several invitations, he concluded
to go to the club awhile, and then run up to
Keith's Theatre to see the new line of "living
pictures " which were running there.
At the club he read awhile and then en-
tered into conversation with a knot of men
who were discussing the election which was
just past. He hung around the club until
he thought it was about time for the living
pictures to come on, for he did not care for
the rest of the variety show.
At the theatre he enjoyed the beautiful
effects produced by the lights falling on the
men and women in their graceful and real-
istic attitudes, although any one watching
him would have said that his face was impas-
sive and showed the man who had attended
manjr first nights at the opera.
After the theatre, he and two friends went
to the Cafe" Imperialis to get supper. While
they were waiting for their orders to be filled
they gazed over the people seated at the dif-
ferent tables with the calm and unconcerned
air of men about town. When any of them
saw a pretty face or a fetching frock, he
would make some comment on it which
would cause the others to smile. Around
the large room were mirrors which reflected
the light so as to almost dazzle the eye. An
orchestra was playing a subdued, harmonious
waltz. The effect was very fascinating, but
the music made no impression upon Arthur
Caverly, who had been in the Cafe1 Chaut-
ants of Paris.
As they were sipping their cocktails, three
young ladies came into the room with the
independent swing which characterizes the
American girl in our cities. The last one
immediately caught Caverly's eye. She was
decidedly pretty with her light fluffy hair, and
the color which the cold, crisp weather gave
her cheeks. Around her neck was a sable
boa, which always enhances charms of the
sort which she possessed. She was tall, and
had a slender, yet full figure, and looked
about 19, although she really was a few years
older. Something about her attracted him.
He had seen many girls like her at the opera or
a ball, on the street or at the sea-shore, but
beyond a fleeting mental admiration or criti-
cism had thought no more of them.
She and her friends sat down at a table
near by, facing Caverly. Arthur pointed her
out to Charley Mattock, who sat next him,
and inquired:
"Do you know who she is, Charley? "
"No, I never saw her before, but she is
deuced pretty though."
"You are right, and she has a fine com-
plexion, too," said Frank Williston, who was
the other one at the table.
Arthur could scarcely keep his eyes off
her, but he took good care that her eyes
should not meet his.
That night as he sat in his bachelor quar-
ters smoking his cigar, he felt lonely, as
if there was something lacking. That face
which he saw at the cafe" continually arose
before him. He rebuked himself for not
having followed her, to see where she lived or
lodged, and so get some clue to a way of be-
ing introduced to her.
The next afternoon at about four, as he
was going along Tremont Street, whom
should he see but the young lady, who was
occupying his thoughts, coming down the
street with a music roll in her hand.
"Now, she came out of the Conservatory
of Music," he mused, "and I will follow her
this time." She soon took a car, which
Arthur also boarded. It was crowded, but
he obtained a seat near her. She got off at
a large brick, tenement house on Davis Street.
As he was coming back he thought,
"Why do I have so much interest in this
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girl? I must be struck with her, as the boys
say. If she goes to the Conservatory I will
soon find it out, for I will call on Franz
Wolfel, whom I used to know quite well,
when he led the orchestra at our club." That
night he called, but Wolfel told him that there
were many girls there of the description he
gave, but if he would come around the next
day, he would take him into all the rooms,
and he could look for the young lady. At
about a quarter before four the next day
Arthur came. They went into the room
where a professor was lecturing before a class.
"There she is in the front row," said
Arthur under his breath.
"That pretty blonde in the front row?"
"Yes."
" Her name is Ida Harraden, and she
comes from somewhere in Maine; she takes
piano lessons with me and is one of the best
I have."
"How long before she will be out of
here ? "
" In a few minutes."
" Can't you get some excuse of detaining
her so as to introduce me?" said Arthur
eagerly.
"Yes, I have a piece of music which I was
going to give her to-morrow, but I will give
it to her now, and introduce you."
In about ten minutes Miss Harraden
came out and Professor Wolfel and Arthur
came up to her. After the usual formalities,
Arthur said, "I hear good reports of you
from your teachers."
"I should hope that I was a well-behaved
scholar and gave the teachers no trouble,"
she answered spiritedly.
"O, I am sure you are; but I was not
referring to that," said Arthur, a little con-
fused at the way she had- taken him up.
After they had come down stairs, Arthur
said with that tinge of audacity which a man
of the world acquires, " You will let me walk
along with you ? "
" Why, certainly," she said, smiling in
such an alluring manner that a miser would
have left his gold to follow her.
They took a car and were lucky enough
to get a seat. "Your home is not in Boston,
is it?" said Arthur, to open the conversation.
No, my home is in Rockland, Maine ; I am
not much acquainted in Boston. I knew a
few people before I came here and have met
some since. Then two of the Conservatory
girls board at the same place with me and
we go around together."
"I hope you will call me one of your
friends," said her companion softly.
"I have known you only a very short
time," she said rather coldly.
"You do not consider me an enemy?"
"Oh, no."
" Well, you know the Bible says, ' Those
that are not for me are against me,' and I
know you are too good a girl not to believe
the Bible."
"And an old proverb says, 'He that flat-
ters you is your enemy.' "
"Well, I hope you obey the injunction
which says, 'Love your enemies.'"
She colored a little and kept silent for
some time until he spoke about the excel-
lence of the music in some of the operas
then being staged, when she became animated
again. When she got off the car, he said:
"May I call on you some time?"
"Why, yes; if you wish, you may," she
said cordially.
The next day Arthur met her again and
took her in for a little lunch before she went
home. He found her very entertaining and
possessing as many arts and pretty ways as
a three-season belle.
When he saw her next he asked her to
go with him to the opera, "Gaity Girl,"
which had its opening night. They were
one of a party which occupied a box. She
was beautiful that night and many glasses
were leveled at the box of which she was
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clearly the queen. Arthur was at her side the
most of the time, and his attentiveness was
very noticeable. He remembered scarcely
anything of that evening except the bright
glances which shot from under her long
lashes.
The next day he did not see her, and the
fellows at the club rallied him considerably
on his attention to Miss Harraden. He did
not take it very well, but answered some of
them rather sharply. That night in his dress-
ing-gown he mused thus: "I believe I am in
love with this girl ; no woman ever interested
me so much as she does. Oh, I am foolish — this
is just a fancy which I have taken for her; it
will only last a few weeks." But the image
of her as he had seen her at the opera that
night came up before him and seemed to
belie these last words. He found that even
in business hours he thought of her more
than he was willing to acknowledge even to
himself.
The winter wore on and he seemed to
enjoy her society more than ever, while she
was not at all averse to his. Why should
she be? He was a man moving in the best of
society, wealthy, a thorough gentleman, and
very entertaining. He had traveled and
seen much of life, while half the women he
knew had lost their hearts to him. Through
his efforts she received many invitations from
the best people in town and went to many
parties, but she was rather careful not to go
so much as would interfere with her studies.
At last spring-time came, when she must
leave Boston and go to her home. Arthur
knew of her intentions a week before, and
he kept thinking, "After she is gone I will
forget all about her." The night before she
left, Arthur called on her. As he was get-
ting up to go, he said: "Ida, I have enjoyed
your friendship more than any other woman
I ever knew." She blushed, bowed her head
a little, and stammered, "You have helped
me very much to pass the winter pleasantly."
"I have never given any woman so much
attention as I have you. I think the friend-
ship, on my side, comes very near — some-
thing closer."
She stiffened instantly and said in a
voice very cold, in comparison with his,
"You flatter me; but you will have to hurry
if you catch your car." She gave him an
icy hand and, as he passed into the night,
she shut the door, threw her hands over her
face, and cried bitterly, "And I thought he
loved me."
For the next month Arthur Caverly was
gloomy enough, and his friends said he was
badly smitten. He tried to banish Ida from
his mind, but on his mortgage deeds and
subpoenas her face would suddenly appear as
if the paper were a frame to a living picture.
One day, the last of June, he told the senior
partner that he was riot feeling well and
would have to take a vacation.
He bought a ticket for Maine and the
next day arrived in Rockland. He was gone
two weeks, and the next day after he came
back, his friends at the club were tendering
him their congratulations on his engagement
to Miss Ida Harraden.
Bowdoir? ^)ep§e.
A Consolation.
If I am sent to Hades for my errors,
And dwell with crushing Woe and dark De-
spair,
I shall find sweet revenge amid its terrors
If I see Horace, Homer, and Livy there.
From the Rural Districts.
Up our thirteen-story building
Toiled old Deacon West ;
Weary at the seventh landing,
Paused for breath and rest.
" Won't you take an elevator,
You're fagged out, I think?"
"No, I thank you," said our Deacon,
" Sir, I never drink."
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Who?
His waving looks were long and brown,
And fell in dreamy curls;
His brow was deep and thoughtful-
He was " not like other girls."
' Who is he," said the stranger,
" A poet in a dream1?"
'Oh, he's the great star halfback
On our peerless foot-ball team."
King of the College.
I am king of Bowdoin College;
I am monarch of all I survey;
The student does my bidding,
The Faculty bows to my sway.
Are you Pres, or Alumni, or Jury
That bear such despotic sway?
Oh, no! I am Ancient Custom,
And monarch of all I survey.
" What is the subject of this
afternoon's Y. M. C. A. meeting?"
eagerly asked the members of the
foot-ball team, as they came straggling
up the campus after the Brown Water-
loo. "Whom the Lord lnveth he chasteneth,"
gravely answered the solitary student who had the
heart to watch their arrival.
Cold weather came on with a vim last week.
The loot-ball men have broken training.
Williams, ex-'97, was down to the Bates game.
Hurrah for Thanksgiving and a jolly time at
home!
Russell, '97, has returned from a long term of
school.
One '98 man and his friends feasted on venison
last week.
Jackson, ex-'95, is instructor in the Bath Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium.
Doherty, '95, and Kyes, '96, report a very pleas-
ant trip to New York.
And now the delta can have a rest for a few
months. It has earned it.
Dane, '96, and Warren, '97, went with the foot-
ball team to Providence.
Col. Thompson, '77, was an interested spectator
of the game with Brown.
And yet more engagements reported. They are
coming every week, almost.
Minot, '96, refereed the Cony-Gardiner foot-ball
game at Augusta, Saturday.
The Annual Catalogue has been announced as
ready by Tuesday of this week.
"Joshua Simpkins" was enjoyed by the students
last Tuesday evening, the 13th.
The foot-ball directors put in a little hard work-
before the Bates game, clearing the delta of ice.
Ordway and Ward, '96, were the officials at a
recent Bath-Freeport foot-ball game at the former
place.
The classes in Physics had an adjourn or two
last week on account of Professor Hutchins's brief
illness.
A week ago Thursday Governor Cleaves visited
the campus, and looked over the Science and Art
Buildings.
The base-ball candidates will commence active
work in the gym immediately after the Thanksgiv-
ing recess.
The Sophomores who backed their team for a
large score in the Sophomore-Freshman game got
slightly left.
The Freshmen have been working hard upon a
yell. As usual it will be sprung on the day before
Thanksgiving.
Professors Whittier and Chapman, '94, were the
officials at the recent Portland- Bangor foot-ball
game in Bangor.
The Art Building was looked over by the Misses
Walker Tuesday afternoon, and several little addi-
tions decided "upon.
Chapman, '94, was one of the officials at the
game with Bates. He has been coaching the Port-
land High School team.
Another attraction in Bath. The Y. M. C. A.
held a successful World's Fair last week, with the
usual good attendance of students.
Short cross-country runs are quite popular dur-
ing this chilly, half-winter weather, and a small
squad are doing them as a regular thing.
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Sousa's Band gave a very fine concert Thursday
afternoon last to a large audience. Adjourns were
given to the students to permit their attendance.
Robert L. Packard, '68, son of Bowdoin's famous
Professor Packard, looked over the Science Build-
ing the other day. Mr. Packard was a tutor here
in 1869.
Shaw, '95, Bailey and Minot, '96, Holmes, Car-
michael, Merrill, Bodge, andTapley, '97, were among
those who witnessed the Bates-Colby game at
Lewiston.
This year's accident record in foot-ball has been
unusually small, somethiug to rejoice over, and in
which Bowdoin is more lucky than the other colleges
of the state.
Bates College Dramatic Club gave a very suc-
cessful presentation of "As You Like It" in Lewis-
ton last week, which drew a considerable number
of our students.
The Congregational Fair was a pleasant affair,
well attended by the students. The musical pro-
gramme was of a high order, and the whole even-
ing was a success.
As usual the applicants for scholarships this year
were very numerous. President Hyde stated that
all who failed to receive help last year have been
given aid this year.
Several men are practicing daily for next year's
Field Day, especially for the runs. Why could hare
and hounds not be introduced as an occasional vari-
ation of the ordinary training"?
Booker has been busy lately putting on storm-
windows and filling in glass. The library has re-
ceived its storm porch and the gym and other
buildings have been made ready for winter.
The picked team that played in Rockland last
Wednesday, were entertained in the evening by the
High School with a dance. Pleasant memories of a
most delightful time will long remain with the
eleven.
A leaky gas-pipe gave one Junior division an
adjourn last week. But the professor who occupied
the room for the next hour rose above the difficulty.
He lighted the gas and then the recitation went on
as usual.
The make-up of the College Jury for the present
year is as follows : Knowlton, '95, Foreman; Ward,
'96, Secretary; Blair, Dewey, Stetson, '95, Haskell,
Leighton, Ordway, '96, Thompson, '97, and Mc-
Intyre, '98.
At a recent Sunday service President Hyde gave
some very practical hints about the college annual.
He advocated one that could be sold for twenty-five
cents or so, and that would not be such a burden
on the Junior Class.
The Sophomores who elected Physics have been
divided into two divisions and are working in the
laboratory. This is an innovation for first-year
work and has been made possible by the facilities
of the new building.
The Sophomore prize speakers are all hard at
work. As usual the choice of a selection has
caused a good deal of trouble, although the number
of books of declamations and readings in the
library have been greatly increased.
In the Sophomore- Freshman foot-ball game at
both Dartmouth and Williams, the score was 6 to 0,
as it was here, but at both of those colleges the '98
elevens won. So '97 in Bowdoin is more fortunate
after all than in some other colleges, and has some-
thiug to be thankful for.
At a recent meeting of the Base-Ball Association
the following officers were elected: President, Web-
ber,'95; Vice-President, Haskell, '96; Secretary and
Treasurer, Cook, '97; Manager, Holmes, '95; Scorer,
Ward, '96; Directors, Holmes, '95; Ward, '96; Mc-
Millan, '97; Hills, '98; and Pierce, '98.
The ever-popular "Mikado," as staged at Bath,
was a taking affair. The shipping city has always
been noted for her fair daughters, and in the cute
Japanese costumes they appeared at their best.
Peaks, '96, and Warren, '97, took prominent parts
with great credit. Bowdoin sent down the usual big
delegation.
Saturday, November 17th, a picked team of
Sophomores, most of whom had never been in a
game of foot-ball, went to play the Lincoln Acad-
emy eleven. They expected to have lots of fun,
but the fun was all on the side of the Academy
boys, who used up the visitors to the tune of 18 to 0.
And then to make the disgrace more galling the
newspapers published the report that the regular
'97 class team had played and been thus beaten. It
only hurts the college for such aggregations to go
outside and play, or attempt to play, foot-ball.
An alumnus sends the Orient the following re-
garding the conservatism of Bowdoin in the grant-
ing of honorary degrees: " Few colleges have been
more conservative than Bowdoin. This is especially
shown in the conferring of honorary degrees. In
looking over the general catalogue and very inter-
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esting history of the institution, published in May
last, I find that in the eighty-eight years since the
graduation of the first class in 1806, seventy-nine
degrees of LL.D. and eighty degrees of D.D. have
been conferred. Of these, thirty-six degrees of
LL.D. have been conferred on graduates of Bow-
doin and forty-threeuponothers; and of D.D., forty-
three have been conferred on graduates of Bow-
doin and thirty-seven upon others, an average of
less than one of each of the higher degrees each
year; if graduates of the college alone are consid-
ered, the average is less than one in two years."
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Left End.
Left Tackle.
Left Guard.
Center.
Right Guard.
Right Tackle.
Right End.
Quarterback.
Halfbacks.
Fullback.
Thornton Academy.
Bowker.
Goldthwaite.
Hatch.
Bowdoin, '98, 12 ; Thornton Academy, 0.
The '98 eleven defeated Thornton Academy at
Saco, November 17th, by the score of 12 to 0. A few
weeks before, '98 beat the same team 6 to 4, and in
the second game both teams played much better at
all points, but the Freshmen outplayed their oppo-
nents in every way. Once Thornton got the ball to
the '98 goal line, but could not force it over and lost
on downs. Stetson made both touchdowns and
kicked both goals for his team. The teams lined
up as follows :
Bowdoin, '98.
Moulton.
Gould.
Baxter.
Hills.
Pettengill.
Wilson.
Perkins.
Mclutire.
Kendall. J
Stetson. )
Ives.
Score — Bowdoin, '98, 12; Thornton Academy, 0.
Touchdowns — Stetson, 2. Goals kicked from touch-
downs— Stetson, 2. Umpire — Pierce. Referee — Foss.
Linesman — Wambley. Time — 40 minutes.
Bowdoin, 0; Brown, 42.
Bowdoin played her last regular game of the
season with Brown, at Providence, November J7th.
Brown had ample revenge for her defeat by Bow-
doin two years ago. The field was in a wretched
condition, and a drizzling rain fell throughout the
game. Brown was much the heavier team and had
perfect interference.
Preble.
Googins.
Goodwin.
Hodgdon.
Shannon.
Berry.
Wakefield.
Fairfield.
Bowdoin kicked off at the start, and soon had
the ball again on a fumble. She failed to advance,
however, and Fairbanks made a short punt. Rob-
inson then made a plunge for 10 yards between
Hicks and Dewey, and on the very next play cir-
cled the right end and ran 40 yards, until Fair-
banks pulled him down. On the next try Hopkins
found a big hole in the center and scored the first
touchdown.
Hopkins fumbled Fairbanks' kick, but Bowdoin
could not gain, and surrendered the ball on four
downs. Then Hopkins made a phenomenal run,
and Matteson kicked auother goal. Score: 12 to 6.
Bowdoin kicked off again, and Robinson ran 20
yards on the first play. Then Hopkins went around
the left end for 20 yards more, on the criss-cross.
After a few short gains, McCarthy struggled 10
yards through the centre and crossed the line for
the third touchdown, making the score 18 to 0.
Bowdoin kicked into bounds twice and took the
ball on her 25-yard line. Bowdoin was forced to
kick, and Smith broke through aud stopped the
punt. Robinson made a dash for 10 yards, and
Hopkins made another long run around the end,
almost crossing the line, when Fairbanks caught
him. McCarthy went through the center, and over
the line on the next play. Score: 24 to 0.
Donovan got the ball back to the center after
Bowdoin kicked off. Hopkins ran from the center
across Bowdoin's goal line. Score: 30 to 0.
It took only three minutes to score the next
touchdown, McCarthy taking the ball over. A goal
followed, and the score was 36 to 0. The half
ended soon after.
In the second half Brown scored her last touch-
down of the game in the first few minutes of play.
Fairbanks played by far the best game for Bow-
doin, making some splendid tackles.
Brown.
Bowdoin.
Dennison (Chase).
Left End.
Hicks
Emory (Locke).
Left Tackle.
Dewey
Thayer (Laueey).
Left Guard.
Stone
Coombs.
Center.
Dennison.
Wheeler (Smith).
Right Guard.
Bates
Nott.
Right Tackle.
Kimball
Matteson.
Right End.
Foster
Donovan.
Quarterback.
Knowlton
Hopkins (Shead). 1
Halfbacks.
I Mitchell
Robinson (Watson). J
I Stubbs
McCarthy (Fultz).
Fullback.
Fairbanks
Score — Brown, 42 ; Bowdoin, 0. Touchdowns— Hop-
kins, 2; McCarthy, 3; Robinson, 1; Fultz, 1. Goals from
touchdowns— Matteson, 7. Umpire— Quimby, Bowdoin.
Referee — Mr. Elton. Linesman — Mr. Wing.
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Bowdoin, 26; Bates, 0.
The result of the game with Bates on Wednes-
day, November 14tb, was very satisfactory, consider-
ing the conditions of the grounds, the score being
equivalent to one twice as large on a decent field.
After considerable wrangling over the time to be
played, Bates finally consented to play a twenty-
five and twenty minute halves, and at 3.15 the two
teams lined up on the muddiest field we have had
this year.
Bowdoin had the western goal, giving the ball
to Bates. Brown kicked 25 yards, and Kimball
brought the ball back to the center before he was
stopped. On the line-up, Fairbanks circled left end
with splendid interference and blocking, and ran 50
yards for a touchdown, crossing the line 35 seconds
from the start. No goal. Score : Bowdoin, 4.
Brown kicked to the 10-yard line, and Mitchell ran
5 yards. After gains of 3 and 5 yards, Bates held
the line and got the ball on downs, but fumbled,
and the ball went to Bowdoin. By runs by Kim-
ball and the backs, Bowdoin gained 35 yards, and
Fairbanks punted, Foster securing the ball on
Bates' fumble. By steady gains through the center,
Stubbs was sent over for the second touchdown,
from. which Fairbanks kicked the goal. Score:
Bowdoin, 10.
Bates kicked to the 15-yard line and Stubbs
secured the ball and gained 5 yards. Fairbanks
punted 30 yards, and sprinting down the field, put
the men one side, and Hicks, getting the ball, ran
35 yards for a touchdown. Fairbanks kicked the
goal. Score : Bowdoin, 16. On Bates' kick to the
15-yard line and Fairbanks' run 20 yards with the
ball, Mitchell and Fairbanks advanced the ball 17
yards, and then Bates got it on downs, but was
forced to punt. Fairbanks secured the ball, and by
good dodging, carried it 20 yards, and soon after-
ward scored a touchdown and goal. Score: Bow-
doin, 22.
Bates made a short kick and Kimball was
downed on Bowdoin's 35-yard line. Fairbanks
made a long punt which went to Bates' 15-yard
line. Bates was unable to gain and carried it back
■-. for a safety. Score : Bowdoin, 24.
Bates kicked from inside their 25-yard line and
Bowdoin brought it back to the 30-yard line, where
Bates got the ball on downs, when time was called.
The second half was very unsatisfactory. The
play was almost altogether on the diamond, which
was so slippery that the backs could with difficulty
get started, and towards the last it became so dark
that it was almost impossible to see the ball. War-
ren was substituted for Fairbanks, and Hinckley
for Douglass.
Warren kicked to the 10-yard line. Bowdoin
soon regained the ball, but after good gains by
Stubbs and Kimball lost it on downs. Bates
punted and then got the ball on downs, but was
forced to make a safety to avoid a touchdown.
Score: B.owdoin, 26.
Aided by the darkness, Bates carried the ball
down the field, but Bowdoin got it on downs and
had the ball on the 30-yard line when time was
called.
Fairbanks played a phenomenal game, and was
the star in every play. Knowlton was sure and
steady .at quarter, and the line and backs all did
fine work, especially in the first half.
Bowdoin.
Bates.
Hicks.
Left End.
Bruce.
Dewey.
Left Tackle.
E. Hanscom.
Stone.
Left Guard.
Hoag.
Dermison.
Center.
Brown.
Bates.
Right Guard.
Young.
Kimball.
Right Tackle.
O. E. Hanscom.
Foster.
Right End.
Wakefield.
Knowlton.
Quarterbacks.
j Douglass,
j Hinckley.
Stubbs. j
Mitchell, j
Halfbacks.
( . Files,
j Pulsifer.
Fairbanks. 1
Warren. j
Fullbacks.
Sprague.
Touchdowns — Fairbanks, 2; Stubbs, Hicks. Goals —
Fairbanks, 3. Safeties — Douglass, Hinckley. Referee —
Wilson, Bates, '92. Umpire — Chapman, Bowdoin. Lines-
man— W.R.Smith. Score— Bowdoin, 26; Bates, 0. Time
— 45 minutes.
Bowdoin, '96, 22; Rockland H. 8., 0.
On Wednesday afternoon, November 21st, a
picked team of nine Juniors and two Seniors beat
Rockland High School at Rockland, 22 to 0. The
regular '96 team had planned to go, but at the last
moment several of the best players were unable'to
go, and several substitutes and two outsiders were
taken. The Rockland team was heavy and went
into the game well, but was outclassed at every
point and did not once gain 5 yards in four downs.
'96 did not once lose on downs, and only the deep
mud and slippery ball kept the score from being
much larger.
Bailey made four touchdowns for '96 by long end
runs with perfect interference, and by short tackle
gains. Warren made the fifth touchdown after a
70-yard run through center and right guard. The
'96 team played well together, and there was some
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brilliant individual work both in the line and among
the backs. The summary:
Bowdoin, '96.
Libby.
Stubbs.
Coburn.
Minot.
Left End.
Left Tackle.
Left Guard.
Center.
Right Guard.
Right Tackle.
Right End.
Quarterback.
Mitchell, f Halfbacks.
Warren. Fullback.
Score— Bowdoin, '96, 22; Rockland
downs — Bailey, 4; Warren, 1. Goal-
Halves of 20 and 15 minutes. Referee-
Baker.
Ward.
Ordway.
Rockland H. S.
Hay den.
Crockett.
Lurvey.
Leeman.
Stewart.
Cushman.
Miller.
Hall.
f Glover.
1 Bird.
Latham.
H. S., 0. Touch-
-Warren. Time —
-Haskell.
Bowdoin, '97, 6; Bowdoin, '98, 0.
The annual foot-ball game between the Sopho-
mores and Freshmen, which always creates great
interest among the students, took place Wednes-
day, November 21st. Although the grounds were
in the bad condition characteristic of the foot-ball
season this year, it was one of the closest and most
exciting games ever played here. It was the gen-
eral expectation that the Sophomores would win,
but to do so was harder work than they looked for.
The Freshmen put up a great game at every point,
had more endurance, and did better team work.
'Ninety-eight kicked off, and during nearly all
the first half the ball was in '97's territory. The
latter could make occasional gains through their
opponents' line, but fumbled the ball badly. The
Freshmen would get the ball on downs, and a punt
by Stanwood would often cost the Sophomores all
the ground gained by several minutes' hard work.
It was this punting, largely, that made it so near a
tie game.
In the second half '97 made some good plays,
but up to six minutes before the end of the game
neither side had scored. At this time '97 had the
ball, and by a run of 15 yards between end and
tackle White made the only touchdown of the game.
Home kicked the goal. Score: Sophomores 6,
Freshmen 0. Time was called with the ball in the
middle of the field.
Much good individual work was done by both
teams, the most noticeable being White's running
and Stanwood's punting. The men lined up as
follows :
Sophomores. Freshmen.
Stearns. Left End. Perkins.
Bean. Left Tackle. Gould.
Thompson. Left Guard.
Sewall.
Rhines.
Merrill.
Hull.
McMillan.
Home. )
White. (
Center.
Right Guard.
Right Tackle.
Right End.
Quarterback.
Halfbacks.
Fullback.
Baxter.
Pettengill.
Wilson.
Spear.
Mclntire.
( Stetson.
I Kendall.
Stanwood.
Score— '9T, 6; '98, 0. Touchdown— White. Umpire-
Smith, '90. Referee — Mitchell, '95. Linesman — Shaw,
'95. Time — Two 25-minute halves.
Foot-Ball Summary foe '94.
The following is a summary of the work done
this fall by each of the foot-ball teams connected
with the college:
'Varsity Eleven.
Bowdoin, 14 Exeter, 10.
Bowdoin, 4 B. A. A., 4.
Bowdoin, 30 Colby, 0.
Bowdoin, 0 Dartmouth, 42.
Bowdoin, 0 Dartmouth, 14.
Bowdoin, 14 Andover, 12.
Bowdoin, 6 M. I. T., 6.
Bowdoin, 26 Bates, 0.
Bowdoin, 0 Brown, 42.
Games played, 9.
Games won, 4.
Games tied, 2.
Games lost 3.
Points won, 94.
Points lost 130.
'Ninety-Seven Eleven.
Bowdoin, '97, 4 Bangor H. S., 12.
Bowdoin, '97, 40 Bangor H. S., 0.
Bowdoin, '97, 22 . Portland H. S., 0.
Bowdoin, '97, 6 Bowdoin, ;
Games played, 4.
Games won 3.
Games lost 1.
Points won 72.
Points lost 12.
S, 0.
'Ninety-Eioht Eleven.
Bowdoin,
Bowdoin,
Bowdoin,
Bowdoin,
Bowdoin,
Bowdoin,
I, 62 Bath H. S., 0.
,6 Thornton Academy, 4.
i, 4 Portland H. S., i.
,10 Colby, '98, 0.
,12 Thornton Academy, 0.
i, 0 Bowdoin, '97, 6.
Games played 6.
Games won, 4.
Games tied 1.
Games lost 1.
Points won, 94.
Points lost, 14.
The second eleven has played no games with
outside teams. The '96 team played one game?
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beating Rockland High School 22 to 0. A picked
team calling itself the Bowdoin Independents played
one game, beating Lincoln Academy 8 to 0. A
picked team of Sophomores calling itself the '97
Reserves played one game, being beaten by Lincoln
Academy 18 to 0.
Base- Ball Report for 1894.
At a meeting of the Base-Ball Association last
week, among other business, the report of Manager
Thomas of last year's team was read. The show-
ing was a most satisfactory one, for in spite of an
unusually expensive season, twice as expensive as
the preceding one, the energetic and careful man-
agement of Mr. Thomas brought the association out
with a balance of $72.63 on hand. Mr. Thomas's
carefully itemized report, accounting in full for
every cent received and paid, is a model of its kind.
It would be only the right thing, though it has been
too seldom done in the past, if the managers of each
of the associations should hand in at the close of
his term such an itemized report, to be kept on
record. We give below merely the summary of the
report :
Received from Clifford, manager for '93 559.27
Received from all other sources 1,349.35
Total receipts, $1,408.62
Paid for season's expenses, $1,283.49
Bills unpaid, 52.50
Total expenses $1,335.99
Balance on band, $72.63
The services of the Association during the last
two weeks were as follows :
Thursday, November 15th.— Leader, Webber, '95.
Subject, " Love."
Sunday, November 18th. — Address by Rev. Mr.
Dale. Subject, "Beauty of Holiness."
Thursday, November 22d. — Leader, Minott, '98.
Subject, "Thanksgiving and Thanksliving."
Sunday, November 25th. — Address by Prof. Little.
The Bible class meets on Wednesday evening in
the Association rooms, from seven to eight. Prof.
Woodruff has charge of the class, and all who are
interested in taking up a study of the Life of Christ
are invited to join the class. The evening is spent
in an informal manner, the exercises are confiued to
the hour, and much help is derived from the few
moments thus spent.
'30.— Rev. Joseph Stock-
bridge, D.D., senior chaplain in the
United States Navy, died in Phila-
delphia, November 16th. Born in Yar-
mouth, Me., July 14, 1811, he was the
eldest son of Deacon William and Olive Stock-
bridge, whose house on the bank of the Royal
River in Yarmouth, was known as the "Baptist
tavern." His mother was a descendant of one
of the company in the "Mayflower." Immedi-
ately after graduation be entered upon the legal
study under Grenville Mellen, a graduate of
Harvard, and Philip Eastman, Bowdoin, '20. He
was admitted to the bar of Somerset County and
engaged in practice until 1838, when he abandoned
the profession and pursued a theological course at
the seminary at Newton, Mass. In 1841 he received
the appointment of chaplain in the navy and for
fifty-three years he remained in that office. Dr.
Stockbridge was greatly interested in furnishing
the sailors with whom he came in contact with good
reading, and thousands of volumes were distributed
by him among the seamen on board the naval ships
and in the merchant service. Copies of the Scrip-
tures in nearly every language spoken on the con-
tinent were given and well received. In 1845 Mr.
Stockbridge married Miss Julia E. Everett of Port-
land. Besides his chaplain service, he has been
assistant editor of the New York Recorder, and cor-
respondent of the Daily Times, the Tribune, and
Christian Reflector of Boston. In 1874-75 Dr. Stock-
bridge traveled extensively in Europe with his fam-
ily. In 1868 he received the degree of D.D. from
the Western University of Pennsylvania. For nearly
ten years he has been an invalid and for the last
five or six confined to his sick chamber. It is inter-
esting to note that Dr. Stockbridge at the time of
his death was the only surviving member of the
Class of '30, and the continuous record of living
graduates from the Class of '23 down is at last
broken. Commencing with the Class of '21, there
is now a break in the list of living graduates made
by '22 and also by '30 .
'41. — Ex-Governor Robie, of Gorham, Me., and
Dr. B. T. Sanborn, Med., '66, of Augusta, Me., re-
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ceutly made a trip through Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, and Vermont, visiting there the hospitals
for the insane, for the purpose of studying their
methods and applying them in the Maine Insane
Hospital at Augusta. The institutions at Boston,
Worcester, Taunton, Watertown, and Danvers,
Mass., Middletown, Conn., and Brattleboro, Vt.,
were among those visited.
'61. — Gen. Hyde's new book, "Following the
Greek Cross," his personal reminiscences of the war,
is having quite an extensive sale.
'64. — At a recent meeting of the directors of the
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, Frederick H.Apple-
ton was elected clerk.
75. —The Maine Central Magazine for October
contains a short account of the life of Seth M.
Carter. Mr. Carter was also a candidate for railway
commissioner, to which position, however, Governor
Cleaves appointed Frederick Danforth of Gardiner.
'80.— Married, Monday, November 12, 1894, at
Medford, Mass., Mr. William P. Martin to Miss Jennie
Hammond.
'82.— Edwin Upton Curtis was nominated Novem-
ber 17th, as the Republican candidate for the next
mayor of Boston. He is a very able and prominent
young lawyer, and his wide popularity makes him a
very strong candidate. He was the unanimous
choice of his party. He was city clerk of Boston
in 1889. While in college Mr. Curtis was prominent
in all departments of college work, and was a
leader in scholarship and athletics. He still keeps up
a keen interest in his Alma Mater, and is prominent
in the Boston Alumni Association. He is an alumni
member of the general athletic committee.
'87.— Austin Cary, of Bangor, who has been
busily engaged the past summer collecting infor-
mation in the interest of the forestry department,
has gone to Michigan, where he will labor for the"
government on matters relative to the growth of
wooded districts.
'94.— Knight is studying at the Massachusetts
School of Pharmacy.
'94.— Sykes coached Colby previous to its second
Bates game, and the team made much improvement
under his direction.
'94.— Plaisted aud W. W. Thomas, 2d, are in
the South for the winter.
Ex-'94.— Nichols is principal of the Old Orchard
High School.
Africa has the smallest university in the world.
It consists of five students and twelve instructors.
An Impossibility.
Last night, in peaceful slumbers, we
Did dream a dream until
In columns vast subscribers came,
Each man to pay his bill. — Ex.
The Board of Regents of the State University
of Michigan has resolved "that henceforth, in the
selection of professors, instructors, and other assist-
ants for the University, no distinction be made be-
tween men and women, but the applicant best fitted
receive appointment. — Ariel. •
I have oft heard people say,
" O, wad some power the giftie gie us
(Quoting from an old Scotch lay)
To see ourselves as ithers see us."
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If some fair witch or elf
Would make the other people see
Me, just as I see myself.
The University of Michigan is to try a new plan
for devotional exercises. Instead of the daily chapel
exercises, which had to be discontinued on account
of the change in recitation hours, there will be ves-
per services twice a week at 4 o'clock, for the whole
university. The great World's Fair organ, which
the university has secured, will be used at these
services.
There was a young girl in our choir
Whose voice rose hoir and hoir,
Till it reached such a height
It was clear out of sight,
And they found it next day in the spoir.
A Query.
He asked a miss what was a kiss
Grammatically defined.
" It's a conjunction, sir," she said,
"And hence can't be declined."
Professor James put his hands in his trousers'
pockets, leaned back in his chair, and remarked in
his off-hand way : "There is no primal teleological
reagibility in a protoplasm." A wan smile of grate-
ful intelligence lighted up the eager, boyish faces of
the class.— Harvard Advocate.
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No. 11.
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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.
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sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
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Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 11.— December 19, 1894.
Editorial Notes 181
What Should Be Done with the " Bugle? " ... 183
Proposed Foot-Ball Constitution 184
"A Wreck!" 185
Theta Delta Chi Convention, 1S8
Influence of the Great Universities upon College
Athletics, 188
Bowdoin Verse:
A Matter of Principle, 190
Against the Current, 190
My Darling 190
To the Androscoggin, 190
Collegii Tabula, 191
Y. M. C. A., '.193
Personal, 194
In Memoriam igg
Book Reviews, 196
College World, 197
a third of another college year
is gone, and the holiday recess is now here.
This week the battle with the examination
papers is being fought, and, let us hope,
triumphantly won in every individual case.
In a few days the campus will be deserted,
and the students will be scattered far and
wide enjoying the cheer of happy homes.
Let all make the most of the two weeks
vacation ; the change and rest are well
deserved, and the hardest term of the year
is before us. No doubt the beginning of
1895 will see the usual number of good
resolutions kept. May they all be kept —
at least, till the students return. To each
and all the Orient sincerely wishes a pleas-
ant vacation, as well as a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
ELEVEN numbers of the seventeen which
constitute the Orient volume have been
issued, and before the close of another term
six new members of the editorial board
must be elected to replace those whose term
will expire. And yet only two or three out
of two hundred and thirty students have
sent in contributions and thus signified that
they were candidates for these places on
their college paper. The contributions of
these have been few and far between. This
is a strange condition of things, that in a
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college like ours with so many students of
undoubted literary and journalistic ability,
so few do anything to help their college
paper fill its columns with interesting mat-
ter. In other respects, as a general thing,
the Orient is well supported and respected,
but it canuot be the truly representative and
creditable college paper which it ought to
be, while all the work is done by a few.
While the editors enjoy their work they
would enjoy it much more if there were
more stories, sketches, articles, and poems
to select from in filling its columns. Each
year, and generally several times a year, the
Orient has to bring this matter up in its
editorial columns. It is not a pleasant thing
to publish the fact that so few take a work-
ing interest in the paper, and that the men
elected to its board have previously done
little or nothing for it. As yet only two
men in '97 and none in '98 have sent contri-
butions to the Orient, and yet in a few
weeks six new members are to be elected to
the board, most of whom ought to come
from those classes. We hope for a much
better state of things next term, when there
will be much better opportunity for literary
work than there is in the fall.
TN another column we publish in full the
•*■ proposed new constitution of the Foot-
Ball Association. No action was taken upon
it at the meeting, in order that all might
have a chance to look it over carefully, and
consider any means by which it might be
improved. In most respects, no doubt, all
will agree that it is a model document of its
kind, and much credit is due to those draw-
ing it up. But there seems to be one little
point in it that calls for criticism. This is
Section 4 of Article VI, where the definition
of a substitute is made. Trifling as this
might seem, we all know that it was mainly
to straighten out this very matter that the
constitution was ordered drawn up. Now,
is that matter settled fairly, and so that there
is no danger of trouble over it in the future?
The Orient thinks not, and will try to
show why it opposes the section in question.
That the captain should be elected by the
players will probably not be disputed by any
one. This has always been the custom here
and at nearly every college. That those
who have played one whole 'Varsity game,
or parts of two games, are entitled to rank
as 'Varsity players and as such are entitled
to vote for the captain, will probably not be
seriously questioned by many. But that
those who " have served in readiness to play
in three or more games, whether they have
played or not," should have a voice in the
election of captain is certainly an original
idea, and one likely to be productive of no
little mischief. It gives a captain unlimited
power by calling out any number of players,
good, bad, and indifferent, who can appear
on the field in readiness to play, and thus
gain the power of a vote at the election of
captain. Moreover, who is to determine what
players "serve in readiness to play," and
what other players do not? It is a juggling
of words, and out of its various wa}rs of in-
terpretation many complications are possible.
If the services of these men who "serve in
readiness to play " are not needed in any
game during the season, why should their
services be needed at the election of captain?
It is very likely that they have not done so
much for the good of the team as the mem-
bers of the second eleven, or the students
who cheer from the side lines and contribute
in money towards the expenses of the team.
And yet no person has any idea that the
second eleven, or the financial supporters of
the team, should assist in the election of the
captain. To put these men, who have never
lined up in a 'Varsity game, on a level with
the veterans of every game for several seasons
is manifestly absurd. It is difficult to see why
those who " serve in readiness to play," but
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who are never needed in a game, should have
anything to do with the election of captain,
unless it is to further selfish and partisan ends
which should never be allowed to disgrace
college athletics. There is a looseness and
uncertainty about this section which would
leave the whole matter in as unsettled a con-
dition as ever. To be sure, under this year's
captain and manager there would be nothing
to fear from such a rule. But we are not
always sure of such fair and scrupulous
officials as they are, and it was to avoid
trouble and unfairness in the future that
this constitution was to be drawn up. In
this particular section it seems that it has
decidedly failed to do what it ought to do.
Why not make the rule fair to all, definite
and clear-cut, free from danger of misinter-
pretation, uncertainty and abuse? This can
be done and ought to be done before the
constitution is accepted. Let the captain be
elected by the players who have played one
or more 'Varsity games, or who have pla}'ed
parts of two or more games. Then there
can be little danger of a misunderstanding,
and the chance of abuse of the rule is reduced
to a minimum. All admit the right of these
players in electing the captain, while the
rights of those who " have served in readi-
ness to play " are decidedly questionable, and
are not recognized, as far as can be discov-
ered, in other colleges. This question is not
a trifling one, but is important and vital.
Let it be settled fairly and in the right, and
not by the mere power of numbers of those
who are moved by other motives than regard
for the best interests of the college and its
athletic sports.
Since the death of Holmes there are only four
surviving members of the class of 1820 of Harvard,
namely, Dr. Edward L. Cunningham of Newport,
E. I.; the Rev. Samuel May (the class centenary),
of Leicester; the Eev. Samuel F. Smith of Newton,
the author of "America," and Charles S. Storrow of
Boston.
What Should Be Done with the
"Bugle?"
O HOULD there be a change in our college
^J annual? Doubtless this question has
been asked and answered by many ; whether
all questioners agree in their answer is not
so sure and is an open question. I feel safe
in asserting that the student body agree
almost unanimously in wishing to see the-
"annual" improved in both quality of con-
tents and in quantity. As to improvement
in quality, that is necessarily limited to' the
ability of the board of editors and their
assistants. Improvement in quantity in-
volves the question, whether the Bugle
should be larger or smaller, or whether it
has at present reached a limiting size.
The recent catalogue of our college has
appeared with a slight increase in number
of pages over the last year catalogue and
quite a marked increase when compared with
the same organ of two or three years ago.
This shows as plainly and as definitely as
need be that there has been a growth going
on in our college. When the catalogue, the
epitome of necessary information in regard
to our institution, is enlarged by the sense
of our Faculty, I think it is high time and
that there is reason for representative pro-
ductions of the college to grow also.
Every college in the country which has
assumed or gained importance, with the ex-
ception of our Lewiston contemporary, pub-
lishes an "annual " on much the same scheme
as our own. Their publications are continu-
ally growing, many of them showing a much
more rapid progress than the Bowdoin Bugle.
These annuals, it is safe to say, come before
the students of various colleges much oftener
than the catalogues of the institutions they
represent; they furnish at least the chief
criterion by which the student body of one
college judge the standing, taste, and energy
of the student body in another college. I
claim that the ideas which a Western college
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man gets of the present condition of Bow-
doin, or any other Eastern college, is derived
more from the exchanged college publications
than from any other source.
Granted that this is the case, it follows
very naturally that the better the publica-
tion, the more tasty the covers and binding,
the more profuse the illustrations and ex-
haustive the information of college life, amuse-
ment, literary pursuits, and other transactions,
just so much the more favorably will the mind
of the reader be impressed with the work, and
the better idea he will have of the standing,
in general, of our college. Just so long as
other institutions send out Olios, Techniques,
Salmagundis, Scarlet Letters, and Oracles,
improved in size and contents, so long the
students at Bowdoin should continue to im-
prove their Bugle.
That the publication is a cause of expense
cannot be denied, but boating, Ivy Day, and,
in fact, every desirable thing into which we
enter, is a cause of expense ; and I seriously
doubt, should any one of these causes of
expense be removed, that it would materially
affect the final total of our college account,
or that it would lessen the demands made
on sources which supply the "wherewithal"
necessary to a college course. It is a com-
monly accepted theory that when a man
knows of a bill of expense which is to be
sooner or later presented to him, he figures
with a view to meeting that bill ; such is the
way in which the members of Junior classes
look at Bugle assessments. Rich and de-
pendent student not only does, but is equally
willing to contribute his share towards this
expense. It would be a very unsatisfactory
and unsuccessful move which aimed at shoul-
dering the cost of this publication upon
those of the class who financially were best
able to bear the burden ; there is nothing like
a mutual interest to ensure the success of any
undertaking.
The class Bugle is one of the few class-
works in which we take away a tangible
recollection of our course. We do have our
Bugle to look over after other class ties have
been severed. It will add materially to our
enjoyment of that volume if it is an orna-
ment to our class and brings back recollec-
tions of a progressive nature rather than
those of a standstill or retrograde character.
So long as the sentiment of our classes here
at Bowdoin shows that healthy spirit of
rivalry which urges them to undertake to
do better work than the class just ahead, I
think it should be encouraged. It is en-
couraged along lines of study and other pur-
suits; why not in all worthy ones? Rivalry
is to-day building the most beautiful struct-
ures in our land; properly tempered it can
work no harm.
Let the quality of the work which goes
to increase the quantity of our Bugle be
good and let that quantity be limited to a
judicious amount and I think there can be
no cause for complaint. The Bugle is not
at present a ponderous volume; it is not
even large when compared with the institu-
tion it represents. To go back to a smaller
volume would look out of place, to say the
least. If we do not break beyond the bounds
at present limiting the present standard, then
bend energetically to the task of raising the
standard until the time comes when the
space at hand is far insufficient to give ade-
quate room for material at hand. I would
urge, also, that the annual publication is
worth the price asked for it if it is worth a
cent.
Proposed Foot-Ball Constitution.
TIT a meeting of the Foot-Ball Associa-
/ ■*■ tion, December 10th, Manager Stetson,
who had been authorized to draw up a new
constitution, presented the following for con-
sideration. It was voted to have it published
in the Orient, that all might have a chance
to look it over carefully, and then to hold
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another meeting and consider any changes
that might be offered before adopting it.
Article I.— Name.
This Association shall be known as the Bowdoiu
College Foot-Ball Association.
Article II.— Membership.
The membership of this Association shall consist
of all students of the College.
Article III.— Officers.
The officers of this Association shall be a Presi-
dent, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, a
Manager, Assistant Manager, and three Directors.
These officers shall be chosen by ballot at a regular
meeting of the Association, which meeting shall be
held not later than January 20th, and shall be
called by the Manager.
Article IV.— Duties of Officers.
Section 1. The President shall preside at all
meetings of the Association, and see that due notice
is given of the same.
Sec. 2. The Vice-President shall, in the absence
of the President, perform the duties of the latter.
Sec. 3. The Secretary and Treasurer, as Secre-
tary shall keep the minutes of each meeting of the
Association ; and as Treasurer shall collect and have
charge of all moneys belonging to the Association,
shall pay all bills when properly approved, and sub-
mit a report thereof to the Association, or when-
ever called upon to do so.
Sec. 4. The Manager shall have entire charge
of the business of the Association, and shall have
the privilege of calling on the members of the Board
of Directors for assistance when it may seem neces-
sary. He shall hand the Treasurer an itemized
account of the expenses of each game as soon after
the game as possible. He shall look over all bills
of the Association, and his approval shall be neces-
sary before they are paid by the Treasurer. He
shall keep a complete list of all those having goods
belongiug to the Association, and hand the same
over to his successor.
Sec. 5. The Assistant Manager shall lend his
assistance to the Manager whenever called upon to
do so, and shall, in the absence of the Manager,
assume full charge of the affairs of the Association.
See. 6. The 3d, 4th, and 5th Directors shall
aid the Manager whenever called upon by him to
do so.
Article V.— Meetings.
Section 1. Meetings of this Association shall be
called whenever necessary.
Sec. 2. Fifty members shall constitute a quo-
rum.
See. 3. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall'
be called by the Manager whenever necessary for
the transaction of business.
Article VI. — The Captain.
Section 1. The Captain of the Eleven shall
have entire charge of the men when on the field.
Sec. 2. The Captain of the Eleven shall be-
elected at the close of each season.
Sec. 3. The meeting shall be called by the Cap-
tain, the Manager to preside at such a meeting,
and it shall be some-time before the Christmas vaca-
tion.
Sec. 4. The Captain shall be voted for by bal-
lot by the regular eleven and all substitutes (a).
(a) A substitute is a man who has played in one whole
'Varsity game, or in parts ot two games, or who has served
in readiness to play in three or more games, it making no
difference whether he has taken part in any of these
or not.
Article VII.— Amendments.
Amendments to this Constitution shall require
for the adoption, notice at the previous regular
business meeting, and a two-thirds vote of the mem-
bers present.
"A Wreck!"
PO W the winds howled and moaned ! How
the rain and snow beat against the win-
dows, as if struggling to gain admittance.
There were no attractions without to call
us from the genial warmth of the large coal
stove around which we were gathered, list-
ening to the yarns of the fishermen.
The scene was the cosy back-room of a
grocery store in one of the fishing towns of
Massachusetts. The stories were intensely
interesting, as these "old salts" told of the
hard storms of former years, of their experi-
ences at sea, and the loss of life around the
back coast. Every stormy day would find a
certain number of boys there listening, with
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bated breath, to the exciting reminiscences
of these sea-faring men.
We were interrupted by a draft of cold
air, the shutting of the front door, and a
heavy stamping of feet. We caught the
startling words: "A wreck on the back-
side!" Every man and boy jumped from
his seat and hastened toward the speaker, a
wrecker from Peaked Hill Bar Station, No. 7.
His "sou'-wester" was placed firmly upon
his head and buttoned under his chin. His
long, dark beard was whitened with the
snow; he removed his mittens and threw
■open his reefer to give it a shake, while
answering the many inquiries of the anxious
men around him. "We must hurry, boys,
and git the Alceon's whale-boat out there !
Smashed ourn all up this morning ! " " Schoon-
er?" "No, full-rigged ship. Came on this
morning about six. Woman tied in the rig-
ging. I am afraid it will go hard with 'em,
poor things, if this wind don't go down."
They stopped not for further words, but
hurried away, some in the direction of the
whale-boat, others toward home to obtain
more clothes.
" Let's go," seemed to come from every
boy's mouth. There would be no need of
asking mother, she would think it too cold.
We hastily buttoned our reefers up under
our chins, pulled our caps down over our
ears, and, taking the mittens from under the
stove where they were to dry, we eagerly
started off, not waiting for the boat, as there
would be some delay in placing it on wheels.
We bowed our heads to the wind and drift-
ing snow, as we turned up the nearest street
leading to the woods. The storm abated a
little as we proceeded, but the winds contin-
ued to blow with great fury, never allowing
the snow to rest. At first we were a little in-
clined to be talkative, but after having gone
one or two miles there was not a sound, save
the crunching of the snow, as we trudged
along behind each other, and the roar of the
winds through the tree-tops. As we emerged
from the woods we felt the full force of the
cold wind from the ocean, and could hear
very distinctly the breaking of the waves
upon the sandy shore two miles away. The
thought of the wreck among these breakers
and the possibility of not seeing th_e crew
brought safely to land or perish among the
waves seemed to fill us with new energy.
Redoubling our efforts, we hastened on over
the long stretch of intervening sand thickly
dotted with snow-drifts.
To avoid the fury of the drifting sand
and snow, we kept in the lee of the hills as
much as possible. The roar of the waves
grew louder. We were nearly there. We
stopped in the rear of the last hill to catch
our breath and prepare for the final ascent.
We wondered how near we would be to the
wreck. We could not stop, but must go on.
When we came to the brow of the hill, a
sight met our eyes that no pen can fittingly
describe. Upon the outer bar, in the midst
of the seething foam, was a ship with broad-
side to wind and waves. Her once shapely
sails were now long shreds, streaming out
before the wind. One mast was lying across
the deck rolling treacherously back and forth
with the rocking of the vessel. Her jib-stays
and bowsprit were hanging in the water,
a tangled mass. The large waves coming
from the angry ocean seemed to take de-
light in tearing the ship apart, piece by piece.
They would strike the ship with great fury,
sending the spray high into the air over the
two remaining masts, eagerly stretching out
their grim fingers for the poor fellows in the
rigging, and then roll triumphantly on, bear-
ing upon their white crest some portion of
the ill-fated vessel.
On the beach opposite the ship were the
crew from two different stations. Near them
the shattered remains of the two life-boats
and the brass cannon prepared for firing, in
case they should need it. As the tide was
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rising, they were intently watching the
movements of the ship, expecting her, at
any moment, to drift to the inner bar. If
so, they could use their cannon to advantage,
and thus, without doubt, save every man.
We could scarcely hear the words of one
another standing there upon the beach with
the huge waves thundering upon the sand
in front of us. Curling up proudly, they
seemed to defy the efforts of the men to
launch a boat. But we knew by their de-
termined looks that, as soon as the one
arrived from home, it would be pushed into
the sea for another trial. Some minutes
later it came over the brow of the hill and
was pointed with bow toward the surf. The
brave crew adjusted the oars in the row-
locks and strapped on their life-preservers.
Laying hold of the boat they walked into
the water as far as it was safe to venture
and watched for a favorable receding wave-
Soon a large roller came tumbling in, nearly
filling every one's rubber boots and rolling
far up on the sand. The men held hard to
the boat and looked anxiously at the cap-
tain, who gave the signal as the wave started
slowly to recede. They rushed the boat into
the surf as far as possible and jumped quickly
to their places. But not quickly enough. A
huge wave, following the first one, turned
the boat broad side to the surf and, in the
twinkling of an eye, landed it bottom up on
the beach. The men, assisted by the surf-
men, scrambled away from the undertow,
and, sitting upon the sand, turned the water
from their rubber boots.
As they were preparing for a second trial
some one detected a slight movement in the
vessel. All eyes were turned upon the
wreck, and soon it was plainly evident she
was drifting from the bar. Now all was ex-
citement as they thought of the possibility
of her sinking before reaching the inner bar,
or, drifting by, of coming amidst the breakers
upon the shore. How the action of the
waters caused her to whirl around, buffeted
first upon one side, then on the other, her
black hull nearly hidden by the spray ! The
rolling of the ship was so violent, at times,,
that we expected, at any moment, to see the
black forms in the rigging tossed out into
the seething waters below. As the ship
came nearer we made out, through the
spray, five in the fore rigging and six in the
main. With the aid of a glass, a man and
woman could be seen about half way up the
mast, clinging tightly to each other. The
wreckers saw the vessel could not escape
the bar and looked once more to the firing
apparatus to see that everything was in read-
iness, the projectile in right position, the
cap on, and the rope well coiled. As she
struck ground and swung around broadside
to the sea, the waves and spray now and then
nearly obscured her from view. The cannon
was pointed, and soon a sharp report rang
out in the air. We anxiously watched the
course of the lead weight with its long trail
of rope. Shooting high into the air, it fell
into the white waters beyond the wreck, the
rope falling across the spring-stay. One of
the brave crew crept slowly from his posi-
tion on the cross-trees and, securing the rope,
brought it back safely to the mast. To the
end of the small rope the wreckers fastened
a larger one, also a board bearing instruc-
tions, in both English and French, as to what
the shipwrecked sailors should do. The
rope was slowly paid out from the shore as
the sailors received it and these, having read
the instructions, fastened it about two feet
below the cross-trees. The breeches-buov
was then pulled off, into which we saw them
first place the woman. Suspended high in
air, she soon began her downward course to
the. shore. As she approached, we could see
the look of fright upon her face as she
fiercely clutched the life-preserver around
the top. Nearing the shore she-was plunged
into the icy waters, from which the surfmen
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dragged her, exhausted and half unconscious,
and hurried her away to the warmth of the
station. One by one the men were then
brought ashore, and soon all were assembled
around the fire enjoying the pipes and the
warm clothes the station had loaned them.
They told of their suffering in the rig-
ging and their slight hopes of being saved.
Two poor fellows had lost their lives at the
falling of the inizzen mast. We sympathized
with them as they spoke so tenderly of .-the
death of their ship-mates. The captain sat
by the stove with bowed head, his wife at
his side, thankful that so many had been
saved, but feeling deeply the loss of his ship.
As it was long after noon we thought it
time to go home. Taking a long last look
at the once so stately ship — now a complete
wreck — we turned our backs to the wind and
wave of the angry sea, and slowly wended
our way among the sand hills toward the
town.
Theta Delta Chi Convention.
ITfHE forty-eighth annual convention of
-*■ the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity took
place in New York City, November 27th
and 28th. The delegates were gathered to-
gether at Hotel Savoy. Tuesday, after the
receiving of the delegates, was devoted en-
tirely to business. In the evening, several
parties attended the various theatres and
afterwards gathered in the Columbia Charge
rooms for a very pleasant social hour.
Wednesday, for the most part, was de-
voted to business. In the evening the cus-
tomary annual banquet was held and a large
number of brothers attended. The oration,
by Rev. R. S. Green, D.D., and the poem,
b}' B. A. Smalley, were extremely interest-
ing. Col. Webster R. Walkley officiated
well as toast-master, and the responses were
enjoyed by all. Among the other speakers
were A. G. Benedict, R. A. Hastrom, E. S.
Brown, Hon. Willis S. Paine, Hon. W. B.
Morris, and Col. Jacob Spahn.
The convention was the most enjoyable
and successful ever held.
Eta's delegates were Clarke, '89, Leigh-
ton, '95, and Dana, '96.
Influence of the Great Universities
upon College Athletics.
yiFHE end of the athletic season of 1894 is
-*■ an appropriate time to take a brief
glance at some features of it and especially
at that feature of it expressed in the above
title. And without further introduction I
would like to express my profound convic-
tion, based not upon this year alone but upon
observation of a long series of years, that
that influence is very largely a bad one. If
the season could have closed without the
Springfield game, for instance, it would have
closed leaving a far better influence than it
has, and such is usually the case. Indeed,
that is the one great blot upon the season,
and its effects are liable to be far-reaching
for evil. What assurance is there now that
any change of the rules looking to further
elimination of the dangers of the game will
amount to anything? As a result chiefly of
the brutalities of that contest last year there
was a sweeping change in the rules, and
throughout this season these- changes have
been on the whole well observed by other
college teams. But now we have the spec-
tacle of those who should be the chief expo-
nents of the rules showing not the slightest
regard for them. They seem to say to all
the colleges, "rules are well enough for you,
but we are above them." But after all it
was no more than was to be expected. It
was those teams who really originated the
dangerous and brutal plays, and that practi-
cally in defiance of the old rules, which the
new rules were aimed against. And what a
precedent they have now made for any team
next year to act upon ! unless, indeed, the
smaller colleges make now their protest
against such playing both prompt and strong.
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I make the accusation even stronger than
that. I say, and I believe the facts will bear
me out, that the chief part of the trickery
which from time to time has appeared in
college athletics has been very largely copied
from Harvard and Yale. And it is only
when that trickery gets so well copied that
it is no longer effective, that they have a
change, nominally in the interest of purer
athletics !
It was notably so in the old boating con-
tests in the 'seventies. Crews of the smaller
colleges had to be always on their guard for
tricks from Harvard and Yale, notably the
latter. The natural result was that these
tricks began to be copied, semi-professionals
were smuggled on to other crews besides
theirs. Similar jockeying tricks were used
and even more effectively, and the two great
colleges soon found themselves more liable
to be beaten than to beat, and broke up the
association.
College sport is one of the most helpful
things about college life, and it is a shame
that those who are the natural leaders in
such sport set the example they do. Another
bad influence which these colleges exert in
college athletics is in their excessive and con-
sequently expensive training. This influence
may not be as bad as the other, but it is bad
enough, and I think indeed that it is directly
responsible for the other. The aim of col-
lege athletics is to put healthy minds into
healthy bodies; to give self-control, in short.
If they do not do this they are a failure.
In order to do it the intellectual life must
be carried on with it. To set men apart
from the beginning of the year to train for
certain contests at its end, may be all well
enough, but to make these contests the
main and supreme end, before which every-
thing else must give way, is to injure those
men and take away the chief value of the
system. The college should say to the
world through its athletes and various teams,
"Intellectual life is not inconsistent with
the highest physical life." What it actually
says by such over-trained teams is just the
reverse of this. I believe in physical con-
tests. I would encourage and almost compel
every student, at some time during his
college course, to engage in some athletic
contest. There is a steadiness of nerve, and
a control of all powers resulting from such
contests, which is of immense value to an
individual. But it is not the business of
the colleges to show to the world the highest
type of muscular development regardless of
the intellectual. And in general they are
not doing it. It is only those over-trained
specimens such as faced each other recently
at Springfield which seem to indicate they
are.
The ideal, and I may also say the general
college athlete, is the highest type of a gen-
tleman, and a model to his associates. All
with experience in college life recall such,
and they form the noblest memories we have
of college days. If I should begin to name
such in this college for the last twenty years
I could not stop short of a too long list to
publish. The other product, unfortunately,
when he does appear is like the flea, of such
"infernal activity" that he seems to be far
more numerous than he is. We have all seen
him too, even in our own college, but I dare
claim without fear of just contradiction that
the most perfect type of him is developed in
those great universities, and that our exam-
ples are but feeble imitators of theirs. Take
for example the present captain of the Yale
team. From the time when he kicked one
of his men to make him play better, to his
performance at Springfield, he has been
nothing but a disgrace to college athletics,
and all his feeble imitators are like him in
that respect. There is no place in college
sports for the Hinkeys. Last year there was a
good deal of talk about the evils of college
athletics, started by a presidential report
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from one of these universities, but it
amounted to nothing. The evil that that
report was aimed at was local and not gen-
eral as many thought, and local remedies
were needed. It is always gratifying to our
self-respect to regard the evils which oppress
us as part of a general system, but it gener-
ally happens that local correction stops them
in spite of that. But I do not wish to take
up too much space, and will close with the
single thought that in my judgment the
burning question of college athletics is, how
shall the evil influence of Harvard and Yale
be more effectively neutralized?
Bowdoir-) ^2)ep§e.
A Matter of Principle.
He loathed monopolies,
And raved in his disgust
When, on Thanksgiving Day,
They served him turkey trussed.
Against the Current.
How well do I remember that sunny afternoon
When the thrush's notes were mingled with the
robin's joyful tune,
And our hearts, so free from trouble, were the light-
est thiugs afloat,
As up the Androscoggin we rowed our pleasure-
boat;
When e'en the strong, swift current that beat
against the bow
Was conquered while we laughed and talked — all
comes back to me now.
Since then I've often wondered if we could over-
come
The petty obstacles' in life, sometimes so trouble-
some,
By simply laughing them away, like bubbles, as
they are,
And not assuming burdens of unnecessary care.
We may banish opposition if we laugh in merry
chime
While we row our boats of labor 'gainst the seeth-
ing tide of time.
My Darling.
I held my darling in my arms,
To soothe away her sweet alarms.
I calmed her quick uprising fears,
And kissed away her falling tears.
I kissed her downy, blushing cheek,
I kissed her brow and eyelids meek,
1 kissed her little upturned nose,
As dainty as a half-blown rose.
I kissed her tangled, golden hair,
And caught the sunbeams straying there.
I kissed her lips of coral sweet,
I kissed her dimples, so petite.
I clasped her closer to my breast,
And there she nestled, quite at rest.
With such a maid one might be bold,
For she was only three years old.
To the Androscoggin.
Androscoggin strong and wide,
Bearing outward on thy tide
Foam from classic Brunswick's falls,
Drift from lofty mountain walls
Where the snow lies cold in June,
Murmuring still thy river rune,
Rushing foaming to the sea,
St<3p to tell thy tale to me.
Now sluggish slow 'midst marshy meadows flowing
Where the salt breeze comes in across the sea,
With stately movement like a monarch's progress,
Oh River, stop and tell thy tale to me.
Sing a song of mountains
Heaped against the sky,
Cold and crystal fountains,
Pines and birches high,
Where the water gushing
Tumbles down the slope,
Splashing, dashing, rushing,
Jolly as the Pope.
Sing me a song of the cattle
That in the heat of the day
Stand with hoofs in the current
And low as you pass oh your way.
Sing of the grateful farm-hand
In the hay-making month of July,
Who kneels to drink at your margin
And is glad as you hurry by.
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Tell rue now of Ocean's surges
Thundering loudly on the shore
Where the rising spring tide urges,
Upward beating more and more.
Pounding, pounding, higher bounding,
Dashing spray showers, flashing bright,
Dismal sounding, still surrounding
Lonely keeper in his light.
Sing to me your song, oh River,
What the mystic rune may be
Which you murmur in your passage
Onward to the sea;
For a mighty magnet yearning
Cometh over me.
But the River, majestic and solemn, still presses on
to the Ocean,
.-Singing its song to itself, listening not to my ques-
tions,
Hurrying on to the bosom of hoary, tempestuous
Ocean
Prom the pine-clad hills of Maine and the granite
steeps of New Hampshire.
U
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Professor Little's offer to supply
those undergraduates with extra copies
of the Annual Catalogue who could
distribute them to prospective sub-
Freshmen, was quite generally taken
advantage of. Bowdoin would be better known if
her undergraduates and alumni would only boast
of her more. Though the catalogue has no boasts
within its cover, yet it contains a good deal that is
worth boasting of.
Allen, '94, was on the campus lately.
Snow and winter have come in earnest.
Small '96, passed the holidays at Lisbon.
Williamson, '98, was initiated into e A x recently.
Dana, '94, was on the campus during the holi-
days.
Thanksgiving vacation passed pleasantly for
us all.
Holmes, '97, passed the recess in Boston with
relatives.
Hewitt, '97, has taken Varrell's place on the
library force.
P. W. Bartlett, '92, was at the college over Sun-
day, the 9th.
Merritt, '94, passed last Sunday with old friends
on the campus.
Odiorne, '98, was called home last week by the
death of his mother.
The greater portion of the Faculty ate their roast
turkey in Brunswick.
Holway, '82, was on the campus just before the
Thanksgiving recess.
Libby, '94, was on the campus on his way from
Boothbay last Friday.
Turner, '86, is a candidate for the Municipal
Judgeship of Portland.
Hicks, '95, and Ordway, '96, were representatives
at the Yale-Harvard game.
Simpson, '94, passed through here on his way
home for the holiday recess.
Mayo, '95, went home last week, called by the
serious illness of his father.
Perkins, '98, was made a member of A A $ at a
special initiation last week.
Just now the Bugle editor is getting in his work.
Beware of the "slug" editor.
Frost, '96, was called home by a serious accident
to his father three weeks ago.
Prof. Robinson was in Massachusetts last week
to deliver a lecture on Chemistry.
Peaks, '96, passed Thanksgiving at Lowell,
Mass., with his parents and sister.
Leighton, '95, and Dana, '96, attended the recent
e A X convention in New York City.
E. G. Pratt, '97, has left the campus for a ten
weeks' term of teaching in Newberg.
Rev. James Howland addressed the Sunday
chapel the last Sunday in November.
Rev. John Perkins, of Portland, addressed the
students Sunday afternoon last at chapel.
Stubbs has passed the best physical examination
of any member of '98, coming out 144 plus.
Stetson, '98, was in New York City, Thanksgiv-
ing Day, and saw the Yale-Princeton game.
Professor Robinson photographed the Juniors in
the laboratory recently. A fine plate was secured.
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Peaks and Willard, '96, took part in an enter-
tainment at the Court House last Thursday evening.
Minot, '96, umpired the game between Cony
High School and Gardiner at Augusta, three weeks
ago.
Flood, '94, passed Sunday here on his way home
for the Christmas vacation at the Fryeburg Acad-
emy.
The various class foot-ball pictures have all
been taken lately. '96 is to have a new one this
year.
The Freshmen sprung their yell Thanksgiving
Day. It has lots of noise in it. The yell is as
follows :
Boom jig boom, boom jig boom.
Boom jig a rig a jig a, Boom, Boom, Boom.
Hi-rate, Hi-rate,
Eta, Theta, Kappa, Lambda, Bowdoin, '98.
Professor Little gave a very fine address on
" Reverence," at the Y. M. C. A. meeting, Sunday,
November 25th.
'96 was photographed for the Bugle a week ago
Friday. , Forty-three of the forty-seven members
were in the group.
The Y. M. C. A. meetings for Bible study are
meeting with good success under the leadership of
Professor Woodruff.
Involuntary cold baths have been of almost
daily occurrence on the river lately, but have hap-
pily resulted in nothing serious.
Eegular gymnasium work will not commence till
next term, but the gym. is well filled almost every
afternoon with those who are after exercise.
At the Foot-Ball Meeting, last week, a constitu-
tion was offered for acceptance and notice given for
another meeting later to take action upon it.
The Seniors in Mineralogy enjoyed a pleasant
variation of their course, in the way of an illus-
trated lecture on Mines and Mining, last week.
The Kennebec Journal says that Night Editor
Dunning of the Bangor Netvs has secured the posi-
tion of telegraph editor of the Portland Express.
Among the telegrams of congratulation sent to
Mayor-elect Curtis, of Boston, was one from the
citizens of Brunswick, and one from Theta Chapter
of A K E.
Professor Little has placed some valuable news-
paper comments on the A. P. A. at the disposal of
the Juniors who had the Association as a theme
subject.
Colonel Ingersoll drew quite a number of Bow-
doin men to his late lecture in Portland. The
address was as brilliant and convincing as one
could wish.
Mitchell, '95, accompanied Ridlon, '92, who is
junior assistant surgeon at Togus Soldiers' Home,
on a recent trip to Washington with a number of
insane veterans.
Professor Robinson lectured before the Penob-
scot County Teachers' Association early this month,
on " What is Essential and what is Non-Essential in
School Requirements."
The last foot-ball game of the season- was played
on the delta between the Hustlers and the Rustlers,
with a score of 18 to 0 at the end of the first half in
favor of the Hustlers.
Churchill, Christie, Dewey; Doherty, and Moore,
'95, Hebb, '96, Haines, Pratt, Pulsifer, Remick, '97,
and Eames, '98, were among the number of those
who stayed on the campus over Thanksgiving.
President Hyde presided at the fifth annual
meeting of the Maine Interdenominational Commis-
sion, held in Portland, Wednesday, December 12th,
and was also elected president of the commission.
" Cool Collegians," in which several of Bowdoin's
students took part, was successfully played in Town
Hall the last week in November, with a very enjoy-
able dance to complete the pleasure of the evening.
Mr. Harding, who was announced to deliver two
lectures on Theosophy, a week or so ago, met with
only slight encouragement. Brunswick is evidently
somewhat coldly inclined in feeling toward this
subject.
Skating on the river has been rather poor and
far between this year. The large pools on the
campus that formerly have afforded some skating,
have failed to appear on account of the recent
grading.
The TJniversalist Fair in Bath, the first week in
December, was a drawing card for students. The
last evening the Bowdoin men gave a very pleasant
dance after the entertainment, which added to the
pleasures of the evening.
The Y. M. C. A. held an especially well attended
service last Sunday afternoon. Rev. Mr. Graham,
of the Berean Baptist Church, addressed the asso-
ciation on "Good Will Farm," preparatory to a
plan of the association to make a Christmas present
to the farm. The new piano was used for the first
time.
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The social gayeties of the winter have really
begun. A few dips have been made in the whirl
this term, merely precursory to the grand final
plunge after the holidays, and chiefly valuable as
opportunities to introduce new aspirants. This
coming term promises to be a pleasant one in extra-
campus affairs.
Professor Little has added an attractive and
most useful feature to the library — a set of
shelves devoted to books aud pamphlets that have
reference to Bowdoin College and its alumni. The
Bugles, Orients, catalogues, Commencemeut pro-
grammes, etc., are thus made handy for easy refer-
ence. There is not a student in college who would
not get pleasure and profit from an examination of
the contents of the shelves. In two bulky volumes
are Professor Parker Cleaveland's records of the
temperature and weather for every day of thirty
or more years of his life. In another time-stained
note-book are the records of the " Ovarian Club,''
an old society of the first of this century. It was
founded in 1807, organized for fun and ostensibly for
the study of eggs. On its rolls are found almost all
the students of that period who have since beeome
famous. There are also a collection of Bowdoin
songs, long since forgotten, many of them, but
worthy of revival ; a record of the early Smyth
mathematical examinations; various class histories
and records. All these are extremely interesting
and should be known to all Bowdoin's sons.
Of all places in the world the college dormitory
would hardly be expected to ensure the preserva-
tion for any length of time of anything delicate or
fragile, if left entirely exposed and unprotected;
yet a collection of insects, delicate moths, butter-
flies, etc., was thus exposed and thus preserved at
Bowdoin for fifteen years. When Ira S. Locke,
Esq., of the law firm of Locke & Locke, of Port-
land, was at Bowdoin in the early part of the 'sev-
enties he was an enthusiastic student of entomology
and made a very extensive collection of insects.
Because of his lameness he could not seek for bee-
tles and bugs, etc., in the fields and woods with the
other boys, but in the summer evenings he would
leave his window open aud devote himself to catch-
ing the myriad winged insects that were attracted
by the light of his lamp. In this way he secured
many rare specimens, particularly large night moths,
and by exchanging duplicates with the other boys,
gradually secured his large collection. His cabinet
was the inside of his closet door. When he grad-
uated in 1874 he left his insects pinned to the door,
covering the entire upper half of it. It remained
there till 1889, fifteen years after, when there was a
change made in the furnishing of the room, and the
janitor removed the old door and destroyed it, and
the collection of insects together. During all those
years, whatever students occupied the room, the col-
lection was respected and valued and served as an
object lesson in the study of entomology. It seemed
to be generally understood that those insects were
sacred and a relic that was a part of the room, and
that the occupant was in honor bound to protect
them. College boys can be as extremely careful as
they are extremely rough, when they feel that any-
thing at all connected with their fealty as college
students is involved. — Portland Press.
SERVICES.
Sunday, Nov. 25. — Address by Prof. Little. Subject,
Eeverence.
Thursday, Dec. 6.— C. E. Fogg, '96, Leader. Sub-
ject, Salt.
Sunday, Dec. 9. — Address by Dr. Mason. Subject,
Opening of the Seals. Rev. iv.
Thursday, Dec. 13. — Rhodes, '97, Leader. Subject,
Love.
Sunday, Dec. 16.— Axtell, '95, Leader. Subject,
Good Will Farm. Address by Rev. Mr. Graham.
BIBLE CLASS.
Owing to the inability of Prof. Woodruff to be
present the class did not meet Wednesday, Decem-
ber 5th. The topic for the last meeting of the term,
December 19th, is : The Passover and the Conver-
sation with Nicodemus— (a) Johnii., 13-25; (&) John
iii., 1-25.
NOTES.
Next term President Hyde will give a series of
lectures on theological subjects which all towns-
people, as well as students, are cordially invited to
attend. These addresses will probably be given
Tuesday evening in Lower Memorial Hall. Definite
information, in regard to the nature of the lectures
and the time of their occurrence, will be given soon.
The Association, assisted by the Faculty, has
succeeded in procuring the much-needed piano.
The instrument is a Fischer square piano, in very
good condition, and has thus far proved satisfac-
tory in every respect. The Association appreciates
the kindness of those who, by their efforts and by
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their financial assistance, have made the piano a
possibility. With the new instrument, with new
books, which will be secured as soon as possible,
and with a choir to lead, the singing will undoubt-
edly be more of an attraction in the Association
services.
NOKTHFIELD ECHOES.
Extracts from Mr. D. L. Moody's address on
"The Prophet Nehemiah":
" If you will take your stand for G-od, even if
you stand alone, it will not be very long before you
get other men to stand with you. I don't believe
we shall have the right atmosphere in great universi-
ties until we can get the young men who have back-
bone enough to stand up against the thing they
believe is wrong. If it is a custom, rooted and
grounded in the university for a hundred years,
never mind; you take your stand against it if you
believe it is wrong."
" The trouble nowadays is that it doesn't mean
anything to some people to be a Christian. What
we must have is a higher type of Christianity in
this country. We must have a Christianity that
has in it the principles of self-denial. We must
deny ourselves. If you want power you must be
separated."
"Young men, if you want to be immortal get
identified with God's work and pay no attention to
what men outside say. A man who will take up
God's work and work summer and winter right
through the year, will have a harvest before the
year is over, and the record of it will shine after he
enters the other world."
The November edition of
the Maine Central contains
many items of interest in respect to
Bowdoin men in Bangor. Prominent
in this issue are pictures of the residences
of Franklin A. Wilson, '54, President of the
Maine Central Railroad, and Frederick H. Appleton,
'64; a picture of the Columbian Block owned by
Dr. Thomas U. Coe, '57, and also sketches of Edward
H. Blake (ex-77), Mayor of Bangor in 1890, and
Hon. John A. Peters (Hon., '85), Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Maine.
In the series of lectures for the Portland Law
Students' Club, Albert W. Bradbury, '60, Charles-
F. Libby, '64, and Clarence Hale, '69, have delivered
addresses.
'44. — The estate of the late Horace Williams
amounts to over $1,500,000 and, under the collat-
eral inheritance law, some $40,000 as taxes will be-
collected. This is one of the largest taxes which
any estate in Maine has ever yielded.
'60. — Judge Horace H. Burbank, who has served
a four years' term as municipal judge in Saco, has-
been honored with a re-appointment by Governor
Cleaves. At the banquet of the Loyal Legion,
held in Bangor, December 5th, a paper by Judge-
Burbank on "A Sketch of Prison Life," was read.
'62. — Dr. Henry Hastings Hunt, who died in
Portland, November 30th, was born in Gorham,
Me., July 7, 1842. He fitted for college at the-
academy of his native town and, at 16'years of age,
entered Bowdoin, where he graduated in 1862 with
high honors. He immediately enlisted in the Fifth
Maine Battery of Light Artillery, in which bis
brother, Dr. Charles O. Hunt, '61, was lieutenant,
and served continuously until the close of the War
of the Rebellion. In 1867 he received a degree from
the Medical School of Maine. In 1868 he estab-
lished himself in Gorham, quickly achieving marked
success, and lived here until 1882, when he moved
to Portland and soon built up a very large practice.
In 1884 he was elected to the chair of Physiology
in Bowdoin College, but resigned in 1891 on account
of ill health. He was a fellow of the American
Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Maine
Medical Association, the Grand Army of the Re-
public, the Masonic Fraternity, and various other
organizations. For more than a decade he was one
of the visiting physicians to the Maine General
Hospital. In 1887 he married Miss Gertrude Jewett,
of Buffalo, N. Y., who survives him. Dr. Hunt
was a type of the best class of physicians. His
studious habits, his tireless patience, and his acute-
ness of observation, combined with native ability
of a high order and rare conscientiousness in the
discharge of every duty, resulted in his becoming a
practitioner of great learning and widely acknowl-
edged skill. Dr. Hunt was a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi Fraternity.
75. — The report of the class secretary, Myles
Standish, giving lives of members, regular and
temporary, besides numerous statistics, was issued
some time ago. Only three members have died,
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195
one of whom, however, did not graduate. Forty-
five received degrees and sixteen were non-gradu-
ates. Of the regular members the occupations are
as follows: Law, 10; Medicine, 8; Education, 9;'
Ministry, 3; Journalism, 2; Business, 1; Electric-
ians, 2; Real Estate, 1; Stenography, 1; Photog-
raphy, 1 ; Postal Service, 1. Temporary members-
Law. 6; Medicine, 2; Education, 1; Journalism, 1;
Business, 1; Planter, 1; Architecture, 1. Forty-
seven of the regular and non-graduate members
have married. The class baby is Ethel Sterling
Osgood, daughter of Edward Sherburn Osgood,
associate editor of the Portland Argus.
76.— Alpheus Sauford was elected to the Bos-
ton Board of Aldermen, December 11th.
'78. — Prof. George E. Purington recently de-
livered an address on " Hygienic Conditions in
Schools and Homes," at Farmington.
'82. — Edwin Upton Curtis was elected Tuesday,
November 11th, Mayor of Boston by some 2,500
majority. Boston ordinarily goes Democratic by
five to ten thousand votes, and so Mr. Curtis's elec-
tion is a big triumph, considering the large adverse
vote which he overcame. A short account of Mr.
Curtis's life was given in the last issue of the
Orient, but the following, clipped from the Lewiston
Journal, may prove interesting: " Mr. Edwin Upton
Curtis, Republican candidate for Mayor of Boston,
is well remembered at Farmington, where, during
the years 1877-78 and '79, he was a student at the
Little Blue Family School for boys, under the prin-
cipalship of Prof. A. H. Abbott. This school seems
to have developed prominent Republicans, for it
was here that Hon. Joseph H. Manley, of Augusta,
Me., chairman of the Republican National Execu-
tive Committee, received his college preparatory
education. It was years later, however, that the
next Mayor of Boston came to this beautiful town,
and to this renowned educational institution to
obtain his college fit. On the train from Boston to
Farmiugton, he met a young man who was also on
his way to the Little Blue School. In some way
they scraped an acquaintance on the cars, liked
each other, found they were en route to the same
destination, where each had three years of study
before him, and before they reached Farmington
had vowed an eternal friendship which has existed
in a marked degree to this day. The young man
was Will Reed, the son of a prominent Waldoboro,
Me., shipbuilder and owner, for whom his father
had named a ship which only lately met with dis-
aster. The two young men were admirably fitted
to be friends, and so fast friends did they become
and so inseparable were they in everything that no
one in Farmington ever spoke of Ed. Curtis or of
Will Reed, but they were always known and re-
ferred to as Curtis and Reed. Their three years at
the Little Blue, and their four years in Bowdoin
College saw this friendship continuing in all its
early strength, and upon their graduation at Bruns-
wick and entry into active life, it was continued in
the formation, at Boston, of the great law firm
of Curtis & Reed. Both Curtis and his chum,
Reed, were athletic fellows, and, while in Farming-
ton, made base-ball their specialty, playing on the
Little Blue base-ball niue, and the triumphs of that
nine, while they played upon it, form an interesting
chapter in local base-ball history. But when they
reached Bowdoin College they transferred their
affections to boating, and through their course there
were both on the "'Varsity Oar." A young Farm-
ington matron, who was a debutante in the days
when Curtis was at the Little Blue, says he was
then what young women call " a very handsome
young man." He was popular and sought after in
Farmington society, and although young when he
left town for Brunswick, had yet seen much society
life. Arthur F. Belcher, Esq., the young Farming-
ton lawyer, was a classmate of Edwin Upton Curtis
in the class that graduated from Bowdoin College
in 1882. Mr. Belcher speaks, in highest terms, of
the manly qualities of his highly-honored classmate,
and says that he was a hard and honest worker
during his college course. Mr. Belcher had every
means of thoroughly knowing Curtis, for in addition
to being classmates, they belonged to the same col-
lege secret society, the Delta Kappa Epsilon. He
carried to his enlarged sphere of action at Bruns-
wick the same commanding abilities and leadership
of men that he had exercised amid the boys of
Little Blue, and is now exercising in the rule of a
great city."
'83. — At the forty-second annual meeting of the
Penobscot Medical Association, Dr. Arthur C. Gib-
son was elected vice-president.
'90.— William H. Hubbard was admitted to the
New York bar last month.
'93. — McCann has been installed pastor of the
Congregational Church at Houlton, Me.
'94. — Hinkley has secured a position with C. N.
Barnard & Co., of Boston, Mass.
'94. — Bryant has been elected principal of the
Abbot High School, and began his duties Decem-
ber 3d.
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IN MEMORIAM.
Alpha Delta Phi, Bowdoin Chapter, ?
December 4, 1894. $
Henry Hastings Hunt,
Born July 7, 1842.
Died November 30, 1894.
In the death of Dr. Henry Hastings Hunt the
members of the Bowdoin Chapter of Alpha Delta
Phi have suffered a great loss. We lament the
passing away of one who combined in a rare degree
those qualities which mark the conscientious, wise,
and skillful physician.
As an honored professor on the Medical Faculty
he ever showed those traits which inspire confi-
dence, was modest in all his doings, and commanded
the respect and love of all.
The Chapter regrets the death of one so upright,
so generous, a brother possessing the noblest attri-
butes of human nature and ever devoted to the
interests and welfare of our fraternity.
Joseph Banks Roberts,
Henry Wheeler Coburn,
Robert Sidney Hagar,
Committee for the Chapter.
Book l^eviewg.
(The College Woman, by Charles Franklin
Thwing, LL.D., President of the College of Women
of Western Reserve University. Published by the
Baker & Taylor Co., 5 and 7 East Sixteenth Street,
New York.) At first thought it would not seem
that Bowdoin men would be much interested in
this little volume, as this college never has been,
and never will be, open to woman. But when we
know that the author is a Maine man who gradu-
ated from Harvard, that he has preached here
in Brunswick, and has always had an interest in
our college, we feel a deeper interest in the
book than the title itself would inspire. Dr.
Thwing has written several well-known books on
college subjects, and is amply fitted by' experience
to handle the subject he has here selected. The
book is most charmingly written and the author
deals in a systematic and intelligent manner with
the higher education of woman. He has studied
his subject thoroughly, and is earnest and sensible
in his work. The book is a clear, just discussion of
the question whether, in the first place, woman
should have a college education, what sort of a
course she should pursue, and how her health
should be looked after; and, in the second place,
what sort of a college is fitted to give her the best
education, whether co-education, co-ordinate edu-
cation, or separate education in colleges for women
alone. He states fairly the reasons for and against
each, but rather advocates co-ordinate education,
by which, although in distinct colleges and separate
class-rooms, they have the same professors, and
common use of libraries, and the same administra-
tion of justice. By this means, it is urged, the
conventual seclusion of separate education is
avoided ; and on the other hand, the rather too
familiar intercourse at an impressionable age which
co-education necessitates. The volume is a valu-
able addition to the discussion of one of the most
important questions of education. It contains one
hundred and seventy pages and is prettily bound in
crimson and gold.
(Under Friendly Eaves, by Olive E. Dana.
Published by Burleigh & Flynt, Augusta, Me.)
The name of Miss Dana has been well known for
several years in the literary world, and her circle
of readers and admirers is rapidly widening. The
sweet melody of her verse, the gentle charm of her
stories, and the intelligence of her occasional
articles and criticisms can only win her a high
place among the authors of New England. This
daintily gotten up holiday volume, which is just
from the press, is of three hundred pages, and is
a collection of twenty-two of her short stories.
Simple tales of common New England people
though they are, yet the grace of the style and the
beauty of the thought win the reader at once, and
when one of them is read all must be read. The
pretty poem is worth quoting here, as showing the
character of the book:
Just as they came to me, I write them here —
These homely tales of simple, friendly folk
Whose hidden hearth-fires breathe the wreathed smoke
That tells of home, warmth, love, when skies are drear.
Whose tranquil faith and unstained virtue calm
Life's fevered pulse like some familiar psalm.
Who make us feel how royal goodness is,
How worthless all men gather, lacking this:
Who keep 'for us, despite Time's swift mischance,
Our dear New England's best inheritance.
It is a book that belongs to the home, and no
home can have too many such books to be read and
re-read around the evening fire.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
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He's on to thee.
His eagle eye is soft and brown,
Take care.
He glances up, puts zero down,
€ Beware! Beware!
Trust him not,
He's " flunking " thee.
Next week your card is by the stair,
Take care.
You'll get 1.5 till you work square,
Beware! Beware 1
Trust him not,
He's fooling thee. — Ex.
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Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 23, 1895.
No. 12.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. Minot, '96, Managing Editor.
G. T. Okdway, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
EC. R. Blodgett, '96, Business Manager.
B. L. Bryant, '95. A. L. Churchill, '95.
H. W. Thayer, '95. J. T. Shaw, '95.
A. G. Wiley, '95. H. H. Pierce, '96.
J. B. Roberts, '95. C. W- Marston, '96.
Per annum, in advance, $2.00.
Single Copies 15 Cents.
Extra copies can beobtained at the bookstores or on applica-
tion to the Business Manager.
Remittances should be made to the Business Manager. 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.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
Personal items should be sent to Box 138, Brunswick, Me.
Entered at the Post -Office at Br
'ick aa Second-Class Mail Matter .
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 12.— January 23, 1895.
Editorial Notes 199
One Night's Adventure 201
Bowdoin Alumni of New York, 203
Taste for Reading 203
Foot-Ball Is Not Brutal, 204
Bowdoin Verse:
Reunion Verses, 205
On and On, 206
The Unwritten Scroll, . ". 206
December 31, 1894, 206-
Those Fine Distinctions, 206
Collegii Tabula, 207
Y. M. C A., 210
Personal, 210
Book Reviews 212
College World, 213
The Orient is glad to welcome the
medical students back to Bowdoin again,
and to greet as new friends the half hundred
members of the entering class. Much closer
than in former years are now the ties between
the college proper and the medical depart-
ment, and the union of athletic interests
will bind them closer still. We are all
Bowdoin men, and as such have common
inheritances, interests, aims, and responsi-
bilities. The medical year opens a month
earlier this year than it has in the past. It
is not improbable that before long the
medical students will be here in the fall.
TT7HE Maine Legislature is now in session
■*■ at Augusta, and, as usual, Bowdoin is
in the lead in the matter of representation
in this body. Ten other colleges are repre-
sented there, but old Bowdoin's sons are
three times as numerous as those of any
other college or university. In the Senate
there are Hon. George M. Seiders, '72, of Port-
land, the presiding officer of the body; Hon.
George W. Stone, of Jay, also of the class of
72; and Hon. John F. Hill, of Augusta, Med-
ical, '77. In the House there are Stanley Plum-
mer, '67, of Dexter; Frank A. Floyd, '73, of
Brewer; Seth L. Larrabee, '75, of Portland;
Arthur W. Merrill, '87, of Portland; and
Clarence A. Peaslee, Medical, '83, of Wiscas-
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set. Among the first State officials to be
elected by the Dew Legislature were Hon.
Nicholas Fessenden, '68, as Secretary of
State ; and Hon. Frederick A. Powers, '75,
as Attorney-General, both of whom have
ably filled these high positions in previous
terms. As a matter of course, Hon. William P.
Frye, '50, that eloquent orator and brilliant
statesman, is unanimously returned for
another term in the U. S. Senate. Thus,
those who have received their higher educa-
tion in the old college of the whispering
pines, are filling the highest places in the
service of their State, and are winning addi-
tional honors to crown the brow of their
loved Alma Mater.
FOR several reasons the proposed two
weeks' trip of the Glee Club, over the
State in February, has been given up. While
this trip would have been very pleasant for
the members and, with a glee club of such
unusual excellence as we now have, would
have been a good thing for the college, still
there are other things to consider, and it is
perhaps better that this long trip should be
given up and that several shorter trips, which
will not take the members away from their
college work for so long a time, shall be
made in its stead. It is well also to have as
little uncertainty as possible concerning
financial results.
IN these days of "combines" why not form
one for the worthy purpose of encourag-
ing more tidiness and cleanliness around the
college dormitories? There is need enough
of this reform at any time of the year, but
it seems more pressing in the winter season
when we see the white snow covered with
ashes, soot, and other refuse thrown from
the windows. The ash heaps may be neces-
sary evils during the winter term, but these
other evils are far from necessary. It might
be well, we think, for the college authorities
to start this reform movement and set a
good example to the students in the line of
tidiness. It is not a pleasing sight to see
the snow for yards around a dormitory black
with soot from chimneys and funnels re-
cently cleaned out, as was the case at Win-
throp Hall the first of the term. Neither
are unclean windows and floors in recitation
rooms inspiring to students or pleasing to
visitors. Of course perfection in this line
is difficult of attainment, as indeed it is in
any line, but a much higher degree of per-
fection can easily be obtained by a little
more effort and thoughtfulness on the part
of each of us.
]I?HE Orient congratulates the student
^- body on the opportunity of attending
the series of lectures of theological subjects
which President Hyde has kindly consented
to give this winter under the auspices of the
Y. M. C. A. Those who fail to attend are
denying themselves a rare privilege, and are
sure to regret their action. The first lecture
was announced for Tuesday evening, Janu-
ary 22d, in Lower Memorial. Not only the
students but the public generally is cor-
dially invited.
"TV THAT fools these mortalsbe!" remarked
** Puck once on a time. Perhaps if he
had been on the Bowdoin campus last week
and witnessed the lively contest over offices
in the various athletic associations, the ex-
citement, the scheming, the animosities
aroused, and the methods employed, he
would have made a more emphatic exclama-
tion. But the Orient has no intention of
preaching a sermon- or delivering an invec-
tive on this subject. Scolding does no good,
or a reformation in college elections would
have been made here long ago. We all
know, without being told, that the best in-
terests of the college, the prosperity of ath-
letics, and our own self-respect demand that
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201
all these elections be carried on openly,
fairly, and honestly, without "combine,"
traffic of votes, or other an manly measures,
and yet, when the day of election arrives,
it is far too generally the ease that we all
get mad, stab our friends in the back, forget
the highest good of the college and the
wish of the better element in a desire to
help some single faction or individual, and
say and do a hundred things that we are
ashamed of and deeply regret a little later.
And then everything calms down and we
are all the best of friends — until another
election calls us to Lower Memorial again.
What can be done about it? Let each indi-
vidual and each faction answer. We are
doing more harm to our college interests
and ourselves than we can realize. The
complaint is an old one, and the prospect of
permanent improvement is anything but
bright. We are all to blame, and the ref-
ormation must be made by all. Each year,
or several times a year, the Orient, as the
college paper, has to make. these humiliating
admissions, and has to appeal to Bowdoin
men to be worthy their name, to be true to
their manhood on college election days as
well as on others, and to make these occa-
sions creditable to our noble institution and
not so often occasions of disgrace and harm
to our athletic interests. May the remain-
ing athletic elections and the coming class
elections be in agreeable contrast to the
recent general athletic elections.
taken. But the system must be universal
to be entirely successful in a college, and to
be universal it must be compulsory. Bow-
doin's system of compulsory class work in
the gymnasium has become widely known
for its efficiency, and has been extensively
copied by other institutions." It may be
good mental exercise to think up excuses
for gymnasium cuts, but this is gained at
the expense of health and physique, and it
is humiliating for the inventor to find him-
self with a condition to make up in the
spring. Four hours a week are all too little
to spend in systematic gymnasium work, and
no college man can afford to neglect this
exercise.
JUHERE is often a tendency among students
-■■ who are blind to their own interests to
regard the compulsory gymnasium work of
the winter term as something to be slighted
at every chance, or even to be neglected
entirely if possible. Perhaps it is the word
"compulsory" which frightens this class, for
none can deny the benefits and pleasures of
systematic gymnasium work during the sea-
son when so little out-of-door exercise is
One Night's Adventure.
TN an unfrequented quarter of a certain
*• New England village there once stood a
gloomy structure known to the inhabitants
of the town by the romantic appellation, "the
haunted house." Travellers passing the place
late at night, reported that the most hideous of
shrieks rent the air, while, from time to time,
supernatural figures flitted by the windows.
Our elders scoffed at the idea of ghosts, yet,
strange to relate, made no attempt to inves-
tigate these rumors; and thus, through ne-
glect, the haunted house became a weather-
beaten ruin.
I was then a lad of fifteen, and, being
possessed of a love of adventure, I conceived
the brilliant idea of dispelling all delusions
by passing a night in this haunted house.
Accordingly, I made known this daring .proj-
ect to a boon companion, and together we
determined to put my plan into execution.
The evening agreed upon for our adven-
ture was extremely cold; the snow lay all
about in deep drifts, and the wind howled
most dismally. It was the very night a
spectre would love. Early in the evening,
we succeeded in escaping from our homes
without detection, and were soon hastening
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toward our destination. At length we
reached the haunted house, and then it was
that we experienced a feeling akin to fear,
but resolutely conquering all like emotions,
we cautiously opened the outer door and
stepped softly within. The very silence of
the place was oppressive, and, as we began
a tour of inspection, the sound of our foot-
steps, echoing through the halls, increased
our. terror. We selected the pleasantest of
the rooms in which to pass the night, and,
wrapped in our thick coats, commenced our
long vigil.
Slowly the moments passed, and yet no
apparition appeared. It was now nearly
midnight, when suddenly the awful silence
was broken by the measured tread of ap-
proaching footsteps. Involuntarily I sprang
to my feet, and stood nearly paralyzed with
fear. My companion, whose quick eye had
detected a place of refuge, extinguished the
light, and literally dragged me across the
room to the welcome protection of a closet.
We were none too soon; the object of our
terror was already entering the room.
Scarcely had our spectral visitor made his
entrance, when he was joined by others, and,
from the babel of tongues which followed, it
seemed, to my imagination, that the place
was alive with ghosts.
For some time we remained in abject
terror, till, at last, curiosity overcame fear,
and I applied my eye to the key-hole.
What I saw quickly banished all alarm, for,
seated within the room, were not only
human beings, but persons with whom I
was acquainted. My first impulse was to
proclaim our presence, but, knowing that our
visitors did not bear the best of reputations,
and my suspicion being aroused by certain
words uttered in their conversation, I de-
cided to remain in concealment. What we
heard need not be repeated here. Suffice it
to say that we discovered that the haunted
house was a rendezvous of disreputable char-
acters, who, for the past few years, had been
committing depredations in the village. To-
night, it was their intention to rob the vil-
lage bank, of which my father was cashier,
and to leave their booty here until the affair
had "blown over." It was agreed that two
of them should commit the burglary, while
the other two remained behind to guard the
premises.
No words of mine can express my feel-
ings as I listened to this plot. I was already
endeavoring to form some plan by which I
could prevent this robbery, when the two
selected for the deed departed. Scarcely
had they disappeared, when those who re-
mained hastily left the room on some pretext.
We fully realized that our time had come.
Opening the door, we crept stealthily out of
the room, and along the hall, till we reached
the door by which we had entered the build-
ing. Already the robbers could be heard in
the hall above. In a frenzy I turned the
knob, but the door would not yield to my
efforts. Then the awful truth dawned upon
me— we were prisoners in the haunted house.
Nearer and nearer approached our cap-
tors. My companion, beckoning me to fol-
low, dashed hastily toward a window, and,
with almost herculean strength, seized the
sash. The frame, weakened by the wintry
gales, did not resist, but fell with a crash to
the ground. In far less time than it requires
to wiite it, we leaped through the open space
and disappeared in the darkness. Probably
the robbers attributed the destruction of the
window to the ferocity of the storm. At
any rate, we were not pursued. Along the
drifted road we hastened, while every moment
seemed to me an eternity. Though well-
nigh breathless, we did not pause till my
home was reached. Our story was soon told,
and then, exhausted by running and over-
come by terror, I fainted.
The result of our escapade was afterward
related to me. A party, organized by my
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father, reaching the bank too late to prevent
the burglary, proceeded to the haunted house,
where they succeeded not only in capturing
the robbers, but also in recovering the stolen
property.
Some years have passed since that event-
ful evening, but whenever I behold the
haunted house I cannot repress a shudder
at the fate which might have befallen us on
that night's adventure.
Bowdoin Alumni of New York.
TTBOUT forty members of the Bowdoin
I *■ Alumni Association of New York, rep-
resenting graduates of the college from 1848
to 1892, held the twenty-fifth annual dinner
of the Association in New York, Wednes-
day night, January 9th. Before the dinner
a business meeting was held and the follow-
ing officers were elected: Rev. Newman.
Smyth, President; GeiwJ^L^ Chamberlain.
Hon. John Goodenow, William J. Curtis, Dr.
Lucie n Howe, and De Alva S. Alexander,
Vice-Presidents; Lincoln A. Rogers, Corre-
sponding Secretary; Dr. F. H. Dillingham,
Secretary and Treasurer; and Gen. Thomas
H. Hubbard, William A. Abbott, Willis R.
Tenney, Frederick G. Dow, H. W. Grindal,
George F. Moulton, P. P. Simmons, and G.
F. Harriman, Executive Committee. The
dinner was presided over by William A.
Abbott, who opened the evening by reading
a poem written for the occasion by Isaac
McLellan of Greenpoiut, the sole survivor
of the Class of 1826. After the dinner,
speeches were made by Prof. H. L. Chap-
man, Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, Gen.
Thomas H. Hubbard and others.
Taste for Reading.
WE have here at Old Bowdoin nearly all
the advantages that can be obtained
at the larger universities and colleges of this
country. In some respects we possess advan-
tages which they do not. To some, they
may not seem to be advantages, but by the
average student they are recognized as such.
Who can say that the pure, quiet air, the
gentle aroma from the pines, did not arouse
and stimulate the poetic nature of Longfel-
low, did not soften the brooding spirit of
Hawthorne, and did not bring to the mind
of our own Kellogg the stirring scenes of
boys' life which he has depicted for us?
Granted that they did, then does not Bow-
doin, from her situation, have an advantage
over some of our city colleges? From this
cpuietness, we have the opportunity of culti-
vating the taste for reading. There is noth-
ing here to distract, to call us away from
our books. We have a library of over 50,-
000 volumes which is open many hours of
the week, and which has what one might
call an inexhaustible supply of what is good
in the reading world.
We need recreation from our hard mental
work. It can be found in a good book. If
we need rest from violent physical exertion,
it can be obtained in the library. The one
resource from all kinds of hard labor, whether
mental or manual, is the taste for reading.
Reading is such a rational recreation. It
not only rests the mind and body of the
reader, but furnishes the imagination with
many picturesque images and substantial
ideas, which can be followed out or stored
up for future use. Ideas can be obtained
from most books which will give to the
reader practical suggestions.
A good book stirs one up and drives
away listlessness and that inattention to
work that often follows too incessant applica-
tion on one subject. It excludes temptation
by arousing in the reader an intense desire
to follow some prescribed course in reading,
and thereby keeps him from the tempter.
It lightens labor. Moreover, reading not
only gives occupation at odd moments, but
also introduces a man into friendships of the
choicest nature — the wisest, the best, and the
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worthiest of all time; and from the inter-
course with such minds he learns what is
grandest from the best masters. All this is
elevating and ennobling. Such society has
a world of worth in it.
Reading is not a thing that is for the
few; it is for everybody. All can find in it
something to suit their particular taste —
instruction, incident, stories of adventure,
scenes from nature and from human life,
grand and beautiful as they are — and in all
is there that which will increase the store of
knowledge, stimulate the imagination, and
purify the sentiments. No one need go beg-
ging for something to read ; it is here, there,
and everywhere in exhaustless quantities —
thousands of books, magazine and newspaper
articles. Not only for your own pleasure
should you read, but your reading is a source
of happiness to those about you. It prompts
and enriches conversation.
Knowing that reading can do all these
things and produce good results, too numer-
ous to mention, why not avail ourselves of
the large and well-stocked library at our
command and if ever, in later life, we are
without the time or opportunity to read
much, then we can congratulate ourselves
that while in college we read much and
became acquainted with what is best in
human thought and action. Visit the library
and browse about for a time until that part
of your nature is aroused and you fairly
love to read.
Foot-Ball Is Not Brutal.
TTTO those who know anything about the
■*• great college sport of foot-ball the above
statement is as unnecessary as it is to tell
the astronomer that the moon is not made of
green cheese. But there are those people,
and they constitute no small class, who have
acquired strangely distorted ideas on this
subject; and there are writers in nearly all
the papers who direct their choicest sarcasm
and most elaborate hyperbole against a sport
of which they are almost always totally igno-
rant. In refreshing contrast are recent arti-
cles in the Philadelphia Ledger and New York
Sun in manly and sensible defense of the great
college game. The extracts and abstracts
from these which constitute this article will
be interesting reading to all interested in
athletics :
To many who merely watch the big college
games and know very little of the science necessary
to complete nearly every play, the pastime of kick
and tackle has its brutal features. To those who
have been college students, have played the game
themselves, and are constantly making a study of it,
there is no such thing as brutality. Nearly all the
hue and cry against college foot-ball this season was
duo to one game, the Yale-Harvard struggle at
Springfield, which, owing to the "heedlessness" of
the officials, developed at times into more than an
ordinary foot-ball contest between young men of
good breeding. If the Springfield game was not
calculated to promote the best interests of foot-ball,
college men argue that the sport was proven to be
clean by the big match at Trenton between Prince-
ton and Pennsylvania, the game between Pennsyl-
vania and Cornell, the Harvard-Pennsylvania
battle on Thanksgiving Day, and the Yale-Prince-
ton contest at the Manhattan Field on December
1st. In none of these games was there a single
instance of brutal slugging or "doing up" one's
opponent.
Foot-ball is distinctively a college game, and
should be made such. It is not a pastime to be
indulged in without preparation, thought, and study;
therefore, what is the most scientific game ever
played by the well-trained collegian may be a harm-
ful one to those ignorant of its details, and unpre-
pared, both mentally and physically, for its emer-
gencies.
What seems to the uninitiated spectator a terri-
ble or almost a fatal fall is scarcely noticed by the
collegian, who has developed the most rugged con-
stitution through months of training. Still, let the
bank clerk or the small boy go out to play the game
on a holiday afternoon, and the same fall will lay
him up and be reported as one of the casualties of
a brutal sport. It is from such games that foot-
ball receives its reputation as a brutal sport, and
quite unfairly, too, for, as previously stated, at the
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colleges where the game is properly handled there
are very few casualties.
One of the arguments used against foot-ball is
that it is not a scientific game, but to the initiated it
is not necessary -to show the intricate moves of the
gridiron; how every signal means a different com-
bination of eleven men ; how the mind of the captain
rules every movement ; that each player has a hun-
dred things to' remember; the instructions and
study of months must be put iu operation when
there is no time to stop to consider, and how a sea-
son's foot-ball is nothing more nor less than a few
months of study, of strategy, and scientific con-
certed movements, and that brute strength never
wins against head work.
Colonel O. H. Ernst, the superintendent
of the United States Military Academy, de-
clares that the effect upon those playing is
not injurious to scholarship, that it is an aid
to discipline, and that it is not a brutal
sport.
With the present discussion going on it
might be well to call the attention of those
who are inimieable to foot-ball to the report
of a committee formed a year ago to investi-
gate the charge that the game was brutal.
The committee consisted of James W. Alex-
ander, President of the University Club of
New York, Rev. Joseph H. Twitchell of
the Yale Corporation, ex-Judge Henry E.
Howland, Rev. Endicott Peabody of Groton
School, Prof. Robert Bacon, and Walter
Camp. Here is the substance of their report:
We find that the almost unanimous opinion of
those who have played the game of foot-ball at Har-
vard, Yale, and Princeton during the last eighteen
years is that it has been of marked benefit to them,
both in the way of general physical development
and mental discipline; also, that they regard the
injuries sustained as generally unimportant and far
outweighed by the benefits. We find that the same
is true in regard to the players of the University of
Pennsylvania, so far as we have received replies.
Letters were sent by this committee to every
man who has ever played on a Harvard, Princeton,
and Yale team since the introduction of the Rugby
game in 1876, to every player on the college teams
of 1893, and to every school which had a team.
The result was that over a thousand answers were
received, showing that out of 337 players from Har-
vard, Yale, and Princeton, from 1876 to 1893 inclu-
sive. 328 considered themselves benefited, three
thought they were injured, two failed to reply, and
four considered that it had no effect on them, good
or bad. Of 359 players from other colleges during
the year (1893), 357 considered themselves benefited,
one thought he was injured, and one saw no effect.
As to the mental effect of the game, of 337
Yale, Harvard, and Prinecton players, 320 consid-
ered themselves benefited, two thought the game
had a bad effect, thirteen saw no effect whatever,
while two failed to answer. Of 359 men who had
played on other college teams, 343 considered them-
selves benefited mentally, seven thought the effect
bad, eight were undetermined, and one thought
there was no effect.
Now is it- not fair to think that those who
know, by experience, something about foot-
ball, are better judges of these things than
those who are ignorant of its principles and
practices? The latter class contains almost
every person who is an enemy of the game.
Bowdoirp ^)ep§e.
Reunion Verses.
[Verses written by Isaac McLellan, the only surviving member
of the Class of 1S-26, in his eighty-ninth year, for the meeting of
the alumni of Bowdoin College, in New York City, January, 1895.]
We, children of old Bowdoin dear,
Assemble at our Mater's feet,
Receiviug benedictions kind,
As here in friendly group we meet ;
With loving hearts we here recall-
The early days in life's new race,
All sharing her caresses sweet,
Her warm, affectionate embrace.
We here recall the scenes we lov'd,
The rambles thro' the piny woods,
By Androscoggin's verdant shores,
Her Paradise of solitudes ;
The day-dawns with their summonings;
The evening shades when tasks were o'er;
The chimings of the chapel bell,
That bade the students to adore ;
The sports upon the campus plain,
The struggles in athletic games ;
The glories of Commencement Day,
The rivals greeted with acclaims.
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Now we recall with heart-felt love
Our Presidents, our teachers dear,
Allen and Woods and Packard kind,
Cleavelancl, the darling of the year,
Upham, that cheer'd our young career.
All these learn'd guardians of our youth
Still live in memory enshrined,
Who lov'd, instructed us in love,
So good, benevolent, and kind.
And we who still remain in life, '
Par traveled in this later day,
Linger to sorrow o'er the dead,
Our college brethren, pass'd away !
Once they were full of joyous glee,
Healthful and happy at our side;
But now, alas, their life is o'er,
The silent grave their ashes hide.
Geeenpoet, L. I.
December 31,1 894.
i.
All day the clouds,
Like shrouds,
Have wrapped the earth.
No mirth
Is there to-day.
We say
The year is dead ;
That it has fled
With all it brought
Of deed and thought.
In silence down
The snow-flakes fall
O'er field and town —
The Old Year's pall.
With heart of lead
In grief we pause,
On and On.
My daughter's on her dignity,
My son is on the sea,
While I am on a howling lark,
And my wife is on— to me.
Because
A year is dead.
ii.
To-morrow morn
Is born
Another year.
Then cheer
Will once more reign.
Again
Will skies be bright,
And hearts be light.
Then bells will riug,
Glad voices sing.
The gloomy thought,
The pain, the dread,
To-day has brought
Will then be fled.
To-morrow morn
In joy we'll pause,
Because
A year is born.
The Unwritten Scroll.
A dainty scroll, all pure and white,
You have kindly sent to me,
Whereon the record I may write
Of the year that is to be.
But the hand of Fate, unseen, unknown,
Is the one that holds the pen;
I know the tale of the year now flown
But the next is beyond my ken.
Not now can I write, as you ask of me,
The tale of the coming days;
My eyes are weak ; I cannot see
Through the darkness and the haze.
But I ask of you, 0 maid most fair,
Let the tale be writ by you;
For you can write my future there
Far better than I can do.
Only three of Harvard's team will be ineligible
next year.
Brown has drawn up a new constitution, consoli-
dating the management of all the athletic teams
Those Fine Distinctions.
"The Adams House?" a stranger asked,
Arrived from over seas.
Keplied a youth, "Good sir, in sooth,
'Tis Adams' house up to the roof,
But then, you see, 'tis Eaves."
in one person.
An attempt is being made to establish a Phi
Beta Kappa Fraternity in Syracuse. Syracuse now
has a differential marking system, and as a number
of her Faculty are old Phi Beta Kappa men, -it is
highly probable that they will effect an organiza-
tion and gain admission to the Fraternity.
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The beginning of the term sees
a change in the proprietors of the
bookstore, Robinson and Lynch suc-
ceeding Hicks. The new firm propose
to do a rushing business.
Dana, '94, was iu town recently.
Baker, '96, is out for a few weeks.
Cleaves and Morrell, '98, have left college.
Preble, '98, is out teaching for a long term.
Colds have been epidemic through the college.
Oakes, '96, is in Jacksonville, Fla., for the winter.
Kimball, '95, came back to college last Saturday.
Eastman, '96, is in the South for a month or
more.
Mitchell, '96, is out for a time, teaching school
in Newport.
Warreu, '96, visited in Hartford, Conn., during
the vacation.
Bates, '96, passed the holidays in New Haven
with his uncle.
Pettengill, '81, was the guest of friends in col-
lege last week.
Parker, '97, has returned to college after an
absence of a term.
Professor Little and family spent the vacation
in Braintree, Mass.
Dewey, '95, was in charge of the Art Building
through the vacation.
Bradbury, '96, is with his class again, after a
long term of teaching.
Several of the students have been attending
dances in Lewiston lately.
Ridley, ex-'93, has joined the Seniors and will
finish his course with them.
There is an unusual amount of musical talent
among the new medical students.
C lough, '96, has been playing the organ in chapel
during the absence of Baxter, '98.
Russell, '97, has again taken a' school, planning
to come back the last of this term.
Sturgis, '98, who has been sick for two months
or more, is expected back next week.
The students missed "Charley's Aunt," which
was in Town Hall during the vacation.
Kyos, '96, has been sick at home for the past
two weeks, but is reported much better.
Another fire in Bath. But it was not known in
Brunswick in time for the students to attend.
The Senior German course is very popular this
term. Several have joined the class very recently.
Professor Mitchell's class in Logic have been
debating in class, preparing written parts before-
hand.
Mr. Emery has charge of the Junior theme work
this term. The themes will be upon economic
subjects.
Libby and Pessenden, '96, are clerking in the
Secretary of State's office for the session of the
legislature.
The Juniors are learning the holds and breaks
of wrestling in addition to their regular work in
single sticks.
College politics caused much excitement on the
campus last week, but all is harmonious and pleas-
ant once more.
The Junior division in Physics are studying
Electricity this term, using both the text-book and
laboratory practice.
Dances have been rather numerous in Bruns-
wick and her suburbs, and have been well attended
by Bowdoin men.
The colored whistler, Professor Baker, held
forth to the students at the Reading-Room the first
week of the term.
Dunning, ex-special, is seen on the campus fre-
quently. He represents the Portland Exjiress at
Augusta this winter.
Ordway, '96, who has been manager of the Glee
and Banjo Clubs, resigned last week and Ward, '96,
was elected to the office.
Gardner, '98, with a sprained ankle, and E. E.
Spear, '98, with sprained wrists, have been taking a
vacation from gym. work.
Senior chemistry has a fairly large number of
students who have been spending the first week of
the term in preparing their desks for work.
The wandering minstrels gave a concert in South
Appleton during examination week of last term,
which was well atteuded and much enjoyed.
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The new Science Building is a great conveni-
ence to the Chemistry classes. Formerly there has
not been room for the Medicals and the Seniors and
Juniors.
Thursday, the twenty-fourth of January, has
been set apart as the day of prayer for colleges, and
will be observed by cessation of recitations during
the day.
Recent decisions have been made in the Cali-
fornia courts which make more bright the prospect
of Bowdoin's soon coming- into possession of her
legacies there.
The Junior chemists are working on gases this
term, lectures one week and laboratory work the
next. The gases are somewhat destructive of
apparatus, so they say.
Professor Chapman was iu New York week
before last, where ho took part iu the exercises of
the annual meeting of the New York Bovvdoiu
Alumni Association.
The following Seniors have been appointed to
take part in the '68 prize speaking : A. L. Churchill,
L. C. Hatch, G. B. Mayo, H. W. Thayer, G. C.
Webber, and E. R. Woodbury.
Professor Woodruff has three men in his third
year Greek. The division are reading selections
from the Attic Orators and studying the history of
the beginnings of Greek Prose.
The Junior Class held the first of the proposed
assemblies last Tuesday evening in the Court Room.
A very pleasant dance and one that augurs well
for the success of the coming hops was enjoyed.
One week of the new term the college swam,
and the next it skated about the campus, and
though one was a drier method of locomotion it
would be hard to tell which was the more pleasant.
The border has been placed around Vedder's
picture in the Art Building. Like the other two it
is of gold, but of a somewhat more prominent pat-
tern. On a scroll at the top is the one word " Rome.')
The Snow-Shoe Club should begin to have runs.
Last year it gained a good membership and held
several enjoyable meetiugs. As soon as good snow-
shoeing comes the club will probably commence
meeting.
Mr. Putnam, who lectured in Memorial Hall,
Tuesday, gave a short talk to the Seniors in Polit-
ical Economy in the morning. He spoke on the
money question, referring especially to proposed
legislation.
The base-ball squad are in earnest practice un-
der Captain Fairbanks. The squad is large; thir-
teen Freshmen are taking the drill, also several
Medics. The outlook is bright for a good team for
next season.
They say that the young men of Bath have
formed a Bachelor's Club, and the Bath papers
have it that it is in self-defense — forced upon them
by the popularity of the Bowdoin boys among Bath
young ladies.
Last Saturday's Lewiston Journal had an able
article on the distinguished sons of Bowdoin in
Washington. No college in the land can show a
brighter roll of names. The annual meeting of the
Washington alumni is being arranged for.
Cony, '80, was on the campus recently. He is
now one of the leading business men of Augusta
and is the Maine representative of the New England
Adamant Company of Boston, whose superior sub-
stitute for common wall-plaster he is introducing
with great success.
In an editorial in a recent copy of the Dartmouth
some very appreciative words are spoken of Profes-
sor Carleton (Bowdoin, '93), the popular gymnasium
instructor. Tn his class drills and general methods
he follows closely the system in which Bowdoin has
won so high a name.
Some of the Maine and Boston papers published
ridiculously exaggerated stories of the alleged food-
poisoning case at Mrs. Kaler's eating club last term.
The affair was much comiueuted on throughout the
State, although here it aroused very little excite-
ment and was not taken very seriously.
The terrible New Year's accident at Bath in
which Miss Patten lost her life, and Miss Harvey
and Mr. Thompson, '94, were seriously injured, was
heard of with deep sorrow by Bowdoin students.
Many in college were acquainted with all the parties
and the news came as a personal blow.
President Hyde commenced on Tuesday evening
a course of six lectures on the " Outlines of Theol-
ogy." They are to be held under the auspices of
the Y. M. C. A., in Lower Memorial, on successive
Tuesday evenings. Last Tuesday his subject was
the "Person of Christ." As all who have heard
President Hyde on topics of this kind well know,
the lecture was very fine.
At a meeting of the Foot- Ball Association, held
early iu the term, the constitution presented last
December was accepted with but one change, in the
definition of those who shall vote for captain. The
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section now reads, "a substitute shall be a player
who has played in one whole 'varsity game, or in
parts of two 'varsity games."
The first themes of the term were due Wednes-
day, January 23d. The following subjects are for
those Juniors who do not take Political Economy,
and the Sophomores : Should suffrage in the
United States be limited by an educational qualifi-
cation? A description of a Christmas celebration
in a country town. Stevenson's " Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde."
George Haven Putnam, the New York publisher,
delivered a lecture on " Books and Book Makers of
the Early Middle Ages," a week ago Tuesday. He
spoke very interestingly and on facts generally new
to his listeners. He traced the origin and preser-
vation of the present-day manuscript copies of the
classics. Mr. Putnam spoke to a small but very
appreciative audience.
Rev. Mr. Cummings, '84, of Saco, gave a very
interesting address, the first Sunday afternoon of
the term, on " Missions." Mr. Cummings was
seven years in Burmah, working almost alone
among 300,000 people. His account of the different
people and the condition and outlook for missions
was well worth listening to. He has presented to
the college a statue of Budda, which is to be placed
in the art collection.
An orchestra has been formed in the college.
Several years have passed since the last one died,
and the college has missed such an organization a
great deal at public speakings and student gather-
ings. The players have many of them had experi-
ence in orchestras, and all are good musicians.
The following is the provisional make-up: Illes,
Medical, and White, '98, first violin; Crawford, '95,
and Haskell, '95, second violins; Holmes, '97, clari-
net; Ingraham, '95, viola; French, '95, 'cello;
Coggan, '97, cornet; Gardner, '98, trombone; Mur-
phy, double bass. Illes was elected leader, and
Crawford, manager. The students will surely wel-
come this new organization and give it their hearty
support.
Wednesday last, three of the college associa-
tions, the Boating Association, the Foot-Ball Asso-
ciation, and the General Athletic Association met
and elected officers. The full list was elected, with
exception of foot-ball manager, for whom there was
no choice. Last year's manager, Stetson, '95,
reported that the association would come out very
nearly even on the season's expenses. A vote of
thanks was tendered him by the association.
The following are the officers-elect of the three
associations: Boating— President, Minot, '96; Vice-
President, Foster, '96; Treasurer, Professor Moody ;
Secretary, Home, '97; Commodore, Dennison, '95;
Directors, Hull, '97; Pettengill and Lynch, '98.
Foot-Ball— President, Willard, '96; Vice-President,
Mitchell, '96; Secretary and Treasurer, Hagar, '97;
Assistant Manager, Holmes, '97; Directors, Haines
and Cook, '97 ; E. E. Spear, '98. General Athlet-
ics—President, Blodgett, '96; Vice-President, Has-
kell, '96; Secretary and Treasurer, Morse, '97;
Manager, Robinson, '96; Directors, Smith and Ward,
'96; Lord, '97, and Pierce, '98. Kimball, '95, was
elected captain of the field and track-athletic team.
The Sophomore prize speaking, that took place
on the last Thursday evening of the Fall Term, was
one of the best attended and most successful speak-
ings held for a number of years. The delivery of
all the contestants was worthy of a good deal of
praise. The judges were Prof. Chapman, Prof.
Robinson, and Rev. Mr. Dale. M. Sumner Coggan
was awarded first prize, the second being given to
William Frye White. The programme was as fol-
lows:
The First Settler's Story.— Carleton.
Donald Baxter McMillan.
The Miser's Punishment.— Osborn. M. Sumner Coggan.
Heroes of the Land of Penn.— Lippard.
John Wilbur Condon.
The Clock's Story.— Anon. Harry Maxwell Varrell.
Carton's Self-Sacrifice.— Dickens. Philip Webb Davis.
Speech on the American Colonies. — Chatham.
William Frye White.
Parrhassius and the Captive. — Willis.
John George Haines.
Eulogy on Phillips— Curtis. *Edgar Gilman Pratt.
On Being Found Guilty of Treason. — Meagher.
Alfred Page Cook.
Kegulus to the Carthaginians.— Kellogg.
George Samuel Bean.
Address at Dedication of World's Fair.— Depew.
Robert Sidney Hagar.
The Vagabonds. — Trowbridge. James Howard Home.
*Excused.
The Medical School opened a month earlier than
usual this year, and the attendance promises to be
as large as last year. There are forty or more
Freshmen. The following is a nearly correct list of
the entering class: B. T. Wentworth, Limington;
S. G. Sawyer, Limington ; J. C. Breitling, Randolph,
Mass.; A. E. Grant, North Berwick; P. P. Lewis,
South Berwick; A. A. Downs, West Levant; H. C.
Weyland, Gorhara, N. H.; W. A. Harding, Skow-
hegan; C. R. Philbrook, Freedom; H. L. Prescott,
Saco; R. E. Savage, Bristol, N. H.; W. D. A. Kin-
ney, Fort Fairfield ; J. G. Parsons, Orange, Mass.;
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P. S. Cate, Wakefield, Mass.; C. R. Smith, Grove-
ville ; H. M. Crittenden, Haverhill, Mass.; E. E.
Harris, Haverhill, Mass.; L. F. Patten, New Bed-
ford, Mass.; L. W. Lord, West Ossipee; L. B.
Hayden, Augusta; C. H. Burgess, Bangor; J. W.
Doughty, Brunswick; B. P. Hodsdon, Springvale;
E. Z. Remy, Lewiston ; B. G. Illes, Howard, R. I.;
G. A. Bacon, Bridgton ; D. J. O'Brien, Portland;
E. A. Libby, Farmington; A. H. Miller, Limington;
C. M. Leighton, Portland: G-. M. Woodman, West-
brook; W. M. Eames, Manchester; C. W. Bell,
Strong; H. L. Truworthy, East Newport; W.J.
Holway, Carratunk ; R. W. Emerson, Lewiston ; B.
L. Towle, Freedom; H. M. Heald, Buckfield; A.
B. Drummond; G. C. Littlefield, Saco.
At no time has there been such a deep and prac-
tical interest in missions as that which exists to-
day in our colleges. Iu order to encourage this
interest in our own midst Rev. J. E. Cummings, of
Saco, who for seven years was a missionary in
India, gave an address before the association, Sun-
day p.m., January 13th. Mr. Cummings, after
emphasizing the need of foreign missionary work,
gave an interesting account of his own labors among
the heathen in India.
Neighborhood Work.
Practical Christian work will be done during
the winter. Members of the association will hold
meetings in several of the school-houses within a
few miles of Brunswick. Such work used to be
done regularly and resulted in much help, not only
to those visited, but also to those who went out.
Bible Class.
President Hyde has kindly consented to give,
during the winter, a series of lectures on theological
subjects. The first address of the term will be
given in Lower Memorial Hall, Tuesday evening,
January 22d, at 7.30 o'clock. All are cordially in-
vited to attend these lectures.
During the winter term students are expected
to do hard work in their studies. Is it too much to
expect that more zeal be put into the Association
work as well as into the intellectual tasks? Will
not the time and attention devoted to the culti-
vating of the spiritual self be amply repaid? There
is work to be done in our college; work which, if
neglected by us, will forever be left undone. There
is the chance to live a consistent Christian life, to
lead some one else into the better way. In the
words of Dr. McKenzie : " There is somebody, some
place, for which Christ sent me, and has made no
provision except that I said I would take care of it.
and He has left it in my hands. Oh, my brother,
are you going to take care of it? It is here, it is
in college, and God will lead you to the place and
stay with you to the end."
Good Will Farm Gifts.
A report of the results of our endeavors in
behalf of the Good Will Homes, was promised for
this number of the Orient. The clothing received
was as follows : One ulster, one light overcoat, one
shirt, and' two pairs of pants. Two books were
received, "Uncle Tom's Cabin "and "The Pioneers."
The latter came from parties outside the college.
Quite a number of magazines and several copies of
The Independent also were contributed. The cash
found in the box was three dollars and five cents.
The clothing, books, and magazines were placed in
a box and shipped, by freight, to the Homes, and
the cash was sent to Rev. G. W. Hinckley for the
Homes. The full amount was sent, all expenses
being met by the missionary committee.
Mr. Barnabas Freeman,
'one of the oldest and most
prominent citizens of Yarmouth, died
December ]8, 1894, at his home at
Yarmouth. His age was eighty years. He
graduated from Colby in 1840, after which
he taught for a year the High School at Wiscasset,
then at Eastport and Bucksport. In 1843 he was
admitted to the bar, and for a time was settled in
Hampden. There he married his first wife, a
daughter of Hon. Elias Dudley. Soon after his
marriage Mr. Freeman came to Yarmouth and
established himself in the law business. In 1857
he was elected a member of the board of overseers
of Bowdoin College. About the same time he be-
came a trustee of Yarmouth Academy. For many
years he was largely interested in the cotton manu-
facturing plant at the middle falls, Yarmouth. He
was also interested in the granite quarries at Yar-
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mouth. Mr. Freeman leaves a wife and two chil-
dren, a daughter, Mary, wife of Rev. John Depew
of Norfolk, Conn., and a son, Hon. E. Dudley Free-
man.
At the aunual meetings of the seven National
Banks of Portland, Me., held January 8th, officers
for the incoming year were elected, and at three of
these the following Bowdoin men were chosen as
Presidents: First National, Frederick Robie, '44;
Canal National, W. W. Thomas, '60; Cumberland
National, W. H. Moulton, 74.
'44.— Frederick Robiehas been elected President
of the Eastern Telegraph Company.
'46. — Dr. William Osgood, of North Yarmouth,
died Christmas Day from paralysis of the brain.
About three years ago he had an attack of grippe
and has had the relapses of the same disease, though
able to attend to his practice until within a few
weeks. The last attack, about a week ago, was too
much for his system, the attack going to his brain
and rendering him unconscious. He remained in
that state until he died. Dr. Osgood was the eldest
son of Dr. Amos and Lucy B. Osgood, and was
born in North Yarmouth, November 12, 1825. He
was educated at the North Yarmouth Academy and
Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1846,
and at the Bowdoin and Harvard Medical Schools,
taking his degree of M.D. in 1850. Since that time
he has remained in continuous practice at North
Yarmouth. He has always taken his share in the
administration of the political and municipal affairs
of his town, was town clerk for twenty.-one consec-
utive years, and was for many years on the school
committee. He was United States Pension Exam-
ining Surgeon for four years, having been appointed
by President Harrison. He married, November 20,
1860, Sarah E. Gammons of Belfast. She died
about twenty years ago. He leaves two sons, Henry
A., who is in the American Express Co.'s office in
Portland, and George G., who is in trade at Walnut
Hill.
'46. — In the United States Court at Portland,
Frederick D. Sewall, Esq., of Bath, has been ad-
mitted to practice before the circuit. For many
years Mr. Sewall has been Supervisor of United
States Internal Revenue, with headquarters at
Washington. He is now about seventy years of age.
He resigned recently his position in Washington,
and will now practice law in Boston. Mr. Sewall
graduated from Bowdoin in 1846. In the war he
was colouel of the 19th Maine for a time.
'54. — Edwin S. Lenox, 64 years of age, died
suddenly of heart disease at his residence in
Worcester, Mass., January 9th. He has been with
the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company
since 1876, becoming interested in that corporation
as the inventorof the wire bale tie fastener machine,
from the revenues of which he became rich. Mr.
Lenox was born in Newcastle, February 19, 1830.
He was educated and practiced as a physician, but
his genius as an inventor bade him to give up his pro-
fession. He has resided in Boston, Chicago, Wash-
ington, and New York. He leaves a widow, and
one married daughter who resides in New York.
'54. — At the annual elections of the Maine
Central Railroad, Portland, Mt. Desert & Machias
Steamboat Company, and the Portland Union
Railway Station Company respectively, held in
Portland, Franklin W. Wilson was elected as
President.
'58. — John D. Frost, of Eliot, aged 63 years, died
Monday night, December 17, 1894, from injuries
received by being thrown from his wagon a few
days before. He was an esteemed citizen and had
held many public positions of trust. He was a
graduate of Bowdoin in the Class of '58. He was a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
After his graduation he was principal of the Staud-
ish Academy and later of the Kittery High School.
He was clerk of the U. S. Navy Yard at Kittery
from 1870 to 1879. He was for many years an officer
of the Eliot & Kittery Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
He was married in 1859 to Miss Lucy J. Kuowlton,
of Eliot, and his son, John E. Frost, is now a mem-
ber of Bowdoin, '96. Mr. Frost was a man of
much ability and high character, and his loss is
keenly felt in the community.
'61. — Thomas W. Hyde was elected a director of
the Maine Central Railroad at its recent annual
meeting.
'68.— In the number of the Maine Central Mag-
azine devoted to Portland, a life of Hon. Charles
J. Chapman is given. Mr. Chapman is at the head
of the firm of Norton, Chapman & Co., flour and
grain commission merchants. He has served in the
common council, has been twice mayor of Portland,
and alternate delegate-at-large to the National
Republican Convention in 1888.
'70.— Leroy Z. Collins died at Cold Springs, N. Y.,
on the Hudson, December 19, 1894. Mr. Collins
was born September 23, 1844, at Union, Me. After
graduation he devoted himself entirely to teaching.
He has been principal of the high school, Lancaster,
Mass., has taught in Boston, and also five years at
South Manchester, Conn. A year or so ago he
moved to Cold Springs, N. Y. Mr. Collins married
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Miss Annie Davis Melcher, daughter 9f Robert
Melcher of Brunswick, and has a daughter who
was married last fall. Mr. Collins was a member
of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity.
'95. — Mr. Lincoln A. Rogers delivered a lecture at
Bath, Me., December 29, 1894, before the Fort-
nightly Club, on the "Development of Christian
Architecture." Mr. Rogers is at the head of the
Paterson, N. J., classical and scientific school.
'82. — Edwin U. Curtis has entered upon his
duties as Mayor of Boston.
'84. — Mr. Llewellyn Barton has been elected as
a committeeman and treasurer of the Democratic
State Committee. Llewellyn Barton was born in
Naples, Me., November 23, 1854. He attended the
common and high schools of that town ; fitted
for college at Bridgton Academy, entering Bowdoin
College in the Sophomore year and graduating
with honors in 1884. During his academical and
collegiate course he was awarded honors in ora-
torical and literary contests, such training ren-
dering him an easy, natural speaker, and a forcible
writer. In the fall of 1884 he taught in the Bath
High School until the opeuing of the Legisla-
ture the following January, in which he repre-
sented the towns of Naples, Sebago, and Raymond.
In the spring of 1885 Mr. Barton began the study
of law in the office of Hon. D. J. McGillicuddy of
Lewiston, but soon came to Portland and pursued
his studies in the office of N. & H. B. Cleaves.
Before being admitted to the bar he was chosen and
accepted the position of principal of Bridgton
Academy, which position he held for five years,
during which time the school was never more pros-
perous. In 1892 he was chosen one of the trustees.
Resigning the position of principal he again resumed
the study of law, and was admitted to Cumberland
bar in April, 1893, and immediately began the
practice of law in Portland.
'86. — Professor Arthur R. Butler, of Cazenovia,
N. Y., son of Mr. I. P. Butler, of Portland, was
married in Portland, December 27, 1894, to Miss
Mabel S. Lewis.
'88. — The law partnership of Joseph Williamson,
Jr., and Lewis A. Burleigh, son of ex-Governor
Burleigh, was announced January 8th. Both young-
men are graduates of Bowdoin, Mr. Williamson iu
'88 and Mr. Burleigh in '91. Mr. Williamson came
to Augusta from Belfast two years ago. Mr. Bur-
leigh graduated from the Harvard Law School in
the Class of '94, and was admitted to the Kennebec
bar a few weeks ago.
'92.— Kenniston is attending the Medical School
of Maine.
'94.— Littlefield and Leigh ton have entered the
Medical School.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Theta, a k b, >
January 11, 1895. $
Whereas, Our Heavenly Father, in His infinite
wisdom and mercy, has seen fit to call suddenly
away from us our brother, John Dennett Frost, of
the Class of '58, be it
Resolved, That Theta of Delta Kappa Epsilou
has lost a worthy and loyal member, whose noble
qualities of manhood made him loved and honored
by all who knew him; and be it
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the bereaved family, and be published in
the Bowdoin Orient.
Leeoy Sunderland Dewey,
John Clair Minot,
John George Haines,
Committee for the Chapter.
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human race. The author has used simple language,
and has told the stories in a pretty, easy style that
cannot but captivate the minds of the children for
whom the book is designed. The stories are given
a broader meaning than that of entertainment.
The simple moral truths in them arouse and inspire
the mind. The beginner is given the best of mate-
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a foundation for the appreciation of the beautiful
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iug price, $1.00.) This test-book for students of
German is an admirable book of its kind, but would
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iu many colleges. It is specially desjgned for use
in technical institutions, and promises to be just the
book needed there. With it the instructor can not
only make his classes familiar with pure modern
German and give them a good vocabulary and read-
ing knowledge, but he can make them thoroughly
familiar with German technical and scientific terms,
and can greatly help the work of the instructors in
the sciences by teaching his classes the history of
the development of the leading sciences and the
biography of the men who have distinguished
themselves in them. Thus two main objects are
accomplished which every technical school has in
view. The chapter subjects show the scope of the
work: Chemistry, Physics, the Steam Engine,
Geology, Geometry, Mineralogy, Anthropology,
the Thermometer, and the Compass. The book
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up to notes. It is the ideal text-book of the stu-
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One-fourth the number of students at the Uni-
versity of Berlin are Americans.
Wellesley has 766 students registered this year,
of whom 250 are Freshmen.
Over 60 Harvard students are engaged in the
editing of the five Harvard papers.
Columbia College issues eighteen different publi-
cations.
The Faculty at Amherst have decided that
there shall be no more Freshman Athletic teams.
Two Yale men have been delivering popular
lectures on foot-ball.
The reported receipts from the Yale-Princeton
game were $37,000.
The abolishing of foot-ball at Northwestern
University is being considered by a committee of
the university trustees.
The Princeton Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs
of over 50 members made a trip during the Christ-
mas vacation as far West as Denver.
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Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 6, 1895.
No. 13.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OP
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. Minot, '9(5, Managing Editor.
G. T. Ordway, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
H. K. Blodgett, '90, Business Manager.
B. L. Bryant, '95. A. L. Churchill, '95.
H. W. Thayer, '95. J. T. Shaw, '95.
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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.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
Personal items should be sent to Box 138, Brunswick, Me.
Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-ClassMail Matter
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 13.— February 6, 1895.
Editorial Notes 215
Interscholastio Foot-Ball, 218
Kenilworth, 218
Method in Daily Life, 220
Bowdoin Men in Washington, 220
Bowdoin Verse:
Shady, 222
Rashness, 222
The Favored Swain 223
Collegii Tabula, 223
Y. M. C. A 225
Personal, 226
In Memoriam, 227
College World, 228
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It is rather early in the winter yet
to be thinking of spring poetry or of spring
mud, but it is none too early for those inter-
ested in the matter to have in consideration
the subject of spring athletics. The base-
ball men are working hard in the gymnasium
each day and the field and track athletes are
settling down to business; but the word
"rowing" has as yet scarcely been mentioned
on the campus. It is time for '98 to take
action in this matter, to buy its shell and to
be getting in readiness to meet '97 on the
river next term. For many years the an-
nual class boat race has held a prominent
place at old Bowdoin, and is looked forward
to as a part of the spring term as much as
Ivy Day, Field Day, or Class Day. And the
class boat race must no more be discontinued
or neglected than these other occasions. Not
many years ago Bowdoin was in the front
rank in intercollegiate rowing. Her crews
made time that is still unbeaten, and her
trophies, won from the largest colleges in the
countr}', are seen in the library- But the
growtb of foot-ball, tennis, and field and
track athletics have taken the money and
interest formerly devoted to intercollegiate
rowing, and Bowdoin crews are no longer
sent to win victories on the Charles, and
Lake George, and Lake Quinsigamond. But
the annual class race on the Androscoggin
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survives. For over twenty years our crews
have contested there, and every true Bow-
doin man wants to see rowing maintained as
a college sport as long as any branch of ath-
letics is recognized. The college is confident
that '98 has the proper kind of spirit, and
awaits its action in upholding the rowing
interests of Bowdoin.
WE call the attention of Bowdoin men to
the article in this issue on Interscho-
lastic foot-ball. It is sent to the Orient by
an alumnus who has been active in college
athletics, and the points which he makes are
worthy careful consideration. The success
of interscholastic foot-ball is of vital impor-
tance to the success of college foot-ball, and
there is no doubt that the supervision of a
committee from the college which is so far
in the lead in this sport, would be of great
benefit to the teams of the Maine Inter-
scholastic League. The school teams have
everything to gain and nothing to lose by
such an arrangement, and would doubtless
be quick to seize the opportunity to remove
the dangers and difficulties that have caused
them so much trouble in the past. The foot-
ball management of the college should take
prompt action in the matter.
PERE'S hoping that the Maine colleges
unite in an intercollegiate Field Day
the coming spring. Several times in the
past this has been mentioned, but no steps
have ever been taken and it has never been
brought to pass. It is the place of Bowdoin
to take the lead in the matter, and the Orient
now brings up the subject to urge the student
body to take definite action as soon as possi-
ble. The interest in field and track athletics
has been steadily increasing here. Our own
Field Day has become more and more an im-
portant occasion of the spring term, and now
the medals and records mean much to their
winners. Our team commanded respect and
won prizes at the New England Intercolle-
giate Field Day at Worcester, last May, and
is bound to stand higher and higher in this
association. Now why shall not Bowdoin
invite her sister Maine colleges to form a
league for an annual contest in field and
track sports? It would arouse an interest
throughout the State in a popular branch of
athletics, and be a valuable help to the col-
leges which have had less experience in this
branch than our own. The Bowdoin athletes
would need no more extra training than they
would have to have for our own Field Day
and the Worcester meet, and the prospect of
a Maine Field Day would induce many more
men to work for places on the team. The
strain of three field days would not be much
more than the strain of two, and ought to be
well borne by athletes in good condition.
The extra expense would not be great and
would be largely covered by receipts. The
place of the meet might be either Water-
ville, Lewiston, or Brunswick as was thought
most convenient and profitable. If the other
Maine colleges do not care to meet and com-
pete with Bowdoin in this branch of ath-
letics of course nothing can be done, but
the Orient hopes that they will be given
the chance and that it will not be the fault
of Bowdoin if there is no Maine Intercolle-
giate Field Day next spring. If it is not
wished to form a permanent league then let
the Field Day be tried next spring just as
an experiment, with the events and rules of
the New England Association. Bowdoin re-
mains out of the State Base-Ball League this
spring, but will as usual meet the other col-
leges in this sport, and this will not in the
least prevent a meeting in field and track
athletics. Let us not drop the matter here.
Let those interested discuss the matter, and
arouse enthusiasm for a third Field Day, one
in which Bowdoin men shall meet the other
colleges of Maine. And then let a, meeting be
called and definite action taken. The Orient
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has suggested this idea, and hopes to see it
pushed through to a complete success.
TITHE Orient congratulates the Junior Class
*■ on the harmony and fairness of its recent
election of officers. The system of a nomi-
nating committee worked perfectly, justice
was shown to all, and all are satisfied. This
class has had some unpleasant experiences
with "combines," but unanimously declares
that it is through with them for the rest of
its course. The new way is the only right
way, and it is much to be regretted that
each class and the whole student body can-
not see matters in this light. The Seniors
were less fortunate in the result of their
nominating committee. The first slate of
officers was unsatisfactory to nearly two-
thirds of the class, and they showed the right
spirit by demanding that a new committee
draw up a new slate with the offices more
justly distributed. Of course it is difficult
to please all in a class in the delicate matter
of class offices, but if all partisanship is
thrown aside and the spirit of fairness and
justice prevails in selecting men best fitted
for the places, there can be no reasonable
complaint.
TI7HIS is the term to read. In the fall and
-*■ spring the athletic sports, in which we
either participate or watch others engage,
take up many of our spare hours which in
this term can be given to that miscellaneous
reading of which so much ought to be done by
every college man. A New England winter
offers few attractions to most of us for
extensive outdoor exercise, and we have
enough required work in the gymnasium to
keep our joints from getting too rusty and
to keep us from getting too round-shouldered
from over-study. But there are many spare
hours for most of us during the long even-
ings and half-holidays which are not needed
on our regular college work, harder though
it may be made through this term. This is
the time that ought to be employed in read-
ing in the realms of fiction and poetry.
Most of our courses open to us unlimited
fields of outside reading and research, and
it is certainly a duty pleasant to all to labor
in these. But it is in getting better
acquainted with the general literature of
our language, in reading the standard works
of the masters of prose and verse, and in
exploring systematically the treasures of our
library that many of these hours can most
profitably be spent. How many books there
are that we all mean to read sometime, and
yet never get around to. The popular works
of the day and the magazines should receive
more attention from college men. There is
such a mass to choose from now that care
must be used, but the college man who does
not know what is good for him to read had
better return to the fitting school.* There is
a relaxation from study in this outside read-
ing. It cannot fail to be pleasant, and it
may be as profitable as our regular work.
A college graduate who has confined his
reading to his text-books and books along
the direct line of his studies is to be pitied.
He may have ranked high in his studies, but
he is not what a scholar should be. He is
not the full man that reading maketh,
according to Bacon. Many of us, then,
should spend more of our spare hours in
general reading, looking through the maga-
zines and reviews, keeping abreast of the
times as well as wandering into the past, and
striving to be the well-read " all-round " schol-
ars that college men should be.
The Faculty of Hillsdale College have just laid
down a new rule to the effect that "students who
enter college single cannot get married during their
course and remain in college." .It seems that this
rule was promulgated on account of the epidemic
of marriages among the theologians there for the
past two years. — Phmnix,
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Interscholastic Foot-Ball.
T)OWDOIN is responsible for the introduc-
*-* tion of foot-ball into Maine, and as the
acknowledged champion team of the state,
the purity and good name of the game
depend largely on her watchfulness and
example.
The games between the numerous fitting-
school teams have, during the last two years,
developed two elevens of more than ordinary
capacity and skill. Twice in succession Ban-
gor and Portland have outclassed their rivals;
twice in succession each has won a game
from the other; and twice in succession the
third game has been the source of unlimited
and acrimonious dispute.
The general reading public in Bangor
and Portland has sickened of newspaper
foot-ball, if not of the game itself. For
months the claims of the rival teams have
been aired, the faults of their opponents
criticised, the good faith of managers and
coachers impugned, and a general attempt
to villify opponents made which does no
credit to either team and still less to the
good sense of the managing editors of the
Bangor and Portland newspapers. Indeed,
so heated has been the discussion, that sun-
dry bits of alleged poetry (bearing internal
evidence of being not guilty) have found a
place in the local prints!
Such a "how-de-do" is unnecessary and
uncreditable to all concerned. To the col-
lege it matters little in one way, but in view
of the fact that Bowdoin and foot-ball are
inevitably connected, it behooves us to con-
sider the situation fairly, and aid in solving
the puzzle if possible.
The matter of the ownership of this
year's pennant is of small moment. It is
the future that must be provided for. Only
one scheme seems at once simple and feasi-
ble. It is briefly this: Let the schools, form-
ing the Interscholastic Association, adopt a
clause providing that the games be under
the supervision of a committee appointed
by the college, which shall be empowered by
the schools —
(1). To aid in arranging a definite sched-
ule of games at the beginning of the season,
this schedule to be deviated from only for
cause and upon previous notifications.
(2). To provide suitable officials for all
games, when so requested.
(3). To determine all disputed points,
and act as final authority on matters not
bearing directly on the interpretation of the
rules of the game.
The above suggestions, with whatever
additions mature r considerations may add,
would obviate nearly all if not all the points
of dispute of 1893 and 1894. Moreover there
is no valid objection to be raised to them by
the schools save, possibly, increased expense,
and an assessment of one or two dollars per
club would cover that.
Members of several of the High School
teams have been talked with and are unani-
mously in favor of the plan. It is therefore
submitted to the college in the hope that
action may be taken upon it by the foot-ball
management during February, that the vari-
ous schools may be communicated with at
once, and definite plans made.
The matter is not a trivial one. It is.
worthy of attention, and prompt attention,
for upon the condition of foot-ball in the
fitting schools of Maine lingers the possibil-
ities of Bowdoin's team in coming seasons.
Kenilworth.
POLDING a prominent place among Scott's
immortal romances stands his "Kenil-
worth," a historical tale of merrie England
in the golden age of good Queen Bess.
Though not dealing with Scotland or with
war, the author nevertheless understands his
subject well, and he draws us a picture of
Elizabeth and her favorites, which the lover
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of history or the lover of a good story will
gaze upon, unwearied, again and again.
Our heart overflows with sympathy for the
fate of the beautiful Countess Amy, so cruelly
deceived by her husband, the Earl of Leicester,
whose one great desire in life was to be the
husband of Elizabeth and the -King of Eng-
land. The relations of the earl and countess,
the triumph of a great ambition over a great
love, is the central theme of the novel; and
it is a theme well worth}' the hand of Scott.
Base as was the course of the Earl of Leices-
ter in keeping his wife in retirement, while
he took advantage of his position as first
favorite of the queen by trying to win her
love, there is, after all, much pity mixed
with the contempt all must feel for his char-
acter. He was but a mortal, and to be king
of England is a position most men would
seek. In his heart was many an honest
struggle between his love for Amy and the
ambition of his life, and it is not unlikely
that love would have won on several occa-
sions had it not been for the net of evil
influence which his lieutenant, Richard Var-
ney, had woven about him.
Scott was a great novelist, but he was also
a fairly accurate historian, and there is much
probability that England's history would
have read much differently had it not been
for the secret marriage which the Earl of
Leicester had contracted with pretty Amy
Robsart.
The novel gets its name from the mag-
nificent castle and estate of the earl, where
the scenes of the last half of the book are
placed. Here, for a week in July, 1575, he
entertains, in a series of grand festivities,
his sovereign Elizabeth with whom he is in
high favor. Already he is regarded by the
whole land as the future husband of its
queen. But in the midst of its festivities
his trusting and innocent young wife appears
on the scene. She has been kept in hiding
at Cumuor Hall since their marriage, and
has been satisfied when told that the union
must be kept secret for state reasons; but
justly suspecting those around her, and think-
ing to give her lord a happy surprise, she
comes, after much difficulty, to the great
castle of which she is the true mistress.
Elizabeth believes for a time that she is the
mad wife of Richard Varney, but soon the
deception fails, and, scorned and despised,
the proud earl falls from royal favor. Amy
is taken by force back to Cumnor Hall by
Varney and is there killed, though without
the knowledge of the earl. Leicester after-
wards wins back, in part, his position with
Elizabeth, but he never becomes the king of
England.
Such, in brief, is the outline, almost en-
tirely historical, on which is built the thrill-
ing tale of "Kenilworth." Other prominent
characters, besides the four already men-
tioned, are Anthony Foster, the keeper of
Cumnor Hall; Janet, his daughter, the friend
and attendant of Amy; Tresalian, Amy's
former lover and ever-faithful champion ;
Alasco, the old worker of dark magic; Lam-
bourne, the reckless assistant of Varney;
Wayland Smith, the learned blacksmith and
follower of Tresalian; Walter Raleigh, a
rising young favorite at Elizabeth's court,
and the Earl of Sussex, the leading rival of
Leicester for first place among Elizabeth's
favorites.
"Kenilworth" is the typical historical
novel. It entertains and instructs without
any preaching. In literary style it is as near
perfection as it could be made by a genius
who has had few equals and no superiors in
telling a, story. It will shine with an undy-
ing lustre as a jewel among jewels, as long as
the literary treasures of our language exist.
University of Michigan has discontinued the daily
chapel exercises. Hereafter services will be held
twice a week at four o'clock in the afternoon. The
World's Fair organ will be used at these services.
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Method in Daily Life.
0F the many lessons that can be learned in
college, perhaps not one comes home to
every student more forcibly than that of
method in daily life, or systematic work.
One readily brings before his mind the
numerous benefits to be derived from a fixed
course of living. Oftentimes he will see where
he has lost — wasted, it may be — an hour or
even a day in which some task might have
.been completed, that would have added not
only to his own comfort and prosperity, but
also to the well-being of those about him.
He very naturally feels sorry that such a
thing could happen, and yet he does not
attempt to find a remedy. He believes there
is no cure, but the evil can easily and effect-
ually be cured. One may ask how. The
answer would be: by a systematic plan of
work, a daily method of doing your required
duties. It not only prevents remorseful feel-
ings but enables us to do more and better
work in less time.
Everybody realizes that if each member
in a community should do all the work nec-
essary for the support of life, should raise all
his food and make his garments, it would be
a slow and laborious life. We are certain
that things are better where each member
plies his own trade and provides for others
who have some other trade. So it is with
an individual. If he makes a proper division
of his time it is possible for him to accom-
plish much more and to do it more thoroughly.
If work is not laid out we often waste hours
thinking what we will do next or dreading
something that must be done sooner or later.
What would be the result if a letter-carrier
were to take out his letters in a confused
mass and attempt to deliver them just as
the addresses turned up? He would find it
almost impossible to accomplish in hours
what a little systematic arrangement allows
him to do in as many minutes.
To apply system to college life it is cer-
tain that in any place of learning sj'stem is
of the greatest importance. Have certain
hours in which you know you must apply
yourself to particular studies, and at the end
of those hours go about your other duties.
You will soon realize some of the beneficial
results that can be obtained from such a
method of living. Not only to your studies,
but to everything apply the same test and
you will be surprised, if not astonished, at
the outcome of your trial. You will accom-
plish much that you never dreamed of doing
and work will cease, in a great measure, to
be a drudgery to you.
In traveling, in amusements, in all your
associations with mankind, you will learn to
apply your systematic methods, and the re-
sult will be greater comfort and happiness
both to yourself and to those with whom
you come in contact.
Bowdoin Men in Washington.
EVERY Bowdoin man will read with inter-
est the following article, which we con-
dense from a recent Washington letter in
the Lewiston Journal:
On some one night iu the midwinter season of
every year a body of men remarkable for their
intelligence and greatness, gather around the ban-
quet table of one of the fashionable hotels of the
city and there join in joyous recollections of their
college days. It wouldn't take long for any one
to suspect that these "boys," as Oliver Wendell
Holmes would have called them, were in reality
alumni of Maine's oldest and most famous college
and that they had breathed in the essence of their
greatness under the "Whispering Pines" of Old
Bowdoin, and many of them, judging from the gray
hairs and wrinkled brows, had breathed in this
balmy air years and years ago.
The Washington Association of Bowdoin Alumni,
by which these occasions are held and which relig-
iously observes one night in the year for these gath-
erings, is now making preparations for holding the
annual meeting and banquet for this year of grace,
1895. It will probably be held in the first half of
February.
.Upon the past occasions it has been a fact to
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excite no little amount of comment, that a college
comparatively so small, when sized up with the lead-
ing universities- of the day, should be represented
by so prominent men as have gathered around the
board on a "Bowdoin night," at Washington. It
is to be doubted if any one institution of learning
can collect in a city of Washington's size, so notable
an array of graduates. With a Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court; with a prominent
candidate for the Presidency of the nation; with
two or more leading senators, and with other officials
high in rank; and scholars of profound learning,
and clergymen of commanding influence and power,
Old Bowdoin's sous form a conspicuous group even
in this city of "big" men. The state and the
country can rejoice together that there is a college
which for scores of years has been doing a work
greater than any one other in turning out men of
the highest intellect aud power.
The Washington Association of Bowdoiu Alumni
was organized December 16, 1881. There were
prominent graduates of the college in the city at
that time, but in the thirteen years which have
intervened since the inception of the organization
many of those men have grown more prominent,
while leading lights from other places have aug-
mented the number then to be found here. Now
the Alumni Association is headed by Chief Justice
Fuller ; now Senator Frye's fame as a legislator has
become luminous; now Congressman Reed's presi-
dential wings are growing strong aud active, and
now a younger element is beginning to assert itself
in the political field. At no time in its history will
the alumni banquet excite more interest than the
one to be held this year. Nearly fourscore men who
have at one time or another been connected with
Bowdoin College, have become members of this asso-
ciation. Two or three of this number have only
received an honorary degree from the college, but
the most of them are bona fide Bowdoin- made men
who have experienced the Freshman meekness and
the Senior dignity, who have drank in of its water
of wisdom, and become imbued with its spirit of
loyalty.
Commander Horatio Bridge, '25, was the first
president of the association. He was for years pay
director in the United States Navy and a prominent
citizen of the city. He never lost his love for the
college and was one of the jolliest of the "boys"
upon the occasions of these annual banquets. He
has been dead several years, and Chief Justice
Fuller, '53, or "Hell" Fuller, as Senator Frye, '50,
is wont to call him upon these occasions, now pre-
sides at the head of the table. Of course Maine
people know all about the careers of Mr. Fuller as
well as Senator Frye, '50, and Thomas B. Reed, '60,
member of Congress from the First Maine District,
next Speaker of the House and a prominent candi-
date for the Presidency, and Mr. Reed's private sec-
retary, Amos Allen, '60. They are all members of
the Bowdoiu Association, and add not a little to
the jollity and good-fellowship of the bauquets.
Senator Frye's speeches upon these occasions are
the very best that this gifted orator has on tap.
But these gentlemen are not the only ones high
up in legislative and judicial functions. Hon. Will-
iam Drew Washburn, Senator from Minnesota, is a
graduate of '54. Hon. William W. Rice, '46, was a
member of Congress from Massachusetts when the
organization was started aud was therefore admitted
to its dinners. Hon-. LaFayette Grover, United
States Senator from Oregon and a graduate, Class
of '48, was also one of the early members of the
Washington Association. Hon. William B. Small,
'45, now dead, was formerly a police court judge in
this city and a member of the association. Among
the older members and graduates of the college in
the twenties and thirties, whose autographs now
grace the book containing the constitution of the
association, are: Richard S. Evans, '29, lawyer;
Rev. Charles Adams, D.D., '33; Prof. John H. C.
Coffin, '34, U. S. Navy; Gideon S. Palmer, M.D.,
'38; Hon. Hugh McCulloch, '29.
One of the most conspicuous figures in the legal
fraternity of this city is Hon. John B. Cotton, '65,
another member of the association. Mr. Cotton
was a Lewiston man and formerly in partnership
with Senator Frye under the name of Frye, Cotton
& White. He was Assistant Attorney-General un-
der President Harrison, and is now doing one of
the most lucrative businesses in the city. General
Ellis Spear, '58, of Rockland, is a leading patent
attorney in the city and a prominent citizen gen-
erally. He usually officiates as toast-master of the
banquets in a very capable manner. He has a son
now in Bowdoin. Llewellyn Deane, '49, one of the
vice-presidents of the association, is looked upon as
authority upon all matters relating to the college
and especially to the Washington alumni. Although
now well along in years aud this winter in very
poor health, he still maintains an active interest in
the college and its graduates. He is a prominent
patent attorney in the city, but leaves most of the
work coming to his office to his son. At the 1892
meeting Mr. Deaue read an able paper upon the
finances of the college which, together with the
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account of the meeting, he caused to be published,
in pamphlet form, making as it did a very accepta-
ble souvenir of the dinner. Professor Lee was the
representative of the Faculty of the college at that
time, and following as it did his trip of exploration
to Labrador, bis presence and his speech upon that
occasion were vigorously applauded. Congressman
Charles A. Boutelle was also present at that dinner
as one of the special guests. Capt. Boutelle is not
a graduate, but he was instrumental in causing his
youngest brother, Mortimer H. Boutelle, Esq., to take
the Bowdoin line to fame and honor in the Class of '87.
But the list of attorneys is not exhausted by the
names mentioned above. John W. Butterfield, '51,
is a prominent lawyer practicing in the depart-
ments ; George W. Dyer, '43, now dead, was a
member of the association when it first started ;
Stephen D. Fessenden, 79, son of T. A. Fessenden
of Lewiston, a former law partner of Senator Frye,
is a lawyer of promising eminence, though now
holding a position as expert statistician in the
Bureau of Labor. Mr. Fessenden is married and
has some children whom he is training up with a
leaning toward a Bowdoin education. Another
important government official, whose worth is highly
appreciated by Republicans and Democrats alike, is
Sumuer I. Kimball, '55, superintendent of the life-
saving service under the Treasury Department.
He has been in the service for years, and bids fair
to continue at the bead of this bureau for years to
come. Horace L. Piper, '63, was formerly one of
Supt. Kimball's important clerks, but he is now in
another department. Among the other department
men there have been George A. Fairfield, '48, of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; Chas.
H. Verrill, 'S7, of the Department of Labor; Fred-
erick D. Sewall, '46, chief of a division in the Na-
tional Revenue Department; Joseph N. Whitney,
'64, of the Bureau of Statistics; Nathaniel A. Rob-
bins, '57, of the Treasury Department; Henry Dun-
lap, '54, of the same department; Millard K. Page,
'79, of the Pension Office; Alexander E. Willard,
'63, of the Second Auditor's Office; Rev. Benjamin
W. Pond, '57, of the Patent Office, and many others
who are now or have been in the past few years in
the government's employ.
Among clergymen in the city Rev. S. M. New-
man, D.D., '67, is one of the prominent divines.
He is pastor of the First Congregational Church and
draws one of the best audiences of any pastor in
Washington. Dr. Newman is chaplain of the Sons
and Daughters of Maine and is interested in char-
itable and interdenominational work to quite an ex-
tent. Rev. Frank Sewell, '58, another member of
the Bowdoin Association, is a Swedeuborgiau min-
ister and will soon have a fine new church built for
him by that denomination throughout the country.
He has had a good congregation to preach to for
many years past. The younger alumni of the col-
lege are represented by Frank E. Dennett, '90, of
the Naval Observatory; Edgar F. Conant, '90, of the
war department; Fred 0. Fish, '91, of the patent
office, and many others who have been in the city
temporarily. Among the residents who have been
admitted to membership on account of honorary
degrees conferred upon them are Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, John M. Harlen, who was
made LL.D. by Bowdoin in 1881, and Crosby S.
Noyes, a Maine man and editor of the Washington
Evening Star, upon whom the honorary degree of
A.M. was conferred in 1887.
The present list of officers is as follows: Pres-
ident, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, '53; Vice-
Presidents, Senator William P. Frye, '50, and
Llewellyn Deane, Esq., '49; Treasurer, Stephen D.
Fessenden, 79; Corresponding Secretary, Prof. J.
W. Chickering, '52, teacher at the Deaf Mute Col-
lege at Kendall Green, D. C; Recording Secretary,
James C. Strout, '57, who for years has been an
efficient assistant librarian of the Congressional
Library; Executive Committee, Gen. Ellis Spear,
'58; Col. W. H. Owen, '57, of the Quartermaster
General's office; J. N. Whitney, '64, H. L. Prince,
'62, and Frank E. Dennett, '90.
Sowdoii? ^)ep§e.
Shady.
The elm, the beech, the chestnut thick
Grant cooling shade to me,
But the shadiest tree in all the grove
Is Jones's family tree.
Rashness.
I have seen the savage Indian in all his war array,
I have seen a prima-donna in a rage,
I have seen a howling dervish prepare himself to
pray,
And I've seen a scandal's subject on the stage.
I have seen the prowling tiger on India's moonlit
sands,
I have heard the roar of Afric's lion grim,
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I have faced tbe Malay pirates, and escaped their
crimsoned hands,
And for gold I have imperiled life and limb.
But one sensation 's left me, which I hope soon to
enjoy,
The most animated scene mind can invent,
I am going to a woman's club (and a phonograph
employ),
To hear a woman's red-hot argument.
The Favored Swain.
{From a Picture.)
Apart they walk ; the rest unheeded go
Toward home and night's well-earned repose, where
gleam
The village lights. The twilight shadows throw
A gloom across the harvest field. The stream,
Unheard through all the busy, noisy day,
In gentle ripples murmurs happy things
To all the tender words the lovers say.
Day's labor done, the evening hour now brings
A little talk, a little walk apart
For them, and through the field of garnered grain
They stroll ; she, queen of every village heart,
And he, of all around, the favored swain.
The older ones glance back, and smile and sigh,
And then trudge on behind the higb-heaped wains.
Those younger note the pair with careless eye,
But kindly thought, except the unfavored swains.
The two heed not, but in the twilight haze
Stroll on alone in love. How old, how sweet
The picture is. God grant that all their days
May be with equal happiness replete.
May life and love their richest triumphs gain
For nut-brown rustic maid and favored swain.
The Faculty of Williams College has decided to
erect immediately an infirmary for the use of stu-
dents. The plans have been drawn, and these pro-
vide for a three-story building of wood, to cost
about $6,000. The first floor will be occupied by a
family, which will have charge of the building; the
second story, divided into wards, will be the hospi-
tal proper, and the third, which will be entirely sep-
arate from the others, will be used for patients with
contagious diseases. The Williams Faculty has
been influenced in this prompt action by the unus-
ual amount of sickness among college men this fall,
and by the increasing need of immediate and skilled
treatment in case of illness.
The subject for debate before the
Logic Class nest Saturday is: "Re-
solved, That the refusal of employers
to arbitrate with employes is unjust."
In the first division Randall and Howe
will speak on the affirmative and Elliott and Holmes
on the negative. In the second division Hanlou
and Varrel will support, and Condon and Rhines
will attack, the resolve.
Eames, '98, is teaching school.
Kyes, '96, is with his class again.
Buck, '94, has entered the Medical School.
Whist is a popular game these long evenings.
Skating and polo on the campus during the last
freeze.
Four Bowdoin men attended a small card party
in Bath last week.
French, '97, is back from a successful term of
school in Greenwood.
The nest Junior Assembly will bo held Wednes-
day evening, February 13th.
Warren, '97, is rehearsing in Bath for a part in
the forthcoming "Iolauthe."
Prof. Lee lately lectured in Waterville on
"A Summer in Labrador."
" Alvin Joslin" drew a large crowd and was
given with very good effect.
The Lakesido Press man was on the campus last
week looking after the Bugle contract.
The Art Building and the Library were closed on
tbe forenoon of the Day of Prayer.
The Glee Club and the Banjo and Guitar Club
were photographed a week ago Thursday.
The Glee and Banjo and Guitar Clubs will give an
entertainment in Freeport on the sixth of February.
Libby and Fessenden, '96, who are working at
the State House, were on the campus over Sunday.
Peaks, '96, is to take a leading part in "Iolauthe,"
soon to be put on the stage by the young people of
Bath.
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Mayo, '95, who left during the last half of last
terra, came back last week.
"Prince Pro Tern," in Batb, was attended by
over thirty students, who occupied front seats.
Hatch, '95, was in Baugor last week, taking
advantage of the holiday for a short vacation.
The large clock in the Library is back in place
again, after a week or so of absence for repairs.
The "Cotton King," in Lewiston last Thursday
evening, was seen by quite a number of Bowdoin
men.
A piano has been put into the gymnasium, and
the students will soon begin their impromptu as-
semblies.
The annual receptiou of the Psi Upsilon Fra-
ternity will be held Friday evening next in Memo-
rial Hall.
At a recent meeting of '96, Bates was elected
squad leader, and Andrews captain of the Class
Athletic Team.
The Y. M. C. A. held a special service, to which
the townspeople were invited the evening of the
Day of Prayer.
The Saturday debates in the Logic Class are
becoming very interesting, and are developing some
very good speakers.
The picture of last fall's foot-ball team was
taken last Saturday. Bates, '96, was elected cap-
tain of the team for next fall.
The Senior German division have been holding
one recitation a week in the evening, conflicting
hours rendering this necessary.
The February Scribner's contains, in an article ou
Elihu Vedder's recent paintings, a fine reproduction
of his large painting in the Art Building. "
Prof. Files was unable to meet his classes for a
short time last week, having sprained his ankle
quite severely in the gymnasium Thursday after-
noon.
Practice for the Athletic Exhibition is already
under way in the gymnasium. Pyramids, tumbling,
and bar- work are engaging the attention of good-
sized squads.
The large picture of Hon. J. W. Bradbury, '25,
painted for the college by Willard, has arrived and
been placed in Memorial Hall. It is a fine piece of
work and an excellent likeness.
The Glee and Banjo Clubs are to give an enter-
tainment, followed by a dance, in the Bath Univer-
salist Church next Monday evening. The Bath
papers predict a full house for the college boys.
President Hyde lectured before the Waterville
Y. M. C. A. last Friday evening. He was at the
State House during the hearing on Woman's Suf-
Our newly-organized orchestra is putting in
some hard work in the practice line, and the college
may depend upon some good music in the near
future.
Librarian Little is sending out a large number
of copies of the pamphlet containing the addresses
given at the dedication of the Mary Frances Searles
Science Building.
One of the younger members of our Faculty,
who found no class at the recitation hour, is reported
assaying to the only faithful student, "If they've
gone on a strike, we'll have a lockout."
Ordway, '96, was elected manager of the foot-
ball eleven, Wednesday, January 23d,— Smith, '96,
who was the other candidate presented by the com-
mittee, having withdrawn before a vote was taken.
In the Court Room, Thursday evening last, Miss
Mary Selden McCobb, of Portland, gave a dramatic
recital of Shakespeare's " As You Like It." The
reading formed a very pleasing addition to the
amusement of the week.
Why don't the Glee Club and the Guitar and
Banjo Club give an entertainment in Memorial
Hall, or at least down town? In other colleges the
first appearance for the season is always before the
students. Why not here?
Rev. Joseph K. Green, D.D., of the Class of '55,
gave an address in the chapel Thursday morning.
His subject was "The Rise and Decline of Moham-
medanism," which was treated most interestingly
in the light of personal experience.
Warren, '97, and Drake, '98, gave a chafing-dish
supper to seven of the Bath young ladies who
attended the first of the Junior assemblies. The
affair was held in their room, and formed a very
pleasing preliminary to the dance.
'Ninety-Five, in a class meeting held last Wednes-
day, rejected, by a good majority, the list of candi-
dates drawn up by the committee appointed at an
earlier meeting. A new committee has been selected
and the election will be held at an early date.
It would be of material assistance to the Bugle
editors if those members of '95 and '96, who have
been elected to office or who have received any
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college honors since the last of the fall term, would
hand them a list of such offices and appointments.
Thursday, the Day of Prayer, was enjoyed by
the students in various ways. Some put in their
time on themes ; some went home ; a few attended
the lecture by Rev. Mr. Green— and, by the way,
those who did not hear the address, missed a rare
treat — while not a few enjoyed the fine sleighing.
An audience, increased both in number and in-
terest over that of the week before, listened to
President Hyde's second lecture, delivered Tues-
day evening of last week. In introduction to the
address, President Hyde spoke briefly of a criticism
of the idea of God embodied in his previous address.
The first themes of the Juniors who are taking
Political Economy are due Wednesday, the sixth of
February. The class had the choice of the three
following subjects: "'Assignats' of the French
Revolution," " Paperlssues of the Revolution," " The
Legal Tenders of the Civil War."
The Republican Club met in Lower Memorial
last Friday to discuss the question of sending a
delegate to Burlington to the New England conven-
tion of Republican clubs. The matter was to be
fully decided the following Tuesday. It was the
unanimous sentiment of the meeting that a dele-
gate be' sent.
The second themes of the term are due Friday,
February the 8th, from the Sophomores and those
Juniors who do not take Political Economy. The
subjects are as follows : "The Treatment of Crimi-
nals in the United States; " " What Work of Fiction
Best Portrays New England Country Life?" " Write
a story to illustrate the following situation: One
who is the butt of his companions comes out in
some way superior to them."
The '96 class election of officers for Ivy Day
was held last Wednesday. A committee of seven
had been appointed at a previous meeting to pre-
pare a list of candidates, one for each position, to
be accepted or rejected as a whole. The schedule
of the committee was accepted without an objection
of any kind. The following is the list of those
elected: President, Peaks; Vice-President, Kyes;
Secretary and Treasurer, Mitchell; Marshal, Stone;
Orator, Small ; Poet, Minot; Chaplain, Gilpatrick;
Odist, C. G. Fogg; Curator, Baker; Committee of
Arrangements, Lyford and two others to be selected
by the nominating committee.
There are 74 applicants for positions on the
Harvard Glee Club.
Rev. J. E. Cummiogs, who delivered the mis-
sionary address January 12th, presented to the
Association a valuable Indian idol. This idol has
been presented by the Association to the college,
and will be placed on exhibition in the Art Building.
It is an image of Gaudama, the fourth Buddha of
the present system, who was contemporaneous with
the Prophet Daniel.
Three types of images are made by the Burman
Buddhists, designated by their respective pictures
as standing, sitting, and reclining. This is in the
sitting posture. It is made of marble from Sagaing,
upper Burma, and is of Burman workmanship. It
represents Gaudama in the attitude in which he is
reputed to have attained supreme wisdom, sitting
under the bawdi tree, a species of banyan. His
legs are crossed, the right hand hangs over the
right knee; the left lies palm upward in the lap.
All the fingers are of the same length, also the toes.
The lobes of the ears reach to the shoulders. These
are distinguishing marks of the Buddha, and sym-
bols of his perfection. There is a knob, called the
manidan, on the top of the head, representing the
tuft of hairs which remained after Gaudama cut off
his long locks with his sword when he fled from his
palace to enter upon the life of a recluse. The hair
is said never to have grown again.
Generally a caste mark is shown in the forehead,
as Gaudama came of Hindoo stock and probably
wore such amark in his life-time; but as he preached
the inefficiency of caste and as the Burmese have no
caste, the mark is sometimes, though very rarely,
omitted from the image, as in this case.
The educated Buddhist makes the same defense
of the religious use of images as does the Roman
Catholic Church, "sensuous symbols to aid the simple
in their devotions." To the great mass of Burman
Buddhists, however, the image is an idol and is
worshiped as such. It is called Payah, God;
prayers are said to it, offerings of flowers, fruit,
food, burning candles, incense sticks, and gold leaf
for gilding are made it. Some of this gold leaf that
was offered in worship is found in patches on the
back of the idol where it was placed by the wor-
shipers. The idol is about fifty years old and was
presented to Mr. Cummings by a Buddhist priest at
Henzada, Burma, in 1893.
Thursday, January 31st, was observed as Day of
Prayer for Colleges. In the morning Dr. Green,
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who for over thirty years was a missionary in
Turkey, gave a magnificent address on the "Rise
and Decline of Mohammedanism." In the evening
the usual prayer-meeting was held.
The missionary committee have arranged to
hold services Sunday afternoon at two o'clock in a
school-house within a short distance, two and a half
miles, of the college. All those interested in neigh-
borhood work are invited to assist in these services.
President Hyde has delivered three of his six
lectures on the " Outlines of Theology." These
addresses are given in Lower Memorial Hall on
successive Tuesday evenings, at half-past seven.
The Association cordially invites the students of
the Medical Department to atteud its services and
to join in its work. We are all connected with the
college, we all enjoy its privileges, and the same
obligations to duty and service rest alike upon us all.
The services of the Association during the last
two weeks were as follows :
Sunday, January 20.— Address by Prof. Robinson.
Thursday, January 24.— Meeting led by Rev. Mr.
Thomas.
Sunday, January 27.— Address by Prof. Woodruff.
Thursday, January 31.— Meeting led by Wood-
bury, '95.
Sunday, February 3.— Address by Rev. Mr. Dale.
'54.— Senator W. D. Wash-
'burn, of Minnesota, whose
present term expires this year, has
failed of a re-election, and his seat in
the Senate will be occupied by Knute Nel-
son, the present Governor.
'55. — Rev. Joseph K. Greene, who spoke here on
Day of Prayer, Thursday, January 31st, on "Past
and Present of Mohammedism," will speak here in
the near future on the Armenian question.
'57. — Mr. Charles W. Pickard has presented the
library with thirty volumes of current literature.
'60. — Rev. Nicholas E. Boyd has lately been
appointed chaplain of the Sailors' Home, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.
'60. — Horace H. Burbank delivered recently
before the York County Bar Association an address
on "Our Illustrious Bar," which reviewed in a his-
torical manner the famous lawyers of past times
who have practiced in York County. One of the
interesting characters sketched and also interesting
to Bowdoin men was that of Judge David Sewall,
born in 1735 and who died in 1825. Besides many
other offices Judge Sewall received the appointment
as Judge of the United States Court for the District
of Maine in President Washington's first term. He
was a graduate of Harvard College, and in 1812
received an honorary degree from Bowdoin. We
clip the following from Mr. Burbank's paper: "He.
evinced great interest in- liberal education, was an
overseer of Bowdoin College for twenty-one years
(fourteen of which he was president of the board),
and was honored by that institution with the
degree of LL.D. He was among the early patrons
of the college, and in his generosity we find the
origin of the "Sewall Prize," which to this day is
annually awarded to successful competitors in pro-
ficiency in Greek and Latin. He died October 22,
1825, aged ninety, crowned with honors, esteem,
and tribute as worthy and liberal as his life was
benevolent and pure.
'65.— Joseph E. Moore has received the appoint-
ment from President Cleveland of Collector of Cus-
toms for the district of Waldoboro, Me. He was
born in Lisbon, Me., March 14, 1841. His father
was Joseph Moore, a native of Parsonsfield. Mr.
Moore is the fifth in a family of seven children, all
of whom are living. He was brought up to work
hard on a farm, his father dying when he was
fourteen years old. By his own energy and efforts
he fitted for college and graduated in 1865, a com-
mencement memorable as having General Grant as
its guest. He read law with Judge May in Lewiston
and Hon. A. P. Gould in Thomaston, and was
admitted to Knox County bar in September, 1868. He
entered into partnership with Mr. Gould in 1871,
which continued until 1877, when he went to
Europe for a year's travel, aud has sinced practiced
in Thomaston. Mr. Moore married Ella Maud
Smith of Thomaston, a writer of ability and note.
Ho has always been a Democrat, and was a delegate
to the Democratic National Convention at Cincin-
nati in 1880, an alternate to the convention at
Chicago in 1884. He represented Thomaston in the
Legislature of 1878, 1883, and 1885, and was Dem-
ocratic Speaker in 1885. He was collector of cus-
toms for the district of Waldoboro for four years,
being appointed by President Cleveland.
'67 and '75. — Rev. S. M. Newman and Mr. Wood-
bury Pulsifer were among the speakers at the annual
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meeting in Washington, D. C, of the Sons and
Daughters of Maine.
72.— Gr. M. Seiders, President of the Maine Sen-
ate, has heen defending Lewis in the Coburn murder
case, which has been attracting so much attention
of late.
73. -A foreign diplomat who is at present attracting
considerable attention in Washington is Hon. Francis
M. Hatch, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Repub-
lic of Hawaii, and his accomplished wife, who are
now visiting this country. Mr. Hatch was born in
Portsmouth, N.H.,in 1852, and is a graduate of Bow-
doiu College in the Class of 73. After leaving college
he studied law, as many of his ancestors and relatives
had done, and while yet a young man removed to
Honolulu, where he entered the office of his uncle,
Judge Harris, who was for many years Chief Justice
of Hawaii under the royal government. After the
death of his uncle he practiced law in Honolulu,
and soon made a reputation as an erudite and elo-
quent member of the bar. Long before the down-
fall of the queen he became interested in the
annexation movement, and two years ago, when
Liliuokalani signed the infamous lottery bill and
trampled ruthlessly upon the constitutional rights
of the people of Hawaii, he promptly joined the
committee of safety and was one of its most influ-
ential members. He was President of the Annexa-
tion Club, and after the formation of the provisional
government under President Sanford B. Dole, the
son of a Bowdoin graduate, he became Vice-Presi
dent of the Republic. Last year he accepted the
very responsible portfolio of Minister of Foreign
Affairs and is said to have displayed marked diplo-
matic talent and great ability in his official relations
with foreign governments. Like a^ great many
other brainy men, Minister Hatch is not of particu-
larly imposing appearance. He is small and dark,
but his features indicate the strong character behind
them. His reputation as an orator was made in
December, 1893, when he delivered a powerful
speech in support of the new government. Minis-
ter Hatch is the fortunate possessor of two homes
in Hawaii, one his town house in Honolulu, and the
other a beautiful summer place upon the beach at
Waiki-ki. His wife is a California woman, who is
well equipped with beauty, education, and cultiva-
tion for the high place she occupies in Hawaiian
society. She is the daughter of Colonel Alexander
G. Hawes, of San Francisco. Minister Hatch's visit
to the United States is said to be on diplomatic
business, the precise nature of which is variously
reported.
'80.— Mr. Eliphalet Greeley Spring died at his
home on State Street in Portland, Thursday even-
ing, at about 6.30 o'clock. Mr. Spring was the only
living son of the late Samuel E. Spring. He was
born in Portland, Me., May 19, 1859. He was edu-
cated in the schools of Portland, and after gradu-
ating from the High School entered Bowdoin Col-
lege in the Class of 1880. Mr. Spring was a member
of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was an editor of the
Orient while in college. Since his graduation he
has been more or less interested in the college and
has had its welfare constantly at heart. From 1880
to 1882 he was connected with the firm of N. W.
Rice & Co., leather merchants. The year following
he was in business in Buenos Ayres, South America.
In 1883 he returned to Portland, Me., identifying
himself with A. & A. E. Spring. In 1884 and 1885
Mr. Spring was abroad. Besides his business con-
nections he was prominent in various ways and has
been a member of the Portland Common Council.
In 1885 he was married to Marcia Winter Ander-
son, nee Edmunds.
'86. — Mr. Levi Turner is a candidate for Munic-
ipal Judge in Portland on the Republican ticket.
'89.— William M. Emery, at present city editor,
becomes editor-in-chief of the New Bedford Even-
ing Journal, succeeding Mr. Alexander MacColl.
'90. — Edgar F. Couant has received the appoint-
ment as attendant physician at the Bridgeport
Hospital, Bridgeport, Conn.
'92.— Mr. Harry W. Kimball of Deering, who
graduates from Andover Theological Seminary in
June, has accepted a call to the Congregational
Church at Skowhegan, to take effect after grad-
uation.
IN MEMORIAM.
Hall of Thbta, a k e, \
February 1, 1895. \
Whereas, This Chapter has heard with sincere
sorrow of the death of one of its members, Eliphalet
Greeley Spring, of the Class of 1880, be it
Besolved, That while we bow to the Divine Will,
we mourn the loss of this loyal brother of our fra-
ternity who is removed in the midst of the active
labors of an honored life; and be it
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the bereaved family and published in the
Bowdoin Orient.
Leroy Sunderland Dewey,
John Clair Minot,
John George Haines,
Committee for the
228
bowdOin orient.
Graduating classes at Yale publish a class book
containing half-tone photographs of the members,
brief reviews of the men during their college course,
a class history, and other interesting statistics.
The total number of men enrolled at Princeton
is 1,102.
The University of Paris has over 7,000 students.
He kissed her on her rosy cheek,
It was a pleasiug smack,
And quick she turned and frowned on him
With— "Now, sir, take that back!"
— Red and Blue.
James Mitchell, the holder of the world's record
for hammer throwing, is now a student in the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania.
Mother Goose Revised.
There was a man in our class,
So wondrous wise was he
That with an ax and many whacks
He once cut down a tree.
And when he saw the tree was down,
With all his might and main,
He straightway took another ax
And cut it up again.
Lehigh is agitating the "honor system" for the
regulation of college examinations.
The faculty of the University of Michigan will
offer an athletic prize for general excellence in ath-
letics. It is to be in the form of a trophy, which
will become the personal property of the winner.
At the Dance.
The maiden fair
Sat on the stair;
Her thoughts she could not sham.
Her slippers neat
So pinched her feet
She softly whispered " D n! "
The new dormitory at Brown will be a handsome
four-story structure. The plans require the three
upper stories should be arranged for dormitory use,
while the lower story and basement for recitation
and laboratory rooms. The dormitory rooms will be
single, since the demand for these is greater.
The Sneeze.
A pause,
A smile,
A scowl erstwhile,
A gasp,
A roar,
And all is o'er.
The class in modern Greek at Cornell Univer-
sity is issuing a Greek newspaper for reading exer-
cises. The journal is known as the Atlantis, and has
been published in New York City for the last six
months. It appeals to a threefold constituency for
support, — the Greeks in America who desire a
journal in their own language; Americans who wish
to read modern Greek for general information ; and
Greeks at home without reliable information con-
cerning the United States.— Cornell Sun.
A Query.
"What is college spirit? "
She blushingly drew near —
" I know that students like it,
Now is it wine or beer ?"
Cornell will train two crews this year, one light
eight to row in the Henley regatta in England, and
a heavy one to meet Pennsylvania.
During the past year Yale has received by gifts
nearly $300,000.
A jolly young chemistry tough
While mixing a compound of stough,
Dropped a match in the phial,
And in a brief whial
They found his front teeth and one cough.
A press club has been organized at Harvard. It
is composed of all the students connected in any
way with college or outside papers.
The class of '97 of Tufts College has voted to
publish a history of that institution uext year, in
place of the regular class annual.
Mother Goose Up to Date.
Sing a song of touch-downs,
A pig-skin full of air ;
Two and twenty sluggers
With long and matted hair.
When the game was opened,
The sluggers 'gan to fight.
Wasn't that, for tender maids,
An edifying sight ? — Brunonian.
About twenty-five men "are in training for a
lacrosse team at Harvard. No games will be ar-
ranged until it is known whether the team will be a
success.
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229
"The Yale Man Up to Date" is the title of a
collection of sketches of Yale undergraduate life,
just issued.
Styles.
In the " gym " one sees
All sorts of idees
In the matter of wearing apparel ;
Some brown, some white,
Some quite out of sight,
While others are reg'lar gym dandies.
There are 431,650 volumes in the 32 libraries at
Harvard.
Cornell has added the Russian language to the
curriculum.
Chicago admits no student to under-graduate
without examination.
The Girl of Poets.
Her brow is " alabaster,"
Her hair is " ruddy gold,"
Her "shell-like ear" is "coral,"
Most lovely to behold.
Her lips are always "rubies "
Concealing " teeth of pearl,"
And with her " eyes like diamonds "
She's quite a costly girl.
The Psychological Laboratory at Yale has insti-
tuted a work-shop for the manufacture of psycho-
logical instruments.
The average salary of the college president is
given as $3,047; of the college professor, $2,015;
and of the instructor, $1,470.
Of Course It Does.
" When we asuuder part
It gives us inward pain " ;
It was to close the meeting
They sang this sad refrain.
"It cannot be denied,
The fact is very plain —
If you should part asunder
You'd feel an inward pain.
— University Herald.
Seven Yale graduates were elected to the House
of Representatives at the last election.
Vassar has challenged Bryn Mawr to a joint
debate.
At St. John's College the lectures are given in
Latin, and even the examinations are carried on in
that language.
One hour of debating each week is a required
course for Amherst Seniors.
The University of Kentucky does not allow col-
lege sports, for fear that the students might be
tempted to gamble on the result.
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YALE MIXTURE is now packed in two
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impairing the flavor or aroma. The boxes
containing this blend have the word "MILD"
printed across the top. The original blend
remains unchanged.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 20, 1895.
No. 14.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. Minot, '96, Managing Editor.
G. T. Ordway, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
. H. R. Blodgett, '96, Business Manager.
B. L. Bryant, '95. A. L. Churchill,, '95.
H. W. Thayer, '95. J. T. Shaw, '95.
A. O. Wiley, '95. H. H. Pierce, '96.
J. B. Roberts, '95. C. W- Marston, '96.
Per annum, in advance $2.00.
Single Copies, 15 Cents.
Extra copies can beobtained atthe bookstores or on applica-
tion to the Business Manager.
Remittances should be made to the Business Manager. 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.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
Personal items should be sent to Box 138, Brunswick, Me.
Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 14.— February 20, 1895.
Editorial Notes 231
The Psi Upsilon Reception, 233
A Correction, 234
Bowdoin Alumni of Boston 234
Hon. F. M. Hatch 235
A Catalogue of Rooms and Roomers, 236
College Republicans of Northern New England, . . 236
A New England Town-Meeting, , 238
The Author of "Thrawn Janet," 240
Bowdoin Verse:
Boyhood Memories, 241
A Gust, 241
Slack 241
Bath 241
Gardiner, .....' 242
Atalanta, ~ 242
Collegii Tabula, 242
T. M. C A., 244
Personal, 244
Book Reviews, 245
College "World 245
speech before the Boston alumni
of Bowdoin last week, President Etyde dwelt
emphatically upon the need of a broader
basis of admission to the college, admitting
students who have not studied Greek to a
course leading to a degree. In this advanc-
ing step the Maine colleges are behind the
others in New England. He said that we
need a broader basis, not a lower, but a broader
basis, of admission. Latin, Greek, and math-
ematics may be the best, they certainly are no
longer the only good ways in which a young
man may prepare for a course of liberal study.
With the single exception of" Yale College,
which has the Sheffield Scientific School by its
side as a part of the university, there is not a
college in New England except the three in
Maine which does not admit students to a
course leading to a degree, who have not
studied Greek. Two years ago authority
was asked for to make a change in this direc-
tion, and it was refused. This year the
Faculty will prepare in advance a definite
alternative for Greek as a requirement for
admission, and submit that proposition to
the governing boards for their approval. The
college is bound to take this step sooner or
later, and the sooner it is taken the better.
Bowdoin must not lose its prestige by being
too conservative in this matter.
232
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
TT7HE Freshman Class is to be congratulated
*■ upon the good sense and manly courage
shown in its recent vote to abolish the horn
concert at the opening of Sophomore year.
Every man in the three upper classes knows
that this is the right step, and admires the
action of '98, though a few may feel obliged
to scoff and say unkind things. But it takes
more real courage to kill out a barbarous old
custom like this than it does to let it con-
tinue with all its accompanying risks of life
and limb. It is sincerely hoped that '98 will
stand by the position it has taken, and that
horn concert will be but a memory of the
past, and no longer a water-soaked, egg-
spattered, head-crushed and crippled reality
of the opening week. Some college customs,
of which old Bowdoin has her share, are
worthy of perpetuation, but horn concert is
not one of them, and the Orient has long
pleaded for its abolishment.
TITHE Junior Class may well feel proud of
-*■ the success of its assemblies this winter.
Those already given have been most select
and delightful social affairs, and it is difficult
to see why any class in the past has failed to
keep up the custom of having this course of
assemblies. The social side of the college
man must be developed, and an occasional
evening in the ball-room offers -a form of
education which it is convenient and pleasant
for every young mau to possess. It may be
that in some colleges legitimate college work
is seriously neglected for social pleasures,
but this has never been true of Bowdoin, and
there is little danger that it ever will be.
It is safe to avoid either extreme in the
matter.
IN our college but little interest has ever
been given to chess, that king of games,
while whist has been more popular, perhaps,
with those having time and inclination for
anything in this line. Now, however, through
the efforts of a few enthusiasts, considerable
interest has been awakened in chess, an
active club has been organized, and good
players are coming to the front. It is prob-
able that a tournament will be arranged with
Colby, where a club has been organized, and
perhaps with other colleges. This is a spur
to every Bowdoin chess player to do his best,
since even in so minor a matter as a chess-
board contest a victory is much to be pre-
ferred to a defeat. The idea of an intercol-
legiate tournament is a good one, and the
Orient hopes our new club can send out
representatives who shall return with the
honors of victory.
"VTOT many years ago the great majority of
J ^ college men entered either the law or
the ministry, but more and more it has been
recognized that as a preparation for any
vocation whatever, a college course is time
most profitably spent. At a recent dinner
of the Williams College alumni in New York
City, J. Edward Simmons spoke on the value
of college training in the formation of busi-
ness character. Generally, this claim has
not been made for college educations, but
Mr. Simmons backed it up certainly with
some very good examples, citing the success
of such men as Chauncey M. Depew, Edward
King, Brayton Ives, John Crosby Brown,
John Claflin, and a number of other promi-
nent business men. There can be little rea-
son to doubt but what the drift of public
sentiment is decidedly in favor of the posi-
tion taken by Mr. Simmons, and that a larger
number of the young men who contemplate
careers outside of the professions are to-day
availing themselves of the advantages of
collegiate training than during any previous
era of the country.
At Princeton the interest in chess is so great
that the expenses of the team at the recent tour-
nament in New York were paid, by a canvass of the
college.
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The Psi Upsilon Reception.
TITHE sixth annual reception and dance of
*- the Kappa Chapter of Psi Upsilon passed
off very brilliantly on the evening of Friday,
the eighth instant. In the afternoon the fra-
ternity gave a very pleasant tea to its out-of-
town guests, in Nos. 5 and 7, South Maine
Hall, between the hours of four and six,
which was matronized by Mrs. Drake of
Bath, and Mrs. Dr. Mitchell of Brunswick.
The rooms were very prettily arranged, and
were filled by about sixty of the Psi U men
and their friends. The catering was by
Murray, of Waterville.
The dance, as usual, was held in Memo-
rial Hall, which was tastefully decorated by
the use of chairs, rugs, portieres, and couches
from college rooms. The patronesses were
seated upon the left of the entrance, the
following ladies receiving: Mrs. William
DeWitt Hyde, Mrs. Stephen Jewett Young,
Mrs. Alfred Mitchell, Mrs. Leslie A. Lee,
Mrs. Franklin C. Robinson, Mrs. William
Addison Houghton, Mrs. Geo. T. Little, and
Mrs. Geo. T. Files. Dancing began shortly
after nine, and was continued until an early
hour in the morning. The tasteful order
contained the following list of dances :
Waltz, ----- Toreador.
Two Step, - - - - Liberty Bell.
Lancers, ----- Robin Hood.
Waltz, ------ My Idol.
Polka, - - - Belles of Baltimore.
Two Step, - - - Dusky Aristocracy.
Waltz, Ma Belle Adore.
INTERMISSION.
Waltz, ----- Sweet Smiles.
Schottische, - - Miss Jones Come Back.
Two Step, - - - Salute to Boston.
Waltz, -. - - Isle of Champagne.
Portland Fancy, - - - Rustic Dance.
Two Step, - . - - Ensilade.
Waltz, - - - - A Night in Naples.
Four extras.
Among those present from out of town
were the following: From Rockland, Mrs.
N. F. Cobb and the Misses Gay ; from
Augusta, Misses Manley, Brooks, Smith,
Messrs. John E. Gould, Dr. B. D. Redlon,
J. E. Dunning, Cony Sturgis; from Port-
land, Mrs. B. F. Harris, Miss Willis, the
Misses Cram, and Misses Brown, Julia E.
Noyes, Carrie McDowell, Davis, Carney,
Kotzchmar, Symonds, Seiders, Verrill, Leigh-
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Gilman, Dr.
R. H. Hunt, Messrs. F. W. Glover, J. E.
Dyer, J. D. Sinkinson, Willis E. Moulton,
William Thompson; from Bath, Mrs. Drake,
Miss Drake, the Misses Worth, and Misses
Sewall, Lucy Moses, Foye, Johnson, Mr.
John Hyde, Dr. Lincoln, Mr. Edward Drake;
from Boston, Miss Haley, Mr. E. B. Young;
from Cambridge, Mr. H. E. Andrews.
The following were the delegates from
the other Greek-Letter fraternities of Bow-
doin : A A § , W. S. A. Kimball, '95 ; A K E,
H. L. Fairbanks, '95; Z¥, Wallace Robinson,
'96; 8 AX, J. S. French, '95, and AT, A. P.
Ward, '96.
The following Psi Upsilon alumni were
present: Prof. William Addison Houghton,
Yale, '73, Barrett Potter, Esq., '78, Chas. H.
Gilman, Esq., '82, Mr. John E. Gould, '85,
Prof. Geo. T. Files, '89, Dr. R. H. Hunt, '91,
Messrs. H. C. Emery, '92, E. B. Young, '92,
Geo. S. Machan, '93, H. E. Andrews, '94,
F. W. Glover, '94.
Gilbert's orchestra, of Portland, furnished
music for the dance, and J. Fields Murray,
of Waterville, made a most acceptable caterer
for both reception and tea.
The dance was the largest and most suc-
cessful which the chapter has ever given,
about one hundred and fifteen people being
present, and will be long remembered as one
of the most brilliant social events of the
winter. William Moulton Ingraham, '95,
Fred Burroughs Smith, '96, Henry Stanley
Warren, '97, and William Witherle Law-
rence, '98, formed the efficient committee of
arrangements.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
A Correction.
To the Editors of the Orient :
TITHE article about Bowdoin in Washington,
-*- copied in your last from the Lewiston
Journal, was very admirable, and as it was evi-
dently written by their correspondent, quite
remarkable for its long and generally accurate
details. There occurs, however, an omis-
sion or two that I hasten to supply so as to
make the record more complete. Among
our most zealous and loyal men on this far-
off station should be mentioned Rev. and
Professor John W. Chickering, '52, who was
an original member of the association. He
occupies a very prominent position as one of
the professors at the National Deaf Mute
College, and enjoys a high reputation as one
of the most accomplished educators in this
line.
Charles Chesley, also of '52, and an orig-
inal member of our association, who for
many years was the learned and capable
solicitor of the Internal Revenue Bureau.
His profound legal skill helped him mold
and shape the early decisions of that
Bureau, and these have been ever since the
precedents by which the future of the
Bureau has been guided. Now, he is one of
our most respected and solid citizens.
Rev. Dr. W. S. Southgate, of '51, the
well known and highly honored rector of the
Episcopal church at Annapolis, Md., who,
when the last vacancy occurred iu the bishop-
ric of that diocese, was so frequently men-
tioned as one eminently qualified for the
place.
Samuel S. Gardner, of '55, is a prominent
official in one of the Treasury bureaus.
He has been especialby active in religious
matters ; for many years he has been one of
the most honored deacons of the First Con-
gregational Church.
Joseph Noble, of '62, who won a good
reputation in the arnry, whence he is called
"Colonel," and for many years has occupied
a responsible position in the Treasury Depart-
ment.
Another member of the association is
Robert E. Peary, of '77, who has made a
name and won a deservedly high place as a
daring and successful arctic explorer and
whose reputation is world-wide.
I would not feel so anxious over this
matter only some of our "boys" constantly
read the Orient and have expressed a regret
that so many of our backbone men should
have been accidentally forgotten.
Alumnus.
Washington, D. C, February 11, 1895.
Bowdoin Alumni of Boston.
YT7HE Bowdoin alumni of Boston and its
*■ vicinity enjoyed their annual banquet
at Copley Square Hotel, Thursday evening,
February 7th, aud renewed the memories
of their college days.
Before the dinner the twenty-seventh
annual meeting of the Alumni Association
was held and the following officers elected
Daniel C. Linscott, '54, President ; Frank A
Hill, '62, Vice-President; William G. Reed
'82, Secretary; Geo. L. Chandler, '68, Asst
Secretary ; Henry Stone, '52, Edward Stan
wood, '61, D. 0. S. Lowell, '74, W. E. Hatch
'75, W. W. Towle, '81, Charles F. Moulton
'87, and E. N. Goding, '91, Executive Com-
mittee. Guests aud members of the asso-
ciation to the number of ninety-five then
filed into the large dining-room and took
positions at their chairs. Rev. George M.
Adams, '44, said grace. On the right of
President Linscott were President William
DeWitt Hyde, Prof. Egbert C. Smyth, '48,
Prof. Leslie A. Lee, Prof. E. E. Woodruff,
Edward Stan wood, '61, and Col. Henry Stone,
'52. On his left were Mayor Edwin U. Cur-
tis, '82, Hon. W. D. Northend, '43, H. G.
Herrick, '44, Joseph Garland, '44, and S. A.
Holt, '46.
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After the dinner the commencement ode
was sung, and President Linscott introduced
the following speakers : President Hyde,
Prof. Smyth, '48, Mayor Curtis, '82, Prof.
Lee, Edward Stanwood, '61, Frank A. Hill,
'62, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, '75, W. E. Spear,
'70. All the speeches teemed with good
things, and were full of Bowdoin enthusiasm
and loyalty. William G. Reed, '82, the sec-
retary of the association, read letters and
telegrams from Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain,
'52, Rev. Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol, '32, Judge
W. L. Putnam, '55, Senator Frye, '50, and
Thomas B. Reed, '60, regretting their inabil-
ity to be present.
Hon. F. M. Hatch. '
To the Editors of the Orient :
WHENEVER we read of any prominent
man being a graduate of Bowdoin, as
we frequently do, the thought immediately
comes, especially to undergraduates, as to
what kind of a "fellow" he was in college.
Just now, much is being written about Hon.
F. M. Hatch, of Honolulu, who came into
prominence during the revolution of last
year, and who is now minister of foreign
affairs in the republic, and at present in
this country on a diplomatic mission.
To the boys in college between '69 and
'73 he was familiarly known as "Chummie"
Hatch. The origin of the name the writer
does not know, but probably it had about
the same origin as many other college nick-
names. It did, however, express very well
one of the characteristics of the young man,
namely, the genuine interest and sympathy
which he always manifested toward those
who were with him in college. Every one
of his classmates surely will always remem-
ber his smiling face and kindly ways. He
was naturally of a retiring disposition, never
putting himself forward, but intensely inter-
ested in all that was going on, and fully
trusted by every one. His classmates could
well understand what an effect his speech
had on the people of Honolulu last year.
However eloquent his words in themselves
were, its chief eloquence was doubtless due
to his sincerity of conviction, taken with his
high reputation for honesty and ability, for
the college life is an infallible index of after
life.
The writer of this was his classmate, but
not until Senior year did he come to know
him except in a general way. It happened
that he roomed on the same floor that year
with Hatch, and by reason of certain extra
astronomical study which several, including
Hatch, undertook, came to understand a
side of his character which he had not before
seen. That was his patient, persistent, and
thorough investigation of a subject in which
he was interested. It can be safely pre-
dicted that those of the State Department
in Washington, who come in contact with
him, will find out that it will not do to
assume that he has not gone to the bottom
of whatever matters he may present to them..
In college he was very much interested
in athletics, and, although of small size, was
a member of a boat crew and prominent
in those fine athletic exhibitions which were
arranged by Dr. D. A. Sargent, then director
of our gymnasium. He was also a promi-
nent officer in the military drill which was
then required of all students. Possibly he
has since had to apply some of the knowl-
edge thus gained. He graduated in the class
of '73, and is now forty-two years old.
Owing to absence from the country he
has not attended a commencement since
graduation, but it is safe to say that he is a
loyal Bowdoin man, and indeed this is shown
by his sending a present of money to the
college last commencement. It is to be
hoped that he will find time to visit the col-
lege before his return to his adopted home.
He would receive an enthusiastic welcome.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
A Catalogue of Rooms and
Roomers.
TITHE following communication from an
-*• alumnus whose staunch loyalty to his
old college has often been manifested, is
worthy the careful consideration of Bow-
doin men. Its suggestion is a good one,
and such a catalogue as he speaks of would
grow in value each year. Who will go ahead
and compile it?
To the Editors of the Orient :
A few weeks ago one of the assistant librarians
of the Congressional Library called my attention
to the unique and most valuable record of the
Class of '76, as it appears in the very beautiful
volume printed under the direction of the class
committee last summer. My knowledge of such
matters is quite limited, but I never before saw so
superb a class record. I noticed in it that some
rooms in the college buildiugs were spoken of as
being famous by reason of having been occupied in
days lang syne by men who afterwards became
noted. So it occurred to me that a book could be
prepared for the college library in which the occu-
pant of every college room could be noted year by
year.
Of North College (excuse me if I use the nomen-
clature I am familiar with), I should think the
occupants of all the rooms could be recalled from
the general catalogues or other official record. Of
Maine Hall all the names since that hall was rebuilt
could in like manner be obtained, and it seems
quite possible that the names of all the occupants
before the Are could be recalled, while the fact of
the fire being properly noted, it would be under-
stood by those who looked over the record, that the
present building was not the original one. The
names of all the occupants of South College could
without doubt be given.
Now where the student roomed at some dwelliug-
house outside the colleges there might be some
plan adopted to locate the house, as for instance,
" The Chateau," which was near the then town-
house, on the Harpswell road, west of the west
comer of the campus, a brief note could be made
to indicate the locality; or the Titcomb house on
Back Street, on the hill above the railroad track,
where Longfellow roomed one .year, could in like
manner be pointed out; or the College House,
which occupied the uorth-west corner of the campus.
I cannot think how there could be any great
amount of labor in getting up such a record, and
wheu it was once made, keeping it up would be very
easy. It is possible that when dwelling-houses'
have disappeared it might be somewhat troublesome
to locate their status in the olden times.
I saw in one of your editorials last fall that a
stranger, stopping over a train to see the college,
could get from the very civil young collegian, who
showed him about the grounds, no clue to any
traditions or the college rooms of some of our most
distinguished graduates. I heartily approve your
suggestion, as made in that article, that every
college man take a pride in making himself familiar
to some degree with such matters.
In my Freshman year, 1845-6, I had one test-
book in which was inscribed the autograph of
Jonathan Cilley, Class of 1825, and another book
having Longfellow's autograph. The first I passed
aloug with my other Freshman books to the nest
class, and the second disappeared in some of my
changes of rooms. What a priceless treasure either
would be now for preservation in the College Library.
Do not understand me to suggest in what I write
above any such nonsensical and silly antiquarian
spirit as Dickens speaks of in "Pickwick Papers,"
in telling about the stove on which appeared the
legend " Bill Stumps, His Mark," but rather to say
that within a proper range there is a just pride in
all that has a halo and a glory around it in the
past, and that we do very well to dwell on these
things.
Forsan et hcec olim meminisse juvabit.
L. Deane, '49.
Washington, D. C, February 2, 1895.
College Republicans of Northern
New England.
TT FORMAL organization of the First
I ^ Department of the American Repub-
lican College League, which includes the
colleges of Maine, New Hampshire, and
Vermont, was made at the Van Ness Hotel,
Burlington, Vt., February 12th. Delegates
were present from all the colleges in the
department except Bates, Maine State, and
Durham University, in New Hampshire.
The following officers were elected : Presi-
dent, F. B. Deberville, University of Ver-
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237
moot ; Vice-President, J. B. Roberts, Bow-
doin ; Secretary, J. C. Bassett, Colby ;
Treasurer, W. A. Foster, Dartmouth; Ex-
ecutive Committee, E. G. Randall, Univer-
sity of Vermont; F. B. Deberville, Univer-
sity of Vermont; J. C. Minot, Bowdoin ;
B. W. Couch, Dartmouth; J. C. Bassett,
Colby.
Messrs. Bassett and Roberts were ap-
pointed a committee to draft a department
constitution, and the following was adopted:
Constitution of the First Department
of the American Republican
College League.
Article I. —Name.
This Department shall be known as the Northern
New England Department of the American Repub-
lican College League.
Article II.— Objects.
The objects of this Department shall be to
further the work and principles of the American
Republican College League.
Article III. — Membership.
This Department shall include the Republican
clubs at the universities of Vermont, Colby, Nor-
wich, and Durham, and the colleges of Bowdoin,
Dartmouth, Bates, Maine State, and Middlebury.
Article IV. — Officers.
Section ]. The officers of this Department
shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary,
Treasurer, and an Executive Committee of five, of
which the President and Secretary shall be ex officio
members.
Sec. 2. The chairman of this Department,
appointed by the President of the American Repub-
lican College League, shall also be the President of
this Department.
Article V. — Duties of Officers.
Section 1. The President, Vice-President, and
Secretary shall perform the usual duties of their
respective offices.
Sec 2. The Treasurer, in addition to the usual
duties of his office, shall collect from the clubs the
tax assessed by the American Republican College
League.
Sec. 3. The Executive Committee shall have
general management of the affairs of the Depart-
ment at times other than the Annual Convention,
and perform such other duties as are imposed by
the Constitutiou.
Article VI.— Conventions.
This Department shall meet in convention yearly
to elect officers and transact all necessary business,
such convention to be called at the time and place
appointed by the Executive Committee.
Article VII.— Delegates.
Each Club represented in this Department, shall
be entitled to one Delegate for every twenty-five
paid-up members.
Article VIII. — Dues.
Besides the regular tax imposed by the Ameri-
can Republican College League, each club in this
Department shall be assessed the sum of one dollar
per year to cover all necessary expenses incurred.
Article IX. — Miscellaneous.
Copies of the constitutions of the American Re-
publican College League and of this Department
shall be in the possession of the President, Secre-
tary, and Treasurer of this Department, and also
of the Secretary of each Club.
Article X. — Amendments.
This Constitution may be amended by a majority
vote of the delegates present at the Annual Con-
vention.
Considerable interest was shown in the
work and new clubs will be started in every
college not already represented in the de-
partment.
In the afternoon the delegates were
entertained by the Young Men's Republican
Club of Vermont, and, in connection with
the celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birth-
day, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew delivered
the oration.
In the evening a banquet was held at the
armory, at which over 700 were present.
Among the after-dinner speakers were Hon.
Chauncey M. Depew, Col. George T. Childs,
F. B. Deberville, Hon. Albert Clarke, Hon.
O. M. Barber, and George M. Powers.
A gift of $1,000 was made to Pennsylvania for
the purchase of books, maps, aud lantern slides
used iu the Latin and Greek courses.
238
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
A New England Town-Meeting.
£INE good old New England institution
" which is withstanding the assaults of
Time much better than many of its fellows,
is the town-meeting. As old as Freedom
herself is the history of the town-meeting.
It has existed, under various forms and
names, for the execution of public business
wherever man has known any form of self-
government; but, like many New England
customs and institutions, the New England
town-meeting is characteristic of no other
section of the world.
Once each spring, generally on the first
Monday of March, since the days of the
Pilgrim Fathers, the voters of each town
assemble in open meeting to elect municipal
officers, to raise money for various purposes,
and to dispose of matters of town interest
which may have been mentioned in the war-
rant, posted a week .or two previous to the
meeting. State and national laws may con-
trol the methods of procedure at state and
presidential elections, but the town election,
commonly called " the March meetin'," is a
local institution, and governed in the main
by local customs and traditions. No compli-
cated system of voting is employed; the
printed ballot is unknown ; the check-list is
dispensed with, and the place of assembly is
a forum where speech is free to all.
Early on this important Monday the good
farmers of the town come over the snowy
roads, some riding, some walking, to the old
red town-house which is situated near the
center of the town. Perhaps, if it is a grow-
ing, progressive town, this building is situated
in its main village, and is known as the town-
hall. Here it will have a basement for teams
and an upper story for the use of the Grange,
or Good Templars, or Masons. Its main hall
will be used during the year by traveling
shows and amateur dramatic clubs. But the
typical old New England towns seldom know
the town-hall. They cling to the old town-
house, centrally located, built early in the
century, and in many cases with the town
cemetery, always known as the burying-
ground, lifting its modest tombstones near
by. It is along this cemetery fence that the
farmers hitch their horses this bright March
morning. Then they gather in the sunshine
around the door, or inside around the crack-
ling wood fire in the rusty old barrel-shaped
stove, and whittle and gossip until the town
clerk arrives to open the meeting. They
discuss the town report for the past year,
wonder about the size of the winter snow
bill, talk over the advisability of a new bridge
over Muskrat Stream, and compare the qual.
ities, especially the sound judgment, of the
candidates for selectmen.
Few there are in the crowd who do not
use tobacco in one form or the other;' fewer
still who wear a linen shirt or any other head-
gear than a heavy cap. Brown and rough
are their hands and faces, uncut their hair,
and an unmistakable odor of the barn arises
from their rough clothing. There is a nasal
twang in their speech, and rules of grammar
are unceasingly disregarded. But there is
the bright gleam of honesty and intelligence
in their eyes, there is shrewdness in their
faces, energy in their bearing, and logic and
sound sense in their talk. There runs in
their veins, and there will run in the veins of
their children, that same blood that has made
the name of New England so honored through-
out the world, and this little assembly of one
hundred or two hundred men at the old red
town-house among the snow-covered hills
of Maine is emblematic of the highest
and grandest civilization that the world has
attained.
Now the town clerk has arrived, and
takes his position behind a little table on
the raised platform which extends across one
end of the hall. On a few benches and settees
behind him sit a dozen or two of the old men
and dignitaries of the town. There are a few
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239
other scattered seats, but most of the crowd
remains standing. Hats are never taken off
except in addressing the presiding officer.
The town clerk reads the warrant, and then
calls out, " Gentlemen, please forward your
votes for moderator ! " And then the voting
begins.
Strange as it may seem, party lines are
generally quite strictly drawn at these town-
meetings, and a dull or one-sided meeting is
seldom known. In the theory of things state
and national politics should play no part in
local elections and matters, but they do play
an important part, and the party which casts
the most votes at the state and national elec-
tions usually elects its candidates at the town-
meeting. Seldom indeed will a man of one
party vote for one of the other for selectman
or constable, though the latter may be his
neighbor and intimate friend and in every
way fitted for the office. Each party holds
its caucus either the week before or on the
morning of the meeting, and votes for the
candidates are written on little slips which
are thoroughly distributed before each ballot.
Now the voters crowd and push their way up
to the ballot-box, held by the clerk at the
table, where they deposit the slip containing
the name of their choice. Though no check-
list is used, seldom indeed is repeating, or
such a thing as any kind of fraud, ever heard
of in connection with these town-meetings.
After all have voted the clerk declares
the polls closed, the votes are sorted and
counted, and the choice of the meeting for
moderator is announced. The gentleman
thus honored is sworn in by the clerk, takes
his place at the table, and thereafter presides
over the meeting. Then the clerk is elected"
and in turn sworn in by the moderator.
Then the three selectmen, — who are asses-
sors, overseers of the poor, and in general
the "fathers of the town" — treasurer, col-
lector, school committee, constable, and sex-
ton are likewise elected by ballot. There is
generally plenty of politics in the election
of each officer, and often party feeling and
excitement run high. Then the minor officers
are elected by acclamation. Some of them
are fence-viewers, measurers of lumber, scal-
ers of bark, pound-keeper, tythingmen, and
hog-reeves. ' These officers, especially the last
three, are relics of the early civilization of
New England, and their duties are probably
not known to many of the younger genera-
tion. Their election is now a meaningless
form and is often the occasion of much fun
and raillery. Few are the true New England
towns, however, which fail to elect these
officers.
It is now probably well on toward noon,
and the enterprising village store-keeper, who
has se.t up a branch establishment at the
town-house with pea-nuts and corn-cakes for
sale, is doing a thriving business. After the
offices for the ensuing year, important and
unimportant, are disposed of, come the appro-
priations for roads and bridges, support of
poor, town expenses, etc. Over these, since
upon them hinges the ever-important matter
of taxes, there is nearly always much discus-
sion, and many a worthy citizen wins fame,
brief and local to be sure, by gaining the rec-
ognition of " Mr. Moderator " and then ex-
pressing clearly and strongly his views on
the disputed subject. Every man's right to
speak is recognized, and a speaker is always
respectfully listened to.
Sometimes these appropriations and other
matters that may come up in the warrant are
quickly settled, sometimes the whole after-
noon is consumed, and sometimes an ad-
journed meeting has to be held. Generally,
however, the sight of the sun sloping into
the west, and the accompanjdng suggestions
of evening chores, causes the assembly to
hasten its deliberations. The meeting is ad-
journed and the voters hasten homeward.
Quarrels are forgotten, and good feeling and
common interests reign in the hearts of all.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
The battered door of the old town-house is
closed, shutting in the little forum with its
much-worn, tobacco-stained floor, its drifts of
handbills, old votes, and pea-nut shells, and
its echoes of eloquence. It will not be
opened again until another town-meeting
day comes around, unless perhaps the build-
ing may be used for the singing-school next
fall and winter.
The Author of "Thrawn Janet."
T^OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was born
*■ \ and brought up in Scotland, that little
country which had already produced many
men whose names stand among those of the
very first writers of the English language.
His home was in Edinburgh. Even while a
boy he was always reading or writing, and
to his neighbors he "was the pattern of an
idle boy." Circumstances forced him to try
engineering, and later, law. But he early
abandoned these to turn to his beloved pro-
fession of literature. This was in 1873. For
several years he made a study of style in
writing, critically examining that of the best
writers, trying to perceive the effect of every
little word, and carefully noticing the slight-
est shades of difference in expression which
change the meaning of the same words.
James Payn declares that any young man
of ability may be trained to literature, as to
any other profession. Although it cannot be
denied that Stevenson had very great natural
talents, still, this was the method which he
pursued and which, without doubt, contrib-
uted much to his signal success. He himself
has said that he used to write in imitation of
Sir Thomas Browne, and Hooker, to see how
nearly he could reproduce their style. But
his health was very poor and he could not
breathe the air of Scotland without pain. So
he traveled in different parts of France,
remaining there for several years. In 1881 his
first book appeared, "Virginibus Puerisque,"
a volume of delightful little essays. Every
one knows about his strange trip to this
country and his romantic marriage in Cali-
fornia. For several years before his death
he lived in Samoa; and thence have issued i
at intervals all too short, a dozen or more vol-
umes, representing attempts in almost every
department of literature. Fiction, essays,
poetry, plays, and history he wrote, and he
was successful in everything he tried. His
writings are eminent for elegance and purity.
His essays furnish the best example of this.
When in his novels this beauty of diction is
added to the most vivid and fertile imagina-
tion, the interest, delight, and admiration of
the reader are unbounded. The story sweeps
him along to its conclusion ; and he eagerly
awaits another. Alas ! Now he must wait
forever.
Stevenson, himself, referring to the fact
that the conception of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde " came to him in a dream, once said to
some one : "The fact is that I am so much
in the habit of making stories that I go on
making them while asleep, quite as hard,
apparently, as when I am awake. They
sometimes come to me in the form of night-
mares, in so far that they make me cry out
aloud."
Considering the number of books he has
written, it is singular in how few of them
woman plays even a small part. This is one
of his most marked peculiarities. He was
very fond of making psychological analyses
of character and of hearing and telling weird
tales. He had great power in depicting the
horrible. He contended that the improbable
was what had most character.
Edgar Allan Poe believed that if stories
were to be perfectly artistic they should be
short. He developed a theory about the
writing of fiction as well as of poetry. He
said that every single word of a tale should
directly contribute to the impression which
it is desired to make on the reader's mind ;
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this, he thought, would be impossible in a
very long story. This is applicable to the
case of Stevenson, who was rather inclined
to short stories. For his success with these
is due, in a great part, to the fact that the
interest never for a moment flags, there being
not a word more or less than is absolutely
needed to produce the intended effect. It is
said that at the time of his death he was
learning the Samoan language, in order that
he might write a story for the natives in their
own tongue. This is another evidence of
his untiring energy. He was much beloved
by the Samoans. They called him " Tusitala"
The-Teller-of-Stories.
Time has a curious way of stamping lit-
erary work. Some things which do not at
first attract much notice, live forever; while
some others, enjoying for a little time wide-
spread popularity, become totally forgotten
after a few years. But now, at least, all the
critics are unanimous in rating very highly
that which Stevenson has written. Whether
his works will become immortal or not, re-
mains to be seen. Some of us, for the sake
of future readers, hope so.
Bowdoii? ^)ep§e,
Boyhood Memories.
(With apologies to Thomas Hood.)
I remember, I remember,
The bouse wbere I was born,
The bed from which I used to roll
At four o'clock each mora ;
I never slept a wink too long,
Nor rose a wink too soou,
Although I had " three cords of wood
To cut 'twixt now and noon."
I remember, I remember,
The thistles sharp and keen ;
The sufferings I underwent
From eating apples green !
The pond in which I used to swim,
My brother's fav'rite spot
In which he sat and tied my clothes
In every kind of knot.
I remember, I remember,
The school-house, four-by-six,
The many wallopings I got
When caught at playing tricks;
The master, wielding the rattan,
The boys, who told on me,
The girls, who laughed when I got thrashed,
All in my mind I see.
I remember, I remember,
The shoe my mother wore,
And how she said if it hurt me
It pained her vastly more ;
I learned good lessons from that shoe,
And now 'tis little joy
To know I need it none the less
Than when I was a boy.
A Gust.
Old Winter now is on apace,
And we are with her in the race ;
With heads bent low, for winds are bleak,
With muffled face and glowing cheek,
We forge along through howling blast,
And wish the icy months were past.
Yet, what care we for driving snow
Or how we flounder to and fro ?
We blow our fingers, stamp our feet,
And shout to others on the street
With joyous laughter, rippling clear;
For sure, we hold old Winter dear.
Slack.
She showed the damaged furniture,
Lime-spattered, front and back,
But the whitewasher replied demure,
" My man was careful, I am sure,
Though the lime, 'tis true, was slack."
Bath.
Here's the health of the fair shipping city,
The queen of the stern northern coast;
Whose fleet ships and beautiful maidens
Are the treasures well worthy her boast.
'Tis not strange that the boys of old Bowdoin
Come to Bath their time to beguile,
For, since Bath is the name of the city,
They bathe in each fair maiden's smile.
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Gardiner.
On the banks of the Kennebec river,
In happy old days long ago,
Was the Garden of Eden once seated,
Whence this town took its name, as you know;
And the daughters of Eve still allure us,
And their apples still give us the cramps,
But the Garden is gone, and around us
Are but hill-tops and ice-fields and tramps.
Atalanta.
A maiden of mythical fame, Atalanta,
Of masculine hearts, a coquettish enchanter,
The fleetest of mortals in running outclassed,
And in contest of beauty all rivals surpassed.
Suitors of wealth fain the maiden would wed,
Yet to all, in firm tones, the fair charmer said,
That the one who would win must prove himself
fleeter,
And in fair, open contest of swiftness defeat her.
Brave Meilanion, a youth of wond'rous persistence,
Fell in love with the maid, and laughed at resistance;
But, begging of Venus great gifts to prepare,
Determined to win her by means foul or fair.
Atalanta ran swiftly, as poets have told,
But her lover hurled forward Venus' apples of gold ;
She paused in her course, and her suitor soon
missed her ;
He won the great contest — then wickedly kissed her.
A week ago Thursday a call was
issued to the chess players among the
students. As a result of this meeting
a Chess Club has been formed— Ly-
ford, '96, president, and Welch, '98,
secretary and treasurer, which purposes to meet
every week and play chess.
The term is half through. '
Marston, '96, went home sick last Sunday.-
Preble, '98, has recently come back from teaching.
Russell, '97, is back from a long term of school.
. Sykes, '94, was on the campus for a short time
last week.
Fessenden, '96, was down from Augusta over a
recent Sunday.
Kueeland, '97, returned last week from teaching
a ten week's school.
Reed has given each 'varsity foot-ball man a
large picture of the team.
Plumstead, '96, is back again at college, after
teaching a successful term.
Ordway, '96, aud Stanwood, '98, went to their
homes in Boston, Saturday.
Rev. E. B. Mason preached on "Divorce" at a
recent Sunday evening service.
Washington's birthday, next Friday, will be
observed as a holiday as usual .
Rev. J. L. Quimby, of Gardiner, has joined '95,
and is taking the regular course.
A large party of members of the Legislature
visited the college last Saturday.
St. Valentine Day — the 14th— has come and
gone, aM^ftlf of us didn't know it.
Midot, '96, has been filling the city editor's place
on the Kennebec Journal for a week.
Andrews, '94, was with friends on the campus
three or four days of week before last.
Professor Robinson has been lately appointed a
member of the State Board of Health.
We have to chronicle another whist party in
Bath enjoyed by several Bowdoin boys.
The first week or so of February was as cold a
period as old Boreas often gives to Maine.
Manager Ordway is in correspondence with other
colleges, making dates for next fall's team.
In English Literature the Seniors are now on
Shakespeare, and the Juniors on Tennyson.
A large party of pupils from the Lisbon Falls
High School visited the college February 9th.
The Orchestra is expected to make its debut in
the near future, at some college entertainment.
The Sophomore division in Physics have finished
laboratory work in light and will take up electricity
next.
President Hyde and Professors Lee and Wood-
ruff were in Boston at the alumni meeting week
before last.
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243
Workmen have been busy lately fitting up Pro-
fessor Hutchins's workshop with shafting and elec-
tric dynamos.
Hager, '97, has organized a class of about thirty
students in dancing. It meets Monday and Thurs-
day evenings.
The Juniors taking Biology have been working
under Mr. Machan during the week's absence of
Professor Lee.
On account of the concert this week, President
Hyde's lecture was given Monday evening instead
of on Tuesday evening.
Knowlton, '95, celebrated his twenty-first birth-
day Saturday evening, February 9th, by entertain-
ing a large party of his friends.
At the recent dedication of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Freeport, Professors Chapman and
Mitchell were on the programme.
Of all places in the world for a frozen water
pipe the Art Building is the last. But week before
last the plumbers had a day's job on the pipes.
J. B. Roberts, '95, was in Burlington, Vt., last
week, as the Representative of the Bowdoin Re-
publican Club at the Northern New England con-
vention.
The Junior chemists have .turned soap makers,
along with their various other accomplishments,
and are turning out a superior brand — in small
quantities.
The Oakes poisoning case in Bangor and the
Hughes case in Portland have both required the
attendance of Professor Robinson within the past
two weeks.
Last Wednesday the Snow-Shoe Club enjoyed a
run to Paradise Spring and across the river. The
number of snow-shoers is increasing with the pres-
ent good snow-shoeing.
C. G. Fogg, '96, took rather an extended tramp
last Thursday and Friday, his destination being
Bangor, a distance of a hundred and some odd
miles, and his walking time less than two days.
The revival services at the Methodist Church
have been well attended by the students, particu-
larly the Sunday and Wednesday evening services.
To say the least, the services have been interesting.
The students are availing themselves of the
opportunity to buy cheap books. For six cents, at
one store down town, you can buy a fair edition of
Doyle, or Jerome, or, Harraden, and a host of lesser
authors.
The following leaders have been elected for the
class drill squads in their contest for the silver cup
at the annual athletic exhibition: J. T. Shaw, '95,
J. H. Bates, '96, S. L. Merriman, '97, and C. S. Pet-
tengill, '98.
The field-day squads are practicing daily in the
gym such events as are possible. Starting, the high
jump, hurdles, etc., indoors, and a short run in the
snow out-doors, form the programme of the field-
day athlete.
The second themes for the Junior Political Econ-
omy Class are due March 5th. The following
subjects are given: "The French Bimetallic Law";
"The Fall in the Prices Since 1873"; and ''The
Depreciation of Silver."
The Sophomore Class has elected the following
officers: President, R. W. Smith ; Vice-Presidents,
J. E. Rhodes and R. H. Clark ; Secretary, B. J.
Fitz; Treasurer, J. M. Shute; Captain of Field
and Track Team, J. H. Home.
The second Junior assembly was held in Town
Hall, Wednesday evening, February 13th, and was a
very successful social affair. Many young ladies
were present from out of town. There were about
forty couples on the floor. Wilson, of Lewiston,
furnished music.
The Glee and Banjo and Guitar Clubs are meeting
with most flattering receptions, and have been
accorded high praise in Freeport, Bath, and Gar-
diner. These clubs are probably the best the college
has ever had, and are of an excellence that would
be a credit to any college. They have a number
of dates ahead, and will probably be heard by this
college before long.
The Freshman Class has elected the following
officers: President, W. E. Preble; Vice-Presi-
dents, J. E. Odiorne and E. K. Welch; Secretary
and Treasurer, W. W. Lawrence; Field and Track
Captain, C. F. Kendall; Foot-Ball Manager, T. L.
Pierce; Foot-Ball Captain, E. Stanwood, Jr. ; Base-
Ball Manager, A. B. White; Representative on
College Athletic Committee, G. F. Stetson.
The Class of '95, Maine Medical School, Friday,
elected the following officers: President, T. W.
Luce ; Vice-Presidents, H. L. Martin, W. B. Flint,
C. W. Foss; Secretary, L. C. Bickford; Treasurer,
F. W. Lamb; Orator, J. E. Keating; Marshal, R.
A. Holland; Executive Committee, E. L. Burnham,
Thomas Howell, W. E. Gould, G. E. Parsons, A. L.
Macomber.
The Bowdoin College Library has the munificent
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gift of $1,000 from Mr. George S. Bowdoin. This
money is for a general book fund for the purchasing
of such new books as the librarian shall think
proper. Mr. Bowdoin is a New York man and a
direct descendant from Governor Bowdoin for whom
the college is named. Mr. Bowdoin is also related
to Governor Sullivan, a part of whose name he
bears, and is a connection of Alexander Hamilton,
quite a remarkable ancestry. He has always been
quite a friend to the college.
The Senior Class has elected the following
officers, reported by the nominating committee :
President, F. L. Fessenden; Vice-President, L. F.
Soule ; Secretary and Treasurer, G. B. Mayo; Com-
mittee of Arrangements, W. M. Ingraham, C. E. D.
Lord, J. S. French ; Committee on Pictures, T. V.
Doherty, A. W. Morelen, G. C. Webber; Toast-
master, A. Mitchell, Jr. ; Orator, F. O. Small ; Poet,
H. W. Thayer; Chaplain, A. G. Axtell ; Marshal,
L. S.Dewey; Opening Address, H. E. Holmes; His-
tory, C. S. Christie ; Prophecy, J. W. Crawford ;
Statistician, R. T. Parker; Odist, H. B. Russ; Clos-
ing Address, G. E. Simpson.
The knowledge that graduates of the college,
who during their course were actively connected
with the Association, are still interested in the
work, is a source of inspiration to the present mem-
bership. Mr. George A. Merrill, Bowdoin, '94,
who is at Andover Theological Seminary, writes as
follows :
"On Thursday— Day of Prayer for Colleges— at
11 a.m., all of the Bowdoin boys in the Seminary—
viz., Randall, Webb, Rich, Kimball, Lord, Bliss,
and I, together with President Smyth and Dr. Tor-
rey, who, as you know, are Bowdoin graduates,
met in Kimball's room and had a short prayer-
meeting in behalf of the college. President Smyth
thought it would be well to inform you in some way
that we have held this meeting and that prayers
have been offered for the success of the Christian
work in Bowdoin. Perhaps it would be well for
you to speak of this in the T. M. C. A. It would
serve to let the boys know the interest we feel in
this work."
The services during the past two weeks were as
follows : ■
Thursday, February 7th. Leader, Clough, '96.
Sunday, February 10th. Address by C. G.
Fogg, '96.
- Thursday, February 14th. Leader, Soule, '95.
Sunday, February 17th. Address by Mr. Emery.
Tuesday evening, February 5th, President Hyde
lectured on "Sin. Law, and Judgment." The sub-
ject of his lecture on the following Tuesday was
" Salvation."
'52. — John Holmes Goode-
now, of Alfred, Me., who
was appointed minister to Turkey
early in the Lincoln administration,
was taken to the White House before his
departure for his post, to be presented
to the President. When Lincoln learned that
his visitor was a grandson of John Holmes, one
of the first senators from Maine and a man of
note in his day and generation, he immediately
began the recitation of a poetical quotation which
must have been more than a hundred lines in length.
Mr. Goodenow never having met the President, was
naturally astonished at this outburst, and as the
President went on and on with this long recitation,
the suspicion crossed his mind that Lincoln had
suddenly taken leave of his wits. But when the
lines had been finished the President said : " There !
that poem was quoted by your grandfather Holmes
in a speech which he made in the United States
Senate in " and he named the date and specified
the occasion. As John Holmes' term in the senate
ended in 1833, and Lincoln probably was impressed
by reading a copy of the speech rather than by
hearing it, this feat of memory appears most
remarkable. If he had been by any casualty
deprived of his sight his own memory could have
supplied him with an ample library.— Noah Brooks,
in January Century.
'74. — Charles F. Kimball, of Chicago, acted as
toast-master at the banquet of the Sons and Daugh-
ters of Maine, February 13th, held in Chicago.
'82. — " Only one thing gives a college more sat-
isfaction than to see her sons holding positions of
honor and responsibility ; and that is to see them
filling those positions with wisdom and integrity.
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245
And Bowdoin College finds both these grounds of
satisfaction in the administration of Mayor Curtis,
of Boston." — [President Hyde.]
'85. — Alfred W. Rogers is superintendent of
schools at Stockbridge, Mass.
Hon., '85.— The presentation of a portrait of
Chief Justice John A. Peters, by the members of
the Penobscot Bar to the Bar Association, to be
hung at the court house, occurred February 4th at
Bangor, Me. Hon. A. W. Paine, President of the
Bar, presided and made remarks. Other speakers
were Hon. S. F. Humphrey, '48; F. A. Wilson, Esq.,
'53; F. H. Appleton, Esq., '64; Col. Jasper Hutch-
ins, Gen. Charles Hamlin, '55; Gen. H. L. Mitchell,
of Bangor; John F. Lynch, Esq., of Machias, and
Judge L. A. Emery, '61, of Ellsworth. The speeches
were a warm tribute to the ability and many excel-
lent qualities of the Chief Justice. A feeling
response was made by the Chief Justice. Letters
were read from Judge T. H. Haskell, Judge S. C.
Strout, of Portland ; Judge W. P. Whitehouse, of
Augusta; Judge A. P. Wiswell, 73, of Ellsworth;
Hon Josiah Crosby, '35, of Dexter; Hon. G. T. Sew-
all, '67, of Old Town. A committee was appointed
to see about a similar portrait of the late Chief
Justice Appleton, '22. A banquet was served at
the close of the speeches.
'86. — George M. Norris, now a lawyer at Fair-
field, 111., is also secretary and treasurer of the
Southern Illiuois Improvement Company.
'89.— George L. Rogers, recently county attorney,
and residing in Farmington, Me., has moved to
Watertown, Mass.
'89. — Erasmus Manson, now a journalist in Du-
luth, Minn., was united in marriage on February
6th to Miss May Alma Day of Lewiston, eldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. I. Day. The wedding
was a brilliant social affair.
'89. — William M. Emery, upon the recent resig-
nation of Editor MacColl of the New Bedford
(Mass.) Evening Journal, has been promoted to be
managing editor of the Journal. In this connec-
tion the Fall River (Mass.) Herald said: "The
new editor of the Neiv Bedford Journal will be City
Editor Emery, who is a live journalist and fully
equipped for the responsibility. He is familiar with
the policy of the paper and will prove a worthy
successor to Mr. MacColl. His promotion has been
earned not only by his intellectual equipment, but
by the earnestness of his effort to reproduce in
print the lights and shadows of life as it happens
to be from day to day in our growing neighbor."
Mr. Emery, in addition to his regular position,
was on January 1st appointed clerk of the board
of license commissioners of New Bedford.
Book I^eview§.
Eight new Old South Leaflets have just been
added to the series published by the Directors of
the Old South Studies in History, in Boston. These
new leaflets are all reprints of documents relating to
early New England history, as follows: Bradford's
Memoir of Elder Brewster, Bradford's First Dialogue ,
Winthrop's "Conclusions for the Plantation in New
England," "New England's First Fruits," 1643, John
Eliot's " Indian Grammar Begun," John Cotton's
" God's Promise to His Plantation," Letters of Roger
Williams to Winthrop, and Thomas Hooker's " Way
of the Churches of New England." These leaflets are
a most welcome addition to the series in which so
many valuable original documents, otherwise hard
to obtain, are now furnished at the cost of a few
cents. The Old South Leaflets are rendering our
historical students and all of our people a great
servioe. The numbers of the eight new leaflets, 48
to 55, remind us how large and important the col-
lection has already become.
Harvard Freshmen will probably challenge the
Yale Freshmen to debate.
R. C. Ringwalt has been elected president of
the Harvard Union for the year 1895.
Yale has twenty-one candidates for her 'Varsity,
and fifty for her Freshman crew.
A " Whisker Club," consisting of twenty Seniors
in the Law School, has been organized at the
University of Michigan.
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Andrew B. Inbrie, of New York, won the first
prize of $1C0 in the Baird contest in oratory at
Princeton.
Military companies have been formed from the
academic and scientific Senior classes at Yale.
Princeton has refused the challenge of the
University of Pennsylvania for dual field and track
athletic games this spring.
The Lawyer.
In college days he used to lie
On shady banks of brooks,
Which babbled soft accompaniments
To which he read in books.
Now he has laid his studies by
To seek the legal dime,
And, quite forgetting other days,
He lies most all the time.
— Detroit Free Press.
Trinity College receives $25,000 from the will
of the late Mr. Kenney of Hartford, Conn.
Ninety-two Yale graduates have been college
presidents, and seventeen cabinet officers.
Harvard is to have a large addition to her gym-
nasium, a gift of Augustus Hemenway.
Geological.
A stratum of solid, slippery ice,
A stratum of slush, soft and nice;
A stratum of water over that,
A stratum of man in new silk hat;
Above, the startled air is blue,
"With oath on oath a stratum or two.
— The Unit.
Cornell has one hundred and nineteen less
Freshmen this year than last. The four athletic
captains at Yale decided to award the Y to the
best gymnast each year.
Yale has fifteen college presidents.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 6, 1895.
No. 15.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE TEAR ET THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. Minot, '96, Managing Editor.
G. T. Ordway, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
H. R. Blodgett, '96, Business Manager.
B. L. Brtant, '95. A. L. Churchill, '95.
H. "W". Thater, '95. J. T. Shaw, '95.
A. G. Wilet, '95. H. H. Pierce, '96.
J. B. Roberts, '95. C. W- Marston, '96.
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 Manager.
Remittances should be made to the Business Manager. 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.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
Personal items should be sent to Box 138, Brunswick, Me.
Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as SecoDd-ClassMail Matter.
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 15.— March 6, 1895.
Editorial Notes 247
Bowdoin in the Past, 249
Two Pictures, 250
A Country Auction, 252
Bowdoin Verse:
The Candidate 255
On Lying 255
The New Death King, 255
A Love Tragedy, 255
The Spring and the Lake 255
Collegii Tabula, 256
Y. M. C. A 258
Personal, 259
Book Reviews, 260
College Would 260
The unusual amount of sickness
among the students the present term has been
very noticeable. There have been no serious
cases, but there have been many cases of
grippe in its various forms, throat trouble,
colds, and minor ailments that have been
very unpleasant to the victims, and have
caused interruptions to their college work.
Now the local physicians, and their opinions
are of much weight in this matter, declare
that by far the greater part of this sickness
has been entirely unnecessary, and has been
due to the extreme carelessness and negli-
gence of the students. How often, on the
coldest days, many of us go to our meals, to
chapel, or to recitations without overcoats.
Or, if we wear them to recitations, how often
we sit with them on when the room is too
warm, or take them off when the tempera-
ture is too low for comfort with them on.
How careless we are about pure air in our
sleeping rooms and about changing from
heavy to light clothing. Not until it is too
late and we find ourselves sick and obliged
to go home, or else in that most unenviable
situation of being sick in the college dormi-
tories, do we realize how foolishly we have
exposed ourselves and what risks we have
run. A little care in this matter in time is
worth much repentance and many good reso-
lutions when it is too late. A New England
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winter and spring are dangerous seasons to
those as careless as college boys insist on
being. The real old King Grippe (the editor
uses the title and capitalization as a mark of
high respect, born of personal acquaintance)
is a visitor whose presence we would less
systematically court if we knew beforehand
the nature and results of his stay with us.
TT7HE cumbersome documents known as the
A college regulations and the articles of
agreement between the college and the stu-
dent body have been recently revised and
simplified and will soon be printed for dis-
tribution in their new form. This is a good
move and will be appreciated by all the
students. The old regulations and articles
of agreement were so elaborate and intricate
that it required considerable study on the
part of the student to know what he had a
right to expect of the college and what the
college might expect of him. In the con-
densed and simple form in which they will
soon be issued, they will be accepted gladly
by the students. We should all be thor-
oughly familiar with these regulations and
articles, and now there will be much less
excuse for ignorance in the matter.
BOWDOIN men, as well as hosts of outside
friends of the institution and its presi-
dent, will be glad to know that the series of
lectures recently delivered before the stu-
dents will be published very soon in book
form by Macmillan & Co., of New York. The
volume will be of some 275 pages and will
bearthe title of "Social Theology." Com-
ing from an authority now so generally rec-
ognized in the religious and intellectual life
of the country, the book will command wide
attention. It will make our college more
highly honored and respected. Those who
were so fortunate as to hear the lectures will
prize the book all the more highly.
TITHE suggestions brought forward in a re-
*■ cent Orient for a Maine Intercollegiate
Field Day the coming spring were most
favorably received by those interested in the
athletic life of the college. The enthusi-
astic meeting which followed shows that
Bowdoin will enter heartily into this move-
ment and do all possible to make it a success.
Communications have been sent to each of
the other three colleges in the state, asking
them to join Bowdoin in establishing a Maine
Field Day. It is sincerely hoped none will
refuse to join in the movement. It was
Bowdoin's place to take the lead in this
matter, but it is of importance to all the
colleges that it be made a success, since all
will reap the benefits. The matter must be
pushed until the Field Day is a reality.
TTRE you interested in the new books which
/I the college library secures from time to
time? Of course you are. It is a matter
of much importance to every student. Not
that we have all read the fifty thousand and
more volumes already there, and are eagerly
waiting to devour the new ones as fast as
they come, but out of the vast number of
new books annually published it is an impor-
tant matter that the ones most needed by
the Bowdoin library be selected. This proc-
ess of selection can be made by the many
who are interested along different lines better
than it can be made by one or two. With
these ideas in view of familiarizing students
with books recently secured and of talking
over the new books needed, Professor Little
is organizing his informal Monday evening
club to meet in the library. All students
interested are cordially invited to be present
each Monday evening to inspect the new
books and to discuss what books to have
next. Participation in this informal meeting
will not only be very beneficial to us, but it
will result in good to the library and will
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make the labors of the librarian more effi-
cient and pleasant. An average of two
thousand volumes each year is added to the
library, and it is a privilege all should wel-
come to have a voice in choosing these.
TT7HE Maine Interscholastic Athletic Asso-
*■ ciation has become a power among the
high schools and academies of the state. It
has given a great impetus to amateur athletics
in Maine, and has had an influence on college
athletics not fully realized and appreciated
by our colleges. To be sure each college has
a representative on its executive committee,
and Bowdoin has furnished most of the
officers for its annual field days, but we have
not shown the interest in it and have not
given it the active support that we should
in consideration of the training and expe-
rience that it gives young men who are later
members of our college foot-ball, base-ball,
and athletic teams. It is well that the recent
annual business meeting of the association
was held on our campus, as a personal
acquaintance with the delegates and a
better knowledge of what the association
has done and is planning to do will surely
give us a keener interest in its welfare. A
report of the meeting is given in another
column. A feature of the meeting which
especially concerns Bowdoin is the unani-
mous vote of the delegates to give the
complete control of next fall's foot-ball
games of the association into the hands of a
committee of five Bowdoin men, elected by
our foot-ball association. This action on the
part of the leading fitting schools of Maine
is significant in showing in what position
they place Bowdoin. Our foot-ball associa-
tion must be true to its charge and prove
to the Maine schools that their confidence
was well placed, so that the arrangement
which was adopted for next fall may be made
a permanent thing. Bowdoin's position as
the leader of the Maine colleges in athletics
is to be maintained in the future, as in the
past, mainly by boys from the Maine fitting
schools, and thus their athletic interests, as
well as all their other interests, are our
interests. Bowdoin was glad to welcome
the delegates of the M. I. S. A. A. last Sat-
urday, and hopes that their annual meeting
may often be held here in the future.
Bowdoin in the Past.
IN a recent issue of the Okient there ap-
peared an article relating to the lack of
knowledge possessed by the students in
regard to some of the principal events in the
history of the college. Although there
have already been published several exhaus-
tive histories of Bowdoin, at the head of
which stands that of Professor Little,
which appeared in the Centennial Catalogue,
a few of the more important facts of our
history, again repeated, surely will do no
harm, and it is hoped may be of some benefit
to the students, especially to those of the
Freshman Class.
The first building erected was Massachu-
setts Hall. This was begun in 1798, but
owing to a lack of funds, was not completed
for a year or more. At its dedication it was
pronounced one of the most complete col-
lege buildings in the country, but surely, the
progress of a century can be illustrated in
no more forcible a manner, than by com-
paring this old structure with our superb
Art and Science buildings. The Thorndike
Oak is inseparably associated with this old
hall. Here it was that George Thorndike,
a young student from Massachusetts, on the
day of the installation of the first president
of the college, picked up an acorn from the
floor and carelessly thrust it into the garden
by the side of the door-steps. The next
spring he chanced to see a tiny tree which
had sprouted from his acorn. From this
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small beginning sprung the old oak which
stands as a landmark to the surrounding
country, and back of which formerly stood
the residence of President McKeen. The
next buildings erected, which now stand,
and, therefore, are of most interest to us,
were Maine Hall, built in 1808, and Winthrop
Hall, in 1822. The former was named in
honor of the new State of Maine, while the
latter received its name from Governor Win-
throp, of Massachusetts ; but before it was
given this name it was called New College.
Appleton Hall was the last dormitory erected,
and this was done in 1843. It derived its
name from that of President Appleton, of
Bowdoin.
King's Chapel and Memorial Hall were
completed in 1855 and 1868 respectively.
The chapel was made a memorial to Governor
King, the first chief executive of this state,
and Memorial Hall was erected as a tribute
to the sons of Bowdoin who perished in the
battles of the Civil War. In 1862 Massachu-
setts Hall, which was then used by the Medical
Department, was found to be too limited in
space, and consequently Adams Hall was
erected, largely through the beneficence of
Seth Adams, of Boston. The history of the
more modern buildings, the Sargent Gymna-
sium, the Observatory, the Science and Art
Buildings, must be so familiar to every one in
college that its repetition would be useless.
Hardly a visitor enters the college
grounds without inquiring where Longfellow
and Hawthorne roomed in their college days,
and the student who performs the office of
guide is generally found wanting in his
knowledge of this important and interesting
fact. Longfellow first roomed in the Rev.
Benjamin Titcomb's house, on Federal Street,
now owned by Mr. Whitmore, but later he
moved to room number twenty-seven, New
College, now Winthrop Hall. Hawthorne
lived in three different places, first with Mrs.
Adams, on Main Street, in the house which
Mrs. Martin now occupies, then at room
number nineteen, Maine Hall, and finally at
Deacon Dunning's home, on the corner of
Cleaveland and Federal Streets.
One of the best practical jokes ever
played in the history of the college, was that
which gave the students a temporary rest
from morning prayers. Some daring youth,
on a very cold night, would climb the old
chapel spire, and after turning the bell
wrong side up, would fill it with water. In
the morning, when it was time to ring the
students to chapel, of course the bell refused
to perform its duty, much to the gratification
of the collegians, who then, as now, were
not over-fond of the early morning devo-
tional services.
It used to be the custom for members of
the graduating classes, and others who had
parts to perform in some exhibition, to go
far out into the pine woods back of the col-
lege, and speak their declamations to the
rocks and trees. Many interesting tales
have been related about these young fol-
lowers of Demosthenes.
This is only a recital of a few bare facts
and anecdotes which have happened here,
but it is well worth the time and study of
any student to look into the early history of
old Bowdoin, which is full to .overflowing
with interesting reminiscences of great men
of both the past and the present.
Two Pictures.
TITHE following story is one told the writer
*■ by an old miner who emigrated from
New England in 1849, the year of the great
rush for the California mining regions. It
shows so well the danger in which men
lived in those days that the writer thought
he would bring the pictures, as they appeared
to him, before other eyes. The first was
somewhat as follows:
As we were riding leisurely along the
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dusty trail there appeared in the distance
a low line of green, touched into a beautiful
color by the late afternoon sun. We slowly
neared this green spot, which bespoke of
water and a comfortable place to pass the
night. Down into the ravine where a little
brook babbled over the stones and glistening
sands, there came before our eyes a most
picturesque scene of happiness, and, at the
same time, loneliness. There in the gulch,
close up to the white rock^which formed the
background of the picture, was a little
lean-to, old trunks of trees, brush, and stones,
being the materials used in its building.
Smoke rose from a hole in the roof. All
the other cracks were smeared over or
filled with clay, which had been baked and
was as hard as a rock.
While we stood on the other side and
viewed the lonely scene a young woman
stepped out of the hut, singing blithely, and
went down to the brook to get a dish of
water. She was well-developed and robust,
and had a rosy and comely look to her face.
As she stooped to fill her dish she noticed
our horses, and, with a look of surprise, she
dropped her dish and ceased her song to
gaze at us with wonder. We shouted to
her, asking if it was possible to put up near
there for the night, and at the sound of our
voices a young man came to the door of the
shanty, smoking. He called to us cheerfully
to come over and dismount. This we hastily
did, as the day's ride had been a long and
hard one. Having put our horses out to
graze we entered the habitation of our new
friends, and as we had been invited to par-
take of their simple fare, sat down to await
the preparation of supper. We learned that
our host was from the East, and that he was
a gold miner, who washed in the gravel of
the brook for that metal. Being near the
trail they had frequent visitors, and he had
received the name of White Gulch Ned, his
real name being Edward Estabrook. His
wife was a daughter of old New England,
and was well-known for miles around, there
being only a few women in that section, as a
remarkably pretty and industrious person.
Sitting at the table we had an opportu-
nity to study the happy pair as they busied
about to make us comfortable. The young
man was one of those tall, broad-shouldered,
big-boned fellows, such as you often see in
the backwood towns of Maine. He appeared
to be doing well and we learned from him
that he soon expected to return home to live
a peaceful life among his old neighbors.
After some time the supper was placed
before us and we did ample justice to it,
and when it was over the pipes were lighted
and our talk drifted back to the dear old
state and its familiar scenes, and all the
latest news was soon given to our host.
At a late hour we withdrew from the
cabin and rolled ourselves up in our blankets
to lie oh the ground just outside, as we were
in the habit of doing. A good night's rest
over and a hot breakfast eaten, we were
bidding our friends good-bye and thanking
them for their hospitable treatment. We
were prevailed upon to visit them when we
returned East, as we expected to do a few
months later. Then putting our horses to a
smart canter we soon lost sight of the pleas-
ant valley and its happy inhabitants. After
a few hours' hard riding we reached one of
those rapidly growing mining towns, and
the incidents of our night's call were for the
time forgotten.
After three months' stay West we were
ready to start home, and soon arrived at the
same mining town where we had stopped
over that pleasant night. It had now grown
into a city of cabins and shanties. As we
left the city the thought of our promise to
call at the home of White Gulch Ned came
back to our minds, and we told ourselves
that nothing could prevent us from revisiting
him and his pretty young wife. With
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feelings of pleasure we looked for the beau-
tiful spot, and when it came in sight our
minds were made up on passing a pleasant
evening in the little cabin with its back-
ground of white stone. We eagerly stretched
our necks to catch a glimpse of the smoke
curling up from the roof, but we could not
see the faintest sign of life. Spurring on
the horses we soon went down into the
ravine and up before the site of the cabin,
but the little home was not there. Only a
pile of ashes marked the spot where it had
stood, and the scorched trees and black-
ened rock told more fully the story of
its disappearance. All the goods of the
unfortunate couple were scattered about the
ground and there were marks of a violent
struggle.
With a sickening feeling we started to
turn away from the spot, once so fair and
beautiful in its peacefulness, when my friend
discovered the body of a man lying at one
side. We immediately recognized the clothes
of the man, and on turning him over, saw
in the bruised face our friend, whom we had
desired so much to see. Heartsick and sad
we decided to bury the body and pass on to
some other place to spend the night. After
doing our best for our dead friend we turned
our horses from the spot to go forward to
another valley some ten miles ahead. On
reaching the top of the ravine where we had
first entered the place we turned back, and
how different was the scene ! Where before,
the peaceful little cabin with its picturesque
surroundings had stood, all was desolation and
gloom. Where once life had shown itself
in everything, now death reigned. As for
myself, one who had become hardened to
sad scenes, I felt a tear start and roll down
my face. We hastily drove on toward the
site of our night's encampment. A little
over an hour's brisk riding brought us to
the stream, and there we found a party from
whom we learned that a band of Indians
had gone down through that section of the
country and had killed the scattered settlers,
destroying their homes and carrying the
women and children off as prisoners.
For several days we could talk only of
the fate of our kind hosts, and never in the
life of the old miner did any one incident
of his western career so often come to his
mind as that frightful end of White Gulch
Ned and his young bride from Maine.
A Country Auction.
POW cold and dreary it was on that No-
vember dajr. The dull gray clouds that
covered the sky and obscured the sun made
the world seem smaller than usual. The
leafless trees along the solitary, straggling
village street, and the brown, sear fields
beyond made up a landscape desolate to the
eye and melancholy to the heart. How cut-
ting the wind that blew without ceasing,
whistling through the trees and shrieking
around the gables, and how harsh the rattle
of the wheels over the frozen roads!
Yet, despite the chill and gloom, there
was unusual activity in the quiet little village
of B. The inhabitants were nearly all leav-
ing their homes and places of business, or
more properly their places of idling, and
directing their steps toward a little old house
just across the railroad track, on the out-
skirts of the village. Farmers from the
country around had left their teams under
the meeting-house shed or at posts in front
of the stores, and were following the village
folk. The men wore heavy ulsters and mit-
tens and the women wore shawls over their
heads, but all were so busy talking over the
approaching event that few realized the
roughness of the wind or the penetrating
chill of the November air.
It was the day of the auction, and an
occasion so uncommon in the monotonous
life of B. that it was worthy all the demon-
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stration made in its honor. The humble
home of Widow Gray, with all its belongings
and the few acres of land around it were to
be disposed of to the highest bidder under
the hammer of the auctioneer. The mort-
gage had been foreclosed, the last resource
of the widow had been exhausted, and this
morning the auctioneer had arrived from the
city to proceed with the advertised auction
sale.
Not many years ago this had been one of
the prettiest homes of the neighborhood.
John Gray had been a carpenter, having
plenty of work, perfect health, and a happy
home with a wife and son. But sorrow came
as the years passed on. After the boy, Harry,
was out of the village school, he became tired
of the quiet life of B, ran away from home,
and no news from him ever came to the
anxious parents. A few years later John
Gray had been brought to the pretty cottage
home, dead. He had fallen from a building
on which he was working. Alone, under
the crushing weight of her double sorrow, Mrs.
Gray lived on for a dozen years. But the
savings of the industrious carpenter and the
few hundred dollars obtained by a mortgage
on the place, had now been used up. The day
of the auction sale had come.
And the widow? Sick, and worn out by
years of loneliness and sorrow, with no near
relatives living, she was to be taken to the
poor-farm. The neighbors had been kind
and had done all they could, but the town
looked well after its paupers, and it was to
this class that Mrs. Gray would now belong.
The little crowd, not numbering more
than a hundred in all, had now gathered at
the house. Most had collected in groups
outside where the house and shed formed an
angle, protecting them from the wind. A
few others were looking over the house, per-
haps with an idea of purchase, perhaps merely
out of rustic curiosity. Some of the men
were exploring the accumulated rubbish of
the shed where John Gray's shop had been,
and were examining the numerous carpen-
ter's tools which the widow had always re-
fused to jjart with.
At length the auctioneer mounted a small
box near the shed door, rapped vigorously
with a hammer upon another box and called
the attention of the assemblage to the busi-
ness of the hour. He was a dapper young
fellow with a tendency to make a joke upon
any opportunity, real or imagined, and with
an evident ability to talk at length without
saying much. These are necessary qualities
no doubt for a successful auctioneer, but
they seemed sonfewhat out of place on this
occasion even to the not super-sensitive au-
ditors gathered' around him. His assistant,
the local deputy sheriff, began to hand him,
one by one, the little household articles of
the poor widow, and, one by one, they were
disposed of to the highest bidder. Now a
chair was sold for nineteen cents, after the
auctioneer had exhausted all his choicest
jokes and most persuasive eloquence in vainly
trying to get another cent. Then a few old
books, a lot of dishes and more furniture are
disposed of in order.
All this time Mrs. Gray sat in an old
chair near the door, just outside the little
crowd of bidders and purchasers. She was
not an old' woman yet, but was bent and
thin by years of suffering and sorrow. A
faded shawl was drawn closely about her,
and she shivered and trembled, partly from
the chill of the air, and partly from other
causes. And yet she did not weep or cry
out. The despair in her eyes was deeper
than tears or words. All she had on earth
was gone or going and life was no longer
life to her.
The auctioneer took up a well-worn Bible
and, with a laugh and joke, offered it for
sale. " Not that ! Not that ! " cried the widow,
speaking for the first time since the sale
began. "O, leave me my Bible!" and, start-
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and was well dressed and of refined bearing.
He had just arrived on the forenoon train,
ing from her chair, she stretched out her
emaciated hands appealingly. A dead silence
fell over all. The joke died on the thought-
less lips of the auctioneer. He hesitated a
moment, then said a word to his assistant
and gave him the book. The sheriff placed
it in the trembling hands of the widow, who
sank again into her chair, pressing the Bible
closely to her bosom, and murmuring to
herself. Then the sale went on, and with eyes
tearless, yet eloquent with pathos and agony,
Widow Gray saw each familiar article, cher-
ished though trifling, pass over to a new owner.
When her husband's tools were offered
she again rose to her feet, but fell back again
into her chair in a hopeless manner, realizing
the uselessness of objections^ Yet, she did
not weep. Soon, from among the rubbish
of the shed, the deputy sheriff pulled out a
battered old cradle with broken rocker, and
handed it up to the auctioneer. The latter,
as usual, was ready with a rude joke, and,
having placed the cradle on the box beside
him, he proceeded, with mock solemnity, to
rock it with his foot and to try to arouse
rivalry among the reluctant bidders.
At sight of this old cradle Widow Gray
again half started from her seat and again fell
back, and this time she burst into a flood of
tears. Who can say what memories were awak-
ened in the heart of the mother? How often
she had rocked her only boy to sleep in this old
cradle and sung to him her tender lullabys;
how often she had watched over it during
weary nights and days when he had been
sick, and how her heart had bounded in happi-
ness when health had again come to its little
occupant, and he had laughed and crowed
and pushed his chubby fists up into her face.
But this had been long, long ago, and for
years her only boy had been as dead. O,
where was he now?
Ay, where was he? While the cradle
was still undisposed of a stranger arrived on
the scene. He was evidently from the city,
and, after a few inquiries at the little coun-
try station, had hastened to the scene of the
auction. He was breathless with hurrying
and paused outside the crowd to look around
as though in search of somebody. He saw
the bent form of the widow swaying back
and forth in her uncontrollable grief, while
some of the women were trying in vain to
comfort her. He rushed forward, paused a
moment, then crying, " My mother, O God,
my mother, my mother!" he clasped her in
his arms.
All was commotion and excitement. The
auctioneer stopped in his flow of oratory,
both because he did not know what it all
meant and because his auditors had all left
him and were crowding around Harry Gray
and the unconscious form of his mother.
Some of the older of those present recog-
nized the middle-aged man as the beardless
lad who had left the village nearly a score
of years before. Then, a reckless, thought-
less, discontented boy, he had run away from
his happy home to try his fortune in the
West; now, a man of wealth and influence, a
keen realization of his heartless treatment
of his parents had come over him, and a
yearning to see them again had brought him
two thousand miles to meet this sad and un-
expected reception.
The rest is soon told. Harry Gray bought,
almost without any bidding from others, the
cradle, the few remaining household articles,
and the house and land, and then bought
back most of the articles already sold. And
once again the Widow Gray was in her own
home, soon made once more the most attract-
ive of the village, happy with an unspeaka-
ble happiness, surrounded with every com-
fort and luxury that money could give her,
and with her son returned, as it almost
seemed, from the dead, by her side to go
away no more.
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"It happened just like a story," said the
village folk as they talked it over that night
and many nights after around their fires.
And even the dapper young auctioneer, as
he drove back to the city that afternoon,
experienced new sensations as he thought
over the affair, and realized that life held
things higher and better than the tap of a
hammer and the cry of " Going, going, gone ! "
The New Death King.
O'er prairie and o'er mountain,
The deadly fast express
Seeks victims at each crossing,
And kills without redress.
But strive as hard as may be,
It now must droop its head.
Its sway, death-dealing, 's over,
The Trolley's forged ahead.
Bowdoirp ^)ep§e.
The Candidate.
A Love Tragedy.
"Oh, Sue," I sighed,
And sighed in vain ;
To end my pain,
Lo, suicide !
In a confidential whisper,
With a confidential pinch,
The politician murmurs,
"My boy, I've got a cinch."
AFTER ELECTION.
An air of conscious greatness
Meets your sympathetic glance;
" 'Twas just as I expected,
I never had a chance."
The Spring and the Lake.
Beside the way I find to-day
A little spring;
Aud sweet and clear, as I stand near,
I hear it sing.
Up through the snow its waters go.
The winter's cold,
But tries in vain o'er it to gain
An icy hold.
On Lying.
When ancient Ananias and Sapphira fair, his mate,
To 'scape the wrath of Heaven, lied, and thereby
met their fate,
They little dreamed that modern youth would hold
them up to scorn,
And jeer at their one poor attempt as shabby,
cheap, forlorn.
For now to lie is quite an art. Some lie for golden
greed,
Some lie in theory, some in fact, and some do lie
in-deed;
Some lie in fun, some lie in state, and some in flowery
ease,
But all lie still, lie well or ill, and lie just when
they please.
Then queerly falls that of all men, who dwell within
And through the brake I see the lake,
All frozen o'er
So deep and tight, and cold and white,
From shore to shore.
No music there ; no picture fair
Of sun and cloud ;
All life has fled ; the lake is dead,
Beneath its shroud.
And now, in truth, that spring is youth,
When hearts are free,
And flow with song so clear and strong
And merrily.
The lake is age; a drear, blank page
The winter long;
All frozen o'er, it knows no more
The life of song.
my call,
One friend alone lies constantly, yet lies he none
at all!
The paradox is simple, for you surely all have heard,
A stutterer must ever lie, he always breaks his
word.
The commencement programme at Tale has
been entirely changed. The only speaking will be
done by the President. A new officer, called the
" orator," will be elected, whose duty is to intro-
i duce the candidates to the President.
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On Wednesday evening, Feb-
ruary 20th, the Bowdoin Glee and
Banjo and Guitar Clubs appeared in
Bath the second time, and gave a
most successful concert before a large
audience in the Alameda. After the concert a re-
ception was given the members of the clubs and
the students who accompinied them, by about
thirty of Bath's fairest young ladies, in Armory
Hall. Dancing was indulged in until midnight,
and all had a most enjoyable time.
McMillan, '97, is back from teaching.
Fairbanks, '95, was in Boston last week.
Baker, '96, is back after quite a long absence.
Several cases of mumps are reported on the
campus.
Prof. Chapman addressed the T. M. C. A. last
Sunday.
The Glee Club will take a New Hampshire trip
next week.
Pettengill, '98, was out a week or more enjoying
the grippe.
Libby and Fessenden, '96, were on the campus
over Sunday.
Professor Johnson was confined to his house a
week, recently.
Professor Chapman lectured on Emerson, at
Camden, last week.
Melba, in Portland, Tuesday, drew quite a num-
ber of the Bowdoin boys.
Wiggin, '98, spent Washington's Birthday in
Bath, the guest of Morse, '97.
The Glee and Banjo and Guitar Clubs will give
a concert in Auburn, March 18th.
Prof. Woodruff preached at the Baptist Church
in South Brunswick a week ago Sunday.
There was an alarm of fire last Friday, and a
small, very small blaze on Federal Street.
Several interesting additions have been made
lately to the collections in the Art Building.
Several Bowdoin students were present at the
public reception of Gov. Cleaves, February 22d.
Prof. Lee lectured at the First Parish Church,
Portland, last Friday, on "The Depth of the Sea."
The Athletic Exhibition will be given in Bruns-
wick, March 26th, and probably in Bath, March 28th.
Again we have been swimming as a means of
locomotion and the rubber boots have been numer-
ous.
Gahan, '87, is working in the gymnasium this
winter, and will help the boys in the coming exhibi-
tion.
The class drill-squads to compete for the silver
cup are pretty well picked now, and are doing extra
work.
The Junior German Division have begun a new
story for sight reading— Gerstacken " Germelhau-
sen."
It is March, but the rapid lowering of the coal
in the bin is about the only sign of approaching
spring.
Friday last the Sophomores were examined on
Physics preparatory to beginning a new subject in
the study.
Prof. Robinson and Mr. Smith were in Bangor
last week, witnesses for the state in the Cowan
poisoning case.
Willard sang a very pleasing bass solo at last
Sunday's chapel. The organ was played by Breit-
ling, of the Medical School.
The various bicycle agents down town have the
'95 patterns on exhibition. The machines are all
very light and reduced in prices.
The Chess Club is developing quite a few good
players — more, at least, than was expected, and is
causing quite a revival of chess.
One of Bowdoin's athletes walked ninety-five
miles between a recent Saturday and Monday, and
this he calls only a pleasure tramp.
The grippe has been making havoc in the college
lately. Its victims have been numerous, but no
very serious cases have been reported.
The leading athletes of the college will give an
exhibition at the Opera House in Augusta, March
14th. The class drills will not be given.
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Monday last was town- meeting day, with the
usual amount of heated discussion over local issues.
The Faculty was well represented and some stu-
dents were present.
It gives one a sort of regard for old Brunswick
to read on its town report— " The 156th annual
report." We had always thought the town was
coeval with the college.
Eyes, '96, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming
Bugle, was in Portland last week on business con-
nected with the publication.
The annual meeting of the Bowdoin Alumni of
Washington, which was to have been held Febru-
ary 25th, was again postponed.
A trip to the dissecting room, in Adams Hall, is
au fait just now, but everybody is careful to go
about midway between dinner and supper.
Clough, '96, and Odiorne, '98, were in Boston
February 23d, in attendance upon the annual ban-
quet of the New England Alumni Association of
Delta Upsilon.
A North End girl, who has a pretty foot, has
given a Bowdoin boy one of her slippers for a watch
case. Oh, yes, it's big enough to keep the watch
in. — Bath Independent.
President Hyde delivered the closing lecture in
his course on ''Outlines in Theology," in Memorial
Hall, Tuesday evening, February 26th. The course
was very largely attended and was a rich treat
to all.
Washington's Birthday, coming on Friday, caused
an exodus from the college, and only a few students
were left on the campus. Cuts and adjourns were
the rule Saturday morning.
Bowdoin College sends uniformly good dancers
to our functions, only not often enough or numer-
ously enough. Mr. Holmes of Bangor joined the
Lewiston contingent of Bowdoin in the dance in
Lewiston Friday evening.— Letviston Journal.
At an enthusiastic meeting of the General Ath-
letic Association recently, it was unanimously voted
to start a movement for a Maine intercollegiate
field day the coming spring. The other colleges
will be asked to join in forming an association, and
it is hoped none will refuse.
The third themes of the term were due Tues-
day, February 26th, and were written upon the fol-
lowing subjects: "The War Between China and
Japan, Its Causes and Probable Effects;" "Is Our
City Population Becoming too Centralized?" "Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson as a Story Writer."
The Junior chemists have lately analyzed vari-
ous specimens of water. One of the most assiduous
laboratory workers took in the dirtiest, foulest water
obtainable and was surprised to find that it was
nearly pure H20. He had planned to find a whole
stock room of chemicals.
Prof. Lee was before the Committee on Educa-
tion, of the Legislature, Tuesday, February 26th,
advocating a topographic map of the state. The
newspaper report was an interesting and extremely
convincing support of a plan to make such a map
in co-operation with the U. S. Geological Survey.
The American Institute of Sacred Literature
offers six prizes, three of $100 and three of $50,
for the best examinations in Hebrew, New Testa-
ment Greek, and the English Bible, to be passed
by college students at special examinations, given
at any college where students wish to take them,
in June or October of the present year. Circulars,
containing full particulars, may be had at the
library.
On the evenings of February 25th, 26th, and 27th,
the Bowdoin Glee and Banjo and Guitar Clubs gave
concerts in Bangor, Brewer, and Old Town. In all
places the concerts passed off very successfully, and
the clubs were greeted by large and appreciative
audiences. The local papers were highly compli-
mentary in their reports of the concerts, saying
some very nice things of the Bowdoin boys and
their musical ability. The boys report a delightful
trip. It was a financial success, and they were
royally received and entertained wherever they
appeared.
" I never saw such a homely set of boys together, as the
Bowdoin students," remarked a Bath girl, at the Alameda
Wednesday evening. — Bath Independent.
Alas ! what a violent attack of sour grapes the
busy Imagination-Editor of our saffron-hued con-
temporary must have suffered when be penned the
above paragraph, and found room for it in his
crowded columns. He is evidently trying to bolster
up the desperate cause of the Bath young men,
who are invariably left completely out in the cold
by the Bath girls whenever a Bowdoin student
comes in sight. Perhaps he could not gain admit-
tance to that happy reception which thirty Bath
belles, in return for hospitality gladly accepted at
the hands of Bowdoin boys in Brunswick, gave the
college boys after the concert in the Alameda. And
as he stood outside and shivered in the cold he
doubtless registered a solemn resolve to write some-
thing stinging and crushing about the horrid aliens
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who, in spite of their lack of personal attractions,
persist in beating the more handsome young men
of Bath in the race for the hearts of the maidens
of the Shipping City. Either his modest opinion,
put for convenience into the mouth of another, is
wrong, or else Bath young ladies show a decidedly
unnatural taste. But if we are a homely crowd— a
point we had rather not discuss— it is an unfair
ground on which to attack us, even in such desper-
ate jealousy. And it is a comfort to remember the
old saying that "Homely people are always good
people."
The annual business meeting of the Maine Iu-
terscholastic Athletic Association was held on the
campus Saturday. Delegates were present from
the High Schools in Augusta, Bangor, Brunswick,
Gardiner, Portland, and Waterville, and from Thorn-
ton Academy and Westbrook Seminary. Bridgton
and Hebron Academies are also in the Association,
but did not send delegates. The long- looked for
silver champiouship cup has been secured and was
on exhibition at the meeting. It was taken home
by the Bangor delegates, as their school won the
most points at the last Field Day. The Treasurer's
report showed the Association to be out of debt.
The place of the next Field Day was left to be settled
by the Executive Committee. Several amendments
were made to the constitution, and asigniflcant order,
which was unanimously passed, read in substance as
follows : The entire control of the Maine Interscholas-
tic championship foot-ball games of next fall shall be
vested in a committee of five Bowdoin students to
be chosen by the Bowdoin Foot-Ball Association.
This committee shall assist in arranging the sched-
ule, shall furnish officials for all games, and shall
settle all disputes. At the afternoon meeting the
following officers were elected : President, Gold-
thwaite of Thornton Academy; Vice-Presideut,
Wheeler of Brunswick; Secretary, Michaelis of
Augusta ; Treasurer, Forsaithe of Brunswick ; Ex-
ecutive Committee, Snow of Bangor, Hildreth of
Gardiner, and Wing of Waterville, also the Presi-
dent ex officio, and representative of each of the
Maine colleges. A vote of sympathy was passed
for Black of Augusta, the retiring secretary, now
sick in Florida. The meetings were held in 6 A. H.
The delegates spent considerable time in looking
over the college, and they were entertained by the
college boys.
NORTHFIELD ECHOES.
" Imagination comes when we are disheartened,
and quickens us to something higher and better.
I had the privilege a few weeks ago to encourage a
teacher whose heart was sinking at the difference
between her purposes and her accomplishment.
I simply appealed to her imagination. I told her
the story of the frog that fell into the milk pail.
The frog was not quite hopeless, though everything
seemed to be against him ; he thought he would
see what he could do, so he began to paddle and
paddle and paddle, and when the milkmaid came
the next morning, she saw a pat of butter in the
center of the pail, which the frog had churned, and
on it sat the frog. This teacher said, 'I will just
keep on churning.' Shall we always do that? Yes,
do that unless you can do something better. It
depends on the milk how long you had better
keep it up."
—Alexander McKenzie, D.D.,
In an Address ore the Imagination.
"Oh, fellow -students, you who are here looking
out into life and asking what it shall bring, believe
me, if you will let God control your life, it will
bring exceeding abundantly above everything you
or your friends can ask or think. There is no
human love that can conceive it, there is no earthly
affection that can plan it. He waits to build your
memorial and your tower, and He will do it just as
soon as you turn your life from mere worldly self-
assertion and making what you can out of yourself,
and let the eternal and infinite God make what He
pleases out of you."
— H. C. Mabie, D.D.,
In an Address on Man-Made and
God-Made Plans. ■
The University of Pennsylvania will hereafter
give degrees to women. — Ex.
" I believe we must have a higher type of Chris-
tianity in this country before anything is accom-
plished. Why shouldn't it begin with you, young
men ! Why shouldn't you go back to your colleges
and determine by the grace of God to have a higher
standard of Christianity there than you have ever
had before 1 I believe the time is coming when we
shall have men in all our universities who will stand
up for God and not be ashamed of the gospel of
Jesus Christ. Some one asked a young man what
it was in his father's preaching that led to his con-
version. He said it was not any sermon, but the
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259
life he led at home. I tell you it is not the words,
it is the life. If our lives are right with God we
shall have power."
— D. L. Moody,
In an Address on the Anointing of the
Holy Spirit for Service.
The Maine Bar Associa-
tion held its annual meeting
at Augusta, Me., February 15th.
Charles F. Libby, '64, was re-elected
President; Herbert M. Heath, 72, Seth
M. Carter, 75, Vice-Presidents. Among
other Bowdoin men who took prominent parts were
Franklin A. Wilson, '54, and Orville D. Baker, '68.
The annual meeting of the Maine Sons of the
Revolution was held in Portland, February 22d,
and the following officers were chosen : President,
George F. Talbot, '37, Portland; Secretary, Henry
S. Burrage, Portland; Registrar, Hon. J. H. Drum-
mond, Portland; Historian, Charles E. Banks, Port-
land; Chaplain, Francis B. Davis, Portland ; Coun-
cillors, Warren H.Vinton, Gray; W.A.Goodwin,
'43, Brown Thurston, Z. K. Harmon, E. S. Drake,
all of Portland. Capt. Sopiel Selmore, a descend-
ant of the chief of the Passamaquoddy Indians who
fought in the Revolution, was admitted to member-
ship. At the Preble House in the afternoon the
annual banquet was held, with an attendance of
about 200. After-dinner addresses were made by
Hon. M. P. Frank of Portland, Mrs. E. P. Wilson of
Deering, Rev. George M. Howe of Lewiston, and
others.
'25. —Hon. James W. Bradbury, always a good
friend to the Orient, in a recent letter enclosing
his year's subscription, has the following encourag-
ing words for us : " The paper is, and has been, so
well conducted that it is highly creditable to the
college. It also affords an admirable training for a
profession that is constantly increasing in impor-
tance."
'36.— Dr. AlonzoGarcelon, ex- Governor of Maine,
has been nominated for Mayor of Lewiston on the
Democratic ticket. Mr. S. H. West of Lewiston,
in placing Dr. Garcelon in nomination, thus spoke
of him as a native of Lewiston : " Here he was
born, as was his father before him, and here he has
always lived aud spent his busy life in the interests
of his native town and of his fellow-citizens. Al-
though the blue blood of La Belle France flows in
his veins, he is no aristocrat, but a plain, unassum-
ing man. He is a gentleman of the old school,
a 'grand old man'— an unabridged copy of God's
noblest work, an honest man.'"
'58.— A large party under the charge of Edward
B. Nealley left recently for Europe.
'60. — Nicholas E. Boyd has lately been ordained
into the Unitarian Church at San Francisco, Cal.
His ordination was spoken of as an exceedingly
novel one, the charge being delivered by a Mrs.
Wilkes, famous as a worker in the Unitarian Church
in Oakland, Cal. In connection with this, the San
Francisco Chronicle makes the following statements :
"The man who is to be ordained is Nicholas E.
Boyd, chaplain of the Sailors' Home. Mr. Boyd has
had an odd history. He is no longer a young man,
and twenty-four years have elapsed since he was
graduated from the theological seminary. He has
not been a backslider either, but has preached
much and been faithful, but he dislikes denomina-
tional lines and has remained a free lance all these
years. In 1860 he was graduated from Bowdoin
College, in the same class with Tom Reed and Will-
iam W. Thomas, Jr., late minister to Sweden. Mr.
Boyd was himself a Maine lad. He served ten
months with the Twenty-fifth Maine Infantry dur-
ing the war, and then studied at the Meadville
Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, which was
under the control of the Unitarians. Here he was
graduated in 1871. Mr. Boyd then became a mem-
ber of the Free Religious Association of Boston
and took a special course at the Harvard Divinity
School, which lasted one year. For a year he
preached at Canastota, N. Y., for an independent
society, which was affiliated with the Unitarians.
A sudden attack of lung trouble sent him to South-
ern California, where he quit preaching for out-
door occupations. Later he was assistant editor of
the Rural Press for five years. Two months ago
Mr. Boyd resumed preaching, becoming the chap-
lain of the Sailors' Home. He has already met
with marked success. He wishes to be known as a
minister of religion and a preacher of righteous-
ness, but cares very little for denominational fences.
All bis life he has been more or less closely con-
nected with the Unitarians and now he will enter
their fold.
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'75. — Dr. W. S. Thompson has been nominated
as the Prohibitionist candidate for Mayor of Au-
gusta.
'86.— Governor Cleaves has appointed Levi Tur-
ner, Jr., of Portland, recorder of the Portland
Municipal Court, upon the recommendatiou of the
Cumberland bar and other representative citizens.
Of the appointment the Kennebec Journal says in
its editorial .columns: "The appointment of Mr.
Levi Turner as recorder of the Municipal Court of
Portland, is one eminently fit to be made. Mr.
Turner is one of the ablest young men in the state.
He graduated with honors from Bowdoin College,
defraying the expenses of the course by his own
efforts, and taking high rank in scholarship. He
is, in the truest and best sense of the phrase, "a
self-made man." Mr. Turner represented his native
town of Summerville in the Maine Legislature at
the session of 1889. He has done good work upon
the stump for the Republican party in several cam-
paigns and has risen rapidly in his chosen profes-
sion of the law. We believe that the honor con-
ferred upon him by Governor Cleaves was a just
recognition of merit and will meet with the hearty
approbation of the people of the state."
'91. — H. S. Chapman had an article on "Tom
Reed" in a recent number of the New York Adver-
tiser which has been quoted quite extensively by
the Maine papers.
Book I^eviewg.
Social Theology, by the Rev. William DeWitt
Hyde, D.D., President and Professor of Mental and
Moral Philosophy in Bowdoin College, will be pub-
lished shortly by Macmillan & Co. This book aims
to present the doctrines of theology as the logical
development of the conception of God as the imma-
nent Ground of the world; the incarnate Logos of
human history; and the informing Spirit of social
progress. Rejecting whatever the doctrine of evo-
lution and the critical reconstruction of sacred
history and literature have rendered untenable in
the traditional theology, it aims to "strengthen the
things that remain " by showing that sin and law
and judgment, repentance and faith and regenera-
tion, are not dependent for their reality upon the
dates of ancient writings or the formulations of
mediaeval theologians; but are stubborn facts and
social forces which, under one name or another, lie
at the foundation of a rational interpretation of
human life and human society. Rufusing to identify
the kingdom of God with the church, and affirming
that the real kingdom of God must be wrought out
of the solid substance of domestic, economic, polit-
ical, and ethical relations, it recognizes that the
church in some form or other is essential as a train-
ing school in this socially serviceable disposition
which is the essence of religion ; and discusses the
relative worth of different forms of ecclesiastical
organization, and the prospect of church union, from
this social point of view.
The following appeal is supposed to be made by
the letter h to the English people:
" "Whereas, by you I have been driven
From ouse, from ome, from ope, and from eaven,
And placed by your most learned society
In hexile, banguish, and hanxiety,
Nay, charged without one just pretense
With hignorance and himpudance;
I here demand full restitution,
And beg you'll mend your helocution."
— Ex.
The largest salary given any college professor
in the world is that received by Professor Turner,
of Edinburgh, $20,000 per year.
Williams College has received $20,000 from the
estate of Mme. Souberbeille, who recently died
aboad. It is to be a memorial of her father.
Vassar has a collection of birds worth $30,000.
It is said to be the largest and most valuable in the
world.
Foot-ball has been prohibited at Georgetown
College.
The libraries and scientific collections, owned by
the government, are maintained at an annual cost
of $4,000,000.
The parent of a Yale man, who lives in New
York City, being very desirous of having his son
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
261
take Sunday dinner at-home, has chartered a spe-
cial train to be run at a suitable hour Sunday night
for all the New York Yale men to get back to New
Haven in time for Monday morning recitations.
The railroad company refused absolutely to run
such a train, knowing that it would not pay, and the
fond parent has agreed to pay the deficiency each
week. It is said that his Sunday dinners will cost
him considerable unless the traffic Sunday night
increases very materially over that of last week.
The Yale students are advertising the train as best
they can.
" I have misfortune," cried the youth,
" Of almost every kind.
Since my moustache is down in front,
My necktie's up behind." — Ex.
Foot- ball captains for '95: Harvard, C. Brewer;
Princeton, Lea; Pennsylvania, Williams; Yale,
Thorne; Brown, Nott; Amherst, Pratt; Cornell,
Wyckoff; Michigan, Henninger; Chicago, Allen;
Illinois, Hotehkiss; Minnesota, Larson ; Williams,
Hickey ; Dartmouth, McCoruack ; Trinity, Lang-
ford; Virginia, Mudd; Lafayette, Boericke.
Jones, telling of his sickly state,
" Is not himself," that's strange;
But does he realize how great
His gain is by the change ?
—Columbia Spectator.
The study of English receives .greater and
greater attention at our greater institutions. Har-
vard now makes it the only required work in her
whole curriculum.
He came to see her stormy nights,
When he had nowhere else to go;
She liked to see him at such times,
And so she called him her rain beau.
— Siobud.
Italian professors, says the Pall Mall Gazette
(London), are wailing over the suppression of six
universities, which, in these hard times, the gov-
ernment can no longer afford to support. The
doomed colleges are those at Messina, Calania,
Modena, Parma, Sienna, and Sassari, in all of
which the number of students ranged from one
hundred to four hundred. A high school at Maser-
ata, with one hundred and fifty students, is also to
be closed.
Bustles and hoopskirts departed,
Thus the good work was begun.
Wide sleeves and bloomers were started;
Soon pants will come in on the run.
— Madisonia.
Oberlin has the finest college tennis courts in
the country.
Through brightest days of summer time,
I loved, adored, and waited —
But naming Autumn's here in prime,
While I'm not Anna-mated. — Brunonian.
"Fish on Friday."
The landlady's daughter was singing a song,
In a voice that was sweet as could be;
And the burden thereof was a statement old,
" There are lots of good fish in the sea."
The Freshman up stairs of his dinner thought
When he heard of " good fish," did he;
And he sighed, for the day was Friday, alas!
To think they were all in the sea.
— Yale Record.
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Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 20, 1895.
No. 16.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE TEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. Minot, '96, Managing Editor.
G. T. Ordwat, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
H. R. Blodgett, '96, Business Manager.
B. L. Brtant, '95.
H. W. Thayer, '95.
A. G. Wiley, '95.
J. B. Roberts, '95.
A. L. Churchill, '95.
J. T. Shaw, '95.
H. H. Pierce, '96.
C. W- Marston, '96.
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 Manager.
Remittances should be made to the Business Manager. Com.
immicationsin regard to all other matters should he 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
the wishes to have appended.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 791, Brunswick, Me.
Personal items should be sent to Box 13S, Brunswick, Me.
Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 16.— March 20, 1895.
Editorial Notes, 263
Chess 265
A Few of the Winter Birds around Brunswick, . . 266
The Mystery of a Mine 267
Bowdoin Verse:
The Campus 269
The Fin de Siecle Inventor, 269
The Huntsman 269
Collegii Tabula 270
Y. M. C. A., 272
Personal, 272
College World, 273
When books are put on the*;reserve
list in the library for the benefit of a class
it hardly seems possible that any student
would be so unreasonable and selfish as to
remove them, and thus cause serious loss
and inconvenience to all others in the class.
But such cases happen all too frequently,
and the Orient, speaking for the college,
finds no terms too strong to condemn this
dishonest practice, so utterly unworthy the
proverbial manliness of Bowdoin men. It
is even worse than taking books from the
library without having them registered, an
abuse of our privileges in the library that is
not entirely unknown.
BEFORE the next number of the Orient,
which closes this volume, the election
will be held to select five new editors in
place of those whose terms expire. In mak-
ing these selections the board considers only
those who have contributed during the year.
It is a fact of which the college can scarcely
be proud that candidates are so few for
positions on our college paper. Otherwise
the students take a high interest in the
paper and support it well, as do also the
alumni. But the literary and journalistic
spirit seems to be at a painfully low ebb.
During the present volume only about a
dozen students, outside the board, have con-
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tributed to the Orient. Small wonder that
the editors cannot always make the paper
truly representative of the college, and
acceptable to all. Contributions sent in
before the election will be considered in
selecting the new members of the board.
BOWDOIN may well be proud of its mu-
sical organizations this winter. Our Glee
and Banjo and Guitar Clubs are of an excel-
lence that would be creditable to any college
in the country. The enthusiastic receptions
which have met them wherever they have
appeared, have been also complimentary to
Bowdoin, and the high praise given them by
each audience that has heard them is reflected
on the college. Not for years has the college
had so much musical talent at one time, and
it is well that this is employed in such an
active organization. Competent leaders and
a spirit of enthusiasm all around have made
pleasant and profitable the hard work that
has been necessary to the high success the
clubs have won and are winning. Only a
few members of the clubs will graduate this
year, and thus the prospect is bright for
a repetition of this winter's successes when
another winter comes. About a dozen con-
certs have now been given and as many
more are planned for, but as yet the col-
lege has not heard the clubs which repre-
sent it, and in whose successes it has taken so
much pride. It is hardly fair to give us
only the benefits of rehearsals and newspaper
accounts of outside triumphs. We want a
concert here.
BOWDOIN is once more a member of the
college base-ball league of Maine. Colby
and M. S. C. have recognized as natural and
just the position taken by Bowdoin in admit-
ting the medical students to all the athletic
privileges of the college, and thus Bowdoin
has won the point for which it contended
last year. By its refusal to agree with the
other colleges in this matter, Bates lases its
place in the league, and injures itself much
more than the other colleges. Thus the tri-
angular league is formed, and prospects are
bright that there will be an interesting con-
test for the championship won last year
by Colby and the year before by Bowdoin.
Last year Bowdoin was not in the league,
and though the record made by the team
during the season was very satisfactory, still
the Orient is glad that the college is again
in the league, and we think we voice the
sentiment of the students and graduates.
The record of the college in base-ball has
not been so brilliant as to leave no roofn for
improvement. The few times when we have
won the championship have been offset by
the many when we have lost it through pure
indifference and lack of steady, conscientious
work. Yet one thing can be claimed to our
credit. In all these years, whether we have
won or lost, in base-ball or in all other
sports, Bowdoin has stood for purity in
athletics, and has never stooped in the slight-
est degree to those dishonest and contempti-
ble methods of securing players, which have
so disgraced many of our colleges, and which
have done so much to injure true athleticism.
Now that Bowdoin is back in the league it
must be the effort of all in college, for all
are interested in this sport, to bring this sea-
son's championship pennant to be added to
our athletic trophies. The united and enthu-
siastic support of the student body helps a
team wonderfully in winning its victories.
Bowdoin claims with just pride that it is
now, and ever has been, far superior to its
sister Maine colleges in all other lines of
athletics, as foot-ball, rowing, tennis, field
and track sports, and gymnasium work; but
not until base-ball can be justly added to
this list will Bowdoin occupy in athletics its
proper place among the Maine colleges.
Then, and not until then, can Bowdoin claim
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to be above the class of the other Maine
colleges in base-ball, as it is in other sports.
Until then, at least, our place in base-ball is
in the Maine league. May the season of '95
be such a season of victory that it will be a
long step toward this desired end.
Chess.
TPHE revival of chess in college this winter
*■ has brought great pleasure to all who
have ever been interested in the game, and
who have often regretted that it should not
be more popular among college boys.
It is one of the oldest of games. Its
origin is lost in the obscurity of prehistoric
times. Yet its author could have been
possessed of no common order of mind to
have invented a game which is as popular
now, after a lapse of three thousand years,
as when first played. Ever since Homer in
his deathless verse sung its charms, chess
has been a favorite game with all classes of
men. It is pre-eminently a warrior's game,
and doubtless it originated among warriors,
probably first designed to furnish amusement
and instruction for them after the more
active contests of war. Tamerlane and
Napoleon, two of the worlds greatest war-
riors, were passionately fond of it.
But it needs not the evidence of famous
friends to support the game. Upon its
merits it rests secure. The greatest game
of skill the world has ever known, it stands
to-day unrivaled — as has been well said —
"the king of games." Chance finds no
place in its domain, and the fact that pure
skill and knowledge of the game invariably
triumph over inexperience and recklessness
causes it to appeal to the scholar as no game
of chance ever could, for in it is found a
mental drill of the highest order, combined
with a recreation which cannot but be
enjoyable.
College fellows as a rule, perhaps, do not
care to play chess very much because, after the
severe brain work expended in study, they
wish a pastime which may be a relaxation of
mental strain. Yet from chess-playing may be
derived a coolness and steadiness of purpose,
a foresight and care, which are invaluable to
a student. The innumerable and intricate
problems it constantly furnishes afford a
fascination for the player that only one who
has played chess himself can fully appreciate.
This winter, letters received from the
Colby chess club resulted in the formation
of a club of twenty members here in college.
At its weekly meetings problems are dis-
cussed and games played which have aroused
great interest among the players, and have
been of much profit to them. Colby sug-
gested an intercollegiate tournament this
spring and challenged us, together with the
other colleges of the state, to play one.
Owing to want of co-operation of the other
two colleges, and lack of practice on the
part of our players, it seemed best to decline
the challenge. Hence there will be no chess
meet this year, though there is a prospect of
a good intercollegiate contest next year.
Meanwhile, a college tournament is now
under way, and there is great interest mani-
fested among the players and those outside
as to who will prove to be college champion
in chess. We have some very good players,
and under present conditions they bid fair
soon to be able to hold their own in any
contest that may arise. Every player should
do his best that our representatives may be
able to give Bowdoin as good a record in
chess as she now holds in all other contests
in which she has engaged hitherto.
$80,000 has thus far been subscribed to the
Phillips Brooks Memorial Fund of Harvard. It is
desired to raise $300,000. With this sum will be
built and endowed a Phillips Brooks House to pro-
vide a permanent home for the religious interests
of the university.
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A Few of the Winter Birds Around
Brunswick.
TITHE other afternoon it was very pleasant
-^ and warm, so I strapped on my snow-
shoes for a little run through the odoriferous
and gently-sighing pines.
I had not gone far before I was made
aware of the fact that I was not alone in
the enjoyment of the fine weather, for all
around me sounded the shrill notes of the
common titmouse, generally called the
chick-a-dee. These little creatures are the
only ones that really seem to enjoy winter.
No matter whether the sun shines brightly or
the air is full of snow, if you disturb a flock
of these little birds gaily chirping and flying
briskly from bough to bough, and from trunk
to trunk, they will always suspend operations
to come near and look at you. If you stand
still, first one and then another of the flock
will descend from the upper branches to the
lower in order to have a close view. They
will sit on the branch, move their heads from
side to side, and blink their little black eyes
until they feel satisfied that they have looked
you all over, and then they give a chirp and
fly away to begin their hunt for food again.
The chick-a-dees are by far the most
numerous of our birds that stay through the
winter. They live on the chrysalides and
cocoons of insects which lie imbedded in the
bark and branch angles of trees. They will
eat almost anything, and around lumber
camps, where there is always a lot of frozen
meat hanging about, and crumbs of bread
scattered near the doors, these birds are very
tame and plenty.
In the flock I saw the other afternoon I
looked very carefully for a rarer species of
titmouse, called the Hudson Bay titmouse.
It is brownish gray on its back, shading to
dirt}r white on its breast. It has a black
throat with a distinctively brown head.
Nearly every flock of the common titmouse
has one or more of these rare species in it ;
you can distinguish its note, as it is more
plaintive and rather sharper in tone. There
was one of these birds in the flock that I
saw, but I could not get a very clear view
of it, as they are not so tame as the common
chick-a-dee.
I found associated with the titmice a
rather peculiar bird called the red-breasted
nuthatch. It is a pretty little creature, not
so large as a common sparrow, with a long
black beak, with short legs and long claws,
also black. Its back is blue, the male being
darker than the female. It has a reddish-
brown breast and white stripe on each side
of its head.
Its food consists of the same things as
that of the titriiice, but its habits are much
nearer the woodpecker. It runs up and
down the tree trunks, along the branches,
hanging close to the tree by its strong claws.
When it finds anything, it stops and, break-
ing the pieces of bark away with its beak,
quickly swallows the dainty morsel. It does
not seem to make any difference to either of
these birds whether its head is up or down,
and they seem to enjoy life as much on the
under side of a limb as on the upper. The
plumage of both is soft and downy, and
the feathers are long and slim, so that in the
Hudson Bay titmouse the feathers approach
very close to fur.
The note of the nuthatch is a short nasal
vibration uttered five or six times thus,
hank, hank, hank, hank, hank. Sometimes
you strike a flock of them feeding on the
sunny side of a wood, and you hear a con-
fused squeaking sound as if they were all
talking at once, like people at an after-
noon tea.
High above these chirps and prolonged
notes I heard a high plaintive note like the
wail of a piccolo in an orchestra, and I
immediately knew it came from one of the
smallest birds we have, the golden-crowned
kinglet. This small bird is of a gray olive
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color tinging on brown, with a white throat
and breast. It has a partially concealed
crest of yellow, which in the male is tinged
on the outer edge with orange. In habits it
is much like the titmice, but it is not near so
sociable, indeed, in the winter it is usually a
little shy and keeps itself concealed in the
thick evergreen growths. In the spring it
has a very pretty little song, but in winter
its ordinary note is the one I have described
above. I know of nothing that will impress
the solemn stillness of a winter forest upon
one so well as to be sitting among some old
patriarchal pines, and to hear from the great
branches of the tree above you this mourn-
ful, pathetic, and plaintive note. Lumber-
men and surveyors have told me that nothing
made them homesick so quickly.
The last and largest of this band of
rovers is the downy woodpecker. You can
always tell its presence by its persistent
rap-a-tap-tap, sounding like the quick blows
of a stick on a box. Most of the other
birds that stay around in winter baunt the
evergreens, but the downy woodpecker is
seldom seen except on a dead trunk or on
a deciduous tree. It drills holes in the bark
to get at the insect remains that lie under-
neath, and so powerful are its strokes that in
a rotten stump it will keep a steady rain of
chips going all the time. Its general color
is black, broken with irregular patches of
white on its back and sides of its head, while
its breast and throat are white. The male
has a small red patch on the top of its head,
while the female has a large white place on
its head. It flies with an undulating sweep,
and it is only while flying that it utters its
piercing, powerful notes. The woodpecker
has a very long pointed tongue, which it can
run out of its mouth for an inch or more
into the chinks of a logging camp or a split
in a tree. It is essentially a beneficial bird,
though most farmers shoot it on sight, claim-
ing that it kills their trees. They are igno-
rant, however, of the fact that a woodpecker
will not bore a sound tree.
These kinds of birds which I have enu-
merated hunt together in one large flock, and
in Maine I have scarcely ever gone into a
patch of woods of any size without finding
them there. They seem to form a band for
mutual aid and sociability in their search
for food, which is so scarce at this season of
the year. Where you find one you will
generally find all of them. They are contin-
ually moving about, and you have to keep
along with them to observe and study them.
I observed all of these in the woods back of
the campus, and considered the afternoon
well spent.
The Mystery of a Mine.
0N a deserted mountain road, not far dis-
tant from a fashionable White Mountain
summer resort, there is situated an abandoned
lead mine. Years ago the vein of ore became
exhausted, and from that moment the mine
ceased to be an object of interest to the
natives of the town, while timid tourists
were wont to consider that the ravages of
time had rendered it perilous to venture
within the crumbling tunnels. Thus it
chanced that this picturesque spot was but
little frequented.
Dick NorJton, a student passing his vaca-
tion in the vicinity, visited the place on one
of his woodland rambles, and, his curiosity
being aroused, he determined, regardless of
the danger involved, to investigate the de-
serted shafts. It was a rather difficult matter
to find a companion of sufficiently adven-
turous spirit to accompany Dick on this
expedition, but after some delay a young
native of the place was prevailed upon to
conduct him to the desired spot. The morn-
ing on which our story opens found Dick
abroad at an early hour, impatiently awaiting
the arrival of his guide. In due season,
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Jerry — for such was the young guide's
name — appeared, and together they were
soon commencing to ascend the steep forest
path. It was an ideal summer's morning.
The sun, appearing beyond the summit of a
neighboring mountain, lent a golden tinge
to the eastern horizon, while the dew-drops,
still glistening on the grass and foliage,
sparkled like crystals beneath its beams.
Jerry was the first to break the silence.
"Heard the news?" he abruptly inquired.
Dick confessed that he had not, whereupon
ensued a highly sensational narrative, ren-
dered in Jerry's most impressive and graphic
style. It appeared that for some time past
the greatest excitement and consternation
had pervaded the village, owing to the fact
that counterfeit money was being most freely
circulated; and much was this agitation
augmented when all efforts to capture, or
even to detect, the counterfeiters proved
unavailing. All this, Jerry, with many
elaborations, recounted, but Dick gave small
heed to his story, little dreaming how soon
or how unpleasantly he would be reminded
of it.
An hour's walk brought them to the site
of the abandoned mine. Here an almost
unearthly silence prevailed, and the place
itself seemed dreary and desolate. It was
not without a foreboding of evil that Dick
lighted his caudle and, followed by Jerry,
entered the tunnel. Within all was damp
and chill. Timbers, broken ladders, and
fragments of rock obstructed their way, but
resolutely pushing forward they were soon
astonished at the changed appearance of the
tunnel. All obstacles were removed from
the path and new ladders replaced the old.
Evidently the place was not as deserted as
people imagined.
Dick and his companion had proceeded
for some time when they were suddenly
startled by the sound of voices. Cautiously
advancing a short distance, they came to an
abrupt descent of the tunnel and, creeping
stealthily to the brink, they peered intently
into the depths below. What a sight met
their gaze ! A half-dozen fierce-looking men
were standing about a bright fire. A huge
iron kettle, hanging over the crackling
flames, and a mold and masses of counterfeit
money heaped on a rude table near by,
showed only too plainly their occupation.
For an instant Dick stood as if riveted to
the spot, but Jerry, with a look of horror,
fled precipitately, extinguishing his candle
in his alacrity. Dick turned to follow, but a
stone, loosened by his foot, fell crashing into
the abyss. The scene which ensued is better
imagined than described. With an oath,
one of the counterfeiters sprang hastily to
the ladder and rapidly ascended, followed by
his companions. The next moment Dick
felt himself roughly seized, while the very
air seemed alive with oaths and exclamations.
But even in the height of the excitement
the fact that Jerry's flight was unobserved
inspired Dick with hope, for he felt that
Jerry would not fail to find a way of rescuing
him. At length, bound hand and foot, he
was left to his own meditations. His captors
were already engaged in a heated discussion
as to the safest means of disposing of him,
but for what fate he was destined Dick dared
not conjecture. Bitterly did he now regret
the folly which induced him to enter the
mine, and as the hours passed slowly by aud
no welcome friends came to him in his sad
plight, hope began to fail him.
How long he remained there Dick never
knew; it seemed to his imagination an
eternity. Already his captors were . ap-
proaching him, and he was preparing to
meet his fate courageously, when the sound
of footsteps echoing through the tunnel
sent a thrill of joy to his heart. The
counterfeiters paused in alarm. The next
instant loud shouts and cheers proclaimed
the arrival of Dick's liberators.
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There remains little more to be told.
When, with great difficulty, owing to the
darkness, Jerry succeeded in escaping from
the mine, he hastened at once to the village
and breathlessly related the morning's ad-
venture. After a short delay he was again
traversing the mountain path at the head of
a company of volunteers, eager to rescue
his companion and to capture the criminals
who had so long escaped justice. Taken
completely by surprise and overpowered by
numbers, the counterfeiters offered little
resistance, and were soon led to the village
in triumph. Dick and Jerry, who were
acknowledged heroes, bore their honors
meekly, and, strange to relate, never cared
to allude to the mystery which they had so
unwittingly solved.
Bowdoirp ^)ep§e.
The Campus.
There's swimming here and skating there,
And slush o'er all the space between ;
0, dreary waste, with curses piled,
Can it be true thou e'er wert green ?
0, for a bridge across the deep ;
0, for a boat to bear us o'er ;
0, that the water might turn back,
And let us pass from shore to shore.
And only Freshmen find life joy ;
They chuckle softly in their glee,
While struggling through the campus waves,
'They all are soaked as well as we ! "
The Fin de Siecle Inventor.
Augustus Jenkins, as a lad, has visions of success;
To be a great inventor seemed the height of bless-
edness.
So Gussie wielded saw and adze, and worked from
morn till night,
Until his new eero-ship stood finished. Happy
sight !
The time of trial drew nigh apace,
stepped aboard,
Augustus
He touched a spring, the craft arose, anon aloft it
soared.
The people yelled, but Gussie groaned, the steering
gear was wrong,
And now again toward earth it swooped. It struck
amid the throng.
Good deacon Gray's new summer suit was sprinkled
o'er with gore,
His vest was torn, his eye was black, his damaged
nose was sore.
With wrathful glance and muttered word, he seized
poor Gussie's jeans,
And thrashed his young ambition into smallest
smithereens.
Augustus Jenkins as a man has rank and fame and
wealth,
He turned his wits to facts, not thoughts; laid
visions on the shelf;
Invented Jenkins' two-horse power, central-action
pill, —
(Just sent ten cents in postage-stamps, 'twill cure
your every ill).
The Huntsman.
[From Schiller's Tell.]
In the sunrise shiver,
Over hill and dale,
Arrows in his quiver,
Comes the huntsman hah
As the hawk in heaven
Bears an airy sway,
Is the archer's kingdom
O'er his mountain way.
All around obeys him
That in bow-shot lies,
Lawful booty pays him
All that crawls and flies.
Henry W. Lane, a Senior at Amherst College,
broke the world's record for total strength, in the
Pratt gymnasium recently. Nash, of Tufts, has a
record of 1,302, and Klein, of Harvard, has become
famous with 1,446 points, but Lane scored a total
of 1,650 points.
After this, at the University of Chicago, the
tuition fee to under-graduates will be raised from
$25 a quarter to $40, but the charge of $5 now
made for incidentals and library fee will be abolished.
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A portion of the Freshman Class
were given a reception at Professor
Moody's handsome home a week ago
last Thursday. Professor and Mrs.
Moody, Professor and Mrs. Woodruff,
and Professor and Mrs. Houghton entertained. Re-
freshments were served and a most enjoyable time
is reported.
Reed is the '95 photographer.
Athletic exhibition, March 26th.
The Worcester meet is to come May 22d.
Gentle spring is being anxiously looked for.
Compulsory gymnasium work ends this week.
P. Bartlett, '92, spent Sunday on the campus.
One week after this and then come examina-
tions.
The base-ball men are longing to get out on the
Delta.
Stone, '96, was at home for a week sick with the
mumps.
Plumstead, '96, is back after a rather long term
of school.
Good skating on the campus before the last
snow storm.
E. Thomas, '94, was the guest of friends in
college, Sunday.
Hodgkins, ex-'92, spent several days with friends
in college recently.
Breitling, M. S., is playing the organ in the
Congregational Church.
Stetson, '97, was taken into at at a special
initiation, Friday evening.
Mitchell, '96, has joined his class after a two
months' term of teaching.
All enjoyed watching the total eclipse of the
moon, Sunday evening, March 10th.
The Misses Walker were at the Art Building on
a brief trip of inspection last week.
The reading-room papers were auctioned off a
week ago Wednesday, Ward, '96, auctioneer.
The large base-ball pennant won by the college
in '93 has been placed in the library.
The Freshmen have completed Solid Geometry
and are now wrestling with Trigonometry.
Bowdoin and Brunswick will not hear the Glee
Club till the first of next term, so it is said.
There is some talk that the lower classes will
put eight-oared crews on the river this spring.
The third-year division in Mathematics have
commenced on Modern Analytical Geometry.
"How Shall the Currency be Reformed," is the
last theme subject of the term for the Juniors.
Monday evening, March 18th, the Glee and
Banjo and Guitar Clubs will appear in Auburn.
Eastman, '96, is back in college again, after a
pleasant though chilly trip through the Gulf States.
Everybody seems anxious for another Junior
assembly, the three held having been so enjoyable.
E. F. Pratt, '97, left recently to teach the high
school at Otis Falls. He is planning for a ten weeks'
term.
The Junior History division is writing thousand-
word themes on various subjects connected with
the early years of the republic.
The Bowdoin Chess Club is holding a tourna-
ment among its members. Only the preliminary
games have been played as yet.
The Orient Board has been photographed by
Reed. There were no accidents and a very satis-
factory negative was secured, all things considered.
The Glee and Banjo and Guitar Clubs are con-
templating a trip during vacation to the eastern
part of the state, where they will give five or six
concerts.
Prof. Woodruff has commenced his usual optional
course in Greek. The first exercise was held
Wednesday, March 6th, and began with the second
book of Homer's Odyssey.
The Junior Political Economy division has writ-
ten its second themes for the term. The subjects
were: "The French Bimetallic Law;" "The Fall
in PricesSince 1873; " " The Depreciation in Silver."
The Juniors have completed laboratory work in-
Chemistry, giving up their apparatus two weeks
ago. The remainder of the term will be spent in
lectures on air, various elements, and organic chem-
istry.
The third Junior assembly was held in Town
Hall, Saturday evening, March 9th, and proved the
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largest and most enjoyable of them all. The class
and committee have scored a high success in social
events this winter.
Wednesday, the sixth of March, the Tennis
Association met and elected officers for the ensuing
year. Dana, '96, was elected President; A. P.
Cook, '97, Vice-President; E. C. Davis, '97, Secre-
tary; Dane, '96, Third Director.
This spring is much behind last spring. A year
ago to-day, March 20th, the campus was clear of
snow, and the paths were so dry that the sprinters
and hurdlers were practicing upon them. Later,
however, there came snow again and mud.
The Freshmen have elected their officers for
the Class Banquet as follows: Toast-master,
Mclntyre; Opening Address, White; Poet,McKown;
Historian, Studley; Closing Address, H.H.Hamlin;
Committee of Arrangements, Pierce, Baxter, and
Pennell.
Many beautiful and interesting additions have
recently been made to the Sophia Walker Gallery
of the Art Building. An original marble portrait
bust of the Roman Emperor, Tiberius, who reigned
from 14 to 37 A.D., attracts much attention. The
large Italian vases and altars, formerly in Sculpture
Hall, have been placed on the terrace, flanking the
first steps.
The Glee Club took its second three-night trip
last week and gave concerts in Bartlett and North
Conway, N. H., and in Bridgton, Me. All three
concerts were largely attended and passed off most
successfully. The club was enthusiastically re-
ceived in each place, and added much to the fine
reputation it is making. The boys report a most
delightful trip, except for the fact that they had to
get out of bed two mornings at 5 o'clock to make
train connections.
It seems that poisoning case in Brunswick, in
which several Bowdoin College students and others
were made sick by arsenic that got into the soup in
some unknown way, hasn't been forgotten or proved
to be a false report as some people have believed;
as the Kennebec Journal hears that a quiet but
thorough investigation has been in progress and
that the guilty party will be discovered and pun-
ished, if possible. One of the reports heard by the
Augusta paper is that the kettle and its contents
were submitted to Prof. Robinson of the college,
and that he found arsenic enough in it to have
killed forty people.— [Leiviston Journal.]
At a meeting of the Base-Ball Association, March
12th, it was unanimously voted to enter the league
with Colby and M. S. C. Bates is out in the cold,
as she still objects to the playing of medical stu-
dents on our team. The following schedule of
league games has been arranged: May 13, Maine
State-Bowdoin at Brunswick; 14, Bowdoin-Maine
State at Orono; 22, Colby-Bowdoin at Waterville;
25, Colby-Maine State at Waterville; 29, Maine
State-Colby at Orono ; June 1, Bowdoin-Maine State
at Waterville; 5, Maine State-Colby at Brunswick;
8, Bowdoin-Colby at Brunswick; 11, Colby-Bow-
doin at Orono. Bowdoin has also arranged games
with Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Tufts, University of
Vermont, Andover, and Exeter, and will probably
play quite a number of other outside teams.
The athletic exhibition, with the exception of
the class drills, was given in the Augusta Opera
House, Thursday evening, March 14th. A fair
crowd was in attendance and the exhibition was
well received. Everything passed off smoothly ex-
cept the disastrous attempt of the moving pyra-
mid to sing Phi Chi. This was taken as a huge
burlesque by the audience, and proved a hit of the
evening. The exhibition showed the results of the
recent hard work of the athletes, and insures an
unusually successful exhibition here, March 26th.
The following participated in the exhibition : Craw-
ford, Dewey, Fairbanks, Kimball, Ridley, and Shaw,
'95; Bates, Haskell, and Smith, '96; P. W.' Davis,
Home, Lord, and McMillan, '97; McKown, Dana,
and W. W. Spear, '98; Gahan, '87, and Critten-
den, M.S.
It is about this time of the year, in the warm
part of the day, that the small boy comes in for
more or less criticism on his snow-ball throwing
proclivities. Several papers have been complaining
of this nuisance, and the Brunswick correspondent
of the Leiviston Sun reports that two runaways
have occurred here from snow-balls striking the
horses; a young lady, crossing the street from the
post-office, was struck in the face; a leading busi-
ness man got one in the neck, and various other
people have been subjected to similar annoyances,
to say nothing of the innocent Freshmen, often
assailed by the little "yaggers." The small boy, in
himself, is a noble institution, and we confess to a
strong leaning in his direction and a disposition,
which we struggle against as best we can, to sym-
pathize with him in his hilariousness ; but there are
limits to all things, and small boys who develop into
snow-balling nuisances ought certainly to be sup-
pressed.
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CALENDAE.
Monday, Feb. 18.— Lecture by President Hyde.
Thursday, Feb. 21. — No service.
Sunday, Feb. 24. — No service.
Tuesday, Feb. 26. — Lecture by President Hyde.
Thursday, Feb. 28.— Service led by Cook, '97.
Sunday, March 3. — Address by Prof. Chapman.
Thursday, March 7. — Service led by Russell, '97.
Sunday, March 10. — Song service.
Thursday, Mar. 14.— Service led by Gilpatrick, '96.
Sunday, March 17. — Address by Prof. Mitchell.
The annual meeting of the Association was held
Thursday evening, March 14th. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President Howard Gilpatrick, '96.
Vice-President, .... J. G. Haines, '97.
Treasurer, A. P. Cook, '97.
Corresponding Secretary, . . C. C. Smith, '98.
Recording Secretary, . . H. M. Bisbee, '98.
Our attention has lately been called to the fol-
lowing notice which appeared in the Brunsivick
Telegraph, February 14th :
"In his remarks this week, President Hyde
expressed the sentiment that were Bowdoin College
to restrict its students in the matter of belief, it
were just as well to make the college a Kinder-
garten, which sentiment was very generally ap-
proved. Bowdoin's Y. M. C. A. has simplified its
creed to the mere matter of belief in God, which is
the part of wisdom as it seems to many, although
creating much remark, and severing the college
society from the Y. M. C. A. of the state."
This notice gives a wrong impression in the
matter, and is placing the Association in a false
light. A prominent graduate of the college, a mem-
ber of the old Praying Circle, writes as follows :
" If the Y. M. C. A. is to stand on grounds with
Jews and Mohammedans, the friends of religion
will be deeply grieved."
The Association, last year, did change the article
in its constitution relating to membership. The
old constitution divided the members into two
classes, active and associate. The former con-
sisted of " men, either students or members of the
Faculty of this institution, who are members in good
standing of an evangelical church." The latter
class, associate, included "any man of good moral
character, either student or member of the Faculty."
Such was the condition of affairs, as regards mem-
bership, under the former constitution. Only mem-
bers of evangelical churches could have full privi-
leges of the Association. To-day the distinction
between active and associate members does not ex-
ist. Article 3, Section 1, of the present constitu-
tion reads as follows: "The membership of this
Association shall consist of men, either students or
members of the Faculty of the college, who believe
in one God, the Father Almighty, and in one Lord
Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and
giver of life; and shall be elected by a two-thirds
vote of the members present at any meeting."
The extract from the Brunswick Telegraph does
not, it seems to us, give the right color to the mat-
ter. Our creed is not simplified to a "mere matter
of belief in God," as the article of the constitution
which relates to membership will show.
The Pine Tree Club, of
Boston, is contemplating
ivmg a reception to the graduates
of Bowdoin College. The scheme is
not fully matured as yet, but it is the in-
tention to have Chief Justice Fuller, Con-
gressman Reed, Senator Frye, and other prominent
alumni present at the occasion and deliver addresses.
The recent municipal election in Augusta re-
sulted in the election of Frederick Cony, '80, as
alderman in Ward Five, and John V. Lane, '87, as
councilman in Ward One. Joseph Williamson, Jr.,
'88, was the Democratic candidate for alderman in
Ward One.
'28.— Rev. Sanford Agry Kingsbery, D.D., for-
merly a pastor in this state, died February 4th, in
Upper Alton, 111., at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. George B. Dodge. He was the last survivor
of his class. He was born in Gardiner, Me., Jan-
uary 19, 1809, and was graduated at Bowdoin in
the Class of '28. After leaving college he studied
law in the office of his father, Judge Kingsbery, and
entered upon the practice of his profession in China,
Me. In 1831 he formed a partnership with Hon.
John Otis, Halloweli; but in the meantime his
views of life having changed and having connected
himself with the Baptist church while yet in prac-
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tice, he entered upon a course of theological study,
at length abandoning the law. In 1845 he received
a license to preach and was ordained into the Bap-
tist church, and from 1845 to 1855 preached at
Danmriscotta, Me. The health of a son requiring
a change of situation, in 1855 he removed to the
West and became pastor of a church in Galesburg,
111. At the opening of the war iu 1861, he was
commissioned chaplain of the Seventeenth Illinois
Volunteers, and was in the field with them three
years. During his first removal to the West he
filled pastorates in Milwaukee, Wis., Galesburg,
111., Jacksonville, 111., Peoria, 111., and Huntington,
Ind. In 1873 he returned to Maine and became
pastor of the Baptist church at Bath. Here he
remained until 1877, when he accepted a call to the
Baptist church in Bowdoinham. His pastorate iu
Bowdoinham closed in 1881, and wishing to be near
his daughter, he returned to the West and supplied
churches in Bunker Hill, Carbondale, and Edwards-
ville, 111. Since 1881 he has been gradually failing
in strength which continued until his death, Febru-
ary 4th. September 19, 1831, Dr. Kingsbery mar-
ried Sylvina Robinson, a daughter of Gen. I. Robin-
son of Augusta. Mr. Kingsbery received the degree
of D.D. from Shurtleff College, Illinois.
'55. — Rev. Flavins Vespasian Norcross has re-
signed the pastorate of the Congregational church
at Andover, the resignation to take effect in April.
'55. — At a meeting of the Sous and Daughters
of Maine, held in Washington, D. C, March 16th,
a paper was delivered by Mr. Sumner I. Kimball,
superintendent of the Life-Saving Department.
'67. — Col. Stanley Plummer, of Dexter, is one
of the most prominent figures in the Maine Legis-
lature this winter, and is adding greatly to his
reputation as a public speaker. He is called tho
best orator on the floor of the House, and his speech
iu favor of municipal suffrage for women has attracted
especially wide attention. Colonel Plummer is to
deliver the Memorial Day address before B. H.
Beale Post, No. 12, G. A. R., of Bangor.
'73. — A. L. Crocker, president of the Minneapolis
Board of Trade, has been authorized to represent
the college in the West, among the alumni and
friends, in the movement to secure more funds for
the use of the college library.
'77.— This is about the time when Lieut. R. E.
Peary is expected to start from his winter camp in
Greenland on his exploring trip north, and prepara-
tions are also in progress for the starting of an
expedition to meet him on his return. The Green-
land scientific expedition expects to start a vessel
from St. Johns, N. F., about July 5th, to reach Mr.
Peary's camp the last of July or first of August.
The American Geographical Society has pledged
$1,000 towards the expedition, and other subscrip-
tions are expected.
'77. — John A. Roberts has retired as supervisor
of the town of Norway. Mr. Roberts was lately
elected president of the Board of Management for
the Public Library of Norway.
'79. — Seward S. Stearns has been elected chair-
man of School Committee, Norway, Me., and also
secretary of the Board of Management for the
Public Library.
'87.— Charles J. Goodwin has an article in the
March number of the New World on "The Poet in
an Age of Science."
'90. — Dr. Edgar F. Conant, who but lately re-
ceived a fine position with the Bridgeport, Conn.,
Hospital, has accepted a better place on the staff
of the Maternity Hospital, 251 East Seventeenth
Street, New York City.
'91. — Rev. Alexander P. McDonald, who gradu-
ated from the Andover Theological Seminary last
June, has a parish now at Pullman, Washington.
'94. — Rev. R. L. Sheaff, now of Falmouth, has
accepted a call to a pastorate at Union, N. H.
Ex-'95. — Jackson is reported as doing finely with
his school at Bath, Me. Among other things, he
has beeu giving his scholars a course in gymnastics
similar to that pursued at Bowdoin.
allege \J9op1g(.
The last Friday in October is University Day at
Northwestern University. The object of the day
is to bring the students into closer touch with one
another.
Out of Sight.
She shed a tear upon his vest,
The effort made her wince,
The vest was made of flannel
And he hasn't seen it since.
— Cornell Widovi.
The Senior Class at the University of Pennsyl-
vania have worn caps and gowns since January 1st.
A central heating plant heats all of the build-
ings at the University of Michigan. It was recently
erected at a cost of $50,000.
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A "Graduate Club" has been formed at New
Haven, to whose membership alumni of any Amer-
ican university are eligible.
Questions.
What made James Riley ?
And why was Lawrence Sterne ?
And why did Richard Lovelace so ?
We all Wood like to learn.
Jonathan Swift, and Bishop Still ?
Why Mrs. Barbauld so ?
What sorrow caused all Fanny Steers ?
Does anybody know ?
Why didn't Robert Ascham ?
And when was Dyer's birth?
Did Richard Steele a Buckle ?
How much are these Wordsworth ?
— Colorado Collegian.
Yale has won eleven championships of the Inter-
Collegiate Base-ball League, as against two each
for_Harvard and Princeton.
Miss Reaux.
'Twas agreed by all her beaux,
That she had a sweet face in repeaux,
But when her pert neaux
Was by winter's chill freaux,
The dismay that it caused neau one kneaux.
— Ex.
" Sweet maid," said he,
I ask of thee
To fly, to fly, to fly with me ? "
"Young fellow," said she,
" Now don't you be
Too fly, too fly, too fly with me." — Ex.
The average weight of the principal foot-ball
teams is given below: Harvard, 185; Pennsylvania,
]79; Yale and Princeton, 172.
Gets There.
Tou may choke me off with quinine,
You may frighten me with squills,
You may try to overcome me
With your tonics and your pills;
But I'm stronger than your doctors,
Though for miles extend their fame;
I'm a little " grip " bacillus —
And I get there just the same. — Ex.
A pavilion for contagious diseases is to be built
at Yale.
At his watch he looks intently,
While a smile lights up his face,
And I know as well as can be
There's a woman in the ease.
A Queky.
Ye listeningrocks, ye sounding sea,
Ye bellowing winds from o'er the lea!
O tell me, if ye can tell aught,
What will they call the class of '00 ?
— Tale Record.
Miss Frances Willard is the third woman upon
whom the degree of LL.D. has been conferred, the
other two being Maria Mitchell and Amelia B.
Edwards.
In a lecture on Physics, Jags heard,
" With one glass two objects you see;
While with two you see four;
And with three, several more,"
But he thought, "It takes more to queer me."
— Trinity Tablet.
The Islander, of the University of Michigan, is
one of the best of the magazines published by uni-
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Vol. XXIV.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 3, 1895.
No. 17.
BOWDOIN ORIENT.
PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY DURING
THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
J. C. Minot, '96, Managing Editor.
G. T. Ordway, '96, Assistant Managing Editor.
H. R. Blodgett, '96, Business Manager.
B. L. Bryant, '95. A. L. Churchill, '95.
H. W. Thayer, '95. J. T. Shaw, '95.
A. G. Wiley, '95. H. H. Pierce, '96.
J. B. Roberts, '95. C. W. Marston, '96.
Per annum, in advance, $2.00.
Single Copies, 15 Cents.
Extra copies can beobtained atthe bookstores oron applica-
tion to the Business Manager.
Remittances should be made to the BusinessManager. 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
the wishes to have appended.
Contributions for Bowdoin Verse Department should be
sent to Box 701, Brunswick, Me.
Personal items should be sent to Box 138, Brunswick, Me.
Entered at the Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston.
CONTENTS.
Vol. XXIV., No. 17.— April 3, 1895.
Editorial Notes, 275
Athletic Exhibition, 278
About Chi Psi 279
The Alhambra, 280
Bacon vs. Shakespeare, 280
Bowdoin Verse:
The Mists 2S2
Violets 282
The Drunkard and His Wife 282
Collegii Tabula, 283
Y. M. C. A., 285
Personal 286
College World, 287
The annual election of Orient
editors has been held, and five new men have
been made members of the board to take the
places of the Seniors whose terms now expire.
The new men are Gilpatric, '96, Hagar, '97,
Baxter, Marble, and C. C. Smith, '98. The
newly-elected board has organized as follows
for the coming year :
J. C. Minot, '96, Managing Editor.
C. W. Marston, '96,
Assistant Managing Editor.
H. R. Blodgett, '96, Business Manager.
G. T. Ordway, '96, Athletics.
H. H. Pierce, '96, College World.
H. Gilpatric, '96, Y. M. C. A.
R. S. Hagar, '97, Personals.
T. L. Marble, '98, Bowdoin Verse.
P. P. Baxter,
C. C. Smith, '9
Collegii Tabula.
TITHIS number closes Volume XXIV of the
■*■ Orient, but the editor cannot say, as
the editors have been able to say at the close
of preceding volumes, "the time has now
come for us to make our farewell bow, to
lay aside the editorial pen, hang up the
shears, and turn over to other hands the
cares and responsibilities of the college
paper, feeling the fullest confidence in the
ability of our successors, etc., etc." No, we
can deliver no valedictory at this point, even
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though it be the close of the volume. The
turn of fortune's, or misfortune's, wheel has
made us the head of the Orient for another
year, an honor and a responsibility not to be
lightly regarded. But to the six members
of the board of 1894-95, who now sever
their connection with their college paper, we
extend our sincerest thanks for their hearty
co-operation which has done so much to
make the editor's task easier and more
pleasant. We also wish to express our grat-
itude to Mr. E. R. Woodbury, '95, who,
though not a member of the board, has
faithfully conducted our Y. M. C. A. depart-
ment. With the continued earnest help of
those who remain on the board and of the
new members just elected, we hope to keep
the Orient up to a standard worthy the
college of which it is the representative.
'TJGrAIN we separate for a short vacation,
/ * changing the scenes of campus life for a
week of rest and enjoyment at home. Then
we come back to enter upon the last third
of the college year, the most delightful aud
eventful term of all. May all have a pleas-
ant week, and may evidences of the presence
of gentle spring be more numerous here
when we return.
"TTOOT-BALL will live, and will probably
*■ live at Harvard, in spite of the recent
action of those in authority at Cambridge,
which has made such a sensation in college
athletic circles. Minor changes may be made
from time to time in the rules, to satisfy the
demands of those who think the game is too
rough, but the game itself has too firm a
hold on American colleges to be killed by
the action of any one university, or by the
vituperation and misrepresentation of an
uninformed press. The Harvard authorities
may stick to their decision, but it is doubtful
if any other effect is seen on the foot-ball
situation next fall than that Harvard may
escape the usual humiliation of one or two
great defeats. It will continue with increas-
ing popularity to be the great fall game
among the colleges, and long-haired students
will continue to win glory on the gridiron
field as well as in the class-room. The game
has the almost unanimous support of all
who are acquainted with it, or who have
played in it, and others have little right to
condemn. Bowdoin will go into next fall's
campaign with more enthusiasm than ever,
and expects to add much to the good record
it has already made in this manly branch
of athletics.
TITHE Maine Intercollegiate Field Day is
■*■ now a sure thing. The other Maine
colleges adopted the suggestion of Bowdoin,
and representatives met at Augusta, March
23d, and formed the Maine Intercollegiate
Athletic Association. Bates was not rep-
resented, but expects to join the association.
The rules adopted are practically those of the
New England Athletic Association, and the
annual meet will consist of the same events.
This year the meet will be held in Waterville,
some time during the first two weeks of June,
the exact date not yet being fixed. Bowdoin
men must go into this new venture with a snap
and enthusiasm, so that from the first there
shall be no doubt as to what college the cham-
pionship cup shall belong. Every student
who has ambition or ability to excel or do
well in any field or track event must go to
work with the training squad and keep
steadily at it. Many students have no idea
of the athletic possibilities in themselves.
Go to work and see what you can do. If
you cannot make the team to go to Worces-
ter you can very likely get the opportu-
nity to fight for victory against the other
Maine colleges, and can at least take part in
the college field day, which is increasing in
importance each year, and can win points
for your class and honor for yourself. Bow-
doin did well at Worcester last year, but it
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must do better this year, and this with the
new incentive of the Maine field day ought
to make the enthusiasm in field and track
events high this spring.
YEAR after year, Bowdoin's Athletic Ex-
hibition has substantially the same feat-
ures, and yet it is always a success, and was
never better attended nor more enthusias-
tically received than this year. This is very
satisfactory and complimentarj', but how
much better it would be if some changes
were made and some new features intro-
duced. Let those interested have this in
mind, and there is no reason why the indul-
gent audiences cannot be given some pleasant
surprises next year. The recent exhibition
reflected much credit upon all participating,
and was unusually successful from athletic,
financial, and social points of view. Its
repetition in Bath was, as last year, cordially
received. The Class of '96 is to be congrat-
ulated upon furnishing the winning drill
squad for three years in succession. The
prize cup is now the property of the class,
and it may justly take pride in the possession
of the well-won trophy.
T.AST week the south wing of the library
" was examined by a representative of a
well-known firm of contractors, and esti-
mates were made for fitting over this wing
to make it absolutely fire-proof, putting in
iron stacks, and increasing its capacity to
40,000 volumes, about 15,000 more than its
present capacity. It is, of course, uncertain
yet whether these changes will be made, but
Librarian Little earnestly hopes they may
be brought about, and every student and
friend of the college will unite with him in
the desire. There does not appear to be
any prospect of our new library building in
the immediate future, and it seems to be
absolutely imperative that steps be taken for
the better protection of the large library in
which Bowdoin men justly take so much
pride. Bowdoin's long period of freedom
from loss by fire does not prove that the
danger of fire here is not always great.
The chapel and library building with the
furnaces beneath and the large amount of
rubbish and imflarnmable material stored
there, is especially exposed. Water and smoke
would work as serious damage as fire among
books, and of all buildings the college would
feel the loss of this one most keenly. Our
new Science and Art buildings are fire-proof,
and it will be a happy day for Bowdoin
when it has a noble library building of the
same nature. Until that time comes every
possible protection should be given the
library where it now is, and with the south
wing made fire-proof and 40,000 of the most
valuable books placed there, much would be
accomplished in this direction.
"TnGHT-OARED class races this spring?
■*-* Well, why not? The two lower classes
have been talking over the idea, and it
seems to be popular. The more men that
row, the more interest and enthusiasm is
aroused. An eight-oared race would be
much more satisfactor)^ to the spectators,
as it would be twice as long and they would
see its start and finish. The boating asso-
ciation will doubtless be willing to buy the
four-oared shells of the classes and sell them
its eight-oared shells, now stored in the boat-
house, and thus the crews would be much
more evenly matched, as there is very little
difference in the condition of the eight-oared
shells. The expense would be no heavier, if
so heavy, on the classes. All that is needed
is the enthusiasm to get a sufficient number
of men to try for places in the boat, so that
eight good men can be selected for each
crew. For many years the class boat-race
has been a popular and exciting contest, and
added interest will be given it if it becomes
an eight-oared instead of a four-oared race.
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But if the change cannot be made a perma-
nent one, it can at least be tried this year.
The Orient hopes the rowing men will push
the matter through to success.
TpIKE the little girl in the poem the Bow-
-L^ doin fraternities can now say, " We are
seven." Since the last issue of the Orient
a chapter of Kappa Sigma has been estab-
lished here, and starts out on the rough road
of life. The question whether or not there
is room for another fraternity here is left for
the new chapter to settle. Certainly no col-
lege of Bowdoin's size gets better material
for its fraternities than this institution, but
whether another can exist beside those now
well established here remains to be seen.
The Orient extends greetings to the new
chapter, and wishes it long life and prosperity.
Athletic Exhibition.
TT7HE ninth Annual Exhibition and Hop of
-*■ the College Athletic Association took
place on Tuesday evening, March 26th.
Good music, a large and appreciative au-
dience, and an exhibition fully up to the
standard of previous years united in making
a very successful affair, both financially and
otherwise. The horizontal and parallel bar
work and the tumbling were very fine; in
fact the best we have seen here for several
years. The Class of '96, for the third con-
secutive year, won the silver cup awarded
to the class which presents the best squad
drill on the stage.
The Bowdoin College Orchestra fur-
nished music, and deserve much praise for
the choice selections they so ably rendered.
The floor was well covered with many
dancers, who kept up the gaiety until a
late hour, and everybody went home tired
and sleepy, but well satisfied with both the
exhibition and hop. The entertainment will
be remembered as a very enjoyable occasion
by the students and towns-people as well.
Everything passed off smoothly and most
creditably. A goodly number from out of
town were present and seemed to enjoy
themselves very much.
Programme.
MUSIC.
Horizontal Bar. Smith, Gahan, Davis, McMillan.
Fencing Drill. Class of '95; J. T. Shaw, Leader.
Stubbs, Crawford, Ridley, Stetson, Leighton,
Axtell, Haskell.
High Diving.
Bates, Fairbanks, Home, Coburn, McMillan.
High Jumping.
Borden, Haskell, Home, Stanwood, Kendall.
Pole Vaulting.
Haskell, Fairbanks, Smith, McMillan, Stanwood.
MUSIC.
Broadsword Drill.
Class of '96; J. H. Bates, Leader.
Coburn, Lyford, Thompson, Andrews, Haskell,
Bass, Fogg, Bradbury, Small, Soule, Dana.
Sparring. Heavy Weights, Ridley and Coburn.
Light Weights, Hatch and Pulsifer.
Fencing. Shaw and Russ.
Wrestling.
Catch-as-Catch-Can, Spear and Murphy.
MUSIC
Flying Rings. Gahan, Haskell, Dana.
Dumb-Bell Drill.
Class of '97 ; S. L. Merriman, Leader.
Brett, Piatt, Smith, McMillan, Hatch, Horne,
Carmichael, Davis, Keohan, Pease, Varrell.
Special Tumbling.
Lord, Gahan, Bates, Dewey, Home, McMillan,
Spear.
Broadsword Combat. Kimball and Dewey.
Single-Stick Combat. Fairbanks and Shaw.
MUSIC.
Indian-Club Drill.
Class of '98; C. S. Pettengill, Leader.
Ives, Kendall, Minott, Hall, Williamson, Preble,
Stetson, Perkins, Odiorne, Dana, Wilson.
Parallel Bars.
Gahan, Crittendon, Davis, McMillan.
Roman Ladders.
Gahan, Kimball, Bates, Spear, McMillan.
German Pyramids.
Haskell, Smith, Dewey, Kimball, Ridley, Bates,
Spear, Horne, McMillan, Dana, Davis, Lord,
McKown, Gahan, Coburn.
Manager— W. W. Robinson.
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Directors— P. B. Smith. A. P. Ward, H. D. Lord.
Dancing.
Floor Manager — H. H. Pierce.
Aids— M. Warren, F. S. Dane.
Judges foe Class Drills.
Prof. W. A. Moody. Prof. G. T. Piles.
George S. Macban, A.B.
About Chi Psi.
6N page 89 of the "Historical Sketch"
printed on the occasion of the Centennial
of the College, is given a brief statement of
the dates of the establishment of the several
secret societies, but in the list no mention is
made of Chi Psi, of which a chapter was
formed in 1844, the charter members being
Judge C. W. Goddard of '44, Rev. Geo. W.
Durell, Hon. Thomas A. D. Fessenden, A.
W. Johnson, N. P. Richardson, C. P. Roberts,
Rev. Dr. Joshua Young of '45, C. M. Cham-
berlain, F. D. Sewall, L. D. Shepley, Rev. P.
Southworth, and Rev. Dr. E. B. Webb of '46.
In its membership it also included Hon. W.
C. Marshall, Rev. Dr. W. C. Pond, Hon. Joseph
Williamson, Gen. C. W. Roberts, Gen. James
D. Fessenden, Gen. Francis Fessenden, Chief
Justice Fuller, Judge W. L. Putnam, Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, and many other leading
men in the several classes down to the war
times, when, as I am informed, nearly all in
the college society entered the service of
their country. So the chapter gradually
ceased to exist, and the organization termi-
nated in 1869 with the graduation of John
C. Coombs.
For the sake of a full statement of the
history of the secret societies of our college
I have regretted that with its fine record of
membership, mention of Chi Psi was not
made in the above-named sketch. I can
understand why it was not necessary to allude
in that sketch to Omega Phi, a local society
which was established in 1842, shortly after
Alpha Delta Phi, and a year or more later
was merged into Psi Upsilon, but in view of
the facts in connection with Chi Psi I have
very much marveled that it was not there
mentioned.
I say all this merely for the sake of full
and correct history, since I was and am a
Psi U.
L. Deane, of '49.
Washington, D. C, March 25, 1895.
The Cornell crew will go to England next year.
Harvard's Law School has an enrollment of 400
students.
The University of Wisconsin has ten debating
societies.
In the past 12 years Yale has scored 5,614 points
in foot-ball to her opponents' 119.
It is probable that a whist tournament will be
arranged between Yale and Harvard.
Syracuse will soon have a system of electric bells
to summon the students to recitation.
The University of Michigan has formed a per-
manent summer school to begin July 8th.
Harvard has a photograph of every graduate
since 1872, numbering in all about 26,000.
Pennsylvania favors sending the point winners
in the Mott Haven games to compete with Oxford
and Cambridge.
The Prussian government expends over $50,000
a year on the support of the laboratories connected
with the medical, department of the University of
Berlin.
Chicago University has formed a Press Club in
view chiefly to prohibit reports misrepresenting the
university from being published in the newspapers.
The Faculty of Northwestern University has de-
cided henceforth to control all reports that go out.
At a mass-meeting.of Princeton under-graduates,
recently, it was voted that the Freshmen should
hereafter have no voice in the election of officers
for the various athletic associations. This action
was taken by advise of the Graduate Advisory and
Executive committee of Princeton.
At a meeting of the Union College alumni, held
at Albany recently, there was considerable discus-
sion concerning the removal of the college from
Schenectady to Albany, where the departments of
Law, Medicine, . Pharmacy, and the Dudley Ob-
servatory are already located. It is not improbable
that this step will be taken in the near future.
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The Alhambra.
TT7HE city of Granada was built in the
A eighth century, by the Moors. It is
situated in the southern part of Spain, at the
foot of a ridge of the Sierra Nevada.
The province of Granada, like most of
Spain, has a sterile, rocky, desolate-looking
surface. Notwithstanding this, by assiduous
cultivation and skilful care, it has been made
to blossom like an Eden. Although it has
been several hundred years since its grandeur
began to decay, even now the region about
is one large, beautiful garden. The Moors,
who declare it to have been in their time a
terrestrial paradise, were very fond of and
successful in obtaining the purest water.
They dug wells to an exceedingly great
depth; and thus not only furnished good
water for the use of all the people, and caused
fountains to jet a crystal stream in every
square, but also provided an abundance of
water for the purposes of irrigation, which
helped them very much in their gardening.
On every hand, within their gardens, were
ravines, water-falls, fountains, and singing
nightingales. The sight of the city's white
houses peeping out from the midst of green
foliage, caused an Arabian poet to say that
Granada was like a pearl surrounded by
emeralds. But though they are charming,
we immediately forget these physical features
of the city, in contemplation of its checkered
history and gigantic vicissitudes. These
thoughts immediately suggest to our minds
the most interesting and remarkable part of
the city — the Alhambra. It occupies a lofty
situation on a hilly terrace, a few hundred
feet above the city. The outside of the
structure is severe and plain in its appear-
ance. But this only serves to heighten the
more one's surprise and delight on beholding
the artistic and magnificent interior. For
here within are fretted ceilings, slender col-
umns enchased with delicate tracery, and
quaint and curious specimens of Moorish
statuary.
Then, too, scattered about in the large
space inclosed by the walls of the Alhambra,
are shady courts, odoriferous gardens, laugh-
ing rivulets, and gushing fountains. With
such surroundings, it is not at all strange
that the Moors have been considered the
very fathers of romance.
But we must not forget that much of our
appreciation of these beauties is due to some
of the writers who have made the happy
choice of this picturesque field for work with
their pens. We think of Florian, Chateau-
briand, and a host of lesser writers, but
chiefly of our own great Irving, who lived in
this fortress for several months. Here, sitting
on the balcony of the Hall of Ambassadors,
he gave full play to poetic fancies, and look-
ing out across "Chivalric Granada," and the
Vega which stretches away for miles, trans-
ported himself in dreams to the time of the
unfortunate Boabdil, when the kingdom of
Granada had reached what proved to be the
culminating point o'f an almost unparalleled
state of civilization and splendor.
The Alhambra seems to be a materialized
reproduction of one's dreamy recollections
of the descriptions of palaces in the "Arabian
Nights."
Bacon vs. Shakespeare.
TTTHE authorship of the so-called plays of
■^ Shakespeare has been a much disputed
question among literary men of high stand-
ing. Although it has been voluminously
treated by the supporters of the Baconian as
well as of the Shakespearian theory, I shall
endeavor to present a few only of the most
convincing arguments, in favor of allotting
the honor of creating these masterpieces of
English literature to Lord Bacon.
The number of educated men of the Eliz-
abethan period was very limited compared
with the present time, and it is believed that
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the education of William Shakespeare was
not above the average of his age. The author
of the plays bearing the name of Shakespeare
must have been not only a man of great
culture, and a student of ancient history and
literature, but the Greek and Latin classics
must have been familiar to him. Added to
these accomplishments he must have been an
expert scholar in French, Spanish, and Italian,
for the legends and traditions of these people,
which had not then been translated into
English, appear in many of his productions.
How could Shakespeare, a poor country lad
and one who had lived on a farm until man-
hood, have had the opportunities for pursuing
such extensive studies? In marked contrast
to him stands Lord Bacon, a young man of
noble birth with all the means of acquiring a
high education, and who is acknowledged to
have been the leading scholar of his age.
At the age of forty-five Shakespeare retired
to private life, and had he been so famous an
author, as the originator of these dramas must
have been, he would have had correspondence
and friendship with many of the learned men
of the kingdom, and yet in the archives of
the old English families where the corre-
spondence has been preserved for centuries
with the greatest care, and where one may
find numberless letters and papers of men far
more obscure than Shakespeare, not a single
letter or document has been brought to light
which supports the theory of his authorship
of the plays in question.
The illiteracy of Shakespeare's family
was deplorable. Both his father and his
mother signed their names with a cross, and
even""his own daughter Judith was so igno-
rant that she was unable to make her own
signature. His family name was spelled in
thirty different ways on tombstones and legal
documents, and, as Dr. Johnson says, "of the
three signatures of his own will, no two are
spelled alike." How could this state of
ignorance exist with the man who stands at
the head of English Literature and to whom
we owe " Julius Cassar," "Hamlet," and "Mac-
beth?"
Some Shakespearian sympathizers ask
why Lord Bacon, if he was so famous an
author, did not declare himself as such, and
receive his deserved tribute and praise. A
reason is not far to seek. Lord Bacon was
employed at the Royal Court, and as play-
writing at that time was looked upon with
some disfavor, naturally he would be loath
to assert that he was engaged in inferior
work, especially since the follies and weak-
nesses of courts were too truthfully pointed
out in certain of his plays.
In the British Museum there is a note-
book, called " Promus," in which Lord Bacon
was accustomed to jot down proverbs, quota-
tions, and the like, which he met in his read-
ings, and also the pithy sayings of the com-
mon people. These phrases occur by actual
count in the so-called Shakespearian plays
over four thousand times.
How strange it is that the beautiful village
of Stratford, Shakespeare's birthplace, and
the picturesque river Avon, are not once
mentioned in all his works, while St. Albans,
Bacon's residence, York Place, the home of
his childhood, and the County of Kent, the
ancestral home of his father, are many times'
referred to in the various dramas.
For some years until 1579 Lord Bacon
was employed by the Crown, but from this
year until 1597 he appears to have been un-
occupied with public affairs, and to have had
all his time to himself. Could so active a
mind as he possessed have remained idle all
these years, the best part of his life?
Shakespeare was the proprietor of two large
theatres, and many plays of inferior writers
were ascribed to him, in the belief that his
name would give them a favorable introduc-
tion to the public, and Shakespeare, being a
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shrewd business man, seemed to have been
willing to allow his name to be used for the
purpose.
These are a few of many arguments which
may be adduced in support of the theory that
Lord Bacon was the author of the plays bear-
ing the name of Shakespeare, and they fully
counterbalance any arguments which can be
marshaled in support of the opposite theory,
that Shakespeare was their author.
Bowdoir? ^dev>&e.
The Mists.
When the darkness of night was over the lands,
Silently
The gray clouds of raist swept in o'er the sands
By the sea.
On and on they were rolled by the old ocean's breath,
Par away;
Until, wrapping all in the damp pall of death,
Still they lay.
And the gray morning broke into day in the sky,
But the mist
Had the strength to feel the great Sun King's fierce
eye,
And resist.
With its cold and its damp the gray mist lingered still ;
And soon then
The day seemed not day to the flowers on the hill,
Or to men.
But lo, first slowly then faster the might of the sun
Swept away
All the mist from the land. Then, in glory begun,
Burst the day.
Then more fair and more sweet, from the mist that
had fled,
Were the flowers;
And more rich and complete the day's beauty, spread
Through its hours.
Violets.
When the spring has come in former years,
The perfume-laden breeze
Has borne it along
With its bloom and song
From Southern lands and seas,
And its joy has ever been wet with tears.
But now the spring has not come to me
On the breath from tropic sands ;
From a region far
Toward the Northern star
There is sent by gentle hands
The first sweet sign of the spring to be.
A few pressed violets, sweet and blue; —
And all of the spring is here,
With bursting of song,
And beauties that throng,
And skies so sunny and clear,
And fragrance spreading the whole soul through.
0 Northern violets, fragrant and fair,
A happy message thine;
Let the South wind bring
To others the spring,
Already the spring is mine,
With the hope and the promise growing there.
The Drunkard and His Wife.
[From the French of La Fontaine.]
We all have our faults to which we e'er return,
And fear and shame are pow'rless to prevent;
A story on this line in memory I discern :
(I back up all I say by precedent.)
' A devotee of Bacchus," says the tale,
' Was undermining health, and mind, and purse ;
(Such people always see their money fail
Before they've run out half their earthly course.)
One day when this one, full of juice of vine,
Had left his wits within a whisky-flask,
His spouse, who had contrived a deep design,
Shut in a certain tomb this old ' rum-cask '
To sleep off his debauch. When he awoke
The things he saw caused him to groan aloud ;
Dim candle lights amid the incense smoke,
And round his trembling body was a shroud.
'What! is my wife a widow?' murmured he,
Then in Alecto's garb his wife drew near,
Face masked, and voice disguised most skillfully,
Approached the much-amazed sham dead man's
bier
Carrying a dish of steaming broth
Which was a fitting dish for Lucifer;
The victim could in no way doubt he was
A denizen of Hades, seeing her.
'Who, what are you?' he to the phantom said;
' The stewardess of Satan's realm,' said she,
'And I bring victuals to the hapless dead,
Who in the dark tomb spend eternity.'
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The husband's face iu disappointment fell,
And he, not even taking time to think
That he was in the lowest depths of hell,
Cried, ' don't you bring them anything to drink ? ' "
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p'Wjm
A chapter of the K 2 fraternity
was established here on the evening of
March 22d by a dozen representatives
of the chapter at the Maine State
College. Following are the members
of the new fraternity: J. E. Hicks, '95; C. E. Baker
and B. W. Crossman, of '96 ; C. L. Blake, P. H.
Dole, J. W. Hewitt, 0. E. Pease, E. P. Pratt, J. E.
Rhodes, and E. W. Smith, of '97; and E. C. Edwards,
E. D. Lane, J. M. Loriug, and G. B. Verrill, of '98.
The Bowdoin chapter is to be known as the Alpha
Eho chapter. The fraternity has thirty- eight chap-
ters, mostly in the West and South, those at Maine
State College and the University of Vermont being
the only New England chapters.
Shute, '97, is with his class again.
The spring term opens April 16th.
May those ash heaps soon disappear.
No more dancing until the Ivy Hop.
G-lover, '94, was in town for the Athletic Hop.
'68 prize speaking Thursday evening, April 4th.
Smith, '91, was calling on friends here last week.
The Junior Physicists are to have no exam, this
term.
T. C. Chapman, '94, has been on the campus
lately.
Monday, April 1st, had its usual number of
victims.
French, '97, went home last week threatened
with fever.
Purnell, ex-'97, was an interested spectator of
the exhibition.
Bliss, '94, was on the campus last week on his
way to Bangor.
Jackson, '91, was the guest of friends on the
campus last week.
Several Colby men took iu our exhibition and
the dance following.
The base-ball seasou will open here with the
Portlands, April 23d.
Gilpatric, '96, was called home last week by the
serious illness of relatives.
Hills, '98, crushed a finger badly while bowling
in the gymnasium last week.
Professor Woodruff was unable to meet his
classes for several days recently.
The tap of the tennis ball on the neighboring
wall has been heard for some time.
'Ninety-six's victorious squad was photographed
last Thursday by Eeed, in full regalia.
The University Graduates' Magazine is soon to
publish an illustrated article on Bowdoin.
There is a prospect, they say, of a summer
school, open to both sexes, here this summer.
Libby and Fessenden, '96, have joined their
class after a winter at the capitol in Augusta.
The Maine Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament
will be held in Portland as usual early in June.
Pendleton, '90, representing Wright & Ditson,
was here last week doing an extensive business.
Hard work has been in order recently, and the
examinations this week are showing the results.
Bisbee, '98, had an interesting article on " Bow-
doin " in the March number of the Hebron Semester.
As they say — the campus was under a somewhat
despauxtie rule the night of the exhibition in Town
Hall.
The Bugle is well on the way to completion. As
plans are now it will appear the very first of next
term.
A jolly company of fifteen or more Bowdoin
boys enjoyed Pauline Hall in Bath last Saturday
night.
President Hyde addressed the Maine School-
masters' Club at its annual meeting at Lewiston,
March 22d.
The illness of Professor MacDonald prevented
him from meeting his classes for the last two weeks
of the term.
Flood, Libby, and Simpson, '94, were on the
campus recently, on their way back to their
respective schools.
Holmes, '97, celebrated his twenty-first birthday
Thursday evening, March 21st, by entertaining a
large party of friends.
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Athletic night drew a good many out-of-town
people, and in the afternoon the campus seemed
fairly alive with visitors.
President and Mrs. Hyde tendered a most
delightful reception to the members of the Senior
Class on the evening of March 21st.
The Sophomores welcomed spring— i.e., spring
according to the almanac— with a large fire, ringing
of the chapel bell, and the usual demonstrations.
The college boys are always sure of a welcome
in Bath, and we only wish that the college was
located here instead of in Brunswick.— Bath Enter-
prise.
Thank you. Many, many times have the Bow-
doiu boys had the same wish. It would save us
much railroad fare, and we would live in clover, but
perhaps our regular college work might suffer by
the change.
At a recent class meeting, '97 voted to have an
eight-oared crew this spring, thus practically assur-
ing the use of the old 'varsity shells in the class
race.
The Bath Independent, still smarting because
the editor and the other Bath gallants fail to have
any show when a Bowdoin boy is around, gets at us
in the following fashion in the issue of March 23d :
Some of the Brunswick belles are handsome
enough to balance the male faces on the campus.
Bowdoin boys still hunt for the Bath belle who
called 'em homely.
After the Bowdoin Athletic Exhibition, next
Friday evening, there will be a hop tendered by
those homely boys to Bath's pretty buds.
Bowdoin College closes for its Easter ten days'
respite, April 6th. All the students will pass the
vacation in Bath.
Several of the students have fallen victims to
the mumps lately. Webber and F. H. Haskell, '95,
Frost, '96, and several others have been quite seri-
ously affected.
The whole college is loud in its praises of the
good work done by the Bowdoin College Orchestra
athletic night. The music was all finely rendered,
especially the dance music.
The Glee Club sang very acceptably in the
Knights of Pythias Hall last Monday. The college is
looking forward to an entertainment and dance
next term by the G-lee and Banjo Clubs and the
Orchestra.
Bowdoin men expect to have a great fielding
team, but are a little below the average in stick
work. Capt. Fairbanks, however, can line 'em out
as frequently and vigorously as any three or four
ordinary men. — Leiviston Journal.
That little snow storm delayed the coming of
spring but a day. By the beginning of next term
the delta will be ready for base-ball and the campus
will have begun to grow green and perhaps dry.
The recent death of Mrs. Perry, in this town,
brought back her son, Rev. Charles A. Perry, '76,
of Hyde Park, Mass., her son-in-law, Charles H.
Clark, '76, of Kingston, N. H., and her nephew,
Curtis A. Perry, '77, of Braintree, Mass.
In the index of the volume which appears with
this issue a number of poems are left uncredited.
They were contributed by a young alumnus, who
has thus aided much the editors of this department,
but who requests that his name be not used.
On the morning after the exhibition Prof. Robin-
son, in a very happy manner, congratulated the
Juniors of the Chemistry Class on their continued
success in winning class drills, and then dwelt at
considerable length on the benefits to those partici-
pating in such contests.
A letter addressed Miss J-A. M— , Portland, Me.,
is in the hands of the business manager of the
Orient, haviug been uncalled for at the Portland
office. The envelope is the regular Orient station-
ery, and is dated February 26th. Please call at 4,
South Maine, and receive the same.
Prof. MacDonald's recent article on " Town
Government in Maine" in The Nation, and Mr.
Emery's article on "Legislation Against Futures"
in the Political Science Quarterly, are able produc-
tions which have been much read and admired by
the students. Both are in the library.
The last themes of the term were due Monday,
March 18th. The subjects were as follows : " The
Sweating System in the United States, its Evils
and Some Practicable Way of Remedying Them ; "
" Write a Description of the Art or Science Build-
ing ; " " Is Scott Historically Accurate in His Rep-
resentation of the Past?"
'Ninety-seven is already making preparation for
its Bugle. The following society delegations have
chosen representatives: Alpha Delta Phi, Elliott;
Psi Upsilon, Andros ; Delta Kappa Epsilon, Varrell ;
Theta Delta Chi, Fitz; Zeta Psi, Randall. Delta
Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, and the non-society men
will elect at an early date.
The Athletic Exhibition was repeated at the
Alameda in Bath, Friday evening, and was enthusi-
astically received by a large crowd. Everything
passed off smoothly and creditably. The '96 prize
squad was the only class squad taken. A number
of students accompanied the athletes, and after the
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exhibition a delightful hop was indulged in until
Pullman time. Bowdoin boys appreciate the kind-
ness and courtesy shown them in Bath.
Prof. Mitchell has an open debate in mind for
next term. The affair will be held in Lower Memo-
rial and ought to be well attended, as a revival of
a contest is much needed in Bowdoin. The follow-
ing members of the Sophomore Logic Division have
been selected to take part : Bean, Condon, Cook,
Hagar, Wheeler, and White.
The base-ball season is drawing near. Manager
Holmes has arranged the following schedule of
games, several dates being yet open :
April 23, Portland, Brunswick.
April 25, Portland, Portland.
April 24, Open, Brunswick.
April 27 Open, Brunswick.
April 30 Tufts, Boston.
May 1 Andover, Andover.
May 4, . . M. C. I., Brunswick.
May 7, University of Vermont, Burlington.
May 8, Dartmouth, Hanover.
May 9, Dartmouth, Hanover.
May 13, '. . . . M. S. C, Brunswick.
May 15, Bates, Brunswick.
May 18 M. S. C, Orono.
May 22 Colby, Waterville.
May 25 Bates, Lewiston.
May 29 Tufts, Brunswick.
May 30, Exeter, Exeter.
June 1, Exeter, Brunswick.
June 5 Open, away.
June 6 Holy Cross, Worcester.
June 8, Colby, Brunswick.
June 10, M. S. O, Waterville.
June 11, Colby, Bangor.
June 12, Open.
The question for the anuual debate between the
University of Michigan and Northwestern University
will be, "Resolved, that the United States govern-
ment should build and control the Nicaragua Canal."
At a joint meeting of the Yale and Harvard
base-ball managers the umpire system of last year
was agreed upon for the coming season. This leaves
the appointment of the umpire to President Nick
Young, of the National League.
The income and expenditure of Harvard College
for a year is nearly double that of the Province of
New Brunswick. More than 100 professors and
instructors have been added to the number of her
teaching staff in the last six years. It has been
estimated that it would take a student 70 years to
go through all the courses in the different schools
of the University.
No doubt the college Y. M. C. A. is respected
by every student, but many of us fail to give it the
support it deserves. It is the only religious organ-
ization controlled by the student body, and as such
it represents our religious sentiments. What place
then ought it to hold among the several college
organizations'? We all answer, at the head. If it
does not hold the first place it is the personal duty
of every student to do all in his power to bring it
up to its proper place. Constant attendance at the
Thursday evening meetiugs would be one step in
the right direction, and it should be considered a
privilege .rather than a duty to attend these meet-
ings. With the spring term we enter upon a new
year for the Association. Shall we not enter upon
the work with such enthusiasm that there will soon
be no question about the place that our Association
holds?
" God has not two ways for any of us; hut one.
Not two things for us to do which we may choose
between; but always one best and highest choice.
It is a blessed thing to find and fill the perfect will
of God. It is a blessed thing to have our life laid
out and our Christian work adjusted to God's plan.
Much strength is lost by working at a venture.
Much spiritual force is expended in wasted effort,
and scattered, indefinite, and inconstant attempts
at doing good. There is spiritual force and finan-
cial strength enough in the hands and hearts of
the consecrated Christians of to-day to bring the
coming of Christ, to bring about the evangelization
of the world in a generation, if it were only wisely
directed and utilized according to God's plan."
The best test of a religion is its adaptability to
all grades and conditions of society. A religion
that requires a profound philosophical training, on
the part of the individual, to comprehend, is mean-
ingless to the great mass of people. We need a
simple religion which shall be adapted to the igno-
rant as well as to the educated; to the poor as well
as to the rich; to the moments of joy and pleasure
as well as to the times of sorrow and grief. The
religion of Jesus is the only one yet found that will
stand such a test, yet how many of us eagerly study
both ancient and modern literature, while that most
wonderful of all books lies unopened upon our table
or remains in the very bottom corner of our trunk.
If we are neglecting that Book, are we not harvest-
ing the chaff and permitting the good grain to
escape ?
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Among those present at
'the annual banquet of the
Maine School-masters' Club, in Lewis-
ton, March 22d, were the following
Bowdoin alumni : Charles Fish, '05, H. K.
White, 74, 0. M. Lord, '77, D. E. Owen,
'89, F. P. Morse, '90, aud H. DeF. Smith, '91. The
principal address of the evening was delivered by
President Hyde, aud White, '74, and Owen, '89, were
two of the speakers. G. C. Purington, '78, was
elected vice-president of the club. Smith, '91, was
elected secretary and treasurer, and White, '74, was
made a member of the membership committee.
'57, — E. B. Merrill is a member of the editorial
staff of the new University Graduates' Magazine,
of New York. In the February number he has an
article on Gardiner Spring Plumley, D.D., written
in his usual happy style. Mr. Merrill is not only an
able writer, but is one of New York's ablest law-
yers. The University Graduates' Magazine is partly
owned by Bowdoin men in New York, and will soon
contain an illustrated article on this college from
the pen of that brilliant writer, Adam de Marisco.
'57. — Heury Ripley Howard, one of the most
prominent Episcopal clergymen in Tennessee, died
March 20th. Mr. Howard was bora May 5, 1838,
at Portland, Me. After graduating, he pursued
theological study in the General Theological Sem-
inary, New York, aud received ordination in I860.
He has exercised his ministry iu Hallowell, Sharon,
and Milford, Conu. Up to 1883 he was pastor of
Trinity Church, Potsdam, N. Y., aud then moved
to Tullahoma, Tenn. Dr. Howard received the
degree of D.D. from St. Stephens College, New
York, in 1878, has been a delegate to the General
Conventions of the Episcopal Church, and is an
archdeacon. At the time of his death he was a
dean of Nashville. He was a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi Fraternity and a prominent Mason and
Odd Fellow.
'60. — Hon. Thomas B. Reed has declined an invi-
tation to speak before the convention of college Re-
publican clubs in Grand Rapids, Mich., on April 6th.
'60.— Col. A. W. Bradbury has delivered his
lecture, " The End of the Century," very success-
fully in several places recently.
'60. — A complimentary dinner was given by the
Portland Club to the Hon. William W. Thomas, Jr.,
'60, and the Hon. Llewellyn Powers, at the Portland
Club House, Monday evening, March 8th.
'61.— Judge L. A. Emery and Mrs. Emery of
Ellsworth expect to sail for Genoa on June 8th, on
their way to the famous Gastein baths in the Aus-
trian Tyrol.
'65. — It may be a little late for Dr. Parkhurst
stories, but here is one that John B. Cotton, Esq.,
of Washington, D. C, Bowdoin, '65, tells, and which
has been going the rounds of the papers. Mr.
Cotton was on a train on the New York Central the
other day when he saw Dr. Parkhurst. A sadden
fancy took the well-known Washington attorney.
He walked up to Dr. Parkhurst and put out his
hand aud said " Hello, Charlie ! " No wonder Dr.
Parkhurst was startled, for I am sure you are
startled at reading it. How much more, then, was
the eminent reformer. However, he bore himself
bravely ; looked quizzically into the twinkling eyes
of the former Lewistonian and then said, " Pardon
me, your name?" And then Mr. Cotton sat down
and recalled school days in Clinton, Mass., and told
stories of boyhood together until Dr. Parkhurst
said, " Why ! John Cotton ! " and they were boys
again. " We used to sit together in school," said
Mr. Cotton in telling the incident.
'72. — Dr. Frank Wood Spaulding, formerly of
Epping, N. H., is now settled at Clifton Springs,
N. Y.
'77.— A recent dispatch from New Bedford,
Mass., reads as follows :
"Efforts are being made this season to secure
a vessel to carry a party north to search for and
rescue Lieutenant Peary and his party. It is stated
that the cost of fitting out a vessel and sending her
on the rescue mission would be $12,000, aud doubts
are expressed if the amount will be forthcoming.
It was thought that an effort will be made to secure
the services of a whaling vessel engaged in Green-
land or Hudson's Bay whale fishing to engage in
the search for and rescue of the Peary party. The
only vessels known as going to Hudson Bay this
season are the barks A. R. Tucker and Canton of
this port. They are to engage in the whale fishery
and will sail about May 1st. The agent for the
vessels states that they had an inquiry some time
ago in regard to engaging iu the search for Lieu-
tenant Peary, but the answer was returned that
the vessels were fitted for Hudson Bay, which is a
long distance from the icy North, where the Peary
party is supposed to be, and since that time the
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agents have heard nothing in regard to the search
or rescue of the explorers."
'77. — Nathan Clifford Brown is spending the
winter at New York, his address there being 1,501
Broadway.
'83. — Dr. Edward A. Packard is now settled in
Worcester, Mass.
'85. — Mr. H. L. Lunt, principal of public schools
in Ontario, Cal.,has recently published an interest-
ing booklet entitled, "A Study of the English Sen-
tence." Mr. Lunt resigns his position at Ontario
this June to go to Niias, Sweden, to make himself
familiar with Lloyd. He expects subsequently to
study a few months at Jena.
'88. — Ayer is in one of the Boston hospitals.
'89. — James L. Doherty, who has been practicing
law in Old Town, has moved to Pittsfield, Mass.
'89. — Bernard Chauncey Carroll has moved from
Stockton, Cal., and is now studying law with the
firm of Reddy, Campbell & Metson, San Francisco,
Cal.
'91. — L. A. Burleigh has been re-elected city
clerk of Augusta.
'91. — Foss is taking a special course at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
'91. — Croswell is taking a special course at Colum-
bia College, New York.
'91.— Rev. Angus Martin McDonald has had a
parish at St. Augustine, Fla., since his graduation
from the Andover Theological Seminary last Ju'ue.
'92. — Durgin is in Colorado for his health.
'92. — James D. Merriman is taking a special
course at Columbia College, New York.
'94. — Briggs has been engaged to teach the high
school at Mechanic Falls the coming term.
©©liege \ja©plo!.
" I'm on to you," the drop of ink
TJnto the blotter said;
" Oh, dry up! " quoth the blotter,
And the paper weight fell dead.
— Student.
At Princeton, the interest of $16,000 is available
to secure the services of eminent lecturers to deliver
lectures on subjects of special interest before the
college.
The average annual expenses of students at Har-
vard were $176 from 1825 to 1830; $435 to $807 in
1881-82. The expenses for 1893-94 are slightly
less than those for 1881-82.
President Schurman, in speaking of self-govern-
ment at Cornell, said: "Freedom in college is no less
valuable than freedom of citizenship; it makes the
same appeal to manhood and honor."
Pi.
"He kissed her under the stars!" Thus sang
The son of the muses nine.
Then added, giving his lyre a twang,
"I call that a clever line."
But the printer who published this lovely song,
A man of many cares,
Made it, with never a thought of wrong,
" He kicked her under the stairs."
— Lafmjette.
The Yale Literary Magazine is the oldest col-
lege periodical in the country which has continued
its publication up to the present time. It was
founded in 1834. — Wabash.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself has said,
As he stubbed his toe against the bed,
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ?
— Ex.
Definite steps have been taken to establish a
series of Yale-Harvard Freshman debates.
Not That Time.
The only time Willie was ever polite
Was once when I called on his sister.
She chanced 'neath the misletoe; I did my best,
But Willie, who saw, called out " Mr."
— Ex.
President C. K. Adams, of the University of
Wisconsin, in speaking of foot-ball, says: "If you
trace the antagonism to foot-ball, you will find that
it is most intense where the person criticising the
sport knows the least about it."
The Modern Lorelei.
August — The Shore.
Roll, gray sea, on thy shining sands.
Sigh, young breeze, through the silent tree.
With a sad farewell and a touch of hands
My lover has gone from me.
Break, fond heart, with the parting grief ;
Mine eyes, hold back your bitter tear,
And days revolving, be brief, be brief,
Till he come again next year.
December — The City.
Ah! Haven't I met you before?
I seem to remember your face —
How extremely crowded the floor —
Yes, at Newport; the very place.
My card ? Not a number left;
So sorry. What, must you be gone ? —
And this, in the guise of a summer girl,
" Hat die Lorelei gethan."
— CorneWEra.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT.
Visitors are permitted to witness the practice of
the crews at Harvard only on Mondays.
There are twenty-four candidates for the nine
at Harvard, not including catchers and pitchers.
The Bible Up to Date.
While the ladies from duty are now " keeping Lent,"
The men have a choice of their own;
For the Scriptures declare that Divine intent
Is that " man shall not be a-loan."
Mrs. Leland Stanford proposes to enlarge Stan-
ford University to three times its present size by
the addition of new buildings, new apparatus, new
professors, and new books.
President Low, of Columbia College, has fur-
nished money for a professorship in Sociology.
Courses in pauperism, poor laws, methods of
charity, crime, penology, and social ethics will be
offered. Under the direction of this department,
students have begun a practical investigation of the
tenements of New York City. It is intended, as
the class enlarges, to divide the city into districts, in
each of which the students are to make independ-
ent investigations.
There was a lady named Smith,
Whom a funny young man tried to kith,
But a biff jutht like thith
From the fitht of the mith,
Took away from the thing all the With.
-H. S. Record.
Dr. Harper declares that the young women's
department of the university is the only one that
never gave him aDy trouble. What can be the
matter with those young womeu ?
Amherst has received the first award for the
excellence of her exhibit at the World's Fair,
p
His strong right embraced her
Perhaps a bit too tight,
A soft weak wail — " bone broken "
Escaped her lips so white.
Her sister's whispered question
At once divined the cause,
For to her words the maid replied,
Why yes, of corset was.
— T. H. S. in Williams Weekly.
The following is the action recently taken at
Harvard with a view of eliminating plagiarism in
college work : " The Administrative Board of
Harvard College, holding that handing in by a
student of written work not his own is dishonorable
and unworthy of a member of this University,
proposes hereafter to separate from the college a
student guilty of such conduct."
Brown claims to be the only university in
America offering a course in Dutch.
for February contains "A Junior Prom-
enade," by Walter C. Camp, the foot-ball authority.
The expenses for "Prom week" at Tale are esti-
mated at $89. With this sum a young man can
" do '\ Prom, week with a young lady and her
chaperon.
Harvard has 3,250 students. Of these, 2,592
come from New England, New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania; 226 from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, and Wisconsin; from the Southern States,
129; from the Western States, 243, and 60 from
foreign countries.
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