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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,    APRIL   19,  1899. 


No.  1. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED    EVERY  WEDNESDAY  DURING    THE   COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE   STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babe,  1900,  Editor-iu-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

ISLAY  F.  McCoRMiCK,  1900,  Busiuess  Manager. 

Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 

Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.  Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 

Harry  E.  Walker,  1901.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 

Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902. 

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CONTENTS. 
Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  1.— April  19,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes 1 

The  Bowdoin  Club  of  New  York         5 

College  News 6 

Athletics 7 

Personals 7 

Obituary 9 

EDITORIAL  NOTES. 

Thanks  to  Editors  now  peacefully  at  rest, 
and  thanks  to  general  college  sentiment,  the 
time  seems  favorable  for  making  a  reality  of 
the  long  discussed  idea  of  changing  the  design 
which  for  years  has  graced  the  cover  of  this 
humble  publication  to  one  more  in  accord- 
ance with  the  desire  of  both  alumni  and  under- 
graduates, and  of  making  a  weekly  of  the 
Orient,  incidentally  restricting  the  subject 
matter  to  that  legitimate  for  a  college  news- 
paper. 

Arguments  pro  and  con  for  these  moves 


are  too  well  known  to  need  more  space  here ; 
nor  can  it  be  held,  even  by  the  most  conserva- 
tive, that  the  pros  are  not  far  in  excess  of  the 
cons.  We  therefore  request  the  hearty  sup- 
port of  alumni,  undergraduates  and  friends 
in  this  change  teeming  with  difficulties,  most 
titanic  as  viewed  in  our  inexperience.  True, 
failure  will  reap  censure  and  jeers,  how  de- 
servedly It  isn't  for  us  to  say,  but  this  seems 
insignificant  in  our  enthusiasm  to  produce 
such  a  publication  as  is  demanded  by  the  field 
forced  on  us  by  our  contemporary,  the  Quill. 
This  field  requires  a  pure,  typical  college 
newspaper ;  current  in  news,  unbiased  in  criti- 
cism, and  accurate  in  representation  of  col- 
lege policy  and  spirit ;  and  such  would  we 
make  the  Orient. 

The  old  Board  has  enthused  us  with  plenty 
of  good  wholesome  spirit,  and  directed  our 
beginnings  with  much  fatherly  advice ;  for 
which  all  we  feel  heartily  grateful  and  thank 
them  accordingly,  but  most  helpful  is  the 
opening  they  have  made  for  the  new  Orient 
and  the  high  ideal  which  they  have  set  in  each 
and  every  department  of  volume  twenty- 
eight. 

Bowdoin  is  actively  progressive  to-day, 
and  improvements  in  the  several  aspects  of 
her  existence  are  not  by  any  means  infrequent. 
The  Orient  wishes  to  bind  Faculty  and  sons 
of  Bowdoin  together  in  this  progress,  and 
aspires  to  make  a  step  in  this  forward  move- 
ment; all  she  asks  is  fair  treatment,  moral 
support  and  to  be  recognized  as  a  true  and 
representative  institution  of  the  college. 


The  current  year  marks  the  adoption  in 
permanent  form  of  the  elective  system  which 
the  college  has  been  developing  for  the  past 
dozen  years.     There  are    few    institutions  in 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


the  country  which  allow  so  large  a  portion  of 
the  course  of  study  to  be  chosen  by  the  stu- 
dent himself.  A  permanent  schedule  of  hours 
has  been  established ;  so  that  the  student  can 
see  in  advance  what  combinations  of  studies 
it  is  possible  to  make ;  and  plan  accordingly. 

A  new  system  of  book-keeping  has  been 
adopted,  by  which  each  student  has  a  page  to 
himself,  on  which  appears  the  subjects  which 
he  offered  for  admission  to  college,  and  the 
results  of  his  examination  upon  them ;  and 
also  all  the  courses  he  takes  in  college,  and 
the  rank  attained  in  each.  Thus  each  student 
iij  filling  in  from  term  to  term  a  page  wherein 
for  years  to  come  one  can  see  at  a  glance  pre- 
cisely what  he  has  done,  and  what  he  has 
failed  to  do,  throughout  his  college  course. 

The  elective  system,  however,  is  not  a 
panacea  for  all  the  ills  of  college  life.  While 
it  makes  possible  for  every  student  a  vastly 
superior  education  to  that  afforded  under  the 
old  required  plan,  it  also  makes  it  possible  for 
those  who  are  so  disposed  to  get  a  poorer 
education  than  the  worst  that  the  old  system 
allowed.  The  required  system  compelled  a 
student  to  keep  pegging  away  at  Latin,  Greek, 
and  mathematics  long  enough  to  acquire  by 
sheer  force  of  habit^  if  in  no  more  strenuous 
fashion,  a  certain  familiarity  with  the  rudi- 
ments of  these  studies.  Under  a  system  of 
free  choice  it  is  possible  to  elect  a  series  of 
unrelated  elementary  studies  in  such  a  way 
as  to  acquire  only  a  smattering  of  many 
things,  without  thorough  mastery  of  any  one. 
Excessive  specialization  is  also  a  possible  evil 
which  the  elective  system  permits. 

The  range  of  electives  now  offered  in  Bow- 
doin  College  is  not  large  enough  to  make 
either  of  these  evils  serious. 

There  is,  however,  one  evil  against  which 
it  seems  desirable  to  be  on  our  guard.  While 
the  majority  of  the  students  respond  to  the 
increased  opportunities  which  the  elective 
courses  afford  with  earnestness  and  enthu- 
siasm, and  the  scholarly  spirit  is  much  more 
fully  manifested  in  the  latter  than  in  the  earlier 


portions  of  the  course ;  yet  the  dull  and  the 
indolent  find  it  much  easier  to  pass  muster 
in  the  Junior  or  Senior,  than  in  the  Fresh- 
man year.  In  order  to  insure  that  all  shall 
receive  under  the  elective  system  at  least  as 
valuable  a  drill  as  the  poorest  had  to  get  under 
the  required  system,  it  may  be  necessary  to 
add  to  the  requirements  for  graduation  the 
requirement  that  each  student  shall  have 
received  a  rank  of  not  less  than  seven  on  a 
scale  of  eight  in  six  elective  courses  (that  is 
four  hours  a  week  for  two  years)  in  some 
single  department.  Such  a  requirement  of 
Quality  in  some  one  department,  m  addition 
to  present  requirement  of  quantity  of  work, 
would  remedy  the  one  evil  which  is  otherwise 
inherent  in  such  freedom  as  is  now  enjoyeci 
at  Bowdoin  College. 

Another  change  involved  in  the  gradual 
transition  from  class  to  departmental  lines  in 
the  course  of  study  will  be  the  discontinuance 
of  the  Senior  vacation.  This  has  already 
been  reduced  to  a  single  week ;  and  the  Class 
of  99  may  well  make  the  most  of  this  relic 
of  ancient  prerogative  and  dignity;  as  the 
mingling  of  Sophomores,  Juniors  and  Seniors 
in  the  same  elective  courses  is  destined  to 
make  one  period  of  examination  for  all  a  prac- 
tical necessitv. 


At  last  the  Bates-Bowdoin  Foot-Ball  Con- 
troversy has  been  settled,  and  fortunately 
without  any  unsportsmanlike  act  or  state- 
ment by  those  concerned.  The  manager 
should  receive  the  approbation  of  the  stu- 
dents for  his  persistency  in  claiming  that 
which  he  as  well  as  the  college,  felt  was  justly 
due  to  the  coffers  of  the  Foot-Ball  Associa- 
tion. The  committee,  composed  of  Barrett 
Potter,  who  most  ably  presented  Bowdoin's 
side,  W.  H.  Judkins,  the  Bates  representative, 
and  Charles  E.  Littlefield,  neutral,  presented 
their  decision  in  the  following  written  state- 
ment : 

In  the  matter  of  the  reference  of  the  con- 
troversy between  the  Bates  and  Bowdoin  foot- 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


ball  teams  under  the  annexed  agreement,  the 
undersigned,  Wilbur  H.  Judkins  of  Lewiston, 
having  been  selected  by  the  Bates  team,  Bar- 
rett Potter  of  Brunswick  having  been  selected 
by  the  Bowdoin  team,  and  Charles  E.  Little- 
field  of  Rockland  having  been  agreed  upon  by 
the  said  Judkins  and  Potter  as  the  third  ref- 
eree, having  fully  heard  the  parties  by  their 
witnesses  and  counsel,  we  feel  that  we  can 
congratulate  the  parties  upon  the  fairness, 
courtes)'  and  gentlemanly  manner  which  has 
characterized  the  presentation  of  the  case  upon 
both  sides,  and  upon  the  further  fact  that, 
while  the  controversy  evidently  is  the  result 
of  a  misunderstanding,  there  is  nothing  in  the 
history  of  the  transaction  that  justifies  the 
inference  that  there  has  been  any  want  of  good 
faith  upon  the  part  of  either  party,  or  any 
desire  on  the  part  of  any  one  to  act  otherwise 
than  in  an  honorable  and  sportsmanlike  man- 
ner. While  we  are  satisfied  that  the  Bates 
manager  and  the  advisory  board  to  which  he 
was  responsible,  fully  believed  that  an  arrange- 
ment had  been  made  with  the  Bowdoin  man- 
ager for  a  return  game  at  Lewiston  in  1898 
for  a  guarantee  of  fifty  dollars,  in  order  to 
find  this  arrangement  binding  upon  both  par- 
ties, we  must  be  also  satisfied  that  such  ar- 
rangement was  actually  agreed  upon  between 
the  Bates  and  Bowdoin  managers. 

We  are  equally  well  satisfied,  however, 
that  the  Bowdoin  manager  and  the  advisory 
board  to  which  he  was  responsible  did  not  so 
understand  it,  that  the  minds  of  the  parties 
did  not  meet  upon  such  an  agreement,  and 
that  there  was,  therefore,  no  such  agreement 
relative  to  the  game  of  1898.  In  the  absence 
of  an  agreement  as  to  the  division  of  the  pro- 
ceeds, it  is  claimed  on  the  part  of  Bowdoin 
that  there  is  a  usage  or  custom  in  foot-ball 
contests  which  requires  the  net  proceeds  in  a 
great  or  "big  game,"  as  the  game  in  contro- 
versy, considered  in  connection  with  foot-ball 
history  in  this  State,  is  claimed  to  have  been, 
to  be  divided  equally.  Such  a  custom  or 
usage  must  operate  independently  of  an  agree- 
ment.    It  eliminates  the  idea  of  an  agreement. 

We  are  not  able  to  find  that  any  such  usage 
or  custom  exists.  While  it  is  true  that  in 
case  of  large  games  the  proceeds  are  fre- 
quently divided  equally  by  agreement,  our 
attention  has  not  been  called  to  any  game 
where  the  division  of  the  proceeds  has  not 
been  provided  for  by  an  agreement  antedat- 
mg  the  game.     We  cannot,  then,  in  this  case. 


hold  that  there  is  any  usage  or  custom  govern- 
ing the  1898  game,  in  accordance  with  which 
the  net  proceeds  should  be  equally  divided. 
It  only  remains,  therefore,  for  us  to  say 
how,  under  all  the  circumstances,  the  pro- 
ceeds of  this  game  should  be  fairly  and  equit- 
ably divided,  and  we  therefore  determine  that 
President  Chase,  who  now  holds  the  funds, 
pay  to  the  Bates  Foot-Ball  Association  the 
sum  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-four  dollars 
and  forty  cents  ($264.40),  and  to  the  Bowdoin 
Foot-Ball  Association  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
and  sixty-eight  dollars  and  sixty  cents 
($168.60),  it  appearing  that  there  now  remains 
in  his  hands,  as  the  net  proceeds  of  said  game, 
the  sum  of  four  hundred  and  thirty-three  dol- 
lars. In  making  this  award,  we  do  not  take 
into  account  the  fact  that  there  is  an  item  of 
special  expense,  amounting  to  an  agreed  sum 
of  twenty  (20)  dollars,  which  is  to  be  paid  by 
the  Bowdoin  manager  to  the  Bates  manager 
by  an  agreement  independently  of  this  award. 
Respectfully  submitted, 

Charles  E.  Littlefield, 
W;  H.  Judkins, 
Barrett  Potter. 


In  speaking  in  a  reminiscent  strain  before 
the  Junior  Mineralogy  Class  a  few  days  ago 
Professor  Robinson  drew  a  very  interesting 
verbal  picture  of,  college  life  25  years  since. 
Just  25  years  ago  this  term  Professor  Robin- 
son was  called  to  Bowdoin  to  fill  the  position 
of  Laboratory  Instructor,  after  having  passed 
but  nine  months  enrollment  as  a  Bowdoin 
alumnus. 

The  catalogue  boasted  218  students  in  the 
literary  college;  39  Seniors,  51  Juniors,  50 
Sophomores  and  74  Freshmen,  aggregating 
but  few  less  than  are  matriculated  to-day. 
Some  of  the  names  are  quite  familiar  to  the 
present  undergraduates  and  highly  respected 
by  all  who  enjoy  their  acquaintance.  Profes- 
sor Little  and  Lieutenant  Peary  were  inno- 
cent Freshmen  that  year  and  presumably  suf- 
fered all  the  Freshmen's  ills,  while  Professor 
Johnson  was  as  dignified  and  energetic  a 
Senior  as  ever  wore  cap  and  gown,  doubtless 
protecting  our  present  librarian  from  many  a 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


bloody  Sophomore,  of  whom  Arlo  Bates  was 
a  sturdy  member.  Other  names  too  numerous 
to  mention  and  destined  to  be  estimable  sons 
of  their  Ahiia  Mater  were  struggling  with 
"Math"  and  Butler's  Analogy  as  valiently  as 
similar  battles  are  waged  to-day. 

The  famous  "  Drill  Rebellion '"  occurred 
during  this  term.  Major,  now  General  San- 
ger, was  drill  master,  and  his  discipline 
smacked  so  much  of  West  Point  that  discon- 
tent and  restlessness  finally  emerged  in  an 
open  rebellion,  earning  a  vacation  for  the 
students  such  as  occurred  in  the  history  of 
our  present  Senior  Class ;  home  persuasion 
rose  to  the  occasion,  and  the  rebels  returned 
to  the  stern  rule  of  the  Major.  Of  all  the 
present  Faculty  Professor  Chapman  was  the 
only  familiar  face  among  the  Faculty  of  that 
day,  being  a  tutor  in  the  department  which  he 
so  ably  fills  at  present.  Tutor  Moore  of  Phi 
Chi  fame  was  one  of  the  assistants  in  Chemis- 
try, and  his  genial  and  pleasant  ways  were  so 
marred  by  "Faculty  Dignity"  that  the  stu- 
dents adopted  the  words  which  live  so  well 
to-day  to  remove  this  objection.  Professor 
Sargent  was  the  director  of  the  "  Gym,"  using 
this  method  to  provide  funds  to  pay  his  tui- 
tion through  Bnmswick  High  School  and 
Bowdoin  College.  From  a  "professional"  in 
a  circus  Professor  Sargent  became  a  student, 
instructor  and  director  in  the  line  of  work 
which  he  fills  to-day ;  a  call  from  Yale  took 
him  from  our  campus,  from  whence  he  went 
to  New  York,  opening  a  private  gymnasium, 
and  finally  accepting  a  call  from  Harvard, 
where  he  is  to-day. 

Bowdoin  ranked  extremely  high  in  her 
different  branches  in  those  good  old  days ; 
Classical,  Scientific,  Medical,  and  Engineer- 
ing courses  were  open  to  the  option  of  Fresh- 
men. A  laboratory  had  just  been  added  to 
the  Scientific  department ;  Memorial  was  one 
large  hall,  not  having  been  finished  on  the 
inside ;  the  site  of  the  present  "  Gym "  was 
occupied  by  unbroken  grass  green,  while  it  is 
whispered,  the  gentle  kine  sedately  cropped 
I 


the  green  where  to-day  Art  stands  forth  in 
gorgeous  magnificence. 


The  last  term  of  the  year,  and  possibly 
the  liveliest,  is  now  lightly  speeding  along 
towards  the  end  of  the  college  year.  Athlet- 
ics, field,  track,  court,  and  diamond,  hold 
honors  for  our  respective  teams ;  whether 
more  or  less  than  in  past  years  depends  not 
inconsiderably  upon  the  whole  body  of  stu- 
dents. Ivy  Day,  Prize  Speaking,  Com- 
mencement with  its  many  attributes  approach 
with  all  their  display  of  ability,  finery,  and 
parental  pride ;  giving  to  the  world  outside 
more  than  a  mere  peep  of  the  process  and  the 
results  of  the  evolution  from  a  simple,  mild 
Freshman  to  a  Senior  pregnant  with  literary 
acumen.  'Tis  a  shame  not  to  put  the  whole 
soul  into  our  college  life  during  this  the  best 
term  of  the  three.  Athletics  need  support  of 
various  kinds,  among  which  sympathy  and 
encouragement  are  not  the  least.  Gala  days 
are  indeed  inspection  days  ;  and  in  these  con- 
tests, be  it  Commencement  stage  or  Prize 
Speaking  platform,  the  public  suppose  they 
are  listening  to  the  best  productions  of  the 
elite.  The  only  possible  regret  is  that  such  a 
supposition  may  not  be  the  reality,  otherwise 
we  would  be  truly  represented,  and  we  flatter 
ourselves  that  no  fear  need  be  felt  from  a  true 
representation. 


The  Orient  wishes  to  call  the  attention  of 
the  Faculty  and  of  all  organizations  within 
the  campus  borders  to  the  invitation,  which 
is  herewith  extended,  to  use  its  columns  for 
announcements  of  interest  or  of  importance  to 
its  readers.  All  such  notices  must  be  in  the 
hand  of  the  Editor-in-Chief  before  Sunday 
evening  in  order  to  be  published  the  following 
Wednesday.  This  scheme  will  be  a  great  im- 
provement in  bringing  notices  before  the  stu- 
dents, inasmuch  as  the  bulletin-board  is  often 
robbed  of  its  messages  either  by  nature  or  the 
son  of  nature  ;  and  the  efforts  of  the  board  and 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


a  regular  place  reserved  between  the  Orient 
covers  will  be  the  system  used  to  make  the 
using  of  the  Orient  as  an  announcement 
medium  permanent. 


It  is  perhaps  not  out  of  place  to  say  just  a 
word  about  the  financial  standing  of  the 
Orient  as  it  starts  out  upon  the  rather  pre- 
carious plan  of  weekly  issues.  A  college  pub- 
lication to  be  a  success  must  not  only  meet  the 
purposes  for  which  it  is  intended,  but  must  be 
made  to  pay  its  running  expenses.  To  sat- 
isfy both  these  demands  the  literary  and  finan- 
cial editors  must  have  the  support  of  the  whole 
active  college  and  a  goodly  number  of  alumni. 
In  order  to  make  the  Orient  a  weekly  every 
man  in  college  must  take  it  and  pay  for  it. 
There  are  now  eighty  men  in  college  who,  for 
reasons  best  known  to  themselves,  do  not  take 
the  Orient;  there  are  also  those  who  do  take 
it  but  never  pay  for  it. 

The  Orient  is  not,  as  some  seem  to  think, 
a  fertile  field  for  plunder ;  but  the  manager  is 
held  personally  responsible  for  every  dollar 
of  his  contract ;  and  if  he  fails  in  making  his 
collections  it  does  not  relieve  him  of  his  liabil- 
ity to  the  printer. 

The  retiring  manager  has  worked  faithfully 
and  at  a  great  sacrifice  to  his  rank  and  other 
interests  to  bring  the  Orient  out  square. 
But  there  are  still  about  fifty  men  in  college 
owing  the  Orient.  Upon  these  and  a  few 
delinquent  alumni  the  Orient  still  relies  to 
support  the  statement  that  all  bills  will  be  paid 
this  year.  It  is  no  small  task  to  meet  these 
fifty  subscribers  and  ask  them  for  the  fiftieth 
time  to  balance  their  accounts.  Bowdoin  men 
are  loyal  supporters  of  athletics ;  but  no  man 
can  better  show  his  loyalty  to  his  college  in 
general  and  to  athletics  in  particular  than  by 
rendering  liberal  aid  to  the  Orient,  which  is 
at  once' the  organ  of  college  life  and  a  record 
of  college  athletics. 


Dr.  WhiUier  began  his  course  with  the  Medics 
in  Histology  and  Bacteriology  April  ist. 


THE  BOWDOIN   CLUB   OF   NEW 
YORK. 

The  graduates  of  the  college  in  the  last  ten 
or  twelve  classes  now  living  in  New  York 
City  have  recently  organized  a  dinner  club. 
The  fii-st  dinner  was  held  at  the  Brevoort 
House  the  evening  of  the  twelfth  of  February. 
Fourteen  men  from  the  classes  between  1890 
and  1897  were  present,  and  the  dinner  was 
most  successful.  A.  S.  Ridley,  '90,  was  chosen 
President ;  Edgar  G.  Pratt,  '97,  Secretary ; 
and  an  Executive  Committee,  composed  of 
the  President,  Secretary,  and  Henry  H. 
Pierce,  '96,  was  elected  to  arrange  for  the 
holding  of  future  dinners,  of  which  it  is  in- 
tended to  have  five  or  six  each  winter.  The 
second  dinner  was  held  at  the  Brevoort  House 
Saturday,  y\pril  8th,  and  the  third  will  take 
place  May  20th.  There  are  between  thirty 
and  forty  Bowdoin  men  in  New  York  from  the 
last  twelve  classes,  and  the  movement  prom- 
ises to  be  most  successful.  Those  present  at 
the  second  dinner  were  Charles  A.  Whitney, 
M.D.,  Med.  '87  ;  A.  S.  Ridley,  '90  ;  A.  K.  New- 
man and  Henry  E.  Cutts,  '91 ;  James  D.  Mer- 
riman  and  Frank  H.  Cothren,  '92;  Philip 
Shaw,  '93;  Frederick  B.  Smith,  Sterling  Fes- 
senden,  and  Henry  H.  Pierce,  '96;  and  Edgar 
G.  Pratt  and  Eugene  L.  Bodge,  '97. 

The  President,  A.  S.  Ridley,  acted  as  toast- 
master,  and  almost  every  one  present  spoke, 
but  the  dinner  was  most  informal  in  character 
and  was  very  greatly  enjoyed  by  all.  "Phi 
Chi,"  "Bowdoin  Beata,"  and  all  the  old  songs 
were  sung,  and  every  one  manifested  a  great 
deal  of  college  spirit  and  enthusiasm.  It  is 
intended  that  these  dinners  shall  not  only 
bring  the  younger  graduates  in  l^ew  York 
together  several  times  a  year,  but  that  the 
organization  formed  shall  have  as  its  primary 
object  the  advancement  of  the  interests  of  the 
college  in  that  city  and  mutual  help  and  sup- 
port among  the  Bowdoin  men  there.  A  com- 
mittee consisting  of  Ridley,  '90,  Newman,  '91, 
and  Bodge,  '97,  was  chosen  to  prepare  and 
forward  to  the  Base-Ball  Association  a  set  of 


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BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


resolutions  expressive  of  the  great  interest  and 
most  loyal  good-will  and  support  of  the 
younger  graduates  in  New  York  throughout 
the  coming  season.  The  same  feeling  was 
expressed  by  all  the  speakers.  The  meeting- 
broke  up  after  midnight,  the  club  voting  to 
hold  its  next  dinner  May  20th. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

The  Bugle  will  be  out  in  two  weeks  (?). 

Churchill,  'gg,  is  teaching  in  Winthrop. 

Coach  Richards  will  be  here  the  twentieth. 

Bragdon,  igoo,  is  teaching  in  Norway  High 
School. 

The  Freshmen  are  hard  at  work  on  the  tennis 
courts. 

Kaharl,  'gg,  is  teaching  in  the  Grammar  School 
in   town. 

Watson,  '02,  spent  his  vacation  visiting  friends 
at  Harvard. 

Clarke,  '01,  is  rapidly  recovering  from  an  attack 
of  scarlet  fever. 

The  Deutscher  Verein  met  Wednesday  evening 
with  Smith  and  Lavertu. 

Sturgis,  '99,  is  spending  the  month  of  April  in 
Camden,  South  Carolina. 

Greek  6  is  reading  the  Frogs  of  Aristophanes 
and  considering  Grecian  comedy. 

Hayden,  'gg,  Bragg,  Swett  and  Foster,  '01,  spent 
a  portion  of  their  vacation  in  Boston. 

The  work  of  the  Seniors  in  German  will  consist 
of  a  seven-hundred-and-fifty-word  theme  each  week. 

In  attempting  to  wet  Freshmen  now  and  then 
an  upper  classman  has  suffered  at  the  hands  of  his 
fellows. 

When  Captain  Godfrey,  solicits  your  subscrip- 
tion for  track  athletics,  remember  the  cause  and 
be  liberal. 

Work  on  the  new  railroad  station  has  begun, 
and  the  monotony  of  a  walk  down  town  is  broken 
by  the  unwonted  activity  in  that  vicinity. 

About  twenty-tive  of  the  students  attended  the 
dance  given  by  the  Minnehaha  Club  last  Thursday 
evening  and  report  a  very  pleasant  time. 

Sun   and  wind  are   rapidly  removing  the   snow 
from  the   athletic   field,   and   out-door   practice   for 
the  base-ball  and  track  teams  will  soon  begin. 
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A  letter  box  has  been  placed  near  the  chapel, 
from  which  collections  will  be  made  four  times 
each  day,  in  the  forenoon  at  6.30  and  g.45;  in  the 
afternoon  at  1.30  and  4.45.  One  collection  will  be 
made  on  Sunday  at  5  P.M. 

The  new  course  in  English  Composition,  under 
Mr.  H.  E.  Andrews,  '94,  bids  fair  to  be  very  popu- 
lar. It  is  a  Sophomore  course,  but  is  also  open  to 
Juniors  and  Seniors  and  has  been  elected  by  sev- 
eral of  them.  The  work  is  based  upon  Barrett 
Wendall's  lectures  on  English  Composition,  and 
short  daily  themes  with  four  or  more  longer  ones 
during  the  term  will  be  required.  Three  hours  will 
be  given  each  week  to  class  work,  and  the  instruc- 
tor will  meet  each  student  individually  once  a 
week.     Several  lectures  will  also  be  given. 

Henry  F.  Cochems,  a  special  student  in  the  Har- 
vard Law  School,  broke  all  college  records  of 
strength  tests  by  making  a  total  of  1761J  points. 
The  best  previous  record  was  held  by  Godfrey  of 
Bowdoin,  with  a  total  of  1716.  Harvard's  best  pre- 
vious record  was  made  by  Lovering,  'g/,  whose 
total  was  16G0  points.  Cochems  was  formerly  on 
the  University  of  Wisconsin  team.  He  lives  at 
Sturgeon  Bay,  Wis.  At  the  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin he  was  the  leading  athlete.  He  is  5  feet  11 
inches  tall  and  weighs  167  pounds.  His  strength 
record  in  detail  was  as  follows:  Legs  660,  back  410, 
chinning  and  dipping  49gi,  lungs  2g,  right  forearm 
91,  left  forearm  72,  total  1761*. 

The  action  of  Cony  High  School  of  Augusta  last 
week  in  rejecting  a  resolution  seeking  to  revive  the 
M.  I.  S.  A.  A.  insures  the  success  of  the  annual 
meet  of  the  Maine  fitting  schools  in  Brunswick 
under  the  control  of  the  Bowdoin  College  Athletic 
Association.  This  action  of  Cony  High  will  cause 
other  schools  to  follow  suit. 

Professor  MacDonald  has  assigned  to  History  3 
for  outside  reading  this  term  the  following: 


Macaulay's  History  of  England,  vol.  Ill,  chap.  11, 

14  and  15. 
Macaulay's  Essay  on  Warren  Hastings. 
Lecky's  History  of  England,  vol.  Ill,  chap.  II. 
Green's   Short     History     of    the     English     People, 

chap  10. 

II. 
Lecky's  History  of  England,  vol.  I,  chap,  i  and  2; 

vol.  IV,  chap.  15. 
Macaulay's  Essay  on  Chatham. 
Green's   History   of  the   English   People,   vol.   IV, 
book  g. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


New  York  has  banished  six-day  athletic  contests. 

Bates  will  play  Yale  and  Harvard  at  foot-ball 
next  fall. 

Much  interest  is  aroused  by  the  approaching 
debate  between  Colby  and  Bates  students,  which  will 
take  place  in  Lewiston. 

Captain  Bacon  pitched  for  North  Attleboro,  who 
defeated  Brown  at  Providence  last  Saturday.  The 
papers  report  him  as  being  very  effective  in  the  box. 

Several  of  the  students  are  interested  in  the  liv- 
ing whist  which  will  be  produced  in  Brunswick 
town  hall  under  the  auspices  of  the  Universalist 
society,  Thursday  and  Friday  evenings. 

Mr.  Algier  V.  Currier,  instructor  in  art,  who  has 
been  confined  to  his  home  in  Hallowell  by  a  severe 
attack  of  rheumatism,  is  better.  It  is  not  yet  known 
when  he  will  be  able  to  resume  his  classes. 

Williams,  formerly  a  student  here,  a  well-known 
New  England  league  player  and  who  was  with  the 
Toronfos  of  the  Kastern  league  last  season,  has  been 
signed  by  the  Washington  National  league  team. 
Williams  will  pitch  for  Brunswick,  which  plays  Bow- 
doin  in  Brunswick  Fast  Day. 

The  base-ball  managers  of  the  Intercollegiate 
Association  met  at  Colby  last  Friday.  Several  mat- 
ters of  interest  were  discussed.  The  Wright  & 
Ditson  league  ball  was  adopted.  The  treasurer  of 
the  association  was  ordered  to  secure  a  '99  pennant, 
which  should  be  of  green  color  in  body  with  white 
letters.  William  P.  Carpenter  as  umpire  for  the 
league  games  was  agreed  upon.  It  was  the  uni- 
versal sentiment  that  every  possible  means  should 
be  used  to  stop  "yagging."  The  managers  pres- 
ent were  Whitney  of  Bowdoin,  Bassett  of  Bates, 
Dascombe  of  Colby,  and  Downey  of  University  of 
Maine. 


ATHLETICS. 

The  base-ball  squad  came  back  Thursday  of 
vacation  week  to  find  the  field  buried  beneath  a  foot 
of  snow  and  ice.  Manager  Whitney  at  once  made 
arrangements  for  having  the  ice  removed,  and  mean- 
while the  squad  practiced  in  the  gym.  The  first 
out-door  practice  was  on  Tuesday,  the  lith.  While 
it  is  still  too  early  to  make  any  accurate  prophecies, 
the  indications  are  that  the  team  will  be  strong  in 
the  field,  and  better  than  last  year's  team  at  the  bat. 

Pennell,  the  old  Bates  and  Lewiston  player,  is 
trying  for  a  place  behind  the  bat.  In  the  days  when 
he   played   in   Lewiston,   Pennell  could  hit  like   a 


pile-driver  and  steal  bases  like  a  kleptomaniac,  and 
in  his  work  in  the  cage  he  bids  fair  to  regain  his 
old-time  form.  Trainer,  Med.,  is  rather  light  for  a 
catcher,  but  is  very  quick  and  has  a  good  throw  to 
second.  Wignott's  work  is  too  well  known  to  need 
comment.  He  has  not  yet  been  out  with  the  squad, 
but  will  soon  appear.  Captain  Bacon  and  Libby 
will  pitch  in  the  big  games,  while  Pratt  will  also 
pitch  a  number.  Pratt  has  shown  marked  improve- 
ment over  last  year,  and  is  capable  of  pitching  good 
ball.  He  and  Bacon  will  probably  alternate  on 
first.  For  second,  there  are  Haskell,  '99,  and  Hoyt, 
'02.  Haskell  has  the  advantage  of  experience 
while  Hoyt  is  fast,  and  covers  plenty  of  ground. 
Albert  Clarke  is  practically  sure  of  short-stop,  not 
only  because  of  his  experience  but  because  of  his 
speed  as  an  infielder.  There  are  several  candidates 
for  third,  among  them  being  Hadlock,  Neagle,  Pot- 
tle, Hannigan,  Med.,  Kelley,  '02,  and  Parker. 
Parker  has  played  ball  but  little,  yet  at  present  seems 
to  be  the  best  of  the  lot.  Ex-Captain  Greenlaw 
will,  as  usual,  cover  most  of  the  outfield,  the  men 
at  present  trying  for  the  other  two  positions  being 
Tyler,  Stanwood,  Pearson,  Noyes  and  W.  B.  Clarke. 
It  will  be  hard  to  fill  Teddy  Stanwood's  shoes,  but 
there  are  several  candidates  who  are  trying  their 
best  to  do  so. 

There  are  but  a  few  days  left  before  the  first 
game,  and  the  team  will  not  be  picked  until  the  last 
moment.  The  fact  that  a  man  makes  the  nine  in 
one  of  the  first  games  will  not  ensure  the  place  to 
him,  for  there  are  a  number  of  candidates  for  every 
position  who  will  make  the  successful  man  hustle 
to  maintain  his  position  throughout  the  season. 


PERSONflLS. 

'40. — Edmund  Chadwick  died  April  9,  1899,  at 
his  home  in  Starkey,  Yates  County,  N.  Y.  He  was 
born  in  Middleton,  N.  H.,  January,  1812,  and  entered 
college  as  a  Junior.  After  graduation  he  spent  two 
years  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  teaching,  and  then  pur- 
sued theological  study  at  Lane,  Cincinnati,  and 
Bangor  Seminaries,  graduating  at  Bangor  in  1845. 
He  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  at  Franklin,  N.  H., 
but  ill  health  compelled  him  to  give  up  his  profes- 
sion, and  he  became  a  teacher  in  Starkey,  N.  Y., 
where  he  was  principal  of  the  seminary  from  1847 
to  1867.  He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  county 
teachers'  association,  and  also  loan  commissioner 
in  his  county  for  the  United  States  Deposit  Fund 
(School  Fund)  for  New  York  State.     He  married 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


in  1848,  Cassandra  Deplacey  Hobare,  who  died  in 
1849.  He  married  again  Adaline  Ward,  by  whom 
he  had  lour  sons  and  three  daughters. 

'53- — Miss  Jane  Brown  Fuller,  daughter  of  Chief 
Justice  and  Mrs.  Fuller,  was  married  in  St.  Johns 
Church,  Washington,  April  12,  1899,  to  Mr.  Na- 
thaniel Leavitt  Francis  of  Boston.  Miss  Anna 
Sabine  of  Bangor  was  one  of  the  bridesmaids.  A 
reception  at  the  Fuller  residence  followed  the  cere- 
mony, among  the  guests  being  the  associate  jus- 
tices of  the  Supreme  Court  and  their  families.  Sec- 
retary and  Mrs.  Hay,  Mrs.  Hobart,  Secretary  and 
Mrs.  Gage,  Attorney-General  and  Mrs.  Griggs, 
Postmaster-General  and  Mrs.  Smith,  Secretary  and 
Miss  Wilson,  the  French,  German  and  Russian 
ambassadors,  and  nearly  the  entire  diplomatic  corps. 

'^y. — James  Charles  Strout  died  at  the  home  of 
his  brother,  A.  C.  Strout,  in  Thomaston,  Maine, 
March  27,  1899.  Mr.  Strout  was  born  in  Portland, 
April  16,  1834,  and  was  the  son  of  Lemuel  and 
Louisa  (Cotton)  Strout.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  Thomaston  Academy,  and  entered  Bowdoin 
with  the  Class  of  '.56,  but  failed  to  graduate  with 
his  class  on  account  of  sickness.  After  graduation 
he  went  to  Boston  where  he  remained  until  1862, 
when  he  enlisted  in  the  22d  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teers, and  served  one  year,  when  he  was  discharged 
for  disability  incurred  in  the  service.  Later  in  1863 
he  entered  the  law  office  of  Somes,  Brown  &  Co. 
in  Washington,  but  was  soon  afterward  appointed 
to  a  clerkship  in  the  ordnance  division  of  the  War 
Department.  Here  he  remained  until  1866  when 
he  resigned  to  accept  a  position  in  the  Congressional 
Library.  For  thirty-two  years  he  remained  in  the 
library,  and  during  the  last  few  years  he  held  the 
position  of  third  assistant  librarian.  In  October  of 
last  year  he  was  compelled  to  resign  because  of  ill 
health.  He  took  great  interest  in  his  work  and  was 
specially  commended  by  his  sviperior  officers.  Of 
Mr.  Strout,  General  Ellis  Spear,  '58,  says: 

■'  For  one  so  unobtrusive  he  was  very  well  known 
here  (Washington),  but  of  him  nothing  but  good 
was  known.  I  think  he  was  employed  in  the 
Library  of  Congress  considerably  more  than  thirty 
years,  and  in  all  that  time  he  gave  intelligent  and 
faithful  service  in  full  and  even  overflowing  meas- 
ure. His  fidelity  not  only  in  his  public,  but  also 
in  his  private  duties  was  absolute ....  He  thoroughly 
understood  his  business,  and  attended  to  it  with 
even  more  painstaking  care  than  if  it  had  been  his 
own.  In  his  church  relations  he  showed  the  same 
zeal  and  industry.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Assem- 
bly Presbyterian  Church,  and  for  many  years  in 
charge  of  its  Sunday-school  library.  ..  .To  this 
work  he  largely  devoted  his  evenings.  Books  were 
( 


the  only  luxuries  in  which  he  indulged.  He  lived 
among  books  and  loved  them,  but  he  was  no  recluse 
.  . .  .He  was  thoroughly  loyal  to  his  Alma  Mater  and 
took  a  keen  interest  in  his  fellow-graduates.  He 
was  secretary  of  the  Bowdoin  Alumni  Association 
of  this  city  (Washington)  from  the  time  of  its 
organization  until  he  was  compelled  by  ill  health  to 
relinquish  the  office.  At  the  last  meeting  of  the 
association,  at  which  Chief  Justice  Fuller  presided, 
resolutions  of  sympathy  were  passed,  expressive  of 
the  sympathy  of  the  members  with  Mr.  Strout  in 
his  sickness  and  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  was 
held  by  them.  The  tribute  wa_s  a  hearty  one  and 
well  deserved.  ..  .He  left  only  friends.  I  do  not 
think  he  ever  had  an  enemy,  or  ever  consciously 
did  anything  which  he  believed  to  be  wrong.  His 
life  was  well  spent,  and  only  benedictions  follow 
him." 

'61. — Thomas  W.  Hyde  has  withdrawn  from  the 
congressional  race  in  the  second  district.  His 
action  was  somewhat  disappointing  to  his  support- 
ers, but  his  physicians  .have  advised  him  to  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  excitement  which  is  incident 
to  a  political  campaign. 

'67. — Hon.  Stanley  Plummer  of  Dexter,  State 
senator  from  Penobscot,  is  a  candidate  for  the  pres- 
idency of  the  next  Senate,  and  seems  to  be  far  in 
the  lead  of  any  others  who  have  been  mentioned 
lor  the  position. 

'90. — Dr.  A.  Vincent  Smith  of  Middleboro,  Mass., 
has  recently  been  appointed  an  associate  medical 
examiner  for  Plymouth  County. 

'91. — The  following  item  from  the  White  Moun- 
tain Times,  which  appeared  under  the  head  of  "Bart- 
lett  News,"  will  be  of  interest  to  Mr.  Home's  friends 
at  Bowdoin: 

"  Last  Sunday  evening  Rev.  J.  R.  Home  closed 
his  pastorate  of  four  and  one-half  years  in  this 
place,  by  a  farewell  address  reviewing  the  work  that 
has  been  done  during  that  time.  He  spoke  of  the 
condition  existing  when  he  came  here,  of  the  church 
being  organized  soon  after  he  came.  This  church 
is  composed  of  those  who  were  formerly  Unitarians, 
Congregationalists,  Calvin  and  Freewill  Baptists, 
and  for  these  four  years  these  people  of  different 
creeds  have  worked  together  as  one  in  this  Con- 
gregational Church.  He  spoke  of  the  need  of  better 
accommodations  than  there  were  when  he  came 
here,  and  of  the  building  of  the  new  church.  This 
church  was  built  and  paid  for  in  about  one  and  one- 
half  years,  and  is  an  ornament  to  our  village.  In 
the  basement  a  reading-room  has  been  furnished, 
containing  the  magazines  and  daily  papers,  and  is 
open  to  the  public  each  afternoon  and  evening. 
He  spoke  with  sorrow  of  the  trouble  and  division 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


among  the  people  at  the  time  of  moving  into  the 
new  church,  and  expressed  the  earnest  hope  that 
this  division  would  not  be  permanent.  In  conclu- 
sion he  thanlved  the  people  of  the  parish  for  their 
kindness  to  him  during  his  pastorate,  and  asked 
them  to  be  as  kind  and  considerate  to  his  successor. 
The  church  was  filled  at  both  the  morning  and 
evening  service,  and  it  was  evident  that  the  people 
felt  that  they  were  losing  a  real  friend." 

'95. — It  is  the  sad  duty  of  the  Orient  to  an- 
nounce the  death  of  one  of  the  most  promising  of 
the  younger  alumni,  Edward  Turner  Ridley  of  the 
Class  of  '95.  He  was  but  twenty-seven  years  old, 
bright  and  genial  and  well  liked  by  all.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  in  the  schools  of  Topsham,  and 
at  the  Franklin  School.  He  was  graduated  with  a 
high  rank,  and  since  graduation  has  engaged  in 
teaching.  He  last  taught  in  the  Vinalhaven  High 
School,  of  which  he  was  principal.  Signs  of  con- 
sumption developed  about  a  year  ago,  and  it  has 
been  known  for  some  time  that  recovery  was  impos- 
sible. He  died  without  pain  at  the  home  of  his 
sister,  Mrs.  E.  H.  Turner,  in  Bath,  on  Tuesday, 
April  4,  1899. 

'96. — Tabor  D.  Bailey  is  a  member  of  the  Ban- 
gor city  government,  having  been  elected  Repub- 
lican councilman  from  ward  5  at  the  recent  election. 

'96. — Ralph  W.  Leighton  was  admitted  to  the 
Kennebec  bar  March  24th  after  passing  a  most  suc- 
cessful examination.  The  Kennebec  Journal  speaks 
of  him  as  follows:  Mr.  Leighton  is  one  of  Au- 
gusta's best  known  young  men.  He  is  the  son  of 
ex-Mayor  and  Mrs.  M.  R.  Leighton,  and'  was  born 
in  Mt.  Vernon,  25  years  ago.  Augusta  has  been 
his  home  since  early  boyhood.  He  attended  the 
city  schools,  graduated  from  the  Cony  High  School 
in  '92,  and  at  once  entered  Bowdoin  College,  where 
he  graduated  with  honors  with  the  Class  of  '96. 
For  a  short  time  he  read  law  in  the  office  of  M.  S. 
Holway,  Esq.,  and  then  entered  the  office  of  Heath 
&  Andrews,  where  he  had  made  exceptional  use  of 
his  opportunities  in  the  past  two  years,  as  was 
shown  by  his  splendid  examination.  Mr.  Leighton 
expects  to  practice  his  profession  in  this  city,  where 
his  ability  and  many  sterling  fiualities  are  sure  to 
bring  him  success." 

'98. — Arthur  Hunt  has  gone  to  Wisconsin  to 
enter  the  lumber  business  with  his  uncle  who  is 
doing  an  extensive  business  in  that  state. 

'98. — On  Wednesday  P.M.,  a  large  circle  of  rel- 


atives assembled  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Eli  dem- 
ons, at  Hiram,  at  the  marriage  of  his  eldest  daugh- 
ter, Miss  Cora  E,  demons,  with  Mr,  Edwin  K. 
Welch  of  Northwood  Centre,  N.  H.,  principal  of 
Coos  Academy  at  that  place.  Miss  demons  is  a 
graduate  of  Fryeburg  Academy,  and  has  been  one 
of  our  most  accomplished  and  successful  teachers, 
also  an  active  member  of  the  Congregational  Church 
and  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  A  pleasant  feature  of  the  occa- 
sion was  the  fact  that  the  officiating  clergyman. 
Rev.  F.  H.  Graham  of  Cornish,  was  a  classmate  of 
Mr.  Welch  at  Bowdoin  College.  At  the  station  a 
large  crowd  of  friends  were  waiting  to  greet  them, 
and  amid  a  shower  of  rice  they  started  for  their 
new  home,  followed  by  the  good  wishes  of  our 
entire  community. 


OBITUARY. 


Alpha  Delta  Phi  House, 
Bowdoin  College,  April  13,  1899. 
The  necessity  which  now  compels  us  to  mourn 
the  death  of  our  brother,  Edward  Turner  Ridley  of 
the  Class  of  '95,  is  none  the  less  sudden  and  lament- 
able because  expected.  For  a  year  we  have  noted 
with  alarm  his  increasing  pallor  and  loss  of  strength, 
but  still  clung  to  the  hope  that  the  disease  might 
be  cured,  and  that  Brother  Ridley  might  again  take 
up  in  health  the  work  for  which  he  was  so  brill- 
iantly endowed. 

As  a  man,  no  words  can  do  justice  to  his  unself- 
ishness and  kindly  consideration  of  others;  as  an 
alumnus  of  the  college,  he  brought  honor  to  the 
name  of  his  .-Ihna  Mater  and  gave  promise  of  plac- 
ing his  own  name  high  on  the  illustrious  roll  of 
Bowdoin's  honored  and  famous  sons;  as  a  brother 
in  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  he  was  ever  faithful  to  the  high 
ideals  of  the  fraternity,  and  was  loyal  in  the  highest 
degree  to  the  best  interests  of  his  chapter  and  of 
his  brother  members. 

At  this  time  of  so  great  loss,  words  seem  of  little 
meaning,  but  as  a  mark  of  affection  and  as  a  tribute 
to  the  memory  of  a  noble  and  an  upright  man,  we 
wish  to  offer  this  memorial. 

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CONTENTS. 
Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  2.— April  2G,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes 11 

Communications 13 

College  News 14 

Athletics 16 

Personals 17 

Y.  M.  C.  A .  IS 

The  Orient  with  its  new  cover,  weekly 
edition,  and  various  changes  in  the  several 
departments  has  given  an  idea,  we  trust,  of 
what  we  would  make  of  this  paper  in  the 
future.  Two  additional  members  are  to  be 
elected  from,  the  literary  college  and  one  from 
the  Medical  School  within  a  few  days ;  this 
latter  addition  should  be  accompanied  with 
considerable  good  results,  especially,  if  the 
medical  course  is  to  be  of  a  similar  duration 
with  the  literary  college. 

We  have  adopted  the  college  seal  as  a  sym- 
bol of  our  endeavor  to  be  an  authentic  repre- 
sentative of  the  college,  and,  as  any  change  in 


the  college  seal  will  be  followed  by  a  corre- 
sponding change  on  the  Orient  cover,  so  will 
any  change  in  the  policy  or  spirit  of  this  insti- 
tution be  followed  by  its  publication  to  alumni, 
friends  and  undergraduates. 


The  national  significance  of  the  Bowdoin 
art  collections  is  not  duly  understood  away 
from  the  college,  though  they  are  yearly  com- 
ing to  wider  notice. 

It  was  not  accidental  that  the  first  patron 
of  the  college,  the  Hon.  James  Bowdoin,  had 
been  interested  in  the  political  affairs  of  the 
country,  nor  that  his  distinguished  father,  the 
Governor  of  Massachusetts,  had  played  an 
important  part  in  the  history  of  our  mother- 
state.  The  family  portraits  by  Robert  Feke 
are  among  the  earliest  works  of  art  produced 
in  the  colonies.  The  small  portrait  of  the 
Governor,  number  182  in  our  collection,  made 
probably  not  long  before  1790  by  Copley,  the 
portraits  of  the  son  and  his  wife  by  Stuart  and 
those  of  Presidents  Jefferson  and  Madison, 
also  by  Stuart  and  in  the  cherished  possession 
of  Mr.  Bowdoin  would  prove  that  this  Hugue- 
not family  was  American,  of  American  in  its 
interests,  even  if  its  distinguished  record  in 
domestic  and  foreign  affairs  of  state  were  not 
remembered. 

When  Mr.  Bowdoin,  being  in  Europe  in 
the  first  decade  of  this  century,  added  to  these 
and  other  works  in  his  collection,  the  remark- 
able collection  of  original  drawings  and  nu- 
merous good  examples  of  work  by  artists 
especially  of  the  Dutch  School,  he  may  well 
have  had  in  mind  the  use  of  all  these  works  of 
art  by  the  little  college  in  the  District  of 
Maine,  named  in  honor  of  his  father,  and 
which  he  had  already  assisted  by  valuable 
eifts.     At  least  he    must    have  felt  that  the 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


ownership  of  works  of  fine  art  by  the  college 
was  not  incongruous,  not  inconsistent  with 
its  purposes.  It  is  our  firm  belief  that  he 
knew  far  in  advance  of  most  of  his  contem- 
poraries the  educational  value  of  these  things, 
and  that  he  could  not  have  conceived  that  a 
time  would  ever  come  when  the  corporation 
should  seriously  consider  converting  this  part 
of  his  gifts  to  its  endowment  into  cash. 

At  the  same  time  it  is  not  surprising  that 
the  college  should  for  many  years  have  re- 
garded them  objects,  closely  connected  with 
American  history  as  many  of  them  are,  rather 
as  outside  its  practical  scope  as  then  under- 
stood, namely,  an  education  on  classical  lines. 
The  problem  of  the  college  was  for  years 
mainly  one  of  existence,  under  conditions 
often  of  great  stress.  The  records  of  the 
boards  of  government  are  not  lacking,  how- 
e\er,  in  evidence  that  from  time  to  time  the 
paintings  were  objects  of  attention  by  a  few, 
among  whom  President  Woods  with  his  wide 
sympathies  and  great  culture,  is  conspicuous. 
The  Faculty  and  undergraduates  have  always, 
and  never  more  than  now,  been  appreciative 
of  the  great  value  of  the  paintings,  and  many 
students  especially  among  those  who  have 
served  as  assistant  librarians  in  the  old  days, 
remember  well  the  two  portfolios  containing 
the  drawings  carefully  preserved  under  lock 
and  key  in  the  library. 

It  was  a  kinsman  of  President  Woods,  Mr. 
Theophilus  Walker,  who  gave  the  college  the 
first  means  of  adequately  exhibiting  the  pict- 
ures. The  last  decade  of  this  century  has 
witnessed  great  material  addition  to  the  equip- 
ment of  Bowdoin !  the  Searles  Science  Build- 
ing has  been  an  immeasurably  useful  addition, 
the  value  of  which  is  appreciated  by  none 
more  highly  than  by  those  who  taught  or 
learned  under  the  old  conditions.  The  equally 
conspicuous  visible  increase  represented 
chiefly  by  the  Walker  Art  Building  with  its 
mural  decorations  and  the  contents  of  the 
Walker  Gallery,  is  less  well  understood  in  its 
relation  to  the  college  work. 


The  building  is  a  memorial  to  the  gentle- 
man who  responded  nearly  forty  years  before 
to  the  appeal  of  the  college  president  when 
Bowdoin  needed  money  for  a  purely  ideal 
purpose,  namely,  to  fit  a  room  in  the  chapel 
lor  the  exhibition  of  the  college  paintings. 
The  Bowdoin  family  pictures  and  the  later 
received  additions  have  been  put  in  a  proper 
permanent  setting  that  architecturally  is  in 
every  detail  a  work  of  art.  The  Misses 
\A'alker  have  not  only  provided  the  building" 
to  contain  the  college  art  possessions,  but 
have  added  an  entire  gallery  of  some  of  the 
choicest  modern  paintings  and  many  other 
objects  selected  with  great  personal  attention 
to  educating  the  taste  of  the  visitor.  Nothing- 
could  be  more  inept  than  to  consider  these 
collections  as  mere  curiosities ;  if  they  were 
no  more  than  that  it  would  be  the  most  waste- 
ful folly,  and  trilling  for  a  college  to  exhibit 
them. 

The  ownership  by  Bowdoin  of  such  valua- 
ble works  of  art  in  such  abundance  puts  upon 
the  college  the  duty  of  their  interpretation. 
We  have  for  instance  many  classical  vases  in 
pottery  and  glass  in  the  Walker  and  in  the 
G.  W.  Plarnmond  collections ;  similarly  in  the 
library  we  have  the  works  of  Plato.  If  we  are 
studying  the  Greeks  it  is  certainly  sensible  to 
strive  to  explain  these  very  vases  that  Greek 
hands  and  brains  made,  no  less  than  the  Dia- 
logues. No  one  desires  this  interpreting 
more  than  do  the  classical  instructors  them- 
selves, whose  already  crowded  subjects  can- 
not as  they  fain  would  include  the  archee- 
ology  of  art. 

It  is  difficult  to  overstate  the  value  of  the 
written  word  as  an  expression  of  the  results 
of  human  activity ;  but  the  collateral  evidence 
of  power  in  ideals  of  statue  and  painting  can- 
not be  ignored  in  liberal  studies.  Reproduc- 
tions and  photographs  convey  many  of  the 
effects  of  the  originals,  which  the  undergrad- 
uate should  know  about  but  cannot  yet  travel 
to  study  for  himself.  Not  to  care  to  know 
what  the   Renaissance  means   in   its    artistic 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


13 


rcesults,  to  take  a  single  instance,  is  an  unfort- 
unate state  of  mind. 

The  resources  of  the  college  are  limited, 
and  used  with  extreme  care.  Bowdoin  has 
done  vyhat  its  means  have  permitted,  not  what 
its  desires  have  prompted  in  this  phase  of  its 
work,  and  if  the  future  deals  as  munificently 
by  us  as  has  the  past,  may  we  not  hope  that 
the  humble  task  of  true  criticism  and  inter- 
pretation supported  by  abundant  illustration 
in  photographs  may  at  the  earliest  date  pos- 
sible be  attempted?     It  will  be  some  time. 


A  few  men,  and  happily  a  very  few  men, 
evidently  suppose  the  one  and  only  purpose 
of  a  base-ball  team  is  to  amuse  a  dozen  or  so 
fortunates  who  travel  about  the  country,  wear 
nobby-looking  uniforms,  and  earn  inciden- 
tally the  privilege  of  a  B ;  of  course  they 
should  be  viewed  with  envy  and  carefully 
watched  for  opportunities  to  criticise,  and 
ii  a  man  loses  a  hot  grounder  through  mis- 
judgment  or  drops  a  fly  from  the  embarrass- 
ment of  a  novice,  let  every  man  "wood  him" 
or  enjoy  a  laugh  at  his  expense ;  for,  remem- 
ber, it  is  one  of  the  rare  moments  when  en- 
couragement would  mean  renewed  confi- 
dence, and  renewed  confidence  would  mean  a 
sure  lien  upon  the  team. 

Some  one,  it  mitst  have  been  a  Freshman, 
suggested  that  the  college  cheer  the  team  at 
the  depot  upon  its  departure  for  out  of  town 
games ;  sone  one,  another  tyro  probably,  felt 
it  would  be  more  sportsmanlike  if  all  good 
plays  were  applauded  indiscriminately  from 
the  side  line,  while  our  own  doughty  players 
be  enthused  by  lusty  college  cheers  and  yells. 
Can  Utopia  be  a  reality ! 


The  Bugle  is  fast  approaching  completion, 
and  another  board  of  hard  working  manipu- 
lators of  pen  and  ink  are  soon  to  rest  upon 
whatever  laurels  may  be  grudgingly  granted 
them.  To  veer  from  conventional  lines  in 
the  compilation  of  this  annual  has  ever  been 


the  design  of  its  editors,  and,  in  many  ways, 
the  current  board  have  been  not  a  little  suc- 
cessful ;  just  how  successful  cannot  be  said 
until  the  issue  is  on  the  market,  but  among 
the  new  features  may  be  mentioned  a  local 
touch  to  all  the  drawings,  a  shoulder  vignette 
of  each  man  in  the  Junior  Class,  and  an  im- 
provement in  paper  and  size. 


The  athletic  season  has  now  commenced 
in  earnest,  and  to-morrow  heralds  our  debut 
in  base-ball.  The  field  and  track  is  in  excel- 
lent condition,  both  base-ball  and  athletic 
team  coaches  are  faithfully  working,  the 
weather  is  simply  perfection,  and  college  sen- 
timent is  extremely  enthusiastic  ; — are  there 
other  attributes  of  Success !  If  so,  let's  make 
them  ours.  The  financial  worriment  promises 
to  be  of  Httle  import  if  not  an  entire  stranger 
this  year ;  every  group  of  fellows  lounging 
about  the  "ends"  is  talking  about  the  first- 
class  material  which  is  ours  this  year ;  our  few 
athletic  reverses  of  the  last  two  years  are  for 
the  moment  as  though  begot  of  Fancy,  in  our 
animation  over  our  coming  contests ;  the 
very  •  air  we  breathe  seems  pregnated  with 
soft  whisperings  of  auspicious  prognostica- 
tions ; — and  altogether  it  is  a  very  delightful 
atmosphere  to  exist  in. 


COMMUNICATIONS. 

Augusta,  April  20,  1899. 
Editors  of  the  Orient: 

As  one  of  the  young  alumni,  and  as  one 
who  held  for  two  years  the  reins  of  editorial 
management  over  the  Orient,  allow  me  to 
express  the  deep  gratification  I  feel  in  the 
change  that  has  been  made.  It  was  a  dream 
we  fondly  cherished,  a  few  years  ago,  that  the 
near  future  would  give  Bowdoin  a  literary 
monthly  and  see  the  Orient  a  weekly  publi- 
cation devoted  to  news.  The  energy  and 
ability  of  our  successors  have  made  this  hope 
a  reality,  and  we  are  glad  to  extend  congratu- 
lations and  best  wishes.     The  Quill  is  an  un- 


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BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


qualified  success,  a  credit  to  literary  Bowdoin, 
and  the  peer  of  any  publication  of  its  kind. 
The  change  in  the  Orient  is  a  long  step  for- 
ward, a  movement  in  harmony  with  the  pro- 
gressive spirit  of  modem  Bowdoin.  The  old 
familiar  cover  will  be  missed,  and  the  change 
in  the  arrangement  and  style  of  the  depart- 
ments may  make  the  new  Orient  at  first 
seem,  like  a  stranger  to  the  alumni  readers, 
but  I  am  confident  that  as  they  become 
acquainted  with  it  and  understand  the  neces- 
sity and  significance  of  the  change,  they  will 
cordially  approve  of  the  new  weekly  and  give 
it  the  same  loyal  and  unwavering  support 
that  they  have  given  the  fortnightly  Orient 
in  the  past.  Very  truly  yours, 

John  Clair  Minot,  '96. 


As  there  has  been  considerable  comment 
among  the  students  caused  by  the  published 
reports  of  the  action  of  the  intercollegiate 
base-ball  managers  in  regard  to  "yagging,"  I 
wish,  if  possible,  to  clear  up  any  doubt  in  this 
matter.  At  the  meeting  Mr.  Dascombe, -the 
Colby  manager,  stated  that  for  the  last  two  or 
three  years,  especially  last  year,  the  tendency 
to  "yag"  had  increased,  and  he  cited  as  an 
instance  of  this  the  Colby-Bowdoin  game  at 
Waterville.  He  said  that  many  of  the  Colby 
alumni  who  were  present  were  thoroughly  dis- 
gusted, and  that  "yagging"  besides  being 
unfair  and  unsportsmanlike,  actually  injured 
the  college.  He  advocated  that  this  year 
everything  should  be  done  by  the  managers  to 
stop  as  far  as  possible  this  nuisance. 

Mr.  Dascombe's  sentiments  were  shared 
unanimously  by  the  other  managers,  and  it 
was  agreed  to  bring  this  matter  before  the 
students  of  the  colleges.  Of  course  there  can 
be  no  rule  about  "yagging,"  but  we  should 
remember  that  the  members  of  the  visiting 
team,  whether  it  be  a  team  from  without  the 
state  or  one  of  the  Maine  teams,  are  our  guests 
from  the  time  when  they  reach  Brunswick 
until  they  depart,  and  should    be    treated  as 


such.  Just  because  a  player  may  have  a  pecu- 
liar name  or  some  physical  defect  there  is  no 
reason  why  he  should  be  "yagged"  on  that 
account.  Such  treatment  only  serves  to  show 
the  character  of  the  fellows  who  resort  to  this 
unsportsmanlike  conduct. 

In  all  the  colleges  the  great  majority  of 
the  students  are  opposed  to  any  iuch  demon- 
stration, but  in  every  college  there  are  a  cer- 
tain few  who  are  very  apt  to  say  things  which 
might  be  better  left  unsaid.  Surely  there  can 
be  little  pleasure  in  a  victory  won  by  "yag- 
ging." 

Some  of  the  students  have  thought  the 
managers  had  voted  to  stop  legitimate  cheer- 
ing. This  of  course  is  not  so.  Nothing  in- 
spires a  team  with  such  confidence  as  to  hear 
the  cheers  of  the  fellows  and  to  know  that  their 
work  is  being  appreciated  and  that  they  have 
the  hearty  support  of  the  undergraduates,  even 
if  the  game  be  going  the  wrong  way.  The 
more  cheering  the  better.  This  spring  there 
will  be  two  or  three  men  appointed  as  leaders, 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  we  may  have  even 
more  systematic  cheering  than  we  had  last 
fall. 

This,  I  think,  explains  the  action  taken  by 
the  managers  at  the  recent  meeting.  I  wish 
to  thank  the  students  for  their  liberal  subscrip- 
tions, and  I  shall  consider  it  a  favor  to  receive 
from  them  any  suggestions  whereby  the  com- 
mg  season  may  be  made  more  successful. 
Joseph  W.  Whitney. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


MerriU,  '94,  was  on  the  campus  Wednesday. 

The  tennis  courts  have  all  been  put  in  order. 

A  fine  casino  is  being  erected  at  Merrymeeting 
Park. 

Bass  and  Strout,  1900,  returned  to  college  last 
week. 

Emery,  1902,  has  returned  to  college  after  a  long 
illness. 

The  Higher  Rhetoric  Course  has  proved  very 
popular. 


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Dendroica  Vigorsii  was  seen  on  the  campus 
Wednesday. 

The  Golf  Club  expects  to  have  links  at  Merry- 
meeting  Park. 

The  College  Tournament  will  begin  about  the 
eighth  of  May. 

Joseph  Williamson,  Jr.,  '88,  visited  the  college 
on  ■  Wednesday. 

Harry  Dolan,  of  last  year's  Springfield  team,  is 
coaching  Colby. 

Clark,  'oi,  is  rapidly  improving.  He  expects 
to  be  out  soon. 

Bradbury,  'oi,  who  has  been  out  teaching,  re- 
turned last  week. 

The  Philosophy  Club  met  at  President  Hyde's 
last  Monday  evening. 

Gould,  1900,  is  teaching  in  one  of  the  Bruns- 
wick Grammar  schools. 

The  Intercollegiate  Tournament  will  be  held  at 
Bow.doin,  June  5,  6  and  7. 

Woodbury,  1900,  was  leader  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
meeting  Thursday  evening. 

The  mutilation  of  the  magazines  and  papers  in 
the   reading-room    still   continues. 

Neagle,  '99,  has  been  sick,  threatened  with 
pneumonia,  but  is  now  convalescing. 

Professor  Johnson  is  holding  extra  recitations 
Wednesday  and  Saturday  afternoons. 

George  Dilloway,  '98,  now  of  Harvard  Law 
School,  is  visiting  his  parents  in  town. 

Professor  Mitchell  acted  as  judge  in  a  debate 
recently  held  in  one  of  the  town  schools". 

The  Interscholastic  Tennis  Tournament  will  be 
held  at  Bowdoin  on  May  26th  and  27th. 

The  Quill  has  a  very  attractive  poster  in  Byron 
Stevens'  window,  drawn  by  F.  C.  Lee,  1900. 

The  campus  is  being  carefully  raked  and  cleaned 
and  awaiting  the  Easter  of  the  grass  and  leaf. 

E.  R.  Kelley,  '02,  passed  a  part  of  his  vacation 
in  a  logging  camp  in  the  wilds  of  Aroostook. 

The  german  held  in  Bath  last  Thursday  even- 
ing was  attended  by  a  number  of  Bowdoin  men. 

James  Sullivan,  formerly  of  the  Boston  national 
b&se-ball  team,  will  coach  the  U.  of  M.  teaifi  this 
spring. 

It  has  been  decided  by  the  Faculty  that  after 
this  year  there  shall  be  no  Senior  Vacation  and  no 
Day  of  Prayer. 

The  History  Club  met  at  Sylvester's  room  Tues- 
day evening.  Harris,  1900,  read  an  article  on  the 
Nicaraguan  Canal. 


The  Junior  Class  has  engaged  the  Germania 
orchestra  for  Ivy  Day;  therefore  good  music  and  a 
good  dance  are  assured. 

Margaret  Deland  addressed  the  Saturday  Club 
last  Saturday  afternoon  on  the  subject,  "The 
Housekeeper's   Conscience." 

President  Hyde  preached  at  Wellesley  last  Sun- 
day, and  on  Monday  attended  a  meeting  of  the 
Trustees  of  Phillips  Andover. 

Professor  and  Mrs.  Files  and  Professor  and  Mrs. 
Hutchinson  expect  to  leave  early  in  June  for  a 
summer's  sojourn  in  Europe. 

O.  D.  Smith,  who  is  teaching  at  St.  Paul's 
School,  Concord,  A.  B.  White  and  Pennell,  all  of 
"gS,  visited  the  campus  last  week. 

The  Sophomores,  having  inadvertently  or  other- 
wise "ducked"  several  Seniors  and  Juniors,  were 
forcibly  detained  in  chapel  Wednesday  morning. 

The  sign  board  recently  put  up  on  the  street 
corner  has  made  the  interesting  disclosure  that  our 
principal  street  is  named  Maine  (not  Main)   Street. 

Austin  Cary,  '87,  was  about  college  last  week, 
looking  after  the  proposed  planting  of  pines  with  a 
imrsery  of  hemlock  for  an  undergrowth,  on  the 
eastern  part  of  the  grounds. 

Professor  Johnson,  accompanied  by  his  daugh- 
ter Helen,  will  leave  for  France  the  first  of  June. 
They  propose  to  make  a  wheeling  tour  of  that 
country,  with  their  headquarters  at  Paris. 

Goodspeed,  1900,  is  enjoying  an  attack  of  the 
measles,  which  does  not  add  to  his  personal  beauty. 
His  room-mate,  Lancey,  wishes  to  announce  that 
he  will  not  receive  callers  after  the  next  fourteen 
days. 

The  deaths  of  Hon.  Austin  Harris,  A.B.,  and 
Rev.  Charles  F.  Allen,  D.D.,  make  two  vacancies 
on  the  Board  of  Overseers  to  be  filled  this  spring, 
and  letters  are  being  sent  out  to  the  alumni  by 
Professor  Little. 

The  following  students  took  part  in  the  Living 
Whist:  Lancey,  Adams,  Gould,  W.  B.  Clarke, 
Willard,  W.  T.  Libby,  Chapman,  Shorey,  Foster, 
R.  H.  Bodwell,  Snow,  Appleton,  J.  H.  Sinkinson, 
R.  P.  Bodwell,  Furbish,  and  Webb. 

President  Hyde  has  an  able  article  in  the  cur- 
rent number  of  the  New  World  on  "The  Reorgan- 
ization of  the  Faith."  The  Literary  Digest  for  last 
week  quoted  extracts  and  comments  on  it  and  also 
printed  a  very  good  likeness  of  the  writer. 

The  Deutscher  Vei-ein  met  Wednesday  evening, 
April  i2th,  with  Smith  and  Lavertu  at  the  room  of 
the  former.  The  subject  for  the  evening  was 
Heine;  a  sketch  of  his  life  was  given  by  Webster, 


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and  a  discussion  of  his  prose  and  poetical  works, 
by  Hall  and  Dana  respectively. 

Professor  H.  C.  Emery  has  an  interesting  article 
in  the  March  number  of  the  Economic  Journal  on 
■'Futures  in  the  Grain  Market."  This  journal  is 
the  organ  of  the  British  Economic  Association  and 
one  of  the  most  valuable  of  the  numerous  periodi- 
cals devoted  to  political  economy. 

The  Tennis  Association  held  its  annual  meeting 
last  Tuesday  afternoon  in  Memorial  Hall.  Offi- 
cers for  the  ensuing  year  were  chosen  as  follows: 
President,  Ripley  Lyman  Dana,  'oi;  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  'oi ;  Third  Director, 
Frederic  Arthur  Stanwood,  '02;  secretary,  Charles 
Henry   Hunt,  '02. 

Professor  Mitchell  has  posted  the  following 
subjects  for  the  Sophomores  who  are  not  taking 
Mr.  Andrews'  course:  Pensions,  their  Use  and 
i^.buse;  Benefits  to  be  Derived  from  Traveling; 
Tennis,  its  History  and  How  it  is  Played;  "Order 
is  Heaven's  First  Law";  A  Short  Story  and  Brown- 
ing's '""Pippa  Passes." 

There  was  an  interesting  exhibit  and  sale  of  art 
photographs  at  the  Art  Building  last  week.  Mr. 
W.  W.  Bonney,  representing  the  Moulton  Art 
Photograph  Company  of  Boston,  was  in  charge  of 
the  collection.  There  were  about  four  thousand 
unmounted  pictures  in  folios,  and  a  large  number 
of  mounted  pictures,  all  authentic  copies. 

Mr.  Andrews  assigned  the  following  subjects 
for  the  first  long  themes  in  his  course,  which  were 
due  April  25:  The  Character  of  Charles  I  of  Eng- 
land; How  Does  the  Man  Himself  Appear  in 
Hawthorne's  Style;  The  Changes  of  the  Last  Five 
Years  in  Base-ball;  What  Is  a  Liberal  Education; 
The  Difiference  Between  True  and  False  Economy; 
Grant's  Investment  of  Vicksburg;  How  do  Ath- 
letics Benefit  One  Permanently;  A  Criticism  of 
"  David   Haruni." 

The  date  set  for  the  Maine  Invitation  Inter- 
scholastic  meet  to  be  held  here,  is  May  27th.  The 
following  schools  have  already  accepted  Bowdoin's 
invitation  to  this  meet:  Bangor,  Kent's  Hill, 
Brunswick,  Augusta,  Bath,  and  Skowhegan.  Prob- 
ably Portland,  Thornton,  Lewiston,  Edward  Little, 
Hebron  and  others  will  accept  within  a  short  time. 
The  date  is  earlier  than  customary  because  it  is 
most  convenient  for  the  schools  to  have  the  meet 
on  Saturday,  and  the  3d  and  loth  of  June  are  occu- 
pied by  the  Maine  Intercollegiate  meet  at  Water- 
ville  and  the  college  entrance  examinations. 


(ATHLETICS. 

The  base-ball  squad  now  practices  on  the  ath- 
letic field,  five  or  six  innings  being  played  between 
two  teams  every  day.  No  new  men  have  as  yet 
been  picked,  and  probably  no  decision  will  be  made 
before  the  Fast  Day  game,  when  two  teams  will  be 
played,  giving  every  prominent  candidate  a  chance. 
A  game  has  been  arranged  with  the  Cambridge 
league  team  for  the  day  before  the  Harvard  game, 
as  all  the  practice  which  can  be  obtained  is  needed 
before  the  team  meets  Harvard. 

W.  C.  Sherman  is  expected  to-day  to  coach 
the  squad,  particularly  in  batting,  and  to  aid 
Captain  Bacon  in  selecting  the  team.  Captain 
DufTy  of  Boston  says  that  with  the  exception  of 
Fred  Tenney,  Mr.  Sherman  is  probably  the  best 
coach  in  this  vicinity.  The  judgment  of  such  a 
man,  wholly  unprejudiced  as  he  is,  cannot  fail  to 
have  a  good  effect  in  picking  the  best  man  for  each 
position,  and  eliminating  any  chance  of  favoritism, 
the  curse  of  college  teams. 

FOOT-BALL. 

Through  the  kindness  of  Manager  Spear  we  are 
enabled  to  give  our  readers  the  first  report  of  the 
schedule  for  next  fall.  Mr.  Spear  has,  up  to  this 
time,  arranged  for  the  following  games: 

Wednesday,  October  4,  Harvard  at  Cambridge. 

Saturday,  October  7,  Dartmouth  at  Hanover. 

Saturday,   October   14,  U.   of  M.   at   Brunswick. 

Saturday,  October  21,  Amherst  at  Amherst. 

Saturday,   October  28,   Tufts  at   Brunswick. 

Wednesday,  November  i,  Exeter  at  Exeter. 

Wednesday,  November  15,  Tufts  at  College  Hill. 

Saturday,  November  18,  Holy  Cross  at  Wor- 
cester. 

Thursday,  November  21  (Thanksgiving  Day), 
P.  A.  C.  at  Portland. 

The  date  of  the  Bates  game  will  be  November 
nth,  but  owing  to  the  controversy  between  the  two 
colleges,  the  terms  of  the  game  have  not  been  ar- 
ranged, nor  the  place  determined. 

Colby  did  not  elect  her  manager  until  very 
recently,  and  consequently  we  are  unable  to  make 
any  definite  statement  about  that  game,  although 
it  will  probably  be  played  in  Portland  on  the  fourth 
of  November. 


The  Tailor's  Lament. 
Kind  friend,  mine  is  a  pitiable  lot. 

So  prithee,  aid  me  with  your  prayers, 
A  crop  of  cruel  woes  I'll  some  day  reap, 
Because  I'm  always  sewing  tears! 

— Harvard  Lampoon. 


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PERSONflLS. 


Med.,  '49.— James  Davis  Watson  of  the  Medical 
Cass  of  '49  died  March  15,  1899,  at  Ewing,  Neb. 
He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Davis) 
Watson,  and  was  born  at  Newfield,  Me.,  March  24, 
1817.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Thorndike  and  at  China  Academy.  He 
began  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  Noah  Gilman 
(Med.,  '31),  and  attended  two  courses  of  lectures 
in  1840  and  1841.  After  studying  with  Byron  Por- 
ter (Med.,  '27),  he  practiced  for  six  years.  In  1849 
he  attended  his  third  course  of  lectures  at  the  Medi- 
cal School  of  Maine  and  received  his  degree  in  that 
year.  The  winter  of  1851  was  spent  in  New  York 
City  in  medical  study.  He  practiced  at  Hampden 
until  1859,  when  he  removed  to  Brooks  and  thence 
to  Waterville,  where  he  remained  until  1878.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  War  he  was  surgeon  of  the  3d  Maine 
Infantry,  and  was  at  the  battles  of  Chancellorsville, 
Brandy  Station,  Gettysburg,  Wilderness,  Spottsyl- 
vania,  and  Cold  Harbor.  After  Chancellorsville  he 
had  charge  of  the  hospital  of  the  first  division  of 
the  third  corps.  After  the  war  he  returned  to  his 
practice  at  Waterville  and  there  remained  until  1878, 
when  he  removed  to  Avoca,  Iowa.  In  the  spring 
of  1884  Dr.  Watson  left  Avoca  and  went  to  Ewing, 
Neb.,  where  he  remained  in  practice  until  his  death. 
He  left  one  son  and  three  daughters. 

Dr.  Watson  was  an  excellent  conversationalist. 
He  was  a  man  of  wide  knowledge,  a  clear  thinker, 
and  possessed  a  retentive  memory.  He  was  much 
interested  in  all.  public  matters  and  took  much 
pleasure  in  debate.  He  was  a  man  generous  in 
thought  and  in  deed,  never  speaking  ill  of  any  one, 
and  performing  many  deeds  of  charity  in  his  prac- 
tice. His  Christianity  was  practical,  and  while  he 
never  united  with  any  church  in  formal  member- 
ship, his  daily  life  bore  witness  to  his  high  concep- 
tion of  his  duty  toward  man  and  God. 

'50. — The  New  York  Sun  says:  "The  Hon. 
William  P.  Frye,  United  States  Senator  for  Maine 
and  chairm-an  of  the  Senate  committee  of  com- 
merce, has  been  invited  to  be  the  chief  guest  at  a 
banciuet  at  the  Waldorf  April  26th.  Senator  Frye 
is  to  be  the  guest  of  the  merchants  of  New  York 
City,  and  between  700  and  800  merchants  will  be 
present.  The  dinner  is  a  testimonial  to  Senator 
Frye's  efiforts,  along  with  those  of  Senator  Piatt 
and  Senator  Murpliy  of  New  York,  in  the  last 
Congress  to  secure  necessary  legislation  for  New 
York   State.     Senator    Piatt   and   Senator   Murphy 


were  greatly  interested  in  the  bill  calling  for  an 
appropriation  of  $7,000,000  wherewith  to  straighten, 
widen  and  deepen  the  channel  in  New  York  harbor; 
also  in  the  appropriation  of  $5,000,000  for  the  con- 
.struction  of  a  new  custom  house  for  New  York 
City,  and  also  in  the  appropriation  of  $5,000,000  for 
the  Pan-American  Exhibition  at  BuiTalo.  In  all 
these  matters,  Senator  Frye  stood  loyally  by  Sen- 
ator Piatt.  Senator  Murphy  also  gave  valuable 
assistance.  The  work  of  Speaker  Reed,  the  New 
York  Congress  delegation  and  Collector  George 
R.  Bidwell  is  also  greatly  appreciated  by  the  mei"- 
chants.  Ex-Senator  Murphy  is  going  West  for  a 
short  vacation  and  can  not  be  present  at  the  ban- 
quet, but  Speaker  Reed  and  all  others  who  had  a 
hand  in  benefiting  the  city  of  New  York  will  be 
tliere." 

'60. — An  Associated  Press  dispatch  says:  "At 
the  office  of  the  firm  of  Simpson,  Thatcher  &  Bar- 
num  of  New  York  City,  it  is  announced  that 
Speaker  Reed  of  Maine  has  decided  to  become  a 
member  of  that  firm  upon  his  return  from  a  trip  to 
Europe  on  which  he  is  about  to  start."  Mr.  Reed 
declines  either  to  affirm  or  deny  the  truth  of  this 
statement. 

'60. — Amos  Lawrence  Allen,  Mr.  Reed's  private 
secretary,  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the  most  fitted  to 
occupy  the  chair  reported  about  to  be  vacated  by 
the  retirement  of  the  speaker.  Mr.  Allen  has  the 
advantage  of  an  acquaintance  with  every  member 
of  the  present  House  of  Representatives  and  most 
of  the  heads  of  departments  in  Washington.  He  is 
also  familiar  with  the  working  of  congressional 
machinery,  having  been  so  long  "on  the  inside,"  by 
roiison  of  his  service  as  the  speaker's  private  secre- 
tary. He  is  a  native  of  Maine,  a  Bowdoin  College 
classmate  of  Mr.  Reed,  has  seen  legislative  service, 
was  for  three  terms  clerk  of  courts  of  York  County, 
and  has  had  as  much  to  do  with  the  shaping  of 
county  and  state  politics,  in  the  last  25  years,  as  any 
other  man  in  the  district.  Those  best  acquainted 
with  Secretary  Allen  say  that  he  has  been  a  great 
help  to  Mr.  Reed,  and,  being  in  full  accord  with  the 
congressman,  has  been  entrusted  with  much  of  the 
perplexing  work  of  apportioning  the  party  plums 
in  the  first  district.  He  has  found  time  to  person- 
ally solicit  government  aid  for  many  a  Maine  proj- 
ect. For  instance,  there  is  the  appropriation  for  the 
improvement  of  the  harbor  of  Cape  Porpoise.  Mr. 
Allen  is  accredited  with  securing  the  passage  of 
that  bill.  It  would  be  only  natural,  in  view  of  their 
intimate  relations  of  such  long  standing,  if  in  his 
candidacy  for  thf  congressional  nomination  Mr. 
Allen  should  have  the  indorsement  of  the  retiring 
representative. 


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'60. — The  Hon.  Joseph  W.  Symonds  of  Portland 
seems  to  be  a  very  likely  candidate  to  represent  the 
First  Maine  District  as  the  successor  of  Speaker 
Reed  in  case  of  his  retirement.  Mr.  Symonds  is 
generally  acknowledged  to  be  the  most  polished 
public  speaker  in  Maine,  and  his  abilities  as  a  jurist 
have  been  such  as  to  command  a  clientage  second 
to  none  in  the  state.  Raymond,  in  northern  Cum- 
berland County,  is  his  native  town.  He  was  born 
in  1840,  was  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in 
i860,  read  law  first  in  the  office  of  Gen.  Samuel 
Fessenden,  father  of  William  Pitt  Fessenden,  and 
subsequently  in  the  ofBce  of  Judge  Edward  Fox  of 
the  United  States  district  court,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1864.  He  served  as  Portland's  city 
solicitor  and  in  1872  was  appointed  to  the  Maine 
supreme  bench,  which  office  he  held  six  years.  At 
the  end  of  his  term  he  declined  a  reappointment, 
as  the  practitioner's  field  offered  greater  financial 
inducements  than  the  judgeship. 

'64. — Ex-Senator  Charles  F.  Libby  is  one  of  a 
trio  of  strong  Bowdoin  candidates  for  Mr.  Reed's 
seat  in  Congress,  if  the  reports  concerning  the 
retirement  of  the  speaker  are  true.  Mr.  Libby 
is  a  native  of  Limerick,  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  and 
the  Columbia  Law  School,  and  has  practiced  at  the 
bar  since  1866.  He  served  as  city  solicitor  and 
afterward  as  county  attorney.  While  holding  the' 
latter  office  he  broke  all  records  of  enforcement  of 
the  prohibitory  law,  though  personally  he  disbe- 
lieved in  that  statute.  He  was  mayor  of  Portland 
in  1882,  served  two  terms  in  the  state  senate,  the 
latter  term  as  president.  He  is  president  of  the 
board  of  overseers  of  Bowdoin  College.  He  is 
prominently  identified  with  several  of  the  leading 
business  interests  of  Portland,  is  attorney  for  some 
of  the  big  corporations  of  the  city,  and  is  president 
of  the  Maine  Steamship  Company. 

'94. — The  engagement  is  announced  in  Portland 
of  Miss  Jane  Alice  Coleman  and  Frederick  William 
Pickard.  Mr.  Pickard  is  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin, 
Class  of  '94,  and  is  well  known  in  Brunswick.  His 
many  friends  extend  congratulations. 

'74. — Professor  Henry  Johnson,  accompanied  by 
his  daughter,  Miss  Helen  Johnson,  will  sail  for 
Europe  early  in-  June.  They  will  return  about  the 
first  of  October. 

'98. — John  W.  Condon,  '98,  is  city  editor  of  the 
Portland,  Me.,  Courier. 

Ex-1900.- — Selden  Martin  is  n>anager  of  a  large 
silver  mine  at  Boulder,  Colorado.  He  has  entirely 
recovered  his  health. 


Y.  M.  C.  fi. 


Few  institutions  or  organizations  are  able  to 
exist  contrary  to  the  ebb  and  flow  of  prosperity. 
There  are  times  in  the  careers  of  both  men  and 
organizations,  when  through  circumstances  or  neg- 
ligence, all  efi'orts  seem  to  produce  but  meagre  re- 
sults. For  some  time  past  there  has  been  a  feeling 
among  the  members  of  the  Christian  Association, 
that  some  change  must  be  made,  if  Bowdoin  is  to 
hold,  in  religious  activity,  the  same  prominent 
place,  among  the  surrounding  colleges,  which  she 
undoubtedly  holds  in  literary  and  athletic  attain- 
ments. With  this  end  in  view  the  Association  has 
formally  joined  the  Intercollegiate  Organization; 
and,  for  the  first  time  in  several  years,  Bowdoin 
was  represented  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  asso- 
ciation presidents  of  the  east  at  Hamilton,  N.  Y., 
April  6-9. 

By  this  affiliation  with  the  world-wide  move- 
ment, both  inspiration  for  the  workers  and  practical 
help  will  be  secured.  The  traveling  secretaries  of 
the  organization  will  make  regular  visits,  to  attend 
to  the  business  and  spiritual  needs  of  the  work 
here,  in  this  way  keeping  the  Association  m  touch 
with   student   workers   throughout  the   country. 

Now,  if  ever,  is  the  time  for  the  men  who  are 
interested  in  Bowdoin's  becoming  a  religious  leader 
among  her  sister  institutions,  to  take  hold  of  the 
work  and  put  into  it  the  same  energy  and  enthusi- 
asm that  they  put  into  the  other  phases  of  college 
life.  This  is  the  only  way  by  which  the  religious 
life  of  the  college  can  be  made  to  reach  the  level  oi 
excellence  which  is  displayed  in  all  other  lines. 


A  Conservative. 
"Do  you  favor  expansion?" 

The  fair  maiden  said 

To  the  youth  with  his  arm  around  her  waist. 

Increased  was  the  tension 

As  the  answer  he  made: 
"Contraction  is  more  to  my  taste." 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,    MAY   3,  1899. 


No.  3. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED  EVERT  WEDNESDAY  DURING    THE   COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS   OP 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babb,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

IsLAY  F.  McCoRMiCK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 

KOLAND  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 

Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.        Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 

Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 

Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

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CONTENTS. 
Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  3.— May  3,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes 19 

Psi  Upsilon  Reception 21 

College  News 22 

Athletics 24 

Personals    . 25 

Y.  M.  C.  A 26 


In  by-gone  days,  the  memory  of  which  is 
still  ripe  among  the  Seniors,  it  was  the  cus- 
tom to  gather  on  the  steps  of  the  Art  Build- 
ing on  a  sunny  May  twilight,  and  sing  Bow- 
doin  songs.  Bowdoin  songs,  such  as  "Phi 
Chi"  and  "Bowdoin  Beata,"  have  caused  the 
bands  of  many  an  alumni's  heart  to  strain 
under  the  stirring  bounds  of  those  good  old 
times,  and  to  realize  that  strange  sensation 
about  your  heart-strings  which  makes  Fresh- 
man love  Sophomore  and  Senior  pensive  in 
melancholy  over  the  overshadowing  of  the 
hour  and  the  approaching  separation  from  his    t 


dear  Alma  Mater, — to  realize  all  this  and  much 
more  that  is  good  and  too  seldom  present  in 
our  hearts,  gather  about  the  spacious  steps  of 
the  Art  Building  and  sing  our  own  song  with 
a  devotion  which  will  start  the  metal  throbs 
of  the  neighboring  sturdy  Junior.  Such  a 
custom  teems  with  good  results,  as  well  as 
whiles  away  a  most  pleasant  hour  where 
clique,  fraternity  and  class  spirit  is  obliterated 
by  the  more  powerful  one  of  Bowdoin,  the 
mother  spirit. 


Since  the  changes  made  in  Memorial  Hall 
the  need  of  some  place  for  student  meetings 
has  become  very  evident.  So-called  upper 
Memorial  is  too  large,  and  in  other  ways  un- 
suited  to  such  purposes.  It  was  intended, 
and  as  far  as  possible  must  be  reserved  for 
those  meetings  which  bear  directly  upon  the 
literary  life  of  the  college.  It  may  not  be  in- 
appropriate for  classes  to  wrestle  with  exam- 
ination papers,  in  the  presence  of  the  memo- 
rials of  those  sons  of  the  college  who  fought 
and  died  on  other  battlefields,  but  there  is  a 
manifest  inappropriateness  in  using  it  for 
gatherings  of  all  sorts  and  kinds.  But  a  place 
for  just  such  gatherings  is  needed ;  we  don't 
have  enough  of  them.  It  is  good  and  healthy, 
for  students  to  come  together  and  discuss 
things  which  interest  the  college  as  a  whole. 
But  they  will  not  unless  there  is  a.  convenient 
and  suitable  place.  It  is  like  pouring  cold 
water  on  any  enterprise  to  hold  a  meeting 
about  it  in  upper  Memorial  during  the  winter 
especially.  Even  a  considerable  gathering 
seems  small,  and  the  half-warmed  room  sends 
cold  shivers  down  the  spines  of  all,  and  even 
the  most  enthusiastic  feel  their  enthusiasm 
ebbing  away,  and  see  that  about  the  best  thing 
they  can  do  is  to  adjourn  the  meeting,  and 


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BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


leave  the  room  to  the  undisputed  possession 
of  the  distinguished  alumni  shivering  in  their 
frames  on  the  walls.  This  is  not  meant  for 
any  disparagement  of  the  hall.  The  very 
features  which  make  it  depressing  for  small 
student  gatherings  in  the  day  time,  are  stimu- 
lating and  uplifting  in  case  of  those  meetings 
for  which  it  was  intended,  and  we  are  sure 
that  every  student  takes  the  greatest  pride  in 
the  thought  that  the  college  owns  such  a 
room. 

Such  a  hall  as  is  needed  should  be  con- 
nected also  with  some  building  where  students 
naturally  go  for  comfort  and  social  enjoy- 
ment, a  building  not  associated  with  recita- 
tions and  lectures  and  examinations,  but  with 
relaxation  and  indoor  games  and  reading. 
In  short,  the  college  has  reached  that  stage 
in  its  development  where  it  needs  to  have 
special  provision  made  for  some  things  which 
a  college  was  formerly  thought  to  have  little 
or  nothing  to  do  with.  The  old  theory,  ap- 
parently, was  that  the  only  legitimate  and 
proper  meetings  for  students  to  attend  were 
recitations  and  church  services.  Some  others 
were  condoned  from  necessity,  but  frowned 
upon.  Those  were  the  days  when  class  day 
exercises  were  forbidden  to  be  held  under  col- 
lege auspices,  lest  the  college  be  criticised  in 
them.  Such  theories  have  passed  away. 
P'ree  expression  of  college  opinion  is  now  wel- 
comed and  desired  upon  all  subjects  con- 
nected with  college  life.  College^  training 
must  fit  men  for  life  in  a  republic,  and  such 
life  can  be  healthy  only  when  there  is  the 
greatest  freedom  of  discussion. 

.  It  is  not  simply  a  hall,  then,  that  is  needed, 
but  a  building  of  moderate  size  containing 
such  a  hall.  The  building  should  be  recog- 
nized as  a  student's  building.  There  should 
be  in  it  a  reading-room ;  a  room  with  facilities 
for  quiet  games  of  chess  and  checkers ;  one  or 
two  small  rooms  for  meetings  of  committees ; 
a  room  with  billiard  and  pool  tables ;  a  trophy 
room  or  case  in  one  of  the  other  rooms  con- 
taining such  athletic  trophies  as  may  come  to 


the  college ;  and  other  features  which  readily 
suggest  themselves. 

In  one  room  provision  might  well  be  made 
lor  allowing  of  its  use  as  a  study  room  by 
non-resident  students  especially,  that  is,  those 
who  live  at  some  distance  from  the  college, 
and  wish  to  remain  during  the  time  between 
recitations.  The  commonly  needed  lexicons 
and  reference  books  might  be  kept  there  for 
their  use.  This  class  of  students  is  likely  to 
increase  in  the  future.  The  electric  railroads 
are  making  Brunswick  very  easy  of  access 
from  all  the  surrounding  towns'.  Even  now 
a  student  might  board  at  home  in  Lewiston 
and  attend  college  in  Brunswick,  and  every- 
thing should  be  done  to  make  such  feel  that 
there  is  a  college  home  ready  to  welcome 
them.  The  building  of  chapter-houses  will 
make  some  such  provision  for  a  certain  num- 
ber of  students,  but  never  for  the  whole  or 
perhaps  even  for  a  majority.  Indeed  the 
building  of  chapter-houses  is  an  additional 
reason  for  a  building  such  as  has  been  out- 
lined. The  one  disadvantage  to  be  feared 
from  the  growth  of  chapter-houses  at  Bow- 
doin  is  the  tendency  they  will  have  to  separate 
groups  of  students  from  the  contact  with  the 
college  as  a  whole.  This  disadvantage,  we 
believe,  is  more  than  offset  by  manifest  ad- 
vantages. It  can  be  removed  entirely  by  the 
plan  proposed. 

It  is  not  at  all  uncommon  to  hear  older 
graduates  say  that  they  would  come  oftener 
to  visit  the  college  at  Commencement  if  there 
was  a  place  they  could  go  to  where  they  felt 
at  home.  An  attempt  has  been  made  in  the 
last  few  years  to  meet  such  a  want  as  this  as 
far  as  it  could  be  done  by  welcoming  all  at  the 
library.  But  the  conditions  there  never  can 
be  such  as  to  really  meet  the  case.  To  pull 
up  a  couple  of  chairs  and  perhaps  pull  out  a 
couple  of  pipes  and  enjoy  a  quiet  talk  and 
smoke  is  what  is  wanted.  One  likes  to  feel 
also  that  he  is  not  taking  advantage  of  some 
extra  and  special  provision  made  for  the  occa- 
sion, but  is  really  dropping  into  a  place  always 


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kept  ready  for  him,  like  a  chair  at  a  famiHar 
fireside.  It  is  not  to  be  expected  that  the  col- 
lege from  its  regular  funds  can  build  such  a 
building.  It  must  come  if  at  all  from  some 
alumnus  or  friend  who  appreciates  the  need. 
The  Orient  can  assure  any  one  disposed  to 
carry  out  the  plans  thus  imperfectly  outlined, 
that. by  so  doing  he  will  receive  the  blessmgs 
of  Bowdoin  students  for  all  time  to  come,  and 
do  a  work  for  the  college  second,  perhaps,  to 
none  which  has  been  done  by  any  single  gift 
to  the  college  since  its  foundation. 


The  terrible  fires  which  recently  destroyed 
dozens  of  lives  and  millions  of  dollars'  worth 
of  property  in  New  York  have  called  atten- 
tion to  the  inadequate  or  absolute  lack  of  pro- 
tection or  means  of  escape  from  fire  which  so 
many  of  our  buildings  have.  At  Yale  the 
authorities  have  taken  steps  to  protect  the 
dormitories,  and  have  taken  every  possible 
precaution  to  prevent  danger  to  the  students 
in  case  of  fire. 

The  Orient  wishes  to  call  the  attention  of 
the  Faculty  to  the  condition  of  the  college 
dormitories.  Divided  into  "ends"  by  brick 
partitions,  with  but  one  way  of  exit,  and  with 
absolutely  no  precautions  taken,  the  three 
dormitories  are  as  promising  fire-traps  as 
could  be  imagined.  The  windows  in  the  halls 
are  almost  invariably  open,  and  a  fire  starting 
in  one  of  the  lower  halls  would  be  drawn  up 
the  stairways  in  an  instant.  Without  even  a 
rope  for  a  fire-escape,  the  only  hope  of  safety 
for  the  students  would  be  a  drop  from  a  win- 
dow, or  a  promenade  over  the  roof  with  the 
added  danger  of  suffering  the  accident  which 
immortalized  Benny  Hewes. 

The  halls  have  not  been  free  from  fires  in 
the  past,  and  in  these  later  years  the  oppor- 
tunities for  a  fire  to  start  are  even  more  favor- 
able. In  one  end  alpne  in  this  college  year, 
two  fires  have  started  on  the  lowest  floor,  and 
but  for  timely  discovery  might  have  spread 
through  the  end.  The  insurance  companies 
recognize  the  fact  that  college  dormitories  are 


dangerous ;  and  the  rate  charged  for  a  policy 
to  cover  a  dormitory  is  much  higher  than  that 
for  a  policy  on  a  business  block  standing 
alone. 

In  view,  then,  of  the  present  state  of 
affairs,  the  Orient  considers  itself  justified  in 
urging  immediate  action. 


PSI  UPSILON   RECEPTION. 

The  tenth  annual  reception  of  the  Kappa 
Chapter  of  Psi  Upsilon  took  place  on  the 
evening  of  April  28,  1899. 

The  out-of-town  guests  arrived  on  the 
afternoon  trains  in  order  to  attend  the  tea 
which  was  held  from  four  to  six,  in  21  and  22 
North  Winthrop.  The  visitors  were  received 
by  Mrs.  Leonard  O.  Short  and  Mrs.  J.  P. 
Thompson  of  Portland,  and  Mrs.  McKein  of 
Montreal.  Miss  Jennie  Hunt  and  Miss  Fran- 
ces Pennell  of  Lewiston  assisted  at  the  tables. 

From  8  to  9  the  guests  were  received  in 
Memorial  Hall  by  the  patronesses,  Mrs. 
Flenry  Johnson,  Mrs.  Leslie  A.  Lee,  Mrs. 
William  A.  Houghton,  Mrs.  George  T.  Files, 
Mrs.  William  A.  Moody,  Mrs.  Wilmot  B. 
Mitchell,  Mrs.  F.  N.  Whittier,  Mrs.  C.  C. 
Hutchins.  Dancing  began  at  9  o'clock  and 
an  order  of  twenty  dances  was  enjoyed,  the 
party  being  ended  at  about  2.30  a.m. 

Music  was  furnished  by  Wilson's  Orches- 
tra of  Portland.  Supper  was  served  by  Mr. 
Pooler  of  "The  Sherwood,"  Portland. 

About  100  attended  the  reception.  The 
out-of-town  guests  included  Miss  Hooper, 
California;  Mrs.  McKein,  Montreal;  Miss 
Dresser,  Woburn,  Mass. ;  Miss  Glover,  Rock- 
land ;  Mrs.  and  Miss  Alden,  Camden ;  Miss 
Ruggles,  Thomaston;  Mrs.  Blake,  Bangor; 
Miss  Merrill,  Miss  Wright,  Miss  Borden, 
Mrs.  Thompson,  Mrs.  Short,  Miss  Whitney, 
Portland;  Miss  Pennell,  Miss  Hunt,  Mrs. 
Armstrong  and  Miss  Armstrong,  Lewiston ; 
Mrs.  Briggs,  Miss  Wing,  Auburn ;  Mrs.  Bur- 
bank,  Exeter,  N.  H. ;  Messrs.  Jones  and  Lar- 
rabee,  Portland. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Delegates  from  the  several  fraternities 
were:  W.  H.  White,  Jr.,  99,  Alpha  Delta 
Phi ;  William  T.  Veazie,  '99,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon;  H.  B.  Neagle,  '99,  Zeta  Psi;  W.  H 
Smith,  '99,  Theta  Delta  Chi ;  F.  L.  Lavertu, 
'99,  Delta  Upsilon ;  G.  B.  Colesworthy,  1900, 
Kappa  Sigma. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Sanborn,    igor,   is  teaching  in   Norway. 
The  girls  of  Wellesley  are  to  have  a  field  day. 
Thompson,  '97,  visited  friends  at  the  college  last 
week. 

Brunswick  will  hear  Maconda  on  Thursday, 
May  nth. 

Jennings,  'gp,  was  called  home  last  week  by  the 
death  of  his  father. 

The  Politics  Club  had  a  shore  dinner  at  Cahill's 
on  Monday  evening. 

John  C.  Minott,  '96,  of  Augusta,  was  a  recent 
visitor  at  the  college. 

The  Junior  Class  has  engaged  the  Germania 
orchestra  for  Ivy  Day. 

Professor  Robinson's  classes  enjoyed  adjourns 
the  latter  part  of  last  week. 

Parker,  1901,  was  called  home  to  Gorham  last 
week  by  sickness  in  his  family. 

Anthoine,  1902,  went  home  last  week  to  stay 
until  he  could  get  rid  of  a  bad  cold.  He  returned 
Saturday. 

Walker,  1901,  was  in  Ellsworth  on  business, 
Wednesday  and  Thursday  of  last  week. 

The  dance  at  Bath,  Wednesday  evening,  was 
attended  by  a  number  of  Bowdoin  men. 

Pottle,'  1900,  heard  the  intercollegiate  debate  at 
Lewiston  on  Saturday  evening,  the  22d. 

F.  H.  Cowan,  1901,  has  returned  to  college 
after  an  absence  on  account  of  sickness. 

Editor  Babb  of  the  Orient  has  left  college  for 
a  few  days  to  give  his  eyes  a  rest  from  study. 

Many  of  the  students  who  live  near  Brunswick 
spent  Wednesday  and  Fast  Day  at  their  homes. 

Goodspeed,  1900,  appeared  out  of  doors  Wednes- 
day, after  suffering  about  a  week  with  the  measles. 

C.  S.  Pettengill,  '98,  superintendent  of  schools 
at  Augusta,  visited  friends  on  the  campus  last 
week. 


West,  igoo,  and  Russell,  1900,  were  guests  of 
McCormick,  1900,  at  his  home  at  Boothbay  last 
week. 

P.  S.  Hill,  1901,  has  received  an  offer  of  the 
position  of  coach  for  the  track  team  of  Cony  High 
School. 

Gould,  igoo,  is  acting  as  assistant  teacher  in  the 
Brunswick  Grammar  School  in  place  of  Kaharl,  'gg, 
resigned. 

"  Bowdoin  College  this  year  has  had  one  of  the 
finest  glee  clubs  of  any  college  in  the  country." — 
Kennebec  Journal. 

Frank  C.  Farrington,  'g4,  principal  of  the  Skow- 
hegan  Pligh  School,  was  the  guest  of  the  Zeta  Psi 
Chapter  last  week. 

R.  G.  Smith  and  W.  T.  Libby,  'gg,  spent  a  part 
of  Saturday  killing  ducks  at  Mere  Point.  They 
bagged  one  bird, 

H.  I.  Hamilton  of  Lubec,  Colby,  igoi,  was  the 
guest  of  Gray,  ig02,  on  Saturday  and  Sunday, 
April  22d  and  23d. 

Metallic  letter  boxes  have  been  placed  in  the 
lower  hall  of  the  D.  K.  E.  end  for  the  reception  of 
individual  mail  matter. 

The  second  long  themes  in  Mr.  Andrews'  course 
which  are  due  May  gth,  are  to  be  on  the  subject, 
"An  Account  of  My  College  Life." 

Captain  Godfrey  has  introduced,  as  a  novel 
event  at  the  interscholastic  field  meet  on  May  27th, 
the  throwing  of  the  discus,  something  new  in  this 
state. 

The  following  men  have  been  elected  for  the 
Junior  Prize  Speaking,  June  igth:  Babb,  Bacon, 
Burnell,  Chapman,  Lee,  McCarty,  McCormick, 
Shorey,   Sparks,  Ward,   Webber,  Whitney. 

Captain  Godfrey  of  the  track  team  again  sue 
ceeded  on  Friday  in  breaking  his  shot-putting  rec- 
ord, made  at  Worcester.  His  best  put  on  Friday 
was  39  feet. 

Professor  MacDonald  gave  one  of  his  charac- 
teristic surprises  to  the  Sophomore  history  class 
on  Tuesday,  the  25th,  by  unexpectedly  calling  in 
all  note-books. 

Robinson,  1900,  represented  Bowdoin  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  presidents  of 
the  Intercollegiate  Association  held  recently  in 
Hamilton,   N.   Y. 

Professor  Lee  is  making  a  collection  of  local 
views  for  his  stereopticon.  He  has  many  pictures 
true  to  life,  such  as  the  country  blacksmith  at  his 
work,  the  harness  maker,  and  scenes  at  town  meet- 


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23 


The  work  of  building  the  casino  at  Merrymeet- 
ing  Park  is  being  hustled  along  by  a  large  crew  of 
men.  The  park  is  more  beautiful  this  year  than 
before.  A  prosperous  season  is  anticipated  by  the 
owners. 

R.  G.  Smith,  '99,  John  Gregson,  Jr.,  1901,  and 
T.  F.  Murphy  of  the  Medical  School,  were  officials 
presiding  at  the  athletic  meet  between  the  Lewis- 
ton  and  Bath  High  schools  at  Bath  on  Friday 
evening,  April  21st. 

The  daily  newspapers  say  there  is  some  prospect 
that  Rowell,  a  former  member  of  Colby's  nine  and 
eleven,  will  enter  Bates  College  next  fall.  Mr. 
Rowell  is  an  athlete  of  ability.  He  is  a  reporter  on 
the  Lewiston  Sun  at  present. 

Professor  Lee  delivered  his  famous  Labrador 
lecture  at  Brownville  last  Friday  evening.  While 
in  Bangor  Saturday  he  was  in  consultation  with 
Senator  Engel,  discussing  plans  for  the  work  of 
the  state  topographical  survey  commission,  of 
which  Professor  Lee  is  chairman. 

The  Bowdoin  chapter  of  the  Delta  Upsilon  fra- 
ternity was  represented  at  the  meeting  in  Auburn 
last  week  for  the  formation  of  the  state  association 
of  Delta  Upsilon  alumni  by  Merritt,  '94,  Russ,  '95, 
Odiorne,  '98,  Lavertu,  '99,  Jennings,  '99,  Russell, 
1900,  West,  1900,  McCormick,  1900,  Wheeler,  1901, 
and   Dorman,    1902. 

The  schedule  of  the  Yale  foot-ball  games  re- 
cently published  gives  Saturday,  October  7th,  as 
the  date  of  the  game  with  Bates.  The  Yale  men 
have  not  had  any  great  amount  of  winter  and 
spring  practice;  but,  since  Bates  will  be  weakened 
by  the  loss  of  Saunders  and  Captain  Pulsifer,  a 
close  and  exciting  game  may  be  expected. 

Again  are  we  reminded  that  Death  has  no  ter- 
rors for  the  upright  man.  Tyler,  1901,  has  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  official  umpire  for  the  base- 
ball games  of  the  interscholastic  league  which 
includes  the  teams  representing  Lewiston,  Auburn, 
Freeport  and  other  high  schools,  and  has  already 
entered  upon  his  duties.  The  Orient  is  prepared 
for  the  worst. 

The  Politics  Club  held  a  very  pleasant  meeting 
at  New  Meadows  Inn,  Monday  evening,  April 
24th.  A  shore  supper  was  enjoyed  and  Professor 
Emery  read  an  instructive  and  interesting  paper  on 
exparision,  treating  particularly  the  economic  ques- 
tions involved.  Professor  Emery  has  the  direction 
of  the  club,  and  has  made  the  meetings  during  the 
winter-  both  enjoyable  and  profitable. 

If  the  weather  is  all  that  can  be  desired,  the 
interscholastic  athletic  meet  at  the  Whittier  field. 


on  May  27th,  will  be  the  most  largely  attended  and 
most  successful  of  any  school  meet  ever  held  in 
Maine.  Since  last  week  three  more  schools  have 
signified  their  intention  of  entering.  The  number 
of  schools  is  most  satisfactory.  The  last  three 
names  to  be  added  to  the  list  are  Westbrook  High, 
Hallowell  High,  and  Edward  Little  High  of 
Auburn. 

The  Orient  has  been  asked  to  make  announce- 
ment of  the  formation,  by  members  of  the  Class  of 
'99,  of  a  crack-a-jack  base-ball  nine,  to  be  known 
all  over  the  world  as  the  Bowdoin  Quitters.  Came 
has  been  elected  captain,  with  Philoon,  associate. 
White  will  look  after  the  bats.  Lancey  is  manager, 
but  Briggs,  he  pays  the  bills.  The  first  game  will 
be  with  a  team  from  the  Medical  School.  The 
Quitters  wish  it  known  that  they  will  positively 
not  appear  this  season  on  any  other  team. 

In  a  paragraph  regarding  the  intercollegiate 
magazine  soon  to  be  published,  the  Lewiston  Jour- 
nal, speaking  favorably  of  the  proposed  magazine 
and  its  encouragement  of  college  writers,  pays  this 
little  tribute  to  The  Quill:  "Bowdoin  is  not  wholly 
unprepared  for  such  a  move,  since  already  The 
Quill  has  been  working  in  a  good  way  for  the  same 
end,  and  it  has  done  much  to  interest  the  college 
boys  in  work  of  a  literary  nature.  Its  columns  are 
wide  open  to  the  Bowdoin  graduates,  and  some 
admirable  work  has  been  done  by  its  contributors." 
D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.,  publishers,  Boston,  an- 
nounce in  press  an  edition  of  Racine's  "Andro- 
maque,"  edited  by  Prof.  B.  W.  Wells,  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  the  South.  This  adds  another  to  the 
series  of  editions  of  classic  French  dramas  being 
brought  out  by  the  publishers,  in  order  to  put  these 
classics  before  the  public  in  the  best  modern  edit- 
ing. The  "Andromaque"  has  been,  during  the 
past  century,  far  the  most  popular  of  classic  trage- 
dies. It  demands  attention  for  its  intrinsic  merit, 
and  also  because  it  announces  a  turning-point  in 
the  life  of  the  French  drama. 

Professor  Little  has  told  the  alumni  in  letters 
recently  sent  out  that  the  Bowdoin  College  library 
desires  published  writings  of  natives  or  residents 
of  Maine,  sermons  and  addresses  delivered  in 
Maine,  church  manuals,  catalogues  of  schools  and 
academies  in  Maine;  state,  legislative  and  executive 
documents  previous  to  1840,  and  reports  of  towns, 
cities,  counties,  railroads,  societies  and  conventions 
in  Maine.  A  few  copies  of  the  college  annual  cata- 
logue for  1889-90,  1890-91,  1894-5,  1896-7  are  needed, 
as  are  also  copies  of  the  President's  report  for 
1894-5.  1896-7. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


The  second  themes  of  the  term  for  those  Soph- 
omores not  taking  Mr.  Andrews'  course  are  due  on 
Tuesday,  May  gth.  Prof.  Mitchell  has  posted  the 
following  subjects: 

1.  Preservation  of  the  Forests  of  Maine. 

2.  How  to  Learn  to  Speak  in  Public. 

3.  Recent  Changes  in  the  Orient. 

4.  The   Art   of  Time-Saving. 

5.  Hall  Caine's  "The  Christian." 

Probably  nothing  has  caused  so  much  interest- 
ing small  talk  among  college  athletes  as  the  an- 
nouncement of  the  action  of  S'cannell  and  Cushman 
of  the  Colby  nine  in  leaving  the  team  at  the  very 
beginning  of  the  season  and  striking  off  to  Con- 
necticut to  try  their  hands  at  professional  base- 
ball. The  news  was  a  general  surprise  to  all  and  a 
cjiuse  of  much  regret  to  Colby.  Scannell  has  been 
the  mainstay  of  the  Colby  foot-ball  and  base-ball 
teams  since  he  began  his  much  discussed  career 
at  the  college;  and  Cushman's  ability  was  recog- 
nized to  such  an  extent  that  he  had  been  elected 
captain  of  the  nine  for  this  season.  Colby  would 
be  unfortunate  indeed  but  for  the  fact  that  her  old 
reliable  Newenham  is  able  to  do  almost  as  effective 
work  as  a  backstop  as  he  does  in  the  pitcher's  box, 
while  Farwell,  who  will  probably  succeed  Scannell 
as  catcher  of  the  nine,  is  also  an  able  pitcher. 
Colby  is  not  discouraged.  She  deserves  our  ad- 
miration for  the  grit  she  has  shown  against  adver- 
sity in  athletics  in  this  college  year. 


D.  U.  STATE  ASSOCIATION. 
For  some  time  the  alvimni  members  of  the  Delta 
Upsilon  fraternity  have  been  meditating  the  forma- 
tion of  a  State  association  of  alumni.  The  organ- 
ization was  successfully  made  at  the  Elm  House  in 
Auburn,  Wednesday  evening.  The  following  offi- 
cers were  elected:  C.  E.  Merritt,  Auburn,  Presi- 
dent; C.  H.  Sturtevant,  Livermore  Falls,  Vice- 
President;  Harry  B.  Russ,  Portland,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer;  Rev.  G.  M.  Howe,  Lewiston,  Rev.  Dr. 
A.  T.  Dunn,  Waterville,  Dr.  W.  J.  Renwick,  Au- 
burn, executive  committee.  After  the  business 
meeting  a  sumptuous  banquet  was  enjoyed. 
Speeches  were  made  by  several  of  the  alumni  and 
imdergraduates  present.  A  good  number  of  the 
members  of  the  Bowdoin  chapter  attended,  and 
there  were  representatives  from  Colby,  Colgate, 
Amherst,  Brown  and  Union. 


'89. — At  '89's  decennial  reunion  during  Com- 
mencement week,  Frank  L.  Staples  of  Augusta  will 
be  the  orator  and  Frank  H.  Hill  of  Rockland  the 
poet. 


COLLEGE    REGULATIONS. 
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Faculty,  the  follow- 
ing regulations  were  adopted: 

1.  That,  hereafter,  any  student  who  is  absent 
from  a  term  examination  without  previous  excuse 
from  the  Faculty  s'nall  be  marked  zero,  and  that 
the  Class  Ofhcer  shall  have  power  to  suspend  the 
working  of  this  rule. 

2.  That  the  managers  of  all  the  college  organ- 
izations ;.nd  associations,  as  well  as  the  captains  of 
the  various  athletic  teams,  shall  be  excused  for 
such  time  only  as  is  granted  to  the  members  of 
these   associations   and   athletic  teams. 

3.  That  the  manager  of  the  College  Glee  Club 
shall  be  required  to  submit  all  dates  for  concerts 
and   engagements  to  the   Class  officers. 


fITHLETICS. 

BASE-BALL. 

Now  once  again  the  old,  old  tale  is  told  throughout 
the  land; 

The  dear  familiar  legend  that  a  child  could  under- 
stand; 

Where'er  the  human  ear  may  hear  the  sound  of 
human  speech. 

That  fond  tradition's  uttered  to  such  folk  as  are  in 
reach. 

Oh,  dear  old  tale!  Oh,  fond  old  tale!  This  year 
you're  just  the  same 

As  in  the  dim  years  of  the  past — the  umpire  stole 
the  game.  — Anon. 

Coach  Woodcock  arrived  Tuesday,  and  at  once 
took  charge  of  the  squad.  Already  the  team  has 
braced  up  wonderfully,  and  practice  is  sharp  and 
beneficial. 

Mike  Madden  presented  Captain  Bacon  with  a 
beautiful  bat  Wednesday  afternoon  upon  the  field, 
and  addressed  the  crowd,  prophesying  victories  and 
home  runs  in  abundance. 

Bowdoin  15,  Brunswick  4. 

Bowdoin  opened  her  season  on  Fast  Day,  April 
27th,  defeating  Brunswick  15  to  4  in  a  game  marked 
by  free  hitting  and  numerous  errors.  Bowdoin 
took  the  lead  early  in  the  game,  and  was  never 
headed. 

Pratt  pitched  for  the  first  5  innings,  and  sur- 
prised every  one  by  his  speed  and  command  of  the 
ball.  He  never  lost  his  head,  and  completely  fooled 
the  Brunswick  batters.  Traynor  was  even  a  greater 
surprise  than  Pratt.  Although  very  light,  he 
handled  his  pitchers  in  perfect  shape,  and  made  a 


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safe  hit.  He  was  injured  in  the  eighth,  but  refused 
to  leave  the  field,  and  played  the  game  out.  Libby 
went  in  to  the  box  in  the  sixth,  and  showed  his 
old-time  speed  and  curves.  Pennell-  caressed  one 
of  Pop  Williams'  outshoots  for  a  home  run,  and 
later  got  a  three-bagger  off  Patterson.  Haskell 
played  a  good  steady  game  at  second,  and  Parker 
at  third  fielded  well,  although  he  had  no  hard 
chances.  Greenlaw  made  a  beautiful  catch  of  a  long 
line  hit,  and  Wignott  pulled  down  skyscrapers. 

For  Brunswick,  Edgar,  Toothaker,  and  Bryant 
played  the  best  game.  Williams  was  hit  rather 
harder  than  was  expected,  but  he  did  not  exert  him- 
self, although  he  occasionally  would  send  one  by 
before  the  batter  saw  it.  The  team  showed  lack  ol 
team  work,  the  weakest  places  being  second  and 
shortstop,  but  it  is  made  up  of  very  good  men,  and 
with  a  little  practice  ought  to  compare  favorably 
with  any  amateur  team  in  the  state. 

The  score: 

BOWDOIN. 

AB         R         BII         PO        A  E 

Haskell,  2b 5  2  i  4  i  o 

Wignott,   m 5  i  i  2  o  o 

Bacon,  rf 6  2  2  o  o  o 

Pennell,    ib 412400 

Greenlaw,   IE 3  2  i  i  2  2 

Pratt,   p 2  o  o  I  I  o 

Libby,    p 3  i  o  o  i  o 

A.   Clarke,   ss 4  I  I  I  3  3 

Parker,  3b 4  2  I  3  3  i 

Traynor,   c 5  3  I  11  i  o 

Totals 41       15      10      27      10        6 

BRUNSWICK. 

AB         R         BH         PO         A  E 

Forsaith.   ss 4  i  i  o  2  4 

Bryant,   3b 5  i  3  o  2  o 

Toothaker,  ib 5  o  i  10  o  o 

Williams,  p 4  I  o  i  4  o 

Edgar,  c 4  i  i  8  0  2 

Patterson,  If.,  p 3  o  I  i  i  i 

Gould,   2b 4  o  o  2  2  I 

Dolan,  m 4  o  o  2  o  o 

Coffin,   rf 4  o  .0  o  o  o 

Totals 37        4        7      24      II        8 

The  Score  by  Innings. 

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Brunswick 01001020     0 —  4 

Bowdoin 10317111    X — 15 

Two-base  hit — Bacon,  Bryant.  Three-base  hit — 
Pennell,  Toothaker.  Home  run — Pennell.  Bases 
stolen — Haskell,  Wignott  2,  Pennell,  Clarke, 
Parker,  Traynor  2,  Edgar,  Patterson.  First  base 
on  balls — by  Williams  i,  by  Patterson  4,  by  Libby 
2.  Struck  out — by  Williams,  Pratt,  Parker,  Has- 
kell; by  Patterson — Clarke,  Haskell;  by  Pratt, 
Toothaker,  Patterson  2,  Gould,  Dolan,  Coffin,  Wil- 
liams; by  Libby,  Gould  2,  Coffin.  Innings  pitched 
by  Pratt  5,  by  Williams  5.  Umpire,  Flynn.  At- 
tendance, 6CK). 


PERSONALS. 

'40. — Alexander  Hamilton  Abbott,  principal  of 
"Little  Blue"  School  at  Farmington,  died  at  Farm- 
iiigton,  April  15th. 

'55. — Samuel  Spring  Gardner  died  March  24, 
1899,  at  Washington,  D.  C.  He  was  born  at 
Brewer,  Maine,  in  January,  1831.  After  graduation 
he  taught  at  Bluehill  Academy  and  in  Mt.  Pleasant 
Military  Institution  at  Sing  Sing,  N.  Y.  He  was 
a  student  at  the  Bangor  Theological  Seminary, 
where  he  graduated  in  i86i,  and  was  settled  over  a 
Congregational  church  at  Bellows  Falls,  Vt.  In 
1864  he  entered  the  army  as  chaplain,  and  remained 
in  this  service  until  1872,  when  he  accepted  a 
clerkship  in  the  Treasury  Department  in  Washing- 
ton. Here  he  remained  until  1875-76,  when  he  was 
in  charge  of  a  district  in  Alabama  as  superin- 
tendent of  freedmen's  interests.  While  in  the 
South  he  held  many  important  public  offices,  but 
after  a  few  years  returned  to  his  position  in  the 
Treasury  Department,  where  he  has  since  remained. 
In  1869  he  'married  Mrs.  Adeline  Livingston  ol 
Greenville,  Ala.,   and  has  three  children. 

Med.  '56. — Dr.  R.  G.  Jennings,  whose  death 
occurred  in  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  recently  from  pneu- 
monia, was  a  native  of  Leeds,  and  had  been  prac- 
ticing in  Little  Rock  since  the  war.  The  funeral 
services  occurred  at  the  residence,  517  West  Sixth 
Street,  Bishop  H.  N.  Pierce  officiating.  In  accord 
with  his  oft-expressed  wish  his  remains  will  be 
forwarded  to  St.   Louis  for  cremation. 

In  April,  1869,  Dr.  Jennings  married  Miss 
Gertrude  E.  Elliott  of  Camden,  Ark.  Three  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them,  viz.,  Octavia,  Orville  and 
Crews,  all  of  whom  with  his  widow  survive  him. 

Roscoe  Green  Jennings  was  born  in  Leeds,  Me., 
June  II,  1833,  of  English  ancestry,  who  settled  in 
Salem,  Mass.,  in  the  early  colonial  period.  His 
great-grandfather,  who  was  a  wealthy  man,  held  an 
office  under  King  George  III.  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Revolutionary  war  and  was  an  ardent 
advocate  of  the  English  cause,  in  consequence  of 
which  he  lost  his  lands  and  other  property  by  con- 
fiscation. Dr.  Jennings  was  reared  on  a  farm  on 
the  banks  of  the  Androscoggin  river,  attending  the 
country  school  each  winter.  When  he  had  reached 
the  age  of  17  years  he  was  given  the  charge  of  the 
village  school  at  $14  per  month.  He  attended 
school  at  Wayne  village  under  O.  O.  Howard,  who 
afterward  became  a  general  in  the  United  States 
army.  In  his  i8th  year  he  borrowed  $100  of  his 
brother  and  set  out  to  see  something  of  the  world. 
He  stopped  in  Still  Valley,  Warren  County,   Pa., 


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BOWDOIN  OEIENt. 


and  taught  a  school  of  incorrigibles  at  $ioo  per 
month.  He  determined  then  to  adopt  the  profes- 
sion of  medicine,  and  returning  to  Maine  entered 
the  office  of  Dr.  Alonzo  Garcelon  of  Lewiston. 
He  graduated  from  the  Medical  School  of  Maine 
in  1856.  Then  he  decided  to  go  West.  He  settled 
at  Lapur,  Mich.,  but  in  December,  1857,  decided 
to  go  South.  He  went  to  New  Orleans,  remaining 
there  but  a  short  time,  embarking  thence  on  a 
steamboat  for  Camden,  Ark.;  from  there  he  went 
by  stage  to  Washington,  Ark.,  where  his  eldest 
brother,  Hon.  Orville  Jennings,  resided.  He  at 
once  entered  upon  the  practice  of  medicine,  form- 
ing a  partnership  with  Dr.  B.  P.  Jett.  When  the 
Civil  War  broke  out  Dr.  Jennings  entered  the  con- 
federate army  as  surgeon  of  the  twelfth  Arkansas 
regiment.  After  the  war  he  entered  actively  into 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Little  Rock.  He 
was  appointed  surgeon-general  of  Gov.  Baxter's 
forces,  1847,  and  served  faithfully  through  the 
Brooks-Baxter  embroglio.  He  I'apidly  acquired 
reputation  and  standing,  and  built  up  a  fine  prac- 
tice. He  was  at  various  times  intimately  associated 
with  the  city,  county,  and  state  medical  organiza- 
tions, in  which  he  was  one  of  the  origmal  movers, 
and  served  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  each.  He 
was  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  Arkansas  Industrial  University  and  was 
for  a  number  of  years  secretary  of  the  Faculty. 
His  membership  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation dates  from  1869  until  two  years  ago. 

Dr.  Jennings  was  for  several  years  secretary  and 
a  member  of  the  state  board  of  health.  He  was  a 
recognized  expert  in  the  treatment  of  small-pox 
cases  and  other  contagious  diseases. 

'98. — Clarence  E.  Eaton  has  been  elected  prin- 
cipal  of  the   Waldoboro   High   School. 

The  following  appointments  of  Bowdoin  men 
have  been  made  in  the  Methodist  conferences  for 
the  coming  year: 

'71,    E.    S.   Stackpole,   Augusta. 

'94,  T.  C.   Chapman,  Cornish. 

'97,  H.  "e.  Dunnack,  West  End,  Portland. 

'87. — Austin  Cary  of  the  Class  of  '87,  the  forester 
of  the  Berlin,  N.  H.,  Timber  Company,  who  two 
years  ago  laid  out  5,000  young  pine  trees  on  the 
southern  part  of  the  Bowdoin  campus,  visited 
Brunswick  lately  to  see  what  destruction  the  fire 
which  occurred  last  summer,  had  wrought  with  his 
work.  He  found  that  the  fire  had  killed  a  great 
number  of  the  young  trees,  and  that  immediate 
work  nmst  be  undertaken  if  his  former  attempt 
was  to  be  successful.  He  has  decided  to  plant  a 
number  of  pines  to  replace  those  destroyed  by  fire, 
and  in  a.  more  open  spot  to  plant  several  hundred 


young  hemlocks,  which  in  about  five  years,  he  will 
transplant  among  the  pines.  Mr.  Cary  feels  sure 
that,  when  this  work  has  been  accomplished,  there 
need  be  no  fear  that  the  pines,  which  have  always 
made  the  campus  so  attractive,  will  ever  die  out. 
Work  will  be  begun  in  a  week  upon  this  under- 
taking. 


Y.  M.  C.  fl, 


The  social  service  of  Thursday,  April  27th,  was 
exceedingly  helpful  and  interesting.  E.  R.  Kelley, 
1902,  led  the  meeting,  introducing  the  subject, 
"Plindrances  to  Serving  Christ."  The  leader's 
remarks  were  most  timely  and  practical,  and  were 
followed  by  brief  yet  earnest  words  from  many  of 
those  ^present.  The  subject  was  one  that  can  be 
minutely  applied  to  college  life,  and  various  points 
were  suggested  and  discussed. 

Communications  received  this  week  from  the 
International  Committee,  bring  the  pleasing  intel- 
ligence that  on  May  10  and  11,  Mr.  Harry  Wade 
Hicks,  Secretary  of  the  colleges  of  the  East  and 
Canada,  will  be  with  us  to  meet  the  heads  of  the 
several  departments  and  give  them  instruction  in 
regard  to  their  work.  Mr.  Hicks  will  address  the 
whole  association  on  the  evening  of  the  nth.  This 
will  be  a  rare  opportunity  for  the  members  to  meet 
one  of  the  most  successful  Christian  workers  in  the 
colleges  of  this  country  and  Canada;  hence  much 
help  is  anticipated  from  his  visit  among  us. 

It  has  been  thought  best  to  follow  the  usual 
custom  this  spring  in  omitting  the  meeting  on 
Sunday  afternoon.  Chapel  comes  so  late  that  no 
time  is  left  for  another  service,  and  it  has  seemed 
impracticable  to  hold  it  earlier.  The  Thursday 
e^■ening  meeting,  however,  is  held  regularly,  and  a 
cordial  invitation  is  hereby  extended  to  the  student 
body  to  attend,  and  make  of  it  the  larger  spiritual 
force  which  it  might  become.  A  Bible  reading  is 
held  each  Sunday  morning  at  10  o'clock,  at  which 
new  participants  are  always  welcomed.  , 


MEDICS!! 

FOR  RENT  ^^  ^^^  Congress  Street,  PORTLAND,  ME., 
"        *      *  2    Excellent   Rooms   suitable  for  a  Doctor. 

Last  occupied  by  Dr.  O.  P.  Smith.  The  location  is  the  best  in 
the  city.  Heat  by  Steam,  Hot  and  Cold  Water  and  Gas.  Third 
room  as  a  sleeping  room  can  be  furnished. 

GEO.    R.    DAVIS. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,    MAY   10,  1899. 


No.  4. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

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Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  B.  Walker,  1901. 

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CONTENTS. 
Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  4.— May  10,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes 27 

College  News 30 

Athletics 31 

Personals 32 

Y.  M.  C.  A 3i 


There  is  one  field  of  college  literature  in 
which  Bowdoin  is  at  present  sadly  lacking; 
it  is  the  half-playful,  half-serious  verse  that 
marks  so  many  of  our  college  exchanges. 
The  Orient  urges  all  students  who  have  the 
knack  of  writing  this  characteristic  college 
verse  to  contribute  often  to  its  columns. 
Every  one  knows  how  these  humorous  verses 
brighten  the  paper,  and  as  they  reflect  the 
happier  phases  of  Bowdoin  life,  they  will 
always  find  a  welcome  in  these  pages.  It  is 
not  the  triolets,  or  classic  poems,  or  ballades, 
or  the  higher  flights  of  literary  effort  we  want 


— the  Quill  takes  care  of  those,  and  good  care, 
too — but  it  is  local  verse,  clever  parodies — so 
well  illustrated  by  the  work  of  J.  W.  Condon, 
'98,  which  is  humbler,  no  doubt,  but  not  a 
whit  less  useful  or  less  honorable. 


Whether  it  is  the  province  of  the  Orient 
to  speak  its  mind  freely  on  every  question  of 
college  policy  is  a  matter  of  opinion  and  of 
ethics.  There  is  one  abuse,  however,  that  can 
not  be  made  worse  and  may  be  made  better, 
if  more  attention  were  called  to  it.  It  is  the 
matter  of  pledging  sub-freshmen  for  the  vari- 
ous Greek-letter  fraternities,  sometimes  a 
year,  sometimes  more,  before  their  entrance 
to  college.  This  practice  is  equally  prevalent 
among  all  seven  of  our  fraternities,  and  can- 
not but  lead  to  a  measure  of  harm ;  for  it  is 
unfair  oftentimes  to  both  the  sub-freshmen 
and  the  fraternities.  In  many  other  colleges 
of  the  same  rank  and  standing  as  Bowdoin, 
there  is  a  general  understanding  that  pros- 
pective Freshmen  shall  not  be  pledged  until 
the  fall  that  they  enter  college.  The  rule 
works  well,  and  though  the  fishing  season, 
being  shorter,  is  sharper,  the  rivalry  is  none 
the  less  open  and  generous.  Thanks  to  one 
thing  and  another,  here  at  Bowdoin  the  fra- 
ternities are  on  a  better  footing  with  each 
other  than  formerly.  It  may  be  a  mere  matter 
of  personal  opinion,  but  the  Orient  ventures 
to  assert  that  if  some  definite  limit  were  put  on 
the  fishing  season — some  "closed  time" — 
there  would  be  still  more  friendliness  and 
good-fellowship. 

This  reform  has  got  to  be  brought  about 
gradually  and  with  the  consent  of  all  the  fra- 
ternities. To  many  it  seems  necessary  and 
beneficial — there  may  be  something  to  be  said 
on  the  other  side.  Bowdoin  is  different  from 
the  large  colleges;  there,  where  the  fraterni- 


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ties  are  open  to  none  below  Sophomores,  it 
would  be  folly  to  pledge  men  before  even 
beginning  Freshman  year.  Here  the  custom 
may  be  for  the  best,  but  the  Orient  thinks 
it  is  not.     What  does  the  college  think? 


The  Orient  must  again  protest  against 
the  daily  newspapers  terming  our  college 
ball  nine  "The  Bowdoins."  It  savors  too 
much  of  French  Town  and  street  arabs  and 
Chimmie  Fadden.  One  but  rarely  hears  of 
the  "Harvards"  or  the  "Yales";  and  there  is 
no  more  reason  for  the  vulgar  "Bowdoins." 
There  is  a  certain  dignity  about  matters  such 
as  these  that  the  college  as  a  whole  should 
support;  and  one  can  not  protest  too  much 
against  the  cheapening  of  Bowdoin's  name. 
The  Associated  Press  and  reputable  daily 
journals  should  know  better,  and  too  strong 
a  protest  against  such  low  down  errors  can- 
not be  filed. 


There  was  an  editorial  in  the  Orient  some 
year  and  a  half  ago  that  was  much  discussed 
at  the  time,  but  has  since  passed  out  of  notice. 
It  was  on  what  might  be  termed  "the  pass- 
ing of  the  Senior,"  and  was  a  plea  for  Senior 
management  and  direction  until  Commence- 
ment Day.  Certain  and  true  it  is  that  year 
by  year  control  of  the  branches  of  college 
interest  is  slipping  away  from  the  hands  of 
Seniors  into  those  of  lower  class-men,  and 
Senior  year  is  coming  to  mean  less  and  less 
responsibility.  The  reasons  for  this  evolution 
do  not  seem  to  warrant  it.  Several  years  ago 
a  certain  member  of  a  Senior  class  misappro- 
priated some  of  the  funds  in  his  charge  as 
manager  of  a  college  athletic  team ;  since 
that  time  it  has  been  deemed  wiser  to  -regard 
all  Seniors  as  rascals,  as  unfit  for  offices  that 
entail  responsibility  or  make  necessary  the 
rendering  of  accounts  before  graduation. 
The  motives  for  Junior  control  of  college  jour- 
nalism are  somewhat  different.  The  Seniors 
forsooth  have  too  little  time  to  give  to  any- 
thing but  Commencement  or  '68  speaking 
parts ;  make  the  Juniors  do  the  work.     Logi- 


cal !     Yes !  when  it  is  remembered  how  diffi- 
cult and  full  of  work  Senior  year  is ! 

It  is  full  time  to  cry  halt  to  this  increasing 
tendency  to  free  Seniors  of  responsibility. 
The  man  in  his  last  year  should  be  still  the 
leader,  the  controller — the  non-shirker.  Ex- 
perience should  give  him  capability,  and  ful- 
ness of  years  fitness  for  any  office  under  stu- 
dent control.  The  dignity  that  should  rest  so 
easily  on  him  is  only  another  factor  that  shows 
fitness ;  and  his  freedom  from  indifference 
ought  also  to  be  accounted.  "The  passing  of 
the  Senior!"  Is  it  occurring?  It  will  be  a 
sad  day  for  Bowdoin  when  he  has  passed. 


Collegians  the  country  over  will  be  inter- 
ested in  a  letter  to  the  New  York  Evening  Post 
on  the  subject  of  College  Commencement 
Exercises.     The  writer  says  in  part : 

"A  very  large  number  of  American  col- 
leges find  among  their  graduates  at  present 
the  lack  of  interest  in  Commencement 
speeches.  I  think  I  am  right  in  the  belief  that 
this  condition  does  not  make  a  very  favorable 
impression  upon  older  college-educated  men. 
Doubtless  some  will  be  inclined  to  look  for 
an  explanation  in  the  absurd  athletic  craze 
of  the  last  few  years,  and  it  would  be  idle  to 
deny  that  this  is  at  least  partially  responsible. 
It  seems  to  the  writer,  however,  that  our  col- 
lege presidents  and  faculties  must  bear  the 
larger  share  of  the  blame,  for  they  have  very 
generally  by  their  own  action  thrown  serious 
discredit  upon  the  part  which  the  graduating 
class  bears  in  the  Commencement  exercises. 
It  has  become  necessary,  in  the  opinion  of' 
these  authorities,  to  substitute  an  address  by 
some  great  man  for  a  part  or  all  of  the  old- 
time  graduating  orations.  The  motive  for 
this  in  most  cases  seems  to  be  the  supposed 
advertising  value  of  the  great  man,  especially 
in  the  frequent  cases  where  his  greatness  lies 
along  lines  entirely  unrelated  to  the  work  for 
which  the  college  is  founded.  Of  course,  the 
result  is,  as  the  student  themselves  would  put 
it,  to  throw  their  own  speeches  into  the  shade. 
They  are  not  practiced  orators,  experienced 


BOWDOm  ORIENT. 


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statesmen,  or  even  notorious  politicians. 
They  naturally  suppose  that  the  audience 
come  to  hear  the  star  of  the  occasion,  and  so 
they  lose  interest.  But  speeches  by  cele- 
brated men  are  becoming  so  common  that 
even  as  a  means  of  advertising  they  are  of 
very  little  value  to  the  college,  and  the  writer 
knows  of  some  cases  in  which  the  new  policy 
is  confidentially  admitted  to  be  a  disappoint- 
ment. Commencement  audiences  are  no 
larger  than  before,  and,  so  far  as  the  character 
of  the  audience  is  concerned,  what  change 
there  is,  is  to  be  deprecated  rather  than  wel- 
comed ;  for  the  personal  friends  of  the  students 
who  might  come  from  a  distance  are  kept  at 
home  by  the  knowledge  that  the  students  will 
have  no  important  place  on  the  programme, 
and  their  places  are  taken,  if  at  all,  by  per- 
sons attracted  by  mere  curiosity,  having  no 
present  or  prospective  interest  in  the  college. 
The  old-time  college  Commencement  will 
bear  restoration,  unless  there  is  some  better 
substitute  than  has  yet  been  presented." 

The  Commencements  here  at  Bowdoin 
have  been  free  from  "great  men" — except  the 
Faculty  and  the  graduates — and  are  still  of 
the  old-time  stamp.  The  audiences  are  as 
large  no  doubt  and  contain  relatively  as  many 
of"  the  friends  and  relatives  of  the  students  as 
in  the  older  days  of  1806,  when  but  seven  men 
received  their  diplomas  and  five  ladies  and 
gentlemen  came  over  a  hundred  miles  in 
stage  coaches.  But  the  fact  that  it  is  neces- 
sary for  the  Faculty  to  compel  some  twenty 
or  thirty  men  on  the  provisional  list  to  write 
Commencement  parts  shows  that  an  artificial 
barrier  has  still  to  be  set  up  to  maintain  the 
interest  of  the  student  body  in  their  intellect- 
ual part  of  Commencement  Day.  There  is 
need  of  more  stimulus — whence  it  will  come 
from  is  a  question  to  be  decided  by  the  future 
— and  the  Faculty. 


The  April  number  of  the  Quill  called  at- 
tention to  the  following  notice.  It  well  bears 
repetition : 

Circulars  are  out  announcing    the  estab- 


lishment of  a  new  literary  magazine,  The 
American,  which  will  be  devoted  to  making 
known  the  work  of  young  college  graduates 
whose  ability  is  as  yet  unrecognized  by  the 
public.  Payment  for  accepted  contributions 
will  be  in  advance.  The  editors  will  be 
George  S.  Hellman  and  William  A.  Bradley, 
both  of  the  Class  of  '99  of  Columbia,  and  at 
present  editors  respectively  of  the  Columbia 
Literary  Monthly  and  the  Morningside. 


The  popularity  of  the  lecture  course  of  last 
winter  is  witness  to  its  worth  and  value.  No 
better  gift  could  at  the  present  day  be  be- 
stowed on  the  college  by  a  devoted  alumnus 
than  a  fund  whose  income  would  be  suffi- 
ciently large  to  pay  for  half  a  dozen  lectures 
by  prominent  men  during  the  collegiate  year. 
One  of  the  advantages  of  the  larger  universi- 
ties is  the  opportunity  so  freely  afforded  of 
attending  lectures  on  all  varieties  of  subjects. 
The  ablest  of  French  critics  addresses  their 
"Cules  Francais";  professors  fresh  from  Ger- 
many meet  their  Deutscher  Verein ;  the  most 
eminent  specialists  in  every  branch  are  easily 
induced  to  discuss  before  the  various  clubs 
matters  of  special,  technical  difference.  With 
us  it  is  so  different.  We  are  not  pretentious, 
over-exacting.  But  it  would  be  such  an  ad- 
vantage to  have  the  means  of  procuring  lect- 
ures from  men  of  note — an  advantage  of 
which  the  students  would  quickly  avail  them- 
selves. That  has  been  shown  again  and 
again. 

The  college  did  its  best  last  winter  to  fur- 
nish an  interesting  course  and  it  succeeded 
admirably.  Now  that  the  custom  has  been 
established,  will  not  some  wealthy  alumnus 
step  forth,  dive  his  hand  deep  in  his  pocket, 
and  give  the  means  wherewithal  we  may  go 
our  way  rejoicing? 


The  McMaster  University  Monthly  of  To- 
ronto quotes  the  lately  published  editorial  in 
a  New  York  paper  on  the  Bowdoin  system  of 
personal  instruction,  and  contains  some  poems 
taken  from  the  QuilL 


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BOWDOlN  ORIENT. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


The  Quill  Prize  contest  comes  off  next  month. 

Rowell,  formerly  of  Colby,  has  entered  Bates 
and  joined  the  college  nine. 

Paul  S.  Hill,  'oi,  is  coaching  the  Coney  High 
School  track  athletic  team  at  Augusta. 

Laferriere  left  college  Saturday  to  coach  Thorn- 
ton Academy  for  the  Interscholastic  meet. 

Quinn-,  'oi,  has  returned  to  college  after  a  week 
spent  at  his  home  in  Bangor  on  account  of  illness. 

Clarke,  'oi,  has  been  released  from  his  quaran- 
tine due  to  an  attack  of  scarlet  fever,  and  is  at 
work  again. 

The  Brunswick  High  School  gave  a  dance  in 
the  court  room  Tuesday  evening.  May  2d.  Quite 
a  number  of  the  students  attended. 

A  complimentary  notice  of  considerable  length 
was  given  recently  by  the  Kennebec  Journal  to  "The 
Bowdoin  Waltzes"  and  their  composer. 

There  is  a  new  society  being  started.  Most  of 
the  men  are  initiated  near  the  post-office. 

The  Quill  Board  had  their  monthly  meeting  and 
spread  at  Stackpole's  room  last  Thursday. 

S.  M.  Hamlin,  1900,  and  Goodspeed,  igoo, 
caught  a  pretty  string  of  fifty  or  more  trout  on 
Saturday,  in  a  brook  a  few  miles  out  of  town. 

Professor  Little  started  May  2d  for  Atlanta,  Ga., 
to  deliver  an  address  before  the  American  Library 
Association.     He  will  be  gone  about  ten  days. 

The  members  of  the  base-ball  team  were  given 
a  hearty  send-off  by  their  friends  at  the  station 
Friday  when  the  nine  departed  for  Bangor  to  play 
the  U.  of  M.  team. 

A  party  of  five,  including  Smith  and  Topliff, 
'99,  Gregson  and  Quinn,  1901,  and  Webb,  1902, 
spent  Sunday  at  the  summer  home  of  Gregson  on 
Macmahan's  Island. 

The  Golf  Club  held  a  meeting  in  Professor 
Mitchell's  room  Friday  at  5  o'clock.  It  will  be 
impossible  to  obtain  links  at  Merrymeeting  Park, 
and  the  same  ones  will  be  used  as  last  year. 

The  annual  base -ball  game  between  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  team  and  that  representing  the  Delta  Upsilon 
Chapter  was  played  on  the  delta  Wednesday  after- 
noon. The  Association  team  won  with  the  score 
23  to  15. 

Newenham  has  been  elected  captain  of  the 
Colby  nine  to  succeed  Cushman.  The  new  captain 
has  been  fitly  chosen.  Newenham  knows  the 
game.  He  is  one  of  the  coolest  men  that  ever 
pitched  for  a  coHege  team. 


Beane,  1900,  Hayden,  '02,  and  Wing,  '02,  spent 
the  greater  part  of  week  before  last  at  North  Anson, 
where  they  went  to  attend  the  annual  alumni  recep- 
tion and  ball  of  Anson  Academy.  At  North  Anson 
they  were  joined  by  H.  E.  Marston,  '99.  They 
report  a  very  enjoyable  time. 

"Nate"  Pulsifer,  captain  of  the  Bates  eleven 
last  fall  and  of  the  Bates  nine  this  season,  will  play 
on  the  Portland  team  of  the  New  England  league 
this  year.  Pulsifer  will  probably  play  in  the  out- 
field. Besides  being  a  clever  fielder,  he  is  a  fairly 
good  pitcher  and  a  strong  batter. 

The  subjects  for  the  second  themes  due  Tues- 
day, May  gth,  are: 

Preservation  of  the   Forests  of  Maine. 

How  to  Learn  to  Speak  in  Public. 

Recent  Changes  in  the  Orient. 

The  Art  of  Time-Saving. 

Hall  Caine's  "The  Christian." 

Dr.  William  M.  Richards,  with  Mrs.  Richards, 
left  Brunswick  Wednesday  afternoon  for  New 
York,  whither  he  was  called  by  his  duties  as  a 
physician.  He  was  unable  to  say  with  certainty 
when  he  could  return  to  Bowdoin  to  resume  his 
coaching  of  the  track  team.  There  is  some  prob- 
ability that  another  coach  will  have  to  be  secured. 

Wednesday  afternoon  some  good  races  were 
seen  by  visitors  to  the  Whittier  athletic  field.  The 
track  men  were  out  for  trials  under  Dr.  Richards' 
direction.  The  weather  was  not  satisfactory  and 
the  track  was  slow  so  that  no  fast  time  was  made. 
Wheeler,  '01,  had  a  short  lead  on  Sinkinson,"  '99, 
at  the  finish  of  the  mile  run.  Edwards,  1900,  won 
the  100  yards  dash,  Cloudman  the  220.  Hamlin 
beat  Small  in  the  two-mile  bicycle  race.  Hunt, 
'02,  did  not  participate  in  the  trials. 

Parts  to  be  offered  in  the  competition  for  the 
Senior  Prizes  in  English  Composition  may  be  left 
at  No.  3  Memorial  Hall,  at  5  p.m.,  on  Wednesday, 
June  7th.  There  are  no  restrictions  as  to  length 
or  subject  of  parts.  But  no  part  is  accepted  for 
which  credit  has  been  given  in  college  work,  or 
which  has  been,  or  is  to  be,  offered  in  any  other 
competition  for  a  college  prize;  that  is,  a  theme  or 
thesis  upon  which  a  student  has  been  ranked,  a  '68, 
Pray,  or  Commencement  Part  is  not  admissible. 
Parts,  however,  written  by  men  on  the  provisional 
list  of  Commencement  speakers,  but  not  chosen 
to  be  presented  on  Commencement  Day  may  be 
offered  in  this  competition.  Each  writer  is  to  sign 
his  part  with  a  fictitious  name  and  pass  in  with  the 
part  an  envelope  bearing  on  the  outside  the  name 
under  which  he  has  written,  and  containing,  within 
his  real  name. 


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flTHLETICS. 


TENNIS. 


This  spring  has  brought  about  an  increased  in- 
terest in  tennis  at  Bowdoin.  In  the  past  years 
Bowdoin  has  made  a  reputation  in  this  sport  which 
it  will  be  hard  to  maintain,  but  with  the  number 
of  men  now  playing  it  is  safe  to  predict  that  this 
year  the  college  will  be  represented  by  men  who  will 
not  only  make  a  strong  stand  in  the  state  intercol- 
legiate tournament  which  is  to  be  held  in  Bruns- 
wick, June  5,  6  and  7,  but  also  in  the  dual  tourna- 
ment to  be  played  with  the  University  of  Vermont 
at  Burlington,  May  31,  June  i  and  2.  This  send- 
ing of  a  tennis  team  to  compete  outside  of  the  state 
is  a  venture  which  it  is  hoped  will  meet  with  the 
approval  of  the  students  and  the  alumni.  It  will 
necessitate  a  larger  subscription  from  the  students 
to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  trip  than  those  of 
former  years,  but  the  Association  feels  that  all  will 
contribute  to  make  this  departure  a  success.  The 
Vermont  team  will  consist  of  four  men,  who  will 
be  chosen  after  the  playing  of  the  college  tourna- 
ment which  is  now  well  under  way. 

The  entries  in  the  singles  are  as  follows:  Bragg 
'01,  Kelley  '99,  Moulton  '99,  Webber  Sp.,  Merrill 
'99,  Sills  '01,  Veazie  '99,  Flint  '01,  Cobb  '02,  Stan- 
wood  '02,  Marsh  '99,  Smith  '01,  Came  '99,  Pulsifer 
'99,  L.  L.  Cleaves  '99,  Fogg  '99,  West  '00,  Dana 
'01,  Sanborn  Med.,  Shorey  '00,  Gibson  '02,  Randall 
'99,  Hunt  '02,  Short  '01,  R.  S.  Cleaves  '99,  Dana 
'99,  White  '99,  Larrabee  Med.,  Snow  '01,  Briggs  '99, 
and  Hills  '99. 

In  doubles  the  following  teams  have  entered: 
Marsh  '99  and  Sills  '01,  Moulton  '99  and  Randall 
'99,  Came  '99  and  Kelley  '99,  Dana  '99  and  Dana 
'01,  Smith  '01  and  Flint  '01,  Marston  '99  and  Towle 
'99,  Snow  '01  and  Webber  Sp.,  Sanborn  Med.  and 
Larrabee  Med.,  L.  L.  Cleaves  '99  and  Merrill  '99, 
Wood  '00  and  Bell  '00,  Leighton  '01  and  Berry  '01, 
West  'go  and  Fogg  '99,  Nelson  '99  and  Neagle  '99. 

BASE-BALL. 
Cambridge  4,  Bowdoin  3. 

Bowdoin  lost  to  the  Cambridge  nine  of  the  N. 
E.  league  at  Charles  River  Park  on  Tuesday,  May 
2d,  in  a  close  ten-inning  game.  Cambridge  has  a 
team  of  good  men,  although  the  team  work  is  not 
highly  developed.  .The  only  error  of  the  game  was 
a  low  throw  to  second  by  Pratt.  Pratt  pitched  a 
good   game,   holding   his   opponents   to   nine   hits, 


but  Bowdoin  failed  to  hit  at  critical  points  and  did 
some     stupid     base-running.     A.     W.     Clarke     and 
Wignott  led  at  the  bat,  each  getting  three  hits. 
Attendance  300.     The  score: 

CAMBRIDGE. 

BH         PO         A  E 

Ritchie,   m o  2  o  o 

Zaeder,    i i  11  o  0 

Glenn,    s 2  3  3  o 

Curtis,   c I  8  3  o 

Murphy,   3 i  i  3  o 

Long,   2 I  4  o  o 

Richardson,    i .- i  i  o  0 

Fallen,   r o  o  o  o 

Gallagher,    p 2  o  4  o 

Totals 9      30      13        o 

BOWDOIN    COLLEGE. 

BH         PO         A  E 

Haskell,   2 i  o  i  o 

Wignott,    1 3  0'  o  o 

Bacon,    r o  3  o  o 

Pennell,    i o  8  i  o 

Greenlaw,    m i  o  i  o 

Pratt,    p I  o  3  I 

Clark,   s 3  5  o  o 

Turner,    c l  8  I  o 

Parker,   3 o  2  2  o 

Pottle,   3 o  I  I  0 

Totals ID     *27        8        I 

♦Winning  run  made  with  no  one  out. 

Innings I     23456789  10 

Cambridge o    o    o     o    2     o     0     i     o     i — 4 

Bowdoin    College.    020000001     o — 3 

Runs  made — by  Ritchie,  Zaeder  2,  Gallagher, 
Pennell,  Pratt,  Clark.  Two-base  hits — Glenn,  Clark. 
Three-base  hit — Clark.  Stolen  bases — Ritchie, 
Long,  Gallagher  2,  Wignott,  Pennell.  Base  on 
balls — by  Pratt  5,  by  Gallagher  2.  Struck  .out — by 
Gallagher  5,  by  Pratt  7.  Double  play — Pottle  to 
Pennell.  Hit  by  pitched  ball — Pennell,  Gallagher, 
Ritchie.     Umpire — Wm.   Long.     Time — ^2h.   lom. 

Bowdoin  6,  U.  of  M.  2. 
Bowdoin's  first  league  game  was  with  U.  of  M. 
Saturday,  the  sixth,  at  Orono.  The  game  was  very 
close  until  the  seventh  inning  when  Bowdoin 
bunched  hits  and  scored  four  runs.  Pratt  held  his 
opponents  down  to  four  hits  and  fielded  his  posi- 
tion in  good  shape.  Carr,  the  U.  of  M.  second 
baseman,  accepted  eleven  chances  without  an  error. 
Clarke  kept  up  his  good  work  with  the  bat,  getting 
tour  hits.  In  the  seventh  inning  Capt.  Bacon  dis- 
located his  shoulder  while  sliding  to  first.  His  in- 
jury was  a  painful  one,  but  his  arm  will  probably 
be  all  right  in  a  week  or  two.  The  attendance 
broke  the  record  for  the  U.  of  M.  grounds. 


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The  score: 

BOWDOIN. 

BH         PO         A  E 

Haskell,   2 0  o  i  o 

Wignott,   c o  8  o  o 

Bacon,    m 3  2  o  o 

I-ibby,   m o  o  o  o 

Pennell,    i 2  9  o  o 

Greenlaw,    i o  2  o  0 

Clarke,   s 4  2  5  i 

Pratt,   p I  I  4  o 

Parker,   3 I  i  o  i 

Turner,   r o  2  o  o 

Totals II      27      10        2 

U.   OF  M. 

BII         PO        A  E 

Pretto,   s o  o  o  i 

Palmer,    i o  10  o  i 

Crockett,   r o  o  0  i 

Lurrey,   3 o  i  i  i 

Webb,    1 o  I  o  o 

Clark,   c i  7  i  2 

I-iverniore,    m 2  2  o  0 

*Davis 0000 

Carr,  2 o  5  6  o 

Cushman,   p i  i  2  i 

Totals 4      27      10        7 

*Davis  batted  for  Livermore  in  ninth. 

Innings i     2     3    4    5    6     7    8     9 

Bowdoin 00001040     I — 6 

U.  of  M o    o     I     o    o    0    o    o     I — 2 

Runs  made — by  Bacon,  Libby,  Pennell,  Green- 
law, Clarke  2,  Cushman,  Davis.  Three-base  hit — 
Bacon.  Stolen  bases — Turner,  Clarke  2,  Palmer, 
Clark  2.  Base  on  balls — Cushman  2.  Struck  out 
— by  Pratt  6.  by  Cushman  7.  Hit  by  pitched  ball — 
Palmer,  Pratt,  Turner.  Wild  pitch — Cushman. 
Passed  balls — Clark.  Umpire — Flavrin  of  Port- 
land.    Time — 2h.  lom. 

Harvard  9,  Bowdoin  i. 

Harvard  defeated  Bowdoin  on  Soldiers'  Field 
Wednesday,  May  3d,  in  a  game  disappointing  from 
a  Bowdoin  point  of  view.  The  inability  of  Bow- 
doin to  hit  Morse,  who  is  considered  to  be  Harv- 
ard's best  pitcher,  would  have  lost  the  game,  but 
at  least  six  of  Harvard's  runs  could  have  been  pre- 
vented by  sharp  fielding.  Bowdoin's  errors  were 
not  due  to  stage  fright  nor  were  the  men  rattled; 
lack  of  practice  was  the  principal  cause.  Libby 
pitched  a  magnificent  game,  not  giving  a  base  on 
balls,  and  keeping  Harvard's  eight  hits  well  scat- 
tered. Morse  also  was  in  fine  form,  and  when  he 
put  it  over,  the  Bowdoin  batters  were  unable  to 
touch  him. 

Bowdoin's  only  run  came  in  the  first.  After 
Haskell  had  struck  out,  Wignott  got  to  second  on 
a  wild  throw,  made  a  beautiful  steal  of  third  and 
came  home  on  a  wild  pitch.  Harvard  also  scored  in 
this  inning  on  hits  by  Reed  and  Clark.  In  the 
fourth  came  two  more  runs  on  hits  by  Finke  and 
Sears  and  a  wild  throw.    Harvard  got  two  more 


in  the  fifth  on  hits  by  Finke  and  Clark  and  three 
errors,  and  four  more  men  crossed  the  plate  in  the 
eighth  after  a  scratch  hit  by  Goodrich  and  Capt. 
Haughton's  home  run. 

Attendance  450.     The  score: 

HARVARD. 

AB         BH      PO        A  E 

Loughlin,    cf 5  o  i  o  q 

Goodrich,    i 4  o  7  o  q 

Lewis,    I I  I  I  o  o 

Raid,   c ... 5  I  10  I  o 

Haughton,  2 5  i  3  3  o 

Clark,   3 5  3  2  o  0 

Fincke,   s 4  i  o  2  i 

Dibblee,   r 3  o  o  o  i 

Sears,   1 3  i  3  q  o 

Morse,   p 4  o  o  i  o 

Totals 39        8      27        7        2 

BOWDOIN. 

AB         BH      PO        A  E 

Haskell,  2 4  o  5  i  3 

Wignott,    c 4  o  4  o  o 

Bacon,   cf 4  i  3  o  i 

Pennell,    i 3  o  7  o  2 

Greenlaw,   1 2  o  3  o  o 

Clark,    s 3  2  i  i  2 

Pottle,   r 3  o  o  o  i 

Parker,   3 3  o  i  5  i 

Libby,    p 3  o  o  3  o 

Totals 29        3      24      ID      10 

Innings 123456789 

Harvard 10022004      — 9 

Bowdoin looooooo    0 — i 

Runs  made — Loughlin,  Reid  (2),  Haughton  (2), 
Clark,  Finke,  Sears  (2),  Wignott.  Earned  runs — 
Harvard  3.  Three-base  hit — Sears.  Home  run — 
Haughton.  Stolen  bases — Dibblee,  Reid,  Clark, 
Sears,  Loughlin,  Wignott,  Bacon.  First  base  on 
balls — By  Morse  3.  Struck  out — By  Morse  8;  by 
Libby  4.  Wild  pitch — Morse.  Hit  by  pitched  ball 
— Dibblee.    Time — 2h.   20m.   Umpire — Toby  Lyons. 


PERSONflLS. 

'50. — A  large  congregation  was  present  in  the 
Shepard  Memorial  Church,  Cambridge,  Tuesday 
evening,  April  26th,  to  hear  Gen.  O.  O.  Howard 
deliver  an  address  on  the  needs  of  better  educa- 
tional facilities  in  the  South.  The  foundation  of 
Lincoln  Memorial  University  at  Cumberland  Gap, 
Tennessee,  an  enlargement  of  the  Harrow  School, 
now  situated  there,  was  the  particular  subject  of 
Gen.  Howard's  remarks.  He  spoke  on  the  great 
needs  of  an  institution  there  taking  up  a  more 
advanced  line  of  learning  than  at  present.  There 
are  now  three  departments,  academic,  normal  and 
industrial,  in  the  school,  and  it  is  hoped  in  the  near 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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future  that  many  more  may  be  added.  The  people 
there  are  loyal  and  anxious  to  attend  schools  and 
colleges. 

'60. — Of  the  many  tributes  paid  to  Speaker 
Reed  this  is  characteristic,  and  interesting,  more- 
over, as  it  comes  from  the  camp  of  the  enemy: 

Champ  Clark,  when  he  has  a  breathing  spell 
now  and  then  between  dodging  indications  of  pros- 
perity and  chasing  octopuses,  not  infrequently  gets 
off  a  good  thing.  He  paid  this  tribute  to  Speaker 
Reed,  in  a  letter  to  the  Jefferson  City  Tribune,  the 
other  day: 

"Thomas  Brackett  Reed  of  Maine,  taken  in  all, 
was  the  most  remarkable  character  in  Congress. 
With  the  single  exception  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher, 
I  regard  Mr.  Reed  as  the  most  brilliant  man  I  ever 
saw,  and  I  am  not  certain  that  even  Beecher  ought 
to  be  excepted. 

"Reed  is  a  big  man  all  over  and  in  every  way. 
He  is  a  giant  both  physically  and  mentally.  He 
has  a  large,  massive,  shapely  head  and  inside  that 
skull  there  are  as  much  brains  as  any  man  of  this 
generation  carries  about  on  his  shoulders.  His 
tongue  is  a  two-edged  sword,  and  he  has  perhaps 
indulged  in  more  sarcasm  than  any  other  man  that 
ever  served  in  Congress  except  John  Randolph  of 
Roanoke.  In  addition  to  being  the  most  sarcastic 
man  in  public  life,  Mr.  Reed  is  what  Randolph 
most  assuredly  was  not,  and  that  is  a  humorist  of 
the  first  rank — a  quality  which  greatly  tempers  his 
sarcasm.  A  compilation  of  his  witticisms,  humor 
and  sarcasm   would   make    quite   a   readable   book. 

"  But  Mr.  Reed  is  more  than  all  this.  He  is  a 
scholar  of  reading  and  a  philosopher  of  great  in- 
genuity. One  of  the  most  interesting  and  philo- 
sophical articles  I  ever  read  in  my  life  was  one 
contribured  by  him  to  a  magazine  under  the  queer 
title,  'The  Conquest  of  Fear.'  After  reading  it 
twice,  I  asked  him  how  he  ever  thought  of  the  sub- 
ject. He  said  that  it  came  to  him  by  witnessing  a 
horse  work  himself  into  an  agony  of  fear  at  seeing 
nothing  more  dangerous  than  a  white  post  on  a 
sandy  beach.  It  is  strange  to  me  that  the  news- 
papers have  not  copied  and  exploited  that  article. 
The  most  philosophical  disquisition  on  govern- 
ment that  I  ever  listened  to  he  delivered  to  me 
once,  without  another  soul  within  earshot,  while 
he  was  sitting  in  the  speaker's  chair,  and  while  some 
statesman  was  delivering  a  set  speech.  He  did  it 
for  mental  recreation — to  relieve  his  mind.  I  have 
often  regretted  that  I  am  not  a  stenographer  so 
that  I  could  have  taken  down  verbatim  that  ex- 
quisite monologue — for  that  is  precisely  what  it 
was,  not  a  conversation,  but  a  monologue — on  the 
social  relations  and  upon  human  government.  It 
would  have  made  a  splendid  contribution  to  polit- 
ical and  philosophical  literature  if  printed  just  as 
it  fell  from  his  lips  without  changing  a  word  or  a 
syllable." 

'61. — Rev.  Edwin  Smith  has  accepted  a  call  to  the 
pastorate  of  the  Congregational  Church,  Ballard- 
vale,  Andover,  Mass.  He  has  been  pastor  at  Bed- 
ford, Mass.,  for  a  number  of  years. 

'64. — Dr.  Charles  Jewett,  professor  of  obstetrics 
and  pediatrics   at  the    Long   Island   College    Hos- 


pital, Brooklyn,  has  been  appointed  by  the  trus- 
tees of  that  institution  to  be  president  of  the  Fac- 
ulty. Dr.  Jewett  was  born  in  Bath,  Me.,  in  1842, 
and  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1864. 

'76. — Among  the  many  congressional  candidates 
for  the  First  District  is  mentioned  Frank  Conant- 
Payson,  Esq.,  of  Portland.  He  was  born  in  1856 
in  Portland,  educated  in  the  Portland  schools  and 
at  Bowdoin  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1896.  He  entered  the  law  and  practiced  in  Port- 
land, where  he  is  now  one  of  the  leading  attorneys. 
He  is  President  of  the  Portland  Golf  Club  and 
holds  may  other  prominent  positions. 

'77. — Hon.  William  T.  Cobb  of  Rockland  has 
been  placed  in  nomination  for  the  position  of 
member  of  the  board  of  overseers  of  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, for  an  existing  vacancy. 

M.  '77. — In  a  recent  issue  the  St.  Louis  Globe- 
Democrat  published  the  following  regarding  a 
prominent  Augusta  citizen  and  his  wife: 

Local  interest  attaches  to  a  late  piece  of  polit- 
cal  gossip  from  the  State  of  Maine,  because  of  the 
fact  that  the  man  who  is  regarded  as  almost  cer- 
tain to  be  the  next  Governor  of  the  Pine  Tree 
State,  married  a  St.  Louis  lady  and  is  well  known 
in  this  city.  An  article  in  the  Boston  Herald  states 
that  the  Republican  nomination  for  Governor  of 
Maine  is  almost  certain  to  go  to  Dr.  John  F.  Hill 
of  Augusta.  Dr.  Hill  will  be  remembered  for  a 
recent  visit  he  made  to  this  city  with  his  wife, 
formerly  Mrs.  Hiram  Liggett,  a  member  of  one  of 
St.   Louis'   most  prominent  families. 

Dr.  Hill  is  remembered  here  as  a  well-built, 
handsome  man,  of  40  odd  years,  and  has  stood  high 
in  his  party  at  home  for  years,  having  served  in 
both  branches  of  the  Maine  Legislature.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  publishing  firm  of  Vickery  &  Hill 
of  Augusta,  and  has  amassed  a  large  fortune.  He 
was  married  to  Mrs.  Liggett  about  two  years  ago, 
and  the  latter  is  said  to  have  entered  with  interest 
into  her  husband's  political  aspirations. 

The  article  in  the  Herald  refers  to  the  present 
Mrs.  Hill  as  "a  very  charming  woman,  who  has 
thoroughly  endeared  herself  to  the  people  of  Au- 
gusta and  of  the  state.  Her  acquaintances  assert 
that  in  her  the  ne.xt  Governor  will  find  a  source  of 
great  strength  in  his  official  life  from  every  stand- 
point, especially  in  the  matter  of  holding  official 
and  social  functions."" 

The  Hills  occupy  the  famous  James  G.  Blaine 
mansion  at  Augusta.  Six  years  ago  an  attempt  on 
the  part  of  the  Legislature  to  buy  this  property, 
with  a  view  to  making  it  an  executive  mansion, 
failed  through  lack  of  satisfactory  negotiations 
with  Mrs.  Blaine.  Two  years  ago  Dr.  Hill  secured 
a  long  lease  of  the  estate,  Mrs.  Blaine  being  unwill- 
ing to  sell.  From  present  indications  the  place 
will  yet  be  a  "  Governor's  mansion,"  in  spite  of 
legislative  failure  to  secure  it  for  that  purpose. 
The  home  life  of  the  Hills  is  said  to  be  most  happy. 
The  family,  when  complete,  includes  the  doctor 
and  his  wife,  a  son  by  his  first  wife,  Percy,  17  years 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


of  age,  who  is  now  fitting  for  Princeton  at  a  New 
Jersey  academy;  and  another  boy,  the  13-year-old 
son  of  Mrs.  Hill,  who  is  now  at  St.  Mark's  Mili- 
tary School,  Southboro,  Mass. 

In  the  roomy  old  mansion  the  doctor  and  his 
wife. entertain  their  friends  from  all  over  the  state, 
and  both  host  and  hostess  are  everywhere  credited 
with  being  the  most  delightful  entertainers.  Dur- 
ing the  present  month  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Hill  have  been 
in  St.  Louis  on  a  pleasure  trip. 

'87. — Dr.  C.  F.  Moulton  of  Roxbury,  Mass.,  has 
been  ill  in  a  hospital  in  Boston  for  nearly  a  year. 
His  disease  was  recently  diagnosed  as  tuberculosis 
of  the  spine. 

'94. — Rupert  H.  Baxter,  accompanied  by  his 
brother,  Percival  P.  Baxter,  '98,  sailed  four  weeks 
ago  for  Florence,  Italy,  summoned  there  by  the 
severe  illness  of  a  relative. 

'98. — Principal  D.  L.  Wormwood  is  preparing 
a  History  of  the  Machias  High  School. 


Y.  M.  C.  f\. 


Committees  to  have  charge  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work  at  the  college  have  been  chosen  as  follows: 
On  new  students,  West  1900,  Bragdon  igoo,  Hig- 
gins,  Med.,  F.  H.  Cowan  1901,  Flye  1902;  on 
religious  meetings,  Beadle  igoo,  Atherton,  Wymarv 
igoi,  E.  R.  Kelley  1902;  on  hand-book,  Larrabee 
1901,  Burnell  1900,  Lewis  igoi,  Blake  igo2,  Cous- 
ens  1902;  on  finance,  Russell  igoo,  Clough  igoo, 
Hayden  igo2;  on  social  events.  Ward  1900,  McCor- 
mick  igoo,  S.  M.  Hamlin  1900,  and  Anthoine  1902. 
The  first-named  on  each  committee  is  the  chair- 
man of  that  committee. 

The  subject  of  the  Thursday  evening  meeting  on 
May  4th  was  "What  Teachings  of  Christ  Seem  to 
You  the  Most  Wonderful?"  Higgins  of  the  Medi- 
cal School  led  the  service,  opening  it  by  some 
earnest  words  on  the  teachings  in  regard  to  the 
Holy  Spirit.  It  is  very  gratifying  to  have  co- 
operation in  our  work  from  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment, and  it  is  hoped  that  more  efifort  may  be  made 
in  this  line,  both  for  our  own  benefit  and  that  of 
the  students  in  this  department. 

For  some  time  past  tliere  has  been  a  movement 
on  foot  among  the  associations  of  the  principal 
colleges  of  the  east,  to  provide  one  another  with 
diagrams  of  the  foot-ball  games  played  on  the  home 
grounds  next  fall.  These  diagrams  are  to  be  in 
the  form  of  hektograph  plots,  similar  to  those  which 
appear  in  the  newspapers  the  morning  after  the 
great  games.  These  plots  are  so  made  that  each 
play  in  the  game    is    plainly    marked  out  and  by 


studying  it  one  can  see  just  how  the  game  was 
played,  who  made  the  long  runs,  at  what  points 
punts  were  made,  etc.  The  idea  is  to  form  a  union 
of  fifty  colleges  which  belong  to  the  International 
Christian  Association,  and  when  any  game  is 
played  on  the  home  grounds,  the  whole  game  will 
be  plotted,  fifty  hektograph  copies  taken  and  one 
mailed  to  each  of  the  other  forty-nine  colleges,  so 
that  the  morning  after  each  important  game  we 
should  receive  the  plot  of  each  half,  carefully 
marked  in  two  colors  so  that  the  plays  can  be  ac- 
curately traced. 

If  the  scheme  is  a  success  the  union  will  include 
Yale,  Harvard,  Cornell,  U.  of  P.,  West  Point  and 
the  other  large  colleges  of  the  country.  No  defin- 
ite action  has  as  yet  been  taken  by  the  Bowdoin 
Association,  but  it  is  thought  of  favorably  by  those 
who  have  seen  the  sample  plots  and,  if  the  union 
is  made,  the  Christian  Association  will  doubtless 
join  with  the  other  colleges  in  thus  co-operating 
with  the  athletic  interests  of  the  college. 

As  the  spring  term  begins  to  draw  in  the  direc- 
tion of  its  close,  the  religious  students  turn  their 
attention  to  the  summer  conferences.  Many  col- 
leges have  found  in  these  summer  meetings  that 
which  they  lacked  to  make  them  strong  spiritually, 
and  many  men  have  there  come  to  a  realization  of 
their  powers  and  duty  as  regards  their  life-work. 
The  conference  at  Northfield  being  the  nearest  to 
Bowdoin  is  the  one  to  which  our  attention  is 
called.  It  is  hoped  that  our  college  may  be  well 
represented  this  year,  by  men  who  will  go  with 
the  determination  to  learn  practical  methods,  and 
get  a  comprehensive  idea  of  what  it  means  to  be 
a  worker  for  the  best  interests  of  their  fellow-men. 


AND   THE    HAMMOCK   SWUNG    ON. 
"A  is  the  maid  of  winning  charm, 
B  is  the  snug,  encircling  arm. 
How  many  times  is  A  in  B?" 
He  questioned  calculatively. 
She  flushed,  and  said,  with  air  sedate, 
"It's  not  quite  clear;  please  demonstrate." 
— Hamilton  Literary  Monthly. 


MEDICS!! 


2  Excellent  Rooms  suitable  for  a  Doctor. 
Last  occupied  by  Dr.  O.  P.  Smitli.  The  location  is  the  best  in 
the  city.  Heat  by  Steam,  Hot  and  Cold  Water  and  Gas.  Third 
room  as  a  sleeping  room  can  be  furnished. 

GEO.   E.   DAVIS. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,    MAY   18,   1^ 


No.  5. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PnELISHED     EVERY    THURSDAY    DURING   THE    COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS  OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babb,  1000,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

ISLAY  P.  McCoRMiCK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCartt,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  5.— May  18,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes 35 

Notices 36 

College  News 37 

Athletics 39 

Personals 42 

Y.  M.  C.  A.    .     - i2 

This  year,  evidently,  marks  the  permanent 
adoption  of  "clubs"  as  a  means  of  subordin- 
ating to  the  various  branches  of  study  a  social 
and  informal  discussion  of  the  subjects 
treated,  necessarily,  rather  generally  in  the 
class-room.  The  Orient  has  sung  contin- 
ually the  praises  of  such  a  custom,  and  cov- 
eted the  success  and  benefit  enjoyed  by  sister 
institutions  who  have  become  acquainted  with 
this  system  of  auxiliary  study ;  and  that  Bow- 
doin  has  now  entered  this  honorable  list  of 
aspirants  after  knowledge  is  a  good  sign  of 
her  progressiveness. 


There  have  been  five  clubs  organized  this 
present  year, — Government  Club,  Philosophy 
Club,  Political  Economy  Club,  Current  His- 
tory Club,  and  Classical  Club.  These  report 
an  unusual  degree  of  interest  for  the  short 
space  of  their  existence ;  and,  especially, 
held  most  active  meetings  to  the  very  last 
session,  which  is  the  best  of  proof  of  their 
flourishing  condition. 

Next  fall  should  and  probably  will  see  the 
continuance  of  all  of  these  five  clubs ;  and  they 
might  well  be  augmented  by  a  General 
Science  Club  and  Literature  Club.  With 
seven  clubs  all  teeming  with  prosperity,  the 
long  fall  and  winter  evenings  will  slip  by  most 
lightly  in  the  presence  of  wisdom  and  con- 
ijenial  friends. 


The  past  week  furnished  us  a  splendid 
illustration  of  the  opportunities  which  will 
present  themselves  to  a  man  who  possesses  a 
grain  or  two  of  spirit  and  perseverance  in  try- 
ing for  a  'varsity  team.  With  one  pitcher 
disabled,  another  resting  for  a  state  game,  and 
the  third  and  last  scheduled  for  the  Brown 
game,  the  base-ball  team  was  without  a  man 
in  training  for  pitching  to  fill  the  box  against 
Tufts  College.  This  case  is  as  likely  to  occur 
in  any  position  upon  the  team,  and  that  fact 
should  stimulate  every  man  with  base-ball 
aspirations  to  stick  to  practice  and  training 
until  the  end  of  the  season. 


The  Medical  School  is  surpassing  all  pre- 
vious years  in  her  participation  in  the  affairs 
of  the  college.  Foot-Ball,  Glee  Club,  Indoor 
Meet,  Track  Athletics,  Tennis,  and  Base-Ball 
are  all  beholden  to  the  Medical  students  for 
the  degree  of  excellency  which  they  have 
respectively  attained.     It  is  right  that  this  is 


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so,  and  every  man  should  put  forth  his  most 
strenuous  efforts  to  preserve  the  continuance 
of  this  strengthening  union.  Moreover,  it  is 
quite  possible  that  the  school  will  be  of  the 
same  duration  as  the  literary  department 
which,  together  with  the  proposed  college  re- 
quirements for  admission,  will  bring  about  a 
closer  coalition  and  more  even  division  be- 
tween "lits"  and  "medics"  on  all  the  college 
organizations. 


Beginning  with  the  present  number  the 
Orient  will  keep  a  permanent  calendar  of 
coming  events  in  which  the  college  is  mate- 
rially interested.  The  day  of  publication  has 
been  changed  to  Thursday  in  order  that  any 
communication  or  notice,  which  may  orig- 
inate in  the  Faculty  meeting,  can  be  pub- 
lished in  these  columns  for  the  convenience 
of  the  college  body.  All  these  innovations 
are  only  in  accordance  with  our  plans  to  make 
of  this  paper  a  compendium  of  all  that  which 
is  in  any  way  of  benefit  or  of  profit  to  this 
institution  in  the  field  of  college  journalism. 


Considerable  wisdom  lies  in  the  suggestion 
that  a  tinancial  statement  of  each  athletic 
association  be  published  at  the  expiration  of 
the  manager's  term  of  office.  The  different 
athletic  organizations  are  conducted  in  a  bus- 
iness way,  and,  therefore,  should  present  a 
full  report  of  their  standing  to  those  who  com- 
pose the  body  and  backers  of  the  respective 
teams.  Besides,  the  difficulties  are  innumer- 
able which  confront  every  manager,  and  gen- 
erally, are  entirely  unappreciative,  if  realized 
at  all,  by  the  college  fellows ;  such  a  public 
statement  would  present  a  few  of  these  in 
black  and  white ;  and  incidentally,  allay  any 
doubt,  uncertainty,  or  curiosity  which  may 
exist  concerning  the  expenditures  and  re- 
ceipts, as  well  as  furnish  not  a  little  valuable 
information  for  managers  to  come. 

The  Orient  will  gladly  publish  these  re- 
ports ;  and,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  intends  to  make 
somewhat  of  an  exertion  to  obtain  all  reports 
which  may  accrue  hereafter. 


In  another  column  the  result  may  be  seen 
of  the  permanent  arrangement  which  has  been 
adopted  in  the  order  and  hour  of  each  course 
as  tabulated  in  the  last  catalogue.  Those 
courses  which  are  required  of  students  have 
been  differentiated  from  the  electives  of  the 
curricvilum  by  means  of  a  bolder  type. 


NOTICES. 
BowDOiN  Golf  Club. 

At  the  annual  meeting  held  in  No.  3 
Memorial  Hall  on  Friday,  May  5th,  the  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected  :  President,  H. 
L.  Berry,  '01 ;  Treasurer,  Mr.  Benj.  Furbish, 
Brunswick ;  Secretary,  Professor  H.  C. 
Emery.  The  following  is  the  Governing 
Board  :  The  President,  the  secretary,  Messrs. 
W.  S.  Hatch,  J.  H.  Hanley,  Barrett  Potter  of 
Brunswick  and  Wood,  '00,  and  Sills,  "01,  of 
the  college.  It  was  decided  best  to  have  sev- 
eral of  the  officers  of  the  club  town  men,  so 
that  golf  might  prosper  during  the  summer 
months.  The  old  links  near  the  standpipe  are 
to  be  retained  and  a  good  deal  of  money  is 
to  be  laid  out  on  their  improvement.  The 
course  is  to  be  cleared  and  several  of  the 
greens  turfed.  The  club  has  now  a  good 
start  and  looks  for  renewed  enthusiasm  this 
year.  The  dues  have  been  fixed  at  $2.00,  a 
merely  nominal  sum,  as  it  is  not  desired  to 
keep  any  one  interested  in  the  game  out  of 
the  club.  Seniors  wishing  to  join  for  the 
months  of  May  and  June  may  do  so  by  pay- 
ing $1.00.  Remittances  should  be  made  as 
soon  as  possible  to  Benjamin  Furbish,  Esq., 
Treasurer  Bowdoin  Golf  Club,  Brunswick, 
Maine. 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Governing 
Board  regulations  as  to  caddies'  fees  were 
adopted  whereby  the  rate  is  to  be  10^  per 
round,  15^  per  two  rounds.  All  players  are 
requested  to  hold  firmly  to  this  rule,  as  too 
little  pay  makes  the  caddies  discontented  and 
too  much,  arrogant  and  impudent.  All  stu- 
dents in  any  way  interested  in  the  club  are 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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urged  to  join  it  at  once.     Names  sliould  be 
sent  to  H.  L.  Berry,  '01. 

Reduced  rates  for  the  Worcester  Meet  can 
be  obtained  by  conferring  with  Manager 
Chapman. 


CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  May  20. — Annual  Meet  of  the  New 
England  Athletic  Association  at  Worcester. 

Wednesday,  May  24. — Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at 
Waterville. 

Friday  and  Saturday,  May  26  and  27. — Inter- 
scholastic  Tennis  Tournament  at  Brunswick. 

Saturday,  May  27. — Maine  Invitation  Inter- 
scholastic  Meet  at  Brunswick. 

Tuesday,  May  30. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Lewiston. 

Wednesday,  Thursday  and  Friday,  May  31, 
June  i  and  2. — Intercollegiate  Tennis  Tournament; 
Bowdoin  and  University  of  Vermont  at  Burlington, 
Vt. 

Wednesday,  May  31. — Examinations  in  Ger- 
man. 

S.\turday,  June  3. — Annual  Maine  Intercolle- 
giate  Field  Meet  at  Waterville. 

Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at  Brunswick. 

Monday  to  Wednesday,  June  5-y. — Maine  In- 
tercollegiate Tennis  Tournament  at  Brunswick. 

Monday  to  Thursday,  June  5-8. — Senior  Ex- 
aminations. 

Wednesday,  June  7. — Bowdoin-Colby  Fresh- 
man Meet  at  Waterville. 

Bowdoin  plays   Bates  at  Brunswick. 

Friday,  June  9. — Ivy  Day. 

Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at  Brunswick  (forenoon). 

Saturday,  June  10. — Field  Day. 

Monday  to  Friday,  June  12-16. — Examina- 
tions. 

Sunday,  June  18. — Baccalaureate  Sermon. 

Monday,  June   19. — Junior   Prize   Declamation. 

Bowdoin  plays  University  of  Toronto  at  Bruns- 
wick. 

Tuesday,  June  20. — Class  Day. 

Wednesday,  June  21. — Graduation  Exercises 
of  the  Medical  School. 

Thursday,  June  22. — Commencement  Day. 

Annual  Meeting  of  the  Alumni. 

Friday  and  Saturday,  June  23  and  24. — En- 
trance Examinations. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


There  is  a  merry-go-round  down  town. 

The  Mineralogy  class  has  begun  work  in  the 
laboratory. 

Rollins,  'gg,  had  an  attack  of  German  measles 
last  week. 

Tyler,  1901,  has  been  absent  for  a  few  days  on 
account  of  illness. 

Professor  Moody  was  called  to  New  Jersey  last 
week  by  the  death  of  a  relative. 

A  Freshman  has  given  us  the  following:  The 
Freshmen  were  metuculated  Tuesday. 

All  stores  have  been  ordered  closed  on  Sunday 
by  the  selectmen  of  Brunswick. 

The  Boston  alumni  are  organizing  a  movement 
opposing  the  change  in  the  college  seal.  ■ 

Professor  MacDonald  was  called  away  last  week, 
and  his  classes  were  given  adjourns. 

The  New  Voice  for  May  contains  a  story  of 
Speaker   Reed's  boyhood,  written  by  himself. 

Sinkinson,  'gg,  represented  Kappa  Chapter  at 
the  Psi  Upsilon  convention  at  Cornell  last  week.' 

Professor  Hutchins  ti^eated  his  Astronomy  class 
to  an  illustrated  stereopticon  lecture  one  day  last 
week. 

Bragg,  Warren  and  Quinn  attended  the  game 
at  Orono,  and  passed  Sunday  at  their  homes  in 
Bangor. 

The  third  fortnightly  themes  in  Mr.  Andrews' 
course  are  due  Tuesday,  May  23d.  They  are  to  be 
descriptions. 

Judge  Lucilius  A.  Emery,  LL.D.,  professor  of 
Medical  Jurisprudence  in  the  Medical  School,  lect- 
ured to  the  students  of  the  school  last  week. 

Sturgis,  'gg,  was  gladly  welcomed  on  the  campus 
Tuesday,  May  gth.  He  has  been  in  Camden,  N. 
C,  recuperating,  and  returns  much  improved  in 
health. 

T.  F.  Murphy,  of  the  Medical  School,  makes 
occasional  visits  to  Auburn  for  the  purpose  of 
coaching  the  track  team  at  Edward  Little  High 
School. 

•Mrs.  F.  C.  Woodrufif  and  Professor  Chapman 
were  among  the  speakers  at  the  dinner  of  the 
Colonial  Dames  held  at  Riverton,  Wednesday, 
May  loth. 

Harley  Rawson,  the  heavy  hitting  shortstop, 
whom  many  may  remember  as  the  star  of  the 
Hebron  Academy  nine  of  a  few  years  ago,  has  just 


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accepted  an    offer    to    play    on  the  Derby,   Conn., 
team  of  the  State  league. 

Mr.  Harry  Wade  Hicks,  of  New  York,  went  to 
Waterville  on  Saturday,  after  working  with  the 
branch  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A  at  Bowdoin  on  Thurs- 
day and  Friday. 

Janitor  Simpson  has  returned  after  a  winter's 
sojourn  in  California,  and  is  busy  putting  the  cam- 
pus and  buildings  in  order  for  the  inspection  inci- 
dental to  coming  events. 

Greenlaw  and  Cleaves  entertained  the  Govern- 
ment Club  at  Jakes's,  Monday  evening,  May  8th. 
A  shore  supper  was  enjoyed.  Papers  on  Japan 
and  China  were  read  by  Jennings  and  Briggs  re- 
spectively. Professor  MacDonald  was  present  and 
made  some  interesting  remarks. 

President  Hyde  will  hold  his  reception  Wednes- 
day evening  of  Commencement  week.  The  Seniors 
have  voted  to  give  no  concert,  as  has  been  the 
custom  in  past  years.  These  concerts  have  not 
been  very  successful  and  have  interfered  with  a 
satisfactory  arrangement  of  the  events  of  this  busy 
week. 

The  college  was  represented  by  many  students 
at  the  Chapman  concert  last  week.  It  is  needless 
to  say  that  Maconda  and  her  associates  were  heard 
with  enjoyment.  By  making  use  of  his  bicycle 
and  the  railway  accommodations,  an  enthusiastic 
Freshman  was  able  to  hear  three  concerts  last  week 
by  Director  Chapman's  stars. 

We  quote  from  a  Maine  paper:  "Yale  is  now 
said  to  have  an  eye  on  President  Hyde  of  Bowdoin. 
It  is  also  intimated  that  some  day  this  Maine  col- 
lege president  may  move  to  Harvard.  President 
Hyde  would  seem  to  have  his  pick  and  Maine 
hopes  he  will  elect  to  stay  at  Bowdoin."  It  is 
needless  to  add  that  Bowdoin  students  sincerely 
hope  so,  too. 

There  was  an  enthusiastic  mass-meeting  in 
Memorial  Hall,  Saturday  morning.  It  was  called 
with  the  idea  of  furthering  base-ball  interests,  and 
the  results  of  it  could  be  seen  at  the  game  in  the 
afternoon.  Dutton,  '99,  ably  presided.  Speeches 
were  made  by  the  chairman;  by  Manager  Whitney 
and  Acting-Captain  Greenlaw  of  the  nine;  by  Coach 
Woodcock;  and  by  L.  L.  Cleaves,  '99;  T.  F.  Mur- 
phy, Medical  School;  Lancey,  '99,  Jennings,  .'99, 
White,  '99,  Clarke,  '99,  R.  L.  Marston,  '99,  Spear, 
igoo,  Sparks,  1900,  Cloudman,  1901,  and  Sinkinson, 
1902. 

The  Deutscher  Verein  met  with  Fogg  and  Var- 
ney  at  14  South  Maine,  Wednesday  evening.  May 
loth.     The  program  was  on  Hauptmann,  one  of  the 


foremost  of  living  German  writers.  Rogers  read 
a  short  account  of  his  life,  and  Pattee,  a  criticism 
of  "Der  Versunkene  Glocke,"  one  of  the  best  of 
Hauptmann's  recent  books.  Professor  Files  also 
added  a  short  account  of  Hauptmann's  other 
works. 

The  new  coach  of  the  track  team  is  Mr.  John 
Graham,  of  Boston,  who  has  been  for  a  number 
of  years  manager  of  track  athletics  for  the  famous 
Boston  Athletic  Association,  and  who  is  one  of  the 
best  known  authorities  on  the  track  events  in  the 
country.  Mr.  Graham  has  trained  athletes  since 
1885.  He  was  in  charge  of  the  team  which  B.  A.  A. 
sent  to  Athens  to  represent  her  in  the  Olympic 
games.  On  his  return  from  Greece  he  introduced 
the  throwing  of  the  discus  to  the  list  of  popular 
events  for  American  athletes  of  heavy  weight.  He 
is  an  able  man  with  the  shot,  hammer  and  discus. 
As  a  coach  Mr.  Graham  is  entirely  satisfactory. 

The  Gerrish  Anatomy  will  at  once  be  put  into 
the  Medical  School,  supplanting  Gray's  Anatomy. 
The  new  work,  which  was  compiled  by  Frederick 
Henry  Gerrish  of  Portland,  the  professor  of  anat- 
omy in  the  school,  has  been  highly  spoken  of  all 
over  the  country.  The  book  includes  contributions 
from  Arthur  Dean  Bevan,  M.D.,  of  Rush  Medical 
College;  William  Keiller,  F.R.C.S.  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Texas;  James  Playfair  McMurrich,  A.M., 
University  of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor;  George 
David  Stewart,  M.D.,  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital,  New 
York;  and  George  Woolsey,  A.B.,  M.D.,  of  Cor- 
nell University  and  Medical  College.  The  book 
contains  950  engravings  in  black  and  white,  and  in 
colors,  and  has  been  enthusiastically  received  by 
the  students  and  Faculty  of  the  school. 

The  absence  of  leading  players  on  the  Senior 
and  Junior  teams  which  were  to  play  base-ball  on 
Wednesday  made  necessary  an  indefinite  postpone- 
ment of  the  game.  But  the  enthusiasts  who  were 
■  ready  for  the  contest  were  unwilling  to  lose  their 
fun ;  so  teams  were  organized  and  a  game  was 
played  on  Wednesday  afternoon.  The  team,  on 
which  were  four  Seniors,  and  which  chose  the 
name  "The  Perfections,"  won  from  the  other, 
which  boasted  of  six  Juniors  and  bore  the  name 
"The  Sweet  Caporals."  Though  the  score  was  19 
to  12,  and  though  two  scorers  couldn't  keep  run  of 
the  errors  made,  there  were  some  pretty  features. 
Parker's  hitting,  the  snappy  playing  of  the  winning 
infield  and  the  brilliancy  and  picturesqueness  of  the 
work  of  the  Junior  battery,  share  the  honors  with 
Foster's  cool  umpiring.  The  Perfections  were 
Hoyt,  c;  Parker,  ib.,  3b.;  Stanwood,  p.,  3b.; 
Neagle,  3b,,  p.;  Merrill,  2b.;  Leighton,  ib. ;  R.  S. 
Cleaves,  ss.;  Kelley,  rf. ;  Rolfe,  m.     The  Sweet  Cap- 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


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onls  were  Willard.  p.;  Murphy,  rf.;  Goodspeed, 
lb,;  West,  2b.:  Robinson,  ss.;  Pottle,  c. ;  Bellatty, 
If.:   Pearson,  .3b.;  Noyes,  m. 

Mr.  Walter  B.  Clarke  of  Bowdoin  College,  '99, 
made  a  clever  speech  at  the  second  district  con- 
vention Thursday  afternoon  in  Lewiston  in  second- 
ing the  nomination  of  Charles  E.  Littlefield.  Mr. 
Clarke   spoke   as   follows: 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  this  Convention 
— In  behalf  of  a  united  dele.^ation  from  the  county 
of  Lincoln,  in  behalf  of  the  voters  of  that  county 
irrespective  of  party  affiliations,  and  with  the  great- 
est pleasure  I  second  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Little- 
field  as  the  successor  of  the  late  Mr.  Dingley.  The 
people  of  my  county  are  justly  proud  of  the  fact 
that  for  the  last  forty  years  they  have  been  repre- 
sented in  the  lower  branch  of  Congress  by  two  of 
the  ablest  and  most  eminent  statesmen  that  ever 
imparted  wisdom  to  the  councils  of  this  nation,  and 
the  Republican  voters  of  that  county  are  fully 
aware  of  the  great  responsibility  that  devolves  upon 
them  in  choosing  their  successor.  They  realize 
and  appreciate  the  fact  that  each  county  of  this  dis- 
trict could  if  necessary  furnish  some  favorite  son 
who  would  not  only  distinguish  himself,  but  also 
prove  an  honor  to  the  district  and  State  if  nom- 
inated here  to-day;  but,  gentlemen,  they  know  Mr. 
Littlefield  well,  and  they  believe  in  him.  They 
believe  in  his  personal  honor,  his  political  sagacity, 
his  sense  of  mental  and  moral  worth,  and  they 
admire  his  undaunted  courage  and  sterling  integrity. 
In  the  full  vigor  of  his  manhood;  his  trained  fac- 
ulties ready  and  eager  for  effort;  his  fame  already 
bright  and  high,  no  man  ever  entered  the  field  of 
national  politics  and  statesmanship  with  the  pros- 
pect of  a  more  brilliant  and  useful  career.  When 
the  sad  news  of  Mr.  Dingley's  death  swept  over 
the  whole  world  with  the  velocity  of  lightning,  and 
our  people  realized  the  situation,  it  did  not  take 
them  long  to  determine  the  question  who  was  the 
best  prepared,  in  every  way,  to  fill  the  vacancy  in 
our  delegation  in  Congress,  and  prosecute  the 
work  so  suddenly  interrupted  by  the  stern  hand  of 
death:  but  with  a  united  voic?  they  declared  then, 
and  by  a  united  delegation  they  declare  to-day, 
that  of  all  the  candidates  for  the  distinguished 
honor  of  defending  the  interests  of  our  people  in 
our  National  Congress;  of  upholding  the  great  and 
vital  principles  embodied  in  the  Republican  admin- 
istration; and  the  best  prepared  to  grasp  the  sceptre 
of  honest  fame  where  it  was  left  by  the  immortal 
Blaine  and  the  lamented  Dingley.  and  carry  it  to 
even  greater  heights,  is  that  ambitious  and  deter- 
niined  representative  of  the  common  people,  that 
distinguished  debater  and  orator,  that  great  leader 
of  men.  General  Charles  E.  Littlefield  of  Rock- 
land.— Lewiston  Journal. 


'80. — Herbert  W.  Grindal  has  removed  his  law- 
office  to  the  Wilks  Building,  15  Wall  St.,  New 
York  City. 

'81. — James  Donovan,  attorney  and  counsellor- 
at-law,  has  removed  to  Great  Falls,  Montana. 

'92. — Frank  Durgin  has  entered  the  law  firm  of 
Keezer,  Durgin  &  Clay  in  Denver,  Col. 

'98. — Dwight  R.  Pennell  is  reading  law  in  a 
Lewiston  office. 


NUMBER  OF  STUDENTS  IN  COURSES  OF  STUDY. 


6 


8      9    10    11 


Astronomy,     .  36      4 

Biology,      .     .  34    18     16     16     17     15     15  3 

Chemistry,      .  51    51    44    .'.8    36 

Economics,     .  41    43    39    34    21    27 

Elocjitioi),       .  53  50 

Eng.  Lit're,    .  55    57    54    40    43    38 

French,       .     .  53    52    51    49    48    39 

Geology,     .     .  27 

German,      .     .  61  60  60    31     30    29    14    14    14 

Government,  .  35    16 

Greek,   ...  52  51  49      8      8      6      9    13 

History,      .     .  21    21    21    20    20    16 

Latin,     ...  56  54  50     7      7      5      7 

Logic,     ...  54 

Mathematics,  5454  51     666222 

Mineralogy,    .  49    17 

Philosophy,    .  56    56    54 

Physics,     .     .  38    36      3      3      2      2      2 

Rhetoric,   .     .  64   43 


flTFiLETICS. 


COLLEGE    TENNIS    TOURNAMENT. 

The  tennis  tournament  for  the  championship  in 
singles  and  doubles  among  the  players  in  college 
began  Wednesday,  May  3d,  and  was  concluded  the 
first  of  the  present  week.  Much  interest  was  de- 
veloped as  the  tournament  progressed.  The  fair 
weather  materially  helped  to  an  early  conclusion 
of  the  contest.  Ripley  Lyman  Dana,  '01,  is  the 
winner  in  singles.  Harold  Fessenden  Dana,  '99, 
and  Ripley  Lyman  Dana,  '01,  were  the  successful 
team  in  doubles. 

The  following  is  a  summary  of  the  tournament: 

Singles. 
Preliminary   Round: 

Kelley,  '99,  beat  Bragg,  '01 ;  9-7,  6-2. 

Webber,  special,  beat  Moulton,  '99,  4-6,  6-4,  y-5. 

Sills,  '01,  beat  Merrill,  '99;  6-1,  6-0. 

Flint,  '01,  beat  Veazie,  '99;   default. 

Cobb,  '02,  beat  Stan  wood,  '02;  default. 

Marsh,  '99,  beat  Smith,  '01;  6-0,  6-3. 

Came,  '99,  beat  Pulsifer,  '97;  6-4,  6-1. 

L.  Cleaves,  '99,  beat  Fogg,  '99;  6-1,  6-4. 

Dana,  '01,  beat  Sanborn,   Med.;  6-3,  6-1. 

Shorey,  '00,  beat  Gibson,  '02;  6-4,  6-4. 

Hunt,  '02,  beat  Randall,  '99;  6-4,  6-4. 

R.  Cleaves,  '99,  beat  Short,  '01;  6-4,  0-6,  y-5. 

Dana,  '99,  beat  White,  '99;  default. 

Larrabee,  Med.,  beat  Snow,  '01;  6-1,  6-0. 

Briggs,  '99,  beat  Hills,  '99;  6-3,  6-2. 
First  Round: 

Kelley  beat  Webber;  6-2,  6-2. 

Sills  beat  Flint;  11-9,  6-1. 

Marsh  beat  Cobb;  6-2,  6-2. 

Came  beat  West,  '00;  6-3,  5-7,  6-2. 

Dana,  '01,  beat  L.  Cleaves;  6-3,  6-0. 


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Hunt  beat  Shorey;  6-2,  6-0. 

Dana,  '99,  beat  R.  Cleaves;  5-7,  6-3,  6-2. 

Larrabee  beat  Briggs;  6-2,  6-1. 
Second  Round: 

Sills  beat  Kelley;  6-4,  3-6,  9-7. 

Came  beat  Marsh;  3-6,  6-2,  6-4. 

Dana,  '01,  beat  Hunt;  6-0,  y-5. 

Dana,  'gg,  beat  Larrabee;  6-3,  6-3. 
Semi-Finals: 

Came  beat  Sills;  6-4,  6-3. 

Dana,  '01,  beat  Dana,  '99;  6-1,  5-7,  6-4. 
Finals: 

Dana,  '01,  beat  Came;  6-3,  6-3,  6-1. 

Doubles. 

Preliminaries: 

Briggs,  'gg,  and  Smith,  'gg,  beat  Leighton,  '01, 
and  Berry.  '01 ;  6-3,  7-5. 

Dana,  'gg,  and-  Dana,  '01,  beat  West,  '00,  and 
Fogg,  'gg;  6-1.  2-6,  6-1. 

Came,  '99,  and  Kelley,  'gg,  beat  Snow,  '01,  and 
Webber,  special;  by  default. 

Nelson,  'gg,  and  Neagle,  'gg,  beat  R.  Marston, 
'99,  and  Towle,  '99;  6-3,  6-3. 

Moulton,  'gg,  and  Randall,  'gg,  beat  Wood,  '00, 
and  Bell,  '00;  by  default. 

Sanborn,  Med.,  and  Larrabee,  Med.,  beat  L. 
Cleaves,  'gg,  and  Merrill,  '99;  8-6,  6-2. 

Short.  '01,  and  C.  Hunt,  '02,  beat  Pulsifer,  '97, 
and  R.  Cleaves,  'gg. 

Marsh,  'gg,  and  Sills,  '01,  beat  Smith,  '01,  and 
Flint,  '01 :  6-3,  6-1. 

First  Round: 

Dana  and  Dana  beat  Briggs  and  Smith;  6-1,  6-1. 

Came  and  Kelley  beat  Nelson  and  Neagle;  6-2, 

Sanborn  and  Larrabee  beat  Moulton  and  Ran- 
dall: 6-3.  1-6,  6-4. 

Marsh  and  Sills  beat  Short  and  Hunt:  4-6,  6-1, 
6-4. 

Serai-Finals: 

Dana  and  Dana  beat  Came  and  Kelley;  6-3,  6-3. 

Marsh  and  Sills  beat  Sanborn  and  Larrabee; 
8-6,  6-4. 

Finals: 

Dana  and  Dana  beat  Marsh  and  Sills  S-7>  6-4, 
5-7,  6-2,  6-1. 

Tufts  g,  Bowdoin  6. 
Tufts  defeated  Bowdoin  g  to  6  in  an  interesting 
game  on  Tufts  oval  Tuesday,  May  gth.  For  the 
first  five  innings  the  game  promised  to  be  very 
close,  but  in  the  sixth  Tufts  fell  upon  Came  for 
five  runs,  and  Pratt,  who  took  his  place,  was 
touched  up  for  two.  Curran,  who  pitched  for  Tufts, 
was  rather  wild,  but  steadied  down  after  a  few 
innings,  holding  the  Maine  men  down  to  six  hits. 
For  Tufts  Corridan's  hitting  and  fielding  were 
timely  and  excellent.  Hazleton  at  first  put  up  a  star 
game  and  Bean's  fielding  was  remarkably  good. 
For  Bowdoin  Greenlaw  played  the  best  game,  pull- 
ing down  several  difficult  ffies.  The  infield  with 
the   exception   of   Pennel   at   first   played   a   ragged 


game.     Came   fielded  his   position  in   good   shape, 

making   six   assists.    Attendance   600.    The    score: 

TUFTS. 

BH         PC         A  E 

Bean,  m i  4  o  o 

Lawton,  1.. i  0  o  o 

Corridon,  s 2  i  3  o 

Kelley,   c i  5  o  o 

Hazleton,   1 2  12  I  o 

Leahey,  2 o  3  2  2 

Curran,   p i  i  4  o 

Lucas,  r i  o  o  i 

Fiske,   3 o  i  I  i 

Totals 9      27      II        4 

BOWDOIN. 

BH         PO         A  E 

Harkins,   3 o  i  2  2 

Wignott,   c I  2  o  o 

Clarke,    s i  2  i  3 

Pennel,   i 0  10  o  0 

Greenlaw,  1 i  4  o  0 

Haskell,   2 2  3  3  2 

Trainor,   m o  4  o  o 

Tibbetts,  r i  i  o  o 

Came,  p 0  o    •    6  o 

Pratt,   p o  o  2  I 

Totals 6      27      14        8 

Innings 123456789 

Tufts I    o    I    o    o    7    o    o    o — g 

Bowdoin I     i     i     o    o    2     i     o    o — 6 

Runs  made — by  Bean  2,  Wignott,  Haskell  2, 
Clarke,  Corridon  2,  Lucas  2,  Kelley,  Hazleton, 
Leahey,  Greenlaw.  Two-base  hits — Corridon  2, 
Hazleton,  Haskell.  Stolen  bases — Bean,  Wignott 
2,  Haskell,  Clarke,  Greenlaw,  Hazleton,  Leahey, 
Harkins.  Bases  on  balls — Bean  2,  Hazleton,  Wig- 
nott. Came,  Haskell,  Greenlaw,  Harkins.  Struck 
out — Turner,  Lawton,  Leahey.  Tibbetts,  Clarke, 
Pennel,  Wignott.  Double  plays — Pratt  and  Pen- 
nel; Curran,  Leahey  and  Hazleton;  Haskell,  Clarke 
and  Pennel.  Hit  by  pitched  balls — Leahey,  Hazle- 
ton. Passed  balls — Kelley  2,  Wignott.  Umpire — 
Woodcock.     Time — 2h. 

Brown  8,  Bowdoin  i. 

Bowdoin  lost  to  Brown  Wednesday,  May  loth, 
through  inability  to  bat.  As  usual  Wignott  man- 
aged to  get  a  run. 

The  work  of  the  home  team  was  very  lively,  the 
men  batting  and  running  bases  as  if  they  meant  to 
win. 

Sedgewick  pitched  for  the  first  time  in  a  home 
game,  and  had  Bowdoin  at  his  mercy,  allowing 
only  four  hits  and  these  well  scattered.  Bowdoin's 
only  tally  was  due  to  Clarke's  error  in  centre, 
allowing  Wignott  to  reach  third,  whence  he  scored 
on  Pennell's  single.  Sedgewick,  beside  striking 
out  three  men,  had  seven  assists  to  his  credit,  and 
no  errors,  and  did  not  give  one  base  on  balls.  His 
pitching  was  fully  up  to  his  last  year's  standard. 

The   game  was   full   of  pretty  plays,  and  plenty 


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of  batting  made  it  an  interesting  one  to  watch. 
Newman  for  Brown  led  at  tlie  bat  with  a  triple  and 
two  singles,  and  brought  in  three  of  Brown's  runs 
by  his  hitting,  beside  scoring  two  himself.  Paine 
accepted  i6  chances  without  an  error. 

For  Bov.'doin  Greenlaw  played  the  best  game, 
accepting  three  chances  and  making  half  of  Bow- 
doin's  hits.     Attendance   looo.     The  score: 

BROWN. 

AB        BH         PC         A  E 

Le   Stage,   c 5  i  3  o  o 

Bacon,   s 4  i  3  2  o 

Newman,   r 5  3  o  o  o 

Richardson,   3 4  o  o  i  i 

Sedgewick,   p 5  2  i  7  o 

Paine,    i 3  i  16  o  o 

Paine,    i 3  i  6  o  o 

Holman,    2 4  0  i  5  o 

R.   Clarke,   cf 3  i  2  o  i 

Totals 37      10      27      15        2 

BOWDOIN. 

AB        BH         PO         A  E 

Greenlaw,   1 4  2  3  o  o 

Wignott,  c 4  I  4  o  0 

Clarke,    s 4  o  i  8  i 

Pennell,    i 4  i  9  o  o 

Haskell,   2 3  o  4  4  i 

Harkins,   3 3  o  2  o  0 

Trainor,   cf 3  o  o  o  o 

Libby,   p 3  0  o  o  I 

Tibbetts,  r 3  o  o  o  i 

Totals 31         4     *23       12        4 

Innings 123456789 

Brown 30010400      — 8 

Bowdoin looooooo    o — i 

Two-base  hit.? — Paine,  Greenlaw  2,  Wignott. 
Three-base  hit — Newman.  Sacrifice  hit — Bacon. 
Stolen  bases — Le  Stage,  Newman,  Richardson, 
Sedgewick,  Holman.  First  base  on  balls — McKin- 
ney.  First  base  on  errors — Haskell,  Le  Stage, 
Bacon,  R.  Clarke.  Struck  out — Richardson  2,  Hol- 
man, R.  Clarke.  Harkins,  Libby  2.  Double  plays 
— Holman  and  Paine;  Haskell  and  Pennell. 

*Sedgewick  out  for  interference. 

BOWDOIN  9,  U.  of  M.  5. 

Bowdoin  again  defeated  U.  of  M.  Saturday,  the 
13th.  on  Whittier  Field.  The  game  was  won  in  the 
first  three  innings  and  no  runs  were  made  after  the 
fifth.  Pratt  pitched  a  fine  game,  keeping  the  hits 
well  scattered. 

Pretto,  the  first  man  up  for  U.  of  M.,  got  a  base 
on  balls  and  stole  second.  Palmer  was  out  on  a 
grounder  to  Came,  Pretto  taking  third.  It  looked 
as  if  U.  of  M.  would  score,  but  Crockett  popped  up 
a  fly  for  Haskell,  and  Davis  flew  out  to  Greenlaw. 

Greenlaw  was  safe  on  a  wild  throw  by  Davis, 
and  stole  second.  Wignott  hit  to  centre  field, 
scoring  Greenlaw,  and  took  second  on  a  passed 
ball.     Pratt   got  a   hit,    scoring    Wignott.     W.   B. 


Clarke  fouled  out.  A.  W.  Clarke  got  a  hit,  advanc- 
ing Pratt  to  third,  but  Haskell  flew  out  to  Davis 
and  Harkins  struck  out.     Score,  2  to  o. 

Webb  struck  out.  Clarke  hit  a  hot  liner  to  A. 
Clarke.  Livcrmore  walked.  Carr  flew  out  to  Has- 
kell. 

Trainor  swung  at  two  balls,  and  caught  the 
third  on  the  end  of  his  bat,  sending  it  just  inside 
third  and  far  across  the  track.  He  was  seated  on 
the  bench  before  the  fielder  got  to  the  ball.  Green- 
law walked,  but  was  forced  at  second  by  Wignott. 
Pratt  again  got  a  hit,  sending  Wignott  to  third, 
and  W.  B.  Clarke  got  a  pretty  hit  just  inside  first, 
scoring  Wignott.  A.  Clarke  struck  out.  Score,  4 
to  o. 

The  three  U.  of  M.  men  at  bat  in  the  third  flew 
out,  Cushman  and  Palmer  to  Harkins,  and  Pretto 
to  A.  W.  Clarke. 

Bowdoin  did  better.  After  Haskell  had  put  a 
fly  into  Webb's  hands,  Harkins  got  a  base  on  balls. 
Trainor  was  safe  on  an  error  by  Pretto.  He  was 
iorced  at  second  by  Came.  With  two  out  Bowdoin 
began  to  make  runs.  Greenlaw  got  a  base  on  balls. 
Harkins  scored  on  a  wild  pitch.  Wignott  was  hit 
and  took  his  base.  Pratt  cracked  out  a  hit,  and 
Greenlaw  and  Came  scored.  W.  Clarke  hit  out  a 
long  one,  which  Livermore  misjudged  and  took 
third,  Pratt  scoring.  A.  Clarke  knocked  a  grounder 
to  Carr  and  was  out  at  first.     Score,  9  to  o. 

U.  of  M.  opened  the  fourth  with  the  determina- 
tion to  score.  Crockett  walked,  stole  second,  and 
scored  on  a  hit  by  Davis.  Webb  hit  to  Pratt,  who 
turned  and  caught  Davis  at  third.  Clarke  got  a 
three-bagger  inside  third,  scoring  Webb.  Liver- 
more  hit  and  Clarke  scored.  Carr  was  safe  on  an 
error  by  A.  Clarke.  Then  Pratt  took  the  game  in- 
to his  own  hands,  struck  out  Cushman,  and  fielded 
Pretto's  grounder  to  first. 

Crockett  replaced  Cushman  in  the  box,  Lurvey 
going  to  right  field. 

Haskell  got  a  base  on  balls  but  was  caught  on 
second.     Harkins  and  Trainor  struck  out. 

Palmer  was  out  at  first.  Crockett  struck  three 
times,  the  last  time  at  a  low  one  which  passed 
Wignott,  and  took  second.  Davis  hit  through 
Greenlaw's  legs  and  took  second,  Crockett  scoring. 
Webb  was  safe  on  Haskell's  error.  Clarke  flew 
out  to  Trainor.  Livermore  took  first  on  Game's 
error  and  Davis  scored.  Carr  fouled  out  to  Wig- 
nott.    Score  9  to  5. 

This  ended  the  scoring  for  the  game.  In  the 
last  of  the  fifth  with  one  out  Greenlaw  hit  for  three 
bases,  but  was  left  on  third.  After  this  neither  side 
got  a  man  beyond  second. 

The  most  noticeable  feature  of  the  game  was  the 
entire  absence   of  "yagging."     The    applause    was 


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liberal  and  impartial,  and  the  U.  of  M.  players  were 
much   pleased  with   the   treatment  which  they    re- 
ceived. 
Attendance  500.     The  score: 

BOWDOIN. 

R        BH         PO         A  E 

Greenlaw,   1 2  I  I  o  i 

Wignott,    c 3  I  3  i  o 

Pratt,   p I  3  2  2  o 

W.   B.   Clarke,  r o  i  o  o  o 

A.   Clarke,   s o  2  3  2  i 

Haskell,   2 o  o  5  4  2 

Harkins,  3 I  o  3  I  o 

Trainor,  cf I  0100 

Came,    i I  i  9  o  i 

Totals 9        9      27       10        5 

U.   OF  M. 

R        BH         PO         A  E 

Pretto,  s o  I  3  i  I 

Palmer,    i o  i  6  o  o 

Crockett,   r,   p 2  o  2  o  o 

Davis,  3 I  3  I  o  I 

Webb,   cf I  o  2  I  o 

G.   Clarke,  c i  i  5  2  o 

Livermore,  re,  cf o  i  2  0  o 

Carr,    2. o  o  3  2  o 

Cushman;    p o  o  o  o  0 

Lurvey,  r o  I  o  o  o 

Totals 5        8      24      .6        2 

Innings 123456789 

Bowdoin 2    2    5    o    o    o    0    o      — 9 

U.  of  M o    o    o    3    2    o    I     o    o — 6 

Three-base  hits — Pratt,  W.  B.  Clarke,  Greenlaw, 
J.  Clarke.  Home  run — Trainor.  Stolen  bases — 
Greenlaw,  Came.  Pretto,  Livermore  2,  Crockett, 
Carr,  Webb.  First  base  on  balls — Pretto,  Liver- 
more. Crockett.  Webb,  Greenlaw  3,  Harkins,  Has- 
kell. Struck  out— By  Pratt  i,  by  Crockett  4,  by 
Cushman  2.  Double  plays — Pratt,  Haskell  and 
Came,  Pretto,  Carr  and  Palmer.  Passed  balls — 
Wignott,  Clarke  2.  Hit  by  pitched  ball — Wignott, 
Trainor.     Time — 2h.     Umpire — Carpenter. 


Y.  M.  C.  f\. 


On  Wednesday,  May  lOth,  Mr.  Harry  Wade 
Hicks,  Cornell,  '98,  arrived  in  town  and  for  two 
consecutive  days  attended  to  starting  the  commit- 
tees in  their  work  and  aiding  the  new  officers  to 
systematically  arrange  matters  pertaining  to  the 
summer  conference  and  active  work  in  the  fall. 
Mr.  Hicks  met  personally  the  different  chairmen 
and  discussed  with  them  methods  which  have 
proved  successful  elsewhere  and  carefully  adapted 
the  same  to  needs  of  the  Association  here. 

A  Bible  study  conference  was  held  on  Thursday 
afternoon,  at  which  the  subject  of  devotional  Bible 
study  was  presented  by  the  secretary  and  a  new 
interest  thus  generated  in  personal  study  of  the 
Bible,  from  an  historical  and  devotional  point  of 
view.     Tm^o  such  courses  will  be  offered  next  fall, 


one  in  "the  Life  of  Christ,"  the  other  in  "the  Acts 
and  Epistles."  Several  men  have  already  been  en- 
rolled in  these  classes. 

As  was  previously  announced  Mr.  Hicks  ad- 
dressed the  audience  at  the  weekly  meeting  Thurs- 
day evening.  He  spoke  of  the  movement  in  gen- 
eral, of  its  beginning  with  the  incident  of  the  "Wil- 
liams Hay  Stack,"  of  its  rapid  growth  and  its  pres- 
ent importance  and  possibilities.  He  also  referred 
to  the  peculiar  perils  of  student  life  and  the  neces- 
sity of  high  principles  and  pure  morals. 

Those  who  were  privileged  to  hear  Mr.  Hicks 
speak,  and  met  him  personally  have  received  much 
inspiration  and  help  from  his  short  visit  to  the  col- 
lege; and  all  will  think  of  him  and  wish  him  a  high 
degree  of  success  as  he  continues  his  trip  among 
the  other  colleges  of  the  East  and  Canada. 

It  has  been  some  time  since  any  organized  work 
has  been  done  by  the  Association  in  the  neighbor- 
hood outside  of  the  college,  yet  this  is  an  import- 
ant part  of  Christian  discipleship,  and  it  is  an  ex- 
cellent sign  of  growth  to  see  the  fellows  taking  up 
this  work.  Several  of  the  more  active  members 
are  engaged  in  Sunday-school  work  in  the  various 
churches  of  the  town.  Woodbury,  1900,  conducted 
the  evening  service  at  the  Berean  Baptist  vestry  on 
Sunday,  May  14th,  and  on  the  same  evening  a  small 
party  of  the  members  assisted  in  a  meeting  held 
in  a  school-house  some  three  miles  from  the  cam- 
pus on  the  Harpswell  road. 


PERSONflLS. 


'47. — Dr.  Franklin  Benjamin  Merrill  died  at  his 
home  in  Alfred,  May  3,  1899.  He  was  born  in 
Buxton  in  February,  1828.  On  leaving  college  he 
went  to  Kentucky,  and  was  employed  as  teacher 
in  an  academy  two  years  in  Garrettsburg,  Chris- 
tian County.  He  then  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine with  Dr.  Metcalf  of  that  State.  Returning  to 
Maine  he  continued  his  studies  with  Dr.  Edwin 
Hall  C36)  of  Saco.  Later  he  was  graduated  from 
Jefferson  Medical  College  at  Philadelphia  in  1852, 
and  settled  at  Alfred  where  he  remained  in  active 
practice  until  his  death.  For  some  years  he  held 
the  position  of  United  States  Examining  Surgeon. 
In  1853  he  married  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of  Lewis 
Wakefield  of  Saco  and  had  six  children. 

'60. — Rev.  Charles  Fox  Penney,  a  widely-known 
Free  Baptist  minister,  died  at  Augusta  May  7th. 
He  was  born  in  New  Gloucester  in  May,  1832. 
After  graduation  he  taught  in  the  High  School  at 
Gray,  and  the  same  year  entered  the  Free  Baptist 
Theological  Seminary,  at  New  Hampton,  N.  H., 
graduating  in  1862.  In  August,  1862,  he  became 
pastor  of  the  Free  Baptist  Church  in  Augusta, 
where  he  continued  until  his  death — the  longest 
pastorate  of  the  denomination  in  the  State.  He 
was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  organ  of  that 
denomination,  the  Morning  Star  of  Dover,  N.  H., 
and  published  occasional  sermons.  He  was  chap- 
lain of  the  Insane  Asylum,  Augusta,  for  many 
years  and  held  responsible  positions  in  the  educa- 
tional and  benevolent  enterprises  of  the  denomina- 
tion. In  1862  he  married  Angle  Lewis  of  Booth- 
bay,  who  died  in  1881  leaving  three  children. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


HIIUNSWICK.   MAINE,    MAY   25,  1899. 


No.  6. 


BOW])OIN    ORIENT. 

>    EVERY    THURSDAY    DURING   THE    C 
YEAR   BY    THE   STUDENTS    OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babb,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  IIIOI,  Assistant  Editor-in-Cliief. 

IsLAY  P.  McCoKMiCK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  .-Vssistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  G.  McCarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

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Extra  copies  can  be  obtained  at  the  boolcstorcs  or  on  applica- 
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munications iu  regard  to  all  other  matters  should  be  directed  to 
the  Editor-in-Chief. 

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Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 

CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  G.— May  23,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes       .     .   ■ 43 

Notices 4.5 

Calendar 46 

College  Nev^s 46 

Athletics 47 

Personals 49 

Y.  M.  C.  A 50 

With  the  exception  of  the  Mott  Haven 
games  tliere  are  no  games  in  the  college  world 
which  have  had  so  long  and  successful  a 
career  as  the  New  England  Athletic  Associa- 
tion. Records  are  broken,  some  of  them  not 
only  N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  records,  but  as  in  several 
instances  in  the  past,  intercollegiate,  colle- 
giate, and  even  world's  records. 

The  13th  annual  meeting  of  the  associa- 
tion was  held  at  Worcester  oval  last  Saturday, 
and  the  usual  interesting  fight  for  the  cham- 
pionship came  off.  The  contending  teams 
were  Amherst,  Bowdoin,  Brown,  Dartmouth, 


Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  Trin- 
ity, Tufts,  University  of  Maine,  Wesleyan,  and 
Williams.  The  points  were  unusually  evenly 
divided  and  the  winner  was  not  decided  until 
the  very  last  event. 

Bowdoin  has  had  many  hard  battles  as  a 
member  of  the  N.  E.  I.  A.  A.,  handicapped  as 
she  is  by  the  lateness  of  the  season  in  Maine ; 
but  notwithstanding  this  fact  and  others  such 
as  small  numbers,  and  lack  of  funds,  our  rela- 
tively small  college  has  made  steady  annual 
gains  for  the  last  five  years,  reaching  the 
climax  this  year  by  landing  first  place. 

This  victory  is  perhaps  the  most  note- 
worthy in  the  whole  athletic  history  of  our 
college,  and  too  much  stress  cannot  be  laid 
upon  its  importance.  Our  team  was  small, 
our  season  was  short,  our  funds  were  low, 
and  the  backing  of  the  team  was  not  what  it 
should  be,  yet  against  every  odd  that  man  or 
weather  could  devise  we  met  and  defeated 
all  the  colleges  of  our  class  in  New  England 
in  a  fair  and  open  competition. 

This,  the  greatest  of  all  victories,  came 
most  opportune  in  the  face  of  recent  adverses 
in  another  branch  of  athletics,  and  one  of  the 
many  good  results  which  may  be  reaped  is 
renewed  energy  in  base-ball.  The  last  week 
has  proved  that  Bowdoin  spirit  was  not  dead, 
but  only  latent ;  now  that  it  is  in  full  activity 
let  us  keep  it  thus,  and  fight  for  a  champion- 
ship here  in  our  own  state  which  is  repre- 
sented by  a  neat  triangxilar  pennant  and  which 
presents  as  many  difficulties,  this  year  at  least, 
as  a  victory  at  Worcester. 

The  champions  were  fittingly  celebrated 
Saturday  and  Monday  nights,  and  never  has 
the  college  seen  such  a  wholesome  union  of 
Faculty,  Townsmen,  "Medics"  and  "Lits." 
as  on    the    latter    night.     The    evening    was 


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BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


begun  with  rousing  speeches  in  Memorial 
Hall  from  President  Hyde,  Professors  Robin- 
son, Whittier,  and  Emery,  and  Dr.  Mitchell, 
followed  by  a  parade  of  all  the  classes  and 
Medical  School  with  the  team  in  the  van,  while 
the  streets  of  quiet  old  Brunswick  never  ex- 
perienced quite  so  much  noise  and  fireworks^ 
or  heard  such  speeches  of  congratulation,  as 
our  victorious  team  enjoyed  Monday  night. 

May  the  fruits  of  this  celebration  and  vic- 
tory be  felt  far  into  the  future,  and  may  all 
teams  realize  that  old  Bowdoin  knows  no 
limit  in  her  appreciation  and  pride  for  a  truly 
great  victory. 


After  innumerable  controversies  and  an 
inestimable  outlay  of  time  and  labor  our  offer 
to  the  high  schools  and  academies  in  the  state 
has  been  accepted,  and  Saturday  next  a  hun- 
dred or  more  interscholastic  athletes  will  con- 
tend on  the  Whittier  Athletic  Field  for  the 
championship  of  the  Pine  Tree  State. 

Having  obtained  the  management  of  this 
meet  for  the  current  year,  we  must  remember 
that  there  are  others,  and  lay  our  wires  accord- 
ingly. We  cannot  afiford  to  sink  back  with  a 
sigh  of  relief  into  the  inactivity  of  a  satisfied 
desire ;  but,  so  much  accomplished,  from  the 
very  nature  of  things  another  and  unsatisfied 
longing  springs  into  life  on  the  possibility  of 
its  attainment,  a  longing  to  see  among  future 
Bowdoin  imdergraduates  these  embryonic 
athletes  who  may  so  ably  represent  their  pres- 
ent foster  mother ;  moreover  the  possibiHty  of 
its  acquirement  is  centered  right  here  next 
Friday  and  Saturday. 

The  Orient  urges  for  the  welfare  of  the 
college  that  the  fellows  will  perform  their 
duties  as  host  in  a  most  exemplary  manner. 
We  are  too  deficient  in  the  right  sort  of  ath- 
letic material  to  neglect  the  least  exertion 
which  may  bear  fruit  in  this  direction,  and 
therefore  in  addition  to  the  perfect  perform- 
ance of  such  requirements  as  may  arise  inci- 
dental to  the  meet  we  should  augment  those 
duties     by     informal     gatherings    about    the 


"ends"  during  the  evenings  our  interscholas- 
tic friends  are  with  us.  Every  "end"  can  at 
least  entertain  with  informal  feeds  and  college 
songs ;  and,  indeed,  will  probably  do  so.  No 
better  facilities  can  be  found  in  the  state  for  a 
gathering  such  as  occurs  Saturday,  and  no 
better  campus  and  buildings  are  possessed  by 
other  state  institutions ;  it  only  remains  for  us 
to  make  the  most  of  the  opportunities  which 
are  in  themselves  unsurpassable  in  Maine. 


Criticisms  of  fraternity  interference  with 
the  best  welfare  of  the  college  and  its  various 
organizations  may  be  most  deservedly  admin- 
istered or  perhaps  too  severe,  but  there  is  no 
question  about  the  benefit  inherited  in  local 
or  interfraternity  societies.  Not  that  such  or- 
ganizations may  not  act  detrimental  if  not 
disastrous  to  the  college  ;  for,  inasmuch  as  they 
have  enrolled  representations  from  all  of  the 
fraternities,  the  influence  thus  derived  could 
be  so  handled  that  an  active  and  powerful 
monopoly  would  be  formed,  and  probably 
flourish  for  a  short  period.  Just  as  much  as 
the  opportunities  for  doing  harm  are  increased 
so  much  are  the  opportunities  for  bettering 
college  affairs,  and  that  the  latter  aspect  should 
be  taken  at  present  is  a  conviction  with  which 
doubtless  the  majority  of  the  students  will 
agree.  There  are  all  sorts  of  men  in  our 
midst, — men  born  to  rule,  men  with  business 
ability,  men  of  address  to  represent  us  upon 
the  platform,  men  of  literary  acumen,  and  so 
on.  It  is  claimed  that  the  fraternity  spirit 
here  at  Bowdoin  prevents  a  just  culling  out 
in  which  the  right  men  get  the  right  places. 
Interfraternity  surely  acts  altogether  antago- 
nistic to  such  a  condition  of  affairs. 

Too  much  stress  cannot  be  laid  upon  the 
narrowing  influence  resulting  in  a  man  choos- 
ing from  his  own  fraternity  his  only  coterie  of 
friends,  debarring  himself  from  all  but  the 
most  desultory  intimacy  with  the  outre  world. 
Any  atmosphere  which  will  decompose  this 
affinity  and  tends  towards  a  crystallization  of 
the  whole  student  body  into  a  compact  and 


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sympathetic  mass  is  to  be  welcomed,  and  we 
feel  such  is  possible  only  under  a  regime  of 
which  interfraternity  intercourse  is  a  promi- 
nent part.  The  latter  will  do  the  decompos- 
ing of  fraternity  conservativeness ;  and,  that 
accomplished,  no  fear  need  be  felt  over  un- 
sympathetic relations  within  the  college. 

Bowdoin  at  her  present  size  surely  does  not 
need  augmentation  to  the  present  number  of 
intercollegiate  fraternities ;  as  a  matter  of  fact 
any  such  action  would  probably  meet  opposi- 
tion from  the  students,  alumni  and  friends  of 
the  college  as  strengthening  fraternity  feel- 
ing upon  the  principle  of  one  more  mouth  to 
feed.  Nor  again  does  it  seem  altogether  wise 
to  increase  interfraternity  societies  to  more 
than  a  half  or  a  third  the  number  of  intercol- 
legiate fraternities,  else  the  breaking  down 
process  may.  go  so  far  that  even  the  good  of 
fraternities  will  be  annihilated.  Discretion 
and  common  sense  should  be  ever  prevalent 
in  all  innovations,  and  we  must  strive  to  main- 
tain that  medium  in  all  things  where  the  best 
possible  good  will  result  to  the  college  and  its 
members. 


The  symbolic  significance  of  the  cap  and 
gown  is  altogether  lacking  appreciation,  or 
else  their  neglect  is  due  to  carelessness  or 
inertia.  This  sable  apparel  would  seem  quite 
in  harmony  with  that  good  old  sentiment  of 
romance,  chivalry,  and  high  literary  achieve- 
ments which  one's  mind  pictures  of  the  stu- 
dents of  the  higher  institutions  of  learning 
such  as  Oxford  and  Cambridge,  and  which 
might  well  permeate  our  own  Alma  Mater. 
Put  on  your  cap  at  least  and  wear  it,  you  have 
earned  it  and  should  be  proud  of  its  attain- 
ment. Its  presence  is  by  far  too  unfamiliar 
a  sight  upon  the  Bowdoin  campus. 


NOTICES. 

We  hope  that    every    Bowdoin    man  has 

taken  to  heart  the  words  of  Dr.  Whittier  at 

Monday  evening's  mass-meeting  and  will  do 

all  in  his  power  to  make  a  success  of  the  Bow- 


doin Invitation  Interscholastic  Meet  held 
under  our  auspices  this,  week. 

When  the  Maine  Interscholastic  Athletic 
Association  went  to  pieces,  the  schools  were 
persuaded  to  give  up  all  attempts  at  reviving 
that  association  and  to  accept  an  invitation 
meet  under  Bowdoin  management.  Influ- 
enced by  our  promises,  fourteen  fitting-schools 
have  entered  contesting  teams,  and  it  now 
devolves  upon  us  to  make  good  our  promises 
in  the  fullest  sense  of  the  word  and  make  this 
the  most  successful  interscholastic  meet  ever 
held  in  Maine.  Every  stib-freshman  present 
must  be  made  to  feel  that  he  is  the  guest  of 
the  college,  and  the  only  way  this  can  be  done 
is  for  every  Bowdoin  man  to  make  himself 
personally  responsible  for  the  entertaining  of 
as  many  guests  as  possible. 

Our  treatment  of  the  visiting  fitting- 
school  men  this  year  will  largely  determine 
whether  or  not  the  interscholastic  meets  shall 
be  held  with  Bowdoin  in  the  future,  and  there 
is  no  way  in  which  we  can  do  more  to  draw 
desirable  men  to  Bowdoin  than  by  thus  an- 
nually entertaining  the  fitting-schools  of 
Maine.  The  Bowdoin  Invitation  Interschol- 
astic Meet  is  a  grand  good  thing ;  let  every- 
body push  it  along. 


We  herewith  submit  a  financial  statement 
of  the  Tennis  Association  for  last  season.  Its 
management  has  been  above  criticism,  and  its 
cash  balance  upon  the  right  side  speaks  vol- 
umes of  its  prosperity. 

W.  H.  White,  Jr.,  President, 

In    Acct.    with    Bowdoin    College    Tennis 
Association. 
1898         To    '97  balance   from  J. 

F.  Dana,  $32  63 

March     5  By  delegates  expenses  to 

Waterville,  $3  23 

May        4  By  stamps,  30 

5  To  subscriptions,  6  50 

18  To   subscriptions,  9  y^ 

18  By  stamps,  25 

18  By  tennis  balls,  12  55 

June        4  By   printing    (letters    to 

schools),  2  25 

5  To  subscriptions,  27  00 

6  By  tickets  to    Waterville 

and  annual  dues,  22  60 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


June        9  By     team's    expense    at 

Waterville,  $ig  oo 

14  To  old  tennis  balls,  "J^ 
6  To     interscholastic      en- 
trance fees,                         10  00 

15  By  tennis  balls  for  inter- 

scholastic, 8  00 

15  To  subscriptions,  3  75 

15  To  old  tennis  balls,  2j 

15  To  old  tennis  balls,  50 

16  To  old  tennis  balls,  25 

17  To  old  tennis  balls,  25 

23  By  telegram  to  Colby,  25 

23  To  old  tennis  balls,  50 

23  By  sending  cups  to  Col- 
by (box  and  express),  65 


Total, 
Balance, 


$92  13 
$23  03 


CALENDAR. 

Friday  and  Saturday,  May  26  and  27. — Inter- 
scholastic Tennis  Tournament  at  Brunswick. 

Saturday,  May  27. — Maine  Invitation  Inter- 
scholastic Meet  at  Brunswick. 

Tuesday,  May  30. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Lewiston. 

Wednesday,  Thursday  and  Friday,  May  31, 
June  i  and  2. — Intercollegiate  Tennis  Tournament; 
Bowdoin  and  University  of  Vermont  at  Burlington, 
Vt. 

Wednesday,  May  31. — Examinations  in  Ger- 
man. 

S.^turday,  June  3. — Annual  Maine  Intercolle- 
giate  Field  Meet  at  Waterville. 

Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at  Brunswick. 

Monday  to  Wednesday,  June  5-7. — Maine  In- 
tercollegiate Tennis  Tournament  at  Brunswick. 

Monday  to  Thursday,  June  5-8. — Senior  Ex- 
aminations. 

Wednesday,  June  7.— Bowdoin-Colby  Fresh- 
man Meet  at  Waterville. 

Bowdoin  plays   Bates  at   Brunswick. 

Friday,  June  g. — Ivy  Day. 

Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at  Brunswick  (forenoon). 

Saturday,  June  10. — Field  Day. 

MoND.\y  TO  Friday,  June  12-16.— Examina- 
tions. 

Sunday,  June  18. — Baccalaureate  Sermon. 
Monday,  June   19.— Junior  Prize   Declamation. 
Bowdoin  plays  University  of  Toronto  at  Bruns- 
wick. 

Tuesday,  June  20. — Class  Day. 
Wednesday,    June    21.— Graduation    Exercises 
of  the  Medical  School. 


Thursday,  June  22. — Commencement  Day. 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  Alumni. 
Friday  and  Saturday,  June  23  and  24. — En- 
trance Examinations. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Gardiner  celebrates  its  semi-centennial  this  week. 

A  new  bicycle  path  has  been  built  from  Bruns- 
wick to  Mere  Point  and  Gurnet  bridge. 

Princeton  defeated  Columbia  last  week  in  an 
athletic  meet  by  a  score  of  61  1-6  to  42i. 

A  number  of  students  attended  the  dance  given 
by  the  Brunswick  High  School  Tuesday  evening, 
May  i6th. 

About  720  books  were  taken  out  of  the  library 
during  April,  and  to  the  middle  of  May  434  had 
been  charged. 

Last  week  President  Eliot  completed  his  thir- 
tieth year  of  continual  service  as  president  of  Har- 
vard University. 

The  Class  of  '89  will  celebrate  its  tenth  anniver- 
sary by  a  banquet  at  Congress  Square  Hotel,  Port- 
land, on  June  21st. 

Oxford  and  Cambridge  have  challenged  Har- 
vard and  Yale,  and  an  international  track  meet  may 
be  held  in  London  during  July. 

It  is  again  reported  that  the  Medical  School  is  to 
be  moved  to  Portland.  It  seems  to  be  the  desire 
of  the  majority,  however,  that  it  remain  at  Bruns- 
wick. 

Professor  Robinson  has  suggested  that  the  Col- 
lege Hospital  Association  be  formed  in  order  that 
it  may  obtain  aid  more  freely  than  if  a  private  insti- 
tution. 

The  heavy  forest  fire  that  raged  in  the  woods 
south  of  Brunswick  last  week,  was  especially  notice- 
able one  evening  when  it  illumined  the  southern 
sky  with  a  dull  red. 

David  F.  Atherton,  special,  will  have  charge  of 
the  North  Congregational  Church  at  Belfast  during 
the  summer;  and  Beadle,  '00,  of  a  Congregational 
Church  at  West  Dresden. 

The  Seniors  have  been  reading  their  commence- 
ment parts  before  the  judging  committee  the  past 
week.  The  committee  is  composed  of  Professor 
Chapman,  Professor  Hutchins  and  Mr.  Andrews. 

Augusta  is  talking  of  organizing  a  base-ball 
club,  to  be  composed  chiefly  of  college  players. 
They  believe  that  games   could  be  arranged  with 


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amateur  teams  in  Lewiston,  Brunswick,  Freeport 
and  other  places. 

It  is  understood  that  Miss  Grace  E.  Matthews,  a 
sister  of  Professor  Shailer  Matthews,  formerly  of 
Colby  and  now  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  will 
succeed  Miss  Mary  Sawtelle  as  dean  of  the  women's 
division  at  Colby. 

The  closing  meeting  of  the  Saturday  Club  of 
Brunswick  for  the  year  was  held  Friday,  May  I2th. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing 
year:  President,  Miss  Laura  A.  Hatch;  vice-presi- 
dents, Mrs.  Franklin  C.  Robinson,  Mrs.  William  A. 
Moody;  secretary.  Miss  Edith  J.  Boardman; 
recording  secretary,  Miss  Nellie  Wyraan.  Mrs. 
Byron  Stevens,  the  retiring  president,  presented  the 
club  with  a  gavel. 

Professor  Mitchell  has  posted  the  following 
theme  subjects  for  the  Sophomores  who  are  not  in 
Mr.  Andrews'  course.  The  themes  are  due  next 
Monday,  May  29th. 

1.  How  Trusts  Injure  Trade. 

2.  The  Volunteer  Soldier:  A  Memorial  Day 
Address. 

3.  A  Description  of  the  Campus. 

4.  How  to  Spend  a  Half  Holiday. 

5.  A  Book  that  Has  Greatly  Influenced  Me. 

6.  Kipling's   "The   Day's  Work." 

The  Freshmen  have  chosen  the  following  of 
their  number  to  fill  the  various  functions  incidental 
to  their  class  banquet,  which  will  be  held  in  Port- 
land on  the  evening  of  June  i6th:  Opening  address, 
George  Edwin  Fogg;  poet,  Lee  Thomas  Gray;  his- 
torian, Frederic  Arthur  Stanwood;  closing  address, 
George  Rowland  Walker;  marshal,  William  Leav- 
itt  Watson;  committee  on  odes,  Richard  Bryant 
Bushnell  Stone,  Eben  Ricker  Haley;  committee  on 
arrangements,  Sidney  Webb  Noyes,  Charles  Edgar 
Rolfe,  Lyman  Abbott  Cousens.  The  name  of  the 
toastmaster  chosen  will  not  be  given  out. 


flTliLETICS. 

At  thi.s  time  it  is  unnecessary  for  the 
Orient  to.  make  any  comment  upon  the  feel- 
ings of  the  student  body  toward  athletics  in 
general  and  the  Worcester  team  in  particular. 
The  news  of  the  victory  was  received  Satur- 
day night  with  the  utmost  surprise.  It  was 
known  that  the  team,  as  a  team,  was  the  best 
that  had  ever  gone  to  Worcester,  but  no  one 
had  even  dreamed  of  first  place.     But  the  stu- 


dents rallied  from  their  astonishment  enough 
for  a  most  enthusiastic  celebration  Saturday 
night. 

The  victorious  team  was  made  up  of  Capt. 
Godfrey  '99,  W.  B.  Clarke  '99,  Hadlock  '99, 
Edwards  1900,  Clough  1900,  Hamlin  1900, 
Cloudman  '01,  Bodwell  '01,  Small  '01,  Snow 
'01,  Wheeler  '01,  Furbish  '02,  Hunt  '02, 
Hayes  '02,  and  Young,  Med. 

Snow  was  the  surprise  of  the  meet.  Al- 
though everyone  in  college  knew  him  to  be 
a  fast  man,  and  game  to  the  end,  he  was  not 
expected  to  win  his  race.  The  Boston  papers 
declare  that  the  quarter  was  the  prettiest  race 
of  the  day.  Snow  was  fifth  man  until  the 
stretch  was  reached,  and  then  by  a  brilliant 
spurt  he  drew  by  the  bunch  and  won  by  a 
foot. 

Bobby  Edwards  went  away  from  the  bunch 
in  the  low  hurdles,  and  was  never  pressed  for 
Ihe  race.  He  ran  in  beautiful  forrn  and 
finished  with  yards  to  spare. 

Hadlock  displayed  unexpected  speed  in 
the  high  hurdles.  He  was  second  by  about 
two  inches,  and  would  have  won  if  he  had  not 
stumbled  at  the  ninth  hurdle. 

Cloudman  also  had  hard  luck,  turning  his 
ankle  while  leading  in  the  220  dash.  He 
pluckily  finished  second.  No  one  in  college 
doubts  his  ability  to  win  next  year. 

Hunt,  who  was  not  expected  to  get  a  place, 
got  third  in  the  hundred,  and  also  ran  in  the 
finals  of  the  220  dash. 

Capt.  Godfrey  took  second  in  the  shot  put, 
but  the  winner  had  to  break  a  record  to  beat 
him.  Godfrey's  puts  were  all  over  thirty- 
eight  feet,  while  the  man  who  won  the  event 
made  only  one  put  of  over  thirty-seven  feet. 

It  happened  that  the  pole  vault  decided 
whether  first  place  went  to  Bowdoin  or  Wil- 
liams, and  that  Clarke  was  the  man  who  finally 
brought  it  to  Bowdoin.  No  one  was  in  the 
least  surprised,  for  everyone  in  college  knows 
that  while  Browser  is  able  to  walk  his  nerve 
never  forsakej  him.  He  was  the  coolest  man 
in  the  crowd  while  the  tie  was  being  vaulted 


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off,  and  his  victory  was  due  as  much  to  his 
nerve  as  to  his  abihty  as  a  pole-vaulter. 

Without  exception  the  men  who  were  un- 
placed were  close  to  the  winners  and  never 
"quit."  Young  was  fifth  in  throwing  the  dis- 
cus. The  three  bicycle  men,  Clough,  Ham- 
lin, and  Small  rode  well  even  on  the  strange 
track.  Small  got  in  to  the  finals,  and  rode  a 
good  race,  although  he  did  not  win.  Wheelei 
finished  strong  in  the  mile,  and,  to  quote  Capt. 
Godfrey,  is  a  "comer."  Furbish,  in  the  half, 
ran  a  plucky  race  against  a  large  field.  Bod- 
well  was  fourth  in  the  hammer-throw.  In 
the  high  jump  Hayes  did  such  good  work  that 
he  seems  to  be  sure  of  a  place  next  year. 

To  Capt.  Godfrey,  the  hard-working  leader 
of  the  team ;  to  Manager  Chapman,  who  has 
done  so  much  in  spite  of  unfavorable  circum- 
stances ;  to  Dr.  Richards  and  John  Graham, 
the  efficient  coaches ;  and  to  Dr.  Wiiittier, 
who  has  done  more  than  any  other  man  to 
develop  a  winning  team,  the  thanks  of  every 
Bowdoin  man  is  due. 

SUMMARY  OF  EVENTS. 

loo-yard  dash — First  heat  won  by  A.  E.  Curte- 
nius,  Amherst;  A,  C.  Patterson,  Williams,  second; 
time  10  2-5S.  Second  heat  won  by  H.  J.  Hunt, 
Bowdoin;  C.  E.  McDavitt,  Dartmouth,  second; 
time  ID  2-5S.  Third  heat  won  by  C.  Billington, 
Wesleyan;  E.  A.  Rich,  Trinity,  second;  time  lo  3-5S. 
Heat  for  second  men  won  by  A.  C.  Patterson,  Wil- 
liams; C.  E.  McDavitt,  Dartmouth,  second;  time 
10  4-5S.  Final  heat  won  by  N.  E.  Curtenius,  Am- 
herst; C.  Billington,  Wesleyan,  second;  H.  J.  Hunt, 
Bowdoin,  third;  time  10  2-5S. 

220-yard  dash — First  heat  won  by  A.  C.  Patter- 
son, Williams;  F.  H.  Rollins,  University  of  Maine, 
second;  time  22  2-55.  Second  heat  won  by  A.  E. 
Curtenius,  Amherst;  H.  J.  Hunt,  Bowdoin,  second; 
time  23  2-5S.  Third  heat  won  by  H.  H.  Cloudman, 
Bowdoin;  C.  Billington,  Wesleyan,  second;  time 
23  2-5S.  Heat  for  second  men  won  by  H.  J.  Hunt, 
Bowdoin;  time  24  4-5S.  Final  heat  won  by  A.  E. 
Curtenius,  Amherst;  H.  H.  Cloudman,  Bowdoin, 
second;  A.  C.  Patterson,  Williams,  third;  time 
22  3-5S. 

440-yard  dash — First  heat  won  by  H.  W.  Glad- 
win, Amherst;  D.  F.  Snow,  Bowdoin,  second;  C. 
Park,  Williams,  third;  time  53s.  Second  heat  won 
by  F.  W.  Haskell,  Dartmouth;  R.  Pierce,  Brown, 
second;  R.  B.  Priest,  M.  I.  T.,  third;  time  55  1-5S. 
Final  heat  won  by  D.  F.  Snow,  Bowdoin;  H.  W. 
Gladwin,  Amherst,  second;  C.  Park,  Williams,  third; 
time  S3  2-55. 

880-yard  run — Won  by  J.  Bray,  Williams;  G.  L. 


Dow,  Dartmouth,  second;  K.  Klaer,  Amherst,  third. 
Time  2m.  4  1-5S. 

One-mile  run — Won  by  J.  Bray,  Williams;  E.  S. 
Carey,  Wesleyan,  second;  C.  E.  Paddock,  Dart- 
mouth, third.     Time  4m.  46  2-5S. 

Two-mile  run — Won  by  J.  Bray,  Williams;  J.  F. 
Moody,  Dartmouth,  second;  A.  L.  Hawley,  Am- 
herst, third.     Time  lom.  i6s. 

220-yard  hurdles — First  heat  won  by  J.  Bigelow, 
Brown;  J.  W.  Horr,  M.  I.  T.,  second;  time  27  4-5S. 
Second  heat  won  by  J.  Potter,  Williams;  G.  P. 
Campbell,  Williams,  second;  time  27  3-5S.  Third 
heat  won  by  R.  S.  Edwards,  Bowdoin;  P.  P.  Edson, 
Dartmouth,  second;  time  27s.  Heat  for  second  men 
won  by  P.  P.  Edwards,  Dartmouth;  time  28  3-5S. 
Final  heat  won  by  R.  S.  Edwards,  Bowdoin;  P.  P. 
Potter,  Williams,  second;  P.  P.  Edson,  Dartmouth, 
third.     Time  26  1-5S. 

Two-mile  bicycle  race — First  heat  won  by  F.  C. 
Dudley,  Amherst;  R,  Lynch,  Brown,  second;  time 
5m.  40  4-5S.  Second  heat  won  by  R.  Murray,  M. 
I.  T. ;  J.  B.  Mclntyre,  Dartmouth,  second;  time 
5m.  22  4-5S.  Third  heat  won  by  N.  L.  Small,  Bow- 
doin; B.  Wells,  Williams,  second;  time  5m.  35s. 
Fourth  heat  won  by  J.  F.  Steever,  M.  I.  T. ;  R.  J. 
Chiland,  Amherst,  second;  time  5m.  46  2-55.  Heat 
for  second  men  won  by  R.  J.  Chiland.  Amherst; 
final  heat  won  by  Ray  Murray,  M.  I.  T.;  F.  C.  Dud- 
ley, Amherst,  second;  B.  Wells,  Williams,  third. 
Time  5m.  33  2-53. 

120-yard  hurdles — First  heat  won  by  J.  W.  Horr, 
M.  I.  T. ;  E.  S.  Wilson,  Amherst,  second;  no  time. 
Second  heat  won  by  P.  P.  Edson,  Dartmouth;  R. 
L.  Shepard,  M.  I.  T.,  second;  no  time.  Third  heat 
won  by  E.  S.  Hadlock,  Bowdoin;  C.  R.  Dodge, 
Wesleyan,  second;  time  17  1-5S.  Heat  for  second 
men,  won  by  E.  S.  Wilson,  Amherst;  R.  L.  Shep- 
ard, .  M.  I.  T.,  second;  time  17  1-5S.  Final  heat 
won  by  P.  P.  Edson.  Dartmouth;  E.  S.  Hadlock, 
Bowdoin,  second;  J.  W.  Horr,  M.  I.  T.,  third;  time 
17s. 

Running  broad  jump — Won  by  C.  Brown, 
Brown,  distance  21  ft.  4  in.;  T.  S.  Cline,  Wesleyan, 
20  ft.  10  in.,  second;  B.  H.  Green,  Brown,  20  ft. 
42  in.,  third. 

Throwing  discus — Won  by  A.  S.  Grover,  U.  of 
M.,  distance  108  ft.  i  in.;  I.  H.  Hall,  Brown,  103  ft. 
7  in.,,  second;  P.  Winslow,  Amherst,  102  ft.  i  in., 
third. 

Running  high  jump — Won  by  F.  K.  Baxter,  M. 
I.  T.,  height  5  ft.  4J  in.;  tie  for  second  place  be- 
tween E.  G.  Littell,  Trinity;  C.  Brown,  Brown,  T. 
S.  Cline,  Wesleyan,  at  5  ft.  5I  in.  Medal  for  second 
won  by  E.  G.  Littell,  Trinity;  C.  Brown,  Brown, 
third. 

Pole  vault — Won  by  J.  L.  Hurlburt  Jr.,  Wes- 
leyan, height  10  ft.  6  in.;  W.  B.  Clark,  Bowrdoin, 
10  ft.,  second;  F.  Squires,  Williams,  10  ft.,  third. 

Shot  put — ^Won  by  J.  Melandy,  Brown,  distance 
38  ft.  loi  in.;  E.  R.  Godfrey,  Bowdoin,  38  ft.  44  in., 
second;  A.  L.  Grover,  U.  of  M.,  32  ft.  i  in.,  third. 

Throwing  16-pound  hammer — Won  by  F.  C. 
Ingalls,  Trinity;  distance,  121  ft.  2  in.;  D.  H.  Hall, 
Brown,  no  ft.  4  in.,  second;  F.  Carsan,  Dartmouth. 
98  ft.  I  in.,  third.  F.  C.  Ingalls  threw  for  the  record 
and  won;  distance  126  ft.  —  in. 

Final  score — Bowdoin  23,  Williams  22,  Amherst 
ig.  Brown  18J,  Wesleyan  15J,  Dartmouth  14,  M.  I. 
T.  II,  Trinity  6i,  U.  of  M.  6. 


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Dartmouth  13,  Bowdoin  i. 
Dartmouth  had  no  trouble  in  defeating 
Bowdoin  Tuesday,  May  i6th.  Sampson  al- 
lowed his  opponents  and  his  team  backed  him 
up  in  good  shape.  Libby  was  very  wild  and 
ineffective. 

DARTMOUTH. 

BH         PO        A  E 

French,  s 4  o  3  o 

Drew,  c... i  9  i  o 

Folsom,  r i  3  o  o 

Crolius,  I I  10  o  0 

McCarten,   3 2  i  i  0 

Hancock,  m i  i  o  o 

Pingree,  1 2  2  o  0 

Abbott,  2 I  o  6  o 

Sampson,  p i  i  3  I 

Totals   14      27       II         I 

BOWDOIN. 

BII        PO         A  E 

Greenlaw,  1 o  i  o  o 

Wignott,  c o  6  o  o 

Clarke,  s i  o  3  o 

Haskell,  2 o  2  2  i 

Libby,  p...; o  o  4  o 

Harkins,   3 o  2  4  2 

Trainer,   m o  2  o  o 

Came,  i o  11  o  3 

Stanwood,  r o  o  o  o 

Pratt,   I I  3  o  o 

Totals    2      27      13        6 

Innings   i     2     3     4    5     6     7    8    9 

Dartmouth   7     o    5     o     o     I     o     o    o — 13 

Bowdoin    i     o    o    o    o    o    00    o —  i 

Runs  made — by  French  2,  Drew  2,  Crolius  2, 
McCarten,  Hancock,  Pingree,  Abbott  2,  Folsom, 
Sampson,  Greenlaw.  Two-base  hits — Abbott, 
French.  Clarke.  Stolen  bases — Drew,  Crolius  3, 
Folsom,  McCarten,  Greenlaw.  Base  on  balls — by 
Libby,  McCarten  2,  Sampson,  Drew,  Hancock  2,  by 
Sampson,  Greenlaw,  Came,  Harkins  2,  Haskell. 
Struck  out — by  Sampson,  Haskell  2,  Stanwood, 
Clarke,  Libby  3,  Greenlaw;  by  Libby,  Sampson, 
Hancock  2,  Pingree.  Hit  by  pitched  ball — by 
Libby,  Drew.  Passed  ball — Wignott.  Umpire — 
Haggerty.     Time — 2h. 

D.^RTMGUTii  29,  Bowdoin  8. 
The  only  feature  of  the  second  Dartmouth 
game,  May  17th,  was  the  stick  work  of  Clarke. 
Further  coment  is  unnecessary. 
DARTMOUTH. 

BH         PO        A  E 

.  French,  s 3  3  i  i 

Drew,  c 3  7  i  i 

Folsom,  r i  o  o  o 

Crolius,   I I  5  o  2 

McCarten,  3 i  3  2  o 

Hancock,   m 3  5  o  i 

Pingree,  1 3  i  i  o 

Abbott,  2 3  3  2  0 

Cook,  p 2  o  5  o 

Varney,  p i  o  o  o 

Totals    21      27      12        S 


BOWDOIN. 

BH       PC        A  E 

Greenlaw,  1 3  i  i  3 

Wignott,   c 3  3  o  0 

Pratt,   p o  .0  I  o 

Clarke,  s 4  2  3  3 

Haskell,   2 o  3  6  3 

Libby,   i o  14  o  2 

Trainer,  m i  2  o  2 

Stanwood,   r o  i  o  o 

Harkins,  3 2  143 

Totals 13      27       14       16 

Innings   i     2     3     4    5    6     7    8     9 

Dartmouth    3     7     iio     3     o    3     o     1—28 

Bowdoin   2    o    o    o    2    5    o    o    o — 9 

Runs  made — by  French  3,  Drew  3,  Folsom  2, 
Crolius  4,  McCarten  4,  Hancock  3,  Pingree  3, 
Abbott  4,  Cook  2,  Greenlaw  2,  Wignott  2,  Pratt  2, 
Clarke  2,  Harkins.  Two-base  hits — Cook,  Abbott, 
Clarke,  Harkins.  Three-base  hit — Folsom.  Stolen 
bases — Drew,  Cooke,  Hancock,  Greenlaw,  Wignott 
2.  Base  on  balls — by  Cook,  Pratt  2;  by  Varney, 
Stanwood,  Wignott,  Pratt;  by  Pratt,  French,  Cro- 
lius. Struck  out — by  Cook,  Pratt,  Haskell;  by  Var- 
ney, Trainer,  Wignott.  Double  play— Abbott  to 
Crolius.  Hit  by  pitched  ball— Crolius,  McCarten. 
Passed  balls — Wignott  2.  Umpire — Haggerty. 
Time — 2h.  20m. 


PERSONflLS. 

BOWDOIN  COLLEGE 
Class  of  '94 
Directory,  5th  Year,  May  i,  1899. 
The  Secretary  has  on  file,  and  intends  to    keep 
up  to  date,  a  full  record    of    each    member    of    the 
class.     This   list,   however,   gives    only  the   present 
occupation  and  address;  dates  in  parentheses  indi- 
cating when  the  positions  were  taken.     The  names 
of  all  who  were  at  any  time    members    of    '94    are 
included. 

Please    send    notice     of    additions    and    correc- 
tions to  C.  A.  Flagg,  Secretary 
20  Chestnut  St.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Class  Directory. 

William  Fernald  Allen.  Traveling  in  publishing 
and  advertising  business  (May  '95).  Home 
add.   76  Myrtle   St.,   Portland,   Me. 

John  Wendell  Anderson.  Agent  for  Mass.  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Co.  in  Cumberland  county,  Me. 
Res.  Gray,  Me. 

Henry  Edwin  Andrews.  Teaching  rhetoric  and 
composition  temporarily  at  Bowdoin  (Apr.  '99). 
Home  add.  .Kennebunk,  Me. 

Harry  Lee  Bagley.  No  report.  Home  add.  Ken- 
nebunk, Me. 

Rupert  Henry  Baxter.  Member  of  firm  of  H.  C. 
Baxter  and  Bros.  Packers  of  canned  goods, 
Brunswick,  Me.,   (Jan.  '95).     Res.   Bath,   Me. 

Alfred  Veazie  Bliss.  Pastor  of  Cong.  Churches  in 
Ludlow  and  Tyson,  Vt.,  (Jan.  '98).  Res.  Lud- 
low, Vt. 

Frank  Ellsworth  Briggs.  Principal  of  High 
School,  Alfred,  Me.,  (Apr.  '98).  Home  add. 
Mechanic  Falls,  Me. 


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Harry  Edgar  Bryant.  Principal  of  High  School, 
Sanford,  Me.,  (Apr.  '98). 

Samuel  Preble  Buck,  Jr.  No  report.  Home  add. 
West  Woolwich,  Me. 

Arthur  Chapman.  Studying  law  in  the  office  of 
Gage  and  Strout,  52  Exchange  St.,  Portland. 
Res.  Woodfords,  Me. 

Trelawney  Clarendale  Chapman,  Jr.  Pastor  of 
Math.  Epis.  Church,  Alfred,  Me.,  (Apr.  '97); 
Supt.  of  schools. 

William  Eugene  Currier,  M.  D.  (June  '98).  Med- 
ical house  officer,  Boston  City  Hospital  (Mar. 
'98).     Add.  Leicester,  Mass. 

Francis  William  Dana.  No  report.  Home  add. 
Portland,  Me. 

George  Colby  DeMott.  Pastor  of  First  Cong. 
Church,  West  Winfield,   N.  Y.,   (Apr.  '99). 

Frank  George  Farrington.  Principal  of  Skowhe- 
gan  High  School  and  Bloomfield  Academy 
(Sept.  '96).     Add.  Box  945,  Skowhegan,  Me. 

Charles  Allcott  Flagg.  Assistant  in  N.  Y.  State 
Library  (July  '96).  Sub-librarian  (history). 
Res.  20  Chestnut  St.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Fred  Whitney  Flood.  Student,  Theological  Semi- 
nary, Andover,  Mass.,  (Sept.  '97).  Assistant 
to  Chaplain,  Mass.  Reformatory,  Concord  ('98). 

Francis  Alvan  Frost.  Newspaper  man;  connected 
with  Boston  Daily  Advertiser  (Mar.  '99). 

Fred  Weston  Glover.  With  Libby,  McNeill  and 
Libby,  Packers  and  preservers  of  meats,  Union 
Stock  Yards,  Chicago,  111.,  ('98). 

Rufus  Henry  Hinkley,  Jr.  With  Dana  Estes  and 
Co.,  Publishers,  ig6  Summer  St.,  Boston  (Sept. 
'95).     Manager  of  Subscription  Department. 

Hiram  Lionel  Horsman.  Student,  Medical  School 
of  Me.  (Jan.  '97).  Res.  82  Federal  St.,  Bruns- 
wick, Me. 

Frank  Herbert  Knight.  Student,  Mass.  College  of 
Pharmacy  (Sept.  '94).  With  J.  G.  Godding  and 
Co.,  Apothecaries.  Dartmouth,  cor.  Newbury 
St.,  Boston  (May  '97).     Head  clerk  (Nov.  '97). 

Charles  Milton  Leighton,  M.  D.  (June  '97).  City 
physician  for  Portland  (Aug.  '98).  Add.  365 
Congress   St.,   Portland,   Me. 

James  Atwood  Levensaler.  Connected  with  J.  O. 
Gushing  and  Co.,  Manufacturers  of  lime,  Thom- 
aston.  Me.,  (June  '94).  Member  of  Superin- 
tending School   Committee   ('98). 

Frederic  Joseph  Libby.  Went  abroad  to  study  in 
Berlin  in  the  fall  of  '98.  Home  add.  Richmond, 
Me. 

George  Curtis  Littlefield,  M.  D.  (June  '97). 
Physician,  39  Main  St.,  Peabody,  Mass.,  (Aug. 
'98). 

Albert  Jones  Lord.  Pastor  of  Cong.  Church,  Hart- 
ford, Vt.,  (July  '97). 

Norman  McKinnon.  Pastor  of  Cong.  Church, 
Foxcroft,  Me.,  (June  '96). 

George  Anthony  Merrill.  Pastor  of  Cong. 
Churches,  New  Sharon  and  Farmington  Falls, 
Me.,   (July  '97).     Res.   New  Sharon,  Me. 

Charles  Edward  Merritt.  No  report.  Home  add. 
Jay,  Me. 

Clarence  Edward  Michels.  Principal  of  High 
School,  Vinalhaven,  Me.,   (Apr.  '99). 

Philip  Henry  Moore.  Pastor  of  First  Parish  Cong. 
Church,  Saco,  Me.,  (July  '93).  City  mission- 
ary (Oct.  '98).     Res.  27  Middle  St. 

Andrew  Urquhart  Ogilvie.  Pastor  of  Cong. 
Church,  Elkhart,  Ind.,  ('99). 

1  ■    ■ 


Frederick  William  Pickard.  Head  of  Editorial 
dept.  of  Portland  Transcript  (Nov.  '95).  Res. 
46  Cushman  St.,   Portland,  Me. 

Ralph  Parker  Plaisted.  Attorney  at  law  (Aug.  '97). 
Traveling  in  Europe  since  May  '98.  Home 
add.  167  Broadway,  Bangor,  Me. 

Howard  Andrew  Ross.  Director  of  gymnasium 
Phillips  Exeter  Academy  (June  '95).  Add. 
Box  2,  Exeter,  N.  H. 

Robert  Lester  Sheafif.  Pastor  of  First  Cong. 
Church,   Barton,  Vt.,   (Mar.  '97). 

Edgar  Myrick  Simpson.  Attorney  at  law  (May 
'97).  Office,  10  Broad  St.  Res.  303  Hammond 
St.,  Bangor,  Me. 

Samuel  Richard  Smiley.  Pastor  of  Cong.  Church, 
Lisbon  Centre,  N.  Y.,   (Oct.  '94). 

Leon  Leslie  Spinney.  Died  in  Brunswick,  Me. 
May  10,  1898. 

Pliny  Fenimore  Stevens,  M.  D.  (May  '98). 
House  surgeon,  St.  Luke's  Hospital  20-24  East 
22d  St.,   Bayonne,  N.  J.,   ('98). 

Emery  Howe  Sykes.  Instructor,  Mitchell's  Boys 
School,  Billerica,  Mass.,  (Mar.  '95). 

Elias  Thomas,  Jr.  Treasurer  of  Elias  Thomas  Co. 
wholesale  groceries  and  provisions,  120  Com- 
mercial St.,  Portland,  Me.,  (Aug.  '94).  Mem- 
ber of  Portland  Common  Council  1898  and 
1899. 

William  Widgery  Thomas.  Attorney  at  law  (Apr. 
'98).  Office  1844  Middle  St.  Res.  167  Dan- 
forth  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

William  Putnam  Thompson.  Attorney  at  law  (Feb. 
'99).  Office  of  Swasey  and  Swasey,  30  Court 
St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Benjamin  Bradford  Whitcomb.  Attorney  at  law 
(Oct.  '97).  Member  of  lumber  firm  of  Whit- 
comb, Haynes  and  Co.  Special  Deputv  Collec- 
tor of  Customs  (Oct.  '98).  Res.  Ellsworth, 
Me. 

Harry  Cooley  Wilbur.     Principal  of  High  School, 
Jonesport,  Me.,  (Mar.  '95).     Home  add.  Wood- 
fords,  Me. 
No   Marriages   or   Deaths    have    been    reported 

during  the  year. 


Y.  M.  C.  f]. 

The  weekly  meeting  on  the  evening  of  May 
i8th  was  led  by  Woodbury,  '99,  who  introduced  in 
a  pleasing  manner  the  subject:  "Fit  for  the  Spir- 
it's Indwelling."  Mr.  Woodbury  alluded  to  the 
fact  that  God  has  a  definite  work  for  each  of  his 
creatures  to  do;  he  then  proceeded  to  show  that 
the  lives  of  human  beings  can  only  be  used  of  God 
when  they  are  permeated  by  His  Holy  Spirit. 
After  the  subject  had  been  discussed  by  the  mem- 
bers, the  leader  called  upon  the  Rev.  Mr.  Lewis  of 
South  Berwick,  who  chanced  to  be  present.  Mr. 
Lewis  responded  in  words  which  were  exceedingly 
encouraging. 

The  missionary  committee,  which  had  not  been 
appointed  when  the  other  committees  appeared  in 
this  column,  has  been  made  up  as  follows:  Burnell, 
chairman;  Evans,  Fenley  and  Lee.  A  committee 
on  intercollegiate  relations,  consisting  of  Evans, 
chairman.  Holmes  and  Grinnell,  has  also  been 
appointed. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


IJIIUNSVVICK.   MAINE,   JUNE   1,   1899. 


No.  7. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED  EVERY  THURSDAY  DURING  THE  COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS  OF 

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EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

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Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

IsLAY  F.  McCoBMiCK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McOarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobe,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

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Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 

CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  7.— June  1,  1S99. 

Editorial  Notes      . 51 

Calendar 53 

College  Nevfs 53 

Athletics 55 

Personals 58 

Y.  M.  C.  A 58 


There  seems  to  be  an  erroneous  idea  in 
many  parts  of  the  state  that  Bowdoin  is  con- 
servative, and  under  no  condition  would  per- 
mit a  class  to  boast  of  more  than  thr^e-score 
in  its  enrollment.  This  idea  is  far  from  the 
truth,  for  we  would  welcome  all  within  our 
walls  who  could  pass  the  work  required  for 
"admission  ;  but  the  latter  must  be  performed 
or  else  we  break  the  spirit  if  not  the  letter  of 
the  regulations  adopted  by  all  the  leading 
colleges  of  New  England  in  respect  to  work 
required  as  a  preparation  for  a  college  course. 
No  one. for  a  moment  would  suggest  making 


the  requirements  less  strict  by  means  of  a 
less  advanced  college  curriculum,  for  our  cur- 
riculum is  the  main  reason  of  our  acknowl- 
edged superiority  over  the  other  colleges  in 
the  State,  and  of  our  equality  with  the  best 
colleges  of  New  England.  Because  many 
youths  fail  to  obtain  admission  to  the  state's 
oldest  college,  and,  yet,  in  time  obtain  a 
degree  without  leaving  the  state  is  not  so  un- 
fortunate for  the  college  losing  them  as  it  is 
for  their  losing  that  college. 

That  our  requirements  may  seem  too 
strict  to  some  in  this  state  is  the  fault  of  our 
sister  state  colleges ;  according  to  their  cata- 
logue they  require  a  preparation  identical 
with  ours :  but  such  work  when  most  poorly 
performed  has  often  admitted  students  to  col- 
leges in  this  state.  A  student  who  fails  or 
knows  he  will  fail  on  a  just  examination  of 
his  course  will  enter  a  college  on  certificate 
almost  without  exception,  when  that  is  possi- 
ble ;  and  it  is  possible  right  here  in  Maine. 
The  question  is,  are  the  requirements  of  other 
state  colleges  too  lenient  or  are  ours  too 
severe. 

We  would  impress  upon  every  fitting 
school  student  who  sees  this  paper  that  Bow- 
doin wants  you  as  much  as  any  college  in 
New  England  and  will  do  as  much  by  yon, 
but  she  first  expects  and  demands  a  fair 
knowledge  of  the  courses  studied  for  prepa- 
ration. 


Our  recent  celebration  might  have  been  as 
clean  as  the  victory  in  honor  of  which  we 
celebrated  had  it  not  been  for  the  few  having 
so  barbarous  an  appetite  for  destruction  that 
they  must  needs  make  of  the  campus  letter- 
box a  monument  of  their  senseless  and  Van- 
dalic  foolishness.     With    the    exception    just 


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BOWDOIN   OEIEN'T. 


mentioned  the  student  body  conducted  them- 
selves in  a  most  exemplary  manner  through- 
out the  entire  evening,  and  the  detrimental 
element  of  certain  college  gatherings,  in  the 
past,  was  never  more  conspicuous  by  its  ab- 
sence than  on  a  week  ago  Monday  night. 

Possibly  the  United  States  government  will 
carry  an  account  on  the  books  of  the  college, 
and  such  damage  as  the  letter-box  sustained 
be  proportioned  upon  the  term  bills  ;  but  prob- 
ably the  United  States  government  will  re- 
move the  box  from  the  campus  entirely  or 
take  recourse  to  the  law  which  prescribes  that 
such  an  action  as  willfully  marring  or  destroy- 
ing government  property  is  a  state's  prison 
ofifence ;  and  if  neither  one  of  the  last  two  re- 
sult from  the  present  condition  of  the  letter- 
box it  will  be  due  to  the  generosity  of  the 
Brunswick  post-master. 

A  repetition  of  this  childishness  either 
means  that  the  students  will  lose  the  conven- 
ience they  now  enjoy  in  the  letter-box  or  the 
college  will  be  advertised  in  the  newspapers 
by  a  law  case  savoring  of  "public  nuisances," 
"street  drunks,"  and  such  nice  things. 


The  sort  of  a  person  chosen  as  trainer  or 
coach  of  an  athletic  team  determines  in  no 
small  degree  the  efficiency  of  the  team.  It 
cannot  be  denied  that  there  are  a  vast  number 
of  "bluffers"  who  have  earned  more  or  less 
reputation  in  athletics,  and  for  that  reason 
undertake  to  earn  a  good  dollar  or  two  by 
means  of  a  little  knowledge  and  a  confident 
assuming  way  of  handling  the  men.  These 
s»rt  of  men  are  never  beneficial  to  a  team, 
and  it  often  takes  a  season  to  find  them  out, 
thus  wrecking  the  team  for  that  year. 

Coaching  to  be  of  the  greatest  benefit,  in 
the  first  place,  should  be  under  the  direction 
of  a  man  who  really  knows  why  he  orders  a 
man  to  do  this  or  forbids  a  man  to  do  that, 
who  knows  something  besides  theory  or  the 
general  facts  which  are  familiar  to  every  fol- 
lower of  athletics ;  in  the  second  place  it 
should  not  be  by  one  trainer  this  year  and 
another  next  year,  but  it  should  be  under  the 


same  trainer  year  after  year,  providing  the 
right  man  is  found. 

There,  is  no  doubt  that  our  foot-ball  teams 
of  the  last  few  seasons  would  have  had  far 
better  records  if  one  good  man  had  been  en- 
gaged from  year  to  year ;  and  an  illustration 
of  this  can  be  found  right  here  in  Maine.  The 
reason  lies  in  the  fact  that  he  would  know 
thoroughly  the  spirit  of  the  college  and  team, 
the  ability  of  the  old  players,  the  points  that 
seem  especially  weak,  the  strong  points  of  our 
rival  teams  and  so  on. 

Now  that  the  track  team  has  had  contact 
with  a  first-class  coach,  one  who  has  given 
perfect  satisfaction  to  team  and  college  and 
also  intimates  a  willingness  to  return  next 
year  if  satisfactory  arrangements  are  forth- 
coming, the  best  thing  for  the  college,  team, 
and  all  having  a  grain  of  interest  in  the  team's 
prosperity  is  to  engage  Mr.  John  Graham  at 
once  for  the  season  of  1900. 


The  unsettled  state  of  the  Maine  Intercol- 
legiate Base-Ball  League  controversy  at  this, 
the  time  of  going  to  press,  warrants  the 
Orient's  taking  somewhat  of  a  conservative 
stand. 

According  to  the  rule  debarring  a  man 
who  has  played  upon  college  teams  during 
four  years  from  further  playing  in  the  league, 
Bowdoin  has  been  deprived  of  one  of  her 
strongest  pla3'ers.  Bates  has  at  present  a 
man  on  her  team  who,  as  she  herself  admits, 
played  one  year  on  the  college  team  while  a 
sub-Freshman  and  also  during  his  four  years 
in  college,  the  present  3'ear  making  his  fifth 
year  on  the  team. 

Bowdoin  demands  that  this  rule,  which 
removes  one  of  her  players  from  the  league 
for  over  four  years'  college  playing,  also  re- 
moves the  Bates  player  who  likewise  has 
played  on  a  college  team  over  four  years. 

So  just  and  fair  is  the  Bowdoin  standpoint 
that  any  college  in  the  land,  but  Bates,  can 
see  how  clear  is  the  case  against  her.  As  a 
matter  of  fact  Bowdoin  is  willing  to  leave  the 
matter  to  an  impartial    board    of  arbitration 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


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and  abide  by  their  decision,  but  Bates  says 
she  won't  play  in  the  league  if  the  controversy 
is  settled  in  any  way  but  permitting  her  to 
retain  her  man. 

Not  quite  yet  has  the  custom  of  having 
handicaps  in  the  race  for  the  pennant  been 
established,  and,  until  then,  any  league  of 
which  Bowdoin  is  a  member  must  be  impar- 
tial and  above-board  in  all  its  dealing. 

May  every  building  upon  our  campus  be 
a  pile  of  ashes  before  any  college  of  the  status 
of  Bates  be  permitted  to  hoodwink  Bowdoin 
out  of  at  least  a  semblance  of  her  rig-hts. 


The  interscholastic  games  and  tennis 
tournament  ended  most  successfully  to  both 
the  contesting  schools  and  the  Bowdoin  man- 
agement. Thus  encouraged  for  a  renewal  of 
this  plan  we  trust  that  both  tournament  and 
meet  will  be  obtained  next  year,  and  ulti- 
mately established  as  a  permanent  event. 

The  meet  was  of  an  unusual  high  order 
when  the  fact  is  considered  that  a  very  poor 
substitute  is  all  that  has  linked' the  meet  of  two 
years  ago  with  the  current  year.  More  grat- 
ifying still,  perhaps,  is  the  probable  entrance 
of  several  of  last  Saturday's  most  prominent 
stars  in  the  next  Freshman  Class.  The  point 
of  holding  these  meets  here  and  working  for 
future  interests  is  too  palpable  to  need  but  a 
gentle  hint,  and  the  new  executive  of  track 
athletics  can  not  realize  this  any  too  early  for 
the  good  of  the  colleffe. 


Saturday  next  is  the  date  of  the  Maine 
Intercollegiate  Field  Day,  which  is  held  this 
year  at  Waterville.  A  new  impetus  has  been 
given  some  of  the  other  teams,  such  as  Bates 
and  U!  of  M.,  by  building  a  track  and  joining 
the  N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  respectively. 

It  seems  (juite  reasonable  to  consider  our 
chances  for  carrying  away  first  place  about 
as  good  as  any  one  of  the  other  teams,  but  a 
great  disadvantage  will  be  from  the  neglect 
of  training  which  has  been  so  prevalent  since 
the  Worcester  meet. 


Bowdoin  will  send  a  good  sized  team  to 
Waterville,  arid  will  make  a  hard  fight  for 
every  point  .in  the  fifteen  events.  Her  superi- 
ority in  this  branch  of  athletics  has  been  un- 
disputed in  the  j)ast,  and  probably  no  sleep 
need  be  lost  this  vear  over  the  outcome. 


CALENDAR. 

Wednesday,  Tiiuesday  and  Friday,  May  31, 
June  i  and  2. — Intercollegiate  Tennis  Tournament; 
Bowdoin  and  University  of  Vermont  at  Burlington, 
Vt. 

Wednesday,  May  31. — Examinations  in  Ger- 
man. 

Saturday,  June  3.— Annual  Maine  Intercolle- 
giate  Field  Meet  at  Waterville. 

Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at  Brunswick. 

Monday  to  Wednesday,  June  5-y. — Maine  In- 
tercollegiate Tennis  Tournament  at  Brunswick. 

Monday  to  Thursday,  June  5-8. — Senior  Ex- 
aminations. 

Wednesday,  June  7. — Bowdoin-Colby  Fresh- 
man Meet  at  Waterville. 

Bowdoin  plays   Bates  at   Brunswick. 

Friday,  June  9. — Ivy  Day. 

Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at  Brunswick   (forenoon). 

S.aturday,  June  id. — Field  Day. 

Monday  to  Friday,  June  12-16. — Examina- 
tions. 

Sunday,  June  18. — Baccalaureate  Sermon. 

Monday,  June   19. — Junior   Prize   Declamation. 

Bowdoin  plays  University  of  Toronto  at  Bruns- 
wick. 

Tuesday,  June  20. — Class  Day. 

Wednesday,  June  21. — Graduation  Exercises 
of  the   Medical   School. 

Thursday,  June  22. — Commencement   Day. 

Annual  Meeting  of  the  Alumni. 

Friday  and  Saturday,  June  23  and  24. — En- 
trance Examinations. 


AMOR    VINCIT. 
I  am  strolling  with  Nell, 

And  we  haven't  our  Horace, 
And  we  know  pretty  well — 
I  am  strolling  with  Nell — 
Yes   it's   easy  to   tell 

What  the  Prof,  will  have  for  us; 
I  am  strolling  with  Nell 

And  we  haven't  our  Horace. 

— The  Unit. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


The  Philosophy  Club  met  Monday  evening. 

The  mail  box  was  painted  the  night  of  the  cele- 
bration. 

Colby  celebrated  her  victory  over  Bowdoin 
Wednesday  night. 

A  number  of  the  students  went  on  a  trolley  ride 
Wednesday  night. 

Professor  Arthur  T.  Hadley  has  been  chosen 
president  of  Yale. 

The  Seniors  and  Juniors  have  been  practicing 
marching  the  past  week. 

The  ne.xt  fortnightlj'  theme  in  Mr.  Andrews' 
course  is  to  be  a  story. 

Professor  Johnson  gave  the  examinations  in 
French  Thursday  and  Monday. 

Very  few  of  the  students  heard  Sousa  in  Lewis- 
ton  on  acco^int  of  the  celebration. 

As  usual  there  were  Bowdoin  men  at  the  dance 
in  the  town  hall  on  Saturday  evening. 

Don't  ride  your  bike  after  sundown  without  a 
lamp.  The  law  forbids  it,  and  the  law  will  be  en- 
forced. 

Among  the  alumni  on  the  campus  Saturday  were 
Farrington,  '94,  Marston,  '96,  Minott,  '96,  and 
Hull,   '97. 

The  Class  of  1902  will  hold  its  banquet  in  the 
casino  at  Riverton  Park,  Portland,  unless  the  pres- 
ent plans  are  changed. 

The  removal  of  the  old  fence  from  the  delta  has 
been  an  improvement  to  the  appearance  of  this  part 
of  the  college  grounds. 

President  Hyde  spoke  about  mass-meetings 
Tuesday  morning,  saying  that  they  should  not  inter- 
fere with  the  college  work. 

The  Yander  Club,  whose  work  in  last  year's 
Quill  was  so  highly  appreciated,  held  a  social  meet- 
ing with  Marston  on  Thursday  evening. 

Parker,  1901,  has  left  college  for  the  term  to 
accept  a  position  with  the  Portland  railway  com- 
pany. He  will  be  employed  on  one  of  the  electric 
cars  running  to  Riverton  Park. 

The  Bowdoin  alumni  of  Bangor  and  vicinity 
hold  a  banquet  at  the  Bangor  House,  Thursday 
evening,  June  1st,  a.nd  expect  at  that  time  to  form 
a  vigorous  alumni  association. 

A  number  of  students  enjoyed  an  evening  ride 
on  the  palace  car  "  Merry  meeting"  on  the  electric 
railway  last  week.  The  riding  party  was  organized 
by  young  people  of  the  town. 


Mike  Madden  presented  another  delicious  cake 
to  some  of  his  Bowdoin  friends  on  Sunday.  The 
presentation  was  made  to  celebrate  the  good  work 
of  Brunswick  High  in  the  Interscholastic  athletic 
meet  on  Saturday. 

The  following  members  of  '99  were  chosen 
Commencement  speakers:  Harold  Fessenden  Dana, 
Drew  Bert  Plall,  Fred  Raymond  Marsh,  Willis 
Bean  Moulton,  Arthur  Huntington  Nason,  and 
Byron   Strickland   Philoon. 

The  Deutscher  Verein  held  its  ''Bummel"  at 
the  Gurnet  on  Thursday,  May  25th.  There  were 
twelve  members  present,  the  party  going  by  team 
from  Professor  Files'  and  returning  later  in  the 
evening.  The  evening  was  passed  very  pleasantly 
with  stories    anecdotes  and  German  songs. 

The  college  tournament  determined  the  follow- 
ing men,  who  are  representing  Bowdoin  at  the 
intercollegiate  tournament  between  Bowdoin  and 
University  of  Vermont  at  Burlington,  Wednesday, 
Thursday,  and  Friday  of  this  week:  R.  L.  Dana, 
'01,  H.  F.  Dana,  '99,  W.  L.  Came,  '99,  and  W.  S. 
M.  K^lley,  '99. 

The  long  looked  for  and  anxiously  awaited 
Bttglc  appeared  last  Friday.  The  sale  was  rapid  for 
several  hours.  It  is  a  creditable  production  and 
shows  hard  and  conscientious  work  on  the  part  of 
its  editors  and  business  manager,  all  of  whom  are 
of  the  Class  of  1900.  If  you  haven't  bought  one 
do  so  and  appreciate  its  fine  qualities  for  yourself. 

On  Monday  the  college  tennis  team,  consisting 
of  Dana,  '99,  Came,  '99,  Kelley,  '99,  and  Dana,  1901, 
left  Brunswick  for  a  visit  to  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont. The  Bowdoin  men  will  play  what  is  known 
as  a  round-robin  at  tennis  after  the  doubles  shall 
have  been  played.  Each  man  of  the  Bowdoin  team 
will  play  at  singles  with  the  four  men  who  make  up 
the  Vermont  team.  In  the  doubles  Dana,  '99,  will 
play  with  Dana,  1902,  and  Came  and  Kelley  will 
play  together. 

At  the  coming  Commencement  the  Class  of 
1879  will  hold  its  reunion  on  its  20th  anniversary. 
This  class  numbered  but  22  at  graduation.  It  was 
the  second  class  to  enter  after  the  rebellion  among 
the  students,  which  occurred  over  the  compulsory 
drill  enforced,  which  accounts  for  its  small  num- 
bers. Oi  the  22  who  graduated,  four  have  died. 
Several  of  the  class  have  never  been  in  Brunswick 
since  graduation,  and  will  come  from  far  western 
states  to  be  present  at  this  observance.  One  of  the 
class,  Walter  Davis  of  Portland,  will  give  a  dinner 
to  the  members  of  his  class,  in  that  city,  and  from 
there  they  will  come  to  Brunswick  to  attend  Com- 
mencement exercises. 


bOWDOIN  ORIENt. 


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f^THLETICS. 

MAINE    INTERSCHOLASTIC    MEET. 

The  annual  interscholastic  championship  of 
Maine  in  track  and  field  sports,  held  under  the 
auspices  of  Bowdoin  College,  took  place  on  Whit- 
tier  field  Saturday,  May  27th.  and  after  the  closest 
kind  of  a  contest  the  Kent's  Hill  school  team  won, 
scoring  25  points  and  beating  their  nearest  com- 
petitor, Brunswick,  who  scored  24  points. 

The  events  passed  off  smoothly,  and  with  almost 
no  delay  between  events. 

Three  men  did  remarkable  work  for  their  teams. 
A.  C.  Denning  of  Kent's  Hill  won  first  in  the  16- 
pound  shot,  also  first  with  the  16-pound  hammer 
and  second  in  the  discus.  His  schoolmate,  S. 
Allen,  took  first  in  the  100  and  220-yard  runs. 

F.  M.  Murphy  of  Portland  won  the  running 
high  jump,  clearing  5  feet  6  inches,  which 
raises  the  bar  two  inches  above  the  old  mark. 
Murphy  was  the  only  hope  of  Portland,  for  that 
school  had  not  scored  a  point,  and  a  whitewash 
stared  the  boys  in  the  face.  The  cheering  was 
deafening,  and  when  little  Murphy  beat  the  stal- 
wart Dunlap  out,  the  Portland  rooters  went  fairly 
wild. 

The  above  performers  were  good,  btit  it  re- 
mained for  E.  A.  Dunlap  of  Brunswick  to  bring  the 
crowd  to  its  feet  by  winning  first  in  the  running 
broad  jump,  the  pole  vault,  and  discus;  second  in 
the  hammer  and  running  high  jump,  scoring  in  all 
21  of  the  24  points  made  by  his  school.  Dunlap 
will  go  to  Bowdoin  next  year.  Probably  the  most 
exciting  period  of  the  meeting  was  in  the  running 
high  jump,  when  Dunlap  and  Murphy  were  fighting 
for  first  place. 

Nutter  of  Bangor  also  did  very  good  work,  win- 
ning the  half,  and  taking  second  place  in  both  the 
220  dash  and  the  mile. 

Fuller  of  Nichols  Latin  rode  a  good  race  in  the. 
mile  bicycle,  and  won  by  a  length. 

The  following  new  I'ecords  were  established: 

16-pound  hammer — 109  ft.  II  in.,  by  Denning  of 
Kent's  Hill. 

16-pound  shot — 3J  ft.  8  in,,  by  Denning  of  Kent's 
Hill. 

Half-mile — 2  min.  gi  sec,  by  Nutter  of  Bangor 
High  School. 

220  yard  dash  rcord  equalled  by  Allen  of  Kent's 
Hill,  238  sec. 

100  yard  dash  record  equalled  by  Allen  of  Kent's 
Hill,   log  sec. 

The   summary  follows: 

100- Yard  Dash. 
First  heat— Won  by  H.  H.  Hall,  Edward  Little; 
S.  Nutter,  Bangor,  second.    Time  10  4-5S. 


Second  heat — Won  by  S.  Allen,  Kent's  Hill;  R. 
T.  Howe,  Nichols  Latin,  second.     Time  10  4-5S. 

Third  heat — Won  by  P.  A.  Leavitt.  Thornton; 
L.  S.  Durgen,  Lewiston,  second.     Time  10  4-53. 

Fourth  heat — Won  by  W.  Rowe,  Portland;  E. 
M.  Wilson.  Bangor,  second.     Time  lis. 

Fifth  heat— Won  by  E.  C.  Howard,  Bangor;  N. 
L.   Nichols,  Thornton,  second.     Time  11  3-5S. 

Sixth  heat— Won  by  G.  Bunker,  Portland;  J.  P. 
Kane.  Bangor,  second.     Time  11  l-5s. 

Heat  for  second  men — Won  by  R.  T.  Howe, 
Nicliols  Latin;  L.  S.  Durgen,  Lewiston,  second. 
Time  10  3-5S. 

Semi-finals — First  heat  won  by  S.  Allen,  Kent's 
Hill;  P.  .A..  Leavitt,  Thornton,  second;  time  10  2-5S. 
Second  heat,  by  R.  T.  Howe,  Nichols  Latin;  L.  S. 
Durgen,   Lewiston,  second;  time  10  4-5S. 

Final  heat— Won  by  S.  Allen,  Kent's  Hill;  P.  A. 
Leavitt.  Thornton,  second;  R.  T.  Howe,  iSIichoIs 
Latin,  third.     Time  10  2-5S. 

200- Yard  Dash. 

First  heat — Won  by  S.  Nutter,  Bangor;  H.  Hall, 
Edward  Little,  second.     Time  24  1-55. 

Second  heat — Won  by  S.  Allen,  Kent's  Hill;  P. 
H.  Harris,  Deering,  second.     Time  24s. 

Third  heat — Won  by  L.  S.  Durgen,  Lewiston; 
W.  Rowe,  Portland,  second.     Time  25s. 

Fourth  heat — Won  by  E.  H.  Harlow,  Edward 
Little;   L.   Chase.   Portland,  second.     Time  25  3-5S. 

Fifth  heat— Won  by  D.  C.  Howard,  Bangor;  H. 
E.  Herman,  Westbrook  Academy,  second.  Time 
26  1-5S. 

Sixth  heat — Won  by  E.  L.  Getchell,  Bangor; 
G.  Bunker,  Portland,  second.     Time  25  1-5S. 

Semi-finals — First  heat  won  by  S.  Allen,  Kent's 
Hill;  S.  Nutter,  Bangor,  second;  time  24s.  Second 
heat  won  by  L.  S.'  Durgen,  Lewiston;  W.  Rowe, 
Portland,  second;  time  24  1-5S.  Third  heat  won  by 
E.  L.  Getchell,  Bangor;  D,  C.  Howard,  Bangor, 
second:  time  24  1-5S. 

Final  heat— Won  by  S.  Allen,  Kent's  Hill;  S. 
Nutter,  Bangor,  second;  E.  L.  Getchell,  Bangor, 
third.     Time  23  3-5S. 

440- Yard  Run. 
Won  by  PL  Hall,  Edward  Little;  W.  W.  Briggs, 
Lewiston,    second;    E.    H.    Boody,    Deering,     third. 
Time  5^  ■^s^. 

880- Yard  Run. 
Won  by  S.  Nutter,  Bangor;  A.  E.  Heald,  Skow- 
hegan,    second;    W.    L.    Sturtevant,    Bangor,    third. 
Time  2m.  9  3-5S. 

One-Mile  Run. 
Won   by  A.    C.    Heald,   Skowhegan;    S.    Nutter, 
Bangor,    second;     EI,   M.   Day,    Westbrook,    third. 
Time  .5m.  3s. 

One-Mile  Bicycle  Race. 

First  heat — Won  by  C.  S.  Fuller,  Nichols  Latin; 
R.  A.  Libby,  Thornton,  second.     Time  2m.  46  2-5S. 

Second  heat — Won  by  A.  L.  Bacon,  Bangor;'  E. 
O.  Wall,   Portland,  second.     Time  2m.  52  3-5S. 

Final  heat — Won  by  C.  S.  Fuller,  Nichols  Latin; 
A.  L.  Bacon,  Bangor,  second;  R.  A.  Libby,  Thorn- 
ton, third.     Time  2m.  42s. 

120- Yard   Hurdles. 

First  heat— Won  by  G.  A.  Fairfield,  Thornton; 
O.  W.  Smith,  Lewiston,  second.     Time  18  4-5S. 

Second  heat — Won  by  E.  M.  Wilson,  Bangor; 
E.  M.  Pfafif,  Bangor,  second.    Time  19  2-5S. 


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Third  heat — Won  by  Bradford  of  Thornton;  L. 
B.  Marshall,  Deering,  second.     Time  20  4-5S. 

Heat  for  second  men — Won  by  E.  H.  Pfaff,  Ban- 
gor.    Time  19  2-^8. 

Final  heat — Won  by  E.  M.  Wilson,  Bangor;  G. 
A.  Fairfield.  Thornton,  second;  E.  H.  Pfaff,  Ban- 
gor.    Time   19  2-5S. 

220- Yard  Hurdles. 

First  heat — Won  by  H.  Riley,  Brunswick;  E.  J. 
Harlow,  Edward  Little,  second.     Time  30s. 

Second  heat — Won  by  O.  W.  Smith,  Lewiston; 
H.    M.    Stevens,    Portland,    second.     Time   29   3-5S. 

Third  heat— Won  by  A.  L.  Lombard,  Bath;  H. 
E.  Herman,  Westbrook,  second.     Time  31  2-5S. 

Heat  for  second  men — Won  by  E.  J.  Harlow, 
Edward  Little.     Time  31  3-5S. 

Final  heat — Won  by  O.  W.  Smith,  Lewiston: 
H.  Riley,  Brunswick,  second;  E.  J.  Harlow,  Ed- 
ward Little,  third.     Time  29  3-53. 

Running  High  Jump. 
Won  by  T.  M.  Murphy,  Portland.  5  ft.  6  in.;  T. 
A.  Dunlap,  Brunswick,  second,  5  ft.  5  in.;  R.  Ander- 
son, Hallowell,  third,  5  ft.  I  in. 

Pole  Vault. 
Won  by  E.  A.  Dunlap,  Brunswick,  9  ft.  5  in.; 
W.  A.  Bradford,  Thornton,  second,  9  ft.  2  in. ;  E. 
A.  Parker,  Skowhegan.  and  R.  P.  Phillips,  Thorn- 
ton, tied  third  at  9  ft.;  Parker  won,  two  points 
divided. 

Throwing  Discus. 
Won  by  E.  A.  Dunlap,  Brunswick,  92  ft.  31 J  in.; 

A.  C.  Denning,  Kent's  Hill,  second,  92  ft.  i  in.;  W. 
O.  Clement,  Edward  Little,  third,  88  ft.  3*  in. 

Throwing   i6-Pound  Hammer. 
Won  by  A.  C.   Denning,  Kfent's  Hill,   109  ft.   11 
in.;  E.  A.  Dunlap,  Brunswick,  second,  95  ft.  6*  in.; 
j.  S.  Mann,  Kent's  Hill,  third,  76  ft.  i  in. 

Running  Broad  Jump. 
Won  bv  E.  A.  Dunlap.  Brunswick,  19  ft.  2I  in.; 
W.  A.   Bradford,    Thornton,    18  ft.   Iii  in.;    P.   A. 
Leavitt,  Thornton,  third,  18  ft.  li  in. 

Putting  i6-Pound  Shot. 
Won  by  A.  C.  Denning,  Kent's  Hill,  35  ft.  8  in.; 
W.   O.   Clement,   Edward   Little,  34  ft.  4  in.;  J.   S. 
Mann,  Kent's  Hill,  third,  32  ft.  5i  in. 

The  officials  of  the  meeting  were:  Referee, 
Eugene  Buckley,  B.  A.  A..;  starter,  John  Graham, 

B.  A.  A.;  marshal,  J.  C.  Minot;  judges  at  the  finish, 
J.  E.  Odiorne,  F.  B.  Merrill,  P.  A.  Babb;  time- 
keepers, F.  N.  Whitlier,  C.  Sturgis,  M.  L.  Cleaves; 
clerk  of  course,  T.  F.  Murphy;  assistant  clerk  of 
course,  J.  Gregson;  announcer,  B.  S.  Philoon; 
scorers,  F.  W.  Briggs,  W.  H.  White,  A.  L.  Burnell; 
measurers,  C.  A.  Towle,  J.  R.  Bass;  judge  of  field 
events,  W.  B.  Clark;  messenger,  H.  B.  Neagle. 

Points  won:  Kent's  Hill  25,  Brunswick  High 
24,  Bangor  High  22,  Thornton  Academy  14*,  Ed- 
ward Little  High  10,  Skowhegan  High  8i,  Lewis- 
ton  High  8,  Nichols  Latin  School  6,  Portland  High 
5,  Hallowell  High  i,  Deering  High  i,  Westbrook  i. 
Cony  High  o,  Bath  High  o. 


INTERSCHOI..ASTIC     TENNIS    TOURNA- 
MENT. 

The  Interscholastic  Tennis  Tournament  under 
the  management  of  the  Bowdoin  Tennis  Associa- 
tion was  held  last  Friday  and  Saturday.  The  finals, 
however,  were  not  played  till  Monday.  Five  schools 
were  represented, — Portland  High,  Thornton  Acad- 
emy, Bangor  High,  Brunswick  High,  and  Hebron 
Academy.  In  the  singles  George  Libby  of  Port- 
land High  won  out  in  the  rounds,  but  was  defeated 
for  the  championship  by  Walter  A.  Bradford, 
Thornton.  Bradford  thus  carries  to  Thornton  the 
championship  in  singles  for  the  second  time. 

In  doubles  Harris  and  Libby  of  Portland  High 
won  the  tournament,  and  carry  to  Portland  the 
honors  in  doubles  for  the  third  time.  The  cup 
offered  for  doubles  thus  becomes  the  permanent 
possession  of  the  Portland  High  School.  The  Port- 
land team  of  Merrill  and  Larrabee  won  in  1897  and 
1898.  The  weather  was  favorable  throughout  the 
tournament,  and  soine  fine  matches  were  witnessed. 

The  summary: 

Singles. 

First  Round. — Chandler,  Brunswick,  beat  Bow- 
man, Hebron;  6-2,  6-0.  Libby,  Portland,  beat 
Woodruff,  Brunswick;  6-1,  6-3.  Rastall,  Hebron, 
beat  Paine,  Bangor,  by  default.  Harris,  Portland, 
beat  McClure,  Bangor;  6-3,  6-0. 

Second  Round. — Libby  beat  Chandler;  0-6,  7-3, 
6-4.     Harris  beat  Rastall;  6-3,  6-0. 

Finals. — Libby  beat  Harris;  6-3,  default. 

Championship. — Bradford,  Thornton,  beat  Lib- 
by; 6-2,  4-6,  6-3,  6-2. 

Doubles. 

Leavitt  and  Bradford,  Thornton,  beat  Chapman 
and  Holt,  Portland;  6-2,  6-8,  10-8.  Bowman  and 
Rastall,  Hebron,  beat  McClure  and  Paine,  Bangor, 
by  default.  Libby  and  Haines,  Portland,  beat 
Chandler  and  Woodruff,  Brunswick;  6-2,  6-4. 

Second  Round. — Libby  and  Harris  beat  Bow- 
man and  Rastall;  6-2,  6-0. 

Final. — Libby  and  Harris  beat  Bradford  and 
Leavitt;  2-6,  7-3,  6-4,  ys- 

COLLEGE    TENNIS    TOURNAMENT. 

The  matches  for  second  place  in  singles  and 
doubles  in  the  college  tournament  were  finished 
last  Thursday.  Dana,  '99,  was  the  winner  in  singles, 
and  Dana  and  Kelley  were  the  successful  team  in 
doubles. 

The   summary: 

Singles. 

First  Round. — Dana,  '99,  beat  C.  Hunt,  "02;  6-3, 
10-8.  Came,  '99,  beat  L.  Cleaves,  'gg;  6-2,  6-2. 
Came  beat  Sanborn  by  default. 

Final. — Dana  beat  Came;  6-3,  6-3,  6-1. 
Doubles. 

First  Round. — Came  and  Kelley  beat  Briggs  and 
Smith;  6-1,  6-0.  Marsh  and  Sills  beat  West  and 
Fogg;  6-2,  6-2. 

Final. — Came  and  Kelley  beat  Marsh  and  Sills, 
6-1,  10-8.  6-0. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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Colby  5,  Bowdoin  4. 

Bowdoin  suffered  her  first  defeat  in  the  Maine 
league  Wednesday,  May  24th,  at  Waterville. 

Bowdoin  started  out  well  and  kept  ahead  for  half 
of  the  game.  Colby  kept  gradually  gaining  and 
tied  the  score  in  the  eighth  inning.  In  the  ninth 
with  the  score  tied  Bowdoin  came  to  the  bat  but 
failed  to  score.  Dearborn  of  Colby  then  got  a  hit, 
Tupper  hit  and  Dearborn  went  to  third.  Fogg 
then  knocked  a  fly  to  Pierce  who  caught  it,  but 
Dearborn  scored. 

In  the  first  inning  Greenlaw  got  his  base  on 
balls  and  took  second,  the  last  being  a  passed  ball. 
Wignott  got  a  hit  and  Greenlaw  went  to  third. 
Pratt  struck  out.  A.  Clarke  hit  to  shortstop  and 
Greenlaw  got  home.  W.  Clarke  went  out  at  first, 
Haskell  got  a  hit,  Wignott  scored  and  Pearson 
flied  out. 

In  the  second  half  Fogg  flied  vut  to  Harkins. 
Webb  hit  to  Haskell  who  threw  to  Pratt,  then 
Newenham  flied  to  Pratt.  Haskell  opened  the  sec- 
ond with  a  hit  to  Dearborn  who  threw  wild  and 
Haskell  got  second.  Pearson  flied  out  to  Dearborn, 
Harkins  hit  to  Newenham,  and  was  thrown  out  at 
first.  Libby  got  first  base  and  Greenlaw  flied  out 
to  Webb.  Rice  came  to  the  bat  and  hit  for  three 
bases.  Farwell  flied  to  Pratt,  Rice  scored.  Allen 
struck   out. 

Wignott  got  a  base  hit  and  stole  second,  Pratt 
struck  out,  A.  Clarke  hit  for  first  and  Wignott 
scored.  W.  Clarke  got  a  base  hit  and  A.  Clarke 
took  third.  W.  Clarke  stole  second,  Haskell  got 
first  on  an  error  and  A.  Clarke  scored.  Pearson 
struck  put  and  Harkins  flied  to  Fogg. 

In  the  last  of  the  third  Dearborn  flied  out  to 
Greenlaw,  Tupper  to  Pratt  and  Fogg  to  W.  Clarke. 
Score,  Bowdoin  4,  Colby  i.  Libby  hit  to  Webb 
who  threw  him  out  at  first.  Greenlaw  did  the  same. 
Wignott  hit  for  first  and  stole  second,  Pratt  struck 
out..  Webb  flied  out  to  Pearson,  Newenham  hit  to 
Haskell  and  failed  to  reach  first.  Pierce  hit  to 
Libby  and  was  thrown  out  at  first. 

Albert  Clarke  opened  the  fifth  with  a  three- 
bagger.  W.  Clarke  hit  to  Newenham  and  was  put 
out  at  first.  Haskell  flied  out  to  Webb  and  Pear- 
son flied  to  Fogg.  In  the  last  of  the  fifth  Farwell 
and  Haggerty  struck  out  and  Allen  flied  to  Har- 
kins. 

In  the  sixth  Harkins  got  a  base  hit  and  took 
another  on  a  passed  ball.  Libby  sacrificed,  Green- 
law hit  to  Newenham  who  threw  Harkins  out  at 
home.  Wignott  was  thrown  out  at  first.  In  the 
last  of  the  sixth  Bowdoin  had  a  streak  of  poor  play- 
ing. Dearborn  struck  out,  Tupper  got  his  base 
by  being  hit  by  a  pitched  ball,  Fogg  hit  between 


first  and  second  and  there  was  general  fumbling. 
Tupper  scored.  Webb  hit  to  A.  Clarke  who  threw 
poorly  to  third,  Newenham  hit  to  A.  Clarke  who 
fumbled.  Fogg  scored  and  Webb  was  thrown  out 
at  home.  Rice  got  his  base  on  baUs,  Farwell  hit 
to  Haskell  who  threw  to  Pratt  but  he  fumbled  and 
Farwell  was  safe.  Hudson  hit  to  Libby  who  threw 
to  Pratt. 

In  the  seventh  Pratt  hit  to  Webb  who  threw 
to  Hudson.  A.  Clarke  hit  to  Dearborn  who  let  it 
go  through  him.  W.  Clarke  flied  to  Fogg  and 
Haskell  flied  to  Hudson. 

In  the  last  of  the  seventh  Allen  got  his  base  on 
balls.  Dearborn  hit  a  hard  one  to  Harkins  who 
fumbled.  Tupper  flied  to  Pratt,  Fogg  to  A.  Clarke 
and  Webb  to  Greenlaw.  Score,  Bowdoin  4, 
Colby  3. 

Pearson  opened  the  eighth  with  a  fly  to  Rice. 
Harkins  flied  to  Hudson,  Libby  got  a  base  hit, 
Greenlaw  hit  to  Webb  who  threw  to  Dearborn. 

In  the  last  of  the  eighth  Newenham  hit  to  Pear- 
son who  muffed.  Rice  struck  out  and  Newenham 
stole  second.  Farwell  struck  out,  Hudson  got  a 
two  bagger  to  center  field  and  Newenham  tied  the 
score.  Allen  hit  10  Haskell  who  threw  him  out  at 
first. 

Wignott  opened  the  ninth  with  a  fly  to  Allen. 
Pratt  flied  to  Tupper  and  Albert  Clarke  hit  to  Webb 
who  threw  to  first.  Dearborn  hit  to  Albert  Clarke 
who  threw  to  Pratt  but  he  was  declared  safe.  Tup- 
per got  a  hit  and  Dearborn  went  to  third.  Fogg 
hit  to  Pearson,  who  caught,  but  Dearborn  scored. 

The  score: 

BOWDOIN. 

AB         R         BH        PC         A  E 

Greenlaw,    l.f 5  i    '     o  2  o  0 

Wignott,    c 5  2  3  7  o  o 

Pratt.    lb 5  o  o  11  i  o 

A.   Clark,   ss 5  i  2  i  o  i 

W.   B.   Clark,  r.f 4  o  i  i  o  2 

Haskell,   2b 4  0  o  o  7  i 

Pearson,    cf 4  o  o  i  o  i  . 

Harkins,    3b 4  o  i  2  o  i 

Libby,    p 4  o  i  o  2  o 

Totals 40        4        8    *25      10        6 

COLBY. 

AB  R  BH  PO  A  E 

Fogg,    r.f 5  I  o  3  o  O 

Webb,    ss 4  o  o  2  4  i 

Newenham,  p 4  i  q  q  5  o 

Rice.   3b 4  I  I  I  I  0 

Farwell,    c 4  o  q  5  q  0 

Haggerty,   ib 3  0  2  g  q  c 

Allen,    If 3  o  I  2  o  i 

Dearborn,   2b 3  i  i  2  o  i 

Tupper,    cf 4  1  i  i  o  o 

Hudson,  lb 2  o  p  3  o  0 

Totals ..37        5        5      '27      10        3 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENt. 


Innings 123456789 

Colby 0     I     o    0    0    2    o     I     I — 5 

Bowdoin 2    o     2     o    o    o     o     o    o — 4 

Stolen  bases— Wignott  2,  W.  B.  Clark,  Haskell, 
Webb,  Newenhani.  Base  on  balls — Libby  2,  New- 
enham  i.  Struck  out — Rice,  Farwell  2,  Haggerty, 
Allen,  Dearborn,  Pratt  3,  Pearson.  Time — ih.  45 
min.  Umpire — Carpenter  of  Portland.  Attendance 
—500. 

*Winning  run  made  with  one  man  out. 


Y.  M.^.  fi. 

When  a  man  sees  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  column  in  a 
college  paper,  he  usually  looks  for  reports  of 
prayer-meetings  and  Bible  classes,  but  this  week, 
the  first  thing  of  which  we  write  is  the  ball  game. 
It  happened  in  this  way;  the  chairman  of  our  social 
committee  got  a  game  for  Wednesday,  May  24th, 
with  the  "  Medics,"  and  promptly  at  2  o'clock  the 
Delta  began  to  swarm  with  men  both  religious  and 
medical.  After  the  preliminary  practice  by  both 
teams,  and  a  few  words  of  warning  to  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  team  from  the  captain,  lest  they  should  use  lan- 
.guage  ill-befitting  the  occasion,  the  game  began. 
Pennell  started  in  the  twirling  for  the  Medics  and 
kept  the  hits  scattered  till  about  the  fourth  inning, 
when  the  sun  and  the  b.itters  and  "his  corpulence" 
conspired  to  make  him  retire  and  Mr.  Hannigan 
proceeded  to  throw  the  balls.  The  first  six  innings 
were  close  and  well  played.  Woodbury  was  pitch- 
ing for  the  Association  team  and  was  doing  well, 
but  about  the  seventh  both  teams  took  a  batting 
streak,  Hannigan  was  pounded  hard  and  poorly 
supported  and  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  got  some  eight  or 
ten  runs.  In  the  last  of  the  seventh  the  "Medics" 
hit  hard,  and  aided  b3'  errors  tied  the  score.  In 
the  eighth  Johnson  went  in  to  pitch  for  the  Asso- 
ciation, retiring  the  side  with  one  run  in  the  lead. 
In  the  last  inning  Bodge  tried  to  pitch  for  the 
"Medics,"  but  was  less  successful  than  Hannigan, 
who  finished  the  game.  The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  then  came 
to  the  bat  and  by  good  hitting  and  base  running  got 
a  lead  of  several  runs.  It  was  in  this  inning  that 
Dutton,  who  yagged  for  both  teams,  remarked  that 
"the  Lord  must  be  on  their  side,"  and  when  West 
punched  out  a  three-base  hit  with  three  men  on 
bases,  the  crowd  were  inclined  to  believe  Dutton. 
In  the  last  of  the  ninth  the  "Medics"  came  in 
determined  to  win  it  out,  but  a  fly  to  short  and  two 
men  struck  out  by  Johnson  ended  it.  It  was  an 
exciting  game  with  rather  promiscuous  batting,  and 
a  score  of  38  to  32  in  favor  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Everything  passed  off  smoothly,  but  some  of  the 
fellows  are  asking  what  the  center  fielder  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  said  when  he  dropped  that  fly.  We 
trust  that  he  properly  restrained  himself. 

Evans  led  the  meeting  on  Thursday  evening, 
May  25th.  The  subject  considered  was  "Tarrying 
Near  Temptation."  A  large  number  were  present, 
many  of  whom  spoke  on  Temptation  from  moral 
and  religious  points  of  view.  The  weekly  discus- 
sions of  these  subjects  are  very  interesting  and 
helpful. 

It  is  expected  that  R.   S.   Emrich,   president  of 
the  Bates  Association,  will  conduct  the  service  on 
the  evening  of  June  ist. 
■       I 


PERSONALS. 


'60. — A  new  York  County  congressional  candi- 
date has  appeared  in  the  person  of  Judge  Horace 
H.  Burbank  of  Saco.  Judge  Burbank  has  not  yet 
announced  his  candidacy  to  the  press,  but  is  making 
an  active  canvass  both  personally  and  through  his 
friends  of  York  and  Cumberland.  He  has  been  in 
public  life  for  30  years,  and  is  able  to  pull  many 
potent  strings.  He  stands  very  well  with  the  Saco 
Republican  machine  and  may  be  able  to  carry  the 
city  primaries  against  Hon.  J.  O.  Bradbury,  who 
has  recently  been  at  odds  with  a  powerful  clique  in 
the  local  party  councils.  Failure  to  carry  his  local 
primaries  would  be  apt  to  be  disastrous  to  the  pros- 
pects of  either  Saco  candidate,  and  the  loser  will 
probably  withdraw  the  use  of  his  name. 

The  friends  of  Amos  L.  Allen  continue  indus- 
triously at  work  and  now  claim  to  be  sure  of  73 
delegates  out  of  the  112  to  which  York  will  be  en- 
titled. 

'61. — Dr.  Charles  Oliver  Hunt  has  just  been 
elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  Maine  Medical 
Association. 

"69. — Rev.  H.  S.  Whitman,  president  of  West- 
brook  Seminary,  has  tendered  his  resignation  to 
the  trustees  of  the  institution,  and  it  is  probable 
that  it  will  be  accepted,  although  it  is  greatly  hoped 
that  he  may  be  induced  to  stay  another  year.  Rev. 
Mr.  Whitman  has  been  president  of  the  seminary 
several  years,  and  during  that  time  he  has  built  up 
the  institution  wonderfully,  until  now  it  is  equal  to 
any  of  its  kind  in  the  state.  He  has  been  a  great 
worker  for  the  school,  and  it  would  be  extremely 
hard  to  find  a  man  who  )could  do  as  much  in  the 
future  for  the  institute  as  Mr.  Whitman  has  done 
in  the  past.  It  is  Rev.  Mr.  Whitman's  desire  to 
re-enter  the  ministry,  and  it  is  for  this  reason  that 
he  has  sent  in  his  resignation. 

Med.,  'ys. — Benj.  Franklin  Clark,  U.  S:  consul 
at  Pernambuco,  died  on  board  the  Lamport  and 
Holt  Line  steamer  Hevelius,  on  May  19th,  of 
Bright's  disease  and  was  buried  at  sea.  Mr.  Clark, 
who  had  been  suffering  for  some  time,  was  return- 
ing to  his  home  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  accompanied 
by  Mrs.  Clark. 

Med.,  '95. — Dr.  H.  H.  Colburn,  formerly  of 
Portland,  has  recently  been  promoted  to  the  posi- 
tion of  first  assistant  at  the  Danvers  (Mass.)  In- 
sane Asylum. 

Bangor  alumni  of  Bowdoin  College  will  hold  a 
banquet  at  the  Bangor  House  on  the  evening  of 
June  1st,  beginning  at  8  o'clock,  at  which  time  a 
Bowdoin  alumni  association  will  be  formed.  The 
committee  upon  invitations  consists  of  Hon.  Samuel 
F.  Humphrey,  Rev.  Charles  H.  Cutler,  and  Milton 
S.    Clifford,    Esq. 

'84. — A  valuable  and  interesting  contribution  to 
the  ecclesiastical  history  of  New  England  has  re- 
cently been  made  in  the  publication  by  Rev.  Oliver 
W.  Means  of  an  exhaustive  study  of  the  origin  and 
history  of  the  Strict  Congregational  Church  in 
Enfield,  Conn.  This  was  presented  by  Mr.  Means 
as  his  thesis  on  the  occasion  of  his  receiving  the 
degree  of  doctor  of  philosophy  from  Hartford 
Theological  Seminary  last  May,  after  the  regular 
course  of  post-graduate  study. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Voh.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,   JUNE   15,  1899. 


No.  8. 


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BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babb,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  11101,  Assistant  Editor-in-Cliief. 

ISLAY  F.  McCoRMicK,  1900,  Biisiiiess  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clauk,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Habky  C.  McCarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Puttle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  8.— June  15,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes 59 

1900's  Ivy  Day 60 

Calendar 70 

Notices 70 

College  News 71 

Athletics 71 

Y.  M.  C.  A 73 

Personals 73 

In  Memoriam 74 


This  year's  Maine  Intercollegiate  meet 
resulted  in  an  overwhelming  victory  for  Bow- 
doin  and  a  still  firmer  prestige  upon  our 
superiority  in  this  branch  of  athletics.  The 
weather  was  perfect  from  an  athletic  stand- 
point, while  the  track  for  its  kind  was  in  very 
fair  condition.  With  the  facilities  provided 
for  the  teams,  the  officials,  and  excellent  order 
maintained,  we  can  do  no  less  than  account 
the  conduct  of  the  meet  as  successful  as  any 
in  past  years. 

Records  were  established  in  many  of  the 
events  that  must  seem  very  discouraging  to 


aspirants  for  future  track  honors  in  the  state, 
and  especially  in  one  performance  should  not 
only  Bowdoin  but  the  state  feel  proud.  The 
goal  to  be  reached  in  the  Mott  Haven  games 
has  always  been  the  equaling  of  the  time  made 
by  Wefers  in  the  century  run ;  thus  far  it  has 
never  been  performed  in  this  country  since 
Wefers'  memorable  performance  until  Cloud- 
man  of  Bowdoin  run  both  the  trial  and 
final  in  the  hundred  yards  in  9  4-5  seconds. 
This  record  will  probably  stand  for  years  and 
years  unless  Cloudman  sees  fit  to  alter  it  in 
the  two  coming  years. 

Several  surprises  occurred  in  the  meet, 
some  pleasing  and  others  disappointing ;  but 
take  it  as  a  whole  Bowdoin  was  quite  satisfied 
by  her  work,  and  now  rests  upon  her  well- 
earned  laurels  in  glory  until  another  spring 
heralds  other  contests  of  this  sort. 


Tennis  boasts  an  unusual  prominence  in 
college  affairs  this  year.  In  addition  to  the 
usual  state  contest  Bowdoin  has  met  and  tied 
the  University  of  Vermont  at  the  latter's 
grounds  in  one  of  the  most  interesting  tour- 
naments in  which  Bowdoin  has  been  a  con- 
testant. Unfortunately  the  state  tournament 
came  ofif  directly  after  the  return  of  the  team, 
and  naturally  the  playing  was  somewhat  list- 
less, netting  only  the  championship  in 
doubles,  while  Bates  carried  away  the  cham- 
pionship in  smgles. 


It  savors  not  a  little  of  a  paradox  to  speak 
of  the  dangers  the  Freshmen  incurred  in 
sending  so  small  a  track  team  to  represent 
them  at  Waterville  when  we  realize  the  over- 
whelming "walk-over"  they  enjoyed;  yet  this 
may  be  but  the  exception  that  makes  the  rule, 
and  any  class  sending  a  team,  so  meagre  and 


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apparently  weak  as  went  to  the  Inter-Fresh- 
man meet  from  here  last  Wednesday  deserves 
to  be  censured  most  sternly.  It  was  not  due 
to  any  special  superiority  of  the  men  repre- 
senting the  Freshmen  that  the  meet  was 
hardly  else  than  a  Bowdoin  Freshman  meet, 
but  it  was  due  to  the  extreme  inferiority  of 
their  opponents,  and  probably  is  a  case  which 
will  never  be  repeated.  This  sort  of  thing 
will  never  be  countenanced  by  the  college ; 
every  team  which  leaves  this  campus  as  a 
Bowdoin  team  must  be  as  strong  as  it  can  be 
under  the  circumstances.  Nevertheless,  while 
we  mtist  disapprove  the  carelessness  of  the 
Freshmen,  we  gladly  congratulate  them  on 
their  victory  and  heartily  laugh  with  them 
oyer  their  exhibition. 


1900^s   IVY    DAY. 

Friday,  June  9th,  beamed  most  propi- 
tiously upon  the  Juniors  in  the  exercises  and 
social  pleasures  connected  with  Ivy  Day. 
The  forenoon  was  devoted  to  the  base-ball 
game  with  Bates,  which  resulted  in  a  vic- 
tory for  the  visiting  team.  The  exercises  be- 
gan promptly  at  3  o'clock  in  the  Memorial 
Hall  before  an  appreciative  and  fashionable 
audience.  Fifty-iive  scholarly-looking  stu- 
dents in  caps  and  gowns  marched  up  the  hall 
to  the  accompaniment  of  the  Germania  Or- 
chestra and  circled  about  upon  the  stage, 
where  the  following  programme  was  most 
successfidly  presented : 

Music. 
Prayer C.  S.   Bragdon. 

Music 
Oration F.  W.  Ward. 

Music. 

Poem F.  C.  Lee. 

Music 

Address  by  the  President A.  L.  Burnell. 

Presentations. 

Athlete— Silver  Cup E.   B.  Holmes, 

Plugger— Horse R.  S.   Edwards. 

Backslider — Spurs H.  P.  West. 

Pious  Man— Class  Bible H.  A.  Shorey,  Jr. 

Criminal — Handcuffs F.    M.   Sparks. 

Popular  Man — Wooden  Spoon J.  W.  Whitney. 

Planting  Ivy. 
Singing  Ivy  Ode. 


Following  in  full  we  print  the  oration, 
poem,  and  the  presentation  speeches. 

IVY  DAY  ORATION. 

THE    FLAG    AND     PATRIOTISM     IN     OUR 

AMERICAN    COLLEGES. 

By  F.  W.  Ward. 

When  our  forefathers  first  conceived  the  plan  of 
uniting  the  colonies  and  severing  their  connection 
with  the  mother  country,  they  knew  full  well  that 
tliis  could  be  accomplished  only  by  fierce  fighting. 
And  hardly  had  the  struggle  begun  before  they  saw 
that  men  in  order  to  fight,  and  fight  successfully, 
must  have  some  bond  of  union,  some  standard 
around  which  to  rally.  Such  conditions  were  favor- 
able to  tlie  birth  of  our  American  flag,  and  under 
such  conditions  it  was  born  in  seventeen  hundred 
and  seventy-six.  Rude  and  unseemly  though  it  was 
at  first  and  bearing  upon  its  folds  strange  devices, 
it  needed  but  a  few  changes  at  the  hands  of  our 
true  and  loyal  fathers,  to  give  to  us,  their  children, 
the  flag  of  which  we  are  so  justly  proud;  a  flag  that 
has  floated  tranquilly  over  many  a  battlefield,  that 
has  graced  halls  and  public  buildings  in  every  state 
in  the  union,  that  to-day  waves  over  our  public 
schools,  and  should  wave  over  every  American  col- 
lege. 

But  what  is  an  American  college?  I  answer,  it 
is  the  great  fitting  school  for  our  republic.  Step 
by  step,  we  pass  from  the  school  of  our  early  child- 
hood to  that  of  manhood,  the  college.  One  more 
step  and  we  have  reached  the  world,  but  that  step 
is  the  longest  and  hardest  The  average  young  man 
upon  entering  college  possesses  a  limited  knowl- 
edge of  his  country;  he  speaks  of  it  as  a  "glorious 
union,"  a  "  great  republic,"  but  only  in  a  commer- 
cial sense.  Much  of  what  he  knows  of  his  country 
has  been  obtained  from  statistics.  He  knows  its 
size  in  square  miles,  its  population,  its  wealth,  and 
its  standing  among  nations;  but  he  little  knows 
what  his  country  really  is.  And  how  unfit  would 
be  such  a  man  to  engage  in  our  national  govern- 
ment! But  four  years  lie  before  him;  years 
freighted  with  rich  opportunities  and  offering  him 
the  best  that  time  can  give.  The  history  of  his 
country  has  been  written  and  its  pages  are  open  for 
his  study.  Under  the  guidance  of  broad-minded 
and  patriotic  men,  he  is  taken  into  the  realms  of 
social  distress  and  discord  and  is  drilled  in  the  fun- 
damental laws  which  should  govern  a  great  republic. 
He  is  taught  that  every  man  owes  a  service  to  his 
country,  whether  he  chooses  to  enter  the  political 
arena  or  spend  his  life  amid  the  quiet  scenes  of 
some  petty  hamlet.  The  object  of  education  is  not 
to   make   man   master  of  a  few  but  servant  of  the 


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masses.     Such,   in  brief,   is  the  preparation   college 
gives  a  man  for  his  country's  demands. 

But  more  than  all  this,  it  fosters  and  nourishes  a 
spirit  of  patriotism — not  the  patriotism  that  fills  the 
air  on  the  Fourth  of  July  and  kindred  days  and 
then  dies  away,  but  an  enduring  patriotism.  Too 
many  people  think  that  the  only  mark  of  patriotism 
is  outward  demonstration.  Their  eyes  are  blind  to 
the  deep-seated,  true  love  of  country  which  finds 
expression  only  in  a  life  of  daily  toil  for  humanity. 
So,  looking  upon  our  colleges  where  all  seems  quiet, 
each  man  attending  to  his  work,  they  say  our 
patriotism  is  dead.  That  such  a  statement  is  false, 
I  ask  you  to  pause  for  a  moment  and  consider.  We 
are  gathered  to-day  in  a  building  erected  to  the 
sacred  memory  of  college  patriots  who  lost  their 
lives  in  the  war  of  the  rebellion;  men  in  whose 
hearts  their  country's  call  found  a  quick  response 
and  their  country's  flag  faithful  followers.  The 
bronze  tablets  upon  these  walls  stand  as  silent  wit- 
nesses to  the  brave  deeds  of  brave  men.  Can  you, 
can  you,  I  say,  not  see  in  them  college  patriotism? 

True,  nearly  a  third  of  a  century  has  passed  since 
these  men  lived,  but  their  influence  lives  now  and 
will  continue  to  live  when  this  building  shall  have 
fallen  in  ruins  and  these  tablets  shall  have  crumbled 
in  dvLst.  It  lives,  and  nothing  in  the  war  with  Spain 
was  more  gratifying  to  those  who  stood  at  the  head 
of  our  nation  than  to  see  so  many  college  men 
ready  to  join  in  carrying  liberty  to  an  oppressed 
and  fallen  people.  It  may  be  that  some  are  with  us 
to-day  whose  sons  or  brothers  left  college  with  its 
beautiful  buildings,  its  shady  walks,  and  its  cheerful 
companions,  for  the  dismal  swamp,  the  scorching 
sun,  and  the  lonely  expanse  of  the  tropical  climate. 
Many  of  them  freely  and  willingly  gave  their  lives 
and  gave  them  for  what?  That  the  honor  of  their 
country's  flag  should  be  untarnished  and  that  mil- 
lions more  might  enjoy  American  customs  and 
American  rights  under  its  protection.  Ask  these 
■  fathers  and  mothers  what  they  think  of  college 
patriotism. 

But  there  is  another  patriotism  in  college  that  is 
just  as  truly  noble.  When  a  nation  is  thrown  into 
intense  excitement  by  a  declaration  of  war,  when 
men  are  marching  to  fields  of  strife  and  bloodshed, 
then  there  is  no  lack  of  a  patriotic  spirit,  then  the 
Hag  has  a  defender  in  every  loyal  citizen.  But  when 
the  drum  beat  has  ceased  and  the  bugle  note  is 
heard  no  more,  then  comes  the  test  for  the  genuine- 
ness of  our  loyalty.  And  we  as  students  of  this 
college  are  proud  of  the  fact  that  as  we  pass  out 
from  this  hall,  we  shall  see  other  buildings  from 
which  men  have  gone  forth  to  guide  this  republic 
in  time  of  peace.  Some  have  watched  over  it  and 
cared  for  it  in  the  halls  of  Congress,  others  have 


immortalized  it  in  prose  and  verse;  some  have  lived 
for  it  at  home,  others  have  carried  its  name  to  re- 
gions before  unknown.  And  we  believe  that  there 
are  men  in  college,  at  present,  who  will  sometime 
walk  in  the  footsteps  of  these  illustrious  leaders. 
Patriotic  in  war,  we  are  not  found  wanting  in  peace. 

Now  there  is  one  thing  that  every  patriot  loves, 
and  that  is  his  country's  flag.  And  no  one  loves  it 
better  than  the  college  patriot.  It  has  stirred  and 
fired  him  to  noble  efforts  which  have  filled  him  with 
a  better  understanding  of  the  Union.  A  friend  to 
the  rich,  it  is  equally  dear  to  the  poor.  He  has 
seen  the  proudest  American  bend  his  knee  to  do  it 
homage,  and  as  a  child  in  the  country  school-yard, 
he  played  beneath  its  shadows.  In  college,  he 
misses  the  flag  and  longs  to  see  it  waving  from  our 
venerable  buildings.  But  some  over-cautious  and 
narrow-minded  people  shake  their  heads  in  grave 
doubt  and  say  that  the  flag  should  be  displayed  only 
on  days  of  universal  demonstration,  and  that  by 
seeing  it  daily  we  look  upon  it  merely  as  an  orna- 
ment. Wrong  of  all  wrongs!  when  will  such  people 
learn  that  it  is,  "  Not  the  stars  and  stripes  alone," 
as  one  has  said,  "but  what  the  sta,rs  and  stripes 
stand  for;  liberty,  union,  rights,  laws,  and  power 
for  good  among  nations"  that  we  see  in  the  Amer- 
ican flag.  It  is  not  for  show  that  we  would  see  the 
stars  and  stripes  flying  from  our  buildings,  but  be- 
cause they  mean  so  much  to  us.  It  is  not  a  piece 
of  silk,  striped  alternately  red  and  white,  and  made 
beautiful  by  stars  set  in  a  blue  background,  that  we 
would  have  waving  over  our  campus  and  over  every 
college  campus  of  this  republic,  but  the  emblem  of 
all  that  is  good,  just  and  progressive  in  our  coun- 
try. And  we  would  have  it  wave  in  every  wind  that 
blows.  Is  there  a  college  man  who  tires  of  looking 
upon  his  country's  flag?  If  so,  may  he  never  be 
found  in  Bowdoin! 

But  there  are  a  few  men  in  all  colleges  who, 
though  in  possession  of  a  patriotic  spirit,  are  not 
filled  with  patriotism.  Every  possible  efTort  should 
be  made  to  awaken  in  them  the  love  of  country  that 
now  lies  dormant.  If  their  country  exists  in  vague 
form  in  their  minds,  it  should  be  made  real.  Give 
them  something  to  look  upon  in  common  with  all 
men  as  (heir  guiding  spirit.  Give  them  the  visible 
presence  of  the  nation  personified  in  our  national 
flag.  To  be  sure,  it  cannot  arouse  every  man  to  a 
realization  of  the  responsibility  which  rests  upon 
him,  but  it  can  inspire  a  goodly  number.  Some  will 
still  look  upon  the  flag  as  merely  a  flag;  others  will 
see  in  it  the  emblem-  of  their  country.  It  will  give 
them  a  sentiment  of  patriotism  founded  on  the  love 
of  home  and  country,  man  and  God,  which  will  be 
an  untold  strength  to  our  nation;  a  patriotism  that 
will  burn  the  brighter,  the  farther  distant  from  th^ 


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day  of  battle;  a  patriotism  that  will  grow  until  it 
embraces  all  nations  and  unites  them  in  the  brother- 
hood of  peace.  That  is  the  patriotism  every  college 
man  needs,  and  he  needs  it  now. 

When  a  few  more  days  have  passed,  those  who 
are  Seniors  to-day  will  go  out  to  engage  in  the 
conflicts  of  the  world.  And  we,  members  of  the 
the  Class  of  igoo,  shall  soon  join  them  in  the  strug- 
gle. Temptations  will  assail  us  on  every  hand. 
Wealth,  political  honor,  and  fame  will  each  tempt 
us  in  its  own  peculiar  way.  Let  us  then  carry  with 
us  the  true  college  patriotism  which  wealth  cannot 
buy,  political  honor  increase,  nor  fame  adorn.  Let 
us  do  this,  and  we  shall  honor  ourselves,  our  col- 
lege, and  our  country. 

IVY  DAY  POEM. 
[A  Tribute  to  Longfellow.] 
By  F.  C.  Lee. 
There  is  a  fancy  of  the  musing  mind 
That  says,  "  Could  trees  and  stones  but  speak  to-day 
What  many  wonder-stories  would  their  lay 
Be  burdened  with:  then  we,  forever  blind, 
In  hundred  hidden  haunts  unearthed  would  find 
What  unknown  facts,  ah!  who  would  dare  to  say; 
What  treasures  lost,  or  long  years  stowed  away;  ^^ 
What  tragic  scenes  where  love  and  death  entwmed?" 

But  trees  and  stones  can  speak  to-day!     Behold, 
These  massive  walls,  raised  up  by  human  toil. 
Built  from  the  lifeless  granite  of  the  soil, 
Changeless  in  nature,  save  by  nature's  mold, 
From  inert  fixture,  solemn,  calm  and  cold, 
Quickened  by  sculptor's  long  and  patient  moil, 
Record  in  silence,  what  must  silence  fod. 
The  hallowed  glories  of  the  days  of  old. 

Read  on  those  tablets  Bowdoin's  honor  roll. 
Does  not  the  heart  in  grateful  fondness  swell 
When  seeing  names  of  those  who  fought  or  fell 
That  this  our  country  should  be  ever  whole? 
Look  on  these  portraits;  they  should  stir  the  soul; 
The  eyes  should  dim  that  on  those  faces  dwell; 
They  picture  those  who  fought  the  good  fight  well. 
And  honored,  passed  to  fame  ariH  glory's  goal. 

Then  gaze  upon  this  bust:  the  sculptor's  art 
Has  saved  to  us  the  head,  but  not  the  heart. 
Deep  in  a  book  of  verse  that  heart  is  hid; 
Who  reads  the  verse  must  feel  the  strong  pulse  beat. 
That  sculptured  head  that  sits  these  walls  amid, 
Gazing  so  calmly  over  aisle  and  seat. 
Is  modeled  from  a  world-loved  poet's  face 
Whose  thought   was   beauty  and   whose   word  was 
grace. 


His  is  the  glory  I  would  sing  to-day, 
And  tell  his  oft-told  story  in  my  lay. 

I  first  remember  him,  when,  as  a  child. 

One  day  I  gazed  upon  his  pictured  face 

And  wondered  what  had  been  in  life  the  place 

Of  him  whose  eyes  looked  down  so  soft  and  mild. 

"Was  he,"  thought  I,   "Some    long    since  sainted 

man, 
Or  e'en  a  martyr,  who  would  not  deny 
His  faith  in  one  great  God's  eternal  plan?" 
Ah  me!     I  often  smile  at  days  gone  by, 
But   wonder   not  such   thoughts   should   e'er   have 

grown. 

The  visionary  dreams  of  childhood's  hour 

Seem  conscious  only  of  that  mighty  power 

That  cloaks  the  new  unknown  with  what  is  known. 

But  when  at  last  I  reached  the  age  to  know 

I   saw  my  childhood's  dream-born   fancy   grow 

Not  half  the  vision  one  first  glance  would  show. 

No  martyr's  life  or  death  was  his,  'tis  true, 
Yet  all  his  life-works  show  the  world  anew 
That  faith  which,  like  a  martyr's,  ever  held 
.'Ml  steadfast  to  the  very  moral  end 
And  needed  only  for  his  God  to  send 
The  great  denying-test,  that  human  faith 
Might  have  the  chance  to  prove  it  often  hath. 

The  noblest  attitude  of  life  is  love. 
Pure  love  among  its  train  of  attributes 
Lays  claim  to  everything  that  constitutes 
The  high  ideals  that  man  calls  "from  above." 

His  was  a  mind  full  steeped  in  love  like  this; 
His  life  was  noble  in  its  simple  bliss. 
Unawed  by  danger,  and  unmoved  by  fear, 
He  lived  and  died  as  if  he  knew  God  near. 
And  from  his  soul  dark  passion  was  afar, 
Such  passion  as  depletes  the  world  with  war, 
.A.nd  in  its  place  was  peace  that  all  hold  dear. 

Fame,  says  the  proverb,  is  a  little  thing; 
Its  glories  soon  from  life  must  pass  away. 
And   what  to  us  seems  adamant  to-day 
To-morrow  may  no  recognition  bring. 

Fame  is  a  little  thing.     Yes,  lasting  fame 
Belongs  to  none  except  to  one  true  God. 
The  very  walks  of  life  our  fathers  trod 
To  us  exist  not,  save  perhaps  their  name! 

Yet  deep  within  the  hearts  of  men  enshrined, 
I  see  his  name;  and  years  must  age  the  earth 
Before  fame  dies  to  which  the  heart  gives  birth. 
The  short-lived  fame  is  only  of  the  mind. 


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I  one  time  dreamt  I  stood  amid  the  pines; 

Soft  blew  the  wind.     The  branches  overhead 

Sang  out  a  song;  its  mystic,  solemn  lines 

Grew  clear.     I  seemed  to  hear  what  each  tree  said: 

"Wind  of  the  north,  and  wind  of  the  south, 
Wind  of  the  east,  and  wind  of  the  west, 
Tell  us  what  poet  to  sing  in  song, 
Whom  do  you  find  the  people  love  best?" 

Then  silence  reigned  a  moment  till  I  heard 
The  rushing  winds  reply  the  magic  word. 

"Longfellow  sing  ye,  forest  of  pines; 
He  sang  the  woods  primeval  full  oft, 
Murmur  his  name;  his  song  you  awoke; 
Whisper  his  name  forever  aloft." 

Through  life  he  loved  his  Alma  Mater  well; 

When  age  had  touched  his  thinning  hair  with  grey 

He  came  once  more  to  sing  his  praise  to  her. 

From  those  about  to  pass  from  life  away 

To  those  whose  opening  life  before  them  lay. 

Those  ever-living  words  of  his  will  ring 

Among  the  halls  that  heard  their  music  first 

As  long  as  English  poets  live  and  sing. 

They  are  the  tribute  of  a  noble  mind 

That  stirs  the  deep  emotions  of  mankind. 

Peaceful,  and  ever  true  until  the  last 
He  met  his  death.     The  world  at  large  wept  sore 
To  think  the  calm  and  noble  soul  had  passed. 
And  that  his  hand  should  never  lift  pen  more. 

But  in  his  place  he  left  a  cherished  name, 
The  living  symbol  of  a  hight-set  aim. 
Whose  impulse  wakes  to  ev'ry  human  mind 
Who  hears  the  words  he  wrote  and  left  behind. 

Classmates,   aye,   and    yet    more    than    classmates, 

friends! 
When  one  short  coming  year  has  passed  away. 
We,  too,  must  go  from  out  these  hallowed  walls. 
Each  to  pursue  in  life  his  cherished  ends, 
•And  fight  the  battles  as  full  best  he  may. 

But  when  in  going  from  Old  Bowdoin's  halls 
To  fight  those  battles,  whether  lost  or  won. 
Be  this  our  aim,  to  live  as  honest  men 
And  let  our  lives  reflect  the  life  again 
Of  him  whom  Bowdoin  proudly  calls, 

"  My  Son." 

ADDRESS  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 
By  Albro  L.  Burnell. 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  Friends  and  Guests  of  the  Class 
of  igoo: 
We,  your  hosts,  welcome  you  to  this  festal  occa- 
sion, and  invite  you  to  participate  with  us  at  this 
feast  of  merry-making. 


Thirty-three  years  ago  an  ivy  was  planted  on  the 
campus  of  Bowdoin  College,  Ivy  Day  was  inaug- 
urated, and  to-day  we  have  assembled  to  perpetuate 
that  time-honored  custom  by  imitating  the  example 
of  our  worthy  predecessors. 

We  have  now  reached  the  third  mile-stone  of  our 
college  career,  which  marks  the  close  of  three  years 
of  student  life,  years  of  joy  commingled  with  inevi- 
table disappointments  and  sorrows.  We  now  stand 
in  the  very  shadow  of  our  Senior  year,  and  in  our 
moments  of  reflection  we  are  sad  that  our  happy 
college  days  are  fast  drawing  toward  completion — 
but  this  is  no  time  to  be  remorseful,  and  may  this 
day  witness  an  expression  of  happiness  and  good- 
fellowship  among  us  all. 

Friends,  it  is  my  pleasant  duty  and  privilege  to 
relate  to  you  a  fragmentary  history  of  the  class 
under  whose  auspices  these  Ivy  Day  exercises  are 
held.  I  am  sure  that  you  will  pardon  me,  if  in  my 
remarks,  I  disobey  the  ordinary  rules  of  propriety 
of  speech  by  a  display  of  freedom  and  egotism,  for 
I  am  justly  proud  of  the  class  which  I  to-day  rep- 
resent. 

Men  of  the  Class  of  igoo,  we  have  reason  to  feel 
elated  over  our  attainments,  and  this  college  may 
well  congratulate  itself  that  in  us  it  has  a  priceless 
treasure! 

When  we  entered  this  institution  three  years  ago 
we  at  once  produced  a  favorable  impression,  and 
even  at  that  time  great  things  were  expected  of  us, 
achievements  which  have  since  been  realized.  We 
were  modest  Freshmen  and  at  first  unconscious  of 
our  hidden  powers,  but,  like  a  well-watered  vine, 
we  have  grown  in  strength  until  now  we  have 
climbed  to  heights  of  influence  and  authority. 

In  the  fall  of  1896  a  band  of  fifty-nine  of  us 
ambitious  students  entered  the  portals  of  Bowdoin 
College,  but  for  various  reasons  we  lost  seven  of 
our  number  during  our  Freshman  year.  We  regret 
that  any  of  our  number  should  have  been  obliged 
to  depart  from  our  midst  so  early  in  their  course, 
but  sickness,  business  engagements,  lack  of  finan- 
cial means,  and  "deads"  taken  in  Freshman 
"math"  will  inevitably  reduce  the  number  of  every 
class. 

Upon  our  first  appearance  at  college  we  immedi- 
ately attracted  the  attention  of  '99  who  realized  our 
importance  and  gave  us  a  hearty  welcome.  Our 
hosts  could  not  seem  to  do  enough  for  us:  they  in- 
troduced us  to  their  friends,  who  seemed  glad  to 
meet  us;  they  took  us  out  among  the  famous 
"whispering  pines";  they  showed  us  something  of 
the  suburbs  of  Bruiiswick,  particularly  a  sand-bank, 
the  utility  and  eflicacy  of  which  we  soon  learned  to 
appreciate.     Of  course  we  men  of  igoo  wished  to  be 


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reciprocal,  and  so  we  entertained  our  hosts  by  dec- 
lamations, vocal  music,  boxing,  dancing,  and  in 
such  other  -ways  as  seemed  pleasing  to  our  audience. 
At  first  we  were  eager  to  study,  but  we  soon 
learned  that  foot-ball  rushes,  rope-pulls,  and  base- 
ball games  were  generally  considered  of  greater 
importance.  In  the  Sophomore-Freshman  foot-ball 
rush  we  easily  succeeded  in  getting  a  goal,  a  feat 
which  '99  tried  to  do,  but  in  vain.  Our  opponents 
realizing  our  strength  and  fearful  of  a  still  greater 
defeat,  stole  the  ball  and  ran  away. 

We  did  not  meet  with  our  usual  success  in  the 
Sophomore-Freshman  base-ball  game,  but  we  con- 
gratulate '99  upon  their  well-earned  victory. 

As  we  continued  through  our  Freshman  experi- 
ences we  waxed  strong  and  bold,  always  meeting 
with  the  approbation  of  '97  and  '98. 

We  next  gave  the  customary  peanut  drunk,  and 
in  that  undertaking  we  met  with  unusual  success, 
for  we  succeeded  by  means  of  a  jug  in  crackmg 
open  Lucian  P.  Libby's  head,  which  we  assure  you 
was  no  easy  nut  to  crack. 

The  last  important  contest  of  our  first  term  at 
college  was  the  annual  Sophomore-Freshman  foot- 
ball game.  In  this  contest  neither  side  scored,  but 
it  was  for  no  fault  of  Captain  "Bob"  Chapman  that 
we  did  not  win  the  game. 

When  we  were  at  the  height  of  our  victories  and 
vicissitudes  we  lost  seven  of  our  number.  Abbott, 
Call,  and  Morse  found  Bowdoin  College  and  the 
Class  of  1900  too  fast  for  them,  and  although  these 
men  entered  our  class  in  the  trial  heats.  Prof. 
Moody,  who  was  judge,  declared  them  too  slow  for 
the  finals.  Then  there  was  Ortho  Dascombe,  who 
became  homesick,  and  of  course  he  had  to  leave  us. 
But  he  was  excusable,  for  he  was  young  and  unused 
to  rough  experiences.  He  has  now  entirely  recov- 
ered from  his  illness  and  is  a  member  of  1901.  Cut- 
ler gave  up  his  college  course  for  a  lucrative  posi- 
tion in  the  '  Queen  City  of  the  East,"  while  Martin, 
on  account  of  sickness,  went  West,  where  he  has 
since  become  a  manager  of  a  large  silver  mine.  We 
have  lost  all  trace  of  Lewis  Grass  since  we  heard 
that  he  had  been  stranded  upon  the  sandy  shores  of 
Cape  Cod.  Wherever  these  seven  lost  sheep  may 
be,  we,  their  fellow-classmates,  sincerely  wish  them 
success  and  a  happy  greeting. 

Thus,  friends,  endeth  the  first  epoch  of  the  his- 
tory of  the  Class  of  1900.  We  should  be  averse  to 
again  pass  through  the  trials  and  tribulations  of 
those  early  days  of  our  college  career,  yet  we  now 
realize  that  the  experiences  of  our  Freshman  year 
were  needful  for  our  healthy  growth,  and  we  owe 
much  to  the  men  of  "99  for  the  watchfulness  and 
care  which  they  took  in  our  behalf  during  our  m- 
tancy. 


When  we  became  Sophomores  we  entered  act- 
ively upon  a  fall  campaign  by  doing  unto  1901  what 
'gg  had  done  unto  us.  The  Freshmen  had  to  be 
properly  cared  for,  and  they  took  up  a  great  deal 
f)f  our  time  and  attention,  but  we  were  only  too 
glad  to  help  them  in  their  hours  of  need. 

We  were  very  busy  during  our  Sophomore  year. 
Besides  looking  after  the  Freshmen,  we  had  to 
study  hard  in  order  to  maintain  a  high  degree  of 
scholarship;  we  felt  under  obligations  to  observe 
Hallowe'en  in  a  befitting  manner;  the  class  turkey- 
supper  had  to  be  provided;  and  finally,  spring  had 
to  be  "opened  up"  in  some  suitable  way. 

The  Class  of  igoo  has  always  endeavored  to  ob- 
serve the  established  customs  of  preceding  classes, 
and  we  have  not  only  been  imitative,  but  often- 
times original.  We  succeeded  in  augmenting  the 
customary  observance  of  Hallowe'en  by  putting  into 
operation  some  of  our  original  ideas.  I  will  not  go 
into  detail,  but  will  simply  say  that,  by  the  use  of 
paint,  lard,  paper,  a  few  settees,  an  alarm-clock  and 
the  President's  summer  house,  we  did  all  that  could 
be  desired.  But  a  great  surprise  was  in  store  for 
us,  and  for  a  few  days  our  work  received  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Faculty  and  college  jury.  Each  mem- 
ber of  the  class,  who  participated  in  that  celebration, 
received  an  autograph  letter  from  the  acting-presi- 
dent, also  word  was  sent  to  their  parents  informing 
them  that  their  sons  were  still  at  college,  but  were 
liable  to  leave  at  any  time. 

It  was  about  this  time  of  our  college  course 
when  our  class  purchased  a  new  set  of  front  doors 
for  King's  Chapel;  they  also  bought  a  new  beli 
rope,  and  had  the  chapel  organ  repaired  and  tuned; 
the  chapel  seats  needed  to  be  washed,  and  this  was 
done  at  our  expense;  last,  but  not  least,  sixteen  of 
our  class  surrendered  their  scholarships  in  the  inter- 
est of  students  who  seemed  more  worthy  than  them- 
selves. 

Then  came  our  turkey-supper,  or,  if  you  please, 
our  turkey-breakfast.  It  was  about  four  o'clock  one 
stormy  morning  in  November  when  we  all  sat  down 
on  the  Art  Building  steps  to  a  lunch  of  turkey, 
cranberry  tarts,  and  ginger  ale.  'Ninety-nine  wished 
very  much  to  participate  with  us,  but  on  account 
of  some  misunderstanding  about  the  hour  and  place, 
they  were  unable  to  be  present.  There  was  only 
one  unpleasant  feature  about  the  whole  occasion— 
we  made  an  unfortunate  selection  of  our  place  of 
meeting,  and  it  seemed  for  a  few  days  that  some  of 
us  would  have  to  "chip  in"  and  buy  a  new  art 
building. 

The  last  important  event  of  our  Sophomore  year 
was  the  "opening  up  oE  spring."  We  made  a  few 
innovations   in   this   celebration,    and   we    met   with 


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our  usual  success,  but  the  class  does  not  wish  me  to 
go  into  particulars. 

Our  class  has  always  maintained  an  enthusiastic 
interest  and  participation  in  athletics,  and  although 
we  cannot  boast  of  a  large  number  of  stars,  we  do 
take  a  just  pride  in  such  as  we  have..  Certainly, 
Bacon,  Edwards,  Clark  and  Clough  are  athletes 
who  have  not  only  the  esteem  of  1900,  but  also  that 
of  our  college.  We  have  met  with  unusual  success 
at  the  indoor  meets  of  the  college.  For  two  years 
we  have  taken  second  place,  and  this  year  we  took 
first  place. 

In  our  Freshman  year  we  formed  with  Colby 
the  Colby-Bowdoin  Freshman  Meet,  when  we  easily 
bore  off  the  palm  of  victory. 

Since  our  Freshman  year  we  have  lost  eight 
more  of  our  classmates:  Coombs,  Crafts,  Farwell, 
Folsom,  Rumery,  Gardner,  Usher,  and  Willey.  We 
are  pleased  to  learn  that  most  of  these  men  are  only 
temporarily  absent  from  college,  and  although  they 
are  no  longer  members  of  our  class,  we  shall  give 
them  a  hearty  welcome  upon  their  return  to  Bow- 
doin  in  the  fall. 

Bowdoin  College  wants  all  the  good  men  that 
she  can  get,  but  she  never  solicits  students  from 
other  colleges  and  fitting  schools  by  professional 
agents.  She  does  not  need  to,  she  has  stood  upon 
her  merits  in  the  past  and  she  will  stand  upon  her 
merits  in  the  future.  It  is  a  significant  fact  and  a 
credit  to  our  institution  that  the  Class  of  ipco  alone 
has  received  into  its  ranks,  within  the  past  two  years, 
eleven  recruits:  Burbank  from  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy;  Beadle  from  Hartford  Theological  Sem- 
inary; Clough  from  Williams  College;  Edwards 
from  Phillips  Andover  Academy;  Folsom  from 
Colby  College;  Pottle  and  Stackpole  from  Bates 
College;  Brown  from  University  of  Maine;  Ward 
from  Wesleyan  College;  Williams,  ex-'gp;  and  Ran- 
dall who  first  entered  Bowdoin  as  a  special  student, 
but  has  since  done  the  required  work  for  admis- 
sion to  igoo,  and  is  now  one  of  our  number. 

RESPONSE  OF  ATHLETE. 
Mr.  Holmes  (fondling  the  ctip)  said: — 
Mr  President: 

The  rosy-fingered  morn  had  just  ushered  in  a 
new  day,  while  the  sun  with  its  warm  rays  was  kiss- 
ing the  halls  of  Bowdoin  and  her  campus  green; 
the  end-woman  was  merrily  singing  at  her  morning 
task  when,  on  the  fifteenth  of  September,  1896,  I 
entered  upon  my  career  of  glory.     I  am  an  athlete. 

The  first  morning  I  tarried  after  chapel  to  make 
my  abilities  known  to  the  Faculty,  while  the  class 
did  not  feel  able  to  pursue  its  course  alone.     But 


the  next  morning  I  and  the  class  made  one  grand 
rush,  and  as  Professor  Chapman  saw  the  sacred 
and  reverend  Class  of  'Ninety-nine  rudely  buffeted 
and  scattered  to  the  four  corners  of  the  campus,  he 
shuddered  and  said  "Alas,  what  impiety,  what  des- 
ecration is  this!"  I  say  nothing  further  concerning 
my  exploits  Freshman  year,  since  modesty  con- 
strains me.  Sufl'ice  to  say  that  if  it  hadn't  been  for 
me  it  would  have  gone  hard  with  our  class.  Duke 
Burbank  was  not  then  with  us,  nor  Bill  Phillips,  nor 
yet  had  come  out  from  his  modest  retirement  that 
prince  of  scrappers,  our  own  Daisy  Bell. 

During  my  Sophomore  year  I  still  furthered  my 
athletic  fame.  When  nineteen-one  was  ambitious 
in  the  line  of  peanut  drunks,  Gus  Shorey  and  I 
formed  the  outer  guard.  Suddenly  there  came  a 
rush— a  jug  was  thrown— and  Gus  and  I  were  laying 
for  game.  I  downed  one  with  a  stroke  of  my 
strong  right  arm,  while  Augustus  brandished  a  club 
and  talked  loudly  of  vengeance.  Then  we  held  a 
council  of  war  to  determine  what  should  be  done 
with  the  captive.  Sammy  Harris,  who  was  always 
a  hasty,  blustering  youth,  wished  him  to  be  be- 
headed on  the  spot,  while  General  Sparks  pleaded 
tor  leniency  and  spoke  feelingly  of  the  brotherhood 
of  man  and  of  Bowdoin  students  in  particular. 
Meanwhile  some  one  had  made  the  novel  sugges- 
tion that  we  find  out  who  our  victim  was.  Imagine 
my  consternation  when  I  found  that  I  had  nearly 
killed  Rumery — a  member  of  my  own  class  of  nine- 
teen  hundred. 

But.  Mr.  President,  in  spite  of  my  pre-eminent 
athletic  merits  my  course  has  been  in  one  sense 
a  disappointment.  I  am  an  obscure  athlete,  and  ath- 
letic merely  for  its  own  sake.  You  perhaps  have 
often  wondered,  as  you  looked  at  my  massive  form 
and  felt  my  iron  sinews  in  the  combat — you  per- 
haps have  often  wondered  that  my  fame  has  not 
travelled  from  sea  to  sea.  The  real  cause  of  my 
seeming  failure  is  that  I  am  progressive  and  bound 
to  abandon  old-fashioned  ideas  and  antiquated 
models.  Not  so  are  the  brethren  who  captain  our 
'varsity  teams.  They  say  that  athletes  cannot  win 
without  training.  They  rail  at  cigarette  smoking, 
all  oblivious  to  the  fact  that  smoke  is  used  as  a  pre- 
servant  in  ordinary  commerce. 

You  never,  Mr.  President,  saw  a  smoked  ham, 
for  instance,  that  was  not  tougher  and  more  durable 
than  the  original  article.  Secondly,  there  is  nothing 
(so  physiologists  tell  us)  so  wearing  and  so  baneful 
in  its  efifects  upon  the  physical  system  as  worriment. 
Before  entering  upon  any  important  contest  it  is 
necessary, — aye  it  is  imperative — that  the  athlete  en- 
joy a  respite  from  care.  My  contention  is  that  the 
time  spent  under  the  influence  of  that  blest  spirit, 
so  worthily  esteemed  by  the  wise  and  so  malignly 


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cursed  by  the  ignorant,  will  result  in  four-fold  vic- 
tories upon  the  gridiron  and  the  base-ball  field. 

These  things  I  feel  obliged  to  say  in  self-defense, 
for  I  have  been  denied  entrance  into  the  'varsity 
games  in  foot-ball,  base-ball,  and  track-athletics 
merely  because  I  persisted  in  following  my  convic- 
tions of  right,  and  fought  for  my  cause  with  a  moral 
courage  only  equalled  by  my  strength  and  agility  of 
limb. 

Besides  myself  there  are,  as  I  have  intimated, 
other  athletes  in  our  class  who  are  truly  great. 
There  is  one  who  is  particularly  famous,  and  him 
we  call  the  Duke,  after  the  great  Duke  of  Welling- 
ton. The  ladies,  who  always  appreciate  manly  qual- 
ities, are  wont  to  lionize  Duke  much  as  they  do 
Hobson;  and  it  often  happens  that  their  admiration 
assumes  a  frenzy  and  ecstacy  which  lead  them  to 
violate  the  laws  of  decorum.  But  all  these  manifes- 
tations the  Duke  repels  with  as  much  gentleness  as 
is  consistent  with  his  muscular  nature.  I  might 
speak  of  Woodbury,  the  phenomenal  ball  twirler, 
and  Doc.  Strout,  who  is  so  energetic  that  the  col- 
lege cannot  hold  him  for  more  than  two  weeks  at 
a  time. 

As  for  myself,  Mr.  President,  I  now  stand  on  the 
pinnacle  of  my  ambition.  I  thank  you  for  this 
beautiful  cup  and  your  recognition  of  my  athletic 
merits.  The  honor  and  the  gift  I  shall  always  cher- 
ish as  mementoes  of  this  happiest  of  Ivy  days. 

I  have  endeavored,  friends,  in  my  crude  and  un- 
satisfactory manner,  to  relate  to  you  those  experi- 
ences and  facts  of  our  college  career  which  it  has 
seemed  fitting  to  mention  on  this  occasion.  Let  us 
refresh  ourselves  by  laying  aside  our  frivolity,  for 
a  moment,  and  let  us  be  serious. 

Classmates,  we  have  now  come  to  the  close  of 
our  Junior  year,  and  our  college  work  is  nearly 
completed.  As  we  look  back  over  the  history  of 
our  past  we  may  not  be  satisfied  with  our  record, 
yet  it  has  been  a  record  of  which  we  need  not  be 
ashamed.  We  have  always  stood  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  the  integrity  of  our  class  and  for  the  honor 
of  our  college. 

Thus  we  have  walked  through  the  furnace  of  deep 

tribulation; 
Thus  have  we  roamed  in  the  green  fields  of  joy 
Till  ev'ry  heart  cultivated  a  friendship's  devotion 
Which  only  death  can  by  silence  destroy. 

Men  of  the  class  of  1900.  you  are  soon  to  leave 
us,  and  we  shall  miss  you.  Your  record  has  been 
honorable,  and  for  that  we  congratulate  you.  What- 
ever may  be  your  future  pursuits,  the  Class  of  1900 
sincerely  wish  you  happiness  and  prosperity. 

Before  closing  my  part  of  these  Ivy  Day  exer- 
cises, the  class  wishes  me  to  bestow,  in  their  behalf. 


a  few  appropriate  gifts  upon  several  of  our  class- 
mates. 

There  are  many  of  those  sitting  before  you  to- 
day to  whom  honor  is  due,  but  there  are  a  few  men 
of  our  class  whom  we  wish  to  especially  honor  for 
what  they  are  and  for  what  they  have  done. 

In  the  preceding  account  of  our  class  I  men- 
tioned the  names  of  a  few  of  our  athletes,  but  I  in- 
tentionally omitted  the  name  of  one  whom  I  wished 
to  honor  by  some  special  attention. 

We  have  in  our  class  an  athlete  who  is  not  only 
a  star,  but  one  who  stands  pre-eminently  above  all 
others.  His  strength  is  Herculean,  yet  you  would 
not  think  so  to  look  at  him,  but  I  have  always 
imagined  that  his  strength,  like  the  strength  of  Sam- 
son, lies  in  his  hair.  He  is  a  fast  youth,  and  he  has 
done  unheard-of  feats,  especially  in  track  athletics. 

"Towser"  Holmes,  it  is  the  unanimous  opinion 
of  your  classmates  that  you  are  their  best  athlete 
and  the  most  worthy  of  their  esteem. 

Mr.  Holmes,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  pre- 
sent to  you  this  silver  cup.  We  trust  that  you  will 
cherish  this  gift,  and  as  you  look  upon  it  from  time 
to  time  may  it  inspire  you  to  still  greater  achieve- 
ments. We  also  hope  that,  like  the  handle  of  this 
silver  cup.  you  may  have  a  long  hold  upon  your 
athletic  ability. 


RESPONSE  OF  PLUGGER. 
Mr.  Edwards  said : 
Mr.  President  and  Classmates: 

You  can't  imagine  with  how  much  pride  and  sat- 
isfaction I  receive  this  little  token  of  your  high  and 
just  appreciation  of  my  plugging  abilities.  I  have 
longed  for  this  hour  of  glory  and  fame  and  at  last 
it  has  come.  Can  it  be  true?  Class  plugger!  How 
my  heart  throbs  with  pleasure  as  I  hear  these  words. 
And  yet,  Mr.  President,  I  deserve  this  honor. 
Surely  no  one  of  my  classmates  here  can  begrudge 
me  it,  or  let  even  a  single  spark  of  envy  kindle  in 
his  breast. 

When  I  entered  college,  Mr.  President,  it  was 
way  back  in  the  fall  of  '99,  and  'twas  then  that  a 
very  strange  thing  happened.  President  Hyde,  in 
some  unheard-of  way,  became  informed  of  my  in- 
tentions to  enter  Bowdoin  College,  and  it  was 
through  the  persuasive  influence  which  he  has  with 
the  Faculty,  that  I  became  a  member  of  the  glorious 
Class  of  1900,  in  its  Sophomore  year. 

You  see,  my  intellectual  abilities  and  my  mental 
prowess  had  made  a  great  reputation  for  me,  and  I 
was  taken  into  an  upper  class  at  once. 

This,  Mr.  President,  is  the  first  time  in  the  his- 
tory of  Bowdoin  College  that  a  Freshman  was  ever 


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taken  into  the  Sophomore  Class.  But  why  dwell 
upon  such  trivial  affairs.  Let  us  pass  to  matters 
of  deeper  consequence. 

Now  the  wise  man  hath  said,  that  "A  deed  well 
begun  is  half  done,"  and  the  world  acknowledges 
him.  So,  to-day  as  I  look  back  on  my  studious 
career,  and  then  glance  into  the  future,  I  most  cer- 
tainly feel  that  my  life's  work  is  half  done. 

But,  classmates,  we  cannot  all  be  thus  fortunate, 
and  as  Dame  Fortune  has  granted  me  this  privi- 
lege alone,  let  no  jealousies  kindle  among  you,  but 
follow  my  illustrious  example  and  nczier  ride  when 
you  are  able  to  walk. 

Mr.  President,  again  allow  me  to  tender  you  my 
heartfelt  gratitude  and  appreciation  for  this  "  Handy 
Helps  for  Students,"  and  while  on  my  extended  tour 
through  Greece  may  I  never  be  obliged  to  say,  "A 
Horse!  A  Horse!  My  kingdom  for  a  Horse!" 


RESPONSE  OF  BACKSLIDER. 
Mr.  West  said : 
Mr.  President,  Classmates,  and  Friends: 

If  I  were  one  who  did  not  rise  with  the  lark; 
who  went  down  to  breakfast  at  dinner  time;  who 
never  wrote  my  themes  until  the  day  after  they  are 
due,  and  remembered  the  chapel,  to  cut  it  wholly, 
I  should  think  there  was  a  double  meaning  in  this 
gift.  But  it  cannot  be,  for  I  am  famous  for  my 
promptness,  and  my  room-mate  could  tell  you  that 
many  and  many  a  morning,  ere  the  squirrel  had 
raised  his  tuneful  matins,  or  ere  the  blithe  army 
worm  had  carolled  forth  a  joyous  lay  in  anticipation 
of  putting  in  a  day  of  frolic  among  the  students,  I 
have  sauntered  forth  to  view  the  glories  of  nature, 
and  plan  how  best  I  could  be  odds  with  all  the  har- 
mony around  me.  No,  indeed,  our  worthy  Presi- 
dent can  have  reference  to  none  other  than  my 
moral   delinquency. 

It  was  an  ancestor  of  mine,  who  heard  his  com- 
mander say,  during  a  battle  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  "Strike  for  your  country  and  your  homes!" 
My  ancestor  was  a  fair-minded  gentleman,  and  as 
he  observed  a  goodly  number  striking  for  their 
country,  he  promptly  struck  for  home. 

It  is  to  him  that  I  owe  that  quality  in  rne  which 
has  brought  me  to-day  to  this  goal  of  all  ambition, 
a  part  on  the  Ivy  Day  Programme  at  Bowdoin, 
Little  did  he  think,  poor  man,  that  to  a  descendant 
of  his  it  would  fall  to  rise  to  such  a  height  of  fame 
in  a  downward  career.  I  confess,  it  staggers  even 
me,  sometimes,  to  think  how  progressive  is  my 
retrogression.  I  have  been  so  straightforward  in 
my  backwardness  that  so  far  from  boasting  hitherto 


about  my  achievements,  I  have  observed  a  becom- 
ing modesty  regarding  them. 

I  fear  that  few  of  you  besides  our  keen-eyed 
President  will  see  the  point  to  this  presentation. 
Who  of  you,  as  you  gaze  upon  my  stalwart  form,  as 
you  read  the  noble  expression  on  my  calm,  placid, 
"seven-by-nine"  countenance  and  peer  through 
these  beautiful  blue  eyes  for  miles  deep  down  into 
my  very  heart  (as  you  imagine),  who  of  you,  I  re- 
peat, would  doubt  for  a  moment  that  a  veritable 
angel,  or  at  least  a  sub-angel  stood  before  you? 
Yet  the  words  of  the  President,  incredible  as  they 
seein,  are  as  nothing  to  the  awful  truths  I  could 
reveal  if  I  chose. 

"  I  could  a  tale  unfold,  whose  lightest  word 
Would  harrow  up  thy  soul,  freeze  thy  young  blood, 
Make  thy    two    eyes,    like    stars,    start    from    their 

spheres. 
Thy  knotted  and  combined  locks  to  part, 
And  each  particular  hair  to  stand  on  end 
I-.ike  quills  upon  the  fretful  porcupine." 

Once,  dear  friends,  I  was  all  I  look.  Joyous, 
light-hearted,  free  from  care  and  the  shadow  of  sin, 
I  roved  the  Elysian  fields  of  Lewiston,  a  creature 
not  of  earth,  nor  of  the  children  of  men.  Mine 
was  the  spirit  of  those  fauns  of  whom  we  read  in 
Hawthorne  and  the  Greek  horses.  But  one  day 
this  prodigy  fell  from  grace.  I  whispered  in  school. 
Made  reckless  by  the  awfulness  of  the  deed,  and 
feeling  forever  outlawed  from  good  society,  I 
plunged  at  once  upon  a  downward  course  which  has 
not  halted  nor  varied  until  the  present  day. 

I  have  concealed  my  depravity  under  the  cloak 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Little  did  Georgie  Piper  or 
Doc.  Strout  know  that  I  used  to  hurry  away  from 
committee  meetings  to  quaff  the  sparkling  ginger 
ale,  or  puff  the  deadly  hayseed  in  the  privacy  of  my 
den.  And  nobody  knows,  to  this  day.  just  what 
Robinson  and  I  went  to  Cleveland  for — except 
Robinson  and  myself. 

The  very  opening  days  of  my  college  course  are 
stained  by  a  monstrous  deed.  It  was  then  that  I 
was  out  until  five  o'clock  in  the  morning,  carousing 
at  our  peanut  drunk.  It  was  during  this  year,  also, 
that  I  remarked  of  myself  in  my  own  inimitable 
way, 

"I  see  the  right,  and  I  approve  it,  too, 
Condemn   the  wrong,  and  yet  the  wrong  pursue." 

Thus  I  continued  my  chosen  path  of  frivolity, 
having  the  additional  pleasure  of  hoodwinking 
people  into  thinking  I  was  a  Dr.  Jekyl,  when  I  was 
in  reality  a  Mr.  Hyde. 

The    Faculty    were    so    completely    "rubbered" 


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that,  after  a  term  of  shocking  Sophomoric  misde- 
meanors, they  honored  me  with  the  good  old 
Methodist  ritual  of  probation;  and  any  one  of  them 
would  swear  that  I  did  not  do  a  thing  out  of  the 
way  until  the  end  of  the  term.  But  I  did.  It  was 
I  who  told  Beane  he  could  sing. 

I  taught  Lewis  how  not  to  play  tennis.  It  was 
I  who  remarked,  single-handed  and  alone,  that 
■'  summer  houses,  and  some  are  not,  and  Prexie's 
won't  be  any  more."  That  is  the  worst  thing  I  did 
that  year. 

From  my  brain  emanated  the  fiendish  plan  of 
making  a  poor,  cowering  Freshman  repeat  Spen- 
cer's famous  formula — "  Evolution  is  the  integra- 
tion of  matter  and  the  concomitant  dissipation  of 
motion,  during  which  the  matter  passes  from  an 
indefinite,  incoherent  homogeneity  to  a  definite, 
coherent  hetrogeneity,  and  during  which  the  re- 
tained motion  undergoes  a  parallel  transformation." 

It  was  I  who  spilled    five    hogsheads    of    melted 
lard  on  the    Art    Building    steps,    evoking    by    my 
wastefulness  the  lament  of  Lord  Byron: 
Fair  grease!  sad  relic  of  departed  worth; 
Immortal  though  nor  more,  though  fallen,  great! 

The  above  is  quoted  from  his  famous  poem  be- 
ginning: 

Whilome  in  Brunswick  town  there  dwelt  a  youth. 
Who  ne  in  virtue's  ways  did  take  delight; 
But  spent  his  days  in  riot  most  uncouth. 
And  vexed  with  mirth  the  drowsy  ear  of  night. 
Ah  me!  in  sooth  he  was  a  shameless  wight, 
Sore  fond  of  revel  and  ungodly  glee; 
Childe  Harold  was  he  hight; 
And  he  through  Sin's  long  labyrinth  had  run. 
Nor  made  atonement  when  he  did  amiss. 

But  alas,  kind  friends,  so  swift  has  been  my 
downward  pace  that  at  last  I  have  come  up  against 
the  bottom  with  a  thump.  Now  backsliding  is  a 
passion  with  me.  Alexander's  sorrow  at  having 
made  a  corner  in  worlds  was  mild  to  the  anguish  I 
feel  at  the  thought  that  there  are  no  more  moral 
depths  for  me  to  explore.  Therefore  your  gift,  sir, 
comes  most  opportunely. 

With  these  to  spur  me  on,  I  will  arise.  My  feet 
shall  stand  on  the  loftiest  mountain  peak  of  moral- 
ity. From  there  my  soul  shall  rise  on  the  wings 
of  the  morning  into  the  pure,  dazzling  zenith  of 
goodness.  Then  there  will  be  free  scope  for  my 
peculiar  genius.  I  shall  have  the  drop  on  the  whole 
situation  and  wondering  mortals  shall  sing  of  me, 
"How  art  thou  fallen.  Childe  Harold,  son  of  the 
morning!" 


RESPONSE  OF  CRIMINAL. 
Mr.  Sparks  said : 
Mr  President  and  Classmates: 

While  I  feel  justly  proud  as  well  as  justly  hon- 
ored with  this  token  of  your  respect,  I  feel  grieved 
that  you,  Mr.  President,  should,  for  the  sake  of  thus 
honoring  me,  strip  these  beautiful  bracelets  from  the 
arms  of  that  fair  Bath  maiden  with  whom  you  have 
so  often  been  seen  of  late.  I  feel  justly  proud  to 
be  linked  with  that  chain-gang  of  past  years.  I  am 
honored  to  be  associated  with  Baxter,  Hutchins, 
and  Veazie. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  this  audience  to  know 
for  what  reason  I  am  thus  honored,  and  although 
it  may  be  unpleasant  to  resurrect  the  memories  of 
the  Yagger  War  after  Town  and  Gown  have  joined 
so  pleasantly  in  our  recent  Worcester  celebration, 
yet  it  seems  the  only  thing  to  do,  so  I  will  proceed. 
It  was  on  the  eve  of  the  final  battle  in  that  famous 
struggle  that  old  Bowdoin,  two  hundred  strong, 
marched  down  town  in  a  thirst  for  blood.  Through 
the  streets  of  Brunswick  we  marched  arrayed,  as 
Louis  Norman  put  it,  in  our  "base-ball  suits." 
"Phi  Chi"  rang  out  defiantly,  and  I  may  add  dis- 
cordantly, 

And  bad  eggs  in  the  moonlight  gleamed 
And  students  roundly  swore  , 

We're  coming  Father  Despeaux, 
Two  hundred  students  more. 

In  front  of  the  post-oilice  the  opposing  host  of 
Yaggers  was  drawn  up,  strongly  re-enforced  by  the 
"guardians  of  the  peace"  and  that  wise  and  witty 
editor  of  the  Bath  Independent. 

Soon  we  were  surrounded,  and  the  struggle — of 
words — began.  From  both  parties  epithets  and 
threats  flew.  In  the  midst  of  all  this  fierce  struggle 
not  a  fist  flew. 

In  a  few  moments  the  student  party  overwhelmed 
— by  words — withdrew  to  the  other  side  of  the 
street  to  await  another  onslaught.  All  but  one  and 
that  one,  the  gallant  general,  deserted  by  his  forces, 
heroically  held  his  ground. 

Trained  to  fighting,  as  I  have  always  been,  and 
not  knowing  what  it  is  to  fear,  I  picked  out  the  big- 
gest and  mouthiest  Yagger  in  the  crowd  and  waded 
into  him.  I  hit  him  once.  He- hit  back.  With  his 
fist?  By  no  means,  he  knew  better  for,  although 
he  weighed  250  pounds  and  I  scarcely  120  pounds, 
he  knew  what  must  happen  if  I  hit  him  a  second 
time.  No,  it  was  with  a  club  he  hit  me,  and  I 
looked  to  see  if  I  had  picked  out  the  right  man. 
No,  I  had  not;  there  he  stood  in  all  his  glory,  big, 
fat  and  scared,  but  triumphant  in  his  first  arrest,  a 


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big,  bKie-coated,  tinvbuttoned  cop.  But  he  was  not 
to  bear  away  the  prize  alone,  it  was  too  valuable; 
I  paid  for  those  cops. 

When  I  reached  the  cellar  I  was  roughly  thrust 
into  a  cell  with  the  remark  that  I  was  not  "de  first 
blokey  what  had  occupied  it  since  Harry  Emery 
had  been  there  first."  I  looked  around  my  new 
quarters  and  wondered  if  that  was  the  same  blanket 
that  Harry  had  used. 

Soon  I  heard  the  patter  of  childish  feet  and  that 
august  tank,  the  Lord  High  Beer  Taster,  entered. 
His  Spigotship  halted  at  a  safe  distance  and  damned 
me  and  Bowdoin  College  in  general. 

After  wasting  much  of  his  foam  he  became  more 
rational  and  asked  me  how  it  happened.  His  Lank- 
ship  explained  that  he  had  been  in  a  barber  shop 
getting  shaved,  but  as  near  as  I  can  find  out  the 
nearest  he  got  to  the  barber  shop  was  to  hide  behind 
the  pole. 

I  was  glad  when  I  saw  his  chubby  form  pass 
through  the  door  and  knew  that  this  world's  wonder 
had  taken  flight  to  Portland  far  from  his  tormentors 
and  Bowdoin. 

In  spite  of  his  efforts  to  send  me  to  Thomaston 
with  Bacon  and  Georgie  Minard  for  company,  my 
friends  bailed  me  out  and  I,  the  General,  General 
Sparks,  General  Frank  Sparks,  General  Frank  Mel- 
ville Sparks,  was  left  the  only  hero  of  the  Yagger 
War  and  so  the  criminal  of  the  Class  of  igoo. 

RESPONSE  OF  POPULAR  MAN. 

IMr.  Whitney  said ; 
Mr.  President  and  Classmates : 

Ivy  Day  is  essentially  the  Junior's  day.  For  over 
thirty  years  it  has  been  the  custom  for  the  Junior 
Class  at  this  stage  of  their  career  to. celebrate  their 
arrival  at  the  threshold  of  their  Senior  year — the 
last  of  four  happy,  happy  years.  There  is  a  rule 
also  established  by  custom,  that  upon  Ivy  Day  one 
member  of  the  class  shall  be  chosen  as  popular  man 
and  shall  be  presented  with  the  wooden  spoon,  as 
an  emblem  of  the  universal  esteem  in  which  he  is 
held. 

This  year  our  class  has  chosen  me  as  popular 
man,  and  in  accepting  this  spoon,  the  symbol  of  pop- 
ularity and  the  token  of  your  '  friendship,  I  fully 
realize  that  it  is  not  in  my  power  to  express  prop- 
erly my  feelings  of  gratitude  and  appreciation. 
Nothing  can  give  greater  satisfaction  than  to  know 
that  one  has  many  friends,  and  to-day,  more  than 
ever  before,  I  realize  how  strong  are  the  bonds  of 
iriendship  which  unite  us  all. 

In  every  class  these  ties  of  friendship  are  so 
strong  that  it  would  be  absurd  for  any  one  man  to 
consider  himself  the  popular  man  of  his  class.    There 


is  no  one  popular  man.  We  are  all  popular,  some 
in  one  way,  others  in  another,  and  I  can  only  re- 
peat what  others  have  said  before  and  say  that  I 
can  not  look  upon  this  spoon  as  my  personal  prop- 
erty, but  as  shared  by  every  member  of  our  class, 
and  that  I  consider  myself  greatly  honored  by  being 
chosen  by  my  fellow-classmates  to  hold  in  trust  this, 
our  common  treasure. 

Three  years  of  our  college  life  are  nearly  com- 
pleted; years  which  have  been  not  only  pleasant 
but  profitable,  and  looking  back  over  these  years 
we  can  justly  and  proudly  say  that  they  have  been 
spent  without  the  slightest  sign  of  discord  which  is 
so  apt  to  arise  and  thus  mar  the  happiness  of  col- 
lege life.  From  the  first,  our  relations  with  each 
other  have  been  of  the  pleasantest  character  and 
friendships  have  been  formed  which  I  trust  may 
never  be  broken. 

To  receive  the  wooden  spoon  on  Ivy  Day  is 
considered  one  of  the  greatest,  if  not  the  greatest 
honor  that  can  come  to  a  man  during  his  college 
course,  and  I  can  only  say  that  I  fully  appreciate 
the  greatness  of  this  honor  which  you  have  bestowed 
upon  me,  and  you  may  rest  assured  that  from  the 
bottom  of  my  heart  I  sincerely  reciprocate  your 
feelings.     Classmates,  one  and  all,  I  thank  you. 

After  these  exercises  the  class  marched 
out  and  planted  the  ivy  by  the  southwest  wall 
of  Memorial  Hall,  singing  the  following  ode 
by  Mr.  J.  P.  Webber,  the  planting  performed 
bv  the  curator,  Mr.  C.  L.  Powell. 

Ivy-Day  Ode. 
Air — Annie  Lisle. 
Alma  Mater,  for  a  moment. 

From  our  gaiety. 
With  a  calmer  thought  and  sober. 

Turn  we  unto  thee. 
Sweet  presage  of  the  future 

Ne'er  shall  pleasure  come, 
But  thy  sons,  with  hearts  o'erflowing, 
Think  again  of  home. 

Here  we  plant  affection's  symbol. 

Oh  that  it  may  twine. 
Year  by  year  in  folds  unceasing. 

Round  this  hall  of  thine. 
May  these  walls  brightly  gleaming 

In  the  morning  sheen, 
With  the  mantel  of  our  Ivy 
Vaunt  our  white  and  green. 

But  perchance  beset  by  hardship, 

Fades  this  slip  and  falls. 
And  its  tendrils  never  clamber 

Over  Bowdoin  walls. 


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Then,  Mother,  in  affection 

'Tis  thou  art  enshrined. 
Still  around  thee  dearest  mem'ries 

Are  for  aye  entwined. 

Thtis  passed  another  Ivy  Day  with  the 
impressive  ceremony  of  the  Senior's  Last 
Chapel,  witnessed  by  the  usual  large  crowd. 
In  the  evening  the  Ivy  Hop  was  held  in  the 
Memorial  Hall  and  until  an  early  hour  disci- 
ples of  Terpsichore  made  proud  their  god- 
dess. The  patronesses  were  Mrs.  Hyde, 
Mrs.  Lee,  Mrs.  Robinson,  Mrs.  Mitchell, 
Mrs.  Houghton,  Mrs.  Woodruff,  Mrs. 
Ilutchins,  Mrs.  MacDonald,  Mrs.  Whittier, 
Mrs.  Johnson,  Mrs.  Moody,  Mrs.  Files.  Mr. 
Spear,  assisted  by  Mr.  Gould  and  Mr.  Ed- 
wards, managed  the  hop  most  admirably  for 
the  class. 

The  following  order  was  danced  through 

after  an  excellent  concert : 

Waltz    Auf  Wiedersehn. 

Two  Step   Charlatan. 

Waltz    Sorosis. 

Two  Step  At  a  Georgia  Camp-meeting. 

Portland  Fancy   Cupids. 

Two  Step    Uncle   Rube's  Jubilee. 

W'altz    Donaurverbehen. 

Two  Step  Stars  and  Stripes  Forever. 

Waltz  Ma  Belle  Advice. 

Two   Step    Ideal. 

Waltz   Bowdoin  Waltzes. 

Intermission  and  Supper. 

Two  Step   My  Ann  Eliza. 

Waltz  Bobbie. 

Two  Step Boston  Tea  Party. 

Waltz    Artist's   Life. 

Schottische.  .You'll  Get  All  That's  Coming  to  You. 

Two  Step   Bride  Elect. 

Waltz  Don't  Be  Cross. 

Two  Step   Whistling  Rufus. 

Waltz    My   Estelle. 

Two  Step  Night  Off. 

Waltz   My  Lady  Love. 

The  floor  was  ably  managed,  and  with 
the  music,  weather,  and  the  sentiment  of  the 
occasion  one  of  the  happiest  of  ivies  glided 
into  the  past. 


CALENDAR. 

MoND.\Y    TO    Friday,    June    12-16. — Examina- 
tions. 

Sunday,  June   18. — Baccalaureate  Sermon. 
Monday,  June   19. — Junior   Prize   Declamation. 


Bowdoin  plays  University  of  Toronto  at  Bruns- 
wick. 

Tuesday,  June  20. — Class  Day. 

Wednesday,  June  21. — Graduation  Exercises 
of  the  Medical  School. 

Thursday,  June  22. — Commencement  Day. 

.Annual  Meeting  of  the  Alumni. 

Friday  and  Saturday,  June  23  and  24. — En- 
trance Examinations. 


NOTICES. 

Commencement  Week. 

Sunday,  June  18 — The  Baccalaureate  Sermon  by 
the  President  in  the  Congregational  Church  at 
4   P.M. 

Monday,  June  19 — The  Junior  Prize  Declamation 
in  Memorial  Hall  at  8  p.m. 

Tuesday,  June  20 — The  Class-Day  Exercises  of 
the  Graduating  Class  in  Memorial  Hall  at  10  a.m., 
and  under  the  Thorndike  Oak  at  3  p.m.  Promenade 
Concert  in  the  evening. 

Wednesday,  June  21 — The  Graduating  Exercises 
of  the  Medical  School  of  Maine  in  Memorial  Hall 
at  g  a.m.  The  annual  address  will  De  delivered  by 
Hon.   Andrew   P.   Wiswell   of  Ellsworth. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Maine  Historical  So- 
ciety, Cleaveland  Lecture  Room  at  2  p.m. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Fra- 
ternity in  Adams  Hall  at  4  p.m. 

The  reception  by  the  President  and  Mrs.  Hyde 
in  Memorial  Hall  from  8  to  10  p.m. 

Thursday,  June  22 — The  annual  meeting  of  the 
Alumni  Association  in  Memorial  Hall  at  9  A.  M. 

The  Commencement  Exercises  in  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  10.30  a.m.,  followed  by  Commence- 
ment Dinner  in  the  Gymnasium. 

Friday,  June  2;} — The  Examination  of  Candidates 
for  admission  to  the  College,  at  Cleaveland  Lecture 
Room,  Massachusetts  Hall,  at  8.30  a.m. 

Honorary    Appointments     at     Commencement, 


Class  of 

1899. 

Chaniberl 

ain. 

Briggs. 

Nason. 

Dana. 

Pattee. 

Hadlock. 

Topliff. 

Hall. 

Varney. 

Hayden. 

Webster. 

Kaharl. 

Wignott. 

Moulton. 

Woodbury. 

Marsh. 

L.  L.  Cleaves. 

Philoon. 

Fogg. 

Rollins. 

Leavitt. 

Sinkinson. 

L.  P.  Libby. 

W.  H.  Smith 

Neagle. 

Sturgis. 

Nelson. 

Thompson. 

BOWDOIN   OKIENT. 


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COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Ives.   '98,   attended  the   Ivy   Hop. 

Sills,  '01,  has  captured  the  Greek  prize. 

Seniors  are  enjoying  a  short  vacation  this  week. 

V^eazie,  '99,  sails  this  week  for  a  summer  tour 
through   England,   France  and  Germany. 

Chamberlain,  '99,  was  called  home  suddenly  this 
week  by  the  death  of  his  parent,  who  is  a  graduate 
of  Bowdoin  back  in  '68. 

On  Thursday  morning  of  last  week  the  base-ball 
team  met  at  Webber's  studio  to  be  photographed 
and  to  elect  the  captain  for  next  year.  Captain 
Bacon  was  re-elected. 

The  following  members  of  the  Class  of  1900  are 
eligible  to  the  Deutscher  Verein  next  term:  Brag- 
don,  Clarke,  Colesworthy,  Holmes,  McCormick, 
Palmer,  Pearson,  Robinson,  Svackpole,  Webber, 
West  and  Whitney. 

Randall,  1901,  will  be  President  of  the  Reading- 
Room  Association  next  year  with  Randall,  1900, 
vice-president.  F.  H.  Cowan,  iQOi,  will  manage  the 
reading-room.  He  has  already  entered  upon  his 
duties.  The  election  of  officers  took  place  last 
week  in   Memorial  Hall. 

The  members  of  the  glee  and  mandolin  guitar 
clubs  held  a  meeting  on  Monday  in  front  of  Memo- 
rial Hall  and  elected  officers  for  the  next  college 
year  as  follows:  Chapman,  1900,  manager;  Willard, 
1900,  leader  of  the  glee;  Cobb,  1900,  leader  of  the 
mandolin-guitar  club.  The  elections  were  by  accla- 
mation. 

Fred  J.  Crolius  of  Dartmouth  will  coach  the 
eleven  next  fall.  He  coricluded  preliminary  ar- 
rangements with  Manager  Spear  this  week.  Crolius 
will  be  graduated  from  Dartmouth  this  summer. 
He  has  been  one  of  the  best  halfbacks  the  college 
has  had;  his  style  of  playing  is  almost  identical  with 
that  of  Dibblee  of  Harvard,  and  he  has  all  the  Har- 
vard man's  coolness  and  directing  ability.  Crolius 
was  captain  of  the  Dartmouth  eleven  last  fall. 


flTliLETlCS. 

Bowdoin  id,  Bates  i. 
Bates  was  easy  May  30th,  at  Lewiston.  She  was 
never  in  it,  her  only  run  coming  when  Pulsifer  lost 
the  ball  in  a  ditch.  Deane  made  a  phenomenal 
stop.  Hoyt  played  a  good  game  at  short,  and  Wig- 
nott  got  five  hits. 


BOWDOIN. 

R  IB  PO  A  E 

Greenlaw,  1 i  i  2  o  o 

Wignott,  c 3  5  7  I  o 

Clarke,   m ' i  2  i  o  o 

Hoyt,   s 2  2  o  5  o 

Traynor,  r 2  o  o  o  o 

Haskell,   2 o  2  4  4  2 

Pratt,   I o  2  12  o  o 

Harkins,  3 o  i  o  3  i 

Libby,  p i  i  i  2  i 

Totals 10  16  27  15  4 

BATES. 

R  IB  PO  A  E 

Deane,   s o  o  i  2  o 

Quinn,  2 o  o  i  4  o 

Pulsifer,  c i  2  3  2  o 

Putnam,  1 o  i  2  o  o 

Lowe,  I o  I  13  o  I 

Daicey,  3 o  o  o  o  0 

Clason,  m 0  i  i  o  0 

Smith,  2 o  2  3  o  o 

Hussey,  p o  o  o  5  o 

Totals  '. I  7  24  13  I 

Bates  7,  Bowdoin  4. 

Bowdoin    played    her     usual  Ivy     Day     game. 

Bates   got  ten   hits,   while    Bowdoin  could  get  but 

three.     Bowdoin's   fielding   was   wretched,  Wignott 

and  Traynor  being  the  only  ones  to  put  up  a  good 
game.     Attendance,  400. 
The  score: 

BATES. 

AB         R  BH  PO  A  E 

Deane,  ss 5         i  2  o  2  o 

Quinn,  2b 4         I  o  2  2  3 

Pulsifer,   p 4        2  i  2  4  o 

Putnam,   ib 5        2  2  10  o  o 

Purinton,   c 5        o  i  4  i  I 

Daicey,  3b 5        o  i  3  i  0 

E.  F.  Clason,  ni 4        o  o  o  o  o 

Smith,  If 5         I  2  3  o  I 

S.  Clason,  rf 4        o  i  3  o  0 

Totals 41        7  10  27  10  5 

BOWDOIN. 

AB         R  BH  PO  A  E 

Greenlaw,  If 2        i  o  o  o  o 

Wignott,  c 5        o  o  4  2  o 

Clarke,  m,  ss 5        i  o  3  o  i 

Hoyt,  ss,  rf 4        o  I  l  2  2 

Pratt,  p,  lb 2         I  o  5  3  I 

Haskell,  2b 3        o  i  i  3  2 

Traynor,  rf 3        o  o  2  o  o 

Harkins,  3b 4        o  o  2  i  i- 

Libby,   lb,  p 4         i  I  9  2  l 

Totals 32        4  3  27  13  8 

Innings 123456789 

Bates I     o     i     i  2  o    2  o  o — 7 

Bowdoin o    o     I     o  o  o     i  2  o — 4 

Bases     stolen — Greenlaw     4,  Wignott,  Clarke, 
Traynor,  Quinn,  Pulsifer,   Putnam,  Daicey,  Smith. 


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BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


Bases  on  called  balls— by  Libby.  Quinn,  E.  F.  Cla- 
son;  by  Pulsifcr,  Greenlaw  2,  Pratt  2,  Haskell  2. 
Hit  by  pitched  ball— by  Pratt,  Pulsifer;  by  Pulsifer, 
Greenlaw.  Struck  out— by  Pratt,  E.  F.  Clason;  by 
Libby,  Purinton:  by  Pulsifer,  Wignott,  Haskell, 
Harkins.  Hits  made— off  Pratt  4,  off  Libby  6. 
Innings  pitched— by  Pratt  4.  Sacrifice  hit— Tray- 
nor.  Time  of  game — 2  hours  15  minutes.  Umpire 
— Carpenter. 

BowDOiN  3,  Brunswick  o. 
The   Bowdoin-Brunswick  game  was  the  best  of 
the  year.     Pratt  pitched  a  beautiful  game,  and  was 
well  supported.     Cushman  was  wild.   But  Bowdoin 
could  not  hit  him.     Attendance,  250. 
The  score: 

BOWDOIN. 

BH        PO         A  E 

Clarke,  m 2  i  i  o 

Wignott.  c o  3  o  o 

Hoyt,  ss o  I  2  I 

Traynor,  r o  2  o  o 

Pratt,   p o  o  3  o 

Haskell,  2 o  3  4  i 

Harkins,  3 o  2  i  o 

Greenlaw,  1 o  4  o  o 

Libby,   i i  "  °  ° 

Totals 3       27       II         2 

BRUNSWICK, 

BH        PO         A  E 

Forsaith,  r o  i  o  o 

Bryant,  m o  o  o  o 

Toothakcr,  i i  u  o  i 

Pulsifer,  2 i  2  2  2 

Palmer,   1 2  2  o  o 

Edgar,   c i  6  i  o 

Kiltedder,  s o  i  4  o 

Pottle,  3 o  o  o  I 

Cushman,   p o  i  6  o 

Totals 5      24       13        4 

Innings i     2     3     4     5     6     7    8    9 

Bowdoin o    o    o    o     i     i     o     1       —3 

Runs  made— by  Clarke,  Harkins.  Greenlaw.  Two- 
base  hit— Libbv.  Stolen  bases— Wignott,  Palmer, 
Base  on  balls— by  Cushman  7.  Struck  out— by 
Pratt  3,  by  Cushman  5.  Double  play — Cushman, 
Edgar  and  Toothaker.  Hit  by  pitched  ball— Tray- 
nor, Greenlaw.  Wild  pitch — Cushman.  Passed 
ball— Edgar.     Umpire— Bacon.     Time— ih.   30m. 

Bowdoin  4,  Tufts  3. 
Bowdoin  defeated  Tufts  at  Brunswick,  June  3d, 
in   an   interesting   game.     Wignott.    Hoyt,   Harkins 
and  Libby  played  a  good  game  for  Bowdoin,  and 
'Kelley,   Corridan  and  Hazelton  for  Tufts. 

The  score:  ' 

BOWDOIN. 

R         IB         PO         A  E 

Greenlaw,  1 i  o  o  o  o 

Wignott,    c o  o  5  2  o 

Clarke,   m i  o  3  o  i 

Hoyt,  s o  I  I  5  o 

Pratt,  p I  o  o  4  0 


Haskell,  2 I  i  4  3  i 

Trainor.  r o  r  I  o  o 

Harkins.  3 o  2  i  o  o 

Libby,   i o  i  12  i  0 

Totals 4        6      27       15        2 

TUFTS. 

R         IB         PO         A  E 

Bean,  m o  o  3  o  o 

Lawton,   1 i  i  2  o  o 

Corridan,  s I  2  O  o  I 

Kelley,  c o  I  4  2  c 

Hazelton,   i o  o  11  o  0 

Leahy,  2 i  i  3  2  i 

Williams,  r o  o  o  o  o 

Curran,  p o  o  o  5  o 

Chase,  3 o  i  i  3  2 

Totals 3        6      24       12        4 

COLBY-BOWDOIN    FRESHMAN    MEET. 
Waterville,  June  7,  1899. 

100-yard  Dash — I,  Furbish,  B.;  2,  Hunt,  B.;  3, 
Dearborn,  C.     Time,  104-5  sec. 

220-i'ard  Dash — Hunt,  B.:  Furbish,  B.;  Rock- 
wood,    C.     Time   24  2-5   sec. 

440-yard  Run — Hayes,  B.;  Rockwood,  C.;  Fur- 
bish,  B.     Time  57  3-5  sec. 

Half-mile  Run — Furbish,  B.;  Rockwood,  C; 
Sinkinson,   B.     Time,  2.27I. 

Mile  Run — Sinkinson,  B.;  Haggerty,  C. ;  Dudley. 
C.     Time,  5.26  2-5. 

120-yard  Hurdles — Hunt,  B.;  Crawshaw,  C; 
Dearborn,  C.     Time,  19  2-5  sec. 

220-yard  Hurdles — Hunt,  B.;  Crawshaw,  C. ; 
Sinkinson,  B.     Time,  .28  2-5  sec. 

Throwing  Hammer — B.  Hamilton,  B.;  Hunt, 
B.;  J.   Hamilton,   B.     Distance,  84  ft.  6i   in. 

Pole  Vault — Crawshaw,  C. :  Sinkinson,  B.; 
Walker,  B.;  Hunt,  B. :  B.  Hamilton,  B.,— tied  for 
second;  J.  Hamilton,  B.     Height,  8  ft. 

Running  Broad  Jump — Hunt,  B.;  B.  Hamilton, 
B.;  J.  Hamilton,  B.     Distance,  19  ft.  5  in. 

Running  High  Jump — Hayes,  B.;  B.  Hamilton, 
B., — tied  for  first;  Dearborn,  C.     Height,  5  ft.  I2  in. 

Throwing  Discus — Hunt,  B.;  Thyng,  C. ;  Craw- 
shaw,  C,     Distance,  78  ft.  6  in. 

Final  score — Bowdoin  79,  Colby  29. 

The  tennis  tournament,  held  with  the  University 
of  Vermont;  resulted  rather  unsatisfactorily  in  a 
score  of  ten  to  ten.     The  following  was  the  score: 

R.  L.  Dana,  H.  F.  Dana,  W.  S.  M.  Kelley  and 
Came. 

The  score: 

R.  Dana  beat  Bigelow,  4-6,  9-7,  3-6,  8-6,  6-4. 

Kirkpatrick    U    of  V.,  beat  Kelley,  6-1,  6-0,  6-2. 

Lawrence,  U.  of  V.,  beat  Came,  1-6,  6-1,  4-6,  6-4, 

9-7- 

Tuesday  afternoon: 

H.  Dana  beat  Kellogg,  U.  of  V.,  1-6,  g-7,  7-5. 
6-1. 

Lavvrence  and  Kirkpatrick,  U.  of  V.,  beat  Came 
and  Kelley,  6-2,  6-4,  6-2. 

Wednesday  morning: 


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R.  Dana  beat  Kirkpatrick,  4-6,  8-6,  3-6,  TS,  6-3. 

Came  beat  Kellogg,  9-7,  6-3,  1-6,  6-3. 

Lawrence,  U.  of  V.,  beat  Kelley,  6-2,  6-2,  6-3. 

Bigelow,  U.  of  v.,  beat  H.  Dana,  6-4,  6-3,  j-T, 
8-6. 

Wednesday  afternoon: 

Dana  and  Dana,  Bowdoin.  beat  Lawrence  and 
Kirkpatrick,  U.  of  V.,  6-4,  3-6,  3-6,  6-2,  6-1. 

Came  and  Kelley  beat  Lawrence  and  Kirkpat- 
rick. 6-3,  6-2,   1-6,  6-3. 

Thursday  morning: 

H.  Dana  beat  Kirkpatrick.  2-6,  6-2,  7-5,  6-4. 

Kellogg  beat  Kelley,  6-3,  6-3,  6-3. 

Bigelow  beat  Came,  2-6,  6-3,  6-4,  6-2. 

R.  Dana  beat  Lawrence,  2-6,  6-1,  S-l<  6-3,  6-3. 

Thursday  afternoon: 

Bigelow  beat  Kelley,  6-3,  6-3,  6-1. 

R.  Dana  beat  Kellogg,  6-2,  6-2,  6-4. 

Kirkpatrick  beat  Came,  6-2,  6-2,  6-4. 

H.   Dana  beat  Lawrence,  2-6,  6-2,  3-6,  6-4,  8-6. 

Bigelow  and  Kellogg  beat  Dana  and  Dana,  6-3, 
4-6,  d-},,  6-3. 

Final  score,  Bowdoin  10.  U.  of  V.  10. 

The  Intercollegiate  tournament  held  at  Bowdoin 
developed  some  very  good  playing.  Summerbell  of 
Bates  took  the  singles  after  a  hard  struggle  with 
Dana.  Dana  and  Dana,  however,  took  the  dotibles 
and  won  the  cup  for  good.  Dana  was  second  in 
singles,  and  Summerbell  and  Willis  of  Bates  second 
in  doubles.     The  following  is  the  score: 

H.  F.  Dana,  Bowdoin,  beat  Lawrence,  Colby, 
6-3.  6-4,  7-5- 

Summerbell,  Bates,  beat  Woodman,  Colby,  8-6, 
&-Z,   6-2. 

Willis,  Bates,  beat  H.  F.  Dana,  Bowdoin,  6-3, 
6-3,  6-3. 

Summerbell,  Bates,  beat  R.  L.  Dana,  Bowdoin, 
8-6,  7-5,   1-6,  2-6,  6-4. 

First  and  second  places  in  singles — Summerbell 
first,  R.  L.  Dana  second. 

Doubles. 

Summerbell  and  Willis,  Bates,  beat  Came  and 
Kelley,  Bowdoin,  6-2,  4-6,  6-3,  6-0. 

Dana  and  Dana,  Bowdoin,  beat  Woodman  and 
Lawrence,  Colby,  6-4.  6-4,  6-1. 

Dana  and  Dana,  Bowdoin,  beat  Summerbell  and 
Willis,  Bates,  3-6,  10-8,  6-3,  7-5. 

By  this  victory  Bowdoin  has  won  the  double 
cup   for  good. 


The  Christian  Association  wishes  to  congratu- 
late its  seven  men  who  "made"  Deutscher  Verein 
this  year,  also  the  six  of  its  members  who  took  a 
prominent  part  on  Ivy  Day.  It  is  very  gratifying 
to  see  the  members  taking  important  positions  in 
the  college  life,  since  this  is  the  most  ready  way  in 
which  to  adapt  the  Association  to  the  needs  of  the 
college. 

It  is  expected  that  a  delegation  of  six  men  will 


represent  the  Association  at  Northfield  this  year. 
The  "Northfield  fund"  is  growing  well,  thanks  to 
both  Faculty  and  students. 

The  last  regular  meeting  of  the  term  was  led  by 
Russell,  1900,  who  spoke  of  the  work  done  this  year 
and  urged  the  fellows  to  try  to  aid  in  religious 
work,  wherever  they  might  be  in  the  summer,  and 
then  come  back  in  the  fall  with  a  determined  pur- 
pose to  labor  for  a  spiritual  awakening  in  the  col- 
lege which  we  all  love  so  well. 

Another  year  of  college  life  has  closed,  and  now 
as  we  are  to  separate  for  the  summer  we  may  well 
look  back  and  consider  some  important  steps  which 
the  Association  has  taken  this  year  and  realize  the 
bearing  which  those  steps  have  on  our  next  year's 
work.  Probably  the  most  important  event  has 
been  joining  the  Intercollegiate  Movement.  This 
means  the  brotherhood  of  all  the  associations  of  the 
country  and  should  stir  us  to  more  active  effort  in 
order  that  we  may  be  abreast  of  the  best  and  most 
progr(;ssive  Christian  organizations.  The  daily 
Bible  readings  this  year  have  been  exceptionally 
helpful  and  should  be  continued  in  the  fall.  New 
Bible  study  classes  and  a  missionary  class  will  be 
organized,  and  a  vigorous  campaign  for  new  stu- 
dents will  be  carried  on.  New  singing  books  will 
be  another  feature,  as  well  as  some  excellent  Sun- 
day speakers  who  have  already  been  engaged.  The 
outlook  now  is  prosperous,  and  we  hope  and  pray 
for  success  the  coming  year.  Should  this  article 
perchance  fall  into  the  hands  of  any  student  who 
will  come  to  Bowdoin  for  the  first  time  next  fall, 
let  him  realize  that  the  Christian  Association  is 
planning  for  his  welfare  and  is  desirous  of  helping 
liim  develop,  his  spiritual  nature  while  he  may  be 
laboring  more  strictly  for  the  mental  growth. 


PERSONflLS. 

'26. — Isaac  McLellan,  of  Greenpoint,  L.  I.,  the 
poet  sportsman,  who  is  in  his  94th  year,  fell  down  a 
flight  of  stairs  at  his  home  and  received  injuries 
which  may  result  in  his  death.  He  is  the  author  of 
many  poems  on  field  sports,  most  of  which  appear 
in  his  book,  "  Poems  of  the  Rod  and  Gun,"  pub- 
lished  in   1886. 

'51. — The  Rev.  William  Scott  Southgate,  for 
thirty  years  rector  of  St.  Anne's  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church,  Annapolis,  Md.,  died  May  21,  1899, 
of  diabetes.  One  of  Dr.  Southgate's  daughters  is 
the  wife  of  Engineer  A.  V.  Zane  of  the  navy.  One 
daughter  is  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Gray,  and 
another  the  wife  of  Prof.  E.  D.  Pusey  of  St.  John's 
College. 


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H.  '6i. — Josiah  B.  Webb,  who  died  in  Portland, 
May  20,  1899,  after  a  brief  illness,  aged  seventy- 
three  years,  was  one  of  the  best  known  business 
men  connected  with  the  canned  goods  industry  in 
this  country.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers,  and 
travelled  since  the  early  sixties  many  times  across 
the  continent  in  connection  with  the  business.  Mr. 
Webb  was  the  founder  of  the  old  Gorham  Academy 
and,  early  in  his  career,  was  its  principal.  He  was 
at  one  time  commissioner  of  schools  for  Cumber- 
land County.  Mr.  Webb  was  a  self-educated  man, 
and  Bowdoin  conferred  the  degree  of  A.M.  upon 
him,  although  he  never  entered  the  college.  He 
leaves  a  wife  and  one  son,  Mr.  Horace  F.  Webb. 

■66._Dr.  Frederick  Henry  Gerrish  has  lately 
issued  a  text-book  on  anatomy  in  the  American 
Text-Book  series,  which  is  said  to  be  destined  to  be 
the  standard  for  American  schools. 

'84.— Rev.  Charles  C.  Torrey  has  just  been 
chosen  to  the  Taylor  professorship  at  Andover 
Theological  Seminary.  Mr.  Torrey  is  the  son  of 
Rev.  Joseph  Torrey.  D.D.,  formerly  pastor  of  the 
First  Parish  Congregational  Church,  Portland,  and 
graduated  from  Yarmouth  High  School  with  the 
Class  of  '80. 

'90  and  '91. — Mervyn  Ap  Rice  has  removed  from 
Rockland  to  New  York  City,  where  he  has  formed 
a  law  and  real  estate  partnership  with  William 
Wingatc  Hubbard,  a  Bangor  boy  who  has  been  in 
New  York  for  a  few  years.  Mr.  Rice  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Knox  County  Bar,  a  graduate  of  this 
college  in  the  Class  of  '91,  and  is  a  young  man  of 
brilliant  attainments.  He  had  for  some  time  con- 
templated this  New  York  connection,  and  indeed 
had  about  concluded  arrangements  when  the  out- 
break of  war  a  year  ago  led  him  to  give  up  all  pro- 
fessional and  business  matters  and  cast  his  lot  with 
Rockland's  military  company,  with  which  he  had 
been  connected  for  some  time,  holding  a  lieuten- 
ant's commission.  Mr.  Rice  served  through  the 
war  with  distinction,  receiving  an  appointment  as 
acting  regimental  quartermaster,  a  position  in  which 
he  made  a  great  record,  the  government  retaining 
him  in  office  until  all  the  aflfairs  of  the  regiment 
had  been  wound  up.  he  being  the  last  to  receive  his 
muster-out  papers.  Mr.  Rice's  capacity  in  this  de- 
partment won  him  the  high  commendations  of  his 
superior  officers,  and  he  was  warmly  urged  to  adopt 
the  army  as  a  profession,  influential  friends  engag- 
ing to  procure  him  a  commission  in  the  regular 
army.  But  he  preferred  to  take  up  the  plans  that 
the  war  had  interrupted.  Mr.  Hubbard  is  a  Bow- 
doin '90  man,  and  the  partnership  will  be  an  ex- 
ceedingly congenial  one.  The  friends  of  Mr.  Rice 
will  regret  his  removal  from  Rockland,  where  he 


has  always  been  a  prominent  figure  in  professional 
and  social  circles.  His  family  will  remain  at  Rock- 
land for  awhile. 

95. — A.  A.  Badger  has  assumed  duties  as  super- 
intendent of  schools  in  the  district  of  Walpole  and 
Medfield,  Mass.     He  will  receive  a  salary  of  $1,500. 

'97. — Stephen  Osgood  Andros,  who  has  been 
traveling  on  the  Pacific  slope  as  tutor,  has  returned 
to  Ohio,  and  writes  that  he  expects  to  take  a  course 
of  civil  engineering  at  the  University  of  Michigan 
this  fall. 

Ex-'97. — Benjamin  Fitz,  of  Colorado  University, 
is  at  present  studying  for  the  degree  of  Ph.D. 
preparatory  to  his  entrance  into  the  ministry  of  the 
Episcopal  church. 


IN    MEMORIAM. 

H.^LL  OF  Theta  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
June  12,  1899. 
U'ltcrcas.  We  have  learned  with  profound  sorrow 
of  the  death  of  Brother   Charles   Edwin   Chamber- 
lain of  the  Class  of  1868,  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  mourn  the  loss  of  a  true  and 
loyal  Deke,  whose  life  has  been  an  honor  to  the 
fraternity. 

Resok'cd,  That  we  extend  to  the  bereaved  family 
and  especially  to  his  son,  our  brother  of  the  Class 
of  '99,  our  heartfelt  sympathy. 

Resolved,  That  as  an  outward  token   of  our  be- 
reavement, our  badges  be  draped  for  thirty  days. 
Arthur  W.  Strout,  1900, 
E.  BiRNEY  Stackpole,  igoo, 
Austin  P.  Larrabee,  1901, 

Committee  for  the  Chapter. 


Logic  in  Love. 
A  little  maid,  sun-browned  and  fair, 

With  chestnut  hair, 
I  met  one  day  upon  the  shore; 

And  what  is  more. 
While  we  were  sitting  on  the  sand, 

I  took  her  hand, 
And,  rascal  that  I  was,  I  kissed  her! — 

My  little  sister. 

Next  day  I  saw  another  maid 

Beneath  the  shade 
Of  a  blue  parasol  alone. 

So  to  atone 
For  yesterday,  I  just  breathed  low 

A  word  or  so. 
She,  blushingly,  said,  "I'll  be  your  sister!" 

So  I  kissed  her. 

—Wesleyan  Lit. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 

^'^  COnnENCEHENT    NUMBER.  ^^ 


Vol.  XXIX. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,'  No.  9.— July  fi,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes 75 

Notices TO 

Commencement  Exercises: 

Baccalaureate  Sermon 77 

Junior  Prize  Speaking 80 

'99's  Class  Day 81 

Medical  School  Graduation 94 

Commencement  Week 94 

Athletics •    ....  98 

With  last  Monday's  victory  over  the  Uni- 
versity of  Toronto  ended  a'  season  in  base-ball 
which  is  far  from  satisfactory  to  the  team  and 
college.  Not  for  a  moment  do  we  intend  to 
hatch  up  excuses  for  our  defeats, — an  unfair 
umpire  here,  or  a  hostile  audience  there — no, 
indeed,  we  have  been  defeated  too  often  for 
our  comfort,  but  we  admit  that  we  lost  either 
by  the  superior  playing  of   opponents    or,    as 


on  Ivy  Day,  by  our  own  inferior  and  ragged 
work.  The  only  intention  held  here  is  to 
briefly  glance  back  to  the  beginning,  and, 
perchance,  lay  bare  a  grain  of  truth  for  the 
benefit  of  future  seasons. 

A  precedent  as  established  last  year  in 
IMassachusetts — not  a  defeat  in  that  state — 
cannot  be  lived  up  to  a  following  year  by  any 
college  in  existence.  It  would  be  folly  for 
any  one  to  fancy  that  such  a  list  of  victories 
and  such  a  streak  of  luck  could  befall  anv 
team  l^it  once  in  a  great  while.  This  year 
our  record  is  just  opposite, — not  a  victory  in 
Massachusetts,  but  that  is  no  reason  to  be 
ashamed ;  we  cannot  expect  more  than  a  few 
of  the  games  there,  and  because  we  were 
strong  enough  to  win  more  than  a  few  last 
}x-ar,  is  it  surprising  that  another  year  we 
should  win  less  than  a  few?  One  year  the 
fluctuations  rise  unusually  high  and  another 
unusually  low,  just  like  a  wave  of  great  height 
pitches  down  to  a  deeper  trough  than  a  lower 
wave. 

This  hardy  old  Pine  Tree  State  does  not 
melt  to  the  winning  graces  of  Spring  until 
long  after  Massachusetts  has  succumbed  and 
acknowledged  her  reign;  it  is  impossible  to 
grind  out  any  team  work  here  at  Bowdoin 
until  after  the  first  few  games,  and  as  the  first 
few  games  are  generally  out  of  state  games, 
w  here  the  season  permits  teams  to  be  fully 
developed,  while  ours  scarcely  is  picked,  we 
must  admit  that  this  lateness  of  the  season  is 
a  powerful  factor  against  success  in  the  early 
games. 

The  place  where  fate  has  played  us  a  sorry 
trick  is  in  the  injury  of  the  captain,  which 
removed  him  from  the  field  for  all  the  season. 
The  demoralization  of   this   last   is   very    far- 


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reaching  and  its  effect  can  be  traced  even  to 
tlie  very  end  of  the  last  game.  No  matter 
how  suitable  a  man  acts  as  captain,  he  is  not 
the  captain  ;  it  is  a  sort  of  influence  which  is 
only  present  in  a  captain  so  chosen  by  the  col- 
lege that  can  restrain  and  calm  a  team  and 
hold  it  together  as  we  would  have  it. 

These  few  citations  are  not  excuses,  but 
truly  barriers  most  potent,  which  have  ob- 
structed our  way  to  success.  Just  as  true  as 
we  ought  sot  to  have  expected  so'  much  as 
last  year,  so  we  should  not  expect  so  little 
next  year  as  this.  Our  team  has  been  a  rep- 
resentative team,  and  its  defeats  have  been 
the  college's  defeats.  No  one  is  to  blame,  the 
backing  of  the  college  has  been  most  exem- 
plary and  the  management  has  been  above 
criticism.  We  have  had  more  defeats  than 
victories  in  base-ball ;  and  why  say  more  ? 
Let  it  go,  meet  it  face  to  face,  and  wipe  it  out 
next  year. 

The  seal  which  has  adorned  the  cover  of 
this  publication  for  the  past  eight  numbers 
will  give  way  once  more  to  the  old  seal.  The 
Orient  has  taken  no  part  in  the  discussions 
over  the  college  seal,  since  it  is  not  in  its  field, 
but  it  simply  plans  to  utilize  whatever  seal 
may  be  officially  chosen  as  a  part  of  the  design 
of  the  cover. 


The  recent  theft  of  a  number  of  coins  from 
the  Art  Building  is  a  subject  which,  it  seems 
to  us,  had  better  be  dropped  forever  now  that 
the  culprit  has  been  captured.  The  quick- 
ness with  which  action  was  taken,  the  thief 
captured  and  the  coins  recovered,  should  only 
insure  anyone  contemplating  loans  of  any  sort 
to  the  Art  Building  that  the  college  is  fully 
able  to  keep  all  such  collections  intact  from 
the  hands  of  thieves,  or  from  anything  that 
will  impair  their  value  whatsoever. 


A  large  and  promising  class  has  graduated 
from  college  this  year,  and  all  who  are 
acquainted  with  its  members  cannot  help  but 
feel  that  there  is  much  of  real  value  there.  All 
the  important  professions  will  be  represented 
I 


by  this  class,  as  well  as  various  kinds  of  bus- 
iness and  other  human  activities.  The  tools 
with  which  the  class  is  furnished  will  be  of 
inestimable  value  if  rightly  used  ;  for  college 
graduates  are  no  better  than  other  people,  and 
their  success  depends  primarily  on  their  own 
efforts,  with  a  great  advantage  afforded  by 
the  discipline  of  a  college  course.  They  have 
spent  four  years  in  mental  training  which 
others  have  spent  directly  to  the  work  of  get- 
ting a  livelihood,  and  thus  the  great  advantage 
of  a  college  course  suffers  some  compensating 
losses.  The  college  graduates  must  step 
down  from  Senior  dignity  and  that  sort  of 
thing  to  humble  themselves  and  hustle,  often 
to  be  under  the  supervision  of  and  inferior  to 
those  who  have  not  more  than  a  common 
school  experience,  but,  while  they  may  be 
lower  upon  the  ladder,  for  the  time  being,  if 
they  will  throw  aside  pride  and  step  upon  the 
lowest  round,  soon  shall  their  strength  ac- 
quired at  college  enable  them  to  outstrip 
many,  who  at  first  were  their  superiors. 

The  Class  of  'qg  leaves  a  big  hole  in  the 
student  life  here,  and  it  seems  a  very  hard  per- 
formance to  fill  it  up  so  that  our  old  level  will 
be  maintained ;  we  also  respect  that  class  and 
hold  deep  feelings  of  friendship  for  them,  but 
we  must  not  selfishly  wish  them  back  and 
detain  them  from  the  world  where  college 
men  are  most  needed ;  rather  let  us  wish  them 
the  best  of  success,  a  speedy  acquirement  of 
their  chosen  work,  and  a  never  dying  love  for 
their  Alma  Mater. 


NOTICES. 

Commencement  Orients  may  be  obtained  by 
addressing  the  business  editor  at  Boothbay  Harbor. 

Bugle  communications  should  be  addressed  to 
that  publication  at   Brunswick. 

Exchanges,  and  communications,  otherwise  than 
business,  for  the  Orient,  should  be  addressed  to 
the  editor  at  Brunswick. 


"Fll  bet  I  don"t  get  called  up  for  cutting 
this  lecture,"  said  Punster,  as  he  took  his 
knife  and  extracted  three  pages  from  his 
friend's  printed  notes. — Harvard  Lanipoou. 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


77 


COMMENCEMENT  EXERCISES. 


BACCALAUREATE  SERMON, 

By  Rev.  William  De  Witt  Hyde,  D.D., 
President  of  Bowdoin  College. 

Delivered  before  the  Class  of  '99,  at  the 
Congregational  Church,  Brunswick,  Me., 
June  18,  1899. 

For  unto  every  one  that  hath  shall  be  given, 
and  he  shall  have  abundance;  but  from  him  that 
hath  not.  even  that  which  he  hath  shall  be  taken 
away. — Matt.  25,  29. 

That  sounds  hard;  but  it  is  no  harder  than  life. 
Just  as  underneath  the  verdure  and  foliage  of  the 
mountain,  you  find  rock;  and  if  you  go  far  enough 
back  of  the  rock  in  time,  or  deep  enough  under- 
neath it  in  space,  you  find  fire;  so  underneath  all 
experience  lies  the  great  ledge  of  law;  and  if  you 
searcli  deep  or  look  far  beneath  and  behind  law, 
you  find  flaming  and  remorseless  penalty.  Of  all 
the  laws  that  underlie  this  life  of  ours,  there  is  none 
more  sweeping  and  inexorable  than  this  which 
gives  abundantly  to  him  that  hath,  and  strips 
relentlessly  him  that  hath  not.  We  give  it  differ- 
ent names  as  it  crops  out  in  different  spheres;  call- 
ing it  in  mathematics,  geometrical  progression;  in 
biology,  natural  selection;  in  psychology,  apper- 
ception; but  in  all  spheres  and  under  all  names  it 
does  its  sure  and  silent  work  of  separating  the  fit 
from  the  unfit,  the  strong  from  the  weak,  the  sur- 
vivors from  those  that  perish.  A  man  might  as 
well  try  to  lift  himself  by  his  boot-straps,  or  jump 
out  of  his  skin,  as  think  to  escape  the  infallible 
reward  it  gives  to  his  every  worthy  deed  and  effort, 
or  the  swift  annihilation  with  which  it  smites  all 
his  pretense,  and  vice,  and  inefficiency. 

Let  us  first  watch  its  working  in  one  or  two 
obvious  familiar  spheres;  and  then,  having  learned 
to  detect  its  presence  there,  I  shall  ask  you  to  trace 
its  operation  in  the  deeper  realms  of  the  spirit. 

It  is  the  obvious  law  of  study.  The  man  who 
learns  the  elements  of  a  subject,  the  grammar  of  a 
language,  the  technical  terms  and  methods  of  a 
science,  can  go  on  and  master  the  higher  problems 
in  that  subject.  No  one  else  can.  To  the  one  man, 
everything  he  has  learned  is  constantly  throwing 
light  on  what  he  has  to  learn.  On  the  other  man. 
the  things  he  failed  to  learn  revenge  themselves  by 
casting  a  cloud  of  impenetrable  mystery  around 
everything  else  he  tries  to  learn.  And  in  a  broader 
way  the  working  of  the  law  is  still  more  manifest. 
A  lawyer  told  me  the  other  day  of  a  will  case  he 
had  won  after  a  three  weeks  contest.  The  chil- 
dren had  tried  to  break  a  father's  will,  because  he 
had  bestowed  his  property  elsewhere.  Local  sym- 
pathy was  in  great  measure  with  them.  Some 
hundred  and  forty  witnesses  were  examined  on  the 
question  of  the  testator's  mental  capacity.  This 
lawyer  said  his  side  won  the  case,  by  lifting  it  up 
out  of  the  petty  personal  and  local  detail,  and  out 
of  the  technicalities  of  law  by  dwelling  on  the 
dignity  and  honor  of  old  age,  and  showing  that  the 
right  to  dispose  of  property  up  to  the  very  last,  is 
essential  to  the  protection  of  the  aged  against  the 
neglect   and    abuse     of    mercenary    and   ungrateful 


children.  Now  a  man  who  has  simply  had  two  or 
three  years  in  an  office,  or  even  in  a  law  school, 
could  examine  witnesses  and  bring  out  the  facts. 
But  to  see  the  deeper  meaning  of  the  evidence,  to 
give  the  facts  their  setting  in  the  widest  human 
relationships;  to  lift  the  details  up  onto  the  high 
plane  of  universal  and  eternal  truth  and  hold  them 
there  until  the  case  is  won, — that  is  the  work  of 
men  of  large  and  liberal  training;  men. who  in  early 
life  have  read  De  Senectute  and  King  Lear.  The 
things  you  learn  in  college,  taken  by  themselves, 
are  not  of  so  much  account.  For  the  most  part 
they  are  speedily  forgotten.  Few  graduates,  or 
even  professors,  could  pass  their  college  examina- 
tions over  again;  and  not  every  one  by  any  means 
could  fulfill  the  requirements  for  admission. 

The  average  man  when  he  graduates  from  col- 
lege cannot  read  an  ancient  nor  speak  a  modern 
language.  He  cannot  rely  upon  the  accuracy  of 
his  mathematical  computations.  He  cannot  put 
his  physics  or  chemistry  to  any  practical  use.  He 
cannot  write  an  article  which  any  editor  will  pub- 
lish, nor  make  a  speech  which  any  audience  will 
want  to  hear.  He  is  not  an  authority  on  business 
or  politics;  his  philosophy  is  a  haze  and  his  creed 
a  confusion.  Yet  he  has  lost  none  of  the  time  he 
has  spent  in  the  study  of  these  things,  provided  he 
has  studied  them  faithfully.  If  he  has  not  yet  mas- 
tered any  one  of  these  things,  he  has  acquired  the 
power  to  master  them.  A  college  diploma  is  not 
actual  intellectual  merchandise.  It  is  not  even  legal 
tender  which  you  can  exchange  at  once  for  the 
merchandise  you  want.  It  is  a  long  bond,  of  which 
the  coupons  will  be  cashed  only  at  the  bank  of 
continuous  intellectual  industry.  The  college 
course  remains  with  the  graduate  chiefly  in  his 
capacity  for  study  and  power  to  learn;  in  the  light 
it  throws  on  present  problems;  in  the  firmer  grasp 
he  has  on  his  business  or  profession;  in  the  broader 
outlook  he  enjoys  on  political  and  social  life. 
Because  he  has'hi's  college  studies,  science  and  lit- 
erature and  art  and  history  and  philosophy  are  at 
his  service  to  give  him  the  things  he  wants  to 
know. 

Have  you  found  God.  not  as  a  theory,  but  as 
the  guiding  and  ruling  principle  of  conduct,  the 
faithful  and  final  Center  of  confidence  and  peace? 
If  you  have  found  him  in  this  real,  practical  sense 
of  the  word,  I  am  sure  he  did  not  come  to  you  all 
at  once.  If  you  have  not  found  him.  I  warn  you 
that  you  never  will  unless  you  bestir  yourselves, 
and  prepare  the  chambers  of  your  soul  for  his 
reception.  For  there  is  one  thing  which  you  must 
have  first,  before  you  can  see  God.  That  pre- 
requisite to  finding  and  knowing  God,  is  very 
simple  but  very  fundamental.  We  all  have  it,  as 
part  of  our  birthright,  though  by  neglect  or  per- 
version, we  inay  easily  corrupt  and  destroy  it. 
That  prerequisite  of  God's  presence  is  the  raw 
material  of  the  spiritual  life,  the  stuff_  religion  is 
made  of.  Do  you  know  what  that  is?  It  isn't 
metaphysics:  though  as  you  all  are  aware  that  is  a 
most  interesting  subject,  and  most  fundamental  to 
clear  thinking  in  every  other  sphere.  It  isn't  sweet, 
mystical  emotion,  though  that  is  well  enough  in  its 
way.  No.  It  is  something  which  the  plain  man 
can  understand  as  well  as  the  scholar;  something 
that  comes  as  natural  to  man  as  to  woman;  some- 
thing which  the  little  child  often  knows  and  feels 
more  keenly  than  us  all. 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


The  raw  material  of  the  religious  life  is  the  dis- 
tinction between  right  and  wrong.  He  that  hath 
that,  has  the  stuff  to  make  a  religion  out  of.  He 
that  hath  not  this  distinction,  sharp  and  clear,  and 
bright,  and  sensitive,  hath  not  the  elements  of  the 
religious  life.  Be  true  to  that  distinction;  follow 
its  leadings,  accept  its  conclusions,  and  you  are 
drawn  by  the  inevitable  logic  of  life  into  the  pres- 
ence of  the  living  God.  Lose  it,  let  it  grow  dim, 
and  dull,  and  blunt;  and  not  all  the  evidences  of 
all  the  apologists  can  make  for  you  even  the  exist- 
ence of  a  God  a  credible  hypothesis.  For  to  him 
that  hath  the  moral  insight,  religious  faith  shall  be 
given;  from  him  that  hath  not  the  moral  purpose, 
the  religious  assurance  that  he  seemeth  to  have 
shall  be  taken  away. 

Let  us  try  to  follow  this  logic  of  the  moral  life, 
and  see  how  the  purpose  to  do  right  widens  into 
the  presence  and  deepens  into  the  peace  of  God; 
how  the  absence  of  that  purpose  narrows  the  soul 
and  hardens  the  heart,  until  the  barren  negations 
of  a  cold  and  cheerless  atheism  are  all  the  poor 
shrivelled  soul  and  hollow  heart  can  hold. 

The  recognition  of  the  distinction  between  right 
and  wrong  is  not  in  itself  religion;  it  is,  as  I  have 
said,  the  stuff  religion  is  made  of.  Just  as  linen  is 
the  stuff  your  handkerchief  is  made  of;  but  does 
not  become  the  handkerchief,  until  it  is  worked 
over  by  the  machinery  of  the  linen  mill,  and  the 
hand  of  the  seamstress;  so  while  right  and  wrong 
are  the  facts  the  religious  life  is  made  of,  they  do 
not  become  religious  until  they  are  given  their 
spiritual  interpretation  by  the  mind  and  heart  of  the 
man  who  experiences  them.  Right  and  wrong  are 
relations.  When  I  do  right,  I  acknowledge  that 
there  is  a  system  of  relations  in  which  other  beings 
as  well  as  myself  are  included;  and  I  take  my  place 
as  a  member  of  that  system  of  relations.  This 
system  of  relations  is  not  of  my  own  making;  it  is 
often  not  exactly  to  my  individual  liking.  There 
it  is,  however;  and  every  right  act  of  mine  is  a 
recognition  of  its  presence,  and  a  fitting  of  myself 
into  it.  In  every  right  act  I  become  a  part  of  an 
order  of  beings,  a  member  of  a  system  of  relations 
greater  than  myself.  Thus  every  right  act  is  an 
enlargement  of  myself;  a  saying  to  something 
higher  and  worthier  than  myself,  "  Not  my  will, 
but  thine  be  done."  What  we  shall  call  this  larger 
sphere,  what  name  we  shall  give  to  this  something 
which  we  address  in  every  act  of  righteousness, 
need  not  concern  us  at  present.  That  there  is 
something  greater  and  higher  than  ourselves  which 
we  recognize,  and  address,  and  obey,  in  every  act 
of  conscious  and  deliberate  rectitvide,  that  is  the 
implication  of  the  fact  of  right. 

Every  wrong  act.  on  the  contrary,  is  an  attempt 
to  deny  that  there  is  any  system  of  relations  larger 
and  worthier  than  myself.  Wrong  is  not  altogether 
successful  in  this  denial,  especially  at  first.  For  in 
the  form  of  remorse,  shame,  condemnation,  the 
violated  order  is  still  present  with  us  to  avenge  its 
disregarded  claims.  Yet  persistence  in  wrong- 
doing succeeds  in  stifling  and  deadening  the  remon- 
strances of  this  larger  sphere  of  relations  which  we 
have  violated;  until  at  last  the  hardened  heart 
scarce  hears  the  condemning  voice,  and  is  left 
almost  alone  in  waywardness.  In  so  far,  then,  as 
wronp  is  successful  and  complete,  it  shuts  a  man 
into  his  own  selfish  will,  as  the  only  spiritual  reality 


which  he  recognizes.  All  things  and  all  persons 
and  all  claims  --jtside  himself  are  treated  not  as 
real  and  valid  and  equal  or  superior  to  the  self,  but 
as  mere  means  to  be  disregarded  and  denied  and 
trampled  on  at  the  dictates  of  selfish  interest  or 
wanton  inclination.  To  such  a  person,  faith  in  a 
spiritual  God  is  absolutely  impossible.  He  hasn't 
the  material  to  construct  such  a  belief  out  of.  Such 
a  man  may  have  a  sneaking"  dread  of  a  great 
avenger,  and  cringing  fear  of  what  this  avenger  may 
do  to  him  in  the  hereafter.  But  that  is  mythology 
and  superstition;  not  rational  religion,  or  spir- 
itual faith.  This  man  has  refused  to  recognize  and 
respect  the  elements  out  of  which  a  spiritual  faith 
must  be  developed;  and  consecjuently  he  finds  him- 
self without  a  God;  or  rather,  what  is  worse,  with 
a  magnified  image  of  his  own  hardness  and  cruelty, 
and  malignity  set  up  on  the  throne  of  his  con- 
science, which  was  meant  for  the  true  God  of  good- 
ness and  love  to  occupy. 

Let  us  now  return  to  the  man  who  does  right. 
We  left  this  man  conscious  of  a  system  of  relations 
of  which  he  is  a  part;  a  member  of  a  spiritual 
order,  larger,  higher,  worthier  than  himself.  Is 
such  recognition  of  a  system  of  relations,  such  par- 
ticipation in  a  spiritual  order,  equivalent  to  faith 
in  God'  It  is  the  chief  element  in  such  a  faith. 
For  what  is  selfhood,  or  personality  as  we  know  it 
in  ourselves?  Is  it  not  the  power  to  reduce  a  man- 
ifold of  impressions  to  the  unity  of  a  single  order; 
and  to  subordinate  a  multitude  of  clashing  im- 
pulses to  the  unity  of  a  cherished  purpose?  Hence 
the  vmified  system  of  relation  and  the  comprehen- 
sive moral  purpose  which  all  experience  of  right 
conduct  brings  home  to  us,  is  the  manifestation  in 
the  world  without  of  those  very  principles  of  self- 
consciousness  and  self-determination  which  Consti- 
tute the  personality  of  the  self  within.  Hence 
doing  right  is  knowi_ng  God.  For  it  is  recognizing 
a  thought  and  will,  like  our  own,  but  vaster,  higher, 
and  holier.  The  man  of  the  pure  heart  sees  God; 
for  he  sees  and  serves  an  order  and  a  will  like  the 
order  and  will  which  organizes  his  own  petty  world 
of  appetites  and  desires  into  a  system;  but  as  much 
more  glorious  and  grand  than  the  order  and  will 
within  him  as  the  movements  of  stars  and  planets, 
the  rise  and  fall  of  nations,  the  development  and 
overthrow  of  institutions,  are  more  grand  and  glo- 
rious than  the  petty  passions  that  agitate  his  indi- 
vidual frame. 

So  much  is  sure  and  incontrovertible.  If  by 
belief  in  God  you  mean  that  we  are  enveloped  by 
a  universal  system  of  reason,  and  vipheld  by  an 
absolute  order  of  righteousness,  then  the  existence 
of  God  is  evidenced  in  every  true  thought  you 
think,  and  every  right  act  you  perform.  And  every 
true  and  righteous  man  may  be  as  sure  of  God's 
existence  as  he  is  of  his  own. 

Furthermore,  this  kernel  of  faith,  hard  and  cold 
as  it  seems  when  taken  by  itself,  if  cast  into  the 
warm,  rich  soil  of  an  earnest  moral  life,  begins  to 
swell  and  sprout,  and  take  on  more  vital  and  attract- 
ive forms. 

The  man  who  is  faithful  to  the  right,  soon  finds 
his  sense  of  right  developing  into  a  sense  of  the 
eood.  Right  is  formal;  good  is  substantial.  A 
conscientious  regard  for  what  is  right  is  the  first 
stage  of  the  spiritual  life.  A  loving  devotion  to 
what  is  good  is  the  second  stage.     Every  growing 


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soul  conies  to  do  things  less  and  less  from  a  con- 
scientious regard  for  what  is  right,  and  more  and 
more  from  a  loving  devotion  to  what  is  good.  The 
best  work  in  the  world  is  not  done  on  the  first  and 
lowest  plane,  of  conscientious  fidelity  to  the  right. 
Mothers  don't  watch  over  and  nurse  and  rear  their 
children  at  the  dictates  of  conscientious  scruples. 
Patriots  as  a  rule  do  not  enlist  in  the  service  of  their 
country,  or  die  in  her  behalf  at  the  dictates  of  their 
consciences.  The  mother's  love  draws  her  toward 
the  child's  good;  the  patriot's  love  impels  him 
toward  his  country's  welfare.  Right  is  the  root; 
but  good  is  the  blossom  of  the  spiritual  life.  When 
you  have  worked  up  through  conscientious  fidelity 
to  the  right,  to  warm  appreciation  of  the  good,  then 
you  begin  to  reap  the  rewards  and  benefits,  the 
comforts  and  consolations  of  the  spiritual  life.  He 
that  does  the  right  comes  to  see  the  good;  and 
he  who  sees  the  good,  finds   God  and  blessedness. 

To  do  right  out  of  a  tender  and  loving  regard 
for  the  persons  who  are  affected  by  your  action; 
so  to  live  that  no  man  may  be  the  poorer,  no 
woman  may  be  the  sadder,  no  child  may  be  more 
wretched  for  aught  that  you  have  done  or  left 
undone;  so  to  live  that  through  your  words  and 
deeds,  men  may  see  the  truth,  and  enjoy  the  beau- 
tiful, and  reverence  the  pure,  and  honor  the  noble, 
and  possess  the  means  of  material  and  social  sat- 
isfaction; that  is  to  share  the  life  and  love  and 
blessedness  of  God.  For  whoever  lives  this  life, 
not  from  mere  constraint  of  duty,  but  from  love  of 
those  his  life  afifects,  soon  discovers  that  in  that 
life  of  love  he  is  not  alone.  The  satisfaction  and 
the  joy  of  it  attest  the  fact  that  this  is  the  life  he 
was  meant  to  live  by  the  Father  in  whose  image  he 
is  made;  and  he  knows  every  word  and  deed  of 
such  a  life  is  well-pleasing  in  his  Heavenly  Father's 
sight. 

Such  a  life  brings  him  into  close  and  constant 
fellowship  with  Christ;  for  to  fight  the  wrongs, 
correct  the  abuses,  and  comfort  the  sorrows  of  the 
oppressed;  and  to  minister  to  the  gladness  and 
peace  and  blessedness  of  the  pure  and  true  and 
gentle,  was  ever  the  meat  and  drink  of  Jesus; — the 
point  of  contact  wherein  he  became  conscious  of 
his  oneness  with  his  Father,  and  with  his  fellow- 
men.  Thus  the  person  who  has  grown  up  through 
faithful  doing  of  the  right  into  loving  devotion  to 
the  good,  finds  every  place  a  holy  place,  every  bush 
upon  the  roadside  ablaze  with  God,  every  circum- 
stance where  duty  can  be  done,  and  good  can  be 
accomplished,  a  gateway  to  Heaven,  a  passage  lead- 
ing to  the  throne  of  the  Most  High.  He  sees  God, 
because  his  heart  is  pure;  he  hath  abundant  com- 
mimion  with  him,  because  he  hath  some  measure 
of  that  participation  in  his  holy  purposes  wherein 
alone  true  spiritual  communion  is  to  be  found. 

The  lesson  I  would  impress  upon  you  to-day  is 
simply  this, — that  as  long  as  you  lack  the  earnest 
moral  and  spiritual  purpose  to  do  the  right  and  serve 
the  good,  as  the  right  and  the  good  present  them- 
selves to  you  in  your  daily  lives,  you  never  can 
expect  to  have  credible  evidence  of  the  being  of 
God;  still  less  to  share  the  inspiration  and  conso- 
lation such  a  conviction  can  impart.  For  belief  in 
God  is  something  no  logician  can  argue  into  you; 
no  apologist  can  prove;  any  more  than  by  arguing 
the  logician  can  satisfy  your  hunger  if  you  have  no 
food,    or   the   apologist   can   assuage   your   thirst   if 


you  refuse  to  drink  the  water  that  he  ofi^ers.  The 
bread  and  the  water  of  the  spiritual  life  are  the 
doing  of  one's  duty,  and  the  service  of  our  fellows; 
and  he  that  lacketh  these  fundamental  elements  can 
never  have  the  life  of  fellowship  with  God,  of  which 
ihey  are  the  indispensable  constituents. 

Faith  in  a  living  God,  in  other  words,  must  be 
wrought  out  of  our  own  moral  and  spiritual  expe- 
rience. The  man  who  gains  it  in  that  way,  by  doing 
his  work  as  a  member  of  a  great  spiritual  order, 
and  serving  his  fellow-men  as  members  of  the  same 
great  kingdom  of  which  he  is  himself  a  part,  comes 
to  know  God  with  the  same  certainty  that  the  fish 
knows  the  water,  the  bird  the  air,  or  any  living 
being  the  environment  in  which  it  lives  and  moves 
and  has  its  being.  Live  and  move  in  the  conscious 
and  practical  recognition  of  the  holy  Will  that  in- 
cludes every  right  act  of  yours,  and  rebukes  every 
wrong  act;  and  you  cannot  long  remain  unaware 
of  the  divine  presence.  Serve  a  good  that  is  as 
real  in  your  neighbor  as  in  yourself,  and  infinitely 
transcends  you  both,  and  out  of  your  service  will 
be  developed  the  glad  and  glorious  assurance  that 
the  universe  is  a  place  where  good  can  be  and  ought 
to  be  the  aim  of  every  will  that  inhabits  it;  and  is 
the   final  purpose   of  its  beneficent   Creator. 

Doubt  in  our  day  has  had  man}'  a  defamer,  and 
many  a  eulogist.  The  eulogies  and  the  defama- 
tions are  often  equally  wide  of  the  mark.  We  must 
discriminate  two  kinds  of  doubt;  the  passive  and 
the  active.  Passive  doubt  is  weak  and  contempti- 
ble. It  folds  its  listless  hands,  sits  idly  down,  and 
waits  for  some  evidence  or  other  to  come  along 
and  prove  to  it  the  existence  of  a  God  and  the 
probability  of  a  hereafter.  It  is  high  time  to  tell 
all  such  passive  doubters  in  plain  terms:  There  is 
no  God  who  will  ever  deign  to  disclose  himself  to 
lazy  souls  like  you.  No  Heaven-bound  chariot  will 
ever  stop  by  the  wayside  to  pick  up  such  worthless 
tramps.  To  the  man  who  has  no  moral  earnestness 
within  him,  there  is  no  possible  means  of  ever  dis- 
covering a  God  without;  to  a  man  who  has  no 
spiritual  life  in  his  own  soul,  there  is  no  place  where 
eternal  life  is  gratuitously  dispensed.  This  lazy 
doubt  which  boasts  its  own  emptiness,  and  expects 
to  be  fed  like  a  tramp  on  the  crumbs  of  other 
people's  faith,  has  had  much  more  respectable 
treatment  in  these  days  than  it  deserves.  The 
sooner  we  drive  these  spiritual  tramps  from  our 
doorsteps,  and  starve  them  into  honest  seekers 
after  moral  and  spiritual  work,  the  better  it  will  be 
for  them.  To  those  who  have  nothing,  nothing 
shall  be  given.  To  those  who  lack  the  moral  pur- 
pose no  spiritual  faith  is  possible. 

The  other  and  nobler  sort  of  doubt  is  worthy  of 
all  encouragement.  To  those  who  are  working 
hard  to  do  the  right,  and  make  the  world  the  better 
for  their  presence,  let  us  be  quick  to  say;  You  are 
already  in  the  kingdom  of  Heaven,  though  perhaps 
you  know  it  not.  You  are  a  child  of  God,  for  yoti 
could  not  live  and  work  as  you  do,  unless  there 
were  within  you  a  latent  consciousness  that  the 
spiritual  world  is  one,  that  good  is  its  aim,  and 
that  the  source  of  its  oneness  and  its  goodness  is 
akin  to  the  reason  and  righteousness  that  strug- 
gles for  expression  in  your  own  moral  and  spirit- 
ual life.  You  have  the  elements  of  spiritual  faith 
and  life.  You  have  in  your  own  souls  the  stuff 
that   faith   in   God   is  made   of.     Hold   it   fast,   cling 


BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


lo  it,  however  small  and  faint  and  feeble  it  may  be. 
I'or  he  that  hath  the  least  genuine  particle  ol  the 
moral  and  spiritual  purpose,  is  thereby  a  sharer  in 
the  eternal  life  of  the  Almighty  and  Everlasting 
Father,  in  whose  moral  and  spiritual  image  all 
souls  who  do  the  right  and  love  the  good  are 
begotten.  For  unto  every  one  that  hath  the  moral 
purpose,  shall  be  given  the  spiritual  life,  and  he 
shall  have  abundance  of  the  peace  and  blessedness 
of  God. 

Members  of  the  Graduating  Class:  You  came 
to  college  with  a  clear-cut  creed.  I  don't  say  you 
all  believed  it.  Some  of  you  had  already  begun  to 
doubt  it;  some  had  denied  it  outright.  But  whether 
as  a  thing  to  believe,  or  to  doubt,  or  to  deny,  you 
had  it  in  your  mind.  This  creed  included  a  date 
for  the  creation  of  the  earth  out  of  nothing,  and  a 
date  for  the  creation  of  Adam  out  of  the  dust  of 
the  earth,  and  for  the  creation  of  Eve  out  of  the 
lib  of  a  man.  This  creed  included  the  time  and 
place  and  circumstance  at  which  the  law  of  God 
was  given  to  man;  when  and  where  and  by  whom 
the  Bible  was  composed.  It  told  precisely  what  we 
have  got  to  believe,  and  precisely  what  will  happen 
lo  us  if  we  dare  to  doubt  it.  It  told  precisely  what 
plan  of  salvation  was  resolved  on  in  the  counsels 
of  the  Almighty;  and  predicted  with  accuracy  on 
what  terms  the  affairs  of  the  universe  are  to  be 
wound  up. 

This  clear-cut  creed  has  gone.  The  college  has 
taken  it  away.  We  have  all  had  our  share  in  it; 
and  presumably  those  studies  which  continue  the 
tradition  of  Socrates  and  Descartes,  and  Kant,  have 
been  the  chief  offenders  in  thus  ruthlessly  taking 
from  you  the  creed  with  which  you  came.  That 
creed  you  never  can  regain.  The  college  couldn't 
give  it  back  to  you,  if  it  would;  and  it  wouldn't  if 
it  could.  There  is  no  place  where  you  can  find  it, 
or  any  thing  like  it,  this  side  of  Rome.  The  little 
that  you  had  is  taken  from  you;  for  it  was  all  hear- 
say and  tradition.  Of  real  inwrought  conviction, 
based  on  experience  and  insight,  you  had  practi- 
cally nothing.  Therefore  it  was  that  the  creed  that 
you  seemed  to  have  could  be  taken  from  you  so 
easily. 

What  then  has  the  college  given  you  in  place 
of  this  creed  which  it  has  taken  away?  Very  little; 
but  that  little,  vital.  Not  a  tree,  but  a  seed.  Not 
a  system,  but  a  principle.  You  have  learned  the 
ereatness  of  nature,  and  the  universality  of  its  laws. 
You  have  learned  the  dignity  of  man  at  his  best, 
and  the  .glory  of  service  and  sacrifice.  You  have 
learned  that  nature  is  the  expression  of  a  single 
rational  process;  that  humanity  is  the  offspring  of 
one  reasonable  and  righteous  Will.  You  know 
that  there  are  two  ways  of  life.  One  that  is  narrow, 
petty,  personal,  base,  sensual,  selfish:  and  that  in  a 
life  like  that  you  part  company  with  what  is  most 
rational  in  nature,  what  is  most  noble  in  humanity, 
;md  therefore  with  what  is  most  divine  in  God, 
their  common  source.  You  know  that  there  is 
another  way  of  life,  which  rules  passion  as  gravita- 
tion rules  the  courses  of  the  stars:  which  faces 
resDOnsibility  as  serenely  and  smilinely  as  the 
violets  spring  up  to  meet  the  sun  in  IVIay:  which 
does  its  work  as  thoroushly  and  solidly  as  "The 
.Qiant  aa:es  heave  the  hill,  and  break  the  shore"; 
which  feels  for  human  sorrow  as  tenderly  as  the 
mother  for  her  bruised  and  bleeding  child.     Such 

I 


a  life  is  the  reproduction  and  incarnation  of  the 
life  of  God.  He  who  knows  that  life,  knows  God. 
He  who  loves  that  life,  loves  God.  He  who  lives 
that  life  is  a  partaker  of  the  divine  nature. 

That  you  have.  And  as  the  seed  contains  in 
germ  the  recapitulation  of  all  the  generations  of 
trees  that  have  gone  before,  and  the  germ  of  the 
forests  that  are  to  be,  so  he  who  has  this  principle 
of  a  life  conformed  to  nature  and  devoted  to 
humanity,  has  within  himself  the  sum  and  sub- 
stance of  all  that  is  essential  in  the  creeds  that  have 
been  handed  down  from  the  past;  and  the  spring 
and  motive  of  all  the  noble  faiths  that  shall  be 
developed  in  the  future.  For  he  that  hath  rever- 
ence and  love  for  the  natural  and  social  order,  hath 
the  two  essential  points  of  contact  and  communion 
with  the  living  God. 

Out  of  that  all  else  will  come.  Live  that  life 
in  earnestness  and  sinceritj',  and  you  will  not  be 
long  in  recognizing  as  your  Master  in  that  way  of 
living  the  serene  and  steadfast  Nazarene,  who 
taught  the  lessons  of  the  sparrows  and  the  lilies, 
from  the  secret  temptations  of  the  wilderness  to 
the  public  condemnation  and  crucifixion  at  his 
nation's  capital,  and  all  the  way  made  his  life  a 
continual  sacrifice  and  service  to  God  and  his  fel- 
low-men. You  will  find  the  Bible  the  one  great 
book  for  inspiration  in  the  living  of  this  blessed 
life:  and  therein  you  will  have  the  all-sufficient  and 
only  satisfactory  evidence  that  it  is  itself  inspired. 
You  will  find  the  church  the  great  historic  institu- 
tion for  keeping'  alive  the  traditions  of  this  noble 
living:  and  you  will  rejoice  to  be  bound  through 
it  to  the  goodly  fellowship  of  the  brave  and  noble 
souls  of  all  lands  and  ages.  You  will  find  this  life 
of  loving  service  so  precious  a  possession,  that  you 
will  come  to  know  that  as  between  this  and  the 
stuff  the  rocks  and  stars  are  made  of,  they  are  the 
chaff  for  the  flames,  and  the  life  you  and  your  fel- 
low-Christians have  learned  to  live  is  the  wheat  for 
the  eternal  garner. 

Cling  then  to  the  large,  pure,  noble  life  for 
which  this  Christian  college  stands:  and  for  every 
untenable  and  unwarranted  theological  assumption 
the  college  has  been  compelled  to  take  from  you, 
vou  shall  have  restored  a  hundred-fold  the  grow- 
ing, deepening  conviction,  that  over  and  through 
the  order  of  nature  and  the  struggle  of  humanity 
there  is  one  God  blessed  forever;  a  historic  Christ, 
who  is  the  revealer  in  human  experience  and 
through  human  suffering  of  the  love  that  is  the 
nsture  of  God:  a  holy  Catholic  church  of  which 
a'1  the  meek  and  the  pure  and  merciful  and  peace- 
?ble  are  members:  a  sacred  scripture  whose  inspi- 
ration is  attested  in  the  life  which  it  inspires;  an 
immortnlitv  which  is  assured  bv  the  fitness  of  the 
soiritual  life  to  survive  the  wreck  of  matter  and  the 
shock  of  M'orlds. 


JUNIOR  PRIZE  SPEAKING. 
The  Jtinior  Prize  Speaking  of  1900  was 
held  in  Memorial  Hall,  Monday  evening, 
June  19th,  before  a  large  and  appreciative 
audience.  The  Bowdoin  Orchestra  furnished 
music  of  the  usual  high  order,  and  the  selec- 
tions without  exception  were  well  delivered. 
The  programme  was  as  follows : 


BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


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Music. 
Danserous   Legislation. — McDowell. 

Fred  U.  Ward. 
Imperialism. — Schurz.  *Albro   L.   Burnell. 

Eulogy  on  Garfield. — Curtis. 

*Harry  O.  Bacon. 
The  Triumphs  of  Peace  and  War. — Chapin. 

Frederick  C.  Lee. 
Music. 
A  Ride  Through  the  Valley  of  Death.— King. 

Islay  F.  McCormick. 
The  Southern  Negro. — Grady. 

*Percy  A.   Babb. 
Address     to    the     First    Pennsylvania    Regiment. — 
Chaplain.  *Harry  C.  McCarty. 

Meagher's  Defense. — Meagher. 

Henry  A.    Shorey,   Jr. 
Music. 
A   Public  Trust.— McKinley. 

Frank  M.  Sparks. 
The  Death  Penalty. — Hugo. 

*Robert  F.   Chapman. 
The  General's  Client. — Anon. 

Joseph  W.  Whitney. 
An  E.xtract  from  Evangeline. — Longfellow. 

James  P.  Webber. 
Music. 
Announcement   of  Judges'   Decision. 
*Excused. 

The  first  prize  was  awarded  to  Frederick 
Lee  and  the  second  to  Joseph  Whitney. 

The  committee  was  Percy  Andrews  Babb, 
chairman,  Joseph  Walker  Whitney,  Albro 
Leonard  Bitrnell. 


'99's   CLASS   DAY. 
Class  Officers. 
President — Harry  Benton  Neagle. 
Marshal — Willard  True  Libby. 
Committee — Wilhs  Bean  Moulton,  chair- 
man ;     Francis     Wayland     Briggs,     .Wallace 
Humphrey  White,  Jr. 

Morning  Exercises. 
Tuesday,  June  20th,  was  observed  by  '99 
as  her  Class  Day.  The  morning  was  most 
fair  and  pleasant,  and  the  speaking  was  of  an 
unusual  high  order.  The  campus  was  in 
splendid  condition  and  dotted  here  and  there 
with  knots  of  guests  and  friends  as  the  class 
gathered  about  the  steps  of  Memorial  Hall. 
Promptly  at  10  o'clock  the  vSalem  Cadet 
Orchestra  started  one  of  its  splendid  marches, 
and  the  class,  under  the  marshalship  of  W.  T. 
Libby,  marched  onto  the  stage,  where  the  fol- 
lowing interesting  programme  was  enjoyed 
by  the  large  audience.  President  White  pre- 
siding : 

Music 
Prayer.  Carl  Vose  Woodbury. 

Oration.  Loton   Drew  Jennings. 


Poem. 

Opening  Address 
History. 
Prophecy. 
Closing  .Address. 


Arthur  Huntington  Nason. 
Music 

Francis  Lewis  Lavertu. 

Harold  Fessenden  Dana. 

Ray  Leon   Marston. 

Fred  Raymond  Marsh. 


CLASS  DAY  ORATION. 

THE  PAST,    PRESENT,    AND    FUTURE    OF 

AMERICAN   ORATORY. 

By  L.  U.  Jennings. 

The  last  century  of  American  history  may  be 
characterized  in  general,  as  one  of  advancement. 
We  see  it,  not  only  in  our  material  environment, 
but  also  in  our  moral  and  intellectual  conditions. 
Within  the  short  space  of  one  hundred  years  we 
have  perfected  a  government  on  entirely  new  lines. 
American  industries  have  grown  until  they  stand 
side  by  side  with  those  of  the  great  powers  of  the 
globe.  Science  and  Mechanics,  with  all  their  mar- 
velous inventions,  have  no  cause  to  be  ashamed  of 
their  growth  within  our  borders.  Socially,  morally, 
and  intellectually  we  have  taken  our  place  among 
countries  whose  age  is  measured  by  centuries  in- 
stead of  years. 

As  a  consequence  of  this  progress  it  would  seem 
necessary  to  follow  that  the  demands  made  upon 
eloquence  to-day  are  the  most  imperative  of  all  his- 
tory. Yet  the  fact  remains  that  oratory  has  been 
fast  approaching  a  cold  recital  of  facts.  We  no 
longer  hear  those  daring  flights  of  the  imagination. 
Our  ears  are  dulled  to  those  sublime  utterances  of 
patriotism.  The  orator  has  cast  from  his  thought 
the  adorned  sentence,  the  flowery  figure,  and  the 
classical  allusion. 

Yes,  it  is  surely  true  that  the  oratory  of  forty 
years  ago  is  vastly  different  from  that  of  to-day. 
Yet,  as  already  shown,  this  decline  is  not  due  to  the 
fact  that  men  are  less  intellectual,  for  they  are  more 
so,  but  rather  because  oratory  is  the  child  of  con- 
ditions.    It  mirrors  the  age  in  which  it  is  produced. 

Let  us  turn,  then,  to  the  past  and  notice  the 
influence  of  the  early  orators  and  the  conditions 
then  favorable  to  eloquence.  The  first  and  most 
important  fact  which  we  notice  is  this, — that  as  the' 
great  themes  running  through  our  history  rise 
liigher  and  higher  in,  public  interest,  we  see  oratory 
soaring  in  its  sublimest  flights  to  meet  these  condi- 
tions. In  our  divided,  disorganized  colonies  this 
one  predominating  theme  was  at  first  the  purely 
economic  question  of  taxation.  Bvit  this  was  soon 
overshadowed  by  a  still  greater  two-fold  problem; 
whether,  on  the  one  hand,  they  should  stay  by  Eng- 
land, and  undergo  her  misgovernment,  her  indig- 
nities, her  cruelties,  or  whether,  on  the  other,  they 
should  cut  loose  and  break  a  ''thousand  ties  of  kin- 
dred blood,  of  social  alliance,  and  ancestral  pride." 

To  cause  these  people  to  thrill  with  a  desire  with 
a  national  life,  to  awaken  the  inherent  Anglo-Saxon 
desire  for  freedom,  to  picture  the  magnificence  of 
their  future  and  the  evils  of  their  dependence  on  a 
foreign  king,  was  the  work  therefore  of  the  early 
orators. 

The  whole  question,  then,  was  purely  one  of 
sentiment.  It  was  a  chance  to  display  all  that  is 
"daring,   touching,     indignant,     and    overwhelming 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


iu  eloquence."  And  to  meet  the  exigencies  of  this 
occasion  there  arose  one  of  the  grandest  groups  of 
pureiy  emotional  orators  that  the  world  has  ever 
seen.  Back  of  them  was  the  strong  conviction  of  a 
righteous  cause,  kindled  by  the  hres  of  freedom. 
Their  words  fairly  burned  upon  tlieir  indignant  lips 
and  sank  deep  down  into  the  hearts  of  their  hearers. 
They  were  carried  to  the  firesides.  They  were 
thought  over  and  discussed  in  the  fields.  Their 
influence  permeated  even  the  remotest  hamlets. 

Measured  by  results  these  sublime  utterances  of 
patriotism  accomplished  one  of  the  grandest  deeds 
of  all  history.  And  it  is  but  just  that  the  names 
James  Otis,  Patrick  Henry,  Samuel  Adams,  Josiah 
Quincy,  John  Adams,  and  Richard  Henry  Lee 
should  adorn  and  embellish  the  pages  of  history  as 
the  "erectors  of  our  magnificent  fabric  of  freedom!" 

At  the  bar  the  same  spirit  predominated. 
Throughout  this  entire  period  the  names  of  the 
great  lawyers  and  the  leading  statesmen  were 
synonymous  terms.  It  was  but  natural,  then,  that 
trials  were  mere  forensic  contests  in  which,  statutes 
and  precedents  were  thrown  to  the  four  winds  and 
in  which  advantage  was  generally  to  him  who  could 
muster  the  greatest  oratorical  power. 

Again  the  same  characteristic  pushed  its  way 
into  the  pulpit.  The  religious  life  of  the  colonial 
days  was  harsh  and  dogmatic.  Fear  was  used  as  a 
motive  to  spur  men  on  to  righteous  deeds.  Heaven, 
Flell,  and  even  God  himself  were  painted  in  such 
vivid  and  concrete  terms  that  shudders  of  fear  and 
remorse  swept  through  the  congregation  when  they 
were  even  mentioned. 

We  have  now  seen  how  colonial  oratory  is 
remarkable  as  a  whole  on  account  of  the  emotional 
aspect  of  its  themes.  On  political  issues,  we  have 
seen  how  all  these  diversified  opinions  were  finally 
worked  into  a  unity  and  how  independence  resulted. 
In  the  next,  or  transitional  period,  we  shall  see  that 
this  revolutionary  spirit  was  not  buried  with  its 
issues.  Periodically  it  came  to  the  surface  in  the 
form  of  state-rights.  The  individual  hated  to  be 
subjected  to  the  rule  of  the  universal.  The  state 
would  not  wear  the  fetters  of  union.  The  republic 
was  not  of  sufficient  strength  to  overcome  the  indi- 
vidual desire.  This  was  a  question  of  rights  retained 
and  rights  surrendered,  dealing  with  political  econ- 
omy and  constitutional  interpretation,  but  the  old 
faiths  and  prejudices  still  lingered,  as  is  shown  m 
the  utterances  of  such  men  as  John  Randolph, 
Henry  Clay,  and  John  C.   Calhoun. 

From  this  same  problem  of  state  rights  grew 
one  of  the  greatest  questions  that  have  stirred  the 
hearts  of  men.  It  was  not  only  a  question  of  jus- 
tice and  mercy,  but  it  was  inseparably  linked  with 
our  Union's  life.  It  went  even  farther  than  the 
revolutionarv  issue,  for  in  the  one  case  there  was 
everything  to  win  and  nothing  to  lose  and  m  the 
other  there  was  everything  to  lose  and  nothing  to 
win.  Not  only  did  it  involve  the  problems  already 
mentioned,  but  another  even  greater— the  success  or 
failure  of  republican  government. 

Is  it  remarkable,  then,  that  the  heart  of  the 
nation  was  touched?  Is  it  to  be  wondered  at  that 
the  time  when  "Webster  arose  'mid  death-like 
silence  to  deliver  his  remarkable  reply  to  Hayne" 
is  regarded  as  the  most  memorable  and  momentous 
moment  of  all  history?  ,  ,        , 

Yet.  for  all  the  greatness  of  the  theme,  the  elo- 

l 


quence  of  the  period  met  it;  not,  however,  with  the 
emotional  oratory  of  the  Revolution,  but  with  a 
style  which  combined  eloquence  and  reason  in  their 
{  true  proportions.  The  great  undercurrents  of 
I  learning  and  culture  with  all  their  manifold  attri- 
butes were  beginning  to  have  their  influence.  The 
formative  period  was  beginning  to  give  way  to  the 
reformative,  the  constructive  to  the    reconstructive. 

The  high  marks  attained  by  eloquence  in  this 
period,  however,  were  not  due  wholly  to  the  great- 
ness of  the  theme.  The  training  in  oratory  which 
had  been  going  on  in  the  lyceum,  in  the  public 
schools,  in  our  universities  and  colleges  could  not 
be  without  results.  As  we  look  at  the  efforts  of 
Wendell  Phillips,  Edward  Everett.  Charles  Sumner, 
and  Sargent  S.  Prentiss  on  national  issues;  on  the 
speeches  of  Pinkney  and  Choate  at  the  bar;  on  the 
sermons  of  Beecher  in  the  pulpit,  we  are  reminded 
more  strongly  than  ever,  that  "as  a  man  soweth  so 
shall  he  reap." 

Yes.  this  was  the  highest  point  of  American 
speech.  The  tide  which  had  been  half  a  century  in 
rising  had  reached  its  flood,  but  an  ebb  was  soon  to 
follow.  The  age  of  gold  was  about  to  give  way  to 
that  of  bronze.  True,  its  influence  lasted  for  a  time, 
but  when  once  for  all  the  red  flag  ceased  to  be 
waved,  when  men  saw  that  in  union  there  was 
strength,  a  reconstructive  period  followed.  Such 
stirring  themes  as  those  of  the  Civil  War  and  the 
Revolution  gave  way  to  systems  of  finance  and  gen- 
eral economics.  A  general  decline  of  interest  in 
oratorical  culture  was  the  result. 

Let  us  inquire,  then,  more  minutely  into  the 
causes  of  this  decline,  and  penetrate,  if  possible,  the 
mists  of  the  future. 

First  and  foremost  is  the  decline  of  great 
national  themes  which  has  already,  I  believe,  re- 
ceived sufficient  notice;  but  there  are  other  causes. 

The  use  of  parties  has  materially  lessened  the 
power  of  the  political  orator.  Men  are  no  longer, 
as  formerly,  determined  by  the  merits  of  the  issue. 
To-day  the  orator  may  paint  pictures  that  wovild 
draw  the  perspiration  from  the  brows  of  his  audi- 
ence. He  may  bring  them  to  tears  or  to  laughter. 
Yes.  he  may  even  convince  them.  Yet  so  great  is 
the  pow'er  of  "Bosses,"  so  potent  the  fear  of 
constituents,  that  when  the  final  test  comes,  party  is 
placed  before  conviction,  political  allegiance  before 
Iionor.  A  Webster,  a  Clay  or  a  Calhoun  would  be 
as  impossible  in  these  days  of  party  subserviency  as 
.in  Everett  or  a  Curtis  in  the  turbulent  times  of  the 
Revolution. 

Perhaps,  even  more  powerful  than  the  rise  of 
parties  has  been  the  influence  of  the  newspaper  and 
of  more  widely  diffused  learning  and  culture.  Peo- 
ole  of  to-day  are  more  capable  of  comprehending 
logical  subtleties,  better  prepared  to  control  their 
emotions. 

Then.  too.  that  calm,  calculating,  commercial 
spirit  which  pervades  the  age  has  been  potent  in 
usurpine  the  orators  wand.  Men.  to-day.  are  too 
wrapped  up  in  commerce  to  heed  the  orator's  cry. 
Business  is  so  carried  on  that  attention  to  details  is 
the  corner-stone  of  success.  We  see  this  spirit  car- 
ried not  only  to  our  halls  of  legislation,  but  also  to 
the  bar  and  even  the  pulpit.  Eloquence  in  details 
is  as  impossible  as  sober  speech  in  times  of  revolu- 
tion. 

At  the  bar  this  decline  has  been  due  not  only  to 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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these  general  causes  already  cited,  but  also  to  the 
accumulation  of  precedents  and  the  perfection  of 
statutes.  Cases  to-day  are  decided  according  to 
justice  instead  of  upon  those  broader  lines  of  com- 
mon-sense that  characterized  the  early  times. 
Judges  are  now  interpreters  of  the  law  and  not  leg- 
islators. 

In  the  pulpit  again  concrete  themes  have  been 
superseded  by  abstract  speculations.  We  no  longer 
as  formerly  see  the  foundations  of  religion  in  such 
vivid  and  clear-cut  forms.  Again,  amid  the  attract- 
ive lines  of  scholarly  preparation,  bewildering  in 
their  number  and  brilliancy,  the  theologian  has 
completelj'  neglected  the  most  essential  part, — the 
art  of  the  successful  communication. 

But  this  fault  is  not  confined  alone  within  the 
pulpit.  Men  everywhere  seem  to  have  ceased  to 
realize  that  the  natural  in  expression  as  in  any  other 
art  can  be  attained  only  by  diligent  application. 
The  spirit  has  pervaded  our  institutions  of  learning, 
and  we  have  seen  young  men  sent  out  from  our 
colleges  and  universities,  from  our  law  schools  and 
theological  seminaries  wholly  incapable  of  express- 
ing the  vast  knowledge  which  they  have  attained. 
Dumb  learning  is  next  to  useless,  and  just  so  long 
as  this  lack  exists  the  influence  of  the  college  man 
in  the  professions  where  speech  is  a  factor  will 
continue  to  decline.  His  less  learned  brother  who 
is  eloquent  is  sure  to  outstrip  him  in  the  race  for 
fame. 

So  much  then  for  the  past  and  present.  Let  us 
now  turn  to  the  future  and  notice,  if  possible,  how 
far  conditions  will  be  favorable  to  eloquence. 

The  first  and  most  important  characteristic 
which  we  notice  is  the  prospect  of  more  stirring 
themes.  There  is  beginning  to  be  a  sort  of  a  heroic 
temper  in  the  times.  The  problem  of  Spain's  fallen 
empire,  the  turbulent  times  which  are  probable  in 
Europe,  and  the  possibility  of  our  becoming  an 
active  factor  in  the  world's  afifairs,  all  remind  us 
that  the  age  of  peace  has  not  yet  arrived. 

Again,  if  one  looks  closely  he  may  see  signs  of 
a  renewed  interest  in  our  national  life.  There  is  a 
tendency  on  the  part  of  a  higher  class  of  individ- 
uals to  enter  into  our  public  afifairs.  With  this 
there  is  coming  a  decline  of  party  feeling.  Men 
are  beginning  to  see  that  there  is  a  point  where 
party  rule  becomes  party  tyranny;  that  the  slave 
who  sticks  by  party  through  right  or  wrong  is  as 
much  an  object  of  scorn  and  contempt  as  the  man 
who  anywhere  plunges  himself  into  voluntary  serf- 
dom! and  that  independence  in  party  is  as  com- 
mendable as  independence  in  the  world  at  large. 

The  printing-oress,  learning,  and  culture  will,  of 
course,  materially  affect  future  eloquence.  We 
shall  probably  never  again  hear  those  impassioned 
floods,  but  reason  is  of  sterner  stufT  than  emotion. 
The  ornate  sentence  must  also  go,  but  modern 
advancement  with  all  its  great  field  of  illustrations 
will  furnish  a  splendid  substitute.  Again  the  clas- 
sical allusion  has  become  obsolete,  but  the  growth 
of  religious  learning  will  twice  over  fill  its  place  in 
that  book  of  books,  the  Bible. 

Finally,  the  commercial  spirit  is  going.  Indus- 
tries concentrated  in  trusts  and  large  comnanies 
will  soon  settle  down  in  permanent  form,  and  with 
ihis  will  come  a  revival  of  interest  in  public  affairs. 
"Men  will  then  realize  that  there  is  something  higher 
than  mere  subjective  interest;  that  there  are  national 


needs  as  well  as  individual  desires.  When  once 
this  comes  there  can  be  only  one  result — a  general 
revival  of  the  arts. 

Our  universities  and  colleges,  the  foretellers  of 
future  conditions,  have  already  caught  the  spirit  of 
the  "returning  light."  Intercollegiate  debates  are 
being  arranged  in  the  East,  interstate  oratorical 
contests  in  the  West.  The  old  debating  societies 
are  once  more  "turning  the  keys  in  the  rusty 
locks,"  and  even  the  high  school  is  catching  the 
once  buried  spirit.  And  is  it  not  fitting  that  this 
should  be  the  case?  The  college  man  has  back  of 
him  the  learning  of  centuries,  and  as  soon  as  he 
becomes  eloquent,  the  fall  of  the  demagogue,  of  the 
half-inade  lawyer,  and  the  pseudo-minister  is  as- 
sured. 

In  conclusion,  then,  let  those  of  us  who  intend 
to  be  lawyers,  theologians,  statesmen,  or  who 
intend  anywhere  to  address  large  bodies  of  listeners, 
bear  in  mind  that  the  effect  and  range  of  a  mental 
projectile  varies  as  the  force  which  sends  it;  that 
oratory  will  never  reach  that  point  where  a  cold 
recital  of  facts  will  suffice;  that  just  so  long  as  one 
mind  is  superior  to  another,  just  so  long  as  the 
human  heart  is  swayed  by  justice,  patriotism,  and 
religion,  just  so  long  as  there  is  a  chance  to  en- 
lighten, calm,  and  to  arouse,  oratory  will  continue 
to  exist  and  flourish.  And  I  believe  that  in  the 
future  as  in  the  past  the  man  who  holds  great 
influence  will  be  he  who  is  able  not  only  to  instruct 
but  also  to  persuade,  for — 

"True  expression,  like  the  unchanging  sun, 
"  Clears  and  improves  whate'er  it  shines  upon. 
It  gilds  all  objects,  but  it  alters  none." 


CLASS  DAY  POEM. 

THE  KNIGHTS  OF  ROSENSTEIN. 
By  a.  H.  Nason. 

With  dimpling  pennons  and  dancing  plumes, 

From  Rosenstein  they  ride  away; 
The  glimmering  sunlight  glints  and  glooms; 

Their  eager  horses  prance  and  neigh. 

The  rattling  draw-bridge  outward  falls. 
The  ponderous  gates  are  open  thrown. 

And  the  princes  leave  their  ancient  halls 
For  knightly  quest  in  lands  unknown. 

The  Queen,  aloft  in  her  window  high, 

Gazed  forth  and  waved  them  a  fond  farewell; 

And  a  glistening  mist  bedimmed  her  eye 

But  she  smiled  through  the  tear-drops  as  they 
fell. 

And  turned  to  her  maid  in  waiting  sweet, 

The  fairest  flower  in  Rosenstein: 
"  Many  a  danger  they  ride  to  meet 

Who  seek  thy  favor,  O  Princess  mine. 

"Each  have  I  given  a  mystic  ring 
Quaintly  carved  from  the  fairy  gold. 

Set  with  the  stone  which  the  delvers  bring 
Deep  from  the  heart  of  the  darkling  mold. 

"Wishes  many  each  stone  shall  give. 
If  rightly  chosen  the  wishes  be; 


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Brighter  ever  the  light  shall  live 
In  the  stone  that  is  used  worthily. 

"But  ah!  if  the  wisher  shall  choose  awrong, 
The  rosy  light  ol  the  stone  shall  dim, 

And  the  mystic  power  for  right  so  strong 
The  bitterest  curse  shall  prove  to  him. 

"Where  lies  their  path  no  man  may  know." 
But  up  through  the  treetops,  as  she  spoke. 

From  the  winding  roadway  far  below 
Gladly,   gayly,  a  carol  broke: 

"Ho!  for  a  life  of  glory  and  might. 

Shock  of  battle  and  siege  of  town. 
Sack  of  city  and  seething  fight. 

Pillage  and  plunder  and  war's  renown! 

"Thus  will  I  win  me  wealth  and  fame; 

Honors  and  power  shall  all  be  mine; 
And  many  a  maiden  her  love  shall  name 

For  brave  Prince  Konrad  of  Rosenstein. 

"  Home  will  I  come  like  a  crowned  king 

Victor  of  many  a  foughten  field. 
Many  a  land  with  my  name  shall  ring. 

Many  a  vassal  allegiance  yield. 

"Then,  on  thy  hand,  my  princess  fair. 

Clear  as  the  stars  a  gem  shall  shine; 
Jewels  shall  gleam  in  thy.  lustrous  hair; 

Thou  and  thy  beauty  shall  all  be  mine." 

Rosamond  answered  nor  smile  nor  frown. 

Then  from  the  valley  a  new  song  came. 
And  the  maiden  listened  with  eyes  cast  down. 

Softly  murmuring  Bertrand's  name. 

"  Ho!  for  the  sword  that  is  trusty  and  true. 

Cleaving  through  helmet  and  shattering  shield. 
Ho!  for  the  hand  that  is  daring  to  do. 

Steady  to  parry  and  mighty  to  wield. 

"  Sweetheart,  oh  teach  me  to  battle  aright. 

Faithful  and  valiant  forever  to  be; 
Wavering  never  though  fearful  the  fight. 

Loyal  to  honor  and  loyal  to  thee. 

"  Guide  thou  my  lance  through  the  battle's  wild 
strife. 

Fix  thou  my  purpose,  my  pathway  assign. 
Thine  is  mj^  service,  my  honor,  my  life; 

All  my  heart's  treasure  forever  is  thine!" 

The  orincely  halls  of  Rosenstein  are  decked 

For  festival.     From  all  the  realm  there  throng 

The  great  and  noble,  mightiest  of  the  land. 

Rulers  of  church  and  state  whose  names  resound 

Afar  and  near:  the  wise  philosophers; 

The  grave  and  reverend  doctors  of  the  law; 

Tlic  scientists,  deep  learned  in  the  lore 

Of  nature;  poets  whose  inspiring  song 

Turns  all  men's  hearts  to  love  the  pure  and  good. 

White-robed  resplendent  there  amid  her  court. 
The  frracious  Queen  her  welcome  gives  to  all. 
Receives  their  homage,  and  to  each  assigns 
His  rank  and  station  as  his  worth  deserves. 
But  most  of  all,  she  craves  for  tidings  true 


Of  her  fair  sons  gone  forth  on  knightly  quest. 
And  now  she  hears  of  Konrad,  how  he  fought 
'Gainst  heathen  foe  and  reared  a  haughty  throne 
Where  myriad  servile  slaves  in  suppliance  bend. 
And  how  he  gathered  riches  to  himself, 
Grinding  the  poor  that  he  might  be  more  grand, 
And  ruling  those  wild  realms  with  iron  law 
While  all  men  praised  his  power  and  his  might 
And  marvelled  at  the  ring  he  ever  wore, 
A  burning  rose-stone  set  with  fairy  gold 
By  which,  'twas  said,  he  swayed  an  evil  power. 
Of  Bertrand,  hears  she  naught.     But  one  from  far 
Tells  of  a  stranger  who  m  time  of  plague 
Wrought  wondrous  cures  through  magic  of  a  ring; 
But  when  they  strove  to  thank  him,  he  was  gone. 
.Another  tells  her  how  two  mighty  kings 
Went  forth  to  war,  and  would  have  drenched  their 

lands 
In  human  blood,  had  not  a  stranger  prince 
Prevailed  on  them  their  quarrel  to  adjust 
And  sealed  their  compact  with  a  signet  ring 
Set  with  a  stone  of  wondrous  rosy  hue 
Like  to  the  sky  atinge  with  sunset  light. 
But  none  knew  whence  he  came  nor  how  he  went. 
And  then  a  third  his  tale  relates  in  turn: 
How  one  with  such  a  ring,  while  journeying 
Through  lands  laid  waste  by  bloody  border  war, 
Beheld  a  band  of  plundering  soldiery 
Tossing  amid  their  swords  a  helpless  babe — 
Its  mother  lying  dead  beneath  their  feet; 
How  with  his  jewelled  hand  he  seized  the  child. 
Smiting  the  ruffiians  for  their  cruelty, 
y\nd  how  he  took  the  babe  and  cared  for  it 
With  tender  art,  till,  at  a  cloistered  town. 
He  left  it  with  the  abbess  and  her  nuns. 
At  this,  the  Queen  and  all  were  deeply  moved. 
While  Rosamond,  at  her  feet,  wept  silently 
And  smiled  and  wept  again.     But  while  they  spoke. 
Sudden  a  mighty  tumult  at  the  door 
With  flourishing  of  trumpets  and  of  drums 
Announced  the  coming  of  some  royal  guest. 
And  loudly  cried  the  herald  through  the  hall; 
'Ho!     Room  for  Konrad,  Prince  of  Rosenstein!" 
Attended  by  a  glittering  retinue 

Prince  Konrad  came,  resplendent  'mongst  them  all 
For  costly  gems,  the  spoil  of  cruel  wars. 
Before  him  throu.gh  the  hall  his  squire  strode 
Bearing  his  banner  blazed  in  quaint  design, 
A  rosebud  blooming  from  a  ragged  rock. 
Four  pafres  bore  his  armour,  and  behind 
An  hundred  knights,  a  brilliant  body-guard 
Brought  up  the  rear.     Then  what  a  cheer  arose 
From  all  around  in  welcome  of  the  Prince! 
.And  first  he  sought  the  Oueen  and  bending  low 
Her  fair  hand  kissed  in  filial  homage  due; 
Then  rising  cried:  "I  come  to  claim  my  own; 
.Sweet  Rosamond,  thy  beauty  now  is  mine!" 
He  strove  to  clasp  her,  but  she  cried,  "Forbear! 
Where  is  the  ring  thy  mother  gave  to  thee?" 
"The  ring?     I  cast  it  by:  its  rosy  light 
Hnd  faded  quite  awav.     But  what  of  that? 
T  have  an  hundred  rings  for  thy  dear  hand." 
Pie  answered  scoffingly. 

But  from  the  throng 
Tn  nilqrim's  carb  a  stalwart  stranger  stepped 
And  fronted  Konrad  with  a  gesture  stern. 
"Who  art  thou?"  muttered  Konrad.     At  the  word 
Thp  robe  fell  back,  and  there  before  them  stood 
A  knight  in  shining  steel;  upon  his  crest 


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A  rosebud  bloomed;  and  on  his  dexter  hand 

Held  high  aloft,  setting  the  hall  aflame 

With  ruddy  light,  a  rose-stone  glimmered  there 

Set  all  in  fairy  gold.     And  at  the  sight 

A   cry  of  "Bertrand!"   thundered  from  the   crowd. 

Then  rose  the  Queen  in  stately  majesty 

And,  with  a  radiant  smile,  in  Bertrand's  hand 

She  placed  the  hand  of  beauteous  Rosamond, 

While  cheer  on  cheer  resounded  to  the  dome. 


This  is  the  legend  of  Rosenstein. 

Its  spirit  lives  in  our  midst  to-day, 
Though   Queen  majestic  and  Maid  divine 

With  the  storied  age  have  passed  away. 

Yet  ours  for  aye  is  the  song  I  bring: 
Character,  noble  and  true  and  high. 

Cannot  be  won  if  the  mystic  ring 

Of  Knowledge  fades  as  the  years  go  by. 

Pomp  and  power  and  wealth  and  fame. 
The  Princess  careth  for  none  of  these. 

Haughty  or  humble,  'tis  still  the  same; 
Only  the  light  of  the  stone  she  sees. 

Only  the  gleam  of  the  rosy  stone 

Kept  aglow  by  unselfish  deeds; 
Deeds  of  love,  which  shall  make  our  own 

Human  sorrows  and  human  needs. 

O  Alma  Mater,  thy  jewel's  sheen 

Is  ours  to  guard  through  storm  and  shine. 
For,  Bowdoin  Beata,  thou  art  our  Queen, 

And  we  are  the  Knights  of  Rosenstein. 


AFTERNOON  EXERCISES. 

Threatenin,e;  weather  caused  the  exercises 
to  be  resumed  in  the  church  instead  of  under 
the  Thorndike  Oak,  and  the  following  com- 
pleted the  day's  literary  exercises  : 

OPENING  ADDRESS. 

By  F.  L.  L.wertu. 

Bowdoin  is  ever  happy  to  welcome  to  her  classic 
halls  and  historic  campus,  those  who  are  interested 
in  her  welfare.  There  is,  however,  during  the  year, 
one  occasion,  which,  owing  partly  to  the  season, 
but  chiefly  to  its  pleasant  associations,  stands  pre- 
eminent as  the  "day  of  days."  That  occasion  is  the 
one  which  we  are  here  assembled  to  celebrate — the 
Class  Day  of  '99. 

On  this  ocasion,  if  ever,  the  Senior  wishes  to  be 
surround-ed  by  parents  and  friends.  This  day  sees 
the  realization  of  his  fondest  dreams;  it  sees  the 
consummation  of  four  years  of  hopes  and  struggles. 

At  last,  his  books  are  laid  aside,  and  he  is  about 
to  step  forth  into  the  activities  of  life.  Do  you 
wonder,  then,  that  year  after  year,  as  each  graduat- 
ing class  takes  its  place  under  this  venerable  oak, 
its  members,  for  the  time  being,  give  themselves 
over  to  the  happy  reminiscences  of  the  historian 
and  indulge  in  the  fond  illusions  of  the  prophet? 

And  as  we,  of  the  Class  of  '99,  gather  here  to- 
day, and,  for  a  moment,  look  back  over  the  four 
j'ears   of  our  college   life,   disappointments,   if  ever 


we  had  them,  are  long  since  forgotten,  and  there 
passes  before  our  vision  only  a  picture  of  happiness 
and  contentment.  Our  recollections  are  only  of  the 
pleasantest  nature.  The  pleasant  associations,  and 
especially  the  warm  friendships  and  the  fraternal 
spirit  which  binds  us  together  as  a  unit, — these,  we 
never  can  forget,  and,  in  the  trials  and  disappoint- 
ments of  the  years  to  come,  they  cannot  but  serve 
as  an  inspiration,  an  incentive  to  spur  us  on  to 
greater  and  nobler  efforts. 

The  lour  years  have  flown,  alas!  all  too  quickly 
by,  and  to-day,  within  a  few  short  hours,  we  must 
bid  a  loving  farewell  to  Bowdoin  and  her  many 
endearing  associations. 

"M oritur i  Salutamus"  sang  our  immortal  poet, 
on  the  occasion  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the 
graduation  of  his  class. 

"Morituri  Salutamus"  sing  we  on  the  present 
occasion.     "We  who  are  about  to  die,  salute  you." 

Unwilling  though  we  may  be  to  believe  it,  the 
fact  nevertheless  remains  that,  as  a  class,  we  die  to- 
day. There  is  something  peculiarly  touching,  at 
this  time — just  when  we  have  come  to  the  fullest 
realization  of  the  sacred  significance  of  class  ties — 
in  being  compelled  to  bid  farewell  to  some  beloved 
classmate  for  all  time. 

In  the  class  poem,  delivered  a  year  ago,  the 
writer  well  expressed  the  feeling  of  regret  that 
comes  over  each  one  of  us  on  this  occasion,  when 
he  said; 

"  My  classmates,  of  the  thoughts  this  hour  involves. 
The  parting  sighs  and  filial  resolves, 
No  casual  observer  can  conceive. 
Nor  any  who  have  never  felt  the  pain 
Of  parting  friends  who  may  never  meet  again. 
'Tis  not  alone  of  parting  that  we  grieve; 
But  well  we  know,  though  some  of  us  may  meet. 
Some  will  be  absent  whom  we  used  to  greet." 

With  our  last  "farewell,"  this  afternoon,  another 
Class  Day  will  have  passed  into  history,  and  the 
events  of  to-day  are  destined  soon  to  be  forgotten. 
Forgotten?  To  many  of  our  guests,  the  "farewell" 
of  '99  will  be  but  one  of  several  similar  occasions, 
but  to  'US,  to  whom  this  last  sad  rite  remains,  the 
event  will  ever  brin.g  to  mind  tender  recollections 
of  our  happy  college  life  and  its  hallowed  asso- 
ciations. 

In  the  hearts  of  my  classmates,  as  long  as  life 
shall  last,  and  when  the  events  of  the  past  four  years 
shall  be  forgotten,  a  single  strain  of  "Auld  Lang 
Syne,"  wherever  we  may  hear  it,  a  thought  of  our 
"Pipe  of  Peace,"  or  of  otir  "Farewell,"  will  arouse 
a  train  of  emotions  which  shall  carry  each  one  of 
us  back,  through  the  joys  and  sorrows  of  the  inter- 
vening years,  to  this  day  which  we  now  celebrate. 

But,  tinged  though  our  joy  on  this  occasion  must 
be,  with  sorrow  at  the  parting  which  is  near  at 
hand,  we  are  by  no  means  despondent.  Confidently, 
almost  eagerly,  we  look  into  the  future.  Each  one 
is  filled  with  hope  and  long-cherished  aspirations, 
and.  in  these  exercises  which  bring  to  an  end  his 
college  course,  he  sees  the  beginning  of  what  he 
fondly  hopes  to  be  a  successful  career  in  his  chosen 
profession. 

If  it  be  true  that  as  a  class,  we  die  to-day,  it  is 
also  true  that  in  this  very  death  we  are  born  again, 
as  members  of  a  much  broader  organization  and  in 
a  sphere  of  infinitely  greater  possibilities. 

Hitherto,  our  activities  have  been  confined  within 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


the  narrow  limits  of  our  little  college  community. 
To-day,  after  a  farewell  to  our  classmates  and  the 
pleasant  associations  of  our  college  days,  we  turn 
reluctantly  from  the  scenes  of  our  early  activities, 
and  go  to  seek  admittance  to  a  wider  field  of  use- 
fulness. Henceforth,  in  the  "struggle  for  survival," 
we  must  fight  our  own  battles,  but  what  better  prep- 
aration could  we  desire  than  four  years  of  such 
training  as  Bowdoin  gives  her  chosen  sons? 

We  are  soon  to  enter  upon  our  new  duties,  as 
citizens  of  a  country  which  we  are  proud  to  own. 
In  the  busy  struggle  for  fame  and  wealth,  we  shall 
undoubtedly  forget  the  greater  part  of  what  we  have 
learned  while  in  college.  The  one  thing,  however, 
which  we  shall  never  forget  is  the  fact  that  we  are 
alumni — foster-sons — of  this  truly  grand  old  insti- 
tvition.  I  have  not  one  word  of  advice  to  offer  the 
members  of  our  class — they  need  none  that  I  could 
give.  One  hope,  however,  I  cherish,  which  is,  that 
each  one  of  us  may,  in  our  individual  lives,  exem- 
plify those  principles  and  teachings  which  for  the 
past  four  years  our  cultured  instructors  have  sought 
to  impress  upon  us.  They  have  ever  been  faithful 
and  conscientious  in  the  performance  of  their 
duties  towards  us.  It  now  remains  for  us  to  prove 
ourselves  worthy  of  their  teachings,  and  worthy  of 
the  college  whose  honored  name  we  are  so  proud 
to  bear. 

Ladies  and  gentleman,  friends  of  our  class  and 
colleee.  allow  me  to  extend  to  you,  one  and  all,  in 
behalf  of  the  Class  of  '99.  their  heartiest  greetings, 
and  to  bid  you  thrice  welcome  to  these,  our  Class 
Day  Exercises. 


HISTORY. 

By  H.  F.  Dana. 

Once,  when  a  maiden  lady,  somewhat  elderly, 
accosted  a  bank  cashier  at  his  window  with  a  re- 
quest that  he  would  cash  a  check  for  her,  the  cashier 
politely  replied:  "Yes,  madam,  but  you  must  bring 
some  one  to  introduce  you;"  to  which  the  irate  lady 
responded,  "  Sir,  I  do  not  desire  to  make  your 
acquaintance."  All  of  which  has  nothing  to  do  with 
my  subject  except  to  show  that  formalities  lead  to 
great  absurdities,  as  no  doubt  Hank  Webster  could 
have  told  you  when,  upon  going  to  some  evening 
function,  he  passed  the  compliments  of  the  hour 
and  shook  hands  politely  with  the  waiting-maid  who 
happened  to  be  standing  near  the  door. 

But  it  was  not  with  cold  formality,  I  assure  you, 
that  we  were  greeted  when  first  we  struck  this 
campus.  Our  history  really  has  no  introduction  at 
all.  We  just  floated  into  town  and  got  sucked  into 
the  college  whirlpool.  We  didn't  know  each  other 
at  all,  of  course,  that  is  to  say,  we  didn't  know  any 
of  ourselves  except  Sammy  Toplif?,  and  the  only 
reason  we  knew  Sam  was  because  he  button-holed 
us  all  as  we  arrived,  with  a  "My  name  is  Sam  Top- 
liff  from  a  suburb  of  Chicago;  what's  yours?"  It 
was  the  same  afternoon  on  the  delta  that  Sam  ad- 
vised an  alumnus  to  throw  away  his  cigarette  and 
shave  his  moustache  before  the  Sophomores  did  it 
for  him. 

'99  was  strong  in  numbers  as  classes  go.  I  can- 
not say  with  exactness  how  many  we  had,  but  we 
were  about  the  number  of  Tommy  Moulton's  sweet- 
hearts, which  are  60  odd. 


Perhaps  Eddie  Godfrey  was  the  one  from  our 
midst  whose  approach  had  been  most  heralded  by 
trumpets  and  who  received  the  warmest  welcome. 
He  was  certainly  the  largest,  most  unruly  calf  in  our 
herd.  The  very  first  evening  we  can  remember  his 
stentorian  voice  resovmding  with  his  unique  defi- 
ance: "You  may  torture,  you  may  kill  me  if  you 
will,  but  I  will  not  remove  my  hat  nor  sing."  Eddie 
was  tormented  that  first  year,  but  it  remained  for 
him  to  wait  until  Senior  year  before  he  should  be 
tortured  and  actually  killed.  Macdougal  did  the 
job  very  neatly  in  his  government  course  last  winter 
term.  But  I  must  in  fairness  state  that  Edward  has 
risen  nobly  from  the  dead,  and  will  graduate  with 
us  on  Thursday.  That  same  first  evening  Eddie 
Hadlock,  or  Mr.  Padlock,  as  Kid  Sturgis  introduces 
him.  sang  his  original  little  ditty  about  Yankee 
Doodle's  little  cat  who  was  fidl  of  frolics;  and  Bill 
Erye  White's  young  brother  spread  his  nightin- 
gale lungs  on  the  gymnasium  steps.  That  first 
week,  however,  was  more  exciting  to  us  than  to 
this  audience,  so  why  linger  longer  here;  which,  by 
the  way,  is  the  very  expression  Charles  Willard, 
1900,  once  used  to  himself  after  a  glee  club  concert 
up  country.  Charles  had  escorted  home  a  young 
lady  of  late  acquaintance,  but  when  they  arrived  at 
the  gate  the  young  lady  called  loudly,  "Papa,  papa!" 
so  why  linger  longer  here,  thought  Charles,  and  he 
actually  took  to  his  heels.  Yet  during  that*  week 
we  beat  the  Sophomores  in  base-ball  by  11  runs  to 
I.  which  is  one  of  the  things  we  like  to  boast  about, 
so  I  am  glad  I  didn't  forget  it;  and,  by  the  way,  I 
may  forget  to  mention  any  reverses  that  our  class 
may  have  suffered,  for  it  doesn't  pay  to  be  too 
fussy  about  details,  as  Roy  Marston  says,  who 
always  goes  to  every  public  function  with  both 
trousers  legs  turned  up. 

We  weren't  so  very  rampant  Freshman  year, 
except  a  few  leonine  spirits  among  us  like  Ed  Cham- 
berlain and  Drew  Hall  and  especially  Hank  Web- 
ster, who  with  a  noble  disregard  of  the  laws  of 
gravity,  launched  into  space  like  a  comet  from  the 
fourth  story  of  South  Maine.  The  human  comet 
suffered  one  of  our  class  reverses  and  lit  uncom- 
fortably.    It  was  an  unfortunate  tale. 

Our  class  sang  "Phi  Chi"  one  day,  in  a  body, 
and  the  next  day  met  the  Sophomores  in  a  pitched 
battle  on  the  snow.  It  was  a  weird  sight  to  see 
Eddie  doing  the  lOO-yard  dash  with  all  '98  after 
him  and  Kid  Sturgis'  hat  in  his  hand.  Browser 
Clark  also  did  valiant  work  with  his  arm,  but  he 
was  seriously  handicapped  by  being  denied  the  use 
of  his  powerful  mouth,  which  was  crammed  with 
snow.  Great  temper  was  exhibited  on  all  sides, 
even  Commodore  Nason  calling  some  warrior  a 
damned  fool.  That  is  the  only  time  Commodore 
has  ever  swore  except  once  under  his  breath  at  a 
debating  society  meeting,  when  he  couldn't  remem- 
ber the  precise  words  of  the  looth  paragraph  of  the 
50th  section  of  the  29th  article,  in  the  constitution 
of  the  George  Evans  Debating  Society.  All  of  our 
minor  squabbles  with  '98  I  pass  in  silent  contempt, 
the  same  way  we  passed  Buck  Moody's  examina- 
tions, for  we  were  all  excellent  mathematicians, 
unlike  succeeding  classes,  who  seem  to  prefer  to 
postpone  the  completion  of  that  study  until  late  in 
Sophomore  year. 

Our  own   Sophomore  year  was  quite   quiet  and 


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lady-like.  Two  weeks  of  the  year  indeed  were 
spent  by  i8  of  our  number  in  the  pleasant  seclusion 
of  their  domestic  circles,  where  they  attended  an 
interesting  course  of  lectures  from  their  parents;  all 
this  on  account  of  experimental  work  in  painless 
dentistry,  but  no  one  dared  to  continue  the  study 
on  the  President  when  he  showed  his  teeth. 

We  have  always  had  an  inventive  genius,  and  in 
'97  we  concocted  a  machine  which  we  called  the 
George  Evans  Debating  Society,  naming  it  that 
because  we  were  jealous  of  each  other's  knowledge 
and  nobody  knew  any  more  who  George  Evans 
was  than  anybody  else.  The  society  prospered  for 
the  first  year,  during  which  Line  Cleaves,  Greenie, 
and  myself  were  on  the  executive  committee,  while 
Lib  was  treasurer.  This  is  about  the  time  that 
Green  began  to  use  big  words  and  Lib  to  cultivate 
the  persuasive  tongue  which  he  now  possesses. 

I  don't  know  what  we  did  with  otirselves  Junior 
year.  I  think  that  in  us  Junior  ease  was  actually 
personified.  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  anyone 
who  studied,  although  Doggie  Jennings  claims  that 
he  put  in  one  hour  of  solid  plugging  at  one  time. 
Hall  was  busy  chinning.  Lib  was  making  love.  Prof. 
Came  was  giggling.  Clarke  was  making  strength 
tests  and  having  his  picture  taken,  Lucien  Libby 
was  reading  Boccaccio,  and  Tom  Merrill  slept  right 
through  the  year.  A  new  element  of  swash  buckler 
genius  and  dynamite  temperament  was  added  to  the 
class  by  the  arrival  of  Adams.  There  was  one  day 
during  spring  term  on  which  it  didn't  rain,  and 
that  was  luckily  Ivy  Day.  The  Bugle  struggled  out 
in  a  lazv  sort  of  fashion  and  disturbed  nobody;  in 
fact  nothing  disturbed  us  much  that  year,  and  every- 
thing was  joyful  except  Hayden's  face  in  chapel. 

Senior  year  has  been  much  the  same.  We  have 
not  studied  any  more  than  we  did  last  year  and 
consequently  have  little  book  learning.  '99's  sole 
occupation  for  Senior  year  has  been  to  dodge 
trouble,  at  the  same  time  running  the  college  and 
preserving  Senior  dignity. 

The  audience  will  no  doubt  think  this  a  very 
meagre  outline  of  the  doings  of  a  class  for  four 
years,  and  indeed  I  gladly  acknowledge  it  to  be  so. 
if  you  looked  for  a  dry  statement  of  routine  duties 
we  have  performed  and  con\'entional  occasions  we 
have  celebrated;  but  the  history  of  a  class,  at  least 
of  this  class,  is  a  matter  of  incidents  and  pleasant 
happenings,  with  the  sentiment  of  the  class  and  the 
good-fellowship  of  its  members  as  a  background, 
rrther  than  a  recital  of  stupid  affairs  that  are  Bruns- 
wick Telegraphed  or  Lewiston  Journalled  every  day. 
The  onlv  prooer  way  would  be  for  each  memebr  to 
I'-rite  his  college  autobiography  and  then  to  have 
them  published  together  as  a  cbss  history.  I 
would  write  individual  biographies  if  I  had  time  and 
an  audience  possessed  of  superhuman  patience:  as 
it  is  T  must  content  myself  with  a  hastv  sketch  of 
a  typical  member  of  '99  in  that  he  embodies  the 
spirit  of  thp  class,  and  possesses  all  its  virtues  not 
to  speak  of  its  vices. — because  it  has  none.  The 
fellow  to  whom  T  refer  you  will  hear  from,  if  both 
you  and  he  survive  this  discourse. 

His  nnmp  is  Marston.  whom  for  short  we  call 
Craze.  Unlike  anyone  else  whom  anybody  ever 
'-■enrd  of.  he  comes  from  Skowheean.  and  he  him- 
self is  unlike  nnybodv  anyone  ever  heard  of.  Everv- 
thinff  about  Crsvp  is  novel,  quite  dime  novel  in 
some   respects.     His   talents  l]ave   developed  under 


our  eyes  one  by  one  Jike  the  separate  hairs  of  Hall's 
moustache,  which,  however,  have  developed  under 
his  nose  rather  than  under  our  eyes.  When  Craze 
first  got  here  he  was  busy  opening  his  eyes  like  a 
little  kitten,  then  he  began  to  purr,  and  the  rest  of 
us  older  fellows  began  to  realize  what  a  nice  little 
chap  he  was.  Strangely  enough  he  first  came  into 
prominence  as  an  orator,  and  he  went  through  all 
the  vicissitudes  of  his  profession,  speaking  after 
violent  solicitation  to  a  gathering  of  our  class  in 
elocution  hour  and  leaving  the  stage  amid  a  volley 
cf  cheers  and  rotten  oranges.  That  was  his  last 
attempt  until  to-day.  and  the  class  has  voted  out 
of  respect  to  the  audience  to  let  him  finish  his  effort 
at  his  own  pace  without  interference.  Next  Craze 
loomed  up  as  a  writer,  any  kind  of  a  writer,  from 
Police  Gazette  style  to  Browningesque;  but  every- 
thing from  his  pen  is  absolutely  original,  nothing 
like  Freddie  Marsh's  moustache,  a  bold  imitation. 
Then  when  it  came  time  to  find  an  artist  for  the 
Bugle  we  found  that  Craze  could  draw,  and  draw 
well;  I  don't  believe  he  knew  it  himself  before.  It 
must  be  very  embarrassing  for  the  poor  fellow  to 
be  thus  discussed  and  have  his  character  so  dis- 
sected. I  can  feel  the  heat  of  his  blush  at  my  back, 
or  else  it  is  the  new  and  stylish  stockings  he  lately 
bought,'  for  he  is  quite  a  dude.  But  to  sum  up 
Craze's  character  as  typical  of  the  class.  He  is 
original,  as  he  will  prove;  he  can  do  about  anything, 
fiut  won't  do  it  until  he  has  to,  which  is  one  of  our 
areat  class  characteristics;  so  honest  that  he  will 
sometimes  give  the  devil  his  due,  reckless  to  some 
degree,  a  good  lover  and  a  poor  hater,  interested  in 
every  branch  of  college  and  class  activity,  quite  a 
chinner,  for  he  has  called  not  only  on  all  the  Fac- 
ulty but  on  their  wives,  which  shows  his  redoubt- 
able spirit.  Since  he  cannot  prophesy  for  himself 
for  all  he  is  a  prophet,  I  prophesy  for  him  good 
fortune  well  deserved  and  the  life-long  esteem  of 
fifty  other  men  from  the  same  model. 

It  has  been  the  custom  for  the  historian  to  pre- 
sent certain  statistics,  harmless  indeed,  but  alto- 
gether a  bore  for  all  concerned.  For  instance,  I 
am  not  quite  certain  whether  our  average  age  is 
22yrs.  2  mos.  and  i  day  or  i  day  more.  As  for 
our  oldest  and  youngest,  here  I  must  take  back  my 
statement  that  all  statistics  are  harmless;  but  you 
may  judge  for  yourself  when  I  tell  you  the  story. 

I  happened  rather  late  one  evening  into  the 
room  of  Father  Dutton.  Dut  extended  the  usual 
hospitalities  and  talked  learnedly  on  politics  and 
the  weather,  yet  I  felt  in  my  cerebral  hemispheres 
that  something  worried  him.  Finally,  he  asked 
somewhat  nervously  if  I  was  not  the  class  historian. 
I  admitted  it.  Then  in  a  sepulchral  whisper  he 
said.  "I  have  reason  to  believe  that  I  am  the  oldest 
man  in  the  class."  Then  with  a  hollow  hvena 
laugh  he  added.  "That  is  not  all."  Now  Dut- 
ton grew  eloquent,  as  he  well  can.  It  was  the  open- 
ing night  of  spring  and  his  speech  was  full  of  a 
certain  wet  humor  which  I  cannot  hope  to  dupli- 
cate. But  in  substance  he  said:  "Old  as  I  am.  my 
spirit  is  as  buoyant  as  a  boy's  and  fiery  passion 
still  pervades  my  wasted  limbs.  In  spring  this  old 
man's  fancy  lightlv  turns  to  thoughts  of  love.  _  Ah 
me!  Last  soring  I  wooed  a  gentle  country  maiden, 
and  to  further  my  suit  I  was  obliged  to  practice 
rank  deception  as  to  my  years.  Yes.  while  you  fel- 
lows were  around  here  lying  about  the  green  grass 


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under  the  trees.  I  was  up  country  lying  about  my 
green  old  age.  And  now  my  sweetheart  will  be 
h&re  on  class  day  and  will  discover  all.  I  am  un- 
done if  you  prove  obdurate.  What  will  you  take 
to  scratch  a  few  years  from  my  age?"  And  that 
is  why  I  forbear  to  mention  the  age  of  our  hoary 
patriarch.  You  may  judge  it  for  yourself  if  you 
can.  although  from  his  appearance  he  might  be 
either  a  little  younger  than  Methusaleh  or  a  little 
more  aged  than  Cupid. 

As  for  our  youngest,  as  Shakespeare  says.  "Why 
should  a  man  whose  blood  runs  warm  within  his 
veins  sit  like  his  grandsire  cut  in  alabaster?"  Yet 
that  is  the  way  W.  S.  M.  Kelley  is  sitting  trying 
to  look  unconcerned.  I  don't  know  why  he  is 
ashamed  of  his  youth,  but  every  day  he  wishes  him- 
self a  happy  new  year,  and  makes  believe  that  he  is 
growing  older. 

Our  class  is  not  essentially  religious.  Not  a 
man  intends  to  enter  the  ministry,  although  Jake 
Wignot  did  once.  Politics  cut  no  ice  with  us. 
We  will  vote  any  ticket  except  the  Prohibition,  for 
a  sufficient  consideration.  Kell  can't  vote  at  all, 
for  he  is  not  old  enough  by  many  years. 

Future  occupations  are  mostly  undecided. 
About  a  dozen  will  study  law.  half  a  dozen  will  try 
medicine.  Gov.  Cleaves  won't  do  anything  unless 
he  has  to,  Reub  Rollins  will  bum  his  way  through 
life,  and  Neagle  will  marry  some  rich  widow  if  he 
gets  a  chance.  We  have  no  married  men  at  pres- 
ent except  Monk  Hills,  who  is  wedded  to  his  meer- 
schaum pipe. 

But  I  must  cut  these  statistics  off  and  begin  to 
conclude. 

'99  is  a  good  class  and  has  left  a  good  record. 
It  has  not  been  more  prominent  in  one  direction 
than  another,  but  its  influence  has  been  felt  in 
every  direction.  We  have  not  been  particularly 
brilliant,  but  on  the  other  hand  we  have  not  fallen 
below  the  Bowdoin  standard  in  scholarship,  good- 
fellowship  or  morals.  No  class  within  my  remem- 
brance has  contained  so  large  a  number  of  down- 
right good  fellows  as  our  own.  nor  do  I  remem- 
ber a  class  that  has  held  the  interests  of  the  college 
more  dearly  at  heart  or  worked  more  consistently 
to  uphold  its  reputation.  As  President  Hyde  said 
in  his  Baccalaureate  sermon,  we  know  small  Latin 
and  less  Greek,  and  none  of  us  can  deliver  a 
speech  that  anybody  cares  to  hear;  but  in  four  years 
we  have  learned  that  scholarship  alone  is  not  the 
end  to  be  sought,  but  that  on  the  other  hand  true 
friendship  and  gentlemanly  instincts  are  more  to  be 
desired.  No  class,  we  are  glad  to  feel  assured,  has 
more  completely  filled  its  obligations  to  itself  and 
to  the  college  than  the  Class  of  '99. 


PROPHECY. 

By  Roy  Leon  Marston. 

Say,  I  am  a  wizard!  I  am  the  real  thing.  I  am 
one  of  the  original  prophets!  Now,  you  all  know 
that  there  are  prophets  and  prophets.  Well,  I  am 
a  prophet.  Y'ou  see  I  came  a  little  too  late  to  be 
put  down  with  the  fovir  other  stars.  They  have  had 
all  their  prophecies  reported  in  the  Bible.  Of 
course  it's  a  big  disappointment  to  me  in  a  way 
that  mine  is  kept  out  becavise  I  didn't  get  it  in  on 
time.     Harry  Andrews  has  docked  me  before  now, 


because  I  didn't  get  themes  in  on  time;  but  themes 
are  not  serious  at  all,  and  it  really  doesn't  matter 
much  whether  they  are  in  or  not.  Freddie  Marsh 
lias  promised  to  compensate  me  a  little  for  not  get- 
ting my  prophecy  reported  in  the  Bible,  by  report- 
ing it  in  the  Leimston  Journal. 

As  I  said  before,  there  have  been  five  great 
prophets  in  the  world.  Four  came  right  along  in 
a  lump  and  got  in  their  work  before  the  Bible  was 
published.  They  were  Daniel,  who  got  a  lot  of 
advertising  by  an  episode  in  a  lion's  den;  Ezekiel, 
who  was  the  original  middle  of  the  road  Populist; 
Jeremiah,  who  lived  just  out  of  Jerusalem  and 
never  married;  and  finally,  Isaiah,  who  was  one  of 
the  ancestors  of  our  own  Isaiah  Simpson  here. 
Witness  their  whiskers;  the  original  Isaiah  had  the 
finest  set  in  the  Holy  Land,  and  our  Isaiah  has  the 
most  glorious  mane  from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific.  It  is  certainly  a  coincidence  that  there 
"should  be  a  lapse  of  two  or  three  thousand  years 
between  these  men  and  myself.  They  paved  a  way 
for  me.  If  it  hadn't  been  for  them  and  their  under- 
studies you  people  here  wouldn't  believe  a  word 
that  I  am  going  to  prophesy  to-day.  I  realize  that 
I  am  handicapped  by  the  lack  of  a  beard  trailing 
on  the  ground.  Jeremiah  used  to  use  his  beard  for 
a  napkin.  But  I've  got  a  dandy  planted.  I've  got 
the  sense  not  to  give  it  any  false  starts  the  way 
Chase  Pulsifer  and  Freddie  Marsh  have.  Chase  is 
ashamed  of  his.  and  so  am  I.  As  I  think  I  said 
before,  you  now  see  before  you  one  of  the  only 
original  prophets  minus  the  whiskers.  My  light 
has  been  kept  under  a  bushel  all  these  days  so  that 
I  could  surprise  you  on  this  glad  day.  That  you 
may  know  I  am  no  jolly,  let  me  tell  you  that  I 
prophesied  that  Rob  wouldn't  give  me  an  A  in  min- 
eralogy. He  didn't.  I  also  prophesied  that  Tuber 
Libby  wouldn't  make  Phi  Beta  Kappa.     He  didn't 

Yes,  there  are  prophets  and  prophets.  You  can 
believe  me,  so  can  I.  But  I  can't  believe  and  I 
don't  believe  you  can  believe  that  fairy  story  of 
Steve  Andros'  about  the  penny-in-the-slot  machine 
that  would  tell  anyone's  fortune  for  a  nickel.  And 
for  my  part  I  don't  believe  a  word  of  Tom  Pierce's 
prophecy.  He  poured  some  of  Confriere's  fire- 
water on  blank  sheets  of  paper  and  saw  the  future 
of  every  inan  in  the  class.  Now  that's  all  a  jolly. 
There  isn't  a  bit  of  truth  in  it.  So  for  years  false 
prophets  have  been  leaving  these  halls_.  To-day 
you  see  before  you  a  real  prophet,  not  a  juggler  of 
tin  boxes  and  fire-water.  I  do  not  walk  in  grave- 
yards and  listen  to  silly  sirens  from  the  shrine  of 
Apollo.  Look — I  just  see  things.  See  them  as 
plain  as  day.     Isaiah  and  I  use  the  same  methods. 

At  this  minute  I  can  see  a  building  right  over 
yonder.  You  can't  see  it,  but  I  can  see  it  through 
and  through.  It  is  a  grand  building  of  sober  gray 
stone.  It  looks  old  and  substantial  and  splendid. 
There's  a  fine  cloister-like  entrance  in  the  very  mid- 
dle of  the  major  structure,  and  on  either  side  Haw- 
thorne and  Longfellow  in  bronze  look  down  on  the 
passers-by.  Over  the  massive  doors  is  the  legend; 
— (Quotation  from  Longfellow). 

I  shall  not  bore  you  with  more  of  the  picture, 
and  I  shall  not  tell  you  that  the  same  kind,  gentle 
man  sits  in  the  librarian's  chair  and  guards  our 
Bnwdoin's  treasures  with  anxious  care.  I  shall  not 
tell  vou  that  the  man  I  see  coming  from  the  Presi- 
dent's office  is  the  man  who  -has  preferred  to  be 


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89 


Bowdoin's  President. because  he  has  made  Bowdoin 
a  college  worthy  of  his  abihties,  who  wrote  the 
Evokition  of  a  College  Student  and  lived  the  Evo- 
lution of  a  College   President. 

I  might  go  farther  and  tell  you  that  I  see  a  big 
gymnasium  over  back  of  the  chapel  worthy  of 
Bowdoin's  standing  in  athletics,  and  that  the  high- 
cock-Aloriim  is  a  big,  ungainly  chap  whose  arms 
flop  at  his  side  like  the  fifth  leg  of  a  five-legged 
calf.  He  is  showing  a  strapping  young  Whittier 
how  to  put  the  shot.  We  have  always  thought 
that  Eddie  never  would  be  satisfied  in  life  until  he 
had  a  gym  of  his  own. 

Now  these  things  are  just  little  things  that  you 
could  all  of  you  guess  without  half  trying.  Every 
one  knows  that  the  alumni  are  going  to  realize  that 
the  college  must  have  a  fitting  memorial  to  Bow- 
doin's literary  giants,  and  you  all  know  that  some 
one  is  going  to  give  the  college  a  new  gymnasium 
some  time. 

Well,  I  am  going  to  tell  you  a  few  things  that 
you  don't  know  and  can't  guess.  I  assure  you  they 
are  all  perfectly  true,  however  surprising  they  may 
be.  I  am  going  to  surprise  you  the  very  first 
thing.  There's  a  fellow  coming  down  the  chapel 
path  with  a  little  bird  cage  in  his  arms  and  a  small 
hand-organ  on  his  back.  He  is  a  fantastic  figure 
with  the  long  feather  in  his  hat,  prominent  chin 
and  rugged  face.  Howbeit,  there  is  a  look  in  his 
eyes,  such  a  far-away,  love-lit  look.  He  stops  in 
front  of  the  chapel;  unslings  his  burden  and  begins 
to  play  "There's  Just  One  Girl."  Tears  fill  his 
eyes  as  with  the  other  hand  he  strokes  the  back  of 
his  trained  birds.  Some  of  the  fellows  drop  pen- 
nies in  his  cup  and  listen  to  the  splendid  futures 
that  the  little  birds  say  will  be  theirs.  Prettier 
prophecies  than  I  can  give  to-day.  Oh,  I  know 
you  will  never  guess  who  it  is,  so  I  might  as  well 
tell  you  that  Frankie  bought  a  gold  brick  of  Rube 
Rollins  soon  after  the  rupture  in  his  heart.  The 
two  calamities  completely  cracked  his  nut.  and 
bats  in  his  belfry  was  the  result.  He  was  always  a 
wandering  lad  in  college,  so  he  at  once  took  to  the 
hand-organ  and  his  doves.  "Rube"  keeps  him  in 
clothes.  Rube  is  trading  down  in  Calais.  He  got 
the  Governor  drunk  one  night  and  bought  the 
state  house  of  him  for  a  song  and  sold  it  back  to 
him  in  the  morning — at  a  fair  profit.  Rube  is 
doing  fairly  well. 

Browser  Clarke  came  to  me  last  night  and  said 
that  there  were  going  to  be  a  lot  of  people  here 
to-day  who  were  interested  in  him.  and  that  he'd 
make  it  worth  my  while  if  I  would  give  him  a  good 
blow,  give  him  some  political  advertising.  He  is 
thinking  of  running  for  senator  from  Lincoln 
County  next  year.  I  have  a  great  mind  to  tell  you 
what  I  see  in  the  future  for  Browser'  just  to  pay 
him  back  for  insulting  my  integrity  as  a  prophet. 
But  really  I  haven't  the  heart  to  spoil  his  gradua- 
tion and  queer  him  with  all  the  girls  that  he  has  got 
on  a  string  here.  Say  his  future  is — well,  I  won't 
say  a  word  about  it.  because  Browser's  all  right  if 
he  wasn't  so  modest  and  unassuming. 

I  can  see  a  round,  healthy,  rosy  cherub  playing 
in  a  window  in  a  big  New  York  drug  store.  A 
sign  says  in  big  letters  that  this  is  a  "Mellin's 
Food  Boy."  Link  has  kept  the  pretty  contour  of 
face  and  figure  that  made  him  the  idol  of  maids  and 
matrons    in    college    and    at    the    tnountaing.      He, 


seems  to  be  having  a  mighty  easy  job  and  doing 
well  on  his  fodder. 

Perhaps  you  people  think  this  seeing  things 
business  is  a  snap.  It  isn't,  at  all.  The  nervous 
strain  is  something  tremendous.  The  psychologi- 
cal condition  that  admits  of  the  power  comes  and 
goes.  So  from  time  to  time  in  the  past  week,  I've 
noted  down  the  visions  that  I  have  had  concerning 
the  class. 

Now  last  Saturday  night  a  vision  came  to  me  of 
a  big  assemblage  of  women.  It  was  a  woman's 
congress.  There  was  screaming,  and  shrieking, 
and  tearing  of  hair.  The  presiding  lady  pounded 
and  yelled  in  vain  for  order.  A  dozen  congress- 
women  demanded  precedence.  Finally  the  chair- 
woman dropped  into  her  chair  and  called  for  it.  It 
popped  up  like  a  jack-in-the-box,  surveyed  the 
angry  multitude  with  his  firm,  serene  eye,  and 
silence  followed  pandemonium.  He  said  according 
to  section  three  hundred  and  ten.  article  99,  chapter 
14  of  Nason's  rules,  the  lady  in  the  pink  bloomers 
has  the  floor  and  her  bill  is  in  order.  The  bill 
concerns  the  licensing  of  college  widows  and  they 
are  always  in  order.  Then  Commodore  bowed 
humbly  and  took  his  seat  behind  the  speaker's 
chair.  Again  the  Knight  of  the  Gavel  had  brought 
order. out  of  chaos.  It  seems  that  he  will  be  a 
regular  fixture  in  the  Woman's  Suffrage  govern- 
ment of  the  future.  The  page  of  the  house  was  no 
other  than  our  little  Pop  Towle.  The  congress- 
women  said  he  was  too  cute  for  anything.  Com- 
modore said  that  Pop  kept  the  heroines  from  being 
homesick  and  wanting  to  see  the  children  and  hus- 
band at  home.  Just  like  Pop,  he  always  was  a 
sweet  little  ray  of  sunshine  in  the  life  of  Bruns- 
wick's fair  ones  while  in  college.  He  always  hated 
to  have  them  call  him  "cute,"  though. 

It's  a  peculiar  combination  that  I  shall  next 
show  to  you.  If  there  is  one  thing  for  which  the 
Class  of  'gg  is  noted,  it  is  for  its  five  P's.  They 
were  closely  linked  together  while  in  college,  and 
therefore  it  is  not  strange  that  they  should  in  after 
life  share  each  other's  joys.  Georgie  Piper  left 
Bowdoin  for  pastures  new  last  year,  but  Chase 
"Pulitizer"  came  into  our  band  early  to  soften  the 
sorrow  of  the  other  P's.  I  seem  to  see  a  vaude- 
ville stage  in  a  summer  theatre  with  a  big  sign  on 
the  piano  alleging  that  the  great  and  only  P. 
Brothers  would  play  this  afternoon.  A  door  opens 
and  the  tall  form  of  Bill  Philoon  advances  to  the 
front  of  the  stage.  In  his  tremendous  voice,  he 
announces  that  it  gives  him  great  pleasure  to  in- 
troduce to  this  handsome  and  cultured  audience  no 
other  than  the  far-famed  and  great  Sumners,  Poore 
and  Pattee,  who  would  play  "  Love's  Labor  Lost, 
or  the  Tragedy  of  the  Elm  House,"  in  one  act. 
Pat  took  the  part  of  the  cruel  but  beautiful  Juliet 
and  Sumner,  clad  in  red  doublet  and  hose,  threw 
his  soul  into  Romeo.  His  graceful  form  and  soft 
cadences  were  heartlessly  repulsed  by  Pat.  It  was 
great.  Then  Bill  announced  with  much  gusto  that 
the  audience,  still  handsome  and  cultured,  was  to 
have  the  honor  of  seeing  Carlo  Phillips  and  the 
chaste  Pulitizer  in  their  pathetic  and  eloquent 
drama  in  one  act,  entitled  the  "  Dying  Cuban  Sol- 
dier, or  Hotter-than-Hell  in  Havana."  Charles  was 
the  dying  hero.  With  one  hand  on  his  heart  and 
the  other  pointed  to  the  stars,  his  magnificent  form 
swayed  back  and  forth,  and  his  lips  bewa^ilec)  that 


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he  had  but  one  shirt  to  his  back.  Chasie  was  the 
stern  and  cruel  Spanish  captain.  His  whiskers 
came  in  good  play.  While  this  piece  was  riot  so 
taking  with  the  crowd  as  the  other,  I  laid  it  to  the 
overpowering  influence  of  love  in  Sumner's  eyes 
rather  than  poor  work  by  Cuban  hero  and  Spanish 
villain. 

Jennings  and  Neagle  are  a  queer  lot,  but  they 
are  together  as  I  read  my  vision.  They  started  in 
as  lawyers,  but  Loton  was  too  tired  to  go  to  the 
office  and  Snakes  didn't  know  anything  about  law. 
so  they  became  undertakers.  Loton  drives  the 
hearse  and  Snakes  drums  up  trade.  They  are  doing 
a  nice  quiet  business,  and  when  not  otherwise 
engaged  they  are  up  to  their  old  trick  of  trying  to 
bury  the  dead  of  night.  Perhaps  riot  a  little  of  their 
success  is  due  to  the  favorable  circumstances  under 
which  they  are  working.  It  seems  that  they  have 
several  forces  working  in  their  favor.  In  the  first 
place  Brooksy  Leavitt  and  Sammy  Tiptop  are 
doing  a  rushing  divorce  and  breach  of  promise  law 
business  right  next  door  to  them.  They  get  the 
people  in  the  community  all  nerved  up,  just  ready 
to  collapse.  Win  Adams,  who  sings  in  the  choir 
of  the  only  church  in  Saccarappa,  finishes  their 
work.  Then  Dr.  Ned  Marston  and  Dr.  Freddie 
Fogg  take  the  cases  in  hand.  While  it  is  not  for 
their  interest  to  make  their  work  so  quick,  it  is 
none  the  less  sure.  The  process  is  still  further 
advanced  by  the  Rev.  Jake  Wignott,  who  prepares 
the  way  for  Doggie  and  Snakes.  Thus  you  see  'gg 
in  one  towri  at  least  will  fulfil  most  of  the  functions 
of  society.  Domestic  and  civil  liberty  are  protected 
by  the  long, 'lank  Leavitt  and  the  stout,  sober  Sam; 
the  peace  and  happiness  of  the  soul  by  those  quiet, 
gentle  angels  of  mercy.  Win  Adams  and  Jake;  and 
finally,  Neagle  and  Loton  dispose  of  the  body  after 
the  other  fellows  have  got  all  they  can  out  of  it. 

The  night  Lance  got  back  from  Ashland,  he 
came  over  to  my  room  to  tell  me  about  the  potato 
crop.  As  he  woke  me  up  out  of  a  sound  sleep  at 
2  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  course  I  was  disturbed. 
When  he  left,  the  psychological  conditions  per- 
mitted me  to  see  his  future.  He  is  going  to  be 
instructor  in  elocution,  singing,  and  deportment  at 
Bates.  He  will  be  the  Ruth  Ashmore  of  that  well- 
known  matrimonial  agency.  He  will  rule  just  how 
many  times  it  is  oolite  to  kiss  your  partner  at  the 
President's  sociables,  and  lay  down  the  eticiuette  of 
"Tucker."  "Round  the  Green  Carpet  Here  We 
Stand,"  "Post-Office,"  and  the  other  popular  p-ames 
of  the  best  society  of  Bates.  Of  course  Lance 
comes  from  a  Bates  town.  He  is  even  a  greater 
star  in  elocution  than  he  used  to  be.  You  should 
hear  him  speak: — "Ye  call  me  chief,  and  ye  do 
well  to  call  me  chief  who  for  thirtv  long  years  have 
lived  in  Pittsfield  and  met  on  the  streets  every 
shape  and  contortion  of  man  or  beast  the  broad 
empire  of  Bates  could  furnish,  and  live  to  tell  the 
tale!"  Lance  will  stand  out.  in  front  of  the  count- 
less hordes  of  dusky  Bates  lads  and  la.ssies,  arid 
with  the  sheer  eloquence  of  his  beautiful  eyes, 
divine  voice,  and  graceful  form  draw  out  the  srood 
old  Bates  yell  as  it  never  was  drawn  out  before. 

Alack!  '  Another  picturp  is  here.  I  seem  to  be 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  awalking  down  the  princinal 
avenue.  In  front  of  the  palatial  residence  of  the 
late  lamented  Bripham  Youna-,  I  am  ston'ied  bv  a 
familiar  figure  sitting    on    the    veranda.     I've    seen 


the  face  somewhere.  Ah,  he  rises  and  walks  across 
the  lawn.  Could  any  one  ever  doubt  the  identity  of 
that  stride,  that  turkey-cock  strut,  that  Devil's- 
to-pay  swin,g?  But  how  fat  and  red.  Tommie 
asked  me  to  tea  in  the  afternoon,  when  I  met  the 
four  sharers  of  his  heart  and  love.  It  seems  that  a 
few  years  after  he  left  college,  he  was  sued  by  three 
dift'erent  parties  for  breach  of  promise,  to  escape 
which  he  made  a  bee  line  for  Utah,  where  he  mar- 
ried a  very  rich  Populist's  daughter.  They  had  no 
sooner  been  settled  in  the  house  of  the  late  Prophet 
of  the  Morriions  than  three  suits  by  the  original 
three  slighted  ones  were  brought  upon  him. 
Tommie's,  father-in-law  decided  that  the  only  hon- 
orable course  was  to  marry  all  three  of  them.  It  is 
needless  to  say  that  Tommie  was  satisfied.  He 
took  me  to  see  the  Wilbur  Opera  Company  that 
night.  The  ticket  read,  "Admit  the  Bearer  and 
Orie  Wife."  Tommie  took  one  of  his  quartette,  the 
minister  took  one.  and  I  took  one,  leaving  the  fourth 
one  locked  in  the  house.  We  hadn't  got  out  of 
the  house  before  we  heard  a  window  go  ker-smash, 
and  a  cyclone  struck  us — but  then,  that's  another 
story.  I  should  have  said,  however,  that  Walter 
Sunday,  Monday,  Tuesday,  Wednesday  Kelley  was 
Tommie's  private  secretary  and  charge  d'affaires. 
Kell  got  quite  used  to  looking  out  for  divers  parts 
of  his  room-mate's  varied  matrimonial  interests. 
Kell  is  valuable  to  the  household,  too,  by  the  gen- 
tle way  he  has  of  taking  down  the  swelled  heads  of 
any  of  the  wives  Tommie  seems  to  prefer  at  the 
time. 

Doct.  Sinkinson  and  Alton  Amaziah  Hayden 
went  to  the  Medical  School  together,  roomed 
together,  and  graduated  together.  This  is  pretty 
hard  on  Hayden,  but  it's  true.  They  hung  out  a 
shingle  together,  but  success  was  not  to  be  theirs. 
They  tried  to  cure  every  sort  of  thing,  without  suc- 
cess, until  they  tried  herring.  They  got  along  first 
rate  /at  that.  They  finally  became  prominently 
identified  with  the  fish  interests  of  Harpswell. 
Polly  White,  after  a  few  frantic  attempts  at  law, 
decided  to  share  their  fortune.  He  drove  the  Hay- 
den &  Sinkinson  fish  cart  into  Brunswick.  He 
also  collects  and  distributes  the  mail  along  the 
route.     It  is  better  to  cure  herring  than  nothing. 

I  think  I  mentioned  before  that  it  is  quite  im- 
possible for  a  really-truly  prophet  to  prophesy  at 
any  time  that  he  wants  to.  Well,  I  tried  to  see 
what  was  .going  to  become  of  old  Freddie  Swamp 
for  the  longest  while  last  night.  It  wouldn't  come, 
though.  Finally,  I  gave  it  up.  It  came  to  me  in 
the  middle  of  the  night,  however.  Freddie  is  eoing 
to  be  a  conductor  on  the  Wagner  system.  He  is 
.going  to  arrange  a  nice  little  smash-up  some  fine 
day  when  one  of  the  Vanderbilt  girls  and  her  papa 
are  aboard.  Then  he  is  goirig  to  gallantly  save 
her  from  a  terrible  death,  and  paoa  embraces 
Freddie  and  says  he's  got  to  play  in  his  yard  after 
that.  Freddie  tumbles,  of  course,  writes  a  little 
verse,  marries  the  girl  and  runs  the  road.  Then  he 
runs  down  to  Maine,  buys  the  Maine  Central  before 
breakfast,  contracts  for  a  crack-a-jack  depot  here 
in  Brunswick,  moves  the  one  that  is  building  now, 
up  on  the  campus  for  a  hot-dog  lunch  room,  and 
.pets  back  in  New  York  in  time  to  have  Bill  Thomp- 
son remove  a  wart  from  his  nose.  Bill,  or  I  should 
say  Dr.  Bill,  became  the  surgeon  for  the  Consol- 
idated   Marsh    system.      He    and    Freddie    built    a 


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monster  home  for  the  poor  and  disabled  members 
of  the  Class  of  '99.  Greeny  tried  to  get  into  the 
home,  but  they  wouldn't  let  him  in  because  he 
insisted  on  bringing  Willie  Mack  with  him. 
Greeny  said  that  Willie  would  be  a  mighty  handy 
man  in  the  home,  because  he  was  so  dry  that  he 
could  raise  a  thirst  among  the  fellows  any  time. 
But  Frankie  Lavertu  kicked  and  swore  he  would 
leave  if  Willie  came.  As  Frankie  was  the  only  man 
in  the  push  that  could  make  decent  cofifee,  Willie 
Mack  and  Green  had  to  go.  Edgar  Alonzo  Slim 
Kaharl  was  early  installed  as  chief  cook  in  the 
kitchen.  He  was  the  picture  of  a  fat,  contented 
monk  when  he  got  his  big  apron  on  and  a  jug  of 
Tommy  Merrill's  home-brewed  beer  beside. 
Tommy  Merrill  got  tired  of  the  cruelly  active  life 
in  Montana  and  joined  the  '99  brotherhood  just  as 
soon  as  he  received  the  invitation.  He  found  the 
life  in  the  home  just  suited  to  him.  He  dreamed 
twenty-four  hours  each  day  and  slept  the  rest. 
Denny  Stockbridge  and  Bobby  Randall  were  two 
others  who  unselfishly  left  their  chosen  occupations 
to  accept  a  place  at  the  fireside  of  the  home. 
Denny  and  Tom  and  Bobbie  were  the  three  tiredest 
inen  in  the  class  in  college,  and  they  never  entirely 
got  over  the  virtue.  It  is  consolation  to  feel  that 
we  are  all  going  to  have  a  good  home  to  go  to 
when  we  get  old,  and  what's  more,  we  are  going  to 
have  as  companions  the  best  fellows  in  the  world. 

Frankie  Dutton  handed  me  a  note  the  other  day 
and  asked  me  not  to  read  it  until  I  wrote  the 
prophecy  of  the  class.  The  following  is  an  expur- 
gated rendering  of  the  note: — "For  personal  rea- 
sons, reasons  that  I  can't  very  well  explain  because 
they  are  concerned  with  an  affair  of  the  heart,  I 
will  consider  it  a  favor  if  you  will  use  this  little 
prophecy  of  my  future  instead  of  the  true  one  that 
you  would  make  yourself:  'Frank  Leslie  Dutton  a 
few  years  after  graduation  fell  heir  to  several  mil- 
lion dollars  from  a  rich  and  noble  relative  in  the 
glorious  West.  With  this  rnagnificent  fortune  he 
was  enabled  to  bring  to  his  palpitating  heart  the 
dearest  treasure  of  his  ambition.  He  was  happily 
married  at  the  tender  age  of  twenty-six,  just  three 
3'ears  after  graduation.  He  is  now  one  of  the  solid 
men  of  North  Anson.'  "  Space  forbids  me  quot- 
ing any  more  of  the  glowing  future  that  Dut  made 
for  himself.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  he  did  not  stop 
with  the  gubernatorial  chair,  but  went  on  and  on 
until  he  became  sheriff  of  Cumberland  County. 

It  puzzled  me  for  a  long  time  to  make  out  the 
future  occupation  of  Ned  Nelson.  I  saw  him  in  the 
waiting-room  of  an  electric  car  station.  It  seems 
that  the  company  hire  him  to  sit  in  the  station  and 
wait  for  cars.  Now  that  seems  absurd,  but  it  isn't 
at  all  when  you  think  of  Ned.  He  is  never  in  a 
hurry,  in  fact  he  is  never  inoderate.  Moderation 
is  a  superlative  for  Ned's  disposition.  He  sits  in 
the  station  to  set  an  example  for  travelers  who  are 
in  a  hurry.  They  see  that  Ned  is  patient,  and  his 
moderation  persuades  them  to  wait  in  content  for 
cars,  late  or  otherwise. 

Prof.  Came  became  interested  in  the  inmates  of 
Reform  Schools  for  Girls  while  on  the  tennis  trip 
to  the  University  of  Vermont.  After  graduation  he 
took  up  the  advocacy  of  radical  reforms  in  the 
treatment  of  the  unfortunates.  Prof.'s  ready  sym- 
pathy soon  made  him  the  idol  of  every  girl  in  the 
Reform  Schools  of  this  broad  nation. 


A  little  back  from  a  prominent  street  in  Cam- 
bridge, I  see  a  small  stone  house  in  the  very  centre 
of  a  garden  of  rare  beauty.  There  seems  to  be 
every  conceivable  sort  of  plant  known  to  botany 
here.  The  house  has  such  a  calm  appearance  of 
sobriety  and  comfort  that  I  must  needs  look  farther. 
I  see  a  modest  gentleman  with  pruning  shears  and 
watering-pot  in  hand  giving  touches  of  love  to  a 
bed  of  orchids.  A  couple  of  dirty  kids  look  over 
the  fence  at  him.  He  smiles  and  greets  them  as  he 
would  greet  a  king.  His  shears  hurriedly  cut  a 
bunch  of  gay  poppies  and  pansies,  which  he  throws 
to  the  boys.  Here  it  is  that  the  much-beloved  pro- 
fessor of  botany  lives.  He  is  the  author  of  several 
very  popular  books  upon  wild-flowers  and  forest 
vegetation.  His  sweetness  of  disposition  and  gen- 
tleness of  manner,  and  withal  bashful  modesty, 
made  him  the  most  popular  man  in  all  the  class  to 
lead  it  in  scholarship.  I  need  not  mention  his 
name. 

Cony  Sturgis  will  go  South  for  his  health  soon 
after  graduation.  His  acquaintance  with  the  habits 
and  customs  of  Southerners,  acquired  during  his 
sojourn  this  spring,  will  have  much  to  do  with  his 
future.  Cony  will  of  course  marry,  though  for  my 
part  I  think  he  would  make  a  delightful  old  bach- 
elor. Of  course,  too,  his  father-in-law  will  be  a 
rich  old  colonel  with  a  big  plantation.  Naturally 
the  colonel  dies  and  the  Covmt  falls  heir  to  the  broad 
acres  and  title.  Cony's  sporting  instincts  direct  him 
to  raising  fighting  cocks.  His  plantation  will  be 
the  Mecca  of  cock  fighters.  Well,  I  won't  tell  any 
more  about  Cony's  future,  because  he's  got  a  lot 
of  girls  here  who  will  object  to  his  going  down 
South  and  so  forth. 

R.  G.  Smith  and  Roy  Thomas  are  going  down 
to  some  cannibal  island  or  other  to  convert  the 
natives.  One  of  them  will  be  eaten  and  will  dis- 
agree with  the  chiefs,  thereby  bringing  on  indiges- 
tion, and  the  other  one  will  escape  and  marry  the 
chief's  daughter.  I  can't  make  out  which  one  will 
be  eaten.  Either  one  of  them  would  be  likely  to 
disagree  with  the  digestion. 

Bill  Veazie  had  an  engagement  with  the  Prince 
in  dear  old  London,  and  so  could  not  stay  over  for 
his  own  Commencement.  He  will  get  a  job  over 
there  as  official  "fusser"  to  some  princess  or  other. 

Hank  Webster  will  find  a  chance  to  use  his  great 
physical  strength  as  a  bouncer  in  a  bar-room  on 
the  Bowery.  Hank  was  always  a  true  blood  sport 
looking  for  local  color.     He'll  get  it  all  right. 

Monk  Hills  after  graduating  from  the  medical 
school  went  South  to  his  native  haunts  and  tried 
to  make  a  success  of  a  discovery  which  he  thought 
would  change  niggers  from  black  to  white.  But 
worse  luck.  Monk  fell  in  love  with  a  dusky  damsel 
lust  as  he  was  perfecting  his  discovery  and  swore 
that  he  wouldn't  have  her  another  color  than  ebony 
for  the  world.  This  class  seems  to  have  a  bad 
habit  of  getting  married. 

Lucien  Libby,  now,  is  going  to  make  his  mark 
in  music.  You  will  all  re-echo  my  prophecy  when 
you  hear  the  Bowdoin  Waltzes  at  the  Promenade 
to-night. 

Philly  Haskell  and  Win  Smith,  who  were  always 
such  good  friends  in  college,  will  become  even 
better  friends  in  the  bigger  world.  I  am  sorry  to. 
say  that  they  are  going  to  engage  in  pirating  and 
will  come  to  the  bad  end  of  a  rope.     I  can  see  them 


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captured  by  a  United  States  warship  under  the 
command  of  Wag  Fairfield,  who  left  'gp  to  enter 
the  Naval  Academy  a  year  ago.  There  is  but  one 
sentence.  They  must  swing.  Philly  says:  "Well, 
Win,  we've  always  hung  together,  and  I  guess  we'll 
have  to  hang  together  to-day." 

Buck  Woodbury  and  Johnny  Rogers,  with  the 
assistance  of  Awful  Sober  Varney,  came  near  mak- 
ing themselves  very  famous  by  some  experiments 
in  extracting  gold  from  ashes  and  sawdust.  They 
came  so  near  that  if  they  could  but  have  found  the 
gold,  Johnny  would  have  sold  his  old  ulster. 

An  awfully  peculiar  thing  is  going  to  happen  to 
Drew  Bertie.  His  sense  of  personal  ownership  of 
all  virtues  and  wisdom  is  to  increase  at  a  marvelous 
pace.  In  fact  his  head  is  going  to  swell  to  such  an 
extent  that  some  fine  day  the  law  of  gravitation  and 
all  that  sort  of  thing  which  I  never  understood,  is 
going  "  ker-smash,"  and  ovir  own  Drew,  the  man 
who  never  cut  a  recitation  and  who  had  particular 
smiles  for  particular  professors  and  grades  of  recog- 
nition for  his  inferiors,  us  of  the  lower  world — yea. 
verily  I  say  unto  you.  Bertie's  head,  inflated  with 
gas,  will  take  him  up  from  this  foul  world  in  the 
glorious  realms  of  the  clouds,  where  his  true  worth 
will  be  more  appreciated. 

Gov.  Cleaves  tried  to  be  a  dentist,  but  he  filled 
some  one's  tooth  with  putty  and  lost  his  reputa- 
tion. Then  he  came  down  to  Brunswick  and 
bought  out  Mike  Madden's  position  in  the  hearts 
of  Freshmen.  Gov.  is  the  longest  graduating  grad- 
uate in  the  class.  He  began  a  year  before  the  rest 
of  us  did  and  thus  tried  to  take  advantage  of  us. 
But  we  forgave  him  that,  on  his  second  recitation 
to  Buck.  His  gain  was  not  large  enough  to  be 
reckoned. 

It  is  funny  that  the  last  three  men  in  the  class, 
Freddie  Albee,  Churchill,  and  Hadlock  should  have 
met  the  same  fate.  Their  future  is  perfectly  clear. 
They  started  for  Freddie  Marsh's  home  for  inval- 
ided and  tired  members  of  '99  just  as  soon  as  they 
got  their  invitation.  Preston  dropped  the  hoe 
right  in  the  middle  of  the  potato  patch  and  didn't 
stop  running  till  he  was  aboard  the  train.  But  the 
train  was  wrecked  and  the  smoke  stack  of  the 
engine  struck  all  of  them.  It  entered  the  inner 
parallelogram  of  their  diaphragmatic  thorax,  super- 
inducing membranous  hemorrhages  in  the  outer 
cuticle  of  their  basilicontha-maturgist.  I'll  bet 
Pink  is  proud  of  me.  But  hold,  did  I  say  the  last 
man  had  been  examined?     Let  me  think! 

Ah.  what  is  this  I  see  coming  slowly  down  the 
lane?  I  am  in  the  country.  There's  a  neat  little 
cottage  at  the  head  of  the  path,  all  covered  with 
woodbine  and  surrounded  with  honeysuckle  and 
hollyhocks.  There's  a  trim  little  man  with  a  sweet 
little  girl  tripping  along  beside  him.  A  straw  hat 
three  sizes  too  large  comes  down  over  his  ears  and 
almost  obscures  the  innocent  child-like  eyes  behind 
a  big  pair  of  spectacles.  Look,  he  stubs  his  toe 
and  drops  the  basket  of  eggs  under  his  arm  and. 
ves,  sir,  his  glasses  fall  off  and  break  on  a  rock. 
Now  can  you  guess  who  it  is?  Can't  guess,  well 
let  me  tell  you  that  he  has  got  a  clothes-pin  on  his 
ear  and  piece  of  red  yarn  tied  round  his  thumb,  a 
big  placard  round  his  neck  warning  him  not  to 
forget  "the  Castoria  for  baby  Hal  or  the  shoes  for 
Johnny  or  the  tobacco  for  Tuber,  the  hired  man,  or 
the  elastic  for  Alice's  hat."     He  stops  in  the  road. 

I 


looks  down  to  the  ground  at  his  glasses  and  the 
little  girl  puts  her  jingers  in  her  ears.  "Just  my 
luck.  I  always  have  the  worst  luck.  There  the  old 
brindle  cow  had  to  step  in  the  milk  this  morning, 
and  the  brown  hen  killed  two  chickens,  and  Lib 
kissed  the  hired  girl,  and  that  Gol-hanged  editor 
wouldn't  accept  my  poem  on  "  Love  in  a  Cottage,  or 
Watch  the  Grass  Grow  and  Grow  Fat  Yourself," 
and  now  I've  busted  my  glasses.  And  the  lovey- 
dove  will  have  a  fit.  What  you  laughing  at,  you 
blamed  ass!"  Well,  I  got  old  Dana  together,  and 
as  he  couldn't  remember  whether  the  store  was 
locked  or  he  hadn't  been  there  at  all,  we  went  back 
to  the  cottage,  where  I  enjoyed  the  hospitality  of 
the  rural  poet  of  our  class.  The  only  thing  that 
he  had  to  complain  of  was  that  his  hired  man 
Tuber  Libby,  kept  the  hired  girl  in  a  constant  frenzy 
and  made  her  absolutely  worthless  in  the  kitchen. 
But  there  is  one  thing,  Yick  said,  that  he  couldn't 
get  rid  of  her  after  she  had  once  looked  into  Tuber's 
eyes.  I  left  Tuber  and  Yick  arguing  as  to  whether 
champagne  would  make  hens  lay.  The  babbling 
brook  in  front  of  the  cottage  babbled  on,  and  so 
did  they. 

Friends,  my  classmates  may  never  be  great  men. 
Most  of  us  will  be  content  with  the  little  task  that 
we  can  do  best.  They  are  all  manly  men.  and  I 
am  glad  that  it  has  been  my  fortune  to  know  them. 

I  beg  your  indulgence  for  so  tiresome  a  season 
of  foolishness. 


PARTING  ADDRESS. 
By  Fred  Raymond  Marsh. 
Mr.  President,  Fellow-Classmates,  and    Friends  of  the 
College : 

The  tradition  of  holding  closing  exercises  on 
Class  Day  is  one  hallowed  with  the  tenderest  mem- 
ories that  gather  about  our  college.  For  many 
years  it  has  been  the  custom  of  the  Seniors  to 
gather  beneath  the  Thorndike  oak  on  this  occasion, 
hold  some  simple  exercises,  and  then  bid  their  last 
farewell  to  their  Alma  Mater.  The  history  of  the 
Thorndike  oak,  so  closely  associated  with  the 
Seniors'  Class  Day  and  graduation,  is  only  a  brief 
one.     Let  me  tell  it  to  you  before  we  go. 

The  first  chapel  ever  held  on  the  campus  was  in 
a  room  of  Massachusetts  Hall.  At  the  close  of  the 
service,  the  youngest  of  the  students,  George  Thorn- 
dike by  name,  half  in  jest  and  half  in  earnest,  planted 
an  acorn  by  the  doorstep.  The  acorn  grew  to  be  a 
shrub,  and  the  next  year  he  carefully  transplanted 
it  to  a  spot  where  the  Thorndike  oak  now  stands. 
Thus  started  as  it  was  by  the  one  first  to  die  of 
Bowdoin's  graduates,  this  tree  remains  a  fitting 
guardian  of  his  memory  and  the  long  history  of  our 
college.  From  that  time  to  this  the  Thorndike  oak 
has  grown  old  "with  Bowdoin.  and  is  the  landmark 
dearest  to  the  heart  of  every  alumnus.  The  campus 
has  changed,  new  buildings  have  been  built,  pro- 
fessors one  by  one  have  dropped  away,  students 
have  come  and  gone,  but  the  grand  old  tree  has 
remained  the  same. 

In  the  autumn  its  leaves  of  silver  and  gold  have 
waved  a  welcome  to  us  as  we  returned  from  our 
summer's  rest.  In  winter  its  limbs,  bright  and  glis- 
tening with  tljfiir  icy  coat,  have  looked  down  upon 


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us  as  we  hurried  to  our  rooms.  And  now  to-day 
still  green  hi  its  old  age,  scarred  and  beaten  by  the 
storms  ol  a  century,  it  bids  us  God-speed  as  we  lin- 
ger for  our  parting. 

Ihese  trees  and  winding  paths  and  grey  old 
buildings  mean  more  to  us  than  trees  and  paths  and 
recitation  rooms.  They  have  been  intimately  asso- 
ciated wth  our  lives;  they  are  a  part  of  ourselves. 
Each  path  recalls  to  us  some  memory  of  days  gone 
by.  Each  tree  whispers  as  we  pass  of  times  that  are 
no  more.  Those  cold  stone  buildings  are  alive  with 
recollections  of  the  past.  Old  Bowdoin  is  not  a 
group  of  buildings  on  a  beautiful  campus;  it  is  the 
living  reality  of  the  four  years  of  our  college  course. 
As  we  sit  here  now,  about  to  say  our  farewell  to 
scenes  that  have  become  so  dear,  the  best  and  old- 
est of  us  are  boys.  And  yet  on  this  campus  and  in 
these  halls  we  have  received  that  training  which 
will  mould  and  shape  our  future  lives.  College, 
after  all,  is  but  a  miniature  of  the  great  world  about 
us.  Secluded  here  from  its  worry  and  its  cares,  we 
have  had  our  sorrows  and  our  joys,  our  defeats  and 
our  victories,  our  loves  and  our  hates.  Through 
all  its  mazes  we  have  thought  only  of  each  day  as 
it  came  and  went,  with  no  thought  that  some  time 
the  last  would  come. 

Fellow-classmates,  the  last  has  come.  Our 
course  is  run.  We  must  leave  behind  our  friends, 
our  studies,  and  our  college,  and  with  stern,  set 
faces,  turn  to  the  greater  world  outside.  Already  it 
has  called  to  some  of  us  to  go.  In  a  few  days  we 
who  now  are  gathered  here  a  united  class,  will  be 
scattered  to  every  quarter  of  the  globe.  For  us 
there  will  be  no  lessons  to  learn  from  the  dry  text- 
books. The  chapel  bell  when  it  rings  again  its 
summons  from  those  old  towers,  will  no  longer  call 
for  us  to  meet  in  its  forms.  Our  college  days  are 
ended,  and  whether  for  weal  or  woe.  life  in  all  its 
reality  lies  before  us. 

As  we  go,  I  would  not  call  to  mind  the  happy, 
happy  days  we  have  had  together  here.  I  would 
not  remember  the  rooms  where  we  have  lived  and 
spent  so  many  hours  in  our  hopes  and  aspirations 
for  the  future.  I  would  forget  for  a  moment  the 
friendships  we  have  formed  with  those  whose  suc- 
cess is  our  own.  These  thoughts  belong  to  us  as 
individuals,  but  there  is  one  name  which  unites  them 
all  and  as  a  class  holds  us  in  one  kindred  love. 
That  name  which  includes  all,  our  happy  days,  our 
different  plans,  scenes  that  are  dear  to  every  heart, 
friends  that  have  become  a  part  of  ourselves,  asso- 
ciations which  will  mold  and  fashion  us  for  good 
or  evil,  through  all  the  years  to  come:  let  that  name 
be  our  last,  "  Old  Bowdoin.  our  dear  Alma  Mater." 


Smoking  the  Pipe  of  Peace; 
After  these  exercises  the  class  gathered 
about  in  a  circle  upon  the  grass  and  smoked 
the  traditional  pipe  of  peace,  amid  much 
pleasantry  and  sport,  after  which  the  ode  by 
Hanson  H.  Webster  was  sung  and  the  Halls 
were  cheered. 

Class  Ode. 
Air — "  Juanita." 
Sweet  day  is  dying 

While  we,  parting,  sing  our  praise 
To  noblest  Bowdoin, 


And  youth's  cherished  ways. 
Though   they're   gone   forever 

College  joys  we'll  love  to  tell. 
Though  we'll  aye  remember 

Dearest  haunts,  farewell! 

Bless  us,  Alma  Mater, 

As  we  fondly  linger  here; 
Bless  us,  grand  old  Bowdoin, 

To  all  mem'ry  dear. 

Whate'er  await  us. 

In  the  larger  life  so  near, 
Bowdoin  shall  lead  us — 

And  hope  conquer  fear. 
May  the  days,  now  future. 

Full  of  courage,  virtue  crowned. 
Win  for  Alma  Mater 

Honor's  best  renown. 

Guide  us,  Alma  Mater, 

Though  we  leave  thy  sheltering  care; 
Guide  us,  grand  old  Bowdoin, 

Now  and  everywhere. 

Senior  Promenade. 
The  best  of  all  hops  from  the  standpoint 
of  a  class  is  its  last  own  promenade.  '99'  is 
to  be  congratulated  upon  the  beauty  of  its 
orders  and  the  smoothness  of  its  management, 
and  with  such  music  as  Salem  Cadet  Orches- 
tra can  furnish,  and  the  splendid  condition  of 
the  floor,  this  Senior  Promenade  was  most 
perfect  and  ideal. 

The  Dances. 

Waltz — Campus  Dreams    Blake 

i  wo-Step — 1  he   Thoroughbred Pharback 

Waltz — ihe    Serenade    Herbert 

Jr'ortiand  1-ancy— in  the  Good  Old  Style Tracy 

Waltz — The  Telephone   Girl   Kerker 

i  wo-btep — The   Charlatan    Sousa 

Waltz — Jvaiser   Imperial    Strauss 

iwo-Step — Semper    Fidelis    Sousa 

Waltz — aabbie    Furst 

Two-Step — Maine   Capitol    Chase 

INTERMISSION   AND    SUPPER. 

Waltz — Song  of  Love    Lisa 

Two-Step— VVhistling  Rufus    Mills 

Waltz — Kspana    Waldteufel 

'i'wo-Step — Spirit  of  Liberty  Rosey 

Waltz — New    Paris    Wohanka 

Schottische — In  Ecstacy   Christy 

Two-Step — The   Old   Guard    Goldsmith 

Waltz — Bowdoin    Libby 

Two-Step — Stars  and   Stripes   Sousa 

Waltz — looi    Nights    Strauss 

The  patronesses  were  Mrs.  Hyde,  Mrs. 
Alfred  Mitchell,  Mrs.  Lee,  Mrs.  Robinson, 
Mrs.  Ploughton,  Mrs.  Johnson,  Mrs.  Wood- 
ruff, Mrs.  Little,  Mrs.  Moody,  Mrs.  Hutchins, 
Mrs.  Whittier,  Mrs.  Files,  Mrs.  MacDonald. 
Mrs.  W.  B.  Mitchell. 

The  committee  upon  whose  shoulders 
rested    the    responsibility    of    both    day     and 


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evening  were  Willis  Bean  Moulton,  Francis 
Wayland  Briggs,  Wallace  Humphrey  White, 
Jr. 

MEDICAL  SCHOOL  GRADUATION. 
The  graduating  exercises  of  the  Class  of 
99  of  the  Medical  School  of  Maine,  took 
place  at  Memorial  Hall,  Wednesday  fore- 
noon, June  2ist.  The  Address,  delivered  by 
Hon.  Andrew  Peters  Wiswell,  held  the  audi- 
ence's attention  from  start  to  finish,  and  the 
fashionable  audience  present  were  delighted 
with  his  practical  remarks  and  literary  acu- 
men. The  Salem  Cadet  Band  furnished 
excellent  music.  The  programme  was  as 
follows : 

Music. 

Class  March. 

Music. 

Address  by  Hon.   A.    P.   Wiswell. 

Music 

Presentation  of  Diplomas. 

Music 

Class  March. 

The  class  officers  are : 

President — Horatio  Smith  Card,  A.M. 

Vice-Presidents — George  Eaton  Simpson, 
A.B.,  Fitz  Elmer  Small,  Oscar  Edwin  Hans- 
com,  A.B. 

Secretar)^ — Howard  Augustus  Milliken. 

Treasurer — Charles  Henry  Leach. 

Marshal- -Ralph  Dumphrey  Simons. 

Committee — Gardiner  Luther  Sturdivant, 
Walter  Eaton  Tobie,  Henry  Willis  Hurd, 
Ara  Brooks  Libby,  A.B.,  Freeman  Elisha 
Ijcnnett. 

The  five  following  men  stood  at  the  head 
of  their  class  in  the  order  given,  the  last  two 
being  tied,  and  were  honored  by  special  men- 
tion after  the  exercises : 

Walter  Eaton  Tobie. 

Plenry  Brown  Hart. 

Norman  John  Gehring. 

Freeman  Elisha  Bennett. 

Daniel  Webster  Wentworth. 


COMMENCEMENT   WEEK. 
Wednesday  Afternoon. 
The    Maine    Historical    Society    held    its 
annual   meeting  this   afternoon.     It   was   un- 
usually   well    attended,    and    regular    annual 
business  was  transacted. 

The  president,  Hon.  James  P.  Baxter,  pre- 
sided. The  business  consisted  of  the  election 
of  officers  and  new  members  and  was  soon 


transacted.  The  society  elected  as  resident 
members  the  'following  gentlemen  :  William 
W.  Brown  of  Portland,  Alfred  Cole  of  Buck- 
field,  George  S.  Hobbs  of  Portland,  Weston 
Lewis  of  Gardiner,  Josiah  S.  Maxcy  of  Gar- 
diner, Willis  1-5.  Moulton  of  Portland,  Edward 
C.  Reynolds  of  South  Portland,  Everett  S. 
Stackpole  of  Augusta,  Albert  R.  Stubbs  of 
Portland,  Robert  H.  Gardiner  of  Gardiner, 
William  H.  Stevens  of  Portland. 

The  following  were  chosen  corresponding 
members :  Col.  John  P.  Nicholson  of  Phil- 
adelphia, Victor  H.  Paltsits  of  New  York, 
James  E.  Seaver  of  Taunton,  and  John  H. 
Sliness  of  Providence. 

The  librarian,  H.  W.  Bryant,  reported  that 
a  number  of  valuable  additions  had  been  made 
to  the  library  during  the  year  and  that  the 
collection  now  numbered  io,ooo  volumes  and 
about  25,000  pamphlets. 

From  the  report  of  the  treasurer  we  learn 
that  the  funds  of  the  society  amount  to 
$13,500  which  is  invested,  and  there  is  a  gen- 
erous balance  in  the  treasury. 

The  society  voted  to  suspend  after  the 
completion  of  the  present  volume,  the  loth, 
the  collections  of  the  society,  and  commence 
the  publication  of  the  Farnham  documents, 
being  papers  and  documents  relating  to  the 
early  history  of  the  State. 

After  much  discussion  it  was  voted  to 
authorize  the  standing  committee  to  report 
at  the  next  annual  meeting  an  amendment  to 
the  by-laws,  providing  for  an  annual  assess- 
ment of  the  members  and  a  fee  for  life  mem- 
bership. 

The  question  of  the  time  and  place  of  the 
yearly  field  day  was  left  with  a  special  com- 
mittee, of  whom  Rev.  Dr.  Burrage  of  Port- 
land is  chairman. 

The  society  re-elected  the  old  board  of 
officers,  who  are :  President,  James  P.  Bax- 
ter ;  Vice-President,  Rufus  K.  Sewall ;  Corre- 
sponding Secretary  and  Biographer,  Joseph 
Williamson  :  Treasurer,  Fritz  H.  Jordan  ;  Re- 
cording Secretary,  Librarian  and  Curator,  H. 
W.  Bryant ;  Standing  Committee,  Rev.  Henry 
S.  Burrage  of  Portland,  Prof.  Henry  L.  Chap- 
man of  Brunswick,  Gen.  John  Marshall 
Brown  of  Falmouth,  Hon.  Edward  P.  Burn- 
ham  of  Saco,  Hon.  Samuel  C.  Belcher  of 
Farmington,  Capt.  Charles  E.  Nash  of  Au- 
gusta, Col.  John  M.  Glidden  of  Newcastle. 

The  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fraternity  initiated 
into  its  honored  and  scholarly  brotherhood 
the  members  eligible  from  '99  and  the  five  at 


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the  head  of  1900.  Those  from  '99  were 
Briggs,  Chamberlain,  Dana,  Hadlock,  Hall, 
Hayden,  Kaharl,  Marsh,  Moulton,  Nason, 
Pattee,  Topliff,  Varney,  Webster,  and  Wood- 
bury; and  from  1900  were  Bragdon,  Harris, 
Pearson,  Stackpole,  West,  and  Whitney. 

The  annual  reunion  of  the  Kappa  Beta 
Phi  was  held  at  high  noon  upon  the  roof 
of  the  gymnasium,  and  fourteen  from  '99  were 
admitted  and  appointed  to  the  following 
offices : 


Adams. 

Cleaves,   R.   S. 

Clarke. 

Godfrey. 

Hills. 

Lancey. 

Libby,   W.  T. 

Marston. 

Randall, 

Smith,   R.    G. 

Stockbridge. 

Thomas. 

Towle. 

White. 


Socialogicus. 

Mathematicus. 

Brassicus. 

Governmenticus. 

Biologicus. 

Hygenicus. 

Logicus,  primus. 

Latinicus. 

Mineralogicus. 

Themicus. 

Logicus,  secundus. 

Philosophicus. 

Ethicus. 

Literaturicus. 


1900  also  had  the  following  men  chosen : 
Bacon,  Chapman,  Edwards,  Gould,  and  Pot- 
tle. 

The  President's  reception  was  held  during 
the  early  part  of  the  evening,  at  which  the 
President  and  Mrs.  Hyde,  together  with  the 
P^aculty  and  their  wives  and  invited  guests, 
passed  a  pleasant  social  evening  with  the 
graduating  class  in  their  midst. 

The  fraternity  reunions  ended  the  day  and 
in  most  cases  heralded  another.  These  re- 
unions are  always  well  attended,  and  the 
pleasure  derived  from  meeting  old  and  young 
brothers  can  not  be  adequately  expressed  in 
cold  black  and  white. 

Thursday. 

The  94th  Commencement  Day,  and  it 
marks  the  formal  entrance  of  the  Class  of 
'99  into  the  world  outside  of  the  campus  of 
their  Ahna  Mater. 

The  early  morning  was  devoted  to  social 
chats  about  the  campus,  obtaining  tickets  for 
the  alumni  dinner,  and  the  alumni  business 
meeting. 

At  a  little  past  to  o'clock,  the  procession 
to  the  Congregational  church,  where  the 
graduating  exercises  were  held,  was  formed 
by  Marshal  Oilman.  In  this  the  classes  were 
formed  in  order  of  graduation.  The  Salem 
Cadet  Band  headed  the  line.  The  following 
was  the  order  of  the  graduating  exercises  : 


Music. 
Prayer. 
Music. 
The  Church  and  tlic  Social  Problem, 

Byron   Strickland   Philoon. 
The  Utilitarian  Tendency  in  College  Education. 

Willis   Bean   Moulton. 
The  Influence  of  Poetry  on  National  Character. 

Arthur  Huntington  Nason. 
Music. 
The  Social  Aspect  of  the  Saloon  Problem. 

Drew  Bert  Hall. 

The  College  Man.  Harold  Fessenden  Dana. 

In   Darkest  America.  Fred  Raymond   Marsh. 

Music. 

Conferring  of  Degrees. 

Pr.\yer. 

Benediction. 

Those  who  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts  are  : 

Winburn  Bowdoin  Adams,  Limerick;  Fred 
Houdlett  Albee,  Head  Tide;  Francis  Wayland 
Briggs,  Pittsfield:  Walter  Littlefield  Came,  Alfred; 
Edward  Blanchard  Chamberlain.  Bristol;  Preston 
Banks  Churchill,  Winthrop,  Mass.;  Walter  Brad- 
ley Clarke,  Damariscotta;  Lincoln  Lewis  Cleaves, 
Bridgton;  Royal  Senter  Cleaves,  Bridgton;  Harold 
Fessenden  Dana,  Portland;  Frank  Leslie  Dutton, 
North  Anson;  Frederick  Arthur  Fogg,  Saco;  Ed- 
ward Rawson  Godfrey,  Bangor;  Ralph  Milo  Green- 
law, Gorham,  N.  H.;  Edwin  Samuel  Hadlock, 
Portland;  Drew  Bert  Hall.  Brunswick;  Philip 
Choate  Haskell,  Westbrook;  Alton  Amaziah  Hay- 
den, Presque  Isle;  Louis  Luville  Hills,  Welch,  La.; 
Loten  Drew  Jennings,  North  Wayne;  Edgar 
Alonzo  Kaharl,  Fryeburg;  Walter  Stimpson  Mundy 
Kelley,  Portland;  Henry  Warren  Lancey,  Pittsfield; 
Francis  Lewis  Lavertu,  Berlin,  N.  H.;  Leon 
Brooks  Leavitt,  Wilton;  Lucien  Percy  Libby,  West- 
brook;  Willard  True  Libby,  Auburn;  Fred  Ray- 
mond Marsh,  Eustis,  Fla. ;  Henry  Edward  Mars- 
ton.  North  Anson;  Roy  Leon  Marston.  Skowhe- 
gan;  Waldo  Thomas  Merrill,  Waterville;  Willis 
Bean  Moulton.  Portland;  Arthur  Huntington 
Nason,  Augusta;  Harry  Benton  Neagle,  Lubec; 
Edwin  Warren  Nelson,  Calais;  Sumner  Chad- 
bourne  Pattee,  Belfast;  Charles  Cross  Phillips, 
South  Brewer;  Byron  Strickland  Philoon,  Auburn; 
Sumner  Charles  Poore.  South  Bridgton;  Chase 
Pulsifer,  Auburn;  Robert  Earle  Randall,  Freeport; 
John  Conway  Rogers,  Jr.,  Pembroke;  Albert 
Moore  Rollins.  Calais;  Joseph  Dawson  Sinkinson, 
Portland;  Ralph  Gardiner  Smith,  Brewer;  Win- 
ford  Henry  Smith,  Westbrook;  William  Dennett 
Stockbridge,  Freeport;  Cony  Sturgis,  Augusta; 
Roy  Houghton  Thomas.  Yarmouthville;  William 
Lawton  Thompson,  Portland;  Samuel  Topliff, 
Evanston.  111.;  Clifton  Augustus  Towle,  Winthrop; 
Everett  Wilmot  Varney,  Fort  Fairfield;  William 
Townshend  Vea^ie,  Bangor;  Hanson  Hart  Web- 
ster, Portland:  Wallace  Humphrey  White.  Jr.,  Lew- 
iston;  Jacob  Ernest  Wignott,  Natick,  Mass.;  Carl 
Vose  Woodbury.  Woodfords. 

The  following  honorary  degrees  were 
conferred:  D.D.,  upon  Rev.  Henry  King, 
'59,    Rev.   George   C.   Cressey,    '75 ;    LL.D., 


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upon  Mr.  Henry  Gannet,  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
A.M.,  upon  Mr.  Joseph  P.  Thompson. 

The  Goodwin  Commencement  prize  was 
awarded  to  Arthur  Huntington  Nason  of 
Augusta,  Me. 

Other  prizes  announced  were :  The 
Brown  extemporaneous  to  Cleaves,  L.,  '99, 
and  Neagle,  "99 ;  the  Pray  Enghsh  to  Marsh, 
"99 ;  Enghsh  composition  to  Briggs,  '99,  Ka- 
harl,  '99,  and  Thompson,  '99,  Chamberlain, 
'99 ;  Mathematics  to  A^ose,  1901  ;  Latin  to 
Sills,  1901,  and  Greek  to  Sills,  1901. 

Immediately  after  these  exercises  the  pro- 
cession marched  to  the  Sargent  Gymnasium, 
where  tables  were  loaded  with  good  thmgs 
for  the  Alumni,  Faculty,  and  a  very  few  in- 
vited gTiests. 

Early  Classes — Josiah  Crosby,  '35,  of  Dexter; 
George  M.  Adams,  '44,  of  Newton,  Mass.;  George 
F.  Emery,  '36,  Portland:  S.  F.  Humphrey,  "48, 
Bangor;  W.  L.  Jones,  '49,  Pomona,  Cal. ;  George 
O.  Robinson,  '49,  Cambridge,  Mass.;  S.  P.  Breck, 
'50,  West  Woolwich;  J.  E.  Adams,  "53,  Bangor; 
Joseph  Williamson,  '49,  Belfast. 

1854 — Franklin  A.  Wilson  of  Bangor,  John  G. 
Stetson  of  Boston,  Henry  Hyde  Smith  of  Boston, 
John  A.  Douglass  of  Amesbury,  Mass.,  Ambrose 
Eastman  of  Boston,  D.  A.  Linscott  of  Boston,  C. 
Greeley  of  Chicago. 

1856 — E.  B.   Palmer  of  Winchester,  Mass. 

1857— Charles  W.  Pickard  of  Portland,  C.  L. 
Nickols  of  Phippsburg. 

1858 — F.  M.  Drew  of  Lewiston. 

1859 — Horatio  O.  Ladd  of  Jamaica,  N.  Y., 
Henry  M.  King  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  C.  F. 
Bracket!  of  Princeton,  N.  J. 

i860 — H.  C.  Robinson  of  Newcastle,  S.  M.  Came 
of  Alfred,  Horace  N.  Burbank  of  Saco.  A.  F.  Buck- 
nam  of  Warren,  111. 

1861 — L.  A.  Emery  of  Ellsworth,  Edw.  Stanwood 
of  Brookline.  Mass.,  Charles  O.  Hunt  of  Portland, 
Loring  Farr  of  Manchester. 

1862— Albion  Burbank  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

1863 — Thomas  M.   Given  of  Topsham. 

1865 — Charles  Fish  of  Brunswick. 

i866~F.  H,  Gerrish  of  Portland,  Henry  L. 
Chapman  of  Bowdoin,  Charles  K.  Hinkley  of  Gor- 
ham. 

1867— W.  S.  Hutchinson  of  Boston,  J.  N.  Mac- 
Donald  of  Stoneham,  Mass.,  I.  S.  Curtis  of  Bruns- 
wick, Stanley  Plummer  of  Dexter,  George  P.  Dav- 
enport of  Bath. 

1868— Charles  A.  Ring  of  Portland,  Charles  G. 
Holyoke  of  Edgecomb,  John  A.  Hinckley  of  Gor- 
ham. 

1869— F.  H.  Eaton  of  Portland,  Hiram  Tuell  of 
Milton,  Mass.,  Norman  Call  of  Boston,  C.  A. 
Stephens  of  Boston,  J.  C.  Coombs  of  Boston, 
George  W.  Hale  of  Nashville,  Edward  P.  Payson 
of  Boston,  Henry  B.  Quinby  of  Lakeport,  N.  Y., 
D,  H.  Knowlton  of  Farmington,  A.  Woodside  of 
Rockland. 

1871 — Everett  S.  Stackpole  of  Augusta.  J.  F. 
Cheney  of  Topsham. 

1872 — Herbert  Harris  of  East  Machias. 


1873— A.  F.  Moulton  of  Portland,  A.  E.  Her- 
rick  ot   Bethel,  A.   P.   Wiswell   of  Ellsworth. 

1S74— Ernest  S.  Hobbs  of  Aurora,  111.,  H.  H. 
Emery  of  Portland,  W.  M,  Payson  of  Boston,  E. 
N.  Merrill  of  Skowhegan,  Don  A.  H.  Powers  of 
Houlton,  L..  H.  Kimball,  Charles  J.  Palmer  of 
Lanesboro,  Mass. 

1875— A.  M.  Card  of  Head  of  Tide,  Me.,  S.  C. 
Whitimore  of  Brunswick, 

1876 — Oliver  C.  Stevens  of  Boston,  E.  H.  Kim- 
ball of  Bath,  A.  T.  Parker,  C.  T,  Hawes  of  Ban- 
gor, Alpheus  Sanford  of  Boston,  Tascus  Atwood 
of  -Auburn. 

1877 — George  L.  Thompson  of  Brunswick, 
Edgar  M.  Cousins  of  Biddeford,  H.  V.  Stackpole 
of  Brunswick,  Charles  E.  Cobb  of  .\uburn,  D.  D. 
Gilman  of  Brunswick. 

1878 — George  L.  Purinton  of  Farmington,  S.  E. 
Smith  of  Thomaston. 

1879— Frank  Kimball  of  Norway,  H.  B.  Fifield 
of  Conway,  N.  H._,  J.  P.  Huston  of  Newcastle,  G. 
W.  Bourne  of  Kennebunk,  O.  C.  S.  Davies  of 
Augusta,  Charles  F.  Johnson  of  Waterville,  S.  S. 
Stearns  of  Norway,  H.  D.  Bowker  of  Milford, 
Mass..  A.  L.  Lumbert  of  Boston,  Walter  G.  Davis 
of  Portland,  H.  A.  Huston  of  Lafayette,  Ind. 

1880— Walter  P.  Perkins  of  Cornish,  A.  H. 
Holmes  of  Brunswick. 

1881 — Edgar  O.  Achorn  of  Boston,  William 
King  of  Brunswick.  Charles  H.  Cutter  of  Bangor, 
F.  H.  Little  of  Portland. 

1882— Arthur  F.  Belcher  of  Portland,  M.  S.  Hol- 
way  of  Augusta,  W.  A.  Moody  of  Brunswick,  F. 
H.  Blondel  of  Topsham. 

1883— H.  E.  Cole  and  C.  A.  Corliss  of  Bath,  S. 
T.  B.  Jackson  of  Portland. 

1884— F.  P.  Knight  of  South  Portland,  J.  A. 
Waterman  of  Gorham,  Charles  C.  Torrey  of  An- 
dover,  Mass.,  Donald  C.  Clark  of  Boston. 

1885— F.  N.  Whittier  of  Brunswick,  E.  W.  Free- 
man of  Portland,  Eugene  Thomas  of  Topsham, 
F.  W.  Alexander  of  Richmond. 
1887— M.  I..  Kimball  of  Norway. 
,888— Wm.  T.  Hall.  Jr.,  of  Bath,  Wm.  L.  Black 
of  Hamilton,  N.  J.,  A.  C.  Dresser  of  Portland,  P. 
F.  Marston  of  Lancaster,  N.  H..  H.  S.  Card  of 
Woodfords.  A.  C.  Shorey  of  Brunswick.  J.  L.  Doo- 
little  of  Brunswick. 

1889— C.  H.  Foes  of  Houlton,  O.  L.  Rideout  of 
Portland,  F.  J.  C.  Little  of  Augusta,  F.  C.  Russell 
of  Newburg,  N.  Y.,  Frank  M.  Russell  of  Boston. 
Frank  L.  Staples  of  Augusta,  O.  R.  Smith  of  Mid- 
dleboro,  Mass.,  E.  L.  .^dams.  L.  J.  Bodge,  San- 
ford L.  Fogg  of  Bath,  William  McEnery  of  Fall 
River,  Wallace  .S.  Elden  of  Waterville. 

i8on— William  T.  Dunn.  W.  B.  Mitchell,  C.  L. 
Hutchinson.  A.  C.  Smith  of  Middleboro,  Mass. 

1801 — Henry  H.  Noyes  of  New  Gloucester,  Wil- 
fiert  G.  Mallett  of  Farmington.  H.  F.  Smith  of 
Brunswick,  A.  P.  McDonald  of  Bath,  Henry  S, 
Chaoman  of  Boston,  G.  .A.  Porter  of  North  Anson, 
E.  H.  Newbesin  of  Ayer.  Mass..  P.  C.  Newbegin 
of  Patten,  C.  V.  Minott,  Jr.,  of  Phippsburg,  Ivory 
C.  Jordan  of  Charleston,  Me. 

1802— Leon  M.  Fobes  of  Pordand,  W.  O.  Hersey 
of  Frepport.  James  D.  Merriman  of  New  York 
Citv.  F.  V.  Gumraer  of  Brunswick.  C.  M.  Pennell 
of  Farmington.  A.  L.  Hersey  of  Portland.  W.  B. 
Kenniston  of  Yarmouth. 

189.3— C.    W.    Peabody   of    Portland.    Charles    C. 


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Bucknam  of  Boston,  A.  S'.  Haggett  of  Newcastle, 
H.  L,  McCann,  B.  F.  Barker  of  Bath,  G.  S.  Machan 
of  Providence.  M.  S.  Clifford  of  Bangor,  R.  R. 
Goodell   of   Orono. 

1894 — Edgar  M.  Simpson  of  Bangor,  F.  G.  Far- 
rington  of  Skowhegan,  H.  S.  Horsman  of  Prince- 
ton. F.  W.  Pickard  of  Portland,  Elias  Thomas, 
Jr.,  of  Portland,  B.  B.  VVhitcomb  of  Ellsworth, 
F.  W.  Flood  of  Andover,  Mass.,  C.  E.  Merritt  of 
,\ubnrn.  S.  P.  Buck  of  Woolwich.  Norman  McKin- 
non  of  Foxcroft,  H.  C.  Wilbur  of  Woodfords, 
Charles  A.  Flagg  of  Albany,  H.  E.  Andrews  of 
Boston,  W.  W.  Thomas  of  Portland,  E.  H.  Sykes 
of  Billerica,  Mass.,  F.  W.  Dana  of  New  York. 

1895— G.  E.  Simpson  of  Alna,  W.  F.  Haskell  of 
Westbrook,  Louis  C.  Hatch  of  Bangor,  Alfred 
Mitchell,  Jr.,  of  Togus,  A.  L.  Dennison  of  East 
Corinth,  George  C.  Webber  of  Lewiston,  William 
Ingraham  of  Portland.  Arthur  H.  Stetson  of  Bos- 
ton, H,  B.  Russ  of  Portland,  F.  W.  Blair  of  Booth- 
bay  Harbor,  R.  T.  Parker  of  Rumford  Falls,  Joseph 
B.  Roberts  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y..  H.  L.  Fairbanks  of 
Bangor,  N.  S.  A.  Kimball  of  Portland.  James  W. 
CraAvford  of  Brunswick. 

1896— T.  D.  Bailey  of  Bangor,  F.  E.  Bradbury, 
John  E.  Frost  of  Maiden,  M.  C.  Eastman  of  Port- 
land. W.  W.  Fogg,  Charles  Stone,  F.  C.  Peaks  of 
Dover.  H.  O.  Clough  of  Kennebunkport.  Howard 
Gilpatric  of  Biddeford,  Philip  Dana  of  Westbrook, 
John  E.  Burbank  of  Strong.  John  B.  Thompson.  E. 
H.  Lyford  of  Farmington,  Charles  A.  Knight  of 
Augusta.  Ralph  M.  Leighton  of  Hallowell.  Charles 
Marston  of  Skowhegan,  Preston  Kyes  of  North 
Jay.     , 

Special  Guests — George  W.  Hammond  of  Bos- 
ton, Prof.  B.  F.  Marsh  of  Eustis.  Fla.,  Rev.  A.  J. 
Conrad  of  Worcester.  Mass.,  Dr.  W.  R.  Newbold. 
dean  of  graduate  school  of  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. Judge  T.   H.   Haskell  of  Portland. 

This  host,  together  with  the  last  two 
classes,  and  the  present  graduating  class, 
numbered  over  five  hundred. 

After  the  dinner  was  served  President 
Hyde  introduced  the  post-prandial  exercises 
by  a  concise  and  interesting  speech,  mention- 
ing events  and  changes  during  the  current 
year.  He  expressed  the  pleasure  of  the  Fac- 
ulty and  students  to  see  so  many  graduates 
return  and  lay  the  tributes  of  their  success  in 
life  at  the  feet  of  their  Alma  Mater.  He  be- 
lieved also  that  it  was  pleasant  for  them  to 
renew  their  acquaintance  with  the  ideals  of 
their  youth  and  see  how  far  they  had  lived  up 
to  them.  This  year  had  been  a  glorious  year 
so  far  as  the  athletic  sports  of  the  college 
have  been  concerned.  This  year  the  efforts 
of  six  years  had  been  crowned  by  the  success 
of  first  place  at  Worcester.      [Loud  cheers.] 

President  Hyde  next  referred  to  the  con- 
test over  the  seal,  and  said  that  the  expres- 
sion of  the  graduates  had  been  in  favor  of  the 
old  seal.  So  the  old  seal  was  the  seal  of  the 
college  still.      [Cheers.] 


The  four  years  course  of  the  Medical 
School  had  been  begun,  and  it  had  been 
arranged  for  the  last  two  years  to  be  taken  in 
Portland.      [Applause.] 

The  trustees  had  still  adhered  to  their 
opinion  that  Greek  should  be  required  for  the 
degree  of  A.B.  Dr.  Hyde  explained  that  this 
had  not  been  his  wish  ;  but  all  must  bow  to 
the  vi'ill  of  the  trustees. 

One  of  the  first  needs  of  the  college  was  a 
suitable  library  building,  where  the  collection 
might  be  kept  more  safely, 

A  new  gymnasium  should  also  be  built 
beyond  Appleton  Hall,  allowing  the  present 
gymnasium  to  be  transformed  into  a  heating 
station. 

Also  a  larger  endowment  fund  was  needed. 
Only  by  the  most  strict  economy  could  Bow- 
doin  be  kept  up  to  the  position  which  its 
friends  wished  it  to  occupy.  But  after  all, 
the  real  wealth  of  the  college  was  not  in  its 
buildings  or  its  endowments,  but  in  the  splen- 
did stock  of  Maine  youth  from  which  the  stu- 
dent body  was  recruited  and  in  the  laborious 
and  devoted  Faculty.      [Applause.] 

President  Hyde  then  introduced  the  first 
speaker  of  the  afternoon.  Gen.  Oliver  O. 
Howard.     He  began  by  saying: 

"  I  thank  you  for  this  warm  reception.  I 
hardly  think  that  I  deserve  it,  and  it  is  prob- 
ably clue  to  the  magnificent  introduction 
which  1  have  received.' 

Then  General  Howard  said  humorously 
that  he  proposed  to  speak  about  "Harvard's 
gift  to  Bowdoin."  There  have  been  some 
things  about  Harvard  that  he  did  not  like. 
President  Eliot  had  said  some  things  about 
the  old  soldiers  which  might  well  have  been 
left  unsaid  ;  and  a  professor  of  Harvard  had 
tal<en  a  wrong  position  when  it  was  the 
nation's  duty  to  stop  the  murdering  in  Cuba. 
"Then,"  continued  General  Howard,  "J  have 
alwavs  thought  that  Bowdoin  was  much 
superior  to  Harvard.  The  students  have  a 
closer  association  with  their  instructors,  for 
one  thing."  The  efifect  of  this  association 
the  speaker  pictured  in  its  uplifting  effects. 
Mrs.  Browning  had  said  that  if  you  would 
raise  men  up  you  must  raise  up  their  souls. 
This  had  been  aptly  expressed  by  one  of  the 
young  gentlemen  in  the  graduating  class. 
"  Bovs,  be  cheerful,  raise  up  your  hearts. 
Some  people  do  it  by  strong  drink,  but  that 
is  not  the  way.  Especially  that  is  a  bad  way 
for  a  doctor,"  [laughter  and  applause]  was 
the  next  exhortation  of  the  gray-haired  war- 


BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


rior.  He  said  he  was  disposed  to  pardon 
Harvard  because  of  Harvard's  gift  to  Bow- 
doin  in  tlie  great  president  wliicla  she  has 
to-day.      [Loud  cheers.] 

He  then  dwelt  briefly  upon  military  affairs, 
expansion,  and  general  social  and  religious 
activities. 

President  Hyde  introduced  as  the  next 
speaker  and  representative  of  the  overseers. 
Rev.  Mr.  Cutler.  He  spoke  of  the  advances 
in  the  college  during  the  past  year  and  of  the 
hopes  in  the  future. 

General  Thomas  H.  Hubbard  was  the  next 
speaker.  President  Hyde  introduced  him, 
not  as  soldier,  trustee,  attorney  or  class  rep- 
resentative, but  as  a  warm  friend  of  the  col- 
lege. His  subject  was  the  advantages  of  a 
college  education. 

Mr.  Henry  J.  P'urber  of  Chicago,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  of  '6i,  was  next  called  upon. 
His  talk  was  in  the  way  of  advice  to  the  lately 
made  graduates.  He  advised  them  to  follow 
the  example  of  Gen.  Howard,  who  always 
acted  in  a  way  characterized  by  his  energy  at 
Fair  Oaks,  and  never  to  skulk  behind.  They 
should  remember  that  no  success  comes  with- 
out effort.  If  the  path  seems  rough,  think 
that  it  has  been  trod  by  all  who  have  attained 
true  success. 

Professor  Newbold  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  was  the  next  speaker.  He 
spoke  of  the  high  standing  of  Bowdoin.  He 
said  that  a  Bowdoin  graduate  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania  had  the  same  standing 
as  graduates  of  Yale,  Harvard  or  Cornell. 

President  Hyde  next  called  upon  Rev.  Dr. 
Conrad  of  Worcester.  He  spoke  of  the  in- 
fluence of  colleges  upon  the  great  national 
questions.  The  influence  exerted  by  the 
Christian  colleges  of  the  country  was  the 
greatest  in  the  country. 

Mr.  George  Thomas  of  Portland,  next 
entertained  the  gathering  by  most  acceptably 
rendering  "The  Foresters." 

The  Rev.  William  L.  Jones,  '49,  of  Cali- 
fornia was  next  called  upon.  After  these 
speeches  each  class  having  over  five  members 
present  was  represented  by  one  man. 

The  Class  of  "59  was  represented  by  Prof. 
Francis  C.  Brackett  of  Princeton  ;  '69  was  rep- 
resented by  Henry  B.  Quimby  ;  '74  by  C.  F. 
Merriman ;  '79  by  Charles  F.  Johnson ;  '84  by 
Prof.  C.  C.  Torrey ;  '89  by  Sanford  L.  Fogg ; 
and  the  classes  of  the  'go's  by  Harry  E. 
Andrews  of  the  Class  of  '94. 


During  the  week  many  of  the  past  classes 
have  held  reunions  at  various  places,  as  Port- 
land, Brunswick,  and  Gurnet's,  not  to  men- 
tion the  many  informal  reunions  about  tne 
"ends,"  Jake's,  Gurnet's,  and  the  Tontine 
Hotel. 

The  classes  which  held  their  regidar  re- 
unions, having  graduated  five  or  multiples  of 
five  years  ago,  were  those  of  '49,  '54,  '59,  '69, 
'74,    79,  '89,  and  '94. 

Notes. 

The  following  physicians,  who  have  been 
demonstrators  on  the  Faculty  of  the  school, 
have  been  advanced  to  the  rank  of  instructors  : 
Alfred  King  of  Portland,  anatomy ;  F.  N. 
Whittier  of  Brunswick,  bacteriology ;  Edward 
C.  McDonough  of  Portland,  histology; 
George  H.  Brock  of  Portland,  surgery. 

Henry  De  Forest  Smith  has  been  elected 
assistant  professor. 

The  following  have  been  elected  over- 
seers :  Judge  A.  P.  Wiswell,  Prof.  Charles 
C.  Torrey  of  Andover,  Mass.,  and  George 
Carev  of  Machias. 


PTPiLETICS. 


Owing  to  the  unexpected  absence  of  the  college 
scorer  we  are  unable  to  publish  the  detailed  report 
of  the  Toronto-Bowdoin  game  or  a  summary  of 
the  work  of  the  team.  The  first  number  of  the 
Orient  for  the  tall  term  will  contain  a  summary 
of  all  games  played  this  season,  together  with  the 
batting  and  fielding  averages  of  all  the  players. 

Bowdoin  12,  U.  of  T.  4. 

Bowdoin  had  no  trouble  in  defeating  U.  of  T. 
in  an  iminteresting  game.  The  .Toronto  team  was 
crippled,  and  borrowed  Stanwood  and  Pottle  of 
Bowdoin  to  play  right  field  and  third.  The  Cana- 
dians could  not  touch  Libby,  while  Glassford  was 
batted  freely.  For  Bowdoin,  Libby,  Neagle,  and 
Wignott  put  up  the  best  game.  The  feature  of 
Toronto's  play  was  a  double  by  Pottle.  McDonald, 
and  Seavv. 


BENEATH    THE    BONNET. 

Beneath  a  pink  sun-bonnet, 

With  sunlight  on  it, 

A  lassie  stood;  and  near 

Her  laddie  dear. 

Beneath  the  bonnet  two  blue  eyes 

Sent   him   replies, 

And  'neath  it  blushed  two  bonnie  cheeks, 

Sun-tanned  for  weeks, 

And  two  red  lips,  and  teeth — two  rows. 

And  two — there  goes ! — 

Two  heads — and  pity  on  it 

Beneath   the  bonnet.  — Wesleyan   Lit. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,   SEPTEMBER   28,   1899. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


No.  10. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED    EVERY    THDRSDAT    DURING    THE    COLLEGIATE 
TEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS  OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLKGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babb,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

ISLAY  F.  McCormick,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.        Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  10.— September  28,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes       99 

Y.  M.  C.  A.  Keception       102 

Base-Ball  Statement 102 

College  News       103 

Y.  M.  C.  A 104 

Personals 104 

The  delay  in  this  issue  of  the  Orient  is 
unavoidable,  and  the  nature  of  the  first  weeks 
of  the  term  must  be  the  reason. 

The  Orient  plans  to  appear  about  Thurs- 
day, but  its  appearance  depends  upon  the 
presence  of  the  Editors  at  college,  and  when 
absent  as  last  week  the  paper  suffers  accord- 
ingly. 

A  thought  that  must  have  occurred  to 
many  on  unlocking  their  doors  for  the  first 


time  this  fall  and  on  beholding  the  dust  and 
confusion  that  reigned  in  their  rooms,  is,  why 
in  the  name  of  all  that's  decent  are  not  the 
college  rooms  housecleaned  during  the  latter 
part  of  the  summer  ?  At  Harvard  and  many 
other  colleges  and  universities  the  rooms  are 
put  in  order  prior  to  their  occupancy;  why 
should  not  some  little  attention  be  given  to 
cleanliness  here  ?  The  room  rents  are 
nearly  as  high  as  those  paid  in  cities  where 
such  rooms  would  not  only  be  fully  furnished 
but  kept  in  absolute  neatness.  The  expense 
of  cleaning  the  rooms  could  not  be  very  great  ; 
and  what  the  objection  to  it  is,  the  Orient 
fails  to  discover. 


The  Faculty  which  greets  us  this  year  has 
undergone  but  a  few  trifling  changes.  The 
most  noteworthy  is  the  absence  of  Professor 
Hutchins  for  a  year  of  study  in  Europe,  while 
his  department  here  at  college  is  handled  by 
Mr.  John  Burbank,  Bowdoin,  '96,  and  Har- 
vard, '99.  Mr.  Andrews,  '96,  who  conducted 
a  course  in  English  last  year,  is  now  one  of 
the  Faculty  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology. 


Not  for  many  years,  if  ever,  has  Bowdoin 
College  experienced  such  an  auspicious  open- 
ing of  order  and  activity.  The  very  initiatory 
meetings  of  the  various  classes  marked  the 
first  regular  work  of  the  year,  and  the  fol- 
lowing day  was  not  distinguishable  from  the 
usual  college  day  by  the  least  perceptible 
dissimilarity. 

The  elimination  of  the  "Rope  Pull," 
"Foot-Ball  Rushes,"  and  general  cutting  of 
classes  is  very  gratifying  to  the  estimable  pro- 
motors  of  this  innovation,  and  very  com- 
mendable in  the  student  body.  The  benefit 
of   this   change   is   too   apparent   to   require 


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BOWBOIN  ORrENt. 


explanation.  Although  the  danger  from  the 
customary  manner  of  opening  the  year  has 
never  been  very  materially  felt,  yet  it  can  but 
be  acknowledged  that  it  lurked  there,  crop- 
ping out  in  an  occasional  bloody  nose,  black 
eye,  or  barked  shin,  and  savored  altogether 
too  much  of  broken  and  sprained  limbs.  No 
one  begrudges  the  Sophomores  whatever 
pleasure  they  may  discover  in  the  raillery  and 
banter  with  which  it  is  customary  to  burden 
the  neophyte ;  doubtless,  a  class  thus  lack- 
ing in  college  discipline  would  be  as  unpopu- 
lar as  a  business  manager  collecting  subscrip- 
tions ;  but  many  of  the  hazmg  practices,  which 
we  students  well  know  are  truly  unexplain- 
able,  obsolete,  and  nonsensical  customs, 
deserve  to  be  entirely  done  away  with. 

The  fellows  all  seem  to  again  enter  into 
the  college  existence  with  vim  and  delight, 
while  recent  scenes,  suggested  by  brown  skin 
or  well-lined  pockets,  soon  sink  into  partial 
oblivion,  awakened  only  occasionally  by  the 
light  of  the  reminiscental  pipe. 

The  Freshman  Class  outnumbers  consid- 
erably all  recent  entering  classes,  and  we  only 
hope  they  may  be  as  strong  in  scholarship, 
athletics,  and  good-fellowship. 

Advice  to  a  Freshman  is  too  often  useless, 
yet  there  is  a  grain  of  truth  in  the  stereotype 
remark  of  the  upper  classman  that  he  wished 
he  had  done  better  work  as  a  Freshman  and 
not  neglected  so  many  early  and  beneficial 
opportunities.  The  first  year  almost  abso- 
lutely marks  out  the  line  of  growth  during 
the  other  three.  Let  the  first  steps  be  guided 
by  the  influence  of  such  potent  factors  as  the 
desk,  the  library,  the  gymnasium,  and  the  best 
in  fellow-students,  and  the  college  will  gradu- 
ate a  class  worthy  of  the  honor  of  Bowdoin 
Alumni  and  a  true  index  of  a  new  century. 


The  Foot-Ball  team  is  getting  into  form 
with  rapid  strides.  The  early  dates  in  the 
schedules,  not  to  mention  the  teams  which 
we  meet  on  these  dates,  necessitate  rapid 
development  and  considerable  practice  during 


the  two  weeks  or  so  before  the  first  game.  A 
very  encouraging  squad  has  turned  out  on 
the  gridiron  and,  with  proper  coaching  and  a 
due  amount  of  moral  support  from  the  fellows, 
a  team  of  sterling  qualities  should  represent 
Bowdoin,  winning  still  more  honor  for  our 
foot-ball  record. 

The  team  probably  will  not  be  as  heavy 
as  that  of  some  previous  years,  but  that  fact 
should  the  more  tend  to  produce  active  team 
work,  now  admitted  to  be  paramount  in  the 
game  as  played  these  last  few  years.  Hardly 
more  than  half  a  dozen  of  the  '98  team  will 
be  back  this  year,  but  the  vacancies  should 
be  but  an  impetus  to  one  and  all  of  the  squad, 
and,  judging  from  the  new  material,  not  a 
cause  of  despondency  to  the  student  body. 

The  coaching  question  apparently  is 
unusually  well  solved  this  year  with  a  corps 
of  graduate  coaches  of  such  men  as  Sykes, 
'95  ;  Fairl)anks,  '95  ;  Ives,  '98 ;  Stanwood,  '98; 
Clarke,  '99;  Albee,  '99;  Stockbridge,  '99,  and 
Murphy,  Med.,  and  under  the  general  super- 
vision of  Mr.  F.  J.  Crolius,  a  player  of 
renowned  ability,  and  captain  of  the  Dart- 
mouth '98  eleven. 

The  games  commence  October  4th  at 
Cambridge,  and  continue  through  the  season 
until  Thanksgiving  Day.  The  schedule 
deserves  the  approbation  of  the  fellows ; 
although  just  a  bit  stifif  for  a  Maine  team,  yet 
it  contains  more  possible  glory  than  any 
schedule  of  the  past. 

Captain  Clarke  and  Manager  Spear  should 
be  complimented  on  the  large  squad  in  train- 
ing, composed  of  the  following  men :  Bod- 
well,  Hunt,  Hamilton,  Shaw,  Giles,  Merrill, 
Levensaler,  Cloudman,  Laferriere,  Gregson, 
Connors,  Webb,  Hill,  Mitchell,  Kelley,  Snow, 
Bellatty,  Shaughnessy,  Leighton,  Donnell, 
Swett,  Sylvester,  Lewis,  Beane,  Dunlap, 
Walker,  '02,  Coffin,  Walker,  '03,  Sinkinson, 
Small,  Soule,  Martelle,  Sparks,  Chapman, 
Gardner. 

The  schedule  is  not  quite  completed.  The 
Bates  game  is  still  to  be  decided,  and  possibly 


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101 


a  game  may  be  played  with  New  Hampshire 
State  College  during  the  season. 

Wednesday,  October  4th,  Harvard  at 
Cambridge. 

Saturday,  October  7th,  Dartmouth  at 
Hanover. 

Saturday,  October  14th,  U.  of  M.  at 
Brunswick. 

Saturday,  October  21st,  Amherst  at  Am- 
herst. 

Saturday,  October  28th,  Tufts  at  Bnms- 
wick. 

Wednesday,  November  ist,  Exeter  at 
Exeter. 

Saturday,  November  4th,  Colby  at  Port- 
land. 

Wednesday,  November  15th,  Tufts  at  Col- 
lege Hill. 

Saturday,  November  i8th,  Holy  Cross  at 
Worcester. 

Thursday,  November  23d,  P.  A.  C.  at 
Portland. 


Two  needed  and  important  provisions 
have  been  made  this  last  vacation  by  the 
college  authorities,  one  for  our  comfort  and 
the  other  for  our  safety. 

The  campus,  during  the  early  spring  rains, 
when  the  ground  has  not  become  sufficiently 
softened  to  permit  the  absorption  of  the  melted 
.snow  and  ice,  has  been  too  long  a  butt  for 
witticisms  or  complaints,  and  now  we  learn 
that  these  extremely  disagreeable  two  or  three 
weeks  will  no  longer  be  an  attribute  of  spring 
at  Brvmswick.  Drains  have  been  laid  under 
ground  about  the  campus,  culminating  back 
of  Memorial  Hall  in  the  opening  of  an  old 
sewer.  From  thence  there  is  a  free  passage  to 
the  river ;  thus  we  are  assured  that  this  new 
system  of  drains  will  prevent  any  semblance 
of  the  campus  as  viewed  in  past  springs. 

The  other  and  perhaps  the  more  important 
provision  is  in  regard  to  prevention  of  injury 
or  loss  by  fire.  Many  are  the  editorials 
which  the  Orient  has  published  upon  the 
inadequate  fire  system  at  Bowdoin ;  and  it  is 
now   very   gratifying   to   inform   the   student 


body  that  possibilities  of  a  fire  need  no  more 
cause  alarm  or  worry.  Most  ample  and 
efficient  preparations  for  a  cool  reception  to 
the  fire  fiend  has  been  made  and,  together 
with  the  nature  of  the  dormitories,  provides  a 
system  most  perfect. 

Each  dormitory  is  separated  into  "ends" 
by  a  brick  fire  wall  which  extends  from 
ground  to  roof  and  from  side  to  side.  The 
roof  is  easily  accessible  through  a  skylight, 
always  unlocked,  and  a  fixed  iron  ladder 
leading  to  the  same.  This  clearly  supplies  a 
passage  above  and  down  the  adjacent  "end" 
if  the  fire  is  below,  and  if  the  fire  is  above  the 
usual  egress  furnishes  an  escape.  In  addition 
to  these,  each  floor  of  an  "end"  is  to  be  sup- 
plied with  a  Babcock  Fire  Extinguisher ;  and 
a  line  of  500  feet  of  hose,  all  reeled,  and  with 
the  necessary  tools,  is  to  be  housed  in  the  rear 
of  the  college  work  shop.  The  workmen  are 
to  be  organized  as  a  sort  of  fire  company  and 
the  fellows  will  always  have  access  to  the 
hose,  so  no  delay  will  be  occasioned  when 
they  are  needed.  All  this  is  pleasant  to  learn, 
and  the  practical  use  of  the  fire  apparatus  is 
of  such  vital  importance  that  it  should  deter 
one  and  all  from  its  illegitimate  employment. 
However,  should  any  miscreant  meddle  with 
it,  extreme  measures  should  be  adopted  by 
the  proper  authorities ;  besides,  such  would 
be  only  just  to  and  desired  by  the  occupants 
of  rooms  upon  the  college  campus. 


One  can  not  help  remarking  upon  the 
usefulness  and  convenience  of  the  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  handbooks  and  the  College  book  of  regu- 
lations. 

The  Orient  compliments  the  Association 
upon  the  tasty  and  attractive  manifestation  of 
its  sincere  interest  in  the  welfare  and  peace  of 
the  students,  and  the  college  authorities  she 
thanks  for  so  needed  and  concise  an  acquaint- 
ance with  rules  and  methods  with  many  of 
which  even  Seniors  are  not  cognizant. 

These  two  handy  publications  together 
furnish  a  brief  resume  of  the  preceding  year  ; 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


an  acquaintance  with  the  campus,  buildings, 
organizations,  points  of  interest  about  town ; 
an  insight  into  college  customs ;  a  knowledge 
of  the  college  regulations ;  and  thus  a  com- 
pendium of  practical  information  and  facts, 
impossible  to  be  too  highly  appreciated,  are 
at  the  student's  elbow  for  ready  reference. 


Y.  M.  C.  A.  RECEPTION. 

All  who  attended  the  reception  given  the 
Freshmen  Thursday  evening,  September 
2ist,  by  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  report  a  very  enjoy- 
able evening.  An  unusually  large  number  of 
upper  classmen  were  present  to  meet  the 
members  of  the  incoming  class,  and  by  their 
sociability  and  genial  conduct  left  no  doubt 
in  the  minds  of  the  new  men  that  they  were 
heartily  welcome  to  Bowdoin.  It  seems  es- 
pecially appropriate  that  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
reception,  the  only  occasion  when  the  Fresh- 
men are  formally  welcomed  to  the  college  in 
all  its  departments,  should  be  held  in  the 
Library,  symbolizing  the  close  harmony  and 
inter-dependence  which  it  is  the  aim  of  the 
Association  to  establish  between  the  religious 
and  intellectual  interests  of  the  college. 

Shortly  after  eight  o'clock  the  students 
began  to  arrive,  and  for  an  hour  discussed 
the  exciting  events  of  the  week  and  also  the 
ice-cream  and  cake  provided  by  their  hosts. 

Perhaps  the  most  pleasant  feature  was  the 
welcome  formally  extended  by  the  President 
of  the  Association,  and  representatives  of 
different  departments  of  college  life. 

President  Robinson,  in  a  few  well  chosen 
words,  explained  the  attitude  the  Association 
takes  toward  college  life.  President  Hyde's 
remarks  were  most  helpful.  He  expressed 
his  sincere  delight  at  the  marks  of  new  vigor 
manifested  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  commended 
the  new  line  of  work  carried  out  during  the 
opening  week.  Professor  Little,  in  wel- 
coming 1903  to  the  library,  made  a  plea  for 
the  more  general  use  of  the  library  by  the  two 
lower  classes,  and,  for  that  matter,  by  all  the 
students.     Professor   Robinson   made  a  par- 


ticularly felicitous  speech,  in  which  he  showed 
how  the  evolution  of  the  human  body  has 
deferred  to  that  of  the  spiritual  nature,  and 
that  while  our  little  strength,  put  in  opposi- 
tion to  the  steadily  moving  wheels  of  spiritual 
progress  cannot  avail  to  check  its  resistless 
advance,  yet  it  is  our  glorious  privilege,  by 
putting  our  shoulders  to  those  same  wheels, 
to  accelerate  by  so  much  the  ultimate  triumph 
of  a  cause  that  can  not  fail. 

Burnell,  1900,  Larrabee,  1901,  and  E.  R. 
Kelley,  1902,  spoke  in  behalf  of  their 
respective  classes,  and  were  followed  by 
McCormick,  1900,  of  the  Orient  board  and 
Webber,  1900,  of  the  Quill  board. 


BASE-BALL  STATEMENT. 
As  manager  of  last  year's  base-ball  team 
I  wish  to  submit  the  following  report : 


RECEIPTS. 

Subscriptions  collected, 

$622.00 

Gate  receipts. 

336.06 

Guarantees, 

470.00 

Subscriptions    unpaid, 

99-50 

$1,527.56 

EXPENDITUKES 

Expense  of  trips. 

$650.11 

Wright  6-   Ditson, 

287.00 

Coaching, 

153-00 

Guarantees, 

150.00 

Work  on  field, 

80.25 

Checks, 

58.30 

Printing, 

22.00 

Managers'  meetings. 

18.20 

Umpires, 

29.80 

Express,  stamps,  etc., 

14.80 

Sundries, 

19-25 

$1,482,71 

Total  receipts 

$1,527.56 

Total   expenses. 

1,482.71 

Balance,  $44-85 

Joseph  W.  Whitney,  Manager. 


Hereafter  when  you  wish  a  book  reserved  in  the 
library  for  you,  it  will  cost  one  cent.  This  sum  is 
to  pay  for  a  postal  card,  which  will  be  mailed  you 
as  soon  as  the  book  desired  by  you  is  returned  to 
the  library,  and  will  tell  you  that  the  book  has  been 
returned  and  will  be  held  for  you  for  forty-eight 
hours. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


lOS 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Professor  Johnson  arrived  Thursday  from  his 
trip  to  France. 

Babb,  igoo,  is  coaching  the  Brunswick  High 
School  Foot-ball  team  this  season. 

"Joe"  Pendleton  has  been  with  us  the  last  week 
representing  the  Lovell  Arms  Co.,  athletic  supplies, 
etc. 

A  section  of  the  book-case  in  the  charging  room 
has  been  filled  with  books  selected  with  especial 
reference  to  the  various  courses  now  being  taken, 
and  will  repay  a  careful  survey. 

The  copies  of  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
college  which  were  distributed  at  the  opening  of  the 
term,  containing,  as  they  do,  a  plain  and  concise 
statement  of  what  is  expected  and  required  of  each 
student,  will  surely  be  productive  of  much  good,  as 
well   as  very  useful. 

Henry  J.  Furber,  '6i,  of  Chicago,  the  founder  of 
the  Smyth  Mathematical  Library,  last  June  pre- 
sented the  library  the  sum  of  $500,  with  which  to 
fill  up  the  files  of  the  mathematical  periodicals  and 
purchase  more  mathematical  works  for  this  im- 
portant branch  of  our  library.  The  gift  is  much 
appreciated. 

President  Hyde  met  the  students  chosen  to  serve 
on  the  college  jury  Friday  evening  in  Room  7, 
i\Iemorial  Hall.  The  jury  is  composed  as  follows: 
John  R.  Bass,  representing  igoo ;  Ernest  T.  Smith, 
igoi ;  John  H.  Sinkinson,  1902;  Malcolm  S.  Wood- 
bury, igo3 ;  James  P.  Webber,  Alpha  Delta  Phi ; 
James  F.  Knight,  Psi  Upsilon;  Percy  A.  Babb, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ;  Erwin  G.  Giles,  Theta  Delta 
Chi ;  Charles  E.  H.  Beane,  Delta  Upsilon ;  George 
F.  Goodspeed,  Zeta  Psi ;  Harry  A.  Beadle,  Kappa 
Sigma ;  and  Frederick  C.  Lee,  non-society.  Knight 
was  chosen  foreman  and  Bass,  secretary.  The 
regular  meetings  are  held  the  sixth  Monday  of  the 
term. 

A  meeting  of  the  Base-Ball  Association  was  held 
in  Memorial  Hall  Wednesday  afternoon.  The  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year : 
President,  Roland  E.  Clarke,  igoi,  of  Houlton ; 
vice-president,  Fred  A.  Stanwood,  igo2,  Wellesley, 
Mass. ;  secretary,  Ralph  B.  Stone,  igo2.  Otter  River, 
Mass. ;  treasurer,  Lyman  A.  Cousens,  1902,  Port- 
land; member  of  executive  board  from  igo2, 
Hanson  K.  McCann  of  Westbrook ;  member  from 
ig03,  Malcolm  Woodbury  of  Woodfords ;  official 
scorer,  Harvey  D.  Gibson,  igo2,  of  North  Conway, 
N.  H. ;  manager,  John  H.  White,  1901,  Lewiston. 
The    captain    already    chosen    is    the    same    as    last 


year — Harry  O.  Bacon,  igoo,  of  Natick,  Mass. 
After  the  meeting  Timothy  Murphy  and  H.  L.  Fair- 
banks, old  college  fellows,  spoke  on  the  foot-ball 
prospects. 

Prof.  Mitchell  has  posted  the  following  subjects 
for  the  themes  due  Tuesday,  October  3 : 
For  Juniors  : 

1.  The  Jew:  Why  Is  He  Ill-treated  Through- 
out Europe?  (Read  George  Eliot's  "Daniel 
Deronda.") 

2.  The  College  of  the  Future:  How  Will  It 
Differ  from  the  College  of  To-day?  (See  Forum, 
vol.  XXII,  p.  466.) 

3.  Edwin  Markham's  "The  Man  with  the 
Hoe." 

For    Sophomores  : 

1.  A  Vacation  Day  or  Two. 

2.  The  Boss  in  American  Politics.  (Read 
Ford's  "The  Honorable  Peter  Stirling.") 

3.  How  May  the  Sunday-School  of  To-day  Do 
More  Efficient  Work? 

4.  My  Favorite  Character  in  Fiction. 

The  Class  of  '99  have  been  much  in  evidence  the 
past  week.  About  thirty  of  the  fifty-seven  members 
were  here  for  longer  or  shorter  periods  during  the 
first  week,  among  them  the  following :  Albee, 
Briggs,  Came,  Clarke,  L.  L.  Cleaves,  R.  L.  Cleaves, 
Dana,  Dutton,  Greenlaw,  Hall,  Haskell,  Hadlock, 
Hills,  Jennings,  Kelley,  Lancey,  W.  T.  Libby,  L.  P. 
Libby,  R.  L.  Marston,  Moulton,  Neagle,  Philoon. 
Randall,  Rollins,  Sinkinson,  Smith,  Stockbridge, 
Sturgis,  Thompson  and  White.  A  class  reunion 
was  held  at  New  Meadows  Inn,  and  those  present 
were :  Albee,  Came,  Clarke,  Greenlaw,  Hall,  Hills, 
Jennings,  W.  T.  Libb}',  R.  L.  Marston,  Moulton, 
Neagle,  Philoon,  Rollins,  Sinkinson,  Stockbridge  and 
Sturgis.  Besides  having  a  jolly  good  time,  the 
class  voted  $50  to  purchase  a  perpetual  cup  to  be 
played  for  by  the  Sophomores  and  Freshmen  in  the 
base-ball  series  at  the  opening  of  the  fall  term.  A 
committee  consisting  of  Greenlaw,  W.  T.  Libby 
and  Came  was  appointed  to  attend  to  this  matter 
and  also  to  give  the  balance  of  the  funds  towards 
foot-ball. 

One  of  the  prettiest  society  weddings  yet  seen 
in  Brunswick  was  solemnized  at  the  Congregational 
church  Thursday  evening,  Sept.  21st,  the  contracting 
parties  being  Frances  Swett  Mitchell,  youngest 
daughter  of  Dr.  Alfred  Mitchell,  dean  of  the  Maine 
Medical  School,  and  Harry  Smith  Chapman,  only 
son  of  Prof.  Plenry  L.  Chapman,  of  Bowdoin 
College.  The  large  church  was  filled  with  Bruns- 
wick's 400  besides  many  guests  from  Boston,  New 
York  and  Portland. 


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The  front  of  the  altar  was  a  profusion  of  ferns, 
palrhs  and  floral  decorations  in  the  most  exquisite 
taste.  The  Lohengrin  wedding  march  was  played 
by  Prof.  William  R.  Chapman.  The  wedding  party 
made  their  appearance  at  8.30.  The  fair  bride  was 
charming  in  an  elaborate  costume  of  white  ivory 
satin  en  train,  the  long  wedding  veil  pinned  with 
lilies  of  the  valley.  The  maid  of  honor.  Miss  Belle 
Smith  of  Brunswick,  and  bridesmaids.  Misses  Julia 
Noyes,  Elizabeth  Allen,  Marion  Chapman  of  Port- 
land, were  charmingly  attired  in  costumes  of  point 
d'esprit.  The  ceremony  was  impressively  per- 
formed by  Prof.  H.  L.  Chapman,  assisted  by  Dr. 
Edward  B.  Mason.  A  reception  was  held  at  the 
home  of  the  bride.  The  couple  took  the  Pullman 
for  a  short  wedding  trip. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chapman  will  make  their  home  at 
Jamaica  Plain,  Mr.  Chapman  is  a  young  man  of 
considerable  literary  ability.  Miss  Mitchell  was 
one  of  the  society  leaders  of  the  college  term,  and 
the  happy  couple  have  hosts  of  friends. 

Among  the  Boston  guests  present  were  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Horace  P.  Chandler,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roland  W. 
Mann,  Miss  Ellen  M.  Chandler,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  F.  Stetson,  Miss  Grace  Chandler,  Mr.  C.  A. 
Chandler,  Miss  Ellen  Chandler,  Mr.  John  E.  Chap- 
man, Mrs.  George  L.  Packard. 


Y.  M.  C.  fl. 

The  Christian  Association  was  fortunate  this  year 
in  obtaining  President  Hyde  to  deliver  the  address 
at  the  first  Sunday  service  of  the  term. 

The  subject  on  which  President  Hyde  spoke 
was :  "The  Lessons  of  the  Games."  He  cited  sev- 
eral conditions  of  life,  that  bear  close  resemblance 
to  the  struggles  and  the  effort  put  forth  in  the  vari- 
ous athletic  contests,  with  which  college  men  are 
so  familiar.  The  address  was  very  practical  and 
received  marked  appreciation  from  the  large  audi- 
ence. Another  feature  of  the  service  was  the  solo, 
rendered  by  Willard,  1900,  which  was  also  much 
enjoyed  by  those  present. 

Among  the  speakers  already  engaged  for  these 
meetings  are :  Mr.  R.  A.  Jordan,  General  Secre- 
tary of  the  Bangor  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Mr.  C.  T.  Hawes, 
a  member  of  the  college  athletic  committee,  and  Mr.. 
E.  T.  Garland  of  Portland,  who  is  the  secretary  of 
that  association.  Correspondence  is  being  carried 
on  with  the  Rev.  Smith  Baker  of  Portland  and 
other  well-known  men  of  the  State,  in  order  to 
obtain  those  who  will  bring  to  the  students  here 
something  of  decided  value  and  interest. 

An   account  of  the  reception  given  the   Fresh- 

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men  on  the  evening  of  Sept.  21st,  will  be  found 
in  another  column. 

The  Association  desires  to  thank  the  Faculty  for 
the  use  of  their  room  as  an  office,  during  the  first 
few  days  of  the  term,  and  both  stvidents  and  Faculty, 
for  their  hearty  co-operation  in  the  establishment 
of  the  information  bureau  and  book  exchange. 

Thursday  evening,  the  28th  of  September,  the 
first  social  service  is  to  be  held;  we  trust  that  the 
old  friends  of  the  Association  will  be  there,  and  a 
cordial  welcome  will  be  tendered  any  students. 
Freshmen  and  upper  classmen,  who  have  never 
attended  these  services  before. 


PERSON  fILS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'54. — Franklin  A.  Wilson,  Esq.,  of  Bangor,  will 
retire  from  the  presidency  of  the  Maine  Central 
Railroad  Company  at  the  next  annual  meeting  to 
be  held  on  October  i8th.  President  Wilson  gives 
this  as  his  reason :  "I  do  so  in  order  to  lighten 
my  own  burdens  and  leave  myself  more  freedom 
for  the  performance  of  professional  and  social 
obligations   which  have  a  first  claim  upon  me." 

Med.  '56. — A  memorial  sketch  of  Dr.  John  F. 
Pratt  by  Dr.  Charles  E.  Banks  appeared  in  the 
New  England  Historical  Register  of  July,   1899. 

'63. — Notice  has  been  received  of  the  death  of 
Isaiah  Trufant  at  Cundy's  Harbor,  Me.,  July  21, 
1899. 

'69. — Rev.  H.  W.  Whitman  has  resigned  the 
presidency  of  Westbrook  Seminary.  He  will  spend 
the  winter  in  Florida. 

'83. — At  the  opening  of  the  U.  S.  Provisional 
Court  at  San  Juan,  Porto  Rico,  on  July  i,  1899, 
N.  B.  K.  Pettingill  received  the  appointment  of 
Law   Judge. 

'85. — Howard  L.  Lunt  has  been  elected  City 
Superintendent  of  Schools  in  San  Bernardino,  Cal. 
There  he  will  have  under  his  direction  over  forty 
teachers  and  a  high  school  of  two  hundred  pupils. 

'85. — Wilson  R.  Butler  has  been  elected  principal 
of  the  High  School  at  New  Bedford,  Mass.  There 
were  over  40  candidates. 

'87. — C.  J.  Goodwin  has  been  appointed  Professor 
of  Greek  at  Lehigh. 

'8g. — William  M.  Emery  has  joined  the  editorial 
staff  of  the  Fall  River   (Mass.)  Evening  Nczvs. 

'91. — The  wedding  of  Miss  Frances  Swett 
Mitchell  and  Mr.  Harry  Smith  Chapman  took  place 


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in  the  Congregational  church  at  Brunswick,  Me., 
on  Thursday  evening,  September  21,  1899.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  by  Professor  Henry  L. 
Chapman,  D.D.,  father  of  the  groom,  assisted  by 
Rev.  Edward  B.  Mason,  D.D.,  pastor  of  the 
church.  The  wedding  marches  were  played  by 
Prof.  William  R.  Chapman.  Miss  Belle  Smith  of 
Brunswick  was  maid  of  honor,  and  Dr.  Alfred 
Mitchell,  Jr.,  brother  of  the  bride,  best  man.  The 
ushers  were  Dr.  Ernest  B.  Young  of  Boston,  Mr. 
Edward  N.  Coding  of  Boston,  Mr.  Whitman  M. 
Chandler  of  Boston,  Mr.  Henry  C.  Emery  of 
Brunswick,  Mr.  John  L.  Mitchell  of  Brunswick,  and 
Dr.  Bertram  D.  Ridlon  of  Togus. 

The  bride  was  given  away  by  her  father,  Dr. 
Alfred  Mitchell.  On  returning  from  their  wedding 
journey,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chapman  will  go  to  their 
new  home,  38  Rock  View  Street,  Jamaica  Plains, 
Mass. 

'92. — Dr.  Henry  Farrar  Linscott,  formerly 
associate,  was  recently  chosen  full  professor  of 
Latin  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina. 

'94. — H.  L.  Horsman  has  an  appointment  on  the 
staff  of  the  Insane  Asylum  at  Augusta,   Me. 

'94. — The  Orient  has  received  notice  without 
particulars  of  the  recent  marriage  of  Edgar  M. 
Simpson  at  Bangor. 

'94. — E.  H.  Sykes  will  attend  the  law  school  at 
Columbia  this  fall. 

'95. — F.  O.  Small  has  been  elected  to  a  position 
in  the  English  High  School  at  Somerville,  Mass. 

'95. — Dr.  John  B.  Thompson  of  Topsham 
has  been  appointed  house  officer  or  interne 
of  the  Eastern  Maine  General  Hospital,  Bangor. 
Dr.  Thompson  is  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  College  and 
Medical  School. 

'96. — C.  T.  Stone  was  elected  principal  of  the 
Bridgton  High  School  in  July,   1899. 

'96. — Miss  Jennie  G.  Wardwell  and  Robert  O. 
Small  were  united  in  marriage  at  the  residence  of 
the  bride's  parents,  Berlin,  N.  H.,  Thursday  morn- 
ing, August  31st,  by  Rev.  W.  P.  Ladd.  The  affair 
was  a  quiet  home  wedding,  performed  in  the 
presence  of  the  families  and  their  immediate  friends 
at  ten  o'clock,  and  was  followed  by  a  wedding 
breakfast.  Mr.  Small  and  wife  left  on  the  after- 
noon express  for  points  in  Massachusetts,  after 
which  they  will  go  directly  to  Upton,  Mass.,  Mr. 
Small's  home,  he  being  the  principal  of  the  high 
school  there.  Both  of  these  young  people  are  well 
known  and  very  popular  here.  Miss  Wardwell 
being  a  native  of  the  city  and  a  graduate  of  our 
high  school.  They  were  the  recipients  of  many 
beautiful  presents,  and  congratulations  and  well 
wishes  will  follow  them  to  their  new  home. 


'97. — James  H.  Home  started  recently  for  the 
West  to  resume  his  duties  as  instructor  in  athletics 
at  Indiana  University.  Mr.  Home  was  accom- 
panied by  his  wife  and  child. 

'97. — F.  G.  Kneeland  was  elected  principal  of 
Potter  Academy,   Sebago,  July,  1899. 

'98. — Cogswell  Smith,  who  declined  a  re-election 
at  Limington  Academy  and  an  offer  as  Principal  of 
Anson  Academy,  has  become  the  Principal  of  the 
High  School  at  Milford,  N.  H.,  at  a  salary  of  $1,200. 
A  new  building  has  recently  been  completed  at  a 
cost  of  $60,000.  His  special  branches  are  Latin, 
Physics,  and  Chemistry,  for  the  latter  two  there 
being  two  finely-equipped  laboratories.  In  part 
preparation  for  the  new  work  he  spent  the  summer 
at  Harvard  studying  Physics.  Mr.  Smith  delivered 
a  Memorial  Day  address  in  May  at  Cornish,  and 
repeated  it  on  another  part  of  the  same  day  at 
Hiram. 

'98. — Miss  Catherine  Merrill  Files,  a  well  known 
and  popular  young  lady  of  Gorham,  and  Mr.  Oliver 
Dow  Smith,  a  prominent  business  man  of  Bangor, 
were  married  Wednesday  afternoon,  September  6, 
1899,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  David  F.  Files,  West  Gorham.  Dean  C.  M. 
Sills  of  St.  Luke's  Cathedral,  Portland,  officiated. 
The  ceremony  was  performed  under  the  elms  on 
the  lawn,  which  was  prettily  decorated  with  potted 
plants  and  golden-rod.  The  bride  was  given  away 
by  her  father.  Two  young  lady  friends  of  the 
bride.  Miss  Mildred  Curtis  of  Portland  and  Miss 
Lougee  of  Bangor,  held  the  white  ribbons  forming 
a  circle  from  the  door  to  the  altar  where  the  cere- 
mony took  place.  The  wedding  march  was  finely 
rendered  by  Miss  Mildred  Mitchell  of  Portland. 
The  best  man  was  Mr.  Libby  of  Auburn.  A  fine 
collation  was  served  at  the  close  of  the  ceremony. 
The  happy  couple  will  take  an  extended  southern 
trip  and  on  their  return  will  reside  on  High  Street 
in  Bangor. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Class  of  1899,  giving 
as  far  as  possible  the  location  and  occupation  of 
each: 

Wignott  is  principal  of  the  High  School  at  Med- 
way,  Mass. 

Hadlock  is  Physical  Instructor  at  Hamilton, 
Clinton,  N.  Y. 

Haskell  is  with  the  Haskell  Silk  Co.  at  West- 
brook,  Me. 

R.  S.  Cleaves  is  in  the  insurance  business  at 
Boston. 

L.  L.  Cleaves  is  teacher  of  Latin  in  the  Portland 
High  School. 

Rollins  is  Principal  of  the  High  School  at  Nor- 
way, Me.  .i        , 


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Randall  is  Principal  of  the  Grammar  School  at 
Freeport,  Me. 

Merrill  has  charge  of  a  cattle  ranch  in  Montana. 

Clarke  is  Agent  of  the  New  York  Life  Insurance 
Company  at  Bangor,  Me. 

Godfrey  will  travel  abroad  during  igoo. 

Veazie  is  in  business  at  New  York. 

Poore  is  teaching  in  the  Grammar  School  at 
Agawam,    Mass. 

White  will  attend  the  Columbian  Law  School 
at  Washington,  D.   C. 

Hills  will  attend  the  Maine  Medical  School. 

Kaharl  is  principal  of  the  High  School  at  Han- 
over,  N.   H. 

W.  T.  Libbv  is  in  the  Pejepscot  Mills  at  Peiep- 
scot,   Me. 

Lancey  is  in  the  real  estate  business  at  Pitts- 
field,  Maine. 

Kelley  is  reading  law  with  J.  F.  A.  Merrill, 
Portland',    Me, 

Woodbury  is  teaching  at  ,  Me. 

Varney  is  sub-master  in  the  Farmington  High 
School,  N.  PL 

Lavertu  is  instructor  in  French,  German  and 
athletics  at  Trinity  Hall,  Washington,   Penn. 

Churchill  is  at  Winthrop,  Mass.  He  will 
probably   teach. 

Button  is  reading  law  with  Heath  &  Andrews 
at  Augusta,  Me. 

Fogg  is  teaching  at  New  Portland,   Me. 

Towle  is  sub-master  in  the  High  School  at 
Gorham,  N.  H. 

Briggs  is  in  the  Pittsfield  Woolen  Mills  at 
Pittsfield,   Me. 

Chamberlain  is  assistant  in  Botany  at  Brown 
University. 

R.  L.  Marston  is  studying  law  with  F.  H.  Apple- 
ton  at  Bangor,  Me. 

Leavitt  is  principal  of  the  High  School  at  Farm- 
ington, N.  H. 

Topliff  is  attending  the  Law  School  at  Chicago 
University. 

R.  G.  Smith  is  at  Curacao,  one  of  the  Dutch 
West  India  Islands. 

Marsh  has  a  position  as  Pullman  official. 

Nason  is  instructor  of  English  at  Kent's  Hill, 
Me. 

Hall  will  attend  the  New  York  State  Library 
School  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

H.  E.   Marston  is  teaching  at  Strong,  Me. 

Jennings,  Philoon.  Came  and  Dana  will  attend 
the  Harvard  Law  School. 

Albee  will  attend  the  Harvard  Medical  School. 

W.  H.  Smith,  Neagle,  Thompson,  Moulton  and 
Sinkinson  will  attend  the  Johns  Hopkins  Medical 
School. 

Phillips  is  teaching  at  Brewer,  Me. 

Thomas,  Stockbridge,  L.  P.  Libby,  Sturgis  and 
Webster  are  undecided. 

Greenlaw  and  Nelson  have  obtained  Government 
positions  in  connection  with  the  1900  census. 

No  information  is  at  hand  concerning  Adams, 
Hayden,  Pattee  and  Rogers. 

Omissions   and  errors  will   be  rectified  as  soon 
as  possible. 
/ 


CLASS  OF  1903. 
Abbott,  E.  F.,  Theta  Delta  Chi;  Andrews,  R., 
Psi  Upsilon;  Barrows,  H.  C,  Delta  Upsilon;  Beedy, 
C.  S.,  Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Bisbee,  R.  C. ;  Blanchard, 
J.  M.;  Clifford,  P.  C,  Psi  Upsilon;  Coffin,  P.  O.  ; 
Connefs,  C.  P.,  .Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Dana,  L.,  Theta 
Delta  Chi;  Dunlap,  E.  A.,  Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Emer- 
son, L.  J. ;  Evans,  L.  C,  Delta  Upsilon ;  Farley, 
H.  E.,  Kappa  Sigma;  Farnsworth,  G.  B.,  Theta 
Delta  Chi;  Farnsworth,  H.  E. ;  Files,  H.  W.,  Zeta 
Psi;  Grav,  S.  B.,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ;  Greene,  J. 
A.;  Harlow,  L  A.;  Harris,  P.  T.,  Alpha  Delta  Phi; 
Hellenbrand,  R.  W.  H,,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon;  Holt, 
A.  P.,  Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Jones,  H.  A.,  Psi  Upsilon; 
Larrabee,  S.  B.,  Psi  Upsilon :  Lawrence,  F.,  Psi 
Upsilon ;  Libby,  George,  Zeta  Psi ;  Marshall,  F.  G. ; 
McCormick,  D.  E.,  Delta  Upsilon;  Merrill,  Edward. 
Zeta  Psi;  Mitchell,  J.  L.,  Psi  Upsilon;  Moore,  E. 
S.,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ;  Moody,  E.  F.,  Theta 
Delta  Chi;  Nutter,  I.  W.,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon; 
Palmer,  F.  S. ;  Peabody,  H.  A.  ;  Perkins,  J.  B. ; 
Perkins,  N.  S.,  Delta  Upsilon;  Perry,  L.  J.;  Phil- 
lips, M.  T. ;  Pierce,  Grant ;  Pratt,  Harold,  Psi 
Upsilon ;  Preble,  Paul,  Delta  Upsilon ;  Ridlon,  J. 
H.,  Kappa  Sigma;  Riley,  T.  H. ;  Robinson,  C.  F., 
Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Sabin,  G.  S.,  Psi  Upsilon; 
Shaughnessy,  James,  Kappa  Sigma ;  Simpson,  S. 
C.  W.,  Zeta  Psi;  Smith,  Carl  W.,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon ;  Smith,  Bertram  S.,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ; 
Soule,  A.  M.  G.,  Zeta  Psi ;  Spollett,  F.  W. ;  Stevens, 
H.  M.,  Theta  Delta  Chi ;  Stover,  G.  H.,  Psi  Upsilon ; 
Thompson,  H.  E. ;  Towne,  W.  C. ;  Viles,  B.  S., 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ;  Walker,  L.  V.,  Theta  Delta 
Chi :  Webber,  J.  P.,  Jr.,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ; 
Webber,  H.  S. ;  Welch,  F.  J.,  Theta  Delta  Chi; 
White,  T.  C,  Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Whitmore,  L.  C. ; 
Wilder,  G.  G. ;  Wilson,  J.  D.,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ; 
Woodbury,    M.   S.,   Theta   Delta   Chi. 


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Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,    OCTOBER   5,  1899. 


No.  11. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PtIBLISHKD     EVERT    THURSDAY    DDRING    THE    COLLEGIATE 
TEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babe,  IflOO,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

Islay  F.  McCormick,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.  Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 

Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  11.— October  5,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes       107 

Calendar 109 

College  News      109 

Athletics Ill 

Y.  M.  C.  A 112 

Personals 112 


The  Editors  of  the  Orient  receive  large 
numbers  of  communications  from  akimni, 
expressive  of  their  interest  in  the  paper,  the 
approval  of  its  present  form,  and  an  item  or 
two  for  the  personal  department;  for  all  of 
which  we  feel  sincere  gratitude,  how  deeply 
sincere  can  be  understood  only  by  previous 
editors.  The  encouragement  from  this 
thoughtfulness  of  our  friends  is  extremely 
potent,  not  to  mention  its  benefit  to  the  per- 


sonal department,  which  is  paramount  from 
the  aspect  of  an  alumnus.  We  most  respect- 
fully request  all  alumni  to  take  an  active 
interest  in  Bowdoin's  little  sheet,  and  we  will 
make  strenuous  endeavors  to  so  strengthen 
their  department  that  the  feeling  for  their 
Alma  Mater  will  ever  be  ripe  and  generous, 
and  the  interest  in  the  whereabouts  and  pros- 
perity of  classmates  will  be  continually  fed. 

There  is  one  pleasant  fact  in  looking  for- 
ward to  social  events  of  this  year,  and  that  is, 
our  guests  will  no  longer  be  subjected  to  the 
rude  and  distasteful  treatment  of  the  recent 
proprietor  of  the  Tontine  Hotel. 

The  lack  of  suitable  accommodations  in 
Brunswick  leaves  us  not  a  little  at  the  mercy 
of  the  only  available  public  house  in  town ; 
and  during  the  last  year  or  two  such  mercy 
has  been  extremely  prominent  by  its  absence. 
Never  could  a  man  be  found  more  destitute 
of  the  first  elements  of  a  gentleman  and  more 
lacking  in  the  qualities  of  host  than  the  prede- 
cessors of  Carr  and  Campbell,  the  present 
managers. 

The  whole  college  sighs  with  relief  at  the 
departure  of  the  ex-proprietor,  but  wishes  the 
best  of  good  luck  to  his  successors. 


The  Orient  will  be  sent  to  each  member 
of  the  Freshman  Class  during  the  college  year 
in  accordance  with  the  usual  custom.  Their 
desire  to  be  on  the  mailing  list  of  the  college 
newspaper  is  taken  for  granted,  and  bv  this 
method  a  great  saving  of  labor  and  time 
results  to  the  already  overworked  Business 
Editor. 

Once  a  subscriber  always  a  subscriber, 
should  be  the  motto  of  every  college-spirited 
Freshman,  and,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  of  every 
student  and  alumnus.     The  Orient  will  look 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


out  for  the  "once  a  subscriber,"  and  trust  in 
a  blind  providence  for  the  performance  of  the 
student's  duty  to  his  college  paper. 


That  even  the  best  of  newspapers  are  far 
from  infallible  is  shown  by  the  following 
clipping  of  the  Boston  Herald  for  July  20th, 
in  an  article  on  "The  Boys'  Writers": 

The  authors  who  wrote  for  boys  in  the 
last  generation  are  passing  away.  Horatio 
Alger  has  gone  to  join  Elijah  Kellogg  and 
"Oliver  Optic."  They  were  all  prolific  story 
tellers,  and  though  the  views  of  life  in  some 
of  their  stories  were  objected  to  sometimes 
as  not  altogether  just,  their  atmosphere  was 
always  pure  and  healthful.  They  did  not 
make  crime  their  chief  staple,  and  their  tone 
was  above  that  of  the  dime  novel.  Theirs  was 
not  literature  in  the  higher  sense ;  the  most  of 
the  boy  readers  did  not  crave  this,  and  it  was 
impracticable,  if  it  was  desirable,  to  force  it 
upon  them.  Their  books  were  not  without 
information,  however.  There  was  history  in 
them,  and  there  were  what  were  in  effect 
travels  in  dift'erent  parts  of  the  world.  There 
are  good  story  tellers  for  boys  left.  Mr.  J.  T. 
Trowbridge  of  this  vicinage  comes  near  being 
the  veteran  among  them,  and  he  has  more  of 
the  literary  faculty  than  most  of  his  earlier 
fellows. — Boston  Herald. 

Now  the  trouble  with  this  article  is  that 
our  Elijah  Kellogg  is  still  alive,  and  though 
five  years  past  the  fourscore  year  mark,  he 
continues  to  minister  to  the  congregation  of  a 
little  church  near  Harpswell.  So  long  as  he 
lives  Bowdoin,  his  Alma  Mater,  challenges  the 
right  of  any  other  man  to  be  considered  "the 
veteran"  of  boys'  writers.  In  the  Whispering 
Pine  Series,  Kellogg  gives  glimpses  of  life 
here  at  Brunswick,  and  it  is  a  fact  tmdoubtedly 
overlooked  that  these  distinctively  local  stories 
with  their  portrayal  of  Bowdoin  life  and  Bow- 
doin traditions  have  had  a  far  wider  reading 
than  "I-Iarvard  Tales"  or  "Princeton  Stories" 
and  other  like  sketches.  Kellogg  was  the 
unconscious  forerunner  of  such  work  as  this, 
but  his  was  for  the  boy  world  at  large,  not  for 
his  own  college  men  alone.  Elijah  Kellogg 
was  born  in  1813  ;  he  graduated  from  Bowdoin 
in  1840 ;  and  he  published  his  first  boys'  stories 
I 


in  1866.  A  man  of  eighty-five  years,  an 
alumnus  of  nearly  sixty  years'  standing,  a 
writer  for  over  33  years, — from  him  who  will 
venture  to  wrest  the  title  of  the  veteran  in 
bovs'  literature? 


One  of  the  objections  or  disadvantages 
sometimes  laid  at  Bowdoin's  door  is  that  her 
students  are  nearly  all  Maine  men.  We  grant 
the  fact,  nor  are  we  ashamed  of  it.  Maine 
stock,  Maine  men,  Maine  brains  have  been 
prominent  since  Maine  was.  And  in  those 
Maine  products  Bowdoin  has  had  no  small 
share.  Look  over  your  college  catalogue ;  see 
the  number  of  graduates  born  and  bred  in 
Maine ;  look  at  them  a  few  years  later. 
Where  are  they?  Still  in  Maine?  Alas  for 
her,  but  too  few  of  them.  In  Massachusetts, 
in  New  York,  in  the  South,  in  the  West  they 
are ;  but  wherever  they  went  and  do  now  go, 
they  carried  and  do  now  carry  vigor  and 
sturdiness  and  independence  that  Maine 
planted  and  Bowdoin  watered.  If  any  one 
speaks  slightingly  of  the  number  of  Maine 
men  at  Bowdoin,  tell  him  what  Maine  is  and 
what  she  stands  for. 


Bowdoin  has  formally  voted  not  to  play 
in  any  base-ball  league  the  coming  season  of 
which  Colby  is  a  member. 

Last  spring  during  the  memorable  contro- 
versy of  the  Maine  base-ball  league,  Bowdoin 
was  practically  forced  to  withdraw  from  the 
league  to  maintain  her  self-respect ;  but  she 
desired  to  finish  her  games  with  the  Maine 
teams  as  per  schedule.  Already  one  game  had 
been  played  with  Colby  at  Waterville,  the 
expenses  of  which  the  visiting  team  was  sup- 
posed to,  and  did  bear,  but  with  the  under- 
standing that  the  return  game  at  Brunswick 
would  be  at  the  expense  of  Colby;  yet  after 
Bowdoin  dropped  out  of  the  league,  Colby  in 
a  most  unsportsmanlike  and  unjust  decision 
refused-  to  play  the  return  game,  thus  not  only 
arousing  the  ire  of  students,  friends  and 
alumni,  but  also  mortification  that  the  State  of 
which  we  are  sons  should  be  the  home  of  an 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


109 


athletic  organization  showing  such  a  lament- 
able lack  of  the  sterling  and  just  spirit  with 
which  every  athletic  team  is  supposed  to  be 
inspired. 

Our  treatment  during  the  entire  discussion 
of  last  spring  was  of  the  most  unfair  kind, 
not  only  by  Colby  but  by  Bates  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Maine,  and  from  the  latter  institu- 
tions informal  acknowledgment  of  such 
unfairness  has  been  adm;tted  by  certain  of 
their  students  in  casual  meetings  which  the 
vacation  produced ;  but  Colby,  the  chief 
offender,  has  proved  herself  to  be  out  of  the 
class  of  colleges  with  which  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  compete  in  athletic  contests,  and  the  only 
alternative  left,  if  we  have  still  a  semblance  of 
self-dignity,  is  to  refuse  to  play  Colby  at  base- 
ball this  next  season,  which,  after  careful  con- 
sideration, we  have  accordingly  decided  in  a 
meeting  of  the  student  body. 


CALENDAR. 

Wednesday,  Oct.  4. — Bowdoin  plays  Harvard  at 
Cambridge. 

Saturday,  Oct.  7. — Bowdoin  plays  Dartmouth 
at  Hanover. 

S.-^TURDAY,  Oct.  14.— Bowdoin  plays  University 
of  Maine  at  Brunswick. 

Saturday,  Oct.  21. — Bowdoin  plays  Amherst  at 
Amherst. 

Sunday,  Oct.  22. — Sermon  before  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Saturday,  Oct.  28.— Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
Brunswick. 

Monday,  Oct.  30.— Mid-term  meeting  of  college 
jury. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  i.— Bowdoin  plays  E.xeter  at 
Exeter. 

Saturday,  Nov.  4. — Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at 
Portland. 

Saturday,  Nov.  11. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Brunswick. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  15. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
College  Hill. 

Saturday,  Nov.  18.— Bowdoin  plays  Holy  Cross 
at  Worcester. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23.— Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Monday  to  Friday,  Dec   18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday,  Dec  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Giles,  '02,  is  coaching  Bath  High  School. . 

The  Glee  CKib  is  soon  to  begin  rehearsals. 

Atherton  will  preach  at  Freeport  next  Sunday. 

Dr.  Whittier  began  examining  the  Freshmen  last 
week. 

The  Orient  Board  held  a  meeting  last  Monday 
night. 

George  Minard,  ex-igoo,  was  on  the  campus  last 
week. 

Professor  Robinson  was  in  Augusta  and  Bangor 
last  week. 

Many  golf  enthusiasts  are  practicing  driving  on 
the  campus. 

The  trees  on  the  campus  are  resplendent  in  their 
autumn  colors. 

Messrs.  McCormick  and  Rowell  climbed  Mt. 
Adams  Saturday. 

The  Senior  Chemistry  class  is  one  of  the  largest 
in  the  history  of  the  college. 

About  313  books  were  taken  from  the  library 
during  the  month  of  September. 

Professor  Files  and  Mr.  Inniann  spent  last  Sab- 
bath morning  picking  mushrooms. 

White.  '01,  will  give  a  tea  in  his  room  Sunday 
afternoon  for  out-of-town  friends. 

The  artillery  practice  at  Portland  Head  last  week 
was  quite  plainly  heard  in  Brunswick. 

It  is  reported  that  Duke  Burbank  has  been  pro- 
moted to  Baron  for  good  and  faithful  service. 

President  Hyde,  Professors  Woodruff,  Emery, 
Smith,  and  Dr.  Whittier  are  enthusiastic  golfers. 

There  was  a  dance  last  Wednesday  night  at  the 
High  School.     A  number  of  the  students  attended. 

Mr.  Currier  has  decided  to  admit  no  female 
pupils  to  instruction  in  drawing  during  the  college 
year. 

The  physical  examinations  of  the  Freshman 
Class  are  not  up  to  the  standard  of  the  last  two 
classes. 

Prof.  Chapman  has  been  chosen  delegate  from 
the  Faculty  to  the  inauguration  of  President  Hadley 
of  Yale. 

The  New  England  Association  of  College  Presi- 
dents will  meet  at  Bowdoin  on  the  second  and  third 
of  November. 

Among  the  college  fellows  who  attended  the 
Bates-Bo.ston  College  game  were  Hill,  Leferriere, 
Wing,  Merrill,  Fliggins,  West,  and  Smith,  '03. 


no 


BOWDoiN  orient; 


Last  week's  issue  of  the  Colby  Echo  shows  that 
Hymen  has  been  busy  among  the  alumnae  and  alumni 
body. 

Lewis,  'oi,  and  Corliss,  'oi,  are  out  teaching, 
the  former  at  West  Freeman  and  the  latter  at 
Harpswell. 

A  copy  of  the  recent  work  of  President  Hyde,  in 
"God's  Education  of  Man,"  has  just  been  added  to 
the  library. 

Solon  Cahill.  the  Maine  Central  station  agent, 
fixes  the  date  of  the  opening  of  the  new  station  at 
November  ist.  The  building  is  now  fast  approach- 
ing  completion. 

Portland  is  the  Mecca  for  students  this  week. 
The  list  of  attractions  includes  the  Maine  Music 
Festival,  The  Christian,  Off  and  On,  and 
Mademoiselle  Fifi. 

Manager  Swett  of  the  track  team  is  soon  to  send 
out  postals  to  the  different  high  schools  in  the  State, 
notifying  them  of  the  Invitation  Meet  that  will  be 
held  on  the  Whittier  athletic  field  some  time  next 
June. 

Cloudman,  the  phenomenal  lOO-yard  sprinter,  had 
an  offer  of  $1000  from  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania to  leave  Bowdoin  and  attend  that  institution, 
but  he  declined  the  offer.  The  boys  greatly  appre- 
ciate his  loyalty  to  his  own  college. 

The  Brunswick  Golf  Club  is  a  very  enthusiastic 
organization,  and  is  increasing  in  membership.  The 
club  now  numbers  about  40.  A  number  of  the 
students  use  the  links,  and  next  season  it  is  hoped 
to  have  several   games  here  with  outside  clubs. 

President  Hyde  returned  from  Boston  Friday 
night,  where  he  had  been  in  attendance  at  the  coun- 
cil of  Congregationalists  in  session  there.  His 
speech  on  Monday  evening  was  one  of  the  hits  of 
the  session  and  led  to  some  controversy  by  succeed- 
ing speakers  during  the  week. 

$5,000  was  exhibited  in  front  of  the  Town  Hall 
Thursday  as  a  guarantee  for  the  excellence  of  Fabio 
Romani.  The  management  offered  to  refund  twice 
the  price  of  a  ticket  to  any  one  of  the  audience] 
who  was  not  satisfied  with  the  entertainment,  but  hel 
could  not  be  found  after  the  performance.  Some  of 
the  students  were  fooled  again. 

The  method  of  registering  electives  in  use  this 
term,  that  the  students  should  meet  the  Registrar 
between  the  hours  of  2  and  4  on  the  first  Wednesdayj 
of  the  term,  has  been  made  permanent.  The  pres- 
ent arrangement  which  is  likely  to  be  made 
permanent  is  that  the  students  shall  have  until  the, 
second  Wednesday  of  the  term  in  which  to  change) 
their  electives.  1 

I 


The  Saturday  Club,  several  of  whose  lectures 
the  students  were  permitted  to  attend  last  year,  have 
arranged  an  especially  fine  programme  for  this  year 
including  a  lecture  by  F.  Hopkinson  Smith. 

A  mass-meeting  of  the  student  body  was  held 
in  Memorial  Hall  Thursday  evening,  to  discuss 
playing  base-ball  with  Colby  next  spring.  President 
Clark  of  the  Base-Ball  Association  presided.  No 
action  was  taken,  since  merely  the  general  opinion 
of  the  students  was  wanted.  The  feeling  seemed 
to  prevail  universally  that  no  games  in  base-ball 
should  be  played  with  Colby,  and  it  seems  probable 
that  none  will  be  played. 

The  Freshmen  made  their  night-gown  parade 
Monday  night.  They  marched  down  Maine  Street 
clad  in  an  elegant  costume  of  robe-de-nuit  over 
cheviot  and  furnished  plenty  of  amusement  for  the 
crowds  which  thronged  Maine  Street.  The  town 
boys  were  good-natured  and  held  their  peace  and 
the  affair  was  treated  as  a  great  joke  by  all  hands, 
and  even  the  Freshmen  seemed  to  enjoy  it,  especially 
when  one  of  them  was  taken  before  a  bevy  of 
blushing  Brunswick  girls  and  compelled  to  dance 
and  sing  for  their  edification. 

A  meeting  of  the  Bowdoin  Track  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation was  held  Wednesday  afternoon  in  Memorial 
Hall.  The  students  turned  out  en  masse  to  attend. 
Last  year's  manager,  Robert  F.  Chapman,  submitted 
his  report  of  receipts  and  expenditures,  and  the 
report  was  accepted.  On  vote.  President  Bragdon 
appointed  as  the  committee  to  nominate  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  Ernest  L.  Jordan,  1900,  John  R. 
Bass,  1900,  George  B.  Gould,  igoo,  Charles  G. 
Willard,  1900,  Albro  L.  Burnell,  1900,  Roland  E. 
Clark,  1901,  Harry  H.  Cloudman,  1901,  and  Alfred 
L.  Laferriere,  1901.  The  committee's  report  was 
accepted,  and  the  following  officers  were  declared 
elected :  President,  Roland  E.  Bragg,  1901 ;  vice- 
president,  John  A.  Pierce,  1901 ;  secretary,  Charles 
H.  Hunt,  1902 ;  treasurer,  A.  Strout  Rodick,  1902 ; 
director  from  1902,  Benjamin  E.  Kelley;  from  1903, 
Charles  Conners.  The  general  athletic  committee 
presented  the  names  of  Herbert  L.  Swett,  1901,  and 
Ernest  T.  Smith,  1901,  for  manager ;  and  William 
L.  Watson,  1902,  and  Sidney  W.  Noyes,  1902,  for 
assistant  manager.  By  ballot  Swett  was  chosen 
manager,    and   Watson,   assistant   manager. 

A  rather  amusing  story,  which,  nevertheless,  has 
its  pathetic  side,  has  recently  come  to  us  from 
across  the  Atlantic.  One  of  the  members  of  the 
Class  of  '99,  after  graduating,  decided  to  spend  his 
summer  in  Europe.  Accordingly  he  set  sail  and 
had  not  been  long  at  sea  when  he  chanced  to  meet 
a  very  pleasant  young  man  of  about  his  own  age. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Ill 


A  close  friendship  was  formed  between  the  two  and 
by  mutwal  consent  they  decided  to  travel  together. 
After  reaching  Paris  the  collegian  went  out  to  see 
the  sights  and  took  his  new  friend  along  with  him, 
incidentally  paying  the  bills.  Soon  his  letters  home 
began  to  tell  of  his  new  acquaintance,  describing 
him  as  a  "corking  fellow"  who  had  a  large  acquaint- 
ance on  both  sides  of  the  ocean  and  was  a  master 
of  seven  languages.  This  friendship  lasted  until  one 
day  when  the  collegian  had  left  the  hotel  for  a 
short  time  his  friend  suddenly  departed,  having 
taken  with  him  the  greater  part  of  the  young  man's 
wardrobe,  and  also  having  drawn  about  $1000  on 
his  letter  of  credit.  The  collegian  is  now  looking 
for  his  friend,  but  has  small  chance  of  finding  him. 
The  tourist  is  expected  home  quite  soon.  If  he 
comes  to  Brunswick  he  will  find  his  many  friends 
eager  for  particulars. 

The  Boston  Journal  in  its  report  of  the  Monday 
evening  session  of  the  great  Council  of  Congre- 
gational ministers  of  the  world  has  this  to  say : 

The  evening  session  showed  President  Eliot  of 
Harvard  University,  quite  the  greatest  figure  in 
education  in  this  country,  on  the  programme.  Bos- 
ton loves  to  hear  President  Eliot  speak,  and  thovigh 
it  was  nearly  ten  o'clock  before  he  began,  nearly  all 
stayed  to  the  end.  But  though  his  speech  was 
scholarly,  and  though  his  personality  was  so 
imposing  that  he  held  the  people  where  no  other  one 
could  have  done  it,  it  is  also  true  that  the  man  who 
made  the  greatest  "hit"  with  his  audience,  coun- 
cilors and  public  alike,  was  President  Hyde  of  Bow- 
doin  College. 

President  Hyde  spoke  first,  though  President 
Eliot  had  been  placed  first  on  the  programme. 
Having  declared  that  the  most  ominous  sign  in 
American  Congregationalism  to-day  was  the  dispo- 
sition of  thoughtless  churches  to  admit  to  their 
pulpits  untrained  men  simply  because  they  can  glibly 
declaim  with  unctious  fervor  what  they  have  bor- 
rowed from  homiletical  helps,  Dr.  Hyde  received  a 
great  burst  of  laughter  and  applause.  Thereupon 
he  told  the  story  of  the  argument  between  the  Meth- 
odist and  the  Congregationalist.  The  Methodist 
was  in  favor  of  extemporaneous  preaching,  and  the 
Congregationalist  aske'd  if  he  didn't  think  that  it 
was  more  devout  to  God  and  more  courteous  to  his 
audience  to  offer  the  "beaten  oil." 

"Ah,  yes,"  responded  the  Methodist.  "You  pre- 
pare your  sermon,  and  then  put  it  away  in  your  desk 
against  Sunday.  It  gets  cold,  and  the  devil,  nosing 
about  to  see  what  he  can  do,  reads  it  in  your  desk. 
He  then  suggests  to  the  minds  of  your  parishioners 
objections  and  refutations  of  your  arguments.  So 
your  congregation  comes  to  church  in  a  sense  armed 
against  you.  Now,  I  speak  extemporaneously,  and 
the  devil  himself  doesn't  know  what  I'm  going  to 
say. " 

It  was  some  minutes  before  the  speaker  could  go 
on.  The  audience  laughed,  recovered,  laughed 
again,  applauded,  and  laughed  still  again.  Waves 
of  laughter  swept  across  the  hall,  as  the  absurdity 
caught  the  people  again  and  again. 


Probably  Professor  Moody  will  drive  Triangle  at 
the  Topsham  Fair  this  year  as  formerly.  It  is 
reported  that  Dr.  Whittier  has  bought  a  horse  that 
he  will  enter  with  Triangle.  Tickets  can  be  pro- 
cured from  Professor  Little  at  the  library. 


ATHLETICS. 

Seniors  17,  Juniors  9. 

The  Seniors  toyed  with  the  Juniors  for  two  hours 
last  Friday  and  then  walked  away  with  the  game. 
1901  made  eight  of  her  runs  in  the  first  two  innings 
through  some  weird  throwing  by  1900's  infield,  but 
after  that  was  never  in  the  race. 

Clarke  pitched  a  good  game  and  hit  the  ball  in 
the  eye.  Bacon  got  two  good  hits,  and  made  a 
phenomenal  throw  to  third.  Gould  made  a  sensa- 
tional catch  in  centre,  and  Willard  was  very  graceful 
on  first, 

Jack  White,  who  started  in  to  pitch  for  the 
Juniors,  was  plainly  overtrained.  Willey  and  "Old 
Hoss"  Pratt  played  well  in  the  field,  and  Captain 
Leighton  captured  the  audience  by  the  sylph-like 
grace  with  which  he  handled  the  ball. 

The  score : 

Seniors. 

AB  R       liH         TB        PO  A  E 

Robinson,   s 6  2  2  2  2  o  o 

Clarke,    p 5  3  3  6  o  6  o 

Pottle,    3 6  I  I  I  3  I  I 

Pearson,    1 4  2  2  4  o  o  i 

Ward,    c 5  i  2  2  7  i  o 

Willard,    i 6  2  2  2  10  o  i 

Gould,    m 4  I  I  I  2  I  0 

Colesworthy,    r....3  o  o  o  i  0  o 

Bacon,  2 2  5  2  4  2  2  i 

Totals    41       17       IS       23       27       II         5 

Juniors, 
ab        r     bh      tb      po        a        e 
White,  p.  and  m.  .  4         i         o        o        o        3        0 
Willey,  2  and  p.  ..  .   3200160 

Pratt,    s 5         2        2        3         I         4         I 

Cloudman,  m&2..4         I         o        o         1         o        o 

Fuller,    1 3        0        o        o        o        o        o 

Johnston,    1 i         o         i.      i         i         o        o 

Parker,    3 4         i         2        3         i         i         i 

Flint,   c 4000500 

Leighton,    i 4         i         i         i       14        o         i 

Bragg,    r 4         i         o        o        0        o        o 

Totals    36        9        6        8      24       14        3 

Score  by  innings : 

123456789      T 

Seniors    o    4     6     i     o     5     i     o    x — 17 

Juniors    4    4    0    o    o     i     o    o    o —  9 

Earned  runs — Seniors,  4 ;  Juniors,  o.  Two-base 
hits — Robinson,  Pearson  2,  Pratt,  Parker.  Three- 
base  hits.  Bacon.    Home  runs,  Clark.     Stolen  bases, 


112 


BOWbOll^  ORIENT. 


Seniors,  9;  Juniors,  4.  Base  on  balls  by  Clark,  4: 
by  White,  5.  Hit  by  pitched  balls — by  White,  2 ;  by 
Willey,  I.  Struck  out — by  Clark,  5;  by  White,  3; 
by  Willey,  I.  Passed  balls — Ward  2.  Wild  pitches 
— Clark,  I.  Time  of  game.  2  hours,  10  minutes. 
Umpire,  Crolius  of  Dartmotith. 


Y.  M.  C.  f\. 

Thursday  evening,  the  28th  of  September,  the 
first  social  service  of  the  term  was  held.  A  good 
number  wBlS  in  attendance,  and  an  interesting  dis- 
cussion on  the  Ideals  of  College  Life  was  engaged  in 
by  those  present. 

In  a  few  days  the  Bible  Study  prospectus  will 
be  out,  explaining  the  courses,  stating. the  leaders 
and  all  other  necessary  information  relative  to  these 
new  courses  which  have  proved  so  popular  in  the 
large  institutions.  This  same  prospectus  will  have 
a  statement  about  the  mission  study  class,  which 
will  be  a  continuance  of  the  study  started  last  year. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Folsom  of  Bath  addressed  the 
students  at  the  Sunday  meeting,  October  ist,  on  the 
subject.  Spiritual  Nourishment.  The  speaker  com- 
pared, by  apt  illustrations,  the  feeding  of  body  and 
soul,  showing  how  sorely  human  nature  needs 
spiritual  food  to  save  it  from  a  starvation  more 
dangerous  than  that  of  the  physical  body.  The  solo 
by   Warren,    1901,    was   highly  appreciated. 

The  international  Y.  M.  C.  A.  tickets  have 
arrived,  and  by  consulting  the  membership  com- 
mittee you  can  find  out  all  about  the  advantages 
which  this  will  bring  to  the  members  of  the  associa- 
tion.    West,  1900,  is  chairman  of  the  committee. 


PERSON  fILS. 

Med.  '47. — Dr.  George  Googins  recently  died. 
'62.— Gen.     C.     P.     Mattocks     of     Portland     has 
recently  been  granted  a  guide's  license. 

'62. — "I  cross  the  desert  as  men  cross  the  sea, 

A  long,  lone  journey  travelled  silently ; 

With  nothing  beautiful  the  heart  to  cheer 

But  thoughts  of  Allah,  Allah's  thoughts 

of  me." 

So   begins    Mr.    Isaac    Basset    Choate's    "Obeyd, 

the  Camel  Driver,"  and  strikes  the  key-note  of  the 

sentiment   of   the   whole   book,    while   revealing   the 

source  of  its  inspiration.     "Obeyd"  is  in  the  meter 

of  the   Rubaiyat  of   Omar  Khayyam,   and   its   color 

and    expression    are    Oriental.     Sentiment    abounds, 

and     delicate,    clear-cut    verses    also    abound.     Mr. 


Choate's   book   is   issued  by   the   Home  Journal   of 
New  York. 

Med.  '67. — Frank  A.  Kimball,  a  well-known 
physician  of  Gardiner,  died  September  29th,  after 
a  short  illness.  He  was  57  years  of  age  and  a  very 
prominent  Gardiner  man  and  Mason.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  a  widowed  mother,  one  sister  and  three 
brothers. 

Med.  '81. — H.  D.  Robinson,  a  prominent  druggist 
of  Gardiner,  died  September  29th,  after  a  brief 
illness  of  apoplexy.  He  was  42  years  of  age  and  a 
prominent  Knight  Templar.  He  is  survived  by  two 
brothers. 

'89. — Staples,  who  has  been  practicing  law  in 
.A.ugusta  for  several  years,  has  moved  to  Bath. 

'90. — The  marriage  of  Miss  Rose  Little  and 
Edgar  Francis  Conant  took  place  at  the  Pine  Street 
Congregational  Church,  Lewiston,  on  the  evening 
of  September  29th.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  Rev.  George  M.  Howe.  The  church  was  well 
filled  with  friends  of  the  happy  couple. 

'90. — J.  B.  Pendleton,  formerly  with  Wright  & 
Ditson,  is  now  with  The  John  P.  Lovell  Arms  Co., 
and  has  charge  of  the  athletic  department. 

'91. — Thomas  R.  Croswell  has  recently  issued  an 
extended  and  valuable  monograph  on  the  amuse- 
ments of  school  children. 

'94. — Rev.  P.  H.  Moore,  pastor  of  the  Saco  Con- 
gregational Church,  will  be  released  from  his 
pastorate  on  October  ist.  He  intends  to  study 
medicine. 

'94. — Merritt  has  given  up  teaching  as  a  profes- 
sion and  gone  into  the  insurance  business  in  Lewis- 
ton. 

'94. — F.  G.  Farrington,  for  three  years  principal 
of  the  Skowhegan  High  School,  has  given  up 
teaching  and  entered  upon  the  study  of  law  in  the 
office  of  L.  C.  Cornish,  Augusta. 

'94. — Ralph  P.  Plaisted  returned  in  September 
from  a  trip  through  Europe,  covering  a  year  and  a 
half. 

'95. — L.  C.  Hatch,  '95,  and  W.  S.  Bass,  '96,  sailed 
in  August  for  a  year's  tour  of  Europe  tQgether. 

'95. — C.  S.  Christie  and  Miss  Kaler  of  Bruns- 
wick were  united  in  marriage  in  July.  Dr.  Christie 
has  opened  an  office  in  Augusta.  The  best  man  at 
the  wedding  was  T.  V.  Doherty,  '95,  and  the  ushers 
included  Dewey,  '95,  and  Mitchell,  '95. 

'95. — L.  S.  Dewey,  principal  of  the  Warren, 
Mass.,  High  School,  was  married  this  summer  to 
Miss  Freeman  of  Cherryfield. 

'96. — E.  S.  Lyford  is  to  take  a  year's  course  in 
pharmacy. 

'96. — H.  W.  Coburn  was  married,  this  summer, 
to  Miss  Holt  of  Weld. 


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113 


'96. — Howard  Gilpatrick  was  married  during  the 
summer,  liis  bride  being  an  Old  Orchard  young 
lady. 

'96. — Chase  Eastman,  who  graduated  among  the 
first  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  June,  has 
been  spending  the  summer  in  Europe. 

'96. — Charles  W.  Marston  is  now  principal  of  the 
Skowhegan  High  School,  where  he  has  served  as 
sub-principal  for  three  years. 

'96. — Dr.  A.  G.  Hebb  is  at  Gorham,  and  will  take 
charge  of  Dr.  W.  D.  Williamson's  practice  during 
the  latter's  absence  at  Long  Island. 

'96. — Dr.  John  B.  Thompson  of  Topsham  has 
-been  appointed  house  officer  or  interne  of  the  Eastern 
Maine  General  Hospital,  Bangor.  Dr.  Thompson 
is  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  College  and  Medical 
School. 

'97. — Joseph  Stetson  is  to  take  a  course  in  elec- 
trical engineering  at  the  Institute  of  Technology. 

'97. — William  C.  Adams,  who  has  refused  a  call 
to  remain  another  year  at  Island  Falls,  Me.,  will 
study  at  Harvard  University. 

'97. — Eugene  L.  Bodge  is  studying  law  in  a  New 
York   City   School. 

'97. — Henry  S.  Warren  of  Bangor,  a  member  of 
the  Harvard  Medical  School,  Class  of  1900,  has 
recently  been  appointed  house  surgeon  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Hospital,  Boston. 

'97. — George  M.  Brett  has  been  appointed  sub- 
master  in  the  high  school  at  Burlington,  Vt. 

'98. — H.  M.  Bisbee  is  principal  of  the  Brewer 
High  School. 

'98. — Mr.  Arthur  Hunt  of  Lewiston  is  working  in 
his  position  at  the  census  department  in  Boston,  and 
likes  the  work.     He  intends  to  study  medicine. 

'98. — Mr.  Dwight  R.  Pennell  has  given  up  his 
census  appointment,  and  will  enter  the  Harvard  Law 
School  the  coming  fall  term. 


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Vol.  XXIX. 


No.  12. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED     EVERY    THDRSDAT    DURING    THE     COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

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ISLAY  F.  McCORMiCK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  12.— October  12,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes      115 

Calendar 110 

College  News       ■  .    .    .  117 

Y.  M.  C.  A 118 

Athletics 118 

Personals 120 


Mr.  John  Graham,  the  well  known  B.  A.  A. 
authority  and  athletic  promotor,  will  continue 
his  good  work  of  last  spring  again  this  coming 
season  in  coaching  the  men  for  the  N.  E.  I. 
A.  A. 

The  terms  have  been  settled  upon,  and 
everything  is  satisfactory  for  an  engagement 
of  four  weeks.  This  should  mean  a  great 
deal  towards  turning  out  another  champion 
team  ;  for  Mr.  Graham  surely  is  without  a  peer 


in  developing  track  men,  of  which  a  very 
pleasing  proof  exists  in  our  trophy  collection. 
The  manager  has  shown  very  commenda- 
ble judgment  in  this  choice,  while  his  prompt 
action  for  the  welfare  of  this  branch  of  athletic 
activity  should  be  an  incentive  to  aspirants  for 
Worcester  honors,  and  result  in  light  prepara- 
tory training  during  the  fall  and  winter. 


"Initiation  Night"  properly  fell  upon  the 
evening  of  Friday  last,  but  as  a  matter  of 
accommodation  to  our  gridiron  representa- 
tives it  was  postponed  to  Tuesday  of  this 
week. 

The  members  of  1903,  who  have  taken  the 
sacred  vows  of  brotherhood,  now  realize  a 
new  motive  in  their  acts  as  students,  while 
the  chapters  have  each  been  augmented  by 
delegations  neighboring  around  half  a  score. 

The  evening  orgies,  encroaching  not  a  little 
upon  the  night,  were  followed  by  various 
society  customs,  rituals,  and  a  banquet  at 
which  the  initiates,  active  members  and  alumni 
of  the  respective  societies  paid  their  respect  to 
Epicurus. 


Of  the  several  sources  of  influence  at  col- 
lege which  may  impassion  the  student,  those 
which  are  legitimate  and  commendable  need 
not  conflict  among  themselves.  Especially 
prominent  stands  the  Society,  the  Class  and 
the  College;  but  the  greatest  of  these  is  the 
College.  Moreover,  to  have  the  right  class 
spirit,  and  to  be  a  valuable  and  good  fellow 
in  the  "fret,"  the  essential  element  is  nothing 
more  or  less  than  loyalty  and  devotion  to 
Bowdoin. 

Back  the  college  athletics  actively,  if 
nature  has  so  fashioned  you,  otherwise  with 
moral  support  and  encouragement.  Be  inter- 
ested in  the  college  organizations  and  literary 


116 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


activities,  and  a  personal  promoter  of  such  as 
are  consistent  with  your  talents  and  circum- 
stances. Be  cheerful  and  unprejudiced  to 
class  and  college  mates,  thus  making  the  col- 
lege boundaries  the  walls  of  a  congenial  house- 
hold. And  finally,  be  not  a  laggard  in  the 
class-room,  but  eat  your  fill  of  the  Tree  of 
Knowledge,  which  bears  no  more  propitiously 
than  right  here  in  our  midst. 

Do  all  this  and  "Popular  Man"  will  not 
exist  except  as  an  entire  class,  while  the  socie- 
ties will  be  a  true  band  of  brothers,  with 
Bowdoin  supplying  the  place  of  the  natural 
Mother. 

Class  and  Society  spirit  are  but  the  com- 
ponents of  College  spirit ;  the  latter  begets  the 
former,  but  never  vice-versa.  A  sound  body 
is  the  essence  of  all  soundness ;  diseased  limbs 
result  from  a  diseased  body,  for  strong  limbs 
are  impossible  unless  there  first  be  a  sound 
body.  Be  Bowdoin  first,  and  you  will  be  all 
that  is  commendable  from  a  class  or  society 
aspect. 


There  is  so  much  that  is  good  in  the  clubs 
and  lectures  which  formed  an  important  page 
in  the  history  of  the  college  last  winter  term, 
that  the  Orient  cannot  forbear  to  dwell  a  few 
lines  upon  this,  even  though  it  be  a  bit  early. 

Surely  the  experiment,  if  it  was  such,  was 
successful,  which  gave  us  that  interesting  and 
varied  course  of  lectures  during  part  of  last 
year.  We  trust  it  may  be  repeated  this  year, 
and  feel  safe  in  guaranteeing  the  hearty  sup- 
port of  the  students.  Bowdoin  is  sadly 
lacking  in  those  opportunities  available  to 
Massachusetts  colleges,  which  permit  students 
to  hear  and  know  the  leaders  in  different 
human  activities  and  movements ;  so  any  pro- 
vision for  supplying  that  loss  should  be 
eagerly  grasped  and  utilized  by  both  Faculty 
and  students. 

The  clubs,  which  were  of  the  greatest  ben- 
efit, from  both  social  and  intellectual  aspects, 
cannot  diminish  in  number  or  interest  this 
)'ear,  else  we  drift  so  much  backward.  Once 
established,  and  having  prospered  as  they  did 
\ 


last  3'ear,  they  will,  we  sincerely  trust,  be  now 
a  permanent  institution  at  Bowdoin,  and  more 
beneficial  through  the  experience  and  pros- 
perity of  the  past  year. 


Where  are  the  men  who  were  going  to  do 
cross-country  running  this  fall  ?  This  is  a 
real  part  of  the  training  for  Worcester ;  and, 
outside  of  Bowdoin,  a  part  never  neglected. 
All  coaches  and  experienced  athletes 
acknowledge  the  extremely  beneficial  results 
of  cross-country  running,  and  why  should  we 
not  profit  accordingly?  There  are  certain 
men,  not  claimed  by  foot-ball,  who  should 
train  as  faithfully  for  Worcester  now  as  next 
spring,  and  stirely  there  is  country  enough 
about  us  to  adopt  this  method  so  prevalent  in 
all  colleges  which  have  any  athletic  fame. 


CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  Oct.  7. — Bowdoin  plays  Dartmouth 
at  Hanover. 

Saturday,  Oct.  14. — Bowdoin  plays  University 
of  Maine  at  Brunswick. 

Saturday,  Oct.  21. — Bowdoin  plays  Amherst  at 
Amherst. 

Sunday,  Oct.  23. — Sermon  before  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Saturday,  Oct.  28. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
Brunswick. 

Monday,  Oct.  30. — Mid-term  meeting  of  college 
jury. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  i. — Bowdoin  plays  Exeter  at 
Exeter. 

Saturday,  Nov.  4. — Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at 
Portland. 

Saturday,  Nov.  11. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Brunswick. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  15. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
College  Hill. 

Saturday,  Nov.  18. — Bowdoin  plays  Holy  Cross 
at  Worcester. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23. — Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Monday  to  Friday,  Dec   18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday,  Dec  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


BOWDOIN  OHliENT. 


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COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Stockbridge,  '99,  is  coaching  Kent's  Hill. 

Flood,  '94,  was  on  the  campus  last  week. 

The  High  School  dance  has  been  postponed. 

"Berry,"  says  a  voice.     "Here,"  answers  Berry. 

The  first  themes  of  the  term  were  due  the  third. 

Professor  Chapman  granted  an  adjourn  last  week. 

Cony  Sturgis,  '99,  was  on  the  campus  Wednesday 
last. 

Parsons,    1900,    went    to    Cambridge    to    see    the 
game. 

The    Sophomore    Greek    Class    consists    of    four 
members. 

Gorgeously   attired    Freshmen   have   appeared   in 
chapel  lately. 

Professor  Files  granted  an  adjourn  to  German  4 
on   Saturday. 

The  Casino  at  Merrymeeting  Park  will  close  in 
about  a  week. 

Professor  MacDonald  granted  an  adjourn  in 
history  last  Friday. 

Professor  Chapman  was  one  of  the  chorus  at 
the  Music  Festival. 

Some  of  the  students  witnessed  "The  Christian" 
in  Portland,  last  week. 

Professor  Woodruff  gave  an  adjourn  in  all  his 
Greek  classes,  Monday. 

It  is  probable  that  the  Editor-in-Chief  of  the  1901 
Bugle  will  also  be  its  art  editor. 

Quite  a  number  of  the  students  went  to  Bath 
Thursday  night  to  "Madame  Fifi." 

Some  of  the  Freshmen  were  paraded  in  negligee 
last  week,  preparatory  for  initiation. 

A  good  many  of  the  students  went  to  the  Musi- 
cal Festival  in  Portland  Wednesday  night. 

Professors  Houghton  and  Emery  were  among 
the  audience  at  the  Festival,  Wednesday  night. 

President  Hyde  will  lecture  before  the  Saturday 
Club,  December  i6th,  on  "The  Art  of  Optimism." 

Topsham  Fair  this  week.  Everything  gives 
promise  that  it  will  be  the  most  successful  for  years. 

The  good  showing  made  by  the  foot-ball  team  at 
Harvard  was  appropriately  celebrated  Wednesday 
night. 

Strout,  1900,  is  thinking  seriously  of  spending 
his  first  Sunday  in  Brunswick  since  he  has  been  in 
college. 


The  gross  receipts  of  the  three  days  of  the  Maine 
Music  Festival  in  Portland  last  week  amounted  to 
about  $8,500. 

Referring  to  the  game  with  Bowdoin,  the  Boston 
Globe  says:  "Harvard  stock  dropped  several  points 
after  yesterday's  game." 

Upton,  Harvard's  Jonah,  is  still  searching  for 
the  puff  in  the  Boston  paper  concerning  his  phenom- 
enal tackling  against  Harvard. 

The  following  members  of  1900  have  received 
appointment  on  '68  Prize  Speaking :  Bragdon, 
Chapman,  Lee,   McCarty,  Webber,  and  Whitney. 

Professor  Chapman  has  been  chosen  to  represent 
Bowdoin  at  the  inaugurations  of  President  Hadley 
at  Yale  and  President  Faunce  at  Brown,  both  of 
which  occur  next  week. 

The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity,  which  held 
its  initiation  banquet  at  the  Tontine  Hotel,  reports 
that  the  present  proprietors  are  exceedingly  pleas- 
ant and  gentlemanly  hosts. 

Among  the  members  of  the  entering  class  at  the 
Harvard  Law  School  are  the  following  Bowdoin 
men:  Blake,  '97;  Young,  Pennell,  and  Ives,  '98; 
Dana,  Came,  Jennings,  and  Philoon,  '99. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  1901  Bugle  Board,  held  on 
October  6th,  it  was  voted  that  the  member  of  the 
Junior  Class  who  handed  in  to  the  editor  of  the 
Bugle  the  largest  number  of  acceptable  drawings 
before  January  i,  1900,  be  awarded  a  prize  of  two 
Bugles. 

Among  the  members  of  the  Portland  Athletic 
Club  team  who  have  played  on  college  teams  are 
Halliday,  fullback,  Bates ;  Dorticoes,  right  tackle, 
U.  of  M. ;  Dyer,  left  guard,  Brown;  Stockbridge, 
right  tackle,  Bowdoin  ;  Coombs,  right  guard.  Brown ; 
Lamb,  right  end,  Colby;  Chapman,  left  half,  Bow- 
doin.    Brooks  of  Colby  will  play  later  in  the  season. 

Professor  Mitchell  has  posted  the  following  sub- 
jects for  themes  due  Tuesday,  October  17th: 
For  Juniors — 

1.  England's  Treatment  of  the  Boers. 

2.  Some  Arguments  Against  Hazing. 

3.  Browning's  "Childe  Roland  to  the  Dark 
Tower  Came." 

4.  The  Poetry  of  Edward  Rowland  Sill. 

For  Sophomores — 

1.  How  May  the  Saloon  Problem  Be  Solved? 

2.  Should  Our  Greek-Letter  Fraternities  Post- 
pone "Pledging"  until  the  Winter  Term? 

3.  Some  of  My  Favorite  Scenes  in  Fiction. 


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BOWDOIN  OfelteNT. 


The  electric  road  between  Brunswick  and  Yar- 
mouth, to  connect  the  Lewiston,  Brunswick  &  Bath 
electric  road  with  the  Portland  street  railway 
system,  will  be  completed  and  in  active  operation 
before  the  middle  of  next  summer.  The  road  will 
be  built  under  the  general  law,  with  the  sanction  of 
the  local  authorities  of  the  towns  through  which  it 
passes,  as  to  locations.  This  is  a  link  in  the  chain 
of  electric  roads  which  it  is  claimed  is  to  extend  from 
I.ewiston  to  Boston. 


Y.  M.  C.  f\. 

That  the  new  departure  taken  by  the  Association, 
in  having  special  music  at  its  Sunday  services,  is 
highly  appreciated  by  the  students,  is  evident  from 
the  large  attendance  at  all  these  services. 

An  unusually  large  number  had  the  privilege  of 
listening,  last  Sunday,  to  two  very  beautiful  solos 
by  Miss  Carrie  Miller  of  Lewiston.  She  sang  "The 
Holy  City,"  and  at  the  close  of  the  service,  "The 
Secret  of  His  Presence."  Miss  Miller  has  a  strong 
and  very  pleasing  contralto  voice,  and  all  who  heard 
her  were  inspired  by  her  singing.  We  are  happy  in 
her  promise  to  come  again,  some  time,  and  sing 
for  us. 

Professor  Chapman  brought  out  forcibly  the 
connection  between  two  important  events  of  the 
previous  week,  the  home-coming  of  Admiral  Dewey, 
and  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Board  of 
Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions.  He  showed 
how  the  two  events,  marking  lines  of  action  and 
the  expenditure  of  enormous  energy  for  the  shedding 
of  light  upon  the  dark  places  of  heathendom,  the  one 
by  inculcating  religious  truths,  the  other  by  promul- 
gating the  principles  of  liberty,  justice,  and  obedience 
to  law,  are  the  direct  results  of  the  spirit  of  progress 
in  the  Christian  church.  Elegant  in  diction,  and 
forcible  in  phrase  as  ever.  Professor  Chapman  held 
the  entire  attention  of  all  present,  and  left  each  some 
good  ideas  to  think  upon. 

At  the  Thursday  evening  meeting,  October  5th, 
the  topic,  "How  has  the  vacation  prepared  me  for 
the  new  year's  work?"  was  considered.  H.  P. 
West,  1900,  led  the  service.  All  who  attended  found 
it  a  profitable  service. 

On  Thursday  evening,  October  12th,  will  be  the 
Bible  Study  rally.  Let  all  who  are  interested  in  a 
serious  study  of  the  Bible,  be  present  to  listen  to 
Rev.  J.  A.  Boardman  of  Hallowell,  who  will  speak 
upon  the  subject,  "Why  Study  the  Bible?"  Or  if 
you  are  not  especially  interested  come  and  learn 
why  you   should  be.     Mr.   Boardman   is   an   excep- 


tionally pleasing  speaker,  and  a  large  number  should 
be  present  to  welcome  him. 

Mr.  Harry  Wade  Hicks,  the  Secretary  for  the 
East  of  the  Intercollegiate  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  announces 
his  intention  to  pay  us  a  visit  on  the  8th,  pth,  and 
loth  of  November.  Mr.  Hicks  made  his  first  official 
visit  to  our  Association  during  the  latter  part  of 
the  last  spring  term,  and  won  a  warm  place  in  the 
hearts  of  all  who  were  privileged  to  meet  him.  By 
his  good  advice,  founded  on  a  large  experience,  by 
his  strong  Christian  character  and  hearty  enthusi- 
asm, he  encouraged  the  leaders  in  the  work  to  re- 
double their  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  Association,  and 
they  are  looking  forward  with  eagerness  to  his 
promised  visit  in  November. 

To  the  generous  donations  of  President  Hyde 
and  half  a  dozen  other  members  of  the  Faculty  the 
Association  is  indebted  for  the  new  hymn-books, 
which,  as  President  Hyde  remarked,  have  been  a 
crying  need  ever  since  he  has  been  here. 

The  music  committee  is  highly  pleased  at  the 
willingness  manifested  by  the  students  with  musical 
talent,  to  help  in  our  services,  and  announces  an 
instrumental  solo  by  a  member  of  the  Senior  Class 
for  next  Sunday. 


AThiLETICS. 

HARVARD  13,   BOWDOIN  0. 

On  Wednesday  afternoon,  October  4th,  the  Bow- 
doin  eleven  played  its  first  game  of  the  season  on. 
Soldiers'  Field  at  Cambridge,  and  held  Harvard  down 
to  a  score  of  13  to  o,  in  twenty  minutes  of  actual 
playing.  Over  1,200  persons  saw  the  game,  which 
had  promised  to  be  a  most  interesting  contest,  but 
which  was  a  disappointment. 

Harvard  played  poorly  and  Bowdoin  did  not 
do  herself  justice.  The  Bowdoin  centre  and  quar- 
terback passed  the  ball  poorly,  and  there  were 
costly  fumbles  in  our  backfield.  Though  the  Bow- 
doin ends  smashed  Harvard's  interference  prettily 
enough,  they  were  slow  getting  down  the  field  on 
punts.  Tackling  by  both  teams  was  high  and  dis- 
creditable. The  newspapers  of  Boston  roasted 
Harvard  unmercifully  and  were  only  a  trifle  easier 
on  Bowdoin. 

The  game  was  quickly  over.  There  were  no 
waits  for  injuries;  nobody  had  to  leave  the  game 
on  account  of  getting  hurt.  Captain  Clarke  won 
the  toss  and  took  the  wind.  Hallowell  kicked  off  to 
Donnell,  who  brought  the  ball  back  15  yards.  Bow- 
doin tried  Harvard's  line  and  made  no  substantial 


SOWDOIN  OEIENl'. 


119 


gain.  Hunt  went  back  for  a  punt;  but  the  pass  was 
poor  and  the  kick  sent  the  ball  only  about  iS  yards. 
Harvard  got  the  ball  on  the  Bowdoin  30-yard  line. 
Then  the  Harvard  backs  began  to  smash  over  and 
through  the  Bowdoin  line,  and  in  about  as  long  as 
it  takes  to  tell  about  it,  Parker  had  gone  through 
our  right  tackle  for  a  touchdown.  There  had  been 
3  minutes'  play.     Sawin  failed  to  kick  the  goal. 

The  remainder  of  the  half  saw  some  strong  line- 
bucking  by  Gregson,  whose  three,  four,  and  five- 
yard  gains  through  Trainer  were  generously 
applauded  by  the  spectators.  Harvard  regained  the 
ball  on  fumbles,  but  the  Bowdoin  defense  was  so 
strong  that  she  would  not  score.  Time  was  called 
with  the  ball  near  the  centre  of  the  field. 

At  the  opening  of  the  second  half  Harvard  sub- 
stituted her  best  available  backs,  Gierasch,  Warren, 
and  Reid,  for  the  three  who  had  played  through  the 
first  10  minutes.  Faster  offensive  work  on  the  part 
of  the  Crimson  team  was  the  outcome.  Upton 
kicked  off  to  Ried,  who  punted  back.  Harvard 
quickly  regained  the  ball  on  a  fumble,  and  with  two 
rushes  around  the  ends  and  some  spirited  line- 
smashing,  carried  the  ball  to  the  Bowdoin  6-yard 
line,  whence  Reid  was  pushed  through  the  centre 
for  a  touchdown.  Lawrence  kicked  the  goal ;  and 
the  score  was  Harvard  11,  Bowdoin  o. 

Warren  returned  the  next  kickoff,  and  sharp 
work  by  the  Harvard  ends,  coupled  with  a  fumble  by 
Hunt,  due  to  a  poor  pass,  gave  Harvard  the  ball 
on  the  Bowdoin  40-yard  line.  Gierasch  and  Reid 
battered  the  Bowdoin  men  down  the  field,  and  War- 
ren went  over  the  line  for  a  five-yard  gain,  which 
would  have  netted  a  touchdown  had  not  Harvard 
been  offside.  Bowdoin  took  the  ball  and  Webb,  who 
was  having  a  try  at  centre,  passed  the  ball  back  to 
Hunt  for  a  kick.  The  pass  was  weak  and  the  ball 
rolled  over  the  goal  line,  where  Hunt  fell  on  it  for 
a  safety.     Score,  Harvard  13,  Bowdoin  0. 

Twice  in  the  remaining  playing  time  Harvard  got 
within  10  yards  of  scoring,  and  then  lost  the  ball 
by  being  offside.  Bowdoin  could  not  make  any 
decided  gains,  and  the  ball  was  in  her  possession 
on  her  own  25-yard  line  when  time  was  up.  The 
summary : 

Harvard.  Bowdoin. 

Ristine,  1.  e r.  e.,  Chapman. 

Sawin,  1.  t r.   t.,   Laferriere. 

Boal,  1.  g r.  g.,  Bodwell. 

C.   Sargent,  c c,   S wett. 

c,  Webb. 

Trainer,   r.   g 1.   g.,    Cloudman. 

Barnard,  r.  g. 

J.   Lawrence,   r.   t 1.   t..   Snow. 

Hallowell,  r.  e 1.  e.,  Clarke. 

Fincke,   q.   b q.   b.,   Donnell. 

Gierasch,  1.  h.  b r.  h.  b.,  Hunt. 

Parker,  1.  h.  b. 


Warren,  r.  h.  b 1.  h.  b.,  Gregson. 

Kendall,  r.  h.  b. 

Reid,  f.  b f.  b.,  Upton. 

Sawin,  f.  b. 

Score — Harvard  13.  Touchdowns — Parker,  Reid. 
Goal — J.  Lawrence.  Safety — Hunt.  Umpire — J.  G. 
Knowlton.  Referee — Harry  Leighton.  Linesmen — 
Gray  of  Harvard  and  Spear  of  Bowdoin.  Time- 
keeper— John  Graham.     Time,   lom.  halves. 

DARTMOUTH  n,  BOWDOIN  o. 

Dartmouth  gave  Bowdoin  her  second  beating  on 
Saturday  afternoon,  October  7th,  on  the  gridiron 
at  Hanover,  after  40  minutes  of  brilliant  playing  by 
the  home  team.  The  score,  37  to  0,  tells  much ;  but 
not  all.  We  were  not  entirely  outclassed.  There 
were  men  in  the  Bowdoin  team  just  as  good  as  their 
opponents,  but  as  regards  team  work  we  were  away 
in  the  rear.  Dartmouth  had  a  heavy,  fast,  well- 
trained  team  on  the  field.  Her  men  went  down  on 
kickoffs  like  hawks  swooping  on  their  prey ;  they 
formed  solid  walls  of  interference  for  the  backs 
when  they  received  the  kickoff ;  they  punted  well ; 
they  dashed  at  the  line  like  tigers;  they  did  so  many 
things  that  we  didn't  do  that  tliey  swept  us  off  our 
feet. 

The  game  started  in  like  a  close  contest.  For 
about  ten  minutes  it  was  nip  and  tuck,  and  the 
betting  was  only  10  to  6  in  favor  of  Dartmouth. 
Then  the  Dartmouth  backs  found  a  weak  spot 
between  our  left  tackle  and  end  and  whirled  play 
after  play  through  it  until  the  total  of  points  scored 
was  heart-rending. 

Of  course  Bowdoin  occasionally  got  the  ball, 
and  once  in  a  while  she  gained ;  but  it  was  once  in 
a  great  while.  When  she  tried  to  punt  she  made 
a  bad  failure  of  it  and  back  would  come  the  ball  in 
the  hands  of  the  Dartmouth  men. 

Once  Bowdoin  got  to  the  Dartmouth  25-yard  line 
and  Captain  Clarke  nearly  kicked  a  goal  from  the 
field ;  and  again  Upton  captured  the  bounding  ball 
after  a  punt  and  made  a  good  bid  for  a  touchdown, 
only  to  be  pulled  to  the  ground  from  behind.  Most 
of  the  time  Bowdoin  could  be  considered  on  the 
defensive,  and,  with  her  line  as  stubborn  as  it  was 
at  Cambridge,  the  score  would  have  been  smaller. 
But  the  line  was  pushed  back. 

Still,  this  story  must  not  be  quite  a  tale  of  woe. 
There  was  considerable  improvement  in  the  Bow- 
doin team  in  some  points  in  this  second  game  of 
the  season.  Cloudman  became  more  aggressive  than 
we  had  ever  seen  him  before ;  Donnell's  work  was 
much  better  than  before,  Laferriere  and  Upton 
played  like  veterans,  Gregson  tackled  with  the  fierce- 
ness of  a  steel-trap,  and  Chapman  squelched  plays 
aimed  at  his  end  as  though  the  work  were  a  pastime. 

Dartmouth    surprised    herself.    Her    team    was 


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composed  largely  of  substitutes,  as  a  number  of  her 
leading  men  are  injured.  Nobody  expected  the 
substitutes  would  prove  such  good  men  as  they  did. 
Jennings  did  the  most  telling  work  for  Dartmouth. 

the  summary. 
Dartmouth.  Bowdoin. 

Gilmore,  1.  e r.  e.,  Chapman. 

Crowell,   1.   t r.   t.,   Laferriere. 

Lowe,   1.   g r.   g.,    Bodwell. 

Rogers,    c c,    Swett. 

Carson,   r.   g 1.   g.,    Cloudman. 

Butterfield,   r.   t r.   t.,    Snow. 

O'Connor,  r.  e 1.  t.,  Gregson. 

Thompson,   q.   b r.   e.,   Clarke. 

Jennings,  1.  h.  b 1.  e.,  Bellatty. 

Proctor,   r.   h.   b q.   b.,    Donnell. 

Wainwright,  f.  b r.  h.  b.,  Hunt. 

Farmer,  f.  b 1.  h.  b.,  Gregson. 

Bridges,  f.  b 1.  h.  b.,  Sylvester. 

Crowell,   f.   b f.   b.,   Upton. 

Score,  Dartmouth  37.  Touchdowns,  Jennings  4, 
Butterfield,  Wainwright,  Proctor.  Goals  from 
touchdowns.  Proctor  2.  Umpire,  Bacon  of  Bow- 
doin. Referee,  Carleton  of  Dartmouth.  Timer, 
Reddington  of  Dartmouth.  Linesmen,  Varney  of 
Dartmouth,  Spear  of  Bowdoin.  Time,  20-minute 
halves. 

I 
GRIDIRON  SIDE-LINES. 

The  Harvard  game  was  the  first  'varsity  game 
in  the  career  of  Snow,  Chapman,  Swett,  Webb, 
Laferriere,  and  Donnell ;  and  the  first  Harvard  game 
for  Hunt  and  Upton.  Cloudman,  Bodwell,  and 
Gregson  have  played  against  Harvard  three  times. 

Especial  praise  for  steady,  hard,  and  effective 
work  in  the  Harvard  game  is  due  Snow,  Gregson, 
Hunt,  and  Upton.  They  all  distinguished  them- 
selves. 

One  can  get  an  idea  of  the  impression  the 
Harvard-Bowdoin  game  made  upon  the  foot-ball 
reporters  of  the  Boston  newspapers  from  the  follow- 
ing clipping  from  The  Boston  Globe : 

"Of  all  the  ragged,  loose,  shiftless  and  unscien- 
tific games  played  on  Soldiers'  Field — and  there  have 
been  many — this  was  the  worst.  Both  elevens 
seemed  to  have  forgotten  all  the  foot-ball  that  had 
ever  been  taught  them.  The  game  abounded  in 
tackles  around  the  neck  and  the  shoulders  by  the 
Bowdoin  men,  and  in  instances  of  running  back  by 
Harvard  halfbacks.  Three  times  in  the  lo-minute 
halves  Harvard  lost  the  ball  on  fumbles,  Bowdoin 
also  losing  it  once,  and  five  times — twice  within  the 
iS-yard  line — Harvard  was  penalized  for  offside 
playing.  Once  Harvard  was  held  for  downs.  Har- 
vard's offense  being  pitifully  weak,  and  the  defense 
for  a  good  part  of  the  game  utterly  demoralized. 
The  game  showed  that  the  men  have  not  yet 
mastered  the  rudiments." 

While  in  Boston,  the  Bowdoin  men  stayed  at  the 
Quincy  House.  They  left  there  Thursday  morning 
for  the  Newton  Inn  at  Norwich,  Vermont,  and  went 


to  Hanover,  about  a  mile  from  that  place,  on  Satur- 
day. 

Swett  proved  a  solid  man  at  centre  in  the  Har- 
vard game,  and  was  kept  in  his  position  up  to  the 
last  three  minutes. 

Manager  Spear  is  going  to  have  a  tackling 
dummy  put  into  use  next  week.  There  is  too  much 
high   tackling. 

Captain  Clarke  ran  the  plays  for  his  team  at 
Canibridge  and  at  Hanover. 

The  two  defeats  at  the  opening  of  the  season 
ought  to  be  good  for  the  team  when  the  Maine  games 
come. 

The  return  trip  of  the  eleven  from  Hanover  was 
made  between  the  hours  of  2.45  A.M.  and  1.35  p.m., 
on  Sunday.     The  ride  is  tiresome. 

Yale  found  Bates  easy.  The  score  was  28  to  o. 
Coach  Dibblee,  Quarterback  Daly,  and  other  Har- 
vard men  saw  the  game  at  New  Haven  on  Satur- 
day, and  the  papers  report  them  as  taking  copious 
notes.  Thus  it  is  evident  that  Harvard  is  afraid  of 
Bates. 


PERSONflLS. 

'25. — The  many  friends  of  ex-Senator  James  W. 
Bradbury  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  he  has  nearly 
recovered  from  his  recent  serious  illness,  and  is  now 
reported  out  of  danger. 

'50. — Senator  Frye  left  Lewiston  last  Monday  to 
enter  on  the  Republican  campaign  in  Ohio.  Mr. 
Frye  in  his  October  speeches  presumably  will  devote 
himself  largely  to  commercial  questions  and  to 
debating  the  development  of  American  commerce 
under  protection  as  well  as  to  the  present  phase  of 
the  Philippine  question. 

'54. — F.  A.  Wilson  was  recently  elected  one  of 
the  directors  of  the  Bangor  Bridge  Co. 

'60. — Ex-Speaker  Reed,  in  a  letter  of  farewell  to 
his  former  constituents,  coins  an  excellent  saying : 
"Office  as  'a  ribbon  to  stick  in  your  coat'  is  worthy 
nobody's  consideration.  Office  as  opportunity  is 
worthy  all  consideration." 

'77. — Successive  reminders  come  to  hand  from 
various  parts  of  the  State  that  former  residents  of 
Maine  do  not  forget  their  native  places  or  the 
churches  amid  whose  hallowed  influences  and 
associations  they  were  reared.  A  recent  instance  is 
the  dedication  of  eight  memorial  windows  at  the 
Center  Street  Church,  Machias.  One  of  the  most 
beautiful,  representing  Christ  knocking  at  the  Gate, 
is  the  gift  of  Dr.  H.  H.  Smith,  now  of  New  Haven, 
in  memory  of  his  wife  and  mother.     Dr.  Smith  was 


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121 


born  and  brought  up  in  Machias,  and  was  for  many 
years  a  member  of  this  church  and  Sunday-school. 

'78. — Mr.  William  E.  Sargent,  principal  of  Hebron 
Academy,  was  born  in  Sanford,  Me.,  but  much  of 
his  boyhood  was  passed  in  various  towns  of  the 
State,  as  his  father  moved  from  place  to  place  in 
attending  to  ministerial  duties.  Mr.  Sargent 
received  his  early  education  in  the  towns  in  which 
he  resided,  and  prepared  himself  for  college  under 
the  supervision  of  Rev.  J.  J.  Bulfinch  of  Freeport. 
He  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1878.  In 
April  of  the  same  year  he  accepted  the  position  of 
principal  of  the  Topsham  High  School,  which  he 
held  for  two  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he 
went  to  Freeport,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  High 
School  until  1885,  when  he  went  to  Hebron  Academy. 
For  fourteen  years  he  has  labored  unceasingly  for 
the  building  up  of  this'  academy,  until  it  stands  as 
one  of  the  best  fitting  schools  of  New  England. 

'82. — Edward  R.  Jewett,  aged  38  years,  a  prom- 
inent Chicago  lawyer  and  a  Deputy  Sheriff  in  Cook 
County,  died  suddenly  at  Cherryfield,  Me.,  Friday, 
October  6,  1899,  of  heart  failure.  He  was  a  graduate 
of  Bwodoin  College,  Class  of  '82.  He  is  survived 
by  a  widow,  the  daughter  of  G.  R.  Campbell  of 
Cherryfield,  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 

'91. — On  Wednesday,  October  4th,  in  Bowdoin- 
ham,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Miss  Frances  Florida 
Curtis  to  Mr.  Fred  Ober  Fish.  Miss  Curtis  is  a 
graduate  of  Brunswick  High  School,  where  she 
fitted  for  Smith  College,  from  which  also  she  was 
graduated.  She  has  recently  taught  school  in  Skow- 
hegan.  She  has  accompanied  her  father.  Captain 
Curtis,  on  several  sea  voyages,  and  has  visited  China, 
Japan  and  other  foreign  lands  of  interest.  Mr.  Fish 
is  the  son  of  Professor  Charles  Fish  of  the  Bruns- 
wick High  School,  and  graduated  from  Bowdoin 
in  '91.  He  has  a  fine  position  as  examiner  in  the 
patent  office  at  Washington. 

'91. — The  death  of  John  R.  Home,  Jr.,  occurred 
October  i,  1899.  He  graduated  from  the  Berlin 
High  School  in  1887,  from  Bowdoin  in  i8gi,  and 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1894.  He  then 
accepted  a  call  to  Bartlett,  N.  H.,  where  he  served 
faithfully  four  years.  Last  winter  he  had  a  severe 
attack  of  la  grippe.  He  was  taken  to  Waverly, 
Mass.,  and  put  under  hospital  treatment,  but  never 
recovered.  Mr.  Home  was  a  member  of  the  Theta 
Delta  Chi  fraternity,  an  Odd  Fellow,  a  Free  Mason, 
and  a  Knight  of  Pythias.  He  leaves  a  father, 
mother,  six  brothers,  and  one  sister. 

'94. — Pliny  F.  Stevens,  M.D.,  and  Miss  Emma 
L.  Siebert  were  married  in  Bayonne,  N.  J.,  August 
I,  1899. 


'94. — F.  J.  Libby,  who  has  been  studying  abroad 
during  the  past  year,  enters  Andover  this  fall. 

'94. — F.  W.  Dana  has  left  the  New  York  office 
of  Silver  Burdette,  and  will  enter  business  in  Port- 
land. 

'94. — H.  C.  Wilbur  has  resigned  the  principal- 
ship  of  the  High  School  in  Jonesport,  Me. 

'94. — Harry  E.  Bryant  and  Miss  Harriet  E. 
Hopping  were  married  at  Biddeford,  Me.,  July  5. 
1899. 

'94. — Ralph  P.  Plaisted  will  open  a  law  office  in 
Bangor. 

'94. — Edgar  M.  Simpson  and  Miss  Ethel  H. 
White  were  married  in  Newcastle,  Me.,  September 
6,  1899. 

'97. — Samuel  Ackley  is  teaching  at  Washington 
Academy,  East  Machias,  Me.  He  is  acting  as 
assistant  to  Harriman,  also  of  '97. 

'98. — W.  W.  Lawrence  will  not  return  to  the 
University  of  Leipzig  this  fall.  He  and  H.  R.  Ives, 
'98,  will  take  courses  at  Harvard. 

'99. — Samuel  C.  Pattee,  who  graduated  with  high 
rank  from  Bowdoin  last  June,  has  gone  to  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  has  entered  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  for  a  four  years'  course  in  the  medical 
department. 

'99. — C.  V.  Woodbury  is  teaching  at  Baring,  Me. 

Med. — Dr.  G.  H.  Hutchins  of  Auburn  has  just 
left  for  Searsmont,  where  he  is  to  engage  in  the 
practice  of  medicine.  Dr.  Hutchins  is  a  graduate 
of  Bowdoin  Medical  School,  and  has  had  the  benefit 
of  a  New  York  hospital  practice,  besides  with  one 
of  our  local  physicians.  His  many  friends  wish  him 
every  success  in  the  new  field. 

'99. — Stockbridge  is  coaching  the  foot-ball  team 
at  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary,  Kent's  Hill.  His 
pupils  are  showing  good  progress,  and  on  Saturday, 
October  7th,  defeated  Bates  Second  Eleven  by  a 
score  of  52-0. 


IRST-  feLASS  *  ffRINTING 

FOR   SCHOOLS   AND   COLLEGES, 


EXECUTED    AT    THE 


JOURNAL  OFFICE.  LEW18T0N. 


BOWiDOiN  ORIENT'. 


GOLF  PANTS  AND  LEGGINS. 


We  now  have  a  line  assortment  of  the  above-named 
goods,  and  at  prices  which  are  very  low  for  the 
quality  of  the  goods.    CALL  and  Examine. 


J.    W.    &    O.    R.    PENNELL, 

ONE-PRICE,  SPOT-CASH  CLOTHIERS, 

72  Main  St.,  BRUNSWICK. 


J.    H.    YORK, 

MERCHANT   TAILOR, 

DD  Fellows  Block  BrunSwick,    Me. 


IN    STOCK 


A.  Q.  Spauldin^  &  Bros. 

AND 

Wright  &  Ditson 


extra  heavy  hand-knit 


Laiiiti's  Wool  Sweaters. 


CORRECT  THINGS   IN 
ATHLETIC  GOODS. 


THOMPSON  BROS., 

Bath's  Spot-Cash  Clothiers. 


E.   S.    BODWELL, 


50   Main   Street, 


Brunswick, 


In  College  Colors,  at  $4.00  and  $5.00. 

SHAW    MADE   COLLEGE   CAPS 

At   45c.    to   $1.00. 

JERSEYS  and  RUNNING  PANTS 

45c.   to   $2.00. 

All  the  New  Shapes  in 

NECKWEAR. 

Agent  for  GUYER  HAT. 

Give  U8  a  call.    No  fa'ouble  to  show  goods. 

MURPHY 

The  Hatter. 

Sign,  Gold  Hat. 
Corner  Lisbon  and  Ash  Streets, 
LEWISTON,  ME. 

Cigars,   Tobaccos, 

Novels,   Confectionery, 

Billiards  40c.  per  Hour.  DHUaraS,      HOOl. 

New  Balls,  New  Cues,  Tables  in  Thorougli  Repair. 

208  Main  Street,   BRUNSWICK,  ME. 
W.  R.  Field's  Old  Stand. 

Frank  E.  I^oberts, 

DEALEB  IN 

.Mw^,..,^Fine  Boots,  Shoes,  and  Rubbers, 


No.  52   Main  Street, 


Give  him  a  call. 

He  will  use  you  all  right. 


BKUNSWICK,  ME. 


Uention  Orient  when  Fatronizing  Our  Advertisers. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,    OCTOBER   19,  1899. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


No.  13. 


BOWDOrN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED     EVERY    THURSDAY    DURING    THE    COLLEGIATE 
YKAR  BY   THE  STUDENTS  OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Baee,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

IsLAY  F.  McCoRMiCK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.        Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  13.— October  19,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes       123 

Calendar 125 

College  News      125 

Y.  M.  C.  A 127 

Athletics ■ 128 

Personals 129 


Never  has  college  spirit  suffered  so  low  an 
ebb  tide  as  during  the  past  week.  Mortifying 
as  it  may  be,  yet  it  is  nevertheless  true,  that 
Bowdoin  can  be  taught  a  most  profitable  lesson 
in  college  spirit  right  here  in  our  own  State. 
Where  else  in  the  State,  not  to  mention  out- 
side, does  such  a  deplorable  condition  exist 
that  a  mass-meeting  is  necessary  not  only  to 
get  out  a  second  eleven  on  the  gridiron,  but. 
even  to  get  out  all  the  men  of  the  first  team, — 


in  other  words,  foot-ball  thus  far  this  fall  has 
been  nearly  synonymous  with  disgrace. 

It  is  extremely  difficult  for  the  Orient  to 
interpret  its  thoughts  and  complaints  in  cold 
black  and  white  concerning  this  subject ;  not  so 
much  from  inability  as  from  the  inherent 
repugnance  against  kicking  against  any  col- 
lege organization  of  such  importance  and 
popularity  as  a  Foot-Ball  Association. 
Nevertheless,  the  disease  lacks  a  remedy,  and 
its  symptoms  are  too  acute  to  permit  indiffer- 
ence,, so  "here  goes." 

In  the  first  place  no  discredit  on  account  of 
the  foot-ball  condition  can  be  laid  against  Mr. 
Crolius ;  indeed  it  is  wonderful  how  the  man 
can  possess  energy  enough  to  stick  by  the  fel- 
lows and  cheer  them  up  so  continuously  as  he 
does ;  in  fact,  the  side  lines  feel  that  he  should 
handle  the  team  with  much  more  seA^erity, 
and  will  stand  by  him  in  ruling  the  players 
with  cast-iron  regulations.  If  a  'varsity  man 
plays  listlessly,  tackles  high  or  plays  high,  give 
him  a  dose  of  second  eleven,  for  such  faults 
belong  to  beginners,  and  in  a  veteran  there  is 
no  excuse. 

Under  the  present  conditions  it  seems 
suicidal  to  suspend  a  regular  player,  and  the 
captain  justly  restrains  himself  except  as  a 
last  resort;  but  sufficient  provocation  e.x;isted, 
it  seems,  last  week,  to  have  suspended  a  few 
of  the  "stars"  from  participating  in  Saturday's 
game,  and  such  action  would  have  surely  been 
approved  by  the  fellows.  Such  proceedings 
might  teach  a  lesson  never  to  be  forgotten,  and 
truly,  there  appears  to  be  no  other  method  for 
teaching  certain  fellows  their  dues  to  their 
college. 

The  team  itself  is  not  harmonious  and  the 
word  lacks  considerable  of  being  a  collective 
noun.     One  or  two   of  the   veterans   "loaf ;"' 


124 


BOWDOIN   OKIENT. 


being  sure  of  a  position  and  able  to  do  their 
eleventh  part  of  the  work,  they  are  satisfied ; 
but  the  college  does  not  like  it,  by  any  means, 
and  she  expects  the  sum  total  of  their  worth. 
If  a  man  can  handle  his  opponent  with  no 
difficulty,  let  him  pay  a  bit  of  attention  to  some 
of  the  other  ten  opponents,  a  few  of  whom 
may  require  more  than  one  man  to  adequately 
care  for  them. 

More  important  than  all  this  is  the  ques- 
tion of  a  second  eleven.  The  'varsity  is  always 
stronger  than  the  second  from  the  very  nature 
of  things,  and,  conversely,  the  stronger  the 
second  eleven  the  better  our  record  for  this 
season.  In  the  neighborhood  of  forty  suits 
have  jjeen  distributed  among  the  fellows,  and 
nsually  about  fourteen  men  report  for  the 
scrub.  Just  as  sure  as  we  lose  a  State  game 
this  year,  the  blame  should  fall  as  heavily  on 
the  second  as  on  the  first,  since  there  are  about 
fifteen  fellows  in  college  who  could  make  so 
strong  a  second  eleven  that  every  game  now, 
or  with  a  possible  exception  of  one  out-of-State 
game  would  be  a  victory  for  us,  and  Bowdoin 
again  would  boast  the  championship  of  Maine. 

Finally,  there  remains  but  a  word  to  the 
fellows  in  general.  Excluding  players  there 
are  about  two  hundred  fellows  here  at  college, 
of  whom  occasionally  as  many  as  fifty  honor 
the  athletic  field  with  their  presence — that  is 
all,  a  paltry  one-fourth  gathers  in  one  corner 
of  the  grand  stand  and  softly  whisper  to  each 
other  pessimistic  comments  upon  the  ragged 
work  of  this  man  or  that.  In  short,  why  can't 
there  be  a  hundred  and  fifty  men  on  the  side 
lines  every  day  of  the  week;  why  can't  they 
cheer  and  how!  at  every  gain  or  stop  which  is 
at  all  admirable  ;  why  can't  they  infuse  the  men 
and  the  team  with  the  dash  which  they  so 
much  lack  ?  Why,  they  can,  and  ever  so  much 
more,  too.  The  Orient  appeals  to  college 
spirit,  to  college  sons,  to  Bowdoin  men ;  do 
your  duty  as  you  never  did  it  before,  and  your 
reward  will  be  emblazoned  upon  the  annals  of 
Bowdoin's  foot-ball  history  for  the  current 
season. 


The  paper  reports  concerning  the  forma- 
tion of  a  State  Base-Ball  League  of  which 
Bowdoin  is  a  member,  wander  not  a  little 
from  the  true  facts  of  the  case. 

To  be  sure  a  provisional  schedule  has  been 
made  out  applicable  to  such  a  league,  thus 
encouraging  managers  to  quite  complete  their 
respective  schedules  without  causing  any  con- 
fliction. 

Bowdoin  later  on  from  a  new  aspect  of  the 
relations  with  Colby,  may  make  a  change  in 
her  decision.  But  at  present  there  is  not 
much  probability  of  a  change  in  opinion,  so 
everything  points  to  Bowdoin's  independence 
next  spring  so  far  as  a  State  league  is  con- 
cerned. 


Possibly  a  few  fellows  felt  a  sour  sensation 
in  their  mouths  as  the  effect  of  a  recent  article 
in  the  Portland  Argus,  which  is  so  convenient 
when  any  one  has  some  mud  to  fling.  The 
gist  of  the  article  was  that  if  the  four  colleges 
in  the  State  were  amalgamated,  one  first-class 
college  might  result.  The  article  was  signed 
"L.  W.  S." — looks  rather  familiar,  doesn't  it? 

Bowdoin,  as  a  college,  does  not  claim 
supreme  excellence ;  nor  would  she  wish  to 
possess  it  if  it  is  only  obtainable  by  combining 
with  the  other  colleges  of  the  State.  Unfor- 
tunately, Mr.  L.  W.  S.,  discontent  is  not 
gnawing  at  our  vitals ;  indeed,  we  are  rather 
serenely  happy  and  contented  in  our  Faculty, 
alumni,  fellow-students,  funds,  campus, 
buildings,  curriculum,  and  all  that  pertains  to 
the  college.  Our  alumni,  young  and  old, 
have  won  marked  honor  and  respect  in  all  the 
various  human  activities;  they  are  the  main- 
stay of  the  State  ;  they  are  loved  by  her  people ; 
they  have  participated  in  national  activities ; 
they  have  earned  the  praise  of  a  generous 
nation;  and  Bowdoin,  their  Mother,  has  done 
all  this — notwithstanding  the  numerous' 
defects  which  are  attributed  to  her  from  cer- 
tain sources.  How  gratifying  it  is  to  be 
considered  a  first-class  college  even  by  the 
people  of  the  State,  educators  of  the  land,  and 


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125 


sister  institutions,  althougli  judgment  from 
such  sources  may  not  be  the  true  criterion  of 
our  worth,  when  so  able  a  judge  as  L.  W.  S. 
exists. 

Yet  in  aU  sincerity  may  it  be  our  happy  lot 
and  that  of  our  posterity  to  boast  an  Alma 
Mater,  Bowdoin ;  while  the  insignificant  buz- 
zing of  our  awful  blusterer  of  the  Argus 
columns  falls  among  us  unconsciously  in  the 
sweet  fragrance  of  congeniality,  progress- 
iveness  and  contentment,  which  permeates 
Bowdoin,  from  Athletic  Field  to  Art  Building, 
and  from  South  Appleton  to  Memorial  Hall. 


The  college  treasurer  has  received  a  tele- 
gram announcing  that  the  decree  of  the  U.  S. 
Circuit  Court  dismissing  the  bill  of  review  in 
the  Garcelon  case  has  been  affirmed.  This 
would  seem  to  close  the  litigation  which  has 
been  carried  on  in  California  for  nearly  ten 
years.  In  April,  1891,  Mrs.  Catherine  M. 
Garcelon  of  Oakland,  Cal.,made  a  deed  of  trust 
by  which  conveying  to  trustee.  Judge  John  A. 
Stanley,  property  left  her  by  her  brother.  Dr. 
Samuel  Merritt,  amounting  to  $1,250,000 
should  be  distributed  after  her  death 
to  relatives  and  public  institutions.  One- 
fifth  was  given  in  comparatively  small 
amounts  to  a  large  number  of  individuals,  and 
six-tenths  of  the  remainder  was  to  be  divided 
between  a  hospital  in  Oakland  and  Bowdoin 
College,  in  the  proportion  of  four  to  six. 
Immediately  upon  her  death  one  of  her 
nephews  began  a  law  suit.  An  attack  was 
made  upon  the  validity  of  the  deed  by  a 
nephew  not  mentioned  in  it  and  the  legal  con- 
test has  waged  ever  since.  The  sole  surviving 
trustee.  Judge  John  A.  Stanley,  died  a  few 
days  prior  to  the  decision  just  rendered.  The 
property  is  largely  in  unproductive  real  estate, 
and  it  is  not  expected  that  the  college  will 
realize  the  $400,000  which  its  benefactor 
desired  it  to  have  for  another  decade. 


"My  mind  to  me  a  kingdom  is!" 
The  poet  sang  in  great  elation ; 

The  politician's  mind  is  oft 

One  great  big  mental  reservation. 


-Ex. 


CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  Oct.  21. — Bowdoin  plays  Amherst  at 
Amherst. 

Sunday,  Oct.  22. — Sermon  before  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Saturday,  Oct.  28. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
Brunswick. 

Monday,  Oct.  30. — Mid-term  meeting  of  college 
jury. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  i. — Bowdoin  plays  Exeter  at 
Exeter. 

Saturday,  Nov.  4. — Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at 
Portland. 

Saturday,  Nov.  11. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Brunswick. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  15. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
College  Hill. 

Saturday,  Nov.  18. — Bowdoin  plays  Holy  Cross 
at  Worcester. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23. — Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Monday  to  Friday,  Dec.   18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday,  Dec  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 

Wednesday,  Oct..  25. — Bowdoin  plays  Amherst  at 
Amherst. 

Thursday,  to  Sunday,  Nov.  30-DEC.  4. — Thanks- 
giving Recess. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Briggs,  '99,  was  on  the  campus  last  week, 

Paul  Hill,  '02,  passed  Sunday  at  his  home  in  Saco. 

The  Glee  Club  began  its  rehearsals  Monday 
night. 

The  second  themes  of  the  term  were  due  last 
Tuesday. 

The  foliage  plants  set  out  last  year  by  '99  have 
been  taken  up. 

Some  of  the  students  attended  the  dance  at  Bath 
last  Thursday  evening. 

Quite  a  number  of  the  students  attended  the 
Fairman's   Band  last   Monday   night. 

The  Brunswick  High  School  gave  a  dance 
Wednesday  night  in  the  Court  Room. 

Last  Friday  the  'Varsity  put  in  some  of  the  fast- 
est practice  ever  seen  on  the  athletic  field. 

Mr.  Richard  B.  Dole  of  Portland,  P.  H.  S.,  '98, 
was  the  guest  of  Miss  Huldah  Humphreys  recently. — 
Brunswick  Telegraph. 

Was  it  Dicky  Dole,  Bowdoin,  '02? 


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Riley,  '03,  visited  friends  in  Bath  last  Saturday 
evening. 

The  campus  green  is  nearly  hidden  under  its  fall 
bed  of  dead  leaves. 

The  Seniors  take  up  Ricardo's  Doctrines  in  Polit- 
ical Economy  this  week. 

F.  W.  Dana,  '94,  was  around  college  Friday  and 
Saturday  of  last  week. 

A  big  influx  of  foot-ball  enthusiasm  has  been 
coming  this  way  since  Monday  last. 

Minot,  '96,  and  Thwing,  '8g,  witnessed  the  initia- 
tion ceremonies  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

The  council  of  New  England  college  presidents 
is  held  at  Bowdoin,  November  3d  and  4th. 

Among  the  new  clubs  is  the  "Maine  Hall  Trium- 
virate," of  which  Levensaler  is  President. 

Appleton,  '02,  rendered  a  solo  at  the  ifiorning 
service  in  the  Episcopal  Church  last  Sunday. 

The  official  trial  of  the  30-knot  torpedo  boat 
Dahlgren,  will  be  held  at  Bath  Monday  night. 

Dr.  Whittier  is  now  well  into  the  second  half  of 
the  Freshman  Class  in  examining  their  prowess  and 
stature. 

A  mass-meeting  was  held  Thursday  afternoon  to 
arouse  foot-ball  enthusiasm.  It  had  the  desired 
effect. 

"Richard  Carvel"  has  about  made  the  rounds  of 
the  end.  May  the  next  popular  story  be  as  enter- 
taining. 

Bean,  '92,  Holmes  and  Pope,  '95,  Peaks,  "96,  and 
Clarke  and  Randall,  '99,  were  present  at  the  Zeta 
Psi   initiation.  . 

Bath  claims  a  large  number  of  fellows  this  fall  in 
social  events.  They  all  report  the  little  city  a  very 
congenial  retreat. 

The  Delta  Upsilon  Chapters  of  Bowdoin  and 
Colby  hold  a  joint  banquet  in  Augusta  Thursday 
evening  of  this  week. 

The  Athletic  Department  of  the  Orient  is  now 
handled  by  Bellatty,  while  Pottle,  his  predecessor, 
will  assist  upon  the  College  News. 

Now  that  John  Graham  has ,  been  engaged  to 
coach  the  track  team  we  feel  sure  that  Bowdoin  will 
keep  up  her  reputation  of  last  year. 

Stevens,  '03,  called  at  Professor  Robinson's  office 
Wednesday  of  last  week  to  procure  tickets  to 
Triangle's  exhibition  at  the  Topsham  Fair. 

West,  1900,  left  Saturday  for  Ann  Arbor,  Mich., 
to  attend  the  Delta  Upsilon  convention,  to  which  he 
is  the  delegate  from  the  Bowdoin  Chapter.  The  con- 
vention is  held  on  October  i8th,  19th  and  20th. 


E.  S.  Stackpole,  '71,  was  on  the  campus  last 
week. 

The  college  sportsmen  are  finding  great  sport  in 
the  woods  this  year ;  but  they  have  not,  as  yet. 
materially  affected  the  supply  of  birds. 

The  Harvard  and  Yale  game  of  Maine  promises 
to  be  as  close  as  the  approaching  game  at  Cainbridge 
and  as  interesting  as  last  year's  game  at  Lewiston. 

Professor  Chapman  left  Monday  noon  to  attend 
the  inauguration  of  President  Hadley  at  Yale  and 
President  Faunce  at  Brown,  as  Bowdoin's  representa- 
tive. 

Palmer  goes  a-wheeling  on  the  Sabbath,  and  ret- 
ribution comes  in  the  form  of  a  punctured  tire, 
necessitating  a  little  jaunt  which  amuses  him  until 

TO    P.M. 

The  Bugle  Board  of  1901  have  commenced  work 
in  earnest,  it  is  reported.  Pierce  will  supervise  the 
literary  matter  and  Quinn  will  look  out  for  its  finan- 
cial interests. 

President  Hyde  drew  a  helpful  lesson  in  his  talk 
in  chapel  last  Sunday  from  the  text,  "Thou  shalt 
love  the  Lord  thy  God  with  all  thy  heart ;  and  thy 
neighbor  as  thyself." 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  sold  a  great  number 
of  sets  of  Kipling,  Stevenson,  Barrie,  and  Hart  to  the 
fellows  this  last  week,  through  the  suavity  and  per- 
suasion of  their  representative. 

The  papers  have  made  various  mention  from  time 
to  time  about  games  in  Maine  Foot-Ball  League. 
No  such  league  exists,  and  the  games  in  the  State 
are  entirely  unrelated  to  each  other. 

The  Casino  at  Merrymeeting  Park  is  now  closed 
for  the  season.  This  leaves  the  field  clear  for 
"  Cabin  "  and  "Jake's"  during  the  cooler  months,  and 
it  is  safe  to  promise  them  many  visits  from  students. 

An  unusually  large  number  of  "game  limbs"  have 
resulted  this  year  from  the  early  foot-ball  practice ; 
but,  fortunately,  the  men  are  commencing  to  get  in 
shape  again,  and  every  few  days  notes  another  form 
on  the  gridiron. 

The  Freshman  Class  held  a  meeting.  Monday 
and  elected  the  following  officers:  President,  N.  L. 
Perkins ;  vice-president,  J.  L.  Mitchell ;  secretary 
and  treasurer,  McCormick ;  captain  foot-ball  team, 
Charles   F.   Conners. 

Veazie,  '99,  spent  a  few  days  about  the  canlpus 
last  week  looking  after  his  effects  and  enjoying  old 
times.  Bill  says  the  story  about  him  isn't  wholly 
true.  He  lost  some  money,  but  there  was  no 
"cocking  good  fellow"  concerned  in  it. 

The  college  was  not  annoyed  this  year  by  the 
participation    of    the    town    fellows    in    the    society 


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initiations ;  and  as  far  as  can  be  learned  the  Fresh- 
men were  as  successfully  put  through  as  last  year, 
when  assistance  was  thrust  upon  the  college  by  the 
town. 

The  Roswell  H.  Fairman  Boston  Concert  Band 
gave  a  splendid  evening's  program  last  Monday 
night  in  the  Town  Hall.  The  students  might  well 
have  patronized  such  a  company  instead  of  the  cheap 
dramatic  companies  which  are  inflicted  upon  Bruns- 
wick. 

The  Quill  makes  its  first  appearance  for  the  cur- 
rent year  just  as  the  Orient  goes  to  press.  This 
number,  however,  will  be  unusually  strong,  it  is 
promised,  and  the  endeavor  will  be  made  to  sustain 
the  commendable  record  of  the  past  during  the  whole 
year. 

A  handicap  tournament,  i8  holes  medal  play, 
will  be  held  on  the  links  October  20th  and  21st. 
The  rounds  m.ay  be  played  either  Friday  or  Satur- 
day. Send  your  name  before  Thursday  to  the  tour- 
nament committee:  Dr.  Whittier,  H.  L.  Berry,  '01, 
K.  C.  M.  Sills,  '01. 

The  Seniors  in  Political  Economy  will  meet  next 
week  and  hold  their  initiatory  gathering  for  the  con- 
sideration of  the  politics  of  foreign  nations.  The 
first  discussion  will  be  "The  Transvaal  Question," 
to  which  an  hour  or  so  will  be  devoted,  and  the 
usual  light  repast  will  close  the  evening. 

That  the  George  Evans  Debating  Society  is  to  be 
resurrected  should  be  pleasing  to  the  whole  student 
body.  Even  though  many  did  not  take  active  part 
in  the  society  last  year,  yet  all  acknowledged  its 
worth  and  were  sorry  to  see  it  die  out.  The  officers 
were  elected  Tuesday  night,  and  the  attempt  will  be 
made  to  revive  an  active  and  keen  interest  in  its 
meetings. 

Two  political  clubs,  representing  the  Republican 
and  Democratic  parties  respectively,  would  find  a 
living  interest  among  the  other  college  activities. 
The  fellows  are  about  the  age  of  voting,  and  a  sys- 
tematic inquiry  into  the  party  platforms  would  reap 
considerable  benefit  and  knowledge.  A  debate 
might  be  arranged  between  representatives  of  the 
clubs,  which  might  produce  embryo  stump  speakers, 
not  to  mention  the  entertainment  to  the  student 
body. 

The  following  men  from  the  Freshman  Class 
were  initiated  Tuesday  evening,  October  loth  : 

Alpha  Delta  Phi. — C.  Linwood  Beedy,  Lewiston ; 
Charles  P.  Connors,  Bangor ;  Edward  W.  Dunlap, 
Brunswick;  Philip  T.  Harris,  East  Machias ;  Albert 
P.  Holt,  Billerica,  Mass. ;  Clement  F.  Robinson, 
Brunswick;  Harry  Riley,  Brunswick;  and  Thomas 
C.   White,  Lewiston. 

P.si  Upsilon. — Ralph  Andrews,  Kennebunk ; 
Philip  G.  Clifford,  Portland;  Harris  A.  Jones,  Port- 


land; Sidney  B.  Larrabee,  Portland;  Franklin  Law- 
rence, Portland ;  John  L.  Mitchell,  Brunswick ; 
Harold  B.  Pratt,  Belfast;  George  S.  Sabin,  Port- 
land ;  and  George  H.  Stover,  Brunswick. 

Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. — Samuel  B.  Gray,  Old- 
town;  Ralph  W.  H.  Hellenbrand.  Oldtown ;  Irving 
Nutter,  Bangor ;  Bertrand  L.  Smith,  Patten ;  Carl 
W.  Smith,  Portland;  John  P.  Webber,  Jr.,  Brook- 
line,  Mass.  ;  Jesse  D.  Wilson,  Brunswick. 

Zeta  Psi. — Philip  M.  Coffin,  Brunswick;  Harold 
W.  Files,  Cornish;  George  Libby,  Jr.,  Portland; 
Edward  F.  Merrill,  Skowhegan ;  Harraden  S.  Pearl, 
Bangor  (special);  Scott  C.  W.  Simpson,  Portland; 
Alfred  M.  G.   Soule,   Woolwich. 

Theta  Delta  Chi. — E.  Farrington  Abbott. 
Auburn ;  Luther  B.  Dana,  Westbrook ;  George  K. 
Farnsworth,  Bethel ;  Charles  P.  Moody,  Portland ; 
Harold  R.  Stevens,  Portland;  Leon  V.  Walker, 
Bethel;  Frank  Welch,  Portland;  and  Malcolm  V. 
Woodbury,  Deering. 

Delta  Upsilon. — Harris  Barrows,  Augusta;  John 
A.  Green,  Coplin ;  Leslie  L.  Evans,  South  Portland ; 
Farnsworth  G.  Marshall,  Bucksport;  Donald 
McCormick,  Boothbay  Harbor ;  Niles  Perkins, 
Weeks  Mills;  Paul  Preble,  Auburn;  and  Harrie  L. 
Webber,   Lewiston. 

Kappa  Sigma. — Henry  Farley,  Portland ;  Joseph 
Ridlon,  "Gorham;  Charles  Shaw,  Cumberland  Cen- 
ter ;  James  Shaughnessy,  Natick,  Mass. ;  Henry 
Spollett,  Brunswick,  and  Edward  T.  Fenley,  Port- 
land. 


Y.M.  C.  f\. 

On  Thursday,  October  12th,  the  Bible  Study 
prospectus  appeared,  giving  a  detailed  statement  of 
the  courses  to  be  offered  both  in  Bible  and  Mission 
.Study  for  this  year. 

The  special  service  on  the  subject  of  Bible  Study 
was  held  on  Thursday  evening,  October  12th,  the 
Rev.  J.  R.  Boardman  of  Hallowell  delivering  an 
address  on  "Why  Study  the  Bible?"  Among  the 
many  good  points  that  Mr.  Boardman  brought  out 
was  the  fact  that  in  the  Bible  God  reveals  himself 
to  view,  not  to  the  casual  peruser  of  the  sacred 
writings,  but  to  him  who  thoroughly  studies  the 
book,  and  desires  to  find  in  it  inspiration  and 
spiritual  nourishment. 

Mr.  J.  R.  Libby,  the  well-known  merchant  of 
Portland,  spoke  before  the  Association  on  Sunday 
afternoon,  October  15th.  He  spoke  from  a  business 
standpoint,  telling  the  fellows  how  business  men 
look  upon  them.  A  violin  solo  by  Gibson,  '02,  and  a 
vocal  solo  by  Whitney,  igoo,  were  much  enjoyed. 

In  a  few  days  the  Bible  classes  will  begin. 
Already  a  large  number  have  been  enrolled  in  these 
classes,  and  there  is  a  short  time  now  for  others 
to  join  before  the  regular  work  begins. 

The  topics  for  the  week-night  meetings  have 
been  printed,  as  usual,  and  copies  of  the  same  can 
be  obtained  of  Beadle,  1900,  the  chairman  of  the 
religious   meetings   committee. 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


ATHLETICS. 


BOWDOIN  14,  U.  of  M.  o. 

There  was  a  decided  improvement  in  the  Bow- 
doin  eleven  on  Saturday  when  we  defeated  U.  of  M. 
by  12  points  in  an  exciting  game  on  the  Whittier 
Field.  With  the  exception  of  the  tackling,  which 
was  wretched,  the  work  of  the  Bowdoin  men  is 
generally  praiseworthy.  Our  line  bucking  was 
harder ;  the  end  runs  went  with  precision  ;  and 
everybody  was  aggressive. 

Cloudman  smashed  through  the  line  again  and 
again.  He  outdid  himself.  Three  times  he  blocked 
an  attempt  at  punting  by  Maine.  Bodwell  and 
Laferriere  not  only  played  their  positions  but  did 
work  which  properly  belonged  to  others.  Dorticos, 
the  star  tackle  of  the  Maine  team,  is  a  good  man; 
but  he  met  more  than  his  match  in  Gregson  on 
Saturday.  Stackpole  ran  the  team  well  and  helped 
the  runners  greatly  after  he  had  passed  the  ball. 

Leighton  filled  up  the  centre  hole  in  acceptable 
style.  U.  of  M.  gained  only  on  punting  and  on 
cnd-and-tackle  plays,  which  are  the  hardest  plays 
in  the  world  to  stop. 

Merrill,  who  played  about  10  minutes  on  the 
second  half,  acquitted  hnnself  well  when  sent  with 
the  ball.  Chapman  smashed  up  interference  in  a 
way  which  was  beautiful  to  see.  Captain  Clarke 
excelled  in  bringing  the  ball  back  on  kickoffs. 

The  grand  stand  was  filled,  and  about  one 
hundred  persons  were  on  the  ground  outside.  The 
crowd  cheered  the  visiting  team  lustily  and  nearly 
kicked  down  the  grand  stand  when  the  Bowdoin 
squad  trotted  out  for  signal  practice.  The  lack  of 
organized  cheering  was  noticeable. 

Other  points  of  interest  we  give  below. 

The  Game. 

Captain  Bird  won  the  toss  and  took  the  western 
goal,  which  put  his  back  to  the  wind  and  the  sun. 
Upton  kicked  off  to  A.  R.  Davis,  who  brought  the 
ball  back  from  the  15  to  the  25-yard  line  and  then 
went  down  under  a  heap  of  Bowdoin  men.  Dorticos 
punted  to  Stackpole,  who  got  back  15  yards  with 
the  ball.  Bowdoin  got  five  yards  to  recompense 
her  for  offside  play  by  Maine.  Hunt  went  around 
the  Maine  right  tackle  for  5  yards.  Then  Gregson 
sailed  around  the  opposite  tackle  for  20  yards  and  a 
touchdown.  The  time  Used  had  been  just  2  minutes 
and  38  seconds.  Captain  Clarke  kicked  the  goal. 
Score,   Bowdoin  6,   Maine  o. 

Chapman  caught  the  kickoff  by  Dorticos  and 
brought  the  ball  10  yards  up  the  field.  But  Bow- 
doin lost  that  distance  in  attempting  a  criss-cross 
which  resulted  in  a  fumble.     Hunt  fell  on  the  ball. 


Leighton  passed  the  balll  for  a  punt  by  Donnell ; 
but  the  ball  went  over  the  head  of  the  punter  and 
into  the  arms  of  Stackpole  who  was  standing  ready 
to  recover  it  in  an  emergency  of  this  sort.  Stackpole 
punted  and  the  gain  was  10  yards.  G.  H.  Davis 
encircled  Clarke's  end  for  8  yards.  Dorticos 
fumbled  the  ball  in  attempting  an  end  run.  Clarke 
captured  the  ball  for  Bowdoin.  Hunt  made  10 
yards  on  a  double-pass  play  aimed  at  the  right  end 
of  the  Maine  line.  Gregson  tried  the  opposite  end 
but  found  no  opening.  Cloudman  gained  4  yards 
around  the  left  end  of  the  Maine  line.  Donnell  and 
Hunt  punted  the  tackles  for  4  yards  and  8  yards 
respectively.  Cloudman  came  around  the  end  again 
for  4  yards.  And  then  Hunt  banged  through  Page, 
and  by  skillful  dodging  and  swift  running  passed  the 
whole  Maine  eleven  and  got  a  60-yard  run  with  a 
touchdown  at  the  end.  Barrows  was  the  only  man 
who  had  any  chance  at  all  of  catching  the  Bowdoin 
halfback  in  the  open  field;  and  Barrows  would  have 
swapped  his  chance  for  a  job  to  pitch  hay.  Clarke 
kicked  the  goal.     Score,  12  to  o. 

Dorticos  kicked  off  to  Cloudman  who  advanced 
about  3  yards.  Donnell  bucked  the  line  for  2  yards. 
Hunt  made  a  fine  run  of  30  yards  around  the  Maine 
right  end.  Gregson  worked  the  other  end  for  8 
yards.  Hunt  bucked  the  line  for  2  yards.  Donnell 
smashed  through  it  for  5  yards.  Then  Maine  braced 
and  earned  the  ball  on  downs  at  the  Maine  30-yard 
hne.  The  Davis  brothers  tried  cross  tackle  plays 
and  gained  their  distance  on  two  downs.  Then  they 
tried  our  ends,  but  gained  nothing.  Page  tried  an 
end  run  with  no  greater  success.  Dorticos  went 
back  for  a  punt.  Cloudman  threw  Cole  back  and 
into  the  air  so  that  the  ball  struck  Cole  in  the  back 
and  rolled  15  yards  toward  the  Maine  goal.  The 
referee  gave  the  ball  to  Maine,  however. 

Barrows  and  one  of  the  Davis  boys  tried  to  find 
a  hole  in  the  Bowdoin  line.  They  ran  into  a  solid 
wall.  Dorticos  tried  another  kick,  but  Cloudman 
was  through  the  line  and  in  front  of  the  low  punt. 
The  slap  Cloudman  gave  the  ball  sent  it  back  over 
the  line,  where  Hatch  fell  on  it  for  a  safety,  thus 
making  the  score  14  to  0. 

Clarke,  catching  the  ball  on  the  next  kickoff,  did 
well  to  bring  it  back  15  yards.  Gregson  went  around 
the  end  for  3  yards.  Hunt  made  an  end  run  of  13 
yards.  U.  of  M.  got  the  ball  on  downs  and  made  3 
yards  between  the  Bowdoin  left  end  and  tackle  and 
a  couple  of  yards  through  the  same  point  on  the 
other  side  of  the  line.  Cloudman  got  through  the 
line  and  spoiled  the  next  play,  and  Hunt  blocked  the 
next  attempt  by  the  Orono  men.  Laferriere  fell  on 
the  fumbled  ball.  Bowdoin  had  made  no  gain  when 
the  half  ended  a  minute  later. 

Bowdoin     did    not    score    in    the    second    half. 


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Though  she  had  the  wind  at  her  back,  and  a  strong 
breeze  it  was,  too,  she  punted  only  once  when 
Donnell  sent  a  high-flier  about  40  yards.  The  Maine 
ends  did  better  work  in  this  half  and  the  centre  men 
were  working  harder.  Bowdoin  fumbled  con- 
siderably. Stackpole  had  to  leave  the  game.  His 
absence  hurt  the  team  work  somewhat.  Cloudman 
and  Barrows  made  a  number  of  tackles  behind  the 
line  of  the  opposing  team.  A.  R.  Davis  ran  between 
Chapman  and  Laferriere  and  gained  40  yards  for 
Maine  before  Donnell  downed  him.  Dorticos  ran 
around  Chapman  for  an  8-yard  gain.  The  Bowdoin 
guards,  tackles  and  backs  made  short  dashes,  and 
the  Maine  men  gained  a  few  yards  on  tackle  bucks. 
But  neither  side  got  into  dangerous  proximity  to  the 
scoring  point.  Bowdoin  had  the  ball,  having  held 
the  enemy  for  downs  on  her  30-yard  line  when  time 
was  called. 

The  Summary : 

Bowdoin.  U.  of  Maine. 

Clarke,  I.e.   (Capt.) r.e.,  Harvey 

Gregson,  l.t r.t.,  Dorticos 

Cloudman,  l.g r.g..  Cole  (Judge) 

Leighton centre (Capt.)     Bird 

Bodwell.  r.g l.g..  Puffer 

Laferriere,   r.  t 1.  t..   Page 

Chapman,  r.  e 1.  e.,  Hadlock 

Stackpole  (DonnelH,  q.b Hatch 

Donnell  (Merrill),  l.h.b r.h.b..  A.  R.  Davis 

Hunt,  r.h.b l.h.b..  G.  H.  Davis 

Upton,  f.b f.b..  Barrows 

Touchdowns — Hunt,  Gregson.  Goals  from 
touchdowns — Clarke  2.  Referee,  Knowlton  of  Bow- 
doin. Umpire,  Hickson  of  Bangor.  Timers,  Ellis, 
U.  of  M. ;  Snow,  Bowdoin.  Linesmen,  Ned  Davis, 
U.  of  M. ;  Spear,  Bowdoin.  Time,  20  and  is-minute 
halves. 


PERSONflLS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

':iy. — The  Okient  has  overlooked  a  notice  of  the 
death  of  Dr.  George  Woods,  which  resulted  from  a 
sad  accident  June  7,  1899,  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.  Dr. 
Woods  was  87  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  and  had  been  very  feeble  for  some  years.  It 
is  supposed  that  he  had  raised  the  window  of  his 
room  to  look  out,  and  in  some  manner  lost  his 
balance  so  that  he  fell  to  the  pavement  below.  He 
lived  but  a  few  hours  after  the  accident. 

Dr.  Woods  was  famous  as  Chancellor  of  the 
Western  University  of  Pennsylvania,  an  institution 
which  he  raised  from  a  position  of  insignificance  to 
one  of  prominence.     He  was  known  as  one  of  the 


foremost  educators  in  the  country  as  well  as  a 
leading  business  man  of  Pennsylvania.  After 
graduation  from  Bowdoin  he  taught  two  years  in 
the  seminary  at  Gorham,  Me.,  and  then  accepted  a 
position  as  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  Jackson 
College,   Tennessee. 

In  1843  Mr.  Woods  returned  to  New  England 
and  was  principal  and  part  owner  of  the  North 
Yarmouth  Academy  until  1850.  It  was  here  that 
Garcia  and  Gomez,  the  great  Cuban  leaders,  and 
President  Dole,  of  Hawaii,  were  educated,  they 
being  in  school  while  Mr.  Woods  was  at  its  head. 

From  1858  to  1880  Dr.  Woods  was  chief  executive 
of  the  Western  U.  of  P.  During  that  time  he 
erected  several  new  buildings,  raised  a  large  endow- 
ment fund,  and  added  several  new  chairs  to  the 
University.  Eor  ten  years  after  his  resignation  as 
Chancellor,  he  pursued  an  active  business  life  in 
connection  with  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Co. 

'45- — James  H.  Deering  died  at  San  Francisco, 
Cal.,  September  13,  1899. 

In  1845  Mr.  Deering  became  principal  of  an 
academy  in  Alabama,  a  position  which  he  held 
three  years.  He  then  started  for  California  by  way 
of  Vera  Cruz  and  Mexico,  whence  he  took  passage 
in  a  brig.  The  boat  proving  unseaworthy,  he,  with 
a  party  of  ten,  was  landed  at  the  extremity  of 
Lower  California, '  and  amid  severe  hardships, 
traversed  the  entire  peninsula  on  horseback.  After 
reaching  the  State  of  California,  he  entered  upon 
a  business  career  and  in  1859  became  a  resident  of 
San  Francisco  as  commission  merchant  and  importer. 
He  was  a  director  of  schools  in  San  Francisco  and 
on   the  board  of  aldermen. 

'76. — Charles  D.  Jameson  has  presented  the 
.library  with  a  large  volume  on  the  City  of  Peking. 
Mr.  Jameson  has  for  some  years  resided  in  China — 
being  stationed  there  as  civil  engineer  in  the  employ 
of  the  government. 

'77-— The  late  report  that  Lieut.  Peary,  the 
Maine-born  Arctic  explorer,  is  a  cripple  for  life 
because  of  his  sufferings  in  the  far  north,  is  denied 
by  Mr.  Russell  W.  Porter,  a  gentleman  who  knows 
Lieut.  Peary  very  well.  Mr.  Porter  says  :  "We  saw 
Mr.  Peary  ourselves  this  summer.  He  was  on  the 
Diana  for  a  week  or  more  cruising  about  the  Smith 
Sound  Eskimo  settlements  after  fresh  meat  and 
winter  clothing,  and  he  appeared  the  picture  of 
health.  He  did  suffer  last  January  an  amputation 
of  seven  toes,  due  to  their  being  frosted  from  wet 
moccasins,  but  it  was  not  a  month  after  the  opera- 
tion that  he  was  out  traveling.  He  has  rallied  from 
his  accident  with  the  same  remarkable  success  that 
attended  the  knitting  of  the  bones  of  his  broken 
leg  eight  years  ago.  In  a  word  he  says  himself 
that,  although  somewhat  sensitive  over  the  fact  that 


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he  is  no  longer  a  whole  man,  yet  his  feet  are  per- 
fectly healed,  he  suffers  no  inconvenience  from  them 
in  traveling,  and  does  not  wish  the  impression  to 
gain  ground  that  his  accident  of  last  winter  has  in 
the  slightest  degree  impaired  his  efficiency  in  Arctic 
work." 

'83. — Dr.  Edward  W.  Chase,  son  of  Lorenzo  T. 
Chase  of  Portland,  died  in  Omaha,  Nebraska,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1899.  He  was  born  in  Portland  and  graduated 
from  the  Portland  High  School  in  1S79.  In  188.? 
he  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College,  and  in  1886 
from  the  Bowdoin  Medical  School.  He  has  resided 
in  Omaha  twelve  years  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  professor  of  obstetrics  in  the  Omaha 
Medical  School  and  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad.  He  is  survived  by  a  widow,  his 
father,  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Paterson.  The  body  will 
be  brought  to  Portland  for  burial. 

'8g._The  Orient  has  received  a  history  of  the 
Class  of  '89,  compiled  by  William  Morrell  Emery, 
secretary  of  the  class.  It  is  a  most  interesting 
pamphlet  and  shows  much  care  in  preparation.  It 
includes  a  class  history,  the  individual  history  of  the 
members  both  before  entering  college  and  since  grad- 
uation, and  the  present  addresses  of  the  members. 
Altogether  it  is  one  of  the  neatest  and  most  complete 
pamphlets  that  we  have  ever  seen. 

Med.,  '92. — Until  recently  some  anxiety  has  been 
felt  in  Brunswick  for  the  safety  of  Dr.  Salustiano 
Fanduiz.  who  has  been  in  sympathy  with  the  insur- 
gents in  San  Domingo.  A  few  days  ago,  however, 
letters  were  received  from  Dr.  Fanduiz,  explaining 
the  delay  in  communicating  with  his  friends.  In  one 
of  these  he  says:  "It's  a  very  long  time  since  I 
received  a  word  from  you.  Probably  you  wrote  and 
my  mail  was  intercepted  by  the  orders  of  the  presi- 
dent. To  prove  this  I  have  just  received  my  July 
mail.  Well,  we  have  got  rid  of  the  old  president 
and  the  old  government.  I  was  a  rebel  and  I  raised 
a  rebellion  in  the  east,  and  got  1500  men  under  my 
immediate  command.  The  entire  number  mobilized 
were  10,000  men.  Next  week  we  will  have  an  elec- 
tion and  I  am  one  of  the  electors.  I  am  also 
nominated  as  one  of  the  fathers  of  San  Domingo. 
I  have  worked  very  hard  and  they  say  this  work 
will  be  rewarded.  We  will  see.  I  forward  you  by 
this  mail  samples  of  salt  fresh  from  the  mine.  I 
know  your  thoughts  when  you  first  read  of  the 
assassination  of  the  president.  Now  we  will  show 
you  a  good  country.  The  government  is  to  be 
democratic.  This  seems  like  a  dream  to  me.  Think 
of  it!  free  speech,  free  press  and  justice!  It  is 
understood  that  the  leader  of  the  revolution  has 
promised  Dr.  Fanduiz  the  concessions  he  wished. 
He  asks  for  books  and  papers  giving  the  Jeffersonian 


ideas  of  free,  democratic  government,  and  these 
have  been  furnished  him  by  the  Bowdoin  librarian. 

'96. — Ralph  W.  Leighton,  Esq.,  of  Augusta,  who 
assumed  the  law  practice  of  F.  E.  Beane,  Esq., 
during  the  latter's  absence  in  Alaska  and  the  West, 
has  now  ojsened  offices  of  his  own  in  the  Titcomb 
block  and  will  locate  permanently  in  Hallowell.  Mr. 
Leighton  made  many  friends  there  during  the  sum- 
mer, who  are  glad  to  know  that  he  will  continue 
the  practice  of  the  law  in  that  place.  He  is  the  son 
of  ex-Mayor  Leighton  of  Augusta,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Cony  High  School  and  at  Bowdoin 
College,  where  he  graduated  in  1896.  His  law 
studies  were  carried  on  in  the  office  of  Heath  & 
Andrews,  and  he  passed  a  brilliant  examination  for 
the  bar  in  March.  Hallowell  is  fortunate  in  having 
a  young  man  of  such  ability  and  promise  continue 
the  practice  of  his  profession  here. 

'96. — E.  H.  Lyford  of  Farmington  is  taking  a 
course  at  the  Boston   School  of  Pharmacy. 

'97. — William  Frye  White  was  one  of  the  com- 
mittee who  entertained  Governor  Powers  and  his 
staff  at  the  Dewey  celebration  in  Washington. 

Med.,  "98.— Dr.  J.  Winfield  Doughty,  who 
recently  graduated  from  the  Bowdoin  Medical 
School,  has  decided  to  open  an  office  in  the  Lincoln 
Building,  Brunswick.  He  stood  well  in  his  classes, 
has  had  some  hospital  experience  and  a  year's  prac- 
tice at  Phipsburg.  He  should  have  a  liberal  share 
of  Brunswick  patronage. 

'99. — Letters  from  Frank  L.  Lavertu,  who  grad- 
uated from  Bowdoin  last  year,  and  wno  is  now 
engaged  as  teacher  of  French  and  German  at  Trinity 
Hall,  Washington,  Pa.,  say  that  he  is  nicely 
ensconced  in  his  new  position  and  enjoys  it 
immensely. 

'99.— H.  H.  Webster  is  with  Houghton,  Mifflin  & 
Co.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Med.,  '99. — According  to  last  week's  Orient,  Dr. 
G.  H.  Hutchins  was  to  practice  medicine  in  Sears- 
mont.  He  has  changed  his  plans,  however,  and  will 
locate  at  West  Auburn,  succeeding  the  late  Dr. 
Blaisdell. 

Med.,  '99. — Ezra  B.  Skolfield  is  taking  a  special 
post-graduate  course  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School. 


At         9         o'clock         they         sat       like         this- 

He       was       not       long       in       learning; 
At     10     o'clock     they     sat     like     this — 

The    gas    was    lower    burning. 
Another  hour  they  sat  like  this. 

Still  I'd  not  venture  whether 
Attwelveo'clocktheysatlikethis — 

AUcrowdeduptogether. 

— Roanoke  Collegian. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  14.— October  20,  1S!I9. 

Editorial  Notes       131 

Calendar 133 

College  News 134 

Y.  M.  C.  A ■ 136 

Athletics 136 

Personals 138 

Rehearsals  have  now  begun  in  earnest 
among  tlie  college  musicians.  Last  year's 
graduates  furnished  several  splendid  voices 
and  instrumental  players,  but  the  latter  loss  is 
not  nearly  as  important  as  the  former. 

Talent  for  the  "stringed  instruments"  is 
indeed  very  plentiful,  and  of  a  high  class,  too, 
so  we  shall  expect  to  see  even  last  year's  glori- 
ous record  trimmed  a  trifle.  But  when  it 
comes    to    the    glee    club,    there    is    the    rub. 


Leader  Willard  has  a  large  number  of  men 
trying  to  make  the  club,  but  there  is  a  very 
perceptible  lack  of  voices  even  as  finished  as 
are  usually  found  in  colleges.  Especially 
deficient  are  first  tenors,  and  to  adapt  some  of 
the  second  tenors  to  these  positions  is  not  the 
work  of  a  few  rehearsals ;  but  if  it  can  be  done, 
the  leader  with  his  experience  and  knowledge 
of  singing  is  surely  the  right  man  to  do  it. 

Anyway,  there  is  lots  of  interest  and 
rivalry ;  plenty  of  men  for  the  instruments ; 
several  valuable  voices  as  a  nucleus  of  the 
forthcoming  glee  club  ;  a  successful  past ;  and  a 
thorough  college  support  for  the  present. 
Take  all  these  together,  mix  them  thoroughly, 
and  the  resulting  average  should  prophesy  a 
successful  season. 


Judging  from  our  games  with  Tufts  Col- 
lege on  the  gridiron  during  these  last  two 
years,  it  is  evident  that  a  league  with  her 
would  furnish  athletic  contests  which  should 
be  confined  to  a  1 6-foot  ring  instead  of  a  field 
I  ID  yards  by  65  yards.  We  have  played  Har- 
vard, we  have  played  Dartmouth,  and  last  year 
we  played  Bates,  but  never  have  we  run 
against  a  team  so  pregnated  with  pugilism  as 
Tufts.  Every  scrimmage  was  accompanied 
with  "slugging"  which  was  disgraceful  in  a 
college  foot-ball  exhibition.  Why  the  Tufts 
captain  countenances  this  habitual  indifiference 
to  the  rules  and  courtesy  of  the  game  is  beyond 
us ;  but  he  does,  and  the  attitude  of  his  team 
during  last  Wednesday's  game  has  lowered 
not  a  little  our  admiration  and  esteem  for 
Tufts. 

■  This  game  also  furnished  splendid  proof 
of  the  fallacy  of  permitting  either  of  the  prin- 
cipal officials  to  be  chosen  from  those  so 
intensely  interested  in  one  of  the  teams  as  are 
the    coach    and    manager.     The    umpire    and 


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referee  should  be  neutral  in  actions,  and  should 
possess  an  adequate  familiarity  with  the  rules. 
While  we  do  not  for  a  moment  intimate  that 
the  official  presented  by  the  visitors  was  not 
all  that  could  be  asked  for  from  the  point  of 
view  of  gentlemanly  and  sincere  actions,  yet  it 
must  be  admitted  that  several  of  his  decisions 
were  very  questionable  indeed,  and  that  the 
advantage  in  these  decisions  happened  to  favor 
Tufts  is  perhaps  a  mere  caprice  of  fortune 
which  generally  occurs  in  similar  cases  where 
an  important  judgment  is  thrust  upon  an 
ofificial  who  is,  incidentally,  connected  with  one 
of  the  teams. 

A  third  unsatisfactory  feature  of  this  game 
was  the  question  of  the  score.  As  a  matter  of 
fact  the  score  should  have  been  a  tie,  but  it  is 
not  worth  while  claiming,  since  the  BOwdoin 
score  would  never  have  been  made  had  the 
referee  known  or  remembered  that  a  play  in 
progress  when  time  is  called  shall  be  completed 
and  therefore  the  whistle  to  end  the  game  must 
await  the  "down."  The  mistake  was  in 
blowing  the  whistle  while  the  play  was  in 
progress,  which  of  course  resulted  in  one  team 
trotting  off  from  the  field  while  the  Bowdoin 
team,  cognizant  of  this  rule,  finished  the  play 
and  scored  unobstructed. 


All  Brunswick  is  delighted  at  the  prospect 
of  seeing  and  hearing  Miss  McCobb  of  Port- 
land exhibit  her  Jarley  Wax  "Figgers"  Tues- 
day evening,  October  31st,  in  the  Town  Hall. 
The  parts  are  taken  by  ladies  and  gentlemen 
of  the  town,  assisted  by  Bowdoin  men.  All 
who  have  ever  found  companionship  in  their 
Dickens  will  welcome  this  visit  of  Mrs.  Jarley. 
Miss  McCobb's  impersonation,  we  under- 
stand, is  inimitable. 


The  George  Evans  Debating  Society  boasts 
a  new  lease  on  life,  and  promises  to  be  an 
active  and  popular  college  factor  in  the  near 
future.  Rumors  are  fife  that  the  recent 
awakening  heralds  a  new  field  of  work  for 
the  admirers  of  Mr.  Evans  and  the  talent  by 
which  he  won  fame.     Instead  of  the  conven- 


tional debate,  a  broader  and  higher  field  is  to 
be  presented  to  its  members.  In  short,  a  mock 
congress  with  its  two  houses,  lobbying,  wire- 
pulling, and  all  the  other  attributes  of  its 
model,  the  national  congress. 

Such  a  scheme  should  find  a  host  of  sup- 
porters, and  doubtless  it  will.  If  the  idea  is 
adopted  and  entered  into  with  a  certain  sense 
of  seriousness,  the  fellows  will  reap  much 
benefit  and  knowledge,  not  to  mention  amuse- 
ment, which  is  impossible  from  books  or 
lectures.  Welcome  Mock  Congress !  May 
yours  be  a  happy,  prosperous,  and  long  career. 


It  has  been  the  custom  here  at  Bowdoin  for 
many  years  past  to  pledge  sub-Freshmen  to  the 
various  secret  societies.  This  pledging  is 
usually  done  when  a  fellow  is  a  Senior  in  the 
"prep"  school,  occasionally  earlier  than  that, 
and  in  two  cases  of  which  we  know,  the 
pledge  was  given  three  years  before  that  of 
the  college  Freshman  year. 

Very  few  colleges,  indeed,  follow  a  similar 
system  of  filling  their  society  rolls ;  and  of 
these  few  not  any,  it  may  safely  be  said,  are  of 
the  so-called  "big  colleges."  In  several  cases 
a  man  is  not  invited  into  the  sacred  privileges 
of  the  fraternity  until  a  year  or  two  of  actual 
college  life  has  rolled  over  him. 

It  is  not  just  chance  that  makes  these 
differences  in  the  custom  adopted  in  the 
American  college ;  there  is  reason  for  this,  and 
a  palpable  one,  too.  The  institutions  that 
leisurely  cull  the  youngest  class  and  pick  the 
finest  of  the  wheat  have  all  gone  through  the 
stage  now  prevalent  at  Bowdoin,  and  they 
have  only  changed  after  having  thoroughly 
tested  and  found  wanting  the  pledging  of  sub- 
Freshmen  to  college  fraternities. 

How  much  does  the  average  student  know 
about  the  High  School  and  Academy  student, 
his  worth,  ability,  and  character?  Practically 
nothing.  Virtues  are  known  before  faults, 
and  the  slight  acquaintance  existing  between 
college  and  fitting  school  seldom  steps  be)'ond 
the  border  where  the  true  man  lives  and  acts. 
The  principal  reason  for  pledging  before  the 


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entrance  to  college  lies  in  the  social  status  of 
the  fellow's  family,  or  in  the  fact  that  a  rela- 
tive was  a  "brother,"  or  perhaps,  on  account 
of  some  trifling  fame,  of  intellectual  acumen  or 
athletic  prowess.  These  are  mostly  acquaint- 
ances outside  of  the  fellow,  while  the  prodigy 
himself  is  a  problem  often  unsolved  until  after 
initiation  night.  Again  avaricious  fear,  that 
some  one  else  may  get  a  good  man,  too  often, 
it  is  to  be  regretted,  leads  to  a  premature 
pledge ;  or  some  certain  town  or  city  which 
is  monopolized  by  this  or  that  "frat"  may  be 
lost  if  every  man  who  promises  to  be  at  all 
desirable  is  not  snatched  up  immediately  as 
he  issues  out  of  his  kindergarten  years. 

Joining  a  society  is  like  marriage,  too  early 
a  binding  often  leads  to  discontent  from  a 
mis  judgment  in  the  choice.  What  does  the 
outsider  know  of  the  college  society?  A  few 
members  at  the  most  are  known  of  any  one 
society,  but  the  whole  is  never  appreciated.  It 
is  extremely  unjust  to  a  man  to  take  vows 
such  as  are  made  in  secret  societies  when  he 
doesn't  know  to  whom  he  is  going  to  offer 
everlasting  friendship  and  brotherhood ;  it  is 
by  far  too  dangerous  a  jump  into  the  dark. 

The  rumbling  of  an  early  joint  action  can 
already  be  heard,  and  a  prophecy  of  better 
conditions  seems  fitting.  The  time  must 
surely  come  when  instead  of  a  whole  delega- 
tion being  pledged  before  college  opens,  not 
a  man  will  boast  a  pledge  button  until  a  few 
weeks  have  passed ;  or  enough,  at  least,  to 
become  acquainted,  permitting  fair  choice 
from  the  point  of  view  of  the  Freshman,  while 
the  fraternities  will  thus  avoid  being  burdened 
by  the  fruits  of  any  misjudgment  which  can 
easily  happen  until  a  college  familiarity  is 
experienced.  The  Orient  trusts  some  move- 
ment will  be  immediately  made,  whereby  jus- 
tice and  sincerity  to  society  and  Freshmen  will 
be  evolved. 


It  is  to  be  hoped  that,  inasmuch  as  the 
Presidents  of  the  New  England  colleges  are 
soon  to  be  our  guests,  the  Sophomores  will 
refrain  from  marring  the  trees  of  the  campus 


according  to  the  custom  of  Hallowe'en.  Not 
only  the  trees,  but  the  campus  and  buildings 
in  general  should  be  on  dress  parade  during 
their  visit;  and  it  is  the  mind  of  the  college 
and  Faculty  that  every  effort  be  put  forward 
on  this  occasion  to  give  a  lasting  impression 
to  these  representatives  of  New  England's 
worthy  institutions  of  learning  of  Bowdoin's 
true  importance  and  high  standing  among  her 
sister  institutions. 


NOTICE. 
The  members  of  the  Freshman  Class 
desirous  of  becoming  eligible  to  the  Orient 
Board  at  the  election  next  spring  can  learn 
the  manner  in  which  they  will  be  considered 
as  candidates  by  consulting  the  Editor-in-i 
chief  any  time  before  November  ist. 


CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  Oct.  28. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
Brunswick. 

Monday,  Oct.  30. — Mid-term  meeting  of  college 
jury. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  i. — Bowdoin  plays  Exeter  at 
Exeter. 

Saturday,  Nov.  4. — Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at 
Portland. 

Saturday.  Nov.  11. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Brunswick. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  15. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
College  Hill. 

Saturday,  Nov.  18. — Bowdoin  plays  Holy  Cross 
at  Worcester. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23. — Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Thursday,  to  Sunday,  Nov.  30-DEC.  4. — Thanks- 
giving Recess. 

Monday   to   Friday,   Dec.    18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thuesd.ay,   Dec.  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


HIS  OBJECT. 

"  I  fear  you  are  forgetting  me," 

She  said  in  tones  polite, 
"I  am  indeed  for  getting  you, 

That's  why   I   came  to-night." 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Minot,  '96,  was  on  the  campus  Friday. 
Professor  MacDonald  was  in  Boston  last  week. 
Small,  '01,  received  a  visit  from  his  brother  Sun- 
day. 

Nelson.  '99,  was  about  the  campus  the  first  of  the 
week. 

Professor  Robinson  is  soon  to  go  away  for  about 
ten  days. 

Professor  Mitchell  granted  adjourns  last 
Wednesday. 

n.irvard,  .29:  Bates,  o.  Harvard,  i,?;  Bow- 
doin,  o. 

The  Juniors  have  begun  laboratory  work  in 
Biology. 

Several  students  spent  Saturday  afternoon  in 
Lewiston. 

Jordan,  1900,  is  singing  tenor  in  the  Cogrega- 
tional  choir. 

The  leaves  have  been  raked  up  and  carried  off 
the  campus. 

Will  &  Hill,  the  jewelers,  have  received  a  lot  of 
Bowdoin  pins. 

A  very  persistent  liook  agent  has  been  round 
college  recently. 

Webber  and  Preble,  '03,  passed  Sunday  at  their 
homes  in  Auburn. 

The  Casino  at  Merrymeeting  Park  closed  Mon- 
day evening,  October  i6th,  after  a  successful  season, 
Bragg,  Snow,  Dana,  and  Nutter  witnessed  the 
Colby-Maine  foot-ball  game  at  Waterville  Saturday. 
Pettengill,  '98,  and  Nason,  '99,  visited  friends 
about  college  Saturday,  returning  to  Augusta  Sun- 
day morning. 

Many  of  the  students  attended  the  performance 
of  "The  Real  Widow  Brown,"  in  the  Town  Hall, 
Tuesday  evening. 

Four  foxes  escaped  from  the  animal  enclosure  at 
Merrymeeting  Park,  recently,  and  for  several  days 
were  at  large  along  the  Bath  road. 

The  usual  fall  removal  of  leaves  from  the  cam- 
pus bjr  rake  and  fire  has  begun,  and  the  air  is 
redolent  with  their  smoky  odor. 

Bowdoin  must  get  in  some  hard  practice  if  she 
expects  to  make  a  good  showing  against  the  Port- 
land Athletic  Club,  Thanksgiving. 

Gen.  Joshua   L.   Chamberlain  will  be  one  of  the 
principal   speakers   at  the  banquet  of  the   East   End 
Yacht  Club  in  Portland,  October  26th. 
/ 


McCormick,  igoo,  was  at  his  home  in  Boothbay 
Harbor  last  week. 

A  lunch  counter  is  being  put  into  Field's  tobacco 
store  on  Main  Street. 

Stackpole,  1900,  took  one  of  his  frequent  trips  to 
Lewiston  Monday  night. 

Every  Freshman  should  read  Elijah  Kellogg's 
Whispering  Pine  series. 

Gibson,  '02,  and  Webber,  '03,  visited  friends  in 
Skowhegan  last  Sunday. 

"No  college  can  do  much  for  a  man  who  thinks 
he  knows  it  all  himself." 

Sanborn,  '01,  was  called  home  Saturday  by  the 
death  of  his  grandmother. 

'Tis  said  the  new  station  will  be  ready  for  occu- 
pancy  by   Thanksgiving.     'Tis   well. 

The  old  residence  on  the  D.  K.  E.  lot  is  being 
removed.     The  house  was  built  in  1812. 

"Mrs.  Jarley's  Wax  Works"  will  be  exhibited  in 
town  some  time  the  last  of  the  month. 

Visit  the  -Vrt  Building  at  least  once  a  week. 
There  is  much  there  to  interest  and  instruct. 

Emery,  '02,  who  was  called  home  by  his  mother's 
death  two  weeks  ago,  has  returned  to  college. 

The  latest  club  is  the  "  Tyler  House  Club,"  com- 
posed of  Hal  Hunt,  Bragg,  Pearl,  and  Snow. 

Eighteen  members  of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  Fra- 
ternity took  dinner  at  Gurnet's  Saturday  night. 

The  Glee  Club,  under  the  direction  of  Willard, 
1900,  has  been  holding  daily  rehearsals  the  past 
week. 

Recitations  scheduled  for  Thursday  afternoon 
were  held  Wednesday  afternoon  last  week,  that  they 
might  not  conflict  with  the  foot-ball  game. 

Goodspeed,  1900,  Pottle,  1900,  Kelley,  '02,  Merrill, 
'03,  and  Pearl,  '03,  attended  the  Zeta  Psi  banquet  at 
Waterville,  Friday.     Pottle  spoke  for  Bowdoin. 

The  Senior  German  class  report  that  they  find 
Hempl's  Orthography  and  Phonology  about  as  lucid 
and  edifying  as  was  Bender's  Roman  Literature. 

Levensaler  has  been  suspended  from  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Maine  Triumvirate.  Candidates  for 
membership  will  hand  in  their  names  to  Bell,  1900. 

Twenty  active  members  from  the  Delta  Upsilon 
chapter  attended  the  joint  banquet  with  the  Colby 
chapter  at  Hotel  North  in  Augusta  last  Thursday 
evening. 

Professor  Chapman  returned  Friday  from  his 
trip  to  Brown  and  Yale,  to  be  present  at  the 
inaugurations  of  the  presidents  of  these  two 
colleges. 


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135 


The  first  Quill  for  the  colllege  year  appeared 
Friday.  It  contains  an  interesting  article  by  Pro- 
fessor Robinson  and  several  well-written  stories  by 
students. 

The  Saturday  Club  are  endeavoring  to  secure 
Mr.  Max  O'Rell  to  fill  the  date  in  their  program  left 
vacant  by  the  inability  of  Mr.  Howells  to  fulfill  his 
engagement. 

Fifteen  Seniors,  twenty  Juniors,  twelve  Sopho- 
mores, twenty-five  Freshmen,  total  seventy-two,  is 
the  record  of  the  attendance  at  the  Church  on  the 
Hill   last   Sunday. 

Among  those  who  attended  the  "Three  Little 
Lambs"  at  The  Jefferson,  Saturday  night,  were 
Whitney,  igoo,  Haley,  Walker,  '02,  Smith,  Jones,  and 
Sabin,  '03,  and  Pearl,  '03. 

Professor  Robinson  recently  found  reasons  for 
thankfulness  that  he  was  obliged  to  wear  glasses. 
Their  kindly  shield  prevented  a  serious  injury  to 
his  eyes  from  a  chemical  explosion. 

The  Browning  Club,  whose  membership  com- 
prises the  members  of  the  Faculty  and  their  wives, 
held  a  preliminary  meeting  Monday  evening  at  the 
home  of  Professor  Lee  and  determined  the  work 
for  the  winter. 

On  Tuesday  evening,  October  31st,  President 
Hyde  will  present  the  report  of  the  Literdenomi- 
national  Comity  Commission  to  the  conference  of 
Cogregational  churches,  which  will  be  in  session  in 
Auburn  that  week. 

Mr.  Paul  P.  Goold  of  Portland  was  about  col- 
lege last  Thursday,  exhibiting  a  series  of  original 
foot-ball  pictures.  They  are  excellently  done  and 
have  been  reproduced  before  the  best  houses  in  the 
country.  He  has  already  shown  them  at  Yale  and 
Harvard,  and  has  had  success  from  the  first.  Dana, 
'01,  is  agent  for  Bowdoin. 

The  Deutscher  Verein  held  its  first  meeting  at 
New  Meadows  Inn  Monday  evening.  A  shore 
supper  was  enjoyed,  and  organization  effected  as 
follows :  Vorsitzender,  Joseph  W.  Whitney; 
Schriftwart,  Islay  F.  McCormick ;  Kassenwart, 
Joseph  C.  Pearson.  Professor  Smith  was  elected 
an  honorary  member.  The  club  will  meet  once  a 
month,  and  voted  to  hold  these  regular  meetings 
at  the  Inn. 

The  George  Evans  Debating  Society  is  consid- 
ering the  advisability  of  organizing  itself  tempor- 
arily into  a  Senate  and  a  House  of  Representatives, 
or  one  of  them,  and  in  this  way  gather  a  knowledge 
of  Reed's  rules  and  the  machinery  of  legislative 
bodies,  along  with  practice  in  debating.  It  is 
hoped  that  a  large  number  of  students  will  interest 


themselves  in  the  inovement,  and  so  help  to  make 
this  important  branch  of  training  and  discipline  of 
the  mind  a  success. 

The  interior  work  on  the  waiting-room  at  the 
Maine  Central  Depot  is  so  far  completed  that  a  good 
idea  may  be  formed  of  the  new  room.  It  is  to  be  a 
beauty.  The  floor  is  laid  in  marble  with  a  brown 
marble  mop-board.  An  ornamental  fire-place  is 
placed  in  one  end  of  the  room  and  the  interior  finish 
is  quite  tasty.  The  room  will  be  done  in  the  course 
of  a  week  or  so,  and  the  general  opinion  is  that  it 
is  the  prettiest  waiting-room  on  the  line.  The 
concrete-asphalt  walks  are  all  laid  on  one  side  and 
about  half  laid  on  the  other.  The  space  between  the 
tracks  is  to  be  filled  with  crushed  rock.  The  depot 
will  be  ready  for  occupancy  about  the  ist  of 
November. 

The  following  somewhat  involved  narrative  con- 
veys at  least  the  interesting  information  that  Elijah 
Kellogg, ,  in  his  87th  3'ear,  is  still  performing  the 
marriage  ceremony  in  the  good  old  way : 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Gertrude  A.  Alexander  of 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  to  O.  H.  Carpenter  of  Maiden, 
Mass.,  took  place  in  North  Harpswell  on 
Thursday,  October  12th,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  aunt,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Alexander,  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  few  relatives  and  friends.  The  ceremony 
was  quaint  and  after  the  form  of  nearly  a  hundred 
years  ago  in  which  the  grandmother  of  the  bride  was 
married  in  the  same  town,  and  was  performed  by 
the  Rev.  Elijah  Kellogg  who  is  now  in  his  87th  year. 
The  bride's  aunt,  who  is  known  in  the  vicinity  as 
"Aunt  Betsey"  and  who  acted  as  bridesmaid,  is  in 
her  85th  year.  The  bride's  mother  and  grandmother 
were  both  born  in  this  same  town  and  the  bride  was 
born  in  Brunswick. 


O'er  the  hills  and  through  the  valleys 
Drove  we  two  a  happy  race ; 

She  was  thinking  of  the  landscape, 
I,  the  while,  of  her  fair  face. 

Joyous  moon,  so  full  of  splendor. 
Smiled  on  us  contented  paii-. 

As  we  sped  our  journey  onward. 
Hastening  to — we  knew  not  where. 

Silver  cloud  with  eye  for  mischief 

Hid  us  now  from  Mr.  Moon ; 
Stealthily  I  kissed  her,  saying, 
"None    too    soon!     How    opportune!" 

Blushing  red,  she  softly  whispered, 
"  Thief  I  will  not  call  you.  Jack, 
If  with  humble  heart  repentant. 
You'll  be  sure  to  give  it  back." 

— D.  F.  S., 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Y.  M.  C.  f\. 


The  regular  weekly  meeting  of  the  Association 
was  held  on  Thursday  evening,  October  19th.  The 
subject  of  the  meeting  was  Mission  Study  in  Col- 
lege, and  A.  L,  Burnell,  1900,  was  the  leader.  The 
service  was  interesting  and  well  attended. 

At  the  Sunday  afternoon  service.  Professor 
Robinson  spoke  on  the  subject  Evolution.  His 
remarks  were  very  interesting  and  gave  much 
thought  for  further  discussion  of  the  subject.  Two 
violin  solos  were  rendered  by  Welch,  1903,  which 
were  greatly  appreciated  by  the  audience.  Mr. 
Welch  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  Symphony  Orches- 
tra, and  his  work  was  pronounced  unusually  fine. 

The  many  Bowdoin  College  friends  of  Mr. 
Robert  A.  Jordan  of  Bangor,  the  well-known  Gen- 
eral Secretary  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  in  that  city,  will  be  pleased  to  hear  that 
he  is  to  be  the  speaker  at  the  service  next  Sunday 
afternoon,  October  29th.  Mr.  Jordan  is  a  very 
pleasant  and  interesting  speaker,  and  he  should  have 
a  large  audience  on   Sunday. 


ATHLETICS. 

TUFTS  6,  BOWDOIN  o. 

Tufts  won  from  us  by  a  touchdown  and  goal  in 
the  game  on  Whittier  Athletic  Field  on  Thursday, 
October  19th,  in  the  poorest  exhibition  which  has 
been  given  on  the  gridiron  here  for  long  years. 
Tufts  played  a  strong  offensive,  but  a  weak  defen- 
sive game.  It  was  due  to  our  misplays,  rather  than 
to  good  work  by  Tufts,  that  we  lost. 

The  Tufts  men  gained  steadily  on  the  right  side 
of  our  centre.  Through  them  and  around  them  our 
backs  could  gain  at  will,  when  they  held  their  grip 
on  the  ball.  But  fumble  followed  fumble,  and  the 
visitors  would  get  the  ball  and  rush  it  out  of  danger 
whenever  we  got  started  toward  victory. 

There  was  considerable  roughness  in  the  game 
and  the  end  was  a  dispute  over  what  Bowdoin 
claimed  was  a  touchdown  scored  by  Hill  in  the  last 
minute  of  play,  but  which  Manager  Lamb  of  the 
Tufts  eleven,  acting  as  referee,  would  not  allow. 
Though  the  rules  make  the  game  a  tie,  nobody  cares 
to  protest  the  decision  of  the  referee ;  and  we  shall 
not  cry  over  the  spilled  milk. 

The  G.\me. 
Captain   Pierce  of  Tufts  won  the  toss  and  took 
the  west  goal   and  the   wind.     Upton  kicked  off  to 
Knight,  who  advanced  only  about  five  yards.     Tufts 


punched  the  line  for  short  gains  until  Bowdoin  held 
for  downs.  Tufts  punted  to  her  own  40-yard  line. 
The  teams  exchanged  the  ball  on  fumbles.  Bowdoin 
made  short  gains,  but  finally  had  to  punt.  Tufts 
smashed  the  line  for  a  while  and  then  punted  to  the 
Bowdoin  20-yard  line,  where  Tufts  got  possession  of 
the  ball  on  a  fumble.  Then  the  Tufts  backs  galloped 
through  us  for  the  remaining  distance.  Knight 
scored  the  touchdown  by  a  centre  buck.  Pierce 
kicked  the  goal. 

Upton  kicked  off  and —  But  who  wants  to  hear 
the  story  of  this  game  of  Fumble,  fumble,  who  has 
got  the  ball?  There  were  more  poor  plays  made 
than  we  ever  want  to  bring  back  to  mind;  and  the 
good  plays  were  so  few  that  it  won't  take  long  to 
tell  about  them.  Gregson  made  long  runs  and 
seemed  to  clinch  the  ball  pretty  well.  Bodwell  made 
short  gains.  Laferrierre  played  his  position  finely. 
Whenever  the  Bowdoin  backs  held  the  ball  they 
carried  it  ahead ;  and  some  of  the  runs  were  over  30 
yards.  Tufts  did  not  get  the  ball  from  us  except  on 
punts  or  on  fumbles.  We  rushed  through  her  line 
and  around  both  ends.  She  gained  only  through  the 
left  side  and  around  the  left  end  of  our  line.  But, 
shades  of  departed  glory !     How  we  did  fumble ! 

The  summary : 

Tufts.  Bowdoin. 

Burton    (Bunough),   1.    e r.    e.,    Bellatty. 

Kempton,  l.t r.t.,  Laferriere. 

J    Butler,  l.g r.g.,   Bodwell. 

Gale    centre Webb,    (Swett). 

Pierce,  r.g.   (Capt. )    l.g.,  Cloudman. 

Lamb,  r.  t 1.  t.,   Hill. 

Butler,  r.e (Capt),  I.e.,  Clarke. 

Yates,  q.b.   (Thomas)    q.b.,  Donnell. 

Burrough,  l.h.b.,   (Perkins)    r.h.b..  Hunt. 

Flagg,  r.h.b l.h  b.,  Gregson. 

Knight,  f.b f.b.,  Merrill    (Upton). 

Touchdown,  Knight.  Goal  from  touchdown, 
Pierce.  Umpire,  Pottle,  Bowdoin.  Referee,  Lamb, 
Tufts.  Timers,  Hildreth  of  Tufts ;  Snow  of  Bow- 
doin.    Time,  20-minute  halves. 

GOLF  TOURNAMENT. 

The  first  annual  tournament  of  the  Bowdoin  Golf 
Club  was  held  on  the  links,  Friday  and  Saturday  of 
last  week.  Wood,  1900,  was  the  winner.  The  prize 
was  a  box  of  golf-balls.  Coach  Crolius  was  to  have 
been  scratch  man. 

Following  is  the  summary: 

Gross.        Handicap.        Net. 

A.   B,   Wood 103  18  8.S 

A.    Shorey 118  30  88 

J.    P.    Bell 121  31  90 

R.     Woodruff 109  18  91 

H.    L.   Berry 113  18  95 

E.    H.    Willis 114  19  95 

Dr.    Whittier no  10  98 

K.   C.   M.   Sills 113  10  103 

Prof.    Woodruff 132  29  103 

R.    E.    Clarke 148  40  108 


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137 


GRIDIRON  SIDELINES. 

The  practice,  Monday  aftei-noon,  which  was  the 
last  before  the  Amherst  game,  was  fast  and  smooth. 
Captain  Clarke  had  gone  in  at  quarter,  and  he  ran 
the  team  much  better  in  that  position  than  he  had 
been  able  to  run  it  from  the  end  of  the  line.  His 
passing  of  the  ball  was  accurate.  The  backs 
squeezed  the  ball.  Donnell  played  at  fullback  Mon- 
day afternoon  and  punted  well.  Levensaler  did 
work  at  halfback  which  promises  well  for  him. 
Some  comparatively  new  formations  were  tried  with 
good  results ;  but  the  second  eleven  was  death  on 
the  new  trick  plays.  The  'varsity  scored  repeatedly 
on  the  second  eleven. 

Harvard  beat  Bates  last  week  29  to  o  on  Soldiers' 
Field,  at  Cambridge.  The  halves  were  20  and  15 
minutes,  respectively.  This  was,  by  no  means,  a 
poor  showing  on  the  part  of  the  Maine  college. 

For  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  college  foot- 
ball, U.  of  M.  defeated  Colby  at  Waterville  on 
Wednesday,  and  rubbed  in  a  score  of  26  to  0.  U.  of 
M.  had  made  a  few  changes  since  the  game  with 
Bowdoin,  and  her  team  was  somewhat  strengthened. 
Colby  had  a  few  men  who  played  brilliantly;  but  on 
the  whole  her  team  was  demoralized.  The  Davis 
brothers  of  the  U.  of  M.  team  carried  ofif  the  honors. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  there  are  difidculties  in  the 
way  of  starting  a  training-table  for  the  foot-ball  men 
this  fall.  A  roast  beef  diet  is  a  great  thing  in  itself; 
and  the  gathering  together  of  all  the  fellows  three 
times  a  day  helps  the  team  work  more  than  one 
might  think.  .And  the  players  who  train  most 
conscientiously  are  the  ones  who  put  snap  into  their 
work  on  the  field.  Too  many  of  the  'varsity  men 
are  complaining  of  a  lack  of  ambition.  If  they 
didn't  have  pie  within  easy  reach  they  probably 
wouldn't  eat  it. 

Cloudman  has  withdrawn  from  foot-ball  practice 
and  has  decided  to  stay  out  of  the  game  for  the 
remainder  of  his  college  course.  Cloudman  is  too 
valuable  a  man  for  the  track  team  to  risk  his  speedy 
legs  in  scrimmages.  His  action  meets  with  the 
approval  of  far-seeing  alumni  and  undergraduates. 

Chapman,  the  plucky  little  Senior  who  has  been 
playing  end  this  season,  is  also  out  of  the  game.  He 
broke  a  cheek  bone  in  practice  a  few  days  before 
the  game  and  has  gone  to  his  home  in  Portland  for 
surgical  treatment.  Chapman  has  always  been 
regarded  as  a  strong  defensive  player.  The  long 
run  which  he  made  with  the  ball,  just  before  he  was 
tackled  and  injured,  showed  that  he  was  developing 
into  an  able  man  on  the  offensive.  He  is  as  enthusi- 
astic as  ever,  and  he  wants  to  get  back  into  the 
game.  The  surgeon.  Dr.  Gerrish,  says  that  no 
operation   will   have   to   be   performed   on   Chapman 


unless  a  nerve  has  been  cut,  which  a,ccident  all  hope 
will  prove  not  to  be  the  case. 

There  is  still  an  aggravating  number  of  injured 
players.  The  team  had  such  a  short  time  in  which 
to  prepare  itself  for  the  Harvard  and  Dartmouth 
games  that  hard  practice  had  to  be  begun  upon 
before  the  men  were  ready  for  it.  Next  year  the 
management  ought  to  profit  by  the  experience  of  this 
season.  Manager  Spear,  it  will  be  remembered, 
tried  to  arrange  for  preliminary  practice,  but  owing 
to  the  small  number  of  men  who  could  take  it,  the 
visit  to  MacMahon's  Island  was  abandoned. 

As  yet  no  member  of  the  Freshman  Class  has 
succeeded  in  making  a  position  on  the  'varsity 
eleven.  This  is  remarkable  when  one  considers  that 
the  Class  of  1903  is  the  largest  class  which  ever 
entered  Bowdoin.  The  other  Maine  colleges  all 
found  excellent  'varsity  material  in  the  ranks  of 
their  Freshmen. 

Manager  Swett  sent  out  the  following  circular 
letter  last  week ; 

BOWDOIN    COLLEGE    ATHLETIC    ASSOCIA- 
TION. 
Brunswick,  Me.,  Oct.  19,  1899. 
To   the  High  Schools  and  Academies  of  Maine: 

Last  May,  at  the  invitation  of  the  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege Athletic  Association,  a  most  successful  field 
meet  of  the  High  Schools  and  Academies  of  Maine 
was  held  upon  the  Whittier  Field,  Brunswick. 
Fourteen  schools  were  represented  by  teams,  and 
the  contests  were  very  close,  resulting  in  a  wide  dis- 
tribution of  points  and  honors.  Several  of  the  old 
M.  I.  S.  A.  A.  records  were  broken  and  others  were 
equalled.  The  Association  proposes  to  hold  a  sim- 
ilar invitation  meet  every  sprmg.  It  has  reason  to 
believe  that  all  the  schools  which  took  part  this  year 
will  be  represented  next  spring,  and  hopes  that  the 
number  will  be  increased.  Shall  we  not  count  on 
the  sending  of  a  team  by  your  school? 

The  date  of  the  field  day  will  be  announced  later, 
but  it  will  not  be  far  from  the  first  of  June.  The 
conditions  will  be  the  same  as  last  spring.  The 
Bowdoin  Athletic  Association  will  give  a  pennant 
to  the  school  winning  the  most  points,  and  individual 
medals  to  the  contestants  who  win  places.  It  will 
provide  efficient  and  impartial  officials,  will  furnish 
score  cards,  look  after  the  advertising,  and,  in  gen- 
eral, take  upon  itself  all  the  management  and  the 
total  expense  of  the  meet.  No  fee  is  required  of 
the  schools  sending  teams,  and  their  only  expense 
will  be  for  transportation  of  the  teams.  No  one  will 
question  that  this  year's  field  day  was  run  off  more 
promptly  and  with  better  satisfaction  to  contestants 
and  spectators  than  was  ever  possible  under  the  M. 


138 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


I.  S.  A.  A.  Brunswick  is  centrally  located,  and  the 
Whittier  Field  has  not  a  superior  in  New  England. 
Bowdoin's  annual  invitation  meet  is  to  be  a  perma- 
nent thing,  and  it  promises  to  be  broader  in  its 
scope  and  to  do  more  for  Maine  athletics  than  could 
be  done  under  any  other  system. 

That  there  may  be  no  misunderstanding  as  to 
the  financial  side  of  Bowdoin's  management  of  this 
meet,  we  will  say  that  the  total  receipts  of  the  field 
day  last  May,  which  came  wholly  from  the 
admission  fee  of  spectators,  was  $220.95.  The  total 
expenses,  including  pennant  and  medals,  expense  of 
referee  and  starter  from  Boston,  printing,  adver- 
tising, postage,  etc.,  was  $222.88. 

Let  us  hear  from  your  athletic  manager  as  soon 
as  possible   in   regard  to  being  represented  at   next 
spring's  field  day.     Any  questions  you  may  wish  to 
ask  will  be  cheerfully  answered. 
Very  sincerely  yours, 

Herbert  L.  Swett, 
Manager  Bowdoin  College  Athletic  Ass'n. 


PERSONflLS. 

'60.— Thomas  B.  Reed,  ex-Speaker  of  the  House 
of  Representatives,  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the 
New  York  bar  by  the  Appellate  Division  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  October  18,  1899,  on  a  motion  of 
Lawyer  Thomas  H.  Hubbard  ('57).  Mr.  Reed 
stated  in  his  application  that  he  had  become  a  resi- 
dent and  intends  to  practise  there.  He  presented  a 
certificate  of  the  Maine  courts  of  his  admission  and 
practice  in  this  State.  Presiding  Justice  Van  Brunt, 
who  took  the  paeprs,  immediately  approved  them. 
j\Ir.  Reed  took  the  oath  at  once. 

'68.— John  S.  Derby  of  Alfred,  formerly  United 
States  consul  at  St.  John,  spoke  on  local  issues  of 
the  coming  campaign  at  the  opening  Democratic 
rally  in  City  Hall,  Saco,  October  15th. 

'69. — Henry  B.  Quinby  has  been  elected  Grand 
Commander  of  Knights  Templar  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

'76. — Ex-yUderman  Alpheus  Sanford  of  Ward  20 
was  put  in  line  for  the  Republican  nomination  for 
mayor  of  Boston  at  the  recent  dinner  of  the  Chick- 
atawbut  Club  at  Young's.  Senator  William  H.  Lott 
was  his  spokesman,  and  he  said  the  time  had  come 
for  the  citizens  of  Boston  to  put  forward  a  man 
whose  sole  ambition  should  not  be  to  spend  money. 
Air.  Sanford,  who  is  a  member  of  the  club,  was 
given  a  warm  reception.  He  declared  that  he 
should  support  the  Republican  nominee,  whoever  he 
was,   and  he   said  also:     "I  believe  that  an  honest. 


conservative  Republican  inquiry  should  be  kept  on, 
so  that  the  caucuses  may  be  well  filled  with  voters, 
and  that  the  convention  may  easily  and  without 
friction  nominate  a  candidate  for  mayor.  What  you 
want  to  get  is  a  man  in  whom  you  have  some  confi- 
dence, who  has  a  reasonable  knowledge  about  the 
citj' — a  man  whom  you  may  elect.  If  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Sanford  fills  that  office,  he  goes." 

'77.— Frank  H.  Crocker,  M.D.,  of  Machias,  has 
removed  to  Gardiner,  Me. 

'77- — Col.  George  S.  Thompson,  who  is  a  former 
member  of  the  Governor's  staff  and  a  prominent 
member  of  Brunsv\dck  social  circles,  has  at  the 
quest  of  a  large  number  of  leading  Republicans,  con- 
sented to  allow  the  use  of  his  name  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  postmaster  at  Brunswick. 

'79. — Seward  Smith  Stearns  of  Norway,  Me., 
died  August  9,  1899.  He  was  Judge  of  Probate  for 
Oxford  County  and  treasurer  of  the  Norway 
Savings  Bank.  He  had  been  at  the  head  of  the 
Royal  Arch  Masons  of  Maine. 

'87. — At  the  recent  meeting  of  the  trustees  of 
Washington  Academy,  Machias,  Francis  L.  Talboti 
'87,  was  elected  secretary,  and  George  F.  Gary,  '88, 
treasurer. 

'90. — Three  recent  graduates  took  their  oral 
examinations  last  week  in  the  Supreme  Judicial 
Court  for  admission  to  the  Maine  bar.  They  were: 
LL  H.  Hastings,  '90,  who  has  studied  law  with 
Foster  and  Hersey ;  T.  H.  Gately,  Jr.,  '92,  who  has 
studied  with  George  F.  McQuillan,  Esq.  ;  and  C.  B. 
Eastman,  '97,  who  studied  with  A.  F.  Moulton,  Esq. 
All  were  admitted  after  a  very  satisfactory  exami- 
nation. 

'91. — Rev.  Edward  H.  Newbegin  of  Ayer,  Mass., 
has  been  extended  a  call  to  the  pastorate  at  St. 
John's  Episcopal   Church,  Bangor. 


I  know  a  very  modest  man, 
So  modest,  be  it  said. 

He  never  passed  a  garden 
^^^len  the  flowers  were 


f  IRST-  f  LASS  '*  IrINTING 


FOR   SCHOOLS   AND   COLLEGES, 


EXECUTED    AT    THE 


JOURNAL  OFFICE,  LEWISTON. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,   MAINE,   NOVEMBER   2,  1899. 


No.  15. 


BOWDOIN    ORIIi^N^J'. 

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YEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS  OF 

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Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

IsLAY  F.  McCORMicK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  15.— November  2,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes       139 

Calendar 141 

College  News      142 

Y.  M.  C.  A 143 

Athletics 143 

Personals 145 

In  Memoriam 146 


Certain  criticisms  which  have  come  to  the 
attention  of  the  editors  seem  to  demand  some 
explanation  in  defense  of  the  poHcy  which  has 
given  rise  to  these  frank  and  yet  welcome 
expressions  of  interest. 

Part  of  the  present  Board  of  Editors  have 
seen  the  Quill  enter  the  literary  field  of  the 
college  and  claim  as  its  prerogative  all  literary 
prose  and  verse ;  the  Orient  acknowledged  its 
right  and  has  gladly  consented  to  a  division  of 


college  literary  productions  into  what  we  may 
term  the  artistic  and  journalistic,  the  latter  of 
which  finds  expression  in  the  Orient.  The 
entire  active  board  has  seen  the  Orient  from 
a  bi-weekly  essay  to  fill,  satisfactorily,  the 
more  difficult  sphere  of  a  weekly ;  this  latter 
has  burdened  the  editors  with  labors  and  prob- 
lems far  more  irksome  than  can  possibly  be 
realized  by  students  or  alumni. 

The  criticisms  on  the  Orient  concern  the 
local  aspect  of  the  matter,  a  so-called  lack  of 
dignity  as  compared  with  its  contemporaries, 
silly  and  transient  gossip  about  the  fellows 
in  college,  superficial  paragraphs  of  no  perma- 
nent interest  pass  as  editorials,  and  the  whole 
publication  appears  to  have  forgotten  the  fact 
that  Bowdoin  was  founded  as  an  institution 
of  learning. 

Yea,  verily;  the  paths  of  Orient  editors 
are  sadly  in  need  of  smoothing.  The  road  is 
rough  here  in  college,  making  us  labor  in  our 
journey,  and  because  the  laboring  bears  fruit 
in  the  style  and  form  of  the  paper,  we  are 
criticised  disparagingly. 

Do  the  alumni  know  what  has  been  done 
for  the  first  time  in  the  last  two  3'ears?  If 
not,  listen !  The  Orient  has  paid  its  bills,  in 
full,  while  heretofore  every  board  has  left 
arrears.  This  year,  since  a  weekly,  the  finan- 
cial giant  strides  in  his  seven-league  boots. 
If  the  Orient  comes  out  square  next  March, 
the  victory  will  be  as  hard-earned  and  as 
deserving  of  praise  as  last  spring's  Worcester 
success !  The  college  newspaper  is  not 
particularly  popular  among  the  fellows,  and 
the  silly  and  transient  gossip  and  the  athletic 
accounts  are  about  all  that  they  condescend 
to  peruse.  The  subscription  is  forced  upon 
them  like  one  forces  medicine  on  a  child.  If 
two-thirds  of  the  students  take  the  paper  the 
business   manager   has   a   banner   year.     The 


140 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


alumni  are  only  good  for  about  as  many  sub- 
scriptions as  the  undergraduates,  notwith- 
standing the  vast  difference  in  numbers. 
There  you  have  some  of  the  only  sort  of  roses 
we  ever  have  strewn  under  our  feet. 

In  the  first  four  numbers  of  this  term  the 
Orient  has  twelve  columns  of  college  news. 
Glance  through  these  same  numbers  and  count 
the  columns  devoted  to  the  Alumni.  The 
number  will  be  found  to  correspond  exactly 
with  that  of  the  College  News.  The 
athletic  accounts  are  of  as  much  importance 
to  the  alumni  as  the  student  body,  and  are 
made  rather  detailed  just  to  please  the  younger 
alumni  who  have  expressed  such  a  desire. 
Thus  far  it  can  hardly  be  claimed  that  the 
value  of  the  Orient  is  very  materially  depre- 
ciated as  it  passes  from  the  undergraduates 
to  the  alumni ;  and  still  less  can  it  be  so  said 
when  the  subjects  of  its  editorials  are  con- 
sidered. 

Three  weeklies  and  three  dailies  of  six 
different  representative  colleges  give  the  fol- 
lowing editorials  :  Athletics,  xi. ;  of  interest 
especially  to  undergraduates,  x. ;  of  interest 
to  all  college  men  in  general,  i.  The  first  four 
numbers  of  this  term's  Orient  give  the  fol- 
lowing editorials :  Athletics,  v. ;  of  interest 
especially  to  undergraduates,  x. ;  of  interest 
to  Bowdoin  men  everywhere,  vi.  Total  in 
both  cases,  xxi.  editorials. 

The  Orient  is  first  and  above  all  a  college 
newspaper,  devoted  especially  to  the  under- 
graduates and  the  activities  of  the  college. 
Its  editorials  should  be  concerned  with  its 
policy,  athletics,  honor,  good  name,  and 
standing.  Its  college  news  should  give  the 
minor  happenings  of  the  week  and  make  men- 
tion of  the  various  interests  that  permeate  our 
college  life.  The  athletic  department  should 
give  the  true  and  detailed  stories  of  college 
contests,  frank  to  criticise  and  quick  to  praise. 
And  the  personals  should  publish  every  item 
of  interest  and  of  fact  to  our  alumni.  This 
has  been  our  aim,  and,  though  we  are  not 
catering  for  a  word  of  praise,  yet  it  cannot 


help  seeming  to  us  that  we  have  followed 
fairly  accurately  the  lines  laid  out  as  our 
work. 

The  Orient  will  ever  be  found  quick  to 
respond  to  any  mark  of  interest  in  its  welfare. 
If  in  the  form  of  more  subscribers,  the  paper 
will  go  to  the  limit  of  its  purse  in  bettering  its 
appearance.  If  personal  items,  manuscript, 
ideas,  or  suggestions  of  anj^  sort  are  presented, 
a  most  hearty  acceptance  will  be  forthcoming 
immediately.  The  Orient  is  ever  the  prop- 
erty of  the  students,  alumni,  and  Faculty ; 
and  the  present  board  will  be  the  last  to  injure 
its  patrimony  by  the  suppression  of  even  the 
most  insignificant  privilege  or  custom. 


Plans  are  being  incubated  towards  an 
unusually  vigorous  athletic  season  this  coming 
spring.  Not  a  stone  will  be  left  imturned  in 
utilizing  every  opportunity  for  this  purpose. 
The  first  real  move  will  be  of  financial  purport, 
for  filthy  lucre  is  a  most  essential  attribute  of 
athletic  success. 

A  minstrel  show  is  one  of  the  strong  cards 
up  our  manager's  sleeve ;  and  with  the  talent 
in  college  it  should  be  a  winning  card.  A 
galaxy  of  stars,  gorgeous  costumes,  elaborate 
settings,  and  startling  climaxes  will  now  be 
the  one  great  attraction  of  the  future. 
Burlesque  histrionics  and  "coon  melodies"  are 
ever  popular  and  profitable  schemes  for  touch- 
ing the  coffers  of  gullible  mortals,  and  with  so 
commendable  a  cause  as  this  one  boasts,  it 
surely  must  reap  a  harvest  of  good  cold  coin. 
Rest  assured  it  will  take  more  than  a  napkin 
to  prevent  your  talent  from  being  drafted  into 
"  Swett's  and  White's  own  show."  Every 
man  in  college,  of  course,  will  gladly  put  his 
shoulder  to  the  project,  and  alumni,  sub- 
Freshmen,  and  friends,  from  Aroostook  to 
York,  must  be  persuaded  to  turn  out  for  this 
magnificent  production,  as  well  as  our  lady 
friends,  who  should  be  numerically  conspicu- 
ous, especially  since  the  entertainment  is  to 
be  augmented  by  a  hop.  Hurrah  for  the 
Minstrel  Show ! 


BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


141 


The  Association  of  Colleges  in  New  Eng- 
land will  hold  its  43d  annual  meeting  at 
Bowdoin  College,  November  9th  and  loth. 
The  first  session  will  open  a  quarter  before 
eight  Thursday  morning,  and  from  that  time 
on  matters  and  problems  of  college  interest 
will  be  discussed  by  these,  the  leading  educa- 
tors of  New  England. 

Each  college  will  be  represented  by  their 
president  and  one  delegate,  who  shall  be  a 
member  of  the  Fa:culty.  The  meetings  are 
of  the  nature  of  a  conclave,  to  which,  outside 
of  the  delegates,  only  the  resident  Faculty  is 
eligible.  Bowdoin  will  be  represented  by  her 
President  and  Professor  Emery.  The  other 
colleges  represented  are  Harvard,  Yale, 
Brown,  Dartmouth,  Wesleyan,  Williams, 
Amherst,  Tufts,  Trinity,  Clarke  University, 
Middlebury,  Boston  College,  and  University 
of  Vermont.  With  the  exception  of  President 
Harris  of  Amherst,  Bowdoin  will  have  the 
pleasure  of  entertaining  the  recently  inaugu- 
rated Presidents. 

Bowdoin  has  only  been  a  member  of  the 
Association  for  about  ten  years,  and  this  year 
will  be  the  first  she  has  been  honored  with  the 
annual  meeting.  It  is  fair  to  presume  that 
some  benefit  of  this  meeting  will  be  appre- 
ciated in  a  material  way,  since  twelve  of 
fifteen  problems  of  college  significance  are  up 
for  consideration. 


The  recent  item  in  the  "College  News" 
concerning  the  offer  of  a  substantial  little  sum 
of  money  to  Cloudman  if  he  would  augment 
the  Pennsylvania  University  athletic  team 
with  his  flighty  limbs  was  printed  on  a  general 
rumor  which  existed  not  only  in  the  college 
but  throughout  the  State.  Inquiry  has  since 
proved  this  rumor  entirely  without  foundation, 
and  any  reflections  which  this  report  has  cast 
upon  the  athletics  of  Pennsylvania's  leading 
institution  of  learning  we  sincerely  hope  will 
be  removed  by  this  correction  of  that  unfor- 
tunate statement. 


"Those  who  play  with  electricity -will  get 
shocked "  is  as  true  as  the  danger  inherent  in 


fire.  The  transformers  which  are  located  in 
the  various  ends  engender  too  much  destruc- 
tion for  fellows  to  use  them  as  a  plaything. 
It  is  a  serious  and  risky  amusement  now  cur- 
rent among  the  students,  this  fooling  with  the 
lights  and  wires.  A  fire  can  be  easily  started 
by  interfering  with  the  natural  curcuit  of  the 
power,  and  the  authorities  have  often 
expressed  wonderment  that  such  a  result  has 
not  already  happened.  Another  less  probable 
but  more  serious  result  is  that  liable  to  come 
from  a  chance  contact  with  the  current  of  the 
transformers ;  sufficient  volts  run  into  these  to 
kill  a  man  outright,  and  it  is  sure  to  happen 
if  these  pernicious  practices  are  continued. 
Take  warning  in  time,  and  do  not  wait  for 
the  sad  lesson  of  experience. 


CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  Nov.  4. — Bowdoin  plays  Colby  at 
Portland. 

Saturday,  Nov.  ii. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Brunswick. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  15. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
College  Hill. 

Saturday,  Nov.  18. — Bowdoin  plays  Holy  Cross 
at  Worcester. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23. — Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Thursday,  to  Sunday,  Nov.  30-DEC.  4. — Thanks- 
giving Recess. 

Monday  to   Friday,   Dec.    18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday,  Dec   28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


Professor  Robinson  left  Saturday  for  Minneapolis 
to  attend  a  meeting  of  the  American  Public 
Health  Association,  which  holds  sessions  for  four 
days  this  week.  Professor  Robinson,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  will  be  the 
Maine   representative. 

This  association  is  getting  to  be  a  very  valuable 
one,  as  it  contains  delegates  from  all  the  State 
boards  of  health,  members  of  the  boards  of  the 
cities,  the  members  of  the  boards  of  the  various 
provinces  of  Canada,  the  states  in  Mexico,  and  it 
is  expected  representatives  from  Cuba  and  Porto 
Rico.  The  members  of  the  staffs  of  various  labora- 
tories of  the  great  colleges  will  be  present  this 
year. 


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COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Eastman,  1902,  spent  Sunday  at  Kent's  Hill. 

Stackpole,  1900,  visited  friends  in  Lewiston  re- 
cently. 

History  4  and  Literature  4  enjoyed  oral  quizzes 
last  week. 

Friday  proved  an  unusually  damp  day  for  the 
Freshmen. 

Chamberlain,  '99,  was  about  the  campus  Friday 
and  Saturday. 

F.  H.  Appleton,  Esq.,  '64,  was  the  guest  of  his 
son  on  Sunday. 

The  Sweet  Caporals  and  the  No-to-bacs  are  to 
play  foot-ball  soon. 

Riley,  '03,  gave  a  party  for  the  members  of  his 
delegation  last  week. 

The  Boston  papers  say  that  Bowdoin  put  up  a 
star  game  at  Amherst. 

Swett,  '01,  was  present  at  a  tea  given  at  Smith 
before  the  Amherst  game. 

Stackpole,  1900,  and  Larrabee,  1901,  passed 
Sunday  at  their  homes. 

Professor  Mitchell  was  out  of  town  Wednesday 
and  Thursday  of  last  week. 

Nearly  seven  hundred  books  were  taken  from 
the  library  during  October. 

The  French  prize  of  last  year  was  won  by  Ralph 
B.  Stone.  It  was  awarded  on  class-room  work 
alone. 

Stackpole,  1900,  and  J.  P.  Webber,  '03,  were 
detained  a  few  hours  by  last  week's  railroad  acci- 
dent. 

Mike  Madden  sprung  a  Freshman  cake  Thurs- 
day night  of  last  week,  under  the  bridge  on  a  back 
street. 

Considerable  interest  has  been  shown  in  the  for- 
mation of  Republican,  Democratic,  and  Populist 
clubs. 

Professor  Woodruff  granted  adjourns  to  the 
Sophomore  Greek  Class  for  a  week,  beginning  Fri- 
day last. 

The  Jessie  Harcourt  Company  is  at  Bath  this 
week,  and  many  of  the  students  are  visiting  Co- 
lumbia Theatre. 

Prof.  Chapman  will  lecture  in  Portland  soon  on 
"Robert  Burns."  The  proceeds  will  be  given  to  aid 
the  Wellesley  College  endowment  fund. 

Edwards,  1900,  and  Pottle,  1900,  went  to  Port- 
land Wednesday,  October  25th,  on  the  Sunday-school 
convention  train,  presumably  as  delegates. 


Some  Sophomores  are  trying  to  establish  the 
golf  suit  as  the  "right  thing"  to  wear  when  making 
evening  calls  upon  young  ladies.  Let  us  hope  they 
will   desist  from  their  attempt. 

Mr.  Philip  .  Davis  and  Mr.  C.  R.  Doten  have 
been  at  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  N.  H., 
attending  the  annual  convention  of  the  Alpha  Kappa 
Fraternity.  They  acted  as  delegates  from  the  Theta 
Chapter  of  the  Bowdoin  Medical  School. 

Pottle  and  Randall,  1900,  fell  asleep  when  coming 
from  Portland  on  the  midnight  one  night  last  week, 
and  did  not  wake  up  until  the  train  reached  Bow- 
doinham,  when  the  conductor  called  "tickets."  They 
kept  on  to  Gardiner  and  returned  the  next  morning. 

West,  1900,  has  returned  from  his  visit  to  Ann 
Arbor,  whither  he  went  as  the  representative  of  the 
Bowdoin  chapter  to  the  Delta  Upsilon  convention. 
The  convention  accepted  only  one  application,  and 
a  chapter  will  be  established  at  the  University  of 
Toronto. 

Read  the  following  quotation  from  the  Boers' 
national   hymn : 

"Waal  hoog  nou  in  ons  heldre  lug, 

Transvaalse   orijheidsvlag! 
Ons  vijande  is  weggeolug, 
Ons  blink'n   blijer  dag." 

Thursday  evening  Miss  Evie  Stetson  entertained 
a  party  at  cards.  During  the  evening  refreshments 
were  served.  Those  present  were  Miss  Jennie 
Thomas  of  Rockland,  Miss  Aimee  Stetson,  Miss 
Grace  Crawford,  Miss  Emma  Thompson,  Murray 
S.  Danforth,  Frank  Hayden,  Artelle  Palmer,  Philip 
Cobb,  Ralph  Bodwell,  and  Austin  Larrabee. 

President  Hyde,  in  his  Sunday  afternoon  talk, 
spoke  of  the  value  of  forming  opinions  on  the  vital 
problems,  in  life  and  of  the  danger  in  holding 
indefinite  views,  of  being  undecided  or  careless  in 
religion  and  other  great  subjects.  In  the  gathering 
gloom  the  eloquent  and  rhythmical  sentences  of  the 
speaker  conveying  to  many  much  food  for  thought, 
produced  a  deep  impression. 

The   following   are   the   subjects   for   the   themes 
due  Tuesday,  November  7th : 
Juniors. 

1.  Characteristics  of  Bowdoin  Men. 

2.  Do  Churches  and  Seminaries  give  to  Theo- 
logical Students  Too  Much  Financial  Aid? 

3.  Rubaiyat  of  Omar  Khayyam. 

Sophomores. 

1.  Summer  Work  for  College  Students. 

2.  How  May  Foot-ball  Be  Improved? 

3.  Admiral  Dewey  as  a  Candidate  for  the  Pres- 
idency. 

4.  George  Eliot's  "Silas  Marner." 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


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Y.  M.  C.  fl 


The  question  has  come  before  the  cabinet,  during 
the  last  week,  concerning  the  matter  of  taking  the 
IntcrcoUegian,  the  official  organ  of  the  Intercollegiate 
Christian  Association.  The  officers  and  committee 
men  will  remember  that  the  paper  was  sent  to  them 
free  of  charge  during  last  spring  term.  The  quality 
of  the  reading  matter  and  the  general  tone  of  the 
paper  commended  it  so  highly  to  those  who  thus 
received  it,  that  it  has  been  decided  to  make  the 
paper  a  privilege  of  membership  in  the  Association. 
In  order  that  all  the  copies  ordered  may  be  used 
regularly,  and  the  greatest  amount  of  good  may 
come  from  the  funds  thus  expended,  it  has  been 
thought  best  for  all  who  would  enjoy  the  paper,  to 
pass  their  names  to  Russell,  1900,  so  that  those  who 
will  use  the  paper  may  have  it  and  at  the  same  time 
no  copies  be  wasted,  as  might  be  the  case  if  the 
paper  was  distributed  broadcast  throughout  the 
Association.  The  Intercollegian  is  a  paper  of  real 
merit,  each  issue  containing  carefully  prepared  arti- 
cles by  such  men  as  Daniel  C.  Oilman,  President  of 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  Professor  Bosworth  of 
Oberlin,  Professor  Sanders  of  Yale,  John  R.  Mott, 
Robert  E.  Spear,  and  many  others  well  known  for 
their  depth  of  thought  and  the  practical  nature  of 
their  religious  faith.  Such  an  issue  carefully 
perused  each  month  will  do  much  to  build  up  the 
spiritual  lives  of  those  who  take  a  vital  interest  in 
these  deeper  questions  of  man's  life  and  relations  to 
his  fellow-creatures. 

Thursday  evening,  October  26th,  was  given  up  to 
the  Northfield  Conference.  Wyman,  igoi,  led  the 
service,  and  four  of  the  men  who  went  to  Northfield 
this  summer  spoke  briefly  on  several  phases  of  that 
great  student  gathering.  Bowdoin  was  represented 
by  five  men  this  summer,  which  was  an  increase 
over  the  past  few  years.  However,  other  colleges 
the  size  of  Bowdoin  have  delegations  of  ten  and 
fifteen  men  there  every  year,  and  if  Christian  work 
in  this  institution  is  to  be  kept  progressive  and 
up  to  date  we  imtst  have  more  men  at  that  workers' 
conference.  Now  is  the  time  for  those  in  the  three 
lower  classes  who  want  to  be  partakers  in  this  work 
to  begin  to  plan  to  work  up  a  large  and  enthusiastic 
delegation  for  Northfield  in   1900. 

Everybody  in  the  State  knows  about  Robert  Jor- 
dan of  the  Bangor  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  almost  every- 
body who  spent  Sunday,  October  29th,  on  the  campus 
seized  the  opportunity  to  hear  him  at  Massachusetts 
Hall  on  that  afternoon.  Mr.  Jordan  spoke  on  the 
trial  and  crucifixion  of  Jesus.  The  picture  that  he 
drew  of  those  stirring  scenes  was  intensely  impres- 


sive, especially  when  the  speaker  emphasized  the 
fact  that  all  this  suffering  was  endured  for  the 
benefit  and  help  of  us  whose  indifferent  and,  .some- 
times, purposeless  lives  so  illy  represent  the  noljle 
Christ  whoiii  we  serve. 

The  solo  by  Appleton,  1902,  added  much  to  the 
pleasure  and  profit  of  the  afternoon's  service. 

Those  Bible  Study  classes  begin  this  week ;  but 
ihere  is  still  time  for  others  to  join  the  classes  and 
attend  the  first  lesson. 

On  account  of  his  extra  work  this  term,  Bragdon 
finds  it  impossible  to  lead  the  course  in  the  Life  of 
Christ.  Atherton  will  take  his  place.  The  books 
have  come  and  can  be  had  at  No.  3,,  South  Maine. 
Those  who  have  looked  them  over  speak  very  highly 
of  the  course. 


ATIiLETICS. 

Amherst  ii,  Bowdoin  6. 

Though  once  more  we  have  to  record  a  defeat 
for  Bowdoin,  we  do  it  with  much  more  ease  than 
we  have  been  able  to  command  for  some  time  while 
writing  foot-ball  stories.  The  game  with  Amherst 
at  Amherst  on  Wednesday,  October  25th,  was  such  a 
praiseworthy  contest  and  Bowdoin  played  so  finely 
for  almost  every  minute  of  the  game,  that  we  feel 
very  little  hesitation  about  telling  how  we  lost.  The 
game,  from  the  spectators'  standpoint,  was  the  best 
seen  on  the  Amherst  gridiron  for  long  years.  The 
teams  were  almost  matched,  man  for  man.  Each 
team  worked  hard  and  snappily  in  every  play. 
There  were  brilliant  tackles  and  many  punts.  The 
game  was  won  by  remarkably  strong  uphill  work. 
The  last  touchdown  was  scored  by  Amherst's  playing 
three  dashes  at  the  line  in  the  last  15  seconds  of  the 
game. 

Neither  side  scored  in  the  first  half.  Washburn 
of  Amherst  kicked  off  to  the  Bowdoin  is-yard  line, 
from  which  the  Bowdoin  backs  carried  the  ball  to 
the  45-yard  line.  Then  Donnell  punted  25  yards  to 
Swift,  who  came  back  S  yards.  Amherst  worked 
the  left  side  of  the  Bowdoin  line  for  short  gains, 
until  the  Bowdoin  25-yard  line  had  been  reached. 
Here  Amherst  fumbled.  Bellatty  found  the  ball, 
and,  by  the  aid  of  interference  by  Laferriere,  gained 
45  yards  before  being  brought  down  by  Swift's 
tackle.  Bowdoin  made  only  short  gains,  and  decided 
to  punt.  Amher.st  gained  a  few  yards  and  then 
punted.  Back  and  forth  the  ball  went  for  the  rest 
of  *he  half.  Neither  side  seemed  to  have  the 
advaiitage  over  the  other.  The  ball  was  in  the 
possession  of  the  Bowdoin  men  at  the  centre  of  the 
field  when  time  was  called. 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


Captain  Clarke  had  to  leave  the  game  in  the  first 
half  on  account  of  an  injury.  Donnell  moved  up  to 
the  quarterback  position  and  Hunt  played  fullback 
for  the  remainder  of  the  game.  Bowdoin  kicked 
off  for  25  yards ;  and  Leighton  fell  on  the  ball  which 
an  Amherst  man  had  fumbled.  Levensaler  and 
Gregson  carried  the  ball  to  the  Amherst  l2-yard  line, 
but  Amherst  then  squared  around  and  held.  She 
got  the  ball  on  downs  and  punted  it  out  of  danger. 
Bodwell  gambolled  down  the  field  through  Jones  for 
20  yards,  met  Swift — and  then  fell  with  a  thud  which 
shook  the  goal  posts.  Then  Levensaler  ran  around 
the  Amherst  left  end  for  i8  yards  and  touched  the 
ball  down  between  the  posts.  Hunt  kicked  the  goal 
and  the  score  was  Bowdoin  6,  Amherst  o. 

Swift  kicked  off  to  Hunt  on  the  Bowdoin  5-yard 
line.  Hunt  punted  back  to  the  centre  of  the  field. 
The  Bowdoin  men  were  not  expecting  a  punt  and 
Swift  easily  made  a  3S-yard  run  back  with  the  ball. 
Amherst  picked  up  new  courage  and  banged  the 
line  hard,  gaining  through  and  making  an  end  run 
which  changed  the  seat  of  war  to  the  Bowdoin 
5-yard  line.  Here  we  held  for  downs  and  punted 
20  yards. 

Then  Royse  on  a  fake  kick  dashed  up  the  field 
for  35  yards.  From  the  point  where  he  was  downed 
a  few  short  rushes  carried  the  ball  to  the  goal  line. 
Gladwin  was  pushed  through  the  centre  for  a  touch- 
down ;  and  the  score  was  tied  when  Swift  kicked 
the  goal. 

Bowdoin  kicked  off  to  the  Amherst  lo-yard  line. 
Amherst  rushed  the  ball  the  whole  length  of  the 
field  and  on  short  gains,  entirely,  excepting  for  a 
20-yard  run  which  Ballantine  made  around  our  left 
end.  From  the  5-yard  line  Dudley  and  Clark  pushed 
the  ball  across  the  goal  line  just  as  the  referee  blew 
his  whistle.     Swift  missed  the  goal. 

Brilliant  individual  work  was  done  by  Swift, 
Gladwin  and  Clark  for  Amherst,  and  by  Levensaler 
and  Laferriere  for  Bowdoin.  Captain  Clarke 
played  well  at  quarterback,  and  was  sadly  missed  in 
the  second  half.  Leighton's  work  was  excellent. 
Bodwell  made  gains  repeatedly.  Donnell  got  away 
all  his  punts  but  one.  Kelly  and  Hamilton  played 
their  first  game  in  a  manner  worthy  of  praise. 
Every  man  did  his  utmost. 

The  summary : 
Amherst.  Bowdoin. 

Anderson,  l.e r.e.,  Bellatty. 

Gladwin,   1.   t 1.   t,   Leferriere. 

Foster,  l.g r.g.,  Bodwell. 

Hammond    centre Leighton. 

Larkin,  r.g 1-g-,  Hamilton. 

Park,  Jones,  r.t l.t..  Hill. 

Ballantine  (Capt.),  r.e I.e.,  Kelly. 

Swift,  q.b q.b.,  (Capt.)  Clarke,  Donnell. 

Dudley,  l.h.b r.h.b.,  Levensaler. 

Wiggins,  Royse,  nh.b l.h.b.,  Gregson. 

Washburn,  Clarke,  f.b f.b.,  Donnell,  Hunt. 


Touchdowns,  Levensaler,  Gladwin,  Clark. 
Goals,  Hunt,  Swift.  Referee,  Bacon,  Bowdoin. 
Umpire,  Strong,  Williston  Seminary.  Linesmen. 
Babson,  M.  A.  C. ;  Spear,  Bowdoin.  Time,  20- 
minute  halves. 

Timely  Suggestions. 

The  injuries  which  one  most  often  suffers  in  foot- 
ball are  bruises  and  sprains.  The  very  best  liniment 
that  one  can  use  is  made  of  lead  water  and  opium, 
applied  hot.  For  a  bruise  put  it  on  every  hour  or 
two  with  flannel  cloths  and  rub  vigorously.  If  your 
sprain  is  very  bad  consult  a  physician.  There  may 
be  ligaments  torn  or  bones  broken. 

An  ordinary  sprain  will  permit  you  to  play  the 
next  day.  Apply  the  hot  bandages  soaked  in  the 
liniment  and  rub  along  the  tissues,  following  the 
course  of  the  sprain  upward.  Never  bandage  a 
sprain  tightly.  That  stops  the  circulation  and  pre- 
vents healing.  But  strap  the  sprain,  if  you  can,  so 
that  the  straps  take  the  place  of  the  injured  liga- 
ments. This  is  an  art  in  itself  and  a  physician  often 
does  not  know  how  to  do  it  correctly.  It  can  be 
done,  however,  so  that  the  ankle  is  as  strong  as  ever 
and  yet  is  not  interfered  with  in  its  healing. 

Lastly,  and  this  perhaps  should  have  taken  prece- 
dence of  all  the  other  instructions  for  foot-ball 
playing,  keep  your  stomach  in  good  trim.  No  dys- 
peptic can  play  foot-ball,  and  all  through  the  season 
taboo  ice-cream,  soda  water,  all  pastries,  raw  apples, 
candies,  coffee,  tea  and  all  stimulants.  Here  is  a 
simple  diet  for  the  boy  who  wants  to  keep  himself 
in  perfect  training : 

Before  breakfast  a  glass  of  hot  w^ater  with  a 
pinch  of  salt,  for  the  meal  some  cereal,  followed  by 
eggs  or  steak,  with  stale  bread.  Lunch  consists  of 
soup,  not  rich,  or  better  still,  meat  broth ;  fruit,  any 
vegetables,  fish  and  all  meats  excepting  pork  or  veal. 

For  dinner  the  course  is  much  the  same.  Good, 
wholesome  food,  with  no  luxuries  is  the  object.  In 
the  luxuries,  strange  as  it  may  seem,  is  included 
milk.  This  affects  the  gastric  juice  in  a  way  to  pre- 
vent good  digestion. — The  Boston  Globe. 

Professor  Hart  Speaks  for  Athletics. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts  School- 
masters' Club  in  Boston  on  Saturday,  Professor 
Albert  Bushnell  Hart,  of  Harvard,  replied  in  vig- 
orous language  to  the  reflections  cast  on  college 
athletics  in  a  speech  made  at  the  meeting  by  Pres- 
ident Bradbury  of  the  club.  Professor  Hart  said  in 
brief:  "The  college  of  the  future,  and  probably  the 
high  school  and  the  academy  will  continue  to  prac- 
tice and  enjoy  its  athletics,  simply  because  it  is  the 
desire  of  the  community  to  have  them,  and  because 
the  alumni  of  any  college  would  rise  up  in  its  might 
and  wipe  out  of  existence  any  board  which  should 
dare  to  discontinue  athletics. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


145 


"For  24  years  I  have  been  connected  with  Har- 
vard College,  either  as  student,  or  instructor  or  pro- 
fessor, and  I  speak  of  Harvard  College  in  particular 
because  I  know  less  about  any  other  college.  And  I 
can  say  that  the  spirit  of  study  is  vastly  higher  to- 
day than  it  was  24  years  ago.  I  consider  athletics 
to  be  one  of  the  most  efficient  moral  agents  of  the 
college,  for  it  demands  of  the  athlete  self-control, 
honesty  and  manliness.  The  persistence  necessary 
for  success  is  of  itself  a  moral  quality.  Further- 
more, athletics,   physically,   is  very  necessary. 

"  It  has  been  my  fortune  to  have  most  of  the 
athletes"  in  my  department,  possibly  because  my 
classes  are  all  held  in  the  morning  and  so  do  not 
conflict  with  afternoon  training.  I  have  never 
treated  athletes  with  either  fear  or  favor,  but  as 
a  general  thing  they  are  of  a  higher  quality  than 
the  average  man. 

"There  are  of  course  disadvantages  of  athletics, 
such  as  the  diversion  of  the  real  objects.  But  is  the 
mental  fibre  less  fine?  I  can  say  that  whether  it  be 
because  of  athletics  or  in  spite  of  it,  the  dominant 
force  of  the  university  is  intellectual  force  and  not 
worship  of  brawn. 

"Whatever  ill  is  in  athletics,  it  is  true  that  it  does 
develop  the  spirit  by  which  a  student  stands  forth 
a  man." 

Good  Words. 

The  Saturday  Evening  Post  published  a  college 
man's  number  on  October  28th,  from  the  interesting 
pages  of  which  we  make  the  following  extracts : 

"  No  development  of  our  educational  life  in  the 
last  tu'O  decades  has  brought  it  more  good  than 
alhlct'.cs.  1  here  was  need  of  just  such  a  toning  up 
as  good  sport  has  brought.  The  college  output  had 
been  rather  lacking  in  virility.  It  had  included,  also, 
too  large  a  percentage  of  dyspepsia  and  mental 
acidity  for  the  social  demand.  The  standard  type 
of  the  college  graduate  has  changed  very  decidedly 
in  twenty  years,  and  society  and  human  life  at  large 
are  finding  much  inore  use  for  the  new  model  than 
they  did  for  the  old.  The  old  talk,  for  instance, 
about  college  graduates  being  unfitted  for  business 
is  dying  a  natural  death.  Differentiation  of  courses 
of  study,  which  has  brought  a  greater  number  of 
life  pursuits  within  the  academic  range,  is  undoubt- 
edly in  considerable  part  responsible,  but  the  rise 
and  spread  of  athletics  has  done  quite  as  much  to 
modify  the  average  type  of  college  character  as  any 
changes  of  curricula. 

"  It  is  not  as  physical  culture  that  it  has  done 
this  so  much  as  through  its  contribution  to  the 
education  of  the  will.  It  has  tended  to  develop  men 
who  act,  who  can  throw  the  whole  force  of  con- 
centrated personality,  strength,  wit  and  will  into 
the  attainment  of  a  goal  through  the  overcoming  of 
resistance  and  under  the  sharp  stimulus  of  com- 
petition. In  this  aspect  it  is  that  athletic  sports 
hold  a  definite  place  in  the  education  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  man.  Essential  to  the  Anglo-Saxon  spirit 
which  essays  to  lead  the  forces  of  the  present  world 
are  the  elements  of  directness,  forceful  activity,  fair 
play." — Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler. 


"Foot-ball  is  wholly  the  game  of  college  men; 
they  have  developed  it ;  their  teams  are  the  best  in 
the  world,  and  to  find  the  best  exponents  of  the 
game  and  the  peers  of  all  others  in  this  branch  of 
college  sport  we  have  only  to  look  over  the  list 
of  college  men  who  have  figured  in  foot-ball  history 
during  the  past  twenty  years.  These  men  developed 
or  learned  the  game  at  their  own  colleges,  and 
have  kept  it  free  from  any  save  college  influence, 
and  as  a  result  we  have  a.  splendid,  manly  sport 
which  is  justly  the  pride  of  American  college  men. 
The  game  is  played  by  the  very  best  college  element, 
and  it  is  held  a  high  honor  to  represent  one's  college 
on  the  foot-ball  field.  The  popularity  of  the  game  is 
wide-spread.  There  is  hardly  a  college  or  a  prepara- 
tory school  in  America  which  does  not  send  out  a 
regularly  organized  team,  and  the  interest  taken  in 
the  game  by  college  men  who  do  not  play  is  greater 
than  in  any  other  sport.  At  the  large  universities 
the  field  is  often  crowded  with  students  at  the  daily 
practice  games." — Harmon  S.  Graves. 

The  Class  of  igo2  elected  E.  S.  Anthoine  manager 
of  its  foot-ball  team  and  re-elected  Roland  G. 
Walker  as  captain  for  this  season,  at  a  meeting  held 
this  week.     The  men  have  been  well  chosen. 


PERSONflLS. 

'42. — Paul  L.  Chandler,  Esq.,  formerly  a  lawyer 
of  Waterville,  has  been  appointed  Professor  of 
Modern  Languages  in  Oberlin  College,  Ohio. 

'50. — Sympathy  will  go  out  to  General  Howard 
from  millions  in  his  hour  of  bereavement.  His  son. 
Colonel  Guy  Howard,  who  was  killed  in  the  Philip- 
pines, was  an  accomplished  and  zealous  officer,  who 
had  more  than  twenty  years  of  active  service  to  his 
credit.  Of  course,  long  experience  of  war  had  pre- 
pared General  Howard  to  realize  that  his  son,  like 
every  other  soldier,  was  exposed  to  all  the  chances 
of  service  in  the  field ;  but  the  father's  heart  is  the 
same,  whether  it  beats  under  a  uniform  or  in  plain 
clothes. 

'60. — Hon.  Thomas  B.  Reed  has  been  elected  a 
trustee  of  the  New  York  Life  Insurance  Company, 
filling  the  vacancy  caused  by.  the  death  of  William 
H.  Appleton. 

'61. — General  Hyde  of  Bath  is  at  Old  Point  Com- 
fort and  surprises  his  doctors  by  the  rapidity  with 
which  he  is  gaining  in  health.  He  leaves  with  Mrs. 
Hyde  for  Nassau  for  the  winter,  the  middle  of  next 
month. 

'61. — An  excellent  sketch  of  Henry  Jewett  Fur- 
ber,  the  eminent  Chicago  lawyer  and  banker,  was 
published  in  the  Lezviston  Journal  of  October  28th. 
A  finely  executed  half-tone  portrait  of  Mr.  Furber 
was  one  of  the  features. 

'72. — Hon.  Herbert  M.  Heath,  who  was  to  speak 
in  the   ist  District  campaign  at  Freeport,  has  been 


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obliged  to  cancel  his  engagement  on  account  of  a 
murder  trial  in  which  he  is  counsel. 

'76. — Ex-Alderman  Sanford  has  made  a  written 
reply  to  the  published  insinuation  that  in  declaring 
his  candidacy  for  mayor  of  Boston  he  considers  him- 
self a  stronger  candidate  for  mayor  than  Mr.  Hart, 
better  able  to  defeat  the  Democratic  nominee  and 
with  superior  qualifications  for  the  office  itself.  "  I 
am  a  candidate  for  the  mayoralty  nomination,"  says 
Mr.  Sanford,  "  because  I  strongly  believe  that  if  I 
should  be  the  choice  of  the  Republican  voters  in  the 
caucuses,  I  can  and  shall  be  elected,  and  if  all  others 
feel  and  exhibit  the  same  loyalty  to  the  Republican 
party  both  before  and  after  the  caucuses,  whatever 
their  result,  that  I  do,  the  next  mayor  of  Boston  will 
be  a  Republican — which  is  of  much  more  importance 
than  that  his  name  should  be  Hart  or  Sanford." 

•78.— John  F.  Hall,  of  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  has 
been  appointed  to  a  coinmittee  which  will  confer 
with  Colonel  Bryan  to  arrange  for  the  Democratic 
meeting  in  Trenton. 

'92. — At  the  annual  convention  of  the  Maine 
State  Sunday-School  Association  in  Portland  last 
week,  Harry  W.  Kimball  was  elected  secretary  for 
the  ensuing  year. 

'94. — Currier  is  an  interne  at  the  Boston  City 
Hospital. 

'g6._W.  S.  Mitchell'  is  employed  on  the  Portland 
Press. 

'p6. — Frank  E.  Bradbury  is  in  attendance  at  the 
Harvard  Law  School. 

'96. — Richard  T.  Plumstead  is  engaged  in  teaching 
in  Ely,  Nevada. 

'96.— Richard  M.  Andrews  is  pursuing  a  special 
course  at  Harvard. 

'96. — G.  T.  Ordway  is  in  a  law  office  in  Boston. 

'97.— The  engagement  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Wolston 
of  New  York  to  John  H.  Morse  of  Bath  was 
recently  announced.  Miss  Wolston  is  the  daughter 
of  Capt.  and  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Wolston,  formerly  of 
Bath,  now  of  New  York  City,  and  usually  spends 
her  summers  in  Bath.  Mr.  Morse  is  the  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Morse  of  Vine  Street,  and  is  at 
present  pursuing  the  study  of  medicine  at  Harvard 
University.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Bath  High 
School  and  Bowdoin  College,  a  Phi  Rho  and  a 
member  of  Theta  Delta  Chi. 

Ex-Med.,  '98. — Miss  Elsie  Hawkes  Winslow  of 
Deering  and  Mr.  Lawrence  Edward  Willard  of  Saco 
were  married  Tuesday  evening,  October  24th,  at  the 
home  of  Mr.  D.  W.  Hawkes,  No.  18  Waverly  Street, 
Deering.  The  house  was  tastefully  decorated  with 
evergreen,  red  berries,  and  potted  plants.  The  bride, 
who  was  attired  in  white  silk  and  carried  a  bouquet 
of  white  pinks,  was  attended  by  Miss  Agnes  Sleeth 
Fairbrother   of    Portland,    who   wore    Dresden    silk,  , 


and  Miss  Effie  Rice  of  Portland,  who  wore  blue  silk. 
Each  bridesmaid  carried  daybreak  pinks.  Mr. 
Willard  was  accompanied  by  Mr.  Harry  McCarty  of 
Portland,  'the  best  man.  Miss  Gertrude  Buxton 
played  the  wedding  march.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed impressively  by  Rev.  S.  G.  Davies,  pastor  of 
All  Souls'  Church,  Deering.  The  ushers  were 
Messrs.  Harry  Robbins  of  Boston,  Arthur  Chapman 
of  Portland,  Ralph  Burbank  and  Hartley  Lord  of 
Saco.  The  future  home  of  the  bride  and  groom  will 
be  at  15  Storer  Street,  Saco., 


IN    MEMORIAM. 

Kappa  Chapter  of  Psi  Upsilon, 
Brunswick,  Me.,  Oct.  24,  1899. 
Whereas,  We  have  learned  with  profound  sor- 
row  of  the  death  of  our  beloved  brother,   Edward 
Webb  Chase,  of  the  Class  of  1883, 

Resolved,  That,  in  his  removal  from  our  midst, 
the  Fraternity  loses  a  true  and  loyal  member,  hon- 
ored and  beloved  by  all ; 

Resolved,  That  the  Chapter  and  Fraternity 
extend  their  most  sincere  and  heartfelt  sympathy  to 
the  members  of  the  bereaved  family,  and  that  a 
copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  family  of  our 
late  brother  and  to  the  Bowdoin  Orient. 

James  Frederick  Knight, 
Freeman  Millikin  Short, 
John  Hudson  Sinkinson, 
Committee  for  the  Chapter. 


Whereas,  We  have  learned  with  deep  sorrow  of 
the  death  of  our  beloved  classmate,  Earle  B.  Wood : 

Resolved,  That  the  Class  suffers  a  severe  loss  by 
the  removal  of  one  whose  noble  character,  thorough 
scholarship,  and  manly  good-fellowship  had 
endeared  him  to  all  who  knew  him ; 

Resolved,  That  we  deeply  deplore  his  death  and 
extend  our  sincerest  sympathy  to  his  bereaved  rela- 
tives and  friends ;  and 

Resolved,  That  copies  of  these  resolutions  be 
sent  to  the  relatives  of  the  deceased  and  to  the  Bow- 
doin Orient. 

For  the  Class, 

F.  V.  Gummer, 
Secretary. 


Hall  of  Eta,  Thet.a.  Delta  Chi, 
October  18,   1899. 
Whereas,  God  in  his  infinite  wisdom  has  seen  fit 
to  remove  from  our  midst  our  beloved  brother,  John 
R.  Home,  '91,  of  the  Eta  charge,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  fraternity 
mourns  the  loss  of  a  true  and  loyal  brother,  and 
be  it 

Resolved,     That     our     sincerest     sympathy     be 
extended  to  the  family  and  friends  of  the  deceased. 
For  the  charge : 

Ernest  T.   Smith, 
Clarence  B.   Flint, 
E.  Farrington  Abbott. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,   NOVEMBER   9,   1899. 


No.  16. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED     EVERT    THDBSDAT    DDRING   THE     COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babe,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 
Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

ISLAY  F.  McCoRMicK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
Roland  E.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  E.  Bellatty. 

Per  annum,  in  advance $2.00. 

Single  Copies 10  Cents. 

Extra  copies  can  be  obtained  at  the  booljstores  or  on  applica- 
tion to  the  Business  Manager. 

Itemittances  should  be  made  to  the  Business  Manager.  Com- 
munications In  regard  to  all  other  matters  should  be  directed  to 
the  Editor-in-Chief. 


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Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 


CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  16.— November  9,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes      147 

Calendar 149 

College  News      149 

Y.  M.  C.  A 151 

Pardonnez-Moi       151 

Athletics 151 

Personals 153 

In  Memoriam 154 


Oh !  for  a  Sheridan  Saturday,  to  take  our 
scattered  and  demoralized  forces  and  turn 
apparent  defeat  into  victory!  Such  is  the 
fond  hope  that  wells  up  in  the  heart  of  every 
Bowdoin  man.  Nor  has  there  been  any 
resting  on  this  hope  during  the  week;  but 
alumni,  students,  and  coaches  have  risen  from 
the  lethargy  of  despair,  and  a  magnificent 
effort  is  being  made  to  give  Bates  her 
Waterloo. 


Bowdoin  spirit,  until  now  so  latent,  must 
be  bared  of  its  despondency  and  take  its  proper 
place  in  our  midst.  Let  the  love  for  our  Alma 
Mater  place  the  whole  student  body  akin ;  and 
Saturday  afternoon  gather  on  the  Whittier 
Athletic  Field  with  a  grim  determination  to 
fight  the  battle  of  our  college  life. 

The  team  as  a  whole,  when  all  is  said,  is 
deserving  of  much  more  sympathy  than  blame. 
Hard  luck  and  mistakes  have  left  their  mark 
continually  through  the  season.  We  know 
our  fellows  can  play  a  strong  game  and  we 
feel  they  will  against  Bates.  The  college  has 
confidence  in  them  and  will  throng  the  side- 
lines, cheering  and  praying  for  our  gridiron 
heroes.  Don't  fail  us !  We  can't  lower  our 
standard  to  such  as  Bates  ;  it  is  too  mortifying. 
We  are  Bowdoin  men !  Such  a  defeat  will 
stunt,  if  not  kill,  the  best  part  of  our  Bowdoin 
life.  Play  for  Bowdoin;  see  nothing  but  the 
pure  field  of  white  with  the  beloved  B  in  the 
centre,  threatened  to  be  surmounted  by  our 
rival's  flag.  Fight  for  every  inch  of  ground. 
Make  a  serious  business  of  it ;  a  question  of 
life  or  death.     Only  beat  Bates ! 


The  Orient  is  encouraged  to  again  men- 
tion "  Alumni  Personals."  While  the  results 
of  our  attempt  to  strengthen  this  department 
has  not  yet  made  a  very  material  showing, 
nevertheless  we  learn  through  correspondence 
from  different  class  secretaries  that  action  is 
being  taken  to  collect  and  forward  more 
Alumni  matter  for  Orient  publication.  In 
other  words  the  interest  in  the  Personal 
column  is  growing  every  week,  and  we  feel 
that  Alumni  everywhere  will  endeavor  to  be 
contributory  to  this  interest.  We  take  it  upon 
ourselves  to  request  each  secretary  in  the 
name  of  his  class  to  keep  his  classmates  in 
touch   with  each  other  through  the  Orient; 


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and  in  so  doing  we  should  not  be  judged  as 
presumptuous,  for  such  is  surely  the  will  of 
all  the  graduate  classes. 


Those  who  criticise  college  education 
might  easily  find  material  for  arguments  in 
the  lack  of  interest  of  the  average  college  man 
in  politics  and  the  national  affairs  of  his  gov- 
ernment. The  day  is  about  here  when  every 
law  school  will  require  a  degree  for  admission ; 
and  since  nine-tenths  of  our  public  men  are 
lawyers  it  follows  that  they  must  be  college 
graduates  also. 

A  good  part  of  college  life  is  not  so  much 
the  acquisition  of  knowledge  proper  as  the 
acquisition  of  tools  for  obtaining  knowledge. 
Again,  a  law  course  in  turn  does  not  touch  the 
public  questions  except  in  occasional  brushes 
incidental  to  some  legal  problem.  Yet  a 
lawyer  is  supposed  to  be  versed  in  all  the 
intricacies  of  Tariff,  Protection,  and  so  on. 
Where  does  he  get  it?  Simply  by  arousing 
an  interest  in  his  early  college  days,  nour- 
ishing it  until  it  is  firmly  rooted  in  his  sym- 
pathy. 

The  future  history  of  our  country  is  des- 
tined to  be  written  by  college  graduates.  The 
appearance  of  the  page  will  depend  on  our 
ability  to  write.  Shall  it  be  in  the  uncouth 
and  simple  letters  of  childhood,  or  in  the 
strong,  clear  hand  of  the  adept  ? 

Never  has  there  been  more  inducements 
to  enter  into  the  study  and  consideration  of 
the  problems  which  are  to  direct  our  progress. 
The  Tariff  question  is  but  slumbering  for  a 
period,  so  is  still  a  living  factor  in  politics. 
Imperialism  and  Annexation  are  the  children 
of  the  late  war.  Free  Silver  is  swelling  with 
importance  every  week.  Trusts  are  assuming 
Titanic  proportions.  Parties  are  trembling  at 
their  very  foundations,  and  the  political 
atmosphere  is  heavy  with  new  issues.  'Tis 
serious  business,  and  not  only  as  college  men 
but  as  Americans  it  is  deserving  of  thought 
and  inquiry.  Don't  neglect  it,  but  be  true  to 
yourself. 


In  very  few  instances  has  the  college  had 
so  sad  and  touching  a  loss  of  one  of  her  mem- 
bers by  death  as  that  which  shocked  the  stu- 
dent body  last  Monday. 

The  Orient  has  been  moved  to  grief  in 
the  last  few  years  by  the  death  of  several 
younger  alumni  who  were  first  known  and 
loved  as  college  mates;  but  only  once  before 
have  our  hearts  felt  the  severe  pain  of  a  part- 
ing with  one  from  our  very  midst.  The  sud- 
denness and  awfulness  of  the  news  has  cast  a 
gloom  over  the  campus  which  as  yet  shows  no 
evidence  of  breaking. 

A  more  congenial  and  jovial  fellow  than 
our  recent  college  mate.  Freeman  Short,  is 
rarely  found ;  and  that  he  held  a  warm  place 
in  the  heart  of  every  Bowdoin  man  is  evinced 
by  the  sorrow  which  permeates  the  entire  col- 
lege. 

In  college  spirit  he  was  enthusiastic  and 
extremely  optimistic ;  his  classmates  prized 
him  highly  for  his  loyalty  to  1901  ;  and  his 
fraternity  has  ever  found  in  him  a  brother  of 
sterling  and  lovable  qualities.  Bright  in  his 
studies ;  prominent  in  many  branches  of  col- 
lege activities ;  frank,  generous,  and  kind  in 
his  relations  with  his  college  mates,  he  has 
indeed  wrenched  the  bonds  that  bind  us 
together  as  intimate  and  friendly  sons  of  a 
common  Alma  Mater. 

The  college  and  all  his  friends  in  this  vicin- 
ity sympathize  most  warmly  and  sincerely 
with  his  family,  and  wish  them  to  know  that 
their  grief  is  shared  b)'  every  student  in 
Bowdoin. 


A  recent  editorial  in  the  Kennebec  Journal 
made  glad  the  heart  of  the  college  fraternities 
by  its  treatment  of  the  following  clipping; 

Just   what  part  the  Greek-letter   societies 
lake  in  the  education  of  the  college  student 
is  something  that  has  never  yet  been  explained. 
— Philadelphia  Ledger. 

In  fact,  it  was  so  good  that  we  feel  justi- 
fied in  quoting  it  in  substance ; 

It  is  certain  that  this  vicious  little  squib 
was    written    by    an    editor    who    was    never 


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fortunate  enough  to  belong  to  a  college  fra- 
ternity. He  simply  doesn't  know  what  he  is 
talking  about.  To  those  who  know  anything 
about  colleges  and  college  fraternities,  no 
explanation  of  the  important  part  they  play  in 
education  is  necessary.  Other  persons  need 
hardly  be  considered  in  this  connection.  Some 
few  colleges,  years  ago,  with  a  conservatism 
verging  on  bigotry,  refused  to  allow  the  intro- 
duction of  Greek-letter  fraternities.  Such  a 
regulation  could  never  be  passed  to-day,  and 
we  have  no  hesitation  in  declaring  that  every 
educator  of  note  in  the  country  recognizes  the 
worth  and  importance  of  college  fraternities. 
No  figures  can  measure  the  important  part 
they  play  in  the  development  and  training  of 
the  college  man.  Their  literary,  social  and 
fraternal  sides  supplement  the  work  of  the 
class-room  and  laboratory  with  a  helpful  influ- 
ence that  is  extremely  potent.  Their  ideals 
are  the  highest,  and  the  lessons  they  teach  are 
remembered  much  longer  than  Latin  verbs  or 
chemical  formulas.  Their  secret  features  are 
as  necessary  as  to  the  Masonic  and  other  great 
orders,  and  are  no  more  used  to  cover  abuses 
or  questionable  practices. 

To  the  small  college  they  mean  more  than 
to  the  large  university,  but  at  no  institution 
except  Harvard  have  they  been  a  failure.  In 
no  secret  organizations  that  exist  are  the 
bonds  of  brotherhood  so  close  and  so  lasting 
as  in  these  fraternities,  and  the  loyalty  of  their 
alumni  is  the  best  proof  of  the  good  that  they 
do  for  their  members.  The  fraternities  help 
and  strengthen  the  colleges.  The  inter- 
collegiate feature  of  the  fraternities  does  much 
to  give  the  imdergraduates  a  broader  view  of 
the  educational  world,  and  to  soften  the  rival- 
ries that  inevitably  exist  between  neighboring 
colleges  that  compete  in  athletic  contests. 

iVIany  thousand  college  graduates  will 
assure  you  that  above  all  else  in  their  under- 
graduate life  they  cherish  the  memory  of  the 
associations  and  influence  and  training  of  their 
fraternity.  Ask  President  Hyde  of  Bowdoin, 
or  Tucker  of  Dartmouth,  or  Hadley  of  Yale, 
or  Schurman  of  Cornell,  or  Low  of  Columbia, 
or  Harper  of  Chicago,  or  Harris  of  Amherst, 
or  any  of  a  hundred  other  college  presidents, 
what  the  Greek-letter  fraternities  in  their 
institutions  mean  to  undergraduates  and 
alumni,  and  what  part  they  play  in  the  training 
of  young  men.  Some  of  them  are  fraternity 
men  and  some  are  not,  but  their  testimony 
would  be  a  unit  in  harmony  with  the  ideas  we 
have  here  expressed,  and  they  would  laugh  to 
scorn  the  dyspeptic  croaker  who  penned  the 


paragraph     quoted     from     the     Philadelphia 

Ledger. 


CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  Nov.  ii. — Bowdoin  plays  Bates  at 
Brunswick. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  15. — Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at 
College  Hill. 

Saturday,  Nov.  18. — Bowdoin  plays  Holy  Cross 
at  Worcester. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23. — Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Thursday,  to  Sunday,  Nov.  30-DEC.  4. — Thanks- 
giving Recess. 

Monday   to   Friday,   Dec.    18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec.  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday,  Dec  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Clough   has   returned   from   teaching. 

Evans,  '03,  is  at  home,  sick  with  typhoid  fever. 

Palmer,  '01,  has  gone  home  on  account  of 
sickness. 

The  Juniors  have  begun  laboratory  ,work  in 
chemistry. 

Stockman,  '02,  is  out  of  college,  owing  to  trouble 
with  his  eyes. 

Professor  Woodruff  returned  Saturday  after  a 
week's  absence. 

Veazie,  '99,  is  coaching  the  Bangor  High  School 
foot-ball    eleven. 

Several  of  the  students  expect  to  attend  the 
Harvard- Yale  game. 

Corliss,  1901,  who  has  been  teaching  in  Harps- 
well,  has  returned  to  college. 

It  is  understood  that  Hawes  played  substitute  on 
Skowhegan  High   School  last  year, 

Professor  Emery  was  called  to  Ellsworth  Satur- 
day by  the  death  of  his  grandmother. 

Bacon,  1900,  acted  as  official  in  the  Bangor- 
Thornton  game  at  Saco,  November  4th. 

The  Seniors  in  geology  accompanied  Professor 
Lee  in  a  search  for  Indian  relics  last  Tuesday. 

The  Brunswick  High  School  gave  a  dance  last 
Thursday  night  in  the  Court  Room.  A  number  of 
the  students  attended. 

Professor  Woodruff,  not  knowing  of  the  change 
in  the  time  for  afternoon  recitations,  failed  his  first 
division   in  Greek  on  Monday. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


The  grand  jury  will  investigate  the  causes  of  the 
death  of  the  Cornell  student,  who  died  while  being 
initiated  into  a  fraternity. 

Taber  D.  Bailey,  '96,  was  on  the  campus  Sunday. 
He  accompanied  the  Bangor  High  School  eleven  to 
Saco  and  witnessed  the  game  there  with  Thornton 
Academy. 

Professor  Little  and  his  assistants  enjoyed  sev- 
eral days  last  week  in  dusting  a  portion  of  the 
books  in  the  library.  There  was  some  dust 
removed. 

Manager  Swett  announces  that  it  is  practically 
decided  that  Bowdoin  will  win  Dartmouth  at  the 
B.  A.  A.  meet  which  will  occur  the  second  Saturday 
of  February. 

Among  the  students  who  saw  the  Bates-U.  of  M. 
game  were  Snow,  Rolfe,  Appleton,  Babb,  Stackpole, 
Stone,  Holmes,  J.  Webber,  Quinn,  Barker,  Preble, 
White,   H.   Webber. 

Forty-five  men  were  on  the  field  in  suits  at  the 
practice  Monday  afternoon,  and  the  student  body 
was  well  represented.  Such  enthusiasm  should  be 
the  rule,  not  the  exception. 

History  4  have  begun  the  study  of  Professor 
MacDonald's  "Select  Documents  in  American 
History,"  and  also  work  on  individual  reports  on 
topics  assigned  for  investigation  in  the  library. 

The  management  of  the  foot-ball  team  is  trying 
to  arrange  the  Holy  Cross  game  for  the  morning  of 
November  i8th,  so  that  those  who  go  to  the  Har- 
vard-Yale game  can  also  see  Bowdoin  play  Holy 
Cross  on  the  same  day. 

Several  of  the  High  Schools  have  signified  their 
intention  of  entering  the  Bowdoin  invitation  meet. 

Pratt,  '01,  is  teaching  school  at  Strong,  and 
during  his  absence  Higgins,  '02,  is  acting  as  man- 
ager of  the  reading-room. 

About  40  students  went  into  Portland  Saturday 
to  the  game.  Seats  had  been  reserved  on  the 
bleachers.  The  cheering  was  good,  and  the  rooters 
supported  the  team  well  throughout  the  game. 
Eastman,  1902,  was  linesman,  and  Pottle  one  of  the 
timers. 

The  November  meeting  and  dinner  of  the  Bow- 
doin Club  of  Boston  was  held  at  the  Copley  Square 
Hotel,  last  Saturday  evening.  Mr.  John  S.  Bar- 
rows, the  art  editor  of  the  Boston  Journal,  gave  a 
short  but  very  interesting  talk  on  "Newspaper  Illus- 
trations." 

One  of  the  gayest  of  the  social  events  of  the 
season  was  the  presentation  of  Mrs.  Jarley's  Wax- 
works, on  Tuesday  evening,  October  31st.  Miss 
Mary  McCobb  of  Portland  had  the  part  of  Mrs. 
Jarley,  and  the  "figgers"  were  impersonated  by  the 
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young  folks  of  the  town.  The  proceeds  of  the  enter- 
tainment were  for  the  Wellesley  College  endowment 
fund,  and  the  Brunswick  graduates  of  that  college 
had  the  matter  in  charge. 

The  interesting  collection  of  autographs  pre- 
sented to  the  college  by  Robert  J.  Winthrop,  Jr., 
Esq.,  of  Boston,  has  been  increased  by  a  valuable  bit 
of  handwriting  from  the  pen  of  the  famous  French 
preacher  Bossuet.  It  is  the  introduction  to  the  first 
sermon  for  the  Day  of  the  Nativity  of  the  Virgin, 
and  was  delivered  in  1659  or  1660.  Its  especial  value 
comes  from  the  changes  made  by  the  author  himself 
from  the  first  draft.  Its  final  form  appears  in  print 
on  page  629  of  volume  four  of  his  works,  quarto 
edition  of  1836. 

The  Boston  Herald  says :  Colby  students 
painted  the  town  red  to-night,  celebrating  their 
victory  over  Bowdoin,  the  first  for  years.  The  foot- 
hall  team  was  met  at  the  station  on  the  arrival  of 
the  train  and  the  men  carried  on  shoulders  to  the 
campus.  There  a  bonfire  was  built  and  fireworks 
burned.  A  torchlight  procession  was  formed  and 
the  principal  streets  paraded.  President  Butler  and 
other  members  of  the  Faculty  warmly  commended 
the  team  for  its  work.  Hawes,  who  made  the 
touchdown,  was  the  hero  of  the  occasion. 

As  manager  of  the  '99  Track  Team,  I  wish  to 
submit  the  following  report : 

Receipts. 

Subscriptions    collected $379.00 

Guarantee  from  B.   A.  A 25.00 

Indoor    meet 198.35 

Left  over  from  Worcester  celebration 18.23 

Raised    at    mass-meeting 54-25 

$674-83 
Subscriptions    unpaid 53-00 

Expenditures. 

Stamps,    telegrams,    cartridges,    etc $3-57 

Expenses  of  B.  A.  A.  trip 45.82 

Expenses  of  delegate  to  N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  con- 
vention    (Boston) 8.75 

Expenses  of  delegate  to  M.  I.  C.  A.  A.  con- 
vention    (Waterville) i.oo 

Expenses   of   indoor  meet 79-70 

N.   E.   I.   A.   A.   annual   dues 15.00 

M.  I.  C.  A.  A.  annual  dues  and  special  assess- 
ment        20.00 

Expenses  of  manager  in  securing  Graham...  10.40 

Graham,    for   coaching   and   expenses 130.50 

Richards,   for  coaching  and  expenses 64.83 

Expenses    of    Worcester    trip 211.85 

Expenses   of   Waterville   trip 79.55 

Balance    on    hand..., 3-86 

$674.83 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


151 


Y.  M.  C.  f\. 


The  organization  known  as  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  is  founded  on  a  most  practi- 
cal basis.  Its  motive  and  object  is  to  promote  the 
growth  of  men  in  physical,  educational,  social,  and 
spiritual  development.  The  college  association,  as 
President  Hyde  has  said,  is  in  the  nature  of  its 
environments  prohibited  from  furnishing  all  these 
privileges  which  the  city  association  can  furnish. 
It  is  the  desire  of  the  Bowdoin  Association,  how- 
ever, to  provide  such  opportunities  and  privileges, 
in  these  four  lines,  as  the  college  body  actually 
needs  and  will  profit  by.  The  singing  class,  of 
which  President  Hyde  spoke  in  chapel  on  Sunday 
afternoon,  is  of  this  nature.  It  is  offered  by  the 
Association  entirely  apart  from  its  other  functions, 
in  the  hope  that  it  may  meet  a  need  of  the  student 
body.  Now  in  order  that  the  best  results  may  be 
obtained,  it  will  be  necessary  to  have  a  class  aver- 
aging about  thirty  members  in  regular  attendance. 
A  part  of  the  hour  will  be  spent  in  instruction  in 
reading  music  at  sight,  the  other  part  in  social 
singing,  solos  being  occasionally  introduced  to  give 
variety  and  entertainment.  In  Mr.  Herbert  Harris 
the  class  has  an  instructor  at  the  same  time  com- 
petent for  the  work  and  interested  in  the  welfare 
of  the  college  in  all  its  varied  phases. 

A  meeting  of  the  class  was  held  on  Monday 
evening,  November  6th,  for  a  preliminary  review  of 
the  course.  All  those  intending  to  take  the  course 
should  pass  in  their  names  either  to  Mr.  Harris  or 
Russell,  1900.  It  is  also  especially  important  that 
they  attend  the  first  lesson  to  be  held  on  Monday, 
November  31st,  at  7  p.m.,  in  the  Cleaveland  lecture 
room. 

The  afternoon  service  of  Sunday,  November  Sth, 
was  addressed  by  Professor  Houghton,  whose  sub- 
ject was  "Some  Temptations  Which  Appeal  Espe- 
cially to  College  Men."  The  two  temptations  which 
he  chose  were :  An  over-estimate  of  one's  self  as 
a  college  man,  and  negligence  in  strict  attention  to 
college  work.  Two  solos  by  Mr.  Herbert  Harris 
were  finely  rendered. 

The  Thursday  evening  meeting  was  led  by 
Eugene  Kelly,  1902.  A  large  number  attended  the 
service  and  every  moment  was  occupied  by  short 
remarks  from  the  different  fellows  on  the  subject: 
What  Is  the  Significance  of  Christ's  Life  to  Mine? 

Mr.  Harry  Wade  Hicks  is  in  town  this  week, 
and  speaks  at  the  regular  weekly  service. 


Little  verbs  of  Latin, 
Little  roots  of  Greek, 
Make  the  verdant  Freshman 
Feel   extremely  meek. 


PARDONNEZ-MOI. 
The  "Old   Man"  of  the   Orient, 

Way  back  last  spring  some  time. 
In  columns  editorial 

Solicited  for  rhyme. 
Now  had  he  asked  for  poetry, 

He'd  not  have  fared  much  worse. 
For  in  the  present  volume's  files 

Is  little  Bowdoin  verse. 
But  late  I  fell  a-thinking 

Of  days  that  have  gone  by, 
When  on  the  verse  department 

Were  Frederick  Lee  and  I. 
P.  Baxter,  when  I  got  my  call 

To  join  the  immortal   band, 
Was  at  the  head  of  some  ten  men 

With  "Craze"   at  his   right  hand. 
We  had  a  cosy  office 

Where  we  met,   each  month  or  so, 
But  of  the  work  we'd  been  assigned 

We'd  seldom  much  to  show. 
•For  most  the  fellows  of  the  staff 

Inclined   somewhat  to  shirk ; 
We  let  the  editor-in-chief 

Perform   'bout  all   the  work. 
And  now,  lest  conscience  trouble  me 
When  come  my  latter  days, 
I  send  these  rhymes  with  my  regrets. 

T'  atone  for  erring  ways. 

—J.   P.  W.,  1900. 


-Ex. 


ATIiLETICS. 

Colby  6,  Bowdoin  o. 

Again  the  Orient  records  defeat  for  the  Bow- 
doin eleven.  On  a  wet  and  slippery  gridiron  at  the- 
Portland  base-ball  grounds,  Saturday  afternoon, 
Colby  won  a  game  from  us  by  a  brilliant  run  made 
by  a  Freshman  half-back  after  a  fumble  on  the  part 
of  Bowdoin.  The  field  was  unfit  for  good  foot-ball 
playing;  and,  though  we  rushed  short  distances 
quite  easily,  we  could  not  keep  hold  of  the  wet  ball 
long  enough  to  score. 

The  result  of  the  game  was  a  complete  general 
surprise.     The  winners  were  overjoyed. 

Following  is  a  story  of  the  game  as  a  reporter  for 
the  Daily  Eastern  Argus  saw  it : 

"Bowdoin  might  have  won  the  game  quite  easily 
but  for  one  thing,  and  that  was  fumbling.  Time 
and  time  again  with  a  goal  in  sight  the  Bowdoin 
men  dropped  the  ball  and  in  addition  to  the  fum- 
bling in  the  line  the  men  in  the  back  field  made 
a  horrible  mess  of  Rice's  long  kicks  on  several  occa- 
sions.    So    far   as    rushing   the   ball    was   concerned 


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BOWDOm   ORIENT. 


Bowdoin  had  everything  her  own  way.  There  were 
times  in  the  game  when  Colby  ripped  the  Bowdoin 
line  up  for  gains,  but  these  gains  were  not  at  all 
steady  or  consistent  and,  as  a  rule,  whenever  Colby 
secured  the  ball  she  was  compelled  to  punt.  It  may 
have  been  just  as  well  for  Colby  that  she  was  com- 
pelled to  punt  so  frequently,  for  in  this  department 
of  the  game  Rice  clearly  showed  his  superiority  over 
Donnell,  and  the  advantage  of  the  punts  was  fre- 
quently enhanced  by  the  unreliability  of  the  Bowdoin 
back  field  in  handling  them. 

"Colby  was  apparently  very  weak  on  the  defen- 
sive and  Bowdoin  experienced  little  difficulty  in 
advancing  the  ball.  The  Bowdoin  men  relied  on  a 
revolving  wedge  and  a  tandem  play  to  advance  the 
ball,  and  these  plays  would  have  been  effective 
enough  to  have  given  Bowdoin  several  touchdowns 
had  it  not  been  for  execrable  fumbling.  The  right 
side  of  Colby's  line  appeared  to  be  very  weak  and 
time  and  again  by  the  use  of  the  revolving  wedge  the 
Bowdoin  backs  were  hurled  through  this  side  of  the 
line  for  five  and  ten  yards  gain. 

"Colby's  work  was  erratic.  There  were  times 
when  the  Waterville  men  would  smash  through  the 
Bowdoin  line  for  gain  after  gain  and  then  again  they 
would  be  held  for  three  straight  downs  without  a 
foot  of  gain,  and  would  be  compelled  to  punt.  Luck, 
which  is  generally  a  prominent  factor  in  foot-ball . 
games,  seemed  to  be  entirely  in  favor  of  Colby,  for 
whenever  Bowdoin  was  becoming  extremely  dan- 
gerous, the  fickle  goddess  of  fortune  would  smile  on 
Colby  and  the  appearance  of  things  would  be 
changed  in  an  instant. 

"Colby  did  not  play  perfect  foot-ball  by  any 
means,  but  her  mistakes  were  never  costly.  The 
Colby  captain  made  a  mistake  in  the  last  few  minutes 
of  play  which  would  probably  have  resulted  in  Bow- 
doin tieing  the  score  had  the  half  lasted  about  two 
or  three  minutes  longer.  Bowdoin  had  rushed  the 
ball  clear  up  the  field,  tearing  through  the  Colby 
line  for  big  gains  until  she  reached  Colby's  35-yard 
line.  Here  the  usual  fumble  occurred  and  Colby 
secured  the  ball. 

"After  Colby's  experience  with  Bowdoin's  offen- 
sive strength  it  was  naturally  expected  that  the 
Colby  captain  would  take  no  chances  whatever,  but 
would  signal  for  a  punt  and  thus  make  sure  of  the 
victory,  for  there  was  not  time  enough  left  to  enable 
Bowdoin  to  rush  the  ball  back  from  the  center  of 
the  field  unless  by  a  trick  play,  but  instead  the  Colby 
backs  were  sent  into  the  Bowdoin  line  and  they  lost 
the  ball  on  downs  just  where  they  captured  it  on  the 
fumble. 

"Bowdoin  then  started  in  with  a  rush  to  score 
and    the    chances    were    about    ten    to   one    that    the 


Brunswick  players  would  have  crossed  the  line  had 
the  referee's  whistle  not  brought  the  game  to  a  close 
with  the  ball  on  Colby's  2S-yard  line. 

"Colby's  single  touchdown  and  goal  was  the 
result  of  what  is  generally  termed  in  foot-ball  a 
"fluke,"  but  there  is  no  reason  why  Colby  should  not 
receive  full  credit  for  the  achievement,  as  nothing  is 
more  essential  in  foot-ball  than  closely  following  the 
ball  and  taking  advantage  of  every  mistake,  and  it 
was  by  doing  this  that  Colby  sent  the  Bowdoin  men 
home  broken-hearted. 

"The  play  which  made  Colby  a  winner  occurred 
in  the  first  half  about  eight  minutes  after  the  kick- 
off.  Bowdoin  had  started  in  with  a  rush  and  was 
driving  Colby  steadily  down  the  field  until  the  ball 
was  on  Colby's  50-yard  line.  Bowdoin  signaled  for 
a  close  formation,  and  an  instant  later  the  two  lines 
came  together.  They  swayed  back  and  forth  for  a 
moment  and  then  the  struggling  and  tangled  mass 
of  players  went  to  the  ground.  Suddenly  out  of  the 
scrimmage  rolled  the  pig  skin  and  little  Hawes,  the 
Colby  right  half-back,  swooped  down  on  the  ball 
like  a  hawk,  and  having  tucked  it  under  his  arm  he 
started  for  the  Bowdoin  goal  like  a  runaway  colt. 
One  of  the  Bowdoin  men  made  a  dive  for  him,  but 
slipped  in  the  mud  and  missed  his  tackle.  It  looked 
then  as  though  Hawes  had  a  clear  field  in  front  of 
him,  but  one  of  the  Bowdoin  linemen  managed  to 
get  clear  of  the  scrimmage  and  he  started  after  the 
flying  Colby  half-back.  The  Bowdoin  man  was  a 
great  deal  faster  on  his  feet  than  Hawes,  and  over- 
hauled him  rapidly.  He  drove  the  little  chap  almost 
to  the  side  lines  and  could  have  forced  him  out  of 
bounds  quite  handily,  but  instead  of  doing  this 
essayed  a  flying  tackle,  fell  down  and  Hawes  jogged 
along  without  any  further  trouble  and  planted  the 
ball  squarely  behind  the  goal  posts.  Rice,  a  few 
moments  later,  sent  the  pig  skin  flying  between  the 
uprights  and  the  score  was  6  to  o  in  favor  of  Colby, 
and  here  it  remained  until  the  finish." 

The  line-up  and  summary. 

Colby.  Bowdoin. 

Allen,  l.e r.e.,  Chapman. 

Town,  l.t r.t.,  Laferrierre. 

Atchley,  l.g r.g.,  Bodwell. 

Thomas,  c c,  Swett. 

Clark,  r.g l.g.,   Leighton. 

Thayer,  r.t l.t.  Hill. 

Saunders,  r.e I.e.,  Kelley,  Bellatty. 

Tupper,  q.b q.b.,   Clarke. 

Haggerty,  l.h.b r.h.b.,  Levensaler. 

Hawes,  r.h.b l.h.b.,  Gould. 

Rice,   f.b f.b.,  Donnell. 

Score — Colby  6.  Touchdown,  Hawes.  Goal 
from  touchdown.  Rice.  Umpire,  Kelly.  Referee, 
Carter.  Linesmen,  Eastman  and  Abbott.  Time,  25 
and  20  minute  halves. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


153 


Bates  easily  defeated  the  University  of  Maine 
team  at  Lewiston  on  Saturday  afternoon.  The  score 
was  27  to  o. 

Though  Bowdoin  has  yet  no  Freshmen  on  the 
'varsity  foot-ball  team,  University  of  Maine  had  six 
Freshmen  in  the  line-up  and  three  Freshmen  as  sub- 
stitutes at  the  Bates  game  on  Saturday. 

There  will  probably  be  a  considerable  change  in 
the  Bowdoin  line-up  in  the  game  with  Bates  in 
Brunswick  on  Saturday  of  this  week. 


PERSONflLS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'33- — Rev.  John  Pike,  D.D.,  died  at  Rowley, 
Mass.,  September  20,  iSgg.  Dr.  Pike  graduated 
from  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1837, 
and  was  ordained  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Rowley  in  1840.  He  retired  from  the 
pastorate  in  1868,  owing  to  a  partial  loss  of  sight. 
He  published  several  sermons,  among  which  is  the 
annual  election  sermon  before  the  Legislature  of 
Massachusetts  in  1857.  He  contributed  to  the  Con- 
gregational Review  and  published  a  volume  of 
essays.  Dr.  Pike  was  for  many  years  on  the  Board 
of  Overseers  of  the  college. 

'62. — General  Charles  P.  Mattocks  of  Portland, 
brigadier  in  two  wars,  has  recently  been  admitted 
to  practice  before  the  Interior  Department.  This 
qualifies  him  to  prosecute  pension  claims  before  the 
pension  bureau  and  to  attend  to  other  legal  business 
before  the  Interior  Department  and  its  various 
branches. 

'67. — Dr.  I.  S.  Curtis,  who  has  resided  in  Bruns- 
wick for  several  years,  has  recently  opened  a  neat 
and  attractive  pharmacy  in  the  Lincoln  Block.  Dr. 
Curtis  graduated  from  the  Bowdoin  Medical  School 
in  '72  and  practised  as  physician  for  many  years  in 
Eastport,   Me. 

'75- — It  is  announced  that  Fred  A.  Powers, 
former  attorney-general  of  Maine  and  brother  of 
Governor  Powers,  will  not  be  a  candidate  for  the 
vacancy  upon  the  supreme  bench  of  the  State  that 
will  be  created  January  i,  1900,  by  the  retirement 
of  Chief  Justice  Peters  and  the  appointment  of  one 
of  the  associate  justices,  presumably  Justice  Wis- 
well,  to  become  chief.  It  has  been  generally  sup- 
posed that  the  Governor  would  tender  the  appoint- 
ment to  his  brother. 


'78. — Daniel  H.  Felch  was  married  September 
27th  at  Whitewater,  Wis.,  to  Miss  Minna  R.  Fehly 
of  the  latter  city,  and  has  returned  to  his  former 
home  in  Cheney,  Washington,  having  spent  the  sum- 
mer  in   the  middle  west. 

'79. — Frank  M.  Byron  is  one  of  the  most  popular 
officials  of  the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern 
Railway  Co.,  which  he  serves  in  the  passenger 
department  as  General  Western  Agent,  with  offices 
in  the  Van  Buren  Street  Station,  Chicago,  111. 

'80. — Frank  M.  Winter  is  senior  member  of  the 
successful  law  firm  of  Winter,  Esch  &  Winter  (82  or 
3?)   La  Crosse,  Wis. 

'88. — Neatly  engraved  cards  have  been  received, 
with  the  following  inscription :  Albert  W.  Tolman, 
Attorney  at  Law,  Room  24,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Building, 
Congress    Square,    Portland,    Me. 

'89. — Mr.  Sidney  G.  Stacy,  a  graduate  of  Johns 
Hopkins  University  of  Baltimore  and  of  a  German 
school  of  language,  has  resumed  his  duties  as  a 
professor  of  lafiguages  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

'90. — Dr.  George  W.  Blanchard,  formerly  of 
Lewiston,  has  been  appointed  sanitary  inspector  for 
New  York  City.  This  office  was  created  on  peti- 
tion of  the  board  of  health  of  that  city,  the  examina- 
tions for  the  position  being  before  the  civil  service 
commission.  With  "twenty-six  applicants,  Dr. 
Blanchard  won  with  a  per  cent,  of  92.40.  He  will 
still  devote  a  portion  of  his  time  to  pathological 
work. 

'90. — Announcement  is  made  officially  from  the 
Treasury  Department  of  the  appointment  of  Homer 
E.  Alexander  to  be  inspector  of  customs  at  Bath, 
Maine. 

'91. — Rev.  A.  P.  McDonald  of  Woburn  has 
accepted  the  call  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Wiscasset. 

Med.  '91. — Dr.  Burt  Andrews,  who  is  in  the 
hospital  at  Boston  recovering  from  the  effects  of 
the  amputation  of  his  leg,  is  getting  along  finely, 
so  he  writes.  He  expects  to  leave  the  hospital  in 
about  a  week.  His  general  health  is  also  very 
good. 

'94. — Rev.  P.  H.  Moore,  formerly  pastor  of  First 
Parish  Church  at  Saco,  is  studying  medicine  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania. 

'94. — On  October  6th  in  Trinity  Church,  Boston, 
occurred  the  marriage  of  Rufus  Henry  Hinkley,  Jr., 
and  Miss  Pauline  Warner.  Among  those  present 
were  R.  P.  Plaisted,  W.  W.  Thomas,  and  F.  W. 
Dana,  all  of  '94,  and  H.  L.  Fairbanks,  '95. 

'99. — Willard  T.  Libby,  Bowdoin's  famous  ball 
player,  is  just  now  busy  learning  the  paper-making 
business.  Mr.  Libby  started  in  at  the  bottom  of  the 
round,  and  the  boys  say  he  doesn't  shirk  anything 
that  comes  his  way.     He  is  a  very  popular  fellow 


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with  the  workmen,  as  he  was  with  the  college  boys 
and  towns-people  here.  Lib  has  the  stuff  that 
makes  smart  men,  and  we  predict  for  him  success 
in  his  new  undertaking  equal  to  that  which  he  has 
always  won  on  the  ball  field. 

'99. — Several  of  the  young  ladies  at  South  Brewer 
have  formed  a  German  class.  Charles  C.  Phillips  of 
South  Brewer,  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  College,  will 
act  as  instructor. 


IN   MEMORIAM. 

Kappa  Chapter  of  Psi  Upsilon, 
Brunswick,  Me.,  Nov.  6,  1899. 
Whereas,  God  in  his  infinite  wisdom  has  deemed 
it  right  to  remove  from  our  midst  our  dearly  beloved 
brother,   Freeman   Milliken   Short ; 

Resolved,  That  in  the  deceased  the  Fraternity 
deeply  mourns  a  most  loyal  and  devoted  member, 
highly  esteemed  and  honored  by  all.  By  the  loss 
of  our  dear  brother  the  Chapter  ill  spares  a  member 
kindly  active  in  all  of  its  affairs,  and  one  who  had 
its  best  interests  always  at  heart ; 

Resolved,  That,  bending  with  sorrow  before  the 
inscrutable  decrees  of  an  all-wise  Providence,  the 
Chapter  extends  its  most  sincere  and  heartfelt  sym- 
pathy to  the  members  and  friends  of  the  bereaved 
family. 

James   Frederick  Knight, 
Edward    Kavanaugh    Leighton, 
John   Hudson   Sinkinson. 

Committee  for  the  Chapter. 


Tugboats   and   the   human   race 

Are  very  much  akin. 
For   some   are  always  towing  out 

And  others  towing  in. 


R.  W.  CLARK, 


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Editorial  Notes       155 

Calendar 15(j 

The  Came,  They  Saw,  They  Conquered,  iV«.'     .     .     .157 

College  News      157 

Notice 158 

Y.  M.  C.  A 158 

Athletics 159 

Personals 161 

In  Memoriam 162 


Well,  we  found  our  Sheridan  in  the  form 
of  a  boy  quarterback,  and  accordingly 
trounced  Bates  most  unmercifully.  In  every 
point  of  the  game  Bowdoin  outplayed  her 
rival,  and  Bates  with  the  exception  of  the 
score  on  a  stolen  ball,  did  not  get  sufficiently 
near  Bowdoin's  goal  to  see  whether  the  cross- 
bar was  of  hemlock  or  pine, — they  have  since 
decided  it  must  have  been  weeping  willow. 


The  most  sanguine  Bowdoin  man  hardly 
dared  hope  for  more  than  a  score  against  the 
unquestionably  excellent  eleven  which  Bates 
has  had  all  this  season ;  but  to  win,  and  with 
so  generous  a  margin,  seemed  but  a  fancy  of 
dreamland.  Bates  has  the  heaviest  team  in 
llie  State ;  her  team  play  is  splendid ;  her 
physical  condition  is  perfect ;  and  the  game 
has  been  so  bred  in  them  that  it  is  intuition 
from  "whistle"  to  "time."  Bowdoin  realized 
all  this ;  but  the  disgrace  which  seemed  so 
imminent  was  an  incentive  that  brought  Bow- 
doin to  a  white  heat.  Not  a  man  quailed  as 
he  took  his  position  for  the  kick-off;  grim 
determination  stamped  their  faces  with  an 
awfulness  that  was  prophetic  of  the  serious 
Inisiness  at  hand.  The  battle  which  was 
waged  for  two  25-minute  halves  was  a  contest 
between  desperation  and  confidence ;  and  the 
former  won  a  noble  supremacy. 

Every  man  who  fought  for  Bowdoin  that 
day  was  above  criticism.  Not  a  man  failed 
to  cover  himself  with  glory,  and  the  entire 
glory  was  the  sum  total  of  eleven  identical 
and  equal  shares. 

The  student  body  and  alumni  deserve  a 
share  of  the  praise  for  their  backing  through- 
out the  game.  But  above  all.  Coach  Crolius 
stands  prominently  for  his  unwavering  and 
determined  efforts  to  bring  out  a  team  that 
was  worthy  of  Bowdoin — and  he  did  it  last 
.Saturday. 

The  work  of  Crolius,  by  the  way,  has 
proven  him  a  very  valuable  man,  and  the  col- 
lege that  engages  him  next  year  will  have  a 
good  coach.  He  has  an  adequate  knowledge 
of  the  game ;  his  methods  are  scientific,  and 
he  never  succumbs  to  the  various  discourag- 
ing elements  which  so  often  degenerate  a  team. 
Bowdoin  could  not  do  better  than  arrange 
terms  with  him  at  once  for  another  season. 


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A  College  Commons  here  at  Bowdoin  is 
not  altogether  a  new  thought,  but  not  vmtil 
the  present  day  has  the  suggestion  ever  pos- 
sessed the  element  of  seriousness  that  now 
accompanies  it.  A  commons  to  be  practical 
must  meet  not  only  the  approbation  of  the 
college  but  also  the  patronage  of  the  students 
to  at  least  about  one  hundred  and  fifty.  The 
economy  inherent  in  a  well-managed  dining- 
hall — and  of  course  such  is  the  only  sort  that 
is  considered — wotdd  reduce  board  at  least 
25  per  cent.,  for  it  is  possible  and  customary 
to  buy  food  at  wholesale  rates  when  needed  on 
so  large  a  scale,  and  by  means  of  storage  facil- 
ities, the  provisions  are  safe  until  required. 

Bowdoin  has  the  reputation  of  being  the 
most  expensive  college  in  the  State,  and  the 
facts  of  the  case  seem  to  warrant  it.  This  is 
a  strong  influence  in  turning  good  students 
of  moderate  means  from  our  doors,  but  a 
saving  of  fifty  to  seventy-five  dollars  in  board 
each  year  will  minimize  this  to  a  mere  nothing 
With  such  a  deduction  the  board  will  cost 
about  the  same  as  it  does  in  two,  if  not  at  all 
the  other  colleges  in  Maine,  and  with  the 
advantages  of  scholarships,  there  is  no  neces- 
sity of  a  man  paying  more  for  an  education 
here  than  elsewhere. 

College  spirit  would  find  a  splendid  tonic 
in  this  democratic  idea  of  a  college  commons; 
especially,  since  Chapter  Houses  are  about  to 
become,  a  reality  at  Bowdoin,  does  this  aspect 
come  into  significance.  A  chapter  house  will 
tend  to  a  more  conservative  college  life,  and 
to  counterbalance  this  objectional  feature  the 
college  commons  presents  the  best  remedy. 
.Should  the  students  come  together  three  times 
each  day,  and  feed  upon  each  other's  loyalty, 
spirit,  and  congeniality,  the  spirit  which  was 
so  novel  and  powerful  last  Saturday  would 
he  the  spirit  of  every  day. 

The  alumni  should  take  great  interest  in 
this  plan  so  teeming  with  benefit  for  both  stu- 
dents and  college.  Other  colleges  have  foimd 
success  in  it,  and  all  acknowledge  its  worth. 
No  more  suitable  monument  to  the  loyalty  of 


an  alumnus  could  be  conceived  than  the  erec- 
tion of  a  hall  for  the  economical  advantage  of 
the  needy  youth  and  the  social  and  practical 
welfare  of.  the  undergraduates  of  his  Alma 
Mater. 


In  another  column  the  Orient  publishes 
two  rules  from  the  Athletic  Committee  which 
are  to  go  into  effect  at  once.  They  are  needed 
very  much,  and  in  their  effect  will  perfect  the 
organization  and  purity  of  the  minor  athletic 
teams. 

The  elimination  of  specials  from  class 
teams  is  only  just,  for  class  contests  have  their 
true  place  in  college  athletics  and  should  be 
decided  by  strictly  class  representatives. 
Specials  are  too  transitory  to  be  properly 
placed  with  one  class  or  another. 

Athletic  teams  have  left  the  college  in  the 
past,  and  played  games  with  various  high- 
school  teams,  only  to  be  disgracefully  van- 
quished and  ridiculed  in  the  paper.  This  has 
been  because  these  teams  have  had  no  train- 
ing, and  their  bent  was  to  have  a  pleasant 
holiday  regardless  of  the  reflection  their  poor 
exhibition  would  cast  on  Bowdoin  athletics. 
It  is  now  impossible  for  a  team  to  play  any 
contest  as  a  class  or  scrub  team  from  this 
college  without  the  sanction  of  the  particular 
'varsity  captain  and  manager,  and  the  grad- 
uate members  of  the  committee ;  and  this,  of 
course,  will  be  withheld  unless  the  team  is 
worthy  of  the  name  it  plays  under. 


CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  Nov.  18. — Bowdoin  plays  Holy  Cross 
at  Worcester. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23. — Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Thursday,  to  Sunday,  Nov.  30-DEC.  4. — Thanks- 
giving Recess. 

Monday   to   Friday,   Dec.    18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday,  Dec.  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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THEY     CAME,     THEY     SAW,     THEY     CON- 
QUERED, NIT! 
Old  Jamie   B.   was   rather  glum,   his  mind   was   all 

"up-sot," 
He  didn't  know  just  what  to  think,  he  only  cussed  a 
lot. 

And  said,  "By  Jove,  I  plainly  see 
A  deuced  near  defeat  for  me 
Unless  I  hump  this  Old  J.  B." 

So  Jamie  B.  just  shook  his  head,  and  set  to  sawing 

wood, 
He  heard  a  lot,  and  read  a  lot,  that  stirred  up  all  his 
blood ; 

He  said,  "  By  Jove,  this  case  is  hard. 
They  seem  to  think  I'll  close  my  yard 
And  hang  out  a  'to-let'  placard." 

But  Jamie   B.   did  not  give  up,   and   when   the   day 

came  round, 
He  rigged  his  boys  out  in  their  suits  and  took  them 
to  the  ground. 

Said  he,   "Now  boys,   we're  here  to-day 
To  win  this  battle,  come  what  may, 
Or  else  on  stretchers  go  away." 

Old   Jamie    B.    no    more    is    glum,    that    game    has 

cheered   his   heart; 
He  smiles  now  when  you  meet  with  him   and   just 
before  you  part 

He  says,  "My  lad,  you  must  permit 
That  I  should  tell  you  all  of  it ; 
They  came,  they  saw,  they  conquered,  nit! 
— F.  C.  L.,  igoo. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Coach  Crolius  left  Sunday  noon. 

Professor  Mitchell  granted  a  postponement  in 
rhetoric  last  Saturday. 

Several  Bates  caps  and  banners  remained  in  town 
after  the  owners  had  departed. 

Bowdoin  carried  the  ball  nearly  three  times  as 
far  as  Bates  in  Saturday's  game. 

Several  of  the  students  attended  a  dance  in 
Pythian  Hall  Saturday  evening. 

The  performance  of  the  "Dazzler"  attracted 
some  of  the  students  Friday  night. 

About  fifteen  students  witnessed  the  "Devil's 
Auction,"  at  Bath,  Thursday  evening. 

Some  of  the  Freshmen  received  calls  from  Presi- 
dent Hyde  after  the  mid-term  Faculty  meeting. 


A  large  number  of  the  younger  alumni  were 
present  at  the  game  on  Saturday. 

'Tis  said  that  Bates  had  purchased  tar  barrels  to 
burn  on  the  Bowdoin  delta  after  they  had  won  the 
game. 

The  snow  storm  Saturday  night  made  an  out- 
door celebration  out  of  the  question.  We  were 
happy  just  the  same. 

Supporters  of  the  Bates  team  were  offering  two 
to  one  and  five  to  three  before  the  game  that  Bow- 
doin would  fail  to  score. 

Nearly  all  the  professors  granted  adjournments 
last  Friday,  that  they  might  hear  the  discussions  in 
the  meeting  of  the  college  presidents. 

Bacon,  Bass,  Foster,  Smith,  Roy  Bodwell,  Apple- 
ton,  and  Watson  are  in  attendance  at  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  convention  in  Springfield  this  week. 

Professor  Chapman  will  address  the  Sagadahoc 
County  teachers  convention  to  be  held  in  Bath, 
November  24th,  on  the  subject  "Books,  and  How  to 
Read  Them." 

The  Brunswick  High  School  eleven  defeated  the 
Lewiston  High  School  team  by  a  score  of  6  to  o. 
The  game  was  played  on  the  delta,  since  the  Athletic 
field  was  being  made  ready  for  the  Bates  game. 

The  Saturday  Club  is  once  more  to  have  the 
pleasure  of  listening  to  F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  one 
of  the  most  delightful  of  modern  story-writers,  who 
will  give  an  Author's  Reading  Saturday,  November 
l8th,  at  8  P.M.,  in  Pythian  Hall.  This  pleasure  the 
public  is  cordially  invited  to  share. 

The  following  from  the  Kennebec  Journal  makes 
interesting  reading  even  after  the  game  is  lost  and 
won : 

They  are  holding  their  breath  at  Lewiston  and 
Brunswick,  too,  for  the  game  of  the  year  is  almost 
here,  as  it  may  have  occurred  to  you.  And  at  Bow- 
doin the  boys  are  anxious  and  over  at  Bates  the 
same,  for  the  garnet  and  white  are  to  meet  in  their 
might  at  the  annual  foot-ball  game.  All  their  other 
games  are  nothmg ;  this  is  the  game  to  win,  and  you 
can  bet  they  won't  forget  that  to  lose  would  be  a 
sin.  And  their  very  souls  are  in  it  and  those  on 
the  sidelines,  too,  will  play  their  part  and  put  their 
heart  into  pulling  the  victory  through.  And  after 
the  battle  is  over  and  the  game  is  lost  and  won,  they 
will  spend  the  year  'twixt  cheer  and  tear  and  in  tell- 
ing how  it  was  done. 

From  E.  F.  Searles,  who  gave  to  the  college  the 
science  building,  the  college  has  recently  received  a 
most  valuable  gift.  It  is  a  papal  decree  made  by 
Pope  Paul  V.  in  the  fifth  year  of  his  Pontificate, 
September  11,  1609,  abolishing  the  monastery  of  St. 
James  at  Zamora  in  Spain,  and  establishing  a  new 
one  to  which  all  the  lands,  rights,  furniture,  etc.,  of 


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the  former  are  transferred  in  due  form.  The  con- 
sent of  the  Prioress,  Sub-Prioress,  and  eighteen 
nuns  of  the  monastery  at  St.  James,  through  their 
Procurator,  is  endorsed  on  the  parchment.  The 
decree  is  a  vellum  manuscript,  and  is  at  least  two 
and  three  feet  in  size,  sealed  with  a  huge  ancient 
wafer.  The  manuscript  was  sacked  during  the 
Naders.  It  is  of  peculiar  interest  to  bibliomaniacs, 
and  is  a  valuable  acquisition  to  the  library. 

The  presidents  and  several  professors  of  the 
leading  New  England  colleges  met  at  Bowdoin  last 
Thursday  evening  and  Friday,  to  consult  on  matters 
pertaining  to  college  management  and  instruction. 
The  meetings  were  private. 

Among  those  present  were  President  Eliot  of 
Harvard  and  President  Stanley  Hall  of  Clark  Uni- 
versity, entertained  by  President  Hyde ;  President 
Hadley  of  Yale,  President  Tucker  of  Dartmouth 
and  Professor  Hewitt  of  Williams,  by  Professor 
Houghton;  President  Carter  of  Williams,  by  Pro- 
fessor Johnson ;  President  Capen  of  Tufts,  by  Pro- 
fessor Lee ;  President  Brainerd  of  Middleboro  and 
President  Buckham  of  the  University  of  Vermont, 
by  Professor  Woodruff;  President  Raymond  of 
Wesleyan,  by  Professor  Files ;  Professor  Story  of 
Clark  University  and  Professor  Rosa  of  Wesleyan, 
by  Professor  Moody ;  Professor  Lindsey  of  Boston 
University,  by  Professor  Smith ;  Professor  Bumpus 
of  Brown,  by  Dr.  Whittier ;  Professor  Todd  of 
Amherst,  by  Professor  MacDonald;  Professor 
Emery  of  Dartmouth,  by  Professor  Chapman;  Pro- 
fessor Hall  of  Harvard,  by  Professor  Mitchell ; 
Professor  Wade  of  Tufts,  by  Professor  Emery; 
Professor  McLilton  of  Middleboro,  by  R.  W.  Eaton ; 
Professor  Howes,  by  Mr.  Barrett  Potter ;  Professor 
Smith  of  Yale  by  Miss  Hatch. 


NOTICE. 

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  General  Athletic 
Committee  the   following   rules  were  passed : 

I. 
Voted,  That  in  any  games  between  classes  cr  in 
any  game  between  any  class  team  and  an  out-of- 
town  team,  the  said  class  teams  shall  be  made  up 
from  members  of  their  respective  classes,  in  good 
and  regular  class  standing,  and  under  no  conditions 
whatsoever  will  a  member  from  some  other  class, 
special  student,  or  medical  student  be  allowed  to 
play  on  said  class  teams. 

n. 

Voted,  That  any  class,  scrub  or  otherwise, 
athletic,  foot-ball  or  base-ball  team  must  first  obtain 
the  consent  and   sanction  of  the  captain   and   man- 


ager of  the  department  under  whose  head  it  would 
naturally  come  and  also  of  the  graduate  members 
of  the  General  Athletic  Committe,  before  it  can 
arrange  any  games,  contests  or  meets  with  other 
teams.  Donald  F.  Snow, 

Secretary  of  Committee. 


Y.M.  C.  f\ 


Mr.  Harry  Wade  Hicks,  Cornell,  'g8,  who  is 
now  traveling  among  the  colleges  of  the  East  and 
Canada,  spent  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  November 
7th  and  8th,  with  the  association  here.  Confer- 
ences were  arranged  with  some  of  the  committee- 
men and  the  cabinet,  in  which  matters  of  business 
and  policy  were  discussed.  On  Wednesday  evening 
Mr.  Hicks  gave  a  short  address  on  the  subject  of 
sin,  dealing  principally  with  its  innate  baseness  and 
unsatisfactoriness,  and  concluding  by  an  allusion  to 
Christ  as  the  only  ideal.  His  purity  the  only  safe- 
guard, and  His  strength  the  only  power  that  sin 
cannot   resist. 

Mr.  Hicks  is  a  very  successful  worker  whose 
coming  is  always  welcomed  and  whose  departure  is 
regretted  deeply  by  those  most  interested  in  the 
spiritual  side  of  college  life. 

On  Sunday  afternoon,  November  i2th,  Mr.  C.  T. 
Hawes  of  the  Class  of  '76  and  a  member  of  the 
athletic  committee  of  the  college,  spoke  before  the 
.\ssociation  on  the  subject,  "A  Beautiful  Battle." 
The  speaker  traced  carefully  a  line  touching  all  the 
greatest  contests  of  the  world  from  the  Greeks  at 
Thermopylae  to  our  own  sailors  at  Manila.  He  said 
that  the  "eastern  question"  had  always  been  a 
question  of  light  against  darkness,  of  civilization 
against  degradation,  and  of  Christianity  against 
paganism.  Mr.  Hawes  summed  up  the  thoughts  of 
his  strong  address  in  these  words:  "No  advance 
has  been  made  in  the  last  nineteen  hundred  years 
that  is  not  directly  traceable  to  the  spirit  and  life 
of  Jesus  Christ."  Mr.  John  Shaw  of  Bath  sang 
two  solos  with  excellent  effect. 

One  of  the  books  to  be  taken  up  in  the  Mission 
Study  class  this  winter  is  Dennis'  "  Social  Evils  of 
the  Non-Christian  World,"  a  work  that  was  used 
with  much  interest  and  gratifying  results  in  many 
of  the  larger  colleges  and  universities  last  winter. 

A'o  one  should  fail  to  read  the  article,  ''The 
Religious  Life  of  the  University,"  by  Francis  Landey 
Patton,  President  of  Princeton  University.  It 
is  in  the  Intercollegian  for  November,  which  num- 
ber by  the  way  contains  several  other  strong  articles, 
short  but  full  of  the  thoughts  of  the  day. 


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ATHLETICS. 

BowDOiN  i6,  Bates  6. 

On  the  Whittier  Athletic  Fe!d,  last  Saturday 
afternoon,  Bowdoin  clearly  established  herelf  as  the 
foot-ball  leader  of  this  good  old  State,  by  beating 
Bates  i6  to  6  in  the  presence  of  about  2,000  enthusi- 
astic spectators.  The  game  was  the  best  ever  seen 
in  IVIaine.  Both  teams  played  the  swiftest  kind  of 
foot-ball. 

Bowdoin  sprung  the  biggest  surprise  of  the  year 
on  her  rivals,  who  had  counted  on  an  easy  victory. 
Bates  was  taken  off  her  feet  at  the  start.  Nearly 
every  man  on  the  Bowdoin  team  proved  more  than 
a  match  for  his  opponent.  Our  team  work  was 
superb.  Bates  scored  her  single  touchdown  by  the 
work  of  one  man,  not  by  any  team  work.  Hunne- 
well  pulled  the  ball  out  of  Dunlap's  arms  when  the 
Bowdoin  man  had  been  downed ;  and  then  the  Bates 
man  galloped  over  the  line  with  Captain  Clarke  of 
Bowdoin  in  hot  pursuit. 

Stackpole  and  Captain  Clarke  carried  off  the 
greatest  honors  of  the  day.  Stackpole  was  the  life 
of  the  team,  and  on  offensive  and  defensive  was 
always  in  evidence.  Clarke's  goal  kicking,  which 
scored  i:  points,  was  a  remarkably  good  exhibition. 
Gregson,  Hunt,  and  Upton  were  backs  of  which  any 
team  would  have  been  proud  on  Saturday.  They 
smashed  through  the  famous  Bates  line  as  if  it  had 
been  that  of  the  Bowdoin  scrub  eleven.  When  on 
the  defensive,  the  halfbacks  scattered  interference  in 
every  direction,  and  their  runs  with  the  ball  were 
beautiful.  Upton  punted  most  successsfully.  The 
centre  men  of  the  Bowdoin  line  proved  more  than 
a  match  for  their  opponents,  while  Laferriere  and 
Dunlap  had  a  complete  mastery  of  Call  and  Sturgis. 
Dunlap  played  his  first  'varsity  game  like  a  veteran, 
and  a  star  at  that. 

Captain  Purington  was  the  star  in  the  Bates 
team.  Hunnewell  and  Richardson  played  strongly. 
Garlough  excelled  in  advancing  the  ball  for  Bates. 

The  Game. 

For  the  following  excellent  report  of  the  great 
game  we  are  indebted  to  the  Lewiston  Journal  which, 
in  the  person  of  Brother  Pottle  of  the  Orient  board, 
had  an  able  correspondent  on  the  field  : 

Call  kicked  off  for  Bates  at  2.35.  The  kick  went 
low  but  Cloudman  gathered  it  in  only  to  be  downed 
in  his  tracks.  Gregson  shot  over  Call  for  four 
yards  and  Hunt  went  through  Sturgis  for  three 
yards.  Laferriere  was  shoved  over  Call  for  four 
more,  and  Bates  began  to  lose  faith  in  her  sup- 
posedly invincible  tackles.     Upton  hurdled  the  line 


for  two.  Gregson  got  around  Richardson  for  six 
and  then  through  Sturgis  for  three  and  Upton  went 
through  Hunt  for  three. 

The  ball  was  now  close  to  the  sideline  and  Hunt 
took  it  on  a  delayed  pass,  jumped  over  Sturgis  and 
made  20  yards  before  Richardson  got  him.  Lafer- 
riere, Upton,  Dunlap,  and  Hunt  made  2  yards  each, 
but  an 'unfortunate  fumble  gave  the  ball  to  Bates  on 
her  2S-yard  line. 

The  Bowdoin  supporters  were  jubilant,  for  it  had 
been  proved  that  the  Bates  line  could  be  broken  and 
that  her  tackles  had  met  their  superiors. 

Bates  made  three  through  the  center  and  lost  the 
ball  for  offside  play.  Gregson  made  two  through 
Sturgis.  Upton  hit  the  line  for  one  and  Hunt  made 
two  on  a  revolving  play  between  Hunt  and  Call. 
On  the  next  play  the  ball  was  fumbled,  but  Leighton 
fell  on  it.  Gregson  made  four  and  Hunt  tried  hard 
for  the  necessary  yard,  but  failed  by  a  foot,  and 
Bates  took  the  ball  on  downs  on  her  11 -yard  line. 

Garlough  managed  to  get  ouside  of  Chapman 
and  ran  18  yards.  Stackpole  made  a  terrific  tackle 
and  the  game  was  suspended  while  Garlough  was 
revived.  Call  made  eight  around  Bowdoin's 
right  end,  Chapman  being  deliberately  held.  Putnam 
hit  the  line  for  two  yards,  but  on  the  next  play 
Leighton  threw  him  for  a  yard's  loss.  Towne 
squeezed  by  Dunlap  for  a  yard.  Putnam  could  not 
get  by  Leighton  and  was  forced  to  kick,  tie  sent 
a  high  30-yard  punt  to  Stackpole. 

After  two  short  gains  Upton  kicked  35  yards  to 
Towne  and  Clarke  downed  him  as  the  ball  struck 
his  hands.  Putnam  could  not  gain  and  kicked  again. 
Gregson  made  two  and  then  Dunlap  was  sent  into 
the  line.  Hunnewell  snatched  the  ball  and  ran  40 
yards  for  a  touchdown,  being  downed  by  Clarke  on 
the  line.     Putnam  kicked  the  goal. 

Score,  Bates,  6;  Bowdoin  o. 

Upton  kicked  off  to  Call.  Bates  made  her  five 
yards  by  short  gains,  but  in  the  next  down  Hunt 
dove  through  the  interference  and  nailed  Garlough 
for  a  five-yard  loss.  Putnam  kicked  20  yards. 
Hunt  made  three  and  Upton  punted  45  yards  to  the 
Bates  eight-yard  line.  Putnam  kicked  30  yards  and 
Stackpole  made  a  pretty  dodging  run  of  18  yards  to 
the  Bates  20-yard  line.  Upton  took  the  ball  to  the 
15-yard  line,  where  Bates  braced  and  held  for 
downs. 

Putnam  kicked,  and  Stackpole  by  hurdling  and 
diving,  came  back  to  the  22-yard  line  where  Bates 
got  the  ball  for  holding.  Putnam,  Sturgis,  and 
Richardson  made  11  yards  and  Bowdoin  got  the 
ball  for  off-side  play.  Upton  bucked  for  two  yards 
and  then  kicked.  Bowdoin  got  the  ball  for  holding: 
Dunlap  rolled  Call  out  of  the  way  and  Hunt  made 


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five  yards.  Gregson  made  two  short  gains  and  the 
ball  was  within  20  yards  of  the  Bates  line  with  three 
yards  to  make  on  the  third  down. 

Every  Bowdoin  man  came  to  his  feet  as  Clarke 
and  Stackpole  dropped  back  and  Stackpole  knelt  to 
receive  the  ball  from  Bodwell  for  a  place  kick.  The 
ball  came  straight  into  Stackpole's  hands,  he  placed 
it  on  the  ground  without  a  second's  delay  and  Clarke 
sent  it  straight  over  the  cross  bar  for  the  first  field- 
goal  from  placement  ever  seen  in  a  Maine  game. 

Bates  kicked  off  and  time  was  called  with  the 
ball  in  Bowdoin's  possession  on  her  own  25-yard 
line.  Leighton  was  slightly  hurt  in  the  last  scrim- 
mage. Score,  Bates  6,  Bowdoin  5.  In  this  first 
half,  Bates  carried  the  ball  87  yards,  while  Bowdoin 
carried  it  115,  and  Upton  outpunted  Putnam  on 
every  kick.  Leighton  was  taken  out,  Dunlap  going 
to  guard,  and  Hill  taking  his  place  at  tackle. 

Upton  kicked  off  to  Call,  who  came  back  20 
yards.  Bates  tried  a  double  pass,  but  Chapman 
stopped  it  for  a  loss.  Putnam  kicked  25  yards  to 
Upton.  Upton  kicked  to  Towne,  who  came  back  20 
yards.  Chapman  nailed  Richardson  for  a  5-yard 
loss.  Putnam  kicked  25  yards ;  Stackpole  caught  the 
punt,  warded  off  two  would-be  tacklers  and  ran  15 
yards.  Upton,  Hill,  Laferriere,  and  Hunt  were  then 
sent  one  after  the  other  between  Hunt  and  Call  for 
a  total  of  12  yards. 

Bates  then  held  for  downs,  but  immediately 
fumbled,  and  Laferriere  fell  on  the  ball.  Laferriere 
and  Cloudman  made  a  big  hole  through  which 
Gregson  shot  for  20  yards.  Upton  made  two,  and 
Clarke  tried  for  another  field-goal,  missing  by  about 
a  yard. 

Bates  kicked  out  from  the  25-yard  line  to  Clarke. 
Bowdoin  then  bucked  the  line  until  she  reached  the 
Bates  45-yard  line,  where  Bates  held.  Clarke,  rightly 
thinking  that  Bates  would  take  a  place  kick  forma- 
tion for  a  fake,  dropped  back,  and  instead  of  punting 
made  a  30-yard  place  kick.  Towne  fumbled  and 
again  Laferriere  was  on  hand  to  drop  on  the  ball 
on  the  Bates  30-yard  line.  Upton  made  a  yard,  and 
then  Jack  Gregson  was  sent  four  times  at  the  Bates 
tackles  for  a  touchdown.  Hunt  kicked  out  and 
Stackpole  made  a  fair  catch  from  which  Clarke 
kicked  goal.     Score,  Bowdoin,  11;  Bates,  6. 

Call  kicked  off  and  Hill  brought  the  ball  back  10 
yards.  Gregson  made  three.  Bowdoin  fumbled  on 
the  ne.xt  down,  but  Hill  fell  on  the  ball.  Upton 
kicked,  but  Bates  broke  through,  backed  the  kick 
and  got  the  ball. 

Putnam  and  Towne  made  two  and  three  yards 
respectively  over  Dunlap  and  Hill,  but  Purinton 
fumbled  and  Cloudman  got  the  ball.  Gregson  and 
Hunt  made  short  gains  and  Upton  kicked  35  yards. 


Garlough  made  five  yards  just  outside  of  Laferriere, 
but  Bowdoin  got  the  ball  for  off-side  play.  Upton 
kicked  25  yards. 

Bates  in  desperation  tried  a  criss-cross,  which 
Chapman  smashed  for  a  three-yard  loss.  Towne 
made  three,  Putnam  three  and  Towne  one  through 
the  line,  but  a  fumble  lost  the  ball  again. 

Upton  made  one  and  then  three,  being  tackled 
beautifully  by  Purinton  each  time.  Then  Gregson, 
behind  splendid  interference,  ran  around  Rich- 
ardson for  35  yards.  Again  Bowdoin  worked  the 
delayed  pass  and  this  time  Hunt  made  10  yards, 
bringing  the  ball  within  15  yards  of  the  garnet  line. 
Line-bucking  took  the  ball  to  the  four-yard  line, 
when  Bates  stood  firm  against  three  determined 
rushes  and  took  the  ball,  Bowdoin  failing  to  make 
her  distance  by  six  inches.  Towne  made  four.  Call 
two,  and  Putnam  kicked  40  yards.  Stackpole  came 
back  30  yards  when  he  was  crowded  out  of  bounds. 
An  end  run  took  the  ball  directly  in  front  of  the  goal 
posts  and  Clarke  dropped  back  to  the  2S-yard  line 
and  kicked  his  second  field-goal.  Score:  Bowdoin, 
16;  Bates,  6. 

Call  kicked  off.  Bowdoin  made  10  yards  and 
time  was  called. 

In  this  half  Bowdoin  took  the  ball  170  yards  and 
Bates  76.  In  the  whole  game  Bowdoin  made  285 
yards  to  163  for  Bates. 

The  summary; 

Bowdoin.  Bates. 

Clarke,  l.e r.e.,  Hunnewell. 

Dunlap  (Hill),  l.t r.t..  Call. 

Leighton  (Dunlap),  I.g r.g..  Hunt. 

Bodwell,  c c,  Moody. 

Cloudman,  r.g I.g.,  Baldwin. 

Laferriere,  r.t It.,  Sturgis. 

Chapman,  r.  e 1.  e.,   Richardson. 

Stackpole,  q.b q.b.,  Purinton. 

Gregson,  l.h.b r.h.b.,  Towne. 

Hunt,  r.h.b l.h.b,  Garlough. 

Upton,  f.b f.b.,  Putnam. 

Score — Bowdoin,  16;  Bates,  6.  Touchdowns, 
Gregson,  Hunnewell.  Goals  from  touchdowns — 
Clarke,  Putnam.  Goals  from  field — Clarke,  2. 
Umpire,  Quigg.  Referee,  Upton.  Linesmen,  Clarke 
of  Bowdoin,  Bolster  of  Bates.  Time,  25-minute 
halves. 

Side  Lines. 

U.  of  M.  won  from  Colby  on  Saturday  by  a  score 
of  6  to  o.  G.  H.  Davis  scored  a  touchdown  by  a  run 
of  80  yards  on  a  criss-cross. 

The  Sophomore-Freshman  foot-ball  game  will  be 
played  on  Nov.  2Sth.  The  athletic  committee  has 
agreed  not  to  allow  special  students  to  play  in  the 
class  games. 

Last  Wednesday  afternoon  the  1903  class  team 
defeated   Lewiston    High    School   at   Lewiston   by   a 


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score  of  ii  to  o,  in  a  well-played  game.  The  Bow- 
doin  line-up  was  Dana,  I.e.  ;  Viles,  l.t.  ;  Bradley,  l.g. ; 
Preble,  c. ;  Greene,  r.g. ;  J.  Webber,  r.t. ;  Shaugh- 
nessy,  r.e. ;  H.  Webber,  q.b. ;  Conners,  l.h.b. ;  Wilson, 
r.h.b. ;  Coffin,  f.b.  Wilson  and  Conners  scored  the 
touchdowns.  Coffin  kicked  a  goal.  Captain  Con- 
ners won  praise  from  the  press. 


PERSONflLS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
QO-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  f)rocuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'38. — Rev.  Stephen  Hobbs  Hayes  died  in  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  November  4th,  aged  86.  He  was 
born  in  Industry,  Me.,  November  14,  1813,  the  son 
of  Jacob  and  Ruth  (Hobbs)  Hayes.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  received  at  a  private  school  in  Farming- 
ton  ;  in  1832  he  united  with  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Industry.  He  was  graduated  from  Bow- 
doin  College  in  1838  and  was  for  two  years  pre- 
ceptor of  Lincoln  Academy,  Damariscotta.  He  then 
entered  Bangor  Theological  Seminary,  graduating 
in  1843.  The  same  year  he  began  his  ministry  in 
Frankfort,  Me.,  now  Winterport,  and  there,  August 
20,  1844,  he  was  ordained,  the  sermon  being  by  Pro- 
fessor George  Shepard  and  the  ordaining  prayer  by 
Rev.  Jotham  Sewall.  He  remained  pastor  there  till 
1858,  When  he  was  called  to  the  Union  Congrega- 
tional Church,  South  Weymouth,  Mass.  He  was 
pastor  of  that  church  till  1870,  and  from  1870  to 
1880  of  the  Salem  and  Mariners'  Church  in  Boston. 
In  1869  he,  with  Mrs.  Hayes,  opened  a  school  for 
young  ladies  in  Boston,  which  continued  till  a  few 
years  ago.  Mr.  Hayes  was  a  trustee  of  Bangor 
Seminary  from  1869  to  1890,  and  during  that  time 
secured  the  endowment  of  the  Hayes  Professorship 
of  New  Testament  Exegesis  and  Theology.  He 
was  recording  secretary  of  the  general  coference  of 
Maine  from  1849  to  1851,  and  corresponding  secre- 
tary from  1851  to  1857.  He  was  a  frequent  and 
welcome  contributor  to  the  Christian  Mirror  and 
other  periodicals.  He  was  a  clear,  earnest  preacher 
and  a  loving,  sympathetic  pastor  and  friend.  Mr. 
Hayes  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Bean  of  Belfast  in 
1846.  She  died  in  1863.  In  1869  he  married  Miss 
Mary  E.  Cobb  of  Tinmouth,  Vermont. 

'40. — Speaking  of  that  wonderful  old  man.  Rev. 
Elijah  Kellogg,  still  preaching  every  Sunday  at 
Harpswell,  though  nearly  90  years  of  age,  the  Con- 
gregationalist    says :     "  Extreme    deafness    does    not 


make  the  pastor's  greeting  to  friends,  old  and  new, 
any  the  less  cordial.  An  informal  reception  at 
the  close  of  the  service  is  usually  inevitable,  even 
if  he  desires  to  avoid  strangers.  To  the  young  man 
with  his  camera,  desiring  to  get  a  snapshot  of 
preacher  and  pulpit,  Mr.  Kellogg  replies  with  'No, 
some  other  day.'  A  boy  is  made  happy  by  obtain- 
ing the  author's  autograph  in  a  copy  of  one  of  his 
stories.  Outside  the  meeting-house,  under  the  big 
maples,  the  people  are  chatting  a  few  minutes  before 
Sunday-school.  Strangers  cross  the  road  to  see  the 
old  meeting-house,  built  in  1756,  now  used  as  a 
town  house.  The  pulpit  and  some  of  the  square 
pews  remain  as  they  were  nearly  150  years  ago." 

'SO-'6o. — The  names  of  Frye,  Allen,  and  Reed 
occupy  so  much  space  in  the  daily  papers  nowadays 
that  it  seems  almost  superfluous  to  keep  putting 
these  brief  records  of  their  political  successes  in  the 
weekly  issvies  of  the  Orient.  Nevertheless,  we  may 
be  forgiven  for  summarizing  a  bit,  since  the  elections 
are  now  over. 

Senator  Frye  and  Mr.  Allen  have  been  "hard  at 
it"  for  many  weeks,  the  former  travelling  as  far 
west  as  Ohio,  the  latter  confining  his  work  within 
the  State  of  Maine.  We  like  to  believe  that  Sena- 
tor Frye's  efforts  had  not  a  little  to  do  with  the 
gratifying  results  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  and  indirectly 
with  the  almost  certain  re-election  of  President 
McKinley  in  1900.  When  Mr.  Frye  returned  from 
the  west,  he  and  Mr.  Allen  combined  forces  in  our 
own  State,  with  the  result  that  Allen  will  represent 
the  first  district  of  Maine  in  the  National  House, 
in  place  of  his  classmate  and  lifelong  friend,  Mr. 
Reed.  Mr.  Allen's  plurality  was  nearly  5,000, 
showing  that  he  is  hardly  less  popular  than  his 
predecessor. 

Mr.  Frye's  name  has  frequently  been  mentioned 
in  connection  with  the  Vice-Presidency  since  Mr. 
Hobart's  serious  illness.  He  says,  however:  "I 
am  the  president  pro  tem.  of  the  Senate,  and  what 
could  be  the  object  to  induce  a  senator  to  abandon 
his  office  for  the  privilege  of  being  the  presiding 
officer  of  the  Senate,  a  practical  nullity  with  a  vote 
only  in  the  case  of  a  tie.  I  have  never  countenanced 
the  use  of  my  name  in  this  connection." 

'52. — Gen.  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain  recently  spoke 
on  the  "Surrender  of  General  Lee,"  before  the  East 
End  Yacht  Club  in  Portland. 

'60. — Dr.  George  Gary  of  Houlton,  who  has  been 
very  ill  for  some  time,  was  taken  with  pneumonia 
about  a  week  ago,  and  owing  to  his  enfeebled  con- 
dition no  hopes  for  his  recovery  are  held  out  by  the 
physician.  At  this  writing  he  is  very  low  and  is 
not  expected  to  live  more  than  a  few  days. 


162 


BOM^DOIN   OEIENT. 


'62.— Rev.  Charles  H.  Pope  of  Cambridge  is 
engaged  in  genealogical  pursuits.  His  office  is  in 
Boston. 

Med.  '67. — Secretary  A.  G.  Young  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health,  is  at  work  on  a  revision  of  some 
of  the  pamphlets  of  the  board  relating  to  the  care 
precautions  against  disease,  the  care  during  illness, 
together  with  the  disinfecting  afterwards. 

'72. — Herbert  M.  Heath  of  Augusta  is  counsel 
for  the  defense  in  the  Knight  murder  case,  which 
is  just  now  attracting  so  much  attention  in  Maine. 

Ex-'7i. — Luther  J.  Drake  of  Boston,  a  native  of 
llnion,  died  October  25th,  after  a  brief  illness,  at 
the  Massachusetts  Homeopathic  Hospital,  from  the 
result  of  an  apoplectic  shock.  Mr.  Drake  was  a  son 
of  the  late  Luther  and  Abigail  Drake  of  Union,  and 
was  54  years  of  age.  He  studied  law  with  the  late 
L.  W.  Howes,  Esq.,  of  Rockland,  and  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Boston.  He  served 
his  country  during  the  Civil  war  in  the  12th  Maine 
regiment,  and  was  lieutenant  of  Co.  F.  He  was 
married  at  Fall  River  on  November  i,  1876,  to  Miss 
Nellie  D.  Hillard,  daughter  of  the  late  James  P. 
Hillard.  Besides  his  wife,  he  leaves  a  brother, 
Almon  G.  Drake  of  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  and  three 
sisters,  Augusta  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  Melvina  of 
Chicago,  and  Louisa  of  Boston. 

"75. — The  statement  that  Hon.  F.  A.  Powers  will 
not  accept  an  appointment  to  the  supreme  bench  after 
the  retirement  of  Chief  Justice  Peters  is  denied  by 
that  gentleman,  who  says  he  has  not  expressed 
himself  in  regard  to  his  candidacy. 

'91. — A.  M.  McDonald,  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  in  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  has  enjoyed  a 
very  pleasant  vacation  abroad  during  the  past  sum- 
mer. As  a  token  of  esteem,  all  expenses  of  his  trip 
were  paid  by  his  parishioners. 

'91. — The  resignation  of  Dr.  Ralph  Hunt,  assist- 
ant surgeon  at  the  Togus  Soldiers'  Home,  has  been 
formally  accepted  by  the  president  of  the  board  of 
managers,  to  take  effect  on  the  isth  inst.  Dr.  Hunt 
is  to  practice  his  profession  in  his  native  city,  Ban- 
gor, and  his  host  of  friends,  which  he  has  made 
among  the  veterans  during  his  four  years'  service 
at  the  Home,  heartily  wish  him  the  success  which 
he  deserves  and  which  no  doubt  he  will  attain  in 
his  new  field.  Dr.  Hunt  is  a  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Abel  Hunt  of  Bangor,  and  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin 
College  and  Medical  School.  He  is  an  able 
physician  and  surgeon,  and  his  many  friends  in 
Bangor  will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  he  is  located 
there. 

'92. — H.  L.  Allen,  superintendent  of  the  schools 
of  Dalton  and  Cheshire  (Mass.).,  was  chairman  of 
the  reception  committee  at  the  recent  celebration  in 


Dalton  of  W.  Murray  Crane's  election  as  Governor. 
Mr.  Allen  is  a  son  of  Amos  Allen,  who  has  recently 
been  chosen  the  successor  of  Thomas  B.  Reed. 

'92. — Born  to  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Rich,  on 
November  7th,  a  son. 

■95. — H.  L.  Fairbanks  was  umpire  at  the  Am- 
herst-Williams game  in  Williamstown,  November 
nth. 

'95.— Dr.  Alfred  Mitchell,  Jr.,  will  be  promoted 
to  second  assistant  surgeon  on  the  staff  at  Togus 
when  the  resignation  of  Dr.  Hunt  goes  into  effect 
the  middle  of  this  month. 

'95- — The  vacancy  on  the  staff  of  the  National 
Home  at  Togus,  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Dr. 
Hunt,  assistant  surgeon,  will  be  filled  by  the  appoint- 
ment of  Dr.  W.  S.  A.  Kimball  of  Portland,  who, 
it  will  be  remembered,  filled  the  position  of  interne 
on  the  hospital  staff  for  a  short  time  last  summer. 
Dr.  Kimball  is  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  College  and 
of  the  Medical  School  of  Maine,  and  has  served  on 
the  house  staff  of  the  Maine  General  Hospital. 

Congressman  Littlefield  will  leave  for  Washing, 
ton  about  November  28,  accompanied  by  J.  E. 
Rhodes,  2d,  who  will  serve  as  his  private  secretary. 
Mr.  Rhodes  is  a  law  student  in  the  Littlefield  office 
and  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin.  He  was  for  a  time  a 
teacher  in  the  Rockland  High  School. 


IN    MEMORIAM. 

Brunswick,  Me.,  Nov.  7,  1899. 
Whereas,  We,  the  Class  of  1901  of  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, have  learned  with  deep  sorrow  of  the  sad  death 
of  our  loyal  classmate,  Freeman  Milliken  Short, 

Resolved,  That  we  extend  our  sincere  sympathy 
to  his  family  and  friends ;  and  that  a  copy  of  these 
resolutions  be   sent  for  publication  to  the   Portland 
papers  and  to  the  Bowdoin   Orient  as  a  token  of 
our  respect  for  the  memory  of  our  late  classmate. 
Clarence  B.  Flint, 
Ripley   Lyman   Dana, 
Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills, 
For  the  Class. 


Boston    University   Law    School, 


ISAAC    RICH    HALL,  ASHBURTON   PLACE. 


Samuel   C.  Bennett,  dean, 

Opens  October  3,  igoo.  BOSTON,    MASS. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,   MAINE,   NOVEMBER   23,   1899. 


No.  18. 


P.  O  W  I)  O  I  N    O  R  T  E  N  T. 

PUBLISHED     EVEKY    THURSDAY    DURING   THE    COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE   STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babe,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 

Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  1901,  Assistant  Editor-in-Chief. 

IsLAY  F.  McCoRMiOK,  1900,  Business  Manager. 
EoLAND  B.  Clark,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 
Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900.         Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900. 
Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900.         Harry  E.  Walker,  1901. 
Frederic  A.  Stanwood,  1902.  Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902. 
Charles  B.  Bellatty. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  18.— November  2.3,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes      163 

Calendar 165 

College  News      165 

Y.  M.  C.  A 165 

Athletics 166 

Book  Review 167 

Personals 168 

Of  the  thousand  and  one  wants  that  every 
college  experiences,  two  are  particularly  prom- 
inent at  present  here  at  Bowdoin.  Not  that 
these  two  are  the  most  important,  but  they  are 
now  receiving  their  turn  of  attention,  and  so 
should  be  brought  forward  to  the  alumni  and 
students.  The  Orient  refers  to  a  loan  fund 
and  to. more  scholarships. 


A  loan  fund  for  the  benefit  of  students  of 
limited  means  is,  under  proper  management,  a 
source  of  great  help.  A  student,  providing  his 
work  and  conduct  warranted  it,  could  thus 
obtain  a  loan  when  driven  to  the  wall.  The 
college  would  of  course  rec[uire  some  security, 
such  as  a  bond  similar  to  that  furnished  on 
entrance,  while  the  risk  of  loss  by  the  death  of 
the  student  probably  would  be  assumed  by  the 
college.  The  sum  loaned  would  be  of  sufficient 
amount  to  be  of  practical  assistance,  and  the 
interest  asked  would  not  exceed  the  current 
rate.  The  evils  of  spending  a  term  or  so  in 
work  during  the  course  would  find  its  remedy 
in  this  loan  fund,  and  no  more  need  a  student 
spend  ten  or  twelve  weeks  teaching  and  then 
cram  in  the  college  work  of  that  period  for  an 
examination,  calling  this  farce  a  college  educa- 
tion. The  inducements  such  a  scheme  offers 
struggling  ambition  not  only  in  the  college  but 
also  the  fitting  school  would  certainly  reap 
success  in  the  enrollment  of  the  catalogue,  and 
a  class  would  soon  require  three  digits  to 
express  its  numbers. 

Scholarships  at  present  are  greatly  inade- 
quate to  satisfy  the  requests  deserving  of  help. 
This  year,  for  instance,  about  25  per  cent,  of 
those  who  are  worthy  of  scholarship  could  not 
be  awarded  this  assistance  because  of  the 
limited  number  at  the  disposal  of  the  Faculty. 
More  funds  must  be  forthcoming  from  some 
source  if  we  are  going  to  increase  our  entering 
class  and  retain  the  increase  through  four 
years.  Not  only  the  regular  scholarships  need 
augmentation — but  there  should  be  others 
which  are  given  for  tlie  performance  of  some 
duties,  in  other  words,  working  scholarships: 

These  two  important  deficiencies,  together 
with  the  college  commons,  give  considerable 
material  for  Bowdoin  alumni  and  friends  to 
think    over.     Agitation    and    active    measures 


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BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


stand  behind  these  few  lines,  for  the  promoters 
are  the  Faculty ;  there  is  something  more  than 
editorial  matter  in  all  this.  May  we  do  all  in 
our  power  to  further  this  and  other  plans 
for  Bowdoin's  prosperity, — -Faculty,  alumni, 
friends,  and  undergraduates — all. 


The  appearance  of  the  students  at  the 
.Sunday  service  in  the  church  must  be  very 
edifving  to  the  congregation  on  the  floor. 
Newsj^apers  screen  the  face,  and  feet  posted 
on  the  railing  conceal  the  rest  of  the  body; 
and  thus  the  galleries  present  a  layer  of  news- 
papers surmounting  a  layer  of  feet.  Doubt- 
less the  philosophic  layman  often  wonders  if 
the  most  conspicuous  product  of  a  college  life 
is  not  independent  and  careless  indifference  to 
the  customs  and  ways  of  gentlemen  and 
society. 

Grant  that  the  service  is  as  a  whole 
decidedly  uninteresting  and  tedious,  and  that 
the  compulsive  element  is  in  itself  distasteful 
and  antagonistic  to  the  attending  of  church; 
yet  this  does  not  excuse  the  slip-shod  and 
disgraceful  bearing  of  the  galleries,  with  their 
apparent  insult  to  the  church.  The  fellows 
sliould  be  ashamed  and  count  it  beneath  them 
to  show  such  an  utter  lack  of  reverence  for 
at  least  the  house  of  worship,  if  not  the 
service.  The  Orient  feels  that  the  true  solu- 
tion of  this  problem  lies  either  in  the  removal 
of  the  compulsive  attendance  or  the  innovation 
of  college  preachers,  but  until  such  a  condition 
exists  the  students  should  not  surrender  their 
self-respect  and  dignity  to  so  weak  an  opiate 
as  ennui. 


It  is  certain  that  a  college  commons  could 
not  be  maintained  unless  it  was  heartily  sup- 
ported by  the  great  majority  of  the  students. 
Any  attempt  in  that  direction  would  be  use- 
less, unless  it  had  been  previously  found  out 
whether  or  not  the  various  fraternities  would 
give  up  their  eating  clubs  for  the  proposed 
commons.  As  matters  stand  now,  we  doubt 
very  much  if  such  action  would  be  taken ;  but 


when  each  society  occupies  a  chapter-house  a 
new  phase  will  be  given  the  whole  subject. 
It  has  been  suggested  that  if  the  commons 
were  established,  a  system  of  "extras"  should 
be  adopted,  whereby  "kickers"  and  others  who 
desire  delicacies  might  be  propitiated.  A 
Bowdoin  commons  would  be  an  experiment  for 
the  first  two  years ;  and  perhaps  it  would  be 
best  to  talk  the  matter  over  pretty  seriously. 
We  don't  want  future  Orients  and  Quills  to 
be  filled  with  the  laments  that  now  and  again 
are  spread  over  the  pages  of  the  Harvard 
Lampoon  over  poor  Memorial  Hall.  On  the 
other  hand  we  would  all  welcome  the  scheme 
to  save  a  few  dollars  whereby  we  could  pay 
our  Orient  subscriptions  and  sundry  other 
debts,  rejoicing  at  the  same  time  in  the  prob- 
ability of  an  increase  in  loyal  Bowdoin  spirit. 
The  Orient,  however,  cannot  settle  the  ques- 
tion ;  and  try  as  it  will  a  college  paper  cannot 
absolutely  reflect  college  sentiment.  It  is 
much  to  be  wished  that  both  students  and 
alumni  will  send  contributions  to  our  columns 
on  a  matter  that  is  of  importance  to  the  college 
as  a  whole. 


While  the  Bowdoin-Portland  Athletic  Club 
game  is  of  but  slight  importance  in  some  ways, 
it  is  absolutely  essential  that  the  team  remem- 
ber it  represents  Bowdoin  College  and  that  it 
must  put  up  a  game  worthy  of  a  second  Bates 
victory.  In  Portland  there  is  a  large,  loyal, 
enthusiastic  body  of  alumni ;  and  for  their 
sakes  as  well  as  for  the  general  athletic  inter- 
ests of  the  college  a  victory  is  much  to  be 
desired.  Bowdoin  has  a  good  chance  by  win- 
ning the  game  to  settle  without  doubt  the  foot- 
ball championship  of  the  State ;  but  a  defeat 
would  still  further  darken  the  annals  of  a 
season  that  has  had  too  few  redeeming 
features.  The  game  has  been  carefully 
arranged  for  by  the  Athletic  Club ;  and  Bow- 
doin must  in  honor  do  all  in  her  share  of  the 
compact.  There  is  need  of  faithful,  hard 
practice,  and  of  the  animation  and  dash  that 
won  the    Bates  game,  to  prevent  the  college 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


165 


from  losing  much  in  sportsmanlike  reputation 
by  playing  a  loose,  indifferent,  listless  game  on 
Tlianlcsgiving  Day. 


CALENDAR. 

Thursday,  Nov.  23. — Bowdoin  plays  Portland 
Athletic  Club  at  Portland. 

Thursday,   Nov.  30. — Bowdoin  plays. 

Tuesday,  Nov.  28. — Lecture  by  Hon.  DeAlva  S. 
Alexander,   'yo,   on   "The   Speakership." 

Thursday,  to  Sunday,  Nov.  30-DEC.  4. — Thanks- 
giving Recess. . 

Monday  to   Friday,   Dec.    18-22. — Examinations. 

Thursday,  Dec.  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday,  Dec.   28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

The  double  windows  are  being  put  on. 

Wheeler,  '01,  is  at  his  home  in  Farmington. 

The  snow  has  left  the  campus,  but  the  mud 
remains. 

The  Seniors  in  Chemistry  have  been  kept  busy 
this  week. 

The  Sophomore-Freshman  game  will  be  played 
Saturday. 

Professor  Files  witnessed  the  Yale-Harvard 
game  Saturday. 

The  dance  in  the  Court  Room  Tuesday  night  was 
largely  attended. 

The  Alabama  Troubadours  attracted  some  of  the 
students  Monday  night. 

A  number  of  the  students  attended  the  dance  at 
Bath  last  Thursday  night. 

Yost,  '01,  who  has  been  teaching  near  Boothbay 
Harbor,  has  returned  to  college. 

Some  of  the  students  attended  the  dance  at  the 
Kennebec  Yacht  Club,   Bath,   last   Wednesday. 

D.  P.  Bangs,  '91,  was  in  Brunswick  Tuesday, 
collecting  material  for  the  new  Zeta  Psi  catalogue. 

H.  H.  Hamlin,  ex-'gS,  better  known  as  "Judgei" 
Hamlin,  will  re-enter  college  next  term,  joining  the 
Class  of  1900. 

Bell,  ipoo,  attended  the  annual  reception  given 
by  the  co-educational  section  of  Bates  College  last 
.Saturday  evening. 


The  November  Quill  appeared  Tuesday.  It  is 
an  excellent  number.  The  article  by  Thaddeus  R. 
Simonton,  '53,  is  especially  interesting. 

The  members  of  the  Deutscher  Verein  held  their 
monthly  meeting  at  New  Meadows  Inn  Monday 
evening.  The  evening  was  pleasantly  spent  in 
enjoyment  of  the  banquet  and  learning  German 
songs. 

Special  reports  in  History  4  were  due  Monday, 
and  but  for  the  fact  that  the  students  in  History  I 
are  trying  to  find  out  when  and  how  many  times 
Magna  Charta  has  been  ratified,  the  library  would 
have  assumed  its  wonted  quiet. 

The  Glee  and  Mandolin  Clubs  will  open  their 
season  Tuesday,  November  28th,  at  Gardiner. 
Twenty-five  men  will  be  taken  on  the  trip.  The 
concert  in  Memorial  Hall  will  probably  be  given 
before  Christmas,  although  the  date  is  not  yet  fixed. 

Among  the  students  at  the  Yale-Harvard  game 
were  Levensaler,  Knight.  Berry,  Wood,  R.  Clarke, 
A.  Clarke,  Spear,  Chapman,  Bodwell,  Dana,  Bacon, 
Cobb,  Clifford.  Moody,  and  Haley.  Some  of  the 
alumni  were  Fairbanks.  Pennell,  Lancey,  Kelley,  and 
Veazie. 

The  Portland  Press  says : 

BOWDOIN  DIDN'T  SHOW  UP. 

Worcester,  Mass.,  November  18. — Bowdoin  was 
scheduled  to  play  here  with  Holy  Cross  to-day,  but 
failed  to  put  in  an  appearance. 

There  was  evidently  some  misunderstanding 
between  the  managers,  as  it  was  known  here  la.st 
Friday  that  the  game  was  to  be  cancelled. 

Theta  Chapter  of  D.  K.  E.  was  represented  at 
the  annual  convention  of  the  fraternity  at  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  last  week  by  Bacon,  Bass,  Foster, 
Swett,  Appleton,  and  Watson.  The  boys  returned 
Monday  and  report  a  most  enjoyable  time.  It  was 
voted  to  establish  a  chapter  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania. 


Y.M.  C.  fl. 


Thursday  evening,  November  i6th,  was  given  up 
to  a  discussion  of  the  topic,  "Why  be  thankful? 
How  express  our  gratitude?"  I.  F.  McCormick, 
igoo,  led.  He  stated  briefly  .some  of  the  things  in 
this  life  for  which  we  all  ought  to  be  thankful,  and 
then  emphasized  the  importance  of  prayer  and  ser- 
vice for  the  Master.  There  was  an  unusually  large 
number  present.  The  time  was  well  taken  up,  and 
some  new  voices  were  heard. 

May   many   more   new   voices   be   heard   as   these 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


meetings  go  on.  Don't  be  backward  about  telling 
people  that  you  are  engaged  in  the  noblest  cause  on 
earth :  that  of  Christianity. 

Sunday  afternoon,  November  igth.  Professor 
Woodruff  spoke  on  "The  Art  of  Living."  He  cited 
Socrates  as  the  religious  leader  and  example  of  the 
Greeks,  just  as  Christ  was  of  the  Latin  races.  He 
showed  how  similar  the  teachings  of  the  two  men 
are,  and  brought  up  several  instances  in  which  the 
truths  taught  are  identically  the  same.  The  talk 
was  very  interesting  and  the  meeting  well  attended. 
Russell,  1900,  sang  a  solo. 

In  spite  of  the  many  interests  in  college  this  year, 
the  singing  class  bids  fair  to  be  a  success.  Over 
thirty  names  are  enrolled.  Those  who  let  other 
things  crowd  this  out  are  losing  a  fine  opportunity  to 
learn  to  read  music  at  sight. 


AThiLETICS. 

Tufts  17,  Bowdoin  5. 

Bowdoin  and  Tufts  played  a  second  game  on 
Wednesday,  this  time  on  the  Tufts  oval,  and  Bow- 
doin lost,  after  starting  the  game  in  a  winning  style. 
Four  minutes  after  the  Bowdoin  men  got  the  ball  on 
their  15-yard  line,  following  the  kick-off  by  Tufts, 
Gregson  had  scored.  The  Tufts  men  had  to  retreat 
straight  down  the  field.  Bowdoin  scored  without  a 
fumble  and  without  losing  the  ball.  Hopes  of  vic- 
tory surged  high  in  the  hearts  of  the  Maine  men,  and 
even  at  the  close  of  the  first  half,  though  Tufts  had 
scored,  the  victory  seemed  to  be  in  the  hands  of  the 
Bowdoin  men. 

But  Captain  Pierce  of  the  Tufts  eleven  improved 
the  opportunity  the  ten-minute  rest  gave  him  for 
making  a  few  well-chosen  remarks  to  his  men ;  and 
when  th^  lined  up  for  the  first  scrimmage  of  the 
second  half  the  Tufts  men  were  after  victory  or 
death.  They  gained,  through  our  line  and  aroijnd 
our  ends.  They  drove  us  back  as  we  had  driven 
them.  Trick  plays  directed  at  the  guards  and  ends 
netted  them  five-yard  gains  time  after  time.  Flagg 
and  Knight  scored  in  this  half.  Kempton  kicked  one 
goal. 

At  straight  foot-ball  Bowdoin  outplayed  Tufts ; 
but  the  kick  plays  used  by  the  latter  team  saved  the 
day.  The  field  was  muddy  and  slippery,  and  along 
toward  the  end  of  the  second  half  the  darkness  and 
the  fog  made  it  hard  for  one  to  tell  who  had  the  ball. 
Yates  used  excellent  judgment  in  playing  his  tricks 
as  he  did. 

In  the  second  half  Laferriere  and  Gregson 
suffered   bruises  which   forced   them   to   retire,   and. 


though  their  substitutes  played  finely,  the  loss  of  the 
stars  was  felt. 

Clarke,  Gregson,  Hunt,  and  Upton  made  the  most 
gains  for  Bowdoin.  Bodwell  was  much  in  evidence 
at  the  centre  of  the  line.  Gould  went  into  the  inter- 
ference of  the  opposing  team  like  a  runaway  loco- 
motive crashing  into  a  box  car.  The  whole  team 
played  well,  but  had  a  better  team  against  it. 

Of  the  Tufts  men,  Yates,  Knight,  .Ashley, 
Perkins,  Flagg,  and  P.  Butler  were  the  most  notice- 
able in  the  plays. 

About  300  persons  saw  the  game.  Some  twenty 
alumni  of  Bowdoin  were  on  the  field.  Teddy  Stan- 
wood  led  the  cheering.     The  summary : 

Tufts.  Bowdoin. 

Ashley,  1.  e r.  e.,  Chapman. 

Thomas,  1.  e. 

Kempton,  1.  t r.  t.,  Laferriere. 

r.  t,  Hamilton. 

J.  Butler,  1.  g r.  g.,  Cloudman. 

Gale,  c c,  Bodwell. 

Pierce,  r.  g 1.  g.,  Dunlap. 

Lamb,  r.  t 1.  t..  Hill. 

P.  Butler,  r.  e 1.  e.,  Clarke. 

Yates,  q.  b q.  b.,  Stackpole. 

Flagg,  1.  h.  b r.  h.  b.,  Gregson. 

Perkins,  r.  h.  b 1.  h.  b..  Hunt. 

■r.  h.  b.,  Gould. 
Knight,  f.  b f.  b.,  Upton. 

Score,  Tufts  17,  Bowdoin  5.  Touchdowns,  Greg- 
son, Knight  2,  Flagg.  Goals  from  touchdowns, 
Kempton  2.  Umpire,  Young.  Referee,  Stiff. 
Linesmen,  Barron  and  Spear.  Time,  20-minute 
halves. 

ANOTHER  ALL  MAINE  TEAM. 

In  response  to  the  orders  of  the  editor-in-chief, 
the  man  who  handles  this  department  takes  his  life 
in  his  hands  and  makes  out  another  all  Maine  foot- 
ball eleven.  We  have  already  had  the  pleasure  of 
looking  over  the  line-up  prepared  by  three  different 
newspapers  and  have  not  been  at  all  surprised  to 
find  the  teams  all  different.  These  imaginary  teams 
are  not  of  much  use  anyway. 

But  if  the  writer  were  to  line  up  a  Maine  team 
to  represent  the  best  the  State  affords  in  the  ranks 
of  its  college  foot-ball  men,  he  would  start  by  giving 
the  ball  to  Moody  of  Bates  and  putting  as  a  guard  on 
one  side,  Bodwell  of  Bowdoin,  and  on  the  other  side 
as  guard,  Cloudman  of  Bowdoin.  Moody  has  played 
a  strong,  steady  game  all  the  year.  Bodwell,  with 
his  230  pounds  of  weight  and  his  great  strength, 
hasn't  his  equal  on  any  team  in  the  State;  and 
Cloudman,  who  weighs  200  or  more  and  who  plays 
his  position  with  all  the  coolness  of  an  iceberg  in  its 
native  zone,  has  been  a  fit  partner  for  Bodwell  for 
three  years. 

Call  of  Bates  would  be  one  tackle,  with  Laferriere 
of  Bowdoin  the  other.     Call  made  his  reputation  last 


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year.  Laferriere  has  only  played  one  year  on  the 
'varsity,  but  in  that  time,  the  writer  can  say,  with 
authority,  that  the  Bowdoin  tackle  has  not  been  out- 
played. Harvard  made  gains  through  Laferriere  in 
the  first  game  which  he  played  on  the  'varsity,  but 
since  the  Harvard  game,  no  spot  has  been  such  a 
stumbling  block  to  opposing  backs  as  has  been  the 
place  where  Laferriere  planted  himself.  And  as  a 
runner  with  the  ball  he  has  done  brilliant  work. 
Thayer  of  Colby  would  be  the  first  substitute  for 
either  of  these  men.  Dunlap  of  Bowdoin  has  played 
only  a  game  or  two,  so  it  hardly  seems  proper  to  give 
him  a  place.     He  will  get  one  next  year. 

Bates  would  furnish  the  ends  in  Putnam  and 
Richardson,  who  are  all-around  good  men.  Saun- 
ders of  Colby  is  a  hard-working  end ;  but  his 
defensive  work  has  been  erratic  at  times.  Clarke  of 
Bowdoin  has  been  a  strong  man  this  season  in 
advancing  the  ball,  but  his  defense  has  not  been  up  to 
the  standard.  On  the  other  hand,  Chapman  of  Bow- 
doin has  been  strong  on  the  defensive,  but  his  lack 
of  avoirdupois  has  been  of  great  disadvantage  to  him 
when  his  own  team  has  had  the  ball. 

As  quarterback  would  be  Purinton  of  Bates, 
who  could  be  captain  of  this  team  if  he  would. 
There  is  no  need  of  saying  anything  in  praise  of  this 
fine  fellow  who  has  been  the  life  of  the  Bates  team. 
If  Stackpole  of  Bowdoin  had  played  more  games,  he 
might  have  been  in  Purinton's  shoes. 

For  halfbacks  A.  R.  Davis  of  the  University  of 
Maine  and  Jack  Gregson  of  Bowdoin  would  go  in  at 
the  opening  of  the  first  half.  And  between  them  as 
fullback  would  stand  Captain  Eddie  Rice  of  Colby. 

SIDELINES. 

When  the  smoke  of  battle  had  cleared  away  after 
the  engagement  on  the  Tufts  oval  Wednesday  after- 
noon. Captain  Clarke  found  that  Gregson.  Laferriere, 
Hunt,  Gould,  and  Chapman  were  suffering  from 
injuries.  Dr.  Whittier  was  in  Boston  and  he 
became  acquainted  with  the  crippled  condition  of  the 
team.  At  his  advice  Manager  Spear  cancelled  the 
game  which  Bowdoin  had  scheduled  for  Saturday 
with   Holy   Cross  at  Worcester. 

A  highly  interesting  class  game  is  looked  forward 
to  next  Saturday. 

The  game  with  the  Portland  Athletic  Club  on 
Thanksgiving  Day  is  the  only  game  which  the  Bow- 
doin team  has  before  it  now. 


WITH  APOLOGIES  TO  A  POPULAR  AIR. 
It  was  brewed  in  old  Kentucky, 

Brewed  in  very  quiet  stills ; 
There's  the  sunshine  of  the  country 

In  its  sparkle  as  it  spills. 
It  was  brewed  in  old  Kentucky, 

Take   it,   boy,   you're  mighty  lucky 
When  you're  drinking  the  moonshine  of  the  hills. 

—Ex. 


BOOK   REVIEW. 

Select  Charters  and  other  documents  illustrative 
of  American  History  (1606-1775).  William  Mac- 
Donald.     (The  Macmillan  Company.) 

A  book  by  a  member  of  Bowdoin's  alumni  or  of 
Bowdoin's  Faculty  is  always  sure  of  a  warm  wel- 
come from  Bowdoin  men ;  for  that  reason  if  for  no 
other  the  present  volume  would  excite  much  interest 
here.  But.  unless  we  are  greatly  mistaken,  the  book 
can  stand  pretty  securely  on  its  own  merits ;  it  need 
not  curry  even  the  inexorable  critics'  favor.  As 
the  companion  volume  of  Professor  MacDonald's 
earlier  work,  "  Select  Documents  Illustrative  of  the 
History  of  the  United  States"  (1776-1861),  Select 
Charters  has  a  double  value.  Although  both  books 
were  designed  primarily  for  the  class-room,  they 
prove  of  far  greater  use  and  are  invaluable  as  refer- 
ence works  to  any  one  who  pretends  to  the  least 
critical  knowledge  of  American  history.  The  period 
(1606-1775)  covered  by  Professor  MacDonald's 
latest  work  is  one  that  has  been  called  "neglected;" 
and  most  of  the  important  charters  and  frames  of 
government  here  collected  have  hitherto  been  gener- 
ally unknown.  For  that  reason  Select  Charters  is 
perhaps  of  more  value  than  the  earlier  book.  It  is 
a  self-evident  fact  that  the  compilation  of  these 
documents  requires  extreme  care  and  accuracy;  and 
the  reputation  the  author  acquired  in  those  respects 
by  his  first  volume  will  certainly  not  be  lessened  by 
his  work  in  the  second.  The  work  is  exact ;  and  in 
these  days  .exactness  is  the  mark  of  the  genuine 
historian.  In  copying  out  the  documents,  abridge- 
ment is  made  only  when  nothing  is  to  be  lost ;  as 
in  the  provisions  that  are  common  to  all  the  colonial 
charters  or  in  the  repetition  of  the  same  phrases  and 
titles.  The  book  begins  with  the  First  Charter  of 
Virginia,  April  10,  1606,  and  ends  with  an  Act  Pro- 
hibiting Trade  and  Intercourse  with  America,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1775.  Of  the  eighty  documents  included 
some  of  the  most  interesting  are  Locke's  Funda- 
mental Constitution  of  Carolina  (p.  149),  Writ  of 
Assistance   (p.  258),  and  the  Sugar  Act  (p.  272). 

While  it  might  be  thought  that  this  book  is  of 
use  only  to  those  especially,  perhaps,  technically, 
interested  in  colonial  history,  on  closer  examination 
it  will  be  seen  that  it  is  of  the  utmost  value  to  all 
who  wish  to  understand  at  all  the  progress  of  our 
political  institutions.  The  documents  are  arranged 
chronologically,  and  to  each  is  affixed  the  date  and  a 
short  historical  sketch;  so  that  the  relation  of  one 
document  to  another  can  be  readily  traced,  and  the 
work  forms  a  complete  whole.  To  many,  a  docu- 
ment, a  charter,  or  an  act  of  Parliament  suggests 
something  dry  and  legal  :  but  that  such  thoughts  are 


168 


BOWDOIN   OKIENT. 


mere  illusions  will  be  seen  by  a  very  cursory  reading 
of  this  present  volume.  The  quaint,  strong  English 
of  the  early  charters  will  appeal,  we  feel  sure,  to 
man}-  lovers  of  literature  who  have  perhaps  always 
regarded  with  horror  any  thing  in  the  shape  of  con- 
stitution or  law.  Those  who  make  a  special  study 
of  the  evolution  of  religion  will  find  much  mental 
exercise  in  tracing  the  relation  of  church  to  state  in 
the  various  colonies ;  and  antiquarians  will  find  words 
of  their  choice  in  the  archaic  Fundamental  Constitu- 
tions. Orthographists  will  look  with  dismay  on  the 
poor  spelling  of  our  Connecticut  forefathers.  Per- 
chance our  missionaries  and  others  imperialistically 
disposed  will  find  crumbs  of  comfort  in  the  precedent 
set  them  by  the  early  charters  "in  propagating  of 
Christian  Religion  to  such  People,  as  yet  live  in 
Darkness  and  miserable  Ignorance  of  the  true 
Knowledge  and  "Worship  of  God  and  may  in  time 
bring  the  Infidels  and  Savages,  living  in  those  Parts, 
to  human  Civility  and  to  a  settled  and  quiet  Govern- 
ment." 

All  these  classes  owe  Professor  MacDonald  much 
for  bringing  these  invaluable  documents  into  public 
use  in  convenient  form ;  and  he  has  surely  done  his 
part  in  treating  the  "neglected"  period  of  colonial 
history.  The  Orient  would  respectfully  suggest  that 
a  book  of  similar  character  might  be  of  great  benefit 
to  college  classes  in  English  History. 


PERSONflLS. 


The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
oo-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  Ail  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
receive^ 

Rev.  Edward  Chipman  Guild  died  in  Boston  of  a 
paralytic  shock  on  Monday  night,  November  6th.  He 
was  born  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  February  29,  1S32,  and 
came  of  good  family.  He  was  graduated  at  Har- 
vard in  1853  in  the  same  class  with  his  cousin,  Pres- 
ident Eliot,  and  at  the  Harvard  Divinity  School  in 
1857.  He  also  studied  for  some  time  in  the  Theo- 
logical School  at  Andover.  Among  the  Unitarian 
churches  of  which  he  had  charge  were  those  at 
Marietta,  O.,  Baltimore,  Md.,  Canton  and  Waltham, 
Mass.,  and  later  at  Brunswick,  "where,"  says  the 
Boston  Transcript,  "it  was  hoped  that  his  great 
power  of  influence  with  young  people  would  be  of 
great  benefit  in  the  college  town,  but  the  society  was 
small  and  poor,  and  the  church  was  finally  closed,  to 
the  regret  of  all." 


'61. — On  Thursday  evening,  November  i6th,  Mr. 
Edward  Stanwood  delivered  his  lecture  on  "Four 
Men  Who  Missed  the  Presidency,"  at  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Augusta.  The  undergraduates  will 
remember  that  this  was  the  first  in  that  delightful 
course  of  lectures  provided  by  the  college  last  winter. 

'61. — Another  of  Bowdoin's  famous  alumni  has 
passed.  General  Thomas  Worcester  Hyde  died  at 
Fort  Monroe  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  November  14th, 
at  the  age  of  58  years. 

The  facts  of  his  life  are  in  brief  as  follows :  He 
graduated  from  Chicago  University  after  leaving 
Bowdoin,  then  returned  to  Maine,  raised  a  company 
for  the  7tli  Maine  Infantry,  was  elected  Major,  and 
took  part  in  the  battles  of  Bull  Run,  Williamsburg, 
Antietam,  Mechanicsville,  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  and 
the  seven  days'  battle  in  front  of  Richmond.  Later 
he  was  appointed  inspector  general  of  the  left 
division,  armj'  of  the  Potomac,  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg,  and  was  commissioned  colonel 
of  the  1st  Maine  veteran  volunteers.  He  received 
various  other  appointments  from  the  War  Depart- 
ment, and  when  mustered  out  in  1865,  received  a 
medal  from  Congress  for  exceptional  bravery  during 
the  war. 

He  immediately  took  up  business,  and  became 
connected  with  the  ■  Bath  Iron  Works.  He  later 
purchased  the  plant  and  has,  up  to  a  short  time 
before  his  death,  acted  as  its  president.  Contracts 
have  been  made  and  completed  for  the  government 
by  General  Hyde,  for  the  construction  of  a  number 
of  vessels,  among  which  were  the  Katahdin,  Oregon, 
and  the  torpedo  boats  Dahlgren  and  Craven,  which 
have  just  been  completed.  General  Hyde  was 
elected  to  the  Maine  Senate  in  1873,  where  he  served 
three  terms,  two  as  president.  During  1876-77  he 
was  Mayor  of  Bath,  and  in  1883  he  was  appointed  by 
Congress  one  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
Soldiers'  Home. 

He  leaves  a  widow,  three  sons  and  two  daughters. 

"The  death  of  General  Hyde  is  not  only  a  blow  to 
the  commercial  and  business  interests  of  the  com- 
munity whose  life  he  so  successfully  shared,  but  to 
the  largest  interests  of  the  American  carrying  trade. 
General  Hyde  illustrated  the  fact  that  the  environ- 
ment directs  the  gifts  which  heredity  creates  and 
which  culture  develops.  The  writer  sat  on  the 
benches  of  the  recitation  rooms  at  Bowdoin  College 
for  four  years,  beside  Thomas  W.  Hyde,  and  because 
of  his  fine  aptitude  for  literary  work,  the  general 
'smoothness'  of  his  nature,  by  which  we  mean,  the 
serenity  of  his  intellect  as  well  as  the  energy  of  his 
heart,  we  predicted  for  him  a  career  at  the  bar,  or  a 
career  in  literature  such  as  scholarly  taste  might 
create.     We  say  this  not  because  young  Hyde  as  a 


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169 


student  was  a  bookworm,  for  his  intense  social 
nature  forbade  that ;  but  because  the  texture  of  his 
mind  was  so  artistic  that  it  seemed  appropriate  that 
he  should  have  been  born  in  Florence. 

But  young  Hyde  was  reared  by  tide  water,  in  a 
city  whose  traditions  are  of  ships  and  the  building 
of  ships.  When  he  left  college  his  setting  was  not 
that  of  the  Duomo  or  the  Pitti  gallery,  not  that 
of  antiquity  in  any  sense,  literary  or  social,  but  that 
of  a  town  that  wondered  whether  there  were  any 
chance  for  its  aptitude  after  wooden  ships  had  gone 
out  and  after  the  habits  of  making  them  had  partially 
absconded.  This  man  of  letters,  this  man  who  looked 
the  literateur,  settled  rapidly  into  the  work  which 
his  native  city  required.  There  was  a  gap  of  heroic 
endeavor  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  from  which  in 
the  6th  Army  Corps  the  young  man  emerged  with 
tlie  honors  of  war  on  his  shoulders. 

The  story  of  the  6th  Army  Corps  was  written 
by  General  Hyde  in  his  'Following  the  Greek  Cross,' 
— a  volume  of  high  literary  merit,  produced  amid 
the  stress  of  industrial  pressure  which  could  never 
wholly  forbid  the  pen.  The  development  of  the 
wooden  ship  into  the  steel  ship,  was  the  structural 
necessity  of  an  age  of  steel.  General  Hyde  led  in 
this  enterprise,  and  Bath  will  never  forget  the  debt 
which  it  owes  him. 

The  General's  death  is  a  loss  to  our  achievement, 
to  our  possibilities  and  to  our  prestige.  Urbanity, 
strength  of  mind,  culture  of  the  heart,  a  practical 
allied  to  an  ideal  gift,  characterized  him.  He  was 
a  wonderful  man  in  the  variety  of  his  capacity,  in 
his  gift  of  charming  and  winning,  as  well  as  in  his 
gift  of  working,  devising,  and  executing.  His  state 
in  its  latest  commercial  potential  is  his  monument." 

It  has  been  suggested  that  a  brief  account  of 
Rev.  E.  C.  Guild,  who  was  formerly  closely  con- 
nected with  the  college,  be  published  in  the  Orient. 
We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  W.  M.  Emery  of  the  Class 
of  '89  for  the  article,  who  writes :  "  Many  alumni 
of  the  last  fifteen  years  would  be  glad  to  see  an 
article  regarding  Mr.  Guild.  He  often  lectured  at 
Memorial  Hall  and  was  held  in  high  esteem  by  the 
fellows  of  my  day.     He  was  a  most  delightful  man." 

A'led.  '•]•]. — The  large  parlors  of  the  Abnaki  Club, 
of  Augusta,  have  recently  had  a  decided  acquisition 
to  their  furnishings  in  the  shape  of  three  beautiful 
pictures — the  generous  gift  of  Hon.  John  F.  Hill. 
One  of  them  is  Landseer's  beautiful  masterpiece. 
"The  Challenge" — a  magnificent  large  steel  engrav- 
ing in  a  beautiful  dark  frame.  Another  of  these 
pictures— an  artist's  proof— is  R.  Eaton  Woodville's 
spirited  picture  of  the  famous  charge  of  the 
immortal  six  hundred  at  Balaklava.  The  third 
represents     a     majestic     lion     reclining    among    the 


massive  boulders  of  a  rocky  hillside.  Taken 
together  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  three  pictures  more 
appropriate  for  such  surroundings  could  possibly 
have  been  selected,  and  the  members  of  the  club 
deeply  appreciate  the  generous  kindness  of  Dr.  Hill 
in  providing  them. 

'87. — Mr.  Austin  Gary's  address  on  "Forestry 
Management  in  Maine,"  delivered  before  the  Boston 
Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  May  10,  1899,  and  pub- 
lished in  the  Journal  of  the  Association  of  Engineer- 
ing Societies  in  August,  has  just  been  received  in 
pamphlet  form. 

'80. — Three  children  have  been  born  to  the  class 
since  the  publication  of  the  class  history  last  June. 
The  happy  fathers  are  Professor  Files,  John  M. 
Phelan  of  New  York,  and  Dr.  F.  C.  Russell  of  New- 
bury, Vt.     It  was  the  first  child  in  each  instance. 

'90. — Notice  has  been  received  of  the  recent  mar- 
riage of  George  B.   Sears,   at  Danvers,   Mass. 

'92. — Rev.  Charles  S.  Rich  of  Stockbridge,  Mass., 
delivered  an  address  before  the  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  of 
Adams,  Mass.,  on  the  occasion  of  its  tenth  anni- 
versary. While  in  Adams  he  was  the  guest  of  John 
C.  Hull,  '92,  who  is  principal  of  the  high  school  at 
that   place. 

'99. — Adams,  who  has  been  very  ill  at  his  home 
in  Limerick,  is  reported  much  better. 


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Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,   DECEMBER   7,  1899. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXrX.,  No.  19.— December  7,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes       171 

Calendar 174 

College  News      17.5 

Athletics 170 

Personals 177 

In  Memoriam 178 

This  and  the  next  two  weeks  are  busy  times 
at  the  students"  desks.  Foot-ball,  glee  and 
mandolin  clubs  rehearsals,  and  various  other 
interests  have  tended  to  keep  the  pages  of  text- 
books far  too  fresh  and  unsoiled  by  busy 
fingers ;  but  now  a  grand  hustle  is  the  para- 
mount characteristic  of  the  campus.  It  would 
seem  too  bad  for  a  man  to  neglect  his  time  from 


now  on ;  since  diligence  can  retrieve  his 
deficiencies  in  the  term's  work  and  make  pos- 
silile  a  high  and  commendable  mark  for  the 
term's  standing.  After  all  this  is  what  we  are 
here  for — to  study  and  learn,  and  it  is  indeed 
paradoxical  and  regretable  that  so  many  col- 
lege students  are  not  students  at  all,  but  simply 
drift-wood — but  caught  happily  by  the  ebb 
tide  of  the  last  few  weeks  and  jostled  along 
sufficiently  to  keep  them  in  and  with  the 
advancing  current.  The  few  remaining  days 
are  all  that  are  left  to  prepare  for  the  exams, 
so  don't  fail  to  value  the  fleeting  moments  as 
extremely  precious. 


The  student  body  hardly  realizes  the  vigor 
and  enthusiasm  of  the  Alumni  Associations 
which  still  remember  Bowdoin  from  their 
various  locations  in  both  the  East  and  the  West. 
Perhaps  one  of  the  best  known  and  strongest  is 
the  Boston  Association,  composed  of  men 
who  have  earned  their  A.B.  from  before  the 
war,  down  to  college  mates  of  last  year. 
These  'staunch  friends  of  Bowdoin  meet  at 
regular  intervals  during  the  winter  and 
informally  discuss  and  comment  upon  Bow- 
doin and  her  interests;  they  rejoice  and  cele- 
brate her  victories,  and  they  weep  and  sorrow 
for  her  defeats,  be  they  athletic,  social  or 
literary.  Their  loyalty  and  college  spirit  is 
so  earnest  that  you  might  think  for  a  moment 
that  you  were  on  the  Bowdoin  campus  among 
under-graduates,  and  the  eagerness  with 
which  they  inquire  of  college  affairs  would 
make  you  feel  ashamed  of  your  own  indiffer- 
ence and  lethargy. 

It  would  be  a  very  good  thing  for  the 
undergraduates  to  get  in  touch  with  the  col- 
lege alumni ;  to  know  more  of  them  personally, 
and  to  consider  them  in  athletic,  social  and 
literary   policies.     They   will   gladly  help   the 


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college  organizations  to  stand  on  a  par  with 
such  interests  in  other  institutions ;  and  their 
backing  might  be  more  substantial  than 
encouragement  and  suggestions  if  we  once 
made  a  place  for  them  in  shaping  our  plans. 
Bowdoin  is  rather  limited  in  her  numbers 
and  hampered  from  lack  of  funds ;  perhaps 
more  so  than  any  of  the  colleges  with  which 
we  meet  out  of  the  State.  It  is  impossible  to 
completely  counterbalance  this  disadvantage ; 
but  a  great  deal  can  be  done  towards  this  if 
the  undergraduates  and  alumni  pull  together. 
The  fellows  must  look  at  things  from  the 
alumnus  point  of  view  as  well  as  the  students' ; 
so  make  the  Boston  Glee  Club  concert  a  splen- 
did success ;  place  athletic  contests  about  Bos- 
ton on  a  par  with  the  State's  contests  in 
importance ;  call  on  the  alumni  and  invite 
suggestions  and  criticism ;  do  all  these  and 
more  too,  then  and  only  then  will  college 
affairs  be  supported  and  backed  to  a  degree 
that  will  reap  thorough  success. 


The  Minstrel  Show  unfolds  apace,  and 
rehearsals  are  prophetic  of  an  unusual,  novel, 
and  delightful  evening  in  store  for  us  some- 
time about  the  third  week  of  the  coming  term. 
The  program  will  be  composed  of  a  grand  first 
part,  specialties,  and  a  farce,  followe,d  by  a 
hop.  The  music,  jokes  and  comedy  sketches 
are  all  new  and  catchy;  while  labor  and 
expense,  without  limit  are  being  put  into  the 
costumes  and  stage  settings.  The  hop  is  to 
be  one  of  the  special  attractions  of  the  evening, 
for  it  has  been  decided  to  make  much  more  of 
it  than  an  informal  dance. 


The  Athletic  Association  has  got  into  an 
embarrassment  through  its  finances  that 
demands  immediate  and  thoughtful  action. 
A  debt  has  stolen  upon  us  during  the  last  half- 
dozen  foot-ball  seasons  that  to-day  has 
reached  so  startling  a  magnitude  as  to 
threaten  the  existence  of  a  'varsity  team  next 
season  unless  it  is  at  once  wiped  off  the  sheet 
of  the  account  books  to  a  cent. 

Our    creditors,    who    are    principally    two 


different  athletic  suppliers,  deserve  to  be  paid 
at  once,  which  is  only  business,  while  we  as  a 
college  cannot  afford  to  earn  this  reputation  of 
negligence  and  indifference.  It  is  not  fair  to 
those  who  value  the  good  name  of  the  college, 
nor  just  to  our  creditors,  nor  encouraging  to 
our  Alumni.  It  will  deprive  us  of  credit,  and 
that  very  likely  as  early  as  next  year  if  left 
unattended.  It  will  so  burden  us  in  coming 
days  as  to  kill  athletics  entii'ely.  It  will  pre- 
vent successful  seasons  as  long  as  it  thus 
threatens  to  force  the  disbandonments  ■  of 
teams.  And  it  will  discourage  sub-Freshmen 
of  athletic  inclinations  from  attending  a  col- 
lege with  such  an  unstable  financial  basis. 

The  fault  lies  partly  with  the  constitution 
of  the  association,  which  does  not  furnish  any 
check  to  the  possibility  of  accumulating  debts, 
and  partly  to  the  grand  and  generous  scale 
with  which  we  hire  coaches,  schedule  games 
and  order  paraphernalia.  The  only  remedy 
for  this  continual  indebtedness  is  to  revise  the 
Constitution  so  that  a  limit  of  an  iron-clad 
nature  stands  in  the  way ;  to  be  sure  it  means 
economizing,  and  perhaps  to  a  great  extent, 
but  this  indebtedness  must  be  stopped  now 
and  forever,  and  the  present  debt  must  be 
paid. 

The  students,  if  they  but  realize  the  serious 
significance  of  our  present  position,  surely  will 
subscribe  generously  to  the  removal  of  the 
Association's  burdens,  and  thus  enable  ath- 
letics to  show  a  clean  balance  sheet  for  the 
beginning  of  a  new  century.  After  this  the 
constitution  should  be  considered,  and  revised 
to  the  impossibility  of  again  getting  into  the 
present  financial  straits.  The  present  consti-. 
tution  is  herewith  published  for  the  benefit  of 
the  majority  of  the  men  to  whom  its  phrasing 
is  unknown,  and  the  Orient  trusts  that  its 
apparent  defects  will  awaken  the  fellows  to  a 
much  needed  revision  of  its  articles  and  sec- 
tions : 

Article  I. 
This  committee  shall   he  known  as  the  Bowdoin 
Athletic  Committee. 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


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Article  II. 

Section  i.  This  committee  shall  consist  of  nine 
members  as  follows :  The  Gymnasium  Instructor 
and  one  other  member  of  the  Faculty,  two  members 
of  the  Alumni,  two  Seniors,  two  Juniors,  and  one 
Sophomore. 

Sec.  2.  The  members  of  the  committee  shall  be 
elected  during  the  spring  term  of  each  year,  by  the 
bodies  that  they  represent,  and  shall  hold  ofHce  from 
Commencement  to  Commencement. 

Sec.  3.  The  committee  shall  meet  at  least  four 
times  a  year,  viz.,  at  the  beginning  of  the  fall  and 
winter  terms,  and  at  the  end  of  the  winter  and  spring 
terms. 

Article  III. 

Section  i.  The  committee  shall  have  power  to 
frame  its  own  by-laws. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  have  power  to  advise  the  heads 
of  the  different  athletic  departments. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  nominate  two  candidates  for 
manager  of  each  association,  from  whom  a  choice 
■imist  be  made  by  the  electing  body. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  elect  a  graduate  treasurer,  also  a 
collector  for  each  association. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  elect  an  auditor  from  its  number 
who  shall  hold  no  other  office. 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  elect  a  member  to  take  in  charge 
all  uniforms  belonging  to  the  athletic  associations. 

Sec.  7.  It  shall  determine  how  any  surplus, 
granted  by  the  Athletic  Association,  or  any  sum 
raised  for  the  benefit  of  general  athletics  shall  be 
expended. 

Sec.  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  committee  to 
hold  a  special  meeting  at?  the  rquest  of  any  manager, 
indorsed  by  two  members  of  the  committee,  at  which 
it  shall  advise  him  on  questions  presented,  and  in 
case  of  disapproval  of  a  manager's  policy  the  com- 
mittee shall  have  the  power  to  instruct  his  associate 
directors  in  their  findings. 

Article  IV. 

Section  i.  The  graduate  treasurer  shall  receive 
and  have  charge  of  all  money  accruing  to  each  asso- 
ciation from  all  sources,  and  shall  pay  out  to  each 
manager,  upon  the  order  of  his'  associate  directors, 
any  sums  the  amount  of  which  does  not  exceed  the 
amount  credited  to  that  association.  He  shall  hold 
the  original  subscription  lists,  copies  of  which  shall 
lie  given  to  the  collectors. 

Sec.  2.  Each  collector  shall  perform  all  duties 
heretofore  devolving  upon  the  treasurer  of  his  asso- 
ciation, except  wherein  these  conflict  with  the  duties 
of   the   graduate   treasurer. 

Sec.  3.  The  auditor  shall  examine  the  accounts 
of  the  treasurer,  at  least  once  a  term,  and  report  to 
the  committee. 


Silc.  4.  The  guardian  of  the  uniforms  shall  keep 
a  record  of  all  uniforms.  He  shall  collect  them  all 
at  the  end  of  each  season  and  keep  them  unused  and 
properly  cared  for  till  the  beginning  of  the  next 
season. 

Article  V. 

Section  i.  Membership  on  committee  does  not 
exclude  from  candidacy  to  a  managership,  but  elec- 
tion of  a  member  to  managership,  necessities  resig- 
nation from  the  committee. 

Sec.  2.  The  body  which  in  any  way  loses  its 
representative  shall  elect  another  to  the  vacant  place. 

Article  VI. 

Section  i.  This  constitution  may  be  accepted  by 
a  two-thirds  vote  of  a  meeting  of  ninety  students. 

Sec.  2.  This  constitution  may  be  amended  by  a 
two-thirds  vote  of  a  meeting  of  one  hundred  and 
twenty  students. 


LECTURE  BY  THE  HON.  DeALVA  S. 
ALEXANDER. 
The  first  in  the  series  of  public  lectures 
under  the  auspices  of  the  college  was  given 
in  Memorial  Hall  on  the  evening  of  Novem- 
ber 28th,  by  the  Hon.  DeAlva  Stanwood 
Alexander,  on  the  Speakership.  Mr.  Alexan- 
der is  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin,  the  Class  of  '70, 
resides  in  Buffalo,  and  is  a  Congressman  from 
that  district — Western  New  York.  Mr. 
Alexander  was  introduced  by  President  Hyde 
as  one  of  the  few  members  of  the  Class  of  '70 
who  lives  in  Buffalo  and  had  distinguished 
themselves  in  New  York  State.  The  speaker 
got  a  hearty  reception.  He  began  by  saying 
that  he  had  just  entered  on  his  second  term 
in  Congress  and  had  appeared  before  the  audi- 
ence as  a  Sophomore.  He  immediately 
entered  his  subject — the  powers  and  responsi- 
bilities of  the  Speaker.  Perhaps  the  Speakers 
one  soonest  calls  up  are  Clay,  Blaine  and  Col- 
fax. And  Reed — sarcastic,  arbitrary,  but 
tremendously  able.  He  had  the  power  of 
bearding  his  opponents  with  some  sharp,  bit- 
ing phrase,  and  of  turning  ridicule  on  any  one 
who  attacked  him  by  some  witty,  caustic 
repartee.  Mr.  Alexander  here  told  some 
excellent  stories  of  these  characteristic  replies 
of  Mr.  Reed.  Once  when  Mr.  Springer 
quoted    Clay,    "T    had    rather    be    right    than 


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President,"  the  Speaker  quietly  said — "You'll 
never  be  either."  As  another  example  of 
Reed's  wit :  Mr.  Alexander  said  that  once 
a  Vermont  farmer,  introduced  to  Mr.  Reed, 
who  was  standing  in  a  group  of  Senators, 
said,  "I've  heard  tell  that  you  aire  a  great 
speaker — can  speak  steadily  for  six  hours," 
to  which  Mr.  Reed  replied,  "  My  good  sir,  you 
mistake  me  for  a  Senator." 

Of  the  33  speakers  only  a  few  are  well- 
known  ;  only  one,  Polk,  has  become  President, 
only  three  candidates  for  the  Presidency,  Clay, 
Bell,  Blaine,  only  one  Vice-President,  Colfax. 
The  Speaker  is  the  factotum  of  all  the  Plouse 
and  sometimes  seems  but  its  mere  servant. 
As  an  illustration  of  this  phase  of  the  speaker- 
ship, Mr.  Alexander  told  inimitably  the  stor}' 
of  the  coon  and  his  stolen  'possum,  the  lecturer 
giving  the  negro  dialect,  admirably.  Mr. 
Alexander  then  went  on  to  discuss  the  power 
of  the  Speaker  whicli  emanated,  he  said,  from 
his  right  to  name  committees,  to  appoint  the 
temporary  Speaker  and  the  chairman  of  the 
committee  of  the  whole,  to  refer  bills  to  the 
proper  committees,  and  to  recognize  members 
on  the  floor.  One  of  the  most  important 
powers  of  the  Speaker  is  that  of  appointing 
the  Committee  on  Rules ;  the  power  is  as  old 
as  the  House,  but  it  was  not  until  quite 
recently  that  the  Speaker  was  a  member  c.v 
officio.  By  this  power  in  the  53d  Congress, 
Reed  killed  the  obstructionists. 

The  right  to  recognize  members  did  not 
become  of  importance  until  Speaker  Reed's 
time  in  the  51st  Congress.  For  his  failure  to 
recognize  members  introducing  private  bills 
and  for  calling  on  the  chairman  of  the  Ways 
and  Means  Committee,  Mr.  Reed  was 
branded  by  the  opposition  papers  as  Czar, 
Autocrat,  Tyrant.  But  such  power  of  recog- 
nition was  absolutely  necessary,  inasmuch  as 
over  3,000  bills  are  introduced  each  session ; 
of  these  25  are  very  important,  such  as  River 
and  Harbor  and  Appropriation  Bills ;  300 
belong  to  the  second  class  in  charge  of  com- 
mittees on  judiciary,  foreign  relations  and  the 
like ;   some   2,000  are   private  bills,   many   of 


them  pensions ;  and  the  remaining  600  come 
under  the  name  of  "job,"  or  miscellaneous 
title.  Mr.  Alexander  vigorously  defended 
Reed's  course  in  recognizing  members,  saying 
that  it  was  absolutely  essential  to  any  legisla- 
tive progress  at  all  that  some  system  be  used 
in  passing  the  various  bills. 

Perhaps  the  greatest  reform  carried  out 
by  Reed  was  that  of  his  famed  ruling,  "Those 
present  and  not  voting  shall  be  counted  in  the 
affirmative."  Several  times  this  question  had 
been  brought  up,  but  none  of  tlie  previous 
Speakers  had  had  the  courage  to  adopt  such 
a  revolutionary  pi^oposal.  Thomas  B.  Reed 
was  the  first  Speaker  of  a  century  to  say  that 
a  man  who  was  here  was  present.  It  took 
courage  to  introduce  the  reform ;  but  courage 
was  a  quality  which  Mr.  Reed  never  lacked. 
Mr.  Alexander  closed  his  lecture  with  a  glow- 
ing tribute  to  Thomas  B.  Reed,  declaring  that 
as  Clay  was  the  greatest  Speaker  before  the 
war,  so  Reed  was  the  ablest  since;  and  that 
he  would  be  known  far  and  wide  not  only  as 
the  Speaker,  but  as  a  distinguished  alumnus 
of  Bowdoin  College. 

It  is  impossible  to  reproduce  in  this 
unsatisfactory  abstract  anything  like  the  inter- 
est Mr.  Alexander  infused  into  his  lecture ;  it 
was  full  of  bright  stories,  historical  anecdotes, 
and  acute  observations.  The  lecturer  was 
often  interrupted  with  applause,  particularly 
when  he  spoke  of  Reed ;  and  at  the  close  he 
was  given  a  generous  share  of  applause. 


CALENDAR. 

A'loNDAY  to  Friday,  Dec.   18-22. — Examinations. 
Thursday,  Dec.  21, — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tions. 

Thursday-,  Dec.  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


The  Theocritus  Clitb  met  with  Professor  Smith 
Alonday  evening.  November  1,3th,  and,  besides 
enjoying  a  Welsh  rarebit,  translated  some  of  the 
idyls  of  this  first  and  greatest  of  the  pastoral  writers. 
The  few  students  who  are  thus  privileged,  feel  deeply 
indebted  to  Professor  Smith  for  affording  them  such 
an  opportunity. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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'TWAS  EVER  THUS. 
In  days  of  old  when  the  gods  of  Greece 

Did  drink  their  golden  wine, 
'Twas  Phosbe  poured  it  forth  with  ease 

And  grace  and  looks  divine ; 
Now  the  gallant  gods  did  vow  and  swear 

(As  they  watched  Achilles  and  Hector), 
That  she  was  the  fairest  of  cup-bearers  fair. 

And  they  winked  for  a  nip  of  nectar. 

In  later  days  our  jolly  old  sires, 

While  quaffing  their  famous  ale, 
Did  talk  and  spark,  by  open  fires. 

With  the  barmaid  pretty  and  hale. 
They  sipped  and  smoked  and  swore,  "O,  La, 

War  taxes  mean  such  a  big  sum !" 
Yet  they  jollied  the  girl  behind  the  bar. 

And  winked  for  their  bottle  of  rum. 

In  the  present  day,  our  grandsh"es  say, 

As  over  their  grog  they  sit, 
"The  youth's  not  so  bold  nor  the  girls  so  gay," 

The  gods  murmur  gently,   "Nit." 
But  we  have  barmaids  e'en  fairer,  I  thinlc, 

Than  she  on  Olympic's  mountain. 
Our  sires !     Please  notice  that  we  still  wink 

At  the  girl  at  the  soda  fountain. 

— K.  C.  M.  S.,  'oi. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Tlie  Freshmen  in  Latin  i  are  busy  with  Momm- 
sen. 

The  Senior  and  Junior  Greek  Class  is  reciting  in 
the  Library. 

Professor  Chapman  gave  his  lecture  on  Robert 
Burns  in  Bangor,  Monday  evening. 

The  recital  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill  Tuesday 
evening  was  enjoyed  by  many  of  the  students. 

The  students  came  straggling  back  from  their 
Thanksgiving  recess  Sunday,  Monday,  and  Tuesday. 

R.  S.  Emrich,  igoo,  was  elected  manager  of  the 
tennis  department  of  the  Bates  Athletic  Association 
last  week. 

Juniors  in  Literature  4  are  struggling  with 
Romanticism,  its  definition  and  appearance  in  the 
earlier  writings  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

Many  of  the  students  availed  themselves  of  the 
opportunity  afforded  by  the  Saturday  Club  of  Bruns- 
wick to  hear  the  reading  of  F.  Hopkinson  Smith. 

The  Junior  Chemistry  class  are  enjoying  work  in 
the  Laboratory.  The  neglect  of  one  member  to  put 
his  charcoal  in  the  proper  box  occasioned  a  slight 
blaze  and  some  excitement  last  Friday. 


Max  O'Rell,  the  famous  French  writer,  will  lect- 
ure before  the  Saturday  Club  January  25th,  in  place 
of  William  D.  Howells,  who  is  unable  to  fulfil  his 
engagement. 

Selden  O.  Martin,  igoo,  who  went  to  Colorado 
two  years  ago  on  account  of  serious  lung  trouble, 
has  regained  his  health  and  hopes  to  return  to  his 
home  in  Foxcroft  the  coming  summer,  and  may  be 
able  to  resume  his  college  course. 

The  History  Club,  composed  of  Professor  Mac- 
Donald  and  some  of  the  students  taking  History,  were 
entertained  by  Wheeler  and  Snow  Tuesday  evening, 
November  14th.  Warren  read  a  paper  on  the  tariff 
applied  to  our  new  possessions,  particularly  Cuba, 
and  a  general  discussion  followed. 

The  general  athletic  committee,  which  supervises 
all  branches  of  the  college  athletics,  has  been  organ- 
ized for  the  ensuing  year  as  follows :  President, 
Charles  T.  Hawes  of  Bangor ;  secretary,  D.  F.  Snow, 
'01,  of  Bangor;  auditor,  Albert  L.  Burrill,  '00,  of 
Woodfords;  graduate  treasurer,  Professor  Moody  of 
Brunswick. 

Mr.  Coffin,  who  supplies  many  customers  in 
Brunswick  with  spring  water  and  ice,  is  now  supply- 
ing his  customers  with  ice  five  inches  thick  frozen 
this  fall.  Every  fall  a  cold  wave  from  north-east 
to  south-west  passes  over  this  spring  water  ice 
pond.  This  cold  wave  is  noticed  at  intervals  oppo- 
site Cow  Island,  and  extends  west  of  Maquoit  road. 
In  other  places  in  this  vicinity  no  ice  has  yet  been 
made  over  three-fourths  of  an  inch  in  thickness. 
Scientists  cannot  explain  this  phenomenon. 

Rules — Speaker,  Cowan,  A.  F.,  and  Walker,  '01. 

Wavs  and  Means — Beadle,  Eastman,  Beane, 
McCarty,  and  Bell. 

Appropriations — Wheeler.  Walker,  '02,  Willey, 
Lee,  and  Smith,  C.  W. 

Foreign  Affairs — Stackpole,  Ward,  Marshall, 
Hamlin,  and  Randall. 

Navy — Giles,  Wing,  Clough. 

The  meetings  are  held  every  Wednesday  evening, 
and  are  both  instructive  and  enjoyable. 

The  House  of  Representatives  is  now  in  good 
running  order.  Committees  have  been  appointed. 
Bills  have  been  introduced.  A  bill  providing  for  the 
annexation  of  Cuba  has  been  passed  and  the  motion 
to  reconsider  the  vote  by  which  the  bill  was  passed 
has  been  laid  on  the  table.  The  Populists  have  begun 
to  claim  their  share  as  holders  of  the  balance  of 
power,  and  the  Republican  and  Democratic  leaders 
have  exchanged  compliments.  Speaker  Babb  reported 
the  following  assignments  to  committees  : 

About  30  members  of  the  Bowdoin  Club  of  Bos- 
ton  met   at   the   Copley   Square   Hotel   recently   and 


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discussed  matters  of  interest  to  Bowdoin  College. 
Athletics  was  the  special  theme  of  the  gathering, 
which  was  presided  over  by  George  M.  Whitaker, 
the  president  of  the  club.  The  guest  of  the  evening 
was  F.  N.  Whittier,  M.D.  He  gave  an  interesting 
address  on  the  athletic  situation,  and  suggested  many 
improvements.  He  believed  in  the  policy  of  having 
graduate  coaches  for  the  athletic  teams,  and  he 
wanted  to  see  more  enthusiasm  and  college  spirit  at 
the  athletic  contests  with  other  colleges.  Two  other 
guests,  who  had  been  invited  to  speak,  Frederick  E. 
Parker,  M.D.,  director  of  the  Lyman  gymnasium  of 
Brown  University,  and  F.  J,  Crolius,  Dartmouth,  '99, 
the  foot-ball  coach  at  Bowdoin,  were  unable  to  be 
present.  It  was  announced  that  the  Bowdoin  Glee 
Club  would  give  a  concert  in  Boston  early  in  Febru- 
ary, the  day  preceding  the  annual  dinner  of  the 
Alumni  Association. 


ATIiLETICS. 


1902,  II ;  1903,  o. 

The  annual  Sophomore-Freshman  class  game  was 
played  on  the  Whittier  Athletic  Field  on  Saturday, 
November  2Sth.  The  Sohpomores  won  by  a  score 
of  II  to  o.  The  game  was  hotly  contested.  In  the 
second  half  there  was  no  scoring. 

Long  end  runs  by  Hunt  and  Giles,  and  good 
punting  by  Upton,  gained  nearly  all  the  ground  for 
1902.  The  Freshmen  lacked  a  punter,  their  backs 
couldn't  get  around  the  ends  and  only  once  did  the 
Freshmen  make  a  S-yard  gain.  This  time  Dunlap 
made  his  distance  on  a  criss-cross. 

Upton  scored  the  first  touchdown  through  the 
centre.  Giles  made  an  end  run  for  the  other  touch- 
down.    Upton  kicked  one  goal. 

The  result  of  the  game  was  not  a  surprise,  since 
the  1902  eleven  is  one  of  the  strongest  class  teams 
the  college  ever  had.  Hunt,  Giles,  Upton,  Kelley, 
Webb,  Hamilton,  and  Bellatty  have  had  experience 
as  players  on  the  first  eleven,  and  the  men  who  were 
with  them  are  made  of  good  stuff.  There  wasn't  a 
weak  spot  in  the  team. 

For  the  Freshmen  Dunlap,  Soule,  and  Marshall 
did  the  heaviest  part  of  the  work  in  the  line.  J. 
Webber,  Conners,  and  Nutter  did  well.  Conners 
broke  interference  effectively.  At  times  the  1903 
line  held  like  a  stone-wall. 

The  line-up  and  summary: 

I902-  1903. 

llPSS.  1-  e r.  e.,  Dana. 

Kfley.   1-   t r.    t.,    Soule. 

y^'^bb,  1.   g r.   g._   Shaw. 

Hoyt,   c c.,    Preble. 


Barker,  r.  g 1.  g.,  Marshall. 

Hamilton,  r.  t L  t.,  Dunlap. 

Bellatty,  r.   e 1.  e.,   Shaughnessy. 

Walker,  q.  b q.  b,,  H.  Webber. 

Giles,  1.  h.  b r.  h.  b.,  J.  Webber. 

Hunt,  r.  h.-  b 1.  h.  b.,  Conners,  Nutter. 

Upton,  f.  b f.  b.,  Towne,  Conners. 

Score.  igo2,  11.  Touchdowns,  Upton,  Giles. 
Goal  from  touchdown,  Upton.  Referee  and  umpire, 
Clarke,  1900:  Bodwell,  1901.  Linesmen,  Eastman, 
1902;  J.  Mitchell,  1903.  Timers,  Gibson,  1902; 
Pearl,   1903.     Time,  20  and  15-minute  halves. 

P.  A.  C.  5,  Bowdoin  o. 
At  the  Deering  grounds,  Thursday  morning,  the 
eleven  of  the  Portland  Athletic  Club  defeated  Bow- 
doin 'varsity  by  a  score  of  5  to  o,  in  a  desperately 
fought  game,  the  fastest  foot-ball  seen  in  Portland 
this  season. 

In  a  slough  of  mud,  and  for  Bowdoin  a  slough 
of  despond,  the  teams  strove  mightily  for  the  pig- 
skin championship  of  Maine,  Two  thousand  specta- 
tors shouted  lustily  for  their  respective  favorites. 
The  air  was  crisp  and  bracing  and  weather  condi- 
tions ideal. 

The  abominably  slippery  condition  of  the  field 
precluded  clean  handling  of  the  ball  or  speedy  run- 
ning. Both  teams  resorted  largely  to  end  plays  and 
punting. 

In  the  latter  department  of  the  game  Halliday 
excelled  Donnell.  On  several  occasions  Portland 
used  the  fake  kick,  delayed  pass  and  quarter-back 
criss-cross  for  gains  of  10  or  15  yards. 

That  Bowdoin  lost  was  no  discredit  to  her.  She 
outplayed  Portland  in  the  first  half,  keeping  the  ball 
in  her  territory  the  greater  part  of  the  time.  Fickett 
was  an  especially  vulnerable  point,  and  after  he  had 
been  repeatedly  pushed  aside  for  substantial  gains. 
Coombs  was  moved  in  to  guard  and  Dorticos,  most 
enthusiastically  received,  went  to  right  tackle.  An 
increased  stiffness  in  Portland's  line  was  at  once 
manifest,  subsequent  Bowdoin  changes  yielding  little 
gain. 

During  the  first  half  Hal  Hunt  executed  a  dash 
which  paralyzed  Portland  hearts  and  made  the  Bow- 
doin contingent  shriek  with  ecstatic  glee.  Perry 
was  drawn  in  by  a  delayed  pass  and  Hunt,  shaking 
oft'  several  would-be  tacklers,  shot  by  left  end  for  a 
70-yard  run  and  touchdown.  Every  one  supposed 
that  Portland's  spotless  record  had  at  last  been 
smirched  when  the  referee  announced  that  Hunt  had 
gone  out  of  bounds,  almost  at  the  outstart  of  his 
run,  and  the  ball  was  brought  back  to  its  position 
at  the  previous  play.  During  the  rest  of  the  first 
half  the  ball  vacillated  up  and  down  the  field,  rest- 
ing on  Bowdoin's  60-yard  line  when  the  whistle 
blew. 

The  second  half  wore  on  with  neither  team  able 


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to  approach  the  enemy's  goal  until  it  seemed  that 
'98's  scoreless  game  might  be  duplicated.  Then, 
with  five  minutes  to  play,  Portland  awoke  to  desper- 
ate endeavor. 

A  blocked  kick,  quarterback  criss-cross  and  fake 
kick,  placed  the  ball  on  Bowdoin's  14-yard  line. 
Twice  Halliday  pierced  right  tackle  for  short  gains 
and  then  Coombs,  Portland's  star  line  bucker,  was 
set  to  work.  Twice  he  lunged  with  irresistible  force 
and  each  time  made  his  length.  The  coveted  touch- 
down was  still  two  yards  away  and  on  the  next  play 
Chapman,  backed  by  the  entire  Portland  team,  wrig- 
gled across  the  line.  Halliday  failed  at  goal  and 
Portland  led  by  a  score  of  5  to  o.  She  had  won 
the  game. 

Sullivan  ran  his  team  well  and  rushed  the  ball 
effectively.  Dorticos  made  some  of  his  familiar  fly- 
ing tackles  and  got  into  every  play.  Dyer  played 
a  star  defensive  game  and  clearly  outpointed  his 
man. 

Captain  Clarke  was  the  Bowdoin  star,  pie 
tackled  like  a  fiend,  interfered  strongly  and  was 
everywhere  on  the  field.  Hunt  played  a  strong, 
dashing  game  and  Hamilton  played  horse  with 
Fickett. 

The  line-up  and  summary: 

p.    A.    C.  BOWDOIN. 

Perry,   I.    e r.    e.,    Bellatty. 

Stockbridge,   1.   t r.   t.,   Kelley. 

Dyer,  1.  g r.  g.,  Dunlap. 

Smith,    c c,    Bodwell. 

Fickett,    (Coombs),   r.  g 1.  g.,   Hamilton. 

Coombs,    (Dorticos),   r.   t 1.   t..   Hill. 

Lamb,    r.    e I.    e.,    Clark. 

Sullivan,  q.  b q.  b.,  Stackpole. 

Chapman,  1.  h.  b 1.  h.  b.,  Gregson. 

Kelley,  r.  h.  b r.  h.  b..  Hunt. 

Halliday,  f.  b f.  b.,  Donnell. 

Score,  Portland  Athletic  Club,  5 ;  Bowdoin,  o. 
Touchdown,  Chapman.  Umpire,  Purington  of 
Bates.  Referee,  Wilson  of  Portland.  Linesmen, 
Webb  of  Portland  and  Eastman  of  Bowdoin. 
Timers,  Clark  of  Portland  and  Dana  of  Bowdoin. 
Time,  25  and  20-minute  halves. 

Side  Lines. 

Bowdoin  need  feel  no  disgrace  because  of  being 
beaten  by  the  Portland  Athletic  Club,  which  is 
unquestionably  the  strongest  team  in  the  State.  The 
Bowdoin  men  surprised  their  opponents,  who  had 
looked  forward  to  an  easy  victory. 

Portland  gained  nearly  all  her  ground  in  the 
Thanksgiving  day  game  on  punting  and  trick  plays. 
The  best  of  these  was  a  quarterbafk  end  run 
developing  out  of  a  centre  back.  The  Bowdoin  line 
held  sturdily. 

Hamilton  did  especially  good  defensive  work  in 
the  Portland  game.  It  is  not  often  that  a  guard 
shows  up  so  prominently  in  a  game. 


Bodwell  added  to  his  reputation  by  his  playing  on 
Thursday. 

Chapman,  the  Portland  halfback,  was  the  star  of 
the  winning  team  in  the  Tlianksgiving  day  game. 
He  is  an  old  Bowdoin  man. 

One  representative  of  190.3  has  earned  a  place 
on  the  'varsity  eleven.  Dunlap  is  the  man.  His 
work  has  been  highly  praiseworthy.  At  guard  or 
tackle  he  is  a  valuable  player. 


PERSONALS. 


The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'^^. — Two  scholarships  in  Bowdoin  College  have 
been  provided  for  in  the  will  of  Rev.  Dr.  John  Pike 
of  Rowley,  JVIass.,  who  was  long  an  overseer  of  the 
college.  The  scholarships  are  to  be  named  respect- 
ively after  Samuel  Adams,  the  patriot,  and  the 
testator  himself.  It  is  noted  that  the  class  of  '33 
was  dubbed  the  ministerial  class,  because  60  per 
cent,  of  its  members  took  to  the  pulpit.  It  has 
founded  more  scholarships  than  any  other  Bowdoin 
class,  and  this  is  remarkable  because  the  ministry  is 
not  a  notably  wealthy  profession. 

'52. — The  appointment  of  collector  of  the  port 
of  Portland  has  been  a  topic  of  much  interest  during 
the  few  weeks  previous  to  the  opening  of  Congress. 

The  support  which  General  Chamberlain  is 
receiving  in  Portland  is  something  remarkable,  con- 
sidering that  there  are  several  prominent  candidates 
in  that  city. 

iNlost  of  the  great  importing  and  mercantile 
houses  on  Commercial  Street,  and  a  good  portion  of 
the  large  ship  owners  and  business  men  in  the  city; 
five  or  six  of  the  principal  Banlc  Presidents,  the  lead- 
ing men  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  the  principal  officers 
of  the  Maine  Central  Railroad,  the  Judges  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  and  many  prominent  lawyers  and 
professional  men;  members  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  the 
department  commanders  of  the  Grand  Army,  and, 
what  is  a  little  remarkable,  some  of  the  recognized 
political  leaders  of  the  Republican  party  who  have 
been  supposed  to  be  not  very  friendly  to  men  of  the 
General's  independence  of  spirit,  are  among  his 
active  supporters. 

"  In  his  declining  years,  when  the  cares  and 
burdens  of  life  press  heavily  upon  him,  when  proper 
aid  which  can  be  manfully  accepted  will  be  most  wel- 
come, he  asks  his  country  to  bestow  upon  him  the 
honorable  position  of  collector  of  the  port  of  Port- 


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land.  The  honor  he  has  doubly  earned,  and  the 
compensation  will  come  to  him  as  a  great  blessing 
and  benefaction." 

'60. — Dr.  George  Gary  died  at  his  home  in  Houl- 
ton,  Me.,  November  29th.  He  was  born  in  Houlton, 
August  29,  1837,  the  son  of  Shepard  Gary,  represen- 
tative in  the  28th  Gongress.  Dr.  Gary  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  and  academy  of  his  native 
town,  in  North  Yarmouth  Academy,  and  in  Bow- 
doin  Gollege,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  the 
famous  class  of  i860.  In  October,  1861,  he  entered 
the  Union  army  and  was  made  first  lieutenant  of 
Go.  K,  1st  A'laine  Gavalry,  He  was  promoted  cap- 
tain in  December,  1862,  but  because  of  shattered 
health  he  resigned  in  January,  1863.  Subsequently 
he  pursued  medical  study  with  the  late  Dr.  F.  B. 
Alerrill  of  Alfred,  and  at  the  Gollege  of  Physicians 
in  New  York  Gity,  receiving  his  medical  diploma 
therefrom  in  March,  1866.  Dr.  Gary  entered  upon 
his  professional  life  in  the  same  year  in  Houlton, 
where  he  has  since  practiced.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Senate  of  Maine  in  1869,  but  failed  of  a  second 
term.  Tn  1879  he  was  assistant  surgeon-general  on 
Governor  Garcelon's  staff,  with  rank  of  colonel.  He 
was  a  fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of  Medi- 
cine, and  a  companion  of  the  "Loyal  Legion,"  Maine 
Gomtnandery.  He  is  survived  by  a  widow  and  two 
brothers. 

He  was  well  equipped  in  and  devoted  to  his  pro- 
fession, kind-hearted  and  generous  in  his  impulses, 
a  faithful  friend,  and  highly  esteemed  in  the  circle 
of  his  acquaintance.  Although  afflicted  for  years 
with  the  burden  of  personal  disease,  he  ever  wore 
in  his  face  the  good  cheer  which  flowed  from  a  heart 
deeply  interested  in  others'  welfare. 

'62. — General  Mattocks  is  a  prominent  candidate 
for  the  vacancy  in  the  collectorship  of  the  Portland 
Gustom  House. 

'6g. — Hon.  Oscar  Fitz  Allen  Greene  died  at 
Boulder,  GoL,  November  4,  1S99.  Mr.  Greene  was 
born  at  Troy,  Maine,  February  2,  1842.  His  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  the  ;-igorous  life  of  a  New  Eng- 
land farm.  When  the  civil  war  broke  out  he  entered 
the  1st  Maine  Volunteer  Gavalry.  He  served  three 
years,  and  in  the  twenty-five  battles  in  which  he 
took  part,  was  twice  severely  wounded.  In  relating 
some  of  his  interesting  experiences,  he  said  that 
President  Lincoln  once  spoke  to  him  on  picket  duty. 
He  was  reading  a  Greek  testament,  and  Lincoln,  on 
seeing  it,  expressed  his  regret  at  not  having  the 
advantage  of  a  higher  education.  In  1865  he 
presented  -himself  for  admission  to  Bowdoin. 
When  asked.  "Where  did  you  fit  for  college?"  he 
replied,  "In  the  army!"  Such  earnestness  and 
■  diligent  application  were  not  without  results,  and 
in   1869  he  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class.     He 


was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Manitowoc,  Wis.,  in  1871, 
and  four  years  later  he  removed  to  Boulder,  Gol. 
For  twenty-five  years  he  has  been  an  important  part 
of  the  life  of  that  community ;  he  has  figured  in  the 
city  government  and  in  the  State  legislature ;  he  has 
published  "A  History  of  Legislation  in  Golorado;" 
he  has  contributed  largely  to  the  political  press,  and 
he  has  served  long  and  faithfully  as  Professor  of 
Roman  Law  in  Golorado  University. 

There  is  no  greater  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
Mr.  Greene  than  the  reverence  in  which  the  people 
with  whom  he  associated  hold  his  name.  In  the 
broadest  sense  of  the  word  he  was  a  great  man.  He 
was  just,  incorruptible,  religious,  and  tender-hearted. 
Above  all  he  was  thoroughly  unselfish,  laboring 
always  for  the  good  of  his  fellow-men.  His  death 
resulted  from  a  brief  illness  of  pneumonia. 

'8g. — Professor  Wallace  S.  Elden,  who  has  been 
for  the  past  two  years  at  the  University  of  Maine,  is 
an  instructor  in  Latin  at  the  University  of  Michigan, 
Ann  Arbor,  this  year,  where  he  expects  to  take  his 
degree  of  Ph.D.  next  June. 

'89. — Wilbur  D.  Gilpatric  has  resigned  the  prin- 
cipalship  of  the  West  Boylston  (Mass.)  High  School, 
and  has  accepted  a  better  position  as  principal  of  the 
High  School  at  Attleboro,  Mass. 

'84. — Mr.  Llewellyn  Barton  has  tendered  his 
resignation  as  a  member  of  the  Democratic  State 
Gommittee,  giving'  as  his  reason  that  his  business 
requires  his  whole  attention. 


IN    MEMORIAM. 

Thomas  Worcester  Hyde. 
Died  November  14,  1899. 
The  announcement  has  filled  all  our  hearts  with 
grief.  In  the  army  he  was  our  soldier  of  highest 
rank;  in  public  life  the  officer  who  attained  the 
highest  station ;  in  the  business  world  the  best  known 
and  most  active  and  enterprising;  in  the  community 
where  his  life  was  passed  the  most  conspicuous  citi- 
zen. Among  us  he  was  first  of  all  the  loyal  class- 
mate and  the  loved  and  honored  friend.  His  death 
makes    a   great   gap    in   the    ranks   of   the    Bowdoin 

Glass  of  1861. 

Edward  Stanwood, 

Class  Secretary. 


Boston    University   Law    School, 


ISAAC   RICH    HALL,  ASHBURTON   PLACE. 


Samuel  C.  Bennett,  dean, 

Opens  October  3,  1900.  BOSTON,    MASS. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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Entered  at  the  Post-Offlce  at  Brunswick  as  Second-Class  Mail  Matter. 

Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 


CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  20.— December  14,  1899. 

Editorial  Notes       179 

Calendar 180 

New  England  Tennis  Tournament 181 

Lecture  by  Prof.  MacDonald  • 181 

College  News      182 

Y.  M.  C.  A 184 

Personals 184 

The  students  should  congratulate  them- 
selves upon  the  artistic  merits  of  the  Glee- 
Mandolin  Club.  This  organization  is  unques- 
tionably far  superior  to  any  other  in  the  .State, 
and  compares  most  favorably  with  similar 
clubs  in  Massachusetts,  notwithstanding  the 
vast  advantage  the  latter  have  in  location, 
numbers,  and   facilities   for  experience.     The 


concerts  by  the  club  are  practically  the  only 
medium  of  bringing  the  college  before  the 
public  during  the  winter  months,  so  every 
effort  should  be  directed  towards  perfecting 
the  programme  that  any  analogy  of  the  college 
drawn  from  the  concert  may  be  just  as  well 
as  desirable. 


Another  volume  of  the  Qtiill  rests  in  an 
honorable  past,  while  a  new  board  and  a  new 
number  are  about  to  seek  our  praise.  This 
magazine  was  first  issued  but  three  years  ago 
next  .January ;  many  prophesied  its  existence 
to  be  not  longer  than  one  volume;  yet  to-day 
it  is  stronger  and  more  popular  than  ever 
before,  its  bills  are  settled  promptly  and  easily, 
its  contributors  have  increased  and  its  contents 
are  truly  literary.  The  Quill  is  indeed  popu- 
lar and  a  very  welcome  friend. 


It  is  gratifying  to  see  the  college  lectures 
and  various  clubs  so  healthy  and  vigorous. 
The  second  lecture  of  the  course  was  given  to 
a  good  sized  and  interested  audience  of  stu- 
dents and  friends  the  other  night,  while  not  a 
week  passes  by  without  some  one  of  the  clubs 
reporting  a  very  pleasant  and  instructive 
evening.  All  this  is  decidedly  a  sign  of 
growth  and  enthusiasm  in  the  intellectual  and 
social  activities  of  our  four  years. 


Even  were  the  compulsory  rule  removed 
from  chapel  attendance,  there  is  no  doubt  but 
the  number  of  students  at  the  Sunday  after- 
noon service  would  be  just  as  large  as  at 
present.  The  delightful  calm  of  the  grand  old 
chapel  and  the  element  of  friendship  and  union 
win'ch  permeates  the  whole  gathering  lifts  one 
completely  above  the  petty  and  trifling  gossip 
of  superficial  and  transient  interests  which  is 
so  common ;  and  we  inhale  a  breath  thrilling 


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BOWDOm   ORIENT. 


us  with  the  atmosphere  of  this  sacred  place. 
This  meeting  is  sort  of  a  family  gatherino', 
so  to  speak;  a  bit  of  advice  or  kindly  admoni- 
tion from  the  platform  tells  us  of  a  watchful 
interest  in  our  work  and  life,  while  a  chant 
with  the  melodious  accompaniment  of  the 
organ  gratifies  our  ear  with  pleasing  harmony. 
Such  warmth,  such  brotherhood,  such  stimu- 
lus, is  the  powerful  and  characteristic  element 
which  differentiates  college  life  from  that  out- 
side the  campus,  and  generates  in  us  an  ever 
living  memory  and  affection  for  college  dav.s 
and  college  friends. 


The  program  for  the  Minstrel  Show  has 
taken  a  permanent  form,  and  every  day  brings 
the  goal  of  perfection  nearer  realization.  The. 
managers  have  labored  hard,  but  now  ail 
rests  with  the  respective  artists,  individually 
and  collectively,  to  carry  out  and  make  glori- 
ously successful  the  following  well  arranged 
programme : 

First  Part. 
Opening  Chorus  of  Twenty  V'oices. 

1.  My  Hannah  Lady,  Appleton. 

2.  You've  Got  to  Play  Rag-Time,        Gotild. 
T,.     The  Choir  Boy,  Warren, 

4-  Solo,  Willard. 

5-  Duet,  Whitney,  Clark. 

Overture. 

Second  Part. 
Specialties : 

( 1 )  Snow. 

(2)  Preble  and  Green. 

(3)  Appleton. 

(4)  Mitchell. 

(5)  Whitney. 
Farce. — Box  and  Cox. 

Interlocutor,  Warren. 

End  men. — Leighton, 

Gould, 

Smith,  B.  L., 

Appleton. 
Music  for   Minstrels  and  hop  by   College 
Orchestra. 


A  move  in  the  right  direction  is  the  plan 
to  postpone  the  pledging  of  Freshmen  luitil 
the    third    week    of   the    Fall    term.     All    the 


fraternities  have  been  urged  to  give  the  sub- 
joined letter  their  serious  consideration,  and 
we  believe  the  result  will  be  the  adoption  of 
some  rule  to  eliminate  the  injustice  of  the 
prevailing  custom. 

To  the  Fraternities  of  Bozvdoin  College: 

Recognizing  that  the  pledging  of  sub- 
Freshmen  as  practised  here  at  Bowdoin  is 
open  to  serious  evils,  and  believing  that  reform 
in  this  particular  would  be  of  great  benefit  to 
the  college,  Theta  Chapter  of  the  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  Fraternity  presents  the  following 
proposals  for  your  consideration  : 

1.  That  each  fraternity  in  regular  stand- 
ing at  Bowdoin  College  agrees  to  pledge  no 
sub-Freshmen  whatsoever,  and  to  postpone 
pledging  Freshmen  until  the  second  or  third 
week  of  the  fall  term,  provided  that  the  six 
other  fraternities  agree  to  do  likewise. 

2.  This  rule  shall  take  effect  when  it  has 
received  the  sanction  of  the  several  fraterni- 
ties now  in  good  standing  in  Bowdoin  College. 

If  these  proposals  meet  with  your  favor, 
it  is  hoped  that  you  will  further  the  plan  by 
suggestions  or  criticisms  as  to  the  manner  in 
which  it  shall  be  put  into  effect. 


The  Orient  cannot  resist  expressing  its 
gratification  that  the  student  body  is  so  kindly 
disposed  to  the  suggestion  of  revising  the 
Athletic  Association  Constitution  to  the  pre- 
vention of  the  accumulation  of  debts  as  w'ell 
as  to  the  immediate  payment  of  all  back 
arrears.  Something  definite  is  certain  to  fol- 
low the  action  of  the  meeting  last  Wednesday 
and  of  the  nature  of  a  vast  improvement  m  the 
constitution  and  a  firmer  financial  basis. 


NOTICE. 
All  contributions  for  the  January  Quill 
should  he  handed  in  to  Sills,  '01,  on  or  before 
Thursday,  December  21st;  after  that  date, 
they  should  be  mailed  to  him  at  135  State 
Street,  Portland. 


CALENDAR. 


Monday  to  Friday,  Dec.   18-22. — Examinations. 
Thursd.aYj  Dec.  21. — Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
ons. 
Thursday,  Dec.  28. — Medical  Term  begins. 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  TENNIS  TOURNA- 
MENT. 
Among  the  New  England  Colleges  there  is 
a  plan  on  foot  just  at  present  of  forming  a 
New  England  Intercollegiate  Tennis  Asso- 
ciation. The  organization  will  be  permanent, 
and  probably  will  be  composed  of  some,  if  not 
all,  the  following  colleges :  Wesleyan,  Dart- 
mouth, Williams,  Amherst,  Tufts,  Trinity, 
Vermont,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, Boston  University,  Bates,  Bowdoin, 
and  Colby.  In  case  the  plans  proposed 
materialize  in  a  satisfactory  manner  the  organ- 
ization ought  to  be  complete  by  the  first  of 
the  year,  and  preparations  made  for  the  first 
tournament,  which  will  occur  at  place  to  be 
designated  and  some  time  in  June. 

Several  eastern  universities  and  colleges 
have  formed  an  Intercollegiate  Gymnastic 
Association,  which  will  hold  a  championship 
meet  sometime  during  the  winter.  This  is  a 
new  departure  in  intercollegiate  athletics, 
though  a  few  of  the  larger  universities  have 
had  gymnastic  teams.  The  formation  of  the 
association  puts  gymnastics  on  a  national 
basis,  like  that  of  base-ball,  foot-ball  or  track 
athletics. 


LECTURE  BY  PROF.  MacDONALD. 
The  second  lecture  of  the  series  under  the 
auspices  of  the  college  was  given  in  Memorial 
Hall,  Tuesday  evening,  December  12th,  by 
Professor  MacDonald.  Plis  subject  was 
■'John  Brown  of  Ossawatomie."  He  began 
by  saying  that  for  more  than  forty  years 
slavery  had  been  a  question  of  absorbing 
interest  in  politics,  and  one  that  was  destined 
to  end  in  war.  The  North  had  a  majority  in 
the  House,  but  the  South  controlled  the  Senate. 
States  were  admitted  into  the  Union  as  the 
animals  went  into  the  ark,  two  by  two,  slave 
and  free.  After  1808  slavery  was  abolished 
by  law,  but  not  in  fact.  Cotton  was  king,  and 
the  South  was  constantly  encouraging  Great 
Britain  to  champion  slavery  in  the  LTnited 
States.     Soon  ensued  a  long  and  bitter  strusf- 


gle  over  the  Missouri  Compromise,  but  finally 
the  South  was  victorious.  Missouri  was 
made  a  slave  state.  Later  the  South  began  to 
realize  that  she  had  not  gained  much  in  its 
acquisition,  as  the  ctirnate  was  hardly  favor- 
able for  the  cultivation  of  products  that 
required  slave  labor.  Soon  Texas  was 
admitted  as  a  slave  state.  Next  came  the 
Compromise  of  1850,  and  the  slave  trade  was 
abolished  in  the  District  of  Columbia.  There 
were  many  who  regarded  this  compromise  as 
a  final  settlement  of  the  slave  question. 
Among  them  was  Daniel  Webster.  Men 
cried  "  Peace,  peace,"  but  there  was  no  peace. 
Every  one  began  to  recognize  the  wrong  of 
slavery.  William  Lloyd  Garrison  said  that  he 
would  rather  that  the  Union  perish  than  that 
slavery  continue.  The  next  acquisition  of  the 
Southern  States  was  Kansas,  although  the 
North  tried  its  best  to  make  it  a  free  state. 
The  elections  were  carried  for  slavery  by 
force. 

About  this  time  John  Brown  went  to  live 
in  Kansas.  He  was  born  in  Torrington, 
Conn.,  on  the  Qtli  of  May,  1800.  His  parents 
were  poor,  his  father  being  a  tanner.  In  the 
year  1805  he  went  to  Ohio  with  his  father,  and 
there  e.xperienced  the  hardest  sort  of  frontier 
life.  In  his  youth  he  liked  the  hardest  and 
most  severe  sports,  and  grew  up  to  be  a  man 
of  strict  moral  and  religious  tendencies  and 
was  a  devout  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church.  He  fitted  for  college  but  did  not 
enter,  and  soon  returned  home,  where  he  fol- 
lowed his  father's  trade  of  tanner  and  also  that 
of  a  surveyor.  He  was  married  in  the  year 
1820.  About  this  time  he  conceived  the  idea 
that  he  was  ordained  by  God  to  free  the  slaves, 
and  he  began  to  get  so  restless  that  he  was 
regarded  as  peculiar.  In  1846  he  removed  to 
Springfield,  where  he  went  into  business  as 
partner  in  the  wool  trade.  He  soon  went  to 
Europe  on  business,  but  met  with  failure. 
His  first  wife  died  and  he  married  a  second 
time.  His  second  wife  was  as  stern  and 
religious  as  himself.  She  shared  his  sorrows 
and  joys,  his  poverty,  and  when  she  could  not 


182 


BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


be  with  him  she  followed  him  with  her 
prayers.  She  went  to  him  before  his  execu- 
tion and  remained  till  it  was  over,  received  his 
body  and  took  it  home  for  burial. 

John  Brown  formerly  hated  slavery  and 
sought  to  aid  the  slaves  whenever  he  was  able. 
Probably  not  before  1845  did  he  have  any 
decisive  thoughts  of  trying  to  abolish  slavery. 
He  then  thought  the  time  for  action  had  come, 
and  accordingly  began  to  form  plans  for  a 
final  blow  that  would  once  and  for  all  abolish 
slavery. 

In  1865  he  returned  to  Kansas,  where  he 
was  made  captain  of  the  militia,  an  office 
which  he  held  until  death.  He  took  a  force  of 
seven  men  and  on  one  night  murdered  in  cold 
blood  the  inmates  of  five  houses  who  were  in 
favor  of  slavery.  He  thought  he  had  been 
ordained  by  God  to  make  an  example  of  these 
men.  A  cry  of  horror  went  up  throughout 
the  country  at  the  perpetration  of  this  deed. 
The  guilty  ones  were  unknown,  but  it  was 
attributed  to  Brown.  One  of  his  sons  asked 
his  father  if  he  had  done  the  deed.  He  said 
no,  but  that  he  approved  of  it,  and  that  all 
good  men  who  loved  freedom  would  approve 
of  it  also.  A  company  was  sent  out  to  capture 
Brown,  but  with  28  men  Brown  captured  the 
company.  All  these  deeds  had  the  effect  of 
checking  slavery  for  a  time.  Brown  was  pur- 
sued by  a  sheriff  and  posse,  but  although  he 
was  sick  he  was  able  to  escape  them  by  leaving 
the  stater  With  difficulty  he  got  to  Boston. 
Then  he  began  collecting  arms  and  money  for 
the  Kansas  militia.  He  kept  secretly  prepar- 
ing for  his  attack,  and  after  raising  quite  a 
sum  of  money  and  getting  together  quite  a 
large  body  of  men,  he  went  to  Harper's  Ferry, 
a  little  town  of  3,000  or  4,000  inhabitants,  situ- 
ated near  where  the  Potomac  and  Shenandoah 
meet.  Here  was  situated  the  United  States 
arsenal.  He  hired  a  farm  just  outside  the 
town  and  matle  ready  for  his  attack.  On 
Sunday,  the  i6th  of  October,  1859,  with  18 
men,  13  whites  and  5  negroes,  he  started  out 
to  capture  the  city.     First  they  seized  the  rifle 


works  and  then  the  arsenal  proper.  At  day- 
break the  citizens  armed  themselves  and  made 
an  attack  on  Brown  and  his  men.  He  refused 
to  surrender,  and  upon  his  refusal  the  door  of 
the  building  within  which  the  little  force  was, 
was  broken  in  and  the  little  band  was  soon' 
overpowered. 

Brown  was  captured  and  was  treated  with 
the  utmost  respect.  On  the  25th  of  October 
his  trial  began  and  he  was  convicted  on  the 
charges  of  treason,  murder,  and  conspiracy. 
During  the  time  that  elapsed  before  his  execu- 
tion he  showed  no  sign  of  fear.  He  con- 
stantly wrote  to  his  family  and  made  arrange- 
ments for  their  future. 

When  the  day  of  the  execution  arrived  the 
gallows  was  guarded  by  2,000  soldiers  and 
cannon,  so  great  was  the  fear  that  an  attempt 
would  be  made  to  free  him.  When  led  to  the 
scaffold  he  was  perfectly  calm  and  even  spoke 
of  the  beauties  of  the  country.  At  1 1  o'clock 
he  mounted  the  scaft'old  and  his  face  was  cov- 
ered. There  was  not  the  least  sign  of  shrink- 
ing as  the  drop  fell. 

History  has  not  passed  its  final  judgment 
on  John  Brown.  He  was  zealous,  but  no  real 
leader.  He  did  not,  as  some  think,  cause  the 
Civil  War.  There  were  many  more  brilliant 
than  he,  zealous  as  he  was.  He  came  herald- 
ing the  right,  denouncing  the  wrong. 

Professor  MacDonald's  lecture  was 
received  with  much  applause.  It  is  impossible 
to  give  an  abstract  that  \>dll  convey  satisfac- 
torilv  the  interest  which  the  lecture  caused  for 
its  hearers. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 


Preston,  '02,  is  at  home  sick. 

Merrill,  '02,  is  teaching  at  Boothbay. 

Baker,  '97,  was  on  the  campus  Sunday. 

About  twenty  men  take  part  in  the  cross-country 
runs  each  afternoon. 

Good  skating  at  the  Park  has  drawn  many  stu- 
dents thither  this  week. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


183 


Ward,  igoo,  is  teaching  in  Washington  County. 

Kelley  and  Benson,  both  of  1902,  are  out  teaching. 

Subscribe  and  help  to  wipe  out  the  athletic  debt. 

Ask  any  Junior  his  opinion  of  the  written  quiz  in 
Chemistry  on  Saturday. 

The  Glee  and  Mandolin-Guitar  Club  give  a  con- 
cert at  Bath  Friday  evening. 

Abbott,  '03,  who  has  been  ill  for  some  time,  is 
reported  as  slowly  recovering. 

The  speakers  in  the  Sophomore  Prize  Declama- 
tion are  rehearsing  their  pieces. 

L.  P.  Libby,  '99,  who  is  teaching  on  Orr's  Island, 
visited  friends  at  college  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

Howard,  '98,  vvho  is  principal  of  the  High  School 
at  Milbridge,  was  about  the  campus  the  first  of  the 
week. 

The  Library  will  probably  soon  purchase  the 
costly  and  beautifully  illustrated  edition  of  Tissot's 
Life  of  Christ. 

The  Junior  History  Club  met  with  Warren  and 
Berry,  last  Monday  evening.  The  Boer  question 
and  the  war  in  the  Transvaal  were  discussed. 

Beane,  1900,  passed  the  Thanksgiving  recess  with 
Pratt,  1901,  at  Strong.  Together  with  Stubbs,  '98, 
they  made  a  hunting  trip  to  the  Dead  River  region, 
and  each  secured  a  deer. 

Towle,  '99,  renewed  old  associations  about  college 
Saturday  and  Sunday.  He  was  on  his  way  home 
from  Gorham,  N.  H.,  where  he  is  sub-principal  of 
the  Gorham  High  School. 

President  Hyde  will  deliver  a  lecture  next  Sat- 
urday evening  before  the  Saturday  Club  of  Bruns- 
wick. The  subject  of  the  lecture  will  be,  "The  Art 
of  Optimism  as  Taught  by  Robert  Browning." 

The  popular  books  in  order  of  demand  in  Boston 
last  month  were  the  following:  Richard  Carvel, 
Janice  Meredith,  Mr.  Dooley  in  the  Hearts  of  His 
Countrymen,  When  Knighthood  was  in  Flower, 
Young  April  and  Bob,  Son  of  Battle. 

The  Politics  Club  met  with  Professor  Emery 
Thursday  evening.  The  situation  in  the  Transvaal 
was  discussed  and  the  partition  of  China  considered. 
Incidentally  a  Welsh  rarebit  was  enjoyed  and  new 
beauties  discovered  in  Kipling's  ballads. 

The  Deutscher  Verein  held  its  usual  monthly 
meeting  at  New  Meadows  Inn  last  Monday.  Pro- 
fessor Smith,  who  was  to  have  read  a  paper,  was 
kept  away  by  sickness.  The  evening  was  passed 
very  pleasantly  in  general  conversation  and  dis- 
cussion. 

The  Lambda  Chapter  of  Zeta  Psi  entertained  Dr. 
Kenneth  Cameron,  an  officer  of  the  Grand  Chapter 


of  the  fraternity,  last  Friday  night,  with  a  banquet. 
Bangs.  '91,  Randall,  '97,  McKown,  '98,  Randall,  '99, 
and  Rollins,  '99,  were  back  Saturday.  Dr.  Cameron 
entertained  the  1900  delegation  and  the  visiting 
alumni. 

The  following  members  of  1901  were  elected  to 
the  Quill  board  on  Wednesday,  December  6 :  Greg- 
son,  Larrabee,  Pierce,  Quinn,  Sills,  and  Smith.  The 
board  organized  Thursday  afternoon.  Sills  was 
cliosen  chairman  of  the  board  and  Clark  was  elected 
business  manager.  The  first  number  under  the  new 
management  will  ajbpear  in  January. 

Section  15  of  the  Revised  Regulations  of  the  Col- 
lege reads  as  follows:  A  student  absent  from  a 
term  examination,  without  previous  excuse  from  the 
Faculty,  is  marked  zero.  The  class  officer  has  the 
power  to  suspend  the  operation  of  this  rule. 

All  e.Kcuses  for  absence  must  be  given  the  class 
officer  on  or  before  Saturday,  December  i6th. 

The  House  of  Representatives  met  as  usual 
Wednesday  evening,  the  6th  inst.  Hardly  more 
than  the  organization  has  been  achieved  this  term, 
but  with  the  knowledge  of  procedure  acquired,  it  will 
begin  the  next  session  under  most  favorable  con- 
ditions. The  members  can  not  fail  to  reap  decided 
benefits  from  the  work  during  the  winter  term.  No 
more  meetings  will  be  held  this  term. 

The  library  has  lately  been  receiving  a  series  of 
valuable  art  monographs,  published  in  Germany,  from 
some  generous  friend  of  the  college,  who  chooses  to 
.keep  his  identity  unknown.  Professor  I,ittle  is  earn- 
estly desirous  of  an  opportunity  to  express  the  thanks 
of  the  college  to  this  unknown  benefactor,  but  up  to 
the  present  has  not  been  able  to  secure  the  slightest 
information  in  regard  to  the  donor.  He  will  welcome 
any  suggestions  that  may  enable  him  to  do  so. 

It  is  understood  that  the  following  men  from  1903 
have  been  elected  to  the  Crown  and  Coffin : 

From  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  Charles  P.  Conners  of 
Bangor,  Thomas  C.  White  of  Lewiston. 

From  Psi  Upsilon,  Philip  J.  Clifford  of  Portland, 
John  L.  .Mitchell  of  Brunswick. 

From  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Irving  Nutter  of 
Bangor,  John  P.  Webber  of  Brookline. 

From  Zeta  Rsi,  Haraden  S.  Pearl  of  Bangor. 

From  Theta  Delta  Chi,  E.  Farrington  Abbott  of 
,A.uburn,  Luther  Dana  of  Westbrook. 

From  Delta  Upsilon,  John  A.  Greene  of  Farm- 
ington. 

The  following  excerpt  from  Mr.  Kipling  may  be 
of  interest  to  our  foot-ball  manager:  "After  the 
season  is  over  carefully  empty  the  foot-balls  with 
an  air-pump,  take  out  the  India-rubber  bladders,  lock 
them   up   under  patent   Chubb,   thief-detector,   pneu- 


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matic  locks.  Grease  the  leathers,  inside  and  out, 
with  vaseline,  lip  salve,  cherry  tooth  paste,  weak 
gum  water,  cold  cream,  pomade  and  bandoline 
fixature,  wrap  them  up  in  any  soft  substance  (three- 
pile  velvet  is  the  best  and  cheapest),  and  lay  them 
by  till  want.  To  prevent  moths  take  camphor  and 
muslin  in  equal  proportions  and  tie  them  up 
together." 

The  following  is  the  arrangement  of  examinations 
next  week : 

Monday,  a.m. 

Philosophy  i  and  History  i  in  Hall. 

Hygiene  in  Physics  Lecture  Room. 

Monday,  p.m. 
Economics   i   and   English   Literature  4    (Senior) 
in  Hall. 

French  4  in  Chemistry  Lecture  Room. 

Tuesday,  a.m. 
Economics   4  and   Physics   i    in    Physics   Lecture 
Room. 

Tuesday,  p.m. 
Greek  i  and  Greek  a  in  Hall. 

German  4  and  Mathematics  4  in  Physics  Lecture 
Room. 

Wednesday,  a.m. 
English    Literature    i    (Junior)    and    Latin   4    in 
Hall. 

French  i  in  Chemistry  Lecture  Room. 
Biology  5  in  Science  Building. 

Wednesday,  p.m. 
German  I  in  Hall. 
Geology  in  Science  Building. 

Thursday,  a.m. 
Chemistry  i  in  Science  Building. 
Greek  4  and  Mathematics  t  in  Hall. 

Thursday,  p.m. 
History  4  and  Rhetoric  i  in  Hall. 

Friday,  a.m. 
Greek  ga  and  Latin  i  in  Hall. 
Biology  2  in  Science  Building. 


-    Y.  M.  C.  f\. 

On  Thursday  evening,  November  23d,  occurred 
the  last  meeting  of  the  Association  before  Thanks- 
giving. It  was  missionary  meeting,  and  Robinson, 
1900,  was  leader.  The  meeting  was  a  good  oiie. 
The  leader  was  followed  by  West,  Russell,  and 
Burnell,  who  spoke  on  the  necessity  and  value  of 
both  home  and  foreign  missions.  Quite  an  interest 
was  shown. 

The  first  service  after  the  recess  was  on  Sunday 
afternoon,  December  loth.  Rev.  D.  L.  Yale  of  Bath 
was  the  speaker.  His  theme  was  that  "at  the  name 
of  Jesus  every  knee  must  bow."  He  showed  how, 
though  the  work  of  man  perish;  Christ  stands  for- 
ever.    There    was    a    large    attendance.     Every    one 


enjoyed  the  fine  singing  by  Professor  Robinson  of 
Bates  College. 

Our  college  association  tries  to  keep  in  touch 
with  the  city  associations  of  the  State.  We  are  all 
working  in  the  same  cause.  Russell,  1900,  spoke 
before  the  city  association  at  Lewiston  on  Sunday, 
the  26th  of  November.  December  loth,  Robinson, 
1900,  spoke  at  Bath. 

A  larger  attendance  at  the  Bible  stvidy  classes  is 
to  be  desired.  Those  students  who  have  joined  the 
classes  should  try  to  be  present  at  the  weekly  meet- 
ings when  possible. 


PERSONALS. 


The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'55. — The  resignation  of  Rev.  -  Edward  Hawes, 
D.D.,  from  the  pastorate  of  First  Church,  Burling- 
ton, Vt.,  is  not  only  a  heavy  blow  to  his  numerous 
friends  in  the  church  and  city,  but  is  felt  as  a  dis- 
tinct loss  by  Congregationalists  throughout  the 
State. 

Dr.  Hawes  was  installed  as  pastor  of  First 
Church,  Burlington,  in  1885.  In  the  fifteen  years 
which  have  since  elapsed,  the  church  has  passed 
through  a  most  prosperous  and  successful  period — 
not  only  having  increased  its  membership  by  60  per 
cent.,  but  also  having  contributed  nearly  $50,000  for 
benevolent  purposes.  These  facts  are  the  record  of 
a  ministry  whose  fine  spiritual  quality  can  be  appre- 
ciated only  by  those  who  have  come  under  its  influ- 
ence. It  was  a  just  tribute  when  the  council  for 
dismissal  said :  "  We  recognize  in  him  a  thoughtful 
scholar,  a  ripe  theologian,  a  sturdy  preacher  of 
righteousness,  and  a  courageous  advocate  of  the  best 
things  in  society,  in  business,  and  in  the  State." 

•58.— The  Rev.  William  H.  Savage  of  Watertown, 
Mass.,  has  been  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Unita- 
rian Church  in  Hyde  Park  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  resignation  of  the  Rev.  A.  G.  Pettengill.  Mr. 
Savage  was  called  to  Watertown  in  1886,  and  has 
remained  there  until  the  present  time.  During  his 
ministerial  work  in  Watertown  the  parish  has  grown, 
the  church  has  been  remodelled  and  the  interest  in 
the  society  and  its  work  has  constantly  increased. 

'(,2. — The  following  is  taken  from  a  series  of 
articles  in  the  Boston  Journal  on  prominent  Boston 
clergymen  : 

Rev.  D.  W.  Waldron  is  one  of  the  best  known 
Congregationalists  in  Boston.  For  years  he  has 
walked   its   streets,   preached   in   its   pulpits,   labored 


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185 


as  its  city  missionary,  and  gone  in  and  out  of  the 
State  House  daily  during  the  sessions  of  the  Legis- 
lature, acting  as  Chaplain  of  the  House. 

He  is  a  remarkably  pleasant  speaker,  with  lan- 
guage of  the  most  apt  and  felicitous  character.  In 
the  pulpit  he  is  strong  and  earnest,  with  such  an 
evident  air  of  sincerity  and  feeling  as  carries  great 
weight.  He  is  master  of  a  few  gestures  which 
always  illustrate  just  what  he  wishes  his  audience 
to  understand. 

'63. — Hon.  Charles  U.  Bell,  justice  of  the  superior 
court  of  Massachusetts,  who  met  with  a  severe 
bicycle  accident  in  one  of  the  parks  in  Boston  last 
summer,  has  completely  recovered  from  his  injuries. 
and  has  resumed  his  duties  on  the  bench. 

Med.  '67. — A  timely  paper  on  scarlet  fever  has 
recently  been  issued  by  Secretary  Young.  He  treats 
very  carefully  the  nature  and  the  methods  of  con- 
tagion and  prevention  of  the  disease. 

'Tj,. — Judge  A.  P.  Wiswell  has  been  appointed 
one  of  the  judges  in  the  Harvard-Princeton  debate, 
December  15th. 

'75. — William  E.  Hatch,  superintendent  of 
schools  at  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  was  recently  elected 
president  of  the  Bristol  County  (Mass.)  Teachers' 
Association.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  New 
England  Association  of  School  Superintendents  held 
in  Boston  November  9th,  Mr.  Hatch  read  a  paper 
on  "Commercial  Courses;   Nature  and  Extent." 

'89. — Frank  L.  Staples  withdrew  from  his  co- 
partnership with  ex-Attorney  General  Baker  at 
Augusta  on  July  i,  and  has  resumed  the  practice  of 
law  in  Bath,  where  he  was  located  before  going  to 
Augusta. 

'90. — Dr.  E.  A.  McCullough,  formerly  of  Bangor 
and  a  member  of  the  Eastern  Maine'  Hospital  Staff, 
sailed  from  New  York  November  20th  for  the  Phil- 
ippines on  the  United  States  transport  Logan,  with 
his  regiment,  the  41st  Volunteer  Infantry. 

'91. — Private  letters  from  Dr.  C.  S.  F.  Lincoln, 
now  a  missionary  physician  at  Shanghai,  China,  give 
an  interesting  account  of  his  life  there.  He  has  the 
general  oversight  of  the  health  of  students  of  St. 
John's  College,  numbering  over  300  persons,  and 
teaches  anatomy  and  physiology  to  those  beginning 
the  study  of  medicine.  Meantime  he  is  busily 
engaged  in  acquiring  familiarity  with  the  Chinese 
language,  and  expects  to  be  able  next  April  to  take 
up  dispensary  work  at  the  gates  of  the  compound 
which  is  five  miles  from  the  city  of  Shanghai. 

'91- — John  F.  Kelley  is  studying  dentistry  in 
Baltimore. 

'92. — A.  W.  Rogers  is  superintendent  and  prin- 
cipal of  the  high  school  at  Stockbridge,  Mass. 

'92. — C.  A.  Byram  is  principal  of  high  school  at 
Pittsfield,   Mass. 


'92. — Howard  W.  Poore  is  one  of  the  teachers  in 
the  Somerville   (Mass.)   English  High  School. 

Med.  '92. — A  characteristic  letter  has  been 
received  from  Dr.  S.  Fanduiz  of  San  Domingo, 
W.  I.,  who  is  only  waiting  for' the  inauguration  of 
the  new  president  before  he  begins  to  "  develop  the 
country."  He  is  very  enthusiastic  over  conditions 
there.  He  sends  a  glowing  account  of  rich  mineral 
deposits,  tmlimited  forest  resources,  extensive  water 
power,  and  unsurpassed  fertility  of  soil.  In  his  own 
words :  "  The  climate  is  celestial,  sickness  is 
unknown,  but  the  people  are  apathetic.  They  need 
Yankee  push  to  start  them  going,  and  they  will  wel- 
come the  stranger  who  helps  them  towards  develop- 
ment." 

'95. — Charles  E.  D.  Lord  was  recently  appointed 
by  the  President  a  surgeon  in  the  Marine  Hospital, 
New  York,  with  rank  of  lieutenant. 

'95. — Joseph  B.  Roberts,  who  received  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  from  the  University  of  Buffalo  ('99),  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  November 

2ISt. 

'95. — G.  H.  D.  Foster  is  practising  law  in  New 
York  City.  He  went  into  a  law  partnership  last 
spring  under  the  firm  name  of  Lee,  Longfellow  and 
Foster,  141  Broadway,  taking  the  place  of  H.  H. 
Pierce  ('96),  who  was  formerly  the  third  member  of 
the  firm. 

'95. — L.  C.  Hatch  is  at  present  in  London,  Eng- 
land. He  will  spend  a  year  in  travel  abroad,  visiting 
England,  Scotland,  Holland,  Belgium,  Germany, 
France,  Italy,  and  Greece.  Bass,  '96,  accompanies 
him  for  a  part  of  the  tour  and  then  expects  to  go  to 
some  German  university  to  engage  in  study  and 
special  research. 

'95. — Allen  L.  Churchill  is  with  Brentano,  book 
publisher,  New  York  City. 

'95. — Herbert  John  Dudley  is  Assistant  Collector 
of  Customs  at  Calais,  Me. 

Hon.  '70. — Rev.  William  Macleod  Barbour,  D.D., 
of  Maiden,  Mass.,  died  very  suddenly  December  Sth, 
of  heart  disease. 

Professor  Barbour  was  born  in  Fochabers,  Scot- 
land, on  May  29,  1827.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  that  place  and  came  to  America  with  his 
parents  at  an  early  age.  He  was  graduated  at 
Oberlin  College  in  1859  and  received  a  degree  at 
Andover  in  1861.  He  was  ordained  minister  and 
settled  in  South  Danvers,  now  Peabody,  in  1861.  In 
i858  he  was  appointed  professor  in  the  Bangor 
Theological  Seminary,  which  he  held  for  nine  years. 
In  1877  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Yale  College  and 
professor  of  homiletics,  where  he  spent  ten  years. 
In  1887  he  was  appointed  principal  of  the  Congre- 
gational  College  of  British  North  America  at  Mon-" 


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treal.  In  1897  he  retired  and  removed  to  Maiden. 
He  leaves  a  widow  and  four  sons  and  one  daughter. 

'95. — Dr.  C.  E.  D.  Lord  is  assistant  house  physi- 
cian at  the  Marine  Hospital,  Stapleton,  Staten 
Island,  N.  Y. 

'95. — B.  L.  Bryant  was  married  last  summer  and 
is  now  practicing  medicine  at  Bangor,  Me. 

'95. — H.  P.  Small  received  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
from  Harvard  in  1899.  He  is  practicing  law  in 
Springfield,   Mass. 

'95. — Joseph  T.  Shaw  is  secretary  of  the  Ameri- 
can Woolen  Co.  at  Boston,  Mass.  Address,  Ames 
Building. 

'95. — Harry  B.  Russ  is  practicing  law  under  firm 
name  of  Hunt  &  Russ,  Exchange  Street,  Portland, 
Me. 

"95. — G.  B.  Mayo  is  practicing  law  in  Smethport, 
Pa.,  with  his  father,  E.  R.  Mayo,  '60,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Mayo  &  Son. 

'96. — ^John  E.  Frost  is  with  the  Boston  Elevated 
R.  R.  Co. 

'96. — A.  P.  Ward  is  with  the  Carter  Ink  Co.  at 
Detroit,  Mich. 

'96. — H.  R.  Blodgett  is  insurance  clerk  with  H. 
Dickenson  &  Co.,  grain  dealers,  Chicago. 

'96. — Francis  Peaks  is  reading  law  at  his  home  in 
Dover,  Me. 

'96. — H.  H.  Pierce  is  counsellor-at-law,  120 
Broadway,  New  York  City. 

'96. — Fred  B.  Smith  is  with  Ginn  &  Co.,  New 
York  City. 

'96. — Sterling  Fessenden  is  clerk  in  export  com- 
mission house.  New  York  City. 

'96. — Charles  A.  Knight  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
at  Augusta  last  week.  He  passed  his  examination 
before  Justice  Emery  with  much  credit.  Mr.  Knight 
is  well  known  in  Augusta,  where  he  has  made  a 
host  of  friends  during  the  two  years  that  he  has 
been  studying  in  the  office  of  Heath  &  Andrews.  He 
is  a  BrCfnswick  boy  and  attended  the  High  School 
of  that  town.  He  is  a  thorough  scholar,  a  fine 
speaker,  and  possesses  those  personal  qualities  which 
win  success  in  life.  Mr.  Knight  is  not  fully  deter- 
mined where  he  will  practice  his  profession,  but  his 
Augusta  friends  strongly  hope  he  will  not  leave  the 
city. 

'96. — Dr.  John  B.  Thompson  has  assumed  his 
duties  as  interne  at  the  Eastern  Maine  General 
Hospital  in  Bangor,  to  which  he  was  recently 
chosen. 

'96. — Howard  A.  Gilpatric  is  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Waterford. 

Med.  '98. — Joseph  O'Conner  is  pursuing  a  post- 
graduate course  in  medicine  at  Trinity  College, 
-Dublin. 


'99. — Lucien  P.  Libby  will  teach  at  Orr's  Island 
during  the  winter. 

'99. — Royal  S.  Cleaves,  son  of  Robert  A.  Cleaves 
of  Bridgton,  left  for  Boston  recently,  where  he  has 
secured  a  position  with  the  Automatic  Sprinkler 
Company.     He  began  his  duties  December  ist. 

'99. — Sturgis  will  pass  the  winter  in  the  South. 


When  Tom  and  May  went  sailing 
One  thing  she  did  deplore — 

He  was  such  a  bashful  creature 
And  only  hugged  the  shore. 

'Darling,"  gently  lisped  the  maiden, 
Red  as  roses  grew  her  face. 

'  If  you  never  loved  another. 
How  then  learned  you  to  embrace?" 

Joyously  he  pressed  her  to  him. 
Whispering  in  her  ear  with  haste, 
'  Foot-ball  trainer  while  at  college 
Makes  us  tackle  round  the  waist!" 


-Ex. 


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Did  you  ever  see  a  lobster  ride  a  flee? 

Did  you  ever? 

No.  you  never ! 
For  they  simply  couldn't  do  it,  don't  you  see ! 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  21.— Januart  18,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes       187 

Bowdoin  Club  of  Boston 189 

Medical  School 189 

Bowdoin 's  Record  in  Politics 190 

Calendar 191 

College  News      191 

Personals 192 

In  Memoriam 194 

A  new  year — perhaps  a  new  century — 
comes  hand  in  hand  with  the  winter  term. 
The  Orient  sincerely  feels  that  old  shoes  will 
never  again  fit  us,  that  progress  in  the  college 
and  its  activities  will  continue  to  roll  on  apace 
with  the  swinging  strokes  of  time,  and  that 
our  growth  in  the  next  year  and  century  will 
in  no  way  be  inferior  to  that  of  the  past. 

Bowdoin     unquestionably     stands     at     the 


head  of  intellectual  and  educational  life  in 
Maine,  and  is  a  worthy  member  of  the 
healthy,  broad,  and  democratic  American 
colleges  which  are  respected  the  world  over. 
In  Theology,  Education,  Politics,  Law,  Medi- 
cine, and  Business,  Bowdoin  alumni  have 
achieved  pronounced  success  and  won 
unstinted  honor  from  a  generous  ]:)eople.  In 
no  small  degree  does  this  enhance  the  splen- 
did reputation  of  their  Alma  Mater  and  speak 
volumes  of  the  influence  of  their  college  home. 
The  day  is  coming,  far  too  rapidly,  when  this 
good  name  and  honor  of  Bowdoin  will 
depend  upon  those  now  gathering  her  riches 
and  blessings.  Will  this  trust  in  us  be  unfor- 
tunate for  the  name  of  the  college;  are  we  of 
another  specie  than  those  among  whom  are 
Longfellow,  Hawthorne,  Reed,  Frye,  and 
Fuller.  It  is  impossible  to  estimate  the  latent 
ability  and  embryo  leaders  now  answering 
the  ring  of  the  chapel  bell,  yet  it  is  fair 
to  assume  it  is  here,  and,  with  the  advance- 
ment of  the  college  and  her  sons,  seek  a 
corresponding  growth  in  our  own  calibre. 
Logically,  the  line  of  distinguished  alumni 
should  continue  through  us  unbroken ;  and 
why,  indeed,  need  it  be  broken?  With  the 
new  year  students,  fraternities,  and  classes 
have  taken  unto  themselves  new  resolutions ; 
progress,  morality,  and  growth  are  exerting 
silent,  steady,  and  patient  influence  on  us  all ; 
we  are  not  as  Seniors  the  fellows  we  were 
three  years  ago,  nor  shall  we  be  in  this  new 
year  prone  to  as  many  and  as  different  mis- 
takes and  faults  as  we  have  written  on  the 
page  just  closed.  Congeniality,  thirst  for 
intellectual  satisfaction,  and  faith  in  our 
instructors  and  the  institution  characterizes 
the  undergraduate  body.  Who  would  pre- 
sume to  prophesy  Bowdoin  other  than  a  most 
Happy  New  Year! 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Every  one  knows  by  this  time  that  one  of 
our  most  able  and  popular  instructors  has 
been  called  to  a  larger  field.  While  we  admit 
that  he  should  be  heartily  congratulated,  yet 
any  student  unselfish  enough  to  say  he  is 
*  glad  must  be  indeed  a  rara  avis.  It  seems 
a  pity  our  richer  and  stronger  sister  institu- 
tions cannot  leave  us  alone,  that  is,  from  a 
student's  point  of  view ;  we  are  continually 
in  dread  over  rumors  of  calls  to  our  Presi- 
dent or  to  at  least  one  other  Professor  beside 
the  present  more  than  rumor  which  is  told 
us  on  beginning  a  new  term. 

Professor  Emery  has  only  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Bowdoin  Faculty  for  about  three  years, 
yet  in  that  extremely  short  period  he  has 
proved  to  all  that  economics  and  sociology  are 
here  taught  masterly  and  modernly,  and  his 
courses  have  no  superior  for  popularity.  In 
social  activities  he  has  an  enviable  reputation, 
as  those  who  have  been  fortunate  enough  to 
have  attended  a  Political  Club  meeting  will 
affirm,  and  his  hospitality  is  welcome  and 
sought  by  the  entire  undergraduate  body. 

The  Orient  knows  of  no  better  fate  to 
wish  Yale's  new  Professor  of  Political 
Economy  than  that  he  may  be  as  popular  and 
dear  to  the  hearts  of  Eli  as  he  is  to  those  of 
Bowdoin's  undergraduates. 


Parents  in  glancing  through  a  Bowdoin 
catalogue  generally  spend  a  few  minutes  on 
the  page  devoted  to  College  Expenses,  and 
notice  with  considerable  satisfaction  the  fol- 
lowing estimates  for  a  year's  college 
expenses, — lowest  $260,  average  $340,  and 
liberal  $460.  The  figures  are  true  to  a  cer- 
tain extent,  for  doubtless  a  man  could  keep 
his  bills  down  to  $260 ;  but  as  a  matter  of 
fact  he  seldom  does,  for  the  same  reason  that 
he  does  not  eat  two  meals  a  day,  although 
he  could.  If  fifty  dollars  were  added  to  each 
of  the  estimates  they  would  be  nearer  cor- 
rect. There  are  fellows  who  squeeze  through 
for  even  $250,  but  the  majority  of  the  needy 
fellows,  who  really  strive  to  stay  on  this  side 


of  the  line  separating  necessities  and  luxuries, 
as  a  rule  find  their  sum  total  for  the  year 
beginning  with  a  figure  three. 

It  is  impossible  to  explain  successfully  to 
parents  why  three  or  four  hundred  dollars 
will  not  tide  a  fellow  through  the  37  weeks, 
when  the  catalogue  estimates  regular  college 
expenses  at  $260.  But  when  the  explanations 
of  the  apparently  exorbitant  bills  for  clothing, 
travelling,  and  sundries  are  presented  the 
student  immediately  assumes  the  aspect  of  a 
spendthrift  in  the  eyes  of  those  who  are 
inexperienced  in  campus  life  and  its  demands. 

This  state  of  al¥airs  is  not  peculiar  to 
Bowdoin,  but  rather  is  the  common  experi- 
ence in  all  institutions.  Professor  Thwing 
of  Adelbert  College  in  Cleveland,  who  has 
thought  and  written  carefully  about  this  sub- 
ject, says  that  a  fair  estimate  of  what  a  col- 
lege student's  allowance  ought  to  be  can  be 
made  by  taking  the  cost  of  his  board,  room, 
and  tuition  and  multiplying  it  by  two.  This 
would  be  an  estimate  for  a  student  whose  need 
of  economy  is  not  particularly  pressing.  It 
v\'orks  pretty  well.  The  Harper's  Weekly 
applies  it  to  Harvard,  for  example,  the  tuition 
there  is  $150  a  year,  and  a  lad  whose  parents 
are  fairly  well-to-do  would  be ,  likely  to  pay 
from  $6  to  $8  a  week  for  thirty-eight  weeks 
for  board,  and  from  $100  to  $200  a  year  for 
a  room.  His  allowance,  therefore,  estimated 
according  to  Dr.  Thwing's  theory,  would  be 
from  $956  to  $1,308.  So  it  is.  From  $1,000 
to  $1,200  or  $1,300  a  year  is  what  mo.st  par- 
ents who  are  neither  rich  nor  .poor  seem  to 
regard  as  a  proper  annual  provision  for  their 
sons  at  Plarvard  or  Yale. 


The  fellows  who  have  caused  the  present 
neglected  condition  of  the  Reading-Room  are 
a  burden  to  the  students,  and  an  obstruction 
to  the  good  order  of  college  life.  The 
request  that  the  fellows  do  not  mutilate  the 
papers  in  the  Reading-Room  has  been  in  these 
cokimns  so  often  that  it  must  be  an  eye-sore, 
vet  this  vandalism  is  continued  and  the  room 


BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


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is  used  as  sort  of  a  children's  play-ground 
where  the  stands  can  be  hammered,  trash 
thrown  about  the  floor,  windows  broken, 
papers  burned,  and  promiscuous  destruction 
carried  on  wholesale.  If  it  were  not  because 
of  pity  for  these  poor  souls  who  get  their 
names  in  the  paper  so  seldom  that  they  must 
needs  slash  it  out  at  once  and  send  it  to 
sympathetic  friends  or  parents,  we  would 
recommend  as  a  suitable  punishment  that 
they  be  turned  up  and  spanked  with  a  big, 
flat  slipper. 

Nothing  would  give  the  students  so  much 
satisfaction  as -to  see  these  stumbling-blocks 
out  of  their  life ;  surely  the  Orient  and  the 
fellows  in  general  have  kicked  enough  about 
this  sort  of  thing  to  let  them  know  the  college 
could  get  along  splendidly  without  such  char- 
acters. If  they  can't  do  difl^erently,  for 
heaven's  sake  let  them  pack  up  and  get  out ; 
we  will  pay  the  hackman. 

Until  different  treatment  of  both  the  room 
and  the  papers  are  assured,  the  college 
authorities  have  washed  their  hands  entirely 
of  the  Reading- Room ;  but  it  is  to  be  hoped 
they  may  immediately  be  guaranteed  that  this 
nuisance  is  a  thing  of  the  past ;  otherwise  they 
seem  justified  in  holding  to  their  policy. 


BOWDOIN  CLUB  OF  BOSTON. 

The  January  meeting  and  dinner  of  the 
Bowdoin  Club  of  Boston  was  held  at  the 
Copley  Square  Hotel  on  Saturday  evening, 
January  6,  1900.  The  president,  George  M. 
Whittaker,  '99,  was  in  the  chair;  E.  N. 
Coding,  '99,  reported  progress  for  the  Glee 
Club  Concert  Committee;  W.  H.  Greeley,  '90, 
and  R.  W.  Mann,  '92,  reported  progress  on 
the  Athletic  Committee,  and  were  given 
further  time.  The  matter  of  the  proposed 
constitution  for  the  College  Athletic  Associa- 
tion, was  brought  up  and  discussed  quite 
thoroughly. 

It  was  voted  to  have  John  C.  Coombs,  '69, 
represent  the  Club  at  the  annual  meeting  of 


the  Alumni  Association,  which  is  to  be  held 
at  the  Copley  Square  Hotel,  February  ist. 
It  was  announced  that  the  Glee  Club  concert 
would  be  given  here  in  Boston,  February  2d. 
The  rest  of  the  evening  was  devoted  to  the 
menu,  cigars,  reminiscences,  and  general  con- 
versation. 

Among  the  thirty-five  members  present 
were  George  O.  Robinson,  '49,  Hon.  Thomas 
J.  Emery,  '68,  George  R.  Swasey,  '75,  Dr. 
A.  S.  Whitmore,  '75,  Oliver  Crocker  Stevens, 
'76,  Prof.  A.  E.  Burton,  '78,  W.  W.  Towle, 
'82,  Charles  E.  Sayward,  '84,  and  E.  O. 
Achorn,   "81. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  club  will  be  held 
the  first  Saturday  of  March. 


MEDICAL  SCHOOL. 
The  Medical  School  of  Maine  started  on 
its  eightieth  year  of  instruction  Tuesday 
afternoon,  January  2d,  when  the  opening 
lecture  was  delivered  by  Professor  Charles  A. 
Ring,  M.D.,  of  Portland.  The  lecture  was 
delivered  in  Memorial  Hall,  the  subject  being 
"Obstetrics."  This  year  quite  a  number  of 
important  changes  have  been  made  in  the 
school,  the  requirements  for  admission  have 
been  made  more  strict  and  the  course  has 
lengthened  to  four  years  of  study.  The  first 
two  years  are  at  Brunswick,  as  before,  but 
the  two  upper  classes  will 'be  located  in  the 
new  building  on  Chadwick  Street,  Portland. 
Dr.  Charles  O.  Hunt  has  been  appointed 
deputy  dean  for  the  school  at  Portland.  The 
cost  of  tuition  has  been  raised  to  $100  per 
year.  The  number  of  students  is  not  quite 
as  large  as  usual,  94  students  having  regis- 
tered thus  far,  while  last  year  the  total  num- 
ber was  131.  Of  the  94  students  32  are  in 
the  class  in  Portland,  34  second-year  men, 
while  the  Freshman  Class  numbers  27.  The 
members  of  the  Freshman  Class  are  as  fol- 
lows :  Joseph  Napoleon  Ordion  Bernard, 
Lewiston ;  Elbern  Taylor  Bowers,  Lewiston ; 
Charles  Spino  Bridgham,  Sullivan  Harbor; 
William  Henry  Daly,  A.B.,  Milltown,  N.  B. ; 


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BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


William  Oliver  Eustis,  Farmington ;  Richard 
Albert  Goss,  Lewiston ;  Albert  Bellatty  Hag- 
erthy,  Bucksport;  Marcus  Philip  Hambleton, 
Brunswick ;  Ormand  Elisha  Haney,  Belfast ; 
Lewis  Lenville  Hills,  A.B.,  Portland ;  Row- 
land Sewell  Howard,  Farmington ;  Joseph 
Robert  Lombard,  Brunswick ;  Fred  Clarence 
Lord,  Belgrade;  Stillman  David  Little,  Mill- 
town;  John  Bernard  Macdonald,  Boston, 
Mass. ;  Edwin  John  Marston,  Brunswick ; 
Harry  Hill  Nevens,  Norway ;  Mason  Parker, 
Phillips ;  Bennet  Homer  Quinn,  Lubec ; 
Maurice  Edwin  Ridley,  Richmond ;  James 
Percy  Russell,  A. B.,  Warren;  Joseph  Snow 
Stetson,  A.B.,  Brunswick ;  Milton  Gorham 
Sturgis,  Lewiston ;  Elton  Murray  Varney, 
Brunswick ;  Arthur  Goodwin  Wiley,  Bethel ; 
Robert  James  Wiseman,  Lewiston ;  Harold 
Worthley,  Phillips. 


BOWDOIN'S  RECORD  IN  POLITICS. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  first  session  of  a 
new  Congress  which  promises  to  be  one  of 
the  most  important  in  the  history  of  the 
country,  our  attention  is  naturally  turned 
toward  the  part  which  has  always  been  taken 
by  Bowdoin  men  in  the  shaping  of  the  course 
of  political  events,  both  of  the  Nation  and  of 
the  State  and  municipality.  We  have  a  right 
to  be  proud  of  it,  Bowdoin  men  as  we  are, 
and  it  is  not  self -laudation  if  we  occasionally 
take  a  glance  over  public  life  to  pick  out  a 
few  of  the'^Bowdoin  men  of  whom  we  are  so 
justly  proud.     Let  us  do  so  now. 

At  Washington  we  see  the  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  the  presiding  officer 
of  the  Senate,  and  three  members  of  Con- 
gress,— Alexander  of  New  York,  Stevens  of 
Minnesota,  and  Allen  of  Maine, — all  Bowdoin 
men.  In  New  York  we  find  a  leading  lawyer, 
who  within  a  year  voluntarily  resigned  the 
place  of  Speaker  of  the  National  House. 
Down  South  in  Georgia  is  the  postmaster  of 
Atlanta, — Major  Smyth,  '56.  Out  West  in 
Minnesota  is  an  ex-Senator  and  prominent 
public  man,  W.  D.  Washburn,  '54;  while  still 


further  West  in  Hawaii  is  the  man  who  did 
as  much  as  any  one  toward  uniting  those 
islands  to  this  country  while  he  was  Secretary 
of  State  and  later  Minister  to  the  L^nited 
States,  under  the  provisional  government, — 
F.  M.  Hatch,  73.  In  Porto  Rico  is  a  L^nited 
States  judge;  across  the  ocean  is  the  Minister 
to  .Sweden ;  nearer  home,  in  Massachusetts,  is 
a  district  attorney,  and  a  dozen  others  of  the 
most  prominent  men  in  the  State ;  and  here 
in  Maine  is  a  member  of  the  Governor's 
Council,  several  state  senators  and  representa- 
tives, the  probable  next  Governor  of  the 
State,  the  Chief  Justice  and  several  associates, 
a  United  States  Judge,  and  two-score  others 
of  the  most  prominent  legal  and  public  men, — 
is  it  not  a  goodly  list,  one  which  almost  grows 
tiresome  in  the  telling? 

To  one  unacquainted  with  the  college  and 
its  tendencies,  it  is  unexplainable  why  her 
graduates  have  gained  and  held  the  positions 
they  have  always  taken  in  public  life.  But 
by  a  man  who  examines  and  understands  the 
atmosphere  of  Bowdoin  life  and  the  methods 
of  study  and  instruction  here,  the  reason  is 
not  far  to  be  sought.  It  is  becax'se  always, 
since  the  very  foundation  of  the  college,  the 
aim  has  been  to  encourage  and  develop  indi- 
viduality in  every  way.  In  some  colleges  any 
lapse  from  the  conventional  ideas  handed 
down  by  former  teachers  and  students  seems 
to  be  frowned  upon ;  and  the  attempt  is  made 
to  force  the  students  into  one  system.  Here 
while  certain  established  principles  are 
adhered  to,  every  new  idea  is  carefully  tried, 
and  if  suitable,  adopted.  In  certain  cases 
this  system  of  uniform  development  for  all 
is  the  best  way ;  perhaps  with  boys  of  average 
or  less  than  average  ability  it  is  of  benefit  to 
make  them  average  men ;  but  where  men  of 
natural  individual  talent  enter  college, — as  so 
many  have  entered  Bowdoin,  thanks  to  the 
sturdy  Maine  stock  they  spring  from — the 
repression  of  this  individuality  means  quench- 
ing the  genius,  while  its  cultivation  means 
often    the    greatest    success    for    the    man    in 


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191 


after  life.  If  you  take  any  one  way  by  which 
men  distinguish  themselves,  you  will  find  only 
a  few  Bowdoin  graduates  who  have  worked 
up  by  it ;  but  those  few  are  so  far  up  that 
when  the  whole  field  of  man's  activities  is 
viewed,  it  looks  as  if  the  lion's  share  of  the 
leaders  in  every  direction  claimed  the  little 
college  in  Maine  as  their  Alma  Mater.  In  lit- 
erature Longfellow  and  Hawthorne  and  Arlo 
Bates  are  unique ;  so  in  political  life  at  all 
times  Bowdoin  has  had  her  stars  who  could 
be  compared  with  themselves  alone.  Take 
for  example  William  Pitt  Fessenden,  who 
wielded  such  immense  influence ;  he  did  not 
resemble  his  present  successor  in  the  Senate, 
Mr.  Frye;  yet  the  great  ability  of  both  was 
largely  developed  by  the  training  they 
received  in  their  college  days  at  Bowdoin.  It 
is  true  they  had  the  genius  to  start  with;  but 
it  has  received  its  first  impulse.  So  with  all 
our  men  now  in.  public  service.  Who  could 
detect  a  common  source  for  the  beginningi 
of  the  education  of  two  men  so  far  apart  in 
the  direction  their  talents  have  taken  as  the 
head  of  the  Life-Saving  Service,  Mr.  Kim- 
ball, and  the  Chief  Justice,  Mr.  Fuller?  Yet 
they  were  college  mates,  forty  years  ago. 

It  is  a  natural  tendency  when  one  who 
loves  an  institution  has  been  calling  to  mind 
its  past  triumphs  to  feel  a  sudden  fear  that 
its  present  influence  is  not  equal  to  what  its 
pa.st  has  been.  But  in  our  case  the  considera- 
tion of  the  number  of  worthy  men  who  now 
give  allegiance  to  Bowdoin  will  soon  drive 
away  such  unwelcome  fears,  and  show  that 
there  has  been  no  time  when,  in  the  political 
world,  especially,  the  influence  of  Bowdoin- 
trained  men  was  so  felt  as  it  is  at  the  begin- 
ning of  this  new  year.  It  is  true  that  a  part 
of  these  public  men  are  old,  and  almost  belong 
to  a  former  generation ;  but  the)  still  keep 
their  vitality  and  force,  and  are  by  no  means 
out  of  the  current  of  affairs.  Moreover, 
from  the  time  of  Fessenden  to  our  own,  there 
have  always  been  young  graduates  of  Bow- 
floin  who  by  hard  work  are  qualifying  them- 


selves to  step  into  places  left  vacant,  and  keep 
Bowdoin  College  from  becoming  a  forgotten 
name.  And  there  always  will  be  men  of  this 
kind  ready,  unless  we  fellows  now  living  the 
life  that  they  lived  here  forget  the  famous 
examples  behind  us,  and  do  not  profit  by  it 
as  they  profited.  Let  us  not  look  at  the  past 
and  present  alone,  but  at  the  future,  when 
perhaps  we  shall  have  the  chance  to  be  spoken 
of  as  one  of  whom  his  Alma  Mater  is  most 
proud.     Shall  we  then  be  found  ready? 

— Robinson,  1903. 


CALENDAR. 

Tuesday,  Jan.  23. — Lecture,  Professor  Files. 
Thursday,    Jan.    25. — First    Junior    Assembly. 
Saturday,     Jan.     27.— Boston     College     Indoor 
Meet. 

Sunday,  Jan.  28.— Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges. 
Saturday,  Feb.  3. — B.  A.  A.  Indoor  Meet. 
Friday,  Feb.  p.-^Minstrel  Show. 
Thursday,   Fee. 'is.— '68   Prize   Speaking. 
Monday,  Feb.   19. — Jury  Meeting. 
Thursday,   Feb.   22.— Washington's   Birthday. 
Friday,  March  23.— College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,    April   2-6.— Examinations. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Files,  '03,  is  out  sick. 
Willey,  '01,  is  out  teaching. 
Ward,  1900,  is  out  teaching. 
Hamlin,  ex-'pS,  has  joined  1900. 
Marshall,  '93,  is  at  work  in  Portland. 
Woodbury,    1900,   has   returned   from  teaching  in 
Aroostook  County. 

Hadlock,  '99,  has  been  chosen  athletic  instructor 
at  Hamilton  College. 

Burnell,  1900,  has  lately  been  visiting  friends  at 
University  of  Maine. 

The  first  of  the  Junior  Assemblies  will  occur  the 
twenty-fifth  of  this  month. 

Many  small  parties  of  students  have  lately  been 
to  Cabin's  for  a  shore  supper. 

Sylvester  and  Mitchell  are  the  Sophomore  and 
Freshman  gymnasium  instructors. 

The  fine  skating  at  Merrymeeting  Park  has  been 
enjoyed  by  many  of  the  students. 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


The   Sophomore   Greek   Class   is  reading   Lysias. 
It     seems     natural     to     have     our     friends,     the 
"medics,"  with  us  again. 

The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Fraternity  took  supper 
at  Cahill's,  Friday  evening. 

Walker,  'oi,  is  to  be  out  teaching  for  the  re- 
remainder  of  the  year. 

Yale's  new  27-year-old  professor  of  political 
economy  is  the  latest  tribute  to  the  intellectual  vigor 
of  youth. — Boston  Herald. 

A  class  is  being  organized  to  take  foot-ball 
training  every  Wednesday  and  Saturday  in  place 
of  regular  gymnasium  work. 

The  Alumni  Association  of  New  York  held  its 
annual  meeting  and  banquet  on  the  evening  of  Jan- 
uary loth.  About  forty  were  present.  Professor 
MacDonald  represented  the  college.  Among  the 
speakers  was  Thomas  Brackett  Reed. 

The  following  is  taken  from  the  Tech : 

As  the  race  with  Bowdoin  comes 
almost  immediately  after  two  weeks  of  exams,  it 
will  be  the  more  creditable  for  us  if  we  win. 
The  prospects  for  a  successful  relay  team  are,  how- 
ever, very  bright,  with  all  of  last  winter's  team 
back  and  several  new  aspirants  for  a  place  on  the 
team.     .     .     . 

Ten  or  twelve  schools  have  already  signified 
their  intention  to  send  teams  to  the  Bowdoin  invi- 
tation meet.  Among  them  are  Kent's  Hill,  Port- 
land, Bangor,  Lewiston  High,  Eastern  JVIaine  Con- 
ference Seminary  of  Bucksport,  IMaine  Central 
Institute  of  Pittsfield,  Deering  High,  Brunswick 
High,  and  Brewer  High. 

The  Minstrel  Show  will  be  given  Friday,  Feb- 
ruary ninth.  It  will  be  concluded  by  a  one-act 
farce,  called  "Box  and  Cox."  Rehearsals  are  pro- 
gressing in  a  very  encouraging  manner,  and  much 
interest  is  being  shown  by  the  entire  college. 
There  will  be  specialties  by  Appleton,  Snow, 
Edwards,  Whitney,  Mitchell,  Preble,  and  Green. 
After  the  entertainment  a  dance  will  be  given, 
which  it  is  expected  will  be  one  of  the  principal  soci- 
ety events  of  the  year. 

The  order  of  the  ten  leading  American  univer- 
sities, arranged  according  to  the  student  population 
as  registered  November  i,  1899,  and  tabulated  in 
the  Harvard  Graduates'  Magasine,  is,  Harvard  5,250, 
Michigan  3,346,  Pennsylvania  3,346,  Columbia  3,083, 
Yale  2,688,  Cornell  2,645,  Wisconsin  2,025,  Chicago 
1,680,  Princeton  1,194,  and  Johns  Hopkins  632. 
These  figures  have  possibly  changed  a  little  in  the 
last  two  months,  and  the  order  in  some  cases  may 
now  be  different. 


On  the  27th  of  this  month  Bowdoin  is  to  run 
Amherst  at  the  Boston  College  meet  in  Mechanics' 
Hall,  Boston.  This  match  has  been  recently 
arranged  and  the  team  has  had  little  training. 
Nevertheless,  a  close  and  exciting  contest  is 
expected.  One  week  later  Bowdoin  will  run  Tech 
a'f  the  B.  A.  H.  games.  Tech  has  without  doubt 
the  best  relay  team  of  any  of  the  colleges  of  its  size. 
Bowdoin's  team  will  be  picked  from  the  following 
men :  Edwards.  Snow,  Kendall,  Cloudman,  and 
Furbish. 

The  London  Lancet,  observing  the  obstinate 
tendency  of  many  minds  to  believe  that  cigarettes 
are  poisonous,  has  lately  gathered  a  collection  of 
American  cigarettes  and  caused  them  to  be  analyzed. 
It  reports  that  there  is  nothing  of  consequence  in 
them  except  tobacco,  so,  unless  that  is  poisonous, 
they  contain  no  poisons.  A  conclusive  reflection 
against  the  supposition  that  American  cigarettes 
contain  morphine,  opium,  arsenic,  and  other  such 
deleterious  things  is  that  these  ingredients  are 
pretty  dear,  whereas  most  American  cigarettes  are 
far  too  cheap  to  contain  high-priced  poisons.  The 
trouble  with  cigarettes,  in  so  far  as  there  is  trouble, 
is  that  most  persons  who  use  them  inhale  the 
smoke.  They  are  bad  for  boys,  and  some  boys  they 
really  do  seem  to  'poison ;  that  is,  they  bring  out 
the  poison  that  is  in  the  bo}',  and  make  it  so  active 
that  the  boy  is  not  of  much  use.  A  thoroughly 
sound  boy  isn't  likely  to  be  damaged  by  any  rea- 
sonable experience  of  cigarettes,  though  they  won't 
do  him  any  good,   and  are  a  mischief  in  any  case. 

—Ex. 


PERSONALS. 


The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'zy. — Rev.  George  Warren  Field,  D.D.,  of  Ban- 
gor, famous  throughout  New  England  as  a  scholar, 
theologian  and  preacher,  died  at  his  home  in  Ban- 
gor on  Wednesday  afternoon,  January  10,  1900,  of 
cancer  of  the  stomach.  He  had  been  ill  for  two 
weeks.  Dr.  Field  was  born  in  Belfast  on  Decem- 
ber 9,  1S18.  He  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College 
at  Brunswick  in  1837  and  thereafter  taught  school 
in  Freedom,  Belfast  and  Gorham.  In  1846,  having 
given  up  teaching  for  the  study  of  theology,  he 
graduated  from  Bangor  Seminary,  and  was  ordained 
as  a  pastor  in  Brewer  in  1853.  Until  1855  he  re- 
mained in  that  city,   when  he  was  called  to  Salem 


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Street  Cliurch,  Boston,  remaining  there  unill  1863, 
when  he  came  to  the  Central  Church  in  Bangor. 
From  1863  to  1892  Dr.  Field  was  pastor  of  the 
Central  Church.  In  1869  Bowdoin  College  made 
him  a  doctor  of  divinity.  In  1876  Dr.  Field  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mrs.  Chapin  Humphrey  of 
Belfast.  His  wife  survives,  but  there  are  no  chil- 
dren. After  his  retirement  in  1892.  Dr.  Field  fre- 
quently assisted  on  sacramental  occasions,  weddings, 
and  funerals,  and  continued  in  a  quiet  way  the 
work  of  the  church  in  which  he  had  been  so  long 
and  so  faithfully  engaged.  As  a  man  he  was  firm, 
undeviating  in  the  pursuit  of  what  he  thought  was 
right,  without  regard  to  private  interests.  He  was 
singularly  outspoken  and  public-spirited,  a  bene- 
I  factor  to  the  city,  and  looked  upon  with  love  and 
respect  by  all  parties  and  denominations  alike.  He 
was  a  strong  Republican,  and  was  illustrious  for 
his  well-timed  and  patriotic  speeches  during  the 
dark  days  of  the  Civil  War,  and  for  his  abiding 
faith  in  his  country  and  his  flag.  By  more  than 
one  generation  of  his  fellow-men,  George  Warren 
Field  will  be  remembered  as  a  good  man. 

'ZT- — Charles  E.  Pike,  the  last  of  a  well  known 
Calais  family,  recently  died  at  his  home  in  St.  Paul, 
Minn.  Mr.  Pike  was  a  lawyer  and  practiced  in  Maine, 
Massachusetts,  and  Wisconsin  for  many  years.  In 
early  life  he  was  one  of  the  first  Free  Soilers  and 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Republican  party  in 
Massachusetts.  In  1844,  vt-hile  a  member  of  the 
Maine  Legislature,  he  wrote  the  resolutions  which, 
according  to  the  custom  of  that  time,  brought  before 
the  people  the  name  of  Taylor  for  the  Presidency. 
Later  he  was  one  of  the  group  of  the  first  Republi- 
cans in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature.  In  1859  he 
removed  to  Wisconsin  and  founded  the  Oshkosh 
Northwestern,  which  during  the  war  was  a  radical 
supporter  of  Lincoln.  In  1865  he  was  appointed 
solicitor  of  the  International  Revenue  Department 
and  Assistant  Attorney-General  of  the  United 
States. 

'41. — E.x-Governor  Frederick  Robie  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Martha  Cressey  of  Gorham  on 
the  morning  of  January  loth.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  by  the  Rev.  George  W.  Reynolds  of 
Gorham.  It  was  a  quiet  wedding  with  no  attempt 
at  display. 

'S7- — Cards  have  been  received  bearing  the  firm 
name  of  Henry  and  Robert  Newbegin  (57  and  '96), 
Attorneys  and  Counselors  at  Law,  Defiance,  Ohio. 
Bankruptcy  and  Corporation  Law  Specialties. 

M.  '72.— Dr.  Milton  W.  Hall  of  Roxbury,  for- 
merly of  Saco,  died  at  his  home,  445  Blue  Hill  Ave- 
nue, Roxbury,  January  loth,  of  pneumonia.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Casco  public  schools,  the  French 
school   at   Providence,   R.   I.,   Bowdoin   College,   and 


the  Maine  Medical  School.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  practiced  his  profession  in  Saco.  About  twelve 
years  ago  he  went  to  Boston,  and  he  has  practiced 
in  Roxbury  ever  since.  He  was  examiner  for  the 
Boston  district  of  the  Provident  Life  and  Trust 
Company  of  Philadelphia  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  the  Masons  and 
Odd  Fellows.  Dr.  Hall  was  well  known  in  Rox- 
bury and  Dorchester.  He  was  an  extensive  real 
estate  owner,  and  recently  erected  a  large  block  at 
the  corner  of  Blue  Hill  Avenue  and  Warren  Street, 
in  which  is  Jubilee  Hall.  He  leaves  a  widow  and 
two  sons.     His  age  was  fifty-one  years. 

'73- — Judge  Andrew  P.  Wiswell  has  been 
appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Judicial 
Court  to  succeed  John  A.  Peters,  resigned. 

'74. — At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  York  County 
Medical  Society,  W.  T.  Goodale  of  Saco  was  elected 
president. 

'75- — Frederick  A.  Powers  will  succeed  Judge 
Wiswell  to  the  position  of  associate  justice. 

'75- — The  death  of  Charles  A.  Black  occurred 
Monday,  December  11,  1899,  at  Gowanda,  N.  Y. 
He  suffered  a  short  but  severe  illness  of  two  weeks. 
Professor  Black  was  at  the  time  of  his  death  prin- 
cipal of  the  Gowanda  High  School,  a  position  which 
he  had  filled  with  credit  for  eight  years.  By  the 
state  board  of  regents  he  was  considered  one  of 
the  best  instructors  under  their  jurisdiction.  The 
present  high  standing  of  the  school  is  due  largely 
to  his  successful  management.  The  remains  were 
sent  to  Damariscotta,  Me.,  for  interment.  He 
leaves  a  widow,  who  is  the  present  preceptress  of 
the   school. 

M.  'yy. — Dr.  J.  B.  Twaddle,  a  physician  of  many 
years'  practice,  who  served  as  a  surgeon  in  the 
U.  S.  army  in  Cuba,  will  locate  in  Bethel  at  once. 
He  graduated  from  Bowdoin  in  the  same  class 
with  his  brother,  J.  A.  Twaddle,  who  is  also  prac- 
ticing  medicine   in   Bethel. 

'84. — At  the  meeting  of  the  Maine  Democratic 
Club  in  Portland,  January  8th,  Llewellyn  Barton 
was  elected  president  for  the  ensuing  year. . 

'89. — Bernard  C.  Carroll  of  Stockton,  Cal.,  has 
gone  to  Washington  as  private  secretary  to  Con- 
gressman Marion  DeVries  of  California. 

'89. — Ferdinand  J.  Libby,  now  a  Boston  attorney, 
has  just  won  a  law  suit  which  has  been  in 
the  Massachusetts  courts  for  some  time,  and  has 
been  decided  by  the  court  of  last  resort,  whose  find- 
ing will  form  a  precedent  for  future  action  in  all 
cases  of  like  nature.  A  few  years  ago  Mr.  Libby 
was  principal  of  the  High  School  at  Douglass, 
Mass.  During  his  incumbency  the  school  was 
closed  by  order  of  the  school  committee,  because 
of   the    prevalence    of   a    contagious    disease    in    the 


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town,  and  during  the  period  for  which  the  school 
was  closed,  so  much  of  Mr.  Libby's  salary  was 
withheld.  Mr.  Libby  stood  ready  to  teach  and 
promptly  demanded  his  salary.  It  was  refused,  and 
the  law  suit  was  the  result.  The  town  of  Douglass 
fought  the  case  vigorously,  but  its  exceptions  were 
overruled  by  the  full  bench  of  the  supreme  court, 
and  the  town  must  pay  Mr.  Libby  the  arrears  in  his 
salary. 

E-x-'85. — The  wedding  of  Morrill  Goddard,  the 
New  York  journalist,  and  Miss  Jessamine  Rugg 
took  place  at  St.  Luke's  Church,  Hot  Springs,  Ark., 
on  December  28,  1899.  The  bride  is  a  daughter  of 
Col.  D,  C.  Rugg,  a  retired  millionaire  of  Hot 
Springs.  Mr.  Goddard  is  editor  of  the  New  York 
Sunday  Journal.  He  received  the  degree  of  A.B. 
from  Dartmouth  in   1885. 

'90. — Henry  Hastings,  who  was  recently  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  Portland,  has  purchased  Judge  Frye's 
law  library  and  will  locate  in  Bethel ;  probably  in 
the  office  occupied  so  many  years  by  R.  A.  Frye. 

"gi. — E.  H.  Newbegin  resigned  as  rector  of  St. 
Andrew's  Church,  Ayer,  Mass.,  where  he  has  been 
preaching  for  the  past  three  years,  to  accept  a  call 
to  St,  John's  Church,  Bangor,  Me.  He  held  his 
first  service  in   Bangor,   Sunday,  December   loth. 

'95. — Dr.  Charles  E.  D.  Lord,  assistant  surgeon 
at  the  United  States  Marine  Hospital  at  Stapleton, 
Staten  Island,  and  Miss  Annie  L.  Ingersoll  of  Bid- 
deford  were  married  Monday  evening,  January  8th, 
at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  father,  Richmond  H. 
Ingersoll.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  the 
Rev.  E.  M.  Cousins  ('77),  pastor  of  the  Second 
Congregational  Church.  Miss  Isabelle  M.  Jones  of 
Maiden,  Mass.,  was  maid  of  honor,  and  Dr.  W.  S.  A. 
Kimball,  assistant  surgeon  at  the  National  Soldiers' 
Home,  and  a  classmate  of  the  groom,  acted  as  best 
man.  Among  the  ushers  were  Joseph  B.  Roberts, 
'9.5,  and  IJ.  D.  Lord,  '97,  a  brother  of  the  grocim. 

"97. — R.  S.  Hagar  has  been  travelling  abroad 
since  October,  1899.  He  will  spend  the  year  in 
Germany,   France,  and  England. 

'97. — R.  S.  Randall  is  teaching  at  Princeton, 
Maine. 

'97- — The  Orient  has  i'eceived  notice  without  par- 
ticulars of  the  recent  marriage  of  Frank  Stearns. 

'98. — The  engagement  of  H.  M.  Bisbee,  principal 
of  the  Brewer  High  School,  to  Miss  Maude  A. 
Wells  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  was  recently  announced. 


"I'm  in  a  sea  of  love  and  delight,  darling,"  said 
Adolphus.  Just  then  her  father  entered  with  the 
soothing  suggestion:  "Then  I'll  tow  you  ashore, 
young  man." 


IN    MEMORIAM. 

Alpha  Delta  Phi  House, 
Brunswick,  Me.,  Jan.  15,  1900. 

Whereas.  God  in  His  wisdom  has  seen  fit  to 
remove  from  our  midst  the  Rev.  George  Warren 
Field  of  the  Class  of  1837, 

Resolved,  That  the  Bowdoin  Chapter  of  Alpha 
Delta  Phi  mourns  the  loss  of  a  true  and  loyal  brother 
whose  life  has  been  an  honor  to  the  fraternity. 

Resolved,  That  our  sincerest  sympathy  be 
extended  to  his  bereaved  wife  and  friends,  and  that 
a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  wife  of 
our  late  brother  and  to  the  Bowdoin  Orient. 

Hugh    Francis   Quinn, 
Edmund  Hayes, 
Harold  Randall  Webb. 


A    suggestion    for   those   who   take   History   i.- 
"Where     was     Magna     Charta     signed?"     asked 
teacher  in  a  London  board  school.     "  Please,  sir, 
the  bottom." — Tid-Bits. 


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BEUNSWICK,  MAINE,   JANUAEY  25,  1900. 


No.  22. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED    EVBKT    THURSDAY    DURING    THE    COLLEGIATE 
TEAR  BY   THE  STUDENTS   OP 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babe,  1!)00,  Editor-in-Chief. 

IsLAY  P.  McCoRMiCK,  1900,  ....     Bu.siuess  Manager. 
George  C.  Wheeler,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900, Personals. 

Harry  C.  McOarty,  1900, Personals. 

Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900, College  News. 

Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902 College  News. 

Richard  B.  Dole,  1902, College  News. 

Charles  E.  Bellatty,  1902 Athletics. 

Frank  B.  Mitchell,  M.,  1902,     .    .    .     Medical  School. 

Per  annum,  in  advance, $2.00. 

Single  Copies, 10  Cents. 

Extra  copies  can  be  obtained  at  the  bookstores  or  on  applica- 
tion to  the  Business  Manager. 

Remittances  should  he  made  to  the  Business  Manag;er.  Com- 
munications in  regard  to  all  other  matters  should  he  directed  to 
the  Editor-in-Chief. 

Entered  at  the  Poat-OtBce  at  Brunswick  as  Second-Class  Mail  Matter. 

Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 

CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  22.— January  25,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes      195 

Bowdoin  One  Hundred  Years  Ago  and  Now   ....  196 

England  and  the  Transvaal 197 

A  Boston  Lassie 200 

Calendar 200 

College  News      201 

Y.  M.  C.  A 201 

Personals 202 

The  ice  and  snow  sliding  from  the  roofs 
of  the  different  buildings  during  the  middle 
of  these  warmer  days  has  an  element  of  dan- 
ger in  it  so  serious  that  the  Orient  hardly 
understands  why  it  has  been  neglected.  The 
weight  of  these  slides  are  often  sufficient  to 
injure   even   to   a   broken   neck   any    unwary 


student  who  happens  to  be  underneath ;  and 
that  such  accidents  haven't  occurred  is  truly 
not  the  fault  of  those  whose  duty  it  is  to  care 
for  the  campus. 

It  surely  cannot  be  a  very  superhuman 
task  to  clear  the  snow  from  the  roofs  after 
a  storm,  while  it  is  essential  to  the  safety 
and  comfort  of  the  students  as  reason  could 
expect.  Let  the  force  be  increased  if  there 
are  not  enough  hands,  for  such  evident  neg- 
lect ought  not  to  be  countenanced  a  moment 
by  the  college.  The  fellows  object  to  it 
universally,  and  it  is  only  just  that  their 
wishes  in  this  respect  be  carried  out. 


It  is  a  simple  matter  for  students  to  turn 
off  the  hot  water  in  the  baths  after  using  it, 
yet  so  many  neglect  it  that  half  the  time  the 
hot  water  has  run  to  waste,  and  fellows  have 
to  use  ice-cold  water  on  their  hot  and  perspir- 
ing bodies,  the  risk  of  which  is  exceedingly 
dangerous.  Particular  efforts  are  made  daily 
to  keep  a  roaring  fire  under  the  boilers,  and 
with  any  sort  of  decent  usage  there  would 
be  plenty  of  hot  water  for  all.  The  fellows 
ought  to  remember  this  and  be  more  thought- 
ful ;  it  is  selfish  and  unfair  to  inconvenience 
so  many  of  our  mates  by  such  carelessness. 
Oftentimes  it  may  be  one  of  our  best  athletes 
who  is  so  misused,  and  who  can  tell  the  result 
of  a  cold  shock  on  a  man  in  the  pink  of  con- 
dition !  Let  the  fellows  remedy  this  matter 
at  once  before  we  have  an  unpleasant  experi- 
ence to  force  the  harm  of  this  carelessness 
upon  us. 


The  Mandolin  Glee  Club  this  year  is  a 
strong  and  excellent  organization.  Its  selec- 
tions are  not  beyond  the  scope  of  college 
talent,  and  the  music  is  both  tuneful  and  char- 
acteristic of  college  life.     Bowdoin  has  a  very 


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fair  reputation  in  New  England  for  producing 
splendid  musical  clubs  and  it  is  with  consid- 
erable satisfaction  the  Orient  realizes  that 
this  standing  is  to  be  fully  maintained  another 
year.  Of  course  the  chief  interest  in  the 
club's  schedule  is  centered  about  the  dates  of 
the  Boston  trip.  It  is  here  the  best  concerts 
are  given  and  the  ablest  critics  sit  in  judge- 
ment. The  most  profuse  compliments  were 
tendered  the  club  last  year  by  the  college  men 
and  friends  of  Boston;  even  the  daily  papers 
spoke  of  the  Maine  boys  in  high  terms.  This 
record  should  be  bettered  next  week,  and  the 
ability  of  Bowdoin  in  the  gentler  and  cultured 
activities  of  college  men  placed  above  ques- 
tion. The  fellows  have  the  best  wishes  and 
the  thorough  interest  of  the  college  behind 
them.  So  bring  back  more  honor  to  the  col- 
lege.    We  like  it. 


The  gander  club  has  given  us  a  dainty  bit 
of  sense  and  nonsense  in  the  first  number  of 
the  Quill.  Especially  fitting,  it  seems,  was  the 
article  on  Thomas  Brackett  Reed,  while  the 
two  contributions  of  verse  by  one  of  our 
young  alumni  and  a  Sophomore  were  of  the 
sort  that  is  acceptable  above  all  others  to  col- 
lege men.  The  other  articles  are  of  no  small 
merit,  and  the  tracks  themselves  are  quaint 
and  amusing.  Many  thanks  for  your  first 
issue.  May  all  the  volume  be  as  interesting 
and  entertaining. 


BOWDOIN  ONE  HUNDRED  YE.4RS 
AGO  AND  NOW. 

Every  student  must  indeed  feel  interested 
in  the  growth  and  development  of  his  col- 
lege; in  its  small  beginning  and  gradual  rise 
into  prominence,  and  in  its  struggles  before 
reaching  whatever  degree  of  importance  it 
may  have  attained. 

In  1802  Bowdoin  was  opened  as  a  college 
for  the  advantage  of  the  Maine  districts. 
There  had  already  occurred  its  share  of  trials. 
Such  an  institution  had  long  been  needed  in 


Maine  on  account  of  the  increased  popula- 
tion and  the  expense  of  travelling  to  Har- 
vard. Many  attempts  were  made  to  found  a 
college,  but  several  different  cities  wanted  it. 
So,  'S.S  the  people  were  unable  to  agree  upon 
its  location,  the  establishment  was  delayed 
from  time  to  time.  Finally  a  compromise 
was  made  and  a  charter  granted  a  college  to 
be  situated  at  Brunswick.  This  was  June  24, 
1794.  The  delays,  however,  continued.  The 
uncultivated  lands  granted  the  institution 
could  not  be  sold  nor  could  money  be  raised 
in  other  ways  sufficiently  to  start  the  con- 
struction of  the  first  building.  Then,  'too, 
the  governing  boards  disagreed  as  to  the 
amount  that  ought  to  be  expended  in  con- 
struction. It  was  eight  years  after  the 
charter  had  been  granted  when  the  first  build- 
ing, Massachusetts  Hall,  was  completed. 
This  alone  at  first  contained  the  home  of  the 
president  and  students,  besides  the  library, 
recitation  rooms,  and  chapel. 

At  length  this  building  was  finished  and 
a  president  and  one  professor  chosen.  In 
September,  1802,  President  McKeen  and 
Professor  Abbot  were  inaugurated  into  their 
offices  and  the  college  opened.  The  first  class 
numbered  eight.  How  quiet  the  campus 
must  have  been ! 

At  that  time  one  might  start  in  a  stage 
coach  through  the  muddy,  half -made  roads, 
or,  if  he  lived  in  Masachusetts,  by  ship  and, 
after  perhaps  a  week  on  the  way,  arrive  at 
a  few  buildings  a  short  distance  south  of  the 
village  of  Brunswick.  If  about  to  enter  col- 
lege he  would  easily  find  his  new  home  in  the 
plain  brick  building. 

The  student  was  compelled  to  take  his 
meals  at  the  commons,  which  was  at  a  tavern 
near  where  the  Congregational  church  now 
stands.  Except  to  eat,  a  student  need  not  go 
out  of  the  building  in  which  he  lived,  but  only 
passed  from  one  room  to  another.  He  was 
almost  always  under  the  control  of  the  col- 
lege officers,  especially  two  or  three  years 
after  the  college  was  opened,  when  tutors,  of 


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197 


which  there  were  then  several,  personally 
cared  for  and  controlled  the  undergraduates. 
When  the  first  dormitory  was  built  the  tutors 
occupied  the  second  floor,  and  the  Freshmen 
in  the  rooms  below  had  the  pleasure  of  being 
a  sort  of  errand  boy  for  them,  thus  being 
called  tutor's  Freshmen. 

Most  of  the  studies  taken  up  are  now 
studied,  but  a  few  are  found  only  in  the  pres- 
ent preparatory  schools.  Therefore  students 
might  enter  much  •  younger  than  they  other- 
wise could. 

After  four  years  as  a  college  several  new 
buildings  were  erected  and  the  place  began 
to  take  on  more  the  appearance  of  a  college. 

The  first  Commencement  occurred  in 
September,  1806.  .Of  course  the  Trustees  and 
Overseers  were  present  and,  owing  to  the 
importance  of  the  event  a  very  large  num- 
ber of  visitors  came,  many  even  from  Massa- 
chusetts. There  was  a  severe  rain  storm  at 
the  time  and  the  exercises  were  held  in  the 
unfinished  church.  The  President  in  the 
pulpit  had  an  umbrella  over  his  head  and  the 
others  protected  themselves  as  they  could. 
Thus  the  other  exercises  of  commencement 
continued  and  the  rain,  mud,  and  pitchy  dark- 
ness could  be  enjoyed  at  their  worst.  Yet 
it  is  said  that  the  novelty  of  everything  was 
enjoyed,  and  it  was  certainly  long  remem- 
bered. 

If  the  size  of  the  college,  as  it  was  then, 
seems  small,  this  was  more  than  made  up  by 
its  high  standard  and  by  the  character  of 
those  in  control.  The  examinations  from  the 
first  were  equal  to  those  at  Harvard.  Its 
ofiicers  were  men  of  excellent  ability  and  high 
character.  Under  them  it  slowly  but  surely 
grew  larger  and  stronger. 

The  standard  set  at  that  early  period  has 
apparently  been  upheld  ever  since.  There 
have  been  many  difficulties  in  obtaining  money 
to  micet  the  expenses,  but  these  were  only  for 
the  time  and  could  not  check  the  steady 
increase  of  the  college. 

To-day  Bowdoin  would  undoubtedly  seem 


strange  to  one  of  the  first  students  were  one 
to  return.  He  might  recognize  the  original 
building  which  at  his  time  was  almost  every- 
thing, but  the  Art  Building,  Memorial  Hall, 
the  Science  Building  and  a  few  others  could 
not  fail  to  cause  surprise.  The  practice  of 
boarding  in  clubs  might  also  interest  him 
who  had  been  compelled  to  eat  at  the  old 
tavern.  Then  perhaps  he  would  look  inside 
at  the  number  of  names  which  fill  the  list  of 
the  Faculty,  and  consider  the  condition  of 
the  college  in  its  diflferent  branches.  After 
he  had  found  out  the  various  buildings  and 
had  learned  of  the  affairs  of  his  Alma  Mater, 
at  many  things  the  former  student  might  not 
show  much  astonishment.  He  might  say 
that  this  prosperity  was  only  continuing  what 
had  been  begun  by  the  early  founders;  that 
much  of  the  advance  was  along  the  lines  of 
the  standard  set  at  the  beginning.  This, 
however,  will  take  nothing  from  the  college 
as  it  is  now,  but  will  rather  show  its  aim  has 
always  been  high.  At  any  rate  it  seems  able 
to  cope  with  whatever  difficulties  may  be 
before  it.  Surely  it  can  look  back  upon  the 
past  without  reproach  and  forward  to  the 
future  without  fear. 

—1903. 


ENGLAND  AND  THE  TRANSVAAL. 


A   Few   Opinions   from    Members   of  the 

F.\CULTY    ON     THE     SoUTH     AFRICAN     CON- 
FLICT. 

Dr.  Whittier  says : 

To  form  an  opinion  of  the  merits  of  Boers 
and  British  in  South  Africa,  perhaps  it  will 
be  well  to  ignore  details  and  regard  only  the 
broader  lines  of  the  "question. 

No  one  can  deny  that  in  her  relations  with 
her  colonies,  England  stands  for  honest  gov- 
ernment, commercial  prosperity,  and  twenti- 
eth century  civilization.  Give  England  con- 
trol of  South  Africa  and  there  will  be  a  rail- 
road from  Cairo  to  the  Cape,  development  of 
the    resources    of    the    country,    government 


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with  a  civil  service  as  honest  and  efficient  as 
that  of  India.  Accounts  most  favorable  to 
the  Transvaal  promise  no  ■  such  results  from 
Boer  control.  The  Boer  government  is  repre- 
sented as  bigoted  and  perhaps  dishonest.  All 
agree  that  the  Boer  civilization  is  a  hundred 
years  behind  that  of  England.  In  their  harsh 
treatment  of  the  Uitlanders,  the  Boers  stand 
for  the  taxation  without  representation 
principle  that  Americans  have  ever  opposed. 
So  while  one  admires  the  bravery  of  the 
Boers,  regard  for  the  future  of  Africa  com- 
pels the  hope  that  British  success  will  be 
immediate  and  complete. 

Professor  MacDonald  says: 

The  success  of  Great  Britain  in  South 
Africa  means  the  triumph  of  a  higher  stage 
of  civilization  over  a  lower;  and  with  such  a 
triumph  I  find  myself  entirely  in  sympathy. 
While  a  war  between  powers  so  unequal  is 
always  regrettable,  and,  in  this  instance,  with 
more  moderation  and  good  sense  on  the  part 
of  Mr.  Chamberlain,  and  less  obstinacy  and 
pretence  on  the  part  of  President  Kruger, 
might  perhaps  have  been  averted,  to  say  that 
the  war  is  unnecessary  and  unjustifiable  is 
to  say  that  events  would  not  be  what  they  are 
if  human  nature  had  been  different — a  remark 
certainly  more  obvious  than  illuminating. 
Whether  a  nation  shall  go  to  war  with  another 
or  not  is,  in  the  last  analysis,  a  matter  of 
political  discretion;  and  if  diplomacy  and 
moral  suasion  had  ceased  to  be  effective  as 
they  seemed  to,  the  great  interests  of  Eng- 
land in  the  South  African  Republic,  together 
with  the  stubborn  denial  of  substantial  rights 
to  the  Uitlanders,  make  a  better  justification 
for  forcible  interference  than  most  wars  have. 

Professor  Chapman  says : 

I  do  not  feel  sufficiently  familiar  with  the 
conditions  that  prevailed  in  South  Africa 
before  the  war  to  pass  an  opinion  upon  the 
respective  acts  of  the  two  governments  in 
bringing  on  the  conflict.  It  is  probable  that 
Mr.    Chamberlain    was    exasperating    in    his 


manner  of  asking  concessions  from  the  Boer 
government  in  the  interest  of  Englishmen, 
and  that  President  Kruger  was  obstinate  and 
unreasonable  in  refusing  them.  There  is 
reason  to  believe  that  the  Boers  wanted  war 
and  were  prepared  for  it,  and  that  the  Eng- 
lish expected  to  have  their  claim  granted  with- 
out war  for  which  they  were  unprepared. 
Now  that  the  war  is  in  progress  my  sym- 
pathies are  with  the  English.  Their  claims, 
I  believe,  are  substantially  just,  and  their 
victory  in  the  conflict  will  be  for  the  ultimate 
benefit  of  the  people  and  the  government  of 
South  Africa,  and  in  the  interest  of  civiliza- 
tion everywhere. 

Professor  Files  says : 

In  his  private  estimate  of  the  justice  in 
the  war  which  England  is  waging  in  South 
Africa,  the  average  American  is  influenced  as 
much,  probably,  by  a  certain  natural  prejudice 
as  by  any  positive  connection  on  his  own  part. 
One  of  us  hates  the  land-grabbing  policy  of 
the  English  and  trust  that  the  Boers  may 
ultimately  be  victorious ;  another  favors  Eng- 
land and  believes  implicitly  in  her  cause.  If 
these  statements  are  intended  to  be  more  or 
less  of  the  nature  of  "confessions  of  faith," 
I  must  frankly  subscribe  to  a  genuine  interest 
in  the  cause  of  England. 

The  conditions  which  gave  rise  to  the  war 
were  so  numerous  and  involved  that  they  seem 
too  intricate  for  the  lay  mind  to  unravel. 
There  is  one,  however,  which,  although  not 
wholly  unknown  in  the  history  of  nations,  is 
certainly  unique  as  a  cause  of  war,  viz.,  the 
unpopular  constitutional  requirement  of  the 
Boers  that  the  children  of  English-speaking 
parents  shall  be  educated  in  the  Dutch  lan- 
guage in  schools.  This  is  by  no  means  the 
smallest  grievance  in  the  eyes  of  the  British. 

A  certain  member  of  the  Bowdoin  Faculty 
summed  up  the  national  obligation  of  English 
fathers  and  mothers  in  the  following  rather 
forcible  manner.  This  gentleman,  it  seems, 
has  travelled  in  Holland  and,  we  may  assume, 
has  experienced  some  of  the  difficulties  of  the 


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Dutch  language.  At  least,  he  now  avows 
that  if  he  were  an  Englishman  in  South 
Africa,  he  would  fight  to  the  last  drop  of 
blood,  if  anyone  tried  to  force  him  to  learn 
the  Dutch  tongue;  and  there  is  certainly  a 
shadow  of  argument  in  his  views. 

Yet  from  the  Boer's  side,  this  provision  is 
most  necessary  if  they  hope  to  preserve  their 
language.  The  Uitlanders  are  in  excess  in 
point  of  population;  the  great  majority  of 
these  foreigners  are  English-speaking.  From 
the  experience  of  other  peoples  under  similar 
conditions,  we  know  that  it  is  a  matter  of  but 
a  short  time  before  the  Dutch  language  would 
be  entirely  supplanted  by  the  English.  The 
native  vigor  and  richness  of  the  English 
tongue  gives  it  a  quality  which  makes  it 
desirable  above  the  Dutch ;  the  latter  would 
certainly  have  sunk  early  into  the  background. 

But  the  Boers  in  this,  as  in  all  things,  are 
conservative.  Their  methods  and  customs 
are  distinctly  those  of  a  past  generation.  In 
spite  of  their  present  successes,  there  is  every 
reason  to  believe  that  they  must  give  way  to 
a  more  enlightened  and  progressive  nation. 

Professor  Emery  says : 

The  present  situation  in  South  Africa  is 
an  admirable  illustration  of  the  impossibility 
of  applying  the  code  of  private  ethics  to  inter- 
national affairs.  In  private  disputes  there  is 
always  a  right  and  a  wrong  and  ultimately 
an  established  tribunal  to  determine  tlie  issue. 
Among  nations  there  constantly  arise  conflicts 
of  interest  in  which  the  rights  of  the  two 
parties  are  so  nearly  equal  that  to  pass  judg- 
ment in  favor  of  one  of  them  is  impossible. 
Unless  one  nation  yields  out  of  weakness,  the 
result  is  war.  Such  seems  to  me  the  situation 
in  South  Africa. 

The  Boers  were  in  possession  of  the  coun- 
try when  the  English  began  to  pour  in,  and 
they  realized  that  the  dominant  position  of 
their  race  would  be  overthrown  if  the  out- 
landers  were  given  full  political  rights.  Con- 
sequently they  passed  such  laws  as  would 
keep  them  in  permanent  control  of  the  govern- 


ment though  a  minority  of  the  population. 
And  to-day  they  are  fighting  to  defend  this 
position.     Who  shall  blame  them? 

But  in  the  meantime  the  English  have 
come  in.  There  is  the  fact  for  England. 
There  are  more  English  in  the  Transvaal  than 
Boers.  They  have  invested  their  money 
there  and  own  (it  is  said)  nine-tenths  of  the 
property.  They  pay  the  taxes  and  have 
neither  a  voice  in  the  government,  nor  the 
ordinary  protection  to  property,  health  or 
liberty  that  England  guarantees  foreigners  in 
her  own  borders.  It  is  too  late  to  tell  them 
to  get  out  if  they  don't  like  it.  The  interests 
of  a  hundred  thousand  Englishmen  are  at 
stake,  and  the  English  government  has  inter- 
fered to  see  that  they  get  fair  play,  not  as 
the  term  may  be  interpreted  by  the  Boers,  but 
as  it  is  understood  in  England.  What  decent 
government  would  not? 

It  is  then  an  "irrepressible  conflict,'' 
between  an  unprogressive  people  fighting  for 
life  and  a  progressive  people  fighting  for 
growth.  And  the  real  issue  is  as  to  which 
race  shall  be  the  dominant  race  in  South 
Africa,  for  the  evidence  seems  to  show  that 
the  Boers  have  been  every  whit  as  aggressive 
as  the  English,  with  dreams  of  an  independent 
Dutch  South  Africa. 

As  to  our  sympathies,  no  one  can  fail  to 
have  a  generous  feeling  for  the  brave  farmers 
fighting  for  their  own,  but  the  English,  too, 
are  fighting  for  their  own ; — for  their  suprem- 
acy in  South  Africa  which  they  have  fairly 
won  in  the  past.  If  possession  of  a  country 
had  always  been  respected  by  strong  races, 
progress  would  have  stopped  in  pre-historic 
times.  Our  tears  may  be  for  the  Boers,  but 
our  prayers  can  be  only  for  those  of  our  own 
race  who  will  turn  their  victory  into  prosperity 
and  progress  under  a  free  government. 

Professor  Robinson  says : 

As  to  the  merits  of  the  present  war  in 
South  Africa,  I  know  too  little  to  express  an 
opinion  which  should  have  any  weight.  My 
feeling  is  that  a  conflict  of  some  kind  was 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


inevitable  owing  to  the  state  of  mind  of  both 
parties.  Neither  had  any  confidence  or  trust 
in  the  other,  and  probably  for  good  reason. 
President  Kruger  was  just  as  sure  that  his 
people  must  in  the  end  fight  the  British  as  of 
anything  in  the  world,  and  narrow,  bigoted, 
positive  men  like  him  never  give  up  an  idea 
when  once  entertained.  It  evidently  became 
a  part  of  his  religion.  I  don't  think  that  he 
expected  to  have  to  fight  simply  to  hold  his 
present  ground,  he  was  not  looking  forward 
to  a  mere  struggle  for  existence,  but  he  and 
others  around  him  have  evidently  had  some- 
thing of  the  "manifest  destiny"  idea  in  their 
minds,  that  Africa  belonged  to  them  and  they 
were  in  a  sense  God's  chosen  people  to  inherit 
the  land.  To  this  end  the  people  have  been 
armed  and  drilled  for  years,  not  so  much  for 
self -protection  as  conquest.  England  on  the 
other  hand  has  done  nothing  to  convince  them 
that  they  were  wrong.  She  has  been  unfor- 
tunate in  her  governors,  and  in  the  attitude 
of  her  representative  men.  But  I  do  not 
believe  that  she  really  intended  to  provoke  a 
war  or  to  absorb  the  Transvaal  or  Orange 
Free  State.  She  is  not  free  from  blame  in 
the  matter,  but  in  so  far  as  it  is  a  war  of  con- 
quest I  think  the  Boers  are  more  actuated  by 
that  idea  than  the  English.  It  may  seem  an 
absurd  notion  that  a  little  nation  like  that 
should  hope  to  wrest  sovereignty  in  any 
degree  irorp  England,  but  nothing  is  absurd 
to  a  narrow,  ignorant,  religious,  people,  how- 
ever honest  they  may  be.  I  admire  the  Boers 
for  the  brave  fight  they  have  made,  but  I 
believe  the  right  is  with  England.  She  is 
paying  heavily  for  mistakes  of  certain  leaders, 
but  she  is  fighting  the  battle  of  progress,  and 
will  win. 

As  to  the  result  it  will  not,  I  think,  suit 
extremists  on  either  side.  The  Boers  will 
not  gain  South  Africa,  but  their  brave  fight 
will  insure  the  permanence  of  their  govern- 
ment. However  badly  they  may  be  beaten 
hereafter,  England  will  not  dare  absorb  peo- 
ple   who    have   fought   her    so    well.     Other 


nations  will  protest  even  if  she  is  disposed  to 
do  so.  But  as  I  do  not  believe  their  country 
was  in  danger  even  if  they  hadn't  gone  to 
war,  that  seems  a  sorry  outcome  for  so  much 
loss  of  life.  It  seems  to  me,  in  short,  a  war 
due  to  misconceptions,  and  one  which  will 
end  in  disappointment  for  both  sides. 


A  BOSTON  LASSIE. 
I  met  her  in  the  mountains,  so  it  chanced, 
Was  attracted  by  her  eyes,  that  gently  danced, 

I  was  warned  that  she  would  phase 

Any  j'outh  that  met  her  gaze ; 
But  my  reckless  spirit  longed  to  be  entranced. 

The  fellows  said  the  case  was  most  absurd. 
That  a  student  of  theology  be  lured 

By  a  pair  of  wicked  eyes. 

And  some  softly  murmured  sighs. 
Still  I  constantly  declared  she  was  a  "bird." 

She  talked  of  nightly  dinners,  "The  Touraine," 
And  of  theatre  parties — while  I  thought  with  pain, 

If  in  Boston  I  should  meet  her 

And  forgettingly  should  greet  her, 
How  my  ministerial  scholarship  she'd  drain. 

They  tell  me  that,  last  summer,  at  Cape  May, 
She  managed  things  in  so  discreet  a  way. 

That  the  firm  she  represented 

Was  delighted — then  repented. 
When  expenses  ($200)  it  had  to  pay. 

If  thus  she  uses  men  and  money  free. 

If,  to  her,  expensive  dinners  are  such  glee. 

Oh,  I  hardly  dare  consider; 

For  such  thoughts  my  mind  bewilder, 
As  I  wonder  what  she  means  to  do  with  me. 

— C.  C.  R.,  1900. 


CALENDAR.^ 

Thursday,   Jan.    25. — First   Junior    Assembly. 
Saturday,     Jan.     27. — Boston     College     Indoor 
Meet. 

Sunday,  Jan.  28. — Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges. 
Saturday,  Feb.  3. — B.  A.  A.  Indoor  Meet. 
Friday,  Feb.  9. — Minstrel  Show. 
Thursday,   Feb.    15. — '68   Prize   Speaking. 
Monday,  Feb.   19. — Jury  Meeting. 
Thursday,   Feb.   22. — Washington's  Birthday. 
Friday,  March  23. — College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,    April   2-6. — Examinations. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


201 


COLLEGE   NEWS. 

spear,  igoo,  spent  Sunday  in  college. 

Stackpole  has  been  awarded  the  Noyes  prize  for 
excellency  in  Political  Economy. 

The  inhabitants  of  North  Maine  now  whistle 
whenever  Pottle  appears  in  sight. 

The  concert  in  Memorial  Hall  last  week  by  the 
Glee-Mandolin  Club  was  worth  going  a  long  way  to 
hear. 

The  class  in  Latin  ii  listened  to  a  very  interesting 
and  original  paper  by  Bacon,  1900,  last  Thursday 
evening. 

While  the  Orient  is  going  to  press  the  Seniors 
and  Juniors  are  electing  class  officers  and  parts  for 
next  June. 

A  good  way  to  court  a  sudden  death  is  to  ask 
"Judge"  Hamlin  what  he  had  for  supper  on  his 
Boothbay  trip. 

The  new  drainage  which  was  laid  last  summer 
did  not  prophesy  anything  encouraging  for  next 
spring  during  the  thaw  Sunday. 

Shaw,  the  stationer,  informs  us  he  has  put  in  a 
line  of  text-books  at  bottom  prices.  We  are  glad  to 
hear  it,  that  is  what  we  want. 

Professor  Chapman  spoke  last  week  at  the 
Teachers'  Convention  in  Portland  on  "Moral  Edu- 
cation Through  School  Work." 

The  relay  team  are  fast  developing  into  cham- 
pionship form.  They  will  need  it  to  tackle  success- 
fully Amherst  and  Technology  in  the  same  week. 

The  Politics  Club  discussed  English  Politics  and 
creamed  oysters  at  Professor  Emery's  rooms  last 
week.  A  jolly  and  profitable  evening  goes  without 
saying. 

The  hollow  in  front  of  the  Art  Building  furnished 
a  good-sized  patch  of  ice  after  the  recent  thaw.  It 
seems  practical  to  flow  this  space  and  thus  have 
skating  there  until  the  spring  thaw. 

A  bequest  of  $100,000  comes  to  Harvard  by  the 
will  of  a  recent  alumni  of  Harvard  for  the  establish- 
ment of  a  professorship  of  the  science  of  govern- 
ment. 

Walker,  '01,  has  recently  resigned  from  the 
Orient  board.  At  a  recent  meeting  the  following 
men  were  taken  on :  Dole,  '02,  Wheeler,  '01,  and 
Mitchell,  Med.  '02. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Glee  and  Mandolin  Clubs 
Saturday  evening,  it  was  unanimously  voted  that 
Boothbay  Harbor  is  all  right,  but  that  Flynt  was 
rather  selfish  to  dance  eleven  times  with  the  same 
girl. 


Sills  and  Dana  entertained  the  History  Club  last 
week.  The  question  up  for  consideration  was  the 
probable  dissolution  of  the  Austrian  Hungarian 
Empire,  after  which  the  fellows  enjoyed  the  con- 
cocting of  creamed  oysters. 

The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Club  were  tendered  a 
banquet  last  Monday  evening  by  Mr.  Inman. 
Besides  the  club,  Professor  Little  and  Smith,  Dr. 
Whittier,  Rev.  McLaughlin  Russell,  '97,  Hill,  '99,  and 
Minard,  ex-1900,  were  gathered  about  the  sumptu- 
ously laden  board. 

A  party  of  students  occupied  two  boxes  at  Music 
Hall,  Lewiston,  Saturday  night.  Those  present  were 
Knight,  Levensaler,  Pottle,  and  Wood,  1900 ;  Smith, 
1901 ;  Eastman,  Rolfe,  and  Dorman,  1902;  White, 
Conners,  Nutter,  Pearl,  Abbott,  Dana,  and  Greene, 
1903. 

The  thirtieth  annual  meeting  of  the  Bowdoin 
Alumni  of  Portland  and  vicinity  will  be  held  on 
Saturday,  January  27,  1900,  at  the  Falmouth  Hotel, 
Portland.  It  is  hoped  that  this  will  be  the  largest 
and  most  successful  meeting  of  the  Association.  The 
oration  will  be  given  by  Mr.  Henry  L.  Chapman  of 
Class  of  1866,  the  Poem  by  Mr.  Clarence  W.  Peabody 
of  the  Class  of  1893,  and  Mr.  Fabius  M.  Ray  of  the 
Class  of  1861  will  act  as  Toastmaster.  The  business 
meeting  will  be  held  at  seven  o'clock  p.m.,  and  at 
its  close  dinner  will  be  served. 

Professor  William  R.  Chapman  of  New  York, 
director  of  the  Maine  Musical  Festival,  in  a  recent 
interview,  said :  "  Speaking  of  college  glee  clubs,  I 
want  to  tell  you  that  I  never  listened  to  a  more 
pleasing  entertainment  than  that  given  by  the  Bow- 
doin Glee,  Mandolin  and  Guitar  Clubs  the  other 
night.  Both  the  Glee  and  the  Mandolin  Clubs  are 
exceptionally  good,  but  I  think  that  I  never  heard 
such  delicacy  of  shading  and  finish  in  any  similar 
combination  of  instruments.  I  did  not  before  realize 
that  there  was  so  much  real  music  in  mandolins  and 
guitars." — Bangor  Whig  and  Courier. 


Y.  M.  C.  fi. 

Disappointments  are  good  for  individuals,  so  we 
presume  they  are  good  training  for  organizations; 
however,  we  are  not  anxious  for  any  more  of  the 
kind  in  question.  The  schedule  of  the  Student  Vol- 
unteer Secretaries  for  the  winter  provided  for  a  two 
days'  visit  (January  28-29)  at  Bowdoin  by  one  of 
their  representatives,  Mr.  F.  M.  Gilbert,  recently  sec- 
retary of  the  student  associations  of  Boston.  A  letter 
received  this  week  from  the  International  Committee 
states  that  Mr.  Gilbert's  eastern  trip  will  have  to  be 
postponed,  as  he  has  not  yet  returned  from  the  Brit- 


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BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


ish  Volunteer  Convention,  at  which  he  represented 
the  American  movement. 

This  disarranges  several  plans,  among  which  was 
a  presentation  of  the  association  and  its  work  to  the 
Medical  students.  Some  other  special  way  will  be 
taken  to  introduce  the  association  work  in  this 
department ;  in  the  meantime  all  Medical  students  are 
most  heartily  welcomed  to  the  services  and  privileges 
of  the  Association. 

The  mid-week  service  on  January  i8th  was  led  by 
Atherton.  The  subject  considered  was  the  appeal  of 
religion  to  the  educated  man.  We  realize  that  here 
in  college  the  time  of  most  men  is  completely  filled, 
and  an  invitation  to  a  service  of  this  sort  is  quickly 
turned  oflf  by  the  excuse  of  "no  time."  To  this 
excuse  the  association  answers.  All  right,  when  you 
do  find  time,  just  drop  in  to  the  service.  The  sub- 
jects taken  up  are  practical,  the  meeting  is  short,  no 
one  will  question  you  on  your  belief,  if  you  want  to 
speak  on  the  subject  everybody  is  glad  to  hear  you, 
whether  you  take  the  customary  view  or  not.  Every- 
body interested  in  these  practical  questions  of  a  moral 
and  religious  nature  should  come  in  as  often  as  pos- 
sible and  make  these  meetings  of  interest  and  profit 
to  the  student  body. 

President  Hyde  spoke  at  the  Sunday  service  Jan- 
uary 21  St,  his  subject  being  the  story  of  the  rich 
young  man  who  claimed  that  he  had  kept  the  ten 
commandments.  The  discourse  pointed  out  most 
plainly  how  we  keep  the  commandments  in  letter  and 
fall  far  short  of  their  spirit. 

The  Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges  will  be  observed 
on  next  Sunday,  January  28th,  by  a  sermon  before 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  the  church  in  the  morning,  and 
the  usual  afternoon  service.  Dr.  Jenkins  of  Port- 
land will  be  the  preacher  of  the  day. 


PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'70. — D.  S.  Alexander  is  now  serving  his  second 
term  in  Congress  from  the  33d  New  York  district, 
one  of  the  two  Buffalo  districts.  Mr.  Alexander 
serves  on  two  of  the  important  House  Committees, 
viz.,  the  Judiciary  and  the  Rivers  and  Harbors.  In 
the  recent  appointment  of  committees.  Speaker  Hen- 
derson appointed  him  fifth  on  the  Judiciary  and  sev- 
enth on  the  Rivers  and  Harbors.  These  two  appoint- 
ments are  very  pleasing,  as  they  entitle  Mr.  Alexan- 
der to  a  place  on  either  committee  in  case  his  party 


should  be  in  the  minority,  and  as  he  has  already 
had  considerable  experience  and  has  proven  himself 
as  a  very  useful  and  conscientious  member  of  the 
House,  his  constituents  can  rest  assured  that  he  will 
continue  his  .proud  record.  As  Mr.  Alexander  hails 
from  a  strong  Republican  district,  it  will  undoubtedly 
be  the  policy  of  the  party  leaders  to  continue  return- 
ing him,  a  policy  which  has  been  so  conspicuous  with 
Maine  and  has  made  the  State  so  very  strong  and 
influential  in  the  halls  of  Congress. 

'82. — A  story  of  the  Hon.  Jesse  Libby's  method 
of  obtaining  testimony  in  the  Cotton  vs.  Mechanic 
Falls  case  is  told  in  a  Maine  paper.  It  is  a  case 
where  Mrs.  Cotton  brings  suit  against  the  town  of 
Mechanic  Falls  for  damages,  she  having  received 
serious  injuries  because  of  a  bad  plank  in  the  walk, 
as  she  claimed.  Now  Jesse  Libby  of  this  town  is 
for  the  plaintiff — it  being  the  first  case  he  has  tried 
against  his  town,  it  is  said,  and  on  Sunday  night,  or 
rather  Monday  morning,  January  isth,  at  about  two 
o'clock,  some  of  the  mill  employes,  on  their  way 
home  from  work,  heard  a  mysterious  sawing  and 
hammering,  and  upon  investigating,  found  Hon.  Jesse 
Libby  and  Mr.  Cotton  busily  at  work  about  some- 
thing that  seemed  to  please  them  a  good  deal.  Now 
these  men  might  have  been  working  out  their  taxes, 
according  to  a  previous  agreement,  for  all  that  any- 
one knew  for  a  certainty,  but  the  men  were  not  con- 
tent to  let  it  go  so,  and  they  went  at  once  to  First 
Selectman  Frank  Millet,  and  told  him  what  they  had 
seen  and  heard.  He  started  off  down  town  as  soon 
as  he  could  get  into  his  clothes,  but  before  he  arrived, 
the  old  boards  had  been  ripped  up,  and  the  new  ones 
were  just  fitted  into  position.  The  little  skirmish 
has  amused  folks  in  town  hugely,  and  it  is  expected 
that  the  planks  will  be  a  vivid  and  interesting  bit  of 
testimony  when  that  case  comes  up. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,   FEBRUARY   1,   1900. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


No.  23. 


J:5  O  W 13  O  J.  N    OKI  E  N  T. 

PUBLISHKD     EVERY    THURSDAY    DURING   THE     COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY   THE   STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGK. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babe,  1900,  Editor-iu-Uhief . 

ISLAY  V.  McCoRMiCK,  1900,  ....     Busiiiess  Manager. 
George  C.  Wheeler,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900 Personals. 

Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900 Personals. 

Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900, College  News. 

Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902 College  News. 

Richard  B.  Dole,  1902 College  News. 

Charles  E.  Bellatty,  1902 Athletics. 

Frank  B.  Mitchell,  M.,  1902,      .     .     .     Medical  Sclio 

Per  annum,  in  advance $2.00. 

Single  Copies, 10  Cents. 

Extra  copies  can  be  obtained  at  tlie  boolsstores  or  on  applica 
Lion  to  tbe  Business  Manager. 

Ucniiltances  should  be  made  to  tbe  Business  Manager .  Com- 
munications In  regard  to  all  otlier  matters  should  be  directed  to 
the  Editor-in-Chief. 

Entered  at  the  Poat-Offlce  at  Brunswick  as  Second-OIass  Mail  Matter. 

Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 

CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  23.— February  1,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes 203 

Bowdoin  Alumni  Banquet 204 

The  History  of  Fraternities  at  Bowdoin  College      .     .  205 

Lecture  on  the  Faust  Legend 207 

Calendar 208 

College  News       208' 

Athletics 209 

Personals 209 


One  cannot  help  admiring  the  facility 
which  Tufts  has  for  obtaining  ex-coUegians 
and  ahimni  of  sister  institutions  in  her  enroll- 
ment. To  glance  at  her  base-ball  candidates 
for  the  approaching  season,  as  was  in  the  Sun- 
day Herald,  one  must  be  struck  with  the  famil- 
iar names  of  base-ball  players  which  have  fig- 


ured more  or  less  prominently  in  recent  college 
teams  all  over  the  country.  Surely  there 
seems  to  be  a  splendid  affinity  between 
Tufts  and  ex-college  base-ball  players.  Just 
what  is  the  nature  of  it?  This  tendency  has 
been  noticed  for  several  years,  until  the  can- 
didates for  the  season  of  1900  almost  suggest 
an  all-college  team.  We  sincerely  wish  Tufts 
all  joy  in  her  athletic  policy,  but  cannot  help 
fearing  that  some  one  may  be  unkind  enough 
to  suggest  that  there  is  method  and  induce- 
ments behind  her  good  luck. 


In  another  column  will  be  found  the  Senior 
appointments,  which  include  all  those  who  have 
attained  an  average  rank  of  seven  at  least  for 
the  first  three  years  and  the  first  term  of  the 
last  year.  Essays  are  required  from  this  list, 
and  six  are  chosen  to  make  the  Commencement 
stage.  The  additional  Phi  Beta  Kappa  men 
are  probably  on  this  list,  although  they  are  not 
chosen  until  the  rank  for  the  last  term  has  been 
ascertained. 


The  proposed  revised  athletic  constitution 
will  probably  be  ready  to  meet  the  considera- 
tion of  the  student  body  some  time  next  week. 
The  advisory  board  has  very  carefully  pre- 
pared one,  the  representatives  of  the  under- 
graduate have  another,  and  still  a  third  will  be 
completed  after  the  Alumni  meeting  at  Boston 
Saturday  evening.  The  new  constitution, 
which  is  to  be  determined  by  a  mass-meeting 
of  the  students,  will  be  either  one  of  the  three 
plans  just  mentioned,  or  a  compilation  from 
the  same. 


Boston  College  held  a  very  successful  meet 
last  Saturday  night,  and  Bowdoin  must  admit 
that  the  fellows  enjoyed  her  hospitality 
exceedingly,  especially  so  in  the  relay  race 
with  another  guest,  and  the  low  hurdles. 


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BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


To  be  sure  the  relay  team  beat  Amherst, 
notwithstanding  the  training  has  been  limited 
and  inefficient,  yet  the  time  does  not  warrant 
a  walk-over  by  any  means  with  M.  I.  T. 
There  may  be  good  reasons  for  the  slow  time, 
the  chief  of  which  may  be  that  they  didn't  have 
to  run  faster ;  but  we  sincerely  hope  there  are 
excuses  and  that  inability  does  not  explain  it. 
M.  I.  T.  usually  sends  out  a  relay  team  good 
for  3  m.  i6  sec,  on  a  pinch,  and  to  beat  that 
time  it  requires  a  team  of  stars. 

When  we  look  at  the  men  on  our  team  and 
then  at  the  record  last  Saturday,  we  feel  con- 
vinced that  there  is  some  inconsistency,  that 
the  time  is  no  criterion  of  our  chances  at  the 
B.  A.  A.  meet,  but  rather  that  the  experience 
and  ability  of  the  men  is  the  true  criterion.  If 
the  latter  hypothesis  is  correct,  and  our 
instinct  says  it  is,  Bowdoin  will  enjoy  the  B. 
A.  A.  meet  not  a  whit  less  than  the  Boston 
CoUegfe  meet. 


Class  elections,  unless  entirely  free  from 
previous  understandings  and  personal  preju- 
dices, are  liable  to  at  least  produce  discord  if 
not  inferior  men  to  represent  the  class  at  the 
time  when  the  best  impressions  are  the  most 
desired.  There  are  many  elements  in  a  class 
which,  if  tampered  with,  may  result  in  evils 
that  reach  every  phase  of  college  life.  Com- 
bines, deals,  and  oppositions  to  this  or  that 
man  because  of  some  principle  too  selfish  and 
ignoble  to  be  breathed  in  the  pure  air  should 
be  altogether  too  cheap  for  Bowdoin.  They 
should  be  bottled,  hermetically  sealed,  marked 
dangerous  and  put  in  a  safe  and  distant  place. 
This  sort  of  thing  often  does  not  end  with  a 
motion  to  adjourn,  but  like  some  dirty,  con- 
tagious vermin,  it  fastens  on  the  very  soul  of 
college  welfare,  degenerating  it  into  a  diseased 
state  of  cliques,  and  all  the  antonyms  of  har- 
mony until  a  year's  history  will  be  a  most 
inglorious  page  of  failures  and  defeats. 

All  the  evils  of  combines  found  expression 
at  the  recent  election  of  the  Junior  Class.  A 
most  unfortunate  misunderstanding,  for  which 


nobody  is  entirely  to  blame,  resulted  in  the 
class  splitting  into  two  factions,  each  of  which 
thought  the  combine  originated  with  the  other, 
while  as  a  matter  of  fact  the  cause  of  it  all  was 
hardly  more  than  a  will  o'  the  wisp  of  many 
weeks  ago.  Ethical  formulae  might  not  justify 
a  combination  from  a  mere  sense  of  self- 
preservation,  but  this  natural  feeling  is  all  that 
is  at  the  foundation  of  these  combines,  acceler- 
ated by  a  few  would-be  politicians  who  flamed 
a  little  spark  of  suspicion  and  rumor  until  the 
class  was  divided  within  itself.  However,  the 
class,  both  factions,  and  those  elected  to  office 
are  unsatisfied  and  ashamed  now  that  the  mis- 
understanding behind  it  all  has  been  cleared. 

The  best  thing  possible  is  to  forget  it  all 
and  accept  with  good  grace  the  present  choice, 
especially  inasmuch  as  the  Ivy  Day  parts  are 
given  to  men  adapted  to  their  offices  and 
might  well  stand  for  the  unanimous  expression 
of  the  class.  The  class  has  learned  a  lesson 
which  they  will  probably  utilize  hereafter,  for 
to  profit  by  experience  is  to  grow  in  the 
strongest  and  most  permanent  way. 


BOWDOIN  ALUMNI. 

Annual    Banquet    at    the    Falmouth- 
President  Hyde  a  Guest. 


The  annual  banquet  of  the  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege alumni  of  Portland  was  held  at  the  Fal- 
mouth Hotel  on  Saturday  evening,  and  it  was 
a  most  pleasant  occasion  for  the  graduates  of 
this  old  and  famous  institution  of  learning. 
The  gentlemen  began  to  assemble  early  in  the 
evening,  and  previous  to  the  banquet  spent  the 
time  in  singing  college  songs  and  renewing 
happy  days.  At  the  business  meeting  the  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected  for  the  year : 

President — Clarence  Hale. 
Vice-Presidents — George  F.  Emery,  Charles 
F.  Libby,  Augustus  F.  Moulton,  Prentiss  Lor- 
ing. 

Secretary — Arthur  F.  Belcher. 

Treasurer — S.  T.  B.  Jackson. 

Executive  Committee — W.  G.  Davis,  A.  W. 
Merrill,  Elias  Thomas,  Jr. 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


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Dinner  Committee — S.  L.  Larrabee,  F.  W. 
Pickard,  Clark  B.  Eastman. 
Orator— C.  P.  Mattocks. 
Poet— A.  W.  Tolman. 
Toast-master — Franklin  C.  Payson. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  business  meeting 
the  party  adjourned  to  the  private  dining-room, 
where  a  fine  banquet  was  enjoyed. 

President  Hale  of  the  Class  of  '69  sat  at 
the  head  of  the  table,  on  his  right  being  Presi- 
dent William  DeWitt  Hyde  of  the  college  and 
on  the  left  Prof.  Henry  L.  Chapman,  who  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Class  of  '66.     The  other  gen- 
tlemen were  as  follows  :     Hannibal  H.  Emery, 
'74 ;  Seth  L.  Larrabee,  '75  ;  Arthur  W.  Merrill, 
'87;  F.  N.  Whittier,  '85;  Wallace  S.  Mitchell, 
'96 ;  Harry  E.  Gribben,  '97 ;  George  F.  McQuil- 
lan, '75;  Prentiss  Loring,  '56;  George  S.  Pay- 
son,  '80;  Frederick  Odell  Conant,  '80;  Virgil 
C.   Wilson,   '80;   H.   S.   Payson,   '81;  W.   M. 
Ingraham,  '95  ;  Lincoln  L.  Cleaves,  '99 ;  Walter 
S.  M.  Kelley,  '99;  Harry  B.  Russ,  '95;  Eben 
Winthrop  Freeman,  '85  ;  Francis  W.  Dana,  '94 
Richard  S.  Payson,  '93 ;  Llewellyn  Barton,  '84 
W.  W.  Thomas,  '94 ;  Albert  W.  Meserve,  '88 
Alvin  C.   Dresser,   '88;  John  H.   Pierce,   '98 
Charles  L.  Hutchinson,  '90 ;  Elias  Thomas,  Jr. 
'94;  Franklin  C.  Payson,  '76;  F.  M.  Ray,  '66 
Frederic  H.  Gerrish,  '66 ;  Prof.  Leslie  A.  Lee 
Charles  O.  Hunt,  '61 ;  Russell  D.  Woodman 
'66 ;  Charles  W.  Pickard,  '57 ;  Joseph  A.  Locke, 
'65 ;  Enoch  Foster,  '64. 

President  Hale  in  a  few  appropriate  words 
called  upon  Prof.  Chapman,  who  delivered  the 
oration  of  the  evening.  The  oration  was  a 
brilliant  effort,  a  most  scholarly  production, 
and  was  highly  appreciated  by  the  auditors. 

Clarence  W.  Peabody  then  read  an  orig- 
inal poem. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  literary  exercises 
the  after-dinner  speaking  followed. 

Hon.  Fabius  M.  Ray  was  the  toast-master, 
and  first  introduced  President  Hyde,  who 
responded  to  the  toast,  "Our  Alma  Mater." 
President  Hyde  spoke  at  length,  reviewing  the 
standard  the  college  has  attained  in  the  past 


and  detailing  the  bright  outlook  for  the  future 
of  the  institution. 

Dr.  Gerrish  responded  to  the  toast  "The 
Medical  School  of  Maine."  He  said  this 
branch  of  Bowdoin  was  in  a  flourishing  con- 
dition and  was  doing  a  good  work. 

The  other  speakers  of  the  evening  were 
Alvin  C.  Dresser,  who  spoke  for  the  prepara- 
tory schools  ;  Dr.  F.  N.  Whittier  of  the  Faculty, 
who  spoke  on  athletics,  and  Hon.  Enoch  Fos- 
ter, who  spoke  for  the  legal  fraternity. 

The  assembly  adjourned  at  midnight. 


THE  HISTORY  OF  FRATERNITIES  AT 
BOWDOIN  COLLEGE. 

The  natural  tendencies  of  college  students 
have  always  been  toward  the  establishment  of 
societies  intended  to  promote  both  social  and 
educational  ends.  During  the  early  history 
of  the  American  colleges  these  organizations 
were  mostly  of  a  non-secret  character  and 
were  devoted  to  literary  purposes.  Later, 
however,  secret  orders  were  established  which 
gave  birth  to  the  Greek-Letter  Fraternities  of 
the  present  day. 

Fraternity  history  of  Bowdoin  dates  from 
the  year  i83i,when  Alpha  Delta  Phi  organized 
its  Bowdoin  chapter.  At  that  time  the  two 
literary  societies  existing  furnished  the  prin- 
cipal social  life  of  the  college  and  the  men 
who  became  members  of  the  new .  chapter 
were  of  literary  tastes,  who  desired  to  culti- 
vate a  close  bond  of  friendship.  They  were 
students  of  character  and  ambition,  and  the 
society  was  a  success  from  the  beginning. 

Six  years  later  Delta  Upsilon  established  a 
chapter  of  that  fraternity.  This  society  was 
of  a  character  somewhat  similar  to  the  literary 
societies  which  flourished  during  the  early  his- 
tory of  the  college,  although  its  members  were 
more  closely  associated  with  one  another. 
This  chapter  was  temporarily  crippled  in  1862 
when  so  many  Bowdoin  men  enlisted  in  the 
Federal  army.  It  was  re-established  in  1892 
and  has  since  continued  in  a  prosperous  con- 
dition. 


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BOWDOm  ORIENT. 


In  1843  Psi  Upsilon  placed  its  Kappa 
chapter  at  Bowdoin.  The  society  grew  rap- 
idly in  favor  among  the  students,  and  became 
a  powerful  factor  in  college  life. 

The  following  year  Chi  Psi,  at  the  earnest 
solicitation  of  several  students,  decided  to 
locate  a  chapter  at  Bowdoin,  and  on  October 
II,  1844,  representatives  of  the  fraternity  met 
a  delegation  of  Bowdoin  students  at  the 
United  States  Hotel,  Boston,  where  the  mys- 
tic rites  were  performed.  Alpha  Eta, 
although  forced  to  compete  with  the  older 
chapters  of  the  college,  became  very  powerful 
and  continued  so  until  its  suspension  at  the 
time  of  the  civil  war.  Upon  its  fraternal  rolls 
are  found  the  names  of  many  of  Bowdoin's 
eminent  graduates  who  left  the  institution 
during  Alpha  Eta's  existence.  In  this  list 
are  found  the  names  of  Charles  William  God- 
dard,  '44,  Thomas  Amory  Deblois  Fessenden, 
'45,  Frederick  Dummer  Sewall,  '46,  Melvin 
Weston  Fuller,  '53,  Henry  Clay  Wood,  '54, 
Thomas  Brackett  Reed,  '60,  Thomas  Worces- 
ter Hyde,  '61,  Alexander  Johnson  Stone,  '67, 
and  many  others  of  note. 

In  the  same  year  in  which  Alpha  Eta  was 
established.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  also 
extended  its  chapter  roll  to  Bowdoin.  This 
fraternity  was  founded  at  Yale  a  few  months 
previous,  and  Theta  was  the  first  chapter  to  be 
extended  to  another  college. 

Eta  cl:(arge  of  Theta  Delta  Chi  followed  in 
1854,  and  with  the  exception  of  four  years 
following  the  civil  war,  has  since  continued  in 
a  healthy  state.  Alpha  Eta  chapter  of  Chi 
Psi  never  recovered  from  the  crippled  condi- 
tion into  which  it  was  thrown  during  the  war. 

In  1867  Lambda  chapter  of  Zeta  Psi  was 
planted  within  the  sacred  precincts  of  Bow- 
doin. The  college  was  then  recovering  from 
the  effects  of  the  war,  and  Lambda  became  a 
recognized  factor  among  the  different  chap- 
ters. 

Alpha  Rho  chapter  of  Kappa  Sigma  was 
organized  in  1895,  which  is  the  last  of  the 
fraternities  to  be  established,  with  the  excep- 


tion of  the  Alpha  Kappa  Medical  fraternity, 
which  was  extended  to  the  Medical  School  in 
1897.   _ 

Phi  Beta  Kappa,  an  honorary  society 
established  in  1825,  maintains  its  Alpha  of 
Maine  Chapter  at  Bowdoin. 

Many  local  societies  have  also  existed  at 
different  periods  of  the  college  history.  The 
Phi  Chi  society  was  a  famous  organization  of 
former  years. 

At  Bowdoin,  as  in  many  American  col- 
leges where  several  fraternities  have  chapters, 
much  rivalry  is  manifested  in  obtaining  new 
members.  Many  studenft  before  entering 
upon  their  college  course  have  already  decided 
upon  their  choice  of  societies,  influenced  either 
by  some  relative  who  has  attended  the  insti- 
tution or  by  the  associations  which  they  have 
had  with  college  men  of  their  town. 

In  several  colleges  the  intense  competition 
between  the  chapters  during  the  "fishing" 
season  has  assumed  such  proportions  that  the 
Faculty  has  been  forced  to  form  regulations 
prohibiting  the  initiation  of  Freshmen  until 
after  their  matriculation.  In  other  instances 
the  several  societies  have  adopted  an  agree- 
ment where1)y  the  members  of  the  entering 
class  are  not  to  be  approached  on  fraternity 
subjects  until  a  certain  time  after  college 
opens.  This  method  benefits  both  the  chapter 
and  initiate. 

Chapter  houses  are  a  new  phase  of  college 
life  at  Bowdoin,  but  their  era  is  at  hand. 
Alpha  Delta  Phi  is  already  occupying  a  house 
of  its  own,  and  several  of  the  other  chapters 
are  preparing  to  erect  houses.  These  build- 
ings will  add  much  to  the  college  not  merely 
in  a  material  sense,  but  they  will  bring  about 
common  interests  and  associations  not  exist- 
ing at  the  present  time.  These  houses  will 
offer  a  welcome  to  the  returning  alumnus  such 
as  cannot  be  accorded  on  the  campus,  and 
their  surroundings  will  tend  toward  a  closer 
affiliation  of  fraternal  ties. 

The  value  of  college  fraternities  has  long 
been  acknowledged  by  the  leading  educators 


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of  the  clay,  although  at  certain  institutions  they 
have  been  discontinued  because  of  local  mis- 
management. This  reflects  no  discredit  upon 
the  orders,  however,  which  are  fotmded  on 
pure  and  noble  aspirations.  Each  fraternity 
aims  toward  the  culture  and  refinement  of  its 
members  and  the  formation  of  brotherly  ties 
enduring  until  the  end  of  life.  They  strive 
to  arouse  each  chapter  to  higher  ambitions, 
thus  benefiting  not  only  the  fraternity  but  also 
the  institution  in  which  it  is  established. 
Within  the  fraternity  hall  the  student  receives 
a  training  and  development  which  benefits 
him  in  after  life.  Many  an  eminent  man  owes 
not  a  little  of  his  success  to  the  associations  of 
his  college  fraternity. 

Let  us,  then,  as  Bowdoin  students,  strive 
toward  the  advancement  of  our  fraternities, 
and  by  so  doing  we  will  reflect  the  greatest 
possible  credit  upon  the  college. ' 

— ViLES,  1903. 


LECTURE  ON  THE  FAUST  LEGEND. 

The  third  of  the  college  course  of  lectures, 
"The  Faust  Legend,"  was  given  Tuesday  of 
last  week.  "Faust"  is  so  familiar  that  any 
talk  concerning  this  masterful  classic  is  sure 
to  be  generally  popular,  and  this  occasion  was 
no  exception.  Although  the  audience  was  not 
as  large  as  a  lecture  of  this  high  standard 
should  anticipate,  yet  it  was  thoroughly  suc- 
cessful because  of  the  delight  in  the  legend 
itself  and  the  pleasing  personality  of  the  lec- 
turer. 

In  brief,  Professor  Files  said: 

The  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  centuries  saw 
a  great  revival  of  interest  in  science  through- 
out Europe.  The  populace,  however,  failed 
to  distinguish  between  the  work  of  these  gen- 
uine scientists  and  that  of  the  cunning  swin- 
dlers who  made  use  of  the  cloak  of  science  to 
disguise  their  evil  doings.  One  of  the  most 
notorious  of  these  swindlers  in  Germany  was 
one  Dr.  Johann  Faust,  a  charletan  who  seems 
to  have  won  for  himself  an  unenviable  repu- 
tation. About  his  name  there  grew  up  a 
whole  cycle  of  legends,  most  of  which  were 
collected  together,  some  fifty  years  after  his 


death,  into  a  book  with  the  title,  "Flistory  of 
Dr.  Johann  Faust,  the  Notorious  Sorcerer  and 
Black  Artist."  This  related  the  whole  history 
of  the  man,  his  early  life,  his  compact  with 
the  devil,  his  adventures,  and  his  mysterious 
death.  The  book  became  instantly  popular 
and  went  through  many  editions  and  altera- 
tions. A  translation  of  the  same  came  into 
the  hands  of  Christopher  Marlowe  in  Eng- 
land, and  served  as  the  basis  of  his  "Doctor 
Faustus."  Marlowe's  drama,  in  turn,  was 
taken  to  Germany,  where  it  was  adapted  to 
the  local  stage,  and  remained  popular  for 
many  years.  But,  finally,  coarse  buffoonery 
began  to  force  out  the  more  important  inci- 
dents, and  the  play  fell  into  disrepute.  In  the 
middle  of  the  i8th  century  it  survived  only  in 
the  form  of  the  puppet-play. 

Goethe  saw  the  puppet-play  when  a  boy  in 
his  father's  home  in  Frankfort ;  ten  years  later 
the  theme  of  the  Faust  was  occupying  much 
of  his  time.  At  first  he  thought  to  mould  his 
own  experiences  into  the  form  of  the  old 
drama.  Later  he  gave  up  this  idea  but  con- 
tinued to  work  upon  the  subject  in  a  more 
impersonal  way.  The  scheme  of  a  Faust 
drama  remained  in  Goethe's  mind  for  sixty 
years ;  not  until  1832,  the  year  of  his  death, 
did  he  complete  the  second  part  of  the  tragedy. 

Goethe  followed  the  legend  quite  closely 
in  many  respects ;  in  one  regard,  however,  he 
made  a  complete  departure ;  instead  of  con- 
demning his  hero  to  eternal  torment,  he  deter- 
mines to  save  him.  This  is  the  chief  varia- 
tion ;  it  is  also  the  most  important  aspect  of 
the  theme.  According  to  Goethe's  interpre- 
tation, Faust  is  to  be  subjected  to  the  influence 
of  the  tempter,  with  the  thought  that,  by 
knowing  of  evil,  he  will  be  led  to  choose  volun- 
tarily the  good.  This  proves  to  be  true;  for, 
in  spite  of  the  long  years  of  sensuous  enjoy- 
ment which  are  offered  him,  Mephistopheles 
fails  to  degrade  his  victim,  or,  in  any  way,  to 
drag  down  his  lofty  aims  and  aspirations. 
Faust's  last  moments  are  his  grandest. 

All  that  remains  of  the  Faust  is  introduced 
by  way  of  diversion ;  the  most  interesting  and 
charming  of  them  all  is  the  "Margaret 
episode." 

The  lecturer  dwelt  upon  the  beauty  of 
Margaret's  character  and  the  supreme  skill 
with  which  she  is  painted  by  Goethe.  She  is 
the  link  which  binds  Faust  to  Heaven ;  the 
one  who  receives  her  lover  after  "his  trials  in 


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yonder  world  are  over."  Taken  in  this  light, 
her  experience  with  Faust  must  be  interpreted 
as  more  than  an  episode  of  ordinary  import- 
ance ;  it  is  of  vital  importance  to  the  completed 
play.  _ 

CALENDAR. 

Saturday,  Feb.  3. — B.  A.  A.  Indoor  Meet. 
Friday,  Feb.  9. — Minstrel  Show. 
Thursday,   Feb.    iS-— '68   Prize   Speaking. 
Monday,  Feb.  19. — Jury  Meeting. 
Thursday,  Feb.  22. — Washington'.s  Birthday. 
Friday,  March  23.— College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,    April   2-6.— Examinations. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Higgins,  '02.  is  teaching  in  Stark. 

Lewis,  '01,  has  returned  to  college." 

Appleton,  '02,  spent  Sunday  at  home. 

Hatch,  '95,  was  on  the  campus  recently. 

Woodbury,  1900,  is  teaching  at  Fryeburg. 

Bean,  1900,  lately  visited  friends  at  Colby. 

Walker,  '01,  was  on  the  campus  last  week. 

Minott,  '96,  was  on  the  campus  last  Sunday. 

Mr.  Currier  is  to  form  a  class  in  art  in  Portland. 

Foster,  '01,  has  been  at  home  on  account  of  sick- 
ness. 

The  first  Junior  Assembly  was  a  very  pleasant 
affair. 

The;  relay  team  is  training  hard  for  its  race  with 
Tech. 

The  foot-ball  squad  have  begun  training  in  the 
gymnasium. 

The  next  Junior  Assembly  will  probably  be  held 
February  21st. 

The  date  of  the  Minstrel  Show  has  been  changed 
to  February  i6th. 

Several  of  the  students  attended  the  dance  in 
Bath  Wednesday  evening. 

Several  students  went  to  Portland  Saturday  to 
see  James  O'Neil  at  the  Jefferson  Theatre. 

Several  of  the  Juniors  have  organized  a  French 
Club  for  advanced  study  with  Professor  Johnson. 

A  sketching  class  has  been  formed  which  meets 
at  the  Walker  Art  Building  on  every  Wednesday 
evening  for  original  work  in  pen  and  ink.  The  class 
is  open  to  all  students  interested  in  drawing. 


Dr.  Whittier  has  placed  in  the  gymnasium  a  golf- 
machine  for  the  use  of  those  interested  in  the  game. 

The  water  in  the  Androscoggin  has  risen  so  that 
the  lights  are  now  being  turned  on  at  the  usual  time. 

President  Hyde  occupied  the  pulpit  at  State 
Street  Congregational  Church  of  Portland  last  Sun- 
day. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  Deutcher  Verein  was 
held  at  Cahill's,  Monday  night.  McCormick  and 
Holmes  read  interesting  papers. 

Rev.  Dr.  Jenkins  of  Portland  preached  at  the 
Church  on  the  Hill  on  the  Day  of  Prayer  for  Col- 
leges.    He  also  addressed  the  students  at  chapel. 

Professor  Henry  L.  Chapman  of  the  college  was 
at  Bridgton  this  week,  and  delivered  his  lecture  upon 
Robert  Burns  before  the  high  school  of  that  place. 

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Deutcher  Verein  at 
Cahill's,  Wednesday  evening,  Professor  Smith  deliv- 
ered an  extremely  interesting  lecture  on  German 
comic  papers. 

Professor  Emery  has  given  out  the  following 
subjects  for  the  Juniors  in  Political  Economy: 
Laws  of  Monetary  Circulation  Illustrated  by  the  Use 
of  Wampum.  The  Paper  Money  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Colonies.     In  What  Sense  is  Value  a  Ratio? 

The  following  officers  were  elected  in  the  Junior 
Class  elections:  President,  R.  L.  Dana;  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Danforth  ;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Sanborn  ; 
Orator,  Wheeler ;  Marshal,  Paul  Hill ;  Committee  on 
Arrangements,  Smith",  Coombs,  Flint;  Poet,  Sills; 
Odist,  Pierce;  Chaplain,  F.  H.  Cowan;  Curator, 
Small. 

The  following  members  of  the  Class  of  1900 
received  provisional  Commencement  appointments ; 
Babb,  Bass,  Beadle,  Bell,  Bragdon,  Burnell,  Chap- 
man, Cobb,  Colesworthy,  Hamlin,  A.  J.,  Harris, 
Holmes,  Lee,  McCarty,  McCormick,  Palmer,  Pear- 
son, Pottle,  Robinson,  Stackpole,  Ward,  Whitney, 
West,  Williams,  Willard,  Wood,  Woodbury. 

The  Senior  Class  officers  are  as  follows :  Presi- 
dent, Wood;  Vice-President,  Colesworthy;  Marshal, 
Willard  ;  Chaplain,  Robinson  ;  Orator,  Burnell ;  Open- 
ing Address,  Sylvester ;  Odist,  Lee  ;  Poet,  Webber  ; 
Closing  Address,  Levensaler;  Committee  of 
.Arrangements,  Edwards,  Knight,  Parsons;  Squad 
Leader,  Sparks;  Captain  Track  Team,  Edwards; 
Committee  on  Pictures,  Palmer,  Merrill,  Hamlin. 

At  the  Dartmouth  alumni  reunion  in  New  York 
the  other  night,  Thomas  B.  Reed,  who  came  to  rep- 
resent Bowdoin,  took  occasion  to  remark  that  the 
large  part  that  New  England  has  been  able  to  take 
in  the  affairs  of  the  country  has  been  the  result  of 
the  magnificent  training  received  by  the  men  of  New 


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209 


England  in  her  small  colleges.  And  those  who 
heard  him,  say  he  placed  a  good  deal  of  emphasis  on 
the  diminutive  adjective. — Boston  Herald. 

The  subjects  for  the  first  themes  of  this  term  are 
as  follows : 

For  Sophomores  and  for  Juniors  not  taking  Polit- 
ical Economy — 

Ancient  and  Modern  Methods  of  Physical  Train- 
ing. 

Should  the  College  Course  be  three  years  instead 
of  four? 

Browning's   "The  Return  of  the   Druses." 

Ruskin's  "Criticisms  of  Modern  Life." 


ATHLETICS. 

The  Bowdoin  relay  team  won  its  match  with 
Amherst  on  Saturday  evening  at  the  Boston  Col- 
lege Athletic  Meet  in  Mechanics  Hall.  Each  man 
on  the  team  has  brought  home  with  him  a  large  sil- 
ver mug  appropriately  engraved  and  presented  by 
the  managers  of  the  meet. 

Amherst  was  able  to  win  only  one  relay.  This 
was  the  first  when  Gladwin,  the  Amherst  man, 
fouled  Edwards  and  finished  a  good  lead.  Then 
Cloudman  took  up  the  race,  made  up  all  that  Edwards 
had  lost  through  the  collision  with  Gladwin,  and 
gave  Bowdoin  a  few  yards  to  spare.  Snow  increased 
the  lead  for  Bowdoin  and  Kendall,  our  fourth  man, 
had  a  substantial  lead  at  the  end  of  the  race.  The 
time  was  3.23  1-5. 

The  relays  were  390  yards.  The  time  was  not 
fast.  Below  are  the  results  of  the  other  college  team 
races  at  the  meet : 

Boston  College  beat  Holy  Cross  College;  time, 
3.19.  Cornell  beat  Brown;  time,  3.20  2-5.  Williams 
beat  Wesleyan  ;  time,  3.20.  Harvard  beat  Columbia ; 
time,  3.T5  4-5.  Phillips- Andover  beat  Harvard 
Freshmen;  time,  3.19  3-5.  Georgetown  University 
beat  Harvard;  time,  3.18  1-5. 

Edwards  of  Bowdoin  was  second  to  J.  Shirk  of 
Harvard  in  the  45-yard  low  hurdle  handicap  race. 

About  4,000  spectators  were  in  the  hall.  Bow- 
doin got  a  warm  reception. 

Next  Saturday  evening  in  the  same  building  the 
B.  A.  A.  meet  will  be  held  and  the  Bowdoin  team 
will  run  against  the  team  representing  the  Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology.  The  Bowdoin  men 
realize  that  they  will  have  to  improve  on  their  work 
of  last  Saturday  in  order  to  win.  M.  I.  T.  did  not 
enter  the  Boston  College  meet,  which  conflicted  with 
examinations  at  Tech. 

Following   is   the   schedule   of   the   Maine   Inter- 


collegiate  Base-Ball    Association,   as   announced   for 
the  coming  season : 

May  9. — U.  of  M.  vs.  Colby  at  Orono. 

May  16. — Colby  vs.  Bates  at  Lewiston. 

May  19. — U.  of  M.  vs.  Bates  at  Lewiston. 

May  26. — U.  of  M.  vs.  Bates  at  Orono. 

June  2. — U.  of  M.  vs.  Colby  at  Waterville. 

June  19. — Colby  vs.  Bates  at  Waterville. 


PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'25. —  'The  Ghost  of  Dr.  Harris,"  by  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne,  is  an  entertaining  story  which  appears 
for  the  first  time  in  the  January  number  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century.  The  article  is  prefaced  with 
the  following  paragraph : 

In  the  year  1856,  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  was 
American  consul  at  Liverpool.  There  he  made  many 
friends  and  acquaintances.  He  was  an  honored  and 
welcome  guest  at  the  house  of  the  late  Mr.  John 
Pemberton  Heywood,  well  known  in  Liverpool  as 
one  of  its  most  prosperous  and  respected  citizens. 
Here  it  was  that  Hawthorne  met  Henry  Bright  (a 
nephew  of  Mrs.  Heywood)  who  became  one  of  his 
most  intimate  friends,  and  to  whom  he  wrote  many 
letters,  some  of  which  are  published  in  his  Life.  It 
once  happened  that  when  dining  with  the  Heywoods, 
Hawthorne  related  his  own  personal  experience  of 
a  ghost.  The  story  was  thought  so  remarkable  by 
Mrs.  Heywood  that  she  begged  him  to  write  it  down 
for  her.  With  this  request  he  complied.  The  man- 
uscript is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Heywood's 
sister,  the  Honorable  Mrs.  Richard  Denman,  who 
kindly  allows  its  publication. 

'48. — On  January  13th,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  John  Dins- 
more  celebrated  their  silver  wedding  anniversary  at 
their  home  in  Auburn.  It  was  somewhat  in  the 
nature  of  a  surprise  party — arranged  by  the  Bible 
Class  of  the  Pine  Street  Congregational  Church,  of 
which  Mr.  Dinsmore  is  the  beloved  and  honored 
teacher.  The  evening  was  very  pleasantly  enjoyed 
by  all  present,  and  upon  the  departure  of  the  guests, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dinsmore  were  presented  with  a  gen- 
erous purse  of  silver. 

'50. — Gen.  O.  O.  Howard,  '50,  and  Rev.  W.  I. 
Cole,  '81,  were  among  the  speakers  at  the  annual 
dinner  of  the  Pine  Tree  State  Club  at  Boston,  Janu- 
ary i8th. 

'58. — At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Merchant 
Insurance  Company  of  Bangor,  recently,  E.  B. 
Nealley  was  elected  president. 


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BOWDOIN  OHIENT. 


'60. — Judge  Horace  H.  Burbank  of  Saco,  was  one 
of  the  speakers  at  the  annual  dinner  of  the  Limerick 
Club  (composed  of  former  residents  of  Limerick)  at 
Boston,  January  19th. 

Ex-'69. — The  Lewiston  Republicans  are  having  a 
good  deal  of  trouble  in  deciding  upon  whom  they 
shall  nominate  as  a  candidate  for  mayor  in  the  coming 
municipal  election.  At  the  present  time  the  friends 
of  Judge  A.  D.  Cornish  say  he  is  in  the  lead  and  is 
practically  certain  of  a  nomination. 

Ex-'75. — Edgar  Yates,  for  some  years  employed 
on  the  Biddcford  Journal  in  an  editorial  capacity, 
recently  accepted  a  position  with  a  Boston  daily. 

M.  '77. — The  candidacy  of  Hon.  John  F.  Hill  of 
Augusta  for  Republican  nominee  for  Governor  of 
Maine  has  been  announced.  This  is  not  unexpected, 
as  it  has  been  conceded  since  the  last  State  conven- 
tion that  Mr.  Hill  would  be  the  next  candidate,  and 
from  the  present  outlook  he  will  have  no  opposition 
in  the  convention.  So  far  as  his  qualifications  for 
the  ofSce  go  there  can  be  no  question.  He  has  had 
experience  in  State  affairs,  both  legislative  and  execu- 
tive, and  is  also  a  successful  business  man,  qualifica- 
tions that  have  done  so  much  for  the  success  of  our 
present  Governor  and  which  assure  us  a  careful  and 
economical  administration  under  Governor  Hill. 

'87. — Austin  Cary,  A.M.,  who  published  some  time 
ago  his  essay  read  before  the  Boston  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers,  will  give  a  course  of  lectures  on  the 
subject  of  Forestry  at  the  Boston  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology this  winter.  Soon  after  his  graduation  from 
Bowdoin  in  '87,  at  the  head  of  his  class,  Mr.  Gary's 
health  failed  him,  and  to  recuperate  he  went  deep 
into  the  heart  of  the  Maine  wilderness.  His  interest 
in  forestry  was  thus  developed,  and  to  this  subject 
he  has  since  devoted  his  energies.  He  has  traveled 
in  Europe,  studying  forestry  where  it  is  made  a 
science  /  and  it  is  certain  that  no  man  in  Maine  knows 
our  forests  and  understands  the  dangers  and  necessi- 
ties of  the  present  situation  better  than  this  brilliant 
young  man.  The  college  is  fortunate  in  securing  Mr. 
Cary  to  deliver  one  in  our  own  course  of  lectures  next 
month. 

'88. — On  Wednesday  evening,  January  17th, 
occurred  the  wedding  of  Miss  Delia  Lestella  Davis 
of  Auburn,  and  John  H.  Maxwell,  Esq.,  of  Livermore 
Falls.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Taylor,  pastor  of  the  Bates  Street  Universalist 
Church,  Lewiston.  Mr.  Maxwell  is  a  well  known 
lawyer  at  Livermore  Falls,  as  well  as  a  stirring  busi- 
ness man,  and  a  successful  career  seems  opening  upon 
him.  Miss  Davis  is  widely  known  in  Auburn  in 
social  life,  and  also  in  business  circles,  having  been 
associated  with  her  father  in  business  for  a  number 
of  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maxwell  are  making  their 
wedding  tour  to  Boston,  New  York  and  Washington. 


They  will  be  absent  until  the  latter  part  of  this  week, 
when  they  will  enter  upon  housekeeping  in  the  house 
they  have  already  furnished  at  Livermore  Falls. 
Mrs.  Maxwell  will  be  at  home  to  her  friends  during 
March. 

M.  '91. — Dr.  Andrews  arrived  at  his  home  in 
Augusta  last  week  after  an  absence  of  several  months 
in  Boston,  during  which  he  has  stififered  the  amputa- 
tion of  a  leg.  He  has  an  artificial  limb,  and  with  the 
aid  of  crutches  gets  about  much  easier  than  when 
Augusta  people  saw  him  last. 

'94. — The  following  is  clipped  from  the  Lewiston 
Journal :  "  The  many  friends  of  Dr.  Pliny  F.  Stevens 
may  be  pleased  to  know  that  he  is  very  pleasantly  sit- 
uated at  Bayonne,  New  Jersey,  twenty  minutes  by 
ferry  boat  from  New  York  City,  where  he  has  already 
obtained  a  good  and  steadily  increasing  practice.  It 
is  a  fact  worth  mentioning  that  but  few  young  men 
start  out  in  life  so  well  prepared  to  meet  its  ups  and 
downs  and  to  perform  the  arduous  and  responsible 
duties  connected  with  the  life  of  a  physician  as  Dr. 
Pliny  F.  Stevens.  From  his  earliest  youth  he  has 
been  under  the  best  of  educational  training,  and 
being  a  young  man  of  sterling  qualities,  both  of  mind 
and  character,  his  privileges  for  obtaining  a  broad 
and  liberal  education  have  all  been  improved.  When 
a  lad  of  sixteen  he  entered  the  Coburn  Fitting  School 
at  Waterville,  where  he  prepared  himself  to  enter 
Bowdoin  College,  and  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  high  honors.  From  Bowdoin  he  went  directly 
to  Philadelphia  and  entered  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege, from  which  he  was  also  graduated  with  honors 
such  as  are  bestowed  only  upon  students  who  by  their 
ability  and  close  application  have  proved  themselves 
worthy  to  receive  them. 

'95. — On  January  i,  1900,  G.  B.  Mayo  was 
appointed  by  the  Commissioners  of  McKean  County, 
Pa.,  to  act  as  solicitor  for  the  McKean  County  poor 
district  for  the  ensuing  year. 

'97. — Hagar  is  at  present  in  Dresden,  Germany. 
His  address  there  is,  care  Dresdener  Bank,  39  Prager 
Strasse. 

'98. — Arthur  Leroy  Hunt  of  Lewiston  arrived  in 
Washington  on  Friday  last,  and  will  be  employed  in 
the  Census  Office  while  the  Twelfth  Census  is  being 
taken.  Mr.  Hunt  is  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin,  Class 
of  1898,  and  is  boarding  at  1402  Q  Street,  N.  W.,  in 
company  with  four  other  Bowdoin  fellows,  W.  F. 
White  and  J.  E.  Rhodes,  2d,  of  the  Class  of  '97,  and 
W.  H.  White,  Jr.,  and  Archer  P.  Cram  of  '99. 
Since  last  August  Mr.  Hunt  has  been  working  on 
the  census  in  Boston. — liockland  Courier-Gazette. 


That  women  run  newspapers  now. 

The  public  must  confess. 
But  pshaw !  we  people  knew  somehow, 

They  always  loved  the  press. — Ex. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


BRUNSWICK,   MAINE,   FEBRUARY  8,   1900. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


No.  24. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

PUBLISHED     EVERY    THURSDAY    DURING    THE     COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE   STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 

Percy  A.  Babb,  1900,  Editor-iii-Chiet. 

ISLAY  F.  McCORMiCK,  1900 Business  Manager. 

George  C.  Wheeler,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900 Personals. 

Harry  G.  McCarty,  1900 Personals. 

Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900, College  News. 

Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902 College  News. 

Richard  B.  Dole,  1902 College  News. 

Charles  E.  Bellatty,  1902, Athletics. 

Frank  B.  Mitchell,  M.,  1902,      .     .     .     Medical  School 

Per  annum.  In  advance,      .....       $2.00. 
Single  Copies, 10  Cents. 

Extra  copies  can  be  obtained  at  the  bookstores  or  on  applica 
tion  to  tlie  Business  Manager. 

Keraittauces  sliould  be  made  to  tlie  Business  Manager.  Com- 
munications in  regard  to  all  other  matters  should  be  directed  to 
the  Editor-in-Chicl. 

Entered  at  the  Post-Office  at  Brunswicic  as  Second-Class  Mail  Matter. 

Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 

CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  24.— February  8,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes 211 

Calendar 213 

The  Glee  Club  Trip 213 

Annual  Boston  Alumni  Dinner       214 

A  Communication 215 

Bowdoiu  in  the  Civil  War       216 

College  News      217 

Athletics 217 

Y.  M.  C.  A 218 

Personals 218 

The  variou.s  newspaper  correspondents  in 
Bowdoin  have  it  in  their  power  to  be 
extremely  beneficial  to  their  college.  Perhaps 
no  method  is  so  profitable  in  inducing  under- 
graduates to  come  to  Brunswick,  as  are  well- 
written  accounts  of  college  activities 
thoroughly  circulated  throughout  the  State  by 


the  press.  Every  man  representing  a  news- 
paper should  exert  himself  to  cover  all  the 
space  that  his  paper  will  permit;  send  spicy, 
accurate,  and  explanatory  accounts  with  the 
idea  that  they  are  to  be  read  by  those  not 
familiar  with  college  customs,  of  whom  many 
may  be  prospective  students. 

When  one  considers  the  power  of  the  press 
in  regard  to  college,  the  conviction  is  immedi- 
ately felt  that  the  press  club  should  be  a  flour- 
ishing organization  and  not,  as  it  is,  a  monu- 
ment to  lethargy.  A  well  organized  Press 
Club  with  a  strong  executive  could  beat  Bow- 
doin College  into  the  heads  of  the  Maine 
youths  in  a  manner  that  would  make  those 
now  providing  for  the  advertisement  of  the 
college  open  their  eyes  in  wonderment.  Such 
a  club  should  make  it  its  business  to  obtain 
entire  control  of  all  press  corresponding ;  thus, 
when  a  correspondent  is  through,  a  suitable 
man,  subject  to  the  approval  or  vote  of  the 
club,  may  take  up  the  pen.  Any  correspond- 
ent not^  agreeing  to  the  regulations  of  the  club 
could  be  brought  to  terms  by  cutting  his  paper 
in  regard  to  news.  It  would  be  a  splendid 
investment  for  the  college  to  give  the  execu- 
tive officer  of  the  club  his  tuition,  with  the 
understanding  that  all  the  news  of  the  college 
and  all  its  departments  not  only  be  accessible 
to  the  members  of  the  club,  but  further  be 
printed  in  all  papers  represented  in  the  club. 
The  public  press  would  accept,  under  such  a 
scheme,  a  vast  amount  more  than  at  present ; 
the  fellows,  usually  paid  by  the  inch,  would 
realize  a  hundred  per  cent,  more  returns  for 
their  labor;  the  college  authorities  .would 
obtain  the  best  seventy-five  dollars'  worth  of 
advertisement  they  have  ever  had;  and  the 
enrollment  of  students  would  increase  with 
all  the  attributive  benefits  to  literary,  social, 
and  athletic  activities.  Is  this  not  worth 
trying? 


212 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


For  some  unaccountable  reason  Bowdoin 
students  possess  or  at  least  show  an  entire 
indifference  whether  sub-Freshmen  are  con- 
sidering" Bowdoin  or  some  other  institution. 
It  is  not  because  they  haven't  the  facility 
of  persuasion,  since  that  is  a  special  talent  of 
fellows  here,  unusually  well  developed  from 
decades  of  fraternity  "fishing."  Nor,  again, 
can  it  be  that  they  do  not  consider  it  wise  for 
sub-Freshmen  to  go  to  Bowdoin,  for  this  is 
paradoxical.  Whatever  the  reason  may  be, 
it  is  nevertheless  true  that  we  do  not  cater  to 
our  high-school  and  academy  friends.  It  is 
all  well  and  good  to  say  "Bowdoin  can  stand 
on  her  own  legs;"  she  can,  without  a  ques- 
tion, but  it  is  for  us  to  let  sub-Freshmen  know 
this.  What  does  the  average  "prep."  man 
know  of  the  reputation  of  our  Faculty,  of  the 
facilities  of  the  Science  Building,  the  beauty 
of  the  Art  Building,  the  commodiousness  of 
the  Athletic  Field,  the  congeniality  of  the 
under-graduates,  the  charm,  delight,  and 
benefit  of  college  life  in  general?  In  many 
cases  absolutely  nothing. 

Every  student  preparing  for  college  is  a 
possible  Bowdoin  man.  Put  the  pressure  on 
him  at  every  occasion,  we  cannot  afford  to  let 
one  slip  away.  Our  athletic  reputation  needs 
him,  our  social  nature  needs  him,  our  well- 
known  and  successful  band  of  alumni  need 
him,  ar/d  he  needs  Bowdoin.     Prove  it  to  him. 


Hygiene  teaches  the  Freshman  that  active 
exercise  before  a  meal  is  injurious,  but  experi- 
ence is  the  Senior's  instructor.  The  hour  of 
five  to  six  is  unquestionably  inconvenient  if 
not  unprofitable  for  gymnasium  exercise.  A 
quick  bath,  a  hurried  dress,  a  rush  to  thq 
evening  meal  and  an  unsuitable  condition  of 
the  blood  for  eating  must  surely  go  far 
towards  counterbalancing  all  the  benefits 
derived  from  the  drilling. 

While  it  does  not  seem  possible  to  change 
the  hour,  yet  it  might  be  an  improvement  if 
the  call  to  "fall  in"  is  given  earlier.  The 
fellows  are  generally  on  hand  a  few  minutes 
after   five,    and    often    it    is    nearly    half-past 


before  drilling  is  commenced.  By  beginning 
fifteen  minutes  earlier  the  time  thus  saved 
could  be  put  to  better  advantage  after  drilling 
than  it  is  now. 


The  continued  disgracefid  condition  of 
the  reading-room  and  the  treatment  of  the 
papers  has  surely  gone  beyond  human  for- 
bearance, and  some  power  should  take  imme- 
diate action  toward  the  proper  conducting  of 
the  room.  The  college  jury  would  naturally 
deal  with  a  case  of  this  sort,  and  its  jurisdic- 
tion should  be  brought  into  effect.  Any 
action  this  representative  body  might  take 
would  very  likely  be  the  expression  of  the 
student  body  and  accordingly  approved.  A 
few  culprits  punished,  and  the  college  senti- 
ment against  them,  new  and  better  order  might 
be  expected.  The  fellows  are  not  paying 
every  term  for  the  selfishness  of  a  few,  but 
rather  for  the  general  convenience  and 
information  of  all. 


The  proposed  constitution  for  the  athletic 
association  is  now  practically  completed.  It 
is  far  broader,  more  definite,  serviceable, 
and  perfect  than  the  present.  It  will  com- 
pletely eliminate  the  financial  defects  of  the 
past  seasons,  and  systematize  the  duties  of 
managers,  assistants,  and  directors. 

The  alumni  as  well  as  the  students  are  to 
be  eligible  to  the  association,  and  a  fee  for 
membership  will  be  a  new  source  of  income  to 
the  treasury. 

The  board  of  directors  will  have  consid- 
erable power,  inasmuch  as  nominees  for  man- 
agers and  assistants  come  from  this  body,  and 
also  their  sanction  is  necessary  upon  the 
schedule,  and  final  arrangements  for  games. 
The  assistant  manager  becomes  an  important 
and  responsible  office,  as  all  subscriptions  are 
collected  by  him,  as  well  as  the  performance 
of  general  managing  duties.  Captains  are 
elected  practically  as  at  present,  except  the 
winners  of  points  in  the  M.  I.  A.  A.  Meet  have 
votes  as  well  as  the  Worcester  team  in  choos- 
ing a  track  captain. 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


213 


The  subject  of  who  is  entitled  to  a  "B," 
is  definitely  settled  in  bestowing  that  honor  on 
all  who  can  vote  for  a  captain,  together  with 
members  of  'varsity  relay  teams  and  winners 
in  intercollegiate  tennis  tournaments.  This 
seems  but  just  that  a  man  winning  a  point  in 
a  Maine  meet  should  have  a  "B'"  on  his 
sweater,  the  more  so  as  larger  numbers  train 
for  meets  than  for  foot-ball,  while  fewer  earn 
the  right  in  the  former  case  even  under  the 
new  rules  than  in  the  latter  sport. 

The  poor  showing  of  certain  so-called 
Bowdoin  scrub  teams  is  prevented  by  the 
necessity  of  having  official  permission  in  order 
to  play  a  game. 

The  vast  amount  of  work  devoted  to  the 
renovation  and  compiling  which  has  given 
such  a  perfect  constitution  cannot  be  realized 
except  by  the  loyal  ones  who  have  so  gener- 
ously labored  for  the  welfare  of  Bowdoin's 
athletic'  interest.  Perhaps  the  most  thanks 
are  due  Professor  Whittier,  who  has  so  thor- 
oughly thrown  his  whole  heart  into  this 
needed  reform. 

When  the  constitution  has  been  formally 
adopted  in  a  permanent  form  the  Orient  will 
print  it  in  full. 


The  orderly  management  and  gratifying- 
progress  in  the  preparations  for  the  approach- 
ing Ministrel  Shows  speaks  volumes  of  the 
wonderful  and  amusing  things  we  will  see  and 
hear  on  that  long-looked  for  evening. 

The  social  element  we  understand,  is  to 
be  present  on  this  occasion  in  full  glory. 
Friends,  and  alumni,  from  all  over  the  State 
and  even  beyond  have  expressed  their  deter- 
mination to  be  present.  The  hop,  it  appears, 
will  be  of  the  class  of  those  occurring  in  June. 

The  rehearsals  have  reached  a  degree  of 
perfection  which,  if  it  were  athletics,  would 
arouse  dread  of  staleness  before  the  eventful 
day ;  but  in  this  case  it  rather  prophesies  a 
crown  of  success  for  both  the  promoters  of 
the  entertainment  and  the  performers. 


Bowdoin  has  won  a  most  enviable  reputa- 
tion in  defeating  the  respective  relay  teams 
of  Amherst  and  Technology.  These  latter 
colleges  with  such  execellent  facilities  for 
training,  often  able  to  get  out-of-door  work 
because  of  the  mildness  of  the  climate,  have 
every  advantage  over  the  cramped  quarters 
which  have  produced  our  winning  quartette. 
The  full  significance  of  this  victory  cannot  be 
known  except  by  Bowdoin  undergraduates, 
especially  the  members  of  the  team.  Let  this 
monument  of  perseverance  and  courage  be 
an  inspiration  for  another  Worcester  victory. 
We  have  material,  and  spirit,  and  if  at  once 
started  brewing,  a  concoction  will  result  that 
should  satisfy  the  most  avaricious  thirst  for 
the  glory  of  Bowdoin. 


CALENDAR. 

Friday,  Feb.  9.— Minstrel  Show. 
Thursday,   Feb.    15.— '68   Prize   Speaking 
Monday,  Feb.  19,— Jury  Meeting. 
Thursday,   Feb.  22.— Washington's  Birthday 
Friday,  March  23.— College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,    April   2-6.— Examinations 


.  THE  GLEE  CLUB  TRIP. 

The  trip  of  the  season  was  taken  last  week 
when  the  club  gave  a  concert  in  Portland  and 
three  in  Boston. 

The  Portland  trip  was  highly  successful 
from  both  a  social  and  financial  aspect.'  The 
Portland  Press,  after  mentioning  the  unusual 
high  order  of  the  work  of  the  club  in  general, 
said : 

"Mr.  Welch's  'Berceuse'  was  admirably 
read,  while  Schumann's  'Tranmerai'  was  a 
gem  of  its  kind.  Mr.  John  Appleton  showed 
marked  versatility.  The  audience  could  but 
laugh,  at  times  almost  ^imm_oderately,  excusa- 
bly so,  however,  over  his  rag-time  selections 
and  his  'Cohen's  Telephone'  as  an  elocution- 
ary effort  was  worthy  of  a  star.  Not  a  small 
contribution  to  the  enjoyment  of  everybody 
was  the  work  of  Mr.  Willard.  Pie  sang  in  a 
style  which  deservedly  won  for  him  a  recall." 


214 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


Before  the  concert  the  fellows  enjoyed  a 
dinner  and  the  hospitality  of  Manager  Chap- 
man ;  while  later  in  the  evening  a  social  hour 
was  tendered  them  by  the  well-known  Port- 
land pianist,  Mr.  Frank  L.  Rankin,  who  by 
the  way,  during  the  concert,  accompanied  Mr. 
Welch's  solo  most  artistically  on  the  piano. 

Thursday  evening  the  entire  club  attended 
the  Alumni  Banquet  in  Boston,  and  inter- 
spersed selections  for  the  appreciative  and 
enthusiastic  sons  of  Bowdoin. 

The  general  concert  was  given  the  follow- 
ing evening  in  Steinert  Hall  to  a  most  inspir-' 
ing  house  of  alumni  and  friends.  The  Bos- 
ton papers  all  spoke  in  praise  of  the  ability 
and  artistic  quality  of  the  club,  and  especially 
of  the  Bowdoin  songs.  The  Boston  Herald, 
in  speaking  of  this,  had  the  following : 

"The  last  number  brought  out  the  entire 
company  upon  the  stage  to  sing  and  play 
Pierce's  'Bowdoin  Beata,'  one  of  the  prettiest 
college  songs  ever  written,  and  the  old  hazing 
slogan  '  Phi  Chi,'  which  never  fails  to  stir  the 
blood  of  the  'grads,'  with  its  vivid  sugges- 
tions of  the  old  days  when  hazing  was  en  regie 
and  Freshmen  were  kept  in  a  fitting  state  of 
humility." 

While  the  relay  team  was  showing  its 
heels  to  M.  L  T.  Saturday  night  in  the 
B.  A.  A.  Meet  the  University  Club  was  enjoy- 
ing a  no  iess  successful  and  pleasant  evening 
listening  to  Bowdoin  men  full  of  college  music 
and  song.  This  was  the  last  concert  and  the 
end  of  a  most  profitable,  delightful,  and  satis- 
factory trip,  thanks  to  the  hospitality  of  the 
University  Club  and  the  loyalty  of  the  alumni. 


ANNU.AL  BOSTON  ALUMNI  DINNER. 

The  32d  annual  meeting  and  dinner  of  the 
Association  of  Bowdoin  Alumni  of  Boston 
was  held  at  the  Copley  Square  Hotel  last 
Thursday  evening.  Over  eighty  graduates 
attended.  The  Mandolin-Guitar  and  Glee 
Clubs    furnished    a    pleasing    programme    of 


musical  selections  during  the  dinner,  and  the 
appreciation  of  the. alumni  was  plainly  visible 
in  their  generous  applause. 

President  Oliver  C.  Stevens  sat  at  the 
centre  of  the  head  table.  At  his  right  was 
Elihu  Vedder.  the  artist,  who  was  one  of  the 
principal  decorators  of  the  new  Bowdoin 
Chapel.  Other  guests  in  the  seats  of  honor 
were  Professor  F.  C.  Robinson  of  the  Bow- 
doin Chair  of  Chemistry,  Judge  William  L. 
Putnam  of  the  United  States  Court  of 
Appeals,  Edward  Stanwood  of  the  Youth's 
Companion  staff,  John  C.  Coombs  and  Dr. 
Dudley  A.  Sargent  of  Harvard. 

At  the  business  meeting  which  preceded 
the  dinner,  officers  were  chosen  as  follows : 

President,  Oliver  C.  Stevens ;  Vice- 
President,  Professor  Alfred  E.  Burton,  "78 ; 
Secretary,  N.  Cf.  Reed,  '82 ;  Assistant  Secre- 
tary, A.  L.  Lambert,  '79 ;  Executive  Com- 
mittee, Thomas  J.  Emery,  '68,  D.  O.  S.  Lowell, 
'74,  W.  A.  Robinson,  '76,  William  W.  Towle, 
'81,  Edward  N.  Codings,  '91,  Henry  S.  Chap- 
man. '91. 

Letters  were  read  from  President  William 
DeWitt  Hyde  of  Bowdoin,  the  Hon.  James 
W.  Bradbury,  Augusta,  Me. ;  the  Hon.  T.  B. 
Reed,  New  York ;  Enoch  Foster,  Portland ; 
Clarence  Hale,  Portland ;  Senator  William  P. 
Frye,  Chief  Justice  Melville  W.  Fuller,  and 
others.  At  the  beginning  of  the  dinner. 
President  Stevens  arose  to  say  that  a  dinner 
was  being  served  in  Bangor  in  honor  of  Judge 
Peters,  the  retiring  Chief  Justice  of  ]\Iaine, 
who  is  a  trustee  of  Bowdoin.  His  successor, 
Andrew  G.  Wiswell,  is  also  a  Bowdoin 
graduate. 

Professor  F.  C.  Robinson  of  the  Chair  of 
Chemistry  spoke  for  Bowdoin  in  the  absence 
of  President  Hyde.  He  reported  that  the 
largest  class  in  the  history  of  the  college  was 
now  in  its  Freshman  year,  that  hazing  was, 
as  usual,  abolished  last  fall,  and  that  the  boys 
are  going  to  get  the  base-ball  championship 
next  spring.  After  paying  a  tribute  to  Pro- 
fessor Emery  of  the  Chair  of  Political  Econ- 
omy,' recently  called  to  Yale,  Professor  Rob- 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


215 


inson  referred  to  the  limited  financial  resources 
of  the  college  in  proportion  to  its  accomplish- 
ments and  aims,  declaring  that  the  work  was 
now  being  done  by  one-half  the  number  of 
instructors  really  needed. 

The  Hon.  William  L.  Putnam,  trustee  of 
the  college,  and  Judge  of  the  United  States 
Court  of  Appeals,  said  that  Bowdoin  was  at 
first  a  protege  of  Massachusetts,  but  that  she 
has  paid  the  debt  many  times  by  the  sending 
hither  of  Longfellow,  Hawthorne,  and  the 
present  body  of  Massachusetts  alumni. 
Judge  Putnam  outlined  the  history  of  the 
attempt  to  get  the  college  into  the  control  of 
the  State  of  Maine,  and  the  temptation  of  the 
financial  help  then  held  out  to  the  trustees, 
who,  nevertheless  held  out,  and  the  college 
has  consequently  remained  poor,  but  inde- 
pendent. 

The  vigor  and  loyalty  of  college  sentiment 
was  indeed  gratifying.  To  see  graduates  of 
far  back  in  the  first  half  of  the  century  down 
to  those  of  the  last  few  years  turn  out  and 
give  such  convincing  evidence  of  their  faith 
in  the  college  and  its  work  fills  the  hearts  of 
those  living  the  active  college  life  with 
encouragement,  satisfaction,  and  pride. 


A  COMMUNICATION. 
Tu  the  Editor  of  the  Orient: 

Permit  me  to  state  three  reasons  why  the 
management  of  the  Reading-Room  Associa- 
tion should  now  be  merged  with  that  of  the 
College  Library. 

First.  By  the  removal  of  books  and  other 
changes  in  the  room  directly  at  the  right  as 
one  enters  the  College  Library,  a  reading- 
room  equally  convenient  in  location  and  more 
attractive  in  its  furnishings  can  be  secured. 
The  large  gallery  in  this  room  is  reached  by 
the  main  staircase  and  would,  when  relieved 
of  the  book-cases  with  which  it  is  now 
crowded,  and  supplied  with  comfortable 
chairs,  make  a  pleasant  nook  for  those  who 
wished  to  spend  a  half  hour  with  the  maga- 
zines after  glancing  at  the  papers  on  the  floar 


below.  Somewhat  more  floor  space  would 
be  available  than  is  afforded  by  the  room  in 
Winthrop   Hall. 

Second.  It  has  always  been  unfortunate, 
not  to  use  a  stronger  word,  for  visitors  and 
new-comers  to  find  that  the  college  "reading- 
room"  did  not  contain  such  popular  and  use- 
ful magazines  as  McClure,  Century,  Harper, 
Scribner  and  the  Review  of  Reviews.  But 
it  was  proved  long  ago  that  these  and  others 
like  them  can  be  made  freely  accessible  only 
in  an  apartment  provided  with  an  attendant 
who  is  responsible  for  its  good  order  and  the 
care  of  its  contents.  Such  supervision  the 
library,  with  the  added  assistance  of  the  pres- 
ent manager  of  the  reading-room,  is  prepared 
to  offer  for  twelve  hours  each  week  day  (i.e., 
from  8.30  A.M.J  to  9.30  P.M.,  with  brief  inter- 
missions at  dinner  and  at  supper  time),  and 
for  at  least  six  hours  on  Sundays.  The  slight 
curtailment  of  the  period  at  which  the  room 
in  Winthrop  Hall  is  available  would  be  more 
than  balanced  by  the  possession  of  a  reading- 
room  in  harmony  with  the  literary  standing 
and  aims  of  the  institution. 

Third.  The  reading  of  newspapers,  if  this 
does  not  lead  either  to  thought  or  to  a  more  or 
less  conscious  endeavor  to  increase  one's 
knowledge  of  the  topics  that  catch  the  atten- 
tion, is  hardly  worth  the  time  given  it.  It  is 
therefore  fitting  that  the  room  assigned 
them  should  be  in  close  connection  with  the 
library,  which  by  its  maps,  indexes  and  cy- 
clopsedias  tries  to  answer  the  questions  likely 
to  suggest  themselves.  The  library  can  do 
its  best  work  only  as  it  becomes  the  real  center 
of  the  literary  interests  of  the  college,  and 
the  presence  of  even  an  indifferent  seeker 
after'knowledge  whose  curiosity  has  just  been 
aroused  by  the  head-lines  of  his  favorite 
newspaper,  is  regarded  as  a  step  towards  the 
accomplishment  of  its  mission. 

— Geo.  T.  Little. 


Foster,  '01,  has  returned  to  college. 
The   advertisements   of   the   Minstrel    Show  have 
appeared. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


BOWDOIN  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 
In  whatever  walk  of  life  the  sons  of  Bow- 
doin  have  entered  upon,  whether  that  of  doc- 
tor, lawyer,  tradesman  or  mechanic,  they  have 
always   been  true  to  their  Alma  Mater  and 
upheld  the  honor  of  her  name.     So,  when  m 
the  spring  of  '6i  Sumter  was  fired  upon  and 
shortly  afterwards  a  call  for  volunteers  was 
issued,  thg  graduates  and  undergraduates  of 
Bowdoin    were    not    slow    in    showing    their 
patriotism,    and    before    the    war    ended    two 
hundred    and    sixty-six   men   had    enlisted   in 
both  army  and  navy,  many  of  them  never  to 
return,  but,  as  recorded  on  the  bronze  tablets 
in  Memorial  Hall,  died  from  wounds,  or  in 
prison,  or  as  in  several  cases  struck  by  a  solid 
shot    and    instantly    killed    while    leading    a 
charge.     The  number  of  men  from  Bowdoin 
who^served  in  the  navy  was  seventeen.     Of 
those  men  we  are  most  familiar  with  the  name 
of  Thomas   B.   Reed,  who   served  as  Acting 
Assistant    Paymaster   for   a   time.     Although 
men  from  Bowdoin  served  in  every  position 
in  the  army  and  navy,  from  private  to  general, 
the    majority    held    commissions    as    colonels, 
captains,  or  lieutenants.     But  many  went  even 
higher,    as    the    list    of    two    Major-(?enerals, 
Oliyer  O.  Howard,  '50,  and  Frances  Fessen- 
den,     58;     three     brevetted     Major-Generals, 
Joshua  L.  Chamberlain,  '51,  James  D.  Fessen- 
den,  'si',  and  Henry  C.  Thomas,  '58 ;  and  four- 
teen brevetted  Brigadier-Generals,  F.  D.  Sew- 
all,  '46,  C.  W.  Roberts,  '51,  WiUiam  McArthur, 
'53,  Charles  Hamlin,  '57,  T.  H.  Hubbard,  "57> 
Ellis  Spear,   '58,  G.  F.  Granger,  '58,  C.  H. 
Howard,   '59.   John   F.   Appleton.   '60,   J.   W. 
Brown,    '60,    Thomas   W.    Hyde,    '61,    S.    H. 
Manning,  '61,  Charles  P.  Mattocks,  '62,  and 
I.  W.  Starbird,  '62.     Surely  this  is  a  goodly 
record  for  any  college,  and  Bowdoin  may  well 
be  proud  of  her  sons.     Out  of  the  fifty-five 
men  who  were  in  the  class  of  i860,  twenty- 
nine    wore    the    blue.     Of   these   two    fell   at 
Antietam:  one.  Captain  H.  P.  Brown,  while 
bravely    cheering    on    his    men,    was    killed 


instantly;  the  other,  W.  H.  Haskell,  while 
faithfully  performing  his  duty  as  Acting 
Adjutant,  was  wounded,  being  shot  through 
both  knees,  and  after  a  month  of  suffering 
died,  just  as  a  Captain's  commission  reached 
him.  The  class  also  lost  two  more  men  dur- 
ing the  war,  Charles  S.  McCobb,  who  was 
killed  at  Gettysburg,  and  A.  N.  Rowe,  who 
died  of  typhoid  fever  in  1864.  Among  the 
brave  men  who  left  college  to  join  the  ranks 
was  Thomas  FI.  Green  of  the  class  of  '62. 
Although  only  twenty  years  old  he  obtained  a 
captain's  commission  and  served  on  the  staff 
of  General  Prince.  At  the  battle  of  Cedar 
Mountain  General  Prince  was  taken  prisoner. 
When  Green  saw  what  had  happened  he 
rushed  forward  to  see  if  in  some  way  he  could 
not  aid  his  beloved  commander,  but  a  gallant 
life  was  lost  in  so  doing,  for  Green  was  never 
seen  again. 

Many  went  as  chaplains.  Among  those 
who  thus  served  was  Thomas  L.  Ambrose, 
'f,6,  who  served  in  that  capacity  with  the  12th 
New  Hampshire.  At  Chancellorsville  he  was 
taken  prisoner,  but  afterwards  rejoined  his 
regiment  in  Virginia,  where  he  was  fatally 
wounded  while  passing  from  the  entrench- 
ments to  the  rear.  He  was  taken  to  the  hos- 
pital at  Fortress  M'.onroe,  and  after  three 
weeks  of  great  suffering,  the  "taodel  chap- 
lain," as  he  was  called  by  both  officers  and 
men,  died,  mourned  by  soldiers  of  all  ranks. 

Probably  the  three  officers  with  whose 
names  we  are  most  familiar  are  those  of 
Major-General  Oliver  O.  Howard,  Major- 
General  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain,  and  Briga- 
dier-General Thomas  W.  Hyde.  General 
Howard,  after  graduating  from  Bowdoin 
went  to  West  Point  and  graduated  with  the 
Class  of  1854,  after  which  he  acted  there  as 
Assistant  Professor  of  Mathematics  until 
1861,  when  he  resigned  to  become  colonel  of 
the  Third  Maine.  At  the  first  battle  of  Bull 
Run  he  had  command  of  a  brigade  in  Hemtzel- 
man's  division,  and  on  account  of  the  efficient 
\'4ork  he  did  there  was  promoted  brigadier- 


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general.  After  serving  under  Generals 
McClellan,  Burnside,  Hooper,  and  Meade,  we 
next  hear  of  him  at  the  battle  of  Fair  Oakes, 
where  he  had  two  horses  killed  under  him 
and  was  wounded  twice.  It  was  at  this  battle 
he  lost  his  right  arm.  At  the  battle  of  Antie- 
tam,  General  Sedgwick  being  wounded,  Gen- 
eral Howard  took  command,  and  in  November 
of  that  year  was  promoted  to  Major-General. 
After  this  he  served  at  Fredericksburg,  Chan- 
cellorsville,  and  Gettysburg.  After  the  battle 
of  Gettysburg  the  President  wrote  him  a  let- 
ter of  thanks,  commending  him  for  his  skill 
and  bravery.  He  was  also  under  General 
Sherman  at  the'  time  of  the  march  from 
Atlanta  to  the  sea.  ;. 

General  Chamberlain  is  perhaps  the  best 
known  of  all  to  the  student  body.  At  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg  he  commanded  the  left 
fl.ank  on  Little  Round  Top,  and  his  work  there 
will  never  be  forgotten.  At  the  battle  of 
Petersburg  he  was  severely  wounded  and  also 
received  an  honor  no  other  soldier  received 
during  the  war — that  of  being  promoted,  "for 
gallant  conduct  in  leading  his  brigade  in  a 
charge,"'  on  the  field  of  battle  by  General  U.  S. 
Grant,  to  Brigadier-General.  After  the  fight 
at  "Quaker  Road"  he  was  brevetted  Major- 
General  and  given  a  division.  At  the  close 
of  the  war  he  was  selected  to  receive  the 
formal  surrender  of  Lee's  army  at  Appomatox 
Court  House. 

General  Hyde  served  as  Captain  and 
Major  of  the  7th  Maine  and  after  repeated 
promotions  was  brevetted  Brigadier-General 
"for  conspicuous  gallantry  before  Peters- 
burg." 

This  list  of  heroes  could  easily  be  con- 
tinued, and  we  can  see  that  the  sons  of  Bow- 
doin  have  done  their  best  to  uphold  the  honor 
of  their  Alma  Maier. 

■ — Riley,  1903. 


"May  I  print  a  kiss  on  your  lips?"  I  said. 
And  she  nodded  her  sweet  permission ; 
So  we  went  to  press,  and  I  rather  guess 
We  printed  a  full  edition, — Ex. 


COLLEGE   NEWS. 

Pearl,   '03,   visited   Lewiston  recently. 

Professors      Robinson      and      MacDonald      have 
received  calls   from  Yale. 

The     ne.xt     Junior     .A.ssembly     will     be     on     the 
twenty-first  of  this  month. 

Born. 

Stearns — Warren,  January  14,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
E.  R.  Stearns,  a  son. 

The  first  themes  of  this  term  were  due  last  Tues- 
day. 


AThiLETICS. 


Bowdoin  sent  her  relay  team  to  Boston  last  week 
and  scored  another  victory.  In  the  team  race  with 
the  Massachvisetts  Institute  of  Technology  the  in- 
door athletic  meet  held  on  Saturday  by  the  Boston 
.Athletic  Association,  Bowdoin  won  each  relay  and 
finished  with  a  big  lead.  The  time,  3.17  2-5,  was 
excellent  when  we  consider  what  a  short  time  the 
men  have  been  in  training  for  the  event.  This  time 
is  about  6  seconds  better  than  that  made  when  we 
won  the  race  with  Amherst  the  week  before.  The 
prizes  were  silver-mounted  steins. 

At  the  same  meet  Harvard  beat  U.  of  P.  in  the 
relay  race  by  about  50  yards  in  the  fast  time, 
3.12  2-5;  and  Dartmouth  beat  Brown  in  3.13. 

The  Bowdoin  team  had  the  same  make-up  as 
before :  Captain  Edwards,  Cloudman,  Snow,  and 
Kendall. 

Only  praise  is  heard  of  the  manner  in  which  the 
gentlemen  of  the  Boston  .\thletic  Association 
entertained  their  visitors. 

The  team  had  its  headquarters  at  the  Quincy 
House,  where  the  Glee  and  Mandolin-Guitar  Clubs 
stayed.     The  men  returned  on  Sunday. 

As  a  result  of  the  conference  between  repre- 
sentatives of  the  California  State  University  and 
Lei  and  Stanford  Jr.  University,  it  has  been  decided 
to  hold  no  more  Thanksgiving  Day  foot-ball  games, 
no  more  intercollegiate  athletic  contests  in  San 
Francisco,  and  to  have  no  more  Eastern  coaches 
after  this  year.  The  agreement  is  for  five 
years  and  provides  for  graduate  foot-ball  coaches  at 
an  expense  not  to  exceed  $1,500  for  a  head  coach 
and  $300  for  all  assistants.  It  declares  that  after 
this  year  the  annual  foot-ball  game  shall  be  played 
on  the  second  Saturday  in  November. 

Professor  William  K.  Townsend  of  the  Yale 
Law  School  let  out  a  foot-ball  secret  at  the  recent 
banquet   of  the   Hartford-Yale   Alumni   Association, 


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BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


says   the  New   York   Sun.     In   talking   on   "Living 
Pictures,"  Professor  Townsend  told  this  story : — 

"My  next  picture  relates  to  so-called  Yale 
athletics.  On  the  morning  after  that  disastrous 
foot-ball  game  when  the  glint  of  the  afternoon  sun 
spoiled  a  goal  for  Yale,  and  when  the  side-line 
coacher  defrauded  us  of  a  hard-earned  victory, 
McBride,  captain  of  the  eleven,  received  a  letter 
from  a  gentleman  who  was  present  at  the  game,  in 
which  he  said  words  substantially  to  this  effect: 
'Do  not  let  the  disappointment  about  yesterday's 
game,  and  the  unintelligent  criticism  which  is  sure 
to  follow,  blind  you  to  the  fact  that  your  work  is 
heartily  appreciated  by  all  Yale  men  whose  opinion 
is  worth  having.  Sincerely-  yours.'  The  writer  of 
that  letter,  gentlemen,  was  the  President  of  Yale 
University." 


Y.  M.  C.  (\ 


On  the  Day  of  Prayer  for  colleges  Dr.  Jenkins 
of  Portland  preached  at  the  church  in  the  morning 
and  in  the  afternoon  spoke  in  chapel.  At  both  these 
services  Dr.  Jenkins  held  the  closest  attention  of 
the  students,  and  the  ideas  which  he  expressed 
received  much  favorable  comment.  In'  the  even- 
ing a  prayer  service  was  held  at  the  Association 
room. 

Harlow,.  1903,  led  the  Thursday  evening  meet- 
ing on  February  ist.  He  introduced  the  subject  of 
spiritual  culture  and  symmetrical  development. 
There  was  a  large  number  at  the  meeting  and 
nearly  every  one  took  part  in  the  interesting  discus- 
sion of  the  subject.  Ideas  from  the  Senior  course 
in  ethics  were  prevalent,  some  amusing  yet  profitable 
examples  being  cited  and  comparisons  made. 

The  singing  class  is  booming,  with  a  good  attend- 
ance and  marked  progress.  Mr.  Harris  is  putting 
in  some  excellent  work,  which  is  much  appreciated 
by  the  class. 

At  the  Sunday  service,  Feliruary  4th,  Mr.  E.  W. 
Packard,  Secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  at  Lewiston, 
spoke  on  "Seed  Time  and  Harvest."  Mr.  Pack- 
ard's talk  was  practical  and  filled  with  timely  stories 
illustrating  his  subject. 

The  time  of  meeting  for  the  Senior  and  Junior 
Bible  Class  has  been  changed  to  Sunday  morning 
at  ten  o'clock.  The  average  attendance  of  the  class 
is  good,  but  there  are  several  who  are  taking  the 
course  who  do  not  come  regularly.  The  time  has 
been  changed,  hoping  to  benefit  more  of  the  class. 


They  were  playing,  they  said,  at  a  practice  game 
That  they  oft  had  played  before, 
And  curious  friends  stood  by  and  smiled. 
And  wondered  which  one  would  score. 
But  Cupid  as  umpire,  called  the  game. 

With  a  clear  and  cloudless  sky. 
And  the  minister  smiled  as  he  hung  out  the  score. 
For  the  game  had  come  out  a  "tie." 

—Ex. 


PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'S7- — General  Charles  Hamlin  met  with  a  severe 
and  painful  accident  in  front  of  his  residence  on 
Fifth  Street,  Bangor,  on  Monday  evening  of  last 
week.  He  was  returning  to  his  home  and  slipped 
and  fell  on  the  icy  sidewalk  and  broke  both  bones 
of  his  right  leg  above  the  ankle. 

'63. — Among  the  recent  appointments  from 
Governor  Powers  is.  Recorder  Saco  Municipal 
Court,  George  A.  Emery,  Saco. 

'77.— George  W.  Tillson,  C.E.,  lectures  at 
Cornell  University  February  gth,  on  "Asphalt  and 
Asphalt  Pavements."Mr.  Tillson'  has  been  for  some 
years  a  frequently  consulted  authority  on  this  sub- 
ject. He  will  also  give  a  brief  course  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  in  the  latter  part 
of  March. 

Hon.  '85. — The  grandest  banquet  ever  held  in 
Maine  was  that  given  in  honor  of  ex-Chief  Justice 
Peters  at  the  Bangor  House,  Thursday  evening, 
February  ist.  One  hundred  and  fifty  men,  all  of 
them  prominent  in  the  legal  and  business  life  of 
Maine,  sat  down  at  the  table.  The  master  of  cere- 
monies, Hon.  F.  A.  Wilson,  '54,  introduced  Judge 
Peters  as  the  guest  of  the  evening,  who  responded 
with  a  brilliant  speech.  Among  the  speakers  who 
followed  were.  Chief  Justice  Wiswell,  '7^,  Senator 
Hale,  H.  '6q,  Hon.  O.  D.  Baker,  '68,  and  Hon.  J.  W. 
Symonds,  '60.  Letters  of  regret  were  read  from 
Chief  Justice  Fuller,  '53,  J.  W.'Bradburv,  '25,  W.  P. 
Frye,  '50.  T.  B.  Reed,  '60,  Nathan  W'ebb,  H.  '90, 
R.  K.  Sewall,  't,7,  L.  A.  Emery,  '61,  W.  L.  Putnam, 
'.S5.  George  F.  Talbot,  'i7.  George  F.  Emery.  '36, 
George  C.  Yeaton,  '56,  and  H.  W.  Swasey,  '65. 

Hon.  '85. — Charles  Wesley  Walton,  ex-justice  of 
the  Maine  Supreme  Bench,  died  suddenly  January 
24th,  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Ruel 
Small,  Deering.  Judge  Walton  was  born  at  Mexico, 
Me.,  December  4,  1819.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Oxford  County "  Bar  in  1843,  and  at  once  began 
practice  at  Dixfield.  His  success  as  a  lawyer  was 
immediate  and  pronounced.  Ten  years  later  he 
started  West,  intending  to  settle  in  St.  Paul  or 
Minneapolis,  but  after  looking  over  the  ground,  he 
returned  to  Maine  and  settled  in  Auburn.  His 
reputation  for  skill  and  legal  learning  had  now 
become  established,  and  he  was  sought  aifter  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  more  important  cases  before  the 
Androscoggin  Bar.  In  i860  he  was  elected  to  Con- 
gress, and  served  until  1862.  He  was  then  invited 
to  take  a  seat  on  the  Maine  Supreme  Bench,  a  posi- 
tion which  he  held  until  his  resignation  a  short  time 
ago.  It  is  said  of  Judge  Walton  that  for  acuteness 
of  intellect,  for  swiftness  of  judgment,  and  for  power 
of  analysis,  he  was  one  of  the  most  remarkable  men 
that  Maine  ever  produced. 

'q6.— J.  Clair  Minot  of  Augusta  has  been  elected 
poet  of  the  Maine  Press  Association  for  its  38th 
annual  meeting,  which  will  be  held  in  Augusta,  next 
winter. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  25.— February  15,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes 219 

Notice 220 

Calendar 220 

Minstrel  Show 220 

A  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  One  of  Bowdoin's 

Greatest  Sons 221 

Pessimism 222 

College  News 222 

Athletics 223 

Y.  M.  C.  A 224 

Personals 224 

The  alumni  of  Lewiston  and  Auburn, 
through  Mr.  Henry  A.  Wing,  '8o,  have  pre- 
sented a  cup  to  the  Foot-Ball  Association  for 
the  best  punter  in  college.  The  honor  will  be 
determined  by  competition  probably  the  last  of 
the  spring  term  or  in  the  early  fall.     This 


incentive  toward  perfection  in  punting  comes 
very  opportune,  inasmuch  as  we  are  seriously 
deficient  in  this  very  important  factor  in 
games.  The  thoughtfulness  and  generosity  of 
our  alumni  friends  in  presenting  this  cup  is 
indeed  encouraging  to  foot-ball  interests  and 
has  won  the  gratitude  of  the  entire  graduate 
body.  The  foot-ball  squad  work  in  the  gym- 
nasium and  the  punting  in  the  spring  will  be 
a  long  step  in  turning  out  a  successful  team 
next  year. 


There  has  for  a  long  time  been  a  feeling 
among  those  connected  with  the  Quill  and 
Orient  that  the  labor  and  time  devoted  to  this 
actual  composition  work  should  receive  some 
credit  as  college  work.  The  writing  and  con- 
structing of  material  is  far  more  in  quantity 
than  a  year  in  theme,  requires  at  least  as  much 
thought  and  preparation,  and  is  handled  as 
thoroughly  and  carefully.  These  .publications 
are,  or  should  be,  representative  of  the  college, 
and  it  is,  in  no  small  degree,  for  the  interest 
of  the  college  to  have  them  as  strong  and 
attractive  as  possible.  No  better  way  can  be 
suggested  to  encourage  the  college  publica- 
tions than  for  the  Faculty  to  show  their 
interest  by  some  practical  method,  such  as 
credit  for  work  done. 

It  is  customary  with  the  majority  of  institu- 
tions to  give  credit  for  the  actual  writing  done 
as  members  of  college  editorial  boards,  and 
that  it  is  not  at  Bowdoin  is  perhaps  more 
from  the  fact  that  no  real  attempt  has  been 
made  along  this  line  than  that  there  is  any  real 
opposition.  Any  member  of  the  Quill  or 
Orient  boards  who  has  a  department  to  man- 
age will  invariably  claim  more  benefit  from 
this  work  than  from  themes,  and  when  it  comes 
to  time  and  amount,  the  editorial  work  is  sev- 
eral times  in  the  excess. 


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BOWDOIN   OEIENT. 


The  Orient  takes  pleasure  in  acknowl- 
edging a  copy  of  Miss  Elaine  B.  McGregor's 
Two-Step,  dedicated  to  the  Bowdoin  Foot- 
Ball  Team  of  the  season  of  '99.  The  compo- 
sition is  a  tuneful  and  delightful  bit  of  dance 
music,  and  should  prove  a  popular  air  on  social 
occasions.  The  harmony  and  martial  swing 
throughout  the  score  shows  the  artistic  hand 
behind  it,  and  its  value  as  music  as  well  as  the 
kindness  of  the  dedicator  deserves  the 
unstinted  praise  and  appreciation  of  all  Bow- 
doin men.  This  last,  with  the  other  pieces  of 
Bowdoin  music,  makes  an  important  collection, 
and  certainly  deserves  to  be  compiled  within 
one  cover. 


Because  the  required  work  in  the  gymna- 
sium is  not  especially  popular  with  some  of  the 
fellows  is  not  a  sufficient  excuse  for  them  to 
endure  the  drilling  with  the  listless  indififer- 
ence  so  often  apparent.  The  work  is  required, 
and  there  is  no  avoiding  this  daily  hour  in  the 
gymnasium.  And  since  this  is  so,  why  not 
make  it  of  some  personal  benefit.  The  physi- 
cal wants  of  the  student  demand  something  of 
this  nature,  and  to  slight  this  important  mat- 
ter is  self-abuse,  pure  and  simple,  whether  the 
man  be  athlete  or  bookworm.  The  average 
twenty-four  hours  during  this  term  contains 
little  enough  of  physical  activity;  class-room 
and  "end"  is  the  usual  day's  history,  and  that 
the  Faculty  has  made  compulsory  an  hour  of 
exercise  fpr  a  lot  of  thoughtless  and  careless 
youths  is  a  Godsend  rather  than  a  burden. 
How  easy  it  is  to  pull  weights  and  so  on  until 
the  drilling  begins,  after  which  to  take  a  short 
run  on  the  track,  bathe  and  rub  down,  yet 
dozens  of  fellows  just  worm  through  the  drill 
in  daily  clothes  and  get  about  as  much  benefit 
out  of  it  as  day-dreaming  over  a  text-book.  If 
the  hour  is  unavoidable,  and  it  is,  it  is  shameful, 
even  pitiful  to  waste  both  the  time  and  the 
tonic,  as  seems  to  be  a  fad  with  so  many.  A 
good  healthy  sweat  will  invariably  invigorate 
physical  and  mental  centers,  prolong  life, 
sharpen    intellectual    acumen,    make    the    day 


brighter  and  companions  more  congenial,  in 
fact,  actually  surpass  the  boasted  results  of  the 
widest  advertised  nervura  or  sarsaparilla.  To 
so  ill-use  the  opportunities  of  the  gymnasium 
hour  is  to  tempt  even  a  forgiving  providence 
to  make  our  days,  as  Pope  expresses  it,  a  long 
disease. 


NOTICE. 
There  will  be  a  meeting  of  the  students 
next  Saturday  afternoon  in  Memorial  Hall  at 
1.30  o'clock,  to  consider  the  transferring  of  the 
Reading-Room  to  the  Library.  This  change 
affects  every  student  in  college,  and  deserves 
to  receive  their  attention  and  thought. 


CALENDAR. 

Thursday,   Fee.    15. — '68   Prize   Speaking. 
Monday,  Feb.   19. — Jury  Meeting. 
Thursday,   Feb.   22. — Washington',s   Birthday. 
Friday,  March  23. — College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,    April   2-6. — Examinations. 


MINSTREL  SHOW. 
To-morrow  evening,  Friday,  the  i6th,  the 
Minstrel  Show  for  the  benefit  of  Track  Ath- 
letics and  Base-Ball  will  be  held  in  the  Town 
Hall.  A  most  thorough  series  of  rehearsals 
have  been  held  from  way  back  in  last  term 
until  to-day,  all  the  finishing  touches  have  been 
made,  and  everything  is  in  readiness  for  the 
curtain  to  rise  on  the  beautiful  and  conven- 
tional first  part. 

The  stage  settings,  costumes,  and  wigs 
have  been  procured  from  Boston,  and  no 
expense  along  this  line  has  been  spared  to  give 
a  finished  background  for  the  more  material 
parts.  New  songs,  specialties,  and  jokes  will 
be  heard,  and  the  chorus  has  developed  to  a 
degree  which  savors  not  a  little  of  the  real 
professional  article.  Appleton,  '02,  has 
unceasingly  devoted  his  experienced  and  effi- 
cient services  to  the  perfection  of  the  various 
parts  and  the  unity  of  the  whole,  and  any 
unusual  success  which  may  follow  will  be 
largely  due  to  his  ability. 

Managers  Swett  and  White  have  obtained 
reduced  rates  on  the  railroads  and  made  all 


BOWDOiN  ORIENT. 


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suitable  accommodations  for  the  anticipated 
influx  of  friends  from  all  over  the  State. 

The  college  orchestra  has  especially 
rehearsed  and  prepared  for  this  evening,  and 
excellent  music  is  thus  assured  not  only 
through  the  entertainment  but  for  the  informal 
hop  which  is  to  be  a  specially  popular  feature 
of  the  good  time. 

Not  a  stone  has  been  left  unturned  in  pre- 
paring a  splendid  and  finished  programme  for 
the  so  much  needed  benefit  of  athletics.  All 
that  now  remains  is  for  students  and  alumni  to 
show  not  only  their  appreciation  for  these  gen- 
erous efforts  but  their  loyalty  to  the  college  by 
turning  out  "en  masse,"  and  thus  placing  the 
coffers  of  the  association  beyond  the  reach  of 
financial  embarrassments,  which  means  so 
much  in  athletic  success. 

Following  is  the  programme  for  the  show, 
after  which  the  evening  will  be  devoted  to  a 
social  and  informal  hop. 

Part  I. 
Opening  Overture  (20  voices). 
Songs : 

"My  Hanna  Lady,"  John  Appleton,  1902. 

"You've  Got  to  Play  Rag  Time," 

George  Gould,  1900. 
"Telephone  Duet," 

Joseph  Whitney  and  Albert  Clarke,  igoo. 
"Answer,"  Carroll  Beedy,  1903. 

"Brigand's  Love  Song,"  Charles  Willard,  1900. 
Closing  Chorus. 
Overture  by  Bowdoin  College  Orchestra. 

Part  IL 
Specialties : 

Fancy   Club   Swinging  by  Frank   Mitchell. 

Farmer's  Sketch,  Donald  F.  Snow,  1901. 

Military  Molly,  Joseph  Whitney,  1900. 

Tramp  Burglars, 

R.  S.  Edwards  and  John  Appleton. 

Part  IIL 
One- Act  Farce,  entitled  "Box  and  Cox." 

Snow,   1901 ;  Bodwell,   1901 ;   Beedy,   1903. 
Interlocuter. 
William  Warren,  1901. 

End  Men. 
Appleton,   1902.  Leighton,   1901. 

Gould,  igoo.  Smith,  1903. 

Music  by  College  Orchestra. 


A  SKETCH  OF  THE  LIFE  OF  ONE  OF 
BOWDOIN'S  GREATEST  SONS. 

In  looking  over  our  college  history  we  find, 
back  in  the  class  of  eighteen-sixty,  the  name  of 
a  man  who  for  the  past  twenty-five  years  has 
been  one  of  the  prominent  factors  in  the 
progress  of  the  world.  This  giant  politician 
of  Maine,  as  he  may  well  be  termed,  is  Thomas 
Brackett  Reed ;  a  man  in  whom  we  find  an 
ideal  combination  of  all  those  qualities  which 
have  raised  him  to  distinction  and  influence, 
and  by  which  he  has  not  only  obtained  a  name 
for  himself,  but  has  honored  his  state  and 
added  another  laurel  to  the  crown  of  his  col- 
lege. Standing,  as  he  does,  in  the  foremost 
rank  of  public  men,  a  leader  of  his  party  and 
one  of  our  alumni,  the  college  has  certainly  a 
right  to  know  something  of  him. 

Mr.  Reed,  like  many  a  great  man,  fought 
his  way  into  prominence  from  poverty  and 
obscurity.  Born  in  an  old-fashioned  frame 
house,  still  standing,  near  the  birthplace  of 
Longfellow,  he  obtained  the  rudiments  of  edu- 
cation at  the  common  schools  of  Portland. 

On  entering  Bowdoin,  at  the  age  of  sixteen, 
he  had  a  half-formed  desire  of  becoming  a  min- 
ister, which  he  relinquished,  however,  long 
before  his  graduation.  His  life  struggle  began 
in  earnest  with  that  first  year  of  college.  On 
account  of  his  mother's  poverty,  he  was  com- 
pelled to  earn  money  to  defray  his  expenses  as 
he  went  along.  His  attendance  at  class  recita- 
tions during  the  first  term  of  his  Freshman 
year  was,  for  the  most  part,  regular,  but  he 
found  it  necessary  to  drop  out  the  next  two 
terms  to  teach.  He  kept  up  his  studies,  how- 
ever, without  an  instructor.  All  through  the 
first  part  of  his  college  course  Mr.  Reed 
devoted  a  great  deal  of  his  time  to  literature, 
being  especially  fond  of  novels,  and  to-day  to 
this  trashy,  imaginative  reading,  he  attributes 
in  a  large  part  his  knowledge  of  words. 

Thus  in  this  slipshod  manner  almost  three 
years  were  passed,  until,  when  graduation  was 
a  little  more  than  a  year  off,  the  young  man 


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BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


realized  that  his  class  standing  was  very  low 
and  that  his  place  at  the  end  of  the  course 
depended  upon  his  average  all  through. 

Thus  far  no  honor  had  been  awarded  him. 
He  had  not  even  received  one  of  the  sixteen 
Junior  parts.  The  only  thing  for  the  ener- 
getic boy  to  do  was  to  offset  the  low  average  of 
his  earlier  terms  by  an  exceptionally  high  one 
during  his  last.  His  ambition  finally  aroused, 
he  spent  day  and  night  studying  to  accomplish 
his  end,  and  even  at  this  early  stage  we  see  him 
manifesting  that  indomitable  persistency  which 
has  characterized  his  life.  But  the  conse- 
quence of  his  three  years  of  novel-reading  was 
such  a  serious  matter  to  him  that  he  feared 
the  result  of  his  final  examinations.  Never- 
theless he  stood  fifth,  at  the  end  of  the  year, 
and  was  assigned  one  of  the  class  parts. 

Graduation  from  college  was  by  no  means 
the  end  of  his  struggle.  For  money  was  still 
lacking,  and  to  obtain  it  he  engaged  in  school 
teaching,  an  occupation  which  he  had  fol- 
lowed to  some  extent  in  vacation  times.  He 
soon  gave  this  up  and  went  to  California, 
thinking  that  there  was  a  much  better  opening 
for  a  young  man  in  the  West.  While  there  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  Chief  Justice  Wal- 
lace of  California.  His  sojourn,  however, 
was  of  short  duration,  for  he  returned  the  fol- 
lowing year  to  the  East,  and  after  serving  in 
the  capacity  of  Paymaster  of  the  United  States 
Navy  he  began  to  practice  before  the  Supreme 
Court  of  th^  State  of  Maine.  Cases  came  in 
slowly  to  the  young  lawyer  at  first,  and  his  goal 
of  success  seemed  a  long  way  off.  But  that 
he  made  his  mark  in  this  modest  position  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  two  years  later,  in  1867, 
Mr.  Reed  was  nominated  for  the  State  Legis- 
lature. He  accepted  this  position,  and  after 
serving  two  terms  in  the  House  he  was  elected 
to  the  State  Senate.  Then  in  1876  he  was  for 
the  first  time  nominated  to  represent  his  dis- 
trict in  the  House  of  Representatives  at  Wash- 
ington. So  on  Mr.  Reed  climbed  the  ladder 
of  fame,  round  by  round,  and  after  wielding 
the    gavel     for    many    years     he    has    now 


retired  from  public  life  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of 
his  untiring  labor.  A  plain-spoken  man, 
whose  chief  characteristic  is  to  be  true  to  his 
own  convictions,  he  lacks  one  of  those  traits 
that  popular  men  often  possess.  He  cannot 
be  all  things  to  all  men. 

— R.  W.  H.,  1903. 


PESSIMISM. 
There's  something  haunts  my  mind  to-day, 

It's  been  with  me  since  dawn, 
It's  one  of  those  soul-harrowing  things 

That  make  all  life  seem  wrong. 

And  I  wonder,  as  I  sit  here, 

With  heart  so  filled  with  pain, 
If,  after  struggle,  toil,  and  care. 

My  life's  been  lived  in  vain. 

It's  not  that  friends  are  few  or  cold. 

It's  not  that  she's  untrue. 
It's  not  financial  matters, 

Tho'   my  bills  are  overdue. 

It's  not  that  I'm  fastidious, 

Or  that  I'm  hard  to  suit — 
There's  a  foot  of  slush  on  the  campus, 

And  a  hole  in  my  rubber  boot. 

— C.  C.  R.,   1900. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Haley,  '02,  is  out  sick. 

Burnell,  1900,  is  in  Augusta. 

Dutton,  '99,  was  in  town  Saturday. 

Tyler,  'oi,  has  returned  to  college. 

"Grimes'  Cellar  Door"  attracted  many  students 
to  Bath  Saturday  evening. 

The  sale  of  seats  for  the  Minstrel  Show  had 
nearly  reached  400  Wednesday. 

The  first  dress  rehearsal  for  the  Minstrel  Show 
was  held  Wednesday  afternoon. 

Next  Saturday  the  Managers  of  the  M.  I.  C.  A.  A. 
will  hold  their  annual  meeting  at  Waterville. 

Bean,  1900,  Hayden  and  Wing,  '02,  attended  the 
Senior  Reception  at  Westbrook  Seminary,  Friday. 

The  drains  are  doing  good  work,  and  now  all 
streams  run  to  the  outlet  back  of  Memorial  Hall. 

Professor  Smith  delivered  a  very  interesting 
lecture  last  Tuesday  evening  on  the  Philactocles  of 
Sophocles. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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Bates  will  give  Yale  a  foot-ball  game  next  fall. 

Manager  Swett  has  given  the  men  of  the  relay 
team  the  sweaters  which  they  have  so  well  earned. 

The  camera  at  Webber's  caught  some  very  satis- 
factory pictures  of  the  Bowdoin  relay  team  last 
week. 

Manager  Swett  has  presented  the  relay  team 
which  so  successfully  won  both  races  in  Boston, 
with  Bowdoin  sweaters. 

Harry  A.  Peabody  will  lead  the  1903  Indian-club 
squad  at  the  indoor  meet.  There  were  a  half  dozen 
working  candidates  for  the  honor. 

At  the  annual  convention  of  the  New  England 
Intercollegiate  .A.thletic  Association  in  Boston  Man- 
ager Swett  of  Bowdoin  was  elected  President  of  the 
Association. 

The  Politics  Club  met  with  Professor  Emery 
last  Monday  evening,  and  considered  general 
economical  and  political  questions  of  current 
importance. 

The  Class  of  1901  held  a  meeting  on  Monday  and 
elected  Harry  H.  Cloudman  captain  of  the  class 
track  team,  and  G.  L.  Pratt,  leader  of  the  broad- 
sword squad. 

The  Sophomore  debate  last  Saturday  was  won 
by  the  negative.  The  question  debated  was, 
"Resolved,  That  the  acquisition  of  the  Philippines 
is  beneficial  to  the  United  States." 

The  rumor  that  "Senior  Vacation"  has  another 
year  of  life  is  a  mistake.  The  Senior  examinations 
will  occur  during  the  general  examination  week, 
which  is  immediately  after  Ivy  Week. 

A  mass-meeting  was  held  Saturday  to  consider 
the  question  of  moving  the  Reading-Room  to  the 
Library.  No  action  was  taken,  on  account  of  the 
small  attendance,  and  the  meeting  was  adjourned 
until  1.30  P.M.,  February  17th. 

Monday  morning  at  9  o'clock  the  sale  of  reserved 
seats  for  the  Bowdoin  minstrel  show  opened  down 
town.  At  noon  275  seats  had  gone.  The  advance 
sale  is  gratifying  to  all  concerned.  The  proceeds 
will  go  to  track  athletics  and  base-ball  this  year. 

There  is  a  set  of  one  hundred  large  photographs 
of  New  England  scenery  now  on  exhibition  at  the 
Walker  Art  Building.  They  were  made  by  Mr. 
H.  G.  Peabody  in  the  interest  of  the  Boston  &  Maine 
Railroad.  Aside  from  being  of  interest  for  their 
subjects  they  are  of  rather  unusual  excellence  as 
photographs,  showing  what  can  be  done  now  by  an 
expert  in  landscape  work. 

Though  Manager  Berry  of  the  foot-ball  team 
hasn't  been  very  prominent  lately  in  athletic  activi- 
ties, he  has  been  alive  all  the  while,  and  the  foot- 
ball   schedule    grows    apace.     It    is    early    now    to 


announce  games, — the  Faculty  has  not  yet  seen  the 
schedule.  But  it  is  safe  to  say  that  we  shall  prob- 
ably have  as  a  change  in  the  programme  next  fall 
a  game  with  Boston  College  and  with  Yale.  There 
is  some  reason  to  expect  a  game  with  Dartmouth  at 
Portland.  The  trip  from  Brunswick  to  Hanover  is 
hard  for  the  vitality  of  an  eleven.  The  Dartmouth 
men  are  willing  to  come  to  Maine  if  a  satisfactory 
date  can  be  arranged. 

Manager  White  has  nearly  completed  his  base- 
ball schedule.     Bowdoin  will  play  as  follows : 

Fast  Day. — Brunswick  at  Brunswick. 

April  28. — Bates  at  Lewiston. 

May  2. — Open. 

May  9.— Tufts  at  College  Hill. 

May  10. — Harvard  at  Cambridge. 

May  12. — U.  of  M.  at  Brunswick. 

May   18. — Amherst  "Aggies"   at  Amherst. 

May  19. — Amherst  at  Amherst. 

May  23. — Amherst  "Aggies"  at  Brunswick. 

May  26. — Boston  College  at  Brunswick. 

May  29.— U.  of  M.  at  Orono. 

June  2. — Tufts  at  Brunswick. 

June  6. — Bates  at  Lewiston. 

June  g. — Open. 

Ivy  Day. — Bates  at  Brunswick. 


ATHLETICS. 


Manager  Swett  of  the  track  team  attended  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  New  England  Intercollegiate 
Athletic  Association  held  in  the  Copley  Square 
Hotel  in  Boston  last  Saturday  and  received  a  couple 
of  pretty  compliments  from  the  delegates  to  the 
meeting.  The  officers  elected  for  next  year  were 
Herbert  L.  Swett  of  Bowdoin,  president;  F.  C.  Ives, 
Wesleyan,  vice-president;  E.  S.  Chase,  Brown, 
Secretary;  R.  Murray,  M.  I.  T.,  treasurer;  J.  S. 
Vanderbilt,  Amherst,  V.  W.  Gooch,  Dartmouth,  and 
Sidney  B.  Wood,  Williams,  executive  committee. 
A  committee  to  revise  the  constitution  was  elected 
as  follows :  Herbert  L.  Swett,  Bowdoin ;  C.  W. 
Brown,  Brown  University;  Charles  Billington, 
Wesleyan ;  and  D.  Bradley  Rich,  Dartmouth. 

There  were  fifteen  delegates  at  the  meeting.  All 
the  colleges  in  the  association  excepting  University 
of  Maine  and  Trinity  College  had  representatives 
present.  It  was  decided  to  hold  the  bicycle  races  of 
the  association  this  year  at  Charles  River  park, 
which  has  an  excellent  bank-track ;  but  to  run  off  the 
other  events  at  Worcester  as  usual.  The  delegates 
voted  to  reject  the  application  for  membership  sent 
in  by  Boston  College  and  the  Massachusetts  Agri- 
cultural College  (Amherst  Aggies). 


224 


BOWDOm  ORIENT. 


Y.  M.  C.  fl. 


Earlier  in  tlie  year  it  has  been  mentioned  in  this 
column,  that  it  was  the  desire  of  those  most  inter- 
ested in  Christian  work  in  the  four  colleges  of  the 
State,  to  know  each  other  better  and  in  some  way 
to  co-operate. 

The  only  thing  that  has  seemed  practical  thus 
far,  has  been  personal  visitation  and  exchange  of 
speakers.  A  few  weeks  ago  one  of  our  workers 
was  at  the  University  of  Maine,  spoke  at 
their  week-night  service  and  had  a'  consulta- 
tion with  some  of  the  Association  men  there.  In 
accordance  with  this  plan  Wilson,  1901,  of  Bates, 
had  been  engaged  to  speak  at  the  Thursday  evening 
meeting  on  February  8th,  and  to  add  to  the  inter- 
collegiate nature  of  the  service.  Hall,  1902,  from 
the  University,  happening  to  be  in  town  on  business, 
came  in  and  brought  a  most  welcome  greeting  from 
his  fellow-students.  Mr.  Wilson  spoke  on  the  sub- 
ject of  the  claim  of  modern  missionary  methods 
upon  Christian  students  from  the  evangelical,  edu- 
cational, and  medical  standpoints.  The  talk  was 
very  interesting  and  impressive.  This  is  a  way  in 
which  the  Associations  of  the  different  colleges  can 
materially  help  one  another.  We  have  received 
good  from  the  effort  thus  far,  and  sincerely  hope 
that  this  intercollegiate  State  movement  may  con- 
tinue. 

With  the  Mandolin  Quintette  for  music  and 
Professor  Files  as  speaker,  the  Sunday  afternoon 
service  drew  a  large  number  of  the  fellows  to  the 
Association  room  on  February  nth.  Professor 
Files  spoke  on  the  subject  of  modern  religious 
methods,  telling  more  particularly  his  personal 
experiences  in  investigating  the  work  of  the  Salva- 
tion Army  in  London.  In  speaking  of  practical 
religious  methods,  Professor  Files  referred  in  a 
most  complimentary  way  to  the  stand  taken  by 
President  Hyde  at  the  meeting  of  the  Congregational 
Council.  The  selection  by  the  quintette  was  of  an 
excellent  character  and  thoroughly  enjoyed  by  the 
audience. 


PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'37. — John  L.  Cutler  and  his  brother  Isaac  Cut- 
ler, formerly  of  Farmington,  have  signified  their 
intention   of   presenting   to   the    Farmington    Public 


Library  Association  $10,000  for  a  library  building 
to  be  erected  in  memory  of  their  father,  Nathan 
Cutler,  Farmington  has  an  excellent  library  of 
about  8,000  volumes  and  the  need  of  a  building  has 
long  been  felt,  but  all  projects  for  such  have  fallen 
through.  The  people  are  delighted  and  fully  appre- 
ciate the  unexpected  gift. 

M.  'SI.— Dr.  Elbridge  G.  Decker  of  Fort  Fair- 
field, died  January  29th,  after  a  long  and  severe  ill- 
ness, at  the  advanced  age  of  74  years.  Dr.  Decker 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Ashland,  Me., 
then  known  as  No.  11,  and  five  years  later  removed 
to  Fort  Fairfield,  where  for  many  years  he  was  the 
only  doctor  for  miles  around.  The  funeral  was 
held  at  the  residence  of  the  late  deceased  on  Fort 
Hill,  conducted  by  the  members  of  Eastern  Frontier 
Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  which  the  doctor  was  a  charter 
member.  The  many  friends  of  the  deceased 
throughout  the  county  will  remember  his  many 
kindly  deeds  as  well  as  his  hardships  during  the 
early  years  of  his  practice  when  that  section  was  but 
a  wilderness. 

Med.  'S9-— A.  K.  P.  Meserve  of  Portland  is  on 
the  executive  committee  of  the  Confederation  of 
New  England  States'  Examining  and  Licensing 
Boards,  recently  formed  in  Boston.  The  purpose 
of  the  organization  is  to  secure  like  standards, 
uniform  severity  of  examinations  and  markings,  like 
duration  of  examinations,  like  subjects,  the  same 
fees,  the  same  rules  as  to  conditions,  etc.,  in  the 
various  states. 

'61.— Editor  Dingley  of  the  Lewiston  Journal  has 
sailed  for  an  extended  tour  of  Southern  Europe  and 
the  Holy  Land. 

'Si.— Rev.  A.  G.  Pettengill  was  recently  called  to 
the  Unitarian  Church  at  Waterville,  Maine. 

'87. — C.  B.  Burleigh,  editor  of  the  Kennebec 
Journal,  was  elected  president  of  the  Augusta 
Board  of  Trade  at  the  annual  meeting  last  week. 

'89. — F.  J.  C.  Little  is  secretary  of  the  Augusta 
Board  of  Trade  for  the  ensuing  year. 

Ex-'8i.— Representative  F.  C.  Stevens  of  Minne- 
sota, whose  home  was  formerly  at  Rockland,  Me., 
is  rapidly  forging  to  the  front  as  a  member  of  the 
important  House  committee  on  military  affairs.  He 
is  only  39  years  old  but  is  starting  on  his  third  year 
as  a  member  of  the  House.  The  committee  on 
military  affairs  has  been  a  very  busy  committee  for 
the  last  three  years  and  at  present  has  over  2,000 
bills  before  it  for  consideration. 

'93.— Dr.  Byron  F.  Barker  of  Bath  has  been 
appointed  hospital  steward  with  Major  E.  M.  Fuller 
in  the  Second  Regiment,  N.  G.  S.  M. 

'94-— Charles  A.  Flagg  has  recently  published  an 
attractive  and  carefully  compiled  genealogical  work, 
entitled  "Family  of  Asa  AUcott." 


BOWDOm  ORIENT. 


225 


'91. — Dr.  Ralph  H.  Hunt  of  Bangor  has  been 
given  the  honor  of  a  three-months'  appointment  as 
resident  surgeon  in  the  Lexington  Avenue  Hospital 
in  New  York. 

'95. — Archie  G.  Axtell  of  Winthrop  was  ordained 
to  the  Christian  ministry  at  the  Willi-ston  Church, 
Portland,  Wednesday  evening,  January  24th. 

'99. — Fred  H.  Albee  of  Head  Tide,  who  is  attend- 
ing Harvard  Medical  School,  recently  received  a 
prize  of  $100  for  rank  during  the  fall  term. 

'97. — We  are  indebted  to  James  E.  Rhodes,  2d, 
for  the  following  directory  of  men  in  the  Class  of 
'97.  Several  names  which  have  appeared  before  in 
the  Personal  column  of  the  present  volume  are 
omitted. 

Ralph  H.  Clark  is  in  the  Third  Year  Medicine 
Class  in  the  Louisville  (Ky.)  Medical  School. 

Frank  A.  Stearns  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Whittington,  Stearns  &  Co.,  wholesale  and  retail 
hardware  merchants,  Hot  Springs,  Ark. 

Joseph  S.  Stetson  and  James  P.  Russell  are 
members  of  the  First  Year  Class,  Bowdoin  Medical 
School.  Harry  E.  Gribben,  Edwin  F.  Pratt,  and 
Philip  W.  Davis  are  in  the  Third  Year  Class  in 
the  same  school.  Orville  L.  Hanlon  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Second  Year  Class. 

M.  Sumner  Coggan  is  a  student  at  law  in  the 
office  of  his  father,  Hon.  Marcellus  Coggan,  'jz^ 
rooms  913-914  Tremont  Building,  Boston.  Oscar 
E.  Pease  is  an  attorneyTat-lavv  with  an  office  in  the 
same  building,  room  512. 

Chase  Pulsifer  is  in  the  Barker  Mill,  Auburn, 
Me.,  with  the  intention  of  learning  the  mill  busi- 
ness. 

John  M.  Shute  is  teaching  physics  and  chemis- 
try in  the  Waterbury  (Conn.)  High  School. 

Fred  R.  Ellsworth  is  pastor  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Sandwich,  Mass. 

Hugh  McCallum  is  taking  a  post-graduate  course 
in  Yale  Divinity  School. 

Benjamin  J.  Fitz  is  Instructor  in  History  in  the 
University  of  Colorado,  and  is  a  candidate  for  Holy 
Orders  in  the  Diocese  of  Colorado.  Harry  M.  Var- 
rell  is  Instructor  in  German  in  the  same  university. 

John  H.  Morse  is  a  Third  Year  man  in  Harvard 
Medical  School. 

Hull  is  a  First  Year  man  in  Jefferson  Medical 
School,  Philadelphia,  Penn. 

John  H.  Quint  is  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Rochester,   Mass. 

Henry  Gilman  is  teaching  in  Plympton,   Mass. 

Frank  J.  Small  is  a  Senior  in  the  University  of 
Maine  Law  School. 

Reuel  W.  Smith  is  a  Second  Year  man  in  Har- 
vard Law  School.     Cecil  L.  Blake  is  a  First  Year 


man  in  the  same  school,  and  J.  William  Hewitt  is  in 
the  Harvard  Graduate  School. 

Frederick  H.  Dole  is  teaching  in  North  Wind- 
ham, Maine. 

Thomas  C.  Keohan  is  a  student  at  law  in  an  office 
in  Lynn,  Mass. 

George  E.  Carmichael  is  agent  for  the  Metropoli- 
tan Life  Insurance  Company  at  South  Framing- 
ham,  Mass. 

Stephen  O.  Andros  is  private  tutor  in  the  family 
of  Todd  Ford,  Youngstown,  Ohio,  and  is  at  present 
spending  the  winter  in  Attadena,  Los  Angeles  Co., 
California. 

Charles  S.  Sewall  is  principal  of  Wiscasset  (Me.) 
Academy. 

George  Haines  is  in  the  Middle  Class,  Andover 
Theological  Seminary.  Frederick  Parker,  ex-'97,  is 
in  the  Senior  Class  in  the  same  seminary. 

William  Frye  White  graduated  from  Columbian 
LTniversity  Law  School,  last  spring,  and  is  at  pres-  ■ 
ent  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Cotton  &  White, 
.Sun  Building,  Washington,  D.   C. 

'98. — Edwin  E.  Spear  is  in  the  Patent  Office  at 
Washington. 

'98. — William  M.  Spear  is  in  the  store  of  Spear 
&  Stover,  wholesale  and  retail  dealers  in  stationery, 
dry  goods,  etc.,  Rockland,  Me. 

'98. — Ralph  L.  Wiggin  is  sub-master  in  the 
Rockland  High  School. 

'99. — F.  A.  Fogg,  who  has  been  principal  of  the 
New  Portland  High  School,  has  accepted  a  position 
as  teacher  of  Physics  and  Chemistry  in  the  High 
School  at  Cranston,  R.  I.  H.  E.  Marston,  '99,  will 
take  his  place  at  New  Portland  during  the  winter 
term. 

'99. — Wallace  H.  White  is  private  secretary  to 
Hon.  William  P.  Frye,  president  pro  tern,  of  the 
Senate. 

'99. — Archer  P.  Cram  is  employed  in  the  Pension 
Bureau  at  Washington,  D.  C. 


DOG-GEREL. 

I  saw  some  college  Freshmen  once 
Into  a  night-lunch  go  ; 
"They're  going  to  the  dogs,"  said  I, 
"The  current  tale  of  woe." 

—Ex. 

Once  a  Freshman  was  cast  on  an  African  shore. 

Where  a  cannibal  monarch  held  sway; 
And  they  served  up  that  Freshman  in  slices  on  toast, 

On  the  eve  of  that  very  same  day. 
But  the  vengeance  of  heaven  followed  swift  on  the 
act. 

And  before  next  morning  was  seen. 
By  cholera  morbus  that  tribe  was  attacked. 

For  that  Freshman  was  terribly  green. — Ex. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


NECKW^BAK. 


We  wish  to  call  attention  to  our  New  Line  of 
Neckwear,  which  we  think  is  one  o£  the  Best 
Assortments  in  the  State.     Call  and  look  it  over. 

ber  We  Sell  the  Best  Quality  50c.  Ties  for  45c. 


J.    W.   &   O.    R.    PENNELL, 

ONE-PRICE,  SPOT-CASH  CLOTHIERS, 


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Brass  and  Wood  Fixtures  of  all  kinds. 

Table  and  Stand  Covers. 

Blankets,  Comforters,  and  Spreads. 
Materials  made  at  short  notice.  Soaps, 
Toilet  Waters,  Perfumes,  Combs,  Hair 
and  Tooth  Brushes,  Pads,  Tablets,  En- 
velopes, and  Paper  by  the  pound. 

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"  In  the  SpriDg-Time  most  men's  fancies 
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"HATHAWAY"  Madras  and  Silk  Stripes   at  $J.OO 

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"HOLMES  &  IDE"  Madras  and  Cheviots  at  $1.00. 
Percales  at  45  and  50c. 

SPRING    NECKWEAR 

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at  45,  75,  and  90c. 


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Cigars,   Tobaccos, 

Novels,   Confectionery, 

Billiards  40c.  per  Hour.  DllliardS,      POOl. 

New  Balls,  New  Cues,  Tables  in  Thorough  Repair. 

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BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,   FEBRUAEY  22,  1900. 


No.  26. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT. 

FUSLISHBD     EVBBT    THURSDAY    D0KING    THK     COLLEGIATB; 
YBAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS   OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD. 
Percy  A.  Baeb,  1900,  Editor-in-Chief. 

IsLAY  F.  McCoKMicK,  1900 Business  Manager. 

George  C.  Wheeler,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900 Personals. 

Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900, Personals. 

Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900, College  News. 

Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902 College  News. 

Richard  B.  Dole,  1902, College  News- 

Charles  E.  Bellatty,  1902, Athletics. 

Frank  B.  Mitchell,  M.,  1902,     .    .    .     Medical  School. 

Per  annum,  in  advance $2.00. 

Single  Copies, 10  Cents. 

Extra  copies  can  be  obtained  at  the  bookstores  or  on  applica- 
tion to  the  Business  Manager. 

Keraittances  should  be  made  to  the  Business  Manager.  Com- 
munications in  regard  to  all  other  matters  should  be  directed  to 
the  Editor-in-Chief. 

Entered  at  the  Post-Office  at  Brunswick  as  Second-Class  Mail  Matter. 
Printed  at  the  Journal  Office,  Lewiston. 

CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  26.— February  22,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes 227 

Meeting  of  Bowdoiu  Alumni 228 

Annual  Dinner  of  Kennebec  Alumni  Association  .     .  228 

Communication 229 

'68  Prize  Speaking 229 

'68  Prize  Oration 229 

calendar 231 

College  News .  232 

Athletics 233 

Personals 234 


The  Minstrel  Show  last  week  came  up  in 
every  way  to  all  that  had  been  anticipated,  but 
especially  was  it  successful  in  strengthening 
the  respective  treasuries  of  the  base-ball  and 
track  athletic  interests.  Because  of  this  even- 
ing both  of  these  associations  are  in  a  position 


to  start  boldly  onward  towards  developing 
strong  and  thoroughly  trained  teams. 

This  benefit  for  athletics  should  be  held 
every  winter  in  some  form  or  other.  If  not  as 
last  week,  there  are  light  operas  and  dramas ; 
and  both  of  these  could  be  made  as  perfect 
with  the  talent  in  college  as  that  obtained  in 
the  Minstrel  Show.  Managers  ought  to  bear 
this  in  mind  hereafter,  and  profit  by  the  experi- 
ence of  the  present. 

It  is  very  possible  that  the  Minstrel  Show 
may  be  given  a  few  times  out  of  town.  In 
case  this  is  decided,  the  fellows  who  may  live 
in  such  localities  should  assist  the  venture 
with  their  influence.  All  trouble  and  labor 
undertaken  now  will  bear  two-fold  in  good 
results  when  next  season's  athletics  are  fought 
out. 


The  Electric  Light  Company  which  con- 
trols the  system  in  Brunswick  has  been  giving 
most  unsatisfactory  service  on  the  campus. 
We  pay  at  least  three  times  as  much  as  when 
oil  was  used,  and  we  get  light  often  three 
times  inferior.  Every  storm,  freshet,  or 
trifling  accident  in  the  system  means  poor 
lights,  if  any  at  all,  for  a  whole  evening.  A 
first-class  company  reckons  on  these  things 
and  are  prepared  for  it ;  why  does  not  this  one  ? 
We  are  paying  for  first-class  service  and  we 
want  it.  There  must  be  nearly  a  thousand 
dollars  paid  each  term  for  lights  in  the  three 
dormitories,  and  perhaps  if  this  were  quietly 
invested  in  lamps  and  oil  for  a  term  we  might 
fare  better  in  the  end. 


The  conference  last  Saturday  between  the 
teachers  of  the  Maine  fitting  schools  and  the 
Faculty  of  the  college  should  be  the  foundation 
of  a  common 'understanding  and  a  closer  con- 
nection between  these  two  important  educa- 
tional factors.     By  a  hearty  co-operation  alone 


228 


BOWDOIN   ORIENT. 


can  the  best  welfare  of  the  student  be  obtained, 
and  to  such  an  end  the  frank  discussions  and 
kindly  suggestions  which  took  up  a  large  part 
of  the  meeting  showed  a  very  marked  and 
gratifying  tendency. 

This  convention  with  its,  many  inherent 
benefits  may  well  become  an  annual  custom. 
Students,  fitting-schools  and  colleges, — all 
derive  profit  from  its  meetings,  and  the  break 
between  the  secondary  schools  and  college  will 
become  so  insignificant  that  no  loss  of  energy 
at  all  is  suffered. 


MEETING  OF  BOWDOIN  ALUMNI  AT 
NORWAY. 

A  very  enthusiastic  meeting  of  the  Bowdoin 
Alumni  was  held  in  Norway  last  Monday. 
The  association  will  hereafter  do  everything 
in  its  power  for  the  interest  of  the  college,  both 
in  receiving  students  and  in  any  other  way 
that  may  present  itself. 

The  Portland  Press  says  : 

Norway,  February  19. — The  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege Alumni  of  Oxford  County  held  its  annual 
banquet  here  to-night  with  Chief  Justice  Wis- 
well  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  Professor  Lee 
of  Bowdoin  as  the  cfuests. 


ANNUAL  DINNER  OF  KENNEBEC 
ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION. 

About  thirty  sons  of  old  Bowdoin  living  in 
Augusta  and  vicinity  gathered  at  the  Cony 
House,  Friday^evening,  for  their  annual  meet- 
ing and  banquet.  A  dozen  others,  unable  to 
be  present,  sent  letters  of  regret,  showing  that 
their  hearts  were  with  their  more  fortunate 
alumni  brothers.  President  William  DeWitt 
Hyde  and  Professor  F.  C.  Robinson  of  the 
Chair  of  Chemistry  were  present  to  represent 
the  college,  and  the  tmdergraduate  body  was 
represented  by  xA.lbro  L.  Burnell  of  the  Senior 
Class.  It  was  a  happy  occasion  for  all;  and 
the  only  regrettable  feature  was  the  absence 
through  illness  of  Hon.  J.  W.  Bradbury,  '25, 
the  beloved  president  of  the  association  and 
the  oldest  living  alumrius  of  the  college. 

The  Kennebec  Bowdoin  Alumni  Associa- 


tion was  formed  in  June;  1898,  at  the  residence 
of  Mr.  Bradbury,  with  25  members  present, 
all  residents  of  Augusta.  Its  first  banquet 
was  held  at  the  Augusta  House  the  following 
December,  and  last  evening's  gathering  was 
the  second  of  the  kind.  Previous  to  the  din- 
ner a  brief  business  meeting  was  held  and  the 
following  officers  elected  for  the  ensuing  year : 
President,  Hon.  J.  W.  Bradbury,  '25 ;  vice- 
presidents,  Hon.  H.  M.  Heath,  '72,  and  Rev. 
E.  S.  Stackpole,  '71 ;  secretary  and  treasurer, 
J.  Clair  Minot,  '96;  executive  committee.  Dr. 
O.  S.  C.  Davies,  '79,  Dr.  W.  S.  Thompson,  '75, 
and  F.  J.  C.  Little,  '89. 

The  banquet  was  served  at  8.30  o'clock. 
On  the  cover  of  the  tasty  menu  card  was  an 
engraving  of  the  twin  spires  of  King's  Chapel, 
surrounded  by  a  wreath  of  pine  cones  and 
needles  from  the  "whispering  pines."  By 
each  plate  was  a  boutonniere  of  carnations  of 
the  college  color,  white.  Hon.  H.  M.  Heath, 
'72,  sat  at  the  head  of  the  table,  flanked  by 
President  Hyde  and  Professor  Robinson. 

The  others  present  were:  Rev.  E.  S. 
Stackpole,  '71 ;  Dr.  O.  S.  C.  Davies,  '79;  O.  D. 
Baker,  '68;  M.  S.  Holway,  '82;  Dr.  W.  S. 
Thompson,  '75 ;  Dr.  O.  W.  Turner,  '90 ;  John 
Gould,  '85 ;  C.  B.  Burleigh,  '87 ;  Joseph  Wil- 
liamson, '88;  J.  V.  Lane,  '87;  F.  J.  C.  Little, 
"89;  Horace  R.  Sturgis,  '78;  L.  A.  Burleigh, 
'91;  F.  G.  Farrington,  '94;  R.  W.  Leighton, 
'96 ;  J.  Clair  Minot,  '96 ;  Charles  S.  Pettengill, 
'98 ;  Arthur  H.  Nason,  '99,  all  of  Augusta ;  H. 
S.  Webster,  '67,  Weston  Lewis,  '72,  and 
Charles  A.  Knight,  '96,  of  Gardiner;  and 
Charles  F.  Johnson,  '79,  and  Albert  G.  Bowie, 
'75,  of  Waterville. 

After  the  cigars  had  been  lighted  there 
were  speeches.  President  Hyde  and  Profes- 
sor Robinson  spoke  for  the  college,  telling  in 
most  interesting  fashion  of  its  condition,  its 
work  and  its  needs.  Then  Toast-master 
Heath  called  upon  half  a  score  of  speakers  in 
order.  Among  the  speakers  were  Rev.  E.  S. 
Stackpole,  Hon.  O.  D.  Baker,  Charles  F.  John- 
son of  Waterville,  Joseph  Williamson,  Jr.,  C. 
B.    Burleigh,   M.    S.   Holway  and   Professor 


BOWDOIN  OEIENt. 


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Arthur  H.  Nason  of  Kent's  Hill.  Mr.  Burnell 
of  the  present  Senior  Class,  gave  an  interest- 
ing sketch  of  present  undergraduate  life, 
dwelling  upon  athletics.  It  was  midnight 
when  the  meeting  was  adjourned. 


To  the  Editor  of  the  Orient: 

In  connection  with  the  admirable  article  in 
your  issue  of  February  8th  on  "Bowdoin  in 
the  Civil  War,"  kindly  permit  me  the  space 
for  a  few  words  about  the  Civil  War  service 
of  the  men  of  the  Class  of  1861.  To  quote 
from  the  history  compiled  by  the  faithful  and 
efficient  class  secretary,  Mr.  Edward  Stan- 
wood,  "Of  the  61  men  who  were  at  any  time 
active  members  of  the  class,  25  served  in  the 
army  and  two  in  the  navy  of  the  United  States 
and  two  were  in  the  Confederate  army.  Mor- 
rell  and  Fessenden  were  killed  in  battle  during 
the  Civil  War ;  Howe  was  killed  by  Indians  in 
the  Modoc  War;  Cram,  Jordan  (navy),  and 
Shell  (Confederate),  died  of  disease  con- 
tracted in  the  service.  Two  members  of  the 
class  rose  to  the  rank  of  brevet  brigadier- 
general, — Hyde  and  Manning."  Of  those 
here  mentioned,  Captain  William  W.  Morrell 
and  Lieutenant  Samuel  Fessenden  died  gal- 
lantly; Morrell,  while  leading  his  company  in 
a  charge  near  Spottsylvania  Court  House, 
May,  1864,  and  Fessenden,  from  the  Result  of 
wounds  received  in  the  second  Bull  Run  battle, 
dying  the  next  morning.  At  the  terrible 
carnage  of  the  "Bloody  Angle"  at  Spottsyl- 
vania, Color  Sergeant  Edwin  Emery,  while 
endeavoring  to  bring  the  faltering  line  up  to 
the  colors,  fell  wounded,  and  received  a  second 
wound  during  the  24  hours  that  he  lay  help- 
less on  the  field,  under  fire,  and  at  one  time 
within  the  Confederate  lines.  He  won  a 
lieutenant's  commission  for  his  bravery.  Cap- 
tain Lorin  Farr  was  wounded  severely  at  Cold 
Harbor ;  Lieut.  Charles  O.  Hunt  was  wounded 
at  Gettysburg;  Lieut.-Colonel  George  B.  Ken- 
niston  languished  in  rebel  prisons  for  13 
months;  and  Sergeant  Edward  Simonton  was 
severely  wounded  in  the  assault  on  Petersburg, 


Va.,  and  promoted  for  his  bravery.  These 
are  but  a  few  names  from  the  war  record  of 
the  Class  of  1861,  as  brilliant  as  any,  and  fully 
deserving,  I  think,  of  the  mention  here 
accorded  it.  — M. 


'68  PRIZE  SPEAKING. 

Thursday  evening,  February  iSth,  the  last 
prize  speaking  of  the  Class  of  1900  was  held 
in  Memorial  Hall.  The  five  orations,  which 
were  original,  showed  real  labor  upon  their 
subjects  and  were  in  general  admirably  deliv- 
ered. Lee  was  awarded  the  first  and  only 
prize,  while  Bragdon  and  Whitney  deserve 
honorable  mention  for  the  commendable  and 
able  exhibition  of  both  oratorical  and  literary 
excellence. 

The  judges  were  Dr.  G.  M.  Elliott,  Mr. 
Barrett  Potter,  and  the  Rev.  Fr.  Sekenger. 

Programme : 

Music. 
In  Defence  of  Jeanne  D'Arc. 

James  Plaisted  Webber. 
America  in  the  East. 

Harry  Clinton  McCarty. 
Music. 
Death  of  Rienzi. 

Joseph  Walker  Whitney. 
Modern  Educational  Ideals. 

Clifford  Sawyer  Bragdon. 
Music. 
The  Reign  of  the  Golden  Rule. 

Frederick  Crosby  Lee. 
England  and  South  Africa. 

*Robert  FrankHn  Chapman. 
Music. 
*Excused. 


THE  REIGN  OF  THE  GOLDEN  RULE. 


Frederick  Crosby  Lee. 
The  ultimate  ruling  power  of  the  world 
will  be  love.  The  conditions  of  lasting  peace 
can  in  no  other  manner  be  obtained.  Think 
of  it.  Permanent  peace  demands  what? 
Constraint.''  But  constraint  alone  breeds  dis- 
content sooner  than  any  known  force.  Free- 
dom? But  freedom  forms  no  check  for  evil. 
If  not  one  of  these  two,  what  then?  Love! 
whose  wholesome  influence  combines  the  con- 


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straint  of  care  for  others  with  the  freedom  of 
right  doing.  Yes,  it  is  only  love,  embodied  in 
the  words  of  the  golden  rule,  that  can  bring 
this  restless  world  to  the  quiet  of  peace.  All 
the  works  of  the  past  ages  point  to  such  an 
issue.  All  the  changes  of  the  centuries  pro- 
claim that  love  shall  rule ! 

Go  back  with  me  through  the  long  years 
to  that  day  when  Christ  taught  in  the  Temple. 
How  peaceful  and  holy  is  the  scene !  How 
moving  the  sight  of  the  listening  throng !  And 
oh !  how  thrilling  the  words  of  the  Divine 
Teacher ! 

"Thou  shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God  with 
all  thy  heart  and  with  all  thy  soul  and  with 
all  thy  mind ;  this  is  the  first  and  great  com- 
mandment ;  and  the  second  is  like  unto  it ; 
Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself.  On 
these  two  commandments  hang  all  the  law 
and  the  prophets." 

That  utterance  marked  the  birth  of  a  new 
order  of  things.  The  old  idea  of  self-interest 
was  repudiated  and  a  new  idea  of  brotherly 
love  was  born,  whose  power  was  to  be  the 
backbone  of  Christian  morals,  and  whose 
acceptance  the  begetter  of  the  soul-lifting  hope 
of  heaven. 

Since  that  day  this  growing  force  of  love 
has  expressed  itself  in  many  ways.  It  spoke 
from  the  cross  of  the  awful  day  of  Golgotha 
in  the  prayer  of  "Father,  forgive  them,  for 
they  know  not  v^at  they  do,"  and  the  seeming 
triumph  of  its  foes-  was  turned  to  defeat.  It 
fired  the  dying  martyrs  of  the  Roman  arena 
and  their  inspiration  converted  the  persecu- 
tor to  the  faith  that  proclaimed  it.  It  tamed 
the  wild  spirits  of  the  piratical  Norsemen,  till 
their  homes  became  the  seats  of  peace.  It 
came  down  through  the  ages  and  crossed  the 
Atlantic  with  William  Penn  and  his  colonists 
and  formed  the  base  of  their  unbroken  cove- 
nant with  the  Indians.  It  was  present  in  the 
minds  of  those  who  framed  the  constitution 
and  helped  them  in  the  formation  of  the  laws 
of  justice.  Wherever  love  has  been  acknowl- 
edged it  has  raised  up  Good  Samaritans  to 
undo  the  work  of  the  wicked.     I  find  it  at  the 


heart  of  all  that  is  influential  in  any  lasting 
degree,  I  find  it  at  the  heart  of  all  that  is  good 
and  noble.  It  has  been  the  foundation  of  the 
greatest  benefits  that  the  race  has  received 
since  the  days  of  the  Master.  It  has  enriched 
oratory,  literature,  and  art ;  it  has  proved 
itself  the  one  force  that  can  help  men  to  live 
truer  and  nobler  lives ;  and  as  such,  it  is  the 
hope  of  the  future. 

The  hope  of  the  future !  How  many  souls 
have  longed  for  that  day  when  war  and  rumors 
of  war  shall  be  no  more,  and  when  the  inno- 
cent may  walk  abroad  by  day  or  night  and 
meet  none  but  the  innocent!  If  such  a  day  is 
to  come,  love  is  the  force  that  will  bring  it. 

Does  love  then,  as  the  power  of  the  future, 
harmonize  with  to-day's  outlook?  The  past 
has  shown  its  greatness,  does  the  present  show 
its  growing  strength?  Well  may  such  a 
question  be  asked.  The  rule  of  the  tyrant 
war  seems  as  firm  to-day  as  ever.  But  the 
conditions  that  to-day  or  to-morrow  impede 
the  wheels  of  advance  are,  after  all,  but  tem- 
porary. The  warning  of  Christ' that  wars  and 
contentions  must  first  come  to  pass,  was  not 
meant  only  for  an  age  since  gone  by.  It  may 
be  hard  for  even  the  optimist  to  justify  his 
hopes  by  the  facts  of  to-day,  yet  the  peace  will 
be  the  more  glorious  when  it  does  come  for  its 
conquest  of  passion,  and  who  can  say  but  it 
will  be  the  more  enduring?  No  knowledge 
of  evil  is  so  complete  as  that  which  is  born  of 
experience.  The  world  that  will  the  most 
enjoy  peace  is  the  world  that,  having  become 
wearied  with  war,  bows  its  knee  to  the  divine 
principle  of  another  right  embodied  in  love! 
I  must  believe  that  if  war  is  to  be  it  will  hasten 
its  own  end  and  through  many  may  raise  the 
despairing  cry  of  "How  long,  O  Lord,  how 
long?"  The  dawn  of  the  cherished  day  is  not 
distant.  The  militant  signs  of  the  times  are 
plenty,  but  love  is  not  dormant  nor  can  it  be 
while  the  disciples  of  Christ  still  live  and  teach. 
It  may  be  long  years  before  the  harvest  is 
gathered,  and  the  world  is  ruled  by  love,  but 
the  seed  is  ever  being  sown,  and  its  growth 
though  slow  is  sure. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


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The  Hague  last  year  saw  a  noteworthy 
gathering.  It  was  called  "The  Peace  Con- 
gress." Its  work  was  varied.  Its  motive 
doubtful.  But  nevertheless  it  represented 
advance.  It  showed  that  man  was  not  alone 
thoughtful  of  his  own  rights.  It  showed  that 
the  coming  of  peace  was  not  despaired  of. 
But  that  is  not  all.  The  advance  of  peaceful 
arbitration  between  nations  points  to  a  new 
means  of  avoiding  war,  and  the  two  great 
English-speaking  peoples  have  already  used 
this  means  to  adjust  their  differences. 

But  opposed  to  this  comes  the  news  that 
Germany  is  to  appropriate  $100,000,000  to 
her  navy;  that  Russia  will  build  a  new  fleet; 
that  France  proposes  to  increase  her  arma- 
ment; that  England  intends  to  keep  her  navy 
equal  to  any  two  continental  powers ;  and  that 
our  own  government  desires  greater  power 
on  sea  and  land.  Such  reports  show  the  trend 
of  the  century.  This  age  is  an  age  of  con- 
quest. Each  year  sees  changes  in  the  world's 
political  geography.  Universal  war,  with  its 
unspeakable  horrors,  may  be  at  hand.  And 
what  will  be  the  result?  Will  those  differ- 
ences be  settled  forever?  Perhaps,  but  at 
what  a  cost ! 

Think  of  the  multitudes  of  brave  men  who 
must  sacrifice  their  lives,  following  their 
country's  banner  up  some  blood-stained, 
corpse-strewn  slope !  Think  of  the  equally 
brave  women  who  must  remain  in  the  war- 
stricken  homes,  with  aching  hearts,  hoping  in 
vain  for  good  news,  and  venting  their  grief 
in  agonized  tears  over  the  cradle  of  their 
unconscious  babes  at  night,  while  in  the  day 
they  force  themselves  to  smile  at  their  chil- 
dren's alarms !  Think  of  those  orphans  com- 
pelled to  grow  up  without  knowing  a  father's 
care  or  counsel !  Think  of  the  suffering  of 
the  poor  and  needy  when  the  war  has  caused 
a  scarcity  of  the  very  necessaries  of  life ! 
Think  of  the  millions  spent  by  the  striving 
government  in  endeavoring  to  hold  its  own ! 
Think  of  the  loss  to  the  industry  that  has  its 
skilled  laborers  taken,  to  the  country  that 
sacrifices  the  flower  of  its  youth,  to  the  world 


that  must  lack  forever  the  vigor  of  its  strong- 
est !  War,  indeed,  may  settle  differences,  but 
at  what  a  cost ! 

But  let  us  look  at  the  result  when  differ- 
ences are  settled  by  peaceful  methods.  What 
a  better  way  this  shows  us.  The  young  man 
does  not  leave  his  trade  to  slay  his  fellow-man, 
but  lives  out  his  useful  life  in  his  quiet  duties. 
The  wife  sings  as  she  goes  about  her  house- 
work, happy  in  the  thought  of  her  soon 
returning  husband  and  her  growing  children. 
The  children  climb  upon  their  father's  knees 
at  night  and  are  all  unconscious  of  what  might 
have  been  their  loss.  The  poor  and  needy  do 
not  have  their  lot  made  harder.  The  govern- 
ment does  not  have  to  tax  to  raise  a  war-fund. 
Industry  thrives,  the  country  keeps  its  youth, 
the  world  feels  new  vigor  from  its  unspent 
blood,  and  the  differences  are  settled  and  soon 
forgotten.  Where  love  is  supreme,  war  is 
unknown,  for  the  nations  are  as  men  and  jus- 
tice between  them  as  between  brother  and 
brother ! 

Would  that  men  might  to-day  see  that 
love  is  the  better  part,  and  banish  this  horror 
of  war  forever. 

Were  half  the  power,  that  fills  the  world  with  terror, 
Were   half   the   wealth   bestowed   on   camps   and 
courts 

Given  to  redeem  the  human  mind  from  error, 
There  were  no  need  of  arsenals  and  forts; 

The  warrior's  name  would  be  a  name  abhorred; 

And  every  nation,  that  should  lift  again 
Its  hand  against  a  brother,  on  its  forehead 

Would  wear  forevermore  the  curse  of  Cain! 

Down  the  dark  future,  through  long  generations, 
The  echoing  sounds  grow  fainter  and  then  cease; 

And  like  a  bell,  with  solemn,  sweet  vibrations, 

I  hear  once  more  the  voice  of  Christ  say  "  Peace !" 

Peace !  and  no  longer  from  its  brazen  portals 

The  blast  of  War's  great  organ  shakes  the  skies; 

But  beautiful  as  songs  of  the  immortals, 
The  holy  melodies  of  love  arise. 


CALENDAR. 

Thursday,   Feb.  22. — Washington's  Birthday. 
Friday,  March  23. — College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,    April   2-6. — Examinations. 


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COLLEGE   NEWS. 

Howard,  Med.,  is  out  sick. 

Randall,  '99,  spent  Sunday  in  college. 

Simpson,  1903,  spent  Sunday  in  Augusta. 

Pearl,  4903,  spent  last  Sunday  in  Lewiston. 

All  the  classes  are  practicing  for  the  relay  races. 

Kelley,  '02,  has  returned  from  teaching  in  Booth- 
hay. 

Several  games  of  golf  were  played  on  the  links 
last  week. 

The  second  Junior  Assembly  will  come  next  Mon- 
day night. 

The  Sophomores  have  finished  boxing  in  the 
Gymnasium. 

The  Glee  Club  started  Tuesday  on  its  trip  among 
the  mountains. 

Lancey,  '99,  and  Clarke,  '99,  will  be  back  for  the 
next  assembly. 

The  new  snow-plow  is  a  great  improvement  on 
the  one  of  last  year. 

Haley,  1902,  who  is  sick  at  home,  is  much  better, 
and  is  able  to  sit  up. 

The  snow  storm  on  Sunday  was  the  heaviest  one 
we  have  had  this  year. 

At  the  Deutcher  Verein  on  Monday,  Stackpole 
and  Webber  read  papers. 

It  is  now  the  intention  of  the  management  to  give 
the  Minstrel  Show  in  Portland. 

Goodspeed,  1900,  will  be  the  delegate  of  the 
Lambda  Chapter  to  the  S4th  annual  convention  of 
the  Zeta  Psi  Fraternity,  at  Philadelphia,  March  9th 
and  loth. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  meetings  of  the 
Politics  Club  was  held  with  Professor  Emery,  Mon- 
day. The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  New 
Meadows  Inn. 

The  last  two  readings  from  the  Faust  will  be 
given  next  week,  the  third  reading  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing, February  27th,  and  the  last,  Thursday  evening, 
March  ist. 

At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Sophomore  Class,  the 
following  officers  were  elected:  President,  Hoyt; 
vice-president,  Rodick ;  secretary  and  treasurer,  Giles  ; 
squad  leader,  B.  P.  Hamilton:  H.  J.  Hunt,  captain 
of  the  track  team. 

The  college  is  now  in  a  position  to  offer  to  teach- 
ers' associations  in  the  cities  and  towns  throughout 
the  State,  a  series  of  lectures  on  methods  of  instruc- 
tion   in   the   various    subjects   taught   in    the   public 


schools.     At  present  the  course  consists  of  the  fol- 
lowing lectures : 

Professor  MacDonald  on  Civil  Government,  I. 

Professor  MacDonald  on  Civil  Government,  II. 

Professor  Robinson  on  Teaching  Chemistry. 

Professor  Emery  on  Commercial  Geography. 

Professor  Woodruff  on  Teaching  Classics. 

Professor  Lee  on  Nature  Study. 

Professor  MacDonald  on  American  History. 

Professor  Mitchell  on  English  Composition. 

Dr.  Whittier  on  School  Hygiene. 

Professor  Files  on  Study  of  Modern  Languages. 

This  course  is  intended  exclusively  for  teachers. 
At  the  present  time,  the  course  is  being  given  as  a 
whole  in  Bangor  and  Ellsworth;  in  part,  in  Boothbay, 
Gardiner,  and  Lewiston. 

Saturday,  February  17th,  sixty-five  principals  and 
assistants  of  the  Maine  high  schools  and  academies 
met  in  conference  with  the  President  and  Faculty 
of  the  college.  The  morning  session,  which  was  held 
in  the  Searles  Science  Building,  was  opened  by  Presi- 
dent Hyde,  who  explained  that  the  conference  had 
beeen  called  in  order,  if  possible,  to  bring  about  a 
closer  connection  between  the  secondary  schools  and 
the  college,  and  also  to  promote  a  better  common 
understanding  between  them.  In  order  to  do  this, 
;he  various  subjects  in  the  college  requirements 
would  be  taken  up  in  turn  and  thoroughly  examined. 
The  subject  would  be  introduced  by  the  head  of  the 
department  in  college  and  then  thrown  open  for  gen- 
eral discussion.  This  plan  was  productive  of  most 
excellent  results,  since  it  not  only  explained  the  posi- 
tion of  the  college,  but  also  showed  clearly  the  views 
of  the  preparatory  schools  on  all  these  subjects.  The 
discussion  continued  until  noon,  when  the  visitors 
were  invited  to  inspect  the  college  buildings.  At 
1.30  a  dinner  was  served  to  the  guests  and  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Faculty  at  New  Meadows  Inn.  Seventy- 
four  sat  at  the  tables.  After  the  dinner  President 
Hyde  called  for  informal  remarks  from  some  of  the 
visitors.  Among  the  speakers  were  Principals  Chase 
of  Portland,  White  of  Bangor,  Moody  of  the  Edward 
Little  High  School,  Libby  of  Lewiston  High,  John- 
son of  Cobiu-n  Classical  Institute,  Cook  of  Augusta, 
Sampson  of  Thomaston  Academy,  Cole  of  Bath, 
Snow  of  Yarmouth^  Academy,  Dutch  of  Hallowell, 
and  Professors  MacDonald  and  Lee  of  the  college. 
The  speeches,  which  were  of  a  more  general  charac- 
ter than  the  talk  of  the  morning,  were  extremely 
interesting  and  were  well  received.  The  unanimous 
opinion  seemed  to  be  that  the  best  results  could  be 
obtained  only  by  hearty  co-operation  on  the  part  of 
the  fitting  schools  and  the  college.  The  conference 
closed  at  4  p.m. 


'98. — J.   M.   Loring  is  an  instructor  in  Tougaloo 
University,  Tougaloo,  Mississippi.  • 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


23S 


ATHLETICS. 

The  Maine  Intercollegiate  Athletic  Association 
held  its  annual  meeting  in  Waterville  last  Saturday. 
Officers  for  next  year  were  elected  as  follows :  W. 
R.  Ham,  Bates,  President;  Fred  L.  Martin,  U.  of 
M.,  Vice-President;  H.  L.  Withee,  Colby,  Secretary; 
and  H.  L.  Swett,  Bowdoin,  Treasurer.  The  report 
of  the  treasurer  showed  a  debt  of  $ioo.  An  assess- 
ment of  $25  in  addition  to  the  regular  annual 
assessment  was  voted  for  each  college.  An  appro- 
priation was  made  for  gold  medals  to  be  awarded 
New  England  Intercollegiate  record  breakers  on  the 
Maine  teams.  Three  are  already  due.  A.  L. 
Grover  of  U.  of  M.  will  get  one  for  throwing  the 
discus  and  another  for  putting  the  shot.  Harry  H. 
Cloudman  of  Bowdoin  will  get  the  third  medal  as  a 
reward  for  his  sprinting  the  hundred. 

Bowdoin  will  see  the  next  meet  of  the  associa- 
tion on  her  own  grounds  if  the  Athletic  Advisory 
Committee  of  the  college  look  with  favor  on  Manager 
Swett's  arrangements.  There  is  no  reason  for  think- 
ing that  the  meet  will  not  be  held  on  the  Whittier 
Athletic  Field  next  spring. 

If  the  igoo  meet  is  held  here  the  arrangement  for 
succeeding  years  will  give  the  meeting  place  to  the 
University  of  Maine  in  1901,  to  Bates  in  1902,  to 
Colby  in  1903,  and  to  Bowdoin  again  in  1904. 

Harry  J.  Hunt  will  be  captain  of  the  track  team 
and  B.  P.  Hamilton  will  lead  the  dumb-bell  squad 
of  the  Class  of  1901,  at  the  coming  indoor  athletic 
meet. 

Considering  the  fact  that  the  college  minstrel 
show  for  the  benefit  of  the  nine  and  the  track  team 
netted  something  more  than  $225,  Manager  White 
and  Manager  Swett  have  a  right  to  be  contented  and 
to  wear  as  broad  a  grin  as  they  wish. 

Cloudman  got  a  bad  bruise,  last  week,  on  the 
thigh  which  he  injured  in  foot-ball  in  the  Exeter 
game  of  '98.  He  is  having  considerable  trouble  with 
the  injury,  but  does  not  expect  serious  results. 

Captain  Gregson  was  sick  on  Saturday  and  was 
unable  to  look  after  the  training  of  the  foot-ball 
squad  in  the  gym.    " 

Captain  Reid  of  the  Harvard  nine  has  announced 
a  novel  plan  for  the  coming  base-ball  campaign.  He 
intends  to  hold  the  "scrub  series"  of  games  earlier 
in  the  season  than  has  been  the  custom  heretofore, 
and  to  pick  a  nine  from  the  scrub  games  to  play  a 
series  with  the  second  'Varsity.  The  men  who  make 
the  best  showing  in  the  second  series  will  go  into 
the  college  team.  B.  H.  Hayes,  '98,  Houghton,  '99, 
and  Rand,  '98,  will  have  charge  of  the  coaching  of 
the  Harvard  men  until  the  arrival  of  Dr.  Nichols, 
the  head-coach. 


University  of  California  has  sent  a  challenge  to 
Yale  for  a  dual  athletic  meet  in  the  East  next  spring. 
The  western  university  will  send  a  team  to  the 
Eastern  States  for  intercollegiate  contests ;  and  the 
westerners  want  a  little  private  whack  at  Yale.  It 
is  not  thought  at  New  Haven  that  the  Yale  team  is 
looking  for  any  more  engagements  than  it  had 
already  arranged. 

The  second  annual  meet  of  the  Georgetown  Uni- 
versity Indoor  Athletic  Association  was  held  in 
Washington  on  Saturday  evening  of  last  week. 
A.  F.  Duffy,  the  noted  sprinter  of  Georgetown,  won 
new  honors  by  breaking  the  50-yard  indoor  record. 
Duffy  won  in  5  1-5  seconds.  The  record,  held  by 
Wefers  and  Tewkesbury,  was  S  2-5  seconds. 

U.  of  P.  will  start  a  team  of  track  athletes  for 
England  on  June  20th  to  compete  in  the  English 
championships  at  London  on  July  7th.  After  the 
contests  with  Oxford  and  Cambridge  the  team  will 
go  to  Paris,  and,  later,  will  enter  the  Olympian 
games.  ■ 

Captain  Williamson  Pell  of  the  Princeton  foot- 
ball team  will  put  his  men  at  work  this  week  on 
special  physical  training  to  develop  their  muscles 
for  the  games  of  the  next  season.  The  exercise  in 
the  gymnasium  will  not  take  the  place  of  the  out- 
door practice  usually  taken  during  the  spring  months, 
but  will,  instead,  be  a  preparation  for  the  out-door 
work. 


TO  RESTRICT  FOOT-BALL. 

The  Boston  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Sun 
sent  the  following  interesting  dispatch  to  his  paper 
one  day  last  week : 

"It  has  leaked  out  here  that  for  some  time  past 
the  Faculties  of  leading  Eastern  universities  have 
been  considering  the  advisability  of  curtailing  the 
sport  of  foot-ball  as  much  as  possible,  because  of  a 
belief  that  too  much  time  is  devoted  to  the  game 
by  the  players  and  student-body  to  some  extent  to 
the  detriment  of  good  scholarship.  The  movement 
has  been  entirely  secret  and  it  is  not  the  desire  of 
those  behind  it  to  have  the  facts  made  public  until 
all  plans  are  consummated.  From  the  best  informa- 
tion obtainable  the  Faculties  of  Harvard,  Yale, 
Princeton,  Cornell  and  Columbia  are  in  the  scheme 
which  has  been  discussed  at  length  on  many  different 
occasions. 

"In  order  to  sift  matters  down  so  that  tangible 
results  might  be  reached,  the  Faculties  named  herein 
appointed  a  committee  to  go  over  the  ground  and 
draw  up  some  sort  of  an  agreement  which  should 
govern  foot-ball  at  these  universities  in  particular 
and  at  any  other  institutions  that  might  see  fit  to 
adopt  the  plan.  The  committee  was  organized  about 
six  months  ago,   entirely  without  the  knowledge  of 


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the  undergraduates  or  the  graduate  athletic  authori- 
ties. The  committee  was  provided,  where  it  was 
possible,  with  data  concerning  the  work  of  every 
foot-ball  player  who  had  been  a  member  of  a  'Varsity 
eleven  for  several  years,  also  his  standing  in  studies, 
his  physical  condition  before  and  after  training  for 
the  eleven,  together  with  his  trim  after  leaving  col- 
lege. Information,  too,  as  to  the  amount  of  time 
devoted  by  each  player  to  the  game,  the  length  of 
the  preliminary  training  season,  the  expenses  entailed 
and  the  number  of  men  taken  onto  the  field  at  the 
beginning  of  each  season  by  the  coaches  was  placed 
in  the  hands  of  the  committee,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
list  of  studies  of  each  man,  his  average  attendance  at 
lectures  and  recitations,  and  the  effect  of  injuries 
sustained. 

"With  this  material  in  hand  the  committee  found 
that  it  had  a  long  task.  Plenty  of  time  was  devoted 
to  it,  however,  and  soon  a  report  was  framed  to  be 
submitted  to  the  Faculties.  In  this  report,  it  is 
understood,  it  was  suggested  that  the  number  of 
games  to  be  played  by  each  eleven  with  other  univer- 
sities be  limited  .say  to  six  or  less;  that  no  prelimi- 
nary training  before  the  opening  of  college  should  be 
allowed;  that  each  player  be  prohibited  from  devot- 
ing more  than  a  certain  number  of  hours  a  day  to 
practice  and  games ;  that  all  players  must  attend 
lectures  and  recitations  in  such  a  way  as  to  satisfy 
the  requirements  of  the  Faculties;  that  all  players 
be  compelled  to  devote  a  certain  number  of  hours 
each  day  to  their  studies,  and  his  scholarship  must 
rank  higher  than  the  average :  that  every  candidate 
for  a  place  on  a  'Varsity  eleven  must  be  subjected 
to  a  rigid  physical  examination  before,  during  and 
after  each  season ;  that  uniform  eligibility  rules  be 
placed  in  effect  and  enforced  to  the  letter;  that 
schedules  of  games  must  first  be  submitted  to  the 
Faculties  for  approval ;  that  the  engagement  of 
coaches,  trainers  and  other  attendants  must  be  under 
the  control  of  a  Faculty  committee. 

"The  committee  arrived  at  these  conclusions  at 
a  recent  meeting  held  in  New  York  during  the  holi- 
days. Since  then  the  Faculties  have  been  deliberat- 
ing, with  the  result  that  fault  is  found  because  no 
penalty  is  attached  to  the  proposed  agreement.  It 
is,  therefore,  argued  that  even  if  these  five  universi- 
ties should  see  fit  to  adopt  such  rules,  if  one  of  them 
violated  the  compact  there  would  be  no  way  to  seek 
redress.  It  is  believed  that  some  of  the  recommen- 
dations are  considered  too  severe  and  that  when  the 
report  is  sent  back  to  the  committee  it  will  have  been 
greatly  modified  in  parts.  It  will  be  accompanied 
by  a  suggestion,  it  is  said,  calling  for  a  penalty  of 
this  sort : 

"If  a  university,  after  agreeing  to  live  up  to  the 
rules   which   must  first   be  made   satisfactory  to   all 


interested  parties,  breaks  its  pledge,  it  can  be  pun- 
ished by  a  refusal  by  the  other  universities  to  arrange 
any  further  games  with  its  eleven.  It  is  intended 
not  to  penalize  individuals,  but  to  come  back  at  the 
offending  university  itself.  The  committee  will  hold 
another  meeting  shortly.  It  is  thought  that  the  new 
rules  will  not  be  ready,  however,  to  affect  foot-ball 
next  fall,  but  will  be  enforced  in  1901." 

Commenting  upon  this  dispatch  in  the  same 
column  the  editor  of  the  Athletic  department  of  the 
Sun  says : 

"A  strong  protest  from  both  undergraduates  and 
alumni  of  the  universities  involved  is  expected  as 
soon  as  the  Faculties  make  public  the  plans  out- 
lined in  the  above  dispatch.  The  fact  that  the  vari- 
ous graduate  advisory  committees  of  the  leading 
colleges  have  not  been  consulted  is  almost  sure  to 
stir  up  the  influential  college  men  who  have  hitherto 
had  control  of  foot-ball.  They  have  been  congi-atu- 
lating  themselves  recently  upon  the  excellent  man- 
ner in  which  foot-ball  was  conducted  last  fall  and 
the  comparatively  few  injuries  sustained  by  players 
on  the  big  teams.  Barring  a  few  minor  changes  in 
the  foot-ball  rules,  the  graduate  directors  of  the 
sport  have  often  said  that  foot-ball  as  it  is  now 
needs  no  tinkering.  The  argument  advanced  by  cer- 
tain Faculty  members,  that  the  big  foot-ball  games 
last  fall  seriously  interfered  with  the  scholarship  of 
both  players  and  students,  is  not  listened  to  with 
seriousness  by  the  graduates,  who  believe  that  fos- 
tering the  best  interests  of  the  sport  does  not  con- 
sist in  Faculty  interference.  It  is  all  well  enough 
to  have  a  certain  amount  of  Faculty  control,  the 
graduates  say,  but  it  is  too  much  of  a  good  thing 
when  the  real  interest  in  the  pastime  is  to  be  killed 
by  needless  restrictions.  Altogether  there  is  pros- 
pect of  some  friction  between  the  Faculties  and  the 
alumni  over  a  situation  which  is  considered  serious 
in  the  extreme." 


PERSONALS. 


The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'62. — Gen.  C.  P.  Mattocks  was  toast-master  at  the 
immense  banquet  of  the  Maine  Veterans  at  the  Port- 
land auditorium,  last  week.  Among  the  guests  were 
ex-Governors  Chamberlain,  '52,  and  Robie,  '41. 

M.  '69. — At  the  Republican  convention  at  West- 
brook,  February  i6th.  Dr.  Jacob  L.  Hoar  was 
nominated  for  Mayor. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT. 


Vol.  XXIX. 


BEUNSWICK,   MAINE,   MARCH   1,  1900. 


No.  27. 


B  O  W  D  O  T  N    O  11  I  K  N  T. 

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TEAR   BY    THE   STDDENTS    OF 

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IsLAY  F.  McCoRMiCK,  1900,  ....     Bu.siuess  Manager. 
George  G.  'Wheeler,  1901,  Assistant  Bu,sinesa  Manager. 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900 Personals. 

Harry  C.  McCarty,  1900, Personals. 

Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900, College  News. 

Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902 College  News' 

Richard  B.  Dole,  1902, College  News 

Charles  E.  Bellatty,  1902, Athletics 

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CONTENTS. 
Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  27.— March  1,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes 235 

Calendar 236 

"Washington  Alumni  Meeting 237 

Joshua  Lawrence  Chamberlain 238 

My  Old  Easy-Chair       239 

College  News 240 

Athletics   .    .   , .- 240 

Y.  M.  C.  A 241 

Personals 241 


The  track  teams  of  the  members  of  the 
N.  E.  I.  A.  A.,  according  to  the  Orient 
exchanges,  are  faithfully  at  work  training  for 
the  Worcester  meet.  These  colleges,  as  well 
as  Harvard,  Yale,  and  Pennsylvania,  recognize 
the  benefit  if  not  necessity  of  a  few  weeks  of 


general  gymnasium  work  to  bring  a  man  into 
what  is  termed  "fine  shape"  just  before  the 
meet. 

Bowdoin  is  surely  tempting  fate  in  being 
so  indifferent  in  preparing  for  a  meet  in  which 
there  is  such  an  intense  interest  as  that  felt 
for  the  Worcester  meet.  Some  systematic 
squad  work  needs  to  be  done  now  on,  until 
out-of-doors  work  is  possible.  It  is  generally 
claimed  that  about  twelve  weeks  are  best 
adapted  to  the  most  perfect  condition,  and  that 
is  exactly  the  number  of  weeks  from  now  to 
the  date  of  the  meet. 


The  course  of  lectures  by  the  members  of 
the  Faculty,  which  are  especially  prepared  for 
the  needs  of  the  secondary  schools,  should 
create  a  general  demand  from  Principals 
throughout  the  State,  and  prove  of  inestimable 
popularity  and  profit  to  teachers  and  scholars. 
These  lectures  are  prepared  by  educators  of 
experience  who  are  citizens  of  the  State  and 
especially  familiar  with  her  schools,  and 
cognizant  of  their  difficulties  and  deficiencies. 
Their  purpose  is  to  swing  in  line  all  the  educa- 
tional forces  throughout  the  State,  and  it  is 
but  part  of  the  grand  policy  that  college  and 
secondary  schools  should  work  shoulder  to 
shoulder  for  the  welfare  of  the  student.  Only 
the  most  profitable  results  should  crown  these 
much  needed  lectures  on  popular  topics,  and 
only  such  can  result  when  once  this  course  is 
generally  utilized. 


There  is  a  very  serious  tendency  to  be  con- 
sidered before  the  Minstrel  Show  is  booked 
for  an  out-of-town  performance,  and  this 
tendency  has  been  illustrated  to  the  sorrow  of 
past  managers  whenever  an  entertainment  of 
this  sort  or  an  opera  has  been  reproduced  away 
from  the  college  town. 


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Several  years  ago  an  opera  was  given  by 
the  students  which  netted  between  two  and 
three  hundred  dollars  from  the  home  perform- 
ance. Still  further  back  a  minstrel  show  was 
given  with  similar  encouragement ;  but  in  both 
of  these  cases  all  this  gain  was  entirely  loss 
because  of  out-of-town  performances. 

The  present  venture  has  resulted  extremely 
profitably  to  the  Athletic  Association,  and  no 
further  attempt  should  be  made  with  this  pro- 
duction unless  the  manager  is  absolutely  posi- 
tive of  obtaining  all  expenses  and  a  net  profit 
in  addition. 

College  sentiment  and  spirit  will  force  any- 
thing of  this  sort  to  a  glorious  climax  when 
in  our  midst,  but  we  must  consider  that  out  of 
town  we  are  catering  to  the  popular  audience 
with  its  unreliability  and  capriciousness. 


General  O.  O.  Howard  in  a  recent  maga- 
zine article  on  Senator  Frye  gives  some  pleas- 
ing reminiscences  of  the  college  days  of  the 
Senator  and  himself.     He  says: 

"The  first  time  I  saw  Frye  was  in  our 
Livy  class-room  at  the  beginning  of  our  first 
term  in  Bowdoin  College.  I  was  not  quite 
sixteen  and  he  was  about  the  same  age.  He 
appeared  to  me  self-reliant  and  jolly.  He 
hadn't  yet  come  to  his  full  size,  but  he  was  a 
very  presentable  youth.  He  had  a  perfectly 
shaped  head  and  a  fine  forehead.  His  hair 
was  darkish  brown  with  light  shades,  and  his 
eyes  were  just  as  they  are  now,  large  and 
noticeably  blue — eyes  that  brighten  immensely 
under  excitement.  As  a  Freshman,  he 
roomed  in  Massachusetts  Hall  (North  End) 
with  Webster  Pickard,  a  Junior.  This  chum- 
ming with  a  Junior  cut  him  off  considerably 
from  his  more  humble  classmates  of  the  North 
College,  where  P.  S.  Perley  and  I  enjoyed  the 
fun  and  teasing  of  the  Sophomores.  I  doubt 
if  Frye  ever  had  his  proper  share  of  the  old 
discipline  of  hazing,  though  I  saw  him  at  foot- 
ball, once,  considerably  animated  and  indig- 
nant when  Sophs  mistook  Freshmen's  shins 
for  the  ball.  He  and  I  used  to  meet  out  of 
study  hours  at  the  gymnasium  in  the  edge  of 
the  Pine  Wood  and  practice  jumping  with  the 
swing-rope  for  developing  our  muscles. 

"The  remarkable  thing  about  Frye  at  that 
time    was    his    voice.     It    had    a    clear    ring 


and  demanded — commanded — attention.  His 
memory  was  seldom  at  fault,  and  his  recitation 
was  excellent  when  he  had  previously  studied. 
Boys  of  our  age  did  not  always  have  good 
lessons,  because  there  were  sometimes  distrac- 
tions that  were  dominating,  and  poor  work 
was  not  always  our  fault.  Think  of  that  old- 
fashioned  'hold-in'  by  the  Sophomores  at  the 
Chapel  door,  and  of  those  'smoke-outs'  in  one's 
room !  If  one  had  studied,  such  disturbances 
always  for  a  time  acted  unfavorably  on  the 
nerves  and  naturally  troubled  the  reciting. 
There  were  suppers,  society  meetings,  games 
and  novels,  which,  indulged  in  over  night, 
would  at  times  occasion  a  poor  rendering  of 
language  before  Professor  Packard  in  the 
early  morning ;  or  a  noonday  nap  would  bring 
on  difficulty  with  Professor  Smyth  at  his 
Ijlackboard  in  the  afternoon. 

"  But  Frye  was  better  defended  than  I  by 
having  a  Junior  room-mate  and  a  conservative 
example,  so  that  his  recitations  were  generally 
good.  It  was  my  fortune,  or  rather  the  want 
of  one,  to  teach  school  winters,  and  during 
my  course  of  four  years  to  stay  out  of  college 
one  whole  fall  term.  But  Frye  came  from 
I.ewiston,  where  the  falls  of  the  Androscoggin 
by  a  storage  of  power  enabled  the  people  to 
have  large  factories ;  he  himself  belonged  to 
the  family  of  a  manufacturer  of  ample  means, 
so  that  he  was  not  obliged  to  teach  winter 
school,  or  do  double  work  in  term  time.  He 
retained  his  youth  and  elasticity  all  through 
the  course,  was  very  fond  of  his  secret  society, 
the  Psi  U.,  and  had  many  boon  companions. 
Really,  I  do  not  know  what  would  have 
become  of  him  if  he  had  not  struck  two  impor- 
tant epochs  after  his  graduation.  One  was 
the  meeting  with  a  charming  and  accomplished 
young  lady,  whom  he  married;  after  which, 
life  to  my  classmate  naturally  became  more 
serious. 

"The  other  important  event  was  his  pub- 
lic confession  of  the  Great  Master;  there 
resulted  what  we  in  New  England  used  to  call 
a  'change  of  mind.'  " 

In  reading  this  its  similarity  with  present 
college  days  is  striking,  and  we  cannot  help 
realizing  a  bond  of  sentiment  and  common 
loyalty  between  alumni,  old  and  young,  and 
the  tmdergraduate  body. 


CALENDAR, 

Friday,  March  23. — College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,   April   2-6. — Examinations. 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


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NOTICE. 
The  present  volume  of  the  Orient  lacks 
but  three  numbers  of  completion.  ^  The  vacan- 
cies which  occur  on  the  editorial  staff  are 
unusually  many  this  year,  the  retiring  board 
leaving  five  places  to  be  filled.  There  are  still 
opportunities  for  making  the  next  board,  but 
these  are  fast  diminishing  and  all  men  who 
have  desires  along  this  line  should  act  upon 
them  without  a  moment's  delay. 


WASHINGTON   ALUMNI    MEETING. 

The  alumni  of  Washington,  D.  C.,  and 
vicinity  held  their  annual  banquet  and  meet- 
ing at  Hotel  ■  Wellington,  Saturday,  February 
17th.  Although  a  howling  storm  of  sleet  and 
snow,  sufficient  to  dampen  the  most  ardent 
alumnus,  was  raging  in  the  national  capital, 
yet  a  considerable  number  of  loyal  and  worthy 
sons  met  in  the  interest  and  love  of  Bowdoin 
College. 

Thirty-five  members  of  the  association 
gathered,  including  several  of  the  younger 
alumni,  who  are  attending  at  Johns  Hopkins 
University  in  Baltimore.  Chief  Justice  Ful- 
ler, who  graduated  from  Bowdoin  before  the 
Civil  War,  presided.  The  guest  of  honor, 
sitting  at  his  right,  was  Representative  Little- 
field  of  Maine.  Senator  Frye,  the  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  association,  sat  at  his  left.  At  the 
head  of  the  table  also  were  General  Ellis  Spear 
and  his  guest,  Brigadier-General  Henry  C. 
Merriam  of  the  regular  army,  who  is  a  native 
of  Hpulton,  Me.,  and  a  graduate  of  Colby 
College;  General  John  B.  Cotton,  formerly  of 
Lewiston,  and  his  guest,  Mr.  Frank  W. 
Hackett,  a  lawyer  and  a  graduate  of  Harvard. 
Others  about  the  board  were  Representative 
F.  C.  Stevens  of  Minnesota  and  his  classmate, 
James  B.  Donovan  of  Great  Falls,  Mont.,  who 
used  to  live  at  livermore  Falls,  Me.,  and  who 
is  in  Washington  in  connection  with  the 
Clark  senatorial  case;  Representative  Amos 
L.  Allen  of  Alfred;  Dr.  Woodbury  Pulsifer 
of  Lewiston,  clerk  to  the  Senate  Committee 


on  Commerce;  Mr.  William  Frye  White,  a 
grandson  of  Senator  Frye,  who  is  now  prac- 
ticing law  in  this  city,  and  who  read  a  letter 
from  President  Hyde  and  detailed  some  of 
the  latest  nevifs  from  Bowdoin. 

It  was  expected  that  Representative  Alex- 
ander of  Buffalo,  who  is  a  very  loyal  alumnus 
of  Bowdoin,  would  be  present  to  act  as  toast- 
master.  As  he  was  unable  to  attend.  Dr. 
Pulsifer  very  ably  officiated  in  his  stead. 
After  some  of  the  younger  students  had  enter- 
tained the  company  with  some  of  the  latest 
campus  songs  of  old  Bowdoin,  Dr.  Pulsifer 
introduced  Representative  Littlefield  with  a 
remark  that,  while  the  persons  present  were 
all  modest  men,  they  nevertheless  had  a  pretty 
high  opinion  of  themselves  collectively.  This 
idea  was  received  with  cordial  applause  and 
Mr.  Littlefield  proceeded  to  enlarge  upon  the 
propriety  of  such  a  way  of  thinking,  especially 
for  Maine  men,  who  were  accustomed  to  work 
hard  and  patiently  in  their  particular  lines. 
Mr.  Littlefield  remarked  that  he  was  not  edu- 
cated at  college  but  he  had  nevertheless  not 
failed  to  observe  that  such  annual  reunions 
were  of  a  very  beneficial  character.  He  com- 
mented upon  the  benefit  that  members  of  the 
bar  receive  from  their  occasional  banquets. 
Mr.  Littlefield  delivered  a  ringing  speech  and 
was  followed  by  Senator  Frye,  who  spoke  in 
an  eloquent  vein  upon  expansion,  counseling 
young  men  to  look  upon  it  as  an  opportunity 
for  them. 

Brigadier-General  Merriam  praised  the 
achievements  of  Maine,  especially  in  Con- 
gress, and  declared  that  he  had  long  been 
impressed,  although  a  resident  of  the  West, 
with  the  fact  that  Maine  has  had  representa- 
tion in  Congress  far  out  of  proportion  to  the 
size  of  the  State.  He  lauded  the  success  of 
Bowdoin  men  in  political  fields  and  also 
observed  that  Colby,  his  Alma  Mater,  had  sent 
out  a  great  many  distinguished  sons. 

Representative  Stevens  and  Mr.  Donovan 
both  spoke  eloquently  but  informally.  Repre- 
sentative Allen  lives  in  East  Washington, 
quite  a  ride  from  the  Wellington  Hotel,  and 


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he  unfortunately  was  obliged  to  leave  the  hall 
before  the  toast-master  had  a  chance  to  call 
on  him. 

To  have  all  these  busy  workers,  old  and 
young,  throw  aside  their  afifairs  and  for  a 
whole  evening  sing  and  speak  in  praise  of 
their  Alma  Mater,  is  evident  proof  of  the 
lasting  influence  and  power  which  is  inherent 
in  the  college. 


JOSHUA  LAWRENCE  CHAMBERLAIN. 

On  the  centennial  parchment  of  our  col- 
lege chronicles  there  is  no  name  more  truly 
great  and  venerable  than  that  of  Joshua  Law- 
rence Chamberlain,  LL.D.,  the  soldier,  the 
scholar,  the  statesman.  Never  trod  our  cam- 
pus walks  and  whispering  piny  groves  a  man 
of  more  intrinsic  value  to  his  fellow-men. 
He  has  fought  his  army  campaign  with  Her- 
culean might,  has  thought  ethically  along  the 
deep  undercurrents  of  human  nature,  and 
administered  sagaciously  the  manifold  duties 
his  country,  his  college,  his  state,  has  charged 
to  him. 

In  all  the  armies  of  our  great  Civil  War, 
there  was  not  a  more  heroic  officer,  a  truer 
knight,  than  General  Chamberlain,  one  of  our 
fifteen  score  of  students  who  fought  to  main- 
"tain  the  Union.  Inheriting  military  qualities 
and  proclivities  from  a  succession  of  martial 
ancestors,  he  secured  an  appointment  to  West 
Point  at  an  early  age.  His  father,  a  man  of 
arms,  pressed  him  to  accept;  his  mother,  a 
woman  of  religious  ambition  for  her  son, 
objected  strenuously.  All  hopes  of  entering 
West  Point  were  abandoned ;  and  fifteen  years 
passed,  while  our  hero  became  a  scholar. 
Graduating  from  Bowdoin  as  the  ranking  man 
of  the  Class  of  "52,  he  attended  Bangor  Theo- 
logical Seminary ;  and  after  graduating  there, 
he  gained  an  A.M.  from  Bowdoin.  In  1856 
he  became  Professor  of  Rhetoric  and  Ora- 
tory;  and  in  July,  1862,  while  Professor  of 
Modern  Languages,  he  obtained  leave  of 
absence  to  visit  Europe. 

Meanwhile,    however,    his    ardor    for    the 


discipline  and  action  of  military  life 
smouldered  impetuously.  The  Civil  War  had 
begun  in  earnest;  our  President  had  just 
made  his  second  call  for  volunteers ;  men  must 
enlist ;  the  Union  must  stand  ;  only  one  course 
was  clear  to  the  young  college  professor  of 
thirty-three.  In  short,  his  furlough  of 
absence  became  the  three  most  momentous 
years  of  his  life.  Entering  the  Federal  army 
as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the-  Twentieth 
Maine,  he  fought  in  many  of  the  hardest 
engagements,  and  won  steady  promotion  for 
his  glorious  gallantry.  At  Gettysburg,  when 
the  hour  was  the  very  crisis  of  our  fate  as  a 
nation.  Colonel  Chamberlain  held  the  hardest 
place  of  the  day,  the  crucial  position  on  the 
left  flank,  the  very  key  to  the  whole  battle, 
where  all  the  energies  of  the  Confederate  line 
were  concentrated ;  and  right  nobly  di-J  he 
fight,  repulsing  Lee  and  Longstreet,  and 
gaining  the  title,  "The  Hero  of  Little  Round 
Top." 

Continuing  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac, 
he  made  the  terrible  charge  at  Petersburg,  a 
veritable  Balaklava  onslaught;  and  was  pro- 
moted by  General  Grant  on  the  field  to  the 
rank  of  Brigadier-General.  A  few  months 
later,  "for  conspicuous  gallantry"  in  the 
Quaker  Road  fight,  he  gained  the  brevet  rank 
of  Major-General.  During  the  last  campaign, 
around  Richmond,  General  Chamberlain, 
engaged  in  the  great  hammer  and  anvil  blows 
against  the  enemy's  works,  held  a  position 
peculiarly  responsible  and  critical.  He  led 
the  advance  in  the  hurried  pursuit  which 
ended  with  the  defeat  and  despair  of  the 
Confederates,  and,  because  of  his  splendid 
successes,  was  designated  to  receive  the  formal 
surrender  of  their  arms  and  colors.  Then, 
with  that  knightly  courtesy  so  characteristic 
of  his  magnanimous  nature,  he  gave  the  shat- 
tered, humiliated  forces  a  salute  of  honor. 

The  war  over,  and  the  regular  army 
re-organized,  our  Union  "Stonewall"  could 
easily  have  gained  a  colonelcy,  with  the  brevet 
of  Major-General;  but  his  motive  for  active 


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service  realized,  and  liis  health  seriously 
impaired  by  awful  wounds,  he  declined  this 
honor,  so  nobly  deserved,  and  retired.  Then, 
although  graced  by  a  choice  of  several  diplo- 
matic appointments  abroad,  our  hero  of  the 
battle  field  returned  to  his  professorship  at 
Bowdoin,  there  to  become  famous  in  the  field 
of  letters. 

That  same  year,  however,  1866,  General 
Chamberlain's  Maine  citizens,  in  recognition 
of  his  signal  services  as  a  patriot,  elected  him 
Governor ;  and  then,  appreciating  the  sagacity 
and  impetus  of  his  administration,  re-elected 
him  three  times.  A  few  years  later,  during 
the  total  absence  of  any  State  government,  he 
performed  a  master  stroke  of  good  policy  by 
averting  civil  war,  which  ominoxtsly  threat- 
ened the  State  because  of  the  mad  partisan 
spirit  of  the  time.  Here  was  seen  the  same 
masterly  tact  which  he  has  always  displayed, — 
a  presence  of  mind,  a  readiness  to  act,  an 
absolute  fearlessness  for  self. 

Upon  retiring  from  the  Governorship  in 
1871,  some  of  the  highest  preferments  of  the 
nation  were  open  to  General  Chamberlain,  but, 
by  a  scholar's  choice,  he  returned  to  Bowdoin, 
where  he  became  President.  It  is  with  him 
in  this  position  that  we  must  feel  the  common 
chord  that  makes  so  tuneful  the  songs  and 
traditions  of  the  campus.  For  the  greater 
part  of  a  half-century  he  has  identified  his 
ripe  reasoning  and  sound  scholarship  with  the 
best  interests  of  this  college.  As  a  student  he 
took  every  prize  offered ;  and  it  was  through 
the  productioii  and  delivery  of  his  scholarly 
Master's  Oration,  in  1855,  that  he  became  a 
member  of  the  Faculty.  Though  summoned 
away,  in  1862,  by  the  wavering  course  of  the 
good  old  Ship  of  State,  and  later,  by  the 
gubernatorial  duties  of  his  native  Maine, 
(jeneral  Chamberlain  has  always  turned  back 
to  Bowdoin ;  and  that  same  peculiar  adminis- 
trative ability  which  has  made  him  a  leader  of 
men,  wherever  he  has  been,  waicli  he  employed 
at  the  head  of  his  troops  at  Gettysburg,  and  as 
the  chief  executive  of  the  State,  characterized 


him  also  during  his  twelve  years  as  college 
president.  Under  his  vigorous  master  hand, 
the  narrow  shut-in  curriculum  was  liberalized 
and  broadened  by  the  elective  system ;  the  pro- 
ductive funds  were  increased  by  two  hundred 
thousand  dollars;  Memorial  Hall  was  com- 
pleted ;  new  chairs  were  founded ;  new  courses 
were  opened.  The  old  college,  in  short,  was 
vitalized  by  a  moral  and  intellectual  impetus, 
to  which,  in  no  small  degree,  is  due  the  vigor 
of  this  succeeding  administration. 

Resigning  the  Presidency  of  Bowdoin  in 
1883,  General  Chamberlain,  as  an  eloquent 
writer  and  orator,  has  been  frequently  called 
to  ■  assume  editorial  labors,  and  deliver 
addresses  throughout  the  country.  His  repu- 
tation as  a  literary  man  was  determined  long 
ago  by  'his  speech  delivered  at  the  Centennial 
in  Philadelphia,  on  "Maine/  Her  Place  in 
History,"  and  by  his  report  on  Education, 
which  gained  for  him  a  medal  of  honor  from 
the  French  Government,  while  he  served  as 
Commissioner  to  the  Paris  Exposition  of  1878. 
At  present  he  is  Editor-in-Chief  of  "Univer- 
sities and  Their  Sons,"  and  is  also  preparing 
his  memoirs  of  the  last  campaign  of  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac.  Of  all  duties,  however,  he 
must  rejoice  especially  in  those  which  call  him 
to  the  Bowdoin  Commencements  and  to  the 
army  reunions,  where  the  veterans  of  the 
whole  country,  North  and  South,  unite  around 
the  common  camp-fire. 

— S.  C.  W.  S.,  1903. 


MY    OLD    EASY-CHAIR. 
Your  silver  and  gold,  and  bounty  of  lands. 
May  hie  them  away  into  greedier  hands ; 
Go,  palaces,  honors  and  rank,  with  your  care. 
But  leave,  oh,  leave  me  my  old  easy-chair ! 

Blest  seat,  what  a  season  of  rapture  doth  follow. 
When,  sntigly  ensconced  in  thy  rest-giving  hollow, 
I  surrender  myself  to  delicious  repose, 
While  off  on  far  journeys  my  wand'ring  mind  goes. 

My  course  I  take  o'er  land  and  o'er  sea ; 

In  countries  strange  and  new.   I  wander  free ; 

I  see  new  faces,  and  I  malce  new  friends, 

While  of  those  made  in  former  times,  none  ends. 


BOWDOIN  OEIENT. 


With  varying  fortunes,  living  joyous  days, 

I  mark  my  happy  course  throughout  the  maze. 

But,  vision-giving  chair,  the  best  of  all  thy  gifts, 
Which  all  my  thought  to  higher  manhood  lifts. 
Is  sight  of  thee  in  chimney  corner  bright. 
As  on  two  beaming  faces  gleams  the  light 
Of  cheerful  hearth-fire,  as  at  close  of  day. 
We  bless  the  past,  and  plan  the  future  way. 

What  need  I,  then,  of  gold  or  power  or  pelf. 
When  all  they  bring,  oh  chair,  thou  giv'st  thyself? 
Thy  dreams  as  much  reality  and  truth 
Possess,  and  are  as  good,  forsooth, 
And  bring  to  me,  of  bliss,  as  great  a  measure 
As  doth  their  gold  to  them  that  worship  pleasure. 
— H.  P.  W.,  1900. 


COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Monday  will  be  town-meeting  day. 

Parker,  Med.,  has  returned  to  college. 

Parker,  '01,  has  returned  from  teaching. 

Appleton,  '02,  is  at  home  on  account  of  illness. 

The  Glee  Club  is  considering  trips  to  Bangor  and 
Rockland. 

The  Glee  Club  had  a  very  successful  trip  through 
the  mountains. 

The  mid-term  Faculty  meeting  was  held  last 
Monday  evening. 

The  assembly  Monday  night  was  larger  than  the 
first,  and  very  successful. 

Thirteen  schools  have  signified  their  intention  of 
entering  the  invitation  meet. 

There  wiU'  be  an  informal  dance  Friday  night 
after  the  Saturday  Club  play. 

Professor  Files  gave  a  very  interesting  reading 
from  Faust  last  Tuesday  evening. 

Snow  and  Gregson,  '01,  will  take  part  in  the  play 
to  be  given  Friday  evening  by  the  Saturday-  Club. 

It  is  probable  that  trials  in  the  running  high 
jump  and  the  shot  put  will  be  held  previous  to  the 
Indoor  Meet. 

The  date  of  the  Indoor  Meet  has  been  changed 
from  Friday,  March  23d,  to  Tuesday,  March  20th. 
This  change  was  made  necessary  by  a  conflict  of 
dates. 

The  Sophomore  debate  held  Wednesday  after- 
noon was  on  the  question :  Resolved,  That  the 
railroads  of  the  United  States  should  be  owned  and 
operated  by  the  Government. 


A  meeting  of  the  Constitution  Committee  of  the 
New  England  Intercollegiate  Athletic  Association 
will  be  held  at  the  Copley  Square  Hotel,  Boston,  on 
Saturday,  March  3d. 

The  annual  banquet  of  the  Boston  Alumni  Chap- 
ter of  Kappa  Sigma  took  place  on  Tuesday  evening, 
February  27th.  Colesworthy  and  Parsons,  1900, 
represented  the  Bowdoin  Chapter. 

The  selectmen  of  Brunswick  have  been  unwilling 
to  allow  spike  shoes  to  be  worn  in  the  indoor  meet. 
They  have  finally  consented  to  allow  their  use,  pro- 
viding that  the  floor  near  the  finish  be  covered  with 
canvas. 

The  following  subjects  for  the  themes  due  on 
March  6th  have  been  posted :  Does  Trade  follow 
the  Flag  ?  Ruskin's  Ethical  Ideal ;  Blackmore's 
"Lorna  Doone ;"  Should  the  Work  Required  of  Col- 
lege Students  be  Increased? 

The  subjects  for  themes  of  the  Juniors  taking 
Political  Economy  are:  The  Significance  of  Factory 
Legislation  in  the  Nineteenth  Century;  The  Demand 
for  an  Eight-hour  Day;  The  Philosophy  of  Trade 
Unionism;  How  Far  are  Strikes  Successful? 
Significant  Problems  Involved  in  the  Chicago  Rail- 
road Strike. 

Bowdoin  College  has  received  an  invitation  to 
the  centennial  of  the  University  of  New  Brunswick, 
May  28-30.  Professor  MacDonald  has  been  chosen 
to  represent  the  college.  This  inviting  representa- 
tion from  American  colleges  to  the  ceremonies  of 
Canadian  institutions  is  practically  a  new  custom, 
and  is  evidence  of  a  commendable  feeling  of  good- 
will between  the  educators  of  both  nations. 


ATHLETICS. 

Chicago  University  offers  a  new  strong  man  to 
be  admired  by  the  world.  This  student  is  A.  W. 
Place,  who  is  22  years  old,  and  s  feet  6  inches  tall, 
and  who  weighs  l5o  pounds.  In  a  private  trial  in 
the  gymnasium  of  the  university  last  week,  under 
the  Sargent  system  of  tests,  which  nearly  all  the 
colleges  use,  Mr.  Place  made  a  most  remarkable 
showing.  The  chest  trial  yielded  270  pounds ;  in 
the  pull  with  the  biceps  he  scored  585  pounds  and 
with  the  triceps  push,  530;  the  result  of  the  back 
test  was  1,010  pounds;  he  gripped  158  pounds  with 
his  right  hand  and  130  pounds  with  his  left.  In 
making  the  leg  test  the  dynometer,  which  was  geared 
for  only  1,500  pounds,  broke,  because,  as  subse- 
quently was  ascertained.  Place  scored  1,555  pounds 
on  it.  The  lung  capacity  test  showed  a  result  of 
298  cubic  inches.  The  total  number  of  pounds 
scored   in   all    these   tests    was   4,238,    which   is    137 


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pounds  better  than  the  best  previous  college  record 
of  4,101  pounds. 

Columbia  University  will  send  a  track  team  to 
Paris  to  compete  in  the  Olympian  games  this  sum- 
mer. 

George  W.  Orton,  formerly  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  achieved  a  reputation  as  a 
long-distance  runner,  will  enter  the  l,S00  metre  run, 
the  2,500  metre  steeplechase,  the  S,ooo  metre  run 
and  the  400  metre  hurdle  race  at  the  Olympian 
games  in  Paris.  Kraenzlein  of  U.  of  P.  will  be 
Orton's  most  dangerous  competitor  in  the  last- 
named  race.  In  this  event  Kraenzlein  has  won  the 
championship  of  the  world. 

The  date  of  the  Bowdoin  College  athletic  exhibi- 
tion will  be  March  20th  instead  of  March  23d.  The 
latter  date  conflicted  with  the  time  of  the  meeting 
of  one  of  the  Brunswick  clubs,  and  was  changed  on 
that  account. 


The  Sophomores  and  Freshmen  who  are  studying 
the  life  of  Christ  have  changed  their  hour  of  meet- 
ing from  Monday  to  Thursday  at  five  o'clock.  This 
will  be  for  some  a  more  convenient  hour,  and  the 
attendance  can  be  larger  and  more  regular.  These 
courses  require  but  little  time,  are  broad  in  their 
treatment,  and  recognized  as  well  adapted  to  the 
peculiar  stage  of  life  in  which  a  student  is  placed. 

A  large  number  of  new  members  have  joined  the 
association  this  year,  thus  swelling  its  numbers  and 
extending  its  influence.  Of  this  we  are  glad,  and 
without  urging  any  men,  we  simply  express  the  feel- 
ing that  all  members  have  that  the  association  stands 
for  Christian  and  moral  principles,  for  worship, 
religious  instruction,  and  practical  helpfulness  in  the 
general  welfare  of  the  students.  Standing  for  such 
principles  and,  in  a  humble  way,  doing  some  prac- 
tical work,  the  association  asks  the  students  to  con- 
sider its  needs  and  the  scope  of  work  it  may  cover, 
and  then  inquire  of  themselves  whether  such  an 
organization  has  a  claim  on  them  or  not.  If  any 
decide  that  it  has,  there  is  ample  opportunity  for 
vigorous  Christian  activity.  The  association  can 
well  use  some  new  members  and  find  work  for  many 
whose  names  are  now  on  the  roll. 

On  Sunday  afternoon,  February  2Sth,  the  address 
was  given  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Folsom  of  Bath;  the 
solos  were  by  Miss  Miller  of  Lewiston.  Both  Mr. 
Folsom  and  Miss  Miller  have  appeared  at  our  ser- 
vices before,  this  year,  and  their  presence  a  second 
time  speaks  more  plainly  than  anything  else  could 
of  the  excellent  quality  of  address  and  music. 


PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'62. — At  the  recent  annual  meeting  of  Massachu- 
setts alumni  of  the  Farmington  Normal  School, 
addresses  were  delivered  by  Frank  A.  Hill,  '62,  and 
G.  C.  Purington,  '78.  Secretary  Hill  said  he  was 
astonished  to  find  such  a  large  gathering  of  gradu- 
ates of  one  normal  school  in  a  remote  part  of  New 
England  now  residing  in  this  part  of  Massachusetts. 
But  I  was  a  Maine  boy,  he  went  on  to  say,  and  I 
know  how  they  all  tend  to  gravitate  toward  the  place 
where  the  hardest  work  is  to  be  done. 

'73. — A.  F.  Moulton  of  Portland  acted  as  toast- 
master  at  the  annual  reunion  and  banquet  of  the 
Cumberland  Bar  Association  at  the  Falmouth  in 
Portland  last  week. 

'74. — Frank  W.  Hawthorne,  formerly  of  Bath, 
has  been  promoted  to  editor-in-chief  of  the  Newark, 
N.  J.,  Evening  News.  Mr.  Hawthorne  has  been 
connected  with  the  editorial  department  of  the 
paper  for  some  months  and  has  now  taken  the  posi- 
tion held  by  one  of  the  proprietors,  who  has  been 
obliged  to  give  up  active  work  on  account  of  ill 
health. 

'76. — At  the  meeting  of  the  Maine  State  Bar 
Association,  February  14th,  Franklin  C.  Payson  was 
chosen  on  the  committee  for  revising  Maine  statutes. 
Also  on  the  committee  of  arrangements  for  John 
Marshall  day,  February  4,  1901,  are  C.  F.  Libby, 
'64,  Col.  F.  M.  Drew,  '58,  and  Barrett  Potter,  '78. 
George  M.  Seiders,  '72,  is  one  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee. 

M.  '86. — The  Republican  caucus  at  Saco,  last 
week,  nominated  for  mayor  Dr.  William  J.  May- 
bury.  The  nominee  is  at  present  surgeon-general 
on  the  staff  of  Governor  Powers. 

'87. — Austin  Cary,  whose  acquaintance  with  the 
timberlands  and  topography  of  the  State  makes  him 
better  fitted,  probably,  than  any  other  to  do  it,  has 
issued  a  topographical  map  of  Township  3,  Range  S, 
and  2  and  3,  Range  6,  comprising  the  Megantic  and 
Seven  Ponds  sections. 

'87. — Dr.  O.  S.  Erskine  of  Frankfort  plans  to 
sail  March  21st  from  New  York  on  the  Red  Star 
Line,  for  Northampton,  England,  where  he  will 
spend  three  months  in  the  study  of  surgery  in  the 
foremost  hospitals  of  England.  Later  Dr.  Erskine 
will  visit  Paris  and  then  South  Africa,  where  he 
probably  will  be  employed  as  a  surgeon. 

M.  '89.— The  friends  of  Dr.  G.  M.  Randall  will 
be  pleased  to  learn  that  he  has  secured  a  partnership 


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in  a  good  established  practice  in  Lowell,  Mass.  It 
seems  that  one  of  the  partners  of  the  practice  was 
once  a  college  friend  of  Dr.  Randall  and  his  health 
has  become  impaired  so  that  he  was  obliged  to 
leave.  The  senior  member,  a  Dr.  Trueworthy,  was 
well  pleased  with  Dr.  Randall  and  his  recommenda- 
tions, and  was  glad  to  get  the  hustling  young 
Augusta  physician  as  a  partner. 

'94. — Rev.  Norman  McKinnon  of  Foxcroft  has 
been  called  to  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Augusta.  This  important  pastorate  has  been  vacant 
since  last  June,  when  Rev.  James  S.  Williamson 
closed  nine  years'  service  here  to  remove  to  Haver- 
hill, Mass.  A  number  of  strong  candidates  have 
been  heard,  and  it  is  understood  that  after  a  full 
discussion  of  the  matter,  the  vote  to  call  Mr. 
McKinnon  was  unanimous.  This  young  clergyman 
has  made  a  most  favorable  impression,  being  an  elo- 
quent and  scholarly  preacher  and  a  most  genial  man 
to  meet.  He  has  been  very  successful  in  Foxcroft, 
where  he  has  been  settled  since  graduating  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  June,  1894.  Previous  to  attend- 
ing Bowdoin,  he  had  graduated  from  the  Bangor 
Theological  Seminary.  Mr.  McKinnon  was  born  in 
Kilmarnock,  Scotland,  and  is  now  37  years  of  age. 
Three  years  ago  he  married  Miss  Whitehouse  of 
Topsham,  the  daughter  of  Hon.  F.  C.  Whitehouse 
of  that  town,  now  the  State  senator  from  Sagadahoc 
County.  Mr.  McKinnon  is  a  brilliant  young  man, 
possessing  to  an  eminent  degree  the  culture,  the 
consecration  and  the  attractive  and  popular  qualities 
which  make  up  the  successful  pastor. 

M.  '98. — Mr.  Timothy  F.  Murphy,  who  was  to 
have  been  the  nominee  of  Republicans  in  ward  six, 
Lewiston,  finds  that  plans  recently  made  will  take 
him  from  the  city  for  a  good  portion  of  the  coming 
year.  He  wishes  to  inform  his  friends,  therefore, 
that  he  will  be  unable  to  stand  for  the  nomination. 
He  will,  however,  give  the  ticket  every  assistance 
both  in  the  caucus  and  at  the  polls. 

'gg. — General  and  Mrs.  R.  B.  Shepherd  of  Skow- 
hegan  have  announced  the  engagement  of  their 
daughter,  Margaret,  to  F.  W.  Briggs  of  Pittsfield. 
The  wedding  will  occur  in  June. 


WHAT  A  LOIR. 

There  was  once  a  young  girl  in  the  choir, 
Whose  voice  rose  hoir  and  hoir. 

Till  it  reached  such  a  height 

It  was  clear  out  of  sight. 
And  they  found  her  next  day  in  the  Spoir. 

—Ex. 

The  Greek  professor  sat  in  his  chair. 
His  brow  was  marked  with  dire  despair ; 
"When,"  quoth  he,  "in  this  horseless  age 
Will  the  horseless  student  come  on  the  stage?" 

—Ex. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  28.— March  8,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes 243 

John  Andrew  Peters 245 

Modern  Educational  Ideals 246 

Calendar 247 

College  News 248 

Athletics 248 

Y.  M.  C.  A 249 

Personals 249 


It  seems  too  bad  the  "Senior  Vacation" 
should  become  an  obsolete  custom,  since  there 
are  connected  with  it  so  many  admirable 
points.  Coming  as  it  does  the  week  preceding 
Commencement  week,  it  is  practically  impos- 
sible to  concentrate  one's  self  upon  the  serious 


business  of  college,  for  the  mind  dwells  upon 
the  breaking  up  of  college  life  and  the  separat- 
ing from  classmates.  The  class  stands  upon 
the  threshold  of  life,  and  must  they  be  hurried 
along  without  the  time  to  give  an  encourag- 
ing hand-clasp  or  speak  a  sympathetic  word? 
This  is  what  the  loss  of  the  "  Senior  Vacation" 
means. 

The  week  is  of  inestimable  value  to  those 
who  aspire  to  any  of  the  various  honors  aris- 
ing in  connection  with  Commencement  week, 
or  who  are  to  have  any  part  on  Class  Day,  or 
on  the  Commencement  stage.  The  week 
gives  an  excellent  opportunity  and  the  last 
also  for  spending  a  few  days  with  friends 
whom  an  approaching  .parting  renders  more 
dear.  The  week  enables  the  final  arranging 
of  all  matters  relative  to  both  the  college  and 
affairs  in  general.  In  addition  to  all  this  the 
week  has  a  long-established  precedent,  and 
has  been  prized  by  past  classes  as  a  most 
delightful  and  valuable  privilege.  Yes,  it  is 
too  bad  that  it  is  to  go ;  and  a  general  longing 
is  felt  throughout  the  college  that  some  kind 
fate  may  even  yet  will  it  otherwise.  Well,  we 
hope  so. 


A  certain  admirer  of  General  O.  O. 
Howard  relates  the  following  incident  which 
in  a  large  measure  indicates  the  care  with 
which  the  man  whom  we  also  admire  and 
respect,  laid  the  foundation  of  his  success. 

At  the  time  I  speak  of,  General  Howard 
was  in  command,  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennes- 
see, comprising  three  Grand  Army  corps,  and 
held  the  right  of  General  Sherman's  Army 
closing  in  on  the  city  of  Atlanta,  then  valiantly 
defended  by  General  Hood  with  his  ragged 
veterans  who,  though  ragged  as  to  uniforms, 
always  seemed  to  have  their  guns  in  good 
working  order. 

The"  flanking  movement  which  ended  in 
the  capture  of  Atlanta  was  about  to  begin. 


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when  two  regiments  of  cavalry,  the  Seventh 
Ohio  and  Ninth  Michigan,  commanded  by- 
Colonel  Israel  Garrard,  were  ordered  by 
General  Howard  to  reconnoitre  the  dense 
forests  in  front  of  Howard's  flanking  column 
of  nearly  40,000  infantry.  Owing  to  the 
dense  undergrowth  in  the  Southern  forest  our 
cavalry  was  not  able  to  operate  mounted,  and 
we  went  into  the  forest  on  foot  as  skirmishers 
at  intervals  of  about  thirty  paces.  We  had 
an  alert  enemy  somewhere  in  front  of  us,  and 
it  was  our  duty  to  locate  this  wide-awake  foe. 
We  advanced  with  the  utmost  caution,  and 
every  cavalryman  had  his  finger  on  the  trigger 
of  his  gun.  Our  line  of  skirmishers  extended 
the  distance  of  nearly  a  mile  in  Howard's 
front,  and  forty  thousand  men  of  the  Army 
of  the  Tennessee  were  concealed  behind  our 
thin  blue  line. 

We  had  advanced  neary  a  mile  on  the 
beginning  of  the  grand  flanking  movement 
to  the  right  when  that  part  of  the  skirmish 
line,  of  which  I  was  a  part,  was  startled  by 
hearing  the  breaking  of  twigs  in  our  rear, 
indicating  the  presence  of  a  possible  enemy  in 
exactly  the  wrong  place.  The  undergrowth 
in  the  forest  was  so  dense  that  it  was  impossi- 
ble to  see  beyond  thirty  paces,  and  our 
advancing  line  instinctively  halted  to  develop 
the  cause  of  the  unexpected  noises.  The 
veteran  cavalrymen  stood  prepared  to  meet 
what  might  come,  and  their  seven-shooting 
Spencer  carbines  were  ready  for  quick  action. 
The  noise  in  our  rear  was  slight,  but  enough 
to  put  us  on  our  guard.  We  waited  a  few 
seconds,  when  we  observed  a  moving  of  the 
bushes,  indicating  that  some  one  was  coming 
toward  us. 

Soon  we  rjaade  out  two  officers  in  the 
United  States  Army  uniforms,  and  as  they 
came  nearer  I  observed  that  one  of  the  officers 
wore  a  hat  out  of  which  the  crown  had  been 
torn,  and  that  his  black  hair  rose  above  the 
place  where  the  crown  of  his  hat  should  have 
been.  By  this  time  the  officers  were  near  by, 
and  much  to  my  surprise,  one  of  them — the 
one  whose  hair 'stuck  out  of  the  top  of  his 
hat— wore  the  shoulder-straps  of  a  Major- 
General,  and  in  my  next  quick  glance  I 
noticed  that  he  had  only  one  arm.  It  was 
Major-General  O.  O.  Howard,  Commander  of 
the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  and  one  of  his 
aides. 

The  General  explained  his  presence  on  the 
line  of  skirmishers  by  saying  that  he  wanted 


to  see  the  "lay  of  the  land,"  and  I  add  that, 
judging  from  after  events,  he  was  laying  the 
foundation  of  the  success  which  was  justly 
his  in  the  grand  flanking  movement  then  in 
progress. 

Never  before  during  the  Civil  War  had  I 
seen  a  Major-General  on  the  cavalry  skirmish 
line,  and  this  one  incident  gave  me  an  exalted 
regard  for  General  Howard. 


The  March  Quill  has  its  leading  article  by 
Professor  Chapman.  Among  its  contents  are 
to  be  a  sonnet  by  H.  E.  Andrews,  '94,  some 
extracts  from  Professor  Smith's  translation 
of  the  Philoctetes,  and  a  short  review  of 
Prince  Kropotkin's  Memoirs.  The  Gray 
Goose  Tracks  will  tell  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  Gander  Club  at  the  recent  Minstrel  Show. 
The  Oiiill  will  be  ready  about  the  i8th. 


Only  a  trifle  moi^e  than  a  week  and  the 
annual  Indoor  Meet  will  be  with  us.  The 
programme  will  be  substantially  unaltered 
from  last  year,  and  the  usual  exciting  and 
interesting  occasion  may  be  anticipated. 

The  squads  are  hard  at  work  on  the  class 
drills,  and  the  winner  without  doubt  will  be  a 
point  hard  to  determine.  The  new  drill  of 
the  Freshmen  far  surpasses  the  old  one  in 
beauty,  but  also  possesses  a  corresponding 
increase  in  difficulty,  and  altogether  is  as  stiff 
a  proposition  to  master  as  any  squad  will  have. 
Relay  practice  is  daily  taken  by  the  teams,  and 
with  both  the  new  contestant  and  the  develop- 
ment among  the  other  three^this  event  is  in  a 
cloud  of  doubt  which  cannot  be  removed  until 
the  meet.  The  hurdles,  dashes,  jumps,  and 
so  on  are  claimed  more  or  less  by  each  class, 
and  surely  some  of  the  closest  races  of  many 
years  must  result. 

Officials  have  been  chosen,  the  four  classes 
are  putting  in  every  spare  moment  in  getting 
into  championship  form,  rivalry  between  the 
classes  is  intense,  and  all  signs  suggest  a  close 
and  orderly  meet.  Every  man  is  in  duty 
bound  to  come  out  on  this  night  and  cheer  his 
class  on  to  victory,  for  a  healthy  class  rivalry 
needs  to  be  nourished  and  maintained  to  instill 


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245 


the  proper  spirit  into  the  general  athletics  of 
the  college. 


JOHN  ANDREW  PETERS. 

Never  has  there  been  a  more  brilliant 
gathering  in  this  State  than  the  banquet  held 
at  Bangor,  February  ist,  in  honor  of  our 
retiring  chief  justice,  John  Andrew  Peters. 
In  his  legal  training,  his  untiring  devotion  to 
the  best  interests  of  the  State,  his  close  atten- 
tion to  every  duty,  his  wide  learning  and 
charming  personal  traits,  he  has  been  an 
example  to  every  lawyer  of  the  bar  and  pro- 
tection to  every  client  in  the  courts.  From 
the  best  men  in  the  State  he  heard  the  praises 
due  only  to  one  who  has  won  his  way  to  fame 
by  his  justice  and  integrity 

Born  at  Ellsworth,  October  9,  1822,  he 
early  showed  a  desire  for  learning.  He  there- 
fore fitted  for  Yale  at  Gorham,  and  was  grad- 
uated from  college  with  high  honors.  There- 
upon he  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  August,  1844,  at 
Ellsworth.  In  the  same  year  he  moved  to 
Bangor,  well  prepared  for  the  profession  in 
which  he  was  destined  to  win  glory  by  his 
judicial  judgment  and  accurate  knowledge  of 
law.  Because  of  his  uprightness  of  char- 
acter and  keen  intellect  he  was  unanimously 
elected  two  successive  terms  to  the  Maine 
Senate,  in  1862  and  1863. 

He  was  chosen  attorney-general  of  the 
State  for  1864-5-6,  thus  firmly  laying  the 
foundation  for  his  upward  advancement  in 
political  life.  By  his  distinguished  merit  and 
popularity  he  was  elected  to  the  fortieth  Con- 
gress in  1866,  and  again  in  1868  and  1870. 
While  in  Congress  few  had  a  greater  personal 
influence,  and  nothing  came  in  his  way  when- 
ever he  desired  the  passage  of  some  important 
measure.  He  introduced  and  secured  the 
adoption  of  an  important  statute  by  which 
parties  are  permitted  to  testify  in  their  own 
cases.  Although  he  made  no  long  speeches 
anrl  was  not  very  often  on  the  floor,  neverthe- 
less when   occasion  called  he  spoke   forcibly 


and  to  the  point.  He  gained  the  reputation 
of  ranking  high  with  the  orators  of  the  floor, 
along  with  Blaine  and  Garfield. 

Preferring  his  chosen  profession,  he 
declined  another  nomination,  and  in  May, 
1873,  was  chosen  associate  justice  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  State.  In  August,  1883, 
he  was  appointed  chief  justice,  and  has  since 
held  the  position,  a  man  of  the  most  marked 
ability  and  character  that  was  ever  on  the 
bench. 

Although  not  a  graduate  of  our  college, 
however,  bis  heart  is  ever  with  us,  as  is  shown 
in  his  speech  at  the  Bowdoin  Centennial:  "I 
am  not  an  alumnus  of  Bowdoin,  so  she's  not 
my  real  mother.  But  she  has  taken  me  in  her 
arms,  nevertheless,  has  given  me  the  title  of 
LL.D.,  and  so  naturally  enough  I  consider  her 
my  mother-in-law,  and,  bless  the  dear  old 
lady's  heart,  I  love  her  as  well  as  any  of  you. 
Yes,  gentlemen,  she  took  me  up  and  hugged 
me,  and  when  any  woman,  young  or  old, 
mother  or  mother-in-law,  hugs  me,  I  tell  you, 
gentlemen,  I  hug  her  right  back  again.  There 
may  be  larger  colleges.  Perhaps  if  a  boy 
goes  to  Harvard  or  Yale  he  goes  through 
more  college,  but,  gentlemen,  if  he  goes  to 
Bowdoin  more  college  goes  through  him." 

In  plain  speaking,  he  has  devoted  himself 
to  striking  out  every  sham  in  law  as  he  has 
seen  it.  He  has  done  more  than  any  other 
man  in  his  generation  to  free  justice  from  the 
formality  of  legal  circumlocution. 

When  he  first  appeared  among  rnen  as  a 
lawyer  he  won  the  friendship  of  all  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact.  It  was  easy  for 
him  to  get  their  attention,  confidence,  and 
finally,  a  verdict  of  the  jury. 

The  chief  has,  first  of  all,  a  reputation  for 
wit  which  has  done  more  to  illumine  causes 
than  long  and  tedious  arguments.  He  greatly 
enjoys  long  conversation  with  John  Budd,  the 
veteran  toll  gatherer  at  Wiscasset.  Once  he 
named  two  kittens  for  Budd's  grandchild. 
He  called  them  "Max"  and  "Climax."  The 
next  term  of  court,  when  he  went  back,  she 


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informed  the  chief  that  there  were  two  new 
kittens,  but  that  she  had  named  them  herself. 
"I  called  'em  'Peter'  and  'Repeter,' "  she  said. 
With  Chief  Justice  Peters  the  people  have 
been  delighted.  His  attendance  at  all  ses- 
sions of  court  has  been  a  cause  of  justice, 
while  his  retirement  from  the  Maine  Bench 
takes  out  of  the  intellectual  and  social  life  a 
factor  for  good  that  will  be  greatly  missed  for 
many  years  to  come. 


MODERN  EDUCATIONAL  IDEALS. 

Education  is  a  process  of  evolution,  not 
of  masses  but  of  individuals.  As  the  life-giv- 
ing rays  of  the  sun  touch  the  hidden  forces 
of  the  tiny  bud,  and  little  by  little  it  expands 
and  unfolds  until  it  bursts  forth  in  all  its 
beauty  and  splendor,  so  the  true  education 
awakens  the  hidden  energies  of  the  young 
mind  and  leads  it  to  the  complete  develop- 
ment of  perfect  manhood.  And  as  the  rose 
and  the  lily  require  different  modes  of  treat- 
ment to  reach  their  highest  perfection,  so,  to 
bring  the  young  minds  to  their  fullest  realiza- 
tion, we  must  resort  to  diverse,  individual 
methods. 

Yet  according  to  a  popular  notion,  an  edu- 
cation is  a  definite,  uniform  product  turned  out 
by  an  elaborate  system  of  schools  and  colleges. 
Pass  a  boy  through  these  educational  mills 
and  he  cpmes  forth  an  educated  man.  Such 
a  degrading  view  makes  our  schools  simply 
vast  machines  for  moulding  the  minds  of  the 
young  into  uniform  masses.  It  ignores  the 
individual,  and  suffers  his  latent  powers  to 
lie  dormant.  Aiming  at  uniformity,  it  dis- 
courages attempts  to  surpass  the  fixed  stand- 
ard. In  a  word,  it  induces  a  feeling  of  satis- 
faction with  the  mediocre  attainments  of  the 
throng  at  the  expense  of  loss  of  individuality 
and  mental  vigor. 

But  education  is  not  such  a  superficial, 
mechanical  process  as  this.  Modern  Psychol- 
ogy has  proved  the  utter  fallacy  of  such  a 
conception  and  the  futility  of  such  methods. 
It  has   shown  that  no  system  is   worthy  the 


name  of  education  that  does  not  concern  itself 
primarily  with  the  individual,  striving  to  dis- 
cover his  peculiar  traits,  to  arouse  and  develop 
his  hidden  faculties,  to  put  him  into  the  fullest 
possession  of  the  endowments  and  capacities 
of  his  nature.  Why  is  it  that  seventeen  of 
our  twenty-four  Presidents  have  come  from 
the  farm ;  that  three-fourths  of  the  prominent 
men  in  our  large  cities  have  been  reared  in 
the  rural  districts?  that  prominent  educators 
say  the  chances  of  success  are  one  hundred 
to  one  in  favor  of  the  country  boy?  Is  it  not 
because'  he  is  early  forced  to  rely  on  himself, 
to  trust  to  his  own  resources?  In  the  dis- 
trict school  he  is  treated  as  a  distinct  living 
personality,  not  a  mere  machine,  and  encour- 
aged to  cultivate  his  natural  talents,  not 
forced  to  create  artificial  ones.  His  mind  is 
not  crammed  with  ready-made  thoughts  and 
ideas,  but  wandering  alone  in  the  majestic 
solitude  of  the  forest  or  beside  the  babbling 
brooks  he  communes  with  Nature,  the  best 
and  wisest  of  teachers.  The  great  problems 
of  the  universe  thrust  themselves  upon  him, 
demanding  solution.  Gradually  he  perceives 
the  meaning  of  life,  he  becomes  animated  by 
a  definite  purpose  to  the  accomplishment  of 
which  he  bends  every  effort.  He  touches  the 
magic  spring  that  reveals  his  hidden  talents, 
and  brings  them  to  the  light,  where  they  may 
grow  and  develop. 

The  importance  of  this  development  of 
the  individual,  we  are  just  beginning  to 
realize.  Already  it  is  causing  a  revolution  in 
educational  methods.  The  kindergarten, 
utilizing  the  life  and  activity  of  the  child,  is 
displacing  the  former  rigid,  cruel  discipline; 
manual  training  makes  possible  the  study  of 
the  distinctive  traits  and  adaptations  of  the 
individual ;  laboratory  methods  offer  wide 
fields  for  self-cultivation  and  open  up  that 
vast  realm  of  original  research  where  one 
comes  face  to  face  with  the  eternal  and 
unchangeable  laws  of  nature;  while  the  rapid 
extension  of  the  elective  system  removes  one 
of  the  main  causes  of  mental  shiftlessness — ■ 


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the  necessity  of  pursuing  studies  in  which  one 
takes  no  interest.  The  time-honored  beating- 
in  system  is  rapidly  giving  way  to  a  drawing- 
out  process,  the  keynote  of  ^yhich  was  sounded 
in  Garfield's  definition  of  a  college  as  "Mark 
Hopkins  on  one  end  of  a  bench  and  a  boy  on 
the  other." 

The  evolution  of  the  individual,  however, 
is  not  the  ultimate  aim  of  the  true  education. 
It  seeks  also  to  place  one  in  proper  adjust- 
ment with  the  world,  by  bringing  him  to  a 
right  understanding  of  the  forces  at  work  in 
the  world.  It  implants  within  him  that  basic 
principle  of  all  true  knowledge  of  life,  that 
man  is  pre-eminently  a  social  being,  that  one 
cannot  live  for  himself  alone,  that  he  is  under 
obligations  to  his  fellow-men,  and  the  greater 
his  attainments,  the  greater  those  obligations 
become. 

This  fundamental  principle,  becoming  para- 
mount, transforms  a  man.  It  opens  his  eyes 
to  behold  a  new  world.  It  puts  a  new  mean- 
ing into  life.  It  leads  him  out  of  a  narrow, 
selfish  existence  into  the  fulness  of  the  uni- 
versal. It  creates  a  lofty  ideal  to  which  his 
course  of  action  must  conform. 

From  the  numberless  points  of  contact 
with  the  world,  let  us  select  two:  Politics 
and  religion.  How  will  the  true  education  put 
a  man  into  right  relations  with  the  world  on 
politics?  By  lifting  him  above  the  level  of 
the  base  partisan  who  cares  more  for  party 
than  for  principle,  and  who  would  vote  for 
the  devil  himself  if  he  were  the  candidate  of 
his  party.  It  will  train  him  to  consider  politi- 
cal questions  carefully  and  candidly,  give  facts 
their  proper  setting,  reject  the  spurious  and 
stand  firmly  for  pure,  honest  government. 
Blind,  servile  submission  to  the  dictates  of 
ignorant,  unprincipled  political  demagogues 
can  never  be  secured  from  those  whose  eyes 
have  been  opened  to  see  the  meaning  of  life. 
If  political  corruption,  so  rampant  throughout 
our  land,  is  ever  to  be  overthrown  it  must  be 
through  the  growth  of  this  element  of  per- 
sonal independence  and  faithfulness  to  high 


ideals    which    the    true    education    seeks    to 
impart. 

As  with  politics,  so  with  religion.  The 
ideal  education  leads  to  sincere,  candid 
inquiry.  To  swallow  huge  doses  of  cut-and- 
dried  theological  notions  is  sure  to  cause 
moral  and  spiritual  indigestion.  As  the 
markets  to-day  are  flooded  with  all  sorts  of 
pre-digested  foods  fit  only  for  infants  and 
invalids,  so  the  world  is  filled  with  numberless 
carefully-prepared  creeds,  each  claiming  to  be 
the  only  divinely-appointed  remedy  for  the 
soul's  ailments.  Accepting  any  one  of  these, 
a  young  man  may  get  rid  of  a  careful  masti- 
cation and  digestion  of  religious  truth,  but 
by  so  doing  he  is  doomed  to  remain  an  infant 
in  spiritual  life,  or  become  a  confirmed  invalid. 
The  true  education  condemns  thoughtless 
subjection  to  creed.  It  teaches  one  to  bring 
all  the  light  of  knowledge  and  reason  to  aid  in 
his  search  for  the  truth.  It  leads  to  a  broader 
and  nobler  conception  of  God,  and  makes  of 
religion  not  a  mere  external  form,  but  the 
very  essence  of  a  pure,  honest  life. 

We  stand  to-day  in  the  dawning  light  of 
a  new  century,  a  century  destined  to  be  the 
most  momentous  in  all  the  annals  of  time. 
We  also  stand  at  the  dawn  of  a  new  era  in 
education.  The  old  system  with  all  its  harsh- 
ness and  rigor,  with  all  its  cumbersome 
machinery  and  false  notions  of  life,  is  fast 
passing  away.  In  its  place  is  arising  a  new 
system,  based  on  the  highest  knowledge  of 
modern  science,  full  of  vitality  and  untold 
possibilities;  a  system  which  by  bringing  the 
individual  to  his  fullest  development,  and 
placing  him  in  right  relations  with  the  world, 
must  inevitably  produce  a  nobler  type  of  man- 
hood, more  equitable  social  conditions,  more 
honest  politics,  and  a  more  sincere,  vital 
religious  life. 

— C.  S.  B.,  1900. 


CALENDAR. 

Friday,  March  23. — College  Indoor  Meet. 
Monday-Friday,   April  2-6. — Examinations. 


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COLLEGE  NEWS. 

Poor,  '99,  has  been  on  the  campus  lately. 
Mr.  Harris  has  discontinued  his  singing  classes. 
The  Orient  Board  was  photographed  last  week. 
The  Bugle  board  had  its  picture  taken  Tuesday. 
Cousens  and  Haley,  '02,  are  out  on  account  of 
illness. 

The  Class  Squads  are  practicing  evenings  in  the 
gymnasium. 

The  mid-term  examination  in  Logic  occurred 
last  Monday. 

Dunlap  has  been  elected  captain  of  the  Fresh- 
man Track  Team. 

The  Theocritus  met  with  Professor  Smith,  Mon- 
day evening. 

Larrabee,  '01,  is  surveying  with  Austin  Cary  in 
the   Rangeley  Lake   region. 

Several  students  attended  the  entertainment  given 
by  the  Brunswick  High  School,  Class  of  1900. 

The  management  has  decided  to  postpone  giving 
the  Minstrel   Show  in  Portland  until  next  term. 

Manager  Swett  attended  a  meeting  of  the  consti- 
tution committee  of  the  N.  E.  L  C.  A.  A.,  Saturday. 
The  Saturday  Club  play  was  attended  by  a  large 
number  of  students.     Snow  and  Gregson,  '01,  took 
part. 

President  Hyde  is  soon  to  publish  a  book  con- 
taining selections  for  speaking  in  the  Grammar 
Schools. 

The  last  of  the  readings  from  Faust  by  Pro- 
fessor Files  was  rendered  on  March  1st,  to  an 
audience  of  five  students. 

C.  A.  Towle,  '99,  has  been  on  the  campus  lately. 
Professor    Emery^  delivered    a    very    interesting 
lecture   on   Expansion,    Tuesday   evening. 

Professor  Robinson  was  re-elected  Superin- 
tendent-  of  Schools  last  Monday,  and  Professor 
MacDonald  was  elected  to  the  School  Committee 
for  three  years. 

The  French  Club  meets  with  Professor  Johnson 
every  Wednesday  afternoon  for  advanced  work  m 
French.  It  is  composed  of  the  following  members: 
Bodwell,  Bowler,  Danforth,  Leferriere,  Sills, 
Smith,  and  Yost. 

What  might  have  been  a  serious  fire  in  North 
Winthrop  Hall  last  Tuesday  was  discovered  just  in 
time  to  prevent  serious  injury.  The  fire  started 
during  supper  time,  from  some  unknown  cause,  and 
crept  up  between  the  walls  before  it  was  found  and 
put  out. 


A  meeting  of  the  N.  E.  Intercollegiate  Lawn- 
Tennis  Association  was  held  at  the  Adams  House, 
Boston,  last  Saturday  for  the  purpose  of  organiza- 
tion. Delegates  were  present  from  Amherst,  Bates, 
Bowdoin,  Brown,  Dartmouth,  Tufts,  Technology, 
Wesleyan  and  University  of  Vermont.  A  constitu- 
tion was  drawn  up  and  adopted,  and  officers  elected 
as  follows  :  President,  E.  G.  Thatcher,  Technology ; 
Vice-President,  Dana,  Bowdoin;  Secretary-Treas- 
urer, E.  Tudor  Gross,  Brown.  A  tournament  will 
be  held  during  the  week  of  May  14th,  probably  on 
the  Longwood  courts.  Each  college  will  be  repre- 
sented by  two  single  teams  and  one  double. 


ATiiLETICS. 

The  committee  on  the  new  constitution  for  the 
N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  met  at  the  Copley  Square  Hotel  in 
Boston  on  Saturday  and  drew  up  a  constitution 
which  will  go  soon  to  the  various  colleges  for  rati- 
fication. Among  the  changes  which  the  new  con- 
stitution proposes  are  the  division  of  points  in  case 
of  a  tie ;  the  rule  that  at  least  three  men  must  come 
from  each  college  sending  men  to  the  annual  meet; 
better  rules  regarding  eligibility  of  athletes;  the 
increasing  of  the  value  of  record  medals  to  $25 
each;  and  the  giving  every  year  of  a  championship 
banner   worth  $25. 

Manager  Swett  of  Bowdoin,  who  is  president  of 
the  New  England  Association,  represented  the  col- 
lege on  the  committee.  Beside  his  share  of  the 
committee  work,  he  did  a  little  in  behalf  of  Bow- 
doin ;  and  before  long  we  shall  see  the  champion- 
ship banner  and  cup  which  the  athletic  team  won 
at  Worcester  last  spring,  but  which  most  of  us  had 
forgotten.  The  cup  is  at  Dartmouth.  The  banner 
will  soon  be  made. 

The  Freshmen  held  a  meeting  on  Monday  and 
elected  Dunlap  captain  and  Lawrence  manager  of 
their   track   team. 

No  Maine  high  school  has  yet  announced 
officially  that  it  does  not  intend  to  enter  the  Bow- 
doin College  invitation  meet  this  spring.  At  this 
early  day  thirteen  acceptances  have  come  in.  The 
schools  which  say  they  will  enter  are  Kent's  Hill, 
Portland  High,  Bangor  High,  Edward  Little  High, 
Lewiston  High,  Brunswick  High,  Bath  High,  Skow- 
hegan  High,  Good  Will  Farm,  Maine  Central  Insti- 
tute, Bucksport  Seminary,  Deering  High,  and 
Brewer  High. 

To  prevent  taking  too  much  time  for  the  indoor 
meet,  the  trials  of  the  running  high  jump,  for  the 
shot-put,  and  possibly  for  the  pole  vault  will  take 


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place  in  the  gymnasium  before  the  evening  of  the 
meet  in  the  town  hall. 

Captain  Francis  Gordon  Brown  of  Yale  will  call 
out  the  candidates  for  the  'Varsity  foot-ball  eleven 
immediately  after  the  Easter  vacation,  and  will  give 
them  a  month  of  spring  training.  Elevens  will  be 
chosen  to  line  up  daily,  and  although  not  as  heavy 
as  in  the  midst  of  the  regular  season  because  of  the 
weather,  the  work  will  be  materially  the  same. 
Much  time  will  be  spent  in  developing  and  perfect- 
ing new  plays,  so  that  the  men  will  have  a  thorough 
drill  in  formations.  This  departure  is  decidedly  in 
contrast  with  the  routine  of  any  other  Yale  foot- 
ball eleven,  and  Capt.  Brown  will  inaugurate  an 
entirely  new  policy  this  season. 

Forty-two  men  reported  for  practice  at  Harvard 
last  week,  in  response  to  the  first  call  for  candidates 
for   the   Freshman   nine. 

Among  the  Yale  Juniors  who  earned  membership 
in  Phi  Beta  Kappa  by  their  high  scholarship  this 
year  are  Captain  Brown  of  the  foot-ball  eleven  and 
M.  C.  Robertson,  a  pitcher  on  the  nine  last  season. 


Y.M.  C.  f\. 

A  letter  from  the  international  committee 
promises  Bowdoin  the  dates  March  29-31  for  the 
postponed  visit  of  Mr.  Gilbert,  Yale,  '98,  who  repre- 
sents the  Student  Volunteer  Movement  among  the 
eastern  colleges  this  winter.  This  is  an  especially 
important  visit,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  some 
branches  of  the  missionary  department  have  from 
necessity  been  dropped  for  a  time  on  account  of 
the  immediate  need  of  attention  to  other  depart- 
ments. This  branch  of  the  work  will  probably  be 
an  important  feature  in  the  development  of  the 
association  next  year,  hence  it  will  pay  those,  on 
whom  the  responsibility  will  then  fall,  to  consult 
with  Mr.  Gilbert  and  get  some  up-to-date  ideas. 

On  Thursday  evening,  March  1st,  although  the 
severe  storm  kept  a  large  number  in  their  rooms, 
several  of  the  fellows  gathered  at  the  association 
room.  The  meeting  was  turned  into  an  informal 
discussion  of  various  questions  that  come  up  in  the 
life  of  every  Christian  student.  It  is  just  such 
earnest,  practical  talks  as  these  that  make  a  stu- 
dent's Christian  Association  life  a  help  to  him  while 
in  college,  and  an  inspiration  to  him,  as  he  leaves 
his  college  friends  and  steps  out  to  make  his  way 
in  the  world. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Atchley  of  Bath  gave  an  excellent 
talk  at  the  meeting  on  Sunday  afternoon,  March 
4th.  The  vocal  solos  by  Mrs.  Davis  of  Topsham, 
and  Mr.  John  Shaw  of  Bath,  were  thoroughly 
enjoyed. 


PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'33- — Nathaniel  M.  Whitmore,  one  of  the  oldest 
lawyers  and  educators  of  the  State,  died  at  his 
home  in  Gardiner,  Monday,  aged  79  years.  Nathan- 
iel Whitmore  was  born  in  Bowdoinham.  He 
attended  the  district  schools  and  Monmouth 
Academy.  He  studied  law  in  the  Boston  office  of 
Col.  Arthur  W.  Austin  of  Boston,  where  he  became 
a  close  friend  of  Edward  Everett,  who  tendered  him 
the  position  of  instructor  in  nautical  astronomy  and 
mathematics  for  midshipmen  in  the  United  States 
training  shops,  which  Mr.  Whitmore  accepted.  He 
was  assigned  to  United  States  sloop  St.  Louis, 
which  was  in  the  West  India  squadron  under  Com- 
modore Hanley,  bound  on  a  voyage  to  the  Caribbean 
Sea.  After  one  year's  service,  Mr.  Whitmore 
resigned  and  became  principal  of  Monmouth  Acad- 
emy, where  he  remained  for  two  years,  and  then 
took  charge  of  the  Waterville  Liberal  Institute, 
where  he  remained  two  years  more.  Then  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  and  began  practice  in  Gardiner. 
His  business  grew  rapidly  and  for  many  years  real 
estate,  railroad  and  mercantile  interests  gave  him 
prominence.     He  was  never  married. 

'45. — For  twenty-five  years  Dr.  Joshua  Young 
has  been  the  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  Church  in 
Groton,  Mass.,  and  this  fact  will  be  commemorated 
by  special  services  to  be  held  on  March  7th.  Hon. 
George  S.  Boutwell  is  chairman  of  the  committee  of 
arrangements. 

'62. — The  following  biographical  notice  of  the 
Rev.  Charles  H.  Pope  is  taken  from  the  Boston 
Journal : 

Rev.  Mr.  Pope  was  born  in  Machias,  Me.,  in 
1841  and  was  graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in 
1862.  Among  his  classmates  were  I.  B.  Choat,  who 
has  since  won  recognition  as  a  poet,  and  Dr.  F.  A. 
Hill,  now  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education. 
Three  years  later  Mr.  Pope  was  graduated  from  the 
Bangor  Theological  College.  He  passed  a  dozen 
years  in  home  missionary  work  in  California,  for 
the  last  four  of  which  he  was  pastor  of  the  Second 
Church  of  Oakland.  He  filled  several  pastorates  in 
Maine,  the  principal  one  of  which  was  at  Farming- 
ton,  and  has  been  for  the  past  four  years  the  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Parish  Church  of  Charlestown. 

Rev.  Mr.  Pope  is  the  author  of  a  number  of 
books,  the  best  known  of  which  is  his  "Gospels 
Combined."  He  has  also  written  the  genealogies  of 
the  Pope  and  Cheney  fsimilies,  and  is  the  compiler 


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of  the  Pioneers  of  Massachusetts,  a  two  volume 
work  which  is  now  in  press. 

M.  '69. — Dr.  J.  L.  Horr  of  Westbrook  was 
elected  Mayor  of  that  city  last  "  Monday.  During 
the  evening  the  Westbrook  City  Band  and  a  host 
of  friends  tendered  a  serenade  to  the  successful 
candidates.  Dr.  Horr  was  called  on  at  his  home 
and  responded  to  the  greeting  with  a  brief  speech, 
in  which  he  spoke  of  the  cleanliness  of  the  election, 
and  assured  his  friends  that  he  should  administer 
the  affairs  of  the  office  for  the  best  good  of  the  city. 

M.  '86. — As  had  been  expected.  Col.  William  J. 
Maybury  of  Saco  carried  the  day  in  the  recent 
election.  He  will  preside  as  Mayor  during  the 
coming  year. 

'94. — Rev.  S.  R.  Smiley  has  accepted  a  call  to  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Colebrook,  N.  H. 

'96. — George  T.  Ordway  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  the  latter  part  of  February.  Cards  have  been 
received  with  the  inscription :  George  T.  Ordway, 
Attorney  and  Counsellor-at-law,  28  State  Street, 
Boston. 

"95. — George  C.  Webber  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  after  a  very  successful  examination  in  Auburn. 
February  24th.  Mr.  Webber  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Edward  Uttle  High  School,  from  which  he  entered 
Bowdoin  at  the  age  of  15.  For  some  time  after 
graduation  he  was  principal  of  Hampden  Academy. 
Later  he  occupied  the  chair  of  sciences  at  Ridge- 
ville,  Indiana. 

M.  '99. — Dr.  Gardiner  L.  Sturdivant  has  settled 
in  Brunswick  and  taken  the  office  formerly  occupied 
by  Dr.  James  W.  Doughty  ('98).  Dr.  Doughty  has 
moved  to  Phippsburg. 

Bowdoin  graduates  will  appreciate  the  following 
communication  on  the  making  of  manly  men  which 
"J.  S.  S."  sends  to  the  Bangor  Commercial :  "Dur- 
ing the  past  two  years  it  has  been  the  writer's  good 
fortune  to  visit  at  intervals  the  Maine  colleges,  and 
among  other'  things  he  has  noticed  the  following 
interesting  characteristics  of  the  professors  and 
teachers  who  are  graduates  of  Bowdoin .  College ; 
They  are  men  who  are  humanists  in  the  sense  that 
'  they  understand  human  nature ;  they  reach  their 
men  through  what  is  best  and  noblest  in  them ;  they 
hold  them  by  their  keen,  brotherly  sympathy,  their 
intuition  of  unappreciated  effort,  their  earnest, 
heartfelt  interest  in  the  man ;  they  make  true  men 
of  them  through  their  own  uprightness,  their  high 
ideals,  their  real  manliness.  This  quality  is  espe- 
cially true  of  the  young  men  who  have  lately  entered 
college  teaching.  At  Bowdoin,  Mr.  Emery,  lately 
called  to  Yale,  largely  because  of  this  quality;*  Mr. 
Files  and  Mr.  Mitchell,  are  types  of  this  progres- 
sive spirit.  They  are  the  men  who  have  inaugu- 
rated dubs  for  the  discussion  of  topics  in  the  par- 


ticular domain.  The  man  becomes  through  their 
influence,  broader  and  more  manly.  At  the  Univer- 
sity of  Maine,  Mr.  Goodell,  Bowdoin,  '93,  is  of  the 
same  class,  a  man  who  works  constantly  for  the 
welfare  of  his  men.  Here,  too,  the  club  idea  is 
carried  out.  The  best  representative  of  this  spirit 
at  Colby  was  Dr.  Bates,  Bowdoin,  '96,  lately  director 
of  the  gymnasium.  The  list  might  be  greatly 
extended,  but  these  few  noticeable  men  will  suffice. 
What  is  in  the  air  at  Bowdoin  I  cannot  say,  but  it 
nourishes  men  and  teachers  of  the  highest  type. 
We  find  them  called  away  from  Maine  too  often. 
The  institution  often  does  not  realize  until  too  late 
that  its  strong  teacher  has  been  more  appreciated 
elsewhere.  The  college  or  school — for  the  same 
spirit  is  in  the  town  institutions — having  such  men 
on  its  staff  is  to  be  congratulated,  for  they  are  edu- 
cators in  the  highest  sense.  They  are  the  men  who 
make  the  college  famous  abroad,  who  bring  stu- 
dents, and  who  having  them,  make  what  our  land 
needs  in  its  whole  length  and  breadth  in  public  and 
in  every-day  life, — honorable,   upright  men. 


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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  29.— March  15,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes 251 

The  Death  of  Rienzi 252 

Prof.  Emery  on  Expansion 254 

In  Defense  of  Jeanne  d'Arc 255 

College  News 257 

Y.  M.  C.  A 257 

Athletics 257 

Personals 258 


The  Base-Ball  Schedule  for  the  approach- 
ing season  is  so  common-sense  and  consistent 
with  our  abilities  that  it  deserves  the  entire 
commendation  of  the  entire  undergraduate 
body. 

Seven  games  are  to  be  played  on  the  home 
grounds,   which  is  a  treat  that  surpasses  all 


past  seasons.  The  demand  for  home  games 
has.  never  been  adequately  supplied,  and  now 
that  Manager  White  has  promised  us  our  fill 
next  spring,  the  fellows  cannot  do  less  than 
make  them  profitable  by  large  attendance. 

The  games,  with  one  exception,  are  such 
that  considerable  hope  of  victory  may  well  be 
iield  of  each  game,  for  the  teams  are  invariably 
in  the  class  with  Bowdoin.  The  one  exception 
is  the  Harvard  game,  but  a  game  with  Har- 
vard or  a  team  of  similar  standing  is  a  long 
established  custom  at  Bowdoin,  which  has 
certain  advantages  that  warrant  the  game  and 
its  probable  defeat.  However,  one  good  and 
unusual  circumstance  connected  with  this  game 
is  that  there  are  several  practice  games  preced- 
ing it,  and  we  will  accordingly  have  some 
experience  before  we  cross  sticks  with  Har- 
vard. 

The  team  has  a  splendid  schedule  and  par- 
ticularly   well    suited    to    its    material.     With 
conscientious  training  and  the  encouragement^ 
of  the  fellows  the  season  should  be  extremely 
satisfactory  and  profitable. 


The  expenses  of  the  Orient  in  its  weekly 
capacity  have  increased  several-fold,  and  to 
square  up  the  account  of  the  present  volume 
is  somewhat  of  an  undertaking.  There  are, 
fortunately,  just  sufficient  outstanding  sub- 
scriptions which,  together  with  the  other 
sources  of  income,  will  clear  the  sheet  for  the 
next  board.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  urge  the 
fellows  to  settle  entirely  and  promptly  with  the 
business  manager,  for  the  moral  duty  would 
probably  accomplish  all  these ;  but  as  the  results 
of  any  neglect  would  be  so  disastrous  to  the 
paper,  perhaps  we  are  warranted  in  mention- 
ing this  paying  of  subscriptions. 

The  business  manager  has  devoted  more 
time  to  the  Orient  than  to  any  one  of  his 


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BOWDOIN   OKIENT. 


courses,  and  in  return  he  receives  nothing,  not 
even  the  practice  in  composition  which  his  col- 
leagues receive.  All  this  he  does  from  the 
generosity  of  his  nature,  that  the  college  may 
support  a  paper.  It  is  a  small  matter  for  each 
man  to  settle  immediately  on  request ;  yet  this 
amovmts  to  a  vast  saving  of  time,  labor,  and 
inconvenience  to  the  already  overworked  busi- 
ness manager  when  two  hundred  fellows  are 
punctual  in  this  same  small  matter.  The 
Orient  requests  the  fellows  to  consider  this 
point  just  a  moment,  and  then,  we  feel,  all  sub- 
scriptions will  be  settled  and  all  bills  paid  for 
an  auspicious  opening  of  the  next  volume. 


The  delay  in  the  issuing  of  last  week's 
number  was  due  to  the  printers  and  not  to  the 
board.  Next  week,  however,  the  number  will 
not  appear  until  a  day  or  two  late,  in  order 
that  the  Athletic  Meet  may  be  reported  in  full. 
The  facilities  for  printing  news  in  the  Orient 
right  up  to  the  day  of  publication  is  a  need 
that  is  well  known  by  all  who  have  ever  been 
connected  with  the  paper.  About  three  days 
before  publication  is  the  limit  of  sending  in 
matter,  and  until  this  is  dififerent,  Bowdoin 
cannot  have  a  newspaper  that  is  not  more  or 
less  criticised  for  printing  stale  news. 


THE  DEATH  OF  RIENZI. 
It  was  evening  in  Rome.  The  sun  had  set 
and  the  restless^throng  which  from  early  morn 
had  paced  the  streets  had  almost  disappeared. 
The  Forum  and  market-place  no  longer 
resounded  with  excited  talk,  as  groups  of 
angry  men,  driven  to  desperation  by  repeated 
injustice,  met  to  discuss  this  latest  wrong  of 
their  Tribune,  a  tax  upon  their  wines.  The 
night  advanced,  the  rising  moon,  glancing  and 
gleaming  upon  the  waters  of  the  Tiber  which 
for  centuries  had  washed  the  feet  of  Rome, 
cast  a  soft  light  over  the  scene.  Apparently 
the  city  slept,  and  it  was  hard  to  believe  that 
ere  another  day  should  end  those  quiet  streets 
would  be  filled  by  an  angry  mob  thirsting  to 
avenge  its  wrongs;  difficult  to  conceive  that 


Rienzi,  once  the  people's  idol,  who  had  saved 
them  from  the  tyranny  of  the  nobles  but  to 
fall  a  victim  to  his  own  arrogance ;  Rienzi,  who 
had  a  second  time  been  elected  leader,  only 
once  again  to  become  the  nation's  curse,  would 
be  publicly  dragged  through  the  streets,  the 
victim  of  a  frenzied  people  whose  rights  he  had 
scornfully  trampled  underfoot. 

It  was  the  morning  of  the  8th  of  October, 
1354.  Rising  while  it  was  yet  early,  Rienzi 
paused  before  commencing  the  work  of  the 
day,  and  standing  at  the  window  seemed 
entranced,  as  it  were,  forgetting  for  the  instant 
all  his  cares  and  griefs  in  the  wondrous  beauty 
of  the  morning.  A  gentle  breeze  floated  in  at 
the  window  and  only  an  occasional  far-away 
sound  broke  the  almost  perfect  stillness. 

As  Rienzi  stood  and  gazed  out  over  the 
Eternal  City  what  a  conflict  of  emotions  must 
have  filled  his  heart!  His  defeats,  his 
triumphs,  how  they  must  have  passed  before 
his  mind  at  that  moment !  Is  it  impossible 
to  believe  that  he  again  recalled  the  time  when, 
standing  before  the  Roman  populace,  he 
uttered  those  words  which  have  come  down  to 
us  through  the  ages:  "Friends,  Romans, 
countrymen,  I  come  not  here  to  talk ;  'tis  time 
to  act!" 

Giving  a  last  lingering  look  at  the  scene 
below,  Rienzi  murmured,  "How  still  are  all 
things !  What  a  cool  and  delicious  prelude 
in  these  early  hours,  to  the  toilsome  day! 
None  of  my  people  seem  to  be  astir;  howbeit, 
my  day  begins  before  theirs."  Ah,  little  did 
the  mighty  Rienzi  know  that  underneath  that 
outward  semblance  of  peace  and  tranquility 
was  brewing  a  storm ;  a  revolution  which,  ere 
the  day  was  over,  would  destroy  forever  him 
and  all  his  power.  Little  did  he  realize  then 
that  while  he  was  peacefully  sleeping,  his  foes 
had  already  completed  their  plans  for  his 
destruction,  that  throughout  the  night  men 
whose  dress  bespoke  them  of  the  lowest  rank 
had  crept  stealthily,  two  by  two,  from  lane  to 
lane,  from  alley  to  alley ;  that  while  a  mourn- 
ful and  chilling  mist  still  veiled  the  surround- 


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ing  mountains,  the  Roman  legions,  the  guar- 
dians aHke  of  the  freedom  and  of  the  deliverer 
of  Rome,  had  secretly  left  the  palace;  that  the 
great  gates  had  been  opened  and  that  Villani, 
Rienzi's  bitter  enemy,  was  the  only  soldier 
there. 

Scarcely  had  Rienzi  seated  himself  at  his 
work  when  he  heard  his  name  shouted,  and 
immediately  there  entered  the  room  one  of  his 
most  trusted  followers.  A  few  frenzied  words 
and  the  Senator  learned  the  truth.  Yes,  the 
revolution  had  come  at  last;  already  the  mob 
was  in  motion ;  in  a  few  moments  it  would  be 
at  the  gates  thirsting  for  his  blood ;  his  sentries 
had  vanished ;  not  a  soul  remained  in  the 
Capitol. 

"The  Capitol  deserted! — impossible!"  cried 
Rienzi.  But  it  was  true.  The  ante-room  was 
empty,  the  night  guard  had  long  since  vacated 
it.  By  sheer  force  Rienzi  opened  Villani's 
door — Villani  had  gone  too.  In  desperation 
the  Tribune  hastened  to  the  other  doors,  but 
they  were  barred  from  without.  All  means 
of  escape  had  been  effectually  cut  off.  But 
stay — the  private  door!  Suddenly  a  distant 
shout,  a  familiar  cry,  borne  on  the  wind 
reached  Rienzi  and  he  quickly  turned  toward 
his  friend.  "  'Viva  la  populo !'  why,  so  say  I ! 
These  must  be  friends.  That  cry  scares  none 
but  tyrants.  I  shall  triumph  and  survive!" 
"Nay,  Senator,  deceive  not  thyself,"  rejoined 
the  other,  "thou  hast  scarce  a  friend  at  Rome !" 
Nearer  and  nearer  came  the  mob,  louder  and 
louder  swelled  the  tumult,  and  now  Rienzi 
could  distinguish  other  cries  such  as  "Death 
to  the  Tribunes !  down  with  Rienzi !  death  to 
the  traitor!"  The  tramping  of  the  raging 
thousands  seemed  to  shake  the  streets ;  men, 
women,  and  children  united  in  this  living 
stream  of  humanity ;  all  classes  of  society  were 
there,  the  rich,  the  poor;  the  aristocratic  and 
the  slave.  So  rapidly  did  the  mob  increase 
that  it  seemed  as  if  men  sprang  from  the  earth 
itself.  On,  on  they  came,  a  cruel,  resistless 
mob,  and  breaking  over  the  palisades  com- 
pletely filled  the  vast  space  below  the  balcony. 

Meanwhile  Rienzi  had  hastily  fastened  the 


coverlid  of  his  bed  to  the  casement  bars  and 
dropped  to  the  balcony  below.  Proceeding 
thence  to  the  great  hall  which  was  used  on 
solemn  occasions  for  state  festivals  he  quickly 
donned  one  of  his  suits  of  mail,  and  rapidly 
retracing  his  steps  approached  the  balcony. 
For  an  instant  he  hesitated  and  a  chill  of  terror 
passed  through  his  veins ;  but  only  for  an 
instant.  "I  will  not  die  like  a  rat,"  he  said,  "in 
the  trap  they  have  set  for  me.  The  whole 
world  shall,  at  least,  see  and  hear  me !"  and  in 
another  moment  he  stood  upon  the  balcony. 

Instantly,  as  if  by  magic,  a  deep  silence 
settled  over  all  that  tremendous  throng  as 
Rienzi,  with  the  Standard  of  Rome  in  his  right 
hand,  gazed,  more  in  grief  than  in  fear  or 
anger,  upon  them.  Before  that  look  many  a 
ruthless  man's  eyes  lowered.  Pointing  to  the 
Standard  he  exclaimed,  "I,  too,  am  a  Roman 
and  a  citizen,  hear  me!"  But  the  leaders  of 
the  mob,  knowing  full  well  the  Tribune's  mar- 
vellous eloquence  which  had  more  than  once 
turned  the  scales  in  his  favor  even  against 
apparently  overwhelming  odds,  at  once 
renewed  their  hostile  cries,  and  in  a  flash  the 
mob  recovered  from  its  momentary  awe,  and 
from  earth  to  heaven  rose  the  roar,  "Down 
with  him  who  taxed  the  people !" 

Then  a  storm  of  stones,  darts,  and  arrows 
rattled  against  Rienzi's  armour ;  still  that  noble 
face  showed  no  terror,  but  when  the  torches 
commenced  to  flash  and  dance  to  and  fro  above 
the  heads  of  the  crowd,  and  the  black  smoke 
began  to  curl  up  around  the  great  doors  of  the 
Capitol,  then  and  then  only  came  the  reaction. 
Rising  and  dashing  a  tear  from  his  eye  he 
exclaimed,  "Enough,  enough  !  Let  Rome  per- 
ish !  I  feel  that  I  am  nobler  than  my  country ! 
She  deserves  not  so  high  a  sacrifice !" 

Hastening  to  the  servants'  quarters  he 
blackened  his  face,  cut  his  beard,  put  on  a 
coarse  working  garb,  and  with  a  mattress  on 
his  shoulder  passed  out  into  the  surging  crowd. 
He  had  reached  the  outer  gate  unscathed  and 
was  in  the  midst  of  the  mob  when  a  terrible 
voice  shouted,  "Stop,  Rienzi !"  A  golden 
bracelet  which  he  had  forgotten  and  kept  on 


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his  arm  had  betrayed  him.  The  multitude 
was  around  him  in  an  instant.  Not  led  but 
rather  whirled  along  he  was  borne  to  the  Place 
of  the  Lion  where  criminals  were  executed ; 
there,  surrounded  by  his  foes,  he  stood  like  a 
crippled  stag  at  bay ;  his  noble  face  lighted  up 
by  the  gleam  of  the  flames  which  were  rapidly 
consuming  the  whole  Capitol.  His  head  was 
bared,  his  hair,  grown  grey  in  the  service  of 
Rome,  was  playfully  tossed  by  the  wind. 
Awed  by  the  greatness  of  its  victim,  the  mob 
gave  way ;  for  a  moment  not  one  of  all  that 
countless  throng  dared  lay  a  hostile  hand  upon 
him.  But  only  for  an  instant;  then  with  a 
fiendish  yell  the  infuriated  mob  pressed  upon 
him,  and  pierced  by  more  than  a  hundred 
wounds  Rienzi  sank  to  the  earth  as  the  roaring 
waves  of  the  multitude  closed  over  him.  "At 
that  moment  came  a  dull  crash,  and  one  intense 
and  sullen  glare  seemed  to  settle  over  the 
atmosphere,  making  all  Rome  itself  the  funeral 
pyre  of  Rienzi,  the  last  of  the  Roman 
tribunes."  J.  W.  W.,  1900. 


PROF.  EMERY  ON  EXPANSION. 
The  lecture  last  week  was  one  of  the  best 
atten  led  and  most  enjoyable  of  the  course. 
The  subject,  which  is  of  current  and  universal 
mterest,  was  handled  in  a  way  that  brought 
its  significance  right  to  the  door  of  each  and 
every  individual  present.  We  present  a  brief 
abstract  of  the  lecture,  leaving  out,  together 
with  considerable  other  matter,  valuable 
statistics  which  were  of  a  most  convincing 
nature. 

The  economic  questions  involved  in  the 
policy  of  expansion  are  of  primary  importance 
for  two  reasons :  First,  as  showing  what 
causes  have  been  at  work  to  bring  about  the 
general  movement  toward  colonial  expansion 
on  the  part  of  all  countries ;  secondly,  as  show- 
ing what  material  advantage  may  be  derived 
from  that  policy  for  ourselves,  since,  despite 
the  grandiloquent  talk  about  a  divine  mission 
and  a  magnificent  destiny,  the  real  question 
for  the  statesman  is,  will  such  a  policy  pay? 
It  is  not  to  be  disputed  that  the  question  of 
material  advantage  presents  no  excuse  for  a 
moral   wrong,   but  that   the   retention  of  the 


Philippines  involves  a  moral  wrong  has  not 
been  established.  The  example  of  England's 
harmonious  union  of  Empire  and  democracy 
shows  that  democratic  government  in  our  own 
country  need  not  be  endangered  by  the  rule 
of  distant  possessions.  And  as  to  the  Filip- 
inos themselves,  our  title  to  the  islands  was 
acquired  according  to  the  recognized  law  of 
nations,  and  the  test  of  the  justice  of  govern- 
ment so  established,  is  not  the  degree  to  which 
a  majority  of  the  governed  consent  to  it,  but 
the  degree  to  which  it  guarantees  peace,  indi- 
vidual rights  and  liberty  in  the  pursuit  of 
happiness. 

The  struggle  for  the  control  of  colonial 
possessions  has  in  a  large  degree  determined 
the  course  of  European  history  since  the  fif- 
teenth century.  The  recent  colonial  move- 
ment finds  its  economic  explanation  in  the 
unparalleled  growth  of  population  and  wealth 
in  the  last  hundred  years.  The  great  peoples 
of  Europe  have  become  primarily  industrial 
and  their  growth  in  numbers  has  made  them 
dependent  on  foreign  supplies  of  food  and  raw 
materials.  They  find  themselves  facing  each 
other  in  an  intense  rivalry,  and  this  rivalry  has 
led  to  the  appropriation  by  them  of  most  of 
the  uncivilized  regions  of  Africa  and  Asia  and 
of  all  the  islands  of  the  sea.  The  question  of 
supremacy  is  a  question  of  numbers,  and  the 
question  of  numbers  is  a  question  of  food,  and 
the  question  of  food  is  a  question  of  territory. 

The  United  States,  far  from  being  uncon- 
cerned in  this  movement,  is  especially  affected 
by  it.  Already  our  chief  imports  are  from 
southern  and  eastern  countries,  and  the  civil- 
ized races  are  coming  to  have  less  and  less  to 
offer  us  in  exchange  for  our  products.  We 
have  become  their  industrial  rivals,  and  the 
expansion  of  our  commerce  may  soon  depend 
upon  activity  in  tropical  regions.  Further- 
more, at  our  present  rate  of  growth,  we  shall 
number  300,000,000  after  fifty  years,  and  even 
the  half  of  that  number  would  in  all  probabil- 
ity exhaust  our  grain  supplies  and  leave  none 
for  exports.  The  time  has  come  when  the 
tropical  territories  must  be  opened  up  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  growth  of  civilized  races ; 
and  the  time  may  come  within  fifty  years  when 
we  shall  be  ourselves  dependent  on  outside 
trade  for  our  growth  within.  The  possession 
of  eastern  colonies  is  likely  to  help  us  greatly 
in  increasing  our  eastern  trade,  and  the  ulti- 
mate material  return  is  likely  to  outweigh  the 
immediate  expense  and  effort.  It  is  a  fair 
venture. 


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255 


IN  DEFENSE  OF  JEANNE  D'ARC. 

Fighting  dead  men  is  queer  sport !  Never- 
theless, it  has  been  a  favorite  pastime  of  mod- 
ern critics.  They  have  put  down  the  mighty 
from  their  seats  and  the  would-be-  hero- 
worshiper  they  have  sent  empty  away,  so  that 
posterity  seems  Hkely  to  reply  when  ques- 
tioned concerning  the  great  ones  of  the  elder 
days,  "We  have  not  so  much  as  heard  if  there 
were  any  great  ones  of  the  elder  days." 
Already  Homer  is  but  a  name ;  Shakespeare  a 
fraud ;  William  Tell  a  myth ;  George  Wash- 
ington is  mentioned  with  a  smile ;  and  even  the 
Christ  assigned  the  position  of  a  great  philos- 
opher in  a  patronizing  sort  of  way.  Amid  such 
general  devastation,  assailants  have  of  course 
attacked  that  marvellous  heroine  of  the  fif- 
teenth century,  Jeanne  D'Arc. 

Her  critics  assert  that  she  was  not  inspired  ; 
that  her  visions  were  the  effect  of  a  disordered 
or  abnormal  imagination ;  that  skilful  generals 
directed  the  manoeuvres  of  the  French  arms ; 
that,  therefore,  too  much  stress  has  been  laid 
upon  the  importance  of  her  work. 

Her  defenders,  on  the  other  hand,  while 
not  insisting  on  her  inspiration,  while  admit- 
ting that  she  was  but  nominal  head  of  the 
forces,  cannot  agree  with  those  who  would 
belittle  the  greatness  of  what  she  wrought  for 
her  native  land.  They  maintain  that  she 
served  France  in  one  of  its  darkest  hours  as  no 
one  else  was  able;  that  she  stirred  an  inert 
prince  to  action;  that  she  roused  the  patriotic 
spirit;  that  she  put  a  staggering  nation  on  its 
feet;  that  but  for  her  the  Kingdom  of  France 
would  have  been  blotted  out  from  the  map  of 
Europe. 

In  1429,  that  long-drawn-out  struggle 
between  France  and  England,  known  in  his- 
tory as  the  Hundred  Years'  War,  had  been 
going  on  some  three-quarters  of  a  century— 
for  France  a  woefully  one-sided  contest.  The 
English  having  gained  victory  after  victory, 
had  wrested  province  after  province  from  their 
foe  until  it  seemed  but  the  question  of  a  few 
months  when  the  whole  realm  would  be  swal- 


lowed up.  North  of  the  Loire,  the  one  point  of 
importance  still  holding  out  was  Orleans,  the 
gateway  to  the  south.  Its  capitulation  seemed 
at  hand.  In  vain  the  besieged  citizens 
appealed  for  aid.  There  was  no  aid.  The 
soldiery,  having  met  crushing  defeat  after 
crushing  defeat,  had  given  up  the  cause  for 
lost,  and  either  separating  to  their  homes  set- 
tled down  to  wait  idly  for  the  end,  or  joining 
themselves  into  bands  of  freebooters,  raced 
and  chased  up  hill  and  down  dale,  the  terror  of 
the  peasantry,  the  bringers  of  starvation  and 
ruin. 

Nor  were  they  the  only  foes  of  their  own 
land.  The  kingdom  was  divided  against  itself. 
The  Duke  of  Burgundy,  one  of  the  most  pow- 
erful nobles  in  the  kingdom,  had  entered  into 
open  alliance  with  the  English,  while  the  court 
harbored  more  subtle  enemies  in  favorites 
whose  treachery  was  none  the  less  dangerous 
because  concealed. 

So  "with  foes  within  and  foes  without," 
with  no  semblance  even  of  national  spirit,  with 
no  army,  and  no  generals  who  could  arouse 
enough  confidence  to  lead  such,  with  half  the 
land  already  in  the  hands  of  the  English  and 
Orleans  about  to  open  up  the  other  half,  with 
the  nation's  head  a  cowardly,  uncrowned 
prince,  the  plaything  of  his  favorites,  lacking 
ambition  to  lay  hold  on  the  royal  sceptre,  with- 
drawing from  one  castle  to  another  before  the 
ever-advancing  line  of  invaders — with  such  a 
prince  and  such  a  state  of  affairs  the  outlook 
was  dreary  enough. 

Luckily  for  France  the  days  of  wonder 
were  not  yet  over.  For  three  years  a  young 
peasant  girl  of  Domremy  in  the  south  had  had 
visions  and  heard  voices.  (Devout  souls  in 
other  ages  have  had  similar  experiences.) 
And  if  we  but  admit  she  was  sincere  in  assert- 
ing that  her  voices  and  visions  were  heavenly 
and  that  she  had  the  power  to  convince  others 
of  the  genuineness  of  her  experiences,  the 
question  of  the  reality  or  falsity  of  her  inspira- 
tion so  far  as  results  are  concerned  is  unim- 
portant.    To  all  intents  and  purposes  the  word 


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of  God  came  to  Jeanne  D'Arc,  saying,  "Arise ! 
get  thee  hence !  Raise  the  siege  of  Orleans ! 
Crown  the  prince !  Strike  for  France !"  All 
this  she  set  forth  to  do  with  unquestioning 
meekness.  "Behold  the  servant  of  the  Lord ! 
Be  it  unto  me  according  to  thy  word  !" 

At  this  one  last  chance,  however,  the  sink- 
ing nation  did  not  clutch  eagerly.  Unlettered, 
totally  ignorant  of  the  ways  of  the  world  in 
general  and  of  military  affairs  in  particular, 
with  an  enthusiasm  which  seemed  to  prove  con- 
clusively how  little  she  appreciated  the  situa- 
tion, Jeanne  D'Arc  made  her  advent  'mid  little 
applause.  Prominent  fellow-countrymen 
whom  she  approached  merely  turned  her  aside 
as  a  fanatic,  but  her  persistency,  and  the  grow- 
ing belief  in  her  call  which  infected  those 
around  her,  finally  won  more  serious  considera- 
tion, and  with  a  small  band  she  at  last  appeared 
before  the  Dauphin  Charles  and  his  Court  at 
Chinon.  Immediate  action  was  her  plea,  but 
base  courtiers,  fearing  their  own  destruction  if 
perchance  there  should  come  a  turn  of  the 
tables,  plucked  the  monarch  by  the  sleeve  and 
whispered:  "Hesitate!"  The  royal  weakling, 
however,  caught  a  bit  at  least  of  Jeanne  D'Arc's 
enthusiasm,  and  yielding  to  her  warning, 
began  preparing  the  relief  expedition  for 
Orleans. 

Money  and  arms  were  somehow  forth- 
coming, and  an  army  of  three  thousand  assem- 
bled, but  such  a  force  as  it  became  had  never 
been  seen  in  France  before  since  the  days  of 
Charlemagne.  Jeanne  D'Arc's  own  purity  and 
devoutness  instilled  itself  in  the  camp.  Some- 
thing of  the  spirit  of  the  Knights  of  the  Holy 
Grail  was  present.  The  soldiers  had  in  a 
measure  the  same-  loyal  trust  in  their  leader. 
They  came  to  believe  her  divinely  inspired  for 
a  divine  mission.  Rough,  dissolute  men  that 
they  were,  for  her  sake  off  they  went  to  mass 
and  confession,  less  like  typical  French  soldiers 
of  the  fifteenth  century  than  like  those  knights 
of  the  Table  Round  about  to  venture  forth  on 
one  of  their  holy  wars.  Such  a  temper  is  in 
itself  a  tower  of  strength,  a  very  shield  and 
buckler. 

Now,  too,  came  a  new  policy.  The  tactics 
hitherto  pursued  by  the  French  arms  remind 
one  of  the  King  of  France  in  the  nursery 
rhyme,  who  with  his  twenty  thousand  men 
boldly  marched  up  a  hill  and  then  marched 
down  again.  Delay  had  been  the  watchword, 
and  again  delay — useless  delay  which  ever 
means  a  step  backward.  Soldiers  of  the  living 
God,  however,  find  every  opportunity  favor- 


able, and  a  new  commandment  gave  Jeanne 
D'Arc  unto  them — "Strike  swiftly  and  fiercely! 
Strike  like  the  thunderbolt  I" 

Therefore,  when  all  was  ready,  like  Jael  of 
old  she  put  her  hand  to  the  nail  and  her  right 
hand  to  the  workman's  hammer,  and  in  the 
victories  of  Orleans,  Jargan,  Patay,  smote  a 
blow  that  so  staggered  the  English  that  hence- 
forth it  was  they  who  played  the  losing  game. 
At  the  end  of  twenty  years,  Calais  alone 
remained — their  sole  possession  on  the  conti- 
nent. The  whole  future  of  the  French  nation 
had  turned  on  the  result  of  Jeanne  D'Arc's 
campaign  and  the  effect  has  been  felt  through- 
out the  world  throughout  the  ages. 

Honor  to  whom  honor  is  due.  The  lion's 
share  of  the  credit  cannot  be  given  to  the 
boasted  generals  of  her  critics,  because  up  to 
the  time  of  Jeanne  D'Arc's  appearance  their 
record  had  been  one  of  continued  disaster; 
because  they  had  lost  confidence ;  because  thev 
could  no  more  lead  their  forces  on  to  victory 
than  can  the  blind  lead  the  blind;  because,  at 
three  of  the  most  critical  points  of  the  cam- 
paign, on  the  march  to  Orleans,  on  the  eve  of 
the  last  day's  fight  before  that  city,  and  on  the 
march  to  Rheims  they  were  for  delay  or  retreat 
when,  yielding  to  the  pleadings  of  the  maid, 
were  won  victories  most  significant. 

Rather  should  the  laurel  be  given  to  the 
young  servant  of  God  because  at  the  hour 
when  not  a  hand  was  raised  to  avert  the  Eng- 
lish from  obtaining  the  ultimate  control  of  all 
France,  in  spite  of  opposition  and  rascality,  she 
succeeded  in  raising  the  expedition  for 
Orleans;  because  at  the  fight  around  the 
beleaguered  city  and  in  succeeding  battles  her 
very  presence  in  the  thickest  of  the  fray 
brought  with  it  an  overwhelming  enthusiasm 
which  her  foes  found  irresistible ;  because  she 
brought  about  that  spirit  which  was  the 
nation's  salvation — because  where  indifference 
had  lain  dormant,  she  stirred  up  activity; 
where  cowardice  was  skulking  away,  she  had 
brought  about  courage;  where  despair  had 
loomed  she  lighted  the  bright  lamp  of  hope. 

Inspired  or  not,  mere  nominal  head  of  her 
troops,  if  you  will,  truly  it  was  the  saviour  of 
France  who  two  years  after  the  coronation  of 
her  prince  was  burned  at  the  stake,  as  witch 
and  heretic.  Yea !  but  crowned  with  more 
glorious  tiara  than  ever  rested  on  kingly  brow, 
crowned  with  the  everlasting  crown  of  martyr- 
dom whose  glory  fadeth  not  away,  crowned 
with  the  homage  and  reverence  of  all  people 
wherever  the  noble  deeds  of  old  time  are  held 


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in  loving  remembrance.  "Verily  to  the  people 
who  walked  in  darkness  she  was  a  great  light. 
They  that  had  dwelled  in  the  land  of  the 
shadow  of  death,  upon  them  did  the  light 
shine."  — J.  P.  W.,  1900. 


COLLEGE   NEWS. 

Wood,  I900,  is  out  sick. 

Stackpole,  1900,  is  out  sick. 

Cousens,  '02,  is  still  out  sick. 

Walker,  '01,  has  returned  to  college. 

Clifford,  '03,  is  out  sick  with  the  measles. 

Higgins,  '02,  has  returned  from  teaching. 

The  Freshman  Math  examination  occurred  last 
Tuesday. 

The  next  Sophomore  Debate  will  be  on  Woman's 
Suffrage. 

The  Juniors  had  an  adjourn  in  English  Lit 
Wednesday. 

Wood,  ex-'o3,  is  now  a  member  of  the  Sophomore 
Class  at  Harvard. 

The  Sophomore  examination  in  German  will  occur 
Friday  afternoon. 

Both  the  Politics  Club  and  the  History  Club  took 
supper  at  Cahill's  on  Monday  night. 

The  Sophomore  squad  will  be  composed  of  the 
following  men :  Hamilton,  leader,  Grinnell,  Giles, 
Hayden,  Files,  Carter,  Folsom,  Sinkinson,  Fogg, 
•Cobb,  Webb,  Dole. 

The  Freshman  Squad  will  be  composed  of  the 
following  men :  Peabody,  leader,  McCormick, 
Thompson,  Holt,  Palmer,  N.  L.  Perkins,  Preble, 
Jones,   Blanchard,   Sabin,  Grey,  Hellenbrand. 

The  Orient  election  will  be  held  the  first  of  the 
coming  week.  The  Freshmen  who  are  trying  for 
the  board"  are  Robinson,  Viles,  Simpson,  Riley, 
Marshall,  Perkins,  Barrows,  Gould,  Towne,  and 
Hellenbrand. 

The  Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity  held  a  very 
enjoyable  reception  Tuesday  evening  at  their  Chap- 
ter House.  The  college  fraternities  were  all  repre- 
sented by  delegates,  and  they  unite  in  speaking  in 
complimentary  terras  of  the  hospitality  of  their  sister 
fraternity.  The  reception  was  indeed  a  social 
sucess. 

The  trials  in  the  potato  race,  shot  put,  running 
high  jump,  and  pole  vault  will  be  run  off  on  next  Sat- 
urday and  Monday.  This  is  done  in  order  to  con- 
clude the  events  without  delay,  thus  giving  ample 
time  for  a  successful  dance.  It  is  the  intention,  if 
possible,  to  have  the  dance  in  the  main  hall.  Dance 
checks  will  be  on  sale  for  twenty-five  cents.  The 
College  Orchestra  will  furnish  the  music. 


Y.  M.  C.  f\. 


The  annual  president's  conference  of  the  associa- 
tions of  the  east  is  to  be  held  at  Yale  during  the 
Easter  vacation. 

The  Rev.  G.  M.  Howe  of  Lewiston  spoke  at  the 
Sunday  service  March  nth.  Mr.  Howe  is  a  man 
who  takes  a  keen  interest  in  colleges  and  college  men, 
and  his  words  were  interesting  and  helpful. 

The  Thursday  evening  meeting  March  8th  was 
led  by  Bragdon,  igoo.  The  subject  was  "Comrade- 
ship with  Noble  Thoughts." 

The  attendance  and  the  subsequent  discussion  of 
the  topic  were  both  good. 

The  election  of  officers  for  next  year  comes  at  the 
annual  business  meeting,  March  22d.  Reports  of 
the  officers  and  chairman  of  committees  will  be  read 
at  this  meeting. 


ATHLETICS. 


On  Tuesday  evening,  March  20th,  the  14th  annual 
exhibition  and  the  Sth  annual  indoor  meet  of  the 
Bowdoin  College  Athletic  Association  will  be  held 
in  the  Town  Hall.  The  meet  will  open  at  7.30 
o'clock  in  order  to  get  to  its  end  early,  and  to  allow 
dancing  to  follow. 

Besides  the  regular  athletic  events  there  will  be 
an  exhibition  of  fancy  club  swinging  by  Mr.  Frank 

B.  Mitchell  of  the  Medical  School,  and  music  by  the 
college  orchestra.  Monday  afternoon,  at  four 
o'clock  trials  for  the  running  high  jump,  for  the  pole 
vault  and  for  the  shot  put  will  take  place  in  the  gym- 
nasium. This  fact,  with  the  others — that  the  entries 
in  the  20-yard  dash  will  be  limited  to  four  men  from 
each  class,  and  that  the  entries  for  the  other  trials 
will  be  limited  to  three  men  from  each  class,  will 
help  to  make  the  evening  pass  more  quickly. 

Tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  Riley's.  Admission 
will  be  35  cents,  reserved  seats  50  cents,  and  dance 
checks  25  cents. 

The  officers  of  the  meet  will  be  Referee,  Prof.  H. 

C.  Emery;  Judges  of  Drills,  Prof.  George  T.  Files, 
Prof.  W.  A.  Moody,  and  Mr.  J.  E.  Odiorne;  Judges 
of  Track  and  Field  Events,  Messrs.  W.  W.  Bolster, 
F.  B.  Mitchell,  and  R.  F.  Chapman;  Timers,  Prof. 
H.  DeF.  Smith,  Messrs.  J.  E.  Burbank,  and  P.  H. 
Cobb;  Measurers,  Messrs.  N.  T.  Gehring,  R.  E. 
Bragg,  and  H.  F.  Quinn;  Scorer,  Mr.  W.  L.  Wat- 
son; Starter,  Mr.  Clarence  F.  Kendall;  Announcer, 
Mr.  A.  L,  Burnell ;  Clerk  of  Course,  Mr.  R.  L.  Dana. 


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The  order  of  events  will  be  as  follows : 

Fencing  Drill,  Class  of  1900. 

20-yard  dash,  trial  heats. 

Putting  i6-lb.  shot. 

Class  Relay  Race,  1901  vs.  1903. 

Potato  Race,  trial  heats. 

Running  High  Jump. 

20-yard  Dash,  semi-final  heats. 

Broadsword  Drill,  Class  of  1901. 

High  Hurdles,  25  yards,  trial  heat. 

Exhibition  of  Club  Swinging,  Frank  B.  Mitchell. 

Potato  Race,  final  heat. 

Pole  Vault. 

High  Hurdles,  25  yards,  final  heat. 

Dumb-Bell  Drill,  Class  of  1902. 

Class  Relay  Race,  1900  vs.  1902. 

20-yard  Dash,  final  heat. 

Indian-club  drill,  Class  of  1903. 

Class  Relay  Race,  final. 


PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'37. — An  excellent  article  on  the  life  and  char- 
acter of  the  late  George  Warren  Field,  by  G.  A. 
Gordon,  appeared  in  the  Outlook  of  March  3d. 

'45. — The  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  pas- 
torate of  Rev.  Joshua  Young,  D.D.,  of  the  First  Uni- 
tarian Church  of  Groton,  Mass.,  was  celebrated 
Wednesday,  March  7th,  with  appropriate  exercises. 
After  speeches  and  music  a  formal  reception  was 
given  to  Dr.  Young,  and  all  expressed  their  appre- 
ciation of  his  long  and  devoted  ministry.  Dr. 
Young  was  born  in  East  Pittston,  Me.,  September 
29,  1823.  During  the  year  1827  his  parents  moved 
to  Bangor,  where  he  received  his  early  education, 
entering  Bowdoin  in  1841.  In  1848  he  was  gradu- 
ated from  Harvard  Divinity  School,  and  one  year 
later  he  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  new  North 
Church  on  Hanover  Street,  Boston.  In  1852  Mr. 
Young  became  pastor  of  the  Unitarian  Church  in 
Burlington,  Vt.  He  remained  there  eleven  years. 
In  1870,  he  settled  over  a  church  in  Fall  River,  from 
which  in  1875  he  came  to  Groton.  Dr.  Young  is 
well  known  as  an  orator.  A  lecture  on  John  Brown, 
at  whose  funeral  he  officiated  in  1859,  has  attracted 
wide  interest. 

'50. — While  many  another  retired  U.  S.  Army 
officer  sulks  in  his  tent  or  cultivates  the  gout,  Gen. 
O.  O.  Howard  is  working  day  in  and  day  out  for 
the  education  of  the  Southern  negro.  Gen.  Howard 
is  a  Maine  man  and  never  lets  go  of  hard  work.  All 
honor  to  him  and  to  his  faith. — Lewiston  Journal. 


'52. — The  President  sent  to  the  Senate  last  week 
the  nomination  of  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain  to  be  Sur- 
veyor of  Customs  at  Portland,  Me. 

'60. — T.  B.  Reed  will  act  as  one  of  the  judges  at 
the  Yale-Harvard  debate  in  New  Haven,  March 
30th.  The  question  is :  Resolved,  that  Puerto  Rico 
should  be  included  within  the  customs  boundaries  of 
the  United  States. 

'71. — Rev.  E.  S.  Stackpole  will  sever  his  con- 
nection with  the  Green  Street  Methodist  Church, 
Augusta,  after  the  close  of  the  present  conference 
year  in  April.  Dr.  Stackpole  went  to  Augusta  from 
Auburn  two  years  ago,  and  has  been  very  successful 
in  his  work.  His  departure  will  be  a  distinct  loss  to 
the  church  and  to  the  city,  where  he  has  made  many 
friends.  He  is  a  man  of  broad  culture,  of  excep- 
tionally scholarly  attainments,  and  is  a  polished 
speaker  of  much  force  and  eloquence.  The  Method- 
ists of  Maine  recognize  him  as  one  of  the  ablest  men 
in  their  denomination.  That  he  has  decided  to  leave 
Augusta  will  be  deeply  regretted  by  its  citizens. 

'71. — News  has  been  received  in  Auburn  of  the 
death  in  Jacksonville,  Florida,  of  Dr.  C.  C.  Haskell, 
a  member  of  the  Haskell  familj'  in  Livermore  and 
a  brother  of  Mr.  Haskell  of  the  Boston  Herald. 
His  age  was  53.  The  Jacksonville  papers  speak 
highly  of  Dr.  Haskell,  referring  to  him  as  a  highly 
respected  merchant.  His  death  came  after  a  short 
illness.  He  went  to  Jacksonville  six  years  ago  and 
opened  up  a  wholesale  cheese  and  butter  house, 
which  he  conducted  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
enjoying  a  lucrative  business  and  the  esteem  of  the 
community  and  others  throughout  the  State.  The 
body  has  been  brought  to  Massachusetts  for  burial. 
Dr.  Haskell  was  treasurer  of  the  J.  T.  &  Ky.  rail- 
road and  was  prominent  in  business  affairs  in  and 
about  Jacksonville. 

'73. — A.  T.  Moulton  of  Portland  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Maine  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American   Revolution. 

'91. — Fred  E.  Parker,  physical  director  at  Brown, 
is  meeting  with  great  success  in  his  work.  The 
annual  demonstration  of  the  system  of  physical 
training  employed  at  the  university,  which  occurred 
last  week,  was  without  doubt  the  finest  in  the  history 
of  the  institution.  All  of  the  events  were  handled 
in  a  way  which  reflected  great  credit  upon  Dr. 
Parker,  whose  untiring  efforts  with  the  four  classes 
at  Brown  during  the  past  winter  term  proved  a 
great  factor  in  bringing  about  the  desired  result, 
that  of  a  successful  demonstration. 

'91. — "Training  the  Individual  in  College,"  by 
H.  DeF.  Smith,  appears  in  the  March  number  of 
the  Educational  Rcviezv.  Both  alumni  and  under- 
graduates will  profit  by  reading  Professor  Smith's 
interesting  article.  He  sets  forth  at  length  the 
advantages  of  individual  instruction,  and  shows  the 
methods  which  he  uses  in  his  own  department. 

'97. — R.  S.  Hagar  will  return  from  abroad  the 
latter  part  of  March. 


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Vol.  XXIX. 


BRUNSWICK,   MAINE,   MARCH   22,   1900. 


No.  30. 


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PUBLISHED  EVERY  THURSDAY  DDRING  THE  COLLEGIATE 
YEAR  BY  THE  STUDENTS  OF 

BOWDOIN     COLLEGE. 

EDITORIAL    BOARD, 
Percy  A.  Babb,  WOO,  Editor-iii-Cliief. 

ISLAY  F.  McCoRMicK,  1900 Busiiiess  Manager. 

George  G.  Wheeler,  1901,  Assistant  Business  Manager. 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  1900, Personals. 

Harry  0.  McCarty,  1900 Personals. 

Philip  L.  Pottle,  1900 College  News. 

Philip  H.  Cobb,  1902 College  News. 

Richard  B.  Dole,  1902, College  News. 

Charles  B.  Bellatty,  1902, Athletics. 

Frank  B.  Mitchell,  M.,  1902,     .    .    .     Medical  Scliool. 

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CONTENTS. 

Vol.  XXIX.,  No.  .SO.— March  22,  1900. 

Editorial  Notes ' 259 

Notice        260 

Current  College  History '.     .  260 

The  Birthplace  of  Bowdoin 262 

College  News 264 

Athletics 26i 

Y.  M.  C.  A 265 

Personals 266 

Another  board  of  editors  have  tossed  aside 
their  weary  pens  with  a  sigh,  and  another  vol- 
ume of  Orients  is  completed,  ready  to  be 
placed  on  file,  and  forgotten.  Strange  and 
eager  hands  are  about  to  grasp  their  pen  for 
the  coming  year,  and  record  another  year  of 
college  policy,  achievements,  and  activity. 


The  Orient  has  tried  its  capacity  for  use- 
fulness as  a  weekly,  and  found  it  greater  than 
in  the  old  custom.  It  will  continue  a  weekly, 
for  the  present,  at  least,  and  the  next  change, 
we  trust,  will  be  to  a  still  shorter  period 
between  issues. 

The  retiring  board  are  not  by  any  means 
satisfied  with  their  year's  labor,  but  neverthe- 
less they  can  claim  the  pleasure  of  seeing  not 
a  few  of  their  plans  materialize.  There  yet 
remains  a  vast  amount  of  improving  before 
the  Orient  can  claim  equality  with  the.  aver- 
age college  journal,  so  much  so,  in  fact,  that 
to  look  ahead  to  the  desired  goal  is  enough  to 
quite  discourage  any  one  board.  Sure  and 
perceptible  yearly  improvements  is  all'  that 
can  be  expected,  and  that  should  be  the  aim  of 
the  new  members. 

The  incoming  board  has  experienced  mem- 
bers sufficient  to  keep  the  various  departments 
toned  to  their  present  condition,  and,  with  the 
splendid  m.aterial  trying  for  positions,  should 
feel  confident  of  a  successful  year.  If  pro- 
crastination and  shirking  are  entirely  elimi- 
nated from  the  editorial  duties,  the  new  board 
is  able  to  publish  the  strongest  volume  in  the 
history  of  the  Orient. 

No  hesitation  is  felt  in  turning  over  the 
paper  to  these  new  hands ;  they  are  represen- 
tative college  men  who  have  earned  their  mem- 
bership by  ability.  We  confidently  assure  the 
Facultv  and  college  that  with  their  proper 
support  and  encouragement  the  Orient  is 
about  to  become  a  stronger  factor  in  college 
life,  and  to  attain  a  higher  place  among  col- 
lege publications. 


This  inactivity  in  perfecting  the  Athletic 
Association  constitution  and  cancelling  the 
debt  of  the  association  is  hurting  us  far  more 
seriously  than  the  fellows  imagine.  ,  The  sev- 


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eral  hundred  dollars  promised  from  outside 
sources,  if  the  college  would  raise  three  or 
four  hundred  itself,  will  not  be  obtainable 
unless  we  do  our  part  at  once ;  and  if  this 
should  happen  the  debt  would  be  so  burden- 
some that  athletics  will  go  under  for  the  next 
few  seasons. 

Sufficient  subscrigtions  have  been  pledged 
in  college,  if  collected,  to  sum  up  to  the  amount 
which  the  college  was  to  raise.  But  until 
these  are  collected  no  progress  can  be  made, 
and  meanwhile  the  danger  of  losing  the 
amount  promised  from  outside  is  continually 
hovering  over  us.  Every  subscription  out- 
standing is  a  monument  to  individual  lethargy, 
and  lack  of  college  loyalty;  an  obstacle  to  a 
business-like  and  efficient  association ;  and  a 
satire  on  our  boasted  athletic  enthusiasm. 


The  fifth  annual  Indoor  Athletic  Meet, 
held  last  Tuesday  evening,  was,  perhaps,  the 
closest  contest  ever  witnessed  between  the 
classes.  The  final  result  found  all  four 
classes  bunched  very  close  in  number  of 
points,  and  the  very  last  events  were  needed  to 
determine  the  order.  Another  commendable 
feature  about  the  meet  was  the  cutting  down 
of  time  by  having  the  preliminaries  previously 
run  off,  thus  the  rapidity  and  order  of  the 
others  far  surpassed  such  occasions  in  past 
years. 

The  records  were  not  better  in  any  of  the 
events  than  those  already  established ;  in  fact, 
some  of  them  were  considerably  inferior;  but 
this  did  not  diminish  the  excitement  of-  the 
evening,  since  the  contestants  were  most 
evenly  matched  and  rivalr)-^  was  all  the  more 
intense. 

The  training  for  this  meet  may  do  not  a 
little  towards  getting  the  men  into  condition 
for  the  spring  games,  and  the  financial  benefit 
also  is  not  by  any  means  insignificant.  While 
the  meet  has  been  considered  during  the  win- 
ter as  an  end  in  itself,  it  now  should  be  viewed 
rather  as  a  means  to  a  more  important  end 
scheduled  at  Worcester  the  last  of  May ;  so 
the  training  should  not  be  broken,  now  that 


the  fifth  Indoor  Meet  lives  only  on  the  pages 
of  college  scrap-books. 


A  second  medical  fraternity  has  founded 
a  chapter  at  Bowdoin,  and  already  initiated 
delegations  from  the  four  classes.  Fraternity 
life  in  the  Medical  School  has  the  usual  advan- 
tages and  pleasures  common  to  all  college 
fraternities,  as  well  as  their  corresponding- 
evils.  Fraternity  history  in  the  Medical 
School  evidently  is  beginning  with  an  over- 
dose of  the  evils,  and  the  continual  irritation 
which  this  phase  of  their  college  days  is  now 
sufl^ering,  will  tend,  in  the  near  future,  to 
bring  about  a  most  uncongenial  and  fractious 
spirit  to  mar  the  smoothness  of  their  college 
activities. 

Even  during  the  short  life  of  the  earlier 
chapter  class  controversies  and  wranglings 
have  been  too  pronounced,  but  now  rumors 
are  current  of  a  state  of  rabid  and  intense 
fraternity  spirit  of  the  vicious  sort,  which  is 
so  deadly  to  justice  and  real  ability.  The  liter- 
ary fraternities  have  been  through  this  stage, 
and,  although  now  dead  and  buried,  it  is 
impossible  to  entirely  sink  all  traces  of  it  into 
oblivion,  and  the  anxious  cry  is  often  heard 
from  alumni,  "only  keep  society  out  of 
athletics,  and  they  will  be  more  successful." 

This  pernicious  spirit  should  be  immedi- 
ately stamped  out,  else  it  will  quickly  destroy 
the  worth  of  fraternity  and  the  social  pleas- 
ures of  college  days,  while  the  only  road  to 
class  or  school  recognition  will  be  by  the  force 
of  numbers. 


NOTICE. 
This  number  completes  the  29th  volume  of 
Bowdoin  Orients.     The  first  number  of  the 
next  volume  will  be  published  the  first  of  the 
Spring  term. 


CURRENT  COLLEGE  HISTORY. 
To  the  Editors  of  the  Orient: 

Having  been  engaged  for  some  months 
past,  during  my  spare  moments,  in  the  com- 
pilation  of  an   undergraduate  history  of  my 


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college  class  (Bowdoin,  '87)  I  have  been  very 
much  impressed  with  the  failure  of  the  col- 
lege journalism  of  my  day  and  generation  to 
fully  and  properly  chronicle  the  important 
events  of  current  college  history.  As  I  was 
personally  responsible  for  much  of  this  negli- 
gence and  oversight,  having  served  two  years 
upon  the  Orient  board — one  year  in  the  local 
department,  and  one  as  managing  editor — I 
have  felt  that  I  might  perhaps  point  out  a 
few  of  our  shortcomings  without  suspicion  of 
pedantry,  and  with  the  sole  hope  that  by  so 
doing  I  may  help  the  college  editors  of  the 
present  time  to  improve  vastly  upon  the 
achievements  of  those  of  us  who  undertook 
to  record  the  life  and  movement  at  Bowdoin 
during  my  college  days. 

In  the  work  above  referred  to,  I  have  been 
obliged  constantly  to  refer  to  the  files  of  the 
Bugle  and  the  Orient  for  the  four  years  of 
my  course.  The  number  of  important  facts 
that  should  have  been  fully  recorded  in  these 
publications,  but  which  were  not  even  noted 
by  them,  has  certainly  astonished  me,  for  I 
recall  that  we  prided  ourselves  in  those  days 
upon  the  sufficiency  of  our  labors. 

If  we  could  have  understood  then,  as 
clearly  as  we  do  now,  that  we  were  writing  the 
current  history  of  our  college,  and  that  years 
hence  the  files  of  our  publications  would  be 
the  principal,  and  almost  the  only  source  of 
information  touching  the  events  of  our  college 
course,  I  am  sure  we  should  have  given  more 
time  and  care  to  making  our  records  full  and 
accurate. 

I  find  in  these  old  Bugles,  and  in  some  of 
the  Class  Day  reports  in  the  Orient,  a  num- 
ber of  so-called  "class  histories;"  but  most  of 
them,  while  wonderfully  rich  in  panegyric,  are 
sadly  destitute  of  facts.  Few  of  them  appear 
to  have  been  written  with  any  serious  purpose 
of  making  them  permanent  and  valuable 
records.  There  is  in  all  of  them  a  lofty  con- 
tempt for  such  unimportant  things  as  dates, 
the  writer  usually  being  content  to  establish, 
by  conclusive  assertions  and  a  wealth  of  adjec- 


tives, the  fact  that  his  particular  class  was 
really  the  greatest  that  ever  honored  the  classic 
halls  of  old  Bowdoin  with  its  distinguished 
presence.  There  is  scarcely  one  of  these 
articles  that  if  written  for  copy  by  a  reporter 
on  a  live  newspaper  would  have  escaped  the 
waste  basket,  so  deficient  are  they  in  records 
of  actual  historic  value  and  news  interest. 
Let  me  illustrate : 

Nowhere  in  either  the  Bugle  or  the  Orient 
could  I  find  any  mention  of  the  time  and  place 
where  my  own  or  any  other  class  first  met 
together  for  purposes  of  recitation,  or  the 
names  of  the  members  responding  to  the  first 
roll  call.  In  only  two  or  three  instances  was 
the  division  of  a  class  in  the  matter  of  electives 
noted.  The  little  schedules  which  give  the 
hour  and  place  of  recitation  were  nowhere 
reproduced.  Important  changes  in  the 
Faculty  and  in  the  curriculum  were  frequently 
unnoted,  while  the  historic  value  of  many 
otherwise  excellent  reports  was  largely 
destroyed  by  the  failure  to  give  dates. 

When  the  venerable  Professor  Packard 
passed  away  the  Bugle  and  the  Orient  pub- 
lished several  editorials  and  poems,  and  at 
least  two  eulogies,  in  his  honor,  but  the  his- 
torian will  search  their  files  in  vain  for  any 
statement  of  the  facts  concerning  his  sudden 
and  painless  death  at  Squirrel  Island. 

I  find  also  many  well  written  reports  of 
college  events  which,  besides  omitting  the 
dates,  give  us  no  hint  of  either  time  or  place. 
They  recall  the  achievement  of  the  newspaper 
reporter  who  wrote,  on  his  first  assignment,  a 
wonderfully  vivid  description  of  a  fire,  but 
neglected  to  mention  who  owned  the  buildings, 
the  extent  of  the  loss,  or  the  amount  of  insur- 
ance ! 

It  is  well  to  bear  in  mind  in  our  reportorial 
work  that  what  we  may  be  perfectly  familiar 
with  ourselves,  may  be  news  to  others,  and 
that  we  should  not  fail  to  record  it  simply 
because  of  a  conviction  that  "everyone  knows 
of  it."  Such  is  rarely  the  case;  but  even 
assuming  that  it  is,  most  of  our  readers  will 


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have  forgotten  about  it  a  few  years  hence,  and 
will  need  the  assistance  of  our  files  should 
they  desire  to  refresh  their  memories. 

It  is  never  a  good  plan  to  be  afraid  of 
dates.  They  may  seem  unnecessary  to-day, 
but  may  be  of  vital  importance  to-morrow. 

I  have  no  sympathy  with  the  old-fogyism 
that  complains  of  the  space  accorded  athletic 
events  in  college  publications.  The  modern 
athletic  spirit  has  done  much  to  develop  true 
manliness  in  our  higher  institutions  of  learn- 
ing, and  has  furnished  a  safe  and  harmless 
vent  for  the  surplus  energy  and  youthful 
exuberance  that  in  "ye  olden  times"  fre- 
quently found  outlets  in  less  praiseworthy 
channels.  Such  events  are  a  legitimate  part 
of  the  college  life,  and  should  be  fully  and 
carefully  chronicled.  At  the  same  time,  the 
other  interests  of  the  college  should  not  be 
neglected.  College  journalism  should  faith- 
fully mirror  the  progressive  college  life  in  all 
its  phases  and  in  all  its  interests.  No  detail, 
however  small  and  seemingly  unimportant, 
should  be  omitted.  The  aim  of  each  and  every 
editor  should  be  to  do  his  full  share  in  making 
the  picture  of  the  college  community,  both  in 
its  labors  and  its  recreations,  which  his  publi- 
cation presents  to  its  readers,  true  to  life,  and 
complete  in  all  its  details. 

Let  it  be  a  record  in  black  and  white  not 
merely  for  to-day,  but  for  all  time — one  that 
will  grow  in  importance  and  interest  with  the 
passing  years,  afid  which  shall  be  of  invaluable 
assistance  to  the  future  historian  of  our  col- 
lege. 

— C.  B.  Burleigh,  '87. 


THE  BIRTHPLACE  OF  BOWDOIN. 
As  one  loves  and  cherishes  the  home  of  his 
birth,  so  ought  we  to  venerate  and  hold  in 
loving  remembrance  the  birthplace  of  our 
college.  Least  of  all  would  Massachusetts 
Hall  appeal  to  the  casual  observer  of  our  col- 
lege buildings,  but  what  student  is  not  moved 
with  afifectionate  interest,  as  he  gazes  upon 
this  errand  old  structure,  which  has  stood  for 


more  than  a  century,  as  a  monument  to  those 
noble  men  who  conceived  the  idea  of  founding 
a  college  in  the  wilderness  of  Maine,  and  by 
their  strenuous  efforts  made  Bowdoin  pos- 
sible. 

One,  in  a  few  short  columns,  can  hardly  do 
justice  to  the  history  of  this  old,  though  now 
renovated  structure;  let  us,  nevertheless, 
notice  a  few  of  its  most  important  changes. 

It  was  in  the  autumn  of  1798,  when  the 
terrible  Indian  war-whoop  had  hardly  ceased 
to  resound,  that  a  beginning  was  made  on  our 
first  college  edifice.  The  brick  walls  had 
hardly  risen  above  the  foundation,  when  the 
small  sum  of  money,  which  had  been  raised 
for  the  erection  of  the  building,  was  expended, 
and  for  nearly  two  years  it  remained  in  this 
condition,  merely  an  empty  shell. 

Little  did  the  passer-by,  as  he  laughed  at 
this  small,  incomplete  structure,  realize  that  it 
would  become  a  notable  power  in  shaping  the 
lives  of  men  for  many  years  to  come. 

This  work,  started  as  it  was  under  favor- 
able conditions,  was  not,  however,  destined  to 
prove  a  failure,  for  with  the  dawn  of  a  new 
century  came  a  new  impetus,  and  work  being 
once  more  resumed,  was  pushed  rapidly  for- 
ward, until  in  the  spring  of  1802  the  first  col- 
lege building  was  completed.  With  what 
mingled  feeling  of  joy  and  happiness  must  its 
dedication  have  been  witnessed  by  those  who 
for  eight  long  years  had  looked  forward  to 
this  event ! 

As  the  President's  house  was .  not  com- 
pleted at  the  opening  of  the  college,  this  sin- 
gle building  furnished  accommodations  for 
the  President's  family,  as  well  as  the  students, 
besides  serving  as  a  library,  chapel,  and  a  place 
for  holding  recitations. 

During  the  time  in  which  the  Faculty  and 
students  were  sheltered  by  the  same  roof, 
many  amusing  customs  were  instituted ;  one 
of  which  was  the  assembling  of  the  students 
for  recitations  by  the  rapping  of  the  Presi- 
dent's cane  on  the  stairs,  at  the  sound  of  which 
they  came,  bringing  their  chairs  with  them. 


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Later  a  bell  was  placed  in  the  cupola  of  the 
hall  and  remained  there  until  the  erection  of 
the  first  chapel. 

When  the  President  had  become  settled 
in  his  new  home,  the  room  which  had  served 
as  his  parlor  was  fitted  up  to  hold  the  mechan- 
ical apparatus  of  Professor  Cleaveland,  and 
the  kitchen  was  made  into  a  laboratory. 

When  the  number  of  students  increased, 
and  the  Hall,  later  called  Maine,  was  erected 
in  1806,  Massachusetts  Hall  was  no  longer 
needed  for  a  dormitory ;  consequently  many  of 
its_rooms  were  left  free  for  other  uses.  Some 
were  used  for  the  exhibition  of  the  Bowdoin 
paintings,  others  for  the  accommodation  of 
the  scientific  apparatus,  and  when  the  Medical 
School  was  organized,  several  of  the  vacant 
rooms  were  placed  at  its  command.  Thus  it 
is  that  the  Bowdoin  Medical  School  is  not  a 
little  indebted  to  this  old  structure,  which  for 
over  forty  years  served  its  every  purpose. 

During  the  ten  years  subsequent  to  the 
removal  of  the  Medical  School  into  its  present 
quarters,  Massachusetts  Hall  was  used  very 
little ;  and  as  it  was  evidently  being  neglected 
and  falling  into  decay,  its  removal  was  urged 
to  make  way  for  a  more  substantial  building. 
Then  it  was  that  Providence  seemed  once  more 
to  interpose  in  behalf  of  this  building,  by 
prompting  one  of  the  alumni  of  Bowdoin  to 
furnish  the  necessary  funds  to  remodel  and 
thus  save  it  frorn  inevitable  ruin. 

The  roof  of  the  main  building  and  the 
small  porch  on  the  eastern  side  were  raised. 
The  old  spiral  staircase,  which  led  from  the 
front  entr9.nce  to  the  second  floor,  was 
removed,  and  the  small  projection  on  the  east- 
ern side  of  the  building  was  changed  into  a 
hall-way,  from  which  there  is  a  flight  of  stairs, 
leading  to  the  room  above.  The  two  upper 
stories  were  combined  into  what  is  now  known 
as  the  Cleaveland  Cabinet  of  Natural  History. 
In  this  room  may  be  seen  the  carefully 
arranged  and  valuable  minerals  and  shells, 
which  Professor  Cleaveland  spent  so  much 
time  in  collecting. 


Since  the  alteration  of  this  building  in 
1873,  no  important  changes  have  taken  place 
up  to  the  present  time. 

Such,  in  brief,  are  the  facts  concerning  the 
history  of  this  structure,  but  its  period  of  use- 
fulness has  by  no  means  ended,  for  it  still  pei-- 
forms  an  important  function  in  the  work  of 
our  college.  In  the  western  portion  of  this 
building  is  situated  the  Treasurer's  office  and 
a  small  business  room,  and  in  the  eastern  part 
is  the  old  Cleaveland  lecture  room,  which  is 
used  for  a  recitation  room.  Here  also  on  Sun- 
day afternoons  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  holds  its  meet- 
ings, which  are  but  a  continuation  of  those 
services  held  so  long  ago  within  these  very 
walls. 

It  is  the  hallowed  associations  connected 
with  ■  this  room,  which  makes  it  so  dear  to 
every  son  of  Bowdoin,  for  it  was  in  this  very 
room  that  Professor  Cleaveland  labored  for 
over  half  a  century,  and  more  than  fifty  suc- 
cessive classes  listened  to  his  able  and  inspiring 
lectures.  Here  to-day  may  be  seen,  just  as  of 
old,  the  ancient  fire-place,  the  crude  brick 
hearth,  and  the  long  iron  crane  on  which  hang 
the  kettles,  formerly  used  in  experiments. 
As  one  thoughtfully  looks  at  this  old  fire- 
place, he  can  almost  see,  in  his  imagination, 
the  aged  form  of  the  dear  old  Professor,  bend- 
ing over  the  hearth,  in  the  act  of  performing 
some  experiment. 

As  we  have  recalled  to  mind  the  many  rea- 
sons why  this  building  is  so  endeared  to  every 
one  of  us,  we  can  but  feel  that  no  plea  can  be 
too  strongly  made  for  its  preservation.  If 
this  old  building  itself  were  able  to  speak, 
could  we  not  hear  it  say,  "Preserve  me!  for 
it  was  I  who  nurtured  Bowdoin  in  her  infancy. 
Preserve  me !  in  memory  of  those  noble  men 
who  h^ve  been  instructed  within  my  walls. 
Preserve  me!  if  for  no  other  purpose  than  as 
a  monument  to  the  one  who  during  so  many 
years  stood  faithfully  by  me."  Let  this  be  our 
sentiment,  and  when  we  shall  leave  our  col- 
lege, may  it  be  with  the  hope  that  as  we  return 
in  after  years  to  visit  our  Alma  Mater,  we 


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shall  find  the  old  homestead  still  standing  as 
an  inspiration  to  those  about  it. 

— F.  E.  T.,  1903. 


COLLEGE   NEWS. 

Libby,  '99,  attended  the  Indoor  Meet. 

Watson,  '02,  is  out  sick  with  the  measles. 

Chamberlain,  '99,  was  on  the  campus  recently. 

The  third  Junior  Assembly  will  come  Tuesday 
night. 

The  Orient  election  was  held  last  Wednesday 
afternoon. 

Professor  Johnson  granted  an  adjourn  in  French 
last  Friday. 

Professor  Houghton  gave  adjourns  in  Latin 
during  the  week. 

Stanwood,  '02,  dislocated  his  ankle,  jumping,  at 
the  Indoor  Meet. 

Westbrook  Seminary  has  signified  its  intention  to 
enter  the  Invitation  Meet. 

Manager  Swett  is  soon  to  get  out  a  book  of  rules 
and  regulations  1  to  govern  the  Bowdoin  Invitation 
Meet.  The  intention  of  the  book  is  to  establish  the 
Meet  on  a  more  permanent  basis  and  to  answer  all 
questions  likely  to  occur  to  the  schools. 

On  Saturday  evening,  March  17th,  Theta  Chapter 
of  the  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  Fraternity  held  its 
initiation.  The  following  men  were  initiated :  Louis 
L.  Hills,  Portland,  Me. ;  James  P.  Russell,  Warren, 
Me.  ;  M.  G.  Sturgis,  Lewiston,  Me. ;  O.  E.  Haney, 
Belfast,  Me.;  B.  H.  Quinn,  Lubec,  Me.;  A.  B. 
Hagerthy,  Bucksport,  Me. ;  F.  C.  Lord,  Belgrade, 
Me.  After  the  initiation  a  banquet  was  held  at  New 
Meadows  Inn,  at^ which  the  following  members  of 
the  profession  were  present :  Drs.  George  Cook, 
Concord,  N.  H.  ;  G.  j\I.  Elliott,  Brunswick,  Me.  ; 
Geo.  H.  Cummings,  John  F.  Thompson,  A.  H. 
Sturtevant,  A.  H.  Little  of  Portland,  and  E.  B. 
Skolfield  of  Lewiston. 

An  enthusiastic  party  of  "Medics"  visited  New 
Meadows  Inn  last  Friday  night,  the  occasion  being 
the  initiation  of  twenty-nine  men  into  the  Phi  Chi 
fraternity,  a  chapter  of  which  was  established  in  the 
Aledical  School  on  the  preceding  Tuesday  night  by 
a  delegation  from  the  Alpha  Chapter  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Vermont.  Following  the  initiation  a  "sup- 
per" was  served  at  4.30  a.m.,  succeeded  by  toasts 
which  were  concluded  as  the  rays  of  the  rising  sun 
flooded  the  dining-room.  The  initiates  were  as  fol- 
lows :     A.  M.  Andrews,  Gray ;  S.  L.  Andrews,  West 


Paris ;  W.  H.  Baker,  Brunswick ;  A.  A.  Brown, 
Southwest  Harbor;  E.  B.  Clark,  Centerville,  N.  B. ; 
W.  B.  Coburn,  Sherman  Mills;  F.  H.  Cohen,  Marl- 
boro, Mass. ;  T.  F.  Conneen,  Portland ;  O.  L.  Han- 
Ion,  Groveton,  N.  H. ;  R.  C.  Hannigen,  St.  Stephen, 
N.  B.  ;  J.  F.  Harkins,  Lewiston ;  B.  A.  Higgins,  East 
Corinth ;  J.  G.  Hutchins,  Orland ;  C.  F.  Kendall, 
Biddeford;  R.  T.  Leader,  Lewiston;  M.  C.  Maddan, 
Oldtown;  C.  H.  Marston,  West  Baldwin;  W.  B. 
Sanborn,  Augusta;  M.  M.  Small,  Deer  Isle;  C.  E. 
Thompson,  Portland ;  R.  R.  Tibbetts,  East  Palermo ; 
F.  C.  Tobey,  Boston ;  J.  P.  Traynor,  Biddeford ; 
Edgar  Hanscom,  Lebanon ;  J.  B.  MacDonald,  Bos- 
ton;  H.  H,  Nevers,  Norway;  M.  E.  Ridley,  Rich- 
mond ;  E.  M.  Varney,  Brunswick ;  A.  G.  Wiley, 
Bethel. 


ATHLETICS. 


igOI    WINS    THE    MEET. 

The  fourteenth  annual  exhibition  and  fifth  indoor 
athletic  meet,  of  the  Bowdoin  College  Athletic  Asso- 
ciation, was  held  in  the  town  hall  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing, March  20th.  The  Class  of  1901  took  first  place, 
with  1902,  1903,  and  1900,  following  in  the  order 
named.  The  meet  was  excellently  managed  and 
was  a  most  interesting  and  exciting  event.  The 
relay  -  races  were  especially  good.  Mr.  Frank  B. 
Mitchell  gave  fine  exhibitions  of  club,  torch,  and 
banner  swinging,  and  there  was  music  by  the  col- 
lege orchestra  to  add  to  the  enjoyment  of  the  even- 
ing.    A  dance  followed  the  games. 

The  dumb-bell  squad  of  the  Class  of  1902  won  the 
class  drill.  The  judges  could  see  no  difference  in 
the  merits  of  the  fencing  drill  by  1900,  and  the 
broadsword  drill  by  1901  ;  and  they  decided  to  divide 
the  eight  points  of  the  second  and  third  places 
between  these  two. 

Stanwood,  1902,  and  Dunlap,  1903,  divided  the 
first  two  places  in  the  running  high  jump,  and 
Cloudman,  1901,  and  Moore,  1903,  .  divided  the 
remaining  point.  The  winners  were  a  tie  at  5  ft.  3 
inches.  Stanwood,  in  attempting  to  jump  ofT  the 
tie.  unfortunately  injured  an  ankle. 

Dunlap,  1903,  easily  won  the  pole  vault,  at  8 
feet  6  inches,  with  Hill,  1901,  second,  and  H.  J. 
Hunt,  1902,  third. 

In  the  trial  heats  of  the  relay  races,  1901  beat 
1903  in  22  i-s  seconds ;  and  1900  beat  1902  in  22 
seconds.  In  the  finals  1900  finished  first,  with  1901 
second,  and  1902  third.  The  time  of  the  winning 
team  was  21  4-5  seconds. 

The  L'S-yard   hurdle   race   went   to   Dunlap,    1903, 


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with  Hunt,  1902,  second ;  and  Furbish,  1902,  third. 
Time,  34-5. 

In  the  20-yards  dash  the  final  heat  went  to  Cloud- 
man,  1901 ;  with  Bacon,  1900,  second ;  and  Merrill, 
190C.  third.     Time,  3  4-5  seconds. 

Marshall,  1903,  won  the  potato  race,  with  A.  J. 
Hamlin,  1900,  and  Beane,  1900,  third. 

The  shot-put  was  won  by  Laferriere,  1901,  with 
Cloudman,  1901,  second,  and  Hunt,  1902,  third. 

The  class  teams  were  made  up  as  follows : 

1900 — Robert  S.  Edward.s,  Captain;  Bacon, 
Beane,  Merrill,  S.  M.  Hamlin,  A.  J.  Hamlin,  Pottle, 
Gould,  Sylvester,  Clarke,  Levensaler,  Sparks, 
Phillips. 

1901 — Harry  H.  Cloudman^  Captain;  Fuller, 
Laferriere,  Snow,  Gregson,  Stewart,  Sanborn, 
Wheeler,  Hill,  Evans,  Randall,  Bowler,  Johnston. 

1902 — Harry  J.  Hunt,  Captain ;  Furbish, 
Walker,  B.  Hamilton,  H.  Hunt,  Webb,  Carter,  Stan- 
wood,  J.  Hamilton,  Hayes,  Eastman,  Noyes,  Giles.     . 

1903 — Edward  A.  Dunlap,  Jr.,  Captain;  Viles, 
Soule,  Nutter,  Blanchard,  Marshall,  Dunlap,  Riley, 
Towne,  Moore,  Stevens,  Barrows,  J.  Perkins,  White, 
Thompson,  Gray. 

The  class  relay  teams  were  made  up  as  follows: 

1900 — Edwards,  Merrill,  Bacon,  Beane,  Clarke, 
Levensaler,  Sparks,  Pottle,  Gould,  Phillips. 

1901 — Cloudman,  Snow,  Laferriere,  Hill,  Bowler, 
Fuller,  Gregson,  Johnston,  Evans. 

1902 — Furbish,  Eastman,  Noyes,  B.  Hamilton,  H. 
Hunt,  Hayes,  Giles,  Webb. 

igo.3 — Blanchard,  White,  Thompson,  Soule,  Dun- 
lap,  Nutter,  Gray,  Viles,  J.  Perkins. 

The  drill  squads  were  composed  of  the  following 
men : 

1900 — Frank  M.  Sparks,  leader ;  Colesworthy, 
McCormick,  Merrill,  Parsons,  Knight,  Levensaler, 
West.  Robinson,  Beane,  Lee  and  Pottle.' 

1901 — George  L.  Pratt,  leader;  Laferriere,  Bow- 
ler, Smith,  Corliss,  Cloudman,  Snow,  Gregson.  F.  H. 
Cowan,   Evans,   Foster,  and  Wheeler. 

1902 — B.  P.  Hamiltofi,  leader;  Folsom,  Grinnell, 
Files,  Fogg,  Hayden,  Sinkinson,  Carter,  Cobb,  Dole, 
Giles,  and  Webb. 

1903 — Henry  A.  Peabody,  leader;  McCormick, 
Thompson.  Holt,  N.  L.  Perkins,  Palmer,  Preble, 
Jones,   Blanchard,   Hellenbrand,   Gray,   and   Sabin. 

The  pianists  for  the  respective  squads  were  J.  P. 
Webber  for  1900;  Paul  Preble  for  1901  ;  Leon  V. 
Walker  for  1902 ;  S.  B.  Larrabee  for  1903. 

For  the  success  of  the  meet  great  credit  is  due 
Manager  Herbert  L.  Svvett  of  the  Athletic  Associa- 
tion, and  to  the  officers  of  the  meeting,  who  were  as 
follows : 

Referee,  Professor  H.  C.  Emery;  judges  of  drill, 
Profes.sor  G.  T.  Files,  Professor  W.  A.  Moody,  Mr. 


J.  E.  Odiorne;  judges  of  track  and  field  events,  Mr. 
W.  W.  Bolster,  Mr.  F.  B.  Mitchell,  Mr.  R.  F.  Chap- 
man :  timers,  Mr.  J.  E.  Burbank,  Professor  H.  DeF. 
Smith,  Mr.  P.  H.  Cobb;  m.easurers,  Mr.  N.  J. 
Gehring,  Mr.  R.  E.  Bragg,  Mr.  H.  F.  Quinn;  scorer, 
Mr.  W.  L.  Watson;  starter,  Mr.  Clarence  F.  Ken- 
dall ;  announcer,  Mr.  A.  L.  Burnell ;  clerk  of  course^ 
Mr.  Ripley  L.  Dana. 

SCHEDULE  OF  POINTS  WON. 


Events. 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1003 

Class    drills. 

4 

4 

10 

Putting  shot. 

0 

8 

Running   high   jump. 

0 

V. 

4 

41/; 

Potato  race, 

4 

0 

5 

25-yard  hurdle. 

0 

0 

4 

Pole    vault. 

0 

3 

I 

5 
0 

20-yard  dash. 

4 

5 

0 

Class  relay  race. 

S 

3 

I 

0 

Total,    . 

17 

23,'/2 

21 

19H 

Y.  M.  C.  fl, 


In  the  Inter  collegian  for  March  there  is  an  excel- 
lent article  on  "Secular  Agencies  in  Association 
Work."  It  is  written  by  the  general  secretary  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin,  and  contains  a  good 
explanation  of  the  part  this  branch  plays  in  the  gen- 
eral work  of  college  associations.  There  are  some 
good  ideas  there  for  those  who  are  interested  in 
seeing  that  department  enlarged  and  perfected  in 
our  own  association  in  the  coming  year. 

Thursday  evening,  March  isth,  the  service  was 
led  by  McCormick,  1903.  The  subject  was,  "Influ- 
ence." The  discussion  took  a  reminiscent  turn,  and 
several  of  the  Seniors  spoke  especially  of  Haines,  '97, 
referring  to  his  kindly  manner  and  noble  bearing, 
and  of  his  helpful  influence  over  them  in  the  early 
days  of  their  college  life.  Haines  was  a  "jolly  good 
fellow,"  and  the  influence  of  his  sturdy  Christian 
character  still  lives  both  in  the  college  and  the  town. 

On  Sunday,  March  i8th,  Professor  Little  spoke 
at  the  afternoon  meeting.  His  talk  was  decidedly 
novel,  and  sparkling  with  bright  quotations  which 
he  always  has  at  his  disposal.  Mr.  Lewis  Smith  of 
Auburn  sang  two  selections,  both  of  which  were 
nicely  rendered. 

The  dates  of  Mr.  Gilbert's  visit  in  behalf  of  the 
Student  Volunteer  Movement  have  been  settled  for 
March  29-31. 


The  Orient  appreciates   too   well   the   following; 
it  savors  of  Utopia : 

"I  had  a  dream  the  other  night, 
When  everything  was  still, 
I  dreamed  that  each  subscriber  came 
Right  up  and  paid  his  bill."— £;t-. 


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PERSONALS. 

The  editors  of  the  Orient  earnestly  request  the 
co-operation  of  the  alumni,  especially  the  class 
secretaries,  in  procuring  items  of  interest  for  this 
department.  All  contributions  will  be  gratefully 
received. 

'53. — Hon.  T.  R.  Sinionton  of  Camden  will 
deliver  the  Memorial  address  at  Rockland. 

'JZ- — The  following  testimonial  to  the  good  work 
of  Professor  Robinson  is  offered  by  W.  W.  Stetson, 
state  superintendent  of  schools:  "Prof.  F.  C.  Rob- 
inson, of  Bowdoin  College,  has  had  charge  of  the 
Brunswick  schools  for  many  years,  and  has  not  only 
put  the  buildings  in  first-class  condition,  provided 
modern  and  effiicent  sanitary  accommodations  for 
the  different  school  buildings,  but  has  devoted  the 
time  necessary  to  give  direction,  tone  and  -character 
to  the  school-room  work.  Brunswick  is  to  be  con- 
gratulated upon  having  a  system  of  schools  which 
is  not  only  a  credit  to  herself,  but  will  prove  a  bless- 
ing to  the  State." 

'76. — It  is  said  in  political  circles  that  Prof.  Allan 
E.  Rogers,  of  the  University  of  Maine,  will  be  a 
candidate  for  nomination  as  Congressman  from  the 
Fourth  District,  whenever  there  is  a  vacancy. 

^TJ. — No  word  has  come  from  Lieutenant  Robert 
E.  Peary  since  the  Windward  returned  from  Green- 
land last  year,  but  it  is  certain  that  if  he  is  living  he 
is  now  making  his  last,  grand  attempt  to  reach  the' 
North  Pole.  He  will  succeed  if  success  is  a  human 
possibility,  but  whether  he  succeeds  or  fails  it  is  not 
believed  that  the  dauntless  explorer  will  again  jour- 
ney into  the  frozen  zone.  His  plan  was  to  start 
with  sledges  and  dogs  over  the  ice. as  soon  as  the  sun 
reached  Greenland  after  the  long  winter  night.  This 
time  has  now  arrived,  and  his  countrymen  wish  him 
success.  If  perseve;:ance  and  courage  count,  Lieu- 
tenant Peary  should  reach  the  goal,  or  at  least  go 
farther  into  the  barren  North  than  ever  man  went 
before. 

'80. — Henry  A.  Wing,  of  Lewiston,  will  soon  be 
able  to  devote  more  of  his  time  to  newspaper  work. 
There  are  but  few  men  in  the  State  who  have  a 
wider  circle  of  friends  among  men  of  prominence 
than  he,  and  during  his  many  years  of  work  he  has 
retained  the  confidence  and  friendship  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  come  in  contact.  Mr.  Wing  will  finish 
his  duties  as  city  marshal  the  first  of  April,  much  to 
the  regret  of  many  of  the  prominent  people  of  Lew- 
iston, regardless  of  party,  who  acknowledge  that  he 
has  made  one  of  the  best  city  marshals  the  city  has 
ever  had. 

'82. — Frederick  Herbert  Blondel  died  at  Stam- 
ford,   Conn.,    March    nth,   at   the   age   of  43  years. 


For  several  years  he  had  been  a  great  sufferer  from 
diabetes.  Mr.  Blondel  was  born  in  Topshaiii  in 
1856.  He  attended  the  common  schools  in  that  town 
and  later  entered  the  Topshain  High  School,  but 
left  there  before  completing  the  course,  to  attend 
school  at  the  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  at  Exeter, 
N.  H.  At'  the  end  of  his  Junior  year  there,  he 
entered  Bowdoin  College  in  the  fall  of  1878,  from 
which  institution  he  was  graduated  in  1882.  After 
graduation  he  taught  school  some  time  and  later 
entered  the  employ  of  Leach,  Shewell  &  Sanborn, 
publishers  of  school  and  college  text-books  in  the 
West,  and  had  his  headquarters  at  Minneapolis, 
Minn.  A  few  years  ago,  'failing  health  compelled 
him  to  give  up  work,  and  he  returned  to  his  native 
town.  Mr.  Blondel  was  a  man  of  exceptionally 
cheerful  and  pleasing  disposition,  and  was  held  in 
high  esteem  by  his  acquaintances. 

'84. — At  the  meeting  of  the  Yale  University  cor- 
poration, March  i6th,  the  appointment  was  made  of 
Rev.  Charles  Cutler  Torrey,  Ph.D.,  now  Taylor 
professor  of  Biblical  history  in  Andover  Theological 
Seminary,  to  the  chair  of  Semitic  languages  in  the 
academic  department.  The  chair  has  been  vacant 
since  1S91,  when  the  vacancy  was  caused  by  the 
resignation  of  Professor  W.  R.  Harper  to  become 
president  of  Chicago  University.  The  duties  have 
been  performed  by  Dr.  Creelman. 

'95. — George  C.  Webber,  recently  admitted  to  the 
bar,  has  been  elected  City  Clerk  of  Auburn.  He  has 
been  invited  to  deliver  the  Memorial  address  at 
Litchfield. 

"97 — George  M.  Brett  is  principal  of  the  High 
School  at  Burlington,  Vermont. 

'99. — Prof.  A.  M.  Rollins  of  the  Norway  High 
School,  is  spending  his  vacation  in  Concord. 


In  the  near  future  we  may  expect  to  read  some- 
thing like  the  following  in  the  daily  papers : 
"About  ID  o'clock  this  morning  a  horseless  milk 
wagon  which  was  loaded  with  cowless  milk,  collided 
with  a  brainless  rider  on  a  chainless  wheel.  The 
luckless  wheelman  was  badly  injured,  and  being 
homeless,  he  was  taken  in  a  horseless  cab  to  the 
home  of  the  friendless." — Ex. 


fflRST-  iLASS  *  iRINTIMG 


FOR   SCHOOLS   AND   COLLEGES, 


EXECUTED    AT    THE 


JOURNAL  OFFICE,  LEWISTON,  ME.